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proclaimed in the United States the maxim of I Non-coeroion would avert civil war, and com-
lloman servility : Whatever please* the Presi~ i promise crush out both abolitionism and so*
dent, that is law! Prisoners ol State were then cession. The parent and the children would
Midnight and arbitrary ar* | th ng both perish. But a resort to force would
at onco precipitate war, hasten secession, ox-
[ first heard of here. _
rests commenced; travel was interdicted; trade j
embargoed; hastilcs were introduced; strange
oaths inveutod; a secret police organized ; "pi- * end and ’ *kile it loafed,
ping” began; intbrmers multiplied; spies now cut all hope of compromise. 1 believea
first appeared in America. The right to declare ‘“at war, if long enough continued, would be
war, to raise and support armies, and to provide 1 final, eternal disunion. 1 said it; I meant it;
and maiatain a navy- was usurped by the Exec- I aud, according to the utmost of my ability
utlve; and in a little more than two months a I and influence, I exerted my sell in behalf of
naval and land force of over three hundred thou-* I the policy of non-coercion. It was adopted
sand men was in the field or upon the sea. An b y Mr Buchanan’s administration, with -the
.. . «t ro y o( P“hhc plunderers followed, and corrup- | „ nftn imnn« r>nn„n„i n r th* nomoeratic
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. -I On the 4th of July, Congress met, not to seek I Congress - and » J® February, with the con
ATLANTA, GEORGIA:
FBI DAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1863.
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power; not certainly to deliberate ; not even to party ® the Senate and m this House. But
legislate, but to register and wily the edicts and I that party, most disastrously for the country,
acts of the Executive ; and in your language, air, | refused pll compromise. How, indeed, could
j upon the first day ot the session, to invoke auni- {they accept any? That Which the South do*
versa! baptism of fire and blood atnid ibe roar ol I manded and the Democratic and conservative
wHKK b’lltHT PAGK.-Q
From tb* WsAlogt'-n Ooagreesioaal Olo’m of the 16th
Jurnrj.
(jBEAT SPEECH
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HOW. C. L. VALUNDIOHAM
Bros THE «AE . IS'ZdttUtfZESiBl&ZiI TltaUlenini i, M vM
«< swv-rtg- sasswiiy-js:
of the Untied Slates—His l tews on the Crisis j n twenty, in sixty days at most, the rebellion I ^ or ‘be Presidency; not, indeed, by a major-
—His Proposed Remedy—lie Demands the wa8 to be crushed out. To doubt it was treason. I “7 °f the popular vote—the majority was
Stoppage oj the War—His Idea of the Rela- Abject submission was granted. Lay down your j nearly a million against it—bat under the
tions of the Slates. arms, sue lor peace, surrender your leaders—for- I forms of the Constitution. Sir, the crime,
igoas, end roost bibody faiinro of the experi
ment.
But 11 return. The country was at war;
and I belonged to that school of politics which
te:tch‘“s that when we are at war, the Govern-
erument—1 do not mean the Executive alone,
but the Government—is entitled to demand^
and have, without resistance, such number of
men, and such amount of money and supplies
generally as may be necessary for the war,
until an appeal can be had to the people.-*
Before that tribunal atone, An the first in
stance, must the question of the continuance
of the war be tried. This was Mr Calhoun’s
opinion, and he laid it down very broadly and
strongly in a speech,on the Loan Bill, in 1841.
Speaking of supplies, he said :
««I hold that there is a distinction in this
respect between a state of peace aud war.—
In the latter,-the right of withholding sup
plies ought ever to be held subordinate to the
energetic and snceeBsful prosecution of -the
I go :urther and regard the witbhold-
with the view of forcing the
a dishonorable peace, as not only
t, has been called, moral treason,
but very little short of actual treason itself.”
Upon this principle, sir, he acted afterwards
in the Mexican' war. Speaking of that war,
in 1847, he said :
“ Every Senator knows that I was opposed
to the war ;* but none knows but myself, the
the depth of that opposition. With my oon
through without delay and'almost without de- I and ,,JW * *f®nly the policy otnon-coercion could I it to. be my duty to limit my efforts to give
bate. j he maintained, and war thus averted, time would I such direction to the war as would, as far as
Constitution and the Union, they have proved
themselves devotedly attached to and worthy
oi the liberties to oocure which the Union and
the Constitution were established. With can
dor and freedom, therefore, as their repre
sentative and with mush plainness of epeoch,
but with the dignity and decency due to thi-
presence, 1 propose to consider the Statos of .
