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From the Sivannah R ‘pubi.an.
The Atlanta Bank.
In oar paper of the 16th inst. we pre
sented to our readers some statements of
the condition and prospects of this Bank,
as they were detailed to us by Mr. S. C.
Higginson, its President. In doing this,
we did not verify any facts stated by Mr.
Higginson. Having published on the
21st of May, a pretty caustic article a
bout this bank, from the Chronicle ($• Sen
tinel, wo thought it but justice to Mr. llig
ginson to present his statements to the
people, that they might judge for them
selves, of the degree of credit to which the
Bank entitled.
The Chronicle & Sentinel bases upon
these statements, some remarks which we
append below. Like its editor, we have
no interest, direct nor indirect, in this In
stitution, not common to every citizen;
and if it be the deliberate intention of any
parties to use the charter “for fraudulent
purposes,” we will promptly and with
pleasure expose any such intention, when
made apparent'to us. At present, we must
confess, that notwithstanding Mr. Hig
ginsou’s statements to us, we regard with
much suspicion the circumstances connect
ed with thorganization of this Bank, and
the whole history of its charter, so far as
they have been developed. And w r e
would here remark, that if a fraud is per
petrated upon the people, through the in
strumentality of this charter, the corpora
tors and original proprietors of it, cannot
escape the charge of having participated
in such fraud.
In order that the public may be advised
of the alledgcd circumstances and repre
sentations, under which this charter was
applied for and obtained from the Legis
lature, and also the names of the original
proprietors, we annex the preamble, and a
part of the first section of the act of in
corporation, as follows:
“Whereas a number of persons in the
city of Atlanta and its vicinity, interested
in the welfare of that place, have capital,
which they are desirous of employing in
facilitating its business, advancing its in
terests, lessening its- dependence on the
Banks of other places, by whose orders
discounts are controlled, and often stopped
when they most wanted and needed,
in prder to purchase the produce brought
tto this market, and owing to the accessi
bility of said city, by means of the many
TRailroads which converge at this place, a
Bank would be a public convenience.
“Section Ist. Be it enacted, That John
F. Mims, Wm. Ezzard, E. W. Holland,
J. O. McDaniel Clark Howell, J. Nor
cross, B. 0. Jones, J. A. Hayden, Rich
ard-Peters, Wm. M. Butt, Lemuel P.
Grant, Ezekiel Mason, James A. Collins,
Joseph Winship, Barrington King, Willis
F. Menifee, C. W. Arnold, John D. Stell,
T. M. Jones, N. L. Angier, James P.
Humphries, Stephen Terry, J. Thomp
*lson, and J. F. Loj r d, and such persons as
they may procure to take stock under this
act be, and they are hereby incorporated
and made a body corporate, under the
name and style of the “Atlanta Bank”
with banking privileges, located at Atlan
ta, and so shall continue,” &e.
We repeat, that If, under the circum
stances and representations contained in
the preamble of this act, these corporators
did not use and employ the “capital” which
they said they had, for the purposes there
in stated, bat have obtained these char
tered privileges and sold them to irres
ponsible third parties as a speculation,
they have falsified their representations
and have “used deceitful means aud artful
practices” whereby the public may be de
frauded; aud thersfore they cannot escape
the indignant rebuke of the people, if they
suffer this charter to be used for “fraudu
lent purposes.” We then say to the peo
ple, beware!
In remarking upon our article the Chron
icle tj* Sentinel says:
Before proceeding, however, it may not
be improper to remark, that we know
none of the parties owning stock in the
Bank of Atlanta, (except Mr. Higginson,
the President, who yesterday called on us
and introduced himself,) and as we have
no interest direct nor indirect (except that
common to every citizen J in any Banking
institution in the State, we have no object
to subserve, but to warn the people a
gainst what we believe to be a deliberate
purpose to defraud them by mean3 and
through the agency of this Bank.
It is not remarkable, that the inter
view with Mr. Higginson should have con
firmed all our former suspicions of the de
liberate design of George Smith & Cos. to
usp the bank charter for fraudulent purpo
ses, while they entirely removed all suspi
cion from the mind of the Republican; it is
only an evidence of the different impress
ions made upon different minds by the
same facts.
Mr. Higginson seems to be an amiable,
pleasant, plausible man, and it is not to be
supposed that he would not “assure” the
Republican, as he did us, that the opera
tions of the Bank of Atlanta would be in
accordance with the “best and strictest
rules of banking,” in short altogether le
gitimate. Os course he would say all this,
(and in charity, we sincerely hope he
thinks so, and means to do so as far as he
can J for no sane man would go into a
strange community, or even one in which
he was known, and proclaim his purpose
to commit a fraud upon the people.
Let us then see how far Mr. Higginson
can control the action of the bank, even)
supposing him determined to act as he
proposes, and to ascertain his power, it
will be necessary to briefly review the
short but significant history of this institu
tion.
