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one dollar per pound.—llere unlike the climate in
parts of Mexico we meet with none of those sudden
elevations of land, whoso tops are perpectually cov
ered with snow, which send down among the plains
a freezing blast from icy regions to chill the blood
of the people during the hot months of summer.
And again, unlike that climate we never here see
frozen clabber in August from a sudden visit of the
norther. Observations of the thermometer at Quin
cy shows a far less range of heat and cold during
the year than any other place with which lam ac
quainted. It is conclusive then such a location af
fords more inducements to invalids than any other;
and while I confess in all truth and candor, we have
frequent sudden changes from heat to cold, in this
place, yet, these atmospheric changes do not run
into either the extremes of heat and cold of other
regions. This is the charm this region possesses,
this is the advantage it holds out to the invalid. As
evidence of the truth of the above remark, I have it
in my power to give a tabular statement of the
thermometer for the last ten or fifteen years. These
observations were made by the Rev. Dr. D. L. White
an old resident of the town of Quincy, who has po
litely furnished me with a copy of part of them. In
a short essay like this, I can only give the range of
the heat and cold for J une and December. On the
22nd of June 1850 A. M. the Mercury stood at *76
and in the even.ng at 90 —on the 20th Dec. 1849
A. M. it stood at 04, evening at 70.
The town of Quincy is remarkable for the health,
ns well as the good order of its inhabitants. Here,
the stranger is greeted by five churches, embracing
the creeds of most religious denominations extant
among us, also hotels sufficient for all the business
operations of the place. The proprietor of the Car
olina House in this place, is now fitting up his es
tablishment in very handsome style, carpeting his
rooms Ac, for the comfortable accommodation of in
valids and strangers.
Quincy is well supplied with the sons of yEscula
pius, and is easy of access. Steamers ply from New
York to Savannah via Charleston S. C., thence a line
of Railroad to Macon, thence a line of stages to this
place, tri-weekly. From New Orleans and the far
West, by steamers, within twenty miles of this place.
D. BRAD WELL, M. D.
Quinct, August 12, 1850.
Ccrmiponiieitfe.
LETTER from SASfDERSVILLE.
Sandkrbvillb, August 27th, 1850.
L. F. W. Andrews, Esq., Dear Sir .—-Should you issue
nnother paper, you are at liberty to publish this letter.
you should not, then you may use it in any other manner
you think proper, and I want my name to go with the publi
cation to prevent any unnecessary speculation as to who I am.
There can be no doubt as to the motives of those who institu
ted lawless proceedings against you. The issue they make is
a falte one; it is not the letter of your correspondent that is so
objectiouable to them, but it is the independence with which
you attack their disunion schemes. It is an effort to put down
by force those who differ with them. While the disunion press
of this State are denouncing all who do not go with them as
traitors, we are expected to be silent. We are denied the
privilege of the crawling worm which will sting the foot of the
oppressor.
Having failed in all their efforts commeneiag with the Nash
ville Convention down to the last great abortion, they seem
now resolved to effect that by force which they have failed to
effect by deception. While they have pretended to the people
that if they would demand the Missouri Compromise they
could get it, they did not tell them that is that line was not
received the Union was to be dissolved. And while they ad
mit that that line is unconstitutional, they do not tell the peo
ple that they demand this unconstitutional law or that they
will dissolve the Union. They do not tell the people that it
is expected that Georgia is to lead off in the first steps to dis
solve the Union so as to give character to the scheme* of South
Carolina. And they take care to keep in the back ground
the fact that they are at heart opposed to the Missouri Com
promise, and only adopt it now to advance their unholy pro
jects of disunion.
Borne of the largest slave-holders in this State are denounc
ed as abolitionists, and that by men who have none and never
will own a slave, men of desperate fortunes who know that
they oould not be worsted, and might be bettered by a oivil
war. There are thousands of slaveholders in Georgia who
believe that the only security they have for that kind of prop
erty is by remaining in the Union, and who are confident that
in six months after the commencement of the war, every
slave in this State would be free. Whose schemes then lead
to abolition pray 1 More than this it is au alarming state
we are approaching when we are told that England is to
bo called upon to aid the South and when English subjects
are active in disunion meetings. Should England take the des
tinies of the South into her keeping, God help her, for she has
already freed the negroes in every one of her Colonies. But
Charleston will be built up. Well, we have some interest
in Savannah, and desire to see our own seaport prosperous.
It has been boldly proclaimed in this region that in the
approaching war (which will be upon us in a few months
more, unless the designs of corrupt men are stopped) the
negroes are to be armed to fight for their masters. Were
ever men so deluded before ? Negroes have no business
with arms in their hands. The proper place for them is the
corn and cotton fields, and there is where I wish them kept.
Yet it has been proclaimed here in the presence of hundreds
that our negroes are to bo armed to help ns fight, and with
the assistance of England and the negroes, we will whip the
yankees. Such principles are immoral, daDgerous and cor
rupt, and as such I pronounce them.
As I do not know the circumstances surrounding you at
present, I do not know what course to recommend you to per
sue. Your rights could be protected in this place. Ido not
know that they can be in Macon. The publication of your
paper should be continued if possible. I have heard but one
expression of opinion here even among tho 36 30 men, and
that is unqualified condemnation of your persecutors. No
man attempts to excuse their course, much less to justify it.—
Such conduct has raised important questions which must be
solved in a short time if persisted in. We will submit to the
laws of Georgia, but not to mobs. Whatever course Geor
gia may resolve to pursue wo will stand by her but wc will
not be driven by any power short of that. Property is dear
to us, but liberty still dearer. If ,-sapers that speek our sen
timents respecting the plans of the disunionists arc to be put
down, then the next step will be to put down those who dare
utter a word against them. We are called submissionists ;
very well. When the occasion presents itself, we will see.
