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For the Temoeranco Crusader.
GREENESBORO.
Messrs. Editors —It was during the
month of October last, that a friend of mine
suggested the idea of spending the winter
South ; accordingly I bade adieu to the land
“where the rocks are thick and the hills are
great,” left the city with its noise and strife,
and in due time arrived in this retired, yet
pleasant place, and will, with your consent,
note down some of the many incidents that
have come under iny observation.
Greenesboro. as you are aware, is the
County Seat of Greene, and is located on
the line of the Georgia Railroad, about mid
way between Augusta and Atlanta, and
contains a population of about one thousand
inhabitants, with the usual compliment of
churches, stores, &c.
The Greenesboro Female College, found
ed by the Synod of Georgia, is beautifully
situated in the edge of the town, and under
the superintendence of Professor I. S. K.
Axon, is in a flourishing condition; and
whilst speaking of the College, it may not
be improper to state that the grounds and
buildings, cannot be excelled by any similar
institution in Georgia. The building, a no
ble structure, was erected at a cost of fif
teen thousand dollars, and trom its peculiar
situation, being removed from noise and con
fusion, it affords ample opportunity for those
disposed to cultivate successfully those ta!-
ents God has given them.
Os the mechanical and manufacturing in
terests of the place, not much can be said,
from the fact that a majority of the citizens
are engaged in the cultivation of that great
product of the South, “Cotton,” of which J
am informed thereis'annually shipped from
this place, some ten or fifteen thousand bales.
But not being “posted up,” I shall not at
tempt to give an idea of the agricultural pro
ducts of the county, but will confine myself
to those matters that have come under my
observation.
The citizens of the place appear to be,
and are, a law-abiding people, and are quick
to discountenance vice in whatever shape it
may appear, and equally as quick in.award
ing to virtue its true merits. And although
in the busy scene of life, men are not very
apt to care for, or sympathize with, those
around them, yet there appears to he a
friendly, sociable feeling, that is seldom if
ever found in places like this—all are inter
ested, for what ever benefits one member of
society, in a certain sense, benefits all.
This is also the home of many distinguish
ed men, among whom we might mention the
Hon. F. H. Cone, a distinguished Lawyer,
profound Judge, and able Jurist. Hon Y.
P. King, who, for four years, represented
us as Charge de Affaires in South America.
*This is also the home of Hon. W. C. Daw
son, who has so well and ably represented
Georgia in the United States Senate, and
has, at various times, held officesof trust arid
honor, in the State, and in whose courteous
and agreeable manners, you at once recog
nize the gentleman; and in whose honest
and frank expression of countenance, you
are reminded of the truth of the saying, “an
honest man is the noblest work of God.”
Os the Ladies of the place,—what shall I
say ? Not being an admirer of the sex gen
erally, I cannot say much. I admire them
as a painter would a beautiful landscape in
the distance, and might think that “distance
lends enchantment to the view.” Georgia
has long been famed for her ‘beautiful wo
men,” and I will only say that Greenesboro
Ladies will fully sustain the reputation of
the State in that respect. . .
But what shall I say concerning the young
men of the place? You, Messrs. Editors,
are acquainted with many of them, andwili,
I doubt not, agree with me in saying * that
the heart feels most when the lips move not.”
I came here an entire stranger, yet the
kindness that I have everywhere met with;
the warm, generous hearts, that I have
found, will form a link in “memory’s chain”
that can never he broken. Well would it
be for those of the North to visit the South,
become familiar with her institutions, and
learn for themselves, if there is not as pure
a spirit of patriotism here as at the North; if
all that Americans hold near and dear, are
not as highly prized and appreciated here as
elsewhere in the Union.
But I am intruding, and will only say, no
ble, generous hearted Southernes, long may
you live to enjoy the blessings that kind
heaven has favored you with, and may all
that civil, religious'and political liberty can
bestow, be yours. C.
Greenesboro, Dec. 18th, 1855.
(Sjeotfgia £es&ta£aw<.
A BILL.
To be entitled An Act to alter and amend
the third and fourth, seventh and twelfth
sections of the Ist Article of the Consti
tution of this State. r
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Reprsentatives of the State of Georgia
in General Assembly met, and it is hereby
enacted by the authority of the same, That
so soon as this bill shall be passed by the
Genera? Assembly agreeable to tho require
merits of the Constitution, the following
sections shall be adopted in lieu of the
third, fourth, seventh and twelfth sections
of the first article of the Constitution.
