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in its proper sphere —must simply do direct- ‘ I
ly what, by its agents, it could not do indi- Ii
rectiy. It seems to me that reasoning caa. i
not be clearer, or more correfct.
But why enter into argument to show
that Senator Douglas is wrong? His doc- 1
trine is just rt# ]>alpobly in the teeth of the j
decisions by the Supreme Court as the doc
trine of Seward and the Republicans. Both
the power and duty of protection are dis
tinctly decided in both the Dred Scott and
Amy cases. By his professions Donglas
pretends to stand by the decisions, and in
the very midst of his professions, advances
doctrines against even the letter, language
and spirit of the decisions. He has the same
venom that Seward has, hot hides it: He
approaches the South with the same weapon,
but conceals it and deludes with the cry. “a j
fidend is coming!”
When the General Government fails from j
any cause to protect the slaveholder in the
Territories, then as to the slaveholder the
Government is no longer a Government, and
all who are interested in slave* are disrliarg
nlfrom obedience to it; and if Mr. Douglas,
or any other man hold.ng his views, shall
be chosen to administer this Government,
his very choice will be a declaration that
there is no Government for the slaveholder,
and every word 1 have written against the j
success of Repuli'icanism. I repeat here with
all the superadded emphasis which indigna
tion can acquire from seeing hypocrisy added
to wrong.
Both the parties thus assaulting these de
cision®, cod through them, the rights of the
slaveholder, are preparing to elect a Presi
dent : n iB6O. One of them oven counts on
an undivided South tor support. Toe delu
sion of pretended friendship is to secure
Southern support, and the reu esoilism of
doctrine is to carry a sum ncy of the
North.
The duty of the Southern p ‘pie, it seen.s
to me is s o plain, that no rnan can mistake
it. Let us nU unite —not on poiiy —but on
the law. The Kansas bill can’t save ns. It
has failed, and from that bill Mr. Douglas
borrows the arguments by which he attacks
the decisions in the Dred Scott and Amy
eases, in the manner set forth before. The
endorsement which the South gave that bill
in 1856, might now prove her ruiD, but there
is a way of escape. Since that time the
Court has settled the law for us. Let us,
like good citizens, get off of double meaning
Kansas Bills and all treacherous Party plat
forms, and step on the law. Here is a foun
dation on which if we but stand with unity,
demagogues can never embitter, nor heresies
divide us. and from which tanatics can never
drive us. Here are the decisions of the high
est tribunal in our country,declaring that the
Wilmot Proviso and Squatter Sovereignty
and Congressional and Territorial restrictions
aro unconstitutional, and that no department
of the General Government, nor all its de
partments together, nor all the agents it can
create, have any power over the institution
of Slavery “except the power, coupled with
the duty, of guarding and protecting the owner
in his rights.”
What more do we want ? How much
better can Party and Platforms do for us?
Why any further convention commentaries?
Why still talk about the Kansas Bill—the
Cincinnati Platform and Buchanan's inau
gural ? Where is the ground for differences
between Southern men ? Upon what pre
tence—for what better doctrine is the slavery
agitation to be continued ? Will not the law
satisfy ns all ? Can Douglasism improve the
law ? Will not the people now see that the
agitator has nothing in view but his own
promotion, and that to accomplish this our
dearest rights are to be forever attacked, the
moat solemn sanctions of law disregard
< and, and par y sti ifea always to divide us ?
Let us throw away longer reliance upon
Party, and let us wake up the sleeping
genius of Patriotism that these storms of
agitation may be rebuked until the winds
arc stilled and peace restored to a disiraeted
crew.
In the present canvass let us have no mere
party candidates. Let us take our stand on
the law, and give notice to all the North,
and all parties tiiat we are done with con
tentions—done with double-meaning reso
lutions—done with Congressional tricks—
done with discussing Congressional power
over Slavery. Let us say the law has been
pronounced. The judgment has been enter
ed and there is no npp°al By it we will
standard will tolerate no party whicb doubts
its correctness, or hesitate to enforce ih Let
Georgia, with an undivided voice, speak
this warning from the ballot box in Octo
bei next. Let us say, we will obey the
law ourselves, and we will submit to the
rule of no power that seeks its abrogation
or reversal. If the South will but do this—
if Georgia will do it—the reign of the Dema
gogue is over, and the day of fanaticism ha?
passed.
. Will Governor Brown now reconsider and
repui ale, or at least leave in obeyanee, a
men party nomination, and Like this posi
tion ? Will lie repuuiate D /'.as and Lis
<: ctrines and Seward, and irties for
‘he time being, and agree to s ippart in the
•ittire only that party or th. nan who
hall distir. t!y come to this position? li
so, all other grounds of differed e shall be
forgotten, and T will give him my humble
support.
It is indispensable to success that the
Southern Democracy should take this posi
tion, for it i* in the Democratic party that
one of the doctrines which is at war with
the law and our rights finds its home and
its strength. If Southern Democrats would
preserve their self-respect they must take
this position. In 1855, 185 G and 1857, we
of the Americans insisted that Mr. Douglas
occupied the very position in which we now
find him, and our objections to the Kansas
Bill were its squatter (or popular) sovereign
ty and alien suffrage features, by the first of
which this principle of Douglas was to be
fixed on the Territories, and by the second
the population was to be secured which was
to make the principle elfective. The Demo
crats persistently and every where denied
our charges both as to Douglas and the
Kansas Bill But it has turned out that
we were right and they were mistaken.
We speak nothing in the spirit of tri
umph. We do not ask the Democrats to
join our party, but we do a.‘k them to aban
don those who deceived them, and meet us
on the common high ground of right and
help us to defend the law. We make no |
boast, we claim no reward, for we only did i
our duty.
I make the appeal directly to Gov. Brown,
and hope we shall hear from him before the
10th day of August. Will he repudiate par
ty, aid stand on the law with us, or wi Ihe !
remaiu a party candidate, standing on the !
Cincinnati riatforni where Douglas and Van
Bureu are also standing and preaching
their free soil heresies? If he has not ihe
courage or strength to bieak his party Tet
ters, will the chivalrous Thomas do it? If
no Denwavt has the nerve to quit his parly
and come to the country, will not some no- •
ble Georgian, who has heretofore had no ac- •
tive connection with party conflicts, lead a
deluded people away from that body of
death—Partyism !
Then also let the people in the various !
Congtessioual Districts, without regard to
party nominations, made, or to be marie,vote i
for their very ablest and best men, and send
them a.I of one voice to Washington declar
ing that the South will no longer submit to i
have her rights regarded as mere trump cards
for demagogues to win power, and will there- i
fore tolerate no man or organization or Gov- j
eminent which will not inforee and admin
ister the law.
