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VOLUME XI. |
[From the Republic.]
T IAT LETTER.
[The people want to see that letter written to the Toombs’
Convention by .Mr. Howell Gibb, and pocketed bv the Hon.
If amilenr! Let the letter b* produced. “U. C.”[
“Who’ll tie Governor, Howell? Speak or die!”
Shall Charley yet again, as twice before.
Run the vaunted champion off the track—
That champion, Upon whom Federal Whiggcry
(With eyes, whose glance saw naught in him,
But vile pandering to Northern aggression,)
In its lasi dying gasp turns with imploring
Cp-raised hands and humbled in the dust—
“ Help Howell, help! we love thee—we adore
Thy love of office —thv thirst for power!
Thy Conduct in ttie Speaker’s Chair!
Thy Northern face and truckling spirit!
AH, nil! rivet the chains of our affections.
’Tis true we once were deadly enemies to thy rising!
But now—when Hope had well nigh.
We feared, forever left our parly!
Fortune has thrown Hu e on the wave,
And drowning men catching at straws,
Are but tho reflection of ourselves!
We love thee Howell! We love thy loving friend
Whoso “Banner” once tiore that hated motto
“Stales” Rights and Sattc Sovereignty”— but who now,
Hoping, ‘perchance, to ride into place and power.
Has followed thee! Thrice welcome are ye both !
We deeply sympathize with thy “Tugaloo’d friend,
An<i should that Amiznn, With deadly weapons armed.
Again sek his life, may we be there!
Alliens and her gallant .Marshal shall then see
How soon she we’ll transform the “Grey Eyed Jot”
Into her proper sphere—dooming a pair of “Bloomers
Wliilo Ilolsey dons the Petticoats Jane casts away.
Thus relieving Nature Peace will descend
And we Dar.sav the ‘City’ will again resume
Her trade in Chinquapins and “sioli.”
Mc’s friends in Georgia are waking up!
His old “bugle’s” lilast R echoes wide Ihe welcome
notes!
And Howell! we tear the race!
Hail they hilt entered an untried horse.
We should have no misgivings of thy speed and bottom;
But see the steed! whose four mile powers,
Have never yet been fully tried !
Tis true lie ran ill ’4l ’gainst a “Creek War” horse.
Who, sanguiue of success, “tore the ground mightily”
At the start! That “Sugar and Coffee tax,” however,
Was too much “Weight,” and breaking down in Chero
kee,
Me cantered home ns fresh as ever!
Tims. Howell, ’twas with “Old Croz;”
And wo fear much, that when our rank and (Ho
I ,e:irn who thou art, and your dead weight.
That curs’d “Proviso”—then we’ll la-hold
Another world re Governor laid upon the shelf!
That Letter, Howell! Let it come!
Show your hand! Are not your dearly bought
Federal friends strong enough in Georgia
To give you 60,000 extra votes? Wtiat hoots it then.
If it is filled with Northern Federal doctrines?
Has not ttie Patriot Hamilcar endorsed you?
Has not the “Pale Star” given you his own right hand?
When these glorious exemplars of our party s|ienk,
Wliat dog shall dare to ope his mouth ?
Then, Howell! stop the yelping of these “riRB Killso
CURS,”
And let us have “That Letter ” !
la-t Holsey announce tho precious document,
And for fear the glory may he too much for him,
Speak but two words—whisper them—
“Young”—“Tugnloo!” (the gas will evaporate instnnter.)
And Ilolsey will be himself again!
Howell! before we part—n word or two
By way of exhortation—’tis thine!
Be watchful! Be vigilant! or ,
Ere thou knowest it—that cursed “Proviso”
Spoken of before—wilt provide a quietude
For you, not bargained for by the “Regency”
Nor will your other Free-Soii. acts
Gain you friends! Therefore —“lie darkly” and “keep
low”
On all such poiutsjust now ! But when you can
Strain every vocal nerve and muscle to cry “Union”
Yes! Union U-n-i-o-n—U-n-u-n-i-o-ii-n-n
Let the talk star’s thrilling voice but reach
Your ear! and utter his war cry—“p-ii-v-o-ii-t”
Thus electrified—returned feeling will convey
To your every sense the humiliating truth
That you are also yourself again-
E. UNIBUS PI.URUM
Kilcrankie, Ga., 1851.
(From the Griffin Jeffersonian.]
UNION AND SECESSION.
Tho followin'! is the order in which the thir
teen States ratified the federal constitution:—
1 Deleware, December 7, 1787
2 Pennsylvania, “ 12, “
3 New Jersey, “ 18, “
4 Georgia, N January, 2, 1788
5 Connecticut, “ 9, “
6 Massachusetts, February fi, “
7 Maryland, April, 28. “
8 South Carolina, May, 23, “
t) New Hampshire, June, 21. “
10 Virginia, June, 2(5, “
11 New York. July, 2(>, “
12 North Carolina, Nov. 21, 1789
13 Rhode Island, May 2!>, 1790
North Carolina existed as a seperate State
or nation, for upwards of eight monthsafter the
federal government commenced its operations
under the present constitution, and Rhode Is
lam- for near fourteen months, and both had
they seen fit. might have continued to do soup
to tin*, present day.
They came into the Union when they got
ready, “hut did not eome in for any specified
time. On the contrary. New York, Virginia. |
Rhode Island, and Delaware, expressly reserv
ed the right to secede again at pleasure. If
the right was reserved to any. it was reserved
to all? otherwise the respective States did not
come into the Union on an equal footing.
But. sav the Submissionists, this js not a
question before the people of Georgia, and why
agitate it ■ To this we would make a Yankee
reply, and ask if disunion is a question before
the people of Georgia, yet what question is ag
itated more fiercely.’ Now while the question
of disunion was settled by the Convention in
December last, and therefore is not before the
people, that of secession remains open, and is of
equally vital importance. Settle the question
that a State has the right to secede from the
Union whenever a majority of her people will it.
and you at once do away all necessity, ah de
sire, all wish fora. disruption of the Union.
The seceding State withdraws peacefully from
the confederacy, and there is an end of the
whole matter. But this is not the wish or de
sire of our opponents. They must have a
great ado over it: disruption and revolution or
rebellion on the one side, and coercion by Uni
ted States troops on the other. They will ad
mit of no peaceable withdrawal ot a State, when
she has been wrouged by unjust laws, and op
pressed bv superior numbers. No. : *=be
must be whipped back bkv a Aoum? P"l>py into
her kennel, and taught to wear .tWe coletr and
the chain. This is the open atxtf avowed prin
ciple of thcfreosoilerS'Ond aKbhtumists a the
North and the Vui Constitutional party ft
the South, who do not believe in
that doctjjljl JTd best withdraw from the par
t possible. The State Rights 111011
*• sav. the respective States came
.’1 th /; voluntarily, their respective cit
/enJ i&ereising the rights offreemen tn the act
thov aoined for no specified tune; they arc tree-
Still, and have a right to leave whenever
Xv think proper they contend that the people
(of the respective States possess their liberty
still, arc as free as they ever were ana enjoy as
much liberty as they ever did: that they have
as good and valid a right to withdraw from the
Union as they had to enter it. This is a ques
tion of the very first importance to the people
of the Southern States. Is it so, or is it not.
