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VOL. 2.
THE SOUTH .WEST GEORGIAN.
C. I*. Youngblood, litfitor.
UGLETHORPE, SEPTEMBER 17, 1852.
Independent Ticket^
FOR PRESIDENT.
DAN'L WEBSTER, Os Massachusetts.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
CHARLES J. JENKINS, Os Georgia.
ELECTORS FOR THE STATE AT LARGE :
H. H. CUMMJN's of Iticlnn'd. | Eli. V. GILL, of Troup.
ELECTORS FOR THE DISTRICTS:
Ist—Hamilton AV. Sharfe. Tfth—Warren Atf.in.
2d—Wm. M. Brown. 6tli—Y. L. O. Il.uiiys.
3d—Washington I’of, 71 h—. John J. Floyd.
4th —Blount C. Ferrell, Bth—Philip S. I.k.mle.
Our Halt* Sheet.
The Editor of this paper is laboring under severe
illness, which must be urged ns an apology for the
half sheet issued this week. He regrets that circum
stances have prevented a full quantity of reading
matter in his columns. Just so soon as lie is able td
resume his working position in the office, his ra’
ders will have tire paper in its full dimensions.
Health of Oglethorpe.
Our physicians have a somewhat busy season in
the country, but not much to do in the city. The
diseases that generally prevail soyn yield to medi
cine.
The Rev. Mr..Threlki hl will preach at the Aca
demy at 11 o’clock next Sabbath, on the subject of
conversion.
The Colton Crop.
From the best information received, cotton bids
fair in the fields. The price is cheering; good
qualities ruling in Oglethorpe at ten cents and the
rise.
* The Campaign.
As yet, though within forty-five days of the elec
tion, Iftlp-e seems to be very little enthusiasm among
the p ,q.io in regard to the Presidency, The masses
cannot 1- - tired by either candidate. The friends
of 0-c! dm nothing for him on account of
hi.,, ■ i owilcrdeeds; tli sup porters of Geta. Scott
arc wholly unable to infuse the usual recognition bt
military eclat , and the admirers of Mr, Webster are
only rational, not furious, in their efforts to honor
the Presidency with a man on whom jint-i re lias
stamped the divinity of ‘n.
Gov. Troup for Prf^ftlent.
’’lie committee of th- * :
i.-.Ab .'•vava, have reported tin it . 1 • ‘ I’-mp
oft. folPresidant, and the Ilea-John ‘. ‘_u.-
man of Missitr'ippd for Vico Presi ient ot the l nitch
States.
Arrivals atilr Empire (Souse.
Jesse Cain, Proprietor.
C. C. Greene, A. J. Morris, James Holmes, Air.
Logic and Lady, Mai. Joel Crawford, John Richard
son, E. P. Youugood, E. K. Grown, Henry T. Wijson
and Servant, J.T). Loche nmlSofi, John T. Lumpkin,
GlL.Green, M. 1)., R. 11. Wrigley, O. B. Blent, Ba
sil Lamar 11. If. Lamb, W. A. Bell, John 1. ihweatt,
Col. Morris, Thos. Davenport, S. Denson, A. H.
Wright G. Si. Taylor, J. 15. Moulding, P. B. Cox, I*.
Kelly, E. L. McKee, Mr. McMullen, George,Baker,
TANARUS, 11, Allen, 11. W. Baker, M. B. Potts, S. M. Fleish
man, and S. Fleishman.
“\Vf> recommend that our friends traveling
Nortli or elsewhere, by way of Oglethorpe,
and stopping the over-night at that place, who
wish to have every accommodation, to stop at
the Empire House, kept by Jesse Cain, Esq.
We have tiied him once, and speak ironi ex
perience and observation. Look at his card,
llis House is not excelled in this part of the
country. East Alabamian.
Terrible Freshet.
