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sible sophistry of an anonymous writer; a
writer, who from bin norther birth ad
education. not to mention the religion* ’
stitiitious with which he is supposed to In*
connected* may reasonably oe regarded
ns an improper umpire, between Georgia
und the indi ms We regret that the
ceiomunity ol both rexes should be nurrr
*d into a course of conduct which may
afurwaros be a subject of mortificatio'.
and regret, without candid I v cxamitii g
bojh s.df's of n which the n* 1
e jiieii! jurist in uUr country have ever
con aidered as one of extreme difficulty.
Be twee. Georgia and the Federal Gov
i- ruient the question is - (1 „ es ; ll>n na^
1 ig/it and should be discussed -with that
coolness, mnf unbaissed candour, which
alone arc proper in i thicul or legal dis
c.u*Bii'Ds. It is proper thus prematurely
to forestall public opinion, and throng the
pr< and the lecture r oom, and even the
Bacrcd desk arouse the passions and ex
cite the indignat inn of the cpininumtv
before tludr undtrtalc.vg find judgement
nre prepared tor a suitable decision of the
question?
” c nre ar.tnng those who believe, that
if the state .if Georgia were left to herself,
n sens.- o| justice and magnanimity would
evince if „.|( jn her intercourse with the
liidifins, a creditable to her character, as
was the voluntary cesskm of large tracts
t land a ro flu* United {States, soon nltei
the declaration of Jndepe offence. At any
roir wer ean Indian ,T#*we are by de
scent an European, we would rather,
ii-ui h rather trust our lives and fortunes
in tfn: l ands, tml io t(, e mercy of. these
‘** ‘*g'Hns*, cruel a',d savage as Indian
writers would • ep cesont them, titan plae
. , .i” ftl *^ >e sal of tin se narrow min
d<-d zealots, vvf <G would tincture with
then own acidd y the sweet cup of everv
ft ‘ ‘rt U b ’! g ‘ ‘‘.‘Ppiness
h* efltf ct ot this northern clamor upon
Georgia, if r.echoes reach there, will be
tiity t tmg but salutary. The General
o'* • nine ,it is called in co crush, with its
con ‘{>-* e nt arm, the rights and iminuni
■ I V. 9 lister state, ami <o establish with
-1 ‘ r an. icdcpcrulent govern*
s equally dangerous to the security,
subversi’ cD f | lt . r independence and
- * ‘ ri ‘ r ’ >£ n r „nractcr Will the Georgians
be <'oih ,fitnted by so violent a course of
p —Would you lake your ueigh-
first br the throat, auff then entreat
: L-1 ar.tv lor saving bc>u? bach a soli
ci .turn vvitild terminate in accordance
.w s i;e spir it of i hr* ban it) .
i) AiSi'N E'l •
UtHKA'I'OJW I bIH (i, IH3O
- invite the utteiition of
our readers specially to two ar
ticles in the columns of the Ca
binet of this week. I hat from
Mie New England Review,
breaths a spirit of manly senti
ment and liberality of feeling,
att*m dine indubitable proof that
the benevolent crusaders of the
Eas-t and North have not en
tirely exterpat* and truth and can-
dor throughout all the region
round about Yankee Town.
The idea propounded in that
ol the Georgia Journal, may
he deemed rather unfashiona
ble, to he sure, in this era of
‘unbounded Philanthropy and
Benevolence—hut like the re :
collection of many things not
now exactly the ion or the
rage, it may stir up some minds
bv wav of remembrance, and
• •
put them on a course of reflec
tion. and, peradventurc, a tion,
that, without doubt, if faithfully
persue.d, will redound greatly
to the prosperity, both in a ci
vil and religious point of view,
of Georgia.
Our Senator George M.
Troup, has obtained leav
-ol absence from the Senate ol
’the U. States in
ot do rstic affletion. He -as
set! through this place in the
last stage to Athens, where wej
are informed his two daughters!
are at present. \\ e regret that
circumstances havo rendered
it necessary for him to leave
*
Washington City at this time,
when the political horizon
seems thiefc with eventful cir
cumstances, important to our
state. Although Georgia has
faithful watchmen in Congress,
we know- that the talent and
firmness of Mr.’ Troup would
he sensibly felt, and hope that
he will he enabled to regulate,
whatever domestic derange
ment may have taken place to
his satisfaction, and that his re
turn may be speedy The state
will expect it. His servi
ces at this lime cannot, consis
tently he dispensed with. The
enemies of State rights in gen
eral, but Georgia in particular
have felt the keenness of his
pen, and they dread the supe
riority of his mind and the pow
er of his influence.
Washington News 2 d inst.
