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Wednesday, September 14, IR3O.
"Be just % and fear not."
HEALTH OF SAVANNAH.
The Sexton of Savannah reports the interment
of seven persons in that city during the week
ending on the 6th instant—4 whiles, and 3 blacks.
Only 2 of the whites were residents of Savan
nah, and one of the non-residents died in the
country, and was brought to that city for inter
ment,
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much ability since its establishment, by Charles
C. Matson*, Esq. has been transferred by him to
Messrs. Joseph A. G. Bouchf.lle and Wiui.m
H. Teiiiiett. It will be published as heretofore
at Jackson, Mississippi, every Thursday, at Jib
per annum.
COL. THOMAS BUTLER KING.
This gentleman is one of the candidates for
Congress, on the State Rights ticket, and wc
would refer the reader to an article in today’s pa
per, copied from the Boston Atlas, that they may
know what he has done for Georgia, and in what
manlier his talents and services are held by those
with whom he is now associating, for her benefit.—
Georgia has no citizen who is more devoted to
her interests than Thomas Butler King ; nor
has she a citizen who is more capable of repre
senting them,
TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS.
We published an article Irora the Federal U
nion, a short time past, stating that the services
of the Tennessee Brigade had been rejected by
Oov. Cali, of Florida, in consequence of their
having presented some condition in relation to
the officers by whom they wore to be commanded,
which the Governor deemed incompatible will)
established military regulations. Wo learn by
the Alabama and Columbus papers, that this
statement is altogether incorrect, and that the
Volunteers are now far advanced in their march
towards Tallahassee. We believe the reason of
the delay in their march to Florida, was occasioned
by their presence having been deemed necessary
in tile Cl reek nation, until after the removal of the
Indians. We sincerely wish these brave Volun
teers may meet with the success, in their present
hazardous undertaking:, of which they arc so
highly deserving. They have a foe to contend
with, which is more to be dreaded than the hos
tile Indians, but wo are confident they will leave
nothing undone which it may be in the power of
man to accomplish.
MR. BLACK’S SPEECH.
\Ve havs the pleasure of laying before our read
mits, this morning, the able speech of Edward J.
Black, Esq. before the State Rights Association
of Scriven county, on the 4th of July last, which
i*e recommend to their serious attention. It has
been delayed until this late d?y, by circumstan
ces beyond our control, but we are sure it will
not prove less interesting on that account. ' It
places the abolitionists of tho North, as well as
Mr. Pinckney, Mr. Van Boren, Col. R. M.
Johnson, and their supporters, in their true light
before the Southern people.
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r theatrical.
Our friend Mr. Hart has closed his Theatrical
Campaign at Columbus, and is at present in this
City on his way North, to add to the numbers and
attraction of his little Company. The Columbus
{ Herald says his campaign there has been a brilliant
one, both in pocket and honor—stating that he
had “ cleared, in eight weeks, the round sum of
§6000.” Pretty decent for Columbus, with her less
e than 4000 inhhitauts! Wo suppose the multitudes,
I. that the Creek War poured into the city, helped
* them out. When these burning spirits were not
_ allowed to go against the enemy without guns or
1, blight else, in spile they went to the Theatre.
1 Well, il Is better to laugli than cry, at any time—
q Courier of Monday.
1, "
f CHARLESTON CHOLERA REPORTS.
Office Board of Health, }
Charleston, Sept. 9—l o’clock, P. At. J
f The Special Committee of the Board have to
j report for the last twenty-four hours, 10 cases of
I Cholera; 3 whites, 7 blacks, 2 dead. Os the
. cases reported yesterday, three more have died—
-1 the others convalescent. By order.
THOS, Y. SIMONS, M. D.
( Chairman Special Committee
A. O. Howard, M. D. Clerk.
September 10, 1 o’clock, P. .1/.
, The Special Committee of tho Board have to
report for the last twenty-four hours, 30 cases of
Cholera ; 9 whites, 21 blacks and colored, 5 dead.
—The others under treatment—The cases repor
ted yesterday, convalescent. By order.
THOS. Y. SIMONS, M. D.
Chairman Special Committee.
A. G. How4.ni), M. D. Clerk.
September 11, 4 o’clock, P. AT.
The Special Committee of the Board, have to
report for the last twenty-four hours, 18 cases of
Cholera, 2 White, 16 Blacks and Colored, 2
dead—the others under treatment—of the cases
reported yesterday, 3 more have died. By order.
THOS, Y. SIMONS, M. D.
Chairman Special Committee.
A. G. Howard, M. D. Clerk.
FOK THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE,
Extract of a Speech delivered liy ED
WARD J. BLACK, Esq. before tlk
State Rights Association of Scrlvcu
county, at JacksoulroroiigU on the
4Hi July, JB3G.
