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FOR fRESytNT,
William henry iiarkison,
Os Okh;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican —
the patriot Farmer of 01>vo.
for vTcf,-pnvrsi DE>rt,
JOHN TYLER,
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican U)i the school of ’9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
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patriotic statesmen.
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT.
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
* DUN JAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
CHRISTOPHER B. STRONG, of Bitb.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
EZEKIEL WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of Dek'alb.
The Election.
We take the earliest opportunity to return our
acknowledgements to our fiiends and those Post
Masters who have politely favored us with returns
of the late election, and to request those to whom
this paper may be sent, to extend to us the same
•courtesy after the November election.
We have returns from 86 counties, though not
all official, they will vary very little, if any, fiom
the official result. The following is the aggregate
vote for members of Congress in the counties re
ported ia our table :
FOR HARRISON.
Dawson, - 38.569
Habersham, 38,399
Nesbit, 38,392
Alford, 38,357
Foster, 38,303
Warren, 3-i,282
King, ........ 38,244
Gamble, 38,161
Merriwether, 38,047
FOR VAN BUSES.
Cooper, 34,012
Colquitt,.-..... 33 994
81ack,...-.... 33,913
Lumpkin,... 33,833
Campbell,. A 33,819
Pooler 33 812
Hilyer, 33,778
Iverson, 33,774
Patterson, 33,741
The remaining 8 counties to be heard from, are
Appling. Baker, Chatooga, Djjde, Emanuel, Irwin,
Union, and Ware, which wl-l probably reduce the
present majorities 800 votes.:
In the Legislature we have already 47 Senators,
which is a majority without ffarther increase, and
a large tnaj Jiity in the House of Representatives.
Maryland Erect.
This old Republican State has spoken in a voice
of thunder to tiie destructives. The Whigs have
gloriously triumphed over Locolocoism. From
a table showing the popular vote for Delegates in
all the counties, it appears that the Whig majority
in the State is 2557. Maryland has therefore ta
ken her stand for Old Tip.
The Baltimore Patriot announces the result in
the following glowing terms ;
From the Baltimore Patriot of the 1 2th.
Whigs of the whole Union, open to the
right and left, and make way lor old Ma
ryland, the Avalanche Rtate !
The result of the election in Maryland on
Wednesday the 7th inst., shows that the Coun
ties in the State stand thus on the Presidential
question.
Counties for Gen. Harrison. —Alleghany,
Washington, Frederick, Anne Arundel, Mont
-gotnery, Prince George’s, Calvert, St. Mary’s
-Harford, Cecil, Queen Ann’s, Kent, Caroline,
Dorchester, Somerset, Worchester, and Annapo
lis city.
Counties for Van Buren. —Baltimore, Carroll,
Talbot, and Baltimore city by the meagre majori
ty of 192 votes, and thu, only secured by a bat
■talion of troops from the Van Buren grand ar
ray, brought in and quartered among us.
Thfit Flag Story,
Well Corporal, you say you do net belong to
that order of politicians who regard all as fair in
politics. Will you tell yojir readers what you
think of that “ Flag Story, u you published some
-daj’S since ? Is that fair f
grj* Have our friends of the Richmond Whig
cut off their exchange with us ? We have not re
ceived their paper since tlie 3rd inst.
Georgia-1n73 counties Dawson leads Coilquitt
about 4100 votes. In the Senate there will prob
ably be 5, and in the House IS or 30 Whig majori
ty. “ Call you this backing your iriends <*”
Charleston Mercury of yesterday.
Yes, we not only call it backing our friends, but
we call it backing Calhounism and iocofoaoisra out
of Georgia.
Election in CHAPi.ESTofi. —The general im
pression, as far as we can appears to be,
that Mr. Boyce wil : be elected Senator by a con
siderable majority. For Congress and Tax Collec
tor there was no opposition i—Chat test on Courier.
In the case of the State oil Illinois vs. Mr. Dtla
field, the Chancellor (Walworth) has granted the
prayer of the complainants We are informed
that the cause now goes up to the Court of Er
rors. It said that the Chancellor’s opinion,
«ifconfirmed, will much udect the confidence
hitherto given to state securities. We shall en
deavor to give ihe substance of the opinion, when
wo receive’it.— Times and Star*
“General ,Harrison's Whipping Law,’
and General Glascock’s Handbill.
( ur readers will recollect the notue we took of
the following Handb 11, which made its appear
ance in Auguß last, and of which General Glas
cock avowedhimself the author.
'len. Harrison’s Whipping Law.
Freemen of Georgia! Poor Men and Women!
Read this !
American Women ! read th:s, and then letyour
husbands, lovers, fathers and brothers know what
you thinkof making General Harrison President
“Receive on his (jr her back, thirty-nine lashes
well laid on, at the public whipping post:'
Such is a law approved by General Harrison,
(see laws of Indiana Territory, page 343.) W hat
now do j'ou suppose was the heinous offence
which Goveraoi Harrison thought fit to have thus
punished, for which a woman was to be stripped
at the public whipping post, and receive thirty
nine lashes on her bare bach, loell laid on? —
Will you not be amazed to find that this was the
offence 1 (See ihe 10th section of the above law.
entitled an act concerning servants.)
