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GEORGIA MILITARY INSTITUTE,
MARIETTA, GA.
Tlllrt Institution will be open for the admission of CAe
DETS, on Muxday the 7tii or Jrl.v, 1851.
The Institution is ownod by stockholders, and is under the
control of n Hoard of Trustees.
The Faculty elected consists of Mat. A. V. Brumby, Geu-
James W. Armstrong, Maj. D. H. Hill and Thomua Steward,
son, M. D.
The Superintendent, Maj. Brumby, is a graduate of West
Point. He coinesto us with the best recommendatious from
the Academic Staff of that Institution; and, also, from the
Faculty of the University of Alabama, where he taught Ma
thematics and Civil Engineering several years. Gen. Ann
strong and Maj. Hill are also graduates of West Point, and
Hre experienced teachers. The latter is at this time Profes
sor of Mathematics ill Washington College, Va.
The course of instruction, regulations and discipline of the
U. a. MiliUiry Academy, so far as they are applicable to a
Hlatc Institution, have been adopted, and w ill be published
In pamphlet form.
Tlie Institution is organized U|on the usual plun of foui
Collegiate Classes. By reference to the following SYNOP
SIS OF STUDIES, Parents and Guardians can, at once, see
what are the requirements for joining either class.
FOURTH CLASS.
Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, English Grammar, Geog
raphy, Composition and Declamation. French.
Titian class.
Trigonometry, Mensuration, Surveying, Descriptive Geom
etry and its applications. Analytical Geometry, French, Draw
ing, Composition, Rhetoric, History.
SECOND CLASS.
Differential and Integral Calculus, Natural and Experimen
tal Philosophy, Astronomy, Chemistry, Drawing, Evidences
IChrislianily, Moral and Mental Philosophy.
FIRST CLASS.
Natural History, Mineralogy, Geology and Physiology, I'o-
Economy, I .aw of Nations, Civil mid Military Engi
neering, ami Civil Architecture, Infantry Tactics, Science and
Practice of Artillery.
No Cadet will bo admitted who is less than fourteen or
more than twenty-live years of age; or who is alllictcd with
any disease or infirmity which would render him unfit for
military duty.
The Cadets will be occupied about one hour and a half
euchflay in military exercises; but at such times as not to
interfere Kith thir regular studies.
ixisnui, KUO mil eu-f-metue ............
UNIFORM, FURNITURE, AC.
The Uniform conaistsol a light gray cloth coatee, trim lu “ u
with gilt convox buttous and black cord—whilo vest,and
white Russian drilling pantaloons, without trimmings—to
summer. For winter, gray cloth vest and pantaloons,trimm
..l to suit the coat—black'slock, white gloves aud white belt
—Monroe shoes and a Forage cap. No other dress Kill be
Kern ; aor vill Cadets be allotcrd to keep other clothig in
their rooms. Each Cadet from a distance must provide him
wlf with a mattress and bedding for a single bed, mattres
cover and bed-strap—one trunk, one clothes bag and six
towels. Each Cadet will unite witli his room-mates in pur
chasing, for their common use, one pine table, one looking
glass, one wash pan, one pail and one broom.
In view of the following regulations, parents and guardian*
sending their sons and wards to this institution, are advised
to deposit with the Superintendent, or with some friend in
Marietta, a sum of money sufficient to purchase the above
articles, and to cover all necessary expenses for one Session;
or the Superintendent should be authorized, in writing , to
allow the Cadet to make an accouut for a specified sum. The
regulation referred to is as follows, viz: Every Cadet shall
keep a small blank book, in which shall be charged every
article lie mav purchase. This book shall be turned over to
the Superintendent for his inspection at the end of every
month. Any Cadet who shall eontracl a debt without per
mission of the Superintendent, or be furnished with any ar
llcje whatever, by nnv storekeeper or other person, without
such permission, or whose parent or guardian shall pay otv
debt contracted bv him during his connection with the In
stitute, and in violation of this regulation, shall be dismissed.
TERMS.
Tuition, Board, Washing. Fuel, Lights, Field Music, and
oil oilier contingent expenses, [per Session of five months,]
SIOO 00
Tuition alone, [for rtfeident Cadets,] per Session, 25 00
Field Music and other contingents, ... 200
Anv Cadet entering the institute after the commencement
of s session, will be charged in proportion to the above rates.
These charges must be paid in advance for all expenses ex
cept the fee for tuition. Every Cadet leaving the Institute
• before the expiration of the period for which he has made
an advance, shall receive the unexpended balance.
trgrTlie Editor'of anv newspaper in Georgia, South Cnr
- olina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi or Tennessee, by insert
ing this advertisement in his paper, and sending a copy reg
ularly to the “Georgia Military Institute,” shall be entitled to
tuition for one Cadet, or his draft at the rate of twenty-live
dollars per session, payable in tuition, and in favor ol any
“Cadet, will be accepted.
DAVID IRWIN,
jtme 5, 1851.—jv 18] I’roVt Board Trustees.
WATCHES.
A FEW fine Watches, just received and
J S for sale by
mavHtw C. REPS & CO
FOR RENT,
M THE double two story BRICK DWELLING on
Ogiethorpe street, nearly opposite tiie Oglethorpe
Hotel, now occupied by Mr. Win. Perry, as a Board
ing House. Possession given first of i ictolier next..
Apply to H. H. EPPING,
julylittwtf Bank of Brunswick.
LACES AND EMBROIDERIES.
Af A I.INK and Louis Napoleon Laces, Capes, Paris work
.>1 inl Collars and Cutfe, Lace Under Sleeves, Jaconet and
Pw iss Kaffirs, Thread and Valenciennes Laces—just received
, ? febß-wfctwtT BROKAW. CLEMONS le CO
T. J. COLQUITT,
attorney at law,
Huerta Vista tia.,
‘ll'ILI. practice in the Court* of urion and Stewart, in
the Chattahoochee Circuit—an Macon, l.eeand Sump
er, iif the Southwestern Circuit.
RErsRKNi e—Hon. W. T. Colqci’ , Columbus, Ga.
|nly 15—ts
MERIWETHER WARM SPRINGS
‘I'MIIS establishment will be ready for the reception ol the
1 public, on and after the first day ot June next.
Meriwether Spring* are situated on the north side of tne
Pine Mountain, about IHtH) feet above the level of the sea
ft fountain gushing forth 1400 gallons of water per minute,
of9o degree* tomporature, supplying six pools, or baths,
10 feet square, cacli, three of which are kept exclusively tor
ladies snd three for gentlemen, and a separate bath is kept
for servants. . .
The proprietor deems it unnecessary to say more m roia-
I tton to the medicinal properties of these Springs, as they are
*rtl known to hundreds of invalids who have been beneut
u*d bv the use of this w ater in the cure of Rheumatism.
Rout’ Dyspepsia, bronchitis, Jaundice, lU*irrha\ Dysentary,
I all dim-runes of the skin and kidneys—in fact, most all diseas-
I ** to whiah the human family is subject, for the proof ot
I which he has scores of certificates of individuals as well as
I of some of the most eminent Physician* of the Ptate. in ad-
I diiion to the Warm springs, there is fine Chalybeate and
I Sulphur Water on the premises.
Visitors will at all times find a ready conveyance at t.rcen-
I ill*, or at Pleasant Hill, to take them to the Springs, at
I uimierate charges. There will be a regular communication
I by poAt coaches, between Columbus and the Springs, dur-
I ‘nc the season. Those who may prefer travelling by pn-
I ? atc conveyance, can at all times get tine accommodations
I ritherofthe liverv stables in the city of Columbus, at
I ro.Mmte charge*. There will also ho hacks and other con-
I T *yancos kept at the Springs so the accommodation ot the
The subscriber takes this occasion to return his thanks to
I ihr numerous patrons of the Warm Spring*, and to assure
mem that he will exert himself to please—that he has made
I ample arrangements for more accommodat ions aud hope
I 10 wceive and merit their patronage.
