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CANTHUATFS FOR CONGRESS.
(Election on the fret Monde;/ in October.}
Ist District —CHARLES SPALDING,
2J “ SEABORN JONES,
3d “ A. 11. CHAPPELL,
4 t h “ H. A. HARALSON,
sth “ JOHN 11. LUMPKIN.
Cth “ HOWELL COBB,
7th ** ABSALOM JANES,
Bth “ E. J. BLACK.
FOR ELECTORS.
(Election on the first Monday in A ovemner, hy gen
eral ticket. J
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES K. POLK, of Tennessee.
VICE PRESIDENT.
GEORGE M. DALLAS, of Pennsylvania.
CHARLES J. McDOXALD, of Cobh,
ALFRED IVERSON, of .Muscogee.,
ROBERT M. CH ARLTON, of Chatham. ,
BARZILLAI GRAVES, of Randolph,
GEORGE W. TOWNS, of Talbot,
\V. F. SAM FORD, of Meriwether,
CHARLES MURPHY, of Casa,
W. B. WOFFORD, of Habersham,
IF. V. JOHNSON, of Baldwin.
ELI 11. BAXTER, of Hancock.
JjTA meeting of the friends of President
Tyler was held at Philadelphia on the 26ih
August, at which meeting, among others, the
following resolutions were adopted;
Resolved, That we will support POLK
and DALLAS as we know them to be well- I
tiie 1 democrats as live incur land. The one .
was eminently distinguished as the Speaker
of the House ol Representatives ol the Uni- I
ted States, and the other was the eloquent |
Representative of Pennsylvania in the Senate i
of the Union.
Resolved, That as President Tyler has de
clined being a candidate for the Presidency,
that we can look no where lor a better sup
porter of Mr. Tyler's views and wishes than
the Hon. James K. Polk, and therefore pledge
ourselves to enter among his friends and tight
under his flag, so confident that Voung 11k k
orv in ’44, will be as successful as Oi.d Hick
ory in '2B and ‘32.
Resolved. That the democratic friends of
President Tyler assembled this evening, ap
prove of the sound and patriotic course adopt
ed by the democratic papers of the country,
led on by Mr. Ritchie and others, to bring
about a hearty union in the great Republican
family of the Tinted States.
Resolved, That we highly approve of the
sentiments contained in the late letter of Pre
sident Tyler, particularly those expressing his '
determination to exert all his power to secure
the rights of Texas inviolate—and to bring :
about its re-annexation to the Union—and we
pledge ourselves to sustain the Executive in
the exercise of all constitutional measures
for preservation of our sister Republic
against the assaults of Mexico urged on by
any foreign power.
Resolved, That we protest against the ex
cicise of Foreign inducnc: by me monarchs
of the old world, in our treating for the re-an- .
negation of a territory that formerly belonged ■
to us, and is now peopled and governed in a
great measure by natives of the United States.
Resolved, That v.c are the fearless advo
cates of the re-annexation of Texas,and that
we believe that the great manufacturing in
terests of the North as well as the domestic
institutions of the South loudly call upon us
to re-annex Texas to the Union.
CT\Ve received yesterday morning the fol
lowing extra from the office of the Madison
Miscellany:
Mndison, Sundtfu. Srpt. 1.1844.
COURT HOUSE BURNED!
About three o’clock this morning we were
aroused from our slumbers by the unusual
and appalling cry of Fire! which, upon reach
ing the street, we discovered to proceed from
that beautiful edilice—the pride and orna
ment of our t iwn—the Court House. Such
was the progress of the lire by the time
the alarm was given, that u’l hope of saving
the building had been abandoned. The build
ing was entirely consumed; but, we are hap
py to add, the books and papers of each of the
several officers of the county all saved, (al
though in a very disordered condition,) with
the exception, as we learn, of a few private
papers, the property of the Clerk of the Supe
rior Court. The active exertions of our citi
zens prevented a more extensive spread of
the conflagration—no other building was in
jured, notwithstanding;!!! those on the north
east side ot the Square were in imminent
peril. Loss, about Sor SIO,OOO.
It is supposed that the lire originated in a
heap of saw-dust which had been raked up
in a corner of the Court room, up stairs, while
cleaning out the room for the of the Supe
rior Court, (which was to have assembled to
morrow morning.) from a lighted cigarthrown
thoughtlessly amongst it by some person who
attended the meeting of the Clay Club on the
evening previous.
