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IT. CTJSLEY & SCIT,
/R E HOUSE 4- C OMMI SSI ONM E R CHAJh’TS
ILL continue Business at their
Proof Buildings,” on Cotton
enue, Macon, Ga.
, an Mol for past favors, they beg leave to say
rli'-v will be constantly at their post, and tliatno
efforts shall be spared to advance the interest of
their patrons.
They respectfully ask all who have COTTOA
or other PRODUCE to Store, to call and exam
ine the safety of their Buildings, before placing
II elsewhere.
O-Ccstomarv Advances on Cotton in Store
' i aed,and all Business transacted at the
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; ON uiU A TAVLOK,
1! rehouse and Commission Merchants,
at THE OLD STAND OF CONNER & MARTIN,
M A C O N , G A .
tj N presenting our Card to the public, we will
§ stall , that our best exertions will he given
to promote the interests of out Patrons ; and from
past experience, we hope to be able to do full
justice to all business which may be confided to
*’itr charge ; and also hope for a continuance of
favors from the old patrons of Conner & Marlin.
Orders for Goods filled free of charge.
Advances made on Cotton in Store, and ship
ped at the usual rates. Z. T. CONNER,
\V. W. TAYLOR.
aug 31 34 —6m
YVILLIAHI HIT I'VS’
English and American DRUG II'AREIIOLSE ,
SAVANNAH, GA.
AT THOLES ALE and Retail Dealer in F.ng
\ \ lislt, French, American and Gartnan
DRUGS, MEMICIN’ES, CHEMICALS,
P E R FV M E R Y , 4- c .
Particular attention paid to replenishing Eng.
lish and American Ships’ Medicine Chests, ac
cording to the Laws of England.
\gent for Messrs. Louden &. Cos ,Philadelphia;
l)r Jacob Townsend, New York ; Messrs.
Hitviland, Risley *fc Cos., Augusta; Daniel
Tibbitt, Providence.
aug 24 33—1 y
DAVID REID.
Justice of the Peace and A'otary Public.
M A C O N , G A .
CIQMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, etc., for the
/ States of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Missouri
New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Penn
ylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, New
jersey, Maine, &c.
Depositions taken, Accounts probated, Deeds
and Mortgages drawn, and all docun.ents and
instruments of writing prepared and authentica
ted for use and record, in any ofthc above States.
Residence on Walnut Street, near the African
Church.
(UPPublic Office adjoining Dr.M.S.Thomson s
Botanic Store, opposite the Floyd House,
june 29 25—ly
WILLIAM WILSON,
HOUSE CARPENTER AND CONTRACTOR,
Cherry Street near Third, .Macon, Ga.
MAKES and keeps on hand Doors, Blinds
and Sashes for sale. Thankful for past
favors he hopes for further patronage.
may 25 20—6 m
WOOD * LOW,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
rnny 25 20—ly
POOLE A ItIIOTIIEIC.
Foncarding and Commission Merchants,
NO. 90 MAGAZINE STIIEET,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
E. R. Pooli. J. M. Poole.
aug 31 34—ly
JOB PIUNTINii,
OF every description,neatly and promptly
executed attlie Office of the SOUT H ERN
TRIBUNE, as neat and cheap as at any other
OJite in the State.
THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE;
NEW SEHIES— VOLUME 11.
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GEORGES W. TOWNS,
Goveroor of’said State.
To the Electors Uareof — Greeting :
Having been officially informed, that the Con
gress of the United States has admitted California
into the Union of the States of this Confederacy,
upon equal terms with the original States, a duty
devolves upon me in the performance of which,
1 shall trespass upon the public but briefiy.
An unfeigned deference for public opinion,
and the profound regard 1 entertain for the wis
dom, firmness, and patriotism of my fellow citi
zens of Georgia, will not justify me, in a paper
of this character, in repeating my known and
unchanged opinion as to the duty of the South
in repeliing Free-soil encroachment, and arrest
ing, by all proper means, usurpation by Congress.
