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land ch ’ js an 1
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*cUf ‘ *PP ,e . offer lor salt ,
h ikt stone place, / oner/
twenty likely negroes.
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VALUAt® PLANTATION
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rr .[ir subsent er offers for sale a very
F iJdeplaautioß in Stewart county, lying
*- . . JS/Kiurenre, containing I,ll* * cr f*’ J
£ Which are cleared, and non- U.-
„*i.e are anew framed dwelling
- J plantation* in Stev. art county.
of purchasing are inr.ted ...I-
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-1 H 740 acre* of land,in the
, . -—of Randolph County Ga., occupying
■ Vftral position between Georgetown
S Jon Gaines. On which i* apaciouaand eon
r .ATTdweXg. and a number of other h 0....,
frwbledwll. g .hie pl.ntalio., now
• ~ and valuable ..t of -till*, two
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I M<I 1 “ * t £ e itlne .ite, and all in good re
p*r, with * wishing t- purchase rc invited
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■* ACHES Rood Oak and Hickory
1520 L A E. ,
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■lent in 1,2 and 3 years. A - UKlh |2 ts
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tAKB TOR SsfySsii
IN H VURIS COUNTY.
T OFFER mv plaiitnUun for sale, (known
„ n a ndall Joi.e.’, Hull Crock plantation, con
.. “.wtacrcsw.il improved land.lran.ed dwe -
YZ * |SL4JTiu..dc complete, good negro cal-
th chimneys, gin-house, screw and
taldi-s. For sale l„w—Term* ea.) .
~her
■ETwSf:K- John V • Coue. near the nremi.-
ch*. .. a c r near Hamilton. Harris,
.. nr James Pulled, hr, ( > oL l,Ai;o.
county. 43-tl
Uet 1. 050 %
plantation
r **,, r gal*. his plantation
WS Crees. .0 K.ndolpi. county, cou
* I *l. five hundred and si.ty-five acres of
V ,B J n ’ I mut OftVe'eareJ and under cultivation
(•nd. About .. rej; „ portion of which it
thu pru.unt year , the gtp culture of
r,..h Und. * fi" - P twJ about eleven mile.
f*" C ort l dt nd about the same di.tanee
the premise* are good
from (.erse. own. k . p Pr son*wish-
house, corn cribs su A hi i )js Sl l|lh _
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October it, 1 5 ' 50
VALUABLE PLANTATION
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PUBLIC SALE
Os a Valuable
PLANTATI O N ,
Mules. Horses, Jacks, Jenueys,
Hog ft Cows, <s<-
WILL ho sulci < n Saturday, the
mss? ssa -;** itsic 1
4 , r xmt n hue su e u , ree .
Thr r i"?! Negro Houses, 4 large
Clem and *%W*r Ml| ' ‘>“‘ er impro¥E ’
went* n U necessary lor * of cat
2. la nee in or two payments, to suit P
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itnnw uon the day ot-* • J u, e of Russell
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nnd lorwanl bill to Hus office.
VALUABLE LANDS
FOII SALE. ft
I FOURTEEN Hundred acres of Lnncl, o
1 V S A M 4fto acres of which is fresh open land p
*w*r good fence wd ■<* > a
imn. w.tß .1 necess- y ■ and Ich .
CteWl^V^^rcrceU:: No Randolph county,
i, Mlclic> crce. „i, in ,r, n Graves. 4
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Ae.y person w.sh.ng to se.Ue 1 t „
h.s.sg
make it devir hie, would and 1 h
place before nkin ? a purclwsc el • 1 credil
cisen.it de*ired. frr tuMner *“ . p *alCutlt
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Oct 22, lafiO *
T OFFER to sell two farms in Stewart
| coantv. on* on the Patau!*, Meal and Briar
fh mr i t of 1210 acres, half open. The n
Mn.n.bacfa; creek oftSlft acre, half open,, 1* H*
F i„ re „ce and ‘0 miles trm Columbus. SOU
*res of which was cleared the present & P Mt
Te**s 4*sr, payments long if desired, hrag
defer*-*- 1 uotil the land iseahibtted.
* 8
crrrxTVSLOTti, SfT.oiigßt th-sn are tarpem
* * EI Black Smith*. They are likely, young
t,„ and Black wilh a „ ,),* stock p
---aodwc l train . GI ; S I AVJS DeLAUN AY
*o the f*rm. Sfl—r
Lumpkin, Sept 4. U>*-
Tlvntation for sale 1
gniles iron, tb- P Th ere are 15*) acres ot
in a compact t"uy- tlie re , t <,f the
Cleared laud matter a good impr „ Te ments arc
tract is well timbered. 1h ” * to .wit. A
#uch a* are .ana! •* cotfn two
*.fort*We felling, *V ~and tables hewn log
wet.* of water, excellent l
sin-houe aa4 e-tton screw. Ihe place
to he as health? a location as can
ale -oui'it* 4o person wishing to purchase ■
ghe county. 4#y P . £ v the
Sh PostOce, R*sell e.on
’ ?i ,7 callimr in peraou. Terms, one halt
** k the reraaiader in t 2 mouth* from the first of
January ■**!- WM. H. MITCHELL.
c. pt 3, H6O. ‘
H F*s .Vianffacia ring ‘Co.
L of Columbus, now prepared to Card and
Wan a'act are VYortl. , r
*t-.h nsid for Wool, or Kerseys exchanged so
lklrraw maUHia-. May U &—u
— ~ nv THE .states*”
VOLUME X. |
KMHEUgTi 860.
~ TOOMBS AKD STEPHENS.
Last Saturday was the day appointed for
the advent of these Siamese Twin politi
cians. They have comeand they are gone;
and they can say with Julius Caesar, vem
vidi , but they will have to leave ut the
j vici. They came; they saw; but they did
J not conquer. The big guns of the submis
sion cause have been fired off; men and
women held-their breath, the smoke clear
ed off, the sound has boomed on the air,
and all creation is astounded to discover
that they were loaded only with-icad. A
survey of the field exhibits no Southern
Rights soldier dead, wounded or missing,
and the result of the explosion is venovat-’
ed vigor and strength to the resistance
party of Muscogee. The grand submis
sion demonstration has not paid expenses.
