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For the Temperance Crusader. ’
Some Thoughts on Predestination,
How whimsical a thing is a man’s desti
ny 1 How variously seem contrasted its
most proximate vicissitudes, and yet how
intimately linked its furthestincidents ; by
how many anterior minute and bidden a
gencies is often irresistibly produced tbe
fast and sole ostensible cause of the, weight
iest events! How entirely is tb;e will that
seems spontaneously to urge u;a on, an un
avoidable offspring of circumstances whol
ly independent of that wil\, since prior to
the very existence of the* being whom it
sways.
if man fancies himself tbe free agent he
is not; if man regards many of his actions
as wholly spontaneous, which are the last
inevitable effects of a long series of prior
hidden causes; if man overlooks the vast,
machinery founded on the first progress of
time, and extending to the farthest limit
of spadh, by which independent of his will
all we behold unto that very will is produ
ced ; if man consents to a gratuitous re
sponsibility from which he exempts tbe
brute, and might exempt himself, it is
precisely because his intellectual organiza
tion, from being so much finer than that
even of the highest brute, is often compel
ed to volition and its consequences by a
gencies so much more complex v and mi
nute, and distant, and vet connected, that,
from that very circumstance, it is often im
possible to trace them to any particular an
terior source, and to recognize them in any
particular later effect; or, in other woros,
man only thinks himself more peculiarly
gifted with liberty than other animals, be
cause he is the more equal and general, an
unresisting slave to a greater number of
more subtle and uncontrollable surround
ing tyrants, physical and inoral. Unpos
sessed of the smallest component part of
body or of intellact, of will or of knowledge,
of sensation or of thought, which—if its
maker be really the sole Creator, mover,
and upholder of all tilings created—is not
an emanation, a part of that very Maker ;
incapable of conceiving the most” transient
desire, and performing the most trifling
action, which —if there be a single first
cause of all secondary causes or effects
whatsoever—does not proceed from tho ex
press will of that'single first, cause; una
ble to name any species of t emptation what
soever, which-if all tilings originate in one
single source—flows not in reality from
that single first source, as much as the
strength to resist, or ;he weakness that
yields. Vainglorious man, how ever cu
rionsly the impressions he receives from
external objects mav, in that strong piece
of mechanism his i rain, successively as
sume the various fin-ms of sensation, fho’r
and will, is not the less, from his last breath,
as entire a mere passive instrument in tbe
hands of Providence os the insentient plant
or the unorganized mineral: and so far
from deserving to have his bickerings with
his brother mites on this grain of sand mag
nified into an insurrection of giants against
Heaven, seems to me as fully, entitled to
credit in doiDg what is. blamed, as in of-,
footing what is praised ; would be guilty
of as flagrant an act of rebellion in declin-
ing the task of evil a-; that t*f-gcod set down
for him, and leaves Heaven itself as exclu
sively accountable for the mischiefs of the
moral world as for those of the mere phys
ical creation—for the destruction effected
by conquerors and statesmen, as for “the
havoc produced bv earthquakes, floods,
hurrieaues, famine, and pestilence. To eat.
and be eaten by each other is the lot as
signed to all the sentient inhabitants of
this unhappy globe !
It strikes me, that it’ the Omnipotent os>
daincr of the universe, who could bare
willed his works equally perfect through
out, had yet left for a time rr\v-,r and its
bitter fruits mixed with knowledge and
with bliss, this ordination might in reality
lead to ultimate joys, more intense than if
all had been unmisieff happiness from the
very beginning. Who, indeed, dared, on
matin© consideration, to doubt, without
calling in question both Almighty wisdom
and goorir.fss, that if, on this transient
stage of mere trial and probation, God min
gled weakness with strength, and darkness
with light, so far from its being for the
cruel purpose of throwing temptation in
man’s way, in*order that, he might punish
him for yielding to their veice, and find
reasons fW only saving half mankind,
■where the whole might have been blessed.
It was, in reality, only with the benevo
hmt. design of teaching all his creatures,
through dint of a few fleeting injuries and
sufferings, the eternal difference between
good and evil, ignorance and knowledge,
imperfection and endless unchanging per
fcctiong ; and thereby enabling all, in their
higher future state, to enjoy more com
pletely, through the means of unceasing
comparison, its good without evil and its
bliss without alloy.
As to partial preordination I reject it,
and do so precisely from believing in pre
ordination as a universal condition of”things
created, which admits of no deviation, how
ever trifling; from conceiving the connec
tion betweeu cause and effect, beginning
with the origin of the sensible world, to
suffer no interruption until its- end ; from
feeling assured that there is always a pre
ponderating tendency to whatever actually
takes place ; from conceiving that ovGi
where man appears to possess the great
est latitude of deliberation, motives ante
rior to, or independent of his volition, can
alone after all pot an end to bis suspense,
and determine his will; from regarding
what in human beings is most pre-emiuent
ly dignified with the name of free agency,
as after all consisting in nothing more than
the faculty of founding their choice upon
the suggestions of that experience and the
dictates of that reason, whose extent and
soundness must still depend upon extrane
ous and incidental circumstances ; and, in
fine, from considering entire free agency
(and without being entire free agency can
not subsist at all,) as an attribute wholly
inapplicable to the creature man,, incom
prehensible by human intellect, and only
appertaining to that Deity which isequall}’-
incomprehensible in all its attributes.
