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their work from the north, to our specimens.
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tty Blank Legal forms of overy description, kept
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PREMIUM COTTON GINS.
E. T. TAYLOR A fb.
Proprietors of the Columbus Cot
ton (Jin Manufactory, have the satisfaction
•ts announce to their patron* and the Planter* gen
■srally, 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 unnecessary for the manufacturers to
say a word ‘ll their favor, as they leel confi
dent the machines have been brought to such per
fection, that their superior performance will re
•comtnemi them in preference to all other gins
now in use. For the satisfaction of those who
have not used the Gim , and are unacquainted with
their repu atinn, the proprietors need only say
that the First Premiums have been awsrded to
them, lor the best Gin exhibited at the great State
Fair, held at Atlanta Ga. Also, at the Alabama
and Georgia Agricultural and Mechanic's Fair,
held nt Columbus, and at the Annual Fair ol the
South Carolina Institute, at Charleston. The cot
ton ginned on these Gins, leceived the first Pre
miums atthe exhibition held in Charleston, South
Carolina, and at every Fair where samples ofcot
tsn from them have been exhibited.
The proprietors have in their possession, nu
merous certificates from Planters, Cotton-Brokers,
Commission Merchants, and Manufacturers o
cotton goods, testifying that the performance o
<lin* and the samples produced by them, cannot
be excelled by any Gins ever manufactured.
All orders for Gins given either to our travelling
or local agents, or forwarded to the proprietors by
mail, will always receive prompt attention.
Gins wifi be sent to 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. Dec 4. 1850 twi-
FOR SALE,
A GROCERY STORE AND TIN SHOP in the
town of Cutbbert, Ga., and a good set of new
Tools. There is in the shop a good workman who
is permanently located, and whose services can be
obtained. The slock consists entirely of ready
made Tin and Groceries —no unsaleable goods in
said stock—all under good and successful opera
tion ; situated in a very pleasant, healthy location,
surrounded by anew, growing and desiiable coun
try. The Tin interest is desirable; the town
and country is in a flourishing condition ; it is one
of the most desirable interests that could he had
for a man of small capital. It is the only Grocery
store or ‘I in Shop in the place.
We are selling the rise of fifteen thousand dollars
worth of goods a year, with a general increase o
business, and that unon a small capital. I will
sail one half interest in said business, or the whole
can be bought—a good store-house, lot, and tin
sbep in the same. My only for wanting to
sail, is to concentrate my capitAin the Hat and
bhns business at home. For particulars
apply to the undersigned at Columbus. Ga., or to
Win. Morgan, Cutbbert, Ga. Early application is
desired, ts I am determined to sell.
junelO-wtf D. TT.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
TSJIE Subscribers respectful
ly to call the attention of Physicians and Pan
era to tliefr spring supply of select Mcdicineß, all
of which are Iresli and of the purest quality. Such
as were best have been purchased on the lowest
terms, and we will furnish them at reasonable and
satisfactory prices.
Country Physicians will have their orders filled
with the best Medicines'promptly, wliich will be
put up neatly, and securely packed. Such Chem
icals will ho manufactured to order as the exigen
cv of anv case may require
GESNER & PEABODY,
jane 20-ts Druggists & Chemists.
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BROOKLYN WHITE LEAD.
A lot of this superior lead for sale by
GKSNER Sr PEABODY, also Paints, Oils and
S -tiffs, of every variety. j l,ne 20.-ts.
JOHN H. SMITH'S
RENOVATING Ointment and Horse Renova
ting Powders. —The author of our existence
has caused to grow up spontaneously, throughout
the world, such vegetable properties as will at
nue cure, when properly applied, all curnhle dis
eases. The proprietor of these truly valuable
Medicines might fill a volume with Certificates an
Testimonials in favor of his articles; but, consid
ermg such puffs wholly useless, since thev are s
readily minutactured, and made use ol to such an
extent to palui off some use’ess trash upon the
public, l shall,therefore, slate atonce, the various
diseases that can be speedily cured by these in
valuable Horse Renovating Powders, vit: Glan
ders, Hidebound, and Horse Distemper. It also
carries off all gross humors, and purifies the blood.
It is also a sale and certain cure for the Heaves ;
it will also cleanse, at once, the stomach and maw
from bots, worms, &c., and again restore the
stomach and bowe's to healthy action.
Smith's Renovating Ointment is an invaluable
remsdv for horses, in the cure of the following
diseases: Fresh Wounds,Gall ofall kinds. Sprains,
Hruises, Ringbones, Poll Evil, Wind Galls. •. pa
vins. Sweeny, Fistula, Strains, Lameness, Found
ered Feet, Cracks, and Scratches
Tha above articles are to be had in most of the
cities and principal villages throughout the United
States, and tae Canadas,
For sale, wholesale and retai 1 , at John H.
Smith’s Depot, No. I*3 Fulton street, (2d floor,)
New York. ..
Price, 25 cents per box for the Ointment; 80
ceats for the Horse Renovating Powders. kr
•ale bv GESNER & PEABODY,
Blue Drug store, Sign of Negro & Mortar.
C. REPS & CO
SUCCESSORS TO C. BRUNO.
IMPORTERS anu Dealers in Music, Musical In
strumente of every description, Guns, Pistols,
•Watnhes, Clocks, Jewelry, Cutlery, Plate and Kan
■ Kanev Goods of everv variety.
Their stock of Sheet Music (comprising over
100,000 pieces) is one of the largest in the south
.ern country, and new publication s are received
hv every stesmer as fast as issued from the New
York, Boston and Philadelphia Presses
A splendid assortment of Piano Fortes, of the
first American Manufacturers. Prices to suit pur
chasers.
Their stock of Fancy Goods, is extensive and ol
great variety. Any article not to he found else
will in all probability be founn on their
ejUeur*.*.
Vke Music Ware Rooms ofC. Bruuo and C. Reps
thadag united in this establishment, C. Reps tr Cos.
