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signs already been formed to sever the L nion. Let
it°iot be supposed that I impute to all those who
have taken an active part in those unwise and un
profitable discussions, a want of patriotism or public
virtue. The honorable feeling of State pride and
loeal attachments find a place in the bosoms of the
most enlightened and pure. But whilst such men
are conscious of their own integrity and honesty of
purpose, they ought never, to forget that the citi
zens of other States are their political brethren;
?md that iiowever they are mistaken in their views,
the great body of them itre equally honest and up
right with themselves. Mutual suspicion and re
proaches may in time create mutual hostility, and
artful and designing men will always be found, who
are ready to foment those fatal divisions, and to in
flame the national jealousies of different sections of
the country. The history of the world is full of
such examples, and especially the history of repub
lics.
“What have we to gain by divisions and dissen
sion ? Delude not yourself with the belief that a
breach once made may be afterwards repaired; If
the Union is once severed the line of separation
will grow wider and the controversies that are now
debated and settled in the Halls of legislation, will
then be tried on the field of battle and determined
b} T the sword. Neither should you deceive your
selves with the hope that the first line of separation
would be the permanent one, and that nothing but
harmony and concord would be found in the new
associations formed upon the dissolution of the U
nion. Local interests would still be found there,
and unchastened ambition. And if the recollec
tion of common dangers, in which the people of
these United States stood side by side against the
common foe ; the memory of victories won by their
united valor ; the prosperity and happiness they
have enjoyed under the present constitution ; the
proud name they bear as citizens of this great re
public ; if all these recollections and proofs of com
mon interest are not strong enough to bind us to
gether as one people, what tic will hold united the
divisions of empire when these bonds have been
broken and this Union dissevered ? The first line
of separation would not last for a single generation;
new fragments would be torn off; new lenders would
spring up ; and the great republic would soon be
broken up into a multitude of petty States, with
out commerce —without credit—jealous of one an
other—armed for mutual aggressions—loaded with
taxes to pay armies and leaders —seeking aid against
each other from foreign powers —insulted and
trampled upon by the nations of Europe, until har
rassed by conflicts, and humbled and debased in spir
it, they would be ready to submit to the absolute
dominion of any military adventurer, and surrender
their liberty for the sake of repose. It is impossible
to look on the consequences that would inevitably
follow the destruction of this government, and not
feel indignant when we hear cold calculations about
the value of the Union, and have constantly be
fore us a line of conduct so well calculated to weak
en its ties. There is too much at stake to allow pride
or passion to influence your decision.”
From the Southern Christian Advocate.
Bishop Andrews on Disunion.
“You need not be alarmed, Mr. Editor: lam
not going to preach treason or rebellion, or any thing
of that sort; nor am I going to enlist under the
Whig or Democratic banner. Nor indeed would
that be an easy task, for it would be something puz
zling in the present state of parties, to define with
any very great precision the confession of faith
which either -wonkl adopt. My creed is simple and
short. Igo for my country, my whole country, as
represented by the indissoluble Union of all the
States of our great confederacy ; and I go for the
maintenance of the rights and immunities of each
separate State or territory. I repudiate war at any
time if it can be avoided; and especially all civil
war between brethren of the same political house-_
hold. It is an easy matter to talk of it, and “there
may be no shuddering when we bear of it; but the
realization will bring blood and ruin and heart
breaking and agony, widowhood and orphanage,
such as neither we nor our fathers have ever heard
or dreamed of. Ruthless demagogues, either North
or South, may talk of it in strains of flaming elo
quence, because they hope by this means to mount
into power or to maintain power already acquired ;
but it becomes the substantial yeomanry of the
country upon whom the burdens of such things
must fall, the people from whose hearts and purses
the blood and treasure must flow by which such a
contest is to be sustained, it becomes them to pon
der this matter seriously; to look well to the cost
of such a struggle and to its issues and its gains.
At any rate let us resolve as southern men, to pro
ceed calmly, deliberately, justly, patiently, in our
resistance to what we deem the unjust aggression
of our Northern brethren. Let us exhaust every
other argument and try every other means ot re
dress before we indulge for a moment the idea of
dissolving the Union of these States ; and when
this catastrophe comes, if come it must, let it find us
at the last ditch, having tried every peaceable rem
edy, ready with arm and heart to defend ourselves.
Well, here is my creed, and perhaps I owe to
you and your readers an apology tor obtruding
upon you or them any thing which might seem to
savour of politics. Indeed, I have during a minis
try of nearly forty years, carefully abstained from
meddling with political strifes; but I am not sure
but the present crisis in our national affairs demands
that the ministers of God depart a little from their
usual cautious policy; and while it is true that as
messengers of peace they should avoid as far as pos
sible rdl intermeddling with mere party strife, yet,
in a momentous crisis like that which is now upon
us, I know not why the ministers of God who have
as deep an interest in the weal of the nation as any
other class of citizens, should not be at liberty to
give utterance fully and freely to their convictions
and feelings.
Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, was arrested by
sheriff Carniy, at the Astor House yesterday mor
ning on the complaint of Catherine Forrest, his wife,
and held to bail in the sum of SIO,OOO, to keep the
peace so far as Mrs. F.is concerned, she being fearful
of an attack from him. An injunction has also been
granted to restrain Mr. Forrest from convey
ing away his property to the injury of the right
which Mrs. F. has therein. Mrs. Forrest has also
within a few days past commenced a suit in the
courts of this State, for divorce against Mr. Forrest,
on the charge of adultery committed with several
persons. — N. Y. Tribune.
