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VOLUME 4?NO. 22. ABBEVILLE C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTNBER 3, 1850. WHOLE NUMBER 178.
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DAVIS .t IIOLLIXGSWOUTII,
/ or ISamicr;
PUCKETT ?fc WILSON,
V?r Presx.
MISCELLANY.
T .nltnr. ?!.? T>
?bV bUO AWllj^iciau^C JLUCeUQ^.
]3elow will be found the letters to which
we alluded in our last, ami promised to publish
in this,issue:?
Spartanburg, S. C., Aug. 25, 1856.
Gentlemen :?Your very kind invitation
to attend your Temperance Mass Meeting
and Pic Nic on the 23d September, has
just come to hand, for which you will
please accept my thanks.
I do, really, very much regret that my
other engagements render it out of the question
for mo to attend your meeting. Mv
(heart lias been lone: in the Temnerance
movements of the country, and I, this dav,
fcol as nrndi interested in the cause as 1
ever did. It is the cause of hnmanity, and,
until it triumphs, our country must suffer
to an extent which no man can calculate.
To suppose that the triumph is to l>e eflfcclcd
while the temptation to drink is at every
hotel, muster ground and still house, is idle.
The thoughtless aud the giddy head will he
11 ?'' -< '
?"vjvu. oy 1110 lenijunuoD, in spue 01 me
OCst resolutions, or the strongest legal restraints,
that may be imposed upon the traffic
; for such seems to be incident to the
J'allen nature of our race. To save us
from the vice, the temptation must Lc removed.
The failure of the great Washingtonian
revival, and all the kindred efforts
made by tho good men of the country, fully
proves this. Former movements have
^oneinuch, very much good. Ardent spirits
arc no longer a necessary article of entertainment
at the social board ; vast nunitbers
of young men renounce their use and
n._ui.. i mi.~
VISUIUI^ net luvir mt'en li. 1 Xiu iii??n
of our ladies no longer pledge with the
wine, and the Church lias set its seal upon
it. But there is Btill a vast army of drunkards
that can never be reformed unlet* the
temptation be removed from them, who
would bo the first to bless us for a ,1'rohibi
wy inn, K'j UIIIUII, ?IUl? 1IIIJ I IM'^' WUUIU l)C
saved, but the multitudes that cannot lx:
numbered, who, under their influence, would
fall into their ranks, would never take the
first step- Prohibition must now bo our
motto. The temptation must bo removod,
and, therefore, no man be allowed to make
or sell spirits to be used at the place sold.
I repeat that I regret my inability to ;Ik
with you. May your meeting bo harmoni
outs and blest wit!) the best results, i .
I ara SiQn < &BOI&),
... ? - yvr
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 1,1850.
Gentlemen :?Yours of the 21st August
lias been received some days. An earlier
answer would have been sent ; but I hoped
l>y delaying a short time, so to arrange my
business, as lo be with you on the 23d inst.
Professional engagements, long since contrasted,
counnaml my 2>ersonal services on
that day.
Putnam Superior Court includes that
day. In that Court, I have a cause of great!
importance to my clients. Therefore, you j
p- rc ivc I cannot come on the 23d, without
roach of good faith. I liavc been unable
to procure the services of one of my
brethren.
Believe me, when I say, gentlemen, that
I regret, cxcccdiuyly regret, the sternness
of the ncccssity which keeps me from voui
assemblage. 1 would esteem it as a distinguished
privilege, the opportunity to mingle
my tears, and voice, and prayers with
an}', and every temperance man in Abberille
District. Abbeville, the cradle of mv
childhood, and the resting place of my ancestors
! Oh ! how many of tlicm ft-ll beneath
the "Joab thrusts" of tlic insidious
enemy. It lured and ruined.
May you, on the 23d, erect a moral dyke
that shall stay the swelling flood of intemperance.
And may the God of all Grace
give you wisdom, and firmness and indomitable
perseverance in this great cause, till
not a grog-shop, nor drunken man, nor
heart-broken woman, nor poor houseless,
homeless, ragged, uneducated child shall!
be found in your proud State.
Sincerely yours, 15.11. OVKUHY.
SiM.rm nSrnixtss, (la., Sept. 1, 1 8.10.
ticiit/i'iiirii I was just on tin.' eve of
starting for this place when 1 received your
kind letter of August 2i?, and this will account
to yon for my delay in giving a reply.