Yours respectfully, R. W. FLOURNOY.
LETTERS from ATLANTA.
( Atlanta, August 26, 1850.
Ur. L. F. W. Andrews, Dear Sir: — l am truly pain
ed to hear of your situation at the present time. lam utter
ly astonished at such outrageous proceedings as have been
had against you.
A letter reached this place yesterday morning, addressed
to the Mayor of our city, informing In m of what transpired
against you, and suggesting to the city authorities the expe
diency of proposing some measures to those having the con
trol, to dispense with Hanloiter’s services in tho Telegraph
office, or something to that effect. Mr. Han loiter has been
dismissed from business—not however from any suggestions
of the Council. Ihe Mayor treated the communication with
contempt. You arc aware of the lights and privileges guar
anteed to you by the Constitution of tho United States, the
supreme law of the Lind, and therefore surely you will not be
deterred from maintaining the station you have assumed by
such lawless threats.
Ido hope you will treat tho action of the mob with indif
ference, unless self-preservation sternly demands submission
for a while. Already all who in any-wise encouraged and
prosecuted the lawless projoct against you arc liable to be
sued, and heavy exemplary damages may be obtained against
them, —for their own letters and resolutions show conclusive
ly want of justification on their part for the violent meas
ures taken by them against you. Even without the provision
of the constitution in relation to the freedom of the press, Ac,
they have oommitted an injury on your person , and if you
do not prosecute a suit against them for damages, I think you
will be remiss in performing tho dut os you owe yourself and
family. The law is this: “Menaces of bodily hurt, through
fear of which a man’s business is interrupted is an injury
to his person and actionable.— And whoevor heard of a
more aggravated ease ! For muoh smaller grievances thou
sands have been obtained.
Let me assure you that almost all tho citizens of Atlanta
are opposed to the measures that have b een taken against
you. I have thus taken the liberty to address you feeling as
I do an interest in your welfare. In haste, Yours &c,
M. A. B.
Atlanta, August 26, 1850.
Dear Doctor : —I drop you these lines in order to assure
you that my feelings are big with indignation at the high
hannded and iHegal proceedings had against you by a blood
thirsty band of Disunionists! Oh !ye would be sainted long
faced Christian mob late adherents, what is the boasted lib
erty of “speech and the press ?” To what quarters has rea
son fled ? Tell me not of tyranny, slavery, and heathenism
of other climes, and ages—while at home, and at present,
we hare such fearful demonstrations of lack of justice and
humanity !! By way of encouragement, I say, and I have
reason to believe, that there are many that wiii endorse it,
not only here but everywhere, where independence exists,
go on with the “Citizen” and abide the result.
If the explanation given in your extra, and your defence
as there stated, does uot elicit a spirit of charity in your be
half, and quell the mob—* then “blow Gabriel, blow the
death knell of Liberty is tolled, the faggot and stake eome
next —the dark ages are re-ushered in! !
Y ours truly, ATL ANTI AN.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. Ist, 1850.
Dear Doctor : —Accept my congratulation ou your success
in maintaining the station which you have assumed, notwith
standing the menaces of a vile mob which threatened your
overthrow. The appearance of the “Citizen” in our midst,
on yesterday, was quite surprising to the credulous “fire eat
ers” of this place, who had been exulting over a rnistatement
of your submission, published in the Atlanta Intelligencer.—
The chagrin of the servile maniacs that have been exult
ing at the announcement of your discomfiture, and anxiously
awaiting its confirmation, now, since their perusal of your
“Half Sheet,” can better be imagined than expressed. Let
them realize in their own insignificancy, what they justly de
serve, and have incurred, the contempt of every high mind
ed citizen of Georgia ! Go on, go on in the praiseworthy en
terprise in which you have embarked, an enterprise whose
grand object is the security of the people's right, and de
fence of the weak and oppressed, proudly aiming at REF
ORMATION by condemning corruption in its every phase,
moral, social, and political ; and therefore, necessarily inim
ical to every form of tyrany over the mind of man. LET
NOT SUCH AN ENTERPRISE BE THWARTED,
f o long as an arm can be raised in its behalf. Let the “Geor
gia Citizen” continue to circulate among the people of Geor
gia, interesting them as a map of busy life, spicy, piquant,
and varied, breathing as it spreads tho noble Ecntiment of
the poet:
“ Thy spirit independence let me share,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. ”
Go on, kind sir, in the laudable work; and if, in the faith
ful discharge of the high duties of your station, yon shall be
assailed by the reckless and unprincipled, be assured the lofty
spirit of freedom and of’American Independence will not
slumber among the people, but will openly manifest itself in
the repulsion of the violence directed against your noble ef
forts. This is no phantasma of a vain enthusiam. Sir, the
constitution of the United States—the Constitution of Geor
gia, the law of the land, the magnanimous spirit of the age,
are all safeguards preservatory of your rights from the threat
ened violence of that pusillanimous mob; a name, too mild
in designation of a combination composed of an unprincipled
set of men! Severe, but just. Menaces of suh men over
throw an independent press in the State of Georgia ! Deter
you from your post ? No, methinks you are ready to ex
claim in the spirit and language of fcoedom :
“ I have laid me flat along,
And as gust followed gust most furiously,
Threatning to sweep me o'er the horrid brink,
I’ve thought of other lauds where storms were summer
flaws compared to mine;
And for a moment I have wished me there:
The thought that mine was free has checked tliai wish,
And I have raised my head, and cried in thraldom to
that furious wind,
Blow on, blow on, this is a land of liberty. ”
You must forbear with the severity and warmth manifested
in the foregoing remarks : for, whenever I see a set of men
attempting to abridge the freedom of speech and of the press,
the powerful influence and worth of which, can only be seen
and fully appreciated in beholding the wonderful advancement
of the American people, in the physical and moral world,
with the retrogressive tendencies of the mad folly plainly in
view, cannot find terms too severe, too bitter iu expressing my
execration of the foolish precipitancy, nor eulogies too high for
that loftiness of soul which dares to maintain its inviolability
from the contemptible assault. In conclusion, I will assure
you that the citizens of Atlanta, with the exception of a few
would-be-deinagoguea, raging with disordered intellects, are
decidedly opposed to the outrageous proceedings of the kite
despicable mob of Macon.
