Georgia Historic Newspapers

    foster the spirit of disunion. We have no security for peace;
no guarantee for the safety of our servile institutions; no
prospect of tile development of our vast resources when dis
severed from the Union. In union is safety, in labor the cer
tainty of power and prosperity. —Lafayette (Lou.) Rep.
Congressioual.
PASSAGE OF THE CALIFORNIA AND UTAH BILLS.
The Senate was not in session on Saturday.
Jn the House —Mr. Thompson, of Miss., moved an amend
ment to the original bill, providing that the Southern bounda
ry of California shall bo on the line of 36 deg. 30 min. North
latitude.
Mr. Richardson moved the previous question.
The previous question was seconded, and main question
ordered. The question was then taken on the amendment
of Mr. Thompson to the original bill, fixing the southern boun
dary at 36 deg. 30 min., and it was rejected—yeas 75, nays
132.
he quest!) n being: Shall the bill pass ? it was put, and
normative, by yeas 150, nays 56, as follows :
.lbertson, Alexander, Allen, Anderson,
Dennett, Bingham, Bissell, Bokee,
D’ icrgs, Brooks, W. J. Brown,
>. Butler, Joseph Ca
il, Carter, Casey, Chau-
V • 1 in, Crowell, Dickey, Dimmick, Dis
. ! 1 : ; uer, Duncan, Dunham, Durkec, Elliot,
•'ti-x. L'-.. Nathan Evans, Ewing, Fitch, Fowler, Freed
iey,; aller. Gentry, Gerry, Giddings, Gilmore, Gorman, Gott,
Gould, Grinnell, 1 Jail, Halloway, Hamilton, Ilarlan, Thos.
L. Harris, Haymond, Henry, Hibbard, Iloagland, Houston,
Howe, Hunter, Win. T. Jackson, A. Johnson, Jas. L. John
son, Jones, Julian, Kerr, Geo. G. King, J. G. King, John
A. King, Preston King, Leffler, Levin, Littlefield, Horace
Mann, Job Mann, Marshall, Mason, Matteson, McClernand,
McDonald, McGaughey, McKissock, McLanalian, Robt. M.
McLane, F. E. McLean, Meacham, More, Morehead, Morris,
Nelson, New ell, Ogle, Olds, Otis, Peaselee, Peck, Phelps,
Phoenix, Pitman, Potter, Putnam, Reed, Reynolds, Richard
son, Robbins, Robinson, Root, Rose, Ross, Rumsey, Sackett,
Sawtelle, Sclienck, Seliermerhom, Schoolcraft, Silvester,
Sprague, Stanly, Thaddeus Stevens, Stetson, Strong, Sweet
ser, Taylor, Jas. Thompson, John B. Thompson, Thurman,
Tuck, Underhill, Vau Dyke, Vinton, Walden, Waldo, Wat
kins, Wentworth, White, Whittlesey, Wildriek, Williams,
Wilson, and Young —150.
Nay*.—Messrs. Alston, Ashe, Averett, Bayly, Beale,
Bowdon, Boyd, A. G. Brown, Burt, E. C. Cabell, G. A.
Caldw'ell, Clingman, W. R. W. Cobb, Colcock, Daniel, De
berry, Edmundson, Featherston, Green, llarralson, Isliam
G. Harris, Samson W . Harris, Hilliard, Holliday, Howard,
Hubbard, Inge, Joseph TV . Jackson, Robert W. Johnson,
Kaufman, La Sere, McDowell, McMullen, McQueen, Mc-
Willie, Meade, Millison, Morse, Morton, Orr, Outlaw, Owen,
Parker, Powell, Savage, Seddon, Sliepperd, Fred. P. Stanton,
Richard 11. Stanton, Thomas, Jacob Thompson, Toombs,
\ enable, B allace, IV ellborn and Woodward. —56.
The committee laid aside other business and proceeded to
consider the kill from the Senate to provide u Territorial Gov
ernment for Utah.
Mr. W entworth movod as an amendment to insert the
Wilmot proviso.
It was voted down—ayes 67, noes 78.
Mr. T. Stevens of Penn., moved to strike from the bill the
following words, viz: “and when admitted as a State the said
territory, or any portion of the same shall be received into
the Lnion with or without slavery, as their Coustitution may
prescribe at the time of their admission.’’
The question was taken on striking out, and it was nega
tived—ayes 58, noes 85.
Mr. Bayly appealed to the Southern members not to offer
any amendment to the bill. lie said that the bill had receiv
ed the vote of all the Southern Senators, and was acceptable
to them as Southern men.
Mr. Seddon said the Southern Senators would never have
voted for the bill, had they known that such outrages would
have been committed on the rights of the South as bad taken
place here in a day or two.
Mr. Toombs wished to know of the gentleman what were
the wrongs of which ho complained. If there was any ag
gression upon the rights of the South it was committed by two
thirds of her sons, whose loyalty to her could not be question
ed. He did not view the admission of California as an
aggression on the South; nor the passage of territorial
bills. These bills had received two-thirds of the Southern
votes, and therefore were satisfactory to the South.
The bill tvas then reported to the House.
The question being shall the bill pass, it was put and taken
on a vote of yeas and nays and decided in the affirmative, by
yeas 97, nays 85,
Monday's proceedings.
In the Senate on the 9th inst. the Texas boundary bill, with
the House amendment was taken up.
The amendment was concurred in—yeas 31, nays 10, as
follows :
Yeas —Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Bell, Berrien, Bright,
Gass, Clay, Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge of lowa, Douglas,
Downs, Felcli, Foote, Houston, Jones, King, Mangum, Mor
ton, Norris, Pearce, Pratt, Rusk, Sebastian, Shields, Smith,
Spruance, Sturgeon, Underwood, Wales, Whitecomb—3l.
