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On Tuesday last, the Democracy of Dc
„ nominated, for the Senate, Judge E. A.
■" t he House. Wm. McElroy, Esq.
>rt-
4or i
V.
NO. 48.
Washington correspondence.
Kw .p it before tbe People.
t , Warren Akin said in the canvass of
; •-] that, should South Carolina se-
v fr>m ,i, e Union, he would join the Fed-
troopg to whip her hack. V. _
pjojion. 01*1 Democratic Carroll.
t R til'- aiiv Simon pure Oppositionists in
.jnii’t they run an Akin man for
We leant that the Opposition
rrin ( -• ,,,n. have nominated a Brown man
, ])Dc.s that look like Brown
l„wa in Carroll, and would run behind
r(v as has been studiously circulated in
i-.duitv lor several weeks ?
V.
Mate Pair.
xt Annual Fair of the Southern Oen-
itural Society, will be held in At-
• commencing on the 24lh, and ending
e 28th of October. 1859.
trticlcs for exhibition should l»e on' the
( | i,v ]0 o’clock on the 24th. The Ita.il-
will afford the usual facilities. Messrs.
If liiria’s i Co., Auctioneers, will be on
,, n ,i ;l t all times, to attend to the sale
1 Refreshincnl and Eating S aloon on
m ,l. .JAMES CAMAK, Sec’y.
(TA. S' pt Kth. 1859.
Col. Akin,
learn, makes himself, in his speeches,
aiuusine. ever the- political associations
a. 1
wn. He builds a platform, and
? on one end. Van Bitten on the
soph E. Brown in the middle,
, i|s himself over the whole trio,
is no: responsible for the errors
, Van Buren. But let us tix up
nl. Akin, the pure, patriot, puis-
!. He opposes the Democracy
0 oppos -s the Democracy North ?
ha.-r. Seward, Lincoln. Sumner,
Inst scatter the last mentioned
irouiid on your platform, and
ft that right foot up on it, in imi-
. Brown, and then say, “hotv are
ei! ? Hope I see you well. Let’s
nocracj' tits. You sail under the
Abolitionism, and 1 will rally my
the cry of Opjiositioii, Southern
Party, American Parly, Jfum-
. Ejdr- t ayance. liain. Y’on say
ltd I’ll say nigger all the time.—
lartssional prohibition, and I’ll
ion il protectii n. You snort and
the glories of freedom and the
tvery. and I'll shout, “give me
ire ido death.” Go it. Colonel.
• ii. tpinion. sanctities the means.
1 a storm" anything to kill Dc-
" it while you’re young. Now or
Akin, don’t you want Brown’s
iVo think so. or you would never
where you are. Repent right
lie down before the people take
Sbpitkbkk 10th, 1859.
It was Madame Trollope or some other Bri
tish libeller of our country and people, who
said that one of the inherent evils of our Re
publican institutions was “the proneness and
temptation to lying, which seemed to be the
besetting sin of candidates for public office,
especially .among the ignorant and credulous
masses of the American people.” The author
of this libel, whether a he or she, one would
suppose had taken a peep or two behind the
curtains, at the Opposition managers of the
canvass now going <>n in your gallant State;
and. in the haste to get at conclusions, judg
ed the intelligence of the people by the stan
dard of jxiliticAl morality there witnessed.
Do you not sec this truth exemplified every
day? Why, if the worthy Superintendents of
your Slate Roads were to answer one-twen
tieth part of the infamous fabrications that
are put forth by unscrupulous partisans, and
fiud a willing medium to the public eye in
certain journals of Georgia, that, like the old
maid in the play “have outlived their viitue,”
l.c might, as well, at ones, ask for leave of ab
sence till after October, and betake himself to
the pen and cow-skin. In like manner, your
candidates for Congress are sometimes forced
out of their legitimate duty of enlightening
the people in regard to the true issues which
the coining elections must decide, for weal or
for woe. to expose the miserable shifts to
which, for want of argument, their competi-
tors resort in their harangues before the peo
ple. And yet there never was a period in our
country’s history when it was more important
that the people should know “the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth,”
than the present. The administration of the
Government lias been denounced as extrava
gant, but the facts and figures show it to be
and to have been, one of the most economical.
all things considered, since the days of Thomas
Jefferson. 3ut I adverted to this in a former
letter. False and unfounded as the charge
is. I only recur to it now to observe that were
it true and tcu times worse, the extravagance
of an administration otherwise sound, reliable
and honest, is unworthy the consideration of
Southern patriots, when infamy, dishonor
and subjection to a horde of Northern fanat
ics and traitors is the alternative which is be-
lore them, if they turn their hacks upon the
only party that is capable of saving their
honor and maintaining their rights in the
Confederacy.
that ‘ 'thirty thousand major-
V.
(ol. Akin vs, Soutlil-rn Iii^Iits.
have been creditably informed, that
: tin political contest of 1850 or ’51,
a Akin, the present Opposition candi-
«>r 'iovernni. said that if South Carolina.
■ ■at tht Union, lit would join the Fol-
• i-p her bach. Is not that a nice
for a candidate for Governor of tiie Em-
fcilc of tin; South, to he guilty of liav-
Iterwl. Reader, you ought to hear him
You would almost fancy, that he
■" he a noisy member of the “C’offiu
lent." He is a tremendous Southern
siuan You ought to hear him rip
;r • an i and storm, now, when lie
I .mi i them aggression, and the back-
‘‘f tiii- i uiocracy. He is ready now, to
he last "‘hap” of blood in defence of
rights. Hie Union orator of 1850, lias
a into a glorious ‘‘ran/ayerous” jire spit-
•t'at'j<ippositionist. “He out Herods,
■ Such are the vicissitudes of human
- : h tin changes produce^ in the pur-
ri'fikv -licit (he summersets, that “the
hunt"' develops. In the language of
‘'Such are the changes, that keep
ami in at tion : We desire, we pursue,
fcuii, tve arc satiated ; we desire soine-
d.-i-. and begin a new pursuit.”—What
-- s" a lew years effect ? “The fashion
> world passetli away.” The complex-
-iroe politicians, like the chameleon,
■'-in conformity to the demands of cir-
■*u - and the lequirments of party.—
^-'i"iit you think Warren Akin, is a
fecitnenof humanity, to be going over
! A-. and calling Gov. Brown, a mail
- ■ i" !>■ tutyyut! is lie not a very prop-
& to be taking exceptions to Gov. Brown,
falling a Convention of the people of
issage of the English Bill,
ign ssman in Georgia, at the
■age, endorsed that hill ? In
Piyhtx Render*, remember,
i the ballot box, on the first
t umutli. that Warren Akin,
netiug his Union horn, said,
lth Carolina secede, he would
1 troops, to whip her back.