If by some fortunate accident, or some
greater reach of understanding, a man hap
pen’s, independent ofbny merit Or design
of his own. to have observed or have been
taught, that good is more beneficial than
evil; and thence to have through an irre
sistible impulse, conceived a desire to dif
fuse that useful discovery or doctrine, for
the purpose -of extending its desirable
fruits,, he will feel more anxious'so to do,
he will with greater zeal bend all his
forts to that purpose, if convinced that bis
own influence may in his turn irresistably
sway his neighbors mind and will, than it
persuaded that after all his toil that neigh
bor must still preserve his free agency as
undiminished as before, still feel equally
devoid as before of any superior inclina
tion to virtue, and still retain all his pris
tine power of equally taking the wrong
way as the right. H. C. M
‘ mm.
Here is a beautiful poetical Thanksgiving- or
Rain.—
“Bless God for rain, the good man said,
And wiped away a pearly tear;
That we may have our daily bread.
He drops his show ere upon us here ;
Our Father, thou who dweli’t in heaven.
We thank thee for the pearly shower;
The blessed present thou hast given
To man and beast and bird and flower.
The dusty earth, with lips apart,
Looked up where rolled the orb of fame.
As though a prayer came from its. heart
For rain to come, and lo ! it came.
’ The Indian corn, with silken plume,
And flowers with tiny pitchers fill’d,
Send up their praise of rich perfume,
For precious drops the clouds distilfJ..
The modest grass is fresh and green,
The brookld swells its song again ;
Methinks an angel’s wing is seen
In every cloud that brings us rain,
There is a rainbow in the sky,
Upon the arch where tempest trod,
God wrote it e’er the world was dry—
It is the autograph of God.
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Home.
There is a land, of every land the pride,
Beloved by Heaven o’er- ali the world beside :
Where brighter suns dispense sosvner light;
Time-tutored age, and love.-exalted youth ;
The wandering mariner, whose eye explores
The wealthiest isles, the most enchanted shores.
Views not a realm so bountiful avid fair,
Nor breathes the- spirit of a purer air;
In every clime the magnet of his soul,
Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole; ij
For in this land of Heaven’s peculiar grace,.
The heritage of nature’s noblest race,
There is a spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweater spot than all the rest.
Where man, creation’s tyrant, casts aside-
His sword and sceptre, pageantry and. pride,.
While in his softened looks benignly blend
The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friendj
Here woman reigns, tbe mother, daughter, wife* :
Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life! \
In the clear heaven of delightful eye,
An angel guard of loves and graces He,
Around her knees domestic duties meet.
Ami fireside pleasures gambol at her feet,
Where shall that land, that spot of earlh be found? {
Art thou a man ?—a patriot—took around *.
O, thou shall find, howe’er thy ‘ footsteps roam, I
Thailand thy country, and that spot tbv muu-! 1
t Tame i Moiitff&mery.
’ —4.—*
Star in a little Daughters Grown.
The Rev. Dr. D.-tutel Baker, of Texas!
gave us the following beautiful taci.:
“During a revival in , n aywot- lit
tle girl named Sarah, went home full of
what she had seen and hesru ; sitting ar.
the table with the-family* she asked her
fattier, who had been to ebnrch, but wap, a
very wicked man, whether he ever praved.
He did not like the question’, and in a ve
ry angry manner rrplied, “It is your moth
er, or vour Aunt Rally, that, pnt v*>a up to
that, my little girl.” “No p>.oh.” -v; i the
little creature, “the preacher -.a 1 -a, ill good
people pray ; and those who don't piny,
ain’t going to. iie.a* en. Pa, u<> you pv.Ty V' !
This was more than her father coaid stand,!
‘and lu a rough way, ho said. “Well, you
and your mother, and Vour Aunt SaUy
may go your wav, and l will go mine.”
“Pa,” said the ntbl© creature with sweet
simplicity, which way are you going?”—
This question pierced his hear’:. It flashed
upon him that be was in the \vay to death.
. fie'Bfcarted from bis chair, bm’yt into tears,
and immediately began to cry aloud for
mercy. Within a few days he was a hap
py convert, and it will appear in heaven.as
a star in his lifcnle daughters crow n ’of re
juicing.
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One ? s Mother.
