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thb weekly times. fOHN FORSYTH—EDi fOR . j.fnsr■% co.r PROPRIETORS. Tho WRRR.LT TIMF.s i nubtLhed ‘>"ty Tues dnv Morning, M,O per annum in a.lvance, or Three D*ll fat the end of the^year. THE TRI-WEEKLY TIME 3, Published every WEDNESDAY nd FRIDAY Mornine*. and SATURDAY Evening. Office on the wt aide of Rroad Street, nearly opposite Winters’ Exchange. T K It M E p,rE Der.r.Aßa per annum in advance, or Six Pou.ars after six months. *5-\n paper will be discontinued while any ,rreira<tns arc due, unless at the option of the proprietors. , . , .. AovEßTistwen-rs consoienoualv inserted at *>jre DnfiCAH nor square tor tho (Iwt-insertion, and fir j r Cfftri for ere/ v cor.tiftuaiiee. Obitnarv Nntire* eTr.frPding one square (Fir alaren lines) will be charged a* advertisements. THETIVIES BOOK AND JOB OFFICE F.verv description of Job Work, either Plain, in Colors or Bronze, elegantly and promptly execu ted. Such as Itnnks, Pamphlets, Business Cards, Vlltting Cards, Bill Heads, Notes, Receipts, Bills of Lading, Bank Checks, Circulars, Posters, Hand Bills, Ball Tickets, Hray Receipts, Ac The office having been lately furnished with a large stock of NEW TYPE, comprising some of the most elegant desie"s, we are prepared to exe cute all kinds of Job Work in a style not to be ex celled. Wo particularly invite the attention of our mer chants and others who have heretofore ordered their work from the north, to our specimens. Our prices are fixed at the lowest possible rates. Orders from our country friends will be promptly attended to. )3r Blank Legal formsof every description, kept •an hand and for sale. C. &E. S. KERHISON, & CO., DIRECT IHPORTERS;OP FOREIGN” DRY GOODS, Charleston, South Carolina, W"OULD respectfully inform their friends and those who purchase Dry Goods in their city, ’that they are prepared, and are offering a very large and well assorted stock of EOHEIGN and DOMKSTIC, STAPLE and IAN(Y |>HY GOODS, selected for, and particularly adapted to the Southern Trade. Importing direct, they feel assured nfbeing able to sell Goods, as low in CHARLESTON, ns they •can be boughtin any other Market, in the United States. They would call particular attention to MNI'.N GOODS of every description, the make will by found ofbest finish, and perfectly flee irom any mixture of Cotton. Also, to their stock of DRESS GOOD?.’which will be found second to none in he Market. Terms Cash, or Citv acceptances. tC. k E.S. KERRISON, & CO., No 209 Kmg and ebSwatwtf N W cor of King& Market sts. THE WAY TO LIVE WeljL IS to call at Ellis, Kendrick 4- Red’s, and buy is packages to suit purchasers, at reducedpri icea I . Extra Canal Flour, Buckwheat Flour, Goshen Butter, English Dairy Cheese, Fresh Mackerel, Pickled Salmon, Codfish, Raisins, Citron, Currants, preserves. Pickle, Sallad Oil, Chocolate, Eve’s Apples, Dates, Prunes, Sardines, Fresh Lobst,,. Essences, Spices, Superb Tens, Old Java Coffee, Sugar, Maple Syrup, S. H. Molasses, Apple Sr W. Vinegar, Hdlibut and Salmon Sauces. 4 c. 4'c \Vu would say to our country Iriends that ou stock of Groceries, Domestic Dry Goods, Hard ware. Shoes, 4‘c. 4” c > being large, we are deter mined to sell, and that our prices shall be an in ducement to buyers. dec.4 JCLLIS, KENDRICK 4- REDD. PREMIUM COTTON GINS. E. T. TAYLOR & CO. Proprietors of the Columbus Cot ton Gin Manufactory, have the satisfaction t announce to their patrons and the Planters gen erally, throughout the Cotton growing region, that they are prepared to supply any number of their celebrated Premium Gins. Where these gins have been once used, it would be deemed armecesanry for the manufacturers to iy a word ‘n their favor, as they teel confi dent the machines have been brought to such per fection, that their superior performance will re commend them in preference to all other gins now in use. Fr the satisfaction of those who have not used the Gina, and are unacquainted with their repu ntion, the proprietors need only say that the First Premiums have been awarded to them, for the best Gin exhibited at tile great State Fair, held at Atlanta Ga. Also, at the Alabama find Georgia Agricultural and Mechan'c’s Fair, held at Columbus, and at the Annual Fair ot the South Carolina Institute, at Charleston. ’I he cot ton ginned on these Gins, teceived the first Pre miums attbe exhibition livid in Charleston, Sot|tli Carolina,and at every Fair where samples ol cot ten from them have been exhibited. The propri etovs hwe iS their ’possession, nu merous certificates from Planters, Cotton-Brokers, Commission Merchants,"and Manufacturers o cotton goods, testifying that the performance o Gins and the samples produced by them, cannot he excelled by any Gins ever manufactured. Ail orders for Gins given either to our travelling or local agents, or forwarded to the proprietors by mail, will always receive prompt attention. Gins will be sunt tft any part of the country, and warranted to give satisfaction. A liberal discount will in all cases be allowed when the Cash is paid, and the Gin taken at the manufactory. Columbus. Ga. Doc. 4, 1850 tw4- PROSFECTUS OF THE “SOIL OF THE SOUTH.” THE undersigned, a Committee of Publication #n the jiart of the Mi-scooek and Rvsskll Ac hi cpitdbu sSocibtt. respectfully invite public at tention to the following Prospectus, of a Moxth a-T JouitNALto be published in thiscity, under the auspices ofthe above named Association. We believe the Agricultural interest of the South •demands and will support a work of this character and in the hope of supplying that demand, and re ceiving that support, we have determined upon ithl publication of “THU SOIL OF THE SOUTH.” ‘The Work will lie devoted to the intere.