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THE EXECUTION OF ANDRE.
The following account of Andre’s execution is one
0 f the most minute and interesting that we have ever
read. It was furnished to Mr. William G. Hassel
ls,| l( of Rockland county, the history of which lie
is engaged in writing. It was taken down from the
lips of a soldier in Col. Jeduthan lialdwin’s regiment,
a part of which was stationed a short distance from
where poor Andre suffered :
“One of our men, whose name was Armstrong, bc
i,,„ one of the oldest and best workmen at his trade
in the regiment, was selected to make his coffin,
w hich ho did, and painted it black, as it was the cus
tom at that period.
“At this time Andre was confined in what was
called the Old Dutch Church—a small stone build
ing with only one door, and closely guarded by six
sentinels.
“When the hour appointed for his execution arri
ved, which was at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, a guard
of three hundred men were paraded at the place of
his confine merit. A kind of procession was formed
by placing the guard in a single file on each side of
the road. In front weroa large nmnlicr of American
officers of high rank on horseback. These were fol
lowed by the wagon containing Andre’s coffin, (hen
a large number of officers on foot with Andre in their
midst.
“The procession wound slowly up a moderately
rising ground about a quarter of a mile to the west.
(>n the top was a field without any enclosure, and
on this was a very high gallows, made by setting up
two poles or crotchets, and laying n pole on the top.
“The wagon that contained the coffin was drawn
directly under the gallows. In a short time Andre
stepped into the hind end of the wagon, then on tiis
coffin, took off liis hat, and laid it down, then placed
his hand upon his Dips, and walked very uprightly
back and forth as far as the length of the wagon
would permit, at the same time casting his eyes up
to the pole over his head and flic whole scenery by
which he was surrounded.
“lie was dressed in a complete British uniform,
liis coat was of the brightest scarlet, faced and trim
med with the most beautiful green, liis under
clothes, vest and breeches, w ere of bright buff; la
bad a long and beautiful head of hair, which, agreea
bly to the fashion, was wound with a black ribbon
and bung down his back.
“Not many minutes after la* took bis stand upon
the coffin, the executioner stepped into the wagon
with a halter in his hand, on one end of which was
what the soldiers called ‘a hangman’s knot,’ which lie
attempted to put over the head and around the nock
of Andre, but by a sudden movement of his hand,
this was prevented.
“Andre now took oft the handkerchief from liis
neck, unpinned liis shirt collar, and deliberately took
the cord of the halter, put it over his head, and pla
ced the knot directly under liis right ear, and drew it
very snugly to liis neck, lie then took from his
coat-pocket a handkerchief, and tied it before bis
c.ves. This done, the officer who commanded, spoke
in rather a loud voice and said :
“ ‘His arms must be tied.’
“Andre at once pulled down the handkerchief
which he had just tied over his eyes, and drew from
liis pocket a second one, which he gave to the execu
'• inner, and then replaced his handkerchief.
“liis arms at this time w ere tied just above the cl
•ow, and behind the back.
I lie lope was then made fast to the pole over
lead. The wagon was very suddenly drawn from
‘"der the gallows, which, together w ith the length
*1 the rope, gave him a most tremendous swing hack
uul foith; but in a few moments ho hung entirely
■till.
“Din ing the whole transaction he seemed as little
taunted as John Rogers when ho was about to be
“Wilt at the stake, although his countenance was ra
her pale.
“He remained hanging from twenty to thirty min
ites, and during that time the chambers of death
.ere never stiller than the multitude by whom be
as surrounded. Orders w ere given to cut thcrope
ml take him down without letting him fall. This
as done, and his body carefully laid on the ground.
“Shortly after the guard was withdrawn, andspec
itors were permitted to come forward to view the
a pse, but the crowd was so great that it was some
me before 1 could get an opportunity. When 1 was
Me to do tin's, his coat, vest, and breeches had hem
iken oti, and his body lain in the coffin, covered by
•me unde, clothes. The top of the coffin was not
ut on.
