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ty and which utters not one word of remonstrance at
the election of oppressors, and the servants of op
pressors, to place of civil power.
In the Quattlebum proceedings we find the fol
lowing resolution :
Resolved , That in view of the consequences
which must follow the aggressive measures against
the South, which Congress has lately passed, it be
comes us, as a people, to humble ourselves before
Almighty God, and seek divine aid and counsel.
And to that end, we request his Excellency. Gov.
Seabrook, to set apart a day of Fasting, Humilia
tion and Prayer, on which he may invite the peo
ple of our. State to unite their prayers and supplica
tions for that wisdom from on High which may di
rect their steps in the present emergency.
Both factions are going to unite in prayer to Al
mighty God for a little “wisdom from on High” to
“direct their steps.” We have never known an
occasion where wisdom was scarcer or more needed !
A day of fasting, humiliation and prayer is just the
thing.— Raleigh Times.
Ciirmipnfanrr.
LETTER from COLUHBIS.
COLUMBUS, Nov. 16,1850.
Dear Sir: On Monday the 11th instant, it would have
teemed to a stranger that Martial law was the order of the
City—but it happened, fortunately for some of our carcasses,
that there was naught but the tapping of the drum and the
sound of the shrill fife. The first gun is yet to be fired.
There were many strangers from abroad, and the Fire-eaters
took the advantage of the compromise that the announced
debate between Mr Toombs and the Salamanders should not
goon. Mr. Toombs aceeeded to this, as it was the earnest
desire of the public at large. It was however announced in
the city and as far out of it as carriers could take it, by
hand-bills, that the “Giraffe,” would hold forth, which he
did (“determined to obey orders if he broke owners’') to a
few convened in the Temperance Ilall, and strange to say they
broke through the compromise before the ink they signed
with wa3 dry. The Revd. Senator told them many things
that never were and never would be, except he could, by some
tort of legerdemain, make it so, which is as probable as see
ing an alligator fly. The little boys with sticks and boards
in each hand rewarded him for his efforts, and many a laugh
was spent on the occasion. Lord Johu, who is to be the
Chamberlain, has got back to that last state which all men
fill twice in a life. It is wonderful that the Senator has nev
er yet told the people how it was that he voted for the treaty
annexing California and other Mexican territories with the
Mexican laws against slavery in it, and thus making it the
supreme law of the land. A man is a knave who knows the
right and yet pursues the wrong, or a fool if he does not
know it. On this occasion there were no coffins furnished,
no cannons cast, no bullpts moulded, their threats are
laughed at, aud their attempts are all failures. There are
many amongst them who try to imitate a Walker or a May,
in appearance and feeling, whiskered and dictatorial, “but
those who cannot imitate must ape.”
The b’hoys here have not got their consent yet, to exchange
the ballot-box for the cartridge-box, nor to take the name of
Aliens in this great Republic. Nor are they disposed to tear
up the constitution, until they find men more loving, more
honest, and more capable than either the nobility of this place
or the Smith, alias Burn-up Rhett, of Quattlebum ; for surely
a man who so dishonored his father and mother as to sell his
name for three hundred baboon negroes is unworthy to be
trusted with the rights of the people.
The Court has been adjourned until the next regular term,
which was strictly legal and prudent, according to the cir
cumstances.
The Fire-eaters are moving briskly, but the breezes which
they fill their sails with, to waft them to their wished for har
bor, will leave them hard up on a reef or a shoal, a total
wreck. The Union is right side up in Muscogee!
Respectfully yours Arc. LOOKER-ON.
LETTER from COLiUBIS.
COLUMBUS, SovT 18;
Dear Doctor : Your able Citizen is more anxiously look
ed for by the gentry as well as nobility of these parts, than
any other paper of the State. It comes always freighted
with the choicest of intellectual food, rich and spicy, breath
ing indeed a chaste independence in all things, and neutrali
ty in nothing. A few items of political occurrence during
these exciting times and of this peculiarly excitable place, may
not be uninteresting. Well to commence.
The Ex-Clerical Senator Walter T. is sojourning in our
midst, and is certainly an aptus omnibus. First Lawyer,
then Preacher, then Senator from our Southern Empire
State, and last but least, at present, Pot-house politician,
seeking favor and popularity from the small fry, to destroy,
by their vote, the great Institutions of the Model Republic.
He was last seen with fat Jimmy the Butcher, expatiating
most vehevently against the free institutions of his country,
not a great ways north of Kit's Gin Palace. And as Kiv
is the man that keeps always on hand much of the spirit, it
might have been that his Reverence had been participating.
Be that as it may, he was certainly imparting his spirit (if
not Kiv’s) to an eager and gaping crowd, which judging
from their appearance would make a recherche regiment of
Grenadiers with loaded musket on one shoulder, coffin on
the other, to ride over the constitution forsooth ! just to have
a showing at the and n Yankees. How unworthy such
conduct in a professed follower of the meek and lowly God
man. What! to doff his clerical robe and assume the scarlet
one of a reckless Red-hot, pot-house politician. Docs he
not in this attitude, resemble that roaring lion of which he
surely read, going about seeking whom he might politically
devour ? On dit, that the Ex-Clerical Senator is to be con
stituted the quasi Republican Emperor of this about to be
newly-organized confederacy. I trust whenever the reins of
Empire shall be passed over into his hands that his reign
may be remarkable in the annals of future events for its wis
dom justice, and moderation. May the Supreme Disposer
of men and things in such a contingency, so temper his pres
ent blazorious spirit, that history, on detailing the compara
tive merit of the long lino of noble Emperors of this noble
Southern Republic, may chronicle the fact, that Walter the
Ist., during his whole reign never executed even a single U
nion man.
