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From the Rome Courier.
WITH DISPATCH,
For the Head Waters of Salt River.
The fast sailing, clipper-built steamer, “SauTii
f.rn Rights Party,’’ will leave Georgia Wharf
for the above destination, on Monday evening
of the sixth of October next, at 6 o’clock pre
cisely. She has recently been completely over
hauled, and such changes have been made in
the rigging as to adapt her to Salt River navi
gation. Anew engine, operating upon Demo
cratic principles, has lately been put on board
of her, as her “ Fire-Eating’’ engine was found
upon trial not to work very well, and it is now
confidently believed that with her new machine
ry, she will easily outstrip anything afloat.
The alterations in her construction have been
made under the special supervision of Capt. R.
11. Rhett. ller Staterooms will be found par
ticularly commodious and convenient, each
apartment being so arranged by a felicitous
contrivance, that the occupant can detach it en
tirely from the vessel and sail on by—himself,
provided, he can rig himselt out with paddle
wheels and an engine. This is effected by
what Capt. Rhett calls the secession principle;
a novel and astonishing discovery in modern
science, capable, as he affirms, ot an unlimited
application in the arts of life. The services of
an able and distinguished Pilot have been se
cured, one who lias an intimate acquaintance
with the breakers and sand bars of this roman
tic river, having recently taken a voyage up
this river as far as the waters are navigable, and
as far as any other adventurer lias ever dared
to ascend. The bill of fare comprises the rar
est delicacies of the season. Hot rolls of se
cession-moonshine, prepared with South Caroli
na yeast; fresh steaks of disunion fog ; old nulli
fication btandv; genuine gun powder tea;
snapping turtle soup, Ac., Ac., Ac.
The officers of the “Southern Rights party”
are as follows, viz: Commodore C. J. McDon
ald, commander; Walter T. Colquit Ist Mate;
George Washington Napoleon Bonaparte
Towns, 2d Mate; Jonathan Davis, Chaplain;
\V. L. Mitchell, Chief Engineer; Chas. Doug
herty, Surgeon;.!. M. Smythe, Purser; John
A. Quitman, Pilot; Passed Midshipman, W.
H. Stiles, Jos R. Jackson, 11. L. Henning, D. J.
Bailey, J. D. Stell, F. Jones, Robert McMillan
anl 1). W. Lewis.
For Freight or Passage, apply to the Com
modore or at the offices of the Constitutionalist,
Federal Union and Columbus Sentinel.
Gon. Jackson and Secession.
Maj. Donaldson, in liis paper of July 3rd, thus
defines General Jackson’s position, in reference to Se
cession :
‘Equally unfounded is the insinuation that General
Jackson's proclamation was the composition of Feder
al minds and teas afterwards amended in order to
satisfy the scruples of an offended democracy. Gen.
Jackson never, by any act of his life , explained away
the meaning nf his proclamation. The publication au
thorized by him contains the fullest proof that all as
sertions to the effect were gratuitous and unfounded.
Indeed the very passages ofthat document which were
misrepresented as being too federal, were approved la
titat portion of his cabinet which were never suspected
of a federal affinity. There is not a sentiment in that
document which militates against the Virginia reso
lutions: ‘there is not a word in it which General Jack
son ever consented to modify or to change, not one that
any member of his cabinet desired to change, either
then or since, that ever we heard of. Nor is it true
to say that Mr. Livingston was the author of that doc
ument. It was put into form chiefly by him, because
it was a document to bo recorded in the state depart
ment; but its essential features were drawn up im
mediately under the direction and dictation of the
General himself. Indeed when presented to the cabi
net it underwent important changes, and particularly in
these features which refer to the manner in which the
constitution was formed, and the mode in which it
bound all the people under one common and united
government.’
Jefferson on Secession.
Mr Jefferson lias never been suspected of being a
Federalist. His reputation was won mainly by his ef
forts against the black cockade federalists of the East.
Aslong ago as 1799, soon after the adoption of the
Federal Constitution, he commenced to war against
the heresy of secession, which was then entertained
by sonic of the people of Virginia, who had become
outraged at the conduct of the Federalists, lie then
wrote a letter to a distinguished gentleman in that State,
an extract from and old copy of the Southern Quar
terly Review , as follows:
‘But if, on a temporary superiority of the one party,
the other is to resort to a secession fiom the Union, no
Federal Government can ever exist. If, to rid our
selves of the present rule of Massachusetts and Con
necticut, we break the Union, will the evil stop there?
Suppose the New England States alone cut off, will
♦tut nature be changed ? Are we not men still to the
South of that, and with all the passions of men? Im
mediately wo shall see a Pennsylvania and a Virginia
party arising in the residuary Confederacy, and the
public mind be distracted with the same party spirit.
What a game, too, will the one party have in their
‘iandsby eternally threatening the other, that, unless
toy do so and so, they will join their Northern neigh
bor ? If we reduce our Union to Virginia and North
Garolina, immediately the conflict will be established
between the representatives of these two States, and
toy will end by breaking into their simple units. See
ing, therefore, that an association of men will not quar
rel with one another it is a tiling which never vet ex
isted, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to
a town meeting ora vestry •, seeing that we must have
somebody to quarrel with, I had rather keep our
New England associates for that purpose, than to see
out bickering transferred to others.’
Madison lo Hamilton.
New Yohk, Sunday Evening.
Jf>/ Dear Sir: —Yours of Yesterday has
this instant caine to hand, and I have but a
minute to answer it. lam sorry that your
situation obliges you to listen to propositions
of the nature you describe. My opinions is,
that a reservation of a right to withdraw, if
amendments be not decided on under the form
of the Constitution within a certain time, is a
conditional ratification ; that does not make
New York a member of the Union ; and conse
quently, that she could not be received on that
plan. Compact must be reciprocal. 1 his
principle would not in such a case be preserved.
The Constitution requites an adoption in toto
and: forever.
It has been adopted by the other States.
An adoption, for a limited time, would be as
defective as an adoption of some of the articles
only. In short, any condition whatever must
vitiate the ratification. What the new Con
press, by virtue of the power to admit new
States, moy be able and disposed to do in such
a case, l<!onot enquire, as I suppose that is
not t material at present. I have not a mo
ment to add more than my fervent wishes for
your success and happiness. Ihe idea of
reserving a righ to withdraw was started at
Richmond? and considerer as a conditional
ratification, which has ilselt abandoned as
worse than a rejection. Yours,
JAMES MADISON.