-ts of Agriculture and Horticulture, Domestic and Rur- Economy. Under these several heads will be included ail that concerns the culture of Crops, the improvement ot the Soil, the management of the Farm, the Garden, the Orchard and the Flower Yard, and the House-Keeper’s Department. Ir their connexion with the interests of the Soil, th other Industrial Pursuits ofthe land, will receive • their appropriate attention. The columns of •• 7 he Soil ofthe South,*’ will be filled with original ar ticle* written by the Editors, contributions from many of the best informed practical Planters in the , South, and extracts from the ablest Agricultural Works and Periodicals. The “Soitofthe Som/A” will be under the Edi .torial supervision ot Charles A. Peabody Eso and Col. James M. Chambers. Mr. Peabody has been for two years past connected with the Agricultural Press, and is equally distinguished as a Practical and Scientific, intelligent and successful Planter in the South. The two furnish a combi nation of Editorial talent usurpassed by any Agri cultural work in the Union. Theywill be assis t ed bv an able corps of Contributors, among the practical Farmers and Planters ofthe Land. J Each Number will contain si-xteen Pages ot f quarto size, printed with new type on su|ierior ; white paper, and furnished to Subscribers at the , rat* af ONE DOLLAR, PER ANNUM, which must be paid upon the receipt ofthe Janu ary Number. Masters are authorized to act as Agentr* and they may retain in their hands twenty-five per cent of all subscriptions collected by them, or it they prefer it, a copy of the Work will be sent to any one twelve months gratuitously, who will remit Foar names with Four dollars. N. B— It is particularly requested that all who intend to subscribe,send their names immediately, that the Publisher may form some idea el tho num> Ywr# of Copies required. One Thousand copies of the Transactions of the late Fair in this City, embracing the Address, Treaties, and premium list, will be published and fnrnished gratuitously lothe first 1000 subscribers to the “ Soil ofthe South.” sj*All Communications must he addressed oat-paid, to Wx. H. Chambers. Publisher of Tha Sail ofthe Souih,” Columl us Ga. VAN LEONARD, Committee R. A. WARE, C of J. E. HURT, j Publication. Columbus, Dec. 10, 50 ts CHALYBEATE SPRINGS, Merriwethcr County. [1,600 feet above the level of the Sea ] THE undersigned begs leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has become the Proprietor of this celebrated Watering Place, ‘and will be prepared to receive visiters on the 20lb of May. ’ It is needless to speak ofthe “Chalybeate” as a summer resort- The salubrity of its climate, and the powerful medicinal virtues of its waters, have been enjoyed and tested by thousands The Pro prietor has only to add, that in addition to these firat requisites of a summer residence, he has spared no efforts to add all the comforts and luiuries of a 0000 hotel. The best cooks, servants and fare that the country will afford, a fine band of music, and all the amusements usually found at such pla ces, halve been provided. Hit terms will be moderate. —All he asks is a trial. “ ‘ Paweugegs on the stage route from Barnesville to Columbu*, ‘can reach the Springs by taking hack at Pleasani Hill. They are situated six miles from the stage road. The distance from Greenville is about 12 miles. ’ April 3P.—wSttwlf IAMES WOOTEN. VOLUME XI. Poetrn. THE BLIND MOTHER. BY ABBY ALLEN. Say, shall I never see thy face my child? My heart is full of feelings strange and wild ; A mother’s hopes and heart felt joys are mine My soul is filled with gushings half divine ; And never more my child, am I alone, Since thy young heart doth echo to mine own. But shall I never see thee? can it be, That all may gaze, my precious boy on thee, And yet the heart that loves thee most, forego The dearest pleasure other mothers know? Tiiis, this is anguish—agony refined? Oh God, forgive me! Baby, I am blind! Yes, yes—l never knew before, The depth of my affliction-oh, lor power, For one sho.it thrilling moment child to gaze On thy sweet tiny face, that others praise; And yet I must not is kind, But this is darkoess—now I tee! I’m blind? Nay, dc not start, my child, it wn s a tear That wet thy brow; thy mother, boy, is here; And though I may not see thee, vet I feel Thy velvet cheek against my bosom steal; And none can harm thee there, nor hand unkind Shall touch my darling, even th< ugh I’m blind List—list—it is thy father’s step I hear; Now let me smooth my brow, press back the tear. He shall not find me weeping, when so blessed, With thee, my darling, erndiedon my breast; But conid I only see thee! Yet God’s will Be done! Peace, throbbing heart be still! We are alone again, lie never guessed •What yearning anguish filled thy mother’s breast; When he did praise thy features half defined, He,quite forgot that his young wife was blind, And yet when his fond arm was round us thrown, His lip half trembled when it met my own. Oh, should he e’er rppenthim he hath wed A being burdened with a woe so dread; Should he grow tired of one so frail and weak, Mv heart, in that dark hour, would joy to break; Or should his lip grow cold, his hand unkind, God help me, baby, then indeed I’m blind! But shall I never sec thea! Yes. mybov, Some future hour my heart shall know that joy; It may not he on earth, hut in the skies, f yet shall gaze, my darling in thine eyes; So I will patient he, for God is kind, For in yon heaven not one eye is blind! THE TRUEST VOICE. BY FRANCES BROWN. Voice of the Morning! sweetly wild As the tameless tones of a forest child; Breaking from rocks on the mountain steep, * Walking the wilds ofthe woodland deep; Calling the sun to bis upward way. And man to the hopes of another day. Voice of the Twilight! sad and low, ■Sighing where valley ..fountains flow— Breathing deep by the ruined towers, Lingering late witli the folding flowers, Stilling the throb of the ocean’s breast, And hushing the weary world to rest.^ Voice ofthe Mhtliight! deeply lone! Filling the soul with thy solemn Pne, Calling up thoughts like the troubled waves, Waking the echoes of ancient graves, Teliing ot hidden things that lie. Far in tho pa.-t eternity. Voices of Earth ! ye have many tones; Where foiests wave o'-the ocean moans, ‘There is no silence—for deep or strong Rolls on the tide of eternal song, Thro’ Nature’s realms; but its holiest part Is heard in the depths of the human heart. Voice of the Absent! ringing still Thro the spirit’s shade like a hidden rill: Perchance but a lonely stream of tears, Vet sweet with the breath of our brighter years: Forever thy wandering wave flows on Thro’ the withrredVoses of summer gone. Voice ofthe Dead! that returns at times, Like a bird from the far untravellcd climes; Though sent in the wintry hours of life, \nd heard in the pause of the tempest’s strife. Yet breathing still of those brighter skies That shine where our land of promise lies! Thou speak’st in the lore of long a go To hearts who have lad their treasures low; Oh! the whispers of living love may change, And its pleasant voices grow coldly strange; But <he grave is true to our early trust, For the golden harp.,strings