I say it now, and write the words with all
the solemnity and earnestness which a con
sciousness of their truth and an active parti
cipation in National and State politics for
more than a quarter of a century inspire ; the
real issue before the people, atod especially
in the Southern States, is, Tiik South under
the Constitution, a free and sovereign mem
ber of tiie Confederacy; or the South, under
the Higher Law, an abject appendage to
Northern supremacy. This is the issue—the
real issue—the only issue now before the peo
ple. They may. like the miserly wretch de
nounced by Patrick Henry for urging his
claim for some bullocks killed to feed our
starving patriots during the Revolutionary
out “beef, beef, beef,” or money, money, money,
which is the same thing ; but let them re
member t hat the withering curses of unborn
generations will blast, both in time and eter
nity, the craven-hearted dupes who, in this
hour of our country’s need, will surrender
our liberties, our honor and our rights to a
heartless coalition pledged to make war upon
our domestic institutions. On their banner is
now engraved their bloody, heartless motto,
“An irrepressible conflict between free and
slave labor.” This is their leader’s war-cry,
and this will he the tocsin to rally the Oppo
sition during the approaching Congress. This
is seller reality. Is not Henry Winter Davis,
01 Baltimore, the dastardly traitor who rep
resented a Southern Commercial City in the
last two Congresses, and is likely to represent
it in the next—the acknowledged leader of
the Southern Opposition ! Hcis, par excellence,
the Know-Nothing orator of the House, and
par adroit, the Benedict Arnold of the South.
Hr would lie the political guide, counsellor
and associate of every Opposition member
that Georgia sends to the next Congress. I
care not liow patriotic they may be, or fancy
themselves to lie. They me not Democrats,
and cannot, therefore, mingle and commune
and associate with Democrats. They must,
from the force of circumstances, take their
place with the Southern Opposition, and of
necessity acknowledge the leadership of Henry
Winter Davis.
Is Georgia prepared for his apostacy and
principles ? In accepting the nomination, he
delivered a lengthy speecli on last Monday
night, before a Baltimore audience, composed
exclusively of the “Opposition party.” It is
published in the American of the next eve
ning. 1 am precise in regard to dates, be
cause I know Col. Wright and those who sup
port him would otherwise doubt the fact. In
bis speecli be said, “the Opposition in the
South must unite with the Opposition in the
North to hurl from power the Democratic
party.” And he elaborates this infamous
proposition of a union lietween Southern
Know-Nothings and Northern Black Republi
cans to defeat the Democracy. He tells the
people of Baltimore that “their interests are
tli.
V.
[communicated.]
•litlin AY. Downing.
fluuldrn if Gaskttl
'' • '■/'■L ■ ' • /correspondent of the Atlan-
wncan.' who is so down on Governor
Mid whose name heads tins article, is
^°' V11 fighting for Akin.
^ 11 Dot a wonder that he survived that old
^ated and important letter ? The reason
_ w kill him was. because it sprung from
*/■"/•. recess in ids innocent and patriotic
“ It is all right, for innocence ought to
'•oUdy.
“‘ stop! Hung be the Democracy in
■ • Mm W. Dowsing, is tor Akin !—
we are ruined. Our pillar of
Jkand paver, has left our ranks. He
. * • f -art-l' ge shall be annihilated—the
:ni! ' t be destroyed, and of course,
- wouH-ii. What will become of us,
ttiot-ll A*** lor safety and repose.—
1^2 warier us!
L. , •lenkin'sand Dr. Calhoun's sup-
L. *'T'in. with entire indifference, and
* !!l - But we are human, and cannot
—and when we iieard that
1 '"w.-ing, had written a letter, and
, r _ :or Akin, we turned pale, a cold tre
a.l over us. our heads swam, and
ter^I'^tiate, and inaudibly exclaimed,
^ -'I'atwn is gone. Of course, we are
U" a, ‘‘l will be buried on the first
■ H 1 October. If Akin should be elec-
Cr* if Jehu W. Dowsing, will be his
-torertav. A. B. C.
all with the North, and not with the South;”
and with a view to inflame the populace and
justify his own apostacy, he added, “South
ern Democrats invariably voted against every
measure calculated to benefit Baltimore,
while Northern Republicans invariably voted
with me to carry them through.” This is
the traitor who is ready to le ’gtie with A\ m.
H. Seward in extirpating slave labor from the
South, and substituting the free labor that
has already succeeded so admirably in Hayti,
the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and else
where. Are the voters of Georgia prepared
1 for this ? What say the freemen of the 4th
Congressional District?
Am I told Col. Wright is too good a gentle
man to associate or unite with such a crew of
traitors as will surround Davis next Congress?
I have already answered the objection. He
is not of the Democracy—he must be some
where—or he onght not to be there. In these
times, we cannot spare a man. The Demo
cratic party is our only anchor of safety. It
is tiie only bulwark we can oppose to the co
alitions and cofli binations of the next Con
gress. Every vote given against it, I care
not to whom or under what circumstances of
palliation or apparent justification it may be
given, is a vote given to the enemies of the
South. It will help to place a dagger in the
bauds of the assassin and cut-throat, to be
imbrued in the blood of our wives and daugh
ters. MACON.
Miiacogeo .YominMlon-
A meeting of the Democratic party of Mus
cogee at the Court House, in this city, on Sat
urday, nominated Edgar G. Dawson, Esq., for
the Senate; and Gen. Charles J. Williams
and Robert E. Dixon, E-q., for the House.—
The nominations were made by ballot, and
the gentlemen nominated received the unani
mous vote of the meeting. Two of the nomi
nees, Dawson and Dixon, being present were
[ called on and responded, cordially accepting,
and promised to do their whole duty m the
canvass. It is a strong ticket.—[Columbus
Sun.
fifThe successive sessions of the body, as
well as the devotional meetings, received ad
ditional interest from the presence of Uover-
I nor Brown. His humility, piety, and speech
es in favor of missions, will long be remem
bered. Politicians may carp a« much as they
please at our allusions to Governor Brown,
but we are proud that such a Governor is a
Bnntist; as \ve would be proud of a FreBbyte-
1 cKahI/I pvaH: ft IUL0
DMlMlot , nn>,nv »* ir“ ” ~
r an or a Methodist who should exert a ~~~
sound moral and religious influence from the
Executive Mansion.—[Baptist Champion.
Advertising.
“Hide.not vour light under a bushel,” is a
maxim peculiarly applicable to business men.
Experience has lully demonstrated that where
a man, in a commercial community, has any
thing to sell, he must not keep dark about it;
he must bold it up in contact with that uni
versal and powerful reflector and illuminator
the public press; he must, paradoxically,
light it up with ink—printer’s ink ; and he
must not do this once, or twice, or three
times, but persistently, systematically. There
is as much skill and tact, and, oftentimes, as
much boldness, to be displayed in advertising,
as in conducting the mort extensive and diffi
cult business operation; and your Louis Na
poleon of advertisers will move his forces, now
to the front, now to the rear, now on the
flanks—sometimes en tirailleur, sometimes in
solid column—here cautiously, there with im
petuosity—“the light of battle on his brows
while your Francis Joseph, will move on at the
same old routine, rarely capturing public at
tention, often driven back by his more skill
ful and daring competitor.