Yours, truly, INDEPENDENCE.
Atlanta, Sept., 3, 1850.
Dear Doctor :—I am truly thankful that you have thus
far escaped, with whole bones, the terrible consequences with
which you were threatened on account of a single unguard
ed expression contained in my letter of the 21st ultimo,
which you published. Having already explained fully, and,
I trust, satisfactorily the true meaning of that letter, I shall
not enlarge upon it here. I repeat, that I am grateful that
you are still “alive and kicking; ” and, 1 trust, that you
will long be spared—a Beacon to divert your countrymen
from the shoals and quick-sands of disunion!
The excitement which threatened to overwhelm you, fiz
zed out before it reached this place. It is true, that old Po
ney Club Jones, and a few others who returned to this city
on Saturday, on their way to their homes, after participating
in the disgraceful outrage upon you, endeavored to excite the
community against me; but it was “no go.” I happened
to be a leetle better known here than they were! Urgent
public business called me to Washington, Wilkes county, on
Tuesday, and on my return on Thursday morning, I learned
that a meeting had been held, at which a resolution was a
dopted condemnatory of the letter which had caused the
muss. I also learned that some amiable frieud, taking ad
vantage of my temporary absence, had circulated a report
that I had runaway. I immediately inquired into the partic
ulars respecting the meeting, and ascertained that, instead of
iu being “a meeting of the citizens of Atlanta,” (as was
falsely stated in tho last number of the “Intelligencer,” over
the signatures of Pendleton Cheek, as Chairman, and F.
H. West , as Secretary,) the resolution was adopted by some
half-dozen Fag-cnders at an adjourned meeting of the
“Southern Rights Association”—no notice even, setting
forth the object of the meeting, having been previously cir
culated ! As to the report, that I had vamoosed, no one
seemed disposed to father it, and I am constrained to attrib
ute it to the ill-will of that contemptible puppy, Nobody,
who has heretofore rendered himself somewhat notorious by
the perpetration of similar fabrications.
Nothing of interest, apart from the general feeling sequent
to the excitement in your city, has transpired hero since my
last. lam gratified lo learn that a list of some eight or ten
new subscribers was forwarded to you from this place a few
days since. Many others will be added anon. Thus you
will perceive that you are not without sympathy and friends
even in Atlanta.
The freight train on the Shite road ran off on Saturday
last, in the neighborhood of the Tunnel, which delayed the
down passenger train until late in the evening—causing the
loss of the mail, and breaking one or two Georgia Railroad
cars. A similar accident occurred yesterday morning to the
freight train on the same road. They upset a loaded car a
few steps from tho depot, aed damaged it somewhat.
The weather for two or thre days past has been quite cool,
particularly in the morning and at night. The storm of last
Friday week was very general throughout this section of the
State, and has done considerable injury to the growing
crops. Yours truly,
GABRIEL.
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LETTER from COLI.HBIS. 1
Columbus, Aug., 28, 1850.
Dear Andrews :—Yours of the 24th is now before me.
Iu my opinion, and that of all whom I have heard speak,
you have but one course to take, and that is publish , or die
in the attempt. I know you to be no abolitionist from having
been a constant reader of your sheet for near six years.—lt
is mere pretext. If the Disunionists drive you from the
State, soon there will not be a press left in it to tell the tale.
I say, “bo just and fear not.” Publish your paper and leave
the consequences to God.” Bold, decided action, is what
your case now requires.—lt is the only and sovereign reme
dy. No timid counsels, whether gay or grave, should be lis
tened to for a moment; therefore stand square up, act out
your part on this stage of life like a man , and you must pre
vail, and will pe supported by the brave, generous hearted
people throughout the land.
One main object of the party attacking you, is to furnish
food to excite their deluded followers, because without that,
their disuniou projects flag and fail.
Publish, and resort to the law too if you like, but a suit,
without a continuation of your publication would be merely
farcical. Again, the defendants, when judgment would be
obtained, would be insolvent. Therefore, publish, and de
fend yourself like a man and there can be no danger. Your
adrsrsaries areas subject to pain in their flesh as you are.
Life to them is as sweet as it possibly can be to you.—Then
why fear ? This I have read to two or three, who approve
it, and the cry is publish. The same sort of demoniacal feel
ing exists here among the disunionists towards the Enquirer.
It was deemed advisable to commence upon you, as the slen
derest reed, the most feeble subject, and if success crowned
the effort, why the next step would sweep away all opposi
tion. There is not the first man save disunionists here, but
says publish. If the Citizen reaches here Saturday next, there
will be a loud huzza by all the friends of liberty of speech and
freedom of tho press. Yours truly, AMICUS.
