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MUtf Koail .lUtoinnm.
We have a,ready eh'.wn in tbc*e co'amns that
the net profit* of the Western 4t At ant c Railroad
tb- first y ar under Gov Brown fell betuve the aver
age oi (1 v. Johns lii four years, and be] iw the
net profit* of Gov. Johnson’* first year We have
eb i*n this Iron* lb© R-porta of the Saperintrn
(jeots, !>nd the Messages of Gov. Johnson—all
ijyin critic authority—and there has been no de
n'sl. no ©tempt to disprove our statements. W’h j 7
B can e what we state is true and cannot be dis
proves. By the satno doenments, e have also
h wn that the bntinesa has fallen rff utd-rflov.
Brown's admicis ra ion Tam is a fact w hich can
not and will not be denied. W'e w.u now proceed
to tv.w that the Western fin Atlantic Railroad
sh uli have increased instead of d-creased, by
er.h: luting that such has been the case with other
Hj vis.
We give the grrm earnines of the following
Roads for the last two fiscal years of each:
Asian's A West Point, last year %'M,i 060 97
Previous year - i!9J 996 09
Increase, (about 23percent)-...-, 61 hh
Meson*ee R'ied, last year. ........... 5261 1-50 Hfi
Prevdousyear 145,007 22
Increase (about 33 per cent) $56 iv4J 7ti
Geci;i Rrsd, last year |1,154 621 08
Previous year 1,036 572 33
Increase, (about 11 per cent) $ 18 048 75
Central R jad. last year $1 353.7 ca 66
previous year 1 122 611 85
Increase, (about 20 percent).... $231,077 15
A/.nth War * m Road, last year $517 676 43
Pi -jvioas year 391,540 16
Inc'ea e, (about 40 percent) $156,336 2?
sia ■ A Western, last year $325,192 42
P.eVioaa y.ar 291.t79 13
Increase, (about 11 percent) $33 213 23
The above facts and figures are all taken ftom the
Rep rts pnhusLed by taeee incorporations. If the
r tuners are .ruth ui men, the facts are real and true.
1 will be observed that the lowest increase is
abut eleven per cent—the highest about forty per
ca.it—and tiieaverage ab--ut twenty five per cent
If the .ncrease ha- been so general over all the
htate, ou all the Roads wrboSe R^poit-we have
eeen, ought we not to look fi r an equal tnerea-e on
the Hi-ft- K>.o 1 As this is a main trunk Road,
v.i a in re endue than • itber, cugb not tbe ifate
R a t ih-vc increased more than ei’her of the
o ,er 1 Wi think every fairemndeu person will
B , ;K that t Igbl Bu if it lia- ii C eased accv rd
i. iu ihe tVi; -,ge increase of other Hoads, wnat
thou -i he the g.vrt earnings . f tbe Wmiere A At
:a-.i.n Rua. too present fiscal year 7
(i . earning* las: yeai, Were-. ...... .$"1/1 1811 .28
A'.u lb per Cent lowest av .age 80 00-160
,£)!imated grots earning! this year $lB-; 061 z 8
i a’ is what lbs gross earnings should be th-s
vear. if ‘r.e increa-e is only that oi the lowest of ihe
an va it ads. K->w, wbai. ebould it be if the in
r't :-sd beenrqiai to the average i icreaee of
the > i U*d Whose Reports we haeeqio’ed from
—a . ;.u rease which we think it is fair mould have
taken place f
Go a- earnings, last year............. 58011,001 28
Ado 25 or cent average iucrea*eottfae
eu Road- 200 000 00
Estimated gross earn’gs tbisyear,... .$1,000,001 28
As the Report has not yet been made, anti will
not oe for over a month yet, we, of course, do not
it -w the actual amount of groat earnings, but we
cha l pr -r eed to show that they have uot increased
ui, p they have, there is a most awful and bus
pi -I- us discrepancy somewhere.
Before, however, we pr- ceed to do this we will
pve ‘he es imate of Mi George Yonge made in
O-itnbei 18.73 ss to w-hat he estimated the net
ctri li sot the Road should be for a aeries of years
eno-..-’ with S-pt 3n, 1858.
Vji Ihe year cud.ng h-pi 30, 1851 S3OO 000
Sept 30, 1855 355 <ioo
Sept 30, 1856 460 000
B"pt. 30,1857 450,0<10
Sept. 30,18.78 500,000
and t'-ls sum, rr npwaros, tor lfts9 and an succeed
i'g year . Have Mr. Yonge's estimates beenreai
iz;-’ I We will see :
Actual nett earnings to H.;pt 30. 1351 $ -IS 0 0
•• <* Sept. 30 18.5.5 429,000
>• “ Sept. 30, 18.56 490,600
. o S- jit 30 1857 465 000
.< i. Sept 30,1858 406 000
the above figures stow that the four vears oi
G>v Johnson's admlni’rMi"n, the actual nu't
ear-Oo a exceeded Mr Yonge e eettma ea by over
$ (10 OtiO, or an a erugeot over $50,1'00 per annum,
lr proves ‘be curiaetnwM of Mr Y nge s estimate,
wS-n th R bd is under tn ighteueo umuagKUi-nr
h'oi lour years in suoee.-s on the Road paid more
I an one of the mobt accomplished Railroad men
tn ihe bia e ee’iuiaiid it w. uld. Is not this eatis
factory ev and nee cf the value of any opinion he
uij give as in the prospective earnings of a R >sd,
cr i.i inference to the causes of a decline in its busi
nets I We ask the candid inquirer if it Is nut I For
onr-elvi s. we think it is, and we believe the public
will agree with US
Bui Mr. Yonge’s estimates were based on a pro
p-.r anu enlightened management, and when the
Road was uud-r such management it met bis an
diotpatious. Ilut Mr. Yonge never thought such an
individual as Joseph E Brown wou'U over have
the management ot it. When begot to bs Gover
nor mat era changed ; and, eg the above figures
show, (taken tr- ui tbe Superintendent’s lasi re
port.) lbs gi. es earnings and net pri fiis both fell off.
Judge Ifi.oly is said to have remarked that the
Alungh'y might know most thingr, but there was
one thing he didn’t know, and that was, what the
verdict ot ft petit jury would be. We think Mr.
Yonge could estimate so as to know some things iu
reference to Rvilroads, their mauHgemeut and pro
spective earnings, but he c ula'nt foresee that a
conceited booby would ever be Governor, and,
hence, could not estimate the damage he would do !
As w ill be seen, the net profits of the year euding
September 30, 1857, were .....$165,(1119
l-'or the year ending September 30, 1858,.. 406,06(1
Decrease, Brown's first year $59,u(K)
The grow earnings for the year ending Sep
tember 3lKb, 1857, were... 5900,808
Kor year ending 5ept.30,1859............ 860,001
I>©< reuse, Brown's first year $160,u07
Now, we infer, legitimately, that alt the net earn
mg, of tbe current year have been paid into the
Treasury If so, they will prove to be only $ 400,-
000 We pieeume (hat as Gov Brown sand Dr.
Lewis’ fricncs boast over his economical working
oft. eR id the first nine months of his maoage
iuer.t, that ha has continued to work it Btill quite as
O’lcq'i'yi if not, Governor Brown, Dr Lewis, the
Democratic press, and writers nud speakers are
atiempting a base deception. Hence, we infer,
fun tier, that he :s runnii'g the R ad at 33) per cent
of lie gro-a mcouie ; and, if this be so, then the
gn sn earnings ot the Road have fallen to only
$666,000 1 a decrease in business of $260,000 iu 000
year I ft this inference is uot correct, the n expenses
-on.-time a greater pier cent of the gross earnings
t an O- v. Brown and his par izans desire to make
the pu'ilio believe. But the gross earnings have
and e eased
in h i lat Annual Report of Geo Y- nge, Esq ,
to the Get igia Rsi road Ci we find the fol
lowing pssi sge, wb’ch succee-, a statement of the
annuel gross earnii gs ot the Slate Road for the
BeVcu y -ars last passed Mr. Yonge says :
’'E/oa- the above fiiurea i. will be seen that tbo
W> err A A'lautio Railroad c uid only be sus
tali and by it* tbri ugh business—yet, 1 regret losay,
tliat Kadid no c ise part.cipatt-s with its cooui-c
----tioo (vroiatt) 111 rates wliiou are fouud Betfes- ary
to reiain the tn.fSo it ei j ys ; a..c io ?• ..ic cases i's
c s 0,-s *. tn, Uot to a ptobiblUt-n to Western pro
cuct-, which ate and; liveitd at Augusta and Macon
via Ba ‘.iun.ru ’
‘lhe gross earnirgs of thu State Read actually
fa! ff h-t'-rsi ye-u o Gov. B.own's administra
te, n $l"0,60tl There le reason to believe it has
;a S If mre than that th s year Tne opinion is
wt'engL-eoed bv the faot that the receipts of the
Gso;gin R c i from the Wes e n A Atlantic Road
hevo dt creased, ad lie passage quoted from Mr.
Y-i. Western products are driven off the Road
bj pu-bibitory la cs— Alabama Pig l ou driven r ts
siy oionibi'.o.y ra'ea —tbe gross earnings of the
ft ■ c-1 ciunuisl ed th- ruby one m.d two hundred
tuou-an l and .1 rs per uiniuin, and yet J seph E
Bo in Is lauded to tbe ck'es as the model Railroad
oversuer, end as a model Governor!! 1
Gov. Brows usd ihe Dnnh*.
The exp r-nra ot G v. Brown’s intrigue with ‘he
Bai k -s, ui.o. r the circuir.etarces, one of the m .st
damagng revelations ever made against a public
(fit- rin this country He had persists: tiy tn B #d
upon the Legislature the passage of the very liw,
fi r whose violation by a miserable qu bble be con
nl- eu with the Banks! It is wel known that bis
will aod ii tioeuoe secured the passage ot the b II
requuiog the Banks to make oalh that they had cot
taken ii-ierest above a certain per c-nt. ; and his
pompous proclamations against Baiks tailing to
opDiply with the provisions of the laws r-re fresh in
fie re: --1 ection of every cilizsn of the State. It is
nt-w proved, however, that he himself suggested to
sum-- of the Banks a dodge by which they might
evade the laws which he so strenuously demanded
a- 4 (te enced to respect! It was notb.ug more
nor lets than that they should make out their state
u.rr. , a’t -rwarc's do bankii g business lor a day or
two moie. refrainii-g Irom taking the forbidden in
terest during this short interval, and then make their
oath that they baa not vi, a ted the laws * since their
la-t stait uieut''—which slateenert was to be regard
ed as the one tnsds a Jag or tu-o preciously ! The
o and dodge by which one Bi k u.ane ns iep--r: of
specie in its vaults on one day and then scut the
s'to specie “by wheelbarrow ’to another Bank to
fU-ia:u is repurl to be made ou the following day,
was boaest in ooin. arisou with this.
Tn s charge has beeu made and repeated aga nst
Gov Biowu for ten days or a form gbt post, aud he
ift his fr.eude were ci-a langed t • deny it, but they
were mum. They knew that the proot was in hand,
and they would do nothiug to provoke its publica
tion. Giv Brown s letters to the Bank officer*
luruieh this proof, aid it is so direct aud conclusive
that a denial will not be ventured upon.
T questn-u now is, did Gv. Brown favor all
tbe Backs iu this way, or did he have favorites
anion.t them, to whom alone he revealed so cute a
plan ot evading ‘he laws ot the S a’e—laws of which
he had oft nsMy mace himself the champion and
gu-tdivi T Does he intend to demand prooesuings
aga-ust the ua'ortuuate Banks not favored with his
advice, or aga-pst those that were too honest to
profit by i! T We wonder, too, if he has “comma
oioaUd’’ to the Governors of any other States his
u os and convenient pisn of shielding delinquent
iMti'utkme and buuu-uiging the Legislature and
the people with the idea (hat they tad complied
wl h the law ? Is tieie auotw Governor iu the
l’n on that would be a party to saou trick I—CcL
Bu<}r. .
p, *t to thx CoM'gsTiofi.—The news from a!)
ee. tione of the State is chee.ing 1: e sentiinei.f iu
favor ot tbe Opjx-eiuoa c&nt iaate idct* every
wetk, i;iviug hopes ot success. Oar fr.eude,
ev*r> w Here, are beci>nucg hopeful, and, a j
sequeroe, are beginning to work with iucreasii.g ,
ec r*;y. . , .
Ou :fa CSth of this month it 10 proposed to bi**d a
maui.Tifi th M&79 Convection iD city, and tc
have prepar and a tinst da Georgii
Barbecue 1: wiii be on a iarge scalc. and arrat ge
ireo r e wiii bi mide to &cOv inmodate the thoQMDds
wnich we hope will come up to the Convention
The tunee are ail right—our tkiee are brigbte&irg
and tee pe pie everywhere, are coming cp to the
support of Akin with a hearty good wi l.
