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The Beggar Woman
Once in a time of famine an un
known beggar woman, poorly but .
cleanly clad, went through a cer
tain village asking alms.
From some houses she was sent
away with rough words ; at others |
site received a very small gill; only I
one poor gardener, as she was very
told, invited her into his warm room;
and liis wife, who had just baked
l akes, gave her a nice large piece.
The next day all the people at
whose door the beggar woman had
railed, were invited to supper in the
Queen’s palace. When they came
into the dining room they beheld a
small table ladened with the richest
food, and also a large table with
many plates on which there was
here and there a piece of mouldy ,
bread, a few artichokes, or a hand
ful of bran, hut they for the most
part the plates were entirely empty.
The Queen said : “i was myself
that beggar woman in disguise, wish
ing, in this time of distress, when
the poor arc in such great need, to
prove the charity <>t my people.—
Those two poor gardeners took me ;
in and entertained me as l**st they t
could ; hence thev will now eat vrith
im-.and 1 wilt tix a pension l>r lite
<ui them. The ,rest of yon will en
tertain yourselves with the same
fare wfiich you gave me, and which
\-ou will find on these plates. ‘A ith
ilds. remember that in the future
world you will also one day be
served as you serve others.
AVhat we give unto His poor
To our Lord himself i> given :
TVhnt we sow of love on enrtli
We hull richly reap in Heaven.
lion. IS. il. Hill atul lliefoiidi
tntionalsl.
Du. Axi I’.uws, —I find in the Daily An
gusta Constitutionalist the following remark
aide words in an editorial comment on a
portion of liiii a reeeut letter to Col. Dudley :
“iu other words, the Democratic party in
iis Dext national platform will not insist upon
the passage of a slave code tor Territories,’’
that is, the editor of the Constitutionalist is
opposed to Congress pas- : ng laws to protect
the Southern man with his property in slaves
in the Territories. Horace Greely, too, is op
posed to Congress making laws to protect
the rights of the slave-holder in the Territo
ru s. V, by is it—how is it—you find an ed
itor in Georgia opposing the declaration and
.judgment of die Supreme Court of the United
States i Is it that Douglass niv be mace
to appear lovely to the South and terrib’e to
the North? The Supreme Court of the United
Suites says: “And no words can be found
in tne Constitution which gives Congress
a gTeafer power over slave property, or which
entities property of that kind to less profec
'm than property of any other description.
1 ut onlj/jHJtcejr conferred is the pover coupled
u ith tfte <luly oj guarding and protecting the
cut: tier in !*is right*. ’ Mr. Hill onlv insists
upon the exercise of the right fiiat the Su
preme Court of the I nited States and arg?iP3
the slave-holder is entitled to protection in
the Territories. The Court rays, the only
power conferred on Congress by the Con
stitution is the (tidy to ynaal au 1 protect the
Citizen in Lis property. Mind you, the Court
not only says it is the duty to protect the
lave-holder iu his rights in the Territories,
ait that it is the duty of Congress to guard ;
as well as protect the owner in his rights in
,ue TerritoriaK. They rnuinhd against vour
Douglas proviso of unfriendly Territorial j
legislation. Georgia.
. For the Go. Citizen.
R‘ply (o SSorricn.
Eu men, in the Citizen of week before last,
seems quite surprised that a letter should
be addressed by Col. Hunter to Hon. How
ell Cobo, soliciting information a3 to the
truth or fa! ; Ity of the charge made against
Mr. Buelmnar, vie., that ho had in some way
or other, “expressed his regret that lie could
not appropriate the money of the Govern
ment to the education of the Africans of the
> ave ship. Echo.” Berrien says, “If Col.
Hunter had examined the records of the ,
country, he eonkl without sending a letter
to \\ ashington, have been correctly inform
ed about the captured negroes ot the Echo.’’
r his was not the subject on which Col. 11.
desired inlot (nation. What he (Col. II.)
Wi.-oed to kuow was. wh -tber the IV-i-
Geui had appropriated, or w3 willing to up
propnata, trie money of the Government to
the “s-hoolirg ’ cf thrso captured Africans
us tea* chary- dby Jus enemies. The “public
iecorif-’ ate kipt at YS ashington, and it was
at this place the information was souglu
IVhb was more likly iu know and state the
fac's truly than a representative of Geer*
gia, in the President's Cabinet? Mr. Cobb
it p-r.ds to the call, and says the charge is
totally false. ■
Bi-rrieD, notwithstanding the positive de
r.ial of Mr. Cobb, re-r (firms the charge, and
tells his reailers “not to be mislead by any
ib.ng Mr. Cobb or any hotly else may say,
but to go to the records of the country.”
What “records does Berrien produce to
support this unrounded charge against Mr-
Buchanan ? .
An extract simply from Air. B.’s annua!
menage to Congress, in which the President
tel s Congress that “an agreement was en
tered into with the Colonization Society, un
tier which the Society engaged for the eon- j
of $45,000, to receive these Afri
cans in Liberia from the Agent of the United
States, and furnish them durirg the period
of one year thereafter with comfortable shel
ter, clothing, provisions, and medical atten
dance, causing the children to receive school
ing, and ail, whether children or adults, to be
instructed in the arts ol civilized life, suitable
to their condition”
Tins extract lrorn the Message, miarjtlain
( l. might authorize the inference or conclu
sion for which Berrien contends, viz., that ‘
Mr. Bucbanin in the agr-mvnt entered into
w ith the Colonization Society, did stipuluk
t ial the schooling ol ihocliildrcn of iliese
captured Africans, M upon their return to L'-
licfia, fhonid constitute a part of the consul- !
cration of the contract, and Was ~u e u p q, c ;
conditions upon which the was to* i
be paid to the Colonization Society. Tlis
const ruction was put on the nt—rage I
alter the adjournment of Congress, and the
charge now made by Berrien, went the
rounds cf tlie Opposition papers in Georgia.
At 1 ‘bgt.h tiic lion. Janies Jack-on. member .
