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best we can get; the Judge is the best we can get, for
he says he will not resign; and do not know of any
thing that isn’t the best we can get —except the
J udge’s speech for we know that’s not tho best we
can get.
Jflccliatiics 9 Con ven tion .
From ‘ Citizen ’ Extra of July 8.
We hasten to lay before our readers the
proceedings of the Convention of Mechanics at
Atlanta, on Friday last. It was probably the
largest Convention of citizens ever held in Geor
gia, the list showing that nearly 500 Represen
tatives of the Mechanical professions, from the
seaboard to the mountains, had convened in
council, to consult in regard to their mutual in
terests,. Delegates were also present from Ala
bama, to mingle their voices with those of their
brethren of Georgia in matters appertaining to
the common weal. The aged and the young
were there. The Constitutional L nion man and
the Southern Rights man were there, and with
great unanimity, participated in the business of
the occasion, thus effectually giving rebuke to
the malignant slander that the Convention had
been called for the purpose of advancing abo
lition doctrines and sentiments. Doubtless,
this rumor prevented many Mechanics from
uniting with their brethren on the occasion,
one of the chief cities of the State being un
represented in council.
Os the good order, harmony and courtesy
that prevailed, all speak with admiration. Not
a single personal reflection escaped the lips of
any speaker, but a lofty spirit of compromise
and concession prevailed, and resulted in a mild
though firm expression of opinion especially,
satisfactory to the friends of the cause. The
delicate subject of Negro Mechanics was passed
with a simple expression of dissatisfaction with
the system. No ultra views or suggestions
were allowed to have place, and we heard of no
one who desired any Legislative action to rein
ed v the evils believed to exist. As freemen,
entitled to a free expression of opinion on ail
subjects affecting their interests, they were con
tent to speak their thoughts, without dreaming
of interference with the rights or privileges of
others.
Os the Festival prepared by the city author
ities and people of Atlanta, we have a word to
sav. The arrangements were ample and the
Barbecue first rate. The singing of the young
Ladies and Gentlemen thrilled to the heart’s best
and most patriotic impulses. The reading of
the Declaration of Independence was well done,
and nothing occurred to mar the general re
joicings of the thousands who had gathered to
celebrate the natal day of American freedom.
Os the sentiments of the address it does not be
come us to speak. As the same will be pub
lished immediately, all we ask is that no pre
mature judgment be formed of its merits, nor
any existing prejudice against the speaker be
reflected upon the respectable body whom he
had the honor to address, before due informa
tion be had that such prejudice is well founded.
l>ut we will not detain the reader further.
Georgia Mechanics’ Convention.
Agreeably to previous notice, between four and five
hundred of the Mechanics of Georgia met in Council at
Atlanta, on the 4th of July, and organized, temporarily,
by calling Wm. 11. Pritchard of Richmond county, to
the Chair.
The President having taken his position, in a neat ad
dress explained the objects of the Convention to be the
advancement of the Mechanic Arts and the elevation
>f the Mechanics of Georgia—and returned his thanks
for the honor conferred upon him, expressing his ear
nest wish that the motto of the great seal of the Com
monwealth—“ Wisdom, Justice and Moderation”—
would govern the meeting in its deliberations, and in
voking a spirit of concord among the members thereof.
On motion. Chas. S. Oliver of Clarke and L. Law
elie of DeKalb were appointed Secretaries of the Con
vention.
On motion, the Credentials of Delegates and list of
names were handed in to the Secretaries, and the Me
chanics present, who were not Representatives, were in
vited to a seat in the Convention and to a participation
in its deliberations.
On motion of L, F. W. Andrews, of Bibb, a Com
mittee of one from each delegation was raised to select
one President and seven Vice Presidents as the perma
nent officers of the Convention. Said Committee con
sisted of
E. J. Jones of Chatham County,
.7. W. Clark “ Dooly “
D. Wood 44 Richmond 44
IV. W. Boyd “ Cobb “
A. Benton “ Bibb “
C. G. Douglass “ Macon City,
r. Mcllenry 44 Tutnam County.
L. Lawsbe “ DeKalb 44
I. P. Cooke “ Morgan “
J. J. Sullivan “ Upson 44
J. Ilardy 44 Sumter 44
J. Smith 44 Clarke 44
W. L T . Anderson 44 Coweta 44
W. J. Thomson 44 Hancock 44
S. G. Mathews 44 Cherokee 44
.T. Burr 44 Pike 44
F. C. Lang 44 Washington 44
W. Gastin 44 Heard 44
W. L. Hutchins, 44 Gwinnett 44
J. Hart 44 Troup 44
W. 11. Howe 44 Macon 44 Ala.
Who after retiring for consultation returned and re
ported the following Officers for the Convention :
WM. 11. PRITCHARD, of Richmond, President
J. Beall of Chatham County, ‘j
J. W. Moore 44 Morgan 44
C. P. Levy 44 Bibb 44 !
J. B. Lester 44 Dooly 44 £
J. B. Hudson 44 Cherokee 44 g
W. H. Howe 44 Alabama, as J >
On motion, the Report of the Committee was receiv
ed and unanimously adopted. Whereupon the X ice-
Prcsidents took seats on the Platform.
On motion, a Committee consisting of Jesse Ren
eau, C. P. Levy and J. Reynolds were appointed to
draw up and report Rules of Order for the government
of this body. Said Committee subsequently reported
Rules of Order, which report was received and adopted.
[Rules omitted.]
On motion, a Committee of seven were appointed
by the President to prepare and report matter for the
consideration and action of this Convention. The Com
mittee consisted of
LF W Andrews of Bibb County,
J D Lester 44 Dooly 44
C S Oliver 44 Clarke “
C P Levy 44 Macon City,
7\ 1) Thomson 44 Putnam County,
S M Goodman 44 Cobb “
.T Beall 44 Chatham, 44
To which, on motion, the President, W. 11. Pritch
ard, of Richmond, was added, with instruction lo report
at 2 o'clock, P. M. to which time the Convention would
soon adjourn.
An invitation having been personally presented to
the Convention, by his Honor, Mayor Norcross, of At
lanta, in behalf of the city authorities and citizens of the
place, to participate in the Celebration of the Day and
partake of the Barbecue provided, it was on motion
Resolved, that the invitation be accepted, and that the
Convention do now adjourn for the purpose of joining
the procession, and that Col. C. R. Hanleiter act as
Marshal of this body, as aid to the Marshal of the day.