Cvme to tbe Convention, then, people of Georgia
—caet tff the ebacklte which bind you—ai.d nd
if tbe misrule ot demagogues, who are
lesteni-g with corruption, and have kept the power
they have abused by deception and dufheity
Coin* to the Convention, and iet us counsel tgetfc
er—Ova.*? and let ua all give one more “long pull,
atr-ug pull, and a puli altogether,* to the ovd
tiuL-w of po itical truksters and s'oek jobbers, and
for the eievatiou of m**u i*t opposite principles and
better prsc ct*e. Let ail Georgia oome—come on
—c-’- e all—come everybody—heer the speeches—
g\t fi and w rh Opp<4;:ion ei>thu>'<asai. aua prepare i
to V'.*t® tor Opposition cacd nates from Congress
m*n anc G. vernor cown American
D. Octlawsd in Vmg,ia-Afaw/rttocf
Guv Httt’l K —Mr lX*uglas wuutd alo wed
to keep Ciear *>. \ ng nia. if ne Wuuid n t be tarred
ana i*fcth*rd as an ab.-iition iuc-eooiary Hear
w*-ai Gov. Wise’s organ says of h’s copynght mvni
fei . o.x popular sovereigniy iu Harper s Aiaga
“Hr Douglas* fß*ay can he regarded in n > other
itgh” thaii as a*i tnctaawry documtut c-il -uUt-d to
piodooe nth ng its# T iau . r©paut.oo i(f tae anar
cty a:.d bloodshed wh cH has ;rsiy dbg* the
foi of .‘nr te ritor-t s We ju v bsb i’ only for the
pitrp eof p< iai ng oCt it# err r*. and of warn ug
the o-mse va ve meo cf the whole country ega.nst
th e ia#t a a most dangerous p.a?s which nr.ti*
s -v*>rv eg 1 a bar. yet a s^med. —Jtickmoud
Enquirer Sept 7
L rt- of lard, embr*i >< an area of y 173,-
ff-e >cies t emu ng ’o th- Sou an M iKu
R *ac m tr Act of August, 1866 have bw; t Certi
fied ! ot> 0: kLssJi.ppi by lAt Secretary of
ii, li.tc .Oi.
Got. Brown’s Bank Letter*
Exr.CCTIVt I>s PARTMCHT, >
Hiiiedgeville, Dec 24 Jj, 1858. )
Dear Sir On my return from a visit to the
Office of the W Al A Rairroad, I find your letter, in
which you a*k my opinion on two p'-mts growing
out of the B&Lk Acta of 1857 and 1858. You state
that you do not desire it for publication, but for
your own satisfaction as a director of the Bv>!t
of , with priviiedge tosbow it to a few friends.
As you ere aware, it i# no part of toy duty to oon
strue the law# lor tbe Banks ; i is only my duty 10
eee that they are executed. It is not for me to eay
what is a violation of the Acta of 1867-9, for the
passage of which lam not responsible. The s r a
trte has prescribed tbe c& h to he taken by Bank
Officers. I f is my duty to examine the returns and
sew whether tbe • fficere have taken the oa f b pre
scribed by the statutes. If they have not, it is then
my duty to enforce the penalty prescribed for non
compaance with the law. When the oath is in pro
per firm 1 have no farther concetti with tbe matter
If any one aiieges that the ifflcens have not sworn
truly then the courts are open for the determina
tion of that question. Shon.d proper proceedirgg
be mstituleu under the 12‘i; section of the Act of
1857, it wee and tnen become the cu y of the court
to construe and sty whether the pnxd showed it had
been violated. Ai a personal fnend, however, and
not as a puolic officer, I wiii give you my opinion
on the two points mentioned in your letter, which
is not designed for publication but which you are
at liberty to show to such friends a-* are interested,
provided you do it in such manner that the opinion
.-hail not become tbe subject of newspaper com
ment Your first question is, can a Bank purchase
exchange on New York, for instance at a greater
rte than seven per cent., ae for example, you eay,
a sight bi 1 on New York is usually taken at from
4 to i off, which is about what it would cost to
briLg the amount ol the bill from New York to this
place.
To this I r*p’y that in my opinion the object of
the act of 1857 wae to prevent the Banks from
ta&ii g usunu* interest under tie pre.ext of buying
selling exchange and uot to cripple them m the
transaction ot ordinary iegitima’e Backing ousiness.
It is ead the form of a Billot Exchange and charge
of premium, See , was ofen reported to in traueac
tions intended ae loans to avoid under this pretext
the penalties of taking usuary and Inal they would
not a ncouiit good paper at seven per Ccn\ while
they could get more by resorting to a pretended bill
of Exchatge Tbe slh ; ute was doubt ess intended
to prohibit, ail tbi# kw and of u-uri.us epeculatioi s
In the i-aee you rupp'ne the planter may have due
him in New York tor cotton he does not ul ;h
to use it there but doe- wish tv uee it in havannah
it will cost tirn a 4 per cent, to have hi* money
brought fiom New Y >rk 10 Saumnnh bv Express.
Your Bar k ir. w .y v ah to use fund a m New York.
Y ou therefore cash the Planter# draft disc ntinui. g
ue eum w eb t would cost him so get thie mont y
from New York. This, in my opinion, ts a iegiti
trai f tdior, and is no vi- a ion of the Acta of
1807. li however, ihe Bank C iecoun’s tbe drafts
in ihe c.-se euj p-.-.-ed at more'ban tb* nsul ex
charge but ween the two points, I ihink it a viola
tion of the itatuTe. By u n.iLaUi lit will be seen
that the 10th section o*r the Ar tof 1857 author zes
tbe tale ot exchange by tht-Buks at a premium
which uiue’ not exceed one percent (except incase
of Foreign upon the amount.
The otj ci I presume was to permit the Banks to
buy or sell exchange in a legitima'c c ur#e of basi
net# ateuch discount and premium as the exchange
is actually tco- tk y but not to allow taem to specula’s
in exchange at a greater circount or premium thin
its true market value. Nor to allow them to take
u c uary on trani;actiocs lot ended as a loan by the
substitution of a bill of exchange for a note, no
matter whether the bt 1 be payable in or out of
Georgia. And in Older to maki it the interest ot
tue Bank to do a regulaar discounting business aid
in return for its chartered privileges to accommo
date the citizens of Georgia wi ll regular loaua
upon good paper at seven per cent. The seventh
section of the act ot 1857 prohibits any Bank from
sending any portion of its capital out of the State
tor the purpose of buying notes of any kind This
I do not suppose, was intended to prohibit our
Banks from buying Drafts on pr. dace in any other
stale at the usual ratee of tbe transaction is a legit
imate one id a lair course ts business and not in
tended as a note shaving speculation much depends
in each case upon th* 1 good Mth of the trausacti n
and the question ia, was it a fair bmiueis transac
tion or w-sit a usurious speculation. If the for
mer, 1 should think tha statute was not violated ;
if th* latter it wsh violated.
Iu reply to your second question I have to state
that l is in my opinion the duty of every Bank in
Georgia to make i‘a re>urn as directed m ihe A t
of 1857 by or befoie the nrt day of .January 1858,
anu in cat* cr reluct*! -u to do the two per cent a
month begin* to run undei the act of llih of Dec.
1858. It does not matter whether my call b-are
ua e before or since the passage of the Aots 11th
Dec 1858.
Ihe Act of 1858 provides, however, that ao exe
cution sun 1 issue before Ist Jaly, 1859, aud the
B snks can prevent the execu’ion from i suing by
making their returns r>r or to Ist July 1859, reiatir g
back to Ist January 1809, whether this means that
they should rot swear that they have not violated
tne act (>f 1857, since the Ist January 1859, or that
they have nut violated it at all, aud that their re
turns made after Ist January 1859, shall show their
condition on tfie Ist day ol January isnotveiy
clear If the statute is a cons rued to mean that
the Bank officers bhall all swear in making their
retu r ns a*ter Ist January 1859 to tbe condi iou of
the Bank on ihe Ist January 1859, and shall further
swear that they nave not violated the statutes of
1857, (at aoy time ) it may not be possible for
some of them ever to make their returns, as it is
quite probable some of them have already violated
the statute of 1857, my object is to act on a reason
able construction of tbe Act of 1858, and mch
construction ae will enable every Bank officer in
Georgia who ia willing t* obey the Acts < f 1857,
rather 1 ban pay g the penalties ot the acts of 1858, to
make the returns required I presume it was not the
intention of the I eg. slat cue to require impossibili
ties under penalties. I suppose therefore it was the
intention to require of Banks officers who had
violated the act of 1857, to nay heavier penalties if
they again violated it.. I should therefore act on the
cons ructiou of the statute whioii will allow to every
Bank an opportunity in future to obey the law, aud
in case of reiusa. to do so, I shall use ali the power
vested iu me by the constitu ion and laws ot that
stale to enforce obedience. I : j hall hold that a re
turn made in the following form is a compliance
with the statute.
bTATE OF GEORGIA County
Personally appeared before m- A. B. President
and C D. Chshier of the Btu k ot who being
duly sworn say, that th* Bark of which they are
officers has not by itself its Officers or agents in any
particular violated the provisions of the Aotpaseed
22nd December 1857, Entitled an Act to provide
against the forfeiture of ihe several Bank charters
iu this state on accouut of non specie payment for
a given time aud for other purposes therein named
since the passage of the Act. assented to 11th De
cember 1858, and that th* above statement of tne
said Bank at the la9t weekly meetirg of the direc
tors prior to the late call of tbe Governor ot this
State is true all which deponents, depos*- aid swear
to be true to the best of their knowledge aud belief
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this day of 185 J P
Probably 1 have g ne more into detail than you
desired me to do, adiepo i b n to grati y a friend
is my appoiogy if any be nece-sary.
I am Respectfully your ob'f servenfc,
(Signed) Joseph E. Brown.
Worse than Burk Lameruism.
The provisions of the Bank L w could nat ba
complied with. Th* Bmks must be relieved some
how, ho an 1 ffi *er of one or more of tbe Bti k J p
plied to tb* Governor i ropounding two important
qu*etiouß. lia reply, of between four aud live
closely written pag**s, the Governor fl unusrs
through an argument which makes “confusion
w'ort-e coni >unoeU.” In that letter he says:
“Asa personal friend, however, and not as a
public effi r, l will give you my opinion on the
two pci r men*’ n*d in >iur leit*r, which is not
d* igmd f r publication, but which you are at lin
erty to show i* such friends as ar* interested, pro
vided you do it in such manner that tbe opiuion
shall not become the subject ot newspaper cum
in nt.”
Now citizens cf Georgia, what think you of tha ?
Why should the Govern r be applied to in rh a case,
mere than in any other, as t' his opinion of a law ?
Why could not legal a ivi'-e be. obtained on this, as
w if as on other statutes, without applying to he
Goveruo ? Was the law so complex and amtigu
ouj that tbe best lawyers iu our chief cities could
not understand and curst* uo it?
As Governor, in order to ga’u favor with the peo
pic, he voted a BUI for tbe relief of the suspended
Banks—w hereupon the passed abi 1
over bis head having that, object in view. The
apparent meaning of tbe law involves duties ’he
Banks cannot discharge—so the Governor casts
aside his robes of office and givts his opinion “as a
tneud, and not as a pub ic officer, ’’ as to how the
law may be anpareut y obeyed, and th* Bank
officers saved 11 om peijury 1 His veto Message
was published to the word, why could not this
letter be? Why should secrecy be ei joined ? He
re t rr af lie was doing a wrong, and a mean thing.
Publicly, ne pro esses great concern for tha dear
ptH'pl.’ and denouuces Bank monopolies— privately ,
he connives witn the Banks ai to how the :aw
passed by the pcop e may be evaded !
Sm h detnagoguism, deception and political cor
rupt ion deserves and will receive the public oon
de nuatiou. The very fact that he was thus ap
pro *ched and applied to, shows that the Bank knew
their man—ihat his veto and pretend-d opposition
to ba< ks wc.B oot real—-that they could get what
they pleased—and they got il! But how? Ou
what conditions T Ihe Governor says Lis letter
“j* no i designed, for pubhc-ition y ” and that he will
give it with •‘iioerty to slow it to such friends as
are interested, proridtd you do it in such manner
that the opinion shall not become the subject cf
neirsp ipe* c*immc*t.”
No Georgia* e, mark well that linguae I —His
letie; is not otjsigued for publi aticn— trky? 33is
Yet*> was designed lor publication and was pub
lished—why could not this letter be published?
What was therein i* he whs ashamed of? Di he
feel gui iy as he wrote? Why should h * exores*
sui h* and >ire ? Why write .-tter to one Bank all
sh* ula uot se*? Or, why ”rtte to the banks pri
rote j, secretly , wuat the peop;e auould not see ?
Wky ?
