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be done him and justice denied. It wonld
not avail in any court in Christendom. He
would be told to defend his rights and trust
to the law and the revisory power of the
court or other tribunals to set aside fraud, or
to vacate a corrupt verdict. Is the appre
of fraud or violence sufficient to vi
tiate any election from a constable's to the
President’s ? It is not pretended that this
belief or fear was founded on any threats or
concerted arrangements, or that there were
any signs thereof, and the only pretense set
up was, that at the first election for a Terri
torial Legislature, there were fraud and vio
lence. It is simply contemptible to say that
was sufficient in advance to vitiate any and
all future elections.
But, sir, there was a corrective power :
there was a power to have prevented the
consummation of any fraud or any violence.
That power was the Congress of the United
States, which have full authority to deter
mine the final question of admission. Had
there been an honest effort on the part of*
the legal voters to have been heard, by
any means that were unjst and unfair e
rights of the majority were denied, no man
will pretend that Congress could not . have
intervened, and even if it could not give at
once full force and effect to the will of that
majority, it at least could prevent the con
eummation of the wrong. It would have
been within the clear, legal, and constitu
tional competency of Congress to have lis
tened to such an appeal, and to have deter
mined such a question ; and it would have
been its duty to have decided according to
the facts.
Sir, that was the course that shou’d have
been pursued. It was the only course, to
wh : to have tried to “form their domestic
instituti >; *” according to their own will; and
if unjustly prtveuted, to have then appealed
to Congress to set aside a fraudulent ver
dict—to prant anew trial.
Mr. Chairman ill it be replied in answer
to this, that Congress was not to be trusted
—that faith was not to be placed in the Sen
ate and House of Representative, and the
President of the United States ? Who
would set up this answer ? Who alone is
entitled to make it ? Counsel cannnot do it
without the authority and in the name of
the client Gentlemen cannot do it here ex
cept in the name of, and speaking for that
part of the people of Kansas who protest
against the judgment If they make it, what
spectacle do they present ? First they im
peach the authorities of the Territory, as in
tending to be guilty of fraud, and then im
peach Congress as being willing to become
particeps is that fraud.—They outlaw the
territorial authorities as unworthy of faith,
and then pass a general judgmentof outlaw
ry against the constituted authorities of the
whole country, and challenge one and all as
unfit to preside in the case. Sir, I will not
listen to such a plea. I would strike it from
the record as insulting and scandalous. I
would not formally pronounce upon that
which distinctly charges infamy on my asso
ciates, on the Senate and the President, and
on the whole legislative and executive de
partments of my country. And yet, sir, that
people to meet the point made, to-wit: that
they should at least have struck for their
rights when the chance was afforded them,
are compelled to assume this strange, insult
ing, and slanderous position.
I repeat, sir, that the true course for that
people to have taken, and for not doing
which they cannot complain of their self im
posed disability, was. when this question was
before them in the election of delegates last
June—had they been patriots, and desired
the peace of their country ; had they been
true to the cause they proclaimed ; had they
wished the whole matter settled “in their
own way,” and just as they wanted it—to
have made at least the effort, as freemen, to
proclaim their will; and, had they fallen by
the wrone and injustice, to have entered their
mveat. and appealed to the proper tribunal
against the fraud. There would have been
nothing unmanly in this ; and such should
have been the course of patriots, who, know
ing their rights, will dare to try to secure
them.
Mr. Chairman, some time before this elec
tion in June, Gov. Walker and Secretary
Stanton were in Kansas, pledging and guar
antying the people a fair and honest elec
tion. and begging—ay, sir, imploring—them
to vote, and let their voice be heard in de
termining the controversity. In my opinion
air, in attempting this, he even went so far
as to commit a great mitrago against their
rights and to make threats that called for
condign punishment; yet they would not
vote. Deaf to entreaty, to promises, to the
true interests of their own cause, to the calls
of duty, they took refuge in mere stubborn
ness ; and, conceding their great strength,
thejq like the giant, either went to sleep, or
took the “tuVa ,” until he was bound with
cords, and then aroused with a loud cry that
his rights were about being violated. Let
that giant break those cords as best he may;
Ido not think he has any strong claim on
me to help unbind him.
But; sir, in three months after*. the elec
tion in June—within three months after that
election at which was chosen the body who
had power to decide this exciting question
-—a change came over the spirits of thin re
cusant people, and without any additional
legislation, they went to the polls and voted
and that, too, at an election of by no means
the importance of the first. They not on
ly voted, but succeeded, elected their Dele
gate to Congress, and the Territorial Legis
lature. That Delegate is now occupying his
seat and that Legislature has been more than
once in “ession.
Mr. Chairman what does all this mean ?
How would the calm and unprejudiced ob
server be compelled to read this history.—
Take it altogether, and I confess I see no
other solution than this : that people either
from some outside influence, or from some
unhallowed motives of their own, did not
desire an adjustment of this question; that
they did not desire peace ; and that the
whole matter must be kept open for the ben
efit, of those whose capital was excitement,
and whose aim was to build up party by
the.aid of that excitement. Sir, I would
not unjustly charge any person or people ;
but, fearing this, I will Bay, that Kansas has
been a disturber of the public peace enough
and if it can be done, good bonds to keep
that peace ought to be put upon her. At
least, I would so act that when she Hfels dis
posed to get up any further difficulty, she
may not only have the right to settle “her
own domestic institutions in her own way,”
but that that “difficulty” may become, if she
will have it, one of these “domestic institu
tions” which she shall have the same “or
ganic” right to settle in the same way.
Mr. Chairman, if Kansas is admitted
under this constitution, and there be this
great overwhelming majority of three
to one, what great harm can practically
ensue ? More especially is this question
pertinent when that majority has the
whole machinery of the State govern
ment. I know the reply is made to this
that the Lecorapton Constitution does
not provide for any change until 1864,
and that it is only a revolutionary right
which the people have to change that
constitution before that time. I will not,
Mr. Chairman, assume any formal posi
tion now on that question as the brief
time I have does not allow me either
fully to state it or to fortify it. I cannot
concur in w hat the President has said on
this point but practically as applicable
to this case, I will say that there is noth
ing in the Lecompton constitution that
in terms prohibit any change before 184>4.
And if the majority in Kansas in favor
of a change is so great, being ten thou
sand out of thirteen thousand three hun
dred, and that majority has now the
whole government, no one can doubt what
the result will b. With all official pow
er, and that power willing, with such
numerical power, and that power anx
ious, no government on earth ever did
or oould stand six, or five, or four years
against it. If it be revolutionary it would
of course be a peaceable revolution, for
one government would simply abdicate
m favor of the other, and that other sus-
Uuned by three to one of the people.—
” tot * mean is, that it would, all this be
ing true, obey the great law of human
nature, and change itself. I speak of
- al i Probability, would be the
practical end of this whole matter, and
not of constitutional right, nor do I be
lieve it to be competent tor Congress in
this bill to pass upon that question.
