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tboy will grow up instead of sending them to the
North to be converted into upstart thing's, who will come
back to us babbling a thousand nonsensical isms. Let us,
if we needs must go somewhere in the summer timo as is
the fashion of the latter days, hie us to the tops of our own
glorious mountains to breathe an air pure and invigorating as
nnv ever God breathed upon the world, or betake us to the
eide of our own balmy seashore where the orange and the
mystic make the sky fragrant as Italian climes, instead of go
ing to Cape May and Free Niggerdom to get into rows with
insolent domestics. Let us pursue this policy, really and tru
ly, in acts as well as words, taking upon ourselves the self-de
nial in our domestic liab.ts necessary td accomplish it. Then
shall the South blossom as the rose, and all our grievance
be removed by a remedy legal, constitutional, and peaceful.”
Letter from Albany Georgia.
ALBANY, October 21, 1850.
Dr. Andrews. —Dear Sir: There appeared in the
last “ Albany Patriot ,’’ in large characters, a notice
that the day for the nomination of candidates for the
convention was changed from the sth to 9th of No
vember, by “ unanimous consent.' 1 ’ I want Colonel
Tift the editor of that sheet, to inform the citizens of
Baker county, what he means by “ unanimous con
sent.” It certainly can not be that the Colonel has
grown so rapidly in his own conceit that he deems
his own the “ unanimous consent” of Baker county.
If so there is but a very poor excuse for the inser
tion of that notice in his paper, but much less, if he
did it from other motives. Now I say, Mr. Editor,
there was no such consent and Col. T. has wronged
the citizens of this county, by making such a false
statement in his paper, and we want him to inform
us what ho means by “ unanimous consent. 1 ’ Now,
sir, as I do not wish to wrong Col. T. I will give a
brief statement of the affair. You, no doubt saw,
in the “ Patriot” of the 4th instant, a request for the
citizens to meet at the council chamber, for the pur
pose of selecting delegates to the convention. And
you have sent the proceedings too, of that meeting
as published in the “ I’airiot.” At that meeting the
Union men appointed a day for a meeting at New
ton to appoint candidates lor the convention. Now,
sir, that was the work of the Union men. A few
days before the aforesaid notice came out in the “Pa
triot,” it was placarded about the streets that there
would be a meeting at the council chamber on that
for the purpose of changing the day of the
meeting from the sth to 9th November. Nobody
to the meeting. Well, then Col. T. pitched
oh another place, to have the day changed and went
round town to try to induce the Union men to change
the day, but failing, he inserted the said notice in
his paper. This, sir, is a true statement of the facts.
Coi. T. has grossly and wilfully misrepresented the
people of this county. I ask in the “ name of all the
Gods at once,”’ of what material is he made ? lias
he any respect for himself or paper ? If he has none
for the latter, I fear it is a bad case, for certainly no
one else can have, who knows any thing of it. And
wlrat business had Col. T. to run around town in an
affair which did not concern him ? lie has made his
prevaricating sheet an engine of misrepresentation
ever since it was started. And although inanimate,
we can almost see the u ])Oor thing” blush, for it’s
owner. Well, Col. swell out while I give other items.
Some time since a card came out in the “Patriot”
(by “ unanimous consent” perhaps) stating that the
services of the “ Albany Academy” would be resu
med on the , but it was no go —why ? no schol
ars, and “ ho! for California 1” is now all the go.
(I wonder if all this was done by “ unanimous con
sent ?”) The Disunionists are working the “ game
low down” here, but the good people, if let alone
will do right, arid a large number will do that any
way. I know of several men in this county who
take that last of all trash — falsest of all, would he
•paper, (ours alone excepted by “ unanimous con
sent") the Federal Union, sometimes culled the
“ Federal Ruin” who are the strongest kind of
Union men. Is it possible —“Tell it not inGath, and
publish notin the streets of Askelon “that man may
touch het devil, and yet not be contaminated. Per
haps the citizens of Macon would like to know that,
by “ unanimous consent' 1 there wont be any railroad
built from this place to Savannah. Farewell Col.
and by “ unanimous consent” I close.
Most unanimously, yours truly.
’ BAKER COUNTY.
Late from Texas.
Recent accounts from Texas indicate a short crop
of cotton. In some parts of the State the prospect
is good, but generally it promises but a small yield.
The weather lias been good for picking.
The Indians still continue their depredations. They
had stolen two of the daughters of a German settler,
one eight, and the other eighteen years old.
A correspondent of the Galveston Journal, who
had been travelling through several counties, writes:
Avery large majority of the people in the coun
ties through which I have travelled, are in favor of
accepting of the Compromise ottered us by the Uni
ted States Congress, in relation to our State bounda
ry. I feel confident that at least two-thirds of the
votes cast of Trinity will be cast in that way, The
people of that section have no idea of going to war
with their fellow-citizens of the North for mere ab
stractions. They look upon the propositions of the
United States Congress as quite liberal in their char
acter.
Avery heavy emigration is coming into the North
eastern counties. Land is rapidly appreciating iu
value.
From California.
The steamer Crescent City arrived at New York
from Chagres, with San Francisco dates to the lltli
of September. She brings three hundred and forty
passengers, and over a million in gold. There was
no cholera at Chagres at the time of the departure
of the Crescent City.
The steamer Tennessee arrived at Panama on the
4th ultimo, with a million of dollars in gold, and
two hundred and fifty passengers. The U. States’
Mail left San Francisco on the 15th of September.
John W. Haskell, of Boston; Edward Cuthbert of
Newbern, N. Carolina ; Samuel S. Rodman, of New
York, and John Houghton, of Vermont, died on
hoard of the Crescent City. Mayor Bigelow, since
the amputation of his arm, was improving. The
Northern mines were averaging half an ounce to the
diggers daily. The mines, generally, were yielding
well. Henry M. Nagle had failed for a large amount,
seriously affecting other Banking-houses. Flour had
advanced to sixteen dollars, with large sales. Busi
ness generally was good. Prices of most substan
tial articles were improving.
