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From the Journal & Messenger.
The Telegraph, of yesterday, contains a
short paragraph, noticing the nomination of
Mr. Jenkins, in which there are two very
grave errors in fact, which we must correct,
because they constitute the only capital of
the opposition against Mr. Jenkins, in his
present candidacy. One is, that lie was
the author of the Algerine law, and the oth
er that he was the head and front of the
Webster party, and readily consented to
lead the opposition against the nomination
of General Scott. Mr. Jenkins was not the
author of the Algerine law, and never did
accept his nomination upon the indepen
dent Webster ticket, and had no agency
whatever in that movement of the inde
pendent Whigs of Georgia. The Telegraph
promises its readers more of the Algerine
law anon. We call upon it to publish it,
with th.e original petition, which gave rise
to it, that the people may see that Mr. Jen
kins, in presenting it, and in urging it simp
ly represented the views, and obeyed the
instructions of his Democratic constituents
of Richmond County. We charge that the
petition of the Algerine law was gotten up
by Democrats, and that the law must be
considered as a Democratic measure. Such
is our information, Let the Telegraph pub
lish the documents, and let us have no mis
representation, and no demagogical use of
this law against Mr. Jenkins, which, when
properly, and fairly, and candidly presented
before the people, we know, cannot and
will not injure him, in his candidacy for
the Office of Governor of the State. The
Telegraph may injure some of its friends
by rushing headlong against the Algerine
law, and in its efforts to make capital out
of it, against Mr. Jenkins, may be manufac
turing thunder against some of them, who
are, like Mr. Jenkins, candidates for the
suffrages of the people. David J. Bailey,
if we mistake not, has voted in the Georgia
Legislature for a law more oppressive of
the poor man than, as the Telegraph will
contend, was th.e Algerine law ; and promi
nent Democrats in this city, whom we shall
name, if it becomes necessary, have, with
in the last twelve months, publicly declar
ed themselves in favor of a law in this cor
poration, similar to the one, the advocacy
of which is the only vulnerable point which
the Telegraph can find in the long political
record of Mr. Jenkins. So much for the
Algerine law, of which, as the Telegraph
says, more anon.
It is hardly necessary that we should
further notice that other political sin which
the Telegraph charges to his account, oppo
sition to the regular nominee of his party.—
It is not politic for the Telegraph to urge
such a charge, when every body knows that
it, and its party, openly abandoned the Na
tional Democracy for a sectional organiza
tion, and after denouncing it as corrupt, ef
fete, and rotten, supported its nominee with
the zeal of a new convert. The only dif
ference between th.e Telegraph and Mr. Jen
kins, upon this point, is, that he was honest
and consistent in his opposition to the nom
inee of the Whig Party, whilst they, after
denouncing every man north of Mason and
Dixon’s line, voted for a man who lived near
the frigid zone. There is no political capi
tal in this charge against Mr. Jenkins.—
8eott Whigs, Webster AYiiigs, Southern
Rights Whigs, and Union Democrats, ali
receive his nomination with an enthusiasm
which is the surest harbinger of success,
and wc feel there is no necessity for us to
imitate the example of the Telegraph,
which, in its issue of last week, actually con
tained an article apologizing for the nomi
nation of Johnson, and attempting to recon
cile the rank and file to the action of the
new coalition of Cobb, Johnson & Co. It
does not like the nominee of its Party ; we
are not only content, but delighted with our
own, and so are the people of this county,
and of the State. We would state for the
information of the Telegraph that a Scott
Whig proposed in the Convention to nomi
nate Mr. Jenkins by acclamation; that
Scott Whigs are his warmest admirers, and
that every Scott press in the State sustains
him ; and, as it betrays great ignorance of
the antecedents of our candidate, in the
statement that Mr. Jenkins “is well known
throughout Georgia, as the author of the
Algerine law,” we would enlighten it by
in presenting the name of such a man for
the first office in the State.—Aug. Sentinel.
“Worthy and Well Qualified.”
The Columbus Enquirer, closes an able
and telling leader under the head of Nomi
nation for Governor, <5cc. as follows :
Well; the whole matter is in the hands
Pierce and the Old Liners.
When tlic Ereesoilers met in convention
at Buffalo, and when the disunionists met in
convention at Nashville every body though t
that they had crazily placed a Cain-like
mark on their foreheads which would cause
them to be shunned and hated ever after
wards. The doom that overwhelmed the
members of the celebrated Hartford conven
of the people. The author of the Georgia { t ; 0T1 it was thought would be the doom of
Platform, the clearest, most conclusive and
most patriotic document that ever emanated
from any assemblage of Georgia’s sons, has
been selected, by the conservative portion
of the great Constitutional Union Party, to
bear their standard through the present
struggle. Is he worthy of their support and
confidence ? Can Charles J. Jenkins be
trusted in the high position to which his
friends desire to elevate him ? Or, shall liebc
thrown aside to make room for another
whose vindictive hatred pursued, up to the
lOtli of December, 1850, and would still
pursue if he dared to indulge it, every friend
to the union and constitution of his country ?
These are some of the questions which the
voters will ponder well before they approach
the polls. Many, very many honest men
are beginning to discover, ancNiavc indeed
already discovered, the hidden meaning of
re-organized democracy. Murphy, and oth
ers throughout the State, have in their dying
convulsions opened their eyes only to dis
cover the horrors of the slaughter house.—
Judge Warner, on a very recent and inter
esting occasion, had an opportunity to real
ize the sufferings of the victims sacrificed
to appease the Moloch of disunion. Expe
rience is a sore teacher; but its lessons are
instructive, and lasting. It is no fault of
ours if they are forgotton.