[From the Southern Herald.]
SOUTHERN POLITICAL SCHOOL.
SECOND FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
“Well, Jacob, my son, I hope you are ready
to recite that good'lesson. I rather expect your
catechism is more difficult to memorize as you
advance. But, however, as your father wishes
to make a ‘marvellous proper man’ of you, his
desire is, that you should understand well the
minor principles of polities before you are put
under the tuition of the Hon. Mr. Cobb; and as
he intends also, that You should understand
military tactics in their highest and most perfect
order, he wishes that you may have a know
ledge, so far as I am able to teach, of the tech
nical terms, and finally, to graduate under the
auspices ot the veteran— Colonel Holsey, as
West Point is so distant, and he is not able to
send vou there. You. will now. in the first place,
explain the nature ot a COMPROMISE
••Well, sir, Howell Cobh and Col. Holsey
were aspiring to the Gubernatorial Chair—
iHjje f|§ittu’£®
Howell claiming it on account of his statesman
ship ; and Hopkins for the all-suffieient reason
that he had ‘fought, bled and died for his coun
try.’ As they could not fully agree who should
have it. they finally made a compromise of it—
Howell to be the Governor, and Hopkins to
have the honor and praise, while the Banner
shall waft from the mast of the ship of State in
triumph, and the people proclaim their fame in
song, to the tunc ofH.ril Columbia!”
“Well. Jake, the next question. What is the
first principle of warfare?”
“It is to have valiant soldiers.”
“Can you name any one who is a valiant sol
dier?”
“Yes. sir.”
“Well, who is it?”
“Col. Holsey.”
“Why do you think so?”
“Because he is ready to sacrifice his life on
the ‘altar of liis country.’”
“Can you describe this process of sacrifice?”
“"l es. sir.”
“Well, proceed.”
“It is. sir, to erect an elevated mound of Ihe
stones from the ruins of the self-styled -Consti
tutional Union Party* and to I ui and “a fire there
on of the timbers th ,t its ‘Pl.t form’ was made
ot; and then to tie its first offerings with
one of the cords which binds its to the Union,
and cast him into the flames thereof, and let
him be consumed to ashes, to be wafted by the
four winds of heaven. That is sacrificing on tho
‘altar of the country. *”
“Why should the Colonel make himself an
offering?”
■lbicius ‘ Mtdemoiselle Young attempted to
assnssinatc him on account of liis powerful in
fluciice on the public mind, that he might be
got out ot tin* way, in order thaUSouth Caroli
na may move on in her work of secession —and
also to promote the glory of Tngalo.”
“W oil. Jacob, you may now retire. I really
do not think that the Hon. Mr. Cobb will over
regret being your tutor: and Col. Ilolsey will
be made to feel proud that he is a military
man ?”
Jake went borne so well pleased, and so high
ly elated, that he begged his father to go to
town on the following day and buy him anew
straw hat and a set of marbles.
CHARLES.
[From the Savannah Georgian.]
Letter from Gov. Troup to Col. Jackson.
We understand that the opposition to Col.
Jackson’s election was made at different points
of the District, because of his vote upon the
Bill making proposals to Texas fora sale to the
United States of a part of her Territory. 111 this
vote, wo are pleased to know, Col. Jackson
stands fully sustained by liis friend Gov. Tiiour.
The Colonel addressed a letter from Washing
ton City to Gov. Tkucf in September 1850,
asking for bis opinion—saying that if varying
front liis own, lie would doubt, but if liis own
action were confirmed by Gov. Troup’s appro
bation, ho should feel that lie was still in the
path of duty to the South. He received the fol
lowing letter from the aged and venerated
Statesman in October: and has recently been
permitted to five it to the Public.—
Got. Troup to Col. Jackson.
JaAUREks Cos., Ist Get. 1850.
My Dear Colonel. —ls I had been in Congress
and could have voted for a Compromise at all,
1 would have voted as you did. If it bad real
ly been a Compromise, that is to siy, mutual
concessions and equivalents in good faith I would
have voted for the Texas branch ofthe system.
If California had been remitted or divided at
3<i —30, I would have voted for it, (the Texan
members voting for it, and a prospect of Texan
ratification.) But I never could liJvc voted for
it under the circumstances which must have in
duced you to vote against it. „ _ . . t- —
im. ‘-rti nfyit.i traua r.i.'f.-ii>oit ot the
Executive movement, finally consummated by
the Legislature, by which we were robbed ofthe
whole of California.
2nd. The spirit in which the Territorial Bills
were framed, which equally excluded us from
those Territories—il hat ing been declared frank
ly by the most friendly of Northern men, that if
we had not already been excluded by Mexican
laws, as well ns bv the laws of nature, Wilinot
Proviso or any other inhibition would have been
applied. Their language was, “they never
would yield another tquare foot of territory to
the slave interest.”
3rd. Every concession made by the South to
the North, and no concession by the North to
the South. They have got all the. territory.—
The forbearance of the Wilinot is no more a
concession titan the forbearance to steal your
horse at mid-day would be concession. The
Fugitive Bill is onlyiilic sacred duty of an honest
man to fulfil liis reel rded obligation, and for the
non-fulfilment of which in past time he ought
now to be rotting prison.
4th. When the concession was thus all on
one side, I never cutld have thought of making
the condition of the injured party yet worse by
taking from tint pirty more territory, for the
purpose of making the one weaker and the oth
er stronger—mon especially could I not have
done so when the great robber had foolishly
and wickedly proioked a war, and called upon
me. a Southern nan, to give him money to
buy territory to buy a peace, that territory soon
-1 er or later ti> he i sod to rob and plunder more,
. now and in all fu fire time, not only of territo-
Irv, but of every t ting which we hold and which
! tiiey covet.
Texas lias a ri.nl, if she pleases, even to the
detriment ofthe -0-States h-i'ing identical in
ti-rests, to sell lur territory, and with the cer
tainty of that territory being used for our an
noyance : but yom and lof Georgia are under
no'obligations to aid and abet Texas in what,
however it may redound to Iter interest, is full
of harm and injury to us. Affectionately, your
friend, G. M. TROUP.
