Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-12-27

picture of the republic of dogs. How they
stand sentinel at their doors, and at the
! first approach of danger, kick up their
heels in the air, and tumble down into
their subterranean habitati0nS. Through
the defiles of the Rocky Mountains you
beckon us onward, and relate ''The Adj
ventures Of Captain Bonneville" For
three years he lived in this mountain home,
lost to the States, lost to the war with
Mexico. Then your Life of Goldsmith !"
we have picked up to enliven the scene,
and feel happy. You teach how you excel
in biography. Poor Goldsmith In your
writings he will live on this continent. He
found home in Westminster Abbey. He
wrote for England, and England gave him
grave, and an Englishman wrote his cpl
taph
! Ron tetigit,
Nu2lufn qu0d tetigit non ornavit."
The / life of Mahomet recalls deeds of
other ages, when the Koran was pitted
against the Bible; the shrine of Mecca
against the Church of Christ; when the ge-
MUS OF Gregory, known in history as Hill
idebrand, conceived and planned the enter
prise OF auaying Europe against Asia, and
snatched from Moslem hands Jerusalem;
when bishops kept I" falcons, dogs, or
fools" Beneath clumps OF palm-trees have
we sat, or have wandered through valleys
of cedars. with this new apostle, and have
slakad CIR thirst at the same sacred GASES,
green spots III arid lands. We have seen
the trees bow il reverence to this mighty
prophet, and ham tell him it was
poisoned, and the stones of the street
cry atUlit:: suycst thou thus, O, Maho-
met" The sword is the key of heaven
and hell; drop of blood shed for Islam,
or night spent III arms, is OF more avail
: he Of fact
whatsoever dies in battle has his sins forgiv
en-; at the day Of judgment his wounds shall
De OdoriferoUs as musk, and resplendent
Us yerHilion; and the loss Of his limbs shall
be supplied bp the plumes OF angels and
cherIbim. Verify, thou art great among
men, and we adore and glorify thee i'll the
highest" The stones fall back with great
CHATTER, and the little ones Of the road look
after him.
Such is Irving in all that is enchanting IN
prose composition. He filings around us ''a
convivial currency. linking our whole COM
munity together in good humor and good
fellowship; the rallying point ofhome-feel-
ing; the seasoning Of civic festivities; the
staple OF local tales and social pleasantries."
In his youth he loved solitude, and was al
ways rambling through old ruins, and pla-
ces Of popular notoriety, wherever tradition
had fixed anything mysterious or startling.
He climbed crags, descended into caves,
far away into the bowels Of the earth. His
fancy was a cosmos and he peopled it with
his own creation. He sat down by the riv
er side, and by the lake, and in the glade,
and read Chaucer and Spencer. As cold
style he writes for paper. He travels
over France. He roams over the classic
Italy. He visits the Home of Tell, and the
Rhine land. He selects riches, and his
memory keeps them to embelish his writ
ings at ST 1yside. Sunnyside what a
halo Of glor5 is not around thy gilded walls!
Here passed Irving the happiest hours of
his life. In its holy precincts, holy to him
and to the whole literary world, he wrote
on the temple offame an immortaln name. He
was ''by far the greatest genius which APP
pearel Oh the literary horizon of the New
| World. and that genius still lives uneclips-
ed. He died IN 1859, in his seventy-sixth
year, and left behind him a fame, which
| like that Of Cicero, will go down to futurity
and be cherished by nations when the Re
public Of America is no more.
Special Telegram to tue N. Y. Herald
ALABAMA.
Conservative Campaign Against eIe New
Constitutional Buresu Official Tarred
and Earnsslet by Frecdmen-TerribIc
| Murder in Baldw in County.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 81, 1867,
9o'clock P. NJ
! The leading conservative press of this
State Is publishing a campaign document
| prepared by distinguished jurist, review
ing the new constitution, in which the fol-
lowing are the main points elaborated: =
Political slavery for white men, not for re-
belliOn, treason or other crimes, but mere
| ~ for conscientious difference of opinion
with latter day radicals. The proposition
is illustrated by dialogue between Gov
ernoG Fitzpatrick and Judge Adam Fielder |
The constitution eXacts of all persons be- !
fore registering an oath, the observance of
one part of which is q violation of another !
part thereof. 1t imposes inconsistent du- /
ties and obligations. It demands an i'm
possibility. IL rewards and exalts vice and
ignorance, and Furnishes and proscribes in
tellIgence, virtue and patriotism. The Lee |
gIsiature may remove the disabilities i'm |
posed in the third section of the seventh |
article Of the constitution, but cannot break |
any Of the manaces forged for the people !
by the test oath. The shackles imposed
by the test oath upon the conscierces and |
action Of the people is more hursful and
cruel than any ever imposed by slavehold- !
eTs upon the limbs and bodies of their
slaves. No man who takes that oath can
possibly be free. It excludes freedom of !
thought and of action. It's adoption ex-
clades capital and immigration of honest
people OF every kind. 1t destroys utterly
all hope of the rccuperation of Alabama
Reversing Heaven 5 law, it rewards the ig-
norant, thoughtless and wicked, and pun
ishes the virtuous, intelligent and good.
The new features Of the test oath are
commented on, its hideous and total in
compatibility with the prosperity and lib
erty of the people demonstrates that no
evil on earth can be greater than it's adop-
ton for people born to heritage of free
dom.
At Vienna, Madison county few days
ago, number ofnegroes from whom q sub
agent OF the Bureau in Mars hall county
was endeayoring to collect 81 so each for
drawing contracts, gave him coat Of tar
and Varnish. In this condition he intruded
into a-merchant's store, using indecent and
bolsterous language in the presence of la
dies, which resulted in his being expelled
with some personal injury
On Wednesday night q horrible murder
was committed near Perdido station, in
Baldwin county. A negro man named