of Congress from Georgia, on the htkh May
last, addressed a letter himself to Air. Cobb
upon this abject, which letter Air. Cobb an
swered. If Mr. Cobb can be relied upon to
tell the truth, (and no one will question his
veracity) the lollowiug extract from his re
ply to .tlr. Jackson (the whole of which may
t*e found in the Telegraph of Jnne 21st) •
shows that not one cent of the 000 wtg
received for the purpose, or in consideration
of, the “schooling of the children of the Af
ricans es the Echo,” —that the “schooling”
was a voluntary thing outside of the agree
ment made with tha-Gwlanization Society,
a 1 outside ot the law under which it
mad*. It formed no part ©I the agreement,
in point ol tact made with the President—it |
was a voluntary undertaking on the part of
the Colonizatio: Society—for which nopait j
of the $45,000 was paid or received by said j
; Society. But to tlie extract. Mr. Cobb
states in Ins letter to Judge Jackson, “It
. was under tL'se circumstances that Mr. j
| Buchanan proceeded to employ an agent to ’
take care of ‘those Africans after their return 1
until they could provide for themselves. Mr. j
Mi Lain, in behalf of the Colonization Socie
ty, ottered to undertake the duties of such
agent. The President require 1 that the Af
ricans should be taken care of, and provision
made for their support for one year. This is j
all that he required. The Colonization Soci
ety, for a stipulated sum, agreed to do this
and more. The Society desired by their
pioposition to show that they would not on
ly do all that the President under the law
was authorized to contract and pay fir, but
that they would pat these Africans upon the
•ante footing with all other negroes coin
ted to their charge—and it was for this rea
son that they incorporated into their propo
sition the offer to educate and school the
children. For this additional service not
one dollar was charged, and the amount al
lowed by the President would have been
; precisely the same, though no such provision
had been contained in the offer of the Socie
ty.” Agahi Mr. Cobb says, “Without the
explanation which I have now given, it is
perhaps not strange that an improper con
struction should have been put upon the lan
guage of the President; but when all the
lac‘s are known there certainly can lit no
dilHculty on the part of any man who wants
to kuow the truth, and do justice in seeing
the correctness of the statement which i
again repeat in the most emphatic terms—
that not one dollar was paid to the Coloni
zation Society in Consideration of the educa
tion or schooling of the Africans which were
committed to their charge hy the President. ’
ii< re is a conclusive refutation from a gen
tleman of the highest official position, of the
slanderous charge repeated in Berrien's ar
ticle. And yet his (B.’s) hatred to the Pres
ident and his party is so n alignant iu its
character that he will not withdraw, but
persist in it Let him do so, but he will
miss his mark, and shoot his arrows at ran
dom. Here I drop the discussion.
Axti Berrien.
For the Ga. Citizen.
i ilut. It, IS. lltil jjisti the Staff
Fitw.
Mr. Editor:—
The State l'res- of the 3rd asks Mr. Hill
to advise hi- friends to ground arms and
rally to the support of Governor Brown!
Why does he make such a request of Mr.
Hill ? Hear lii- own answer : “Wo affirm
that in Gov. Brown tie’ Democracy present
a candidate who sea- true to the South, in
all that nli* h r rights an* : interests, and
: especially in all that pertains to slavery, as
] any man, of whatever party in the South.”
j Did not, and does not Governor Brown to
j day endorse the Cincinnati platform, and
does not the Cincinnati platform endorse
the Kansas bill, and the odious doctrine of
Squatter S>ven ignty in that bill—that hill
! you so vehemently and so strongly defended
’ in 1 So-) and 1 85fi, as the best bill ever passed
ly Cotigre - for the South ? It is that ~atue
1-ill your Douglas -and Stephens framed and
per meted, and put upon the South. You
ask Mr. Hill to go to Governor Brown,
I while he, Governor Brown, stand- where he
stood in 1850, with Douglass and Van Huron
on the Ciucinuati platform and Squatter
Sovereignty, against which Air. iiill lias
-food and does now stand opposed. You
1 a.-k Mr. liill to do that which no honorable
man would do, to-\vit: abandon tin* prinei
ple.- of constitutional right! For what?—
To support a man who twisted and dodged
that 3rd resolution passed at Milb-dgeville
in 18.50. What! go to a man who gave his
warm support to the ABOLITION DOC
TItIN E, “that the people of a Territory,
like those (.fa State, hare a right to regulate
their domestic institutions in their tarn way.”
Is not Gov. Brown in close communion with
a party who have robbed the South of tier
rights in the Territories ? Mr. Hill, no
where iti hi- letter, asks Gov. Brown to
“abandon his party associates.’’ You talk
about Mr. Hill's arrogantly assuming to ad
vise Brown. Who first exposed the frauds
of the State Road ? Who denied the charge
of fraud made by Mr. Hill ? J><> you know f
\\ hy, Hill has made Brown make the State
Road pay from 530.000 to $35,000 per
month. Talk about arrogating ? Whore
is the arrogance to advise one who ha al
ready profited by his advice? You know
that but for Mr. Hill’s charges of corrup
tion in the management of the State Boad,
no committee to investigate the affairs of
that Bond would have been appointed by
tin* Legislature, for don’t you know how
the Atlanta Intelligencer pronounced all
Mr. Hill said as false—as pertaining to the
management of that Roati, arul then vou
certainly know the report of the committee
appointed to see if what Mr. liill -aid was
true. That report, as you well know, prov
ed all, and showed more than Hill charged.
The proud position of B. H. Hill, to-day,
challenges the admiration of the good and
patriotic, for he stands ,-u- It were, in the a
forest of life, a pillar of moral grandeur,
towering high above the rest, and calmly in
the conscious rectitude of his motives and
the honesty of his aims and purposes, he
looks upon the political corruptions that sur
round and *.he political di-ease beneath him
unscathed. LOWN I)ES.
Thomas Hardeman, Jr.
The Candidate of the Opposition paity for
Congress in this District, addressed a very
large, intelligent, attentive and appreciative as
semblage of his fellow-citizens in the Court
house here, on Tuesday last. Circumstances
beyond our control prevents us at this time
from speaking of Mr. Hardeman's speech as its
merits and ability deserve : wo will only say
that Mr. Hardeman is a fluent and agreeable
speaker— that ho dissected and exposed the
corruptions of modern Democracy with a mas
ter hand, and exhibited the * double slitiflkw’’
ot its leaders on the agitation of” slavery and the
results of that agnation to the South, to the
ridicule, the scorn and pity of his hearers.
We have Itcard both Mr. Hardeman and Mr.
Speer once, and aside from party prejudice or
personal predilections we have no hesitancy in
saying that Mr. Hardeman is fully equal to his
respectable* competitor iu information and nat
ural eloquence, and vastly liis superior in all
that appertains to the truth, ju-Uce and can
dor of the qiif-stions at issue. Even Hector's
right arm could uot defend such a Troy as Bu
• chanson Democracy, with iu accumulated cor
ruption.- and wrongs. Mr. Speer must sink
under the load he carries. We will roll up
for Hardeman three or four hundred majority
in old l pson, it we “set ilomi at once to oar .
knitting. —l fwon Pitot.
Cr.oi-3.—Extract of a letter dated TouJ
’ Town, Sumpter county, Ga., August 3 :
“The corn crop in this county is good,
and the cotton on fresh land promises well
, On old land even with a favorable fall, it
will be at least one-third below* an average,
owning to injury to the plant by lice in the
spring, from which it has not recovered.—
I hear of some complaints of rust. There
will te no cotton picked with us before the
j Ist September.” j
From the Chronicle anil Sentinel.
Col. Wrijlit at his Homestead.
Upon very short notice, quite a 1 irgc nurn-
Ivt <T the citizens of Jellersou countv HSc*’ni
bled at Louisville on the 2d inst., to hear Col. *
A. R. Wright, the nominee of th* Opposition
’ for the Eighth Congressional District, upon
the political topics ot the day.
The spacious Ilall of the Superior Court,
; in which comfortable seats bad been prepar
| (*<l, was densely crowded, and the assem
blage was graced and enlivened by more than
an usual number of ladies.
There is always something imposing in
! these assemblages of the peop’e, when they i
have been summoned, either to receive from
r t public servitor an account of the manner iu
! which be has p rfonned his public duties, or
to listen to the views, as on this occasion,of
! i new aspirant lor public honors.
