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THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADER.
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¥6 THE VOTERS OF GREENE
COUNTY.
tt known to most of you, fellow-citizens, that.
T am a candidate to represont you in the popular
branch of the next Legislature. ITad I consulted
mv taste, inclination and comfort, I should not
have consented to run the risk of exchanging the
eoc*etx of friends and family and the endearments
of home, for the unthankful and unprofitable, but
verv responsible office of a place in the General
As**mblv. T'ut the course of my friends, influ
enced. perhaps, more by partiality than wisdom,
has bft me no room to hesitate even, much less to
oppose tbe'r wishes. I therefore enter the contest
with (I trust.) a tempera'e zeal. All T ask is a
fair fi tht If lam beaten, let it not be done bv
misrepresemati m; to correct which, is the object
of thi communication.
Put be’- re I enter upon this undo sant task,
permit me to s.n a word upon another muter.—
ft-.me obi ct to voting for me, hoc*use T labor un
der the misfortune of being a lawyer! It is hu
miliating to my County pride, to be compelled to
notice this objection. For hu ample vindication of
the int-ctitv. patriotism, and iutell gence of the
legal fraternity, it is only necessary to appeal to
the history of the noun try, from the day of ; ts colo
nial dependency —through the dokest hours of
th<* revolution—during the difficulties attendant
upm the formation and adoption of the Federal
and State Constitutions, m and through nil its sub*
*eqn§nt legislation, down to the present time.—-
liut I will not insult your intelligence, fcll.w*citi*
*ens, by attributing to any portion of you an
indiscriminate hostility to what some think proper
to csli “ lawyer-legislation.'’ It is a blow aimed
at me—as 1 believe I ahi the only lawyer who is
now a catulidnt* in the County—on account of
the rote I cast in the last Legislature for the hill
to “alter and amend the Ist see. 3rd art. of the
Constitution.” better known as the “County Court
Pill.** / ilid rote for that hill. It embraced
many other subjects besides the proposed ch nge
in the organization of the Inferior Court. Asa
whole, my judgment approved it. besides, I knew
that it would have to pass another Legislature
before it could become a part of the organic law
of the State, and thought it proper to throw it
upon the country that the people might.consider
it. Thus much in vindication of my motives.*
My present portion upon the question, renders it
unnecessary for me to back my judgment by an
argument. This brings me to tLe main object I
had in addressing you. It is extens'vely reported
that t elected, 1 am committal lo the support of
that bill. That is untrue. If T had the power to
decide the question to-day, 1 should cast tny vote
against tho charge # the organization of the Infe
rior Court. And why! Not because my judg
ment disapproves it, but because I am sabsfkd
that a large majority of the penp’e are opposed to
the change. And ol°rrntion, as well as.reason,
has taught me that it is bad policy to pass any
law, however wise ar.d salutary, agur.st the wishes
Os a free people. I therefore am opposed, for thisj
reason alone, to the passage of that feature in the
UIL
Next, it is charged, that tbe till yxaaJnrtended to j
repeal an Art passed by the- same- Legislature,
Courts* jurisdiction to SSO, inas
much as it defines their jurisdiction to extend to
sto, h** amount previously fixed by law. This
eh rge in an u ter ignorance of the rules
of, legislation. The same Legislature cannot re
ps v ore of its own laws. The truth of the case is
The Constitution'dlptu-* the of juris
4tcior of aU the .Justices* Courts.
Jadg> C ne. tb* draughtsman of this bill, intend
? to define trfot was before undefined in tbe
Crtn.fitut on and n>t to make any change in tbe
law This fail: frm the Se’ nte, whk introduced
e House and passed before the bill raising
• c in*- Hcm n f li-'-e four's. It will he a very
e e er ; o -*rit • t t p rti nos the bid,
v e is put u> i it- final parage. And of
th I Ii favor
Bu ega n. t i- charged riia I am in favor of
‘H i shin*; ’.jc Ves’ Courts’” entirely ; and some
s v bat 1 v.-t f i su b a measure last fusion.
T - r e was no such measure before the-LjrjgTs'ature,
*nd j am opt-need to any thing .of,” t|ia> kinds:—
I appeal t-- \ur sense of justice* fellow-citizens ;
sue of von as h tVc innocently, pJneed me in these
false portions—to manifest the same seal in cor
rect-ng emd* that ou Lave done in circulating it.