1 Jiave written, Sir, as I think. I h aV e ‘
made suggestions. Honest minds can easily j
fi.l up the argument I will not conceal from
any, whither, in my opinion, the policy I have
suggested may lead us.
If in 1860 the Democrat: Party shall give
us principles and a nominee coining distinct
ly and boldly up to the requisites of this
letter, and our party shall fail to do so, then,
to be consistent, we must and we will go to
the Democracy.
If our p*rty shall come up to this stand
ard and Democracy -hall fail, then South- j
err. D mocracy, to be consistent, must come j
with us.
If both shall come up patriotically to the
line designated, then we shall have done a
eat good to the country, and w<. can go ; D
ood humor, aud with good conscmrcea, each
tc his respective standard to do battle on
other and premier issues.
if neither shall come to the rescue, but
both bend before the winds of fanaticism, or
party policy, and repudiate or be afraid of
the law, then we shall defeat both, if we can,
and failing in this, we shall all join hands
and hearts and voices too, in of a
Government that will acknov. ledge the
right,and protect the ctizens. As an Ameri- .
i can. proud with confidence ti my associates, j
and knowing our liouesty heretofore, aud
happy iu the consciousness of my rectitude
o.’ purpose now, I do not fear, and will not
shrink from the test.
Yours, very truly,
’ B. H. HILL
To Col. Gk j. M. Dudley, Americus, Ga.
W hat the Dciuucralic Leader*
have Done!
Dr. Andrews :—The associate editor of
the State Press, in the daily, dated July 25ih,
devotes two columns to the platform of the
Opposition party. Yes, sir, he devotes two
columns of the Daily State Press to abuse
of the Know Nothings. When I read the
editorial, the thought passed acrossed my ‘
mind, the Major is at his old business, trying
to cover up the sins of the leaders of the
Democratic party. I would advise the *
Major, to quit it. I‘. w ill not do, now, fbr
you know, Major, you fold the people, the i
1 Kansas B.U would quiet the country and
secure the rights of the South in the Terri
tories. You and the Democratic leaders told
the people that the Americans were trying
to deceive them, when the gallant and pa
triotic llill told you and the best and ablest
of the Democratic leaders that Squatter
Sovereignty was in the Kansas Bill. If one
did not support the Kansas Bill tho hue ar.d
cry was rai.-ed that he was a traitor—to t’.e
1 South, aod not lit to be trusted with li ir
rights. You did these things, Major. Now
1 repent and do as follows: Tell the people
of Georgia that Siiiery was in Kansas be
fore the Kansas Bill was passed by Congress.
Tell the people that Stephen A. Douglas, the
30th January, 1854, said in his place, in the
Senate of the United State.®, “I know of
but one Territory in the United States,
where Slavery exists, and that is in Kansas,
where it is prohibited by law. ’ There it is
Major. Tell the people that Douglas said
this when he was held up as the champion of
Southern lights. Tell the people that so
soon as the Missouri line was repealed the
whole Territory of Nebraska and Kansas at
once became Slave Territory, for you know
it is a known rule in law that so soon as a
repealing act is repealed, the first law is re
vived, and of full fo”ce, and that first law
was the terms of the treaty between the
United States and France, and that was,
that the citizen of Louisiana territory should
not be deprived of his right to his propeity
in man. Then by the repeal of the Alis
souri line, Slavery was established iu Kansas,
and by that clause (after the repeal) that said,
nothing herein shall be construed as reviv
ing or puttiDg in feree the law of the French
treaty relating to African slavery, slavery
was abolished in Kansas. Tell the people,
that by the action of the Democratic leaders
and the passage of the Kansas Bill that
Slavery was destroyed in that Territory.—
First, Slavery existed in Kansas before the
passage of the Kansas Bill; Second, it was
re-established by the repeal of the Missouri
line, and then abolished by the Badger
proviso.
Tell the people that Mr. Stephens, and all
the Democratic leaders said the Kansas Bill
did give to us a good and equal chance to
make Slave States out of Kansas and all
other territory belonging to the United
States, and then tell the peop’e, Mr. Stephens
at Augusta, in 1859, said we can make no
more Slave Stab s out of territory, and why,
’ ‘ because of the law of population;” that is,
the North and Europe being densely popu
lated, emigrate from nectssily, the S >uth
being thinly settled, move into the terriio
-1 ries from oLoice. That is what Mr. Stephens
means when he says, the law of population
will prevent making Slave S'-atcs out of any
more territory. That, Major, is the princi
ple of Squatter Sovereignty, practically
worked out; a principle that Air. Calhoun
denounced as more monstrous than the
Wi'rnot Proviso, Squatter Sovereignty;
that was fastened upon the South, and by
whem ? By Stephens, Toombs, Johnson
Cobb and vour own candidate for Con
gress, Col. Speer! Yes, he, too, advocated
and defcade i the Kansas Bill. He too, de
nied that Squatter Sovereignty was in th.it
b'ack bill of abeminat onst
Tell the people tha: Toombs, at the last
sess’on of Congas, said, “the Government
j of the United States was the most corrupt
Government in the world,” and don’t forget
to tell the people that the Democratic lead
ers have had and do yet control that corrupt
j Government.
Tell the people that the ordinary expenses
i of the Government are raised from 845,000,-
! 000 to 880,000,000 or $90,000,000, for one
year. Tell the people of the South, that
their money is used by the Government to
school negro children that were brought
from Africa, taken aboard the Echo and sent
to Liberia. Tell them the Democratic can
didate of the 3rd District, did endorse the
Cincinnati Platform and building of a
Pacific Railroad, is a cardinal principle of
Democratic taith. Inform the people of this
fact, that it will cost $200,000,000 to build a
Road to the Pacific, and for the benefit of
the North alone! Tell the people why it
was your party did not build a platform of
principles for your candidate for Congress in
the 3rd District.
You know the reason. Major. You were
afraid the people would distrust you, for you ,
know the leaders of the Democratic party i
have been faithless, an>l never redeemed a
promise made. So you thought it best to 1
put your candidate on the sea of circum
stance, without chart or compass. Do as I
have told you to do, Major, and you will do !
the country some service. FEW. I
Jiufgs’ Dou|ilao at the Koulli.
Tbe Charleston Mercury denounces
Judge Dougiass after the following fash
ion :
“As for an alliance witn Douglass wt
will here state that the Mercury will sus
tain nor countenance him under no tir
cun>stan'*es whatever. He is a traitor
to the Democratic party, and traitor to
those principles w hich secure the South.
