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% i«eelili) Jfamilg fftospapfr—ftMt* to ^mtfjrertt pg|is, %itaratoe, Igrinttore, jump aitir §m$tu jftos, fr. B. V. BENNETT, Editor and Publisher. 1 EQUALITY IN' THE UNION OR INDEPENDENCE OUT OF IT.” TERMS——TWO DOLLARS a-rear, is Adraee. VOL. 14. CA88YILLE, &A.., THURSDAY, FEB. 24, 1859. Tiro. 6. SUkrtisetimits. A C. DAY, Tailor, Cassvillc. Ga.— 8bop near his residence—on the same • lot. All work done in good style, and Warranted to last. Particular attention given to Cutting. He asks a continuance of the lib eral patronage heretofore bestowed. Cassvillc, lia., Feb. 1st, 1859. ! tion ? When, with its use, it would sup- | ply its own wants, next those of its coni- istfllaimras. , a __ „ : rnuniiy, next of its nation, and then of! the world. ! Monopolies, in personalty, are unlike monopolies in lands. They first work On the iMstnlutwn of Pt*hc Land*; j ^ thejr QWn remedy in thei r transitory provided, that the women, in their j what is now, the policy of the nations of I tion, and should be understood r by the I but Government will not- fecognize pos- * ... ~ I _ ...... _ * t m 11 it l- . • nahlM a(T Speech of Hon. Augustus H. Wright, OF GEORGIA, delivered in the House of Represents ' ;md fading nature . Xhev corapel distri . tires, January 2, 1859. ‘ bution at prices, frequently, below a fair , The House being in Committee ot the : value. Meats, grains, dry goods, food of QTANDARD JOB Oh FICE.—The Stan- yvhole on the state of the Union— every description, cattle and stock, may' l>dard Office being well supplied with a _ J ™ \ J large variety of the best kinds of printing ; Mr. RIGHT stud: be aggregated and monopolized, lhe cx- materials, we arc prepared to do all kinds of j }[ r Chairman: The Government of Dense of keenin'' them, as well as their : JOB PRINTING in the best style of the art, r . , , , 1 , .. , at short notice, and at low terms. the United States owns about a thousand perishable nature, will compel distribu-, Particular attention will be paid to ‘lie millions acres of land. A large propor- t ; on But if it did not, still monopolies minting of Circulars, Blanks of all kinds, , , . ; ,, , ... ,, ,! Blank Notes, Programmes, Hand and Show . tion of that amount is ht lor cultivation. 0 f them would be less injurious than of Bills, Posters, Ac. 1 Vast regions of it are immensely fertile. ] an( y Their aggregation and monopoly publfc.^^u'orde^must beaccompanied with That which is fit for cultivation is of value does no t prevent new productions. If the cash, or an "acceptable city reference” ' f or grazing, timber, minerals, and other they should draw enormous profits, new ’ °_1_ j purposes. What shall the Government creations’ are going on to supply new , J OSEPH DUNLAP, Attorney at Law, j do with this land? This is a great ques- wants. Labor may continue to produce. Kingston, Cass county, Ga.—Will pmc- (ion. It is one eminently practical, lhe The necessaries of life, its comforts and, Polkand^'pinldTng.' 11 'mT'S’SK ' of its so,ution is u P on us - Lct . us luxuries, spring from the ground, and dis- j curing and collection of claims in anv portion , settle it like practical men. Let us bring til from “‘the morning cloud.” Hotel 1 ’'"*'* ° ffice ; to dm discharge of the duty common j |t i s very different in the exclusion of ' ! sense. Let us endeavor to determine it | our race from the soil. Agriculture is II. LKEKE, Attorney at Law, Cass- j upon the principles of a correct and ma-| the foundation of all production absolutely _ . lire'wH?™*wHh^romptm^vi’il^t I tllro ' 1 judg.mcnt Upon so great, so vital; necessary for the use or comfort of man. attuiitinn, and monies paid over puiictuully.— j a question, let the national Legislature be j ]fo must eat and he clothed, to live, to Office under .Standard office. Feb. 1, 1859. I bonest; let us put on the “whole armor” j think, to modify matter into ten thousand ¥ v WESTER Attorney at Law, j of statesmen, and “quit ourselves like! forms for his use. By locking up the Calhoun, Ga.