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More of the Naval Chaplain.
Gextlemes :—The Editor of the Index in
hi* last issue, gives sad evidence of a singular
and pertinacious love of tner.dacity, scurrilous
abuse and ridiculous vanity. He will have it,
that 1 am assailing, through him, the Baptist
Church, and that without a cause. In this he
knowingly and deliberately utters what he
knows is untrue. Yau, too, are accused of be
ing hostile to the Baptist faith because you per
mit me in your journal to confute his slanders
and iaisehoods. He seems to thick his cloth
ehcild shield him from chastisement how ever
unjustly he may assail others, and that hit
scurrilous sheet is entitled to a monopoly of (
mad because it is dubbed “Christian”—put
ting on the livery of Heaven to serve the devil
*in, by slandering its neighbors and diatarbiug
the peace of the community. I ink, once more, I
your indulgence, while I again expose Lis fal- ■
lacies and confute his slanders. It is due to the
public that they should not be deceived in
matters deeply iavalviag their welfare. It is
not true that I have stay •controversy with the
Baptist Church. Nor had I any controversy
with Mr. Walker until l»c voluntarily obtruded
’•iimself between me and the Baptist Abolition
ists north, as their champion and defender.'en
dorsing their slanders us the Government and '
the Episcopal Church.
How then, and about what, did this c< ntro’
versy begin ? Why, when you scrape away
all the blackgnardism and perversion ot teats,
with which he has sought to hide the tree is
sue, it turns out that he inserted in the Index, i
from the New York Baptists, a piece charging
that a Baptist clergyman. Stockbridge, war ap
pointed by the Government a chaplain en board
the man-of-war ship Savanaah, on the 'South
American station; and that Mr. ffwekbridge '
testifies that both the Commodore of the sta
tion and the Captain of the Savannrfh, request
ed him, more than once, to use in the religious
service on board the ship, the Eyiscwpnl ritual,
which he absolutely and peremptorily refused
to do, and that some time afterwards, he was
grossly insulted by some of'ihe ander officers
throwingat him orange peal* and a tumbler a
cross the table. He doesnot-rey what provoked
these insults. But he complains that he up
ylied.to the Navy Department and the Execu
tive Government for redress, and could ob- .
•tain none. Whereupon €he Baptists North, as >
well as all the abolitionists, charge the Episco
pal Church with participating in these ulledged
wrongs towards Mr. Stockbridge. And as a 1
part and parcel of this conspiracy, the New-
York Baptists publish the piece in the Exami
ner, embracing these charges, and which is re- [
published in the Index. Here then, is a charge
unsupported by proof, of wrong toward an un
offending clergyman, because he was a Baptist,
perpetrated by the Episcopal Church. As a
member of that Church the charge is made
against me, and to add insult to injury, they say
our church is a small minority, which was of
doubtful patriotism in the Revolution, that is,
that they were all lories, and that they have
dragaonod the Government to give them all
the chaplaincies in the Army and Navy. Is it
expected of us to let such charges pass unnotic
od, even if they are uttered bv blackguards and
traitors 1
In reply I here charge deliberately, that I
whoever Fays that the Episcopal Church, or I
any congregation. Bishop, Priest, or Deacon !
thereof, caused or authorized, participated in, j
or sanctioned, any wrong or insnlt, towards
Mr. Stockbridge, or who had any hand in, or
canned, the officers on board the Savannah to
use, or require to be nsed the Episcopal ritual,
knowingly and of wicked malice, titters a slan-
der and a falsehood. I have in my former com - .
mnaioations endeavored to show why the Gov
eminent has used the Episcopal ritual in the
public service. I have no more to add on that
head, only asking men of sense to reflect that
whatever mode of worship the Government
adopts, it becomes pro Aac vice the ritual of the j
Government, and not ot’ the church, lie is a
dunce or hypocrite who dues not know that
modes of worship and church government con
stitute no part of religion, any more than do
the buildings in which men worship. They
who trust to such things will be undeceived
when it will be too late. Christ >u his wise
providence left his followers, scattered as they ,
are over all the world, free to adopt such modes
and rules a’ they may judge best fitteifoo their
several and various circumstance* and wants. I
Don't every man of sense perceive that the J
choice is presented to the Government, ot eith
er adopting a ritual of some sort or else ex
eluding the Christian religion altogether from
the public service. It is the business (A the
Government to see tn it that the Navy shall
answer the object of its creation, and that was
that it should be the right arm of the Republic
in that unchristian trade of fighting; and
that everything that may lessen its efficiency
in that regard, should be swept from her docks.
It was not established to make Baptists or
Episcopalians, nor must its decks be converted ;
into a bear garden for church tights. A nice
Navy would ours become w-itb its decks crowd
ed with all the creeds of the world blatant.—
Why has not a Jew as good a right to his ritual i
on board ship, or Brigham Young, or the
Quaker, the Millerite, or the Idolater, for they
all may be sailors in our Navy 1
But where do yon get the authority for Gov
ernment to recognize the Christian religion
at all? How can they say to the Jews, you
shall not labor on Sunday ? or to the German
red republican, we will maintain the Christian
Sabbath, and yon shall not break it nor blas
pheme? The truth is, we are none of us wholly
free; yet to use the appropriate remark ol a face
tious Georgia Judge—we all have much more lib
erty than we know what to do with—we are all
under the law and must obey it or die. Yes,
this tyrant may take our lives—we have agreed
to that, and we have agreed that many ot our
natural rights—such as the Indiaosenjoy—shall
be deuied to ns, for the greatest good of the
greatest number. Then 1 say, and every states
tuaa who has sense enough to find his way to
Washington City knows, that the Government
may direct what shall be the mode of religious
worship in the public service, whether it be
Jew or Pagan : or they may say there shall be
no religious service at all. Now, don tgo to
falsifying, Mr. Index, and say that I hold that
they ought to do either. I only say, that they
have the right to judge and follow their own
judgment. If Congress disapprove of their de
cision, they may prescribw a different rule.
