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VOLUME XI. j
■WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1851.
“ EXTREMES MEET.”
This is a favorite knock-down argument j
of the Union Subrnissionists; and when !
they can show that abolition fanatics North !
&: South, are both hostile to the union, they !
seem to feel that they have done enough to 1
convince every Southern man that he is j
absolved from every obligation of duty to j
defend his rights under the constitution of j
the Government, But it so happens that |
there is a meeting of other extremes, be- !
sides these. The Unionists South & North, ‘
more frequently meet in their blind adora- j
tion of a union, no longer what it was,
than do the disunionffrts. Mr “Higher ,
Law” Seward and his gang of constitution j
breaker#*put to shame even Mr Cobb’s j
glowing professions of attachment to the |
union. And it is very suspicious that both i
these gentlemen love the union for a very j
similar reason. For both have use for j
it. If there is no union, how is the one to |
become President and the other a Vice- 1
President! Mr Seward wants to preserve j
the union, but it must be a union abolition- |
ized, and devoting all its powers of legis- ;
lation and of force to emancipate slaves.—
Mr Cobb wants to preserve the union, too; j
but what sort of a union, it would be hard j
to say. For we should be chary of en- j
trusting with the administration of this I
Government, a Southern man, who has !
never bei n able to find anything but bless- j
ings to the South in the compromises (!) o :
1850.
We make these remarks simply to in
troduce to the notice of our readers a
chapter on the Northern manifestions of
unionism, taken from the Mobile Tribune.
Let the people beware ert’ this union cry.—
Mr Toombs was inspired as the very ora
cle of a great truth, tersely arid eloquent
ly expressed, when ho declared*“the cry
i of union was a masked battery, from be-
I hind which the rights of the South were as-!
I sailed.”
j “WHAT’S TO PAY!”
i ‘l'he ‘Enquirer’ came out. yesterday morn
ing, one week and one day nf’er lhe tnun
of HOWELL COBB, without j
hoisting the Washington nominee to its j
; co 1 timrjfhfadjtend without so much as aii
j ludingtothe nomination. This is so queer
jas to require elucidation. Why, our neigh. 1
bor ought to have .jujjped’ likea hungry
w ill deUend-*d jaws at the great
tJnhon gad fl<f. But our neighbor is oblig- 1|
ied to conn'to taw, and be may as well
do it with a good grace and cheerful spir
it. The’ cards were all shuffled and dealt
,at Washington last winUR. Uobb is
trumps, and the EnquirbF must follow
! suit.
MR WEBSTER—A VISIT SOUTH,
is reported in the Nmtheni papers
™(%f“Websto'fftnntphites turning his
footsteps Southward, after having made
bis bow and “ defined his position” to the
North in his late “ progress” in those
States. The N Y Herald thinks the visit
would be a “great event,” and is particu
larly overcome at the idea of Mr Web
ster’s visiting “Georgia.” Georgia has
done so much for the union, is such a rail
road, manufacturing, speculating,-’ enter
prising and money-making, State, thatin
the opinion of the “Herald.” Mr Wfchsfer
would be precisely in an edement genial
to his feelings, and in which he, could do
great good and give great joy. No man j
can fail to admire the towering intellect
of Daniel Webster. We bow in this hom
age of admiration ourself, and cheerfully
accord all the praise he deserves for such
services as he has done to the countin’. —
But it is the acme of folly, to regard Mr
Webster, as some of the union parasites
at the South are disposed to do, as an ex
emplar of sound constitutional construc
tion on the slavery question. An atten
j five consideration of all that Mr Webster
lias said and done, since the question was
agitated, will show that he is not a man
for the South to lem upon. To say noth
ing of his position years back, when he
openly courted Free Soil power, and pro
fessed Free Soil principles—nay more,
boasted that he was the author of those
principles, and that the Van Burens at
Buffalo had only stolen his thunder; and
looking at his conduct, only, since his ap
parent conversion from Free Soil to Con
stitutional Unionism, 3c itwill be foundthat
the key to his course has been the danger
of the union. The preservation of the tin
idn was the great end he had in view, and
his sentiments have been just exactly so
far Southernized as in his opinion was ne
cessary to effect his purpose. And after
all the high sounding eulogy on Mr Web
ster’s patriotic course —after all his mas
sive speeches couched in an English dic
j tion of Websterian purity and grandeur—
Tatter all the talk about his love of country,
| that knows no limits short
a-1 ides of the union; after all this, what we
1 ask is the extent of Mr Webster’s Southern
iration ! Simply this—that the Fugitive
Slave ad ought to be enforced. Mr Web
ster has told the North, the compact to de
liver fugitives is in the Constitution, and
the constitution must be obeyed. This is
, the whole sum and substance ol it. Is not
I the South humbled indeed, when she is re
duced to be thankful to Northern great
men, for admitting that she is entitled to
j the faithful fulfilment of a constitutional
! stipulation! What a mighty condescen
sion ! And yet for this, there are white
livers at the South who would make Mr
Webster President! Make him President
with all his other sins on his head. Although
he had declared that he was against the
IVilmot Proviso only because free soil was
secured without it—although he has within
two weeks openly reiterated the most of
fensive and galling of all the prohibitions
of abolitionism, to-wit: that “no new slave
State shall be admitted into the union”—
neither Cuba, nor Tamaulipas, New Leon,
nor Coahuila; and although he is aTree
soil and a free nigger man, in every pos
sible view and aspect of the question, ex
cept that he is for maintaining thejugitive
net. What forgiving people are these
Southerners! We can imagine the curl of
Mr Webster’s fine lip at the crudelity, and
‘,he flash of his dark eye at the treachery
to the South, of meu, who are so easily
caught with Websterian chaff. Tire whole
truth is this—Mr Webster has taken up the
idea (little creditable as it is to the South)
that it will be perfectly satisfied if it
can only retain the Fugitive act on the
Statute Book; and that the South will
forgive all else, endure all else, close
its eyes to the dangerous tendencies of
all else, except the repeal of that act. —
In short Air. Webster has become con
vinced that the South will “be pleased with
a rattle and tickled with a straw” and he
has determined to gratify them for the pur
pose of saving the Union. But as to abat
ing one jot of his Northern prejudice, *or
modifying or changing one solitary ,free
soil principle, Mr. Webster has neither
done, or pretended to do it. The Savan
nah News well remark# that the party in
Georgia that assumes to be the exponent
of Mr. Webster’s principles, will not pub
lish his speeches. An4th“ reason is, what
we have stated—that support ot the right,
(>t fugitive reclamation* because it is in the
Constitution, the sole basis of his claim
to justice and conservation to the South.
