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ed of. They were, then, all embraced in his
thoughts, and provided for in the government plans
just seen.
No one complains of the slavery restriction clause,
in itself, in the constitution of California. The just
ground of objection is to the irregularities that at
tend the exercise of the suffrage franchise, by which
her constitution was adopted. Yet these irregular
ities, it must be admitted, were universal in their
application to the State. Being an offence against
the whole , the question made by the North to the
South was, cannot and ought not the tchole, in view
of the equities springing up in behalf of California
out of the fact that the States had given her no gov
ernment, and of her capacity to act as a State, for
give her irregularities ? We spoke of her vast sea
coast. They pointed to Florida, which, ocean and
gulf measured, is in round numbers near twice as
long. We objected to her area: they pointed to
Texas, containing double her acres. And thus, hav
ing examined by a partial and rapid analysis, into
the nature of the wrong done us in regard to Califor
nia, the mode by which it came about—resulting
as it did, rather from the non-action than the ag
gression of the government —the uncertain nature
of the loss, if any, we have, in substance, sustained
—and to what extent it was in the power of the pres
ent Congress to supply an available remedy, the
question, vast as it is, recurs : Is this an offence
sufficiently grave iope commensurate with the mighty
enterprise of dissolving a confederation of thirty
States , and covering a people of twenty millions
with a degree of prosperity and happiness which
sets all comparison with any other nation under
heaven at defiance? Secession!—and secession for
such a cause !
PLEDGED TO DISUNION.
Look on this Picture. jga
Mr. R. B. Rhett, the distinguished author of the Nash
ville Convention address, lately made a speech at Walterbo
rough, in South 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, hut has
some heart and soul,” and this will be but the beginning;
within eighteen months we shall have the whole South with
us, aud more than that; we will extend our borders, we will
have New Mexico, Utah, and California.” In Iris 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 m the destruction
of the Constitution ; and to maintain the Constitution, WE
MUST DISSOLVE THE UNION to afford the only chance
of its restoration.”
Again he sai<l, despairing of any reformation which will
bring the government back to the limitations of the Constitu
tion which will give us tfew guarantees, I see 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 of 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 that we would be safe in the Union. That hope has
now been disappointed, and we abandon the Union as an en
gine of infamous oppression. Wf. are for secession, open,
unqualified, naked secession. Henceforth, WE ARE FOR
WAR UPON THE GOVERNMENT 5 it has existed but
or our ruin, and to the extent of our ability to DESTROY
ft, it shall exist no longer.”
Once more, the Sentinel has tire following on the subject o
the approaching Convention.
*’ We are not disposed to trammel the action of that Con
vention. We 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
Convention, our first step would be a Declaration of In
dependence, and the next, an invitation to our sister States
of the South to unite with us in the formation of a Southern
Republic.”
The Columbus Times avows disunion in the following plani
terms:
u If the action of Congress makes it imperative on the
Governor under the instructions of the Legislature, to call the
convention, our own first choice will be for secession, and our
votes and efforts will be steadily given to effect that end.”
And again : “ We then go for secession—quietly if let
alone, forcibly if made necessary. We are for meeting the
defiance of the North on this issue, and are against all tem
porary expedients, or new and postponed issues.”
Again it says :
‘ The State of Georgia stands in an attitude of fearful peril,
fro’m which nothing can rescue her but the virtue and valor
of her sons, rushed to the wall, bearded and defiled by ag
gressive legislation to which she has 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 be made in a lew weeks. Sub
mission and disgrace to be 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, be silent and cease agitation. It remains to
be seen, whether Southern freemen will heed such pusillani
mous—cowardly advice. The cause for “ agitation” lias in
reality just fairly begun, and we shall glory in the work of
urging it on by every means in our power, and shall only
eease when we shall be convinced that the sons of the South
are too pusillanimous to preserve the inheritance of their
fathers.”
The Augusta Republic says:
u No cause for resistance to the inj ustiee of the mother
country was half as great as that which would, in this case,
remand 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 j ust
union—will protect their rights and sustain their honor by
all the means which the God of Nature has placed in their
hands.”
The Macon Telegraph has the following:—
. “ Judging from the late action of Congress, we can only
look forward to resistance or to the abolition of slavery
aooner 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 tbe 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
hat there is but little dissent among them, either with regard
do the wrongs perpetrated, or the necessity for some resis
ance, wliatever it may be. What this resistance should be,-
as we have said before, the Legislature lias wisely submitted
to tbe people to determine. And if tbe State will not adopt
the ouly remedy, we regard as adequate to reform the gov
ernment, we will go for any thing that her sons in their sov
efeign 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 sayi:
“ For our own part, we are 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 with a dastardism, tlmt woultt
dishonor and defame the race she sprang from ? Every na
tive eon who loves her would exclaim “ May she ferisii
SOONER 1”
The Savannah Georgian says :
\\ e gave our advice in regard to the acts of the Conven
tion, and we now stand ready to support them ; if thoy
are for secession we are with them. We shall stand by these
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, but with that defence
which every true Southerner should stand ready to wield
against an intruder.”
