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Wednesday, Oct. I—o I*. M,
city is perfectly wild with excitement. A
negro man named Jerry was arrested here to-day,
claimed by a man named McHenry, of Missouri,
a* a fugitive slave. The United State* Marshal,
with aids from the neighboring cities congregated
here, arrested Jerry and brought him before Uni- j
ted States Commissioner Sabine. The news soon
spread over the city, the bells in the various ehur
cnes were tolled, and the people assembled in knots
at the corners of the streets—one general feeling
prevailing every breast, that of disgust and abbor
ence at the Fugitive Slave Law, and this its first
foul offspring in Syracuse. Our county Fair be
ing held in the city, and the farmers from the sur
rounding country were all here. In addition, a
Liberty Party Convention was called for to-day,
and I notice prominent in our streets some of the
leaders of that party.
The examination of Jerry, commenced at the
Commissioner’s office about 2 o’clock, P. M. The
Court room and every avenue leading to it was
denesely crowded. Tue prosecution was conduct
ed by three lawyers named Anderson, Loomis and
Lawrence. The defence was by llillis, Morgan
and Sheldon. The commissioner adjourned the
Court for half an hour at about a quarter past 2
o’clock, P. M. The adjournment had no sooner
been make than a band of negroes and others
seized the alleged fugitive, rescued him from the
custody of the officers, and rushed down Water
and Cenesee st., through Market sqaure, and down
Water st. to Lock st., over Lock it. bridge, where
he was caught by the officer and taken back to
the police office of Justice House. Jerry was heavily
handcuffed, which prevented his successful escape
at this time.
In the meantime the crowd and excitement be
came intense : and the feeling gained on the peo
ple that the Fugitive Slave Law must not be execu
ted in Syracuse. The Military Companies were
ordered out by the,Sheriff of the county, and got
undor arms, prepared for action. Only one. com
pany, however would leave their armory , and final , ‘
ihey went hick, and the whole military of t’
city refused to aid or abet in carrying
into Slavery. The Commissioner resilin'*
examination at about 5 P. M. at the Pol* office
of Justice House. The crowd out*idcy‘* nab | a to
gain admittance, became more and tr ,re excited,
and tlio “noise and confusion” freai* ntly preven
ted the prosecution of the exaroitteion on the in
side. Stones were thrown in the windows of the
room, and the crowd exhibited other unmistaka
ble signs that were decidedly hostile to the Fugi
tive Slave Law. About 7P. M. the crowd out
side became more and mare clamorous, and the
stones, Ac., becoming more and more frequent, the
Commissioner decided to adjourn the examina
tion till to-morrow morning at 8 o’clock.
This was announced to the crowd by Mr. llillis,
counsel for the prisoner, but the excitement could
not be allayed. The officers in charge of the fu
gitive soon found it necessary to hoard up the win
dows, and in doing so they got pretty well pelted.
They next tried the effects of a few shots tired over
the heads of the jietilAc. but it only increased
the excitement. About 9 P. M. a desperate on
slaught was made, and the doors and windows of
the office broken in the lights extinguished, and
the fugitive taken from the custody of Ins officers 1
carried away to breathe freedom and liberty in
the “rural districts” of our delighful County. So
Mr. Webster’s prophecy proves false, and the Fu
gitive Slave Laui cannot be enforced in Syracuse.
The agont of the claimant at the final rescue jump
ed from the window of the police office, on the
heel path of the canal (or into the canal, I don’t
know which,) where he was caught by the crowd;
but he claimed to be a line boat passenger and
the crowd bclioved the story, and let him go. A
barrel of tar and a bag of feathers had been pro
vided for his aceomomdation, a.ml were within
convenient distance, but he escaped, them by his dex
terous subterfuge. I understand the Marshal from
Rochester had his arms broken in the melee at
the last escape, anil rumor is busy reporting other
i injuries, none, however, of a serious nature, and I
’ have no faith in any of the reports. The ap
pearftnee of the Police Office k rather dejected
and looks some as if it had stood a pretty hard
fire. The general sentiment was and is against
the law and its execution; and one general con
gratulation is passing round the streets, and from
mouth to mouth, at this final issue of the attempt
to kidnap a human being in the Central City of
the Empire State, o. n,
Syracuse, Oct 2 —3 P. M.