—Will practice in all the men.” soil, you dry up the fountain of life and • counties of the Cherokee Circuit. Par- Shall the Government keep it forever, or part with it? The first proposition has no advocates. Part with it she must. Shall she sell it or give it away ? It must marriages, were compelled to confine;of the world relative to their lands? people. Shall we continue the practice themselves to their tribes. In the subdi-: —So for as I have been able to as- j of the Federal Government, relative to visions of the realty, among the heirs, it : certain from history, with the exception the public domain ? would come to pass at last, that the divi- already spoken of, to monopolize them in J The Government has, heretofore, dis- sions would be too small; and though l the hands of the Government and of -posed of her public lands by gift and sale, tliere is no express provision for this, the j classes. Not going back further than the Her gifts, however, have not been (with whole spirit of their institutions would j Christian era, and taking Europe, by far the exception of bounty lands to the sol- seem to indicate the duty of the govern ment to provide new settlements. We have examples to this effect. The gentleman from Massachusetts, the most civilized portion of the great divisions of the globe, what example does she give us ? From a very early date— all through the dark and middle ages— [Mr. Thayer] said, last session, that they > the title of the soil was in the king, the were becoming crowded in the ancient j nobility, and the clergy. The occupants home of the Pilgrims. Be it so. If my j were tenants merely, almost uniformly by analogy be a good one, let them “ pos- i the rendition of service. This service sess another land” If they cannot do it; was sometimss certain, sometimes uncer- by themselves, our “men of valor” “ will : tain; that is, he rendered service so many B tr u nr-rnn a i- ... i of statesmen, and V . YY ESTER, Attorney at Law, ’ Calhoun, Ga.—Will practice in all the • counties of the Cherokee Circuit. Par ticular attention will be paid to the collection of claims, and to promptly pay ing over the money wheft collected. Nov. 26, 1858. A NDREW IT. RTUE, Attorney at Law, CaHsville, Ga.—Practises in the counties of Cass, Cherokee, Cobb, Catoosa, Gor don, Gilmer, Fannin, Paulding and Whitfield. Prompt attention given to the Collecting busi ness in all of the above named counties. May be found in the office formerly occupied by ,1. If. A A. II. ltice. June 17, 1858. M J. CRAWFORD, Attorney at Law, Ringgold, Catlo&i county, Ga.—\Y r i!l • practice in all the counties of the Cher okee Circuit.—Particular attention paid to the collecting of money, and will promptly pay over the same when collected. Mil. 10, 1858. being. The proposition was advanced that Governments as well as individuals should study the indications of the Divine will, go one way or the other; and it must go j A homestead bill, so far from being the to persons natural or artificial—to indi- invention of a demagogue’s brain, is the viduals or corporations. I believe, and I conception of the Divine mind. The only w OFFOKD, CRAWFORD & 1IOYV- AR1), Attorneys at Law, Cassville and Carters villi*, (t:i.—Will faithfully at tend to any business entrusted to their care, in nny of the counties of Upper Georgia. W. T. YVofford, John A. Crawford, Cassvillc: J. A. Howard, Carfcrsvillo. July 2$, 1858. M. KEITH, Attorney at Law, Cass- ]. villc, Ga.—Practices in ilie counties of -*• Cass, Cherokee, Gordon, Whitfield and Paulding. All business entrusted to his care will m(*et with prompt attention. Office north of the public square, in Rice’s building. Nov. IS, 183s. C ARRIAGE AND BUGGY MAKING and Blacksmithing.—The undersigned hereby gives notice that lie is now well prepared to do any kind of work in his line ot business in good style and at short notice.— He employs none hut good workmen, and is. confident that all work put up at his estab lishment will give satisfaction. July 1, 1858. H.-H. HOLMES. B RICK MASONRY.—The subscriber will do any kind of'wnrk in his line of business at as low rates as it can he done by any good workman in the State. As to his abilities as u workman, lie refers to any work done bv him. Contracts taken ill anv part of the State. J. W. FOSTER. Cassville, June 3d, 1S5S. H arness made and repaired. —The undersigned keeps constantly on hand a good supply of ready-made Har ness (mauo by himself.) REPAIRING done at short notice and in pi id style. His old friends and the public generally are requested to give him a call, when they want anything in his line of business. Call at Mr. Holmes’ Carriage Shop, up stairs. W. B. BOHANNON. Cassvillc, Jan. 6, 1S59—lv. shall endeavor to maintain, that it ought to he given, as a general rule, to individu als; and not to individuals generally, but to individual citizens who will settle and work it; not to the rich, nor yet to the lazy and vagrant, but to the man of labor. 