the Union to-day, and to inquire wba: the I opposed abolitionism, or tho political devel- I own party acquiesced;
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Thus was oivil war inaugurateljn America. I do work in the North and the South, and lis
Can any man to-day see the end of it t "“‘‘T- peaceable adjustment and re-union be se-
And now pardon me, sir, if I pause here a |° m e “me m March u waB announced i
’ , ’ • I ,hat ,,le President had resolved to continue the
filTnin ihi!P° altl0n at thlB policy ol his predecessor, and even go a step fur*
lime upon this great question. I ther, and evacuate Sumter and the< ther Federal I
oir, 1 am one of that number who have | forts and arsenals in the seceded States. His
own party acquiesced; the whole country res
duty is of every public man and every citizen I opment of the anti-slavery sentiment of the I joiced. The policy of non-coercion h*d triumph -|
jn this, the very crisis of the great revolu- | North and West, from the beginning. Iu | cd, and for once, sir, in my life, I found my,-oil
great i
it is now. two years, sir, since Congress as
sembled, soon after tbe presidential election.
'For tbe first time a President bad been chosen
upon a platform of avowed hostility to an in
stitution peculiar to nearly one-half of the
States Of the Union, and bad himself pro
claimed that there was an irrepressible con
flict because of that institution, between the
Slates; and that the Union could not endure
“part slave and part free.” Congress met,
school, at college, at the bar, in public as- I * n a ® immense majority. No man then pretend*
semblies, in the Legislature, in Congress,boy I ed , * ,at “V n ‘? n ' ,ounded *® consent, .could be
and man, as a privat citizen and in public life, cemented by force; nay, more, the President ami „ , — »v-
in time of peace and in time of war. at all I Se ‘ :re ? a,, y of went further. Said Mr. Sew- countability before the people tor the results,
d at every sacrific e, I have fought . an d,p,oma,,c letter to Mr. * Relieving the soldiers responsible for the
possible, prevent tho evils and dangers with
nhich.it threatened tho couutry aud its insti
tutions.”
Sir, 1 adopt aii this as my own position and
my defense ; though, perhaps, in a civil war,
I might.'fairly go further in opposition. 1
oould not, with my convictions, vote men aud
money for this war, and 1 would not, us a
representative, vote against them. I mean
that, without opposition, the President might
take all tbe men aud all the money he-sbould
demand, and then to hold him to strict ac-
times and at every sacrific e, I - have fought I
against it. It cost me ten years’ exclusion
from office and honor, at the period of life
when honors are sweetest. No matter; 11
learned early to do right and to wait. Sir,
it is but the development of the spirit of in
termeddling, whose ohildron are strife and
Adams;
• “For these reasons, lie (the President) would
not bs disposed to reject a cardinal dogma of I
theirs (the secessionists) namely, that the Fed
eral government could not reduce tbe -eceding
States to obedience by conquest although lie
were disposed to question that proposition. But,
war, or its purposes, or its consequences, I
have never with -eld my vote where their sep
arate interests were concerned. But I have
deuouiuk&gnu^ilio beginning the usurpations
and ilie iqBHppns, one aytl aii, of law and
CunatituiiiBrBy ..the President and those under
therefore, in the midst of the profoundeat ae- murder. Cain troubled himself about the I in f ac *. the President willingly accepts it as I him.; their repeated and persistent arbitrary
throughout tho on- sacrifices of Abel, and slew_ him. Most of £& “^ests, the suspension. °> habeas corpus, the
itation not here only, but throughout
tire South. Revolution glared upon ns. Re-1 *ke wars and contentions and litigation and
peated efforts for conciliotion and compromise I bloodshed, from the beginning of time, have
were attempted in Congress and out of it. All I been its fruits. The spirit of non-interven-
Were rejected by the party just coming into I Ho* i® *k® very spirit of peace and concoqi.
power, except only the premise in the last I 1 8° not believe that if slavery had never
hour of the session, and that, too, agaiDSt the I existed here we would have had no sectional I lion, and, first of all, through this same secreta
consent of a majority of that party, both in | controversies.^ This very oivil war might J ry_, the moment war broke out, and ever since
could subjugate thoroughly disaffected and in-
| surrectionary members of the State.”
