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Con. Quitman's fteclonsion.
The following address from Gen. Quitman, the late
Secession candidate for Governor of Mississippi, we iind
in the Natchez Free Trader :
To the Democratic State Rights Party of Missis
sippi.
The result of the recent election for the Convention,
however brought about, must be regarded, at. least for
the present, as decisive of the position of the State on
the great issues involved.
The majority have declared that they are content
with the late aggressive measures of Congress, and op
posed to any remedial action by the State.
Although this determination of the people is at va
riance with my fixed opinion of the true policy of the
State, heretofore expressed and still conscientiously en
tertained ; yet as a State rights man, and a Democrat,
I bow in respectful submission to the apparent will of the
people.
It is true the Slate has not yet spoken authoritatively;
even the nets of the Convention will not be binding
until they have been ratified by a vote of the people;
but by the election of non-resisters to the convention, a
majority of the people have declared against the course
*>f policy on the slavery question, which I deemed it my
duty to pursue while Governor; and against the prin
ciple upon which alone I had consented to run as a
candidate. I might perhaps, be elected, notwithstand
ing this demonstration of public sentiment in the elec
tion for the convention ; but as I have been mainly
instrumental in seeking the expression of the will of the
people through a convention, I ought, in my political
action, to abide by it.
Therefore, upon Tull consideration of all the circum
stances ; respect for the apparent decision of the people ;
duty to the noble and patriotic party, who are struggling
to maintain the rights of the South against Northern
aggression, and to preserve our institutions from the
fatal effects of consolidating all power in the Federal
Government; and a sense of self-respect, which inclines
me not to seek a public station in which my opinions
upon vital questions are not sustained by a majority of
my constituents; all concur in inducing me to the
opinion that my duty requires me to retire from the po
sition which I occupy as the Democratic State Riguts
candidate for Governor. With emotions of the deepest
gratitude to the patriotic party by which I was nomi
nated, for the evidences of their unfaltering confidence,
both in the nomination and in the warm and hearty re
ception with which I have been met every where in
the canvass, I tender my resignation of the high and
honorable post of their chief standard bearer in the
pending canvass, pledging myself to them and to the
country, that I will to the last, serve the great cause of
State Rights, as faithfully in the ranks, as I have en
deavored to do in high position.
J. A. QUITMAN.
Monmouth, Sept. 6, 1851.
JSTSpcaking of the recent serious, and
Woody riot, which occured in Lancaster county
(Penn.) the New York Express says:
The poor negro of the Free States, under the
criminal advice “to arm and shoot” of the Free
Soil Abolitionists, is preparing for himself it
bitter doom. The murder of United States
officers in Pennsylvania, shot by the negroes
there, and the blood of Gorsuch, father and
son, are very certain to result in a cry of ven
geance, and in that sort of excitement of the
white race against the black, which will forbid
their further immigration into Pennsylvania
if not their expulsion therefrom, The blood of
white men in the faithful execution of the Con
stitution and the Laws cannot be shed with
impunity by the black men, and when it is so
shed, that blood will sow the seeds of retribu
tion, the product of which, it is easy to foresee,
will be the conviction that the two races can
not live together in the Free States, as they
have been living until the Abolitionists taught
them to arm against and to shoot white men.
Indiana has already reached that conviction,
and the negro is forbidden to enter that State;
but this is only a step preparatory to his ex
pulsion, if Abolitionism keeps up its excitement,
and its efforts to array the black man against
the white man.
The atrocious murders that have been per
petrated in Pennsylvania by a mob of colored
people they are held responsible for under the
laws, as they were the instruments used to
perpetrate the murders ; but the real murderers
are the white Abolitionists who advised the
negroes to arm, and to resist the law surrender
ing the fugitive slave. The “higher law,” we
have been hearing so much of in theory, is only
the musket and bullet in practice; and when
the ignorant negro is taught this higher law,
he knows no other way to execute its high
behests. Hence, when the lower law , as it is
nicknamed, of the Constitution and of the
Federal Government, is brought to bear upon j
one of his race, he naturally resorts to the |
higher law of shooting the other race; and so
came these murderers and these mobs we record
to-day in Pensylvania.
Teaching men day after day, especially the
ignorant negro man, that a Law which Con
gress has passed, and which the Judges of our
Courts all incullcate, obedience to is no Law,
or if Law, a Law against God, and then teach
ing resistance to it, in doors and out, by pre
varication, falshood, force, and murderous
weapons, even, is only teaching murder, as we
now see in Pennsylvania. The greatest efforts
wPre made in Boston to perpetrate like murders
there ; but the good sense of the people and
the good government of the city saved Boston
from the disgrace,—not, however, until a negro
mob entered the sacred Halls of Justice, and
rescued a black prisoner from the custody of the
Law.
Have the colored race no sense left to see
where they are drifting in these United States,
and to feel that the Ablitionists are their great
est ettrses? See they nothing in that alarming
-Gien of Indiana? Have they forgotten the
vote in New York on the adoption of the Con
stitution of the State? Are they blind to the
act that twenty-live years ago they bad a bold
in the hearts and heads of the white popula
tion of these United States, which Abolitionism
has nearly lost to them by its insane ravings,
and its action yet more insane ? The finger is
on the wall—do they not see it ?—which is
writing now ; “ Such scenes as those in Pennsyl
vania arc expelling us from the'Free States.'’
“\Ye shall be driven out as were the Acadian*
from Nova Scotia.” “We are demonstrating,
that the white man and the black man, cannot
live in the Free States together.’’ We expect
no heed to be raid to these signs by the Ab
olitionisis proper, who glory in these excite
ments, and revel in them as giving them the
elements of agitation: but why should the black
man be his dupe ? Why his instrument I Why
lire the musket the Abolitionist puts in bis
hand and be hung for the Abolitionists, mur
der ?
From the Cincinnati Journal.
Important to Slave Owners and others.
