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UNION NOMINATION,
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. HOWELL COBB,
OF CLARKE.
UNION CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES.
FIRST DISTRICT.
CHARLES H. IIOPKINS,
OF m’iNTOSII.
SECOND DISTRICT.
JAMES JOHNSON,
OF MUSCOGEE.
THIRD DISTRICT.
ABSALOM 11. CHAPPELL,
OF 8188.
FOURTH DISTICT.
CHARLES MURPHY,
OF DE KALB.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
E. W. CHASTAIN,
OF GILMER.
SIXTH DISTRICT
JUNIUS HILLYER,
OF WALTON.
SEVENTH DISTRICT
HON. A. H. STEPHENS,
OF TALLIAFERRO.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
ROBERT TOOMBS,
OF WILKES.
FOR TIIE STATE SENATE, 26TH DISTRICT, MONROE
AND 8188,
DR. SYLVANUS IV. BURNEY.
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Dissolution of the Union in South Caroli
na.—Our readers are probably aware that there is still
a large party of politicians and other misguided individ
uals in the chivalrio State of South Carolina, who are
still clamoring for the separation of that State from the
American Confederation. The politicians tell the peo
•ple that they (the people) are already ruined, their rights
trampled upon, their fire-sides desecrated, and that it
will be ( rave and heroic for the State to withdraw from
the Union, give up all its interest in the laws and pro-
Taction of the country, and set up on its own hook. Now
the facts are, that the people never were more prosper
ous, more comfortable, or better satisfied, than at pres
ent. A leading paper at Charleston, the Southern
.Standard, is opposed to the foolish movement, as in
-decd are all sensible editors. The following dialogue,
which we take from the Standard, shows the ridiculous
position of the Secessionists. — N. Y. Day Book.
“WHAT DOES SECESSION MEAN’?’
The State ought to secede.
Why?
Because 6he has pledged herself to resist.
Resist wbat ?
The aggressions of Government.
What aggressions ?
The admission of California with her anti-slavery
■constitution, the unjust territorial bills, and the law abol
ishing the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
Will the secession of South Carolina change the
constitution oLCalifounia?
No.
Will it place California out of the Union ?
No.
Will it give us back the territories which were so
•unjustly taken from us j
No.
Will it repeal the anti-slave trade law for the Dis
trict of Columbia ?
No.
What then does it resist?
Well, I hardly know what; but then it looks like
resistance, and to go alone is a movement so bold and
spirited!
If the Government attempts to coerce us, could we
fight it out alone ?
Oh no, we shall have help quick enough.
Well, if we go out looking for help, where is the bold
ness of going alone. This seems to me like going
alone, and not going alone.
Oh, but we commence the fight alone.
True, but if we tell our neighbors beforehand, that we
look to them for help when we get into a tight place,
there does not seem to be much boldness in the matter.
And if we go in peace, where is the boldness of the step,
since it resist nothing ?
Jlut we shall at least be free then to do as we please.
Could we then take our slaves to California, or New
.Mexico, cr .Utah ?
No.
Could we take them to North Carolina, or Georgia,
or Alabama?
No.
If a Georgian or North Carolinian marry in South
’■Carolina, could the father of the bride give his daugh
ter a negro to take to one of those States ?
No.
How, then, do you say that we could do as we pleas
ed?
Well, don't kr.ow exactly, but still, by secession wo
show our resentment, and spite those freesoilers.
Would you burn down your own house to show
your resentment, and spite your enemy ?
I would not.
If you were half owner of a house, and tho other half
owner were to occupy more than his share, would you
show your resentment by giving him up the whole and
.building another for yourself ?
No, I would not.
Then if, by secession, we give up all the territories
and forts, and our interest in the navy and the public
buildings, and go out alone to set up for ourselves
how do we spite the freesoilers, or how can it be called
resistance? Ibis looks to me like downright submis
sion ; Mississippi is for taking back the land, by settling
it in defiance of the law. But we call that submission,
and say, no, let us cut loose and leave all; that is re
sistance. But call it as we please, the world, will think
that Mississippi is right $ and we will think so too, when
the charm breaks.
Well, may be so; I confess I cannot see how it is,
but my leaders say that it is brave and heroic, and all
that, and so I—go it blind.
English Funds for Abolition.
The Southern Press finds in the proceedings of a
late English abolition meeting, that certain asX’iations
in England are in the habit of forwarding annually
to this country contributions in money to promote
the cause of abolition.
The Press say*: We invite the special attention of
our Southern friendo to this fact. The South is now as
sailed both from the Northern States of this Union, and
from England, by organized associations, who spend
large sums of money annually for the overthrow of our
institutions.
We trust that the “ Southern friends” thus called
upon, especially those in South Carolina, will pay the
“ special attention” required. It is supposed that some
of them are locking forward with great hope to English
protection and shelter. They will find it the protection
and shelter that “the hawk gives the dove, rending and
devouring it.” Better stand by the American Republic,
than rush to seek an unnatural alliance, and one which
must end in certain destruction to the interests of South
C*r.”B3.-~ jßh\m:nd Republican.
Why You should not Vote for McDonald.
You should Dot vote for McDonald, because
he is at heart a disuuionist, and is the candi
date of that party who first proclaimed the doc
trine of disunion at Nashville ; he acted with
them at the time and was their leader.
You should not vote for him, because “he
was president of the disunion convention at Ma
con, where Rhett advised the people of Georgia
to go for disunion, and never objected a word to
such advice, lie has presided at every conven
tion in Georgia where disunion has been pro
claimed.”
You should not vote for him, because he is
in favor of calling a Southern Congress, and
advised the people in a letter last year t.o send
delegates to the Southern Congress, clothed
with full power to act for the South.
You should not vote for him, because he and
his party are encouraging the secession spirit
of Carolina, by promising to aid them in a tight
with the government.