N’ays. —Messrs. Baldwin, Benton, Chase, Davis, of Mass.,
Dodge, Wis., Ewing, Ilamlin, Seward, Upham, Winthrop
—lO.
Final Vote on the TexasJioundary Bill.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SEPT. OtH.
The question was then taken on the passage of the bill, on
yeas and nays, and it resulted in the affirmative —yeas 107,
nays 97. The following is the vote—
'■? —Messrs. Albertson, Alston, Anderson, Andrews,
ale, Bokee, Bowie, Bowlin, Boyd, Breok,
T . Brown, Buel, Chester Butler, E. C.
1, J P. Caldwell, Casey, Chandler,
• - . “-hs rv. 1 1 • Miiek, Disney, Duer, Duncan,
* ‘ n ,: i <•? :.wing, Fitch,Fuller,Gentry,
y, GunGorman,G.tc-u,Grinnell, llail, Hammond,
r i. II: vis, TANARUS! jL. Harris, Haymond, Hibbard, Hilliard,
. .-agiiind, ! foUbton, Howard, Andrew Johnson, Jas. L.
Johason, Jones, Kaufman, Kerr, Geo G. King, Leffler, Lev
: i, Littlefield, Job Mann, Marshall, Mason, McClernand, Mc-
Donald, M Dowell, McKissock, McLanahan, McLane, Mc-
Lean, McMullen, Morehead , Nelson, Outlaw, Owen,
Parker, Peaslee, Phoenix, Pitman, Potter, Richardson, Rob
bins, Robinson,Rose, Ross, Savage, Sellermerhorn, Sheppard,
Stanley, F. P. Stanton, Richard H. Stanton, Strong, Taylor,
Thomas, Jas. Thompson, John B. Thompson, Thurman,
Toombs, Underhill, Walden, Watkins, Welborn, White,
Whittlesey, Wildriek, Williams, Wilson, Young—lo 7.
Nays —Messrs. Alexander, Allen, Averett, Baker, Ben
nett, Bingham, Booth, Bowdon, A. G. Brown, Barrows,
Burt, Thomas B. Butler, Cable, Calvin, Campbell, Carter,
Clark, Clingman, Colcock, Cole, Conger, Corwin, Crowell,
Daniel, Diokey, Doty, Dickson, Durkee, Nathan Evans,
Featherston, Fowler, Giddings, Gott, Holloway, HARAL
SON, Harlan, S. W. Harris. Ilebard, Henry, Holiday,
Holmes, Howe, Hubbard, Hunter, Inge, JOSEPH W.
JACKSON, T\ m. T. Jackson, Robert W. Johnson, Julian,
James G. King, John A. King, Preston King, La Sere. Ho
race Mann, Matterson, McGaughey, McQueen, Me Willie,
Meacham, Mead, Millison, Moore, Morris, Morse, Newell,
Ogle, Olds, Orr, Otis, Peck, Phelps, Powell, Putnam, Reed,
Reynolds, Rockwell, Root, Rumsey, Sackett, Sawtelle
Sebenek, Schoolcraft, Silvester, Sprague, Stevens of Pa., Stet
son, Sweetser, Jacob Thompson, Tuck, Van Dyke, Venable,
Vinton, Waldo, Wallace, Wentworth, Woodward—97.
We put the above vote on record, for two reasons, Ist. to
show that the extreme ultraists of the North and South have
again united against the settlement of the Slavery question—
the abolition members, u]tan, Mann, Pres
ton Kmg, Tuck, Root, Thxd. Stevens and with
the whole South Carolina Delegation and part of thaUf^ lll
Georgia and Alabama to defeat the Texas Bill. And 2dly}
to give prominence to those of our Delegatioa who have thus
proved recreant to the best interests of their constituents.—
The names of the Georgia Delegation that spliced hands with
the Abolitionists are
nUGII A. HARALSON
► and JOSEPH W r . JACKSON.
Mosers. Owens, Toombs aud Welborn voted for the Bill.
Stevens and Hackett were absent, and 11. Cobb in the Chair.
Stevens and Cobb may be set down for the bill. IlaekoU's
sentiments not known.
C&mspratoiitt.
Letter from Baker County.
NEWTON, Sept. 11th 1850.
Doctor Andrews —Dear Sir : The great Democratic, alias
Disunion meeting came off in this place yesterday. A looker
on there might have seen any character of humanity his cu
riosity could have suggested, in the way of orators. On one
side he might see the embodiment of wisdom asking himself
“ ain’t I smart'’ ? But another side he might behold a small,
but furious compound of political coxcombry and French
dandy-ism, intended in its own conception to purgo the peo
ple of tlieir folly and cowardice 5 and by calling at the “Cap
tain's office'’ might be seen a pretty fair specimen of South
Carolina spunk Patriotism and good sense ! But to the
meeting—Well after it was called to order (Major John F.
Spice and Capt. A. B. Lawton, Chairman) Dr. B. (whom
they tell us folks down here hails all the way from Albany,
by himself) addressed the meeting and explained its object in
a very able, dignified and dandy-fied, but peremptory man
ner, with of course a few of liis “ sine qua nons ” extra
touches and flourishes, that would truly have done honor to
Count D’Orsay or some other French Gent.
“ His words of learned length and thundering sound,
Amazed t’ izing rustics ranged around ;
And still ; ■./.•,‘d, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head should carry all he knew.”
The said Doctor being the Chairman of the Committee “to
attend to business” read an order of discussion which had
been fixed off by the managing ones, previously, when Judge
Warren arose and objected to any arrangement of the kind
being made, as that there might be persons present, who were
excluded by the said order from saying any tiling, who might
wish to make known their view's ; and besides, it arranged, for
Col. Tift to conclude on him and that he concurred with Col.
