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p’CHLISIiED BY REQLKRT.]
I’m ?i pilgrim and I’m q strapgqr
| car, tarry, I can uiry but a night,
Do not detain rne, for I am going
To where the streamlets are overflowing
Chorus.] I’m a pilgrim and I’m a stranger.
I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.
Where the sunbeams are ever glofioqs,
i am longing, I longing for the sight
Within a country unknown and dreary,
I’ve been wandering, forlorn and weary.
I’m a pilgrim Ac., Ac.
Os that country to which I am going,
My redeemer, my redeemer so the light
Inhere is uq sorrow, nor any sighing,’
There so no sin there, nor any dying.
a pilgrim, tic.
—-
How the Birds are treated in Japan.
Very kindly. They are never killed for sport,
and little troughs are scooped out in the tomb
stones, which the priests fill every morning w'th
fresh water for their drink. During the stay cf
Cevnmodore Perry’s ships, a number cf officers
etaited one day’ to go Vanning. ’ A* soon na the
Japanese saw the cruel murder of their bird*, they
went to the commodore, and begged him to put
a stop to such conduct. Tiiere was no more bird
shooting in Japan by American officers after tint:
and when the treaty between the two countries
was concluded, one condition of it was, tba( the
birds should always pa protected.
Take care of the birds. That is what the farm
er* sav \ye must do in this country. E n l ess vve
do, good-bye to fruit, for t!;e insects will get the
Upper hand of us, and eat It up. Let the birds
live and they will not only cheer us by their beau
ty and their songs, but destroy the insects and
preserve our fruit.
Symptoms of First Lore. —When you find Master
Jack suddenly refuse one morning to play marbles
any more forever—-be sure that Master Jack is seiz
ed v ? lih his first love.
Wheq you find in Master .Jack's bedroom sundry
looking bottles with a yellow bear in a blue foreet
OU foe label,—which {the label not the bear) informs
you that the contents of the bottle is art onguent
that make; the moustaches grow—you may be sure
Master Jack is seized with his first love.
If you find Master Jack no longer pays that at
tention to the solids of the dinner-table which he
was wont to do, and there is no other cause, be
sure it is an attack of his first love that occasions it.
If Jack becomes, satirical r r nd allqcfos in scornful
term s to the world, be sure Jack’s first love has just
jjjprtVutetj.
if you find a pocket edition of Myron anywhere
abCnt Jack’s clothes, be sure Jack’s far gone in his
first love.
If you find a pair of patent leathers coming home
from your shoemaker's on Saturday afternoon, and
can’t remember ordering them and they don’t fit
anybody nuT him, forst love’s
responsible,, 1 :
• If you see Jack's finger ends rather inky, and
scraps of an Acrostic anyw here’ around, be assured
that first love has caused the spoiling of some good
stafionary. - 1
■ Finally, if Jack is sobering from first.love, don’t,
be'hard on “thelpdor ieliow, and above all, don’t meet
the ftfHHphiTlt with too’ steong remcdj.es, lest it strike
fn, and Jtek “strike Out frdm parental aulb rity.—
Lirst love is li|e ‘the whqdpiug must all
nave it, and it w best to catch it young.
COMM UNIC ATI ONS.
For tho i.’. arrvdfr.
“Much Ado About Nothing”
* V JBSKT WOODBINK.
In a large, old fashioned country summer house,
in one of the “up-stairs rooms,” sat fire young
ladies, one crimping ruffles, another arranging ar
tificial flowers, and so on. They were surround
ed by numerous boxo*, and pin cushions—bolts of
ribbon, wrap* of lace, and other “feminine fix
ins/’ as some crusty old bachelor nays, mb may be
expected, their tongues went a great deal faster
than their fingers, hut their conversation was of a
rambling nature, and not well calculated to edify
the reader inasmuch as It flew from “ducks of
bonnets,” and “love of talmas” to beaus who eith
er had “exquiait mustaches” or “jewels of eyes.”
Miss Kitty Lovelace the youngest, and merriest
of the party began to yawn, and express other
symptoms of laziness.