T wish I could respond to your pleasing
invitation, to attend your approaching Temperance
meeting, in a more favorable strain
tlian I dare adopt. I think it not absolutely
impossible, but extremely improba-j
ble, that T shall be able to be with you, on !
that interesting occasion. My health,
though better than it was a year ago, is not
very good, and I am almost incessantly
pressed with professional aad other duties.
The dedication of my new church may
come oft' about that lime, though 1 fear it
will be delayed till the middle of October.
T will think of the subject, converse with j
Athens friends, watch the indications of
J'rovidence, and endeavor to do, or to gr>,
whatever or wherever God bhall direct.
I rcjoice that you and others are about
to make one more effort to arrest, and to
roll back the present rising, fiery, threatening
flood of intemperance.
I am alarmed at the evident increase of
this awful destroyer of all that is pure, and ;
sacred, and peaceful in domestic life?of all j
mat is war to man in this world ami the!
world to come, so far as that destroyer is!
clothed with power.
This monster hand received, as we hoped,
a deep, deadly wound. Hut of late, 1 have
solemnly feared that "his deadly wound was
healed"or, at least, that he was convalescent.
And if Hfl TTt?l*r?ltnn ilnftnaee
j ?"1 "oj I U>VJI
our beloved country. People may excuse
the matter as they please, apologize as they
sec fit ; but if Gal. 5, 10?21, inclusive, be
true, drunkards can no more go to Heaven
tlian idolaters, or murderer*, or adulterers.
Oh, strange that men can speak of drunk
eniH'SS as a menial offense !
, But I must close this hasty note.?I hope
you and the other friends of Temperance
may be greatly encouragcd in your efforts
to enlighten the public mind, in reference
to one of the greatest evils that ever cursed
mortal man.'
Most respectfully your?, gentlemen,
, N. IIOYT.
Sons of Temporanco.
( At a meeting of the Abbeville Division,
\Ta 1 ^IntiQ nf Tnmnorfln/>n . tlifl fallAirln/y
Resolutions were submitted, and unanimously
adopted :
Resolved, That the thanks of the Division
are eminently due, and Are hereby ten,
dered, to those of our friends not connected
with the Division, who have so liberally
j aided us in providing our Temperance Pic
Nic, and who, by th^ir presence, and sympathy.
Have cheered uaon {he occasion.
Resolved, That our thanks are especially
; due to the ladies, for their very general at
tendance at our celebration ; for their respectful
a'.tcntion and encouraging smiles ;
and that from these circumstances, we draw
the best auguries of success to our cause for
tiio future.
Resolved, That wo tonder our hearty
thanks to the Cokcsbiiry Bond, for the very
excellent music, with which they have enlivened
our festivities.
Resolved, That the thanks of tlie I isioii
are hereby tendered to those of our
friends, who have furnished the intellectual
feast of the occasion, and who, whilst they
have cheered our hopes and streiifrthoiu*.!
? - -p our
principles, have given an onward impetus
to the glorious cause wo are prosecuting.
Resolved, That these Resolutions he published
in the District papers.
li. A. FAIR, W. P.
J. G. Edwards, H. S.
Consequences of Disunion.
lion. \V. li. Ileed, of Philadelphia, has
written a letter to the citizens of Franklin
county, Pennsylvania, in which ho thus
forcibly depicts the consequences of disunion
:
i remember, years ago, oti a bright sum-1
trier's afternoon, toiling up the turnpike I
road on the Cove Mountain, in your county,
and when I reached the summit, turning to
gaze f?n as beautiful a scene as ever gladdened
my eye?the valley of peaceful beauty
which stretches oft* to Maryland and towards
the Potomac. It is a familiar scene
to most of you. To me it was new, and
its impression has never faded from mv mind.
As far as the eye could reach there was fertility?the
si?;ns ?>f trampiil industry : all
Was 1 u?:iliti11 !! ''--I ' | 1
Ji'-iin'illl It IOUKCU.
as it was, like tin? of a happy ami
united people. The political line, separating
lVnnsylvania from Maryland, traced
l?V those old fashioned surveyors, Charles
Mason and Jeremiah I >i.\on, was visible to
no eye. The trees on which they marked
it had long been felled or disappeared. Many
a farm was separated by it, but, except
in the eye of the law, no one knew it or
eared about it.