[Adjourned to meet at 2 o'clock P. M.
[ln the interval the Address of the Orator of the day
was delivered before the Convention and several thous
and people assembled at Walton’s Spring, in the sub
urbs of Atlanta—after which and the other exerci
ses a fine Barbecue was served up to the immense mul
titude present.]
2 O'CtacE, P. M.
Convention met according to adjournment. The
Committee appointed to prepare and report matter for
(he consideration of the Convention, reported the fol
■ v.iog Preamble and Resolutions, which on motion
were received,
PREAMBLE.
Whereas, the developement of the Mechanic Arts
in Georgia and the advancement of the Mechanical and
Manufactural pursuits of the Commonwealth are no
longer matters of questionable importance, as element
of permanent State prosperity, but an admitted necessi
ty, and Whereas, it is due to our fellow-citizens that
the reasons for the meeting of this Convention and for
its action should be unreservedly laid before the pub
lic. the following considerations are submitted, as em
bodying the views of its members generally, on the sev
eral suljects of interest embraced in this Preamble :
STATE MECHANICAL INSTITUTE.
The necessity for the formation of such an Institu
tion must be apparent to the mind of every reflecting
man. The stimulus to inventive genius as well as to
the fiuislied production of many articles well known to
the arts—the fostering of that commendable enthusi
asm, without which few’ attain pre-eminence or com
petency in new fields of Mechanical enterprize, would be
greatly promoted by the establishment of a State Me
chanical Institute in Georgia. In aid of the Central
Association and acknowledging it as the head, auxilia
ry societies should be established in the various coun
ties and cities of the State, thus by a general system of
co-operation, the great interests of the mechanical
trades would be promoted—additional inducements
offered for Southern youth to engage in mechanical
pursuits, and new and important enterprizes be brought
forward and successfully consummated. The establish
ment of such an Institute is a leading object of this
Convention.
GEORGIA SCHOOL BOOKS.
The State of Georgia contributes, annually, thousands
of dollars for the support of Free Schools, but no en
couragement has been extended to authors and publish
ers in this State, to supply those Schools with books. If
the Legislature were to prescribe the Books to be used
in those Schools which are sustained by its bounty, and
order that the same should be published in Georgia,
public opinion as well as public necessity would soon
create a large demand for Georgia School Books. We
have Printers, Type Founders, Book Binders and Pa
per Manufacturers, andean have Steam Printing Pros
es, and yet we are dependent on other sections for even
our Elementary Instruction books, not because other
sections can furnish them better or cheaper, but be
cause there has been no public effort, by the authorities
of the State, to cultivate an opinion favorable to such an
enterprize. We contribute thousands of dollars to the
publishing establishments of the North and East, giving
employment to the capital and industry of those sec
tions, to the serious detriment of the vital interests of
the South, and at the imminent hazard of demoraliz
ing the minds of the rising generation, in reference to
Southern Institutions and Southern political economy.
MECHANICAL EMPLOYMENTS IN THE PENITENTIARY.
That instructing convicts in the Penitentiary, in the
various mechanical trades, has thus far resulted in pe
cuniary loss to the State is a fact, which the appropri
ation records of the Legislature will abundantly estab
lish. It could hardly have been otherwise. Sufficient
proficiency in mechanical trades, to be available for
profit and usefulness, can seldom be attained in less
than five or six years, with every advantage of incli
nation to learn, good minds to comprehend, good in
structors to impart, and with a laudable ambition to ex
cel. Can we expect any such disposition or proficien
cy from obtuse and reluctant convicts? Are not ma
terials destroyed, bad work executed and good work
damaged, by such operatives l It would be unreason
ble to expect otherwise from convicts. It would be
unsafe to make different calculations from the opera
tions of unpaid and reluctant operatives in the me
chanic arts any where.
But the evil does not stop at this point. There are
consequences paramount to mere pecuniary loss to the
State. Mechanical employments are degraded, when
the Commonwealth adopts them as a punishment for
her counterfeiters, theives and other malefactors. Jus
tice to the pursuits of worthy citizens of the State, and
sound policy in regard to our finances, indicate the
propriety, if not necessity of abolishing mechanical
employments in the Penite tiary. It may, indeed, be
a question whether the present policy in the manage
ment of the Penitentiary does not indirectly offer a
premium for villany and open an almshouse for rogues.
Feeding and clothing convicts and teaching them a
trade, thus placing them on a professional level with
the worthy mechanics of the States, may he punish
ment for crime , in the eyes of the law', but it also in
flicts insult and degradation upon the law-abiding me
chanics of the State. Other fields of employment for
convict labor are open. The common roads, unnava
igable water courses, Plank and Railroads, the unpaved
condition of the streets in our towns and cities, delv
ing into the iron and coal mines and marble quarries
of our mountains, and other means of employment
requiring mere physical labor end endurance, are open
for convict labor.
It may be asked, why has our section been so de
pendent on the manufacturing capital and labor of oth
er Suites. The answer is obvious. If Georgia me
chanics were relieved from the odium which crushes
their pursuits, from this and other causes, they would
defy competition from any quarter, and their produc
tions would command the encouragement and appro
bation of the country. The intelligent and educa
ted sons of worthy citizens shun our pursuits—not in
consequence of the toils which they would incur, but
because of the odium w’ith which they would be asso
ciated.
In endeavoring to enlarge the area of usefulness and
renown, for the mechanic arts in Georgia, every detri
ment to the honorable estimation, dignity and repute
of those avocations, should be speedily removed by
public opinion. Employments which have been dis
honored by operation of law, and which require mind
and ability to perform, and capital and industry to sus
tain, are necessarily doomed to slow progress and un
rewarding profits, and invite only a limited portion
of the community to their ranks. If the prevailing
policy in Georgia, as is believed, lias a tendency to
degrade mechanical pursuits, how can we hope for
their advancement while such a system continues in
operation ?
Remove these trammels, and the Mechanic Arts
which have heretofore languished in Georgia will re
vive and flourish. Already has a “ change come over
the spirit of our dreams,” in this regard. Manufactur
ers now employ a considerable portion of the capital
of the State, and the diversified pursuits of the Me
chanic Arts are arousing the people to high efforts.
If all impediments we?Cremoved, a career of unbound
ed prosperity and renown would open upon us, leading
us to hope that v\ bile we now have the proud name of
being the “ Empire State of the South,” the future,
under more auspicious advantages, may render us wo
thier of a.still prouder name in the Confederacy of the
Republic.