But, above all it must be shown to “snch friends
as are interesred” only in such a way as not to
“become the subject of nttespaper comment! /”
Now. why ? —Gw Brown, why ? What is there in
it the F ecple should not see and kuow ? What
trick are you now playr: g ? What is in that letter
that makes you deprecate and diead “newspaper
comment ?” If tbe people's rights are not invaded
by your secret understanding with the Bank-*, why
fear any and all newspaper comment? Tyrants
and demagogues only, sbuu the free d'tcussions of
their documents and measures in the cew.-papers—
it is they, aud only tUey, who fear to have wha*
they say and do subjected to “newspaper com
ment”
There are but two ways of avoiding “newspa
per comment” One is the bold and courageous
one of despots, of suppressing the pres eutirely, or
overawing it by heavy p.ualiies by law. The
other is tbecoward’y one of privately and secretly
corresponding as G vernor Brown has done, with
tue injunction that it must not “become the sub
ject of i ewspaper comment.” Ard here we have
tue Governor of Georgia, cur Chief Executive,
oxsupying the seat of power, secretly corresporaing
with bodies, wh.m, tn his public documents, he
pretends to De the enemies of the people. G-orgi
aas, ci all parties, what do you tbiuk of it ? A
Democratic Governor of your State writing letters
deeply affecting the public interests, which he is
afraid for the people to °ee! Can such a letter be
cm? stent with the position of the Governor of
Georgia, aud es pec ally of such a very Democratic
Governor as Joseph E Brown—such a great triend
of the dear people 7 Away with such a humbug—
djwu with such al w cetnagogue and unscrupulous
deceiver! —Atlanta Am**tea*
Party not Country.— The Democratic papers
deny tbat Sarator Toombs, in his Lexington speech,
declared h mself unqualifiedly for Douglas for the
Presidency They interpret his remark that be
won and “vo*© for sooner than for any man of
tbe Oppositto\, North orSjuth,” as simply meaning
he would m no event support any other than a
Deauc'at. It signifies a great dea: more—it implies
that Sena'or Toombs L- willing tosupport a Northern
Ft eesi der for the Presidency, if he is only called a
D*-n *cra% in preference to a sound ana reliable
southern siareholdcr who mav cal! himself an Oppo
sition mt n. With him, it i party only that itfiirnoe*
hi* support: the rights or ~-tion are to be over
locked if the Democratic party calls on him to
support Douglas!
N w suppose an Opposition Congressman from
Georgia should, ia dose imna'ion of this r mark of
S-nator Toombs, declare that he would support
Wm U Seward for the Presidercy sooner than any
Democrat North or S uth. What a storm of iu
bign&Ht bluster wculd thereby be elicited ! If tne
State were not soon made too hot to told him, if
wen and not b* because ever* Democratic bellows is
GeegU w- not actively and vigorously at work so
bio* op the fire. If toe people wii p *naer on r he
oontrest, tfeeY mav th-refnm learn a teuson abou*
the sincerity or D*-m>rra c indignation Ia such
CAj-c. —Coiumbtrs F.nq-ni er
Mtsteri its DfAiH ou Wednesday morning
of wrtfc. . o-dy of Anddisoti Kiicrease wf
f’ ULd yiig m bis horse 1 t, qi t* ,jf- **?, and p*r
Le ly nude Bis c* thing, t r whica he bad entirely
Giv i ime-wae y ng in a tea j r.*sir fcia per
eon. Hi# b dy bt-re i.* trace of violence, and the
uu*-unr of h e so as we at© lutormed, re
ma’ns a mystery. Mr K oeaee was a bach© or,
ai o a* he bv*d *Ltire v at n*, if is not known huw
kng be rai b .ietd*heii Lie bxiy was cisoovti
i w.— TuskifiS Rep , &ik.
View* of Ex-Senator toule—Douglaa.
It is obvious that the Administration is utterly
deed ute of friend?, both in the North and in the
South. It is equally obvious that Senator Douglas 1
is rapidly gaining frieors in all sections of the
Union, South as well as North, East as well as
West That the Charleston Convention will be
compelled to nominate him, notwithstanding his
Squatter Sovereignty and Abo , iiion # hereeie, ia be
coming more and more apparent from the position
recently assumed by many leading Southern Dem
ocrats. We err not much in alleging that at least
one-half, if not a greater proportion, of the promi
nent Southern Demounts —that is, those Demo
crab*, who control the rank and file and pack Con
ventions—are either openly or at heart in favor of
the nomination of Douglas Lock at the givings
out of leading >emocrats in Kentucky.. Tennessee.
Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and even in Virgi
nia
But our purpose is simply to call attention to the
views and preferences of Senator Soule, as put
forth in the following extras of a letter from a
correspondent of the New York Times, writing
from Old Point, under date of Aug 31 See with
what giant strides the little Illinois “Giant I 'is
walking into the affectims of the Southern Demo
cracy. The Times correspondent says :
[Richmond Whig.
The leading feature of the news from this point,
is the arrival and sojourn here of the Hon. Pierre
Soul®, fresh from the Bouth It is evident that this
distinguished gentleman designs participating very
actively in the coming Presidential canvass, and he
is already loud in bis denunciation of the Federal
Administration. The bitterest invective I have
ever beard, he pours forth constantly, and save that
although Mr. Buchanan may not be conscious of
any particular corruption on his own part, he
knows wel* those who influence and control him,
and he rdows them to be incapable of an honest
action. The whole policy of the Administration,
he charges, has been one of corrupt speculation,
both at tome and abroad. The page of history
which records me Paraguay Expedition, and the
m< vemenss ot the Administration ae respects the
1 Mormon wa/’ and the ‘Oregon claims, 1 Mr. Soule
says wih be the blankest ever penned. Facte he
says, are yet to come to light relative to these
things, which wnl ehock the moral sense of the
whole country.
“Will the Democratic party in CoDgrees support
or indoree the policy of Mr. Buchanan ? Mr.
Soule eays this is the all important question If the
corrupt swindling, intriguing and deceitful polio?
of Mr. Buchanan (as he terms it) be endorsed,
then, says tbe great Louisianian, the Democratic
party is lost beyond redemption ; but if the admin
i lira tion De entirely ignored , not warred upon— but
paosed bv as if it existed not, then he has strong
nopes. Upon the action of the next Congress, be
thinks, tne next Presidential contrast entirely de
pends.
“ i he maci'eetoof Senator Douglas, as published
by the Harpers, rtctivestne hearty indorsement of
Mr.is ;u e, woo| roucuncesit periectly unanswerable,
sue southern statesman who dares occupy a differ
eat grourd he charges, is either blind or dishonest
Tne paper cf Senator Douglas, he says, will meet
the cordial approval of the National emocracy ,
nor does be doubt the nomination of Mr. Dougiae
by ihe Charleston Convention. Mr. Parham, an
other distinguished politician, from the ‘Sugar
Sta e,’ fully “orrubo: ares all these views. Not only
would L misiana stand united for the ‘Little Giant,’
but from an infimate knowledge of the people of
Mississippi, among whom he Lad late'y mixed, he
was sausfie J that State wou.d send to Charleston a
Douglas delegation.’’
Hr. Stile,’* Speech—Gov. Brown’, War upon
the Bunks.
We publish, this morning, a speech on the Bank
qyastiou, delivered by the Hon Wm. H. Stiles in
tbe Senate of G orgia, in December last. Tbe
report was prepared oy ourselves, aud omitted at
the time for want of room. Though pretending to
nothing further than a synopsis, it ie correct, and
will be found to contain a fair and impartial state
ment of the position of the Banka of Georgia iu the
late suspension, and the issue then pending between
those institutions and the Kxecutive ot the State.
Tne matter has never beeu tul.y understood by the
people, as every effort has been made by dishonest
men to blind aud lead them astray.
It wiii be seen that the suspension was no volun
ta. y act on tie part of the Banks, but one of ne
cessity, arising from a state of affairs which they
had no part in cringing about; that the oouree of
Guv. Brown towards them was unexampled in otn
er States whose Banks were iu a bimilar condition ;
that it onginated in total ignorance ot financial
affairs, and was dictated by a desire to win popular
appiauce i jawar of labor agaiust capital; a; and
finolly, that had the intentions of Gov. Brown been
carri.d out aud the Bunks forced mto liqu.dat.on at
a time of universal panic and financial trouble,
when no man could have realised his assets in cash,
one broad wave of devastation aud distress would
have swept over the State and beggared our peo
pie. Fortunately, a Democratic Legislature inter
posed between him and the people and saved the
State fiom utter ruin and disaster. The Banks
could only wind up by compelling a settlement
from their debtors, and how could they have settled
in a time like that 1 Wih rained merchants aud
all comineice at a stand-still, what would have been
tbe condition of the planter with his crops rotting at
home, and indeed of every other class of the com
munity, except the few moneyed Bhylocks, who
would have been turned loose to prey upon ibe
necessities of the people aud eat out their sub
stance ?
This, fellow citizens of Georgia, is the state of
things that your present Governor would have
brought upon you, had he not been ohecked in his
career of madness and folly. And now, forsooth,
he calls upon you to reward him for what he would
have done had he been allowed bis own way I We
hope you will reward him, and Justly, by showing
that no reckless demagogue has a claim to your
confidence or support.
At another time we shall have something to say
of the conc usion ol - ‘.car, aDd of how Gov.
Brown, instead of getting the Banks under his feet
and bringing them to terms, as has been falsely a!
leged, went to work to conciliate ‘.hem in a manner
both disgraceful to himself and derogatory to the
high office which he holds by the suffrages of the
people We intend to show them, as we have al
ready done in part, how they have been deceived
ana misled on this question, by a course of fraud and
and ‘ub'o dealing that stands without a parallel. -Back.
Republican.
That Lkttf.r.—The Intelligencer of this morn
ing, commenting on the letter written by Governor
Brown to the Banks, asks tbe following questions:
“Cannot the people be trusted to put meir own
conetiuction on that letter? Are the voters ot
Georgia to be hoodwinked by such a piece of po
litical rascality ?”
We don’t know, hardly, whether the people can
or ought to be trusted with a sight of the letter—
much less be allowed to put their construction upon
it. Suppose the Intelligencer asks Us “master,’’
Gov. Brown 7 That Lilliputian functiona y, just
now tbe object of our cotemporary's adoration,
saj s that he gives the opinion as a personal friend,
to be shown to a few friends, and not for publics
tion —and that it must be sho v n to thoße few friends
in such a way as not to produoe “newspaper com
ment.’’ Now, Gov. Brown’s opinion was that he
was writing something the people should nut see.
If he was not, why be so particular to eijuin se
crecy 7 It matters very little whether there was
much in the letter or not; it might be very silly—
it might be too ambiguous for anybody to unuer
stacd—it might be v6ry weak.
These might be reasons why Gov. Brown did not
wbh it so bo euhiected to “newspaper comment.’’
Bat it matters not what it contains—or whether
ridi ulously silly or extremely weak or ambiguous
—for some cause —either one or all of these, or the
fan’ that he was doing an infamous act—one that
deserved condemnation, and one that even his
judgment and conscience oondea.ned while en
gaged in it—caused Gov. Brown to desire it should
not r ach the public gaze! The questions pro
pounded to the ‘ American'’ would sound better if
propounded to Gov. Brown Suppose we ask
them oi Gov. Brown iu the “Intelligencer's” own
language 7
“ Cannot the people bs trusted to put their own
construction tn that letter? Are the voters of
Georgia, to bs hoodwinked by such a piece of ras
cality 1”
We will add the following—Why, Gov. Brown,
din’ you request the letter should not be subjected
to “uawsp per comment’’ unless you believed it was
wrong lor you to write it, or that it contained some
thing you did not wish people to see 7 —Atlanta
American.
The Iron Prohiutoky Tariff. —Dr Lewis
the superintendent of tbe State Road, has written
a letter io the Journal & Messenger, in which he
throws all the responsibility of the nr,just disorimi
nation in favor of his iron interests, upon the Gov
ernor Ee alone, it seems, made this very oomfort
able provision tor his particular friend, fir. Lewis
bavin; declined, from the fact that he was engaged
ia the iron business himself.
This only makes matters more conclusive against
the Governor. Dr Lewis is a sort of god father to
his Eroellency, and, of oouree,entitled to hisspecial
consideration; hence the shameless abuse of the
authority granted by tbe Legislature. When that
body passed a resolution for reasonable encourage
ment to the iron interests of the State, who but the
Governor, constiued it int, authority to destroy
the business of oifizena of Georgia, (Messrs. Coth
ran & E.liot say “it stopped the sale of our iron”),
and to deprive the road of the larger proportion of
ts lucrative business in that article I Did any mem
ber of the Legi-’K-nre suppose that he was enacting
a prohibitory tariff wuen he voted tor the resolu
tion ! W e apgrenend not.
We also perceive that Dr. Lewis and the Gov
ernor have relented, aud promised to reduce the
freights on the Rome iron. We are not surprised
at rneir reconsideration after such an exposure.—
Barannah hepub’ican
“ Who Killed Ltc. mpton.’’— Our neighbor,
after mating a vain assault uoon our editorial,
bearing the above caption, yields the whole poiut
in controversy, by admitting that the “ vote stood
72 yeas, to 160 uayß, upon the only direct vote
upon the admission r f Kansas, with the Lecomp
ton Coustituion!” What sense, then, is there, in
his a’tack upon us He goes further and justifies
the 58 Northern Democrats, who voted against
General Quitman's amendment (tbe vote above )
Then, of Course, the Southern Democrats, who vo
ted for it, must have voted wrODg. Our neighbor
proves (if anything) that the Southern Democrats
are lees reliable than the Northern Democrats. Hie
statement that a “ small minority"’ of the Demo
crats united with the Republicans and a “ large
majority” of tbe Americans, to r.ject Kansas des
pite the Democratic party, is simply ridiculous.
Os the Democrats. 66 voted one way and 57 anoth
er—no “small minority” certainly. Our friend’s
suggestion that he “ does Dot know but that the
Americana wsuld unite with Douglas against the
Democrats” is wholly gratuitous, as unfounded
upon anything he does snow, aud absurd, as that
could not be done, without uniting with the Demo
crats too. since Douglas is not only in full teilcwsbip
with them, but at the “ top of the pot. ’ However
as the News makes it a question of personal igno
rance or information with himself, we take no fur
ther issue with him.
