Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 14 July 1855 — Page 1
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BENEFIEL fe ELTZROTH,
•TTAVING removed to Elston,s New Brick, at
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the head oj^gmmercial row, opposite the Post OfficeMKlrti'Campbeirs old stand, are now in receipt a&^hnir Snv-inp stock, comprising a com-
J0^tha\t Spring stock, comprising a com variety of latest styles and best fabrics, to which they respectfully ask the attention of all.
We shaft bo pleased" to seo our old friends, and gl] who may be disposed to call on us, at our new ,*tftnd, where we think we can exhibit goods, the .sight of which will sufficiently recommend them, and which wo intend to sell at the smallest profits possible. We think we can live as cheap as any •and are determined to be undersold by none, but mean that those who may favor us with their patronage, shall have goods of us as low, as they aro to bo had in town.
April 21, '55. vGn40
FAST
color'd Calicoes from 3 to 12K Pr: Ginghams, Lawns, Uernge
Nico
Summer
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Delaines,
SPRING &
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&c., from
12W to 25 cents per yard. Beautiful French Chintz an(l .Brilliantenes from ~o to 85 cents per yard. Tissues and Bcrngcp rrom 80 to o0 cents per yard.
Sliawla from $1,50 to $4.50
Plain and Sutin Straw Bonnets from 50ctsto $3,00. Bliiok and Fancy Parasols from $1,00 to $3,50. Ladies Collars and Mitts, a nico assortment, all prices.
Some very handsome Work Boxes and many other notions, at' BENEFIEL & ELTZROTirS.
April 21, 1855.
best assortment of Window and Wall Puper in town, cheaper than ever, at april 21 '55 BENEFIEL & ELTZROTH'S.
New Arrival of
SEASONABLE GOODS.
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JE. Sc I. 0. HENOCH,
ANNOUNCES
to the citizens of Crawfordsville
and vicinity, that they have brought ou the finest, cheapest, and most fashionable stock of
SUMMER
CLOTHING
ever offered in this place, and which they intend to sell lower than any other house in tho county. Wo would say those that want good goods and cheap, to give us a call and judge for themselves. Our stock consists in part of black, brown, blue frock and sack
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fine bluok and fancy Twist do. Italian Cloths do. "Lustrodo. Linnen Drillings plain and fancy do. All sorts of black and fancy Cassimcro I ants.—
Doeskin do. Italian Cloth do. Cheeked and plain Linnen do. Linen Drillings &c. Vesta of all kinds, sorts and sizes, also a good assortment of shirts white and fancy. Drawers of all kinds, Hats, Caps, Trunks, Carpet Bags, fcc., which may be obtained at their old stand on Green street, opposite tho Post Office, or on Main street opposite tho Court IIouso, which they fitted up for the accommodation of their customers who may want to trade with them and live too far off. All of tho abovo can be obtained at both of our establishments either at wholesale or retail at the very lowest cash prioao-
May 19, 1655. v6-no44-ly.
1885. F. II. FRY, 1855. HAS JUST RECEIVED A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF
SPRING & SUMMER
OFaevery
varictv and quality, which ho will bo happy to exhibit to all who may favor him
With call." lie would particularly call tho attcnlion of tho ladies to his stock of summer shoes and and gaiters, which havo been selected with great oare.
fg" A good supply of Jenkin's superior Teas, constantly on hand. F. n. FRY.
March Slst. 1S55. v6-n37tf.
Land for Sale THE following described very valuable pieco of timber land in Montgomery: ^^countv, Indiana, is for sale, namely:
From Putnam's Monthly for July. VICTOR GALBRAITH.
Under the walls of Monterey At daybreak the bugles began to play,. Victor Galbraith! In the mist of the morning damp and gray, These were the words they seemed to say "Come forth to thy death,
Victor Galbraith!"'
Forth he came with a martial tread, Firm was his step, erect his head Victor Galbraith, He whoso well tho bugle played, Could not mistake the words it said, "Come forth to thy death,
Victor Galbraith F'
lie looked at the earth, he looked at the sky, He looked at tho files of musketry, Victor Galbraith! AncThe said with a steady voice and eyo, "Take good aim I am ready io die
Thus challenges death, Victor Galbraith.
Twelve fiery tongues flashed straight and red, Sis leaden balls on their errand sped Victor Galbraith Falls to the ground, but he is not dead, His name "was not stamped on those balls of lead.
And they only seath Victor Galbraith.
