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When he is dull. t 1 5. H hen he gets nr- \ S3 6. When he i lively. ( l. When he goes to bed. y fg 7. When he travel'. / 17. On hullutays. V X y Wfien he is at home. ) 18. On Public occasions, o j* <l. When he is in company l 19. On any day: or 57s Lo 11 L When heis a 25F” Every friend to take the Temperance Banner: g k“lf Temperance men will not support x •hftho Temperance Press, who will ! ’ g / : -/AAAA/X/XA/\AAW- MORAL AND REUUIOUS. No 8. Come to Jesus “ What is meant by coming to Jesus ? “ Much is said of coming to Jesus, I but how can [ come ? lie is in heaven, and how can l go there to speak to him? iam told he is also everywhere, but l cannot see him, and how then enn i ; go to him ? If he were but on earth, j as he once was, there is no trouble I would not take. 1 would sell all I possess to pay for my Journey; I would ; travel hundreds of miles. No difficul ties should daunt me, l would set off at once. 1 would go to him, and push my way through the crowd, as the sick used to do, in order to be healed. I would fall down before him, and lay i hold to his garment, or embrace his feet- I and I would say, ‘Lord Jesus, save me. 1 come not to be healed of blindness, i or lamfiness, or leprosy, but of sin. j My heart is diseased w ith iniquity. 1 am in danger of God’s wrath, and of eternal damnation. Lord, save me, l perish.’ But, alas, Jesus is no longer among us, and I cannot understand what is meant by coming to him.” Dear reader, do ail this in thy heart, and then you will come to Jesus. | What do you think would bo the advan tage of going; to him, and falling before him, and holding his garment, and speaking to him as the sick and the lame used to do? Would it not be to lot’ him known your wants? These lie I knows already. Without all this trou-j ble, you can make him understand that you wish him to save you. Think oil him, let your heart fee) respecting him, and let your cries ascend to him, just as if you saw him. Be as earnest as if there was a crowd round him, which you wished to push through. Call to him as that blind man did, who, though he saw him not, cried out, “Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me!” You are better oil’ than they who lived ‘when he dwelt on earth. They had dften to journey far. They sometimes could not get near him for the pressj of people. But you may have him as much to yourself as if t lie re were no other sinner that needed him. lie is al ways t near and within call; and though you cannot see him, lie sees you, knows all you feel, and hears all you say. Coming to Jesus is the desire ofi the heart after him. It is to feel our sin and misery; to believe that he is a ble and willing to pardon, comfort, and save us; to ask him to help us, and to trust in him as our Friend. To have j just the same feelings and desires as if’ he were visibly present, and we came and implored him to bless us, is to come to him, though we do not see him nor hear his voice. Repenting sinner, 3'our very desire for pardon, your pray er, “Jesus, save me”—this is coming to him. Come by I’rayer. Though you cannot see Jesus, you can speak to him. on can pray. God has permitted, and even comman ded us to do this, flow great a privil ege to be allow* i to spean to ‘ r ■’ I- “Call upon mo ill the day of trouble.” j< “Watch and pray.” “Pray without i \ ceasing.” Prayer requires no fine, \ t well-arranged sentences. The siin -| i pies utterance of your heart’s desire!) is prayer. Those desires themselves, i nnbreathed, are prayer. You need not j I wait until you can enter a church to ; pray; you may pray everywhere. And j. Jesus is always waiting for the prayers 1 of poor sinners; so that not one ever cs- J capes liis notice. His ear is always j open. It is difficult to speak to kings . j and princes: they can only bo seen j . sometimes, and then only a few persons : I are dervnitted ta come neat’ them, llul I all may come with their petitons, toj Jesus, however poor and despised, and ; at all times too. For pardon, for anew j heart, for faith, for holiness, for coin-j fort, pray. You cannot pray in vain, j You may he sure of such prayers being j ! answered. There are some things! which even God cannot refuse to listen : to a poor sinner’s prayer, for he has j : promised. “Ask, and it shall he given you,” said Jesus; and his word declares j ; “lie cannot deny himself.” Be then j i encouraged to pray. However vile J land helples you think you are, you j j ard not two bad to pray. Pray, if you | can only utter such a petition as this,j j “Save, t Lord, or l perish.” Make aj • habit of prayer. Find seme place j | where you can he alone. “When thou | prayost, enter into thy closet, and shut j 1 the door.” Rise