After this evidence from Mr. Madison; both
in regard to New York and” Virginia, it would
seem that the question was settled. It cer
tainly admks of no further controversy. Then
the right to withdraw from the Union is not
found in the constitution; in does not result
from the nature of our Government, nor did
any State reserve the right when the consti
tution was ratified.
The Dad.—Smythe of the “ Republic’’ and
Thomas of Elbert fought a duel on Saturday last, oppo
site l’etersburgh, Georgia. Smythe was shot through
both legs, near the calf part of the locomotive extremi
ties. Thomas was unhurt. The difficulty was then
adjusted, and the wounded honor of the challenger ap
peased ?
Is the Sonth Degraded.
It is constantly asserted by the fire eaters and was
most positively declared by the convention that nomi
nated Judge McDonald, for Governor, that the South
has been “ degraded from her condition of equality in
the Union.” Bat as they have heretofore failed to con
vince the people of Georgia of the truth of the allega
tion, in regard to the recent adjustment of the territo
rial and slavery questions by Congress, we have been
naturally led to inquire if the assertion would hold good
with respect to their fair and due representations of the
South in tho administration of the Government of the
Union. And we find, on examination, that in the
President’s Cabinet at Washington, the South has a
representation there of five, and the North and great
West only four members of the Cabinet. For the
truth of this statement, witness the following :
Milliard Fillmore, of New York, President.
IV m. 11. King of Alabama, Vice President.
Danifl Webster, of Massachusetts, Secretary of
State.
Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasu
ry.
Alex. II . Stewart, of Virginia, Secretary of the Inte
rior.
Wm. Graham, of North Carolina. Secretary of the
Navy.
Chas. M. ConraJ,of Lou Liana, Secretary of War.
Bonj. K. Hall, of New York, Postmaster General.
John J. Crittenden, Kentucky, Attorney General.
On turning our attention to the members of the Su
preme Court of tlie United States, we find that the
South lias also five of the nine Judges—being one ma
jority over the North and great West. The following
list of the members of that Court, is respectfully sub
mitted, for the edification of the fire eaters, who are con
stantly shedding their crocodile tears, over Southern
degradation, Read it:
Roger B. Taney, of Maryland, Chief Justice.
John McLean, of Ohio, Associate Justice.
James M. Wayne, of Georgia, Associate J ustice.
John Catron, of Tennessee, Associate Justice.
I*. \. Daniei, of Virginia, Associate Justice.
John McKinley, of Alabama, Associate Justice.
Samuel Nelson, of New York, Associate Justice.
Lei i Woodbury, of New Hampshire, Associate Jus
tice.
R. C. Greer, of Pennsylvania, Associate Justice.
Taken in connection with the above, it is a notorious
fact, that the South has given to the country a far grea
ter number of Presidents than any other portion of the
Union. The South degraded, indeed ! from her condi
tion of equality in this glorious Union ! We dety the
disuniouists to show it, and make good their bold and
reckless assertion. —Greenville Patriot.
From the Journal & Messenger.
.Hr. Bailey aud the Federal Basis.
As the friends of Col. David Bailey profess to be the
exclusive and peculiar supporters of Southern interest,
we have thought it but fair to examine into the acts of
their candidate.
In the year 1539, Mr. Bailey was chosen a member
of the “Reduction Convention,” which assembled in Mil
ledgville early in May. In that body, there were pre
sented a great variety of plans for the reduction of the
Legislature.
A select committee was finally raised, which, after
mature deliberation, reported a plan. On Tuesday the
14th of May, as appears from the Journal of the Con
vention, the report of the committee as amended, was
taken up, when Mr. Starke of Butts, (now Judge
Starke) offered the following as a mbstiiute for the
whole report. (See Journal of Convention, pages
37 3S and 39.)
The third section of the first article of the Constitu
tion shall read as follows :
“ The Senate shall be elected annually, on the first
Monday in Oetorber, until such day be altered by law,
and shall be composed of one member from each county,
to be chosen by the electors thereof
“ The seventh section of the first article, shall read as
follows :
“The House of Representatives shall be composed
of members from the following Counties and Represen
tative Districts, according to their respective numbers of
the free white persons, & including “THREE-FIFTHS
OF ALL PEOPLE OF COLOR;’’ to be ascertain
ed bv actual enumeration to be made from time to
time, as intervals of seven years, as is now by law pro
vided. Each county having a representative population
as above specified, of four thousand or upwards, shall
be entitled to one member ; of eight thousand two
members; of twelve thousand three members. No
county shall have more than three members. And
until the next enumeration shall take place, the several
counties and Representative Districts shall be entitled
to the following number of Representatives respectively.
[Here follow the list of counties which we omit.]
•‘ The number of members in the Representative
branch of the Legislature, shall not he increased, except
by the formation of anew county, in which event, the
new county shall have one Senator and one Represen
tative, until the next succeding septennial enumeration.
“The Legislature may from time to time, after each
septennial enumeration, arrange the Representative
Districts, but, shall on no account, allow each county
more nor less than one Senator, and the equality of rep.
resentation on the Federal basis in the House of Repre
sentatives, according to such ratio as the Legislature
may fix, shall always be maintained. The Represen
tatives shall be elected on the same days appointed for
the election of Senators, until such day be altered by
law.”
After various amendments were offered, it was pro
posed to Mr. Starke, (see page 44) to strike out from
the foregoing substitute, the following words, viz:
(fj~ “ And including three-fifths of all the people
of color. ” -CO
This proposition Mr. Starke accepted.
Mr. Jenkins, of Richmond, raised a question of or
der, viz: “ Whether Mr. Starke had the right to ac
cept of the amendment, without the consent of the con
vention.” The President decided that Mr. Siarke had
the right. An appeal was taken from the decision,
and the Chair was sustained—Yeas 143 Nays 132.