“Dear me ! Julia Casey” she said to her next
door neighbor, or rather the young lady who sat
nearest her. “11! fall asleep in my chair unices
you quit talking about that “Don Whlskerando,”
John Tompkins—we are all posted up as to his
perfections, and you Mollie Water, hush talking
about your sisters bridal hat we all know, or have
heard you soy it was thp “most magnificent thing
under the sun, 1 * a thousand times.”
Miss Kitty was a privileged character, and so
her remarks only caused a general laugh.
“Now that’s worse than ever” pouted the spoil
ed lieauty, “I didn’t say anything witty. C*cilia
you nr® “in authority” -do keep girls quiet”
“1 yute“ suit) Lup Talmadge, a thin girl with
long ringlets and insipid blue eyes, “that Cecilia
gives us an account of all her flirtutions up to the
time when she met Mr. Warner, and concluded to
be Mrs. Warner.”
“Good,” echoed Kitty* Lovelace, “f think as
wp all arq working qn yopr bridal finery Miss
Cecilia, you might favor ps, and keep us awake.
Cecilia Gy.ey thus appaled to, fiiqffitfo a little
—-threw buck a truant ringlet from her brow, and I
began,
‘‘Well girls, do let me thread iny needle first—
lam in a dreadful hurry about this skirt, thp
mantna-tqaker will the Yfgqst before I
finish it",
“What do yop want witfi so rjjapy clothae?”
said Miss Kitty. “One would take this house to
be a Charitable Institution, and fancy we were all
making dry-goods to distribute among the poor.
Begin with your story.”
“Well.”
•‘OhDpshal don’t say well any more,” cried
Kilty, “go op.”
“Well, 1 v ,:rt.” Kitty laughed.
“ Then to begin at the beginning. I have been
quite a belle in my day.”
“< >b, vanity where is thy blush !” said Kitty in
a stage w hisper,
“It is a fact Kitty,” continued Cecilia “and you
need not laugh. I had a very pretty face, at least
my lovers said so, and of qoufsp foyers always tell
tlje truth. Besides I had “expectations” and that
goes a considerab’e way with disinterested ad
mirers.”
“Leave out the moralizing and pnieeed with
the flirtations,” interrupted Kitty again.
“My first cqjfqire iu caeur came off- in my sis
toenth year, I met an interesting young fellow on
the cars when returning from school. He. paid a
vast deal of respect to my baggage—overhauled
my trunks, and counted them at every depot, and
ran hack to tell me none were missing. As we
traveled two days together, we became very good
! friends. At least I admired bis foot which was
enclosed in a neat gaiter, and thought Iris eves
• divide— tlmy wi,w “darkly, deeply, beautifully
j blue.” He on the other hand fell quite in love
| with a boquet 1 was bringinghome to mv mother,
and in a fit of mental aberration transferred it to
the button-hole of his vest. I was too much cap
| livated to say anything, and of course he kept it
, I am sqre I felt sad qhen the depot with its un
gainly buildings which was to separate us came
in view, and my voice treiqhle<] iqorp than the
j ample word “goodbye” spoken to h stranger de
j inanded.”
“Don’t get sentimental, or I’ll toll Mr. Warner,”
said Kitty.
“But he hinted mysteriously about mv “hear
ing from him again,” and waved the stolen flow
ers tc. me as the ear departed.”
“How very romantic” exclaimed Lue Talmadge
in lier sleepy voice, drawing back hor hand.
“Don’t stick your needle iu my face Lue,” said
Julia Casey, “you are so awkward.”
“Where did I leave off?” began Cccifin, “Qfi at
the parting. I kept relating |iis name (which
| by the way was Richard,) to myself ail the way
j home, and dreamed that night that T‘ was drown
! ing and he rescued me, then that a rival pointed
fa pistol at liiin, and X rushed between.”
I “Nobody wants to hear your silly dreams Ceci
: !ia,” cried’ Kitty, make haste, and get to the intep.
; esting part..’’
