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enemy than to submit to a dictation like ths [ from one of her own leaders. Such submis- sion must lead her to inevitable Reorganization ana rum. It becomes, therefore, the duty of every good democrat, both in and out of Hi. nols, to guard aganst any misapplied sympathy Tor MI. Douglas whilst in his present defiant position. Between him and democracy the true democracy there must continue to be a deep gulf, until he shall choose to close it. bv a ready acquescence in the decisions of the party on any great questlon-Such as the United States Dahk ana the suo-treasury in the days of ack son, the Texas question under Mr. Polk. the Kansas and Nebraska bill under MT. Pierce the Lecompton and English bills under James oochanan. On none of these was it ever per mltted to any one to go off from the party and loln the enemy ID battering down our walls. ds- ieatlng one by one our favorite measures. and then to return, still armed to the teeth and de- iiant Tn temper, to demand protection against that very enemy with which he had just been ln close league and alliance. If democracy be. iieves that she has living principle within her. II she feels that she has high and lasting des- tiny to fulfill for the good of mankind she will never submit to humiliation like this
 
 WAsHINGTON's FAMILY BIBIE.-Sevorol weeks since the following article appeared in one of our city papers:
 The agent Of the Nashville Bible Society. Mir. R. M. Hawkins, has recently been distrjb1, ting Bibles Tn Macon county, Tennessee and while travelling through the country, met with the old family Bible that found place in Gen. Washington's chamber. Mr. Hawkins says:
 " took 1t In my hands and examined it carefully, after which read the 18th Psalm in family worship. then asked the brother to tell me now he came ln possession of 1t. He said that at the Generals death his neice fell her to the Bible. Previous to leaving Virginia, her son was taken sick and died. He waited on him until death The old ladv told him that she was getting old and must soon die, and that she had nothing to give him for waiting on her son save the old family Bible. He glad ly received 1t, and brought it to Tennessee with him on horseback. He told me that he would not take three thousand dollars for 1t. The gentleman lives In the town of Lafavette. Ma con county, and his name is Col Claiborne.- You can't begin to imagine how I felt while turning over itsleaves Ireally felt and thought that had found precious jewell It appear ed to me that 1 would have given any price for it."
 MT. Wm. Garrett, of Rome, Ga, in letter published in the Rome Southerner, denies that the Bible in the possession of Col Claiborne is the family Bible of Gen. Washington. which he supposes to be in the possession of John A. Washington, late proprietor of Mount Vernon. or in that of some of Mrs Gen. Washngton's descendants. Mir. Garrett gives the following history of the Bible in the possession of Col Claborne:
 This veritable Col Claiborne obtained the blole, which he has thus paraded before the pubic, under the following circumstances: From my father law and motber-in-law, Mir. Warner Washington, and his wife Mrs. Ariana Washington, late of this city, whilst they kept a boarding house in Jacksonville, Alabama. | Claiborne and young man he claimed as his son, named Adam, came to Jacksonville from Tennessee, in the fall of 1S43, for some pur- pose which 1 do not now distinctly remember. but It seems to me to attend court and stopped with Mrs. Washington, she being the principal manager of the house. Not long after their arrival Adam took sick and in few days died; Mrs Washington, during his sickness, giving that unremitted attention which she always ex- tended both to rich and poor under such cir cumstances, and for which she was conspicuous III that community and every other in which she ever lived. This young man died in a room which had been occupied by myself and
 
 being more comfortable and suitable for a sick person. h this room Claiborne found Mrs. WashingJon's Bible, which she bought in AL cXandria then in the District of Columbia, in the year 1928, to replace her original Bible, which had been lost or destroyed on the occa- sion of the great fire in that town during the winter of 1821-'28. He used or pretended to use it during his sons illness, and after his death was unceasing in his importantly to ob- tam It, until Mrs. Washington consented to give it to him.
 W ny he was so eager to possess himself Of 1t, no one could then divine, and his object and motives became matters of speculation and inquiry, not only to the family but to others who visited the house and witnessed what pass ed. It was of little or no intrinsic value to the family, for It was poor edition, and we had another and larger one which contained the true family record, but 1 insisted at the time that she should not let him have it. The day after the young man died 1 made visit on business to the former residence of Mir. and Mrs. Washington, about twenty miles from Jacksonville, i'll the ad joining county, and on my return, about half way between the two places, l met Claiborne leading his sons horse, and carrying, as he stated, the Bible with him, on horseback to Tennessee. The statement is so barefaced and improbable that 1 cannot conceive how any man, such as Mir. Hawkins seems to be, if he gave the subject the least consideration could believe that CIai- borne (who is now not exceeding s or GA years old) could, after he came to years of maturity, have waited on the dying son of one of Gen. Washington's nieces, and that she should have been so poorly off as to have nothing to con- pensate him with but her unce's family Bi- ble"
 Mr. Garrett states that Mr. and Mrs. Wash lnGton, from the latter of whom Col. Claiborne obtained the Bible, were only collaterally re- lated to Gen. Washington, one being the third and the other the fourth cousin
 This places Col. Blaborne in an awkward po- siton, and we shall await his explanation O f the affair."
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