We are gratified to learn that it is the wish 1
of some of our fellow-citizens that the Court
House should be re-built by voluntary indi
vidual contribution. We hope this may be
done, and in order to farther the object, we
respectfifliy invite all who feel disposed to
aid in this laudable enterprise, to make known
their willingness.
Judge Cone, who arrived in town soon after
the alarm was given, thinks he will be una
ble, in consequence of the confused state of
the papers, to convene the Court before the 1
second Monday in October next. Os this, !
however, n< tio* will be hereafter given.
fFr t the Ri' mnnd Enquirer.]
IS MR. ( LAV WORTHY OF THE CONFI
DENT E OF THE .SOUTH*
Are E. • - :ks (i. the South stone blind ?
What shall we say of a party, one of whose •
leading organs, the “Tropic,” ol New Orleans, |
describes D. Webster's speech at Springfield, 1
as “■able, eloquent and convincing!'. Yet it
was this speech, which was made expressly
for the purpose of coni incing the “third party,” j
as he calls them, (viz. the Abolitionists.) to
thni«t Birney aside, and concentrate their
votes upon H. Clay—a coalition between the
Clay party of the North and the Abolitionists,
which, one would think, was calculated to
open the eyes of the Southern Wings. Os
all candidates who Could be started, Mr. Clay
has the least claim to the voles of the .South
ern people. See!
1. He rejoiced in IS 10, that they (the
Whigs.) would no longer be “embarrassed by
tie: yttculiar opinions’ I '' of Virginia: that is, the
principles which would confine the Federal !
Government to its limited and specified con
stitutional powers. The consequence is, that ;
he is for stretching the powers of the Govern- j
ment. so as to create a series of factitious in
terests, which operate in favor of the North
ern section againslthe biouth. Thus—
2. He would establish a Xa'ional Hunk in
the North which, like the lever of Archimedes, |
would move and regulate at its pleasure the
whole market of the South.
3. He is in favor of a high Protective Ta
riff, which burthens the South for the bene- :
fit of the North—which oppresses the great
farming interest of the country, now stinted
! in the price of the productions, and receiving ,
only 3 or 1 per cent, on its invested capital—
| and enables the comparatively small number of
, manufacturing monopolists to sell their pro
ductions at a high rate, and thus divide 20 to
30 per cent, upon their capital—a Tariff, too,
, which, taking advantage of the minimum
! principle and special duties, taxes the poorer
1 classes of the community much higher in |
proportion than the rich.
4. Mr. Clay has abolished the remedy and
denied the relief, which lie himself solemnly
pledged to extend to the South, by his compro
mise Act of’33. Ho pledged himself at the ;
time of its passage to carry it out; and by an
ticipation denounced as unworthy of the con- :
fidence of any American statesman, any man |
i who should attempt to violate it. In 10, ho
j again pledged himself to the execution ot the
Compromise Act. And even as late as Jan
uary last, he publicly proclaimed to the peo
ple ofCharlestou, timt “influenced by a desire
to avert the coming danger, and anxious to
perpetuate the I nion, and give peace to a
distracted country, I brought forward the
; Compromise Act, and aided in its passage.—
In my subsequent life, I adhered to its pro
visions, AND SHALL DO SO IN FUTURE.”
And now, faithless to his promises, he stands
pledged by his letter of the 26th June last,to
! Frederick J. Cope of Pittsburg, to support the
j Tariff of ’42, which he says “operated most
beneficially, and that 1 am utterly opposed to
its repeal.” —This Tariff, which Mr. Rives
; declared in August, 18 12, prostrates the Com
: promise Act, and is worse than the Tariff,
j of 1828—and which Andrew Stewart, of
i Pennsylvania, commends, because it runs up
i the rates of duties to forty, fifty, sixty, and,
indeed,a higherrate upon a variety of article-;
j and which Wills Greene, member ol'Congress,
the accredited emissary at Washington, of
the Clay Party, substantially declared the
other day, in the neighborhood of Washing
ton, to be contrary to the whole spirit ot the
Compromise Act, and rebuked Mr. Polk with
tiie design of restoring loan oppressed and
suffering South the benefits ot the Compro
mise principle, so solemnly and so repeatedly
plighted by Henry Clay.
