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VOL. XIV.
THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN
IS PUBLISHED EVERT THUUSDaT MORHIHQ
BY WILLIAM CLINE,
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II JU
Wc commend the following article to
the special attention of the Editor of the
Millcdgcville Recorder, and also the little
“bush fighter,” whoever lie may be, who
writes in the last American Union over the
signature of “Veritas.” These guerrilla
politicians, last mentioned, we are not
in the habit of giving much attention, for
the reason that it only swells them into
momentary importance, which the most of
them but poorly deserve and can seldom
sustain. .You can never subdue or van
quish these little chirographers. Their
obscurity proves their protection. Con
vict them of lying, of false witnessing, of
garbling, and of every other mean, un
gentlcmauly and unprincipled business that
can dishonor human nature, and whom do
you convict? Nobody. Some obscure
personage, writing under a ficticious sig
nature, who will never own his real name,
I-lit skulk off and vent his venom and spite
under anew signature! It is only a waste
of time and paper to give them the slightest
importance, by noticing their prosy lucu
brations, or answering their conglomera
ted fustian. Broad assertion is all the
most of them pretend to. A lively imagi
nation is all they draw upon. Sound rea
soning, facts, or the use of plain common
sense, would not excite any merriment or
laughter, and this currency is all they ex
pect in pay for their stock in trade of vend
able commodities. The most of them,
however, arc of a calibre suited to Sandy’s
intellectual “bore,” and he publishes their
liebdoraedal contributions with avidity.—
If tlie following article is not argument
enough for “V eritas,” as we suppose it
will not be,, he can find the balance of
Judge Johnson’s vindication in the Charles
ton Christian Advocate, which is “a sort
f Methodist” newspaper, and yet speaks
in the most commendable terms of Judge
•Johnson’s address before the young ladies
and visitors of the Macon Female College.
There is one thing in this prodigy of learn
ing,—we mean “Veritas,” dear reader—
which we cannot pass without notice. It
is his profound knowledge of names of the
hooks written by the voluminous Sweden
borg! Where he got the catalogue from
we know not. But it is wonderful! lie
mentions every book by name, and tells
the reader to peruse them in order to come
at Swedenborg’s opinions. Now it has
been our goo 1 or sorry fortune—which
ever “Veritas” pleases—to have actually
looked at, not only the catalogue, but the
volumes themselves. There are some
twenty large octavos of them, and it would
take a pretty close reader six months to
get through them. Won’t there be a
many a one who will read them?
We have one word more to say to
‘\ entas ’in regard to our own religious
notions, and then we have done with him,
we expect forever. We have not got a
very profound veneration for church creeds
and articles of belief nohow; while on the
other hand we believe them all pretty good
if honestly maintained and sincerely carried
out. Judge Johnson’s religion, whatever it
may be, tells with striking efficacy upon his
heart and life. That is enough for us.
For rn ivies of faith lei zealous bigots fight,
JI; can’t he wring whose life is in the'nght.
From the Constitutionalist & Republic,
TH3OLOQY inthePOLITICAL FIELD.
The whig press of Georgia has outraged
every prmctple of fairness and propriety
which twT an<l vindictive manner, in
. v!,t y llave assailed Judge Johnson
misrepresented his noliHoni „ • •
slandered t,; c “r P olltlcal opinions and
slandered his religious sentiments We
fear not the result of B „ch intempcrauce
ami injustice, believing fully
malign,,,, t blown will b? Leaf down by t“c
son,id indignation of a virtuous and Intel
ligent people.
It is time that political zealots who
ihmk, qr act as if they thought, everything
was fair in politics, and that success will
sanctify any means used for its obtain
mentj should be taught their error, and
®!)t #cotgi Jcffersctiian.
the present canvass furnishes a fit oppor
tunity for the people of Georgia to teach
the lesson to the utter confusion of Judge
Johnson’s defamers.
The latest and most discretible assault
made on him, Comes under an insidious
guise' l —with an affection of candor poorly
simulated, and under circumstances of un
usual atrocity. It comes from a corre
spondent of the Southern Recorder , a pa
per once edited in a gentlemanly spirit,
but which has fallen immehsely in respect
ability since the withdrawal of its late ed
itor, Col. Grieve, now Charge to Sweden.
That correspondent is no other than its
editor, and that editor no other than one
who professes to be a Christian, and has
even, we understand, officiated as a cler
gyman.