Keeping in mind that a ship and its crew is a
home and family of th* confederacy, may not
h man regulate the mode of worship in his own
•.amih* there saikwe cannot select their
■ Chaplain nor their ritual any more than our
! Slaves can on our plantations. They enlisted
to fight, not to discuss religions dogmas.
It then devolves on the Government and the
officers of the ship to select for them. They
rnay select the Baptist, Episcopalian, Metho
dist. Presbyterian, or Catholic, mode ol wor
I ship, only taking care to select that which
promises to render the Navy most orderly and
efficient; eschewing the abominable folly that
the army and navy are made for the church,
I or that they are to be made to sink so low as
to become carcasses for hungry Ecclesiastical
j buzzards to feed upon, whereby the nww proud
uniform shall become a badge of shame cover
| ing cowards mean enough to be put toauch
uses. But the clerical rooster in the Index
crows lustily over the great discovery‘Of the
* following provision in the Constitution, and
seems to feel sure that his dung-hill «pnrs have
perpetrated au inevitable homicide upon poor
c ock robin. Hear him: “ Congress shall make
no law respecting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press
or the right of the people peaceably to assem
ble aird petition the government for a redress
of grievances. Will our legal reviewer pre
tend that any subordinate department of Gov
ernment can make a rule to nullify this consti
tutional provision ? We trow not. Then let
us hear ito more of the cat-o-nine-tails as
agencies U» coerce to prayers at sea. Such
puerilities "etlect no credit on his standing as
a well read ,'awyer.” I would not dwell upon
that, nor dis ‘orb the chuckling satisfaction of
the happy bit d—supposing that all intelligent
men, and certt inly all lawyers, would see that
the clause in qu vstion does not touch the care
iu controversy — were it not that a writer in tlie
Index of the 24tb, signing himself W. D. A.,
and who from his style of writing is a courte
ous ami intelligen t gentleman, seems to think
my position is in o mtlict with that provision
of the Constitution. For the benefit of all
such, I ask, at the risk of seeming tedious, to
submit something of what Judge Story says
in hi* “Commentaries upon the Constitution” ■
touching this clause. He says: •* How far any
government has a right 1> interfere in matters
touching religion, has been a subject much dis
cussed by writers upon public and politics]
law. The right and the duty of the interfer
ence of government in matters of religion have
been maintained by many distinguished au
thors, as w ell as those who were the warmest
advocates of free governments, as those who
were attached to governments of a more ar
bitrary character. Indeed the right of a so- i
ciety or government to interfere in matters of
religion, will hardly be contested by any per- ;
sons who believe that piety, religion and mor
ality are intimately connected with the well
being of the state, and indispensable to the ad
ministration of civil justice. The promulga
tion of the great doctrines of religion, the be- ,
ing attributes and providence of one Almighty _
God, the responsibility to him tor all our ac- 1
tions. founded upon moral freedom and ac- 1
countability, a future state of rewards and pun
ishments, the cultivation of all the personal,
social and benevolent virtues, thebe never
can be a matter of indifference in any well or
dered community. It is indeed difficult to con- j
reive how any civilized society can well exist
without them. Anil at all events it is impossi
ble for those who believe in the truth of Chris
tianity as a divine revelation, to doubt that it i
is the especial duty of government, to foster
and encourage it. among all the citizens and
subjects. This is a point wholly distinct from
that of the right of private judgment in matters
of religion, and of the freedom of public wor- ;
ship according to the dictates of ones own con- i
science.”
That is what the clause means. Nomanori
the Government has any right to control my
private judgment, nor that of any sailor upon
matters of religion. 1 may believe in any re
ligion. or in none, and no earthly power may
question that belief, so long as I do not injure
others by its intrusion. I and my friends may
hold public worship in any mode ami manner,
and in any place, and preach any creed we fan
cy, so long as we do not interfere with the
right* or morality of others, and the Govern
ment cannot prevent it, or question us. It is
a matter wholly between us and our God.—
But bow doe* this conflict with my ]>osition,
that the Government can regulate the mode of
worship in it* own family on board ships, and
incampt This is not public worship, in the
contemplation of the Constitution.
Take from the Government the right to reg
ulate this matter, and it is plain and palpable
there can be no worship nor religious teaching
in the Navy, and tailor* must have no religion,
for they cannot go ashore to seek it. Let the
government conclude to adopt the Baptist mode
of worship on board a ship, where perhaps
there are no two sailor* agreeing in their be
lief. An Episcopal Sailor approaches the cap
tain ami 'ays, I was raised an Episco|>aiian a
and it is painful to forego the use of the litur
gy on the Sabbath. While he is yet speaking
hundred* of others come up with like com
plaints, only they are none of them Episcopa
lians nor Baptista The captain replies—friend*,
this is a matter regulated by my superiors. I
have no voice in it, only I want the Christian
religion taught and practiced on board, but
you see that would be impossible without
some fixed rule, for no two of you agree. Now
what you call Baptist ritual is nothing but the
1 ritual of the Navy. I will see to it that your
. religious belief shall not be violated, for that
>is your way to heaven. But our mode of
family worship is another matter, and we can
| have none w ithout oue fixed rule governing
all. This is no hardship, my friends—you en
listed with the tacit agreement that yon should
submit to all the rules of the Navy which is
our family. You were not compelled to en
' list, and if yonr conscience is disquieted by
anything aboard, you can leave as soon as your
time expire*. You did wrong io cmne among
us to breed disturbance.