Three balls are in his breast and brain, But he rises out of tho dust again, Victor Galbraith! ,--• The water he drinks has a bloody stain, "O kill mc, and put me out of my pain 1"
In liu agony prayetli Victor Galbraith.
Forth dart once more those tongues of flame, And the Bugler has died a death of shame, Victor Galbraith! His soul has gone back to whence it came, And no one answers to tho name,
When tho Sergeant saith "Victor Galbraith
Under tho walls of Monterey By night a buglo is heard to play, Victor Galbraith! Through tho mist of tho valley damp and gray The sentinels hear the sound and say "That is tho wraith
Ui "victor Galbraith!"
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half of south" west quarter of see. 34, township 20, north ran go, 5 west. Tho land is about eight miles from Crawfordsville and twenty fr^m Lafayette.
Inquire of William P. Watson, Esq., CrawfordsTillo, or of tho subscriber. JACOB LYBRAND.
LyBrand, Allamakco co., Iowa. April 7, 1555. n3Sm3.
Square Up.
ALL
THOSE knowing themselves to be indebted to mo either by noto ot book account, aro requested to call and make payment as soon as poswblo, at tho old stand: and all those having claims against mo \rill please present them, as I shall remain in this place but a few days.
Ravine disposed of mv entire stock of Boots. Shoos, «fcc., to A. P. Watson «fc Co., I would bespeak for them the patronage heretofore bestowed upon mo. L. FALJ1EY, Jr.
Haivlnjr purchased tho Mammotl
Boots, Shoss, Lather, &c., of L. Falley, 3 tend to continue in tiie same business, ai be happy to wait upon a\i his old custom] many now ones as may favor *13 with a
A. P. VYATSOI
April 21,1855.
Valuable Farm for THE undersigned offere f6r sale one fof the finest Farms in Moi\tgOing^«i»i.ty,1
.one milo north east of Waveland, and 13)£ milea "from Crawfordsville. It contains three hundred and twenty acres, two hundred of which aro under cultivation. It contains a fine orchard, em-1 tracing apples, peachos, &o. The dwelling and oat booses are ia good repair, and is suitable for a tav•rn stand for which purpose it has*becn used for a long time. A good spring of water is situated close to the huue, also a good well at the barn. For tarns apply v» the sabreriber living on tho premise*. WM. MOORE.
miles ft
May 19, lS55-t»S.
Sfentnckjr Trnat
Company
Bank.
11/1tr* now buying the notes of this bank. fV LAYMON A Co. *, Cts*ftUvill« Jan. 37th 1855. nS6
(£7-The temperance men know the priceless value of water. None can appreciate it so well as he who must go for a few hours, this parching weather, without a draught from the northern side of a cool well. Lemonade is good when a man is just tolerably dry soda doesn't afflict one much on a dusty day but above all these, give us water, cool, generous, and drippine. from an old mossy well, an oaken bucket, or a rusty gourd, and we will shout for you like a hero Should you ever bo one of a fainting band, With your brow to the sun, and your feet to the sand, I would wager the thing I'm most loath to spare. That your bacchanal chorus would never ring there.
Traverso tho desert, and then you can tell What treasures exist in the cold deep well Sink in despair on tho parched earth, And then you may reckon what water is worth.
fr^-Postmaster General Campbell was applied to recently by the Postmaster, at York, Pa., to know whether a letter containing, as was supposed, counterfeit money, could be opened at the request of the police authorities in order that the money contained therein might be identified as the same as that passed by the prisoner, and that thus further evidence might be furnished to aid in his conviction and punishment. The Postmaster General replied, emphatically, that it could not that he had no right, nor any officer under him, to open any letter until it reached the Dead Letter Office, and that this principle must be always acted upon by those in the employment of the department.
In Massachusetts. Connecticut and other states where a Prohibitory Liquor Law is in force, the sanitary condition of the people is ascertained by the amount of strong drink sold for medical purposes.— The report for June in Springfield is thus^ made in the Republican: "June was a. very sick month. Our city liquor agency sold one thousand dollars worth of spirits,' or more than twice as much as it sold in any month before."
0^7"Andrew Jackson Donelson has been endeavoring to impose himself upon the Know Nothings as the adopted son of Gen. Jackson. The fellow is an imposter, and all the honors he obtains upon such an assumption are obtained under false pretences. Donelson is not Jackson's adopted son, but an unworthy nephew of Jackson's wife. The adopted son of Gen. Jackson bears the old hero's name, inherits his principles and homestead, is an unflinching' Democrat, and is one of the boldest opponents of Know Nothingism in the Union,
is said that the blackened rascals
triio have twice destroyed the Birch Creek Reservoir in Clay county are a gang of Know Nothings, who justify their conduct upon the plea that the bondholders who own the canal are mostly "foreigners," and that therefore they have no right to hold property iu the United States.