You should not vote for him, because he and
his party are trying to deceive the people by ad
vocating two different platforms with opposite
principles. They say they are for the Union
platform and yet they are also for their own
platform—manifest hyprocrisy and deception !
You should not vote for him, because he is
in favor of legislating upon the subject of slave
ry ; a doctrine at variance with the long estab
lished Southern principle of non-intervention.
You should not vote for him, because he was
twice Governor before, and it is contrary to all
usage to elect a man the third time for that of
fice ; and because when he was Governor, he
was a bad one inasmuch as he found the treasu
ry full of funds and left it empty, and tho State
in debt; that under bis management the pen
itentiary was a dead expense, and the bills of
the Central Bank depreciated in value 10 or 12
per cent; for an accountof which and otherde
ricieneies, we refer you to an article in another
column from the Savannah Republican.
You should not vote for him, because in 1830
he was a high protective tariff man, and declar
ed in the Georgia Legislature that the tariff’ of
1828 was right and constitutional—a tariff
which the most ultra protectionists of the pres
ent day disclaim,and the same which Carolina re
sisted ; that notwithstanding this fact, and with
out ever having disavowed these opinions, he
now calls for the support of the old State rights
men, and his party have taken to themselves the
name of State rights.
You should not vote for him, because in 1830
he said “ the Supreme Court of the Looted
States is the power, having the authority to de
termine upon the sovereignty of the States, ’’
whilst now, without ever having disavowed this
opinion, he professes to hold that the sovereign
ty of the States is superior to every thing, even
the constitution of the United States, and that
a State may leave the Union at any time, even
without a cause of offence.
You should not vote for him, because, “du
ring that same session, an attempt was made by
the Supreme Court of the U. States to prevent
the State of Georgia from hanging an Indian
named Tassels who had been convicted of mur
der. Gov. Gilmer communicated this fact to
the Legislature then in session. A committee
was appointed which made a report, stating
that Georgia had never parted with her right
to punish crimes; that she would not yield it
now, and that Tassels should be hung accord
ing to the sentence of the Court. Mr. McDon
ald with eleven others, voted NO, to these prin
ciples.”
You should not vote for him, because seces
sion emissaries from Carolina have been a
mongst us trying to promote his election, and
because South Carolina regards the success of
McDonald as a pledge on the part of Georgia to
go with her out of the Union.
You should not vote for him, because his
Carolina allies are seeking the aid of the British
against our government.
And finally, you should not vote for him,
because, apart from all these objections to him,
his opponent, the Hon. Howell Cobb is a more
worthy man, a better statesman, and is in every
point of view, more worthy of your suffrage.—
Cassville Standard.
Senator Phelps, of Ft., on the Fugitive
Slave Law.
Springfield, August 28, 1851.
A long atid able letter, dated the 4thinst, has just
made its appearance from Hon. S. J. Phelps, lateU. S.
Senator from Vermont. It is addressed to the lion.
Lucius B. Peck, who recently declined the free soil
nomination for Governor of Vermont. Senator Phelps
reviews the Fugitive Slave law, its constitutionality, and
the action of Vermont on those questions, with great
earnestness. He says:
“Os the constitutionality of the act I never enter
tained a doubt. It is but the echo of the constitution
itself. It may be modified, it may require modification
in some particulars, but the modifications lie within the
range of legislative discretion; and a difference of
opinion in relation to them, affects not the question of
constitutionally. It would be difficult to carry out the
provision of the constitution without a law substantially
like theone in question. The main purpose of the act
the surrender of the fugitive, is demanded by the con
stitution itself, the manner of return is left to legislative
provision. If there be anything objectionable in that,
the remedy is by appeal to legislative discretion—not
by resistance to the law. It appears to me that we have
but one alternative, either to carry out the law, or re
pudiate the constitution!’
C3F” A correspondent of the Columbus Inquirer
giving an account of the speech of the candidate for
Congress from the 2d Congressional District, which
he delivered at Lumpkin, Stewart county, on the 27tli
ult., says:
lie (Col. Benning) asserted that the Proclamation
of 1832 Was written by Edward Livingston, and that
Gen. Jackson signed it as President without ever hav
ing read it—or knowing what was in it. and that he
afterwards repudiated it. This was a very severe re
flection upon the sagacity, integrity and patriotism of
Gen. Jackson. Such a charge is wanting in every es
sential requisite of trutli to give it validity, for certainly
a man must be very credulous and entertain but a poor
opinion of Gen. Jacksen, who can be made to believe,
by tvire assertion, that the old llero would have sub
scribed li:s name to an Executive document of such
tremendous consequences, without having read it, or
understanding what was in it—it being undoubtedly
the most important Executive document that ever ema
nated from any administration since the birth of this
Government. The whole history of Gen. Jackson's
life from beginning to end proves conclusively the falsi
ty of the charge. lie was equally severe upon the
Democratic party of Ga. lie said that they had for a
long time (seven years I think) known Cobb and Judge
Lumpkin, to be tinctured with free soilism and that the
Clterokee county was not as sound upon this subject as
she might be. This was a hard lick upon the old demo
crats, who had supported Cobb and Lumpkin for office,
and I don't see for iny life how his Democratic friends
here can well digest this portion of his speech, for it
directly charged them, with having knowingly and wil
fully supported and sustained a free softer. lie conclu
ded by saying that the only means of preventing Smith
Carolina from going out of the Union, was to elect
McDonald Governor.
CHOLERA ON RED RIVER.
By an article in the New Orleans Bulletin,
of the 25th, including an extract from Red
River Republican, we regret to learn that the
Cholera had broken out on Red River, and
‘vas attended with almost unprecedented vio
,T f nc ° faiali, D Dn the plantations of Mr.
l, -r™,’. lhe deat *>s had reached ninety
° ’ i r d [ sease was spreading in the up
per end of the Parish, on J ano Creek.
lhe ren,oral„r,he „egroes to the pine hills
fa,led to produce the desired effect. Dr. Jr
L. Martm had fallen a vie,im to the disease,
and also M r J. M. Macky, an overseer „„ „„e
of Mr. rolnotsn e plantation^.