Warning to Mailßorbkrs.—The Marietta Hel
icon says : The U. S. District Court held its session
here on Monday and Tuesday hist. The only crim
inal case tried was that of Win. W. Stewart, for em
bezzling from the Post Office at Conyers, Newton
County, Georgia. Sentence, ten years imprisonment
in the Penitentiary.
W—i——Wi
The Pay of Printers. —111 view of the fact, that Editors are
often called on to do a great deal of gratuitous printing, the
Providence Journal thus scores those of the craft who have
♦lie impudence to complain of being compelled to “work for
nothing and find themselves.’
“We have noticed several atrocious Cases where editors
have had the audacity to demand pay for cost of publishing
matters of the highest public importance, such as resolutions
of thanks to steamboat captains, puffs of new schools, ward
meetings for charitable objects, political meetings, artd obitua
ary notices es infant children. Something must be done to
put a stop to this, or editors will soon began that they have the
same rights as other people.”
The Nashville Convention. —Judge Sharkey of Miss, Pres
ident of the first Convention at Nashville, and to whom was
committed to power to call that body together 6 weeks after
Congress adjourned, has, we understand, declined to make
the call being satisfied with the action of Congresson the sub
ject. The Charleston Mercury is however, for the Conven
tion meeting again, despste of judge Sharkey.
PLEDGED TO DISUNION.
Below will be found numerous extracts from leading Prints
in Georgia, Ac., wherein the Fire-Eaters and D isorganizers
have committed themselves to Secession or Disunion. We
will keep this column standing until the day of election, to
prevent the honest minded and patriotic people of the State
from being imposed on by false issues and new-fangled doc
trines, into the support of disuuionists for the approaching
Convention ! Let all then,
Look on this Picture. JEI
Union Jack donn.
Disunion.—’ We cannot credit the rumor, 5 says a corre
spondent of the Baltimore Sun, “ that Mr. Calhoun, having
recovered his health in a measure, lias expressed himself de
cidedly and warmly in favor of a dissolution of the Union at
every and all hazard. It is said that he regard the dissolu
tion as inevitable, and consequently expedient and desirable.”
If Mr. Calhoun did express himself thus, lie has said noth
ing less than what an overwhelming majority of the people of
his State anxiously desire.— Columbia <S\ C. Telegraph.
H hat's the Remedy? It is a Southern Confederacy,
with a capital at Ashville, or somewhere else on the moun
tains, where the lilies of Georgia, South and North Carolina,
Tennessee, and Virginia meet.
What will the Southern Convention do? We hope to
have no more barren addresses. If that is all the delegates
intend, they had better stay at home. If they will Metho
dize a PLAN to dissolve the Union, we will kail them .”
Wilmington , N. C. Aurora.
“ Wc perhaps go a little further than some of our friends
as regards this Union. We are in favor of the dissolution of
the Union, because we believe that the South would boben
efitted by a dissolution, both pecuniarily, politically and mor
ally. \\ hat, or who, shall deliver us from the contamina
ting influences of the putrid, loathsome masses of the North?”
— Fairfield , S. C. Herald.
Indemnity for past grievances, entire exemption from all fa
natical interference with our domestic institutions, and com
plete security of the constitutional rights and equality of the
South, for all time to come, are the objects to be attained by
the delegates to this (Southern) convention; and they will
most certainly accomplish these purposes, “ peaceably if they
can, forcibly if they must.” They will attain these objects,
even, if • „ should become necessary for the Southern States
to dissolve the political relations which unite them to the
North.— Newberry, S. C. Sentinel.
We hold it to he the sacred duty of the South, enjoined
by every sentiment of patriotism, honor and interest demand
and enforce a dissolution of the Union. Iler constitutional
and even her natural rights, have been too long violated.
The wound already inflicted time cannot heal; northern van
dalism exults and grows strong ou southern spoils. This is
not the work of a few fanatics ; the leaven of hell pervades
the whole mass. Then, if the north will abolish slavery, and
form societies for that purpose, let us, with equal zeal and
equal firmness, form our societies, and do everything neces
sary to effect the abolition of the Union.— South Carolina.
Spartan.
There is a feeling in the South—and that feeling is every
day increasing and strengthening, that the South would he the
gainer by a dissolution of the Union—her political prosperity
would increase, her wealth be multiplied, and that the north
would be shorn of her strength and importance. Unless
some compromise acceptable to the south [which we firmly
believe and hope will be done] is adopted before the first of
June, the Nashville Convention will then assemble, and the
idea of AlareA shall Have'come, and the glorious fabric, ce
mented by the prayers and blood of patriots, will crumble
into anarchy, and will stand as a beacon to coming genera
tions, of the recklessness of faction , and of the extravagance
of a misdirected philanthropy.
The feeling in favor of a withdrawal of the States from the
great confederacy, however much it may be disregarded, is
certainly not the oilspring of excitement or impulse, but a
deep settled purpose, which she is determined to execute
rather than submit to aggressions upon what she understands
to be her constitutional privileges.— S. C. Miscellany , (a
religious paper.)
Again : A correspondent of the Augusta Republic among
other harsh things about the Union, says:
It is time, sir, lhat we should all begin to familiarize our
selves not only with the possibility, hut with the necessity of
a dissolution. But why should not the people of Georgia and
the South advocate disunion ? We have said a thousand times
that we would dissolve the Union before we would submit to
further aggression. The time has come when we must make
good our threats or forever hold oar peace. What man is there
who entertains any belief that the North would do us j ustice ?