Aroaird the idea of one’s mother the
mind clings with fond affection. It is rhe
first dear thought stamped upon our infant
hoard’, when soft and capable of receiving
most, profound impressions, and all the af
ter feedings are more or less light in com
parison. Our passionr and our wiliuliivess
may lead us from the object of one filial
love; we may become wild, headstrong’
and angry ip her counsels or opposition ;
but when death has stilled her monitory
voice, and nothing but calm memory re
mams to recapitulate her good deeds, af
fection, liken flower beaten to the ground
by a rude storm, raises up her head and
smiles amidst her tsprs. Around that idea.,
as we have said, thtrmind clings with fund
affection ; and even when the v?{flier peri
od of our -loss forcea memory t * j.>© silent,
fancy Takes the place of remembrance, and
twines the image ot our departed parent
with a garhiud of graces, aim beauties, and
virtue's which we doubt not she possessed.
Smileft and Frowns. —-Which will you
ck>—smile and make vour household happy,
or be crabbed, and make all those young
ones miserable ? The amount of happiness
you can produce is incalculable, if you show
a smiling face, a kind heart, arid speak
pleasant words. Wear a pleasant counte
nance ; let joy beam in your eyes, and love
glow on vour forehead. There is no joy like
that, which springs from a kind act or a
pleasant deed ; and yon will feel it at night
when you rest, at morning when you rise,
and through the day when about, your bus
iness.—Home Journal.
No Proof. —Asa proof of the fact that,
girls are useful articles, and that the world
could not very well get along without them,
a late writer states it ash fact, that if all
the girls were driven out of the world, in
one generation, the boys would all go out
after them.
But if all the boys went out ofTlie world
all the girls would go with them.
A Good Li tton —The Oincimm t-i Greett e
learns that * ? A young n'iM’ lrnndk'cfmh gift,"’
residing on jjs.ytfafmoiv. street, ntteni |>ted v on
last Sunday evening to sukwTe *by
swallowing p. large dose of laudlimuu.—-
Soon After taking it she need the rash adt,
told what she,had done, and ‘became ex
cecaliugly afraid site would die. A physi
cian was called in, used the stomach pump,
and yesterday the girl was"fining well, and
not only likely to recover from the effects
of .the poison, mil also fnan a love lit, that’
it seems induced the foolish attempt.
‘•Oh, JPoGtor!'’ Said she to “her -phys'i-.
cbm, “wouldn t ;t have been horrible to
ha ve. killed ’myselt f-;; s.uch, a ,stupicktellow
as •; why, when he - board-of it he. said
he. always thought i was a blamed fool !”
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A Friendly Warning.
Somebody has been prying feloniously
into the post office at Barnwell Court House,
and our incorrigible friend, the Post master,
whose reply to John Livingston, the bio
graphical underlake'i and vender of ready
made reputations, is fresh in the minds of
many deligljted readers, thus sends after the
wretch a warning :
“Seduced by the instigation of the Devil,
and regardless of your present and future
state of existence, yon commitied a deed
which will carry you to a.place : n compar
ison with which the hottest day you expe
rienced here last summer, is colder than ice.
Think upon, this ve miserable vagabonds—
meditate upon it., ye benighted ragamuffins
! —machinate upon it. ye bloody Know No
things—repent of it ye midnight assassings!
When ti e High Sheriff of inis District is
flogging you at. the Market House, ye will
repent. When you fie down to die, you
will tremble. And when the Devil, your
prime mover, shall gather you to Iris -arms,
which he surely will, and you are. •howling’
for a drop of cold water’ to quench your in
fernal parched tiiirst, and poor down your
throat a table spoonful or two of bituminous
substance, mixed with melton lead, out of
a red hot ladle, and says to you, ‘Rob a post
1 office again, will ye,’, then i would suppose
| you will think of it. My only regret is that.
; [cannot be there (temporarily) to witness
j vour struggles. Anathenm maranatha.” —
| Charleston Courier.
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A Word upon Beards.
William and Rufus shaved. Henry I. re
| sumed the beard, so long laid upon the shelf.
I Stephen had a beard, and was bearded by
| his barons ; Richard I. had a short crisp,
| close beard: Edward 1. a iong beard; Ed
ward 11. a weak beard; Henry V. fought
i at Agincourt with a clean chin; Henry VI.
wore a beard 6 ; Edward VI. shaved and so
j did Henry VII.; Henry VIII. had a wiry,
j close, bushy beard; Edward VI. died before
i iiis beard came; Charles I.’s grew dwindled
and Spanish. In Elizabeth’s, reign we have
Sbakspeare describing the cane-colored
beard, and black, while, orange, tawny, pur •
I pie, ingrain beard; the beard like a general,
and the beard like a glover’s pgaring. knife,
the hungry beard, and the beard of formal
cu l ; the soldier beard like a ■ parch and the
• coward with the beard of Hercules and
frowning Mars. Among the curious a nee-
dotes of beards, the oldest is that told of
John Mayo, a painter, at the eourfofCharles
V., whose beard was so long that he could
stand upon it; this cataract of hair he kept
tied up with ribbons to his button holes,
sometime's unfastening it at the Emperor’s
wish, opening the doors and windows that it
might blow into tbe faces of the angry cour
i tiers. Another famous beard was that of a
Bavarian Merchant, who kept it enclosed in
a velvet hag to prevent it from dragging
the ground. An old writer, ofimore grav
ity vve fear titan veracity, asserts that, the
inhabitants of Hardenburghad formerly the
sigulor custom of electing the Burgomaster
who had the longest beard and the biggest
►fool ‘Our Friend.