By Telegraph,
For the Savannah Morning Nf.ws.
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE !!!
Arrival of the Steam Ship Asia.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET FIRM.
New Y ork, Oct. 23, 3. 30. p. m.
The Royal mail steamer Asia arrived tliis morning bring
ing Liverpool dates to the 12tli inst., being seven days later
than the accounts brought by the America.
The Liverpool Cotton market remained firm at previous
quotations,* with a fair demand. The sales of the week a
mounted to 43,460 bales, of which speculators took over 11,-
000 bales and exporters 2,500 bales. Fair Cottons arc quot
ed same as last week.
The Havre cotton market was languid. In Glasgow cotton
was quiet but steady.
Flour and American produce generally remained un
changed.
The political news is unimportant.
•The quotations brought by the America were .as follows :
Mkddlhg Mobile 7 5-8, Middling Orleans 73- Id. and Fair
l-2d. Ed. News.
The English papers contain the details of another bloody
battle between the Panes, and Holstein* rs. The latter at-
tempted to take Friderichstadt, but were repulsed by the
Danes after a desperate conflict, in which many on both sides
were killed and wounded. The spirit of the Holstein
ers was, however, unbroken, and the conflict was to be renew
ed on the following day.
Austrian and Russian affairs arc approaching a crisis, the
two governments being on the point of an open rupture.
A terrible convulsion is anticipated in the Germsn Con
federacy.
England and France remain quiet.
Rice quoted in Liverpool at 19 to 29.
<J!)C Cxcorqia Citizen.
E. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, GA., OCT. 26, 1850.
To Merchants and Business Men.
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ness men of Macon and vicinity to select our sheet as the
medium of advertising their Wares, Merchandize and Handi
crafts. Our circulation in the city is not surpassed, we be
lieve, by any other Journal published here, and we are ra
pidly extending our intercourse with the Planters of the mid
dle, Western and South-western counties of the State. Add
to this the well-known fact that the “ Citizen” is sought for
and read by hundreds who have not had the grace to sub
scribe for it, and it will readily be seen that our facilities for
introducing our customers to public notice and patronage are
exceedingly good.
Jgp” Yearly or monthly contracts for advertising will be
made on the most liberal terms.
Honse Keeping Goods and Jewelry— Those
in want of rich goods in this line, will do well to call ©n Mr.
E. J. Johnston, Mulberry street, at his old stand above the
Lanier House. Ilis stock is usually varied, complete and
splendid. See Advertisements.
Fnion Meetings. ‘The friends of the Union will hold
a meeting at Perry, on Tuesday next, for the purpose of
nominating candidates for Houston county to the Convention.
The Talbot county Union men meet on the first Tuesday of
November for the same purpose.
MaSOniC Journal. —The October number of this
monthly Magazine, from Marietta, Georgia, is on our table.
Its contents are varied and interesting, and its typographical
execution much improved. Dr. J. B. Randall is the editor
and proprietor of the work, and we have no hesitation in say
ing that the Southern Fraternity of Ancient York Masons
ought to render it a most liberal patronage. It deserves a
generous and just support. Price §2 per annum, in advance.
Judge Wellborn and Mr. Cobb.
We regret to state that Judge Wellborn will not be in
this city to address the people as was announced in the Jour
nal and Messenger of Wednesday last. That announcement
was made at the suggestion of a distinguished friend of the
Union now at the North who expected to return in company
with Judge Wellborn and to reach this city on Saturday. The
Judge however was compelled to hasten home to Columbus,
where he arrived on Wednesday morning. In answer to a tel
egraphic despatch from the committee of correspondence he
states that it is impossible for him to be in Macon on Satur
day night as desired. We have no doubt however that lie
will gratify his friends rn section at an early day.
We have seen a letter from Athens dated 23d instant giv
ing the pleasing intelligence that the Hon. 11. Cobb will be
with us on the sth of November. Onr friends in the vicinity
should recollect the time and do honor to tliis worthy Re
presentative by a lull attendance at the meeting of tlmt day.
Grand Division S. T.— On Wednesday last the
Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance, for the State of
Georgia, convened in annual session in the New Masonic llall
of this city. On Thursday tho Annual Address was delivered
before the body and a respectable audience at tlie Presbyte
rian Church by Henry M. Law, Esq. of Savannah. This
young gentleman acquitted himself with great credit. Ilis
address was an eloquent tribute to the labors of the order in
arresting the liquid tide of burning waters and promoting pu
rity and temperance among men.
On the same evening, at Concert Hall, a splendid colla
tion was served up, in honor of the stranger guests—among
whom we noticed, in procession, Rev. T. B. Slade, of Co
lumbus, and B. Hill, Esq. of Talbotton, both distinguished
Apostles of the Temperance cause.
The following is a list of the Grand Officers elected for the
ensuing year:—
P. A. Lawson, Cl. IV. P. ; E. C. Cabaniss, G. IV. A.; W.
S. Williford, G. S.; E. C. Granniss, G. S.; T. B. Slade, G.
C. Isaac B. Huff, G. C.; A. M. Laub, G. S.
Awful Anticipations.
The tune of the Fire-eaters is sensibly changing. We do
not hear so much, now, as formerly, of the grievances actu
ally inflicted by the North upon the South, but great stress
is laid upon what is in prospective. An awful time is com
ing bye and bye, say these imaginative gentlemen. In a
few years more , the South will certainly be tied hand and
foot and given over to the tender mercies of the Abolition
ists ! Death is not more certain to mortal man than that the
progressive steps of abolition will subvert all our rights, and
leave us without remedy, unless we now come up to the
bloody line of resistance , witli “coffins on our backs” and
graves dug not far behind! Well, perhaps, this may be the
case. But we have heard such a “wolf 11 cry so often before,
that we do not believe it. We have confidence that all gusts
of violence will finally subside as has been the case hereto
fore. At all events, we do not mean to “cross that bridge
before we get to it.” We shall not anticipate evils which
may never happen, and which there is no valid reason to
suppose, will happen, in our generation.