An amendment has been put on the
bill for the admission of Kansas, in rela
tion to this point, about which I desire
to submit a few remarks. It is in these
words:
“ And that nothing in this act shall be
construed to abridge or infringe any right
of the people asserted in the constitution
of Kansas at all tiro®* alter, 1 eforrn or
abolish their form of government, in such
manner as they niay think proper, Con
gress hereby disclaiming any authority
to intervene or declare the construction
of the constitution of any State, except
to see that ia republican in form and not
in conflict with the Constitution of the
United States.”
These words, sir, seem fair and plausi
ble ; but Ido not like them. They say
“nothing in this act shall be construed to
abridge or infringe any right of the peo
ple,” &ic. Does this special repudiation
of such a construction being put upon
this act imply that Congress could pass
any act upon which such a construction
could be legally put 1 Or that Congress
could have put anything in this act which
should legally admit of such a construc
tion ? If that be their meaning, I repu
diate them altogether. Do they mean to
set up, as a special congressional declar
ation, the wild, radical doctrine of Dor
rism? If so, I repudiate them. Why
put all that in this bill at all 1 Is it a
bait for gudgeons or a tub for the whale 1
Into whose brain did the faintest idea
ever enter, that the act admitting a State
into the Union oould, by possibility, have
ay control over the meaning of its con
stitution as to the right of the people to
change that constitution ? W her® are
there any words in that bill that, by any
construction or distortion, can have any
possible connection, directly or indirect
ly with the matter of the right of a peo
ple to alter or change their constitution 1
Unless, then, this declaration is utterly
impotent and meaningless, I fear that
there is a “cat under the meal.” If they
are intended to have any practical effi
ciency, I here enter my protest. I trust
they will be stricken out, and that we
will not again run the risk of a double
construction of fair-seeming and high
sounding speeches introduced into the
body of this bill as we did in the cele
brated declaration in the old Kansas Ne
braska bill.
There is another fact in this Kansas
history, Mr. Chairman, to which I wish
to refer, as in my opinion it has tended
no little to complicate the question, and
has furnished almost the whole capital to
the opponents of the admission of Kan
sas. The organic act declared, “the peo
ple perfectly free to form and regulate
their domestic institutions in their own
way, subject to the Constitution of the
United States.” Gov. Walker, in last
May, went to Kansas, and as the agent
of the Administration in his very first
act, to-wit, his inaugural address demand
ed that the people of Kansas should “form
their domestic institutions,” or frame
their constitution after a certain mode
specified by him. This he repeated in
his Topeka and other speeches, and back
ed them up by threats of preventing their
admission in into Union unless they com
plied ; and further declared, that In this
he represented the President of the Uni
ted States. One of the modes specified
by him, was that any constitution that
might be made should be submitted back
to a vote for ratification or rejection. —
Did the Constitution of the United States
require this as a prerequisite for admis
sion ? It would have been perfectly
right and proper for the people so to
have done had they seen fit; but the at
tempt to coerce them was an outrage that
has never been redressed.
I hare stated that in this, Governor
Walker said he was representing the
President of the United States. And
how turns out the case ? The only dif
ference between the President and Gov
ernor Walker is, that the President sa) s
he meant that the slavery question was
the question that the people of Kansas, in
framing their constitution, mutt submit
back to a vote. Walker was for the
whole being submitted, and so was the
President and says so in his message;
and further, takes the position, again and
again, that would have compelled him to
resist the admission of Kansas had not
the slavery question been so submitted.
He says:
“In the Kansas Nebraska act, howev
er, this requirement is applicable to the
whole constitution, had not been insert
ed, and the convention were not bound
by its terms to submit any other portion
of the instrument to an election except
that which relates the ‘ domestic institu
tion of slavery.’ ”
Here the President broadly asserts
that the Kansas Nebraska act, “by its
terms” bound the convention to submit
the question of slavery back to an “elec
tion.” Os course the inference is not
only legitimate, but irresistible,'that if
the convention had not thus submitted
the question of slavery, he would have
redeemed the pledge of Walker, and op
posed the admission.
Sir, with all due respect to the Presi
dent, I beg leave to say, that no naan,
woman or child in all this broad land
ever heard of such a construction to the
Kansas Nebraska act, until they read it
in the message. That had been read by
everybody, discussed and scrutinized and
canvassed as no act of Congress had ever
been before. The very words the Pres
ident quotes to sustain his construction,
had become as familiar as household
words to every body. All had them by
heart, and countless inquirers were ask
ing and quarrelling about their meaning
—but no one hinted or suggested, the
idea never found a lodgment in print, or
was whispered on the air, that that act
meant what the President says it means,
and yet, as to its meaning, he says he
“had never entertained a serious donbt”
Very well, sir, I will not dispute what
the President’s convictions were, but I
will say, that he was not only the first
who ever promulgated the idea, but that
down to the present day I have never
heard that he has found a single indorser.
If the President is right in saying that
the Kansas Nebraska act required the
constitutional convention to submit the
question of slavery back to an “election,”
then are Walker, Douglas, and Stanton
right in holding that the whole constitu
tion was required to be submitted. But
either the one holding or the other is a
forced construction ; and when any Fed
eral agent or authority raised such a
question on that people, a great wrong
nas done; and when the demand was
made, an outrage was attempted.
T have said that this demand, or this
portion on the pan of the President and
Gov Wame, . tended no little to oompli
cate the whole Kansas imbroglio nod has
famished in its results the groundwork
for the most of the arguments of the en
emies of admission. How ? The con
vention, overawed by these threatu, or
seduced by the powerful influences
bi ought to bear upon them, did submit
back to an “election” the question as to
the future importation of slaves. From
the history B of the preceding election on
reasonable man could believ e that but
oae side would rote, and we held the spec
tacle of another “election,” with very few
voting but the friends of the measure.—
It was not to be expected that when there
was no opposition the full strength of
the friends of that measure would be ex
hibited—Moreover, with the wild con
struction that had been claimed for this
great doctrine of “popular sovereignty,”
the free-State Legislature, which had just
come into power, concluded they would
take the strength of their side, when they
knew they would have no opposition. —
They appointed another, and a subse
quent day, to take the vote again. They
had seen the hands of their opponents,
and they knew precisely what they had
to overcome. The calf had been taught
exactly how high he had to jump, and he
jumped it. There were no obstacles in
the way, and clear over everything the
leap was made by thousands, and now
comes up the hue and cry that the plan
of the President has been adopted, and
upon the high principle of “popular sov
ereignty” the Lecompton constitution
must be rejected. I here put the question
if this demand of a submission back to an
“election” had not been made and enforced,
and the convention had framed the con
stitution and applied for admission, where
would have been the inch of ground upon
which the opponents of admission could
stand 1 None whatever, except that vo
ters were not registered who refused to
be registered, and that certain counties
were disfranchised, which refused to com
ply with the law that would have secur
ed their rights.
Let then, sir, the responsibility for this
distracting state of the question rest up
on all who have aided in bringing it np
on us. >*,.
Mr. Chairman, I have remarked that
this Kansas question has been the instru
ment with which parties and factions
have worked long enough. For years it
has absorbed everything else but the
Democratic party; and it really does
seem as if, at last, it was about making
its final bait of that powerful organiza
tion. Under the excitement it has pro
duced, the Republican party had its birth,
and has grownup to colossal proportions,
mere terrible than an “army with ban
ners.” It has given that party its war
cry, and is the life-blood of its existence.