1 have often?for painful thoughts are
thrusting themselves upon me?recalled j
that scene, of actual beauty ami united in- j
terest, and realized what it would be?what j
your condition will be?what must be the
condition of every county of this Commonwealth
lying on the Maryland line?Chester,
Lancaster, York, Adams, Franklin, Fulton,
Bedford, Somerset, Fayette and Greene?
if disunion be forced on us, and the rupture
be, as it would be. between wlmt nm
popularly but falsely called the free and the
slave States, between us and Maryland. I
wish ever}* man could be made to understand
what a frontier is, even that of civilized
life. Its daily, hourly vexations and
dangers?its line of custom houses to keep
the smuggler in and out?the crowds of fugitives
from justice and labor, infesting
every avenue and concealed in everv thicket
?the murderer striking down his victim
to-day and flying with the fresh blood on
his hand to a foreign territory to-morrow?
the bickering, the strife, the hot blood of
coterminous dispute?all this, would be
the daily doom of every Southern county
of this State; and across the beautiful valley
I have spoken of would be distressingly
visible, the actual broad, perhaps bloody,
line which disunion mnet Tl.io
true, though hard to conceive. IVnnsylvania,
and you, c-itizons of Franklin county,
have so long reposed in (lie very centre of
the Union, that you cannot understand how
you can become a frontier and how you will
suffer when you do.
Presidential Election.
The Edgefield Advertiser, one of the
very best of Carolina papers, thus utters his
thoughts and hopes of the pending Presidential
election. Whilst we are hardly
prepared lo express a dccidcd opioion as to
what will be the effect of Buchanan's den
tion and administration upon the anti-slavery
party, we do hope, with the Advertiser,
that "the country and tho Constitution will
be saved."
Presidential.?The canvass waxes hot.
Ten weeks more will decide who shall bo
next President, and in that decision is involved
tho question of the permnnence of
tho Union. We think that all will come
right?that Buchanan will bo elected by a
handsome majority?that his administration
will be a brilliant one?that during its
progress and under its auspices tho sound
Democracy will grow in strength at the
North nntil every ism shall be swept away
before tho cleansing torrent of it* power?
that Black Republicanism will, at the expiration
of the next four years, lie so disabled
and disgraced jus to be powerless for further
evil?that true Conservatism will be lifted
up by the force of circumstances into a
tower of- strength?and, finally,'that the
country and the Constitution will be saved.
Tho belief may be a deceptive one; but we
believe as we hope. We look with faith to
that Almighty Providence which led us so
wondrously through the Reyolation, and we
say to ourself?".Surely that wrack* was
not wrought ia vaiiC
. HI 1X j B - j J}' 9 f4 f 5 ' ! *
To my Mother.
The following lines, written by a convict in
the Ohio^Penitentiary, are touchingly beautiful.
We have seen nothing of late that
has so moved our sympathy. The man
who can write such poetry, who has such
thoughts, cannot be utterly depraved. The
curse of intemperance, with its attending
downward influence, has here done its work,
and a spirit noble and generous, that
might and should be the pridu and ornament
of the social circle, is now tho degraded
convict in the walls of the Penitentiary.
How will that fond mother's heart bleed if
slw? kIimII lif;ir fif Iw.r ?l?ii-linrr i1i?
mate of a prison in a foreijxn land !
Ohio Slate Journal.
I've wandered far from tlico, mother,
Far from mj* happy homo:
I've left the land that, gave me birth,
In other climes to roam :
And time t>inee then, has roll'd it? yenrd
And marked them on my brow;
Yet I have often thought of thee?
I'm thinking of thee now :
I'm thinking on the da}', mother,
When at my tender side,
iou waieiieu me uawingor my youth,
And kissed me in your pride ;
Then brightly was my hcnrt lit up
With hope of future joy,
White your bright, fancy honors wove
To deck your darling hoy.
I'm thinking of the day, mother,
When, \vith an anxious care,
You lifted up your heart to heaven?
Your hope, your trust was there;
Fond memory brings your parting word,
While tears rolled down your check ;
The long lust loving look told more
Than even Words colild speak.
I'm fut* away from thee, mother,
No friend is near me now.
To soothe me with a tender word,
Or cool my burning brow;
The dearest ties affection wove,
Arc all now torn fromnie;
They left me when the trouble camc ;
The}' did not love like thee.
I'm lonely and forsaken now,
unpiucii nnd unhiciii;
Yftstiil I would not l:av<? thee know
How sorely I'm distrens'd.
I lenow you woul<l not cliide, mother,
You would not give ine blame:
Rut soothe nte with your tender word*,
And bid me liopc ngnin.
I would not linvo tliee know, motlier.
