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Educational Convention*
Marietta, July 8. 1851.
A Convention of Delegatee from the sever
al Counties hereinafter named, appointed in
pursuance of a call heretofore made by a com*
mitteeof gentlemen to take in.o consideration
the subject of Common School Education in
the State of Georgia, this day assembled in
Cheiokee Hall.
For the purpose of organization. On motion
of David A. Reese, a delegate from the county
of Jasper, the Right Rev. Stephen Elliott, Jr.,
a delegate from the county of Bibb, was called
to the Chair, and on motion of Rev. Thomas
F. Scott, Luther J. Glenn of Henry, and Wm.
H. Chambers, of Muscogee, were requested to
act as Secretaries.
The Rock Island Factory, located in Muteo
gee county, presented through Mr. Scott, for
the use of this the first Educational Conven
tion of Georgia, a Ream of superior Let.er
Paper, its own manufacture.
On motion of M. Myers, a delegate from the
county of Cobb, the roll of Counties was
called, when the following delegates from their
respective counties appeared, enrolled their
names and took tbeir seats, to wit:
DELEGATEE.
From the county of Baker, James Bona, David A.
Vasoo, F. M. Nightingale. Frcm Baldwin, C. P.
B. Martin. From Bibb, Eugeniue A. Nisbet, U. W.
Wise, Stephen Elliott, Jr. From Burke, James E.
Palmer, John R. Sturges, R. S. Scugga. From
Campbell, S. B. Watts, J. H. Wilson, A. W. Wheat,
L. H. Greenleaf. Frcm Cass, S. Fouche, W. H.
Stiles, T. H. Trippe. T. C. Nisbet, K. A Milnor.
From Chattanooga, L. W. Crook, S. M.Piles. From
Chatham, B. Snider, Eugene Laurence. From
Cberokes, J. D. Collins, R. J. Cowarc, A. Wright,
Joo. E. Brown. From Clarke, A. Church, N.
Hoyt G. B. Haygood, T. L. Smith, J. U. Parsons,
H. Hull, Jr., W. L. Mitchell. From Cobb, M My.
era, A. Alden, W. H. Hunt, U. R. Milner. Prom
Columbia, N. M. Benton, J. H. Stockton, R. E.
Wooding. Fiom DeKalb, J. S. Wilson, L. Towers,
H. L. Currier, D. G. Daniel Prom Dooly, James
I>. Lester, Jas. A. Swearingen, Jonn C. Mounger.
Prom Early, Hugh O. K. Nisbet, Joel Crawford.
From Effingham, William Cooper, P. O. A. Clark.
Prom Payette, John D. Stell. M. M. Tidwell, Ed
ward Conner. From Floyd, J. Knowles, O P.
Fannin, J. W. M. Berrien. From Forsyth, W. B.
Mil wee, G. Kellogg. From Gilmer, H. R. Foote.
Prom Glynn, 8. Clay King. Prom Greene, Thw.
Slocks. Prom Gordon, Jas. L. Moseley, Jas. C.
Longstreet. From Hancock, D. W. Lewis. Prom
Harris, D. P. Hill, D. A. Cochran. Prom Henry,
H. Stokes, C. J. Fall, L. J. Glenn. From Houston,
Jas. H. Dunham, D. H. CuUer. Prom Jasper, Da>
vid A. Reese, Wm. N. Kirkpatrick Prom Jones,
Charles R. Jewett, John P. H. Darnell. Prom Jes
fetaon, P. B. Connelly. Prom Liberty, J. S. Brad
well. Prom Lincoln, J. R. Hclliday, L. Lamar.
From Lumpkin. W. Boyd. Prom Marion, G. O.
Davie, M. H. Blandford, J. R. Danforth. From
Mclntoab, James Smith. Prom Monroe, W. B.
Merritt, J. S. Pinkard. Prom Mo gan, Thomas J.
Burney, B. E. Habersham, J, C. Paullette, Charles
E. Nesbit, Joel C. Barnett, Jas. P.Swanson. Prom
Murray. Philip Mims. Prom Muscogee, Thos. P.
Seott, W. H. Chambers. From Newun, Geo. P.
Allen Turner, John Harris. Prom Ugle
thc pe, Francis L. Upson. Prom Pike, J. N. Sim
mons. H. E. Morrow, P. H. Coz, J. S. Travis. Prom
Pulaski, John H. Brantly, Jr. From Putnam, J.
R. Branham. Prom Randolph, David Kiddoo,
xsA. Goneke. From Richmond, L. LaTaste. From
Scriven, Geo. Oliver, J. B. Hayne. Prom Stewart,
J. M. Clarke, W. H. Bennett. Prom Sumpter,
Robert L. McCay. From Troup, B. H. Bingham,
B. H. Hill. Otis Braith. From Twi/gs, S. W.
Hatch. From Upson, A. J. McAfee. Frcm Walk
er, A. J. Leet, Edwin Dyer. Prom Walton, Alesis
E. Marshall. From Wayne, S Clay Ki'g, J. S.
Wigg’ns. Prom War<en, J. S. Jones, R. E. Mc-
Ginty, P. F. L. Varette, Georye V Neal, A. R.
Menhau. Prom Washington, R. W. Flournoy,
Daniel Harris, John W. Rudisill. Frcm Wilkin
son, J. H. Lofton, M. L. Burney, J. M. Leavitt, J.
M. Fulsome. From Wilkes, J Ry Sneed. W. G.
Robert, Robert Toombs. Prom City of Atlanta, P.
Cheek, W. M. Janes. From Georgia Baptist Con
vention, 1 hoe. Stocks, C. M. Irvin.
Ou motion of Tboa. F. Scott, a Committee
of five, consisting of Messes. Scott of Musco
gee, Reese of Jasper, Crawlord of Early,
Lewie of Hancock, and Berrien of Floyd, was
appointed by the Chair to select and recom
mend the names of permanent officers for the
Convention
The committee having retired, after a shor*
•on-dilation, returned and reported the names
of Hou. E A. Nisbet far President, Right Rev.
Stephen Elliott. Jr., A. Church. D. D., George
F. Pierce, D. D., and Hon. Thomas Stocks,
Vice Presidents, and Luther J. Glenn, and
Wm. H. Chambers, Esqrs. as Secretaries,
which repar: was adopted by the Convention.
Judge Nisbet having been conducted to the
Chai**, returned bis acknowledgments for the
honor conferred on him, and addressed the
Convention upon the objects which had anem
bled it, in an able and impressive manner.
Mr. 8. Clay King offered the following reso
lution :
Jfasofved, That the Sessions of this Convention bo
opened and closed with prayer ; and that the Presi
dent procure the services of a Minister fur that pur
pose—adopted.
Mr. Flournoy, of Washington, laid upon the
(able the following resolution:
RcsoZvrd, That a Committee of three from each
Judicial District be appointed by tbe President, to
report matter for the action of the Convention.
Pending the discussion thereon, Mr. Lewis
moved that the Convention adjourn till 3 o’-
clock P. M.—adopted. And after prayer by
the Rev. Mr Hoyt, the Preeideut pronounced
the Covention adjourned
3 O'otoek, P. Ji.—The Convention mot pur
raant to adjonraseent. Prayer by Rev. Mr.
Daniel.
The Convention proceeded to the consider
ebon of the unfinished business of the morn
inc, to wit: the resolution of Mr. Flournoy.
Mr. Cox off. red ae a substitute lor the revo
lution of Mr. Fiournoy a series of resolutions,
all of which were lost.
A motion was then made to amend the origi
nal resolution, by striking out the word
••throe,” and inserting “two,” whicn was ac
cepted by the mover, and the resolution as
amended adopted.
Mr. Tidwell laid upon the table the following
resolution:
Ruoitul. That Dr. Randall, Editor of the Ma
sonic and Literary Journal of thia place, together
with all other Editors ol Journals and papers of the
Sula, whoaie or may be present, be invited to seats
in tb.s Hall for the purpose of reporting the proceed
ings of the Convention—adopted.
On motion of Mr. Flournoy the Conven
tion took a recess of hall an hour to enable the
President to appoint the Committees of two
from each Judicial Circuit.
The Convention re assembled when the
Preaident announced the names of the follow
ing delegates as comprising that Committee :
W •at*rn Circuit, Aloozo Cbareb, of Clarke, Wife '
Ifam L. Mitchell, of Clarke. Eastern Circuit, S.
Clay Kia<, of Wayne and Glynn, Benj. Snider, of
Chatham Southern Circuit, S M. Hatch, of
Twin*, John H. Brantley, of Pulaski Middle Cir
cait. R. W. Flournoy, of Washington, L. LaTaat*,
of Richmond. South Western Circuit, Joel Craw
ford, of Early, David A. Vaaoo, of Bak?r. Chat
taboochoe Circuit, Tboa. F. Scott, of Muscogee, J
M. Clarke, of Stewart Ocmulgoe Circuit, Thus,
locks, of Greene, David A. Reese, ol Jasper. Nor
thern Circuit, David W. Lewis of Hancock. J. R
Suoed, of Wilkea. Flint Circuit, Stephen Elliott
Jr., of Bibb, George F. Pierce, of Newton. Cowe
ta Circuit, John S. W.lsoa, of DeKalb, John D.
Stall, of Fayette. Cherokes Circuit, Turner H.
Trippe, Win. H. Stiiea, of C«m.
Mr. Cox moved that persone from counties
in which delegatee have been appointed, but
who are not in attendance be ent tied to Mate
in th* Convent 00, which waa lost.
Mr. Lewis moved that the countioe be cabled
for the purpose of enabling the delegatee to
preeent any oral or written eUtomema they
night {desire to lay before the Convention,
which waa adopted.
Pending thocaH of the counties, Mr. Hoyt
moved an adjournment Uli 'o-naorrow morn*
at 8 o’clock, which waa adopted; and after '
pra)er by the Right Rev Stophen Elliot, Jr.,
the Proakent announced the Convention ad
journed
WWiwWef. 8 o’efae*. Jaff 9tk 1851.—The
Convention met pursuant to adjournment.
Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Church.
On motion of Dr. Church, the delegatee id
pointed by ’be Georgia State Baptist Conven
twin were invited to uke seats in ibis body,
and Tboa. Stocks and C. M. Irvin, came for
ward and enrolled their names
On motion ot Mr. South, the Ladies were
invited to attend and witness the deliberations
as the convention.
Mr. Vaoon on tbo port of the Baker connty
dakgtuon presented a document, which on
hie melton. was received and referred to the
aommittoo of Twenty Tw a. The Convention
proceeded with the uedoishod buemesa of
yoetofday. to wit: the call of tbo countioe.
The President read to c*e Convon ion, a pa
per embodying a system of Common Schools,
which, oo aouon, was referred to the commit
tee of twenty two.
On Boiioi of Mr. Reese, leave was granted
to the committee of twenty two. to ait during
the toasters of the convention.
Mr. Bigham read a letter from Julius M.
Patton. Eeq.. Taoasurer of the State contain
iag SiaUeticai information, in regard to the
proaoßi syotem of Common School* in Ger
gta. which, on motion, was referred to the com
mittee of twenty two.