The Nominations for Governor, See.—
In another place will be found the proceed- . ,
mgs of the Convention of Whigs and Con- ’> and profit for which the leaders of th.e old
the freesoilers and disunionists. Perpetual
banishment from all offices in the dispense
tion of the Government and the people was
the sentancc that was denounced against
them. But ah! what a worker of miracles
is Brigadier General Pierce ! Tliat little
General, who in Mexico ‘witched the world
with wondrous horsemanship’ as Charles
the Second and Murat did, with a wave of
the arm has metamorphosed traitors into the
most ardent patriots, and lias reversed the
decision of the American people with the
breath of his nostrils. Talk of the “wily
magician” of Kinderhook no more ! Did
Van Buren ever exhibit such powers of ne
cromancy as Pierce lias done. No, Pierce
has beaten all the magicians in bis party,
leaving them hopeless behind him in the
contest for superiority.
The Nashville and Buffalo conventions,
under the magical influence of Mr. Pierce,
have turned out to be the most successful of
what at the time semed to be desperate en
terprises. They were not blunders, viewed
according to the leading principle of Loco-
focoism, but where wonderful specimens of
luck-defying fate. Had they been planned
for the express purpose of securing to those
who participated in them the richest patron
age of the government, they would not have
heen planned otherwise than they were.
The leaders, instead of being hanged on
trees, as people expected, are sitting in the
highest offices and enjoying all the honor
servative L nion Democrats, which assem
bled in Milledgeville, on the 23d inst., to \
nominate a candidate for Governor. These j
proceedings will speak for themselves, and j
require no special endorsement at our hands. ?
i’he resolutions are plain, intelligible, states- f
manlike, and eminently worthy of the en
lightened body that adojited them. Of
Charles J. Jenkins, the nominee, it is al
most useless for us to speak. His name is
line Democrats have toiled through so ma
ny years ofhope. Each leading Freesoiler
and disunionist has a teat in his mouth and
is luxuriating in the fullness of lacteal de
light, while the regular Democrats, who have
borne the brunt of the battle against the
Whigs for many years, are fceilitating
themselves on such pleasure as their unre-
fresliing thumbs can afford.
Sometimes, when we are rather pa
familiar to every man and boy in the State. . thetic than otherwise, we can scarce resist
His ability as a statesman, his integrity as
a man, his purity and patriotism as a citi
zen, his devotion to the Union of the States
and the rights of the South in that Union,
the meanest of political malice lias, we be
lieve, thus far never ventured to question or
deny. We gladly then hoist his name at
the head of ouf columns, and will nerve our
ana, feeble though it be, to raise him one
step higher towards that still more elevated
position, which we trust liis countrymen will,
in due time, assign him.—Columbus Enq.
The Democratic Convention.—The Co
lumbus “Corner Stone,” of the 23d inst.
says :
“We have been greatly disappointed in
the result of the labors of this body. We
had no doubt that Judge Warner would
have received the nomination—not tliat
we had any idea that he was a strong man
before tlie people, but that we had great
faith in his management, and we supposed
that he had friends who would insist upon liis
nomination^ any and all hazards—and that
the Convention would be driven into liis
nomination by the necessity of keeping tlie
peace. It seems, however, that he did not
carry into the Convention a strength suffi-
iently great to justify any very strong
measures for his success.
Judge Johnson is a clever man—of a
high order of talents, and was, some years
ago, a strong Southern Rights man. He
acquired a high reputation once as a Com
Killer—* * *” [! !]—Call you this back-
ing your friend, neighbour ?
Mr. Jenkins, of Augusta, is the gentleman who
has been selected to lose the race. He has -filled
various positions in the State Legislature, and is well
known throughout Georgia as the author of the Al
gerine Law—of which law more anon.—Macon Tel
egraph.
Olr contemporary, the Telegraph, com
mences early in the canvass to draw on his
the information that perhaps he is more j fancy for his facts in relation to the Alge-
gcneraily known “ throughout Georgia,
throughout the South, and throughout the
Union, as the author of the Georgia Plat
form, beneath which the Telegraph was
badly squeezed and crushed.
The Nomination.
Most cordially do we congratulate the
Conservative men of Georgia upon the re
sult of the labors of the Convention, the
proecediiigs of which will be found in this
day’s paper. The nomination of the Hon.
Charles J. Jenkins, as their candidate for
Governor, was one most “lit to be made.”
It is particularly appropriate that they
should have as their standard bearer, one
so pre-eminently distinguished for his great
private worth, liis high intellectual capaci
ty, bis sincere and .devoted patriotism, bis
sagacious statesmanship, and liis liberal
and enlightened conservatism—all, all of
which have been so signally illustrated
throughout his whole life, both public and
private. Devoted as are the Conservative
men of Georgia to the Union and Constitu
tion, not less than the rights of the sover
eign .States, it will be particularly gratify
ing to each and all of tliem to elevate to the
first office within their gift, the distinguish
ed author of the Georgia Platform, the pro
duction of which, if lie had never performed
another prominent act in her history, was
quite sufficient to have classed him among
the first men of the .State, and to have ren
dered his name immortal.
Again, the nomination is most appropri
ate, because he is one of the acknowledged
leaders of the Conservative men of the
State, and to have rendered Ills name im
mortal.
Again, the nomination is most appro
priate, because he is one of the acknowledg
ed leaders of the Conservative men of the
State—and the opposition have placed in
nomination for the same office to lion.
Hersliel V. Johnson, a prominent leader of
the secessionists.
The opportunity is, therefore, directly
presented to the people of the State, to elect
a Conservative or a Secessionist, a radical,
of the broadest and boldest cast.
In Mr. Jenkins we have a man whose
early manhood and mature age, has been
devoted to the best interests of the State
and the development of her resources, with
a singleness of purpose, an unfaltering en
ergy, and a power of intellect rarefy equal
led, and, perhaps, never surpassed by any
man in her Legislative councils. Indeed,
there is no important event in the history
of the State, since be entered upon public
life, with which his name and power and
influence are not prominently associated,
and in wliich they were not zealously, and
earnestly directed to the promotion of the.
best interest of the State and the happi
ness andqiropperity of the people.
