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THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 31,18(50.
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O Tiss: BltOKKk HARP.*
11V JoM'i’H 11 ft BUT I. !. 11. . S
To r broken htu j>. thy wild notes now °
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• < breece mui low
• Elks! o\-r .y strings ail unconfined.
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• “ ... , thine, are o'A';
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Hath fie I—anti1 —anti can return no more.
. Dim on tlnf alt.or of the soul,
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| That liffbe bafi and, and bid him roll •
• Tliy ruusip to thceall df feme. •. . 0
. thou W( rt••• tly to his mtnd* •
• Tli 5 - ... .. .ml c*f <tunity liout^:
.: t't a ined
...-■. vithflower^
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]!*•-: i •■. •>. *: ‘ - w camce
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j • k ‘ ing s ‘ aYing on the blast;
‘] .; n- .-it'.- pi : vet-ing llame,
And jiKia ure from liis bostim pact.
• Dark po* rtf’s unjovely form * * • ,
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• Aa’tJ.on !. ti iioid’e-< le iol. the *
Fin * o it’ all- iestfoying glootu.
The shoddw, fan e* was seen
, 0 * id lost, its charm ; •
. 0 - fals ! and glittering sheen, *
It* • o ,-i -; * harm !* . • *
G<-M*is. j.-.w.'V that rii!. s mankind; •
, .* Gain that, an Wye shall wondering see
llow ad will -mil-, anal mu.- Ip* kind, . ••
A:.(Woven bow 1 the servile kneel • * #
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’ Non,- n.• • a thy shattered strings.
, Ilarp of my happie? hour*! . ,
Since death undsorwowa blighting wings .
I . Havecrushed hope’s few, remaising Sowers;* *
. Though wfld as wood-birds’ wildest note,
Thy ■■ ei . - right;
No more i.;y t a illiiig echoes limit, • *
Thy master’s star is set in night, . . # •
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.* LovT, Yirhie, Free lom, Nature k say, •
Will ye nut g’- V one gentle sigh? *
• J'uitr ! iri!es pa ‘ing to
Ills 1 oip is on die willow by! * * •
My bosom friend, a fond farewell! * * ,
0 ilYt we must part,
. .M ,■ a •m- • with vou dwell,
iu .. *. ivii and lyf'o—l'oi.d, broken heart!
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sii.-'G oft: K!i,tt:cTED.
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. Nay. lady, # nay, .ay why so proud ? •
* Why scorn a love like mine? •
1 ’ ore's m my ip mm crowd
hg'd Bweai*their hearts werc*tl*ine; •
.r I.*, the snow beneath lingsuy,
• Tjieir love Rituld fade, *
f, fortune’s smile should LcWvillwlrawn, •
Ur clou Is tlgy bright si^ T shade. •
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L • I kfipw tliat .. ill .* hgarts suc*l,*
And t ught to wia*l .y gold : .
’ . I kribw tl fairt r forms? liavg wooed,
And sielieS tlmii*love nntuld;
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• But ah, no truer heatt tlan this *
•I Oil’- *1 at thy shriny; * •
Vd:y wilt tlsi.il turg a way *and scorn “
A love so T'.ul’e as mine ‘.'* _
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TANARUS!. t rift I;
Far from tlieekimn hast hurled ,
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Fan ‘ Ad! pcrclini'.c’b smuts happier love
May win thee* :>rJiis bride ; •
And tiwm’lt for aat tlie hunjile night, •• • #
.Who ling; red by tlij side. #
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Jl’ ‘"rn Jor >hr Sarthmi J\ ntcrprUe.