My Lord John clique is still master of the Times, and from
his editorials, one might suppose he was living under a Ty
rany and that Draco-like he wrote in letters of blood. Can
the man be mad, or, does his ambition aspire to a Charge
ship under the regiment of the New Republic for services
rendered ?
Ah John, John Forsyth, “qua: te dementia cepit ? ”
Talent he certainly possesses in an eminent degree, and his
pen deserves the opposite cause. Jacobinnieal as Robespierre, ’
revolutionary as Mirabeau, nature seems to have cut him out i
par excellence for the Mountain party of this Paris of Geor- i
gia. His great fault seems to consist in the commission of
faux pas , and then a desperate attempt to bolster them up at
the expense of that consistency, of which he unjustly accu
ses poor little Elic and Robert Ilamilear.
Poor C —wants to be considered not in the rear, in
trying to demolish a government which secures life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness, and from the sorter blistering
editorials against the constitution of his country, one might
imagine that his mother was not aware that he was out and
learning too “to despise the Union and hate the Yankees as
Hell itself.”
Little Boys should not learn to curse
For if they do they will grow worse and worse.
Wonder if those specs could have imparted any of their
greenish tint to the mind within.
Compared to these revolutionary and anarchical sheets
how preeminently great docs the Enquirer stand. Like the
huge pyramid of the desert, with the Constitution and U
nion for its broad base, it rises in splendid beauty far above
the dust of cliques and factions, until its head is elevated in
the pure atmosphere of patriotism, and as if communing
with the immortal spirits of the immortal dead of our coun
try, it points out the evils of dissolution and sends forth to
the world its saving motto “no North, no South, no East, no
West.”
Surely, Doctor, these are revolutionary times, and had I
not a better opinion of the intelligence of my State I should
be induced to think that a crisis was approaching which led a
Roland to the Guilotine when she exclaimed “ah .’ liber ti
quees maux sonteommis en totre nom .”
At all events we should watch and pray, for surely the
Devil is in our midst.
Yours for our country in general, and the Union in
PARTICULAR.
LETTER from PALmETTODOM.
Spartanburgii, C. 11. Nov. 15, 1850.
Dear Citizen : W r ith heart elate I seat myself to inform
you that this glorious old Union has found two advocates in
our, so called, “Disunion State.” I speak of two papers a
bout to be started at Greenville C. 11. Yes, tlie soul of a
Marion, a Sumter, and a Jasper, though dead, still live.
South Carolina has her patriots yet, and tho patriotic spirits
that have long slumbered within her confines aro beginning
to arouse, “to do noble deeds of daring valor.” Messrs.
Perry A Elford, are the Editors of one of the papers of which
I speak, and Mr. J. Powel, of the other. Our hearts are
with them—we wish them success. Go on, gentlemen,
you’re in a-noble cause. KRATA REPOA.
JNft
<?\)C Cn’ovqia Citizen.
L. F. W. AXOItEWS, Editor.
MACON, GA., NOV, 23. 1850.
IM TICKET, FOR 8188 CO,
Washington Poc,
Itobt. Collins,
A. P. Powers,
Win. Scott.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
New York, November 22nd., lOo’clok A. M.
The Steamship “Niagara” just arrived with dates from
Liverpool, to the 9th inst. Cotton had declined 1-Sto l-4d,
with sales of 25,000 Bales. Fair Mobile, quoted at 7 3-4d.
To Correspondents.-“Pinckney” on file for in
sertion, next week. Several other communications
laid over, for examination.
Election Returns.-We desire to receive Elec
tion Returns from all parts of the State, as soon as
possible. Will our friends see to it promptly ? We
will reciprocate the favor, with interest.
Fine Brandy.—ls people will drink liquor, let
them get a pure article, such as Mr. Damour always
keeps. Our family Physician has tested a bottle of
his Brandy, and pronounces the same very superi
.or:. ... ‘
The Nashville Convention.-- So Tnany contra
dictory stathments have reached us regarding the
late meeting of this body, that we know not what is
the truth of the matter. Some accounts state that
the Convention broke up in a row, on the 18th, and
adjourned sink dtk, having adopted Union Resolu
tions : other dispatches announce that there was no
row, that the convention again met on the 19th,
and passed Disunion Resolutions and recommended
a Congress of Southern States, at Montgomery, Ala.
The first statement is corroborated by a gentleman
of Savannah, who arrived here direct from Nashville
evening before last, who declares that they did
break up in a row. And this is further confirmed
by Mr. Rhett, himself, on his way down the Rail
Road, who declared to Mr. Churchhill of Tenn. that
a considerable ROAV did occur, and that a strong
demonstration was made by the spectators, in the
gallery, against the proceedings ? Sic transit gloria
mundi !
w—aa——
Splitting Tickets.
The man who votes a split Ticket, on Monday,
would “sell his birthright for a mess of pottage.” It
would be quite as well for him to stay at home and
suck his paws, as to neutralize his own suffrage, in
that way. ’Tis a device of the wicked Disunionists
to destroy a Union vote against them. ’Tis a trick,
a cheat, an imposition —disgraceful to those who pro
pose and those who are duped into the measure.