before the work of! ! the day begins, that you may have time to pray. Lay open your heart before God. Tell him how vile, and helpless, | and wretched you are. Confess your ! sins, and cry lor pardon. Read the Bi- I ble, and ask for that holiness which is I commended there. Say, “Lord, lam ! ignorant, teach me. My heart is hard, j j soften it. Convert me by tiiy Holy j j Spirit. Help me to come to Jesus— :to believe, love, anil obey him. Save I me from sin, and fit tne for heaven.” And let your heart throughout the day often ascend to God, even while engag ed in your necessary labor. “Pray without ceasing.” Ifthe answer does not seem to come at once, pray on, and ; success is certain. A praying soul can i : never bo lost. Von cannot perish j i while yon are sincerely calling upon Jesus, saving, “Lord, have mercy up- | on me a sinner.” , See Psa. 55 : 17; 65 : 2; 102 : 17; i Matt, (i : 5,6; Luke IS : 1-14; Acts 10 : 0; Phil. 4 : (i; 1 Thess. 5 - 17. From the Macon Gcoagia Telegraph. The Central Agricultural Society, to tiio Cotton Flanterc’ Convention, of Alabama l The Executive Committee of the j Southern Agricultural Society respect-j i fully submits to the consideration of the i i Cotton Planters’ Convention, about to ‘ assemble in Montgomery, Alabama, the question of offering a sufficient induce ment to mechanical skill to supply a; j simple and effective machine to gin, ; card and spin, on plantation from live to ! ten pounds of Cotton per hour, so as to I provide every planter, who may desire i it, the means of converting, on his own | premises, into yarn or twist, every ; ; pound of Cotton which he shall pro-1 duce. The elements of such a ma ‘ ■ chine already exist, and all that isj needed for its production is the induce- j merit which a liberal premium would ; supply. lu tho progress of society the ob jects of pursuit becomes multiplied—. The deficiencies of yesterday are sup plied by the ingenuity of to-day. Ev ery new combination, in supplying ex-( | istingdemands, creates new wants, and invention in fulfilling one want creates j another. This is the progress of socie ty—fertile in expedients aqd rich in re suits. The introduction of the culture of i Colton, in < Georgia, ns at) export —lor it had been grown in several of the South, urn Colonies for domestic use— supplied the saw-gin, tho invention of Nathan Lyons, to whose mind, the circular saw, j oil a wooden cylinder, was suggested j on seeing Whitney’s gin-—wire ♦®etii 1 incircles, around ilia wood cylinder— in operation in Savannah. For a time, cotton was prepared by toil-gins tor j market—one or more in a county ; next, the more enterprising planter would have his own gin, and cleaning, per. j haps, the cotton of one or two of his | neighbars as well as lus own. Now, ■ ’ the cotton planter considers a gin a nee j essary element of his business, and the j j cotton press lias become almost as in- J j dispensable a necessity. Is this to be the limit (the ultima thule ) I in the progress of the cotton planter/j Shall he remain content with what has j been achieved ? And multiplying his, cotton bags, and consequently reducing j their value, increase the profits of the’ i spinners of his staple in the ratio of the ! reduction of his own! His cotton has, j stimulated all the improvements in ma- ( 1 chinery which have rendered it so im- j nortaut an element of commerce and PENFIELI), Ci.-V. MAY 15, 1352. civilization. And this has been the ‘ work of but little more than a halt a ! century. May he not participate in all 1 the benefits, whoso foundation rest on 1 his labors? Why shall ho incur so much of tho toils and partake so scanti ly oftlie advantages incident to his sta ple in its vast ramifications through so ciety t k j In a brief period iu tho lapse es tune,> the annual production of Cotton in the j United States, has risen from a few j | thousand to near three millions of bags, j i and in proportion to that increase has . 1 becorn the dependence of the great, I manufacturer, England, upon our slave-1 labor for tier supply of cotton —a de-; pendetico almost involving the exist j ence of her political, if not her social I condition. Strenuous efforts have been I made, and are not yet abandoned, to re ! licve herself from a dependence as mor- ■ titying to her self-love as dangerous to j her future prosperity and independence.; ; But Great Britain is not alone. The j j Cotton spinners every where,'out of the : I slave-holding , States, profess to bo j | grieved tiiat they are dependent upon j j slave-labor for their Cotton, and it i would seem, as Manchester and Lowell | arc the loudest complainants, that the ; amount ofgrieffelt at using cur Cotton ! is about in proportion to that of their ! profits—so that we may