“If any persons shall presume to deal w ith any
servant, without such leave or consent, (that is,
of the servant’s master or owner,) he or she so
offending, shall forfeit and pay to the master or
owner of such servant, four times the value of the
things so bough:, sold or received, to be recovered
with costs, by an action in the case, in any court
of common law in this Territory ; and shall also
forfeit and pay the further sum ofs3o to any per
son who will sue for the same, or receive on his or
her hare hack, thirty-nine lashes, well laid on, at
the public whipping post, but shall neverlhless be
liable to pay the costs of such suit.”
Again, this same law, section 13, page 345,
directs that when such servant shall be found “ten
miles from the tenement of his or her master,”
without a pass, “any person may apprehend him
or her, and carry him or her before a justice of the
peace, to he, by his order, punished with stripes
not exceeding thirty-five, at discretion.”
A gain, this same law, section 14, page 336’
directs that “if any slave or servant si:allpre
sume to come and be upon the plantation, or at
the dwelling house of any person whatsoever,’,
(whether that person be while or black.) “ with
out leave from his or her owner, not being sent
upon lawful business, it shall be lawful for the
owner of such plantation or dwelling house, to
give or order such slave or servant lea lushes, on
his or her bare back.”
And again, the 11th section of the same law
concerning servants, (page 344) has the follow
ing wholesale whipping provision:
“ In ail cases of penal laws, where free persons
are punishable by fine, servants shall he punish
ed by whipping, after the rate of twenty lashes
for every eight dollars, so that no servant shall
receive more than forty lashes at any one time,
unlcs such offender can procure some person to
pay the fine.”
Perhaps you may astc’who were these servants j
who were to be subjected to this merciless code, j
and for presuming to deal with whom, free wh te
men and women might if unable to be paid in mo
ney, be made to pay in lashes, well laid on, at the
public whipping post 1 Who were they 1 Why,
they were pocr white people, who, by another
law of this same Gen. Harrsion, had been found I
guilty of any offence, (such as an assault, keep
ing a tavern or ferry without license, or any other
petty misdemeanor,) and were unable to pay
their fines, and the lawyers’, cle r ks, and sheriff’s
fees, and were directed to be sold at public auc
tion to any person.
These were the people who, having no dollars,
were to pay in lashes —twenty lushes for eight i
dollars ! and these were the people with whom, i
if a poor woman should presume to deal for a
chicken or a dozen eggs, without the leave of their
lort ly masters, she might if unable to pay twen
ty dollars, be taken to the public whipping-post,
and receive thirty-nine lashes on her bare back,
well laid on ! and then be sold to pay the costs.
If you are women of any spirit or sense—if you
are the daughters of freemen—it you deserve to
be mothers of freemen—let it be forthwith known
what you will think'of those who shall vote with
this bare-back-woman-whipping party —give
them your thoughts of the man who could ap
prove such a law, and of there who support him,
and let it be “WELL LAID ON.”
Immediately after its appearance, we addressed
a letter to a gentleman of Indianopolis, Indiana* 1
requesting a copy of the Law, and the cirtificate of
l he Secretary of Slate, with the great seal of the
Slate affixed, and we have received in return the
following letter, and the subjoined copy of the :
Law:
It is not our purpose to notice farther the author
of this celebrated handbill, we rather leave him te
the visitations of his own conscience. But wha r
we more particularly desire, is to call the attention
of the people of Georgia to this Law and handbill,
and ask them to compare the one with the other,
and then determine what a lively regard fur truth
he must possess, who has endeavored by such
means, to impose upon a confiding people.
People of Georgia, read these documents careful
ly, watch how the handbill has garbled the law,
see what has been left out, and what put in, and
3 - ou will observe the means resorted to, that you
might be deceived.
Indianapolis, Sept. 21, 1840.
Dear Sir : Inclosed y r ou have a copy of the act
(duly certified by the Secretary of State) re
ferred to in General Glascock’s whipping hand
bill, which I find in your paper of the 241 h of Au
gust.
You cannot fail to observe, upon a comparison
of the hand-bill with the act itself, how grossly ig
norant, to say the least of it, the writer of that doc
ument must have been of the law which seems to
have excited within him such a holy horror.
The history of this law is this: In 1807 the
Territorial Code was first revised. The revision
was committed to two of the judges of the higher
courts, gentlemen who are yet revered for their
many excellent qualities. By them it was intro
duced into the L ode, and was copied from the Vir
ginia law of that day. This Code, after amend
ments, was adopted by the Territorial Legisla.ure,
and was approved by Gen. Harrison.
Gen Han Don did not recommend the adoption
of this law, nor did he on that or any other occa
sion interpose the ve;o power to thwart the wish
of the people expressed through their represen
tatives. lie had the | ower of appointing all offi
cers, county and state,yet he never appointed a
man to the most inconsiderable office unless the
people by election or otherwise had requested it.
