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/or Sale.
Il—— " ...‘aJSS'-
FOR BALE.
TWO LOTS OF LAND, one in
Pulaski oousty, containing Two Hun
drsd two and a half (202|) Acres, known •
as kA No. 148, in the Bth distriot of formerly Dooly
county. Also. one in Deeater county, known as
lot No. 363, in the 19th district, containing Two Hun
dred and Fifty (250) Acres. Persons wishing to
purchase the above Lota, will address the undersign
ed at Augusta. The terms will be liberal.
bl3-w8 A. W. RHODES.
The Albany Patriot will please copy 8 times,
weekly, and send account to this office.
Savannah River Lands for Sale.
MTII £ PLANTATIONS lying
four miles below Augusta, on the
Savannah River, known as
LNOE CREEK TRACT, attaining about
500 acres, 150 of which are well timbered, with Oak,
Beseb, Poplar and Hickory, Gin House, Screw,
Negro Houses, Stables, Ac., are on the place.
Aad the TURK NETT TRACT, containing 550
acres, 175 to 220 of whieh are well wooded, with
Hiehory, Oak *nd Beech. Adjoining these tracts is
a body of uncleared land, of about 100 acres, on
whieh is a very seperi >r fishery, and which may bo
iueluded in either tract. The cleared land is in a
high state of cultivation, and is as well adapted to
the suitors of corn and cotton as any lands on the
river. They are protected from freshets by high and
strong embankments thrown up with great labor and
expense, and are drained by a large agueduct.
It is deemed useless to particulariso farther, as
persons desirous of purchasing can always examine
for themselves, by calling on the subscriber on the
premises. WM. J. EVE.
Evelyns, Sept 9, 1851.
Terms—Ono- third Cash; the balance one and
two years, with interest. slfl-w3m
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LAND FOR SALE.
I OFFER, a Tract of LAND for sale in
Warren county, about a mile and a half from
-X. Wrightsboro, and five miles from Thompson’s
Depot, Georgia Railroad, commonly known as Wil- ,
liame's place, containing 977 acres, with a good por
tion of good woodland. This may be purchased in
two parcels, as it can bo divided into twe farms.
This place is in good repair. Terms easy.
s4-w4 JURIAH HARRISS. “
LAND FOR SALE.
I OFFER a Tract of LAND for tale in
Colombia county, lying on both ride® of the
-A- road loading from Augnvta to Washington,
which croeeoa Little River at Paecall’a Lower Bridge,
containing a v >ont 1,200 Aereo, fully 300 acres of
good wood land, and a sufficiency of young pine to
furnish rails to keep op the fencing and supply the
farm with coal wood. The place ia in good repair.
Terms easy. *4-w4w JURIAH HARRISS.
Columbia County Land.
■g-TMvft THE subscriber offers for sale
fWs||| his PA KM in Columbia county, 27 W®
HfMB- mile*above Augusta, on the Augusta -A.
aad Washington read, containing Five Hundred und
Twenty-one (621) Acres, nearly one-fourth wood
land. Persons wishing to purchase, will please call
an the premises, ,or address the subscriber at Win
field, Ga. Eight Hundred Acres adjoining this land
nan be bought an good terms.
aulQ-wtf V. M. BARNES.
EXECUTORS’ SALE.
WE OFFER, at private sale, jr .
■nyrit that valuable PLANTATION of <
the late Charles Cunningham, de
©eased, lying oa Kcckv Comfort Creek, in Jeffer
son county, five miles from Louisville, containing
if,697 acres, wbieh we will sell altogether, or divide
into throe tracts.
Tho Solitude tract contains* • • • 1,307 acres.
ThsGranson do. ••<•1,120 do.
TbeWoo’stock do. ...*1,270 do.
All three es these tracts have good Dwellings on
them, and a valuable Mill on one of the tracts, with
Gin, running by water.
We also offer 160 NEGROES, with MULES.
STOCK, PROVISIONS, Ac., Ac. If not disposed
of at private sale, we will positively sell tae Lands
at public outcry, in Louisville, Jefferson county, on
the first Teesday in December nail, and the Nemes,
Stock, Prov Mons, Ac.. Ac., on the first Tueamy in
January. Terms liberal.
JOHN BONES, )
WM. J. EVE, Jftt’ts.
OWEN P. FITZSIMONS J
' Auyue%M t Gmw., AOg. 2G. -
FOR SALE.
MTHE subscriber offers for sale
his valuable PLANTATION con- W
taining 839| acres, fti OMumbia eoun
as from Auguste, lying immediately on the
mad leading from Jas Luke’s, Seq., to Harden’s j
Ferrv. Oa the premises is a good DWELLING (
HOUSE and all necessary out-buildings, with the
beet kind of well arranged Negro Houses. There is |
also an excellent Gin House and Packing Screw |
There is also on the premises a good spring and well
of water. The l*ands are fine productive eotton and j
corn land, as good as in the county, and well situs- j
tod. Terms made easy. J
Any one wishing to purchase can get any <nforma- <
♦ ->n wished by addressing me at Eubank's P. O. j
Cilumbia county, Ga. Any fsrsoo visiting the
place, 1 will take groat pleasure in showing them
the plaatatioa. aoB-tf A. C* JONES.
Plantation for Sala. '
JU.-A THE subscriber offers for sale,
P*eTß his PLANTATION, four miles eavt
of Appling, Columbia county, and
20 miles from Augusta, containing about 97s acres,
eno half of which is undented. On the place is a
good comfortable DWELLING, with all the necee- i
eery out buildings, including Negro Houses, Cribs,
Barn, Gin House, Packing Screw, Ac., all in good <
repair, and a mast excellent spring; and the wbsle
tract is very well watered.
Terms liberal, and pewswsion given by or befor
the first of January, 1852. He can also supply th
purchaser with 12 to 1600 bushels corn.
Persons who dssire to purchase will please call and
examine the premises.
Jy26*wtf M. E. HEGG IE,
FOR SALE.
MTHK SUBSCRIBER offers for
sale hie FAMILY RESIDENCE ia the
Town of Marietta. It is looked in a de
sirable part of town, ia well improved, contains
abont two acres. Tho dwelling has nine ro» ma and
one basement, all well finished. Possessiou oa ibe
bad the first of July.
Per terms, apply to Col. David Dobbs, Wm. P.
Young, er John P. in the absence of
Aul ap3o-w NELSON Bfo BENTON.
PLANTATION FOR BALB
THR UNDERSIGNED offers -mm
SB bis PLANTATION for sale, containing Bp
A- the rise of 3,700 Acres, 1,200 acres in
the woods, the most of which is well timbered. Lit
tle River runs through said land, equally dividing it.
into Wilkes county, 9| mites from Washington, and
Columbia county, 13 miles from Thomson Depot, i
Georgia Rail Road; good improvements of every i
kind, including Grist and Raw Mills. Price, 66 per
acre, one-half to be paid on giving possession the .
2fith Dec. next, the balance free es interest twelve
months following June 12, 1851.
je!B»wtfJOHN Q. WEST.
Valuable Land for Salo.
q_ 4 I MOW OI’KER for SAk,E
no. nf th. most de»rirabl. PAR M.S ia fl®
Will Middle Georgia, and one of th * note
baa al .ml delightful aitualione in all. the eonntry,
aad *x .quelled by any place in lbs. Country for its
eoavaateal amngamenU and fix' arw of nil kinds
naeasaary for sots fort end oonvon' one., good water,
and aa healthy ae aay place in Craorgia, It being and
lying ia Dpenn county, on Tobi er*a Creek, eoartai n
ing near eleven hundred aeree, wail watered, bbout
half of th. lead open, aad a targe port mo of it fresh;
liea well for oar country. That la the wood, well
timbered ; has a good Mill Seal oa it, s large Gm
House and Granary together, being M feet long and
82 foot wide. The lead has aotas axeelleM meadow,
far graxieg. If desired, I will coll my crop of era,
fodder, cats, Ac , which, notwithstanding the drought,
will ha a plentiful supply mad., and ay stock of all
kinds. T.rroe tear, aad to soil purchasers.
JyM-wtf J. C. W, LINDSAY.
CJ?^ l?raS » WOOL ' aad H«*
'-’ .KDS of the above ealcbrotsd atempe, are
<” “•'.quailed enslhy, sad wherere.iaMßda»<l. take
«■'. place e# all othars. They are maaafeMuredaa
Mir aew laqmred machinery. and each paw is war
mated ia every roapeet. Our iafariar Cante—the
oroamoa "Wbitiamore" stamp—an, at the usual
well kaown quality.
Sold by the Hardware bousM ia all the silica, and
Coaalry Marchants, and to the trade, by the Manu
faatorars. JOS. B. SARGENT,
myio-wly* 24 <Yi/.street, York.
asrannih Iron and Brass Foun
DRY.
IM COMSKMVEMCK of ioaroaaad f.cthde.
together with the lane addniooe to thia Eetab-
UshmaM. the eubeenbar » eaahled to furaiah, at the
dbtetoM aouea possible, STEAM ENGINES of any
woe aod power i HOI LEKS, of low sad high Pne
sura; CASTINGS, erery deronpeioa, sad
SHAFTINGS and MACHINERY io general, at
iwteao slightly is adeaase of Non hem price*.
Htoasa GV AGE COCKS, Steam aad VaetMua
GDAGCB, GONGS and Swam WHISTLES, oa
bawd at ©H iMMt.
No. 1, SMtnh HG IRON, sad ateo Smith’s
OOAU oa tend, aad for cate at th. towam mark*
■etea. A M. MILLER,
It Eaaun wharf Saraaaab.
ssobs, sbobs.
THM eabeeritwrs tarito plaatore to call aad ax
amiae thotr meek es beery HKOGANS. beaghc
aapramiy far g* later's trad*
E -*.r’ -a. FLEMING.
*n— -
hotels.
FLOYD HOUSE,
MACON GEORGIA.
J Ar-.-.-A THIS W ELL known and popular Ho
tel, having beeu recently repaired and pat
.* 1 p'• U in complete order, is now open for the re-
I cepnou of Boarders and Transient persons. The
prof-rietcr pledges himself that nothing shall be want*
ing on bis part, to make and continue it one of the
i most popular Hotels iu ths South.
8 The Ladies’ Department is under the special
care of Mrs. JAMES, formerly of Columbus, aud
favorably ki»wn to the travelling community, who
will see that nothing is wanting to make visiting La
dies and Families entirely at home, their apartment
having been newly and beatifully furnished.
TH OS. WILLIAMS, Proprietor.
, A. B. Hartwell, Superintendent.
N. B.—An Omnibus will always be in readiness
to convey Passengers to and from the Railroad De
' pots.
rV The Alligator Line of Stages has its office per
manently located at the Floyd House.
jy3-w6m F. K. WRIGHT, Owner.
MERIWETHER WARM SPRINGS.
MTHIS establishment will be open for
the reception of visitors, on and after the
first day of June. Visitors will at all
1 a ready conveyance from Greenville, or
Pleasant Hill, and a four horse Post Coach, three
times a week from Columbus to the Spring. Th
Proprietor will also keep Hacks and other convef
antes at the String fre the conveyance of bis guests.
myl3.wtOl J. U MUSTIAN, Prolifer.