Pardon me, sir, but I beg to know whether
this conviction of the President and his secreta
ry is not the philosophy of the persistent and
most vigorous efforts made by this admiiistra-
the Senate and House, that Congress—not the I i> ftTe happed fifty, perhaps a hundred years
Executive—should never be authorized to I later. Other and stronger oauses of discon-
aboiish or interfere with slavery in the 8tates I tent and of disunion, it may be,have existed
where it existed. South Carolina seceded; I between other States and sections, and are
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louis- j now being developed every day into maturity
violation of freedom of the mails, of tbe gri
vatu*bouse, of the press and of speech, aud
all tho other multiplied wrongs aud outrages,
upon publio liberty and private right, which
have made this country one of the worst des
potisms upon earth. for the past- twenty
months ; aud I vr 11 continue to rebuke and
till tbelate elections to convert the U. States I denounce them to the end ; and the people,
ana and Texas speedily followed. The Con
lederate Govern pie A was established. The
other slave States held back. Virginin de
manded a peace Congress. The commission
ers mot, and afier some time, agreed upon
terms of final adjustment. But neither in
the Senate nor tbe House were they allowed
even a respectful consideration. The Presi
dent elect lelt his home in February, and
The spirit of intervention assumed the form
of abolitionism, because slavery was odious
in name and by association to the Northern
mind, and because it waa that which most
obviously marks tbe different civilizations of
tbe two seotions. The South hersolf, in her
early and later efforts to rid herself of it,had
exposed tbe weak and offensive part of sla
very to the world. Abolition intermeddling
thank God, have at last, heard and heeded,
aud rebuked them, loo. To tbe record and
to time 1 appeal again lor my justification. .
And new sir, I recur to the State of the Union
to day. What is it i S r, twenty inonihs have
elapsed, but the rebellion is not crushed out;
its military power has not been broken ; the in*
surgents have not dispersed.- The Union is not
restored ; nor tlic Constitution maintained ; nor
iho-laws enforced'. Twenty, eixty, ninety, three
hundred, six hundred daye have pjssed ; a thou*
sand millions expended; and. three hundred
into an imperial or despotic government 1 But
Mr. Seward adds, and I agree with him:
‘The FeSeral republican system of ours is, of
all forms of government, the veTy one which is
most unfiited for such a labor. ~
This, sir, was on the 10th of April, and yet
that very day the fleet was under sail tor Charles*
ton. The policy of peace had been abandoned.
Collision followed ; tne militia was ordered out;
civil war began.
Now, sir, on tho 14th of April, I believed that
coercion would'bring on war, and war disunion.
More than that, I believed, wbat you all in your 1 thousand live«.lo-t or lojua wangled $ and to-
hearts believe to-day, that the South coufd ne I day the Confederate flag is near the Potomac
ver be conquered—never! And not that only, | and the Ohio, and the Confederate Government
but I wee satisfied—and you of the abolition I stronger muqy times than at the beginning. Not
party have now proved it to the world—that the I a State has been restored., not any portion of any
secret but real purpose of the war was to abolish I State has voluntarily- returned to the Union.—
slavery in the States. in any event, I did not I And has anything been wanting that Congress,
doubt that whatever might he the momentary | or the States, or the people in their most gener*
impulses ol those in power, and whatever' pled* I out enthusiasm, their must impassioned patriot-
Bf- might make in the midst of their fury I isin, could oestow 1 Waa it power? And did
lot Constitution, the Union and the flag, yet I not the party ol the Executive control the entire
the tiiitural and inexorable logic of revolutions I Federal government, every State government,
would, sooner or later, drive them to that poll- j every county .every city, town and village in the
cy, and with it to'its final and inevitable result, I North and West ? Was it patronage 1 All be-
the change of our present democratical form of I longed to it. Was it influence ? What rooref
government into an imperial despotism. I Did nut the school, the college, the church, the
These were my convictions on the 14th *>f i pre® 8 > the secret orders, the municipality, the
Anril. Had I changed them oh the loth, when corporations, ratiroads, telegraphs, express com*
_ r . .. -rt • a J»i. v* « »!, . . . I rmnipR. tli« vmuntnrv MuuuiiflUAna call, nil
ever
journejed toward this capital, jesting as he I taught her at last to search for and defend
come; proclaiming that the crisis %as only I>hc assumed social economic and politioal
artificial, and that "nobody was hurt.” He merit and value of the institution,
entered this city under oover of night and iu I ■' But there never was an hour from the be-
disguiso. On the 4th of March he wa3 inau-1 gining when it did not seem to me as dear as
gura'ed, surrounded by soldiery; and, swear-1 the sun at broad noon, that the agitation in
tng to support tho Constitution of the United j any form in the North and West of the sla-
Stntes, announced in thq same breath that the 1 very question must sooner or later end in dis-
platform of bis party should be the law unto I union and civil war. Thin was the opinion
him. From that moment all hope of peace*- I and prediction for years of Whig and Demo-
ble adjustment fled. But tor a little while, I cratio statesmen alike; and after the unfor-
either with nnsteadfast sincerity, or in pre- tunate disolution of the Whig party in 1854,
meditated deceit, the.policy of peace was pro- I and the organization of the present Repnbli-
daimod, even to the evacuation of Sumter I can party upon an exclusively anti-slavery
and the other Federal forts and arsenals in the and sectional basis, tha event was inevitable; i — i , ... j r-..,-. - „ .