Talented —eminently talented, as he is con
| c deii to be, by foe as well as friend—ever
entertaining and attractive as a public speak
er, and sometimes peculiarly eloquent, C<>!.
Wright never fails, even in liis own county, .
, (where, though often at the Bar,) to draw a
large ar.d attentive audience. On this oeca
j >iou an increased interest seemed to be
awakened among the people of all parties
j and shades of op nmn, to hear his views on
I political matters of the past —tho.o ot inter
est at tlie present, and such as nre imminent
iu the future.
The day was bright, and beautiful, ands j
j tempered by a delightful bre?ze, that little
ur no inconvenience w.i3 felt from tlie crowd
ed state of the house. At half-past 11
o’clock Col. Wright entered the Hah. and
amidst a cheering salutation, proceeded
promptly to address the audience.
lie commenced with a chaste and classic
allusion to th<* cti?foTft among the civil.z -d 1
nations in which political freedom existed,
and partic urly of the ancient R -publics, of
their civil or military leaders, addressing the
people upou the most important subjects per
iaiamg to thier domestic or foreign jrdity.
ft vvasa titne-honored and excellent custom;
for a people to act wisely, they should be
well and truly informed. That at the ex
pre-sed desire < f deVgates from liis fellow
citizens, in convent on assembled, ho had as
seated to become t’lew caudidate for a seat
in the National council, as a representative
■ of the E’ghth Congressional District. Inac
• , cordance, therefore, with flit* custom alluded
to, it was just and pcoper, it was his desire as
well as his duty, to inform his fellow citi
7. *ns. whose suffrages he solicited, fully upou
liis political views. lie had nothing to non
ces i.
If” preceded to review briefly, the politi
cal history of the country from the times of
the Republican ami Federal parties, under
the leads respectively, of Jefferson and Ham
dton—touching incidentally at the insidious,
; but at that time, scarcely noticed, approach
es *M the fanaticism, which has since assumed
‘:irli alarming proportions in the onrauiz t
iion known at this day, a-s the Black Repub
licanpi*;y. He Cillc * attention directly to
the settlement of tin* Missouri Compromise,
as the time at which tlie first palpable symp
om was mauifosted on the part ot wick -d
aud dangerous men, to thrust upon the coun
try, what the wii-\ and great, and good
Washington, in his Fuvweli Address, so se
ri nsly warned his countryman against—Sec
tional Isscks. Q mting, at th * thu *, the
f language of the august Fatlier of l.i- Coun
j try:
“It occurs ns mat ter of serious concern,
; that any ground should l>e furnished for ohar
| acterizing parties by geographical discrimi
nation, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and
Western. You cannot shield yourselves too
much against the jealousies and heart-burn
. mgs which spring from these causes,” <fcn.
He then showed that prior to the MDonri
Compromise, and subsequently, up to 1840,
though there was no regular national organ
ization of parties, there were, nevertheless,
great questions arising, which divided the
minds of the people, and e .ti rolled national
elections. But. these great questions, it
should be observed, were always questions
of Principle. The distinct and national or
ganization of parties iti 1840, were directly
upou principles of national polity. There
were no sectional issues, beyond the merely
incidental, growing out of the Tan’ll'system.
Each party aimed, or professed toaim'af the
i irootl of the whole counfry.
But in the space often short years, durinsr
1 which a pow< rtul. and too often an unseru
i pulous party, hud involved (he country in a
foreign war—such had become the thirst fer
power, tli.it no meat;? were spans! by an
tagonistic political organizations, to obtain
: supremacy.
In the mean time, (the speaker continued
to show.) the dangerous sectional spirit which
’ manifested itself in but which it was
then hoped bad been quelled—revived, when
the large territory acquired hy the Mexican
i war, came up in 184!)-'f0, fur disposition—
anti assumed a most alarminglv threatening
aspect, on the presentation of a bill in Con
gress for tlie admission of California into the
sisterhood of Stales.
The struggle which convulsed tlie country
at that period, observed the speaker, was of
too recent date, to be otherwise than fresh in
the rnirids of his fellow-citizens. The Gor
gon head of Abolition raise ! itself in defiance
of ihe Constitution, aud ail restraints of law,
and buhtiy ('ec’aied that no more* slave States
should be admitted into the Union!— Sec
tional issues, to th“ almost entire exclusion of
Xath aaf prim airs, thereupon became the
prominent political topics; and have been
the ruling characteristics of the more power
ful patty combinations ever since; endan
• gering alike the public peace and the safety
ot the Ui iun.
From this tin re might be dated our great
est difficulties.
But wise counsels for a season prevailed,
while the country boasted of the imperisha
ble names of a Clay, a Webster, and a Onl
houti. The compromise measures of 1850
give the promi-e of a permanent peace to
the country —at least, from sectional agita
tion.
Still, however, continued the speaker,
w !rile scarcely atiy citizen of the South be
ieved that full justice had been meeted in
the matter, a large m- j >rity. were disposed
t > accep! the comprom se for the sake oi
peace—while a portion were willing and
ready to dissolve the ties which bound them
to the Union. But when the test was made
in the State of Georgia, at tlie Gubernatorial
election of 1851, ami a majority of 18000 r j‘l
id up against the ‘‘Fire Eaters,” as they were
termed, and Mr. Cuhkmthe champion of the
measures, was installed in the Executive
Chair ; and when in the following session of
Congress, the lion. Joseph Jackson, Repre
sentative from the First District of this State,
ollered a resolution which declared the Com
prom’ne Measures of 1850 a finality to the
agitation of the slavery question—and which
was adopted—all parties South rs Mason and
Dixon’s Linequietly acquiesced in them, and
withdrew all opposition.
Col. Wright spoke feelingly and eloquently
upon the happy prospects that appeared about-*
to dawn on the country, by the promise oi
jieaee from the slavery agitation. That alter
the clouds, and storms and tempests which
raged with such threatening violence, n ‘
bright and peacelul su .shine would light the
way of our magnificent progress. But un
uuhappiiy, (to so bright auticipatious were
destroyed by restless disorganizers, which,
like condemned spirits or an evil genius, are
doomed to curse or annoy mankind.
The introduction of the Kansas and Ne
braska bid by Senator Douglas, of Illinois, ■
not only opened lip the whole slavery ques- ‘
tion ag'aiD, but destroyed the main bulwark
of the South, by repealing the Misonri re
striction, besides giving birth to the odious
and detestable doctrine of “Squatter Sove
reignty.”
The speaker discussed at. gn at length, all
the bearings and results of this measure—
spoke of his early opposition to it—of his
promptly warning his fellow citizens against
its deceptive character—that under a fairand
plausible exterior, it concealed the treacher
ous “blade of Joab.” He reviewed the ac
tion of various statesmen in the matter, and ,
spoke of its influence upon the politics of the
State and country.
He condemned and repudiated Stephen
Arnold Douglas in toto, alorg with his doc
trine ot the right of a Territory in its legisla
tive capacity, to pronounce upon the institu
tion of slavery. And taking up the princi
ple of “non-intervention,” discussed fully its
bearing? in every particular; evincing a
thorough know ledge of the subject, and ad
vancing views that would have l>een consid- j
t-red apothegms, coming from an older t.nd
j more experienced statesman.