BRADFIELD S HOTEL
SOUTH-EAST CORNER
gijjl OF THB aHii
PUB LIC SQUARE,
LaGrange, Georgia*
my24-w6m*
FRANKLIN HOTEL,
M BROAD STREET, Augusta, Ga.,
one square above the Globe Hotel, un the
south side of Broad street,
wIX D. B. RAMSEY, Proprietor.
ALEXANDER FEMALE SEMIN ARY
IN Alexander, Burke County, wilt be opened in
October, under the charge of a competent male
teacher, a Seminary for young ladies, iu which the
course of instruction will bo divested to the arqui
sitioa of a practical, polite end finished educatiou.
With the branches usually taught in institutions of r
similar character, will ba connected, a complete sys
tem of oral iaatrnotions upop the Pestaioszian
method.
A circular will be issued hereafter, announcing
the terms and course of instruction. Applications
should be made to
s 14 wlm JOS. A.SHKWMAKE. Sec»y.
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
rpuE TWKNTIETII COURSE OF
JL LECTURES in ibis Institution will commence
on the firm Monday in NOVEMBER next.
G. M. NEWTON, M. D.—Anatomy.
L. A. DUGAS. M D.—Surgery.
L. D. FORD, M. D— Institutes and Practice of
Medic -o.
H. V. < MILLER, M. D.—Physiology and Pa
thological Am ’omy.
1. P. GAR Vl.\ M.D. —Materia Medica aud The
rapeutics.
J. A. EVE, M.D.—- Iwtetries and Diseases of
Women and Infants.
ALEXANDER MEANS. M. D.—Chemistry and
Pharmacy.
H.F. CAMPBELL, M. D—Demoeatr i tor of Anat
omy.
ROBERT CAMPBELL, M. D.—Assi*Uut De- 1
monstrator. 1
A Coarse of Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence
will be delivered by the Professor of Materia Modi- (
ca, and Clinical Lectures will bo given regularly at <
the City Hospital. Ample arrangements have been |
made for the study of Practical Anatomy.
Professes Dd«AB and Mians are now in Europe,
and will return before the beginning of tbo Course |
with many valuable additions to the present means
for demonatration in the various branches.
Per any further information, application may be
made to auy member of the faculty, or to
G. M. NEWTON, Dean. 1
Augusta, July, 1851. jy3lw3m i
Five Hundred Dollars Reward. 1
HAND’S Patent Upright ENGINE, and Porta- 1
ble SAW MILL, with Hoxie’s Continuous ‘
Peed. i
These Mills are warranted superior to all others
ia use, combining cheapness, simplicity and dura
bility, white much groater speed is attainable, with
little or no tendency to wear, there being no weight
of (he follower or piston bond ou the cylinder, and
no weight of cross head or connection rod on the
elides, as with the horizontal Engine.
The subscribers offer Five Hundred Dollars re
ward to any one who will produce a superior Mill,
or one of any other patent, that will perform equal
to lhefe. Full drawings and specifications furnished
applicants, with particulars as to terms, dtc. AH
other descriptions of Mills are also manufactured at
short notice, und upon reasonable terms, and war
ranted. Superior Upright and Horizontal Fngines
of from 10 to 50 horse power, constantly on band.
Address, GINDKAT A CO.,
Agents Montgomery Manufacturing Com|«ny
Montgomery, Alabama. s!4*3m
~cTeTgKENVI LLfT 6t CO.
GENERAL COMMISSION MER
CHANTS,
OhiaAtmnwoga. T.uu.
Vr~~"V WILL pay Uriel attention to the pur
chase of Grain, Bacon, Flour, or Uhor
articles of Tennessee produce.
TboM articles being sold only for eash, Moicbsnte
or Plsntem will remit the same in their orders, or
jiro aqiliorit^to draw upon their lectors at Augnsta,
Any information in regard to prices win nw gtmJ
•I any tim.. aii24-lawd£wlow
NEW STRAW COTTER.
THM VMDERSIGNKD, Patentee for LEW
IS’ STRAW and SHUCK CUTTER, bags
leave to inform Planters, and the publie generally,
tint he ia new manufacturing hie celebrated Patent
Straw aad Shuck Cutter, at bis shop in Hamburg,
and ia prepared to supply single Machins., or dis
pose of County or State Rights, for making and
vending the same. Thia Machine has been exam
ined by many experienced gentleman who prononnee
it superior to any Straw Cutlur hitherto introduced.
It is well adapted to cut any kind cf food far proven
der, and nuts any desired length with the greatest
foallily. Ila slmpHsity of eonstrnotion, and the ra*
udity with which it does its w.rk, commend it to
*lanters as a most valuable invention.
Perseus wishing single Machines may obtain them
nt the Store of Benj. Piequet, Augusta, Gao., or al
my Shop in Hamburg, S. C.
je27-C*w3tn WILLIAM tte'.WlS.
SURGICAL INSTITUTE.
DKS. H. F. a R. CAMPBELL have estab
lished an INFIRMARY in Augusta, for the
<re h tin ent of b'Wrgtca/and Chronic Diseases. Here
res fretfully call the attention of the Profeasion and
the public to their Institution. Necessary Surgical
operations will bo performed by Dr. Henry Camp -
■bll; all other treatment will be rendered by them
jointly.
Patients sent from the country will receive every
necessary attention during their sojourn in our city
REV J. W RETD'S SCHOOL IN
WOODSTOCK,
WILL be opened on the Bth inst. Those wish
ing to become members of his school will do
well to oome immediately.
September 2st, 1851. w 3 TRUSTEES.
DISSOLUTION.
/pH IS is to certify that tho Copartnership here-
JL tofore existing between lhe subscribers, has
been this day dissolved by mutual coneent.
WILLIAM CULBREATH.
JONATHAN CAMP.
Munroe, Walton county, Geo., August 30, 1851-
4-3 __
COPARTNERSHIP.
'piHK undersigned hating this day purchased of
I John Clarke his interest in lb« late firm of
Glarke A Ramey, will continue the GROCERY
BUSINESS, under lhe firm of Ramey A Story,
and ha ve now on hand a large and geieral nseort-
Dienl of goods, which will be disposed of on the
t'Soet acoummciating terms.
JOHN D. RAMEY
jy24-w3m SAM L. G. STORY.
Augusta Canal.
AT A MRKTISU ot lhe HoaiJ of Maoxger.
of the A'lguxia Canal, held at ih.ir ofte., on
th. 26th of Auguet, in*., lhe folinning R.rotmn n
waapaeeed, and oriteret! lo be published :
Kcsolvedj Thai from and after the first day ot Oc
tober next, a 101 lof Four Dollars Im paid on each
boat entering the Canal, to be collected by the Lock
Keener al the tint, of entering.
WiI.LIAM PHILLIPS, Seo. B. M. A. C.
a«3l-w8
PLANTERS TAKE NOTICE.
HAIIRY CAMP’S COMBINED CORN
SHELLER, STRAW CUTTER and GRAIN
THRASHER, ia now in eueceeebil operation at the
Gin Hom e of Charlee DeLaigle, Eaq., near the Au
gusta Machine Works. AU persons who feel inter
steed in the those Machines are incited to call and
see for lhomsel.ee, esory day. trom J to 4 o’clock,
p. M. ad-wltn H. CAMP.
JUST HKCKIVKD al the
AGRICULTURAL WARE
HOUSE, Augusta, alotofCltoice
PLOUGHS, consisting of Double Mould Board, Hit
Side Subsoil, Ka-jleSelfoeharpeeing ,andone and two
Horn Ploughs, olall doscriplione. Also,Cylindrical
Ghurns, Corn Shetlers, Corn Planters,ScrawCutiere
Crain Cradlen, Road Scrapers, Manure Porkel
Truck®, Ac., Ac.
mhl9-w GARMIUHALL A BEAN.
COTTAGE CHAIRS.
1 COINAGE CHAIRS— For safe
I WLF at our manufactory al Cedar Shoete
Factory, three mi’ea from Coviagteu Depot. We
are prepared to fornivh every variety of finish of the
above Chair, in any quantity, aa cheap ae any estab
lishment in Georgia; feeling confident that we
fiwiiities superior to any Chair Manufacturer® in thv
South, we pledge ourealvee not to vex our patron*
with unneceaeary Delay, aa i® too often the case ; o
gentlemen send in your order® to Covington, New
ton county, Ga , and let us furnish you inMantex
with a cheap, neat and durable chair.
aul2-wtit WM W. WOLCOTT A QO.
TO PLANTERS’
TH K uiKteragned would reapeotfully inform the
Pianiera that he » propaied u? furnish
SMALL GRIST MILLS.
W suitable tojbe at
tached to Gin
Gears, of differ
ent sjxec, and es
different patterns
at the fewest pri
ces. These Miffs
t “* B «”•• ih *
higbrat sadstac-
TW~m—-• W tfo®, ssd exo be
tL~i 4;-■ eempsrad with
... from the
rtscss
Piros, gise a
n —■' Call before boy
a« stoewte-re. Order* by mad promptly attested
ta. WM. R. SCHIRMER,
Baur Mitt Sows Mawafoesurar, Ataguata, Ga.
falS-wJXCu fo.*
WISKKLI
I CHBONWLE ANI) SENTINEL
TO MAJOR JOHN 11. HOWARD.
No. 4.
You wrote a latter not long ago, directed to
Judge Nicoll, dated 20th July, 1851, whieh
you no doubt intended, and expected to pro
duce a sensation. With the exception of a
few lines of adulation, penned by the editor es
the Southern Sentinel, in which your article
appeared, and dictated, I hare no question, by
a spirit of kindness to the expectant author,
I have neither seen it written about, commeut
ed upon, or oven copied. How cruel—or
rather ungrateful—must be the disunion press
which fails to o unmend your piece, desigeed,
I have no doubt, to do their cause much good,
but destined to accomplish for it, as much
harm as a tl ing eo harmless in its nature can
do. How far wrung was Judge Nicoll not to
reply to you through some public print? And
how blind, (as you think,) to the interest of its
cause, is the Union press not to devote the
whole of its time and energies to attempting
to refute the positions which you have so
bodly laid down, and so clearly established.
I am a man of tender heart; and ra'lier than
you should bo disappointed in seeing your
letter fall still-born from the womb of the
press. I will galvanise into it a temporary lite
by bestowing upon it a passing notice.
I have no douht you consider itef much
moment, that public opinion should be mould
ed by a loiter from your pen, and therefore
you wrote one, and put “John H. Howard’’
at the botton of it.
“ ' ” nt anie, to see cue’s name in print.’*
The editor of the Sentinel—with a due de
ference to your own opinion, I suppose—calls
on his subscribers to read “that letter”—not
Wr. Cobb’s, but yours, (lor anxioas as the
Disunion press was to have ‘-that letter” of
Mr. Cobb, they now display some backward
ness in publishing it)— saying of State aove
reignty, that “Major Howard has studied thia
question long and thoroughly, and is as well
acquaiueld with it in all its bearings as any man
in the State.” He who will impose upon
himself the task of reading your milk-aad
eiderieh affair, will— provided he is not far gone
with the rabiee earoliiuneui, (the Carolina 1
maduoas, in plain English,) come Io the con- 1
elusion that you are ns little acquainted with J
'he subject of which you affect to treat, as any
other man in the State.