But enough of this. Let me turn now to
( what this clerical blackguard falsely charges
against me—that I can see abolitionism no
where but among the Baptists. I made no
such charge. I never insinuated that the Bap
| (ast Church South is in the least favonible to
abolition. So far from it, they were among
the first to separate from and denoumw their
abolition brethren North. So that I have them
i for my authority in denouncing those North ss
■ an abolition crew, and I charged that thisslan
, der against the Episcopal Church touching
Stockbridge, was got up by those abolitionist*
for the purpose of injuring that Church in the
! estimation of the people of the United States,
I and the Southern Baptists in particular, be-
I ranre that Chnreh ha* firmly and steadily re-
fused to join them in their war against the peace
of the Southern people. And I have tto doubt
that they selected Stockbridge to art sis a vol
untary martyr, and sent him aboard the Sava
nnah to enact that disgraceful mutiny, (which
he shamelessly himself avows, to raise an ex
citement against the government and the E
prscopal Church, the same as the traitors did
in sending their tools iato Kansas; and I believe
that the insults which Stockbridge courted Btd
received were in return for some infamous ab
olition‘insult given. Their advocate here in
Macon nbal) ndt blind the South so long as
there is a free press. He shall not get off
from tho issue by charging me with hostility
to the Baptists, and as being a monomaniac
Upon abolition. I did not liegin this quarrel;
I only repdiell the foul falsehood which those
abolitionists in New York, endorsed by their
defetldar iu Macon, made against the Episcopal
Church. 1 know very well abolition is not
confined to the Baptist Church North. I nev
er naii' it was. But since their advocate in
Much: presses the matter. I will add that to
my certain know ledge, the most rabid of the
traitors are found in that ChufcN. It is but
the other day we read iu all the papers that a
good old Baptist elder in Michigan was depo
sed and turned out of the Church for having
voted the Buchanan ticket, and yet we heard
no howl from this watch-dog of the constitu
tion and religions freedom here in Macon.
But not to !•« tedious, I will hasten to a close;
yet I must notice briefly the shameless viola
tion of truth which this clerical falsifier perpe
trates in regard to the religion of Washington.
He charges me with malice and want of chari
ty because I am only moved by just indigna
tion at his slanders and violation of trutlt, and
yet he will not allow Washington or anybody
else to possess any religion out of the Baptist
Church. He say* I only prove Washington a
moral and religious man, but dont carry the
proof down to hi* death. This is a contempti
ble quibble. In the first place, his church holds
that Washington could uot fall from grace, so
that he must have died in a state of grace.
' In the second place, I proved by the very high
est authority that he was a communicant of the
Episcopal Church from early life until he was
at least 48 years of age. and the presumption
is. and there is no proof to the contrary, that
he continued his connection to the end of his
life, for he continued to attend that Church up
to his Inst sickness; and so is all the testimo;
ny outside of infidelity. It is to be regretted
j that sectarian bigotry cannot permit a little re
ligion outside of their narrow precincts.—•
First, we have the Rev. Mr. Breck swearing
by a little grand daughter, and the abolition
Unitarian Sparks, and the infidel Parker—who
blasphemously declared, in a public address,
that he bad no use for any but an abolition Bi
ble and an abolition God— that the great Wash
ington was too eminent a man, seeing lie was
ian Episcopalian, to get to heaven. And sec
ondly, then, we have the Rev. Mr. Walker
quoting the Rev. Mr. Breck most lovingly as
good Baptist authority for keeping Washington
out of heaven. Let me warn you, gentlemen,
to get a better passport than that before you
can ever know whether Washington is in heav
en or not. But Sparks, greatly to his sorrow,
dares not say that Washington was not a deep
ly pious man: and Parker only enquired of
White whether he knelt in prayer—he knew
it was not safe to press the question further—
and Bishop White could not in candor say,
that he ever heard the General sing psalms ami
discuss the doctrine of election and baptismal
regeneration at state dinners'. After that who
will say that Washington had any chanfte to
j get to heaven ?
All history agrees that Washington, for rea
sons best known to himself—and knowing the
ipan. we know they were good reasons—never
knelt in time of public prayer, and in this he
violated a well known Episcopal rubric. —
Doubtless this shocked the good high-churcli
man, Bhdmp White, when Washington came
to live in Philadelphia, and the good old man
was sorely perplexed what to make of such an
Episcopalian. But all this time, while those
Boston abolitionist* and the Rev. Mr. Breck
were hunting up testimony against Washington,
there lived near by, George W. Custis who lived
with, and almost worshipped Washington up
to the time of his death, and who knew his in
most soul. Why not enquire of him ? For the
plainest reason: he would tell the trntli.—
For shame, gentlemen, to go to Boston amongst
abolition infidels for testimony against honest
dead men ! But I feel sure I need not do more
than I have done in calling Washington Irving
to the stand, to np«et this Sally Dillard testi
mony. that the little grand daughter told Mr.