Extract of a Letter, dated
Columbus, August 30, 1850.
Dear Sir : —I read your manifesto and really sympathise
with you. I see you have determined on issuing your sheet.
That is right, just what you should have done, and it is my
opinion that they will not dare to carry their throats into ex
ecution. If they should, God grant that you may prove too
strong for them (as I believe you will) and that they may get
their just deserts.
The action of the Jones’ mob has created more feeling
here for you than the community ever expressed before.
Fear not, you are right. “Truth is mighty and will prevail.”
The designs of Jones and Rhett and others are clearly re
bellious, and the people will not allow a pitiful minority to
rule the country. Some of them will yet meet the traitor’s
doom.
Mark what I predict. If Towns calls a convention, there
will be an overwhelming majority in favor of law and order,
and he and his co-workers will be essentially (politically)
damned. There won’t be a grease-spot left of the South
Carolina Black Bat party. I have travelled about a good
deal recently, and you may rest assured when you count
noses, the disorganizes have no party and that nearly all the
people are friends of tho Union. In haste, Yours, &c.
XXX.
LETTER from COLUMBUS.
Columbus, Sept., 3d, 1850.
To the Editor of the Georgia Citizen : —I herewith enclose
(S2O) with the names of subscribers to whom you will send
the “Citizen” for the balance of this year. I wish I could
send five times as many, as a tribute of our aprobation of tbe
fearless and independent course in which you have conducted
your paper, and more particularly since the shameful attempt
to gag you down. I thing it a stain on the character of the free
men of the State of Georgia, and wonder that the Press does
not come out generally and powerfully to repudiate and put
dow these base attempts at “gagging the Press.” Well may
every true lover of Liberty, liberty of thought, of speech and
of the Press, be alarmed. I think it high time to speak out,
for who shall tell the next victim to this Mobocracy? It be
comes every good citizen, every reflecting man, to begin to
look around, and may I not say, prepare to defend themselves
and their Liberties; for when Law and order are set aside,
and when individual rights and privilege* which are guar
anteed by the Constitution and tho Laws, are disregarded, let
every man that inherits a spark of the spirit that animated the
breasts of those that signed the Declaration of Independence,
and that faught for the hearthstone of the fatherless, be rea
dy to repel oppression and tyranny, at the point of the bay
onet. Ido not write as an individual, only, but speak the sen
taments of all in whom the true spirit of our Revolutionary
fathers dwells. I subscribe myself yours truly, J. M. T.
LETTER from CiIRARI), Ala. ,
Girard, Ala., August 28, 1850.
Dear Doctor : —I last night read your circular in the pres
ence of six of the most respectable citizens of Girard, and
all coincide with me in the opinion that you are right, and
wc are all your men, so go ahead. If such sentiments as
have passed from the lips of John Gill Shorter are passed
unnoticed by Southern men- -and because your correspon
dent has set forth his opinion, in regard to a public nuisance
in a neighboring city, a public meeting must bo called, resolu
tions passed to endanger your life, disgrace your family, and
ruin your business, the chief support of your family, and es
pecially by such men as the “Roney Jones,” why then lam
satisfied that the dissolution of this Union is irretrievable,
from the fact that such men and such meetings were gov
erned by wrong enthusiastic prejudices. Continue your pa
per; most that I have seen here will subscribe to it.
Yours cheerfully, J. O. 11.
For the Georgia Citizen.
To the Citizens of Bibb County, Georgia,
M ho favor the Secession.
Fellow Citizens :—You are in favor of seceding from
the Union of States on a certain condition. What is that
condition. Slavery must exist iu the newly acquired Terri
tories as far North as 36 30. This will satisfy you, but if that
line is not established as the boundary of slavery, you will se
cede from tho Union. This is a correct statemont of your
principles and views, provided I understand them. I am of
opinion that this line ought to be the boundary of Slavery, bat
if we fail to get that line established by an aot of Congress,
wc should not on that account secede from the Union. It is
oontended by the seceding party, that the Free Soilers are
trying to curtail our privileges, and take away our rights so
far as regards slave property. This may be so, but even
that will not justify us in the act of Secession. Let me tell
you the reason why. In the first place, our right to secede is
questionable. lam aware that Randolph of Roanoke, has
labored to prove the right of secession. But on examining
his Epistle, I find that he has utterly failed to make out any
proof at all. Let me ask a question. Has a Territory, after
formings Constitution for herself, a right to become a mem
ber of the Union without tho consent of the States already
forming tho Union. Answer No. Neither can a State dis
member the Union by seceding without the consent of the
other States composing the Union. This is a self evident
truth, and the denial of it can never make it false. But grant
ing that a State has a right to secede, I should still be oppos
ed to secession. But, says one, “why would you be opposed
to secession after granting the right to secede.” Answer, I
would oppose secession because it would bring down ruin
on us, and our posterity. When a Territory becomes a mem
ber of the Union, it is by an act of Congress, thereby making
the Territory a member of the Union of States. When a
State secedes from the Union, she violates a law of Congress,
passed under the Constitution, and thereby becomes a trans
gressor. In that case, it would be tho duty of the Executive
to see that the laws bo faithfully executed. This state of things
would bring tho seceding party into collision with the General
Government; and notwithstanding all that Roanoke has said
to the contrary, be it remembered that Disunion by force of
arms is Treason. Those who preach up peaceable secession
are false teachers in Israel. Let secession take place, and civ
il war will be the certain consequence ; and what will be the
consequence of civil war. In the first place we should have
to shed the bloed of our countrymen without just cause,
which would constitute the crime of murder. Another con
sequence would be the certain loss of our slave property.—
Another consequence would be a national debt from three
hundred millions to five hundred millions of dollars. But
says aqother, there would be no danger of losing our slavey
. r,+ f v
because Britain wants our Qotton which our negroes tend and
pick:ODt and pack. Rather than go without our cotton, she
would send over her fleet* and armies, and assist us in drub
bing {he fpeesoilsrs. This'is Tory doubtful, friend. But sup
posing this to be the case what then ? would not Britain want
and expect pay for such important service f On our refusing
to make payment she would attempt to take it by force. If
we should prove obstinate, she would call on the free soilers
to assist in giving u a drubbing, and after being hackled by
Britain and the free soilers, we should be in a bad condition
to make cotton enough to pay out fighting expenses. About
that time, Britain'would look back to the days of the Revolu
tion, and remember the four hundred and forty millions of
dollars which she spent in trying to conquer our fathers.—
This amount and the interest for Seventy years, added to the
expenses of Civil war, would make a heavy load for us to carry
on our crippled shoulders. May our all wise and gracious
God deliver my fellow citizens from all notions of Disunion.