That part of the city immediately surrounding
#he Police Office, appears as if it had just been
evacuated 1 by a retreating army. The building it
self bears uimristakablo evidence of the fury and
sincerity of those who were eugaged in the rescue
of the slave Jerry last evening. The particulars,
as I sent them to you, do not vary at all from the
fact* as they were. The Deputy Marshal, Fitch,
from Rochester, had his arm broken in jumping
from the Police office to the ground. Some of
the accounts have it that he received a blow from
some of the assailants, by which his arm was bro
ken. This is an entire mistake. He broke his
arm himself in his endeavor to- ge t ont of tr.e way
of the crowd. lie was removed to Rochester in
the nine o’clock train this morning, bis irin hav
ing beeni first properly set, and I ara informed by |
his surgeon that it could have lieen broken ns it is ;
only by a fall. One other man, a citizen of Syra
cuse, named Woodruff?, who had been employed
in securing the prisoner, received a blow on the |
Hoad, which did it some damage. No violence I
was urged by the crowd. It had none of the char
acteristics of a mob. It was one universal infiinch
iiig current against, the Fugitive Slave Laic. The
feeling could not be resisted. The crowd as if
moved by an impulse, effected the rescue of Jerry
as completely, mid as successfully, as it could be j
done. A heavy pkmk was brought against the j
doors of the Police Office, which bolted, barred
and secured as they were, soon yielded to the tre-1
mendous pressure. The crowd then flocked into ■
the office, extinguishing the lights, and with the ,
same plank battered down an inside partition,
vchicli. led them into the room where sat the poor
fugitive heavily chained and handcuffed, and sure
rounded by officers and Deputy Marshals. He
was taken up on the shoulders of the crowd, and,
amidst the most deafening hurrahs and shouts,
was borne along Water street to Safina, aud down
Safina to tho Railroad Depot, through the Depot
to Warren down Warren to Brintnall’s Hotel,
where he was placed in a carriage and driven ra
pidly away.
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Jig?
lis wrong. Mr. Webster is unfortunte in his threat,
; and the legal officers have been still more unfor
tunate in their attempts to carry :t out, at this
| ,ilT, e- It is doubtful if they will not always be
i alike unfortunate to do the same thing in this city
: the I'ttle paper printed here called the Star, is fu
rious upon the occasion, hut its voice is like unto
that of the dog barking at the moon. There is
not a Corporals Guard in the whole city taking
sides with it. The agent of the claimant (whose
j j lame is James Lear,) was arrested on a warrant I
j jssued by J ustice House, on the charge of attempt- j
j ,n S to kidnap a citizen. Ife was held to bail.—
He will (if he can be found, which is doubtful,) be
arrested again this afternoon, for carrying arms
concealed upon his person. The namo°of the
claimant ujion poor Jerry is John Mcßeynolds, <
of Marion County, Mo. With regard to the firing, i
some conflitcing statements have been made. The.ii
first firing was by the officers from the Police C
fice, and was without doubt intended to intirniif
the crowd. It, however, had the contrary £ n ’
and was answered by a renewed and more,
sivc volley of brickbats, and the crowd, f ; rinL ,
came more furious. After this, some bv som /,
was done from the office, and retur,p .
member of the crowd. The Ad^ ne / teforo
dinner's” “" S “"2- an 4ll had been al
aitiner, as the use of the City , r i
ready pre engaged for the Mr. Lyon be
fore the County Fair
members of that party ‘™' U t T” 1 bel :“ vc ’
The City is quiet 1K^ altl >°' , g 1 ‘ th ° preva.l.ng
opinion is that the e
The Syracuse tl,c lltt!o U a I ier ” abovc a ‘-
luded to,'speaki- oftbe dis ' a f fl ' l .
on the 3ft
city was in b,to °’ anarca ) T “'om *. M. till 9
P M and 16 Mob Law reigned triumphant.
I n ar article on the subject of the riot the N.
y j,-,, ress says:
practise in this State, is a city of salt; and if
jpfiG he a city in tfiis broad Union which espe
ially lives, thieves, or exists on tho Federal Go-
! vernment of the thirty one United States, and up
on the laws, it is Syracuse, this city of salt, salt
works and salt, boilers, and that surrounding coun
try of farmers that feed these Syracusans.
In the first place, the Federal Republic—this
Government of thirty one States, fifteen of which
are slaveliolding—gives the Syracuse a protective
duty of 20 per cent ad valorem, on every bushel
of suit it makes. In 1850, the imports of salt in
to the United States were 11,224,185 bushels;
and on every bushel of that salt, mainly to aid
strengthen and support Syracuse, and like manu
facturing places, the People of these United
States, and Slaveliolding people among them paid
a duty of 20 per cent ad valorem.
The llxpecliliou in Search of Sir John
frank tin.
The “Advance,” Capt. Do Ilavcn, has arrived, in
the order her name bespeaks, from a voyage un
dertaken in philanthropy, full of peril, fail of inci
dent, and successful in everything but tho great
object of her search. Tho first grand cause for
I*, that, ull lu.*- lijr.Uldfls enterprise mwl
danger have not cost the sacrifice of a single life.
