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tended distrust of Genetal Pierce on th*
slavery question, was admirable. We
hear that you have been told that this
county is claimed for Johnson by 200
majority. Even to this sort of exagger
ation decency requires some metes and
bounds. I heard no man in Hawkinsville
or out of it say that the county could pos
sibly be carried for Johnson by more than
50 voters, while very many were confi
dent that Pulaski would go for Colquitby
50 or 75 majority. The addresses ot
Messrs Chappell and DeGraffenried were
powerful efforts, and were in the happiest
and best spirits possible. They took
high and catholic ground for the entire
re-union of the democracy of Georgia.
They gave the history of Mr. Jenkin’s
agency in dissolving the Union party, and
in the happiest manner exposed his in
consistency in fawning around Union
-democrats for their support.
We cannot express our thanks or ap
preciation of the handsome style in which
these gentlemen are bearing themselyes
in the canvass. In conclusion 1 have
this to say, and I would say it emphati
cally, let yotir county, old Muscogee, do
her duty, and this fight is ours.
From the Savannah Georgian.
Discussion in Murray County
between the Gubernatorial
Candidates.
Spring Place, August 25th.
Messrs. Editors Yesterday the citi
zens of Murray county were addressed by
our candidates for Governor, on the issue
now dividing the political parties of Geor
gia. It was a beautiful day, and many
were present to hear the distinguished
speakers. In consequence of the great
crowd which had come togetl er from
the valleys and mountains of this beauti
ful country, the addresses were deliver
ed in the Baptist Church, which had been
generously tendered for the occasion.
The house was densely thronged with
the hardy sons of this mountain region,
ar.d, to add fresh interest to the scene,
their wives and daughters were there, by
‘•-their presence, to restrain the boisterous,
And che*r the hearts of the speakers.
Never has a day passed offmore pleasant
ly, and never was an audience better en
tertained. Every thing occurred to give
an interest to the occasion; the speakers
were two of Georgia’s most talented and
worthy sons, of whom she or any land
might well be proud; the sky was cloud
less, and a cooling breeze, com : ng fresh
from the summit of the forest-clad Cohut
tah, rendered less oppressive the burning
-rays of an August sun.
It would be a hopeless task were I to
attempt to present anything like a sketch
-of the masterly and powerful efforts to
which hundreds listened with unfeigned
delight, nor shall I attempt it. My pur
pose is solely to present to your readers,
as faithfully and impartially as I may,
the contrasted effects of the speeches—
the impression which they made both up
on the writer and the audience.
Mr. Johnson opened the discussion in
a speech of an hour’s length, and was fol
lowed by Mr. Jenkins in a speech of one
hour and a half, after which Mr. Johnson
concluded in a further speech of about
twenty minutes. To say that the speak
ers sustained their great reputations, as
skillful and ready debaters, would be but
/aint praise. Proud was every man pre
sent, that the political parties of Georgia
*had presented for our suffrages two such
noble and true hearted Georgians as Mr.
.Jenkins ar.d Mr. Johnson. About them,
.as men of integrity, of patriotism, and of
ualeut, there was but one expression of
opinion. Both are patriotic, both men of
experience and of practical wisdom, and
.both eminently fitted to administer the af
fairs of State. Being such, their views
on political questions must alcne decide
tfhe people in their choice.
Now, whatever the audience may have
thought of the comparative merits of the
speakers, the views of the Democratic
candidate, by the most unmistakeable
signs, were by far the most popular, and
suet the warmest sympathy of the people.