‘Worfs : iiro<*ml’.njd tTifough the columns of 1
, your pa.; *■ that* there wlisftin our neighborhood
a venempus*serpent, whose bite was slow but
j sufe death, and .that his sptjKeship was of a
ryuon . * size—that many ofour cititens kad
already fallen a ] ret to him—that niait j- of the
• uiost intellectual and usfiul men* in. our coun
try .have ftbecome, not .only wtfilhjpss, but 4 <
; msj ty tht'mselves, the community in which
they liic, tfml to tlweir nearest and clearest
friends, fr.ym thdelti ets of*td)e slow poison e
---ceiwed by th 41 from this dreadful sna*ke, and *
that every mps coming within his ‘reach still *.
continue t-j fall \prey to lym, would not ct’cry
i mud in tho country arm himself immediatety
! and hurry, to the place where fit is dreadful .
stmke 1 m itt i>e.;‘ * ind and*at once itispathcd ‘i
•But! bg leave to* otAlaiui through yoltr col
! limits that tlienj*s abroad in our hand an ene**
my that is doing a m v. dhttful work than all
th* Inake.s and wild auimahs in the*world ever
have, or ever willdo. The finest talent sinks
beneath tin ‘.n-iincUot Ifrwtcs under the
of this enemy* The stwng mtrfi becomes
weak; good becomes mean, the jsteady*
, liand tremulous, the keen eye dim, the Wjtjiu
and true heart*eoM and fiendish. The enemy,
witji his bunfim h erd, is scattering death and 1
ruin ia euj v‘cry mi Ist. *oh! tliat *l* could
write tne truth fn burning letters that would
at’ u.w ever, man alfil'wymarkin our land
f .r, that they might guard * their
liomes fwip tii* entrance of this •viidi ••foe •to
I the hgm'an.fapiilyr afdent spirits. Would to ,
rCqiiftl bad a .voice as loud a* the ••seven tbjin*
dors** tjiat I nlight awake our country from its
lethargy, avert Hie awftfl impending* ruin
l • * ofbiryously over it. Witl the sanfb I
1 euT.-P tl* *• we pi tint iir.-t inhabitants (tilt In- 1
dians)*f‘rom our* land agtiin ruin it ’. / Those
who havelcloeely niacked the progress of in- i
#tempjerance # for years poet certainly jGave well
• found; !V<ii.s*ou th:* point. Man#’ valuable
liv(.; are annually sacrificed to this .hellish
vice. Hundreds of hapjwjr homes arc made deso
late, fed and loving wives are tnude miserable,
bright hopes arc f sever blasted, and fond pa
re.ij.s are brought to an untimely grave. Eve
ry breezt>fhat blovftj wafts to 0114 ears the Sor
rowful wuiln g oi the?drunkards vlife, his wid
ow or his orphan children. Biit none, perhaps,
kwww fully tli** diiv!id.effects of intemper.
4 ance M the medical man. When the sombre
curtail # : ‘..lit have shut the poctf drunsard
from the gaze*i 1’ the world,he alone must stand
by him in his dying struggles. • lie alone
perhaps witnesses the sufferings ofthe wjfeand
the family.. Oh! the suffering this
• cursed vice.cnlails on females. They must wit
ness tie shame and degradation of him for
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whom hey have given up everything else —
they must see him violate the sacred pledges
made at the matrimonial altar—they mustsec
him a curse tohis family, scoffed at by pass
ers by, a*d rushing*into vices that arc the most
shocking to their feelings. In many instances
they are doomed to suffer with the most loath-1
smile diseases that humanity is heir to, and
uiu-t bi the reproaches and .-hame that should
alone be beat ed upon the head of the guilty. — ■
With :.11 this volcanoe burning in the bosom of
1 the dninkard’s wife, it is not strange that so ’
1 i!#!n> . •• withered flower” to the
t ‘ —victims to grief,
1 shame* tit; i iu. irt ifn at ion. * 0
I • Drunkard, Hid you ever reflect seriously on 1
: o yrruni # n you
in time and eternity. Imt also* break the m irtJ
of a confi ling wife, during your gray hea le 1
nts to their in sVrow, and yeseS-w
the curst el* an ohe titled God.* “No drunkard
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven,’’ is an
j awful sentence for the arunkartls eye. to resl
: mi. Perl be sad uay is not
n you must see that Either, that mol
1 that brother, sister or wife, who has so often
! plead w ith ypu with achipg heart and tearful,
eye to k-'ave off £our luinffus habit, * sTiroipleJ
IHI the solemn hal ilin ents ol death—th t.vi ice
that so oft rcmonstTvted with you hushed for
ever— the e\i s that lo.iki l so fondly on yui
| apTfftdipi —the heart ttftt love<4 you
o*. 1 . frojy its troubled beating in
the lasting paufiQ of # And as you gaze
• n the marble b10w,.50n see the same sorrow
ful expression there, that you caused it to ft ear
in life. * * *
Do not these thdughts make you ‘shudder?