■rill have it in their power to sell on good terms
liberal in proportion to theirdemolished expenses-
Any article called for, and not in store, will be
promptly ordered, when desired.
A first rate organ builder and piano maker, per
manently attached to the establishment, will tune,
repair and renovate Pianos on short notice and in
[best style, warranted.
Watches and Clocks regulated cleaned and re
paired. marl 1-wtf
PORTFOLIOS, ALBUMS, <Skc.
PORT Foiioa and Albums, of papier mache,
Dominoes and Chessmen, Brushes and Combs,
Taper Matches, Italian silk Strings, for violin and
cujaar, [a new article] for safe by
TayUtw REPS & CO.
LASS BUTTER DISHES, with plated
stand and covers, just receded i°l. “ le
ky C. REPS & CO
apr 28. Successors to C. Bruno.]
Hew Goods
ASUI'ER” assprtmeotof Gold and Silver head
ed and lane Walking Canes ol a variety o
T, ei, just received and for sale by
.ni_ri -atwtf C. REPS ft CO
WATCHES, .
A FEW fine Watches, just received and
for sale by
giftyl4tw C. REPS k CO.
TO HIRE,
rWWO second hand Piano Fortes, by the
* * y ßr * the co,
FANCY GOODS,
TUMPING Ropes for misses, Battledore and
p {NiuUletoeks, *nd Grace He n P. *
fftyUtw -f. REPS & CO,
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VOLUME XL |
McKim and the Bloomers. —Facts,
they say, are stubborn things—and so are
ladies; and notwithstanding the rid i
rule of the Herald and the grove advocacy
of the Tribune—two things which, united,
are enough to kill any rhino short of a la
dy’s whim —the short frock excitement
still goes on and the motto inscribed in im
perishable characters on every petticoat is
“excelsior.” The epidemic has at length
reached the metropolis, and scarcely a
day passes without one or more specimens
of the new costume being encountered in
the street. Yesterday we heard of three,
all in a bunch, scudding down Broadway
at flood tide under jury masts and double
reefed topsails. McKim of Bleecker street
who seems to be the high priest of the
short gown, tells us that he has ten seam
stresses constantly employed in making
up the new costume, and that orders are
continually pouring m from all quarters
and ranks'. So we go! Hurrah for re
form! htirmh for MrKim! and hurrah for
every bid v. —V Y Day Book ,
Good New’s. —An intelligent and very
responsible gentleman,wining to us from
Elbert county, says. “I do not know of a
single Whig who intends to vote for Cobb.’
This is gratifying intelligence, and shows
the impression made upon the minds of
the citizens of that county bv the course
ofMrCobD. The Savannah Republican,
now one of the leading organs of the Cobb
party, a little over a year ago, w hen calling
Mr Cobh a tiaitor to the. South, declared
that “Whigs at least could never vole for
Cobb.” We think the Republican was
right. It can now go further and say that
Democrats can neveT support him. He is
now acting with Fillmore, Webster and
Co.,and receives the cordial support ofthe
Washington Republic. This is sufficient
to deter Democrats from advocating his
election.
’l'lie signs are all in favor of McDonald.
He is the man for the times.— Augusta
Republic.
Come out from among Them. —Hon.
Howell Cobb, tile Union candidate for
Governor in Georgia, has transmitted to
the Southern Patriot a list of subscribers,
containing,as the Patriot says, “many ol
the most distinguished names in Athens,
Georgia, that sent of learning, refinement
and wealth.” The editor of the Patriot
seems to take it for granted that every
Athens is the seat of learning, bp'Abe on
ly exposition of the “refinement ’ of the
town alluded to that we have seen—the
only witness of its boasted literature —is a
weekly sheet, called the Southern Banner;
a recreant democratic print, whose lead
ing characteristic was the abuse it heaped
on Mr Calhoun. In return for the subscri
bers sent, the Patriot w ishes Mr Cobh that
success in his gubernatorial canvass his
“political principles’’ to. It is
neediess to dehne Mr. Cobb’s political prill
ciples.— S Carolinian.
the aeronaut, ha a balloon ca
pable of carrying sixteen persons, and pro
poses going high” with his wife and
all his family about the middle of next,
week. Thev will go up from Philadel
phia where, when, and how they will come
down is uncertain,
Havana, June 8,
Two youths of the University, *-f 14 and
16 years of age, drew the figure of a re
publican flag ot. one of the walls in the
Court, and wrote under it “Viva Lopez !
Inquiry soon brought the culprits to light,
ixul they were imprisoned ! They replied
when questioned, that they had merely
done it to tease the janitor, who was a
staunch Royalist. Now, schoolboys, from
the time of Noah, have been ever ready to
play tricks upon those in authority, and
there is much plausibility in their simple
defence; but the Court has condemned
them to banishment, sagely remarking that
if such were the act of mere boys, what
must be the examples set them at home!
A person intending to start anew segor
manufactory, presented the brand and ti
tle “La Republica” for the necessary li
cense, but was refused. W hat wan he
dreaming of, to suppose such a title would
pass?
1 have just heard that the Governor con
templates, and some say lie has advised
the bringing more troops from Spain.
Again, 1 have been told that the Govern
ment at Madrid has appointed a commis
sion, of which the Cftnde Mirazol is the
head, of 7 persons well acquainted with
the affairs of Cuba, to deliberate upon the
measures proper to be adopted iri the j res
ent stale of itsaffaijs.
The returns of the census are vindi
eating the institutions of the South in the
most'triumphant manner. The following
are a few items concerning Georgia.
POPULATION.