estimate, with some approach to accuracy, the amount jof income derivable, in a manyit’actu- j | ring district, from the useef our staples j by the energy of its, denunciations of; slavery, “tied hoard iu latere lethali, arundo.” The love of mamon is not: extinct, and our slavery carries a si lent consolation, if not reconcilement to: Pharisaical Philanthropy. | Ifour soil and climate do not, our i slave labor certainly does, place us be i yond the reacli of rivalry in the growth ;of Cotton. When free labor is engaged ! in the production of any commodity, ; tiie amount of labor directed to it is reg ulated by the relative amount of re- ward or wages which the price of the article supplies to that labor. In the slave-holding States, the great amount ! of existing slave labor is directed to the i production of Cotton, and will ‘tic so j applied, almost independently of the | price of the article. Certainly, sokng as Cotton pnvs anythin;'’ beyond the cost of production, preparation for and J transportation to market, and by cosi3 :of production is here meant the actual ‘outlay for tiie time, exclusive ot the money value of the laborers and land. | The soil and labor being property, tho price of the product (cotton) regulates their value and does not, to any per ceptiblo extent, affect tiie amount of labor engaged in its growth; nnd | hence, the capacity of the slaveholding ‘Slates to drive from tho European j market the Cotton of any other country, j the product of free labor. The ciiar ! aclerof our labor constitutes alike our : strength and our weaknnss-our strength jto maintain possession of the cotton market-—our weakness to resist combi- j ; nations against us, whom all the world deiKunee and cherish. Whilst our: : slave-labor secures a market for our: gn at staple, there is a great, perhaps a j growing, insecurity to remunerating prices to that labor. Whilst high prh ees will not increase our production of I Cotton of much beyond the natural in crease of our slave population, they : stimulate production abroad where an other kind of labor is employed in its | culture. And whilst low prices exor j cise but little influence in lessenin'’ our production of Cotton by free labor. ■ The luturo condition of the Cotton plan ter, under these circumstances, then, must mainly depend upon his own en ergies nnd his own resources. What , those energies nnd resources are, tho | History of the past speak in distinct and emphatic language. However much !we fire habitually calumniated abroad,; arid whilst these calumnies have given i a sombre lino to the lights through which many of us at home look upon j the future of our condition, if is eet’J tiiinly true that the slaveholding Stater, will not compare discreditably with oth ! er States under like circumstances, in: ■ any ago or quarter of tho world. The States Nor t li of us are estimated and i judged of by ‘the commerce and thrift of their cities and the number and noise jof their factories, without reference to the small per cent of their whole popu ! hition, living and laboring in them. We j are an agricultural people—our wealth, I our pursuits, our intelligence and our refinement are of the country and in the I country. It may be safely affirmed, j that the society annually presented at | the prominent watering places, South of Mason and Dixon’s line, need not shun comparison with any other, else ! where, for decorum, propriety, ititolli jgonce and good taste; That society is essentially Southern and agricultural, j and represents a much larger at home,! which is stationary. Our adversaries herd in the public marts; they fill uptlie highways ; thev ‘combine; ttiey control public opinion ; they command the press and exercis not always, a just and wholesome infiu- 1 imo’ over tho opinion of tho factors “’ho sell our crops. The) estimate our pro duction, and too ofen regulate th s pri ces upon data made for the occasion. We do not, perhaps wo cannot, com- ! bine. V/e do not despatch couriers through every district to learn and re-! port the amount of the incoming crop. | We cannot raise money upon our pro-1 duce, although immediately it passes; ■into the hands oftlie merchant or spec- j ulntor, he can raise upon it the price 1,0 ; has paid for it. If we endeavor to in- j vi.stigate the prospects of future prices j . c.'” grasp only the information which the speculator and taa matiuiac j : iutw have prepared for their own pur-; I poses, and wo soil our crops with the haste of an auctioneer getting off a car jgo of West India fruit on a frosty day.; If’ there he not, within the power of the i ; cotton planters, the means of protection j ‘against all the disadvantages t. which j their position subjects them, they may , j yet do much to increase tho