The fillowim; sentimentuitered by Mr. Web
ster in his speech to the people of western New,
if orb*at Buffalo, Ih'’ hotjied of*Abolition and the
home of Mr. Fillmore, ami a snpech which his
Southern admirers will not. publish, is clearly indi
cative of his opinions on the Slavery question:
••Gentlemen, I regret extremely that slavery ex.
isls in tha Southern States, and that Congress bus
no power to act upon it. Birr thkkk may he ix
rue DISPKXSATIOX OK PsOVIDEXCK SOME IIKIIIK
nv FOUND FOR, IT.”
* * * * *
“My sympathies, all my sympathies, my love of
liberty for mankind of every color, are the, same as
yours. My affections and hopes in that respect are
exactly like yours. I wish to sec all men free, all
men happy. I have no association out of the North
ern States. My people are your people. And yet
I am told sometimes that I am not a liberty man,
because I am not a Freesoil man.”
“HELP ME CASSIUS, OR I SINK.”
The “Columbus Enquirer” and its'Mil- ,
ledgeville correspondent find it necessary
to cry out lustily for help against that
“contemptible faction,” the Southern
Rights Party, Friend “T.” thinks that if
the “Union party is not wideawake” it will !
see sights before long ! Our “Enquirer” j
neighbor has very considerably lowered
the regal strain in which he has been ac
customed to sweep away the Southern
Rights party with a dash of his mighty
goose-quill. All this is very refreshing. It
K is symptomatic that the humbug is wearing
out under the drippings of time, and the
‘masked battery” being unmasked, has lost
its deadlv effect upon the minds of an in
telligent people. Last year, the battle
was fought in a panic, and the Fillmore,
Cobb and’Toombs Coalition bad all the
benefit of the Sauve qiti pent excitement.
This year, principles are affirmed and de
nied and submitted to the, arbitrament of
the people. The question j s , is this a
Government of Consent or of Force — a con
federation of Sovereign States, or a Gov
ernment of consolidated action and pow
ers al! cantered at Washington. And this
question is deeply augmented in interest,
when it is clear to every intelligent mind,
that on its solution hangs ttys rights and
the power of the South to defend and main
tain its slave property. To elect Howell
Cobb with Ins force doctrines as enuncia
ted by his organ of the Athens Banner; is
to declare thaUbe South has laid down its
arms in surrender.
r Cicntuai. Raji.-Road DmoicND.—This
Company has dec'aivd a semi-annual divi- - ’
idend of four per cent., payable on the 16th
I inst.
Tin: Southern Herald.— We perceive
by the last number; of this honest and fear
less advocate of .Southern Rights, that Mr.
I.iinikin nas withdrawn from the ’ editor
ship, and his place is assumed by Mr.
John H. Christy. Mr Christy* was its
former Editor. We welcome him cordr
ally to his old - 'post, and wish his paper
hosts of new subscribers. Weave pleased
to learn that its prospects are flattering.
It is published at Athens, ('Ga:J —Am.-
gusto Constitutionalist.
SOUTHERN RIGHTS MEETING IN TALBOT.
At a meeting of the Southern Rights
Party of Talbot county at the Court House
in Talbotton, on the third day of June,
George Buchanan was called to the chair,
and George W Darden requested to act as
j Secretary.
! The object of the meeting having been
explained; on motion of Jesse Carter a
comm : ce of seven was appointed to re
port to the meeting the names of four dele
gates to the convention to nominate a can-
Congress in the third Congres
sional district, and three delegates from
each Militia district in the county to the
convention to nominate a candidate for
the State Senate in the 28th district.
The committee reported the following
delegates to the Congressional Conven
tion:
Col L B Smith, Hamilton Riley, A G
Perryman, G H Ferguson.
For the Senatorial Convention —Town Dis
trict—fjr W Darden, L B Smith, William
Wilson.
Buckner’s District— Jas Gilmore, Pas
chal Smith, J W G Smith.
Upper llth—C A Boynton, R Camron,
Win Anderson.
Beeches —John Howard, Win Hall, Thos
Beech.
Flint Hill— G Buchanan, W H Ellison,
R M Gamble.
Valley— M L McPherson, J B Darden,
Thomas Stephenson.
Pleasant Hill—G H Ferguson, A Cham
bliss, E Moses.