Mr. Hell rood to the Convention a letter
from the Hon. George R. Gilmer, which, on
meuon, was rainmd to tbo Comauuoo of
twenty <wp.
On motion of Mr. Hili, the Rev. Otis Smith,
was invited to take a seat in the convention, 8 8
a member of the Troup county delegation.
On motion of Mr. Mosely, the document
read on yesterday, to the convention by Mr-
Lawrence. was refnrred to the committee of
twenty two.
The President presented to tbe convention
a letter from the Rev. Samuel R. Talmage,
President of Oglethorpe University, which
was read and on motion referred to the com
mittee of iwentv two.
On motion ot Mr. Nightingale, the convention
after prayer by the Rev. Dr. Hoyt, adjourned
till three o’clock, P. M.
3 (TeZocA, P. M.— The Convention met pur
suant to adjournment. Prayer by the Rev.
Mr. Mann.
On motion of Mr. Bigham, Joseph T. Mont
gomery was invited to take a seat in tbe Con
vention as a member of Troup county delega
tion.
Tbe committee of 22, through their Chair
man, Dr. Chnrcb, made a Report which was
taken, up read, and pending the discussion
thereon, tbe Convention, after prayer by Dr.
Church, adjourned till half-past 8 o’clock this
evening.
Half past 8 o’clock, P. M.—The Conven
tion met pursuant to adjournment. Prayer
by Rev. Mr. Scott.
The Convention resumed the unfinished
business of the evening, to wit: the consider
ation of the Report of the Committee of twen
ty-two, and afier considerable discussion there
on.
On motion of Dr. Church, tbe whole Re
port was recommitted to tne committee.
On motion, the President of the Conven
tion, as tlso Messrs. Smith of Troup, Hoyt
of Clarke, and Pinckard of Monroe were
added co the Committee of twenty-two.
On motion, the Convention after prayer by
the Rev. Mr. Smith,adjourned till 8 o’clock
to-morrow morning.
Thursday, July 10. 1851.—The Conven
tion met pursanc to adjournment. Prayer by
Rev. Mr. Jewett.
Mr. Tidwell presented a paper setting forth
a system of Common Schools, which on
motion was referred to the Committee cf
twenty-two.
Mr. Hili, of Troup, read to the Conven
tion, a paper embodying suggestions on the
subject of Common Schools, which on mo
tion was referred to the Committee of
twenty-two.
Ou motion, tbe Convention took a recess
until the Committee of twenty-two should be
ready to submit their report.
Tne Convention reassembled,when, through
their Chairman, the Committee of twenty-two
made a Report, which after the rejection and
reception of various amendments, was adopted
as follows:
BZPOBT.
Believing it important to the best interest of the State,
that every citizen should receive a Com mon School
education, this Convention, composed of Delegates
from a large msj rity of tbe counties in Georgia, af
ter mature deliberation, adopts the following Pream
ble and Resolutions, to be submitted to the Legisla
ture :
The Convention is fully convinced that the citizens
of the State de-ire the establishment of a system of
ComoioQ Schools, which will afford the opportunity
to all the children of tbe State, to acquire such an eu
ncatton as will fit them to become useful members of
society. The convention is also convinced that a
large and increasing number of children are growing
up destitute of this education, and that such is the
particular character of our population, that unless
provision is made by the Legislature, this desirable
object will never be secured.
The Convention considers it as much the right of
the poor to be educated, as of the rich to be protected
in the pusseS'icn of his properly ; and if the poor man
be under obligation at the call of his country to risk
his life and to pour out hie blood in defence of those
institutions, which secure to tbe rich man hid dearest
rights and most valued p as era lona—the rich man in
under obligations to contribute of his wealth, to give
tbe children of his defender an education, which will
enable them (oread the charter of their liberties; an
educa.ion which wiP cnaole them to read the char
ter of their salvation—an education which wilt enable
them, by industry, to rise in society, and to take that
social position which jur Republican Institutions gua
rantee to all.
The Convention, moreover, is fully convinced that
it is the bigbeet interest of the Statu to secure to every
citiien a Common School education, that the safety
and stability of the commonwealth depend upon the
general enlightenment ot its inhabitants, and that the
amount paid by the State for the purposes of educa
tion in all its department?, will be more than refun
ded in the saving of expenses in the administration of
justice, and in the increase of wealth and revenue,
which will accrue from it.
The Convention is a wire of the great difficulties in
the way of the full accomplishment of a plan of uni
versal Common School education in Georgia. It is
conceded that some of our fellow citizens are so sit
uated, that the advantages of education cannot be ex
tended to then, without effort and without some ad
ditional expenditure. But the Convention maintain,
chat it is the important object ot Government to se
cure to th* citizen the advantages, which be cannot
obtain, without the aid of Government, and that the
Slate is under as much obligation, to call upon the
citizens of the more favored portions ot her territory,
to send the light of knowledge to the children in the
mountain coves, or scattered over pine barrens, as
she is to call her hardy mountaineers, or her patri
otic eons of the seaboard, to leave children and homes,
in the defence ol her frontiers. And the Convention
is convinced that the difficulties, which have been
supposed to exist, in adapting a universal system of
Common Schools to the State, are far less formidable
than is supposed by many.
The Con/eutico cannot doubt that ths State may
be laid off into districts, so arranged.nut a School can
be maintained during a portion of the year in each
It is fully puxsuaaed that a system can be adopted,
which will apply Co the less favored, as well as to the
more favored portions of the Slate, and that the ex
pense attending its adoption will not be so formidable
as many now apprehend.
The Convention be'ieves that by the establishment
of a department of edueati n and the appointment of
a permanent and suitable Superintendent to preside
over this department, a system of Common School
instruction may be devised ami oo carried into effect
that within a reasonable lime, every child in the
State may be taught to read and to write.
The Convention, therefore, earnestly recommend
to the Legislature, the establishment of a Bureau of
education and the appointment ol some
individual, who is acquainted with the subject ol ed
ucation, and who will devote his who e time to carry
into effect (he system of Common School education,
to bo adopted by the Legislature, upon the following
plan:
One school at least shall be organ.zed and taught
in each county in Georgia, at sucu place o< places as
the selectmen may deem beet, in which school or
isaoois the children of all the citizens of the county
between the ages of 6 and 16 sba'l be taught free ol
charge at least tour months in a year.
2. Said school or schools, snail be under the direc
tion of three selectmen chosen biennially by the
qualified voters of the county, and the selecfren
shall be authorized and required to lay eff the coun y
into as many school distiicu and o< such dimenn. ns
a (hey may think the wants of the people demand,
and the selectmen shall furnish injunction both to
the districts where it is practicabls to establish
schools and where it is not, upon the itinerating plan
or any other that they may think proper, and shall
also make a report annually tothe superintendant of
schools who shall be appointed lor the term of two
y oars by the Sen. Axademacus.
3. Suiisble school-house* shall be provided and
located y the selectmen, and furniihed with such
apparatus and fixtorts as in the opinion oftbeselect
men, the circum*iances of each school district may
demand.
4. The fund* which each county respectively
shall raise by taxation, eball be codec led by the
county cotlectors and (Mid into the county treasury
subject to th/taaft of the selectmen who shall make
an annual re ion to the Superin’enjant of the amount
oi funds raised in the county, mode of disbursement,
Ac.) Ac.
5. The sum off —shall be set apart by the
Lagiriatore of the State, which io connection with
the p»x>r school fund shall constitute a common •cbool
fund, the interest only of which shall be used for the
purposes oi common school education. The interest
of said funds shall be paid annually to schools ac
co* ding to the number of pupi’s rateably; provided,
however, no school shall receive any portion of the
funds unle£» the requisition of the law be complied
with, and should the amount distributed by the State
be found insufficient tor the specified purpose, then
the selectmen shall levy and collect a las in each
county respectively iu the manner before specified.
6 The duties of the Superintendent shall be pre
scribed by the Legislature, aud his sa ary fixed by
the sane body.
A?«so/rcd, That a Commit:ee of three be appoint
ed by the i enventioa, whose duty it shall be, to
prepare an argument illustrative of. and in support
of the recommendations of this Convention, which
argument snail be a part of the action of this body
and shall accompany the same.
Resolved, That we recommend to the Convention
to appoint a Committee of three r o present the acuonjof
the Convention before the next session cfthe Lswm
lature. and that the Secretary of this Convention lor
wardto his Excellency, the Governor, the proceed
* ingssftha Convention with the request that ho pr *.
•eot the same to the Legislature al its next cession.
Mr. Vasosk, offered the following rewolutioe. ;
I KcAx’acJ, That thia convention recommend to the
! Legislature, to mate a liberal appropriation for the
f purpose of educating teachers for Occmon Schools ;
I said fund ro ne placed, under the direction of the
Educational board—which was adopted. Mr. Scott,
offered the following r. solution which waa adopted :
Resaivcd, Th t thia Convenuon acknowledge
with pleasure and gratitude, the prompts? s aud
acai, with which the Frees of the Stela ; has united
in the cause in which wo are engaged, and that we
earnestly and respect fully solicit a coed nuance of
the very important t»cperatfon.
<’a me won of Mr. Montgomery, the Con ven too
adored the following reeJution :
RaatiiL That this Convention recommend the
formalkxj of Educational Association* in each county
of the Stats. for tbs purpose of j the wiy set
On motion of Mr. Bigham, it w.is
Resolved, That the members of this Convention i
are hereby earnestly requested to use diligence io
commending the system adopted by Ibis Convention,
to the favorable co .sideration of their fellow-citizens ;
and that we also request them to collect all the in
formation they can, in relation to the state ?f educa
tion, and of the p pular mind in relation to it in
tbeir respective counties, and furnish tlie sane to the
editors < f the State for publication.
The President appointed Messrs. Reese, Church
and Pierce a committee to prepare an argument in
favor of the recomineiida'ion of this Con»ention, the
same to constitute a part of the action of this body.
On motion of Right Rev. Stephen Elliott, Jr., the
Convention appoin’ed ns a committee, the Hon. Eu
genius A. Nisbet, Hou. Joseph Henry Lumpkin and
Hon. Hiram Warner, to prepares bill in conformity
with the action of this Convention, to be presented to
the next Legislature.
On motion o< Mr. Reese, it was
Resolvei, That the Secretaries of the Convention
furnish a correct and plain copy of the proceedings of
the Convention for publication in the public gazettes
of the State.
On motion of Mr. Nightingale, (Bishop Elliott in
the Chair) it was
Rewlvzd, That the thanks of this ('onvention be,
and they are hereby tendered to the President and
Secretaries, fcr the manner in which they have dis
chaiged their duties.
On motion, the thanks of the Convention were re
tnrnedto Mr. Arnold for the use of Cherokee Hall.
On motion cf Mr. Hill, the Convention after pray
er by Mr. Scott, adjounrned sine die.
EuniNius A. Nitbbt, Chairman,
LyTHEBj.Gu.., ? Secretarie s.
Wm. H. Chamber*, \
Fatal Duel—-Death of J. W. Fro.t.
