His declaration of Higherlaw converted the whole mass of Northern Parsons into negro worshippers, and these parsons converted their congregations, men, women, and children into worshippers of the Black Idol with intense hatred for the white race of the South. This is the way Seward worked to delude the Northern people into the negro business, which finally culminated in the election of an entirely sectional man. Abe Lincoln believed honestly that he was elected purely on an abolition platform, and so declared by the first public words he uttered after he was elected. Lincoln's election was the 5th epoch in the Negro Crusade.

All through the long Negro Crusade Seward feared Compromise more than the Devil does Holy water. Compromise is a Heaven-given principle vouchsafed to man for self-preservation. Its rejection is the work of the Devil for man's destruction.

Seward was aware that as long as compromise stood in his way, he could never accomplish Niggerism.

Therefore, about the year 1850, he had the impudence to get up in the Halls of Congress and issue a decree to the people in the words to wit: "That the day of compromise is past and gone forever." I will simply ask you to refer your mind to how this decree was obeyed in the winter and spring of 1861? All has been lost, I firmly believe, by obeying Seward's mandate of 1850, when all could have been saved by disobeying him. The epoch or points by which Seward secured Niggerism was, Ist-Irrepressible Conflict; 2nd-Declaration against the Union of the States; 3rdDeclaration of Higher law; 4th-Mandate against Compromise measures; 5th-The election of Abe Lincoln.

Seward himself declared immediately after the election of Lincoln was ascertained, that his election was the deathblow to Slavery, say 3 days after the election in 1860. Ask

Seward if this is not a fact and all other facts which I state in this letter.

Everybody must admit that Seward's control over the Abolition party was as Omnipotent as God Almighty's control over the Universe.

This Negro Crusade of Seward's was a long, bitter, political contest between Clay and Webster on the side of the white man and the white man's Union, against Seward, who was against the white man's Union and for the nigger and a nigger Union. This is the way the thing stood for a period of 35 years.

To look back now it appears that Clay and Webster were swept aside like chaff before a tornado, immediately after Seward issued his decree of Higherlaw. Do you remember what a rebuke Clay administered to Seward on the occasion he issued this decree of Higherlaw, by simply asking Seward to produce his credentials from the High Court of Heaven?

As early as Feb. 7th, 1839, Clay told the people what Seward's party was drawing this country into, about in these words, to wit: "With the Abolition party, the rights of property are nothing, the deficiencies of the powers of the General Government are nothing, the acknowledged and incontestable rights of the States are nothing, a civil war, a dissolution of the Union and the overthrow of a government in which is concentrated the fondest hopes of the civilized world are nothing. A single Idea has taken possession of their minds, and onward they pursue it, overlooking all barriers and regardless of all consequences."

Clay on this occasion portrayed a large-sized nigger monster, but it was far beyond his conception that the American people could bring themselves to the attempt to 'degrade the white race below the negro level and forcing this degradation by arming the negroes against the white

race.

On the 7th of March, 1850, Daniel Webster warned the American people against Seward's party in these words, to wit: "If the infernal fanatics and Abolitionists ever get the power of the Government in their hands, they will override the Constitution, set the Supreme Court at Defiance, make and unmake laws to suit themselves, lay violent hands on those who differ from them in opinions or dare question their infallibility, and finally bankrupt the country and deluge the country in blood."

This, too, is a big black monster painted by Webster, but he did not take in half its proportions.

When Clay gave this poor nigger-trodden, nigger-ridden country this solemn warning against the Abolition party, this party must have been in its infancy, because the year afterward it only polled 8 thousand votes for Birney, and that was only for free soilism.

The contest between Clay and Webster and Seward was only about 15 or 20 years. These patriots died long before Seward accomplished his purpose of Niggerism. Both died with the convictions on their minds that we were fast running into a vortex of destruction.

In the smoothness and gentlemanly and polite manner, Seward has conducted this country and people to the very brink if not into the very pit of destruction. You, and all of us, have been deceived as to the criminality of the man. If Seward had never been born this destruction to our country never would have taken place. It will surprise you now to look back on the career of Seward. He never labored for anything else but as to how could he bring on an Irrepressible Conflict. Even before he undertook this Nigger Business he came very near destroying the peace of this country by a crusade against Masonry. I want to call your attention, particularly, how Seward controlled President and Congress to prevent compromise before the war, and how he labored afterwards to prevent a settlement while the war

was going on. These things are recent. I want you to investigate. History will pronounce on them and damn. Seward.

The Negro Crusade was the most merciless oppression that was ever attempted to be forced over a civilized people, and you will perceive that Clay and Webster attributed the whole ruin that has afflicted our country, on the party that has tryed to inflict it on us, and none on the party that resisted this oppression.

You are aware that the trial of the Columbus prisoners under a military commission has been going here for some weeks. As far as the evidence of the prosecution and the rebutting testimony has been gone into, it is as plain as a noonday sun in a cloudless sky, that the evidence against the prisoners is a mass of perjury from beginning to end, and that the prisoners are as innocent of the murder of Ashburn as you are. The whole thing was gotten up to make a point against the Southern people. This is part and parcel of Seward's Irrepressible Conflict. Is there to be no repose for the Southern people? No hope, no future for them?

The Yankee Parsons, The Yankee Schoolmarms, The Negro Bureau agents, The Shoulder-strapped Popinjays of the Grand Army, the Yankee Carpet-Baggers & Emigrants are openly devoting their whole time to stirring up the negroes against the whites, as if Slavery still existed. What they did clandestinely before the war they do barefacedly

now.

Respectfully,

J. SMITH.

LEWIS JONES OF ROXBURY AND WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, 1640-1684, AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS IN THE SOUTH.

BY A. S. SALley, Jr.

(Concluded in this issue.)

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DAVID RUMPH JONES [Donald Bruce', Samuel Phillips®, Amasa, Daniel*, Josiah3, Josiah2, Lewis1], b. in Orangeburgh Dist. April 5, 1824; admitted to the United States Military Academy (West Point) as a cadet July 1, 1842, and was assigned to the Fourth Class; stood 40 on mathematics and 47 on French in June, '43, with a general merit of 42 in a class of 83 and was appointed a corporal Aug. 29th following; stood 55 in math., 56 in French, 26 in drawing and 58 in English in June '44, with a general merit of 51 in a class of 78 and was promoted quartermaster sergeant; stood 44 in philosophy, 41 on chemistry, 27 on drawing in June, '45, with a general merit of 37 in a class of 62 and was promoted captain; stood 33 on engineering, 54 on ethics, 48 on artillery, 26 on infantry tactics and 40 on mineralogy and geology in June, '46 and graduated 41 in a class of 60, and on July 1, 1846, was appointed Bvt. 2nd Lieut. of the 2d Infantry, U. S. A.;1 appointed 2d Lieut. 2d Inf., Nov. 23d, 1846; took part in the siege of Vera Cruz, March 9-29, 1847; the battle of Cerro Gordo, April

1While at West Point he was especially distinguished in horsemanship and fencing. Among his classmates were Generals T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson, A. P. Hill, Dabney H. Maury, W. D. Smith and Cadmus M. Wilcox of the Confederate States Army and Generals George B. McClellan, Foster, Reno, Stoneman, Crouch and Gibbon of the United States Army.