#yThe second Great Fair of the State Agricultural Society of Illinois, will be held at Chicago during the second week in October.
Jt3F"Grace Greenwood and husband are •i8itiog with Dr. Mago, io Cleveland.
[From the Daily Louisville Tirr.es.] LOUISVILLE, June 29th, 1855. EDITORS TIMES:—The attempt by the know nothing party to re-introduce into our beloved country that abhorred practice of former times, "proscription for conscience sake," is not, I fear, realized in all its horrible consequences, even by many of the Democratic party who oppose that faction on political grounds.
That the people may be fully informed and on their guard against the fatal effects of introducing religious opinions and tests into political contests, ana giving ascendency to any religious party, I believe that the publication of the following extract from the writings of William Cobbett will be useful and appropriate. It shows conclusively that Protestants have no more right than Catholics to claim to have introduced religious liberty, and that there is fully as much "Danger in the Dark" to be feared from the midnight plottings of the night owl party, as from any other in existence. The reader will observe the course of the enactments of the British government set forth below commencing as our opponents have done, b}r exclusion from eligibility to office, and denial of the elective franchise, and going on by degrees, as the know nothings surely will, to such mild punishment as DRAWING, QUARTERING, and EMBO WELLING.
But to our extracts premising that they are correct abstracts of penal laws, which remained in full force upon the British Statute Books until about the commencement of the present century. 434. In England, this code—I, stripped the Catholic peers of their hereditary right to sit in Parliament II, It stripped the gentlemen of their right to be chosen members of the House of Commons III, It took from all the right to vote at elections and, though Magna Charta says that uo man ohall be taxed without his own consent, it doulletaxed every man who refused to abjure his religion, and thus become an apostate IV, It shut them out from all offices of power and trust, even the most insignificant V, It took from them the right of presenting to livings in the Church, though that right was given to Quakers and Jews VI, It fined them at the rate of £20 a month for keeping away from that Church, to go to which they deemed apostacy VII, It disabled them from keeping arms in their houses for their defence, from maintaining suits at law, from being guardians or executors, from practising in law or physic, from traveling live miles from their houses, and all these unrJor hoary ponnltics iu uuse of disobedience VIII, If a married woman kept away from Church, she forfeited two-.thirds of her dower, she, could not be executrix to her husband, and might, during her husband's life-time, be imprisoned, unless ransomed by him at £10 a month IX, It enabled any four justices of the peace, in case a man had been convicted of not going to Church, to call him before them, to compel him to abjure his religion, or, if he refused, to sentence him to BANISHMENT FOR LIFE, (without judge or jury), and if he returned, he was to SUFFER DEATH X, It enabled any two justices of the peace to call before them, without any information, any man, that they choose, above sixteen years, and if any such man refused to abjure the Cath-1 olic religion, and continued in his refusal for six months, he was rendered incapable 1 of possessing land and any land, the pos-1 session of which might belong to him, came into the possession of the next Protestant. heir, who was not obliged to account for any profits XI, It made such man incapa-1 ble of purchasing lands, and all contracts made by him or for him, were null and void XII, It imposed a fine of £10 a month for employing a Catholic schoolmaster in a private family, and £2 a day on the schoolmaster so employed XIII, It imposed £100 fine for sending a child to a Catholic foreign school, and the child s9 sent was disabled from ever inheriting, purchasing or enjoying lands, or pruGts, goods, legacies, or suras of money XIV, It punished the saying of mass by a fine of £120, and the hearing of mass with a fine of £60, XV, Any Catholic priest who returned from beyond the seas, and who did not abjure his religion in three days afterwards, and also any person who returned to the Catholic faith, or procured another to return to it, this merciless, this sanguinary code punished with HANGING, RIPPING OUT OF BOWELS, and QUARTERING 43."). In Ireland the code was still more ferocious, more hideously bloody for, in the first place, all the cruelties of the English code had, as the work of a few hours, a few strokes of the pen, in one single act, been inflicted on unhappy Ireland and then, IN ADDITION, the Irish code contained, amongst many other violations of all the laws of justice and humanity, the following twenty most savage punishments:—
I. A Catholic school master, private or public, or even usher to a Protestant, was punished with imprisonment, banishment, and finally as a felon.