seceded States. Why that policy wad sud- because, in the then existing tamper of the 11 read the President’s Proclamation, and be- Vet
uenly abandoned, time will fully disdose. public mind, apd after the education through come convinced that I had beev wrong allmy wa8 an administration so supported In England
But just after the spring elections, and tho I the press and by the pnlptt, the lecture and life, and all history was a fable, and. all hu-1 or America. Five men and a half score ol news-
secret meeting in this city of tbe governors I the pditicil canvass for twenty years, of a I man nature false in its development from the j papers made up the opposition. Was it enthu*
of the several Northern and Western States, I generation taught to ‘hate slavery and the I beginning of time, I would have changed my I aiasm? The enthusiasm was fanatical. Thete
a fleet of vessels, oarryipg —-Stoen, was 1 South, the success of the party, possessed, 1 publio conduot also. But my convictions did I has been notiiing like it since tho Crusades.—
sent down ostensibly to provision Fort Sum- I as it was, of every engine of politioal, bnsi- I not change. I thought that if war was disu. I Was it confidence ? Sir, the faith of the people
tor. The authorities of South Carolina ea-1 ness, social -ad® religions influence was cer-*| nion on tho 14th of April, it was equally dis-1 exceeded that ot the patriarch. They gave up
gerly accepted the challenge, and bombarded | tain. It was only a question of time, and | union on the 15th, and at all times. Believ-1
the fort into surrender, white the fleet fired
not a gun, but, as soon as the flag was struck,
bore away and returned to the North. .It was,- *•---* j -■—■ r—-----— —> , . , - t—--- ■ neeuea * x ouiwk control oi a country, young,
Sunday, the 14Ut of April, 1801; and that even though he had been supported also by J my rightarm were plucked room its socket I vigorous, and inexhaustible in. wealth and re
day the President, in fatal haste and without the entire so-called eonservative or anti-Lin- I and cast into eternal burnings, than, with sources, and of a government almost flee from
tho advice or consent of Congress, issued his I ooln vote of the country, would, have avail-1 my convictions, to have thus defiled my I public debt, and whose good faith had never
proclamation, dated the next day, calling out ed to defeat it; and if it had, the success of I soul with the guilt of moral perjury. Sir, I j been tarnished. Your great national loan bub-
seventy-five thousand militia for three months, I the Abolition party would only have been I .was not taught in that school which proclaims I hie failed miserably, as it deserved to fail; but
to repossess the forts, places and property postpone* four years longer. The disease had
>rom the United States, and commanding the fastened too strongly upon the system to be
insurgents to disperse in twenty days. Again I healed until it had run its course. The doC-
the gage waa token np by the South, and thus I trine of the "irrepressible conflict” hadbeen
tho flames of a oivil war, the grandest, the taught too long and accepted too' widely and
bloodiest and saddest in history, lighted np I earnestly to die ont, until it should culminate
the whole heavens. Virginia forthwith sece- I in secession and disunion; and if coercion
ded. North Carolina, Tennessee, and Ar- I were resorted to, then civil war. I believed
that "all is fair in polities.” 1 loathe, abhor ]
and detest the execrable maxim. I stamp
upon it. No State can endure a single gener
ation wltosepnblie men practioe it. Whoever j
teaohes it is a corrupter of youth. What we |
most-want in these times, and at ail times, is
honest and independent public men. That ]
man who is dishonest in politics is not hon-
kansas followed. Delaware, Maryland, Ken- 1 from the first that it was the purpose of some I eat at heart, in anything; and sometimes tuor-
tucky and Missouri were in a blaze of agita- J of the apostles of that doctrine to foroe a I aloowardice is dishonesty. Do right; and
tion, and, within a week from the proolama- I collision between the Northland the South, | trust to God, and truth, and the people.'
the bankers and merchants of Philadelphia, New
York hud Boston lent you more than their entire
banking capital. And when that failed too, you
forced credit by declaring your paper promises
to pay a legal tender forall debts. VVas money
wanted ? You had all the revenues of the United
States, diminished indeed, but stiff in gold. The
whole wealth of the country, to the last dcliar,
lay at your feet. Private individuals, municipal
corporations, the State government#, all in their
trenzy gave you money or means with reckless
prodigality. The great Eastern cities lent you
$150,000,000. Congress voted, first, the sum of
with ballots, but with muskot and sword. . But
numbers you have had almost without num
ber—the largest, best appointed, best avmcd,
fed and clad host of bravo men, .'well organ
ized and well disciplined, ever marshaled. A
navy, too, not the uiout formidable perhaps,
but lira most numerous and gallant, and tbo
costliest in ilio ‘world, and against a foe al
most without a navy at alL t
Twenty millitfa people, and every element
of strength and force of command—power,
patronage, influence, unanimity, enthusiasm,
confidence, credit, money, men, an army and
a navy, the largest and the noblest ever set
in iho field or afloat upon the sea; with the
support almost servile, of every State, coun-.