Whites . 526,417
Black, . • • • * •
. 908 711
Value of real & personal estate $334,660,217
, tax . . 3-28.237 18
Amount of Stole tax • n0,803 53
$499,050 53
Number of deaths for*. - vear 9 090
preceding June Ist 1850 . ••,
The mortality of the whole pop
illation in 1849-60, was onemM
The white population ol Georgia is
about one-sixth of that of the State of New
York Yet Georgia has nearly half the
property. Hence a white person in Geor
gia is on an average nearly thr< e tunes as
fichasone ,n New York. Even if slaves
are excluded from the property of Georgia
she is wealthier in proportion to white pop
ulation than New York A.:d then the
health of Georgia is v<ll y*“P-' , ' or \ ~
of a total population of 9,08,711 the deaths
in a single year were 9,099- 1*
gle city of New York, with about; halftha
population, they were about 18,000, or
nearly double. Hence the average uno'-
tality'of the city of New York abotU
four times as great as that of the btate
G The taxation of Georgia, Stateand coun
ty, is about a half a million—that of New
York exceeds seven millions. Hence the
taxation 11 Georgia compared to that ol
New York on the basis of population, is
Irss than one fourt.cn the white bas.s is
less than one-half—on the property bas.s
is less than one sixth! Yet with this over
whelming evidence of the superior, social
political and financial condition of Georgia
.he is excluded by New Turk lrom . co.u
mon territory, as immoral and unthrift J
an( ] a nd she submits! —Southern Press
The whole of the $900,000 of the
Panama Railroad company’s 7 per cent,
bonds was taksu, in New York, on Sat
urdiy tp.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY ,8 ;851.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1851.
Southern Rights Meeting. —At a meet
ing held at the Court House on Monday
30th ult., for the purpose of appointing
Delegates for the Town Districts to the
Senatorial Convention to meet in this city
on the 3d inst. Col John Quinn was call
ed to the Chair, and J T Niles appointed
jo act as Secretary.
The object ofthe meeting being stated,
the following delegates to the Senatorial
Convention of Stewart and Muscogee were
duly appointed.
Lower District —Geo Pitts, Jno Quinn,
Wiley Williams, J L Morton.
Upper District —HS Smith, AS Ruther
ford, Wm A Bedell, John Forsyth.
It was recommended that the
tion assemble at the Court House in this
city, at 12 o’clock M. of the 3d inst.
JOHN QUINN, Chaim’n.
J,T Niles, Sec’ry.
Blackwood. —The June number of this
capital periodical is before us, with the
following table of contents: iEschylus,
Shakespeare and Schiller; Vestiges of the
ancient Inhabitants of Scotland; The ‘ i
sion of Polyphemus; My Novel, Part X
our commercial and manufacturing pios
perity ; Houssay’s Sketches and Essays;
Modern State Trials ; Free Trade.
“Southern Rights —lt is well known
in this city that every man, whether Whig
or Democrat, who opens his mouth on the
subject of Southern Rights, is watched
with the Argus eyes of Whiggery ; and if
he let fall words of ambiguity on the sub
ject, is at once denounced as adisunionist.
Unfortunately, mat y of the old federal
class of W higs, (for we hope all are not of
that sort,) cannot discriminate between
the maintenance of the just rights of the
States and disunion itself. Indeed, uncon
ditional obedience to federal power, with
them, is the only sort of Union they seem
to understand. The idea of oppression or
wrong on the part of that government to
wards the States is incompre ensible, and
consequently altogether inappreciable to
them. How then can it be expected that
such politicians could perceive that the
Southern States have any rights pertaining
to them as States, which a of
Congress cannot strike off at pleasure.”—
Richmond ( Va) Enquirer.
This is a pitiable complaint of ourßich
mond cotemporary, and we do think that
it has a right to complain if the union con
solidation's accuse if, of running south
ern rights to the verge of disunion. Never
was accusation more unjust; for no print
has been more decided and severe against
Southern ultras , whether in South Carolina
or Columbus, Ga. But the occasion of
this complaint is a good thing, and the
complaint itself, significant. It shows that
there is a party at the South ready to hal
loo every one down with the mad-dog cry
of disunion, who dares breathe that the
South has any rights. It is so in Georgia,
as well as Virginia. This word “disunion”
is converted into a bug-bear—a stalking
horse—a ghost to frighten men out of their
senses, as well as their rights. Are not
the consolidationists afraid of wearing out
the cry 1 Will it not grow stale and pall on
the ear 1 It is a strange anomaly that pat
riotic reverence for a name consecrated
by glowing associations connected with a
struggle for liberty and right; should be the
very one chosen to lead by its talse & flick
ering glaretoadeprivation of that same lib
erty and right. We hope the Richmond
Enquirer will learn from this to hold faster
to the substance of Southern Rights, and
not be frightened by the bootings of these
Federal screech owls, trom the support of
principles that Virginia became immortal
in giving birth to.
THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN
Is advised that an indispensable prerequis
ite to be severe, is to be just. The Repub
lican undertakes to administer to us a most
grave rebuke, and after wrapping itself up
in an ill-fitting garmentof lofty censorship,
descends at the first step, to misconstrue
and misinterpret the paragraph which con
tains the ground-work ot his charge:
We are accusedof prefering abroad and
sweeping charge of personal cowardice
against the whole array of the Union Par
ty. We deny the charge. The Republi
can has given us credit for common sense.
His estimate of that quality in us, is flatly
negatived by the charge he now makes.
Who but a tool would venture to assert that
the “sixty thousand Georgians” which he
claims to belong to the union party (they
are not so many by a long bow) were all
cowards ! The accusation is refuted by its
own absurdity-. The Republican knows
that we spoke of political cowardice, of par
ty cowardice. And we need not waste
time to argue the distinction between that
and personal pusillanimity. There are
men brave in the field, yet timid in coun
cil. There are iron nerves that are in
sensiibleto physical danger, thatyetshake
at moral responsibilities. We charge 60,-
000 Georgians with being cowards! If we
believed there were that many “hinds in
heart” among our countrymen, we should
throw down this pen and never dare write
another appeal to the courage, the manli
ness, the love of home and country, which
burn in our countrymen’s bosoms in favor
of those their rights which are so assailed
from without and betrayed within. No, sir.
