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JOHN WILLIAMSON,
nor 2?tf Proprietor.
The Cotton Tax.
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: W corgi a, a Company formed for the purpose of re
- covering the Taxes already paid, and whbh may,
hereafter bo paid on Cotton. Those who have sold
Cottorfsinoo the war would do well to call upon me
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fseftied may have precedence over-others. No es
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" OY a. J. BKQU1EB.
Grim fortiW by this1 tfeep11 rtemVrit still,
From dust and ruin, rind moro proudly ours
Than when tho sea-birds drop, with deadly tInfill,,
* In the long crash of thy victorious towers':'? j V
.Wrecked, but mororesoluto?the i.in,lortnl-will, j*
Thy last and chief of powers. " j
?nyijijiYiV'jo'!! ii "' hi j
I sit amid thy fragments and I hoar ' , , !
" Tho sobbing billows, in fhe tempest's breath, I
Surgo into tones articulate, and declare it ft \
What the dark Ocean" prophcaying saith?
Queen ! 1n tlilno anguish,'more supremely fair,
And mightier'than death:
I flit ah<i dream and hear tho breakers say,
That thou, whose sleepless vigils first espied '
'.The swarming foe, and belching barred his way,'
I ? Should,'in' tUy:ashes' robed and sanctified,^;.1
Rise, like a raging Pythoness, to display - ;
? I HoW dawn can ba described. ?:
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For thou art now a-symbol and ? Bign ' " ?
Of that, which bIiiiR hol Fiery gulfs,may roll
()'cr;'fields and Cities, sweeping mart and shrine,
And from thls'ngony many a "golden bow,!"
B? dashed in blood; but,'by a law divine,
These cannot cruah the soul. .
Nol men, nor mounds, nor turret.moulded maat,
Can make a nation sovereign, if the knee
Bend ere tho pangs of power be overpast,* .
Or quail before the crucifying tree?
Tho froe-born spirit conceives and shapes, at last,
Tho destiny of the free!
1 SELECTED STORyT
The Volunteer Counsel
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" T A THRILLING STORY.
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' John Taylor was licensed, when n youth of
twenty-oue, to practice at tho bar. He was
poor, bnt well educated, end possessed extraor
dinary genius. ~-Uc married n beauty, who af
terwards deserted him for auothcr.
'"O.n the 9th 0f Apr.il, 18 tO, the Court House
in Clarksvillc, Tcxa's*'vra8 crowded to Overflow
ing. Au exciting case was to be tried. George
iiuplw'i;:z, 'fl hy pi, uter, had offered ;a
gross insult to Mary iwif^n. the young and
beautiful wife of his overseer. Tbc nuao^" 1
threatened to chastise hitu for outrage, wheu
Hopkins wont to Ellison's h?uso and shot hi:::
in h's owu door. . The murderer was. arrested
and bailed to answer the charge. * Tliis occur
rence produced great excitement, aud Hopkir.8,
in order to turu the tido of popular iudig;ia
tion, had circulated reports against her charac
ter, and she had suod him for slander. Both
suits were pending?for murder and slander.
The interest became deeper when it was
known that Ashley and Piko, of Arkansas, and
S. S. Prentice, of New Orleans, by enormous
fees, had been retained to defend Hopkins.
Hopkins was ucquittcd. The Texan lawyers
were over whelmed by their opponent. It was
a fight of a dwari against giants.
The slander suit was for the 9th, and the
throng of spectators' grew in numbers as in ex
citement. Public opinion was setting in for
Hopkins; his tnoucy had procured witnesses
who served hjs powerful, advocates. ,When
the slander cas4 /vfcds called,'' M?t? ?tllison was
left without an attorney?all had withdrawn.
"Have you no counsel ?" inquired Jndgo
Muio, ]?nk'n,T kindly on tho plaintiff.
"No, sir; they have all deserted me, and I
am too poor to employ any ono," replied the
beautiful'Mary, bursting into tears. .
"In such a case, will not somo chivalrous
member of the profession volunteer V* said tho
judge, glancing around the bar.
r Tho thirty lawyers were silent.