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Brilliant to the- Last.
A gentleman writing from Fails states
that M. Place, the French bunker, who re
cently failed for the immense amount of,six
teen million francs, gave, on the evening be
fore the grand catastrophe,-a splendid din
ner, to which were invited all the celebrities
of n certain grade upon the Bourse, togeth
er with an equal number of ladies. The
least was one of the most reciierche kind
the cost probably being not less than twen
ty-live dollars a head; and the buoyant spir
its of the liberal host, were Ihe theme ofgen
era’i admiration. When the enthusiasm was
at its height a magnificent desert was placed
upon the table, having in the centre a vase
of silver gilt, which M. Place ordered the
waiter to pass around to the ladies, as it
contained a few nuts for their ©special crack
ing. Every lady then plunged her hand
within the vase;, and drew forth whatever
chance bestowed in the shape of some rare
jewel, flie cheapest of which could not have
been worth less than sixty dollars, while
some of them were of great price. After
this delightful ceremony the generous host
took his leave amid the reilered applause of
his guests. The next day his house was si
lent and deserted, and a defalcation of six
teen millions was announced before the Tri
bunal of Commerce!’
Hall unination. —To rj years ago a weal
thy farmer named Simmonds, living near
Newburgh on the Hudson river, “had a
presentiment” that be would die on the
20th day of August, 1850. So strongly
was he impressed.with the strange idea,
that he regarded 1 1 its disease at the time
mentioned as a matter of certainty, lie
selected a .spot for his grave, bought an
iron railing to surround it, and bad a fine
toombetone and an elegant coffiu prepared
arid brought to his house. On Tuesday last
the day indicated by the “presentiment/’
he had a clergyman and an undertaker at
hand, and at 2 o’clock in the afternoon,
after having partaken, with his friends of
a hearty dinner, lie went to bed for the
purpose of yielding up the ghost. He tri
ed his best to die, but couldn’t, and was
at last obliged to confess that he had been
the slave of a ridiculous hallucination. It
is said that hundreds of people flocked to
his house to see him expire.
€]it tVmpcnmcc Crusabcr.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
Saturday Morning, October 25, 1856.
Rev. Claibom Trussell, of Atlanta, is a duly
authorized Agent for the Crusader.
Liberal Offer. 1. ■ -
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companied with the “rhino,” shall bo entitled to an
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33§P*Subscribers to tbe Crusader who choose to
haye it. discontinued at any time, will please express
their wish by a written communication, accompa
nied by the cash for all arrearages, rather than
trust it to a Postmaster. Sending numbers back, or
leaving them in the office, is t such notice of dis
continuance as the Law requires.
Senior Exhibition.
Wc had the pleasure on Friday the 17th rust., of
attending.an exhibition by members of the Senior
Class of our University. Right original speeches
were delivered, which would have been ered table,
even o;u occasions when more elaborate preparation
is expected and required. It was a source of regret
that the weather was such as to prevent a larger at
tendant*'. We are much pleased with this new
plan, and think it a decided improvement. *
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Q-reenesboro.
Our neighboring young city is surely on the high
road to fortune, it has recently been expurgated of
many impure the shape of Inrman
being*, (both white and ‘black,.’) and could a fewoth
. ers be ‘ousted’ we might then safely pronounce
Greencsboro, in point of society, one among the most
respectable, dignified and promising young cities in
all middle Georgia, We feel no hesitancy ia saying
tlDt it claims a vast number of citizens in whose
‘composition’ th o. simonpure ingredients of “m ble
nature” are found in liberal quantities; men of taienf,
‘elevated character, and social temperament-; and la
dies, both roamed and would-be-married , whom na
ture has invested with the high and charming attri
butes of womanly virtue and purity. We know the
people of Greenesboro, male and female, and vve
speak from personal kno Hedge.
The population is some twelve or fourteen ’nun
cio and, a large amount of busin ss is carried on there,
and with a little more expurgation its progress to a
brighter future would be unimpeded.
One brilliant assurance of its progress is the ex
tinction Os the “ corner Sebastopol ” —that mart for the
sale of human souls to the. powers of darkness. Wc
learn the u Little Redan” C c,avcs-ia’ on next month.