6. Henry Clay is urging upon the country
the distribution of the proceeds of the public
lands—the handmaid and the ally of a Protec
tive Tariff-—because, as you deprive the Uni
ted Slates of its land money, it must be suppli
ed by duties on imported goods.
! (J. He is in favor of a virtual abolition of
the Veto Power—which has never been ex
| erted, except to save the Constitution itseli—
and which might hereafter be interposed as
the shield of JSouthern rights against the Ab
olitionists.
8. H. Clay has resisted the re-annexation
of Texas, contrary to his own declarations in
1820, and in the face of the exertions which
he made in ’25 and '2B to recover Texas. He
now places the recovery of this beautiful
1 country upon such conditions, as according to
! 4slade and Webster, will forever shut the door
to its admission into the Union-upon the con
! sent of .Mexico, which we are not bound to
ask—upon the obligation of the faith of Trea
ties, which has no existence—upon the fear
oi incurring a war with Mexico, and perhaps
with Great Britain, which is visionary in it
self. and which apprehension, in his better
| and palmier days in 1810, he rebuked with all
the spirit of an American patriot—and finally,
upo.n tiie preliminary consent of a considera
ble and respectable portion of the coafedera-
I cy. which .Mr. Clay knew, at thetime of com
posing his letter, could never be obtained.
8. 'To complete the climax of Clay’s direct
and indirect transgressions against the injured
! South, his party in the north and northwest,
are now wooing the support of the abolition
ists, and seeking a coalition with that pesti
lent clique. He cannot be elected without
their votes —and the South will owe his ele
vation to the support of the only real Disun- .
ionists in the Union. His letter has done the i
mischief. His declarations against Texas :
are quoted by Webster and Slade, and Seward,
and Reed, as the strongest arguments for
claiming the abolition votes. In this predic
ament stand IJ. Clay and his party in the south
—that if successful, he will owe his “bad em
inence” to a shameless co-operation between
his northern followers and the pests of the
south. The votes will be purchased by sacri
ficing Texas to their fanaticism —and the
south will pay dearly enough for his election,
by having some new and partial restrictions
thrown around her civil institutions. W hat
next will they demand as the price of their
votes. Oregon will be laid opputothe tree
Northern States, under the influence of his
Missouri Compromise. The vast region
which extends from the Mississippi to the Pa
cific, because it lies north of his celebrated
38th degree of latitude, will be appropriated
totheir exclusive benefit —whilst unfortunate,
yet beautiful Texas, because it South ot
the 36th degree, must be denied to the South- i
°
ern Mates.
1? it not wonderful, that with these broad
and flagrant facts staring them in the face,
anv liberal and enlightened Whig, who lives
South of Mason and Dixon’s line, should de
vote himself, like a Disciple of Mahomet, to
the fortunes of such a leader? Place him by
such means, with such principles, in the Ex
ecutive Chair—a man, whose imperious tem
per, and arbitrary will, so well constitutes !
him the Dictator of the Republic—invest him
with the immense power and patronage of 1
the Executive Department—with such a : t
•‘Senate at his heels”—with so desperate and
reckless a party to support him. greedy ot
office, and voracious of the “spoils,” as they :
proved themselves to be in 18 11, during the 1
one month's fitful Administration of Gen. ; ,
Harrison—and what is this free people to ex
pect? W hat excesses are they not to antici
pate-? What restrictions in the Constitution
will be respected? What may not the suffer
ing South further apprehend? There will be ;
a general sweep of office. It will not be con- |
fined to the Federal Government. It will ex- j
tend to the State Offices of Virginia, and pos
sibly to the municipal officers in our cities.
If, notwithstanding, they went into power in !
IS4I, with the profession of' “Proscription ;
proscribed" upon their lips—and, vet, in a *
tew weeks. Postmaster General Granger
turned out 1,600 Postmasters, and openly de
; dared, in the House of Representatives,’that
he would have decapitated 2,000 more—
what are we to expect from a party which
professes to disregard all such scruples at
j this time! We know, as was staled in the
| Shockoe Association on Wed nesday night |
that the fiery sword has already been threat
j ened to be drawn, in case of* Henry Clay’s
election—and that A and B, by name, incur
State Government, and certain Officers in our
own City, were marked out upon the tablet of
Proscription, as intended victims to the re
sentment or lust of office of the Whigs.