,“i put on a great many airs when I reached
I home, and turned up my nose, which has an up-
PENFIELD, GA„ THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1857.
waYd tendency anyhow, at the rustic lovers who
flocked around me nt the pic-nios, and fishing par
ties. Old Mrs. Cole said I was “a proud stuck-up
thing- sever T,d hen North,” arid advised Ma to set
me to work, which advice, I am happy to say, was
not taken.”
| “But the lover” said Mollie Waters, “toll us
| about the lover, it reminds me so much of an ad-
I venture I had last Summer on the stage I —”
“Shut up Mollie,” said Kitty. “We all know
all about yottr adventures. Do go on Cecilia.”
“In a few weeks I received a note in a pink en
velope with a quaint little motto.”
lie didn’t put a motto on it. I hope,” screamed
Kitty.
“Y es he did, but I wish you wouldn’t interrupt
me so. I ran out in the garden, find opened the
precious missive. But as ill-luck would have it,
brother Harry, the veriest mad-cap on earth seeing
me slip off so mysteriously, to use his own classic
language “smelt a rat” He crept up behind me
—read a few words—snatched my letter, and ran
off victoriously to the house to show it to I’a. —
Y’ou may know I was frightened. But I thought
of what the Bard said,
“The course of true love never did run smoothed’
and reflected that mine was but a common lot.
after all. I I'tujw I should have to undergo tri
als, and tribufotions-perhaps escape by means of a
rope-ladder, for all my novels painted lovers as
a suffering class—persecuted most unmercifully
by divers circumstances, and parents and guardi
ans as a hard hearted nice, who stalked about!
pompously, and broke hearts as they would play- j
things. I entered the house at last like a mem
ber of the canine race who had been after forbid
den sheep, and expected to be immediately
thrust in a dungeon, and fed on bread and water.
But my father met me with a smile, and handing
jcm the letter said : “It will be time enough sev
eral years hence for you to receive such communi
: cations my child. Bqt thy next tififo you catch
a bfoiu do let it be one tv ho etVO *pel] —it does
not look well for a human being, and a nice little
girl at that to be called a deer, and I have yet to j
learn that people are angles, but I suppose the I
fellow means angel.”
This \yfo> worse than the most severe rebuke—l.
; never could bear ridicule in mv life; and <dj my!
visions of love in fi cottage faded in ft moment. —
j I did not answer the note. Poor soul I I pitied
him awhile, but piiy is nearer akin to contempt
than love, and I never could forgive him for neg
lecting- his spelling-book. I forgot to mention |
that he requested me to. send him my “dewgera-I
. type,” apa it was several hours before I found out 1
that he mqafit bkeness ”
“Isthat all?” askc-d Julia Casey.”
“I’ve had more interesting love-scrapes myself”
began Mollie Waters. “When I went to New j
Orleans to visit my aunt —”
“'Hie Hegira of yqur interrupted
Kitty iq another stage whisper.
“I became acquainted with a young Parisian
gentleman—no fie \vas a German —*’
“We know afi about that” cried Kitty sgrin.
“He serenaded you, and sang “Lone Starry
Honrs”—go on Cecilia.”
Mollie Waters pouted a little, but soon recov
ered her good humor, and listened to Cecilia.
“Why are you go anxfoyis to. pry info rav pri- !
vnte history 7 Kitty f 1 laughed Cecilia “are you a |
Magazine contributor? if so don’t publish me —j
one looks so outrageous silly in print. But I will j
gratify you, you genuine descendant of Eve, by 1
opening my meiqory liox, and drawing forth some j
j more precious relics of the past. I had a bosom ,
| friend, Lucy Man vers—we kept ope another’s se
j crets for each other —admired dm foßfo P oe fo — •
| hated Cfiffoa generally, and mischievous gossips— j
patronized the same stores; and wrote on the j
same colored note-paper. We usually consumed i
a quire each time wo wrote to each other, and ]
filled it tip with double superlatives of oqr “un- j
dying love,” Every time we met, we embraced j
vehemently; and eyery time we. parted we wept I
copiously: and it generally took us an hour to
say farewell. Prying folks may doubt the bid- >
cerity of o\;r affection, inasmuch as wo were ri
vals'; and Tom Hsuton was the happy fellow we
were trying to catch. Ho made love to us both
at the same time —that is, lie would sit between
us, and address one half of h T s sentence to Lucy,
and the other to me—when wo three vyc-.re ao un- j
fortunate as to meet, He would walk to church ,
with one hanging to each arm —talk to Lucy, and j
arrange my scarf while he was talking, or pick up |
Lucy’s handkerchief, and talk to me.’