At the late commencement of Wesleyan
Female College, Macon, Judge Johnson
delivered a most able, chaste and elevated
address, of which the Board of Trustees
have spoken in the highest terms of com
mendation.
The correspondent aforesaid thus speaks
of the address in the last Southern Recor
der:
“One more word about the Commence
ment address. I believe I expressed re
gret in my last, that the learned and wor
thy speaker should have so liberally dif
fused through his oration, the fascinating,
but as I believe, fatal dogmas of Sweden
borg. Judge Johnson has a right to en
tertain whatever opinions, to him may
seem most correct and proper, upon ques
tions of this character as well as politics;
but I must doubt very capitally, whether
the occasion referred to was altogether
appropriate to the. propogation of views
among the young, which are held to be
anti scriptural by a majority of those who
are believers in the truths of revealed re
ligion, and who have investigated the
doctrines of Swedenborg. I trust these
obnoxious portions of the address will be
expunged before it reached the public eye.
I am joined in this desire by many of his
political and personal friends, who, like
myself, admire and approved of the main
body of the speech.”
Now this assault is in the same spirit,
and prompted by precisely the same mo
tives which have called forth the slander
tiiat Judge Johnson was a believer in spi
rit rappings—a slander which has not the
slightest foundation to excuse it, and
which is yet shamelessly repeated in tho
face of authoritative denial.
So with reference to Swedenborgianism.
What the peculiar dogmas of Swedenborg
are, which the learned theologian of the
Recorder deems anti-scriptural, and which
he charges Judge Johnson with propoga
ting, he docs not venture to specify. There
were others present at the oration who
were as firm believers in the truths of re
vealed religion as himself, and quite as
exemplary in the practice of its precepts.
Yet their religious sensibilities received
no shock—their orthodoxy perceived no
challenge to religious combat. It was not
the pious Christian whose convictions were
alarmed, but the scheming politician whose
venom was awakened.
We hope the wish of the reverend cor
respondent—a wish we do not believe
any personal or political friend of Judge
Johnson united in —will n<>t be gratified,
that “the obnoxious portions of the ad
dress will be expunged before it reaches
the public eye.” That would be allowing
the malignity of the correspondent to go
undetected by the public eye, and there
fore unrebnked. Let the whole address
be furnished, and let the public judge be
tween Judge Johnson, and him who char
ges him with propogating anti-scriptural
sentiments. This is a matter wantonly
thrust before the religious community of
the State. Let it decide as just men
would decide it, and in the spirit, not of
politicians, nor of sectarians, but in the
spirit of true Christianity.
Judge Johnson has been from his youth
up, an exemplary < hristian—a consistent
member of the Presbyterian church, hold
ing to its tenets and obeying its require
ments, and has lived a life of blameless
morality and purity. Not the first act of
his, inconsistent with the duties of a Christ
ian, have we yet heard alledged against
him. It is not in character with him as
a man or a Christian, to avail himself of
the delicate and honorable position as
signed him at Macon, while addressing
such an audience, to propogate doctrines
and dogmas fatal to Christianity.
We would respectfully urge upon Judge
Johnson to take the field—appeal to the
justic eand the good sense of the people
make Ins appointments at convenient
and accessible places to address his fellow
citizens, and invite his assailants, and all
others who choose to enter the lists, to
meet him face to face before his fellow
citizens, and then and there discuss with
him all the political and religious questions
on which they may choose to provoke
controversy,
Latest from Washington.
Our special correspondent writes that
President Pierce is determined to leave the
subject of the proposed railroad to the
Pacific an open question, for settlement
by Congress, the different State
tures, and tho people. In his message
to Congress n.-xt December he will mere
ly give the result of the labors of the dif
ferent exploring expeditions so far as
known, without advocating any particu
lar route or even the road itself. Gen.
Pierce coincides in the opinion expressed
in this journal at the time the debate
was going on in Congress relative to the
imposition upon the President of the ex
traordinary duties of attending ito the sur
veying of railroad routes. He is of the
opinion that he was elected President of
the United States, not President of rail
roads, by the people. As; to the Cabinet,
it is understood that its members are op
posed, upon the ground of unconstitu
tionality, to any project which will grant
more lhan the mere right of way to the
road. Under any circumstances, how
ever, the people have determined that
the road must be built. The only real
difficulty in the way is the fixing upon
the route.— Ezchange.
A late decree has been issued by the
Mexican government suppressing the title
of sovereignty claimed by the States.
GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER l, IS**
From the Savannah Republican.
Railroad from Griffin toJtecatur.