Abolish the doggeries, fellow-citizens, ami when
those cumbersome cankers of society are removed
from your midst, your young city disenthralled, will
rapidly rise in the scale of being, and it will rejoice
in contemplating its own freedom. The foetid and
miasmatic exhalations from those Woo l crimsoned
••marts breathe a death-like paralysis into the veins
and internal organism of ali cities, towns and villages.
Love.
“Love l odes the camp, the court, the grove—
And men below, and saints above.”
Tin mcftjj is not shining; nor is it the calm twi
light in which day sinks to her nightly couch. The
sweet incense of flowers is not scattered around us,
and mellifluous strains from mellow-throated song
sters fall not upon our ear. The rich*glow of sun
set, with the royal canopy of gold and purple, docs
not present visions of glory to our view. There is
nothing without to meet cor gaze but the dark mur
ky clouds, nought t fall upon the ear but the shrill
whistling of the wintry wind. Yet under all these
disadvantages we have taken our peri in hand to
wrifikof Lobe. We are not “full of our subject ;”
(Heaven forfeod we ever should be,) and before we
are through, may egregiously expose our ignorance.
For ages past, this has been almost the sole theme
of the poet and romance writer, and they have suc
ceeded : n portraying it as a passion of great power
and intensity. But it may he safely said that we
really know’ no more of the nature and essence than
was known five thousand years ago. Tn this, as in
all else, what we do know, is much mingled, nay
almost lost in what we do not. That there is a feel
ing of warm, devoted affection which might not in
appropriately be called love we all admit. But that
there is such a sentiment as that described by poets
and novelists under that name, is a tale as idle and
unfounded as the ghost stories with which impru
dent persons amused our childhood.
With these love has been ctherializ'-d until it has
become something too subtle in its nature, for such
finite, fallible erring, practical animals as we are, to
understand, far less to enjoy. lie who would ex
perience this “excruciating bliss” must, lift himself
above earth and earthly things. The fair object of
his heart’s worship is to his vision, an angelic es
sence in heavenly mould. Men and women are nev
er the subjects of his thoughts; but like Jacob
when he j urueyed to Padan Aram, he sees an
gels moving from earth to Heaven and from Ileav-
en to earth in every idle day dream. However im
probable it may seem,, these visionary notions exert
no small influence among men and is productive of
much unhappiness; for to realize such wild fancies
is clearly an impossibility.
The young man whose shoulders have been new
ly honored by ‘the toga I irills, becomes the victim
of a morbid sentimentality, and in the wiki exube
rance, cfbis fmcv, su poses himself in love. The
fond delusion seizes upon his w hole being. The
faint dawnings of hope beam upon his soul, and he
is in an ecstacy of delight. While the excitement
has sent the fevered blood coursing with rapid bounds
through his veins, he scats himself to indite a son
net to “the tond idol of his dreams” and modestly
invites the muse from her sacred hil to shape his
“rough hewn” thoughts into softly flowing rhyme.
For a few brief months, ho revels in these exhilira
ting joys, to which fancy has given birth. And then
alas! “a change comes o’er the spirit of his dream.”
He finds that he has “loved not wisely, but too
.well.” The palace, in the enchanted halls of which
he had slept, was an airy tenement, “a house not
made with hands,” as insubstantial and Heeting as
the summer cloud The golden bowl of his joys is
broke i at the fountain, and henceforth, he can do
nought but go mourning all his days, hut this soon
wears off, And becomes,a leaf in memory dry, upon
which he never looks without a blush of-shame.—
tie soon ceases to suppose himself a genius because
he is misera ie, and becomes aware that instead of
displaying the inspiration of a poet, he’has exhibited
the drolleries of a fool
Such is the species of sentimentalism which false
taste and porverted imaginations cause people to en
tertain. It is, at best, baneful in its influence. It
lays the ax<i at the -root of .the tree of happfo.s?, and
utterly, destroys many of the best, purest feeling? of
the heart. It leaves its serpent trail upon the rich
e-t blessings of life, and its effects may be traced
after, many yeans*. Over the thoughts,
prejudices, it not nfrequently exercises a’ supreme
control; over the actions we are sorry to say it ex
erts but little influence. We say sorry because at tins
day, persons of both sexes, in regard to no.’ 1 ’ mo
ny, are governed by mercenary modems oob . w-j.wh
we deem worse than the very worst form of se <i
metuality.
Prohibition—lts Legality.
One class of our opponent* however, -say, “we
grant that Prohibition would’ he productive ot
benefit; but it is unconstitutional. The Legislature
cannot grant it without transcending its powers.
This is an opinion which many able; perhaps good
men have advocated. The fact that such men have
entertained it, gives the objection an important?* it
would possess. Let U* examine-, it then
Carefully and-estimate the weight • which it is just
ly entitled.
