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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
THE CENTRAL GEORGlM
SAMȣ, B. CRAFTOHr,
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TIIESMY JlLfi7j 1§52.
Recognition bvtJie
Fiute^ States of tl^elVigger
Fsuperor of Sfayti!
We give elsewhere in our columns to
day, a petition presented, to Congress, du
ring the past w'eek, on behalf of some forty
or fifty Boston merchants, praying the Con
gress of U. S. to recognize Hayti as an
jnde p eD dent nation, and placing her on the
Same footing, in our relations with her, as
other independent nations. The petition
goes somewhat into statistics, to show that
it is the interest of this eountry from the
extensive trade carried on by us with Hay
ti, to form a commercial treaty with her,
send a representative to the court of his Im
perial Majesty, Faustin 1, and rtejive at
Washington a black Minister from the Hay-
■tien empire. A similar petition has been
got up in this city, by merchants interested
in the trade with that Island.
This is a very important and curious
proposition, taken up as it is by the two
leading abolition journals of this city—the
Evening Post and the Tribune. These
newspapers have taken a deep interest in it,
;SSid call upon Congress to comply with the
prayer of the petition by acknowledging
and recognizing the Emperor of Hayti, and
forming a commercial treaty with him
This position of these Journals is some
what remarkable, when we consider that
both of them have so unmeasuredly de
nounced Louis Napoleon’s usurpation in
France. It would seem, nevertheless, that
tisurpation on the part of a nigger in Hay
ti contains materials for recommending it
self to their sympathy and admii ation, and
through them to the recognition by the
Anglo Saxon republic of this continent,
while that ofa like kind in France, is to be
denounced, execrated and spit upon, But
both these journals certainly do show a very
queer taste . and strange inconsistency.
The nigger emperor, whom they urge this
country to acknowledge, has exhibited in
Ins career all the ferocious, violent and bar-
batious features of character which distin
guish his original race in Africa; and now,
because he has assumed the rank and trap
pings of an emperor, and has got a erown
imposed on his wooly pate, according to
the most approved etiquette and ceremoni
als, these abolition poets and philosophers
express particular sympathy in his behalf,
and exhibit great anxiety that his black
minister should be duly received, and re
cognised at Washington thereto maintain an
equal footing with the representatives of
European nations, and be permitted to mix
in the polite circles of the capital. This is
a strange depravity of taste; but we trust;
ar d, indeed, have no doubt of it—that the
Executive, as well as Congress, will make a
suitable disposal of these petitions, by giv
ing them the most unqualified rejection.
Instead of paying any attention to such an
impudent attempt to procure the recogni
tion of Soulouque, our government should
rather encourage and aid and assist the
white race in the island—the JDomincians
to drive out the black savages and restore
the republican regime throughout the whole
. of that beautiful but Unfortunate island.—
New York Herald.
ggT Mr^E. W. Foxes is agent for this
paper at Louisville, and will receive and re
ceipt for what is due us in Jefferson.
St. Mary’s iftoney
In bills under $5 will be received in pay
raent of demands due this office.
The indisposition of the editor will
apologise for the lack of editoral matter in
the present issue.
Agricultural Address.—Capt. R. S.
Hardwick, of Savannah, has consented to
deliver an address before the Agricultural
Association of this county, on Tuesday
next.
election for
We notice that fin
Town Commissioners is advertised for Sat
urday next, •
Haynes Chapter:.—We have neglected
to notice the establishment of a Masonic
Chapter at this place within the pastmonth >
It bears the name of our respected friend
and fellow-citizen, Dr. W. P. Haynes, a
zealous Mason and a learned man in the lit
erature of that order. The regular meetings
of the Chapter are on the first Thursday
nights in.each month,
Grayham’s Magazine.—We
The Marshall House,—The Savannah
Republican of Thursday says:—“Our read
ers and the travelling public will observe, by
the advertisement of Mr. Johnson, the
Lessee, that this new establishment has
been formally opened for the accommoda
tion of the public. The Marshall House is
centrally situated, and unites the advan-'
tages possessed by the best modern hotels.