He is dangerous and designing. Away
with him. Let him lie ‘anathema ma
rantha ‘ say we. \or shall the Mercu
ry sustain any platform put forth by
anv party whatever, which platform or
party shall maintain or endorse, directly
or indirectly, by affiliation or omission,
the fatal positions or fraudulent policy
a turned by Dougiass vuth regard to our
territorial rights. We repudiate the
whole scheme by which it is sought to
tie our hands and encircle us, with the
fold of a snake, to crush out or smoth
er the vital power of our civilization.
“I” inally, the Mercury shall sustain
no man of whatever party, clique, creed
or section, who shall stand upon the
plf.tform of Douglas-.’ principles-though.
he should be nominaied by twenty De
mocratic •Conventions. I'or the party
which would permit that creed is an en
emy to the Somh, and we w ill war with
it to the knife. For ourselves, and we
can safely say for South Carolina, we
will neither countenance, nor submit to
any such party, platform, principle or
politician.’’ 1
SeWino Machine kdR Ak Empress.— I
A firm in Philadelphia* engaged in the
manufacture of sewing machines, have ;
prepared one as a present to the Em
press Eugenie. A letter describing it,
says:
“ Upon a silver base embossed in dab
orate elegance the escutcheon of the
Empire, while the whole rests upon four I
silver lion®, over which an eagle isperch
cd. 1 tie names of Napoleon’s generals
and victories appear upon tho sides of
the base, and at the end, upon a square,
a statuette of the great Napoleon is
standing. This is done in enamelled
woik, and is a gem in its line. At the
side of this figure the Goddess of Indus
try is seen, and over both a spread ea
gle is flying, which, bending forward, !
forms the vibrating arm of the machine,
the needle being in the beak yf the royal
bird. The plate of the machine is of
highly polished steel, supported by four
>ng-Is of silver with wings of gold, in
front of tho plate is the inscription. The
case and table of the machine is to be
made of wood from Mount Vernon.
*
Letter of iluuiplircy 4lar*hall.
To the Editors of the Louisville Journal : |
Louisville, July Ist, 1859.
Gestlemen .— 1 liud there is an idea
ga ting ground by its repeated publica
tion that my declension of the Candida- j
cy for Congress in this District, resulted
from a feeling of dissatisfaction on my
part with what is known as the inter i
vention principle asserted by you and
the Opposition candidates generally. I
wish to say through your paper that this
i lea is erroneous, and that my course
has no f been dictated at all by the mo
tives attributed to me. My view is this.
The territorial government h the crea
ture of Congress—has just the capacity,
and no more, that Congress chooses to
give it, and Congress cannot impart to
it a power Congress does not itselfpos- j
sess.
If the slaveholder has the right tocar
ry his slave into a Territory and has the
right to hold him there as a slave (and
the Dred Scott decision says lie has this
right, aud 1 believe it) then my opinion
is, that the Territorial Legis’ature can
neither abrogate or annul or impair this
right by its legislation, and I said in a
speech made in Congress last winter,
and now’ I repeat, that, if the territorial
Legislature should pass a law with such
an object or effort, 1 think it would be
the duty of Congress to draw the Con
gressional pen through the law and send
it back to the Territory as a usurpation
Congress has abrogated. I would not
wait for the law to be pronounced un
constitutional by the Supreme Court of
the United States, but i would act upon
it at once in Congress, if 1 could induce
Congress to do its duty in this regard.
I have no doubt of’ the power of G>n
gress, to provide remedies for the re
dress of all the grievances a man can
suffer in the Territories in the enjoy
ment of his rights and his property, for
though Congress may delegate to the
Territorial people the power of legisla
tion and give to them legislative, ex
ecutive, and judicial departments of a
territorial government, still Congress
does by this only perform its own du
-1 ties with more convenience, for the re
! sponsibility of Congress to the Slates
and people, that this creature of its
making shall act properly, constantly
continues and cannot be shaken off’, until
1 the Territory becomes a State, and there
, by “acquires the r. cans of self govern
ment.” (Sec the language in American
Ins. Cos., vs. Canter, Peter’s report.)
Asa practical Statesman, in the pres
ent condition <*f public sentiment as to
| slavery, &e., I would say that the South
has the deepest interest in tranquilizing
the public mind on the whole series of
buestiuns connected with slavery, and
therefore 1 would say that we will wait
for the occasion which shall prove by the
judgment of a court of competent juris
diction, that the remedy is wanting to
ensure the practical enjoyment of the
slaveholder’s rights in the Territories,
but whenever that fact appears, I would
apply to Congress , if necessary, to afford
that remedy, and 1 would agitate it ses
sion after session, and Congress after
C ingress, until 1 obtained my rights, and
j until I could embody the popular sent is
ment to do the Southern people justice
under Ihe Constitution.
These have been and remain my opin
ions, and 1 am not willing that there
should exist any misapprehension about
them, for still, now as in 185<’>, I would
not “g.ve the toss of a copper” between
Black Republicanism and that Squatter
Sovereign idea which accords to me a
right, yet claims the countervailing right
to deprive me of the enjoyment of all
that which is my own.
I am, very respectfully,
H. MARSHALL.
Southern Necessities. — lion. W. L
Yancey in a recent letter utters the fol
lowing :
Indeed, in my opinion, the South at
this time is not so much in need of plat
forms or belief in correct principles, as
she is sadly in need of true men in her
councils. She has often enough enunei
ciated sound platforms and creeds which
have as often been frittered away and
rendered valueless by compromises.—
What she requires is men of the right,
stamp in her councils—enlightened,
conscientious, determined and able men
who know’ the interests of the South,
and who can and will uphold them, with
out compromise, against all other inters
ests, whether they be the interests of
parties or of individuals’ at home, or of
hostile sections. I do not desire to be
understood as saying, that she has not
such men now in her service. But Ido
say, that they are far too few for the oc
casion The most of her representatives
are mere puppets in the show, made to
wheel and dance as the party organists
choose to grind the music ; while others
of ample ability and individuality are
absorbed in their own personal advance
ment, which invariably requires a com
promise of southern issues.”
Opening of the Slave Trade.
The Louisiana Courier , the leading Demo
cratic organ of our sister State takes ground
in favor of the opening of the slave trade.