In what r.-spect is it uneonstitntional ? -If be
said that it is so because it deprives individual:; of
certain privileges then do we say I hat all laws are
unconstitutional. For there is no law which does
not more or less cuitail individual privileges, (we
- will not say rights.) Laws, in Then* adaptation to th.e
demands of society, haw to b - general; an 1 it s
not ureasonable to suppose a case in which a man
might gain perfect justice and yet receive a positive
injury. Grant that it is She abstract right of every
man to make and sol! what ver he may choose. So
it i-s the right of every <i to murder all whom he
meets, or Ss nlany as he pleases. If (hen the good
of .society demands that he should be deprived oil T ANARUS:
right, then for the same reason- he may be denriv- J
of any or ail othlrs. Thai the liquor tr- file is an evil, j
a great evi l , which is in (he hipest degree Jars! to j
the well being of society, is a proposi’t*on which •wo
suppose every one vrfil admit to be true. r < he !-•: shj
degraded toper who could be found, vtould dohm-wi- j
edge its destructive tendencies. There isn't;;, .Rum- :
seller in all the land who will admit his vocation j
is harmful. They do not attemni to defend tff-m- !
selves on the ground that they are doing good. Such |
an idea enters not into all their arguments Titov j
admit it is wrong and injurious, but strive to ward i
off the personal blame by saying that if they did i
not do it, others would.
It is a gross and dishorwst sophism to k r esent a j
Prohibitory law as .somethin -*; without a parallel, e- - j
tirelv dissimilar to all other laws. In what do; • lh>;
difference consist ? Other laws have ifieir mi: in in
the necessity of defending a community against the
injuries which vicious individuals mav produce.—
Other laws break down and annihilate individual
rights when they conflict with the goad of society.
And other laws are strenuously opposed and ob
stinately resisted by those with whose vicious prin
ciples they are at war. Other laws too often fail in
the ends which they are designed to gain. Tin se
and many other points of similarity may be traced, !
which placed them all on precisely the same grounds.
But why need any doubts be entertained as to tt:
conititntionality of a Prohibitory Law?. Th L;
quor Traffic has long been a-subject of legislation—
every year the petty license tax is paid into the pub
lic treasury. Is there anything wrong in I his ? Why
has not every ranting, squealing, Woated-faced, sore
eyed, red nosed, jack-leg politician been railing out
against this great infringement of the people’s rights?
And if the Legislature has ihe power u> line a man
for selling liquors, has it not the power to prohibit
his selling it altogether ? Wo cannot see that an,
other inference could be drawn. Ah, lay not the
flattering unction to your soul that the law is uncon
stitutional. Fear not in Voting for it that von will
harm or injure the rights of a single man. It will
be a work of kindness, philanthropy and love ; a
work which wilt liftman from the iilthv quag mires
of degradation and, elevate him ,o the rank of a mor
al and Intellectual being. *
“Ultra 55 Men,
There arc a class of men in the world who are
al ways upon extremes. Whatever opinion they may
entertain, whatever theory they may adopt, they
seem to take a pleasure in carrying it out to ks full
est extent, and in taking a position where reason and
common sense would never advance. One form <A
this disposition, (perhaps the least blameahlc) is that
which m ist s from an inordinate self conceit. Per
sons d<> sometimes have their powers o: vision so
much impaired by gazing upon their own supposed
greatness, that they become incapable <■ freeing cor
rectly. Like the Knight of La Mancha they arc
miserably crazed ; but on one subject only. Upon
a variety of topics they can converse with elegance
and fluency. But when ,W/',h; the theme, reason
resigns her hold, imagination runs wild and they
prove themselves complete fools. Such persons dt •
serve commisseration rather than censure Which
of these feelings they elicit, depends very much upon
other characteristics.
Men are frequently ultra in their nature, not so
much from a consciousness of mental superiority, as
from a desire to appear so. Adm ration is the high
est object of their ambition, and one for which they
continually strive. They rejoice to have persons
suppose that they
“Have seen the distant tops of thoughts,
Which men of common stature never saw.' 1
Delight pervades every faculty, if by staling some
strange, unexpected paradox, they ca'l forth a look
of amazement from their hearers. This fondness for
exciting wonder, very soon cuttes them to he ex
treme in all their notions; often unreasonable.
Bigotry is another cause of ultruism. Though
the bigot wants every body to think and act in his
way, he lias no disposition to make his yoke easy
and his burden light. But ho might never run imo
extremes, were he never met by opposition.
When engaged in continued warfare with conHictiii”
opinions, bigotry exhibits itself in its worst form.
Then the obstinate bigot, in his anxiety -to avoid
anything like & compromise’ of opinion, mas into t :o
most unreasonable extremes. These persons arc
governed by prejudices, not by facts, and no argu
ment, however potent, can he brought to bear up
on them with effect. They are almost in every in
stance disliked by all who kn V v them, anu become
a reproach and a by-word among man. *
Book Table.