J. 1* Mt
I hinrltV-w&twtf. Proprietor.
CHALYBEATE SPRINGS,
Mirrlwether County,
„ U'ftO rr.KT tmivi thi i.ievki. or thk sea.
I llr. unit, he"s leave lo int'onn hie friend* and Ih
, J'ahlic, lliat he ha become the Proprietor ofthiseelebra
“Ivrmn Place, ami will be preqared to receive visitors
•on the -illth ~f May. v
It is needles* to speak of the “Chalybeate” a? a summer
resort. The salubrity of it* climate, aiid the powerful medi
rm.il virtues of it* w aters, have been enjoved and tested bv
*nilS* •’ Proprietor has only to add, that in additiod
these lirst requisites of a summer residence, he has spare.
. el ™’ !s to add all the eomforts and luxuries of a qood Hoi
1 best cooks, servants and fare that the country wil
: :l fine band of music, and all the amusements usually
ni t at such places, have l>een provided,
ii* terms will he moderate.—All he asks is a trial,
ruscntjcrs on the stage route from Itarnesville to Colum
can reach the Sprint's by taking hack at Pleasant Hill,
are situated six miles from the stage road. The dis
tance front Greenville is about 12 miles.
-"PnTO-w&.iwtf JAMKS WOOTEN.
INSURANCE AGENCY.
PROTECTION insurance company,
OF HARTFORD, CONN.:
FIRI AND MaUISB —fit ARTE RED IN 1825
Capital— paid in—B3oo,ooo.
S 'CAROUS4 MUTUAL LIFE IN’S.CO,
RALEIGH, N. C.
Slaves may he Insured at low rates, for two-lhirds their
Kentucky mutual life iws. co.,
COVINGTON, Ky.
Guaranteed Fund, SIOO,OOO.
. JOHN MINN, Agen t
‘olqtnbus, Ga., Tib Jnlv , 185 L, [tw 6m
iHlje §Ho In tit li u s (Hitties®
VOLUME XI. |
ROCK ISLAND FACTORY,
IS now manufacturing Writing Paper of ail the va
rious kinds,—suclt as Letter, Fools-cap, Hat-cap,Folio
and Commercial Post, (ruled and unruled,) Mediums,
Demys, &c. Also, News-print, Book and Colored Pa
per, Post-office and News Envelopes and Wrapping Pa
per of all sizes; ail of which will be sold on as favor
able terms as can be purchased in any market.
Orders for any of the above kinds of Paper, addressed
to D. ADAM?, (Treasurer; or the undersigned, will meet
with prompt attention. G. B. CURTIS, Sec’y.
FIRE PROOF COTTON WAREHOUSE
COLUMBUS , GA.
RUSE, PATTEN A BRICE.
\XTE renew the tender of our services to our friends
T V and the Planters and Merchants generally, for the
Storage and sate of their Cotton during the ensuing
season, and trust that our previous efforts to give satis
faction, will ensure to us a continuance of their patrol
age. Our ur divided attention will he given to this business
in all its departments, pledging our best endeavors to
promote the interest of those who may entrust their
Cotton to us.
We will with pleasure, furnish our customer* with
B AGOING and ROTF., at the market price, and will
procure for them any other articles they may require,
on the Lowkst Terms at which they can he bought itere.
We nr also prepared to advance lilierally to Planters
on their Cotton stored with us. or on consignments to our
correspondents at the North or iu Europe.
RUSK, PATTEN & BRICE.
Columbus, August 16, 1851. w&twtf
FOUR month* after date application
A will be made to the Inferior Court of Early county
when sitting for Ordinary Purposes, for leave to sell
the Real Estate of Tito’s, j. Ward, deceased.
July 30, !HsL—w4m JOSI.IH VINSON, Adm'r
PLANTATION FOR SALE.
I OFFER for stile my Plantation situated in Talbot
county, about six miles north of Waverly Hall, adjoin
ing Harris, consisting of three hundred acres seventy
live of which are open and in a state of cultivation with
welliinproved Lot, Out-houses &.C., complete. For terms
Ac., apply on the premises to -IF.BBE MOORE,
jidylz—w2t-p’d
FREEMAN, HODGES & CO.,
5 8 Liberty Street,
Between Broadway and Nassau Streets, near the Post-
Office
NEIV- YOB K.
TATE are receiving, by daily arrivals from Europe,
VY our Fall and Winter assortment of RICH F.ISH
IONABLE FANCY SILK AND MILLINERY
GOODS.
We respectfully invite all Cash Purchasers thoroughly
to examine our Stock and Prices, and as interest hov
ers*, we feel confident our Goods and Price* will in
duce them to select from our establishment. Particular
attention is devoted to MILJ.INER Y GOODS , and
many of tlie articles are manufactured expressly to our
order, and cannot he surpassed in beauty, style and
cheapness.
Beautiful Paris Ribbons, for Hat. Cap. Neck, and Belt;
Satin and Taffeta Ribbons, of all widths and colors;
Silks. Satins, Velvets, and Uncut Velvets, for Hats; Feath
ers, American and French Artificial Flowers; Puftiings,
and Cap Trimmings; Dress Trimmings, large assortment;
Embroideries, Dane Collars, Undersleeves and Cuffs;
Fine Embroidered Reviere and Hemstitch Cambric Hand
kerchiefs: Crapes, I.isses, Tarietons, Illusion and Cap La
ces ; Valcneiones. Brussels, Thread, Silk, and Lisle
Thread Laces; Kid, Silk, Sewing Silk, Lisle Thread, Meri
no Gloves and Mitts; Figured and Plain Swiss, Book,
Bishop Lawn and JaconetMttslins; English, French,
American and Italian Straw Goods.
July 22.—w3t
WATCHES.
-ca G. &H. ZUCKER, Lumpkin, Ga. keeps con-
VPyy, stuntlv on hand for sale, a largo assortment of
(C-/ At superior gold and silver Watches; together with
G&i-atS a splendid lot of Jewelry of every description,
which they offer a; very low prices, and warrant to be as
represented.
JuueCOtf.
Fresh Arrival of Books, &c.
HURRY-GRAPHS, Willis.—Frenclt Revolution, Car
lye—Artists of America —Rejected Addresses, Hor
ace and James Smith.
Life and Works of Goldsmith—-Pryor.
Ship and Shore—Colton.
Mellvilies— Series.
Barnes’ Notes.
Hyperion—Spanish Student —Longfellow.
Divine Government —M'Cosb.
Do. Abbott’scoiuplete series,
the Epicurean—Moore.
Vhe Censers —Dc Quincey.
j .eather Stocking—series—Cooper.
Noble Deeds of American Women.
Living Authors of England.
The Lorgnette.
Reveries of a Bachelor—lk Marvel.
Linda—Rena—bv Mrs. Hentz.
t3T Also, Drawing Paper anil Pencils, Letter Paper,
Commercial and Mourning—Transparent Mottoes, Visit
ing and Printing Cards, &c. Ac., for sale at
augfitwtf A. C. FLEWELLEN A CO’S Book Stor
~~ THIRD ANNUAL. PAIR OP TIIE
SOUTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE.
fl'MlK Third Annual Fair of the South Carolina Insti
L tute, for the promotion of Art, Mechanical Ingenui
ty and Industry, will be held in Charleston, S. C., open
ing on Monday, 17tu November, and continuing during
the week.