Sparks, who told Rev. Mr. Breck, that Wash
ington sometimes left grandma at church ; and
that Bishop White told pious Mr. Parker, who
told Rev. Mr. Breck, that if Washington ever
sung psalms ami shouted at public dinners in
Philadelphia, he was, in all candor, free to de
clare he never heard him. All which the Rev.
Mr. Breck prints in a pamphlet, at pages 34
and 85. and which the Rev. Mr. Walker reails,
like another riot act, to keep Washington out
of heaven, in spite of Washington Irving and
all the men of the Revolution. These Revs,
might have got stronger testimony from Bos
ton; for the very year the Rev. Mr. Breck wrote
pages 34 and 35, at a mass meeting in Faneuil
Hall. Mr. Raymond said iu his tpeech that
Washington was an infamous scoundrel, and
Colonel Wendall Phillips followed him, and
declared that no honest American citizen could
look at Washington without hiding his face
with shame, for that his character was cover
ed all over with a great clot of
And yet this same Phillips, the same year, was
selected to deliver the annual address at the
commencement at Dartmouth College, before
all the piety and literature of New England.
We may expect that in the next edition of
Rev. Mr. Breck’* pamphlet, he will not omit
this important testimony, but that it will be
found by Rev. Mr. Walker at pages 34 and 35
of Shat pious classic. After that, if Rhada
manthns lets Washington pas* muster, he is
an Episcpalian “iu the form of opposition to
tlie Baptist faith.” In conclusion. 1 aver liefure
Heaven, that in all this unpleasant contro
versy I have had no other object than the
vindication of truth and virtue; I feel not
now. nor ever, one particle of hostility to
the Baptist Church. My hostility has been
awakened towards the wolves, which snap
at me as I pass, trotn under their sheep
skins. And I tonfes* also to a deep so
i licitude at the approaching ruin, now not far
in the future, which seems certain to overtake
my country. The enemy isstepby step, stead
ily approaching the citadel. They loose not
, an inch of ground, as they advance with their
black flap upon th* rampart* of the trusting
and devoted South. Already have they swept
away the last bastion, and we hear the sound
of their ruining tools beneath the wall. And
yet whoever warns the devoted garrison of
their near approach, and that it is time to save
the women and children, be is denounced as a
traitor.
After* hese Sepoys have got control of the Ar
my and Navy, the Supreme Court, and the
Executive, who so silly to believe that the
head of any slaveholder will be worth an hour’s
purchase ? Who such a dunce as not to see that
a civil war. unparalleled in the annals of the
■world, must follow. Let blackguard abolition
chaplains like Stockbridge be forced upon our
Army and Navy, and instantly every Southern
officer worthy his uniform, will quit the ser
vice, and in their place we shall have chaplains
and officers who will take pains to slander the
South over all the world, as heathens and bar
barians, as far behind the civilzation of the
North as the Hindoos are behind the English
nobility.
And when the struggle of force comes, as
come it must, I need not suggest where thia
Army and Navy w ill be found and felt. For
myself individually, I have very little interest
in these coming events—l shall soon be where
their sound cannot reach me. Yet I cannot
divest myself of that love of my country, which
Walker calls monomania, planted in my heart
by a sainted Revolutionary parent. It may he
weakness, but I swear it is not treason. My
countrymen, surrender your Army and Navy
to the blackguard traitors at the peril of your
wive* nud little ones!
8. T. BAILEY.
MRS. ANNE THOMAS SHOLL.
Messrs. Editors :—Will you allow a tempo
rary resident in your city, to say a kind word
in your papvr. respecting this excellent lady,
who is to give a Concert here next Friday
evening. She is a resident of Savannah, and
the papers of that city, I notice, speak in en
thusiastic praise of her musical abilities. She
is a pupil of the celebrated teacher. Dr. Hodges,
of New York. It is now six years since I have
seen her. She was then only seventeen, and
so famous had she become, that the Trinity
Church of New York, paid her fire hundred
dollars a year, to sing on the Sabbath. She
was the only female singer, and her voice com
pletely filled that immense building. She was
then called, “Little Anne Thomas," and was
loved and admired by all who knew her. She
was attending school at the Rutgers institute,
and so rare were her musical powers, and such
“ a joy and rejoicing” was she to all around
her that when the school was moved to Buffa
lo, the Principal offered her board and sehool
ing/ree, if she would go with him.
In power, sweetness, richness and fullness of
tone, she lias net a superior in the whole range
of foreign artists that create such a furore in
our land. But in one thing she exceeds them
all, in modesty. I would go farther to hear her
sing-simply tor the musical treat —than anysin
ger I ever heard—Jenny Lind excepted.
I am certain that if the lowers of music iu
Macon could realize the treat in store for them
Ralston's Hall would be filled to overflow
ing on Friday evening.
Yours &c., G. Q. C.
SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONVENTION.
Governor Bnowx has appointed the follow
ing Delegate* to this Convention, which as
sembles in Montgomery, Alabama, on the 2d
Mondav in Mar.
’FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
Wilson Lumpkin, George R. Gilmer. W illiam
Schlcv' George W. Crawford, ilersehcl X.
Johnson. Hiram Warner, Him-. Holt. Thos.