1 low, say some of the opponents of such a measure, that it savors of the dema gogue ? we but demand the rights of in dustry. To create distrust in the fidelity of its friends, is a stratagem of its adver saries. So was it “in the days of the prophets;” the false accused the true. So will it ever he while the struggle con tinues between truth and error. Truth reasons; error taunts and derides. The “simple ones” only are beguiled by the latter. “ Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ?” “By their fruits ye shall know them.” “Beware of dogs,” was the injunction of the Nazarene to his disciples. It was because they “would make grievous havoc with the flock.” Look at the condition of earth's laboring millions. Are there any “dogs” among politicians? "Would this measure make ‘ havoc" of the masses? I have few sym pathies for the rich; they need none. Capital never fails to take care of itself. I have quite as few for willful vagrancy. “ If a man will not work, neither shall he eat,” is inspiration. Our sympathies one we read of in the history of the past is that ordained by God for the Hebrew people. When He chose the race of Abraham “ out of all the nations of the earth,” to be the model nation in the past, as it is to he in the future, and in it to bless all other nations, it was meet that He should instruct it; that lie should not leave it to its own wisdom. He did instruct it in religion, in government, in the great law of right and wrong. From the place where “the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire upon the top of the mount,” he spake to it. He gave it three great laws : the law of sin, that is, the law which defined sin, con tained in the ten commandments; the law of civil government, like our own, founded in all its great features of civil and criminal jurisprudence, upon the first law; and thirdly, the law of its religion, or, to speak more accurately, the ceremo nies of its worship. The law of right and wrong, as contained in the first, all civilized and enlightened nations have recognized as correct, as in accordance with the individual and social necessities of our race, by founding their govern ments upon it. In the second great law of the Hebrews, that is, their civil law- there were doubtless many things pecu liar from their situation, their locality, should be with those that work, and with ; t j ic c i; ma te, and the manners and customs those that would work if they could; cs- of t j le p CO pi e ), v whom they were sur- pecially with the latter—and how many are there, even in this country ? Of those that work the soil, how many till for others, obtainin themselves ? rounded; but in the great features of their civil and criminal jurisprudence, it is doubted by the profoundest theologians a hare subsistence for; and m0 st philosophic statesmen whether they have ever been surpassed. leave their wives, their little ones, and their cattle,” and “go over armed before them.” The command to the Hebrews to take the laud of the heathen, “ to drive out the Ilittite and the Perizite,” was scarcely more obligatory, though issued from the Sliekinah between the cherubim, than are the indications of Divine will that we should possess the land of the heathen on our southern border. Look at it, drenched in blood, without law or order, among the fairest portions of cre ation ; the land of perpetual summer; like that of God’s chosen people, “agood land; a land of brooks of water, of foun tains and depths that spring out of val leys and hills; a land of wheat, and bar ley, and vines, and iig trees, and pome granates ; a land of olive, oil, and hone}-.’’ Is not the command almost audible, “ go ye, and possess the land ? ” Under this agricultural law, this an cient people lived; and while they ob served it, and kept up the forms of good days, or as long as his lord required him. This service was, most generally, of a military nature. He followed his lord to war, or went at his command. The church monopolized immense tracts, and let it out by tenures, not so favorable generally as the nobility. The temporal rule of the clergy has always been more oppress ive than that of laymen. Of all incon ceivably hateful governments, that which oppresses in the name of God is the most detestable. At this present' time, the no bility and the church own the great body of the real estate of Europe. The labor ing classes are tenants merely, liable to be removed at the end of their terms, frequently at the will of the landlord. The