Whatever iseompatible with the honor and
obligations of the People of this State to the
country, its laws, and its institutions, 1 doubt
not, will receive their warm support.
In an hour of danger—when your institutions
are in jeopardy—your feelings wantonly out
raged, your social organization derided, your
honor deeply wounded arid the Federal Consti
tution violated by a series ofyggressive measures
all tending to the consummation of one object,
the abolition of slavery—when your equal right
to occupy and enjoy the common territory of all,
has been denied you, in the solemn form oflaw,
under pretences the most shallow, it well be
comes you to assemble, to deliberate, and coun
sel together for your mutual preservation and
safety.
Whatever course the extraordinary events by
which we are encompassed, will demand orjus
tify, must be left, as it should he, to the patriot
ism, firmness and prudence of the people them
selves. Upon them devolves the duty of re
dressing present wrongs, and providing other
safeguards, for future security • Neither the one
nor the other of which, however, will ever be
effectually accomplished, until, by patriotic ef
forts, perfect harmony and concord of feeling
are restored, and confidence and concert of ac
tion producep among the people of the South.
In view, therefore, of the atrocious free soil
sentiment and policy, not merely of the non
slaveholding States, bu; of the Government—of
the imminent peril to which the institution of
slavery is reduced by the act of Congress admit
ting the State of California into the Union, with
a Constitution containing the principle of the
Wilmot Proviso, in defiance of our warning and
earnest remonstrance—in view oftlie deplorable
fact that some diversity of opinion exists in some
of the Southern States as to the proper mode of
redressing the wrongs, and averting the dangers
which all must see and feel, let me, fellow citi
zens, earnestly entreat you to cultivate for each
other a deep and abiding sentiment of fraternal
regard and confidence. Approach the task,from
which there is no escape, nfdeciding upon your
duty to Georgia and the country, with a firm
step, but not without calm, deliberate and pa
tient investigation,consulting neither fears nor
dangers on the one hand, nor permitting your
selves, from exasperated feelings of wrong on
the other, to be rashly urged to extreme measures
which have not received the full sanction ofvour
judgment. Then 1 shall not despair of seeing
the w hole State, as one man, proposing nothing
beyond what the emergency may demand, or
failing to perform whatever patriotism, honor
and right, may require at your hands.
The General Assembly of this Slice, by an
act approved Bth February, 1850, having requir
ed me, upon the happening of certain events, one
of which is the admission of California as a State
into the Union, to issue a proclamation,ordering
an election to be held in each and every countv
for Delegates to a Convention of the People of
this State, to take into consideration such meas
ures as comport with the extraordinary posture
of our relations to our co-States, and to decide
upon what steps are necessary and proper to he
taken compatible with our honor and constitu-
tional obligations, as w.JI as more effectually to
secure our right of property in slaves, and to ar
rest all aggressions, by one section of the Union,
upon the free enjoyment of the constitutional
rights of the other, and lastly to preserve invio
late the equality of the States of the Union, as
guarantied under the Constitution ■ Therefore,
be it known, that I, Gf.oroe W. Towns, Gov
ernor of the State of Georgia, by the authority
and mandate of the law, do issue this my Pro
clamation ordering and directing that the quali
fied Voters for the most numerous branch of the
General Assembly, do mcetat the several places
of holding Elections, as fixed hy law, in the sev
eral Counties of this State, within the hours fixed
for voting, on MONDAY, the Twenty-fifth day
of NOVEMBER Next ; and then and there, by
ballot, elect two Delegates in each of the Coun
ties now entitled to one Representative in the
General Assembly, and four Delegates in such
Counties as are now entitled to two Represen
tatives.
The Managers of said Election are required
to certify and forward to this Department the
Returns of said Election in the manner prescrib
ed bv law for the election of Representatives in
the General Assembly ; and it is further order
ed that the Delegates who may be elected hy a
majority of the legal voters of their respective
Counties, do convene at the Capitol nfsaid State
on TUESDAY,the Tenth day of DECEMBER
Next.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Ex
ecutive Department, at the Capitol in Mil
ledgevillc, this 23d day of September, in
the year of our Lord, Eighteen hundred and
fifty.