“Which one of you did he love ?” asked Luci
Talmadge anxiously, biting oft her (broad,.
“History dpfisy.ot inform us —I always thought
he loved it e—Kitty please hand, me the wax—and •
Lucy always believed he loved her.”
“He must have been one of these detestable .
flirts,” said Mollie W her lips,—
i was hi New Orleans \ met wi% just such
a character—l
I “Y’es Mollie w'e k:no\\ T yog dkl,” cried t\itty..
1 “Ku fiivfod fftp \ l w fflad of it, and >
| yog VYUfo green after hd whs married. Go on j
j Oeciiis.”
• “Tom Hauton dallied with the Muses, and as 11
had some ambition to be called a “blue,” liefore I
met with Mr. Warner, who declared nature never
intended me for an authoress, and I have no more
talent than a cat.”
“The wretch !” cried Mollie Waters. “I am sure
you write beautifiiUy, When I was in New Orleans
I showed your “Lines to a Rose-bud,” to a friend
of mine, or rather an admirer and he said—”
“It was most exquisite nonsence as it is,"-put in
Kitty. “Go on Oecilia, and for heaven’s sake
make haste and get to the love-part, Pru awfully
sleepy.,’
“As I said before” continued the patient Cecilia
Tom was a bit of a poet. He wrote me some
lines once—stop —let me see—they began,”
“The pleasant hours we’ve spent together
Can ne’er forgotten be—”
“Fiddles icks!” cried Kitty, “skip the poetry—l
bate poetry —it always puts me in mind of
“Thirty days hath September.”
and the recollection is not pleasant, for my old
teacher used to make me stand in the middle of
the floor on one foot with a dunce-cap on my
head every day for three weeks because I couldn’t
get it right.”
“Wei! as you won’t hear the poetry I’ll have to
omit if, but I have almost forgotten what he used
to say to me in the intervals while we were read
ing “Pleasures of Hope” together. I recollect one
day just as be had fallen on his knees, either to
prick up a stray- leaf, or to make me a formal offer
of his heart, hand, and limited income, ind while
I was breathlessly awaiting the issue, and fixing
up in my mind the most polite, and fashionable
way of saying “yes I’ll have you,” Lucy came
running to us, and begged him to go immediate
ly and kill a horrid snake she had seen lying un
der the grape arbor. Tom armed himself with a
club, and Lucy clung to his anq begging him to
“be carefql aqd not get bit,” while I followed
wickedly wishing that it had bitten her slightly,
not enough to injure her of course, before she came
there to interrupt the declaration. When we
reached (he spot —you must remember it was just
at twilight, there sure enough lay something coil- j
ed up. Lucy slirfokpd, I stepped back, and Tom i
ilourfohed bis club majestically, and made a val- ;
oro.us blow. Weft ghla what do you think it i
was V x
“Can’t say,” echoed two, or three voices, “what :
was it ?”
“Why, nothing on earth luff a hoop.”
“A what scanned mollie Waters.
“.Ministers of grace defend us!” said Kittv turn
ing up the whites of her eyes. “I hope the littfo
goose didn’t bring him all the way there to wage
war with whalebone, and kill her hoop.”
“Not. hers you stupid —the crinoline was not. in ‘
vogue then—it was the property of brother Harry j
—a little hoop Ifo trundled about the yard,”
“Oh Raid the. girls iquch relieved, in a single j
breath.