By reference to the first section of this law
(which is left out in the hand-bill referred to) it
will be seen that these servants instead of beiire
“ poor white men and women” were negroes. In
the first settlemenl of the Tcrritoiy a large portion
of the settlers were from Kentucky, Virginia, North
ana South Carolina,and other slave states.—many
of them brought their young slaves with them, as
undei the laws of the Territory they were entitled
to their services until the negio was 21 years of
age. It was soon found, however, that there were
practical, if not political, abolitionists in erer3 r
settlement, who loved a negro better than a white
person, for no (jther reason man that he was a ne
gro : or it may be their sympathies, like those of
this General Glascock, were excited to the utmost
ten-ity at the cruelty of a master claiming the ser
vices of his own s.ave until he was 21 years of
age. Be this as it may, the negroes tlms bound
(by which their rights as well as the master’s were
protected) soon began to feel that those who had
raised them and brought them to a free country
were their worst enemies; they grew impudent
and lazy, and upon the slightest provocation, or
without any, they ran away. It was in vain to
attempt to regain them, foi they were provided
with a safe retreat even before they started, and if ;
discovery was feared and puisuit made their aoo
lition friends furnished them means to escape to
some more distant settJcinen:, were there were
th*se who, i£ it were found ueceisary, WoLiM for-
ward them to still n.oni distant parts of the Terri
tory, so that generally the master had quietly to
submit to the robbery.
This is a brief outline of some of the causes
which led to the introduction of the Virginia law,
and it is a remarkable fact that its adoption put a
linal stop to decoying negroes from their masters,
and there is not one case recorded, or within the
recollection or our oldest settlers, where the law
had to be enforced.
It should be borne in mind, too,.that this was all
done near lbi ty years ago, when our now flourish
ing Hoozierland was a tirade less wilderness, with
settlements distant from each other, that, like all
new countries, it was infested with those who
hang upon the outskiits of civilization, that mur
der, horse-stealing, and counterfeiting was fre
quent ; the people wi re poor, they had nq jails,
no money with which to support scoundrels, and in
rnan,> instances they not only used the whipping
post, but resorted to the more summary process of
Lynclvs law, and even in desperate cases to the
rifle.
Had Gen. Glascock (who I take to be as great a
General at the “ /a/e” General Chary,cf Michigan,
judging from the exhibition he lias given of him
self,) been one of the actors in those trying times,
he would, I think, have come to the conclusion,
that although our fathers were not so wise, so
patriotic, or humane as their sons, yet that they
were clever, respectable enough old fellows lor the
limes, and that they were after all at least half
right in managing their scoundrels in their own
way. And as it was their law and not Gen. Har
rison’s tiiey take the responsibility.
Respectfu ty yours,
A. VV. MORRIS.
J. W. Jones, Esq., Augusta, Geo.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
AN ACT CONCERNING SERVANTS.
Sec. 1. All negroes and mulattoes (and other per
sons not being citizens of the United States of
America) who shall come into this Territory, un
der conti act to serve another, in an) trade o. occu
pation, shall be compelled to perforin such con
tract specifically during the time thereof.
Sec. 2. The said servants shall be provided by
the master with wholesome and sufficient food,
clothing, and lodging, and at the end of their ser
vice, il they shall not have contracted for any re
ward, food, clothing, and lodging, shall receive
from him one new and complete suit of clothing,
suited to the season of the year to wit: a coat,
waistcoat, pair of breeches and shoes, two pair of
stockings, two shirts, a hat. and blanket.
Sec. 3. The benefit of the said roliti act of ser
vice shad be assignable by the master to any per
son being a citizen of this Territory to whom the
servant sjiall in the presence of a Justice of the
•Peace freely consent that it shall be assigned: the
said Justice attesting such free consent in writing,
and shah also pass to the executors, admiui-tra
dors, and legatees of the master.
bee. 4. Any '•uch sei vant being lazy, disorderly,
guilty of misbehaviour to his master,or master’s
■family, snail be corrected by stripes, on order
Horn a Justice of th*> County wherein he resides :
or refusing to work shall Le compelled thereto in
j rike manner, and moreover shall serve two days
I for every one he shall so refuse to serve, or
j slrall otherwise have lest without sufficient justi
! fication. All necessary expenses incurred by any
J master for apprehending and bringi g home any ab
| sconding servant shall be repaid by further ser-
I vice, after such rates a the Court ol Common Pleas
i of the County shall direct, unless such 4trvant
1 shall give security, to be approved of by the
; Court, for the payment in money within six months
alter he shall be free from service, and shall ac
cordingly pay the same.
Sec. 5. If any master shall fail in the duties pre
scribed by this act, or shall be guilty of injurious
demeanor towards his servant,it shall be redressed,
on motion, by the Court of Common Pleas of the
County wherein the servant resides, who may hear
and determine such casts in a summary way,
making such orders thereupon as in their judgment
will relieve the paity injured in future.