To advertise properly costs money, but it
invariably repays the investment a hundred
fold. You will find many sensible men who
will calmly utter the paradox, that they have
often advertise*!, but it has never benefit ted
them an iota. They expect the public to walk
into their stores, and holding up their poor,
little advertisements, inserted once a month,
in some out-of-the-way corner of a big paper,
exclaim : “You have candles—give me can
dles ; you have fish hooks—give me fish
hooks!” Egregious error ! The main object
for advertising is to impress this Mr. Public
with an ineffaceable idea of your name and lo
cality and special occupation; so that, if he
ever see or hear tbe one, he will instinctively,
impulsively, inesistably think of the other.—
Once this linked sweetness established in Mr.
Public’s mind—and only persistent, skillful
advertising will do it—you can then vary
your efforts, go into details, draw up a col
umn of groceries, or a half column of Western
produce, or a quarter column of outer and un
der garments, adroitly calling in, now and
then, the aid of poetry, or mathematics, or
history, or geography, to titillate the palate
of the scientific, the i magi native, or the gen
erally well instructed reader.
It would take a column or two of illustra
tions to fully explain these principles. We
have neither the time nor the space to draw
them out. but offer these suggestions simply
FRIDAY, SEJTEMBER Iff, 1859.
First Bale off Slew Cotton
Brought to this market, this year, was pur
chased Sept. 14th, by J. R. & C. H. Wallace
—prime quality—at 10 1-4.
flT* Under the head of ‘ ‘Intercepted Corres
pondence, our “Opposition” friends will find
an-interesting letter from the “San Hils neer
Augusty.” v’
flF” Eli. McConnell has a letter in to-day’s
issue. It throws some light upon the integri
ty of H. H. Waters. Will the “American”
and those papers which have slandered H. H.
Waters, give this letter to their readers ?
We have a document from Posey Maddox,
about that erasure, which we will give in our
| next issue. We shall see whether tbe Oppo-
i sition press will put Mr. Waters right before
; their readers. “Let justice be done” though
j Mr. Waters be proven to be an honorable
man, as he is. Y.
“Observations on Senator Douglas’ Views
ot Popular Sovereign!}-, ns expressed In
Harper’s Magazine, for Sept., 1859.”
We have received a pampliet with the above
title. It is from one of our ablest Statesmen.
We will give it to our readers soon. A dis
tinguished gentleman remarked to us, lately,
that, in his opinion, it “annihilates Mr.
Douglas.” Douglas “stands on slippery pla.-
ces” in Georgia. Another good blow or two,
and he falls successfully. How has the mighty
fallen! Four years ago, Douglas was noarLy
omnipotent in Georgia. Now, his political
enemies are increasing and fierce. Hot love
is turning into hot hate. V.
Hon. A. R. Wright’s la-Her—Correction.
Our paper makes Judge Wright say that he
got $3,600 for his services. $3,000 is the true
amount, and what appears in the manuscript.
By the by, this Wright letter is rather a sally
document. It will not advance Col. Akin
lit' '■.**- . OUUU1 . , , , _ ,
as hints for enterprising navigators, ready and muc b m tne good graces of the people of the
eager to lauueli their barks on the ocean of
business.—[N. O. Picayune.
Error Corrected.
To the Editor of The N. Y. Daily News:
In your paper of this morning you copy a
letter of a New York correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury,in which it is said that
“Judge Meek and Judge Forsyth of Alabama,
tried and trusty friends of Douglas, are now in
the city for the purpose of attending a secret
convention of Douglas Democrats, soon to be
held here, to devise ways and means for the
advancement of their man.” This statement
as tar as I am concerned, is utterly without
foundation. I am not now, and never have
been, an advocate of the election of Mr. Doug
las to the Presidency; cor, in view of the
doctrines he entertains as to territorial sover
eignty, as propounded particularly in his re
cent article in Harper’s Magazine, can I ever
give him my support.
Having been recently elected to the Ala
bama Legislature from the City and County of
Mobile, with a lull knowledge by the people
of my sentiments in this respect, I am unwil
ling that a statement, which is being widely
copied in the papers, should ’go uncontradic-
tcd. Will you do me the favor therefore to
insert this card in your columns.
Ncry respectfully, yours, &c.,
A. B. MEEK.
New York, Sept. 6, 1859.
Hon. I.. J. Gartrcll.
We have been asked why we don’t write
more about this gentleman. 'We simply an
swer BECAUSE HE DORS not need it. He will be
elected without the aid of any one. True we
love to speak in praise of great men, and no
one more deserves the laudations of the peo
ple of the Fourth District, or of the people
of Georgia, than does Lucius J. Gartrell. His
manly, unswerving and patriotic course in the
last Congress entitles him to the respect, and
support of every voter in the District. There
is not a single act of his in the last Congress
that can be attacked by a Southern man. He
has not made a speech during the present
campaign but he utterly demolished his oppo
nent, making new friends, and strengthening
the great cause which he advocates so zeal
ously. We have not heard a single voice
raised against him in his own paity, which is
uncommon. They have avowed tbeir great
unshaken confidence in him by his unanimous
re nomination for the office he filled w ith so
much credit to himself, and so much honor to
his constituents' Of his opponent we know
nothing, therefore of him we have nothing
to say. But we cannot believe that the j>eo-
ple of this district are willing to give up so
faithful, true and tried friend of their rights,
for one untried, and for one who leaves their
party to seek office from their enemies.—In
dependent Press.
State. We had a goodly number of extra cop
ies of the paper, containing this letter, struck
off, and they are gone. We wish we had sev
eral hundred more. They would go like “hot
cakes.” We hope our readers will make good
use of our this week’s weekly. Hand it
around. We think it a good campaign docu-
V.
ment.
UpHas Gov. Brown’s Administration been
a failure ? Let us examine and see. During
liis administration we understand 45 thousand
dollars of the State debt has been paid; one
hundred thousand dollars of bonds not due,
have been taken up, and 400,000 dollars paid
into the treasury. The State Taxes have been
greatly reduced, and are now lower than iu
any State iu the Union. One hundred thou
sand dollars in school funds lias been set apart
at 7 per cent interest, and the number of chil
dren at school increased almost one third.—
These arc some of the prominent points of
Governor Brown’s administration. Many
more might be mentioned, and we intend to
give more .hereafter, but these are sufficient to
show/he people of Georgia what kind of a
Governor Joe Brown has made. Are these
failures ? It would be well for every State in
the Union, if their Governors had made just
such failures, it would have been well for
Georgia if their Governors years gone by had
made just such failures. We assert without
the fear of successful contradiction, that the
administration of no Governor in the history
of Georgia has ever been more successful'
[Federal Union.