II. The Catholic clergy were not allowed lo*bc in the country, without being registered and kept as a sort of prisoners at large, and rewards were given, (out of the revenue raised in part on the Catholics,) for discovering them, 501, for an archbishop, or bishop, 2(£. for a priest, and 10£ for a schoolmaster or usher.
III. Any two justices of the peace might call before them any Catholic, order him to declare, on oath, where arid when he
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heard mass, who were present, and the name and residence of any priest or school master that he might know of and, if he refused to obey this inhuman inquisition, they had power to condemn him, (without judge or jury,) to A TEAR'S IMPRISONMENT IN A FELON'S GOAL, or to pay 20/.
IV. No Catholic could purchase any manors, nor even hold under a lease for more than thirty-one years.
V. Any Protestant, if he suspected any one of holding property IN TRUST for a Catholic, or of being concerned in any sale, lease, mortgage, or any other contracts for a Catholic any Protestant thus suspecting, might file a bill against the suspected trustee, and take the estate, or property from him.
VI. Any Protestant seeing a Catholic tenant of a farm, the produce of which farm exceeded the amount of the rent by more than one third, might DISPOSSESS THE CATIICLTC, AND ENTER ON THE LEASE IN HIS STEAD.
VII. Any Protestant seeing a Catholic with a horse WORTH MORE THAN FIVE POUNDS, might take the horse away from him upon TENDERING mil FIVE POUNDS.
VIII. In order to prevent the smallest chance of justice in these and similar cases, none but KNOWN PROTESTANTS were to bo JURYMEN in the trial of any such cases.
IX. Horses of Catholics might be seized for the use of the militia and, besides this, Catholics were compelled to PAY DOUBLE towards the militia.
X. Merchants, whose ships and goods might be taken by privateers, during a war with a CATHOLIC PRINCE, were to be compensated for their losses by a levy on tlie goods and lands of Catholics only though, mind, Catholics were, at the same time, IMPRESSED, and compelled to shed their blood in the war against that same Catholic Prince. P."
XI. Property of a Protestant, whose heirs at law were Catholics, was to go to the nearest Protestant relation, just the same as if the Catholic heirs had been dead, though the property might be entailed on them.
XII. If there were no Protestant heirt] then, in order co break up all Catholic families, the entail and all heirship were set aside, and the property was divided, share and share alike, amongst all the Catholic heirs.
XIII. If a Protestant had an estate in! Ireland, he was forbidden to marry a Cath-1 olic, in or out of Ireland. I
XIV. All marriages between Protestants and Catholics were annulled, though many children might have proceeded from them.'
XV. Every priest who celebrated a mar-1 riage between a Catholic and a Protestant,! or between two Protestants, was condemried to be hanged.
XVI. A Catholic father could not be guardian to, or have the custody of his own child, if the child, however young, pretended to be a Protestant but the child was TAKEN FROM ITS OWN FATHER, and put into the custody of a Protestant relation.
XVII. If any child of a Catholic became a Protestant, the parent was to be instantly summoned, and to be made to declare upon oath, the full value of his or her property: of all sorts, and then the Chancery was to make SUCH DISTRIBUTION* OF THE PROPERTY AS IT THOUGHT FIT. I
XVIII. "Wives be obedient unto your own husbands," says the great Apostle.— "Wives be DISOBEDIENT to them," said this horrid code for if the wife of a Catholic chose to turn PROTESTANT, it set aside the will of the husband, and made her a participator in all his possessions, in spite of him, however immoral, however bad a wife or bad a mother she might have been.
XIX. "Honor thy father and thy moth-: er, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."— "DISHONOR them," said this savage code for, if any one of the sons of a Catholic father became a Protestant, this son was to possess all the father had, and the father could not sell, could not mortgage, could not leave legacies, or portions, out of his estate, by whatever title he might hold it, even though it may have been the fruit of his own toil.
XX. Lastly (of this SCORE, but this is only a PART,) "the Church, as by law established," was in here great indulgence, pleased not only to open her doors, but to award, (out of the taxes), thirty pounds a year for life to any Catholic priest, who would ABJURE HIS RELIGION, AND DECLARE ms
BELIEF IN HERS
436. Englishmen, is their a man, a single man, bearing that name, whose biood will not chill at this recital who, when he reflects that these barbaraties were inflicted on men, because, and only becau.-e, they adhered with fidelity to the faith of their and our fathers to the faith of ALFRED, the founder of our nation to the faith of the authors of Magna Charta, and all of those venerable institutions of which we so justly boast who, when he thus reflects, and when he, being, as I am, a Protestant of the Church of England, further reflects, that all these cruelties were inflicted for the avowed purpose of giving and preserving predominance to that Church, will not, with me, not only feel deep sorrow and shame for the past, but heartily join me in best endeavors to cause justice to be done to the sufferers for the time to come? [History of the Reformation, Vol. I. p. 287-290.