] He declared it to be the right of every
; citizen of the United States to emigrate to ‘
any of the Territories of the same, with liis
property of every description, and to be pro I
tecied iathe enjoyment of it , by th* laws of’
J ‘ tgr jn uyain.it the effect of any and all an- !
f i.dlj l jMotion cm the part of the TtrrUo- !
ned Cot: ruh.cut, until such time as the people
of such Terr it/ry shall form and adopt a Con- !
slilution and Hate Government , and be ad
mitted into the Union. Upon this issue he
planted himself firmly.
lie spoke at considerable length upou the
action of Congress in regard to Kansas and
tin* L’compton Constitution; approving Mr.
Buchanan m liis original desire that Kansas
should b” admitted uuder the Constitution,
and condemned the action of Southern Rep
resentatives in the matter. But he dissented
to almost every other prominent act of the
Administration. He was opposed to Mr.
Buchanan's blundering policy in regard to
Cuba; dwelt severely and indignantly upon
his appropriating, without shadow of law,
$45,000 tor the support and schooling of the
captured Africans of the Echo, and the ter
giversation of Mr. Secretary Cobb upon the
subject, in his letter to Mr. James JackeOn.
Was opposed to the scheme of the Facifre
Rail li ‘iul; and indulged iu some amusing
reflections on Mr. Buchanan's favoring if,
while lit! was the exponent of a party winch
professed to be opposed to Internal Improve
ments.
In the course of his remaik-i, Col. Wright
alluded in the most courteous manner to his
opponent, Hon. J. J. Jones, o t his many per
sonal accomplishments and amiable qualities.
Os his political sentiments, he could only
‘■pr*ak from his letter of acceptance. In that,
If rightly understood, he placed himself fully
on the Cincinnati pi itform. If so, there was
, i wide difference between them. And he
read from a letter of Senator Douglas, to
show that the platform, according to the
letter's eousirm ion, endorsed Squatter
Sovereignty and Terntoi ial legislation on the
subject of shivery. It tiie Honorable gemfe
tn:m took these, and Mr. Buchanan’s Admin
istration on his ba"k, he would not only have
a hard roa i to travel, but a heavy load to
carry.
Co'. Wright spoke for an hour and a half,
and iu conclusion, showed that all our troub
i les and difficulties had grown out of our de
parture from Constitutional principles, and ot
; allowing to be forced upon us sectional issues.
But, that nevertheless wc were told that we
were safe, he would admonish his fellow-cit
izens not to be too confident in their safety;
that an insidious foe was striking at their
dearest interests, and who would seem tube
satisfied at nothing short of tlioir destruction,
and the degradation ot the South. Through
th * Administration of Mr. Buchanan, we
had lost caste in the Union. That at no pe
rod of our history as a government and a
nation, were we so forcibly appealed to, to
be an united people, and present an unflinch
ing front to our enemies. We owed it to
ourselves, our country and our dearest rights
—upon that binged the perpetuity of the
Union, and our future happiness and pros
perity as a Commonwealth.
The address was listened to throughout
with pn found attention, and was often in
terrupted with assenting plaudits. And
while 1 ain sensible that I have been unable
to do full justice to this i ffo: t of Col. Wright,
I am consoled by the knowledge tnat tnose
wo heard him had nothing tacondemn, but
much to admire in liis truly eloquent and
conservative speech; and also that the peo
ple of other portions of the District will have
the pleasure of hearing him. And that they,
like myself and many other of his friends,
who have known him from his boyhood, and
who have gradually marked his growth to
manhood, and the ripening of his brilliant
inie loot, will doubtless agree that should he
be successful in the canvass, he will uot uu
-1 worthily till the seat of his distinguished
predecessor. Berrien.
Read.
Wo have, to-day, to record the death of two
distinguished citizens of the United States : to
wit, the lion. Horace Mann, L. L. D., Presi
dent of Antioch College, Ohio, and Rev. Dr.
Janies \Y. Alexander, I>. D., formerly Profes
sor of Rlictorie and Belles Letters, in Princeton
College.
Uoraee Mann was for many years Secretary
of the board of Education for Massachusetts, in
which he not only accomplished much, hut
made himself the leader of free school move
ments in this country. His ambition, howev
er, carried him into politics, and he became the
sucoessor of John Quincy Adams in Congress.
His course in Congress was not creditable to
him. He was particularly distinguished as a
vituperative, foul-mouthed opponent of the de
mocracy, and especially of the South ; and lie
disgusted the people of his own district by liis
so disgraceful slanders of Mr. Webster, that lie
was shelved at the expiration of liis second
term. Since then he lias been President of
Antioch College, in Ohio, a free love, abolition
institution, open to youths of both sexes, where
his commanding talents have been wasted in
fighting pecuniary difficulties., lie died on
Tuesday, August 2.
James Waddell Alexander, the eldest son of
Dr. Archibald Alexander, aud the grandson, we
believe, by tho mother’s aid of the Rev. .lames
\\ addell, the original of Wirt’s famous sketch
of the Blind Preacher, was horn iu Louisa co..
Virginia, in 1804 ; was graduated at Princeton
in 1820, and was appointed a Tutor in that In
stitution in 1821. lie resigned that station
the next, year, and settled as pastor in Char
lotte county, Ya. Hero lie remained two years,
and in 1828 accepted a call to Trenton, N. .T.
j In 1830 he resigned his charge, and became
the editor of the I'resbyterian. at Philadelphia,
whence lie was elected Professor of R'.- etoric
aud Bellos Letters iu tho College of New Jer
,s-y at Princeton. Ho was subsequently, and
at tho lime of his death, pastor ot tho Brick
Presbyterian Church in New York City. He
died at tlie Virginia Springs, Sunday, July 31.
Tennessee and Kentucky.
The recent elections in these States ate
most cheering to the Oppo-itior. and pre
sage tlie complete overthrow of the Demo
cracy in tho Presidential contest. Though
Democratic Governors have been elected by
reduced majorities, the great gaius effected
by the unorganized Opposition in lliis skir
mish will assure them of an easy victory in
tie decisive battle of 18<>0. We never ex
pected the tlection of the Opposition candi
date for Governor in Kentucky, because we
saw pretty plainly that the saint* Freesoil al
liance which saved Letcher in Virginia would
operate greatly to the advantage of Magoffin
in Kentucky. But this element cannot be
retained by the Democracy next year with
out causing the loss to them of a counter
balancing number of voters who cannot
consent to yield the rights of the South in
the Territories for party succer-s. In Ten
nessee, vve did expect that Netheiland would
beat Harris, but. the latter appears to have a
- small majority. The Congressional elections,
however, afford a truer test of party
strength, and in these the Opposition
success is equal to our most sanguine ex
pectations.
The results of the Congressional elections
in Kentucky and Tennessee deprive the De- i
mocracy of all hope of a majority in the next
House of Representatives. The majority
against them w id certainly be at least twen
votes. They cannot,. with this strength,
’ smother inquiry into the abuses and cotrup
tions of the Government under their Ad
ministration, and the most startling revela
tions of malfeasance in office will no doubt
be made. They have lost control of the only
branch of the General Government which
the people have had a chance of wresting j
from them since Mr. Buchanan’s inaugura- (
tion, and this advantage will materially con- 1
tribute to their defeat in the Presidential
contest. — Col. Enquirer.
