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T . . . A Democratic Journal Devoted to National and Stateplitics, Literature, Foreign and Domestic Hews, etc. vol. n. WINSTON, ISTOKTH C3ElOX,IM;y FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1858, No. 41 1"3 THE PUBLISHED WEEKLY" BY ALSPAUGH fc BONER, Editors akd Proprietors. Terms of Subscription. "The Westekn Sextixel" is published every Friday morning, and mailed to subscribers at two dollars a year, in ad vance; two dollars and a italf after six months, or three dollars after the close of the subscription year. To any one procuring six subscribers, and paring the cash in advance, the paper Trill be furaished cue rear, gratis. Terms of Advertising in tlie Sentinel. Oar regular rates of advertising are as follows: One square, (14 lines or less) first insertion, $1 00 Each subsequent insertion, ------ 25 For one square three months, - - - - 3 50 For six months, - -- -- -- -- 5 50 For twelve months, - -- -- -- - 8 50 5?" Liberal deductions in favor of regular ad vertisers. Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding five lines in length, five dollars a year longer ones in proportion. Postmasters are required by law to notify publishers when - papers are not taken from their ofhVes and those failing to do so become respon sible for the subscription-money. Business letters, communications, fec, may be addressed to the Editors of the Sentinel, Vins tou. N. G. All articles intended for insertion, in cluding notices of marriages and deaths, &c, must le accompanied by a responsible name, otherwise they cannot be published. Office on West Street, "below the jtf. E. Church. WASHINGTON. -An Extract from the O rattan of Hon. 12. M. T. J I tinier at Richmond, Ta. But I pass from Washington the soldier to Washington the statesman, from the rude scenes and bloody strife of war to scarcely less trying difficulties in peace. I follow him as he passes from the anxie ties of the hot pursuit, the heady tight, the long-crowned march, the night alarm, to the not less painful task of harmonizing conflicting elements in society, and con structing out of the old a new political sys tem, which might suit the peculiar circum stances of the ease, and satisfy the aspira tions of a people so anxious for free insti tution. . Tt &3ficmtnoaJ;ofini amongst great military men the capacity to destroy! old social systems and the organizing ge nius which can create order out of chaos, itnd devise institutions which are adapted to wants and national character of a peo ple. There have been none who so thor oughly completed this great round of human achievement as George Washing ton. During the war he himself had formed the groat central point of union, in whom were reposed a common love and confi dence, which enabled him to command and direct the common exertions for the epial benefit of all. During that period there had been for all essential purposes a unity of will, because it was his will which gov erned, not bv force or law, but through the rare and exalted virtues of his character. When he resigned his commission that bond of union was gone and the work of disintegration commenced. A loose Con federacy, whose Government wanted the power to secure even those interests which were common, called in vain for the means of sustaining its credit and redeeming the eacred obligations of the Revolution. The separate States each acted upon its indi vidual policy without a just regard to the interests of its neighbors. The elements of great social strength and happiness were wasting around them, and the best hopes for human freedom and progress which the world as vet had seen were threatened with annihitation. of a flie public men of the day, he alone had moral influence enough to rule in such a crisis ; and by a rare coincidence, if not by a Providential direction of events, his of all the characters known to history was best adapted most admirably constituted to encounter suc cessfully the difficulties-over which he tri umped. But to' dor this,-although more sensitive by nature than most men, he sac rificed all his sensibilities upon the altar of his county's good- For their own sakes lie submitted like a man of iron to the buf fets of those he loved, and, inexorable to all but the calls-' of duty and patriotism, he moved like some rninister of fate, in all the patient fortitude of a , mighty spirit, to to the accomplishment of his own high purposes which he. fulfilled by laying broad and deep the foundations of a fabric combining more of social strength and hu man happiness than any which had been conceived before. Oh, fare spectacle ! Oh, most wonderful man ! Who before, through a long career of unparalleled dif ficulties and trials, has ever presented so sublime or so constant an example of pa tient fortitude and of imperturbable mag nanimity i Superior to all misfortune and quailing under no reverse, he was the mas ter of every occasion . The very constitution , of his Cabinet gave evidence of his peculiar , genius and his own consciousness of power. He sought no unit Cabinet according