Let us hail, Mr, President, (said Mr. Black,)
the recurrence olthe Anivcisary of our freedom,
as an event that assures us we are yet free—that
animates us with the hdpC we shall die freemen
—and, that incites us by the ardent contemplation
of the achievements of our ancestors, to perpetu
ate that Liberty, which through peril, they won
upon tho stake of their “ lives, their fortunes, and
their sacred honors.” The men of the Revolu
tion, (he said) were passing away ; how few re
mained to tell us the story of their country’s
wrongs—“ the proud man’s scorn, the oppressor’s
contumely”—of that tyranny which drove them
from the British Crown, and made them swear to
die freemen, rather than live slaves. Inexorable
Timeljas if unconcious of the virtues which should
have shielded them from the common lot of the
human herd, has ploughed deep furrows in their
cheeks, once flushed with victory, and palzied
their arms, which erst had nobly struck for “ God
and Liberty.” But though many of them had
yielded to that stern decree which consigns man
back to his kindred element of earth, arid the few
who lingered among us were tottering upon the
very verge of tho grave, “ enough of their glory
remained on each sword to light us to victory
yet.” Within a short month, in our own county,
the hand of death had torn from us one of our
own revolutionary heroes. Near his eightieth
y£ar, after having fought through the Revolution,
and endured all the horrors of a British Prison
ship, well known, and well beloved by all who
knew him, John Conieus went down into the
grave, with tho same calm and firm reliance upon
his Maker, which had strengthened and supported
him through all the disasters of ’76.
His was an humble, but a bright career, born
under the dominion of the 3rd Gcoigo, “ whose,
house-hold virtues most uncommon,” but the
more exposed, by contrast) his governmental mis
rule, he lived to sever with his sword the mana
cles that bound him, and transmit to Iris numer
ous posterity, that liberty which was not his birth
right. It was his glory to have, boon a Whig of
the Revolution, and its our pride that he was a
firm and devoted member of this Association ;
thus illustrating by his last political attachment,
the principles for which he had warred against
his herditary Kino ; and if epitaph be necessary
to perpetuate the memory of such a man, let us
here pronounce it; “ A firm and constant Whig
of the American Revolution’’ —an eulogium, the
truth of which, is sufficient to cover any man
with glory. To such men as tho friend whose
loss wo deplore, and his compatriots in arms, let
us look, (said Mr. Black,) for example and ad
monition of our duty to ourselves, and our coun
try. 'Phey had onco been branded as rebels aiid
traitors, but they had survived the calumny, and
lived to die honored and revered; we too, have
been called rebels and traitors, hut be not, lie be
sought, driven from the high purpose of your
country’s redemption—be not frightened by tho
unreal terrors of a name, or the aspersions ofiuso
j lent, and unprincipled men. If wc are traitors
and rebels, the Whigs of the Revolution, with
! George Washington at their head, arc Our glori
ous fellows in treason and rebellion.
’ lam rejoiced, (said Mr. Black,) to sec so many
f Union men present. The day is past when it
1 was necessary to discuss the principles of Stale
Rights, or analyze the doctrine of Stale Sover
: eignty before the Nullifies of this county—they
’ arc masters of their creed in theory, and stand
3 ready to reduce it to practice upon all proper oc
-1 rations —hut as he valued the good opinion of
5 his fellow citizens of the Union party, he cheerful
ly embraced this opportunity of staling and cx-
( plaining to them, a few of the more prominent
1 j and essential points of his political faith, which had
5 ; its origin in the Resolutions they had just heard,
1 but which certain people, more remarkable for
* their sniartness than the profiiiidity of thoir view,
1 had lately discovered to he the very essence of dis
i union. This he could not more easily accom
f plish than by running a parallel between the
i two parties ; and, strange as it may seem, ho ven
, tured the assertion, that in the exposition, tho
great mass of our opponents would be found pos
, sessing, professing, and acting upon the identical
■ doctrines to which we cling with such constancy.
Your leaders, & not yourselves, have created the
distinction and dillbicncc between us—a distinc
tion purely of men, and not of principle; and
he firmly believed, if the roill principles, the dels,
and practices of those leaders, cduld be divtilgcd
to their constituents, the great majority of the
Union men would indignantly repudiate both
. them and their rotten politics. To those who
thus intentionally mislead them, he had nothing
to say ; they were past cure, beyond all redemp
tion—“ a mind diseased no rcnledy can physic,”
—nothing but a dose of “ minority’’ more nau
seous to them than the vilest drug; could turn
them front llicit idols. Whenever that potion
shall, as it assuredly "will be, administered to
them, it will need no argument to aid it to a suc
cessful operation. With a facility which no
thing but practice could have rendered so perfect,
they will then wheel to the right-about, and a
single dpmersot will throw them into Hie very
centre and vortex of nullification.
