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From the Georgia Journal.
THE REASONS WHY l WILL. NOT
SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATS, AND
WHY I WILL SUPPORT THE
WHIGS.
NO. I.
I will not support tli’c Democrats, be
cause 1 have never believed vvliat they told
me, but I was deceived by them. I will
support the Whigs, because I have found
by experience that they always tell the
truth.
The Democrats told me, that the Whigs
made our State taxes too high in 1840 ; and
if we would turn them out, and put them
in, they (the Democrats) would reduce
them. We tried them and they did not re
duce our taxes. They said, that the Le
gislature passed a bill for that purpose, and
the Governor would not sign it; hut try
them last year attain, and instead of redu
cing they have actually increased our taxes
twenty-five per cent, or made them one
fourth larger—and they now say, that the
taxes of 1840 were necessary and the in
crease they have made is also necessary.
I do not believe them, and xvill not vote for
them again. Our State taxes are now high
er than they have been for thirty years.
1 will not vote for the Democrats, because
they attempted last Legislature to pass a
law to subject every farmer to a fine of fire
thousand dollars and be imprisoned in the
Penitentiary for a period office years who
should sell his cotton, and take Central
Rank bills in payment at a greater discount
than 8 percent. lam told, that a Demo,
oral from Coweta county introduced this
bill—that a democrat (Judge Colquitt)
drew it up—and that it was lost in the
House by only ONE vote, and that near
ly every vote in its favor was democratic,
and nearly every vote against it was Whig.
I will never support any party that acts
as badly as this.
I will not vote for tho Democrats, be
cause they have increased our taxes, to re
lieve the bil Is of the Central Bank. They
lent out the bills to rich men—from thirty
to seventy thousand dollars to each one—
they would not pay up ; the bills became
depreciated—the brokers bought them up,
and now we are taxed for the benefit of the
brokers.
I will not vote for the Democrats, because
they have always told us, that if the Whigs
get into power, they would close up the
Central Rank, and sue us all. The Whigs
got into power in IS4O and did not sue us;
but they got the Whigs out and got in them
selves, and have sued more people this
year, than one half of the rest of the State
besides.
I will not support tbe Democrats, because
when they increased our taxes they increa
sed their own pay, and increased the length
of the session of the Legislature; having
spent their time in quarrelling will) one a
nother about office.
I will not vote for the Democrats, because
they have taken away the funds allowed
for the education of the poor—because they
promised to bonov money upon the credit
of the State to reloive us, if we would put
them in powe-, and after we did so, they
told us that ‘-those w.-.o were broke could
no; be helped* and those who were not could
get along without it,” —because they prom
ised to make the Central Bank bills at spe
cie-value, and they did not; because the
people have lost four hundred thousand dol
lars a year on acconnt of their depreciation;
they had the power to prevent it, and would
not until the brokers got them ; because by
thei- Legislation the brokers will make four
hundred thousand dollars by the last tax
act which the people ought to have saved
—and because they promised us general
relief, and all they gave us, was to change
the times of holding the Justice’s Courts ;
so that a poor man owing more than S3O
can be sued in the big court, and his prop
r;v r ‘ sold, before he can sue and collect
;us lutle debts in the Justice’s Court. I will
‘--te for any man whosupports such acts
s. r belongs to a party that does.
NO. 11.
Therefore, 1 will not vote for Mark A.
Coo-o -because he sustains the men who
cupper! those measures.
I wiil not - ote fir him, because his neigh
bors do not like him. 1 always dread a man
when those who know him best, like him
least. When he was first a candidate for
Congress, the Nullifiersof Putnam did not
vote for him, and was forty votes behind the
the ticket. This looked bad when he had
always lived in that connly. Wheii he was
a candidate for the Legislature in Musco
gee county, the Democratic party carried
the county, and all the Democrats were e
lected but Mr. Cooper. He was beaten by
an old straight-forward farmer. This tells
badly for him. I will vote for George W.
Crawford, because all his neighbors do vote
for him. I will not vote for Mr. Cooper,
because the men who went with him to
Florida are nearly to a man against him.