With kind respect, I am your’s,
A PATRON.
Tobysofkee, August 29, 1850.
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An Act,
To authorize and require the Governor of the State of
Georgia to call a convention of the people of this
State , and to appropriate money for the tame.
Whereat, The non-slaveholding States have for a series of
years, perseveringly interfered most wrongfully with the in
stitution of slavery at the South, by such aggressive meas
ures of intolerance to render it no longer a question of doubt
that the Federal Legislature will soon adopt such restrictive
measures against the institution of slavery, as to trammel,
fetter and confine it within certain geographical limits, never
contemplated by the original parties to the constitutional com
pact : And, whereas, Georgia, in her sovereign capacity as a
State, has delegated no other power to the Federal Govern
ment than those found in the Constitution of the U States,
and believing that her best interests, and her honor as a sov
ereign and independent government require that she should
meet all encroachments in a calm and manly spirit of resist
ance .-
Sxc. 1. Beit enacted hy the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Georgia in general as
sembly met , and it is hereby enacted by the authority
of the same, That should the congress ot the United States,
pas* any law prohibiting slavery or involuntary servitude in
any territory of the United States; or any law abolishing
slavery in the District of Columbia ; or any law prohibiting
the slave trade between the States where slavery may exist;
or admit into the United States as a State of this confedera
cy, the sparcely peopled territory of California or New Mex
ico ; or should the Governor of tills State receive at any time,
satisfactory evidence that any slavo or slaves having escaped
from this State to a non-slaveholding State, and that such
slave or slaves is or are refused to bo given up to the proper
owner by the authorities of the State, iu which such fugitive
or fugitives may be found, then, or in either of the foregoing
events, it shall be, and it is hereby made the duty of the Gov
ernor of this State, within sixty days thereafter to issue his
proclamation ordering an election to be held in each and ev
ery county, to a convention of the people of this State to con
vene at the seat of Government within twenty days after
said election.
Sxc. 2. And be it further enacted, That the coun
ties now entitled to two Representatives in the I louse of Rep
resentatives of the General Assembly of this State, shall
each be entitled and shall elect four delegates to said conven
tion, and the counties which are entitled to one Representa
tive shall elect two delegates to said Convention.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said elee
tion for delegates shall be conducted and held in the same
manner as elections for members of the Legislature are now
held in this State, and that all returns of elections shall be for
warded to the Governor of this State who shall upon appli
cation furnish each delegate elected with a certificate of elec
tion.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of
thirty thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropria
ted out of any money in the Treasury, for the purpose of de
fraying the expenses of said Convention and that the mem
bers of said Convention shall by vote reguLato their per diem
pay and mileage.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted , That said Con
vention shall elect all officers necessary to their organization.
Approved February 8, 1850.
Sl)£ diforgifl Citizen.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, GA., SEPT. 6, 1850.
To the Business Men of Macon and vicinity.
jgg” Having a varied and extensive assortment of Mater
ials, we are prepared to execute every description of PLA IN
and FANCY PRINTING, in tho neatest stylo of the art,
and on the most liberal terms to CASH Customers.
frjjp Advertisers, who desire their business notices to be
spread far and wide, will do well to rcecollect that the actual
circulation of our Sheet is always ten times greater than the
weekly edition, whi ch is, in itself, quite respectable. It is mo
ney thrown away to advertise in one of those still-born Jour
nals that arc never shaken out of their original folds !
Special Hint. —Loafers and Spies had better pass our
printing room, without calling to look over manuscript or ex
amine the forms ol type. If this hint is not taken, we shall
next try what virtue there is in a little shoe-leather !
Godey’s Book —The October No. of this exquisite j
monthly is already on our table.
The Ware-House Business. —Wo invite the at- |
tention of our planting friends to tho advertisement of Messrs.
Field A Adams, in our columns to-day. Messrs F. & A.
have an extensive Brick Fire-Proof Establishment, and are
provided, also, with a Fire Engino to guard against damage,
from this cause, within. The proprietors are clever men and
will do the clever thing with their customers.
nard to please. —Several of the gentlemen whose
true position we endeavored to define in our last issue, have,
we learn, taken exceptions to our labors in their behalf, and
deny the “soft impeachment” that we had, through consid
erations of justice, imputed to them. One of them says
that he has always been and is still ready to carry out the res
olutions of tho mob! Well, we shall take a note of this, in
tho book of our remembrance, for use some day, when tho
freemen of Bibb county shall meet at the ballot box to elect
their Scribes and Rulers.