How eminently this blessing is owing to a protect
ing and ever watchful Providence will lie appa
rent from the simple narrative of the incidents that
befel the Expedition and the particular trials by
which the Advance was tested, in those hitherto
unkuown and untraveled seas. Truly God was
on tho watersshaping the destiny of this great mis
sion of Charity, even though fated not to discover
the long lost wanderer, lint let us begin our nar
rative :
“The American Expedition entered Willington’s
Sound on the 26th of Aug., 1850, where they
met Gapt. Perry with the Lady Franklin, and So
phia, and were afterwards joined by Sir John
Ross and Commodore Austin. On the 27th,
Capt. Perry discovered unmistakeable evidence of
Franklin’s first Winter quarters —three graves
with inscriptions on wooden headboards dating as
late as April, 1846. Their inmates, according to
these inscriptions, were of his crew—two from the
Terror. There were besides fragments of torn
canvass, articles of clothing, wood and cordage,
undoubted evidence of a large and long encamp
ment; but affording no indications which would
serve as guides to the searchers or give assurauee
to hope.
Oil the Bth of September tho Expedition forced
through the icc to Barlow’s Inlet, vvliero they nar
rowly escaped being locked in tho ice. But they
so far succeeded, and on the 11th reached Grif
fith’s Island, tho ultimate limit of their Western
progress. From this they set sail on the 13th,
with intention of returning to the United States,
but were locked in, near the mouth of Welling
ton’s Channel. Here commenced those perilous
adventures, anything comparable to which, were
never encountered and survived. By force of the
Northern icedrift they were helplessly drifted to
75 deg. 25 min. N. lat., and thence drifted again
into Lancaster Sound, somewhat, we would say,
in a south-easterly direction. The agitation of
ieo elevated the “Advance” nearly seven feet by
tho stem and keeled her 2 feet 8 inches starboard.
In this position she remained, with somo slight,
changes, for five consecutive months. And while
j in it the depth of winter closed its frozen terrors
| around the expedition. The polar night fell upon
, them, and for 80 days no ray of solar light broke
; upon them. Tho thermometer (Fahrenheit) ran
! ged 40 degrees below zero and sometimes sank to
j 40. Early in this awful night, (November sth,)
j the Rescue was abandoned, tor the purpose of
| economizing the fuel, and the crew of both ves
sels determined to brave their fate together.—
They every moment expected the embracing ice
i would crush the vessel into atoms, and consequent
; ly stood prepared sleeping in their clothes with
knapsacks on their backs, to try chances on the
! ico, mid storm and terror, and night. For this
! terrible trial they had made every preparation,
! had provision sledged and every thing in readi
ness which might be useful for such a journey.—
They were then 90 miles from land, and so “cer
tainly did they expect that they should make this
j alarming trial that on two occasions, (Bth Decem
ber and 23d January,) the boats were actually
lowered aud the crews assembled on the ice to
j await the catastrophe.
| During this [.eriod the scurvey became epidemic,
and assumed an alarming character. Its progress
defied all the usual remedies, and only three men
escaped the attack. Gapt. De Haven was himself
the greatest sufferer. Tho constant uso of fresh
water obtained from melted ice, active .mental
i and physical exertion, and the care of Divine Pro-
til.. (\\iC
fielded to a beverage a sort of a)
lemon juice. After eijfing Baffin’s I
pan? 13, the ice liecame fixed, an‘d the little ei
dition became stationary and fait'in the jpids
j a vast plain of ice, 90 .miles from any jhmHkf
stores, cordage were
in snow-lmuses erected on the ice/ nndjyry
encampment was formed, \rid all thej2p!<£
if not the solidity, of terrajEku-mcj®* s,
ice varied from three to eigb^^ a,^e .' v ' dloUt
i >ro. tan, snuaitori o;pi r-(meek suns)
| its attractions. Auroras rVj lustre sueeeed-
and mock moons, of the ryosfiion, and as day
,ed one another without inJfLing the Northern
, approached, the At length the
j horizon, were vividly bfen face (18th Febma-
I God of Day sliowpd biffiree hearty American
j rv) and was hailed influence was felt, and the
cheers. Gradually f e complexion, which the
: waxen-like color gave place to freckles
night had supeß e ; too, quickly disappeared,
land tan. Thethe lveseue was rc-occupi
i On the 134*
®d. /on of the ice was sudden and ap-
The dktwerity minutes from its first moving
as far as the eye could reach, be
the yfa mass of moving floes, and the expedi
caJJice more drifted southward. By a continu-
Iprovidential assistance it passed the perils of
incaster Sound and Baffin’s Bay, and on the
‘loth of June emerged into open water, lat. 65
deg 30 min. N., a little south of the Arctic circle,
.being thus released from an • imprisonment of
nearly nine months, during which they helplessly
drifted 1,060 miles. While in Lancaster Sound
the roar of water and tumbling icc exceeded all
earthly tumult, and was sometimes so loud and
stumning as to render both voice and hearing use
less.