W. Thomas, Charles J. Jenkins, Win. 11. btiles,
James Gardner, B. IL Hill, B. C. Tancey,
Francis IL Cone. Linton Stephens, E. A. Nis
bet, Mark A- Gooper. David J. Bailey, A. 11.
Chappell. Joel Craw'ord.
FIRST COXGRESSIDXAL DISTRICT.
Thomas—Augustin H. Hansell
Bulloch —Peter Cone
laiurens —E. J. Blackshear
Mclntosh—Charles Spalding
Glynn—J. Hamilton Cooper
Chatham—F. 8. Bartow, James P. Screven.
G. P. Harrison, John W. Anderson, A. R.
Lamar
SECOND CONGBES3IOXAL DISTRICT,
Muscogee—Wm. Dougherty, T. Lomax,
James N. Bethune, John A. Jones, Jr.
Stewart—John A. Tucker
’Dougherty—Richard IL Clark
Macon —L. M. Felton
Baker—A. H. Colquitt
Sumter—Willis A. Hawkin*
Marion —William M. Brown
THIRD COXGRESSIOXAL DISTRICT.
Bibb —Washington P“e. O. A. Lochraue,
Wm. K. DeGratfvnrieil
Epson—Peter W. Alexander
Harris—D. P. Hill
Monroe—C. Peeples
Talbot—A. F. Owen
Crawford—George R. Hunter
Houston —John D. M atkins
Spalding—A. li. Moore
FOI'RTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Troup—Hon. Edward Y. Hill
Heard —L. H. Featherstone
Carroll —A. J. Boggess
Fulton—B. H. Overby, John W. Duncan,
Robert J. Cowart
Cobb —John • >. Gartrall
DeKalb—William C. Daniel
Merriwether—William T. Harris
Coweta —Hugh Buchanan
FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Floyd—John H. Lumpkin, H. V. M. Miller,
S. Fouche
Pulk —John A. Jones
Cass—W m. T. Wofford. Lindsay Johnson
Gilmer—Joseph Pickett
Gordon —G. J. Fain
Whitfield—C. B. Welborn
Walker—Elisha Dyer
SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Towns—Sumner J. Smith
Habersham —Robert McMillan
Clark—Asbury Hull, Wm. L. Mitchell, John
Billups
Forsyth—William A. Lewi*
Gwinnett —James I’. Simmon*
Franklin —Samuel Knox
Lumpkin—W. Boyd
t’nioii —S. Reid
SET'TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
Morgan—Augustus Reese, Geo. R. Jessup.
Newton —Permetu* Reynold*
Baldwin—Miller Groive, »r., 8. N Bough
ton. R. M. Orme. sr.
Hancock—David W. Lewis
Jasper—John W. Burney
Twigg*—Robert R. Slappey
Putnam—.Junius Wfogfield
EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Wilkes—lsaiah T. Irvin
Riclmmnd —John Milledge, James T. Nisbet,
W. Gibson, Thomas Barrett
Bnrke—A. J. Lawson
Jefferson—A. R. Wright
Warren—E. H. Pottle
Elbert—Robert Hester
Oglethorpe—Dr Willi* Willingham
MACON, GA.
Thursday, April 8,1858.
THE JOURNAL A MESSENGER AND THE COMPA
NY IT KEEPS —1 FT THE PEOPLE LOOK TO
THEIR SAFETY
Kansas was refused admission under the
Lecompton Constitution by the votes of 28 Black
Republican Senators, and of Beu and Crittzn-
DEX.two Southern trkttors. In the House of Rep
resentatives Kansas, writh a slave Constitution,
was refused admission as a State by 114 Black
Republican votes and Fix Southern traitors. —
This was a vital question to the South, rising
above all party lines and names, and so we
class all opponents to the Senate Kansas Bill
as Black Republicans and Southern traitors;
and these Southern traitors are the blackett of
all—Benedict Arnolds to their section. Yet
the Journal <(■ Mcesenger joins the motley
hand of conspirators—excuses and palliates
Bell and Chittenden’s course hist week, and
this week rebukes Hill and Trippe by saying
" we regret any Southern man should have vot
ed for the Bill as it passed the Senate.” Mr.
Knowi.es, you had better go back to New
England. Verily onr worst enemies are in our
own camp. We are told that we must not
calculate the value of the Union ; but the cri
sis is upon us, and before many days we will
be compelled to decide between sacrificing the
Union or surrendering the institution of slave
ry—an institution upon which wholly depends
the strength and prosperity of the South.—
Gov. Bnowx.in our opinion, should call a
Convention forthwith to act upon this momen
tous issue.
COL. BAILEY, THE STATE - PRESS AND THE
CHRISTIAN INDEX
At a considerable cost of space we publish
to-day another communication from Col. 8. T.
