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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