to the set phrase of sneceeding times. He asked no suppression" sentiment; no conceal ment of opinion, ; he exhibited no mean jealousy of higH talent seeking for inferior instruments because such only he could expect to command. But he gathered around him the greatest public men of their day, and some of them to be ranked with the greatest men of any day. He did not leave Jefferson and Hamilton without the Cabinet, to shake perhaps the whole fabric of Government in their fierce wars and rivalries, he took them within, where he himself might arbitrate their disputes as they arose, and turn to the best account for the country their suggestions as they were made. Either of these great minds was perhaps more inventive than his own, but he had he rarer and higher faculty of judgment, which enabled him to per ceive truth however and wherever presen ted, and which held with an imperturbable hand and an unfaltering eye the airy bal ances in which are weighed the sugges tions of human reason. It is this, after all, which constitutes the greatest faculty of a statesman, because it enables him to gath er tribute from the universal mind, and to command resources far more various and inexhaustible than those which could be furnished by any one man, however gifted he might be. I do not mean to say that his judgment was infallible, or that I ac cord, at this day, with every measure of his Administration ; andyetwith all my ad miration of Jefferson, and with all my partiality for his general scheme of poli tics, I must say that the policy of Wash ington, when viewed with its connecting circumstance, was the masterly work of a statesman, great in his own day, and who would have been great in any time and in any land which he-might have been called to rule. It is to be remembered that he was the pioneer in one of the greatest fields of hu man experiment which has ever tried the power ot man. Every thing Avas new, nothing had been explored. Srew and un- tried theories of government were afloat. Xations were in strange positions, of which history had no examples, and for whose proper treatment experience furnished no rules. On one continent the fountains of the great deep of human passion had been broken up, and were sweeping away so many of the barriers which had been raised by laws, ordinances, and governments, that it was difficult to say how much would probably survive the general wreck. On another a young people, were setting out 6hAite jt5ftifeeVan d-a n dexBumstances unknown hitherto to civilized society. Its interests and sympathies were those of the forest, but its traditions and lessons of ex perience were drawn from the old world, from whence it sprang. Xature" led them in one direction, whilst education pointed to another." To have governed such a peo ple by these old-world traditions would iiave been to take trom David his sling and to clothe him in the armor of Saul. Xo man saw this more clearly than Washing ton, or felt more deeply the necessity for burning the ships to cut off all hope of re turn to systems which had been left behind them. The rules for their goverment were to be suggested by the occasion which re quired them. The law of their self-devel-opement must depend, after all. upon the peculiar circumstances which attended it. " I want," said he, " an American charac ter, that, the powers in Europe may be con vinced we act for ourselves, and not for others." Accordingly, after having estab lished securely the government credit, and organized the great arm of the public ser vice so as to command respect abroad and inspire confidence at home, he cut loose from all embarrassing and entangling al liances with the political systems of Eu rope, and turning the head of the Ameri can column to the wilderness, he directed it upon that independent career of self-de-velopement which has made us what we are. And yet how much did it cost him to establish that great principle of non-inter-vention-in foreign affairs which was neces sary to secure us those opportunities which we have used to such advantage ! On the one hand he was to hold in check the aggressive spirit of powerful nations abroad, and on the other he must encoun ter the surging waves of popular violence, which had arisen so high that none but he could have breasted them. In vain the roar of the people came up demanding to be assigned a place in the great melee of nations which was going on around them. Calm and unmoved, he held fast against the press of this angry throng the door of the temple of war through which alone they could have passed to the ac complishment of -their purpose. A com manding spirit, his voice alone could have settled the raging fury of that storm. He conquered peace for others ; but to do it he encountered the shock of war, and a war which of all others, was the most cruel in its consequences upon himself; for it was a war upon the popularity won by theTiard service of anxious years, and up on his supremacy in the affections of a peo ple whose love he prized beyond all earth ly considerations. It struck the soul and not the body ; it was a