tenant is so charged, in way of rent, that all the cream of his toil goes to the owner. He can make no permanent pro vision for himself, or his family for the future. Every vine and fruit tree is his lord’s, temporal or spiritual. He cannot promise himself that he or his oflspring government as given to them, their pros- shall eat of the Iruit thereof Every flower that the hand of simple taste and beauty may plant, blooms for another. The repairs of the cottage, useful or or namental, is auothcr’s pride or gain. The joys of home are darkened by the uncer tainty of the future; and the very sports of childhood subdued and saddened by the fear of a trespass upon the rights of the lord. From the formation of government to the present time, the ciders of the church, and the rulers of the land, have been in combination to oppress the laboring classes. “The poor shall not always sigh, nor the oppressed go unavenged.” “ The meek shall inherit the earth.” Here is the good man’s faith and patience. Even perity was unparalleled among the na tions of earth. The land did flow with “ milk and honey,” and all her “ hills did drop new wine.” Green and plenteous were her pastures, and right beautiful her gardens of olives. Cattle were scat tered upon a thousand hills; strong bulls . of Bashan were exhibited iu her fairs. Fat rams of Neboith, and kids from Kedar’s flocks, were sold in the shambles, and shepherds kept their folds on Judah’s hills; Jerusalem was the perfection of beauty, and the joy of the whole earth. The daily provision of her prince was “ fat oxen out of the pasture, and sheep, and harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer and fatted fowL” He spake “three thou sand proverbs, and his songs were a thou- in this country', a vast majority of those sand and five.” The navy of Hiram brought gold from Ophir, and alinug trees and precious stones into the land. Sheba’s queen, beholding the land, its riches, its beauties, and its people, did say, “ happy' are thy men, and happy are these thy ser- who till the soil have neither title nor in heritance therein. So far from having an inheritance inalicnablo, either by debt or contract, they have none at all. My' home is in the rural districts of north-western Georgia, in as rich, as beautitul, and as vants.” The songs of. the prince were a j happy a land as there is in the world, thousand and five: did he not have cause [ The blue limestone lands arc of exhaust- to sing ? Who of earth’s monarchs pos sesses such a land ? and of which can it be said, “happy are thy men?” If such prosperity was the result of the landed system in the Israelitish common wealth, would it be unreasonable to hope B ank agency.—Tucs. m. comptos, Cassville, (In., Agent of the Bank of the State of South Carolina, will sell Ex change oil Charleston and New York, make advances on I’rodnce, Ac., and attend to all the business usually transacted by Bank A- gents. Nov. IS, 1S5S. D OCT. J. AY. KIN ABREW, having lo cated permanently in Cassville. offer his professional services to the public, and will attend promptly to every call, dav or night. Office next door south of ,T. A. Ter rell's residence, \v here he can he tound during the day,—tit night at the residence lately occu pied by Rev. I). Kelsey. Thankful for past patronage, he asks a continuance of the same. Cassvillc, Ga., Feb. 1, 1S59. God never intended that “briars andj human government, it establishes thorns” should grow where there was a U an eve f or an eyC) a tooth for a tooth, | man to plant “fig trees and olives;” nor \ jjfo f or hfe.” To the latter we still ad-1 wild flowers bloom where there was one | here. He who deliberately takes life, of ■ to sow “wheat and barley.” Any con-j him life is required. Would it not also j trivance of men, by Governments or cor-' jj C we ]j to require of him who deliberately j porations, whereby those who would la- takes an eye, to give his eye ? Of one ; bor are prevented from laboring, is, to thing there can he no doubt among i that extent, a mischievous contrivance. Christian statesmen: that for that people, ! Look at England; thirty millions popula- u , lder a n the circumstances, it was the j tion, and thirty thousand real estate perfection of government; to suppose , owners. Behold Ireland! think of their j CSS) would be to argue imperfection in pauperism, and shudder! “My lord” t h e Divine contrivance, owns the soil, and keeps it for game. The j j n establishing the Hebrew govern-' peasant starves for want of a