We trust the people of Georgia. It is to
their “second sober thought,” when light
shall break through the murky clouds of
delusion, and dispel the mirage of false
facts created by traitorous leaders, that
we look with unshaken confidence, for the
iedemption of our country from the perils
and disgraces into which submission politi
cians, radiating from a Freesoil Federal
Government, have lead them.
While we denounce the policy ot sub
mitting to the aggression of a foe whose
cry of “ give,” “ give” is insatiate, and
whose appetite “grows by that it feeds
uponwe throw the responsibility of
that policy upon the leaders. The people
are honest—their “country’s good,” for it
is their own good, is the end they have in
view. But the people are open to decep
tion. Ambitious demagogues are ever
ready to alarm their apprehensions, to ex
cite their prejudices and to offer to them
falsehood and treason in the garbs of truth
and patriotism. It is thus that the once
sacred cry of union has been used to re
concile them to wrongs that they would
spam with loathing, could they behold
them in their naked deformity. It is thus
“THE CHIOS OF THE STATES AMD THE OVK JL E I6ITT OF THE STATES.**
‘ i-dSS . ... - •> -
that the men and the presses of the politi
cal party, organized and acting on the
great and patriotic duty of defending the
soil and institutions of the South Trom in
solent intermeddling and Federal en
croachments; are constantly held up by
the paid emissaries of the Fillmore Gov
ernment, or the expectants of its bounty
and honors, as malcontents, disorganizes
faclionists and traitors. It is the leaders w
denounce. It is the people we rely on.—
And we tell the Republican to look well to
the People —aye, the people it counts in its
own ranks. Look well to the old State
Rights men who voted to acquiesce last j
year, that they do not revolt at the coercion j
doctrines of Howell Cobb, and refuse to
pledge themselves in electing him, to obey
his mandate as Governor 4 to march against
S. Carolina to murder, in the name of Ab
olitiunsism, the fathers and husbands, the
old men and the young of S. Carolina, |
who shall be in arms to resist force , and
to fight a battle, their's as well as Carolina’s
by every consideration of birth, locality
and common interest. The cowards of
your parly, Mr Republican, will findshel
er under the protecting wing & the frown
ing cannon of this Central, Free Soil
Government located at Washington—but
the men of your party will be found with
us, and will not permit S Carolina to be
crushed in an effort to save the common
liberties ofthe South; will not consent that
in the immolation of that brave and spirit
ed people, the birth-rights of all freemen
at the south shall be buried in graves of
Carolinaground.dugby Freesoil bayonets.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1851.
THE CIVIL WAR CANDIDATE.
We have said that Mr. Cobb’s new po
litical creed, adopted with his new alias
of “Union-man,” and substituted for his
ancient orthodox Democracy, commits the
people of Georgia to a civil war, if he is
elected their Governor. There is no es.
cape from this conclusion. Let us see.
The State Rights party holds that a State
has a right to secede—for cause of which,
she is the exclusive and proper judge ; and
of course that it would be wrong, on the
part of the General Government, to molest
a State in the exercise of that right; as it
is simply impossible for one party to ha ‘e
a right to do an act, and another party to
have a right to prevent it. If, then, South
Carolina should secede, it would be, ac
cording to our doctrine, a peaceful thing,
—war could not rightfully grow out of it.
If war should be made, it would be war
by the Federal Government, founded in
wrong. If the Southern Rights party in
Georgia were in power, South Carolina,
so far as this State was concerned, would
simply be out of the Union, pursuing her
own course, and making her own ngig;hty
experiment of separate government—and
Georgia and the other States would be in
the Union, puisuing the accustomed and
even tenor of their way. That would be
all.—There would be no war.
The position of Cobb, and ot most of the
leaders of the self-styled Union party is,
that a State has no right to secede—and 2d,
if she does, the Government can and ought
to force her back ; thus, at one blow, chang
ing the whole character of the Government,
from a Government of consent, of cheer
ful and willing obedience to good laws,
and ts respect for and confidence in, wise
and chosen magistrates, into a Government
ot force—of powder and ball. Every man
will admit that when this European and
despotic element of Government is inter
polated in our policy, we cease to be a Re
public—and the President of the United
States, holding in his right hand an army,
compact and irresistible in discipline and
force, becomes in fact the Ruler —the Gov
ernment, —and the people from being citi
zens, at once become subjects. Mr. Cobb
and this party being in power, if South
Carolina secedes, the country must be in
evitably plunged in war. And more than
this—every man of us in Georgia, whatev
er his politics, will, if Fillmore says the
word, have to take part in it, and at the
command of Mr. Cobb, march, side by side
with Sumner and Seward, and the Aboli
tion armies from the North, to shoot down
our brethren, whose only offence is, that they
defended a cause, ours as well as theirs,
more manfully than we did. Beyond ques
tion, Governor Cobb will be bound to obey
Fillmore’s requisition for Southern troops.
There will be on his own principles, noth
ing unconstitutional in it, nothing inexpe
dient —nothing in short, but what is posi
tively demanded by their views of law and
of duty. And now, Georgians! pause for
one moment to look at the spectacle that
would be presented. Abolition, insolent,
intermeddling, has caused all this commo
tion. But for it, not a ripple would dis
turb the placid bosom of public content.