We extract from its article:
“The South will not lamely submit to the
competition of slave labor between Spain
a i France, in whose colonies Slaves are
imported in disregard of r.ll restric
tions and limits. If that sentiment lias cot
the ascendency with the majority, we think
that, ere long the number advocating the re
opening of the Slave Trade will increase as
their importation becomes more frequent—
But in this there is but one view maintained,
and that is the increase of slave labor in the
South, without regard to the balance oi
power which the South may obtain by the
i ultimate introduction of the institution in
our territorial possessions. In other terms
the generally prevailing sentiment in favor
1 of introduction of slaves does not grow’ out
ol a question of policy, but is merely looked
upou as an increase of the means by which
Southern prosperity and wealth may be se
cured. i
“Let us not be understood to mean how- i
i ever that this generally prevailing sentiment i
here in the South entails a total disregard of !
the laws of the United States. We do not
think that generally, the intelligent portion
of our population, who under the promised
ciri ‘in stances favor this lenewal of the
trallic in slaves would entertain the opinion
so far as it clashed with the laws of the
United State® But we feel justified iu say
ing that so far as the mere trallic iu slaves
as a means whereby to secure the prosperi
ty. increase of the country is concerned the
occurrence of popular opinion is pretty gen
eral ; and that it would be difficult to find
the majority iu opposition.
Samford on Citizenship.
Eyrie, (near Auburn) Ala., )
July 22, 1859. (
J. J. Hooper, Esq. —Dear Sir: You ask
me what I drink of the doctrine of Gen.
Cass, in his late LeClerc letter, that our
American Naturalization does “not exempt”
foreign-born citizens from the claim of “mil
itary services” by their native countries, if
they “voluntarily repair thither?”
I thitik it is the doctrine of despotism—
of absolutism—of Serfdom—and the de jure 1
divino right of Kings, as held and taught by
Sir Robert Fillmer in his Argument which 1
was exploded by the immortal John Locke.
It pre supposes a citizen to be a subject—
and the most abject of subjects—a vassal.
Contrary to all American ideas of govern
ment or law, it adobts Wheaton’s theory and
the practice of the State Department under
Everett, both of whom being Federalists,
fell naturally into the current of European
ideas and taught a semi-citizenship, which
might absurdly burthen the foreign-born
citizen with the duty to fight at one and the
same time for and against his adopted coun
try!
The argument of the Hofer letter does
not better the position of our Government.
It implies the same vassalage, and it may be ‘
life-long; why not? It exalts Royal claims
above the right of expatriation, and if for !
“ military services ,” why not for any oilier
j service ?
I know that the doctrines of liberty of ex
patriation and naturalization or making na
tive, are new, and American doctrines, like
! those of “Free Trade and Sailor’s Rights,”
and that although the patriots of the past
generation fought the War of 1812 to vindi
cate the latter, it is hard’.y to be expected of
our present statesmen to affirm the other,
even in diplomacy.
That clause of the Constitution of the
United States which provides for the natur
alit.alion of foreigners, settled the American
law, on the subject, adversely to the slavish
doctrines of the European Code, and openly
asserted the existence of man, as a being
superior to Kings, or any mere government,
whatever. It proclaimed the right iu oppo
sition to tyranny and human authority; and
whenever our Government abandons this
fundamental idea of the American Revolu
tion, of American Constitutions, and the
War of 1812, it degrades itself to the level
of the old despotisms, and deserves to fall
among the rubbish of the empires which
have “rotted dowm.”
I expected nothing better than this aban
donment of American law and citizenship by
this vascillating, back-boneless, Anglo-Galli
can Administration. Otto Hame,forced into
the Landw’ehr Regiment, in Prussia, and the
Le Clercs and Holers imprisoned in their
Austrian dungeons, are most humiliating
spectacles of the cowardice and impotence
of American statesmanship aud this Admin
istration. Gov. Wise is right. It is the duty
of this Administration to “protect our natu
ralized citizens to the uttermost ends of the
earth,” against all the claims of Royalty, by
all means known to nations.
What an absurdity it is, that we shall have
citizens hid away in the court-houses and
prisons—the cities and wcJUds of America—
who, going to Havre or Liverpool on busi
ness, or for pleasure, become subject to for
j eign powers!—Centaur-citizens—half Amer
ican and half European.and altogether slave?!
The place at which an American citizen may
be temporarily found in pursuit of lawful
business, cannot change his character nor his
rights. It is a strange theory that a foreign
er, when he swears an allegiance to our
’ country, does not swear off allegiance to his
native country, or that he can own allegi
! ance to two countries at the same time ! Let
us have whole citizenship or none. There
can be no state without citizenship, and no
Free State without free and full citizenship.
To impair this sacred character is to under-
I mine the State.
Although we may not make the foreign
or the native citizen
“ Free as nature first made man.
Ere tbe base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran,”
I let us not bind either in the chains of a cow
ardly diplomacy, and plunge him in the dun
geon of the old despotisms. The equality
! of American Citizenship is the corner stone
of American Republicanism. Destroy that,
and caste arises ; and caste makes Kingsl
I am very truly your obliged friend,
WM. F. SAMFORD.
\ Montgomery Mail, 2bih.
From the Mobile Mercury.
The African Slave Trade.
This question is one now passing through
the crucible of the press and rostrum ; and
it becomes us to invoke all the light we can
to aid us in arriving at proper conclusions,
and understanding our rights upon this ques
tion.
Congress has passed laws prohibiting the
slave trade. These laws are of the greatest
severity; and since some of the planters of
the South have been indicted under them,
and since the Judges of the United States
Supreme Court have given the most rigid
penal construction of which said laws are
susceptible, when applied to parties no way
interested in the slave trade proper ; and
since there is no tribunal to which an appeal
will lie when these cases are tried, it becomes
a matter of moment to kuow and apply the
remedy.
1 shall say nothing of those engaged either
directly in the slave trade, in bringing them
across the high seas, nor those who may own,
equip, or send out vessels in this traffic ; that
does not come within the intended scope of
this article.
Tt is as to our plunters and citizens who
i purchase them when brought into the coun
; try. and the law as applicable to them, that
I propose a few remarks, and only u few.
We will suppose that the constitution of
the United States confers on Congress after
the year IKON the power to suppress the Af
rican slave trade. We contend, according
to true States’ Rights principles, and accord
ing to the decisions of the United States Su
) preme Court, defining the Federal jurisdic
tion, that the several States may pass laws
ujion the subject so far as their citizens are
concerned, who may have had no connexion
whatever with the importation of Africans
to our shores, but who may have purchased
them after arriving, and after having
left the vessel upon which they were trans
ported.