Bur why nt?ed we discant upon the char
acter and publfc services of Charles J. den-
kins, to a people so familiar with both, a
people who justly appreciate him and are
proud to number him among Georgia’s
brightest jewels. Wc will not say more, we
could not, in justice to our own feelings
;$kI our convictions of duty, have said less,
rine Law. We had always been under the
impression, that the authors of that law were
citizens of Augusta, who petitioned the
Legislature for its passage. Mr. Jenkins
was not one of the petitioners, but voted
for it, not only because he believed it was
desired by the people, whom herepresented,
but because lie believed such a change as
the law proposed to make in the government
of the city was a wise and prudent one.
He, therefore, not only obeyed what he be
lieved to be the will of his constituents, but
what were his convictions of duty. The
Telegraph is welcome to all it can make of
that matter.—Augusta Sentinel.
“Hang up the Fiddle and tiie Bow !”
—Dancing formally denounced and forbidden
by the Presbyterian Church.—The following
Resolution lias been unanimously adopted
by the Presbyterian General Assembly in
Buffalo :
“Resolved, That the fashionable amuse
ment of promiscuous dancing is entirely un-
scriptural and eminently and exclusively
that of the ‘world which liveth in wicked
ness,’ and so wholly inconsistent with the
spirit of Christ, and with that propriety of
Christian deportment, and that purity of
heart which liis followers are bound to main
tain, as to render it not only improper and
injurious for professing Christians cither to
partake in it, or qualify their children for it
by teaching them the art; but also to call
for the faithful and judicious exercise of dis
cipline on the part of Church Sessions, when
any of the members of tlieir churches have
been guilty.”
A witness spoke several times during his
testimony, of an occurrence about the time
of liis birth, when a surly judge interrupted
him—“Do you mean to say that you can
relate occurrences at the time of your birtli,
from your own recollection ?” The laugh
which began against tlic witness turned up
on the judge as the former replied— “Why,
sir, I cannot say that I exactly remember
every particular, but I can assure your hon
or that I was there !”
An Agonizing Question.—The New York
Tribune asks the Washington Union, which
had been wasting a column in demonstrat
ing the Democracy and diplomacy of Au
guste Belmont,
“Suppose Mr. Belmont had given or
spent no money to secure Pierce’s election,
do you think he would have been this
vear appointed a Charged’ Affaires ? Now
just face the music !”
Where is most Danger1—Professor Sil-
liman says that the aggregate destruction
of human life annually in this country from
the use of fluid and camphene is greater
than by all the accidents with steamboats
and railroads.
Is the Whig party dead or not.—Boston
Post..
Put your finger in its mouth and you
will perhaps find out.—Louisville Journal.
UIU In adversity, one true and real friend
is worth a dozen relatives.
the impulse to shed a tear or so over
the hard fate which has befallen the faithful,
the tried, and proved Democrats. Lustily
and valiantly did they fight for the Balti
more platform and Pierce last year. They
exhausted every energy, strained every
nerve, and exerted every possible de
vice to place Pierce in the Presidency,
expecting thereby to place themselves
in inferior and yet eagerly-desired offices.
They demolished their consciences in their
their desperate struggle foroffice,and placed
souls in the most imminent peril by fab
ricating facts to show that Pierce was a
true hero and a great man, while Scott was
a pretender and a nincompoop. For all
this wear and tear of body, soul, conscience
hope, that arrant cheat, smiled and prom
ised them cabinet offices, judgeships of the
Supreme Court, missions to foreign coun
tries, exceedingly profitable consulships,
fat colleetorships, remunerating post offices,
Indian agencies with rich and abundant
Pactolean streams running bard by to fer
tilize the pocket and gladden the heart,
besides divers and sundry other offices, for
information in relation to which we refer
all interested to the Blue Book. Thus they
hoped that their efforts in behalf of Pierce
would be rewarded. But, alas, instead of
sitting in high places and stuffing their
pockets with “mint drops,” they are now
sitting in gloom and disappointment! They
arc utterly without hope and cannot be
comforted. In tlieir eagerness to establish
their claims to office, they overreached
themselves. They made loud and Ion
demonstrations of their regard for the Union
of these States—the greatest blunder that
hungry office-seekers ever committed. Had
they in time allied themselves with the
traitors of the North, or denounced the
Union .as a curse, as the traitors of the
South did, then they would have placed
themselves in that position in which Exec
utive partiality and patronage would have
dawned genially on their souls. But nev
er having supposed it possible that thrift
could follow treason, they turned their
backs on tlieir only chance and lost the re
ward they sought so ardently.
Would one’s precious tears fall out of
place were they to fall when pondering
over the hard fate of the regular and faith
ful and unshrinking and indomitable and
uncompromising and hard-fisted and un-
purchasable and iron-bound democracy?
All their beautiful buds of expectation have
been nipped by the ungenial frosts from
New Hampshire.
Are they not fit subjects for those tears
that ought to fall like rain-drops when hu
man misfortune in its agony is presented ?
Pierce’s inhumanity to Old Liners ought
certainly to make “ countless thousands
mourn.” The “ Granite Democrat” wears
a heart of granite in liis bosom, and it can
not feel for such distress as the old veter
ans in tlie Democratic ranks are now writh
ing under.
There are some cruel people who think
that Pieif e has been sent by Rluidaman
thus to inflict justice on the veterans on ac
count of their numerous sins against the
Whigs. If so, lie is discharging the duties
of his vicegerency with tremendous and
exemplary fairness. They who have lav
ished more foul abuse on the Whigs than
others have done, are now lashed by the
scourge of executive indifference and neg
lect which is to them like a scorpion lash.
They can bear any fate better than ban
ishment from office, and yet that is the
dark fate under which they must continue
to huzza for Pierce and tlie Democracy.