There never was before, since the settle
ment of tlie country, such a freshet as we had
last week in Greenville District. Ihe water
Courses were soveralfeet higher than they were
ever known to bo before. All the bridges and
and great number of mills have been swept
Uway. The corn on |he low grounds is des
troyed, or most serious®’ injured. In several
places the embankments of our Railroad have
been destroyed, and several of the culverts
.parried off or demolished. 1 lie cotton facto
ry and paper mill of Mr. Me liee, and the pa
permill of the Greenville Manufacturing Com
pany have been greatly damaged. W efliave
not heard from the other factories in our dis
trict. All communication has been cut ofl
•with the surrounding country by the loss of
bridges, and the difficulty in fording the creeks
and rivers. The Reedy Tails in the village
,of Greenville, were cpiite an object of attrac
tion on Saturday. * ‘They were Niagara in
miniature, and our citizens and the visitors,
men, women, and children,Ruined out en mas
* to witness the grand spectacle presented
by be raging and foaming waters dashing
over falls and down the prpcipice.—
Greenvtu {S. (j.) Patriot, Hd iust.
Certificate.
In a recent the Hon. William L.
Yancey, of Alabin eulogized Gen. Piebce
for entertaining the . t 0 doctrines,
and “pronounced him a re a g tate Rights
man as is to be found ou ‘•^ ont h t'aroliua.”
What do our Northwestern rntg t hi„k
of this recommendation * U Genera j
Pierce deserves the eulogy. But will it re
commend Gen. Pierce very particularly to
the friends of Harlvorand River Improvements
in Illinois, and Michigan, mid lowa ?
Recommendations of lien. Pierce.
In the speech of Col. Kidder, before the
West lijpuiolph Granite Club, we find the an
nexed Statement of the whereabouts of the
Freesollers in the present canvass, which we
advise our Democratic eotemporaries of
.the Southern Press to copy. Col. Kidder
thus speaks of Gen. Pierce, with a perfect
“gusli of enthusiasm
“He is our neighbor— out;friend —our own
New England man. The Van Eurcns, Pres
ton King, and a. great majority of the leading
‘Frecsoir men of ’4B arfor him. None need
fear him. I have not yet met with the first
DeThocrat who will not support him. He
writes no sill‘d letters.”
From the Washington Republic.
(communication.)
Parties and Partisans.
Ireful, with pleasure, your article publish,
ed a few days ago, under the above heading.
It gugested a train of which \ should
he pleased to lay before your readers, if you
will so far indulge a distant subscriber and an
old Whig.
It is true that a party is “a body of men
united for promoting, by their joint endeavors,
tional interest, lijipn some particular principle
in which they are ail agreed.” The duty im
posed upon slich a party in order to insure
•success'is constant vigilance. It is in a po
sition of pcrpetital hostility to its opposing
party or parties. Severe and ardrounS con
test is jssential to its success, nay to the con
tinuance of its own existence. Now, we nil
know that the activfe men of evely political
p irty are comparatively few in number. On.
these few devolves the duty of managing its
affairs; they have’to maintain thdcontestsjn
which the party is engaged 4 they have to
lidhr the burden and beat of every Wiy. Os
them, arduous labor and great personal sacri
fices are unceasingly demanded. The vast
nurnercial majority of every political party
.are engaged in their own personal Blairs, at
tendiqg to their private business, worn which
except on speri.il occasions—say election
days anil occasional public convocations—
tin v will i:o .: cohsent to be dl-av. n. Now,
what I maintain is, that those men who do the
work, and submit to the sacrifices, and give
’ err - *bo bnidbl w? in patty centlicts,
h .'cver enio-
| mmritls and rumors. it has to bestow. Ido
j !i 0 t mean that any party claim can conrpen*
so(. for. the want of proper qualifications
faithfully and intelligently to discharge the
‘duties of the etlice to which a’ citizen may as
pire ; but Vhat 1 mean is, that where there are
yuch qualifications, the men who have mingled
in this party contests are to be preferred in
the .distribution of official stations, f idelity
to its own members is an ingredient in party
organization indisp'eiisible to its existence. —
Let any party, strike out this principle, and
dec lard that individual services and sacrifices
give no claims upon a party of preferment,
and it will soon se that none will perform ser
vices and make sacrifice For it. The avowal
of such a determination by any party would
he an annunciation of its dissolution.
Thus far, Mr: Edifer, we do not, I am sure,
disagree. But now I psopose to niahe„i per
sonal application to those remarks. > The
Whig, party disregarded the principle to which
I referred'iu nominating Gen. Harrison anjl
rejecting Mr. Clay*. We succeeded in elect
ing our candidates, but the W hig party was
weakened; its power for accomplishing great
objects by force of its organization was di,
mini shed. Careful observers saw the Jesuit,
and deplored it. In 1844 the pristhie vigor
of the party was restored by the nomination
of Mr. Clay; the exertions to elect him were
powerful-—they were healthful —they were in
vigorating ; but the party was defeated in.the
State af New York owing to causes not nec
essary to enumerate.. But after that election
the party was united, and never better able
to do good service to the country, ‘llien
came the nomination of 1848 ol Gen. ‘Baylor.