Eiguth District —The candidates for Ccn
gre Bin the Eighth addressed the citizens of Ogie
thorpe one day iast week We learn that Col.
Wright not only used up his very weak and feeble
antagonist, but left not even a grease spot! How
any man can vote for Jones in preference to Wright
we cannot imagine. We cannot believe that a
majority of the voters of that District will do so.
It was thought that Mr. Stephens would assist
Jones ; but we ieam from the Chronicle 3c Senti
ne. that inasmuch as nobody helped him he is nor
disposed to take any par: in the present contest,
l’hls is right and consistent. Little Elick seems
still bent upon “ toatiug n s own skillet. Bobuel,
on the other hand, is “doing bis level best” for
Joaee The people will know how to appreciate
such conduct. —Athens Wctchman.
Pvgh os Docglas —Mr. Pugh, the recently
elected suooess r to the iron E.i S. Shorter, to
Congress from the second district of Alabama,
while addressing the people of Lowndes county,
being interrogated as to his probable support of
Judge Douglas, should he be the nominee of the
Charleston Convection, is reported to have an
swered promptly as follows :
He repudiated Stephen A. Douglas and his odious
doctrines—his squatter sovereignty—ms territorial
poicy—his coLetruction of the Cincinnati platform,
and the who;e etricg of his vile teachings. Being
esked if he would support Douglas under tbe
Cnaritston Conven'ion. he said, emphatically, “No!
I would hot support Stephen A. Douglas if he was
nominated on my own platform.” He said that ; 'e
regarded Douglas as aounupt man, and unworthy
of the support ot uue patriots, no matter what
platform bs o.i*bt run on or what promises he
in gtr make. If Douglas should receive the nomi
u,tion of the Charleston Convection, he advised
hat we nominate a separate ticket, and appoint
■ur bee’ men as electors, and beat him. He ad
vised Southern Eights Democrat to go to the
Charleston Convention Bi.d demand the endorse
ment of the Cincinnati platform, the repudiation of
squatter sovereignty, the protection of stave prop
erty in the territories, and the recognition of all the
rights c'aimrd by the 8 ‘Urh I* the Southern
members could not control the convention hoc
carry these points that they should then quit the
concern and cdh home. He desired to make on
more effort to preserve tbe Union cn print pte, bu
n t veiy li’tie c.evidence in the success of the
ffort It it failed, then he wanted the South to be
a -red-as one man, and buret the unholy band- and
i a take an ind-pendent position out of the Union.
By this step the South could ioee nothing, having
.c’e resource* and power to control tne manufac
turing ar.t commercial interests of th© world.
Melange about the Japanese.
A letter from Shanghai, China, of June 14. writ
ten od board the Powcatan to tbe Journal of Com
merce contains some interesting informal ou about
tne Japanese, and their facility in mastering tbe
English language, also descriptive of their manners
and habits. The writer, it appears, kept a school
at Nagasaki, sod thus speaks of the deportment
towards him and towards one another of his pupils :
“Japari-e BoTs at School —How gracefully
they walked in! How low they bow >-1, alt these
coming forward to shake hands. What smiles
-I ways sat upon their faces, while they instan’ly eat
down to tbe table, and vigorously commenced tbe
studies of the day ! Nor was their courtesy to me
greater than ta one another ; for when one came in
later thanthe rest,they rose to receive him, while he
held his head almost to tbe floor in return. Not one
instance of disobedience or disrespectoccurred; not
me angry or disconrteoue word was uttered—not
one moment’s passion was lowered upon a single
face. Sentiments cf natural affection soon sprang
up, which was strengthened to tbe close of the
school and made the last hour trniy painful.”
In the course of his rambles with those pupils, he
discovered what looks like another Aceldama.
The Site of the old Prison —Through their
aid I succeeded in discovering where the old prison
had afcxfti in which so many Christians were incar
cerated, starved, and tortured, till they died, and
more interesting still, tne very hill on which thou
sands of martyrs bad been put to death by burning,
by suffocation, by suspension by the heels while
half of the body was crowded into a hole dug in the
ground, by crucifixion, and cutting the body into
pieces, and then throwing the whole into tne bay
over which the hill hung.
He found the utmost difficulty in teaching them
how to pronounce tbe letter L, which they always
slid into V. He adopted the following novel mode
of communicating tbe true meaning of the word
organ, a musical instrument:
The Smith s Foroe. —How could the idea be
communicated 7 I could give the form of the in
strument, and put my fingers upon tte keys ; but
where was the invisible agent which gave the
sound 7 I was profoundly perplexed, and all my
attempts at explanation by signs were in vain.
At las: I rememOered tbe blacksmith's forge wLicb
I had seen in the city, and succeeded iu making
them understand what I meant —striking on an
imaginary anvil, pulling at the bellows’ handle,
and puffing my cnee a to expel the air. lustantly
they caught the idea of the bellows Next I lo
cated tue imaginary bellows behind the imaginary
organ, pu ling a man to biowing, while I fingered
the imaginary keys in front, and with my voice
struck out straius which, if, they did not quite equal
those of Orpheus, were certainly as useiul to the
y uug Japanese, who instantly caught the Ideas,
arid bioke out m shouts u. deiightiui admiration.
The patronymics ot some ot tne boys might be
interesting as samples of Japanese names. The
following ...e a tew :
Kita.i ‘h Motnolitero, Isabasi Sbedsura, Swasay
Yaairo, Mirm i lsods Keinoake, Nalaby
ath Eisyam-hn, A.si Zomida, Xamura Ganechiro,
Yocoyama Jiatanojaw.
Japanese Chiri/Grathy—They had never
written wpl a quiff, but instantly u.-ed it with the
utmost ease, but from habit preferred the hair pen
cil universally m use .by the Japanese as well as
the Chinese. India ink was tbe only kind used.
Their specimens oi ehirography are so much alike
that it is bard to clistiuguish one rrom another, while
the round, tnanly hand Could be improved by no
master
The boys evinced much affection for their teach
er, as well as great aptitude in acquiring the Eng
lish language. They endeavored to make him
prolong uis stay among them, but finding they could
not euoeeed, two of them wrote iu English (alter
only two months’ study of the language)—
“Master , teacher of the Eoglish language
to tne, has been very kind during nis stay here,
therefore I will never forget his labors.”
Another wrote —
“How long will the ship Powhatan tarry in this
Bay 7 Your disciples will take sore great contri
tion if you go to America, as you are the fit master
to give your forlorn disciples lessons.’’
“He showed tbe Lieutenant Governor a copy of
the Journal of Commerce—“the first American pa
per ever read by Japanese.” They have no news
papers in Japan, but he found a good printing
establishment at Nagasaki, hiving one large
machine press end two or three small ones, with
metallic Roman and Japanese type and good paper
in abundanc-, and a biudery in connection, the
whole owned by the Government, and all labor iu
composition, in press work and binding, performed
by the Japaucse, wr ucat tbo least aid or supervi
sion ot tbe Dutc l The idea of a Japanese news
paper was anew one, but struck the Governor
and interpreters favorably. It is a question simply
of time.
The sohool was conducted without any reference
to ormpensafiou, but the Governor sent him some
present, —rendered valuable by being accom
panied by a bit of.
Fish Skin.—l was Bent a hancsotne lacquered
cabinet ana box, ot Bmall dimensions, but exquisite
workmanship, each tastefully enveloped in white
paper, which a curd ol gilt strands tied around, be
tween which and the paper was inserted a piece of
dry fish skin, a foot long and au inch wide, tvjiich
one might have thought belonged to a fish caught
off Cape Cod. This queer article always accom
panies a letter from a uiguitary, and even from the
Emperor, being designed so remind the recipient
that as the ancestors of the Japanese were once
poor fishermen, the descendents, like them, should
be industrious and economical. Such a custr mis
worthy of the best day of the Spartans. For myself,
I shall value my bit offish skin from the Governor
of Nagasaki higher than a gold snuff box from the
Queen of England. A few Japanese words in
tfamiDg characteis on a strip of paper attached to
the principal article, made the contrast most sin
gular, if not indeed ludicrous.
Additional by the Europtt.
Halifax, Sept. B—The steamer Europa, from
Liverpool on the 27th ult., arrived here last night.
The rumors from Zurich are to the effect that
some progress iu tbe Conference is being made, and
it will probably come to a successful conclusion
early in September.
Sardinia refuses ‘o accept, even provisionally,
the annexation of the Duchies, without consulting
the other powers, particularly France.
The Italians maintain a firm attitude in regard to
their national independence.
The harvest in England and France is about
completed.
The steamship Ocean Queen arrived out on the
25th, and tbe Persia on tbe 27th.
A Berne. Switzerland, telegram of the 24th says
the French and Austrian Plenipotentiaries had
regulated the settlement of the affairs of Lombardy,
with the consent of the Sardinian Plenipotentiary,
and that the arrangement was expected to be con
firmed by the sovereigns.
Affairs in the Duchies are to be treated as di
rectly between the courts.
At Paris and Vienna, the impression prevails
that the conference will be suooesstully concluded,
early in September.
Austria, it is said, had modified her instructions
to her Plenipotentiaries.
The trotting race near Liverpool resulted in the
defeat of the American horse, Jnck Rossiter, by
the English horse, Daw. The American horses
Mountain Boy and Dreadnought, obtaiued the 2d,
3d and 4th places in a field of seven borees. Pem
broke’s two-year old colt, Umpire, won two more
races at Stockton.
The London Advertiser’s Paiis correspondent
sayß French engineers hau been sent to survey the
whole line of the coast from Bologne to Calais,
and to fix upon a spot for a seaport sufficient to
contain a fleet of fifty tranpports, and that the Min
isters of Ma'iue had notified subalr.eran officers
that fifty transports, each capable of containing
20.J0 men, must be ready opposite Dover, Eng., by
the commencement of the ensuing year. The
writer eays full confirmation of the fact has been
telegraphed to the English government. He con
jectures that an altercation with Belgium will sup
ply a pretext for a rupture with England. This,
however, is regarded as a canard.
Ir is thought tbe Belgian Senate will reject the
Antwerp fortification bill.
The object of a defensive league between Tus
cany. B jlugna, .aid Modena is stated to be to pre
vent the restoration of ihe fallen governments, and
lay down a basis for assimilation in their institu
tions.
The National Assembly of Modena was pro
rogued on tbe 23J, having previoutly unanimously
voted decree? confirming the dictatorship of Farina,
and giving him full power to contract a loan of
5,000.000 livrea for the erection ot a monument
to commemorate the vote decreeing the forfei’ure
of Francis V. and ihe annexation to Piedmont, and
charging the dictator to negotiate with foreign
powers for the restitution of political prisoners.
Vienna letters express apprehension that the
difficulties of the Italian question will not be set
tied at Zurich, and give a report that the furloughs
to Austrian 3oidiers returning to Italy have been
suspended, and seven corps a’armee, out of twelve,
will be retained on a war footing.
Advices from Canton state that a fleet of 192 (?)
vef-sela preced >d the French, English and American
Ministers up the river Peibo, to force, if necessary,
a passage to Pekin. _
Negro Tragedy in DeSoto County, Missis
sippi.—We learn from a reliable source that on
Saturday night last, a negro man belonging to Mrs.
Mayfield, cf Horn Lake, DeSoto couaty, Missis
sippi, killed his wife uuder the following circum
stances : As customary, he proceeded on the night
above named, to visit his wife who lived on the
neighboring plantation of Dr. Rain Q . When he
arrived at her cabin he entered it quietly, and
discovered his wife asleep, locked in the arms of
another negro. F.rtd with rage and jealousy, he
determined *o take tbe life of the destroyer of his
peace, and with this purpose in view, went out and
procured an axe, with which he returned to the
room aud attacked, as he thought, his wife’s para
mour but owing to .fie excitement under which he
wa9 laboring, an~ the darkness which pervaded the
room, the blow which ua strucx with the axe,
instead of killing the man severed the head from
the body of hia wite. Th* biow awakened the man
sleeping with her, who sprang irom tbe bed and
made his escape. The outraged bur baud repaired
at once to Hernando, where he arrived a short time
beiore daybreak on Sunday morning, proceeded to
the Court House and rang the bell violently, which
soon brought a crowd of alarmed citizens togeth
er, to whom the negro related, substantially, the
above story, and said that he wished to place him
self in custody of the Sheriff. He was taken in
charge and committed to jail. —Memphis Avalanche i
9 th inst.
Children for the West.— A very interesting
spectacle was witnessed at the depot of the New
York and Erie Railroad on Monday afeernoon on the
occasion of the departure of thirty children who
have been reclaimed from the streets (in Bumerou3
instances from abandonment by their natural pro
tectors) through the instrumentality of the New
York Juvenile Asylum, and are now on their way
to homes in Illinois. The company consisted of
boys and girls in about equal proportions, filling
one car. The car load was selected from about
four hundred at the Asylum near High Bridge, and
who, after undergoing careful training and culture,
give promise of becoming useful men and women
They are sent out in the charge of an indenturing
agent, and will be looked affer at short intervals,
to see that tbe new relationships lormed are mutu
ally advantageous.
A Fancy Hotel Thief. —Mr. Wm D. Daven
port, of Americus. Gv, stopping at the Howard
House, had hia trunks broken open on Wednesday
night, aud a variety of goods stolen therefrom.