How then, asked Mr. Black, stand the two
parties'! You are devoted to the Union —to a
Union of these States, based upon cqilality of
rights and privileges, such as tho Constitution de
clares it to be —to a voluntary Union for the slip
port and protection of the united. To such a
Union, we, too, are devoted. But, whenever
that Union is perverted to an engine of oppres
sion ; whenever it is used as a means of tarilf
exactions upon the South, or resorted to for the
purpose of Abolition, you yourselves will readily
admit, as you have frequently declared, that in
stead of advocating, you would he among the
first, with us, to declare its dissolution—dissolved,
not by us, but by those who have violated its
letter, and its spirit.
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, you
have just listened to, assort, that if Congress
shall pass an unconstitutional act, the Sovereign
States of this confederacy have tho right, and
ought to abolish or ‘nullify the same. If then,
Congress should pass an act creating brio of our
citizens tho Duke of Scriven, and require you
to obey tho enactment, under heavy penalities, or
should ordain that Slavery shall no longer exist
in Georgia, I ask you if you would submissively
kneel at the foot of “ the Government,” to peti
tion for a repeal of those acts; and, in case of a
refusal to repeal, if you would content yourselves
wilh a civil remonstrance? If not, what Would
you do! You must either submit to these acts,
or oppose them ; if you oppose them, you nulli
fy, abrogate, or abolish them, as we ourselves
would most certainly do; and I know you too well
to believe, even for a moment, that any Union
man in Scriven county would submit, cither to a
title of nobility, or an abolition of domestic slavery.
Again, the Proclamation of Andrew Jackson
declares, that when a State is once in the Union,
she can nSvcr get out of it, unless she fights her
way out—that the States have no rights, not even
the right of secession; and that whatever law
Congress shall pass, will be enforced by the Exe
cutive, even at the point of the bayonet. Are
those your principles! Why the question, with
out intending it, is an insult. Your answer is
evident, “ they are not our principles; wo assu
redly' believe, with you, that a recognition of such
doctrines would at once yield Us voluntary slaves,
and leave us no remedy against any unconstitu
tional act of tho General Government.” Adopt
these principles, and submit to have them acted
Out upon you, and in less than twelve months, sla
very would be abolished in Ocergia, by an act of
Congress passed by the same majority that sus
tained and adopted Mr. Pinckney’s Harmony
Resolutions! But your public men arc support
ing the Administiation which originated these
dangerous and startling principles I —Mr. Black
then spoke at some length of the violent seizure
of tho deposites, ami of tho alarming progress of
abolition at the North and East. Ho said that
those who would lull the people of the South in
to a sense of false and fatal security, upon that
subject, deserved, and would receive, their bitter
est execration and resentment. The Union par
ty have been told by their loading men, and il
had been re-echoed by their presses, that there
was no danger—that the mass of tho people at
the North were opposed to abolition, and if let
alone, would in thoir own good time put the
thing to utter extinction. Even the majority in
the last Legislature, had gone so far as to declare
"our confidence ” in Northern people,and our
belief that the influential men in that section of
the Union would ultimately abolish abolition it
self! But, how far otherwise is the fact! Tho
proof was at hand, he said, to shew that within a
few years, from a miserable and contemptible
few, the Fanatics had grown beyond example
in number, influence, and wealth. They now
numbered, instead of 300 individual advocates,
at least that many largo and well constructed so
cieties. They had established, and had in daily
operation, an extensive and well foil private press;
and had, by whatever means, rendered a large por
tion of the public press at the North and East
subsidiary to their incendiary views, and nefari
ous projects. From their private printing estab
lishments, thousands of pamphlets, tracts, and
pictorial representations, teeming with rank cal
umny and abuse of Southern men, were issued
weekly, with the avowed and damnable purpose
, of immediate and unconditional abolition of sla
very. They have solemnly averred, that if a dis
,' solution of that Union, which you so much love,
it is the only price at which their object was to he
d obtained, they were ready and willing to pay that
], price— to dissolve tho Union, and liberate your
,r slaves. They hesitate not to declare their diabol
r, leal intention to make the slave himself the iu
i- strumenl of his own liberation ; to desolate the
I
fair and beautiful South, drenched as il would he
c with the blood of your best patriots; and to
1- send death and dishonor to your women and
e children.