AUGUSTA” GEO,
1 ! : i
TUESDAY MORNING. 6CBT. 3, 1544.
O’As the Lincoln County Barbacue comes
on the 19th of September, the democracy of
Scriven county have changed the time at |
which theirs will be given. Instead of the
20lh of this month, as advertised, the Scriven 1
I County Barbacue will be given on the 4th :
Saturday of this month, being the 28th.
O’lf the prospect before us, for a com- |
plete triumph of the democratic party, was j
not so flattering as it really is, we would not ;
be so secure of a favorable termination of the I
crisis under which the country is labouring j
at the present time. If we had the least
j doubt of the success of our party, we would |
feel the greatest alarm for the pence of the j
i country, the maintenance of public liberty, I
- _ j
| and the inviolability of our public institutions, i
, If we had not that confidence in the success j
! of our party, are there not circumstances to |
: create alarm and dismay, which are now dc- |
; veloping themselves ? If we look around us, i
| what do we behold ? Men sacrificing their 1
long cherished principles, and the vital inter- |
ests of the country, for the exclusive pnr- !
pose of placing one man in the presidential '
: chair. Men associating themselves with the
foes of our southern institutions, for the ac
i complishmenl of that object, without calcu
lating the consequences. Men supporting
I doctrines which they once repudiated, and
■ which, if firmly established, must destroy the
! remains of our wealth and means of pros
perity. These reasons are sufficient to cre
ate alarm and dread for the future, had we
not the confidence that the majority of the
people of Georgia will render harmless the
1 exertions and eOorts of the federal whigs to
acquire the political power of the State, and
to aid their northern confederates.
We will call the attention of the people of
Georgia to the doctrines advocated by the
whies of Georgia, and request them to com-
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pare the condition of the State some years
ago with the condition in which it is at the
present time. The very men who now snp
| port a protective tariff’ in ail their speeches,
were some years ago so hostile to any thing
like protection, that their cry was, “Free
Trade or Secession.” When they were so
much opposed to a protective tariff, what was j
; the condition of the country ? Georgia was I
; then prosperous; negro and landed property '
I was high; our great staple was worth from j
i twelve to fifteen cents, and fora short time it j
advanced to eighteen cents. And yet the i
cry was, we are ruined by the tariff; it must i
{ be abolished, or we will resist it by force of
arms. Now the same men who were for re-
I sistirm- the tariff even to disunion, are for the
I c
protection of the manufacturers, when our
j state is in a deplorable condition; when negro
| and lauded property is almost valueless; and
when our great staple brings but five to six
; cents! In 1832 we could better support the
extortions of a protective tariff than we can
I now stand the oppressive exactions of the i
; same system of plunder. We were then able I
to stand it; but now, ruined as we arc. it will ;
I ultimately grind us to the dust.
Those very men. whose cry was “resistance
J *
to disunion,” are now charging a certain por
tion of the democratic party with designs i
inimical to that union which they once at- ;
tempted to rend asunder on account of the |
i tariff. Those men are associated with a party
| who, during the last war with England, de
precated the victories obtained by our arms; j
endeavored to paralyze the arm of the general
government in its efforts to bring that war to I
a glorious issue; and resisted the laws and
withheld the means for supplying our soldiers j
and sailors with food, arms,- and ammunition, i
The southern whigs are now associated with
the federalists of IS 14; and they have the I
boldness to charge with hostility to the union j
those who shed their blood and gave up their
fortunes for the maintenance of our rights,
and for repelling the enemy from our shores.
When treason was working the destruction
■ of our armies and navy, in one portion of the
country, in another the people by their legis
latures, were placing means for carrying on
the war at the disposal of the general govern- j
ment. The southern whigs are charging the
democrats of South Carolina with designs i
hostile to the union, while those southern
whigs are associated with Hartford Conven
tionists. When the Hartford Convention was
plotting treason, the legislature of South Ca- ;
rolina were appropriating two hundred and ;
i sixty thousand dollars in aid to the general ;
government. Who were then the patriots? |
| And who suffered more by the war? The i
south or the north? Did the south repine? —
HlfciVf l sawa—e————
If to-morrow the country was assailed, inva
ded, who would with more alacrioy shoulder
ids musket and meet the foe? And yet the
a<s »daM.« of the northern federalists dare to
charge with treason the very men who have
given so many proofs of patriotism and devo
ted courage, in the field and in their Supplies
of means to carry on the war with our in
veterate enemies.