Sec. (3. All contracts between masters »nd ser
vants during the time of service shall be void.
Sec. 7. ihe Court of Common Pleas of every
County shall at all limes receive the complaints of
seivanls being citizens of any of the United Males
ol America, w.io reside within the jurisdiction of
such Courts, against their masleis or mistresses,
allcdging undeserved or immoderate correction, in
sufficient allowances cf food, raiment, or lodging,
and may hear and determine such case in a sum
mary way : making such orders thereupon as in
their judgmvnt will relieve the party injured in fu
ture, and may also in the same manner hear and
determine complaints of masters or mistresses
against their servants for desertion without good
cause, and may oblige the latter for loss theieby
occasioned to make restitution by further services
after the expiration of the time for which they nad
been bound.
Sec. 8. If a y servant shall at any time brirtg in
goods or money during the time of their seAice,
snail uy gilt or other lawful means acquire goods
| or money, they shah have the pioperty and benefit
thereof to their own and if any servant shall
be sick or lame, and so become useless or chargea
ble, his or ner master or ownershall maintain such
j servant until his or her whole ti ne of service snail
| be expired; and if any mastei or owner shall put
| away any lame or sick servant, under pretence of
freedom, and such servant becomes chargeab.e to
ttie v ounty, such master oi owner shall forfeit and
pay thirty dollars to the overseers of the poor of
the Uounty wherein such offence shall be commit
ted, to the use of the poor of the County, recover
able, with costs, by action of dent in any Couit of
Common Pleas of this Tenitory, and moreover
shall be liable to the action of tfte said overseeis of
the poor at the common iaw for damages.
Sec. 9. No negro mulatto, or Indian shall at any
time purchase any servant other than of their own
complexion, and it any of the persons aforesaid
shall nevertheless presume to purchase a white
servant, such servant shajl immediately become
free, and shall be so held, deemed, and taken.
Sec. 10. No person whatsoever shall buy, sell,
or receive of, to, or from any servant any coin or
commodity whatsoever without the leave or con
seai of the master or owner of sucli servant; and
if any per on shad presume to deal with any ser
vant without such leave or consent, he ox she so
offending shah forfeit ami pay to the master or
owner ol such servant four times the value of tne
thing so bought, sold, or received, to be recovered
with costs by an action upon the case in any Court
oi Common Pleas ol this Territory, and shall also
forfeit and pay the further sum of twenty dollars to
any person who will sue for the same or receive
on his or her bare back thirty-nine lashes well Rid
on at the public whipping-post, but shall neverthe
less be liable to pay .the costs of such suit
Sec. 11. In all cases of penal laws where free
persons are punishable by fines servants shall be
punished by whipping, after the iate of twenty
lashes for every eight dollars, so tnat no servant
shall receive more than foity lashes at anyone
time, unless su h offender can procure some person
to pay the fine.
Sec. 12. Every servant, upon the expiration of
his or her time, and proof thereof made before the
Court of Common Pleas of the County where he or
she last served, shall have his or her freedom re
corded and a certificate thereof under the hand of
the clerk, which shall be sufficient to indemnity
any person for entertaining or hiring such servant;
and if such certificate should happen to be torn or
lost, the clerk, upon request, shall issue another,
reciting therein ihe loss of the former; and if any
person shall h rbor or entertain a servant not h iv
ing and producing such certificate he or she shall
pay to tne master or owner of such servant one
dollar for every natural day he or she shall so har
bor or entertain such runaway, recoverable with
costs, by action of debt, in any Court of Common
Pleas of this Territory ; and if aay runaway shall
make use of a forged certificate, or after the deliv
ery of a true certificate to the person hireing him
or her shall steal ;he same and thereby procure
other entertainment the person entertaining or
hireing shall not be liable to the said penalty ; but
such runaway, besides making reparation for loss
| °f lime and charges of jecovery, shall stand two
! hours in the pillory on a Court day for making use
ot such forged or stolen certificate, and the person
foiging the same shad forfeit and pay thirty dollars,
one moiety to the Territory a'id the other moiety
to the owner ol such runaway or the informer, re
coverable, with costs, in any Conrt of Common
Pleas ol tills Territory, and in failure of present
payment, or security for the same within six
i months, such offender shall receive thirty-nine
! lashes on his or her bare back, well laid on. at the
com mon whipping-post; ant where a runaway
shall happen to be hired upon a forged certificate,
■ and afterwards denies the delivery thereof the
onus probandi (the burthen oi proof j shall be upon
the party hireing such runaway.
Sec. 13. If any «lave or servant shall be found
ELECTION RETURNS.
HARRISON, k VAN BUREN.