It is all new and and neat, and supplied with
furniture of an approved description. The
arrangement of the different appartments is
quite inviting, and many of them have
been already engaged. Mr. Johnson is spok
en of as very obliging, and well qualified
for the responsible charge he has undertak
en. We are persuaded that he will have a
fair trial, and suppose he can hardly fail to
have a good share of the numerous visitors
who annually throng to Savannah, Indeed
we doubt if, with the addition of the Mar
shall House, the hutel accommodations will
suffice for the coming wants of the city.”
have be
fore us the August number of this month
ly. Its table of contents will be found va
ried and interesting. This number has like
wise some very pretty engravings. Pub
lished bv Geo. R. Graham, 134, Chesnut
st. Philadelphia, at $3 per year.
The Furniture of Henry Clay.—The
furniture of the lamented Clay, which was
formerly used at Washington, passed thro’.
Pittsburgh on the 13th, on its way to Ash
land. It was forwarded from the Capitol
to Pittsburgh, by Adam’s Express, who de
clined taking any payment.
Egypt—A telegraphic dispatch, via Paris,
states that the affair of the inheritance of
Mr. Webster’s Hungarian bull, on
his farm at Franklin, nearly killed Mr. John
Taylor, the tenant, a few days ago. The
animal seized him on bis horns, inflicting a
wound in his thigh five inches long and
three inches deep, threw him dver his bead,
dislocating his shoulder, and turning upon,
would doubtless have kill h:m on the spot,
had not several men rushed into the yard to
bis rescue.
Mehemet Ali, has been arranged in Egypt,
between the Viceroy and the Porte. The
former is to pay the heirs twenty three
millions francs.
The Maine Liquor Law.—The Demo
cratic, Whig and Free-Soil candidates for
Governor of Maine, have come out against
the repeal of the celebrated Liquor Law of
that State. There is a candidate in the field
in favor of the repeal.
“Those
{NT An exchange paper says :
farmers who hesitate about their ability to
take a newspaper, are requested to keep one
more hen than usual. The proceeds will
pay all costs.”
Emigration to the Unite® States.—
{VrOm the daily morning news.]
Arrival of (.lie America.
cotton unchanged.
New Yore, July 21, A. M
The British mail steamship America ar
rived at her whaif at Halifax, N. S., at half
past ten o’clock last night, from Liverpool,
which port she left on Saturday, the 10th
inst,, bringing four days later news than the
Humboldt, at New York.
The Markets.—The Liverpool Cotton
market is unchanged. The total sales of
cotton during the week comprise 36,250
bales, of which speculators took 5,650 bales,
and exporters 6,000 bales, thus leaving 24,-
600 bales to the trade.
.The quotations were as follows! Orleans
Fair, six and. three-eighths (6 3-8d); Mobile
Fair, five and seven eighths (5 7-8); and
Middling, five and a quarter (5 l-4d).
Breadstuff were very dull, with a slight
decline. Only a moderate business was do
ing in provisions, at former rates. For Na
Val Stores there was a fair demand. No
sales of Rice had taken place.
In the London market but little was do
ing in Grain. Wheat had declined one
shilling. Sugar was quiet. The prices of
Coffee were barely sustained, and the Tea
trade was languid.
Money was abundant, and Consols had
fluctuated from 100 to 103 1-8. All Amer
ican Stocks, with the exception of railroad,
were in fair request.
The trade in Manchester was moderately
favorable,
The weather throughout England was
. fine, and the crops in all parts of Europe
were remarkably prosperous, and bid fair
for an abundant harvest.
THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS.
Ihe elections now in progress for mem
bers of the new Parliament, are generally
adverse to the Ministry, as. far as heard from.
From the returns received, Turner, McKen
zie, Lord John Russell, Robert Peel, Lord
Palmerston, and Baron Rothschild, are
among the members elected.
George Thompson, the notorious aboli-
Onist who spent some time in America,it
has been defeated.
Messrs. Duncan & Soil, of Dundee, flax
merchants, have foiled.
FitANCE.—Louis Napoieoti has made a
proposition to England to modify the tariff
between the two countries. It is rumored
that there will soon be a change in the
French Ministry. The-reported disaffection
in the .troops at St. Ubes, is contradicted.