In mating this’ nomination, the principle of
fidelity was sacrificed ; Gen. Taylor had no
claims whatever on the Whig party. With
wjeep reluctance the nomination was accepted
by 1 the p.afty; and again, owing to divisions
in the Democratic ranks in the State of New
York, the Whig nominee was elected. This
nomination relaxed and weakened party ties,
and produced heart-burnings and distrust.
Now we come to the nomination ot June,
1852, by which Gen. Scott’s name was put
before the country.
Three names we.ie before tho convention.
Gen. Scott was always nominally a Whig,
but excluded by position from taking any part
in party conflicts. Mr. FillinOre was the ac
tual president. Mr. Webster and Mr. Clay,
for the last twenty years, have confessedly
the leaders cf the Whig party—doing the
most service—giving and receiving the hard
est blows in that service. Mr. Clay was not
in a condition to be a candidate; and Mr.
Webster, therefore, was the man entitled upon
party principles to receive the nomination. —
He had earned the claim; more than thirty
OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1852,
years of public service had rendered Kim the
greatest American statesman, and the oldest
and most conspicuous Whig then ott tho stage,
of action. Neitheir of his competitors could,
compare with him in the amount and value o*
services he had rendered his country and /ri
party. It was not doubted that Mr. Websten
deserve the nomination; he had worked long,
assidiously and faithfully to deserve the hon
ors of his party, and to qualify himself for the
liighest'distiuction that party could confer up
on him. lie has gone with unsurpassed abili
ty through the various preliminary official
grades. In the natural course olthings it
was the last time the country could re
ward him. Under these circumstaees his
claim was rejected; he was thrown out and
laid on the shelf.
Now what 1 affirm, with great respect, is
that this act, proving that infidelity to party
obligations is not temporary, hut the settled
rule, virtually dissolves the whig party, No
man (it to counsel, to guide, and lead that
party, will ever more connect his fortunes
with tlftit party. It is ended, if Gen. Seoit
is elected, its existence -may he prolonged in
a dying state, hut it is nevertheless sure to
die. If Gen. Scott is not elected, the party
is not only elided but disgraced; it can never
more hold up its head under the name which
it has longjjorne with honor and with pride.
What will follow? l’lcci >ly what was in
tended by those who have deliberately placed
the party in this position. ‘1 here will be a
r recsoil or Abolition party cstnblished'as the
great party of the free Stales, and . another
party in favor of Soutlie 511 Eights. ‘1 Iris i a
certain consequence of the present state of
things. I leave it toothers to suggest the
remedy, if indeed there he any remedy. To
me it see ft is that the case is irremediable.
The whig party decides that no party ser
vices and sacrifices, how ever great and dis
tinguished, can he rewarded by the highest
honor in the gift of the people; the serviee
entitled to {hat honor must be performed in
the camp, ’ihe Clays and Websters pf our
party, if any such there shall be, must he Con
tent to have the highest aspirations of their
ambition gratified by an appointment under a
military chieftain. But there will be no A lays
and Websters in future time ‘; there is nothing’
to excite and gratify high ambition in the path
of the statesman.
Wlmt prompts the soldier on the field of
battle to the. highest deeds of daring for his
country ? Primarily, of course, the love of
that country; but the desire of official promo
tion is, we all know, not without a.powerful
iiitluenpe in producing the results, ‘i he army
is an organized body for the protection and
defence of the country ; hut let it be under
stood that deeds valorous and high emprioe
are not to he rewarded by official promotion,
‘and how efficient will your army lie? Wjiat
conquests will it win 1 We must deal with
men as they are.
Gen. Scott has.done great military services
for his country; he deserves, richly deserves,
the position, as the, head of tliat-grmy, which
he holds ; • 1 was in favor of creating a higher
position—the “office of Lieut. General —that
he might be promoted to it. Suppose a pro
vision had been madq by law for that, olliciy
once filled by Washington ; and then suppose
that the President and Senate had, upon con
sultation, come to the conclusion that Daniel
W.ebster, as'a reward tor his civil services,
bo made Lieut. Generic. How would the
Conqueror of Mexico have relished that nomi
nation ? Very, much, I imagine, as the great
est statesman of the country would relish his
nomination to the Presidency.