place to 1 mentj he made it its fundamental duty to ' less fertility; her mountains, covered with oaks and cedars, like Bashan and Lebanon; her fountains cool, crystal, and perennial; her valleys and landscapes, of perpetual verdure. There is but one, thing wanting to make it the glory of all for similar results from the experiment in j lands ; and that is, that the title and the this country? Would its support justly j inheritance should be in the tenants of subject its advocates to the charge of j the soil. Though by no means universal, visionaries or enthusiasts ? If they are, j large portions of it are monopolized and it is in an effort to copy the inspiration of | let out to renters. Their humble and; the Divine mind. If their conclusions be i temporary dwellings arc filled with wo- false, because of their enthusiasm, they j men and children. Though happy, as ought to be forgiven. Its fire was caught; they always are, there is nevertheless the from the realms of light In its opera-1 shadow of sorrow, like summer clouds tion, we behold the beneficence of the Infinite mind, in the extinction of man’s diers) to individuals, but to new States and corporations. Even the bounty lands have fallen into the hands of speculators. Whether this is within the deeds of ces sion of the old States is very doubtful, to say the least of it. If Congress can give one million acres of the public domain to a single State, I can see no reason why she may not give the whole of it. If she can give land enough to a single corpora tion to build a railroad, and have a dear surplus of $30,000,000 left, I do not see why that surplus might not be increased to $1,000,000,000. Is this holding the public lands for the “use and benefit of -all the States, and for no (Xlier purpose whatever?” Would not a gift to actual settlers from all the States, without dis tinction, be more in accordance with the letter and spirit of the trust ? The gifts to corporations have been usu ally for the construction of railroads. It has been attempted to be justified upon the ground that it was the best use of it, to develop the country and add to the na tional wealth. But is the construction of railroads through a wilderness between points, paying, perhaps, five per cent prof it to stockholders, a better development of the country than the subduing of forests, the filling in of a thrifty and enterprising population, the raising of grain and stock, and the production of the necessaries and comforts of life, and the consequent in crease of the objects of taxation, as well as population ? Railroads give us no increase of population ; at least not a per cent suf ficient to he reckoned, and that largely foreign, riotous, and vicious. Abstractly considered, they add nothing to the pro ductive wealth of a country. They may" be profitable, and change capital into new hands. They never cleared a field, planted a fruit tree, grew a blade of grass, or rais ed a bushel of wheat. Incidentally, they may, and do, stimulate production ; but they do not produce. They furnish no soldiers and fight no battles. While they add to the convenience of the people and facilitate trade, in many respects, they re tard production. They raise the price of lands, and place them out of the hands of labor, and thus lock them up for years, a wilderness, or develop them slowly under a system of tenacity. The fact that they raise the price of lands is advanced as a reason why the Govern ment should continue to give to railroad corporations. Is it a dogma of political economy that the high price of lands in the hands of Government is of advantage either to it or to the people ? Is it the object of Government to speculate in lands —to obtain at the lowest and sell at the highest price ? Is Government a grand corporation with special privileges for mon ey making ? In the proper settlement of this great question of the public lands, it would be well for us to fix in our minds what are the purposes of Government.— But were it true that it were its duty to get the highest possible price, then a gift to every citizen who would work (and he must settle and improve to obtain) would add more value to the remaining than grants to railroads. But it is objected to gifts, that Govern session only as title. The very nature of Government presupposes dominion ovor territory and title therein. It passes, by sale or gift, to its citizens. The question, when reduced to its original element, may be said to be: shall Government sell or give to its citizens ? The only argument in favor of sale is revenue. Raise that, as before said, out of luxuries and capital.