We liment tc announce that the difficulties
w hich have for some time eiieted, and with
which the public has been made familiar
throutn the press, between Mr. Frost, the edi
tor of the Crescent, and Col. T. G. Hunt, one
of’he candidates for the nomination to Con
gress, have had a fatal tuMtrfnation. Mr Fros'
fought a duel yesterday at about 1 o'clock P
M., at the U. S. Barracks below the city, with
Dr. Thorras Hunt, the brother of Col. T. G.
Hunt. They fought, as we hear, with double
barreled guns at forty paces, a.id on the second
fire Mr. Frost was mortally wounded, the
bullet passing th'ough his left breast, and he
died within ha'f an hour.
The immediate cause of offence was an
altercation which took place at the Whig meet
ing in Perdido street on Monday evening. It
was, however, only the renewal of an ancient
difficulty, arising out of the congressional elec
tion last fall, wnen Colonel T. G. Hunt was a
Candida's before the Whig Convention, and
Judge Bullard, the law partner of Mr. Frost
obtained tbe nomination. Another of the
brothers of Col Hunt became then involved
in a personal difficulty with Mr. Frost, and the
preliminary mevtmeuts for a duel were made
upon the part of Mr. Frost, but they failed.
Tbe whole correspondence was published at
the time and is doubtless familiar to our read
ers. The ill-feeling has rankled ever since
and the new canvass, in which Col. Hunt is
again a candidate, revived it, produced the
collision at “ The Shades,” and has ended in
this lamentable manner. It has already been
published that there was a meeting between
tbe parlies on Wednesday, which the police
interrupted, and both challenger and challenged
were bound over. They disregarded the
bonds, went almost directly from tbe Record
er’s office to the U. S Barracks, and finally
closed up this most unhappy quarrel with the
death of Mr. Frost by (he hands of Dr. Hunt.
In the excitement of this event, which agi
tates and divides the whole city, the men's of
the cause of the quarrel are hardly fit subjects
of discussion. We have a profound regret
for the deceased; we have more pity for the
survivor. Very rare iudeed are the meetings
of this sort io which the man whom fortune
has made the victor does not envy the quiet of
the dead.
But (hough we may not, wisely or generous
ly, in the midst of this excitement and sorrow,
aid in reviving the angry controversies among
the living of which this event is a deplorable
consequence, we may pay a tribute of sincere
respect to the memory of the dead. Mr. Frost
was a va'uable and rising citizen, and a most
estimable man. His talents were of a high
order, and he had cultivated them well. In
hie profession of the law he was a successful
advocate, and was rising to a fine practice,
which he might easily have secured but for hie
predilectiou for politics, and the zeal for his
party, which brought him much into public life
as a popular orator, and then into the editorial
profession. He wss a fluent writer as well as
speaker The ardor of hie temperament led
him often into controversies, wherein he main
tained himself with spirit and talent. He had
many warm friends, who give him the credit
of being of an extremely impulsive and gen
erous, as well as sensitive temperament; and
(hey diplore his death as that of a warm
hearted and gallant gentleman, who had the
qualities and capacities to be uiefal to hie
country, as he was dear to his own circle of
intimates and associates.— N. O. Picayune, HtA
inslaat.
Sir. Chappell’* Acceptance.
The Hon. A. H. Chappell has addressed a
letter to the committee accepting the nomina
tion as the candidate of the Union party in the
Third Congressional District, from which we
make the subjoined pertinent extract:
“You have been pleased to advert to the fact
of my having been “among the first to breast the
storm of Disunion which threatened the subver
sion of our Government." Gentlemen, the
stand which I took somewhat more than a year
ago, and which I have continued ever since to
maintain, was the result of a conviction, on my
part, that our beloved country was on the verge
of the most dreadful convulsions, disorganization
and overthrow, and that the only way to save it
was, for the friends of the Union everywhere to
put forth a mighty effort lor securing the pas
sage, in some form, of the system of measures
then pending in the Senate of the United States
known as the Territorial Compromise Bill of the
Committee of Thirteen. That effort was put
forth, and was crowned with success—a success
felt at the time, and ever since, to have been
vitally important to the preservation of the
Union. And notwithstanding some things in
those measures which I might have preferred to
have otherwise, yet it is to this day my deliber
ate belief that if the measures themselves had
been finally lost in the last Congress, their fail
ure would have been the knell of the Union.
Its fate would have been, in my opinion, hope
lessly sealed, andaneariy and miserable down
fall would have awaited the freest and most glo
rious fabric of Government the world ever saw.
But scarcely had the great danger to the Union,
growing out of the increasing sectional exasper
ation to which the non settlement of the ques
tions involved in these measures give rise, been
obviated by the passage of the Adjustment Acts,
when another peril hardly less appalling started
up in its place. This second petii proceeded di
rectly from the extreme pertinacity with
which the Dieunionists of the .South clung to
their cherished o'ject of breaking up the Con
federacy. Burnii g with a fiery zeal lor this
object, and enraged by the enactment of the Ad
justment Bids, on the anticipated failure of
which they had predicated high hopes of the
success of their evil designs—their next great
movement was to treat the fact of the passage
of these measures by Congress as constituting
in itseli a sufficient ground for overthrowing the
Union, and to make it the basis of their labors
and machinations to that end. Happily for the
country, the Legislature of Georgia had by an
ticipation, made provision for promptly submit
ting to the people, in their highest sovereign ca
pacity, the momentous question ; what course
the Stateahould take in regard to these measures'!
Accordingly, the Proclamation was issued sum
moning the Convention—the elections were
held, and the Convention itself met. The voice
of Georgia pronounced on that memorable oc
casion was another great and fortunate triumph
to the still deeply endangered Union a tri
umph the vast importance of which can only
be properly estimated by considering what would
have been the probaole etale of things In this
country at this moment, had the great baitle at
the Polls, of the 25th of November last, gone
otherwise than it did. With all the lights then
and now before ur, it is not going too far to say,
that the Union could not have lost that battle
and lived.
Let us not, however, fall Into the dangerous
error of over estimating the value or mistaking
the effect of the victory gained on that occasion,
Ils effect was not so much to put an end to the
formidable and organized warfare against the
Union in Georgia, as to drive the routed disunion
forcesol this State from the poet of honor, the
van of battle, where they figured in the cam
paign of last year—into their more natural posi
tion of auxiliary subordination to the movements
of South Carolina. The great struggle now
going on in Georgia is, really, to seduce the peo
ple from their allegiance to her and the noble
platform on which she ha* planted herself, and
to prepare their minds for abetting and sustain
ing South Carolina in the desperate lengths to
which she is expected to go in the contrary di
rection. Shall any success, even the smallest,
be allowed to attend this endeavor? Shall the
pe. pie of Georgia, who coveted themselves
with so much honor by the stand they look last
year, now present to mankind the mortifying
spectacle of retracing their steps and abandoning
that position 1 Are they willing to imperil now,
by the exhibition of wavering and reaction in
their rank* that Union which they so recently
saved by their enlightened and heroic patriotism
at the polls ?
These questions, gentlemen, must be an
swered by the people, for weal or woe to the
country, on the first Monday of October next.
If they shall then, as I doubt not they will,
lolly stand by and sustain what they did in No
vember last, an opportunity will be given to the
nobleold ship of the Union, freighted with the
liberties and destines of America, to right her
self, and ride out the storm which still threatens
to overwhelm her. But, on the contrary, should
Georgia then show any shrinking or reaction,
who will be able to vouch for the consequence*
or through the thick gloom that will overhang
the future, to discern one ray of hope for the
country ?
I am, gentlemen, with great respect,
Your obedient servant.
A. H. CHAPPELL.
Messrs Jno J. Gbrshah and others Commit
tee, &c.
The British Navioation Laws —The
London Shipping Gazette, which zealously
opposed the repeal of the Navigation Laws,
has ever since contended that the new system
was working badly for England, and now ad
vocates iu abandonment. From a recent
nunberof that paper we copy the following
paragraph :
“dir James Stirling, in his evidence, inci
dentally refers to the prospect that the ship
ping trade in coals will be. in some degree,
precluded by the conveyance of that mineral
by the rai’roads; and Mr. Lindsav says, with
much earnest cot.fi fence, that “ere twenty
years there will hardly be a sailing vessel em
ployed between the ports of our seaboard.”
We need not stop now to dispute the correct
ness ol th:* prediction; we may leave it to
others to judge of it; we shall draw from it
the only inference of which it is susceptible,
namely, tbat England must cease to have a
merchant navy ; aod tUen . i ndeed> we mgv
ask our old question—How is the fleet to be
manned f W hen the over soa trade it in the
hands of foreigneis, and the coasung trade in
the hands of railway companies, the Ameri
cans must necessarily rule triumphant on the
ocean. I: we are not much mistaken, that
time i* last approaching. What effect it may
have upon u>s general commerce of Great
Britain and upon her colonial dominions can
scarcely admit of adoubt.’
Lol. Garnett, who was seriously injured by
the falling of a tra f meat of a blasted roek some
weeks sicce. has o lar recovered as to be able
to resume his duties in connection with the
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AUGUSTA, GA.:
WEDNESDAY .’IOHJiIKO .. JOLY »3.
Constitutional Union Nomination*
FOR GOVERNOR.
H°N. HOWELL COBB
CONGRESS
For Ilepreaeutative from Stlx District »
HON. ROBERT TOOMBS.
£>» Ti&e Constitutional Union Paity of
Col umb is County are requested to meet at Appling,
on the first Tuesday in AUGUST next, to nominate
Candidates to represent the county in tbe next Le
gislature. Also, n Senator for the counties cf Rich
mond and Columbia. jy23
Free Barbecue in Burke* — The Union
Delegates to the Senatorial (July 4, 1851) Conven
tion of JelTerson and Burke, invite the citizens ol
Loth counties to a Freeßarbecue to be given at
Davis’s Springs in Burke county, on the 4th SAT
URDAY in July. Col. Toombs, A. H. Stzphbns,
Judge Andrbws and other distinguished Speakers
are expected to be present.
Union Dzlzoatbb or
jy6 J bffbbion and Bubkb.
Discussion in filbert* — There will
baa free Barbecue given at the Camp Ground in
Elbert county, on Friday the IsZ day of August
next, of which the people of the county and of tbe
surrounding country, without distinction of party,
are invited to partake.
Our Carolina friends are also invited to come.
Messrs. Cobb, Toombs. Stephens, Andrews and
others are expected to address the people*
Our Southern Rights friends of Elbert are cordially
invited to procure tbeir speakers, and unite with us
in a Free Discussion, or name them to the under
signed committee, and they shall be invited to come.
We should suggest, also, that they appoint a com
mittee to aruoge with the undersigned, fair and just
terms of discussion, without advantage to either
party,
Cxarlbs W. Christian, | Thomas Johnston,
Thomas J. Hbaro, | Wm. H. Adams,
John G. Dbadwyi.br, | Robbrt Hbstbb,
Singleton VV. Allen, | Thomas W. Thomas,
jell _ Committee.
TRAVELLING AGENTS.