I am very much afraid that my friend Gen.
Scott, in the event supposed, would ask—
“ Where shall Igo ?” And if he could an
swer this quistibn satisfactorily to himself,
would decide that lie bad served the country
as long as patrotism required, and was at lib
erty to resign.
A8 to Mr. Webster himself, nothing be
comes him, in my judgment, but profound si
lence. What oan he say flt is poor conso
lation to tell him that he is too elevated for
the office ; t(wit the people cannot appreciate
him. It is an Insult to say —you are too un
popular; for the answer is ready—how can
you know that? You never gave me a trial;
and as to indications of unpopularity short of
an actual popular canvass, you can hardly ex.
pect nte to see them, whenjthousands crowd
around me wherever I go.
There are considerations which I should
be most happy to discuss, If this communica
tion had not already been unreasonably ex
tended, which prove conclusively to my mind
that the real intention of the ruling spirits irt
that convention was, by the nomination of
Gen. .Scott and rejection of Mr. Webster and
Mr. Fillmore, to destroy the National Whig
party. AN OLD WHIG.’
Tkc Dlsuniouists’ Candidate.
Our readers have not forgotten the letter of
Mr. John Forsyth, of Georgia, which claim
ed Gen. Pierce tts the “creator and choice’’
of the Secessionists and Mr. Pierce Soule.—
They have not forgotten prominence which
was given to Mr. Boulo by the convention,
by sending him at the head of the committee
to wait upon Gen. Fierce in New Hampshire;
nor Mr. Soule’s private letter to his partner
Olli COUNTRY’S ROOD IS Oil US.
eulogistic of the Democratic candidate; nor
his letter to the Hillsboro’ meeting, in w hich
he reaffirmed the statement of Mr. Soule with
regard to t fen. l'icree’s “creation.” They have
not forgotten that the first gentleman to eulo
gize pen. Bierce on the floor of the House of
Representative 5 was Mr. Orr, of South Caro
lina, who claimed him as a statesman after
South Carolina’s own heart. We w ish them
to keep these facts in view, and we intend (o
show up from time to time the principles and
opinions el the gentlemen who were princi
pally concerned in tun. l'ierce’s “creation
mid choice.” And first for a touch of Mr.
L orsvth’s qualify. 011 the frith of September,
1-851, he wrote a letter to a melting of the
citizens of South Carolina who wore opposed
to “submission to the past wrongs ami ag
gressions of the General Government,'’ and
in favor of secession or rebellion or forcible
resistance. In this letter Mr. lorsylh says:
“Gentlemen, il is not we who have lost our
‘loyalty to the In ion of our fathers; RUT
••THAT UNION IS NO MORE.
“Your loyalty was feiimpcaelied and unix
‘peachnblc, untiILOYALTY TO THE U.\l
•ON BECAME TREASON TO THE IN
‘Di I’ENDENCE, B'REEDOM, AND SO V
‘EIIEIGNTY Ob’ THE STATES.”
At this meeting a letter was read-from the
Hon. .1. S. Painter to Major Manegault, in
which-hc sys, •• For more than lire illy years I
hare Lira a pisunionisl.” The same gentle
man winds up his letter with the follow ing
declaration.: “if elected n ilelegafe to the
‘Southern Congress,! shall feel my self bound
• ‘to vote foe no measure proposed before that
•brill',- that does not /,ml dir.rlii; to the diseo
'ltHion 0/ the liiionand. the formation of a
‘Southern ('on ft and racy.”
Our.cotenipories’of lae Democratic press
make a shocking to do every day “because
Gen. Scott is's upported ly Gov. Seward.—
’Some of our U 1 ion friend’s are partieulaiL
scandalised by,this f.;*-t, ami apprehend that
Gen. Scott, w ith all his patriotic and nation. 1
attachments and conservative temper, will he
so (-fleeted by this support that his election
will ho dangerous to the country. But if the
support of (lov. Seward is to he detrimental
to Gen. Scott, and iv to work sttoli a change
to his chare -1 ,<r, what vilhlnry say to’tiie bu. -
soundings of Gon. I ien-e?