— Our untold millions of acres of public lands should be given to labor, as for as its wants require. God made it, and gave it, as He did water, air, and light He uses Government as the channel of His boun ty. Let her be true to her trust, and put no tariffs upon the bounty of God. At present our lands may be said to be a sort of standing corruption-fund. Politicians make bids with them for the Presidency, and articles of less value. Agents of cor porations, lynx-eyed and unscrupulous, lie round the corridors of the Capitol, and infest its galleries. They are numerous aa Egypt’s vermin, and voracious as her lo custs. But it may be said, if it is the duty of the Government to furnish labor with tlio means of production in agriculture, that is with land, is it not equally so in mechan ics ? Not so. Title to the means of pro duction, in mechanics and other avocations other than agriculture, is not in Govern ment ; nor docs it, like title to land, nec essarily, originally, pass through it. If supplied by government, they would need constantly to be resupplied. They perish with the using. Land improves, or ought to improve. Once furnished, it remains forever, and “becomes a well of life.” It increases in capacity and adds to the wealth of individuals and nations. It ought to be a continually swelling tide, bearing on its bosom the necessaries and comforts and luxuries of life to toil's exhausted sons. Agriculture is the basis of all production and of every modification of matter by hu man instrumentality. Out of it grow all other avocations, and upon it, as uporitH'e pillars of Hercules, rests the world. Let it prosper, and commerce and every con ceivable avocation follow. Let our coun try be pressed to its utmost capacity of food and clothing, and want will vanish from the world. Open your exhaustless acres, now waste and desolate, to the toil of the husbandman. By it you will create a living fountain of bone and sinew and muscle and mind. Nations may be rich in lands and yet poor in all the elements of true greatness. Trees and streams and bills and valleys never fight battles. The wealth of commerce will buy a “Swiss guard.” It will fight while it is paid—no longer. Men that fight without pay and fight on, are those which have an interest in the soil. It is doubtful whether man is capable of a wholly disinterested act in his highest state of moral and intellectual refinement. Admit that he is, no reason able being will expect him to devote bis life to the good of others without reference to himself. No statesman would predicate the action of government upon such a hy pothesis. To make a “wall of fire” round about your country, inhabit it with own ers of the soil. Man will defend his wife and children, though they be shelterless and in rags. Natural affection will triumph over the want he sees for them in the fu ture ; hut let the enemy that lie fights of fer him a home for himself and family, and provision for the future in his ownln- dustry; and if he docs not turn upon those who demand his services, his arm will he paralyzed. Tell him to fight for his wife and little ones and the home his Government has given hirn, and a hero, true as steel and stern as death, he will triumph or die. Annies of such men are heroes indeed, in the proper sense of the word ; not such as those of the campaigns T xxrrva,™ lamvir ivn nriMD j P lant the necessaries of life. Men and provide land f or t h e people; not for the IMlv (t ARRIVAL AN I I hi. K-1 Governments should study the indications kino . on i v aj ld the nobilitv, its elders, its - ** • of the Divine mind, and be governed; p r i nccs? and its rulers, but for all the- thereby in all their .actions. They should p eop le. When “two of the tribes stopped \ study them in nature, in providence, in on t ius side Jordan," they were compelled His word. There can be no permanent t0 leave u t i le ; r ,vivos, their little ones, prosperity in any other path than through and t ] le ; r cattle,” and to pass over armed, obedience to Him. j a ]i the mighty men of valor, “and help It has been asserted as a rule, that man them until they possessed the land.” may use his property as he pleases. The j i, et us ana ]y 2e this a little. There were rule is correct, with the restriction, how- j twelve tribes—one of them divided into ever, that he must so use it as not to in- j two. The unitod tribes were