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Baler, I jo fi
Baldwin, 337 343 33' 342 334 3 4 337 330 837! 3:25 323 326 322 321 324 3iß 317 322 329 r .JJ
Bibb, 680 676 666 687 671 677 673 675 6731 674 676 67> 6SI 667 665 669 669 670 7]o 7'J
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Burke, 518 532 532 530 519 519 529 523 523 271 281 287 256 256 260 256 255 256 ij 4
Butß 230 228 328 228 221 228 218 228 239 S9S 396 3PB 1-98 396 396 398 396 396 ;93
Camden 189 189 189 189 187 185 190 190 19. 227 227 228 226 226 226 227 224 226 )6G
Campbell 202 199 200 196 199 200200 199 202 526 530 530 524 528 627 525 527 527 4m
Carroll, 268 276 266 267 253 275 257 256 266 450 451 450 459 4';4 460 458 450 456 526
Cass 506 496 493 497 49! 486 499 489 496 660 662 658 658 657 66: 661 661 664 ' 7. 6 1,
Chatham.... 560 561 558 559 557 551 660 556 557 631 631 631 627 624 624 62? 624 636 •••• 330 264
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Clarke 632 622 621 624 615 621 622 615 62. 354 359 352 350 375 35. 347 344 346 1 372 ™
Colb, 425 411 418 414 408 409 408 407 416 684 686 687 687 6*6 688 692 686 681 079 o™
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Coweta 687 684 680 686 683 68« 679 682 690 684 684 654 680 682 679 682 682 682 719 ~ f ,
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Dade, - 139 ?4
Decatur 406 404 404 404 405 403 402 404 4041, 245 248 248 244 243 244 245 245 244 253 163 280 311.
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Douly, 228 228 226 227 229 226 2*7 228 224' 32S 330 331 334 332 328 332 328 333 26 408 300 137
Early, 241 241 212 241 240 241 241 240 238: 252 354 555 356 355 350 354 362 355 3gy
Effingham,... 173 173 173 173 172 17- 173 173 173 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 77 60 43
Elbert, 911 911 904 910 911 910 908 908 910 132 132 133 125 125 126 126 125 124 79 qn ;
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Fayette, 408 409 408 409 407 404 405 406 405 544 543 538 546 544 543 543 543 643 “!. 475 . 2 U
Floyd, 271 271 270 270 270 270 270 262 271 285 284 284 295 293 293 307 295 295 330 iaa
Forsyth, 323 3.9 319 319 317 317 31 6 316 315 513 513 512 513 513 513 513 513 513 4 ; 7 nog
Franklin, 441 438 432 436 336 433 431 133 434 817 815 815 813 809 809 814 810 811 6*9 306
Gilmer, 84 84 84 84 84 84 84 84 84 340 340 34'1 340 340 340 340 340 340 £7? 79
Glynn, 113 111 111 HO 110 114 110 HO 110 26 28 29 29 28 24 24 24 3' 33 131
Green SCO 857 839 855 856 854 857 840 850 97 106 96 93 95 94 91 91 9l 71 7kfi
Gwinnett,... 713 704 707 7.8 704 701 02 703 7-6 682 680 679 682 689 68(- 68* 687 683 619 60S
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Lincoln, 294 294 295 294 294 294 294 £94 295 152 152 152 146 149 151 15; 15.- 147 -q if!
Lowndes 415 126 89**156 o->4
Lumokin.... 316 295 ~93 29! 292 292 291 294 294 740 748 745 755 756 756 761 757 756
Macon, 359 358 359 358 358 357 359 357 356 33? 312 312 3h 311 308 311 310 308 ifil'ofiO 338 ot**
Madison, 320 326 326 326 325 3.5 324 324 324 298 297 296 297 297 297 297 cS7 297 & jcr no On
Marion, 3,;9 358 359 358 358 357 357 357 356 307 312 312 312 3.1 308 311 310 30s ‘ ~ o M Ho
Mclntosh,... 102 100 100 100 100 100 10U lot UK! 146 145 146 145 145 143 145 145 146 40 “no 7-88 mQ
Meriwether,. 741 732 733 742 7 32 733 /3I 730 740 787 790 788 777 775 770 779 775 777 204 1062 766 a 7 l
Monroe, 822 822 814 825 818 819 820 818 822 730 733 73u‘ 736 732 732 734 730 733 4 lto ‘
Montgomery, 20- 202 202 202 20z 202 202 202 202 77 7 5 6 2 6 5 6 in oTi
Morgan, 494 482 483 487 480 480 479 481 4*l 323 330 322 318 320 320 320 320 477 0. 2 . yVi
Murray, 242 235 234 236 233 236 235 234 2 4 482 481 482 453 483 454 49i 474 32] -70 \o
Muscogee,... 971 969 963 9G7 964 967 965 959 967 837 846 831 831 825 852 822 82s 825 0.-f
Newton, 971 962 966 972 96b 066 963 959 963 395 39' 39s 390 390 386 3SS 38b 388 u-a
Oglethorpe... 61a 609 604 609 003 607 606 604 608 132 132 132 134 135 134 135 135 135 k 1 ,-q
Paulding * 248 246 249 246 246 247 245 243 244 263 263 263 262 262 262 262 267 269 2 3f Jlr
pikc > - 53 i 527 525 523 528 527 530 526! 530 625 629 626 627 627 627 626 626 627 40' of,
Pulaski, 2)3 212 209 211 217 214 214 210 214 314 31 312 309 305 311 310 3u6 309 L 3, ' fro
Putnam, 448 450 440 454 445 44. 446 446 44b! 342 346 350 324 323 326 325 322 3*6 945 ioa
Kabun, S7 25 27 25 28 26 26 26 26 314 314 314 314 314 314 313 315 313 295 11
Randolph,... 544 544 543 511 543 542 541 54- 542 593 592 591 687 586 583 554 584 587 lo*’ *5lB '*’* 508 aon
Richmond,.. 90( 901 894 894 894 897 896 893 895 49! 501 495 495 48! 494 494 49. 493 079 Ifq
Scriven i 74 174 175 174 174 174 179 172 173 | 234 237 23b 235 232 233 233 23 ' 234 r ,,
Stewart, 893 899 890 890 892 890 890 888 890 773 775 771 774 77? 774 772 771 772 --
Sumpter,.... 454 445 44! 449 45' 439 447 446 449; 372 371 370 367 366 367 36 366 366 1 18*350 “** 34-2 ‘Hi
Talbot 896 891 BS9 894 890 888 886 888 891 816 82' 818 818 814 817 814 816 815 “** .