Capt. De Haven’s first care on his escape was to
repair damages and restore the health and vigor
of the crews. With that object he visited Green
land, where he refitted. After a short delay, with
unabated courage and unflinching purpose he
once more bore northward. On the 7th July the
expedition spoke some whalers, and on the Bth
passed the whaling fleet by the Dutch islands,
there arrested in the ice. But on the lltli the
Expedition reach Baffin’s Island, and entered
through vast masses of loose ice. Here the Prince
Albert joined. They continued in company till
August 2d, warping through the ice, when the
Prince determined to try the southern passage.—
De Haven persever in his course until the Bth,
when he became completely entangled jn floes
and bergs. Here again the Expedition encounter
ed perils of the most alarming kind. The floating
icc broke in the bulwarks, and covered the deck
in broken masses like rocks tumbled pell mell by
a mountain torrent. The more than iron endu
rance of the gallant ships were severely tested by
the crush of the closing icc, but they ruse to the
pressure as if defying the elemental strife, baffled
its fury, and somewhat disabled, but still without
a plank yielding in any vital part, rode safely in
an open road on the 19th day of August.
Here, finding the north and west already closed
against them, the American expedition set their
sails and bore homeward, after having dared and
suffered, and overcome difficulties and dangers
such as scarcely if ever beset the path of a mar
iner.
It is supposed the English Expedition wintered
at or near Fort Martyr, and thence prosecuted
their voyago westward. The American Expedi
tion, therefore, was in a position more favorable to
the search. It was in a far higher latitude, and
the scscqlM sea) could not have
been far distant, but tho inevitableflrift into the
waters of Lancaster Sound was fatal to its Spring
progress, and fatal to the chances which its enter
prise had won.
The officers and crew of tiie other vessels of the
expedition were all in good health and spirits up
to the 13th Sept. 1850.
The Advance parted with her consort in a hea
vy gale off the Banks. The Advance brings sev
eral fragments from the encampment of Sir John
Franklin, a pair of fine Esquimaux dogs and some
articles of curiosity.
Thus ends this noble expedition, without discov
ering any satisfactory index to the fate of Sir John
Franklin; but at the same time without any evi
dence to exclude further hope. Sir John might
have won tho point which tho Advance was baulk
ed of by the fatal drift into Lancaster Sound. If
so. and it is not impossible, there is no reason to
doubt the possibility ofhitnself and crew surviving
in those regions where nature has adapted the re
sources of life to the rigors of the climate.
The gratification of officers and crew On once*
more reaching their native land is in no small degree
enhanced by the recollection that in no scene, no
matter how trying, was their trust in and mutual
love for each other interrupted; and Capt. De Ha
ven retains the roost lively recollection of tho gal
lant, unflinching conduct of officers and crow.
Interesting and Important Com
munication.
At a meeting of the Central Association of the
Cotton Planters of Florida, last Saturday, thefol
lowing letter from the American Consul at Am
sterdam was read. It eontains information which
we have already in part given to our readers;
nevertheless it is in a high degree interesting, and
must fix tho attention of every Southern man,
planter, merchant or mechanic who peruses it.—
We stop to make no comments. Tho communi
cation speaks for itself.
Washington City, D. C. Sept. 24, 1851.
Sir :—Enclosed, I take the liberty of forward
ing tor your consideration, a card of introduction
from tho lion. D. L. Vulee, of Florida. * !
I have been for some time deeply interested in :
tho future of tho South, to which I am attached,
by association and sympathy, aud feel an honest
pride in giving my humble efforts to the accom
plishment of any movement calculated to promote j
her true interest and re-establich her rights and
full equality in the Union. Commerce, I believe i
to bo the only means; for upon commerce must i
manufactures, internal improvements, &c., Ac., de-1
pc ml. The successfull struggle for commercial j
independence, depends entirely upon tho produc
ing interest. Let the planters of the South but
unite, and they have it in their power to complete
ly coerce the North and England together. But
how is this to be accomplished 1 The perfect game
of deception practiced upon the South by the
North and her ally, England, has so completely j
blinded and deceived her, that the true represen
tatives of her great interest (i c., her planters,) are
sleeping under the honied influence-of (also audj
dangerous protesssions of love and disinterested
ness.