If there be am have willingly and intention
ally misrepresenta-I me—from such 1 cannot sx.
pect justice, nor do I ask favor. I despise their
maVyolence and defy their power
It i* due to royseli to say, tout I regret very
much the necessity which compels me to violate
tbe mbs of good taste, in. presenting to you, in
Uim address, so much of a personal character. It
it the only channel through which I can reach
you at his time. I will only add; in conclusion,
that, to any candidate competent to discharge the
duties of a legislator, it is of far less consequence
whether or net be is elected, than it Is to tbe peo
ple who here to make tbe choice and reap its fruits.
Ti oe!y rali laid down \fy tbe Fibers of tb#
Republic in selecting officers, is embraced in the
simple but comprehensive interrogatory-—“ is lie
honest —is he capable T r Judge ?ne l*j f.hjs ru'e,
and whatever rimy be yoqr judgment, f shall
cheerfully submit.
MILES W s LEWIS
August 11, 1851.
* The bill passed by a vote oT 08 to 25—of the 68
for it, 13 were lawyers and 05 belonging to other
classes; a large majority farmers ami planters.
[communicated.]
Mr. Editor: I beg leave to reply to your corres
pondents, over the signatures “Unus Pppuli” and
“A Voter,” in regard to Free Negroes in Taliaferro,
lie charges me with a positive and implied misrep
resentation in saying the adjacent counties had run
off the free negroes, and they had lodged themselves
in Taliaferro. What he means by implied misrep
resentation, I confess, as he does it, defies tny pow
ers of comprehension. I did not imply, but openly
and avowedly expressed the idea I intended to con
vey. lie does not doubt my scholarship. I will not
flatter, as he seems somewhat disposed; in candor, I
must confess, I doubt his powers of comprehension.
He says the facts of tny statement cannot be sub
stantiated ; I call upon the county citizens to correct
or corroborate the given representation of facts. I
believe there are men among us not favorable to their
removal, and they are doing all in their power to
suppress the agitation of the free negro question ;
and in most cases they are the bad men he insinu
ates from whom they receive a large degree of favor.
Would their removal not result in the general bene
fit of the people ? Are they not the instigators of
insurrection and leaders in insubordination? Then,
I ask every candid man, is it not repugnant to rea
; son and common sense, to the general maxim of law
and evidence, to tolerate freedom on the one hand
and slavery on the other, lie acknowledges they
have become a nuisance and disgrace, and their re
moval a consummation devoutly wished for by all
good citizens. Aright good fellow to confess, but
not to comprehend. lie insinuates there is no can
didate in the IF Id in opposition to their removal pro
vided it can be effected humanely and honorably;
surely the correspondent did not understand the po
sition of the candidates known to be in opposition,
when they have been heard to say, we had better
k<-ep ‘hem here than to send them to free States to
vot* against us. Fearful apprehension, Mr. Unus
Populi! I will inform you there are several free States
which wuuld not receive them where they arc known
to be as great a nuisance as they are here. I will
inform you, one of our sister States has taken action
on this subject —they are not allowed to remain in
Alabama ; if any go there, they Rre admonished
to leave in tlrrty davs, on failing to do so they are
imprisoned in the penitentiary. It cannot be that
Georgia, the empire State of the South, will go be
hind her sister States in moral and intellectual im
provements, Onewoid rnorevith Mr. UnusPopuli
of advice, to say nothing about the claims of men for
office or their impatience in demanding it, for fear
the candidates whose impatient claim he insinuates,
will be a target shot singly by a majority of the Tol
iver Rifle Do
I agree with Mr. Voter in much of what he says,
but I am not so much alarmed as he supposes, and it
is not my object to create excitement about the free
negroes in Taliaferro. The first excitement created
about free negroes w4s in the passage of the Bill pro
hibiting owners to liberate them ; the next excite
ment we had was created in our last Legislature,
when action was taken on the Bill providing for their
emancipation or voluntary return to slavery, and it
passed the House by a majority of 70 to 35. I agree
that Liquor shops have attractive powers, and par
ticularly in Crawfordville. A few years ago there
were no free negroes on the Georgia Railroad—they
arc now filling the places of whito boys, and I think
they are paid to S3O per month. They are
the great which stolen things are
conveyed. So one can loiter around and steal asgr
thing he pleases, if he can get to the Depot and meet
his free friend he need not have the slightest appre
hension of being caught. I invokp a prudent exer
cise of powfor by the next Legislature, to- rid us of
this nuisance, of which we aro so dreadfully infested,
CITIZEN,
The Royalty of Evidence;
OR THE WORLD m TBE WITNESS SOX.