Who is there that believes that any compromise (as they call
it) that can be made, will he any more than a yielding on our
part, merely to encourage larger demands for the future ? Now
is the time to settle the question—there are only two ways to
doit; the one is to acknowledge ourselves the vassals of the
north for all time to conic, the other is to dissolve the Union,
and it is this time for the Soutli to choose between them.
There is no mistaking this writer’s sentiments. He is for
disunion as the only mode of settlement.
Mr. R. B. Rhett, the distinguished author of the Nash
ville Convention address, lately made a speech at Walterbo
rough, in Soutli Carolina, and the Charleston Mercury re
ports him as saying:
“We must secede, South Carolina will lead off, Georgia
will go with her, Alabama will soon follow, and Mississippi
will not be long behind her, for “she is not all Foote, but lias
some heart and soul,” and this will be hut the beginning;
within eighteen months we shall have the whole South with
us, and more than that; we will extend our borders, we will
have New Mexico, Utah, and California.” In his Charles
ton speech, reported by his own hand, Mr. Rhett used the
following language:
“ To give to our people that protection and peace which
the Constitution and Union were established to secure, THE
SOUTH MUST SEVER THE CONNECTION WITH
THE NORTH.”
“ To maintain the Union is to acquiesce in the destruction
of the Constitution; and to maintain the Constitution, WE
MUST DISSOLN E THE UNION to afford the only chance
of its restoration.”
Again he said, despairing of any reformation which will
bring the government hack to the limitations of the Constitu
tion which will give us new guarantees, I sec but one course
left for the peace and salvation of the South—-a dissolution of
the Union?
Mr. Rhett also advocated disunion at the Macon Mass
meeting, under the guise of “temporary secession.’’
The Columbus Sentinel talks thus :—“ We have all along
contended that the admission of California would fill to over
flowing the poisoned cup Os degradation which the North has
been for years preparing for the South. We have declared
our determination to hold to the Union so long as there was
hope tliat we would ho safe in the Uuion. That hope has
now been disappointed, and w’e abandon the Union as an en
gine of infamous oppression. We are for secession, open,
unqualified, naked secession. Henceforth, WE ARE FOR
WAR UPON THE GOVERNMENT; it has existed hut
for our ruin, and to the extent of our ability to DESTROY
it, it shall exist no longer.”
Once more, the Sentinel has the following on the subject of
the approaching Convention.
W e are not disposed to trammel the action of that Con
tention. W e wish the men who will compose it, left free in
determining what that redress shall be, and we shall acqui
esce in its decision. We have our preferences, and they al
ready been made known. We see no remedy for our griev
ances short of secession. We have no hope that our rights
can be secured in the Union, and we are ready to go out of
it. Had we the power, therefore, to dictate the action of this
*as ©m ©m© sji if i i-sa
Convention, our first step would bo a Declaration of In
dependence, and the n jxt, an invitation to our sister States
of the South to unite With us in the formation of a Southern
Ri public.”
The Columbus Times avows disunion in the following plain
terms:
“ If the action of Congi’ess makes it imperative on the
Governor under the instructions of the Legislature, to call the
convention, our own first choice will he for secession, and our
votes and efforts will be steadily given to effect that end.”
And again : “ Wc then go for secession—quietly if let
alone, forcibly if made necessary. We are for meeting the
defiance of the North ou this issue, and are against all tem
porally expedients, or new and postponed issues.”
Again it says :
“ The State of Georgia stands in an attitude of fearful peril,
from which nothing can rescue her but the virtue aud valor
of her sons. Pushed to the wall, bearded and defiled by ag
gressive legislation to which she lias virtually and solemnly
sworn she will not submit, betrayed and deserted by a ma
jority, if not by every one of her representatives, in Con
gress, she stands with the Scylla of dishonor and submission
on the one hand, and the Charybdis of violated rights and
swift-coming ruin on the other. She has to choose between
the two, and the choice is to he made in a lew weeks. Sub
mission and disgrace to he followed by fresh abolition as
saults as the penalty of her imbecility and cowardice or a
brave and manly strike for her honor, her rights and her in
dependence.”
The Montgomery Advertiser says of the Peace Measures
in Congress :
“ Such are the measures under which we are counseled to
sit down quietly, he silent and cease agitation. It remains to
he seen, whether Southern freemen will heed such pusillani
mous—cowardly advice. The cause for “ agitation” has in
reality just fairly begun, and we shall glory in the work <>[
urging it on by every means in our power, and shall only
cease when wc shall he convinced that the sons of the South
are too pusillanimous to preserve tlic inheritance of tlieir
fathers.”
The Augusta Republic says :
“No cause for resistance to the injustice of the mother
country was half as great ns that which would, in this case,
DEMAND RESISTANCE OF THE SOUTH.
We fear not the final result. The South can never sub
mit to gross injustice. Her people, placing themselves upon
the broad platform of the constitution—the bond of a just
union—will protect their rights ami sustain their honor by
all the means which the God of Nature has placed in their
hands.”
The Macon Telegraph lias the following :
“ Judging from the late action of Congress, we can only
look forward to resistance or to the abolition of slavery
sooner or later, throughout the South. These are the alter
natives between which the South must now choose. That
choice is to be made in a few weeks, and the sun which goes
down on the day, set apart for the election of delegates in
Georgia, will have seen a mightier political question solved
than ever before engaged her people. Whatever diversity of
views may exist among the people with regard to the meas
ures of redress, the Convention should adopt, we apprehend
that there is hut little dissent among them, either with regard
to the wrongs perpetrated, or the necessity for some resis
tance, whatever it may he. What this resistance should he,
as we have said before, the Legislature has wisely submitted
to the people to determine. And if the State will not adopt
the only remedy, we regard as adequate to reform the gov
ernment, we will go for any thing that her sons in their sov
ereign capacity, in Convention, may recommend, always ex
cepting a tame and cowardly submission.