NEGRO MECHANICS.
The policy of instructing Negroes in Mechanical
pursuits is of a very questionable nature. The his
tory of the past proves that nearly all the escapes of
slaves from Georgia and several other Southern States
to Free Soil territory, are traceable to the pernicious in
fluence exercised by these persons. It is our firm con
viction, that a few Negro Mechanics in towns and and
cities, have done and can do more practical injury to
the institution of slavery and its permanent security,
than all the ultra abolitionists of the country. Me
chanical pursuits elevate the Negro's mind and quick
en his intellect, leading to a desire to read and write,
the gratification of which is often obtained in a clandes
tine manner, by which ho is furnished with facilities for
making money, and led into depravity aud dissipation,
thereby making him restless and unhappy, and an un
safe associate for the dutiful and contented negroes of the
State, of a lower grade of condition. Is it not then
the dictate ol wisdom and prudence, looking merely to
the security of our institutions, to take such steps as will
guard and protect us from such influences, for all time
to come.
Mechanical pursuits, moreover, to be fully worthy of
the aspirations of Georgia’s sons, and rendered capa
ble of competition with other sections, must be honora
bly associated. Educated young men of the South can
seldom be found who will engage in pursuits which
lead them into professional competition with persons
of inferior morals and minds.
As Mechanics and Southern men, by birth or by
adoplion, and as slaveholders, we appeal to every class of
our fellow-citizens for a just appreciation of our motives,
and for encouragement in the work we design to ac
complish. That design is to raise and exalt our po
sition as men and as citizens, morally, socially and in
tellectually. Let that be achieved, and a desire will, it is
believed, soon be envincod by our youth to enter at
once, the workshops of tlifcState and thus contribute to
make it groat and independent. We ask only for such
encouragement as will raise our calling in the scalo of
respectability, and usefulness, as well as secure, on a
permanent basis, the peculiar institution of the South,
and promote the general welfare of the people.
To give suitable form and expression to these opin
ions, as freemen have the right to do, be it therefore,
Resolved , 1. That a State Mechanical Institute
be formed in Georgia, for the purpose of advancing
the Mechanic Arts, by tlte annual exhibition of me
chanical products and every other means of such asso
ciations, and that an Executive Committee of 13 be ap
pointed to draft a Constitution and By-Laws for the
government of such an Institute,to be presented for ratifi
cation to this body, at an adjourned meeting, at some
convenient place and time, subject to the call of the
Chairman of that Committee.
[Committee not yet appointed.]
Resolved , 2. That this Convention recommend to
the mechanics of the several counties and localities of
the State, to form Mechanical Associations, auxiliary
to the State Mechanical Institute.
Resolved , 3. That we look upon the system of
Convict labor in our Penitentiary, whereby thieves and
vagabonds are converted into Mechanics and sent out
to compete with the honest labor of the Mechanic clas
ses, as degrading to the character of the latter and pro
ductive of immense injury to the whole State, and
should, injustice to a respectable portion of citizens, be
immediately reformed or modified, consistently with the
principles of justice and equity.
Resolved, 4. That a Committee of three be ap
pointed to draw up a suitable memorial on this subject
and have the same printed and sent to each member
of this Convention, for the purpose of obtaining signa
tures — then to bo returned to the Committee in
time for presentation to the next Legislature.
Resolved, 5. That the present system of Appren
ticeship, now in vogue in this State, is defective in its
character and illy calculated to perfect youth in a
knowledge of Mechanic Arts, and that we recommend
to our fellow Mechanics to set their faces like flint against
the practice of encouraging runaway apprentices or giv
ing employment to any such, without the consent of
the original employers, parents or guardians.
Resolved , (5. That in the opinion of this body the
instruction of Negroes in the Mechanic Arts is a source
of great dissatisfaction to the Mechanical interest, preju
dicial to Southern youths engaging in industrial pur
suits, and is believed to be inexpedient, unwise, and
injurious to all classes of the community.
The Report and resolutions were then taken up sep
arately, and on the motion to adopt the preamble as
read, M . L. Anderson of Coweta, moved to strike out
all that portion which referred to the subject of Negro
Mechanics, which after full discussion was rejected by
an overwhelming vote. The preamble was then adopt
ed as it stands.
I lie Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th and stli Resolutions were then sev
erally read and adopted unanimously.
On a call of the 6th Resolution, W. U. Anderson of
Coweta, moved that it be laid on the table which after
discussion was lost. The sth Resolution was then put
and carried.
On a call for the yeas and nays, the following dele
gates recorded their names, in opposition to the Reso
lution, chiefly on the ground of expediency.
M ni. Gasten, Heard county ;
M in. I . Anderson, Coweta county ;
R. E. Cole, Coweta county;
Charles A. Macdox, Cherokee county ;
1). S. W aters, Cobb county ;
G. VV . Seattergood, Bibb county ;
I*. M. Hackney, Cobb county ;
Richard Brim, Bibb county ;
\\ m. Griffin, Cobb county ,
J. N. Craven, DeKalb county ;
J. R. McCallister 44 44
Z. Bridwell, 44 “
A. T. Dozier, 44 44
M. E. Rylander, Bibb county;
Robert I lavenport, Cobb county ;
Mm. 11. Iloive, Auburn, Ala.;
On motion of L. F. IV. Andrews of Bibb,
Resolved , That this Convention, individually and
collectively do hereby express, their firm abiding
devotion to the peculir institution of the Sjjm as it is,
and their utter and unqualified detestatlmi of those
Northern Abolitionists and Fanatics, wh6are constant
ly interfering with our interests ane^y/iperty.
Carried unanimously and with frcs*tentliusiusm,
On motion of C. R. Hanleiter, of DeKalb ;
Resolved, lhat the thanks of this Convention be
and the same are hereby tendered to our Brother L.
I. IV. Andrews, of the Mechanics Association of Ma
con, for the able, chaste and eloquent Address this day
delivered by him before the Convention and citizens
Resolved, lhat a Committee of three be appointed
to solicit a copy of said Address for publication—and,
il granted, that tiie same Committee be instructed to
superintend the printing and distribution of five thou
sand copies of tho Address, in connection with the
minutes of this meeting. Messrs. C. R. Hanleiter, C. P.
Levy and S. M. Goodman, composed said committee.