An Important Admission.
The N. A . Tribune, denouncing the determination of
the people of Indiana to exclude free negroes from that
State, says:
“ But the fact of its passage is none the less a fact
because we don’t like it. The immense majority for
bids the presumption that any resistance could hav6
been effected. And, although there are said to be pecu
liar reasons for the magnitude of this vote in Indiana
we cannot doubt that the same proposition, in like man
ner submitted to a direct and naked popular vote, would
prevail in nearly every Free State of the Union.
Such, we have no doubt, will be the final result, and
grand consummation of the labors of Abolitionism !
But we beg the attention of our readers to the fol
lowing extract from the N. A". Journal of Commerce,
from which it appears that the exclusion of free negroes
met with great favor from tho Free Soilers :
“ A comparison of the votes from the Free Soil
Abolition Candidates, where such candidates were in
nomination shows that the larger part of those who
voted for said candidates, voted also in favor of negro
exclusion, or certainly not against it. Take the follow
ing counties, where Julian and Rev. Samuel Brenton,
Free Soilers, were candidates for Congress. The votes
stood as follows:
Congressmen Vote For Negro Against
Counties. Parker Julian Exclusion Do
(W.) (Soil.)
Henry 1459 1433 1443 802
Union 580 610 723 370
Borden Brenton
(Soil Dem) (Soil Whig)
Delaware 718 941 1828 159
Allen 1100 1112 1775 261
Whitley 431 467 739 62
4268 4563 5998 1654
Behold here a specimen of Indiana Free Soilism.
While it refuses to fulfil its obligations under the Con
stitution for the surrender of fugitive slaves, it will not
suffer one of those “ panting fugitives,” nor any other
colored man to enter its own territory. Any employ
ment or aid given to such new comer, with a view to
encourage his remaining in Indiana, renders the person
so doing liable to a penalty of SSOO. And all contracts
made with such persons arc declared void. This, be
it remembered, is a part of the fundamental law of In
diana. ”
Far from being the friends of the negro, the
Abolitionists have, in all eases, been his most deadly
enemies. In all the Slave States they have caused the
bonds of the law to bo drawn with a tightness to which
former days afford no example. In the free States
they have been even moro hostile to his interests. On
this latter point, hear the New York Journal of Com
merce, the editor of which has had the most ample
opportunities to form a correct opinion upon the sub
ject :
“ What Free Soilers are in Indiana, they are else
where, allowing for a difference of circumstances. If
the South should free its 3,000,000 slaves, and they
should begin to arrive freely in the State of New York,
we should expect the Free Soilers and Abolitionists
would be among the first to oppose them. Seward,
M eed, Greeley & Cos., would probably lead the van.
1 lie fact is, that in no part of the country is a large
free colored population wanted. They arc less desira
ble now than formerly, because then they were willing
to he useful, and manifested some respect for their su
periors. But the Abolitionists have taught them that
they are as good as any body, and have as good rights
and as many. Accordingly, in tho Railroad cars you
will commonly find them occupying the best scats, and
on tho sidewalks you arc lucky if they do not crowd
you off. Most of them are unfit for domestics, being
too impudent to be endured. Many who used formerly
te employ colored servants, do so no longer, for the
above reason.”
From the Greenville Patriot.
The Editors in South Carolina.
W hen wo look at the secession newspapers in South
Carolina, and read the intense and burning Carolina
feeling which some of them contain, wo would natur
ally suppose that the editors were Carolinians by birth
—tho descendants of Revolutionary ancestors—whoso
deeds till many a page in the history of our State. Yea,
more, we should bo inclined to think, from their ex
clusive Carolina patrotisin, that they had seldom, if
ever, been outside of the State. Knowing nothing of
any other portion of their country, and having no fami
ly ties beyond their State, they were thus wrapped up
in Carolina, and in some measure excusable for their
narrow and selfish patriotism.
But how great must be the astonishment of every
one when he ascertains that some of these intensely
Carolina editors are Yankees, Irishmen and English
men. One of the principal writers under the editorial
head of tho Charleston Mercury , that embodiment of
Carolina secession, is a Yankee born and educated,
and who came South to seek his fortune—Mr. Clapp.
The next secession paper in South Carolina for promi
nence and ability, is the Carolinian —edited by a
native Carolinian, born in Ireland—who has taken a
solemn oath of alegiancc to the United States. Mr.
Johnson is assisted in his editorial labors by a friend
from the North—Mr. Cavis. There is another paper
in Columbia, now edited we think, by a Northern man
with Southern principles ! The Charleston Courier,
which came out for disunion last fall, lias always been
owned in part and edited in part, we believe, by one or
more Northern men. There are others which we dis
dain to mention, who have aliens by birth conducting
them, and who are for disunion per se.
We object to no man on account of his birth. The
genthmen above mentioned and alluded to, we object
to, on account of their politics, not their foreign or
northern birth. We only think it is proper in North
ern men and foreigners, when they come to Soutli
Carolina, to remember where they were born, and not
undertake to diotate to, and denounce native South
Carolinians because they do not go for secession and
disunion. An adopted citizen should be disposed to
go with his State and not to lead her into a revolution.
It is well known that General Quitman is a Northern
man, and we have no hesitation in saying a Northern ad
venturer. Ilis extreme anxiety to separate the South
from the North—the land of his birth from the land of
liis adoption—ia unnatural, and shows either a knavish
or a callous heart. The land which gave a man birth
if he has within his heart a feeling susceptible of pat.
riotism, must always be dear to him. Hence no North
ern men ever elevates himself in our estimation by
abusing the North. We at once mistrust his heart or
suspect hiu motives.