We shall draw no invidious distinction be
tween the candidates as to their compar
ative ability. For we are willing to at
tribute the rapturous applause with which
Mr. Johnsou was greeted, and the entire
absence of applanse which attended the
effort of Mr. Jenkins, solely to the fact
that the prinbiples, which the former ad
vocated, were the principles of the peo
ple, dear to their hearts as their very ex
istence Jc wonld have done you good,
Democrats of Southern Georgia, had you
been present, to witness the outbursts of
joy with which the hardy mountaineers
greeted the standard-bearer of your princi
ples. There was not the faintest applause
given to Mr. Jenkins, while the Detno
.cratic candidate was interrupted, time and
again, with the most enthusiastic demon
strations of the popular feeling. Indeed,
wft were sorry for Mr. Jenkins, that no
friend was present to raise, in his behslf,
one feeble cheer. Though his effort was
■a masterly one, t he defended himself
with the courage and resolution of a lion,
yet neither were his principles, nor the
company which he keeps, acceptable to
the people. lie did all that mortal man
■could do with such a rotten cause to sup
port. He had nothing to make a speech
upon—nothing to advocate—nothing to
■defend. Gen. Pierce’s appointments and
•the Pacifice Ilail-road gave him his whole
capital, ‘fie will not descend to the low
and dirty tricks of other Whig leaders in
-Georgia, who are putting him forward as
a stepping stone to their own ambition.
Nor will he spring false issues upon the
people, for you hear from his lips not a
woid about the Union’s being in danger
and its needing another saving.—lie
leaves all such stuff to Toombs, Stephens
•& Cos. Therefore, it was. that never,
perhaps, before, has a public speaker ap
peared under greater disadvantages.—
‘i herefore it was that his remarks were
attended with no applause. And there
fore it was that his opponent was inter
rupted with plaudit after plaudit.
The truth is, Messrs. Editors, the peo
ple were completely carried away by the
speech of Mr. Johnson. The affair was
-ail on one side. Nor are we presenting
en overwrought picture. I appeal to any
man, wjjo was present, if the truth has
not been written. I speak of that which I
do know, and testify of that which I have seen
I was no little amused by a remark of an.
old Whig after the meeting. He thought
Johnson had taken great advantage of his
opponent, because, said the old man,
“Mr. Johnson takes such a hold on a fellow's
feelings .” The old man was right. Johnson
did take hold of the feelings—or rather
the principles which be advocated found
a hearty response in the bosoms of these
dwellers arhong the moiihl&itls. The
fires which he Kindled will burst forth
and sweep ovetf these rtlountains and val
leys, cleansing, purifying, and burning
up the last vestige of Whiggery. And
many a Whig here has found, and many
a Whi# will find, that the same Demo
cratic fire, which the ashes of Whiggery
have long smothered, burns within their
own hearts, and will soon be fanoed into
a red hot glow. Others will catch the
flame.
Democrats of Southern Georgia, turn
your eyes northward, and behold the
beacon-fires lighted upon the tops of the
mountains! They call upon you to a
wake! Awake! Send back from your own
camp-fires the signal that all is well, and
that no man is asleep at his post. Mur
ray county sends you greeting. She
promises a larger Democratic majority
than she has ever given. All Cherokee
Georgia is right. All that you hear about
divisions in this part of Georgia is false.
There may be differences of opinion in re
gard to the most proper candidates to
represent the county in the Legislature:
there have been differences iu regard to
the Congressional nomination. But all
this is past;for Dr. Lewis, with true pat
riotism, has withdrawn from the contest,
and left the field to Tumlin and Chastain.
The latter will be elected by a large ma
jority. So far as the gubernatorial con
test is concerned, all Democrats are uni
ted, and have received a large accession
to their ranks from the Scott Whigs.
Johnson’s election is a fixed fact. Do
your duty, is all that Cherokee asks.
For she will roll up in October next such
increased majorities, as shall proclaim
forever the death-knell of Whiggery in
Georgia. MURRAY.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
GRIFFIN. SEPTEMBER 8, 1853
FOR GOVERNOR
HERHLV. JOHNSON.
FOR CONGRESS
DAVID J. BAILEY, Third District.
W. B. W. DENT, Fourth District.
FOll REPRESENTATIVE,
WILLIAM CRITTENDEN.
SELLING OUT.
We refer our readers to our advertise
ment, and particularly request our breth
ren of the press to give us a lift in getting
off by giving the advertisement a few in
sertions’.
Alass Meeting at Jonesboro.
There will be a mass meeting of the
democratic party of the 4th Congression
al District, at Jonesboro’, on Thursday
the 29th inst. H. V. Johnson, Gov. Cobb,
and a number of other distinguished
democratic speakers have promised to
be present on the occasion, and address
the people ou the .political questions of
the day.