A case of considerable importance to Southern men.
and involving some points of general interest, was de
cided by Judge Key on Saturday. The plaintiff, Har
per, was a farmer in Boone county, Kentucky, and tho
defendant was a well known colored person of this city
named Keyte. A bill was filed by the plaintiff to fore
close a mortgage; and the defence was a want of con
sideration for the mortgage. The complainant had
been the owner of throe slaves—a man (the son of
the defendant.) a woman and child, the offspring of the
other two slaves. The three were worth in Kentucky
about $1,300. They escaped from their master and
came to this city in 1849, where they were concealed.
The master pursued but was uuable to discover them,
sod the defendant opened a negotiation with the com
plainant for the purchase of the three slaves. Finally
they were sold to him fur $450, and a bill of sale exe
cuted in this city by the complainant, in which he war
ranted that he had a good title to the slaves, but did
*ot undertake to give possession of them.
The defendant executed to him promissory notes for
k he payment of the money, and a mortgage, on which
the suit was brought. The first point urged by the ‘
defence, was that Keyte was deceived by the complai
nant who was charged to have represented the female
slave to be the wife of his (defendant’s) son; both
verbally, and In the bill of sale, when in fact, as de
fendant claimed, she was not —next, that the plaintiff
had warranted his title good to the slaves, when (as
defendant insisted,) at the time of the escape the man
was not a slave. The third point of defence was, that
a contract within the State of Ohio for the purchase of
fugitive slaves, then within the Suite, could not be sus
tained under our laws.
In relation to the first point, it was held by Judge
Key, that the testimony showed that the verbal repre
sentation of complainant in regard to the relations ex
isting between the male and female slaves, were in ac
cordance with the facts; that the statement of the bill
of sale, that she was the wife of defendant was mere
matter of description ; and also that according to the
usages prevailing among slaves, she was properly de
scribed as his wife.
It was held bv the Court, in regard to the second
point, that it appeared from the testimony, that the male
slave had once come to the city of Cincinnati driving a
wagon with his master, and had voluntarily returned
on the same day—and that, altogether the slave might
then according to the rules of law universally recog
nized in the Courts of Ohio, have asserted his freedom,
and could not have been compelled by bis master to re
turn, the status or legal condition of the slave so re
turmng to Kentucky. remained according to the deci
sions of the Court of that State, without change. Upon
the third point, the Court held that, it having been
decided by the Supreme Court of the United States,
in a case involving the same question, that the status, or
legal condition of an alleged fugitive from service, was
to be viewed according to the law of the State from
which the escape was made, and the Constitution of the
United States, and the act of Congress then in force
(than which, as expounded by the United States Su
preme Court, this Court knew no higher law.) giving
a right of recapture,such right of recapture was suffi
cient to sustain a contract of sale executed by the master
in a free State conveying fugitives, then in such free
State, to a citizen of such State. The Court further
remarked, that the effect of such conveyance would be
to place the fugitive at once in the condition of free
persons, as completely any other citizens of Ohio. A
decree was accordingly rendered for the complainant
for the amount of the mortgage notes. Woodruff &
Hopkins, for the complainant; and Morriss, Tilden A
Rariden, for defendant.
Mexican Boundary Commission.- -The
Washington Republic states that despatches
have recently been received at the Department
of the Interior , from Mr. Bartlett, United
States Commisioner, dated Santa Rita del
Cobre, New Mexico, July 7,1851, from which
it appears that the survey of the boundary line
is progressing rapidly westward. The astrono
mers and surveyors of both commissions are
working together, and their advanced parties
have reached a point about thirty miles west
of liio Miinbris. It is found (says the Republic)
that the line will run from 8 to 10 miles south
of Cook’s Spring, thus giving to the United
States the whole of the road to the Copper
mines, and the only route which can be reached
by wagons. It also gives us all the watering
places, and Rio Miinbris, until this stream loses
itself in the plain. In a military point of view
this is important. Starting from the military
post of the commision, at Dona Ana, on the
Rio Grande, (which is near the initial point)
westward, the first water mot is Cook’s Spring,
fifty miles distant, and the next the river Mim
bris, twelve or fifteen miles here are two impor
tant points; where there is grass and water,
where the military road runs, and where posts
migh be erected. South of this there is a desert
lor nearly a hundred miles, not susceptible of
cultivation, and destitute of water. No military
post therefore, can be placed in this region, nor
could an enemy support himself there. The re
mainder of the country along the line, until
it strikes the Gila, is unknown.
Prompt Resistance.
“A rose by any other name,” etc.
Hallo Bill, hold mi there awhile. What in
the world has put you into such a pucker?
I have been shamefully treated; a parcel of
bullies clubbed together, and insulted me gros
sly—and not satisfied with that they took my
hat and my cane, and swore I should’nt have
them any more.
The cowardly villains! But come, let us
gather our friends and fight it out with them.
Catch me at that! Do you take me for a cow
ard—a submissionist ? Humph—l don’t wait
to gather friends, when I am insulted. Oh no,
I go lor ending such matters forthwith ; and so
, l did this. time.
Ah? Well, lam glad to hear that you paid
them. But tell me, what did you do to them?
Do ! I just resisted the matter right off. I
guess ihey’ll think more than once before they
undertake to meddle with me again.
Well, but tell us about it. How did you do it?
How did you manage by yoursef to handle
so many that were clubbed together ?
Oh! i’ll tell how. I just told them that they
were no gentlemen, but a set of mean scoun
drels, and I walked offand quit their company.
What! did you take all their insults, and al
low them to take your hat and cane, and just
leave them so?
Oh yes ! I left everything—seceded'forth
with. That’s what I call prompt resistance.
ell, my dear fellow, you may call it resis
tance, or anything you please, hut, I think, if
you were to call it submission, it would be the
(he same thing in the end. II it were my case,
1 would gather my friends, and fight it out to the
last. ‘Those hullies should never keep hat and
cane whilst I could get a triend to stand by me.
But, it you are satistied to leave it so, and just
cut their company, I have nothing more to say.
Good morning. —Charleston Standard.
03- The Westminster Review puts the fol
lowing language into the mouth of a Brazilian
slaveholder, in reply to an English abolitionist,
who had reproached him for holding men iti
bondage :
“ Y\ no arc you that come to pry into the na
kedness oi our land, and to reproach us with
our conduct toward our slave population ? Go
forth into our fields and cities, and you will
find no destitution among our working people.