Mr. J. D. Wells and Mr. A. P. Burr will act as
Travelling Agents for tbe Southern Cultivator
and Chronicle & Sentinel. Any assistance that
our friends in the various counties may furnish these
gentlemen, toward increasing our circulation, will be
thankfully received.
Mbsbrs. Bubkb A Dbming, Booksellers and Pe
riodical Agents, Madison, Georgia, will also act as
our Agents, and receive subscriptions for both Jour
nals.
Voter* of Elbert County,
The responses of two of your candidates,
Messrs. Houston and Thornton, in reply to
the inquiries propounded to them, and a se
cond article from Nancy Hart, wi I be found
in this paper. Read, inform yourselves, and
reflect. This is an important crisis, and you
cannot too carefully guard your rights.
Pay your Postage.
As the reduction on pre paid letters is forty
per cont., we shall adopt the practice as a matter
of business of pre-paying all letters sent from
this office, and must request all those who write
u* to adopt the same policy.
The following impromptu of a subscriber to
the Charleston Mercury, is pithy and to the
point:
“ Precept on precept, line upon line,
Pre-pay your postage, and I’ll pre pay mine I”
We hope those of our friends who write us
will treasure th'* couplet, and make it their
rule of action whenever they write.
Dr. S. W. Burnet, of Monroe coun'y, is
the nominee of the Union party in the Sena
to rial District composed of Bibb and Monroe
counties.
Z. E. Harman, Esq., is the candidate of the
disunionists in the same district.
David Rzad, Esq , ol Harris, has been
nominated by the Union party as their candi
date for Senator in the District composed of
Harris and Troup counties.
Col. Jas. M. Mobley and Dr. Gzoroz W.
Cob* are the Union candidates in Harris coun
ty for the Legislature, and Wm. B. Fuller in
Fayette county.
Ghzrokxb—All Hail! —Wa have a gloriously
inspiring letter from an intelligent and reliable friend,
travelling io the Cherokee country. There is " fire
in the mountains." We are not at liberty io publish
it—but we can say, that it contains nows juat as good
ns the most ar ent friend of Southern Kights could
desire. The tide of native Southern feeling is riling
every day, and running high and atrong in vindica
tion of our noble Stale from the stain oi Federal sub
mission.
DeKalb county went 1100 for the Unionists last
year. Our friends are aang-iine ol reversing llial
majority and giving the vote ol the county io Mc-
Donald.
Iu Elbert county the cause is going ahead finely—
also in Wilkes county, Mr. Toombs' bona. Our
friends expect to carry both of them. Wo would not
be surprised if we not only carried Wilkes but
Toombs too. — Columbae Timet.
Wz are glad to see thin favorite figure—“fire
in the mountains " —revived by the Umee. We
recollect that the same fires were burning very
brightly in ths imagination of the Times last
summer, and we had supposed, after their sud
den extinguishment iu November, tbat the
Times would not have the temerity to rekindle
them so soon. That journal must confide
largely in the credulity of its readers, to sup
pose that they will honor its large drafts so
soon after those of last year had been dishon
ored.
“ Our friende ” must possess a v ery sanguine
temperament to persuade themselves into the
belief that they could carry the counties of De-
Kalb, Elbert and Wilkes—and last, not least,
“ Teemks toolt was certainly vary unkind
in those “friendi" of disunion, to practice
such a cruel hoax on the Times. They are
a ware that th* bellows of their organ is inflated
with every little breath of a favorable report,
and they should not makii it the vic ins of such
wanton erue'ty.
The advocates of secession in Alabama contend
(ha if South Carolina sti-uld secede, it will be the
duly of Alabama to secede also”— and that if the
general government should at empt to enforce its
laws afer the secession of South Carolina, *• it will
likewise be the duty of Alabama to resist such at
tempt by force.” The result of this is, that Alabama
has not the right to think and act for berse’f—
must be a mere appendage to South Carolina !
South Carotins is the great Si* Oracle ! Whea she
opens her mouth let no dog bark! Whatsoever she
does, Alabama must do —and wheresoever she may
go, there Alabama roust go also! lathis not a moat
reprehensible and degrading doctrine to teach free
Aiabamians? And yet the men whi teach it, and
openly advocate it. call themselves Stite Rights men,
and say they belong to the State Rights party ! Tue
right of South Carolina to command, and the duty
of Alabama t? obey, is glorious Slate Rights doctrine,
sure y !— Alabama Register.
There is much food for reflection for the
people of Georgia in the above paragraph,
and we commend it to their calm and d.spas
donate consideration.
The Dtsonioniets in South Carolina openly
proclaim their purpose to secede wi-h a view
to drag the other States into the vortex, that
they may follow in her wake ; and their co
ilborers in Georgia, McDomald, dec., are ex
ceedingly desirous to have you proclaim the
right of secession and give into their hands the
destinies of the Slate. They do not want to
exercise the right, say they; oh no, to admit
that would expose their real purpose and char
acter, but they only want it acknowledged
This is strange doctrine, truly, in Georgia,
where the right has always been openly avow
ed as the proper remedy fur plain and palpa
bie infractions of the constitution, except by
Chablis J. McDonald, and a few of his co
laborers io federalism and consolidation, who
have a ways maintained the supreme power
of the general government, and its right to co
erce States at the point of the bay ?net. Y’et this
man is now, per excellence, a State Rights
man !
Well, Georgians, what think you of placing
the des'.inies of year noble State, * the Empire
State of'.be South,” in the hands of such a
man—one who will extend to South Carolina
the privilege, and right of determining your
future policy T Would it not be an enviable
position for you to see yourselves and your
State following at the tail of the Quatdebum’s
and Rhett’s! We commend the question to
your consideration, with the bops that you
will determine it as becomes intelligent and
enlightened freemen—as Georgians—aye, as
Americans.
P- W. Alxxabdxr, Esq , has retired from
hn connection with ths Savannah Refubtuan
a» the • Assodau Enter " of that journal.—
Hi, leave taking of it, patron, is a neat, appro
priate and creditable address.
A letter from Londom in the Boston Trave**
lor. say, there i, a register kept in the Ghev
Palace, in which a l our countrymen who visit
the Exhibition are requeued to inscribe their
names. The Hon. Abbott Lawrence's name
heads the lie:. B, this register there appears
to have been blteen hundred Americans, up
to the Jbm, to via* the Fair. ' *
Second Congreiilanil District.
The Disuuionis a in the B?cond Congres
sional District, have nominated Henry L. Ben
ning, Esq., of Muscogee, as their candidate for
Congress. This is a very appropriate and
proper nomination. Mr. B. was one of the
prominen: speakers of that party during the
cemans of last year; was a member of the
Nashville Convention; was generally under
stood to belong to the celebrated ** coffin linef 9
and we think openiy advocated secession or
disunion before the people.
If we have not heretofore over estimated his
character for manliness and independence, he
will not now, like the mass of his party, skulk
from his positions and attempt to shield him
self by a hypocritical afiectation of love for the
Union, which, we imagine, (like one of his
immediate organs, tha S.’Nhne/,) hu “ hat eg at
hedofghdl ittelfr
The Convention that nominated Mr. Ben
ding passed a series of resolutions, among
wh.ch is tho following :
sth. That we rejoice to find in the following reso
lution of tbe Georgia Convention of last December,
not only the strongest implied recognition of this right
of secession, but also the express and particular re.
cognition cf the propriety of its exercise in a number
of specific cases :
Resolved, That thu State of Georgia, in the judg
ment of (his|Convention, "will and ought to resist,even
(aa a last resort) to a disruption of every tie which
binds her to the Union, any action of Congress upon
the subject cf slavery in the District of Columbia or
in places subject to the jurisdiction of Congress, in
compatible with the tafety, the domestic tranquility,
the rights and the honor of tha slavebolding States,
or any refusal to admit as u State, any territory here
after apf lying, because of the existence of slavery
therein, or any act prohibiting the introduction of
slaves into the territories of Utah or New Mexico, or
any act repealing or materially modifying tbe laws
now in force for the recovery of fugitive slaves,”
and we do not think we are beyonJ this resolution
when we say that if a State may exercise the right
in these cases, it may exercise it in any.
Thus the Convention rejoices to find the
doctrine of secession proclaimed in the Geor
gia Platform, the 4th resolution of which, it
approves and copies as above.
Let us see how this declaration comports
with the charge made so recklessly by tbeir
par.y against Mr. Cobb, of “denying the right
of secession.” Mr. Cobb aided in laying the
foundation and rearing tho superstructure of
that platform, and-Aeii constructed took his
stand upon it, and iiSs maintained it ever since.
He is sti’l upon it, as avowed in his recent
letter of acceptance. Yet, in the face of all
these facts, the party persists in charging him
with “denying the right of secession,’ and
will doubtless continue to charge it, notwith
standing the resolution of the convention of
their own party, in the Second Congressional
district.
Again, says the Convention, in the sixth res
olution :
6th. That while we can never forget or forgive
the authors of’the measures which despoiled us of
our share in tbe conquests of the Mexican war,
which curtailed our Texas of a third of her fair pro
portions—which degraded ourselves below the
meanest citizen of tbe North, by forbidding us the
right of traffic in our slaves—our chit fest property—
on tbe common soil of the District of Columbia, un
der the penally of losing them by emancipation,
whilst that citizen’s charter of traffic in all of bis
property, even bis mon contempluble notions was
left unrestricted. Still, as Georgia, to whom we
owe our allegiance, has in her highest sovereign ca
pacity, decided that tho e measures did not constitute
a sufficient cause to Justify secession, unless the
North should fail in ‘ the faithful exercise of the
fugitive slave law ; and that though not wholly ap
proving, she would nevertheless abide by the series
of which they made a part, “as a permanent adjust
ment of this sectional c ntroversy” we will as in du
ty bound, make no resistance by force or violence to
tbe decision, so long as it remains the unchanged
will of the sovereign State to which we have ac
knowledged our allegiance to be due.
How wonderfully submissive these resis
tance men of yesterday, have suddenly be
come ! So devoted are they to the Union,that
they are willing to submit to laws which “de
graded them below the meanest citizen of the
North." Verily, they are the most abject and
servile "eubmueionutt’ we kuow of; and yet
they have the cool impudence to denounce
othera as ’eubmieeioniete."
But they complain that they have been
excluded from the Mexican Territories. Thia is
rather a strange confession to come from men
who a year ago told the people if the Wilmot
Proviso was net applied to these Territories,
'.hat their rights to go there with their slave
property would be perfect. It was not
applied ; and now we are told by the same men
that they are excluded. Wonderful consisten
cy,indeed I
Texas—“ our Texas has, in the opinion of
the Convention, been curtailed of a third of
her fair proportions." How unfortunate for
these exclusive friends of the South, that they
are not permitted to regulate the affairs of
other States. T-xo* should not be trusted to
menage he. affairs, although a large majority
of her people cheerfully acquiesced in ths
“ curtailment.” But the crowning act of deg
radation is the law prohibiting the slave trade
in the District of Columbia.