How brighteat Iiopea decay;
The tempter with liia baneful cup
linn dnolied them nil away,
And sliaine has left ita venom ating
To rack with anguian wilh?
Tot still I would not have tliec know
Tlie sorrows of thy child.
O, I have wandered far, mother,
Since I deserted thee ;
And left thy touching heart to break,
Beyond the deep blue sea.
Ol mother, still I love thee well,
And long to hear thee speak,
And feel again thy balmy breath
j Upon my care-worn check.
, lint, all 1 there is a thought, mother,
| Pervades my bleeding breast,
j Hint thy freed spirit 11W3' have flown
To its eternal rest;
Anil while I wipe the tears away,
i There whispers in my eor
' A voice thntppcnkn of heaven and tliee,
And bids 1110 sock tlice there.
John Alcohol my Joe.
John Alcohol, :ny Joe John,
w lien wc were first acquaint,
1M mono}* in my pocket* John,
Which now 1 know there ain't.
I spent it all in treating, John,
Because I loved you bo,
But mark me how you've treated inc,
John Alcohol, iny Joe.
John Alcohol, my Joe John,
We've been too long together,
So yon muat take one road, John,
And I will take the other ;
For wo may tumble down, John,
If hand in hand we go,
And I will have the hill to foot.
i ?M;n Alcohol, my Joe,
Mv Life ! Thf.be Moonlight Niairrs.
?(out of the MAoniNE.)?IIow beautiful
tlie silvery moon iloth walk arror.s tho night,
shedding her white rays lavishly to bless
our human sight! Was ever queen so fair
to see, so worthy adoration?she beams
nlike on all mankind and on the Indian
Nation. What shall we say by way of
thanks for thy benif'cent light?the coons
and foxes play their pranks the whole illu
I mined night.?The sons of' Ethiop rovo
abroad, the neighbors' dogs are yelling; and
yet thou sailest on thy course, no tales on
rovore telling. Young lovors gaze upon tby
face with hands locked in each other,- and
while thy beauties bright they trade- 'tis
vain tb?ir tows to smother. The gallant
serenadfer's song is floating on<the breeM'^yet
bat for thee that 6train had nerfer'Echoed
'mong the trees. All praise to trio*,
goddess fair 1 LongAMy she wave in glory I
1 She'll .yet fere#*t!be: Many 4 tale of Hore *nd
many s rttoryl '$*
JMgtjMU Ad*trtiter? )
szwmtA .?*?> ?'?a *.*&<& n*su ;
A Card.
It scorns that sotn<; one has written a let
ter to the Kansas Volunteers, statin# that
have been canvassing the District, ami ev
erywhere making wholesale charges agains
them, and saying that none but the lowvs
class and scrapings of the State had gon<
to Kansas; that 1 should have said <Ien
Jones'company were driven from the Ter
ritory, on account of their lawlessness am
bad conduct. In reply, I can only say tha
I have never used such language, or mad<
such charges, and that there is not a won
of truth in the whole statement.
J have not been canvassing the l>istrie
at all, and the only speech that 1 have made
out of court, within the last two years, it
vjirtciiviiie uisiriut, was an address on tin
fourth of July last, by appointment of 1113
follow citizens. In tlie address I exprcssw
my decided convictions that Kansas wonh
be aalaveholding State; that I was nnxiou:
to see southern men emigrating there, will
their families and slaves, men who wouU
cut down the forest and plow up the prai
ries; but that I had no hope of sccincr tlx
Territory permanently settled by tiie vol
unteers who had gone there; they wen
mostly young men, without families, ant
unaccustomed to labor, and that they wer<
not the men to endure the fatigue and hard
ships of a pioneer life; in a short tinx
they would be returning home.
I also expressed my entire confidence ir
the ability of the General Government tc
maintain the peace of the Territory, an>l
enforce its laws, without the aid of men <>i
money from South Carolina ; that, already
all armed bauds of volunteers had been or
dered to disband or leave the Territory
Tl.rt Inut ' '
^ ..VJ Ill < uiiiim ncm mat well. JOTH-S
company had returned to tlio MisMturi lino
where they directed their letters to hi: sent
and that they were writing home for mon
inonej'.
This is the substance of what I said in
niy address on this subject, and which was
made without n note or word in writing
For its truth, I appeal to the thousands wIk
were present and heard it.
I hope the papers which have published
the false and slanderous statement made, ii
reference to this matter, will do the justici
to copy this card.
li. F. PERRY.