The army tries a man’s stuff, and if those
who were with him, and know him, do not
like him, 1 cannot trust him when I only
know him by character. All of General
Jackson’s merralways supported him
I will not vote for him, because lie has
always professed to he iu favor of economy
in the expenditures of the government, and
when he had a chance to take off a million
of dollars from our taxes he voted against
the reduction ; when he was called to take
a little offhis mileage which is SOO per day
he voted against that.
I will not vote for him, because he was
elected to Congress upon his opposition to
a tax on tea and coffee. When he “ot there
he moved to tax tea 20 per cent, and after
wards voted to tax both, 35 per cent, in
stead ofs per cent.
I will not vote for him, because I never
saw or heard of a man, unless he was rich
who could say that Mark A. Cooper was
his friend ; and I will not not vote for him,
because he has not got sense enough to make
a Governor of.
no. in.
I will not vote for Cooper, nor any other
dc rnoerat. hee-Hise they have deceived me
by saying that democrats, were against a|
protective tariff, and a system of internal (
improvements by the Federal Government.
I find that they alone have originated and
supported both.
In JSIG, there were four Democrats to
ono Whig, who voted for the tariff-—and
John C. Calhoun, aud Richard M. Johnson
voted for it.
In 1824, nearly all the Democrats voted
for it. Gen. Jackson, Martin Van Buren,
Jas. Buchanan, John H. Eaton, Thomas H.
Benton, and other leading democrats voted
for it.
In 1838, tile Democrats had large ma
jorities in both Houses of Congress, and
passed that Tariff.
In 1832, in the House 8!) democrats vo
ted for it, to 43 Whigs, and this was the law
South Carolina Nullified.
Every leading democrat in the Union is
a tariff man.
In the Georgia Legislature, 28 demo
crats voted that the protective tariffof 1828
was constitutional, and notone Whig voted
so! If I vote with the Democrats, I shall
| have to act with the Tariff party of tho
Union, which I cannot do. I shall there
fore vote with the Whigs to keep out of
such company. Henry Clay, never voted
for the Tal-itf of 1810, nor 1824, nor 1828,
and is the author of the lowest tariff ever
passed by Congress ; and the only reason
in's low tariff is departed from is to get
money to pay the debts of the Democratic
party.
I will not vote for tho Democrats, be
cause they are in favor of a system ofinter
nal improvements by the general govern
ment, in order to keep up a protective tar
iff. In 40 years, tlie government expended
only $2,800,000 for such works—the dem
ocrats expended in ten years $10,000,000,
and the Whigs in 2| years, only expended
$430,000 ; all of which was necessary to
pay the debts and keep in repair the works
the Democrats had commenced. The
Whigs did not commence a single new one,
Iri 40 years, the government expemleu
$2,400,000 on tho Cumberland road—the
democrats expended in ten years $4,000,-
000. The Whigs are opposed to all such
extravagance, and therefore would not ex
pend one cent upon such works. I shall
| therefore vote for the Whigs.
NO IV.
I will not vote for the Democrats, be
cause they have deceived me about a Na
tional Bank. They said it was a Federal
measure. Upon investigation, I find that
it is a Republican measure and that the
Democrats are acting now as the Tories
did in the late war, and that they oppose a
Bank, as Daniel Webster, and Timothy
Pickering and the Hartford Convention
Federalists did then.
James Madison, the Republican Presi
dent recommended tho Bank ; John C. Cal
houn introduced the hank bill, and voted for
it: Gov. Forsyth, Gov. Lumpkin, Alfred
Cuthbert, all voted for it; Gen. Jno. Floyd
and Gen. John Clark, both of whom fought
well on the republican side, were the
friends ofit; Duncan G. Campbell, and oid
David Adams were bank men, and all re
publicans.
The Republicans in Congress voted for
it. In the Senate of the United States, on
20th February, 1811, a motion was made
to defeat a bank bill, and the yeas and nays
were equally divided ; ofits friends 10 were
republicans, and 7 were federalists. On
2d April, 1814, Felix Grundy, an old re
publican, introduced a resolution favorable
to a bank, an attempt was made to defeat it,
hut it had 80 friends and 71 enemies—of
its friends 09 were republicans, and 26
were federalists, and of its enemies 45 were
republicans and 20 federalists. On 28th
Oct. 1814, another resolution was intro
duced favorable to a bank, its friends were
93, its enemies 54, —of its friends 76 were
republicans—and only 17 were federalists,
of its enemies 34 were republicans and 20
were federalists.