Col. Scabon Jones, of Muscogee, then moved, that
after the words “free white persons” in the fourth par
agraph of Mr. Starke's substitute, be inserted the
words, “and including three, fifths of the people of
color-, which was carried—Yeas 192, Nays 83.
Among those who voted in the negative, and
against the Federal basis , was DA\ ID J. BAILEY,
of Butts.
This vote is recorded on page 45 of the Journal of
the convention. That Journal is now in our posses
sion, and may be seen by any person who dcsir.-s to ex
amine the record.
Col. Bailey was almost the only delegate from what
is known as the black belt, or heavy slaveholding coun
ties of Central Georgia, who dared to vote this way.
In 1839, so far from being the friend of the slave in
teresrs, he was directly opposed to them. lie voted to
destroy their influence and power in the Legislature
of our own State. He voted to do for Georgia pre
cisely what the Abolitionists desire to see done in the
whole South !!
Col. Bailey now desires to represent these same slave
holders of the Central counties in the Congress of the
United States. Fellow-citizens, the only way to judge
of his future conduct, is by referring to his past acts.
Can you trust, in the National Councils—under the
full power of abolition influences, a man who has proved
himself your enemy at home ?
Col. Bailey did oppose your interests in 1839—he
did vote then to destroy the Federal Basis—he did
vote then to curtail the slave influence in the Legisla
ture. Will the heavy slaveholding counties in the
1 liird District, honor his treachery, by promoting him
to a seat in the National Councils ? We trust not.
Senator Douglas. —Mr. Douglas, the Senator
from Illinois, who justwmw occupies no obscure posi
tion in Presidential calculations, was many years ago a
workman cabinet-maker at Middlebury, Vermont. He
recently attended the College comineneement in that
town and was set out by the Faculty with the ornamen
tal appendage of L. L. D. The Middlebury Sentinel
gives a little incident:
“ It was in Middlebury that Mr. Douglas served his
apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker, a fact of which lie
was speaking jocosely the other day, when a Whig
gentleman present replied—‘ The trade may serve you
yet; for no man at present seems more likely to have
cabinet making to do than your honor.’ ’’
Silent contempt is more galling than open rebuke,
UNION NOMINATION,
FOR GOVERNOR,
EON. HOWELL COBB,
OF CLARKE.
UNION CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES.
SECOND DISTRICT.
JAMES JOHNSON,
OF MUSCOGEE.
THIRD DISTRICT.
ABSALOM 11. CHAPPELL,
OF 8188.
FOR THE STATE SENATE, 2GtII DISTRICT, MONROE
AND 8188,
DR. SYLVANUS W. BURNEY.
To the Editors of the Chronicle <s■ Sentinel.
The following communication was intended
for the Constitutionalist <fc Republic, in which
a majority of us preferred that it should appear.
It was offered by one of our friends to the act
ing Editor of that paper, who declined publish
ing it. By inserting it in your paper so that
any light it may afford may shine through its
columns, you will oblige
The Writer.
For the Constitutionalist.
State Secession.
The question w hether a State of the Ameri
can Union has, or has not, the constitutional
right to secede from that Union at pleasure, de
mands whenever it is raised, as it is at present,
the careful consideration of every citizen.
Desirous of investigating this subject for our
selves, we procured a copy of the Articles of
Confederation, and of the Constitution of the
United States, with the view of comparing the
assertions of newspaper writers and public
speakers, with the provisions of those respected
instruments, which appear to us tohave the most
direct bearing upon the subject. We request
the publication of the following extracts in the
Constitutionalist, for the satisfaction of such of
its readers as have not easy access to the docu
ments we have mentioned, nor time readily to
find the portions best calculated to afford the
desired information. Lovers of Light.
The following is the thirteenth of the
“Articles of Confederation and Perpe
tual Union ’’ between the thirteen original
States, agreed to at Philadelphia, in the State of
Pennsylvania, on the 9th day of July, 1778,
except the State of Maryland, which ratified
them by her members in Congress, on the first
day of March, 1781, and completed the same.’’
“Every State shall abide the determination
of the L nited States in Congress assembled, on
all questions which by this confederation are
submitted to them. And the articles of this
confederation shall be inviolably observed bv
every State, and tho Union shall be perpetual;
nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter
be made in any of them, unless such alteration
bo agreed to in a Congress of the United States,
and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures
of every State.”
“ And whereas, it hath pleased the Great
Governor of the world to incline the hearts of
the Legislatures we respectively represent in
Congress, to approve of and to authorize us to
ratify the said articles of confederation and per
petual Union: Know ye, That we, the under
signed delegates, by virtue of the power and
authority to us given for that purpose, do, by
these presents, in the.name and behalf of our
respective constituents, fully and entirely ratify
and confirm each and every of the said articles
of confederation and perpetual Union; and all
and singular the matters and things therein
contained. And we do further solemnly plight
and engage the faith of our respective consti
tuent, that they shall abide by the determina
tion of the United States in Congress assembled,
bn all questions w hich by the said confederation
are submitted to them, and that the articles
thereof shall be inviolably observed by the States
we respectively represent, and that the Union
shall be perpetual. In witness whereof, we have
hereunto set our hand in Congress.’’
Signed on behalf of the State of Georgia by
John Walton,
Edward Telfair,
Edward Langworthy.
Preamble of the Constitution of the United
States, adopted in convention by the unanimous
consent of the States present on the 17th day of
September, 1787, and afterwards ratified by the
people of the respective States through their
delegates in conventions assembled for that es
pecial purpose:
“We, the people of the United States, in
order to form a more perfect Union, establish
justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for
the common defence, promote the general wel
fare, and secure the blessings of liberty to our
selves and our posterity, do ordain and estab
lish this constitution for the United States of
America.’’
Oath of the President of the United States:
(Last clause of the first section of the second
Article.)
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
faithfully execute the office of President of tho
United States, and will, to the best of my abili
ty, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitu
tion of the United States.”
Section second of the second article provides,
among other things, that
“The President shall be commander-in-chief
of the army and navy of the United States and
of the militia of the several States when called
into actual service of the United States;” and
in the third section of the same article it is pro
vided that “he. shall take care that the law be
faithfully executed.’’