Our Candidates and their Principles.
w c are called submissionists and our candidates are de
clared by tho Fire Eaters to bo ready to give up every thing
to Northern cupidity and insolence. But how stands the
matter ? What man of sense can suppose that Dr. Robert
Collins and Col. A. P. Powers, the extensive owners of
slaves, arc more willing to submit to wrong on the slavery
question, than Charles Collins and John Rutherford who own
none to speak of? Who can suppose that Mr. Rutherford
whose most intimate associations are of Northern tendencies,
is a better Union man than either Dr. Collins or Col. Powers ?
Or who can imagine that Leroy Napier is any better South
ern man than Wm. Scott or Col. Poc, because ho chooses to
educate his children at the North instead of at home ? We
ask these questions, because it has been said, by the Bibb
Disunionists, that Col. Powers and Dr. Collins are submis
sionists and will not stand square yp to the interests of the
South in any and every emergency. We are authorized to
say that these gentlemen are pledged to resistance, not for
existing causes, but for the following reasons :
1. When the fugitive slave bill is repealed or rendered in
effectual ;
2. When a State is refused admittance because its consti
tion admits slavery;
5. When slavery is abolished in the District of Columbia
against tho will of Maryland.
4. When Congress attempts to regulate the slave trade
between the States ;
5. When Congress interferes with slavery iu the States ;
or,
C. VI hen it imposes the Wilmot Proviso nn tho Territo
ries.
On this platform, the Union Candidates of Bibb, one and
all will stand or fall—all rumors and reports to the contrary,
notwithstanding.
Baker Count y Candidates.— g. w. collier and
John Colley, candidates for the Convention from Baker
county, thus publicly avow themselves in the Albany Patriot.
It they are honest in their professions, they will be good
enough Union men for us:
W e are opposed to disunion or secession for any existing
causes, and on this question, if elected, we will vote in the
negative. We do not think the admission of California j usti
iPlble ground of secession or dissolution. We are strongly in
favor of the Union, and would be pleased to acquiesce in any
matter that might promote the interests of the whole Union ;
yet we sliall vote for any Constitutional measure which in
our opinion would prepare the State to meet future aggres
sion by the North.”
H ■ €!? M ®lf I S M o
TO THE POLLS! TO THE POLLS!!
We have a few “ last words ” to our readers, iu, view of
the fact that this is our last issue before the opening of the
polls, the closing of which will bring weal or woe to our be
loved State. It is not to be denied tlxat on the result of the
election on Monday next, hang, as it were by a thread, the
destinies of this mighty Commonwealth and her sisterhood of
States. If the men elected to the Convention are safe, pru
dent counsellors —men of mature intellects and sound discre
tion, who have an abiding love for the Constitutional Union
of the Confederacy, the laws of the land and republican doc
trines of our revolutionary fathers, wc have no fears that the
approaching Convention will not sustain the honor of our
people and perpetuate the blessings of government which
we now enjoy.
But if those of a contrary part are returned to that body
—men “pledged to disunion,” until a few days or weeks
past —men of reckless character and ultra opinions—men of
factious spirit and unprincipled motives—who would delight
in blood and carnage, and who talk of a bloody coffin line,
as a desirable adjustment of difficulties among brethren and
kiusinen—desperate men who would “rather reign in hell
than serve in heaven”—why then we may prepare to num
ber the days of our political prosperity, and, in sackcloth and
ashes, to bewail the doom of desolation and blight which will
surely be decreed against us as a free and independent peo
ple. These at least are our solemn convictions, aud we, there
fore, beg leave to make this our last appeal to men of all clas
ses, andto suggest a few thoughts lor their remembrance, and
perchance guidance, when about to exercise their glorious
privilege of freemen at the Ballot Box, on Monday.
BE IT THEN REMEMBERED, that the admission of
California, the only existing ground for the call of the Con
vention, was in accordance with the universally acknowledged
principles of all parties in the South, two years ago, and espe
cially of the Democratic party of Georgia, iu Convention re
sembled.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that the Secessionists, Resist
ants aud ultras of every name are Disunionists and nothing
else, which name they now deny, but to cajole the people out
of their votes.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that if a majority of these men
gain by any means seats in the Convention, they will commit
the State and people to dissolution as sure as the Sun shines
in tho heavens.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that if such an event is re
solved on by that body, for existing causes, civil war and all
its horrors will be the fate of this now happy people, and the
blood of kindred will flow down the streets, as marked the
period of the French Revolution, in the days of Danton,
Marat and Robospiere.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that the Institution of Slavery
will then be hemmed in by a wall of fire on the one hand and
a sea of storm on the other—with no safety to it except in
close confinement within thelinuts of the States, unless oth
er States on our Northern border, will join us, (which is not
probable) in establishing a Southern Confederacy.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that should the Disunionists
succeed in their nefarious schemes to destroy the Union, the
problem of man’s capability for self government and for sus
taining republican institutions is solved unfavorably to the
hopes of millions of the human race and to tho joy of des
pots and tyrants wherever known of men.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that the South American Re
publics are in g a state of anarchy and confusion, because of the
ambition of their unruly spirits, who would not rest until they
had given the world example of the evils attendant upon
disunion among themselves, that other republics might
take the warning and avoid the calamity which lias trodden
their people in the dust, and kept them there, for years.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that our Fathers of the Revo
lution were men and patriots of the most Godlike character,
and that if their glorious work of a free government is madly
destroyed by their degenerate children, the time will never
come, when another Model Republic like that of the United
States, can be erected on its ruins.
Patriots and friends of peace and of tho Union, what say
you ? Arc you ready for these momentous issues ? Do you
prefer the ballot-box to the cartridge-box, as the arbiter of
your destinies ? If so, do your duty, on Monday, and all is
safe. Let every friend of the Union devote the day to the
cause. Let no vote be lost, under the idea that one vote is
for on ij, may .■“v'-tisG. cee;’
of the Union Ticket and the political salvation of the pi^Jfe.