On 9th December, 1814, a bill passed
the Senate, yeas 17, nays 14 ; ofits friends
all were republicans, and its enemies were
all federalists. The same bill passed the
House by a vote of 120 to 37—ofits friends
80 were republicans, and 40 were federal
ists, this bill was vetoed by Mr. Madison.—
On 11 til February, 1815, another bill pas
sed the Senate by yeas 18, nays 16 —all
were republicans who voted in the affirma
tive, and all the federalists voted in the ne
gative.
After catching the democrats in so many
misrepresentations about their own acts,
and the acts of the Whigs, all lean do, is
not to trust one of them—and since they
have so lately deceived me in so many in
stances, about so many different things, and
have got into power by abusing the Whigs,
and then after getting into power, do so
much worse, I will never vote for one a
gain.
AN OLD REPUBLICAN.
From the Chattanooga Gazette.
ATTENTION TIIE STATE OF
GEORGIA.
Be it known that Mark Anthony Cooper,
the Democratic candidate for the office of
Governor of the State of Georgia, is atten
ding the JusticACourts in every Civil Dis
trict—electioneering individually, and ex
hibiting his yellow boys, telling the peo
ple that they are the kind of drops to ad
minister to the laboring poor. He is the
candidate for the Locos. But we wish him
and hi,; friends to understand that we in
tend to beat him with Col. Crawford, 5000
votes at least.
A CRAWFORD WHIG.
Red Clay, Murray co, Ga.
Poor Fellow !—One of our exchange pa
pers came to hand this week, containing
but one editorial, and that an apologj’.—
The editor says: “Our readers must ex
cuse the lack of usual editorial this week,
as our wife has been so ill, we could not
write.” Now, as we’ve never been mar
ried, we would like for some of our breth
ren who have, to tell us why the editor ital
icised the word “ill.” Jt puzzles u?.
From the Georgia Courier.
SOBER SECOND THOUGHTS.
As the period of tho election approaches
it is proper that the people should carefully
scan tho political horizon, calmly, dispas
sionately and without prejudice review the
past, aud enquire into the present condition
of the country, that they may wisoly deter
mine into whoso hands they will commit
tho destinies of the State lor the ensuing
two years. Which party will he most
likely to promote the general good ? The
public weal is the great object kept in view
by all who are not dead to the noble prill*
ciples of virtue and patriotism, and the on
ly question to bo determined, is how this
may be best advanced. There are, it is
true, in the country designing men who are
constantly endeavoring to array the peo
ple, who have a common interest, into op
posing ranks, and to stifle all appeals made
to their reason and judgement by exciting
their prejudices and their passions, and to
restrain their freedom of action by drawing
more tightly around them tho lines of par
ty organization. But the time is at hand
when those dictators to tho freemen of Geor
gia will be spurned and the galling thral
dom which they have hitherto maintained
will be thrown off. Thcdemagogue alone
is interested in, because lie reaps the re
wards of a party triumph; the honest lover
of his country cares nothing for the success
of either party, only as it may conduce to
the good of the country. This, with him is
the only subject of enquiry, and fortunate
ly in the present instance he need not be
left in doubt. The briefhistory of the acts
of the Democratic party since they have
controlled the affairs of the State, contained
in the late address to the people of Georgia,
present such a picture of misrule the result
i of ignorance and vascillation as must bring
j conviction to the mind of the voter that if a
change of rulers will not mend, it cannot
! mar our interests. It is impossible that we
I can be worsted. No party ever committed
more acts of folly and extravagance during
so short a space of time—so signally in
fact have they failed in their attempt to ad
minister the Stale government, that the bol
dest of them pretend not to defend their con
duct, but freely censure and condemn it.