Will they who have been deserted by
Pierce, the old and faithful Locofocos, de
sert him ? Oh, no! They belong to that
breed the members of wliich lick the band
that smites them. Let Pierce throw a
kick into the bargain, and they will all be
faithful Warn has in his service during tlie
period of liis political life.—Louisville Jour.
Farts for Union Democrats.
II. Y. Johnson, the candidate for Gov
ernor, is a Fire-eater,—David J. Bailey, the
nominee for Congress in the 3d District, is
a Fire-eater,—W. B. W. Dent, tlie nomi
nee for Congress in the 4th District, is a
Fire-eater,—James L. Seward, the nominee
in the 1st Congressional District, is a Fire-
eater. The Fire-eaters in the 2d Congress
ional District are in full pursuit of Hon.
James Johnson, (a Union Democrat,) and
will vote against him to a man. The pros
pect is that a full team of Salamander pol
iticians will be hitched to the car of so call
ed Democracy. This looks like equality
—in a horn !—Rome Courier.
After such evidences as this, who is it
that will not agree with Hon. Chas. Mur
phy in the conviction that “Democracy and
Secession are synonymus terms.”
[Lagrange Reporter.
An infidel, who had been attempting to
prove that men had no souls, asked a lady
with an air of triumph, what she thought of
liis philosophy.
“It appears to me,” she replied, “that you
have been employing a great deal of talent
to prove yourself a beast.”
The Union Party.
The Marietta Union (Democratic) hoists
tlic name of Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, and
thus discourses of the doings of tlic late
Convention.
The brief but significant preamble of the
late Union Convention, designatingits mem
bers and those they represented, whether
wliigs or democrats, as Republicans, is
highly appropriate, embracing as it does,
those who agree upon constitutional ques
tions, with the expositions of Madison.—
The word “democrat,” once in Georgia, ex
pressed the same sentiments. Then it was
Jackson democracy—Union Democracy.
Now, Georgia Democracy, in the language
of Judge Warner, “is a white sepulchre fill
ed with nullification and secession.” The
Lnion party, thus organized, is given a
more immediate connection with the whole
range of constitutional questions and ques
tions of administrative policy, and repre
sents at the same time our position in Geor
gia and in the Union.
The Convention Resolved “to adhere to
the Report and Resolutions of the Georgia
Convention of 1850.” Wc think with tlie
Convention that it is necessary to stand by
those resolutions in view of the present ab
olition agitation and of the policy of Gcr<
Pierce in fostering the frecsoil influence of
the North.
In the 3d Resolution it is declared that
both national parties “have proved faith
less to their oft repeated pledges” of econ
omy, with reference to the public money
and in tlie reckless appropriations of the
public lands for local purposes, and disap
proves of all schemes of internal improve
ment intended for tlie promotion of parti
cular interest. The -1th resolution declares
the public land“the common property of al l
tlie States, and that any appropriation of
them, other than to bring money in to the
Treasury, should be for the benefit of all the
States of the Union, old as well as new.”—
It is not to be disguised that both of the na
tional parties have become, irredeemably
coirupt with reference to this subject. There
arc as many' internal improvement demo
crats in Congress as there are wliigs of that
character, and at every session tliey r com
bine to enrich themselves and their sec
tions at the expense of tlie common treasure.
We heartly approve, therefore, of the above
republican resolution. Equally' so we do
with the one wliich follows, declaring in
the language of AYasliington and Jefferson,
“peace, friendship commerce, with all na
tions; entailing alliances with none.”
Tlic last Resolution of the platform
should meet with a hearty response from
every Georgian. It declares:—
That this Convention avers that the mainten
ance of the honor and dignity of the position as -
sumed by Georgia in 1850, and the promotion of tine
moral, social, intellectual, and national interests o*'
her people to be objects of far greater importance,
than tlie success of any national party.
The Convention which adopted this plat
form, with admirable consistency nomina
ted a candidate for Governor, thoroughly
identified with it. In the Union there is
not a more worthyman—a more unswerving
Republican-a more disinterested patriot. In
the South there is not a more devoted friend
of our just rights, or one who feels more
thoroughly indentified with our prosperity'.
InGeorgia-the empire State ofthe South, we
have no citizen upon whom we can look
with more pride, whether we contemplate
his gifted intellect, his irreproachable char
acter, or whether we regard him only as
the author of The Georgia Platform !
MmaaDEE'ra&iBg
TUESDAY iflORYIYU, JULY 5, 1853.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CHARLES J. JENKINS, of Rielimoiid.
FOR CONGRESS,
«th Dist.—DAVID A. REESE, of Jasper.
Symptoms and Treatment of Sun Stroke.
A medical correspondent of the New
York Times, writing on the subject of coup
dc soleil, a disease which lias caused so ma
ny deaths since the hot weather set in, thus
describes tlie symptoms and the proper re
medies to be applied :
“The symptoms of its approach differ
somewhat. In some cases its attack is
very' sudden, with slight indications, if any,
of its approach; though, as a general thing,
vertigo or dizziness, ringing in the ears,
or dimness of sight, pain and heaviness in
the head, are the precursors of coup de so
leil and of apoplexy. Persons experienc
ing these symptoms, or tlieir approach,
should immediately' quit work, and ride
borne ; and by making, as soon as they'
can, free use of cold applications to the
head, will, in all probability, recover.
“Place the patient in a cool and airy sit
uation, with liis head and shoulders eleva
ted, and while some one is removing bis
cravat, unbuttoning bis shirt collar, and re
moving or loosening whatever else that
may' be tight about bis person, dash sudden
ly cold water on liis bead. This may be
(lone with a pitcher, or any' suitable vessel,
held at some little distance above the head,
pouring out upon it a large and steady
stream. Mustard plasters may' be used
over the upper part of the feet and on the
wrists. But, continue the water, and the
patient must be saved.