Second clause of the sixth article :
“This constitution and the laws of the Uni
ted States which shall be made in pursuance
thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be
made under the authority of the United States,
shall be the supreme law of the land, and the
judges in every State shall be bound thereby,
any thing in the Constitution or laws of any
State to the contrary notwithstanding.”
The third clause of the same sixth article pro
vides that,
“The Senators and Representatives of the
I nited States, and the members of the several
State Legislatures, and all executive and judi
cial officers both of the United States and of
the several States, shall be bound by oath or
affirmation to support the Constitution of the
United States.’’
Twelfth amendment of the Constitution :
“The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by
it to the States, are reserved to the States re
spectively, or to the people.”
Later From Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.
The Royal Mail Steamer Canada has arrived,
bringing three days later news.
Liverpool, Sept. 20.— Cotton. —The ordinary quali
ties have declined |d ; Middling a shade lower. Sales
of the week 37,000 bales, of which speculation took
10,000 and exporters 5,040 bales. Fair Mobile is quo
ted at ssd ; Orleans fid.
Flour is unchanged and in fair request. Corn has
advanced 6d.
Trade in Manchester is less active. Consols for mo
ney, 97|d. for account 96J. The bullion in the Bank
of England lias increased.— Chron. if- Sen.
Baltimore Election—Kossuth Liberated.
Baltimore, Oct. J, 8 P. M.
In Baltimore District, Walsh (whig) has been elec
ted to Congress by 200 majority.
Additional per Canada. —Kossuth and his com
panions have been liberated, and sailed on 7th Sept.
Wise sayings often fall to the ground, but a
kind word is never thrown away.
THE GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR.
MACON, GEO. OCT. 4, 1851.
Removed.
THE Office of the Georgia Citizen is removed to the New
Building, (Up Stairs ,) opposite the lower corner of the Trian
gular Block, Cotton Avenue. Entrance by the 3d Door be
low the corner of the Alley. oct 4
ELECTION RETURNS.
Our friends in every part of the State will please be
particular in forwarding promptly to us the result of
the coming 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.
LOOK TO YOUR TICKETS!
As all sorts of fraud will be attempted upon voters,
it is well to advise our friends to look well to their Tick
ets before putting them into the Ballot-Box. See that
all the names are on and suffer no erasures or substitu
tions. Avoid split-tickets as you would the old serpent.
The following is the ticket which the Union men of
Bibb will vote for, on Monday— neither more nor less .’
For Governor , lion. Howell Cobb, of Clarke.
For Representative in Congress, Hon. A. 11. Cuappkl.
For Senator, Dr. Stlvanus W. Burnet.
For Representatives to Legislature,
Gen. J. W. Armstrong,
JudgeT. G. llolt.
By the People.
Night of the Election.
We will keep our Reading Room opened on Monday
night, till we can get returns frfini all points whence
intelligence by telegraph or otherwise can reach us,
that evening. The public at large, without respect of
party, are invited to walk up and make themselves at
home on the occasion.
Rail Road Connexion - -The connexion be
tween the Central and South Western Roads was Com
pleted on Wednesday last, and at 4 o’clock, P. M. of
that day a train of freight ears passed over the new
Bridge,and on toOglethorpe The Macon & Western
Road will not finish their connecting link much before
the Ist ol January. We shall soon see what effect, for
good or evil, this measure will have upon the interests
and prosperity of Macon. From the-jsigns of active
business around us, no great damage seems to be anti
cipated by our mercantile community, and we hope the
reality will not bring disappointment.
Amende Honorable. —We are requested to say
that we did injustice to Jonathan Davis’ brother, when
we transferred a certain charge from Jonathan’s skirts
to another of the same family. Perhaps it is so, but
we spake as informed, not knowing any thing about
the identity of the parties implicated. If Jonathan is
the man, his brother should not be made to suffer the
penalty.
Irishmen, Mention !—We invite the at
tention of our Irish fellow-citizens to the letter
of “Hibernicus” in another column,—also, to
the article on our first page from the London
Times, on the Corkonian Anti-Slavery Resolu
tions and the letter of Joseph Brenan, a voting
exiled Irishman of New York, in reply to the
same, if the hitter does not make the blood of
a patriotic Irishman tingle in his veins, the race
has sadly degenerated since the days of Grat
tam, Curran aud Emmett.
Biblical knowledge.
Gov. McDonald made a thundering spceeh, the oth
er day, up country, in which, after touching upon all
things sublunary & temporal he took a flight into ethe
real space and invoked high Heaven to save the coun
try and people as lie once, did his servants “ Shadrnch,
Meschac and Abednago’’ out of the “ Lion's den''.’
In course such a critical acquaintance with liible His
tory has done the business for Mr. Cobb in that sec
tion ! The Governor is almost as well versed in scrip
ture as Gov. WooctTijffoxas, who quoted Shakespeare
as Bible, or as the eJBor who spoke of the “ Laced a
monian” cry from Cubi, instead of the ‘'Macedonian".
Can’t somebody send him a Sunday-School primer ?
IVot Measured. —Mr. Cobb’s month has not
been measured, he says, to fit the Rhett Bugle, from
the Charleston Manufactory. The measurement of
McDonald’s mouth was thought to be unnecessary as
it was well known that his swallow was large enough
for any purpose, and hence the presumption that the
hole in the face corresponding thereto must be equally
capacious and tlie sphincter muscles of the lips as
elastic as desirable!
Personalities.
The ‘Federal Ruin’and other Fillibuster prints have
closed the present contest by a mean resort to person
al abuse of Mr. Cobb, for being a poor man ! In all
his public and official acts they can find nothing that
will avail them against that distinguished gentleman,
but must examine into his private financial affairs, to
see whether they cannot prove him a rogue at heart!
This is the plain English of the charge made by the
Milledgeville organ and his satellites at Oglethorpe,
Griffin, &c., against Mr. Cobb, of default to the Cen
tral Bank. Mr. C. was once indebted, on his own ac
count, to said Bank about SI2OO, but turned over pro
perty, consisting of a negro worth SBOO and a house
and lot worth SI2OO to pay the debt, and it was paid
in full. Now Mr. Cobb is responsible for SSOO or S6OO
to the same Bank, as security fora friend, which sum
he has engaged to settle by the Ist of December en
suing.