Though not remarkable for modesty their
leaders dare not claim the suffrages of the
people on the ground that their measures
j have been wise and their policy judicious,
I but rely upon the strength of their party
. organization to sustain them, when by their
j own admission they have been condemned by
the people of Georgia. %
When the State Government was confi
ded to the Democratic party we had an o
verflowing treasury, we had more than a
million ofdollars of bank stock from the di
vidends upon which the civil list was sup
ported, the Central Bank was cautiously
lending to the people t he surplus fund of the
State, thereby adding still more to her a
bundant means. Its bills were at par and
readily received by all. Our taxes were
so light that no one regarded the payment
of them, and. a large portion of the amount’
collected watfcpaid back to the respective
counties. Thousands were annually ex
pended for the education of the poor who
would otherwise have been deprived of this
inestimable blessing, and our Government
was in all respects fulfilling the great ob
ject, of its creation. Our treasury is bank
rupt, all the surplus accumulated by the
care and economy of those who preceded
them, has been wasted by the Democratic
rulers together with more than a million of
dollars received from the General Govern
ment as our portion of the surplus revenue
and the land fund. The Central Bank in
stead of continuing to discharge the objects
ofits establishment has bec ime a curse to
the country. Its capital has been wasted,
it has been converted into an engine of party
to retain their ascendency, and in desperate
efforts to seen re tins end, its credit has been
dr--r.v ) 1 bills depreciated, with a
ioss of imilinnst the people. This loss
has tuilon upon ill classes of the commu
nity, lie rich, die poor, the merchant, the
mechanic, the ‘laborer all have been severe
sufferers from the results of this piece of
Democratic mismanagement. The aggre
gate loss is indeed incalculable. Most of
the Suite stocks which were designed to
shield the people from taxation have been
sold out and the money squandered. The
moiety of the State tax paid to the counties
has been withdrawn rendering necessary a
county tax in many instances as onerous
as that paid to tho State, while the latter is
increased in the f, oe too of promises of re
duction to an amount not easily met in times
of great pecuniary distresslikethe present.
The annual appropriation for the purpose
of imparting knowledge to the indigent, and
enabling them to exercise with a proper
understanding of their importance, the
rights of American freemen has been with
held. In addition to tiie large sutqs actu
ally in hand which have been wasted, the
people have been saddled with a debt, the
annual interest upon which exceeds one
hundred thousand dollars. Unwilling that
the present generation alone should bear
the curse of their domination they have im
posed upon posterity this enormous burthen
and left it to them to devise the means of
payment. But all this Extravagance and
ruinous policy the high-minded Georgian
regards less than the total recklessness
which they have shown to the honor and
faith of the State. They have disregarded
her solemn contracts Entered into by them
selves, have allowed her obligations to be
dishonored and permitted the credit of our
noble old state to sink below that of a pri
vate citizen. After reducing her*to a con
dition where it was necessary to employ
her credit, they possessed not the moral
courage nor confidence in the people requi
site to ask them for the sacrifices indispen
sable to sustain it.
‘A hat we ask is to be jioped for from this
party in future ? How did they meet the
difficulties whirfi surrounded them when
last in legislative session ? Was their con
duct such as should inspire confidence for
the future ? or was it calculated to retrieve
the errors of the past ? Who does not know
the hurst of popular indignation which sa
luted the last legislature upon its adjourn*
mont l so loud and deep that none were
found possessing sufficient temerity to be
come its apologists, and even the staunch
est of the advocates of the party were loud
est iu their censures and employed the
most unmeasured terms of condemnation
upon their mis conduct. Have they made
any new promises of amendment ? none.—
Do they pretend that schooled by their for
mer errors the people may expect wiser
measures and more salutary laws for the
future? Not so. They do not condescend
even to defend their past conduct, or prodi
gal as they have always been of pledges,
to give upon this occasion the smallest loop
to hang our hopes upon. The great argu
ment is that they are the Democratic par
ty and the party must hang together. Peo
ple of Georgia is it not high time that this
senseless appeal should be trodden under
foot? What assurance have you of the
honesty and fidelity of your rulers if they
are to be sustained right or wrong, because
they claim to belong to a particular party?