It’ Rot, yoiParc a very devil <;n earth tra tin*
tl*e °confines of the burning regions of the
damned. If these thoughts causey t,
steal* down vour cheeks and your bl 1t ■ , ,
chilly through your vei*s,\here b hope for you
*e£ Rise, while there is a spark .of obleness
in your bp*.mi, and grapple with the foe that
•is ruiui I. . metre,
the [ have h*i in s -eie ;-ei: ian
oodau of.happiness to jftiur wife's almost bro-i
ken heart, aemtrve from your ] snt
that look of sorrow, let tliem sny i-. ■ on y * an J
welcome you .is they have in bygone days.—
llastc; to your sisters urn; tell tlmm tliat* you
have conquered*,.that tfwey may dry up tin ii
tears am* imnritit a *iss upon the clun ks of a
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rcdiTimcd bsother. l>o not hesitate; do imt
falter. * If you do you are .gone. # Pause, rea
der, perhaps you a dyunkaril. perhaps
yoikouly tahe asocial glass now and then, and
seldom, if ever “get v.en “geirtle nanly tight.”!
Alas! how soon you may be a drunkard. *.
Many, in fact nearly aH, drunkards com*
uience *thcir vrayivard course in tj i,,-* way. —
Your position in this inspect reminds me 0/ a
man^who would keap*venturing a little iieftref,
and nearffr tit a rattle snake, because he*‘had ;
not yet bitten him. Vou ary sure to suffer soon
or* Igt%, and you see j
•,'our sons and daughter.- Tuii.l-d, and make no
yfiurt to yave them ? .You may ask ft ties-.
tion, What cay we do ? lay wcr. You can do
many.things tlutt you don't do. Pstliers. y-u
can pretend the u-tailin* of ar lent • Ait* in
yoVr uci'ihborhi; and. 1 • ylee'if . !eyi lat-ns tliat ‘
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will piwthe license up 16 a thousand and
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mote if You can make mdn asham
ed to cetiiil Ib'ii •;>> bv treatlna; shi :n wiih •
they desej’vcy Jdo not. allow your som* j
and daughters to associate with heartless men, ‘
w.ho will, for a pm-unigry consideration, deal §ut
pftison tiftru’m the people. •
‘Mothers, train up your s • .* . 1
to love sobriety and virtue, ancy to det “t drunk
enness, grocery keepers, and tfteti wlitywill give
whi. ky awyw to draw custom. . . ’
*Eoung ladies, if you. want to ft..ht i*i tlie
Va:v suec couse to number among your
ass icifttes, lueyi w4io in ink. or sell wiiisky. (fete
to mingle with or fttarry suh men. W bile you
continue t*> tveat, with respect an 1 welcome in
to your prvsiV.ce, men who drink ami sijP tlte
poisonous liquij, and jjven, in ny ny ins. tftet s,
marry the wv-t.-t drynkyirds, the Wofst * :
Jogs, and the most notable rakes, can you ex
pect any thing V.'Cy than to sc% .sobriety and
virtue* on tlie dcAiim-f Wmflan is tin gn ;d
moving, jvheel in th* machinery of. lifh* anfl
■possesses a powerful influence over t4i^coarser .
Vivt. she dpes not her influence in
jhe cause of temperance, she mud abide ♦he
consequenct * . * AY. C. M.
. • Union, Tliomri. Co.,’ (ia., Av. ?*GO. •• .
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J [firing the winter past. The new-papers have
Tccordn i; numcryus suicides. .Self-dey’ruc: 1 *1 *
has been, we think, urtcomonly dreijueut.—
What afe the cau-cs, we arc not jyrepared to j
yleeidc. However, we ate sat .
suit-ides tire yoreed*4iy disj'palion,.man;? by Tn ■ :
excusable*improvidence-, Ttnd syme by constitu
tional insanity* Lot :i few hurry tluMiiselvcs
reckhwisly into pecuniary embarrassment*, and j
•then eominft suicide to escaj* from it. ilve.y j
su*li man is a coward. To our ftiind there is.
no more despicable of Cowardice
than forp man to shut his eyes against h*s own •
affairs until, when ruin : tares'him in l,he T.iee, ■
he taSes his . avoidtJorldly rns .• ility.