“The laboring man, from tlie nature of
liis employment, is more subject to attacks
of this kind than any' other class of persons,
as also sliort-necked and corpulent individ
uals.
Tiie Drought still continues, and is
really becoming alarming. TYe have had
partial showers in some neighborhoods, in
this and the adjoining counties within the
last ten days ; but the rain continued so
short a time, fell so rapidly, and ran oft so
uddenly, that it did not amount to what,
in Georgia vernacular, is denominated “ a
season,” and therefore has done but little
ood. If we are not shortly blessed with
copious showers, thecorn crop will prove as
great a failure as the oat crop lias.
f Athens Herald.
Judge Starnes, of the Middle Circuit,
Georgia, in liis statistics to Governor Cobb,
concludes as follows :
“In every' one hundred cases tried of all
kind, there have heen 33,33 cases with
which the evidence connected the use of
ardent spirits as a cause ; or just one-third.
In every' one hundred cases of crime against
the person, there have been 46,1G cases
with which the evidence connected the use
of spirituous liqours as the cause ; by' which
it appears that nearly one-half ofthe crime
against tlic person is more are less attribu
table to spiritous liquors.”
A A\ t indfall.—Isaac Butler, of Vernon,
in this county', a very poor, hut a very
honest worthy man, a Norwegian by' birth,
and for many years a sailor on tlic high
seas, has recently received a letter from the
Swedish Norwegian Consul at New Aork,
convey'ing to him the pleasant intelligence
that by the death of a relative in Norway,
he is the heir to 694,110. Mr. Butler is
about GO years of age, has no relatives in
the country, and for the last twelve or fif
teen y'ears has resided at Vernon.
[ Utica Herald.
It is now said that Charles Levi Wood-
bury, Esq., declines the Chargeship to Bol
ivia. According to The Boston Mail, he
says the place is not set down on Monk’s
Map—that “nobody knows where in the
thunder it is, and that lie will see the Gov
ernment d—d before lie will travel nine or
ten thousand miles to hunt it up.”
Plain Facts for the People.
AA’e have entered, fellow-citizens, upon another
warm and exciting canvass, and it is not improper
to enquire, how and why it is, that the public mind
is still agitated and divided, and freemen of the
same commonwealth, arrayed in opposing columns
where a perfect identity of interest should have se
cured harmony in feeling and unity in purpose and
action ? In prosecuting this enquiry, we should en
deavor to divest ourselves of ail prejudice, and pre-
possession, and passion. AVe have no personal en
mities to gratify, no selfish ulterior ends to sub
serve. Whilst as Constitutional Union men, we
know no North, no South, our every interest, and
aspiration, and sympathy is with Georgia, and we
would not knowingly mislead or seduce her noble
sons.
It is known to yon, fellow-citizens, that as Union
men, we have been held responsible by the self-
constituted guardians of “ Southern Eights and
Southern Honor,” for tlic unhappy divisions that
for the last few years have existed in the Southern
1 iody politic. Even now we are stigmatized by
t hem as “Agitators,” for daring to call in question
t heir past fealty to the Union, and present claims to
1 lie undivided confidence of the people and supreme
c ontrol of the affairs of State. Let us see whether
t’uis is just.
It will be remembered, that in 1849, we believe,
an address was drawn up by a portion of the South
ern members in Congress, to the people of the
South ; that whilst many signed that address, oth
ers refused to do so, under the conviction that it w
a preliminary step to a covert scheme of disunion
Eor refusing to sign that document, Messrs. Cobb
Lumpkin, and other Southern gentlemen, were de
nonneed as traitors to the South.
The next scheme presented to the consideration
of the people, was the Nashville Convention
This measure purported to originate in Mississippi
but its paternity, wc believe, was finally traced
another aud more suspicious latitude. The friends
ofthe Union viewed this project with suspicion
and distrust, and charged upon its authors and abet
tors, a design and desire to establish a Southern
Confederacy. Still, ail unfriendly intent against
tlie integrity of the Union was denied by them
AVell the Convention met, aud the real object of its
movers was made horribly manifest. The Compro
mise, then pending in Congress, was denounced—
an address liberally but ingeniously infused with
the virus of disunion was drawn up and adopted
and an issue presented to the people, as impractiea
ble as unconstitutional.
Had that irregular and irresponsible body stop
ped at even this stage of its infatuated career, the
country might have thrown over its proceedings
the broad mantle of charity, though it would
doubtless, always have aligned its leading spirits
with those of Hartford memory.
Hut tliis did not answer tlie purpose of tlie Cata-
lines of that august assembly, "i liey drew up and
adopted an ultimatum that they knew was impracti
cable and irould imperil the Union. They marked
out a fighting line, and tried to march the people
up to that line. I hey held a series of mass meet
ings, throughout the country, and by hot meats and
drinks, and hotter speeches and appeals, inflamed
tlie public mind preparatory to a final and furious
crusade against the Constitution and the Union
Mr. Iiliett, confident of tlie aid and comfort of hi:
Georgia allies, with whom he had held “ sweet conn
sel” at Nashvilie, on reaching home raised the dark
banner of revolt. His speech was published with
favor by a portion of the Georgia press. Tlie gal
lant, but impetuous Colquitt raised aloft his coffin,
bearing tlie bold and official inscription of “ 36 30,
or fight.” And this battle-cry of the Nashville Con-
ventionists, was speedily caught up and echoed
through the land.
A mass meeting was called at Macon, Mr. Ehett
sent for. Tlie disunion Sanhedrim was assembled,
that tlie people of the South might hear the law
aud the testimony from tlieir lips. The drama
opens, tlic curtain rises, the mask is removed, and
the conspiracy and conspirators in all their liideous
ness, stand forth disclosed to tlie scrutiny of a start
led, and deceived, and outraged people.