How arc you to secure the enactment of
wholesome laws, or the adoption of a wise
policy when they are no longer judged of
by their merits, hut determined by the bare
fact of whether they are of Democratic or
igin ? Is it not time to come back to the
customs of our forefathers, to throw off the
shackles of party, and look to the intet at
of the country ? That our State has
most wretchedly governed no one can deny,
from prosperity we have sunk to distress
and ruin, from affluence to penury and
bankruptcy, andean we expect any ameli
oration of our condition while we continue
the same men in power ? A change of
men will bring a change of measures. E
lect a Whig Governor and a Whig legisla
ture, and dismiss forever the truckling
timeserving policy which has prevailed in
the councils of the State, and she will at
once take an upward stari to prosperity.—
The difficulties which now surround the af
fairs of the State are great but not. unsur
mountable. Wc must meet them in the
spirit of economy guided by an enlarged
and liberal patriotism, and by an unshaken
determination to fulfill all our engagements
with fidelity. The whig party stand pled
ged to such a course of action. They ha\e
heretofore redeemed the State from the
curse of a depreciated currency. Sustain
ed by your confidence they will relieve it
from the disgrace in which our present cm
barrassments have involved us.
COTTON GROWING AND PROTEC.
TION.
The opponents of tne Protective Policy
have ever contended that while, perchance,
it might he of some advantage to the free
labor of the North, which under a system
of free trade must come in direct competi
tion with the unpaid labor of Europe, it
would be indirectly injurious to the great
cotton growing interest of the South. lienee
for the last twenty years every tariff law
has experienced the most uncompromising
hostility from the whole cotton growing re
gion of the United States. But, as we have
long predicted, the time has come when
the cultivators of cotton see and acknowl
edge the error—the fundamental error of
their ideal theory of political economy.—
Plain, simple and undeniable facts now
look men square in the face, and they must
see them, and do see them, save a few, who
choose to play the fool, close their eyes at
mid-day and declare there is no sun in the
heavens, no light in the world.
Now for the facts: During the year
1841 there was imported from the United
States into Great Britain according to tlie
returns made to Parliament, 358,240,964
lbs. of cotton. So much for the credit of
low duties in this country and the policy
of free trade. During six months in the
present year the same authority gives an
import from the United States 305,105,736
lbs. ; showing an increase of nearly 100 per
cent! If the demand for American cotton
shall be as good for the balance of the year,
the aggregate will be 610,211,472 lbs.—
Here is precisely the result which - the ad
vocates of encouragement to home produc
tion anticipated from the Tariff; by more
industry, more economy at home, and less
consumption of foreign goods and less im
portation, the cotton growers would of
course produce more, sell more, and buy
less ; and just like othorpeople althe North
get rich by the operation. Every body
knows that for some years immediately be
fore the present Tariff law was enacted,
the balanceoftrade was most ruinously a
gainst the South. So much so, that ex
change on New York and Boston was often
from 5 to 10 percent, at New.Orleans.—
Now, mark the effect that the sound Whig
policy of producing all within ourselves that
can be done, of selling as large a surplus
as practicable, and consuming as little of
others products as convenient, has had
upon the Southern States. It has taught
the cotton growers that they can grow all
their breadstuffs and provisions without di
minishing their crop of cotton ; and hence
they have more of this staple for export,
and can afford it a less price. The cheap
ening of the price has in turn increased its
consumption in England, France, Germa
ny and the United States.
In the manufacture of satinets, and a
great variety of other articles, it now takes
the place of wool from its extreme cheap
ness. As it might be expected, under the
system, the outlines of which we have but
faintly sketched, the cotton crop of the
South is now nearly so much surplus profit
from a year’s skilful and economical farm
ing. This is paid for in specie.— Buffalo
Com. Ado.
Most Singular Circumstance. —The Rev;
Mr. Burnham, minister of the society now
worshipping at the Odeon, informs the edi
tor of Boston Transcript, that one evening
last week his wife was taken suddenly and
seriously ill, when, during a violent fit of
vomiting, she ejected a live frog, about half
grown ! The frog hopped half way across
the room, and then, with something like
dramatic dignity, laid down on his back
and expired! Mrs. Burnham supposes that
she took the frog into her stomach, in the
tadpole state, while drinking water in the
night, as she had been in the habit of so
doing, and that it bad been in her stomach
for some weeks. Mr. Burnham remarked
that, although lie was not much affrighted,
yet lie was considerably surprised at wit
nessing such a strange addition to his fam
iJy- 1
A Crusty One. —The editor of the Ha
gerstown News, himself an old bachelor,
savs :—“Nothing can prevent an increase
of bachelorism save an amendment in the
mode of educating women. When they
learn common sense instead of broken
French, when they learn some useful em
ployment instead of beating the piano; when
they learn to prefer honest industry to silly
coxcombry, and when men find that a wo
man is a helpmate instead of a burthen,
then we may expect to find fewer bache
lors—not till then.”