Red Bone —J W Averet, W H Willis, J
Brown, f
Prattsburg— Dr W Drown, J H Wallace,
J M Arnold.
Halls— T J Riley, WJ F Mitchell, WA.
Skellie.
McCants—A McCants, John Haj), Dr
W C Sheridan.
Daviston —Dr J Searcy, S B Baldwin, J
C R Lockhart. W
Harts—E B Smith, J Jameson, W Sear
cy.
(Geneva —T Jameson, M M Creary, *
Weal hers.
Centerville— J J Boynton, S Howell,
Woodall.
On motion the report of the committee
was adopted. m
“T H K UNION OP THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OP THE STATES.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,
[WEEMLIL'jsr.r
On motion a committee of three was ap
pointed to correspond with the committee
of Meriwether county, for the purpose of
fixing a time and place for the meeting of
the Senatorial convention. The chair ap
pointed J W G Smith, L B Smith, G W
Darden.
On motion of Jesse Carter, it was re
solved, That the proceedings ot this meet
ing be published in the Columbus Times
and Sentinel, and Telegraph be requested
j to copy the same.
GEO BUCHANAN, Chairman.
G W Darden, Sec’ry.
From the Augusta Constitulionalist.
; PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL UN- !
ION CONVENTION,
The proceedings of (his Convention, or
j properly speakinu of tile Consolidation
I Union Convention, will be found in our
; paper tins morning as copied from tjie
[ Southern Recorder. Had we time n<r.y, !
i ivecould give some interesting annotations, j
and supj’lv s- me omissions, to tliey ritlen i
record. We had the good fortune to be a
spectator of the curious edifying medley
of politicians and patriots which this Con
vention presented. llieie was much of
individual respectability and intelligence
in it.
We regret that the opening address of
the President, the Hon. John J Floyd, was j
not reduced to writing, and given to the
public. We unite in the hope that it may
yet see the light. We were struck with
the emphatic manner with which lie de.
livered the following remark: “Before the
ors'anizution of lh<-• Constitutional Union
Party, I was a whig, and I gloried in- the
name and prirfciples of the Whig party,
j But now I come not here as a Whig, nor
:do you corneas Whigs or as Democrats.
We come together as Union men.” There
was here no recantation of whiggery—no
declaration that rts were less
dear than formerly. We presume there
i fore, whiggery has lost none of its vitali
ty with him. nor with his Whig associates
in the new organization. It is 4 not dead,
but slumbers, and in due time will awake
in pristine energy after they have got
through with their (frofes#<! task of sav
i ing the Union. The honorable President
j took occasion also, with rather smalLcour
tesy, as we thought, both to the Couvsn
’ tion and its candidate, that was to be select
| ed, m prejudging, prescribing and dicta- j
■ ting its action, tend thaMaiulidifte’s course.
[.Says he, “You are noffissombled to adopt j
any new principles, or put forth any new !
j issues, but to reaffirm the platform of the
j Georgia Convention of 1850, and to select
Ia standard bearer to maintain them He
; s to promulge no new principles—he is
neither to add to, nor to take away- from |
that platform.” i
We quote from memory, but are sub-!
stantially, and almost verbally, accurate,
j Sure enough, what the libnoiabli? Presi
: dent had foreshadowed was all duly ar
ranged; whether by the Macon Regency
or by himself, Toombs & Cos., that were
i present, or both combined, it is not for us i
jto say. Butcertes there was the Hon
Robert Toombs, ready to move, and who, j
: in due time, did move, for a Committee of!
i Three from each judicial circuit, to report i
! matter for the action of the Convention.;
Doubtless the report was a.ready cut and j
1 dried in his pocket. lhe Committee up- !
j pointed, he being Chairman, the Conven- |
i tion adjourned till 4, —at which :
i time*he t was ready to report, and didre
; P orU . I
j It was nothing more nor less than that :
; same i Id “maskedibitttery,” “that false cry j
of Union.” There was nothing in it but I
.the slaVery question and matters pertaining :
to il—the Union and the Compromise! N'fi !
Ollier principles, no other issues were pro- !
mulgedt No other ..question “.of Govern-!
merit policy, State or federal, wasMeemetl
worthy of consideration", or entitledAo ad
vocacy—or there was none that it was
deemed prudent.tp.tvnst w.th the people.
It was a- platform of dne idea —and ism!
After the re port and resolutions were*:
read.Ml Toombs turngtl louse, a character
istic fined of clap-trap declamation, viru
| lent deniHiciatibh of his opponents, and as
j much self-laudiitmii and egotism as may
: become a nTodest mail, — it was pretty 1
Tuiuch tire sameyld slump speech tbai he
I delivered on s/jVe/aE occasions iusi fall, on
’ the issues-tltwi pending, wiilyiq peicepti
. bie improvement in its styles taste; or tem
| tier. Vs
He made, towards the close, a declara
tion whi.chi'orcibly suggested the applica
tion °f h name to all this sound and fury,
and all this heavy firing ( > ith blank cart
ridges) from behind the masked battery
He sneered at South Carolina—her chiv-
I „| r y—her sensiti under wrongs in
’ dieted, and said that Hte would exercise
the.better part of valor and discretion. He
said, .if we expected her- to secede, we.
■I would he like the boy who waited lor the
I sky to fall to catch larks. If the Union is
: not destroyed til! she secedes, it will last a
; thousand years. I will 6e security for
her to keep th? peace, fora trifle.”
We thought, “truly then, here is “much
ado about nothing.”