The man who boasts of having created him
isn professed Ei .Unionist, lie has solemnly
avowed Liuis-cl;'within a year under 1. is own
hand, in a published letter, that Mouth Caro
lina was right in Iter doctrines of resistance to
the Fedora! Government, and that, in the case
of her citizens, “loyalty to. the I'niou” \m; s
•‘treason to the State!” The man who will
he about Gen. Pierce, if he should be elected,
will he of the Forsyth, Soule and l’ahrft'r fash
ion—politi'-uuis who, like the- hitter gentle
man, were in tr.vof of a Southern Congress,
and who pledged themselves to propose no
measure before that body not tending “direct
ly to the di: solution of the Union anti the for
mation of a Southern Confederacy.”
Wo wish our Southern friends to reflect up
on the character of the rnejp they are bring
ing into pow er with Gen. Pierce, it’ Ly inac
tion or indiflirence tjay contribute to his elec
tion. A pretty set, to he sure, for a Conser
vative to aid in elevating! One wing pledg
ed to work for the bi solution of the,Union;
and another, under the lend of Judge Douglas
and the Democratic llericic, hound to the t>
uexation of all the Hands to thy mid-channel
of the Atlantia and Pacific oceans,-to make
the Gulf of Mexico and the CatibLean sea
closed waters to all the rest of the world!
From tliu'-intciligwmi-r.
Messrs. Gales and Beato:v. — Qcti'lcmcn:
I observe that in a debate in the Senate, as re
ported in the Bali inlore Kitin, One day last
week, the following paragraph appears ii a
speech of Mr. Mpi’gum, of North Carolina:
“Mr. Mungum alluded to the groat impor
tance to the country arid to the Whig party
that the consistency of the head of the Central
Committee of that powerful and.to-be victori
ous party should beinaiiitaineii. He opposed
the whole bill. He saw no reason for taking
away the printing of the Departments to give
it to the political.press. No complaints had
ever been heard egai ist the contract system
as regarded the printing for the Departments.
“Mr. Douglas said that there were com
plaints; he could shew that the system aH
practiced there was perfect mockery.
“Mr. Mangum said perhaps there were oc
casional petty paltry tricks committed, and
that, too, by the groat man of the Whig par.
ty ; he meant the Secretary of State; a tiek
unworthy of him, unworthy of his position,
and disgraceful to his party, so far as he could
affect it, which was but to a slight extent,
ami which shortly would not be to any ex
tent.”
Upon inquiring, through a friend, I l. arn
from Mr. Mangum the t his observations were
intended to apply to the appointment of the
Wilmington Commercial, conducted by Mr.
Loring, as a paper to publish the laws in
North Carolina; and to the appointment for
the same purport 1 of the Knoxville Whig in
Tennessee.
The Wilmington Commercial was appoint
ed as a puper to publish the laws upon w hat
was esteemed good Whig authority; and if
Mr. Mangum hail bee a litNo usnlt the mem
hers of Congress from his V 1 State, includ
ing eminent Whigs, ho v, yl have learned
that there is not a more iv: peVable journal
in North Carolina - tin.nr the Wilnaugfon Com
mercial; that the editor, Mr. LcAing, “is a
highly respectable fnnn, of i.Tepteeciuible
characfer; - ’ and th: I Lis paper has l!u\; rget 1
eircuiation of anv whig paper puhlislNid in
Wilmington, the most populous and far The
most eonunerci.;! city or town in North Caros
lina. 1 refer Mr. Mangum on this subject to N
his spiechos in l on;p 1 -s.
As to the appointment of the Knoxville
11 iiig as one of Ihe papers to publish flip law s
in Tennessee, it is sufficient to say that that
appointment was by a majority of the whig
members of Congress from that. Statp.
So far as 1 remember, 1 never road a sin
gle number of either of these newspapers.
I hope I may be pardoned, under the cir
cumstances, for ti H obtrusion on the tho pub
lic, so unusual with me, to defend mv official
conduct against mere random vituperation.
DAN’L WEBSTER
The Order es Ihe Lcnc Star,
ITS ORIGIN AND ULTIMATF OBJECTS.