The following article frow the New
York Courier c$- Enquirer, will show the
high estimation in which the projected
railway is held in the city of New York.
The Carrollton Railroad Company, part
of the 1 line, is duly organized, and a large
corps of Engineers, under Emerson Foote,
Esq., of Macon and Western Company,
is now on , the field between Carrollton
and Decatur surveying the route. The
party began a month ago at Newnan, and
we learn that they found a highly favor
able crossing of the Chattahoochee Ri
ver, and route to Carrollton. The road
is to he called North Alabama and South
Atlantic Railroad. By this line, Savannah
can be placed much nearer to Memphis
than any other Atlantic city, and we ven
ture to predict will receive by this line,
in addition to her present receipts of cot
ton, 100,000 bales of cotton from points
in North Alabama. The building of the
road from Griffin to Decatur, (less than
200 miles, ) and the road hence to Florida,
(T7G miles, ) will place Savannah in a
commanding position, and vastly improve
the whole State ol Georgia.
Railway System of the Cotton
States.— The progress of railroad enter
prise in the United States, appears to be
without limit. New schemes are con
stantly being urged upon the public, re
quiring a boldness of conception and an
investment of capital only equalled i>y
the magnitude of interests involved, and
ol resources to be developed. Under
the name of‘‘North Alabama Railroad”
an enterprise is now being prosecuted,
in itself of little magnitude, but which,
as a link in the air line between the two
cities cf Savannah and Memphis, be
comes of paramount importance not only
to the cotton States, but also to the cities
of the East trading with the Southwes',
and especially to this city. Savannah
lies in the centre of the cuive of the At
lantic, between the southern shore of
Florida and Cape Hatte r as, and is thefar
thest inland point. An air line between
that city and the city of Memphis, |
offers the shortest practicable route for
a Railway which shall affoid an Atlantic
outlet for the commerce of the centia!
portion of the Mississippi Valley. The
distance, as the route is now located, is
a trifle over 600 miles. The country
over which it passes, has almost every
variety ofsoil and climate, and lies rich
in agricultural resources, water power
and mineral wealth. The engineering
difficulties to be overcome are few and
comparatively trifling. The greater por
tion of the line is now built, the remain
der is in process of location and construc
tion, and will be completed, we are in
formed, in a few years. Its teininal city
on the Atlantic is the most thriving upon
the Southern coast, its terminal city on
the Mississippi is the commercial centre
of the Middle States of the Mississippi
valley, from whose wharves steamers ra
diate to no less than eleven different
States, and which is said to export l-16th
ot the entire cotton crop of the United
States. Up to the present time, its ex
ports this year have considerably exceed
ed 200,000 bales. The through trade
and travel between the North-east and
South-west would suffice to confer upon
this line, which for want of a name we
will denominate the Sa\annah and Mem
phis Railway, a national character.—
But the local products ot the tributary
region are immensely great. On the north
side of the central road will branch off
six main lines of railway, with an aggre
gate length of near 1200 miles, into Up
per Georgia, North Alabama, the whole
of Tennessee and Western Kentucky. On
the south side also six main lines diverge
to Southern Georgia, Western Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, with
an aggregate length of more then a thou
sand miles. These Railroads are ail con
structed or will be speedily.
To enumerate the local roads that will
act as feeders to these main lines would
be useless and tedious. It will suffice to
say, that the product of the Slate of Geor
gia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Tennessee, w'estern Kentucky, and Ar
kansas, will find first by someone of these
main lines of railway, and afterwards by
air line railroad—between Memphis and
Savannah, the shortest and speediest
route either to Europe or to this city.
Mobile, New-Orleans, Vicksburg, Cairo
and Nashville, will each be the terminus
of a branch road from the main track be
tween Memphis amt Stvaanah. It
would be premature at this early date to
speculate upon the nature and extent of
the changes which will be made in the
usual current of trade by the completion
of this connecting link between the At
lantic at Savannah and the M sdssipoi
at Memphis. The most convenient chan
nel for tLe commerce of this city with the
South west, is now over the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. Baltimore is look
ing to that road to obtain for herself the
trade of the southwest, and undoubtedly,
for a few years, it will be the main cham
nel for the course of trade from the
southwest to this city, and Baltimore will
reap her full share of its benefits. But
after the completion of the Savannah and
Memphis Railroad, the trade of the south
west, which is diverted from New-Or
leans, will seek tho Atlantic at Savannah
as naturally as any material substance
obeys the law of gravitation. The mer
chants of Memphis who are most inter
ested in the matter, and should be the
best judges of the comparative merits of
different routes by which their commer
cial exchanges are carried on, are alrea
dy beginning to exhibit a decided preter
ence for the one by Wheeling, Baltimore
and the Ohio River, to tho Eastern cities
The following extract from the circular
of Messrs. David, Park & Co-, Cotton
Brokers, of Memphis, exhibits, very
fairly, the tendency of the commercial
men of that city, to seek an Atlantic out
let for their trade, in preference to the
river route ppa New-Orleans.