It was chartered by the last legislature,
the name of one of the corporators (per
haps more) having been introduced into
the charter without his knowledge, privity
or consent. A year or more after the
charter was granted, George Smfth & Cos.
of Chicago, Illinois, suddenly appear at
Atlanta, just at the time the subscription
for the stock was to be made, and when
the books were opened, they took all but
ten shares. A board of directors is formed,
not one of whom, Mr. Higginson Storms
us, lives in Atlanta, and they elect it Pre-
Bident and Cashier, neither of whom reside
in or are known there, and the first issue
of their bills is made before any officer of
the Bank has reached Atlanta, in Chica
go, Illinois, and other points in Wisconsin
and the Northwest. Mr. Higginson is
just now on his way to Atlanta to” com
mence the banking business there, weeks,
perhaps months, after the bills of the bank
nave been circulated in Illinois and Wis
consin. “Smith & Cos. own all the stock
but ten shares,” these ten shares are owned
by persons who constitute the bos.rd of
directors. * Mr. Higginson, the President,
owns one share. The board of directors, 1
therefore, are tub meke creatures of
Smith & Cos., whom they can make and
uumake by a nod or vote; they are there
fore, compelled to do the bidding of Smith
Cos. or lose their places, and they may be
parties to the contemplated fraudulent use
of the Bank charter. Mr. Higginson, too,
who only owns one share, comes to Atlan
ta, not because of any interest he has in
the bank, or other property, for he lias
none there, but simply to obtain his salary I
as President, which Smith & Cos. agree to j
pay him. lie is, therefore, virtually an 1
employee of Smith & Cos., and must do j
their bidding or lose his place. What
power, then, has he to control the bank
within legitimate bounds. The board of
direction, not one of whom lives in Atlan
ta or have any interest there, will control
the institution, so long as they conform to
the requirements of Messrs. Smith & Cos.,
and when they disobey, they must give
place to more obedient creatures.
This is a brief and fair statement of the
state of things according to the admissions
of Mr. Higginson to us. It is, therefore,
clearly not within his power to pursue a
legitimate banking business, were he so
disposed, if Smith & Cos. will otherwise.
And to show that they entertain no such
purpose, it is ouly necessary to state that,
if such was their desire they could easily
have obtained a charter under the General
Banking Law of Illinois, which authorizes
any man to bank who deposites the proper
securities with the State Treasurer or the
Comptroller.
Fayette Ratification Meeting.
Fayetteville, June 21, 1853.
According to previous notice, a respect
able portion of the Democracy assembled
at the Courthouse, in Fayetteville, to rat
ify the proceedings had in the two late De
mocratic Conventions at Newnan and
Milledgeville.
The meeting was organized by calling
the Hon. J. I. Whitaker to the Chair and
Jssee L. Blalock requestad to act as Se
cretary, after which able, lengthy and elo
quent addresses were deliverod by Messrs.
James F. Johnson and V. A. Gaskill.
The following resolutions were then of
fered by Y. A. Gaskill, which were unani
mously adopted:
Whereas it is good for us to express
our opinions in primary assemblages of the
people, both concerning the National polity
and State affairs, to keep always in our
memory the cardinal doctrines of our party
as well as to choose and support our pub
lic officers, who faithfully execute the
trusts committed unto them—
1. Be it therefore Resolved, That we
still retain undiminished confidence in the
integrity and wisdom of the administration
of Franklin Pierce.
2- Resolved, That we rejoice in the re
union of the just now divided Democracy of
Georgia and sincerely hope that the reign
of discord is all over, and that at our next
general election the Democracy of our
State will march hand in hand to the bal
lot box, forgetting past dissensions in the
good old ways of the Democratic faith.
3. Resolved, That the nominee of this
Goagressional district is worthy of our
confidence and shall havo our support.
4. Resolved, That the Convention just
adjourned at Milledgeville have acted no
bly, done the work assigned them and
have given the Democracy of Georgia a
standard bearer, in our next campaign,
worthy our foemen’s sternest steel, and if
our opponents desire a combat in the po
litical arena, to try the temper of our lea
der and weapons, or contest his views with
those of his adversary, we tender to them,
in advance, with honest pride, Herschel Y.
Johnson, a Democrat, a patriot and states
man of whom we are- not ashamed, and
with him the piatforjn and resolutions of
said Convention as otir political creed.
On motion of James F. Johnson it was
ordered that the proceedings of this meet
ing be published in the Georgia Banner,
and Jeffersonian.
The meeting then adjourned.
JOHN I. WHITAKER, Chra’n.
Jesse L. Blalock, Seer’y.
European and American Agitation.