But i will proceed Io examine very briefly,
some of your dicta. You say “we must have
ndoiunity for the past and security for the fu
ture." You mean by this, I suppose, that lhe
federal Government must dismember Califor
nia, a sovereign State. This was your policy
in tho McDonald Convention. The resolu
tion which you favored was very happily voted
down. Why, my dear sir, don’t you know
that Congress has as much right to dismember
Georgia as tn partition California? What a
Leailtl'ul pink of couaistency on the subject of
Slate sovereignty are you!
"We must unite in defence ol sound prin
ciples.” J have Tory little hope that you will
ever perceive, much lees advocate “seuud
principles.”
“It is unnecessary to talk of rights, unless
wo have the power to defend and protect
>honi. A tight is a blank without a renmly.
If tve have no power, we have no right that
we can enjoy or defend.” It ia very true, that
“it it unnecessary to talk of tights unless we
have the power to defend and prolwt them.”
And I may hero speak a word in season, in
reference to the right of Secession, over
which you and your parly make so much
noise. What is the use of “talking’’ of this
“right” unless we have tho “power to protect
and defend”it? And if we have lhe power
to protect and defend it, when we have cause
to exercise it, what matters it with us whether
i boa peaceable right or not ? If it is not re
cognised as a peaceable right, I suppose we
must go to war ami force its recognition as
such, and thus guarrel and fight for Secession
in order to show that it is peaceable I
“A tight is a bknk without a remedy ”
This is lhe first lime I ever knew that a right
required a remedy. I thought that wrongs re
quired remedieo.
Speaking of Ute Faderal Government, yon
say "it has neither body nor soul.” Did you,
or did you not gel ihis seuience from Gov.
Troup? If yea, state why you did not stick
on your quotation marks. Also state whether
or not, you have plagiarized from divers and
sundry other powers.
"Much thou hast said which 1 know when
And where thou stol’ut from other men,
Whereby ’lie plain thy light and gifts
Are all but plagiary shifts."
You devote a good deal of labor to proving
that there could be uo United States Govern
ment without tho Constitution. You wou’d
have been more profitably employed in prov
ing that two and two make four.
You must go on and favor us with extracts
your letter, can now glory that wo have seen
apart, if not the whole of the Constitution.
After enumerating several clauaM of that
inatrument, you favor ns with the knowledge
that “there are other clamed of lhe Couiiitu
tiou, equally obligatory as the foregoing.”
In your next, plcaze give us the clauses
which are not “equally obligatory as tho fore
goiag.”
You consider the Federal Government lhe
creature of one iState. and not of all the States
jointly. The man who thinks ao, must be so
deeply in the fogs as to be pa«t the hope of ro
demption. Why the very term “Secession,”
which you are so fond of oeing, implies that
lhe Federal Government ia the creature of all
tho Slates acting jointly. Admitting your
vagary to be true, what would a State Secede
from —herselff Admitting it to be true, "So
oession” is uot the term for you to employ.
You should use the word “aunihiiation.*’ And
when a State determined no longer to be un
der the control of the General Government,
you should say she that Government,
and not that she Socothd from it.
“The power of a slate, in its relation with
the other states, has been compared to the
feeb'e and humble relation which a county
bears to a State.” Only those on one side,
of the same mental calibre as some whem I
might mention—caa you guess who T—on
lhe other, assert any such doctrine.
“The S'ate makes compac‘B with other States,
and has the political power to enforce them.”
Tho Union, you have stated, in a former part
of your article, is a compact between the States
If one state should disregard this compact by
secession, have the balance the “political pow
er to enforce” it! Ami if they have, may they
do it through their common agent, the Federal
Government—or how wonld you have it done !
Or do you mean that compacts aro to be ew
foroofi between states only when the violating
party ia willing to be fur cod t Or du you make
some kinds of compacts capable ot^ being en
forced, and others incapable of being enforced 1
if so, is the Union a compact of the former or
latter class? My dear sir, you should be more
definite, and, if possible, you should have
clearer conceptions than you display of those
things ol which you treat. Had you written
an essay npon popguns and small-beer, pos
sibly you might have treated your subject
more lucidly. The direction of the Roman
critic so spiritedly rendered by Francis wight
be ol service to you in your next attempt at
composition:—
materiam vestrie, qut ecribilis <e
ytto'n nninu."
"Examine well, we witters weigh wilt) cere,
What sails your genius -what your strength can
boar.”
“Having established, beyond doubt, the lim
ited character of the government, and the tor
ereignty nt each state, with its right of peacea
ble eeceMton.” Had 1 been within hearing and
seeing distance of you, when you penned thia
sentence, I should probably have witnessed
you elapping your hands and exclaiming,
“Eureka, Eureka I—l huvo found it—l have
found it.” Th-> right of peaceable secession
is a futaelte resets—a vexed question—in
American political ecieaee. It is one of the
appnbria of polities. Perhaps 1 should have
said that it sees, not w—oae of the ayprahria
for you. Major Jack Howard I have solved
the question. Waal |a pity it is Jeflerwn.
Madison and Calhoun—he whom you worship
—while in life, and he to whom you. with lhe
rests! “the saints” ex pest to go after death,
are not in life to rejoice with you and add
their hosannahs to yours upon your “having
established, teyoad doubt.” tho “right of
peaceable secession.”
’Ti» true they were inclined to “ doubt’' any
such aeaseeMh right. But then they bad not the
benefit of yoar “ aalaMiafaMtU.’ Coaid they
have only lived up to the 21st July, 1851. (the
date es your letter.) each might have said
** Lord, now lettest thou thy se-vant depart tn
peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation !
Mr. Madison, when Alexander Hamilton, lhe
arch-federalist, proposed that New York
should come into the Confederacy w.th lhe
right to secede. »aid “The Constitution re
quires an adoption in tolo. and for ever.” He
alee informed Hamilton in a letter upon the
subject, that “ the idea of reserving the right to
withdraw, was started at Richmond, and con
sidered as a conditional ratification, whieh was
it self abandoned as worse than a rejection.’
The idea of secession then, did no! escape the
vigilance of the statesmen in Virginia, the land
where states rights first came into vogue,at the
very time of adopting lhe constitution. George
Mason was lhe father of states rights, and his
opinion® found an able champ ton io tbe vl
oquent Hettry. Jefferson east their opinions
into anew mould, reduced their doctrines to a
svnem. and formed the creed of the Repub
lican party. And yet we are told by Madison,
the “father es the Constitution,” and a leaner
in that party, that the “idea of reserving the
n hi to withdraw,” which u year doitnne of
Mteaaron. was, in tn® cwa State, aod that of
Jefferoon. Mason and Henry, -abandoned
u worse than a rejection ” .Now. is it not a
little strange that you Dtsunioniats. who pro
fess to be the only simou pure republicans,
overtook the feet that your secession notions
were first inemted upon by the arah-federahsi
VUGIISTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 24, LSSI J l /
I Hamilton, and that they assumed a more tangible
| form in the Itaitorous counsels of the Hartford
Convention, during the dark hour of my—uot
yoar— country’s peril!
In Mr. Jefferson's inaugural of 4th March,
1801, hn gives what he considers the “ essen
tial principles ”of our government. Among
these he speaks of “election,” “a mild anc'
safe corrective of abuses,” and of “ revolu
tion where peaceable remedies are unprovi
ded.” He mentions also, “ absolute acquies
cence in the decisions of the majority,”
“from whieh there is uo appeal but to force.”
Mr Jefferson had to fight the hydra of seces
sion in his day. both as a slate.man aud an
offic al. In various places throughout hie
writings, if you would only read them, you
could find a plenty of other authority, besides
that adduced, against your disorganising aud
destructive doctrine. But perhaps you have
been guided by the corrusoation of that bright
luminary, D. C. Campbell, to look upon these
views of Mr. Jefferson as “loose aad disjoint
ed;’’ and that his opinions are given more
compactly aud maturely in the Kentucky and
Virginia resolutions, although the extracts to
which I allude were penned subsequently to
tbe said resolutions; and although no one,
but you Disuniouis’s, can find any thing in
those resolutions about secession.
11 Keen opties it requires I ween
To see what is not to be seen.”
In 1814, when the question of secession was
rife in New England, John Randolph, the pur
est and only consistent Republican arid States
Rights man of his time, wrote to the people
oftiiat section of our country, the very hot-bed
of Federalism, dissuading them against this
rash act, and urging them—using hie own
words—“to resort to Conetitulumal means of
redress only,” dearly showing, as the whole
tenor of bis letter shows, that he thought se
cession unconstitutional, and any thing but
peaceable in its consequences.
William H. Crawford, the Republ can can
didate jjlbr the Presidency, in 1824, says that
he knows of “ but one kind ” of “ constitu
tional resistance ” which san be made to a
“ law of Congress,” “ and that it by tleeliont.”
He knows of but one other kind of resistance,
“ but it it unktawie to tlu Coiutitution” “It
is,” says he, “ an appeal to the sword, and by
the sword must that appeal be decided ”
In his letter written from Washington, 26th
December, 1832, Onv. Troup says “The
only constitutional remedy for unconstitution
al laws is the ballot-box.” “Thera is no power
given in tho Constitution to resist unconstitu
tional laws.”
By referring to Congressional debates, 1832
and '3, part Ist, p. 522 you will find (hat Mr.
Calhoun, your political god, says, in speaking
of pmoer aa divided between each Btate and
tho Federal Government as lhe common agent,
to “give to either party lhe exclusive right of
judging, not only the share allotted to it, but
cf that allotted io the other, wav to annul the
division, and would confer the whole power
on the party vested with such right.” On
page 505 ho says, speaking of a resumption of
delegated rights by a Slate, that it would be a
“ breach of tho compact for which the Sla e,
as a community, would bo responsible.” And
yet in the teeth of all this authority, you have
“established beyond doubt,” the “right of
peaceable secession.” What a pity it is that
Madison, and Jefiersou, and Mason, and Hen
ry, and Randolph, and Crawford, and Troup,
and Calhoun, did not have you for their politi
cal Gamaliel !
You may be surprised that I have not attemp
ted to answer the arguments by which you have
“established beyond a doubt,” divers and sundry
things. Had you presented a single argument,
I would have treated it with the respect that
had been due it. Finding none, 1 have taken the
negative and supported it by the opinions of those
who have weight with the Republican party—
but never with the Federal party or the Disunion
party. You leap to conclusions and ‘establish
ments’ with as much agility as that displayed
by a dandy jack in a circus. I commend your
activity, but despise your logic.
You ask, “ought not every good man, every
lover oi law and order to pause, and with his
hand on his heart, reflect and examine for him
self 7” Whether it is necessary for him to place
his hand upon his heart ot not, I shall not pre
tend to say. Verily, every man should “pause,”
and "reflect and examine for himself.” In these
days of Jacobinism, disorganization and destruc
tion, every man should reflect for himself, and
stamp the mark of Cain upon every enemy of
his country and his country’s Union and Consti
tution.
You very kindiy set out to prove to us that
“we have a right to our slaves.” Had you not
better favor us with proof that ‘ we have a right
to our” horses? You eay your proof wifi be
“satisfactory to all but abolitionists.” Do any
but abolitionists doubt our right? Why prove
the right to those who admit it ? Hud you net
better bring forward ruch logic as will have some
effect upon those who deny our right ? Or have
you had the wisdom to see that you can prove
only admitted facts?