Diverse as arc- the opinions of men etch of thft
same age and country about subjects apparently the
simplest aachfeast liable to misconstruction, it is no* j
to be iremddrcd nt that n universal concurrence of
manSimf in-favor of arty problem should be regarded
as (to use a lawyer's term,) & royal evidence” of its
truth. Indeed, so conclusive is this concurrence
deemed, that many theologians urge it upon the
attention of materi'aliijts j,nd skeptics as a resistless
argument iq fhvor of divinitv.
In fact upon only two propositions can we obtain
the universal concurrence of humanity; upon all
ether points and qviestions mankind have “agreed to
differ.”
In the existence of a Supreme Creator, all tribes
apr lrft'B of men coitrur. They givo him different. !
aOTibutes in accordant'? with their peculiar tastes;
but in the general belle ? that there is a God, to*y
are unanimous.
In the efficacy of Hofhrway’s Universal R.sncdres
for the cure of dis ease S fill e unanimity ex>> cs in the
opinion of the world. AU countries, tifbeg, and
races upon ear*tb employ these remedies and derive
benefit from their use. Jf illions of to whose
ears the very name of Christ has never yet been
whispered, are familiar with the properties and pow
ers o£ Belle way's external and internal rerr edies.—
Tha missionaries of health have preradec. those of
ith* Gospel ; and in numberless instances, *he phys
ical relief imparted by the former has ufatf ined and
secured favorable audience for the ovort abstract
■ and intangible blessings which the latter sought an
op”oramity to bestow.
O r readers, when they hear that Holloway’s
modicincsar employed by every people and adver
ted i,i every longuo on earth, may smile conlempt
vtously (as we did,) and think the tale a Piumbug:—
■>ut let them be convinced (as we have be it
it is nothing but the naked troth. Whe* -ever types
and printing presses exist, Professor He lloway em
ploys them to proclaim tbe sterling to- rits of hi*
remedies:—wherever they do not exist he has em
ployed accomplished interpreters, and established
special organs to make known his discoi ery; tongue*
to which the Bible is a stranger, are • loquent with
the name and fame of the great physician who ha*
scattered gifts of healing over all lands and seas.
The world is in the witness-box and gives enthu
siastic evidence in favor of Professof Holloway’s
remedies; and let those who would impugn such
testimony be cautious—for, in so doing,, by a parity
of reason, they strike at the very foundations of re
ligion and morality. The world is m the witness
box and gives its evidence tor Hollowly ‘.y-Boeton
Traitller ,
C|c Centjrance fosaber.
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The Grand Lodge of Georgia, of the Knf'hts
of Jericho will meet in the city of Atlanta, at Jf> |
o’clock, A M., on the third Tuesday in September
next. As important business is to be transacted, the*
Subordinate Lodges are earnestly requested to send j
delegates.
Ambrotypes! Ambrotypes ! j
J. J. Day, of Madison, (
has engaged Rooms in the Concert Hall, in Greenes
boro, to take Ambrd vpes during Court week in Sep
tember next. We can recormnen i Mr. Day as at
most excellent artist, and persons wishing good and l
lasting likenesses would do well to call on him du- ■
ring his stay in Greenesboro.
A Card
From Miles G. Lewis, Esq,, to the Voters of
Greene County, will be found in thix hrsue. Wo
cheerfully give it n place in our columns, because it
contains nothing throughout, which m%b* be consi
dered of a partisan or political uatore,
Isaiah A. Wilson,
A member of ffoi* Hast gradii* ■
ating class of Mercer University, i ; sr Prof® ;sor of Na
tural Sciences and the Lanjxaafges,- i'nt the Fern a 1 e
College located at Chunnenuggec, Ala. The College
is a flourishing one, and the prospects fai'r for an in
crease in pupils. Swecess and a long life of
happiness to you .friend WUse.
——- ■ •i * s
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the kindest benefactors to the entire humain Tamil}’,
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i The Goofl Samaritans
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have ac oidentally heard of the existence of our pa
per, *nd ordered a few Numbers for distribution.—
We cheerfully sen# them, and trust the Crusader
may becomo a faiß : ar household word in every fam
,.*’y of that commodity*
—* <4> .