The energy with which the abolition- j
ist at-home and abroad attracts general
attention- Prof. Stowe is laboring to
convince the Engliah capitalist and abo
litionist to do without “slave-grown cot
ton,” and several of the Brtish papers are
trying to demonstrate the practicability
of growing cotton in ludia, Africa, and
Australia. Meanwhile the domestic agi
tators take up the same idea, and elabor
ate it according to the most approved
standard of fanaticism. France is soon
to be appealed to by Mr. and Mrs. Stowe,
and a sort of moral crusade is to be a
roused in the diffierent monarchies of
Europe against the peace of the Ameri
can Union. We have already seen the
nobility of England embarking under the
lead of abolition champions; and doubtless
before many months have elapsed, such
model monarchsas Francis Joseph of Aus
tria, ahd Ferdinand of Naples, will have
enlisted their very pious and humane
sympathies on the side of the author and
abvocates of Uncle Tom. Nothing short
of a general war among the despots and
rulers of the Old World will prevent the
success of their plans, so far as the ex
penditure of good wishes for abolitionism
and bitter curses against the United
States are concerned. The movement is
1 curious and suggestive; and though not
‘quite so formidable as a declaration of
war, it is valuable as showing the vigi
lance and virulence of the foreign and
domestic enemies of our institutions.
Asa stimulant to those who are more
directly engaged in this labor of love,
Groat Britain is appearently trying to in
duce the Spanish Government to liberate
the slaves of Cuba, so ns to make of that
island a sort of headquaters for operations
against this Union, while her echoes up
on these shores labor with desperation
to excite servile insurrection among the
negroes bond and free, in th southern
Slates.
Such is the aspect of agitation, as con
fined to the more violent farmtics at
home and to their transatlantic masters.
In the meanwhile, what is the spirit of
tne whig press of the United Statesf So
far from attempting to arouse the people
to a sense of the real designs of our for
eign and domestic opponents, they have
combined in an effort against an adminis
tration which is the surest bulwark of
the South after the co-nstitution, and the
most energetic instruroeoi in the promo
tion of tranquility among the people of
the beloved Union. To such organs as
these, the question assumes a chief in
terest, inasmuch as it inspires the hope
that it may be used to overthrow an ad
ministration so esseutitl to the peace and i
prosperity of the people, and to erect a |
dynasty founded upon the principles o
the obolitionists, and publicly dedicated
to the success of their deep-seated aud
wide-spread schemes.— Exchange.
Rail Rod Meeting.
The Board of Directors of the Carroll
ton and Newnan Railroad, convened at
Newnan, Coweta county, on the 21st of
June, pursuant to public notice, R. R.
Cuyler, President, presiding, U. B. Wil
kinson was requested to act as Secre
tary.
Present—lsaac Scott, J. B. Reid J. F.
Tomlinson, A. Mandeville, Capt. U. J.
Sargent, H. P. Wooten, B. M. Long,
VY. Mailer.
On motion it was
Resolved, That Henry Funnel and J.
N. Simmons he appointed Directors in
place of J. W. Garth and. E. P. Daniel,
declined*
The following nmonnts to aid u sur
veying the Railroad route from Griffin,
Ga., to Decatur, Ala , reported to have
been subscription:
In SaßPrftti and Macon, $1,500
“ Coweta county, 1,000
“Carroll “ - 1,000
“ Griffin 505
“ Morgan county, Ala., 1,000
On motion of 11. P. Wooten,
Resolved, That R. R. Cuyler, Isaac
Scott and J. N. Simmons be appointed a
committee to engage a suitable engineer
to survey said Rail Road route.
On motion Isaac Scott was appointed
Treasurer of the Board of Directors.
Passed the following resolution.
Resolved, That nil individuals and
committees having the care and charge of
funds raised for defraying the cost of the
survey, be and aie requested to gather
and remit the same at once to Isaac Scott
Treasurei, at Macon, Ga.
On motion, the following gentlemen,
viz: R. R. Cuyler, J. B Reid, R. W.
McCune, H. P. Wooten, A. J. Bugguss,
John Robinson, A. B. Calhoun, John
Ray and J. N. Simmons, were appointed
a committee to apply to the next Legis
lature of Georgia for a charter for said
Railroad, and W. Mailer and Henry Fun
nel of Alabama, together witft such per
sons as they may associate with them, to
seoure from the Legislature of Alabama
a charter to run through that State.
Mr. VV. Mailer, of Alabama, offered
the following resolution:
Resolved, That the contem.dated Rail
road, to run from Griffin, Georgia, to De
catur, Alabama, be called the South At
lantic-and North Alabama Railroad.
On motion of Dr. Simmons,
Resolved, That the Board of Director.**
meet next in Griffin, at the call of the
President.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the papers of
Newnan, Griffin, Macon, Savannah, Jack
sonville and Decatur, and that all others
friendly to the project be requested to
copy.