By a sort of t converse principle, pro
duced by the same cause, the Democrat
ic party had pretty nigh taken captive
another portion of thecountry. Between
these two great parties, thus strengthen
ed the American party, wiih its noble
aims, and with its great leadhng principle
to-day deeply rooted in tne hearts of
three-fourths of the America people, hast
almost fallen, like the good man over
come by a multitude of sinners.
Where then, sir, is the patriot who does
not wish to relieve his country from this
prossure, and to enable the people to
come up to the consideration of other
great principles intimately connected
with their present interests and future
prosperity ? Happy would be the lot of
that man who could remove the Adlan’s
wedge, and bring back once
blessings of Heaven upon our political
Israel.
I may be mistaken, Mr. Chaiiman, in
one great object 1 hope to aid in securing
by my vote. lam for peace—an honor
able and lasting peace—heart and soul ;
and short of a sacrifice of principle, J
dare not sacrifice; short of a surrender
of rights, which would be degradation—
I would be willing to adopt any honora
ble course to give and secure that peace
to a distracted country. 1 snail take tnis
step, and give this vote, hoping, if it suc
ceed, that peace may come. As it is, 1
know full well we have it not. The old
vessel is cabled fast to the shore, as if to
a “body of death,” striking heavily on
the rocks that surround her. She cannot
part that cable, and go out to seek deep
er and safer waters. There she is, bound
by this Gordian knot. Asa pilot or
mariner on board, it is on me to join in
deciding what shall be done. It may be
a dangerous attempt, for serious threats
are made ; but, risking all, I would cut
that Gordian knot, turn loose the ship,
hoist sail and strike out for more quiet
waters, where the winds of heaven may
fill her sails, and send her on her way re
joicing.
Let the deed be done; and give the
patriot’s prayer—God speed her, and
send her safe deliverance!
Etowah Manufacturing and
Mining Company.
Among the pioneers in the development
of the mineral, agricultural and manufactur
ing resources of tne South, Mark A. Coor
kr occupies a position which many who have
distinguished themselves in the walks of lit
erature and statesmanship might envy. To
him principally belongs the credit of build
ing up the Etowah Manufacturing and Min
ing Company,comprising important works in
connection with the Iron, wheat, coal, and
gold rescources of Upper Georgia. These
works were commenced in the year 1845,
and embrace
Ist. A Rolling Mill for the varieties of
Merchant Iron: with a nail factory, spike
machine, and all necessary apparatus for
building and fitting up, with shops, ware
houses, operative houses, hotel, store, &c‘, at
tached. The rolling mill makes from six to
eight tons per day.
2d. A Blast Furnace and Foundry, with
all the needful patterns, shops, office rooms,
and houses thereto attaobed. Its
products are hollow ware, heavy machinery,
and pig metal. .
3. A Merchant Flouring mill for wheat,
with warehouse, cooper shop, hotel, and op
erative houses therewith connected, making
from 150 to 200 barrels flour per day.
4th. Two Grist Mills for Corn.
sth. Two Saw Mills for Lumber.
6th. A Coal Mine for the supply of fuel to
the rolling mill. 1,000 acres of timber min
eral lands in Dade county.
All these operations are, and have been,in
successful movement, for seven or eight
years.
The motive power is furnished by the Et
owah river, which would also furnish ample
water-power for the largest manufacturing
town in New England. The iron ore is abun-
dan t, and of the best quality, while wood,
timber and labor is cheap and abundant
Maj. Cooper is now building a railroad
from the Western & Atlantic road to the
rolling mills at a distance of 4 miles. Two
miles of the road are nearly completed. He
is also building anew blast furnace in sight
of his flour mill, and immediately on the rail
road. The public have been made familar
with the obstacles this indefatigable man has
encountered and overcome in bringing so
extensive a business up to its present profit
able condition. During the late pressure in
money matters he has literally kept his work
in full blcut, employing from 400 to 600
hands.
There is no place in your whole country
more admirably adapted for the suoessfusll
prosecution of manufacturing enterprises of
every kind, and especially those requiring
iron, cotton, wool, wood, and cheap labor.
The valley lands are fertile, and offer ample
agricultural rescources to sustain a dense
population. No country on the map is bet
ter adapted to the growth of fruit, and es
pecially to the vine.
The scenery of the Etowah valley is attrac
tion. We have spent days—when worn out
by over-work in town —in recreation|among
its wild hills and bounding streams; and
have seen no region surpassed by it in all the
attractions of pure air, salubrious climate and
fine water. We could write columns on the
natural attractions and resources of this
section, but our purpose was simply to call
attention to the extent and success of a
Georgia enterprise, and to throw our mite
in the scale of popular appreciation which
we are too apt to withhold from those truly
great and noble characters who are bringing
out the boundless resources which God
has bestowed on our old Commonwealth.
—Augusta Dispatch.
Tin Cash Ststem. —Among the many pa
pers throught the country that have adop
ted the cash system, we now number the
Louisville Journal. In its issue of the 7th
insL, the editor says: “Fully satisfied tlxat the
cash system is beneficial alike to subscriber
and to publisher, we shall hereafter discon
tinue all papers when the time expires for
which the the subscriptions are paid. Our
losses from removals and other causes are,
in the aggregate, very large, notwithstand
ing the small price of the subscription. In
addition to the vast circulation of our paper
in the Western and Southern States, we
have subscribers in nearly all the other States
ofthe Union, and, unless they pay voluntari
ly, the expense of collection absorbs almost
the whole amount of the subscription. In
order to induce prompt payment, we have re
duced the price of our paper. Under the
cash system we shall be able, as we intend
to do, to make our paper still more interest
ing and valuable to every class of our subscrib
ers than ever before. This notice is given
to that subscribers may know the reason
they do not receive their papers after the
expiration of the time for which they have
beeu paid.
“Uniformity in this system is ensential to
its successful aplication, and we are sure that
those of our subscribers who have always
been prompt in theirjpayments will willingly
acquiesce in their being brought within the
operation of the rule and recognise its
propriety. If their papers should be stop
ped at the expiration of the time for which
they have paid, they should remember that
such a course is necessary in order to insure
regularity in the business of our office.”
Thk Hand ov J ustice. —From the Phila
delphia correspondence of the New York
Tribune, we extract the following facts:
“The avenging hand of criminal justice
has at last fallen on the men through whom
the Bank of Pennsylvania is belived to have
been prostrated. Allibone and his bosom
friend and fellow-Director, Thomas A. New
hall, have been indicted by the Grand Jury
for their conduct in the premises, and we
shall now have the veil lifted for the first
time from a long catalogue of offences which
have heretofore been shrouded in impene
trable mystery. The District Attorney went
quietly before the Grand Jury with his wit
nesses, procured the finding of true bills
without difficulty, and then struck the par
ties dumb with confusion by an unheralded
conspired together to cheat and defraud the
bank of some two hundred and forty thou
sand dollars. It is charged that Newhall ow
ed the bank one hundred and twenty-six
thousand dollars on his simple checks, which
Allibone counted as cash, and that to pay
this indebtedness Newhall drew a bill of ex
change on Rosstein & Cos., of Manchester,
for fifty thousand pounds sterling, which Al
libone received on behalf of the bank, at the
same time paying to Newhall the surplus of
one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars.