T. in his views on many points as expressed in the “ Albany
Patriot.” No sooner was the objection raised than the afore
said Doctor, “ disdain and scorn sparkling in his eye” arose
and very ably defended his plan, but when it was put to the
vote it was lost. And there was then a motion made and car
ried by Judge W., that the resolutions be read one at a time,
and any body be allowed to speak on each resolution, who felt
inclined, ten minutes. When a certain resolution was read by
the aforesaid Doctor, to wit, “ and rejoice in the defeat of the
Compromise Bill of the Committee of thirteen, &c.” the Doc
tor was called on to read said bill as there were perhaps some
present who never had read it. It could not be produced,
however, and that resolution was stricken out. Thus they
made an attempt to impose on the ignorance of the good peo
ple. The few office and honor seekers drafted their resolu
tions to suit their own convenience and object, and called on
tlie innocent, good meaning men of the county to vote for
tlieir resolutions, for party’s sake, witliout giving them light,
but in fact withholding it from them. Col. T. seemed to be “in
stays.” He seemed to regret that his good sense and sound
judgment would noton that occasion, allow him to cooperate
so heartily with his old friends as “in times past.” He has
gone as far into this scrape as lie can. And no doubt as be rides
on bis way homeward to-day he will soliloquise after this style,
“ I have gone with my party to as great extremes as it seems to
me human impudence ought dare ask me to go. I assisted
them in involving my country in a Mexican war &c., and now
they have the boldness to ask me to aid them in effecting a dis
solution of this glorious confederacy. But I can’t do it.” Come
out Colonel, ain't these your sentiments? Don't be afraid, you
are right. Colonel P., of Albany, arose and gave them a very
inflamed deliver}'of what remained of his Laurens effort. Os
course he looked very nice, for anything else would have been
an anomaly in bis nature. He was for Disunion.
“ Cried out upon abuses, seemed to weep
Over his counntry’s wrongs, and by bis lace,
That seeming brow of justice, thought he won
The hearts of all that he did angle for.”
This same Colonel is a Yankee and I believe has relatives in
Yankee Dom, but he would murder them of course. These
are the very men who are most rampant, They are the men
who have so much kind feeling for us that they go over the
country, making two and a half hour speeches, warning us of
our danger and advising us of our remedy. Our good fellow
citizens ought to beware of such hot-headed men. They are
the men who would involve us in war and then fold their
hands in repose, and call on us to put in execution their
threats. I might tell of some of the Colonel’s threats to go to
the line of 36—30, with his “ coffin in hand “ but you know
he is a desperate man, any how, and will do exactly what he
says he will. He will not flinch certain, and if all the “ fire
eaters” were just such men, I don't know but I might be
constrained to be one of them. When the Governor made
a call for Volunteers, the Colonel's blood boiled in his veins,
to fight “ them darn'ed Mexicans.” But they would’nt
make him Captain, and he would not go, and I don’t
blame him. Do you ? There were many other things turn
ed up, but I have not time to write them out.
Yours, Ac., WIRE GRASS, Jr.
Letter from Griffin.
GRIFFIN, GEO., Sept. 7, 1850.
Dear Doctor —l have only time to mention that your pa
per is now more sought after than any other that comes to this
place. Every body here is wondering if you intend to exercise
enough of the milk of human kindness as to let these factious
mobocrats slide out by denying that they were in the meeting,
or, that if there, that they were your friends ; I tell some of
them, that no doubt that you will be willing to forgive even
your enemies, on a proper acknowledgment on tlieir part. But
again it is consistent with the religion advocated by you, to be
pacified toward them, when they have strictly accounted for all
the evil they had in store for you.
I tell you, now, that some of the “ Fights” of this place
are much disappointed at the failure of the 1110 b. Nor is this
all, it has been said by some of the more factious in these dig
gins that a certain whig office in this place would find itself
in the same fix before long.
Mob law and violence appears to be the strong argument,
of many of the 36—30’s. Like Mahomet’s religion a bad cause
can only be supported by the sword and fire. And mark it,
desperate men, only have recourse to such ends in support of
a sinking cause. And sucli men, while they remain obsti
nate and show such perversity of mind, as not to confess to
tlie man they have wantonly and hastily injured, ought to be
held to a strict legal accountability, for all injuries to persons,
or property that they may do in their anger. You have four
years time to consult your convenience to bring those fellows
to a sense of the laws and obligations they live under, and to
a knowledge of the difference between brute force or Rus
sian despotism , aud a peaceable well drawn and reasonable
argument in aid of propositions we wish to sustain. •
Your friend, TROCHANTER.
LETTERS from NEW YORK.
New York, Sept. 9, 1850.