To our adopted fellow citizens, also, we would say, finally,
BE IT REMEMBERED by every man of you, that
not longer ago than the 22d of August, in this city, you were
denounced as “d—d Irish,” Dutch, German, Ac. who were
like the “and and Yankees,” intruders upon Southern soil,
because of your supposed opposition to disunion. Remember
this insult put upon you, by the speakers at the mass meeting
of the disunionists on that occasion, and give such answer at
the ballot-box, on Monday, as will become you, as adopted
citizens, who, in your oath of naturalization, have sworn alle
gianco to the government of the Union.
A Word to the Democrats.— Wc ask the atten
tion of our democratic friends to the following facts : Ist.
In December, 1847, the Democracy of Georgia, in convention
assembled, adopted the subjoined Resolution :
“ Resolved, That the people of the South Jo not ask of
Congress to establish the institution of slavery in any territo
ry that may be acquired by the United States. They simply
require that the inhabitants of each Territory shall be left free
to determine for themselves whether the institution of slave
ry sliall or shall not form a part of their social system.”
2d. In June of the next year, they re-affirmed their faith
in the following :
“ Resolved, That the opinions of the Democracy of Geor
gia, on the question of slavery iu the territories, were correct
ly set forth in the resolutions of the late Democratic Conven
tion at Milledgcville, in December last, which declares that
‘ the people of the South do not ask Congress to establish the
institution of slavery in any of the territories that may bo ac
quired by the United States. They simply require that the
inhabitants of each territory shall be left free to determine for
themselves whether the institution of slavery shall or shall not
form a part of their social system.’ ”
3d. On the principles here laid down the Democratic Press
and party went into the contest for the Presidency, nnd gave
to Gen. Cass their hearty support. 11 is letter to Mr. Nichol
son was the text book of the party, and that letter avowed tho
same principle of non-intervention.
4th. Subsequently, Mr. Calhoun offered the following reso
lution in the Senate of the United States:
“ Resolved, That it is a fundamental principle in our po
litical creed, that a people, in forming a constitution, have the
unconditional right to form and adopt the government which
they may think best to secure their liberty, prosperity, and
happiness; and that, in conformity thereto, no other condi
tion is imposed by the federal constitution on a State in order
to be admitted into this Union, except that its constitution
shall be republican; aud that the imposition of any other by
Congress, would not only bo iu violation of the constitution,
but in direct conflict with the principle on which our political
system rests.”
sth. California has been admitted a State on the identical
principle which the Democratic party have always advocated,
that the people of a Territory havo tho right, when about
to form a State Constitution to introduce or prohibit slavery,
as may seem good unto them.
6th. Had California chosen to introduce Slavery—no South
ern man would have, for a moment, thought of objecting to her
admission as a State, but would have had just cause for seeking
redress in measures of disunion or otherwise, if she had been
refused admittance.
Now, brother 1 )emocrats, are not all those undeniable
facts? How then has it come about, that so many of our
party have been led away from their principles, and now re
pudiate the doctrines which they all advocated two years ago ?
How happens it that Colquitt, Bcnning, McDonald nnd a few
other leaders of the party have started such treasonable doc
trines, as dissolution or secession, because Congress lias
done precisely that ( and no more,) which they clamored for
in 1847 and 1848 ? And why is it, that the Democratic Un
ion men of Georgia, of whom we gave a long list, but very in
complete one, in our kvst paper, are denounced as submission
ists and traitors, because they will not change with the dis
union portion of the demooraoy and prove recreant, as these
latter have done, to their time-honored principles ? Demo
crats? This is no time to allow the Robespierres of party to
ride into power, on the whirlwind of an excitement which
they havo artfullly raised, for the purpose of their own self
aggrandizement! What are yon, men of the rank and file,
to gain by voting for disunion men and secession men to go
to the Convention? Wherein are the masses of the people
the honest yeomanry —the strong-armed mechanic and
tb ‘ wealthy planter to be benefitted by all this noise and agi
t; on? Are not our people generally, as prosperous and
happy as they ever were ? Is not our noble old Common
wealth advancing rapidly in her career of improvement? —
Why then dash all these blessings to the ground and destroy
all present good in the revengeful chase after imaginary evils
and in vain hope of greater good beyond the murky cloud
and howling storm of dissolution ? It is a senseless, suicidal
course for sane men to pursue. Go, then, fellow citizens, of
whatever name \ Go to the polls on Monday next and save
yourselves from the threatened calamities, by voting for the
tried and faithful men on the Union Ticket, and agams; all
disorgauizers, Jaeobius aud traitors.
The Hypocrisy of the Disunionists.— The Con
stitutional Union of Marietta has very efficiently shown that
the profe&sionss, of the “ Advocate,” of love for the Union of
the States, are on a par with the Devil’s love for “ holy wa
j ter.” The Advocate has published the following as his own
sentiment:
“ The Union cannot be saved. It is not worth the saving
though it could be done by turning on one’s heel. It is a con
federacy of sections, not of States,—their bonds of affection
are all burnt away, and the passions that have swept on this
consuming course, now form an impassable gulf between
them. No earthly power can save this Confederacy from
j dissolution.”
To which the Constitutional Union replies in the annexed
| pertinent manner:
“ Does he expect to 1 blow hot and cold ’ both in the same
paper, telling the people that this Union ‘is not worth the
saving, though it could be done by turning on one’s heel,’
and then crying out, ‘ I am no disunionist?’