The allegation also is that at the time this
bill of exchange was given to Allibone, New
hall had no funds in the hands of Rosstein &
Cos., and that Allibone knew it. The bill
was accepted, but came back protested, and
the bank is now sued for the amount. Alli
bone, happening to be in the city on Satur
day, on a visit from his quiet cottage farm in
New Jersey, was promptly arrested, and
contrived to find bail. Newhall sued out a
writ of habeas corpus, on which a hearing
will be had on Saturday. Some humiliating
disclosures may be looked for when the two
cases come before the Jury. The same ex
[>c<; UiUoii will j>r. I.uU T be gr.tlHoJ wlua lic
case comes up of the bank against John Mil
ler, late Postmaster here, to recover back
that twenty-three thousand dollars paid the
latter for causing the Government to fork up
the money for the old banking house.
Fair Playlet a Jewel.
We are for fair play in politics as well as
in everything else. “Give the devil his due”
is a good motto even for Christians, which
even now, we are pleased to know they are
pretty generally acting upon, and are every
where “givinghim soot”
Southern Democratic papers are attributing
to certain six Southern Americans who vo
ted for the Crittenden Amendment in the
House, the defeat of the Senate’s Kansas
bill. To that we say, “lay on McDuff, (fee.”
Its all right. We have as little feeling for
them as if they had voted for the Green
Amendment No Southerner, Democrat or
American, should have voted for either, not
even as a choice of evils. We wish to see
the lash laid on every Southerner in the
House who voted against the Quitman prop
osition, for Green Amendments, Senate Bills
or what not It is the only truly Southern
proposition up to this time submitted in the
House. It received seventy-two votes only,
twenty-five Southern men voting against it,
of whom Aleck Stephens may be put down
as leader. We do hope these Southern
organs of the party which has under it pecu
liar guardianship the rights and honor of the
South, will reserve something of the contents
of the vials of wrath they are emptying upon
the devoted heads of the doomed Southern
Americans, to pour upon the heads of those
twenty-five Southerners who voted against
Quitman's direct proposition in the House, to
strip the Senate’s Kansas Bill of the Green
Amendment. And still, that they will not
let the ardor of their resentment cool down
until they have stripped the twenty-two
National Northern Democrats, with whom
these six Southern Americans voted for the
Crittenden Amendment, of their coat of hy
pocrisy, and visited condign punishment up
on them.
“Oh for • whip In every honest (Democratic editor’s)
hand,
To lash them (the twenty-two) naked through the land!”
And still, in the future progress of this
Lecompton affair, should it be made mani
fest that the seventy-two who voted for the
Quitman proposition to strip the Kansas Bill
of every thing that bore a semblance to “in
tervention” or “interference,” and to shape
it for an unconditional and unqualified ad
mission of Kansas, were insincere or cow
ardly, and intended finally to yield their po
sition before the advancing foe, we propose
to our Democratic confreres, who will by
this time have wearied of chastising, to turn
them over to us. As they comprise the on
ly true Southern-rights men in Congress
the proceedings upon this question have yet
brought to lignt, with whom we can claim
the least degree of sympathy, we should
deem it a specially delightful task to pour
out the vials of our accumulated wrath upon
their traitorous heads.— K 0. Crescent.
Important from the Plains.
St. Louis, April 26.— The Santa Fe mails
have arrived with dates up to April Ist The
Messengers had encountered violent snow
storms, and the animals on the route had been
frozen to death. CapL Marcy had been over
taken by Garland's Eqpress and ordered to
await an escort at Fort Smith.
An Extra of the St Louis Times states that
20,000 Indians were in the act of congrega
ting on the plains with a determination to
make a descent upon the frontier. Al?o,
that hostilities had actually commenced.—
This is denied by a gentleman attached to
the mail train, who had recently passed
through tliat cauntry.
Old Maid —“What! nine months old and
not walk yet 1 Why, when I was a baby, I
went alone at six months,” Young indignant
mother (aside.) “And she's been alone ev
er since.” . ■
A SEW PLAN FOR KANSAS.
Mr. English's Proposition Accepted.
The Conference Committee Agree!
Special Despatch to the N. Y. Express:
Washington, April 20.
English and Stevens, from the House Commt
tee, and Green and Tlunter (Senate) have agreed
upon a Report—in substance what was stated
yesterday in English’s idea.
The agreement submits Lecompton to the
people of Kansas. II a majority there are lor
it, Kansas is to be a Stato under the Lecompton
Constitution.
If a majority are against it, Kansas will then
have to wait until a census shows her to have
100,000 population—the number in the States
for a Representative in the House.
To this strong temptation for the people of
Kansas to accept the Constitution, are added,
now, Calhoun’s count-out of a Free State Log.,
islature, and the President’s declaration, that
Lecompton can be got rid of) by a majority,
whenever the people will it.
There is also added another temptation, in
enormous grants of Land to the new State.
The voting in Kansas, for or against the Lo
compton Constitution, is to be under the direc
tion of the Territorial Attorney General, Isaacs,
—the Governor, Denver, —the Secretary of the
Treasury, (Federal officers) —and the President
of the State Council, and Speaker of Assembly,
likely to be Free State men.
As Messrs. Seward and Howard do not agree
with this Report, the great body of Anti-Le
comptonites will follow them —but the Doug
lasites will be likely to go with English. If,
then, the South generally vote for the Report,
and with their confreres, the Bill is passed, and
there will be an end of the question.
But Garnett, of Va., (Dem.,) Eustis of La.
(Am.,) and others have declared before they
would not vote for any change of programme.
We shall soon see what they will do. Hunter’s
agreement indicates that the South generally
will go with English.
There is great excitement about this new pro
gramme.
Tbe Kansas Bill.
Prospects of Mr. Enolisu’s Compromise.
Washington, April 20, 1858.—Mr. English’s
bill still under the consideration of the Senate’s
Conference Committee, with a fair prospect of
an ultimate agreement. Many consider this
already certain. Messrs. Seward and Howard
dissent.
The several political parties were this af
ternoon and are to-night much interested in
privately discussing the measure, of the suc
cess of which no definite opinion can yet be
formed. It is probable the Conference Commit
tee will report to-morrow.
Radford Crocket sentenced to
Death.
On Saturday last, at Atlanta, Georgia, after
Judge Bull entered the room, and Court having
been duly opened, the prisoner was brought in
and took his seat, with his father by his side,
immediately in front of the Bench. The poor
young man—for he does not seem more than 21
—appeared terribly affected by hisimiserable
situation. He wept most of the time during
the delivery of the sentence, and his frame
seemed overcome with the internal agony that
was writhing it.
The prisoner being arraigned, was asked if
he had any thing to say why sentence of death
should not be pronounced'on him. He stood
up and replied that he had notliing.