The Personal Manner of Washington
“What a personal presence was that of the
Father of his Country! All accounts a
gree in this. We heard an old gentleman
say, not long ago, that when a clerk in
Philadelphia, he used to walk two or three
squares every morning, to meet Washing
ton as he came down Market-street to his
quarters. ‘The dignity,’ said he, ‘of his
movements, the grace of his salutation, and
the calm sweetness of his smile, were be
yond description or comparison.’ Sitting
the other day on a log, scarcely a stone’s
throw from where Andre was captured, and
not far from the little Sleepy-Hollow
Church, we conversed an hourwith a Re
volutionary patriot, tremulous with the pal
sy of age, who pointed out to us the spot,
over the Tappan Sea which lay before us,
where Andre was hung, and where, on that
duy, the troops ‘spread out thick and black
a long way from the gallows.’ Ho lived
at Verplanck’s Point, close by, when Ar
nold caine down in his barge and went on
board the Vulture, all which he himself
saw. •They fired two cannon at the barge,’
said he, ‘from this side—having got news of
the treason by express—but the gun burst
at the second discharge, and took off the
legs, to the thighs, of one poor fellow who
was brought to our house, but he died in
two hours.’ ‘The army then lay at Bed
ford,’ continued the old veteran ; ‘and I saw
General Washington almost every day.—
He was a noble looking man ; his counte
nance was terribly pleasant. He did not
talk much, buteventlie little children fairly
loved him ; and they used to gather about
the door of his marquee every morning to
see him; and lie used to pat their heads
and smile on them : it was beautiful to see.’
How uniform and universal is this ‘testi
mony of the eye’ in the recollections of
Washington.”
COMMUNICATIONS.
FOR THE NEWS & PLANTERS* GAZETTE.
To the Voters of Wilkes county !
We shall be called upon next Monday
by duty, to exercise the dearest rights of a
Freeman. It is a duty that we ought not to
disregard. If a Republican Government,
a government of the people by the people
themselves is worth preservation ; if as we
all believe, such a government is best cal
culated to ensure the public prosperity and
happiness, we wrong ourselves, our coun
try, and our glorious institutions, if we fail
to devote at least one day in the year to our
public affairs. Then, let every freeman,
of every trade and occupation, come to the
Polls on Monday, and by his influence and
his counsels endeavor to select such public
agents as will most ably and faithfully
conduct the public business.
We are divided into parties : Both public.
and private considerations aid in keeping
up these distinctions; the people must
judge between them. Corrupt public a
gents have an interest to cling to, and sup
port party after it has forfeited all claims
to public support and respect. They profit
by it. The mass of the people have an in
terest only in good and wise government.
It is their highest duty to abandon a party
whenever it shall prove itself either too im
becile or corrupt to manage the affairs of
the Republic. By applying this sound and
salutary rule to the Democratic party it
will be found unworthy the support of the
people. Under and by their inglorious rule
for the last twelve years, countless misfor
tunes as a people, have come upon us. It
is needless now to trace with particularity
the disastrous measures of this party which
have dried up the sources of individual and
national prosperity. It is needless to re
count the miserable and disgraceful tricks
and devices to which they have commonly
resorted to delude and deceive an honest,
confiding people. They have been often
portrayed. The humblest citizen, though
unable to follow them up in their tedious
windings, can see and feel the results of
their policy. The course of the tornado is
not more easily traced by its devastations,
than is the career of this party by the bro
ken fragments of public and private pros
perity which lie scattered in every step of
its path. They squandered our money, run
us in debt and disgraced our good name as
a State. They have placed bad and self
ish men to rule over us, who have taken
good care to serve themselves instead of the
public. They have endeavored to arrest
the ordinary admistration of good laws, and
to weaken the securities of private fights.