Dear Sir : —You may well imagine that it was with ex
treme surprise, and great fears for your personal welfare,
that I received an extra “Citizen” detailing the troubles in
which you had suddenly, and perhaps, unexpectedly been
involved in the South, and which appeared to threaten sub
sequent disastrous consequences of ignominious outrage upon
your person at least, if not brutal assassination according to
the summary code of Judge Lynch. The reception since,
however, of your “half aheet” has quieted, in a degree, my
apprehonsions for your safety, and led me to trust that good
will grow out of the seeming eril by which you have been
surrounded. lam glad to sec you take a proper position in
the premises, and that you are resolved to defend your repu
tation and your “Castle,” i e, your printing office, at every
hazard, from mob outrage and ferocity. I was indeed sorry,
that even the power of might , had induced you to surren
der the authorship of the objectionable letter. It strikes me
that I would have defied the incarnate fiends and hell itself,
before I would have yielded a single iota to threats or intimi
dations of any kind, especially when I was conscious of having
\uttered no libel, or of having violated no law of the State or
Your course, however, may have been the most wise
and in view of the ties of family, &c. The Dis-
the no I**® traitorous Abolitionists of tlie North,
are a, ty infamy and outrage to succeed in their
hellish desigsll s > evcn to the kindling of the torch of civil
w r ar, and our fair land with blood. It is, however,
to be hoped that!^ 10 settlement of the .Texan boundary ques
tion, the California into the confederacy of the
States, and the wWch have J UBt 1)0011 carried tri
umphantly through the <jf ingress will hare the cf
•yigg ■®s©'iisi sinsll
feet of restoring tranquility to every section of the Union,
and teaching the Fire-eaters of the South, and the negro-lov
ers of the North, that the preservation of the constitution
and the integrity of the American Union, are objects of
greater ad\ antage, than the elevation of fanatics and mad
men to power and misrule. Your editorial course must
meet with the cordial support of all honest politicians, and
judicious men, of every party and creed, and you should
congratulate yourself, that you have stood by the beautiful
standard of the Republic, and maintained the cause ol peace
and of the rights of the entire American people against tre
son and faction in all their Hydra shape and appearance. Pa
pers, like the “Citizen’’ at the South, can scarcely fail to ex
ert great influence with the moderate reasoning men of all
parties in tbe country, and, in the end you will have your just
reward. Now that the States reach from the Atlantic to
the Pacific—and now that Texas lias a rich sugar plum (giv
en her by Uncle Samuel to stop her ugly caterwauling
more than by reason of the j usace of her pretensions to
territory in New Mexico) we may hope that the W ilmot
proviso men and Skunk admirers of the North, and the
boasting demagogues like Bell, of Texas ; Quitman, of Missi.;
and others of that vantankerous ilk, in the South, will cease
tlieir treasonable designs and allow tbe principles on which
the Republic was originally founded, to advance to the regen
eration of mankind and tbe overthrow 01 tyranny and des
potism wherever found in the habitable globe. But a truce
to sucli themes. Tbe country is safe and will not require to
be fenced in, at present. Yours, &c. CHEVALIER.
September 7, 1850.
Dear Sir: —l am now in Novum Eboracum—the Baby
lon of the Universe. Jenny Lind is here, and the whole
city is upside down on account of her. It is like tbe tower
of Babel while suffering under the wrath of Heaven. It
was a wise saying of tbe Greeks that, those whom the Gods
wish to destroy, they first make mad! If going mad be
the preliminary for destruction, this city will certainly be des
troyed, for every man in it is a Midas, and has the ears of a
jackass.
It was stated in one of the papers, the other day, that
Jenny Lind had gone out to Barnnm’s Oriental Palace at
Bridgeport to reside; but it was all a lie—just like every
thing else that is told here for the first time. Slie is now at
tbe Irvin House, nearly distracted with the assinine obsequi
ousness of the rampaut Bonhommie.
Barnum offered two hundred dollars for the best song to
be sung by Jenny Lind, as a greeting to America. Tbe
other day, the committee appointed to judge of the merits of
the poems sent in for the prize, examined about seven hun
dred, and awarded it to Bayard Taylor—the fortunate can
didate.
It was my opinion, before coming to tbe city, that Barnum
had never made any such offer ; but from what I now learn
tbe poems have been written and the prize awarded as stated
above.
Yesterday morning, at half past ten, the principal seats at
Jenny Lind’s concert for next Wednesday, were sold, as I
was informed yesterday evening, at from $25 to $225 each.
This will give you idea of what is going on here. This
is a great place, and the home of a large number of very
great people —that is, in their own peculiar way.
I was told yesterday, that Barnum first made his appear
ance, as a pandercr for the public taste in Danbcrryjail, Con
necticut, for libel. W hen he was called upon by the Judge
to answer why the law should not be pronounced upon him,
it is said that be made tlie following reply. “May it please
your Honor! you are a ‘Blue-skin’—these jurymen are all
‘Blue-skins’—in the hands of such people, I have no more
chance to escape, than a eat in hell without claws ! ” He
was sentenced to thirty days imprisonment.
It is said that he made his debut as a showman, with four
white horses. Now he lives in one of the finest houses in
America. His Palace is a kind of Polyglot of art, made up
out of the Turkish, Indian and Chinese orders. One order
would not suffice for him. Tbe grounds are laid out iu mag
nificent style, tbe walks about his house being paved with tbe
most beautiful prismatic shells from the sea.
lie goes here by the common yet characteristic name of—
Humbug. lam told that whenever he is asked about tbe
extravagant price that be is to pay Jenny land every night,
bis reply is—“A fool and his money soon parts.” He is
to pay her a thousand dollars a night, and to give )icr one
half of the nett proceeds, after paying all expenses. This is
tlieir final arrangement. It is my serious opinion that this
man will make no less than one million of dollars , clear
money, out of this negotiation.
Eight thousand tickets have already been sold at the prices
above named. The price of her tickets in England was only
a guiuea—hero, they are fifty ! The people here affect ty
to console themselves with this reflection, that is if they are
making fools of themselves, they are not the first—for John
Bull had several wrinkles made in his horns before she cainc
over here.
There is no doubt of this fact, that Jenny Lind is the no
blest es all God’s creatures, and deserves all tlie praise tliat
can be bestowed upon her; but why not do it in a genteel
and quiet way ? WTiat is the use of going distracted about
the creature? For a real cold-blooded, calculating people,
those New Yorkers are the hottest-headed under the sun.
Not because they possess more enthusiasm than any other
people, but because they have longer ears. They did the
same way about Fanny Elsler, just because she had carried
the act of showing her legs and kicking up her heels to in
finite perfection.
As soon as Bayard Taylor's poem is published 1 will send
you a re-view of it.
Before coining to a close I deem it my duty to say some
thing about the American Hotel here. It is a magnificent
building, and might be made a very good hotel by getting a
good cook to prepare the diet, and decent chamber-maids to
keep it clean ; but under tlie present management it is just
anything in the world but a good bouse. If any man can eat
tbe victuals and live here without undergoing tbe pains of
Tantalus in hell, he ean do more than I can. I certainly nev
er ate such breakfasts any where. I called for a warm bath
two days without so much as getting the water warmed.