You may call them slaves, but they are cared
tor, well fed, clothed, and well housed. Can
you say as much tor you work people at home ?
Is it true that a freeman with you means a
freeman to starve, to go naked houseless, and
uncared for ? Our slaves are ignorant, but they
are protected from the consequences oi igno
rance by the knowledge and experience, and
self interest ot their masters.
You know as well as we do, that a free man
has thrown upon himself the responsibility of
providing tor himself-—and that, it he be incom
petent by ignorance for self-direction, destitu
(inn and temptation, shame, vice, and crime
await him ; and knowing this and taking no
pains to give your Iree workman the capacity
.oi good selt-fiiiection, you dare come here and
preach emancipation, unit urge us to turn our
i\eii ted and well-cJothcd, and well-housed
slaves into iiiconducted and miserable labor
ers. lake a woid ot admonition from us in
return. Go back and put your own house in or
der, and then you will be able to hold it up to
us as a model house for our imitation. You
have been accustomed to see misery around
•you, but caannot bear the thought of slavery.
“ We have been accustomed ourselves to
slavery, but cannot endure human misery. To
take adequate precautions against destitution at
home, would cost some liulo exertion and self
sacrifice. 1 o preach against slavery in others,
demands less of self-sacrifice than sell
glorification. It is easy work for all people to
Compound for sins they arc inclined to,
By damning those they have no tnind to.
’ It is difficult for them to wean themselves
from their own pet enormities, and easy
enough to pour forth pious indignation at the
peccadilloes of others.”
Mr. Cobb’s views on jScecession.
I admit the right of a state to Recede for
just causes, to be determined by herself. Be
ing a party to the compact, which the consti
tution forms, she has the right which all other
parties to a compact possess, to determine for
herself when, where and how, the provisions
of that compact have been violated. It is
equally clear that the other [tallies to the com
pact possess a corresponding right to judge
tor themelves, and there being no common
arbiter to decide between them, each must
depend for the justification of their course upon
the justice of their cause, the correctness of
their judgment, and their power and ability
to maintain their decision.
Again says this gentleman.
The right of a State to secede in case of
oppression,or “a gross and palpable violation’’
ot her constitutional rights, as derived from
the reserved sovereignty of the States, I am
prepared to recognize. In such ease each
State in the language of the Kentucky and
Virginia resolutions of 1798—’99,is to be the
judge, not only of the “infractions,’’ but “the
inode and measure of redress.”—lt is the just
right of the people to change their form of
government when, in iheir opinion, it has be
come tyrannical, in a mode not provided for by
the constitution, and is therefore revolutionary
in its charcter, and depends for its maintenance
upon the stout hearts and strong arms of a free
people.
Again says Mr. Cobb, in his letter referred
to :
In connection with this branch oflhe subject,
a question arises, which, in the opinion of
■some, is of considerable inportance. It is,
whether or not the citizens of a State thus
resuming her sovereign powers would be lia
ble to the charge of treason in conforming to
the requirements of their State government. I
refer to this particularly only in consideration
of the importance attached to it by others.
From what 1 have said, it will clearly appear
that I hold that they would not be. In my
opinion, no man commits treason, who acts in
obedience to the laws and authorities of a regu
lar organized government, such as vve recog
nize our Slate government to be.
ConujionitfiuL
LETTER FROM COLUMBUS-
Columbus, Sept. 16tli, ISSI.
Dear Doctor : —You will perceive that every
charge that could be made to injure the character of
James Johnson Esq. the Union candidate for this dis
drict, lias been made, by his disheartened political op
ponents. Certificates not worth the paper they are
written no, have been given by those whose garments
are more deeply soiled than those of Mr. Johnson.
The most contemptible resorts have been made to elect
Mr. Benning the disunionist, by maligning the charac
ter of the Union candidate. All of their chicanery
and low schemes are doing I assure you, no harm to
the cause or impairing the certain success of the Union
party, but on the other hand, causes many of the Dis
unionists to deprecate, and even scorn the low and con
temptible designs of their follow partisans.
These attempts are but a sign of the character and
disposition of ihe disunionists; and Mr. Johnson, I am
sure, and it can be proven, is getting votes he did not
expect to get, for the obvious reason that people who
know Mr. Johnson, know him to be no Free-Soilf.r.
1 know him to be a slave holder and know lie is not op
posed in the least to the slavery institutions of the
South. He is a Southern man, of Southern birth
and of Southern principles—sound Sonthern Union
principles. lie will be elected if the first Monday in
October arrives. All the old political hacks may say
against him will not operate against him. Honest
voters generally go the opposite direction to that which
the gentleman slightly known to fame in these parts
as ‘John Hancock,’ the author of these paper missives,
(on a subject which they made as luminous and trans
parent as the tread of cattle makes tho mire of the
swamp,) which once appeared in the columns of that
shuffling, dodging disunion print, the Columbus
Times.
The most amusing thing that I have ever read is a
letter which was published in some of the disunion
papers of this State, stating that Mr. Benning made a
speech, in one of the low counties, in this district. ‘The
speech’ says the would be exact and veracious (?) ma
thematician, ‘was three hours injlengtli, and that Mr.
Benning the disunionist made fifty converts every hour’!
Jerusalem ! ‘ what a whopper !’ or in more eloquent
phraseology which the Fire-Eaters can only under
stand—what an unblushing untruth!
Cannot a few certificates (ns they are the only things
current at present) be ‘gotten up expressly for tlie oc
casion’ to prove that Benning believes it as his honest
conviction that the writer of that letter spoke the
truth? ‘Don’t all speak at once !
When men have to resort to falsehood for want of
argument, every honest man knows that they are after
something wrong—We are told :
“ The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul, producing holy witness,
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart;
O, what n goodly outside falsehood hath !’’
The arguments of the disunionists are nothing al
though they are eternally brawling about something—
about their ‘oppressive government’ and their ‘insulted
honor and dignity.’ Here is nn excellent picture, and
a true one too, if we change the name and locality;
and apply it to his disunion majesty, the Editor of the
Times.
‘ Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more
than any man in all \ enice ; his reasons are as two
grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff, you shall
seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have
them, they are not worth the search.’