‘‘Permit us now to invite your atten
tion especially to the increased facilities
of the .coming season for the transpoi t itiou
of produce to the eastern markets, by the
: way of the Ohio river and the railroad
from Wheeling to Baltimore, and thence
to. any eastern point. By this route pro
duce will reach its destination either at
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York or
Boston, in from fifteen to twenty da3 - s,
I and even in shorter time, thus saving
j much loss of time in any pro
[ tluce purchased for the Eastern and
! Northern markets. This route will be,
as we are informed, one of and
expedition, and will be far preferable to
the route by New- Orleans—the rates
of freight, as well asinsurar.ee, being less
than by sea—and great efforts are mil! i
making this route altogether the cheap-!
est and most expeditious for the transpor
tation of produce to (the Eastern mar
kets.”
This diversion of the trade of the Wes!
from New Orleans to the route via the
Ohio river, the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, and the Parker Yein line of steam
ers to this city, is being caused by the
excessively tedious and expensive car
rage via the Mississippi river to the Gulf.
We can see no reasoa, however, why
the Bal imore railroad should continue
to be the highway for south western
trade after a better one be opened. For
a petiod of nearly three months, naviga
tion upon the Ohio, between Wheeling
and Cincinnati, has been almost suspend
ed. The commerce of the country,
bordering upon the river, has been entire
ly stagnated by the inability of the small j
boats, there running, to carry to market!
even a small portion of the productions
of the country, which were accumulated
on the banks of the river. In consequence
of this state of affiairs, the recent rise in
the channel of the Oh'io Jias. been greeted
with genera! rejoicing in the Ohio valley.
One half of John Randolph’a celebrated
speech about the Ohio, viz; that which
relates to its dr3'ness in summer, has been
very nearly realized during this season.
The fact is that the Ohio will be com
paratively deserted as soon as a better
channel is afforded, and the Virginians
who understand this fact, are urging the
completion of the railroad from Norfolk
to Louisville, Ky., a route which, when
finished, will be a formidable competitor
to the Baltimore road.
It would be preposterous, however, to
imagine that the trade of the south west!
will ever ascend the Ohio river, when aj
more safe and speedy route is afforded
direct through an Atlantic port. Cotton
or other produce shipped from Mis-issip
| i t via YV heeling, would have to ascend
the M.ssissippi ar.d Ohio rivers rather
more than one thousand miles against a)
powerful current, be transported to the
railroad at Wheeling, transshipped again
at Baltimore, and would reach its desti
nations at Baltimore, ’Philadelphia, New
York or Boston, according to the Mem
phis Circular, in from 15 to 20 days
The same produce shipped to this city,
via Savannah, would, by a railway and
and steamship enrr rtf about’ i:o!
miles, reach here in one half of the above!
time. Our readers can judge over which
route the trade of the southwest will be
most apt to pass.
Mi*. Jenkins in Atlanta.
’ We listened with a good deal of inter
est to the speech of Hon. C. J. Jenkins,
on Friday evening last, for we were some
what curious to know from his own
mouth, how he could undertake to ex
plain away a number of uncomfortable’
passages in his political history. Thej
greater portion of his address was devo
ted to what appeared to us a labored
sedf-defence. After declaring, by way of
preface, how unpleasantly situated he
was, ('being obliged to speak principally
of himself, ) and dwelling some time on
the theme of bis own sincerit3 r , he went
straightway into the Algerine Law. lie
denied most g'.renuouslv that lie was the
author of the bill, but admitted that he
introduced it into the lower branch of
the Legislature, and vote I for it. He
went into an explanation of the nature of
that law—arguing that it was a matter
of very little consequence, inasmuch as
every citizen, rich or poor, was left free
to vote for members of Council, and the
restriction of the right of suffrage that be
introduced and voied for, only prevented
the poor man from being eligible to, and
voting for any person as a candidate for
the board of Aldermen—which board of
Aldermen was created only to serve as a
check upon the Council —that it only
had absolute control over all the financial
operations of the city government. Mr.