This sleep must be broken.* * * Are tlie
Southern planters incapable of this effort? I be
lieve not. I cannot believe them so weak and in
different. The blow must be struck by the Plan
ters. It is there, and there alone that any thing
can be clone. For lam convinced from the ob
servation of years, and from information obtained
sliijipiny HI-'!
are perfectly in the hands and in
pSHp 1- Afiie North and England therefore the
, Xps/JSmust assert their rights by combination
rTeot the abuses. But the answer is—“\ou
stfofb no money, no capital. This I have even
lyfinsidered the great difficulty. Lam a Southern
7er—my family and connections and friendstare
[all identified with the cotton growing interest, and
I know the want of ready money—the want of a ■
friendly and powerful monied ally, compells them
to bear a state of things they would gladly break
loose from. I believe it is also the case with
two-thirds of the planters. Believing this, I de- j
termined on soliciting capital on the Continent of
Europe. I explained my views to my friends, and
! was sent as United States’ Consul to Amsterdam
I —the great commercial and monied City of Con-;
i tinental Europe. Her alliances and investments
I extend throughout the world; and Holland can
furnish money enough to buy New York and Liv
i erpool together. The securing of this great inter
j cst is important also as a commercial medium;
: having already a large market for our produce;;
j and cheap and extensive shipping interest to be
j gin with. She also commands the Rhine, Ger
man Ocean and Baltic. It is with the greatet
j pleasure that I can assure you of the disposition in
j Holland to grasp the hand of the South, and j
j give her the free use of her enormous capital, with
i small interest, commissions, charges, Arc., &c., or
I to use it in any manner that may be agreed on,
* upon correspondence.
| Mr has gone to Holland by the Niagra to
| act as a correspondent, and to lay before the Mer
! chants of Holland, the propositions as they a
| rise. I deem this necessary, as we must have
’ a good and friendly medium of intercourse. I
]am now in America on leave of abscence, as the
agent of this monied interest, and will lx; happy
| to consult with you and your friends at Macon; as
suring you of my hearty co-operation in any way
that may be deemed by the Convention best to
promote this great interest. I have taken the
liljertv of urging the importance of that Conven
tion with my friends * * * *
For my part, l will pledge myself and my
friends in Holland to furnish to the planters any
amount of capital they may need to carry out this
great undertaking, Money can be had if the
planting interest will only combine and form a
basis for it. The consumption of cotton goods is
rapidly extending in continental Europe, and par
ticularly on the Rhine and in Russia. The manu
facturers on the continent are becoming anxious
to form some kind of alliance with the South.—
They do not like the fluctuations of Liverpool,
and would rather have their cotton at some fixed
price. You know the Europeans (excepting En
gland,) are not fond of speculative prices. This
is a great question, and one that deserves and must
have the most thorough investigation. The agent
who has been dispatched to Europe, is a native of
Holland, and has the most reliable and unlimited
means of furnishing all kinds of information. His
position and commercial a.liances, makes him a
valuable friend to the cause in w hich he has be
come deeply interested.
I will however, see you in person at Macon,
Ga., on the 29th of October, and will then more
fully unfold what I have of interest to you, and
will sav in conclusion what I state above, that I
will co-operate to the fullest of my power, and
pledge myself to sustain and enlist the Holland in
fluence.
Very Respectfully',
From tile Charleston Mercury, Oct. 10.
Uloro Help.
Yesterday, we learn, nearly one hundred re
cruits arrived in our harbor, to fill up the compa
nies which now garrison the Forts. We may
consider Charleston as now tolerably safe, and
accession of troops just before the election, is a
signal proof of the watchful and paternal care of
the Federal Government. Mr. Fillmore’s Admin
istration seems really attached to South Carolina,
and we should not wonder if the President car
ried his partiality so far as to order a detachment
of troops to watch over the ballot boxes, and
guard the purity of the elective franchise It is
rumored that the treasury of the United States
has already been opened for that respectable pur
pose, and the bayonets of the army would add
considerably to the dignity of the gulden argu
ment.
It is, then, under the guns ofthe Federal For
tresses, that the Freeman of Charleston are to
march to the polls on Monday and Tuesday next,
and determine whether this State is any longer a
State, or only one of the mean dependencies of
the “irersponsihle despotism” and the “vulgar tv
rany” at Washington. On the one side we have
the Palmetto flag, our country, and the cause
which patriotism and self-devotion have ennobled
in all past ages—the cause of freedom; on the
other the momentary preservation of the value of
stocks and merchandise, submission to admitted
wrongs in the past, an endless future of aggression
and insult, and revolutionary incendiarism, and
the gurdiansliip of the United States soldiers sent
here to remind us that we are a conquered and
degraded people, Men of Charleston which par
ty do you choose ?
From Havana.
Late intelligence from Ilavanna reports that the
Cuban General assured Capt. Ellis, a liberated
prisoner, that by application at Madrid, all the
prisoners will be released, upon the condition that
the authorities of New Orleans will remunerate
the Spaniards for their losses incurred by the riots
in that city.