GEORGE W. TOWNS.
By the Governor :
J. M. Patton, Sec’ry Ex. Department.
SASIIES, DOOBS AND BLINDS.
1 A lllia LIGHTS of SASH, ofall sizes
.LV'jUUU from 8 hy 10 to 12 by 20.
150 pair BLINDS, for Windows of all sizes.
50 do PANEL DOORS, different sizes and
thicknesses. For sale by
CHARLES VAN HORN,
No. 153 Bay Street, and No. 6 West Broad St.,
Savannah, Ga
july 6 . 26—6 m
TEAS ! TEAS ! ! —Those in want of choice
Teas, both Green and Black, will always
find a complete assortment, by calling at
sept 7 MOULTON’S, on Cherry Street.
QUGARS. —Brown Havana, Crushed and
T* Pulverized Sugars, at MOULTON’S,
sept 7
Nutmegs, cloves and cinnamon—
sept 7 At MOULTON S.
I7RUITS.--Raisins, in Whole and Quarter
i boxes; Figs, Citron, Prunes, Dates, Filberts,
Brazilian Nuts, Fresh Almonds and English
Walnuts at MOL T LTON S.
sept 7
C'IOCOA, Ac.— Cocoa, Chocolate nnd Mac-
J caroni, at MOULTON'S,
sept 7
MACON, (GA„) SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1850.
To tlie People of Georgia.
Fellow Citizens —After consultation with sev
eral gentlemen from different parts of the State,
during the late Fair of the Southern Central Ag
ricultural Association held at Atlanta, the fol
lowing resolutions were adopted :
“ Resolved , That a Committee of five be ap
pnninled to prepare and publish an Address to
the citizens of the Slate generally, respectfully
calling their attention to the importance of
Common School education, and of some united
aetion for the advancement ofthat cause.
‘• i ßcsotced, That the interests of this great
cause call tor united counsel and co-operatiou of
the entire State; and lh.it for this end we earnest
ly invite each county to take the subject into
consideration, and to send Deleates to a Con
vention to he held at such time and place as the
above committee, after consultation, may desig
nate,for the pm pose of maturing some practicable
system of common School education, to be pre
sented tothe next Legislature.”
No subject more deeply concerns us as a State,
than that presented in the above resolutions In
ail civilized countries,general education is consi
dered of vital importance. Plaperly conducted, it
lies at the foundation ofall that is valuablein po
litical and social ■ elation, of mankind; and as it
is general, or limited, or thorough,or superficial,
will the State rank in the scale of real greatness.
The State of Georgia is rapidly advancing in
many respects, to the foremost place among her
aisters of the South. Her natural advantages and
resources are unsurpassed; and the enterprise
and industry of Iter citizens are beginning to de
velope these resources and to employ these ad
vantages. Her population is rapidly increasing;
and her capital begins to be largely invested in
works of int enal improvement and commerce.—
A laudable attention is beginning to be directed
to Agricultural and Artistic improvements, as is
abundantly shown in ihe increasing numberswho
attend our great Agricultural Fair, and the inte
rest taken in its exhibitions. In pasttime,:he ap.
peal in behalfof these various improvements lias
been restricted mainly to the more wealthy and
educated, but now it is made toevery class of cit.
izens. All are now invoked,especially the farm
ers and mechanics, to enlist in this common
movement for elevating the State in all the ele
ments of true greatness. It is to be"feared,how.
ever,that the most important means of realising
these desires and expectations is too much over
looked. Before the people can be efficiently en
listed in these enterprises, they must be enabled
to understand the nature and extent of the desir.
ed improvements,the means by which they are to
beacconjplshed,and the interest whichevery citi
zen lias in the results. In no other way can a gen.