Temperance In England.
A meeiiflgbf Clergy -
men wgfc recentfy held in Manchester to consider the
Main© Liquor Law, and concluded by declaring that
legislative prohibition of the liquor traffic Is the only
effectual irieanr for the suppression of drunkenness.
Editorial Matter.
It is strange to hear the Cru
sader c(jtnplei?fled ofa<* containing no Editorial; and
vrhw vgc hear it, we are satisfied that the one making
the clusrge is a pitiable loud-mouthed , loose-tongued
ignoramus, who can’t tell which is Editorial. It is a
sac *, which wary sent ible reader of the Crusader
kiaows, that this paper has contained in nearly every
iAStie for the last two years, almost double as much
original editonsl matte’ as any other weekly paper
lin the State—-nearly always amounting to three and
four columns. The ti.atter might not have been
good nor interesting, say nothing of that, but it
f was nevertheless, thoughts from the pen Editorial.
Dr. Crawford.
S A cofrt spondent of the Lexington
KyObmter, states Ihtat at the late Commence
ment of Georgetown C< -liege, Ky., Dr. Crawford,
formerly of Georgia, now of’Mississippi, was elected
one of its Professors. H-i states, also, that twelve
young gentlemen gyadua ted and received their Di
plomas. The compositio a and delivery of the ora
tions as a whole, we have seldom seen excelled on
such occasions. The aud tory was very large, and
order was preserved! to th e last. The catalogue of
the College exhibits s n attendance on the last year
of 170 in College- proper, and 87 in the Academic
department, makmg 257 in all—and a Faculty of
nine efficient and tales ted professors.
A Very Sweet Love letter.
The following is
a “ spe? imen brick,.” from the 200 or .300 letters
which f fiss Smith, of CUasgow, wrote to her French
lover, whom she is accused of having irwirdered.—
This 1 jtter is said to have been written to entice him
to the meeting which resulted in his death r
“ V’ hy, my beloved, did you not come to me? Oh,
belov ed, arc you ill!? Come to me, sweet one. I
wait'd and waited lor you, but you came not I
shall wait again on ywt to-morrow night, saui e hour
and arrangement. Do come sweet love—m/ own
swe it love of a ttweethcavk Cotne, beloved,, and
clasp* me to your heart; c -me, and we shall be hap
py. A kiss, fond love. Adieu, with tender cm bra
ces. Ever believe me to be your doarTri. nd.
Minx’*
N. B.—\Telearn that this Miss Madeline Smith,,
who was acquitted in Edinburgh of the charge of
poi toning her lover, had taken passage in the Asia
for York,
pSyThe next meeting of tKfe Southern Comme
rcial Convention will take place at Montgomery, Ala.,
on the second Monday in May, 1858.
jSF” The Convention to form a Stata Congtitution
will assemble in Kansas in September. The election
in that Territory for members of the Territorial Le
gislature, will take place in October.
“Pair Play,” alia* “John 0. Stokes.”
A lifts
the indefatigable newspaper scribbler writes another
article over his own signature, to the Constitutional
ist, and admits the fact that he did lie in his first piece.
He therefore establishes all we charged against him,
and hence no further notice of him on our part is
necessary. (Our statements have since been cor
roborated by prominent members of the Conven
tion.) Pity, great pity, he should hnvo given his
name to the public, for ho ought by all means to
have kept that incognito ; but wo guess ho don’t in*
tind to constitute himself reporter for any more po
litical meetings. His antecedents and present stand
ing, are such as not to give anything he might say
concerning us, or political meetings, much height,
and from our observation of politics wc guess he will
die a natural know nothing long before that politi
cal “fame of know Nothingism,” which he would
: now represent s *'dyingf
“Justice Fair Play's Assistant, is some Popshull
■ Jackass whose miserable grammar and confusion of
; words very p'ainly shows that he knows nothing of
: what he is writing about. Ho is a wretched know
nothing by nature, unable to distinguish Editorial
matter from a lottery advertisement. He is very
much in his own lirht to condemn patent medicines,
for we think he stands in need of some patent nos
: trvm. worse than any one we have yet heard from,
i. and we feelingly recommend a half-pint of M'Lands
I deadliest Verm if age, for be is evidently wormy, and
\ fatally so, if the dead-shot fails.