‘I viewed the corpse more carefully than 1 had i
Vl >lne that of any human being before. His head
as very much on one side, in consequence of the
an.ie.-ln w,,W * U ' had drawn upon his
vh lbs taco appeared to 1* greatly swollen and
! b,a^’ rm ’ ,ul,,m R ahi k h degree of mortification.
“ a ‘ “'"st shocking sight U> behold.”
WONDERFUL jTuOIJNu.
Wc extract the following flora an article in the
tivon, descriptive of travels in Hritish India. The
tic of the occurrence is laid in Madras ;
’ Hut the most wonderful performance that we saw
ls “’"’ “’"s, “ as a h at ol pure juggling, of which 11
vc never been able to find any solution. t)ne of
old men came forward upon the gravelled and
’ ,l ,rt ; d< , n avc ’””- fading with him a woman—
Mnade her kma ! down, tied her arms behind her,
blindfolded her eyes. Then bringing a gnr.i
r °> Hn ‘"vsbes of rope, be put it
f T ‘ und ‘d up the mouth, fastened it
I ” ‘"Wwwin.ng corals in such a wav tl a
;:; U V Ml hcr to extricate herself
h man then took a closcly-woven wicker
tket that Narrowed toward * ~A
i * tz *•
[hough i, was not without th'e v “
r-W he could crow and her tluou^
‘•w'h'frSZ ‘ n R . l “ tting her into • Wkot,
•‘St cramped T’ T ”*“****7
S.. 1 ’ over ,1 ,C ~,lt llc CoTer ttpon it,
NVlelv i u Jp strip of cotton cloth, hiding
■i. he drew ZT* U VX%C hW ‘ d nder
W" and then uT Ci T tCPntM am,,,is ’
I k “ l,,n K- stiaight, sharp
sprinkled iliedust upon the doth, and put some upon
his forehead, then pulled of!'and threw aside the cov
ering, and plunged the sword suddenly into the bas
ket. Prepared as in some degree we were for this,
and knowing that it was only a deception, it was yet
impossible to see it without a cold creeping of hon or.
The quiet and energy with which tie repeated his
strokes, driving the sword through the basket, while
the other jugglers looked on, apparently as much in
terested as ourselves, were very dramatic and effec-
tive.
Stopping after he had riddled the basket, he again
scattered dust upon its top, lifted the lid, took up the
basket from the ground, showed it to us empty and
then threw it away. At the same moment we saw
the woman approaching us from a clump of trees at
a distance of at least fifty or sixty feet.
Throughout the whole of this inexplicable feat, the
old man and the woman were quite removed from
the rest of the party. The basket stood by itself on
the hard earth, and so much beneath the verandah
on which we were sitting, that we could easily see all
around it. By what trick our watchful eyes were
closed, or by what means the woman invisibly es
caped, was an entire mystery, and remains unsolved.
The feat is not a very uncommon one, but no one
who had seen it ever gave me a clue to the manner
in which it was performed.
From the Prcnbyteriiin.
THAT LAND.
(FROM Till: (iKIOIAN OF l’ 111. ANI*. j
There is a land where beauty will not fade,
Nor sorrow dim the eye;
\\ here true hearts will not shrink nor be dismayed,
And love will never die.
Tell me—l fain would go,
For 1 am burthened with a heavy woe;
The beautiful have left ine all alone;
The true, the tender from my path have gone;
And I am weak, and fainting with despair:—
Where is it? Tell me where!
Friend, thou must trust in Him who trod before
The desolate paths of life;
Must bear in meekness, as He meekly bore,
Sorrow, and toil, and strife.
Think how the Son or God
Those thorny paths hath trod,
Think how He longed to go,
Yet tarried out foi thee, the appointed woe;
Think of liis loneliness in places dim,
When no man comforted nor cared for him;
Think how he prayed unaided, and alone,
In that dread agony, “Thy will he done!”
Friend, do not thou despair;
Christ, in liis heaven ol heavens, will bear thy prayer.
WOMAN THE WOE-SHARER.
Cruel indeed is the fate of those who must answer
for other sins than their own: who must bear the
burthen ot the grief which other bands have wrought.