This being I::s real opinion, and that of
his associates in Convention, it would be
more consistent and more slates main ike to
have said less about disunion, and more
about practical issues.
If there is no danger of disunion in their
eyes trom South Carolina secessionists, we
cannot conceive how Georgia tire eaters
can cause them real disquietude, or give a
reasonable pretext for their efforts to alarm
the people.
iitter Mr: Toombs’ .-q eech was finished
the Convention wertt through the form of
a nomination, by acclamation, ot the Hon.
Howell Cobb as the candidate for Gover
nor—or in other words acquiesced in, and
] ratified the nomination already made al
Washington City, and endorsed by “The
Macon Regency.”
It was notorious that, a number of mem
bers did not acquiesce with, very great
clieerfulness* Some preferred Mr Jenkr
ms, and greatly desired h.s nomination.
Others pieferred Judge Warner, and some
were instructed to vote for him. But par
ty drill is sometimes inexorable, and the
Convention bowed unanimously to its be
hests.
—The United Slates steamer Franklin,
Captain Wooten, left her dock at Nmv
. I York, at noon on Saturday, week for South
! ampton and Havre, She lake 5968.680
in specie and 126 passengers.—
There is a hotel in Springfield that
only chffges half price for lovers; and yet
the proprietor says he makes more money
out of this class of boarders tl an any oth
er people about the house. Let a youth
he says, sit up with a yellow spencer and
blue eyes on Sunday night, and he will
feel so heavenly that he won’t get down to
pork and beans again till the latter part of
the week.
EF” Dnrine ihe mouth of April, 24.000
emigrants embarked from Liverpool tor the
United States
.
Fron, tfac Mnhilo -W.hniA,
IF One of the most notable things now
in the political condition of the north, is
the sudden change which bascom, over
the extreme abolition party, as well as
those less ultra men, Sumner, Seward
John Brown, Horace Mann, and their co
adjutors in relation to the value ofthe Union.
We refeired not long ago to this subject;
and since then, the development have be
come plain and convincing.
There is no Union club in the south,
which holds sounder opinions on this sub
ject; and,ifthe erv of Union be a suffi
cient reason for supineness or the appro
bation of politicians in the south, we do
not set- why we may not disband our
Southern Associations and accept the
’ pledges hf Douglass, Sumner and all
of that restless crpw. The reader, how
evei, must recollect that words, in the es
timation of politicians, govern the world,
and that any astute man may use them
to conceal, not explain, his thoughts.
But our object is to furnish a few of ihe
j proofs in behalf of the Unionism of aboli
i tion Gin.
At the furious abolition c.invention held
a few days ago in N. York si.a'<e, a prop
osiiion was made to encourage certain
newspapers. Among ifie number was
Fred. Douglass’s North Star and another
one, whose name we. have forgotten. To
this latter someone objected, because
lit was not m favor of disunion. Fred
! Douglass (negro) rose and declared that if
that were an objection his North Star
should have also to be stricken from the
list. He was not in lavor ofdisuni il or j
secession, for, said he, “1 do not regard
the constitution as pro-slavery document
and, therefore, (he North Star cannot ay
it is.”
It was thought that the constitution is a
very excellent thing for abolitionism and
good to fight under in behalf of that cause.
These sentiments have been embodied in
the resolutions, passed by the abolitionists.
The following they adopted unanimous
ly.
•• Jlesolved, That we will not, for slave
in Iders or slavery, abandon the Union, but
wili fight tin and light ever, for freedom
and the rights of man, -is the best means
of saving the Union from the destructive
influences and reckless policy ofthe advo
cates of the lower law.
Resolved, That as freemen, we demand
of Gougress that the lugitive law and a.I
proceedings pertaining thereto, be expun
! god from the records of the nation.”
it will he recollected that Sumner Fish
I Seward, John Buien and others are now
the strongest sort of Union men.
But it is not only in resolutions and let
ters that this has become apparent. That
extremelWiigher law journal, the Boston
: Commonwealth of the 19th inst., says:
“Appeals will also be made in be naif of
! ttfe Union; as if tins were really in danger,
and as if the opponents of the fugitive
slave bill were not among its truest friends,
No persons of intelligence, who are not in
lire leading strings of the politicians of
State stieet will herd such efforts. For
j ouiselves we shall persevere attonce in sus
-1 taining the Union and opposing slave ty,
! when we can do so constitutionally. The
charge against us of being disunionists, is
i shatnelt ssin effiontry, It bejongs, how
! evi-r, to the weapons with which the
| friends of freedom have been encounter.
I ed”
The New York Tribune which is not
I quite so rabicLastlie Commonwealth, in an
! article of more than usual grandiloquence
I assumes the following positions; —Ist.
I That t!ie Union has not been and is not
| now in any danger from anti-slavery agi
i tation; 2d, that the fugitive slave law can
i not be and will not be enforced in the free
S; 3d, that although the north refuses
I to surrender fugitive slaves, the Union
will remain sakvand its dissolution con
! tinima -jpel l lie?lK impossibility; and as a
corollary, fr-mi. these propositions, it stig
; metises' ’ rtpoosiiitiifi to ant.-slavery agitation
‘• as the essence-of :£owardij:e, poltroonery
j and evavep siflserviency to4he South.
i We do Tiet 1 know White in The South
move ardent lov'd of life Union than is above
! expressed can be found.