It is troublesome to condescend to notice the non
sense of such fellows, and we are surprised at the
Editor of the Constitutiona’ist for admitting such
pointless stuff in his paper. (Justice does not live in
Penfield.)
will not consult Stokes nor Justice either, j
as to what we publish in this paper.
The following paragraphs are taken from the
facetious reporter’s account of the Charleston May
or's Court, for the Keening Xeics:
“ Another case of rampant and intoxicated calico
was arraigned on the charge of getting tight and be
having herself in an unseemly manner on the public
j street. She seemed to be an advocate of woman’s
| eights of the Abby Folsom school, which recognizes
| the right of a woman to do whatever she pleases, in
| eluding Pope’s fallacy, that “ whatever is, i right,”
] or, which is the same, “whatever woman does is
j right.” Her doctrino was repudiated bv the cit ,
i and she was forwarded, hoops, skirts, et cetera, to
| the West End Hotel where she will be converted
from the error of her wavs.”
j “ A hardy son of Neptune was brought up on the
] charge of advocating nlien suffrage, and going to
sleep in the streets with his boots on. He excused
himself on the ground that the mosquitoes hit him
so in his room that ho could not sleep, and. ho, in
company with a comrade, who was in like manner
annoyed, left their apartment, and went into the
, street to sleep, where they found it decidedly more
cool and comfortable, and were less annoyed by ver
min. When he was brought to the guard-house the
following slip was found in his pocket, which was
doubtless written in blood with the bill of a gaily
nipper:
“In a summer’s n : ght I take my flight
To where the sailor’s doze,
And while they are slumbering sweet and sound,
I bite them on the nose.
The warm red blood that tints their checks
To me is precious dear,
For ’tis my deli ht to buzz and bite
At this reason of the year.”
Shameful Dishonesty.
Asa proof of the exten
sive adulteration of liquors f n this country, the Xew
York Sun says more port wine is drank in the Uni
ted States, in <‘nn year, than passes through the
custom-house in ten; that more champagne is con
sumed in America alone, than the whole champagne
district produces; that cognac brandy costs four
times as much in France, where it is made, as it is
retailed for in our grog-shops; and that the failure
of the whole grape crop, in Maderi*, produced no
apparent diminution in quantity, or increase in the
price of wine.— Exchange.
The rum traffic is a villainous business from the
rotting of God’s harvest bounties, to the rotting and
killing of men. A falsehood more shameless in its
history, or more widespread and infernal in its re
sults, was never tolerated.
The adulteration of liquors, is but one of the fea
tures of this giant iniquity. Entered into, and car
ried on for its gains, everything that man can love,
or cling to on earth, or hope for in lieavcn, is delib
erately sacrificed. Tho arm of the savage, dripping
with promiscuous slaughter, or holding aloft the
smoking scalp-blocks of helplessness and innocence,
is merciful con pared with that which is coolly thrust
out to grasp human hearts in its remorseless clutch,
and as years waste away, wring every fibre that can
feel, and crush every hope that can cheer.
No crime can bethought of which does not find a
legitimate parentage in the traffic. The adulteration
of liquors, is but one of the accursed progeny. It
adds to the profits of the business. The more swift
destruction of human life from such adulteration, is
of but little moment. The American throat is gulp
ing cargoes of poison, and armies of our citizens an
nually destroyed, go to enrich the thickly-soddcn
Porter’s Fields of a Christian land.
The American people seem laboring under the
curse of a fearful madness. They foster tens of
thousands of seething hells, whose brood of unnum
bered woes flow out, to leave, in every community
the charred and blackened wastes of social desola
tion. Poison—hot, wasting, dead y roisox—leaps
through our social system at every pulse-beat, in the
terrible leprosy of poverty, demoralization and mur
der; it ulcerates upon the surface, while it rots stea
dily into the very heart. The people are calm and
unmoved, while the deathly stench of fifty thousand
fresh corpses—the annual immolation—reeks in their
nostrils. If the infernal laboratory of the pit should
add a thousand-fold more deadly ingredient to the
fountain of death, a maddened race would just as
eagerly crowd and jostle to pour the compound into
their veins.
Rum dealers talk about the purity of their liquors.