Woman hath done this for Man since the beauty
of Eden dimmed. Through the stretch of unnum
bered years lias her eye wept, and her heart pained,
and her soul suffered for the being she bore in love
and loved with woe.
Denied the power, the scope, the freedom of her
brother, she has enjoyed alone the fullest and the
saddest privilege to mourn the ills of his commission;
to reap the tares his guilt hath sown. Shackeled
often from the large pursuit of peace and ameliora
tion and happiness, the great sphere of wretchedness
is ever open to her, to wander sorrowing where she
may.
l’oor \\ oinan, she yields man his existence in pain,
and continues her own in kind; —her solitude and
anxious watching and spirit-struggles and bosom
agonies, for him, ceasing only in the quiet of the
Kndless Quietude!
Infancy, childhood, youth, man-state, age, all have
their cares and sorrows for her; and O! too frequent,
does he, she nurtured and cherished and worshiped
almost, from the cradle, turn first the strength he
owes to her, against her gentleness, and dash down
from her burning lip the healthful draught of eon
soling love!
Ihe capacity of Woman to suffer endures as her
capacity to love; and her heart never hardens with
the chafing and pressure of outward Circumstance
nor the direst of Disappointment’s ills.
The pure stream of her Life may be always ruffled
and darkened by heedless Man, who in wanton
ness casts pebbles upon the clear mirro) 1 of its sur
face and gazes with pleasure at the tiny waves of his
creation. Purblind mortal, hedoes not look beneath
the surface of that stream; nor knows he of the meek
eyed Mowers growing frailly on its marge, that those
waves wash off'from the little soil in which they grew.
\\ oinan, unlike Man, waxes not cold and stern
and callous as Experience unfolds the dark lore of
its tearwotted leaves. Would she did, that Man
might lose his power to harm her peace, and hind
her destiny to bis; his the vice and hers the con
science; his the crime and hers the remorse! He
seems trained to wrong, and she to atone; he to load
and she to bear. Sombre thoughts, memories, acts,
lie thrusts out ot his mind into hers, and in silence
and solitude she yields them new and painful life
[■ ‘ v 'th her mental tears.
I Man nowhere commits a crime, nowhere is guilty
to himself or others, but Woman therefor suffers.—
Kaoh departure of his from Good and Truth, evokes
a tear from \\ Oman’s eye, though the World wit
nessed! it not, nor he himself knoweth it ever.
Man cannot injure himself alone: the dagger he
places against his honest fame and honored self, I o
r fore it enters his own breast, pierces poor Woman’s
. through. Some Mother, Sister, Friend, or other Wo-!
man-soul, feels ever most the blow which Man directs
1 himscll; and he who’d .lash the cow ard down
: ‘ hst u P ,ift }lis impious hand to strike a daugh
r , of ™ e K * rth ’ should pause to think how off he
plays that coward’s part— Dollar Tin.
HAi’VTtYrr.
n , ~°“ r children w ill be as olive-branches arouud our
’’ table, said a husband to bis wife, when ti e family
g group were enjoying their stated meal. “Ye* sid
r a little bright. eyed branch, “and our mother will be
s- as a fruitful vine, whose branches run over the wall.”
P as there ever a happier response than this, or one
THE TEMPERANCE BANNER.
Cite Ccmpcnutcf fanner.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
Saturday Morning September 22, 1855.
FOH GOVERNOR,
B. H. OVERBY,
OF FOLTON.
HOW SHALL I VOTE ?
Is a question that addresses itself to the minds of
thinking men, in view of the approaching election.
And it i.s, when properly considered, a serious ques
tion, and upon the answer hang weighty responsibil
ities. “How shall I vote?” Each vote that is cast
may be the one vote that i.s to determine State and
National policy—may place incompetent, unprinci
pled men in office, and thus operate against the best
interests of society. How important, then, that eve
ry voter should free himself from the shackles of
party, from the bias of prejudice, from the undue in
fluence of party spirit, and consider this question in
the fight of truth and reason.