Another fact is also becoming apparent
j namely, the policy, cooinessand determin
ation which begin to characterise trie north
ern anti-slaverv men. The ultras are
gradually-falling policy, and ihe
result, we predict, will soon be a total a
{ malgainat’on of all of them to influence the
I elections. This is the most dangerous
j feature now existing in the progress of tile
! cause at the north.
Again, Two facts will be seen in this
morning’s paper—first, that the Illicit
| Presbyterian General Assembly ['new
! schqol ) has rejected all piopositions to in
i terfere with slavery'. The bare fact, how
; ever, does not convey a correct idea. It
, is qjiite apparent that in that Assembly the
i anti-slavery feeling lias bet orne stronger,
and the probability is that within a year
or tivo it Will be ault; to carry its point.—
Tins fact is indicated much more distinct-
TV ui the debates of the assembly than in
its votes. Secondly, the .Methodist church
; of New Hampshire lias just come out u
gainst slavery and declared that the fugi
tive 1 w must be repealed These are
two important facts.
Still further. Mr. Webster has become
a great exemplar among certain people m
the south, for his efforts in b half of the
compromise. .Mr. Webster lost iiis slulv
by this, and what now do we see? Wny
that jie is_scared at the reputation be then
gained, and is seeking to conciliate tiie
j good opinion he lost by it. On the 22d
inst. he delivered a speech at Buffalo, of
which in another column, will be found
an extract that came by telegraph. After
it was in type we received the whole
speech, and are amazed at the opposition
to slavery which in evinces,. Here is qn
extract:
“i am a northern man. I was born in
the nor h, educated at the north, have lived
all my days at the north. I know five
hundred northern ttfen to one southern man.
My sympathies, ail my sympathies—my
love of liberty for all mankind, of every
color, are the same as yours; My affection
and hopes in that respect are exactly like
yours. 1 wisb to see all men free—all
men happy. I have no associations out of
the northern states. My people are your
people. And yet, I am told sometimes
that i am not a liberty man, because lam
not a lreeaoil man. What
ami? What was I ever? What shall I
be hereafter, if I could sacrifice, for any
consideration, that love of American liber
ty’ which has glowed in my breast since
my infancy, and which I hope, will never
leave me, till I expire? (Applause.)
•‘Gentlemen, I regret extremely that sla
vt ry exists in the southern states, and that
Congress has not power to tict upon it.—
But it may be in the dispensation of Provi
dence, some remedy may be found for it.—
But, in the meantime, I hold on to the con
stitution of the United States, and you
need never expect from me, under any cir
cumstances, that I shall falter from it—that
I shall be otherwise than frank and deci.
TUESDAY* JUNE 17, 1851.
as a man of firmness and decision, and
honor and principle, for all that the world
holds. You will find me true to the north,
because all my rympathies are with the
north. My affections. my r children my
hopes, mv everything, is with the north.
But, when I stand up before my country
as one appointed to administer the consti
tution of the country, by the blessing of
God I will be just, ('Great applause.j”
Mr. Webster has frequently, in the most
eloquent and massive language, condem
ned the t xistence of sectionalism. We
doubt whether a speech can he fount!
which embodies more of it than the one
from which we have made the above ex
tract. Mr. Webster will be presently
with the rest of the antiHavery men* but,
we suspect, he will still uphold the con
stitution (a favorite catrh-word nowj with
one hand while he smites it down with
tfie other. He will continue to talk of its
glories, while lie expresses sentiments
which are calculated to afford the highest
encourageinent to those who are trying to
destroy it, by driving the south to exteini
lies.’ . |
GOV. MCDONALD’S ACCEPTANCE.
To Messrs. Wiggins , Howard, Jones,
Gardner , and Lamar, Committee.
Gentlemen:—l received to-day, your
letter informing me of my nomination, as
a candidate for tiie office of Governor of
the Stale of Georgia, by “Southern men,
democrats and wliigs,” recently assembled
in Convention at M illed gv ville, and ask
ing my acceptance. A call, thus made,
Jdo not feel at liberty to decline. With
my profound acknowledgements to the
Convention, for the confidence implied
in the nomination, l assure you, as itsorgan,
that if its selection should be ratified by
the people, every obfigaiioii imposed on
Die by the constitutions, Slate and Federal,
and the laws, enacted in confeimity there
to, shall be faithfully fulfilled.
You will permit me to say, that the vol
untary sacrifice of old party feelings to the
cause of constitutional freedom, as evinced
by the proceedings of the Convention, af
fords the most gratify ing evidence that the
parly ol the Cdustitution is determined to
sustain the Union of the States, on ihe
principleion which our venerated ances
tors, with life b'essing of God, established
it. On no other foundation can it stand.
If the beautiful principles of equality and
justice on which it rests, are disregarded
and set al naught, what is there to bind
the affections of the people to it? The ha
biiual violation of these principles by the
Federal authorities, whenever the inter
est of the Southern planter is to bo affect
ed by their action, has shaken the confi
dence of many of the good citizens of the
country, in the disposition of the General
Government, to respect ihe constitutional
rights ofthe people of this section of the
Union. In no instance has there been a
more flagrant and fatal violation of tiiem
than in the adoption by Congress of the
measures referred torn the seventh reso
lution of the Convention. It is claimed
for them that they are a compromise. It
is a fraud upon an injured people to call
them so. The proposition was made in
the Senate by a Senator from Kentucky,
known to be favorable to the gradual abo
lition of Slavery in his own State, and en
tertaining the opinion that the law of the
Mexicans, prohibiting slavery, became a
law to t heir conquerors and over ruled their
laws and political regulations by which
slavery is tolerated. It no where appears
that the measures were concerted with
Senators holding diffluent opinions, and
representing interests to bo affected by
them. They were referred to a commit
tee of thirteen, on the election of which a
bare majority of Senators voted.—The re
port of the committee varied in some degree
from the proposition’ of the Senator: and
put in the form of an offer of compromise,
amounts to about this: “If the Southern
States will give up ail pretension to the
erection of a slave State on the Mexican
territory; if they will agree that Texas
shall sell an iinn.er.se Territory on which,
according to the compact with her, a free
State cannot be erected without her con !