It is a cheat—a lie—a bold, devilish lie. There are
no pure liquors drinked. All our wines are but the
results of drugging. Even as early as George the
IV., alcohol was so skillfully manufactured into
wines, as to deceive his practiced palate. Yt e look
with pity upon that herd of common drinkers who
swill the drugs of the adulterator, while we have
untningled -contempt for the so-called better class,
who gravely manifest their gentility in swilling drug
shop combinations-under more high-sounding brands.
Not long since, we were at a friend s dinner-table,
whore wine was freely passed to some of the -compa
ny. They were people; but their boasted wines
were not half as pure as the plebian whisky of the
highway laborer.
The adulteration of liquors, however criminal H
mty seem, or however bitterly it mey bo denounced,
is in ke< ping with the system, and will .continue
while that lasts. Men who care not fur the statut* s
of God or man, or the moral sentiment of a christ i’ n
world, will not hesitate to increase their gains by
the agency of any drug, however poisonous it may
be. And people will furnish means and stomachs to
sustain the villainous cheat.
Defoe’s Reply to Rusticus and Woodstock
The following, from the Chronicle it Sentinel, is a
capital rejoinder to the shameful and uncalled- for ,
jargon of the above blooming lads, concerning Lin- |
ton Stephens, Esq DcißJs “ comes the giraffe on j
“ Rusty ” and “ Woody’ rather badly, and it did us
goo ! to see it, for there was no nccesif.tv for am
such at tides. The charge that Mr. Stephens gav.
five hundred dollars to aid in endowing Mercer Uni
versity, for selfish, political aggrandizement, is the
littlcst thing of the whole campaign, and we ask the
author of that charge, to ponder ell the pointed
and well asked inquiry of Defoe upon this pio~ t, viz:
“ Is the rude treatment extended to this noble act of
liberality of Mr. Stephens, the encouragement the
wise and good men of this day shall receive for aid
ing the endowment of institutions of learning?'' —
That question was well-put, and embodies a volume
of wisdom and sound thought.
Mr Editor : I have just read for the lirst time, in
your paper of the sth last., two articles, one signed
“Rusticus,” and the other, “Woodstock,” which give
rise to impressions in my mind to which I am unwill
ing to refuse expression.
I .do not know who the authors of these commu
nications are. Ido not wish to know them. I have
no attack to make on them, except so far as a vindi
cation of what I esteem truth and justice may assail
them. Ido not pause to enquire whether such a
misconception of the facts was the result of a want
of intelligence, or whether it was the offspring of
personal malevolence, or, of what is scarcely loss
reprehensible, mere partisan prejudice. I repeat,
that I do not ask or care from whom, or for what
motives, I simply mean to assert that the first of
these communications is full of gross errors as to
facts, and of unjust, ungenerous and disgusting in
sinuations against the motives of a good man ; and
that the last of those communications, in either of
these respects, is no better, but, if anything, worse
than the first. And now, Mr. Editor, I will under
take to make good my assertions.
This “Rusticus” asserts that Mr. .Stephens, in his
Penfield speech, had no subject. Tins is not true.
His subject was clearly state 1, and, as I conceive, ve
ry ably discussed. Ido not know when a speech in
all its connection, from beginning to end, made a
clearer or more lasting impression upon my rnind.—
So clear does the impression still remain with mo,
that, if it were not outside the object of this com
munication, l could make now a very good report of
it, and if I thought that some of the precepts and
principles laid down in it would not be wasted upon
“Rusticus” and “Woodstock,” 1 would wilte it out
for t!v ir improvement. Rut, to return; it is not
true that Mr. Stephens had no subject. His subject
was (f do rot pretend to use his own words,) an
“enquiry into the origin or true hnsH ot the princi
ples of good government,” ands >lfowed by retlec
tions upon the evil consequences which grow cut of
a misspprt henrion of th'so principles. 1 con'd now
easily follow his course of remark upon the errors of
the times. He showed eh rly that the fanaticisms
of the North, find cs;v-rj, ly abolitionism, resulted
from an ignorance of tbi* tnse theory of government
—from tin* foolish bel es tba: they of the N >rth were
responsible to the word for flic existence of slavery
at the SoM'h. bop-vise they at tie North were the
majority in the Union that nu~* was not a govern
ment of in j> i i-s—■*-tt at the maj >ril sos of countries,
nor cf S’ab s, nor maj wines of Unit* and Stabs, had
any right to deprive th> individual of his rights. 1
retnemb r well his emphatic and <loq rent question;
Whence do you derive this r ght to govern the indi
dividu and, ami for that purpose to d< jnire him of any
right what, ver ? 11 * showed that it couid not be
derived from nature—not from the customs of the
patriarchs—> ot front the B.b'e, even; but from the
con-ent of •n< h ind vkl id, voluntary expressed in
the wii'fon Constitutions of the country.