Improved Spring ffor Bed*tca*l*.
Mr. Warlick, of Lafiyette. Ala., exhibited
to us Oil Saturday, a new spring for bedsteads,
which is his own invention. It is made en
tirely of wood, and so simple that any ordi
nary mechanic can make them, at a cost of a
few' dollars, not exceeding five. In our judg
ment it is fully equal, if not superior, to any
thing that has yet been offered to the public,
and if it bore the impress of New London,
New York, or some other Northern town, it
would supercede all other spring beds, but
unfortunately, it hails from a Southern town
and State, aiid will have to combat a mighty
arm}' of prejudice to get into general use. It
is the best arranged spring for steamboat
berths we have ever seen, and should be
adopted bv every one of them. Mr. Warlick
will remain in our city a few days to exhibit
liis patent, and we trust that before he leaves
the city some one of our furniture dealers
will secure the right to manufacture and sell
them. We are satisfied that they need only
be tried to come into general use, and super
cede all others.—Columbus Sun. - *
Akin and the Poor Woman off Cass, con
trasted with Gov. Brown and Ills veto off
tiie Poor Woman’s Bill of Augusta.
The last Legislature passed a bill making a
woman a free dealer, whose husband had
taken up with a lewd woman and deserted
his wife, aud spent all his property. From
the statement of the Opposition press, the
Augusta woman’s husband had deserted her
for two years. She had had time a plenty to
have gotten a divorce, long before she asked
aid from the Legislature. The State of Geor
gia had provided for just such cases as here.
There was no need of her going to the Legis
lature at all.
She may not have wanted a divorce. Her
duty to herself and children demanded of her
to get one. Her husband had been an open
and undisguised adulterer. He had not been
even sly about bis infidelity to his marriage
vows. He had set public opinion at defiance.
He might reform. then she <tmid marry lum
again, if slie was s.» terribly devoted to him.
The Governor vetoed the bill, with several
others of like character. “Class Legislation”
of that sort, should always be avoided, if pos
sible. There are thousands of women in
Georgia needing what the Augusta woman
asked, tis much as she did.
Turn from this scene and contemplate Col.
Akin and the poor woman of Cass, and see
whose shoes you had rather take, Brown's or
Akin’s?
We will give the narrative concerning Col.
Akin and the poor woman of Cass, as related
by the Hon. A. R. Wright:
“In the matter of the Martha Kinney case
in Cass, I desire also to make a statement as
the Col. has thus unceremoniously and unne
cessarily dragged me before the public. That
case was instituted by me for a widow against
i the Road, for the killing, by running off the
j cai-s, of a most promising son. The widow
was poor, very poor, and the death of this son
deprived her of her only means of support;
lor the testimony showed he was a most affec
tionate and dutiful sou, and gave his earnings
regularly to support liis mother, and educate
the younger children.
I tried again and again to settle this case
with the Superintendent, who was willing
and anxious to do so, but for the Col.’sjoertt-
nacious interference. I plead her poverty and the
duty of the Road, and offered to give her
every dollar of my own fee, if the Road would
pay her a moderate sum. i inally she wrote
me that she was sick, and had been for a long
time, and was suffering for the necessaries of
life, and “for God’s sake to get something
from the Road for her.” I proposed to the
Superintendent to take the amount of Col.
Akin’s fee in that case, be the same more or
less, so the Road could not lose. He said he
would gladly do so, if the Col. would let him,
by whose council he felt bound to be govern
ed, The Col. declined to let him do it. I of
fered to take three hundred dollars, iu view of
her necessities, and give evert/ dollar to the widow;
he declined this and controlled the Superin
tendent agaiust his judgment. At last Cass
court, or court before, I recovered upon llie
appeal, within a few dollars of four thousand.
He then quit the case and refuted to take it,
without another fee, to the Supreme Court.
The Road was compelled to employ other
counsel or let the veidict stand. And this is
the gentleman who arraigns Gov. Brown’s
“Democratic friends” for small services and
large fees.
|gp \Ve adopt the language of the Macon
Telegraph, respecting the low abuse of Gov.
Brown of which his competitor is guilty:
“And who is it that they abuse in this way ?
A man of the simplest and most frugal habits
and tastes—a pvofessing Christian, and one
known to be remarkably punctUlious in the
discharge <*f liis religious duties. A man who
at every step of life, from the humblest boy
hood, lure marked his career by a stem and
unlicnding integrity of character—a lawyer
without blemish—a Judge against whom cal
umny never breathed a slander—a Governor
who has manifested a singleness ot purpose to
serve the State—a faithful vigilance over her
pecuniary interests, which has won him the
title of honest, and long divided even the Op
position itself on the policy of opposing his
re-election! Such injustice to such a man,
will reap its reward from a generous people.
It will raise a storm of indignation which will
teach his opponents that no amount of gratu
itous calumny can blacken a life-won reputa
tion. *
‘•Oh that some power the gift would give us,
To see oursolves, as others see us.”
Upon enquiring as to flie reasons why the
Col. exhibited so much spleen aganist my
client, who lived in his own town, and was a
member of his own church, I was told her
younger son, who sometimes drank too much,
had upon some occasion, in this condition., abus
ed the Col. This was enough. The Col’s
dignity, which is much the larger half of him,
was offended. Woe be to the luckless wight,
who disturbs him in the contemplation of
his own proportions.
Reader, have you read the above extract
carefully ? What think you of Col. Akin ?—
Judge Wright knows Akin well; he knows
him, as the 8aying is, “like a book.” He has
known him for years. Don’t you think Col.
Akin had better hush about that Augusta
woman? What do you think of the “immac
ulate” Akin, as portrayed by Judge Wright?
Don’t you think the milk of human kindness,
if he had any in his bosom, was well nigh
frozen, when Judge Wright was begging for a
poor widow who was suffering for the “neces
saries of life” and crying “for God’s sake to
get something for her,” for “she was sick ?”
Didn’t Col. Akin show great skill in managing
that case, when it could have lieen settled
“iu view of her necessities” for three hundred
dollars ? The widow recovered, on the appeal,
near four thousand dollars-. The Superintendent
was willing to settle. Col. Akin “declined to
let him do it.’.’ Magnanimous man—ought
he not to he made Governor of something ?
The poor woman of Augusta excites his pro-
foundest sympathies, but the wailing of the
poor widow of Cass, whose son on whom she
teupgri had been taken away, fell as a foolish
tale upon his deafened ear, as she was crying
for bread. “0 shame, where is thy blush.”
Anotbor Batik I,etter. '
The “National American,” not • satisfied
with Gov. Brown's Bank letter to Col, Cohen,
because he Cannot find anything wrong in it,
intimates that Gov. Brajp^Uaa written ano
ther “Bank Letter,” and gives notice that it
is on the track ofrtt7 and hopes no doubt to
get it, and find something to prove the unjust
and untrue charges already made.