"I will, your honor," said a voico from the
thickest part of tho crowd, from bohind the
bar.
At tho sound of that voico many started?it
was so uuoarthly, sweet and iriOurnful.
The first sensation Vf ns changed into laugh
tor when a tall, gaunt, spectral figuro olbowed
his way through tho crowd, and jjlaced him
self within the bar. His tftothea looked so
shabby that the Sourt hesitated to let'the case
proceed under his management.
"Has your nanio boen ontcrod on tho rolls of
the State ?" demanded tho judgo.
"It is immaterial," answered the stranger,
his thin, bloodless lips curling up with a sneer.
"Horo is my licenso from tho highest tribunal
in America," and ho handed tho judge a broad
parchment.
Ho suffered tho witnesses to tell their owu
story, and ho allowed tho dofenso to lead off.
Ashley spoko first, followed by .Piko and Prcn
tiss. Tho lattor brought tho houso down in
cheers, in which the jury joined.
\ Jit was now tho stranger's turn. Ho roso be
fore tho bar, not bohind it, and so noar the
wondering jury that he might touch tho fore
man with his long, bony fingor. He proceeded
to tear to pieces tho nrgumonts of Aahlcy,
which molted away at his touch like frost bc
foroft s?bDeam; every one . looked surprised
Ahoii, lie cauic to .the dazzling wit of the'poet
lawyor, Pike. Then tho curl of his lip grow
sharper, his smooth face began to kindle up,
and his eyes to open, dim and dreary no longer,
but vivid .as lightning,' rod as fire globes and
glaring as twin meteors. The whole soul was
I in the eye / the full heart streamed out of hif
[ftco. Then, without bestowiug au allusion to
jrrenfiss, he turned short 'of ourid on tntTpcr-,
; jurod .witnesses' ?f Hopkins, torn their testi
mony into shread?, and hurled in their faces
such terrible inveelives that all trembled like
aspens, and two of them fled from the court
house. The oxciturnout of the crowd was be
coming tremendous. Their united life and
soul seemed to hang upon the burning tongue
of the stranger, and he inspired them with the
power of his passions. He seemed to have
stolen nature's long hidden secret of attraction.
But his greatest triumph was to come.
His oyes began to glance at the assassin
Hopkins, as his lean taper fingers assumed the'
same direction. 116 hemmed the wtetch with
a wall of strong evidence and impregnable ar
gument, cutting off all hope of escape.' He,
dug beneath the murderer's feet ditches.of di
lemma, and held up the slanderer to the scorn
nnd contempt of the populace- Hiving thus
girt him about with a circle of fi.ro, he stripped
himself to the work of massacre.
Oh ! then it was a vision both glorious and
dreadful to behold the orator. .His actions be
came as impetuous as tho motion of an oak in
a hurricane. His voice became a trumpet
filled with wild whirl-pools, deafening the air
with the crashes of power, and yet intermih
glcd"all the while With a sweet' undersong, of
the soft 'cadence. His forehead glowed like a
heated furnace, his countenance was hagg-rd
like that of a -maniac, and ever and anon he
flung his long and bouy arms on high ai if
grasping after thunderbolts.
He drew a picture of murder in such appall
ing colors that in comparison hell itself might
seem beautiful; he painted the slanderer so
black that tho sun seemed dark at noonday
when shining on such a monster. And then
fixing both portraits on the shrinking Hopkins,
fastened thuiu/ forever. The agitation of the
audience amounted almost to madness.
All at once the speaker descended from the
perilous height. His voice wailcd'out for the
murdered dead and living?the beautiful Mary,
'norc beautiful every moment as her tears
flow cd faster?till nien wept aud sobbed like
children.
Ile.clOStid by il strange exhortation to the
jury,and through them to tho bye slanders;
ho advised the panncl, utter they should bring
in a verdict- for the plaintiff, uot to offer vio
lence to the defendant, however richly he might
deserve it; in othor words, "not to lynch the
villain, but leave his punishment with God."
This was the most artful trick of all, aud best
calculated to insure vengeance.