But, Mr. Edi tor, T will ti"t tu’M‘ up your time and
space 1 cool! not. if 1 were to h?X‘ nipt, it, and > full
justice to speech. I only thus far de-igneri to
show that be had a Mihject—and I con'd show, it it
■ questioned, that, the subject, wrg ably discussed.
Tim “Rustic,us” asserts t.t Mr. Stephens pitched
in wildiv, desecrating the spit lira no'itienl harangue,
This is not true. The sneceh of Mr. Stephen* was
a calm, abV, close argument upon government, usd,
had no al’ii'-ion, not the slightest, to the politics of*
the dav. as “Hu ticu-” woo’d hate * our readers be
lieve. Tlu* speaker, und r pt-rhaj s the impression
that there woo’d !•* some such ea'-h ige hi a I as •
‘ Rusticus,” t<> u.isnnder.-'tan 1 and pervert h>s mean
ing, stated br sdly •'■nd roundly, that he lutd o al
lusion to the p ones or polities of tin- day- that his.
remarks wen- •• p}-.lic v *!e to the one pai’ty as (h*-
other, and that he had as full confidence in the pa*
triofism and integrity of the men and loaders of the
American p.oty ns in his own past'’. And just h >re
let me sav, t! fit ot,o of the most <ff cfve and now-
Crfni passages in Ids speech was th* indiscriminate 1
and severe comic on tom (.f tho men -f all parties
who would w.iifu'ly and knowingly riV -ted pervert
and evade fads and issu- sf r pvlv purposes- -men,,
who, honest in other things, in tin it dealings withj
their fdlow-men, consi b-r it no harm to connive at!
falsehood which would benefit their party, and who
would tv n applaud and <h f; nd acts ate! tr'ckS in
p-. r v and in a fellow partisan, wl-i.-h in an individu
al would be considered even by themselves, dishon
.est and mean. S rely,“Ru ticii-” and “Woodstock”
did not hear this portion of the spetch, or they
would not so a on 1 nvo violated its teachings. Or,
if they heard it, tin y consider ti it as personal to
themselves, and arc ansv<rin r nnd resenting it in
the commit dent inns to which 1 am replying.
Every step Isak •, Mr. E hior. in this communica
tion, which f desire shall I e as short as possible,
makes m - regret that 1 have not space ami time to j
notice more fully -ome of the ttipottint positions in
this speech. But ofte more poi-t will 1 slightly’ al
lude to, for I believe 1 never siw a deeper sensation
produced on an audience, especially the portion of it
compos and of ihe fathers and mothers of the church,
when bespoke of what he conceived, and 1 think
justly, to !>e a vindication of the p'etv and influence
of the church and its individual members against
sinners inst> ad of sin, criminals instead of crimes.—
Why, he asked, does every lawyer, whether Chris
tian or not, fed bound in the trial of a criminal,
whom he is and tending, to strike every church mem
ber from the pannel of jurymen? The answer he
gave ought to he roiminbeitd. it was l-e ausc the
piety and zeal of the church and its infill trial mem
bers ate directed against the sinner, and not his sin,
because there is t >o u uch of the spirit of persecu
tion—too iitt cos forgiveness and charity- too little
of the sp’rit of our master, v h , instead of rebukes
and rep?, aches to the vile wre'ch he had healed,
said “go and sin no more.” This was a point, the
justice at> l severity < f width made many w n c and
flinch. 1 ovvn up, for one, and c< nf ss that I felt
humiliated, and 1 trust, benefittc I I y the timely re
proof. Bui 1 leave the spe ch. I could not if it
w*fe n>w p ‘oper, do it justice.
One of im se correspondents snys that the speech
met a utiivei sal sentence of condemnation. This is
not the truth. 1 confess that I saw a few
and “Wood stocks,’ who wer .- mouthing out
such grumbles as these gentlemen utter; but, I am
pleased to know, that there, were many who duly ap
preciated the effort.