Specimens in every branch of Mechanism, Art and In
dustry ; also of Cotton, Rice, Sugar, Tobacco, and all
other Agricultural Products, are solicited, for which
suitable premiums w ill be awarded.
The following special Premiums are offered:
for the six best specimens of Steel made from Spar
tanburg or other Iron, the product ofa Southern State, and
manufactured into Edged Tools ot any kind -A Gold
Medal. N.B.—A Specimenofthe Steelin Bars to be sent
with tlie Tools.
For tile largest quantity of Cocoons raised on one plan
tation, not less titan Ten Bushels—A Gold Medal or SSO.
For the largest quantity of Spun Silk, the produce of
any one plantation, not less than Ten Pounds—A Gold
Medal or Premium of SSO.
For the best Sea Island Cotton Gin, on some new
principle, superior to that now in general use; or for any
real nnd important improvement oil the present one—A
Gold Medal.
For the Invention of a suitable machine for Pulver
isingßed Pepper—A Gold Medal.
For the best Steam Engine—A Gold Medal.
For the best model Steam Fire Engine—A Gold Medal.
A large and commodious building has been selected
for the Exhibition, and every care will he paid to the
reception and car*’ of Articles sent to the Fair. All
Specimens must be iu bv the 13th November.
Contributors to tlie Fair are respectfully requested,
w hen they forward Specimens for Exhibition, to send
full descriptions ofthe Articles, and such information in
general as mav be of use, and proper for publication. Ad
dross .1. H. TAYLOR, Clt’n. of
june2Btf Com. on Correspondence.
GIGANTIC SCHEME.
TO lie published September 12, uo 1 of the ties! and
cheapest family Illustrated papers in the world,
to bo continued weekly at one dollar per year. All tlio
events of tlie day, view s, sketches, scenes, designs, inven
tions Ac, u ill be beautifully delineated in the best style
of wood engraving, and monthly the largest picture will
Kn
“PRINTED IN COLORS”
nn orn in tlie history of the press hitherto unattempteci.
fcVnd on vonr subscription* :it once to the publishers or
the “People’s Pictorial,” DREW & ROBINSON,
149 Fulton St.New York.
nug22twlt
VESTINGS.
T>T. \CK and fanev tie tired Silks and Satins: white
1) and fanev party Silks and Satins : embroideml Cas
simere Cashmere and Marseilles: plain an.l figured white
and buff Marseilles: fancy and tiguivd and plaid Mar
seilles; plain and fancy Linen : mid a variety that can
not fail to please the tastes of all gentlemen—ready made
“JgST" 1 ” >U U>C * DANIELS.
, OTTON AND WOOLLEN FACTORY
THE Coweta Fall* Manufacturing Company at Colum
bus, Ga” is regularly engaged in the tnantitacture
of Osuaburgs ,hall pound to the yard : X OsrmbHrg*:
Yarns from 2: Cotton Lapping and llattmg, lor Quit.*
n I MaUrasses: heavv . eofd.) Kinseys of Georgia and
Alabama Woo!; %<\6. ; Wool Rolls: Dot.hle and single
Cotton Mat trasses; They also manufacture Customers
Wool into Mils and finsevs. They are
ulacture Cotton Stri|ies of various patterns, and a good
ari iele of Woollen Jeans, suitable torgentlemen s clothing
The goods made within the last 60’ days. are far s i
norior to anv ever turned out by his Mill—and it is the
{lesignof the Proprietors to keep them up to the present
M than a hale (600 yards') including all at any
one purchase, cannot be sold at the Factory.
58,000 Pound* Wool Wonted, tor Cash,
at market prices, or in exchange for Goods.
All orders will bo promptlv attended to
B ‘® Address, “COWETA FALLS t ACTOR I.
Coin..thus, f-a.
dry goods in CHARLESTON, s. c.
direct importations.
C
Tr ?Mi'S Dress Goods and Domestic Fabrics, in every
T! Of A>irre cloths. Blanket and Plantation Dry Goods.
Will be found free from any
m guaranteed to prove as represented.
Tsr'ms Cash or ERR,BON A CO.
909 Northwest comer King & MariteUstreets.
Charleston, Sept 1. ’sl.
BRING IN YOUR WHEAT!!
* aug22twif
bran and shorts.
TF voq want to ve “
1 tSSJ#* re wStm bTakack mills.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,
WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPT. 10, 1851
A PARALLEL.
Look here, upon this picture, and on this;
Tlie countesteit presentment of two brothers,
See, what a grace was seated on this brow ;
Hyperion’s curls; the front of Jove himself;
An eye like A/ars, to threaten and command;
A station like the herald .Mercury,
New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;
A combination, and a form, indued.
Where every god did seem to set his seal.
To give the world assurance ofa man;
**-*#•
Look you now, what follows ;
Here is * • • • •
Hamlet.
We thank our correspondent, “ A Union man
in 1533, and a Resistance man in 1851,” for his
communication. Tlie article in tho Savannah Re
publican to which it is a reply, had attracted our
attention as well as excited an almost irrepressible
desire to respond to it. It was a latiorcd .and ful
some parallell drawn between the late lion. John
Forsyth of Georgia and the lion. Howell Cobb.
W e were restrained by feelings of delicacy from
d : snooting that parallel, although we felt to tho liot
tom of our soul, that the public lives of those two
sons of Georgia afforded far stronger bolder
and more marked outlines of contrast, than of com
parison. Oitrcorrespondent has kindly taken tli
duty off our hands. The bhnid that tingles in our
veins speaks in tho eloquent language of nature in
denial that the Union candidate for Governor,
bears any resemblance in his composition as a
man, or It's conduct as a stateman, toJ.be revered
dead to whom lie is likened. Indeed, we hardly
can imagine two characters more dissimilar—John
Forsyth Sr. was never a politician in the popular
sense of the word. His history as a public man
was a remarkable one. He attained the liighes t
honors in the gift of his State, as an involuntary
homage ofthe people to his character and talents.
He never in his life made a stump speech; he nev
er once stooped to flatter and fawn upon the peo
ple—he never turned on his heel, or raised a finger
to electioneer —It was a sentiment of his soul and
an inflexible rule of his life, that public office ob
tained by the low and debasing means usual with
demagogues, was utterly unworthy the possession
of an honorable man—that a resort to these de
basing means was pritna facie evidence of the
unworthiness of tlie candidate who resorted
to them. We never shall forget an expression of
his on this point. When just arrived at majority
we one day sat with him in the office of the State
Department, just on the eve of the meeting of the
Baltimore Covention, at which Mr. Van Buren
was nominated—His name was spoken of for the
Vice Presidency. He remarked to us that if he
chose he had no doubt, he could procure the
ination. We asked, why do you not choose? Ilia
reply w: s, “ I have been trying, till my life, my
son, to prove to my country that I was worthy
of its respect, its confidence and its honors—l Jo
not choose at this period of my life, to show that I
am not,” The answer left an indellible impres
sion on our mind. It marked out at one bold dash
of thought a line of conduct for our own guidance,
which struck our young inind as noble and sub
lime. and which the maturcr thoughts of increas
ing years have strengthened and fortified into con
viction. So that although we have been for four
teen years, a warm and interested participant in
the political discussions aud events of the country
we have never been a candidate for popular elec
tion. We never will lie, where we have to hang
upon the necks of corrupt voters, ]iour poisonous
whiskey into their mortal stomachs, aud buy their
corrupt votes with money, hats and brogans.
“By heaven. 1 had rather coin my heart,
And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring
From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash,
By any Indirection.”