We heard only portions of the speeches
of each of them. What we did hear satis
fied us that the speakers felt the ungrate
ful task they had to perform. It is al
ways hard lor men on trial to advocate
their own cause. The case is Georgia,
vs. Toombs and Stephens, on an indict
ment for taking short political turns
Toombs and Stephens for defendants. t
We anticipated trom certain Hectoring t
symptoms before the speaking began, that -
we should catch a violent larruping. But ,
considering all things, barring the sneers ,
Sc the Lord Burleigh shakes of Mr Toombs’
head, our friends tell us we got off “as
wellascouldbe expected.” MrToombswas
very wroth at the garbled extracts from
his speeches published by the “Times ’
“Republic” and “Constitutionalist.” We
reckon Mr Toombs would like to be able
to say of these three papers, “ d—n ’em
they know who they belong to.” But what
does Mr Toombs mean by “garbled ex
tracts 1 We have published every Southern
speech he ever made in full— and what is
more, we have praised them, while North
ern Whig editors were hallooing “traitor”
and “deserter” after him, and his Southern
newspaper brethren did not dare todefend
him. Pray, are we to publ.sh one of his
eight column speeches in full, every time j
we have occasion to refer to a particular |
sentiment in it 1 Fiddle-sticks.
We do not wonder he does not like
these extracts. They pin to his sleeve the
charge of demagogue and trimmer. There
is no shaking them off. They will haunt
him through his political life and immor
talize him after death, as the greatest po
litical tumbler Georgia has yet produced.
No man who did not possess his front ol
brass could stand up under their damning
proofs of his guilt, of having thrown down
the banner of the south which he was gal
lantly bearing, and deserting to the stand
ard of National, Fillmore Whiggism—of sa
crificing his country to the hope of gain in j
anew party !If these were not the mo
tives of his change-then there were worse
motives; there could not have been better i
ones. It was ambition that lured him j
away. There is not a doubt earthly, that ;
for several months of the late session of j
Congress he iully purposed to head the |
Southern Rights Resistance Party. His
speeches, his acts, his letters and conver
sations all prove it. When Fillmore be
came President, and Mr < rittenden reach
ed Washington, something happened- |
God knows what—to change his purpose. ,
He whipped right round apdtroin bawling ; t
“wolt,” “wolf,” he straightway went to ;
eulogizing the compromise measures and .
calling on his people to submit to them as .
honorable and constitutional measures, j
Mr Stephens, no doubt, came to Georgia, j
lo feel the public pulse. He thought it ,
felt feeble, and his Warren ton speech was j
I the result. The result of the Macon mass ,
convention was earnestly watched lor in i
Washington. The true IrieHds ot the south .
wore then known to feel that it it prove j
a grand demonstration, Toombs would be
, southern rights—if a failure, Toombs |
• would be a submissionist. What conh
! 1 dence, we ask can be put in such a man 1
and are the vital rights and honor ot a
great and free people to be trusted to his
hands— trafficked away as stock in the
tiade of his ambition t and is the press to
be miwiled, and Editors to be bullied and
brow-beaten-deterred from tearing the
mask from the face ot the political juggler
and gambler! We can tell him he wil |
have to go away from Columbus to tind
the presses and the editors who are to
tremble when he shakes his “ambrosia
1 locks.” As Mr Pugh sgid the other night
locks.” as mr __ - t
“Mr Toombs roared like a lmn, and (
was really afraid that the ladies would be (
frightened, And I desired someone to pull
off the tawny covering from his shoulders,
that the ladies might see that he was not
a real lion, but only a tame— submissionist.
Mr Toombs has to do something besides
roar, before he can frighten us from de
fending the rights of Georgia, and expos
ing the politician who uses them m Ins
party games of battle-dore and shuttle-
C °We repeat, that submissionisra has made
nothing by their visit here. The Southern
Right Party is stronger to-day than it was
before they spoke.
THE UNION. ‘
People may talk abput this “ glorious
Union” and weep over it until they grow
hoarse, and their eyes are “ a river of
tears”; but all this will not save R. It
was founded on the sentiments of mutual
affection, fraternity and confidence and
ou ‘.he principles of equality and justice-
These have proven a foundation of sand,
IndVi 00l 80.. U tell* “>■■* h f“““
foniM will fall when Ibe ‘™ J f s f d J°^
. The storm of fanaticism
beat against it- The storm o* c
has beaten against the Union. T e {
has strayed the Union by su'verting its ,
foundations: And the North cannot escape ,
the damning charge of disunion, and o
destroying Ihe temple of Fiberiy reared
bv the hauds of our common fa.hers, by
any attempt to shift the charge to the
shoulders of the Hotspurs of S Larolma
er the Fanatics at tne North, Northern
‘ injustice, and Northern violation of the
f constitution were antecedents to Nalhfica
f tion and disunion sentiments m the bouth.
. ose are .he flg.*S£*.
the peril in which the Union
North struck the fatal blow-the South ou
fy resents ii, Nor can the abol.tiomsta
bear the whole blame, unless the admis
sU n is first made that they are more fi t-
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,
merous than constitutionalists o e
North : and if tills is so, then the North is
abolition. For if it is only a few despised
fanatics who make all this trouble and
noise, while the groat body of the North
ern people are true to the constitution and
just to the South ; how does it happen that
a contemptible faction has wrested from
an overwhelming majority, the political
power at the North 1 How is it that this
paltry faction controls all elections, all
Northern Legislatures, most all Northern
newspapers, a large majority of Northern
pulpits and religious ar.d charitable insti
tutions ot every sort! Nay, more! how
does it happen that they are powerful
; enough to fill our common Congress with
their votaries, and raise a clamor and ex
citement there, which has to be allayed
by such compromises as were made at the
last session 1 ! It is untrue that the Northis
sound ; and if it were so, the North is dou
bly to blame, for standing quietly by while
this disunion ruin has been going on. if it
had the power to prevent it. But the North
has n.ot the power to preveni it. The spas
modic effort now making in New York city
by men of property and men engaged in
southern commerce to stop this abolition
torrent, exhibits their weakness as well as
their fright. They have waited too long.
They have put it off until the monster fa
naticism of the age has outgrown the con
trol of earthly power. Abolition feeling
in ingrained of Northern character-the
present generation have become dyed in
the wool of it, have imbibed it with their
mother’s milk, & caught the infectionfrom
the teachings of the school house, the pub
lic press and the pulpit. Abolition is the
religion of the present generation ot New 1
England youth. And does any body ex- s
pect that Pearl street influence and inter- <
est can turn back the tide of this mighty
moral mania-which has been gathering
force for 25 years and become part and
parcel, web and woof of New England
education, character, politics and relig
ion! It is the acme of folly to believe it.