The Cassville Standard of the 26th ult., says:
“ We have been informed that the Hon. Walter T. Colquit
addressed a portion of the citizens of Murray Couutv last
week, and declared openly that he was for DISUNION.
Since then we learn that some of the citizens of Murray are
following his footsteps, and say they are for disunion too.”
The subjoined resolution, offered by Capt. A. Nelson, at a
Public Meeting in this county, is an undisguised exposition of
his disunion sentiments:
“ Resolved, I hat 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 bill 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 we 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 be 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 false cry of Union. It is the word of taiis
manic 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 back 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 be determinated by the
people in the election of delegates to the Convention is—un
conditional submission, or sonic MAN LY and EFFEC
TIVE mode of RESISTANCE.
Again : A correspondent of the Augusta Republic among
other harsh things about the Union, says:
It is time, sir, that we should all begin to familiarize our
selves not only with the possibility, but 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 our peace. What man is there
who entertains any belief that the North would do us justice ?
W ho is there that believes that any compromise (as they call
it) that can be made, will be 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
do; the one is to acknowledge ourselves the vassals of the
north for all time to come, the other is to dissolve the Union
and it is this time for the Soutli to choose between them.
ABOLITION FURY AXD SOUTHERN BRIM
STONE.
It is so happened that these two blazing
Lights-met at Washington <sil the Ist instant,
and as Congress had adjourned, they conclud
ed to hold a public meeting to consider the
outrage* which had been perpetrated on their
respective sections of the Union by the set
tlement of the slavery questions. Proclama
tion having been made an immense crowd
soon assembled near Walker’s Eating and
Drinking House, when Southern Brimstone
mounted the head of an empty cask, and
poured forth his indignation in this wise:
Fellow Citizens:—A crisis is upon our
country such as has never been witnessed
since our Forefathers flew to arms in defence
of their inalienable rights, which had been
attacked by that hellish tyrant George the
111.
Is there a Southern heart in this large as
sembly which is not boiling over with the
spirit of 70? If there be 1 would say put
the brand of “c raven submissionist ” on the
forehead of its possessor.
The day for argument has passed. Our
Nothern oppressors have drained the cup of
Southern forbearance dry—dry—dry. Have
they not taken from Texas 25 or 30,000
square miles of slave territory and handed
it over to Abolition ? Yes, my countrymen,
they have not only done this, but they have
stolen every foot of the soil that we acquired
from Mexico by so much blood and treasure.
Will you submit to the barefaced robbery ?
Will you hesitate to choose between disunion
and an abolition government? Before God
and the assembled Universe, I would say No.
Then prepare yourselves for the conflct, and
may the Devil take the hindmost!
At this point Brimstone gave way and Ab
olition Fury took the stand. Said he,
Friends of Freedom :—Since the awful
day when the serpent beguiled Eve, down
to the “last syllable of recorded time,” we
read of no such outrages on the rights of
freemen, as the Hotspurs of the South aided
by Northern Doughfaces , have inflicted on
the cherished principles of the North. What
have the South and their Doughfaced Allies
done ? If you have tears, let me say to you
“prepare to shed them now.” They have
stript New Mexico of 75 or 80,000 square
miles of free territory, aud converted it into
slave soil! and did they stop here ? No, my
weeping brethren. When the principle of
the Ordinance of 1787 more generally
known as the Wimot proviso was offered to
the New Mexico and Utah bills, it was rejec
ted with scorn. The poor thing was mur
dered in cold blood, right before the eyes of
its dearest friends. To the day of my death,
I will invoke its ghost to haunt its cruel as
sassins. But it is said that we have got Cal
ifornia and should be satisfied. From whom
do we hear this? Ah ! no wonder you sob!
you are thinking of that blood thirsty Fugi
tive slave bill! May the God of Justice
thunder his wrath on the heads of those who
passed it into law. Talk to me about Com
promise ! Death and destruction to all such
Compromises ! It is a compromise in which
the South has got all. My voice is for war
and war to the hilt. Never shall it be said
that Abolition Fury was so easily subdued.
Let us tliis day vow on Freedom’s altar, that
SHS IIIISII 6ISIIII.
our point shall be carried, even should the
Union fall in the struggle. Whilst the blood
of freemen runs in our veins, let this be our
motto —“Liberty, Equality and Civil War.”