’ First New Cotton from ihe River. —The
X. 0. Bulletin, oi the Ist, says: The steam
er Duke, from Vicksburg, arrived last night
with one bale of Cotton, of the new crop.
It is from the plantation of Mr. Bowman, of
Tensas Parish, La , and consigned to Messrs.
Buckner, Stanton & Newman.
Glynn County.— At a convention of citi- i
j zeus ot felynn co., Hon. T. Butler King was ,
nominated as a candidate for the State Senate. J
and Hon. John L. Harris for the House.
For the Georgia C tizeu.
“There is not a <ri|ip(e upon (he
uaMr.”
Dr. Andrews:—
AVhat was the condition of the country when ,
Mr. Filliucre retired from the iTesidtncy ? It
was peaceful, happy, quiet, prosperous, almost
without a partllel. Wliat is the condition of it
now ? What has beeu the condition of the
country since the legislation of 180 4? has it
! not beeu convulsed lroni centre to circumfer- j
j enc3 ? lias not that legislation beeu ruinous
to the South ? uulriendly to the whole country,
and the stability of the union ? There cannot
be found a single mau who has the effrontery or
indecency to say, or deny that the passage of
the Kansas bill has not humiliated, mined, and
robed the South of her right to occupy with her
slaves the common Territory. Wiiat unhappy
events have followed closo upon the heels of
that disastrous measure ? It is Dot my purpose
to suggest the wicked motives of its introduc
tion, or to trace the effects of that scheme, I
only propose to mark its progress from the fatal !
hour when it was concocted, down to the pres
ent moment of uncertainty and gloom.
Ila tornado had swept over the whole coun- t
I try no greater devastation would have been i
perceptible in the natural world than is now
standing out in bold relief everywhere in the
political condition of the country, yet Mr. Sie
: pbeuß tolls you‘there is not a ripple on the wa
ter”—thero is no danger to the South and
country. Where is the giant Democratic party
of 1854 and 1856 ? Where is it now ? Divi
ded, broken up. The Northern wing is led by
j Douglass ; the Southern wing is led by Wise, j
Torn, shivered, and disunited; it stands out a 1
lesson to political tricksters and gamesters. It
is a lesson for the people to study and learn, to ‘
know hereafter liyw to trust a party that have
no principle in common with the people.—
Where, I ask, are the colossal porportions of the
Democratic party of LSS4 uudlßs6? Where
is its proud crest, its Samson locks? Gone!
gone ! to the Black Republicans ! How came
| the mighty S.tmsou to be shorn of his locks?
A hat did it ? Treachery, and deceptive legis
lation, lost Samson his strength.
Where is the strength of the South in the
Territories? lu the Kansas bill? In that bill
is her weakness. Tn that Bill rests the serpent
that has stung her to tho heart’s core.
\ et, Mr. Stephens says there is no dan
ger. He wraps himself up in his own dig
uity and instead of offering some practical
healing measure for the South and coun
try, looks out with cool and deliberate un
concern ; and to the injured people of the South
aud country says, ‘‘There is no danger;” “There
is not a ripple upon the water?.” Mr. Stephens
kuows there is a wheel within a wheel; ho
knows the complicated and deL'ctte machinery
i which gives impetus and direction, and control
to parly organization is noc perceptible, oven
in tho calmest moments, to the pure rniuded
1 unsuspecting true men of the country. The
firmer at his plow, the mechanic in his work- i
shop, the laborer at his toil, in the honesty ol
his hears, in the [unsuspecting sincerity of his
true nature with patriotic motives look out up
on the turmoil, tho distrust, the rnurmurings of
the people and thinks only of the quick return
of happier and more tranquil moments to the
country. He does not even dream that at tho
very moment, thero is behind the scene a baud
of political tricksters, and renegades, and ad
venturers which herotolbre, lie always shunned
as ho would the serpent, whose touch is con
tamination “whoso breath is pestilential, and
whose rule is dishonor and ruin. They laugh
at his infatuation and arrange at the same lime
with the utmost caution aud care the party
machinery so that they may reap the harvest,
and gather tho fruit, while he is left to enjoy
tho reality of a dissapointed hope and delraud
ed expectation. The hope was, Kansas would
be made a Slave State. Mr. Stephens said
nothing about the law of population prevent
ing the South from making a Slave State—oh
no. Tholuue was, you have a chance to make
Kansas a Slave State. Right there hope was
disappointed. That was not all that was proin
i ised, a good and equal chance for the South iu
all l lre territories was the expectation ; super
induced aud raised for the people. Right here
they have been defrauded out of the expecta
tion by the law of population ; or more proper
ly, Squatter Sovereignly. Will the people be
again lulled to sleep by these seducers and de
ceivers ol the South and country ? Will the
people support tho minions of base and design
ing demagogues to mislead and deceive them
agaiu i Creatures raised up for the occasion ?
The people will, T think require the Democrat
ic leaders to restore quiet and peace to a dis
tracted country— bring the Government back
to ancient landmarks before they can inspire
confidence in their periodical professions of de
votion to constitutional rights.
“Nut a ripplo upon the water.” The legisla
tion of 1851 ins placed the South in a pitiful
condition. Mr. Stephens admits that the Ter
ritorial policy ot tho Kansas bill forever ex
cludes the possibility of another Slave State
out ot the Territories. The South is power
less and helpless in the coils of Squatter Sov
ereignty.
The clouds are lowering ! —the coming storm
of 1800 will, I tear, develop solemu and serious
i events. Why has tho South been set on lire
and made indignant ? Why has tho North
beeu aroused and excited? Let the men and i
their minious who made and supported the
Kansas bill, answer!
LOWNDES.
THU LATE ELECTIONS.
Kentucky. The returns indicate the
following result in the Congressional Dis- j
triots:
Ist—Burnett, Democrat, elected.
2d —Peyton, Dem., probably elected.
3d —Bristow, Opposition, elected.
4th —Anderson, Opp., elected.
oth—Brown, Dem., elected.
6th—Garrard, Dem., probably elected.
7th —Mallory, Opp., elected.
Blh—Simms, Dem., probably elected.
Oth —Moore, Dem., probably elected.
lOtli—Stevensou, Dem., elected.
The returns indicate the election of Ma
goffin for Governor, and that the State Leg- i
islature, on joint ballot, will be Democratic
by a small majority.
Nohtii Carolina. Raleigh , .V. C., Aug.
4.—There is a large gain here for Hon. L. |
08. Branch, Dem., for Congress, and his
election is indicated by returns from other
places.
Iu the First District, at live o’clock, Shaw,
Dem. for Congress had only thirty-nine ma
jority. liis election is doubtful.
Tennessee. Nashville, Aug. 5. —John
Netheiland, the Opjiosition candidate for
Governor, gains two thousand three hundred
votes in sixteen counties. The following
Congressional Districts have been heard
from :
Filth. —Robert Ilatton, Opp., elected.
Eighth.—James M. Quar les, Opp., elected;
R. B. Brabson, Opp., in the third; aud Em- |
erson Ethridge, Opp.', iu the ninth; W. T.
Avery, Dem., in the tenth, are probably
elected —the two former being an Opposi
tion gain.