: eral and steady co-coperation be secured. Now
! this is the business of education, intellectual and
moral,extending to each class of w bite population
Georgia has recognized this truth from the
earliest days of her existence as a State. Her
I first Constitution adopted in 1777, provides that
j “Schools shall be erected in each county, and
supported at the general expense of the State.”
The endowment oftlie University,and ol Couu
ty Academies, and appropriations for common
and poor Schools, have followed at different pe
riods in obedience to this provision of our first
Constitution. And in addition to these provi
sions by the State, private munificence has fur
nished iiie means of establishing many valuable
institutioiisoflcarningforboth mule-sand finales
But while these various institutions furnish a
highly creditable provision for academic Icam
ing in our Stale, all the attempts of our Legisla
ture to es’ablisli Common Schools have been
singularly unsuccessful. Various schemes have
been adopted, and then abandoned as failures.
So that after all that lias been expended, there is
a lamentable deficiency of good Common Schools
in the State. The means of a good common
education are not furnished to the mass of our
population. And yet such an education is the
right ofevery citizen under our Constitution.—
The blessings derived by all from our higher sem.
inaries are indeed great,and we desire to see them
eherislied and sustained ; but yet vastly more is
due to the great body oftlie people who cannot
avail themselves of these higher advantages.
Wliat then is to be done? Shull we allow this
sad deficiency to continue? Shall this greatest
hindrance to the elevation of our State still exist?
The failure of our common school systems here- |
tofore is mainly attributable to three eauscs ■ j
1. They have riot been adapted in their details
to the actual condition and wants of our people, j
2. There has been no adequate supply of well
qualified common School Teachers.
3. There has been too little interest felt gene
rally ill the subject itself.
To remove these obstacles, and to put-in ope
ration some practical)!- and efficient plan cf gene
ral education, is confessedly a work ot great dif
ficulty. This difficulty is felt especially in those
portions of the State where the white popula
tion is very sparse. But yet something must be
done, and we think the undertaking a practica
ble one, if entered upon with an earnest zeal.
During the Sessions of our Legislature there
are so many exciting questions, and conflicting
interests, that little tiineis left for the considera
tion of this subject, about which so few feel any
real concern. In addition to this, few of our
Legislators !ci*e either the materials, or the
thorough acquaintance with the subject itself,
from which to digest any comprehensive plan ol
wenera! education. Committees have several
limes been appointed during the recess of the
Legislature, but they have either failed to report
or been unable to suggest any practicable scheme.
Perhaps therefore no suggestion promises better
results than the 2d resolution under which we
now write. If Delegates be sent from the several
counties, chosen with reference to this single, matter
we may hope for some good result from their uni
ted wisdom and zeal. Wo feel assured that the
Legislature would not he backward to adopt the
well digested recommendations of such a body ;
and in any event, the meeting and deliberations
of such a Convention would tend to inspire new
interest into the public mind on this subject.
We therefore earnestly invite each County to
take up the subject, and to send Two Delegates
to a Convention to be held in the City of Macon,
on the Second WEDNESDAY in DECEMBER
Next, for the purpose of taking intoconsideration
the whole question of common school education.
Delegates should go prepared with all the
necessary statistical information as to the area,
number of children, number of schools, fee. —
The first Tuesday in November would probably
be a suitable day for the appointment of Dele,
gates. Let all the friends of common education
whether many or few, determine to act promptly
in this business, that every portion of the State
may take part in these deliberations for the
common welfare. Nothing is more worthy of
our prompt and earnest attention.
Fellow Citizens : This is emphatically the
cause ofllie People—that w hich tends to elevate
and bless every one of our population. It deeply
concerns our advancement in all the elementsof
true greatness, physical, political, social,
intellectual and moral. And we are sure we
utter the feeling of every true Georgian, when
we sav, that in all these characteristics of great
ness we desire our Stale to stand unrivalled, not
by the depression of others, but by raising her
self to that commanding position.
T. F. Scott, A.Cborch.S Fouche,) Com-
B Sniper and Jame» A. Ntsair, ) tee.
NO. 111.
Separation—its Evils to the North
—its Blessings to the‘South.