Mr. Treadwell. —Mr. Treadwell of Columbia S. C. was
one of the invited guests at the late Mass Meeting, and was
graciously permitted, at the heels of the hunt, on Thursday
evening, at the Lanier House, to deliver hiinself of a speech.
The dandy gentleman, with tho white vest, accordingly went
at it with a rush and a roar, liko that of 4 ‘sucking dove,’
headlong into the bowels of Henry Clay | Poor Harry of the
West, but you did get a perfect basting. Suoh abuse of tho
venerable Statesman of tho West, wo never before heard from
the lips of man. Rhett also abused him and so did Maj. Jack
Howard——but we have not heard that any other feeling than
that of disgust was excited by their efforts, in the minds of
any. It was clearly a spitting against the wind business, on 1
the part of all these imported rcnlcre ’
What Honorable Men should do.
Now that the storm has blown over and men engaged in
unlawful acts of violence and oppression have had time to
calculate the cost of their rash work, upon all that we hold
dear, to wit: our good name at home and fair character a
broad—our prospects of business and personal feelings of self
and family, what ought honorablo and right-thinking men to
Jo, to place us where they found us and restore to us that
which they have unrighteously taken from us ? It is well
known, that the business and influence of every Southern
Editor depends, vitally and essentially, upon his reputation for
soundness upon the question of Southern Institutions. Any
suspicions breathed against his good name in this particular,
are necessarily fatal to his calling. Like the virtue of chasti
ty to a woman, so is the acknowledged virtue of allegiance
to Southern Institutions, the brighest Jewel in the Crown of
a Southern Editor. “Like Ca-sar's wife, he must not only
be chaste, but unsuspected.’’
In view, then, of the fact that the proceedings of the meet
ing of the 23d ult have gone forth to the world, under the
sanction of respectable names, most of whom have since re
pudiated its notion; and in view of the additional fact that
the press of Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and of the Union,
have hastened and are yet hastening to immolate our reputa
tion, in this regard, by publishing those proceedings, we put
it to the honor and justice of those persons, whether they do
not owe it to themselves as well as to us, to take some steps
to send the antidote as far as the poison has been diffused !
Magnanimous men, when convinced of error, do not gener
ally delay doing justice to those they have injured. It re
mains to be seen whether sueh a noble virtue as magnanimity
will in the present instance “have free course, run and be glo
rified,” or the contrary.
Errors Corrected.
Though smarting under a sense of aggravated wrong and
outrage, we are not so insensible to the claims of truth and
justice upon us, as to refuse the correction of any errors we
may have committed, in our late notices of the acts and do
ings of the mob assemblage of the23dinst. Under circum
stances like unto those with which we have been surrounded,
it is liardly possible that the true state of affairs can bo dis
cernei and stated, in every particular, anl therefore it is,
that we now proceed to correct one or two errors of fact,
which we have inadvertently made, in our extra aud issue of
Friday last.
Since that we have been assured that our statement to the
effect that Mr. James Dean was tho owner of the building
in Atlanta spoken of by “Gabriel,” and that he was therefore
governed by interest inhis participation in the inob meeting
of the 23d instant, is not true. Mr. D. declares positively
that he does not own any property in Atlanta, and never did,
and that he has nothing to do wliatever with the building spo
ken of. lie also repudiates all disposition favorable to mob
violence, and washes his hands of the whole affair.
We also understand that the alteration in the resolution,
! which we stated was done by Doctor Green, on his own rcs
j ponsibility, was done by him in committee , and was passe*]
j by the meeting, as published, although some of the commit
tee were not aware of the fact.
We have also to revoke what we said, in our last issue, n
boutW. G. Hogue and 11. W. Lindsay. We had under
stood from several quarters that these persons had been heard
violently expressing themselves against us, in the streets, and
stirring up the existing excitement to fever heat. We there
fore included them in the denunciations issued against the
whole band of Conspirators. Several friends, however, on
whose veracity we strictly rely, have since assured us that
Mr. llogue, though present at the meeting, took no part
therein, and left in disgust at the outrage permitted to be put
on the citizens, by Sain Ray inviting Jack Jones to address
them, and his compliance with the invitation. Mr. 11. was
about to make a motion to stop .Tones, but Ins friends pre
vented his so doing, when he loft the meetiug and has taken
no part, since, in the matter, except the simple expression of
opinion. We therefore fully aud cheerfully exhonerate him
from the imputation of being relied on. to do “dirty work” for
any body. Mr. Lindsay is also excused from a participation in
the meeting of the 23d ult, as lie was sick at homo at tho
time, and knew nothing of it, till afterward?. We do not,
however, exonse him from letting off since, a good deal of un
necessary gasconade about us, which we hope lie will bo wise
enough for the future, to forego.
Mr. Stiles —This gentleman spoke eloquently in behalf
of the “Stars and Stripes” of this glorious Union and of tho
protection which its folds gave to an American (himself) in
a despotic land, in the midst of the battle's strife and carnage.
All appeal like this, so well calculated to stir every patriotic
impulse of the heart, was not favorably received by some
present at the late mass meeting. When Mr. S. was speak
ing on this subject, and by way of dissent from the views of
Mr. Rhett, there was heard from one of the sovereigns the
startling cry of Disunion, which was immediately taken up by
others and echoed with vociferation, waving of hats, Ac! i
Mr. Stiles was evidently taken all aback, but immediately re
covered himself and declared that if sueh was the sentiment
of Georgia, he was bound to go with her, sink or swim, live
or perish. One Dr. Daniels of Chatham county, was the
person whose croaking “Disunion*’ voice so marred the even
tenor of Mr. Stiles’ speech. We give his name that he may
have all the honor of so great an achievement.