Resolved, That each member of this Convention be
requested to contribute the sum of Fifty Cents lo defray
the expenses of Printing and distributing.
Committee to prepare memorial, .T. Reynolds of
Clarke; E. J. Joues of Chatham, and W. U. Ander
son of Coweta.
On motion of E. J. Jones, of Chatham ;
Resolved, That a system of education for Apprenti
ces, be established and fostered by tho State Institute,
for the instruction in the theory of their several brandi
es—and that a respectful but warm appeal be made to
the Legislature that a special fund be appropriated year
ly for educating the young Mechanics of Georgia.
On motion, the Convention then adjourned till 8
o’clock P. M. in the Methodist Protestant Church.
8 O'Clock, P. M.
Convention convened and called to order.
A communication having been received from Mr.
Norcross, President of the Georgia Agricultural, Me*
chanical and Manufactural Association of Atlanta, invi
ting the Convention to unite with lhat association in its
organization and government, it was on motion,
Resolved, I hat we highly approve the organization
of the “Georgia Agricultural, Mechanical and Manu
faetural Association,” and that each individual mem
ber of this Convention be requested to encourage it bv
becoming a member thereof, but as a body , this Con
vention respectfully decline amalgamating with any oth
er association.
On motion of C. R. Hanleiter, of DeKalb;
Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be
and the same are hereby tendered to Bro. C. S. Oliver
proprietor of the “American Mechanic,” for his able
and fearless defence of the Rights of Southern Mechan
ics, and that each member be requested to subscribe
and exert himself to extend the circulation of his paper.
On motion of L F W Andrews, of Macon;
Resolved, That the thanks of this convention be ten
dered to the President and officers of this body for the
able and impartial manner ill which they have discharg
ed the duties of their position.
Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be ten
dered to his Honor the Mayor and citizens of Atlanta
for their kind hospitality shown to this body, this day.
On motion, Resolved , that the thanks of this con
vention be tendered to the Vestry of the Atlanta Pro
testant Methodist church, for the privilege afforded of
using this house for this evening’s session.
On motion, Resolved, that a copy of these proceedings
be furnished for publication, in the American Mechan
ic, Georgia Citizen, and Journal & Messenger , and
that all other papers in the State friendly to the object
be requested to copy.
On motion the Convention adjourned.
Mr. fol)b\s Appointments.
Mr. Cobb will address the people at
Fort Gaines, on Monday - - 14th 44
Blakely, on Tuesday - - - - 15th “
Bainbridge, on Thursday - - ITth 44
I homasville, on Saturday - - 19th 44
Newton, on Monday - 2lst 44
Albany, on Tuesday - 22d 44
Starkville, on Wednesday - - 23d 44
Americus, on Thursday - - 24th 44
Vienna, Dooly county, Saturday 26th 44
CottuipnitiifnrL
LETTER FROM COLUMBUS.
Columbus, July 19, 1851.
Dear Citizen :—We have lived to see and celebrate
another 4tli of July, very much to tho displeasure of
some of these Fre-Eaters, who are of the same stamp
and staple as their Standard bearers who said they did
not care a d— n for the day, and at heart, hoped the
past would be the last.
Tho military companies turned out, with the shrill
fife and spirit stiring drum. On their rear followed a
hearse, all dark and dressed. From the direction in
which it come some observed that the last of the Cof
fin regiment was to be interred, and that of all other
days, the 4th was the most appropos to bury him and
Anarchy as did our ancestors bury King George and
Monarchy.
The fourth day of July, of all other days in history
is the greatest. Wc should never have but one feeling,
one interest and one common country. It is a (air in
heritance that cost us nothing but its preservation.
Mr. R. E. Dixon, the orator of tho day, delighted
his audience which was large, and gave general satis
faction. lie is a promising youth. His address was
well timed, delivered with all the ease, elegance and
composure of one of more mature years and experience.
In tho evening, the Rev. Dr. Fierce, in his usual free
aud easy stylo lectured to the Sons and Cadets of Tem
perance. At night a Mr. Plane held forth to the
Lyceum; lie is evidently somusFire- Eater.
Battle row’ had its shave of show, concluding with a
few well but and well combed heads.
At night there was ‘one grand display’ of Fire-
Works. What followed next lot those who know, tell!
It has been suggested in souie of tho city papers,
that portraits of the military officers of this place aud
the State at large to ornament the military
room. It is a goouMea if we add to it a museum to
preserve tuf soap loeks, war spirits
for home consumption, some Mexican straw litters—
waters from the Rio Grande, skeletons of the dying
and the dead, and the sword/whose blade was more
thought of than the hilt. Barnum wants such an arti
cle.
The Railroad moves brislfTy on under the aid of city
Council bonds and bondsmen. ‘A citizen’ is not com
petent for any station or employment on it. The ne
groes and the nails are driven L>y men obtained from the
North to do so! Strange it is that whilst they abuse
them with their tongues, they fatten them with the pub
lic purse. Then the idea is to ‘rule and ruin,’and
to carry it out, they obtain creatures who have the most
extensive qualifications to bankrupt and taint every
thing they touch. They must not be native Georgians
and must show the wounds inflicted by the bones
of the Cod-fish on which they have dined, aristocrati
cally.
Non intervention —is to compel one to do by law
what they will not do by consent, such as taxing high
all Northern work, and getting the Sailors North to
make military coats, instead of giving them to home
workmen.
Brokers and Stock Jobbers here cannot be beat by
those of Wall street. There they can break every thing
that they lay hands on, and make as good and as gen
teel a job of it as any one, that for such noble deeds were
ever honored with a retired place at Sing Sing. It
is easy with two hundred dollars to buy, own and keep
a house with Corinthian capped columns and Corridors,
worth twenty-five thousand dollars, provided semi
oecasionally a little of the ‘Granite of Littleton and
the cement of Coke’be well beat up and diluted with
some oil* of humbuggery, bespread over it with the
‘trowel of Bkffkstone’ and a dexterous and skillful
hand such as the great Lord Bacon had.
“ All hope is fled,
The dog is dead !”
Who would have thought it, that the‘Times,’ would
so change as to fly, at its mast head, the name of B. R.
11. of Tippecanoe memory, ‘Face the music boys.’
44 Come all you good Whigs and Disunionisis—
And all you vile Dcmy-crats too —
Come out from among the vile party
And vote for young Tippecanoe.’’