The jury returned a verdict of fifty thousand
dollars; und the night afterwards Hopkius was
taken out his bed by lynchors and beaten al
most .to death. As the court adjourned tho
stranger said :
"John Taylor will preach bore this evening
at early candle light."
He did preach, and the house was crowded.
I have listened to Clay, Webster and Calhoun
?;to Dwight, Bascom and Beech er?but never
heard anything in the form of sublime words,
CVon approximating to the eloquence of John
Taylor?massive as a cataract of fire."
VARIOUS.
[fou thk onANOEDi nu hKWs.]
"Negro Bonds."
Mr. EDITOR:?Since you havo taken issue
with mo upon tho subject of "Repudiation of
Negro Debts" I hope you will allow me the
privilcgo of a briof spaco in your columns to
defend the grounds I have taken. I regard
your argument as irrelevant to the subject un
der discussion, aud consider that you have
neither proved nor disproved anything. With
duo doforenco, I think you have mado cvory
demonstration of an intention to attack, but
have failed in tho exocutiou.
But aux purpose. You suppose a man pur
chases a house on credit; that a stroke of
lightning falls upon it and reduces it to ashes;
and say that the destruction of the thing pur
chased is no absolution of tho debt. Of course,
the destruction of tho property does not destroy
the obligation to pay for it: but if nine-tenths
of the means necessary to effect that end be
destroyed, then it would seem very hard to
take tho remaining tenth of that man's proper
ty and reduce him to penury and want, whilo
probably his creditor is living in case and af
fluence. Wo admit, that his obligation to pay,
so far as human laws nro concerned, is the
same, but at the same time, wc think the duty
devolvcs upon his c re d i tor ?rfl discharge hat
pbjigatioui'i All things being equal our motto
would b^to.livo nipd lqt"Jiv?.i ?"ow .;it.,would;
secni very;hard to make t^^jjqbtor rosponsiplo
for, a caln^jijty, that had be.faB.ep hirn by an ac^
of Qod, and which ho could not avoid,;. In tho
eamo way,,wo think the dob tor should ,n 4 boj
bound to make good a misfortune entailed upon
him by al?.act .of tho; United (States.-; True,
that wh^jp A.man,purchasc?f:propcrty, .ho.does
it at his own risk. But a .risk in the nature of
Lav general calamity or. misfortune to himself
I prxounfry is never considered in the transac
tion, because anticipation of any such: events
would destroy all confidence ..in the .thing con.
templatcd and he would novcr enter into an
agrooraeot. - But we think ?your cose an isola
ted one, and'ean only 'appertain in the matter
of a few instances, as dispensations of general
calamities like this", by trh'e ' hand of Provi
dence, is to'shy the least, never expected. If,
howeveiyliy a stroke of Providence, the houses
of all debtors should be razed to the ground,
and these houses consisted of their means to
pay I should like to know wherein would lie
their ability to do so. Creditors ' might take
their last BliirtB and if God* hiid ordained, that
they should, we think that they/would be justi
fiable inso doing; but this would not liquidate
their claims. But we suppose if God has any
thing tcTdo in's?ch matters .(aud wc think he
has not) that in such an event Ho would make
other nrj^gemcnU.; But we'think tho spirit
ual acts,of God have nothing to do with the
tcniporAlJaws of mail, aud that therefore na
tions cjnTlot legistate to meet Providential dis
pensations.' ' "Wc do not think your case a
parallel ono. ? .. .?. ; '
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Again : you Bupposo two brothors A and B:
to rccoivo.n legacy each, of Jjyjp thousaud .dol
lars in.gold.-;and that each-invests to the full
amouut;Of ,his,, money; in .jue^roea bufore the
war.' payR for hia purchase in full. B
buys his negroes on credit and purchases a fine
plantation with his legacy. Repudiate negro
debts, and you ask where is the oqual justice
in the cage. Now A )ia3 pftW^for his negroes
in full aud as a mutter oi course has lust them, j
B has T>i\rchased a fine plantation ami given
his bond for the negroes. Repudiate negro
debts and he. has his fine plantation still, worth
about one-tenth of what it was when he bought
it. Suppose nogro debts ore -not repudiated,
his fine plantation and eight olhcrs like it will
not pay for the negroes. Now repudiation, or
no repudiation', A losses his investment any
how, and if you do not repudiate, B is eight
times worse off than he was before he pur
chased his fine plantation.