After hearing addresses from Gen. E.
P. Daniel, Mr. R R. Cuyler and others,
the meeting adjourned, subject to the
call of the President.
R. R. CUYLER, President.
U. B. Wilkinson, Sec’ry.
From the following, which we find in
the Newnan Banner , it will he seen that
the Hon. Charles Murphy, who was re
cently slaughtered, by the Southern
Rghts Democracy in the Congressional
convent ion of the Fourth District, will
he an independant candidale.for Congress
He doubtless looks to the whig party of
the District for support. VVe trust he
may never receive it. Col. Murphy ad
vocated the reorganization of the democ
racy, knowing that there was no
principle upon which such a reorganiza
tion could be effected, and trusting his
chance, of a return to Congress, to men
to whom he was bitterly opposed in
1850. He submitted himself to their
power. Ilesubmited his elands to them,
and was uncermoniously thrown aside as
a useless peace of lumber and a disunion
ist was prefered before him What
right has he to complain? Who has he
to blame hut himself. And to what can
he attribute his defeat, but to his own
abandonment of his position as a union
and fraternization with a party
vriili whom, upon principles, he could
not act? It 15 now with an exceedingly
bad grace that he can pcr.v appeal to bis
Union allies for support, WtiO.7) he a
bandoned in hot hast, when, as ho imag
ined, the alliance was no longer prof
fitable. The whigs and union democrats
who has never surrendered himself ,
the Southern Bigots democracy, aad
with him suffer defeat, rather than take
up one who returns to them, because ha
is forced to do it, and by supporting him,
offered a premium for political tergiver
sation and in consistency.— Jour, Mes
senger.
By private advices from New Orleans,
we learn that the steamer which left for
Vera Cruz on the Ist took out an agent
from New York, whose object was to make
a bargain with Santa Anna for the sale of
thq famous lot of Law muskets, and to
furnish other warlike materials, powder,
&c. We further learn that this gentle
man was prepared to offer Santa Anna all
he might want in that way for the equip
ment of an army of 100,000 men—the
matter of payment or security for it, he,
the agent was to see about. His instruc
tions were to be accommodating if there
was good will in Santa Anna, and to close
the bargain if there was anything substan
tial tendered in payment or barter.
The source from which we obtain this
information is reliable.— N. Y. Freeman's
Journal.’
The Tune Changed.
The whig press us Georgia hud raised
so loud a lamentotion over the presum
tion of Union Democrats, that we had just
taken out our handkerchief to cry, when
their tune changed and they waxed warm
and seemed angry at the change which
they have originated that Howell Cobb,
in consideration of his alleged support of
Johnson for Governor, is to receive the
the tote of the party for United States
Senator.
Realy the whig party is hard to please.
They are angry that the Union democrats
are not elevated to. every office, and out
raged at the sugostion that one of them
will received the vote of the party for
an office.
Southern Railroad. — I’he citizens of
Vicksburg have voted to tax themselves
$160,000 for the purpose of continuing
the Southern Railroad, from Brandon, its
present terminus in Mississippi, eastward
to Greensboro, and Selma, in Alabama.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
griffin, june 30,1853.
FOR GOVERNOR
HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON.
OR CONGRESS
DAVID J. BAILEY, Third District.
W. B. W. DENT, Fourth District.
Hon. H. V. Johnson.
We publish to-day, the letter of this
gentleman accep’iug the nomination ten
dered him by the late Democratic Con
vention. .This document speaks for it-
be read with proud satis
faction by the many thousands of his ad
mirals and supporters throughout the
Slate. It is every way worthy the men
and the party whose standard bearer he
is. It is emphatically multum in parvo.
It embraces every subject, which it was
necessary to notice in such a document.
Buhl, frank and perspicuous, in the few
est wc ,T, ds possible, this letter affords a
clear index to the principles upon which
the present canvass is to be conducted.
It may truly be said to be a model letter,
as Judge Johnson is indeed, a model can
didate.
Hon. Charles Murphy.
We regret, very much, the coarse which
this gentieman has thought proper to pur
sue, in reference to the pending congress
ional election in the 4th district. Having
submitted his claims to a convention of the
Democratic party of his district, it seems
to jus that he is esto{iped, by his own act,
from resisting the action of that convention.
Wc are yet to learn that any fraud or un
fairness was practiced, either in getting up
the convention, in its organization or in its
mode of Ao&on. The object of party con-
ioo reconcile difficulties, dispose
of the claims of riVal candidates for office,
and„ harmonize party action so as to se
cure success in the elections. In doing
this, disappointment to some is inevitable.