He called in the aid of officer Devoy, who, after
some eearch, found tne goods secreted between the
m&ttrafses in the room of a friend of Davenport’s,
named Henry Watson. Watson professed to be
uvtijoyed at the discovery of the goods, and pro
poeed that the officer should get under the bed and
wait till the thief should return for the stolen pro
perty. So, under the bed Devoy ©sconced himself,
out he had’not been there long beiore he made up
his mind that Watson was himself the thief. He
arrested his man. therefore, without more ado, and
brought him before Alderman Brady, where he
admitted his guilt, and claimed to be a gentleman
of wealth and position in Texas. Watson ia a
splendid looking fellow. — N. Y. Express.
Paintir g on porcelain seems to be quite the rage
at present in Paris. It is the pastime of all the
fashionable young ladies. The set ot porcelain is
purchased and tnen painted according to the fancy
of the purchaser, wilh paints prepared for the pur
pose. Then it is sent to the porcelain baker who
bakes it three times, which so fixes the colors that
they become permanent, and wiii last as long as
the China. Os course the baker must thoroughly
under? and his business, as the pi ocess of baking
is apt, if net properly attended to, to crack the
China. Not long since a baker fell asleep and broke
SB,OOO worth of porcelain, for which he was obliged
to make restitution.
Schoolmaster Caught. — A few days since an
ex-sefiool teacher. Dot a tucired milfrom here,
was rambling in the woods with a friend. The
weather was warm, and he had taken eff nis boots,
which he had in his hand. In the coarse of hia
ptregrinations he fiund a sapling curiously bent
•>ver. wi r fiout anything apparently to hold it. Our
pedagogue ? s curiosity was excited, and he marched
apiomtkc an examination, when he suddenly found
Mmseii go’ng teet foremost In bis fright at this
novel position, he dropped his boots and &.ogh!
hold of a little tree near by. aud thus saspenceu b>
one foot io m and ai r , bunging on to the busi for
oear life to keep fr m go’rg up he knew not how
far, the knight of the birch cried lustily for help, aDd
tiie companion soon liberated him from his ludicrous
situation. He bad incautiously placed his fr ot lu a
snare fixed for a moose by some enterpriairg hun
ter.— Aroostook Pioneer.
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Opposition Nominees in Richmond.
Toe Convention of the Opposition in Richmond
county, inst in Augusta, on Saturday last, and
nominated the Hon. Thomas W. Miller for the
Senate, and Col. Wm. J. Rhodes and the Hon.
William Gibson for the House. This is one of
the beet tickets in the State, and it OBiy remains
for the people to go to work and elect it by three
hundred majority.
Col. Mil ledge, formerly for many years the
Representative of Richmond, in a very graceful
and manly manner, declined, on account of private
considerations, to allow his friends to use his name
ia the Domination, and pledged,hie hearty support to
the nominees.
Accepted.
W e are authorized to say, and we say it with the
greatest pleasure, that the Hon. Thomas W. Mil
ler, Hon. Wm. Giß3oN,and Wm. J. Rhodes, Esq.,
have accepted the nomination tendered them by
their IrieDds last r Saturday. What other county in
the State can boa3t a better ticket ?
Senator Toombs at Concert Hall*
On Thursday evening last, accoraiug to an
nouncement, our distinguished Senator, the Jupiter
Tenons of modern Democracy, gave us a specimen
of his powers in his usual peculiarly furious and
frothy style. We always hear the Senator with
great pleasure, but his effort last Thursday night
was unequal to his former self He broke down at
one hour aud twenty minutes, and clossd as glow
ingly as possible, considering the early hour of the
evening. We shall pay our respects at our earliest
convenience.
Heavy Work !
The gentleman who does the “heavy work” of
the Constitutionalist gets off two seventy-fours
in their daily issue ot Wednesday last, on the Signs
in the Heavens, and “otherwise.” If that’s you,
“Captain Scott,” we’ll come down—you netdn’t
eboot By the way, is there not mere danger at
the breech than at the muzzle ?
Col. Wright at Savv-Dist. —A complimentary
dinner will be given to Col. A. R. Wright, at
Saw-Dust, in Columbia County, on Saturday, the
17th September, inst. All persons are invited—es
pecially the ladies.
Akin Barbecue —Everybody Invited. —Ou the
last Wednesday in September, (27th,) there w ; ll
be a grand Barbecue given at Atlanta, by the sup
porters of Col. Akin, to which every one will be
welcome without distinction of party. Distinguish
ed statesmen and speakers from this and adjoining
States are expected to bo present, and every mea
sure will be taken to make it one of the most inter
esting events of the c ;mpaign.
The Democracy iu Couucil©
On Thursday last, tbe Democratic party of
Richmond couuty, according to previous announce
ment, met at Concert Hall, io the number of forty”
three, including spectators, for the purpose of
nominating candi-u.Uj lor the Legislature, L D.
Lallekstedt, Esq , acting as Chairman, and
Thadkus Oakman as Secretary. John Fhinizy,
Esq., in a short speech, proposed J. Cumming, Esq.,
for the Senate, and E. J. W alker, Eeq., and Mr.
Jno. D. Smith, for the House. Mr. Shewmake
suggested the policy of postponement, to see what
the Opposition would do, or, at least, a pootpone
inent so far as regarded the Senate. Mr. Phinizy
replied, with some warmth, that he wa3 a man of
princ’ple and not of policy, and insisted on the im
mediate nominat’on, as he did not know whether
Mr. Shewmake or hia instigator, Mr. Jennings,
would support the ticket, when nominated. Mr-
Phinizy’s motion was carried, with but one dis
seuting voice. A committee escoited the nominees
to the Hall, where each, in a few remarks, accepted
the nomifiatiou.
Mr. CuMMirG, we believe, formerly carried a
“dark lantern,” but the other gentlemen are double
and twisted for a time so far back that
“the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.”
Homicide in iticamond County.
An unknown man was found on Thursday last
by the and >wn passenger train, about two miles be
low Bel Air, lying across the Railroad track, his
body nearly cut in two, as it ia supposed, by the
one o’clock A. M. up passenger train. It is sup
posed that the man was murdered by someone,
and laid across the track. It appears that there
was a pool of blood found where it is thought the
body lay when the train struck it, and but little blood
where the body was fouud lying by the down
train. His head appeared to have been struck by
some very hard, sharp-coinered instrument, proba
bly of au axe, and it appeared from the hair that
the wound had been washed. The hair was cut.
The man was of dark complexion, perhaps forty
years of age, stout built, five feet eight or ten inches
high, black hair, would weigh IGS to 175 pounds,
had on a sack coat and vest of blue ootton drills
His pantaloons seem to have been torn off by the
wheels—the body had been moved some thirty
yards by the train. The verdict of the Coroner’s
jury was that the man came to his death by the
hand of some person or persons, to them, unknown,
and the body was afterwards placed on the track,
the bead lying outwards. The wheels passed over
the chest and abdomen.
It is thought from an unfinished letter to his
wife, and a piece of brown paper, which had been
Hsed to wrap letter packages, found in his posses
sion, that the man was from Carolina, and had
beeu to Montgomery, Ala., looking for a situation
as overseer. He calls his wife Rachel, and speaks
of Cousin Bob Smith, in Montgomery county,
Ala. A carpet sack was found eome two hundred
yards from the body, with a key tied to it, and the
sack contained a black satinet vest and eome other
clothing. Thirty-five cents ia silver was found in
the blood w’here th* body lay. A man, answering
to the description, got off the down passenger
train of Wednesday at 6 o’clock, P. M., at Bel-Air.
The position of Hon. I liarlett J. Jenkins in the
Gubernatorial Content©
As we are frequently asked what is the position
of our distinguished fellow-citizen, Mr. Jenkins, as
between Gov. Brown and Col. Akin, wo take
great pleasure in stating for the information of all,
and we state it on the most reliable authority, that
Mr. Jenkins, though outof public life, and desirous to
remain so, is in favor of the election of Warren
Akin to theojjice of Governor of Georgia, and will
vote for him. *
A SrEF.CH Stolen.— The Augusta Constutional
ist complains that its report of Mr. Toombs’ speech
on Thursday night, was stolen from the office after
it had been written out from the reporter’s notes.
The editor says : “the question now is, who stole
it ?”
We regnet that we have no positive knowledge
of the larceny, so that we might enlighten our co
temporary. But, as all accounts represent the
speech as just such an ODe as the Opposition would
be very glad to see in general circulation, the only
solution that occurs to us is, that some terrified
friend of the Senator has committed tbe crime. We
feel very sure that the Constitutionalist need not
travel, in its eearch lor the thief, beyond the pale
of its own political household. It may rest assured
that Mr. Toombs opponents will never desire to
destroy his record. —Savannah Republican.
The current talk yesterday afeernoon that the
stolen speech would make its first appearance by
request, in the columns of tbe Constitutionalist to
morrow, we hope will prove correct. Our only
desire is that it sbifil be the bona fide, spoken speech
of Concert Hall—that nothing shall be taken from
or added to that precious document. By the way,
if the enemy should accidentally lay hands on the
stolen article, might there not be a good opportu
nity for comparison ?
Literary— Messrs George Augustus Sala and
Edmund Yates arejointly engaged upon a fantastic
work, which is to describe the imaginary invasion
of England by the French.
Mies Mary Ann Evanp, author of “Adam Bede,”
has already received from Messrs. Blackwood for
that work upward of $20,000. She is engaged upon
anew novel for the same publishers, which is said
to be of a different character from any of her pre
ceding works.
Messrs. Derby & Jackson, New York, have in
press a volume by Miss Augusta J. Evans, of Mo.
bile, entitled “ Beulah The same publishers also
issue a work called “ Sylvia's World ” ; and Crimes
which th* Law does not reach,” by Sue Pettigrew
King, of Charleston.
Baldwin, Reed Cos. — w e would call the at
tention of our readers to the new firm of oar clever
young friends, whose advertisement will be seen in
to day’s paper.
Rev. C. W. Howard’s Address —We have
received a copy of the “Address delivered before the
Sigourney and Nightingale Societies of Macon
Female College, by Rev. C. W. Howard, GriffiD,
July 7th, 1859.” We have read this address with
unalloyed pleasure. It is a chaste and scholarly
production, abounding in passages cf great beauty,
embodying vital truths. The subject—the mental
and moral education of woman—is treated in a mas
terly manner, and the felicitous style of the writer,
and the earneetness of purpose which animates
him, will maks hia address popular beyond the So
cietiee before which it was delivered. The Boara
of Trustees of Griffin Female College have done
a wise thing in publishing this address in a neat
pamphlet form ; and we hope it wi lbe extensively
read, feeling assured, in the words ot the Commit
tee of Correspondence, “that its per*i3al by the
women of Georgia would conduce much to their
moral and mental elevation.”
Akin in Fulton. —Tne Atlanta Confederacy
thus writes cf the Democratic county of Fulton :
“We have every assurance that Akin will carry
Fulton counrv by a very large majority. It will
not fall short of 3JO. Probably ic may go to 500.
The reaction in bis favor is tremendous. And,
from constant information, this is the case all over
tbe S ate All that is necessary for eucceee is for
every well wisher to do his duty.”
The Great Eastern. —Extensive preparations
are making in Poriland, Me., for the reception of
this ocean monster, which is to sail for that port on
the 15th inst. The New Yorkers are anxious she
should pay them a visit; and as there is not suffi
cient depth of water for her to enter the harbor bj
way of Sandy Hook, it is suggested that she might
reach there through Long Island Sound. Thousands
of persons from all parts of the country, will visit
this floating wonder while at Portland.
Health or New Orleans. —The board of
health in a published statement of the sth Septem
ber, declare that there has not been a ca3e of yel
low fever in the city during the past season.
Memre. Joses and Wright—Prosper ih, dec.
The geutlemen whose names bead this article)
have already met in discussion in some half dozen
counties in the District, and if the Democracy is
satisfied with its champion, the Opposition have
cause to be satisfied—nay, even to feel proud of
theirs. We are told that the Opposition has not
gained an inch of ground in the District, and still
not one man, that we have heard of, claims the
parly majority for Mr. Jones—not by some three or
four hundred votes. What means this 7 Our con
temporary of this city, very incautiously says that
Mr. Jones “ has exceeded the expectations of the
Democracy wherever he has epoken.” Well; my
God, how little did they expect of him. Blessed are
they that expect nothing. But'Mr. Jones, wonder
ful man, “ has compelled Mr. Wright to define his
position, and now there is no chance for any voter
of the District to be mistaken about it.” Well,
never say any more that Mr. Wright is mum. No,
unlike his competitor, he has never refused, never
even hesitated, to declare clearly and emphatically,
his opinions, positions and views, upon any and
all questions upon whica any of his constituents
desired to know them. He has even called upon
the people every where to esk him any question, in
order that no point might escape bis attention, that
no point might be left in doubt. Mr. Jones has
“ fixed” Mr. Wright,’indeed. But no one, as
yet, has been able to fix Mr. Jones, and we doubt
if any will. He is certainly shrewd—he has the
cunning of the fox. (Questioned by the people and
the press, he remains dumb as ah oyster, according
to agreement. He is mum, and seems to intend to
remain so. The people will readily understand that
be is either afraid or ashamed to avow himself—and
such a man they do not intend to have for their
Representative. We wish distinctly to know of
Mr. Jones his position upon the question of re-open
ing the African slave trade. Tne p< ,ple demand it
—and they and we wish to know, a'sc, how much
of Gov. Brown's policy, recomi” •■•until ns and acts,
he approves and endorsee. Was ish to know
whether he takes position with G'v. Brown, or
Kith, every member of the Legislalu, e / om the Sth
District, against Brown. “ Curious, why don't
you speak to me 7”
Oar sprightly neighbor goes on to say that the
election af Mr. Wright by the people of this dis
trict “ would bs a repudiation of the Democratic
party—o repudiation of the administration of Gov.