They ‘ are not disunionists,’ yet their papers teem with
abuse of the Union. They dare not avow themselves disun
ionists, but they can promulgate sentiments of those who are,
in the hope that the minds of the people may become embued
with sentiments that will render them supple instruments in
the hands of enemies of the Union.
They ‘are not disunionists,’ yet words are not strong
enough to express their hatred of those who speak in its be
half.
They ‘ are not disunionists,’ and yet they assert that the
“ history of no age or country furnishes a more deplorable in
stance of wrong, or unblushing fraud,” than the legislation of
an American Congress!
They ‘are not disunionists,’ yet it lias been publicly pro
claimed in their papers, that they ’hate this Union like
| h—l!’
They ‘ are not disunionists,’ yet they deny that the South
lias received her ‘rights in the Union,’and are pledged to
sustain those rights out of the Union !’ ”
What will the Convention do ?
A writer in the Chronicle & Sentinel thus classifies the
grounds for the call for a Convention and the various phases
of action proposed to be effected in that body :
Tho chief grounds allodged to show tho necessity of a Con
vention in Georgia are the following:
1. The admission of California.
2. The failure to repeal the old Mexican laws iu New Mex
ico and Utah. !
3. The settlement of the Texas boundary. * \ m „
4. The probable repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
5. The dread of future encroachments.
The action proposed (for remedies are not proposed) may
be classified as follows :
1. Disunion, peaceable—or accompanied with war.
2. Secession, temporary or conditional.
; 3. Non-intercourse.
4. Taxation of Northern goods.
5. A demand of the repeal of Mexican laws.
6. An cxpiession of indignation.
7. The erection of a platform.
8. “ Something.”
Os the first class —the admission of California is the only
ground recognized in the action of the Legislature calling a
Convention. W ell, what action of the Convention will re
d‘* ssor reinedr this evil ? Crm ( Califoif jo- L<>
Aw tfliMisJeJ to a territorial condition ? Asr'vtell miirJi.' 1
she think to bring Alabama and Mississippi back .der her
jurisdiction and allegiance. The idea is absurd o imprao- 1
tieable. California is now one of the States of i. onfeder- I
aey, lawfully united and constitutionally admitted. We can
no more dissolve the connexion now than we can lawfully |
separate- a young bridegroom from the bride whom be has
just espoused for life. What then, will the Convention do?
Evidently they must do nothing so far as California is con
cerned. Secession, dissolution, non-intercourse, taxation, Ac. i
are all remedies which cannot lu-al the malady complained of, ;
because they cannot be applied to this ease. What then ? -
The Action No. 8, in the above list must be adopted. The Con
vention must “do something,” or the honor and dignity of i
the State will be compromised. In our judgment, all that!
can be done, is to adopt solemnly and religiously a formal ;
Declaration of Independence, on the part of the people of
Georgia, incase Congress shall hereafter adopt any measures
which strike at the interests of the South —either in the rc- j
peal of the Fugitive Slave Law—or the adoption of the Wil- ■
mot Proviso, or the abolition of Slavery in the District of Co- |
lunibia— contrary to the wishes of the people of the District :
and tho State of Maryland. Besides this, we know of noth- j
ing that can be done, unless a plan can be devised to retaliate
upon the State of Massachusetts and other Northern nullify
ing States in a constitutional way, in the taxation of goods
manufactured within their limits. Whether this can be ef
fected is a matter of great doubt. But one thing else can be
done, and that is to recommend the Legislature of Georgia to
encourage domestic industry and establish or aid in establish
ing a direct commerce between our own seaport and Euroj>e,
and thus bring Northern men to feel, in their pocket nerves,
that there is an absolute necessity for a cessation of Northern j
hostilities against the South. This done and peace will be j
the result.
Union Meeting in Dooly.
A large and respectable meeting of the friends of the Uu- ;
ion, in Dooly county, met at Vienna, on the 4th inst., when, |
on motion of Peter Adams, Esq., Ben. Wells and John B. I
Lewis were appointed Chairmen, and Wm. Brown and S. P.
Bond, Esqs. Secretaries. The object of the meeting being
explained, Mr. Adams moved that the Bibb county resolu
tions be adopted as the senso of the meeting, which was carr
ried unanimously after being read by Col. T. C. Sullivan,
w ho, with E. R. Brown, Esq. of Americus, made eloquent
speeches, on the occasion.
A committee of four was then appointed to wait on the
candidates nominated at a previous county meeting, to see
whether they would subscribe to tho aforesaid Resolutions,
and to make report to an adjourned meeting on the lltli.
Nov. 11.—Meeting met pursuant to adjournment, w hen
James S. Beall was called to the chair. Same Secretaries
present. The committee reported that the nominees of the
previous meeting refused to sign or sanction the resolutions
adopted on the 4th. Whereupon a committee was appoint
ed to select suitable candidates to represent the Union party
in the Convention. Said committee reported the names of
Dr. I). J. Bothwell nnd Robt. R. Evans ns suitable candi
dates, which nomination was confirmed. Wm. 11. Craw
ford, Esq., of Sumpter, addressed the meeting in favor of the
Union “as it is.” Proceedings ordered to be published in
the Journal & Messenger and Georgia Citizen. [The fore
going condensed account of the meeting is all we are able to
publish.— Ed. Citizen.]