That the people may be a' no loss to
account for the present clamor against thia
law, by the designing and intriguing deme,
goguesof the day, we propose to submit a
few facts of history, which may not be
generally known, which will satisfy every
impartial mind that it is a mere trick of the
demagogues, in a desperate effort to make a lit
tle party capital. Let us recur to the history of
the country to establish this fact. Virginia
contributed, to f rm the District of Columbia,
that portion lying South of tho Potomac
(now retroceded,) and Maryland the portion
North of the river, which now constitutes the
District of Columbia.
Iu 1796, after the cession, Maryland passed
the following law in reference to the introduc
tion of slaves "for eale or to resides”
“ Be it invited by the General Aeten.bly oj Ma
' yland, That it shall not be lawful from ami afier ih«
passing of this act, to import or bring into this State,
by land or waler any negro, mulatto, or other slave
tor sale, or to rreide witbin ibis Stale; ai d any per
son brought into this State as a slave contrary lo ibis
ac', if a slave before, shall thereupon immcdiatelv
cease to be the property of the person or persons so
importing or bringing such stare within the State,
and shall be free."
On the 27th February, 1801, the Congress
ol the United State* passed an act “concern
ing the District of Columbia’’—Thoma* Jzr
pzrson being then the President of the United
Slate* and approving the same—the first sec
tion of .vhich is as follows:
" Be it enacted by the Senate and Haute of Rep
retentatieet cf the l/ni'ed Stater of America in
Congress aeeembled, That the laws of the State of
Virginia as they now exist, shall be, and continue in
force in that part of the District of Columbia, which
was ceded by >he said Slate to the United States, and
by them accepted lor the permanent seat of govern
ment; and that lbs lawa of the Stale of Maryland,
as they now exist, shall b--, and continue in force in
that part of the said District which was ceded by
that Slate to iho United Statea, and by them accepted
as afoiesatd.”
Under this law of Congress, the Supreme
Court of the United Statea at the January
Term 1834, in the case of Samuxl Lxe and
Barbary Lzz, te. Elizabeth Lee, (Peter a
Reports, 8 vol. page 44) declared the I‘lam
tiffs, who had been brought into the District
from Virginia, free Judge Thompson deliv
ered the unanimous opinion of the court, in
which, he says :
"By the law of Maryland of 1796, it is declared
that it shall not be lawfal to import or bring into this
State by land or wale-, any negro, mulatto or other
slave, for sale, or to reside within this State,
and any person brought into this State ae a
s ire, contrary to this act, i< a s'ave before, shall
thereupon cease lo be the property of the person so
importing, and shall be Gee.
‘■And oy the act of Congress, of 27th Pebru-ry,
1301, ilia provided that the laws of (he Stale of
Maryland, aa they then existed, should be and con
tinue in force in that part of the District which was
ceded by that Stale to the Coiled States. 7be Ma
ryland law cf 1796 it therefore tn force, and the pe
tition ere if brought diteorly from the State of Virgi
nia, into the county cf Washington, (in the District,)
would under the proviatoas o 4 tbax law be entitled to
their freedom.”
‘•Thue it will be seen that as early as 1801,
and as late a, 1834, there was a law in force,
adopted by an act of Congress, by which slaves
were not on : y prohibited from being brought
into the Maryland portion of the District, for
sale, but were prohibited from being brought
there to retide. By the act of 1850, one of
the compromise acts, it is the introduction of
slaves into the District as merchandize, for aa'e,
only, or transportation to some other alave
market, that ia prohibited. And yet, we are
told that this is a esio, monstrous, unheard of
violation of the rights of the South, and of the
States, and of the Constitution, and anii-dem
ocratic in ttscharacter. Yet Thomis Jxrrxn
eon, who approved the law of 1801, was the
very head and front of the democratic church.
Then no State or body of men spoke of sece
ding from the Union or dissolving it on account
o r the passage of the act of 1801 ; nor was
Thomas Jxmßsos's democracy questioned
because he approved it.”
People of Georgia, these are facts which the
history of the country ostsblisbee beyond the
possibility of a doubt. Canyon now bo at
any lose to account for the clamor raised against
this law t
The Constitutionalist.
Why don’t you epetk, Mr. Gardner ; or do
you mean to play mum t
Ou the Ist July you we-e called on for your
authority for stating that Mr. Cobb had " de
clared his willingness to have force used in
such a contingency ” (as sscession) •' to coerce
Sooth Carolina beck into the Union.”
If you made the charge ncklesslf you have
had lime to examine and fortify yourself. If
you can't find the authority, coma out and <c
ktuw'.edgt the etn. Editors are as much bound
to correct their mistakes u Other people.
Etssar
Commodore Stockton*
Thu distinguished officer and citizen, now a
Senator from New Jersey, delivered on oration
on the 4th inst., before a portion of the citizens
of that State, from which we make the follow
ing extract. The reader will perceive that he
takes high and bJd ground in reference to the
rightsand property of the South, and her In
stitutions; and we hope be will not fail to re
collect that the effect of the policy of the Dis
unionists of the South is to strike down all
such Northern men as Senator Stocktom, by
their indiscriminate denunciation of the whole
North and ♦ very thing Northern ; while the
policy of the Corstitutional Union party is to
form an alliance, with all such Northern con
servatives, offensive and defensive, against al)
ultraism—Northern fanaticism or Southern
disunionism. This policy may save the gov
ernment by the organization of a great conser
vative, constitutional party, which will be able
to put down the ultra factions of both sections
and render them as harmless as their fanatical
blusteri.ngs are gaseous. But to the extract:
“Our lot has been cast in pleasant places, but wc
have fallen upon evil times. At the North, a fanati
cism, the wildest and most indefensible that ever
swayed the passions of men, is at work to strike
down all that is valuable upon earth of human liber
ty, in the vain and delusive expectation of re con
structing upon its ruin* some Utopian system of beati
fic bliss, and of the (quality of the white and black
races of men. At the South the watch fires of the
revolution have been rekindled in the preparation for
the defence of their homes and firesides. Groaning
under the pressure of apprehended wrongs, and wri
thing under the lash of constant and reiterated in
sults, the men o’ the South are preparing for war, in
the hope of redressing their wrongs, and avenging
their insults by an appeal to the sword. Every
north wind goes southward freighted with libelsand
insults, and every Southern breeze bears on its wings
notes of defiance and revenge. Thus two great
principles, never before in the history of our race
reconciled or appeased but bv blood, stand in hostile
array to each other. Yet there are those who say
there is no danger of a conflict—no danger of the
safety of the Union. With the thunders of secession
roaring along the southern coast, and the billows of
insurrection breaking on the Northern shores— sure
presages of a storm —they tell us there is no danger
to the ship of State —that the sky is clear, and the
sea is srnoo.h. But, fellow-citizens, be not lulled
into a fatal security by these syren voices. Take
heed—be warned by the roaring thunder and the
forked lightning—that this may be the calm which
precedes the tornado—a smooth and deceitful surface
n the edge of a cataract.
° I dislike much to speak of the
dissolution cf the Uoion. I loathe the term. But
it may ccme despite of all our efforts to avert it.
Therefore it may be proper for me to say a word or
two in anticipation of such a result, and for the pur
pose of turning tbe attention of my fellow-citizens
to tbe course which New Jersey should take under
such circumvU ucee. Fur one, if such a calamity
should occur, I hope that New Jersey, following the
dictates of duty, as well as imetest, will unite, for
better or for worse, with those who are willing to
abide by and resp?ct the compacts of the Constitu
tion. You may depend upon it that no reliance is
to be placed up jn (he faith of those who refuse to
acknowledge the obligation of the common compact
ol tbe present Union. If a dissolution of the Union
is inevitable, then 1 would prefer that the lines of
separation should be diawn along the Hudson and
the lakes, ra her than the Potomac and the Ohio.
1 have no doubt thj tin such an event the North
wedern Slates would unite with New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, and the South. The South is their com
mon customer —there is their market. The republic
so constituted would have no natural repugnance to
the spread of civiiizitiou and reformed religion over
that portion of the continent which seems now to be
but imperfectly subjected to their influence.
“ Tbe po ition which would practically limit the
republic at the Souih, assumed by a great Northern
statesman, for whom I have the most profound re
gard. and whose virtues and patriotism are belter
known to no one lht>n myself, 1 cannot approve.
That position is assumed under the plausible idea of
Foiiting the area of slavery. Tbe assumption that
would not permit the admission of a State into the
Union without a restriction of slavery, is an aggres
sion on the South which fiuds no warrant in the Con
stitution. We have as much right to say that the
population of a Stale shall be ail Protestants or all
Catholics, as to prescribe tbe kind of labor to be
employed by its people. We have as much right to
force slavery upon a State as to interdic it. If the
South shall obtain a majority in Congress, they
would have as much righ: to introduce slavery into
the free Stales as the North have to force tbe Wil
mot poviso upoi new States. There is no such
power in the Constitution. That incomparable pro
duction of human wisdom nowhere gives autnority to
Congress to prescribe to aa emigrant going to the
public lands what kind of property he shall take
with him, or what kind of property he shall not take
with him. The attemp sto exercise any such au
thority can only be in ide in virtue ofa htitudinarian
construction of the Constitution, which wou d in
vest the General Government with unlimited pow
ers. The paramount duty of tbe small States con
sists in restraining the General Government within
its delegated limits. Because, as soon as the Na
tional Government refuses to recognise the obliga
tions of tbe Constitution, the smalt Si ales will only
hold their sovereignties by the sufferance of their
neighbors.”
The Gardiner Claim.
The public mind has been for some time
excited with regard to the alleged fraud said
to have been practiced upon the Mexican
Commission, in reference to this claims, based
upon the reported statements of Mr. Port,
of confessions made by Gardiner to him.
The whole story was a very improbable one
from the first, and was only credible upon the
supposition that Dr. Gardiner was insane.
Mr. Port has, however, in the following let
ter, to the bro’her of Dr. G., put a quietus
upon the whole affair, so far as ho is concern
ed :
“ Nbw York, July 8, 1851.
Dear Sir:—\ have just returned from the
country, where I have passed a few days on a pleas
ure excursion ; and great has been my snrpriaeon
learning through a friend what has been published
in the newspapers in reference to your brother's
claim and a conversation held with me.
“ I think it my duty (o dec'are to you, without
an/ less of time, that every thing asserted as coming
from me is a bise falsehood, and any person of
common sense can easily perceive it; because who
eould suppose ynur brother capable oi making me a
disclosure so unfavorable to his reputation and per
son ? As regaids myself, lam incapable of sup
posing things to itjure my fellow-mon, and much
less would Ido so with persons whom I esteem and
who honor me with their friendship. With thia
assurance, you are at liberty to make any use you
may deem proper of this letter ; and believe me to
be, as ever, your friend, who esteems you, &c.
“J. A. Port.
“To J. Carlos Gardiner, Esq., Washington.
Although this is the anniversary of the most
memorable act of secession and disunion that
the word ever new, we expect to hear of more
declamation against the principle of *76
against the right of a people to alter or reform
their government at pleasure—than ever was
hoard of before. The folly and infatuation of
a Lord North caused that disunion. We have
a Lord North now.— Southern Press.