Mr. Forsyth will soon have to throw himself in his
most exquisite theatrical attitude, whilst his friend and
adviser ‘John Hancock’ will have to hold him by the
skirts of his coat, while lie describes his departing
political greatness by passionately and despondingly ex
claiming :
“ The soul and body rive not more in parting,
Than greatness going off!”
Mr. Benning will bo badly beaten in this district. It
is now apparent to every mind that Disuninnism
‘Dissolves apace,
And as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantis
Their clearer reason.
“Their understanding
Begins to swell, and the approaching tide
W ill shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy,”
The ‘Coll’ has gone I understand to that region which
lie says he hates as bad as he hates the residence of
his Infernal Satanic majesty. Various surmises are
afloat why the gentleman has gone among people for
whom he affects to have no love. Eyeing his ab
sence as we may, we are led to believe that lie will
see something on his return (if that period be after
the election) that will not be so interesting to his sight.
That sight will bo tho election of Mr. Johnson.
That letter of his written at Chalybeate Springs has
been posted up at each cross road in the lower counties
of this District. He is fully entitled to all the praise(?)
he so richly deserves for being the author of so mas
terly (?) a piece of composition, and the Disunion par
ty will not need a very skilful arithmetician to compute
the number of votes it will bring to their side. In case
a computation should be made and we desire that it
should, we believe it would be the duty of the cotnputa
tor to use nothing but cyphers to work it out.. His
specks must have been very greasy and cloudy and
his suppositions as green as the original color of those
specks if lie dreamed that he could anywise injure
Mr. Johnson’s prospects by publishing the charges he
has made, in ‘that letter.’
“ Some guns aimed at duck or plover
Bear wide and kick the owners over.’’
Thus it is with the ‘Colt.’ lie lias as he thinks
done wondrous things if he be left to pass judgment;
and I doubt not but that a few certificates to the effect
could be procured.
I will now tell you that a few certificates could be
procured that would prove that some of these certify
ing gentlemen went in strong for one ‘Matty Van,’ A.
D. 1840, when he had previously said that with the
lights before him, Congress had a right to abolish slavery
in the District of Columbia. Some 28 in ‘these diggins’
and the Commander of the Coffin regiment ivas one
of them, abandoned their party and went in for ‘Matty
of Ivinderhook. By their company men are most gen
erally judged. One of the certifiers was one of the
immortal 28.
Enclosed l send you a copy which is titled ‘‘Mr.
Johnson's political opinions.’ This document is to
he industriously circulated in the counties of this dis
trict. It carries its refutation on its face. Read
Chambers’ letter circumspectly and see if it does not.
Semmes’ letter is only ‘impressions.’ Why did
he not come boldly out and say that his political pre
judices caused him to do Mr. Johnson the injustice he
seems to think he is ‘not conscious of doing.’ Bah! what
a lame apology ! Two of these certifiers aro bitter
enemies of Mr. Johnson, and another one has been only
on speaking terms.
Whether one of these certifiers will gain more fame
for his certificate than for supporting Mr. Van liuren,
with his avowed principles in 1840, is a question that
posterity alone can determine !
I shall here give a condensed view of the real opin
ions of Mr. Johnson all others not comparing with
these are not nor never were his, if Mr. Johnson s word
and nssuranceis as worthy of as much regard as the
‘ aforesaid deliberate certifiers.’ Compare them and
you will see where Mr. Johnson etanda ; these as we
quote below are \
JOHNSON’S TR.LJTC OPINIONS.
Ist. Congress has no right to abolish slavery any
tphere. Neither in the Forts, Arsenals, States or
Territories. His belief is that no kind of property can
be taken by the government for private purposes and
such has always been his opinion.
2d. lie has never said (as charged) that the North
was richer than the South. He has said it contained
more people and voters.
3d. About two years since he went to the North
west, (Missouri,) as he had at that time of removing
to that State, but after an examination of the country
he returned to Georgia. Tie never saw Col. Benton
in his life; and the charge against him of selling his
slaves is a base falsehood.
4th. lie has never said African slavery was a curse,
nor never so believed. All his associates in Columbus
know it to be ns he says. His enemies and political op
ponents and those who would break up the Govern
ment only say otherwise.
sth. lie rejoiced at the defeat of the Wilmot Pro
viso.
Gth. He says Congress has the Constitutional, right
to control the Forts, Arsenals, Dock-yards 6cc. of the
United States, and that the Government could and
ought to prevent negroes from having any manage
ment or control whatever in them.
Ttli. Congress can with the consent of the people
of the Territories permit the Territories to become
independent, and when so, the Territories can establish
what form of government they please.
These arc Mr. Johnson’s opinions, and all other than
these are not his.
Voters of the second district read his true opinions !
Spread and discuss them among those who may get
the certificates of the Disunion quartette.
Union men indignantly rebnke his ‘certificating’ ene
mies, by electing him to Congress ! Let us give him
a noble vote ! It will be done we trust.
Listen to tho words of Jefferson ; —lf there be any
among us icho would wish to dissolve this Uniom
or to change its republican character let them stand
undisturbed as Monuments of the safety with which
Furor of opinion may be tolerated , when reason is
LEFT FREE to Combat it.
The cause of the Union is the just cause.
COLUMBUS.
i>lr. K<‘iii!!!t(k*N Opinions.
Aatn’icus, Sept. 17th, 1851.
Mr. Benning said herein his public speech in reply
to Mr. Johnson, that if the Southern Congress hud
met, as was suggested hv the Nashville Convention, and
he had been elected a member of the same, he would
have been fora dissolution of the Union. lie said fur
ther that his plan after the dissolution, was to strike out
State lints in the South, and form a consolidated repub
lic, that the compromise measures were a sufficient cause
for a dissolution, but inasmuch as the State of Georgia
had determined to remain in the Union, ho felt obliged
to submit. That he was now on the Georgia Platform,
so long as Georgia remained of that mind.
11. McCOY,
EDWIN R. BROWN,
JARED TOMLINSON.
Bai.vbridge Ga., Sept. 22, 1851.