The Sal t monopoly has been suppressed.
The Sardinian government has ordered
^11 vessels from. Mobile and New Orleans to’
u nd«rgo quarantine.
German papers state that, in consequence
of a law lately promulgated in Prussia, the
Memnonites, a religious sect who resemble
the Quakers, have been held to the per
formance of military duty, contrary to their
creed, and that they are therefore emigrat
ing in great numbers, partly to the United
States, and some to Russia. They are most
ly persons of comparative wealth, and one
hundred families of them have lately cross
ed the Prussian frontier to settle in the last
natned country.
[CORRESPONDENCE OF CENTRAL GEORGIAN.]
Washington County, July 17, 1852.
Mr, Graf tonA send you the following
account, of a storm that passed over Mrs.
Mary A. Francis’ plantation on yesterday :
On the evening of the 16 th inst., a storm
of wind and rain passed over this neighbor
hood, that will be long remembered by all
that witnessed it. Fearful was the appear
ance of that cloud when it began to an
nounce its approach by deep muttering
thunder, and little time did we have to pre
pare ere it burst upon us in all its fury.—
Then, for two long hours did the tempest
howl around us ; indeed it seemed as if the
“storm-god had wrapped his mantle round
him and stepped out upon the cloud to visit
man’s abode.” After the fury of the storm
had partially abated and we had promised
ourselves that the danger, at least, was over,
a sheet of lightning, followed by a heavy
and instantaneous burst of thunder, told
out that the fearful and distructive agent
had fallen in our immediate vicinity; and
soon did the cries of the negroes confirm
our fears, by announcing the fact that the
kitchen was the object that had drawn the
lightning “from the thunder’s home.”
The lightning bad struct? the roof near
the comb ; descending in a direct line, set
on fire a lot of cotton that was kept in the
upper story ; still continuing it broke the
plate near the chimney, bursting off one en
tire plank of weather-boarding, tearing in
Relief for the SufEereRs sy tRe Mon
treal Fire.—Sensible of the importance
of sending relief as speedily as possible to
the poor sufferers by the great fire at Mon
treal, Messrs. Jame.G. King, W. R. Jones,
George'Griswold, Goodhue & Co., Richard
Bell, H. E. Ransom, and Charles Russell,
of New York, on the 15th inst.. United in
advancing five thousand dollars for that
purpose, in anticipation of the collections
to be made among the citizens generally ;
and that sum has been sent on to Canada,
Mr. James Brown immediately headed an
other list for the advance of $500, which
was to have been transmitted to Montreal
on the 16th.
pieces one up-right post, thence through
the floor, shattered one of the stone pillars
that supported the house, and, strange to
say, although there were five persons in the
kitchen at the time, (four negroes and Mrs.
Francis’ little son William) none were hurt
or even stuned. T. M. Harris.
[for THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN']
Letter 1.
To the Hon. Ciias. J. Jenkins :
The present condition of the Whig par
ty in this State, makes an apology unneces
sary, on my part, for addressing this letter to
of public preferment, give to your opinions,
before the multitude, the .caste of justness
and equity. I have said, this was a dan
gerous influence. It is only so, when wield
ed in error. When men of your stamp err,
their errors produce evils of vast magnitude
they disorder a party—destroy a policy—
or upset a Government.
It is, then, to obviate what I conceive to
be an error, so far as my humble influence
goes, that I have selected your addresi
what is applicable to you, is equally appli
cable lo those who may .rest under the
shadow of your position.
Is it not to be feared, sir, "that many of
your friends will govern their actions by
your preferences ; and forget their duty and
their obligations to their principles, in
obedience to your opinions ? I do not say
that this could be desirable to you in the
present instance—n or that it could be wrong
in them, as a common rule, if they are mere
figures on the political chess-board—for
you could, probably, move them as safely
as any other man. But, sir, as Whigs, sub
scribing to, and having faith in principles—
great political principles—which they believe
to be allied to the best interests of the coun
try, they are alone responsible for their sue
cess ; and have a duty to perform, and are
under obligations lo perform it ! Personal
preferences, and the simple opinion of their
leaders have nothing to do with it.