Mr. Rhett openly advocated and urged immedi
ate secession. One “small voice” is heard in disso
nance. That voice was promptly stilled by a storm
of fiery hisses and shouts from tlie maddened mul
titude.
The standard of disunion and revolt, bearing up
on its sombre folds, the insignia of resistance and
blood, the hideous imagery of its own frantic vota
ries, was unfurled, whilst the glorious banner of
Constitutional Liberty, waving the stars and stripes,
the respect and admiration of the civilized world,
was trampled in the dust.
Union men of Georgia .' it was at this point, and
in the presence of these disclosures, that you “ and
all of us” opened our eyes to tlic wicked deception
that had been practiced upon a confiding, unsus
pecting and patriotic people, and which threatened
to cngulph us and the Union in a common ruin.
The alarm was sounded, and borne upon the wings
of the wind, it swept in trumpet tones from the
mountains to the seaboard. Its echoes filled and
startled the dales aud hamlets of our great and glo
rious State. The aged, the middle aged, and the
young; the jurist, the yeoman, the divine, the phy
sician, tlie artizan, the retired statesman and sage—
all, all, came forth to the rescue of our free insti
tutions.
The foemen talked and looked fiercely and valo
rous—denounced the Constitutional Government,
roared by the wisdom and patriotism of our Revolu
tionary Sires, as a failure and a curse—to be “ hated
as hell,” and destroyed without delay, or remorse,
or benefit of clergy. Those who had dared to in
terpose their defence of the Constitution and the
Union, and delay tlie hour of their destruction and
dissolution, were branded as dastards and cowards—
as submissionists and traitors. They tried by
threats and taunts to muzzle tlie press and stifie
the freedom of speech. Failing in these delicate
appliances to frighten the patriotic freemen of
Georgia into their hateful designs of open resis
tance, they next attempted to cajole and deceive
them, by heartless professions of sudden attachment
to the Union, and thus achieve, by an indirect wav,
what they failed to accomplish by open assault.
Fortunately for the Republic—fortunately for the
cause of rational, civil and religious liberty*—fortu
nately for the security of our homes and fire-sides,
our wives and little ones, tlieir machinations met
with overwhelming defeat. Unable to stem the
storm of popular indignation, they suddenly chang
ed their tactics, professed to acquiesce in the Com
promise, and wondered that any one should have
suspected tlieir ardent attachment to the Union.
The more effectually to keep up the deception and
attain their object, they again assumed the cast off
name and garments of Democracy, and hoped un
der this captivating guise to secure the Federal pa
tronage and local offices.
Under the deceptive name of Democrat, these old
plotters against the Union, arc now seeking Exec
utive, Judicial, Congressional, and Legislative hon
ors and offices. They declare that they have re
nounced no principle—changed no opinion—they
still hold the Union “ e ven” in utter contempt,
though wanting and seeking their votes.
Fellow-citizens, in conclusion, wc ask you to re
view, calmly and dispassionately, the plain facts
which throng the past, and ask yourselves whether
Herschel V. Johnson, the political associate and
confederate of R. H. Rhett and Charles J. McDon
ald, is a suitable person to entrust with the Chief
Magistracy of this Commonwealth ? If you would
guard and secure the future, be not oblivious to the
past.
Hr. Jenkins’ Letter.
AVe’ have barely room to call attention to the high- j
ly eloquent and satisfactory letter of acceptance of
this gentleman, which will be found in our paper
to-day. Nothing could b<^ more explicit, more
statesmanlike, or unanswerable. AVe say so tlie
people of Georgia, peruse and re-peruse it, and then
declare whether it is not admirably suited to the
times, and whether its gifted author,above all others,
is not the man Georgians should delight to honor
with Executive robes.
Examination.
We were highly gratified with the examination of I
the young ladies attached to Miss Hass’ school,
which took place on Wednesday last. Tlic pn pi Is
acquitted themselves very handsomely, in all the |
departments of study, so far as we observed. AVe
were especially pleased with tlieir graceful and lady-1
like deportment. Miss Bass’ mode of instruction
is both efficient and felicitous, rendering the acqni- j
sition of knowledge rather an agreeable pastime,
than an irksome task. AVe hope her valuable ser
vices may long be retained in our community.
Organize! Organize!!
Now is the time to organize for the campaign.
Our standard bearer is chosen. He has the love
and confidence of the people. His name and pub-1
lie services are household words. Every true
Georgian feels that in liis hands the honor and pros
perity of our State will be secure. Let every man,
then, do his duty in the approaching contest.
For the purpose of securing concerted, harmoni
ous and efficient action, we would suggest to our
friends, throughout the State, the call of union J
meetings—the ratification of the nomination, and
the adoption of such prudential measures as will
rally the full strength of our party in the pending
contest. LTiion men, Conservative men of Geor
gia, your old enemy is again in the field, once more j
to the rescue.
Legislative Candidates.
AA’e have before alluded to tbe importance of se
curing in the next Legislature, the services of our
most enlightened, sober and patriotic citizens.
Measures of vast moment to the general welfare of
Georgia, will come before that body. AATiilst it will,
therefore, be right and proper to secure the services
of those who will wisely guard our Federal rela
tions, our local State interests and progress should
not be lost sight of. National polities and Federal
legislation are important in their place, but we are
far more deeply interested in securing to Georgia a
sound and wise domestic policy and adminsitration.
Select, then, for legislative office, your best men—
men whose integrity is above suspicion, and who
cannot be made to dance attendance upon political
wire-pullers and tricksters.
Is itTo ?
The Federal Union says that Air. Toombs has
published a resolution condemning the Administra
tion of Mr. Fillmore. AA’ill our neighbor produce
the resolution. The late Union Convention ex
pressed, by resolution, the opinion that “ both the
AATiig and Democratic parties of the United States
have been faithless to their oft repeated pledges of
economy', in the expenditure of the public money.’