These gloomy sight-seeers and croakers remind us of the
young female ‘help’ who was once found wringing her hands
in great grief, and shedding copious tears, in front of a large
family bake-oven, common at the North, which oven was
cracking and blazing with a hot fire made of ash wood. The
poor girl was asked by her pauic stricken mistress, “what
could be the matter.” “Oh” (says she) I was thinking that
if I should ever get married—ah—and if I should have a
baby—ah, and if it should crawl about and fall into such a
fire as this, —ah—and if it should get burnt up—ah—what
would I do—ali—booli-lioo— boo-hoo.”
Just so it is with tlie sons of Jeremiah who predict evil
and call upon the South to resist it before it happens, and
groan over it before it arrives, and when the chances for its
coming are no better than the burning of the girls prospect
ive baby in a family bake- oven !
Fire Eaters in Savannah - -At a late meeting of
tlie Union party, in Savannah, the disorganizers intruded
themselves, and attempted to break up theassembly and frus
trate its objects. In this, however, they failed, and a very
strong Union ticket has been putin nomination to represent
Chatham county, in the Convention.
IVCW Fork H hjgS.— The Utica Convention have re
nominated which had previously been adopted by
the Sjiaense Convention, without, however, adopting the Se
ward platform. Joey go in for tlie general administration,
and for letting the slavery question rest; as settled by Con
gress.
IHS’ . ©S ®IIII ®I T I 111 s
“How Horrible the Tyranny
The “ Christian Freeman” of Boston copies from the No
tasulga Alabama Herald, an article touching the late mob ex
citement in this city, and makes it the occasion for as canting
and contemptible a phillipic against the “tyranny” of slavery
as we ever remember to have seen. The following is a sam
ple of this pretended “ Freeman’s” slang on this subject:
“ How terrible is the bondage of tlie white as well as col
ored population, in the regions where slavery exists. An in
stitution exists among them, which is against their own in
nate sense of natural right; and its operations every day pre
sent scenes which move their sympathies, and pain their
hearts. But, as they value their lives, they must not utter
a censure, a query, a sigh, nor an ejaculation. They are
under the most arbitrary “reign of terror.” They must be
kept perpetually gagged, and there is no relief. Their sobs
of grief must be hushed, and their groans of anguish sup
pressed, in the sight of human wretchedness and wrong, or
they shairbe sacrificed to the fury of the mob. And why ?
Because a sigh, a groan, for the wrongs and cruelties of sla
very, is a concomitant of abolitionism. It endangers the pa
triarchal institution, and it must not be tolerated. Every be
trayal of man's sympathy for suffering man seems to be a
beam of light exposing the blackness of the iniquity, and all
light must he excluded.”
In answer to the above, we have to remark, that the “bon
dage,” of which he speaks, has no other foundation than in
the Editor’s own perverted and distempered imagination.
There is nothing in the institution of the South which is
either against tho “ innate sense of right” on which is calcu
lated to “ move the sympathies or pain the hearts,” of any
truly philanthropic man. To our knowledge there are more
actual scenes of misery and wretchedness, in one twelve
month among northern laborers, operatives in factories—
among the free blacks and while apprentices of Yankcedom,
say nothing of the very poor who are sold out to the lowest
bidder, annually, to test the principle how little food can sus-j
tain the human system, than can be found between the shorty
of the Potomac and tlie Rio Grande ! The most appalling
distress and destitution are there witnessed, from day to-day,
under the eyes and noses of these hypocritical abolitionists,
who “care for none of these things,” and who have no sym
pathy to expend, except for imaginary distress at a great dis
tance off.
We can inform this “ Christian Freeman,” Editor, nfso,
that lie mistakes entirely, tlie true cause of mob violence
against us. That was the work of a few ultra politicians of
this place, who are trying, like the Editor aforesaid, to split
this Union into fragments, by unlawful resistance to the con
stituted authorities of the Government and its enactments 1
They are “hale fellows well met” with such men as Garri
son, Sylvanus Cobb and others, in their nefarious attempts to
dissolve this confederacy ! Our sympathy for, or want of
sympathy with slavery, Had nothing to do with tho “ excite
ment,’’ only as a pretext or excuse for the outrage. Hence,
there was no occasion for this “Servant of Jesus,” as we are
snecringly called, telling the people that they “ had an in
stitution so utterly corrupt, that it would not bear a single
look of scrutiny.” Had we told the Southern people that,
we should have falsified the facts in the case and deserved a
liar's fate. We should then have plead a falsehood in j ustifiea
tion of our previous course in defence of Southern Rights and
Southern Institutions that would have merited nothing but
scorn and contempt.