cannot rust! Cuba. —The “Intendente” is an officer of great importance in the government of Cu ba. He has no more power than our Sec retary of the Treasury, and to him the government looks for the means—to be raised in some way—when wanted for or dinary and extra occasions. The present incumbent, Count Villanueva, who is about to leave Havana for Spain, quits of fice contrary to the urgent wishes of the ministry, and we learn that they will not probably name a successor until he arrives in Spain in the hope of inducing him tore turn. The fact that such a government as that of Spain, notorious for its crowd of hungry “hangers on” at the treasury skirts, urges an officer 75 years old to re tain his post, is full of meaning. The reas ons he gives for retiring are plausible viz. - age, ami his wife’s declining health; but it is said that he despaired of being able to meet the incessant demands of the mother country, and the increased expenses of the military in Cuba, withoutsuch an addi tion of taxes as would be insupportable. It is said that he was opposed to the poli cy of sending the last troops to Cuba from Spain. (4,000, last fall) on the ground that if the people were loyal, there were al ready troops enough, and if they were not loyal, five times as many would not avail; and that the expense was more than* the island could bear. It is said that the treasury is quite bare by the operation of that measure., 4 Nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars were spent in bringing out the troops, ordnance, &c. &c., and nearly a million and a half in distributing them about the island creating magazines of visions, arms, powder, &c., in different places to protect the island against the threatened invasion. The count com plains that these measures, adopted against his advice, founded upon an experience of half a century among the people, ('twenty five years in office,,) have exhausted the treasury, and that he will no bear the responsibility of its direction. Ihe of fice is left in charge of Ven:ades, who for some years has filled a subordin ate post in the department. What his abil ities are, remains to be seen. — Journal of Commerce. There is nothing purer than honesty, nothing sweeter than charity; nothing warfne°r'ban love; nothing brighter than virtue; and nothing more steadfast than faith. These all united in one mind, form the purest, the sweetest, the richest, the brightest, and the most steqdfas 1 happiness. ®ije WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, 1851. advice as to the mode and manner as well as the locus of conducting that paper, it is ts own fault that it was given. We had no wish to thrust our spoon into its dish of pottage ; but when we were accused of im pertinent intermeddling, we only showed what our first advice would be, if given at all; and that was, to remove the concern the other side of the Potomac. There, union ditties always pitched on one ever, lasting and never changing pipe, are har monious to the public ear, and it is not in the least necessary to say a word about the wrongs, or in defence ofthe rights of the South. It isbootless forthat paper to boast that its conductors are “Georgians and Southerners.” Birth-place is an accident— an owl may be born in an eagle’s nest. We know some men born far down towards sun rise,with ardent Southern hearts in their be soms, and who burn under the indignities heaped on the land of their adoption ; and we know some born under a Southern sun, whose hides are as thick as alligators, and whose hearts are as callous as stones, to these wrongs; and we Know others who are verging on the dangerous confines of Free Soilism. Don’t tell us of your birth place. Show us your deeds! Prove by your acts that you are mindful of Southern Rights and tender o£ Southern Honor.— We appeal to your columns to prove, that if you have such feelings, you never show them, and that instead of fighting the ene mies of the South, all your wrath and am munition are saved to be poured out on the Southern Rights Party—the friends of the South. COMPLIMENTARY. The Columbus Times, of the 6th inst. speaking of the compromise bill says: “We verily believe that neither Cass, Clay nor Webster, nor the three combined occupied a position of so great power to control that legislation, as Howell Cobb.— And why? Because he was the repres entative of one of the most powerful States of the South, wielding an influence in Southern councils, which the North dared not provoke or offend. Against the posi tive protest and firm stand of the Georgia representatives, with Cobb at their head, it is now historically true, that the North would not have dared to force that infam ous legislation.” * * * V V * “Howell Cob!) is the chief architect of that legislation which insulted the South, broke, up the bonds of fraternity between the two jrreat sections, and lor ever de stroyed the equality ofthe Slave Slates, in the confederation. Who, we ask, is a more fitting candidate of the submission party?” We accept the compliment paid to xMr. Cobb. His influence in tire passage ot those measures is probably’ not overrated by the. Times. Asa Compromise, those measures have been sustained by the peo ple of Georgia in solemn Convehtion as sembled. Mr. Cobh is-wilting to stand or Mil by that Compromise”*. If he has giv en peace to a distracted country, and saved the Union from being wrecked on the slavery question, how great should be fits reward? He is, indeed, the most suitable candidate for the Union party of Georgia. If the Compromise and the Unoin are des tined to go down, he will go down with them—but if they are to be sustained, he will be sustained with them.— [Athens Banner. If the “Banner” calls our remarks of 6th inst. “complimentary ‘o Mr. Cobb,”.. we can inform it that we have “a few more of the same sort left,” to which Mr. Cobb and his editorial friend, are cordially welcome. We spoke of Mr. Cobb’s power for evil to the South, and denounced his mischiev ous use of it. The “Banner” swallows the flattery to Mr. Cobb’s influence, along with the discredit of his pernicious use of it.