Hut who appropriates public money ? Not the Ex
ecutive branch of the Government, certainly, which
is but the agent of tlie legislative department, and
required under the solemn mandate of the Consti
tution, to obey its behests, in the expenditure of the
public money. Mr. Fillmore, therefore, is not re
sponsible nor censurable for the extravagant waste
of time and money which occur, too frequently, in
the history of both parties.
It may accord with the views and aims of our
neighbor to cover up the delinquencies of a party
that, not long ago, was too impure for the associa
te* of fire-eaters; but as Union men we shall always
fearlessly expose political delinquency wherever
we find it. AA’itli us the rights and interests of the
people shall always be paramount to mere party al
legiance, or party success. And we are rejoiced
that the Union Party of Georgia has planted itself
upon this elevated ground.
Hot Potato.
The fire-eaters were counting largely upon arous
ing public prejudice against Mr. Jenkins, by charg
ing upon him the paternity of what is called the
Algerine law.” Finding, however, that the afore-1
said offensive act was passed unanimously by a de
mocratic Legislature, with a democratic President I
of the Senate and Speaker of the House, and signed
by no less a personage than Charles J. McDonald,
in conformity with a memorial signed by the lead-1
ing democrats of Augusta, and that said law was
not opposed by Judge Johnson himself, they' have
dropped tlie shallow humbug like a hot potato.
The Candidates.
How many of the party that nominated Mr. Jen-1
kins can support a man of his principles, we cannot
tell, but wc are sure that jio true democrat, no friend
of tlic present administration, and we should think,
no true friend of Southern Institutions could sup
port him. The candidates are now both in the field, '
both are men of talent and exalted moral character, j
Hut one is a man that has used liis talents aud the |
influence of his character to build up doctrines, and
establish heresies dangerous to our liberties as citi
zens, and destructive to our rights as Southern men.
The other has labored from liis youth upward to ad-1
ance the best interests of the people, and to defend |
tlie constitutional rights of the South.”
AA’e extract the above select sentence from the I
Federal Union of the 28th ult. It is a fair specimen
of the spirit and letter of that press. Every Geor
gian, whig or democrat, will smile at the idea that j
Charles J. Jenkins, the illustrious author of the
Georgia riatform, is not to be trusted or supported
by Southern men, and indignantly repel the impu-1
tation upon liis integrity and patriotism conveyed
in the foregoing paragraph. “ AA’e are told,” is the ]
eapon our opponents are using to undermine pub- I
lie confidence in the character of Georgia’s most
pure, and elevated, and devoted statesman. But
such weapons will but pierce themselves aud weak
en their own cause. AA r e believe that both of the
able and distinguished gentlemen now before the
people of Georgia, for the highest office in their
gift,are true-hearted and sound Southern men; as
such, they should be viewed and respected. Their
political record is before the country; upon that
will the enlightened and patriotic people of Geor- j
gia rest their judgment and render their verdict,
and not upon the floating “ we are told,” and “ they j
say,” which are resorts as unfair, as they are im
becile.
(omniencciufnts.
The examination of the pupils of the W^,]
Feffiale College, Macon, begins on Monday th.-T^
inst. ’ ' ,f *'4
Commencement day on the Thursday f 0 ]j 0 .
Address by the Hon. H. V. Johnson.
Commencement of the Oglethorpe Univ e , ■
Tuesday, the 19th inst. Address before theTri’
ary Societies by Henry M. Law, E-oi r ,f <
nah. 1
Emory College holds its Commence me,,.
AA 7 ednesday the 20th inst. Address bef 0 tll ~ fy 1
erary Societies by Hen. Robert Toombs. The -
College Chapel will be dedicated on the prB ■ ~
Sabbath, by Bishop Capers.
The Commencement of Mercer University <
place on the 27th inst. Address before t!r ^
Societies by Judge O’Neal, of South Carolina ^
The Madison Female College holds its Con •
ment on the 27th. Address by H. Hull j- *
Athens.
The Commencement of the University of G-
takes place on the 1st Wednesday in August ' *
dress by the Hon. H. R. Jackson of Savannah ^
The above aud other literary entertainn^,.
wliich we cannot now call to mind, will f Ilr ,-.
the literati ofthe South a rich, sumptuous, an -
egated feast of reason—perhaps flow of soul e -
before surpassed, if equalled. AA'ho goes ?
Magazine of Art.
This is one of the handsomest, ablest a- ;
beautifully illustrated periodicals that v ,
Literary board. The new volume comment.;
believe, on the 1st of this month, and we can • -
confidently recommend it to the lovers of „ j
and polite literature.
It is published by A. Montgomery, New Y
It may be examined at our office.
AA’e have received the first number of a
Monthly, called “The Practical Draughts
Book of Industrial Design, and Machinist's asJ
Engineer’s Drawing Companion,'’ whi
not will be an acquisition to those depart.ii,->:i
industry of wliich it treats. It is illustrated bv -
propriate engravings. Published by Stringer i
Townsend, N. Y.
Southern Ladies’ Book.
This able Monthly, devoted to Polite Lit,■ .. R
sustains admirably its high repute. I? is edited hi
L. Virginia French, and published at New Or! .• j
by J. J. Jones, & Co. AA’e commend it to
patronage of the Ladies of the South. Pri - n:J
in advance.
Fire in the Low Lands.
As will be seen by a communication in our paper to
day from an esteemed source,South-western Georgia
in a blaze of enthusiasm. AA’e are also informed,
that in the wire-grass counties, the name of Jenkins
sweeping every thing before it. Thousands ot
patriotic democrats arc catching the inspiration and
heeling into line, upon the noble platform over
bich floats the Union Banner, prepared once more
to stand, shoulder to shoulder, with whigs in de
fence of the Constitution.