But, you are told that this is all idle phanla
-1 sy, and a dream ; nay, more, as if in mockery of
. your just and reasonable fears, and in derision
c of your intelligence, men who profess to be your
. friends, tell you you arc duped and played upon
] by designing demagogues, and that all this clam
, dr about abolition is gotten up for political pur
-1 poses, and to foster and advance nullification,
j Do you, can you, believe it! If your house
1 top is on fire, will you heed him who tells you
j to sit still—-that tho flames you see aro hut the
; coruscations of tho glowworm! Look, 1 beseech
. you, dt ille result of tho great meeting in New
> York, Idst siinlmer, whereat 30,000 men adopted
. resolutions faintly condemnatory ol tho violent
, a n<l aggressive movements of the immediate aboli
( tionists, as subversive of, instead of conducive to,
the very object they wore all striving to attain.
Look at tile resolution of the same meeting de
claring slavery to be abhorrent Id thoir principles;
and then remember, that not one of these States
north of us, although it was demanded of their
authorities, have yet passed one act of Legis
lation inflicting penalties upon the Fanatics
within their liiriits, who are thus deliberately
whetting the knife for your throats ; and remem
ber, too, that tho New York Resolutions arc bill
a fair sample of all others that have been adopt
ed north of Mason and Dixon’s line, since the
agitation of this subject. Does all this mean
nothing ! Can tod not uridorsldiid it! If you
yet doubt, ask Dr. Channinh, Mr. Adams, and
Mr. Slaue ; enquire at the office of Jtickncll’s
C*
Reporter, of the Saturday Evening Post, and
of nearly all the leading papers at the North,
whether the Abolitionists aro a handful of obscure
men, who may ho “ grasped thus”! Ask of
Arthur Tappan, and his wealthy confederates,
if they are poor and pcnnylcss! Ask of tho
60,000 men who petitioned Congress, during the
present session, to “ let slip the dogs of war”
upon you, who they aro, and what their purpose !
All, all will answer you—nay, they have already
thundered it in our cars—“ wo are rich and pow
erful—oUr name is Legion—-the yearly resources
of our societies nearly cqial tho annual revenue
of Georgia—wc ate strong now, but we arc
growing and increasing in a most wonderful de
gree—wo are composed, not alone of the poor
and hunible “men by the catalogue,” but our
ranks are overflowing with. Senators, Represen
tatives, Statesmen, Judges, Lawyers, Doctors,
Preachers, wealthy merchants, and wo claim
and rely on the Vice President of tho United
States, as our friend and coadjutor. Tho chival
rous knights of the crusades never boro a firm
er or more adventurous purpose—the medieant
pilgrim to Mecca, never a holler zeal in thcii
Cditse than these oUr friends in the cause than
those our friends in tho cause of Abolition,
which is their religion; and the caravans to
Bagdad and Bussorah, never carried ampler and
more inexhaustible treasures to their princely mer
chants, than we to the immediate and uncondi
tional liberation of the slave.”—These, they tri
umphantly and impudently exclaini to you, these
are our men, these our means, and this our pur
pose. Can you, gentlemen of the Union party,
excuse your pretended friends, who, attempting
to lead your opinions, would thus blind you lo
the perils that environ your path, and deceive you
as (5 the extent of your dangers ; who, upon the
watchtower, falsely cry out “all’s well,” when
the Fanatic is pleaching insurrection to your
slaves, and threatening us daily with all the hor
rors of a servile war! Do you remember the
Resolutions you assisted us to pass at a meeting
of both parlies, last summer, in this very church,
and tho severity with which, by your votes upon
that occasion, you dealt wilh one of your own
men, who said something about the abolition o*
slavery in the District of Columbia 1 Yoii then
declared, and surely you have not repented the
• declaration, your immoveable opposition, not on
ly to tho abolition of slavery, by any moans, in
the States, hut in the territories, and in the Dis
trict of Columbia ; and you said, and very pro
perly said, you would hear no argument upon
the subject—that it was a thing about which you
would rather fight than talk ; and you pronoun
ced any man who oven hinted at a connection of
cithkr of our parties with the Abolitionists “a
LiAß,”whom nothing but his personal absence
from your county would save from the infliction
of Lynch’s law*. You then spoke out your true
principles, which you have neither denied or rh
canted, and holding such principles and views,
permit mo to put a case, byway of illuslralßlg
. tho wide difference between you and the public
servants, in whom you have placed your trust.
