Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23
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WASHINGTON CRY, August 8, 1854.
To the editors Of Missouri Democrat:
SIRs: In 1849 | stated repeatedly in my
public speeches in the Senate of Missouri,
iGod d-n the State) that the old saying
that "Republics are ungrateful," was false
hood and calumny, sir: but now find that
was then mistaken. am now fully con-
WINGED Of the truth Of that old saying-Re-
publics are ungratefuI, sir have been
beaten for Congress in my own district, sir,
and know, sir, that no such result could
have been produced except by the basest
ingratitude, sir Am not Old Bullion, sir ?
Did not l solitary and alone, put the ball of
the Expunging Resolution in motion !?
Didn't advocate in my speeches the reduc-
ton Of the duty on Salt! Didn't | throttle
and kill tina; monster the United States
Bank? Was not in the Senate for thirty
years, and have not written a thirty years
view; sir? Tell me, sir, that republics are
grateful, sir! No. sir, ii is false, strand if
you affirm 10 the contrary, sir. you are a liar
and dirty dog, sir-misrepresenting the
truth for criminal purposes, sir But know
who il was that beat me. sir-it was not the
Wings, sir-it was the Nulifers, sir,-they
are scamps and rottens. sir-lhey must have
been in conclave with the 5000 victems
who died of the cholera in St. Louis in ls49.
Yes sir, a comlaUe sir-con with, and ctdOss a
key, sir-locked up with them, sir, And
sir, | assert it. the shade of Calhoun was also
locked up with them, and held their key,
sir. For these base conspirators against
'me and mine sir-are nothing but adj
juncts of Calhoun, sir-yes sir. ad jnncts of
Calhoun, sr-joined him. sir.-Ad, tojunetus
joined YOURS '"'s THos. Il. BENTON.
NApoLEoN's LEGAcY.-The columns of the
Montienr contains an Imperial Decree, eX-
employing with no ordinary force, the mu-
liability of all human affairs. Most readers
will be aware that the Emperor Napoleon
|, gave directions py his will for the distr-
button of large sum of money among those
who had foug ht the battles of France under
his command. Circumstances prevented
for considerable period the operation of
this bequest bnt it has at length been put
in the way of accomplishment by the pres
ent Emperor of the French, and in the Off
cial journal Of Tuesday last appeared the
necessary ordinances for the purpose. Now,
whatever may have been the speculations
of Napoleon l. OH this point. we may safely
conclude that he never anticipated the tul-
fiIment of his wishes more than thirty years
after his decease, through the agency OF
Napoleon Ill. seated by the grace of God
and the will of his people on the throne
which he himself had filled But another
feature of this incident is more remarkable
still
AT the very moment when, by virtne of
unexpected events, this Imperial legacy 10
the wounded of Waterloo, is at last made re-
coyerable the comrades and successors of
these very soldiers, are fighting shoulder to
shoulder with the men who were then their
enemies. The will of the Great Napoleon
has only taken effect at period when all
the ideas and combinations of his age have
been utterly uperseded-when French
Empire has been recognised as symbollcal.
not of war but Of peace-when Frenchmen
and EngIishmen are the truest of allies-and
when antagonsm which shallow politicians
used to call eternal has been exchanged for
friendship based on that most substantial!
of all grounds; the common convictions Of
the two nations.
"TaEsE ARE My JEwELs"-" Not many
months ago. somebody sent us pamphlet
containing a sermon preached al the fune-
raj Of minister, who died and was buried
in one of the towns of Massachusetts, The
preacher, in most eloquent strain, dwelt
upon the devoted life of the deceased and
the success which had attended his ministry.
He presented him by beautiful figure Of
rhetoric, before the Great Judge bringing as
his offering the souls he had been instrument
tai in saving and saying with proud humil-
ity, while Heaven rang with hallelujahs,
These are my jewels"
We turned from the glowing bctnre of
the life and death Of good man. to the &C
count Of a meeting Of brewers and distilers,
which was presided over by one of the most
extensive manufacturers of intoxicating
drinks in the State, and we conld not help
but think of the wonderful difference there
would be, on the day of final accounting be-
tween the good man whose funeral sermon
we had read, and the president Of that NEE
ting. The one presenting himself for jndg-
ment, with the souls redeemed through his
ministry, and saying in the eloquent and EN-.
phatc words of the preacher, these are my
Jewels The other surrounded by an army
Of lost souls, reekng up from the alms-honses,
the brothels, the cutters, the prisons, and the
Of wealth, from the novels of poverty, and
tremes, presenting them before the Majesty
Of Heaven, yelling blasphemies, shouting
profanities, and claiming them as the fruits
Of his labors, and saying, these are my jew
els'
There is an eternal distinction between
two such meu, difference that may we'll be
counted as everlasting State Reg.
THIRTY-NINE YEARS IN JAIL.-The New
York Tribune comments as follows on the
fact that VIM. Miller has been imprisoned
for debt in England, the last thirty-nine
years:
"This poor fellow entered his prison when
another sovereign was on the English throne.
The black walls closed on him when the
railway, the electric telegraph, and the
daguerreotype were unknown in England
What strange revusion of feeling he must
have experienced when he stepped from his
cell into the express train that was 10 carry
him 10 London! For more than half Of his
life he had been dead to the world, seeing
no face but his jailor's, hearing no voice but
that Of the superintendent on his diurnal
rounds. Spiders and rats were perhaps his
only company, and through his grated win
dow he could see just enough OF the blue