From the same noble example whence we de
rived this principle, we derived that haired of
oppression, and love of the South, which hoin
inspired our resistance to the compromise abomi
nations of the Federal Government. Well do
we know that our correspondent speaks truth, for
every drop in our veins is articulate in proof of it,
that “ submission was not an element” in liis
character.
His public life testifies it. The greenest spot
in his public reputation, upon which the chivalry
of Georgia has always most loved to rest, isthat mo
ment in his career, when in Congress he bearded
the power of the Federal Government and stand
ing by the gallant Troup, proclaimed to the as
bled House that “ Georgia teas always ready for ,
trial.” And at no time of his life was he not
ready to defend Georgia in the trial. Georgia,
then made the issue, forced cn the trial, hung
Tassels in the flashing of Federal bayonets and
triumphantly interposed her sovereign right of
jurisdiction over her own soil. If llowcll Cobb
and his colleagues in submission had been anima
ted bv’the spirit,'to which —“Satyr to Hyperion”—
he is vainly likened: the voice of Georgia in the
Congress of ‘f>o would again have been potent to
obtain from the Government a just settlement of the
vast controversy then up. Rut instead of proclaim
ing her “ ready for trial"—they proclaimed her
ready for submission. When iirr champions—
the Ajax and the Achilles of the “ Empire State”
of the South quailed all was lost. No sooner
were a few Southern Senators and Representa
tives secured to give bond that the South would
keep the peace in abject submission, than the
Northern majority passed the Compromise.—
which for ten months they had been debating :
which ten months? before they had the power to
have passed, but which they never would have
dared to pass in tern thousand years, if they had not
succeeded in bringing over to them these Southern
men, who sent them to defend the South, ended
by betraying her.
And now where is the parallel between the
solieming, calculating, cold-blot sled ]“ ditician.tram
poosing over the State, splitting hairs on plain con
stitutional questions, which oau be answered yea
or n ay —uttering Delphic nonsense on State
Ricl'ts, ar.d in the same letter and breath, affirm
ing and denying the right of secession. Wha 1
parallel between the rollicking, sleek and good
humored Boniface, the popular wag, the acute
schemer, and a man who having taken his ground
and affirmed his principles, left his popularity to
take,care of itself, looked never to consequences,
and defied a world in argument and in arms?
When did John Forsyth ever write a letter that
had to be “ suppressed” and hustled out of sight
bv his friends ? When did he ever make a speech
that required a volume of subsequent commentary
for its interpretation ? When did ho ever have
to defend himself against the charge of plotting
with the Free Soil enemies of his State ?
But we must be done—we have said perhaps
more than was becoming our relations to the sub-
but the voice of nature would speak out, and
in the name of justice and truth we baptize it and
give it to the public. The words of Hamlet force
themselves to our expression.
but no more like my father,
ybap I to Hercules ;
“THE UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.”
THE CONSUL AT HAVANA.
We learn from tlie True Delta (a paper op
posed to the Lopez expedition) that the con
duct of Mr. Owen American Consul at Ha
vana, was severely censured by a meeting of
the passengers of the Cherokee on the voy
age from Havana to N. Orleans; over which
the old Hero, General Lane of Indiana, pre
side. Gen. Lane was en route by Chagres
from Oregon, and happened at Havana in
time to witness the end ofthe tragedy. It is
understood that he made extensive enquiries
as to the state of affairs in tlie Island and
will publish the result of his observations.
Gen. Lane is a delegate to Congress from
Oregon.
We have no disposition to do injustice to
Mr. Owen and shall not pronouneo upon his
conduct until the vindication which lie must
make, shall make its appearance. ,
Since writing the above, the proceedings
of the meeting on hoard the Cherokee have
come to hand. They will he found in anoth
er column.
Col. E. D. Floyd of the N. Orleans
True Delta, and agent for Doßow’s Com
mercial Review is in this city, and at tlie Ogle
thorpe House for a few days, where he may
bo found hv persons desiring to subscribe for
these works.
Wo are pleased to learn from him, that
Deßow’s valuable journal is in the full tide
of success its value ns a medium of important
information being highly appreciated bvthe
Southern public and sustained accordingly
With the principles of the True Delta, we
do not accord. Its unionism is altogether too
strong to comport with our convictions of the
true policy ofthe South audits public press
ia a crisis, where the South and her great in
terests are in far greater peril than tho Union
Its ability is unquestioned, aud to those,
with whom an abstract and crazy sentiment
of unionism is paramount to all tho vast con
siderations connected with the alarming con
dition of the assailed and persecuted South,
no journal can be inoro aeceptable than the
True Delta.
jggfThe correspondence published to-day
by James M. Srnythe. Esq., one of the editors
ofthe Constitutionalist & Republic, was in
! dueed by a communication, signed “Doctor
| in the Chronicle & Sentinel, highly personal
i and offensive in its character to Mr. Smythe.
We perceive in the Washington Un
| ion of 2d inst a notice to the effect that if
| the heirs or legal representatives of Captain
! W. H. Cary and his brothers and sisters, (if
| any he had,) who removed from tho State of
I Virginia to (it is believed) the State of Geor
j gia or South Carolina, will address “Redfield,’
1 at tho city of New York, they will hear some
thing greatly to their advantage.
The Union observes that if tho Editors of
this State, Richmond, Virginia, Savannah and
j Augusta, Georgia, and Montgomery, Ala
j bama, will call attention to the above facts, in
I their respective Journals, they will probably
he doing a deed of charity to some orphan
family.
Hayti. —A late report says that the diffi
culty between the Hayticn Empire and the
Dominican Republic, has been adjustod.
A Loudon correspondent of the Now-York
Commercial thinks it altogether unlikely that
Great Britain would meddle in any way witli
the, Cuba business.
FOR TIIE TIMES.
Georgia, Aug. 1851.
My attention has been called to an article in the Sa
vannah Republican of the 17th inst., signed, “A Union
Democrat of 1833 and 1851.” Coming into the world as
I did, a Democrat from the hand of God, I shall never be
anything else. In 1833,1 was a Union man, in 1851 lam s
resistance man. The Hon. John’ Forsyth and myself
were shoulder to shoulder iu 1833, and were Tie now liv”
ing, I feel assured, that we should be firmly united iuthe
cause of the South in resisting Northern aggression.—
For no man had less of the element of submission in his
composition, than John Forsyth. To use the name and
character of Mr. Forsyth, as lias been done in the article
under consideration, to bolster up the sinking fortunes of
Howell Cobb, is too bad. The character and public ser
vices of Mr. Forsyth need no eulogy to place his name
in the front rank of southern patriots and statesmen, ex
cept what may be found conspicuously written on the
°flicial records of the country. From ahout the year
1810 to his lamented death, the records of the country
e ntify his name with every interest, to Georgia and
he Union, which agitated the country for upwards of
30 years. .He not only participated in all {great matters
of State, but it was conceded to him hv all his Federal
opponents as well as tiisl Republican friends—that he
was Great, amongst the greatest statesmen. Kike all
other public men, he was sometimes abused and his char
acter traduced by his political opponents. But never was
he accused of abandoning tiis principles and party for the
sake of office ; nor of being a Southern man with .Vorth
ern priitciplts ; or of courting freesollers or abolition
ists, to obtain the Speaker's Chair. No man thought him
a traitor to the south, or believed'that lie would sell her
Interest for a little higher pmmotion. His distinguished
talents and public services atone, promoted him to the
high honors and offi-es, in which he sustained himself
with signal ability. Mr. Forsyth, with myself and many
others, who were rpp'sed to the protective Tariff system
as much asonr fritnds in South Carolina, or any where
else, did not believe that South Carolina nullification
was the proper remedy for the evil complained of.—
While wc conceited the right of a State to secede from
the Federal Union, we could not admit the right of a
.state to resist the laws of the Union while she remained
in the Union. While we considered the protective tariff
oppressive, and violative of the spirit of the constitution,
we did not think the system had been carried to the point
of becoming intolerable and beyond further endurance.