(( lf we were all upon one side, tho ballot-box
would be ineffectual, a3 we are in the minority
in Congress.” How then can you justify the
folly of forming sectional parties, if you know
the Northern sectional party will be stronger
than the Southern ?
You have a good deal tosny about the Com
promisebeing “wise, liberal and just.” Now,
don’t you imagine Mr. Cohb is dreadfully “used
up” by your * ‘carrying on so,” is regard to his
expression ? H«, uo doubt, considers himself
“demoffahed,” and asks—
“Can minds celestial, so much wrath contain.”
very little logic in your piece, and very little
really deserving notice. Ils only characteristics
are bold and striking egotism, and assumption
of “establishments,”’ together with verbosity put
forth
“ With all your flippant fluency of tongue,
Most confident, when palpably most wrong.”
Still charity demanded that your production
should not pass altogether unheeded. For bring
ing it again before the public, your most sincere
thanks are due Anti-J acobis.
for tha Chronicle St Sentinel.
u Old Documents are dangerous Things.”
BykeHEka and Toombs.
Meserc. Editors :— lt is known to the coun
try generally, that about three years since,
there was a certain bill before Congress, com
monly called the “Clayton Compromise Bill.”
This bill did not repeal the law of Mexico in
relation to slavery, that was thought by somo
to exist iu California and New Mexico. It
left the law aa it was, and if the Supreme
Court of iha United States declared that it
existed there, it was to remain to — for the bill
prohibited the people or the legislative authori
ty of lhe Territories from repealing the law
if it existed there, and they wished it repealed,
or passing any law “respec ing lhe prohibition
or establishment of African slavery” in the
Territories. Messrs. Stephens, Toombs and
other Southern men, behoving that the Su
premo Court of the United States would
decide thatjthe law of Mexico did exist there,
and as they could not gc’ Congress to repeal
it. and seeing no chance of its ever being
repealed with this prohibitory clause in the
bill, they voted against it, and the bill was
killed in the House of R>presentatives. All
know how these gentlemen wore denounced
by these assuming lo bo the peculiar and ex
clusive guardians of the rights of the South.
And uo meu were more free in their denun
ciation of these gentlemen, than were certain
gentlemen now calling themselves Sou hern
Rights men out about Columbus. If my
recolleelion serves me right, to ths proposition
of Messrs. Stephens and T oombs, that it was
tho duty of Congress to legislate upon the
subject of el tvcry in ih» Territories so far as
to repeal tho law of Mexico, and that it ought
to have done so it was contended that the
Clayton “bill granted not only all that was
wssesrary. bnt all that Congress iu the exer
cise of its constitutional authority could grant
toes.” It was contended further th it “it has
ever been lhe doctrine of the South, and it is a
correct doctrine, that Congress has no right
over the subject of slavery.” that “the Const!
tutinn bad guaranteed it," Ac And this pro
position was further objected to as a dengeroue
doctrine—that if admitted, we “surrendered
our rights," or yielded lhe question —for, said
they, “if you admit that Congress c-iuldhave
eetMtehmi ' slavery where it Joes not exist,
“common honesty will admit that she eeold
have prohibited it.” But how changed lhe
tune of these gentlemen now, after they have
gotten just what they then so earnestly con
tended for. It is said that “truth t> stranger
than fiction.” The reader, will think so after a
little, if ho will just glaune with me over an
“old document ‘ 'hat chance has thrown in
my wav.
I have said that among those who denounced
Messrs Stephens and Toombs most, were
many of the gentlemen out about Columbus,
now calling thetneelrtw Southern Right* men,
and who now cantend that the South is pro
hibited or “eaciuded' 1 from going to ths Terri
tories, when they themselves know (if they
know any tb.ng about what they tolk* of so
much) that noi only uo Wilmot proviso has
been placed there, hut even the prohibitory
clause iu lhe Clayton bill is not now tn the
Territorial bills lately passed by Congress.
The Columbus Times was most violent in its
denunciation, and evea went so far as to term
Toombs and Stephens “Traitors” to the
South for their votes and views relative to the
duty of Congress And so strong was the
opposition to the ‘doctrine" of these gentle
men. that a gentleman well known, (and to
wham ail accord patriotism, honesty of pur
pose. and boldness and tearlessuess in ex pre*
sing his opinions) felt such au interest in the
matter, and fearsng Masers. Stephens and
Toomes might mtatecd their constituents, ac
tually sent an address to oar District and to
Mr. Tootnb’a District, to prove to us that these
gentlemen were wrong—and that we ought to
make them retract. Ac. That address was
published in lhe Columbus Times, of Sep
r feather UMS. and was signed “John Hancoek ’’
And the ma is were loaded with “sxtroa" sent
to our districts. Chance has thrown that paper
before me. and I bud the editor, Mr. Forsyth,
endorsing it as follows:
i -■ SrarasMa ana TUllage. —We invite atteaiioo
ro the uaaosweraoie defonee of uouthorn Itighto,
)' aad complete refutation of' the mischievo is surren
j der doctrines of Messrs. S.ephciw and Toombs, by
. our eoirespondeat. John Hancock, in to-day*<s
“Tinies.”
Now let us sej what our old friend ‘ John
Ilanocek” says Hear him :
”To thb Whigs or thb Skvbbth and Eighth
Como usg 3 ion al Disybiots. —I address myself to
you, because you, as a portion o( uie people of Geor
gia, alone can correct auy error which our Kepre
ee Natives in Congress fren your Districts, may or
have run into,” de.
♦ ♦ ♦ • • »
“ As it is your peculiar privilege to select the
Representatives from these Districts, who, when
elected, represent the Slate, it w incumbent on you
to examine into their conduct, and see to it, that
they shall not pbbsbvbrb in a course which eur re ri
ders the rights of our State and the common interests
of tho South,” &c.
Then again:
“ You will not then complaia es me for lemon
st rating with you against the motion of Mr. Stephens
to lay the late Compromise bill upeu the question cf
slavery, upon the table, and his even 7nore culpable
conduct of surrendering our constitutional rights
to tbe newly acquired Territories in the speech which
ho made some time afterwards in defence of thia un
looked for and unaccountable movement. Nor can
you ojmplain of me for protesting against the con
duct of Mr. Tocmbs, who is canvassing both dis
tricts, openly defending and endeavoring to sustain
the principles advanced in Mr. Siebens' speech.
I repeat, that if these two gentlenien are wrong, it
is the duty of these two districts t< Compel them to
hktraot, or dismiss them from oar service,” &e.
Now what was the great sit, of these two
gentlemen, that is here alluded to ? It was
nothing more nor less than their assertions
(with the proofs they offered) that they believ
ed the Supicma Coart weald declare that the
law of Mexico iu relation to slavery existed in
the Territories, and they contended that it was
the duty of Congress to repeal Ac. Bat
hear “John Hancock” again. saying “I
propose to examine this tjuesuun with the im~
partiality of a patriot heart, a* t a mind limit
cd to the search and exposition of truth,” he
proceeds thus, viz : ;
“It was fondly hoped when th£ b.’R. passed tbe
Scuafo that lha expectations of tb. soni?" heads and
patriotic ixaib*, who gave Oirtb oit re
alized, and no doubt they Would have been but for
the reckless imprudence of Mr. Stephens and a few
other Southern men. He made the motion to lay
tho bill on the table, according to bis statement,
without consultation with bis colhagues, upon the
responsibility of his own judgment. Admitting bis 1
canity to decide for hitßselfj against the opinions *
of his Southern friends upon his own course, as I I
am not prepared to deny tohim after the declaration,
that both the North aud South were ‘profoundly ig
norant’ of the question, it is still my purpose, not- (
withstanding his supjxwed fiat, to show that accord- i
ing to the doctrines of the Constitution and the t
South, the bill granted not only all that icas <
necessary, but all that Congress in the exercise of i
its constitutional authority could grant to us.” 1
‘‘ Il is well known to all that iu thw organization 1
of California and New Mexico, the freesoil and abo- ’
lition members of Congress were making powerful 1
efforts lo fix on those Territories the Wilmot proviso t
which all understand to be a proviso that slavery |
shall not exist in them. The South has always con- I
tended that we have a constitutional right to carry j
slaves into the Territories, which I will directly j
prove to the satisfaction ol every man or woman who g
feels interest enough in the subject to read the argu- i
ment,” dfcc.
Here him again:
“Woof the South, fully impressed with our right |
under the Constitution, to emigrate to those Terri- t
tcries with our slaves, believe even if the Wilmot
proviso had boon passed, wo would not thereby have
bad our rights impaired, tec.
Hear him again ; (
“It bus ever been llio doctrine of the South, and <
it is a correct doctrine, that Congress has no right t
over the subject of slavery ; becauao the Conatitu- .
lion has guaranteed it ; Congress could not have .
done more for the South than by passing this bill, un- .
lees the Scuth desired Oregon, too, lo be open to
them, Congreea could not have established slavery
in Now Mexico and C alifornia, nor made a deola - *
RATION THAT TH»Y SHOULD BBMADB SLAVS STATES, 1
tor it cannot bo denied that" if Congress has the <
power to establish slavery there, it has also the right I
to prohibit it. Tbiw is and the South has al- (
ways insisted that Congress must leave the subject |
to the controlling power of the Constitution. I {
ack now ths question distinctly, What morn could (
Coiigresu do lor the South than wbh done by this .
bill? If the answer is that she could have establish
ed it, common honesty will admit that she could f
have prohibited it. This, though, is a |>ower which 1
tho Constitution has wisely wiff:held from Congress,” <
&c. fl
Then again t
“If the Compromise bill would have .done no good,
it could not have done any harm, it coaid not have
been prejudicial to the intereatß of the South, and
wh have the opinions of all the members from Geor
gia, as well as inoat of the memherß from lhe South
ern States, of both political parties, except Messrs.
Stephens und Toombs, that our slave interest* were
greatly protected by it. opinions of South-
era men are certainly enlitled to some consideration,
when the Abolitionists and Barnburners, without
exception, joined Mr. Stephens in defeating tho bill,
upon the ground that the free soil question wks yield
ed to the ala rcholders,” &c.
Again, speaking of Mr. Stephens's speech,
he save:
“If he and Mr. Toombs are right, it is just and
proper that we should yield our claim As <t South
ern man 1 will not contend for any right, unless that
right is well founded. Mr. Stephens and Mr.
Toombs contend that tho CvhdUut 'ioa of (lie United
States does not recognixe slavery in New Mexico
and California, because the Government of Mexico
doeanot recognixe slavery, but has prohibited it, aod
in guppoit es tbfe extraordinary proposition, the
former adduces authority which he insists is con-
-‘*2.
ofousflly effects which
would result from the (Passage of the bill. I will
advert to his authorities, and with due deference to
the profundity of his loaming, I shall show all men
of coiMnon sense (I mean such men as Berrien,
Calhoun anti Webster, who have net, like Mr. Ste
phens, a thorough knowledge of the Constitution and
international laws, but who, at the same time, have
had oome reputation in their limited intercourse with
ilia world) that these auth 'ritieH fall short of sustain
ing the positioo he has had the temerity to assume
I’e lays down the doctrine generally “ that the laws
of a conquered country continue in force until they
are altered by the conqueror.” Ho insists that the
law of Mexico prohibiting slavery is yet in existence,
and he end Mr. Toombs both declare an act of Con
gress, establishing slavery in the Territories, becomes
necessary before we can enter those Territories with
our slaves. This is un obiter dictum ts Lord Mans
field in a case which I will presently show has not
the slightest application to this issue, as the caw did
not involve, in a single particular, any principle
which is presented in this discussion.”