The plea, therefore, which the Christian Freeman puts
into our mouth, by way of apology for not hearkening to the
“crisis of distress which have come up (to us} from the sun
dering of nature’s ties, from violated chastity, from flayed flesh
and broken bones, from unrequited toil” <fcc. Are. is as “ base
less as the fabric of a vision.” We have heard no such cries
nor witnessed any such scenes, and of course, no sueli plea is
applicable to us. But what plea will excuse this professedly
“ Christian Freeman” in tlie course he lias marked out or
himself, in his work of mischief, anarchy and robbery. We
suppose that something like the following will be the “higher
law” of duty which governs this immaculate Editor. To us
of the South, he says:
“ Kind sirs! Gentle sirs ! Do not blame me for denoun
cing an institution which my fore-fatliers introduced into
America, and on the spoils of which they fattened, for years,
and finally sold out j ust in time to save the deposits as a
precious inheritance of blood for their children ! Do not think
hard of me for requiring tlie Southern people to give up one
thousand million of their property and emancipate a race
that the northern people were the chief means of forcingiii\,q
servitude. True, my common sense tenches me that the
Southern slave has now the privileges of the Gospel, of which
his race is deprived, in heathen Africa, and that thousands of
them have become hopeful members of the Christian Church
who else would have perished in their iguorance and sin. But
all this is nothing, compared with the personal enrichment of
my own dear self and family by catering to the morbid ap
petite of .abolitionists and fanatics! I know, that as a “Servant
of Jesus” whom 1 profess to serve, 1 am acting a little differ
ently from what he did, while on eartli—when he commanded
to “ render tribute to whom tribute was due,” and not to steal
my neighbor's property nor covet his maid servant. Yet, times
have materially changed since the age of Christ, and ice have
improved considerably on the Nazarene’s code of ethics! I
know also, that Paul the great Apostle, gave up the “ fugi
tive slave” Onesimus to his master Philemon, and exhorted
his disciples to “ submit themselves to the powers that be”
for “ tlie powers that lie were ordained of God,” and much
more of tlie same sort of instruction—nevertheless in this
middle of the 19th century, when Philosophy and Science
have illumed the world, Ido not consider it right to obey such
nonsense, as that is now considered to be, by professing Chris
tians throughout Yankeedom !
Still further, I do not believe that Congress has the right
to pass a law to compel me to assist in enforcing the constitu
tional principles of the Union, or, in any way, aiding in pre
serving the Government. I have a zeal which burns within
me, in behalf of tlie thick-lipped and sooty African—not to
make him the life-companion of my beautiful fair complex
ioned daughter and the daily anil nightly associate of my own
“bed and board”—but to elevate him to nominal freedom,
though his real condition would not thereby be improved. This,
I do, knowing tlvat my efforts will tend to light the torch of
civil war in the South, and array the black against the white
race. Being governed by that “ higher law” of which the
New York Senator lias spoken, I care not for the conse
quences. To the cries of distress and wailing which will then
come from the throats of the white victims of the negro’s
lust and sensual brutality—to the screams of virgin innocence
in the hands of the black despoiler—to the plaintive hopeless
cries of massaereed “ babes and sucklings,’’ I will not listen,
nor suffer my heart to the moved thereat. Tho day of ven
geance is come, and the righteous men of the North, such
as I am, will rejoice with Christian love and meekness, at
the doom of the slaveocrats and all connected with them !
“ Amen, so let it be.”
There, Brother Sylvanus Cobb, how can you reconcile
suclt a truthful plea as that, with the morality of the gospel
of peace and lave which you profess to teach mankind !
Verily, you shall have your reward—the contempt of wise
men and the adulation of fools!
Decidedly Personal —Our neighbors of Cherry and
3d streets, and their correspondents are becoming exceeding
ly personal in their remarks concerning each other! See
the chivalrie “Card,” of J. J. J. in the Telegraph, and the
reply of S. T. C. in the Messenger, of this week. The epithets
of liar, coward, puppy, poltroon, spaniel, fish-woman, Are. are
liberally sprinkled throughout these dignified Journals’
W e “ give it up ” as a species of classics of which we are
profoundly ignorant. “ Prohpudor !!” Say, “ Liph,” hur
ry up that egg-nog or the excitement will soon be above fever
heat.
Our Bridge street neighbor, too, met with a personal ad
venture, Saturday evening, which astonished him considera
bly. In justice to him, however, we will say that he could
not be made a “ submissionist.” He did not turn the left
cheek when the right was smitten—but carried out the
Jewish principle of blow for blow, right manfully-—specially
after he discovered that his antagonist's right arm was held
fast in the clutches of tlie law.
Jenny Lind in Philadelphia. —Root, the Dange- I
roetypist, paid $628 for the choice of tickets to Jenny land’s
first concert in Philadelphia. Tho enthusiasm there was
greater than in New York and Boston.
Cotton Crop of 1850 • —The most sanguine calcula- I
tors of the Cotton crop of 1850 cannot swell the amount be
yond 2,000,000 bales.
The Groans of the Abolitionists.
To show how the Southern Ultras and Northern Aboli
tionists sympathize with each other, in their schemes of dis
solution, we might till our sheet weekly, with extracts from
the extreme factionist Journals, of the day, on the Fugitive
Slave Bill and kindred subjects. The New Era, the Organ
of the Northern wing of the eztremists, thus speaks :
The concession to Texas of ninety thousand square
miles, which she never possessed, and the payment of ten
millions of dollars for, territory to which she never had
a title—the organization of Territorial Governments
without any restriction as to slavery—the passage of a
fugacious bill, as Mr. Benton calls it, converting the
free States into hunting grounds for the slave catcher!
The Cleaveland (Ohio) True Democrat, in speaking
of them says:
The Day against Us !—We feel gloomily, and we
can only speak as we feel.
The South lias triumphed at Washington!
We do not, mainly look at the power lost or won ; at
the money given or gained; these are not unimportant,
and must have weight; but there are higher considera
tions ; the lo'S of character to the North and the loss
to freedom ; and at them we do look—look with avari
cious gaze and saddest forebodings.
And these are sacrificed in the triumph of the South.”
Other Editors speak of resistance being generally planned,
at the North, against the Laws and Constitution of the land.
Meetings are being held, every where, to denounce, with
special wrath, the fugitive slave law, as being an infringment
of the right of trial by jury—a suspension of the Habeas
Corpus Act, Ac. Ac. which must be resisted by force of
arms. Even preachers of the Gospel and Editors of religi
ous Journals denounce the law as unconstitutional and un
worthy of respect. One of the latter gravely informs his
Southern readers that there is a terrible excitement on the
subject at the North, and that bloodshed will be the conse
quence of the odious law ! In all this, they look upon the
slaves as free citizens and thereby entitled to the protection
of the Constitution, while the owner is alien to it and left to
get redress for his stolen properly the best way he can !