I trust that those old line Democrats who hare suffered themselves to be inveigled
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into this dark lantern faction which has usurped the hallowed name of "American" will ponder on the above and ask themselves if they are willing to see stu-h enactments upon our Statute Books, and such punishments for worshipping God conscientiously in our country. The writer of this is like William Cobbetf, no Catholic, but like him and every honest man a hater of tyranny and a lover of FAIR PLAY.
THUTII WELL STATED. We print to-day the main portion of a letter of Professor Longstreet, and desire to call the particular attention of our readers to it, as a bold and manly exposition of the infamous and corrupting tendencies of know nothingism.
Professor Longstreet is one of the most eloquent and popular divines in the southwestern States, and has long been considered the head of the Methodist Church in that section of the country. lie exposes with a bold and masterly hand the awful consequences that muse evidently follow the success of this God-defving, infidel combination. "In July List, I had just heard of a new organization iu the country—secret in its movements, and going under the name cf know nothings. Its principles I understood to be opposition to Catholics and foreigners, to be planned in the dark, strengthened by oaths, and manifested at the bal-iot-bux. It filled me with alarm.
I saw in it the elements of rapid expansion and awful explosion. I exhibited tliein to the class that graduated in that month, and forewarned them to have nothing to do with it. Had I been inspired, I could hardly have foreshadowed its history more accurately than I did. Of my prediction, nothing remains to be fulfilled but the outpouring of more blaod. My forecast in relation to it ought to insure respect for my judgement, in and about Oxford at least but it is the very forecast which is raising a buzz of discontent against me in this vicinity now. This is the sin which brought out against mc the recondite presses which I have named above. It is called "dabbling in politics but its true name is "Unpalatable Truth." This is the sin for which I am soon perchance to be sacrificed. They that stoned the prophets of old are yet alive, and why should I expect a better fate than theirs? Well, I do not know that a better use could be made of my old carcass than the offering of it upon the altar of this "American" Baal. An incense might arise from it that would do faore to purify the Church and the iState from this modern abomination than anything which can emanate from my poor, frost-covered brain. The public has now the sum total of my political sins, public and private. I shall speak at large of the new order in an appeal to my Church at some future day, I may be allowed to do so, I am committed against it, and 1 shall oppose it forever— not in the class room, but every where else not as a partizan, but as a Christian. This the patrons of the university should know For all the honors and emoluments of earth I could not be induced to assume a position of neutrality in regard to it. If ail experience be not a falsehood, anil all history a fable, it will throw this country into ceaseless convulsions if it be not crushed, and that speedily.
In my view every man who has a scruple's influence should rise against it—now, immediately, ere it be forever too late. Indeed it allows no neutrality. With its professed Americanism it assumes an absolute dictatorship. It will allow no man to question its purity or its policy. It gathers within its pale men of dignity, talent, and piety, preachers and teachers, and with them the most depraved, abandoned, desperate, God defying sinners upon earth binds them by oaths in bonds of fellowship, and sets them all to work in politics, and nothing but politics. I find a Christian brother among them I read II Cor. vi, 13 and on, and I implore hirn to come out from such connections and it addresses me in tones of despotic authority on this wise:—"Sir, my name is Politics you area clergj-man, and clergyman should have nothing to do with politics!" "Right," cries my brother "old man you'll ruin yourself if you meddle with politics?" I say to him, "Your oaths are against the laws of God and your Church." "Sir," it responds, "do you thus denounce the pious of my order?— Have you no respect for the Church or your place?" I denounce the sinners of the band and the saints reprove me. I reprove the saints, and the sinners denounce me The saint shields the sinner, and the sinner the saint. If such a combination is not enough to make the Church and State both shudder, I know not what would.
On me the new order bears with intolera-. ble pressure. It rises before me like a ghost or Iianquo at my every step in the pathway of duty.
I am a preacher. If I preach upon the sanctity of oaths, it regards itself insulted, and attacks me accordingly. If I preach to Christians to come out from the wicked, it insults me for assailing know nothings.— If I preach that the love of Christ is not bounded by ihe State lines, it charges me with attacking the article of its creed against foreigners.