Mr. Ehtok :— Judge Cheves, whose
lofty and incorruptible patriotism no man
date question, in his celebrated letter to
the Chai lesion Mercury in 1844, advises
us to examine freely and fearlessly the val
ue of the Union, and to despise the clam
ors raised against us, as its enemies in its
truth and purity. For one, lam prepared
henceforth and under all circumstances, to
follow his advice, and sift it, with its bless
ings and its curse* to the very bottom.—
Nor shall i be deterred from my purpose
by the crj of treason, treason ! so freely
and flippantly uttered by those among us
who, Esau like, would sell our birthright
for a mes* of pettage, and deliver us over
bound hand and foot, to the teuder mercies
of our enemies. Our forefathers ventured
with almost the very baiter around their
necks, to calculate the value of the Union
between the Colonies and the Crown, and
we proclaim ourselves recreant cowards,
degenerate bastards, by refusing to imi
tate their noble example, simply because
the instrument of our oppression is called
a republic—not a monarchy ?
The name of Republic though eupho
nious and ever grateful to the ear of the
freeman, should not blind him to its op
pressions, or foster in his bosom,a spiritof
non-resistance to its wrongs. Tyranny is
the same, equally odious, equally intolera
ble, whether perpetrated by the many or
the few—the people or the prince. Re
sistance, to such is ever obedience to
God.
Since my last article was forwarded to
you, I have received from a friend, the lec
tureof El wood Fisher, Esq., of Cincinnati)
entitled “The North and the South.” In
’his production, remarkable tint only for
the source from whence it came, but its
startling truths al.- , l find the views I
have already expressed, of the wastingand
injurious effects to the South, from her
present political connection, most fully
and triumphantly sustained. Mr. Fisher
tells ns, ihat at the adoption of the present
Federal Cons- it ut ton. the two sections
were nearly equal in population and ex
tent of territory, so too in commerce, the
North in 1790 exporting $9,800,540, and
the Saulh $9,200 500 ; and that until 181 G
the Soutli preserved her superiority, by
exporting more than the North by 5,000,-
000 annually. In manufactures likewise
the South excelled in proportion to her
population. This state of tilings was
owing clearly and unquestionably to that
let alone policy pursued in the early and
better days of the Republic, and to our
superior advantages as an agricultural and
commercial people, not to any factitious
ones derived from unjust and partial legis
lation by the Federal Governments in our
behalf. *
At this period, however, (1816) the days
of strict construction and rigid interpreta
tion of the Constitution, gave way to newer
lights and broader views. In other words,
the North, from the influx of foreign emi
gration, having acquired strength numer.
ically, and taking lesson and courage from
the history of the past, resolved to twist
and turn the compact of union to their
ewn selfish ad vantage; to override, oppress
and trample under foot, the generous and
forbearing South. How well they have
succeeded, hear Mr. Fisher’s own words:
■‘Since that period a great change has oc
curred. The harbors of Norfolk, of Rich
mond, Charleston, Savannah, have been
deserted for those of Philadelphia, New
York and Boston, and New Orleans is the
only Southern City that pretends to rival
its Northern competitors. The grass is
growing in the streets of these cities of the
South, which originally monopolized our
Colonial Commerce, and maintained
ascendency in the earlier years of the
Union. Manufactories and the arts have
aiso gone to take up their abode in
the North.—Cities have been expand
ed and multiplied in the same favored
region. Railroads and Canals have been
constructed, and Education has delight
ed, there to build her Colleges and Semi
naries.”