Georgia and her Courts have given impetus to the
Bank which is fulowing in her
foutsU-ps. ST'en the reported cases in the
New Vork the trial of Harvey Dayton,
the Cashier, for falsely swearing that the
bank of MiwatSfown had $40,000, in cash on deposit,
before commencing business, when the facts show that
it was only in cheeks, bank bills and notes, lie was
found guilty and no mistake. Look out for squalls you
crippled old broken-down Banks of Georgia ! Solici
tors, Judges, Grand Jurors, to the work ; Fix your
sights, here is a knob whereon to hang them all. Let
the Executive attend to clearing out the cells in the
Penitentiary, for ‘lo there is a good time coming.’ Pre
serve those affidavits required to be made and filed in
the Executive office, by Presidents, Cashiers and So
licitors of Banks, as required by the charters. To be
more vigilant the State should employ public prosecu
tors and assistant counsel to put them through. There
is no Statute of concealment here. One section of
the penal code comes light up to it and is sufficient to
indict and convict them. Judges and Jurors should
look well to the text in the New York Herald where
it says—“ That we are taught that piety, wealth and
respectability combined, are sometimes more than a
match for law, jusiice and State prosecutions, and
that when banking and financial operations arc to be
carried on, upon a large scale, the best prelude to a
successful plot and a thrilling denouement is a very
devout look at a prayer meeting, most assiduous teach
ing at a Sabbath School, and eyes turned up to Ileaven,
with all the sanctity of ‘Aminidab Sleek, Esq.’ Alas
for poor Harvey Dayton. He did not pay sufficient at
tention to those things. Let our laws be put vigorously
into execution without favor or affection to either per
son or property, for there is scarcely anything produces
so much good as the mandate,‘Juror, look upon the
prisoner—prisoner look upon the Juror.’
It is a subject of remark that it is slmnge , mrti'e of
the Georgia papers do not present tho question of the
election of Judges by the people in their issues? It is
of much importance in Georgia, where the State Con
stitution has been plainly and palpably violated. M hat
say these great and strict constructionists of the Con
stitution ? Os the Fire-Eaters we ask, arc you for it or
against it? Don’t play the mum policy about it. Fre
quent election and quick rotation in office is the life of
republics. It purifies the political air and neutralizes
the filth and corruption that taiuts political office hol
ders. It is no answer that tho voters would sell their
votes at elections. It is far better they should sell what
belongs to them, than their representatives should do
so, without the right. The people are more honest.
It is easier to buy up and corrupt a small body than a
large one.
By the people electing Judges there wotiul be less
chance for bribery. It is to be hoped there is not. one
guilty of such a crime, ns was the Lord chancellor
Bacon, in the Egorton ease, who took sixty thousand
pounds from one of the parties and forty thousand
pounds from the other. It excites great suspicion and
enquiry” when wo see and know’ of men going into
office bankrupts and in the short space of two years be
millionaires. Such things creep into high places. Char
acter is not much except in Bank eases for which Og
den is good authority. Opportunity makes most thieves.
‘Lead us not into temptation’ is the strongest bulwark
of honesty.
The Hon. 11. Cobb is to be with us on the 9th inst.
There is much enthusiasm shown about his visit. There
will be a large turn out. The Fire-Eaters have con
demned him without a‘trial.’ They ought to remem
ber that it is ‘one thing to be tempted another to fall.’
It is a burlesque upon our Constitution and our
rights to see men in the name of ‘City Council’ tax
the people here to build Railroads, and raise a peny
purse to give to the conductor of it, who say, in the
face of his contributors, that they are Abolitionists.
‘They all are weighed, even to the utmost scruple.
They only lie and coy and flirt and slander, go antickly
and show outward hideousness, and speak a half a
dozen of dangerous words, how they might hurt their
enemies, and this is all.’ CASSIO.
Don't iivc in hope with your arms folded. For
tune smiles on those who roll up their sleeves and
put shoulders to the wheel that propels them on
to wealth and happiness. Cut this out, and carry it
about in your vest pocket, ye who idle in barrooms
pr at the corners of the streets.
■ ‘J iW - “ ‘Si’ 5
THE GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR.
MACON, GEO. JULY 12, 1851.
UNION NOMINATION,
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. HOWELL COBB,
OF CI.AUKE.
UNION CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES.
l-'IRST DISTRICT.
CHARLES 11. HOPKINS,
OF m’intOSll.
THIRD DISTRICT.
ABSALOM H. CHAPPELL,
OF IUIHI.
FOURTH DISTICT.
CHARLES MURPHY,
OF DE KALB.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
E. W. CHASTAIN,
OF GILMER.
SIXTH DISTRICT
JUIVIUS HILLYER,
OF WALTON.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
ROBERT TOOMBS,
OF WILKES.
FOR THE STATE SENATE, 2GTH DISTRICT, MONROE
AND 11188,
DR. SYLVANI'S W. BURNEY.
E2T The Union Congressional Convention
for the Second District, will meet in Americus,
Sumter county, on the 29th of July.
IfW” The Union Congressional Convention
for the Seventh District, will meet in Sparta,
Hancock county, on the 7th of August.
To Correspondents.
&T T. C. of Thomaston is informed that he must
look to his postmaster or to some of his friends about
the village post office, for his missing papers. We mail
them regularly, and they should reach him on the day
of publication, or at latest, the day after.
The favors of “Cassio” always welcome. Send
them on in better season, and more regularly.
J3P” Thanks to Mr. Culver of the steamer Florida,
for late New York papers.
“Buena Vista” in our next.
“Friendship” is informed that we never agreed
to furnish our subscribers with a capacity to under
stand classical Literature, of a high order, for the pal
try sum of $2 each, per year! llis soggostion is
therefore out of place, besides being a swindle of five
cents postage out of our pocket!
Pay Your Postage.— As the r. O. Depart
ment now gets two cents profit on every letter not pre
paid, will our subscribers please save us the extra and
unnecessary tax, when writing to us on their own busi
ness ? Postmasters in the country are also Notified that
it is an imposition upon us to send notices on official
business, without their frank. We have had to pay
for such neglect of duty, several times, lately.
Proceedings of seveval political meetings and
other matter in type, but unavoidably tTowdcd ont.
Bibb Superior Court. —The Superior Court.
his Honor Judge Stark, on the bench, is now in ses
sion in this city. There is a very heavy Docket on
hand, especially on the criminal/side of the Cup;-t.