Sec. 3rd. The Senate shall consist of thir
tv-three members, and it shall be tho duty
of the Legislature at the session when this
shall be adopted to divide the State into
thirty-three Senatorial List riots, which Dis
tricts shall be composed of contiguous coun
ties, and as nearly equal as may be in pop
ulation, counting all free white persons,
and three-fifths of the people of color.—
And-at the session next after each future
enumeration of the inhabitants of this
State, made under the Constitution and
Laws, an# at no other time, said districts
shall be altered so as to make them as near
ly equal in population as may be agreeable
to the last enumeration. But if, after any
enumeration, any one county shall have
.-uffieient population to entitle it to one
Senator, such county shall constitute a dis
trict. And when anew county is organ
azed, it shall be aunexed to one of the Dis
tricts to which the county or counties from
which it is taken belong*. And each Dis
trict shall be entitled to ekct one Senator.
See. 4th. No perron shaH be a Senator
who shall not have attained the age of twen
ty-five years, and have been nine years a
citizen of the United States, and three years
an inhabitant of this State, and shall have
usually resided in tie Senatorial district
for which he shall be returned, at least one
year immediately preceding his election.
Except persons who may have been absent
on lawful business of this State or the Uni
te(j
Sec 7th. The House of Representatives
shall be composed pf one member from each
of the present counties of this State; and
whenever anew county is organized, it shall
also be entitled to one member. The Sen
ators and Representatives shall be elected
annually, and on the first Monday of Oc
tober in each year, and their term of office
shall be one year from the day of said elec
tion.
Sec. 12th The meeting of the General
Assenib'ly shall be annual, and on the first
Monday in November, until-such day of
meeting shall be altered by law. A major
ity of each branch shall be authorized to
proceed to business, but a smaller number
may adjourn from day to day, and compel
the attendance of their members in such
manner as each House shall prescribe.
SONG.
—o—
think of thee, when o’er the deep
The sun hath shed its brightest ray;
On thee I often think and weep
When on its waves the moon-beams play.
. I hear thee, when the billows rise
With gentle murmurs on mine ear;
When lowering clouds have veiled the skies
In forests dark thy step I hoar.
I see thee, in the depth of night,
From me thou never can’st be far ;
I see thee in that paler light
Which beams from every trembling star.
CONVERSATION.
Among all the “accomplishments” which
our young ladies are expected to acquire, it
is to be regretted that the art of conversa
tion is not included. No grace of person or
manners can compensate for the lack of this.
In youth, the conversation of our women is
too apt to be trifling and insipid, and in mid
dle age is too often confined to complaints of
health and the scandal of the day. Lively
conversation upon instructing and elevating
topics is but little practised, but whenever
it is found it gives a charm to the society of
females which nothing else can. It triumphs
over deformity and age and makes ugliness
itself agreeable. Curran, speaking of Mad
ame de Stael. who was by no means hand
some, but a splendid conversationist, said
that she had “the power of talking herself
into a beauty.” Ladies should think of this.
Beauty lies in other things than the fine fea
tures of cosmetics.
FASHION.
Naturally following upon the heels of the
above, are thoughts upon the fashions. We
are aware that we might as well attempt to
stay Niagara with a mush stick, as to block
for a moment the Juggernaut of fashion.—
I Its march is resistless, and its victims al
i ways ready for the sacrifice. If women
are mind to burden their spines with huge
rolls of cotton, wear consumption shoes, and
bonnets on the back of the neck, we can
not complain. But in the name of health,
decency and comfort, we most earnestly
protesf against subjecting childhood to the
torture of fashion. Look at one of our fash
ionablv-dressed little ones? Did ever a
“dandy jack” in a circus ring, present a
more pitiful figure? We are inclined to
believe that should fashion say, dress chii-
I died with a shawl only, and leave bodies
! and legs uncovered, so it would be. Wo
j have grown indignant as we have looked
j upon our little friends in the streets, their
| lips blue, their half naked bodies shivering
! with chills, arid consumption already knaw
ing at their tender vitals. Ah ! but they are
dressed so prettily! Prettily, but in gross
violation of the laws of life, health and de
cency. Thousands and thousands of them,
will at an early day, exchange the scanty
dress for the more ample shroud. There
seems to be a strife to see how near to na
kedness the child can be exhibited, and
dressed “neatly.” There is not a man in
the community who could live so expostd
to cold. It would destroy the most hardy.