Therefore we looked to the sober second thought of the
conntry and to argumen'. and furtner light on the sub
ject, and time has proved that we were not mistaken in
our views; yet South Carolina, however she might have
erred on the subject of nullification, may justly claim
much distinction for the noble part she acted in modify
ing the odious Tariff, and awakening the public mind of
*he country to just views on the subject of State rights.
No State has a right to resist the execution of the laws of
the Union while she remain* in the Union.
It Is true that Mr Cobb has been Speaker of the House
of Representatives, and this office is a highly distinguish
ed one. But it is equally true, that in all governments of
every form, the most unfit and unworthy men have oc -
casionally been thus elevated. At the present time, will
any intelligent man dare to say, that high official station
is any certain evidence of either merit, talent or integrity
of character? An Ahab may become the successor of a
Solomon. What has Mr. Cobb done for his country or
State, to merit the distinction which he has already re
ceived, or to which he further aspires ? What has Mr.
Cobb done to place him by the side of our noble Forsyth
as an equal in fame, honor and usefulness ? We have no
disposition to abuse or detract from the character of Mr.
Cobb.
H* baa from childhood'been a social, friendly, eourte-
[-WMT JE2 as JHL. ~wr • ]
ous, ready-witted, aspiring fellow. Few men of his age
have spent more money than ho has, to make himself
popular.
He has made great proficiency In the book ofhuma
nature. When he has a work to accomplish, he is judi
cious in the selection of his tools. His tools are to him
labor-saving machinery, llis gift of speech is such as to
enable him to say even more than he knows. But with
„11 these advantages, I now seriously ask, what public
service lmsihe ever rendered to the State of Georgia ?
What service ha* lie rendered to the Union ? W'ith what
measure of public utility is hi* nume identified? What
Important measure has lie ever originated or supjiorted
by his public efforts ? During the eight years of his Con
gressional life, while the rights of the South were con
stantly assailed in Congress ; where shall we And his
speeches, or other efforts In defence of Southern rights?
Wbut Important re he”ever made from a Com
mittee of Congress ? What effort has he ever made to
paralyze the uplifted hand of abolition ? Why is he a fa
vorile.with northern abolitionists and freesoilors? Why
ptd he refuse to sign the Southern Address calmly setting
forth the aggressions of the north upon southern institu
tions ?
Why did bo vote for the IViiSlot Proviso admitting
Oregon as a Staid into the Union ? Why oppose every
tiling connected with the Nashville Convention? espe
cially when that body yielded to his own compromise
lino of 30. 30. ? Why yield his assent to tho Omnibus
Bill, when the south might have done better, if he and
his southern friend* had stood firm to tho rights of
their constituents? Why now liavo tlie hardihood to
say, that the odious compromise measures secure to the
Southall that is just, fair and liberal? when every
school boy in the country knows better. Why laud tho
fugitive slave law, for enacting over the plain provision
of tho constitution ? Especially when it is known, that it
provisions will not and cannot be executed? Why cry
peace, peace to the people, when Mr. Cobb knows there
is no peace ? Why got behind tlie masked batiery, and
cry Union, Union! when the essentials of the Union aro
atready in shreds and tatters ? Where is our Equilibrium
in the Union? Where our equality? Whero i* the broth
*erly, the Christian love of the two sections ?
Let lie who can, auswer the foregoing questions, and
then let tho writer in the Savannah Republican again ut
tampqhls parallel between tlie characters of tlie late John
Forsyth and Howell Cobb. If fairly done, the contrast
will fair excel any that can be found iu Plutarch’s lives of
the Ancients. Forsyth, |ustly holds a place in impartial his
tory, amongst tlie first of American statesmen of his day
He Is gone! He is done with earth I and justico will now
be conceded to him by all. Howell Cobb is yet a young
man. We have seen his commencement, but not hi
end. I should like to be pointed to the first act, in his
brilliant career, that gives him the slightest claim to the
character of patriot or statesman. He is entitled to the
distinction which ho has gained, of being a I'Prickstier,
a politician —a successful gambler for office. If he is
elected Governor of Georgia, he will likely lie tho next
Vice President. And his organ thinks the next step will
be to tlie Presidency. But my own sober opinion is,
that will never happen. Before that happens it wit
be acknowledged, that our Federal system has failed,
and those who are alive will bo cugugod in new forma
tions.
In conclusion, as a Georgian, who was over proud of
tlie character and standing of Mr. Forsyte as a states
man—l protest against tlie urtiflee of attempting to blend
tho name of such a inan as Howell Cobb withtthat of John
Forsyth—and especially claiming parallels of character,
Which shall placo a mere puff of noisy breath, us tlie
equal of our most eminent statesman. It is too bad.
I deny that Mr. Cobb has rendered the country any scr
r>c—and beliovo all that is claimed for him by his ad
mirers, ia his Unionism.
His Union efforts, with a view to hi* own promotion
X consider tlie great crime of his life; moreover, that these
efforts are rapidly tending to the destruction of teal
very Union, that ho professes so much to love and ven
erate. How could a man with a southern heart; how
could a Georgian continue lit Congress for the last eight
years, and never attempt even to rebuko the rovilor* of
th* Sou tli ?
But what t* more strange still, Is, to ascertain how auy
inan in Georgia could, nt tlie present crisis, have the
political confidence and support of northern freesoiler*
and nbolitioniata. If the south Is saved from ruin by tlie
efforts of Mr. Cobb, it will bo his succoss as a beggar.—
He will never vindicate the rights of the south in that
manly, elevatod tone of statesmanship, whicli character
ised tho whole public life of John Forsyth.
A Democrat and Umox max or 1833.
Axn a Resistance max or 1851,
THE CUBAN TRAGEDY”.
The Mobile Register gathers fiom a
passenger by the Cherokee, the follow
ing melancholy detailsof the conclusion
of the Lopez drama:
The Spanish forces having prosecuted
their operations most vigorously against
the invaders, the latter were soon redu
ced to the most destitute and suffering
condition. They were compelled to fly
in every direction through the country;
their ammunition gave out, and they
were left for sixty eight hours totally
without provisions. The Creoles of the
island so far from affording them any re
lief, actually destroyed every species of
food which might fall into their hands.
At length Lopez proposed to such men
as were still with him, that they should
disband ana each shift for himself. This
policy was at once adopted ; hut the
Spaniards were so rapid in the pursuit,
chasing the fugitives with blood hounds,
that they soon captured a large num
ber. Lopez himself in attempting
to make his way to the mountains,
was overtaken by the blood hounds,
and having no weapons was at once
made prisoner. He was almost naked,
famished and broken down with fatigue.
He was taken into San Christobal, on
the 30th ; conveyed to Havana ajh the
31st, and publicly executed by the garote
n the Ist inst., at 7 a. m.
The execution of Lopez was witness
ed by an immense concourse of citizens.
The General although he was from the
sufferings he had endured, in a most pi
tiable condition, being covered with
rags, and greatly reduced in strength
and body, by the starvation he had en
dured, conducted himself in a most firm
and heroic manner at his execution.
He declared that his motives looked up
to the libertv, happiness and advance
ment of Cuba. After he was placed in
the chair, and the fatal yoke or collar,
forming the garote, was placed about his
neck, he uttered his dying words,
“ADIEU, DEAR CU3A!”