Our able correspondent, “ Brutus,” enquires af
ter the whereabouts of Baxter, Andrews, and Irvin.
e learn that they, and Slaughter, and Farris, and
many other influential and honest democrats are
thoroughly and cordially with the “contemptible
Union “pack.” Indeed, how could they be other
wise, without abandoning their principles and po
sition, and yielding their heads to tbe remorseless
block of secessionisin ?
Another Fire-eater.
A. H. Colquitt, Esq., lias been nominated a can
didate for Congress, in tlie 2d District. The L nion
Democrats are in a hopeful way.
Sold to the Enemy.
Never was there a more remarkable or glaju,
fraud perpetrated upon the American people tha
the one now in process of consummation by the
Administration. Mr. Pierce, in his Inaugural, de
dares the Compromise constitutional—pledges Lit.
self to its enforcement, and proposes to earner«.
flee upon those only who agree with liim in (pawn j
But mark the sequel. Nearly the whole patrons
of the Government is distributed to the avowe; . |
emics of the Compromise, North and South, for tl >
purpose of thereby quieting their troublesome clam
or and keeping them in the shambles of Progressh -
Democracy. AA’hether they will remain at the rack
after the fodder disappears, is problematical. A:
present, the wrath of fire-eaters and free-soilers ,
smothered up by Government pap, whilst Cmm |
Democracy stands meekly reclining upon cue >-
with its thumb in its mouth, wondering whenia
time will come.
AA’e invite attention to the letter of our can-ill
and able AA’ashington Correspondent—to an an; -
from tbe Louisville Journal, and to the follow; ..- |
exhibit from the Mississippi Flag of the Union:
“It is believed,” says the editor, “ that not oc- j
Union Democrat has been appointed to office in ti:
State, except a single individual who wc un I
stand obtained his place through tlie soKcitati»a :!
Mr. Nabers before he left Washington, and wl
brother, being a Secession member of the Sta;- S I
ate,it was judged indiscreet by Mr. Davis ;■> -j
pose him. Look to the following list of a
ments for Mississippi, and of Mississippians out : I
the State :
J. J. Deavenport, Chief Justice, New Mexico.
Richard Griffith, Marshal Southern Dis’t. AIL--
Chas. R. Jordan, “ Northern “
Nathaniel S. Price, U. S. District Attorney.
Richard Elward, Post Master, Natchez.
C. R. Dickson, “ Jackson.
AA’m. M. Gillespie, Receiver, “
A. M. Clayton, Consul to Havana.
Jo. Bell, Register Land Office, Jackson.
A. G. Haley, Clerk Land Office, AVasLington.
Mr. Prior, Post Master, A’ieksbnrg.
Air. Pickett, Collector of the Port Natchez.
Mr. AValker, “ Vicksburg.
All of whom acted with the “peaceable” secs-1
sionistsiu ’51.”
Besides those named, post masters innumera
have been dismissed, and their places filled by:,
friends and admirers of the Davis hereby; . :
Union Democrats have been made to walk ti
plank to make room for some so deeply imlc
with disunionism that they refused to vot.- fcr
Pierce himself in the late Presidential election. I'
the AVashington Union, of the 9th inst., says—and
we suppose it speaks by authority—that “no dm
lias been appointed to office by him who does M
stand upon the pledge of a faithful adi: ren »
the compromise measures as a final adjustment a
the slavery issues.
Is not tills a beautiful pictnre for L’nion men t |
look upon ? Is it surprising that thousands tf
triotic conservative Democrats are nobly rallying I
with the whigs to save the Constitution and the [
country from the reckless sportings of disci nk®
factions. The old line democrats have 1 >een - - j
the enemy ; will they affirm the bargain
Hot it Occurred.
Tlie Athens Banner is enrious to know why ;t - |
that a portion of the slips containing the pw
ings of the late Union Convention, were he; -*
“Union Convention,” and others “ Galien;
Convention.” AA’e will inform him most cbeetta-.
To get it off by the earliest mails, our first < ;
was hastily and imperfectly arranged, and F L
cd on AVednesday night. On Thursday j
we were kindly furnished with the eh qm — 1
appropriate address of Gen. Sanford, which rt-
ed a reconstruction of the form necessary, — v l
the suggestion of a single individual we ckufy
the caption; so that all the slips containing t- -
dress were headed “ Gubernatorial Convcnth ■*
Either name was appropriate.
AA’hilst upon this subject, it may not be iaip 1 ” j
to remark, that the great body of the Coin-
seemed to feel that they had assemble i as |
men, aud rallying as they did again '
gia Platform, it was needless to go through :
formality of officially resuming a name which •-
never abandoned. They met as Union Consent
men—they parted as such, and as Constitute I
Union men, they will triumph in the pending
AVill that satisfy you, brother ?
First District.
A call is made for assembling a Union L -'
tion at Holmesvillc, to nominate a candioi-
Congress from the first district, on Thursday *
21st inst. A general attendance is urged-
trust our friends will unite cordially upt*
strong and influential man. Let personal *i
tions and convenience yield to the gen 'nil —-
ofthe State and the triumph of our cause.
Melancholy.
AA’e have received a letter from Air. 1 i
Ainericus, informing us, that James N. Loa-
17, AVLUiam A. Lester, aged 14, Robert Al-
aged 6, Christopher H. Lester, aged 4 M;‘ r " ’h
Emma E. Lester, aged 15 months, ad chk'^ .
Air. Alfred J. and Airs. Amelia B. Lester, of -
county, hi this State, all died in the short t '
one week. The remains of three of them )
the house at the sam time. The disease " ^
enterv, which prevails in that region of t -
The bereaved parents have our sincere coify^
The letter came to hand too late to publish e*>*
LIFTIon. Robert Toombs, addressed !m- . j
enthusiastic meetings, at Columbus and Mm
week. His speeches had a most happy etti(
• ■
The Hon. Robert J. AValker has drawn lm ^
for China Mission, and hopes start to by
die of July. His health is excellent.