\. B. Pardo: me for giving reasons, when
von have been surfeited with them at Washing
ton, but they ar.- only in illustration of my
meaning. G- M-. T.
Jknnv Lino at llartkoro.— A Row in the land
of “■Steady Habit." —A dispatch from Hartford,
dated the 6th, anp'unecs Jenny’s concert at Fourth
Church on Saturday evening in the following words:
The tickets wetc run up by speculators to $5 and
$lO each. The audience, nevertheless, filled the
church, and a ontvd of 2,000 people, who could not
g-1 tickets, assent iled around tile building. The win
dows and blinds if the church were closed, so as to
prevent outsiders from hearing. This caused a great
tumult, and the nod* shouted and cheered so that it
was almost impossible for the audience to hear the
sin.ring. Some Windows were smashed, and one or
two knock dowt* occurred in the crowd, which did
not disperse lor n:i hour after the concert closed.—
Every one curses he ticket speculators and the man
ner the tickets wv< disposed of. There is stll much
excitement: and virile I write there i< a crowd of one
hundred or moreip}>site the State House denouncing
the swindling opration. The mob alioiit the church
last night was so dense that Jenney was smuggled
through the back 4 s doorsoon as the concert closed,
and took the ear? for Springfield.
Extract fifom a private letter:—l was at
Lowndes and Thas courts. In those counties if I
.*.m not very muchfot fault the vote for Col. Jackson
will be death to th ‘ hopes of the great Constitutional
Union Humbug f rtv in this District. Our friends
claim 100 major? r in Lowndes and 200 in Thomas.
Their calculation tceording to appearanecs, is a very
reasonable one so the Southern Rights cause there.
\Ye lose no i* nocrats worth counting, and gain
largely from the iYhigs. In Thomas fully one-third,
perhaps more.
Caution to Ladies.—A Cincinnati paper
states that D Fuzzey was one day last week
called on to ]*’ form a singular operation upon
the head of a f mngladv living on John street.
It appeared tha: she had been in the habit of
twsting and Htg her hair so tightly that the
sealp had bet ‘ijie parted from the skull, and it
was found ne cs-sary to open the sealp tq. re
move the malt t which had accumulated be
neath. This if the first case of the kind we
have ever knov n.
Fire on Tne Cars.—About one o’ cloek this
morning, as on ofthe workmen employed in the
baggage ear ot he Express Passengers Train
from Augusta, yas attempting to fill a fluid lamp
while lighted ai explosion took place, burning
the man very severely and setting fire to the bag
gage. The trajn was stopped as soon as poss
ible and the fid extinguished before it had time
to cause any Terv material damage. —Atlanta
Intelligencr, Jiiy 10.
“THK UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 16,1851.
MR. COBB S DEMOCRACY.
The nominee of the Federal Administration for
Governor of Georgia, claims to be a Democrat. His
speech in Columbus, through a large part of it,sounded
as if he was addressing Democrats and nobody else,
and some of liis allusions and reminiscences were
anything hut agreeable to the multitude of W hig ears
that heard him. It is too late in the day for Mr. Cobb
to fasten himself for support upon Democratic sympa
thies. Mr. Cobb's own course separated him from
the Democratic party, sometime before the new is
sues were raised in < leorgia on the compromise ques
tion. So long ago as the last session of the Georgia
Legislature, it was a topic of serious discussion in the
Democratic party ot Milledgeville whether Mr. Cobb’s
Northern arrangements and affinities had not gone t<>
such a point as to lose him the confidence ofthe Dem
ocratic party of Georgia. There were members of
the party there, who believed lie was “gone out”
from the Democracy, and who favored an expression
of the opinion of the party to that effect; and who
were in favor of euttiirg him and his friends off, ns
men no longer to he trusted. John It. Lt:mi-kin
(the gentleman who has since characterized Southern
Rights men as “reptiles”) was one of these friends.—
lie was then a candidate before the Legislature for
Judge. His election hung by a thread. Me were
present at tho time. We then defended Cobh and
Lumpkin. M’e thought the suspicions against their
Southern fidelity, unjust and far-fetched. VYe argued
that while we thought Mr. Cobb as a Southern man
ought to hare signed the Southern address, that liis re
fusal to do so was not conclusive of liis purpose to take
the course which it was then predicted he had started
in. These views prevailed and Judge Lumpkin & oth
ers of Mr Cobh's sympathizers & friends were elected.
The result proved that the old heads who foresaw the
defection of Mr. Cobb and his clique were wiser than
ours. It turned out just as was predicted. Mr. Cobb
soon became so entangled with his Northern alliances,
that he forfeited the entire confidence of the Democ
racy of Georgia. He refused even to go with Toombs
and Stephens and the large number of Southern
members in the establishment of a Press at M'asli
ington to sustain and defend the Rightsof the South.
He would do nothing —not even help print a
Southern newspaper that would east the least suspi
cion on the integrity of his Northern arrangements.
But Mr. Cobb did not stop lu-t'e. He was one ofthe
leaders in a movement at Washington which virtual
ly set up a new party, to which he publicly attached
himself. He raised a test in this new party which Iff
necessity, seperated him from the Democracy of tlio
South. lie therefore voluntarily abandoned the De
mocratic party of the South to enter into a broader,
and as he hoped stronger, National union organiza
tion. M e allude, of course, to the famous “ union
pledge’’ signed at M’asliington by sixty-eight mem
bers of Congress. This pledge was known as the
“Mutuul Assurance Company,” and into this com
pany, with Clay and M obster, Foote, Toombs and
Stephens, Mr. Conn embarked his political fortunes.
To show that ibis was not a movement of the Demo
cratic party, it is only necessa.ty to glance at the
names of the signers. They were fifty nine M’liigs
and Nine Democrats. This pledge was a declara
tion of war on all men, parties and candidates who
did not believe the compromise to be, in the later lan
guage of Mr. Cobb, “wise, liberal and just.” Now,
mivaii-toiiths of the Democratic party ol Georgia were
bitterly opposed to tne eompi’ ~.;„. ‘
be unwise, illiberal, unjust, unconstitutional and de
structive of that principle of equality between sov
ereign and independent States united for specified
purposes, which was the only bond ofa lasting union.
Mr. Cobb, then, of liis own free will, stepped out of
tho Democratic party into this new National party.
Since that time, the M hig party at the South has
lieen in fact dissolved—self-dissolved—the Demo
cratic party as a mass largely reinforced hy a gallant
hand of Southern Rights M'higs, lias become the South
ern Rights Party. Mr. Cobb has therefore a party
claim 011 neither M'higs nor Democrats. He has a
claim nowhere, except 011 those who believe the com
promise “wise, liberal and just,”—and if he gets on
ly the votes of these, he will be the worst beaten man
that ever fell between two stools—for even the Geor
gia convention that agreed to acquiesce, expressed its
disapprobation oftlie compromise, and only acquiesced
as a measure of peace, and on the express condition
that it was to be flie very last inch that they were to
yield to aggression.