John Hancock then proceeds to argue, and
contends Cor the right of the people of the
South, to go to the territories under the Con*
itUutxon alone. He alludes to several cases,
and brings his “authorities’* tosustai t his po
sition. Be contends that both the Constitution
and laws of the United S.ates ** tolerate and
uteuMisAas slavery as part and parcel of our
political system/’ and goes on to prove his
position. And agreeing with Mr. Stephens
“that the laws of Mexico are of force, except
tho«e of the fundamental law of the conqueror,
anil those of a political character,” he contends
that “the laws and Constitution of the United
States upon the subject,” are the “/un4amsiU
al” law, and asks:
** H not then this Mexican law, iJ{>on which Messis.
Stephens and Tcombs rent Ihsir argument to destroy
our constitutional right to slavery, in conflict with
the fundamental law of the United Mutes, even
though i h«» Const itu'ion was silent up>n the subject?
By the United States law providing lor removing
slaves from one part to another of the United St ites,
would any Court rule that the Bay of San Francisco,
in California. was not a part of the United States?
Those are hard questions. Messrs. Stephens and
Toombs will have to deep up*n them before they
venture an answer,” Ac.
Then hear him again :
“ The true ground is that which has ever been
maintained by tha South, that slavery is a part of
our system, incorporated in our Constitution, as a
part of the political structure of our government —
that it pervades al! the territory, and follows 'he ju
risdiction of the government.-that it is not forced
on independent States, that they can adopt or abolish
the institution at pleasure, but that as it is recognis
ed tn the Constitution, it is legal in the Territo
ries, BECAUSE THE CONSTITUTION COVERS THE
Territories, (ha) Congress has no power Crte : the
Ae.
Then again hear him, near his conclusion:
“ Whenever from a conviction of the truth of the
arguments of Messrs. Stephens and Toosabs, ar from
any other cause, we tuay fall into their doctrines,
[viz : ‘ That it is the duty of Congress, and we shall
demand it, io legislate upon the subject, and repeal
the law of Mexico.—J asp be.’] then, indeed, will
the interests of the Sooth be surrendered. Ido not
expect any such result from the error of the two
tlemen; the people of Georgia and of the South, are
awake to their interests, and are able to put dawn
such doctrines" Ac.
Then again, hear himt
“ Vote for Taylor—vote for Case—vote for Pill
more, if you choose —but 1 prav you when yau vole
for Stephens and Toombs, don't commit yourselves
upon this question, for their ways iu relation to this
subject arc dark and full of ruin,” Ac.
And then, hear him again, and for the last
time, after glancing over five columns and a
hail of the Columbus Times:
“ Vole tor iheir.— Messrs. Stephane and Toombs
if you please, but 1 pray you, for the inte«ent of your
country and the ultimate peace of your fire eides,
don’t let your personal and partv friendships lead you
into the error in which they are so unfortunately in
volved, of adopting the doctrine urged by them,”
Ae., Ae.
But this is net all. At the head of the Edi
torials of this Columbus Times, was placed the
following and other extracts, as advertisements
to stand until after tha election, and byway ot
showing iheir readers what they ware for, vix:
“ We have neither the right nor the power to
loach slavery where it exists —Gee. Cass.
“ Leave to the people, who will bs affected by this
question, to adjust it upon their own
and in their own manner—Gee. Cass.
“ 1 ain opposed to the exercise of any j urisdiction
by Congress over the subject of slavery—Gen.
Casa.
u 1 do not see in the Constitution any grant of such
a power to Congress —Gen. Cass.”
And stiH this is not ail. Similar sentiments
were attersd by some of the Whig writers in
the Whig press; aud if you could get hold of
the files of ah the Democratic press—the Au
gusta Constitutionalist. Federal Union, Macon
Telegraph. Savannah Georgian, Georgia Jef
tersenian, Southern Banner, Cassvihe Stan
dard, Cherokee Advoca e, Rome Southerner,
and Albany Patriot, you will there find senti
ments similar to those of the Columbus Times
and John Hancock and all have sheafed excep.
the Southern Banner and Cassville Standard.
Amidst all these “turn shouts ” and * jump
abosts ” of their political friends, press and
politician?, these iwo papers have stood square
upto “tile true ground ” sad “correct doc
trine,” as the above extracts term it.
And what was the result of ail this “ to do ?”
We valued Messrs- Stephens and Toombs too
■ I much, mid had too much con fid once in their
’ fidelity to our interests, and the intores's of the
1 South, to give them up readily, and without n
. fair hearing. We felt that if they had conimit
i | ted an error, the intention was good, and that
was to make us more secure in our rights; and
while our “ personal and party friendships”
lead us, in the Seventh and Eighth Districts, to
vote for and elect Messrs Stephens and
Toombs, we did as our Columbus “ Teach
era” wished us to do—we d d not “commit ”
ourselves to these doctrines. And twelve
months afterwards showed that wa did not
“ commit ” ourselves to these docirines. Our
Legislature met, and Mr. Gartrell, and I reckon
some of these gentlemen and others, fixed up
resolutions in accordance with these views of
“John Hancock ” and the Columbus Times;
all of oar members of the Legislature voted for
them, and I have been told they passed the
Legislature unanimously. And what did Messrs
Stophens and Toombs do? We did not a*k
them to ” retract.” Many of us thought them
too honest and independent to do that. But
wo went es far as we felt we ought to or could
go. We studied upon the matter twelve
months, and the Representatives of our two
districts, and tne Representatives of the whole
people of Georgia, as good as told these gen
tiemen, they ought not to “pkhsevkre.” Our
Representatives in the Logivlature said, and
the people m their primary meetings said, that
“ Congress bad no rigid to legislate upon the
subject.” A few months after the Legislature
adjourned, the subject again came up before
Congress, and our two Representatives then
finding a chance to uecounnod&te us. and get
ting a much better bill for us, they did cease to
“persevere” in what wa< termed their own
“ mittchievous surrender doctrines”—they done
as “ all of us ” officially expressed ourselves
they should do, and they fully represented us.
Had they done otherwise, they would have
represented themselves and not us. rind any
man or set of men who advocates the doctrine
that a Representative in Congress or the Legis
lature, should represent himself in preference
to wishes of his constituents,
when he is officially and regularly informed of
their will—such naeu who will abuse and cen
sure a Representative, for obeying the will of
hie constituents rather than his own, where
there is no constitutional scruples in the way,
these men who thus act towards a Representa
tive, are not Republicans, but Monarchists at
heart, and they are unfit to be trusted, politi
cally, iu any manner whatever, in this Repub
lican land.
And ywt, I understand this editor of the Co
umbue Titnea and “John Hancook,” who
Rant the documents into our districts to an
hghten ns and keep us from going astray—
are now Fire Eaters. I learn they say we are
“prohibited” or “excluded” from the territories,
because Stephens and Toombs’‘ mischievous
surrender doctrines” were not carried out by
Congress. Impossible! 1 learn they were
members of the Convention iu May, that
nominated McDonald for Governor, and sup
ported those resolutions where they say “we
have been deprived by hand, of all inte
rests in the territories acquired from Mexico,”
that we have been degraded from our condi
tion of equality in this Union.” Surely, sure
ly this cannot be so ! I have looked at those
bills, and I see no Wilmot Proviso there—but
hey read just like the Clayton bill, except
that where, in the Clayton bill, the people of
the territories were prohibited fiom having
slavery there, if the Supreme Court decided
the law of Mexico to be of force there, the
late bill lets the people do a« they please, ami
even if the Supreme Court docide the Mexi
can law of force, the day after the decision is
made, the people of the territories can repeal
it, and except, too, it is declared in the late
bills, that the territories might come into the
Union as States, with slave iy if the peop’o of
‘ho territories bo desired —which was not so
declared in the Clayton bill. If it be so, if
theue gentlemen really believe the South ‘‘ex
cluded T iu the territories, it is because they
have fallen in the “oven more culpable conduct
of sunendering our conatitulioital rights”—for
1 understand that all that Mr. Stephans con
tended for “in his speech” wbb, that it was the
duly of Congress to repeal the Mex can law.
If bo, it is indeed strange. For we ha v ebecn
assured that “this question” was examined
into in the fall of 1848, “with the impartiality
of a patriot heart, and a mind I tinted to the
search and exposition of truth. But. how
ever it may bo—whether their change be
♦‘from a conviction of the truth of the argu
ments of Messrs. Stephens and Toombs, or
from any other cause,” one thing is certain,
viz: If we ara in error now, and Messrs
Stephens and Toombs did wrong in voting for
the late territorial bills, and are still wrong iu
not deairing a of the Union, on ac
count of their passage—Although these gen
tlemen and their friends may not have in
fluenced us in differing from Mesarv. Ste
phens and Toombs, and although they may
not have influenced Messrs Stephens and
Toombs to conform to our and Meir wishes—
yet, aa they set themselves up in 1843-49, as
our teachers, as they told uh these our Repre
senntative* of the 7'h and Bth districts were
then in ‘ error,” and were “surrendering our
constitutional rights,” and that it was “Incum
bent” upon ub to “see that they* shall not per
smere” and as we have seen to it, and they
did not “ifcrsevre,” but yielded to the voice of
their constituents, to the voice of Georgia, and
to the voice of the South; these Clayton Com
promise men of Columbus and elsewhere,
courso they have pursued— for they (and our
Columbus ’eachers particularly) did tkeirbest
to hens it so! They employed their lima and
talents, and spent thrir mosey in printing and
■ending documents to us in the two districts,
to enlighten us to correct the “error” of our
Representaivcs. and to 4aa;> us to the “correct
doctrine.'' Many of them that were not mom
her, of the last Legislature, went to Milledge
ville, and they and Mr. Gartreil fixed up reso
lutions in accordance with these views of thia
“John Hancock” and other Clayton Coinpro
tnise men. And if wrong has been done the
Seuih, if the South haa been “deprived by
high hand of all interest in the territories.”
as far as their influence and the influence of
their friends went. THEY DID IT! For
we not only got all they asked, but more than
they asked for, or said Congress could, consti
tutioually give us, in the late territorial bills.
And for proof, reader, look to the exracts
above ' and if you doubt what wo say ab.lut
the bills, look to them.
Seventh District.
T j- Notlee--Kvery body read tills. —Dr.
W. R. Mosklsv is still in Griffin, and continues to
cure Cancers, Wens, Points*, and Ulcers of all
kinds. Every person afflicted with Cancers, would
do well to give him a call, and have (heir health re
stored. He has, during the last twelve months,
cured a great many cases of Cancers, that seemed
to ba from their appearance, almost incurable; in
fact, a number of them was of long standing, and
had been under the treatment of the most eminent
Cancer Doctors in the world.
Dr. Moseley has now in his office some fifteen or
twenty Cancersand Tumors, weighing from 2 toB oz.
which ho has preserved lor a specimen, that those
afflicted with the disease, may see and satisfy them
selves that there is no bumlmggory in Dr. Moseley’s
curing the very worst kind of Cancers. my23-wt
HATS, HATS, HATS.