For our own part we believe the issue is resistance of some
sort, or abolition. Disguise it as we may, this solemn ques
tion we cannot evade.”
Again the Telegraph says:
“For our own part, wc arc for secession, for resistance—
open, unqualified resistance.”
A correspondent of the Telegraph of the 17th instant, asks,
Must the South submit ? Ought she to submit ? Can she
submit without being branded w ith a dastardism, that would
dishonor and defame the race she sprang from ? Every na
tive son who loves her would exclaim “ May siie i-erisii
sooner \ I
The Savannah Georgian says: q
“We gave our advice in regard to the acts of the Convon- ]
tion, and wo new siand ready to support them; if they
arc for secession wo arc with them. Wo shall stand by those
principles we have already advanced, and hold ourselves in
readiness to defend the rights of the South—not by yielding
her territorial rights to the North, hut with that defence
which every true Southerner should stand ready to wield
against an intruder.”
At the Kingston Mass Meeting Judge Colquitt, said :
“ Secession was his remedy, hut that if he could not get that,
he would go with Georgia in any manner of resistance she
might adopt.’’
The Cassville Standard of the 20th ult., says :
“ We have been informed tliat the lion. Walter T. Colquit
addressed a portion of the citizens of Murray County last
week, and declared openly tliat lie was for DISUNION.
Since then wc learn tliat some of the citizens of Murray are
following his footsteps, and say they are for disunion too.”
The subjoined resolution, offered by Cnpt. A. Nelson, at a
Public Meeting in this county, is an undisguised exposition of
his disunion sentiments:
“ Resolved , That the late acts of Congress in reference to
the territories, viz. the admission of California, the dismem
berment of Texas, and the passage by the United States Sen
ate, of the hill for the abolition of the slave trade in the Dis
trict of Columbia, are such gross violations of every principle
of common justice, of the equality of the States of this con
federacy and the spirit and letter of the Constitution, as to
fully justify the people of the Southern States, in resistance
at every hazard, and to the last extremity , EVEN TO A
DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION, leaving the conse
quences to those who have caused them.”
The Rome Southerner says :
“ The day of our humiliation or emancipation is at hand.
If wc submit , we are the vilest of slaves, and the fit subjects
of the most ruthless despotism. If we resist as men wor
thy TO BE FREE SHOULD RESIST, OUR TRIUMPH IS AS CERTAIN AS
IT WILL BE GLORIOUS. * * * * * *
Where is the dastard, the traitor , who, under such circum
stances, will dare he false to his native land ? Resistance
now , stern, uncompromising resistance, or shameful submis
sion and inevitable ruin, are the alternatives which an unjust
government has set before us.”
The Augusta Constitutionalist speaks after this fashion :
“ Beware of the falsn cry of Union. It is the word of talis
inanic charms that is relied on to prepare your free limbs for
bondage. And whenever a union croaker sings this sickly sen
timentality to you, thunder hack to him the issue, “ Disunion
or Abolition
In addition to this, the Mass Meeting which recently assem
bled at Kingston, passed among others, the following resolu
tions :
Resolved, That the people of Georgia are, in the opinion
of this meeting, pledged to some EFFECTIVE MODE of
RESISTANCE to the encroachment of the North upon their
just and constitutional rights.
Resolved , That the true issue, to he determinated by the
people in the election of delegates to the Convention is— un
conditional submission , or some MANLY and EFFEC
TIVE mode of RESISTANCE.
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CiuTfofotiiffniT.
LETTER from CiKIEFIT, Ga.
Griffin, Ga., Oeto., 8, 1830.
Dcor Doctor :—Perhaps you may find room or disposition
to publish a short letter from Griffin. If you do, all right;
and if not, all right, for it costs me nothing to write only my
time. There is nothing astir in our city or county at this
time that could possibly entertain your numerous readers,
save that of polities. And since the reception of the George
Washington Totdn's Proclamation, they have, so for as the
Secojsionists are coftperneJ, assumed quite anew phase.
They go in How for u Mutc Candidates untrammelled in
regard to tlieir course hi said Convention—to act and vote as
their good judgements nay dictate. And, to commence the
war at onee, wo find in tiie last Jeffersonian, tlieir organ, a
communication over the jyeophant title of “Many Whigs and
Democrats,” calling on llie free voters of Tike county to ex
tend their suffrages to jour candidates that they named—
two of each party. Npw I do not know the opinions of but
two of these gentlemen, and. I here makefile broad assertion,
that neither of them will run on suiffi % “gotten up” ticket;
for I believe they are Union men to ttie core, mid
nothing but Union ! And besides, the people of the cohpty
have the only right to say who shall be her representatives,
and not “ Many Whigs and Democrats'’ written by one
man, and seconded only by a few! The people of this county
of this State, cannot be whipped into ranks in any such way !
The article referred to, says, the people should be united on
this subject! Well, so say we ; but it should be to save the
Union, and not to demolish it! It requires no unity of action
to dissolve the Union ; and why this appeal to the people for
unity of sentiment from those who would rend to atoms this
glorious confederacy and dance and celebrate a Saturnalia
over its ruins ! God deliver me from such unity ! The fact
is, the disunionists seethe issue is union or disunion, and they
have resorted to this as a last stratagem —a dying effort!