And now behold Abolition in its conven
ticles and conventions, in its sweltering
mobs, in its highways and bye-ways.—
What is it doing 1 Rejoicing, that it has
not only sown discord between the North
and the South, and destroyed a glorious
Constitution—but, oh rare and unlooked
for triumph! it has armed slave-holder
against slave-holder, the Georgia Cofton
Planter against the South Carolina Rice
Plantei,andthatthe Governor and Legisla
ture of the Empire State of the South, have
conspired with the Fillmore Government
to brush out the power and the spirit to re
sist its infernal march to universal domina
tion. Who can contemplate this spectacle
with composure 1
But to proceed. Suppose the requisition
for troops is made on Governor Cobb, —what
will be done! Call for Volunteers ? That
would be like Spain calling on the Cubans
to put dowu Cuba; or England on Irish
men to put down Ireland, or Austria on
Hungary to quench tha heroic flame of
liberty in Hungary. They would not come
to the call. The only resource, then, would
be a draft by lot, from all the men of mili
tary age. The lot would be as likely to
fall on a fire-eater as a submissionist—and
if he would not serve in such a war, he
would be punished for disobedience—shot
for contumacy. Here would be again the
signal for a civil war ot the fiercest and
bloodiest character; for it is not to be pre
sumed that fire-eaters would stand being
shot for refusing to shoot their countrymen
and brethren, on the other side of the Sa
vannah river. The punishment of a single
fire-eater for such a cause, would fall upon
the Southern Rights men, from the Poto
mac to the Rio Grande, like a spark on a
mine of gunpowder. Now, there is every
reason to believe that South Carolina has
solemnly determined to secede; and if
Cobb is elected Governor, the event will
take place during his administration. And
yet there are leaders and papers of the
Union party, who have the ignorance and
audacity to declare that the right of seces
sion has nothing to do with this canvass fur
Governor, and ought not to figure in it,
because it is merely an “abstract right.”
Two wars of unexampled horror too, grow
out of the denial of the right, and yet the
question is a mere abstraction!
THE PENN SYLVANIA WHIG CONVENTION.
The proceedings ol this body, lately as
sembled at Lancaster, hav? bee/j lowked
forward to, tvVtli absorbing interest by the
friends of the Union as well as by the
Presidential political managers. TheDem
ociatic convention at Reading took distinct
ground in support of the “adjustment,”
including the Fugitive act, although they
nominated for Governor, Col Bigler, who
in the Legislature of 1847, voted to clooe
the jails of Pennsylvania against Southern
claimants of fugitives. The presumptiou
arises from his acceptance of the nomina
tion, that he ulso adopts the platform, and is
therefore a convert from his faith of 1847.
Such being the action of the Democratic
convention, the interesting enquiry was
raised, what will the Pennsylvania Whigs
do? The question is answered in the pro
ceedings before us. The reader will find
an article on this subject from the N. Y.
Journal of Commerce, an ible and conser
vative Northern supporter of the compro
mise, Another from the Southern Press,
which gives the views ot a Southern mind.
This convention first nominated, as its
candidate, the present Gov Johnston, the
rankest Higher Law freesoiler, next to Se
ward, ihe North holds.
They then nominated Gen. Scott for the
Presidency, thus fonninga powerful combi*
nation of military “fuss and feathers” with
woolly head philanthropy, by which Sew
ard & Johnston expect tosweepthe Nortn.
They then proceeded to erect a platform.
This consists of a protective tariff policy,
strongly laid down ; the adjustment mea
sures, to be “ observed and respected,”
very feebly laid down ; attachment to the
“glorious union” powerfully and sonorous
ly enforced ; confidence in the adminis
tration of Millard Fillmore; an eulogy on
Johnston the Freesoil Governor, and not a
word about Webster.
Pending the resolutions, John M Scott
Esq., of Philadelphia, offered the following
amendment t
Resolved, That the provisions ofthe con
stitution in reference to the rendition of
fugitives held to service or labor, demand
and shall receive from our party a faith
ful, manly, and unequivocal support.
This resolution was overslaughed and
defeated on a call for the previous question
by a vote of 71 to 48.
Gov Johnston made a speech and ac.
cepted the nomination. His acceptance
was conditioned, beforehand, on the refusal
of the convention to pledge the Whig par
ty to a support of the compromise, and on
its nomination of Gen Scott. Mr Johnston
said, that while the fugitive law was the
law of the land, it required obedience.—
But the law was open to amendment, dis
cussion and repeal, and he was for its
amendment.
Tht upshot of the whole affair is that the
Whig party of Pennsylvania allies itself to
agitation. It has shaken hands with the
“liberty men” and enters the field in open
hostility to that “adjustment” which heal
ed the “five bleeding wounds,” which was
to give peace to the country, and to be ihe
Jinalc of all grounds of complaint by, & ag
gression upon, the South. The Washing,
ton Union, the metropolitan organ of the
compromise, is astounded at this blast from
Pennsy'vania. It says :
“In many of the States of the South
these tidings from the whig party of Penn
sylvania will be received like a clap of
thunder by men who are looking alone at
the safety of the Union, and ivho give
their votes, under this feeling, without
asking whether the candidates for the
Slate and federal offices are whigs or dem
ocrats.”
We are not startled by it—for it is what
we expected and predicted, and what we
have been preaching for a long time, in
the midst of the ‘peace and harmony,’ and
union ditties of the compromisers and
submissionists. The Journal ofCoinmerce
is very severe on the Pennsylvania Whig
disunion!sts, and predicts their overwhelm*
ing defeat. But Gov Johnston does not
agree with him. A correspondent of that
paper writing from Lancaster, says that
the resolutions as adopted are expected by
the Whigs to gain to the Governor 2,000
abolition votes in that town alone. The
Governor declared in his speech, that there
was not the least danger of disunion and
that it was very wrong in Democrats to be
going about telling the people there was
danger. Now we think the Northern
people will believe Gov Johnston and con
tinue to goad the South with abolition
triumphs, until the South itself, takes a
different course and assumes a different
tone from that recommended by the Cobb
ites.
A Southern Rights triumph in the pend,
ing elections in Mississippi, Alabama and
Georgia, would fall like a clap of thunder
on a Lancaster convention. But, at pres
ent, they think Cobb and Foote will take
care of the union out here, and they will
take of the abolition cause up there. Eve
ry Southern union vote strengthens the
hands of the Sewards and Johnstons and
the Lancaster Convention
Brigadier General Mathew Arbuckle,
of the u. S, Army died at Fort Smith, 11th
Inst,
NEW PAPER.