returns on j j their invested capital, and exemise a | salutary influence upon prices—to some! ! extent enhancing them, and to a great-! | er extent divesting them oil their fluctu- j ations, which taken in all its bearings, is perhaps the greatest evil to which cotton planters aro subjected. Great Britain habitually imports a- j bout one-sixth more raw cotton than! she manufactures, and, according to j 1 Baines, in his history of Cotton Manii-j | facture, makes a profit ot ten per cent ■j upon the exportation of a portion of that! I excess to Havre. And she converts in to yarn and exports about one-fifth more i of the amount of her imports of raw cot ton. This is net the place to enquire into the means by which she is enabled ;to monopolize so large an amount of our raw staple, and to engross so large ja profit by a mere transfer ofwhat she cannot use at hotnq, across tiie channel. It is mere permain to the purposa of i this paper to enquire if the cotton plan ; ters of the United States may not, them selves, spin and export part or all that excess of yarn, which Great Britain spins but does not make into cloth ! The mere direct and practical proposi-! tian is, may not the cotton planters look ! forward to the time when the exporta tion of raw cotton will boas rare as the I exportation of seed cotton was thirty or forty * r, ors we t There n r o not as 1 J mi ~ j great diffeulities now to the spinning J i and exportation cf yarns as existed some | s xty years ago to the ginning and ex- i | portation of clean cotton. Then the I “'•Alton “in was in the hands of tho pa-1 to l i t-nfees, wiio endeavored to make n “great East India concern o r it” by ec ! tablishingginneries at numerous points ■ lin tho cotton region and coercing the planters to sell their cotton in the seed, 1 bv refusing to sell rights to use the gin. | That scheme of monopoly, amounting 1 ! almost to fraud, was defeated by the in jgenuity of Nathan Lyons, who, as al ready stated, invented the saw gin.— I Now, all the elements for ginning, card- • : ing and spinning exist in machinery of | almost perfect construction, and its a- j biption to the planter’s wants is alone [ necessary to enable him to spin his own \ ■ crop at his own homestead. The spinning of Colton—as was one time the ginning of it—is a distinct pur suit, employing a distinct capital and creating a distinct and antagonizing in terest to that ofthe planter. The same ’ energy ih; t enabled him to unite , the ginning out of his crop with the pro duction of it, will now unite in his own ; b inds, the production, ginning, carding lend spinning. And lie will find that bo will add proportionally’ more to the profits of his investment by carding and spinning than he lias by ginning ! his crop, for the women and children. may be readily taught to spin, in win : ter, what they have aided in cultivating and gathering. But a few years ago it was a matter of doubt, in the midst of many earnest friends of slave; labor, whether that labor could he successful ly applied io what is called operative service—that is to attendance on ma chinery engaged in manufacturing Cot ton and Wool. But more recent expe rience in Georgia, as well as elsewhere, has fully proved that negroes make very good operatives. And they are now employed successfully in many! factories, aiid nowhere, it is believed, has there been a failure in the applica tion of slave labor to factory purposes.; Many planters have felt the importance , of reducing the production of Cotton as, the best, if not tho only means oi en hancing the price. Tne chief difli ul iy has been to supply to the planter a remuneration equivalent to the loss sup- j posed to be sustained by a reduction m the amount of his crop. To card endj spin the cotton at homo will much more : than give that remuneration, should the; reduction of production amount to twon- : ty or thirty per eet t upon his ordinary crop. The reduction in the crop would j not boa necessary incident, though a probable one, on its conversion into; yarn at the homestead, because it is confidently believed that the planter! would be prompted by a clear ouvic-; tion tiiat he would find tiie greatest; profit in nrowirirr no more Gtton than O O he could convert into yarn bv his own I force ; unless, indeed he should call to his aid a portion oflhe white, rural pop- j ulation, abounding in all the Southern! States, whose condition and comfort! would he improved by becoming opera-1 tives in factories. These are, however, j but little more than matters of detail,) which every planter will readily decide j for hiniseif'. The purpose of this paper bung toj suggest for consideration, tiie incorpo-l ration, into tin plantation system, of an ! important economical element