“If it had not been for that unfortunate snake
affair, which was not a snake after all,” said Coi-i
----lia, picking up her spool of thread, and the thread
of hor narrative, “I might have been Mrs. llauton,
now, iustead of the promised bride of George
Warner, but “’tis belter as it is” as Othello says.
But Lucy was a skillful general and kept a sharp
lookoiff c® the enemy ; and she wisely concluded
there was danger when broad-cloth knelt to mus
lin, and planned her maneuvers accordingly—Ju
lia Caey you are actually snoring—l ‘thought I
had more attentive auditors.”
“No, I am not' 1 - sard Julia starting up, and rub
bing her eyes. “Bve kept up with you all the
time—what did your I’a say wimp he read the
letter I”
A short laugh followed this remark, which show
ed what an attentive listener Miss Julia had been,
and Cecilia concluded.
“I began to think the contest between myself, >
and Lucy was an unequal oue, sp, I tprig-ned all
claims so Tqm, aud bp*soon married a wealthy
widow from Alabama.’ 1
“Ytes, I saw them when I was in New Orleans”
said Mollie Waters, anxious to get in a word as
often as possible. “They were speuding the win
ter there—Mrs Hauton ”
“We know that too,” cried Kitty, “you told us
so last night—wait till you go there again honey,
or somewhere else, and then yoi\ will have some
thing new to ta'b about. What became of Lucy
did she die with a broken heart.”
“No, sho is still alive ; and still Lucy Manvers.”
For the Crtuudor.
Number IV.
The proceeding argument apswer of ob
jection?. cofoumod.
Accessories. —An accessor is one, who in any
way aids, assists, encourages or causes an offence
to take place or to fie cot;\rfo.tted; and Ifo is of*
ten more ptjSqfoiai, and b,ut seldom, if ever less so
than the principal offender. To illustrate, suppose
B. to shqqt C. but had no pistol or other
gun, nnff urndd po,t of hrinsed procure one. A.
knowing this, gives oy sells him a pistol, with a
knowfojge of the use Intended to be made of it,
and B then shoots C and kills hjm ; B will be
guilty of murder as principal, and A will be guil
ty as accessory, and the law will punish him unct
his principal equally. Apply the principles of this
very plain case to the subject we investigate.
That the trade or business of retailing liquors
causes every kind and degree of -iri and misery
that afflicts our people, is denied by no candid
man ; though it is authorized and licensed by the
law, without which, none dare carry it on. Many
good men seeing all this, desire to elect members
of the Legislature who will repeal the license
law', but you and your associates in polities and
morals unite to oppose the election of all those
who are in favor of the repeal, and electioneer and
vote for candidates who oppose the repeal, and
who will protect and defend the continueneo of
the liquor-shop business. By your votes, vou sup
port, the continuance of the liquorshop business,
and its work of sutund ruin gu pcrseveringlv on,
bo h day and night. We now ask you, if you do
not see, that by this course, you connect your
selves with the liquor-shop business, and make
yourselves accessories to all its evils.’’ If it were
not for your electioneering and voting as you do,
there are men who would soon put an end to all
these liquor-shop evils; but by your votes, you
support, protect and help their keepers-to continue
that business.
Are you, my brother, willing to hear a few
passages of scripture, which are applicable to your
case? We will presently quote them.
It is a rule of law, morals and religion, that a
man is presumed to know the effects and con so
quences, which usually attend the acts he per
forms; and he is also presumed to intend those
effects and consequences, as well as the principal
act, and is therefore held responsible for them. It
is on the strength of these presumptions, that the
most of criminals are made to suffer.
Upon these principles, if a man turn loose a
beast, known to be dangerous among men, a tiger
for examp’e, and it kills a man, he is held guilty
of the killing, and is punished. So if a man has
power or authority to prevent an evil, and yet per
mits it to take place, be is guilty in the sight of
heaven, and is punishable for it. As in the law
of Moses, which requires a man to be put to death,
whose ox had killed a person, be having had
knowledge of bis disposition to attack people.—
See Exodus 21: 29.