A passenger by the Cherokee witness
ed the general proceedings of the exe
cution, but from the density of the cr >wd,
could not see the General’s face, at the
instant of his death, and does not know
whether his face was covered or not.—
He saw the body after death, in the ga
rote, and says that the face, from the
suffusion of blood and the strangula
tion, ltad become perfectly black, that
the neck was broken, and that the
whole spectacle was most painful and
revolting.
Thus perished, by the most ignominious
process known to the Spanish law, a fearless
and aspiring spirit, who had through a long
life, mostly devoted to military adventures,
passed safely through all the hazards of war
and who, instead of dying as a felon, would
if he had been successful, taken his place,
among the renowned heroes and captains of
history.
Besides Lopez, one hundred and fifty-five
of his followers, nearly all Americans, were
made prisoners. It is reported that they are
condemned to work in the mines for life, and
are to be transported to Spain. Like their
leader, they were, when captured, in a most
woful and suffering plight These men with
the fifty-one under Crittenden, previously ex
ecuted, and those who have been killed, in
the several fights, formed the greater part of
those who left on the Pampero.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER IG, 1851,
It is said, however, that there is still a foree
of 600 or 700 insurgents in the mountains,
near Principe. These are said to be under
tlie command of a distinguished Hungarian
officer.
Three of Lopez’s followers succeeded in
eluding pursuit, and by some means made
their escape on tlie Cherokee.
In the battle in which Gen. Enna was
killed, it is said that Lopez's men fought like
demons, and that 700 Spanish soldiers were
slain.
Gen. Lopez, shortly before his execution,
asserted that he had received little or no aid
or countenance from the Creoles, and that in
this respect lie had been greatly deceived.
Among the passengers on the Cherokee,
came Gen. L-ine, on his way frotnOregon via
California, who stopped some days nt Havana,
and witnessed the execution of Lopez. He
made the most extensive enquiries and obser
vations, as to tlie state of affairs in Cuba
andall tho operations that'had taken placo.—
These we tire informed, he has written out
for publication, and we expect that they will
be iu the New Orleans papers to-day. They
will give a full and accurate account, we an
ticipate, of all these melanchoylly events, and
we look for them with the deepest interest.
ARKANSAS ELECTION.
TRIUMPH OF SOUTUEHN tttOUTS 1
We have, at length, by way of New Orleans,
election returns from all but three counties in Ar
kansas. Tlie result is a glorious triumph of the
doctrine of secession, and an indignant rebuke, by
tire people of that State, of the Clay. Foote and
Cobb compromise. Johnson, the Democratic and
Southern Rights candidate lias a majority as fur as
reported, of three thousaud one hundred and six
teen over Preston, his Federal Whig, and Com
promise opponent. Johnson, in the last Congress
stood forth umong tlie most faithful of tlie South
ern delegates. llow his opponents regarded the
late contest aud its issues, may be inferred from
the following extract from the Little Rock Whig,
leading Federal paper of Arkansas, written about
tlie time of the election :
“A few days will tell the tale, and when told,
the public effect of the vote in Arkansas will either
be n committal or non-committal, so fur as Arkan
sas is concerned, to the damnable doctrine of se
cession.”—Sav. Georgian.
Teiuudlk Gale at Apalachicola.— We letam
from an Extra of the Commercial Advertiser,
that the Gale on the 23d ult. occasioned immense
destruction of property in Apalachicola, and has
almost left that town in ruins. At an early hour
in the morning, the lower floors in Water street
had five feet of water in them, and the wind blew
with such fury, that nothing could be done to save
either tlie stores or their contents. Not a single
building on Water street escaped serious injury,
litany having their roofs and others, including the
Exchange buildings, the offices over the Hydraulic
press, the store of Thomas Orman, and tlie build
ing occupied by the Charleston Bank Agency,
being totally destroyed. The store where the
Custom House was kept was almost thrown down,
the lower block of buildings nearest the Bay, is in
ruins, and from that portion of the town every
house on Front or Commerce streets, is entirely
swept away, including those of Mrs. Grierson,
and Judge Semmes. The Presbyterian church
was completely, and the Episcopal, partially
destroyed. Every house in town was more
or less injured, and the trees and fences aro pros
trated. The Light Houses were all blown down,
and at Cape St. Jilas, a Spanish brig-of-war was
stranded, and several lives li >st. The steamer Fal
con was driven by the wind and tide some dis
tance up the river, and capsized on an island. The
entire loss at Apalachicola is estimated at from two
hundred thousand, to half a million of dollars.
[From the Augusta Constitutionalist & Republic.]
DB WILLIAM S. JONES.
Circumstances have made it necessary for
mo publicly to expose Dr. William S. Jones,
for bis prostitution of the press under his con
trol, his equivocation, and his cowardly de
nial of satisfaction to me, for a wilful, delib
erate, and aggravated wrong done, of which
no honorable gentleman would have been
guilty. He has admitted three articles into
the Chronicle Sentinel, of which paper he
is the proprietor and publisher, against my
self, which have been characterized by stu
died misrepresentation, and seldom equalled
for their malignity. Dr. William S. Jones
■was aware that the principal grounds upon
which the writer of “Doctin-,” based his
charges of falsehood against myself, were the
unintentional errors of another gentleman,
and found their way into the Republic with
out my knowledge, or consent. He was per
fectly aware that those errors had been cor
rected through the same channel in which
publicity had been given to them. He must
have known that there was an immense dis
proportion between the errors themselves,
supposing them all to have been committed
and unexplained, and the charges made a
gainst me by the author ox “Doctor.” Ho
was aware that the author of those false and
scurrillous articles, thrust himself forward as
a volunteer in detraction and falsehood, to
assault me for reasons which found no justi
fication in his personal connection with the
matters treated of by him. He became an
officious intruder in the first place and a ma
licious assailant in the second.
I do not deem it necessary to publish the
article of “Doctor,” upon which I founded
my call upon Dr. Jon 3s, which will he seen
below. The public has already seen it in the
prostituted columns of the Chronicle tj- Sen
tinel, and portions of it in the Constitutional
ist df- Republic. I charge Dr. Wm. S. Jones,
for inserting it, in his co'nmns, with sinking
his paper in the lowest, and meanest, and
foulest depths of licentiousness. It was dis
graceful to him as a public journalist and a
man, and was utterly inconsistent with the
profession which he has publicly made as a
member of a respectable church.
The stigma, of tlm foul transaction, will re
main upon him, at least, until ho shall ac
knowledge the wrong ha has done me, and
make atonement for it.
I will take this occasion to observe that I
have frequently declined publishing articles
in the Republic, which I formally edited, be
cause of the harsh expressions they contained
against political opponents.
I have subjected myself for it. on several
occasions, to the complaints and censures of
personal friends.
The dignity, honor and fairness of the press,
should be always maintained. Its true value
is impaired, and even utterly destroyed, when
it cuts loose from the moorings of decency and
virtue, and its trroat object, the dissemination
of useful information, to permit individual
character to be falsely assailed, and that too
in the lowest terms of the blackguard. The
Chronicle (f- Sentinel has been degraded to
this base purpose, and must henceforth, with
out an adequate purgation, take its rank a
mong the lowest and vilest publications in
the land.
I submit the following correspondence
with a few words of comment.
Augusta, Aug. 29th, 1851.
Dr. Wm. S. Jones:
Sir : —Considering the article signed “Doc
tor,” which appeared in the Chronicle <Sp Sen
tinel of this morning, of such a character as
to make you, as the publisher of that paper, a
party to the outrage, I demand of you that
satisfaction, for inserting it in your columns,
which is due from one gentleman to another.