The Judge, in sentencing him to death, re
marked, “Radford Crocket, you have been ar
raigned for the crime of murder—and you have
voluntarily confessed to having committed one
of the most revolting deeds in nature. It is an
inexorable law—both nuumn mill uivine—tnst
“whoso sheddeth man’s blood by man shall his
blood bo shed.” Every principle of law, and
every thing in morals demands the penalty for
the commission of an offence for which the an
nals of crime contain scarce a parallel. I have
grown old, and heard of many awful murders,
but never before have I known one so atrocious,
and so utterly defenceless as thia
“Unhappy man, you have now nothing left
for you to do, but to prepare for a future state,
the things of this world are as nothing to you,
your only hope is at the bar of God. Spotted
as your soul may be with blood, there is still
hope of pardon there. The sentence is ‘That
you be taken from the bar of this Court, to the
common Jail of the county, and there kept in
close confinement, until Friday, the 18th day of
June next, fVom whence you are then to be
taken, by the Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff of the
county, to tbe oommon place of execution, and
between the hours of ten o’clock in the forenoon,
and two o'clock in the afternoon, you are to be
hung by the neck until you are dead. And
may God have mercy on your soul’ ”
The prisoner, on the conclusion, was audibly
heard to say, ‘’May God have mercy on me.”
Crocket was immediately removed from the
Court to the Jail, and the Court was then ad
journed for tbe term. —Atlanta Intelligencer.
Th* W bather axd the Crop*.—We le*m
that frost was observed in a number of lo
calities throughout this region of country on
Thursday morning: but it must have been
very slight, as there is no complaint of seri
ous injury by it—even the tenderest garden
vegetables scarcely indicating its hurtful
touch. At present the weather is much
warmer, with indications of rain.
Some of our farming friends in Russell coun
ty, Ala., and on this side of the river, com
plained of a very small black bug, which per
forates and sucks the young and tender corn
stalks, causing the leaves to bleach, as bitten
by frost. These insects are % very small
that they can probably do but very little
damage after the corn gets further advanc
ed.
The wheat and oat crops in this region are
said to be promising much better than usual,
and we are glad to learn that a eensiderable
quantity has been sown —more than ordi
narily. Com has come up remarkably well,
and the stand is geneally very good. Cot
ton, also, appears to be coming up well.—
The young fruit is very abundant.— Col-
Xumbus Enquirer.
liimeksi Amount of Monet on Deposit in
this Country.— ln the banks of the four
great cities of this country—New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, and New Orleans—
there were last week on deposit no less
than one hundred and twenty-eight and a
quarter million of dollars, an increase on
the previous week of nearly two millions of
dollars. This does not show any great re
vival of business in the country at large. In
Boston, previous to the late financial crisis,
the amount on deposit in the various
banks of the city was not much over four
teen millions of dollars ; it is now twenty
and a half millions. The specie in the banks
of the four cities last week was fifty-seven
millions five hundred thousand dollars, the
previous week, fifty-five millions eight hun
dred thousand dollars—an increase of oue
millitm and a half in one week. *ln Boston,
within the past six months, the amount of
specie in the banks liaa about doubled.
—Boston Traveller , of April 17.
Three Men Drowned. —The Augusta “Con
stitutionalist” contains the following account of
an accident which occurred a few days ago, some
miles above that city. “One of the pole boats,
owned by Mr. MiCurry, who resides, we believe,
in Elbert co., and which had been employed in
conveying cotton and other produce to this
market, and also for the purpose of transport
ing goods and merchandise to persons residing
on the river, was capsized by coming in collis
ion with a rock, in a very swift runniug portion
of the stream, A man by the name of Masters,
and two negro men were drowned, Goods to
the value of about two thousand dollars were
lost.
“It is stated that the persons who were
drowned were active and expert swimmers, and
the only person on the boat, whose life was
saved, was a man totally unable to swim; but
was fortunate in obtaining a plank, or some
other buoyant article, and reached the shore.
From Tux as. — We received yesterday Gal
veston papers of the 17th instant.
A recent traveler in the N .rthen Texas,
mentions as a natural curiosity in the valley
at the foot of the Canadian mountain, “a large !
bed of natural brick, which are about three
times the size of ordinary brick, and are as
perfect a3 though they were manufactured
in the best arranged brick kiln in the eoun
try.
The 7 \xan learns that much damage has
been done to some parts of tli; comtry ar
round San Antonio by the grasshoppers.
The Trinity is so high as to cover al! the
lands about Liberty. The Gazette says that
on the North and S>uth sides of the town
the water is swimming in all the low places.
The Goliad Express learns from a gentle
man residing in Karnes county, that his en
tire crop of com, cotton and wheat had all
been destroyed by the grasshoppers. He
states that he had eighty acres in corn, fully
knee high, all of which was eaten to the
ground in two days.
The Gonzales Inquirer of the 10th has
considerable to say about the grasshopper,and
gives an amusing account of the invasion
of that city, and the attempt of the citizena
to resist the encroachment Everybody
turned out—men, women and children,white
and black, little niggers and chickens, editors
and devils —everybody, with “fire and
sword,” brushes and brooms, blankets and
buckets, carried on the deadly conflict, but
all to no avail ; the hoppers hopped on, and
the defending forces were obliged to beat an
inglorious retreat leaving, the barbarians in
undisturbed posession of the conquered city
A Queer Concern. —ln Kansas they have
a paper with one Republican, one American,
and one Democratic editor, each of whom
has a portion of the sheet in which to ex
pound his views. It appears that this plan
has found imitators:
The Bureau county (111.) Democrat is a
stock concern, principally owned by Doug
las men, but edited by a Lecompton post
master. In order to meet the views of both
parties, an arrangement, as we learn from
the Chicago Tribune, ‘ has been effected, in
which the editor is allowed four columns on
the editorial ptge, through which he chases
Douglas, and the stockholders have four col
umns on the same page in which they “pun
ish” Buchanan. Under its present manage
ment it is a funny sheet, but singularly typi
cal of the condition of the party from which
it takes its name.”
Consui.au Appointments. —The following
appointments of Consuls by the President
have been confirmed by the Senate :
Samuel Ward, of New York, to Bristol,
England.
Albert G. Catlin, of Massachusetts, to
Prince Edward Island.
Caleb Crosswell, of Wisconsin, to St Jago,
Cape De Verds.
James Warren Gorham, of Massachusetts,
to Jerusalem.
William L. G. Smith, of New York, to
Shanghaie.
Isaac S. McMicken, of Texas, to Acapul
co.
C. C. Nukerck, of New York, to La Uni
on, San Salvador.
John R. Hooken, of Pennsylvania, to
Trinidad de Cuba.
Joseph B. Holderby, of North Carolina, to
Dundee.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, APRIL, 30,1858
Hlacon Cotton Market. —Not
much demand, and little doing. We quote
10 to 12 cts. as extremes,
lion. It. I*. Tripp*’* Mpt*eel.“Th
loettthof mir ff.ij.mt Kpreii.*aUtlve In Csngress, on
the Kansas question appears in oar columns, to-ajr,
and will be found worthy of porusal by every one of his
constituents.