Hard Run,— Some of the Fire Eaters profess to
find an objection to the Union Ticket, because the
gentlemen named ou it are large slaveholders, and
therefore, more apt to be timid about taking strong
ground against Northern agression ! If this argu
ment has any sense in it, the converse of the propo
sition is true, that it were better to send men to the
convention, who have the least possible interest in
slavery, and who would, therefore, be reckless of
consequences to a species of property they do not
possess. Fine logic, very, for a Professor of Science !
Lo?e for tho Negro.—Test votes in the Indiana
Constitutional Convention indicate the insertion of a
clause prohibiting the emigration of negroes, or pur
chasing of property by them, by a large majority.
So much for abolition sympathy for the colored race.
The “ Koon Killer ” Abroad.
The last Central Georgian contains a remarka!>lo epistle
from the lion. 11. V. Johnson of Milledgeville, in favor of Dis
union, in reply to a committee who addressed him soliciting
his views, on the existing topics of the day. W e think it un
fortunate for the fame of tho great “ Koon Killer,'’ as a man
of truth and intelligence, that this letter has been given to the
public. The mendacity of some of his statements is unwor
thy of a Judge in the land. For instance he sets out with
an untruth when he asserts that “ it is now almost universally
admitted that the South has been grievously wronged by the
late action of Congress, respecting the territories of the L ni
ted States,” and that “the great mass of all parties admit the
wrong.” This is a palpable misstatement which is noi borne
out by the facts, as next Monday, we think, will abundantly
prove.
Mr. Johnson next indulges in much ungentlemanly abuse
I of those who differ from him in opinion, by stigmatizirg them
as suhniissionists who would kiss the hand that smites them,
—as “ swine before whom it would be casting pearls to lay
arguments, and much other slang-whangery ot the same un
dignified character, which we cannot stop to particularize.
The remedies proposed by him may thus be summed up:
1. The construction of a Southern Rights party Platform,
whose watchword shall be uncompromising hostility to all.
North and Smith, who are not only above suspicion, but who
are not openly and unequivocally in favor of the constitution
al rights of tho South. [\\ ho is to bs judge in this /natter.
We could not find any such people in tho South, but you
might see thousands.]
t>d. A Protest against tho late action of Congress.—
[Whew!]
3. A demand of Congress for a repeal of the Mexican
Laws in Utah and New Mexico, against slavery. [Tho de
mand of the abolitionists for the repeal of I ugitive Slave
Law must then be allowed.]
4. A demand of the Northern States that they repeal leg-
S islative acts obstructing the re-capture of fugitive slaves.—
[This is nonsense, unless the Judge means that South Caro
lina and Georgia should repeal their laws respecting free col
ored persons coming South, kc. State rights would be no
where, if such a demand were made and duly reciprocated ]
5. To demand of the Northern States that they suppress
abolition agitation. [This would break down the great con
stitutional principles of freedom of the speech and the press,
even if practicable, which it is not.]
6. To demand on behalf of the South perpetual exemption
from all future aggressions. [This would be asking the North
to bind their posterity to a course of political action, which
that posterity might not please to pursue, and to which they,
! not yet being conceived, much less born, could not easily be
j compelled to pursue.]
7. To call a Southern Congress to co-operate in carrying
} out these views, and to meet on the 4th day of July next at
Milledgeville—“ not to dissolve the Union, but to preserve
the rights of the South in the Union !’ > [The 2d edition of
the Nashville Convention killed that idea.]
There, gentle unsophisticated reader, what think you of the
“ Koon Killer's ” mode of resistance? Is it almost as w ise
and efficient an that proposed by Col. Hutchins, a rabid resis
tance man of Gwinnett, who declared to Col. Irwin of Cobb,
that u ice can petition Congress.” As Col. Irwin emphati
cally said—“ Great God ! did you ever bear of such a mode
of resistance ?” If that is the best the Fire-Eaters can do,
or that Judge Johnson can do for them, we “ give it up.”
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‘•Southern Press.”—This rabid Washington
City Journal, it is well known, is the political horn
book of such Southern Newspapers as the Macon
Telegraph, Columbus Times, Arc. They have great
respect for the turbulent and disorganizing doctrines
promulgated through its columns, and quote large
ly, therefrom, its ‘Randolph” Epistles and other like
fire-brand and revolutionary sentiments.
Well, to show Southern men, what is the charac-
I ter of this Magnus Apollo of the “Southern Press,”
we annex tho following bit of biography of its princi
: pa 1 Editor, Elwood Fisher, from the Aberdeen (Mis
sissippi) “independent*’: —
fond Fisher aa Abolitionist.
fii’ n TANARUS) his course of debate last Monday with
seeing him rend from the Southern Press- 1
to support hi* assertions, declared tl'ar five years ago
; Elwood Fisher, its principal editor, was a rank abolition
ist and he could prove it ! In reading over this week
an article written by Fisher in 1542, wp discover this
most pregnant passage, which more than proves Gen.
Foote’s assertion.
“Whilst, however, 1 do not concur with Jefferson or
the early Quakers, as the means by which slavery can
he abolished, whilst I do not think it can be done by the
act. of the master, or by law. I am as much opposed In it,
| or the ol it, as any of them, or as the most enthu
siastic abolitionist of the present day.”
This is the man who caters for the entertainment of
Southern slaveholders through the Southern Press, and
endeavors to infuse into Southern minds a spirit ul hos
tility and disloyalty to the Federal Government and the
Constitution of the country—who preaches the gos
pel of disunion to a Southern audience. He, like al
otlier abolitionists, is a disunionist. We think it time
for Southern men to see (hat Shis aboiitionisl does not ■
wax fat and kick from the provender they give ban.”
More Avowals.