Read with with what unutterable scorn
I and contempt Horace Greely treats this
I movement. He calls it “Cotton Politics,
movement.,
and appeals to the deep seated bigotry of
the North to know, if its sentiments of lib
erty, humanity and “higher law” morali
ty are to be smothered because “cotton is
stiff at 15 cents the pound” and Wall and
Pearl street are hungry after the flesh pots
of Southern trade.
SOUTHERN MEETING ON SA l TODAY NIGHT.
We have to thank the arrival of Toombs
and Stephens for the largest, most spirited
and glorious political meeting we have
ever witnessed in Columbus. Handbills
announcing that these gentlemen wi uld
be answered in the evening at Temper-
I anee Hall, were issued on the afternoon
I of Saturday. The result of the short no
j fme was such a rally as we have desenb-
ed. I
Col Pugh, of Alabama, spoke first ; ami I
we have seldom heard a more effective
speech. The audience testified to its pow- ,
ier by incessant rounds of applause. Peo- :
| pie wore out their sticks and shouted j
themselves hoarse. At its conclusion m.
motion of Mr J R Jones, the thanks ot the
meeting was tendered him lor his eloquent
and patriotic defence of southern rights,
j and it was voted with a vim that left no
: doubt of its hearty good will. i
do tun 01 us uonny su““5 u ““
R J Moses, Esq. next took the stand, ]
He commenced.by alluding to theflippant .
abuse Messrs Toombs and Stephens|had
lavished on South Carolina. He gave Mr
Toombs particularly, a terrible excoriation
and hurled back at him the epithet of “trai
| tor” which he had applied to gallant men
, beyond the Savannah river. We think &
! Carolina would have been proud of her
i son if she could have heard his withering
i denunciation of the assailant of her honor-
It was a great meeting-Muscogee is a
I great place, and the Southern cause *
I going “ahead” in Davy Crocketts best
i style, —-—-
excitements. ,
Toombs and Stephens have operated j
like sparksin a tinder box on this commu- |
nity. They have raised the very dandei
of our people. Toombs had not been in
town two hours, before he was hung
in effigy. This was not proper m the
boys, but the boys will get excited in ex
-1 citing times. As soon as it was diseover
ied by day-light, it was-promptly cut down.
During the speaking in the m " rn “* g ’
i two or three disturbances occurred lbe
first was occasioned by Mr J A oc
striking a drunken man for making a noise.
Mr Lee was, we suppose, “agitating tra
nuility” s Horace Gn eley has it. Cer
; tainly he was not a fit subject to receive a
blow from the heavy hand of the cityPos
Master, , .
The next disturbance occurred from a _
young gentleman in the crowd telling Mr
Toombs he was a “ liar,-while Mr
T. was making some statement in relation
to the young man’s father. And out of
thisgrewa blow or two, the drawing o
a pistol or two. and the baring of seveial j
blades. ... , I
The crowd was a very fiery one that sat
under Messrs Toombs and Stephens
preachings. It is believed by some that
the majority were S. R.’s people. rom
• the excited state of feeling wo deem it tor
: innate that we have not some serious ac
l cident to report.
TT 0 n John Macfherson Berrtsh
efforts?and Tt the a se 111 j uastG
ed by the speaker were most euthusia.
cally received bv the audieirce. 1 -
nf a nublic dinner tendered him
nartake of a public dinner lenueicu ...... ,
by the citizens of Burke county, on Mon- r
day next.— {H&on Tribune. It
We team from a gentleman of this city
I w ho heard Judge Berrien’s speech, that it ■
was an eloquent and spirited vindication
of the principle of resistance to the late out
rages of Congress. He called upon a
, Georgians to droptheir divisions and unite
. in an effort to stay encroachments whic
. wfi re leading them to their final ruin, He
. declared that not afoot of territory was let
f where Southern slaveholder could safely
B go—that the name of “disumonisf had no
. terrors to prevent him from defending the
* rights of the South-find while he was not
3 . for disunion, as the immediate remedy he
j- was for retaliation and resistance.
<t TH K UNION OF TUB STATUS A.M|g| ~~
C!
We publish the correspondence between e.
Mr. Leonard and others, officers of the S n
R’s association of Muscogee county, and
the friends of Messrs Tot-nibs and Ste- a
phens; and these gentlemen themselves c
after their arrival. The correspondence p
speaks for itself. The object of the South - P
ern Rights party was tp have a full am g
fair discussion before the people ot ail ,
parties, of the great question of the day, i
with Messrs. Toombs and Stephens, wno
are acknowledged to he the greatest- ,
champions of the submission cause.
The challenge was addressed to several 1
political friends of these individuals. It
was responded to, verbally by Mr Flour
noy, to the effect lhat lieliadnothing to do
with bringing Toombs and Stephens here,
and nothing to do with making engage
ments for them. Jas. Johnson Esq., re
plied by letter, to which we refer. So far
as he was concerned he declined the offei,
but referred the matter to Toombs and
Stephens when they should arrive. CM
. Hines Holt also replied by letter, in which
r he argued the “ peculiarity” of the banter
_.l ii imnrnm-ietv” of accepting It.; !
and the “ impropriety i / |
but he also referted the matter to the deci- j
sion of the speakers themselves. J
When the latter arrived they took up the j
correspondence; and in their first letter, i
offered to accept it, but stipulating that the |
time should be changed to six o’clock in !
the evening. The President and V Presi
dents of the S R’s party, replied that the
invitation was to debate then, at the meet
ing then assembling, for it had got to be
U o’clock. They did not deem it fair to
allow them to go on and tire out the pa
tience of the crowd with their one-sided
sneeches, and then to come in and debate
—-. , ,
on equal terms with the Southern Rignts :
speakers, to an audience they had already
fa ,r ged out with their morning speeches. |
Besides this, the Southern Party, had re- ,
solved that if they could not get a fair dts- j
cussion in the morning they would have ;
a meeting of their own in the evening.
Hence the S said our challenge must be
accepted in its terms orit must be declined.
It was declined, and the reason alleged
was, that their friends had made a decision
in the premises which they would not al
ter. We thought their “ friends” had re
: furred the matter to them. At all events,
i between the friends and the principals,
i the banter was not accepted.
Mr Toombs then offered to debate the
question on Monday next, the 11th inst,
‘Pbis offer was cheerfully accepted, aiu.
s the discussion will come off.