But, Mr, Editor, 1 have not yet touched the most
offensive and detestable features in these two com
munications : before I do so, l may say one word or
two in relat'd to myself. I am not the acknowl
edged apologist and defender of Mr. Stephe s. He
is nothing to me, except in the interest which evory
gentleman has, in not standing by silently and see
ing the ‘eelings ol anothergentleinanvvantonlv vio
lated—his motives misconstrued—his acts vilified.—!
I am not in his immediate social circle —not his off,
companion— l am not his fellow partisan—and yet,
I claim to know hm. I have met him in political,
debate—seen him otten in hard contests at the bas
—and just at this moment, my mind recurs to a con
sultation in which I met him, with our client, for the
purpose of making out an answer to a bill in equity,
in which there were some very severe charges against
our client, the defendant. As wo were progressing
with our investigation, and in making out our inves
tigation, we came to one of these hard places for our
client; Mr. Stephens put the question diiectly to
him, and asked if the allegations were true, and
when the client seemed to hesitate about a reply,
Stephens promptly said, “let us have no evasion
let us have the whole truth—keep nothing back; in
the first place, it is right to tell it all; in the second
place. I cannot do your case justice, unless I know,
before 1 go into the court house, all—the worst as
weP as the hes 1
I repeat, Mr Editor, I think I know him I have
soon bun, in the positin’ s I have referred to, tried.
And I can say, conscientiously, that l know no man
v ho has less of guile, trick, evasion, or indiscretion.
It is not his habit to meet issues or men in such dress.
He rne't.s issues and those who make them, fairly,
H id squarely. With such an estimate of his chai
se,, bo-* can I measure the contempt and disgust
with*which 1 look upon the secret insinuations of
your correspondents, that this speech was made fo|?
political elfect, and that his subscription to Mercer
University wa< made to buy Baptist votes in the se
venth district. .
It is not mv design, Mr. Editor, to involve you in
the odium which T would attach to these correspon
dents I k now that editors, to gratify correspondents’
and subscribers, admit into their columns what thev
do not, individually approve. And you will, there
fore. allow me to speak in plain language of the char
acter of the acts done by these correspondents.—
Thev nor any other rnan have the right to set down
a motive to the act of another, when a different mo
tive is manifest and professed by the author of the
act itself. Stephens is a man of large fortune—a
man of adm tted talents —a man of letters, or, as
“Rusty” would say, a “ Literary ” man; and last, not
least lie is a man of liberal and benevolent heart.—
Now’ could anything more naturally rise in the head
and heart of such a man, than that he should aid so
worthy an institution as Mercer University, when
directly and personally appealed to on t-c subject?
I say na.t; and I say more —that no just and fair
man would have looked farther or grabbled lower,
to have fund any ether motive.
But the injury does not stop here. These men,
your correspondents, have, under an assumed name,
and therefore secretly as perpetrators of the act,
emblazoned to the world through the press, insinua
tions which they would not have the face to uttci
openly to him or his friends. I make no threats;
but think you that either of these gentlemen would
face Mr. Stephens, and say to him, you, sir, openly
violated all rules of propriety, and made use of a po
sition in which you were flatteringly placed by a
liteiary society to advance your personal and politi
cal purposes! Would either of your correspondents
stand before this injured man and say, “ Sir, you
made that subscription to Mercer University, not to
aid in education, not to build up and raise higher an
already useful institution, but you did it for the ig
noble purpose of buying American Baptist votes?”
No. Rusty and Woody, vou would not dare to do
it, and yet these arc virtually charges you make,
and make covertly.
It is difficult to restrain harsh expressions of in
dignation in looking at this state of things, in which
we find the men and parties of the country. Can
party leaders and party followers never be raised
above the business of abusing opponents? Is the
rude treatment extended to this noble act of liberal
ity of Mr. Stephens the encouragement the wise and
good men of this day shall receive for aiding the
endowment of institutions of learning?
Yes, Mr. Editor, it is difficult to suppress the
thoughts, the regrets, which fill the mind at view
ing th>s act which I condemn; and at viewing, too,
the unholy pleasure it has given those who syrnpa’
thize with the perpetrators. Ilut I desist. Ido not
suppose that the perusal of this hasty communica<
tion will elicit much inquiry as to its authorship;
but have no objection to your quietly giving my
name to any one whose curiosity may induce them
to ask for it.
I am devotedly attached to the policy and princi*
pies, as I understand them, of the American party,
and am also the friend of the endowment, by private
subscriptions of the literary institutions of the State.
Depob.
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