Many, to my knowledge, have already sought refuge in the
“Omnibus” again, torn and scattered as it lias been, rather
than walk the line 36-30 from ocean to ocean, and meet the
music face to face !!
It is almost a waste of time to tell and tell again, the fatal
and disastrous consequences of a dissolution. There can he
but one ultimate to the whole affair, and ’tis this: That if dis
solution is the result, soon civil war will ensue—then anar
chy will follow—then, as a matter of course, education will
he neglected, and we will have almost an illiterate nation.
Our posterity will be brought up devoid of mental culture,
and then wc have a people prepared to adorn with crowns
and venerate Sultans, Potentates, Kings, Monarclis, as their
choice. Such will be the inevitable fate of this course.
Then, let the people be wide awake to this subject every
where, and vote for no “ Mute sycophant'’ or “ Party dema
gogue,'’ but let them sound, with a long and strong line, ev
ery candidate before they cast their vote for him, else they
risk tlieir all in the hands of a Judas. Let us then bury whig
and democrat in the sea of oblivion, at least till this momen
tous question is settled. Let every man know that he is vo
ting Jor or against the happy continuance of this great Re
public. Let him feel as though the influence of his vote
would save the Union ; and that the issue is Union or Dis
union, because California has been admitted as a State, by
the American Congress ! ! A. A. B.
For the Georgia Citizen.
Northern-Bom Men and Mechanics.
Dear Doctor: —The excitement and controversy, conse
quent upon the agitating question, which have recently dis
turbed the peace of the country, seems to have subjected the
people of the South, favorable to the Union, and particularly
all Northern-born men and the mechanics, to tlie severest
reproach which could he heaped upon them by the most ex
tended imagination, and searching after hard words, that the
disunion orators and presses of the South could command.
Now being a Southern-horn citizen, and having lived in Geor
gia for twenty three years, curiosity led me to call up the histo
ry of the past, and see if the result would be unfavorable to the
reputation of being born North.
It is true my observation and experience extends only to
the limits of Bibb county; here the majority of my life lias
been spent, here my education attained, and here the nearest
and dearest ties that bind man to his country are all located,
from the sacred and quiet repose of “Rose Hill” where the
ashes of loved ones mingle with the dust, to the thoroughfares
of trade, mechanism and the professional pursuits, I number
my house-hold Gods, and the objects of my heart’s purest
affection. And some too, both living and dead, are subject
to the sweeping denunciation of being Northerners or Me
chanics.
As I said in the begining, curiosity led me to call up the
history of the past, aud in doing so, 1 crave the pardon of those
whose names I use, not to vituperate and abuse, hut to let the
public know the good deeds which they have done, and the
amount they have contributed to the prosperity and welfare
of the country. If such men are to be condemned and de
nounced who shall fill their places? The inspired book says
“by their fruits shall ye know them.” Mho were the first set
tlers upon the site of our beautiful city ? Among them we find
Dhvid Flanders, Roger McCall, Elizor McCall, Joseph Wil
lett, all Northern men and among tho pioneers that felled the
freest, and laid the’foundation of our prosperous city. Who
were among the first to develope the resources of this part of
the country? -Joseph Willett, David Flanders and Roger
McCall ? Three industrious, enterprising hard working men,
who, with the axe and the hammer, constructed the first crafts
that conveyed the produce of the country to the Seaboard,
and returned with the necessaries and luxuries for the peo
ple. Pardon me, Doctor, if I say 1 have a reverence for those
men bordering on enthusiasm. Their exploits arc among my
school-day memories, for when a little lad, I have mingled
with the crowd that gathered to witness the launch of a boat,
and have there seen them, in tlieir shirt sleeves, wielding
the instruments of Architecture, with a strong arm and wil
ling heart, and the pleasure I derived, as a hoy, from riding
on one of tlieir craft into its native element, lias grown with
my growth and strengthened with my strength, until mature
age has ripened that feeling into reverence for their example.
All attained to a conqieteney in this world’s goods, as a just
reward for tlieir perseverance and industry. But a few days
ago one of them, Joseph Willett, past from the scene of his
labors to an eternal rest. Sudden and unexpected was the
call ; hut his life lias been such that none can doubt an eternal
rest awaited him. Our community mourns a citizen, valued
and esteemed by all who knew him. lie was emphatically a
specimen of the “noblest work of God,” having accumulated
a fortune by his own industry, lie settled amid the surround
ing scenes of his former work, though a Northern man, and
filled the office of a good citizen, in such a manner, that liis
life should he an example to the youth, and his memory
cherished by all. The next step in tho history of the naviga
tion of the Ocrnulgee River was from a polo boat to a Steam
Boat, and who was the first pioneer in this new enterprise?
One of those reviled “ yankecs” and our present Surveyor
General of the State, James R. Butts, a man full of energy
and enterprise. ’Who are some of our oldest Merchants ?
Charles Patton, Elijah Bond, Charles Campbell, the Car
harts, -T. M. Kibbc, S. F. Dickenson, J. L. .Tones, Albert
Mix, Isaac Winship, and a host of others that could be enu
merated, who have contributed, by tlfeir skill and industry, to
build up the city and develope the resources of the country.