But, following out your position of neu
trality, of of not voting, rather than vote
wrongf how will you or they perform these
obligations ? Have you considered, ma
turely, whether it may not be possible that
your wrong vote may prevent more injury
to your party and to your country, than
your not voting at all, may permit ? Do I
make myself comprehended ? If not, con
sider a moment, while I endeavor to explain
my meaning.
You are a Whig—a strong party-matt;
you believe in the principles of the Whig
party: you believe those principles are
more conservative, safe and sound, than any
other combination upon which our govern
ment can be administered: you believe
they are identified with the safety of our
intitutions, and the best interests of the
eountiy, and that a material departure from
them, has been, and is liable to be, attended
with serious evils. And finally, that men
of the Whig party are the proper persons to
carry out their own principles; you believe
all this, and so do I—and every other man
who is a Whig from principle.-
And we believe further, that the princi
ples professed by the Democratic party, so
called, though fair enough in some respects,
on paper, when put in practice by their pro
professors, are wild, reekless, disorganizing
and dangerous—and have been direetly, or
indirectly,, productive of all the evils our
country has suffered in the last twenty
years. In short, we eondenm, in a general
sense, the practice of the Democratic party,
so called, as subversive of law and good
order, and dangerous to the well-being of
the country and the Union,
Now, sir, believing all this, how can you
deliberately wheel your armchair facing
your office door, and quietly seat yourself a
neutral spectator of the exeiting conflict
raging before you ? A conflict in which
the success of principles, you have so often
done honorable battle for, is at stake ? Per
haps the success of your party, and the safe
ty of the country depend upon your vote—
and you will not give it? Why? You
answer, “/ have been unable to bring my
mind to the conclusion that I ought to vote
for Gen, Scott !” Mirabile dictu ! Then
you would make your personal preferences
govern your political principles at pleasure
How is it, sir, that opposition to one man
has become paramount to all defence of
principle ? In other words, that rather than
sueeeed in sustaining a Whig Administra
tion under Gen. Scott, you would see a
corrupt and profligate self styled Democra
cy ride rampant over the country ? Do
you call this sustaining your principles ?
Suppose your principles are overthrown
by your defection, and power passes into the
hands of a reckless party, and more reck-
To the People of Oeorgia.
The Committee appointed by a portion
of the Representatives of the Constitution
al Union Party of Georgia, in Contention
assembledin Milledgevilleon the 16th of this
month, to prepare an address- to the people
of this State, in behalf of the policy of nom
inating a Presidential ticket, other than
those how before the country, submit the
following reasons which induced that body
to recommend the action proposed by its
resolutions;
At the late Convention of the Union par
ty, of which we were members, two pro
positions were submitted, one to select a
great Hungarian exile has made the asylffrri
to which be was invited, the theatre for
progating a doctrine hostile to the teachings
of the Father of his Country, and all the
founders of the Republic, This doctrine
threatened to become an element in the
Presidential election. The whole people
had become aroused, and the Senate of the
United States had been agitated by its dis-’
cussion. It was hoped and expected that
botbof thegreat Conventions in which every
State was represented, would have assumed
firm, bold and decided ground against it,
One of them did. The other, that nomina
ted Gen. Pierce, totally failed to take any
third candidate, the*other to support the position whatever. It is true that it passed-
nominees of the National Democratic Con
vention. An irreconcilable difference of
opinion existed. A large portioo, supposed
by many to be a majority of the Conven
tion, were determined to appoint an elector
al ticket, pledged to the support of the lat
ter, whatever might be the action of that
body. This purpose was openly avowed.
Its tendency was to induce some who pre
ferred a third candidate, to give in their
adhesion to the selection of General Pierce
and Wh>. R. King, rather than to produce,
what such a position threatened to effect—
a dissolution of the Union party. Others
who earnestly desired topresent a man whose
life, character and public services, in con
nection with those great questions that ab
sorbed all others, were known to the peo
ple, and would command their cordial ap
probation accordingly asserted their right
to act, as in their judgment and in the judg
ment of their constituents, was most con
ducive to the interests of the country, and
of the Union party. This difference of pur
pose and opinion produced a division of the
convention. One of these has adopted the
Democratic candidates. The other, in con
nection with many others who were present
and concurred with it, organized itself into
a Convention, and have recommended to
the people of this State to meet in conven
tion in the city of Macon on the 17th of
August next, to take such action as to them
may seem proper in the ensuing election.