wounded spirit which he bore, without one word of com plaint or reproaeh to those whose ingrati tude had caused it. Xor did he relax the reins until he had discharged all his du ties and fulfilled his high purposes. When he did lay them down he left it to poster ity to defend his memory, and to his own deeds to vindicate themselves by their con sequences a noble confidence whrch ex perience has shown to have been not un- s wisely bestowed. He left order where he had found confusion, harmony instead of J discord, a Goverment of law where he had found one of influence, and for divided counsels and the weakness of separate ac tion in the States he substituted a union of them all, and combined a sufficient strengh to accomplish the purposes of their gener al welfare and their common good; The constitution was placed in his hands a dry parchment, a skeleton form. He breathed into that torm the lite which gave it mo tion, and organized a social system whichf, was fitted to the" health ydischarre of allj the functions that are neccessary to a high and progessive civilization. Well might he leave it to such deeds for themselves, and to posterity to assign him his rank and his order amongst the great names which are the consecrated objects of human love and admiration in the pantheon of history. Purchase of Mt. Vernon. The Conclusion of the Speech of -Win. JV. Iiilbo, at the State Capitol, jFashville, Tennessee, in Behalf of the Mt. Vernon Association. I have said that I cordially sympathized with the Ladies of the Union, in the lauda ble objects of the Mount "Vernon Associa tion. They do not propose by pillared piles, triumphal arches, or animated marble, to rescue the name and memory of the im mortal Washington from an untimely ob livion. Xo. For these cannot die, though the Earth should forget her haughtiest Empires in just decay. As long as the blue waters of the Potomac continue to mingle with those of the stormy Atlantic as long as on Time's beaten cliffs there re mains a solitary vestige of the glorious Na tionalities of a world scarred by revolution and ruin, the memory of Washington will find a mausoleum in every heart that loves liberty, and his name wring a reluctant tribute even from the most ruthless op pressor. The memory of Washington is upiquity, hsfa?ne is eternity. Ladies: The pious gratitude, the fervid patriotism, the civic virtue which dictated, and still animate your Association, should warm every heart alive to noble sensibili ty, and fire every tongue that can be mov ed to inspiring eloquence. You propose to do that which Xational Congress and fi trt to- Tef-i&l .twe, Jha .,t i 1 f ul 1 y i?lected. or reiuseu iuuu. jlju jji vpuse iu puruuase, by free contribution, the spot, where the mortal remains of the beloved Father of his country lie quietly inurned, and conse crate it as a Mecca of Patriotism, to the Pilgrim and exiled patriots of every clime. You propose to preserve his yet unscatter ed dust, from the blight of ages, from the rude desecration of Vandalic hands, from foreign and intestine wars, when fierce des olation shall ride upon the sulphury Siroc. You propose that the very trees of the for est, that now weep their dew drops as he sleeps in his glory the hills and dales, and ocean-bound streams, that were the Itevolutionary contemporaries of his im mortal achievements, shall ever remain si lent witnesses of an universal and indis criminate veneration of the spontaneous ovations of patriotic hearts from every realm of the sun. Surely, if the affecting strains of the po et Eurepides, repeated by the chain-bound captive in Syracusan dungeons, could re lent the heart, and move to tears the fierce Barbarian, and restore once more the for lorn Athenian to his beloved country, will not the story of this deed of national grat itude and patriotic devotion by the Moth ers of the llepublic, in all time to come through the ever-changing tides of empire, relent the heart and unnerve the arm of the rudest despoiler, who should attempt to violate the holy sanctuary of national love? If the Grecian warrior or orator, when he wished to inspire the people to 'great and heroic achievements, would point to the Acropolis, crowned with the monu ments of their valor ; or repair to the plains of Platea and Marathon, and invoke the shades of their rnigthy dead to prosper and sanctify the cause in which he was en gaged ; if the Swiss for five hundred years after the establishment of their independ ence, assembled on the fields ofMorgarten and Laupen, to spread garlands over the graves, and invoke the spirits of the illus trious dead, to still maintain their country's liberty, and protect it against the formiaa ble aggressions of their haughty foes then, too, may the sons of America, when thick gathering public disasters shall threaten us, from home or abroad, repair to this spot, as to a holy altar, and invoking the spirit of the immortal Washington, swear anew never to despair of the Republic, but whithersoever its honor or glory bid them, there to march forth, firmly resolved to conquer or to die. For will not liberty ever