ty end municipality in the North and West;
with S Congress swift to do tho bidding of the
Executive; without opposition anywhere at
home, and with an arbitrary power which
neither the Czar, of- Russia, nor the Emper
or of Austria dare exercise; yet a ter two
years of more vigorous prosecution of war
than ever was recorded in history; after i>iore
skirmishes, combats and battle* than A
ander, Ctesar, or the first Napoleon
fought in any five pears of their military ca
reer, you have utterly, sighally, disastrously
—I will not say iguominiously—failed to sub
due ten million "rebels,” whom you had
taught the people of tho North and West not.
only to bate but to despise. .
Rebels did Isay? Yes,your fathers wore
rebels, or your grandfathers. Ho who now
betore me on canvas looks down so sadly
upon u ! , the false degenerate, and imbecile
guardians of the great republic which he
formed, was a rebel. And yet we, cradled
ourselves in rebellion, and who have fosfered
aud- fraternized with every insurrection in
tho nineteenth century, everywhere through
out tho globe, would now, forsooth, make me
wot d “rebel” a reproach. Rebels certainly
they are; but all the persistent and atupeud.
ous efforts of the most gigantic warfare of
modern times have, through your incompe
tency and folly, availed nothing to crush
them out, cut off though they have been by
your blockade from all the world, and de
pendent only upon their own courage and
resources. And yet they we*e to be utterly
oonquered and subdued in six weeks, or
three months!
Sir, my judgment was made up and ex
pressed from the first. I learned it from
Chatham : “My lords, you oannot conquer
America.” And you havo not aonqu’ere-i the
South. You never will. Iris not in the na
ture of things possible, much less uuder your
auspices. But money you have expended
without limit, and blood poured out like wa-
ter’; defeat, debt, taxation, sepulchres, these
are your trophies. In vain the people gave
yon treasure, and the soldier yielded up his
life. “Fight, tax, emancipate, let these,”
said a gentleman from Maine, (Mr. Pike,) at
the last session, "be the trinity of our salva
tion.” Sir, they have become the trinity ol
your deep damnation. The war for tbe Un
ion is, in-your hands, a most bloody and
•fcoatly failure. The President confessed it on
the 22i of September, solemnly! officially,
and under the broad seal of the United
States. And he has now repeated the oon
fession. The.priests aud rabbis of Abolition
taught him that God would not' prosper such
a cause. War for thefJnion was abandoned;
war for the negro openly began, and with
stronger battalions than before With what
success ? Let the dead at Frederiokbarg and
Vicksburg answer.
Anil now, sir, can this war continue?
Whence the money to oarry it on ? Where tbe
men ? Can ynu borrow ? . From whom ? Gun
you tax more ? Will the people bear it ? Wait
till you have collected what is already levied.
How many millions more of "legal tender”
—to-day forty-one per cent, below the par of
gold—can you float ? Will men enlist now at
any price ? Ah, sir, it is easier to die at homo
I beg pardon; but I trust Ism not "dis
oouraging enlistments.” If I am, then first
arrest Lincoln, Stanton and Hnlleck. and
some of-yonr others general’s and I will tc
tract; yea, I will reoant. But can you draft
again ?. Ask New England—New York. Ask
Massachusetts. Wbere are the nine hundred
thousand? Ask not Ohio—the Northwest.—
She thought you were in earcet t, and gave you
all; alt—more than you demanded.
“Tbs wife whore balie first smiled that day,
The lair, feud .bride of yea tor eve,
Ad agedairc aud matron gray,
Saw tbe loved warrior* ha*to away,
- And d< emea it sin to grieve.”
Sir, in blood she has atoned for her credul
ity; and now there is mourning in every
house, and distress and sadness in every heart.
Shall she give you any more?
But ought this war to continue ? I answer
no—not a day, not an hour. What then?
Shall we separate? Again I answer no, no,
ao ! What then ? And now, sir, I come to the
grandest and most solemu problem of states
manship from tbe beginning of time; and to
the God of Heaven, Mummer of hearts and
minds, I would humbly appeal for some mea
sure, at least, of .light and wisdem and
strength to explore and reveal the dark bnt
possible future of this land.
[to be continued.]