The tVeatlier^-We havehad a succession of
light frosts, in this place, for the week past, hut without
much damage to the growing crops. In some locali
ties In adjacant Counties, we regret to hear that the
young cotton has beam greatly injured. The weather
continues cool for the season.
To Correspondents.
£5?” “Verbatim,” received and disposed of
in a way which will we think, better servo
the purpose of the writer than by giving place
to it in our columns. If a remedy for the exis
ting evil is not provided, the writer shall have
a hearing.
E3T” H. M. D., Cuthbert, You stand square
to March 26, 1869.
zw G. M. 8., Starkville. The money sent
pays to October, 1859.
. J. L G., Talbatton, Paid to February
8, 1859.
May Day.—The Bibb Cavalry will be
out, on parade, tomorrow, and will partake of
a collation with invited Guests, at Camp Ogle
thorpe, at half past one o’clock, P. M.
New have
not time to particularize to-day, but the reader
is referred to our advertising columns for all
needed information as to where are the best
places for shopping and making advantageous
purchases. It is a safe rule, not to trade with
those who are too stingy to let the public know
what they have got to sell. Such merchants
cannot afford to give good bargains.
Granite Hall. — We dropped in, at this
new Hotel, the other day, about the hour of
dinner, to witness the practical working of the
gastronomic and other arrangements of the es
tablishment, and found every thing in tip top
order, and exceedingly satisfactory to the lovers
of good eating and comfort
Maj. Dense and his worthy lady seem to be
at home in their new abode, and will spare no
pains to make their guests realize all the bless
ings of home under their roof. This, at least,
is the testimony of one whose alitnentivenm
has recently been proaounced by Prof. Fowler
to be rather full \
“Bring Flower*. V—Our thanks aro
hereby tendered to Mrs. Dr. Green, the elder,
for a magnificent Boquet of Roses, culled from
her owu garden, on Cherry st., and embracing
about 20 varieties, of the richest aud rarest
hue. Among these was the Black Tuscan , a
deep rod, purplish rose, brought from France,
by Dr. Dugas, of Augusta, twenty odd years
ago. It is an imperial rose in its appearance
aud qualities, sometimes known as the King
George IV, but Mrs. G. says that the true name
is the Block Tuscan. *
The roses I the roses! the sweet Tuscan roses,
Drooping so gracefully, laden with dew!
The roses! the roses) the sweet purple roses,
Exhaling their fragrance for me and for you!
The Late Fire.— We are gratified to
learn that the loss incurred by Messrs. Ross &
Moll, in the burning of their Factory on Sun
day night last, is not so great as was first esti
mated, though it is a very serious one to the
proprietors. Some $12,000 to $14,000 will
probably cover the actual damage, leaving'out
the loss from derangement and suspension of
business. Capt. Ross is expected home imme
diately from New York, whither he wont a lew
days since, to purchase supplies, when he will
determine whether he will rebuild or not. Vo ,
clue is yet found to the origiu of the fire, but
thero is little or no doubt, as to its being ti e
work of an incendiary.
Help the rufortuMate.— Chari.ks
Parker an intelligent and educated Deaf
Mute arrived here on yesterday, and will re
main here a few days previous to proceed
; South. He has tor sale several valuable
and Intelesting charts, illustrating the manu
al brachial alphabets used by the deaf and
dumb, and affording to the curious an op
portunity of learning the various methods of
comimmfoatjon employed by this unfortun
ate class of our fellow-beings in the absence
of an oral language. The large charts are 25
eents, the smaller 10 cents eaob. On exam
ination of these charts, we find them well
worth the trifle asked for them, and the
purchaser will have the additional pleasure
of aiding a worthy child of silence.
Spiritualism in Macon.
For the first time, in our life, about three
weeks dnee, we were permitted to witness ,
some of the strange Phenomena called Spiritual \
Manifestations. Those consist of rapping, table
tippirg, communications said to be from the ‘
spirit-land through a writing melium, and other
visible evidences of the truth of the doctrine,
known as Spiritualism, by those who h ive be
come investigators and devotees of the myste
rious science. Spiritual circles, we learn, have
been in existence in Macon, for several years
past, but we have had no opportunity, till re
ceutly, to investigate tb© subject, and, indeed,
have never felt interest enough therein to seek
any inform ition concerning it.
Having our curiosity, however, excited by
some street rumors, relative to the strange
events transpiring in our midst, we accepted
tbe polite invitation of a friend to visit a Circle,
which meets weekly, in the South-west part of
the city, and to judge for ourselves concerning
the exhibitions presented.
And now, with the permission of those most
interested, we will mention some things which
we have seen at these meetings:—
The ordinary manifestations consist of rap
pings of the feet of a small circular pine table
around which the members of the circle sit,
with their hands lightly laid oil the surface.
One rap, in answer to a question asked of the
spirits present, signifies no —two doubt or I don't
know, and three yes. Sometimes the request is
made to lean the table over into the lap of one
of the circle, and it is done. We have seen tho
table move in every possible direction, on one,
two, or three feet, sometimes slowly and again
more violently. We have seen it so fixed on
the floor, that a strong man could not lift it and
hold it'up a moment. We have seen it keep
time with music, precisely according to the
slowuess or speed of the measure of the hymn
sung, increasing or diminishing as the tune
was grave or lively. This is a very common
manifestation. Another thing we witnessed
was, throwing off from the table a gentleman
of any size or weight, with the ease that a
book could be tipped from it.
But the most extraordinary manifestations
are through she writing medium, Mrs. 11., who
is a worthy, pious lady, of irreproachable char
acter. She writes with a bandage closely press
ed over her eyes, and in every instance in dif
ferent hand-writing for each spirit that is said
to be communicating. One writes a running
hand, and it is written swiftly—another writes
a perpendicular hand, or one approximating a
back-slope, and with more or less speed.—
The medium, however, generally writes with
great regularity on tbe ruled lines of the paper,
and when her penoil reaches the right edge of
the sheet, invariably stops and retraces itself to
the left edge, and to the beginning of the suc
ceeding line, as it were a thing of life and intu
ition.
Os the nature of these communications, we
have not space nor 1 ime now to speak in detail-
Nor have we yet had any opportunity of test
ing the truth of such in any way. All wa can
say is, that the tone of all the writings we have
seen from under the medium’s hand, is eminent
ly moral and good, consisting of friendly advice
and pious counsel to the living, and full of con
solation to the afflicted and bereaved.
From the evidence of others, who are enti
tled to the most implicit belief) we think there
can be no question that the spirits of the de
parted are permitted to hold communion with
the inhabitants of earth. Events and incidents
have been communicated, which were known
only to persons receiving tho communication,
without the possibility of such events being
known to the medium or any one else living.