They have ei.deavored to break down as
much of a sound, good currency as their
corrupt, wicked legislation had left us, by
an attempt at arbitrary exactions and legal
ized plunder. ‘I hey have shut up a portion
of our trihnmtls of Justice, n measure in
tended as u palliation of the consequences
of their own destructive policy. To sus
tain a worthless and rotten currency, with
which, for mercenary and corrupt motives
they had flooded the country, they have at
tempted to control the labor and business of
the country, and to inflict heavy fines and
disgraceful imprisonment upon tho people
for the honest disposition of the Wages of in
dustry These are but a few of the griev
ances which wo.are called upon next Mon
day to sanction or condemn. Seeing the
verdict of an injured people, they have art
fully sought to evade the issue. All men
of all parties condemn their government
Georgia. Their own subsidized press
sought to soothe the public indignation by
joining with them in their condemnation,
and now seek to turn public attention from
their own immediate servants to national
affairs, when they have a better chance td
deceive them. Let us look at home at
least for the present. It will be time e.
nough for us to consider when the time ar
rives, whether a party who have been so
faithless “in small things will be more
faithful over great ones.”
Since the Whig party have had a partial
control over our State and National affairs,
things have begun to react; the day of bet
ter things seems to be dawning ; our na
tional credit is restored; our exhausted
Treasury is being replenished ; public de
faulters have been displaced by honest men;
our industry begins to revive; our cur
rency has become sound ; bad Banks have
disappeared, confidence and good faith have
driven out distrust and /raud ; capital be
gins to feel secure, and industry is begin
ning to be rewarded. Let every good man
of all parties lay these things to heart, and
let every Democrat remember that in vo
ting against his party he is voting for his
country. A REPUBLICAN.
FOR THE NEWS AND PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.
Mr. Editor :—The day will shortly ar
rive when we shall have to choose our Le
gislative ticket to represent us in the next
Legislature, and also to choose a Governor
and two Representatives. Now, sir, who
shall we select—shall we choose men that
will stand up for the good of the people and
the general interests of the country—men
that will carry out those principles which
the Whig party have so long and zealously
advocated ; those good and glorious princi
ples which alone can restore prosperity and
happiness to a country, which like ours,
has been sunk to the lowest depths of deg
radation and dishonor by the ruinous
which their public servants have pursued
for many years: I say, shall we choose
men that will strive to carry out those good
principles which the father of our country
advocated before us ; or shall we choose
these very same party politicians who have
been the instruments in the hands of the
honest and confiding people of the country,
in sinking their once glorious Republic to
the very low position which it now occu
pies. Sir, I fear these people who bear the
fictitious name of Democrat, who change
their principles and position once a year at
the very least calculation, that is, if they
have any to change, (their great champion
Mr. Calhoun says they have .none, and I
have but little doubt of its being the true
position which they occupy.) But, Mr.
Editor, I ask you or any other man of sound
judgment, can any thinking man look on
the present prospect of our country and say
there has not been misrule ? Even in our
own recollection, things have sadly chang
ed for the worse. The older men of the
country, who came to manhood in the pur
er days of the republic, and who in times
past were accustomed to place some little
confidence in the integrity of their public
servants, are now approaching that state of
despondency when even the patriot despairs
of the ultimate success of our great experi
ment at self-government.
The difficulty in the matter is, sir, that
private morals are at a lower ebb than pub
lic virtue, and men in authoriMkave only
to propose the basest and most mea
sures, and straightway thousands of the
“ unofficial sovereigns” are found rallying
to their support and lauding the wisdom of
the proposed policy. Look at Gen. Jack
son, whose word was law, and whose will
with thousands of his slavish followers, was
more potent than all the solemn sanctions
of our once glorious but now contemned
and derided Constitution. He has been the
principal actor in doing away that good and
glorious institution, whose re-establishment
alone can restore prosperity and happiness
to our country. Sir, officers of this Gov
ernment may now do with perfect impunity
what, thirty .years ago, would have brand
ed them with the burning seal of universal
condemnation. These remarks will proba
bly be attributed to the efi%ct of parly spir
it, or to that deep-settled and abiding hatred
which we bear to the present’ head of the
present weak and shameless administra
tion. Let it be so. This course on the
part of our opponents can neither weaken