In the Case under consideration, voters know of
the evils of the liquor-shops. They know that
they are worse than road oxen and furious tigers,
their keepers carry on a work of death to the
morals, souls and bodies of men, destroying the
welfare of woman, children and whole families!
They who vote for men disjxrsed to protect and
continue this business, knowingly aid, help and
assist that continuance; and therefore are access
ories to the eviL done by them, and are partici
pants in the guilt of their doings.
In the moral government of the Almighty, he
who tempts another into transgression, or causes
another to tempt him, is as guilty, and in most
cases more so than he who yields to the tempt
ing influence and directly transgresses the law 7 .
Where there are several agents concerned ip the
work of tempting, i. makes no difference, whether
the temptation be presented by the original agent
in the work, or by some second or other subse
quent fellow worker. Consistently with this, thy
Almighty inflicted a more severe punishment up
on Satan for tempting out common Mother, and
causing io tempt Adam, than he did upon them
for yielding to the tempting influence, and actu
ally transgressing the law, For them there was
mercy and remedy, but fur Satan, we are not in
formed that any relief from the curse inflicted
was ever provided.
Satan did not violate the law given to Adam
by eating the forbidden fruit, any more my broth
ers, than you commit the murders which take
place at the liquor-shops. But he led our com
mon Mother into temptation, and thereby caused
and disposed her to tempt Adam, and they both
went into the transgression. For what he did, he
was treated as being worse than they were.—
Though many of you may not take men into liq
uor-shops. and there cause them to drink to their
own ruin, and to become prepared to ruin others;
yet, you vote for men who promise to preserve
these institutions of sin and death, and refuse to
vote for any others 1
Satan did not, (as I understand,) directly tempt
Adam, but he tempted Eve directly, and *he tempt
ed Adam. Y’ou bv voting fur the friends of the
liquor-shop and their keepers, and refusing to
vote fov any others, thereby preserve their busi
ness, and keep it up as a profitable* money ma
king monopoly. By this means you tempt or
cause men to bo tempted into- the retail liquor
trade a profitable, aud lawfol occupation, TJieee
traders tempt as many into dissipation and drunk
enness, (os a means of swelling their profits,) as
they can. Yon have made it their pecuniary in
terest to do this. Baton tempted Eve into trans
gression, and she tempted Adam, aud so they all
slued and were punished. Y'ou by the course of
your voting, tempt or cause men to bo tofoptod
to become retail liquor-sellers, they tempt
all they can into dissipation. Thus you are all
oonueeteff together in this sin, and we know of no
daw or reason why you shouldjiot all be punfolivd
together. For if the retailed fie gtfflty ter follow-
( TERMS:
1 $1 in advance) or, $2 at the end of the year,
i IJOHNH^SEAI.S
V CUOPKIETOK.
VOL. XXIII.-KUSIBER 25.
ing the business they do, then you who preserve
that business, and keep ifThvvful and profitable,
cannot ne innocent.
If you suppose God was more severe r>u Sttau
as a tempter than he wifi be. with you ;ia a tempt
er, except that you have the privilege of ’repenting,
then will your opinions be very disrCspecthji to
Him. He carries on the administration of his
Government, according to laws and principles, as
fixed as the foundation of his throne. lie pun
ishes none in malice or passion, but aecordfog to
the immutable laws of Ilis moral universe !
It would be a most horrible law that would pun
ish a man for a wrong, and allow him to escape
who had tempted him into his transgression, or
had in any way knowingly caused, supported, or
promoted the existence or continuance of the
tempting influence! God has no such inconsist
ent laws in His Government. They are all found
ed in principle, and all who violate ‘hern, or kuow
ingly cause, encourage, or even sanction any
means of temptation or influence ■tending to lead
or intice men into their violation, are in moral
principle all alike, and must expect, in the advnin
strations of God’s moral Government, to be all
treated alike. The social principles of this Gov
ernment, require men to promote the good mor
als and welfair of their race, instead of term ting
their fellows into evil, or promting men to author
ity, who provide or contrive means of tempting
them into sin and ruin! These laws He will not
permit to be trifled with, or their punishments to
be evaded, except, on condition of an honest a* and
timely repentance. But all who knowinglv trans
gress, or knowingly tempt,or by indirect and con
sequencial means caue men to be tempted into
the transgression of these laws, are equally the
proper subjects of punishment. L. R.
