The age-herald., 1900-12-20
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Ihou Wiit eApeFlence very unsettled time, this being thy birthday, and wilt get to law and quarreling, and wilt travel and change and injure thy prospects; keep thy self very quiet and run no risks"
 "A child born on this day will be very sharp and clever-too much so; in business it will meet with many reverses; it should keep in employ
 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for Thursday, December 20, 1900:
 Buy, speculate, ask favors, and push thy business before 1 o'clock in the after noon."
 Thou hast a successful birthday and thy business will prosper"
 Young people will court or marry"
 "A child born on this day will be suc- cessful in its undertakings. and will rise in life"
 Said an Alabamian, by adoption, from the land of Calhoun:
 "The Attorney General of the United States arguing the right in Congress to put discriminating tariff upon the com merce of that federal territory, the island of Porto Rico, says the doctrine of equality of all the organized territories was never DSdTu Ol uHlll 1911, WItn IL was Ntillt0 and advocated by Calhoun.
 MT. Griggs is too nasty and errs, seri- ously Jefferson's letter Q82O to Dr. Holmes, then a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts, takes the inevitable position that equality of the States admit ted to the Union must be preceded by equality of the territories organized by Congress for the purpose of creating States to be admitted In a word, Congress may not prescribe arbitrarily the institutions of a territory, the tax laws, withholding of habeas corpus, trial by jury, freedom of speech and the press, military rights and so on, so as to limit or deny to that ter ritory the full measure of equality with other territories when 1t comes to ask to be admitted as a State. Later, in the ex- amples of California and New Mexico, MT. Calhoun merely adopted the dictum of Jefferson as applied to a part of the earl jed Louisiana purchase. MT. Griggs gar bles and misrepresents the Carolinian.
 MT. Griggs further says that Chief Jus tice Fancy copied the doctrine of the Dred Scott decree from Calhoun; and that the decree has become a by-word and his sing.
 "The Louisiana Purchase treaty differs very much from the Spanish Islands pur- chase treaty in this, to-wit: the treaty with Napoleon stipulated that the inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the United States and admitted as soon as promulgated by Jefferson. MT. MeIlin- ley is powerless to apply that principle to his acquisition, for natural hindrance.
 I ,,sei9 Dur "a n treaty precedes MT. Calhoun, by forty and odd years, as Chief Justice Taneys author ity in the doctrine laid down in the Dred Scott decree. The Attorney General seems to have abandoned the precedents in the great case at bar to come to the relief of the Republican party in it's usurpation.'
 
 'One mutiny amongst the students at the State University which has never been re- ferred to in the newspapers, but which was perhaps the most exciting of all, developed in an instant one night during the session of 1S75-76," said Tom Baine, now of Bir- mingham then of Lowndes County.
 That mutiny, which lasted but a few hours broke out very suddenly one Sunday night Some of the boys who had obtained permits to attend church in Tuscaloosa re- turned to barracks about 10 o'clock and reported that they had been assaulted and roughly handled by large party of town negroes some of whom were armed. They bore personal evidence of the truth of their statements, two or three of them being painfully hurt, one suffering with a badly broken nose, the effect of a stone thrown by one of the negroes, and he, by the way, now lives in Birmingham and his nose still shows the scar of that old wound of twenty-four years ago.
 Instantly the boys were wild with rage and indignation, and vowed they would work revenge upon the negroes. They took their muskets, and proceeded to break open the commissary and procure loaded cartridges. By this time the college au- thorites, from President Carlos G. Smith of blessed memory down to the least i'm portant officer became aware of what was being done and tried to quell the mutiny. Every boy in college dearly loved good old Dr. Smith, but for a while he appealed vainly against the nasty and unlawful ac- tion of the students. In the end, however, they yielded to his urgent request to come with him into the chapel and talk over the outrage, pledging himself that if any real great wrong had been done by the negroes to the party of boys he'd consent to that wrong being avenged
 "When Dr. Smith had got all the students into the chapel he proceeded eloquenuy and feelingly to plead with them and to counsel moderation and peace. The injured boys who had got permission to attend church told their story, and there was a great deal of talk, which was concluded by direct appeal from the beloved presi- dent that the boys go to bed and allow him to settle the difficulty.
 Now concluded Dr. Smith, let every man who is s-fr-favor of this trouble hsing settled by me rise to his feet
 "Only one boy arose. He was D. w. Speake, now of Decatur, and an applicant for the judgeship of the Huntsville circuit made vacant by the recent death of his brother Judge H. c. Speake. But mo- mentary glance showed Speake that he was the only supporter of Dr. Smith, and he hastily resumed his seat, Dr. Smith wa &