Amidst the uproar which followed this
speech, a very grave, dignified, and sensible
old gentleman, who stood on a goods-box
close by asked the attention of the multitude
a few moments before they dispersed. I
have listened attentively, said he, to every
word which has fallen from the lips of the
two distinguished gentlemen, who have spo
ken on this extraordinary occasion. I can
agree neither with the one, or the other. It
does seem to me that their passions have got
ten the mastery of their Judgments, and con
sequently they are bad counsellors of a patri
otic people. I doubt very much whether ei
ther of them has ever carefully examined
the measures of which they complain, or
certainly they would not put forth such con
tradictory statements. Southern Brimstone
says that 25 or 30,000 square miles of slave
territory have been surrendered to free soil by
the Texas boundary bill. Abolition Fury
has asserted, with equal confidence, that
the same bill gives up 75 or 80,000 square
miles of free soil to the dominion of Slave
ry ! Both positions cannot be correct, and
permit me to assure you, that neither is. I
have not time to go into the details of that
bill. Suffice it to say that they are satisfac
tory to the high contracting parties, and the
people ‘who may inhabit New Mexico when
they adopt a constitution preparatory to 7 their
admission into the Union as a State, can de
termine for themselves whether they shall
or shall not have slavery ! Is not this right?
In a word gentlemen the whole series of
measures constituting the Compromise, were
prepared by some of the wisest and most pa
triotic heads of the nation—coming from
both sections of the Union—and do you sup
pose that they have not done justice to the
whole country ?
Here the voice of the speaker was drown
ed by loud applause, and when he looked up
the Avenue, Fury and Brimstone were mak
ing tracks as fast as their heels could carry
them. Observing this he got down and rai
sed the shout of “three cheers for the Union”
and such a response has not been heard since
the foundation ol the government. In this
way the meeting which was called for a far
different purpose, was happily terminated.—
Scores of enthusiastic friends then crowded
around the good old man, and the way his
hands wore cordially shaken, will be a warn
ing to the factionists till the fourth genera
tion.—Nashville Union.
“The Union — it must and shall be preserved.” —This
was the toast of General Jackson at a public dinner in Wash
ington, soon after he was installed into the Presidential of
fice—‘’The Union of the States—it must and shall be pre
served.” Several of the gentlemen who were afterwards the
chief nullifiers and dsunionists were present at the dinner.
They were just beginning to frame the schemes which they
afterwards failed to carry into effect. Old Hickory’s toast
fell upon them like a shock of thunder—as it showed ho was
aware of the mischiefs they were meditating, and determined
to suppress them, cost what it might. The energy of old
Hickory’s character, and the unbending firmness with which
he was accustomed to execute his resolves, deterred those
gentry from an open resort to force—and they were aban
doned by the people to that fate which was sure to overtime
them whenever they perpetrated an overt act of violence (n
resistance to the laws. That hero and .yjatriot is Up long/. -
u? to abash disaffection Ur his ‘voice ‘a nfrrfin rr oTit-j
the American people are still as intelligent and patriotic ns ev
er, and they have not yet lost sight of his precepts, nor has
the memory of his example been dimmed by lapse of time.
Ilis words, —“The Union must and shall be preserved’’—
meant something more than an empty expression of attach
ment to his country and the constitution ; they were inten
ded to warn all who were conspiring their destruction, that
the attempt would he somewhat hazardous, and to give time
ly caution to his fellow citizens to be on their guard. Such
an attempt at this moment would be fully as perilous to all
concerned in it, as in the life-time of President Jackson, and
the eunnning fellows who think otherwise, will find their mis
take when they put their hands to the wheel of revolution.
The least harm that can happen to them will be to have their
fingers smashed.— N. O. Courier.
Union Candidates lor the State Convention.
llenry.—Dr. Pettit, L. T. Glenn, L. T. Doyal, D. L.
Duffy.
Fayette.— W. R. Fuller, John O. Dickson.
Richmond.— C. J. Jenkins, A. J. Miller, R. F. Poe,
Thomas Skinner.
Hancock.— James Thomas, *Eli 11. Baxter.
Stewart.— Janies Clark, John Williford, Daniel Atkin
son, Sampson Bell.
I pson.— Rev. \\ in. Crawford, Rev. Thomas Flewollen,
Wm. A, Cobb, A. J. M’Afec.
Chatham.— R. R. Cuyler, F. S. Bartow, Whigs; John
E. Ward, Dr. It. D. Arnold, Democrats.
Randolph.— lion. Wm. Taylor, 11. G. Johnson, Esq.,
John Hendrick, Esq., B. 11. Rice, Esq.
Washington.— lt. \V. Flournoy, Wm. Ilall, E. S. Lang
made, John Duggan.
Cobb. — David Irwin, A. J. Hansel, M. G. Slaughter, N.
M. Caulder.
Dekalb. — John Collier, Charles Murphy, Wm. Ezzard,
James M. Calhoun.
Marion. —Thomas Bivins, John G. Stokes.
Clark — Asbury Hull, John Calvin Johnson, B.S. Sheats,
Abraham S. Hill.
Monroe. —A. M. 1). King, Meade Lesueur, James S.
Pinckard, Hiram Phinazee.