Now the past is passed. Georgia has decided.—
M e cannot, recall or upset that decision, however un
wise we may have deemed it. While we cannot ap
prove it, we are obliged to acquiesce in it. But the
question comes up to M'higs and Democrats— will
you stand by that decision of Georgia ? Will you,
by your votes, maintain the pledge of Georgia, to
stand no more wrongs, and give the North distinctly
so to understand; or will you by electing Mr. Cobb,
tell the North in so many words, we submitted before
for the sake of the union, and we will submit again,
and we give you the pledge of it, by returning for
Governor a man who boldly proclaims that under no
circumstance litis a State a right (we do not speak of
revolutions ) but a right, to escape from the most in
tolerable outrages hy peaceably going out of a union
that inflicts thorn. It so happens, in the strange mu
tations of party affairs, that the Southern Rights party
in this contest, is actually fighting up the “Georgia
Platform”—is striving to keep the men that made
that platform up to their own mark of resistance, and
laboring to defeat Howell Cobb, who while he pro
fesses to stand U|sin it, virtually repudiates the only
principle—the principle of State action, and State re
sistance—that makes it any thing more than a vapid
and empty threat—mere “sounding brass.”
For the purpose of refreshing the recollections of
our readers, we reproduce the celebrated
Union Plf.iige.
“The undersigned, members of the 31st Congress ofthe
U. S., believing that a renewal of sectional controversy upon
the snbjeet of slavery would be both dangerous to the Union
and destructive of its objects, and seeing no mode by which
such controversy can be avoided, except by a strict adhe
rence to the settlement thereof effected by the Compro
mise, declare their intention to maintain the said settlement
inviolate, and to resist all attempts to repeal or alter the acts
aforesaid, unless by the general consent of the friends of the
measures, and to remedy such evils (if any; as time and ex
perience may develope.
And for the purpose of making this resolution effectual,
thej further declare that they will not support for the office
of President or Vice President, or Senator, or Representative
in Congress, or as a member of n State Legislature, any
man of whatever party, who is not known tn be opposed to
the disturbance ofthe settlement aforesaid, and to the re
newal, in any form, of agitation upon the subject of slavery.”
Henry Clay, J/owell Cobb,
C. S. Morehead, H. S. Foote,
Robert L. Rose, William Ducr,
William C. Dawson, James Brooks,
Thomas J. Rusk, Alexander H. Stephens,
Jeremiah Clemens, Robert Toombs,
James Cooper, M. P. Gentry,
Thomas G. Pratt, Henry W. /filliard,
William M. Gwin, F. E. McLean,
Samuel A. Elliott, A. G. Watkins,
David Outlaw, H. A. Bullard, ‘
C. H. Williams, T. S. Raymond,
J. Phillips Phoenix, A. H. Sheppard,
A. M. Schermerhom, ‘Daniel BrecT,
John R. Thurman, James I. Johnson,
D. A. Bokee, J. B. Thompson,
George R. Andrews, J. M. Anderson,
W. P. Mangum, John B. Kerr,
Jeremiah Morton, J. P. Caldwell,
R. I. Bowie, Edmund Deberry,
E: C. Cabell, Humphrey Marshal,
Alexander Evans, Allen F. Owen.
The U. S. Treasurer announces that
the public monies on the Ist July, subject to
draft, amounted to Si 1,954,640 12 of which
$304,105,55 was in the sub-treasury in Char
leston.
Extract from a private letter: —l was
at Lowndes and Thomas courts. In those
counties if I am not verv much at tault the vote
for Col. Jackson will be death to the hopes of
the great Constitutional Union Humbug Party
in the District. Our friends claim 100 majori
ty in Lowndes and 200 in Thomas. Their cal
culation according to appearances, is a very
reasonable one for the Southern Rights cause
there. We lose, no Democrats worth counting,
and gain largely from the Whigs. In Thomas
fully one-third, perhaps more.
That Letter.— The Athens Banner undertakes
to explain the contents of Mr. Cobb's suppressed let
ter —says it was not addressed to the convention, and
that there is nothing bad in it. Then, why don’t you
publish it ? No explanation of the letter is better
than the letter itself. Explanations won’t do, let us
have tlie letter. If you do not publish it, the country
will draw the inference that it contains opinions not
tit for the public eye.
Aiqi ies'ES'e—What it Means. —“We have beim
much puzzled to understand how Ihe fire-eaters after all that
they have said against ttie compromise, could say that they
were ready to acquiesce in the compromise and support of
tlie Georgia platform. The Columbus Times of yesterday,
however, explains it to our satisfaction. It says:
“It (tbe Southern Rights Party) is prepared to stand up to
th* disruption plank ofthe Georgia Platform.”
That is, we suppose, tlie only part ofthe Georgia Platform
which any of them will stand up to, and in future we will
know what they mean when they speak of acquiescing in
tho Georgia Platform.—[Atlanta Republican.
M'ell sir; do you stand up to the “disruption
plank” of tbe Georgia Platform ? or do you only
stick to its submission parts and repudiate all of it
that even savors ofa manly defence of the rights and
honor of your country ?
As for ourself, we have never approved ofthe Geor
gia Platform, ft was in our opinion craven submission
to wrongs tliat can never be exceeded in enormity,
covered over by brave words of future resistance, which
those who made them never intended to make good.
The foregoing paragraph proves it—every submission
paper we take up, proves it, Mr. Cobb's harangues
all prove it. The Union party is the submission par
ty, and intends to submit at “all hazards and to the
last extremity.” Party is superior to patriotism,
stronger than religion, and dearer than home.
NEW MEXICO.
Wo are indebted to the politeness of our for
mer fellow citizen, James S. Calhoun, now Gov
ernor of New Mexico, for a copy of his mes
sage to the. first territorial Legislature of that
country. It is printed in English and Spanish.
It is a plain, business-like document, and furn
ishes some interesting information on the con
dition and prospects of the territory.
Tho Legislature is composed 11 Senators
and Representatives. The population, ac
cording to the census just taken is 56,984, ex
clusive of Indians. The appropriations by the
last Congress for the use of the Territory
amounted to $59,700. The Indian relations of
the Territory are treated in the message as an in
teresting and critical subject of Legislative con
sideration.
The Governor earnestly recommends the ex
clusion by law, of free negro population.
POLITICS AND BLOOMERS.