FALL STYLE FOR 1851.
ajjf If yon wish to look al some of the g>
finest H ATS in the United Stales, just call £3.
n at J. TAYLOR. Jr., ACO.’S, and examine their
Pall Styles for 1850. Near the Poet Office corner.
aul6
CHEAP READY MADE CLOTHING.
Jjf J. M. Newby A Co., under the United
Stales Hotel, will dis|>oeeof the SUMMER GO* IDS
they have on hand, at prices 1-ss than they can ho
bought for elsewhere. Those in want, can gst bar
gains, by calling early. They have jost rec< ivo-t a
large lot of fine Cotton and Linen SHIRTS, DRAW
EKS, Ac.. &c., which will be etid low. j«29
O'We are authorized to announce RICH
ARD W. ROGERS a£ a Candidate tor Sheriff of
Burke county, at the ensiir.g election in January
next. slO
We are authorized to announce HEN
RY SAXON »ea Candidate for the office of Tax
Collector of Burke county, at the election in Janua
ry next. a9-td
o'We are authorised to announce JOHN
V. DAVIS as a Candidate for the office of Tax Col
lector of Patnaui county, at the ensuing election in
January next. au27-td
jyWe are authorised to announce A LFRED
L. WILLIS, Esq , as a Candidate of the Conatitu
tional Union party for the Legislature from Greene
county, at the ensuing election. au27-w3
Dr. L. C. Belt, will be supported ae an
Independent Candidate for the Legislature in
Columbia County, at the ensuing Election by
aulO Mxwr Voters.
COLUMBIA COUNTY, GEORGIA
SEPTEMBER TERM, 1851.
Wo, the Grand Jury, chosen and
eworn for the September Term cf Court, hare,
through our Committees, examined the trcveral sub
jects according to our duty ; and feel it our duty to
•all the a. ten tian of oar fellow citizens to the dilapi
dated condition of our Court House, believing as we
do that it is unsafe.
The Jail we find in good keeping and well adap
ted to the ends for which it was btL'lt.
We would eali the attention to the stale of the
Treasury, which we hare examined, and find a
balance of 3847.01 due the County.
We would also call their attention to the Bridge
over Uptons or Town Creek, adjacent to Wrights
boro’ and recommend immediate attention thereto,
the public are endangered in eraealDg it.
We bare examined the Books of the Clerks of the
Superior, infeoor and <3ourta of Ordinary, and find
tbam nca’ly kept, reflecting credit upon the officers.
We feel it to be our duty io recommend our Sena
tor and Representatives io use their beat exertions
for the passage of the Law prohibiting the intro
duction of slaves into our State for the purpose of
Traffic.
We eongrat'ilatp the Court and County that we
have no speeial Presentments to render.
We would return cur thanks to his Honor, Judge
Ftarnee, and the Attorney General, and other officers
of the Court for their kind and courteous attention
during the Term.
We would request the Clerk to have the above
pebliehe I in one of the public journals.
On motion u! Attorney General, ordered to be
published.
WILLIAM B. TANKERSLEY. Esq , Foreman.
Peter B. Sbort, Sherwood Roberts,
James Fleming, Dr. L. C. Belt,
Jackson Euoanks, Hanry P. Hampton,
Joseph G. Marshall, James Burronghe,
Hezekiah Boyd, Joshua B. Griffin,
I Jame» Knox, Benj min Berry,
John Smith, John Dozier,
Jeeee Evan-, < Edmund Bacon,
Dr. J- S. Hamilton, i John H. Beall,
S. MamnaiL | P E.
■ News of tlje Week
ZSHE •■ - ~ . ’’
*• From the New York Com. Adv., 13th ms I.
| The Released Cuban Prisoners.
, It wan mentioned in our podtecripl yesterday
j that the steamer Winfield Scott, from New
Orleans, brought as a passenger Mr. Phillip 8.
’ Van Veehten, who went out in the Pampero
. asalieut. in the band of men commanded by
t Lopez. Much excitement was naturally caus
ed by this announcement, and Mr. Van Venh
ten was e<rly besieged for the particulars of
, the expedition iu which he had taken part, it
; seems that he was released at the special soli
citation of Capt. Pratt, of the United United
States aloop of war Albany, who. after receiv-
( ing the frank and cordial note of the Captain
Genera?, already published, visited the prison*
era and subsequently waited upon General
Concha, asking thei surrender to the United
Stales Government. To this request that ofli
cer declined to accedo, justly remarking to
Capt. Platt that the prisoners were amenable
to the laws of Spain, and that after the repeat
ed warnings of the consequence of invading
her territory, there certainly would be no just
ground of complaint if she now declined to
surrender the captives. Bui on the continued
solicitations of Capt. Platt, he consented to re
lense any one of them in whom that officer
might personally feel an interest and of whose
Previous good conduct he had knowledge. Mr
an Vechten, with whose parents, residents of
Albany, Capt, Platt was acquainted, was there
upon liberated, an aid of Gen. Concha taking
mm on board the Albany, which was immedi
ately taken out to sea by a Government tow
boat and pilot. Col. Haynes and Capt. Kelly
were released without solicitation.
During yesterday, Mr. Van Vechten
addressed a long letter to the Herald,
containing what professes to be a truthful nsr
caiive of events, the substance of which, we
suppose, our readers will desire to know.—
Having from the first honestly endeavored to
write with canuor upon this mva-ion of Cuba
—so disgraceful in its character and so distres
sing in i»a results—we are bound now to say,
dial although Mr, Van V.*e averments more
than substantiate all that we have written, and
though we know of no reason for doubting iu
the least the intentional correctness of his
views, yet he has been somewhat eudtUnly
converted, and probably wri es under astrong
revulsion of feeling. Little more than a
month ago he was as eager, we presume, as the
rest for the affray; but having tried the experi
ment, and narrowly escaped the penalty of his
crime, he now denounces the expedition as
warmly as at first he espoused it. His testimo
ny is, therefore, somewhat less to ourUtste than
the brief but touching letter of Col Critten
den, described as a geode ran of transparent
integrity and lofty sense of honor/’ and who
declared before he went to Cuba that did he
not believe it was a genuine patriotic move
ment—a response to the eager wishes of the
Cubans themselves—-“he would scorn the en*
terprize as a buccaneering adventure.” Mr
Van Vechten’s confession would seem
very plainly that the who'e enterprise deserved
the scorn and the epithet which that victim to
his ardent impulses would have applied to it
had he lived to this hour. We are bound to
add that almost every day new disclosures cor j
rob orate Mr. Van. Vechten’s statements, and .
the correctness of his present views.
This letter is tua lung for publication entire, 1
nor is it all of equal interest and importance, i
some of its statements being quite familiar to
our readers. The additional intelligence
which Mr. Van Vechten communicates is a
narrative of proceedings from the moment of
sailing from New Orleans to the landing a’ '
Bahia Honda He says:
“1 became connected with the expedition at
New Orleans, receiving, on the 30th day of
July last, an appointment ws first lieut. of com
pany B. of Colonel W. L. Crittenden’s regi
ment, (Ist artillery,) commanded by Captain
James Sandors On the morning of Sunday, '
the 3d of August, the Pampero was towed to I
the mouth ot the river, our engine being out of ■
order. We remained in the river until Wed ,
nesday the 6th, and left through the Northeast |
Paas at five o’clock P. M. of that day, for Key j
West. The intention at that time was to go i
t'» Key West, and there take on board a pilot l
for the river St. Johns—at wh’ ; ch place we <
were to embark a light battery of artillery, with ‘
caissons, ammunition and harness complete, *
with a number of cavalry saddles—and thence 1
were to run to the South side of Cuba and 1
land as near as possible to Puerto Piincipe.
We reached Key West, and anchored some t
distance from the city, a' about three P. M. of t
Sunday, the 10th ins:. While at Key West a <
quantity of brandy and champagne was reoeiv- 1
ed on board, which was imbibed tolerably freely (
by Lopez and his staff. About duskof that 1
day, no pilot appearing, Lopez called acoun- J
cil, composed entirely of the Cubans and Hun- t
garians attached to his staff, (no Americans be- t
mg called) who decided to give up going to a
the St. John’s River, and run immediately for p
tie coast of Cuba, which was Jone at about 10 j
P. M. The next morning, owing to the varia
tion of the compass from muskets being stack- 0
ed near it, we found ourselves in plain 1
of the Moro Castle, and about twelve J
miles distant; the vessel was immediately head- '
ed o the Northward and Westward and run n
out of sight of land. About 3P. M. of that t
day, Lopez took the captain and mate out of a t
At 1 P. M. we again stood in for the laud, l ,
and soon after dusk sent a boat to reconnoitre,
which was hailed by a sentry on the walls of
the fort, situated mar Bahia Honda, the ship t
not being more than a mile from it. As soon I
as the boat reported, lights were extinguished, t
and a press of steam put on, the sh p running t
to the Westward along (he land. About 10 t
o’clock, while running under the charge of a 1
pilot, utudera press of steam, the ship »udden- 1
ly struck, and before the engines could be stop- J
ped. had run more than her length upon a co- (
ral reef. After examining her situation, it was .
found that she was lying in about eight feet of ?
water, while her draft was over nine fee*; and t
that it was necessary that the force should be t
immediately landed, which was done about 2 <
o’clock on the morning of the 12th of Augutt. i
The first boat* which landed Were fired upon
by a party of twenty men who fled on their
fire be in? returned from »he boat which con
tained Captain Gouti, (a Cuban commanding
an American company,) Lieut. Laningham
and about thirty privates of his company. Ono j
of Gouti’s men was woundod in the arm, and
returned in the ship, and the cap of the lieut .
was cut into halves on hie head.’*
Mr. Van Vechten was in Col. Crittenden’s I
command, left to take charge of the baggage, ;
ammunition, &c. He describes the colonel’s '
force as consisting of one hundred and thirty 1
men. They were only four miles from Los
Posaa when attacked by Spanish troops. Af
ter some hard fighting with varied success, the
invaders were compelled to retreat. The fate
of Col. Crittenden and his fifty one men is
but too well known. The Olher survivors <
formed a junction with Lopez. We resume
Mr. Van Vechten’s narrative, only remarking
that the numbers of the Spanish tr ops, and
of their killed and wounded, are given with a
precision and boldness scarcely reconcilable
with his apparent opportunities for correctly
ascertaining them, and do not agree with other
accounts given by those, who. like himself,
were participants in those conflicts. In such
circumstances as those of Lopez and his band,
men can scarcely avoid magnify in their
dangers and their prowess.
“At the hour that Crittenden was
attacked at the hacienda, a body of the ene
my, eight hundred strong, under General
Euna, attacked Lopez at Los Posaa. After a
Lard fight of over two hours the enemy re
treated, leaving the Americana masters of the
field, and over two hundred of their number
(among whom were several of their highest
officer* ) dead and wounded—the American
lo -s being in killed wounded and missing,
only about thirty men, among whom Col.