We have all the feelings and partialities of a Southern
man, but they do not make us insensible to the merits and
importance of the North. In many respects, in wis
dom, enterprise and energy, in most of the conveniences
and comforts of life, the Northern people are far ahead
of us. Ihe finest looking population w® have ever
seen, North or South, was in the city of Boston, and
whilst we desire them to be quiet and keep in subjection
their fanatics and demagoguges, we do not desire to part
with them as countrymen. We still wish to claim
Franklin, Hancock, Adams and Warren as our coun
trymen. When we look at Bunker Hill, or Faneuil
Hall, we wish to behold them as belonging to our coun
try of Washington, Pinckney and Rutledge—the
country iu which we were born, liavo lived and hop® to
die—a united, independent and free country—a great
and glorous Republic, surpassing all the nations of the
earth as much in civil and religious freedom as it does
in happiness and unrivalled prosperity.
Z3~ “ One of the Northern journals recalls to the
recollection of the Secessionists the position of Texas
before site was admitted into the Union. She enjoyed
all the blessings and benefits of an independent Gov
erninent. She powessed all the attributes of a sover
eign Slate, unabridged and undisputed. She had a
large territory. She had all the elements of a great
State. She had signalized her valor in war, and could
defend herself, whilst she exhibited boundless capacities
for improvement in peace. Yet she sought political
association. She did not like the solitary condition.
She had no taste for single blessedness, but preferred
political wedlock. The genius of her statesmen did
not discover, even in her large virgin tracts, inviting
emigration—her fine rivers, rendering every part of
her territory accessible—her hardy population, capable
of military service—her remoteness from ambitious
neighbors, in none of these, or all of them combined,
did Texas find inducements for preferring solitary gran
deur to affiliation with those who bad similar property 7
to defend and similar institutions to sustain. She could
have obtained the most advantageous foreign alliances.
She was courted by one of the great Powers of Eu
rope. She was wise. She shunned the fatal embrace
which, allowing her nominal independence, would have
enslaved her. She preferred an association by which
she abridged her sovereignty to retaining a nationality
in name only.”
A Troublesome Question. — In Chambers county
in this State, the following question has been propound
ed to the candidates, and at last date had not been an
swered :
W ill our candidates here, from Congress down, who
contend the general government is powerless, after a
•State has determined to secede, answer the following
question ?
If Ohio were to secede peaceably from this Union
on account of that “ insulting ” fugitive slave law, and
the slaves of Virginia were all to slide over into that
State, and claim the protection of her sovereign power,
would you oppose the measures of the Union men in
forcing the laws of the General Government over such
sovereign State, for the purpose of protecting Southern
Rights ?
The gentlemen who compose the Southern Rights
ticket have all pledged themselves, by resolution, to re
sist the general government by force should an attempt
bo made to enforce the laws of the Union in the Slate
of Soutli Carolina. Change the location and the whole
face of the matter is also changed. In the case of
Ohio opposed, the state Rights men would be in favor
of forcing Ohio to abide by the law and would be ready
to assist. If South Carolina has the right to secede
peaceably so has Ohio. If wrong to coerce South Car
olina would it not be equally wrong to coerce Ohio?—
Mobile Advertiser,
The Crops.
We groupe together a, number of paragraphs
culled from various sources, in .relation to the
state and prospect of thi. .crops in several of the
CoHon States:
We observe the opinion expressed in some
quarters that the growing crop of cotton will
turn out a very large one—some estimates
running as high as 3,000,000 bales. Experi
ence has proved that no one can approximate
the extent of the crop until it is picked, baled
and sent to market. This year the dry spring
enabled planters to clean out their crops early,
and the warm weather May and June gave the
plant a good start and health) appearance.
Since then, the long-continued drought has
forced an early maturity. On the uplands,
which produces the bulk of the crop, the cotton,
excepting in a few neighborhoods, has suffered
severely in all the cotton-growing Slates, and
many close observers have, from this cause,
changed their views as to a large crop.—Jack
son Mississippian.
The corn crops for many miles in the sur
rounding country present a most gloomy and
heart-sickening aspect. Some few Cotton
fields that were planted late may he revived.—
But the corn is completely burnt to death.
The ears having attained about one third ot
their growth, stopped growing and are nearly
dried up, while the blade is as tinder and
without substance. Here and there some
fortunate farmer has had oeasional showers,
and is making a tolerably fair crop, but these
favored spots are few and far between, — But
ler, (Choctaw co., Ala. Standard.
We h ave heretofore been of the opinion
that the. growing crop of cotton in this region
and in North Alabama generally, would be a
large one—more than an average. But the
severe drought in July checked the growth of
the plant, and did not branch as much as usu
al, and is quite small. It is impossible for the
plants to mature a large crop, even ifthe fall is
a late one. The crop cannot lie a large one—
cannot, we believe, reach an average in North
Alabama.
We have pretty much the same news from
various parts of the cotton region. In North
Mississippi, Western District, South Alabama,
Georgia, and South Carolina, the crop has
been and Lustrously atfe£te<i by the exceedingly
dry summer. An overgCVWn crop the present
year is out of the questidp.— Huntsville Ad
vocate, 20th Aug. /
The Lavaca Commercial of ’he 13th Aug.
says: “We are informed that the ravages of
the worm have not hitherto been so destructive
as was anticipated. 011 some plantations they
have done much damage, but generally the
loss is not great. Corn crops, though some
what injured in some portions by the late gale,
are generally good.”
The Galveston Civilian of the 15th adds:
“The weather of late has been highly favora
ble for cotton picking. We hear of some
plantations on which full, and even large day’s
picking are made. Although partial failures
have taken place in some neighborhoods, the
prospect is still good far a full crop in the State
at large.”
Anew disease has made its appearance on
the cotton in our country, which is doing great
damage.
It resembled Rust in wheat, and has been
given that name by farmers. From the time
it first makes its appearance on a plant until
it is thoroughly stripped is about four days.
On the first day, small yellow or rusty spots
may be seen on the leaves, the next day it is
perfectly yellow; the next day it is drooping,
and the next entirely stripped of leaves,
blooms, squares and hulls less than half grown.