Suppose then, (said Mr. B.) Arthur Tappan
now at your Church door, praying lo he permit
-1 ted to present for your consideration and adop
tion, a petition, in which among other things he
pronounced us all to ho man stealers, land pi
rates, slave holders, and dealers in human flesh
’ and blood, who were nponly violating the laws of
God and man —suppose the petitioner denoun
cing us as men who had abandoned all principle,
1 truth, honor, honesty, and virtue—sensual ty
■ rants and grovelling despots, degraded by the
t guilt of slavery, and wallowing in a lustful and
• brutal intercourse with our own slaves—suppose
• this but an epitome of the vilo slander showered
1 upon us by the petitioner—and he at your thres
- hold, claiming admittance, and your respectful
1 consideration, and even adoption of his villainous
: petition. What answer would you return—what
. reception Would you give him ! Would you say
■ “ kind sir! come in among us, read your petition
, over to us, let us hear its contents again”!
c which being done, would you reply thus, in tin
,t most respectful maimer: wc have heard am
r deliberately considered your petition, wc arc no
- so well pleased with it; therefore, although wi
- nave received it, wo simply reject il / and il
e order to treat you with the utmost cousidoratioi
3 and respect, wo give your petition “Christian
) burial,” by decently laying it on our table.’ 1
1 Need I ask il this is the course you would pui
sne, when but last summer you silenced all spec
ulation upon this subject, at least in your pre
sence, by your unanimous and violent vote, lo
1 which I have just referred ! Need I ask high
r minded, honorable, Southern men, and slave
1 holders, as I know you lo bo, such a question !
I No, gentlemen ! 1 will not suppose you are slocks
■ and stones, to sutler cruel insult to bo added to
your injuries, wilh impunity. On the contrary I
will venture lo assert, that instead of receiving
tho Incendiary, and respectfully laying his libel
on your table, you would kick Arthur Tappan out
1 of your Church, and his infamotls petition after
him. Nay, more, wc would sanctify and seal the
celebration of this day, by hanging the petitioner
t.u yon patriarchal Oak, there lo dangle in sol
emn warning 16 all oilier abolitionists who should
dare to pollute our soil by their presence.
Thus would wo have acted. Now answer me
truly, have your Representatives ill Congress
(with a single exception) represented you and
your principles, in this most impoitant matter,
their several votes upon Pinckney’s Resolutions!
It you have ilyct t 6 ledrri, let nio tell you no ;
they have not represented your principles upon tho
subject referred to, nor did they tict lipdii that oc
casion as you would have acted, had you been per
sonally present. The Pinckney Resolutions pre
sent a state of facts precisely similar to tho case I
have supposed, and required these villanous and
allusive petitions to be received and respectfully
laid upon the table, whence, if tho clerk does his
duty, they will be transferred to the journal of
the House, Ihoro to remain a stain upon your
character, and an acknowledgment that Con
gress has tho right to abolish domestic slavery in
the District of Columbia ; which point tho abo
tionists themselves aver, if once attained, will
open a broad and easy road to tho accomplish
ment of tho same object within tiro Slat Cs. Yet,
tho men whom you deputed to represent your
principles in Congress, actually, (with but one
solitary exception) voted for tire adoption of these
Resolutions; which, if they had been previously
adopted try our primary assembly hero, would
1 have compelled us to receive Arthur Tappan, and
■ to trodt his petition with civility and respect.
Thus, gentlemen of tho Union parly, have I
illustrated the wide dilfcrencc between you and
your principles, and yorir Representatives and
thoir principles; and, if after your servants have
so abused tiro confidence you reposed in them,
you still adhere lo and support them, you in fact
adopt their principles, as exemplified by their
votes, and hecotho responsible to the people for
the direful consequences. You will bo wheeling
short round upun your own good principles, here
tofore deliberately expressed, and w ill forfeit all
claims to any thing like consistency. Suffer not
your servants, I pray yoU, thhs to dally arid tem
porize with the Norlhen people upon this mo
mentous and critical subject, hut put away from
your counsels duy iriau, or set of men, whoever
they may he, who would not speak, act, and vote,
in Washington, as you speak, act, and vole in
Scriven.
Again; you are culled upon, by those who pre
tend lo he your advisers, to support Marlin Van
Huron for the Presidency, and R. M. Johnson for
the Vied Presidency. Your Convention at Mil
ledgeville have put them both in regular party
nomination, for these highest offices in tho gift of
the people. Do you, canyon, remembering your
former and present professions, sanction and sup
port such a HrilHihation ! Will you tolerate in
Martin Van Bnren his written and avowed belief
that CongrCsr has tho right to abolish Slavery in
the District of Columbia, when hula twelvemonth
ago, from the seats you now occupy, you peremp
torily stopped a regular debate, unanimously,
with us, to condemn the same opinion, which had
been only incidentally adverted lo in the discus
sion ! Can you consent lo throw the vast and
still increasing patronage of this government into
Pic hands of a mart, vVlio, while a member of the
New York Legislature, voted for the right of
Free Negro suffrage, and openly advocated the
startling proposition that theNr-ono shall have
power, at the polls, to control the destinies of go
vernment equally with yourselves ! It is said
■ ho is at this moment making large sums of money
by speculating in tho public lands. He was op
posed to the last war at tho most critical period
of the contest—he is, and ever was, a high tariff
mart; and, lo prove his devotion to the American
System, he assured his friends at the North, that
he had justthori appropriated $20,000 to the pur
chase of sheep I He was a Missouri restriction
: ist. But what boots it to multiply charges; I
could go on for lliroe hours to enumerate, for I
hold in my hand, a catalogue of his political
crimes; hut I forbear.; for what docs it signify
. that otherwise ho may ho as pure as the fabulous
, icicle which hung from JJian's temple, if upon
the one vital, all-important subject of Slavcfy, lie
bo is rotten to the core, and pledged against the
I South !