I am a teacher. If I teach that unlawful promises are not binding, I shall be charged with justifying the exposure of knov nothing secrets. If I set the lesson
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to my pupils wherein J. B. Say says that every accession of a man to a country is aii accession of treasure, I am to be published to the world, as indoctrinating my pupils id know nothing politics. As I am ever to bo gored by this young mad bull, I had *8 well take it by the horn at once. Let the order keep its hands off me,- the church, and the constitution, and I will never disturb it but when it creeps from its den under the name of politics, with one arm around a Methodist preacher, and the other round the desperate demagogue and introduces them to me as united by triple oaths in indissoluble bands of wedlock, I shall not stop to inquire whether its name suits its character, or what the delicacies of my calling demand of me, butundermy Christian impulses of horror, I will pronounce the union adulterous by the prior espousal of the one, and the utter prostitution of the other. I will warn the first, by the shade of Wesley, to return to his first love ere his candlestick be removed out of its place and I will warn the other by the shade of Washington, to repent and return to the principles of that great man, ere he maku republicanism a stench in the nostrils of all true patriots. And if they heed me not, I will, with God's help, drive them out of the land, though it cost me my life to do it.—*' When it, throws its lasso ipto my lecture-, room and drags from it to its cave one of my foster-children, and there indoctrinates him in random swearing, disorganizing plots, religious persecution, and shocking ethics, I shall not stop to consult the dignities of phrase or place, or to segregate its holy from its vile but, from the instincts of my nature. I will cry aloud "Thou doub-le-faced monster, spare the young!—For God's sake spare the young 1 have taught them frankness, openness, independence of thoughu and action, modesty, prudence, reverence for age, arid courtesy to all. Do not, I implore you, substitute for this leaching your cavern tactics, your bandit-like oaths, and signs, and grips, and pass-words and nonsensical forms. Teach them not to' sunder all other ties from those of the know nothings. Throw one sacred element into your combustible Combination that shall prevent it from setting fire to our schools and colleges." XMississippiatis, fathers, Whig fathers—know nothing fathers—picture to yourselves your son, not yet out of his teens, standing amidst a motley group gathered from every grade of society, with one hand 011 the left breast and the other up bearing the flag of his country, while some wretch, porhancc from the sinks of society, fetters him with oaths, which are to seal his independence, freedom of speech, freedom of action, and freedom of suffrage forever!
If this does not drive Christians out of tho order, welcome be they to their religion If this does not unite every father oh solid phalanx against it, let no man cover a place in a school or college in Mississippi. Yea, verily, I am in my "dottage," I am a raving madman, or the Church and State are 011 the high road to ruin. Such i9 the order of which I may not speak at all, or only in court phrase!
Now, gentlemen editors, and know nothings, vou have something sensible and tangible to harp upon without resorting to rumor. I am against you for life. You peek at me as though you supposed it would dictress ir.e sorely to loose my place, you are mistaken,
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I was twice-on the point
of resigning it, but by earnest entreaty was induced to retain it. IJe assured, gentlemen, after filling five chairs for five years, and performing duties enough to wear out most men in that time, it will not cost me a sigh to relinquish it. Never will I hold it upon condition that I must treat knoir nothingism with res.pect.
Nations like men run mad at times, and nothing but time and blood-letting can cure them. Still, while there is hope, all good men should strive to relieve them. My course is taken—carefully, thoughtfully, prayerfully taken. I am no Catholic.— Put Methodi-m and Romanism on the field of fair argument, and I will stake my all upon the issue but I am not.'uch a coward as to flee the field of honorable warfare for savage and bush fighting, or such a fool asto believe that a man's religion is to be reformed by harassing his person. Nor am I quite so blind as not to see that when the work of crushing churches is begun in the country, it is not going to stop with the overthrow of one. All Protestantism almost will be against me—two thirds of my own church, I judge, will be against me," the trustees wiil be alarmed for the interest of the college, my colleagues of the faculty will be uneasy, my best friends will be pained but I have an abiding confidence that nothing will be lost by my course in the end. It will be madness in men to withdraw their sons from the able teaching of my colleagues for my fault—to attack the college to injure me but these are days of madness and this is the way in which obnoxious professors are commonly attacked. Be it so. I have done ray duty, and leave the consequences with God. And here I sign my name to what I deem tha best legacy that I could leave to my children—a record proof that neither place, nor policy, nor temporal interest, nor friendships, nor church, nor threatening storms from every quarter could move their father for an instant from principle, or awe him into silence when the cause of God and his country required him to speak.
AUGUSTUS B. LONGSTREET.