As to guardians and trustcee I think you
have fully sustained my argument, though un
intentionally. Speaking of 'the guardian or
trustee, you say?"If in the course of his duty,
he makes investments for the actual use and
benefit of his cestm's quc rriwf','and which wore
proper at tho time, but afterwards turn out
badly, the guardian or trustee should not suf
fer." I fully indorse your opinion in this
matter, ntul na I said in your last issuo, if the
wards property was Invested in negroes I did
not think the guardian ?l.ouid ho held, respon
sible. I may not have been an exact in my
selection of terms as I should have been. In
other words ; I mean to say, that if tho minor's
or ward's property consisted of negroes, I do
not think the guardian or trWcc should bo
held responsible to make good the "proceeds of
the "sale of those negroes. If the property
consisted of lands, lei those lands or their valuo
in money go for tho bouefit of Jus cestuis guv
trust.
Changing tho Constitution: this you regard
as dangerous ground. We cannot sec why.
The framors of the Constitution did not intend
that it should forever remain unchanged, for
the Constitution itself, says that "whenever
two thirds of both houses of Congress shall
deem it necessary, shall propose amendments
to the Constitution." From this it would ap
pear that our forefathers contemplated tho pos
sibility of questions arising of sufficcnt magni
tude and importance to requiro a change in
that palladium of our national liberty.
Before closing, let me oxprcss thauks for
the compliment you havo paid me in classing
my argument as the identical argument of tho
extreme Radicals'! If I regarded tho amend
ment to tho Constitution passed., by Congress
for the reconstruction of the Southern States
ns":i; sound an
promote tho
Radicalism then 1 would bo a .lta,dical. But
? ' I. !.."''?? i 1 J ? ?t?d Jl* * M ; 'til) 1?T 3'ifT I t,j
negro suffrage and white disfrauc|iiBoment,.twro
measures contemplated by that amendment I,
do not regard as sound, and just, or as having
anythJpgto.dQ, wjth the indebtedness of oiir>
citizpus. PAY&AnJ 5 ,1
Tho Conventions in tho Southern Suites.
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Wo present our readers with the ,fpllowipg
synoptical statement which, wo have prepared
in regard to'the various' Conventions nbvf 'in'
session or to meet in the unreconstructed^
South.
Tho Alabariiba R construction (?) Conven
tion ndjoUrned on Friday tho Gth inst., aftjer.,
adopting a' negro constltdtlon. -So ultra Radi;
cal were their measures, that prominent Re
publicans at the North wrote General Sway he,
commanding tho State, to- try1 and restrain^
them, as they were going too far and damaging
the party. The Convention' regarded these j
letters as insulting. .. f.
The Louisianna Convention met oh the' Cth |
inst., and is how in session. Here as in. Ala
bama, the most radical measures are popular.
Tho members of tho Convention ' have voted
thenisclvcs the moderate compensation ?f-'*$IO
per diem and 20 ceuts mileage each way.
The Virginia Conve"utiou met at Richmond
ohi the 9th. It3 members have fixed their
pay at.88 per diem and mileage. It is .proba
blo that their legislation will not .differ from
that of tho preceding Conventions. Hunnl
cut is the Thud. Stevens of the Convebtion
Gov. Picrpont has addressed them, and nSena
tor, Wilson,ithe.great Radioal Apostle, will in-:
struct them this week.' No good, can come
out of this Nazareth.
'The Georgia Convention met bu,::tho' 8th
inst., at Atlanta, 108 whites sitid .22 negr?os
I cing present. Roster Blodgett, rcccntti/ w
ih'ctat for perjiirg, was elected 'temporary Chair
man. Thehjcgislatiott has_ nol? yet assumed
definite shape, but Radicalism is the same
every where and the Georgians anticipate' p
n'egvo supremacy Constitution as tho ' result of
their deliberations.