Statements of the bodily condition of .persons,
huudredj of miloa
been verified to the letter. The cause of sick
ness baa been investigated and a prescription
of tho appropriate remedy written out In one
case, a remarkable cure has recently been effec
ted by the application of the remedy so com
municated. A young woman was attacked
with Inflammatory Rheumatism, which grew
worse and worse, till, for two weeks, she was
helpless as an infant. Her joints were all stiff.
inflamed and distorted She could not raise
her hands to her head, nor help herself in any
way. An excellent physician attended her but
coyld not afford relief. At this juncture, a pre
scription was asked of the spirits and obtained.
The remedy was applied, for the first time,
about 4 o’clock, P. M. of the day, and at 6 P.
M., on visiting her room, to the astonishment of
her friends, she was found with hands raised to
the head, and attempting to comb her hair.—
The next morning she was out of bed, and
with help, walked into an adjoining room. In
two or three days after, and with a few more
applications of the remedy, which is simple,
she was entirely restored, and has remained
in good health ever since, or for several weeks to
the present time. A dozen or more credible
witnesses stand ready to prove the facts in this
case, as now stated, nevertheless, we confess
we are not able to understand the matter. —
We can bear witness to wliat we have seen
with our eyes, but cannot say that we are a
believer even in what all our senses have veri
fied, as facts —indisputable facts.
But so it was with many of the manifesta
tions of Animal Magnetism. We saw the
Phenomena but could not account for them,
and all the conclusion we have yet been able
to arrive at, in relation to either, is, that there
are “more things in heaven and earth, than are
dreampt of in our philosophy.” We therefore
await further developements.
4 Voice from Kansas.
C. H. Hamilton. Esq., well known to many
of our readers as an ardent and, perhaps, ultra
Southerner and Democrat, writes from Kansas,
to the Cassville Standard, as follows:
Dear Of.x. We learn that General Cal
houn has commissioned the free State candidates
of Leavenworth county. This was done to
save the Administration, by securing the admis
sion of Kansas uuder the Lecompton Constitu
tion. It would have been better for us to have
had Kansas rejected. Stephens and Toombs,
it is reported, had much to do in this bargain.
I have no idea a single pro-slavery man will be
allowed to take his seat in our Legislature.
Our State Government, in a few weeks, will
pass into the hands of the Abolition party.
The last pro-slavery mau will be driven from
Kansas, or murdered. This is the result of
party. Such Know Nothing papers as the
Chronicle and Citizen, oppose us, because, to
oppose us was to oppose Mr. Buchanan. Ste
phens and Toombs will, by a bargain, drive us
from the Territory, because by this bargam
with Calhoun, they save the 11 Great National
Democratic party. “
We beg pardon of the gallant Captain, for
saying that he has mistaken the position of the ,
“Citizen” on the Kansas question. We have J
never opposed Kansas because of opposition to
Buchanan. We have opposed Gov. Walker
and the President for wishing to submit the
Constitution, framed by the Lecompton Oonven
’ tion, back again to the voters of Kansas—but
that we have, in any way, contributed to make
Kansas a free State, or to the driving out of the
pro-slavery men Irom the Territory is s:mp.y
absurd. Capt. H. should be better posted. He
differs, widely, from his own party in Georgia,
when he denounces Lee imptou and declares
that it would have been better to have had Kan
sas rejected, thau to admit, her under that in.
strument, merely to “save the . Administratioih”
What does this imply but that he is opposed to
the Administration and to its pet measure, Le
compton? We do not understand what the
Captain is driving at, it that be not his position.
However, his shaft, directed at the “Citizen,”
falls short of the mark, especially, as we have
had very little to say on the subject, either way.
And had we fought against Kansas, we never
should have placed the same estimate on our j
influence, as seems to have been attributed po J
us, in the extract quoted from Oapt. Hamilton 8 i
letter. We tbauk you, sir, bfft utterly repudi- \
ate the idea of having ever added a feather s i
weight to the load that has broken the Kansas , (
Camel's back ! I
The Traitors’ Plan*.
The New York Evening Post, one of 1
most able and iufl icatial Free soil J , u . r , 1
has ventured to put forth the followingp” 1
gramme for the political Canvass of K 1
the .result which, it predicts, will I
such be the feast to vfhi jh th iS > ith i 8 1 9
sod, if is fo’l time thatsh* is girding o Q ° ? J
armor for the battle which is threaten,.f*
be forced upon her.
. . We to have clear Republics
jonty m the House ofßopresentauves of?!
next Congress (til o doth ;) a Rob|k|
President an I Vice President, and (v f
CD . 186 V , °** d b y tbe VJteS of every I
btate and a clear m vjority in the Smat,. ?"1
at least in the 38th Congress (1863) p
will make the working portion of the
emmenta unit. Suppose an act ofOonSLl
should pass, calling a National Conven- |
‘to revise and amend the Constitution o ft-■
United States.’ With half the deterx - l
tion and none of the resoality employe] ‘ 1
this Administration to carry the Lecomm J i
outrage, the co operation of a majority-l
the State Legislature might be secured 1
appoint delegates to the convention, and-1
convention might proceed to ‘amend’ {V,|
Constitution by abolishing the slave rev!
sentation and the surrender of fugitive slay! ■
altering the apportionment to correspo
and remodelling the Supreme Court so* ‘
vacate the bench at once, and require -
judges to be appointed and then simply \ 1
der the next succeeding election to be u
under the new schedule, the returns to b
made and elections certified by the P r
dent of the Convention.
“On the 4th of March, 1860, the Gove*
ment would be peaceably inaugurated ■
the new basis, ready for harmonious
resistless action in all its branches— *
tive. executive and judicial. And anv°-
nority of States would find themselves wit
out remedy or deliverance. They would],
within the boundaries and occupying thete
ritory of the United States, and subject \
all the laws thereof, as at present. Other nj
tions would at once recognise the authors
of the Government and its right to the ej
ercise of its own laws within its own bout:
as heretofore. And no power on ear.
could review or alter the result.
Pioneer Paper Mill.— From ap
vate letter, received yesterday, from the Ap-.
of this mill, we learn that only 50 Ream-:
manufactured paper were saved from the
which destroyed a part of the works, on t
23d. The company will, at onoe, proceeds
rebuild, and in the mean time, will refit t
small wrapping paper mill, which was x
burned, for making printing paper, until tie
can get UDder way again.
Later from California.
New York, April 27. — The Moses Taylo:
arrived to-day, via Aspinwall, with (latest
the 19th uIL She brings nearly one milk
and half in specie, and five hundred pt
senders. California news is unimportant
intelligence from Valparaiso of the lit
March, says that Vivancoaud his forces w
defeated at Urexuipa with great slaughter
and that Vivance had fled to Bolivia.
Still in a Snarl. —The Committee 4
Conference on the Kansas question, han
through its Chairman, Mr. English, report:
Compromise Bill, the principal features of wk
will be found in an article, in anok
column, from the N. Y. Express. We h
juat received from Mr. Trippe, a copy of a
bill as printed for the use of the Senate, k
too late tor publication, to-day. On a curs®
examination, we do not see wherein it dii
essentially from the Crittenden Amendme.
except in this, tliat in addition to sending bat
the Lecompton Constitution to the people,
off ers a bribe of load to them, on the one has
to induce them to accept said Instrument sj
on The other hand, threatens to keep them:-.)