Did your.Convcntion mean to stigmatize you,
, when they lead out before the world R. M. John
- son as roua choice, for Vice President! But,
> think of il for a moment. Knowing as they did,
1 that you were white men, and legitimately and
' honorably connected with white people, they yet
I dared to link you politically with a man who has
■ long since degraded himself by actually marrying
1 two negro women. Yes, gentlemen, ibis same
* Johnson, whom your Convention has foisted up
l on the community as your man, is the father of
' two mulatto girls, whom he openly supports, ac
-1 knowledges, and defends; and whom he has used
his best endeavors to introduce into the society
ie of respectable ladies, ami into the families of Iron
id est while men. Why, if you continue to adhere
ol to this candidate, your very wives and daughters,
re leaving the loom and spindle, will for their own
in sakes, raise such a din and clatter against this
111 villanous nomination, as shat! deafen you, and
in make you wish R. M. Johnson and his mulatto
” family at tho devil. Suppose a ease, gentle
1- men. The Colonel, by your aid, is elected Vico
President. After his election, ho [anh uts fam
-- m.y] make a tour to tho South—of course ho
0 will he solicitous to see and visit liis friend;; ami
1- supporters—and accordingly his carriage stops at
e your door. You are delighted lo sec the Vico
! President, and receive him with becoming civili
s ty; but, behold ! in a moment your delight is
a turned into astonishment and consternation’
1 when he introduces to you his mulatto daughters
? —the tawny Misses Johnson! What Would you
I do wilh your Vice President and his children !
I You could not, you would not, seat his daughters
r by yitS daughters —yoii wohill sutler your right
3 arms cut off before ydd wolild have them in your
r families,and at your tables. How then!—Why,
- you could hilt ask tho father into your house, and
I send Iris daughters lo the kitchen !j !
'This man, then,"who slops not at the “ book
ish thcoric” of abolition, but, in advance of tho
doctrines of his day, has gone, and is going, tho
full length of open avowed practical amalgama
tion, is recommended lo you by your aforesaid
friends, as a fit and proper person to preside at the
’ head of the Senate, and possibly at the head of the
’ Government! Shairio, sliame ! “Oh, feeling, thou
■ art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their
reason”! If these charges bo true, is there not a
wide and deep gulpH between the ihass of tho
Union party, and their men in office; and is
there a man hero who doubts their truth! If
there is, ho surely must he as redoubtable a douhl
-1 cr, as tho sceptical Wouter Van Twillcr himself.
I But, in sober earnest, call, I pray you, upoh these
r headmen of your pdrty, lo respond directly and
• to the point; suffer them not lu illsult your un
-1 dcrslunding by unmeaning denunciations of John
- C. Calhoun and South Carolina, and by violent
ami blind abuse of Nullification, as an answer to
• your accusations. Hold them to the' question,
, guilly or not guilty, and to pertinent and relative
' answers. Spurn from you thoir virulent abuse
1 and insignificant generalities. Listen not to
' them, when they tell you that nullification is dis
' union, and nullifiors arc rebels. Say to them in
1 a manner licit Id be misunderstood, two wrongs
1 never made a right, first justify yourselves, by tho
adduction of fuels and reasonable arguments, and
[ think not wo are such fools us lo bo gulled into n
1 belief of your purity, by sweeping denunciations
I of your political opponents. But pursue such a
. Cdui-se with your servants in office, and as surely
us we have agreed upon the poiiils discussed be
tween us this day, will you pronounce your ver
dict of guilty upon them, when they arc brought
||p a strict and a final hearing,
for the Augusta chronlcle.
BURKE STATE RIGHTS MEETING.
At a meeting of lire Burke Slate Rights Asso
ciation, held in Wayneshorough, on Tuesday, 6th
September, the following resolutions wore passed
unanimously.
Resolved, That we aro unalterably opposed lo
the election of Martin Van Buren to the Presi
dency, and Richard M. Johnson to the Vlcb Pres
idency of the. Union, and that wc would consider
their success as a national calamity.