We insert, says the Washington Union, the
above, that our readers may see how far short
the editor of the Southern Press is of the Abo
litionists in the capacity to desecrate the feel
ings inspired by the presence of the anniversa
ry of our independence as a nation. Instead
of hav:ng a heart swelling with hope that tho
clouds which have lowered over our political
horizon may disappear, and that the sun may
shine out again as it did when the Father of our
Country blessed us with his par ing counsels,
this croaker utters only the hsrsh sounds of
secession and disunion, and compares our con
dition to that of the colonies when oppressed
by Great Britain.
We are confident that the gallant people of
the South—the descendants of the Sumters,
Rutledgesand Haynes—will not feel them
selves Hattered when they find that such sen
timents are selected as a fit offering for them on
the Fourth of J ily, and that the author of them
boasts that he is selected to circul te the prin
principles and views of the South.
J. W. Frost, who was killed in the late duel
in New Orleans, was, says the Savannah Re
publican, well known in this vicinity, having
resided for a year or more at Brunswick, and
edited the Brunswick Advocate During bis
residence in Georgia he married a daughter of
John Gignilliatt, Esq , of Glynn county, after
which he removed to Shreveport, Louisiana.
He leaves two children, who, we believe, are
now residing with their relatives in this State,
tneir mother having died some years since.—
From Shreveport he went to New O leans
about two years ago. He there entered into a
law copartnership with Judge Bullard, re
cently elected to Congress frem the second
district of Louisiana, but since deceased. At
the time of his death, Mr. Frost was one of
the Editors of the New Orleans Crescent.
Mr. F. was an affectionate husband, a warm
hearted and unwavering friend, and a brave
and chivalric gentleman. His place will not
be easily filled, even in New Orleans; and his
untimely and violent death will be lamented
by many friends throughout the whole country.
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The Crops —From every part of East
Tennessee wo hear a go«d report as to the
wheat crop. The yield will be large and the
grain fie. The oat crop is better than was
anticipated a few weeks ago. The corn crop
promises well. The people of East Tennes
see have not had a batter prospect before them
for Register,
That Challenge 1
Our neighbor ofthe Times is anxious to create the
impression that Mr. Cobb is afraid of being answered
by the diunlonists. Mr. Cobb intends that his oppo
nent shall answer him, or that some one shall do it
who is authorized to speak for Gov. McDonald. The
small fudge, that one of our townsmen proposed to
canvass this district with him, may all be true. And
what if it is? The calibre of both individuals is well
known, and no man can suppose that Cobb felt any
very serious apprehensions of being devoured in
■uch a fight as was proposed. Why did not Col
quitt, or Jones, or Benning, or Iverson, propose to
go with Cobb over the whole State, and speak in the
name of McDonald? Mr. Ccbb might, perhaps,
have considered the proposition as meant in earnest.
As it was he could have had no such ideal Co*
Iu mb us Enquirer,
The Disunionists and their organs are ex
ceedingly anxious to make the impress'on, that
Mr. Cobb feara and avoids discussion, because
he will not permit every man who chooses to
thrust himself forward to make a speech, to
discuss questions with him before the people.
This is a new charge against Mr. Cobb, one
which the history of his whole career puts a
quietus to—and no man familiar with his cha
racter, who values his own reputation for vera
city, would venture so reckless an assertion.
His readiness to go before the people, and his
boldness in discussing all questions with which
he is identified are proverbial.
If the Disunionists are anxious to have Mr.
Cobb met on the stump, why do they not send
out their own standard bearer —their Magnus
Apollo, Charles J. McDonald? Do they
fear that Mr. Cobb would drag up before the
eyes of the world and to his affrighted vision,
the ghosts of the Proclamation and Force Bill,
both of which McDonald vindicated and sup
ported—of the U S. Bank, which he approved,
or that of Gkobge Tussels, in whose case he
so entirely repudiated State Sovereignty—or
bis wild and visionary project to establish a
mammoth Bank with a capital of hundreds of
millions, to be owned by the Southern States?
Do they fear that Mr. Cobb would drag these
favorite measures of McDomald from their
long resting place, and contrast them with the
positions and opinions which he now pro
fesses ? Such an exposure to the astonished
gaze of the voters of Georgia, would be quite
too much for the disunion candidate for Gov
ernor, to sajr nothing of his Disunionism as
proclaimed at Macon in connection with his
friend Rhett, and subsequently at Nashville,
all of which Mr. Cobb would lay bare with
the hand of a master. But siy they, Gov. Mc-
Donald will not condescend to address the peo
ple! Think of that, people of Georgia Think of
a man who seeksyour suffrage, v'rtually declar
ing through his organs that he will not sloop to
come in contact with you by addressing you,
and rendering you familiar with his views on
tho c e questions which so vitally affect your in
terest! Have you fallen so low, voters of
Georgia that it is a condescension for such a man
as Charles J. McDonald, whose bungling
and ignorant management of the State's finan
ces while Governor, was a disgrace to the
Stile ! Have you fallen so low, we repeat,
that it is a “ condescension ” for such a man to
address you? If so, it is high time that you
should know it, that you may seek to so ele
vate yourselves, that Mr. McDonald may not
consider it “ beneath his dignity ” to speak to
you.
The idea that Mr. Cobb fears or avoids d is
cussion with any man, is among the most ab
surd and preposterous inventions of modern
disunionism. So far from it, nothing would
afford him a higher degree of satisfaction than
to canvass the entire State with tho disunion
candidate He is therefore, perfectly right in
not entering into a discussion with any but
his opponent, unless they are authorised to
proclaim McDonald’s views.
For with their present piebald profession of
principles, he would most probably be met
with a new version in every county —a plat
form constructed to suit that particular locality
—as changing and variable as has been the
vascillating course of Charles J. McDonald
—“all things by turns, and nothing long.”
Sentence of Gen. Talcott.
The Washington paper of Monday, contain
the following report of the finding and sen
tence of the late Court Martial in the case of
Gen. Talcott.
Findinoand Sbntbncb of ths Court. —After
mature deliberation on all the evidence adduced, the
Court finds the accused, Brevet Brigadier General
George Talcott, Colonel of the Ordnance Depart
ment, as follows:
Cbargb 1. —Specification, ‘'guilty,” an I ‘'guilty*
of the charge.
Charo>2. —Specification, "guilty,” and “guilty”
of the charge.
Cmarob 3.—First specification, "guilty,” except
the words therein, “and had previously reported to
the Secretary of War.”
2d specification, •* not guilty.’*
3J, 4'h, sth, 6th and seventh specifications, “ guil
ty,*' and “guilty” of the charge.
Sbntbncb. —And the Court does sentence him,
Brevet Brigadier General George Ta'cott, Coion el of
the Ordnance Department, “to be dismissed the
the service.”
2d. In conformity with the 65th of the rules and
articles of war, the (roccedings of the General
Court-Martial in the foregoing case have been trans
mitted to the President of the United States.
The following is the decision thereon :
Executive Mansion, July 8. 1851.
The foregoing proceedings of the Court-Martial for
the trial of Brevet Brigadier General George Talcott
having been l.tid before me, and having been by me
duly examined and considered, 1 herebv confirm the
same. Millard Fillmore.
111. Brevet Brigadier General George Talcott ac
cordingly ceases to be an officer of the army from
ibis date.
In reviewing these proceedings the President has
seen with regret, and feels cons'rained to notice, the
irregularity and negligence which, throughout the
transaction in which they originated, chara.teriaed
the conduct of Brevet Colonel Huger, commander of
the Fort Monroe ars*nal. The confidence naturally
reposed by him in the head of his corps furnishes un
doubtedly some apology for his course, but cannot
justify it.
The President deems it proper, particularly, to ex
press his disapprobation of ail private correspondence
on official b> siness. Such a practice not only pre
vents the preservation of a distinct and intelligible
record of any transaction, so indispensable in a Go
vernment where public agents are liable to be fre
quently changed, but is incompatible with the ad
mitted accountability of every officer employed in
the disbursement of pubfc moneys.
IV. The General Court Martial, of which Brevet
Mtjor General Twiggs is Pre id mt, is dissolved.
By command of the President:
R. J..NF.S, Adjutant General.
A Simovlah Cohreßpondknc6.—Our readers
will remember that, a few days ago, the Secretary
of the Interior, Mr. Stuart, in a speech delivered by
him at Richmond, asserted that among the eight hun
dred dependents attached to his department there
was not a single Abolitionist or disunionier, and that
he made no distinction between Whigs and Demo
erats. This declaration Las excited a good deal of
surprise and caused much discussion, which, in some
quarters, has degenerated into personal contests. It
appears that Mr. Philip Clayton, the Second Auditor,
in commenting on the t-peech of Mr. Stuart, spoke
of the kev. Mr.Collin-*, a clerk in the Indian Bureau,
as an Abolitionist, oral least it wra reported that be
hid so spoken. Upon this the reverend gentleman
addressed a note to Mr. Clayton, denying that he
(Mr. Collins) is an Abolitionist, or anything like one,
and complaining that he bad been misrepresented.
Mr. Clayton replied that he bad Dot called Mr.
Collins an abolitionist, but had only referred to the
course of the latter in the Methodist Episcopal Con
ference, a few years ago, when he had done all in
his power to cause the separation of Bishop Andrews
from his church, simply because the wife of the
Bishop was a slave owner. Mr. Clayton moreover
assures Mr. Collins that he has always believed
that the latter, by his coune in this affair, did more
iidury to the South and its institutions than was
effected by any Abolit onist at the North, and that if
he is not an Abolitionist he at least acts with and
aids the cause of that dangerous class of fanatics.
The correspondence here ended. We think that
the Auditor got a little the better of the clerk, and
that, if the Secretary of the Interior withes to extir
pate abolitionism from bis department, bs wi.l have
to offer up another sacrifice.— N. O. Picayune.
Nor should he stop at the sacrifice of the
Clerk; there is a prominent officer io his de
partmeat, Thomas Eubamk, the Commissioner
of Patents, whose abolition tendencies, as
evinced by his patronage of that infamone
abolition aheet, the New Yorz Tribune render
him a fit subject for the guillotine of Mr.
Stuart, and unless he applies the axe, the
conservative men of the South will conclude
that he desires to shun the responsibility.—
Ed Chrqm. & Sewt.
Ex-Govcraor McDonald
Considers it beneath the dignity of a candidate
for the Executive chair, to make public speech
es. How then, did he happen to be at a barbe
cue and meeting at Woodville, and how d'd he
happen to make a speech there ? According
to the reporter for the Republic—
“Ex Gov McDonald was present and enter
tained the audience for a short time with a very
few appropriate remarks. He concurred wjh
the gentleman who had preceded him, and de
clared that by reference to his published letter of
acceptance, his position might be fully known. 1
11 was not his design or intention to make pub
lic speeches during the canvass, for he consid- ,
ered it beneath the dignity of a candidate for the
Executive Chair, to resort to such means in or- :
der thus to obtain his election.” i
Verily the Ex-Governor descended from the
dignity of his position, while he proclaimedit.