W ilkes. —Robert Toombs, Garnett Andrews, L. M. Hill,
J. P. Irvin.
Pike.—Richard White, John R. Jenkins, Andrew J.
Beckom, Henry Smith.
Muscogee. — Alex. McDougald, Thomas F. Wooldridge,
N. L. Howard; Alex. C. Morton.
Cass.— Col. L. Johnson, L. Tumlin, W. Aikin, J. Wof
ford.
Floyd,—J. Walters, E. Ware.
Paulding.—Reese McGrigor, W. F. James.
Green.—W. C. Dawson, T. N. l’aullain, W. D. Weaver,
R. 11. Ward.
Sumter.— W. 11. Crawford, E. R. Brown.
Macon.—Nathan Bryan, W. 11. Robinson.
Crawford. —W. A. Matthews, Dolphin Davis.
Jones. —R. V. Hardeman, Francis B. llaseall.
Decatur. —Richard Sims, J. P. Dickinson.
Mclntosh.— Thomas Spalding, C. 11. Hopkins.
Glynn.— F. M. Scarlett, James Hamilton Couper.
Pulaski. —W. B. Reeves, Norman McDuffee.
Harris—George Cranberry, George ‘Osborn, G. W.
Cobb, Leonard Pratt.
Cherokee— Allen Lawlion, S. C. Dyer, M. Keith, J. R.
Wikle.
Lee —Willis A. Hawkins, Samuel D. Irvin.
Laurens— C. B. Guyton, E. J. Blackshear.
Jackson —Giles Mitchell, S. P. Thurmond.
Oglethorpe— George It. Gilmer, P.W. Hutchinson, Sam
uel Glenn, W. Willingham.
Morgan —Augustus Reese, I. S. Fannin.
Gwinnett -J. P. Simmons, Levi Loveless, T. W. Alex
ander, R. D. Winn.
Crawford —Dr. W. A. Mathews, Rev. O. Davis.
Twiggs—llaywood Hughes, Dr. Thos. J. Johnson.
CW°Gorge Warner, a youth of about 16 years was tried
last week in Baltimore on an indictment charging him with
being the father of a legitimate child, found guilty, and re
manded to jail in default of security for maintaineuce.
11l Sumter COUHty At a meeting of the friends of
the Union of Sumter county, held at the Courthouse this
day, Col. George S. Douglass and John Underwood Esqr.,
were appointed Chairmen, and E. W. Allen reqested to act
as Secretary.
E. R. Brown Esq., explained the object of the meeting,
whereupon Dr. W. W. Barlow, Capt. J. A. S. Turner, and
Wm. Mims, Esq., were appointed to select candidates, to
represent this county in the State Covention, to be held in
Milledgeville on the 10th of December next; which commit
tee reported the names of Wm. 11. Crawford, Esq., and
Edwin R. Brown, Esq., as suitable candidates to represent
us in said Convention, which report was unanimously a
dopted.
On motion the following resolutions were read and adopted
as the Platform of Principles:
1. That while we do not approve entirely of all the Peace
measures which have recently passed Congress, and while we
sanction the votes of our Senators and Representatives in op
position to the admission of California; still we sec, in the
action of Congress, nothing which can be regarded as a vio
lation of the Constitution—nothing which jjAJI require a re
sort to extreme measures, or in which the *vhcannot hon
orably acquiesce.
2. Should Congress at any time exhibit its intention to
war upon our property, or withhold our just constitutional
rights, or refuse to afford us strong and sufficient guaranties
against the encroachments of the North upon the rights of
our property, we stand ready to vindicate those rights, in the
Union as long as possible, and out of the Union when we are
left uo other alternative.
3. Believing, as we do, that either secession or any other
extreme measure, at present, and for existing causes, can on
ly result in mischief to the South, and the cause of our Re
publican institutions, we will support no candidate, for a soat
in the Convention, lately called by the Governor of Georgia,
who does not, publicly and unequivocally, pledge himself to
oppose any and every measure, which may lead, either direct
ly or indirectly,to a dissolution of the Union.
4. In the present struggle between Union and Disunion,
we will forget all past party distinctions and differences, and
in imitation of the Fathers of the Revolution, will rally un
der the flag of our Glorious Union and use our efforts and
best endeavors for its protection and preservation.
The meeting was then addressed at length by Wm. 11.
Crawford, Edwin R. Brown and George M. Dudly, Eeqs.
They exposed the dark designs of tlie disunionists, or fire
eaters, and showed that disunion at this day would ruin the
South, and endanger our slave property to the common de
struction of this vast and prosperous Republic. Tiio remarks
of the Orators were received with great enthusiasm.
On motion, it was ordered that the proceedings be pub
lished in the Journal and Messenger, and the Georgia
Citizen, with a request that other Union papers of tlie State
copy.
GEORGE L. DOUGLASS, ) ,
JOHN W. UNDERWOOD ( m "*
E. W. Allen, Scc'y.
CaimpoiiimuT.