But we hold it to be the duty of every De
mocrat, when tits voice of his party speaks
through its convention, to obey that voice,
whether his favorite is the chosen one or
not. Every Democrat who is such, from
principle, will pursue this course. When
a different result follows, the object of
holding conventions is defeated and party
organization at an end. We are not of
those who are resolved to make war upon
Col. Murphy. This we shall not do, unless
he abandons Democratic principles aud
throws himself into the arms of Whiggery.
We look upon his course more in sorrow
than in anger, and truly hope that he will
review the ground he has taken, and place
himself in line with his former friends and
do the good old cause, as he has
so valiantly done in days of yore.
TChg 3oa. M. J. “Welburn.
We m fell regret to leant from the Col
umbus Times ihat the Hon. Gentleman
whose name heads this paragraph, declines
permitting his friends to use his name in
the Congressional nominating Convention
of the Second District.
Judge Weibura has borne many a lau
rel from the bloody battle-ground of the
Democracy. We know of no man, who
could mow* effectually harmonize the past
estrangements, and bear aloft more suc
cessfully the Stars and Stripes of our proud
and ancient banner. Such a nomination
would fail as a spell upon our countrymen,
it would be a balm and a victory.
WSiig; CoJivsnticn.
On Wednesday the ?2d inst. the Whig
tdi*.s Union, alias Conservative Men, alia?
i Republican Citizens party, assembled in
Miiitfdgeviile for the purpose of nomina
ting a candidate for Governor. About
half the counties in the Stale were rep
resented. Hon. Robert Toombs and Hon.
A. were delegates, and, of
course bad fbings their own way. The
old line Whigs who stood up to the an
cient land marks of the party, and sup
posed the regular Whig nominee for
President in the late election, had but a
poor showing. Charles J. Jenkins, tho’
having run on tho ticket, with Mr. Web
ter,aa the candidate for Vice President,
and contributed largely to the overwhel
ming defeat of Gen. Scott, was nomina
ted, without a respectable show of oppo
sition. But it could not have been
otherwise where Toombs and Stephens
ruled the hour. So far as Mr. Jenkins’
character as a man is concerned, we have
nought to sny in opposition. He is a
gentleman and a scholar, and possessed
of many virtues. But as a politician* we
have many thing? to say in opposition to
his election, which we shall take occa
sion to do freely and frankly, from time
to time as circumstances may render ne
cessary.
Travel Accommodation,
We observe by advertisement, that the
indefati tof the State
Road hits smarted a daily Extra Train
from Marietta to Atlanta and back the
same day, baying Atlanta at 6P. M. and
arriving at Marietta at a quarter past 8.
By this arrangement passengers can start
at Macon, on the accommodation train at
8 A. M. and go through to Marietta the
same day by early candle lighting.
liion for the Brunswick Road. —The
New York Post says: “ The Georgia and
Florida Railroad Company have received
advices by the Pacific, from their Presi
dent. Mr. Senator Foot, that he has suc
cessfully negotiated the bonds of the
company at par for railroaj iron; which
has already been shipped, and is oa the
way to Georgia. ’
‘The Convention o i Republican Citizens.”
This conservative republican filius nul- \
lius convention has just risen, and after a i
travail of four and twenty hours, their la- \
hois consisted in purloining from the Dem
cratic text book a couple of its favorite
paragraphs of faith, to-wit: one in oppo
sition to internal improvements by the
General Government, and the other in
opposition to a corrupt and prodigal outlay
ot the public treasury.
Neither of these two principles were
ever heretofore indoctrinated into the
Whig platform, or advocated by any of
its members whose position gave tone to
their organization.
Thus, yon perceive, that the long
vaunted and ancient platform of Wkigge
ry, upon which they have achieved occa
sional 1 Victories and many defeats, has j
been openly repudiated and trampl'd un - j
dtrfoot as false and exploded doctrines, or
hopeless mediums to future power and
distinction. And no sooner are they
driven from one spurious position, their j
restive, reckless condition seeks some
other expedient, with the hope thet if it
is not more successful than the first, it
cannot be more disastrous. And in order
to conceal the deformity of their position
from a guileless Democracy, and to in
duce those who had recently temporarily
acted with them, they present conspicu
ously, these two items of the Democratic
creed as their eountersign, with the hope
it may decoy them from their true alle
giance into their rotten bastard organiza
tion. What a marvelous commentary i*
this upon the pastl What a lesson for
the future! That magnificent and noble
structure of Whiggery, conceived, ma
tured and consummate)} by the joint wis
dom and patriotism of Clay, Webster,
Harrison, Fillmore, and their numerous
tribe of co-workers , fizzled ofT, by a petit
larceny, into two slabs from the Demo
cratic platform—against which they had
taught them to swear eternal hostility.