/ o the Editor of the Arie- l'orh Sachem :
Dear Kir: i’ercedving it the Courier A-
Enquirer, the Hi raid, and other journals most
garbled and pm verted veoiensof the interests
j and purpose oi the Order of the Lone Mar,
which i.i-li.iili m 1 have theltonor to repre
s ill, ;-s President ot ihe tit neral Assembly of
Louisiana, 1 conceive it a duty i .owe to my
si b and my bri-lNren, to hiv before the New
\ oik pul lie a lull v iew of the origin and ob
j its of the Order, with wLii li my name has
been go. thorough.ly identified throughout the
inion.
It must he apparent to : II candid observers,
that the ge.nUeineij on!bide the pale of our as
sociation pretend to a superior knowledge of
the genius of the irisTituimi than those wiiters
admitted to our eomfialernity; at all events,
members of the press initiated w itlijy our rites
have in nowise compromsied our honor and
dignity by presuming a connection between
our Order and the invasion of Culm. To dis
j e’ any illusion obscuring the popular vision,
v.i.h icspecl to the iiiovenieuts of the Lone
Star, permit mu frankly to onq lay your col
umns for an explanation bf-tlic charaeter and
objects of that secret society.
’] lie Order of the Lone Star was instituted
in the city ol Lafayette, by a few gentlemcrt,
none of whom wore personally acquainted
with Gen. Lopez, nlthoftgh sympathetically
!.ivorafch> to his expedition; .onsequeiitly, the
foundation ot the association was in no man
ner to aid in the succes% of ids liberating ar
my. The object of the original foundation
was the conservation of unadulterated pat.i
otisin at home and abroad, and li e society
was purely Amcrierpi in its conception, as its
aim was to guard the j all .ilium of our nation
ality against the intiuious aggressions or in
terior .toes, and the assaults of open enemies.
Believing republicanism to be the sole form
of government calculated to secure happiness
an 1 prosperity to our native land, and the on
ly state ot pohti.\:l eriience conducive to the
universal benefit of humanity, we naturally
yearned towards.its perpetuation among our
people, and its introduction among other ra
tions ot the globe; consequently, as wo our
selves are lo h to w ear the rh ins of monarchi
cal and hipe:i.:l bondage, we are willing to
extend all lawful and legitimate aid and suc
cor to the oppressed of other crimes, strug
gling to strike off the shackles of despotism;
but in no way would our endeavors to carry
out so deserving and phil.mtlippie a duty com
promise our relations between ourselves, our
families, and our country. Our object was
never limited to n specific sphere; it was gen
eral and cosmopolitan. We cast no eye u; -
on Cuba, nor Mexico, but iq on humanity ;.t
large. Wherein r the children of liberty
could l>e discovered i;r arms against their ty
ranical masters, the sous of the Lone Star
would be found rallying beneath the banner
of freedom to extend the area of liberty. No
member is bound by any obligation to per
form any action contrary lo the allegiance
due 1 is country, nor against the ties of con
sanguity; neither arc we to be participants in
any foray, conceived and executed in vari
ance to t:.i ting t (‘alias of amity with foreign
nations; neither are we to invade peaceful
counties to carryout the objects of our in
stitution. l’o; alar journals have branded us
as filibusters and conspirators : were we wor
thy of such up; ellatijns, all must admit that,
we are filibueteis and i eusj ia; tors upon such
an extended scale oft lent arid influence that
•the entire continent must be shaken to its cen
tre, forour ramifications extend horn the East
to the M eat, from the North to the-South.—
In a word, the spi.it of the Lena Mar is the
protective genius of republicanism, on this
side of the Atlantic. Sympathizing with stag
glitig nations beyond the ocean, wo limit our
personal i; t rvcntio i (> the count ‘ies of this
divi inn of the globe; and, graded by the wise
policy of a Washington and a Madison, we
v\ ill conti me our primitive dibits to the main
tenance of pure republicanism at home, and
its extension among people adjacent to our
own republic, ami present a formidable bar-
Terms—s 2 dO£in advance,
SJI < < 11 I<< 1 ( 1 • }1: i.
tier to the aggressions and insinuations offor
eign despots. Our main object is to
the emancipation of these count lieg,})}’ all le
gal and legitimate means, such as arO eorisisC
tent with Christianity and the duty we owe our
country ; and, viewed in this light, we hum
bly trust that no sensible American can he
found to denounce us by the opprobrious epi
thets of conspirators and filbusters. W e owe
to 110 bad feeling against the journals who
have confounded us w ith previous expedition,
■rists; they have erred from the inisreprcsenta
iVuis of men unacquainted w ith our organiza
ii<m, and ignorant of the true merits of our
cause ; and wo forgive their error in judg
ment as not coining from the heart, but from
a strange misconception of the patriotic mo
tives of this confederation, the main-spring of
republicanism, and the conservator of Ameri
can democracy.