D</Wnmaii and Lieutenant Labizan were killed,
and General Pragay ard Captains Brigham
and Gouti were mortally wounded. After lhe
action, the Spanish wounded were brought in,
and as well taken care of as circumstances
would admit. Lopez rode entirely unarmed
over the field, through the hottest of the fire,
occasionally applying a red raw hide, with a
great deal of vigor, to the shoulders of such
men as he thought could be hurried into firing
a little faster. On the morning of the 14th, at
2 o’clock, Lopez marched from Los Posasinto
the mountains ’earing there seventeen wound
ed Spaniards and thirteen of our side, ail es
whom were bayoneted by the Spaniards, and
their bodies piled in a heap, cross ways, at the
foot of a hill.
Two days after (on the 16th,) Lope* was
again attacked by three hundred lancers and
six hundred infantry, while encamped ala
hacienda which formerly belonged to himself,
but was confiscated some three years since.
Here the action lasted from 11 lo 2 o’clock, on
one of ihe hottest days I ever experienced.
The enemy were again compelled to retreat,
with a 10-s of three hundred and twenty men;
and at the same moment that the retreat of the
Spaniards inane direction was reporiel to
Lopez, he issued an order to his own force to
retreat iu the opposite, and actually,, that day,
made a forced march of eighteen miles in five
iiours, over a mountain roed. On the 19 h,
being still on the mountains, we were over
taken by a severe rain storm, which destroyed
rhe greater portion of our ammunition, and
rendered our guns entirely useless.
We encamped, on the evening of that day, |
at a ranchero at the fool of the mountains,
about two leagues from Bahia Honda. We
remained undisturbed that night; and were
attacked just at breakfast time on the morn
ing of «be 20'b, being taken by surprise, the
sentry on the o Hpost having left his post to
wash himself iu a ereek, where be was killed.
Owing lo the unservieea Be condrion of their
arms, the force under Lopez was completely
routed, fljing to the mountains in all directions
—Lopez himself barely escaping on horse
back, with the loss of his raddle, pistols and
spyglass—of every thing, in fact, but wb*t he
wore. Thai night we encamped on lhe island
of Cuba, exposed lo all the violence of a ter
rific norther, without either shelter, fire or food.
It is impossible form 3 to describe the suffer
ings of that night. Heaven forbid that I ever
pass such another.
On the evening of the 21st, having been
forty eight hours without earing, we killed a
horse, which was d vided among one hundred
and twenty five men, who were ail that now
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! remained wth Lopez. We wandered through
I mountains, unable lo extricate ourselves, sub
sisting on such leaves and routs us wa could
find; until mid diy of Sunday, the 24th, when
wo succeeded in reaching a road running frou
Bahia Honda to San Cristobal, a long which
we advanced until nearly night, when two
Spanish lancers were discovered advancing*
but fled on seeing as
halt was immediately ordered, and an ex
amination made of the state of our forces,
whieh showed a total of one hundred and
twenty five men, eighty muskets, about twenty
of which were serviceable, and about forty
dry cartridges. Under this state of affairs,
it was deemed advisable to retreat, which was
ordered, and a pursuit commenced by the
enemy, who lay in ambush some few hundred
yards in advance, with a force of nine hundred
men On the approach of the enemy, the
whole force of Lopez separated into small
bodies, and dispersed through the mountains,
throwing away their guns and every thing
which could encumber them in their {flight—
seven men only remaining with the general.
A large number were overtaken and imme
diately killed. I. myself, was one of a party
of eight who had previously determined on
leaving Lopez, and attempting to escape from
the inland
We remained in the mountains until the
morning of Tuesday, the 26ib, when, having
had but one meal in six days, and feeling that
we could bear it no longer, we determined to
go into the plains, considering that it would
be better to be killed outright than die a lin
gering death from starvation, which we cer
iiinly would do in the mountains.
We accordingly advanced to a house where
we were treated with a great deal of kindness,
and received a most excellent breakfast. An
arrangement was made to procure a guide to
tho South shore with provisions, &c , and we
were about to leave and conceal ourselves
until night, when, in Lie twinkling of an eye,
we were surrounded by two hundred armed
countrymen, who immediately bound us se
curely and inverted our pockets, considering
tbe contents lawful plunder. That day we
reached Suu Christobal. Until we' reached
3an Chrhtobal we were under; the
that we were to be itn media
consolation being that we were to d e with full
stomaohs.
The eequal to this, the arrest of Lopez, his ex
execution and the imprisonment of his followers,
we need not recapitulate. Mr. Van V. says
that all but twenty-two of the invading force
are accounted for, and that these arc probably
still in the mountains. As the troops are recall
ed to Havana, he thicks some of these may yet
escape and find their way homo. The prison
ers are sentenced lo ten years’ labor on the pub
lic works. We make now some quotations,
necessarily brief, showing Mr, Van V.’s present
views :
“ When 1 received my appointment from Mr.
Sigur, one of the editors of the New Orleans
Delta, I was told by him that a revolt was regu
larly organized among the creoles throughout
the island of Cuba; that they had elected
General Lopez as their leader ; that his landing
was the signal for a general rising, and that
within ten days after landing, he would be at the
head of an army of ten thousand men; that
there were also two whole regiments of Spanish
troops to come over to him with their equip
ments. The same story was told to all. Was
it sol As I have already stated our first salu
tation was a volley of musketry, instead of, as
the Delta asserted, a large body of friends, with
horses, stores, &c. for our use. Instead of find
ing the creoles our friends, we found them eur
most bitter enemies—far more so than tire troops
—keeping the troops constantly informed olOur
movements, and hanging on our skirts, putting
to death without mercy all those who straggled
on the march. Os the troops 1 cannot but speak
in praise, without a single exception. They
treated the prisoners with the utmost kindness
giving them wine, sugars, bread, tobacco and
aguadente, freely, and from their own small
means. I imagine no one will say that we had
any right to expect such treatment.
Much has besn said relative to the execution
of Crittenden and his men. Among all the
prisoners now in Havana, much as they admired
Crittenden, there is but one opinion, and that
is, that that execution was justifiable—was
merited. That they were deceived all know;
but that was no business of the Spanish author
ities. Surely the provocation received was
sufficient to justify not only the execution of
those men, but every man connected with the
expedition. Where in the annals of the world,
do you find a similar occurrence 1 Here four
hundred and fifty men, without having received
the least provocation, leave their homes, and in
vade tho shores of a perfectly peaceful island,
expressing a determination to take that island
from its lawful owers, by force. Self preserva
tion is one of the first laws of nature; and if
the law will uphold and protect that American
citizen, who, without hesitation, shoots down
the midnight robber in defence of his property,
certainly that law will uphold the officers of the
crown of Spain in exterminating a band of men
who attempt to wrest its brightest jewel from
that crown. I consider that every man connec
ted with that expedition deserved death. At the
time 1 was made prisioner, I fully expected it,
and, although the reflection was anything but
pleasant, my own conscience told me that it was
just.
Much has been said relative io the mutilation
of their bodies. Certainly I wast not present at
the time, and cannot speak positively, but I can
not learn from a reliable source that such was
the case. I have conversed with the officers, of
tho United States ship Albany on the subject.
They are men of high standing in society, and
they assure me that such was not the case—that
they were shot in accordance with military
"tlXT^rr^ sacll o^ c:l »fona and that the only
thrown into carts by 'tKe*negroes orSoreiTlolSury
them
Lopez was probably as much or more deceiv
ed than any man in the expedition. His am
bition led him to be the tool and victim of heart
less speculators. Avarice, not philanthropy, was
tho main spring of this expedition. I now dis
tinctly, openly assert that all those letters pur
porting to be from Cuba, which wore published
during the month of July last, and copied
throughout the Union, were base forgeries, for
the express purpose of deceiving the citizens of
the United -"States, and advancing the sale of
Cuban bonds. Knowing the ambition of Lo
pez, and that strong disposition to extend the
glorious boon of freedom which fills the breast
of every American citizen, these speculators took
advantage of their knowledge to further their
own end. They well knew how Utile effort was
required to start and keep alive this excitement.
Cuban bonds were worth, or were selling at from
10 to 20 cents on a dollar, when this expedition
left. Naturally they would increase in value as
the prospect of liberating Cuba became more
certain; and if this expedition succeeded, as
they pretended to think it would, Cuba when
liberated from what they denominated the tyran
ny of Spain, would have been burdened with a
debt of from fifty to one hundred millions of dol
lars, at least fifty per cent of which would have
been in the pockets of these would-be philanthro
pists, who, active as they wished to be thought
in the holy cause of liberty, took the best of good
care to peril neitheir life no r their own liberty in
its behalf.
At the expiration of the war, and after Cuba had
become free, it was to be annexed to the United
States, and as a matter of course the payment
of these Cuban bonds was to be assumed by that
government. What do they care for the moth
ers, wives and sisters of the gallant men that
formed this ill-fated expedition, who have been
rendered utterly wretched and miserable forever 7
They do not feel the chains, the anguish, borne
by those one hundred and sixty noble fellows,
doomed to spend the best ten years of their
lives in a Spanish prison. No; they feel the
money in their pockets, and laugh over the re
sult of their speculation. They are the men to
be punished. Heavy indeed must be their pun
ishment when, at the last day an offended just
Judge shall demand of them retribution.
There have also been, I understand, some re
flections made on the conduct of our consul at
Havna, Mr. Gwens. At that time, Mr. Owens
not only was unable to do any thing to assist
them, but as 1 am informed and believe, was ac
tually in danger himself, from the rabble of
Havana, a guard of Spanish soldiers having been
placed over his property and person by order of
the Captain General.”
We have only left ourselves room to add that
the “ prununciamento,” sent round to the morn
ing press of this city as the evidence of a revolu
tion in Cuba, was written and printed here, as
the National Intelligencer at the time suspected.
And surely the public mind is satisfied as (o the
nature of lhe whole enterprise. A hearty and
unanimous disapproval of it by the press and the
people would probably be the strongest in
ducement to pardon the survivors among those
who were the victims of such gross and heartless
deceptions.
Correspondence of the New Orleans Picayune.
Tiie Lopez Expedition.
Narrative of Major J. A. Kelly, one of the Amer
ican prisoners in Havana.
Havasu, Sept. 4, 1851.
Capt. J. A.Kelly, one of the prisoners recent
ly released by the Captain General, has given
me the following statement of the events that
followed the leading of the forces under the com
mand of Lopez, from the period of their em
barkation to that of his being made prisoner.
Knowing how interesting it will be to your read
ers, I give it as full as 1 can recollect.
On the morning of the 12th of August, be
tween 4 and 5 o’clock, the invaders landed at the
little town of Mori! I os. Shortly after, Gen. Lo
pez started for Las Pozas, at the head of the
Cubans and Hungarians, ordering Col. Down
man to take command of the American infantry
and follow him. Col. Crittenden was ordered to
remaiu at Morrillos until the stores were landed,
and then to follow at all speed and join the main
body at Las Pozas. Gen. Lopez was to send
back transportation to Col. U. from the first ran
cho on the road. He accordingly sent two carts
with a single yoke of oxen to each. These were
entirely insufficient to draw the heavily laden
carts, and Col. C. sent one of the negro drivers
fur mere oxen, who returned with two more
and the party started. The cars were still too
heavily laden, however, and the progress was
alow. They left Moriiios about 11 o’clock, and
only made five miles that night, the advance
stopping at a tienda or store on the main road,
and being soon after joined by the rest of the
troops and the wagons. Col. Crittenden had
previously sent a messenger to Gen. Lopes, who
returned and met them here. Lopez ordered
Col. C. to abandon hie baggage, ammunition,
etc., and join him at once, as he expected a bat
tle every moment, and wanted Crittenden to at
tack lhe enemy in the rear and flank. The lat
ter, however, was loth to abandon the ammuni
tion, and while deliberating be was suddenly at
tacked by a party of Spanish soldiers, who were
repulsed. Col. Crittenden now determined to
leave everything and join Gea. Lopez at once,
but before they were ready to march they were
again attacked by ahout 360 Spanish troops, as
they learned from a wounded prisoner, who was
brought in to have his wounds dressed. It is
proper to state here that alter the fight all the
wounded Spanish soldiers who could be found
were brought in and their wounds dressed by Dr.