( To be Continued.)
for Ihe Crusader.
Office of the Gkand Sci:; > . tfo <ee- TANARUS, .
Lexington, S. O . • rr-A. >,V
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J. B. < ‘'.xea.. P. M. W. P., on too •.! ~.at
noble Son of Temperance, of Georgia.’ V. . J. s
Grisham, I\ G. W. A, were unaj:iin:*us!y adopt
ed by the Gra •• ] > vkion f .South Onroi.na at
die opening of its late April Session m Cbariestqn..
and the Grand Scribe directed to furnish the fam
ily ol the deceased. —the Grand Scribe of Georgia
and the Most YVcrthy Scribe of the National Di
vision copies of the san e. In addition, I deem
ti only due to his memory s ■_ 1.-voter! champion
of Temperance, that a cop .■ cud find a place in
the columns of vour j Mini, that all good
temperance men in your S .ate 11 ay know, that oue
so pure and noble as the lamented Lriisham, —
was loved and honored in life, and in deaiL v by->
his brethren here, and stii! jives in the a2Vtfc>nsoC*
all whose hearts throbs for the v.e i vrq o’ bis owe,
loved Carolina.
PREAMBLE.
The intelligence of the death of Joseph Gris
ham, of Georgia, P. G. W. A., of this State, and
our representative in the National Division, has un
expectedly met us at this meeting, aud we desire
to express our love for him and our regrets for h
death. He was a man -a bo never faltered in what
ever he had to do. Asa follower of the meek
and lowly Lamb of God, bo was ard-nt, active and
sincere. He showed his fer.li by fo* works ; and
it may, indeed, be truly said, “His works do fol
low him,”
Asa Temperance man, he never hesitat and. fie
went for the strongest measures of Total Abstin
ence. He was ready with his purse, his in reflect,
his body and heart, to serve the Temperance cause,
lie attended as a representative from Georgia, at
Chicago, and St. John, under bodily infirmaries
which would have confined other men to their
beds. Still he made these great journeys, and
was constantly in his place in the Division rooms,
to aid with his counsel —and direct by his exper
ience.
Iu the Hall of Palmetto Division in this city, he
last met the National Division, next June will be
two years, lie then felt that we should see his
face no more in the National Division, or in the.
Grand Division of South Carolina. Still, lie efid
uot cease to labor. His voice was still heard cheer
ing on the followers of Temperance in Georgia.—
But on the oth ulfo his work was finished, and his
Master called him home. He was sixty rix years
of age. He was originally of an iron constitution
and indomitable will. Many years of his life
(since 1836) were spnt in pain, and the injury
which he then received was silently arid painfully,
year after year, pulling down the noble structure
of his manhood, until at last he fell, and great was
the fall. He is gone! It is our duty to submit,
still wc may be permitted to say :
Resolved , That the Graud Division of South
Carolina, laments the death of Joseph Grisham as
that of a most beloved brother,
Re-nolved, That we appreciate bis de\ otiq,ns to
Love, Purity and Fidelity, and will endeavor to im
itate his glorious example.
Resolved , That we cherish his memory, and as
a slight means of doiu” it, is Ordered that his none
be inscribed on a blank of our minutes, with
a notice of his honor* as a Son of Temper .nee.
Resolve /, Tk.sA we sincerely svmpathiae wife
his bereave<\ S&mily, and would, if we could, wipe,
away tbew tears, by saying to them “finis not
dead, but sleepetb,” and will, in the last, day, shiner
with the brightness of tju sun.
Resolved , That the notice of b'.s n>i
“ti Q se resolutions be engrossed u> A sigmG l.y th.
G. W. p, and G. S., and so .led vffh ri.,- fonl -,f
of the Grnd Division, ands warded to his be
reaved companion and chi Id r,
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