Augusta, Aug. 7.—From the returns from
twenty-six counties the Opposition gain one
Congressman aud probably three.
Death of Wm. H. Topping,
Baltimore, August s.—Wm. H. Topping,
formerly Engrossing Clerk of the United States
House of Representatives, died hero yesterday.
■ He was long a correspondent of the southern .
j press, and was universally esteemed.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. \V. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, AUGUST 12,1869^
FOR CONGRESS,
Thus. Hardeman, jr.,
OF* UN/T-^COISr.
For Congress.
1.?/. District .-
2d. “ Slamllus Douglass, of Randolph.
:>rd. “ Thomas Hard r mu, Jr., of Bibb.
Ith.. “ Wm. F. \fright, ot Coweta.
Ktti. “
6th. “
7th. “ Col. A. ti. Krtian, of Bildwiu.
! Bth. “ A. K. Wright, of Jefferson.
♦*—
Opposition < on volition.
We give below the telegraphic dispatch
from Atlanta, taken from the Savannah j
nrnrrbiicau, by which it will he seen that !
the Convention have nominated Col. War
i REN Aiken, of Ca.-s county, for Governor.
! Messrs. Job man, of Muscogee, Peeples, of
Monroe, and Milledgo, of Richmond, are a
committee to notify Col. Aiken of liis nomi
nation.
Opposition Convention
Convention.
National Vmerican Omm. I
Atlanta, Aug. 10. 1859.)
j Tin- Convention mot at 11 o’clock this moniiii);. —
i President, fir. D. A. Iteeso.of Jasper Vice Presidents,
Hon. G. ( . Thomas, of Muscogee, and L. C. Dunlap,
fisti.. of Gwinnett and Secretary, T. 11. Cabaniss.
Messrs. Ilopkius of Mclntosh, Davis of Lee. Uex
andcr of Upson. Hill of Troup. Miller of FloviLGibbs
of Walton, Lewis ol (irei-ac, and Milledge ‘of iiich
mond. were appointed a committee on business. The
| committee lniliug to agree upon the propriety of
nominating a candidate for Governor, submitted that
I question to the Convention, which decided in favor
of a nomination almost unanimously. The Conven
tion was quite large ami enthusiastic. The weather
lias lieen very inclement throughout. It lias rained
i incessantly since Saturday last. Speeches will he
made this afternoon and evening.
_
i The Internal Improv-rmetit Convention met tll o'clock. !
A. K. Cochran, Pro,., T. S. Peten-on, Si c. Time are about
; p-0 delegates i res. tit. Ao< romltteeof 21 was appointed to
I ‘eport business. The l oLveiuion then adjourn-(I to 1 o'clock,
i P. M.
nr. Miller, Chairman of the Committee, then proposed the
nameofCoi. Wabhen Amy.of C ss,and he was rnminat.d
by acclamation.
Messrs. Johnson of Muscogee. Peoples of Monroe, and MiP
edge of Richmond, were appointed a Committee to notify Co’.
Akin of hisnomina kin.
The Convention tnca tul oumed sine die.
Appointments of Mr. Hardeman.
AVo arc requested to to state that Col.
Hardeman, the nominee of the Opposition
for the 3rd Congressional District, will speak
at the following places :
Tallmlton, Saturday, Aug. ‘JO
Zebnloh, Tuesday, “ “:t.
Our friends should make every prepara
tion to give Col. Hardeman a full hearing—
and they and the people at largo may be as
sured they will be well paid to listen to his
speeches, lie is a sound, practical, clear
headed man—with no sort of fancy clap
trap about him. Just the sort of a man to
show up the rottoness, corruption and bad
faith of the leaders of the Democratic party.
Change of Day of Publication.
The next number of the Serai-Weekly
Citizen will not appear till Saturday morn
ing, and thereafter, our days of publication,
for this edition, will be Wednesday and Sat
urday of each week. The Weekly Citizen
will be published as usual, every Friday
morning.
Tlit> Ll-eotiou.
The election in North Carolina has re
sulted, as fnr as heard from, in the follow
ing elections for Congress : Ist district, W.
N. H. Smith, (opp.,) 566. majority over 11.
M. Shaw, (dem.); 2d district, Thomas
Ruffin, (dein.); 3d district, Warren Wins
low, (dem.); 4th district, L. O’B. Branch,
(dem.,) by 670 majority over L. B. San
ders; sth district, John A. Gilmer, (opp.,)
re-elected by increased majority : 6th dis
trict, J. M. Leach, (opp.); 7th district,
Burton Craige, (dem.); Bth district unheard
fro nr
sth District.
An Opposision meeting in Chattooga,
Aug 2d, passed a resolution to support Col.
James R. Gamble for Congress in the sth
District.
Death of Judge Underwood.
Judge Wm. H. Underwood, of Atlanta,
died suddenly at Marietta, on Friday last.—
lie was the father of the Hon. J. W. 11. Un
derwood, of Rome, Ga. He was about 80
years of age.
Look Out.
The Atlanta American advertises a man
by the name of Alexis S. Foote, who lias
I been getting money from the I. O. (>. Fra
ternity, on the strength of a card from Te
lulali Lodge, No. 33, Wisconsin. The said
lodge has published a “warning notice”
against the deceitful practices of said Alexis
Smith Foote.
—t t->
Another Richmond in tho Field.
Wo notice that William Milton Potter, of
j Early county, is out as an independent can
didate for Congress iri the 2d District. He
runs upon the “State Rights aud re-opening
tlie African slave trade” questions. This
makes four candidates now up for Congress
in that District—Crawford, (Dem.:) Doug
las, (Opp.;) Both unc, (Free Trade and Direct
Taxation,) and Potter as above indicated.
Another Argument for Opening the
Slave Trade.
The Atlanta American of Saturday gives
an account of a sale of negroes, at McDon
ough, Ga , on last sale day, which goes to
show the necessity of re-opening the Foreign
Slave Trade. Twenty-eight negroes brought
522,309, or an average of 8706 a piece. One .
boy, Held hand, 18 years of age, sold for
$1,640.
No chance for poor men to get African i
laborers at such prices .’
Anti Berrien.
Asa matter of courtesy and justice, we j
give place to the communication of “Anti-
Berrien,” in reply to “Berrien,” in our pa
per of week before last. We do not think,
however, that lie has given a correct inter
pretation of the contract between the Pres
ident and the Colonization Society as to the
■schooling of the African negroes of the Echo.
We do not think the cuter manages of that
society are benevolent enough to offer to
school the negroes free, unless they charged
enough for the other service to make a good
fat job of the whole, schooling included !
But whether that T>e so or not, tho language
of the President’s message showed clearly
that he thought schooling the negroes to be
a part of the contract with the society.
Hen. A. H. Stephens—A Blstattmeat (Wreeted.
The Savannah News in noticing a meeting
1 of the Democracy in Jefferson county, says
that it was resolved to tender Hon. A. H.
Stephens “a complimentary dinner, irre
spective of parties,” Ac. It is not usual, we
believe, for one party to tender a dinner in
the name of all parties. We do not know
where the News received its authority to say
“irrespective of parties we happen to be
well informed of the fact of the Opposition
proposing to the Democrats to join in the
compliment to Mr. Stephens, and were re
fused. It is therefore, a one-sided affair, and ,
not worthy of Mr. Stephens’ notice.