reanimate, and glory rekindle, at the urn of a Washington? But will the ladies be ultimately suc cessful in this, their commendable enter prise? They will -for who can resist the fascination of their address, the eloquence of their tongue, and the magic of their beauty? Like Douglas and Hotspur uni ted, they could vie with a world in arms 1 Shall we, the young men of the State, de ny to their cause our gallautry and elo quence? Shall we hear of ourselves, (as Tasso informs ua,) what young Bouillion, speaking of Armida, exclaimed : "What ll they say at the Court of France, when Yis known that we have refused our aid J beauty ?" They have already enlisted K2T their behalf some of the most eloquent d gifted of our orators and 'statesman Edward Everett the rival of a Storylh th& diversity of his attainments of a Web ster, in comprehensive statesmanship of adlufledge or a Fisher Ames, in the ele gance and brilliancy of his oratory, is elec trifying the Xorth in his fervid and patri dt&appeals. Like the Mantuau Bard, as l&gsapproaches the tomb, he seems to trans- something more divine than ever, in to his magic "strains like -those Swan's" of the Eurotas consecrated to the Muses. which just before they expired, being fa vored with an inward view of Olympus, manifested their beatific visions and bliss, by strains of the sweetest melody. Shall it be asked, what has gallant, no ble, chivalric Tennessee done, and what will she hereafter do ? We reply, under the auspices of our most excellent and -esteemed Vice President, Mrs. Frances B. Fogg, she has done much and will still do more. Can Tennessee that has purchased for her children, and childrens' children, the tomb of a Jackson, be indifferent to that of a Washington ? If Washington, by his heroism and wisdom, may be said to have given a new birth to freedom, and upon the ruins of British arrogance and tyranny, to have erected the splendid fab ric of our constitutional liberty Jackson, by his, may be said to have maintained and perpetuated them to have transmit ted them to posterity, undimmed in their splendor, and unsullied in their glory. Washington and Jackson heroes and statesmen thy race, I fear, is the last and noblest of time: "Thy deeds, through the night clouds of ages shall lighten ; Thy names on his banner the soldier shall trace, To hallow his death, or his triumph to bright- en." Xo: Tennesseans can never be indiffer ent to whatever will testify the nation's gratitude to departed worth to that which will impress their children with the recol lection of past achievements, and a just ap preciation of the glories of that country which they are to defend and perpetuate with that which is at once a monument of former greatness, and the pledge of future glory.: : A people who remember with be- ftOfning pride and gratitude- the '-deeds of their illustrious ancestry, will not prove unworthy of them in the field of battle, or in the council chambers of nations. The First Lesson in Gambling-. Where there are great collections of people there are always bad and foolish people among them. It was at Bridge port, where the State 1 air was held last week. Outside the grounds, behind or within tents and booths, were many who gambled, and led others to do so. Xow, it is a very simple thing to gamble, so simple, and so often appears so fair, that many a boy is led to take his first step be fore he knows it. There was behind one oyster stand, a cir cle of men and boys; on the ground sat a poor, degraded, dissipated man, poorly clad, looking sick and weak. He held in his hand several iron rings, and before him was a board with large nails driven in it, which stood upright. A clear-faced, bright eyed, handsome little fellow, well dressed and well-behaved, stepped up to him. He was just such a boy as is prompt at day school; and always has his lesson at sun day school ; and such a boy as will always be a favorite with his companions, for his good heart, his kindness and unselfishness. He showed this all in his face as he stepped up to the man and said, ''What's that lbr?" "Give me a cent and you may pitch one of these rings, and if it catches over a nail I'll give you six cents" That seemed fair enongh, so the boy handed him a cent and took the ring. He steped back fo the stake, tossed the ring, and it cattght one of the nails. "Will you take six rings to pitch again, or six cents." "Six cents," was the answer, and two three-cent pieces were put into his hand, and he stepped off, well satisfied with what he had done, and probably not having any idea that he had done wrong. A gentleman standing near, had watch ed him, and now, before he had time to look about and rejoin his companions, laid his hand on his shoulder "My lad, that is your first lesson in gambling!" "Gambling, sir?" "You staked your penny and won six Did you not?" "Yes, I did." "You did not earn them, and they were not given you; you won them, just as gamblers win money. You have taken the first step in the path ; that man has gone through it, and you see the end. Xow, I advise you to go and give him six cents back and ask