Two men, Americans of Lopez’s party,
Breckexridoe and Beacit, had been taken up
about twenty miles out at sea, when attempting
to escape from the Island. They were carried to
Havana and were about being sent off to Spain in
company with forty others (who were sent) when
Capt. Platt of the Albany interfered, on the
ground that they were Americans taken on the
high sea. [Why did not Mr. Consul Owen do the
same in behalf of Crittenden’s men taken under
similar circumstances ! ] The two at the sailing of
the steamer, were awaiting their trial, which they
had a right to claim under the provisions of the
treaty existing between our government and
Spain.— Sav. Georgian.
State Elections. —Hie Mississippi flection
for Governor, members of Congress ami State |
Legislators, comes oft’ on the fire Monday in No- j
veinber next.
In Pennsylvania, for Governor, members of the j
Legislature, Canal Commissioner, Judges, and
other minor State and county officers, ou Tues
day, the 14 th insl.
Iu Virginia, for members of Congress and the
vote on the new constitution, comes oft’ on the
fourth Thursday in October —21st inst. The
election for Governor and State officers does not
take place until December next, after the contem
plated adoption of the new constitution by the j
people.
SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT;
OtiIETHORPE, GA.
THURSDA Y, 1851. “
NeVjftrertitflK.
The attentiuCof the invi
ted to the advertisement of A Cliap
; man, Druggists, to be fouiidßßmioriier column. :
They hawjWi lasge aad of Drugs
I and Medicines, as well as all other'fcrtieles usual
ly kept in establishments of like character, which
’ they will sell on as good terms as at any other es-
I tablishment in Georgia. Give them a call and see
: for yourselves.
The Shoe Store of Messrs. Banks & Cos., is an
1 object of special attraction to the citizens of this
t place at this time, for without doubt they have j
a stock of shoes “as is a stock,” which they are j
i determined to sell low for the “dimes.” So walk
up all ye barefoot Republicans, and get shoes,
without money, and without price almost.
But if you do not want anything in the Drug
or Shoe line, but prefer someth ‘mg fancy, all you
have got to do is to walk round to Mr. Meyer’s
and there you will find it, and so cheap that you
i will grumble because he does not ask enough.
Hon. Thomas Hackett, a member of
Congress, from the sth District of Georgia, died
a few days since, at Marietta, of a pulmonary af
fection. He has been in feeble health for some
time past, and the intelligence of his death, how
ever painful to his numerous-friends, will-be a.
matter of no surprise. He was a sterling Demo
crat, and though living in Cherokee Geo-gia, was
a zealous advocate of Southern rights. The pre
! carious state of his health during both sessions of
the last Congress, of which he was a member,
precluded him from taking any active part in the
deliberations of that body on the exciting subject
which engrossed so largely its time, hence the
obscure position he occupies in connection with
the subject.
Tin; Presidency.
We are aware that it is full early to begin to
agitate this question at this time, but so impor
tant do we deem it, we think it cannot be too ful
ly discussed even before the election. The results
of the recent elections in Alabama, Mississippi and
Georgia, are omens of evil import to the South,
and clearly indicate that her cherished institu
tion is “beset by foes from without and by ene
j mies within,” and unless a firm and decided stand
| is taken by the entire South on the subject, the
J day is not far distant when her surn v fields will
jbe laid waste, her happy homes made desolate.
I and universal ruin and distress cover her as with
ja pall, shutting out from her view every ray of
j hope which has hitherto lighted her pathway, j
| that equal and exact justice will be meted out to
j her by the dominant party of this country, viz: !
! the Freesciilers. As humiliating as is the thought
we are forced to the conclusion by recent events,;
that the Freesoilers of the North have able mix j
diaries at the South; yea, within the very borders
of our own State, who are doing everything in j
their power to bring about the dire calamity of I
| the abolition of slavery, first in ail places over
j which Congress has jurisdiction, and then in the !
States. Wo do not mean to say that all those!
who belong to the self-styled Constitutional Uni
on party are Freesoilers and Abolitionists—but
that there are many belonging to that party, even
at the South, who would be rejoiced to sec slavery
abolished every where, we as much believe as we
do that there is a Supreme Ruler ofthe Universe,
and though there may tmm y pcjjgns
ing to that party who have no sympathy with or
i for either Freesoilers or their doctrines, vet their
I acting with them will have a tendency to se
jcuro the ultimate triumph of the principles they
|so utterly contemn and repudiate. In view then
I of the fact that a majority, and a very large ina
j jority at that, of the people of the South, see no
j cause of complaint for past aggressions, but on the
j contrary consider as fair, liberal and just , a se
ries of measures which despoiled the South of her
! property and her honor, is it not time that her
| true friends should be adopting measures to avert
i tiie blow impending over her—or at all events to
j refrain from giving “aid and comfort” to her cnc
i mies ?