And yet so long as the alter of the Moloch
of fashion demands its yearly hecatomb of
children, so long will the helpless innocents
bo decked gaily’ out, and even with pride
led to the sacrifice. Cannibalism is contem
plated with a shudder; but blind mothers
seem to delight in fitting their loved ones
for an early passage to paradise. The Hin
doo mother tosses her child to the deity of
the Ganges. The American mother leads
ljer’s to the more remorseless shrine of fash
ion—far the most inexcusable and guilty
one of the two.— Cayuga Chief.
A NOBLE WOMAN.
“There’s a noble creature,” whispered a
friend to us, pointing out a handsome wo
man, in the prime of life, who stood conver
sing with an aged 4nan.
“There was something majestic about
her,” was our reply.
“The majesty of goodness !” exclaimed
our friend. “How low and soft her voice,
and what a world ot lovo in those dark eves!
And her lips ! mark their fine but firm out
line ! I tell you, she stands there a true wo
man; and, though splendor surrounds her.
and wealth pours in upon her, she once re
nounced fashion, fame, and riches, for
a man who was glorious in his attributes,
but poor in pocket He had no splendor to
offer her—nothing but a priceless heart.—
She was lfvely, witty and very much ;w
----complished. Her parents had bestowed
upon her all they had, to give her a
liberal education; yel she was never, be*-
cause of their old fashioned, simple ways,
and unpolished conversation, ashamed of
them, for itr all that makes nature noble,
they excelled, and in spite of their bad gram
mar she loved, and was proud of them. I
have seen girls—charming girls, intellectu
ally and physically—who never cared to
know what made the eyes of the poor old
mother dim, or what kept her so silent in
their eompany; and I knew she was thus
brought by the laziness, conceit, and con
tempt of these charming daughters—alas !
But her old mother was no slave to her dar
ling and beautiful child; for she sat down
smiling in the cheerful sitting-room, while
the sweet voice of her daughter carolled
forth from the neat, homely kitchen.
“She married, and very soon came press
ing, bitter want, sickness blighted the
strength of her husband ; but she loved him,
and loving, what will not a true woman do?
With her own hands she toiled, with her
hopeful words encouraged, until the clouds
parted, and the sun shone again.
# “Slander now joined hands with envy to
aid in trampling out the brave heart; but
in the end they made it much stronger
Like the little flower that sends forth rarest
perfume when crushed, so that gentle heart
loved and trusted more exceedingly. And
when that malignant sisterhood hedged up
the path ol her husband, she had only to
speak, nnd the thorns bowed themselves,
turning outward the down that shrouded
their stalks.
“And they saw that, with such a wife,
that man could not be conquered, or even for
a moment cast down. So they ceased their
machinations, and fortune smiled, and friends
came with better times, and the true wo
man stood before the world a model wife
and mother.”
How many such, thought 1, can our land
boast of in this day and generation ?
BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT.
“The tnooa looks calmly down when man is dying,
Tho earth still holds her way; [ing,
Flowers breath their perfume, and the winds keep sigh-
Naught seems to pause or stay.”
Clasp thy hands meekly over the still
breast—they’ve no more work t<> do; close
the weary eyes—they’ve no more tears to
shed; part the damp locks—there’s no more
pain to bear. Closed is the ear alike to love,
kind voices and calumny's stinging whispers.
Oh, if in that stilled heart you have ruth
lessly planted a thorn; if from-that pleading
eye you have carelessly turned away: if
your loving glance, and kindly word, and
clasping hand have come—all too late—
then God forgive you! No frown gathers
on the marble brow ns you gaze—no scorn
curls the ehisled lip—no flush of wounded
feeling, mounts to the blue veined temples.
God forgive you! for your feet, too, must
shrink appalled from death’s cold river—
young faltering tongue asks, “can this be
death?” Your fading eye lingers lovingly
on the sunny earth; your clammy hand
yields its last feeble flutter.