Territorial condition, in case of 1 ejecting and
Compton, until they have 100,000 inhabits
or thereabouts, to entitle them to State pnr*
ges. kc. There are other unimportant pros
ions respecting the public Lanas, salt spriq:
&c :I but the above contains all that concur,
the South, in the Bill of Mr. English.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
.A. Card.
Asa portion of the City Council, have deemed
“their imperative duty,” to enter their protest, ayw
“the action of the Mayor.” and give him a “merited ’
buke” fordisobeying their behest, In casting toe vok
the city, in the Macon Oas Light Company, I will ten
ly notice their grounds of complaint and my ream:
for disregarding their instructions. Having been eis
edby a majority of the citizens of Macon, upon etc
lng upon the discharge of my official duties, I tool
oath, to discharge those duties, to the beat ot my a
ty for the welfare of the whole people of Macoth J :
not “promise and swear” to act, as the City Cot”
Wvuld dictate or as their judgment would son*
Were I thus t q act, f. would be up worthy the suffrage
a confiding constituency, and wonid be In the hasdi
our City Father*, a mere puppet, to move only
they pulled the wire that regulated my powers oft
tion. I considered then, as now, notwithstandif ■
“merited rebuke” of the protestants, that their to**
tions, was a stretch of official power, not authority?
their ‘tenure of office” and certainly not
council usage. Most gladly, however, wonid I,'*’
complied with their wishes in the premises, couMI if
done so, without violence so my own conscience e
jeopardy to the interest of the'City as a stockhoids ;
the Gaslight Company.
But to the protest, Ist. The Mayor has no right
power, to represent the City Stock in said annutl wf
iog of the Gas Company* except, so far as, he wai
ihorixed by the City Council Ac.l’ To toe unisforfl*
this seems plausible, if not conclusive, but the close*
server of the usage aud regulation of our City C ’c:
knows, that when they (the City Council) vested in *
Mayor, the power to subscribe for stock in said owl”
thing at the same, time, by special resolve, veHM 1
the 1 Mayor and hit* seccessors in office, power so.®
thority to represent aDd vote the stock of the eltrjb
meetings of the stockholders” of said company. “
power,lias never been revoked, nor has any Cityw*
cil before, ever attempted to usurpifeepower, “"h e-’
vested in the Mayor nnder the act aathoriztng * *
scripQon for stock. 1 Here, then I derive my * t: \
for casting the vote of the oity stock, as my Judgs
dictated contrary to the instruction of the protests®
2. The Charter gives the Mayor and council
Mayor) authority to (do what f) ntbson.be lot swu■
Incorporated companies, In behalf of the city, ssi*
the Mayor and council only (and not the Mayor W*
can subscribe for stock, so they alone can contra M
whieh has been subscribed. Now, this is a poor k
on which to hang a hope, that the people ylli not *
that though the Charter does vest the power, to*
scribe for stock in the Mayor and Council, yet
there in its “bill of rights,” it leaves the power tc *
(col that stock, to the option of the Council, aM*
(as is shown by their record) have vested that rig
the Mayor and his successors in office, and t a*
edge of this resolution of council, should have coni*
the powers of couneii, and ihus spared the riel"*®
indignation of the protestants,
To the 8. count in the indictment, I haye notiurf
say, presuming that no man would arrogate to h-n*l
powers that did not belong to him, unless he * *
tie ambitious. ,
4. “As the Mayor, has aB much right to set ailJ
disregard one resolution or aet of council as anot_ : .
The Mayor has not, nor does not presume, to set -
any ordinance of the council, he being “an “W
part of our city government,” willingly acquleK ;
the action of the majority, when that majorityi• ■
fines itself, to its own sphere of duties and doe 8 j
deavor to incroach upon his rights and tus* l
swear and act by proxy. 31
Were he compelled, to obey every resolution owm w
racreiwTs of the (Sty Council, he might soon, be rjjo*” ,2|
of his scat, to make way, for some more pliant .ospira-.. j
would obey last ructions, according to the wishes oi sn
tsttd majority. He therefore considers -it would be ■<
ous to permit such a precedent, to go uurebukeo sat ..1
here enter his protest against being Instructed to^pif.hyi
interest of individual members or their friends, when at
it aeafnst the best interest of the City. . si
Having given my authority, for my actions, I *5", ,„-VI
the reasons that convince my judgment, a* 5° , M r :C 3
should pursue. There were two sets of candidates ■
trol of the (fas Works, those now In power and a r\,|
those Unit lad been. Which bad most success!nib |
I the tff.iir of the company, and enhanced the 1
Stockholders? We4nd from the President and.u*; .1
i report of April 12th, that under a previous admb“*“!gffi
ii that of Mr. Kisbet, for whom I was instructed to v*■ • |
1h i ectors of the Works from October, 1853 to April, 1‘*’ I
rind of IS months, paid— 3
Three dl . lends of 4 per cent, amounting to I
From h i,i..ii deduot debts existing April,
1355. left for successor to pay i # 1,396 S6
And Rosin and Wood on hand paid for pre
vious to the incoming of that adminis
tration 63,1 “ fl $•”. and i
And we have nett proceeds amounting to i ‘ ilv .
Which with anaventge Capital of 145.80 >—Si' o ; ; oc ’ r ..d|
T per cent, as yur earning* for IS month., or , IV, ViVi
per year. In -April 1356 the adiuiuUtralioti or . ; i
against whom oar protestants were alnrng. went
with the following results as appears by the oou w
Panr *
| Paid debts of previous administration * |
K par cent, dividends. •• • •; “■i “
Paid for construction, enlargemeitt ot mUe* a |
other debts l i'-* m
Cash on hand April, _•r
#.!* 1
Showing with an overage capital of •dLWT’jILV :
be about 35 per cent forthe S years, or mV F*
With thes.-rosuks before me, why should 1
remove from office, an administration that was p*.
poraei.t. per annum, to pet those in power—those • . a
mimtnistration only 4. ooaUl t>e realized. Hj J
City as a Stockholder. I could not consent to {*P ■
■etlic cut olHoers, to experiment with ethers in ® 9
ton of JUio liTdrs of the Company. Again, wtv levy M
• Chany; viinst those in power? none, inen „g,. ,
them ? Why turn out an elhcieut and ®
■ Mr. Tnyior, the superintendent, reared hi a
quaintud wl h our citizens, identified wdh the ■■’ ■
city, t.■ intrudnoein hisstead. nstrung,rfrom z J
Os whom we know nothin?? These aretKc 1
prompted ui* to act a* oiviudiOaMt dicaMUi j
testouts think Have r!o!afe.l the rights Os J
oon, or betrayed their trust, I am wUfituf to tnaw
them, before a discerning oonstlruency, s jj“ iliue. 3
their wishes and Uteir interest,—ss A.j d'&.m
cea.se vour <-ff irtsto make ui” a tool for the \ n . wi .
for rest a-sured during my term of otfice^wjnie
fullv co-operate with you. wtieu lint)’
thin x you arc iu error, I will act „
despite of wordy resolves amKmerlted re “ *j 9PA9* s