One murder ease—that of the State rs Thomas 11.
Smith, as accessory with Brinkley Bishop, in the mur
der of Turner Smith, his brother, has been disposed of,
by Smith withdrawing the general plea “not guilty,’’
and pleading guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter. He
has been sentenced, accordingly, to four years Appren
ticeship to some mechanical trade, in that “House of
Refuge” provided by the State for her moral Lazars,
commonly called a Penitentiary, situated at Millcdg
ville!
Give Credit.- -The Georgia Citizen is entitled,
on the score of voluntary service rendered, to receive
credit for the full proceedings of the
vention at Atlanta, as published in our Extra of Tues
day last, and republished to day. When we furnish
copy to a cotemporary, “ free, gratis for nothing, ’’ we
expect to receive the usual acknowledgment due to
Editors, Reporters and Compilers. \\ edo !
Educational Convention.— This body met at
Marietta on the Bth, and organized, temporarily, by
calling Bishop Elliott to the Chair, and appointing Lu
ther J. Glenn, and Wm. 11. Chambers, Secretary.—
Subsequently, Judge E. A. Nisbet, was appointed per
manent President, and lit. Ilev. Stephen Elliott, jr.,
A. Church, D. I). Geo. F. Pierce, D. D. and Thom
as Stocks, Vice Presidents. Up to 3 o'clock P. M.,
Wednesday, nothing of importance was done except
appointing the usual committees of such bodies. There
was a large delegation present.
I. 0. 0. F. Grand Encampment, State of
Georgia.
This body met in annual communication, at Odd
Fellow’s Hull, in this city, on Wednesday last, 11. W.
G. C. P. Walton B. Harris, Presiding. There was
but little business transacted, of general interest. A
change was made in the time of annual Meeting from
the 2d Wednesday of July to the Tuesday before the
2d Wednesday June, so as to bring on the annual
session of the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment,
during the same week.
The following Patriachs were duly elected and in
stalled officers of the Grand Encampment, for the term
ending June 1852 :
A. Merritt, Griffin, G. C. P.
R. L Wood, Macon, G. 11. P.
Peter G. Thomas, Savannah, G. S. W.
W. IP Fleming, Macon, G. J. W.
Gen. Patten, “ Grand Scribe.
E. C. Giannis, “ “ Treasurer.
A. F. Torlay, Savannah, “ Sentinel.
Strolling Showmen. —One Wm. E. Evans,
Proprietor of “Alexander's Panorama of the Antede
luvian World” to whom we loaned some money to
pay expenses to Savannah, and who promised to re
fund, from that city, has passed on North, without re
collecting to remember his indebtedness.
$4?” One Signor Novelli, who claims Madame
Duravg as his Cara Sposa and a Mr. Pease, from
Augusta, Georgia, as his “Assistant,’’ —and who, as
Operatic Italian Singers, passed through this place late
ly, and who while at Columbus shared largely in the pri
vate hospitality of the nobility of that city, has also got
out of the State, after swindling Hotel keepers and
printers out of all he could! Will his “Assistant”
let us hear from him?
Washington Monument.— Georgia has con
tributed through the U. S. Marshall, $2,290,70, to the
Washington National Monument, now in process of
erection. This sum was contributed in June, and is
probably not a tythe of the whole amount of subscrip
tions for this State, to that great work. In some of the
disunion counties of Georgia not the first red cent has
been collected towards the object 1 “Oh shame!
where is thy blush !’’
Southern Cultivator.— This admirable ag
ricultural paper, for J uly, is on our table. It is an old
and well established journal, and cannot be surpassed
by any of its competitors. IV. S. Jones, Augusta, Ga.
at sl, per amfum. ..
The Rattlesnake Party!
True as preaching, dear reader! The South Caro
lina chivalry have christened the “ immediate seces
sion” baby, by this ominous appellation,and sworn alle
giance to its rightful sovereignty. At the recent cele
bration of the Battle of Fort Moultrie, at Charleston,
Col. John Cunningham, one of the orators, thus deliv
ered himself:
“We commemorate an event whose glory is peculiar
ly our own. We are not here as Americans’ We are
not here as Southerners. We are here as Carolinians !
The battle of Fort Moultrie was not only fought by Car
olinians, and for Carolina's rights as an individual col
ony, but it gave us a distinctive character, and led to a
distinctive community as a State. It gave us pride,
as a people ; sovereignty, as a body politic ; independ
ence, as a separate nationality. Our emblems derived
from it, are our own ; let us, henceforth, have no other;
least of all, those of the oppressor. Is it not her RAT
-ILESNAKE, that generously warns and yet can
fatally strike its foe, as noble as the eagle, that tower
ing bird of prey, whose talons we have felt? Is not
our palmetto of more dignity as a useful monument,
than yonder stripes, that have become illustrations of
our humiliation ? Is not our motto, l Animis Opibusque
Parati ,’ more the sentiment of self-reliant freemen,
ftnn those other words, ‘ E Vluribus Urtum,’ notv so
expressive of consolidation and tyranny ? Is not the
‘lone star’ of that banner—to us a single sheen in the
Heaven, whose light we enjoy—more glorious than a
mere constellation, whose cluster only adorns a sky of
gloom and night ?’’
The Charleston Courier, says, that after the dismissal
of the Military parade, on the 4th July, several compa
nies halted in front of the Mercury Office, “out of one
of the windows of which was suspended a mammoth
white flag, on which appeared a lone star, and a rattle
snake with his head erect at the foot of a Palmetto tree;
when after a brief address from Cul. Pinckney, nine
cheers were given for‘the flag of South Carolina,’ and
three for Col. Pinckney.”
Concerning this act, the Savannah Republican in
dulges in the following sensible words of solemn warn
ing :
“It is but a few years since Texas was desirous of ad
ding her ‘lone star’ to the ‘constellation’ of States.
Sore experience had taught her the folly of a separate,
feeble existence. Cuba is anxious to follow her exam
ple, and even the distant isles of the Pacific are stretch
ing out their hands and crying to us for help. Caroli
na, however, prefers the ‘lone star.’ She tramples
the ‘stars and stripes” under foot, and the ‘Palmetto
banner’ lias been raised in its stead. The Eagle, now
recognized and honored throughout the habitable earth,
has been brought down from his place in the heavens,
and the crawling, venomous Rattlesnake, unable to
distinguish between friend and foe,elevated to his place!