We have confidence in the good sense and
intelligence of the people of Georgia. If we
had not that confidence, we would despair ot
the republic. This confidence gives us hope
for the future: it assures us of the integrity
of the constitution, the preservation of the
union, and the maintenance of our public in
stitutions. It assures us of a continuance of
peace between the various sections of the
country, and of brotherly love among the peo
ple of the states composing this vast republic.
The success of the democratic party at the
next elections will be a new era in American
history, which will place our union on such
foundation that no attack of its enemies can
hereafter shake or dissolve it.
We had written these remarks when we
received the proceedings of a large whig
| meeting at Albany, New York, on the 27th
August. Mr. Webster was there, and deliv
ered a long speech; Mr. Berrien was there,
and delivered a long speech; and Mr. Gran
ger, the abolitionist, was there, and delivered
a speech immediately after Mr. Berrien. Mr.
Webster confined himself in his address al
most exclusively to the tariff and protection.
But what can we say of the speech of Mr.
Berrien, the substance of which we found in
. the Baltimore American? People of Georgia,
j we call on you to compare the doctrines now
j advanced by Mr. Berrien and his party, with
i those he advanced some years ago. Who would
j have propliecied that that gentleman, in 1844,
, would be the most zealous advocate of the
j anti-southern doctrine of protection ! What
| does he now contend for? Air. Berrien said,
; in his speech at Albany, “The first argument
which I will notice, in favor of the Tariff’, is
i that it will supply a revenue sufficient for the
want of the Government. In raising the rev
i 3
; enue I go for Protection, not incidental or ac
j cidental, but on purpose to encourage some in
j terests.” In speaking of free trade, Mr. Ber
i rien says, “Free Trade is the crudestconcep
j lion that ever disturbed the minds ofthe Ame
i rican people.” Was that gentleman a mem
; berofthe celebrated Free Trade Convention
; that sit in Philadelphia? In the same speech
: Mr. Berrien inveighs against the annexation
I of Texas, and proclaims his adherence to
Clay and Frelinghuysen. Is it the same Air.
Berrien who voted in the Senate of the
United States against the nomination by Pre
sident Adams of Air. Clay as Secretary of
State? It is the same man. When the vote
was taken in the Senate on confirming the
nomination by the President of Air. Clay, the
yeas were 27, the nays 14; the nays were,
Berrien of Georgia, Branch of North Caroli
na, Cobb of Georgia, Eaton of Tennessee,
Findlay of Pennsylvania, llayne of South
Carolina, Holmes of Alississippi, Jackson of
Tennessee, Mcllvain of New Jersey, Alacon
of North Carolina, Marks of Pennsylvania,
Tazewell of Virginia, Thomas of Illinois, and
Williams of Mississippi.
O’lf ike whigs had their mass meeting at
Albany, New York, an overwhelming mass
convention was held at Bound Brook, New
Jersey, on Wednesday last, at which the New
! York papers say there were in the field, thirty
! thousand voters and three thousand ladies.
[LTThe official returns of the elections in
j Kentucky have been received, and they show
i what follows:
Owsley, whig, for Governor, 59,3 46
Butler, democrat, 54,752
Whig majority, 4.594
Whig majority in 1840, 25,873
Democratic gain, 21.279
o=The death of Commodore Dallas, on
board the U. IS. Frigate Savannah, while ly
ing at Callao, on the Pacific, is universally
lamented. He was the elder brother of the
present democratic candidate for the Vice
Presidency. During the last war he was on
board the frigate President, Com. Rogers,
when in chase ofthe British frigate Belvidere,
j Capt. Byron. The following anecdote, of a
i remarkable character, and well authenticated
j is related :
“It will be borne in mind that the first
| powder burned in the late war with England,
i was burnt on board- the President frigate,
Com. Rogers.