— He glories in his “bad eminence.” This lets in a flood of light on the philosophy of the politics of the Tugaloo school of pol iticians. Give them power, fame, success, and a fig for principles, for country, for those great ends o f public good, which dig nify political warfare and “make ambition virtue.” Such men would, like Lucifer, rather be first in Hell than humbly serve in Heaven. It is men like tnese, who can have the brass to leap from one extreme of political doctrine to another—a leap be tween State Rights Jeffersonian Democra cy to rank Federalism, over a gap, ns wid ns the poles are asunder. We charge tha Howell Cobb is the grand criminal be fore the bar of the insulted South—the ring-leader,the chief mutineer, the “head and front” of that legislation, falsely called “ Compromise ;” which has cost the South, her territory, her equality, and her honor. We point to him —we hold him up to the gaze of the people, and say to him “thou art the man.” You could have prevented the wrong, but you aided in it. You could at least, have protested agains it, but you encouiaged it. And now, you are before the people, arraigned and on trial for a treason to your constituents which you can only palliate and defend by treason to your principles. You have in Congress trampled on the rights of equality of the Slave States; and you now in your pleas before the people, trample under footthe great principles of State Rights ir. which you have been reared, and for maintaining which you ovye all your horfbrs from the people of Georgia. If the people sustain that man in this trial, they offer a premium in advance, to their public servants to betray them in all ttme to come. They may be willing to accept the “trea son” but will they honor the “traitor?”— They may agree to put up with the compromise, rather than try the uncer tain and unexplored paths of separation— but will they applaud the Southern man who took that compromise—not as a ne cessity—not as pis-aller, but as a choice, and as settlement, just as honorable to the South? G°ff forbid that Georgia should so dehase herself before mankind. His fate should be certain, and the popular verdjet on his infidelity as inexorable, as his pun ishment and example should be terrible.— And now we take issue with the Banner “THK UNION OP THK S * A*T K S AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OP THE STATES. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, ML-.y.] TUESDAY, JULY 1,1851. and deny toto caelo , that the Compromise measures have been sustained by the peo ple of Georgia. The people tpok them under duress —they took them, because they felt, for the moment —and it was a moment of panic—that it was better to ac quiesce in them than to incur the hazards of resistance. No man or press of the sub mission party dared defend them in their totality in the canvass for the Convention. They all admitted, (while doing their best to palliate that it was a hard bargain, but that for the sake of the “glorious Un ion,” it should be ratified. And the crown ing proof is, that the DecemlOr Conven tion itself,admitted that the Clhipromise was not fair and just to the South, and that in consenting to stand it, they had reached the last point of endurance; and that the next aggression would be the “feather to break the camel’s back.” In the face of this, the organ of the Clay Compromise candidate, tells us that Georgia has sns tained the Compromise, and of course ought tosustainthe Compromised. Let him ‘stand or fall by the Compromise;’ we accept the Banner’s banter. Ifit has given peace to a distracted country, if it has quelled the heavings of abolition fury, if it has healed the sores of sectional antipathy and antag onism ; if it has stopped one breach in a riddled constitution, if it has done aught but to magnify all the evils, and aggravate all the distempers ofthe times, then, we say too, honor Mr. Cobb. But if it has done none of these things and has only weakened the South, morally arid territo rially, and rendered it more exposed to future aggressions, then we say, away with him! What a position does he occupy before thepeople of a Southern State ! First ac tively engaged in patching up a dishonora ble adjustment in Congress; and then com ing home to advocate the usJ of powder and bail to force it down the throats of an outraged manhood. We appeal to the bal lot box for a verdict of stern justice on the offender. Politics— The Mobile Register closes an article on the “ politics of Alabama” with this description ofthe “union” patty: “On the otherhand, it need scarcely be added that the “Union” party ot this State, is but the relic—the administration de bonis non, of the old Whig party of Alabama.— The earnest State Rights members of the ancient organization have left it, and it is now composed chiefly of its old Federal elements—of those who love a strong Na tional Government, and who imagine that all patriotic piety consists in a zealous worship ofthe Union.” The description applies equally well to “Georgia Politics.” It is proper to add, however, that the “union” partyal^ocon tains in it, a few,,renegade Democrats, who either never force of Democratic principles, or have been drawn off by am bition or a natural proclivity to Free Soil principles. The Southern Rights Party of Georgia, under Its present organization, being composed of the best material ofthe two old parties—the chaff being winnow ed away by the blasts of trial—isthe proud est party in spirit, intelligence, loftiness of purpose, purity of patriotism and in tegrity of principles, that was ever banded together in this State, to fight the great battle of Popular Rights. Undismayed by defeat, constant in adversity, it will be calm and wise in that victory, which its principles are surely hewing out for it in the events of rolling time. The “Enquirer” is too pathetic by half, qn the subject of our harmless allu sion to that Shylock chimney that pitched “like a thousand of brick” into the roof of his sanctum the other day. We are de picted as a sort of moral hyena floating over the “ providences that befall” him, while he indulged in no such heartless taunts and jibes, when our office was re duced to ashes some years since! Well this is taking what the sailors call a “round turn” on us. A chimney topples over on his office, and providentially not a soul is hurt, and the whole damage w@ suppose, could be repaired for the price of a couple of subscriptions, and we are cruel and heartless enough to laugh at this horrible misfortune! We really do not think a case of persecution can be made out of this small affair. “The wicked flee where no man pursiieth.” State Rights. —We commence to-day the publication of a series of articles on the subject of the right of secession, written for the Mobile Register, under