This will be handed you by my friend,
James Gardner, Jr., Esq.
Respectfully yonr ob’t. serv’t.
Jamis M. Smythe.
This letter was received by Dr. Jones. On
Tuesday, the 2nd instant, the following note
was handed to my friend, Mr. Gardner, to be
delivered to Dr. japes:
| NUMBER 31
Augusta, Sept. 2nd, 1851.
Dr. Wm. S. Jones:
Sir : — A reasonable time having elapsed
since the delivery to you, on Friday last, of
my note of that date, I take occasion to call
your attention to it, and inquire when I may
expect a reply ?
Respectfully your ob’t. serv’t.
James M. Smythe.
The card, of Mr. Gardner, below, will ex
plain what occurred on that occasion. Suf
fice it for me to say, Dr. Jones declined to
receive it for the reason assigned by Mr.
Gardner.
On the 3rd instant, the following note was
conveyed to him by the hands of my friend,
Wm. W. Montgomery, Esq.
Augusta, Sept. 3rd, 1851.
‘Dr. Win. S. Jones:
Sir : — Considering tho article under the
signature of “Doctor,” which appeared in the
Chronicle £s• Sentinel, of last Frld; y morning
of such a character as to make you, as the
publisher of that paper, a party to the out
rage', I demand of you, for inserting it in your
columns, that satisfaction which is duo from
one gentleman to another.
This will be handed to you by my friend,
Wm. W. Montgomery, Esq.
Respectfully your ob’t. sorv’t.
James M. Smytiik.
This he declined to receive, alleging iu sub
stance, that ho had nothing to do with the
matter; that the author of “Doctor,” was res
ponsible for its publication.
It will be seen, from the card of Mr. Gard
ner, that Dr. Jones objected to receiving a
third note from mo, through his hand, (for the
reason assigned,) after ho had previously re
ceived two neither of which had been to this
moment returned. It will be seen, further,
that Dr. Jones stated, if I wished to make
any communication to him, I must select
another person to c jnvey it to him. I did
so, and the card of Mr. Montgomery will
show what response he made to my note of
the 3rd instant. This establishes his cow
ardly evasion of the responsibility which res
ted upon him in the premises.
I now leave the conduct of Dr. Wm. S.
Jones, with the publication of this correspon
dence and the foregoing remarks, to the judg
ment of the public.
JAMES M. SMYTHE.
Augusta, Sept. 4, 1851.
Mr. James M. Smythe:
Dear Sir :—ln comp] i ineo with your re
quest, I state that I called on Dr. W. S. Jones
on tho 3rd instant, and handed him a commu
nication from yourself—a copy of which I
believe, had been previously handed him by
Mr. Gardner—which communication he de
clined to receive, upon the ground, as I under
stood him, that he did not consider himself in
any way responsible for the attack upon your
self, contained in the article in the Chronicle
dj- Sentinel, under the signature of “Doctor.”
Very respectfully, yours, &c.
W. W. MONTGOMERY.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 4th, 1851.
James M. Snythe, Edq.—
Dear Sir :—At your request I state, that
on the 29th ult., I bore two communications
to Dr. W. S. Jones. To tho one first pre
sented, he wrote a reply and handed it to me
at that interview. The second he received
and read in my presence. While reading it
I said to him: “it will be proper for you to
answer that through your friend.” I then
withdrew.
No answer having been received to that
communication, on the 2nd inst. I called on
him at his office with another communication
from you. This he declined to receive. Ho
stated that if you, Mr. Symtho, desired to
make any communication to him, you must
do it through some other channel, as he would
entertain no communication through me. He
assigned in that interview as his reason for
declining, in reply to an inquiry to this point
from me, the terms of enmity existing, and
known to you to exist, between him and my
self.
This reason, if sufficient on the 2nd of
September was equally so on the 29th of
August, as no change had taken place in the
relations existing between Dr. Jones and my
self between those two dates. The sufficien
cy of the reason I am content to leave the
judgment of honorable men.
Yours respectfullv,
JAMES’ GARDNER, Jr.
MR. COBB’S LETTER.
J3F*The Hon. Howell Cobb, coalition can
didate for Governor of Georgia, has written ft
letter on compromise, secession, and collateral
questions. As this is the latest declaration
of faith for the new party in that State, we
will present it at length to our readers to
morrow.
The first part of the letter is devoted to a
defence of the compromise.—a task which has
troubled the wits of the submission men
from the first, and has never yet boen
performed. Mr. Cobb is a gentleman of
considerable ingenuity in dealing with popu
lar passions and prejudice, and it is worth
while to consider his latest effort—the result
of his recent discussions, reflections and im
proved knowledge o r popular sentiment.
Mr. Cobb begins by telling us that “the
bills establishing territorial governments for
Utah and New Mexico, rest on the great con
stitutional principle” of “the right of the peo
ple to determine for themselves whether or
not slavery shall constitute a part of their
social system.”
Now, wc deny the practical correctness of
this position. The laws creating territorial
governments for Utah and New Mexico were
not passed, and could not be passed, until it
was ascertained that the whole of seaboard
California was to be admitted as a non-slave
holding State, and also that a large portion of
Texas was to be purchased and annexed to
New Mexico, so as to give her sufficient Mex
ican population (which has already pronounc
ed against slavery) to ensure her anon-slave
holding State. And as Utah is accessible
only through New Mexico or California, (the
transit of slaves through either of the latter
being thus immediately or speedily cut off)
it became almost inevitable that Utah would
he non-slaveholding. Congress therefore
did not agree to the principle that the peoplo
of these territories had the right to decide
the slavery question for themselves, until
measures has thus been taken to ensure a
decision against slavery, by rendering Utah
inaccessible to slavery, and New Mexico an
ti-slavery, by annexing to her the anti-slave
ry portion of the Texas population. To
concede a principle on paper or in words,
and yet to render it impracticable by law,
is afraud and mockery. And this hits been done.
Mr. Cobb proceeds:
“The biil to settle the disputed boundary between the
United States and Texas, rests upon equally sound and
constitutional principles. Its provisions simply contain
a proposition from the general government to the State of
Texas to settle the boundary between the territory of the
United States, and the State of Texas by adopting a certain
line as that boundary; and in consideration that Texas will
yield the claim which she had made to the seceded territo
ry, the United State* agrees to pay her the sum often mill
ions of dollars. There was no threat, no coercion, on the
part of Congress, to compel acquiescence in their projio
sition. It was ;t matter for tho calm and patriotic judg
ment of the people of Texas to determine; and the terras
were agreed to by her with unparalleled unanimity. It
is equally untrue and unjust to the brave and patriotic
people of Texas, to impute their action on this subject
to the fear ol federal power, or the equally offensive
consideration of bribery and corruption. As I would
not tolerate such an imputation upon the citizens of our
own State under similar circumstances, I will not in
dulge in the ungenerous and unfounded reflection upon
the honesty and integrity of our young and prosperous
sister.”
This is the most intrepid experiment on
the meaning of words we have lately seep.
When the Texasbonndary bill was pending
it was understood that the California
bill would pass and that the North would
thereby acquire a great augmentation of itfl
previous territorial preponderance—and that
it would also acquire a majority in the Sen
ate, the only law-making branch of the gov
ernment where the South possessed even a
nominal equality of power. In tho House of
Representatives, and in the electoral colleg
es. there was an overwhelming majority,
against her. Yet this was the hour whom
her power of self-defence in the government
was about to be wrested from her, by an out
rage that deprived her at the same time of all
her share of the countless gold of California
—this was the hour selected to pass a bill to.
relinquish a vast territory in Texas, in coo
sideration of a wist sum of money. It is
said that she had only a chum to this territo
ry. Well, whatever right Texas had, was a
right to territory. And by the bill it was ad
mitted that this right was worth ten millions.