(iodey’s Lady Book. The November No. is adorn
ed witli the most magnificent embellishments, ft is
accompanied by a Prospectus, in which the Publish
er promises still greater improvements for the com
ing year. Surely no Monthly of ts costly finish could
be afforded for less than its subscription price $3 00
a year.
Home Magazine. Punctually on our tablo. In
addition to other tine embellishments, the Home
Magazine will hereafter contain a beautiful colored
steel fashion plate in every number. Important im
provements will be made at the commeuctm.nt of
the next volume. In the January number, Miss
~vo wnsend wilt cornu ence an original Novelette < f
great interest. Price sjvi per year.
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The Order of S, of T.
Below we give some well timed, pithy and correct
r- flections of Ueti. Carv, •••on corning the Order ofSons
of Temp. ; rr nee, and cemnuo and thorn to the attentive
perusal of all on.* re-ding temperance friends. Many
poriions of our S aii; .which were once supplied with
flourishing 3)iv sums ..am-now without any temper
ance organization whatever. V\ e frequently receive
the painful inteiinicnce tbjit Sticn and such u Divis
ion i- ibad; vc, ;i! ri -i vs deeply regret to bear of the
disconfinuancc of prosperous Division, jmd would
request <-ur tViond* • ‘Ughou. the country to stand
by the 0. and r .ml not sutler it to languish and die.
Establish new .Divisions and build up falling- one-,
10! the) are the cuasory levers by yvbich vve are to
raise our drunken lurid from its fallen, besotted es
tate.
Bread. Orff Cary on ihc Order.*’
“The imports;;::, end pro-rdnerfi position of the Or
der of the Sons of Tempera nee in the great reform,
must not be undervalued, :u?d its via ms to the con
tiuenc-* of the good nnd virtuous, sbonld be'often and
forcibly presented. No on**, familiar -with the histo
ry <-,f t! T o.p, nee reform, will question the tie
eesriiv of age. -.nd. closer bond of union, than
Rxi n.ed pr:oi ; to the c -iablishmcfit of the Order. The
\V:-i dflugtwoian-movement,, which’ immediately p.v
ceded the Order, swadoivt-l ifp. the. scattered frag,
ment>. oi j. reviou< • rg.-.wiz-= tip:is, or, rather, swept
them away. ‘lt cam- v h the force of a tornado; it
was a moral ■ crt'Vjo.ak Hut rmtfci g more.. It pre
sented no bond bid i sifopic pledg e—there were no
frau rmfi f : cs, . : oiscipikie, no oiganization worth *
the name. The ‘Washingtonian Societies* wjire d.is
integrated as rapidly as were formed. The Or
der vviis established, arnTrawidiy (lob rapidly for its
own “ood) c; fhej-ed h .* i's in closure, the better
portion. of ••-...•Trevanci uk-p, and furnished them with
V home its* :,s •. ••.’hnent. Its Division rooms,
wcekl*. meetings, offices, n galia, pass words,-find im
pvcs.'i*• eremonk*veers a.i -<Lipted to establish
. and. strengthen the brol v.vbond ; while its Grand
gn.o ISaiional Divi-sloto a ‘•persfirg aad co-operating
..with.each ‘other, ‘ y and- >:;r*;Tgh-tnt r represcjita-
Lves,,formed a comr.Jetf. and peritct unit, effective
for the pr./tection of iis nmmbersbip, uud well calcu-
I lated t > make an egg re- ive rdovcmeqt upon the
ranks f infempa’.anee... and 1;- wo:vl Has never pvy
j aentc-d a mere r fs-t institution ibv the attainment
lof a given end, and ;i r this hour it is the only one to
| which the b i -of temper/uice can look with con
! mience, to carry -forward ihetefofa>. The uncouht
fed xnuiiitudo i.f kindred Associations which have
! beer? organ : zed sin* • the Order, whether they orig
! inated in true benevolence, or to -gratify ambitious
[. spirits, Trvc only served to weaken the Son-, and
j distract am-’ divide the anny of ‘temperance. The
policy of: ultiplying S'.’cieties has been disastrous
; to the cause .f-Temperance. If there are desirable
■•. ad popular natures n otlrc-r Associations, which are
not embraced in the Sons of Temperance, thar Ordtr
was so eonatruced that its constitutions, forms, and
‘ceremonies coaid be changed every year to suit the
devrioptoent*} of the times, and tho enlarged experi
ence and constantly accumulating wisdom of its
mc-uib-.is.
if t t Order has not a com .dished all that might
b vc been ac*- oingi’shecl, .what Association has, or
Could have, done more, under the same circumstan
ce-? It is a niaiur of ;>.-ta!iisimignt that it has with
. stood so vveli tho a-vaults made upon it: and the fact
I that is to-day the yuiti temperance organization
in the world, ought to inspire every one of its mem
bership .with hope and confidence for tire future.-
Nothing but iht- protection and favor of God could
ha .e e. -aught ouv,p; and rin safety to this hour, if it
had not been that (he Lend was On our side, we,
should have ceased to exist
Hancock Fair.
f’e have i-ceehod a “Premium fast*’ for tho An*
nual Fair of the Planter’s Club oi Hancock
to be held at Sparta, on .0 ‘ 12th, 13th, 1 I til. and
TSlh days of November, next inbrth. We would
like to he itbh to lay the ID? viore oar readers, but
its great length f -rbids. Ficmiunis are offered for
almost every specic-s of human industry and ingeni
ty, and for all kind:- Offdomestic Animals. The ft 1
lowing are some pi :.he general heads.