The decisions upon the subject of Federal
i jurisdiction are to this effect: that the Fede- |
. ral laws, or the laws of Congress, apply in
I the of imposing a tariff of duties to the j
1 original importation of goods, &c., and un- I
• til th<* lmlk has been broken in port; after f
i this they become subject of municipal or ,
State laws, and the Federal authority there
ceases. The decisions are numerous and
tenacious upon this point.
Now apply these decision*. to the case in
hand. The original infractor of the law in
bringing Africans across the high seas, is
amenable to the laws of Congress while up
on tlie high sens, and after ho lands, and
until barred by the statute of limitations, if
there be such a statute ; and the slaves, if
arrested by a Federal officer, either on the
ship or in the ownership or possession of the
! original importer, (the bulk having not been
i broken,) may be taken by the Federal Gov
; eminent and disposed of as the Act of Con
gress prescribes.
But we allege, upon the other hand, that
if these slaves have passed by sale into the
hands of our citizens by purchase, (the bulk
being broke) that then the State laws have
the right of prerogative, and if that prero
gative is set up, there the Federal preroga
’ tive must end. If this position be correct,
j that in such cases State laws would have
| paramount jurisdiction, (and it seems to me
, | upon principle incontrovertible,) for protec
tion of their citizens against the tyranny of
| the Federal law, the States ought immedi
i ately to take legislative uetion upon the sub
ject* “ SOUTHERN.
John Mitchell Repudiates Cass and Vindicates
the Knew Nothings.
John Mitchell, the Irish editor of a Demo
cratic paper, the Southern Citizen , published
at Washington City, in his issue of the 23d,
has an article from which we make the fol
lowing extract:
Escaped Subjects—Naturalized Abscox
dkrs. —It gives us no pleasure, God knows,
to harp on this matter of naturalization. It
is no g'eat triumph for us to be compelled
to acknowledge that the Know Nothings
were right all the time, and to retract what
ever we may have hitherto said against that
philosophical body of men. Our language
in dealing with the American party (that
title can no longer be denied them) has been
sometimes harsh and bitter; we take it back;
eat it up; though it goes against the stomach;
and mu3t digest it as best we may at leisure.
Nothing can be plainer than if a foreign
immigrant, notwithstanding his “naturaliza
tion,’’ continues to owe—bona lide to owe—
allegiance, or military service, or civil ser
vice, duty or obligation to any sovereign, he
is not fit to be an American citizen, ought
not to be entrusted with a vote; still less
with an office; arid cannot become, even in
fourteen years, or twenty-one years, a full
and true American. We request the Ameri
can party then—the only rational and con
sistent Americans we are aware of —to ac
, cept our respectful apologies.
We publish these paragraphs without
I comment. We offer them to the considera
i tion of those naturalized citizens who have
heretofore been as abusive of the Know
Nothings as John Mitchell himself. Let
them read it out carefully, and when they
remember the duplicity, hypocrisy and
treachery of the Democratic party, who
are willing to use and not protect them, we
i feel well assured that they will be prepared
I to adopt the language of the distinguished
Irish exile. —Nashville Banner.
Iliglitli District Opposition Con
vention.
We have the official proceedings of this body,
which met in Augusta, Wednesday last. It
I was organized as follows :
President —Thomas H. Hawkins, of Ogle-
I thorpe.
Vice ‘Presidents —John Milledge, of Rich
mond ; Geo. M. Magruder, of Columbia.
Secretaries —lsaac 0. Huff, of Warren; R.
W. Carswell, of Jefferson : A. W. Stanford of
1 Columbia.
The following preamble and resolution, in
troduced by John H. Jones, Ksqr., of Elbert,
were unanimously adopted :
Whereas, The present condition of the coun
try, caused by the miparrallelcd profligacy und
i demoralizing policy ol Demccraiic Administra
tions, demands in the councils of the country
our purest and ablest statesmen, we can but
express our sincere and unaffected regret that
the Hon. Charles J. Jenkins refused to allow his
name to bo placed before the people as a can
didate for Congress. In him the whole people
could confide, and would have committed to
his hands the protection and preservation of
their rights, with a full confidence lhat in ev
ery emergency he wouid be faithful among the
laithless. He lias, however, positively refused
to permit his name to be used, and as the De
mocracy have, by their nomination, committed
our rights and interests, and the rights and the
interests of the South, to the keeping of one
whom we regard unequal to the high and deli
cate responsibility of maintaining those rights :
Be it therefore Resolved , That we recommend
j to the independent voters of the Eighth Congres
sional District, and to all those who would be
. ably represented in the councils ol the nation,
Col. A. R. Wright, of Jefferson, as the man for
( the crisis.
The 7th District.
| We publish two communications, to-day,
| on the subject of the Congressional candi
dacy in the 7th District, one from “Twiggs,”
and the other from “Wilkinson,” in which
the opinion is very decidedly expressed that
i Col. Kenan is the man whom the people of
the District will prefer to have as their next !
Representative We feel considerable in- !
torest in the success of the Colonel,
because we know lie is the choice of a j
majority of the District, and would certain- |
ly lie elected, were it not for the inconsistent
course of the “Southern Recorder,” which
print seems, all at once, to be in favor of a
convention to nominate a candidate in op- .
position to K., though opposed to a Guber
natorial Convention to nominate a candidate ■
against Joe Brown ! We confess wo do not
understand the reason of this course of our
contemporary, unless some private malice is
at the bottom of the whole affair. And the 1
only advantage of the action of the “Recor
der,” in both cases, will enure to the Dem- j
ocracy. Throwing cold water on any oppo i
sition to Brown, with one hand, and praising |
him on the other, as well as favoring a Con- :
vention of the 7th District to place an Amor- I
ican in the field against Kenun, will profit ;
the enemy only, because the Democracy will i
be sure to have a candidate, and elect him, |
too, provided there are two Opposition can
didates in the field! Why then have a Con
vention? Why not let Mr. Hill, or any
other gentleman take the race independent
ly of a Convention composed of Delegates
from one half the counties of the District ?
This, it seems to us, would be fair and hon
orable .
For the Ga. Citizen.
Tli<‘ till €.’i|sr*N<*ioaal District.
.Hr. ©rule’* Call lor a C'onveu
tiou!
Dear Citizen :
I notice, that the Editors of the Recorder,
are making a third effort, to get up a Con
gressional Convention. Where were they
upon the Gubernatorial Convention ? Why,
against it, as “ inexpedient and unwise.”
I They are in for the re-election then, of
i course, of Gov. Brown, Well, may be they
are right; but as they are with the Demo
: crate in re-electing Gov. Brown, the Ainer
j icans of the 7th District need none of their
dictation. The course the editors of the Re-
Recorder are pursuing, will inevitably
lead to the defeat of the American can
didate. When the candidates are all
out, why not leave to them, the delicate op
eration of one or the other’s coming down.