But supposing these stories are all true, why should
they be blazoned abroad to the discredit of Mr. Cobb’s
integrity? Because a man has once been unfortunate
and unable to pay his debts, is he therefore to be hun
ted down as a knave ? How many of the leading
Fire-Eaters of Bibb county, Editors, candidates, See.,
can plead exemption from occasional financial embas
rassment? How many are upright and honest men,
according to the rule here laid down ? Gentlemen who
throw such missiles as these, should be careful lest a
big brickbat be sent whirling through the gable end of
their own domiciles! We have it in our power to
take fearful vengeance in this particular, but scorn to
do it, unless it should become necessary in self defence
or in defence of our political friends. But let these
hyenas of party—these jackals of corruption beware how
they trespass further upon the sanctity of private life
and business transactions, or they shall not go“unwhipt
of justice.’’ If every candidate in the Southern Rights
party were as pure and incorruptible as Mr. Cobb, and
of as spotless a private reputation, there would be
good omen that a political millennium was at hand,
which is now lamentably far distant, even in prospec
tive. We repeat therefore, that these stories about Mr.
Cobb are disgraceful fabrications which none but the
vilest and most scurvy politicians of the day would be
caught circulating through the community, on the eve
of the election. Let Union men and decent men of
the opposite party then frown down sueli a rascally
system of electioneering against worthy and honest
candidates.
Qlierc T—The Columbus Sentinel man says ho
“ hates the Union like h—ll.’’ Now, according to his
“orthodoxy,” that same place is as hot as blue blazes
and brimestiue can make it. Os course, “Billy’’ would
strain every nerve to get out or keep out of such a warm
latitude, fire eater though he be. Well, this being the
ease, why does he not make haste to quit the Union
which he hates so intensely ? We doubt not that the
Columbus certificate makers would prove that the Sen
tinel man “spoke the truth, the whole truth and noth
ing but the truth” when he made the declaration afore
said, and yet that he is a sound orthodox Christian,
nevertheless. If they do make their “ affidavys,” we
hope that nobody will insinuate any thing against their
veracity.
There is a capital story told of someone
who prayed that the Lord would “bless the
potato crop which seemed to have been smitten
in his displeasure, and regard with special
smiles the few planted ill our back garden !”
TO THE POLLS! TO THE POLLS!
The argument is exhausted, and the day of ratifica
tion drawethnigh! On Monday next, the freemen of
Georgia will be called on to say whether the decision
which the people, by their Representatives in Conven
tion assembled, last fall, made, in relation to the Com
promise Measures of the last Congress, shall continue
to be the sovereign will and pleasure of Georgia, or
whether the action of said Convention shall be rescinded
and disannulled. The question is one of great moment
to the peace and stability of our government and the
happiness of all who enjoy the blessings of liberty be
queathed to us by our revolutionary sires. It is whether
this Confederacy of State shall continue to be a Beacon
Light of glory and renown, or whether the night of
desolation shall come and the fairest temple of liberty
on which the sun ever shone shall be overthrown by
the hands of anarchy and faction.
We shall not, at this late hour, offer any considera
tions to the reader, with a view to change his opinions,
on the issue now before the people. The minds of re
flecting men, we presume, ate already made up and the
door of the heart is sealed to further argument, whilst
to the unreflecting, we are sure, a word of advice will
be labor spent in vain.
We can, however, make a last appeal to both classes of
our readers, on this last occasion which will present itself,
before the die is cast at the ballot box.
To the Union man we would say, yours is the cause
of truth, peace and righteousness. It is the sacred
cause of liberty and independence. It was the price of
blo< and which our fathers paid for an inheritance of almost
priceless value. On you will it depend, whether the
boon shall be preserved in all its pristine beauty and
splendor or be lost to the world forever. Go then to
the polls on Monday, prepared to cast your vote as be
cometh those who desire to perpetuate the blessings of
freedom, and in that sound discretion which neodelh
not to be ashamed. If your voice is again raised in
behalf of the Union, in the same thundering tones that
were heard last year, then will the hydra headed mon
ster of disunion be indeed destroyed or rendered impo
tent of evil. But let your standard bearer, the gallant
and noble Cobb, be defeated,and treason will take re
newed courage and wax stronger and stronger against
the Government of Washington.
lo our disunion friends we would appeal, for one mo
ment's “ sober second thought,*’of the consequences
w hich may ensue from their votes on Monday. Before
your ballot is deposited against the cause of the “ white
red and blue”—the “star spangled banner’’ of your coun
try, pause one moment and reflect upon the idea, that
possibly, yea probably, another government equally as
kind, equally as beneficent as ours, may hardly again be
formed out of the ruins and rubbish of the present.
M hy then pull down the temple wherein our fathers
worshipped ? Why destroy the shrines of liberty set up
by the great Captains of our political salvation, before
we are sure that other altars more sacred, and on which
burn purer fires and emit a more grateful incense, will
be erected on more consecrated ground and devoted to
a more unselfish patriotism? But we forbear. If the
cherished recollections of our revolutionary history, if
the amor patriae of every citizen will not tell him what
is his duty in the present crisis and move his heart that
duty to perform, honestly and manfully, we are sure
this our last appeal can have little or no influence to
that end, and we therefore dismiss the tufiject.
LYING HANDBILLS.
The Union men of Houston may look out for lying
Handbills, from the Tell-lie-graph office in this city,
designed for circulation in that county. A batch of them
left hereon Thursday morning last, per express pone y,
to Perry. A friend happened to procure one and laid it
on our table for respectful consideration 1 Wo beg his
pardon. We cannot give anything so indecent any
further notice than to order our Devil to take it up
with a pair of tongs and remove it to the stable, whence
it seems to have proceeded, from the “stud-book'’ ver
nacular to be found in it. It is accordingly so done.
But hallo! Here comes another specimen of the
same sort, from Baldwin county ! As this is an insid
ious attack in better style of literature than the first
mentioned, we give it entire, that Union men may see
what is doing by their opponents.
“Read Before You Vote!
PEOPLE OF GEORGIA !
Howell Cobb, the candidate of the so-called Union
party, asks your suffrages—before you vote, rcaAth*
facts below:
There is an execution against Howell Cobb, in Clarke
Superior or Inferior Court, it favor of the Central Bank
of Georgia—principal and interest amounting to $633.