We have received the first number of
“The Southern Rights Advocate” just is
sued in Lagrange by J. M. McMurray,
editor and publisher. We are glad to have
an advocate of the good cause in the popu
lous and enlightened County of Troup—
a county that in days past was signalized
for its devotion to the rights of the States
but which for many years, has, in the un
accountable vicissitudes of party warfare,
strayed away from its early love, to wor
ship strange gods.
The‘"Advocate” gives promise of use
fulness in the cause. It flies the name of
McDonald at its mast head, and makes a
first gallant charge in the name of South
ern Rights. Success to it.
WHAT’S CHE MATTER.
The Columbus (Ga. Times, one of the
most ultra disunion prints in Georgia, has
the following brilliant and interesting ed
itorial upon McDonald’s acceptance:
“Ex Gov. McDonald’s letter of accept
ance will be found in our columns to
day.”
What is the matter, friend Forsyth? Has
his past Excellency jumped upon th<?
Georgia platform? If he has, we can ap
preciate your silent agony.— Athens Ban
ner.
Nothing the matter, our Athenian broth
er. We only happened to be forty milts
tri m town when the letter of acceptance
chu e, and as we were not here to write
a notice of it, it was not “writ” —that’s all.
As for Gov. McDonald, he will do. Take
care of your Cobb, and we will take care
of Mr. McDonald If Gov. McDonald
does not quite come up to our standard*
this little circumstance is quite us distress
ing to the “Banner” as it is to the“Times.’’
The “Banner” would have been too de
lighted to have been able to bounce Gov.
McDonald ns a secessionist “immediately
if not sooner.” But the Banner might as
well look thematter fairly in the face, and
be candid enough to admit, as we do, that
the Southern Rights Party of Georgia, has
not adopted what, the Banner is pleased
to call the “ ultraism ” of the “Times.”
We have tried our best to bring our fiiends
up to this mark, and have failed. The
Southern Rights Party is not prepared to
dissolve the union lor the past; aswe think
it ought to be. But it is prepared to stand
up to the disruption plenk of the “Georgia
Plarform” that bloody fourth resolution,
from which the Banner and the Submission
Press generally, are doing there might to
crawfish. This fight, Mr Banner, pro
ceeds on the naked question of State
Rights—on the right of a sovereign State
to secede tor cause of which she is to be
the judge, and of her right of immunity
from Federal coercion. You and your
candidal* hold to the Federal side of this
issue. Our candidate and ourself, are
against it. Our conviction that the right
ought now to be put in exercise, does not
prevent us from battling with the party
that maintains the abs'ract right to use it
ut another time. We agree with our
friends and candidate on ihe principle, we
differ only as to expediency.
Cheap Postage. —The cheap postage
law wen t into operation on the Ist inst.—
All single letters if not more than half an
ounce, are charged with three cents tor any
distance within the U. States, if prepaid-,
and Jive cents , if not.
Senatorial Convention. —The con
vention of*the Southern Rights party to
nominate a candidate for Senator for the
District of Stewart and Muscogee, assem
bled in this city yesterdry. The official
proceedings of the body will appear in
our next. We have barely time to an
nounce that Col B K Harrison, of the
county of Stewart was unanimously nomi
nated. We place his name
at the head of our columns, as the standard
bearer of the Southern cause in this Dis
trict.
For the Times.
To the Editors of the Macon Journal <s• Mes
senger of Tuesday last.
In the Enquirer of Tuesday last, I read
an nrticle taken from your paper, in which
for the purpose I suppose, of prejudicing
the old friends of Gen. Jackson, against
Gov. McDonald, you have arrayed the
opinions of the former against the latter on
the ritht of secession—Now I ask yon if
it is fair to use an argument against Gov
McDonald, that your own candidate will
not and dare not use himself. Mr. Cobb
dare not avow the doctrine of the Procla
mation, nor will he dare disavow the doc
trine of Gov. McDonald, as published in
your paper. If Mr Cobb will come out
openly and deny the right of secession I
will guarantee him the worst beating that
ever any man got in Georgia who was a
candidate for the same high office.
If you do not know it, it is known to ev
ery intelligent man who resided in Geor
gia in 1832, that the doctrines of the Procla
mation were scouted and ridiculed by every
States Righto man from the Potomac to the
Sabine and it is equally well known tha
his organ in Washington, in a “By author
ity” article repudiated it and no intelli
gent man believes that Gen. Jackson,wrote
the Proclamation. It has generally been
set down as the production of Ed ward Liv
ingston then Secretary of State
JUSTICE.
CF” We regret to announce the death, in
this city, yesterday aftei noon, of a disease
of the heart, of Henry McAlpin, Eeq. The
deceased was a native of Sterlingshire,
Scotland, and has been a resident of this
city and its vicinity some forty years. He
was a man of great enterprise, alway
largely 1 engaged m. various industrial pur
suits, and possessed of sterling integrity c
character. At the time of his death, b
was President of the St Andrew’s Society
of this city and one of the Directors in the
Central Rail-Road Bank. I Mr McAlpin
| NUMBER 29
has left an ample fortune, accumulated by
his industry and perseverance.— Savan
nah June 29.
From the Journal es Commerce.
PENNSYLVANIA WHIG CONVENTION.