CORRESPONDENCE. j
Columbus, Oct. 31. ;
Messrs. Hines Holt, E. B. Alexander, J. Johnson, ,
W.H. Harper, and S. W Elournoy.
Gentlemen: We understand that Messrs, j
Toombs and Stephens are expected t ad i f
7 thi’ neoDle ot this county next Sat .
unlay, onthe absorbing political questions (
r f thl dav It is a universal tlesne on tnc
nart of “the members of the Suutueru j
Rights Association, whose duet “ilicei.-, i
we have the honor to be, to meet those j
gentlemen in debate, and take issue with :
o now th mainSinin s
’ re rcadv to adjourn the discussion from
i d av to day until the argument isexliausted.
Should you see proper to accept the
. ffff itinn we will cheerfully co-opeidtc
•’ with you in making all the necessary ar*
J rangein(!at VAN LEONARD, President.
j OIIN Quin, and Thos. Honey, V. Pres ts.
Columbus, Nov. 1. j n
Messrs. Van Leonard John Guin and Tkos Hoxey. j
’ .ffanfothevshas been landed’ me, aid ul
without answering for . th ®“ t tl }^m C the'citv’, 1
vouwiff “permit 3
arranffemer.ts, a discussion between the ,
parties on Saturday next would bo im- j.
Ktenhens and Toombs, it is, that in the ac
■ tion of the last session of the present < .
cress there is nothing that will nuthouse j
! oriustifv revolution, disunion or secession, ,
5 perpetual or temporary or any vl ?^ t n r ec ’ \
. sistance which will put the lawsat ddiancc .
If you should desire to have a 1
* on these issues thus made by these gen
- tlemen, I for my part will “““^3
‘. to bring about an e . f )ame
° T-y aboS .he li'b er SOIh es
e ensuing month, that our party w.ll be hap
!e py to meet jon at such time in free open
e. discussion. Yours, JOHNgoN
n-
r W KI3-*-' sf “I
L
COLUMBUS, Nov. 1, 1850- j ha
Xa ,„ . Leonard, 9in and Honey. P.o.Uenß j.
and Vice Presidents, &c. ia
Gentlemen: Your note (without date)
addressed to mvsell apdothers express,.! and
th<> universal desire on the pan “ . ~
Southern Rights Associations, jffi.ec „
officers you are, to meet Messrs- iooum
and Stephens in debate Ac., a f ,
I handed me sinca my return to thee > , 1 - * ( ,
evening. lam at some loss, gentluncn (
to know why I am made the recipient ot (
such a communication and of such a ro
ouest Tam not like yourselves honored
either as “ Chief” or subordinate officei c
1 the nartv with which it is my pleasure to
t act sand as that party have assigned me
no such position, objections might bL veiy
R to a full and fair public discussion allnur
i- meeting or rather at a meeting called to
-t hear their own political fri^ d |- . .
it l am, however gentlemen a private l
r- the ranks of the Union Sou htoU
i* nartv and speaking for myselt on y*
U add,'that your request of or
in to participate as disputants ini .
a- meetings is peculiarly inappropriate, and
1 r,.i- this reason. .
‘"S m a 'h"'co mmn cerae ot I* P°- 1
ss jft™-::
a meeui R O onviction I at-
Eedit/.oo P "be liberty <* *>&
for its consideration the following res
resolutions are omitted, as .occupy
an elucidation of the ,ssue in this corres
1 olutit.ns were not only truimphan yvo
3 down, -but that the presence ot tje m°vr
gSd thQSd who acted with him erj that oc
casion, was, to say the least of it, -
cal—in other words that we had intruded
ourselves into a meeting to which we were
11 I have carefully abstained since, from
any act which would, however, remote y
subject me to the repetition of such a
charge. Numerous as have been jour
party assemblages I-have not since been
present by invitation or otherwise at any
of them. I repeat, that it is lorth “ r ff,
son, that your invitation to me or through
me to a full and free discussion at a meet
ing not called by you is a peuihar
I will add further, gentlemen, that L am
like yourselv.es, and through the same me
’ drum of communication informed that the
Hon. Messrs. Toombs and Stephens pro
posed on to-morrow to address such o
their fellow citizens as choose to hcai
them. If it shall be their pleasure to
■ chan tr e this purpose, and accept youi in
, vitation to full and tair public disC^n
at a meeting thus appointed, I cheerfully
’ acquiesce in its exercise; and the inyitcy
1 Uon preferred to them, Ido not hesitate to
- say, will receive merited cousideratio l
r a '\ d have the honor to be, gentlemen, very
’ respecting, your obit,
Columbus, Nov. 2.
Sir ■ We have learned sincq our arrival
in this city, that a communication re
ceived a day or two ago by some ft.ends,
from von and others as officers of a pol
ical association of Muscogee coity, re,
questing that an opportunity mi h ht be gi
? to your body to select two gentlemen
ffilX.'ln a (lisciission ot
I now agitating our State. And wo take .
! liberty'of saying to you and your assoc.a
----! tion that it will be agreeable to us to join
such gentlemen as may be there seise c
bv them in such discussion this ereninga
SiX LeUhe C nLmes of the gentlemen be pre
sented and we can by conference with
! them agree upon the terms.
You ps icspecttully,
A. 11. STEPHENS, R. TOOMBS.
I j,Xr. Van Leonard and others, Columbus,
Columbus, Nov. 2, 10 o’clk 50 min.
Gentlemen ; Yours of this morning is just ,
received. We renew the proposition made
to vour friends two days since, and aie
: ready through two of our speakers to meet
; Y ou in debate, now, and to go on with file
! discussion until the argument is exhausted.
You will please accept or reject thispiop
i osition promptly.
Respectfully ecc.,
VAN LEONARD. Pres’t. S. R. A,
: Messrs. A. H. Stephens, and R. Toombs,
Columbus, Nov. 1.
i Q,- r . The proposition made to ourfriends
I- two’ davs ago,” to which you refer we
! have n ,'control over. Tby have d.spq
sed of that for themselves,— we shall not
i attempt to control that decision. Our
i proposition is before you—you can accept
, 01 M?fToombs would ask that if the time
I ! surnrestod be inconvenient to you, he cai J
bTere next Monday week, and will meet
i guv of your friends in discussion.
I ‘ b. T 008:3.
Mr Van Leonard, Pres t. S. R. A.
q i
Columbus, Nov. 2-half past 11. j
Gentlemen: Having declined ourpropo- I
,it ,n t meet you it. debate* to-day, we |
rl e rtullv accept Mr Toombs’s proposi
tion lo discussion, oil next Mon*
7b. v week. Yours respectfully*
| VAN LEONARD, Pres t. S. R. A.