.lie cuts Jjimstrif oib from and £in*!rct’t; #
it may be in spring time lie close* his eyes up
on the fresh green of the glad earth, for what?
That be may - - wipe n lu atr’s of a minute's aTi
; guish. Is lie not a coward? , *
A Tiu* look • at a man, and he leaps a
precipice in*tlic dark to escaj m conflict. Jias
’ m*t :*ieh a man a craven *hcart? ‘Learn to !a
‘borand to wait, tff suffer ariH be str-ng; these
are the mottoffs of the heroic heart.—.Oincin
nati Columbian. *
• . . _ . —_
A Laryp Thrqat. •
‘•The Morning Star, pul>iished*at Cincinnati,
relates tin? folk>wing anecdote <if a young gen
tleman of Georgia, who expended a large fort
une —money, lands, everything,*in a I
coufse of intemperance and profligacy. •
As lie had just pahfa last year’s grpg bill of
?000, one flay lie was walking in the streets
leisurely, when seeing a physieiaii on the oppo
site jide he called* out to him to c yne over.,
“Doctor/* said'he, ;, I wish you’<bjust take a
look down my throat.” .
“ I don’t discover anything sir,” said the doc- !
j tor, after looking very carefully. ®
You don’t said he, “ why that’s strange, will
you be kind enough sir, to give another look.”
‘•Really sir, said the doctor, after a second
! look,.“I don’t see anything.”
“ No? why doctor; there is a farm, ten thou
sand dollars” and twenty negroes gone down
there 1
The day after twenty .rogues had escaped i
from a jail out west —the editor of the village
paper had an eloquent article on the morals of
the place. Not a prisoner within the walls of
their jail. This may be called “turning things 1
: to account.” . 1
t’oiiri iiip- <*’ <■!:•£ rl lli :i.
Os the courtship qf Sir Isaac Niewtdo, * the
philosopher, ibiiiodern writer says 1 havafome*
when?,read afl anecdote, although it is not to]
be found in the several lives of him which 1
,• ha*rc search if *- wt-Ii known lie was often
absent minded ; that, JEqb example.* lie *'e ; .
* an I sit for Several hours by his
• tlndressVd, ana absorbed in thought;*
theft he, • . *ryel to dine until k min
#©. ® . o
ded By his douiestics, that to live it was neees
*sary to eat. Once and ondb only ho loved a
they were
. ■ •’ ■ .smo-*
, 1 ; r ufl * *
fend.d bv his c >ndu< t. At length he took
o . o ,
• 0 . I her. kifnq*
:'h,- exp< cted that ho was about to kiss it. Jll
- I of doing s > hf*VeVer, lie stirred the tobac- j
in.the f.. ad'Of i.i > pip< with 1 > sn'g< r
—a rather odd substitute for a p in. !She was ,
angry w*(4i hint an 1 their cqprtshiu enfled.—•
■ fatfler of Lord Eldon, the'Cham,
cello? of England, having resolved tef mat A-.
bi 1. A female servant answered ft.— |
lie told her 16 fires ■ her lf,iu order to repair
to the altar wTth fi;:i. # She tji ught he w
’ji sting shhl di. yed. lift rang*liis bell again.
o ft To her he gtive
i * C_J
•rn same‘cotuimui*!. She atin'cil herselk and !
was made a bride, flail, of Leicester.. 4 \
v. ilobt. * dl, v.l n on a vi,-it * a brother*
. wept into tlfc kitchen, pi
s< rtaiitgirl, v,hym beloved, wgS working. —
Ile l; :ue 1 l.i ■ pipe. ;at down and tabl'd her: \
I “Bet* you lovTi the Lord Jesus ChriSt?”
• .. • * • .I’.” v:. th<^reply* i!.• itnmedi-1
•ft ly V’ Th yj
wen • ,
1 - •
• .....