What is the moral of this abandonment
of the old Whig ship, and lighting upofi
the spurs and rafts adrift from the refit
tings of tha Democracy? Is itr,to oppose
the administration of Gen. Pierce? This
cannoit be. They have-, in full and swell
ing tones, pronounced his policy as the
daguerreoli/pe of the model admini&tration
of Millard Fillmore*. They have declared
their approval of his foreign and domestic
policy; and the only paint thst they now
make an issue with the present p*)wers
is, that the administration has not made
every appointment within hfi's control
suitable and favorable to Southern viewi,
upon the slavery question. Bow could
this be possible, unless Gen. Pierce wag
to withhold his patronage from the entire
Northern Democracy, and who warmly
and enthusiastically rallied to his support
in common with the South. All who
stood fairly and firmly upon the National]
Platform, have equsrl claim* upon the]
Government r and the President was bound
to believe they would act it out, until
they should give him some subsequent
reason to forfeit bis confidence.
But what a ludicrous thought I Scott
men, Webster men, lampooning Franklin
Pierce for misplacing the honors and offi
ces of the Government upon men un
sound and anti-Southern: when they di
, vided upon their respecter* candidates
for the Presidency, charging each other’s
. leader with freesoil proclivities. What a
titter for the monkeys!
No, gentleman, thesecensurers of the
Government are only alarmed at the
mighty hold that the President so justlj
has upon the confidence and love of the
American people. It may be ominous
! ‘t!ial their days are numbered and that
Othello’s occupation is gone.”
’ They know that the Administrative
stands pledged to maintain and vindicate
tha South in her peculiar institutions,and
that, to oppose this avowal of his initiation
vronld be to strike the dagger into our
own vitidsjjxbd hence this sickly llattery
and fawning sycophancy of his Inaugural
Address , this hypocritical and treacherous
assault upon his appointments.
If Gen. Pierce has chosen agents of
this nation not congenial with our tastes
and predilections, are we to abandon him?
Aae we to make an appointment of one
or two, or three individuals paramount to
those great and predominant principles
that secured us the “Administration, and
which he has so far emphatically illustra
ted? Assuredly not. If so w,e would re
main in no administration long enongh to
install it into office. The gangrene of
mortification and wrecked hopes prey
upon those green hearts that venture so
puny an assault upon the purity and p*-
triotism of a man that towers beyond
their reach, and whose brilliant record 1
finds an echo in the heacts of his coun
trymen .
T!io Sova;mail Republican and Millcdgc
villq Recorder both say they are well,
pleased at the nomination of Judge John
son, yet they have kept up an incessant
and interminable croaking about it ever
since the happy evont. Satisfaction usu
ally begets quiet. We cannot beJievo they
aro overmuch rejoiced, o c tlvey would sub
mit with a bettor grace. We hope, how
ever, they* may survive it, and like Jacob
Faithful, trust for “better luck next tigie.”
This nomination, they are aware, mortga
ges the executive chair for the present.—
But they say the Democrats aro not well
pleased. That may possibly be; appearan
ces are sometimes very deceptive. These
gentleman may have keener optic and au
ricular nerves than we have; wo haver
beard.of seme being so sharp-sighted as tof
see What was not to be seen; but untiljwe
see and hear something of this Democratic
discontent odfsclf; which we have not yet
geeu or heavd, we shall not entertain the
full faith of Abraham in the matter. We
have heard some few, who called them
selves Democrats two or three years ago,
but have not been recognized as such since,
“mouth” about Johnson’s nomination, but
as they were already prepared with stick
and wallet to march over to the Whigs,
no other nomination could have prevented
the elopement. Further than these wor
thy gentlemen, every whole-souled genuine
Democrat appears to be well satisfied.
Third District Convention. |
We copy the following proceedings of i
the Third Congressional District Conven- 1
tiou from the Columbus Corner Stone, be
ing the first copy we received at this of
fice, which came to hand on Friday eve
ning last, being the thirteenth day after
the Convention was held.
This Convention met at Forsyth, on
Monday, the 13th of June 1853, for the
purpose, of nominating a Democratic can- ,
didate for Congress, from the Third Con
gressional District. The following coun
ties were represented in the Convention,
to wit:
Bibb—Messrs. Dailey, Newsom, Green,
Speer and Cary.
Houston —Messrs. Pringle and Ilarde
son.
Monroe —Messrs. Pinckard, Cochran,
Lasseter and Poe.
Pike s *—Messrs. Green and Gibson.
Spalding—Messrs. McCuno, Lockhart,
Crittenden.
iTpson—Messrs. Moore and Welborn.
On motion of Alexander M. Speer, Esq.
John Bailey, Esq. of Bibb, was called to
the Chair, and O. C. Gibson, Esq. ap
pointed Secretary.
Mr. Cary offered the following resolu
tion which was adopted:
Resolved, That the convention proceed
to nominate a candidate for the Third
Congressional District by ballot, and that
it take two thirds of the votes cast, to
make a nomination.
Alter two ballottings, Col. David J.