Columbus, Nov 2.
i <.;iv Waiving'any comment on the
I opening statement in your letter, and re
lorring” to the correspondence m reply
thereto, I beg leave to say that-*! willmec
vour friends in discussion on the day st.v*
UT unless prevented by Providential
5 iam vcrv respecitullv vouis,
cause. I am, vu} I
Mr. Van Leonard, Columbus.
EDITORS CCSRESBONBEHCE. i I
i Blakely Ga., Oct 31, 18;)0 j [
I ( \Ve were favored'.with a splendid speech j,
; f.-oin Judge Colquitton yesterday, and the .i
ssaiffu- v,
1 Our candidates, are out viz . Judge J hi...
i Sneio'iit and l'r. Josiah Vinson.—make a
• I feel euniident we wil. cuiry
(L untv by 200 majority.
! The Slits have nominated their candi
j dates viz. Maj. Joel Crawiord and James ■
I Bush.)
elegant extracts.
“It is my object at this time to s|.cek, upon that
which same gcntlt-men arc p.oa*-e<l n> call ,
I loll.’ hut which ..hum he moire
! ruuerlv entitled articles of capitulation on the ,
\^&&zi,zzzsi:-z
Clayton Compro
m“s “ • ..mo iif the word.
; Wi .q t \vas no compromise in any sense of .he wnrd.
\ eomprom.se is a mutual yteliliiW *'f ‘ *
A ‘ , t ..aiomv. ami settling ditßrenees
\*SE£&s&E£\
’ ! [Zh° Wtoh‘ • 1 ad ' ,, ' U ' , ‘ tUe , S l''-V‘hest
‘iSf——
“Then, sir, wlut are wrMil the to a,n
liv this compromise'! Nothing ‘lit woat W. wi U i
have even with the Wilmot provsso. i hi. poor
orivileoe of carrying our slaves into a country j (
sx . js;!
I ‘ .„.„,e.l! And this is the security ol the South .
which 1 had the temerity in reject! W ould that
’ I, floor of such temerity! I d.d tejeet It; ami 1
s ail continue to reject all ...eh favors. It 1 can
l„ no hette. compromise. I “'"""'IZ
t ft, nnv at all. As long a* I have a seat hear.
i aLTmainUm the ju, land oqual rights of my
5 Lotion upon all other questions. I •* noihm„
f ?„t All I demand is. common right snd rip
• Ln iustice; those I will *'• ***r * n ’ • x P rO ”
B |SKi r I will have nothing- I -I-* -**•
n i North irrespective of parti**. I recognize rm p
> j ty association or Ration ,>
“Nor shall l he awed nr intimidated ... ttte and
- charge ot this high duty, by any of the Ueu.Mt. 5
alarms of the olHca! organ, that the -Union i* m v
flange,; that unless agitation on this t t
So. the ‘free soil movement’ tn the ?*orth .ll
i before it. and that the goverm
I roent itself J will he endangered. Snell appeals
I mav have their effects upon the hearts of the tip.nk j
jI am myself, not quite so easily terrified inn a ,
surrender of my rights and those of my corn.ti.u- .
! Pn ts” “And no alarms about the JJmon, or t e
rating of brain ess scribblers and heartless dema-
S, who croak and prate upon J 0
which tbev are profoundly ignorant, shall ever
cause me to shrink from the open a“d fearh ss
’ i ma .otamanceofit, even though I may stand sol.
’ jZZ and alone.” “I tepeat lam no enemy to the
’ i Union—and lam tor its preservation and Hs perpe
; ‘nation, if kcan be done upon prutctplrs of equall
-! Z and justice ” We have heard but l.ttlo trom
7entlemen from that -edion, for eight months past
* | hut eulogies upon the Union. “If tey expe
) the Bo util to make all the sacrifices, to yield eve
rv thing, and to permit them to .arry out the.r
sectional policy under the cry e,four“gV>Tlous U- |
5 ion” thev will find theaisefw* tmw- sadly mislak-
IS e „ ’ It is time for mutual concessions.
S- “ And no people, in my judgment. wno d*r e
“l the name of freemen, will continue their ahegtance
£i?.s3*nnnt which arrays itself not only
c. i against their property, rut against tfitir eottal *ml
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1850-
ri.ll nrgnnil.Uon,” “And nhene.pr k
nsent is brought in hns.ile *rray Wn .* n ,
mine,l am for disnnion-cpenly, boldly and
lpsslv for revolution. I *l , plnn>-
..II ,1,1. ‘"'’7"’ ‘V The cl"; E . ”f
rniibrt* bv, no terror* for me. 1 B - -,,
•trait, r’ mv ho wHi-|>rod ... th-cars ofttie Um.
ami it i* the last appeal of tyr*
BBtS ’ [Stephens in Congress 1850,
. “In other word*, w *ay. ifyop ?annot
ani .villi* public domain, let s divide It. I"
: :.r. • i-v >-7 ■ •'•;.-r- K A „“ Ws
, “”
prop-witiosi l* not fa r and just!
its reiection does not a mint to a c p a
‘ of vour fixed di'te'minalion to exclude u* entire
-3 W f pom any participation in this public domain.
: 5 S if ym. denv those terma-if vou cont.n e
f d-as-o the voice of that spirit of justice. ri R ht and
r cm. “is which should always charac™ the
-
> ;r~™,, i.k o ‘ n .' h j “ziz
r „f.holding VOU. M<he*t.rtof mankind, enemie
‘* in war—in peace, fr on, (s. 1850.
in war— in peace, frict.,.*. *orr,
[Stephens m Congress 18oU.
So much for Mr. Stephens. Mr. Toombs ‘
will please take the stand. *,
Hark from the Toombs , a doleful sound,
Mine ear attend the cry,
Ye living men, come view ihc ground.
Where you may shortly lie.
- I ST VND upon the ureal principle, that the
south ha* a tight to at, etpial f
| T !„nl Vtoeniov it. She will divide with
tv, and security to *tij"y “• .. r
VH Al I °NF.vVr SURRENDER, and that WE
Wll.l. JI-.IS I'AIN ~*Zgj3&
“This cut of Union is the masked batte
ry from behind which the constitution and
Z! rights of the South are to be assatU
ed ‘T et the South mark the man, who is for
~ nni nat every, and to the last extremt
iiy When the day of her perils comeshe
wdll be the imitator ofthehistor.aalchaj
fSeMbmvlwTa pcl richer than
all lus tribe. r Tnnmhs Ibid.
all lus tribe. [Toombs Ibid.