Resolved, That wo cordially approve of tho
anti-Van Buren Electoral Ticket proposed by the
late Convention at Millcdgcvillc, and we hereby
pledge ourselves lo uro all honorable means to
ensure its success.
Resolved, That the disinterested, patriotic and
magnanimous course of John H. Howard, Esq.
in withdrawing his name from the Slate Rights
1 Congressional ticket, for the reasons set forth in
his late letter, entitles him to tiic iaslirig gratitude
of the Stale Rights party, nrtd Wc iropc that tiro
day is not far distant when an opportunity will bo
afforded (hem to manifest their deep sense of his
1 self-sacrificing patriotism.
Resolved, That wc most heartily approve of
the independent and patriotic course of Gen.
' Thomas Glascock, upon those great questions
’ involving Southern rights and Southern interests,
agitated during tho last session of Congress, and
as an evidence of the estimation in which we
hold his services and his patriotism, We respectful
; .
ly recommend to the Stale Rights party of Burke
county, lo fill the vacancy in their Congressional
lickel with his name.
Resolved, That these resolutions he published
in the Slate Rights’ Sentinel and Auguata Chron
' iclc.
A. PEMBERTON, Chairman.
1. P. Garvin, Secretary.
Prom the Sentinel of yesterday.
THE TOWN OF AIKEN, S. C.
[ This little town continues lo increase in pros
, perily. in a degree unparalleled in South Carolina.
Its health is proverbial. In the season of 1834,
i thirty-five hundred bales of cotton were received,
■ and in the following season, (last season) upwards
j of 6,000 hales of cotton wcie received (Here, al
though that town had to contend with cirevm- , .
' stances of no ordinary character;
3 The Mercantile capital of Aiken is now about ;
: $200,000; and vciy great accessions are anti- 1
expectations arc entertained that
> Aiken will shortly be the seat of justice ofa new
• district; and every thing now stems to warrant (
the lidpo that its prosperity will lar surpass the
early expectations of its friends.
3 JUSTICE.
A company of emigrating Indians, about twen
ty five hundred in number, left Cusela, Chambers
county Ala. on day before yesterday. They were
of the Cusela and Coweta Tribes. We are clad
lo hear it, and hope soon, that the citizens of New
Alabama will he able to return and live in that
delightful region without danger and without loar.
Columbus Enquirer, B ih ir.st. M
The young French Princes, while at Birlin,
gave 8000 franca to the pool.
—— mmmmm MUM
>• I i ’' rom tie F.dgeficld Advertiser, Slh inst.
0 I Our Village. —We have been visited this sea
,, son unusual sickness. Tliis place has had a
reputation for health, scarcely equalled by that of
any Village in the State. This was well deserved.
8 So perfect has been the exemption, that most of
J our citizens believed, that ntt place in the inoup
-1 talns afforded greater security. While we state
the fact, that we have extraordinary sickness a
mong us, we trust our readers will not believe
e that we have all been attacked, or (hat the mnr
taUty has been considerable. An impression has
e if 0 '. 10 '! l,roa<l ' wo have had indeed a terrible
visitation. A friend, who fives in this place,
I informed us a few day? ago, that when absent from
t home in a neighbouring town, he received such
a ? wlul accounts of us, that he hesitated whether
he should not suspend his return until float. Now
wo can assure the public, that there is no danger
s to be apprehended from a visit, to this place. Out
, of a population of about 700, wo have had 35 or
5 30 cases of fever. But one case, so far as wo
know, has terminated fatally.’ This was a North
-1 ern gentleman who.was spending his first sum!
■ tner at the Soulh. The fever has been confined
, almost entirely to those families in the south
western part of our Village, adjacent to the Creek.
No new cases, wb believe, Have dcchrred within
a fortnight.
Unaccountable Fact. —lt has been ascertained
that most of the suicides among military men at
Paris, have taken place ariidlig those whose pccu~
niary circumstances weie easy.
' SOUTH CAROLIN A KAII. ROAP. ~
CONSIGNEES.
Sept. 3—S Kneeland, W J Hobby, Webster
( Parme|ce& co,Stovall Simmons & co, Clark, Mc-
I ier & co, Id B Beall, Richards Sloy, Cowling.
& GardelM, A Frederick, A Boggs, E F Foster
& co, M Frederick, W liowson, A Gumming, R
C Baldwin, Hathbone & Baker, U Philip, Rowe
and Smith, G Lott, P Golly, G A Walker,. Ben
son & Urquhart, Youpg & Greene, Yarborough
Meriwether, M H Smith, G 11 Taylor, J E
McDonald, L Richards, Goo Parrott, R Anderson!