Field Crops, Samples of I* ieffi Crops, Horses and
Mules, Cattle, Sheep, Sw hi-.*, Poultry, House De
partment, Needy YV ork, &c. y Kinbroidery, Domes
tic Manufactures. FmUs, Vegetables, Manufactures,
Mechanics, &c. Ac. Under each of these heads are
enumerated almost every no fblo varietv ol Samples
appertaining thereto, and for each and all 0! them
Picmiumsworth contending im- ai offered. The
Pis’ ■ lev’s Ciuh of Hancock s'rends second only to the
State Pair.
Any one :ii our .-uimedhitc'vicinity wishing to sec
this Premium Lis: can do so by calling in our Sane
turn.
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G-ourgia Wevirs,
| Green, tho wife of Lemuel Green, committed
Suicide on Sat m day night- last, a? the 1 ‘oweta board
ing nous?, in Golumbus, by swallowing r vial each
0. ly.uuanuth Ih. 1 oil o* clov es. Brutal treatment on
the part of her husband is said to h .ve been the
cause oi ber-tnii-i putting ;vtv end to her nvissrablo
exigence.
•Tames Pines, wh*? vas accused of murdering his
wite, stool has tr.al in Preston, Webster county, last
week, an<! was found guilty. The Court sentenced
him to be hanged on ihc rH'th of Noveoiber.
Tne Bainbridge Arc,fig suggests the name of j>r. ‘
James 0. Sei even, of Savannah, for the Presidency
ot the .nain Trunk Railroad Cmnpr.ny.
i he heard of Directors of Pic F; t Tennessee and
i .eoigia raiiroad met at tbe oiflcc- in Athens, Teim.,
on Wednesday, the Sth ms!.,* and re-organized by
re-electing Maj. C. Wal’acc, Preside.,t, and Maj. B.
C. Jackson, Score-ary and Treasurer .a-ad Superin
tendent oi Transportation.
an. Benjamin t onley and hrothir, were engaged
in bn-tang in a \velb in Athens, on the Bth inst.,
wlien an aceidental -explosion took place, killing Mr.
B. Goal y ands vcr-ly injuring his brother.’ He
leaves a wife and five ch ldreu.
> iulJjahai.- This iniul affection may be easily
pX -’-PPBeationt- of Perry Davis’ Vegeta
iam Kilicr. It is equally effectual in curing
sceius, *u;i-bs, Ac. -\uiamily should be without it.
rcr the cure of Jtyspcpma. The Oxygenated Bit
tei.-- bm tor entitled to confidence than any reme
!P ‘’ n > “ n,t Tbetr peculiar action on the system,
v vcner t!ic surprise ot those who have tried various
medicines unbout benefit.
° -- lununfir-
Payments for the Crusader.
1 “’id be 00, served that in making out our re
ceipts, those* who bare paid up to the same date are
c’ s anged togotiser, whiudi ttale h placed to tlie last
name.
o i lkrxnham \\ 1> Barksdale .J R Browning, to
J ;' n :8; V; -.j Shank and J M Huey ro Jan ’SB; W
G_- R ; ;.'*‘ TS’ Hammond, J C tffiapel J Arnold to Feb
W G Foray th, Bev J Oliver and E McWhorter to
April ’57; \V Zcig'.ar to June •’57; T \ Reid, to July
’->7; P D Dole, to Aug ’56; C II .rohnson and J A A
Giduun to Aug ‘56; J A Wilson, J P Hurt, R i'l Les
tev, V. I Tuggie, G A P Whitfield, Rev J Harris, J
Shank and A ’Shaw to Sept ’57; E Richards L B *
Fleetwood, Amanda G Hcwctt, Jit Mai 3, L Edwards,
F L Neidiinger and P, M Gilliam to Oct ’57; Mrs J
ZellftiK to Oe? 56; W P Shod Jo Nov ’67; ASJohn
*so_n $2, O P Johnson #*l, J E Bryce s3 l what office)
Vv L Martin : y sl. N B-Powell $3, Mary E Blackman
$3, H I 1 Jones sl, \Y A Burton sl, T L Stroud sl,
D W Roas $2.50.