I regret that I cannot lay my hands
upon the report of Secretary of the Trea
sury for the last fiscal year, showing the
precise disproportion in the Commerce of
the two sections at this time. It is, how
ever, sufficiently great, according to the
statements of the gentleman referred to
who speaks advisably and from the text,
to cause the grass to spring up and grow
NUMBER 43.
in the streets of our once great Commer
cial Cities—those busy marts where in for
mer days merchants did “mostly love to
congregate.” Who, Sir, can wonder at
this result, when thousands of millions
have been wrung from us in the name of
the “general welfare,” and thrust into the
pockets of Northern Manufacturers, Gov
ernment Contractors, See ? Verily ha 9
this Government proven itself a kind nurs
ing mother—rearing us that she may turn
round afierwards and pick, plunder, and
destroy her progeny. No people, no sec.
tion on the face of God’s earth, not even
down-trodden and groaning Ireland, has
ever exhibited in so short a time, such a
melancholy spectacle of misgovernment,
of unjust and partial legislation as the
South presents at this very moment.—
Worse than all, what we now are, is but
the beginiuing of the end of what we wijj
yet be, if we continue faithless to the trust
confided to our hands by a patriotic and
liberty-loving ancestry.
Yet, notwithstanding all this, the South
is still richer than the boasting North,
wallowing though site be in her brother’s
wealth. This wo owe to our sturdy na
tures, our energies, our enterprise, our
climate, See., which ha* enabled us to live
and breathe in spite of the inflictions of
common government. Yet we ate poor,
comparatively to what we might hgve been,
had we enjoyed justice and equal advan
ges under the Federal compact. Had
the thousand millions of which we have
been robbed already, been saved and
expended in the South, wliat imagin
ation, though ever so prone to extrav
agant castle building, would be able to
realize the pictuie of her present and
future greatness and prosperity? Not
one.
But, with all our wrongs, and our op
pressions “reeking hot upon our heads,”
we at e this day better off in every respect
than the North. In addition to our supe.
riority in the matter just referred to, we
are, comparatively speaking, wholly ex
empt from crime, immortality and pauper
ism—that absolute want of the necessaries
of life which, in my opinion constitutes
the very worst kind of slavery. In proof
of what I say in reference to the two for
mer (for they always go hand in hand) I
need only refer you to the records of their
courts of justice, their prisons, Ac. In
that land of the Scribe and pharisee,
Massachusetts, there were in 1847 in Iter
State Prison alone 188 convicts, leaving
out Jails and houses of Correction. In
the three Prisons of New York there
were about 2,000 ; while in Virginia, the
largest Southern State, there was but 111
whites and 89 blacks. What a contrast!
comment is unecessary. Yet we who have
never burned a Convent of innocent and
unprotected females; who have never
witnessed the conflagration of temples
dedicated to the worship of the Most
High, by an infuriated and lawless mob;
where jails and prisoua are almost tenant
less, are called an immoral, wicked, and
accursed people. Strange perversions of
truth ittdeed !
In reference to those smaller offences,
those violations of the law of God not re
cognized as crimes by human institutions,
or if so, blinked at by that great supreme
temporal judge, publiic opinion, the North
is entitled still to decided preeminence.—
We yield the palm without a struggle.—
We have no disposition to run a tilt in
the face of their Magdalen reports, their
Houses of Correction, their ‘Striped Pigs.’
“Model Artiste's” &c. Where iu the
South, where in any Southern City can
you find such crowds of loose, abandon
ed females as can be seen on any Summer
evening in the good City of Brotherly
Love or the great Gotham ? Where will
you find scenes of rowdyism, drunkenness
and debauchery as the “Five Points” pre
sent at any time ? Paris itself furnishes
nothing like it, iu open and undisguised
immorality. I speak from personal ob
servation. L.
P. S. Since the above was written, the
New York and Philadelphia riots have
taken place, strengthening the universal
conviction at the South, of the insecure
and combustible character of Northern in
stitutions. In the event of separation,
their only safety will be found in the
arms of a monarchy, or a return to our
“ peculiar institution,” by repurchasing a
portion of the descendants of those
“wretched Africans, whom their ances
tors kidnapped”and sold to the planters of
the South years ago.
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING
Will be executed in the neatest sty lei
and upon the most fur or able
terms, al the Office of the
SCYTH3P.IT TPIPYITSj
—BY—
WM. B. HARRISON.
From the Augusta Republic.
Tiie Kcal Issue.