Mr. Editor :—The above is a true copy of a letter
written by its subscribers, to A. J. Bell of this county,
(Decatur) which please publish in your paper, and
oblig c yours, &c. R. SIMS.
LETTER FROM COLUMBUS.
Columbus, 23d Sept, 1851.
Dear Doctor :—The approaching election absorbs
all else here. The contest on tho part of the “ Fire-
Eaters, (not only by the candidates but others who are
more prominent actors and the more especially to be
benefited) is carried on with much feeling and malice,
as will be readily perceived by the tone of their papers
in this place. Thousands could be commanded here
to ensure their success in this county, above all others
in the State, they believing that if they could get old
Muscogee the State would follow. If such would be
the result, the income on their thousands spent for such
vile purposes, would be great; for we can safely say
that here they have more office-seekers and more men,
who, either by themselves or their kith and kin, have
been foisted upon and fed by the public than any where
else. And w would inquire for what public benefit
or good is derived from them. There is not an item
in the whole history of their public acts whereon they
can put their finger and say here is the place? On the
contrary, their principles have been and now are, to
legislate for themselves and their posterity—to create
“stars and garters” for themselves at the expense, the loss
and the shivery of all their fellow beings. Why should
such men have such power for such purposes? The
Fire-Eating candidates arc men against whose private
character we would uot say a word. They, no doubt,
are honest men, but they are not capable. They have
not the experience or capacity to legislate for the people
of Georgia, and more especially for such a people of
such a county as old Muscogee. If they could succeed
in the coming elections, (which they will do if they
can) Disunion with Revolution would be the result.
Then they would cry aloud to the State and people at
large. Democracy iH destroyed and Disunion and Ar
istocracy is triumphant. In this instance we judge their
character from their actions and their actions from their
character.
Messrs. Wilkins, Pitts and Harrison have been
nominated by the “ Fire Faters.” What was the ob
ject ? And, if elected, who would be the real and os
tensible legislators? Certainly not W. and I\, for they
never gave a thought to the duties of a legislator, and it
is not expected of them. The loaders of the party
must, in fact, direct and dictate for them as to what
they must and shall now do as candidates and in the
legislature as representatives, and in the election of
County officers in January next—and such leaders as
they have would make his Satanic majesty blush upon
questions of expediency aud all things else. Their can
didates well know they cannot legislate for Muscogee,
and they know they will be depending on their leaders
of Disunion. This they cannot deny, and in truth they
were nominated for such a purpose, and if they think
they were not, they and all who vote for them are de
ceived.
Why should the people of Muscogee county set
aside the candidates of the “Union Constitutional party,”
for such men and such measures as those which How
ard, [verson, Colquitt, Baily, Forsyth aud divers others
of like stamp and character ? It certainly cannot bo that
the voters of Muscogee will betray themselves and play
traitors to their conscience and interest so far as to
abandon or desert those honest and capable men who
have for years devoted their time, talents, and means to
legislate for the interest and benefit of the people, and
more especially for the labor of the country, we mean
the true stern democracy of the land, who live by the
sweat of their brows. These are the men they love,
honor, admire, and legislate for. The opposite are the
ones who hate Col. A. MacDougald and Thos. Wool
dridge and Sam Flournoy. These have not in the coun
ty equals and not in the State superiors, for industry,
talent and abilities, as well as for being stern and true
friends to their race and Republican principles. \\ hy.
Col. MacDougald was in his very nature moulded and
born a plain, pure democrat, and alt his private and pub
lic life as a legislator, (which have been for many years)
proves it. Where is the solitary instance in which he
has failed to follow the true principles of democracy,
patriotism, and the rights and feelings of the people at
large, and of those he represented, even at his own
personal sacrifice? lie has in no instance legislated
for himself or his own interest as has always been the
case by others. He has never yet, fi r all his public
ser rices asked or held or enjoyed an office whose income
bought him bread. And bis actings and doings in the
last legislature is proof sufficient, that it was he who was
the first to go for the democratic principles, that the peo
ple are honest, and capable of electing every officer of
the State. He wrote out and had passed the law for the
people to elect by their votes all the State officers, and
had it not been for abase, servile corrupt set of men, tlic
people of each circuit would have elected their judges,
lie aimed also to prevent bribery and selling of offices by
the legislature, and the electing of men to office whose
honesty and capacity were doubtful. It whs he
with the honest few that stood by him in the hour of
danger when the storm of disunion tossed the gallant
ship, the State of Georgia, to and fro, until she was al
most overwhelmed and destroyed, that took the helm
and assisted to steer her through the sands and shoals,
and to save her from destruction, and left her floating
on the cool calm bosom of the Union with the stars and
stripes yet at her mast head. His colleague T. Wool
dridge stood by him and her like a man, they staked their
all. \\ hy then should they be throst n aside and ungrate
fully neglected and discarded? Such men should be
preserved. They have been tried and found not want
ing. Rather let us hold to that which is good—let us
stand by our representatives to whom is due the honor
of preserving old Muscogee from Disunion and Revo
lution. Let us also stand by the Union, it is yet in
our hands and in our charge, and should be preserved
as the apple of our eyes, for it is beyond value. Think
not that the Demon of Disunion is not abroad as bold
and as fierce as in IS-jO. Meet them, front to front,
boldly and at the ballot box, on the first Monday in Oc
tober next. Deposit your vote for A. MacDougald?
Thos. Wooldridge and Sam Flournoy, with Cobb and
Johnson, and let the Fire-Eating Disunionists again
know that if they have a blush for shame, they will
hide their hydra heads for all time tocoine, in old Mus
cogee. VERITAS.
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THE GEORGIA CITIZEN,
L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR.
MACON, GEO. SEPT. 27, 1851.
For REPRESENTATIVES, from 8188.
GEN. JAMES W. ARMSTRONG.
JUDGE T. G. IIOLT.
1
To Correspondents.
O” Pamphlets and Communications sent to us
must he postpaid, or they will receive no attention.
O’ The “ Bloomer Advent ” in Blakely, will have
to lay over till after the election. So of other miscel
laneous or literary matter.