All of the 36, 30 Men not Disunionists.
It is exceedingly gratifying to find that many of those who
have been ardent politicians of the 36-30 school, have got j
their eyes open since the Mass Meeting in this city, to the
dangers into which they were about to plunge. The chief
speakers on that occasion, Rhett, Yancey, Jones, Colquitt ,
and others, were open disunionists. In fact, with but one or
two exceptions, Mr. Stiles and Col. Tift, the whole of the or
ators were avowedly for Rhctt’s plan of “temporary secession”
or something worse. And the sober men of tho party could
not help seeing and hearing all this, and it caused many to
waver and finally to back out from the Association. One
distinguished gentleman of Baldwin came here a 36, 30 man.
but re.urned home determined to take the field against
the election of disunionists to the convention which may be
called. In the last Telegraph we also find the card of one of
the Secretaries of the Mass meeting, distinctly repudiating
the disunion schemes avowed on that occasion. His card,
which we subjoin, is not only proof positive of the fact that
disunion was the theme preached, but it is a manly expres
sion of the gentleman’s devotion to the Union, which does
honor to his head aud to his heart:—
Macon, August 28, 1850.
Messrs. Rat A Ross, Gentlemen : As my name has
gone forth to tho country as one of the Secretaries to the Mass
meeting that convened in this place on the 22nd inst., for the
purpose (as expressed in the proceedings of the convention),
of adjusting those causes which now distract our federal rela
tions upon the basis of the Missouri compromise line, and as
Ido not endorse the disunion sentiments expressed in that
meeting, I humbly ask the privilege of placing my disappro
val before yonr readers. When I consented to act as secre
tary for the convention, I little dreamed that a disunion of
our Government was the purpose, for which it was convened,
but the sentiments of the orators and the deafening cry of a
portion of the audience for disunion and secession opened my
eyes, and 16aw plainly the sole aim of tho speakers, was to
excite the people of Georgia to dismember this glorious con
federacy.* I cannot, and pray I never shall endorse sueh sen
timents as these. lam and have been in favor of the Mis
souri compromise line as a means of restoring peace and qui
et to our distracted country, but, if that leads me to disunion
and revolution, or to Mr Rhett's suicidal plan of “temporary
secession”—Then, sirs, I am no longer for 36, 30.
This may subject me to tho calumny of some and the rid
icule of others, of this I care but little, for so long as the
Stars and Stripes (those emblems of our Nation's glory) float
from the masthead of our Old Ship of State, so long will I
rally under their folds, and lend my feeble aid to the mainte
nance and support of the Union of our Fathers.
Yours, &o. TIIOS. HARDEMAN, Jr.
Foresworn. —The people of Macon aro requested to
note those men holding official stations in our city and county
government, who have taken part in the mob law proceedings
against us. If we mistake not, when each of these men en
tered upon tho duties of his station he swore to support the
Constitution and Laws of the State, Ac. If so, is not every
man of them indiotable for perjury ?
In addition, several of these persons have sworn allegiance
to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. They have vowed
to conform to the rules of the Church aud to the laws of a
peaceful Gospel. Have they done it? Have they not been
guilty of moral perjury against their own souls and conscien
ces ? We do not pause for any answer. Let the answer
made to thattribunal which is set up by high authority, in st
ory man's bosom !
Fairness and Unfairness of the Public Press.
We subjoin some extracts from our “Exchangee” to show
how our cotemporaries of the Georgia and Alabama Press
look upon the Mob Daw violence directed against the “Geor
gia Citizen” :
The Rome, Ga., Bulletin, thus denounces mob Violence f
“ Wc cannot too Btrongly express our disapproval of this
exhibition of mob law in one of the cities in oor State. That
any set of men have the right to peremptorily order the col
umns of a press to close, and the publisher to leave his busi
ness and his home, is a doctrine too dangerous to be tolerated.
So far as the sentiments of Mr. Andrews 00 the slavery
question is concerned, there ie not a man in the whole South
more sound. Indeed, his paper has always been one of the
ablest defenders of Southern Institutions, and bitterest oppo
sers of any thing like abolitionism.
That the offensive paragraph alluded to is highly objection
able, is all true, but Mr. Andrews fully and satisfactorily ex
plains that matter.
If the police and civil authorities suffer the threat of the
meeting to be carried out by the use of force toward the per
son of the editor of tho “Citizen,” it will be a lasting stigma
and disgrace.
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel prononnees the affair
“a most high handed outrage upon the rights of a citizen, and
the freedom of the press.”