Jenkins did not tell his bearers that in all
cities, financial measures, in their various
ramifications, are by far the most irnpjr- j
tant,and cover almost the entire opera-’
tions of the city government. Neither!
did he go into a calculation to show his j
audience how valuable would be the psi-j
vilege of voting for members of Council.,!
when (by tlie operation of this law) these,
members of Council had been rendered
as powerless as so many men of straw—
the real power having been withdrawn
from them and vested iu this beautiful
little “Board of Aldermen”—to vote for
a member of which “Board” it was first
required that the voter should be worth
one thousand dollars in real estate. “ The
friends of the bill,” said Mr. Jenkins,
•‘were studiously solicitous of preserving
the right of suffrage.” Certainly, we
wouid’nt foueh ii,e right of suffrage!—
ou poor people can vote as much as
you please, for menbers of Council, and
if you own a thousand dollars w'orth of
real estate, you may exercise the
of treemen, and vote for the men wdto
govern you, the board of Aldermen, wno
regulate all the fiscal operations of the
city. This is republicanism with a ven
geance.
Mr. Jenkins stands before the indepen
dent voters of Georgia, asking the office
of Governor at their hands, and yet open
ly approves and defends the law common
ly known as the “Algerine Law.” iu his
speeyh on l< riJay night, Mr. Jenkins said:
“Idid believe when that taw was passed,
and do believe now , that it was a good law ”
Now, in order that our readers may
carefully examine the plain letter and spi
rit of tltis law, and ju tge for themselves
concerning the principles which Mr. Jen
kins approves, we publish below the fol
lowing section from the law itself:
Section 2. And be it farther enacted ,
That no person shall be allowed to yo’.o
for Aldermen, who in addition to the quali T
ucations now required of voters, does not
own real estate to the value of one thou
sand dollars, according to the annual tax
assessment next previously made by the
authority of the City Council, or has act
ually paid a tax to said city of twenty
five dollars on real or personal estate, or
either, within the same year preceding
such election, and no person shall be eli
gible as Aluerman, who does not possess
the qualifications herein prescribed for
I voters. —Atlanta Intelligencer.
What Democracy is.
It is well enough to refer to first princi
ples occasionally, for the purpose of re
freshing the memory of the old, and in
structing the you hos the country. We
have never seen Democracy better defined
and the duties of the Democratic party
more lucidly explained, than in the fol
lowing article taken from the Ohio States
man, Qct. 9th, 1844. - The sentiments are
taken from a'&pecch of the Hon. George
M. Dallas.
“DEMOCRACY 13
Ist. The essential legal equality of hu
man beings.
2d. The people the source of legitimate
power.
3d. The absolute and lasting severance
of Church and State.
4th. The freedom, and sovereignty', and
independence of the respective States.
sth. The Union a confederacy or com
pact, neither a consolidation nor a cen
tralization. \
6th. The Constitution of the Union, a
special written g ant of powers limited
and defined.
Again:
Ist No hereditary office, nor order nor
title.
2d. No taxation beyond the public
wants.
3d. No national debt if possible.
4th. No costl)’ splendor of the adminis
tration.
sth. No procription of opinion nor of
public discussion.
6th. No unnecessary interference with
individual conduct, or property or speech.
7th. The civil paramount to the milita
ry power.
And again:
Ist The representative to obey the in
struction of his constituents.
2d. No favored class and no monono
lies.
3d. The election free and suffrage uni
versal .
4th. No public money expended except
by warrant of specific appropriations.
sth. No mysteries in government inac
cessible to the public e) T e.
Gth. Public compensation for public
services, moderate salaries, pervading e
conomy and accountability.
This is the chart and compass by which
liivj Democratic part}’ has arisen to its
present strength, and the country to its
high position in the ranks of the great
powers of the earth. Read it, Demo
crats, and cherish these great cardinal
principles of the Democratic party.
TZic Freesoil Appointments I>y
Pierce and FiSlmore.
The opponents of the administration are
greatly outraged at the report that Mr.