Bailey about the “Naval Chaplain.” which
completely “ winds up” our friend of the
Christian Index. The Col. has, in our opinion,
exhausted the argument—his article is unan
swerable, and we devoutly pray that our much
respected cotemporary will have the good
sense and good taste not to attempt a reply.—
We desire it to be distinctly understood, how
ever, that in giving publicity to Col. B.’s arti
cles we are actuated by no feelings of hostility
to the Baptist Church. As to the charge which
the editor of the Index makes against us. in his
issue of last week, that we are “ ever ready to
admit articles against the Baptists.” we have
simply to say that the charge is false. We
avow—and our fries will prove—that we have
never given utterance to a word against the
Baptist faith. The charge of the Index man is
a mean, dirty and contemptible trick to injure
our interests with the Baptists. True we have
published some things about Mr. Walker which,
very likely, did not set quite comfortably on
the Rev. Gentleman's stomach ; but unless he
be the personification of the Baptist Church,
we repeat the avowal that we hrtve never
thoHirbt, said, written, or published, a syllable
against that denomination. And Mr. Walker
knows it. He knows that we are sinners. He
knows that we care no more about the Episco
palians than the Baptist-. In fact if we have
a predilection for any particular denomina
tion, it Is for the Baptist Church. But we are
not disposed to be as sour as vinegar and as
bitter as gull by quarreling about dogma-, te
nets ami rituals. To quote the wo: Js of the
poet.
For forms and creeds. kt senseless bigots fight,
He can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.
BRITISH PERIODICALS
Attention is directed to the advertiscnicn
in our columns of Blackwood's Magazine and
the British Reviews. It seems to us that no
one of literary taste ami attainments cun afford
to be without these valuable re publications,
containing as they do the crentn of current lit
erature as presented by the most brilliant tal
ent of the age, and furnished at the remarka
bly low pi ice of ten dollars w hieh is less than
one-third of the original cost.
It is superfluous for ns to say a word about
“ Blackwood.” Every intelligent reader is fa
miliar with its history and appreciates its mer
its. The Edinburgh Review was started by
such masster minds as Jeffrey, Brougham and
Sydney Smith, and has for years borne aloft
the Whig banner under which it has gallantly
fought the Tories in behalf of •• Freedom and
the inalienable rights of man.” The London
Quarterly is a Conservative Journal of consid
erable influence, managed with tact and ability.
The Westminster Review represents the Liber
al party, guiding instead of following the pop
ular sentiment. The North British, which
has of late been less evangelical than in its
former days, has now got back (as the pabli.-b
--ers inform ns) to its fret faith. and “is con
ducted on the same principles, and with the
same vigor which characterised it when under
the care of Chalmers and his illustrious com
peers.”
Subscribe for all of them, and our word for
it yon will not regret the investment. Follow
Ben Franklin's advice by emptying a portion
of your purse into your brains. Address
Messrs. L. Scotti Co., New York.
“UNDER WHICH KINGT’
It is a remarkable circumstance (but still
none the less true,) that the leading Know
Nothing prints of Georgia have given aid and
comfort to the enemy by sustaining that infa
mous traitor, John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky,
in his late desertion of his native South. The
Macon Journal <£ Meuenger, the Columbus
Enquirer, and the Milledgeville Recorder, and
other K. N. prints, have published Crittenden's
speech in extenno — some of them with compli
mentary notices about its being the ablest ef
fort in Congress during the present session.—
We have noticed, however, that these same
journals take particular pains not to publish
any speeches in favor of the Lecompton Consti
tution. Under these circumstances the inference
followsthat the above papers sustain such traitors
a- Bell and Crittenden in the Senate, and Winter
Davis. Humphrey Marshall, rtjais. in the House.
Come gentlemen of the “ Southern American”
press, are you for or against the South on this
Kansas sensation ! If you are not with us,
Surely you are against us. Speak out.
DR M A. FRANKLIN
It is sad. sad indeed, to record the death of
such a man as (fie one whose name heads this
Notice. On Saturday the 3d inst., he breathed
his last: and many a heart ached, and many
an eye wept on that mournful occasion. He
was thoroughly identified with our city; and in
all the relations of public and private life, his
character was without stain and without re
proach R'qvieteat in pvt
NEW BOOK.
We have received a copy of a work just pub
lished entitled “ a Manual for Ordinaries, Ex
ecutors and Guardians, in the State of Georgia,
embracing the Constitutional and Statute law
of the State, familiar principles of the common
law, decisions of the Sii[*erlor Court and a great
variety of forms.” by William M. Reuse, Esq,
of Washington Ga. From the examination
which we have given it. we have no hesitancy
in pronouncing it a very complete and accu
rate treatise. We can recommend it as being
especially adapted to the use of [>ersons inexperi
enced in the law. It is for sale in this city at
Mr. J. M. Boardman's Book Store, where ev
ery variety of literature can be found.
A GOOD ' SWAP."
The Richmond South proposes to exchange
the New Englund States with Great Britain
for the Island of Jamaica. An excellent move I
We second the motion most heartily.
J-fA In our last number we noticed the pro
gress of religious revivals throughout the Union.
We have now to announce that this Christian
influence lias reached our own town. Brayer
meetings are held every afternoon at Concert
Hall under the auspices of the Young Men’s
Christian Association, the meetings being con
ducted by Rev. Messrs. Breck, Landrum, and
Boring, the Pastors respectively of the Presby
terian, Baptist, and Methodist Churches. May
God speed them in the good work of reform
which they have undertaken. There is no place,
within our knowledge, which has more mate
rial to work upon than Macon. We may, per
haps, except the city of Memphis, Tennesse,
where, it is said, there are not even ten right
eous men to save the place from the wrath to
come.
Mr. Wood invites the public to an in
spection of the numerous fine pictures on ex
hibition at his Gallery. We were particularly
pleased, on visiting his rooms a few days since,
with a full length oil painting, on a landscape
brick-ground, of a little son of one of our
citizens. It ispronounced an excellent likeness,
and 1s certainly a very beautiful picture. Mr.