Some of the non-action or submisssioji
papers in the State are endeavoring to
persuude their readers that the immediate
issue before the people, in the present
canvass for Delegates tothe State Conven
tion, is Union or Disunion. They charge
home upon the supporters of Southern
Rights, that they are Disunioiiists per se,
and are worthy of the “hempen doom of
traitors!” Mafty ofthesepiesesdonotdeny
that the South has been treated unjustly—
they admit that she has been wronged to
some extent —that all the terriotnry is lost
—but still the citizen of Georgia, however
may feel himself aggrieved and inclined to
seek some mode and measure of redress,
is a madman—an enemy tothe country—
and should be “damned to everlasting fame’*
as a vile conCoctor of treason.
If thl? were all, 'we might only smile
their empty,hypocritical clatter,arid hold in
mockery their loud but impotent charges.—
It has not stopped there. They claim to b e
the real bona fide Union men—the specie]
guardians of that blessed and righteous bond
of confederacy which unites the haughty
and unprincipled North with the “poor
unfortunate South.” They call their meet,
ings as having for their object the preserva
tion of the Union, and adopt as the name
of their tickets, the Union ticket. They
beseech their readers by all the glories of
the past and all the hopes (?) of the fu'nre,
to rally to the snpport of the stars and
stripes,endangered and placed in jeopardy,
as they suppose, by the efforts of the South
ern Rights men. They preach submission
in low, whining tones, and look upon re
sistance to unjust and unconstitutional trn a*
sures as the height of folly and madne- B'
While they cannot but see that the open
object of the abolitionists and free soilers is
to destroy slavery in the States as well as
prevent its’spread in common Territories,
they cry peace, peace—don’t, for the
U/uon's sake, make any resistance—you’ll
only incur the greater indignation of these
our brethren oftlie North, and then your
destruction will assuredy be sudden, over
whelming and complete ! For the Union's
sake, don’t endeavor to obtain your rights—
don’t attempt to obtain justice—don’t tty !o
secure your property and your possessions
from danger and peril—don’t give our
friends of the North ihe.least uneasiness!
Mr. Toombs’ words were cenianly/ro
phetic. “That cry of Union is the masked
battery, behind which the rights of the
South ARE TO BE ASSAILED.” We fully
agree with him in the caution which he
gives to Southern men, to watch the man
who has bis mouth s > full of it. the
South mark the man who is for the Union
'at all hazards and to the last extremity.’ ”
Such a man is the true political J udas— the
vile wretch, who fora tittle coveted wealth,
would “ throw away a peail richer than all
his tribe.”
’ But the once masked battery is unmask
ed— uncovered and open to the view. This
hollow cry of the Union will Hot avail.—
None are frightened by this clap-trap of
the submissionists.
“ ’Tii the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil."
The eye of manhood quails not at the
bug-bear fancy. Neither will the South
ern man, who feels the deep wrongs, which
have been inflicted upon his section and
the low depth of degradation to which he
will be sunk, if they are not resisled by any
and all means, in the power of the people.
And this brings us to the REAL IS
SUE presented to the people—and that is
RESISTANCE or ABOLITION.—
Which do you choose, people of Georgia?
Resistance to unjust and unconstitutional
measures now or the entire destruction of
your slave property hereafter. One of
these two must be chosen. There is no
escape. The North has openly avowed
its intention to bring about “ the entire ex-
tinction of slavery in the United States.”
It is your duty, if you wish to preserve
your institutiouAnrul property, to resist
any and all measures having this as their
end and object. The late bills passed by
Congress, shutting the South out of Cali
fornia, virtually passing the bated Wilmot
Proviso over New Mexico and Utah, and
declaring that slaves shall become liueba
ted and free if taken into the District of
Columbia, are all aiming at tins object.
They must be resisted.
In the contest now going on in the State,
thcr are but two great patties—one for re
sistance, the other for tame and cowardly
submission to wrong. We are for the first-
The people must be for the first, or pre
pare for the final abolition or Slavery.