The policy recommended by the body of
a resolution, which incorporated in the Plat- '
form as the position of the party that sup
ports General Pierce, and as he approves of
that Platform, and we have nothing farther
from him, it must be his owu position. W»
beg leave to submit the resolution:
Resolved, That in view of the condition
of popular institutions in the Old World, a
high and saered duty is devolved with in
creased responsibility, upon the Democratic
party of this eountry, as the party * of the
people, to uphold and maintain the rights of
every State, and thereby the Union of the
States, and to sustain and advance among
us constitutional liberty, by continuing to
resist all monopolies and exclusive legisla
tion for the benefit of the few at the expense
of the many, and by a vigilaut and constant
adherence to those principles and compro
mises of the Constitution, which are broad
enough and strong enough to embraee and
uphold the Union as it was, the Union as it
is, and the Union as it shall be, in the full
expansion of the energies and capacity, of
this-great and progressive people.-
It is to be feared that on a great and- vi
tal question', the convention purposely con
cealed, under a multitude of words, what it
intended to mean—if indeed it means any-
thing—for fear of injuring, their candidate
amongst those of the party who differed in-
opinion. Meetings have been held- in- the
IN orthern States by those who advocate the
doctrine of Intervention, chiefly composed-
of foreign voters. They have been address-
which the committee are the organs, is to j e( l by Kossuth against the party that op-
you, and perhaps any subsequent one. That j Jess and dangerous men wield it—will it be
Ummrn
■Ul
JISTThe death of Adjutant General Rog
er Jones is much regretted in Washington.
He was a gallant soldier and worthy man.
He was appointed to the post of Adjutant
General by President J. Q. Adams, and
therefore held it more than quarter of a
century. President Fillmore may take any
Colonel in the line of the army for this of
fice. It is currently reported, however,
that the Assistant Adjutant General, Lieut.
Golonel Samuel Cooper, gof New York, \Vill
receive the appointment.
The World’s Fair at New York.—
The New Yolk papers contain ah official
announcement that the proposed Exhibi
tion of the Industry qf all Natiohs, will o-
peb-ih that city on the 2d of May next; and
notice is given that the association is now
ready to receive applications from those
who desire to become exhibitors. The
number of square feet, whether of wall
floor or counters required .by applicants,
must be stated, and all communications
must be addressed to “the Seci'etary of the
Association for the Exhibition of the'Iii-
‘ dustry of tlie Nations, New York ”
—
you have “no fancy for filling a column in a
newspaper,” I very well know, but I also
know you have no power to prevent your
name heading one, in the present manner.
Therefore, whatever fortune may betide it
in this instance, good or evil, you will, I
hope, bear it with you r usual equanimity.
Why I have selected your name from among
the many reputable ones with which our
party abounds, for this peculiar distinction,
if you are so pleased to consider it, it will be
necessary for my purpose to state:
You addressed a letter to one of the Edi
tors df the Savannah Republican, under
date of the 1st July, in which, (with your
peculiar defferential modesty,) is set forth
your views, briefly, of the Presidential no
minee of the Whig National Convention*-*--
I think you will find yourself in error, from
the present signs, in. the supposition that
“comparatively few will agree with you iu
opinion.” I wish you may be correct, sir.
But I fear those views will be adopted by
many, very many Whigs throughout the
State, without giving "due consideration to
their merits. They wil l be adopted, because
they are the view# of one, whom they have
been accustomed to regard as a clear-head
ed, sound thinking statesman—whose judg
ment is unwarped by prejudice, having no
sinister purposes of his own to subserve*—
And though you are found among the be
trayers of your party, yet you will be look
ed Upon as one, and the only one,
“Who, in a general, honest thought,
And common good to all, made one of them.”