W hat sacrilege ! What an outrage upoiM.be memory
of our fathers! Let South Carolina beware. The Pal
metto affords but slight protection against the blasts of
heaven, and her ‘lone star’ may become a blazing met
eor, wandering through the skies, isolated and alone,
without place or rust.’’
The identity of feeling and interest between these
Palmetto “Rattlesnakes” and their Georgia brethren,
is also worthy of a passing notice in this connexion.
Some of the toasts given at Charleston on the 4th, will
bear no doubtful interpretation. LOOK AT
THEM, and compare them with the Resolutions
passed recently by the Scriccn Eire Eaters !
REGULAR TOASTS.
The Separate Secession of South Carolina. —The
last and only remedy which submission and tyranny
have left us—[Drank with long continued cheering :
Music, Marseilles Hymn.]
The Union, the glorious Union. —Let us call its
name Icliabod, for its glory has departed.
VOLUNTEER TOASTS.
By F. X. Bonneau—-The Submisssionista of South
Carolina—Like Benedict Arnold, traitors to a just and
true cause.
By T. L. Roger ’ Political Chemistry—The trans
mutation ofTyranny into Liberty witlioot resorting to
the roaring of cannon—-Southern cowhides applied to
Northern backs.
By 11. Buist; McDonald, Yancey, Quitman —-The
patriotic Georgian, the unterrified Alabamian, and the
illustrious lYliasissippian. May an All-wise Provi
dence cro\p with success their noble eflbrts in the cause
of constitutional liberty.
By T. M. Wagner: Cobb, Foote and Downs.—
Demagogues and Traitors : Should the South fail in its
present effort to secure its equality and independence,
and succumb beneath the efforts of Federal despotism,
how great the weight of infamy and which will rest
through all time upon the heads and memories of those
by whose instrumentality its degradation was accom
plished.
By W. K. Davis.—ln ’76 South Carolina seceded
from Great Biitain, in ’52 may she secede from the
Union.
By T. Alex. Miller, Esq. : South Carolina—Op
pressed and degraded by a vile, false, tyrannical, and
political government. Secession is her only remedy,
and disunion her only honor.
By Col. 11. Wigfall: Gen. J. A. Quitman —The
first on the plains of Mexico. May lie be the first
President of the Southern Republic.
By Jacob Williman: Fillmore and his Cabinet—
South Carolina has prepared for them should they at
tempt to coerce- her, what they richly deserve—A Hal
ter of Kentucky Hemp.
The Scriven patriots talk after the same fashion, as
will appear from the following Resolutions recently
passed by them :
Resolved. That our delegates be instructed to vote
for no candidate in the nomination on the 4th of July
next, who is opposed to IMMEDIATE STATE AC
TION.
Resolved , That we consider the Clay compromise
measures unfair, illiberal and unjust, and that we can
see no reason why ice should wait for further federal
encroachments.
Resulted, That the States are sovereign, and that
the general government is one of limited powers, and
should South Carolina secede, and the general govern
ment attempt to coerce by the force of arms, ire pledge
our aid to the last extremity to the brave Palmetto
State.
Resolved , That Col. Joseph Jackson's letter of
acceptance breathes a spirit of submission to the
Clay Adjustment mcaS&res. and that we cannot sup
port his election.
Buist’s toast to the “patriotic Georgian,” McDonald,
is significant enough, and so is the last Resolution of the
Scrivenites repudiating their own candidate Col. Joe
Jackson, for “sitting on a rail’’ in a State of “betvveen
ity,” and not getting down among the “Rattlesnakes,”
at once ! ’Tis a bold step that, Colonel, into a nest of
vipers , but you'll have to lake it, or quit the drive !
A Sigll-—Sixteen Self-appointed Inquisitors have
appeared in the last “Telegraph,’’ calling upon Mr.
Cobb to answer certain questions they have propounded
to him, and which, (they say,) they have also propound
ed to Mr. McDonald. Os these 16 Grand Inquisitors,
eight are of the school of Mobocrats , who last August
entered into a conspiracy to destroy the office of the
“Georgia Citizen,” and expatriate its editor ; and the
balance of them are of the most rabid ultra stripe of
disunion, Secession, Dissolution, Fire-Eating and I-il
libustcr politicians, to be found in the State! Hhy did
not these meddlers address the said letter publicly to
Mr. McDonald, as well as to Mr. Cobb, even if it be
admitted that they have any right to question the lat
ter? We had imagined that they would have
learned a lesson from the history of the past, that would
have ere this, been profitable to them. Attending to
other people's business, instead of their own, * hasn't
paid expenses ,” heretofore, and we wonder some, that
they will still have itching fingers to p<ke into matters
that do not concern them. “ Prehaps ” they will suc
ceed in their new calling of Inquisitors —perhaps not.
We will see what we will see, before the “Ides of No
vember” haveeome.
—Gratitude was fancifully said to be the mem
ory of the heart; but, alas for poor human nature,
hearts are more f ban suspected to have wondrous
short memories.
—Nature has given men two ears and but one
tongue, that we may hear from others twice as much
as wc speak ourselves.
Flaying Hive!—t>.
Columbus Enquirer, is performing * *b.
the political carcass of the Disown
ernor, in capital style, in his published 7** *
of the days of 1830 and onward, when nu! ‘ ! ' SCeil: ®’
rife in the land. Wc give a Dep ; m l6catl °n
6 s Pecirnen 0 f th ~
of the times, from ‘TV communication • “**7
“In 1830, Judge McDonald was a p,
in the Legislature from Bibb, and at
ray, then a Clark and Union man off ere a
solutions in relation to the Tariff i llt ° C^ rtain It*.
ments, and censuring South Carolina f. r T “"Me
rlon propensity, and also Gov. Troon ? r" I ***-
Liter to South Carolina, advocatin'. * Htin
State to secede. Mr. Beall, ofTwigg, u'■ r ' ?bt *
man) offered a substitute fur the
much and warm discussion on them and *4
Donald, Towns, and Schley were the j
prominent speakers on the ‘ Federal l ''*****
Southern Recorder of Dec. 18, ISOn
that on the Thursday before, M r . * stalic ?
was adopted by yeas 76, nays 45, proe, J
tiee the debate ‘ ‘ Jus to
“The debate on this question was ani
times personal. Messrs. Howard, of r'7
Twiggs, Jenkins, Ryan, Young and iw’
the principal speakers on the side of
the other side, the principal speaker! v 0a
Schley, McDonald, Towns, Wofford 11^ 7 ‘^ t! ’
Burns. Mr. McDonald contended for’ tha r ttd
tioimiity af .be Tariff (of 1828) and
had produced no injury to the Southern R
that on the contrary it had been great
and to the whole country—that the Sunrea,. r
the United States is the power having autLvT/
ternune on the sovereignty of the States \r.7?’