Gen. Ifamilcar Weathercock.
“Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat,
Thysyiilca hypocrisy , thy words deceii.”
Iu conformity with a notice, this strange
anomaly exhibited in our city on Satur
day last, some of his most wonderful feats
at grand and lofty tumbling. We were
not one of his auditors, being just after
our return from a Northern tour, where
we had fully quieted our curiosity as to
all the amusing species of the Buffoon.—
Wc are informed he sustained some of his
most anomalous and mysterious leaps with
much skill, some were rather awkwardly
executed, and detection simple and ready.
He lampooned the Southern Rights party,
lie caricatured the Democracy* with great
flippancy, reproached the Whig party as
obsolete and nugatory, and claimed that the
Toombs party, alias the Republican Citi
zen organization, concentrated all that
was wise, patriotic and virtuous. He
wanted no national party, but a sectional
party. His leading argument adverse to
the Southern Rights party in 1850 was,
that it was sectional and not national, in
contradiction to the genius of the govern
ment.
And that upon the late settlement of the
Compromise the Southern Democrats re
turned to their Northern freesoil allies,
and also the Scott Whigs, irrespective
of their principles. But the Webster Whigs
assumed an independent attitude, isolated
from all freesoil taint, and the only tena
ble consistent position. Thus, Mr. Toombs
assumes to himself the authority to stig
matize and debauch both the national or
ganizations, that did not fawn and follow
in miscreant servility to his dictation, is
sued in his placard from Washington City,
and organize a sectional party against the
government. The last man to council a
free and virtuous people.
We have sedulously avoided, as our rea
ders well know, all allusions to the seeming
divisions of the Scott and Webster whigs,
as an issue not legitimately within our per
view. But as Mr. Toombs has sought to clas
sify the Southern Democratic party and the
Scott Whigs with Northern freesoil com
binations, we arc disposed to hurl the slan
der back upon its mischievous author.
We are not the champion of Scott Whigs,
but their declaration of principles gives a
flat disclaimer to that allegation. So far as
the Democratic party stands impeached,
it rises higher in our estimation as it in
curs the calumny of this distinguished dema
gogue. And since every slave and South
ern State has mounted full-breasted her
time-honored and imperishable platform,
it is of itself an eloquent and magnificent
colossus of its wisdom and patriotism.
And there is but little fiction in the as
severation, that this tortuous gasconade,
and retailer of Billingsgate, would this day
have been in supple fellowship with the na
tional democracy, but for the repeated re
buffs of those who would not confide in the
purity and stability of his professions.
So far as his allusions to our editorial
in ur last issue, we had no other expec
tation, than be would bolster up his sins
by bandying epithets with our absence. —
Tina is a prbniiriCnt faculty of the gentle
man, and he exhibits much adroitness in
the use df it. The truth of the accusation
is far more palpable and obvious from the
labor and zeal ho devoted to his excul
pation.
“The flesh Will quiver where the pincers tear,
The blood will follow where the knife is driven.”
Whatever discrepancy may exist between
the means pandered to by Win. J. Brown
of Indiana, to secure the speakership, and
the Hon. Robert Toombs to furl himself
into the Senatorial robes, is certainly a
a mooted question; and will remain a
sealed book. To make even a tolerable
record, the end must consecrate the
means.
His erratic flight athwart the political
horizon, has placed him in offensive antag
onism with every national patriot and
statesman since his career in politics. In
conflict with Jackson and Polk, who gave
direction and government to the American
people in the age in which they lived. In
conflict with Mr. Clay for the Presidency;
and as soon as the popular will had elevated
Gen. Taylor to the national helm, he rai
sed the arm of rebellion against him. lie
uext took up arms against Mr. Fillmore,
and crippled him. He then made a clamor
ous vindictive onslaught upon Gen. Scott,
and is now enlisted in a reckless, infamous
war against Gen. Pierce. The spasmodic
ravings of this political Proteus, has no
terrors to any party; he is impotent and
fatuitous. He has ceased to harm his en
emies in his stereotyped harangues, and will
soon cease to comfort his friends. The
truth is, he is becoming too commonplace
for a reliable advocate of any cause. And
no majority party would act discretely to
accept of him as a gratuity. His mission
ary exploits over the country do uot agi
tate our nerves, or jeopardise our success.