UP The communication of Wm. McC., of Lee. in
reply to “ Bullicane,” received, but in such a state as
to require copying and correction, before it is fit to place
in the printer’s hand, neither of which have we time to
do, if wc had the inclination.
REMOVAL.
On tho Ist of October, the Printing Establishment
of the Georgia Citizen will bo removed to the new
building (up stairs) of Messrs. Freeman & Roberts,
on Cotton A venue, directly opposite to the lower an
gle of the Triangular Block, and next house to Dr.
Little’s new Drug establishment, where we will have
increased facilities for executing Job Work in all the
plain and ornamental departments of the Typographi
cal Art, in a style which shall not be surpassed, and at
rates as low as any competitor who may boast of “/st
presses,” or any other fanciful “notion.”
A word of Apology.
Our miscellaneous readers will please pardon our
seeming neglect, this week and next, to their favorite
departments of our paper. Our excuse is the emergen
cy of the political crisis and the necessity we are un
der to do all we can in the week remaining to us to
save the commonwealth. The Latins say —“salus
pi)puli suprema lex,” and that supreme law w T e are
bound to obey, for the present. After the election,
there shall be no lack of the usual variety, in our co
lumns.
ELECTION TICKETS.
Cash orders for election Tickets, in any desirable
style and for any counties, will be tilled with dispatch
at this office, at the rate of $5 per thousand.
ELECTION RETURNS.
Our friends in every part of the State will please be
particular in forwarding promptly to us the result of
the comiffg election in their respective Counties and
precincts. To all who thus favor us, free of postage,
we will send extras, giving sum totals, as fast as we
can concentrate them at this central point.
Chatham Nomination.
The Constitutional Union party of Chatham county
met on Wednesday eveuing last, and nominated the fol
lowing Ticket:
For the Senate.
JOHN W. ANDERSON.
For the House of Repi-esentativcs.
FRANCIS S. BARTOW,
CHARLES S HENRY.
BASE LIE NAILED TO THE COUNTER!
Several of the unprincipled Fire-Eating candidates
and presses have just been caught in the dirtiest trick
of the season—that of grossly slandering the Hon.
Howell Cobb. They have been busy circulating the
lie that Mr. Cobb is a defaulter to the Central Rank,
in a sum varying from SIO,OOO to $60,000, the IV'ig
"le tails of Twiggs putting it down at the latter figure!
The Editorof the “Chronicle” having heard that one
John F. Brown, the disunion candidate for the Senate
from Jefferson and Burke, was one of the parties to this
infamous fabrication, addressed a note, on the subject,
to Mr. Cobb, who thus nails the falsehood to the coun
ter, where the ears of the authors of the report should
also be fastened, with a tenpenny spike.
Canton, Sept. 19th, 1851.
Dear Sir :—I have this moment received your let
ter, informing me that Mr. Brown was circulating a re
port, that I was indebted to the Central Bank, to the
amount of ten thousand dollars or some other large
amount. The report is utterly false. lam the se
curity of Major Jackson, on a Central Bank debt of
some four or five hundred dollars, which I thought was
paid, until I received a letter from Mr. Campbell during
the past summer, informing me that it was , I
agreed to pay it by the first of December next, if Major
Jackson did not settle it before. VV hich arrangement
seemed to bo satisfactory to Mr. Campbell, as he has
not since wiitten to me on this subject.
Yours, &c., Howell Cobb.
Extension of Building Lots.
The City Council of Macon have adopted the Re
port of their committee, appointed to consider the pro
priety of. laying out and selling a portion of the South
Commons for building purposes for our increasing popu
lation. The following is the action recommended by
the Committee: They
REPORT: That they are of the opinion, that the
present demand for houses and lots in the city, occa
sioned hy the increase of population, would warrant
the laying out of so much of said Commons, as maybe
below a direct line drawn from the end of Third st. to
the boundary of the city. They recommend that said
Common belaid out into squares of four acres each,
with Streets of 100 feet in width intervening ; and that
said squares be subdivided into acre lots. They also
recommend, that as many ol the lots in said squares,
alternately be sold, or leased for nine hundred and nine
ty-nine years, at an early dav, as may command a
reasonable price. J. 11, R.‘WASHINGTON. )
M. HALE /Com.
C. B. COLE. )
The Georgia Platform, Disowned.
Ihe Disunionists have time and again claimed to
he on the Georgia Platform, and have electioneered in
many places, on that ground. They are beginning,
however, to see that their hypocrisy and insincerity will
not avail them, and consequently they are more free
now to acknowledge their opposition to that platform
than heretofore. In a recent discussion, at Dahlone
ga, between Mr. Cobb and Mr. McDonald, the latter
being asked if ho stood upon the Georgia Platform, an
swered, “ NO, I AM NOT, NOR DO I WISH TO
BE.’’ This is conclusive. By this admission, Gov.
McDonald stands self-convicted of being a DISUNION
IST, per se, as there are but two sides to the ques
tion and the occupants of tho Georgia Platform are
UNION MEN, and nothing shorter! The admission
was not however necessary to prove that McDonald has
been and yet is a disunionist. His whole course since
the first Nashville resurrection of the defunct body of
the old Hartford Convention has demonstrated that fact
to mathematical certainty. Ilis followers should
therefore govern themselves, accordingly, and no lon
ger don the “ sheep’s clothing” to hide their “wolfish”
propensities. Their great standard-bearer having
shown his true colors, the subalterns of the Coffin Reg
iment and Secession cohorts should hoist their true em
blem—that of the Rattlesnake coiled around a Palmetto
Cabbage. Then they would bamboozle nobody into the
commission of treason against the government!
Judge Berrien.— We published an article some
days since from the Washington Gazette, stating that
Judge Berrien has taken his position in the present
Contest, and had avowed himself in favor of Mr. Cobb
and opposed to Judge McDonald and his party.
In ihe Constitutionalist Republic of Sunday
morning last, we find the following. “The rumor that
Judge Berrien will vote for Howell Cobb for Governor,
we state on information implicitrj to be relied upon , to
be utterly false.
‘‘Wehave reason to believe that Judge Berrien will,
in a very few days, put forth an address to the people
of Georgia in reference to his position in the present
canvass.”— Sav. Rep.