I will not do you the injustice to say that
your talents alone challenges this respect
from your fellow-citizens—you would not
give that opinion, were you to set in judg
ment upon yourself—it is nobler principles
—higher attributes, that command this
powerful, but dangerous influence—that
gives this abiding confidence in your judg
ment : it is your high moral character, and
unimpeachable integrity. These, together
with an apparent disposition to shun the glare
sufficient consolation to you, to say, “Better
this than vote wrong ?”
When you shall see, as possibly you may,
the country involved in the mazes of Euro
pean politics and interventions—dragged
from her present true and safe position, and
ultimately engaged in another war to man
ufacture Democratic capital and Democratic
Generals, will it be sufficient then, sir, to
say, “Better this than vote wrong ?”
When you shall see another daring and
unscrupulous faction organizedin our midst
wiser from defeat, and more powerful from
successful duplicity—and backed by execu
tive influence, strike again at the Govern
ment, aud shake the Union to its centre,
while the patriotism and purity of principle
which saved them before, is stricken down,
will it be sufficient for you to tell us then,
sir—“BETTER THIS THAN VOTE
-WRONG?”
The wisdom of the past, and the exam
ple of the present, teach us that the Whig
party is. the only conservative party of the
Union—the party of the Constitution—the
party of the people! The People 1—Not
the populace. And regardless of personal
preferences, since all cannot be gratified, we
should rally for our party—for our princi
ples—for the constitution—believing, as we
have already seen, that while the princi
ples of the party are right—and the party
firmly on them—our standard beare rs,
whoever they may be, will carry them
straight on.
Your obt. serv’t.
PATHFINDER.
—;
A Sensible “Gaddy'' 1 —-“My dear boy,”
6aid an old lady to a, precarious youth of .18,
“does your father design you should tread
the intricate and thorny path of a profession,
the straignt and narrow-way of the minis
try, or revel amid the flowry fields of litera
ture?”,
“No, marra, dad says he’s gwine to set
me to work in the tater patch.”
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form a new ticket, composed of the names
of men whom the people may be proud to
affirin by their suffrages, as worthy to rule
this great Republic. This recommendation
presents the question—why should not
General Scott or General- Pierce be suppor
ted for the next Presidency by the Consti-
stution Union Party ?
The almost univeral expression of public
opinion against General Scott in this State,
renders it unnecessary to assign reasons to
induce the people toyvithhold their suffrages
from one against whom they have already,
declared. His silence previo us to his nom
ination, on the great question of the
Compromise Measures—the fact that a ma
jority of bis friends in the Convention that
presented his name, were opposed to, and
voted ag-ainst an acquiescence in them ;
and that the leading organs of his support
ers in the free States reject the platform, so-
far as it declares them to be a final settle
ment, in addition to his own previously a-
vowed desire for the “melioration of slave
ry, even to its extermination,” have created
against him in this State an amount of op
position that renders it impossible for him to
command the vote of Georgia.
Not does the Union party, and in the
opinion of the undersigned, a large number
of other good citizens of this State, feel
willing to support the candidate of the De
mocratic Convention. A great crisis has
just passed in the history, of this country.
Old parties that had battled together for
years, have been in Georgia, and other sec
tions, tp a great degree broken up. A new
era in our political history has arrived, a
it behooves every one to mark well the
rection to which new issues may tend. Tbe
Democratic Convention, in subservience to
mere party policy, cast aside all these great
statesmen to whom a large portion of the
country looked for a choice for President,
has offered to the people a man hitherto
comparatively unknown. The convention
that nominated him, it is true, declared in
favor of the compromise measures, as did
the National Whig Convention. But as in
the case of General Scott—thefree-soilsup
porters of General Pierce denounce the
platform, and disavow it, as not having the
sanction of the Democratic party. In the
great State of New York, the majority of
that party voted for Mr. Van Burenin 1848.