Among the resolutions adopted by the
Convention on Tuesday, (92 to 27.) one
declared “that the adjustment measures of
the last Congress shall be faithfully ob
served and respected by the Whigs;” but
from the remarks of Gov. Johnston and oth
ers, it is evident that the acquiescence
thus promised, is only to last until such
time as a modification can be effected. An
amendment offered by Mr, Scott, of Phila
delphia, “that the provisions of the Consti
tution in reference to the rendition ol the
fugitives held to servree or labor, demand
and shall receive from ourparty a faithful,
manly, and unequivocal support,” was
shut out by the previous question: yeas
71, nuys 48. Are we to understand that
a majority of the Convt nticn will not agr**c
to give a faithful, manly and unequivocal
support to the provisions of the Constitu
tion in reference to the rendition of fugi
tives? If so, Pennsylvania Whiggery is
in a bad waj. Looking ut these votes,
and at the fact that aimost all :he Whig
members of the Legislature at its last
aion voted against the repeal of the State
“nuciment which forbids the use of its pri
sous for the temporary lodgment of fugia
tive slaves when claimed by their masters
and arrested under due process of law, we
are compelled to believe, either that the
feeling among the Whigs of Pennsylvania
on the subject of the Compromise is not
what it should be, or else that, under the
lead ol Gov. Johnston, they are playing a
game with a view to secure the votes of
the Abolitionists. Gov. Johnston, in his
speech belore the Convention, stated that
“if the Fugitive Slave Law could be amen
ded, or made perfect,” i. e. abolitionized,
so as to defeat its own objects, “he would,
if called upon to vote, support the amend.-
ment.” He said, “the people were told
not to ask the amendment for fear of dis
union; but he did not think that any one
Act ofCongress would dissolve this Un
ion.” And again,—“He esteemed it the
duty of every man to teach his neighbor
the impossibility of disunion.” This is so
exactly the lingo of the Sewardites of this
State, that we cannot doubt there is a con
cert of action between the parlies. They
are io favor of the “essential modification”
of the law, and lest there should be any
misgivings about it on the score of public
policy and safety, they proclaim that the
dissolution of the Union is impossible!—
Can we believe that they are sincere in
such declarations, at a moment when one
of the original States is avowedly anxious
for a Southern Confederacy, and when all
the Southern States declare that upon the
faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave
Law dej ends the continuance of the Un
ton.
The nomination of Gen. Scott by the
Convention, in exact chorus with the Sew
ard organs at Albany, and elsewhere, is
another evidence of a foregone conclusion.
All the other Whig candidates for the
Presidency are avowedly in favor of the
compromise as it is. But Gen. Scott is
supposed to be uncommitted, and the Sew
ard and Johnston Whigs have therefore
pitched upon him as a man who with
adroit management on the part of the wire
pullers, may receive the votes ol the Abo
litionists. They are evidently shaping
their course for a coalition, with that mis.,
erable faction, in the choice of Presiden
tial electors. If the Whig party sustain
this course, wehazaid nothing in saying
they will be whipped out of house and
home. The Democrats will take advan
tage of the blunder, and elect their own
candidate with a rush. Brought forward
under such auspices, Scott will not gel the
vote of a single slaveholding State.
From the Southern Pres*.
The Lancaster Convention.
The proceedings of this body which we
publish to-day, deserve the serious atten
tion of the South. Os the fourteen resolu
tions adopted, the first four are devoted to
the assertion of a protecting tariff policy.
The next resolution is in two fines and a
half, and declares, in the most weak and
ambiguous terms, that the adjustment
measures will be “observed and respect
ed.” Lest this, however, should mean
too much, Governor Johnston, the favorite
of the convention, after being re-nominated
unanimously, and by acclamation, is in
troduced to tell us that the Fugitive s.ave
law may, and ought to be, altered. Then
we have four resolutions in honor of this
glorious Union, t be construed, as we are
expressly told, according to Governor
Johnston’s last annual message. And
then we have the nomination of General
Scott for the next Presidency. The mean
ing ofthe convention concerning the coin
promise, evidently is that it wili adhere to
those measures tnat are favorable to the
North, and obey the Fugitive law until it
can be amended or repealed.
Pennsylvania has heretofore been one
of the most moderate and sensible States
of the North on sectional questions. Her
position is central, and on the border of
slaveholding States. Yet this is the best
that one of her great parties can do to
preserve the harmony of the Union—to
call lustily for more national bounties on
her industry atid capital—to talk loudly
about her devotion to the Union—to up*
hold every measure for the aggrandizes
ment of her section, and then to refuse
her co-operation in enforcing the only
imasure intended to secure a right of the
South, and threaten to reduce that con”
dition of still more hopeless impotence than
its present one.
Messrs. Clay and Webster, the architects
and champions of the compromise, and the
political and intellectual leaders of then
party, instead of receiving a nomination
from Pennsylvania for their immense la
bors and professions in behalf of the Union
do not even receive the passing civility o
a compliment, or a reference. Is this the
entertainment to which these gentlemen
invited themselves, when they prostituted
their talents and influence to aggrandize
the North and despoil the South? To be
treated with cold neglect by those for
whom they forfeited the respect at least, if
not the favor of another great section—and
the sanction of history.
As for the Southern friends of the corns
promise, where are they? They have
surrendered California with all her gold,
and New Mexico—more than tne wealth
of Ormus and of Ind, They have surren.
dered forever equality and safety, and re
ceived a repealable recognition on the
statute book of a right which the Constio
tution had failed to secure. And now, in
the moderate State of Pennsylvania; we
are to witness the combination of military
giery, victorious f&naticsm, and unsated
avarice, to tear this miserable formula
£om the South.
The Panama Railroad bonds to the
amount of 9000,000, have all been taken
nN. York, at good prices. The offers
ere 1127* *O3 more than required.
From tb Rejirtar
NO. IV.
In my preceding numbers, I have e .
deavored to show that the Stales comp. -
ing this Union are sovereign— that form
Government is a compact to which tl
States are parties—that this Governmei
is not the exclusive or final judge of tfi
extent of the powers delegated to it, sine,
that would make its discretion, and n< .
the Constitution, the measure of its pov
ers—-and that in case of a violation of tt
Constitution, the Stales have the right,an >
are in duly bound, to interpose iheir au
thority to arrest the progress of the evil.
These principles t have illustrated by ref
erence to the opinions of distingruishe.
Republicans, tc th* resolutions of Virginia
and Kentucky,and to the report of M
Madison. These resolutions and this r<-
port constitute the political text book ot’ev
ery true State Rights man.