The Albany Patriot says:
“ We learn from the Constitutionalist & Republic
that the Constitutional Union party of Richmond coun
ty held a convention in Augusta on the 2nd inst. to
nominate candidates for the Legislature, and that lion.
C. J. Jenkins was thrown overboard by the convention
because he stated that he would, if elected, vote for
Judge Berrien for the Senate, should he be a candidate
for re-election. He received only 2 out of the 64 votes
east by the convention.’’
***** *
“ We have seen a statement that Mr. Berrien is
now a supporter of Mr. Cobb. We cannot believe it
without further evidence of the fact. This Richmond
affair docs not look like ho had any interest in the co
alition of Cobb, Stephens, Toombs, Fillmore, & Cos. for
office. We hope we are not deceived in Mr. Berrien,
but that he maintains the same patriotic position in de
fence of Georgia and the constitution, which made him
offensive to Federal Unionists.’’
We thus see that Mr. Berrien is claimed as a Dis
unionist by the Constitutionalist and Patriot, and they
probably speak by authority. This is sufficient, of itself,
to cause the Union men of the next Legislature to re
pudiate Mr. Berrien’s claims to re-election to the l.*.
States Senate and to allow him to retire to tliat private
life which becomes Imsyears and his uncertain political
position, on the great questions of the day. When that
election comes on, the Legislature will doubtless select
some worthy Constitutional Union Democrat to take a
seat along with that worthy Constitutional Union Whig,
the Hon. W. C. Dawson, in the Senate chamber of the
U. States, and in the discharge of their duty, they will
have no difficulty in making a judicious selection from
the many sound and practical Union men deserving ol
the high honor.
Grand Lodge of the liiited States,
I. 0. 0. F.
The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of the U.
States commenced its session at Odd Fellows’ Hall, in
Baltimore, on Monday morning. Avery large dele
gation, numbering about one hundred, is present, nearly
every State in the Union being represented. (Among
the rest is a visiting delegate from Honolulu, Sandwich
Islands, P. G. Webster, j After the credentials of the
new representatives had been reported, and they were
admitted as members, tbo Grand Lodge proceeded to
the installation of officers, as follows, with appropriate
ceremonies :
Grand Sire. W. W. Moore, D. C.
Deputy Grand Sire. 11. L. Page, Wisconsin.
Grand Secretary. James L. Ilidgely, MJ.
Grand Treasurer. A. E. Warner, Md.
Grand Chaplain. ,T. M. Willey, Conn.
Grand Warden. John Sessford, Jr. 1). C.
Grand Messenger. J. E. Chamberlaine, Md.
Grand Guardian. J. L. Lewyt, Md.
The Past Grand Sire, Griffin, of Georgia, then read
his annual report, showing the order to be in the most
flourishing condition in all sections of the country.
Among other recommendations of the Past Grand Sire
was one that the order return to the obi system of
State grand bodies paying the representatives. The
report of the Grand Secretary was also received.
The standing committees were then named, and after
agreeing that the hour of meeting should be nine
o’clock A. M. and of adjournment half p.ast three
o'clock P. M. the Grand Lodge took a recess until halt
past 1 o’clock.
At the afiernoon session, the business was merely
preparatory. Appeals and petitions were presented,
and resolutions offered and referred to the standing
committees.
3lr. Bcnnins’s Opinions. —The Columbus
‘Times,’ of August Ist 1851, thus speaks of Mr. Ben
ding the Disunion candidate for Congress in the 2nd
District:
“ Ist. Mr. Bcnning was a member of the Nash
ville Convention .”
“2 rid. Had the Southern Congress met, Mr. Ben
ning would have raised his voice Jor disunion.'’
“3rd. Mr. Bcnning believes that the decision made
by the Convention in December 1850, as unwise ana
wrong.”
These principles above are sufficient to convince eve
ry candid mind that Henning is not such a man as the
South should trust to make her laws.
Mr. McDonald held the office of President of the
same Convention and entertains similar opinions.
The Monthlies.— Godey and Graham for Oc
tober are on our table. They fully sustain the reputa
tion of previous numbers, for brilliancy of embellish
ment and excellence of letter press.
White Man's Newspaper —n. 2of this
large Newspaper by J. Edwards Lester, of New York,
received, but we do not think it will pay for us to com
ply with his request to publish a column of his editorial
in th o finest type, to get 52 more copies of his Journal.
The Magnolia. —The Richmond Republican
will please continue the Republican to us, instead of the
‘Magnolia.’ The latter is a good paper, but not our
choice at present.
The New York Leader, by Atwood, is a capital pa
per devoted to the cause of labor and industrial pur
suits, “■?*
Forsyth aud the Yankees.
The Columbus “Times” of the 17th, contains th
ffillowmg attack upon tho Northern bom citizens of tb *
“YANKEES.
“The Enquirer re produces our description of “Y an .
kecs. ’ Mho cares ! We do not write for votes—
we are not riding on a fence on all questions, to get th o
greatest possible quantum of help to get into an office
that we are not fit for—we do not tickle tho mob to
obtain their “sweet voices” and then throw a mostd*.
tant allusion to “ law and order,’’ in order to save ths
consciences of certain respectable gentlemen of onr own
I'arty, who had sworn to vote for no *ao6-candidsto
for State Senator. We are not that sort of folks, w,
write what we think, what we feel and know to b true
and we repeat, that we abhor the idea of a govemnu-'t
of checesc.eating Yankees.'’ H fav .
•n deliver us from a Cud-fish aristocracy ! R ut
as we abhor such a government, it would be honorable
and respectable in comparison to one ’headed by a South
ern submissionist —a dough-faca who sells his country
for office, and barters great and vital principles of f ree .
dom for the triumph of a wretched party —a “ dirty bird
that fouls its own nest.” Pah!”