him for your penny, and then stand square with the world, an honest boy once more." . - "He had hung his head down, but raised It quickly, and his bright, open look, as he said, "111 do it," will not be forgotten. He ran back, and soon emerged from the ring looking happier than even He touch ed his cap and bowed pleasantly, as he ran away to join his comrades. That boy was honest honest to himself, honest in his impulses, honest in his inmost soul. He did not stop to think that gen tleman doe3 not know me, and I shall make a better use of the money than that poor gambling vagabond ; so I'll just say nothing about it, but keep it, but keep what I have fairly won. Xo, he was true to his inmost soul ; and he did right, as if he was used to doing right, and as if it were no hardship. That is true honor and honesty not, whether it is necessary or not, whether anybody will know it ; but to be honorable for honor's sake, truthful and honest for. the love of it. "Who does not love transparent characters anywhere, everywhere, in boys or girls, in young or old. Homestead. Eloquent and Patriotic. In the United States Senate last week, during the discussion of the bill to admit Minnesota into the LTnion as a State, Sen ator Crittenden made a truly noble speech. After powerfully opposing the proposition to defer further action upon the bill until Kansas should be ready for admission, he gave expression to the following senti ments: With all these arguments and views and m almost every argument and controversy that I now witness on this floor are min gled, to give them strength and point, either prognoities of the overthrow of this government, threats against its existence This is the common strengthening means now thrown into every argument, here. While we prize the Union, while we would, I am sure, and the very gentlemen who use this language would do all they could to preserve and perpetuate the constitution and the Union, there is not a day that we are not doomed to listen here over and over again to the threats of its overthrow; predictions thrown out, little prophecies made that to-morrow, or at some day near at hand this government is to be no more. Sir, this is the most unfortunate and ominous signal that exists in the whole country, in my opinion. If such language can be fa miliarly used and thrown into every argiw ment as a make weight as a dust m the balance, if these threats can be made here against the existence of the Union, and if they can have any effect upon the people of this country, then indeed, sir, we may well apprehend that it cannot last long. I hope it will last forever, and if no body threatened it until I did, it would last for ever. Applause in the galleries. Yes sir, and will last much longer than gentle men here by continual repetition and re flection, and meditation, believe to be so near at hand ; and it would last much long er, perhaps, but for these meditations. They prize it so highly, that the remotest danger affects them ; and they forthwith begin to prophesy that its end is near at hand or they are provoked at something which they think 13 adverse to the inter ests of the Republic and the Union, and then they threaten; but all this is promot ing the very purpose and the very end against which I know, in their heart, they are opposed and with their hands would oppose. We should do well, I think to throw out of our ordinary course of argument these threats and these prophesies. I believe the Union is to live, not because I wish it, or vou wish it sir, but it is to live for ages : I believe it is enshrined in the hearts of the people, and they will be its sustainers and maintainors even if we are recreant to the part we are to act and desire its over throw. It is not in our power thank God it is not in the power of the Senate or ot' the Congress of the United States, to overthrow this government and I rejoice in it. Honesty the Best Policy. Xothing is more essential to the busi ness man for success in his mercantile pur suits, than the establishment upon a sub stantial basis, his business position and his character for honesty and straight for ward dealings. This position once attained in the community, success is always sure to follow his business operations. With out it he becomes like the consumptive pa tient, always ailing, and subject to the at mospheric changes of the hour. In the morning he lives is known ; in the even ing, dead forgotten. He is only referred to as a warning to others, avoid his mis tekes and steer clear of his errors ; while the honest merchant prospers from day to day, becomes beloved an respected by the community in which he moves. Success crowns his labors, and when the hour of his earthly departure comes he dies regret ted, arid his memory ever remains green, as a monument of worth, of honesty, and the three elements of success. The old proverb, that "honesty is the best policy," is verified over and over again through out the- world, and no man who has adopt ed the principle from the love of it, has ever repented for his choice. While thou sands upon thousands have too late