• •
tlFho;i Arnru n;:tl Xfivspnprrs.
Thp Vacifie Advocate says:—“ln headdress |
ito tiie conference,.ju 1 Jbeforjg reading out the l
ap; ointment:;, Bishoj) Ames iriludcJ to the va
rious methods by* which urn itinerant preacher
might /ender Inmself'.uscful, md among < thers
1 lie s; oke of eirculatiug n<;wsupers i*> an im- |
I porttinj means of good-doing. In his first.cir,-
, some thirty years ago,*be tiad,been very i
active in this direction, and he said he used to
say t*o bis members, sys a rettson 111 .t tl ey should
take newspapers, that °lie bats iTutl ekperi
•ejic her, and thdt it was his
liberate opinion* two dollafs epefit l*ir a
good ncw} aper*was of.mere value as an cdu*a
pjn the u.'.uly than ten dollars jVtad to.a
schoolmaster for tuitioTi. .‘And/ reuiarkeAthe I
bi§bop*‘thirty years dl. m*atioii has but con
firmed that opinion.” • . • I
c o® ° •- . 0 ©
. . SflUysaßiU. ’•
* •
Four sh ; -pers having treated* themselves F*
a .-sumj;upus dinner at theilotel Montreuill*were
dt aJo ; 1* r k to svttft.f.r it, on the l‘< >l
- plan : They called the wait< r forward
l a* li •Cud thrust hi3*hand
“into his pockftt as if to,iirav? his purse; frie
second him, de( hiring lie would pay*;
ird did the same.*. The forth*ibrbade the
waTteft taking any isoiicy from either ot
I but all tjiree persisted,* *As .Rone, would, one j
s>! : “The best way to decide is to blindfold :
the v. .. : r, ..ml ;vi- ever he liv. fc c; ehes shall
settle the bill. This projsosition was accepted
and*while Ike wa-itev ‘.fas groping his way ar- •
ound 4he r om, they slip; d* the. Im*: e
fine i.:'i*r another.—' •Tin J ■< „ Ji? *■?.*
• Hearing. ,
“I hgve a* stmt 11 bill'against* yon,” sffid
lo Biiigv Hoet)r, as liecfttcred tlv
store 0! one wl;o luul acquired the character of
a hard .*
“ Yes sir, a fine day indeed,” was the
1. j j .
1 t‘J;l , . # # 9
“ 1 am not speaking of the weatlsefr butyowr !
bill,” replied in a loud key. . . .
q?t won] 1 !••* biller i* we had a littl<* rain.”
• “ Confound the rabi,” c*iitinued the collect
.or,*and raising his voice—“ Have Liu any mon s
ey th pay on * tlie*bill?” * • • #
‘ lleg your pardon, I’n> hal'd of Bearing. I 1
i have math: it afule not to loan my funds to
strangers, and.l Teally’aon t reoegnizc ye*. - ’
•“I’m c*lh M ;r for the Philadelphia Dtyly E*- j
tinguisher, sir, arid 1 have a bill against you,’*
I persisted the collector, at Tlie Jop of h uoi
projlucing the bill and Nirusting it it.to tlie luce
ui'ftlfc's debtor. • *
“I’ve dctevmined to endorse for no one, • you
; mtfy put that note back in your pocket-book.i—*
I reallV can’t endorse it. . • •
• . 0 •
“Confound your endorsements —will you pay
;If .9” # * • o
•* 1 ’• ° ° •* # .
“ You’ll j ;:y it,.no doubt, sir, but there’s al
* al ut such matters you know, sol
! must dcdflie it. . . o
“.The nuaioy yust be mine to-day.” .
,£ 0 yes —ninety days, l*ut * would fiot en
dorse.l'or a week; so cß'ar out of my store. Its
seWom/that*l m pressed mpon for an endorse
m nt, evu by my friends; on ibe*part of a
stranger,, sir, your .conduct is inexplicable. —
Do mft force lyc to p*bt you® out; leave the
premise-s.’ ~• *
And, the bill was returned to the EatiDgflisL- !
cr oflic* endorsed —*.-0 confotmdcd deaf that
lie couldn’t understand- ’ _
• • -_.IA •
0 A Caudulate *or Offift.* * |
Aflat-footed candidate for Justice of the i
Peace, in Palestine, Texas, comes *opt in the ‘
journals witji the following great address to
the sovereigns , •
• “With t'ne issuance of this sheet is unfurl
ed. to the breeae, either iu tempest or calm.