To all such voters—men who will take a calm and
dispassionate view of the questions before the people
of Georgia, and act according to the dictates of en
lightened judgment, uninfluenced by prejudice and
i party spirit, we have no hesitancy in submitting
TilK CLAIMS OF IMIOIIIBITION.
What will every voter aid in accomplishing, who
casts his vote in favor of Prohibition and Temperance
men ? He will, in the first place, accomplish all that
he would accomplish by voting for Know Nothing
ism and Know Nothing candidates, or for Democra
cy and Democratic candidates. The object is to se
lect worthy men. The principles of Temperance and
Prohibition would not make a man less worthy, less
capable, or less honest. A man is not a worse man
because be is a sober man, nor is a legislator a worse
law-maker because be is a sober legislator. For all
the purposes of Legislation, then, Temperance men
are as capable as those that are not. Prohibition men
can be as good Democrats, or as good Know Noth
ings, as any other class of men. We conclude, then,
that Temperance principles are no objection to a
man, and that you can accomplish the object of ob
taining faithful, competent rulers, as well by voting
for a Prohibitionist, as by voting for a Democrat or
a Know Nothing.
TAXATION DIMINISHED.
But you can accomplish more. If you elect a
Prohibitionist, and he acts consistently with his princi
ples, he will be in favor of removing* vast amount of
taxation that is now pressing upon the people, which
no other set of men propose to remove. All that
burden of taxation imposed upon the people by Li
quor, lie is bound to remove—and parties have been
organized on much less important inteiests, than this
one item of taxation, brought upon the people by the
license system. You will diminish the taxes impos
ed upon ttie sober and industrious, to support the
drunken and idle, by voting in favor of our cause.
PROTECTION.
By voting for a Prohibitionist you will he approv
ing and advocating one of the first and most impor
tant principles in all good government —the principle
of Protection. You will advocate the protection of
the public against the encroachments of private in
terests —that the law ought to protect a community
from a liquor seller, who, in opposition to the wishes j
of a majority of the people, deals out poison to chil
dren and negroes. You will, by your vote, say, that
your property ought to he protected by law from the
liquor dealer, who diminishes the value of your slave 1
by selling him whisky—that your fireside should be
protected from the introduction of deadly poisons—
that society should be protected from the nuisance of
vulgar, profane, insulting, drunken men. By voting
in favor of our cause, 3-011 will advocate the protec
tion of the public, self-protection, the protection of
your personal rights, the protection of your fireside,
and the protection of 3*our property.
EIU'CATION.
By voting in favor of our cause, you will contrib
ute to the education of the people. A vast majority,
no doubt, of that ignorant horde of 40,000 adults
that disgrace our State, were placed in this condition,
either directly or indirectly, through the influence of
Alcohol. Schoulhouses and grogshops cannot exist
together. The heritage of a drunkard’s child is ig
norance. The relation between Liquor and Igno
rance is the relation of cause and effect. Remove
the cause and the effect ceases. By voting in
favor of our cause, you will vote to shut up the
thousands of groceries in our State that are dai
ly manufacturing drunkards, whose children are
swelling continually the numbers of this igno
rant, unlettered host of Georgians. You will thus
cut off the most prolific source of ignorance, and aid
in advancing the cause of Education among the peo
ple.
These are some of the objects (which all will admit
come legitimately within the sphere of politics) that
Prohibitionists propose to accomplish. We might
mention many others ! Does not your reason, your
judgment, your heart approve them? Docs any
other set of men propose to accomplish them? Would
it not promote the best interest of society, if they
J could be accomplished ? Ought not every lover of
his country to contribute his assistance towards the
accomplishment of such humane objects? Will yon
aid us by giving our cause your vote, or will you
throw obstacles in our way? How will you vote?
PREACHERS AND PROHIBITION.
Preachers, perhaps, wield a more extensive influ
ence over the minds of the people than any other
class of men, anti in proportion to the weight of this
influence is the responsibility that rests upon them.