This debt has been pending nine years, and the execu
tion has been returned to the Bank “no property” en
dorsed thereon.
Agan, Howell Cobb owed the Central Bank a debt
of SI2OO, with interest from the year 1842. This
debt after repeated unsuccessful efforts to obtain it, was
handed over to an Attornevjgiving said Attorney one
half if he could recover it. This compromise was made,
and the Bank was defrauded of one half its dues.
Here, people of Georgia, are facts, to be found on the
Books of the Central Bank—no one will, no one can
gainsay them. Will it be said, Ilowell Cobb cannot
pay this trifling debt? Is it possible that a man who
lias for eight years been getting $8 and sl6 a day, and
a man who has the control of property to the amount of
one hundred thousand dollars, cannot pay the small
debt he owes the Bank ! He can pay, but hr will
not. This is the man who asks you to make him ruler
over your interests—will you, can you support such a
tnan !l
Again : there now lies among the debts of the Geor
gia Penitentiary—debts ordered by the last investigat
ing Committee of the Penitentiary to be sealed up and
never more to be returned as available assets of that In
stitution. a debt against Howell Cobb for the sum of
$38,88!! Think of such a debt being marked “insolv
ent” and scaled up forever. Can the aristocratic How
ell Cobb pay this ENORMOUS debt ? Will it be said
he is TOO POOR ? Shame on such a subterfuge and
cheat.
Again ; Ilowell Cobb's Overseer in Baldwin county,
Georgia, named Gibson, had to shave his note against
Cobb at a heavy discount, which note he was required
to endorse, by Win. Sanford the man who bought the
note —whih note was subsequently sued intojudginent,
and the overseer’s property was sold ; breaking him up
entirely, his property not bringing half its value.
These facts, well known in Baldwin county—to
which Gibson will subscribe—Gibson being a Union
man—but will not vote for Ilowell Cobb.
People of Georgia, will you, can you vote for a man
who can and wont pay his debts ?’
Remember, reader, that the above handbill, has been
secretly thrown into circulation on the eve of the elec
tion, issued, as we are informed, from the “Federal
Union” press. It is a tissue of unmitigated false
hoods and we are authorized so to pronounce it.
What will honest and honorable men think of the vile,
malignant, corrupt, mendacious and rotten hearted
clan, who would resort to such debased means to injure
a public mail ? Is it not time that the honest portion
of all parties should unite in putting the seal of their
condemnation upon such infamous conduct? We mis
take the character of the honorable men of the South
ern Rights party, if they permit this last and lowest
trick of the “Federal Union” to go unrebuked on Mon
day next. Again, we say, on the best authority , that
the whole handbill is a tissue of unmitigated and vil
lainous slander against Mr. Cobb.
• The game of Bras.
In an article in the Telegraph, charging upon the
Union men the “game of brag ” in claiming from five
to ten thousand majority for Cobb, the Editor of that
immaculate print threatens to make a “Buena Vista' 1
affair of the Union cohorts, if the Fire-Eaters will do
their duty on Monday next! There is no bragging in
this threat, we suppose, no, not a bit of it! For our
part, we do not call it bragging to claim from 15,000 to
20,000 majority for Cobb, nor do we brag much when
we say we expect to elect 7 out of 8 members of Con
gress and at least two thirds of both branches of the
Legislature! Put that into your pipe and smoke it,
at your leisure. But that is not all, we should not be
surprised if Bibb county should give 100 majority to
the Union Ticket, notwithstanding the extraordinary
effoi ts making by the disunionists to storm this citadel
of liberty. As Sam says, “if our friends only do their
duty to themselves and their country” on Monday next,
we will whip the disunionists into a frazzle.
For the Georgia Citizen.
Notes from Columbus.
SECRET INFLUENCE.
It is intimated that a certain Contractor on the Mus
cogee Railroad is endeavoring to influence his laborers
to vote against the Union Ticket, because McDongald
and W oolridge, whilst members of the Legislature op
posed the payment of sixty thousand dollars out of the
treasury of the State, which money, it is said, they
were not entitled to by justice or by contract. The coo
trectors pretended to have lost the above named
amount for Lbor on the State Road. McDougald and
W oolridge opposed the resolution for the payment of this
large sum. It is for this that secret influence is to be
used against the Union candidates for the Legislature.
Ihe people of the State would have had to be heavily
and unjustly taxed to pay the amount, which they are
not bound by any lawful or justifiable requirement to pay.
By the manly and upright course of McDougald and
W oolridge and others, the resolution offered for the
payment of the above sum,was “ knocked into a cocked
hat.”
If McDougald and Woolridge are not the kind of
men to put into office, we would like to know where to
find better ones. They are always found foremost in
the defence of the rights of the people and thev work
fearlessly to see that all things are done on the square.
.TAMES JOHNSON.
1 his gentleman lias returned to this city, and will
address our people sometime this week. His enemies
will receive broadsides that will turn them completely
on their beam's ends, if not entirely capsize their crafts.
He is perfectly satisfied wtih the feeling of the voters of
this District. \Y herever he has made addresses he has
been listened to with marked attention and with every
demonstration of regard and respect. He has never
failed to convince every candid matt who heard him
speak that he was sound and far more so than those
who have maliciously charged him with asserting prin
ciples which are spurious.
As an expounder of the Constitution, Mr. Johnson
has no equal in this section, lie is without doubt one
of the ablest men of this State.
Every attempt to create unjustifiable prejudices
against Mr. Johnson will be contemptuously rejected by
every man who knows him. Like all men of bright
talents he has warm enemies. Nothing that has been
said of him, by his political enemies, should have any
effect against him. It is a fact that the disunionists are
aware that they as a party will soon bo “ numbered
with the things that were.” They know this, and they
have no choice in the means to ameliorate their dying
agonies. Sic transit gloria of the Coffin Regiment.
SAMUEL W. FLOURNOY.