Look over our city and see the splendid specimens of Archi
tecture that meets the eye? llasany “ yankee” handstriek
cn a blow there ? Oh, yes, James B. Ayres has had his
trowel at work, and from the mother earth has reared many
a fine building. While Levy and Robert Findlay are daily
constructing Engines, which are destined to still further make
old Georgia’s name resound throughout the country. And
last though not least, A. 11. Freeman, who if rumor is true
served in the last War with Great Britain, and fought under
Gen. Harrison at the Battle of the Thames, has lived in
Macon over twenty years a quiet unobtrusive citizen ; but yet
subject to the charge of being Northern horn. Sutli, Doc
tor, is a brief sketch of some of our Northern Citizens, some
of whom are Fite-Entcrs ; but nevertheless good men! In
this short detail, understand me, I do not mean to detract
from the well earned reputation of our Southern-born citi
zens; but allow me to say that I can find no j nst cause to con
demn a man for the place of his nativity ; but rather prefer to
judge all men by their works. Yours, CANDOR.
Letter from Albany.
ALBANY, Oct. 0, 1830.
Dr. Andrews :—Dear Sir, As tiierc is a considerable ex
citement in this place, at this time, upon the great questions
that are convulsing the land; which is the result mostly of
the entire failure of one side, the Disunionists, alias “ those
opposed to the admission of California by Congress” as being
a means to dissolve the Union, and the complete victory of the
friends of the Union and of Southern rights, in appointing the
time and place to nominate their disunion candidates to the
proposed convention. Having just closed the meeting, it being
night and the mail being made up, I have no time to write
much, but I will give you a few hints and you may do as you
please with them.
It being understood that “ tho friends of Southern rights”
as they are wont to to call themselves, “ would meet to-day for
the purpose of making preliminary arrangements to nominate
their candidates,” the friends of Union and peace assembled
also to see the result of the meeting. The meeting having been
called to order, a fire-eating chairman was chosen and a Union
man as Secretary ; a committee was sent out to draft resolu
tions for the meeting, and “ as good lack would have it,”
there were two or three strong Union men upon it. After
some time, another committee having been sent after the
first one, they made a report that they not agree, the
disunion part of the committee offering a set of disunion reso
lutions, and the Union set of Union resolutions,
wffirft carried by a a long and pro-
in General F. L. and
R. F. C., with leading men ofthc Disy*
nion party, delivered then iflk coppery inflammatory speech
es, which will cause them to be reculfected whenever there
shall be some important office to fill. The that
adopted were advocated by D. A. V. and I’. 3. S. Esqrs. ja a.
very powerful and able manner, and also by other frien JiKiMfie’
Union; after which a fire-eater, Esqr. R. F. L., offered as
a substitute to the report of the committee which he drafted
for the eommitteo, a few resolutions to the effect, that all those
opposed to the aggressions of the North that have been or
that may be committed against the South, and in favor of a
Dissolution of the Union, meet at Newton on the day of
next, to nominate candidates, Ac. Ac., which, to his ut
ter astonishment and great mortification, “ was nailed to the
table the first lick.” Citizens of Baker, how much longer will
it be that political aspirants will seek to “ gull the people” and
keep “ them grouping in the dark,” when questions of so
much importance arc to be acted upon.
Y ours with respect,
A FRIEND TO THE UNION.
[Communicated.]
Varmount State.
To my well beloved neffu Samuel Titus of Macon Georgy.
—Deer Sammy I now take up my pen to rite you a few lines
to make up that quarcl what we had in 1814 about that tarual
ole black ’oman of yourn what the abolition mob tuck from you
and what I hoped ’em to keep. This much I will say that 1
allers knowed that I acted a very sorry part by you seeing
you was my own Sister’s son but you knew the Titus family
allers like to be on what they kinder guess will be the strong
side (but they gits pesky fooled some times) and have allers
found that a majority agin ’em hurts wus than an angry con
science and as you was all for niggur helps to your hum be
cause evey body in them parts is for niggur helps 1 was all
agin em to my hum because every body here is agin cm. But
’spose we forgit all this and let by ones bee by goncs we are
relatuns Sainy and ortcr be frends and what is now in the
way ? We looks different ways but we are wurkingasg<*od
rclashuns ortor work fur the same thing and it is “ a luveli
sight to* see us dwelling now in harinany” as the hittie h>ik
sais and you a pullin at the South and 1 puffin at the north
for all the wurld like two fellers a strcechin of a rope to git
this horrid Union in tu—when its splits what a time wee Ti
tuses will tavo? When that day eums tilings is oblidged to
bust up and if wc don’t git our pile of fragmints it will bee
because the rale ole blood of the Titus stock is clean run out
—we allers could git our share of what was gwine as sartain
as long tailed horse kin git his share of liuckil burrs in a
paster wliur they is plenty. Your ledurs the “fire-eaters”
and my leaders the abolishunists busted up the omnibus and
let us plcge our lifes our sacred honors (honers and profits
was allers held sacred in the Titus family) and our fortunes
to bust up the constitution and smash the Union afore wee
quit. It will be the makin of us both—wliat a time I’ll have
of it when the war begins libburutin niggers and if y< u wili
say nuthin more about libburatin ole Dinah I'll try and put
a better in her place when the good time does cum—your aunt
Kesiah when she liurd what hard things you was a say in abut
us to burn away down South thur was all fird mad and said
you ought to rekollek that it was a foul burd that would de
file its own nest as the ole savin sais but I put all strate. 1
told her that you had to say them kinder things to bee popular
wher you was (the Titus family would alters say any thing to
bee populur) but that you was in your hart as much of a
yan kee as you ever was. Go ahead—you is on the rite trail
fuller the blazes ycr fortun is made ami a big fbrtun too not
sich a wun (and some folks guessed if you had got it it war only
a barly patch and four goats) as you went to hunt in furrin
parts and which want thur when you arriv—l allers know’d
you'd make a great man from the time you show’d the rale
grit of the Tituses by squat tin nee-need over the sugar trots
and gitten us tite as a tic afore you’d let the lectio boy have a
single swaller of maplejuee—Du tell how the good cause gits
on and if tliur is many down South thur superstitious about
Washington who is only a dead man, the constitution which is
only priiitin paper and the stars and stripes which is only a
nasty rag not evil worth as much as your ole J )inah wee Titu
ses is too cute to have sich stiff feclins.