It is due himself that he should speak of
, ten, that the people may be apprised of
his true position.
Gen. Ilamilcar Toombs vs tlie
Foreigners.
No sect or class of people, however mer
itorious, seems to escape the ruthless ma
lignity of this factious demogogue. He
is now wielding his anathemas against the
President because of his genuine catholic
feeling exhibited to those foreigners who
reside among us, and have given their a
bility and loyalty to the democratic insti
tutions of this country, nc has no sym
pathy for the oppressed, the friendless and
homeless. Because Mr. Pierce assigned
Mr. Belmont as Charge to the Nether
lands, he has been denounced as favoring
the pretensions of German foreigners in
opposition to our native born citizens. It
is true he is a native of Germany, and
from a long diplomatic course, has ren
dered most efficient service to this govern
ment, which lias increased his claims upon
executive favor, and that very deservedly.
The gentleman has omitted to inform his
fellow-citizens, that other governments ap
point foreign American citizens as their
Consuls and Charges. At this very mo
ment the Austrian government has ap
pointed native born American citizens as
her Consuls to this government, to-wit:
J. W. Langdon, at Boston, Morris Wain,
at Philadelphia, and Andrew Low, at Sa
vannah.
I Snrely no adopted citizen of Georgia,
whether from choice or necessity, would
abandon an administration whose acts and
sympathies were dirccied and controlled
by a national generous spirit. And we
say to our foreign brethren, stand by iuO
constitution and our common couutry,
and stand by its and your friends. No
spirit of native Americanism will ever dif
fuse its destructive doctrines into our pure
democratic government while Frank Pierce
sets supreme at her helm.
The Mouth in one Column.
Those who are prepared to stand in solit
column with every Southern State, can
now be designated, by whichever banner
he may choose to array himself under, in
the present indicative gubernatorial con
test. By the recent demonstrations of
Tennessee and Kentucky, every slave State
in this Union forms one brilliant, harmo
nious constellation in the national admin
istration, and that proud banner is given
to the winds by its gallant champion Her
schel Y. Johnson,
Those who are prepared to arrest the
judgment of the United South, who are
prepared to concentrate and co-operate
with discordant and hostile factions, and
rise in rebellion to our magnificent nation
al chieftain, can buckle on the armor of
Charles J. Jenkins, and enlist under the
hybrid colors of Vermont and Massachu
setts.
My fellow-freemen, under which standard
will yon rally? Have you no veneration
for the solemn and united acclaim of your
Southern brethren? Y\ ill you emulate
the belligerent and deserted provinces of
Mexico, by exalting your chief magistrate
one day and hurl him intoexpatriatiou the
next? If you wish to subvert an a Irqinis
tration radiated by the most auspicious!
omens, and crush the cherished hopes of
millions of freemen, install in power its
most persecuting and ruthless enemy Chas.
J. Jenkins. If you wish tq perpetuate the
heritage of your revolutionary fathers—if
you wish to raise an enduriug colossus to
your government and domestic institutions,
to cultivate and cement the moral, physi
cal and intellectual advancement of the
age, this day pronounce for your friend
and President:
“llnawed by power and unappalled by f. a.” I
The Prospects Ahead.
We stated in our last, that as the dust
and smoke of the political contest clear
ed away* we should the more readily be
able to mark the coming result. The
prospect is glorious. Every day shines
brighter and brighter. The election of
Johnson, by several thousand majority,
is now consideied fixed beyond a perad
venture. There is only danger from one
cause: that his friends may conceive his
election so certain, as to forego their
watchfulness ,and vigilance, and suffer
him to be heat by default. We trust
thosa who have begun the go >J work so
well, will’ hold out to the end, and not be
weary in well doing. Bring your friends
up lo the polls—let no laggard remain be
hind because there are enough without him.