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containing 566 acrea. it i* aitaatrd between the <ir*enh
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th* ether posting very near it. It has fully 60 acre* of
good bruLch both in, with a gicd mi.I eita, whereon*
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In the North and West, too, the etorm raged I Believing thub, I havo for years denounced I nesB of twenty millions of people. Had Inot I as five cents, limited in amount only by bis dis*
with the fury of a hurric -ne. Never in his-I those who taught that doctrine with all the I read history ? Did I not know human nature ? | cretion. Nay, mote; already since the 4th of
tory was anything equal to it. Men, women I vehemence, the bitternees, if you choose—of I But I appealed to Time, and right nobly hath I July, 1651, this house has appropriated $2,4tO,-
and chitdreu, native and foreign-born, church an earnest and impassioned nature. Think-1 the Avenger answered me. ouO.OOO, almost every dollar without debate, and
and State, clergy And laymen, were All swept I ing tbua, I forewarned all .who believed the I I did not support the war; and to-day.11 without a recorded vote, A thousand millions
along with the current. Distinction of ago, doctrine, or followed the party which taught bless God that not the smell of so much as one ^. e . a * e d n a nublicdebt mHaUUtvof $i sooonn’
sex, station, parly, perished in an instant.- it, with a sincerity and a 4epth of conviction drop of its blood is upon my garments. Sir, P^cdebt wtoWujnrfW0©£
Thousands teat before the tempest; and here as profound as ever penetrated the heart of I censure no breve man who rushed patnoti- ampendou ^ outtay an d indebtednessessysteiuof
and (ham only was ono found bold onough 9 I man. And whon y for eight years past, over J cally into thi3 war; neither will I quarrel I taxation, direct and indirect, has been inaugil*
foolhardy enough it may have been, to bend J and over again, I have proclaimed to the peo- I with any one, here <yr elsewhere, who gave to I rated, the most onerous and unjust ever impose
not, and upon him it fell as a consuming fire. I plo that tho success of a sectional anti-slave- j*lt an honest support. Had their oonvictions I cd upon any but a conquered people.
The Spirit of persecution for opinion's sske, I Ty party would be the beginning of disunion 1 been mine, I, too; would doubtless have done J Money and credit, then, you have had in
almost extinct in the old world, now, by some I ®nd oivil war in America, 1 believed it. I did. j as they did. With my convictions 1 could hand to prodigal profusion. And were men
mysterious transmigration, appeared inoar- 11 had read history, and studied human na- I not. But I was a Representative. War ex- I wanted ? More than a million rushed to arms !
note in the new. Social relations were dis- I ture, and meditated for* years upon the char- I feted—by whose act no matter—not mine.— I Seventy-five thousand first (and the country
solved; friendships broken np; the ties of I actor of our institutions and form of govern-1 The President, the Senate, the Honso and j the 1 stood aghast at the multitude,) then eighty-
family and kindred snapped asunder. Stripe* I ment, and ot the people of the South as well I country, aU said that there should be war— three thousand more were demanded; and
and hanging were everywhsre threatened, I as the North; and I eoold not doubt the event. I for the Union; a union ot consent and good I three hundred and ten thousand responded to
sometimes executed. Assasaioution waa in-1 Bat the people did not believe me, nor those I will. Oar Southern brethren were to be I the call. Tae President next asked for four
voked; slander sharpened hie tooth; false- I older aad wiser and greater than 1. They re- I whipped back into love and fellowship at the hundred thousand, and Congress, in its gener-
hood ornshed troth to the earth; reason fled; I jected the prophecy, andstoned the prophets. I point of the bayonet. Oh, monstrous delu-1 oua confidence, gave him five hundred thons-
madness reigned. Not justice only, escaped to I The Candidate of the Repnblican party was | sion ! I can comprehend a war to compel a j and; and, not to be outdone, he took six hun-
tfae sales, bnt peace returned to the bosom of I ohosen President. Secession began. Civil I people to accept a master; to change a form j dred and thirty-seven thousand. Half of
God, whence one came. The gospel of love | war waa imminent. It was no petty insur-] of Government; to give np territory; to abol-1 these melted away in their first oampaign ;
perished; hate eat enthroned, and the sacri-1 section, no temporary combination to ob- I tsh ndomestic institution ; in short, a war of* and the Presideht demanded three hundred
flees of human blood smoked upon every al-1 struct the 'execution of the laws in certain I conquest and subjugation; bnt a war for I thousand more for the war, and then drafted
t ar , | States, but a revolution, systematic, deliber- I Union t .Was the Union thus made ? Was it ] yet another three hundred thou-and foY nine
But tbe reign of the mob was inaugurated only I ate, determin:d, and with the consent of a ever thus preserved ? Sir, history will record | months. The tabled hosts of Xerxes have
to be supplanted by the iron domination of ar- I majority of the people of each State which I that, alter nearly one thousand years of folly 1 been outnumbered. And yet victory strangely
bitreTy powers. Constitutional limitation was | seceded. Causeless, it may have been; bnt | aud wickedness in every form and administra- J follows the standards of the foe. From Great
broken down; ' ‘ ' “ ‘ ~
press, of speed
vel.of one’s i . .