to provide 6.05 r. x. .jure his neighbor, nor the State or king- ] and for each tribe. It was divided first ■ ! dom of which he is a citizen. The high- anions the tribes, bv lot, and again sub- -I- Railroad: Day Passenger Train leaves Atlanta 10.15 a Arrives at Chattanooga Night Pass. Train leaves Chat. Arrives at Atlanta l T p day Express Freight and Pas senger Train leaves Atlanta Arrives at Chattanooga Down day Express Freight and Passenger Train leaves Chat. Arrives at Attauta Up night Express Freight and Pas senger Train leaves Atlanta. Arrives at Chattanooga Down night Express Freight and Passenger Train leaves Chat Arrives at Atlanta 6.2a p. H. S.10 P. M. 11,22 p. M. 4.50 A. M. 4.35 p. m. 5.15 a. M. 4.45 r. M. S.40 p. n. 7.01 a.n. upon the landscape; they know not where they shall dwell another year. “ They j meat sells at low prices, and every man last want, and the reproduction of earth’s [ arc strangers and pilgrims in the world.” j can obtain land. This is not so. Labor, primeval glory. ' Let government give them land. They j without capital, cannot more than live,— Were our national Legislature constant-. will go to it If they will work another’s j and clear, and cultivate the soik Give la- ly to provide every man with a “ plat of you may be sure they will work their bor alone the soil improved, and it will do land,” and as constantly protect him in own. It is objected, however, that this j more than live. It will accumulate. Tak- its enjoyment and its development, whilst would cheapen lands in the older States, ring lands unimproved, it mast have no the other nations of the world purgue ( This is doubtfuL It might prevent any j drawbacks—no, not a dollar. It needs, their present policies of monopolies in ! very material advancement in price. It; besides, health and the blessing of God in j of the French revolution, who under war's governments and “noble blood,” a spirit, will be difficult to prove that anybody: clouds and rain. With these, and energy; dread and thrilling strains, and “all her from the land of light would fail in an j would be damaged by this. But admit, and will, it will succeed. And why not ( circumstances and pomp of glory,” and effort to paint the contrast in perfection j the objection ; is that an adequate reason! give it ? The objection is, it sells but for j love of fame, will make or stand success- in half a century. From Vermont's green j for a refusal to give ? My property con-, little. The sum, indeed, Ls small to the J ive shocks from daylight till dark, or fol- hills to the “ land of flowers;” from the J sists mainly in real estate in the hands of i Government—it Ls large to honest, indus-1 low the nodding plumes of a Murat or Ney sea-gull’s home in the Atlantic to where \ renters. If its price can only be main- trious poverty. To it, it is of great mo- j through the smoke of battle and its com- he dips his snow-white wing in the Paci- j tained at the expense of the sweat of la- j ment j mingled warriors, to death ; but you will fic; from the rich canyons of the Rocky j bor, and the ties and joys of the home of: You desire a revenue. You need one. j make men like those of our revolutionary Mountains, deep buried in their base, “all the poor, from the depths of the soul do : Raise it out of luxuries. If you cannot f struggle. Men who, with no circumstance round, every way,” you would behold the j I say, let it be reduced. It is unjust to get enough, then levy it upon capital As! of pomp, no glory of fame, no hope of a I3T This Road connects each wav with the i am0D S the ^ ^ Rome Branch Railroad at Kingston.’ the East' est equity recognizes this limitation. Our , divided, until every man m the common- Tennessee A Georgia Railroad at Dalton, and j courts grant injunctions upon it A man i wealth had a settlement of land. joy-lit faces of boys and girls, of old men , compel a state of vassalage in the com- i you value your country’s advancement, and women ; millions of cottages of hap- mon people to maintain monopolies of the keep your hands off of labor. Suppose py freemen, untold fields of living ver- j soiL The earth is God’s gift to man, as , that the sales of the public lands amount dure, rivers and lakes filled with steam- ! much so as life. It is the duty of the j to two, or even five million dollars per an- ers, rich in freight, and richer still in j Government to protect him in both—toi nom. What is that? It is put up in and the Nashville A Chattanooga Railroad at j Chattannooga. It was human forms that crowd their decks ; > charge him for neither. | books: such books. To read one through may not engross the market He may ; to be inalienable. _ In no event could he ’ Atlanta to Chattanooga, 138 miles. Fare $3. j no t own above a given amount of bank j deprive himself and his family of his in- 1 Jan. 1, 1859. Superintendent, j stock. I pon what principle is it that heritanee. If he sold, he only sold the corporations, classes, or Governments, i profits till the year of Jubilee—that is' I O. O. F.