Bailey, of Butts, was unanimously nomi
nated the Democratic candidate for this
District.
On motion of Mr. Speer,
The Chair appointed a committee of three,
to inform Col. Bailey of his nomination,
and Messrs. Speer, Cochran and McCunc,
were appointed that committee.
On motion of Mr. Pringle,
A committee of three were appointed by
the Chair to draft resolutions, and Messrs.
Pringle, Green, of Bibb, and McCuae,
were appointed that committee—who af
ter retiring reported the following pream
ble and resolutions:
Whereas, the. Democratic party of the
Third District, having this day met in con
vention, to nominate a Representative to
and that duty being performed
with s unanimity, which gives promise of
certain success to our cause and candidate,
there remains little else for us to do, than
to reiterate those principles under which
we have so often contended and triumph
ed.
Be it therefore Resolved, That the
principles of the Democratic party, as c
n wanted in Baltimore in 1852, are adopt
ed by this Convention,, and that to acqui
esce In them, is all that is necessary to
constitute a true Democrat.
2. Resolved, That in our nominee, Col.
David J. Dailey, of Butts, we find a man
df irreproachable character, both public
and private, and one in every way entitled
to the support of the Democratic party of
the Third District, With such a candi
date 1 and such principles, we / feel an abi
ding confidence in our cause, and there
fore present them to the public, claiming
only that they should be approved or con
demned, as they may bo found most wor
thy of the one or the other.
On motion of Mr. Newsom, it Was
Resolved, That the report of the com
mittee be adopted by the convention.
On motion of Mr. Lockhart, the Geor
gia Telegraph and Georgia Jeffersonian,
are requested to publish these proceed
ings.
On motion of Mr. Cary, the thanks of
the convention were returned to the Chair
man and Secretary.
The convention then adjourned sine die.
JOHN BAILEY, Ch’ran.
0. C. Ginsox, Sec’ry.
From the Christian Index.
Baptist Priccplee.
Dear Bro. Dagtj. —Permit me, through
the medium of the Index, to remark that
our banner as Baptist,s has ever been un
furled to the breeze in every land, in
every clime where an advocate of our
principles could be found. On the one
side, has been inscribed, one Lord, one
faith, and one Baptism. On the other,
God and liberty, liberty civil and Relig
ious, are principles for which the Baptist
have ever uncompromisingly contended,
especially from the day Roger Williams,
the founder of the denomination in the
United States, to the present time.
It was my happiness but a year or
two since, to witness one of many very
striking demonstrations of this fact.—
It was the celebration of the day that
give birth to our nations greatness, to our
national glory, the birthday of American
independence,, in a plensent village in
our own beloved Georgia, by the array of
children of Baptist parents as a Sabbath
school, with a beautiful little white satin
banaer, neatly painted and trimmed with
scarlet ribbon. On one side, the Bible
aed with these words “Glory to God Tn
the highest; on earth, peace, good will to-
wards men.” On the other, “Liberty,
and religious, 1776.” As remarked
by Dr. Belcher, the Baptists have ever
seemed to have perceived the truth upon
this subject. Whether they derived it
from particular texts, or from the general
principles of the Bible, it is not now for
us to inquire. Their knowledge on this
subject is coeval with their existence as
a distinct people. Religious liberty is a
Baptist watch word, a kind of talisman
which operates like a charm and nerves
i every man for action. Every thing re- •
lating to the history of the Baptist in eve
ry portion of the United States, justified
the testimony of Washington in his reply
to a letter from the Virginia Baptist in
1759, that the denomination have been
throughout America, uniformly and al
most unaminously, the firm friends of
civil liberty and the persevering promot
ers of our glorious revolution. I
\ Involuntary respect goes forth to the(,<
man who brings to light some great anil
useful truth in the sciences or in the arts.
Such were the discoverers of the art of
printing, the power and use of steam,
the true theory of the solar-system. But
what are these in comparison with the
great moral truth which the Baptists have
held forth to the public gaze for ceatu
j ries, a truth without which life would
, be a burden and civil liberty but a mock
ery. Nor is this all, while the Baptists
have always defended tha principles of
religious liberty, they have never viola
ted them. Roger Williams was the first
man to contend, the first who pleaded for
liberty of conscience in the United States
of .\meiica, and who became the pioneer
of religions libeity for the world. By
the first Baptists of this country was the
precious spark of civil liberty kindled
and to them America owes the whole
freedom of her Constitution. To the
Baptists was Thomas Jefferson indebted
for the idea of the mode of our present
happy form ot Government. With the
light before us, we are irresistibly forced
to the conclusion, that the Baptists are
and ever have been, the uncompromis
ing friends of civil and religious liberty.