O rapacious grave! yet another victim for
thy voiceless sleepers! No warm welcome
from a sister’s loving lips! No throb of
pleasure from the dear maternal bosom?
Silent all!
O, if these broken limbs were never gath
ered up ! If beyond death’s swelling flood
there were no eternal shore! If for the
struggling bark, there were no port of peace.
If athwart that lowering cloud sprang no
bow of promise!
Alas for love; if this be all.
And naught beyond—on earth!
FASHIONABLE CHURCH IN NSW-YORIC.
If ‘‘Fanny Fern” did not write tho fol
lowing, we do not know who did :
“You enter the Church porch. The port
ly sexton, with his thumbs in the arm-holes
of his vest, meets yon at the uoor. lie
glances at you ; your hat and coat are new,
so he gravely escorts you to an eligible sent
in the broad aisle. Closely behind you fol
lows a poor, meek, plain clad seamstress,
freed, from her tread-mill round, to think,
one day in seven, of the Immortal! The
sexton is struck with sudden blindness !
She stands embarrassed one moment; then,
as the truth dawns upon her, retraces her
steps, and, with a crimson blush, re crosses
the threshold which she lias profaned with
her- plebian feet. Hark to the organ! it
is a strain from Norma, slightly jSabbath
ized. Now the worshippers, one after an
other, glide in—silks rattle—plumes wave
satin glistens diamonds glitter—-and
scores of forty-dollar handkerchiefs shako
out their perfumed odors. What an ab
surdity to preach the Gospel of the lowly
Nazarine to such a set! The clergyman
knows better than to do so. He values
his fat salary and handsome parsonage too
highly. So, with a velvet tread, lit* walks
around the ten commandments—places
tlie downiest pillow under the dying ‘pro
fligate’s head—and ushers him, with se
raphic hymning, into the upper-ten Hea
ven.”
THIS HAND NEVER STRUCK 1:111.
We recently heard the following touch
ing incident:
A little hoy had died. His body was laid
out in a darkened, retired room, waiting to
be laid in the cold, lone grave. —His afflict
ed mother, and bereaved little sister went in
to look at the sweet face of the precious
sleeper, for his face was beautiful even in
death. As they stood gazing on the face of
one so beloved and cherished, the little girl
asked to shake his hand. The mother at
first did not think it best, but the child re
peated the request, and seemed very anx
ious about it; she took the cold, bloodless
hand of her sleeping boy, and placed it in
the hand of his weeping sister.
The dear child looked at it. a moment, ca
ressed it fondly, and then looked up to her
mother through tears of affliction and love,
and said, “Mother, this hand never struck
me.”
‘What could have been more touching
and lovely?
POWER OF LANGUAGE.
Language is the amber in which a thou
sand precious thoughts have been safely em
bedded and preserved. It has arrested ten
thousand lightning flashes ol genius, which,
unless thin fixed and arrested, might, have
been as bright, but would also have been as
quickly passing and perishing as the light
ning. Words convey the mental treasures
ot one period to the generations that follow;
and laden with this, their precious freight,
they sail safely across the gulfs of time in
which empires have suffered shipwreck, and
the language of eommon life has sunk into
oblivion.
THE LOVE OF BEAUTY.
We are indebted to the New-York Cray
on tor these interesting thoughts aside :
“Every one who passes through the up
per part of our city must have noticed the
large, isolated house at the corner of Nine
teenth-street and Broadway. There is a
large space of vacant ground around it,
covered with a rich sward, and here are al
ways more or less beautiful domesticated
birds—peacocks, both white and of'the or
dinary color, and birds of new and strange
kinds to us. We have often stopped to ad
mire them and never without a feeling ol
gratitude and respect to the unknown dwell
ers there, which we never felt towards
those who display any extent of wealth on
their houses and equipage. Useles m an
economical point of view as these birds
were, they testified to genuine love of beau
ty in those who—owned them, we were go
ing to say. hut ownership comes harshly in
to connection with beauty —placed them
there, and cherish and maintain them for
that value alone, a testimony which pro
duced an involuntary ,feeling ol reverence
for the occupants of the house. The yard
is worth, to every living soul, all the marble
and free-stone house-fronts in New York
city. Passing by there a tew days Since we
were deliffhted to see a large number oi our
common quails, which are generally sup
posed to be beyond the power ot domesti
cation: but there they were, running about
in the grass like so many little chickens, as
beautiful as it is possible for birds to he, as
naive and fearless as children. We wanted
to climb the fence and lie down in the grass
to pet them. The sight suggested some
ideas with regard to the influence of beauty
on the human mind, which we would like to
see fully explained and illustrated by expe
rience. Does not the love of beauty, such
as it is manifested bv the dwellers in that
house, give a power over even the animal
creation, which, in this case, lured and lull
ed the quails into tameness and domestici
ty? Is there not some influence emanating
from minds that love the beautiful purely,
which silences even the natural and instinc
tive timorousness of wild birds and beasts?