What folly and inconsistency !
For our part we are glad that the matter is brought home
to these northern meddlers, and that, if there is any con
science left them, they may be made to feel in imagination ,
some of the grievances which they have long sought to in
flict, in reality, upon the South. Let them resist the govern
ment, if they dare, and see whether they have any more
power than Southern secessionists and Southern resistants
have to dissolve this glorious Confederacy! We want the
fight to begin there, before the Southern Ultras commence
the work of devastation. The latter had better wait a while
to sec whether President Fillmore can put down rebellion
among the Abolitionists. If he can and does—then per
haps, the Southern resistants will take counsel from the max
im—that “ prudence is the better part of valor ” and submit
in time. But if the President is powerless to suppress in
surrection, North, why then the hotspurs, South, can go
ahead, safely, in the formation of the Southern confederacy.
Let them therefore bide their time.
Hon. W. H. Stiles —The following resolution was
presented by the Hon. W. 11. Stiles to the late Union Meet
ing of Cass county and adopted :
Resolved , That we declare as the decided sense of this
meeting that neither disunion, secession or other revolution
ary measure, is the remedy adapted to the present exigency,
that tame submission to abolition encroachments, we utterly
repudiate, and that it is our duty by all the constitutional
means in our power, to oppose the aggressions of the North
and to maintain the rights and interests of the South.
Judge Sh.arkey for the Union.—The Natchez
Courier says that at a great Union meeting in Yicksburgh,
Miss. Judge Sharkey spoke as follows :
“ Tie had suspected some persons in the South of disunion
movements. Recent transactions had satisfied him that
those persons desired a dissolution of the Union , per
se, and that the pretext of Southern rights teas made in
order to cloak that design. He teas afraid of such South
ern men , as he was of Northern men , and perhaps n little
more. so. The people were now called upon to take one side
or the other. Between them must the choice now be made.
iTiion or disunion stares us all in the face, and it was time
for each man to select his position.
t‘ The question of Disunion or Union was attempted to be
to depend upon the admission of California. That was
a mere question of expediency, and no man, or set of men,
could justify themselves in crying Disunion on such slight
grounds! lie for one was willing to submit to the action of
Congress in this matter, and therefore he did not fear the re
proach of being called a submissionist. lie trusted that it
would be a long time ere a world was called upon to groan
the funeral dirge of this Republic. He then explained the
misery consequent upon disunion, and expressed the belief
that civil war would inevitably result from it. lie conclud
ed with an eloquent appeal for the preservation of the
Union.” lie was frequently interrupted with loud cheers.
ATTENTION.
Z£T KEEP IT BEFORE TIIE PEOPLE, that those
who lately avowed themselves in favor of Secession or Dis
solution, are now trying to evade that issue, and profess to
be Union men, of the most unflinching character ! Oh, hy
pocrisy, thy name is Fire-Eater !
C3T KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE, that the
Ultras of the South and the fanatics of the North are both
working, with might and main, to accomplish the same thing
—the dissolution of the confederacy—both being dissatisfied
with the recent adjustment of the slavery question by Con
gress.
;£ST KEEP IT BEFORE TIIE PEOPLE, that the
only question now before the people of Georgia is UNION
and DISUNION, and that every citizen who docs not vote
the Union ticket in bis district, is aiding and abetting in the un
hallowed work of disunion, civil war and anarchy.
jX-ir KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE, of Georgia,
that should secession take place, North Carolina and Tennes
see will become to Georgia wliat Canada is now to N. York
ns foreign nations, into which slaves from the Southern
confederacy can easily escape, without any constitutional
guarantee or Fugitive Slave law being provided for their re
covery !
C3T KEEP IT BEFORE TIIE PEOPLE, that such
a Secession of Georgia from the Union will sooner destroy
the institution of Slavery , than any thing else. “ Who so
readeth, let him understand.”
Union Candidates for the State Convention.
Henry.—Dr. Pettit, L. T. Glenn, L. T. Doyal, D. L.
Duffoy.
Fayette. —W. R. Fuller, Joint O. Dickson.
Richmond. —C. J. Jenkins, A. J. Miller, R. F. Toe,
Thomas Skinner.
Hancock. —James Thomas, Eli 11. Baxter.
Stewart. —James Clark, John Williford, Daniel Atkin
son, Sampson Bell.
l T rso.\. —Rev. Wm. Crawford, Rev. Thomas Flewellen,
Win. A. Cobb, A. J. M’Afee.
Chatham. — R. R. Cuvier, F. S. Bartow, Whigs; Jolm
E. Ward, Dr. R. D. Arnold, Democrats.
Randolph.— lion. Win. Taylor, 11. G. Johnson, Esq.,
John Hendrick, Esq., B. 11. Rice, Esq.
New York Abolition merchants.
The Day Book is doing the South an essential service bv
publishing the names of those wholesale Merchants in New
York, whose traffic is chiefly with tho South, but who use
the gains thus acquired in advancing abolition doctrines in
that city. The following firms are thus noticed :
Messrs. BOWEN AM’NAMEE, Wholesale Jobbers.
“ CHITTENDEN A BLISS, “ “
“ PERKINS A WARREN, “ “
“ HOPKINS A ALLEN, “ “
“ SIMEON DRAPER JR., “ “
“ HUNT A DANIEL. “ “
The Day Book says that the first named “have become
wealthy by trading with Southern merchants, employ the lar
gest number of clerks, and boast of doing the largest jobbing
business done in the city ; who have built one of the most
magnifieout stores, two splendid country scats—all from the
profits of slave labor—arc both thorough going abolitionists—
support abolition ministers, and have established an abolition
newspaper.’’
Let Southern merchants mark these men and avoid them
as they would the pestilence. The Southern people should
not be taxed to support their worst enemies in concocting
mischief and desolation.
