Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-08
LETTER FROM GOV. TRoUP.

of the venerable and distinguished author IN rela-
ton to the issues before the country, and as
feel assured that citizens, of all parties, will
desire to know the sentiments of one whose tried
patriotism and devotion to their rights, in times
! past has ranked him among the wisest and purest
men of the age and given to his name historical
fame of which every true Georgian will ever be proud
we have transferred it to our columns.
Mr.. Slappy, in introducing the letters to readers
| OF the Patriot, remarks:
"Gov. Troup, now nearly eighty years of age,
ought to be becoming superanuated; not so, how
ever-his letters show that his mind is as clear as
crystal water, and as firm as adamant. He is decd
edy the most intellectual statesman and purest po-
litcian of the age. Georgia's most gifted citizen,
original, free, bold, independent thinker-un-
faultering and vigorous He is ready for any emer-
ency and every crisis; he stood by Georgia exactly
thirty years ago Gin 1929 he will stand by her in
1856"
The following is the letter:
VALDosrA, July 4, 1856.
DEAR Sir: You quite welcome to do you
please with anything of mine you may have in pos
session, provided you think good may come of it.
have neither TASTE inclination or spirits for con-
troversal politics, but am not withsandlng far from
being Indifferent to the welfare of our country. If
a word from could subserve its interest in any
sense, it would not be wanting. We see with diff
ferent eyes, would be amazed at the opposition
to the present administration, especially in the
Southern country.*
The present is in TRUTH the least exceptionable of
all the administrations we have ever had, General
Washington's, Mr.. Jeffersons, and Mr. Folks not
excepted. People seemto be opposed to it. because
there is really nothing find fault with. The South
ern people bound, by honor, gratitude and pat
riotism, to sustain It with all their might tCath0
lie Church and Foreign Emigration mere pre-
tences-the Administration has nothing to do with
either The first has existed at all times without COM
plant; the second has not only existed, but has
been almost uniformly encouraged by people and
Government; and now party is formed, to destroy
the Administration because it will not destroy the
Roman Catholics and put down foreigners
This is not to be believed. The true grounds of
opposition 1st The very small number of offices
at disposal of the President, when compared with
the very great number of those who seek them;
g. The faithful and unfaltering integrity with which
the public treasure is guarded against the thieves
who prowl by night and by day to break in and
steal; and Sd. The in1exible courage with which
the President in defending the Constitution defends
the dearest rights and most sacred interests of the
South. The most formidable power against the adj
mnistration is the party occupying the latter ground
and what spectacle is here presented for the South
ern country; Mr.. Pierce and Mr.. Hale both are from
New Hampshire-the an honest man; and the
other bigot and fanatic aboliti onist What con-
trastl What an elfulgence! What blackness!
And yet there Southern men acting with the
latter to humble and PROSTATE the former and with
scarcely any better prctex than that the former had
appointed to two conspicuousoffices two prominent
men, one failing in his duty, and the other doing his
with honor and advantage to the country. Mistak-
en- and deuded men! Our very safety depending
on union among ourselves, they would sow dscord
and division. Our highest interests depending
the Veto they WOnQ take the veto lTOm MT FIERCE
to bestow it on Mr.. Hale, Mr.. Anybody. Such
men seek to restore the administration of the past,
when peculation and plumber and swindling were
the order of the day in every administrative depart
ment and when the only security of the public
against rapiue and spoliaton, was the exhaustion
and beggary of the treasury.
Very respectfully, dear sir,
G. NJ. TROUP.
DR.. JOHN G. SLAPPEY, Newton, Ga.
P.S. The President has had nothing to do with
the disgraceful bidding for the Presidency going
for time in the Senate of the U: s., where the
public lands and the public offices have been order
ed to any or everybody who had vote to give, and
any or everybody might be qualified.
zElected by vast majority countrymen a man.
honorable himself he is threatened with
throw by majority almost formidable, for Gas think
This Church is innocent now, in the of all
secS ii has been before for hundred
years. is beneath the finer people than
the people of Maryland, who made to fall under the
common prescription.
ANOTHER SCRAP OF HIsroRY.-Out of the dust of
the earth were all the nations of the world made.
Who is entitled to superiority over his fellow, on
the score of physical matter? Answer, we
Know-Nohng proscriptionsts, if you cal. Itwould
do the members of the Secret Order no harm
they to stroll through the old burying grounds of
Christ Church, st. Peters (EpiscopaD the several
Presbyterian, and ST. Marys, (Catholic) in order to
acquaint their minds with the fact, that there
heroes and patriots in our war of independence, and
that of 1872 whose first breath drawn in for
eign land. Their ashes repose in honor, and the
gratitude of whole nation bore testimony to their
virtues and services We love to walk among the
tombs of the great and patriotic dead, for reflection
there gives spur to emulation, and teaches
lesson fraught with wisdom. The beauties of Grays
Eegy and Blair's Grave must be pondered in such
a spot, to be fully realized. Among the many evil
dences, that one of foreign birth, and Catholic at
that, can be good CITIZEN and deserve well of his
adopted country, shall for the present pass by
the tomb of Hugh Mercer, and give the inscription
on the monument of Commodore John Barry, as to
seen in st. Marys Catholic ground. 1t should shame
the Know-Nothings out of their unmany and I'M
christian prescriptions. 1t roads as follows:
Let the Patriot, the Soldier and the Christian
who visit these mansions of the dead,
view this monument with respect.
Beneath it are deposited the remains of
JOHN BARRY.
He was born in the County of Wexford, in Ireland,
but America was the object of his patriotism
and the theater of his usefulness and honor.
In the Revolutionary war, which established
the Independence of the United States,
he bore the Commission of Captain
in their infant Navy,
and after wards became it's
80. Commander-n-C Chief.
He fought often, and bled in the of freedom.
But his habits of war did not lessen in hin,
the peaceful virtues which adorn private life.
He was gentle, kind, just and charitable,
and not less beloved by his family and friends,
than by his grateful country
In a full belief of the doctrines of the Gospel
he calmly resigned his soul into the arms of his
REDEEMER,
on the 18th of Septerber, 1903,
in the 59th year of his age.