j The Northern people, to a man, and a portion
| of the Southern people, are opposed to slavery in
j the abstract, and if National Convention should
; lie held for he purpose of nominating a candidate :
! for President, a Northern man will bo nominated j
las sure as the Convention meets, and if the South
| goes into such Convention she will he virtually;
j committed to his support, however inimical his j
position may be to Southern interests. Such be- j
ing the case, the question arises what course the j
South should pursue under the circumstances—
whether the Southern Rights party should keep
aloof from all participation in the matter, and suf
fer the Union party of the South in coalition with
the Northern Whig party to fight it out against
the old Democratic party of the North, or wheth
er we shall run a Southern Rights man as a third
candidate, and thereby endeavor to throw the
election into the House of Representatives, where !
there would be a much greater probability of the
South obtaining justice than in the Electoral Col- j
lege. For our own part, we are utterly opposed ;
to the Southern Rights party affiliating with any
Northern party whatever, for no party at the
North will do to trust on the subject of slavery,
and any candidate to be successful must, pander
to Abolitionism, for that influence will in a great j
measure control the election, and on whichever
side that influence falls the election will terminate.!
The Southern Rights party could not consistently j
support any man who showed the least disposi- j
tion to sympathise with Frecsoilism, and as no !
man can be elected who will not court that iuflu-1
enee, we think it by far the better policy of the
Southern Rights party to run a third candidate ;
and endeavor to unite the Southern people upon
him and throw the election into the House, in j
which event the South might possibly elect her [
candidate. If the South expects that a National!
Convention will give her a candidate that will be
sound upon the slavery question, she will be most \
egregiously mistaken—in fact the nomination of
such a candidate would be a certain guaranty of
defeat, for all the effort that could be put forth by
his party would not rally even a respectable mi
nority of the Northern people to his support,—
Even Cass ‘wllj with ali his anti-slavery no
tions, could not of
| Northern votes, for he’ is not JMl ultlil on
the subject to satisfy the spirit of Abolitioinli[l at ~
i leisui which pervades the minds of a large pfffei
portion of tiie Northern ixxjple. -Buchanan or
Dallas, the only men/it the North that the South
could with any degree of propriety vote for, wow'd
not carry two of the Northern States, while <heir
detea: at the South would be almost as complete,
tor to- whole Abolition and Freesoil iufllence at
the Forth would be arrayed against tfom, togetb
; er wuh the Union party ofthe So*h, and the
| ( tf fcst would consequently bo mor overwhelm!#J
.than was Yau Buren’s in 1840. Hence it wcMr
! W T
1 for t l * Southern-Ri g]lts /■
; going into a National Convention ‘
; any otlxer than a sectional candidate ‘IT®
! Bidency. attith some good Southern
ffcoutlieriWßights candidate for the p„ St *B
.may in allying thewul
to lus would **
by (lie Electoral College, and form, ZM
! into the there would * igg
jjority • one iiWavor-of the No:
j Southern candmte epflj be.
’ Mareu of Virginia, for Presides
i Donald of Georgia for Vice Presided"®
the whole South might be made t&v'v ■
and give them a prominence in foe ft\” J
i would ensure their election. -
Ano I Her triumph Tina ], orn I
Fugitive Slave |. !lH
] As the people of Georgia have dat.Ln
;election of Howell Cobb to the r„p
----; Chair, that the so-called Compromfo J?
the last Congress were “/air, liberator l
copy in a preceding column the partiaUj
rescue of a fugitive slave by an AWiti™J
Syracuse, New York, merely to show; J*
value the most important-measure of tJ
promise is to the South. It is not o „r,u
stir up the ire and indignation of the u?
Georgia against their dear North, rn ’• r 2
their faithlessness in carrying out the i,*?
the law which it has been contended
side-ration for the other aggressive me* a Jj
Compromise, nor do we wish to cause t|* *
•4o repent of the decision they have nia* £
cannot but regard the Fugitive Slave L,
failure—a humbug—not worth to the
paper on which the hill was written ft
fugitives that have been recovered „ n j.. t •*
has been at a tremendous cost t„ p,, *
the principle was all that was gained
action. But in various cases the enfiryj
the law has been resisted, forcibly r e”
the fugitive assisted to escape lieyondtWfcj
tion of the United States. Wj know thsi
contended by many that this is no T’*
against the law, and that the people.