JhJi 1 jl?. *.1™- I alone, however sudden o'r great,"could have I the nineteenth century of the Christian* era, I. troops, and every time, so far, they have been
muniment ot Cedo^l ia^eouW^ arrested it even at th® outoet. It was disun- to try the grand experiment on a seale the promptly furnished. From the beginning the
or kingly government aU wcu; down at a blow; l * 0& al The wolf had come. But civil I most costly and gigantic In its proportions, war has been conducted like a political cam-
the chief law officer ol the crown-*! beg pardon, I war had not yet followed. In my delioerate of creating love by force, and developing fra- 1 paigo, and it has been the (oily of the party
sir, but it is easy to fall into this courtly lsn- and most solemn judgment, there was bnt one ternal affeplion by war; and history will re- * in power that they toms assumed that num-
finage—the attorney-general, first of all men, I wise and masterly mode of dealing with it.—«cord, too, on the same page, the utter, disss- bere alone would wiirane field in a contest, not
.substitutes:
R ELIABLE SUBSTITUTES, over 45, era be bad by aj»-
pljriugio J. It. Wnllace, at the store «t P. A U. «.
Dodd. • Jun3il
WANTED,
A COMPETENT BOOK KEEPER £>r a Cotton Facto
ry. Apply to PEASE A DAVIS
tebStf
Macon a Wxsitaa. K*a Hoad Co, 1
Macon, Ga, Jan. 28, IMS. J
O N and after February l*t, this Company will receire
no Freight fur PaattBger Train.
Jan30tf ALFRED b. TYLER, Snpt.
NEGRO SEAMSTRESS WASTED.
W ANTED TO BUY, a No. 1 geamstrwe, not tu der 18
nor over 28 years old—black preferred, kua be
first rate. Apply to
Jao28-tf
A C. WYLY A 00
CITY RESIDENCE DOR SALE.
A DESIRABLE HoUSE AND LOT «r sale, eonvlnient
to bnaiue** aud well located. Boats new, contain
ing five room* and basement, with good outbuilding*, fine
garden, and hum excellent water.
Jan'f3-lu>
Gallon
W. L. KZZAKD.
WOOL I WOOL I
I WANTte bay n good lot °f clean, wathed Wool. Tbe
highest cash price will bo paid. f
J. M. HOLBROOK,
feblSIw
Hatter, Whitehall street.
I Dm , i.' ■ ■ Risooold,Oa,Feb.Tth, 1863.
HdWB 4 one hundred gallon Kettle* each, and one.SO
gall,.n, and one to gallon, one 76 Lord or Whiskey
eppUoetioa — C * U *** g 03 ’* hf early
HOUSE AND LOT DOR SALE.
D ESIROUS 04 amvtog to tit* country, I offer my bou*t
aud lot where I now live, lor eats
dec».tf 8 A DURAND.
COME QUICK.
0,1 LIKELY YoUNG NEGROES, Jut received and for
aria at fields' Negro Mart. febll-tf
HERE’S YOUR JACK!
I HATE FOR SALK A LARGE NO I SPANISH JACK.
For informal ion apply to the Clerk ot tho
feb8-9t . . ABOUT HOUSE
FOR SALE.
A VERY DESIRABLE AND BEAUTIFUL RISI-
[A. deuce, on Peach-Tree itteaL For particular*, apply
", !. * MARCUS A. BELL.
feblS-tf Real Estate Agent
SELLING OUT
Without Reserve.
TIERCES NEW RICE
16 hogsheads 8agar in store
40 hogsheads Sugar to arrive
60 gross imported Matches
600 bushels C.rn
240 bushels Meat, Ac.
feb7-tf
At
EDWARDY’S.
VOLUNTEERS WAHTED.
G APr. J. R. RHODEdrad Serg’L R. W. CRAVEN, ol
the BULL VOLUNTEERS. 1st Confederate Regiment
Georgia v.-lnutee e, are now at home tor the parpoM 01
railing lecroito fer their Regiment They will give the
“FIFi'Y DOLLARS.ROUNTX ” to all who will volunta
rilj come forwardand enroll themeelves. But tboeewho
will not-listen to their country’s call, in thia her hour c*
need, they are orders 1 to Conscript. No couht the call
will soon be m ule to 46, rad the KxempUon bill repealed
do come 'forward and voiun eer. and save being Conscribed.