A Political Bombshell.
Nature made Henry A. Wise of Virginia a
‘■'slouch' ’•—that is, we mean a slovenly person
in dress. But she made? him an ambitious slo
ven. She gave him talents too, ot tho tirst ol
der—but lefi him to sort and arrange them.—
Trained iu the school of Democracy about ihe
limo of its becoming modernized by the intro
duction of every deseiter from other parties,
with principles as loos© as thimselvea, —Mr
Wise took as little pride in being chaste and
; honorable in his principles, as ho did in the ap
pearance ofhis dress, He is therefore sloven
ly in person and principle. He is a fair speci
men, and fit representative of a largo class of
j Democratic leaders. Il is not to be wondered
at, then, that he should have written the fol
lowing letter, (to whom is not known) which
is one of the most bare-faced things that has
j come to light in this age of Democratic base
i ness and corruption. So mo Democratic papers
sraurtring under the exposure of their party
leader pretend to believe it a fogery.
But there is no doubt of its authenticity; it is
presumed that some false friend has betrayed
I him to f-vor the Douglass faction. Mast un
| f< ruinate is it for the country it is governed by
j such men and such a party ;
Richmond, July 13, 1859.
Dear Sir : —I thank you for yours of the Sth
instant. I have apprehended all along that the
Tammany Regency would carry a united dele
gation from Now York to Charleston. For
! whom? Douglass, I kmw, is conlident ; but
j you may rely ou it that Mr. Buchanan is him
self r candidate for re-nomination, and all his
patronage and power will be used to disappoint
Douglass and all other aspirauts. Our only
chauec is to orgauiza by districts, and either
whip the enemy or send two delegations.
II that is done or not done, we must still rely
on a united South. A united South will depend
on a united Virginia, and I pledge you iliat she
at least, shall be a unit. Virgiuia a unit,
and persistent and lirm ou a sound platform of
protection to all persons of popular reruns
, squatter sovereignty, she must rally to liersup
f ort all the South. Tho South cannot adopt
Mr.* Douglass’ platform. It is a short cut to
all the ends of Black Republicanism. Ho then
I will kick up his heels. If ho does or don’t, bo
can’t be nominated, and tho main argument
against his nomination is that . ho can t
be elected if nominated. If he runs an
independent candidate and Seward runs,
and I am nominated at Charleston, I can
beat them both. Or if squatter sovereignty is
a plank of the platiorm at Chharleston, and
Douglass is nominated, the South will ruu an
independent candidate on protection principles,
aud run tho election into the House. Whore,
then, would Mr. Douglass be ? The lowest
candidate on the list. If I have the popular
strength you suppose, it will itself fix the nom
ination. Get that, and I am confident of suc
cess.
Hon. F. Wood is professedly and really, I
believe a Iriond, and ol course I would, iu good
faith, be glad of his influence, and would do
nothing to imp,air it, and could not justly re
ject his kind aid ; but you may rely upon it
that I am neither completely, nor at all, in the
hands of Mr. Wood, or any other man who
breathes. He has always been friendly to me
and I to him, but always ou lair aud independ
ent terms. Thero is nothing in our relations
which should keep aloof any friend of either.
He knows as well as one can tell him, that his
main influence is in the ei’y if New York, and I
judge what yon say ofhis country ii fl ieuce, is
correct. But I am counting all the tune with
out New York, and don’t lear the result. lam
1 depending solely upon open position of princi
ple, independent of ail cliques, and defying all
comers. We will overwhelm opposition iu Vir
ginia, and her vote will be conservative and
national.
At all events, I shall always be glad to hear
from you, and am yours truly.
Henry A. Wise.
W on't Canvunn Togelher.
J. J. Jones and A. R. Wright, Esqrs., the
i rival candidates lor Congress in the Flighth
District, have published separate appoint
ments for addressing the people. Mr. Wright,
in a communication to the Augusta Dis
patch, states that ho invited Mr Jones to a
conference for the purpose of arranging
joint discussions between them, hut that the
latter declined attending, and published bl
own appointments. Mr. AV. will not, there
fore, attend Mr. J.’s appointments, but ex
presses *h is anxiety still to arrange joint ap
pointments with him. It being apparent
that Mr. Jones does not desire joint discus
sions, it is hardly probable that any will l*e
agreed upon. We are sorry to learn from
Mr. Wright’s letter that his business in court
will compel him to withdraw from the stump
early in September.— Col. Enquirer.
We have some slight inkling of the
fact that Mr. Jones, after he had made
haste to publish his appointments before
fore Col. Wright should catch him, proposed
to his dreaded antagonist not to discuss at
all . Poor Jenks! That was showing the
white feather too soon ! Was he afraid that
the Cincinnati Platform would not carry
him safely through ? Or w r as he afraid to
tell the people that he was a Douglas man,
with his abominable Squatter Sovereignty,
Territorial legislation doctrines, Ac. ? You’d
do well, friend Jenks, to keep out of the
reach of even the wind of “Our Ran?e,”
you would ! with such doctrines as you
hold.
Hypocrisy.
The notorious F. P. Blair, of Missouri,
has lately delivered himself of a speech at
St. Joseph's which is charaeterizod by the
Republican press generally as a Republican
speech. Ho is said to have com” out strong
i for free soil, and in favor of “introducing
j Republican principles into slave States.”
We have not heard that he has emancipated
his own slaves; nor is it reported that he
i refuses to accept the wages of his eighteen
or tweniy stout hard-worked negroes.— Chi-
I cago Times.
That’s Democracy all •over —always pro
cessing one thing and doing another. Is it
not one of the most astonishing things in the
world, that the South is persuaded to tru-t in
a party which has furnished nine-tenths of .
all the traitors, North and South, who have
had a hand in'swindling her out of her
rights ? The father of this contemptible
spawn, was one of the most profligate and
unscrupulous scamps that ever taught ras
cality to the Democratic party. The late
Dixon H. Lewis, -of Alabama, used to call
him the “galvanized corpse.” The writings
of Francis P. Blair, in the Washington City
Globe, during Gen’l Jackson’s administra
tion, and years after, did more to demoral
ize this country, politically and socially,
j than all the writings of all the Infidels j
! that ever existed.
Hew HaMHiie Journal.
ATe greet with pleasure the appearance of 1
anew Masonic paper, entitled “ Voice of
1 Masonry, uml Tidings from the Craft,” pub- i
lisheil at Louisville, Ky., in large quarto ;
form, aud in beautiful style, and edited by j
Robert Morris, in chief, with Dr. Alfred
Creigh, Grand Recorder ot the Grand En
campment of Pennsylvania, and John Ran
som, as Associate Editors. Several distin
guished official members of the Fraternity
in this country, and England and Ireland,
are assistant editors and correspondents. It
is publsshed semi-monthly at $1 per annum,
payable in advance. We heartily wish it all
success, and readily place it upon our ex- .
change li-t.
Lamar, our Minister to Central
America, arrived at New York by the
Northern Light, on the 31st ult., accompan
ied by Mr. Wells, his secretary; Manuel M j
Mallerino, Ex-President of New Granada;
John S. Stephenson and Chas. S. E. J ones,
bearers of despatches for Washington from
the U. S. Delegations in Chili and New
Granada.