Bebvff, in executing it. has fully sustained his
reputation as a master of his art. There is no
place in town to while away a dull moment
more pleasantly than at Wood’s. See adrer
tieeme“it.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Don't fail to read the advertisements in to
day's paper. Planters will consult their inter
ests by referring to the card of the old estab
lished house of J. B. & W. A. Ross, who have
on hand a new and large stock of Ury Goods
and Groceries. Onr planting friends are also
referred to Mr. Nathan Weed's advertisement
of Hardware. Os course the Indies will not
overlook the “ Bazaar of Fashion” of Messrs-
Ross, Coleman & Ross.
As the warm days of ‘summer are near at
hand, we refer our citizens to the Soda Fount
which Mr. Horn advertises tlint a he has jnst
opened. Messrs. Zr.n.in <k 111 nt arc also dis
pensing this refreshing leverage, and, to their
praise be it said, they are remarkably consid
erate of thirsty editors.
But to change the snlject. if you waul to
deal in horse flesh yon can be accommodated
at the Stable of Hayden A V.'ismwAZD, of
which firm our friend “Tom W>mm>wahi>.” has
just become a member ms-ording to the notice
on our first page. Finally if you want any in
formation on the subject of Phrenology, pre
pare to be enlightened by Prof. Fowl.hi: next
week.
Besides the above there are many other ad
vertisements in onr columns for which we be
speak a careful reading.
■
DR BOYNTON 3 LECTURES.
Onr citizens are now enjoying a rich treat
in listening to the brilliant lectures of Dr.
Boynton upon Geology. He has fully sustain
ed the high refutation which preceded him.
The most profound scientific truths and princi
ples seem in his hands but an A B C busi
ness.—and be brings them down to the com
prehension of every listener. He not only does
this, but occasionally we see an under-current
of wit and humor, which, with hi« amusing an
ecdotes. affords a fine entertainment. There
is no science more im|s>rtant than that of Ge
ology, as it embraces Natural History and
much of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy.
It is becoming more and more important every
year.— and the present visit of Dr. Boynton af
fords int a trifling expense) a fine opportunity
to become acquainted with its genera) princi
ples. It is a treat to hear Dr. Boynton speak,
independent of the scientific knowledge he con
veys. Do not fail to hear him. The subject
of the lecture to-night, is the "First Created
Animals.”
Items.
*4?" Judge Anderson publishes a commu
nication in yesterday's Messenger about the Or
dinance upon which we commented last week.
We assure the gentleman that we had nointen
tion of doing him injustice in onr remark-, and
that we disapprove as much as he does of the
practice of carrying concealed weapons. Still
we are none the less opposed to the principle
of legislating upon the subject—the Supreme
Court and “Ist Kelly” to the contrary not
withstanding.
On Monday last Sami kl Hvntee ami
James B. Artope, Esqs.. were elected Judges
of the Inferior Court of Bibb county.
Want of space compels us to omit onr
usual report of the City Council proceedings.
' Several communications have also been crowd
ed out.
Last Sunday, being Easter, the close of
Lent anda high festival of the Christian Church,
was duly observed by the Catholics of our city.
In New Orleans the day was celebrated by
■ a grand performance at the Theatre for the
| benefit of Mino Richer, the popular actressand
vocalist I
CONNECTICUT ELECTION
Hartford, April 6.—The State Election,
which came off yesterday, resulted in the elec
tion of the Republican candidate for Governor
by 9,000 majority. The Legislature, also, is
largely Republican.
Consistency.—-When Douglas announced his
purpose to vote with the Anti-LecomptCniteS
against the admission of Kansas, Southern
Know Nothing journals denounced him as a
Black Republican, and declared bis defection
to l>e an indication ot the affinity of the Demo
cratic party for Freesoilism; but since Crit
tenden and Bell have voted with the Northern
party, they are applauded by many of these
iournals-for the act. -South. Citizen
~— !■
Congressional.
Washington, April I.—ln the Senate to
day the army bill was passed, but with a sub
stitute for two instead of four regiments, ex
clusive of that designated for Texas.
In the Senate the Kansas bill was received,
as amended and passed by the House. Mr.
Green moved to disagree to the amendments,
and this niotioii*will be considered to-morrow.
In the House. Mr. Stephens had scarcely
moved that the Kansas bill should tie taken up,
when Mr. Giddings objected to its second
reading. In such case the rule requires that
the question shall be taken. On the rejection
to this disagreement, the vote stood yeas 95,
to nays 187. Mr. Quitman offered as a substi
tute. the Senate bill, with the exception of
Hugh and Green’s proviso, declaring that the
people of Kansas have the right to amend tbeir
Constitution. This amendment was defeated
by a vote of 75 in favor of, to 180 against it.
The vote was then on Crittenden’s amendment
as a substitute, which was further amended by
the nnti-Lecompton portion ot the Democrats
in the late conference. The amendment was
carried by eight majority.
The bill as amended by the House provide*
for the admission of Kansas, but refers the
Constitution back to the people for tbeir votes.
If the Constitution is rejected, a convention is
to be called to form anew Constitution. As
soon as the latter is approved, the President is
directed to issue liis proclamation, and Kansas
be admitted into the Union without further ac
tion by Congress.
April 3, 1858. —The United Blates Senate
refused, by a majority of nine votes, to con
cur in the amendments of the House of Repre
sentatives to the Kansas bill.
Congress has adjourned until Monday next.