Pronunciameuto from Gor. Towns.
In answer to some kind friends from Murray county who
felt “much anxiety” to know the Governor's views on the
subject of slavery, his Excellency has inflicted upon the rea
ders of the “Federal Ruin,” six long columns of ponderous
matter, touching the various political topics of the day. We
have neither time, space, nor inclination to give even a syn
opsis of this State paper. It is a singnlar production, embra
cing a little of every thing and not much of any thing. It
recounts the stale and oft told tale of Northern aggression on
Southern rights—the feeling of the Northern people against
the institution and their determination to destroy the same—
denounces Gen. Cass for his non-intervention doctrines—
(the same which the Democrats of Georgia, the Governor
not excepted, so strongly advocated two or three years ago)
abuses Mr. Clay and Congress for admitting California with
the Wilmot proviso in Iter constitution—and winds up his
leaden communication with a quotation from his own letter
to Col Joseph Day, in ISI9, in which he recommends the
people to use all honorable means to redress their wrongs and
resolve to die in the maintenance of their tights—which sen
timent he now reiterates, but urges moderation and a calm
and impartial examination of the subject and repudiates the
idea of making “party capital” out of the unhappy divis
ions that now prevail in the State! The Governor also, ex
presses great love for “the Union as it teas and the Constitu
tion as it is" —and very gravely says that “Union is not a
senseless word for party hacks or heartless politicians to
sport with.” His Excellency thus very facetiously, but riot
the less severely, castigates his own political friends, for the
course they have pursued on the great questions of the day,
and we trust the lesson he has thus read to tiie Federal Ruin,
and other “party hacks” and “heartless politicians” will
have its due influence upon such a profligate set.
Upon the whole we look upon this Pronunciamentoof our
Chief Magistrate as an artful attempt to throw Just into the
eyes of the honest people, so that they may not see the true is
sue now before them, to be UNION or DISUNION and
‘ nothing else.’ If his Excellency is to be believed, there are
no greater friends to the Union than he and his friends are,
notwithstanding the late bold and daring avowals of the lead
ing presses and men of Ins school for secession and dissolu
tion. Well, perhaps they are, but we warn the people a
gainst allowing any of them to exhibit their peculiar love for
the Union in the approaching Convention. We have no
faith in their professions nor their motives.
A “Rowland for an Oliver.” The Grand Ju
ry of Cobb county Ga., having lately presented the law of
Congress admitting California as a “palpable infringement of
Southern Rights’’ which should be “promptly met by the
South with determined resistance,” bis Honor, Judge Hill,
took occasion to respond to the presentment in the subjoined
able and enlightened address to the Jury. On perusal of
said document, which does credit to the head ami heart of
Judge Hill, we could not help regretting the part we honestly
took in defeating this gentleman in the last canvass for Gov
ernor in this State. Had Edward A'. liill been now at the
head of the State Government, all the dangers and excite
ment of the pi esent contest would have been spared to the
people of Georgia. Disunion schemes would then have found
no countenance in Executive councils. If /God will forgive tis
for the sin we then ignorantly committed, in supporting Judge
Ilill’s opponent, we vow not again to be caught in any such
fatal error. But to the charge :
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury :
So far as your presentment upon the pr/esent state of politi
cal relations between the Northern and Southern sections of
our beloved country are concerned, the Court is constrained
to say, that it is neither a judicial nor moral subject challeng
ing the investigation of a Grand J ury, as such. Stiil it is con
ceded that any assemblage of intelligent and respectable gen
tlemen have the right, in a country likefours, to express their
political views upon agitating questions,'of the times, and to
impart to those views (it they can) tiny power and influence
of associated wisdom and united impression. Perhaps then,
you may, in this form, as well as in any other, bring your o
pinions to bear u[ton your fellow citizens of the South. Gen
tlemen/ tile Court does you no injustice, in styling you and
itself co-ordinate branches of the .JWieiary, assembled for
the sacred purpose of redressing tiie grievances and foster
ing t. , <?*ti Vis of o'fr beloved State. An expression of opin
ions on your part necessarily requires from me a response.
And while I had no inclination to wander from our more le
gitimate sphere, in pursuit of controversy, you will excuse
me for deeming your strong expression of your own opinions
upon the subjects of our National Union, as a direct call
upon your presiding officer cither to concur or dissent. Gen
tlemen, it is my misfortune upon this all absorbing and deep
ly interesting topic to disagree to to ccelo with a majority of
your respectable body. In the exercise of his sober discretion
every man must admit that with all ils imperfections and
causes of complaint ours is the purest the wisest and the
happiest system of government upon the face of the globe,
rhat its origin, progress and present condition, present for
the contemplation o! the patriot and philanthropist, a history
of moral and political sublimity never before dreamed of in
the happiest visions of governmental experiment. And if
those who arc now assailing this beautiful fabric with parri
cidal hands, shall be permitted to succeed in its destruction,
the hopes of the republican world will be buried in its ruins, j
The thorn of despotism will spring up and flourish where now 1
blooms the Rose of freedom, and the wailing of oppression ;
will stun the ears of our now happy and prosperous millions.
Did you ever reflect, gentlemen, that a Washington and his j
compatriots under all the favorable influences of the limes, !
and guided by the wisdom of Providence liimsclf, were sev- j
en long years in concocting and establishing a Union of on j
ly thirteen States ? Concession and Compromise were !
made tho pillars of the building; it beautifully rose to com
pletion under tiie hands of its god-like architects to bless the j
eyes of patriotism and fill the world with hope. Jf you would
that the structure should stand, these pillars must not be re
moved. Is it not strange, that with ail our practical, experi
mental knowledge of the imperfections of human institutions,
we should make our government an exception and blindly ex
pect its operations to move with the harmony which char
acterizes only the works of Deity ? And more wonder
ful still, that we should cherish this delusion at the hazard of
the loss and utter destruction of what the world m-ver saw
before and will never witness again ? The Uuion of twenty
millions of freemen, the inhabitants of the same and yet of
different Republics. Sisters in amity and yet independent.