At the commencement of the action on
board the President frigate, a ball (an 18 lb.
shot) from the Belv idere, came over the waist
| cloths of tiie President, and such was the
force of the ball that it actually cut off, with
out throwing them down, the muzzles of sev
j oral of the muskets (left there by the marines)
i from 6 to 8 inches in length—killed one ma
rine—tookotfthe wrist of one midshipman,
i Air. Alontgomery—killed another, Mr. Buck,
j together with the quarter gunner, and finally
lodged on the deck, and was taken below by
: the narrator of this and shown to tiie 3d lieu
tenant, Air. Dallas, who took it in his hand
and wrote on it with chalk—Cousin, I have
received your present and will return it again
—clapt it in the gun himself, and fired the
piece: and it is a remarkable fact, that it ac
tually killed several ofthe officers and men on
board the Belvidere, and finally lodged in the
cabin of that vessel; and was afterwards
hung up in the Belvidere "s cabin as a globe
during the war. A fact worth recording, as
i it shows the coolness of American tars in bat
tle, is, that at the time the shot cut off the
j m uskets. a sailor at the wheel of the President
exclaimed, “they are firing bright barrelled
pistols at us’’—in reference to the pieces of
muskets flying in every 7 direction over the
deck.”
WPMBroawng>iiAiM’ i n*w u 1 nw apmcjroa—eapra
Mr. Philip D. V.'ooliiopter. will act as
: my attorney and have the charge of my business
! durinsr mv absence from the state.
aug 3U ISAAC MOUSE.
JKr W. MILO OLIN, Attorney at Law, Consti
tutionalist Rage, Augusta, Georgia, Practices in
Richmond, Burke antT Warren counties, (deco
[communicated ] | '
Mr. Editor,—One of your correspondents <
has saved “Monitor” some trouble in giving <
our opponents a full dose at once, by punhsh- •
ing the Lexington Toasts. “Alonitoh, with
many others of your readers, thunks him, tor
such developments lead every one to enquire,
what stability have such political leaders —
I what confidence can be placed in such wcath- ■
ercocks? They are worse than the wind in
their sniffings, fur that proverbially uncertain
phenomenon rarely or ever chops suddenly ■
round to the very opposite point of tiie com- i
pass. There are some of those toasts, how
ever, that require a little more prominence.
They do, it is true, in some measure stand
out, like a dark mountain brow, frowning on
the briglit sunshine, and chilling, by its cold
shadow, the genial warmth ofthe vale below.
But they require to be particularly indicated,
as their owners are seeking high and respon
sible offices from the people.
Air. Jenkins, the ichig candidate for elector
in this quarter ofthe State, gave the lollow
-1 ing;
“The Union: Formed to be valuable, why
should its value not be calculated?”
Simply, because its value is incalculable.
Who can estimate it?
The following was given by Air. Toombs, !
now the whig candidate for Congress in the j
Blh District;
i “The Tariff System; Whether it he consti- i
: tutional or not, it violates the adhesive rights i
i of southern freemen. If constitutional, let j
j our oppressors rememuer, that when retain- j
lion commences, constitutions end; and that j
i the exactions of a British Parliament were
met by the unsheathed swords of American \
Patriots.”
“ Adhesive, rights of southern freemen!” j
I Ahem! That must be the sticking-together
i tendency. Ah! This is another slam at union
i —the tariff destroys the disposition of south- :
ern freemen to adhere to the union of these
j States. Very well. Mr. Toombs. Oppression,
j such as the tariff’ of 1832 imposed, (and that
; of 1842 is infinitely worse) the south will tell
i the “oppressors” she will end by the un
-1 sheathed sword, as did our fathers the unjust
; “exactions of a British Parliament "' —we will
retoluiionlz this country and kick your con
stitution to the devil! Weil now, that is talk
ing to some purpose—we understand that.—
But what are Air. Toombs' views now? Is
not a protective tar if wow the suimnum bonunr,
the chief good—the panacea of all political
; evils, —the very “gift of God,” as Col. Lump
kin said of a certain Mr. Theodor el How
I the country will flourish—is flourishing under
it!—But have not manufactures of ail kinds
risen to an average of 30 per cent, within the
j year, and agricultural products fallen lower
than they were ever known to be before?—
Brown shirting advanced 25 to 37 per cent.,
and bleached do. 39, on last year’s prices, and
i the farmer’s cotton, out of which they are
made, expected to bring him 3 to 4 cts. per lb.!
The very bagging in which he is to send it to
market, 33 percent, abovelast year, and some
of which Air. Clay, I learn, lias impudently
offered in this city and Charleston, a>king for )
his jive cents per yard protection! Heaven
give me patience to speak moderately on this
subject!