’ nay name before you ns®a candidate for theftoi'-.’
> live oh clfii f justice of Anderson county, at
the ensuing Augii.-t election. I. do it from
I choice —not from solicitation. I.do it,* for the j
office is 1)’ !:■; ble ifltd profitable. I feel my
self competent to discharge the duties oT the
office. I claim no Superior merit or qualifii/h
----i tion over'any one else who may choose to run
against me. I would like to run J,he ra<?e solf
tary and alone; but if air, are desirous let
; them pitch in; it isn’t deep. I stand flat-foot- j
ed, square-Tocd, hump-shouldered, upon the
platform of free rights and true republicanism.
If you elect me your chief justice, I will
make the welkin ring with loud huzzas for the
sovereigns of Anderson county! If defeated,
! I will retire with dignity and perfect good hu
mor, remembering a most beautiful song, which
1 I sing remarkably well, called ‘l,m afloat, I m
afloat' ’ — Knickerbvcker-
<1 IRKMCW© I>ol. l ilts, 2
) In Advance* 0 j
©
® 0
o ‘Mir* Bouiidnry*
• o
( .:■<( tfiui 1\ I'uui in Jus ld*e Message to the lx-
Eythcact pafso*! and to 16th be
cernber last, a sAaigh.t line from ffbe mouth of
Flint river t. *V.br -ti's mound, was recognis'd
r # s the permanent boundary lino |>etwtfcn the
of G< •. and Florida; and Georgia
*].-a'-iil her. If to !’ ■ •„n:;:e tl e line tbon*being
tfiej t surveyors oS the two States as
tha true boundary line,j>rovided Florida should
*• lajr(rt the same; a;*! prov ided that, at the
eastern : umb:* ■. i* lid “not depaiit exceeding
one fourth of a mile from* Ellicott’s mound.” —
Ihe survey - re; ert that the line, when run
. Sro i ’ . lefavt •! only about twenty-four feet
# fr©e the sh mn h; leavin : the mound that dis
tal • hi .*• li i.s taid‘that Florida
o . this proposi ion ©f (}< orgi l,
in re.erei mto the fifrl line run by the siu*-
veyuia tl ain the lie hi, with the ijhalificatioif
I that the line should not of the .Jine
! known as the JdcSTeil lino; and that Georgia
; is uot, tlieivihro, bound by the line as run,
which di * not precisely strike Ellicott’s mound,
at i,.-,* 4 Ti:*,’ A limit the truth f
0 0
• position, t?nd it docs not relieve Geor
o _ o*
gia from the agreement of her late Executive*
\> hieh was r;4 *by our*l* ei-laturc of /§ 57,
adapting the terminal points of the Then recog-*
inked line, and providing for a resurfey bc
•s; wnicb i surv. y the StatQ
oi|’ Florida doiu ; T ■ b , she lifld a rigjit to do,
under tlic resolutions of our Legislature.
Th 0 • * ‘ repudiate, either
V *eement or the resurvey, butT expressly
recognizes both; and provides |hat., if the.
itafce of § © ill fi i|,to recognfze the lino
tlien bvia.y run by the sillvcv.jrs, as tl*- tfue
and pern::-;: ■*( line,*it will then he the duty of
the surveyors to run and rerun the line, until
| they s|iall strike a straight lime from the gicftith
sos. Flint id- ••? to • m and; and. that,
this lisle, Jliue : U..b and marked by them,
is recognized and declared to b* {he perma
nent boundary line between tke two States.—
(Georgia is, therefore, I'uMy committed to* a
t-traigbt lim; be tween the terminal points ahaic
mentioned, as the boundary line. **he sur
veyors who i*;n tke late line are gentlemen of
high elm* cter in thei* profession. They re
j port that the line was correctly run between
the two points; and the*fact yhat they depart
!ed from.the objec|aimed at*only twenty-four
&et,in ironing a lino over one hundred and
j fifty-eight miles in length. Satisfy my mind ,
that made a very near approximation to
tiorrcctness. 4 1 regret that Georgia has lost a
.'-.trip of Territory In rp to font eltfiunjd by
u . • valua ; %*citizen9 fesidiug upon it.—•
Tyis is suip*ient reascfti, however, why she
should repudiate her solemn compact with Flo.