Brown—and a repudiation of the whole couise
of their late distinguished Representative, Mr.
Stephens, upon the question of slavery in the
Territories. It is needless for us to say that under
these circumstances, his election is impossible. The
people of the BthDistrict are not prepared virtually
to repudiate the Democratic party, President
Buchanan, Gov. Brown, and A. U. Stephens, to
elect A. R. Wright to Congress.”
Well the election of Col. Wright will be a re
pudiation of Buchanan Democracy and Brown,
and we believe the people, following the lead of our
contemporary, are ready, willing aud anxious to
repudiate them by electing A. E. Wright to Con
gress. But why would the election of Mr. Wright
any more than the election of Mr. Jones, be a re
pudiation of Mr. Stephens’ ‘'whole course on the
subject of slavery m the Territories 7” The people
of the District are not sitting in judgment on Mr.
Stephens course, as he is out of public life, and
not a candidate for any office. But did not Mr.
Jones repudiate the course of Mr. Stephens on the
Clayton Compromise, and on the California, New
M exico and Utah bills of 1850—the Compromise
measure, so called ? We ask for information, and
hope we shall get it. In regard to the Kansas bill,
Mr.STEPHENs, Mr. Jones and Mr. Wright all agree
upon the princip’e that the people shall determine
the question ol slavery for themselves—subject to
the constitution—with the distinct understanding
that under the Constitution of the U, S. the people
of the Territories can have no right so to legislate
as to exclude slavery, or in any manner, in the
slightest degree, to impair the rights of the slave
holder. But “_r. Wright insists that this under
standing shall be the fundamental policy of the
country , shall be the rule of Ike Government, aud
there he has the advantage—there the people are
with him.
But why insist on lugging in Mr. Stephens’
course on slavery , to bolster up Mr. Jones, any
more than his oourse on the Mexican war, on the
acquisition of Territory, on Pierce and bis Free
soil appointments, or anything else ? Does not the
Constitutionalist hold that the question of slavery
is settled ? This game will never do. As Mr.
Jones is not yet a fixed fact—some even question
ing his identity, as he denies the soft impeachment
of Jenks—we must be content, as yet, to “fix’
him as as the mum candidate, and as such we shall
hold him up to the gaze of an indignant people.
The Constitutionalist seems surprised that Col.
Wright should say that the Missouri restriotion
was not repealed by the Kansas bill, but that is
simply the truth. That restriction was in effeot
removed by the New Mexicoand Utah bills of Mr.
Fillmore, as we were lold all over this land in 1850
by Mr. Stephens, Mr. Toombs and other friendsof
the Compromise. The Kansaa-Nebraska bill simply
declared it inoperative and void there, because
inconsistent with the legislation of 1850. In relation
to the appropriations, we presume our neighbor’s
information is at fault.
Mr. Toombs—The faih Marked Out.
A short time siuce we learned that Senator
Toombs designed making one speech, as an antidote
to Iverson, which he would publish. Soon after
he made the Lexington speech, his organ io this
city gave notice that it would publish that speech
in a few days, but abandoned the idea, with the
intention of reporting fully the speech the Senator
was expected to deliver in this city on the night of
the Sth inst. W e are now informed that the report
of tko speech—a full verbatim report by a Steno
grapher—has mysteriously disappeared from the
Constitutionalist office, and consequently the
speech can not be published until Mr. Toombs can
write it out. We have waited very patiently, pre
ferring to have unauthorized exposition of our
Senator's views, before remarking on them. But
the cauvaes is fast drawing to a close, and only
three more numbers of our Weekly will be in the
hands of our readers before the ;elen .ion. Our pri
vate opinion is that that speech will never be writ
ten aud never published—jut 1 Be the Lexington
speeoh—or at least, not until it wi.l be too late to
be overhauled by the Oppositi m bito.e the elec
tion. Consequently we are conßtrained to base our
remarks concerning Mr. Toombs’ ij raordinary
course, upon the report of onr neighbor of the
Dispatch, of the Lexington epeech, and the speech
at Concert Hall, which latter we ourselves heard,
and we think no injustice has been done the speaker
in the Dispatch report.
We pass by the sueeis and side thrusts of the
Senator at the press, editors and reporters, simply
with the prayer of our Savior for the people who
jeered him. We care nothing at all about them.
We presume the prets respects Mr. Toombs as little
as he can possibly respect the press.
The feature of most extraordinary significance
in the present attitude of Mr. Toombs is the denun -
ciation of the Southorn Rights position of his col
league—Senator Iverson—acd his declaration of
adherence to the fortunes, now apparently so flat
tering, of the Illinois aspirant—taking the ground,
as Douglas does, that our present remedy, if we
need any, for the protection of slave property and
the rights of slaveholders in the Territories, is the
courts— the Federal Judiciary—and emphatically
declaring that he would not insist upon the passage
of any more laws for our protection—because even
the. insisting upon that would drive off Northern
Democrats. The Senator has probubly lorgotten
how Bavagely he opposed the submission of our
rights iu the Tern ories to the adjudication of the
cou.is, as proposed in the Clayton compromise of
1848. Then he was will.ng to drive off Northern
wbigs with whom he was acting, to disrupt the
Whig party, even to let “ chaoscome again,” rath
er than submit to the Judiciary. Alas, wbat a
change has come over our Senator since that time;
The fiery and eloquent young Hotspur of 1848 has
gently as a sucking dove bowed the knee to Black
Douglas in 1855.
The Senator sneered at the Opposition politicians
running about, crying Squatter Son ereignty in the
Kansas but, and regretted to find seme Democrats
guilty of the same thing, including his colleague.
His colleague, like a true man, “owns up” and says
that lost Kansas to the South. Mr. Toombs did
not deny his opposition to Bquatter Sovereignty in
1818; for he then declared it wwrae than the Provi
so, and that to sanction it was treason to the
South. But both Gen Cass and Douglas declared
in 1854, that the very Squatter Sovereignty of 1848,
was embodied as the law of the land in the bill Os
1854, and reiterated in the Platform of 1856, both
of which received the Senator’s sanction. Mr
Toombs admitted that he differed with Douglas
and his wing, not about the constiuction of the
act, but about the constitutional and rightful
power of the Territorial Legislature under the act.
1 here can be no doubt that Congress, by the bill,
transferred all its own constitutional power over
the subject of slavery in the Territories, to the
Territorial legislature. It could transfer nothing
more—it has transferred nothing less. All the
South agreed to that, but with the distinct under
standing that it was unconstitutional for the
legislature—the creature—as well as for Con
gress—the creator —to exclude slavery from the
common domain, or to render it valueless by
any kind of legislation. Now the North insists—
Douglas leading and the whole Northern Demi era
cy following—upon the Constitutional right to ex
clude us, either by positive prohibitroy law, or such
other hostile legislation as would amount to the
same thing. The North insists further that it never
will submit to Congressional protection, and never
will submit to cuy such interpolation in the party
creed. Bigot here, Southern Democratic Dough
faces strike Hands with the base, cruel, black-heart
ed, deceitful, treacherous enemies of the South, for
the sake of a coirupt party organization. Right
here, the fight must be made, right here resistance
commence, right here must we determine whether
our Constitutional rights shall be at the mercy of
Territorial action, or whether we will still hold on to
the Democratic party. The question must be met
and determined in this caDvaes so far as Georgia is
concerned. The Opposition is determined now to
make Congressional protection against hostile
Territorial legislation an essential and a paramount
part of the creed of any party wl.inh gets its anp.
port Toombs, the Constitutionals’ iand we pre
sume Mr Jones) and others of iht 1) mocracy are
prepared to succumb, and will I'-.t * ve a pledge to
insist upon protection, or to demand euch pledge
from their Presidential nominee. Tie Opposition
make it a point of resistance if Cong, ess fail to
grant protection when demandtd, and give sass
notice beforehand.
The Democratic party in Georgia, judging by
their ablest leaders, w ill not do so.
People of Georgia, people of the indomitable old
Eighth, under wboee banner do you fight 7 Let your
voice answer at the nolta
Snow in Si ptsmber —A correspondent of the
New York Times, in a letter from Rochester,
Monroe, Cos , N. Y.. dated September 2d, says that
it actually snowed there on that day. Ugh 1
The < onxtitutionnlist and Col. Akin.
The eleventh hour friend of Gov. BROWNn, in this
city, ia sadly at fanlt, upon several points, in bis
report of Col. Akin’s address last week, at Concert
Hall, and we take the liberty of correcting him.—
The Constitutionalist says :
“The concluding portion (of his speech) was de
voted to Federal politios and contained a misrepre
sentation of the position of the Administration in
reference to the duty of the Government toward
its naturalized citizens abroad—a misrepresents
tion of the Cincinnati platform—a misrepresentation
of the position of Judge Douglas aud the Democrat
ic party upon the question of slavery in the Terri
tories,” See.
Now, acoording to [our understanding of the re
marks of Mr. Akin, and we listened to him atten
tively, he made no suoh misrepresentation—and tha
Constitutionalist has misrepresented him. Mr.
Akin severely reviewed the Le Clirc letter of
Gen. Caps, and denounced manfully the doctrine
therein oontained, showing that Demoorsts are not
such very good friends of foreigners as they would
pretend, excecpt about election time. Did that
amount to a misrepresentation 7 Mr. Akin de
nounced the Cincinnati platform, as construed and
enforced by its Northern friends, as a cheat and a
swindle, as who does not at the South, except the
renegade Whigs who new seek to oontrol the action
of the Democratic party 7 Like Judge Iverson
he thought the squatter sovereignty of the Kansas
bill, which is reiterated in the platform, had lost
Kansas to the South—that we had been defrauded
cut of our just rights, as we were inevitably bound
to be by the practical enforcement of the North’s
understanding of the “true intent and meaning” of
the act. Is Judge Iverson good Democratic au
thority 7 Surely he ought to be, for be was a
Democrat when the Constitutionalist Editor, Mr.
Toombs, et id omne genus, were still in “the bonds
of (Whig) iniquity, and the gall of (Whig) bitter
neßß.*’
Mr. Akin also showed Gov. Brown on the plat
form, with Martin Van Buren on hia right and
Stephen A. Douglas on the left. Did any of these
thiDgs amount to a misrepresentation 7 The Con
stitutionalist oouples the position ot Judge Doug
las and the Democratic party on the question of
slavery in the territories. Are they identical 7 la
Douglas position the position of the Democratic
party 7 We think so-we are glad to see the Con
stitutionalist have the mauliness to say so. We are
contending that, whatever may be the indididual
opinion and action of the Democrats, the party has
piaetioaily sanctioned the position of Douglas on
the slavery question, and must surrender to him
forever herealter. And so believing, we have felt
it cur duty to warn Democrats from giving place
and position to such men, (Brown, Jones and the
rest of them) as we know will, judging the future by
the past, regardless of their individual views, sacri
fice their own section to maintain the ascendancy
ot their organization. These we believe to be Mr.
Akin s views, and they are not a misrepresenta
tion of Mr. Douglas and the Democratic party.
The Constitutionalist is exercised to know what
kind of protection we want, and how it is to be
secured. We want efficient protection by Congres
sional statute against untriendly or hostile Territo
rial Legislation, and we think the surest way to
secure it, is for the people to insist on it, now and
forever, and to insist that parties shall insist on it—
and the surest way not to secure it is to maintain
the ascendancy of a party, which does not dare
insist on it, but which is preparing, if indeed it be
not already prepared, to submit to the right of
Territorial control. We insist that slavery ia the
common law condition of the African on this conti
nent, except when he is made a freeman by positive
law—that such positive law can only be enacted by
the sovereignty of a State, that there exists no
power anywhere rightfully to enact such law for
the Territories, and that wherever the Consti
tution of the United States extends, there slavery is
the normal condition of the blaok, not subject to the
control of the people in their Territorial oapacity.
Col. Akin did arraign Gov. Brown for his Rail
Road management, his bank policy, Sc. c., bnt we
do not think he said any worse things of him and
his management than the Constitutionalist has said
within the last few months. So far as the Constilu
tionalist is concerned, its mouth ought to be sealed
“Let him that is without sin, cast the first stone.”
The Constitutionalist, not caring to attempt to
answer Col. Akin’s assaults upon Brown, for fear
it would stultify itself, takes refuge under the deo
laratlon which it says Mr. Akin made, that he,
(Akin,) would have supported Brown, with ail his
unnumbered sins, provided he had got on the law.
Now, it so happens that Mr. Akin never made that
declaration, that we hesrd, and we have seen no
one who did bear it, although we have asked seve.
ral persons who were present.