A Conservative Convention met in Macon
last week. B. H. Hill, H?rschel V. Johnson
and other prominent spns of the Empire Stato,
worVthc leading' members. They passed reso
lutions denouncing the Reconstruction Cbn
vention'as illegal, and protesting against the
negr'o usurpation of power. ' The Conservatives
in every county were urged to organize at
once and labor for the defeat of the new Con
stitution. The Convention was lacking in
neither ability, harmony or enthusiasm
In North Carolina the Radicals carried the
election, but the Convention has uot yet met.
In Mississippi probably,, and in . Arkansas
certainly, the Convention has been defeated.
We have as yet uo definite information from
Texas. . . . i.
As indicating tho intellectual ability of the
members of the conventions, we append the
following verbatim report of a speech made by
an honorable delegate to the Virginia Convolu
tion:
Lewis Litidscy said :' Mis-fnr Prcst-Jen/, I
hopo Hi dis late hour of do struggle that Old
Virginia have boon imperilled that no frec
thinkin' man can $up pose for a moment dat
Wo desires to misripersiut do idee dat we can't
qualify do ability of do stornorgerphy of dis
Convention. I hopo cvy goon-thinVn gentle
man will obsarvc do necissity of bavin' a stem
ography, an' dat doy will bo willin' in do de
sire to gniu de ability of the Commonwealth of
Feroinny to sco dat do gentleman is justly
dosarrc. I hopo, sir, drt evy gentermnn will
now see der necessity of bavin' dis stcnogcrphy,
so dat wc can then be able to understand do
principles of dar proposition. [Laughter.]
General Ilancook last week took command
of the Military District compiising Louisiana
and Texas. In his Order announcing this, ho
says that ho rcgrfrds tho military a? subordi
nate find auxiliary to the civil authority.
Mower, who niadp Sheridan his model, has
been removed and many civil officers displaced
by him have been re-instated. The Military
reign of terror in Louisiana is over 'to all ap
pearances.'
Gcuoral Hancock was rocognized while vis-,|
iting the theatre Saturday night, and was re
ceived with enthusiastic cheers. The. Band
struck up "Hail Columbia."
Tho wholesale manner in which tho acting
military satrap, General Mowcr^ in his ambi
tion to out-Shoridan,. Sheridan himself, pro
ceeded to make removals in Texas, is best ex
emplified by Flake's Galvcston, Texas,. Hulk'
tin, which contains five solid colums pf,rcntovals
and appointments in that State, mado solely
on the authority and by the direct order of
Mower.
A.majority of the members- of tho Senat? of
tho'United States, with a "nice h'pprec'iu'fiOh of
their deserts, have voted to rtrikooeV''tfce'<pre
fix of "I I on orablo*'? f rom their names when en
tered up on tho Jo ur im I of Procecdi ngs. :
^Althbngh'ihi^act; of ^maa4n^i|P Vdold
sec in at first blush, to smack
.^P^ifff: to^o# m
sin cere.. ^ona?i once, ,$gl4a Ifeepa they, j had] no -
? right to tho title.. .. ?; 0 mivj oi noiJotn A
H? l ? R a^isk
:>Jnd
j syiov mti h-Sharp Trad?ng* du^a oi ?&
?T ^??iwi?>u?*t??v??i|4ii?'# .
In the village of W. lived a man who pad
once .been tho Judge .of the ,County, and was
known -all over ' it' by" the nani?.oi* Judge L.
lie kept a store and saw mill, and was always
sure to have the best'of a bargain on his side,
by which means he had gained an ample com
petency, and some did not hesitate" to call Him
Mthe'-bigges't Tb8cal!in -(t^ tyja^?L'A?&a1nm
very conceited withal, and used to delight - to
brag bf 'his'husiTiekb' 6hpacity,: tWn^tf 'any .ono
was near to 'listen*." ifjne Va'iiiy \t&f?&o\$!j*m
number wbrc scared around the stove in tho
st?re,'hc *? began, ?s: ?sUal;: tih tell'b'r Jus great
! bargains, dud at last wddnd ]ttp w|tn i<hqJ Jex
jpressi?n. "Nobody hascVdf ^cneoVe? 'nie: oor
they can t neither. 1
"Judge," said an old man of the company,
'Tyo cheated'you moro'u you ever did me."