This can be more harmoniously settled by
them than by the interference and dictation
of a Convention, gotten up by a few in the
villages, and to which the people have be
come utterly opposed. No, we say, hands
off, and let the people at the ballot box make
their own selection. Who, for instance, I
would feel bound bv the action of a conven
tion, composed of delegations sent by meet
ings numbering only six ! Six men, it is j
1 true, have a right to hold meetings, and to !
dignify them with the names of delegates to
the 7th Congressional District Convention,
but whom do such meetings bind ? Certain
ly not freemen. The editors call upon those
, counties which have not appointed delegates
to send them forward; and they say the
Convention lias Leon agreed upon, to take
place on the 17th. When and where was
that agreement made, and by whose author
ity? We know that the counties of the
Southern section of the District have
not agreed to anv such thing. 1 his makes
the third effort in which the Recorder men
have attempted to palm ofl upon the people
a Congressional Convention. Hie people
are capable of taking care of themselves and
need no ptejudiced interference. Kenan is <
our choice, and we do not intend that he
shall be sacrificed longer to the malignity or
prejudice of enemies.
1 WILKINSON.
A Young Giil Oiitrtged by a Prlnct! — The
Czar Avenges her Wrongs.
Last December an officer in the elegant
uniform of the Chevalier Guards galloped !
along one of the most tashionable streets in
Peteisburgb. Passing a moyasin de modes,
he saw r a charming young girl enter. He
followed her, aDd, was struck by her cheer- j
ful but modest grace, and the freshness and ‘
tenderness which distinguished her. On
her retiring, he learnt that she was the daugh
ter of a poor chinowick , (civilian,) that the
shop-people worked for her at a low rate,
from admiration of her youth and character,
and that she would return at six.
That officer, with two of his friends, in
dulged in a sumptuous dinner, inflaming his
passions with costly champagne. But ex
actly at six, a large and gorgeous troika, (a
double-seated sledge) stopped near the may
asin, harnessed with three ppletidid horses.
The poor Olga advanced, was instantly half
stifled in a fur cloak, lifted into the troika,
carried on to Czarsko Zelo, where a conve
nient and lonely house of entertainment
awaited them, and was there brutally rav
ished, after indignantly rejecting every kind !
of bribe. But her resistance was so violent j
that she disfigured the faces of her assailants. !
On her return her lather appealed to the
hated police, but in vain. The police-master
assured him that the criminals could not be
identified. On this her brother, an officer
in the country regiment, was written to.—
He was indefatigable in his inquiries, dis
covering that three officers had suddenly
announced themselves sick, to hide the scars
in their faces, wrote a petition to the Empe
ror, and succeeeded in awaking his sympa
thy. The police-master w'as summoned, and
the Czar charged him instantly to procure a
true report of what had passed. This was
done. The criminal wa3 Prince Galitzin.
But mark the punishment. The Czar in
stantly compelled him to marry the sufferer,
endowed her on the spot with hall his world
ly goods, making her at once very wealthy,
and then immediately issued a ukase of di
vorce, leaving her entirely free. All the
i three officers were transported to a country
regiment, deep in the. heart of Russia, and
were refused any rise in military rank.
Never was poetical justice more rapid
and more complete. The sentence does
honor to the Emperor, and almost makes us
long, in certain cases, for an omnipotent des
‘ pot But this is not the only instance in
which Alexander 11. lias given proofs of a
good heart and great vigor.
The circumstance lias excited an immense
sensation in the Russian capital, and will
doubtless have good results.
Derangement of the Mails.
We see from our exchanges, that the
present dr any emeut of the Mails are de
nounced hy the Press in unmeasured terms,
and we think deserveuly so. We have here
tofore been accustomed to receive a daily
Northern J fail, and send forward from this
Office a daily Southern Mail. At present
we receive but three way Mails from Fort
Valley and North of that, and the mails
which are sent from this office, as we are
informed by our Post-master, are returned
every other day. The fault evidently must
lie with the Pqst-rnaster General, and a
remedy for this ungenerous yrievance seems
to be beyond our reach. We can regard
this impediment in no other light but that
of yross and wilful negligence on the part of
the Department at Washington, and a
thorough and complete reorganization of
that Department would be hailed as a bless
ing by the people.
The mail from this point to Irwinville, a
distance of about forty miles, has recently
been changed from a direct to a circuitous
route by Troupville, over 100 miles extra
mail service, by which means the mails will
probably reach that point once a month.—
These are not the only routes that suffer by
inconvenience in this regard.
YY'e now call upon the lion. Martin J.
Crawford to use his exertions to remedy an
evil which is as objectionable, if not more so,
than the present regulations of the Post
office Department.— Alb. Patriot.
Ben Hill's Letter.
| To the Editor of the Ga. Citizen:
I have just read the able letter of Ben
i Hill, upon the abuses of the Government,
Ac. He characterizes the Kansas English
Bill, as “that degradation of legislation, and
! abomination of hypocrisy /” In this section
we think with our gallant Ben. Hill, and
will vote for no man for Congressional hon
ors of the 7th District, who favored or vo
| ted for it, or paired off upon it. We were
withSenator Crittenden against this abomin
able English RUI. Even the Democratic
Senator Iverson now denounces it. Did not
r the Hon. Joshua Hill support it ? Do not
the Americans, with thousands of Demo
-1 crats, denounce it? In this section we do.
Did not our American papers support Mr.
Crittenden’s course upon and against the
English bill ? How then can any suppose
that with this weight upon his shoulders, we
can re-elect the Hon. Joshua Hill in the 7th?
| This bill is one of the great points of assau It
| upon the national Democratic party, and in
j loaning ourselves to the course of the “South
ern Recorder,” we would be guilty of an in
i consistent, suicidal policy.
We notice that Mr. Orme is for a third
i time trying to get up a Congressional Con
[ volition lor the nomination of Mr. Joshua
i Hill. We say we have had enough ujxin
the inconsistency of Conventions—let the )>eo
ple, (as they are determined to do) make
their own selection at the ballot box. This
they intend to do, in despite of u'ire-paUrrs
and irresponsible conventions. For tweuty
years, our section has beea paseed unnoticed
in the political honors of the District. We
now stand for equal rights and an ojien field,
and are determined to have them. We are
not for rule or ruin, but we do not intend to
be ruled by a Convention if ruin be the con
sequence. The southern section of the 7th
Congressional District is entitled to a partici
pation in its honors, uud, as freemen, we not
only assert the right, but will maintain it,
irrespective of all die ation. Our choice has
long been, Kenan, a id we do not intend that
the personal spleen of the editors of the “Re
corder ” shall, by such meetings as Mr. Orme
presided over, as chtirman, composed, as we
see published, of five besides himself, 1 oDger,
by such unusual and feeble efforts to prevent
public sentiment, control our action.