Dix, of New York, is to be appointed Min
ister to France. Remember, Mr. Dix has
not been yet appointed; and, so far as we
know, there is only Whig and Freesoil
evidence that he is to be. Yet General
Pierce is to be condemned, and his admin
istration repudiated by the people, on this*
ground. If the Whigs could only get him
out of office, and Scott or Fillmore—espe
cially Fillmore, —in, what devoted pro
slavery men wc should find filling all the
places of honor under the General Govern
ment! Suppose wc contrast one of these
anti-Abolitionists whom Fillmore did ap
point, with Dix, whom Pierce hasn’t ap
pointed. Mind, the worst that can be
said of Dix is, that like ninety-nine out of
every hundred Northern Whigs, lie sup
ported the Wilmot Proviso. Let us look
a little at Tom Corwin, the immaculate
Fillmore’s Secretary of the Treasury. We
take our portrait of him from a brother
Whig and brother Abolitionist, Cassius
M Clay;
“ A hen Mr. Clay was the candidate for
the Presidency, in 1844, Thomas Corwin
i and I spoke daily, for a long time, through
Ohio, in company. The battle was fought
in the North at least, upon anti-slavery
“abolition” principles, the friends of
1 slavery perpetuation beir.g avowedly in ta
| vor of the annexation of Texas, with a
j view of keeping up a balance of power in
i the Senate, by the acquisition of more
I slave States; and the friends of Jefferso
j nian Republicanism, holding that slavery
! was ail avil —tolerated —but to bo extiu
i guished in due time—North and South
: —standing for Clay and against Texas an
i uexation. I came from a slave State, era
! bittered in my feelings against the slave
; party by recent personal and political con
tests, yet in the speeches made by Thomas
Corwin, the slaveholders were so heartily
denounced that my sensibilities as a South
ern man were continually susceptible. I
’ am an habitual reader of Win. L. Gam
i son’s Liberator, aud Garrison never snr
! passed him in heart-felt hatred of slavery
! and slaveholders. His now slaveholding
j friends will gather some idea of his abated
. ! re when they reyipw bis celebrated speech
in the Senate, where he awarded me and
other yolunteers in Mexico his aspirations
ot “bloody hands and hospitable graves!”
ljnt what struck me as most remarkable
in the “inimitable Tom” was his indulgence
iu “whining, canting, and praying” in fyis
speeches! I have been in the furor of re
vivals, and the wild of the bi
vouacked camp-meetings, and never did
unctious Methodist parsons move me to
tears, like the “inimitable Tom!” And to
such extremes did “Tom” carry out his
scriptural quotations that lie got to be a
decided hero: and I severely criticised his
want of taste—and wliafc was, to me, ir
reverent as the slave-criticism would have
me—almost blasphemy!”
Can Whigs, who applauded Fillmore’s
every act, read this sketch of one whom he
took into his Cabinet, without feeling that
they convict themselves of hypocrisy when
they denounce Pierce’s appointments as
Freesoilers.-— Sav. Georgian, 2 1st nit.
From the, Dckalh Democrat.
Os what is tlic Conservative Par
ty of Georgia composed?
Almost exclusively of Webster Whigs,
i men who opposed Gen, Pierce’s election,
• who now for the sake of consistency, or
1 for the sake of something else less eredita
! ble, feci it their bounden duty to oppose
5 his administrotion. And these men, or
their presses and public speakers, seem
laboring to produce the impression that
their present hostile attitude towards the
administration, is the result of certain ob
jectionable appointments which Gen. Pierce
has made in the distribution of the Gov
ernment offices. Why, gentlemen, did you
oppose Gen. Pierce before his election?
Did you do it because he was going to
make frecsoil appointments? Or was it
not simply because he was a Democrat?
Did not some of you who occupy high pla
ces proclaim throughout Georgia, during ‘
the Presidential canvass, that Gen. Pierce
was the soundest man on slavery Norih of
Mason and Dixon’s line? If this was
your opinion, why did you try to keep him
from being elected? Why did yon vote for
the dust of Webster, rather than support
him? It was his democracy you voted a
gainst, not his anti-slavery sentiments; and
it is his democracy you now oppose.— ;
Hitherto you have been content to use but
one “masked battery,” bnt in the present
desperate state of your fortunes, you at- ‘
tempt to mask your adversary’s battery as
well as your own. You have ever disliked
Gen. Pierce, because he was a democrat,,
brought, forward by the great National
Democratic party to hold the helm of State.
You st ill dislike liim for the same reason, but
dreading to meet him in battle with the glo
rious flag of democracy waving prounly o
ver him, you strive to throw about him
the dark mantle of freesoil, a mantle long
the every-day garment of some of your il
lustrious dead, and which you now wish to
make the people believe has been convert
ed into the officiai uniform of Gen. Pierce.