’ Yziii iOiFi-qjoii.tcrit Niby iias not. fcnn me news
papers of late, or she surely would not think we had
raid much about the Bloomers—we mean compara
tively ; for it has been the standing and absorbing
theme of our brothers of the quill ever since the first
pair of ankles were exhibited toan admiring public.—
M*c have felt rather as if we had been wanting in our
attention to a topic that Juts cost so much thought, ink
wit and learning. Perhaps this indifference to so in
teresting a subject, has grown out of the belief that
there was not much danger ofthe spread of tit’s new
Ism in the South. Tt will be long, we fancy, before
the fair matrons and daughters of tlie South dispense
with their graceful, modest and flowing robes to trick
out their persons in coats and breeches. “Nelly” is
severe on the “subs” but it is the privilege of the fair
to be piquant. M’e are happy to be able to assure
her, however, that the number of men who will de
serve to come under her sentence, and wear the Bloom
er curtailments, is becoming daily and “beautifully
less.” The old State Rights feeling of Georgia is
stirred—deeply and powerfully stirred. No one can
take even a passing glance at the signs of the times
without plainly perceiving the throes ofa powerful
re-action in the public mind. From every section of
the State, front Cherokee and the seaboard, from the
east to the west, the middle and the wiregrass of
Georgia, comes up the same tones of determined and
awakened resistance. Men see that in the hour when
they lay down their rights, passively and submis
sively at the feet ofa Northern majority, and throw
away the great shield and buekler of State Rights,
that in the self-same hour they take upon their necks
the heaviest yoke that human lilierties were ever
crushed beneath. The dagger ofa Brutus may reach
the heart of a Caesar; the bow string of the serf may
put an end to the tyranny of a Czar; a Charles
First may be brought to the block, a James deprived
of his sceptre, or the throne ofa Louis Pltillippcbe
overturned and broken to pieces. But what power
is to reach the despotism of a sectional majority ? M'lto
can limit and control a tyranny of numbers compound
ed of fanaticism and cupidity, animated by sectional
antipathy and flushed with victory ?
Jjjf” The New-York Journal of Commerce
says that there are counterfeit gold dollars in
circulation in New York, against which mer
chants would do well to he on their guard.
Thuy are daily detected, by their specific grav
itv being much lighter than the genuine coin.
A letter dated St. Domingo, June 14th
says: “the Domincans are now prepared for the
last battle which is to decide tlieir^fate, or pat
Port au Prince and Cape Haytien in ashes. Jf
there are any in the United States disposed to
give help they will gain far more than l)y at
tacking Cuba. The Government will deal lib
erally with all who choose to come.”
Mortality in Cities.—The following state
ment comprises tlie deaths in some of the At
lantic cities for the week ending July 5, and
their proportion to the population:
Deaths. Population Proportion*
Boston 62 138,788 1 in 2228
New York 408 517,849 1 in 1269
Philadelphia 274 350,000 1 in 1277
Baltimore 122 169,025 1 in 1385
Charleston 17 43,014 1 in 2530
Savannah 9 16,000 1 in 1777
The Savannah Board of Health have
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Board
the City never was healthier than at the present
time and that there does not exist a case of
Small Pox, so far as this Board is informed.
Sentence of Gen Talcott.—We learn upon
what we can deem reliable authority, says the
Washington Telegraph, that the recent findings
of the court-martial found Brevet Brigadier
General C. Talcott guilty upon all the charges
and specifications, and sentenced him to be cash
iered, and that the sentence and proceedings
have been approved by the President.
Why is a school-mistress like the let
ter C. Because she forms lasses into Classes.
TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1851.
[For the Times.]
SexxvsiDE Hal!., July 12th, 1851.
Mr. Editor: —From the frequent allusions you make, to
gether with tlie nature of your remarks about the change
and style of female dress, you have betrayed fears that your
own rights might be invaded. And in order to quell that
commotion in your bosom, I am appointed as a delegate from
Uie “ Woman’s Convention” of Georgia, to inform you that
in consideration of your vigorous and fearless defence of the
South, you are to continue in quiet possession of your “ in
dispensabios,” as your conduct lias plainly showed your
right to wear the “breeches.” lam also to inform you, that
should the present campaign prove adverse to the wishes of
the said convention, a regiment of Amazons will he in readi
ness to seize every suhmissionist who publicly acknowledges
his willingness to comply with the tyrannical demands of
the North, and cause them to he equipped from head to toe
ill female attire, and sent quietly home to darn the stockings
and mind the babies while the ladies in trowsors go out to
retrieve the honor of their State.
Tlie convention have resolved that all who so humbly
submit, are no longer capable of being tlie protectors of
women; so we, from thenceforth, declare ourselves to be
free and independent. We aro not much troubled with
doubts as to the success of our plans for lie who bows sub
missively before Ihe artful cunning ofthe Yankees, cannot
refuse to obey the all-iowcrful command of woman,
“ For ever since the world began,
Its’ always beeu the way,
For did not Adam, tlie very first man.
The very first woman, obey V”
NELLY.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1851.
IIENRY L. PENNING.
M*e have the pleasure to announce that the South
ern I tights convention for the 2J Congressional Dis
trict of Georgia, convened at Albany on Monday last,
has unanimously nominated Henry L. Henning for
Congress. Col. Henning accepts tho nomination.—
M r e hope to lay his letter of acceptance before our
readers in our next number. M e thank the Conven
tion for giving us such a candidate. In these days of
time-serving, defection and treachery, it is cheering to
seo a man put before the people who can beTRi’STED.
AVe need not enlarge on the high personal charac
ter. the sound political opinions and the fine talents of
a man, known and beloved throughout the District.
The People of Georgia will feel an assured confi
dence that if Col. Henning is elected and goes to
M'asliington, ho will be true to liis State, his princi
ples and his constituents. He will not sellout. Mr.
Henning will take the field at an early day. A more
acceptable nomination could not have been made.—
The Southern Rights Party will throw its whole and
hearty strength into liis support, and will elect him.
Russf.li, County.— John Cochran
will address the people of Russell at Cranford
on Friday 2oth ins/, instead of at Girard, as
heretofore advertised.
MR. COBB.
The “Enquirer” writing of Mr. Cobb's speech
says:
“ Throughout liis whole address ho maintained the rights
and sovereignty of the Status, yielding to the general Gov
ernment such powers only as are expressly granted by the
Constitution. Is this federal doctrine?”