I have noticed in the Herald, a list of dis
tinguished names, purpmting to enumerate
some of the members of the farternity, many
of whom we cannot claim as brethren of the
Order, hut are thoroughly convinced that were
they conversant with our principles and mo
tives, they would give in their strongest ad
herence and co-operation towards the com
pletion of the great enterprise we have under
taken, and 1 may as well add that the identi
ty of persons with cur association must
remain in obscurity, for one of our chief max
ims decrees the suppression of the names cl
our brethren, unless announced front tlieir
own free will and volition. Still, I will free
ly admit that among our ow 11 ranks can he
found lending spirits from tic. Senate l ham
her and legislative halls, the judb i.iry and the
bar. Although the published names may ap
pear to carry weight with thorn, yet 1 must as
sure the llorald that both in numbers and
standing, the Lone Star has been underrated,
its influence is powerful because secret that
the deeds of the great minds of our country
can lie shrouded in a darkness impervious to
the malignant criticisms of unappiei biting op
ponents.
The Lone Star can be unfolded to the vi
sion of any inquiring citizens, and happy w ill
w e he to enroll them beneath its banner, pro
vided they he men of reputation, integrity,
morality and standing. Nme ot es eo vve
admit within the precinctsofour mystic circle.
Yours, fratomallv,
John Y. Wren, I*. G. A. O. L. 8.
Asm House, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 18L2.
From the BwUoa Jonn a'.
Commentary onus In defend ext Demo
crat on General Pierce.— The Indrjien.
deni Democrat, the paper which
originally published Gen- I’ierce’s New Bos
ton speech, in its comments upon the corres
pondence of that gentleman w ith Edwin Do
Leon, one of the editors of the Southern Press,
deems the position taken by the Democratic
nominee an evidence of mental aberration,
and says among other tilings equally pointed:
“He (Gen. Pierce) certainly would not, un
less laboring under some fatal hallucination,
venture to make as issue of veracity against
as many unimpeachable i itizens as have al
ready sworn to the accuracy of the reports of
his New Boston speech, lie must be insane.
“Before God and the hundreds who beard
that speech he Knows that lie uttered the senti
ments attributed to him, in all their length
and breadth. lie Knows that he uttered simi
lar sentiments at Bradford and in this town.
And yet lie dishonestly or insanely denies
them, and el aims the Presidency on the ground
t’uit he never uttered a word in disapproba
tion of slavery, nor performed any act incon
sistent with the office ofaLlooiihour.il! Nay,
he utters a downright untruth in relation to
the Independent Democrat, whi n he says it
has been ‘unsparing in its attack upon him
personally I .’”
‘1 here is one great satisfaction to the party
having the truth upon its tide in this issue,
that the witnesses in the cause are their own
neighbors and fellow-citizens. The witnesses
to disprove the charges are like those on
which the Dutch justice acquitted a thief, to
wit: “Here come three men who swear they
saw the prisoner steal the hoe; and here come
six who swear they did not see the prisoner
steal the hoe; therefore the balance \ f terti
nionv in the prisoner’s favor ia six to three,
and he must be discharged.”
Setting Glass without Putty—— I 'J h j
method of setting glass without putty, recent
ly invented, is the following:
‘Phe window sash is made entrely of wood
the outrides permanent. The inside is trained
in iu -h a manner that the parts can be readi
ly removed for the purpose of inserting the
glass which is placed la-tween slips of Irdian
rubber, which, when the parts of the sash r.re
replaced, causes the glass to be ; eifcctly thru.
‘1 he moveable parts of the sash me secured to
tin ir place by a knob seriw, which made a
pretty finish. The advantage of this method
of setting glass must be obvious upon a mo
uicnt’a reflection.
The Empire gays Geu. Fierce is “u finish
ed gentleman.” .*
Fle’s finished now, and in November ho will
be “laid on the shelf. ”■— Dayton (fMa>) Gat tic'*.
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