And what is all this for? Recollect you were
against Pierce’s election because he was the
democratic candidate. Why have you shift
ed, or pretended to shift your ground?—
Is it not on account of the respect you have
for the feelings, or we should rather say,
the desire you have for the votes of Union
democrats? Have you not said to your- 1
selves, these Union Democrats helped to ‘
elect Gen. Pierce, —he is their man and 1
their President—he stood by them in the
great conflict of 1850—and in fact is just 1
as they are- a thorough bred Uuion dem
ocrat. * It will therefore be wretched poli
cy to attack him for his democracy And
yet your must gain some thousands of Un
ion democratic votes, else Mr. Jenkins’ case
is perfectly hopeless; for, unaided by demo
crats of some sort, how could the Web
ster whigs—a mere funeral guard—elect
a Governor of Georgia?
And were not these reflections, gentle
men, the parent of the freesoil appoint
menl idea? ‘ >Ve believe it was, and wc
believe too, that Union Democrats will re.
member that you were no more the friend
of President Pierce before his appoint
ments were made, than you have been
since.
To Union Democrats —As weconsid*
cr that we are, and always have been a
Union Democrat —aye, a full blood ed one,
too, we claun the privilege of appealing
to them at ibis time. We know’ that
efforts are making to induce you to aban
don, indirectly, your cherished principles;
your prejudices to—you
are told that new principles have been en
grafted in the Democratic creed—that the
right of a State to secede at will, is hence
forth to be a cardinal principle of our
party! It is true that there are men in the
Democratic party that hold these views,
but they hold them not as Democrats,
but as individuals. We protest against
the right of any man to proclaim the prin
ciples of our party; that is left alone to i
our national Conventions; and at our last i
national Democratic Convention the plat
form of our principles was distinctly set
forth, and upon them Gen’l Pierce was
elected, and he is-looked upon as the re
presentative of our party; and until he
deserts or abandons that platform all
Democrats are bound to give him their
adhesion and support. No one has
charged Gen’l Pieice with an open de
sertion of our principles, but he is blamed
for appointing men to office whose ante
cedents give no guarantee of their devo
tion to the faith of the Democratic party.
Admitting this to be true, and that they
were impolitic, yet if he carries out in
good faith the principles upon which he
was elected, he will have discharged his
duty, and there is no cause of complaint.
Then we hold it to be the duty of alt
Demoerats to support the Administration
and its friends, and oppose its enemies.
The enemies of Gen’i Pierce are the op
ponents of the Democratic party; and in
the approaching Gubernatorial election
let no Democrat support Mr Jenkins —
if he does, he indirectly abandons his
party. Mr. Jenkins makes war upon
the Administration —he thereby makes
war upon the Democratic party; he is the
enemy of our principles, open and avow
ed. Let Union Democrats pause before
they vote for Jenkins, if any have thought
of such a thing. You cannot do so upon
principle, and never let prejudices thus
‘govern your judgment. The principles
of the Democratic party have not changed
—they are the same now as in the days
of Jackson, and we look upon him as
having been nearer embodying its princi
ples than any other man. We are a
Democrat of the Jacksonian school, hon
estly, sincerely and devotedly. Mr. Polk
was one of his followers, and we have
no doubt but that Gen,l Pierce will prove
tube the same. — CassviUe Standard.
First Bale of Nf.w Cotton. —The first
bale of new cotton was received in this
city on the 20th ult., from the plantation
of Mrs. Martha Matthews, of Bibb coun
ty. It was stored at the warehouse of
Mr. T. A. Harris, and sold to Mr. D. R.
Roigers at 10 1-2 cents.
Macon Telegrajph.
Advices from the Fishing Grounds, state
that the British steamer Devastation had
seized an American Fishing vessel, and it
was feared trouble would grow out of it*
Frealts of Lightnings ‘
It seems to us that lightning is now
making itself felt much And more
sensibly, than in former years ; while death
by lightning, has become so common a
• tiling, as not to attract attention unless oc
curring under peculiar and unusual cir
i cumstanees. Without stopping to. exam -
■ ine intq the causes of this sudden increased
importance of the subtile fluid, we annex
below, a paragraph or two, recording some
of its late freaks. The Newark Adverti
ser says:—
“A writer in the Intelligencer communi
cates a curious incident. A little girl was
standing at a window, before which stood
a young maple tree. After a brilliant
flash of lightning a complete image of the
tree was found imprinted on her body
!’his is not the first instance of the kind,
but it is a singular phenomenon.”