Aha! Are you there old Truepenny? He main
tained tho “rights and sovereignty of the States”
did he ? And we have at last jerked this much of
sunbeam out of your everlasting ,‘glorious union” cu
cumbers ! Bravo! then there is such a thing as rights
of the States and sovereignty of the States! Bravo!
we say again. The physic begins to work, and un
ionism is getting squeamish. The panacea of every
cry to meet every wail of an oppressed people—every
complaint of outraged justice and honor—the “tmnn#’
the “glorious union ” is like salt that has hist its savor
and its devotees who have so long yelled nothing but
“great is Diana of the Ephesians” have at last found
voice to say the South has rights, and the States are
sovereign!
But it is “too late.”—“Too late” as Bonaparte
groaned a thousand times, during the splendid battles
oftlie hundred days that preceded his final downfall.
“ Too late!” The star of Austerlitz is set, and neither
the valor of the bravest, the genius that never was
equalled, could retard itsjgoing down in the Occident
of clouds, darkness, defeat and blood.
Tt is “too late” for the Enquirer to save itself and
its backsliding candidate by a profession of those State
Rights principles on which it has trampled so long,
with ruthless fort. You have chosen the Union, Con
solidation, Federalism and force for your portion.—ls
you have at last found it not abed of roses, it is “too
late.” You have made it and you must lie on it.—
The handwriting is on the wall—Cobb will be beaten
—your force doctrines will he spewed out ofthe
mouth of State Rights Georgia, and the Fillmore
compromise candidate will be turned over to Fillmore
and the Compromise for his consolation under merited
defeat.
But Mr. Cobh did not maintain the doc
trines the Enquirer puts in liis mouth. M*e ap
peal to Iris auditors to decide that he did not hold
them in his Columbus speech. M’e appeal to his
writings and speeches to prove it.. Ask the Athens
Banner, if Mr. Cobb holds to what the Enquirer
states in the following paragraph:
“This right (secession) Mr. Cobb admitted, and in ex
press terms avowed that when a State in its sovereign ca
pacity and tiy its regular constituted and constitutional
agents took its course, that the Federal Government had no
legal or constitutional authority to control such State by
force.”
And if he does, we ask, with what face, can the
Columbus Enquirer dare to support him ? Has not
this been the burthen of his song of denunciation
against South Carolina and Eliott and McDonald,
and the “Times,” that they were secessionists and
traitors to the great union of our “fathers hands!”
If these are tho sentiments of Cobh, we call on the
Enquirer to be consistent *nd to drop the man who
according to its own creed is a traitor and factionist.
The Enquirer knows better what Mr. Cobh’s true
opinions are, and what he asserted them to be here
—he knows that he is a force man—that he holds
that the right of secession is only the right of revolu
tion, and that if a State withdraws, the United States
Government lias a perfect right to drive her back by
force and subjugation, if the United States think it to
their interest to do so. Those are his sentiments, and
it is these opinions that are a mill-stone round his
neck, dragging him down beneath the whelming wave
of popular reprobation. Be such the fate of all be
trayers of principles and country!
ALABAMA.
The political battle is being waged with extraordin
ary vigor and animation in Alabama. Tlie Hilliard
District, lying nearest to ns, seems to be the chosen
field where contending parties have agreed to decide
the great question whether the South will maintain her
liberties and rights, or tamely yield them at the com
mand of Federal power and to advance the interests
of personal ambition. Proudly and nobly is the South
ern cause sustained. Its cliampions have put on
their armor and are everywhere in the field, taking no
time to restand giving no rest to their adversaries.—
The high-spirited and talented Yancey is more than
himself in the fight. His career has been a succes
sion of magnificent triumphs, won by a commanding
eloquence and powerful intellect in a just cause. He
has met Mr. Hilliard thrice in debate, but could get
him no oftener to the scratch. Mr. Hilliard has de
clined any further discussions. Mr. Yancey lias con
founded him with his own speeches in Congress,
showing that he opposed the .admission of California
because she was not a Stale, and that it was his
opinion, as exhibited by his speeches, that the South
was as effectually excluded from Utah and N. Mexi
co as if the Wilmot Proviso had been passed. The
Southern Rights party treat Mr. Hilliard’s refusal as
a complete “cave in.” The “Atlas” says:
“ ‘Hold ! Exouc.h !”—lt will be seen by a communication
,n to-day's paper, signed “Barbour”—which come.- from a
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highly respectable source— that the great Hector of the sub
mission party of this district, tho Hon. Mr. Hillianl—the
hero who boasts of achieving so many victories over his
Southern Rights opponents, after sustaining three encoun
ters from Mr. Yancey, has abandoned his colors and pretipi
tatelyfird from the field ’
He refuses to meet Mr. Yancey any more! Wedonot
wonder. We commended his sagacity in declining to meet
him at first. Ifc would find it no pastime to sustain him
self against such an opponent under any circumstances;
what could he expect with the cause of submissionism upon
his shoulders pressing him down to the earth ?
Mr. Clemens had better “escape to the mountains” before
his turn comes.”
But Mr. Yaneev goes on speaking to the People.
We clip from the “Spirit of the South” an account-of
the glowing meeting at Eufaula. It will do the South
ern Rights heart good to read and catch the lofty
spirit of enthusiasm than hums in the hearts of the
noble Southerners of Barbour. While we think of
it we take occasion to express the hope that Mr.
Yancey will pay us a visit on this side the river, be
fore he returns home, and let us hear from him.—
The Southern Rights men of Muscogee will give hint
a hearty welcome. There is a general and strong
desire among them to meet him, take him by the
hand and hoar from his li[>s one of those eloquent
vindications of their cause which have raised him to
the highest rank as an orator and patriot.
Cos!. Cochr an is canvassing the District with great
spirit and success, lie does not suffer the grass to
grow under his feet. lie and his opponent s|tcak to
gether. We regret to learn that Capt. Abercrombie's
health is failing under the laltor and excitement of
the campaign. Wo regret it politieally as well as
personally. We want to seo a fair fight and a full
and impartial decision of tho People on the great
question. If the South is to maintain her indepen
dence, we want to be assured of it. If she is to sur
render it, we want to know that too. If the Union
parties in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia triumph
on the Federal issues they have been daring enough
to make, we may hid farewell to State Rights. The
Fillmore Government will take it as a clear verdict
of those three great slave States in favor of Federal
coercion of their Carolina sister, if she sees proper to
exercise her rights of sovereignty. Mr. Webster’s
late speeches leave no doubt what use the Govern
ment will make of such a verdict. War will be
made on South Carolina by the administration, and
civil war will rage throughout tho South. South
Carolina must, not he coerced. If her blood is spill
ed by Federal bayonets, blood will Ik* spilled to resist
it. If she is let’alone, there will be peace. If she is
molested there will be war; and this great question
of peace or war hangs on the verdict of the people of
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
From the Mobile District we have cheering news.