Their command is located at MOBILE, ALA., one of tbe
mo t desirable and healthy localities in tho service. Theii
Company, consisting of over one hundred, has not lost one
by sickness.
One or them will be found at a‘1 tim •# at tbe office ol
Cols Gartroil A Hill, on Whit hailttreet.
J B. RHODES, ’
j»n3l-tf Capt Com’g Co C, 1st Con fed Reg Ga VuU
Attention, Georgians!
COAST DEFEASE.
HAVE, been authorised to raise an Infantry Company
— for Copt John L Uardee’a Regiment, which I, hew
foiming under authority front the secretary or War, to
eer ve eu the Coast of o«orgta.
I appeal wall toceme forward and vilenteer. Your
country ii It* want of your aerrices, and yoa must no
•uuger remain a spectator in this mighty struggle for her
independence. A bounty of $<0 will ho paid and go d
arms fnrnUbed atone*. Aftwioogh wU. hegivoutoWioes
who m iy Join, for twenty days.
1 can be seen at any hour, wither in person rr by rep
resentative at the oNes of Ool Gartrell A Hill.
Lieut D 0 SMITH.
Atl nts, February 8d, 1833. febiO-tf
SOUTHERN
Confederate Spelling Book,
FOR THE USE OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
COPYRIGHT SECURED.
T HIS WORK, which is superior to any Text-Book of
' the kind now in use, will be shortly issued item the
An interest in the right of ibis Book, can be pnrelumed,
for particular* apply to W P HAMMOND. Esq.
feblS-M* Alatoooa, Georgia.
FOR SALE.
F ur dying purposes—
tod its Ur. cn Paint
20d lbs Yellow Paid
<000 lbs Van. Red
100 ibe Indigo
4.0 11m Vet million Red
3,000 lb# copperas
WJI be sold to the trass on reoeousblo terms
S. B. KRAMtR,
Drugztst, M hiteball etroct,
fehlfetf One dorr irom Mitchell tt, West side
WANTED.
SEVERAL WOMEN*. Men, rad Boys, to work in our
o TOOTH FAOIORY. Cnstoat eaipiojyceot given.
As the Work is eminently AKTlSTlC, noons need' apply
who hoe not sufficient tarts to apprrci.te It, for each party
Will lute 11 be taught at aontioerable waste of matorlml
We iatead paying'ilberally, n that it cau be fol'owed atr
a perniueut business.
Some worthy youngarev who have been disabled in the
Army, or wild are not euh)ect to military du<y preferred.
BROWN A HAPE,
* Dental Derwt.
febRSt* j, ‘ Whitehall etteet. *
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
E ANAWAY from ihoStore of O Mayer, Jaeobo A Co.,
on Thuryd*y. Fob. 6th rust, a oeghr boy Philip,
about 26 year, old, weighs ISO los, copper color, five feet.
6 or 7 laches high, blemish 'in the right eye. The above
reward will Ito paid for bis apprehension urd lodgment in
leblO H D MAYER JACOBS A 00.
(met A.'A W. P. R. a. Co., I
MiaoU, Feb. 7,1833. J
M ERCHANTS are re^rrctfulty t eqoestal to come for
ward and pay their freight* in advance and retpove
tnelr goods in 24 bouts after arrival, or we will bs com
pelled to store tbe freight at their expense.
tcWtf W. J. 8MALL, Agent.
fire
FOR SALK.
I N Oxford, Ga, a comfortable House, containing I
rooms, with firepiarea-hslf acts lot sod an excel'
well of water. A healthy servant girl or woman will he
taken U exchange for this place. If desired. Pus*mica
can be given at any time. Apply to
MR8 E C JENNINGS,
feblO-ft* Oato>d, Ga.
NUTICK.
intending to change bit business,
_ will dispose oi hie lar • stock of Millinery aoJ Fan
cy Goods at greatly reduced prices. Purchasers, whole-
le aud retad, will find it to tbeir later eta to esll.
* A. ISAACS,
OOV27U Wh iteholl street.
FOR REST,
ded by
tent*, s cks, Ac, suitable for so or Hatoesa 1
ray 1 ght m»nufecturiug business. Apply to the t
signed at the Rolling M.1I office -. ■
tebl-tf O. L. PACKARD, Agent.
NOTICK TO TAX PAYERS.
I WILL be at the City Hail ou Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
aud Thursdays, until tho first 01 March,atwhich
time the Bock* will be closed. AU who have not paid
their tax for the year 1888, will do weU to oome iorwsrd>
and pay and save qpsts: „ '
febd-tilmarl WM. I. HUDSON, T. C.