The great idea of Prohibition is before the people of
Georgia. What ought to be the position of Preach
ers in reference to this great movement” Ought
they to throw their influence for or against it ?
Ihey should wield their influence in favor of it as
a moral movement, because it battles against theen
; emies of the Religion whirl, they preach. What has
, opposed the progress of Christianity more than In
temperance ? It breeds, nourishes and fosters al
to contend, places the mind under Hie dominion nfa
degiading, insatiable appetite, blunts the moral sen
sibilities, destroys the reason, and totally’ unfits the
tnind for the reception o( truth and the consideration
of arguments. \\ hat effect will all the persuasion,
all the entreaties, all the denunciations, all the argil
merit, all the eloquence of the pulpit have upon the
I poor besotted victim of an ungovernable, soul-en
slaving appetite? None! He must first be made a
sober man. Preachers should help to make him a
sober man—preachers should favor any movement,
which proposes to accomplish tin’s—preachers should
favor Prohibition.
Ruin and Religion are diametrically opposed—
avowed enemies—the one a curse, the other a bless
ing—and cannot exist together. What greater con
trast can he thought of than meeting houses and
grop shops! The one is the house of God, vocal
with hymns ol praise, the very gate of heaven—the
other a den of darkness, loathsome with every form
of vice and sin, reeking with foul-mouthed blasphc
n>3 the “antechambei of hell!” What sympathy’
can exist between the preacher and thegrogseller?—
the messenger of peace and the fermenter of riots—
the “herald of the cross” and the builder of the gal
lows the “bearer ot good news” and the producer
of woe and misery—the promoter of good order, and
the distributer of fire-brands—the advocate of virtue,
and the generator of vice—the minister of God and
the agent of Satan—the servant of Heaven and
“Hell's recruiting officer !” The disciples of Prince
Alcohol never can be, at the same time, the disciples
of the “Prince of Peace !”
But notwithstanding this opposition, there are
some preachers who oppose the cause of Prohibition
and favor the cause of Liquor and the grog shops.—
Revelation may thunderin their ears that “no drunk
ard shall inherit the kingdon,” experience may teach
them that Intemperance is opposed to the advance
ment of Christianity and the best interests of society,
their church book may exhibit page after page blot
ted and blurred with the record of drunkenness
among the members, and they will still stand aloof
from the cause that strikes at the root of nine tenths
of the vices that disgrace human nature—still give
us the cold shoulder—still furnish aid and comfort to
the enemy—still hold up and support the strongest
pillar in the temple of Satan. How can they do it?
How can they pray, “Thy kingdom come,” with
clear consciences, while they are lending their influ
ence to the support of the grogshop dynasty? We
ought not to judge, but whenever we hear preachers
opposing the cause of Prohibition, we cannot help
thinking, that the secret of their opposition has been
told by Byron, when he says,
Jehovah’s vessels hold
The godless heathen’s wine! *
YELLOW FEVER IN PORTSMOUTH.
The following letter was received last Wednesday,
by one of our citizens, from the Pastor of the Baptist
church in Portsmouth, Va.:
PoKTSMomi, Sept. 10, 1855.
Dear Brother —Yours, with enclosure, I received
on the Bth. 1 thank you, in behalf of those suffer
ing for this help. Had not the hearts of the people
been thus moved with sympathy for us, inconceiva
ble horrors would have aggravated our already
wretched condition. 1 cannot perceive any abate
ment of the ravages of the disease. I buried yester
day some of our most valuable citizens—men who
will be a loss to the whole country.
I was the only Pastor on duty yesterday. God
has been very merciful to me. Help me by your
prayers.
Truly yours in Christ, T. HUME.
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PARTICULAR ATTENTION
Is invited to the advertisement of Ward, Burchard
it Cos., Augusta, Ga. Persons trading to Augusta,
would do well to call and examine their fine stock of
Goods.
NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
This excellent Quarterly has been received. We
have not had time to even glance at its contents.—
Any information in reference to Scott’s Re-publica
tions, can be obtained by noticing the advertisement
in this paper.
FOREIGN WINES AND BRANDIES.