Cos. Dawson, and that old party drudge,
| Judge Dougherty, both whig candidates for
| electors, also figure in these toasts,and neith
i ' er of them were drunk, for they drank cold
; water. This I regard as fortunate, for some*
thing cooling was necessary to keep their
swords in their scabbards, and their “resis
j tance” within limits.
“By Col. Win. C. Dawson: The friends of
i the Tariff.—ln truth and in candor we tell
| them now, our forbearance is ended —the ar
■ guments of conciliation and modification have
; been exhausted. Do you suppose Georgia will
: submit! Rather think the spirit of ’76 never
existed.”
I “By Judge Dougherty; Resistance to op
pression from any and every quarter, at any
| and every hazard.”
And these arc the men, who now not only
i have the hardihood to advocate this “oppres
sion” in the face of southern freemen, but,
with “any and every hazard” in their mouths,
dare to charge us with disunion! This union’s
value, they say, may be calculated! That |
which Washington pronounced beyond all I
estimation—the basis of our liberties—the
shield of our freedom—the citadel of our safe
-13' —the very life-blood of our national exist
ence. That may be calculated! ! Oh ! If
the history of unprincipled parties shall have
one page blacker than another, it will be that
which shall be devoted to the hypocrisy and
treason of the old “ State Rights ” partv of
! Georgia.
This union is going to stand, is it?—with a
protective tariff’ to destroy its “adhesive”
qualities—a U. S. Bank to distribute its bloo
; dy exactions to rich capitalists and rnanufac- i
luring nabobs, who alone can borrow from •
such an institution—the distribution of the
proceeds of the sales of the public lands to
bribe the States and increase tariff oppression :
—the assumption of state debts, its great aux- j
iliary in corruption and fit adjunct of the same ,
great tariff scheme for public oppression and j
plunder—tiie suppression of the 21st Rule,
admitting anti-slavery petitions to discussion
in Congress—the union of southern whigs
C C
with northern abolitionists to elect Henry
Clay to the presidency, who has already con- 1
ceded the constitutional right of Congress to
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia—
their united opposition to the annexation of
| Texas, and the avowal by leading northern
whigs of the cause of that opposition, its ten-
I dene v to strengthen the south and perpetuate
i its institution of domestic slavery—their co- !
operation with England in her designs on
Texas and her determ inat;on to destroy slave
ry “throughout the world” —this union xcill i
last, will it? How long? You, who truly |
love this union, as the legacy of your fathers, I
as the palladium of your liberties, pause and :
; think!—Think for yourselves. Allow the
dictation of »o leaders—least of all. those who
blow hot and cold in alternate breaths. De
cide these creat questions under the dictates
of your own enlightened judgments—as, in
short, 1 know you are disputed to do, but fur
lingering party attachments. Save your
country, as Ante'rican freemen, from its pres
ent imminent danger, and then you may be
long to what party you please.
MONITOR.
[COMMUNICATED.]
INCONSISTENCY IN THE METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The charge of inconsistency is made on
those Methodists who as conscientiously be
long to the whig party as they do to the church 1
of their choice. And we have no other mo
live in making the charge, than to induce
them to examine their position more minute-
Iv; for we believe most of them are honest jk
enough to abandon it so soon as they find it
to be wrong. The following are some of the *
grounds of the supposed inconsistency :
It is well known that nearly all who votetf
against Bishop Andrew, in the late General
Conference, were what was termed moderate
anti-slavery men, or, as they were pleased to
style themselves, “ conservatives .” As soon
as these “conservatives” had degraded the
worthy minister, for no other crime than that
of marrying an equally worthy lady, who hap
pened to be the owner of a few slaves, hun
dreds of meetings were held throughout the
south, which denounced the unjust and cruel
i conduct of those who voted against Bishop
i Andrew. Now, if all those Methodists who
I thus strongly denounced the act of the Gener
al Conference in the case alluded to, would
: oppose with equal warmth all political aspi
i rants who hold the same self-named “conser
! vaticeprinciple*," it would all be right enough.
But for southern Methodists to denounce in
; such violent terms their own brethren of the
; north, for being anti-slavery men, and then
■ support such men at the south as contend for
I the constitutional right in Congress to abolish
! slavery in the District of Columbia, and that
| t: slavery is a great moral evil,' and as Mr..
j Clay calls it, a “foul stain on our naliorial
1 character ,” is. I think, inconsistent.