The Casß> ille Standard quotes largely fro* oar extra, and
expresses its views, in the following manner:
“The Freedom of the Press Hentd.’ f
“From an extra of the Georgia Citizen we have the start
ling intelligence that a committee of fifteen citizens of Ma
con, backed by a mob, liad waited upon the Editor of that pa
per, and demanded of him the name of his correspondent
from Atlanta, and also threatened that if he issued a aether
number of his paper he would be driven from the city. l*r
must say that such a lawless, unconstitutional outrage as
tounded us, although wc were prepared to hear of some evil
growing out of the Mass meeting at Macon. We had nev
er expected to live to sco the day when the freedom of the
Press, a right guranteed to all our citizens by the eon.mntioa
should he denied a free man of the United States; but suck
is the fact and that simply because one of the correspondent*
of the Citizen (Gabriel) expressed his opposition to the haiid
ing of a slave depot in Atlanta. Wo know this is r.ot th
real cause, and it is only seized upon as the prstrncs to dan
troy this Press beesuse its Editor is a friend to the Union.—
The friends of constitutional liberty and iff the Union, should
see in this movement an attempt to force all who advocate
tho Union to the will of the Scceders. We call upon all lov
ers of order and law to frown indignantly upon this most out
rageous act. We have no idea that the citizens of Msouu
will permit Dr. Andrew* to be disturbed, or that he will be
forced for one moment to stop liis Press. We say to him go
on, and issue your }a;>cr in the regular time. There are too
many friends of tho Union in Georgia to permit dieuniouieto
thus to carry out their high handed measures. ”
The Atlanta Intelligencer, in giving an account of the mat
ter, seems to exult amazingly in the probability of our Wis£
subjected to Lynch Law, had it not been for the timely inter
ferenee of Dr. Collins in our behalf. The Editor slso says
that the reason why we were not so Lynched, was our ‘'prom
ise to discontinue our paper, and leave tho city withia
days,” on receiving which promise the “crowd consented to
disperse.” All this, it is quite unnecessary for us to wiy, wau
manufactured by W. B. Ruggles, a newly imported Yan
kee Editor from Yankee Lund, he not yet bring a naturalis
ed voter of Georgia! There ia no truth in his statement.—
We made uo promises whatever, as to discontinuing ouT pa
per, nor any promise even to consider of sueh a proporikos.
Mr. Ruggles must therefore look elsewhere for the shnues fce
divert public attention from his own position. lit will not W
j allowed with impunity, to join in the “mad dog” cry agaias*
us, to cover up lii* own weakness, which hia failure ts de
nounce mob laic shows, so conclusively. We have aoeor
dingly hooked him as on® that will require aoina watching for
the future.
The “Jeffersonian” of Griffin, comes out fully in favor of
mob law, and prates about the difference between \bo freedom
of the Tress and its licentiousness. The Editor also takes
pleasure iu the thought, that we were about t<* afford him some
specimens of “tall walking,*’ shortly, from this latitude. In
his paper we likewise find the official proceedings of tho
mob meeting in this city. He is therefore fully committed on
the side of moboeruey. We thereforo ask who is this indi
vidual who thus endorses outrage and gloats over its probable
1 It is Maj. Win. Cline, the man who has been
noted, for years, as the most subservient party hack in all tbe
country. A man vv 110 is notorious for editorial obscenities of
the most unblushing character, and who would be classed ss
one of the “ stoop to conquer’’ partizans, if the rouehant posi
tion was notan abiding attitude with him. So little of trns
manly independence lias this Cline, that at tho late Mass
meeting in this city, he had not the spunk to keep a seat that
he had climbed or crawled to,at tlic feet of his “Temporary Se
cession*’ Majesty, Mr. Rhett, but suffered hiinself to be ign#-
; miniously kicked off the stage by his Brother Rsy of the Tel
egraph, as uuworthy a place along side the Editors of the
Federal Union, Savannah Georgian, Albany Patriot. Macon
Telegraph, Ac., and actually left the meeting in disgust and
for home by the extra train of the same evening, without hav
ing heard a single speech on the occasion! And to add to
the climax of his servility, his next paper came out as usual,
in laudation of the Mass meeting and its objects ! Commewt
is superfluous.
The Editor of the Montgomery Flag and Advertiser, him
self one of the “chivalry” heads his notice of the Mob meet
ing with the caption, “The good work commenced,” aud
says that the citizens of Macon were “fully justified in their
course.” The redoubtable Colonel therefore esteems it a
good work for all the Union Presses of tbe South to be mobb
ed, for the truth is here confessed, on all hands, that ‘‘aboli
tion or free soil Sentiments” had nothing to do with the mat
ter, only as a pretext. The mob scheme had been concoct
ed before tho publication of the paper to which exception has
been taken. The Advertiser and Gazette, lias also to learn,,
; that of the citizens of Mac-on engaged in that work, not mors
than a dozen can now be found who have not backed out from
all affiliation with its aims and objects. Besides this, all ac
tively engaged in mob violence are 36 30 Disuuioiiisu, with
out a single exception. ’Tis the work then of its own party
which the Advertiser .Mid Gazette approves, a work which
nineteen twentieths of the people of Macon have repudiated.
Another on the list of the supporters of mob law is the “Re
public” of Augusta, which paper published the proceedings
of the Mob meeting, and an extract from the Savannah News,
in justification of the same. Os course, we could not expert
any thing better from a print so unscrupulous as the “Repab
lic*’ has been for a year past.
And yet another is the Savannah “News,’ a little weather
cock sheet of Savannah, that has been blowing “hot and cold”
on the subject of politics, until it has become as good an in
dex of the passing breeze that fans the brow of the Editor, as
any one cares to liave. This neutral by profession, but ra
bid disorganizer since Savannah pronounced for “36 30 or
fight,” affects to think that our extra is “scarcely less offen
sive” than the articles complained of. If its opinion on any
subject were of any consequence, we should tremble, lest,
on finding that the popular breeze of public opinion was with
us and against mob law, it should turn round, next week, and
say something in our favor. If is should do so, we pray its
publisher and Editor will carefully withhold our copy from
us as has twice been the case heretofore when it spoke ill of
us!
The “Southerner” of Rome, Ga., next claims a passing *O
- It says :
“ Among the signs of the times, me may mention that
paper called the “ Georgia Citiaen ,” edited, we believe, by
a man of Northern feelings, principles and practices, has been
Stopped iD its insidious course, by a direct interposition of eoms
of the citizens of Macon, Ac.”
One Fouche is the principal Editoj of the Southerner.