Donald advanced many other doctrines anala- ‘
those maintained by Mr. Webster, M r (;> ?e "°* !o
other politicians of the same school. Ylr t*’ ** **
dared tliat no State could withdraw from !r 4>
without the consent of the other,
South Carolina doctrines were pernicious and opw 1
to the prosperity of the country ; and that the mT’
ers of that State were nothing more nor less ti- /
tors to their country, desiring the
States. These speakers combined in an attack a *
Gov. Troup, in assimilating him to the
South Carolina; in placing him as one
promoters of disunion and rebellion an'iwt i--
eral Government, Are.”
“ But this is not the only record of .Judge McDon
aid’s remarks on that occasion. The following extra*
from the speech of the Hon. Robert A. Beall. r ’
regulative from Twiggs, who followed imnd£
after Judge McDonald, not only subtantiallj msjj,
the above, but lets us further into Judge McDonald',
views, both on the Tariff, and this subject Says Mr
Beall:
“That gentleman (Mr. McDonald) lias avowed sen
timents unbecoming a representative of any portion J
the Southern people, (however small) and which cer
tainly cannot correspond with the sentiment* es the
people by whom he was elected. In the discussion of
the Tariff of lS2B,(an act which lias filled the whole
Southern country with resentment and dismay i the
gentleman from Bibb avows openly that it ;u *
constitutional measure ; that the adoption of the pro
tecting system has been of no serious disadvantage u
the Southern interest, as our citizens were prosperin’
under its operation. The gentleman admitted, indeed,
that the people had complained; that they had de
deiiounced the Tariff as a system of usurpation and op
pression. And whilst the people, in ODe voice, are ex
claiming, in petitions, remonstrances, and complaints,
against the most enormous oppression and diabolical
burthens ever endured by freemen, the gentleman from
Bibb would say to them, ‘Peace ; All is well and pros
perous. The gentleman says that the complaints of the
people are founded upon imaginary grievances; hat
the people would have been silent, contented and
happy, but for the interference of our members iu Coa
gres*.”
‘T.’ further shows that Gov. McDonald at that thus
charged Gov. Troup with ‘being a traitor and wanting
in faith to the Constitution,’ because of tbe sentiment*
of a Toast given bv the latter, at a Jefferson celebra
tion dinner, at Washington chy. Here is the toast:
Toast— Hr Gov. Troup, of Georgia.”—The Gov
ernment of tbe United States, with more limited pow
ers than the Republic of San Marino, it rules an Eo.
pire more extended than the Roman, with the abso
luteness of Tiberius, with less wisdom than -Augusta?,
and less justice than Trajan and the Antonines.”
On a Resolution of censure of said Toast. McDonald,
voted in its favor, or against its being laid upon the ta
ble!
These were the days of good old. Jackson, Unioo
Democracy, when Schley, Wofford, McDoigald,Mo.
Donald, Towns and others, were battling together
against nullification ! Now Mac has become the stan
dard bearer for those whom he and Towns then de
nounced and has the cool effrontery to claim that he still
stands where he once stood—a consistent Union
Democrat ! Verily such a ‘wheel about and jump
about, jistso ’ specimen of political Gymnastics would
have done honor to the ‘Original Jiin Crow’ Esq., in
the palmiest day of his glory as a rotary Engine!
2Sili Senatorial Convention.
The Delegates appointed to meet in Senatorial U>n
volition, from the counties of Monroe and Bibb, for the
purpose of placing a Constitutional Union candidate ia
nomination tor the State Senate, from this district, con
vened at Colparchee on the Bth inst., and organized,
by calling Dr. Robert Collins to the Chair and request
ing Dr. L. F..W. Andrews to act as Secretary.
On motion of Wm. S. Norman, Dr. SVIA AN>.5
W . Bl RNEY, of Monroe, was nominated by accla
mation as the Candidate of the Constitutional laiou
party of the 26th Senatorial District of Georgia, to
the office aforesaid.
Messrs. Andrews, Goodrurn, Norris, Flander*
Norman, were appointed a committee to notify Dr
Burney of his nomination.
Mr. W. S. Norman offered the following Rese -
tions which were unaniinousiy adopted :
The Constitutional Union party of the 26th Sena
torial District, having met in Convention and nominat
ed their candidate, think it proper to accompany d ,dr
nomination with the follow ing declaration of their p<*’
tion.
Resolved , That we acquiesce in the adjustment
the several questions in relation to Slavery canted
in the Compromise Bills passed during the late (.<*
gress.
Resolved , Tliat the Southern States have not ®
er collectively or separately any just cause for
siou from the Union ; and the exercise of that
by them or either of them now, would be inexpedk“-
and fraught with incalculable mischief.
Resolved, That if any Southern State should un
fortunately sece le for any supposed existing cause, * e
cannot promise our co-operation, but wiil feel bound -
adhere to the “ American Union as secondary in in, ‘
portance only to the rights and principles it “** fll
signed to perpetuate, and that past associations, present
fruition and future prospects will bind us to it, sow®*
as it continues the safeguard of those rights and P r “ J *
ciples.’
Resolved , That we cordially and heartily *PF r '-' 6
the action of the Convention held in MilKdgevil.e
December of last year, and bow in cheerful sub®*.
sion to the will of the people of Georgia therein e
pressed.
Resolved, That we ratify the nomination 0
Hon. llowell Cobb as a candidate for Governor,
also the nomination of the lion. A. 11. Chappy
candidate for Congress in the 3d Congressional l )isl
and will use all honorable means in our pow<.r
cure their election.
On motion of Judge Cook, these proceeding*
ordered to be forwarded to the Journal and •
ger and Georgia Citizen for publication.
Convention then adjourned.
lIOB'T. COLLINS, Chaw*
L. F. W. Andrews, Secretary.
Harris Union Ticket.
David Read of Harris, has been noniinaU, t h
tor for the 16th Senatorial District, *#d
counties of Harris and Troup. Col. James > • -
Dr. Geo. W. Cobb, to the Representative bra.
Harris county.