Well, it is true, the Governor did write an
other letter, and as the American desires to
see it, we publish it in our issue of to-day,
and hope the American will give it to its
readers.
Don’t commence with “grabbled extracts”
again, but put the entire letter right in the
first fire, and then blaze away at its contents.
Will the American also give its opinion as
to the part of it which, it thinks, tells the
Banks how to evade' the law. This letter was
not private—it i- strange the Editor did not
hunt it up sooner. It was written some 20
days after the letter to Col. Cohen, to Mi.
Teft, the Cashier of the Bank of the State, of
which Col. Cohen was a Dilector, under the
following circumstances : Gov. Brown’s pro
clamation calling on the Banks to make their
returns, was dated 0th-December, 1858. At
that time the only penalty for disobedience of
the law was, that the Governor should pub
lish the names of the defaulting Banks, and
exclude their bills from the Treasury in pay
ment of public dues. On the 11th December,
the Legislature passed another act, and added
an additional penalty for disobedience, which
was a tax of two per cent, per month upon
the capital stock of each bank till it complied
with the law, for which execution might issue
after 1st July, 1859.
The officers of the Bank of the State held
that they were not bound to make their re
turn, under the oath prescribed the Statute of
1859, to this call made the 6th of December
1858, as the act adding an additional penalty
had not then been passed. The Governor
held in his letter to Col. Cohen that they
were bound to make the return and take the
oath under that call. The officers declined
to do so, and sent up their return within the
30 days allowed by the Statute made in the
old form, without the oatli prescribed by the
Statute of 1857. At the end of the 30 days,
the Governor issued his proclamation publish
ing the' Bank of the State and several others
that had not made their returns, as delin
quent, and drove their bills from the Treas
ury. Soon after this, and some 18 days after
the Cohen letter was written, Mr. Teft, the
Cashier of the Bank, addressed a letter to Gov.
Brown inquiring whether he hail not received
their return, (the one which was not made
out according to law,) and if so, whether it
was satisfactory ? To this letter the Governor
replied on the 12th of January, 1859,
Below we give the reply. Will the Oppo
sition have the fairness to publish it, after
making so much fuss about Bank letters ? Of
course the American will, for it has a passion
of late for Bank letters.
We expect, waking or sleeping, the Ameri
can dreams about Bank letters.
People of Georgia, does the following look
like Gov. Brown had surrendered to the
Banks. It may be interesting to add that a
few days after this letter was written, the re
turn of the Bank of the State was received at
the Executive office, sworn to in strict com
pliance with the Statute of 1857. But to the
letter.
Here it is. Read it carefully, and see if
there is anything in it that looks like an “in
famous” act. Y.
Executive Depatjient, /
Mili.edgevii.le, Ga., Jan. 12th 1859. )
Dear Sir :—
In reply to your letter of the 10th inst., I
have to state that the letter of Mr. Porter,
the President of the Bank of the State of
Georgia, dated 22d Dec., last, accompanying
the so called return of the Bank, was duly re
ceived at this office. You desire to know, if
it is satisfactory. To this I reply, that the ac
tion of the officers of the Bank, was not satis
factory, for the simple reason tlfiit they did
not obey the law, and make the return as di
rected, by the express lauguageof the Statute
of the State. I consider the course of no
Bank satisfactory which sets itself up in defi
ance of the law, or wilfully neglects to obey
its mandates. I make no war upon capital,
but I shall continue to insist, while I am char
ged with the execution of the laws, that Banks
and other corporations, as well as individuals,
render implicit obedience to the requirements
of the law, or suffer its penalties. The Bank
of the State no more than the humblest citi-
len of the State can be an exception to this
rule. Ours is a government of equality, in
which no one however high is above the law,,
and no one however low is beneath its protec
tion.
When I issued my proclamation of 6th Dec.
last calling on the Banks of this State to make
their returns to this office as the statutes re
quired, the 1 lth, section of the act of 1857,
prescribing the form of the oath to be taken
by Bank officers in making tbeir returns, was
and still is, of full force, together with other
acts which prescribe what the returns shall
contain, aud the penalty to be inflicted upon
such delinquent Banks as fail to obey the law.
At that time tiie only penalty was that the
names of the delinquent Banks he published,
and that their bills be excluded from the
Treasury of the State, in payment of any debts
due the'State &c. The Bank of the State of
Georgia having with others, failed and refu
sed to make its return accompanied by the
oath prescribed by the 11th section of the act
of 1857, within the time limited by the stat
utes, incurred this penalty, which I have im
posed upon it by my proclamation of the 7th,
inst.
On the 11th day of December 1858 the leg
islature passed another statute to impose addi
tional penalties on the Banks of this State, so
as to compel them to comply with the requi
sitions of the act of 1857.
This statute was passed on account of the
refusal of most of this State, (The Banks of
the State of Georgia amoDg the rest) to obey
the law This Statute gives the banks till
1st January 1859 to make their returns accom
panied by affidavits iu terms of the Statute of
1857. In case, of refusal of any Bank to make
its return as directed by 1st January 1859 the
statute imposes an additional penalty of two per
cent per month on its capital stock from that
time, to be levied aud collected by execution
from the office of the Comptroller General
with a proviso staying execution till 1st July
next, aud declaring that the Bank may in the
mean time prevent the issuing of execution by
making its regular annual and semi annual
returns &c. 1 have as above remarked im
posed upon the Bank of the State of Georgia,
and other delinquent Banks; only the penal
ty which the law prescribed previous to the
passage of the act of 11th, Dec 1858. As the
first day of January 1859 has now passed and
the Bank is still delinquent, the additional
penalty of two per cent per month upon its
capital stock is now running against it. Exe
cution is stayed by the proviso in the statute
till 1st July next. Should the Bank continue
to disobey the law and remain delinquent till
that date I shall order execution to issue im
mediately agaiust it, for the tax of two per
cent per month cn its capital Stock from 1st
January to 1st July. And in case of confin
ed disobedience to, and disregard of law, I
shall after 1st July next order execution to is
sue monthly for the tax so long as the Bank
remains delinquent. This is made my duty
by the 2nd, Sectionof the Act of 11th, Dec.
1858.1 am happy to say that most of tbe sol
vent Banks of this State, which have hereto
fore refused to obey the law, have since the
passage of the act of 11th, Dec. 1858, increas
ing the penalties for disobedience, made their
returns accompanied bythe affidavits required
by the statute of 1857. .1. regret that the
Bank of the State of. Georgia should remain
an exception to this rule, and an example of
disobedience and delinquency.
I am very Respectfully,
Your ob’t serv’t,
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
J. R. Teft. Cashier,
Bank State of Georgia, Savannah.
INTERCEPTED CORRESPONDENCE.