the signa ture of “Sidney.” They are brief, well written and the argument and authorities compactly stated. This is a question of the highest importance, just now, where the submission party is trying to shelter itself under the spreading branches of the Upas of Federal Consolidation principles. The right to secede is the shield of the South against Abolition. It should never be thrown away, until the South is ready to surrender its property to the insatiate bloodhounds that are on its track. A female writer having said that “nothing looks worse on a lady than darn ed stockings,” the Boston Post says: “Al low us to observe that stockings which need darning look much worse than darned ones —Darned if they don’t!” There are six thousand gambling houses in the city of New York. “—A correspondent ®1 the New York Day Book” writing from Louisville, Ken tucky, the State which Mr Clay pledged to send a regiment of dragoons into South Carolina to subjugate her people, dis courseth thus: “They (the are willing to talk “Union every thing for Union!” and this in good faith; but if fate should will their hopes to blast, they will stand as a pillar ofthe South. They seriously be lieve that South Carolina is about to with draw from the Union, and should the North still cling to her Sewards and Sum ners in this crisis, and the President call out the United States Army to subdue the Palmetto, Sfty thousand Kentucky bayon ets will face the music of Uncle Sam, and make Carolina’s cause her own, Mark this prophecy.” MS COBB'S SUPPRESSED LETTER. When the delegates from Clarke county went down to Milledgeville to attend the Consolidationists’ Covention, they carried with them a letter from Mr. Cobb, defining his views on the political questions of the day, to be laid before the members of that Convention. It was intended to apprise the members in advance what sort of a man they were about to nominate, it all being cut and dried, that Mr Cobb was to be the nominee, in order that they should have no pretext afterwards for kicking out of traces and refusing to support him. Tho purport of the letter has transpired, as also the disposition made of it. It was found by Messrs. Toembs and Meriwether, Floyd and others, managers of the Convention and chief wire-workers, to whom, only, it was submitted, tojbe too much of a Feder alist document to be allowed to meet the eve of the outsidt* public, or even be laid before the body of the It avowed the most open Consolidation doc trines. It emphatically denied the light of a State to secede from the Union under any circumstances, and claimed that in any such event it was the right and the duty of the Federal Government to make war upon her, and to subjugate her by the military and naval forces of the confedeia cy. It was thought very hazardous to put such views before the Convention many of the members of which, were still State Rights men, as in past days, when none in Georgia but a few rank Consolidation ists denied the sovereignty of the States a nd the right of secession. It is notorious, that there are thousands and tens of thousands of Whigs, as also of Democrats in the same political ranks with Messrs. Toombs Stephens & Cos., who will never subscribe to the ultra federal doc nne that a State cannot rightfully inter pose her sovereignty whenever she sees proper to protect her rights and institu tions, and secede from a government which had become destructive of both. They will never surreneder to the slavish doc trine of “passive obedience” to power, and agree that when a sovereign State should in the exercise of her best judgment re sume her original position asan indepen dent State prior to her voluntary accession to the Federal Union, she exposed herself to be conquered and subjugated at the point of the bayonet, by Northern armies, and her citizens to be hanged as traitors by the hands of abolition executioners. Mr. Cobb’s letter was sent back to him. It was pronounced imprudent to give it to the public. But gentlemen wire-workers, it is in vain to attempt to play this game of deception and suppression. That letter will have to seethe light. The people of Georgia will not be hood-winked arid led blind-fold to the polls. ‘They will insist on having the opinions of the candidates for their suffrages fully before them. The mum policy was tried in 1849, in thqcase of the Hon. Edward Y, Hill, and signally failed. Let Mr. Cobb and his friend stake warning froinhis fate. Mr Cobb is in a bad dilemma. If he plajs mum he “’ill be beat, and if he comes out with his consolidation doctrines he is destined to the same fate. —Augusta Con stitutionalist.. FRIDAY MORNING JUNE 27, 1851. THE SUBMISSION PARTY PLEDGED TO RE ISISTANCE.—THE AMERICAN UNION. Tne “Georgia Platform” and the South ern submission party place the issue of re sistance, mainly, on the faithful execution of the Fugitive Law. They stand pledged to the people to resist to the disruption of every tie that binds thtm to the Govern ment, if that law is repealed, essentially modified or fails to he enforced. We avet that the list contingency of resistance has happened. We aver that the act has essen tially failed—that it is inoperative, and worthless to the South, is a dead let ter on the statute book of the Union; and stands an unsightly monument o( the easy placability of the South and the contempt ofthe North of every Constitutional and fraternal obligation. We have the testimony of men tothe tact who deplore its existence, and are greatly alarmed for the consequen ces tothe Union, which they foresee ; (or they believe that the people of the South cannot long endure so flagrant a breach of Constitution and law on a point of the last importance to them. The New York Herald of the 18th inst. speaking of the trials in Boston growing out of the Shad- rich rescue case, says : Public Sentiment in Boston. —“ There have been two trials connected with the rescue of the stive Shadrach, in Boston, and the last onp has resulted in the disa greement of the jury —nine being for con viction, and three against it—thus making another farce of the trial by jury, in a local ity where public sentiment has been so poisoned by abolition fanaticism that the laws of the country cannot be carried out. We can only say that, in a case where the proved facts are clearly against the offender —where a convifction is due from the evi dence—that it is a mere mockery of pub lic justice to select a jury. Such results