Daviii P. Ililihousp, Esq. says the
Georgia Courier, has been appointed
Superintcndaiit of Public Roads and
Rivers for the eastern division of this
stgte. lie is at present engaged in
the discharge of his duties in examin
ing Ih Savannah river from Augusta
to Savannah. Our City council on
whose discretion lies the selection qj’
the roads to he worked upon, had a
meeting on Friday night |*st, hut no
thing was decisively determined. E
uuugli was gathered, however, from
the disposition manifested to induce a
belief that the hands would be first
placed on the roads leading from this
nty to Millcdgeville and Washington.
The hands lately working on the Alta
ni.n river are expected here in a few
days Hands were put to work at
Millcdgeville on Tuesday last. We
hope the zeal which appears to inspire
the state in operations for its improve
merit, will he followed with success.
Thomas Pace, Esq of Twiggs Cos.
has been appointed superinteudant of
the Roads and Rivers at Macon, Co
lumbus and Flint River.
Fcr the CABINET.
DO THE SAINTS KN“W EACH OTHER IN
HEAVEN?
There are periods in human life when
this question assumes a degree of impor
tance ivhicli it does not at all times ap
pear to possess. When our friends are
torn away from our society by the relent
less ha and of death—when the pious hus
kmd has committed to the icy embraces
, of the grave the affectionate wife of his
bosom.—When the tender hearted moth
er whose affections were wrapped up in
the dear offspring of her body, has taken
the last lingering look at the pale coun
tenance of a promising son or daughter
and while the warm tear has rolled down
the cheek, and the aching bosom has
j struggled to suppress its many groanings,
(his fiuestior* l as rushed with iresistible
I force info the mind, “Jlnd shall we see
each other no more , and know each other
no more forever?'’
This question has been frequently ask
cd # as well by the irreligious as by the de
vout worshipper of God. Why it has
been to repeatedly agitated among all
classes, is owing to a principle deeply
looted incur nature We shrink from
t lie idea of falling into a state of existence
in which we shall be ‘ { alike unknowing
and ui known.” That the saints will
have a distinct knowledge of each other
ii the weili! to con e, is a position un
questionably susceptible of proof
from the word of God, Indeed if proof^
could not be obtained from that source
we should nut feel authorized to iuopt
♦he sentiment. For in matters of religion
when ever we leave ‘the law and the
testimony,” we run into errors past num
bering, and there is no certainty where
we should stop. It is important then in
| this as well as in every other religious
i point that we adopt, nothing as conclusive
evidence, but what i? cleat lv to be de
duced from what “God flie J.ord ’* has
said. We are not taught what we may
believe, from what the scriptures have
not said. We are taught our duty from
what is written, and not from what
is not written in the Bible. We
must search the scriptures in order
to know what they testify, and not to
know what they do not tistify: that is, we
should search to know what to do, and not
to know what we may be excused in not
doing. We grant that it is no where said,
in so many words, that the saints will
know each *other in heaven, but it is fairly
deducible from the word of God that
they will. We thmk there is enongli to
convince the candid and careful reader,
that when the righteous shall be freed
from this state of sin and corruption, and
shall have entered if to the rest that
remaineth to the people of God, they shall
be able to see as they ate seen, and know
even as they are known.
In proof of the position we have as
sumed, we would remark,
1. YV hen Eve was created, and pre
sented <o Adam, he said ‘ This is now
bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.”
As social beings in this life, it is necessa
ry for us to know each other in order to
be happy. If to know each other is essen
tial to the happiness of social beings;
then it follows, that if we are social be
ings in heaven, we must know each other;
eise somethiug essential to our felicity will
be wanting. It does not injure the argu
meni, to say that the knowledge which A
dam had of Eve, was specially reveal°d
to him by his Creator. If it was revealed,
it was essential to his happiness, as a so
cial being; so then if he continues a social
being in heaven this knowledge must
continue with him
2. From the observation of David, when
the child Uriah’s wife bare him died, we
may fairly conclude that the saints will
know each , other in heaven. We may
also learn, by the by, the certainty of the
-alvation of those who die in infancy.
When the servants of David told him that
the child was dead, he said ‘Now he is
dead, wherefore should I fast? can l bring
him back again? I shall go to him, but he
shall not return to me. ” Did trot David
comfort himselt with the hope of seeing
the child in heaven? But if he should be
unable to recognize the child in the king
dom of bliss, what happiness could he
derive from being in his society, “un
knowing and unknown ’*
3. From the remarks of Paul to the
fhessalonian brethren, we are author
ized to believe the saints will know each
other hereafter. He says in the 2nd
Chapter and 19th verse of Ist Thess.
* For what is our hope or joy, or crown
of rejoicing?’ are not even ye in the
presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at
his coming?’ It is not only to be gather
ed from this that the saints will have a
distinct knowledge of one another in a
future state, but we are to understand
from this passage of Holy writ, that the
j ministers of Christ shall know those whose
| souls they have been the instruments of
• leading to Christ. They will shine as stars
in the ministers crown forever and ever.