New York is s great city and destined to be one of tlie
greatest in the world. It is the ancient Babylon rebuilt.
There is not a really healthy man, woman, or child in it.
Yours most truly, T. 11. C.
From a Citizen of Macon.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 1850.
Dr. L. F. W. Andrews —Dear Doctor, Should your font
of type escape the broken bone fever, or the calamity of be
ing knocked into Punkin Pic, when this reaches your hand,
please address a copy of the “ Citizen,” to Messrs. E. & R.
R. G., New York, and add same subscription to our account.
We will take the risk of your life, and success, and do our
best to fill up tbe wide gap in your list occasioned by the re
cent flare up among our Fire-Eaters. Go ahead, and suc
cess attend you. Every one we see here from tbe South, is
with you in feeling—no mistake in this.
Yours very truly, J. M. Iv.
Letter from Montgomery Ala.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 9th 1850.
L. F. W. Andrews —Sir, enclosed you will find three dol
lars—as I have no half, you can place the surplus to my next
year's subscription. Your friends here have expressed the be
lief all along, that you could not be scared from your post by
threats of mob law, and you have not disappointed them. I
hope you may always be found battling in so good a cause,
and that you may never lack friends in time of need.
Yours respectfully, W. M.
From a Citizen of Macon.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5, 1850.
Dear Doctor —l regret to learn that a clique is formed in
our much beloved city, wlio have expressed a determination
that the “ Georgia Citizen” shall either breathe a different
atmosphere or cease to breathe. Now, Doctor, I trust that
the peace loving citizens of Macon, will treat with contempt
the threats of any man or set of men who can so far forget
the moral obligations they are under to society at large. I
have beard that an attack on your office was spoken of; I can
scarcely believe there is a man in Macon who can muster a
corporal’s guard that would bo willing, in open day, to have
his name associated with any such disgraceful proceedings.
Yes, I doubt not tliAt there are li hounds who under the
cover of darkness would creep stealthily into the sepulchre
of death itself, to carry out their unholy desires. For the re
ception of such I hope you are always well prejared.
Yours truly, R. Y.
LETTERS from ATLANTA.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 15, 1850.
Dear Doctor :—I cannot forego a communication to you
as to the result of the Disunion meeting held in this place
yesterday, and some items of the risible and ridiculous
which attended it. The meeting was a legitimate conse
quence of the combined effort and political influence of a
few “Fire-eaters” of this city, who had previously notified
the citizens of DeKalb of the meeting, and of its object—the
“taking into consideration of Southern rights as involved in
the subjects of the Texan boundary” &c, liberally giving in
vitation to all, without distinction of party, to a “FREE
BARBECUE,” which was promised on the occasion. Well,
about 300 of the citizens of DeKalb, including those of At
lanta that attended, composed the meeting. The object of
the contention was explained by the chairman. Then fol
lowed a tremendous speech by one who owns negroes. (I
say he owns negroes, not that I know it, but surely it must
be so, for I never did hear him make a speech about politics
without telling his hearers so! ) Its unnecessary to mention
his name, as 1 understand 110 is expecting to be chosen as one
of the re doubtable, to be sent to tho Milledgeville conven
tion, and be might, if I were to do so, blame me with the
signal defeat which awaits him in bis hopes’ Well, next
appeared an individual with whom I am not acquainted, who
called himself “a rebel to this government,” and I think from
the striking want of good sense and reason manifested
throughout his whole harrangue, that “rebel,’ is about as
suitable an appellation as he could have given himself. Ido
not design giving the outlines of the different speeches,—it
would be too tedious and disgusting to attempt it. After
said “rebel” had raved sometime upon the glory of seces
sion, he ridiculously took his seat! Whereupon, Prior! Pri
or ! Prior ! was the continued cry of tbe lovers of Union !
Finally Mr. Prior consented to take tlie stand, and was ap
proaching the same, when it was announced that the dinner
w'as ready, and that Mr. Prior would be gladly beard after
the feast. I say feast, if you call beef, and bog, and sheep
badly served up, taken with the dryest kind of bread, a feast!
It may have suited the gusto of “Fire-eaters,” but certainly
not the taste of any other human creature. Besides, I un
derstand it was voraciously devoured elean up. “Stand out
of my way here!—Aint there no more meat!! ” Os course,
I did not touch, taste, or handle the Barbecue. Well, the
people again collected around the stand, which Mr. Prior as
cended, and addressed the assembly for some hour, com
manding tbe attention and respect of all present. His re
marks received tbe approbation of most of the congregation.
In conclusion, he very feelingly referred to Washington, the
father of this glorious Union, which his opponents were so
desirous to sever, alluding toJiis sacred name in connexion
with the many benefits which we have heretofore enjoyed
and now derive from that Union, a disruption of which,
would not only result jn our deprivation of the many bles
sings it was so well calculated to confer ; but, to our shame,
would disturb tbe peaceful slumbers of tbe much revered
Hero—the immortal Washington! lie touched u|>on this
part of the subject with effect. —Some of the hearers, as I
have been credibly informed, shed tears under the feeling
appeal.
Mr. Trior was followed by a gentlemen who goes in for a
severance of tho Union. Next in order was a “Fire-eater,”
from tbe Stone mountain, who illustrated tbe case thus ;
That if any one of his hearers had a lot of land in the vi-„
cinity of Atlanta, and the citizens should trespass upon it,
and disregard all demands for remuneration, and finally
claim it in fee, and suit should be commenced against tbe
trespassers, aud tbe jury should bring in a verdict in their
behalf, in disregard to the law and equity, would not any
one of them oppose the law, or tbe decision ?—Would be not
fight for it ? Just so, be remarked it was, in reference to tbe
decision or action of congress—then, would they “tamely
submit?” Now, don’t that illustration illustrate that these
Distractionists are not disposed to abide by the laws of the
land ! It docs appear so to me. It may not look so howev
er, to a man seceding up a tree! Who next? Why, an
Atlantian, not tbe “Atlantian” that writes sometimes for the
Citizen, be was there though, taking notes too, I reckon.