Let the voters of Bibb County read the following
extracts from late numbers of the Columbus Times |
and the Georgia Telegraph, and see if the cloven
foot of disunion does not peep out from under the
cloak of “resistance,” notwithstanding their loud
professions of being friends of the Union. Says the
Times:
“ Every day the cause of resistance is gaining ground j
and we find daily cause to regret that the standard of i
the mode of resistance lias been lowered, and that the
mode of redress was not more boldly and distinctly mar
ked out before the people. We judge of the feelings
of the people among whom we were born and raised by
our own. We are constituted like other men, and when
the wrong and insults, the aggressions and the contume
ly ol the north excite the devil of resistance in our heart,
we cannot see for the life of us, why the same effect
should not be produced in thebosomsof men having the j
same nativity, the same birth rights, the same indepen- j
dence, and the same sensibility to the stings of injustice.
We verily believe that in an open field and a fair fight,
the BOLD ISSUE OF SECESSION could be carried
before the tribunal of the outraged people of Georgia.—
The people were ahead of their representatives in Con
gress during the last session, and they are ahead now,
not of the hopes and wishes, but of the apprehensious of
zealous resistance men, in the press and in the field.” ‘
The Telegraph has the following ;
“What Southern Rights man in the State, who values
the dignity and character, the rights and equality and
safety of his own section or the Union, can vote for any
ticket with the name of one submissionist noon it? Go i
to the polls then and give the RESISTANCE ticket an j
old fashioned majority. By doing this, you will dis- |
arm your worst enemies, preserve the Union,and give a
new lease to the life of the Constitution.”
A Vile Slander.
The Savannah “ News ” perpetrates tho following bit of,
scandal against our fellow-citizen, Dr. Collins:—-
“ We have heard it stated that Mr. Collins, who is a can
didate for the Convention on the Union side, dispatched his
agents to Boston with a view to recover his slaves, in the hope |
of making electioneering capital out of their surrender under
the new law.”
Who stated so I The “ News ” would have been nearer
the truth, if he had said, that Dr. Collins acted in this matter,
according to his own judgment and convenience, and in op
position to the wishes of his political frieuds, who foresaw that .
the Fire-Eaters would make capital out of his failure to re-;
cover his slave. This they have endeavored to do, but with
no great success, as his action in the case lnus shown one thing
very olearlv, that the negroes and abolitionists of Boston were
afraid tolet the fugitives remain in that city. Why are *C rafts j
and wife sent off or concealed, if there was no fear of the law
being carried out? Wo might add, that it is rumored
that his Excellency Governor Towns had used his influ
ence with Dr. Collins to seek the reoovery of his slave
at the time he did. If so, will the “ Nows ”be pleased to say
whether the Governor hoped to make capital out of the mat- |
ter, to the prejudice of the Union cause jn Georgia? That (
is probably “ a horse of jmotber color,” in the opinion of j
this esndid print !
DOINGS IS BOSTON !
Thompson, the English Abolitionist hisses
and put down!
Tho New York Herald of the 16th gives particulars of t
scene at l aneuil Hall, Boston, on the evening previous r
the occasion of the public reception of George Thom/ *
the English Abolitionist, tendered him by the Garrison trilj
of fanatics, which was rich and peculiar. Edmund Onj
presided, Mm. Lloyd Garrison read the address of r<e /
tion recounting the history of Thompson's movements j n
anti-slavery cause in England, Ac., and concluded |, y
ting that just fifteen years ago he was obliged to fly eland/!
finely from this country; “but,” said the speaker.
God, the Boston of 1835 is not the Boston of 1850 7/
Massachusetts of 1850 is not tire Massachusetts of 185- >,
(Loud cheers.) ‘ kK
r I owards the close of Mr. Garrison’s remarks, the meet
began to be disorderly, and when he finished, many <.[,//
were given for Daniel Webster and the Union. ‘
Wendall Phillips next ascended the platform, but
greeted with groans, hisses, and exclamations which com
pletely drowned his voice.
Loud cheers were again given for “the Union and Dm ;u ,
j Webster, and for Gov. Briggs, and Jenny Lind.”
Mr. Phillips appealed to them to hear Mr. Thompson
: and wipe off the stain of 1835, when Boston drove lifia 0 j
a fugitive.
Mr. P. then retired, and Mr. Thompson took the stand, bn
instantly the llall became a perfect Bedlam of noi* and / uP .
fusion—he tried to speak, but in vain; ‘ Cheers were reitec
ated for “the Union and Daniel Webster ” intermingled with
groans, catcalls and hisses.
After remaining upon the stand for sometime, Mr. T. bow.
ed to the audience arid was about to retire, but his
would not permit him—a chair was handed him, and he
down fronting the audience.
! From this time the anti-abolitionists had it all their our.
! way. Groans were given for John Bull, a ring was for**!
j on the floor, and one or two commenced dancing.
Abbey Kelly was called for and endeavored to speak; b
after uttering a few sentence's stopped.
The Rev. Wm. Ilenry Clianning next appeared, but fcs
voice was drowned in hisses and outcries.
The Rev. Theodore Parker next ascended the platform
He mutely pointed to the pictures of Washington, - Adana
and others, and endeavored to make himself heard— but tho
cries were redoubled.
The President of the meeting, at this point, came forward
and shook hands w ith Mr. Thompson, when he bowed to the
audience, and retired nmids; thunders of applause.
During all this time there was no attempt at violence,and
the ladies in the galleries remained quiet spectators of the
scene.
After a consultation between the getters-up of the mectinp,
it was deemed proper to adjourn—which was declared hy the
President; but the noise still continued.