The New York Times says: “The fact is, nineteen
twentieths of all the wines and brandies drank in
this country, and ninety-nine thousandths of all the
rare and costly wines over which our high livers
smack their lips and roll their eyes and astonish their
epicurean friends, are manufactured for the market
—made up by a skillful compound of drugs, with
infusions of flavoring matter and a basis of alcoholic
or vinous material, so as to resemble any brand or
any sort of liquor that may be desired.’’
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A NUT FOR THE “CORNER STONE” TO CRAfK.
We clip the following text and comment from an
exchange.
‘‘A car load of putrid beef, on its way to market,
was seized in the streets of New York, one day last
week.”— Exchange.
“That was all right enough. Why, of course.—
Nobody has any objections to seizing ‘putrid beef’!
and destroying it. To sell it is contrary to law and ;
contrary to common sense. Pounce on the man that
will dare to do it! But see here. There is a talk of j
making a law by which something that is sold to
people to drink, which is quite as injurious to the )
public health, and infinitely more injurious to public
morals, can be seized and destroyed in the same way.
Any objections, anybody ? ‘Yes, yes, hold on there.
That would be taking away a man’s rights.’ Don't
you see? You can take away the liberty of selling
had meat ; but you can’t take away the liberty of
selling hail drink. That’s liquor; and you can’t stop
a man for selling it. Its—its— ‘ unconstitutional .”
Reader you can draw your own conclusion.”
“In the cases carried tip in 1847, by appeal from
Massachusetts and Rhode Island:
Chiej’ Justice Taney said: ‘lf any State deems the
retail and internal traffic in ardent spirits injurious
to its citizens, I see nothing in the constitution to
prevent it from regulating and restraining the traffic,
or from prohibiting it altogether.’
Mr. Justice McLean said: ‘No person can intrp
duce into a community u alignant diseases, or anv
thing which contaminates its morals or endangers it's
safety.’
Mr. Justice Catron said: ‘lf the State has the
power of restraint by licences tc any extent, she has
the discretionary power to judge of its limit, ami may
go to the length of prohibiting sales altogether.’
Mr. Just . ■( Daniel said of import- that are clear
all ollu-r properly of the citizen whether owned by
me importer or his vendee, or may have been pui
! ’’.V piece or yard, or by hogsheads,
■ asks, or botlHs.’ In answering the argument that
the importer purchases the right to sell when he pays
: dam s to government, Mr. Justice Daniel continues to
! S:| y, ‘N'<> *<*>’ l ight is ever purchased by the impol
icy; lie cannot purchase from the government that
which it could not insure to him a sale, independent
ly the laws and policy of the* State.’
dud Mr. Justice Grier said: ‘lt is not necessary
to array the appalling statistics of misery, pauperism
and crime, which have their origin in’ the use and
abuse of ardent spirits. The police power which is
exclusively in the States, is alone competent to the
correction of these great evils, and all measures of
restraint or prohibition necessary to effect a purpose
are within the scope of that authority.’
Upon another occasion, Chief Justice Marshall
holds the following language in the IT.l T . S. Supreme
Court:
“The genius and character of the whole U. S. Gov
ernment seems to he, that its action is to be applied
to all the external affairs of the nation, and to those
internal which affect the States generally, but not to
those which are completely within a particular State.
1 he completely internal commerce of a State, then,
may be considered as reserved for the State itself.”
In a case carried up to the U. S. Supreme Court
from the State of New York, the Court decided that
ji State may law,
“That concerns the welfare of the whole people of
ai State, or any individual within it, whether it relate
to their rights or their duties, whether it respects
them as men or as citizens of the State, whether in
their public or private relations, whether it relate to
the right of persons or of property, of the whole peo
pie of tlie State or of individuals within it; and
vyhose operation i.s within the territorial limits of the
State, and upon tire persons and tilings within its ju
risdiction.”
IPrtgtmil.
For the Danner.