We hope so—nay we believe, so. How
much better were it that we could draw
living beauty around us than to enpaimply
ourselves with the ornaments of pride and
mere money display. We hope that those
who placed those birds there enjoy the sight
of them as much as we did.”
THE PEAEL UNSEEN.
The treasures of earth are often unseen
and unknown, while the worthless pebble
obtrudes itself upon our observation. The
truly worthy among men, kept in the back
ground of life’s picture by modesty, are of
ten overlooked, while others, destitute of re
al virtue, command and engross our atten
tion. Even those who are “earthly sensual
and devilish,” are honored and promoted,
while others who have a place in the casket
of the Divine favor, and shine with a lustre
all unearthly, are unadmired and unobserv
ed. The Christian, conscious of the appro
bation of the “King of kings,” and his heart
glowing with fire borrowed from heaven’s
own sun, has only the credit of being just,
while the names of others are caught upon
the popular breeze, and watted to the ceru
lean heaven. The world iorgets, when
meeting daily with God’s children, that they
arc heirs to a throne before which nil the
boasted honors of the sons of earth vanish
into insignificance; that the eye now beam
ing with so much benignity on tilings ter
rene. shall ere long catch and reflect the
splendors of the throne where Jesus sits;
and that the ear which hears so olt the notes
of sorrow and the language of impiety,
shall shortly brink the melody ot’unnumber
ed harps, tuned all in unison to the praise of
the Lamb. He who, to-day, is busied with
Time’s concerns, and burdened with its
cares, shall to-morrow have no other em
ployment than to fall down before the throne
and cry, “Worthy is the Lamb that was
la in !” And when his discharge has come,
and he has sped away to dwell with Abra
ham, and Isaac, and Jacob, tears of joy, ra
ther than grief, should bedew our faces.—
leather should we reflect that they have al
ready gained all that we can wish, and the
very thought of which gives us such delight.
But if the world forgets his character and
position, let the Christian remember and glo
ry in his destiny, While he beholds the
arch of heaven, and looks through his tears
at its sparkling orbs, let him remember that
just beyond them shines a mansion as far
above their brightness as they excel the
stones of the brook ; and let him wipe away
his tears, forget his sorrows, and, pursuing
his way with firmer step, beguile the hours
with songs of gladness. And swiftly shall
they pass away, and bring to him—once a
sinner, always unworthy, and often envel
oped in gloom —bring to him a full release
from toil, (forget it not, ye weary.) perfect
immunity from all evil, and a bliss, the pros
pect of which has often thrilled him with
rapture only less than that which prompts
the new song that, swells and hursts from
the lips of the redeemed. —Nashville Chris
tian Adv dealt'..
THE FATAL FLOWER.
Travelers who visit the Fails of Niagara,
are directed to a spot on the margin of the
precipice over the boiling current below,
where a gay young lady a few years since
lo>t her life. She was delighted with the
wonders ol the unrivalled scene, and ambi
tious to pluck a flower from a cliff where
no human hand had before ventured as a
memorial of the cataract and her own dar
ing, she leaned over the verge and caught
a glimpse of the surging waters far down
the battlement of rocks, while fear for a mo
ment darkened her excited mind. But there
hung the lovely blossom upon which her
heart was fixed : and she leaned in a deliri
um of intense desire and anticipation over
the brink. Her arm was outstretched to
grasp the beautiful flower which charmed
her fancy; the turf yielded to the prepare of
her feet, with a shriek she descended like a
fallen star to the rocky shore, and was borne
away gasping in death, llovv impressively
does the tragical event illustrate the w iy
in which a majority of impenitent sinners
perish forever. It is pot a deliberate pui
po.se to neglect salvation ; hut in pursuit of
imaginary good, fascinated with pleasing
objects just in the future, they lightly, am
bitiously, and insanely venture too far,
A GOLDEN THOUGHT.