John Bragc the uncompromising Southern Rights
man— a North Carolinian by birth—a political pro
tege of old Nat. Macon, and raised in his county, is
carrying everything before him in his District, llis
opponent, C. C. Langdon, long the Federal editor Os
a Federal paper in Mobile, and the advocate of the
most obnoxious anti-Southern doctrines, is losing
ground at every rencontre on the stump. Judge
Bragg’s friends confidently count on electing him by
a sweeping majority.
The “ Southern Republic” published in Wilcox
county, thus notes the discussion at Allenton:
“Judge Bragg's speech was received throughout with
perfect enthusiasm; and the frequent bursts of applause
told us full well what the poople intended to do for him and
themselves at the ballot box. His half hous’s reply was very
effective and lumpy. At first he was earnest and forcible —
“™ piayrul and witty; and, at the same time,he enlighten
ed and pleased the people. ** —’ *’ *
ctinn**. v r*#■ , qronutT.
Mr. must have felt the coldness of his reception,
and the va.st advantage of his competitor, for he fell far short
of his reputation as a politician and a speaker. The neglect
of, and suspicion manifested towards him, really excited our
sympathies; and if we ever had kind and generous feelings
for an enemy, it was for Mr. Langdon at Allenton.”
In another article, which manifests every disposi
tion to be liberal to Mr. Langdon, the “Republic”
says;
“ Mr. Langdon will certainly he the worst beaten man (as
is evident from the information which we have received
from all sections) lliat ever ran in this District. The political
sins of Mr. Langdon, the various positions which lie has tak
en from lime to time; his inconsistencies (which we shall
sliow during the canvass,) and his endorsement and suppor
of Northern Frcesoil men, at this political juncture in the
South would sink a Hercules. The cleansing of the Augean
stables was hut a small matter compared with the task of
infusing into the Southern people (as Langdon is attempting
to do) tlie belief that the North and Northern politicians—
Fillmore, V/ebatcr, Corwin, Winthrop, and other*—are
sound.”
The Mobile Register says of the canvass :
“From these several notices and from others which we
have heretofore published, from the most highly respectable
sources, our readers can see how very favorably the canvass
is going on, in all parts of the District, for Ihe Southern
Rights candidate. We are strongly of tlie Republic's opin
ion that Mr. Langdon will he tlie worst beaten man who
ever ran in this District.”
The Hon. Jure. Clemens, who commenced his
career in the Senate as an ultra fire-eater, has been
sent for from Nortli Alabama to sustain the submis
sion cause in Eastern Alabama. Os all the political
summersets of the day, that of Mr. Clemens is the
most remarkable. We have lately re-perused one of
his anti-compromise speeches in the Senate. lie
was then the Hotspur of the Senate. His rank S.
Carolina sentiments, and his rampant secessionism
were the horror of the whole North and especially
of the Lowell girls. On the 13th of Aug., 1850, he
useil this language in tho Senate:
“ Again anti again site (Alabama) has trusted and promot
ed me, and I recognise no allegiance to any power higher
than that I owe to her. When she commands I will obey.
If she determines to resist this law, by forco, by secession,
by any mean*, I am at her service, in whatever capacity she
desires lo employ tne. If this lie treason I am a traitor—a
traitor who glories in the name. * * * If any State
should secede let him [tlie President] if he dares, attempt to
employ military force to compel her return. He will soon
Hud in that event, that he lias more than one State to deal
with, and that tlie powers and resources of this government
arc wholly inadequate to the task he has undertaken.”
What a strange spectacle to see the author of the
above in the field, upholding the union and submis
sion cause!
Tlie Mobile Register well remarks :
“Mr. Clemons will find himself in strange company, in this
canvass. He will see all the old Whig leaders about him,
while he lias always been a professed Democrat, and will
find them Federal Cohsolidationists while he has advocated
the Right of Secession even upon the floor of the Senate.—
How very uncomfortable must a man of any sensitiveness,
feel in such a situation!”
Mr. Clemens is indeed likely to he made “very un
comfortable” in his crusade through tliis District.—
lie will run against a sltarp knee wherever he en
counters the gallant men who are upholding the
cause of the South in his walk. Yancey, Pugh,
Cochran, Shorter, Sayre and hosts of others, “good
men and true” are waiting for ltim and eager for the
contest.
The Press of Alabama is doing its whole duty in
the contest; editors and correspondents are pouring
in a heavy and well sustained fire of argument, elo
quence, wit, satire and patriotic appeals. Asa sam
ple we cannot forbear to quote a striking passage from
“ One of the People” who is addressing a series of
letters to Capt. Abercrombie, through the Montgome
ry Advertiser and Gazette:
“I shall now exhibit to you another case. Ten Slates as
large as Alabama can be made from the territories acquired
in the war with Mexico—a war waged in part for commer
rial indemnities. The Southern States furnished two-thirds
of the men, and paid a full share of the treasure to carry it
on. Scott, Taylor, Gaines and Jessup were bom in slaTe
holding States. These stood at the head of the American
Armies. Twiggs, Smith and Butler were Southern men.—
The day at Buena Vista was saved by Bragg of N. Carolina,
and again by Davis of Mississippi. The victories at Rcsaca
and Palo Alio were largely due to Ringgold, May and Ridge
ley. A Southern man planted the American colors first at
the City of Mexico, and a South Carolinian (Fremont) made
the conquest of California. The “ ever faithful Massachu
setts”—the radiant “ star that never sets”—Vermont, com
bining with others against you refused to allow “protection”
to your largest interests in property on the territories thus
acquired.
An .American ship is furnished with protection documents,
which shield her in every ocean, or a license that gives her
an exclusive privilege for the coasting trade. The Southern
slave master in vain asked for a plain declaration that his
property in slave* would be free from seizure and ctmfiect*
tion upon territories thus acquired. Your friends, Clay and
Webster refused It, and declare at this hour that seiiure and
confiscation will be the result of their removal to these ter
ritories. These facts need no comment .”
One or Tn People.
We have reason to congratulate the friends of (he
South ever}- where on the prospects of the field in
Alabama. Such n cause in such hands, and before
the tribunal ofa Southern people must triumph. We
send our greetings toonr bretliren across the fchat
tahoochee, with words of goad cheer from Georgia,,
We tell them confidently, the progress of treatise
here is upwards and onward. We know- it
it in the very atmosphere around us. Tt-jo*
the tameness of a spiritless Hiiodpfe&—sn the damn l * ?
ing Federal doctrines to which Mr, Cobb, in an evil’ S *
hour for his success, has committed himself, and in
the unmistakeahle signs of a general State Rights
arousemeut which are borne to ns on every hreeso.
Baltimore, July 8.