THE PARAMOUNT QUESTION OF THE DAY
We are told, with much apparent sympathy, that
it is really unfortunate that the Temperance issue
should be made at this time; that Mr. Overby can
not secure the vote upon this subject during the
present canvass; that it is not before the people upon
its true merits and cannot be until public opinion is
very much changed. Then, we are told, it will not
be difficult for the friends of Temperance to define
their position.
Messrs. Editors, all such talk is mere stuff; for
ourself, we do not believe one word of it, but do be
lieve the time has come when this issue should be
made in Georgia. We further believe that Overby
will get the vote of every true Temperance man in
the State, [t i.s emphatically the paramount ques
tion in Georgia politics; therefore, proper at this
time. It involves the greatest interests—the most
important subjects. Its demands are immediate —its
necessities imperative. All others of which we heai
so much, in these days of party strife, are, to say the
least, prospectively future. Again, Overby will re
ceive the Temperance vote, or he will not receive it;
this i.s certain. Now, “He that is not for us i.s against
us.” If you are what you profess to be, “Prove your
faith by your works,” and we will believe you are
sincere, therefore Overby will receive the vote upon
this subject. If he is elected, we do not believe a
Southern interest would suffer under his administra-
tion. He is acknowledged by* all to be able, frank
and honest. If he should not be, it will be perpe
trated by friends, by those who entertain, professed
ly, the profoundest respect for his high qualifications,
and against whom none have dared to bring an ac
cusation, and against whose opinions none dare to
institute a controversy with the remotest prospect of
success. Should he be unsuccessful, he will fall
upon the pedestal of Virtue and Morality’, the foun
dation stone of Civil and Religious Liberty. Shame
upon such desertion, based upon such miserable sub
terfuges. “The tree (however) is known by its fruit.”
Should he not succeed, lie will fall like the “strong
man,” and bring down the very pillars of Constitu
tional Freedom along with him, upon which we will
rally again and again, until (like wise men) we will
change public opinion, and then record our princi
ples upon the Statute Books, to be cherished, res
pected, perpetuated, and even venerated, by every
truth-loving citizen of the Empire State of the South.
We would say to every partisan in Georgia, what
we ask is reasonable, practicable, expedient and just.
It neither conflicts with any political principle of our
country’s weal, nor compromises a single feature of
constitutional liberty. It is the Cause of Humanity
—the Cause of Truth. It must—it will prevail. O,
ye professedly Temperance men! Will you stand
at your post or will you shamefully and ingloriouslv
worship at the shrine of Political Detnagoguism?—
Will you strike for your country’s weal, for your
homes, your wives and children, or will you desert
their cause and leave them groaning under the gall
ing yoke and onerous burdens of one of the most ex
acting Tyrants the world has ever known? Chris
tians, Patriots, and Philanthropists! come to the res
cue! Raise the Tocsin, from the mountains to the
sea-hoard, “To yot.r Tents, 0 Israel," —every man
to your duly! 0! land of the brave! home of the
oppressed! Never, no, never ‘‘give up the ship,”
until the death-knell of King Alcohol shall be heard
throughout the length and breadth of the land—un
til his last fiendish remains shall be buried in the
vale of forgetfulness, without the hope of a future
resurrection. Rally to the standard of Prohibition,
under whose flag Overby stands, graphically portray
ing the evils of a legalized traffic, and eloquently
pleading the cause of God and Humanity, while
demagogues are ranting and wrangling for the spoils
of office, lie stands unmoved, towering far above all
party strife, inviting to deeds of glory—pointing to
the blessings of a bloodless victory.
Come, then, Georgians, to the polls, on the first
Monday in October, and let politicians know that
you understand your necessities and know how to
secure your rights. They say our cause is feeble,
a.id laugh at our simplicity. Wc .nay yet, after all,
be more troublesome to them than they wot of: so
says one who .nay vote for Overby in
OLD PUTNAM.
For tbe Banner.
MR. OVERRV’S PROSPECTS IN JEFFERSON -
Messrs. Editors —lt lias been surmised that Mr.
Overby’s exertions in Jefferson county bad but little
effect, and people took but little notice of his posi-
September