will disgrace the character of Boston, as long as it is evident. It is but too clear that the abolition spirit has stepped between the law and the facts, and made a farce of the whole matter.! Now this is as true as holy writ. The abolition spirit lids “stepped between the law and the facts <\nd made a farce of the whole ” fugitive clause of the Constitu tion. An attentive consideration of the history of each of the fugitive cases that have occurred since the adoption of the Compromise, will demonstrate this truth, In not a single case has the master receiv. ed his property in the spirit of the consti tution. In no case Ins it been done with out a tierce struggle with Northern public sentiment, represented by abolition mobs without insult, and danger to limb and life, without great pecuniary expense, in most cases, far exceeding the value ofthe prop erty. But even recoveries under these circumstancesare the favorable exceptions, for in the vast majority of cases, the slave is either discharged by the Courts, or res cued by mobs A case has just occurred in Chicago, Illinois, the State which is al ledged to be most faithful tothe Comprom ise. The prisoner was set at liberty by the U. S. Commissioner, on the baldest technicalities. The public feeling on the occasion tnay be gathered from the account given by the Chicago Journal. “Long befor* the appointed hour, the sidewalks on both sides of Lake street, and the street itself, in the vicinty of the Saloon Buildings, were thronged, and when the doors were opened, an unbroken tide of hu manity poured up the stairs, until the Sa loon was closely packed, and the hall, the stairs the sidewalks were still as full, appa rently as before. The Court being opened, Mr. Commissioner Meeker proceeded to to give the reason for his decision, ****** The Commissioner having concluded, declared the defendant discharged. The long expressed leeling found utter ance in a cheer that jarred the very build ing; and the poor fellow who had been the topic of all talkers in the city for a week past, was hurried out of the Court room and down the stairs, and into the street, with a velocity equal to the slide of Aip nach, and the way they poured, white and colored, large and small, male and female, a motly crowd, up Lake street into Wells, and out of sight. The decision gave universal satisfaction. —the public is relieved from excitement and suspense, and this morning the tide of thought has returned to its wonted chan nels. The Law has been honored, and yet human sympathies have not been out raged.” We pray the people to look at this thing as it is. It is not a fit subject for passion ate and party enquiry. It demands seri ous, solemn, thoughtful consideration, for i l involves the most important of earthly inter’ ests to the Southern people. Here we sec a state of feeling among the peopleof States united with us under the same Govern ment, nationally speaking, our brothers and countrymen, and solemnly bound by con stitutional compact to perform certain du ties to us of the South—which renders it impossible to enforce those duties and laws. We see “an unbroken tide ot humanity”— dense crowds of excited people, | ouring out from their business and homes, to give strong utterance to their hatred to laws and institutions, which are the very life-blood of Southern happiness and peace; and we hear this Chicago editor, although desirous perhaps, that the law shou'd be respected, rejoicing that in its failure, “hu man sympathies have not been outraged We ask, what hope is there, in dealing with the public prejudice so d”ep-seated, so fanatic, so bitterly poi>oned as this!— And what hope ol enforcing a law in the teeth of such a public sentiment? It is the wildest chimera that ever was indulged in to believe that this clause ofthe Constitu* tion will ever be more than the shadow of a union and fraternity, that are now forev er past. Neither Northern merchants in terested in Southern trade, the very few Northern politicians, hoping for Southern votes, the Commissioners and Courts of the U. S. the moral power of the Federal Go vernment, nor even the military forces, land and naval at the disposition of the President, are competent to execute this law in opposition, lo’he vitiated sentiment and the religious mania of anti-slavery feeling which has obtained uncontrolled mastery ofthe minds of the people of the North. These are facts —why, we ask, treat them as if they were fictions? Why, in an extremity of great peril, lean on a reed, that to every eye is broken and is sure to pierce the side that trusts to its treacherous strength? Why talk about union and brotherhood, when those who are bound to us by ties so sacred, will not execute an obl’gation of the constitution, about which there is no dispute, although, they are told that our safety, our peace, our happiness, the lives of our wives and children, and the political union so hallow ed in “story and song” all depend upon it? The people of the South may set it down as a “fixed fact”—and the sooner they re alize it the better, that the Fugitive act is as dead as Julius Ceasar. Like John Randolph ! s herring by moon light, “it shines and stinks, and stinks and shines.” It stinks in Northern nostrils— It is the glow-worm light, by which the Southern Submission Party propose to lead the South back to a fraternity, forever broken and destroyed by the irresistible march ot events, and by the force of sym pathies, tendencies and institutions, irre concileably at war, between the North and the South. We know how patriotic men at the South, hate to give up the union of their love. We know how they cling to its bril liant and heart-stirring associations of the past, and its rain-bow promises for the fu ture, if only, the canker of fanaticism.had not fixed upon its heart. We know this for we have felt it. We have been ob liged, ourself, to tear from our heart, by the roots, these deep affections, and offer them up, an oblation of severe judgment and stern duty to the rights, liberties and dignity of our country of the South. And we have done it, without one compunction of conscience, without one misgiving of duty. Be the consequences what they may—the measure is not of our doing. The North has made it necessary. The North has forced on us the issue of union k vas salage, or disunion and freedom. And when the ghost of a broken union shall shake its gory locks at the Southern man, he will lib able with hand on true