sent; if they will permit territorial Gov
ernments to be erected in Utah and New
M -xic', with the understanding, that the
Mexican laws are of force there, arid as
effectually exclude slavery therefrom as
the Wiimot Proviso, if enacted cou.d do,
then, the said territorial Governments
shall be erected on principles of non-inter,
ventinn; and more efficient laws -shall be
enacted for tire execution of the | revision
of ‘he constitution by which fugitives from
service or labor are required to be delivered
to their owners.”—But even this, when
made as a compromise—a proposition by
which the South was to surrender every
thing—all rialit, now and forever, to the
Territories of the Union, as a considera
tion, that a clear constitutional engage
ment should be fulfilled, was rejected.—
On what principle could it have been re
jected, but on the ground that the domi
nant majority in Congress, was unwilling
to pass it as a Compromise—a bargain not
to be violated—a law nut tube repealed or
altered?
It is no answer tosny, that the measures
embraced in the proposition were after
wards amended and passed. On theconr
trary, it establishes the position; for the
same majorit) that amended them as sep
arate measures, had the pow er to amend
them as they cam from the committee of
thirteen. The serious resistance made at
the North to the execution of the fugitive
slave law, and their election ofthe Sena
tors and representatives on pledges that
they will insist on its repeal, or essential
modification, so as to de- troy its value as
a remedy, under the constitution, prove
that it is not regarded tlieie as a compro
mise. But if it be a compromise, it is a
compromise by which the interests^of the
weaker |.arty are sacrificed. The rapidly
increasing slave popuiatir nos the South is
pent up; therg is no bullet for it. The
siavesare to remain here<ihe work of the
abolitionist is to be accomplished, either
through the vast multiplication ofthe race
or by the change of the constitution, to be
effected by the early formation and admis
sion of free States into the Union. Con
siderations like‘these, induced ine as one
of my State’s representatives, in the South
ern Convention, to endeavor to bring a
bout united action, on the part of the States
interested in this great subject, to arrest
the progress of usurpations, which if con
tinued, must result in the overthrow of con
stitutional liberty and the subversion of the
Union. A demand of their rights, embra
cing but the equality and justice guaran
teed by the Constitution, made with firm
ness and moderation, by qll the Southern
States united as oneman,must have exer
ted the happiest influence. In inyjiumble
judgement its effects would ere now, have
been seeti in its fruits of justice in the Gov
ernment, and peace and harmony among
the States and the people. But this could
not be accomplished; and the
ing been done, each State must judge for
( tself without consultation with the regt in
| NUMBER 26
sisters,has met in her sovereign capacity,
and her people have determined, to pret
ermit the outrage committed on her rights
by the admission of California into the
Union as a State, with her highly objec
tionable Constitution. This they have
done, not from any affection they have for
the measure or the policy which dictated
it, but from their extraordinary forbearance
and encouragement to hope, trom theagree
able proclamation of some of their sentinels
on duty, that “all’s well • ” Their decision
ought not to be disturbed, however much
it muy conflict with individual opinions.*—
In a Government of law and order, such
decisions must be considered authoritative.
They are the will of the people. If the
people have authority to say, that they will
resist, and to determine the extent of that
resistance, they have the like authority to
say that they will net resist This prin
ciple! hold tube incontrovertible, and ne
cessary ‘to the safety and happiness of man
kind.
The right of a State, in virtue of its in
dependence and sovereignty, to secede
from Hire Union, whenever the people
thereof, in their sovereign capacity, shall
determine such a step to be necessary to
effect their safety a.id happiness, flows ne
eessarily from the nature of our Govern
ment organization. The Government of
the Union was formed for the purpose of
protecting the States and people from for
eign aggression, and promoting justice and
peace among,, themselves to the same ex
tent, and in as ample a manner as each
State might have secured these objects for
itself and its: people, by treaty or otherwise
had it retained its sovereignty. It is a
Government for protection, not for offence.
Each State came voluntarily into the Union
for these objects; and if the Government
fails to give this protection and security, it
follows, that the State has the right to take
care of itself. This is no new principle.
Three of the States, New York, Virginia
and Rhode Island, on coming into the Un
ion, declared that the powers ot the Gov
ernment may be re-assumed by the people
whenever it shall become necessary to their
happiness. It thus became a condition of
their adoption of the Federal constitution.