We know not the author of the following,
but it is one of the most beautiful produc
tions that we have ever read:
“Nature will be reported. All things are
engaged in writing their own history. The
planet and the pebble goes attended by its
shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratch
es on the mountain side; the river, its chan
nels in the soil; the animal, its bones in the
stratum; the fern leaf its modest epitaph in
the coal. The falling drop makes its sepul
chre in ttie sand or stones; not a foot steps
into or along the ground, but prints its char
acters more or less lasting, a map of its
march; every act of the man inscribes itself
on the memories of its fellows, and in his
own face. The air is full of sound—the sky
of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and
signatures, and every object is covered over
with hints that speak to the intelligent.”
C|c (Temperance Cntsakr.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
Saturday Horning:, January *J6, 1556.
Wiiy is it ?
Why is .t that our Legislators regard ad interfer
ence with the Liquor Traflic with such feelings of
horror and dread ? In other matters, where the wel
fare of the State is concerned, they manifest a high
ly praiseworthy degree of interest. To Railroads,
Banks, Canals, and every improvement calculated to
promote the prosperity of the country, they devote
a large amount of attention. But when l egislative
aid of the Temperance Cause is named to them, a
subject which deeply concerns the rnaas of the peo
ple, they speak of it as something too impracticable
to be thought of for a moment, or as a matter with
which their consciences will not [lermit them to in
terfere. Hence they coolly stand aloof, while the
greatest ofali evils is preying upon our land, and
spreading misery and death through the ranks of so
ciety. Nay; by their ordinances and licenses they
openly promote the power of this hell-born monster.
Why is this? Do they suppose that in acting thus,
they obey the wishes of a majority of their constitu
ents? If so, there would be some plausible reason,
for pursuing a course so utterly at variance with
morality and religion. But such are not the facts of
the case. We believe that fully a half, if not a larger
proportion of our people are in favor of Prohibition.
Wc Inoit that a majority, a vast majority of the in
| tclligent people of our State advocate far more strin
! gent regulations on this subject, than any we have
;at present. Our Legislators, then, instead of obey*
: ing the wishes of their constituents, betray a gross
want of deference to their opinions. They succumb
to the prejudices, and conserve the interests of a herd
of grocers and tipplers, who, like vam pyres, fatten
on the life blood of society. These very characters
are daily committing crimes of the grossest atrocity
j through th ? agency of their maddened votaries. But
| they are efficient arms of the demagogue’s power,
| and this alone suffices to expiate for ten thousand
| crimes. These shameful grogshops and miserable
• doggeries gain patents of nobility and distinction by
i putting office-seekers into positions for which they
! are totally unfitted, and sending scores of the “sor
j ereign people” from th ground with black
j eyes, red noses, and broken skulls. It is natural
| then that the Law makers, who hold their offices by
j the suffrage of such voters, should spend their time,
j and the people’s money, in dallying about matters of
j trivial importance, while this demon of destruction is
devastating the land, and spreading misery, want and
ruin in its track. They behold society oppressed by
the weighty load of intemperance, without once of
fering the aid of the law to relieve it from its bur
den. Nay, by their own bacchanalian revels amid
the gorgeous bar rooms of the Capitol, they give the
direct influence of their example to the enemy who
is now bringing upon the country unnumbered ills,
: If a village or community should crave of them an
J exemption from the curse of a rumshop, their peti
■ tion is totally disregarded or coldly neglected until it
iis too late. Such is the position of affairs, which now
exists in our State; a position which should shame
every free man, grieve every lover of his country. —
But wo can never hope for better things nntil cur
people become more circumspect in the choice of
their ruler?. We must have those who seek net of
fice for “the loaves and fishes,” who are willing to
; immolate the idols of their ambition p.t the altars of
: their country, who would yield up ever}’ fond hope,
j every long cherished prejudice, at the voice of Duty,
j With such rulers, we might hope to blot out the foul
| tain which has long rested on the escutcheon of
; our State. Then might Georgia, already great in
| her political influence, and her spirit of improvement,
! be pre-eminently great in the peace and happiness
I of her citizens.