This gentleman is still alive and “ doing up things”
in a way “that's killing' 1 to his disunion opponent, Bur
well K. Harrison. It is a notorious fact, that “ Bur
well” leaves the ground when his opponent comes
about. Burwell is about the worst frustrated man that
could be “ seared up.” “Old Sam” is “after him with
a sharp stick, 1 ’ but he can’t get Burwell to believe oth
erwise than he (Sam) will btat him. The hopes of the
disunionists in Stewart and Muscogee are “ gone, gone
glimmering through the things that were.”
Wherever Flournoy is known he needs no recom
mendation. lie is known to be the right sort of a
Union tnan. He was never possessed of beauty enough
to make him an exquisite, but he lias used the
time his opponents generally spend before their mirrors,
in the study and to the advocacy of the rights and inter
ests of his country. Farmers of Stewart and Musco
gee. Flournoy is the man to entrust with your interests 1
There is no empty show of vanity about him. lie is
the same all the time. lie is true to liis principles,
true to Georgia, and true to the cause of the Union.
Who is his opponent? lie is a disunionist, and in
fact will be any thing politically, to get into office.—
And should Harrison get elected lie will go for a disso
luion of tha Union. His party's leading press is a
thorough disunion sheet and his name flies at its electo
rial head. We do not believe he will be elected if the
L nion men will do their duty. We think Flournoy will
get double the amount of votes that Harrison will get,
if the Union men will turn out as they ever do when
work is to be done. We waut. to crush the hydra
headed monster of Disunion, and Flournoy will give
blows with killing effect.
A Gross Insult.
The last Macon “ Telegraph,’’ contains the following
gross attack upon the patriotism and honesty of the
Northern born citizens of the city and State:
“ The power and strength of our opponents,
lie in and near the towns and commercial points,
inhabited largely by Northern traders , engross
ed with the business of barter and sale—where
the almighty dollar reigns suprejne over the
free agency of mind; and where justice and right
are too apt to be valued according to their im
mediate influence upon the price of produce
and the money market. Those of the South
ern Rights party are the hardy tillers of the
soil, the yeomanry of the country, scattered
over the farms, the forests, and the plains. The
one close to the ballot boxes, the other remote.
Let our friends remember this, and with all the
zeal and industry demanded by the supreme
importance of the approaching canvass, rally
the friends of the South and the Constitution
to the polls.”
To enable our readers to understand the doubly
distilled effrontery of the foregoing paragraph, it is
only necessary to state that perhaps one half the pa
tronage received by the “Telegraph 1 ’ in this city, in the
way of advertising and job work, is derived from these
same “ Northern traders” with whom the “almighty
dollar” has a more “supreme” influence than “justice
and right,” in the opinion of their traducer 1
&T” It is also a fact, that one of the candidates of
the “Southern Rights party 1 ’ for the Legislature, from
this county is himself a Northern born man, whose
election over Gen. Armstrong, one of the Union can
didates, is the avowed boast and beut of purpose of the
Editors of the Telegraph and his party! Yes, Mr.
Morehouse is one of the “Northern traders” thus de
nounced by Sam Ray, or as John Forsyth has it, one
of the cheese-eating, onion-smelling, codfish, aristo
cratic yankees,” who arc a stench “between the wind
and his nobility.”
Well, all we have to say about it is this; if these
“ Northern traders 1 ’ do not show their appreciation of
this insult at the polls, on Monday next, and afterwards,
in their business relations, they have more submission
in their disposition than even Sam, in the wildest reve
ries of his distempered brain, ever attributed to them.
We shall see, whether they are indeed the mercenary
and unprincipled people that they are said to be.
Col. Bailey. —This gentleman was delivered of a
speech in this city, last week, which was a regular ex
ample of the “ monies parturiunt ” proverb. The
mountain groaned and heaved, and a “ ridiculous little
mouse' 1 was the product. The bulk of his speech was
against Toombs, Cobb and Stephens. He, however,
made a passing remark about the Fugitive Slave law
in the District of Columbia, to the effect, that if any
Southern man were to inherit a slave in Maryland and
were to bring him on through Washington and have
him kept at a slave depot there, only one night, he
would forfeit his property, and the negro would go
free. Such, as we learn from a gentleman present, is
the substance of his remark upon this subject. 1 lie
Colonel must have known better than this. If he did,
he has been guilty of a fraud upon the pub.ic. If not,
he is unfit to be a Representative of the enlightened
people of the 3J District. The fact is, the Fire-Eaters
were themselves ashamed of the effort of their candi
date on the occasion referred to. In comparison with
the lion. Absalom II- Chappell, he is nothing but
“ a small potato” specimen of humanity, at best, lie
is also objectionable on other grounds besides incom
peteney. His vote is on record against the mixed Fed
eral basis of representation and in favor of an exclusive
white basis. Sec an extract, in another column from
the proceedings of the Georgia Reduction Convention
of 1839, of which Mr. Bailey was a member, from
which it will appear that this “Southern Rights” can
didate, par excellence, was then an enemy to the slave
interests of Georgia! Voters, look to this matter, be
fore it is too late. By voting for Bailey, you vote to
restrict your representation to the white race to the en
tire exclusion of people of color! Abolitionists ask no
more 1
Southern Manufactures.
A. M Dea, E S q .’ Rn enterp,rising Tennesseean with
mme„dab, energy, together niU,„ outlay of inner
thousand dollars, ha, put the “ G ,„„ J
,u ,ueeeful operation, a, Knox.ill., Te„™ee. Th,
Stockholder,, las, year a, aheary expense,
tod that Glass of the finest quality can bo made at n,
South. A moment's reflection will show to merchants
and otlters the advantages of purchasing Glass f ro
this Manufactory, when assured that his mfcmrZ
none. All must be convinced of the importance
sustaining this enterprise. The proprietor has estab
fished a scale of prices that will surely drive fW rei „ n
competition from our market. Messrs. W. S J nv> *
<: °; ° f thU c '">’ have accepted the agency ‘
sale of this Glass, and will soon be prepared to fill order,
to any extent. *
They are also agents for the several kinds of cook
ing stoves, manufactured at Knoxville, Tenn L
Messrs. Williams, Maffutt & Cos. They have received
consignments of the “Annexation 1 ’ and “£ m ir
cooking Stoves—simple in construction and of beaut’
ful patterns, which are fully equal to any i„ U s C * n 'j
which they will sell cheaper than all others in market
can be sold for.