The people of Massachusetts in their hill of rights,
(embodied in their constitution,) declare that the
people alone have an incontestable, unalienihle and
indefeasible right to irutitute Government and to
reform, alter, and totally change the same, when
their protection, safety, prosperity aid happiness
require it. The States of Maine, New. Hampshire,
Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana,
Mississippi, Alabama and some olheis, have adopt
ed the same principles in sub-lance. The Slates
of New Huinpshire, friary land and Tennessee, have
each declared in its constitution, lhat ‘‘the doctrine
ol non-re-istance against arbitrary power, is absurd,
slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness
of mankind.” Upon the principle of the right of
resistance and the right of secession from the Union,
the people of Georgia through their delegates, re.
cently met in convention, have declared that the
Stale in their judgment, will aid ought to resist,
even to a disruption ol every lie which binds her
to the Union, any such action of Congress as is
mentioned in the resolution, containing the decla
ration. Hut inasmuch, as the people of Georgia
have determined, solemnly, in Convention, that for |
rune of the past wroncs of the General Govern
ment, however aggravated they may he, will the
State exercise this unquestionable right, it is suffi
cient to consider it as set down by our people, as ,
a [ olitica! axiom, to be acted ori, whenever in their
judgment, the evils of the Union, more than coun.
tei balance its benefits.
The constitution is the compact of Union, and
our safety depends on a strict construction of it.
It is to our country, what the l>ible is to the Chris
tian, and a departure from it will be fatal to our polit.
ical security. But we cannot be blind to the (act that
for some time past little respect has been paid 10 it,
and that the tendency of the Government is to con
solidation. We must return to its principles as
expounded by the apostles of republicanism in ’9B
and ’99, or our noble fabric will fall to pieces, jjet
us do all wo can as a State, lo pseserve it. Let us
insist oil the lull measure of justice to ourselves, tor
a people who do not value their own rights, need j
not hope that they will be respected by others. We i
must use the means in our power, and they are |
abundant, to enlighten the public mind, bring edu- >
cation to the door of every man, trusting to the |
ministers of our holy religion to spread the princi.
pies of morality and justice among our people, and
having done all that depends on human effort to
preserve the glorious Constitution of our ancestors,
hope for the blessing of God upon our exertions,
as the means of saving the Confederacy on the
terms and in the purity, it was His good will it
should he established.
1 have the honor lobe Gentlemen,
Very res'x-ctfully Yours,
’ cha’s. j. McDonald.
That Brag. — The Augusta Constitution
alist thus notices the boast of the Griffin
Union, that Cobb will beat McDonald 10,-
000 votes :
“This calculation of beating Charles J
McDonald 10,000 votes, has been made be
fore.
We well remember a circumstance re
lated to us by a Whig friend, an intelligent
man, but given to be over-sanguine, as
occurring in 1841. He was at Washington
City shortly after the nominations of Col
Wnt C Dawson by the Whigs, and Charles
J McDonald by the Democrats, for Gov- i
ernor, were made. 14c was asked by a !
Whig member of Congress from Georgia, j
what he thought of the election. “ Oh,” i
replied he “Col Dawson will beat McDon- |
aid ten thousand votes.” “I am ot the ;
same opinion,” replied the M. C.
Our friend related the conversation to J
us shortly attor the election was over, and :
added, “I honestly believed what I said at
the time, and so did a great many others.” j
As Col Dawson was in Congress at the j
time, pethaps he may recollect hearing
something of the circumstance.
We will not mortify our whig friends by !
mentioning how many thousand votes the j
other way the election turned out. Suffice |
it, our friend Col Dawson, was not elected
by 10,000, or by any other n umberof votes j
but he had the pleasure of drinking short
ly after at the Executive mansion, as the
guest of our mutual friend, GovMcDonald ,
a glass of good Madeira, H long life and j
prosperity” to each other. • i
Moral— -> ‘Never count chickens before they \
are hatched .”
Cheering News.— We have received;
accounts from various counties through |
which Davisartd Brown have passed since j
they left Jasper, which communicate the
intelligence of the rapid adyance of the
cause of the South in the minds of the
great mass of the people—that those gen
tlemen were received with shouts ofap
plause wherever they have spoken, and
produced a deep and lasting impression
Upon the minds of all who heard them. If
there is any sensible man in our state who
has ever believed that the people of Mis
sissippi would desert their former position
—their principles—and the true friends of
the south—in order to continue men in
power who have betrayed the high trust
committed to their hands, it is time he was
undeceived. Mississippi will never be
guilty of such folly,—PauldingfMiss.)
Clarion’
Sailing of the Africa. —The steamer
Africa sailed to. day for Liverpool, taking
out 120 passengers, among whom is Sir
H L Bulwer, and $681,000 in specie.
New York, June 4th.
Liberation of Kossuth. —The Asia
brings a report that the Cabinet of Vien
na have consented to the liberation of Kos
suth and the other Hungarians, on condi
tion that they immediately leave Europe. j
■■■III ■—BIN ;
Jtents,
SIT DOWN, SAD SOUI,.
BY TENNYSON.
Sit down, sad soul and count
The moments flying :
Come—tell the sweet aiqount
That's lost by sighing !
How many smiles 7—a score 7
I hen laugh, and count no piore ;
for day is dying I
Lie down, sad soul, and sleep,
And no more measure
Tiie flight ol Time, nor weep
The loss of leisure ;
u... l. . . una a reant
Os starry treasure !
We dream : do thou the same ;
We love—for ever;
We laugh ; yet few we shame,
The gentle, never ;
Stay, then, till sorrow dies ;
Then—hope and happy skies
Are thine forever !
—Somebody, trou
bled to learn the keys Forte
proposed the following allevia
lion of the labor :
BOW T* LEARN THE PJAKO KEYS IN A
QUARTER OF AN HOUR.
All the G and A keys
Are between the black threes,
And ’ts-een the twos are all the D’;
Then on the right side of the threes
Will be found the B’s and C’s;
But on the left, side ofthe threes
Are all the K’s and ail the E’s.