Taking Temperance Papers.
Some persons when urged to take Temperance Pa
pers, reply (hat there is no need oftheir taking them,
as they are sound Temperance men, and always give
the cause their support and influence. Onr Pear
Sirs, this is a good reason why you should endeavor
to sustain the Organs of this cause. True, it is tho
intemperate whom they are designed to benefit; but
they would yield a meagre support to a Paper at war
with their follies and appetites. It is through the
instrumentality of its friends alone, that the Temper
ance Press must hope to be efficient as a worker of
good. Ihe friends of Temperance must patronfee
their own papers, must identify their interest with
them, and labor to enlarge their sphere of action and
increase their influence. Our arms and stores must
be prepared in Italy, if we would carry the war into
Africa.
Charge of Judge Haines.
•The following i s an extract from the Charge given
bv Judge Haines, to the Brand Jury, of Kssex coun
ty, N.W ould that every Judge throughout the
country would speak the same, in sentiment, to eve
ry Brand Jury thereafter impanncled under their ju
risdiction; for in them is vested unlimited influence
in accomplishing the ends aimed at by reform organ
izations. Let them charge it heavily, and manfully
Irotn the bench, and the liquor demon will become
aghast as he sees Ins “strong support&rg” turning
against them. The Judge said,
“It was their duty to enquire into the cww of
crime as well as to provide for its punishment, and
called particular nttent’on to the illegal traffic in in
toxicating liquors as one of the great incentives to
criminal deeds. It is said that there are now in this
city some five hundred grogerics, not one of which
has license to pursue the traffic. It is useless for the
Courts to restrain the traffic, or for the city authori
ties to prohibit it, if these violators of law and de- j
eency are permitted to go unpunished and unrebuk- i
ad, H urged the Grand Jury to enquire particular?
ly into this matter, and to do all in its power to break
up and destroy the unrighteous business, which has
given crime such an impetus in our midst. Ife gta
ted incidentally that there are how some fifty-five
persons in confinement, on charges ranging in enor
mity from murder down to petty assaults, and a
great proportion of the offences were doubtless at
tributable to the liquor traffic.”
Go to Kansas ! 1
If 8- utherners a?-e really interested in the acquit- \
tion of Kansas as a Slave State, now is the time for
action, and wo call upon Southern patriots to rally to /
the attainment o r an object of such vital importance/
to the South. The repeal of the Missouri restrictions
by the passago of the Kansas Nebraska Bill, denied!
the right of Congress or of the States to inh ere in
the regulations of their domestic institutions, and a’l
agreed to let the national laws of emigration populate
this territory. The South preserved her pledge in
tact, and had Kansas applied for admission into the
Lnion, with a constitution prohibiting slnvcfry she
was bound by her oath to say nothing, % 8 the
North stood up to the. contract, in regard to popu
lating tho territory ? Her “Abolition Emigration Aid
Societies”throughout her various States, answer in
the negative. And how are we to counteract this
influence? Evidently by similar organizations. (_\\
wb emaxira i* Grebxb? The Kansas question i’
of vast importance to tho South.. If we lose it. we
lose much. Tho admission of California into the
Union, placed us in a minority in the Senate, and if
Kanzas Is abolitionized, Missouri will then be nearly
circumscribed by abolition States, and, ere long the
institution of slavery will bo crushed out from her
sop. The Indian territories lying south of Kansas
will be in imminent danger, and western Texas will
then be flooded by those black-hearted cohorts which
will reduce us to a hopeless minority in the Union.
But should we gain Kansas, slavery will be main
tained in Missouri, and it may ho carried
New Mexico, and southern California. It would cer
tainly he protected in the Indian territory and west
ern Texas. Bueh being the true state of affairs,
every Southerner should nerve hiu self to sris duty
in this matter. We must wake up to our interest,
for it requires open eyes and stout hearts to protect
our rights in the territories.
Let us organize an Emigration Aid Society in
Gbebne Countv.