heart, to say,—“Thou cans’t not say I did it!” Mr. Daniels, the talented editor of the Richmond Examiner has been ax rested in N. Y. and held to bail in $2,Q00 in a suit for libel by air. Spooaer. Tne j NUMBER 28 ground of libel is an editorial criticism which appeared in the Examiner, severa* months since on“Boydell’s Illustrations” at that time on exhibition in Richmond by Mr. Spooner. At the risk of being sued for libel the next time we visit Gotham, we venture to say that Mr. Spooner has acted very much like a puppy, in lying in wait on Free Soil, to prosecute a Southern edi tor with N. Y. judges, juries and witness es. If he had had an honest ground of complaint the Courts of Virginia were open to him. It has come to a pretty pass that a Southern Rights editor has to be submit* ted to the harrassment and annoy ance of a malicious prosecution at the North,*for freely expressing his opin ion on the Yankee humbugs that are brought out here to extract money from Southern pockets. It is long since estab- that a Southern gentleman cannot take his servant to the Northern pait of our beloved country ; the precedent is now to be set, that a Southern gentleman, who does not bow the knee to the Baal of Un ion, cannot take himself there. The Union Ticket. —The New York Mirror of Monday says—We have no doubt but the Ticket— Webster and Cobb would sweep the Union upon the Union issue. That’s the game. Georgia is to be car ried for submission, under the garb of un ion, and then Mr. Cobb is to have his re ward in the Vice Presidency, on the ticKet with Webster, a man, who swears that no new slave State shall ever enter the Union, and whosustained the compromise because the North gained everything by it. When will the people of the South-learn to elect men to public office, who will not sell out their constituents on the'first dazzling offer to ambition. The article from the Home Southerner entitled “Webster and his Buflalospeech,” we take pleasure in trar.slerring to our columns. It is as able in manner ns it is sound and catholic in spirit. Would that every Southern Press held forth in strains like these. The foot of the oppressor would soon be spurned from our Southern necks now trodden prone to the earth by the weight of enmity abroad and treachery at home. Submission is the Delilah that has shorn the locks of strength from the brow of the Sampson of the South. When will the people wake up to a sense of impending danger and disgrace? An Athe nian General once said, that an army of deer led by a lion was more formidable than an army of lions led by a deer. The people of the South are an army of giants in ;ali the moral, intellectual, physical and externa] resources of power and strength, yet led to perpetual defeat and disgrace by the dwarfed and stunted gen ius of submissionism. Fruit. —Our thanks to Mr. George Winter for a basket of delicious peaches. They are the product of the fine orchard, of Mr. John G. Winter, four miles from the City. Mr. Nathaniel Macon's opinion of the right of secession, as expressed in a letter to John Randolph, of Roanoke, Virgin ia. “I have always believed that a Slate could secede when she pleased, and this right I have considered the best guard to public liberty and topublic justice thatcould be desired, and it ought to have prevented what is now felt in the South—oppression. When confederacies begin to fight, liberty is soon lost, and the government soon chan ged. A Government of opinion establish ed by several States tor special purposes cannot be maintained by force; the use of force makes enemies, and enemies cannot live undersuch a government. Nathaniel Macon.” LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND THEN ON THAT The following paragraph was found in an obscure cornerofthe last Columbus En quirer: More Democratic Testimony in Fa vor of Mr. Fillmore. —Senator Clemens, of Alabama, a distinguished Southern Dem ocrat, ardent in his vindication of southern rights, spoke as follows of President Fill more, in the U S Senate, onthe22d Feb ruary last: Sir, 1 honor him for his course, and if the approbation of a political opponent who has at times done him some wrong, be at all grateful to him, let him be assured that not 1 only, but thousands of others of my political friends heartily thank him for what he has done, and fervently thank God that we have in this crisis a patriot and a statesman at the head of affairs who knows his duty and dares to perform it. Immediately after reading this we pick ed up the N. Y. Tribune, and read as fob lows: Fillmore and Milton Clark. —At the Mass Meeting at Burlington, Vt. t recently Milton Clark stated that when he escaped from Slavery into the Free States, he was soon supplied by friends with letters to different persons to help him on his way northward, and among them was one Mil lard Fillmore, who seemed rejoiced at his escape, harbored him, gave him money, and helped him on his wav—performing, in fact, the very acts which he says now shall be visited with condign punishment! While our neighbor is so touchy on the subject of advice, we beg pardon for inti mating that puffs of Millard Fillmore , who receives letters of introduction to runaway negroes, and “helps them on their way,” Northward, would look better when the Enquirer makes it Hegiia to the other side of the Potomac. The Prospect in South Western Georgia. —Our spirited and able cotem porary of the Albany Patriot in his issue of Friday last, gives the following {cheer ing Recount of the prospects in South Webern Georgia. Within the last two months, we have been in many of the Counties in South western Georgia, and conversed with maV ny men from various parts of this Statt* and we believe the prospects of Mr Cobb in South-western-Georgia are decidedjy bad. The coalition between Cobb, Ste phens and Toombs, is looked upon with great suspicion by honest men of both par ties. Many of the Whigs appear to re gard the nomination of Mr. Cobb with dis gust, and the Democrats, generally look upon him as a mail who has betrayed his principles for office. If the prospects of the coalition are no better in other parts of the State, a Waterloo defeat awaits them. Let the friends of the South everywhere, rally and organize for the contest and Geor gia will be redeemed from the disgrace of being sold, to gratify the ambition of three men. What’s the Matter!