San Hils, kkeb Agustt, Gorgy. j
Sep. 14th, 1859, )'
Mr. Hagoode, Simsone, Hanlilur, Hammuns and
Calune:
i think the dokymeut yu sent me
wuld du a power uv gude if it had sumthin
moor in it.
that leter ftom Dr. Dousen wil be wuss
among the Dimycrats than the jaw boon of
the as i wunc red uv sumwhar wus amung the
Ephesiens.
i wus in the sitty tuther day, and hcerd
that the feller' that cum down to git sum
rnunny for your Barbaku was thar: frum awl
I culd lam i dont supos our folks can let you
hav eny, partikularli sense the Dimycrats hav
a nominatid Jul Cummin for the cenat, and
Ed Walkur and Jack Smith for the hous.
our parti sai it is a mity strong tikit an will
be luird to beet, and we shal nede al our funs
at hum. we had to a nominat Tom Miler for
the cenate, an put Gipsun for the hous, so as
to rekonsile maters, because sum peeplc thort I
Gipsun help beet Miler, with Kansuni Rite for |
Kongres, an Miler’s frens didnt lik it.
dont \ii think you can git along with le.s j
than a thousan dollars frum us.
all eyes is turned to fulton Kounty, du yer j
levil best. Rite is duin his best, but we are j
afeerd jinc joans will beet him—bektfee Rite ]
sals he doant belong to eny parti, and sum uv |
our folks doant lik to voat fur him.
mr aching mad a speach in agusty tuther
nite, he talked mity saft about tbe Banks,
and mity'hard about the Dimykvats—be said
sumthin about a pore omaa in agusty that
rfir Browu treted mity badly sumhow. i didnt
gitrtlie hang of it—plese sen me a uokyment
about it.
the musketers is mity bad hear, and i cant
mte moor, uutliin moor at presence, hut re
mane yors in the buns ny kno nuthiuism.
SKIN SHIN.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1859.
Who supports Brown ?—[|l*>me Courier.
A very lare majority of the voters of Geor
gia. V. '
|<r “The “Messenger” never knowingly
does inj ustice to political opponents. Can the
“Intelligencer” say as much?—[Journal &
Messenger.
Yes sir’ee ; “the “Intelligencer” can say as
much, ’ ’ and say it truthfully. We never pub
lish anything on “political opponents” unless
we know for ourselves what we are writing, or
have been posted by responsible authority, and
when we make mistakes we stand ready to
rectify them, though we made them ignorant
ly. Can the “Messenger” say as much ?
V.
Complimentary Dinner to Hon. I,. J.
Gartrell.
the Democrats of Carroll county will give a
complimentary Dinner to Hon. L. J. Gartrell,
at Carrollton on Friday the 30th inst.
Several distinguished Speakers from Geor
gia and Alabama, have been invited and are
expected to be present. The citizens of Car-
roll, Heard, Campbell, Haralson, and other
neighboring counties are invited, and ample
preparations will be made for all. “Honor
to whom honor is due” say we. Col. Gar
trell has made a faithful Representative of the
4th Congressional District, and we fully ap
preciate the kindness of our Carroll County
friends iu extending to him their manifesta
tion of their respect and coutidcnce.
[comm unicated.]
Milledgeville, Georgia, )
September, 10th, 1859. j
I take pleasure in certifying that, some
years am>, then being a member and Foreman
ot the Grand Jury in Cherokee county, during
a session of the Superior Court, Henry H. Wa
ters, Esq., then a resident of that county, and
now one of Gov. Brown’s Secretaries, called
on me and requested the Grand Jury to ap
point a committee to investigate and make a
settlement of all demands against him as for
mer County Treasurer, stating that a previous
Grand Jury had, at his special request, in
their presentments, asked the Justices of the
Inferior Court to make such settlement, bi^t
that he never could get the Justices to investi
gate the matter. That in pursuance of such
request by Col. Waters, a committee, of which
I was a member, was immediately appointed.
Col. Waters appeared before the committee,
and distinctly stated to us that he desired us
in our investigations to make the amount of
his indebtedness to tbe county as large as we
could make it, and not as small as we could
make it, as he said ho wanted fully to make
the county whole. The committee made the
settlement, with which the Justices of the In
ferior Court, and all the members of the
Grand Jury, were well pleased, and satisfied
that the county had been fully indemnified.
Col. Waters not only paid the principal,
which I think was about S214, but he paid
full interest at 8 per cent. He also, paid, on
his oicn proposition, an Attorney’s fee ol $^0,00,
which the county has paid out in litigation,
with interest on that sum from tiie time it was
paid out; also all costs which the county had
incurred. Whether any part of the funds due
by him to the county, was Poor School money,
I do not know ; hut presume only a small por
tion of it was, if any. But be that as it may,
I know he made what every member of the
Grand Jury thought to he a full and fair set
tlement, and lias paid every dollar with full
interest, in money, back to the county.
eli. McConnell.
Jgp* “The Intelligencer is an excellent jour
nal, ably conducted, and its sledge-hammer
licks in favor of the Democracy, are telling
daily upon the Opposition ranks.”—[Banner
& Sentinel.
Thank you, Bro. Welch. Yon are no flat
terer, and we value the compliment the more
on that account. We intend to repeat our
“licks,” and with the aid of yourself and oth
ers good and true, lick the Opposition till their
“ranks” shall pass away into merited oblivi
on and be seen no more, to weary and worry
our country in its pathway of greatness and
glory. Put in your best “licks.” You may
find us in the hottest of the fight, doing what
we can with a hearty good will, and a deter
mination that knows no flinching. V.
[communicated.]
September 13th, 1859.
Messrs. Editors: The Tri-Weekly Constitu
tionalist, of the 4th inst., contains a sketch of
Coi. Akin's recent speech in Augusta, by
which it appeals that the Speaker character
ized Gov. Brown’s veto of the Bank Bill as an
^agrarian” document. A word and inquiry as
to the agrarianism of that message. The term
agrarian is borrowed from the laws of ancient
Rome. The “agrarian Laws” of that renown
ed Empire, “distributed the conquered and
other public lands equally among all the citi
zens, limiting the quantity which each might
enjoy.” These laws originally made such a
division of certain landed property only, but
at this day a law which would make such a
division of any or all kinds of property, would
perhaps, be correctly euough, called an agrari
an law; and a message recommending an
equal division of property among the citizens,
might not inappropriately be termed agrarian,
but not otherwise.
The Governor’s Bank Message did not advo
cate nor recommend any such division of prop
erty, therefore it was not. an “agrarian” docu
ment. The word agrarian has but one mean
ing, and according to that meaning agrarian
ism cannot be truthfully predicated of the ve
to message. But, although that message can
not, with any propriet y in the use of language,
be styled agrarian, ye t the speaker may have
meant that there is some feature in it which
has some resemblance to agrarianism. AN hat is
that feature ? It is, perhaps, that in which
the Governor places the Bank corporations
and private citizens on the same footing, in
regard to obedience to the laws of the land.