Taliaferro,... 40i 4 0 396 402 401 400 40( 396 396 59 6 60 52 52 52 50 5- 5 f
Tatnall, 250 250 250 237 259 249 258 255 257 28 24 21 23 23 23 23 23 22 A'\ \k V~R
Telfair, 191 189 187 188 191 189 187 187 ISS 13] 131 132 131 128 12 1.0 U 9 129* 4 n <l9 ““ 130 m
Thomas, 436 442 444 444 443 4 0 414 44' 443 145 145 146 13S 14 ; > 141 136 U. 141 als *
Troup, 1134 1127 1122 1132 1126 1128 1112 1116 1125 429 433 432 400 400 401 402 4jo-4()1 AA 'Ai! Sc oln
Union,
l P son . 938 639! 636 638 639 639 639 637 *637 310 308 311 *312 ’ 3\2 ' 312 *3U 310 *
Walker,.... 383 386 381 380 3*l 81 379 3SO 382 507 569 509 512 512 512 516 512 512 077
Wap o "’ 531 528 530 530 527 527 527 528 52S 678 681 680 077 680 6 ' 2 6S ' 680 6SO •••••**•• 623 442
£«««. 586 582 582 586 552 582 582 582*582 337 * 336 * 337 ’ 336 * 334 ’ 334 ’ 337 * 336 ! 334 f ? aoq
Washington. 583 584 584 582 583 582 590 579 681 521 517 52i 516 516 517 516 515 518 t a
es ’ 4^ 4 4 « 4 4 63 465 455 464 461 462 462 353 384 387] 38? 37' 377 379 379 379 ic? 4 V 6
VVllkmson --- 467 464 464 4641 466 464 465 465 463 505 506 5031 503 504 504 504 503 503 ”” 490 391
at the distance of ten miles from ihe tenement of
his or her master, or the person with whom he or
she lives, without a pass or some letter or token
whereby it may appear that he or she is proceed
mjj by authority Irom his or her master, employer
or overseer, it shall and may be lawful for any per
son 10 apprehend and carry him or her before anv
Justice of the Peace, to be by his order punished
with stripes, not exceeding thirty-five, at his dis
cretion
bee. 14. If any slave or servant shall presume
to come and be upon the plantation, or at the
dwelling house of any person whatsoever, without
leave from his or her.owner, not being sent upon
lawtul business, it shall be lawful for the owner
ot such plantation, or dwelling house, to give or
order such slave or seivant ten lashes on his oi
lier bare hack.
Sec. 15. Riots, routs, unlawful assemblies, tres
passes and seditious speeches, by any slave or
slaves servant or servants, shall be punished with
stripes, at the discretion of a Justice of the Peace,
not exc-eding thirty-nine, and he who will may
apprehend and carry him, her, or them before such
Justice.
Sec. 16. If any person shall harboi any servant
or slave of color, who is bound to service, wit out
the consent of his or her master first obtained, he or
she so offending shall be lined in any sum rot ex
ceeding one bundled dollars, at the discietion of
the Couit, to be recovered by indictment or in
formation ; and if any person shall aid and assist
any servant or slave to abscond from his or her
master, upon conviction thereof, he or she so of
fending shal be lined in any sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars, at the discretion of the Court,
for the use of the party aggrieved, to be recovered
as aforesaid. JEBBE 13. THOMAS,
Speaker of the House ot Representatives.
13. CHAMBERS,
President ox the Council.
Approved September 17th, 1807.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
INDIANA —to wit.
I, William J. Brown. Secretary of State for the
State aforesai ', do hereby certify that the forego
ing is a true copy of the original act now on file in
my office.