—Washington Star.
We continue to hear favorable accounts
relative to the rice crop, and have on our desk
a remarkably fine sample from Rice Hill
plantation, Pon Pon river, which is eleven to
twelve inches in length generally, although
some ears, only nine inches long, have 430
grains.— Charleston (S. C. ) Courier.
We are informed the present hemp crop in
this locality is rather indifferent, the growth
not being of that desirable uniformity. It is
what is termed spotted, in one place of the
ordinary height, and in others 100 low for cut
ting. Besides the recent heavy rains have
had an injourious effect upon that cut, and
will tend still further to lessen the quantity
and quality.
The farmers in this vicinity are now en
gaged in harvesting their tobacco crops. We
have been shown some specimens which ate
excellent, and others which were rather in
ferior.—Maysville Post Boy, 23d.
Ihe Crops.— Several bales of Cotton,of the
new crop, have been hauled to our different
ware-houses. The crop is much more back
ward, and is compelled to be much shorter
than that of last yoar, in this region; and as
the drought prevails over the whole of the
Southern Sates, there is no doubt but that the
crop of 1851 will be a very short one.
We have never had as much complaint a
mong the farmers .as we have at present. The
corn crop, which is now about matured is cer
tainly the shortest one the planters of Sumter
have ever made. I'liose that have made any
to sell are now asking one dollar per bushel for
it. Ihe Cotton crop has suffered very much
in places, and it is now believed the crop will
be much less than the last one.— Sumtrr col.
(Ala.) Whig-
I 7 uoji the Philadelphia Bulletin', 13th.
The Christiana Outrage.
We learn, by a telegraphic despatch to Wm.
B. Reed, Esq., District Attorney of Philadelph
ia County, that J. L. Thomson, esq., District
Attorney of Lancastor County, yesterday
morning proceeded to the scene of the murder,
and returned to Lancaster city this morning at
two o’clock, hav,ng in custody eleven prisoners,
charged with participating in the outrage.
The prisoners are composed of nine blacks
and two whites. The names of the latter are
Elijah East nor and Lewis Hanaway.
They were committed to Lancaster jail.
This morning the U. 8, Marshal, she U S.
District Attorney, and a special U. S. Commis
sioner from Washington City, for Christiana
for the purpose of making a thorough investi
gation of the high handed afiair, and arres
ting all suspected parties.
These officers, with the view of properly en
forceing their authority, were accompanied by a
company of U. S. Marines from the Philadephia
Navy Yard, and a detail of fifty of Marshal
Keyser’s police.
It was the intention of Marshal Roberts to
scour the neighborhood and bring to justice ail
the guilty ones.
We are informed by several gentlemen who
came passengers in the one o’clock train from
the West this afternoon, that the greatest
excitement prevailed throughout Lancaster
county. The negroes were fleeing in every
direction.
The State and Local authorities who have
taken the lead in the matter, have taken the
promptest manner.
The United States authorities have also ex
hibited the most praisworthy promptness in
maintaining the law, and ferreting out those
who have boldly resisted its execution.
The officers of the Marsall’s police, who
went up were deputized to aet as L. S. Deputy-
Marshals.
We understand that Judges Grier and Kane
have decided the offence of the rioters to be
treason against the United States.
THE GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR.
MACON, GEO. SEPT. 20, 1851.
For REPRESENTATIVES, from 8188.
GEN. JAMES W. ARMSTRONG.
JUDGE T. G. HOLT.
To Correspondents.
“ Columbus ’’ received too late for this week. He
will perceive, however, that he has been anticipated by
the Editor and other correspondents. To ensure the
earliest insertion, all documents should be in hand on
Wednesday proceeding the day of publication.
EW The literary communications of T. 11. C, will
necessarily have to lay over, till after election.
Opening of the Business Season.
W e see preparations, on all sides, for an active pros
ecution of business, among the merchants and traders
of Macon, for the season now opening upon us. Many
new stores are being fitted up and some are already fill
ed with fine assortments of goods of every description.
Cotton Avenue is itself again, and promises to be the
centre of business, as in days gone by. We also notice
that several new firms have been established and are
preparing to open by the first of October. Large sup
plies of Groceries, Dry Goods, &c. have been stored,
and the “ cry is still they come.” In fact, Macon will
Lave the facility and enterprize to do a big arid we trust
a profitable business, the coming winter, and we shall
be happy to aid them all, in so doing, through that most
effi eient of all mediums—the advertising columns of a
widely circulated and popular newspaper—such as the
Georgia Citizen. For the benefit of dealers as well as
our own, we now state that, for all purposes of brin£rin<r
the wares and merchandize of merchants to the notice
of the community, this journal is not surpassed, if equal
led, by any other newspaper in Central and South Wes
tern Georgia. In Macon and vicinity its circulation is
believed to be more extensive than any others, and add
to this, the important fact, that it is the only Journal
that goes extensively into families and before the eyes
of tlie lady members of the household, and we can offer
no better inducements to merchants to extend us their
favors.
ZW Contracts for yearly advertising will ba entered
into, on terms that will prove satisfactory. Those con
tracts should commence on the first of October ensuing,
to be most available to advertisers.
We are also prepared to do every description
of Job Printing on reasonable terms and at short no
tice. In this department we are determined not to be
excelled by any establishment, South or North, either
in the style of our work, promptness of execution, or
lowness of prices.
Wore Trickery.
The desperate men who now rule the destinies of
the disunion party of Georgia, are moving heaven and
earth to deceive the people and entrap them into voting
for McDonald. A letter just received in this city, from
Cherokee county,'says that the country is flooded with
handbills purporting to prove that the Union party
of Georgia are trying to dissolvt the Union and that
McDonald is trying to save it!—that McDonald is
opposed to Northern abolitionism and Cobb in favor of
Congress abolishing slavery, every where! Let the
people beware of all such handbills wbieh are circulated
privately just on the eve of the election! They are
vile falsehoods, gotten up by vile and unprincipled poli
ticians to serve their nefarious end of breaking up this
glorious confederacy! Tho honest Union men of
Cherokee should say, “ Get thee behind me Satan” to
every man who offers them a handbill or extra, of this
character.