Fourniquel, who was afterwards shot in »his
[ city. CoL Crittenden had about 120 m»*n under
his command of all ranks.
After beating off the soldiers, Col. Crittenden
took eighty men and started off to charge the
enemy, leaving Capt. Kelly with orders to main
tain his position until Ida return The men
whom Col. C. took with him, Capt. K. states,
were the elite of the whole command, and from
that time forth Capt. K. saw no more of either
Crittenden or hie men. The Spanish troops
kept up a continual slow fire on Capt. K’s men.
but the distance from which they fired was so
great that their balls were mostly spent before
they reached the tienda
After waiting about three hours for Col. Crit
tenden’s return, and seeing or hearing nothing of
him, the men under Capt. Kelly’s command de
clared their determination not to wait for him
any longer, and some cl them started oft with the
intention of making their way to the coast and
returning to the United States. After much per
tuasion, Capt. Kelly induced them to remain a
little longer. Some time after, the men again
nartedoff with the same intention, headed by
two officers, Lieuts. Van Vetchten and Crafts.
Capt. Kelly now gave up all hope of Crittenden’s
return, and determined to joinLopeaat Las Poxas
at once. He induced the men to go with him by
threatening to abandon them and start off alone.
He took a negro with hirn as guide, and started
through the woods, to conceal his march and
prevent being cut off The tienda was by this
time nearly sarronnded by Spanish troops, and
Capt. K. was obliged to commence his march in
a retrograde direction, going towards the coast
until he was out of sight of the soldiers, and
then making a circuit through the woods.
Just befote dark they arrived at a largo sugat
estate and stopped at the house. Here they
learned that a company of Spanish soldiers had
passed a short time before, and were also in
formed that a battle had been fought at Las Po
zas, but the people on the estate did not know
which side were victors. They hired another
negro as guide and again started lor Las Pozos
Whan within a short distance of the town they
carne across the main road and saw several com
panies of Spanish troops. They concealed
themselves in the thicket and sent the negro into
the town to ascertain who were the victors He
returned and stated that all was quiet in the
town,and the sentinels wore blue shirts. Capt.
K. then sent Gonzales, who spoke Spanish, into
the town for further information, and about 10
o’clock at night he returned with the Adjutant
General of Lopez’s forces, Schwartzer, who. had
succeeded Gen. Pragay, who had been severely
wounded,in the battle of the morn lug. Ha gave
Capt. Kelly the particulars of the battle, and
stated that they bad best off ;»e e-emy
with considerable loss. Capt. Kelly’s men
were mostly asleep, and on being woke up
and ordered .to march, three of them,
named Frank Breedlove, John Trimble and
Yard, were, as is supposed, left behind asleep, as
they were not again seen. Capt. K. had given
particular directions to his men to see that all
were woke up, but it is thought that in the ex
citement of the moment these men were over
looked, and probably killed in trying to find their
comrades the next day.
On their march to the town Capt. K’s com
mand passed over the battie field, which was
literally covered with the dead bodies of the
Spanish soldiers. Their loss must have been
very great. They were challenged by th* senti
nel, who in ids eagerness, forgot bis duty so far
as to ask if they were Crittenden’s men. This
was the first intimation Capt. Kelly had received
that Crittenden was not with Lopez.
Capt. K. immediately reported himself to Gen.
Lopez, who approved of hie course and appeared
extremely glad to see him. Capt. Kelly wished
to go back and ascertain what had become of
Crittenden, who had eigthy of the best men in
the command with him. Gen. Lopez replied that
he had sent two companies that afternoon to
Crittenden’s relief, and that they had returned
and stated that it was impossible to get through ;
that his troops were already under marching or
ders, and that it was absolutely necessary he
should leave there tbal night, as he would be
again attacked by the Spanish troops in the morn
ing, with artillery. He Intended to make for the
mountains, where he calculated to meet some
Creoles who were said to be inarms there. Capt.
Kelly suys that Gen. Lopez appeared to be very
anxious to join with Col. Crittenden ; but it was
absolutely necessary that he should leave his
present situation before the Spanish commander
could receive Ills artillery, as their position would
soon be rendered untenable. Gen. Lopez had
no artillery, nor did the Pampero bring over any
a* reported. He expected to find a Creole force
in the mountains with artillery, as he had been
informed. Las Poxis is situated about twelve
miles from the sea shore, and at the foot of the
mountain forming the region? called the VuelUt
Abajo. About twenty minutes alter Capt. Kel
ly’s arrival, the whole command were on the
march, and shortly after commenced ascending
the mountains. About daylight they reached a
house used as a sort of general post office lor the
district, and about a mile fartheron they came
across another house, where lhe men got break
fast, which they ata with a right good will. They
rested here until the afternoon, which was much
needed, as Capt. K.’s men had now been on the
march for two nights and one day.
In the cool of the afternoon they again took up
tho line of march, and arrived at a hacienda for
merly belonging to Gen. Lopez about 8 or 9
o'clock on the morning of the 16th. While ta
king breakfast, a party of about 200 lancer* chai
god down upon them,but were soon driven back.
Almost immediately afier, news was received
that u large force of Spanish troops were in a
field about a mile oft, and Lopez immediately
inaiched thither, where about five hundred of the
enemy formed to receive him. He immediately
attacked them with his diminished force, and after
a short but sharp conflict, completely runted
them, they flying in all directions to lhe woods.
In this light Gen. Enna was killed.
After this, Lopez resumed his march and cross
ed the mountains, passing through a thickly set
tled country, until they reached a coffee estate,
where they got something to eat. They con
tinued marching about until the 21st, when their
guide brought them to within a few ihiles of San
Cfuistobal, where, as Gen. Lopez learned trorn a
countryman, there were upwards of 1,300 Span
ish troops. They proceeded to the top of a small
exposed to a heavy rain,’ anß" id ’
star’ed back about fifteen miles, over a road ren
dered very bad and slippery by the rain of tho
night before. They again turned south, on their
way to the houce of a friend, where they intend
ed to rest and put their arms, which had been
much damaged by the rain, in order. While
taking breakfast the next morning, (the 23d.)
they were attacked by a large force of Spanish
troops, Capt. Kelly thinks between four and five
hundred, and hero the invading troops mot their
first reverse, owing to lhe bad condition of their
arms. It was deemed advisable to retire to the
mountains, and Lopez gave an order to that el
feet. Some twenty or thirty men left the main
body and made for the woods. Some of the oth
, ers who remained with Lopez threw away their
guns.
By the time they reached the mountains, it
commenced raining, and rained furiously for
about 48 hours. This completely ruined their re
maining guns, and all their ammunition, besides
preventing them from making fires and getting
anything to eat. When it cleared off, they killed
and ale Gen. Lopez’s horse, tho |ast food they
had. A consultation of officers was now had,
and they demanded that Gen. Lopez should take
them at once to where the Patriot forces he had
spoken of were stationed, or at least reach the
coast, where they might embark for Jamaica or
Yucatan. I,opes consented to their demand,
and they started for the Patriot rendezvous to
tile south. The guide, however, mistook the
road, and led them again to San Cristobal
Here they found themselves in front of a largo
body of troops, who ordered them to surrender,
and on their relusal fired upon them, but the balls
passed over their heads. The Americans at
tempted to rotnrn the fire, when they found that
not a gun in the command would go off. Before
the Spanish troops could again load and fire, the
invaders scattered in all directions and took to
the woods.
From this time until his arrest, Capt. Kelly
states that he and the few men with him wan
dcred about tho woods and rocks, living on the
pith of the palmetto tree and mangoes.
On the 26th. weak and half starved, they were
overtaken and arrested by a party of country men,
who informed them of the pardon proclaimed by
tho Captain General. They were taken to Bahia
Honda, placed on board the steamer Habanero
a.id brought to Havana.
Some of the datjsin the above statement may
be wrong, as they are given from recollection, but
the main facts are correct. Cept. Kelly states
that to his knowledge but two Creoles joined
them, and they were both killed. He and Col
Haines both scout at the idea that Lopez put
posely abandoned Crittenden and his men, and
suy that he would have given his right band to
have had them with him. Capt. K thinks that
as j r Col. Crittenden left him, he concealed him
self in the woods, with the view of drawing the
enemy into an ambush, and that on his return,
finding that Capt. Kdly had left tho tienda, and
not knowing in which direction he had mar* lied,
he and his rneu, being without guides through
tlie country, had concluded to make for (he coast
and put out to sea, in the hope of getting on
board of some American or neutral vessel. That
lie must have had some fighting is evident from
tho fact that when he left (/’apt. Kelly lie had
eighty men, and when arrested there were but
fifty with him. What has become of the thirty
others is a mystery that will probably never he
solved.
Decree of the Emperor of Austria.
Subjoined is a translation, which has been
furnished uh, of the Decree of th’ 1 * Emperor of
Austria, which has created such great excite
ment in Austria and throughout Europe, as
noticed in our Telegraphic dispatch this morn
ing:
“My dear Schwarzenberg :— As the decreed
responsibility of the ministry is deficient in le
gal clearness and precise de’ignation, I feel it
my duty, as Regent, lo extricate the Ministry
from its doubtful political relations, and define
that situ a.io n which it ought to hold as my
council, and as my highest organ of adminin
tralion, and to < eclare it responsible to the
monarch and lo the throm alone, and irrespon
Bible to every other political authority. In
consequence of this principle, the following
regulations will take effect :
“1. The Miois.ry is obliged to fulfil all impc
rial decisions and orders, and likewise to swear
unlimited allegiance to me-
“The Ministry in this new position wiilhave
to deliberate and propose al! laws, regulations
measures of government, <JEc , v htch they may
consider necessary or available, or to the de
liberation of which they may be summoned by
me, and also lo execute all my decisions that
may result from such deliberations.
“3. The Ministry and each Minister io his
department is responsible to me for lheexset
fulfilment of the existing laws, and imperial
regulations. Each minister remains entrusted
with the business of his present departmeDf.
But i reserve to myself to give in this respect
more particular d rections.
“ 4. The Ministerial countersign henceforth
is to be limi.ed to the publication of the laws
and imperial regulations, and will be executed
below the imperial signature by the president
of tho M.ni.try, or by that of tho.e of the
Minutere to ««« department the eobjeet
raav belong, or by the Chancellor of the ex
chequer. 'fhe signature to te accompanied by
[he words, “ on supreme decree.”
Tr.e countersign given a guarantee that tin
legal forms are observed, and that too imperia l
decisions are Lieue-t correctly.
’ “5. Io the pabltaahon of the laws sod io>-