Well, when he arose, the greater portion of the congrega
tion arose and left, causing tbe speaker to hesitate and won
der ! But be finally got to blowing, and such an out-coming
of tbe “fire” which kindled most rapidly upon tbe beef-fuel,
with which it was abundantly supplied! Says he in con
clusion, gentlemen sirs, if you are for the Union you must be
against the Constitution, and if you are for tbe Constitu
tion you must be against the Union ; sirs, crisis of speaking
is done gone, the event of activity is come, it is for you to
send true Southrons to the Convention, who will stand up to
tyou through thick and thin, at all hazards, and to the extrem
ity of California ! Amen. He took his seat. Mr , a
notorious “Fire-eater,” was then requested to make a “blus
tering'’ speech to wind up on ; but be would’nt. It must
have been because there was hardly any body to speak to.
So, tbe meeting then adjourned to meet at Milledgeville.
BRUISER.
LETTER from COLUMBUS.
Columbus, Sept., 16, 1850.
Dear Andrews-Sir :—Tbe past week reveals a long chap
ter of sad accidents hi tlie political fortunes of the Disunion
ists. Tlie news of tbe passage of tbe Texas and California
Bills created among them as much consternation as though
it had been tbe sound of the last trump. Ihcy first tore
tlieir hair, foamed at tbe mouth, emitted sparks of fire from
tlieir eyes, and then glided off into sullen gloom and moody
silence. This was disturbed by a distant sound that announ
ced tbe passage, also, of the Fugitive slave Bill.
Then went forth the maniac exclamation, “0I1! my poor
bleeding country !!” This produced much trouble in the Dis
union Camp. Sonic went to writing, some to reading, some
to forge or find new thunder-bolts. Others were detailed in
search of more signatures, the result of -'ll which was a grand
convocation on Saturday night in the old office of “the Mus
cogee Democrat,” of about 150 of various ages and sizes,
where they formed a club, but a club yon know, out of tlie
hands of a man, is a harmless weapon, and therefore alarm
at the term is unnecessary.
There was some want of harmony and a much greater lack
of symmetry in the component parts of the Club. A solitary
member was so shortsighted as to venture to say, that “in
his opinion, it was time for reason to resume its sway, tliat
the blood and thunder policy had scared no body.” Unlucky
wight ! Had the guillotine been erected, doubtless your blood
would have atoned for your simplicity. The harangues were
short and full of fire, and the still small voice of reason was
stifled by ill-timed and uproarious plaudits. It was intimated,
that if they failed to dissolve the Union, that they could
surely create a Southern party, that would have under its
control all the offices of honor and profit in the State. This
suggestion was well received, because each one present, by
the powers of imagination, instantly clothed himself with the
office suited to his taste. Heaven was devoutly invoked “to
hurl a Thunderbolt of uncommon wrath” at the head of tbe
Hon. Robert Toombs. This was the climax of Rhett-orie.
True the sentiment and the expression were old. and though
both were borrowed, yet the action was so suited to the word,
that the whole pierced the ears of the groundlings and pro
duced a furious and fiery effect.
Non-intercourse was unanimously, in some particulars, a
greed upon. The Nevcr-pay-club (which is a weapon
likely to produce death on all shopkeepers, bakers, and
butchers) assuming a belligerent attitude, resolved to cut oil
nil trade with those opposed to them. There was no dissen
ting voice to this proposition, Indeed, the only fear is, that
it will not be strictly adhered to ! The meeting then ad
journed to meet again. What will then transpire cannot be
foretold. —But tbe Fortune-teller, tbe seventh son of his
foreparents for the last seven generations, residing near the
city, on the identical mound where rest the bones of seven
prophets of tbe seven tribes of tbe Creek Indians, predicts
that then appropriate badges will be put upon all those who
are willing to bow down their heads and worship the Ilydra
lleaded Baal of tlieir idolatry.
Recently tbe tone of public sentiment in this region lias
been daily growing stronger against the schemes of the dis
unionists. Grand Juries, iu two of tlie adjoining counties
have made stern presentments against the republieation, in
our very midst, of incendiary productions, under any pre
text. This was an alarming evil, and it is hoped by all good
citizens, tliat even the phrenzy of party will not longer tole
rate it. Its indiscriminate discussion in publie is equally del
eterious to the public safety. Your efforts to suppress such
things prove you to be a true lover of the country, a fearless
advocate of the Union Democratic Whig Party. And for
all this, you shall be rewarded, openly, AMICUS,
Letter from Wetumpka, Alabama.
WETUMPKA, ALA., Sept. 15, 1850.
Dear Doctor —You cannot imagine how it rejoiced tny
very soul to hear of your triumph over the malignity of your
foes, for your triumph is the triumph of law and order, over
moral misrule and mobocracy—the triumph of truth, justice,
and humanity. For my part I have never believed in any
thing stronger than in the Freedom of the Press. Freedom
of speech, as well as of opinion, is our inalienable privilege
—our birthright, and it is our boast in this country, that
here it is exercisod and enjoyed to the fullest extent, of any
country on earth. Here it is exultingly proclaimed that every
man can sit under his own vine and fig tree, and not only
worship his Maker according to the dictates of his conscience,
but also give free expression to his thoughts on all subjects,
whether religious or political without any to object, molest,
or make afraid. And yet here umW false pretences the
threat has been made, and the mandate has gone forth, that
a free born American citizen—a southern man with south
ern principles, should have his printing establishment—his
dependence for a support to his family, pulled down around
his head, and his person exposed to the fury of a wild en
raged and reckless mob! And sorry am Ito add that there
were men considered respectable, who stood ready to execute
the threat—men sworn to support the constitution and laws
of our country, and had even sworn allegiance to the Prince
of Peace. Let such a precedent be once set, and where
would be the safeguard to our liberties ? Where would be
the security to person or property ? llow then could a man
pursue happiness in his own way ?