eminent ly calculated to sustain that system, as! .s humbly believed, uid impart a nwv • life to it, there is scarce occasion to pre sent a systematic course of argument! to tiie intelligence which is respectfully ! addressed. In con lusion, it may be remarked ; that whenever Cotton planters shall i have added to the growth of their sta -1 pie, machinery login, caid and spin it | lor exportation, they will as certainly j be enabled to undersell distant manufac (turers of yarns as they have undersold ! tiie producers ot Cotton as free labor ; and they will he in a position to dispose, jof their yarns at prices which will sup ply an active demand, with adequate remunerations lor all the Cotton which i they can produce. j On motion of Dr. Daniel of Sevan j nah. j The fluctuations in the price ofCot j ton have long been felt as a very seri ! ous evil to all the great interests of the country, and plans have been sugges ted to supply more steadfast prices, to an extent strongly indicative of the prevalence of this conviction. Asa measure calculated in i's tendencies to ’ exercise some influence in correcting these fluctuations, the Executive Com ‘ i mittee of the “Southern Central Agri j cultural Society” recommend to the ’ Convention ot Cottin Planters to assem- I ble in Montgomery, Alabama, in May I next, to offer a premium sufficient to stimulate tho mechanical skill of the j world to supply a simple a id effective ■ j machine, calculated to spin any of the I numbers in ordinary use of yarn about ten pounds of cotton per hour, which j cotton planters may introduce upon their j plantations, to spin into yarn during the ! winter the cotton grown tho preceding 1 season. WM. TERREL, j J Ch’n Ex. Committeeo, S. C. A. S. : T. V. Jones,Sec. S. C. A. -S. : y-r-jags -■ 1 j il.’- T- .!■ “■’jll— l ‘.j . For the Temperance Winner. Pops God sanction tho beverage cuo ! of at dent spirits? It is a fact to be deplored that there ; exists any necessity, for answering the j j question propounded above. It really j ! seems that those who live in this land i lof intellectual and moral light, where (Bibles are plentiful, and gospel light; ‘shines, ought to understand the divine j •! nature too well, to indulge for a tno meat, the belief that he authorizes the . ) king of woo to march on in his work of! ’ creating temporal and eternal ruin.— 1 Now if the practice of drinking Aleo- j hoiic liquors, resulted in good to tho j human race and blessed the land, phys ically or morally, then wo might with good reason oppose the cause of temper-: i mice ; but when wo look at the myr i els of curses, that this fell custom : spreads broad-cast the world over, and , follow the foot prints of hell’s mighty i | agent, and see ins path strewed with i i broken-hearted w idows, beggared or- 1 1 i phans, and dead men’s bones, we, read- j i ilv recognize the being who authorizes ■ tin: practice, and who marches in the j ’ van, while his army ol bloated-face and pulsud-limb victims, from earth’s re. molest bound--, follow him down to the 1 lowest depths of degradation and ruin. But there are none .so blind as those who will not see, and the man, I care I not who he is, that shelters his brandy bottle behind the sacred pages oi” lii.s ; Binlc, needs the spirit of Go I to instruct land his grace to purify his carnal : heart, before he becomes the character capable of exerting a moral influence for good. But to tiie answer, which shall be brief: God has given .’is two books : first, the book of nature ; and second, the book of revelation. i'lie former among other tilings demonstrates to us, that the the Creator is a being of great power. This may be seen in the stu pendous ocean, that washes the varied shores of the world, or in the Solar sys tem, in width huge spheres are kept in space and are made to revolve about and balance each other with more per fection, than the complicated wheels of the best clock machinery. His power may bo seen in the tornado tlmt up- , roots the giant trees of the forest; that lays bare the unfathomable depths of deep waters, swelling old ocean’s bos- j ain into rolling mountain. It also proves to us that he is a being oi great goodness. This may be seen m tiie majestic sun, that ever marches his daily round, dis pensing light and heat to the earth. It may ne seen in tho yearly visits of: spring, with her ungemu! showers, j gladdening tho earth with growing: i crops, which ultimately fill our store ! houses with rich harvests and plenty ! It may be seen in the perfect adaption !of the human system, to meet all its ! wants, being supplied with every nec-- I essary organ, and lastly, man’s brain jis so arranged that ho has reason that I enables him to discriminate between j that which is good and that which is in- Ijurious. Now let uo go to nature’s i book, and read the contentsofone page only, and see if it affords us any clue ! io the answer of tiie above question. [lore is the chapter, “man himself,” j examine him carefully if you please, and the natural blessings that surround him, und then answer the question, do j you believe that God does sanction any practice that will ruin him, and defeat the pursoses, for which .God wisely and in goodness designed his physical or gans ? Well, what is tho effects of in . loxicaling beverages ?