Charleston, Sept. 15.
A despatch just received from Philadelphia
states that fifty-one arrests have been made of
parties implicated in the Cristiana outrage.
The U. S. Marshal, and Commissioner Ingra
ham proceeded to make further arrests to-day,
and Governer Johnson lias offered one thous
and dollars reward for the apprehension and
conviction of the murderers.— Courier.
Savannah, Sept. 13.
Thesteamor Pampero has been quietly sur
rendered to the Collector at Jacksonville bv Mr.
Sigur. She was overhauled at sea by the cutter
Jackson , but ran up the river about Tulatka.
The Jackson having been reinforced by Leut.
Merchant and 20 regulars from St. Augustine
was stationed at the mouth of the river with
loaded guns at the time she surrendered.
Sav. Repub.
The U. S. Mail Schooner William and John
Capt. Parker, arrived at Savannah to-day from
Havanna, which port she left on the 7th inst.,
reports that one hundred and sixty of the pris
oners had sailed for Spain in a Government
transport. Four only had been liberated, viz:
Lieut. Col. W. Scott llaynes, Captain, J. A.
Kelly, Lieut. Philip S. Van Vechten, and
Chapman. (Cantrey ? ) — lb.
Baldwin. —Col, A. 11. Kennan has consented to
run as the Constitutional Union Candidate of Baldwin
county for the Representative Branch of the next Leg
islature.
Benj.T. Bethune, Esq. is the nominee of the same
party for the State Senate, from the district of Baldwin
and Hancock.
Commodore Stockton’s Address. —a
copy of the address delivered by Senator Stockton, at
Elizabethtown, N. J. on the 4th of July last, has been
received. It is an able document in behalf of the Union
and the Constitution, and deserves all the flattering eu
logiums passed upon it by the press. We shall present
*om extracts from it at an early day, to show ourjta
ders that there are some defenders of the Constitutio
nal Rights of the South at the North, who are ever ready
to raise their voices against the fanaticism which is bowl
ing around them.
Bibb County.
M e think it full time that the Constitutional Union
men of Bibb county should be wide awake to the im
portance of the coining election, at home. There is en
tirely too much apathy amoug us in reference to the
contest. Some of the most active campaigners, in last
year s contest, are yet idle, doing nothing—literally
nothing. The sentinels on the Union watchtowers are
asleep on their posts or wandering off on excursions of
pleasure. How then can we expect to succeed in the
coming election, while our opponents are working like
beavers, to secure the victory ? In all caudor, we say,
that Bibb county will, in our opinion, be lost to the
Lnion cause, unless a speedy “ change comes o’er the
spirit of our dream.” With as able a ticket as was
ever offered by any party and with the best cause that
ever enlisted the zeal and efforts of patriots, we shall be
shamefully and ingloriously beaten, in this central and
flourishing city, unless we at once go to i cork like men
determined to sustain our banner aloft against all op
position.
N or is it right that we leave this work to our candi
dates. 1 hey have done and ars doing all that men
can do. Chappell has battled manfully, and should
distance his competitor five hundred votes in the Dis
trict, if L nion men are true to their gallant and elo
quent leader. Burney is doing good service in the
Senatorial District, and Holt and Armstrong are
spreading themselves among the sovereigns of the coun
ty. But they all need aid and encouragement to win
the race and to roll up a majority for Cobb that is due
to one so every way worthy of our highest confidence.
We say, then, to every Union man in Bibb, cast aside
your sloth and go to work. In two weeks from next
Monday, the election will be upon us ! Are you ready ?
If so, lily aside self and prejudice and lukewarmness,
and g.ve a few days to the cause of peace, safety and
the Lnion. “ Give a long pull—a strong pull aud a
pull altogether” for the Ticket—the whole ticket and
nothing but the ticket—unsplit and indivisible—and the
day will be ours. W e “ speak as unto wise men.
Judge ye.”
The Brag Game.
The Editor of the Columbus “Sentinel’’—the young
man who sees things through a jaundiced medium, and
whose late mendacious attack upon James Johnson,
Esq. the l nion candidate for Congress in the second
District, has given an infamy of immortality to himself,
thus writes to his journal from Savannah, on his way
North to see his disunion allies of that section :
“Jbere is not a great deal of animation here
in the political campaign—there is no question
of Jackson’s election; and, by the way, our
friends in Macon are equally certain of Chap
pell’s defeat. In that district, Bailey, it is said,
will be elected by a larger majority even than
McDonald. The Southern Rights cause is
growing stronger every day in Georgia.”
Billy Chambers is, in course, a mighty fine judge of
the state of politics here, from a single Railroad trip
through Macon to Savannah! In our bumble judg
ment there is not a more narrow minded, bigoted,
“swelled head’’ than he, in the State of Georgia! If
he aims to tell the truth, politically, he is not able to do
it, from mere contractedness of vision and unmitigated
prejudice. But he had to say smnething by way of en
couragement of the desponding hopes of his party, and
he is not the individual to have any consciencious scru
ples about the means used ! Brag then is the game ,
and false statements of the case, the mode of over
throwing the cause of the Union , which pious Billy
has said he “hates like h—ll.’’ Any Christian pro
fessor who can be induced by party zeal to utter such
profane treason against his government as he lias
done, is utterly unworthy of any credit, in any matter
in which he may volunteer to give testimony, as in the
uncalled for attacks upon Mr. Johnson.
GREAT OUTRAGE L\ PEWSVLVIMA.
The Savannah “News” of Saturday last lias the
following despatch, per telegraph:
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN LANCASTER CO.