law, are to blame. This may all |t ra , J
what value, wo would ask, is “a law thai’ w J
executed ? It is a dead letter on tl.,sta®3
and is a monument of disgrace so lon's]
eupies that position. A govcn.im-nt lint J
weak to enforce its laws is deservin ‘ ;|, J
gated contempt of its subjects, and >.•’ J
the trouble of preserving, of what J
he the law of Georgia against lar,. i,y
were to rcsi-t its enforcement w i!?,":. .'-4i
assist the offender in makinghisoc j tfl
;>he not justly lie held in contempt I,•. .. .3
|er States t Most assuredlv ! \V.I( ).,[ : 1
position stands the Government of tW (■
States at this time in relation totli.- K,i;:
I Law. Congress passed a law rcquiriT.g
ithoritics of the different States t .d>-lr--:r J
j live slaves oti the proper application of tla 1
| ere, and the execution of the law has son-J
ledly and successfully resisted, and■
ishment lias been inflicted on those ufo
: its execution. It is true that some of
j lodged to have been connected with ;l 1
| tiana outrage have been arrested ami uii! ‘*
for the offence; but who believes tliaUmaiil
will be punished for resisting the law ! ‘sß
| them may, perchance, lx- convicted of tk-sfl
of Mr. Gorsuch if the jury docs not ntiir.il
j diet of “justifiable homicide,” but that tit;
j tance of the law will aggravate the A*
j fore a Northern jury, the experience of thj
e will not allow us to believe. If there Wj
cases of 4Mrrforcmv
!of the Northern Stans
j execution of this, line, or if the r, Aaiiet l
|confined to the lower classes oflm pqid
j we might hope that it would n!t\* ‘
|ue to the South, but so long as th r. I- li
j hostility manifested against it l\ .;l clive<
j North, it is worse than folly to even l:.,;-a
will ever be of any utility whatever t ns.
TEic ltd in-lit.
Below we give the result ofthe clot: as*
as heard from, by w hich it will he seen liuii
ry has perched upon the standard of
nents. The Federal candidate for Com*
elected by about eighteen thousand majoritt.i
six of the eight Representatives tt> Congress,it
itlre same kidney. We feel sad —wo can Ist
! sad, that our District, the once triumphant
j Cogressional District-tin- nucleusnfOwxgi**
| ry, should bo represented in Conge-j
i avowed free-soiler. The election of lloweak
|is of itself enough to give Southern ir
Southern feeling, the*
election of James Johnson as the if prA-itr
I ofthe Slaveholding Second Congressional iw
is a worscr. 1
It is a great, consolation however tube*
the First and Third Congressional Dislrkto
triumphantly sustained the Rights of the S
by the election of Colonels Jackson ami Ik
Well done faithful First and redoubtakku
I Nobly—most nobly have you sustained thek
lof your State, and rights of the South,
other portions of Georgia have given j*
‘comfort” to the North, in their aggressive>
| merits upon the rights of the South: uC *
they have rewarded the treachery of a
qiolitical renegades, you have triumphantly 1
i tained the honor of the Democratic Sj*
| Rights flag, and vindicated at the ballot W’
j Republican principles of your revolution
; Here then, is “crowing ground ’ for tbeS*
; ern Rights boys. And in so far ;ls we are ®**
led, we intend to make good use of it ‘
I already been holding jubilee ovc-r Col. I**
I election, and Mr. Chappell’* defeat, anJ *
; tend to continue it a spell. The Macon soy
| defeated! Good! Good I! Good I!! And t*
of all Col. Bailey’ was elected in openopp*
j the rotten Georgia platform. Tins * j*.
triumph of principle. Huzzah for Col-L"'.’
the Third Congressional District.
j Keep it before the peerple, That AUa
(Chappell the political didapper Candida"--,
| his body guard, the Macon Regency, a ' j
! Georgia plate-form, are all laid >o the
i the Third Congressional District , .
| Walk up Southern Rights men of the*
Congressional District, to the top roundot •
der, and in the face of all your enemies.
Banner,to which your triumphant deedseui.i-.
The Third Congressional District is enp
Ily the BANNER DISTRICT. In frinmP’
; your flag, and welcome the friends ot
! the protection of its ample folds. ■gr'tS-yll
L . . FOit GOYKRNOU,Nmith.
>istrd*i?’ Cobh. McDonald. IM eior~P..,
, ’ Dittn'K CoM. McDonald Fed Uor.fi,
, Ist 4,268 4,985 6,016 4,49f
i 2r- r 8-21S 6,890 7,9-33 6,705
/ 6,114 6,123 5,852 6,001
! •*£ 7,568 5,391 6,721 4.523
t 1V79 7,078 12,-388 6.848
6,486 2,593 6,940 2,769
ttn, 4,726 2,137 4,734 1,957
Bth, 4,736 2,664 4,739 2,535/
54,890 36,860 53,323 35^}