"Hdw so V'\ said tho, Judge;. - iTJ.VhS
j.ir.-!Sll you'll,promjsoyou won't go to law about
it, uor do nothing, I'll, tell, or else J iwon't?
for ypu>Qf.|top..muph of *? IhW'.ch^fcacter for
r{mo.fK:r. . r?i!.v fun ' - i.-^uoloa bits
. fLet's hear 1. let's hear. '" cried half A dozen
or.mpre.voiges. , An \lhl oHT
'-.I'llpromise," said the Judge*, "and treat in
;$ie bargain,.If you hawe-'r. I r. .no-imb*" noia
"Well, do;-you remember that wagon you
rpbhed.niQ out pf?".-. ,;.=?. . ?*.<. ->n?tu as tan
\;... " I never robbed .yo?.out of any wagon,'* ox -
claimed the Judge, "I Oidy got the best of: a
barga.in<'jjt ib/. j*o*1-?.;u .'? v ?? ? <???' ?i-..l?f.l?
r,WMh-I s%Ho*W4fi?p; .?od <ift ibW? it
baokagaiu, aod^"^itfj^ I r.,.fth>tu wiv
Judge. * . . ;.:;.'*.'!;?'
"Yes I did^and interest t?p."; ^
WIow so?* tUunferca .^^ffifpf^
Judge, turning to his books and examining his
log aecoupts. /'You never Gold. me, ? twenty
seven logs of the same measurement.',"! ,MOlra
"I know it," said the vender, of, log8fn^tBy
drawing it back aud forth the ends wore oijf,
until it was only ton feet long?fourteen feet
shorter than it was the first time I brought it,
and when it got so short, I jijrew it home again
and worked it into shingles^ and then I cgp
'eluded I had got my wagon back and stowed
Lin my pocket b?^; ;
drawer found the door without the promised
treat. And, to see a mad man you have-only
u> ask . the judge if he ever yras shaved.-r-^rt
0. Picayune [ ^ ^ '
!> - A' Cool Husband ' ' :!) ^
. . EJ| Htu b:?vn)? 'K?f !?.tov udi
There is one sensiblo married man in this
State. IIo is a,soldier, and ffas reported-to
have b.cn killed, but was only a prisoner. He
returned to find his wife bad turned over a
new leaf in the marriage service, and that an
other man occupied his seat in tho .'chimney
corner. Did he go to work slaughtering tho
falso w ife and her new husband. '. Not much.
He walked iu aud said :
"Well, old gal, how is things?" . .'. ^
"l'utty good Ilill," said tho di-ublc morriiedl
Woman, dot taken aback greatly.' . t?4n?n
^Which do you prefer, tho old pr the now
lovc?" ?1 ? L .
Sho hesitated for an instant, and Uion replied .:
"I don't like to hurt your feelings, butrr-"
but?" '-; ;-r": ?"" '" 1,1Zn
"Oh, spit it right out. Don't mind' nvy feel
ings nor tho other chap's ? I won't bp, angry
if you come down a littlo rough on my vanity.
Couut on my being amiable. 1 won't cut Up'
rusty, if you should go hack on mo." y
l,Vn\ glad you'ru so thoughtful, Bill; and'
I acknowledge that I do like my present hue
band best; but if any thing should happen, to
him, I know nobody clso 1 would so soon jti?
fortunes with again ari yW.'* "1 !-i?l*!Si 1 "^f*
"That's tho way to talk. I'll n?W 'WA''y^d*
good-bye, hoping that hb accident will JiigAen
to tho other fellow, and that ho will live long to
enjoy your doHghtftil society: (loia day^ ^
And tho careless btisbatid'tr?vil?d off, with
Ws'knapsack on his hack, whistling iii cheeryv
eloav tones: "The (iirl 1 left behind WC."