The Verdict on the Alberti Case to be
Contested.— The State Attorney General, Mr%
Brent, has gone to Philadelphia to contest be
fore the Superior Court, iu a writ of error, the
eonstitutiotmlity of the verdict against Alberti
for kidnapping, and haying arrested and return
ed to Maryland a runaway slave.
Mr/Brent goes of the Re
form Convention of Maryland,’ thejk;riiijug *ll
expenses. * ,
*
TheNew York Journal of
learns from the Capt. that the steamship I “Union*
on her late homeward passage from New Or
leans, run 331 miles on Saturday, sth inst. and
on Sunday 6th inst.. 357 miles. She was 5 days
and 19 hours from the Balize to Fan ly Hook
and 6 days and 6hours from wharf to wharf,
thus making the shortest passage on record be
tween the two ports.
The British steamer Ettropa sailed on
Wednesday last, from Boston, with 19 passert
gers for Halifax and 101 for Liverpool. She
carries out $6-25,000, most of which is Anter
can gold on account of tho Mexican indemnity.
The steamer Atlantic is reported to
have nearly completed her repairs, and is ex
pected to leave Liverpool on her return to New-
York by the 23d inst.
The llon. W. C. Pres-ion —Wo regret to
announce (says the Columbia Carolinian of
Saturday,) that this gentleman now on a visit tci
Fairfield district, has been partially prostrated
by paralysis, which has afflicted his left side.
We learn from his attendant physieian, Dr.
Gibbes, that beyond the loss of the uSe of his
arm and leg on that side, no other effect of the
stroke is perceptible—his mind not at all affect
ed, and his speech and vision remaining unim
paired.
A Fortunate Steamship.— lt is said that tho
Georgia of theChagres line, has rurt. in one
year 53,000 miles without being detained one
hour for repairs.
Americans Excluded from English Manu
factories.—Mr Greely says he was invited by
an English friend to visit him at his house in tho
neighborhood of Birmingham, holding out as
an inducement the opportunity of visiting the
great Iron and Hardware manufactories in that
neighborhood. A moment afterward he recol
lected himself and said, “lain not quite sure
that I could procure you admittanco to thens
because the rule has been that Americans were
not to he admitted.
Fourth Distrct. —Wo learn that the Hon.
John D. Steel of Fayette has been nominated
the Southern Rights candidate for this District,
Dy the convention „„ ejllUod at New ..
nan. It is a strong and popular noiinmrctun.-
Com. Stockton on Slavery. —Coin. Stockton
delivered a speech at Elizabethtown, N. J., on tho
4th inst., when he said, in allusion to new territory:
“That the citizens of the South had a perfect right
to carry their slave property upon all such acquisi
tions, and that any attempt of the general government
to invade that right, was an aggression npon the guar
antees of the Constitution.”
llon. Jefferson Davis. —A correspondent of tho
New Orleans Delta, in mentioning tho address of
this gentleman at the recent Southern Rights Con
vention in .Jackson, says :
“ By-the-by, this man Davis is a riddle to mo.—
He seldom, if ever, smiles, and yet, by a ntcsinoric
influence as it. were, he sets his audience in a roar of
laughter. No tear-drops bedew his tranquil yet
piercing eye, and yet he can melt the heart of his most
obdurate hearer; no perceptible emotion is ever seen
to thrill his frame, or tremble in* his tones, and yet,
anon is the very breathing of his auditors hushed into’
silence, and the heart’s hot blood driven thrilling and
electric through every vein, and the floodgates of voice
opened wide, till the enthusiastic shouts frighten tho
winged I tat from his fresco siesta. Apparently stiff,
starchy, and affected, lie is yet beloved by the people
as tlie mother loves her son ; and, though primafacie
you mistake him for an icicle, study and oltservation
prove ltim a genial-hearted prism of the purest kind,-
iu which is displayed to the astonished beholder all
the warm tints and gorgeous hues of theebristiau, tho
patriot, and the genius.
“ I am informed that when he marred the gallant
old Gen. Taylor’s daughter, the General bitterly op
posed the match. “When, however, he had learned
to appreciate the man upon the battle fields of Mexi
co, where, with Quitman anil Mississippi’s gallant
sons, lie had twined undying chaplets of fame around
her brow, the old General remarked, ‘my child was
right, the old man was wrong. Davis was meet to be
the husband of toy daughter.’ ”
The Compromise. —Mr Cobh says the Com
promise was “fair liberal and just” to the
South.
Hear what Free-Soilism says on the sub
ject. We copy from the New York Tribune.
The great battle of this generation be
twee Freedom and Slavery has been fought
and won by those who from 1836 to 1850, reso
lutely upheld, during the fierce conflicts of all
those years, the Wilmot Proviso. The con
test of the Proviso secures our Mexican Territo
ries TO FREEDOM. In this great result we’
behold its glorious reward. We may, therefore
in the main be content with the fruits of
that contest. * * * * *
“IN THIS RICH HARVEST, TRUE
FRIENDS OF LIBERTY MAY EVERY
WHERE SHARE AND MAY REJOICE,
IN ITS ABUNDANCE. They may well re
gard it with PROUD SATISFACTION and re
pose in tranquility over what is thus achieved
for the Cause of Humanity * *
“In the TRIUMPHANT MARCH of the
CAUSE OF FREEDOM, finally marked by the
events alluded to, we find the LIVELIEST
SATISFACTION. That cause had suffered no’
serious interruption in its career, though assail
ed at every step by open foee and treacherous
friends. Its course has been steadily forward, its
conquests unequivocal and glorious.”
Augusta, 13th Jnly.
Eighth Congressional District.— Robert
McMillen, Esq., of EJbert, yesterday received
the nomination of the Southern Rights Conven
tion assembled in this city. Every county in
the District, except Columbia, was represented.
Secretary Corwin. —The Dayton Gazette
relates the following story of Secretary Corwin.
Its humor is characteristic:
To a friend of ours who saw him the other
day at Lebanon, he gave a most amusing, and
we doubt not, truthful account of things in the
Treasury Department. The clerks, he estimates
were sick, on an average, about half the time—
but it struek him as somewhat remarkable that,
much as they were sick, none of them died.—
The fact was apparent at a glance, that they did
very little work for the pnblic, and the inference
was irresistible, that .something must be done
for them. Accordingly, the Secretary turned
physician, and began to prescribe for the inva
lids. He issued an order that all clerks who
were absent from their desks a certain number
of days, say two, on account of sickness, should
submit to a proportionate deduction from their
respective salaries? and that all who were ab
sent longer, say one week, would be required
cither to die or resign.
The prescription worked like a charm, and ref
a short time there was not a sick clerk in the
whole Department. A healthier set of men
than they are now, Mr. Corwin declares cannot
be found anywhere.