We not only waul the victory, but we
want it by thousands. The issue is not
more between Jenkins and Johnson,
than between the State of Georgia and
President Pierce. Will the people of
Georgia support Mr. Pierce’s adminis
tration? If yea, then vole for Judge
Johnson. If they reject him, then vote
for Jenkins. This is the true issue.—
The whigs may twist and distort mat-
ters as they please, but to this complex
ion they must come at last. Then let us
proclaim toour'sister States of the Union,
that Georgia is in sympathy and commu
nication with them—and not barely so,
but by thousands and tens of thonsands.
Let the rally for Pierce and Johnson re
sound from the seaboard to the moun
tains, and reverberate from the moun
tains to the vallies and plains below,'—
Tell by your votes, fellow citizens, that
you stand fixed and settled on the’ Balti
more democratic Platform—that you in
tend to act in good faith towards your
fellow citizens at the North—that you
have accepted the compromise measures
as a finality, and so long as they are ad
hered to by your Northern brethern,all
the efforts of Toombs, Stephens, and
their co-adjutors shall not disturb them
in Georgia. Vote for the democratic
candidates, fellow citizens, and you en
doise the finality of the slavery agitation
and Mr. Pierce’s administration. Vote
for Jenkins and you reject them. ’lbis
is the true issue before the people of
Georgia. Vigilance-vigilance-vigilance;
action—action—action; let these be the
watchwords of democrats until after the
election.
Our Friends.
If the democracy of Georgia has friends
who are prepared to consecrate their time
and abilities, the crisis makes to them a
most eloquent, hopeful Jappcal. It is a
cause in which we all have a mutual and
common stake, and we should individually,
however feeble* wc may suppose our efforts,
contribute our mito to the consummation
of so patriotic au enterprise.
Those who have been the favored recip
ients of our labors and success, and there
arc many of them, should gird ou their
sword and helmet and enter the campaign,
tolls viribus; and wc cannot admire the
magnanimity and grace of any man, whose
aspirations have been cherished, yes, who
has been both honored and rewarded, who
feels no sympathy for those gallant and
brave spirits now fighting for the sceptre
of their principles. If you have no eye
radiant with the future, may reminiscences
of hopes and joys inspire the quiet and po
tent arm.
“Ingratitude is treason so mankind.”
Sandy gives us a considerable list of
freesoil appointments by President Pierce,
who were perhaps so in 1850, but he does
not give us the slightest evidence that
they are i>P now. We told the young
gentleman in our last, that in our belief,
the American Union was a far more dan
gerous implcmeit v io dur domestic repose
and quietude than Win. J. Brown, and
we might have added, “most of the late
freesoilers.” While these inen have come
forward and frankly discarded their free
soil predilectious upon the altar of their
country for the peace and harmony of the
Uuion, and Mr. Pierce is receiving the
recantation of their heresies in °-ood faith
Sandy is insisting that the strife shall
be kept up, an! the North shall still be
arrayed again t the South and the Sooth
against the North. And upon this dis
union of his own m iking, he and his po
litical friends, with Air. Jenkins at their
head, inform you that the Union is again
in danger, and the Union parly must still
be kept up; while his other whig friends,
Chang and Eng, are diligently seeking
to establish a Southern sectional party,
under the name of Republican Citizens,
to keep alive and foment the strife. These
movements show how far, and to what
end, the whigs allied themselves with the
Union party three years ago—.not for the
sake of peace, but to keep up strife and
profit by the turmoil. If you want to
put an end to lUeir dangerous designs de
feat their leader, Jenkins, for Governor,
aud elect Johnson.
The Pussovci*.
We hope oui approximation by steam
to this great festival at Kingston will
enable a mighty outpouring of the people
upon the road line. Eet all uniform that
can. There will be the veteran warrior
the youthful soldjer, the.smile* of beauty
and costly viands, to greet and make- us
happy. We want to &bold the towns
and the highways, the vailies and the
wild forest hills, vocal with the shouts
and authems of the democracy, and the
heavens echo in the thunders of her ma
jesty. Go on?! go all! “merrily along!”