Frederick Douglas then ascended tliu platform, and ap
pealed to them to hear a fugitive slave speaker. The audi
ence would not hear him.
The gas was then partially turned down, and the Ilal! be
ing in a state of semi-darkness, the scene was quite pictu
resque. Above stood the stalwart frame of Douglas, wa
ving his hands aloft, and occasionally crying out to be li-ard
—-and below was the vast audience, swaying about, and at
teringcries of every description.
Tli® officers of the meeting then began to retire, Mr.
Thompson having previously left —Shouting and chteriu-;
still continued, but the audience commenced dispersing.
A police officer here sppeared on the platform, and paid
that he was ordered by the city Marshal to r< quest lb au
dience to retire. By half past nine, the llall was wholly
cleared, but a large crowd waited outside. s’>p*rmtl_v f-*r
Thom;>son. Asa carriage drove up, and a man got in sup
posed to be TANARUS., three groans were given foi John Bull.—
Some person added, “I.et him not interfere in enr affair/ ‘
. No threat was made, or violence offrrcd,| o ;nd the i-atriaf*
drow off. It did I onntniil’ iwii nwni. 7bis
ended the scene. was l ‘j*
Ihe doors of Fanueil Hall vrtrre shut, the lights pat utit,
and the crowd dispersed ; discussing, ns they went the serin*
of the meeting.”
This shows that there is some hope vet, even, of Boston,
notwithstanding the unsuccessful mission of Mr-. -Hughes to
; recover the fugitives from this city.
In addition we notice that the respectable Journals f Bos
ton arc out in favor of the execution of the fugitive slsto
law. The Advertiser says :
“Me begin to observe in some of the journals at th
1 South, as might have been anticipated, severe com incuts prn
the apparent triumph of opposition to legal authority in tb
city. It is much to be regretted that the demonstrations <4
determination to resist the ex< eutiou of process trader the
i 1* ugitive slave law, somewhat exaggerated ia the account*
which have appeared in various quarters, together with tin
fact that warrants known to have been issued from tin high
est authority have not yet been executed, should give so much
ground for these comments. However plausible may be the
inferences discreditable to oar city which are drawn from the
facts as they are stated, it is premature to judge, from the
1 delays which liave occurred, and the show of ir>ist.incc,
w hen in fact none lias been made, that the law w ill not bo
executed. There is no occasion for any precipitancy in
meeting an issue of I chick those who know the peoplr ts
the city of Boston cannot doubt the result. AVc have little
fear that the law will be seriously resisted in Massachusetts,
and, if forcibly resisted, it will, notwithstanding, surely be
1 executed.”
W e have another fact bearing on this question, and that j*
I that Mr. M ebstcr has declared that the Marshal, Coniniiaion
! ers, &c. of Boston will all be turned ont of office; unk-s*
they can exhonerate themselves from the charge of neglect of
duty sworn to by Air. Hughes. M e have no reason there
fore, to suppose either that the people of Boston have nuUi
; tied the law, or tliat the President will sanction any derclie
; tion of duty on the part of his officials. Nor do we see how
: the failure of Mr. Hughes under all the circumstances to get
j the negroes, can be urged as an objection to the fugitive
itself, or be made to tell against the Union candidate*,
Monday next. Nosensillc man would thereby be justified
1 in voting for Disumonis'a.
P. S- Since writing the forgoing, we have read a mani
fest just published by Mr. Willis 11. Hughe*, in an extra
| form, from the Telegraph office, and circulated, yesterday,.
; with a view doubtless, to affect the approaching election. M’s
! must therefore be excused for iatle more
to in hand, from the fact that Mr. H. is a “willing
witness” in favor of the disunionists. having been closeted all
day, Thursday, with Sam Ray, and being himself of the same
stripe, with that immaculate individual, the public will he
prepared to place a proper estimate on the “Statement” h*
has sanctioned and allow ed to be put forth in his name, at this
particular juncture. The reader is specially requested to
note the concluding paragraph of Mr. Hughe* document,
lie “feels that every man who has a Southern heart in hi*
bosom and would maintain the honor of his country, shou’d
sustain the Southern Rights cause by every Censitutiansl
measure, until our rights are acknowledged and justice ob
tained.” The “Cloven foot” is here manifested. Mr. Hughe*
wishes to do the disunion cause a service—but by using the
word “constitutional” in the paragraph, he defeats himself,
because those who have published his statement have no sle*
of any remedy of that sort.
Mr. 11. is also unfortunate in his inferences from the feet*
given by himself. After saying that lie has found some friemb
in Boston, among whom were Air. Thayer; Mr. M ill is: Ms
Thompson; Air. Riley, one of the Marshals ; Mr. Draper
Mr. I recount, a Deputy Sheriff, <fce., he declares there
no protection of the city authorities offered him and none
turned out in his favor, and that, in his opinion, the abolition
sentiment there was too predominant, to be controlled. A*
evidence of this, Mr. H. further states that the Mayor order
ed the city officers to proteet the English AW***®* B*’ 8 *’
Thompson, from a threatened mob. Well, what of it, M r ’
Hughes 1 Mho does not know that aboliiiou sentiment vrr
vails there to an alarming extent ? But why did yop ud lel ‘
us that the Mayor failed to protect the said Thompson *f' er
all—-that the latter was pat down and treated with. # tng!
contumely even as Mr. Hughes, The mob did no.t, it i* :ro<! ’
pull Thompson’s coal tail, but they did as *'■
civil authority in Boston eoulil ncH prevent uch