TWIGGS.
Conversion to Spiritualism. —The Bos
ton Courier announces editorially, without
contradiction, the fact of the circulation of a
report that Prof. Fellon, of Harvard College,
distinguished for Greek scholarship and his
controversial ability as a writer against Spir
i itualism, has become a believer in that doc
trine, if not a medium—“ Laving found, in
the course of his researches, that the evidence
was irresistible.”
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, AUGUST 5, 1859.
FOR CONGRESS,
Thos. Hardeman, jr.,
OF MACON.
OPPOSITION
mi nifiiTiu
Will be held at
ATLA X T A
on
Wednesday, August 10,1859.
The following resolution was unani
mously adopted by the istate Opjosition (_ on
vention, at Macon, on the 20th of July:
“ Resolvod, That we recommend a Mass
Convention of our friends be held in AT
: LANTA, on the Second Wednesday in Au
; gust, and that this Convention will adjourn
to said place and time, and the counties not
now represented are requested to send Dele
gates. And that we postpone the nomina
tion of a candidate for Governor until that
time.”
To Correspondents.
“Caught by a Laugh,” an original
story, by “Aunt Jennie,” in our next.
“Anti-Berrien”—too late for our
present weekly edition, but will have atten
| tion in our next.
Cr<*(lit. — The article copied by us last
! week, on the subject of State Aid to Rail
j Roads, and credited to the Brunswick Her-
I aid, should have been credited to the Albany
Patriot.
Death of T. P. Stubbs.
Our whole community wa* shocked, at the
announcement of the sudden death of
THOMAS F. STUBBS, Esq., at his resi
dence in this city, on yesterday inorning )
about 3 o’clock, after a brief illness of a
few r days. On Thursday of last week Mr.
Stubbs came down to his office, hut had to
return, from inability to attend to business.
His disease was Typhoid Fever, which final
ly seated on his bowels, and his over
wrought and exhausted constitution rapidly
sank under it. He was 48 years of age on
the sth of July last.
The funeral obsequies will take [dace this
morning at 9 o’clock, and will be participa
ted in by the Masonic and I. O. O. F. I ra
ternities, and by the Macon Volunteers, of
all of which deceased was a member ; also
by the members of the Court and Bar, and
citizens generally.
The death of such a man as Peter Stubbs
is a public calamity. No man was more
generally know'n—no one more respected. —
His extensive practice, at the Bar, brought
him into the closest relations of friendship
and confidence with a large class of citizens,
and he won the regard of all, bv his devo
tion to their interests, by the untiring faith
j fulness of his friendship, and the unselfish
nature of his services in behalf of those who
i were unable to pay him, otherwise than by
! their gratitude. Hundreds of the widowed
’ and fatherless who have shared his constant
benificence, will weep tears of sympathy
with his own immediate family, in this their
sad bereavement and desolation. Oh ! death,
how ruthless, often, is thy coming! The
dearest ties of affection arc suddenly broken
—the “ silver chord is loosed”—and “the
mourners go about the streets.” And yet
there is a drop of balm to each wounded and
crushed heart. Our friend and brother has
only laid aside his earthly tabernacle—an
immortal has been born—he “still lives.”
But we cannot, to-day, pay a fitting tri
bute to the character and memory of the
deceased. Personally, our loss is irrepara
ble. He was a reliable friend, “ a friend in
need,” and the blow has fallen upon us with
such terrible suddeness, that we have not
words to do justice to the great loss that has
befallen our community.
For Congress.
Ist. District.
2d. “ Marcellos Hotiglass, of Randolph.
3rd. “ Tlun*s Hardeman, Jr., of Bibb.
4th. “ Mm. I’. Wright, of Coweta.
sth. “
6th. “
7th. “ f#\ A. 11. Ecuan, of Baldwin.
Bth. “ A. K. Wright, of Jefferson.
Alabama Election.
From the returns received, there is no
i doubt of the entire success of the Democracy
of Alabama in the election, on Monday last*
I Clopton beats Tom. Judge several hundred
voter. This is contrary to all expectation,
and proves that the dominant party is joined
to its idols—and must be let alone. Mojre
leads Samford several thousand votes, and is
re-elected Governor, of course.
Columbus Sun.
This sprightly Daily, comes to us much
enlarged and improved. We are gratified
to witness such an evidence of its advancing
prosperity.
Atlanta Convention.
Delegates to the Mass Convention at At
lanta, on the 10th of August, can go and re
turn from Macon, for five dollar.-, on pro
curing tickets at the Depot in this city. This
reduction in the regular rates of (are, will,
we hoje, induce full attendance of Dele
gates from all the counties east, south, and
south-west of us. Next Wednesday is
the day for the meeting of the Convention.
Bibb Democracy.
There was a meeting of a |>ortion of the
Democracy of Bibb, at the Court House on
Tuesday, for the purpose of placing candi
dates in nomination for the Legislature.—
On consultation, however, the meeting de
termined to call a county meeting on the
4th Saturday of this month, composed of j
Delegates from each District, to be chosen
on the od Saturday. According to Demo- j
crntic parlance, this meeting was a “fizzle.” ‘
The “State Press” clique that desired to
place certain ambitious young men in the ‘
field for Legislative honors, must feel some
what disgruntled :>t the postponement of
their wish -s.
Murderi-
By a private letter just received from the
Post Master at M'Queen, LaFayette Cos.,
Florida, we learn that a double murder was
committed on the 16th of July, at Pumpkin
! Swamp, in that neighborhood.
One James Mundav shot and killed Elijah
Locklayer. Subsequently he (Mundav) was
shot by two men supposed to be Geo. Hunler
and Greese Bustle, from which he died in
half an hour. Mtinday was trying to get
back Looklaj*er’s daughter to live with him
as his mistress. She had became dissatisfied
with her paramour and had returned to her
father’s.
The same correspondent says that another
man was killed at Lake City, on the 15th
nit., in a drunken brawl.
Fulton County.
On Saturday, Col. James M. Calhoun w
nominated for the Senate, and J. J Thi>-i
w, Esq., for the House, ly the Opp ( , s j tl(j
party of Fulton County.
—-——.
8 h. District.