PENNSYLVANIA, Ac.
Baltimore, September 12, 9 P. M.
“ Edward Gorsuch and his son, Dickenson Gorsuch,
two highly respectable residents of Baltimore county,
pursued several fugitive slaves, owned by them, to
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, a few days ago.—
They found the fugitives yesterday in a small house.
The Marshal accompanied the Messrs. G's. into the
house, when the negroes retreated up stairs, armed
with muskets. They- blew a horn, and were soon
joined by about two hundred negroes and white persons
who fired upon the pursuers, instantly killing Gorsuch
and his son, and mortally wounding three others.
I he Marshal commanded the white persons who
had assembled, to assist him to arrest the perpetrators
of this outrage. They refused to render him aid, aud
the fugitives remain uncaptured.
There is immense excitement throughout the county
by this fearfui occurrence. It is supposed that the
President of the U. States must interfere.”
The Macon Telegraph seizes upon this, with all its
blazing capitals, and presents it to its readers to “expose
the cheap confidence of those who have been duped
into the belief that the Fugitive Slave law would be
enforced by the people of the North.’’ Wonder if the
Telegraph had not then heard that the Governor of
Pennsylvania and the President of the United States
were doing all they could to arrest the leaders of this
murderous mob of negroes and low w hite men. Over
fifty arrests have been made and we rather suppose they
will get their just deserts. But if not, what has a
Pennsylvania free negro mob to do with the sentiment
of the white people of that State on the subject of the
Fugitive Slave Law ? And why are the authorities of
the LTnited States held accountable for the conduct of
an infuriated mob in Pennsylvania any more than they
are for thatof a mob in New Orleans or Macon, Ga. ?
The truth is, that this mob spirit is as uncertain and as
fickle as the wind that bloweth. At a moment least
expected, and for causes the most trivial, an excitement
is gotten up, and fanned into such a whirlwind, that no
power on earth can, at once, control it. But if the
government of Pennsylvania or of the United States
have failed subsequently to take measures to arrest and
bring the murderous rioters to a condign punishment,
then it would be in place to denounce them as unwor
thy rulers of a free people. In that event we will join
the Telegraph in its denunciations of Pennsylvania Free
Soilism, and go even further, in denouncing Pennsylva
nia's favorite son, James Buchanan , for not being able
to purge his own county (Laueaster) of the taint of
abolitionism, which seems, from the ease before us, to
have taken a lodgment, there, among the lowest class
of population. As Mr. Buchanan is tht favorite can
didate of some of the Fire-Eaters of Georgia, for the
next Presidency, perhaps it would be as well for them
not to aitempt the small game of trying to make capi
tal for the cause of secession, out of this ‘‘horrible out
rage’’just perpetrated in Pennsylvania,—until, at least,
they see the end of the affair.
Pass round the Scamps.
L. W. Chandler , Ilannegan Tost office, Cherokee
county, Ala. lias decamped to parts unknown, without
paying for the “ Citizen.” He owes us three dollars
and fifty cents,
IF. D. Brown, Jeffersonton, Camden county, Ga.
after taking the Citizen considerably over a year, sends
us an abusive letter, postage unpaid, and orders a dis
continuance. He owes us two dollars. And there are
“a few more of the same sort left.’’
Election of Judges by the People.
Our readers will please bear in mind, that by the
following Resolution of the last General Assembly of
Georgia, the voters of the state are requested to vote
on the question of electing thp Judges of the Superior
Courts by the people themselves, or by the Legislature.
Resolution relative to the election of Judges
of the Superior Courts.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Re
presentatives of the State of Georgia in General
Assembly convened , That at the next general election
for Governor and Members of the Legislature, the peo
ple of this State be requested to express their wishes
as to the manner in which the Judges of the Superior
Courts shall be elected, by endorsing on their tickets,
“ By the Legislature,” or “ By the people.”
Assented to. December 12 th 1849.
1 ndoubtfd Testimony.”—Tift, 0 fthe ai
bany Patriot says that Mr. Johnson, Union candidate
for Congress from the 2d District, is the “ FEDFR 4 r
CANDIDATE,’’ and holds the most ultra Federal
Consolidation and anti. Southern doctrines and *
proof of such a brazen falsehood, he quotes John For
svth and VVm. H. Chambers of Columbus as indoubt,
ed testimony .” He may so consider it—but where
those Columbus fire-eating I'Mi tors are best known
their political declarations are always taken “cam gra’
no salisj ’ Wo would’nt believe a word either of
them might utter against a political opponent, even
on their oaths, such is the bias of mind under wfaieV
they usually labor. Neither is the Albany Editor—
himself a foul Northern bird that “defiles its own nest ”
entitled to any credit, whatever, in any matter touching
the Congressional election in the 2d district. He ‘
a tricky partizan, at best, and any device to assist Bn
---ning to a scat in Congress will be adopted by him
greedily, at any cost ‘of truth or principle.
As we have a large circulation in Baker and the ad
jacent counties of the 2d District, we take the libert
therefore, in justice to Mr. Johnson, who has been o
grossly abused by the three Editors named, togi Te t ( 1#
following statement of his views as repeatedly expre*,
ed by himself in the present canvas, before the p-opl*
We copy from the Dooly correspondent of the Colnm
bus Enquirer :
Mr. Johnson believes
Ist. That Congress has no right to abolish slavery
any where. Neither in the Forts, Arsenals. States or
Territories. His belief he said was that no kind of
property could be taken by the Government for private
purposes, and such had always been his opinion.
2d. He had never said (as charged) that the North
was richer than the South. He had said it oonUined
more people and voters.
3d. About two years since he went to the Northwest
(Missouri) as he had at that time some idea of remov
ing to that State, but after an examination of the coun
try, he returned to Georgia. That he lieter saw Col.
Benton in his life, and that the charge against him of.
selling h : s slaves is a base falsehood.