He spoke for a short time, made appropriate re
marks—entertained hisaudience— concurrrd with
the gentleman who had preceded him, and re
ferred to his letter of acceptance, for a full
knowledge of his position. Are not here all the
elements of a speech, such as one might natu
rally have expected from him 7 The truth is,
no'.witnstanding all the entertainment furnished
to the audience by the ex-Governor, be made a
Dilute, he knew it, he did not expect to do bet
ter on any subsequent occasion ; and therefore,
dignity was the platform for him.
Philo-Towks.
Philastbropt—“How melancholy to
think,’ eaid a modern philanthropist of the senti
mental school, “that so many of our fellow
creatures should, under the arbitrary laws of
men, be immured in prisons !”
“Yes,’ replied a philanthrop e! of another
class, “yes, truly ; but not half so melancholy
as that ao many should be at large who de
serve to be there.”
Judging from the folio wing extract, ths ed
itor of the Alabama Argue must be somewhat
of a wag. He thus makes light cf his troubles:
‘We see tbe sheriff has advertised the Argus
office for sale, during-ur absence We hope
the bidders wui have a merry time of it. If the
sheriff can sell it, he will do more than we
ever could. Like a damp percussion cap we
th nkit wffi fail to go off.”
Correspondence of the Chronicle Sentinel.
Educational Convention—i The Canvass
in Cobb.
Marietta, July 11, 1851.
The Convention adjourned on yesterday. It re.
commended to the favorable consideration and adop
tion of tbe next Legislature a f lan for a system of
Common Schools for the State. The whole proceed
ings will be published in a few days, so that it is
not necessary for me to give you the details of the
plan recommended.
There was much diversity of sentiment and opin
ion a song the members of the Convention in relation
to tbe whole subject. Some were of opinion that it
was beat not to make any specific recommendation
to tbe Legislature, farther than the appointment of a
Lecturer to take ths field and address the people,
and thereby stir up an interest in the cause among
tbe popular masses, preparatory to taking more de
cisive steps. Others again, (and they numbered a
majority) were for rushing “in media res,’ 1 and
bringing to bear tbe influence of the Convention upon
the people and the Legislature, in favor of a definite
system, such as they have concocted and presented.
I sincerely hope the proceedings of the body will
result in much good, for it is high time that the pub
lie mind was awakoneJ and public energy directed
to the all-important matter of educating the children
of the State.
We had come able and interesting speeches, du
ing the sitting of the Convention. Among those who
addressed it were Dr. Pibrcb, of Emory College,
Dr. Hoyt, of / thens, Bishop Elliott, Dr. Chuboh,
of the State University, and the Hon. Robert
Toombs.
The political horoscope betokens a Waterloo defeat
to the “ aliss party” in Cherokee. Those who are
well acquainted with the tendency oi public senti
ment, say that the Fire Eaters will not get a majori
ty in a single county in the Fifth Congressional Dis
trict. In this (Cobb) county the Union party have got
their candidates in the field, and they are all good
men and trua; and although McDonald (the latter
day State Rights man) lives here, “tbe friends of
the country” say they will carry ths county. And
it WMiid seem that the Disunionists are somewhat of
the same opinion, for as yet they have been unable te
get a rider in the Senatorial race in this District, al
though they have had some two or three mounted.
After the adjournment of the Convention on yes
terday, the Hon. Robert Toombs, at the request of
“everybody,” addressed a large and enthusiastic
meeting in the Court House upon the issues involved
in the present canvass. I have ever been a warm
admirer of this gentleman. He is indeed my “beau
ideal” of a politician. Frank, honeut, bold and elo
quent, he never fails to make a deep and favorable
impression upon bis audience. Upon this occasion
'‘Robert was decidedly himself.” Many of tbe
Fire Eater? (for they will go to hear him) looked as
if they would gladly make their escape from bis
withering and scathing rebuke of their inconsisten
cies, had there been “no eye to see.”
When exposing, in his own peculiar manner, to
contempt and ridicule, their hypo:ritical conduct in
this, that “they declare the South has been robbed
of her rights by the General Government, and re
duced to a state of degradation and inequality in
the Union,” yet they process they are for “ preserv
ing that Union, and maintaining that Government, 33
the source of such intolerable evil.-—an old gentle
man in the crowd could <tand it no longer. He ask
ed to explain. He sai! such was not h’s position—
that when he said that “ the South hud been degra
ded and robbed by ihe General Government of her
rights, he believed what he said, and that ha was for
disunion—disunion.
Mr. Toombs complimented him for his honesty
and frankness, and regretted that he could not ex
tend the compliment to more of his party. I think
that there is hope that this gentleman, and others who
think with him, will yet (if they have not already)
discover that they are in a foul crowd, and will come
out from among them, and vote for honest men with
whom they may honestly differ, in preference to
those who blow “ hot and cold,” in the same breath,
and “are all things to all men”—“ every thing by
lurni end nothing long.”
Mr. Toombs spoke about an hour. When be
concluded, a man by the name of Cowart, who
hails from Cherokee, and who formerly wore the
prefix of “ Reverend” to his name (waeiher now or
not matters but little) took he stand, and pitched and
snorted for about two hours. He puffed and blowed,
and labored equal to a cri| pled engine ascending an
inclined plane. It was an up hili business with him
—and after he had spoken about an hour, he looked
and acted for all the world like one who had done
something mean, and he was conscious the world had
found it out. lie evidently felt very uneasy horn an
apprehension that he would be used with “gloveless
hands” when Toombs came to rej io. When in
formed. however, by that gentleman that be should
take no notice of his speech, Mr. Cowart breathed
freer, and felt more comfortable- He reminded me
very much of a character described in a piece of
poetry 1 once heard, and which run somewhat in
this wise—
•• A great big bull come down the meadow;
He raised his head and pave a bellow.
He pawed tbe dirt in the heifer's faces,
And linn ”
But enough ; this is a very simple and truthful de
scription of the Orator and his effort.
I see that Governor McDonald declined address
ing his fellow cit zens at the Woodville meetin/.
Prudence and discretion, Governor, are said to be
the better part of valor. You had best keep your
head in, 1 reckon, or ycu might have to answer some
very ugly questions from tbe stump in relation to
“State sovereignly” and “secession,” as you un
dorstood them in days of “ Old Lang Syne, 33 when
you end Dougherty didn’t look through the same
spectacles. And as questions are the order of (be
diy, Governor, be so kind as to inform a voter if in
your opinion a State can commit treason and reb el
ion against the government oi the United States?
If such is not now your opinion, did you not once
think so, and have you not thus, or in substance ex
pressed youiself in the Georgia Legislature ? If yea,
when did you change that opinion ? I apprehend
some of the “Old Stagers” who were present with
you, and spoke at the Woodville meeting can refresh
your memcry upon this point, provided you are not
clear.
In due time, Messrs. Editors, you shall hear from
me again. Chebokeb.
Union Meeting In Walton*
A portion of tbe great Constitutional Union party
having assembled in the Court House, on motion of
Major D. K. Walker, the Meeting was organized by
calling Col. Jackson and Maj Scott to the Chair
and T. A. Gikbs requested to act as Secretary.
Hon. Junius Hillyer then, in an able and ratriotic
address, entertained the meeting lor an hour and a
half.
On motion, appointed one from each district, to
select two delegates from each district, and four from
the county at large, to mee' with the Delegates of
Clarke, at Snow’s Mill, on the 25tb mat , io nomi
nate a su'tablc Candidate to represent this Senatori
al Dis'rict. The committee having been appointed,
retired, and after a short time reported the ioilowing
gentlemen as Delegates—
Mountain District: R. F. Breedlove, J. M. R.
Moore, J. P. Snow.
Richardson’s District: P. S. Colley, B. M, Harris.
Biassingaim’s District: B. Blassingaim, J. P. F.
Smith.
Social Circle District: B. Scott, G. Malcomb.
Allen’s District: W B. Brown, W. 8 Ivy.
Town District: J. T. Grant, P. G. Morrow, W.
J .Hill, D. H. Walker.
Brook’s Dietri3t: D. Reed, L. H. Cooper.
Brookin Arrow District: R. Bird, A. R. Cowin.
Buncoiub District: J. D. Baker, E. Hanis, W.
Fennedy.
Vinegar Hill District: S. C. Berson, C. Sewell, jr.
Brandy’s District: A. Tanner, jr.. R. Mvyfield.
Cut OH District: J. R. Thon pson, M. A. I> man.
On motion, the Report was adopted, and the De
legates empowered to fill vacancies; and should not
all the Delegates be present in the Convention, those
in attendance are required to cast the full vote of
all the Delegates.
On motion of Major D. H. Walker,
Resolved, That the Constitutional Union Par
ty of Wallen most heartily approve es tbe action
of tie Constitutional Union Convention, mre af
firming the action of the Convention, adopting
the Georgia platform and the nomination of the Hon.
Howell Cobs, a Candidate for Governor, and we
will use all honorable exertions to secure his election.
Resolved, That we most cordially approve of the
nomination of our fellow citizen, tbe Hon. Junius
Hillyer, as the Candidate for the6thCongressional
District, and that we will use all honorable means
in aiding bis election.
Oi motion cf J. W. Ber<?on,
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting
be signed by the Chairmen, and countersigned by
tbe Secretary, and forwarded to the Southern Ban
ner and Chronicle & Sentinel for publication.
On motion, adjourned to meet on the firs’ Tuesday
in August, at which time the Union party of Wal
ton arc requested to meet to nominate Candidates for
the Legislature. W. H. JACKSON, ) .
J. SCOTT. 5 Chairmen.
T. A. Gibbs, jr., Secretary.
Meeting of tile Constitutional Uniou
Party.
According to previous notice, a portion of
the Constitutional Union Paity of Richmond
County, met in the Court House at Augusta.
On motion, Col. Micheal F. Boise) tir was
called to the Chair, and L. L. Antony requested
to act as Secretary.
’1 he mee ing being organized, Col, Henry
11. Cumming offered tbe following resolution,
which was passed:
Resolved, That the members of the Constitution
al Union Party, in the different diatrictsof Richmond
County, be, and are hereby req jested to meet «t
their court grounds, or other convenient place, and
appoint four delegates from each district to meet in
Augusta on the first Tuesday in September next, to
nominate two candidates to represent tbe County of
Richmand io the House of Representatives of the
next General Assembly.
Col. Wilbam T Gould offered the following
resolution, which was passed :
Resolved That tbe name delegates be authorized
to take such steps in concert with t e Constitutional
Union Party cf Colombia County, as may be deem
ed advisable, to nominate a candidate tor Senator of
thia district.
On motion of Col. Milledge the proceedings
of the meeting were ordered to be published
in the Chronic e & Sentinel.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
M. F. Boixclair, Chairman.
L. L. Antowt, Secretary.
Meeting in Taliaferro*
At a meeting es a portion of the Coastitutionai
Union party of Taliaferro county, at the Court House
this day, after previous notice, on motion of J. J.