) 4. When Christ was about to leave his
disciples, he told them that where he was j
about to go, there they should be? And
this he said.to them, in order to comfort
them when he should be gone But if
the saints are not permitted to know
each other when they shall reach
how will these disciples know that this
promise of their Redeemer is fulfilled?
James may say,“here ami as my sa
viour promised; but where is John, the
beloved disciple?* Now, either Christ 1
has made promises to his disciples that
they shall never know the fulfilment of,
i or else the saints shall know each other j
in heaven. In order that the promise
made to the disciples should afford
comfort, it is necessary that they know
the fulfilment of it, and this they could
not know without knowing each other;
when they arrive in the presence of
their Redeemer. We come to this con
clusion t then, that the veracity of Jesus
Christ requires that the saints know
63 r er * n a future state of being.
5. Fiom another text of scripture the
doctrine contended for may bt somewhat
interred. In the I2th Chapter of Pauls* i
1 epistle to the Hebrews he tellgfherr. tj lV
the) are com* unto the general as Ke „”
, lily of the < hooch of file fb 3 t h ‘
which are written in heaven, ‘and u ‘
God the Judge of all and to the
of just men made perfect.’ Now if ,l
saints know nothing of each other
♦t a* ‘innumerable company of 4 Kt | s r
what would it add to their Bdicitv 7 / e
told that their society would be g rf > at
in point of number as will as character.
To be in society where we know no on/
and none have any knowledge of Us ‘
cannot increase our pleasure. We k o \v
that this is the case in this life, aid lVe
are not authorized to say that it will ue
different in the life to come;
6. It is declared in the first chapter 0 f
Hebrews, and at the last verse, that the
angels ‘are ministering spirits, sent forth
to minister to them which shall be
heirs of salvation.’ It is clear then
that if the angels are ministering
spirits to the saints on earth, they must
know them; for without knowledge they
might misapply the blessing God desif-n
----ed to bestow on the child of Grace. T/}
the design of heaven might be defeated
through the ignorance of the angel thus
employed as Gods agent. Then >f the
angels know the heirs of salvation j n
this land of imperfection and sin, will
they not know them; when they enter
into the joys of their Lord? Ye/ these
is joy in the presence of ihe angels <,f
God over one sinner that repented,.
They must then not only know tin peu
son of the individual to whom they m u.
ister, but they must know the char cter
and state of his soul. Our Savioui *<<> <;
the Stfdducees which say tlure is v.o re
surrection, that they who are acouru and
worthy (o enter into eternal l.fe,*‘aiß
as the ang< 19 of God in heaven, [f
then they are the angels of God,
they must know each other Thev
will rejoice with them too, in
presence of god, when souls are redeef.itd
from their sin-, from among in n—uheu
souls rep nt and turn to God.
Many other arguments might be em
ployed to show the truth of the venti
ment above named, but what In- lem
advanced is sufficient, we think, to coo*
vince the candid Christian, that lie i.haf!
not be parted eternally from his pj,.,ug
friends, who have gone beferc.hitn to lua.
ven —that when he casts his eye on the
pale cheek if the dear enshrouded part
nfcrof his cares and joys, it is ?>: the
last gleam that his eyes shall ever cauh
of the beloved countenance They v. bo
have followed t v *eir ri htcous'friends (o
their tomb are furnished with additional
(tho’ not the greatest) motives to se k to
enter in'o the mansions of eternal b)i.-s.
BA It-SAMUEL.-
FRi.M THE JOURNAL.
To the People of Georgia.
You oftentimes ask, and it is ns fi e.
quently repeated, what shall we <K, jn
guard against the evils of hard times?
The answer is a plain one, and no less
practical than plain: keep all your
surplus money within the limits of
your State, apply none to .purposes,
in the exeeuliou of which (lie mom y
will be forced to leave the State, and
never make a contribution when you
know that the object of that contrfbu
tion, is • o promote an end in another
state with the money here collided.
You, no doubt, are ready to charge me
with hostility to all benevolent institu
tions* and more parti ularlv, ’to
charge me with unprincipled selfish,
ness in not sharing with my neigh,
hors, what Providence has liberally
bestowed on me. But to such who
would thus charge me, I make one re
ply; that‘charity should always be
gin at home.’ Now, we can both r< t
charitable, and preserve all our sur
plus money in circulation iu our own
State. It is the immense nmout of
money annually drafted from our
State, and which never returns, that
occasions the embarrassing cry of
hard times, Let me ask every (ilizen
of Georgia, vvliat proportion of the
number of his visiters, do the agents of*
Bible Tract, Missionary, Literary,
and many other kinds of societies,
constitute? Travel where you may,
and you are sure to find someone of
these agents stuck down in some vil
lage, drafting the money from i;s cit
izens, like tcechea sucking blood froiu
the body.
Ihe tmicunt tir&vvu from each igm