April 5. —The Senate passed Mr. Brown’s
Police bill for the city.
The House concurred in the Senate's amend
ments to the Army bill, increasing the force
by three new regiments instead of five. The
Washington Police bill w as postponed until af
ter the Deficiency bill is disposed of. The dis
cussion of the Deficiency bill was then resumed.
BY TELEGRAPH.
[from the savannah Georgian.]
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE ARRIVAL
OF THE INDIAN.
Santa Anna bound fur Mexico—Matters in
China —Commercial Eacurable—Cotton Ad
vancing.
Poktlamn Ms, March sth.—The steamship
Indian has arrived al this port from Liverpool,
which place she left on the 24th March, and
brings tour days later news than tho Persia.—
She reports an advance in cotton, which was
cheeked by the news from America.
News in General.
The U. S. Slates frigate Niagara had reached
Plymouth, England, on the 23d lilt. The Aga
memnon was taking in the sub-Atlantic Tele
graph cable.
Gen. Pellissier was to be the French minis
ter at the Conn of London.
The blockade <>f Canton, China, was raised
on the 10th February. The Americans and
Russians had joined in w ith the English and
French in the demands on China. Commis
sioner Yeh was -till a prisoner of the English
at Hong Kong ami bound for Calcntta.
Latest advices from St. Thomas state that
Gen Santa Anna had arrived there, bitt was
bound tor Mexico via Havunna.
Items.
We find the following paragraph in tha
Richmond i \ a.) South .
■' At a -ale of m-griK's in Green ctnmty. Vn..
on the 4th in»t„ a negro boy alsart 17 yi-aisohl
was cried off at $1155: two negro men,
grown up. one for $1 ;00.ii5. the other for
$I38o; and a small girl for 55"5. Nine of the
negna--» from i-hil Iren t<> middle-aged, aver
aged $--2o each. f lic sale wa« equivalent to a
cash one. and the figure.- ate ivrtuinly m> ■nit
ration of Laril times.”
Bank lissi mhtiox. -We-arc gratified t«> be
able to state, -ays the Nivamuvli Repnbliean of
Thursday, from ‘mtoiiiiaioiw ik-rived frssti a
reliable source, that llie Banks of ,'savannah
cml Augusta have ne-olvut vnonidititmally.
to resume sjweie pay metils <<u the first day of
May. proximo.
Richmond, Va, April 2.—Tlielegielatnrt to
day passed a bill to compel the h-auks to re
sume specie payna-nts on the l~t of May ; ami
also a bill to ( s>mpe) tla- independent banks to
redeem tbeir notes in speetv in Itiehmoud or
Baltimore, in A}-ril. 1-85‘J.
Steamboat Cascaltt—Loss or Lifk.—St.
Loui-. April 2. -I’lte steamer Sultan was de
stroyed by fire this morning ne:u* Cape Giranl
eua. and fifty per-ens lost their lives by this
casualty. The Sultan was bound for New
Orleans.
’-{»* Gat vestox i- the largest town in Tex
as and numbers some 8,om) inhabitants. It
contains eight or ten churches. The Catholic
Cathedral cost .-ibouls4<>.ooo. The new Episeo
|stl Church will rest Jt'm.mgl. There are also
Methodist, Baptist, and other Churches, all
handsome edifices. St. Mary's College, ths
Convent, the Galveston Institute, and the Gal
veston Female Seminary, are the institutions of
k-arning in this young city.
Sad Accident. About noon, on Monday
last, while Mr. John A. Lane and his lady, of
this county were absent from home, some chil
dren were playing about and in a sugar trough,
temporarily put up in the yard, when it was
accidently thrown down and fell on the chest
ot one of his children, a promising little boy
about three years of age. which resulted in his
death a few minutes afterwards.— Thohiaeiille
Enterprise April 1.
Texas.—From all quarters ot Texas them ns t
favorable reports are received in regard to the
prospects of the coming crop.
Our planters are busy, says, the State Ga
zette. from‘'dewy morn to silent eve,” pre
paring their lands for planting. A great «-
mount of new land w ill be placed in cultiva
tion. not only in this, but otbef counties of the
State.
Revival in La Grange —On Tuesday night,'
23d ult, a Series of prayer meetings were com
menced at the M E. Church', of this place, and
continued thrmigh the week, and the effect up
on the nytmbership has been the most salu
tary.
The ballots were cast in Griffin. Ga, and re
sulted in llie choice of t 01. A. I). Nunnally, the
American Candidate for Mayor ot Griffin.
John P- Putnam has been appointed an<?
qualified as Judge of Probate for Suffolk coun
ty Massachusetts, as successor to Judge tor
fng, removed.
Americus cotton market has stock on hand
2.700 bales; 2,400 of which is Iteld by plan
ters.
Receipts for the week ending March 27tb
185. Prices raging from Bto 11 cte.
FOR CONGRESS
The candidates for Congress in Col. Orr’»
District are Col. J. D. Ashmore, Col. E. P.
Jones, and T. (J. P. Vernon, Esq. On last
Tuesday thev addressed the people of Spartan
bnrg C. H. Acceding to the Express they al)
spoke with nioeb animatitai, and in a spirit
glowing with patriotic fervor, declaring with
marked enrphasis their devotion to the inter
est of the people, and their willingness to serve
them (if elected) to the very utmost of their
ability. Thev are all on the same platform,
and the election, we suppose will be made
upon personal censiderations. Columbia
Guardian