Bile ahead and lets have a smashin of things is wliat I sais—
nothin more at present but remains your luvin Uncle ’twill
detli TITUS HUTCHINSON, J. P.
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MACON, G A., OCT. 11, 1850.
TO CORRESPONDENTS:
“ Civis” will have a showing in our next.
“ Candor” will phase favor us with a personal interview
and as many more favors of the same sort, as he pleases.
We are sorry to disoblige, but the u silver pointed broken
arrow” is not exactly in order for publication. Besides, we
fear there is a “ lurking devil” of burlesque in it, that might
be offensive to ears polite.
Change of Publication Day.
For the greater convenience of the bulk of our
subscribers as well as to enable us to give the latest
intelligence of each week, we have concluded to
change our day of Publication from Friday to Satur
day. Our next issue will therefore boon the 19th.
Advertising favors must be handed in, Friday nior-
Political Handbills—Special Notice.
We have an order for several hundred copies of
the Letters of Judges Warner and Andrews and oth
er able Documents on the Union side of politics, for
distribution in handbill form, and while the forms
are in typo, would be glad to increase the number of
Copies to bo printed from hundreds to thousands.
Friends of the cause, in Bibb and adjacent counties
can be supplied at a low rate, if immediate applica
tion is made, by letter or otherwise, at this office.
Macon Cotton .Market.
The news by the Cambria of a half penny advance, and
the 4 days later Telegraphic intelligence of an eighth ad
vance, by the Atlantic has made our Cotton Market lively.
Prices range from 12 to I3J.
Political. —Our political department, this week, is well
worthy of the careful consideration of every reader. The con
clusion of Judge Andrew's letter,— a voice from the tombs
of the immortal Washington and Jackson, and the living tes
timony of Bishop Andrew, one of the lights of the Southern
Methodist Church, should be enough to quell the spirit of dis
union, forever.
Graham’s Magazine. This “American Monthly”
for November is before us, and is, as usual, rich in embellish
ment and excellence of matter.
Grand Lodge of Georgia. The annual communi
cation of the Grand Lodge of A. Y. M. will take place in
this city, cn the 29th inst., by which time the new and splen
did Lodge room will be finished and ready for the reception
of the Representatives.
Awful Calamity. About 2 o'clock on Friday mom
ing last, off Cape May, the barque Isaac Mead, aN. \
.Savannah Packet, on her way out. was run into by •},
Steamer Southerner from Charleston to N. Y., and *\ink’
Jive minutes > byyvlijeh sad accident 24 out of 26 pas*.,
gers and several of the ory l#t their lives. Os those ] IU .
were several from this city, viz; Mrs* Lyman Barr,,
and Mrs. and two young persons Mr. an<l'Aj; H
from Corriflfcicip MBr ( >thcr and sister of our
dfl fellow-townsman E. C. nrdffrt* Esq.) who were on tfe >
way this city—the brother to settle in
ter'on for the, win \*mr fn addition to theses?vrrrj
citizens of &ivagifah were left —to wit, Dr. M'Giniw, U,] T *
and child, Mrs Barnard, of-Wilmington Island ; M'u* (;
Barnard and Mastsr J. -tfarnord jtMtv, and eight of the
crew ! The most profound sympathy bv this commu
nity in behalf of those families wholiayp been'made t* exjif
ricneethis afflictive dispensation an (irreparable loss.
Another Manufacturing Establishment.
We are gratified in being able to announce that a eomjiany
of gentlemen, consisting of Willis Hughes, John Kniglu
and Geo. 44 . Smith, are about commencing a Variety Manu
facturing establishment in this city, for the manufacture
Wooden Hollow ware, sasli, waggon spokes and hubs, be
steads, and every other description of wooden ware, which
is usually turned out at such 44'orks. The company h, Tt)
taken the steam mill lately occupied by Mr. Levy, Senr. t r
this office, where there is an engine already put up, and will
add thereto the necessary machinery for the various purpo
ses in view, as soon as it can be procured from the North
which will be probably in the course gf a month or six weeks
from the present time. 4Ve need not say we wish abun
dant success to every enterprise of this sort, for it is to such
that we of the South are to look, for the chief sources of oir
independence and prosperity.
1 lIC -\ominaiiOnS. —The committee appointd by th*
late Union meeting in this city to nominate candidates for sin
Convention, (J. A. Nisbet, E“q.. in the chair) have agreed
upon the following ticket, subject to the ratification of. tk
Union Party, at a called meeting ;
Dr. Robert Collins, Washington Poe, Esq.
Col. A. P. Powers, Win. Scott.