“If the people ov Georgia Under
stood THIS SLAVERY QUESTION
AS I DO, THEY WOULD NOT REMAIN IN THIS
Union five minutes.”
f Toombs in conversat ion with J* f rt th j
“These causes have brought us to tnc
point where wo are to test the su
written constitutions to pioteci u e
ritrhte of a minority against a majority oj
ffe ueople. Upon the determination of
this question will depend a f lu l, OUgoVEßN
pend the. permanency of *he UUV^IUH
MENT.” rm , . 1830.
MENT. r Toombs in Congress, 1850. 1
,
KTJTffK .1,11,1,™-. p i
up. 11 it: ItIIAVE MSN WILL *
“T SPEAK NOT FOR OTHERS. BUT FOR
MYSELF Deprive u* iff thi* right and appru
i£? luleolL property ,o it
than your government not ‘"'nc. l hen lam
c>iwiitmMit* ,: tothenUßr-of lib* rty. and like
*“ r” I'n- readv a* hcmtolorc to stand By the Un
■ WI;BTRIkEwB INDE-
It, aim '*• * . TANARUS/ • /
! K, rUTUtIE ABMINWTH.yr'ON ,fo,.Town
| //ring- (rod, a ( _ [r f ,f California <md j
V; tmrehased hv the common blood and .
, Acid j’l’Jf - I )e . au d to abolish slave- I
I r >’ U,;:; ;Vn half.!... B...erihi.con.
I .ii.multU.rada DISUNION : and it my
- fedora,v. - - |, O t | ie maintenance of
; i Ot'riuh! and du.v, l will devote all
a Jam and all l hwe or. earth to
V ~r,mnD*s P.TTT
* L ujmiuw.
j;
1
1 tike H-nnilcar. I would swear them to etrrna j
just rights, am ■ all fl ju every inter- C
WILL STBIKB s
FOR INDBPENDENGL. \
“ Those in advance man faix (
IT JS the common iiistouy Ol
UEVOIsUTIONS BUT THE CAUSE
WILT, NOT FALL WITH TIIF.M J NO (
HUMAN POWER CAN AVERT TIIE
• RESULT, IT Will, 1 ST)O
r Tnom's 27th Feh- T3-A).
• “As to the hill for the admission o’ Caliloinia—
° for the gentleman had particularly referred to that
18 1_ he believed it was tin outrage upon the south .
1 i he never hud believed that it wa* an outrage up
|"T'::„m£'after Mr Fillmore was frost
s k->-
From the Augusta Constitutionalist. am
HAS THE SOUTH BEEN CHEATED! t j y
‘I |,e Submission leaders tell the people tht
of Get rrria that tin- Smith has great reason p 0
rt-ioiee at the action of Congress on the. w ,
s !av v rvoneMi..n-thnt the South has gam- pf
Z ZXnl victory and that Southern R.ghfs w ]
lia ;/n;, for thirty years, been as secure iU
„ s .| u ,y nr n-tv. What is ’he mr, res- , j
! sit.n of camlul minds in the North on this t |,
j sll , When we fir.d influential Noita- t h
lem journals acknowledging > that “//ie cf
! Xorth has cheated the South, it should a|
I cause S. it I .hern men todoubi whether they g
have any thing to rejoice over, e
ing ‘-o excite tHeir indignation. Ihe New w
York Herald says: , . e
“The North cl eatd ths South in the
: | admission ol Cttiiforma. The tSorth were fs
■ ! convinced of tt-ihey fU ashamed of it. ,
• i am | a armvtl about a; and they endeavor- h
• icd to mnUe uj> m tnetj own sell-abasv- j
ment, in the passage of the foglUve b.ft- t
, the atonement for the.r greediness m setz- ,
e i„rr the Whole of the gold region. In ope .
II wen! acc riling to the Northern idea of .
the fugitive biit, and the Southern idea
. f Calift rnta’s admission, the North at-
I* tempted to atone for an act of fraud by an
J.iSfdirfmce. They first drive the *omb
a j to the wall, and out of California ent.rcdj,
u ’ and then bow down in the most abject hu-
Z mihation to oiler the impraciicable indem
en nitv the fugitive bill, .. .
:er “If California had been honestly divid
?w ed, the South would have been appeased,
lli but this fugitive law, while it affords no
lhß security to the South, no indemnity for
T Ten exclusion from California, only ns
om Derates the abolitionists to drive the South
S to revolt. Tlte adjustment ts tending m
* ct that direction.’* • . ’
ve- t
I \Y T hnt is Happiness! A butterfly that
j roves from flower to flower, in the vast
rmrden of existence, and wmch is eagerly
pursued bv the multitude, no the vatu
hope of obtaining the prize! yzt it SPHMP
i ually ekdua their grasp.
| NUMBER 48.
LETTER FROM GOV. TOWNS. /
Milledoeville, Ga ? 1
October 3,1860. > j
Gentlemen: (
The answer to your letter of 30th ult.
has been unavoidably delayed,
I could have desired. In the J
shall make upon your -M £
pleased nolle transcend the lmnu pr,
‘cnbed by the magnitude of the subject, to
which you have invited my
conferring with any portion of my’ I#>
citizens upon the agitating questions of the
Jay, in which their honor and interest are
identical with n.y own, you have* a
antee that I will speak with the franhnes.
and freedom becoming the occasion.
In the performance of this obligation to
you, I should have been pleased to have
omitted much, that a regard to truth would
not allow me to suppress.