I have always doubted the expediency or propriety of mob
law, or men taking the law into their own hands under any
and I have never witnessed the principle
when put into praetice'to work well in the end. I know the
excuse is, that there are cases which the law cannot reach in
which it becomes men to take the natter into their own
hands, and to apply the remedy ; but if our laws are defec
tive in any respect would it not be better to mend than to
mar them ? That is, I mean, would it not be better to
make new laws to supply the defects than to suffer men with
impunity to violate the existing laws ? And in the mean
time would it not be better to endure for a while the evils
complained of, tlian to give men occasion, under false pre
tences, to gratify their private animosities f This we know
is often done where Lynch law prevails.
Another boast in this country is the right of trial by jury,
when a man can meet his accusers face to face upon equal
footing, and be allowed to vindicate his own cause, either by
himself or by counsel; but sir, were you allowed a hearing
before the tribunal that condemned you ? Were you cited
to trial ? Was any opportunity afforded you to make your own
defence ? Nothing of the kind. Unheard sentence was pro
nounced against you, and your press which tvas wont to speak
out in tones of thunder against disunionists, ordered to be sunk
into the silence of eternal oblivion J A pretty state of tilings
we should have if such proceedings—such high handed tyran
ical measures were to be tolerated in our laud !
I have bad the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with you
for the period of twelve or fifteen years, and I have always
looked upon you as perfectly sound upon the subject of slavery;
perhaps no man in the South can be more so. I know that you
have stood up manfully against your own brethren, in religious
faith, and that you have fought, valiantly, for the rights of the
South against the Fanatics of the North, who in turn have de
nounced you in unmeasured terms, on account of your pro
slavery sentiments. And now, after all this, for you to be
sacrificed under the charge of being tainted with Abolitionism
which they who preferred it knew was false when they made
it, would not only have been act of base ingratitude, but a
burning sin and shame! I rejoice therefore for the honor of
our country, as well as for the credit of the city of Macon,
and for your own sake and family, that your enemies were
not able to triumph over you, but that you were sustained
in the community in which you lire , and that your eloquent
appeal to the Wisdom, Justice, and Humanity of the Sover
eign people was not made in vain; and I do hope tliat instead
of being injured by the wicked attempt to put you down, you
will be greatly benefited—that a reaction will take place in
your favor, and that hundreds of new subscribers w ill rush
to your rescue.
If the reason why your foes at your door would resort to
brute force to put you down, i* because they cannot cope with
your pen, then why do they not import someone from a dis
tance to effect their object. Such a course would be far
more justifiable and honorable, than that of turning the rab
ble loose against you, to blast your prospects and to impov
erish your wife and children.
Respectfully yours, S. J. McMORRIS.
LETTER from GLYNT COETTI'.
Satelo, Ga., September 10, 1850.
Dr. Andrews, Dear Sir :— l regret, extremely, to see
by your extra, just received, that you have been so severely
dealt with by a few of the Macon citizens, and I should hope
that long before this reaches you, their fever may have pass
ed away ; particularly as I notice one of my personal friends
among the number. However, as I never allow friendship,
or even relationship, to stand, for an instant, between myself
and what I conceive to be justi ‘e to an injured individual, I
feel it my duty to say, as an old subscriber to your paper
(long before you ever thought of removing to Macon), that
never have I seen either in your editorials or correspondence,
one single sentence concerning slavery that, as a slave
holder I would not have cheerfully endorsed—until this un
fortunate letter from Atlanta, in regard to which (while I do
not agree with him in his opinion), your excuse in your ex
tra is more than sufficient, in my humble estimation to satisfy
any but interested persons. And what is more, if the opin
ion of the only surviving Signer of the Constitution of Geor
gia is of any service to you, I can state he has just agreed
with me, fully in my views.
If these gentlemen who are so anxious to wreak their ven
geanoc upon yourself would wish themselves to be consider
ed consistent, why did not each and every one of them rusli
to Milledgeville and expel from the Halls of the State House,
every man who in the last Legislature voted against this very
bill (viz) allowing negro traders to introduce slaves into the
State of Georgia, free of penalty ? But, to come nearer to
the question, why did they not (when they had fewer to deal
with) expel from the Halls all who voted against their cher
ished report of the committee upon the state of the Repub
lic? I can solve the problem in four words— They did not
dare! Yours truly,
RANDOLPH SPALDING.
NEWS ITEMS.
Washington, Sept. 12.
The Fugitive Slave Bill finally passed the House
to-day,—Yeas 109, nays 75.
The Steward Bill abolishing slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia, was rejected to-day by the Senate
—Yeas 4. Nays, 45.
Adjournment. —Both the Houses of Congress
have agreed to a resolution to adjourn on the 30th
inst. But little more business will be done, except
the passage of the Appropriation bills. It seems to
be generally understood that the Private Calendar
will be deferred until the assembling of that body in
December.
A Washington dispatch says that lion. Alexan
der 11. 11. Stuart, of Virginia, has accepted the ap
pointment of Secretary of the Department of the In
terior.
Appointments by the President, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate. —John I*.
Gaines, of Kentucky, to be Governor of the I erritory
of Oregon.
Buckingham Smith, of Florida, to be Secretary of
Legation to the Mexican Republic.
P. Sheerwood Johnson, to be Attorney of the U
nited States for the district of Delaware.
Lemuel Wilson, to bo Register of the Land Office
at Newnansville, Florida.