This ticket is a strong one. The gentlemen composing it
are so well known to the voters of Bibb as to ensure thr u
the united support of the Union men, and the law and order
men of the county. Personally, they are deserving of sack
honor, but above all, for the sake of the cause of which they
are the chosen representatives, they are pre-eminently eu tided
to the confidence and heart}’ suffrage of every right-thinking
man, whose heart is iutlie right place and not surcharge! with
treason to the government.
The Disun oit*sts on Saturday last nominated the follow
ing candidates:
Leroy Napier, Charles Collins,
Robert A. Smith, Thomas A. Brown.
Os the material of this nomination, we shall have occasion
to speak more particularly hereafter. Its head, Mr. Napier,
was one of the supporters of mob-law in this city, on the23d
of August, as an u accessory after the fact'’ So was Mr.
C. Collins, who is well known as a hitter uneomproinisibg fire
eater and disunionist, per se. Mr. Napier is also a wealthr
gentleman, who patronizes a Yankee College (Yale) in pre
ference to a Southern Institution. Mr. R. A. Smith is a
young lawyer, of unexceptionable character ami respeetablu
ability, who enters political life under circumstances which
give great grief to his true friends. Mr. Brown is well known
as the former keeper of several Hotels in this city, hut as he
is now reported sick, and it is believed, will decline the nom
ination, we have nothing further to say of his fitness for iho
station to which he is nominated, save that lie will go to the
Convention fully prepared, in spirit, to split the Union into
fragments, aud lie will “doit up brown ” too, if lie has the
chance.
Liberal,—A subscriber who lately went to Illinois on
visit, from Georgia, writes us .-.s follows;
“ I must say, Doctor, that I disagree with you in politirei
affairs, but I say, you are right to continue your paper. Every
one has a right to express their opinir*3bunt 1 oiv, Mick to
vour paper. Issue them iu spite of the whole State. Tiffs is
the lanJ of the free.” A'ours, Ac. C. 11. L.
C. 11. L. is informed that we are unab’c to send him the
“ extra.”
\\'hat docs it mean I—The Rome “Eagle Bulletin”
says at the late Mass meeting at Kingston, someone carried
a banner, having painted on one side of it a great Burk n*
gro, with the words FREEDOM and K()l’AI-ITY, and on
the reverse a COFFIN with TWO CROSS SWORDS'” If
that was not an abolition banner, it resembled it a.* much as
any tiling we coaid think of, in a coon's age. Wonder bow
the negroes who saw such a picture would interpn t the sym
bol and its motto!
Let those that wish, Secede.— 4Ve would place
no obstacle, whatever, in the way of those who desire to se
cede from the protection of the American Union. Let all
dissatisfied persons pack up their traps and more off as soon a*
they choose, and whenever they plea e. The country would
bo well rid of :!e troublesome set. .. ho know not how to bo
thankful for the greatest blessings which Providence ever
showered upon a people. But we protest against being com
pelled to keep company with ;.ifr such ingrates, nor can we
be driven from the possession of the rich inheritance of our
Fathers, because of the noise made by faciioiiists and grum
blers.
Northern Abolitionists and Southern 1 liras.
Tlie “resistants” of tbe South to the late measures of Con
gress, the fugitive bill included, have found a hearty co-ope
ration from the Northern almlitionists in the matter of re
sistance to the laws and constituted authorities of the nation.
Everywhere, at the South, these indignation meetings have
been held, and the government denounced in the most treas
onable manner. So it is now. among the negroes and abo
litionists of the North. In proof, look at the proceedings of
the “colored population” of New York on the Ist instant,
which was attended by many white abolitionists, as given in
the N. 4'. Herald of the 2nd. Nearly all the speakers ad
vised a bloody resistance to the fugitive slave bill and wero
furious in their abuse of the government and slave-holders.
\\'e cannot copy these denunciations nor give currency, in
this community, to such incendiary language as w as used by
the speakers, but those who desire can see the rej>ort which
tlieN. Y. Herald gives of the proceedings. They are suffi
ciently abominable for the columns of the Columbus Tinu
and Southern Press, but altogether unsuited to the “Georgia
Citizen.” But the funniest thing is yet to be told. The
Georgia Telegraph objects to the fugitive slave bill, because
so many of these fugitives are now leaving the Northern eitrs
for Canada, to get rid of its op. ration, openly and in day light,
and the people there will not prevent their departure I A
if, without any claim on the part of the owners of th‘-e
slaves, it eonld be exjiected that the people of Pittsburgh
and other places would interfere to arrest the fugitives! 4. k *t
upon such deception and mystification ! The truth is, rite
law is a go<xl one for the South, and so long as it is a law t
will bo enforced by the authorities of the north, at even-haz
ard. The fugitive slaves know th's and the Abolition
ists know it, else they would not make the fuss about it,
that they are doing. In one thing, however, thev agree with
the Telegraph and other of tlieir Southern brother resist
ants, that the fugitive Slave law is a very odious thing, and
must, with the other measures of the compromise series, be
resisted to the death ‘. Comment is needless.
Newspaper change. —4lr. Russel Renean has sold
out his interest in the Rome (Ga.) “Eagle A Bulletin” to Mr.
A. M. Eddleman, not long since one of the employees in this
office. Mr. E. is a good practical printer, and we trust will
succeed in his responsible enterprise. The new paper will
be called the Rome Courier and will go for the “Union.”
A New Steamer. The Steamer Florida arrived
Savannah Oct. Bth., about noon, in 64 hours from N l ' ,v
York. She is intended, we believe, lor a regular Packet be*
tween those cities.
DiSUniOll. —See the column or more of proof, in tb* 3
paper, for the disunion purposes of the Fire-eaters.