Mr. Akin said that, notwithstanding Governor
Brown’b many short comings in his State policy, if
be had shown himself to be a man, if he bad aban
doned and denounced Squatter Sovereignty, the
Cincinnati Platform, the damning heresies of the
Black Douglas, and stood upon the law fairly and
squarely, demanding what was right and determin
ed to accept nothing less, he would not have
appeared before them as a candidate.
That was what he said, and not that he would
have supported Brown. The Constitutionalist says
it gives only a “hurried notice,” and no doubt the
hurry caused these unintentional mistakes. We
are, of course, disposed to make every allowance
for the hurry, etcetera, Including the spirits far
down under Concert Hall.
The Praaf!
A few days ago we said Mr. Akin was paid a
thousand dollars by the State to attend a case
against the Road, and agreed when he was paid, to
attend to it to the end of the litigation, and that he
left it, when it was decided against I he State in Csbs
Superior Court, and that another lawyer had to be
employed to carry it up to the Supreme Court. In
the latter Court the case was reversed and is now
pending, but Mr. Akin who kept the fee, did not
keep his word. Now look at the proof. Let the
reader turn to an article in this paper, which we
have copied from the Atlanta Intelligencer, and see
for himseif the agreement between Akin and Gov.
Brown in the Kinney case vs. the State Road. He
will there see Mr Akin’s pledged word to conduct
the case for the State, through to the end of the liti
gation—not through Cass Superior Court but through
to the end of the litigation. Now reader, hadn’t
Warren Akin better go home and fulfill his promise,
before he asks the people of Georgia to make him.
Governor 7 What says the Chronicle Sc Sentinel
now, ot the “miscreants 7” Who is the “miscreant”
now 7 —Fed. Union.
The above, which we clip from the Federal Union
contains a gross misrepresentation of Mr. Akin.—
The Federal Union knew that Mr. Akin was not
paid one thousand dollars for his services in the
osse alluded to, the case ot Kinney vs. the State
Road. The Federal Union knew that Mr. Akin
bad made no charge in the Kinney case, in the bill
which he presented to Gov. Brown, and which
Brown refused to pay. Gov. Brown proposed to
pay Mr. Akin’s bill, if the latter would deduot SSOO,
which Mr. Akin refused, but agreed, upon the pay
ment of the bill, to attend to tbe Kinney case, with,
out further charge, which shows conclusively that
the Kinney fee would cot have been SI,OOO. In
fact, Col. Akin was not paid any fee, in that case,
but simply agreed—to avoid a law suit—to at
tend to the case, without charge, upon the pay
ment of his bill for other services. Further, Col.
Akin did not agree to attend to the case to the end
of the litigation, and the Federal Union and Gov-
Brown know it. He only agreed, and bound
himself, to attend to it to its end—meaning its end
in Cass Court. The agreement was in writing, it
was legally binding, and was so intended to be by
Gov. Brown. Now, if Mr. Akin failed to comply
with hia legally binding written agreement, the
Governor of the State has failed to discharge his
duty, in not compelling the fulfilment of the agree
ment. Instead of that, however, he authorized the
Road Attorney to employ and pay for legal ser
vices to carry the case up to the Supreme Court,
and never once demanded of Mr. Akin the fulfil
ment of what the Governor and his minions now
say was a legal obligation. Shame, shame, upon
such despicable trumpery. “Who, now. ia the
miscreant ?” We answer Joseph E. Brown, as
the instigator of the false charge, and the Intelli
gencer and Union as aiders and abettors in tbe
dirty work.
“Fruitland Nurseries.”—The Annual Cata
logue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrnbs, ice.,
cultivated at “Fruitland Nurseries,” near this city,
by P. J. Berckmans Ic Cos., has been laid on our
table. The seasou has been a favorable one for the
growth of young trees, which present a fine, thrifty
appearance, and with proper care in transplanting,
cannot fail to succeed and give satisfaction. Tbeir
stock is extensive and varied, and in the fruit de
partment, comprises a carefully selected collection
of the best native varieties and those peculiarly
adapted to the Southern climate. The cnaraoter
of the proprietors for reliability and integrity
entitles them to the confidence of the public, and
all customers may rely confidently on tbeir orders
being promptly and faithfully filled. It is only
necessary to say a word as to the superiority of
Southern over Northern grown fruit trees. The only
plea in favor of the latter is the difference in tbe cost
jof the trees, and we once more caution our readers
not be misled by a false economy —for such they
will find it to be in the end. A correspondent of
the Southern Gulln-ator says “To succeed in
growing fruit iu the South, get from Southern
Nurseries, trees of Southern varieties, which are
known by experience to suit our climate.”
We invite attention to the advertisement of
‘‘Fruitland Nurseries,” in another column. Copies
of the Catalogue will be sent on application by
mail or otherwise to P. J. Berckmans Sc Cos., Au
gusta, Ga.
The First District.
WE have been informed by a very worthv friend,
a reliable and influential gentleman of Thomas
county, that Judge Love is already shaking in hi„
shoes, although there is no candidate, as yet, op
posed to him. Our friend thinks—and his judgment
is very seldom at fault—that any decent man could
beat Love, if he were brought out even at this late
day. What says our friend of the Republican ?
Where is the gallant Bartow 7
In a Bad Fix.
The editor of the Constitutionalist speaking of
tbe canvass in the Eighth District, says; “Mr.
Wright, the Opposition candidate, haa lost ground
sensibly in tbe last week ; for within that time Mr.
Jones has ‘fixed’ him.”
If such is the fact, we are truly sorry for the con
dition of our highly esteemed friend, Col. Wright.
He is in a bad fix indeed, if Mr. Jones “fixed” him
—for that gentleman never “fixed” anything as it
ought to be ‘ fixed.”
W e copy the above from the Macon Citizen of
the 6th inst., and would only add that Col. Wright,
instead of “fixing,” Mr. Jones has leans fixed him
—has pierced him through with his lance, and pinned
him to the wall—at least what there is left of him.
Mr. Jones persists in remaining mum, according to
agreement
Hoc Cholera.—The Lawrenocburg (Tenn.)
Journal learns that the hog cholera is prevailing to
a great extent in portions of that oonnty. A gen
tleman residing a few miles from that town has lost
over one hundred hogs by tbe disease. Several
others have lost large numbers.
Warren Akla.
We propose this morning to say a few words on
the life, character, position and prospects of Col.
Akin, the Opposition candidate for Governor of
Georgia. Against bis own wishes, at ihe solicita
tion of his friendß, when the prospects were any
thing but favorable, Col. Akin has been induoed to
accept the candidacy. He is fairly before the
people, on his own obaracter and his own merits.
He does not pretend, nor do his friends, that he has
any claims upon the people for their support. He
does not believe that offioes were created for the
benefit of office-holders, but for the benefit of the
people, and that while no amount of public services
entitles any man to office, yet the people have
claims upon all citizens for their services in times
of great emergency. Such a time is now upon us,
and carting their eyes over the State, the people
find no man, who,in their opinion, would more pro
bably command public oonfidenoe, or who, if elect
ed, would more faithfully or more honestly discharge
the functions of Chief Executive of this great com
monwealth.
Warren Akin is an Old Line Whig of the striot
State Rights School, and le has never belonged to
any other party. He has never been an office
seeker, but in 1843 he was elected ou tbe ticket
whioh gave the electoral vote of Georgia for Tay
lor and Fillmore. In 1850-’sl he was a union
man, and in the State Convention an advooale of
the celebrated 4!h Rjsolution of the Georgia Plat
form, of which there is no stauncher supporter in
the State, to this day. Hia last speech on the hust
ings. previous to this campaign, was iu advocacy of
the election of that great statesman and pure pa
triot, Hon, Charles J. Jenkins, to the office of
Governor of Georgia. Col. Akin was never a mem
ber of the Know-Nothing Party. High-minded,
liberal and tolerant, his principles have ever been
conservative, constitutioual aud American, in the
fullest meaning of the term, although he has been
out of active politios for many years. Without a
blot upon hia fair-fame, without a single “bar-sinis
ter” on bis escutoheon, he r has come from his retire
ment, at the bidding of the people of all parties, in
order to rid tbe State, if posaible, of the bloated
misrule and corrupt quaokery under which it haa so
long suffered. With a unanimity unknown iu the
history of political conflict, the Democratic Press
throughout the State, with ona or two immaterial
exceptions, has justly accorded to him the highest
praise as an able, upright, honorable citizen—a man
of clear head and large heart. Himself risen from
the ranks, by the foroa of hia indomitable will, hia
talents, energy and virtues, he thoroughly under
stands the wants of the people of his native State •
and if elected, will make the best Executive we
have had since the popular administration of Geo.
W. Crawford.
In regard to Federal politics, Mr. Akin stands in
opposition to the gross extravagance, corruption
aud mismanagement of James Buchanan, iu oppo
sition to Douglass aud his popular sovereignty he
resies, which he so ably warned tbe people against
in 1843, when Gen. CASd first promulgated the doc
trine, in opposition to the Northern coustructiou of
the Kansas bill. Heystauds upon the law and
maintains the legal right of the people to go into
the Territories with their property of whatever
kind, and their legal right to protection in the en
joyment of the same, free from all suoh Territorial
control, as might impair the right, or destroy the
value of that which is p operty in any of the States
This is the old Whig doctrine, and the doctrine of
the South, until the new lights beamed upon us
and it beesme necessary to pauder to free soil to
save a party. Upon the question of the rights of
naturalized citizeus abroad. Mr. AKip holds the
doctrine in opposition to Cass’s le Clero latter
that protection lo the citizsn is as nmeh due as
allegiance is due from him, and, that having fore
sworn his foreign allegiance, having gone through
all the legal forms, sworn allegiance to the United
States and become ua’iiialized, his right is as clear
aud unquestionable as any native born oitizen can
be, to ample, full protection against tbe claims of
foreign government.
As regards State politios, Mr. Akin is in favor of
a sound paper currency, ou a specie basis under
proper legal restraints, and be arraigns Gov.
Brown, as be has a right to do, for grosß stupidity
iu his proposed Bauk policy, as oaloulated to injure
the great mass of the people, much more than it
possibly could have injured the Banks, however
great that might have been. Had tbe Banks, un
der Brown’s plan, been compelled to redeem their
bills under tbe circumstances then existing, the
State would have been flooded with bills of Banks
outside of the State, over which we bad do control,
aud Gov. Brown, it will be remembered, vetoed a
bill which proposed to put foreign Bauk agencies
en the same footing, as to liability, as our own
Banks. Mr. Akin is opposed, also, to Gov.
Brown’s pet sub-Treasury scheme of compelling
the people to pay gold and silver for taxes, which
gold and silver was to pay officials, while the
working man must be paid in bills for liis day’s
work. While he favors an enlarged system of
common school education, Mr. Akin is deoidely op
posed to Gov. Brown'B College plan as wroog in
principle, and likely to prove odious as well as
worthless in practice.
In regard to State aid to Railroads, while Mr.
Akin is opposed to a genera! plan, ao omnibuß
plan, he favors the granting of State aid, upon am
ple security, for works of great importance, when
necessary to develops undeveloped and valuable
sections of tbe Btate. Iu short, upon almost all
questions of State poltcy, Col. Akin is with the
great mass of our people, if the people were correct
ly represented in the last Legislature, aud apart
from party, he ought to reoeive three-fourths of the
votes of the State. The enthsiaam is growing daily,
be is gaining ground everywhere, men see they can
safely merge party in duty, and they are flocking
to his standard. Incorruptible, honest, patriotic,
capable, can ar.y good reason be given why he
should not be the next Governor of Georgia ?
Demoerutlc Responsibility.
We are always told when an election is ou hand,
and often taun tingly told, as by Senator Toum bs iu
his usual tirades, that the Democratio party is the
only party true to the South—the only party true
to a purr ly revenue system—the only party opposed
to extravagance and iu favor of economy and re
trenchment of the public expenditures—the only
party opposed to gigantic schemes of internal im
provement plundering—in short, the only party that
can save us. W e are triumphantly pointed to the i >e.
mocracy as the only hope of the country, the only
and the all-powerful bulwark which shall turn back
the mighty wave of fanaticism, and right the old
ship of State on the billowy eea of conflicting in
terests. Whatever of good is done, it is claimed
for the Democratic majority— when evil is done, it
is laid at tie door of the Opposition minority. —
Adding insult to injury, travelling mountebanks, in
their public speeches, following the lead of tbeir
press, are so unfair as to class together the North
ern and Southern Opposition. They have not the
candor to inform the people that the Southern Op
position feels no sympathy with the Northern, and
desires no concert of action. The Opposition in
Georgia is as much arrayed against the Republi
cans, as against the Democratic parly. We would
suffer before we would lilt a little finger
to assist either of them, seat present organized, man
aged and controlled. Muoh as we desire the over
throw of the Demooratio party—muoh as we abhor
its trickery, frauds, corruption and violation of
pledges—much as we detest its acted principles,
our enmity is not suoh as ever to induceus to strike
hands with Republicans to beat the Democracy.
Aud such we believe to be the actuating principle
of the Sc uthern Opposition. Why, then, should we
be so insultingly classed together 7
But who is really responsible for the failure of the
Kansas Lecompton bill, who is responsible for tbe
English swindle, who is responsible for the extrava
gant appropriations of tbe General Government
under the administration of James Buchanan (in
cluding tbe Echo schooling appropriation) who is
responsible for the failure of tbe Postal appropria
tion bill, acd the stoppage of mail routes, to the
great inconvenience of a vast number of people 7
Who is responsible 7 The National Democratio
party. That party is accountable for all these sins
of omission and commission, and upon its shoulders
the people are determined the responsibility shall
rest. The guilty of course never scruple at any
thing in their endeavors to shift the responsibility.