Greenville, C. II., Sept. 19. 1850.
Gen. Hodges.
We paid, last week, a professional visit
to Hodges' Depot, in Abbeville District, an<l
spent a pleasant day waiting the return ol
the Columbia train. Hut for the railroad
this trip would have cost us several days
absence from home. By means of the rail
road, we went down in a few hours, trans
acted our business, and returned in the eve
ning. Whilst there, tho day was spent al
tlic pleasant liotel of CIr?n
j "..w-v
house stands on the dividing ridgy betweei:
the waters of Saluda and the Savannah rivers.
The water which falls on one side oi
his house runs into the Saluda, and on the
other side it runs into the Savannah. Gen
Hodges is a remarkable man, not only foi
his tine person and manly feature, beam
ing with intelligence and benevolence, bill
he is remarkable for thai success in 1 itV
which almost always accompany talent
virtue and industry, united with health ami
energy of character, Lie is one ?f twenty
two children which his mother was blessn
with, and one of twenty-four which bis l:i
ther had by two marriages ! Ho is, also
himself, the father of nineteen rods and
daughters by his wife, who is ttill living
The General, himself, might very well pasvet
for a young man, if he wore to make
use of "liachellor'a Dye." lie is now ji
man of iarge property, and has tilled several
important oilioes iu Abbeville District
lie says, however, that bis happiest day.*
were, when he ate his breakfast before daylight,
took his dinner and horse feed wiili
him, and went two miles to work, where lie
continued to plow till bed time 1 For
months he never ate a meal's victuals in
his house by daylight, except Sundays and
rainy days ! lie would plow next the corn
rows in the day time, and break up the middle
after dark ! Ilis grandfather, on the
mother's Bido, lived to be one hundred and
six or seven vpjira ???! n?t lrvn/?
lie died would walk tun or fifteen miles in
the day ! We hope the General may liv?
to be as old as his grandfather, and tluit hit
exemplary life of industry and success ma)
have its iptlueneo on ihu young men of i Ik
present day.?Greenville Patriot.
St. Louis, Seit. 19.?Gov. Geary, in his
inaugural address, dated Locoruplou, Sep
tember 11, dcprecatca the coutinuanee ol
strife caused by the interference of citizen?
of the States. He promises justice, irre
specuvo oi party, ana expects obedience to
the Jaws of the Legislature till they are repealed.
-Ild'iwuod a. proclamation discharging
the volunteer uiilitia and commanding
prmed bancta to disperse or quit the territo
ty.?Carolinian. '
MptAfcuoujr.-rltK, ja oqr melancholy
duty to record' the deatVof bur "most wor
thy townsman and citizen, Drayton Nance
HVdied tff' an httac^of,4ab6p|eyy, oti* Fri
day tiighl l?St,trt his plantation, where n<
had goto oil business. j |Ie feas attacked
'about ten o'clock <Jb Friday* morning, and
died <bo?tIto'efdek' the stoW night,
t>*r.n -?'>? txaiiv >.*? jftygf *
ftangui
Democratic Meetings in tho North.
- J We select, rather at random, three or
I four |>:ii:t?rnplis giving brief accounts of
" i as many Democratic; meetings in different
^ | Strifes of the North :
,' The Xew Hampshire Democratic State
J Convention assembled at Concord on tho
i -1111 ins!- :ni(l i<4 rcnrnaAiitnil tn
7 ? . V|..vwv..vvu tu H(|TU
I ! tlie largest and most unanimous and enthut!
sijistic Covention ever held in the State.
. I Speeches were made by Judge Iiust, of
] | Louisiana. Kx-Mayor Hamersly, of Hartj
ford, Ct., Hon. John S. Wells, B. F. Butler,
(| B. F. Ilallet, Ex-Governor Hubbard, Fletch,
| er Webster, and many other distinguished
, i men. The procession was composed of
j. 400 carriages, and 8,000 persons on foot,
. I and extended two miles and a half. During
1 ! th<! IhlV .1 Imnnor wno nnfiirtn/l OO l>?t
I | ?j - - vj w
] ; foot?made by the Indies of the city. The
J Hon. John S. Wells was re-nominated for
, j Governor by acclamation.