rida. According to tRe report of the survey
| or.-, the yariatfbn of the li*ie, as run from* a.
ht line betweerf rod two* terminal points
* agreed upo, is too immaterial to he dladc the
of futun? controversy or ‘misunder
standing between the twy sister States; as it is.
•j only a strip of territory twentydbur feet wide
I at its eastern end,*e©aferging to a poioff at its
western, end. . . • *
* For putting this controversy
f irpvcr at iv.-t* f recommend, the of a
joint resolu*'. n*of the two houses, recognising
; the line. ;unan * i.aitked hvsai*l surveyors,
as the settled and permanent botfbdary line be
tween the'twb States.
, * • • *
• C'odilicalion of (%c Lmvs, ,
.The Commissioner* appointed codify the°
laws of this *• ite, and to*hondcnse arid* sim
plify .theiy, so as to bring them, asViearfy as
l within the comprehension of all,
♦ after mJarly two years of incessant labor,.have
’ coni]* : lain* v.mr!: ; and U.ey afe mow .ready
to submit the Clide t> the inspection of the
| Ass-mbit* joint Committ§c ap*-
pointed by the : natc and Iloyise of Jtepreffbn
tytiv*s, at tfte last session, J'or the purppse ofs
revisiu* and fully eamining shid Code, have,
1 am inibrnn 1! also performtfl the duty
v I them*and they will no doubt, be ayuly to
report *i *. . ... ly day. From tin? sliOrt exanfl
mitiun j li..vc been abji‘ to give the Code,
which the Codifiers bavij .kindly permitted me
|o i tet, 1 dT) ryrt hesitate to say, that I high
ly r vc of the arrangement apd general
plaTi.of the work ; and consider it*a gre?lt i*i
provement on our present digests of fltie laws.
. My time has been so occupied ijinewits com
| pletion, that it has noU been in m*’ cower tox
ai.iin* the.work in detail. Possibly 1 each
of you. upon a critical exafuination, might fiutl
* i*ne thin., in the work to disajiprove. Should,
this even be the case, however it is much bet
ter that woaduptitftsn*whole, and remedy by fu
ture bmi-k'f.n. any defects that may exist in
0 O
it* I trust 4lie Leg;-l.iti e may condur in
vicwjof tjic subject, and adoptfthe code at an
parly day* Tiie limited time allowetl for the
Session would uot!,e sufficient, all oth
er bu iness be neglected, f r a revision anck dis
cu-sion of the entire by the* General As
sembly. I thii*k we iru^ r safely iftlopt it on the
reconamCncUttion of tl*e able committee of the
General Assembly, byVbomithas been care
fully and critically examined. — G%v. Brvv:n\
j . th£ Lcyislfj.l9re Noc. 9 J. 1800.
O ►
Organization of lsic .Uililia.^
In view of the perils to which, the peo
ple of fliis State may* soon b<j exposed by
those who ouiht to be first to accortf full jus
tice to tliaoi; 1 i commend the passage of suc-h
laws as ares necessary to* a complete organiza
tion of the Militia of tWs Htate. A more
•t.ior< • !i t:abiiiig should be provided for, and
heavier pecakies inflicted upon -these who ne
glect or refuse to do military duty. The orga
nization of new volunteer corps should be’ es
pecially encouraged by the State. 1 renew the
recommendation heretofore made to the Legis
lature that a commutation tax sufficient to raise
a military fund ample for the support of the
i system be collected from those who do not per
form military duty. — Gov. Brown’s Message.
has a purifying power, and every
tear is of a cleansing virtue; but these peniten
tial clouds must be kept still dropping; one
I shower will not suffice; for repentance is not •
one single action, but a course.
“The old fogy who poked his head out from
“behind the times,” got it rapped soundly by a
passing event.
NO. 33.