Bound to protect each other, as well as to defend themselves
against the common selfishness of human nature, I repeat
gentlemen, that there is not its model in the history of our
race; and the breaking up of our Union will present
nothing but a melancholy wreck of thehopesand predictions,
of those who had vainly cherished the chimera, that man
was capable of self-government. And for this sacrifice of
so many privileges, of such unparalleled National distinction,
the political priests, who are endeavoring to lead you to the
altar, and suffocate you witli the smoke of your own foolish
and treasonable offering, promise you (as thou alt they were
Gods) their unqualified blessing. What bit? Look at it,
contemplate it, and for yourselves determine. Chaos, confu
sion, a gloomy pile of the smouldering ruins, of what was
once the master piece of man’s efforts to control his terrene
happiness.
The farewell address of the father of his country, of him,
who was, “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts
of his countrymen,” must never be allowed to fade from
your memories. “ United , we stand ; divided wo fall.”
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Curious Fashion - -Some of the fashionable gentry
about town, are now wearing coats of a peculiar cut and ap
pearance. ‘I he pockets of some arc placed outside, ana are
made to hang very heavy, aa if a ten pound Revolving Iron
with holes in the end, was in each skirt Others are made to
give the lean-breasted gentleman the appearance of
remarkable plurnptitudc of chest and great muscular develope
nient of the pericardial region! Bonder ifsait-petre trill ex
plode, if weil mixed with brimstone !
Look Ollt!—That rabid, ultra, fire-eating, disunion
and secession print, the “ Columbus Times,” says of the can
didates of Muscogee, on his side, viz: Messrs. Alfred I ver
son, Jack Howard, Mathew J. Crawford and W. Y. Bar
den, that “ none of these men are ULTRAS or DISIT
NIONISTS.” A more bare-faced swindle could not well
be attempted upon the intelligent voters of Muscogee,
New Establishment —See advertisement of
B. Ferry A Cos Dr information where a fine stock „r u
and Shoes canjx-had. ‘
TO COKRESPOXDEXTS;
“ Uncle Toby,” “A. A. E.” and other favors next ,
In this city, on Wednesday evening, the 9th inst. by p.
Dr. Pierce, Mr. Abner 11. Fi.ewflle.n, Id Miss
Hardaway, daughter ofR. S. Hardaway, Esq. of Columbu
At New York, on the 9th, by Rev. John Blake, clank”
U. S. N. Capt. W. A. T. Maddox, of the U. S. Maj. .
corps, to Miss Sarah E. W. Moughon, daughter of the 1 •'*
Wm. Moughon, of Columbus.
I>IEI>.
Tn Crawford county on the 15th ult., Rev. Jamzs Mat
thews after an affliction of sixteen months; caused bv tiie ‘
setting of bis carriage. Deceased was born in Warre* Com *
in this State, in the year 1790.
IS! ‘fitwj o /tt g% n
111 .44 W 0.1 H .it & |
Great Bargains!
WM. B. FERRY & CO
-TTTould respectfully announce to the Citizens of
> } and surrounding country, that they are now opening
new Triangular Block.three doors Fast of Logan's Dry G
id street, the largest and most attractive STOCK of Wt ’ r *
I / lOOTg &
ever before offered in this market, which will be sold at pr
cannot fail to suit the Customer.
Being largely connected in the Shoe and Leather busing ;, t t (,
N >rtli. their Goods have been manufactured and sot , ~ ,
possible advantage, and with careful reference to tin, i trh. t• i, i
they venture to say, that in point of elegance and 1; , vi. iu-r T ,\lo -
Stock cannot !k> equalled by any house South of \\ s inn'.tori
In the Ladies Department will is; found >
1 and elegant styles which have ever been produced b> the Trade—
such as: Satin and Prunella patent foxed Congress e. titers; Snon
and Prunella patent foxed Lice Gaiters; black and white Satin, ai ,|
black and white Kid l*arty Slippers; Enamel, Bronze, black at,)
white kid French Embroidered PAlt tv Sluter*—a beautiful attic*-
Patent Leather Enamel. K id, and Morocco Excelsior Ties; High ai .,j
low cut Morocco and Cloth Buskins and half (outers; French Mo
rocco, Lace and Congress (.'niter*; as well as the more common vari
eties, for general and substantial use. Misses. Children*’ and In
fants wear, in great variety and extent, from the common and mb
stantia l tothe most rh si and fanciful.
lii the Gentlemen’* Ileparlnient maybe found a rmn
variety of French calf stitch dress Boots —among them, an elegant
Broadway article; French Calf Stitch Water-proof and Cork *,; a
Boots; French Calf, Peg liirndnss at.d winter IPs-ts ; Patent IcMltr
and Enamel Congress and French strap Gaiters; Cloth patent fond
and Prunella Congress and Gaiters ; Intent leather and Frrrcli
I calf Taylor Ties and Brogans; Patent leather. Morocco. P*a| and
j Toilet slippers and Pumps. Pots Wear of every description, from
| a French calf stitched Boot down to the most ordinary article worn,
j Their stock of Common and Heavy Work—consisting of calf,
j and stoga Boots; calf. kip. Goa,Black and Russet Brogans is eitru-
I sive, and will he sekiat small advances to the planter and laboring
| man.
Their Stock will be kept full and complete in monthly
arrivals— thus enabling tli.-m at all tiim sto furnish any *i
ticle of Goods called lor by tlie Trade. They w ould, iherc
j fore, respectfully solicit tire ulKi.iion of those shotting :
j an examination of their Goods, before making t lieir ptirthi
j ses; assuring Ibriti that their Goods and Prices csi.nol fm|
; to please; nnd pledging the best attentions on their beliaX
j To those buy it g to sell again, (.rods will be offered it *
small commission. I!elie\it.g a seale of low mm |,**t
suited to the limes, their n.ulio will be, “bit.all Profits
and Quick J?etirns.