I n testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the Great Seal of said
seal. State, at Indianapolis, this 22d day of Sep
tember, A.D. 1840. WM. J. BROWN,
Secretary of State.
Erom the Baltimore Patriot.
Mates’ Evidence.
■ John O. Truesde 1 was, and we believe still is,
a Van Buren editor in Washington, Fayette coun
ty, Ohio. He confesses that for two years past he
has been a “ slave ” to the Administration leaders
in that county, and having burst his bonds, he now
bursts out with this description of his masters:
“A more heartless, soulless, and unprincipled
set of men does not exist in any county, or in any
community, than aie the leaders ot tiie Vanocratic
parly in Fayette. I know them well. They are
held together by political principles, not bv any
respect for each other. J heir adhesive qualities
consist only of self aggrandizement and love of of
fice.* I know that then bosoms rankle with ha
tred and malice towards each other, which will
break forth ere long, and an attempt will be made
to entangle some of the honest and unsuspecting
°f the party in their plans.” * * * “ They would
sell their county for gold, or their ‘ birth right’ for
an office.” b
* As John C. Calhoun expresses it, they are
kept together by the “ cohesive power of the public
plunder
lo adopt the phrase of Junius, as applied to the
eulogist of Lord Granby, we may say 6f the testi
mony of these witnesses against Van Burenism—
none but an intimate acquaintance could have
described it so well!”
Legislature.
Baker. —Holmes.—Keaton. v
Baldwin.— Williams. —McCombs and HammSftd..
1 lO'S.
Bibb. — Bullock. — Brown, Chappel and Howard. 2
gain.
Bryan. — Smith — Linder.
Burke. — Harris. — Evans, Carswell,Midkey.
Butts. —Lindsey.—Lawson, Saunders
Bulloch.—Peter Cone. —And a tie.
Camden. —Hopkins.—Dufour and Atkinson.
Campbell.—Camp.—Beavers and Carlton.
Carroll.—Boggles.—Espy and Rogers.
Cass. —Hamilton.—Hudgins and Pitts. 1 loss.
C obd. —Guess.—Mays and Morris. 1 gain.
Coweta.—Tie for Senate — Bell, Co§k and Lee. 2
gain.
Cherokee.—McConnell.—Hunter and Ford.
Chatham. —Gordon —Millen, Stone, Stiles and I
Anderson.
Clarke —Vincent—Moore, Richardson, Stroud.
Columbia. — Dawson. — Jones, Robertson and Burt. !
Crawford —-Walker. —Turner and Cruchfield.
Decatur. —A eel. — Hines and Chester.
Dooly.—Graham.—Potter and Fama'd.
De Kalb.—Diamond.—Murphy, Collier and Pal- 1
mer.
Early.—Speight.—Wilson and Sheffield.
Effingham.— Waldhour. — McGahagan.
Elbert.— Christian. — Craft, Warren and Parks, i
F ayette.—Hiflin.—Brown and Nixon.
Floyd —.Walters.—Shropshire and Liddel.
Franklin.—Morris.—Anderson, Jones, Mitchell. !
Forsyth.—Hammond.—Green and Irvin.
Gilmer.—Chastain.—Price.
Glyn n. —Dan t.—King.
Greene — Stocks.—Rea, Danicll, Criddle.
Gwinnett — Loveless. —Read, Pittman and Mar
tin. 2 gain.
Habersham.—Kirnzy.— Barclay. Sandford, and '
Wales. 1 gain.
Hancock.— Conder.—Thomas, Hudson, Hitchcock. !
1 gam.
Hall. Dunagan.—Hardage, Thompson and Rob- ■
erts. 1 loss.
H arris.— Kennon. — Jones, Osborns and Williams. \
H earls.—Crosby.— Johnson and Dawson. 1 gain. ;
Henry.— Cox. — Davis , Dodson ana Bentleu. 4 1
tarn.
Houston. Holmes. — Hampton, Bryan and Brown. I
4 gain. • Ah,
Jackson.—Mays.—MeMullin, Chandler and Webb.
1 loss.
Jasper.— Glover. — White, Preston, Robinson. 3
gam. >
Jefferson.— Stapleton. — Bigham and Car bah.
Jones. — Goddard. — Hardman, Lowe and Franks 4
gain. m
Laurens.— Wright.—Robinson and A shlem[
Dee — Janes—l ad. 1 gain.
Liberty. — Spencer.—Harrington and MaM\ e n
Li coi.n— Moore. — Hagaman, Hardy, i
Lowndes.— Knight. — Waldhour and S/rmoßL'
Lumpkin.—M’Alfee.—Gathright and Hibbeim i
loss. 1
Marion. — Mintern. — Whigham and Hall. I wL
Macon. — Bryan. — Whigham anti Green. ' i
Madison, —Culbertson.— Whitworth, and a ti(s3?i
gain.
Meriwether.— Reeves.—Dark, Towles and RießL
1 loss.