In this number, it wili be my object t
answerthe argument that is often urge,
in favor of the Supreme Court being th<-
final arbiter of all questions that involve
the powers of the Government and the
rights of the Sutes.
The report of Mr Madison, to which I
have already referred, presents several for
cibleobjeciions against the exetcise of thi
power by the Supreme Court. In the
first place, there may be esses of legisla
tion thatcannot come wfihin the control of
the judicial department: in the second
place, if the decision of the judiciary bo
above the authority of the several parties
to the Constitution, then the decisions of
the other departments—being equal and
co-ordinate—must be as authoritative a*,
the decision of the judicial department: in
the third place, there may be * great RAd
extraordinary case, in which all the ford)*
of the Constitution will prove ineffectual
against infractions dangerous to the righin
ofthe Stales; and in the fourth place, th*>
judicial department itself may exercise
powers not granted by the Constitution,
and of course it would not be ihe proper
party to decide in the last resort, on ifo
own usurpations.
In addition to these reasons I will now,,
in support ofthe same position, refer to
the opinions of distinguished and enlight
ened republican statesmen. Ido it not be”
cause they ore good authority, but for the
force of their objections to the exercise
of this right and power by such a tribu
nal.
Mr. Jefferson says: “To consider the
Judges of the Supreme Court as the ult:-
mate arbiters of constitutional questions,
would be a dangerous doctrine, which
would place us under the despotism of an
oligarchy. They have, with others, the
same passions for party, for power ana
for the privileges of their corps—and theii
power is the more dangerous, as they are
in office for life, and not responsible as tin
other functionaries are, to the elective con
trol. The Constitution has elected n
single tribunal. I know of no safe depos
itory ofthe ultimate powers of society bu>
the people themselves.
Again. In another letter in reply to the
pusition, that the Supreme Court was th<-
final judge of all constitutional questions.
Mr. Jefferson says: “If this opinion b’
sound, then indeed is our Constitution a
complete/e/o (fete. For intending to es
tablish three departments, co-ordinate and
independent, that they might check and
balance one another, it has given— accord
ing to this opinion—to one of them alone,
the right to prescribe rules for the govern
ment of the others, and that too which is*
unelected by, and independent ofthe na
tion. The Constitution, in this hypothe
sis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of
the judiciary, which they irlay turn and
shape into any form they please.”
Again. Judge Rowan, ol Kentucky, dis
tinguished alike for the extent of his judi
cial attainments and the soundness of bis
political principles, in his speech or
Foote’s resolutions, and in reply to Mr.
Webster, says: “The gentleman tells
us that the States must submit to the judi
cial restraint upon their sovereignty, or in
cur by resistance the guilt of rebellion.—
That the decision of the Supreme Court,,
affirming a palpably unconstitutional law.
which invades the sovereignty of a State,
must be submitted to by the State, or it
must incur the the guilt of rebellion. Could
the doctrine of passive obedience or non
resistance have been more explicitly urged?
Has it ever been more zealously advocat
ed in any country? Sir, it is. I must re
peat, too soon for those who rule, or hope
to rule, to address these arguments to our
credulity and our fears—to deny us the
intelligence to discern our rights, and the
spirit to maintain them. Will gentlemen
say that the States of Virginia and Ken~
ucky, in the steps they took to nullify the
alien a nd sedition iaws. were guilty of re
bellion? If they were, then all the State
were guilty of treason; for they all sanc
tionvd, by the moral force of their opinion
the proceedings of the resisting Slates.”
Mr. Grundy, in the same debate, pres
ents his views on this question: “In cases
of disagreement between the Federal and
State Governments, as to their respective
powers, who is to d> cide? Gentlemen
seem to consider the Supreme Court ol
the United States as a separate, distinct
tribunal, erected by all the parties con
cerned, and as dependent on one party as
on the other. Not so; it is a portion or
part of one of the parties, created by the
legislative and executive branches of the
General Government. In every contest
for power, there would exist in the judici
ary the same motives to lead it astray as
would exist in the other departments, with
this difference: they would be stronger,
because the Judges hold their offices by a
tenure of greater duration. If the position
of gentlemen be well-founded, then the
Stale Governments have been guilty of
the folly and weakness of creating a
Government which can adjudge away thei r
sovereign rights and powers—a creator
competent to the destruction of it creator
—and all this by the easiest operation int w
aginable.
“If those from whom I differ he right,
the only security the States have is in the
integrity of seven men—and as the Con
stitution did not direct what number o*
Judges should constitute the Supreme
Court, one could have been placed there,
and upon his will alone, according to the
argument on the other side, would depend
the fate of twenty-four sovereign Slates.
“In all questions of meum arid fuum,
embraced within its constitutional juris
diction, this Court is the supreme tribun
al, and incidenta.ly between individuals it
must decide upon all questions necessary
to enable it to come to a result, or a final
determination, and the decision will be
binding upon the parties. This, howevei
by no means proves that the Court can de
cide upon the sovereign rights ofthe States,
so as to affect them.”
If the General Government, then, is no’
the final judge ofthe extent of its powers—
and the Supreme Court is not the ultimate
arbiter of constitutional questions that affect
the rights of the States—weare driven
the conclusion of Mr. Jefferson, as expres
sed in the Kentucky resolutions, that
“each State has an equal right to judge foi
itself, as well of infractions, as ol the mode
and measure of redress.” SIDNEY.
Who shall wear Pantaloons!. —TV
Baltimore Surr thus chronicle*the progres
of the pwjtaloon-movement among tV
damsels qowri east. W* venture however
to predion that few of tjje blooming por-*
tioH of idle sexi evwtm.4he land of“ims,
will resort to Bloomer*ism. Those wh *
cannot attract attention or excite admira
tion in petticoats may rush into pantaloons
in shear desperation. ,
Progress OiE TBjp Nrw Costume. T 1 •
new costume for larJrcs appt'trs dfs+ir) 1 and