The Governor insisted that the Banks, as well
as individuals, should be required to obey the
law, and that the former should be punished,
as well as the latter, for violating the law.—
He wtis in favor of, and insisted upon justice
being administered equally to all. Is this the
agrarianism which CoL Akin (whilst in the
hearing of Bank Officers) takes so much pleas
ure in charging upon Gov. Brown ? Docs he
join issue with the Governor on this point ?—
Does he think the Banks ought to violate the
law with impunity, whenever they see fit ?
and that such violations should be sanctioned
by law ! or does lie think with Gov. Brown
in his veto message, that neither the Banks
nor individuals ought to lie encouraged to vi
olate the law? If*.the latter be his opinion,
where is the agrarianism to which he objects
in the veto message ? If the former be liis
views, the citizens of Georgia ought to know
it before they vote for him. CRITO.
Gov. Brown’s Bank Better.
AYe publish to-day, this very remarkable
letter, from the Atlanta “American.” That
paper, with a refined taste foi torturing the
wicked and corrupt leaders of the Democracy,
held this letter for some weeks in terrorum over
their guilty heads ; and dared Gov. Brown to
deny its contents. The Atlanta “Intelligen
cer,” Gov. Brown's special organ, boldly de
nied, at first, that Gov. Brown ever wrote such
a letter.
The aliove is from the “Georgia Citizen.”
The “Atlanta Intelligencer” did not deny,
“at first, that Gov. Brown ever wrote such a
letter.” It was charged, before the letter ap
peared, that it was “an infamous document.”
AA r e denied that it was “infamous” then, and,
since it has appeared, we deny it now, and are
willing to let the people pass upon it. The
“Citizen” had better read what the Savannah
.“Republican” “cheerfully” says about that
letter. At the time Gov. Brown prepared that
letter for the press, there had been no intima
tion that it would be published, and he wai t
ed the people to know what was the founda
tion upon which the “infamous” charge was
based. The plan at first adopted lot! many to
believe that the letter would not be given by
the Opposition. AVhat has that letter done,
except to give Gov. Brown strength to render
the Opposition more contemptible ? V.
flip* Gov. Brown.—We are reliably inform
ed that Gov. Brown has resolved not to take
the stump iu tbe approaching canvass. AVe
regard the decision as most becoming to him
self, and just to the dignity of the office he
holds. This thing of the Governor abandon
ing his official duties, and descending to a
wrangle on the hustings for a re-election, is
of modern origin, and we commend Gov.
Brown for setting his face against so pernicious
a practice - Should the Opposition run a can
didate against him, we have no doubt he will
square his conduct accordingly.
We clip the foregoing from the Saoamtah
Republican of the 18th June lust.
But he did not “square his own conduct ac-
cordinlgy.’’ “No doubt” Col. Akin would
have preferred to have remained at home, but
the programme had been arranged quite dif
ferently and he must play his part in the
farce.
\A r ell, we hope he enjoyed his trip well,
enough to get paid for expenses, if he did not,
he will come out minus, as the office of Gover
nor is gaining on him every day and will soon
be, beyond his ever being talked about in that
connexion. It is some gratification tho, for
some men to even he run for governor, with
out the least chance of success. Minorities
sometimes make great men of those, who would
never be taken up by a majority party. Quer-
ry? Would Col- Akin havebeeD called upon
to abuse the Democracy and pile up so much
patriotism, for the eye of the people, had his
party any hope of carrying the State ?
V.
A DIstinguDUed Regiment.
Among the Austrian prisoners at this mo
ment in Paris is one belonging to a regiment
which claims a singular privilege, that of en
camping for three days, whenever they pass
through Vienna, in the court of the Emperor,
and of receiving a most regoi entertainment.
The Colonel, upon his arrival, is allowed by
law to pass to the Emperor’s chamber without
question, no one being permitted to stop him.
He knocks thrice, anti demands orders of his
Majesty, when the Emperor invites him and
his to remain three days, regaling at his ex
pense in the palace, assigns the Colonel a room
next to his own, thestandards of the regiment
are piled at his door, and a guard and lords in
waiting attend him the same as the sovereign.
The origin of the custom is this. In 1683
Leopold the First was suddenly waited upon
by sixteen barons, with a charter which they
were on the point of forcing him to sign, hav
ing. as they thougnt, secured the abeeenee of
all the troops from Vienna, when suddenly a
Colonel, who received information from a se
cret source—it was never discovered whence—
knocked at the door thriee, and to the great
joy of the Emperor demanded his Majesty's
orders for his regiment—which were, that the
sixteen barons should be at once beheaded.
[Court Journal.
tears over the Augusta woman, in ignorance
of the law, he is not the lawyer that should
charge $1,000 in a case where Judge Wright
only charged $100. .
Magnanimous lawyer! Great on RaLfrjn»fe,
but ignorant of the rights of poor women, ff
he knew of the law, and has willfully and
knowingly humbugged the people, he is not fit
for Governor, or any other office of honor or
trust. Take whatever horn of the dilemma
you please, and Col. Akin is not to be envied
for his position. If Col. Akin knew of the
law, may we not ask, what will he not stoop
to for votes ? Did ever any Demagogue before
act with more false deception ? Will the peo
ple endorse him ? Ask the ides of October,
and get answer of an overwhelming defeat.
Gov. Brown and tbe Cherokee Baptist
College.
In our issue of the 1st instant, we publish
ed a communication over the signature
“Cass,” which showed a very marked differ-
erence between Gov. Brown and Col. Akin in
reference to their conduct towards this Insti
tution. That .communication contained the
following statement, viz:
“On the 22d of February 1854, Governor
Brown, at Cassville, at a meeting of the
friends of the Cherokee Baptist College, in a pub
lic speech before said meeting, then and there
solemnly made a pledge, upon certain condi
tions, to donate or procure donated to said College
the sum of $10,000—the proceedings of which
meeting was reported to the Board of Trus
tees. The Board shortly thereafter performed
a part of the conditions—the most important,
to wit: A change of location for the College
Lrtiildings, and notified Gov. Brown through
their Secretary, that they were ready to per
form and carry out every other condition imposed
by him whenever he was ready to reciprocally
bind himself in accordance with his pledge. And
the Board went so far as to send their
Agent, the Bev. Edward Dyer, of Walker,
all the way to Canton, to notify him, per
sonally, of their desire, and lo and behold!
when it came to the sticking point, Gov. Brown
backed dear out—begged to be let off—plead hard
times, and never gave a dollar to said College, and
has not to this day ! And the then Board of
Trustees, of which the Rev- Jno. Crawford
was President, verily believed, and many of
them believe to this day, that Gov. Brown’s
conduct relative thereto, was a DEGEPTIA’E
TRICK to gain notoriety or answer some personal
end in a future day !