They now support General Pierce. There,
as well as elsewhere, they repudiate the
platform, and accept the candidate.—
Amongst them, are men of commanding
talents and controlling influence—political
intriguers whose lives prove that their aid is
never given without a well founded hope of
reward. General Pierce has not been in-
dentified by any public act with these great
questions—nor is he sufficiently known to
the world, so as to prevent a serious appre
hension that those influences with him may
be as dangerous, as it is feared they would
be with his opponent. Nor can the fact be
forgotten, that he declined to answer the
letter of Mr. Scott, of Virginia, which was
addressed to him with all others whose
names were before the convention that no
minated him. That letter contained speci
fic interrogatories concerning the whole
question of slavery, and amongst them one
in relation to the veto of a bill repealing the
Fugitive Slave law. Those questions were
fully answered by every one of the other
candidates to whom they were addressed,
but General pierce, the only one who failed
or refused to answer, received the nomina
tion. It is, and will be regretted, if Gener
al Pierce is elected President, that hede
clined to avow his position on that great
question, so that by receiving the approba
tion of the people, it might have been for
ever settled.
There is one other question which has
agitated the public mind, second only to the
one we have just discussed. We refer tp
what is commonly known as the doctrine of
Intervention. It has taken a deep hold on
the public mind of the Northern States. The
mm
posed- his position in solemn form, and cx-
pressing a hope that, as the other failed to
declare against it, and as many of the lead
ing statesmen of that party were known to
be in favor of it, they mignt engraft it on
the policy of that party. Resolutions have
been passed by them, opeuly avowing their
purpose to force this country into an inter
ference with the atiairs of other nations, and
equally as strongly declaring themselves in
favor of Genet al Pierce. We have just met
with the following, which was adopted
one of these meetings:-
Resolved, That it is the object of the As
sociation- to effect the general acknowledg
ment of the importance and power- of the
German element, as representative of pro
gress, in all questions of external- as well as*
internal policy within the National- Demo
cratic party.
It is to be deeply regretted* that the Con
vention which presented the name of Gen
eral Pierce, failed to act as became a great
National Party, on a matter of such vital*
importance.
Upon these grounds it is believed- that a
majority of the Union Party of Georgia,
with many others, will withhold- their sup
port from both of the nominees of the Balti
more Conventions. The question arises,
what shall we do? Shall we remain neu
tral, or choose a candidate who can secure
the votes oi that majority, and- who is
known to be true to the principles we cher
ish ? It may be objected, that the selec
tion of a third name will be without any
hope of success. To this it is a sufficient re
ply, that duty is not measured by the
chances of victory. Whether the prospect
is promising or gloomy, the obligation is
none the less on every freeman to make the
effort that patriotism imposes—and the in
dependant voter, without faltering at the
hazard of a failure, wiM||till desire the
proud satisfaction of givii^pPhis vote to the
man of bis choice. Nor is it conceded that
in tnis effort we shall be alone. The Con
vention that recommended this policy sug
gested for President the name of Daniel
Webster. Already has it beon announc
ed that ten of the States of this Union have
moved in his behalf, and propose a Con
vention of his friends at Philadelphia at an
early day, to submit his claims to the peo
ple of the United States. If prompt and
decided action be taken by Georgia, other
Southern States wilt cordially co-operate.
The fame and the character of Mr. Webster;
the strong hold he has on the affections of
his countrymen—the heatfelt desire of
thousands who, loving their country belter
than party, wish to see “the greatest intel
lect of the age, reside over the greatest
Republic in the world,” will inspire an en
thusiasm in his behalf, that will, add
strength to the movement every hour of
the canvass.
It is objected, all that neither Mr. Web
ster, Mr. Fillmore or Mr. Jenkins will ac
cept a nomination. We need not a&k
them. An acceptance of a nomination is
not necessary to make a vote or an election
legal; and it will be with increased pleas
ure that our suffrages are not claimed by
those who receive them. It is the bright
est incident in the history of Rome, that
one of her purest patriots was invested with
supreme power whilst standing at the han
dle of his plough, and who had not accep
ted a nomination to leave his rustic calling»
As has been stated, . one portion of the
Union Party has avowed its determination
to support Gen. Pierce, and has selected an
electoral ticket with that intention. This
difference is to be deeply regretted. Had
the Union ; Party acted together in the en
suing Presidential election, it-could have
made it a proud day in the history of Geor
gia, by declaring themselves free from
those entangling party alliances which are
continually demanding at our hands con
cessions that cannot be made without the
sacrifice of long cherished principles. It is
to be hoped that this division is neither fa-
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