It is asserted by the press and orators of tbe Demo
cracy that tbe Opposition minority in Congress
killed LeoomptOL, passed the extravagant appro
priation bills, and defeated tbe Postal bill! Was
the like overheard of 7 We bear that Mr. Jones,
Democratic candidate for Congress in this District,
presuming upon the ignorance of tbe people, or
not ashamed of hts own ignorance, is engaged
in this business. In fact, bis capital seems to be
Sam, glorification of Democracy, acd throwing the
responsibility of all short comings on the minority in
Congress. If Mr. Jones knows no better, we are
willing to be charitable aud forgive him, but still he
is not fit to be a member of Congress. If be knows
better, and wilfully attemptsjto delude, he is still
more unfit and unworthy to represent the intelli
gent and honorable constituency of the E ghth Dis
trict. Every body knows that the Democratic
party, with a President of its own seleolion, with a
large majority iu both tbe Senate acd tbe House
of Representatives, could hate admitted Kan
sas with her slave constitution, provided only it had
been trae to its avowed principles, true to its
pledges. Tbe united Opposition could not have
prevented it, and the Democracy is justly respooei
bie tor tbe failure, and must be held responsible.
There is no evading that—tbe Demooratio part bad
the power, but not the will.
In regard to the appropriation bills, tbe cant of
these miserable slang-whangera is absolutely be
neath contempt.
No appropriation bill could become a law, until
it bad first been introduced into the House of
Eepreeeatat. < es, had passed that largely Demo
cratic body, bad passed the Democratic Sen
ate, and received the sanctum and approval of the
Democratic President of the United States— unless
passed iu the House, over the President’s veto by
a vote of two thirds, and that two thirds could
never, since tbe inauguration of Mr. Buchanan,
have been obtained without a combination of
Republicans and Democrats. No majority in the
Honse even was possible, except a Democratic
majority. And yet we are told the Opposition
minority is responsible 1 When men start out with
the declaration that “when you leave the truth, it
makes no difference how far you go,” we never can
expect them to reach the bottom of that well where
the precious article is said to be.
Mr. Toombs claims tbe credit of having trampled
the Postal Bill under foot He spoke it out in the
Senate, as he is able to do. But then became his
duty, after killing the bill, to carry a b 11 through
his largely Democratic Government, which vou,
have suited him and hi. party, if the deed bill d.d
not and would have relieved the Postal service of
the’great inoonrenienoes under which it now
labors. Tbe people know who are accountable,
and they intend to hold them strictly responsible.
Senator DonglnN—The Southern democracy.
It seems to be the settled purpose of the real,
the efficient leaders, of the Southern Democracy to
force Douglas and his heresies upon Ihe people,
regardless of all protests. The game now is to
uomiuate him at Charleston, regardle as of the op
position, or pretended opposition, in their own
ranks, on the Cincinnati Platform, without addition
or abatement, and to demand the Southern vote lor
ioo, on the ground that he alone, a* it is cJ& med,
oan defeat Seward—or the Republican nominee,
whoever he may be, appealing to Democrats ns
partisans, and shaking the hobgoblin of disunion in
the faces of the weak and the vascillating. Tbe old
cry is to be raised that if our peuple do not support
the democratic nominee, they thereby become aiders
and abettors of the Republicans; aid the Betseless
gibberish about treason and halters, used in the
contest of 1856, to intimidate quiet people, is to be
again repeated. What advantage to the South
would be the election of Air. Douglas, occupying
the position he now does ? How much better is he
than) Seward—how much better is his platform I
One Democratic sheet in Georgia has had the
hardihood to declare its preference for Skwaud over
Southern born men of the Opposition—Critten
den and Bill, One distinguished Senator has
declared in favor of Douglas, as the nomiuee of
the Demooratio party—regardless of platforms, and
not ashing any abandonment of his hostile views,
in preference to “ant Opposition man, North or
South.”
Now with all tbe bitterness we may foel towsrdi
the Democracy, we could never feel disposed tu go
so far as this. We frankly say we do not prefer
Seward even to Douglas—we could not support
either, but we would support a Southern man,
born and bred, even though a Democrat, in pre
ference to either. Have S jtilheru uieo eo Inr loet
all respect for themscives aLd lor the opinion of
their owu people, as to dtclare a preference for
Seward over a Southerner—or a preference for
Douglas over any man of the Opposition—even
though a Southerner 7 We thiuk the exeorations of
our people ought to fol'ow all such men, and sink
them to that lorvest depth, from whioh the band of
political resurrection could never raise them.
Are the people of Georgia prepared to see
Douglas tbe President, merely to keep the Demo
cratic party iu power 7 If the Democratic party—
as an entirety—eras true to Southern Rights, whioii
no one will claim, or even if it had true men
enough to proteot us in our equality, then there
would be some excuse fur this eternal cant about
Democracy being the only hope of the South. But
if it w ere sound, then it never would elect D Ue
las, or any man holding his views—it would not
even present him to the people. And the m re
fact of insisting upon Douglas, is sufficient, in enr
opinion, to prove unbound mess.
A large number of the most able and intelligent
Democrats iu every Southern Slate have denouuced
Douglas as equally bad, if not w, res, than Seward
—they have denounced him as a traitor and a
cheat—as an utterly worthless and unprincipled
adventurer, with his principles in his pocket, bid
ding for the Presidency, and stooping to the vilest
and basest means to accomplish his purposes. They
well know lhat his scheme is, to all intents and
purposes, “a short cut to all tbe ends of Black Re
publicanism.” And yet in the (ace of day, these
new-light Democrats have the unblushii g audacity
to declare their preference for Douglas over a
Southern man, simply beoause he is in opposition
the Democratic patty, even if he be known to be all
the South could aik for. These men—the sit Whig
leaders of the Democracy— are working might and
main, indirectly if not directly, to force the Squatter
Sovereign upon the Southern people. Lit the
Republicans nominate Seward and the I) smocrats
Douglas, without abandonment of one particle of
his damnable hertsies—let tho Southern Opposition
nominate one of their best and truest—a mill with
out the smell of fire on his garments—a largo slave
holder even, and these very men will not only
support Douglas, but will denounce all who onp >se
him as traitors to the South. Indeed, Mr. To, Mils
is committed fully and unequivocally, by the words
of his own mouth, it indeed any thing can bind
him. We infer that Mr. Jones would pu sue the
oourse above mentioned, and we we think our
inference is fair and jest, because so far as we know
or believe, there is not a single month piece of the
Democracy in this District that is not in favor of
Douglas, or mum. Besides, Mr. Jones, though
not so bold to take position, regardless of conse
quences, as Mr. Toombs, has been questioned about
his position with regard to Douglas, and bis an
Bwer was he preferred Douglas to Suvird ind
when pressed, when asked if he would Vote for hi,n
rather than for a true Southern man, (say Craw
ford or Jenkins,) he answered that ho preferred a
Southern to a Northern man, but “would not throw
bis vote away upon a man who had no chanoe.’•
This is our information, aud if it is not correct, we
will cheerfully make flic correction when a^ked.
Now, we think that mo man who profits Douglas,
in his present attitude of defiance and huatiliiy. is
ft worthy representative ot any Southern constitu
ency, nor is he worthy lo be a member of any party
not hostile to the South.
Three years ago, w were told that Douglas was
the ablest, truest and best friend of the South, in
the Senate, and to day we are told again, that he ia
honest, bold, truthful and patriolio. If be is our
best friend, in the name of heaven wilt! l would our
worst enemy be ?
In our humble judgment, two courses only are
left to the South—either to purify the Democratic
organization, aud compel it to adopt a sound plat
form, plainly insisting upon the right of Congres
sional pretection, and to plaoe in nomination, upon
that platform, a sound man, free from ail taint nr
suspicion of Freesoilism; or entirely to overthrow
and crush that party, and endeavor to elect to the
Presidency a pure and conservative Southern man,
be he Democrat, Whig or American—s'ending
fairly upon the Platform of the Southern Ooprei
tion. The Cincinnali Platform alone, with D ua
las or any of his adherents from whatever section,
ought not, and we believe cannot reoeive an undi
vided Southern support. And Douglas on any
platform, we believe wouln equally fail, because
we have no cotfidence in his hen-sty, fideli y or
patriotism, nor do the mass of the people.
Looking to either event—tbe re organization or
the ruin of the Demooratio party—the offiy patriotic
oourse left to Georgians is entirely to rou’ the De
mocracy in October, horse, foot and dragoons
Democrat b know they can not obtain from their
Northern allies a sound platform and a sound man,
unless they can convince the North they are in
earnest, aud the North never s6H believe tbaf, so
long as our people will elect men who are willing
to accept any thing they can get, provided only it
is called Democratic.
TlieKnnene Kill—The 51 is.ouri Restriction.
The foolish attempt has been made in Georgia,
ever since the passage A the Kansas bill, to make
that a Procrustean bed, on which every Southern
man must lie—to make that hill a test of fideliiy to
the South and her institutions. And this attempt
has been made in the face of the fact, that no
Southern man, not even tho most loud-mouthed
Democratic b-awler, has ever claimed lhat the bid
was a full measure of our just rights under the Con
stitution. No jubilant hosannas were sung in the
South, over the passage of the bill. It was an
after-thought to make that measure a test of fidelity.
1 here were two principlea of importance in the
Kaneas-Nebraska bill. The first, the right of the peo
pie of those territories to admission into the Union
as States, with or without slavery, as they might
determine for themselves, was and is correct, and
was endorsed by the Legislature, by the Demo
cracy, and by the American party of Georgia
That very right haa been denied to Kansas by the
dominant Democratic party of the Union—although
it was the only principle upon which it cou'd poeei
bly have carried the Southern vote for its Presi
dential candidate. It is well known that Mr. Bu
chanan was not the choice of the South—that he
was in some respects eminently dis'asteful to the ■
South —and it was upon the distinct pledge of his
party to secure tbe practical enforcement of the
right announced iu the legislation of 1851 that be was
elected. That right has Dot been seemed, and the
Democratic party is responsible for it. It ignomln
iously surrendered tbe right, for tbe sake of the
expedient.
The other principle, contained in the enuncia
tion of the trae intent and meaning of the act, to
leave the people “perfectly free to form and
regulate their own domestic institutions in tbeir
own way, eutject only to tho Constitution,” is
correct only upon the understanding that the
Constitution does not confer the right upon the
Territorial Legislature to exclude slavery, or to
impair its value. We confess that we always
looked upon that explanatory clause as designed
and intended, by the Northern friends ot the bill,
to work to our disadvantage. We always believed
that these were designed to perpetuate a fraud and
a swindle. They always declared and insisted
that Squatter Sovereignty, or the right of the Ter
ritorial Legislature to oontrol slavery, even to its
exclusion, was “nominated in the bond.” They
insist npon the same to-day, and demand that the
South shall submit, because forsooth the South
voted for James Buchanan on the platform and
the bill, and has thereby committed itself.
In very truth, the Kansas-Nebreeka bill was
“conceived iu sin and bom in iuiauity. ’ It is a
cursed device, as insisted on bv its Northern
it has lest us all and profited us nothing, and we’
say let it henceforth and forever be anathema
maranalha.
It is true that the Kansas Territorial Legislature
did pass a most stringent “slave code,” as Douglas
chooses to call it, aLd (he Legislature bad a perfect
right to do so. And ttiis very Senator, now so de •
fiantly opposed to Congressional protection—this
especial pet of tbe Whig-Democratic leadere of the
Bth District—attempted to repeal that slave code
by Congress 1 The effort failed, but the Territorial
Legislature, on the 9th February, 1853, did repea 1
that stave code, and Mr. Douglas now holds that
slavery ia exoluded from Kansas Territory, by that
very act ot unfriendly legislation.
In regard to the Missouri restriction, the Con
stilutionalisl and all well-informed persons know,
that tbs original design of Douglas and the
Senate Territorial committee in the introduction ot
the Kai sas Nebraska bill, did not embrace or
contemplate any action at all.
It was simply to provide Territorial governments
—upon the understanding that the i estriction had
been practically repealed in the Legislation cf
1850, and that non-intervention, as it was calltC,
had been established as a principle applicable to
all the Territory of the United States But Mr
Dixon, a Whig Senator from Kentucky, proposed
to amend the bill by repealing the restriction in
words, and declaring it unconsti utional. Dixon s
amendment was referred to the Territorial commit
tee —it was not incorporated in the bill it now
becomes a part of the law. Tbe question being
once raised, it became necessary to dispose if It iu
some way. So the North said to the Sooth—“you
claim lhat the Missouri line has been practically
blotted out by the Utah and New Mexico bills—
you ought to be satisfied, but if you are not, w#
will declare the restriction inoperative aLd void,
because inconsistent with the Legis alien ot 1850,
bnt we can not and will not, for fear of the storm
likely to be raised about our own ears, repeal the
act in so many words.” And eo the deed was
done—and that was ail that was done. The fnslian
about tearing out the restriotion even if it bad
been sealed with tbe blood of one’s own father is
mere “sound and fury,” signifying nothing. ’