4th. That he never said African slavery was a curse
be never so believed, but had often declared the reverse
as all his associates in Columbus well know. None
bnt his opponents and enemies of the Government
could say otherwise.
sth. He was fearful at one time the Wilmot proviso
would have been passed, and rejoiced at its defeat.
The editor of the Sentinel no doubt regrets the failure
of its passage, and because Cobb and Toombs did more
than any other men to defeat it, lie hates and wars upon,
them as he hates and wars upon the Government.
6th. He bad said that the Government had a right:
undir the Constitution, to control the Forts, Arsenal*
Dock-yards, &c., of the United States, and that the
Government could and ought to prevent negroes from<
having any management or control whatevar in>
them. This the editor was pleased to call prohibiting
slavery in those places.
7th. He did not remember what be had said shoutr
the powers of Congress over the Territories; wliat lie
intended to say was, that Congress, with the consent
of the people of (he Territories , could permit them
(the Territories) t become independent, and when
so, they could establish what form of Government they
pleased.
Forsvthiana
Don Whiskerando of the Columbus “Time*” is
highly indignant at the suggestion by somebody, that
the lion. Howell Cobb and the late lion. John Forsyth,
(father of tire Editor) were at all like each other, a*
statesmen. Johnny says “the blood that tingles in
his veins speaks in the eloquent language of nature,
in denial, that the L nion Candidate for Governor bears
any resemblance, in his composition as a man, sr his
conduct as a statesman, to the revered dead to whom
he is likened.”
Stick to that, my dear Don; It looks filial to vin
dicate ones father’s good name from so foul an asper
sion as that attempted to lie east upon it. It does, and
what is better still, while you vindicate the fame of lbs
revered sire you eari tittilate dilirately tbs royal self
complacency of his surviving eldest boy. at the ssuis
operation!
Again, says Johnny, “Although we have been for
fourteen years, a warm and interested participant in ths
political discussion* and events of the cosoirv we has*
never been a candidate for popular election. We never
will be, w here we have to bang upon the necks of cor
rupt voters, pour poisonous whiskey into their mortal
stomachs, and buy their corrupt votes with money, hats
and brogans.
“ By heavsn, I had rather coin my heart
And drop my blood for drachmas, than towring
From the hard bands of peasants their vile trash,
By any indirection.”
Y es, exactly ! And for the best reason in the worlds
my dear “ \\ hiskerandoyour eu de cologne was
always a little too highly rectified to harmonize with
the “bear’s grease,’’ and “ pomatum'’ of the’ fierce de
mocracy.” In your juvenile years, you had gazed on
royalty and that was enough to make you keep a re
spectiul distance ever alter from the canaille herd of
common men. Nevertheless you have alwats been
fond of office, Johnny, and Federal office, too, untilths
grapes became sour ! Then you hated Federalism iiks
“ pison I As to the “ corrupt voters'’and “poisonous
whiskey,’’ not knowing can't say, but wo suspect that
these same voters would be incorruptible citizens, and
their whiskey would become champagne , did they only
walk up to the “ captain’s office’’ and take the oath of
allegiancs to Charles the Ist, Emperor of all the Gsor
gias!
Again, says this dutiful child of royal blood, of hia
revered sire:—
“The greenest spot in bis public reputation, upon
which the chivalry of Georgia bas always most loved is
rest, is that moment in his career, when in Congress
he bearded the power of the Federal Government and
standing by the gallant Troup, proclaimed to tits as-,
sembled House that “ Georgia was always ready for
trial.'’ And at no time of his life was he not ready,
to defend Georgia in the trial. Georgia, then made
the issue, forced on the trial, hung Tassels in tbs flash
ing of Federal beyonets and triumphantly interposed*
her sovereign right of jurisdiction over her own soik
If Howell Cobb and bis colleagues in submission had besa
auimated by the spirit, to which —“ Satyr to Hyperion/’
he is vainly likened j the voice of Georgia in the Con
gress of ’SO would again have been potent to obtain
from the Government a just settlement of the vast con
troversy then up. But instead of proclaiming
“ ready for trial’’—they proclaimed her ready for sub
mission. When her champions—the Ajax snd ths
Achilles of the “Empire State” of th# South quailsd
all was lost.”
Ha! ha ! ha! And what has C. J. McDonald
done, that hs should receive from the adjutant such a
blow as this? It is, we believe, a fact of history that
Gov. McDonald was a traitor to Georgia in that sains
Tassel’s case, aDd submitted to the “flashing of Federal
bayonets,” when John Forsyth, sen. stood side by sid®
with Troup in defence of State sovereignty. Unfortu
nate reminiscence that, young man, for your side of
the house, and we protest against your mixing up Mr.
Cobb in any speculations for the future from the past %
in reference to his political course. Because McDon
ald was ones a submissionist of the first water it i
not a legitimate conclusion that Mr. Cobb will be one,
in a like emergency, however much it may show that
“wliat has once occurred may again occur/’ in ths his*
tory of the same individual!
But once more; the adjutant further disavows the
parallel between his father and Cobb, in the following
malicious aud detestable specimen of billingsgate. Old
Thcrsitcs may well look to his laurels!
“ And now where is the parallel between the schem
ing, calculating, cold blooded politician, trampoosing
over the State, splitting hairs on plain constitutional
questions, which can be answered yea or nay utter
ing Delphic nonsense on State Rights, and in the **m*
letter and breath, affirming and denying the right of
secession. YVhat parallel between the rollicking, ak*ek
and goodhumored Boniface, the popular wag, the acute
schemer, and a man who having taken his ground
affirmed his principles, left his popularity to take ears
of itself, looked never to consequences, and defied •
world in argument and in arms ? When did Job”
Forsyth ever write a letter that had to be “suppress**
and hustled out of sight by his friends ? “ eD
he ever make a speech that required a volume of
sequent commentary for its interpretation ? M hen
he ever have to defend himself against tbs ebaig®
plotting with the Free Soil enemies of his