seen the mistake of neglecting its admonition, and thereby pursued the shadow for the substance. . V Honesty is the best policy, and the more thoroughly it is brought into every minute transaction of life the greater the success, both in worldly as well as spiritual gains. A Singular Coincidence. We visited a few days since a spot rendered some what memorable as having been the scene of a duel between two of Kentucky's chivalrous sons. The position ot the dnelists, about eight paces, was marked by two trees, one of which bears the initials of one of the party's entire name cut into the bark; the other bears only the initial of the last name of the other party. The tree under which the party stood who was killed is dead, having, as we are informed,- gradu ally decayed from the time. The other tree is singularly typical of the condition of the surviving party, now an inmate ofalu natic asylum, standing, as it does with the lower branches full of life and verdure while its top is dead and leafless. Strange thoughts crowded our minds as we stood and gazed upon these unfortunate winesses of an unfortunate deed. Go-ryctovJn D. C) Journal. --- Sad Case of Postponed Marriage. A young lady in Danbiiry, Conn., is desirous of getting married. She has obtained all the necessary articles the man, bridal at' tire, gewgaws, "chicken fixing," fec, but an alarming obstacle has presented itself There is no church in tlia"t place with aisles broad enough to admit her crini line, and so she is obliged to postpone the "happy day until the completion of a new sane tuary, which is in progress of erection. A Prospect of Growing Large Men. Di Holmes, the Boston anatomist has giv en us a new theory for manufacturing of men of a Kentucky, large growth. He says: "in "1 Ohio and Western Vermont,- men grow- to a large size because of the limestone formation under the soil. Parts of families have emigrated to those regions and the result in the next generation has been a larger bone development in those who left Massachusetts than in those who remained. Kentuek-, Ohio and Iowa will grow large men; The finest figures in tha vrorld will be found in the -Valley of tha Mississippi in a few generations." He Paid in Advance. A contemporary eaysf "There is a man up in our county who always pay's for his paper in advance. He ha never had a sick day in his life never had-&ny; corus or the toothache Ins potatoes never rot the weevil never eat his wheat the frost never kills his corn of beans his babies never cry in the night and his wife never scolds, and always wears the moderate size hoops." Reader, if you would realize like results on your own part. Fatal Accident. On Sunday erening last a man by the name of Jesse Allen, of Ashe county X. C, while on his way from Abingdon with his team, was instantly killed near Mock's Saw Mill or? the Laurel. He was sitting upon the saddle horse when the team took fright, when he Was thrown over the horse's head, the wheels of the wagon passing over his neck arid head. He leaves a wife and five children. Cause and effect. A lady was recently teaching a boy to spell. The boy spelt "cold,""but could not pronounce it. In vain his teacher asked him to think and try. At last she asked him, " What do you get when you go out upon the wet pave ment on a rainy day and wet your feet?" "I get a licking." MascCeine Impertinence, A naughty fellow says that it will never do for ladies who live in the country to follow the fash ion by wearing scarlet what d'ye call 'ems, as if the oxen espy them, they will give the wearers a "flourish of horns" not set down in the bills. Gold in Kansas. Gold has been dis covered in Kansas George Butler, U. S Indian Agent in the Creek Xation, saya that a portion of Kansas, between the 3Sth and 35th parallels, near Pike's, on the South Platte is auriferous. Mr. Beck, from north Georgia, has visited that, part of the territory and says that for three hundred miles around gold may be obtain ed. When you see young men spending all they can make, as fast as they make it, and when we consider the importance of a little cash capital to their future prosper ity, we are amazed that their own com mon sense does not urge with sufficient propriety, the duty of trying to save, if it be ever so little, from their present earn ings towards a future capital. 5gr It is said that the Secretary of War, with Generals Scott and Harney, is busily engaged in arranging the Spring campaign against the Mormons. The Secretary has decided not to wait the action of; Congress in relation to increasing the army, but to immediately withdraw the entire force from the frontier and all other quarters, and con centrate them against the Mormons. Santa Anna Again in PowEK.Ad vi ces from San Domingo to February 6thy state that.Baes had concluded to surrender, and that as 66on as the articles of capitula tion could be ratified, Santa Anna would I be installed President. -". .) -, . j : i -' - r A i r ... i '3 1 1" - '--. ," ; . -.x ". - " . ' ; 4 , A 4 - it- - v 7'' "V ilM' 'i'.. ihl" ittmt i
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