«l . JL I I———.
.M iit it 11; i),
On the 31st ult. by the Rev. Mr. Van Vleck, at
the residence of their uncle, Thomas C. Butler, Dr!
.1. V. Freeman Walker, of Mobile, Ala., to
Mias Elizareth 8. J. Jones, of Augusta, Geo.,
. daughter df tho late Seaborn Jones, Esq.— J\T. F!
Commercial Advertiser.
DIED,
On Thursday, Ist inst., John W. Anderson/
the only son of Samuel and Mary Ann Andar
■oii, aged 13 months.
NE W FA EE GOODS.
THE Subscribers have this day added to their
Stock a largo assortment of Fancy and Sta
ple Articles of the very latest Importations for
Fall and winter trade, which lire ofleted at whole
-1 sale and rbtail, at sllclt terms is will give generdi
> satisfaction, %
I 3-4, 4-4, 51 and C-4 Cotton Sheeting and Shirt
ing
1 Plain and open work Ladies Cotton Hose
1 Ladies Gthread white do do do
Rich white, black and green ganze Veils
Super and low price (i-4 Cotton Cambrics
Do do 0-4 Check Muslins
Clark & Taylor’s best spool Cotton
Ilcmmiug’s needles, and pearl shirt Buttons
French, British and Domestic Prints, in great ■va
riely of Patterns and prices
Rich and low priced Furniture prints
0-4 Jackonet, Swiss, Nansook, Mull and Boole
Muslins, assorted qualities
0-4 French Merino cloth of the following fashion
able colors: brown, slate, black, light and deep
blub, bottle and grass grebtt, orange, salmon/
fawn, pink, bull, and royal purple
3-4 and (1-4 Meiino Circassians, as abdve
Blk ildmhaZct
Fine Salisbury Flannels, Mourning and half
Mourning Ginghams arid Calicoes, all of New
Style ... ,
7-4, 8-4, 9-4, 10-4 Irish Table Diaper, warranted
pure flax.
Bleached and Unbleached Table Cloths
Brown Holland, colored Colton Cambrics
Spittlellcld Pongees, Flaggs and Bandannas
Gentlemen and boys pocket Hdkfs in great va
rieties.
Cotton and Gum Elastic Suspenders
Ladies white, slate and black worsted hose
do do and Black Merino patent do ,
Men’s white and colored worsted and Lambswool
Lung and half Hose
Misses white and colored worsted do
Hoys Long and Scarlet Lambs wool do
Berlin Criivdts
Blrfck and patent Pins
Corded Skirts, (all prices)
Superior English Long Cloth, (very cheap)
Blue Striped Homespun and Apron Checks
(i-4 Green floor Baizu
0-4 Figured do do
0-4 Chintz do do
Green Fringe
Fancy Shawls, in great variety
Irish Sheeting
Do Long Law ns
Furniture and garment Dimity, some extra fine
White, Green, and Black Tubby Velvets
Do and colored Furnituro Binding
Lydia long yellow Nankeen
Colton and Flaxen Osnuburgs
Childrens worsted Bootees
Golden Tapes, from j to 3 inch wide
Black and while Italian Crape
Shell, Side and Tuck Combs
Green worsted’cord and Tassels
Black and while Hooka and Eyes
Do do cotton cohU
Green and red worsted ferreting
.Mock Madrass Handkerchiefs
Fine and low priced while and scarlet FlanneW
Super, super Welsh and Gauze do.
4-4 and 5-4, black and Italian Lustrings
Worsted Moreens, assented colors
Blue and brown Goal Hair Cambist
Flux Thread, all colors and Nos.
13-4 while and colored Counterpanes
11 4, and 13-4, very fine Marseilles Quilts
Russia and Bird Eye Diapers
Wcthcrby's Corsets, assorted Nos.
4-4 and 5-4 plain and figured Bobinct Laca
Double arid single Buckrqms
Bed licks, assorted qualities ,
Deep blue Rattinett and gfecri Ffcnnel
Low priced Cloth Table and Prank . j
Woollen and extra fine genllcmeivifcLjliil^^oo
Gentlemen's Knitted Coifon and Lambs Woof
under Jackets and Drawers .
Satinets of the following colors, and hro*n
mixed cadets, Meander, steel m.xod brown
blue, drab, black, claret and bottle green, some
extra fine. Additional supplies will be received
' Vt ' c ' kl> ' JN’O. P. SETZE & CO.
August 3i 96 -— :
U'.t.VTM SP TO BM/ItT-
A Smart, active NEGRO BOY from 17 to
20 years of age—for whom (rbcial wage
will be given. Apply *• this Office.’
Sept. 7 '