LETTER froan CiUIFFI.\,
Griffin, Oct. 23, 1830.
Dear Doctor:
A grave question has presented itself to my mind, to this
effect : Mho are the Allies of tlie North, if indeed we have
any in the Southern States ? I mean allies of those fanatics
who have ever gloried in trying to interfere with our domes
tic institutions. If 1 understand the object of the Abolition
and Free Soil Parties of the New England States, it is to
demolish the institution of slavery in all States where it ex
ists, and prevent its extension to any Territory that this great
confederacy may acquire. If they had the power and was
to carry out this nefarious plan, the result would bean instan
taneous dissolution of the Union. And this would be noth
ing more than right, so far as the South is concerned. But
they have not the power, and it is to be hoped never will
have. The Disunionists are for “open, unqualified dissolu
tion,” without any pretext. Now 1 should like to be inform
ed if this is not a coalition between the Abolition party of the
North and the secessionists of the South. Will some good
anti-California brother explain this matter tome? They
both go for a dissolution, so where is the difference ? ow.
it is of no use for them to mask themselves behind the term se
cesion ; for this is nothing more nor less than dissolution. The
yeomanry of the country are too enlightened not to know the
meaning of secession ; and the leaders of that party are find
ing it out! When Mr. South Carolina Rhf.tt was in
your city, they cried aloud for DISSOLUTION. In a few
weeks thereafter, you might hear them renouncing that term
and saying they desired nothing but secession. ] low now ?
\\ by they only desire resistance to aggressions. Aggressions!
will any one point out to me any aggression ? Is a constitu
tional Act of Congress an aggression? If so, down with
the Constitution ! So you perceive they have been “ fifty
four-fortying ” it all the while, till they have jumped upon a
term that they cannot explain, for the life of them.
They are pleased to brand us with the epithet of submis
sionists, when, in reality, if there is any submissionists among
us, it is that party who deceitfully call themselves Southern
Rights men'. They, in unison with the Union men of tlie
present day, have uniformly declared themselves in favor of
the doctrine of non-intervention, until the Nashville Conven
tion recommended a different course. They then expressed
a willingness to submit to the line 3G-3G. and to concede the
right to Congress to legislate on the subject of slavery! Is
this not so? if yea, are they not the submissionists prop
er ? This very act of itself is tantamount to “ open and un
qualified submission.” The South will never recognize this
right in Congress. If we do, those who are adverse to the
institution of slavery will forever be knocking at the Congress
Hall with their abolition petitions, and it eventually will re
sult in the most disastrous consequences!
The people of McDonough, (Henry county.) were favored
with political speeches from quite a number of orators during
Court the last week. The most important speeches perhaps
that were made were between Col. Hailey, of Butts, and
Judge Cox, of our “burg.” The Col. is for dissolution and
the Judge for tlie Union ! Both Democrats. Judge Cox to
tally and successfully confuted every argument that Col. Bai
ley advanced in favor of dissolution. It is said that a more
thrilling and eloquent speech bad never been made in Mc-
Donough than was delivered by the Judge in favor of the
Union. Henry county will give a majority of from four to
five hundred in favor of the Union. Pike will give 10 or 50
majority for the Union. A.A.B.
LETTER from COLUTIBUS.
Columbus, October 28, ISSO.
Dear Sir. —l trust you will not deem me an intruder when
I take the liberty of addressing you from this quarter of our
State. There was a glorious meeting of the friends of the
Union, on Saturday evening last, such a meeting perhaps,
in point of intelligence and worth, never before convened in
our midst.
Our immediate Representative, the lion, Marshall J.
Wellborn, addressed the assemblage, in a discourse four
hours in length, and clearly, and I think, conclusively, proved
that the course he pursued at the National Capital, was right
and nothing but right. \
He supported his course by the strongest Democratic doc-N
trine advanced by such departed patriots and distinguished
Statesmen, as Jefferson, Madison and Polk; and when he
interrogated the audience, a portion of whom were disunion
ists, if he had done right, only two voices were heard de
nouncing his votes on the different measures laid before the
past Congress. I said that two voices denounced his con
duct, and one of those who spoke, was a stripling as green
as his age. The other was a hot-headed fanatic of the Fire
eating school, whose wealth exceeds his wisdom. You can
infer from the number of opposers, that Judge Wellborn was
well sustained, for all he did whilst officiating in behalf of
our people.
Every measure was taken up separately by the speaker and
explained in sueh a manner, that not to be convinced he had
done his duty, was to admit you possessed no understanding;
and that you would not be convinced by truthful argument
delivered in a calm and heartfelt stream of unostentatious el
oquence.
The audience was the most interested one I ever saw as
sembled in Concert Hall, and during the four hours consumed
by the speaker, Ido not think that twenty persons left the
room.