If mv opinions shall be found ot interest
cr profit 10 yuu, l shall be rvwarded.tor
ill,, labor in llie preparation; il not, 1
still have the gratification to know, that il
it was your privily to ask my opinions
upon these gmv questions, it was mine
t, oiye them. If l porrectly comprehend
v , ur wishes, it is nut merely a negative
or affirmative answer to the questions in
the form they are proposed, you desire,
but a general view ol the grounds ot dif
ference between the South and the North,
and the motives by which the people ol
the two sections are governed, which me
producing such widespread discontent at
this time in the former, lo do this fair- v
|y, 1 feel myself constrained to notice what j (
L regard as important facts, having a Qu n
reel bearing upon the subject, and which, %
lam free lo admit. I would most gladly {
avoid, if I felt myself at liberty to do o| ,
but I regard it due W truth, lo a clear anti (
distinct understanding ol the character and
fixed purpose* of the people With whom
we have *> contend, to bring them m re
.i T sluill therein
view, though sensibly l shall there y
dilivv down upon myself the denunciations
of those, who call see no virtue or patriot
ism m warning the South of its danger, and
urging upon its people to take wise and
efficient steps to resist, fie this as it may
-vith a heart truly Southern, a devotion tu
her social organization, her laws, custom?
and habits, arc) never yet luvmg deserted
her standard, knowingly, or quailed be
neath the frowns of the threatening hosts
that have been arrayed against her equal
rio-hts in this confederacy, I should feel
i _ .....mini fnr Ihe
that l had mntiu a \ \ , i
many honors conferred upon me by. the
people of my native Stale, if in this the
hour oi her extremity, there was any dan
aer too great for me to hazard to preserve
hei constitutional rights, and equality m
this ckiifederacy. .
You have directed my attention mainly
to two question*: „ , , T . ,
Ist. -Does the act of the last Legisla
ture authorizing cull of a Convention
admit ot a reasonable doubt as to my dutv
upon the admission of California alone!
2,1. “Did not Congress in ineadini sion
of California, virtually enact the NV ilmot
; proviso; or can Congress constitutionally
do that indirectly, which it cannot do di
! re( ti y ? ” r nrdnr
re( l„ y my answer, I will reverse the order >
in which they are stated ; premising, how
ever, that no doubt did exist in my own
mind that by the act ot the Legislature, J
it was made mv imperative duty to call a
Convention of the people ip the event of
the admission iit<> the Union,oi California
with her present Constitution. I have be- I
fore remarked, that it would be my duty (
to advert to some unwelcome lacts 1 hus
trative of the rharaoer of the people ot
the non-slaveholding Smn-s before l enter
ed upon a reply to your last question, and
width, iu my judgment have a most im
portant and intimate connection with the
subject under consideration, In the ordi-
J ..f him mi affairs. ns well
nary transactions of human affairs ns well c
as the in*esiigatipns which are ol daily oq
currence, involving private rights, expeit-
ence has shown, that there are often appai
ently remote and disconnected circumstoo- J
ces without the Bid of winch, neither the j
truth could be attained, norjust.ee award,
ed ; and so, in the present most unhappy
difficulty between the two sections of the (
Union, it becomes necessary to examine ‘
into the relative conduct of the two sections
towards each other, gs seciions of the same
confederacy, as also, what acts of oppres
sion or injustice have been perpetrated by
the people or their Representatives m
, Congress bv the one against tjie other.
• This* will readily occur to you as obvious
ly proper, from tlje consideration that tlte
’■ very superstructure of this federative gov
> eminent of ours, this glomus Union, of
j u -hich you may have beard something of
late, from strange bps, regts solely upon
public confident e, and the affect,on of the
- people. Divest it of these pillare ol
u strength, and tlte Government, with the
•• Union is like the edifice bu.lt upon sand
9 ‘ You may prop it up, by your enlisted sold
icrv, and the shilling revolutions of our
sliding politicians, for a season, but the
* ■ nf iustice
great and immutable principles of justice , J
and equality, are too deeply miplauted in j f
every true Southern bosom, whether na- 1
tive or adopted, for terror of the one. or
the devices of the other, or the combined
power of both to stand long before the
withering indignation of ap outraged
people. If this be true, let us see
whether, the Federal Government is
at this day, administered upon the princi
ples of equality ad u fl !lich enl, ' f
lies it to the confidence and affection of
the people, and if it is not, I would feign
call upon all. of every section of the Union
and especially in the South totally upon the
great ’and fundamental principle of Gov
ernment-equality between all the parts,
without which there can be no good Gov
ernment, in order to preserve and save
ernnirmy m rn i . f iai
•nhe Union,” th*t glorious Union ol our
fathers which rested upon equality of P r, * nl
ileges, equality of rights and equa.uj c.l
burthen*. And may l not add, witbo
giving offence to R ny true Georgian,
Ly.vho dally in h.. conflict |1 I™ , 2
their arms, or shut their eje , n ,
very pillar* of the government ate under
mining, are themselves the worst enemies
m I'he Union. The “Unioft* is not n sfensu
less word, for party hacks or heartless
politicians to sport w,th.r-As ®PP>‘f and j:
our Qovernpieut, it means that vggl ele
ment, which diffuses itself throughout the
constitution in the form of equality and jus- c
tice. That instrument embraces the great
principles of individual rights in the asso- £
■ ciated form of government, It? beauty, its
l perfection and its strength, consist main
> ly in the fact, that the citizen is deprived. •
r or rather restrained in thejexercise ol suca
- ot his natural rights only, as his own sn e
h ty and welfare degtand, and rjo more
n M * government thus orgamsed tho c.l zu
Jn and should arppose confidence jn
should fee! tor it the proton, idest it •
at But as the government consists of iho nt
st declaration of the grant of ppwera
k he one hand and inhibitions of pavers to
• y he neonle on the other, all of which con
•“ oni b° principle before laid down B
t *,TJ. tM* iiifli-iduals are •
IT ‘ MK'G*
JOSS
BIATIV AD SX EC V Tt
OF
Sfee ©olumtus Elasts.
Pamphlets, I ~f . )!ih
BosiaessC* 1^8 * • cjrcdb.r*.
Visitinc do p'lanh Note..
Ball Tickets, I Bla ” rl .r/1
andevery thingelse inthwlme o. <*>*"'?
apd with Dispatch.
blanks ov am kinik® pmstt fiTfl
oiurp.n.
perform the various agencies thus created.