Zi’ Repairing neatly done at short notice.
Macon, Oeto., “JO, I*3o. 30—3 in
Watches, Jewelry, &c.
WHOLESALE <& RETAIL.
GOLD and si Iver lever, duplex, anchor
and verge WATCH EiS, gold guard, lob
, vest and chatalaiae Chains : reals, keys.
! Charms. *j-c., diamond, rnbv, opal, garnet and pearl and
j oilier slones set in finger rings; ear rings. bracelets, neckla
ces, breast pins, studs, collar buttons, sleeve buttons, c.
Gold and silver Spectacles- thimbles, jn n and pencil cas
es with Brown Sc Bagley’s IVns, tooth picks, locket* and
miniature cases, snaps, bracelet clasus, belt bueki'sof gold
and silver, ic, card cases of silver p<4r!, embossed steel, jc,
ladies port rnotry* of do. Crtufcs shaij. httfa’i
A C., bead dresses, paper uiuche work stands, desks,"port folm*
jewelry I sixes, ic.
A choice and elegant selection of the above. with a great
many new and elegant articles now on hand and for sale for
moderate profits, for cash or approved credit.
oct 2(J 3ui E. J. JOHNSON.
Housekeeping Goods,
SILVER Forks, table, d< •ssert, tea, mustard and sahsponn*,
! butter knives, soup ladles, cups and pitchers, sugar tongs,
| gravy spoons, ac. ui warranted pure stiver.
Silver plated waiters, cake baskets, candlesticks, castors,
sunders and trays, butter tubs, salt and mustard cups, sugar
! baskets, &c. ol new rich and elegant styles.
I Silvered and gilt girondole. porcelain races, lurd lamps, tr.
Ivory handle knives and forks in setts and knives extra;
silver plated liuit knives, childrens knives and forks, ic. nap
kin rings, tea trays in setts and singly.
Received by late arrivals and lor sale on fair terms bv
oct “(i ‘ 3m E. 4. JOHNSON.
tU-ILI’ Cortjice-t ami Curtain Builds of new styles mid rich
* uud elegant patterns. Forsuiebv
j * E. J. JOHNSON.
I ADR the Toilet—A choice selection of very sttpetior
Toilet aitirles, for sale bv E. J. JOHNM.N.
Weddintr Partie*, 4rc. —.Note paper, envelope*,
wafers, cake boxes, t,oid and silver leal, &.e., ol i finite
and beautiful styles, for sale by E. J. JOHNSON.
Infill the \ Oitug Due*—Battle doors and shuttle rocks,
A graces, knives and lorks, bawls and pitchers, tatties,
teething tings, &c. for sale by E. J. JOHNSON.
(. ( NS—A line lot ot superior stub and Damascus
twist Guns, shot pouches, powder flasks, dram bottle*
gunning equipments gcneralL, lor sale bv
E. J. JOHNSON.
f'JOLI’S l’istols—Al en <fe Wesson’s do. with n large
and and choice lot of rifle and smooth l ore single barrels,
tor sale by E. J. JOIINvO.N.
(CALIFORNIA Knives—Fen, pocket and hunting do.,
J razors and scissors, Ac. ol superior quality, lur sale by
E. J . JOHNSON.
tIANES —with gold, silver, ivory and other mountings,
/ cigar eases, port mourns, dressing ruses, See. an hand
and for sale by E. J. JOHNSON.
IAINE Violins, flutes and accordeons, anew rboi<e Ui,
for sale by E. J. JOHNSON.
D ILI LRROETI PK Stocks—PUtr b 4 i Is-a.-
icais, prepared buckskin, paints, brushes Sr , u|> a
tew samples ol heauiifu I papier ntaelic ttnJ gilt n nrrnr*. book
cases, lor sale by E. j.
GOLD Foil, Dentists Files, Mouth , hr
sale by tyk J. J H\>')N.
SI’RVEI OKS Compasses, Laud Chain-'. Matl.ett ni
cul Instruments &.c., anew supply for si b\
’ E, J. J .ItIN-ON,
BOOT AND SHOE
MANUFACTORY.
On 3J St. between the Floyd IfottseA ‘Nt office.
TIIF. undersigned having REMOVED their
• I B'-'it nnd Shoe Manufactory on ,'t.t St. and Itav
r . Y— . int?lately procured a g-xid supply ~r 1 1,,■ nta
cl. terials, arc now prepared to manufacture to or-
der
DOUBLE I3kXEA.IV FRE.\fff CORK-SOLE BOOTS;
Inside Cork Roots; Water-Proof R its;
Quilted Bottom Boots; Nailed Bottom Boots;
Patent Leather Boots; Opera Boots,
UW Also Shoes and Gaiters ; all warranted of the best stork and
workmanship.
STJHAIao, on hand, some first rate FRENCH CALF f-’KLNS, of di
rect importation, rhrep / l(r Cask.
* Gentlemen are invited to rail and examine our work, as w
are determined to execute all orders,.* a ttyie that c.ixsat he ficetn,
in tltisorany other city. We shall aim to give entire satisfaction to
every customer. Reparing neatly done.
0012(5 ts F. P. CARY hi CO.
WASTED.
“| 000 RAGS. Cash paid for clean cotton ot
-*-UUvUv linen ra JP ! —4 cents per pound, when de
livered in quantities of 100 pounds or more ; and 3J when de
livered in small quantities. For oh! hemp, bagging, and pie
ces of rope, 1J cents, delivered either at Rock island Factor)’
or at their store in Columbus, iu the South corner Room
of Oglethorpe House.
D. ADAMS, Secretary.
Columbus, Oct, 26. ts