—A regular meeting of ^ al- may monopolize a country’s land? I the fiftieth year. For on the tenth day • Georgia^ < wiR°be h'eld^very^FridayTven- J mi S ht •*> u P° n what r rinc! P le i* « that of the seventh month of that year, the r, at 7 o’clock. Transient brethren 'invited: individuals may do it to an unlimited ex- j trumpet did SQund throughout the land. marshal's baton, no star nor coronet, no- legion of honor’s cross, but soiled and worn and in tittered garments will inarch and countermarch and suffer and fight,— without drum or fife or flag; and not for a day or a week or a year, but for a life time ; whose march can be traced, not by wounds made in’ battle’s fierce strag gle, but from naked feet, treading over ice and snow and frozen groond; whose wea pons, while “they are carnal,” are also “spiritual.” They will carry in their bo- to attend. By order of theLodge.^ ^ ^ i s This, however, is no issue now,; and home, with all its endearments, came A. HAIRE, Sec’ry. Jau. l, 1859. j nor likely to be in our day, in fins coun- back once more to the sons of labor. Its — | try. I propose to argue only practical flowers and its fruits; its pastures and Jjl & A. M.—A regular meeting of Gass- j questions. Let us recur to the question, j brooks; its vines and its olive trees, en trains of merchandise and travel succeed- Our Government is certainly in advance ; or die with Asiatic cholera, would be al- ing each other, till the eye wearied in be- of those of Europe on this subject. Land! tematives, from either of which we might holding; villages with their church spires here is inheritable in the common classes, i well pray, “ good Lord deliver us.” Or it and academical cupolas dotting the land-, and is sold at greatly reduced prices. But is put into a “ printing job;” or into two scape like clouds at sunset; cities with still, even here, as a rule, those who cul-. or three ornamental porticoes about the their marble palaces lining the shores of j tivate do not own the soil. The Govern-! public buildings; or it is sent upon mis- ' both oceans and the great inland seas; ment owns land enough to give every; sions to the Arabs and Celestials. It goes ( soms fire as unquenchable as that which harbors crowded with the ships of the man who will work a parcel of ground, into the $80,000,000 expenditure, and j “licked up the water” round about-the world, their commingling colors floating and scarcely miss it from the public do-, sinks like snow in water. j sacrificial altar of Elijah ; wills nerved by ' from their mast-heads; above all, though main. Were it otherwise, and she had It is the duty of Government to furnish j the impulse of affection, and unconqoera- unseea by mortal eye, a realm of virtuous no land for her laboring classes, it would, its people with land. According to the j ble in death. In the very carnage «f bat- intellect, loving its country; and adoring j be her duty to provide it • constitution of society, title to lands can tie home and its scenes will 'triumph over its God. | What has been the practice of this be originally derived in no other way than [its horrors. Let us leave this picture, however; Government with regard to her public through the Government individuals j The French soldiery, well clad and shed . T* 11 ® Lodge, No. 136, F. A A. M.. will i upon ifhat principle is it that whole tracts deared by a thousand memories, were • be h»14 on the-1st and 3d Tuesday m a , , j , j *, , . „ every month. The members will take due'no-, of fertile sou may be locked up for years! possessed by their ancient owners, bo ^•’ > t »l r i^ > H iemselTe8 accord ’i * n n °n'P ro d u cti° n , when labor is demand-, careful was the government to provide Jau. i, 1559. r 01 SAMT, i e Err, Sacr y. j ing the free use of its power in produc- ’ the people with land, and to keep them : truthful, and inquire what has been, and ' lands * This, is a very important ques- may take possession of uncultivated tracts,' . [cosTisnsD on rocam r ac.e. J