These deservedly popular articles, the result of
Southern enterprize—‘ made at home ,’ of the best ma
tonal, furnished with more and better ware than the
imported article, end as cheap as can be desired will al
ways be ready for inspection and sale at the Ware House
of those gentlemen, corner of SecondandPopular.su
All who are in favor of Southern independence har#
now the opportunity to “ show their faith by their
works.’’
Consul to Cuba.
The following letter of Mr. Owen is published with
a view to give that gentleman the opportunity of and,.
fending himself from the serious charges made against
him, in reference to the Cuban prisoners. Prior to
this, we were loth to believe Mr. Owen guilty of inhu
man indifference to the fate of the murdered patriot,
and cautiously refrained from joining hi the “hue and
cry” against him. Yea, noro, we offered, in a public
meeting of our citizens, a Resolution, asking, ns a mat
ter of right, to the Consul, that he should be beard in
self defence before he was condemned. That bearing
he now has, but in all eatulor we are constrained to . av
that he has not rendered an excuse for his conduct which
will be considered satisfactory even to the eve of partial
friendship. On the contrary, the lameness of the
apology offered goes far to prove him unworthy of the
position he occupies and an official disgrace upon the
State of Georgia and the General Government which,
he represents. Let him be recalled forthwith.
Consulate of the United States, 1
Havana, Sept. 16,1851. j
To the Editor of the Republic—Sir : In ymtf
ly issue of the 28th ult., yon do ine the justice to object
to my condemnation without a hearing, to say tint lam
probably able to explain, to the satisfaction of my coun
trymen, my omission to set relative to the execution of
the prisoners who were shot here on the 16th ult.
I do not doubt that I shall satisfy every iin[rtisl
mind that I am undeserving censure, and that I lmd no
opportunity of doing any thing in behalf of the unfortu
nate men who met so sad a fate.
I reside about four miles from this place, and not be
ing well on the morning of the 16th, did not reach mv
office till sometime after ten o'clock where for the first:
time I heard of the capture of about fifty el llio mv
who had come with Lopez to this Island in the steamer
Pampero. lat the same time heard that the prisoners
had been tried, found guilty, condemneJ, ordered to be
executed, the order for their execution sent forward,
and that they were about being removed from the har
bor, where they were, to the place of execution.
Shortly afterwards, the American residing here, who
it is said, called on me. came and mentioned the subject
to me, when I said to him that it was too late, and that l
could do nothing—that I should not have time to get
permission and see the prisoners. Os this 1 felt perfectly
satisfied at the time, and have since been confirmed in
this opinion by the highest authority in the Island, wb
informed me that the execution, which had already bet n
ordered before I reached the city, would not Lave been
postponed for me to have an interview with the prison
ers, inasmuch as all I could have asked to be permitted
to do had been done by a gentleman known to some of
the prisoners, and for whom they had sent.
Soon after the American referred to left my office, I
received the information that a gentleman known to some
of the prisoners had been sent for hy them, and to him
they had delivered the articles and messages they de
sired to be delivered to their friends. It was but a short
time afterwards that I sent to the palace of the govern
or and captain general, and lnard that the prisoners
had then been executed.
You will thus see that I had no time to act, and that
it was not in my power to do any thing for the unfortu
nate men who had been induced to invade Cuba with
the expectation that they would find the whole island
in a state of revolution, and that they would be received
with open arms by the whole native population at least.
The charge of indifference to the dreadful condition,
of such a numlßT of men, the bitterest enemy i have on,
earth will not believe; and all must believe it aUa
falsehood and an unfounded calumny.
If it were allowable on such an occasion, I would
most solemnly declare before GoJ, that, in my judg
ment, at the lime and under the circumstances, it was
not in my power either to have an interview with the
prisoners, or to have done anything in their beha'/.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant.
A. F. OWEN.
Washington's Farewell Address.
Tbe following extract from the “Farewell Address
of the “Father of his country,” to the people of the
United States, may possibly be worthy of a careful pe
rusal, by every voter, before he exercises the c’.eCtir*
franchise on Monday next:
“The unity of government, which constitutes
you one people, is also now dear to you. It i*
justly so; for it is a pillar in the edifice of your
real independence, the support of your tranquil
ity at home, your peace abread; of your safety;
of your prosperity ; of that very liberty which
you so highly ptize. But as it is easy to foresee,
that from different causes and from different
quarters much pains will he taken, many .arti
fices employed, to weaken, in your minds, the
conviction of this truth ; as this is the point in
our political fortress against which the batteries
of internal and external enemies will be in' I*’ 1 *’
constantly and actively (though often covert./
and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment
that you should properly estimate the immense
value of your national Union, to your collective
and individual happiness; that you should
cherish a cordial, habitual, and immoveable at
tachment to it ; accustoming yourselves tospeak
and think of it as of the palladium of your po
litical safety and prosperity; watching for ‘**
preservation with jealous anxiety; discounte
nancing whatever may suggest even a sus
picion that it ean, in any event, be abandon
ed ; and indignantly frowning upon the tu-’
dawning of any attempt to alienate any !
of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble t! p
sacred ties which now link together the various
parts.* 1
Hon. J. M. Berrien.—This gentleman
sent out a long address to the people of Georgia, 0 f
ing his own political views on the great queu
the day, but we cannot say that the people areau> ”
now as to the gentleman’s views than before
lication. lie is still claimed by both parties. 4
party prints publish his address with little <*r n
inent. He seems to be opposed to disiffion an
vorable to the Georgia platform—yet thinks t ‘‘ 3t
ther singing Tceans to the Union,” nor u,l '“
violence in resistance to aggressions ? ]“ >u^u . fonce ,t
sively adopted. “ Submission” and “violent g
are the “Scylla and Charybdis” which it is th* “•
the people to avoid, lie does not tell us 1
is for Cobb or McDonald—but is very P' 3: “ ‘
subject of an ostracism which he thinks has e?l^ yor g
upon him by the people of Richmond,
another “individual, I’who 1 ’who aspires to a •~
soon to be vacant. All this being Ckaldaic t’ n ;
it without further comment, til! a “ r ~
season.