Vermont Election.— The Whigs have carried ev
ery thing in Vermont at the late election, Governor,
Legislature, and all,
A telegraphio correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, says a special messenger has left for Texas with
the boundary bill, to ask its acceptance of the Legis
islature of that State.
<T!)C Georgia Citizen.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
3IACON, GA., SEPT. 20, 1850.
TO CORRESPONDENTS:
‘Trochanter,’ ‘Obserevr,’ and many other favors, una
voidably postponed.
Steamer Canada. —This Steamer arrived at Halifax
on the 16th at 9 P. M. bringing news of a further decline in
Cotton of 1-8. Salt's of the week 38,000 Bales. This news
had no effect on the N. Y. Market.
Mechanics’ Society Library.
The Library Committee of the Macon Mechanics!’
Society are requested to meet at the Office vi tW
“ Georgia Citizen,” this evening at 8 o’clock, onW
iness of importance. The following gentlemen com
pose said Committee: —
S. T. CHAPMAN,
JAS. A. NESBIT,
G. W. TALMAGE,
W. C. WILSON.
L. F. W. ANDREWS,
Chairman, Ac,
Slave Trade Bill. —The bill to abolish the Slave
Trade in the District of Columbia passed the Senate on lh
16th, by a vote of Yeas 32, Nays 19.
Dead- Louis Philiippe, late King of the French, died in
England on the 26th ultimo.
Texas.— The latest news from this State is highly fa
vorable to settlement of the boundary question, and the ac
ceptance of the offer of $10,000,000, from the United States.
iC-S?*’ Eight thousand persons were present at Jen
ny Lind’s first concert, which was magnificently ‘bril*
iant ; all were enraptured.
X+T The Southern Family Journal of Covington
Ga. having closed its first volume, is to be forthwith
transferred to Atlanta, and to re-appear, in due time,
under the title of “Atlanta Whig.”
a negro thief named Samuel Eldridge, alias
Bissel, alias Edwards, has lately been discovered
tampering with slaves in Edgefield, D. S. C. and run
off!
A Military School is about to be established
in Marietta, under the title of the “Georgia Military
High School.” *
Amende Honorable.— ln our paper of Aug. 23,
in our report of the “smart lawyer” case, in Jefferson
C, we stated that the person charged with the assault
upon a clergyman was a ‘vagabond.’ We are, since
informed that he is a highly respectable gentleman,
whose offence consisted in slapping the parson’s
face. This, while it corrects the error as to the as
sailant, only places the lawyer’s peculiar talents in ?
more striking light.
Bills Signed , —The President lias signed the California
Bill—the Utah Bill and the Texas and New Mexico Bills.
The Senators and Representatives from California have been
admitted to their seats.
Our Own Affairs. —For a week or twopa*t, our
sheet has been more occupied with the develope
ment and exposure of the late conspiracy against our
person and property, than has been pleasant to our
selves and perhaps our readers. Our apology must
be found in the nature of the case, and in the gener
al public importance of the principles involved there
in. Notour individual rights alone, but the inalien
able rights and privileges of every citizen, have been
put in peril of loss or abridgment, by the crusade a
gainst us. The right of trial by jury—the freedom
of speech and the press, and the free expression of
honest opinions by every citizen, and on all subjects,
civil, political and religious, together with “life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness,” all depend upon
our successful resistance of the penal code of Judga
Lynch concocted and partly prosecuted against our
individual interests and personal rights. We may
then well be pardoned, if, in defending ourselves, in
which defence is embraced the conservation of the
most valuable privileges of the whole community,
we should dwell a little longer than agreeable upon,
a subject so full of interest to every freemaD.
Fatal Accident.—On TucsJay evening last a ynatli’
of tlie name of Staley, son of Mr. Staley, of Perry, Houston
C. was driving down Midberry St. Hill in this city, in com
pany with two joung ladies, when his horse became restive
and ran away, throwing the whole party very violently oot
in front of Mr. Whittle’s residence. Staley was dashed a
gainst a tree and instantly killed. One of the young ladies
(Miss Winsliip.) suffered a dislocation and fracture of her
wrist and received a flesh-wound on her cheek. Tha other
escaped withont any material ini urv.
Another Accident.—Rev. s. l. Stephens ***>
with a mishap on Tuesday, from the like cause—the run
ning away and over him of his horse and buggy,—by which
his collar bone was broken and his person otherwise consid
erably bruised.
Onr Intended Black List.— The mere mentfoa of
our intention, last week, to place the names of our mobocnt
ieal enemies, high on the roll of infamous notoriety, in oar
columns, has thrown some of them into spasms, already..
Such a fluttering among the wild pigeons never was heard
of, nor seen, for many a day ! In pity, therefore, for human
suffering, as well as in consideration of the very great benefit
these gentry have unwittingly done us, in causing our sub
scription list to fill up rapidly and in bringing hundreds of the
true-hearted and right-minded people of the State to rally to.
our standard, (say nothing of the “ sifting of the chaff fr 0 1”
the wheat,” in our personal relations, and enabling ns to dis
tinguish summer friends from those that we can tie to, n
every extremity of need,) we have concluded to postpone,
for the present, our meditated purpose. Another reason ac
tuates us. We have been informed that measures are already
in progress, on the part of some engaged in the meeting. to
place themselves right before the world, on this subject, and
we therefore feel disposed to give the fullest opportunity for
their “ sober second thought” to have its due influence and
corresponding aotion, before we prooeed to right eurseltts ,
by all the means which are at our disposal, one of the most
efficient of which is to touoh the pocket nerve of the con
spirators and make It vibrate through every ramification o
their being and business! By special graoe, therefore,
waive the execution of our purpose—as before mentioned
during the pleasure of our Editorial Majesty, or until it sb*
become our pleasure to cut the hair that suspends the s' or
of Damocles and let the glittering blade descend upon 1 *
heads of its victims.