As such, in the exercise of this principle
they have never been willing to disguise
or secrete from the world their faith or
practice. Their form of church govern
ment is a firm unadulterate democracy,
or purely democratic. They are willing,
yea anxious, that the world should
know, understand, and adopt; their arti
ciea of faith or abstract of principles.
That the world may know what thev
conceive to be the fundamental doctrines
of the gospel, they are and ever have
been, 1 may add, scrupulously particular
to publish them from time to time, as sot
forth by Dr. Stell in the Pastor’s Assis
tant, and various other publications—
That it is their privilege, ihat it is their
right, to publish to the world their Con
fession of Faith, might, wore it necessary
be argued not only from their right to
exercise religious liberty but from their
church sovereignty, nor are they unpre
cedented in this particular. The first
creed of which Buck in his Theological
work gives an account is called the“A
postle’s Creed,” which was a formula or
summary of the christin faith, drawn up
according to Euffinus, by the apostles
themselves, though it is questioned by
some whether or not the apostles wrote
it. Besides this there are several other
ancient forms and scattered remnants of
creeds to be met with in the primitive
records of the church. Ist., The form
opostolieal doctrine collected by “Drigen.
2d., A fragment of a creed preserved by
I’srtullian. 3d., A remnant of a creed
in works of Cyprian. 4th. One by Gre
gory. sth. One by Lucian the martyr.
The creed of the apostolical cons
titutions. Besides these scattered re
mains of the ancient creels there are ex
tant some perfect forms as those of Jerus
alem, Cearea, Antioch, &c. He further
adds the Nice.ie creed, a formulary of
Christian f.iith, sc called, because it is a
paraphrase of that creed which made at
the first general council of Nice. This
latter creed was drawn up by the second
general council of C mstantir.ople, A D.
3SI.
Again, as authority unquestionable up
pon this subject, the reader is referred to
the case of tha YYa Id eases, as laid down
in Jones’ Church History, pp. 270.—275.
The first of which Sir Samuel Moreland
has fixed the date to be in the year 112,
in Moreland’s History of jhe Church “of 1 —
Piedmont, p. 30. Yet, in the face of all
this, and much more that might very per
tinently be'said upon these subject*, there
are those who repudiate our form of
church government, with all its republi
can principles. Yet, at the same time,
these very persons, in a political point of
view, as they ought to be, are ever ready
with becoming firmness to put down any
principle anti-republican. O consistency
thou art indeed e ; ewel. Is it not passing
strange, too, that amidst tha many marks
or tokens of divine approval that a?? pal
pable to nil with our present Confession
of Faith or abstract of principles, creed,
or whatever you are pleased to term it,
there are those that oppose it with g r eat
vehemence and a bitterness wholly unbe
coming religious discussion, and that too
in the face of the many evils that would
grow out of its abolition: not more inti
mately connected is vice ar and misery, or
virtue and happiness, than is cause and
effect and it is natural for the same cause
to produce the 3a;ne or similar effects.—
The same cause still exists that existed
in the days of the Waldenses, which led
to the declaration of their faith, and by
which they were enabled to disabuse tho
public mind in reference to the doctrines
held by them. It is the only way that is
clear to my mind by which we as Bap
! tisfs can disabuse the public mind in ref
erence to the doctrines held by us, who,
as the ApoJa remarked, have been ev
ery where spoken ft '?inst, and especially
do we conceive that it is th* best possible
means, if we do not fail to discharge our
duty in requiring ail that unite with our
churches to subscribe to it, to rid cur
churches of all discordant elements, of all
members who oppose the doctrines taught
in the New Testament as held and sub
scribed to by all orthodox Baptists, so
that peace, happiness and prosperity may
he enjoyed by all our churches through
out the entire length and breadth of all
this mighty land. Rfthold how good and
how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
togther in unity. It is like the precious
ointment upon the head that ran down
upon the beard, even Aaron’s ber rd that “
went down to the skirts of his garments;
as the dew of Hermon and as the dew
that descended upon the mountains of
Zion, for there the Lord commanded the
blessing even life for ever more. Ps.
133: I—3.
A Hard Hit.
The following retort of the Macon Tel
egraph, upon the Savannah Republican ,
though rather too hard a hit for a joke as
poor Tyrone Powers would say, is deci
dedly palpable. The Republican charged
Judge Johnson, with being a Spiritual
Rapper; to this, the Telegraph responds
as follows:
We are authorised to slate distinctly ,■<
that Judqe Johnson is no more a believer
.in Spirtunl Hoppings , than the Editor of
the. Republican ts the author of the famous
article , entitled Spring, Let his epider
mis open and receive the truth. If Judge
Johnson had ever given his sanction totha
miserable folly known as Spiritual Rap
pings, we should be -among the first to
warn the people of Georgia against his
alteration. We repeat authoritatively
that there is no truth whaterer in the
chaige.— San. Courier.