“Where, ah ! where is Gov. Brown’s libe
rality ? Where has he ever donated hard cash
from any motive selfish or otherwise ? He has
promised but never performed! And now, if Mr.
“F” feels that the glass house he and Gov.
Brown dwell in has had one side smashed in,
he must attribute it to his partizan indiscre
tion, and to liis apparently innate want of
truth.”
Now, the above contains FACTS. They
come from a gentleman who is a member of
the Baptist Church, ih good standing, and
who is also a member of the Democratic
party. He is a gentleman of veracity, and is
cognizant of the facts set forth. Gov. Brown
and his organ are challenged to deuy or disprove
them ! If they dare to do so, the proof will
be forthcoming. Our coteinporaries may rely
upon what is said above, for it is derived from
a gentleman who knows that whereof he
speaks, and who stands as high as any other
citizen of Cherokee Georgia.
AYc clip the above from the “National
American.” “Mr. V. feels that the glass
house he and Gov. Brown dwell in has” not
“had one side smashedin.” “Mr. A r . and Gov.
Brown” can’t be “smashed in” in that way.
AVe liave confidence in the omnipotence cc
truth and the imbecility of slander.
Jefferson has said, that “error ceases to be
dangerous when reason is left free to combat
it.” AVe have no idea that reasonable men
will believe the slande.s which have been per
petrated against Gov. Brown.
In fact, Gov. Brown will get stronger, as
the foolish charges are successively and suc
cessfully refuted. The above charges, we are
convinced upon good evidence, are a tissue of
shameful and disgraceful untruths. If the
author is a Democrat and Baptist, we are
sorry for him.
We have yet to believe that he is a Baptist
aud Democrat. We asked Gov. Brown about
flfP Patrick Macfingau, with a wheel-bar
row, ran a race with a locomotive ; as the
latter went out of sight, Mac observed, “Aff
widye, ye roarin’ blakguard, or I’ll be after
junnin’ into yees I”
Gov. Brown and the Poor >Voman.
CoL Akin and his friends have been greatly
exercised over Gov. Brown’s cruelty to that
poor woman of Augusta. AYhen Gov. Brown
vetoed Mrs. Zinn’s bill, he was informed that
the husband and wife were living together.—
The Opposition say that Mrs. Zinn had been
deserted by her husband about two years, and
that he was living in adultery. If the above
be true, Mrs. Zinn had two sufficient remedies.
We have pointed out one of those remedies al
ready. The ‘ ‘Journal & Messenger’ ’ has tried
to break the point of the divorce argument,
by suggesting the cost of a suit to the poor
woman. We know enough of the Augusta
bar, to assert, that such a case as Mrs. Zinn’s
may always find an attorney, without fee, if
there is as much merit in it as the papers make
out. Then the delay has been pleaded. The
Journal & Messenger ought to know, that
now, where the Superior Court sets two weeks,
and where two Juries are sworn, a complete
divorce may be gotten at the same term.
AVell there is another remedy, neither expen
sive nor tardy, either to the State or the wo
man. See Acts of 1851 and ’2, Page 237 :
An Act for the Relief of Married Women
whose Husbands have Deserted them.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in
General Assembly convened, aud it is hereby
enacted by the authority of the same—That
in all cases where a married woman has been
deserted by her husband, and lias, while so
deserted, by her exertions and those of her
children, or otherwise acquired property of
any kind : the same shall be exempt from the
payment of said husband’s debts, and be vest
ed in said married woman, for her sole and
separate use, not subject to the debts, eon-
tracts, or control of said husband.
Approved Dec. 30th, 1851.
Does not the above act cover Mrs. Zinn’s
case, it it is as has been represented ? If the
Legislature had forgotten this act, it is well
that we had a Governor to veto it. If CoL
Akin did not know of the existence of the
a bove law, and has shed so many crocodile
tills matter when he was last in Atlanta, and
though he did not suggest to us to say any
thing about it in the paper, we feel like giv
ing the facts, just to show how the truth may
be perverted, and how things can be started
that are not true and that do not have the
semblance of truth.
Once upon a time, Gov. Brown and Mr.
Martin of Lumpkin county, proposed to aid
in the endowment of the ' 'Cherokee Baptist
College,” (not the Cassville Maie College,)
upon the following condi i ions : That the Trus
tees should have a Steward’s Hall, and com
pel all the students to 1* su'd at it—that the
board be furnished the students at first cost—
that the Steward should bo paid fair wages
and liave no chance to speculate off the boys
—that every student should ’wear the same
kind of a dress, aud that the rich and the
poor meet and associate upon terms of equal
ity, and no distinctions be allowed on account
of wealth. Upon the above terms, Gov-
Brown and Col. Martin agreed to use their in.
fluence for the College and subscribe liberally,
in proportion to their ability.
It was proposed that the Trustees adopt the
suggestions made. It was required that the
above regulations be put in the Charter, so
that they could not be annulled at pleasure
by the Trustees. The Trustees finally deter
mined not to adopt the plan proposed, and
Gov. Brown and Mr. Martin, of course, were
not bound to aid. They distinctly stated
that their help depended upon the. adoption
of the above programme.
Gov. Brown never “begged to he let off,”
or “plead hard times.” He was willing to
act upon his recommendations.
In tins fast and expensive age, among
youn" men, who does not see at a glance that
the idea of Gov. Brown and Col. Martin is a
good one f
AYe should delight to see a Col-
fege established upon the proposed plan. AA'e
believe it would werk admirably.
AYc conversed a few days ago with Gen
John H. Bice upon this matter, and we un
derstood him to admit that the above is a true
history of this case. Ho will excuse us for
using his name in this connexion. AA'e would
not do so, but we look upon Gen. Rice as a
fair-minded man, and willing to soe the truth
of history vindicated in this controversy, al
though lie is in favor of the election of Col.
Akin.
Gen. Rice has been an active friend and lib
eral supporter of the “Cherokee Baptist Col-
feTey” and we think is one of the Trustees,
atul lias been from the beginning. Does the
above statement show any “glass houses
smashed in ?”
Uov. Brown never committed himself to
$10,009, or any other specified sum, but upon
his plan proposed to do what he could by ins
influence and subscribe liberally. So much
we offer upon the authority of Gov. Brown
and Ceil. Uice, although not requested to do
If we have misrepresented either of them,
upon notice we will set them right.
AVhat will the enemies ot Gov. Brown start
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next? Can’t somebody write a letter and
charge him with being a thief or a drunkard,
and challenge “his organ to deny or disprove?”
Gentlemen, you can’t hinder his being Gov
ernor tivo years longer, and you had better
quietly submit, and Christian fortitude, and
eutluve the affliction.
The people aro for Brown, and you must
bow to the vox popidi.
There is no use in wasting breath and ink
about the matter. Akin can’t come in this
time. Let him be resigned to his ftte.
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