It. is quite common for southern whig stump
i orators, in vindicating the characters of Mr.
| Clay and Mr. John Q. Adams, to contrast the
I principles of the violent abolitionists of the
j north with those of the pro-slavery men of the
I south, representing both to he ultra; and
! that the Clay party are taking the middle
| ground. Arc not these the principles con
j tended for by those who voted against Bishop
| Andrew? And if the southern Methodists
: believe that those whig orators, who are ac
commodating themselves to the principles of
Mr. Clay, for the purpose of securing his elec
tion, arc right, they certainly ought not to
blame their northern brethren for carrying
out the same principles. CONSANUS.
flgr The Jh-mocratir. Association of Richmond
county, will meet at the City Hall, on THIS
EVENING, at half-past 7 o’clock, to receive the
report of our delegation to the Macon .Mass Meet
ing. We will be glad to meet with more of our
■ country friends than usual. By order of the I’ro
sideni. G. A. INGRAHAM, Secretary.
| sept 3 32
] At the request of mam friends Mrs. Sabal
has determined to resume, on the first of October,
the duties of a Female Academy, in ugusta, oppo
site the Cnitecl Slates Hotel. .Vo. 251, in the place
of Mrs. Mof.se, who leaves this city for Charleston.
The French and English Languages, Music, and
Drawing, taught by competent teachers.
Mrs. Sabal is also prepared to accommodate a
few female boarders, who will find it to their ad
vantage, as the French Language is exclusively
spoken in the family. 31 august 17
1 SCR I YEN COUNTY FREE BARBACUE.
A Free Barbacue will be given in Jacksonboro’,
I on the 28th day of September next, to which all
| persons arc invited.
Every possible exertion will he made to procure
j the following Democratic speakers, to wit: Hon.
j E. J. Black. Eli H. Baxter, Esq., Hon. Walter
T. Colquitt, Hon. A. H. Chappell, and Col. A.
J. Lawson.
Also, the following Whig speakers will be in
vited: Rout. Toombs, Esq., C. J. Jenkins, Esq.,
i A. J. Miller, Esq.,F. S. Bartow, Esq., and Hon.
; J. M. Berrien.
Should the whig speakers attend we promise thf m
! FREE and fair DISCUSSION.
R. 11. SAXON, ■) n
BARNETT NEWTON, |
W. J. LAWTON, 3
JAMES VV. HOWIE. ~
JOHN B. 310 ULTRA, j S
Jacksonboro’, August 27, 1844 [aug 31
i LINCOLN WHIG AND DEMOCRATIC
BARBACUE.
The Whigs and Democrats of Lincoln county
have united in a free barbacue, to be given to
their fellow-citizens at Lincolnton, on Thursday,
1 the 19th day of September next, at which time and
place free, full and fair discussion of the political
principles of the two parties will be had.
We cordially invite our fellow-citizens, of both
parties, of the adjoining counties, and also the
neighboring Districts of South Carolina, to join ua
on that occasion.
Come one—<ome all—we shall give you good
plain fare and enough, and gcod whig and demo
cratic speeches.
The ladies are especially invited to attend.
BEN. B. MOORE, 3 -
H. J. LANG, c
E. LAMAR, |
MICAJAII HENLEY,
JL A. RAMSAY, £
ALEX’EIL FRAZIER.J ?
Lincolnton, Ga., Aug. 15, 1844 pj a2Q
To>il¥rc 7 ialT~
latest dates from Li VERPOOL,::::;:::;:::; AUG. 3
latest dates from HAVRE,:::;:::;::::::;;;::: aug. 1
AUGUSTA, SEPT. 3, 1844.
Stuck of Cotton
In Augusta and Hamburg, on the 1 ttinsi.
1844. 1843,
In Augusta, 12,300 6,016
InUatuburr 5,1:8 1,385
Total Stock 17.493 7,401
Shipments ofiottoii
From Align st amid Hamburg, to Savannah and Charles
tuu, from Ist Sept. 1843, to Ist inst.
1844. 1843.
From Ist to 31st Aug.
To Savannah 2,314 3,227
To Charleston, by Rail Road 3,950 1,407
0,204 4,034
Shipped ,'rnm Ist Sept., to Ist Aug.. 176,780 1 88,318
Total shipmr nts, *, 1-3 '-44 J 92.982