—see the man ;, who once possessed a noble intellect, an i iron constitution, a robust frame, a vig- I orous body—but alas ! how fallen ! Al ! cohol in poisonous currents, has been • rolling its deathly influence through all ■ the vital channels of his system, so now imbecile in mind, and palsied in • nerve, lie totters and reels, a pauper and a vagabond, a disgrace, a tangible monument, to tell tliut the beveruge use of strong drink is a blighting curse ! Just here 1 wish to ask thedram drink ! era serious question, when nature thus gives way, and falls under the wither ing influence of Alcoholic poisoti, does she not declare, aye, trnmpet-tongued, i that the Creator of man does not author - ize the beverage use of ardent spirits? i! The latter book. A great many i have the effrontery anu impiety to con ;; tend that God in Ids revelation—the Bible—toman, lias given him authori . ty to take a drink of whiskey ocoasior.- : ally, when he feels like it, whether sick .! or well. Now all acknowledge that j j Holy Writ teaches a pure system ot j! morality and virtue, and that it posi j! tively commands all to live in accor- j dance with its precepts and teachings. a | All acknowledge that the Bible in order t to be consistent, must, sanction the cf i feels if it does their cause, or if it con r ilemns the effects it must also the cause e j that produces them) consequently, if it i upholds dram drinking, it must also i drunkenness in all its forms! Very I well, without stoping to consider the | general characteraud spirit of the relig ion, tiiat Divine revelation unfolds, we will proceed at once “to the law and to the testimony.” We find this com mand, “Thou shnlt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will dot him guiltless that take;L fits name in vain.” Exod. 20 : 7. At | a public gathering, where fifty meet around two or three whiskey barrels, we hear more sinful oaths in one half hour than we hear in u whole day where ten thousand convene, without j the presence of old alchy. Every per son knows that liquor is tho great fos tering mother of sin and profanation. Again, “But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his j own liouso, lie hath denied the faith and ! : s worse than an infidel.” L Tim. 5 ; 8. It is an olt-repee.ted remark, -that a (drunkard’s family could maintain itself | romohovv, were it not for him, but lie is | tiie head, and being allowed to do ns he lists, be is a moth that cats, a canker that corrupts, a thorn in their flesh, a curse in their path) when at Home he is worrying his family, and destroying every thing that lie can lay his hands upon : when abroad, he is squandering what little property they have, and which his high-minded and honorable wife is trying to preserve, that she may support iier family and screen them: from bleak winter’s pelting storms. — If you think gentle reader that lie is half so good as an infidel, iook at his neglected plantation, his stnokey chim ney, leaky roofs, and empty cribs ; sea ; liis ragged children and wan-featured wifi-, the ve.ty image of wretchedness— poor woman ! she had better never been born. Once more : “Thou shalt not kill.” Exod. 20: 13. No truth is ! more universally believed perhaps,than that nine-tenths of the homicides that occur, arc occcasioned by liquor.— What qualifies a man better for taking life than the fiery, exciting, idiotic in fluence ofardent spirits ? lust the oth er day, below here, at a public sale, a man had his abdomen ripped open by a fatal stab, in the presence of his wife/ : who fainted, it is said, when she beheld the awful deed—reported cause, whis key ! ! Now in conclusion, let me ask, first: where do you get your authority for poisoning and destroying nature ? not from her I am certain. Second, does the Bible teach you to pursue a eoursa that woiks indirect opposition to its pre. eepts ? \ou da-e not charge such fol ly to the book of God. Is it not a faet - come, be candid—that the privilege to make a beast of yourself, eminates from no less a personage than the Devil himself ? After all, you may dodgo behind “moderate drinking,” but this is a poor, flimsy wall of defence, when we consider that every inbriate once non* NO. 20.