Read the following extract from a letter of Senator
Atchison, of Missouri, to the Atlanta Examiner:
“We are in a constant state of excitement here
(Platte City.) The border ‘Ruffians’ have access to
my room day and night. The very air is full of ru
mors. We wish to keep ourselves right before the
world, and wo are provoked and aggravated beyond
sufferance. Our persons and property are not for u
moment sate; and yet we are forbid by the respect
we owe our friends elsewhere; by respect for the
cause iri which wo are engaged, to forbear. This
state of things cannot last. You are authorised to
use the vrholo or a part of what I have written; but
if Georgia intends to do anything, or can do’any
thing for us, let it be done speedily f Let xiv.r young
men come forthwith to Missouri and Kansas! Let
them come well armed, with money enough to sup
port them for twelve months, and determined to see
this thing ouC One hundred iruo men will be an
acquisition. The more, the better. I do not see
how we are to avoid civil war. Como it will.—
i wtdvo months will not elapse before war—civil war,
of the fiercest kind—will be upon ns. We are arm
ing and preparing for it. Indeed, we of the border
counties are prepared. We must have the support
of the South. Our institutions are at stake. You
far southern men are now out of the naive of tho war,
but if we fail, i. ’A ill reach vour ownUlobrs, perhaps
your hearths. W e want men-—armed men. We
want money, not for ourselves, but to support our
friends who come from a distance. [ have now in
this house, two gallant young men from Charleston
r - TKv are citizens of Kansas, and will remain
so until her destiny is fixed.
“Let your young men come on in squads as fast
as they can be raised, well armed. Wo want*one
but true men.”
Jadge Cone and the President's Message.
I he disposition to be ferever involved in conten
tions strife is indomitable in the hearts, of men. There
is within them a secret, lurking ambition urging
them onward into tho murky clouds of discord, whose
birth-place is upon the frontier of Full. Let a man
come out openly and boldly upon their side, and they
reject him. \ o have been much chagrined at hear
ing Southern men easting unkind insinuations at the
able, manly, and Southern State paper of President
Pierce. We would rejoice to seo the South lay aside
ail party differences, and unite in one solid phalanx
in opposition to those Black Republicans at the North
who are striving to wrest the Constitution from its
sphere, and to trample nndcr foot the constitutional
rights of the Slates.
M e endorse tho truly patriotic resolutions of the
lion. .Judge Cone, and can but fed confident that
they wid meet the approval of a largo portion ofsJ|e
people of our State. \Y c give the resolutions below,
with the comments of tho Savannah Republican.
Remh-cd, Sec. I. That wo have witnessed with re
gret the repeated and continued failures of tho House
of Representatives of the I nited States to elect a
Speaker.
hoc. 2. 1 hat it is the duty oftlie members of that
body, who arc opposed to the election of the section
al 1* re-esoi! candidate, to forget past differences, to
unite, to moot, to nominate, and to elect a Speaker.
See. 8. That the construction of tho Clayton Bul
wer treaty by the President is right, and according
to its plain and obvious meaning. Wc will sustain
the President. Y\ e, love peace, and earnestly desire
its continuance. W e will not avoid war, if the pro
tection of the rights and honor of the nation demand
it.
Sec. 4. 1 hat the ability with which the President,
in his late Message, has set forth the true Constitu
tional theory of the Government—tho rights of the
South in relation to the institution of Slavery—and
the aggressions of tho North, and the forbearance
and endurance of the South upon that subject, is
worthy of the Chief Magistrate of the nation. Hi*
views are sound and constitutional. They command
our assent and receive our approbation.
Sec. o. That the Secretary of the Senate make*n
copy of these resolutions to bo transmitted to the
President and to each of our Senators and Represent
atives at Washington.
Commenting on the above resolutions the editors
say:
Thev meet our cordial approval, severally ami col
lectively, and we hope that they may be brought to
ft vote at the earliest day practicable. We make no
exception in tho case of the 2d resolution. .The
fronds of the constitutional rights of the StatesX-thc
great and true issue in this controversy —should long
since have compromised all their differences and
marched up in solid columns against the Rlack Repub
lican cohorts of the North. * * *
Leaving out the wire-pullers and seconct-llwiers of
party, wo havo no doubt Judge Cone’s resolutions
will command tho approval of nine-tenths of the peo
ple of Georgia.
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