A great many of our adopted citizens were present, and it
gave them unfeigned joy to cheer their representative for his
fearless, straight-forward, and manly action, in the conflicts in
which he gallantly fought. The blarney of a certain Edi
tor in this city, had no weight with them ; and I call assure
you by the information I have received from the most reliable
sources, that our adopted citizens (with a few exceptions),
are for the Union ; and that they hurl their contempt on the
authors of such unblushing, contemptible words of persua
sion, as have been advanced by disunion journals.
V\ e can promise the friends of the Union in other parts of
the State that Old Muscogee will do her duty and she will at
the same time teach traitors never more to attempt to des
troy a government, that they cannot replace by a better one.
The Union candidates are men of undoubted character,
patriotism and integrity, and will honor the people they rep
resent in the Convention.
The disunion papers here feignedly rejoice at the Union
nomination, and display their trite and thread-bare witticisms
upon the character and talents of their opposing candidates.
The years of Judge Morton docs not prevent him from be
ing of use to the people; and I think the disunionists will
have their ranks raked by his cannon, although they may
deem him of light calibre! Even if the Union candidates
were weak men of Lilliputian size and intellect, (which they
are not) they would then be strong enough to overcome the
disunionist host.
Judge Alex. C Morton, Col. Alex. M’Dougald, Nicholas
L. Howard and T. F. WoolriJge, Esqrs., are well known to
their immediate section as men who are in every way worthy
of the confidence of the voters of Muscogee; and I trust
every man in whose bosom the fire of liberty yet burns, will
go to the polls, and give the Union candidates an overw hel
ming majority over their Disunion opponents. When the
ballot box has to be resorted to to quell the fury of fanaticism
it is requisite and politic that the fanatics should meet with
repulsion only equalled by their folly and madness.
Hereabouts, those who once gloried in the prospective dis
solution of this Confederacy of confederacies, are leaving the
ground they have occupied heretofore, because of the same
reason for which they first assumed it, which is, it will not
put them into office. Although they outwardly appear to
give up dissolution as a dead hobby, yet they have it at heart,
and if the men of the vaunted-socession-resistance-South
ern-Rights-P-a-r-t-y get into office by this ruse, they will act
out the principles they have at heart.
Voters of Muscogee! upon your faithful attendance at
the polls depends the honor of our country. Let it not be
recorded on the pages of history that we have proved recre
ant to the Union hallowed by the blood of our forefathers!
Come then to the polls; and bear in mind the sage advice of
that distinguished philosopher Seneca : “The greater the e
vil, the greater the virtue in overcoming it.”
On Saturday next Messrs. Toombs and Stefiievs will
address the people of this section, and 1 can prophecy a full
attendance on the occasion. I shall, perhaps, give you a few
items concerning the meeting if any thing ot interest tran
spires on the occasion worthy of note.
I hope that Judge Wellborn will pay the citizens es your
city a visit, and if he does, and if the Fire-eaters in your midst
will listen to his honest logic, I am sure that the cause of the
Union will not require more supporters, and that our sister
cityMaeon will never more be the hotbed of mobocraey.
The business of our city at present is in a flourishing con
dition. Cotton is rolling in freely, and the planters are get
ting princely prices for their produce. Cotton is selling free
ly to-day from twelve to twelve and a half cents per pound.
Corn is in demand at eighty cents per bushel. Flour sells
readily at §lO per barrel, and the market is nearly bare of
the article. Bacon is very high also; and if any planter
wishes to get large prices for either of the above named ar
ticles, let him bring it to our city.
The river is very low —too lnw r even for onr lightest
draft boats to ply with any tiling like compensating cargoes.
The Chattalwochee will be supplied this winter with the best
steamboat facilities it overbad. The steamers are command
ed by men experienced in all matters pertaining to business
and navigation.
Up to this date we have had three successive frosts which
will prevent the cotton hereabouts from growing any more;
therefore the crop in this region can be calculated upou as a
short one.
The Factories are in full operation, and their manufac
tures sell freely, at living and profitable prices.
’ ViTlieJtealt.'i of our city, up to this time, continues gixxl. j
Yours ftuly, COLUMBUS, j
LETTER from COLUMBUS.
COLUMBUS, Oct., 2-1, 1850.
Dear Doctor: —After a considerable la|>se of time, I again
with feelings of pleasure, resume the pen of correspondence.
Your Paper at this time is held in greater repute and occu
pies a higher place in the estimation of the people, than at
any previous time since the issue of your first number, and
for the future, if you still pursue the patriotic and gentleman
ly course you have marked out, (and I know you will ) rest
assured, that a host of friends are always ready and willing
to give you their support.