Now, why was not ten million’s worth of tho
territory relinquished to Texas, instead of
paving her that much money? It w r as because
it would have defeated the project of making
a free-soil State iu New Mexico, and would
have left tho South the means of forming
one more State than she can now. Why,,
when the South had been, and was to be
stripped of such countless and priceless ter
ritorial domain, why was this bill so framod
as to deprive her of a vast quantity boaidoa?
Why for the obvious design of destroying
her political power.
Mr. Cobb treats this transaction as if ft
concerned Texas alono. It was vital to the
South. And is there anything sound In prin
ciple, or in policy, or in precedent, for the
federal government, (already controlled by
the North) to enter the market to buy of au.
embarrassed Southern State the elements of’
political power, and transfer them to the
North? Mr. Cobb says that thiswusa more
proposition to Texas without a threat tromi
Congress. But everybody knows that there
was an Executive threat then hanging over
Texas, that if she dared to exercise jurisdic
tion in any part of a territory, to which this
vory bill acknowledged she had a right to the
extent of ten millions, she would bo visited
with the sword of the federal government.
Under these circumstances, the declaration of
Mr. Cobb that Texas was not influenced by
fear or by money in accepting the terms of
the bill, is simply a rhetorical flourish, to om
belish, to disguise to conceal tho deformity
and enormity of the whole transaction.
As for the attempt of Mr. Cobb to show
that this transfer of territory from Texas to
the federal government enlarged, instead of
diminishing the slaveholding area, it is too
forlorn. It gave to New Mexico the territo
ry to make a State, and the population that
had already pronounced against Afrieun slave*
ry.
Mr. Cobb proceeds:
“The only remaining bill affecting our territorial ocqot
altiori was tile U nc for the admission of California as a
State into the Union. This measure was objectionable
to Southern men though it finally received tho support
of nearly one-third of the representatives of the South, la
common with a majority of the South, I entertained ob
jections to tilts bill’.l preferred that ;a territorial govern
ment should have been provided for California, n was
done for Utah &N. Mexico. It would have beeu a more
regular & appropriate mode of disposing ofthat portion of
tlie territory; but the failure to do so t uo not regard as
violation of the Constitution or the rights of the South.
In the admission of California Congress exercised a pow
er expressly conferred upon it by tho Constitution, “to.
admit new States into the Union:” and though our judg
ments do not wholly approve of tho exercise of that dis
cretionary power in this instanco, it constitutes no such
cause of complaint against the government as wouldjua
tlfy the resistance which has been indicated by the ouo
mics of the compromise and the advocates of disunion.
The principle 11)1011 which California was admitted in
to the Union, with her constitution prohibiting slavery,
has ever received the sanction of Southern statesmaia
The orinciple denies to Congress tho right to lojk Into
the constitution of a Slato asluug for admission into the
Union further than to see that it is republican iu its form
of government. Whether slavery shall exist there Is *
question not for the consideration of Congress, but to he
he determined by the people when they frame their State
constitution.
This doctrine was dearly expressed iu the following
resolution introduced bv Mr. Calhouu Into the Sonant
of the United States in 1847. It was the annunclullou -f
a sound constitutional principle, and 1 am prepared ns
maintain its correctness:
“ Rcsnlved, That, as a fundamental principle In oar po
litical creed, a people, in forming a constitution, hare
the unconditional right to form and adopt the govern
ment which they may think best calculated to secant
liberty, prosperity, and happiness ; and that In con
formity no other condition is Imposed by
the federal constitution on a State, In order to her admis
sion into this Uniqn, except that its constitution he re
publican; and that the imposition of any other by Con
gress would not only be in violation of tho Constitution
but In direct conflict with the principle on which oar pe
lltical system rests.”
ButMr.CoBU con aiders whethor it wold
be his duty, if governor of Georgia, to obey a
requisition of the federal government for
troops to put down a seceding Stato. He
says he would call a convention of tho peo
ple of Georgia and submit tho question to
them. This is one of the most curious eva
sions by a candidate of an issue that wo have
seen. Mr. Cobb is a candidate for governo*
—a neighboring State talks of secession—
Mr. Cobb denies the right, or admits the
right of reducing her to submission by force.
The people of Georgia want to know if Mr.
Cobb would call on them to engage in that
business and he declines to answer by say
ing he will submit the question to them when
the crisis arrives. But if there is a right in
the federal government to call on tho gover
nor of Goorgia for troops in such a case,
would it not be rather inconvenient to wait
until a convention could be culled in Georgia?
And after all, what on earth would Governor
Cobb or die people of Georgia do, if Congress
were to pass a law to draft them to war a
gainst a sister and neighbor State?
But wc need not pursue the subject furth.
cr. Mr. Cobb’s admissions are fatal to his
position—and these admissions were extort
ed by the state of opinion in Georgia, and
by the inexorable deductions from the princt
pies of our government.
Now Mr. Cobb does not stato at all the
main objection made by tho South to (ha bill
admitting California; and we are compelled
to conclude that lie was afraid to do it, be
cause that objection is overwhelming and un
answerable. It is that the territory
allowed her in the bill is enormous
ly greater than Congress ever before
permitted any one State to appropriate from
the public domain. A sea. coast nearly a
thousand miles long!—and, with Oregon,
giving to the North the monopoTy of all our
Pacific seaboard, down to a latitude below
Charleston, South Carolina, and with a cli
mate warmer than the Atlantic coast! Wo
know the case of admitting Texas with a
large territory is cited ns a precedent for that
of California, but the Texan territory was al
ready her own, and had not been bought or
paid for by the federal government. Besides
provision was made for dividing Texas, and
giving to the North all her territory above 36.
30; and this provision was proposed by the
South as to California, and refused. And by
thus surrendering all California to the North,
the Southern people were deprived of tbs
right of emigrating thither with their proper
ty, and the vast region of southern California
was forever prevented from determining the
question of slavery for itself. Yet Mr. Conn
coolly tells us California was admitted on
constitutional principles, and Southern prin
ciples, onlv, perhaps, a little too soon! Taking
the circumstances all r together, we consider
tho act for the admission of California one of
the greatest outrages that history h-Ji recor
ded. And we did regard the pretexts and
pretences on which it was done as a snnerad
ded insultto the understanding of the fSontb.
But when we see prominent South-rn men
going about to excuse and palliate the trans
action. we are constrained to confess that the
understanding of the South is not worthy of
the high respect to which we thought it enti
tled.
Mr. Cobb excuses the act emancipating
slaves brought into this District for sale, by
telling us that Maryland did the same thing
about sixty years ago. That was when Ma
ryland was menaced with the influx of slaves
from the Northern States then emancipating
and the object of the law was precisely the
reverse of the recent act of Congress. And
the same thing may be said of the laws of
Georgia to prevent the influx of slaves. But
if it be assumed that Congress has the same
jurisdiction over slavery in the District that
the States have within their own borders,
Congress may emancipate, at pleasure.
Mr. Cobb denies the right of secession.—
He thinks it would have been absurd for the
framers of the federal Constitution to provide,
in the very organization of the government,
for its own dissolution.
Well, if this is an argument against the
right of secession, is it not equally opposed to
the right of revolution which Mr. Cobb as
serts? He denies the right of secession, bft
cause it is not declared in the Constituiion.—
Why, the right of sec as si on is a State right;
and whoever took it into his head, before Mr.