Another New Paper. —Messrs. Eberhart j
& Hutchinson have started anew paper in
Elberton, Elbert county, Ga., called “ The
Star of the Soulh.” It is published weekly
at $2 per annum—and is Independent in
Politics, but extremely Southern in its pro- j
divides. Good luck to you gentlemen 1 j
—~ 1 i
The Behtn and! the rfote.
It is one of the hardest things in this life
to see ourselves as others see us. The Beam
in our own eye neve* IrcubUs ua; hut the
Mote iu our neighbor’s i. a source of contin
ual i.nnoya.ice. Oar neighbor doesthe same
things that we do. but it does not become
l him so welt to do it—it don't look so well in
him. A\ hat we do, and ihe way we do it
i>as a better appearance in us than in our
neighbor. Our hat is a little neater, our coat
tits us better, and the mud on our boots does
not look quite so bad, as the mud on our
i neighbor’s boots. And it is found that this
-ame feeling extends even to our politics.
Here are our friends, for instance, of t) !e
Columbus Daily Times, we don’t doubt but
they appear to themselves as very clever
politicians—but they do not see themselves
as others see them. Hear them speak of
their neighbors, and you will soon see they
feel they are better than their neighbors—
’ Listen:
i ‘‘The Opposition. —Under th s compre
hensive term is included every party, clique
and faction in polities. All these parties,
cliques and factions, agree in one thing, and
;n one only; a wild and savage wai fare upon
tue Democracy ; in all else ihey are as wide
asunder as the poles.”
Now that is the opinion of there clever
gentlemen of the Timet, of us, their Oppo
sition neighbors; and arrange as it may ap-
I pear, had we have been required to speak of
l them, as Democrats, v/e should have said
the ideutical same words of them. We
should have said that the Democratic party
J was composed of “cliques and factious,”
and these “cliques and factions agree in one
i thing and one only,—a wild and savage”
clinging to the spoils ! “In all else they are
as wide asunder as the poles! ’ Really in
in truth, we don't think ourselves as bad as
the leaders of the Democratic party. We
j do not.
Something for the Jones’ Family.
The Petereburgh Ya., Express thus traces
the genealogy of the extensive and respectable
Jones Family, in a biographical sketch of the
famous Italiiu Warrior Garibaldi 1 We fear*
the effect of this announcement at the present
| time, as it may give undue advantage to our
friend Jenks in the Sth District, over his com
petitor. Kanse Wright 1 But still we do not
; wish to deprive tho former of any legitimate
1 claims Le may have by family counexion- with
1 the great and noble. We therefore give him
the benefit to which the fact of eon sin ship with
| tho famous Garibaldi fnirly entitles him, ami
can only say to “Ranse, ’ to look out, f.r then
are “breakers ahead.” AYe believo it is pe
culiar to the Garibaldi rec3 to conduct their
campaigns, in a sort of guerilla fashion !
Garibaldi is a descendant of Mr. John John
ston Jones, who died at his residence in Blund
ford, aoout the year 1767. It is a fact that a
beautiful young daughter of this Mrs. Jones
eloped from Petersburg about the year 1752
with an Italian tight rope dancer named Ga
ribaldi, who having amassed an immense for-
I tune in this country, relumed to his own dear
j native Italy, where a large family and unalloy-
I ed Llicity blessed the union between himself
’ and his beautiful young Blandford bride. Mrs.
: Garibaldi corresponded with her father until
the day of his death, and letters subsequently
sent over by the children of Mrs. G. leave
but little doubt of the tact that the warrior
Garibaldi, now in Italy, is a direct descendant
j of the Jones family, so well and favorably
! known in Blandiord during the first halfct the
past century.
Hon. R. P. Trippe, Representative
from the 3rd District, in the last Congress,
is a candidate for the State Senate from the
county of Monroe. Mr. Seward, the Repre
sentative from the Ist District, also iu the
last Congress, we understand, will be a can
didate for the Senate, from the county of
Thomas, non. T. B. King, ex member <f
Congress, is a candidate for the Senate, from
(lie county of Glynn.
Tlie f*l’iiM'iple of Intervention.
The following interesting extract from :t
letter, we have been kindly allowed to pub
lish, in relation to this doctrine, is from the
pen of an accomplished gentleman, and able
writer, who has contributed inanv excellent
b-tters to several of our Southern Journals:
Petersburg, A’a., July 27, ‘59.
Mr. A. If. Wyche :
Dear Sir:— * * * * *
“The ground my letters cover is that
iris not only the duty (and of course within
the competency) of the Federal Legislature
to supply all nceiled legislation for protect
i ing property in the Territories, hutespeeial
j ly its duty to do so when in the aci of ad
mitting a Suite from the territorial condi
i tinn. It seems to be plain that it must be
j so. Suppose when Texas, an independent
; State, sought to l>e, or was willing to be an
| noxod, she had presented a constitution for
her government which disallowed slavery,
would any Southern man have voted for htr
annexation ? I think every man in the
South would have voted no. The main de
sire and object of the South was to enlarge
! the slave power. Os course, if her eonsti
’ tution had disallowed slavery, that desired
! object would have been defeated, and the
South would not have been more than indif
ferent to her annexation without slavery.—
It was only when in the act of annexing
Texas, that Congress had any v oice as to
her institutions, and can it lie allowed that
Congress, charged, as all the South agrees
Congress is, with the duty of protecting
slave* against hostile legislation affecting it
as a property, during the Territorial condi
tion, shall cease to extend the protection
needed to save it to its owners, when Con
gress is passing its judgment on the constitu
tion for the new State ? They who deny
the power of Congress to reject a eon.-titu*
fion offered for its acceptance, and which
discriminates against slavery by impairing
and disallowing it to remain there as a pro
perty, assign no reason for a denial of the
(lower and duty of the Federal Legislature
’ to reject said constitution, or to accept Iton
-1 ly on condition that before the people ot a
’ Territory shall be fully admitted as a State,
they must, in some suitable mode, strike
’ such provisions out of their con-litutior.—
The only reason, I say, which is assigned to
j mv doctrine of intervention in the act ad
mitting a State, is that such interference by
Congress would be an infringment of State
Rights. My reply is two-fold: Ist, It is
no infringement, because the Rights of a
State, whatever they be, have not accrued
until the act of admission is approved by the
President as pnweittod to him by both Hous
es of Congress for his signature; and, sec
ond Iv, That if the people having formed
j their constitution preparatory to admission,
are to be treated already as a State, still they
are subject to the Federal Constitution, and
in making their constitution must maintai:
the provisions of the constitution of the I
- Os consequence, if the provision.- c -
tho proposed State constitution areincu
tliet with the provisions of the federal con
stitution, in respect of persons or proper'u,
there is necessarily such a departure ■■■
; the fundamental principles of our federative
system, as would make it imperative on Con*
I gross to refuse the admission of such people
as a State, under such a constitution. The
exercise of the power claimed, instead of
infringing State rights, would be an act in
support of the rights of the slave States.”
*****
Yours, truly,
R. S. COLLIE R-