Mclntosh. —McDonald.—Stewart and Le Fill
2 loss. * 1
Monroe. Reid. Black, Gordon, Jones, and O’M
Neal. 4 gam. j
Montgom erx. — Creech.—McCrimmon
Morgan —Floyd.—Foster, Martin, Mann.
Murray. Bishop.—Morris md Carroll.
Muscogee.— Calhoun.— Flournoy, Alexander, Sapp
and Chtpley. o gain. {
WillitVnson - —Hardman, Loyall and J
Oglethorpe —Thomas. Crawford, Davenport I
and Huubard. m
Paulding. Jones. — Pryor. 2 gain. if
Pike. Adams.—Neal, White and Green. 1 loss*
Putnam. Griggs. — Shaw, Harrison and Finch. MK
lULASKt. Bostwick.— Whitfield aud Jiuotha.
Rabun.— Hcnly.— Cannon.
Randolph.—Graves, —Harrison and Hendry, Jr
Richmond. Miller. Jenkins, Crawford and |
Rhodes. 1 gain.
Scriven.—Conner.—Moultrie and Hotchkiss. 3 I
t*. less.
Stew \rt. — Bryan. — West, De Fanny and Boynton B
2 gain.
Sumpter — Tomlinson. — Crawford, and McMath. I
Talliaferro. — Harris. — Stephens and Chapman, fj
1 allot. — Smead. — Dixon, Williams and Ltnan
uel. 4 gain.
T atn A l l .— Strickland. —Man n.
Telfair. — Fryer. — McCall.
Thomas. — Blackshear.—Daniel and McMil'ain,
Troup. — Beasley. — Durden, Caughtright. Taylor 11
and Johnson.
1 wiggs.—Smith.—Fitzpatrick and Tarver.
Union —Jameson. —Wellborne.
I pson.— Goode. — Tray Ur, Meadows and Walker.
Walker —Thompson.—Smith and Dickson,
j W Alton. — Echols.—Stroud, Harrison and Moon.
W arren.— Harris. — May, Anderson and Darden. .
1 1 £ ai n-
Washington. — Warthen. — Long, Flournoy and »
B Via.
I Wayne. — Wiggins. — Bryan. 1 gain.
I V* ilkes. — Anderson, — Toombs. Wingfield, Wooten, H
j Wilkinson.— Beall.—Murphy and Hatcher,
i ffj' TJ he first name in each county is Senator.
I he names m Italics are Whigs.
Keeping Defaulters in Office.
It is proven by official documents that Harris, Bj
j the Receiver at Columbus, was retained in office Si
after it was known that he was a defaulter to an S
immense amount. Mr. Woodbury, for nearly 1
two years, had been coaxing this man to restore |
the money which he had stolen. I say stolen,for B|
that is the word, the proper word. “Kow do, fl
dear Mr. Harris, pay us our money ; it is very B
painful to have to teaze you thus; we would not B
| do it, Mr. Harris, indeed we would not, hut we H
i are mighty hard pushed ourselves.” Mr.HA»Bi>B
' was inexoiahi*; he would pay nothing, At las* fl
| he was informed that if he did not pay up by the H|j
i first of October, be would be dismissed. H* l B
! began to look a little like doing the right things* ft
I last. But mark the issue ! Mr. Clai borne, the Br
I member of Congress from Mississippi, writes aid* K
ter to the President, saying amongst oilier thing ß ' Bp
that the flection in •Mississippi would be a ' er l BH
cl* se one, and that Mr. Farris and his fanny Bt
were very influentlajy'aml were friertffiy to *h f Bp
Administration. He to hiscflice n n ' Bn
til he embezzled thirty forty thousand doda* 5 Bp
more, which was lost to the Government; in a ’ IK*
109,000 dollars. Lmifeht swell this list if I v ‘ ere
to name all who, under like circumstances, " ere |y
retained in office after it was known that t ‘.' ;|K
embezzled the public money. Is not the case* Ip
then, made out, of the overseer who tnake» H
profitable esiate ruinously unproductive. 1 C
fences down, houses dilapidated, and wiflks at ||r
stealing by the servants of the little that is® J |
not satisfied with not punishing them, but r« fmf
ing them by again giving them opportunity B
steal ? Would any man here retain such |
Lager] If he woulJ not, but would continue
Ber in its present hands, he cares less lor the pu- ||W
than his own. He may be a P 8 J W
to his idea of the meaning ol to* v * T
>: JLie is not, according to mine.- Waddy I-.*
■'s Dai'i iFe Speech. ft jL
Jman Buhkn Democracy.— I 11 %
WMvt for De Witt Clinton, in ISI-, WJS .
JBH Massachusetts by Harrison Ga.v Uu ?*
Cockade Federaliis, and 01 !#
SKv movers of the Har ford I on'cnt* 0
the Ticket was header b . v
üße Dwight, the Secretary of the Hart of
|K • for the man whom these men , V
H ’ Hurcm voted and yet Mr. '
'•» a democrat, at rJ
Wm "t fupporters.—*