— The Feds.,Subs.J Fillmoreines and Cos. seem terribly alarm’ ed after a peregrination through the “lowe |> counties” by the big captain. Barbour they say is completely revolutionised, and the D—l’s to play generally below there. The “Smiling Parson” is to go down at once, to try and put things to rights. He has made some fifteen or twenty appoint ments to speak ; Jive of which are in Bar bour alone. Capt. Abercrombie came to this city post haste on Wednesday—the subs, were in caucus that evening and all the next day, and yesterday morning he cut out again. We are delighted that Mr Hilliard haa determined to take the field. Ho haa openly approved the entire batch of bills known as the Compromise, and will ba forthwith put upon their defence. Their passage, he said, would send joy and glad ness throughout the country ; now let him prove their beneficial effects.— Mont Ad vertiser and Gazette. Governor of North Carolina haa appointed R M Saunders, Asia Biggs, apd B F Moore, Esqrs., commissioners to re vise the statutes of that State. From the Register. 4 No. 1. The right of a State to Secede from the Union is predicated upon the fact that the several Suites composing our confeder acy are free, and sovereign. If the free dom of independence, and sovereignty of the States are admitted the right of Seces sion will be conceded as a necessary con sequence. After the declaration of our independ ence and before the articles of confederation were adopted, the several States were free and independent. The anicles of confed eration ol the 9th of July, 1778, instead of destroying or impairing the rights or sovereignty of the Slates actually recogniz edand confirmed them. The following lan guage is used, viz:— “Each State retains its Sovereigny, free dom, and independence, and every power,, jurisdiction and right, which is not by the confederation expressly to the United States in Congress assembled.” It will be seen from this extract, that the sovereignty of the States, in the for mation of the confederacy, is plainly as serted and unequivocally admitted. In the act of ratification, we have evi dence also, that the delegates of the free, sovereign and independent States, gave form, vitality, and existence, to the confed eration. The language used, is as follows, viz:— “And whereas it has pleased the Great Governor of the world to incline the hearts of the Legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve or ratify, representing the sovereign States, ratified the anicles of confederation. Thus faf, there is no evidenee, that the rights or soveignty of the States, were ever intended to be surrendered. In the adoption of the Federal Consti tution, we have proof abundant, of the jealousy of the States as to their rights, and of theirapprehensions as to the powers of the general Government, They were unwilling to ratify the Constitution and to establish the Government without a plain asseriion of theeovoreignty of the States, and their right lo “resume the power grant ed totheGovernment wheneverthtyshouid be perverted to their injury or aggression.” The States in the exercise of their separate and sovereign powers—each acting for it self—ratified the Constitution. In so do ing, New York says: “That the powers of the government may be reassumed by the people whenso ever it shall become necessary to their happiness; that power, jurisdiction and rjght, which is not by the paid constitution clearly delegated to the Congress of the U. States, or the Departments of the Govern ment thereof, remains to the people of the several States or to their respective State Governments.” Other of the Northern States, and Mas sachusetts among tnem, expressly declar ed—“that all powers not expressly dele gated by the Constitution, are referred to the several States, to be by them exercis, ed.” Virginia in her act of ratification snyss “That the powers granted under the constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be per verted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted thereby, re mains with them qpd at their will; that therefore, no right of any denomination, can be canceled, abridged, restrained or modified by the Congress, by the Senate or House of Representatives acting in any capacity, by the President or any depart ment or officer of the Unjted Styles, except in those instances where power is given for those purposes.” South Carolina, in iatiTying the Consti tution, used this language - —r “This convention doth declare, that no section or paragraph of the said constitu tion, warrants a construction, that the Slates do not retain every power not ex pressly relinquished by them and vested in the General Government of the Union.” These facts show clearly the intention of the States, in ratifying the Constitution. They did not intend toabandon their rights or destroy their sovereignty. If it should ever ‘become necessary to their happiness _ they reserve the right “to resume the pow ers granted to the Government”—or if these powers should be “perverted to their injury or oppression,” they claimed the rights ••re-assume” them. If a State hs a right to resume the powers she granted to the Government, when they are perver ted to her injury or oppression, she has the right to Secede from the Union. If the States in ratifying the Constitution, “re tained every [power expressly vested in the General Government,” it is certain that they did not intend deprive themselves of their sovereignty, or of the right “to judge each for itself, as well of infractions of the Constitution as ot the mode and measure of redress.” After the adoption of the Constitution, the following amend ment, as expressive of the views and opin ions of the States, was made and is now a part of the Constitution it—“ The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, uor prohibited by it to the States, are resterved to the States respec tively, or to the people.” These facts show conclusively, that ours is not a, con solidated Government: but a Union of free, independent and sovereign States. The right of a State to Secede, rests on its sov eignty. The denial of this right involves necessarily the destruction of the sovereign ty of the States, The peogJe are not pre\ pared to change their form ofGoVfcr-nmcnt. They are notprepared toabandon the rights of the States. They are not prepared to erect on the ruins of the other States, a grand consolidated* national Government They are not prepared to transform the present republican system of the United States, into an absolute despotism. SIDNEY.