I j The Democrats of New York City had n
Torch Light Procession on Tuesday cve}
ning. Tt is said to be the greatest demon.
st rat ion of the kind ever witnessed in New
, j York. The procession was five miles long;
I . and it is estimated that 20,000 pereon9 par.
i tiei|>ati'<I. There were 50 bands of music,
. j to<nr?>tlier with torches and banners. Tho
.' duvit-c* wore counted, and are said to have
! amounted to tens of thousands. The streets
. ' tlll'l>ll"'ll wllicll tlll> urniwicuinn ....... J ?
! ^ r*rt3 ill
| a blazn of liidit fur miles in extent. Tho
pr.ii rs-iJnii . 1 i prTsod at midnight, with tho
iilin>.?t quietness.
Tin* Massachusetts Buchanan State Con.
vriiti<?n met at Springfield on tlie 10th instant.
The :itt?mi?I.-im-o was about ono tliou'
s:m<l, an-l an unusually large number of tho
| leading ami talented men of the party was
i present. IVnj. F. Butler, of Lowell,
i made the opening speech; Ashct Plielpa,
[Jr., <>f Springfield, was chosen President
; by S02 out of 912 votes. Giles F. Whitj
uey, of Wincliendnn, was bis principal oj>!
ponent.
! The Illinois Buchanan State Convention,
j mot at Springfield on the 10th inst. One
I thousand delegates were present.
A Paragraph for July.
An esteemed frier.d hands us the following,
with a request to insert it. lie believes
it worth it, and we have confidence in liis
| opinion?inorc than in our own?especial'
Iv on matters of t!iis kind. Those who
I i may feel disposed to try the plan of plantP
ing potatoe vines should cut the peice out
j and lay it by :
i New Mouk of Planting Sweet Potato
Vines, in Level Land ok in Beds.?
On the 20th of July, 1855,1 commenced
planting potato vines in the following mant
tier ; the ground planted, was rye stubble,
k badly ploughed and harrowed, and vehyclayey:
1 : i"i- e ? -
I i ni.iue lurrows wnu a omi tongue plongh
r four foot apart; laid two vines along the
(| whole length in the furrow, then covered,
with ;i plough, ahout throe or four inches
': deep, running a furrow on ench side. They
I soon began to come up, ami, although the
, 1 ground w:i? dry and cloddy, made a very
good Maud, with the exception of two rows,
whieh were planted with young and ten|
dervines in I he middle of the day, which
were scorched by the sun before they could
I be rovered by the plough. On the 18th of
1 August, I bedded up three rows, (that is,
l i- . ---i t.n
i>ruK>: urn mo iiiiiinii',; oni mo ground uej
ing too dry ami hard, I merely harrowed tho
balance to keep down the grass ; a spell of
wet weather setting in, caused the vines to
. run over the ground, and they were worked
no more.
! On the lGih of November I commenced
J digging them ; they yielded at the rate of
1 fifty bushels per acre. The three rows
: ploughed, yielded two to one of the other*,
j In this manner they may bo planted' in levi
el land or in beds, and at almost any timo,
| unless the ground is very dry or too wet to
! nlouch. (/'attlo Imrsoa niv?f.ir flin firing
vines to any other feed.
Democratic Meeting in Rhode Island.
A correspondent of the ftew York Day
Book, writing from Providence under dato
, of September ftd., says:
i The Democrats ot Rhode Island ara now
, gathered in mass meeting at the west end
; of this city, to the number of Fifty Tiiou,.j
band at least, and have, for the la*t four
hours, been listening to one of most ablo
and convincing speeches from the lion. D.
A. Nui:illi-y, ? ! Vermont, that has hecn ever
t delivered ill this Stale. Several other distinguished
speakers are to follow Mr. Sitinlloy,
71 arid in the evening tho meeting will be holdijCn
in Kailroad Hall, where it will l>o ad
j dressed by Ex-Governor Jackson and our
i; late Attorney-General, Joseph M. Blake,
j both formerly Whigs, but who hnvo now
> e. - t>_-? ? J *??
-jv-j/tuij wiim uut tur ixiciuuuiri nnu urecK
enridge.
The Fremoiitere souirm terribly, even, in
Rhode Island, and it the good work is followed
ai? it has been comjnence4f;we 0ball
bo numbered with the States that declare
for the Constitution1 ancF tho Umort.
' Oxtoejiatbd Thjs peculiar
> medicine aetSniaties every suflitfer Jrom
I Dy*pepeift, and tho& wbo haVe' tfred 'a
I thousand remedies in vain, wilt-never Mgtet
a trial;' of iu .A few slows MBWUi pn?f ,
; ?f " . s /y?,o \
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