And this brings us to the point, that, alter
all. the government, as well as the Union,
if the two are capable of exis
tence, depends upon the rittne and w,x
dom of the public agents entrusted by tlw
people in carrying it on
The most necessary and just laws.tn me
nds of a corrupt judiciary, ore but *
my engines of oppression ; and so of tin
her departments of the government,
he office of President ol the Lm ed states
the hands of a bad and wicked man. is
it another name for despotism; and 1 ,r
ongress ofthe United States, when nn
,r Providence, it is composed of unprtn
pled and corrupt politicians, is the most
iiw ieldy, dangerous, anti crushing (W
----stisin, that human ingenuity could
ise. The only guard against those dire
ilaniities is supposed to res- in a written
institution defining power, the virtue and
isdom of the people then.se■ ves and in
,e supposition that they ill hurl fmm
ower corrupt or incompetent oiHcml a
ents. But, as I think 1 snail be able to
how, this is not so in one section of the
Jmon and we are not likely* m my judg
ment, to see the time, when any nnprove
nent, in this respect, may be reasonably
nticipnted ; then we to come the ques,
ion I desire to propound to you, and to
he people of Georgia, wrm are the
Jnioo Party of this State! * 11 c *
>osed of you and me such as would
■estore the Government to its original pu
-iiv—those Who desire lo arrest the luw
es's encroachments of infuriated fanaticism,
which have urged on irresponsible njor
ites in both houses of Congress to the b.dd
and undisguised assumpt on of puwer. by
which opr feelings and equal right*
been violated ? Ur is it composed ol those,
who shout for the vUninii,’ now anJ tr
ever, right or wrong, though it slmuid , \
pear that Congress has wilful.y am I''r
ruplly passed laws depriving them < toeiv
equal rights in the territory ut M u r ’
Mexico ?
t, -r r I .11 n.t t Y
For myself I feel and l doubt not • m
wilf agree with me, that l am
to make sacrifices for the Union.
thin- I can surrender but my rights, nmin
niabTe and clear, under the constitution. I
am prepared to yield. But it the dread
ful alternative is forced upon me to smren
der these inestimable privileges, wilh.mt
which l would lee I far more degraded that
l would to be a Russian serf, or n Mexi
can peon, l must confess my tongue w.lt
not permit me to falsify the feelings ol my
heart, and lam forced to admit, nsnn honest
man. that the Government must protect my
rights as guaranteed to me by the consul.,-
lion, or it forfeits my allegiance—and that l
will look toothersafegnardsformy protection
What say you gentlemen ! D* V"". ‘' l
your heart, covet an oppressive Union.
Do you so love your Northern brethren for
their many virtue and actsof dismUretcd
patriotism, that you are prepared to lores*.
. the rights secured to you by your rev
. olutmnary- fathers, in order to preserve
. a Union, not of your fathers, hut t •
Union of irresponsible, corrupt, anu unk e -
• mg majorities in Congress?
ins majorities in v. ongress. ,
Gentlemen, we may patch up the oroarh
between the slave and the non-Siavehokl
ing sections, the love ofthe Union ma>
predominate and induce us to J ( - ir
longer the oppressions oft he government •
politicians are now busily engage I in that
work ; many for good and patriotic, but
n-t a few from bad and unworthy m-tue* ,
but the task will he Utterly
preserving the Union ,es these . m 1 3
a quarter of a century longer, um.
Government is ad inmate red, “P" **’
o-reat principles of the Consututii'n. < -u
ft is because l have almost, if not emir. y.
despaired of ever seeing this cn-M
| glorious object accomplished, that l r ‘ * .
you with mV reflections upon the mi-]- a.
And this bring? me, gentlemen, directly ••
I the question, w hether tliete i? j y'*- 11 ,
cient reason to believe, that lit* 1 1
; Government will m* y
m nistered iu accordance w ‘h t.e* ! . o ■*
pies of the constitution: 1 appretmm! i
i w>il not be denied, that according to •
theory of ou. - government, tl.c t< I**’ - ■’
r tative’ ’n Congress reflects me v< w ■ *
ings, and wishes >fa u :.j r:!\ *.* ‘
“ stiiuents. This should be so, and in p’ •>’ -
* lice may be safely assumed, a.lecn-n .*
b invariable correct, as the in* st r**l.. "*
luvanuuij
modJ of ascertaining tlte popt.tar •
upon important questions tL.it hut*
duly considered by the people them**- ‘ ■
I apprehend also it will-he genera, yc- -
ceded that the subject of North Amer.t an
slavery, ns amelioration, its restrictmn ••
certain geographical limits, am * * ‘
abolition, now or presently, unmet w
or prospectively, have been the
thorough investigation by ail classes o e
people of the non-slave-boldmg h a ‘*
i find that there exists among them, me on *
feeling and one sentiment ol universal m--
tiiity to the institution m all ns relations.
’ This last proposition may be dented, nn<
I know is sometiines disputed, in order <
[ (oiiet our fears, and reconcile us to ti
L ! present condition of things. I li<’ •’ “ ’
‘‘ i cation of the actual state of the norte.-n
1 mind on the suliject 1 f sl#yer_ - ‘ ,m „
I” l . .r. n Jirfil ‘
-nma on me ; *i ‘ i r
sav, is too often supessfu A7 pwy r \
Whigs and Democrats, m the sotr
made to believe that upon the preservati a
of a close organization of the two great p- -
liticul parties, north and south, into w icu
the country is divided, is sione to be mun
our strength and security.
We are again and again assurer, y
men holding high p“ lCes ,1 . 1 e
merit of the Union, that it tst.ange . -
the liberties pf the people to organ ze ere
imrtivs upon geographical limits , ..i -
,s asserted, with some apparentc- Mtui.-r.c-.
that the northern party, formed n
(.graphical distinctions is com; -
pa ativelv of a few brawling mm “ ‘ ’b’ r ‘
tar.lfanatics and abolitionist*. <!e>- ■’ A ‘
little consideration, whether regnob u ** ’•*’
numbers, or their influence upon p i
tneu or measures. _ , .
tneu or measures. , .
W ; e are remindid too that t.te rat e
his Country warned us agamsl the organ
ization of'parties u jn such pr or.p e*.
and enjoined upon us, in his t ‘ ‘**
dress, “to frown indignantly up 1 ‘
; dawning of every attempt u <*’ ‘ * n \
, portion of our ci untry from W-’
impair the sacred ties n
1 link together the various parts.
e .With whatccnsumrn i‘e( if ‘ r
cred teachings of the iimnoro ‘ ‘ .
it are invoked in
submitted to the ,
l.lv.l v judgment is not ‘ 1 ■* .
i. south baa prganis- and a party end od. mg ’ >
h a most remarkable d2gt#*N or.. I re,.
e. well as unmerical rivehgtfc up; Jh*j
[ n avowed and undisguiset m -
... slavery (the institution of “***’ ~
now or hfwftor l I
J. .upon any territory the tavr r ) , f
piivornthenf. SoJ. That
on ernrcent, in its - ‘ J
to depart®ents. is now adminOTJj**.***
,n- continue to be aclmintstera#
jair principle of reasoning, n sunt Kc-.*m
\to tlar.ee with the policy and-of signs ®T M