“ Onion-smelling, cheese-eating Yankees,” indeed’
Well, suppose they are, what is there criminal in th*
act of smelling onions and eating cheese ? As well migh
this popinjay berate the Irish for their fondness *.. r
“praties and butter milk” or the Dutch for their “mu,
crout” and “ liver puddings”! But for John Forsyth
to rail at his Northern fellow-citizens as a “ Cod-fish
aristocracy,” and as “ dirty birds that defile their own
nest,” is indeed marvellous, on more accounts than one
In the first place, he is the very man that has done the
latter. Ilis grand parents by the mother’s side, w e r*
Connecticut Yankees ! His “granny’s” nest has there
fore been defiled by this degenerate villifier. 2dly, Ilis
father was a Jackson Union man, but he scouts the
principle and becomes a traitor to his country. Thu*
lie defiles his paternal nest. 3J!y, Johnny is, notorious
ly, one of the most arrant toadstools of a scrub arisls
eracy that ever existed. He therefore again defiles
his own nest when he berates birds of the same or dif
ferent species, as “Cod-fish aristocrats.” As Nathan
said to David, * 4 Thou art the man”! Ths picture he
has drawn of others is only a personal reflection of his
own malignant heart and features. That’s all.
The Cloven Foot Revealed!
The Editor es the Columbus Times, in his late lettsr
to the Charleston “immediate secessionists holds the
following unequivocal and abominable sentiments :
“Agreeing with you fully in your principles;,
sympathizing with you from jlte bottom of mv
heart, in your feelings of antagonism to the
Federal Government, which have been called
into existence by its fanatical aggressions, and
reckless and studied disregard of our Constitu
tional rights—it is, I regret to say, out of mv
power to accept your invitation.
“I have duties which bind me to mv postal
home. VVe have hosts of powerful enemies,,
sporting with the rights and misguiding the in?-
telligence of the patriotic people, here tomcat
and contend with. \Ye have to combat the pois
onous prejudices and delusions which dema
gogues, of both the old political-parties, united
in a coalition to advance their own selfish views,
have succeeded in sowing broad cast in the
minds of our people, and in garbing their na
ked wrongs in the habiliments of a patriotic lovo
for the Union of our fathers. It is our misfor
tune that these instincts of pure and unselfish
patriotism, which, unbiassed by false views,
prejudice and misdirection, would run in a bold
and resistless current in favor of Southern Rights
are perverted by bad and ambitious men, and
made to swell the triumphs of our Northern en
emies.”
*****
“ Gentlemen, as a Georgian, I hardly know
what to say to you Carolinians, I feel that my
people should be this moment, shoulder to
shoulder, with yours. I feel that instead of
pouring their torrents of ridicule and abuse on
you, as the guilty authors of the disturbance of
tire peace of the Confederacy, our miss-called
‘•Constitutional Union” men, should lock their
shields with yours and present an impregnable
phalanx to our common foes. 1 feel that Geor
gia is called the “Empire State” in derision, by
those at the North, whose principles and con
duct are fast making no State, at all, but a dt
pendent province. 1 would to God, we had few
er miles of railway, fewer millions invested in
manufactures and stocks, fewer proofs of enter
prise and tin ift and money-making; and more of
that sort of chivalry of Georgia of the olden
time, which on more than one occasion, has in
terposed her sovereignty to check the usurpa
tion of the Federal Government.
“ Fut I took my pen only to say how much I
regret that I cannot meet you in council. It
would do my heart “ood to mingle with one as
semble of my southern country men, where an un
divided. burning and unanimous sense of wrong
and panting for justice, were strong enough to
consume and shame away every sentiment of
party and faction, by which ray State is now
torn ; and so devoted to the misrule of bad mer.,
who have the mistaken confidence of a large
portion of her people. Hut there is a redeem
ing spirit among us, which whatever course you
may take, will send to your sides thousands
swords and shields to defend your cause and(
our cause.
“ He pleased to make known to the Associa-.
tion my sense ofgrateful feeling in being deem--
ed by it, worthy of remembrance and recogni
tion as a worthy compatriot in our glorious.
Southern cause ; and accept for yourselves my
thanks for the flattering terms in which you have
conveyed to me their wishes.
1 am, with great respect, gentlemen,
Your ob't serv't.
JOHN FORSYTH;
Ro Messrs.F. D. Richardson, 11. 11. Raymond:,,
\V. 11. l’oronneau, Committee Southern,
Rights Association, Charleston.’’
We beg pardon of our readers, for giving so much
space to tlit* opinions of a man so lost to every feeling of
State pride and national patriotism, as is the writer of
the foregoing tirade against bis fellow-citizens agsinsl
bis State and against bis government. We do it. not on
the individual’s account, but because he is the recogniz
ed organ of the McDonald Disunion party, and it may
be serviceable to the honest people of the State to know
whither the measures proposed by the b ire Eaters ara
tending. Mark the language of this scribe ! lie agrees
fully in the principles of Rhettism, (for it was to Rbett
and his friends he was addressing himself) and symps
thizes from the bottom of his heart, with them i
their antagonism to the General Government. H®
abuses the Constitutional Union party as demagogues
anil ambitious men who are engaged in selfish schemes
and purposes, and deplores the advancement of Georgia
in her career of prosperity and renown, as being at tb*
expense of our independence and far worse than days
of yore, when “ chivalry” was more rampant. Such
are the deliberate sentiments of a leader in the camp of
disunion. The honor and glory of Georgia, her social
and religious improvement—her system of internal ra.l
ways and all that goes to make her truly great and no
ble, are but ‘‘as dust in the balance” compared with the
political and social Knight errantry of the past when
the Yazoo scheme and other delectable specimen* of
chivalric age were in the ascendant. The gist of hi*
song is, “perish credit — perish commerce —perish h° n
esty, perish renown, perish the State and nation, be
fore myself and friends shall be deprived of our right •
“rule and ruin” all creation, when it is our pleasure
to do.
Fellow-citizens—are you ready to take a relrogra
march in the career of improvement f Are
ling to risk all the substantial blessings you enjoy, w P “*•
suit of a phantom T Do you feel so degraded and op
pressed, as to wish such a change as is here
forth ? Can you fill the desire of your 80U ''. “7. ht ,
on the attenuated ether of “ chivalry ?” 1
your children or give them bread to eat ? - ‘
none of these. Well, then, go to the polls, on -1*
week, and show by your votes that
“It it, better to bear the ills we have
Than fly to others we know not of.”