The position occupied by the “Citizen” relative to the
great political subjects of the day, is one that breathes of
“love of country” and “purity of motives,” and any
movement, to prove to the contrary, by garbling simple facts,
would be treated with scorn and Contempt and receive on
ly its just.due. Y\ ith us. your paper has a large circulation
both in the city and country and‘h* amount of good it has
effected cannot be estimated, but remains with the “constitu
tion-loving and law-abiding” people of old Muscogee, to put
the proper valuation thereon , and lam satisfied they will do
so. Great ams gaseous attempts have been made by the
demagogues to frighten Old Sam into measures from the
very opening of the campaign until now, but the tail of his
old blue coat is worn to too great a smoothness to admit of a
disunion plaster sticking thereto. Immeasurable quantities
of “loud thunder and linked lightening” had been hurled
upon his bald pate, and the admirable manner in which he
has withstood these mighty discharges is well worthy of
commendation. A large number of his old friends were un
fortunately committed to disunion before they had ever in
vestigated, properly, both sides of the subject, and to make
bad worse, they redouble the force of their kicks, but not
like the fable of old, the siek lion, with a deep howl, sharp
teeth and a curled tail, chases the asses with a perfect whiz
and plays the wild with the short-winded.
A few short weeks ago, one would have thought the
friends of the Union were both socially and politically and <l,
and we were advised to shut up shop and emigrate hut
now like a magic metamorphose their opinions have changed
and disunionists are worth a premium. The greater the
supply the less the price—the less the supply the greater the
price,, is taught • the school-boys of the present generation,
and a better illustration of the truth of the argument could
be found no where than in the present state of the feelings
of our citizens The precepts and doctrines which have
been handed down tons from our immortal fore-lathers, who
lived in the times “that tried men’s souls,” have been dif
fused throngh our systems and the coming election will prove
that the patriotic blood is not adulterated or corrupted, but is
as pure as the original.
The disunion meeting of last week was addressed hy a
saintly looking old gentlemen, who commenced with the land
ing of the “Puritans” and reached captain Tyler's adminis
tration when my informant left. llis geographical, histori
cal and political powers were developed in such glowing col
ors and did so much execution, that the friends of the Union
preite thought seriously of closing doors and hanging their
harpsVupon the nearest willows. One more effort from him,
of the eitine sort, will make him a statesman. The streets
of our city this time present quite a stirring aspect, the
business having fairly commenced. The best and
finest stocks of godds ever brought to Columbus are here
now, —the prospectsbusiness especially being bright.
The Agrieultural|FairX the 15th Nov - wil!bea mi'a
ture edition of the (great Ctjmrndagua, great preparations
being now made to jearry out objects of the Society.
An appropriate feature of the programme is the silver prize
cup to be awarded by the society to thVauthor of the best
song, tho song to be devoted to the Plough,' r and An
vil. The Georgia verse-makers can now Ita eeV. 1 >rtuui
ty of displaying their gifts of nature and like immoroL By
ron, some lucky fellow will “wake up and find himselNjj
motts” i. e. in this section of country. The young people aV
bout town have got i* a terriblo notion of matrimony lately
and broom-jumpings have become so frequent that tho mem
bers of our Bachelor dlub think them yaite common. To all
however who renounce the life of single blessedness and
splice themselves oft to a better half we wish every j,, I
blejoy and success. May their years bests of) j
liarmony and happiness, and may all the comforts ||
theirs, not forgetting the little * ||
“Oncy, doney, rogey, pogeys,
Tw eetest tugey tineys.”
Y ™ r8 > UNCLE Tolly
<ll)£ Georgia Citiifn, 1
I- r. W. AXDREWS, IMilnr.
MACON, C.V, NOV. ;!, IS*-I
IMO\ TRW, FOR Bltfjjl
Washington Poe. f
Robt. foil ins.
A. P. Powers, |
Whs. Scott.
Inioa .Wen Attention!
The Hon. Howell Cobb will address the citizens of ]
and adjacent counties at Hardeman'g A>;r Fire Proof If,,
house, on Tuesday next, nth of Novemb r, at H o u_l
A, M. ‘ * 1 ’
We say to onr city and country friends— by aside
ness for one day, and come up to hear the words of WIU ; 1!U)
from the month of this distinguished Georgian. Co* lc snokt
us have a little “Mass Meeting” sneh as our opponents Hal
here, on the 2“d A ngu.-t. The county of Bibb and
districts, within three or four hours’ ride of Macon can ia *.’
•)’ cuine to h.wn, Tuesday morning, hear Mr. Cobb, and re
Turn home before night. Come one—come all!
‘‘Come from your cabins, come,
From mountain, stream and valley,
As your fathers came when the stiringdrum
And the war-cry, bade them rally.”
Masonic (■ r.tnd Lodgr of (icorjia,
The Annual Communication of this body took
place in this city, on 1 uesday last, and continued in
session until Thursday evening. A large number of
Kepresentati ves were in .attendance and present'd
a very imposing spectacle on Thursday when about
two hundred ot the ancient and honorable Fraterni
ty walked in procession to the PresbyterianCbtudi,
to li-ten to the Annual Address by li. \Y. Bro., A,
G. Mackey, of South Carolina. Os this juidren I
w e are not prepared to speak, as we were prevented I
hearing it, by a pressure ot business engagement*. 1
It is, however, spoken ot, as a chaste and instructiu I
performance, and will, probably,be published.