New Wat to Chlict an Old Dkbt.—A
young man, having a small bill ot live dollars against
a firm, whose place of business is near the head of
Long Wharf, and which ho had tried repeatedly ta
collect end tailed, lit ally in; upon the following no*
vel plan to produce the money he so much want*
ed:He walked deliberately upstairs into their
counting room, and stated to one of the firm that
he wanted the money very much indeed, as his sis
ter w„s very sick with the small pox, and he had
set up with her all the night previous. This was
enough- the money w s handed to him imraedi
atclv, with a request that he would leave iustsntly,
and not touch a single thing on his way out.— Bus „
ton Commonwealth■
—Jackson, the “American Deer,” as he
has been called, and Coffee, the Indian,
ran ten miles at St Louis on the 14th ult.,
for a wager of S4OO. Jackson <von—his
time was 58 minutes anti 34 seconds; Cof
fee’s, 50 initiutes and lssecoi>ds —and over
a heavy track, Swift running, that !
—An Irishman took the Cars from Bos
ton for Worcester. On jumping from the
cars he remarked “If he had known ha
could have made the journey in so sjicirta
time he would have walked si-foot.’’
Honesty and industry are the only
plain and unobstructed roads to endless
lame and everlasting happiness.
“Husband, why do you destroy alf
iny Sweet Williams, in the garden, nnif
i leave all the bouncing Betseys ?”
“Bt cause tr.e Betseys are nil favorites
of mine, but I won't have any Sweet VViU
Hants about rny prt piises !”
- Lately, in Michigan; t\yo neighbors
agreed to a mutual exchange of their fami?
lies—one giving his wife and two children
for the other’s wife j
—We read in a Sheffield paper that t‘tha
last polish to a piepe of cutlery is given
by the hand of woman.” The same may
be ?ajd of human cutlery—the “last pol
ish’ to a young blade, is given by Ins mix-,-
ing with female society.
t**A lady was asked at the Springs, dur
ing the past season, hoiy she liked ‘Crabbe’s
Tales V ‘ 1 never eat any crab’s tails,*
innocently replied the exquisite represen
tative of the ‘upper ten,’
■**-Alady piqued by Johnson’s scrupulous
advocacy of the truth, once asserted that
little variations in narrative must happen
a thousand times a day, if one is not per
petually watching. “ Well, madam, nod
you ought to be perpetually watching. It
is more from carelessness aboqt the truth,
than from intentional lying that there is so
much falsehood.”
—Ladies a La Turk are appearing in aU
quarters at the North, but yet they are very
few in number in each place. One ha#
come out at New Bedford, another at Net
wark, N. J., and others are preparing to
follow suit. Western New York towns,
however, still take the lead.
—The sporting world at the east is ex
cited about the challenge which the Balti
moreans have thrown down, for SIOOO
namely, to sail any boat in the U States of
the size of their yatch, ‘Baltimore. - ’ Fjsh,
of New York, has picked up the glove, and
the race is appointed to come off at Philar
dt iphia within tv\o months.
• The Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Courier writes the followin'?
significant paragraph ;
“The original portrait of Gen Taylor by
Yanderlin is offered here for raffle by the
eminent artist himself. He can fjnd few
to take a chance, ff’bose who were most
benefitted by the elevation of that gentle
man to the Presidency, qre among those
who are ieast disposed to cherish his mem
°>y.”
Stirring Them Up.— A Michigan par
per publishes the following: Fellow citi
zens ! If ypu are asleep—awake ! If you
are awake—move ! If you are moving—,
walk! It you are walking—run ! If you
are running—fly to the rescue !
“Out West.” —They have a little
town “Out West,” which appears to hare
been overlooked by Dickens ttnd other
English travelers, and which is ‘*a|l sorts’*
of a stirring place. In one day they re
cently had t” 0 street tights, hung a man
rode three met) out of town, on a rail, got
upaquarter rq.ee, a turkey shooting, a
gander pulling, a match dog fight, had
preaching by a circuit rider who afterwards
ran a loot lace for apple jack all around,
and, as if this was not enough, tne judge
ofthe court, after losing his year's salary
at single handed poker, and whipping q
person who said he didn’t understand the
game went out and helped to lynch his
grandfather lor hpg stealing.
—Advices from Rio de Janeiro to the
18th April state that during the preriou9
ten days 1,156 persons had died ofthe yel
low fever, and that at least five times that
number had fa'len victims to tflat disease
in the provinces and on the coast. Per
nambuco dates to the 20’h April report
but few cases of fever atlhat port.
The Turks in W ashington.—lt is star
ted that a mantua-uiaker in Washington
city is engaged in making Turkish pant
aloops for six ladies who are to appear in
them on next Wednesday afternoon at
the capitol. They will “face the music,”
—The following is first rate and perfect
ly natural:
“ What carrotty-headed little brat is that
madam, do you know his name?”
“VV by, yes, that’s my youngest son.*”
“You don’t say so, indeed! why, what
a dear little, sweet, dove-eyed cherub he is
to be sure!”
This is the fashionable, scientific way of
backing right square opt.
£3T “Will you kepp an eye on my
horse?”
“Yes sir.”
[Stranger goes in gets his dnnkjeomes
out and finds his horse missing.]
“Where is my horse boy?”
“He’s runn’d away, sir.”
“Didn’t I teli you to take care of hint
you young scamp?”
“No, sir you tell’d me to keep my ey&
on him, and I did, till he got cleau out
sight.”