Moore, Esq., J bn Chapman, Eeq., was called to the
Chair, and Walter P. Grier was requested to act as
Secretary. The object of the meeting having been
stated to be the choosing of three delegates to repre
sent Taliaferro county in the Convention to be held at
Sparta, on tbe first Monday in August, for tbe pur
pose of nominating a candidate for tbe 7th Congrea
eional District, it was, on motion,
Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a commit
tee of seven to report the names of three suitable del
egates to the meeting.
The Chair appointed James Edge, Wm. N. Guan,
John J. Moore, Geo. L. Bird, Francis A. Billinga
lee. Gilbert Kent and Josiah Tilley, to constitute that
committee. The committee reported t> the meeting
as suitable delegates, John J. Moore, John Chapman
and John L. Bird, and the meeting unanimously
confirmed the repoit.
Upon motion of Gilbert Kent, Eaq., it was
Resolved, That die delegates appointed should
have tbe power of filling all vacancies in their num
ber.
Upon motion of John J. Moore, it was
Resolved, That the proceedings of tbe meeting be
signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and be cent
to the Chronicle & Sentinel, with a request for their
publication.
Tbe meeting then adjourned sine die.
Jon* Chafmax, Cbairmaa.
Waith P. Gaiaa, Sec’y,
A negro woman was relating her experi
ence to agapingcongrejation of color. Among
other thing, she .aid she bad been i n heaven
Ooe of the servants asked her: "'Sister, you
ace any black folks in heaven f
■On! get out—’spose I go in ds kitchen ,
when! was dar t”
To the People of filbert County.
Fellow-Citizens: lam called upon by a
large number of you, to give through the
Chronicle 8f Sentinel, “plain answers” to cer
tain questions, relative to the political iss•
the day. Believing that you ought to be n. <
informed of the views and opinions upon ad
important questions, of those who seek to re
present you in the legislature, let me siy that
I cordially approve of tha mode which hire been
adopted to reach that end, and do mo»t cheer
fully obey the call.
The first question seeksan opinion upon the
report and resolutions, adopted by the Georgia
Convention in December last I have no hesi
tation in saying that that report, and thoaa ree
oluliona meet my entire approbation; and it is
my firm bdief, that they constituted tha
proper action for Georgia to take in the premi.
ees.
In the second place, my belief is sought, as
to the truth of the following language, held by
the so called Southern Rights Convention
which met in Milledgeville, on tbe 28th of
May last.
“By the acts of the late Congress,
known as the Compromise measures, tbe
Southern States, being a minority in Federal
numbers, have been deprived, by high hand,
of all their interests io the Territories acquir
ed from Mexico, have been degraded from
their condition of equality in the Union, have
been forced to surrender Territory, unques
tionably and legitimately their own, to the use
and enjoyment of the hireling States.”
My answer is, that I do not believe thia lan
guage to be true.
Thirdly, It follows from my foregoing an
swers that I am in favor of peaceable acquies*
cencein the measures of settlement.
By the fourth question, the inquiry is made,
whether I approve, and would therefore advise
or sanction the course indicated in a resolution
passed by the Nashville Convention, over
which Charles J. McDonald presided, which
resolution is as follows:
“ Resolved, That io view of these aggressions,
(meaning the (Joinpromise measures of the last
Congress) and those threatened and impend ng,
we earnestly recommend to the sla,e-hoidingStates
to meet in a Congress or Convention, to be held at
such time and place os the States desiring to be re
presented may designate, to be composed of double
(he nutnoer of their Senators and Representatives
in the Congress of the United States, entrusted with
full power to deliberate and act, with the view and
intention of arresting farther aggression, and if
possible, of restoring the Constitutional i ghts of the
South, and if not, provide for their future safety and
independence.”
I do not approve this resolution, and con
sequently, would neither advise nor sanction
the course recommended by it, to (he slave,
holding States. Indeed, it is my opinion, that
the legitimate consequence of its adoption*
would be a dissolution of the Union. Both
reason and experience will bear me out in the
tbpse-tinn, that organized bodies, such as the
resola’inncontemplates, in times of high poli
tical excitement, are the very worst enemies of
government.
To the fi■ th question my reply is, that I con
sider myself connected with the Constitutional
Union Party; and with that Party, 1 am now
acting, by endeavoring to promote the election
of Mr. Cobb and Mr. Toombs. It is* more
over, my settled purpose, whether elected or
not, to atand by it, at all times, in support of
(he Georgia Platform, which, in my judgment,
is the best plan, that we can adopt to pre
serve the Union of the Slates and the liberty of
the citizens
Fifthly: It is manifest, from what I have al
ready eaid, that I am opposed to all further
agitation of the slavery question, provided the
compromise measures of the last Congress are
fairly carried out and enforced.
Lastly, 1 am satisfied with, and willing to
abide by the Union as it is.
In tha remarks prefacing the questions, pro
pounded to the candidates, I find the belief ex
pressed “thxt the safety and peace of the Union
are threatened and endangered by the efforts
of ultra men at’he North and South.” Such
is my own opinion, and lei. me add, that I be
lieve our security depends upon the triumph
of the Union Party.
It has heretofore been the custom of parties,
to define their line of policy. Under tbe
present state of affairs, it was the solemn duty
of both parties to reveal to the people their
intentions, both in reference to the past and
the future. This, the Constitutional Union
Pa: ty have done In the face of day, they have
told the country that they are wining to ac
quiesce in the measures of settlement. They
have likewise cast their eyes to the fu
ture ; and bearing in mind the North has made
hostile demonstrations against our rights, they
have boldly and fearlessly met her on every
one of her grounds of attack, and openly de
clared their opinions, as to the proper ac
tion of Georgia, upon the consummation of
any one of her threatened aggressions. Thei®
is no room for cavil or doubt.
The Southern Rights party have* on tbceih
er hand, paraded before the country a series of
wrongs too grievous to be borne by freemen,
and yet have not recommended a single reme
dy. They are as s lent as the grave, as to
whether they will acquiesce in the late cattle*
ment or not. They have declared the doctrine
of Secession, but have failed to designate a
single instance wherein it would be right and
proper for the people to exercise it. And yet,
after this unsatisfactory exposition of their
principle, they come before the country, and
with unblushing effrontery, ask a people, zeal
ous of their rights, to put them in power.
“ , ■■ .... c an things be,
And overcome us like a Summer’s cloud,
Without our special wonder?”
Is a party, that will not trust the people, wor
thy to be trusted by them ? Aie we not au
thorized to ccuo'ude that they meditate ms
chief? Concealment is strong evidence of a
guilty purpose. Their real designs, depend
upon it, are masked under false professions.
To lull suspicion, they express unbounded
love for the Union. But, 1 ask you, is it not
taxing our credulity too much, to require us
to believe that they are sir.cere, waen the de
claration had scarcely died upon their lips,
(bat they had been robbed and degraded by
the Government of the Union? Njdo but
the servile and craven hearted will ’‘kiss the?
rod that smites them” or “hug the chains that;
bind them ” It is, therefore, charity to them/,
to suppose, that, if they should get the power,
their firs', act would be to strike fo/r v hat they
conceived to be equality in the Union, if
possible, otherwise, independence out of it.
Their silence upon this subject may be just
ly regarded as the result of policy. It remains
to be seen whe herihe people of Georgia will
put power m the hands of a party whose chief
merit consists in their ingenuity to deceive the
country. Very respectfully, your obedient
servant. B C. Houston.
f To the Legal Voters of Elbert County-.
Fzixow citizkss: I have been requested by.
a number of the people of Elbert county, to*
a give my opiuions to the public, through the
- columns of the Chronicle 8f Sentinel, on the)
& political questions now dividing the people of
e Georgia. Recognizing, as I do, your right to
'• obtain full and certain knowledge concerning
a the opinions entertained upon all subjects of
il public interest, by those who ask, at ye ur hands,
8 a ieat in the Legislature, I cheerfully respond
to the call.
- Io the first place, lam desired to say whether
I approve the Report and Resolutions adopted
by tbe Georgia Convontion in December laat
' Let me, in reply, assure you that I have, on
r all fitting occasions heretofore, expressed tny
. approval of, and acquiescence in, the action of
that Convention ; and it is my opinion that tho
( course pursued by that body, was the proper
action for Georgia to take in the premises. It
shall have my cordial support; an dI do hope
for the sake of the Union and the peace and '■
quiet of the country, that the verdict of the*
people—expressed through their delegates on*
that occasion—mar never be disturbed or va*-
tied, either by aggressions from the North or
ultraism at the South.
Secondly: lam questioned as to my opinion
of the troth of the following language, held by
the late Southern Rights Convention, to wit z
11 Bv tbe acts of tbe Isle Congress, know, es tbe
Compromise Measures —the Southern Steles being fa
a minority in federal numbers—have been deprived,,
by high band, of all tne'r interests in the territories,
acquired from Mexico; bare been degraded freatu
their condition of equality in the Vnion ; bare beam
forced to surrender territory, unquestionably aadlfe
gitimately their own, to the use and enjoymeoLof tho
hireling Sta es.”
I do not believe that thi’ language properly
characterizes the Compromise Measures. My
opioion respecting them, ia properly set forth
io the Report cfthe Georgia Convention, when
that body declared that *■ Georgia at least finds
in it (the Compromise) matter for objection
and matter for approval.” But I believe fur
ther, (to continue the language of the Report)
that “ it is not on this more than on any other
occasion, the part of wisdom or of pa'riotismr
to subject legislative acta under review, to the
rigid test cf yielding either the full measure of
right, or the fall fruition of anticipated bene
fit.” And I also believe that Georgia may
consistently with her honor, abide by tbe gen
eral scheme of pacification contained in the
measures of the late set'lement.
Thirdly: From what I have already said, I am of
coune opposed to any measure of resistance and re
dress for the past.
The fourth question seeks to know whether 1 ap
prove, and would advise or sanction the course re
ccmmeaded by the following resolution, passed by
the Nashville Convention:
II Retailed, That in view ol these aggressions
(meaning the Compromise Measures of the last Con
gress,) and those threatened and impending, we ear
nestly recommend to the slaveholding States to meet
in a Congress or Convention, to be held at such time
and place as the States desiring to be represented
may designate, to be composed cf double the number
of their Senator, and Represen tad rev in tbe Congreaa
of tbe United States, entrusted with fall power to de
liberate and act, with the view and i otention of ar
resting further ajrgreaaion, and, if possible, of re
storing the constitutional rights of the South, and if
not, provide for their future safety and independ
ence.”
Inasmuch as I do not approve of this resolution, I
would neither advise nor sanction the coune recom
mended by it. It is my belief that the time haa not
yet arrived, and 1 Hunt it never may, when the South
will be justified in resorting to this extraordinary
means in defence of their rights.
The fifth question requires me to designate with
which of the two partiea, now organized in Georgia.
lam connected. To thia my reply ia, that, bav.ng
every confidence in the principles which I have al
ready avowed in my foregoing answers, and believ
ing that the Constitutional Union Party is based upon
those principles, and designed to carry them effectu
ally into practical operation, I consider myself con-
D«cted with it. lam acting with that party now ; I
expect to aid in euauiniag its principles by my vote
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