The Fitchburgh Rcville noticing a re
cent storm there, says:—
“The atmosphere was so thoroughly
charged with electricity that every metal
lic substance was illuminated. A friend
who was driving from West Fitchburgh,
in the midst of the shower, informs us
that as he was passing under the railroad
bridge in that section, he was completely
surrounded with electrical lights, every nail
head in the bridge being brilliantly illumina
ted, as well as the buckles on the harness
of his horse, while the lightning played si
lently along the iron bolts of the bridge,
contrasting most beautifully with the in
tense blackness succeeding each flash. He
experienced several slight shocks, while
passing the bridge.”
Crops, &c. —Toe following items rel
ative to the weather, health, crops, &c.,
we gleam from our exchanges from the
interior:
The Natchitoches Chronicle of the ISIlb
inst , s.;ys;
The warm weather of the preceding
three or four weeks has operated most
beneficially upon the cotton crop, and
without soitip untoward circumstance our
planters in this section will realize a fair
crop.
The Shreveport Southwestern of tl;e
10th inst., says:
The river continues to decline The
recent dry weather has greatly impruved
the cotton in this parish, and gives pro
mise that the crop will be a good one. A
merchant in this place, just returned from
a journey through Eastern Texas, informs
us that with the exception of Harrison
county the crops of cotton and corn will
be larger in that section of country than
at any time during the last three years.
The Bayou Sira Ledger of the 13th
inst., says:
On Wednesday and Thursday evenings
last we were blessed ivith fine shower.-
of rain.
AVe have frequently heard of late,that
the cotton or boll worm has made its ap
pearance for the year 1853. Some gen
ilemen have earnestly requested us, in
order to set the public mind right on this
subject, to inform our readers that such
is not the case. The worm alluded to is
neither cotton nor boll worm, but is what
entomologists denominate “grass worm.”
A Texas paper in speaking of the crops,
says:
Our planters are now generally enga
ged in picking, and all accounts encour
age the hope of a very fine crop, at least
one third larger than that of last year.
Four bales of new cotton in all have
been sold at Galveston for twelve centa
per pound. They classed good middling.
The Indianola Bulletin says:
We felt alarmed some two weeks ago
at vague rumors of the appearance of tire
cotton worm, but rejoice to learn that
they have entirely disappeared, and that
throughout the twelve or fifteen cotton
counties of the west, the cotton crop is
very promising. We therefore antici
pate a much larger crop than ever before
made.
The wheat crops of Central and North
ern Texas are said to be excellent.
Prairie hay has become an article of
general use in Indianola, and is found to
be very good and much cheaper than
Northern hay’.
Hallahaloo!— The Whigs are raising
a tremendous hallahaloo over the appoint
ment of a light house or light boat keeper
iu North Carolina, who, the}’ say, is a
mulatto, or at least has negro blood in
his veins. The Republican went nearly
into fits on the subject yesterday, and we
fear, if not looked after by its friends,
will do something rash before it can be
relieved.
We need hardly say that this is, in all
probability, a Whig— Roorback. Our
readers qndeistand the meaning of the
term. It obtained currency during ibe
Presidential campaign of 1844, when
W hig papers published an extract from a
book of American travels, written by an
Englishman by the name of Roorback,
containing that distinguished tourist’s de
scription of a gang of negroes which he
saw chaioed together in Tennessee, with
the name of “J. K. Polk” branded on
theire backsl On due examination, it
was found that no such a fcQjk had ever
been written. The story was an unadul
terated lie.
So we have no hesitation in pronoun
cing the statement to which we have al
luded—if in it is conta ned the charge
that Pierce has appointed a mulatto to
office in Nortn Carolina, knowing hiw to
be one. That the administration may
have been misled by its enemies into the
appointment of a fellow having negro
blood , is possible. It is said that the Rev.
Dr. Ross, whose anti-abolition speech in
the late New School Presbytesian As
-1 sembly, made such an impression though-,
out the Union, is one of this class, that is,
his veins contain some negro blood. The
President might very easily be misled in
to the appointment of snch a man to a
subordinate post. He, of ccur e, does
not see one in five hundred of tie
seekers upon whom he confers appoint
ments—havirg to rely upon the state
ments of others.
What we mean to say is, that the stale*
ment that he has appointed a free negro
to office, knowing him to be a.free negro,
is doubtless just as true as that James K-
Polk branded with a hot iron, his name
upon his negroes’ backs. Sav. Geo^fo
No. 35.