Ihe Grand Communication was presided over It 1
1L \V. Deputy Grand Master, \Y. S. Hock we ll|n tile I
absence of the It. \Y. Grand Master, Win. C. l>aw- J
son. We noticed, also, that Deputy Grand Mrwfrr* jl
Hunter, Uoojror, and Poddy Were present, Grid*-* 9
many other distinguished . £ri >m tverr J
pmt of the State. } |
Several subjects of much importance claimed tin* 9
attention ot the Grand Lodge, among which that of I
Education by means of a Masonic College or Hjjrh 9
School; was not the least interesting. \Y U hdr- I
1 stand that after a full and free discussion, the in.it- I
ter was laid over indefinitely.
1 he Grand Secretary informs us that there were I
twenty-six newt barters granted at this Grand Com- I
niutiication, and that the Order is in a tlourisliiiy I
condition.
j 1 lie following are the Officers elected for the on- I
suing Masonic year.
■G. Dawso.v, Grand Master.
Ml m. S. Rockw ell, -j
Timothy Follow, l lx _ , „
A. A. Gai lding, f'’ ° rand Mastcw ’
J. F. COOI'UR, J
W. R. Kitchen, G. S. W.: D. E. Butler, G. J . W.;
jJ.E. \v dls, <r. TA NARUS.; Simri Rose, G. S.; L. C. Simp
j son, G. S. 1).; K. J. T. Little, G. J. 1).; Kev.W.
Ilh Matthews, Grand Ghajdaia; \V. R. Rowrn,
! Grand Marshal; G. E. F. \\‘. Campbell, S. A. Bor
ders, Joseph A. Fanning, Grand Stewards; E.C-
Ilubbell, Grand I’ursuivant; Titos. A. Harris, Grind
Tyler.
“Subnissionists.”
The “Fire-eaters” and “Disunionists” have bnt one
I word of argument or the appearance of argument to offer in
reply to their oft confessed designs of revolutionising the g’V-
I ernment They stand committed to disunion and finding
| that this will not take with the people for the cause allege 1—
’ the admission of California—they are resorting to even’ to*
moans of misrepresentation to prejudice the public mint -
| gainst the Union candidates for the Convention, hy declaring
them submissionists , to the last extremity, to anv aggression
which the North may choose to inflict upon the Sonth.
So far from this being the case, the reverse is the fad.
The platform of the Bibb County “Union and Southern
• Rights Party” expressly states :
“Thatshould Congress at any time exhibit sis |.:t>w “
j war upon oar property, or withhold oar just
rights, tve stand ready to vindicate those rights, in ?b • (* “
aslong as possible, and out of the Union wln w •/- left f’ \
other alternative. We repel the idea that we nn- kbbone
sionists or that we have any sympathies with th-rMiuM
j Southern Rights.” ‘ ’ V
This is clear, unequivocal and explicit. TlxwifV oppmtd
> secession or dissolution , for existing cans's. -the Ini s
| men of Bibb county and the State are ict Snbmissiosistt- \
j They areas ready to defend Southern Rights - in the I'm n
or out of the Union” as any of their ornaments, Let w ]
Union man therefore falter in his support of :h<- Union Tkk
et, through fear of the abject submission of the candidate j
or the party, to Northern aggression. Tin* idea is gro*!/
absurd, that the gentlemen conqxwing the Union Tkh* j
would, for a moment, submit to any outrage upon the rights> f I
the South. They will demand of the North a full observant I
in good faith, of all the late enactments of Congress—*'l I
should the Northern States nullify the Fugitive Slav# Bill I
—they will be prepared, with heart and soul, to unite wi'& I
the whole Southern people, in EFFECTIVE RESIST- I
ANCE to encroachments upon onr constitutional rights— i
“IN THE UNION,” as long as possible, but “OUT Or ■
THE UNION,’’ if no other altcrnative-vtban submission * 1
presented for our acceptance. This is the position on whid |
the Lniou Ticket stands, and they are base, designing d* 3 ’
derers, who, in the face of the public avowals made by
Union men of Bibb county, and endorsed by the Union
of the State, wili persist in charging that wo arc SUBMIT’
SIONISTS, perse , or will prove recreant to the honor.™!
interest of the South, when all honorable means of
adjustment of differences prove unavailing.
The people of the North are also solemnly admonish'*!
of the laet, tliat there are no submissionists in the South ’
mong the friends of the Union, bat that the resistance of
fldje Northern peqple.U>4ko'Fugitive Slave Law will as ord'.
leaotk in the South and a dwsoMk>n 01
the UnHk*nag-that the Sun shines in the Heavens-’
think thyfc tan be no mistake in this prediction. M e