It gives us pleasure to announce that H ,
A. R. Wright, of Jefferson, has l>een f,| ufVl
in nomination by our friends of the gjj
District, in opposition tooneJ. Jenks
for a seat in Congress. If this nominate
is not equivalent to an election, it will he
a burning shame and disgrace to the State
as well as to the District. Let the higk.
toned and gallant Bth not condescend ton,,,
humiliation of being represented hy any such
an ajtoloyy for a Congressman as the mar. of
three J’s to his name. Why even the fastidi
ous and finikin Augusta Dispatch, a Denm.
erratic neutral print, repudiates Jenks. at„|
goes for “ liansc .” “Straws,” At-..
The Southern Me'hcdist
No. 3 of this new weekly paper has juq
beeu issued by Rev. Dr. James Stewart, Ll
itor and Proprietor. It is in contemplation
by the Doctor to purchase the materials ne
cessary to do bis own printing, after the is.
sue of his next number, August lfitli JI„
will thus remove out of his way the preju
dice which some mean and bigoted persons
have entertained against his enterprise, be
cause of the paper being printed at this of.
lice! Strange as it may appear, there are
professing Christians in this city, who would,
directly or indirectly, filch the bread from a
neighbor’s mouth, solely, for the reason, that
said neighbor holds a different faith from
them ! Is there any charity in the religion
of such men? We have some doubts on the
subject. We have. However, let the bigot
scorn and the hypocrite squirm—if they are
happy in such manifestations, we will trv
and lx- content.
One Way to Make an “Amende”
The Literary Editor of the Southern Field
& Fireside, one Wm. M. Mann, thus makes
his apology to his readers, for the publica
tion of a scurrilous anecdote, entitle 1 “ (h,-
: ing it Blind,” which was specially offensive
| to a large class of his readers, and on which
we made some comments, in our last week's
; paper:
“ We published, last week, upon the au
thority of a respectable correspondent,
whose name we have, an original religious
anecdote, entitled “ Going it Blind,” which
the writer averred to be “a true statement of
• tacts.”
A western editor, a Thersites of the
press, the fear of whom we happened not
to have before our eyes, has taken prompt
and wrathful exception to the anecdote.—
i Our equanimity shall not be disturbed by the
characteristic, unbecoming manner in which
our critic has administered his repren f. YVe
will not even allow it to deter us from ad
mitting that we were wrong. Be the anec
dote in question true or not, we believe up
on reflection, it would have been better not
to give it place in the columns of the Field
A Fireside ; and in future wa shall be more
careful. Ours is a family paper which we
are striving to introduce as a welcome guest
into every Southern parlor. We wish it to
be read, approved, and supported by men of
all political parties, and of all religious sects.
To this end it should be, and we mean that
it shall be, patriotic, but not partisan; reli
gious but not sectarian. We would not wil
lingly give place in it to anything that could
’ reasonably offend any class, however, small,
of good men and worthy citizens. YVe know
that there are many such in the religious
sect at which the invidious anecdote of last
week was particularly aimed : and therefore
regret having published it.”
Now, we consider this apology quite asof
-1 fensive as the first aggression ! It is evi
dently made with very great reluctance, and
: only under conviction that his own bread
and butter, as well as the interests of his
employer, demanded some answer to our ex
posure of this man's sectarian malignity.—
In making that exposure, we simply denoun
ced the anecdote against the Universalist
people as “false and slanderous,” and ask
ed for the proof. Our sense of duty required
this much at onr hands, not only in defence
! of our own religious faith, but in rebuke of
that foul spirit of fanaticism, which stalks
abroad through the land, through the aid of
the pulpit and the Press. And for so doing,
this Literary Editor of the “Field and Fire
side,” charges us with being a “ Thersites
of the Press,” guilty of “scurrilous criti
| cisir.s,” and as “flinging missiles” against
him. In other words, we are denounced as
a scurrilous blackguard, because we thought
| it right to denounce this newly-fledged and
j unknown scribbler, for admitting an offen
sive anecdote into the columns over which
j he has been employed temporarily as over
i seer. Tie thus proves himself to be incapa
ble of entertaining that sense of right and
justice which leads all honorable men to re
tract an error, without manifesting any re
gret at so doing.
We need not sa v to our readers, that we
have not assailed this “ Literary Editor
with missiles—that we have not been the
aggressor in this matter—but we have only
acted as the defender of ourself ana others
of like faith, from what the editor hini>-lf
admits to be invidious and wrong. Our con*
i elusion, therefore, is that though this “Lit*
j erary Editor” may be a Man by name, he
has not shown himself to be a gentleman
worthy of any further notice from us.
Still Another Version.
A communication having appeared in the
Columbus Krquirer of the 30lli July, signeil,
“A Frieud of Gen. Hull’s Family,” in which
there are palpable misrepresentations of the
facts connected with the “squabble about the
j negro girl,’ of which I am owner, I feel it to
be my duty to make the following statement:
i It is positively false that Gen. Hull ever pur
chase! the girl in question, or ever owned her
I by any legal title, and to give the gentlemiiU
. and his friends au opportunity to make some
thing out of very small capital, I hereby pledge
myseif not only to relinquish my claim to the
girl Adeline, but to transfer the whole of th 9
lamiiy to the ownership of Gen. Hull, provided
he will prove to any respcctablecitizen of Rus
sel county, Alabama, or, of Columbia, Georgia,
1 by legal evidence, that he has or ever had a
bill of sale or other title to said girl, or will
show any receipt or voucher from me, sot any
payment made by him to me, on account of
said girl. Here then is a chance for “A friend
j of Gen. Hull’s Fam ly” or the General himself
to make at least $5,000, without any capital
whatever.
To my friends anil the public I will say, for
the last lime, that the ingratitude of Gen. Hull
i for favors bestowed upon him for several years
past, is as base as imagination can conceive.
He came te Columbus, broken down in name
and fortune, and has foryears been sustained by
my bounty, and now he wishes to rob me of
my property, to which he has not a shadow of
title. This I say, publicly, and am responsi
ble for the allegation. I will, for the next
■ mouth, be found at the Indian Springs, where
the “Friend of Gen. Hull’s Family” or any
other person aggrieved by this expnsure of
meditated rascality, can have a satisfactory in
terview, in any way which they may select,
for the adjustment of the difficulty.
p. McLaren.
Killed by Lightning.— We learn that on
the 2Gth inst., at Hamilton, Harris county,
Ga., Dr. John Irby wa3 killer! by lightning
while seated in the Hotel of that village.
Others sitting around were stunned by the
lightning. Dr. Irby was well known in this
county and leaves a family.-