Mr. Jenkins and tle Foreigners
The proscriptive policy of native Amer
icanism, which has recently been dividing
public sentiment in the State of New
York, is about to be transferred South,
with its poisonous and anti-republican
tendencies; A party is now at the North
denouncing Gian. Pierce, because he gives
all the citizens of the United Stales an
equal claim to the protection and benefits
of the government. Whenever a party
is successfully organized in this Union,
by which its republican spirit is stifled,’
and that constitutional prolection which i
it casts as a shield over every’ man, so J
soon as he places his foot upon American !
soil, is denied, then you may look to see j
the refuge of the oppressed, the only liv-j
ing memorial of a free government, tumb-,
ling in the wrkeof old exclusive .despot- •
ism. j
Toombs has labored to arouse the in- j
diguation of the people, in opposition to j
Gen. Pierce, because of his just and libe- j
ral bearings to the true and adopted j
friends of this government. Mr. Jenkins,
in his speech at Atlanta, announced as
one of his reasons for attaching a proper
ty qualification to every voter under the
Algerine act, was to resist the influx of
foreign importation. Such a demonstra
tion as this, in defiance to the well recog
nized policy of our institutions, should he
met at its threshold and crushed in its
germ. And to this end, we invoke tb r
united effort of every foreign and ne'.ve
citizen, to come to the rescue of t\e ad
ministration, and alone give their votes
to the advocates and exponents of free
suffrage.
CHAS. J. JENKINS vs. GEN. NELSON’S
BRIGADE.
T his unnatural and obnoxious vote gi
ven by Mr. Jenkins in refusal of forage
and provisions for the troops then encamp
ed atound the capitol, like all other of
Mr. Jenkins’ sins, is attempted to be
i excused, because other distinguished
members of the legislature did the same
thing. This only aggravates the matter,
and if it cannot bejuslified upon its merit,
then Mr. Jenkins, as well as the others,
must bear the odium.
To make provisions for the troops,
Gov. McDonald introduced a bill in the
Senate, and Col. Crane of Lumpkin,
and Col. John B. Lamar of Bibb, all good
and true democrats^,came to the relief of
our suffering soldiers; while Charles J.
Jenkins and the entire whig party, turned
their backs upon their appeals of justice,
and drove them from their encampments,
like serfs and robbers from the protection
of that State for which they were then
bearing arms.
All this is in keeping with the high
stilted Algerine proscription which have
marked that gentleman, and for which a
liberal and generous people will enter a
judgment of eternal condemnation.
Sandy and Judge Johnson.
Sandy Says, —“lt is known through
all this section of country, that Judue
Johnson is supported for Governor be
cause he is a Southern Rights man.’’
Who knows all that Sandy/ Judge
Johnson is supported becauso he is a
democrat, holding to the principles of
that party, prescribed and laid down
in the Baltimore platform. As far as
that platform involves State Rights prin
ciples he is a State Rights man, and so
supported. So of Mr. J rNkins, lie
is running and supported as a whig. As
far as the platform of tire whig party
embraces unconditional submission to
the General Government, advocacy of a
tariff, bank, &c. Mr. Jenkins is guil
ty of the “soft impeach neat,” let his
friends attempt to excuse him as they
may.
Mr. Jenkins in Marietta.
Mn. Jenkins, in his speech at Marict”
ta, with a most bitter sueer exclaimed,
“God forbiJ thu I should ever go to
the Democratic party.” His had taste
in calling on the name of Deity to wit
ness it, shows th** solemnity of his vow.
He never spoke with more sincerity in
his life. And will Democrats go to him
after such an ejaculation? Will they go
to him, an 1 for him, anJ vote for him?
But it may be said he is a Union man—
If he ever was, farther than ha expected
to make capital out of it, which is ex
remely doubtful, his Alexmdar letter
tells y£>u he is not one now, and tells you
further to go and rejoin your old party
the democrats, as he intends to join his
the whig*. Will Union democrats hang
on to Jenkins after he has dismissed them?
Will they be mean spirited enough to stay
until he kicks them away? Wo cannot)
we will not believe it until we see it; and
shall not then believe them an}’ longer
democrats, but turned whigs and gone
over to the enemy,
FOUR NAGS
Entered upon the Spalding course for
the Senatorial prize! Riders up! Spur on
heel and whip in hand. To aman up a
ttee, the old ploughman holds the inside
track, and bounds like a nimble stag a
long the course. Clear the way! Every
man for himself, and the devil catch the
hindmost 1 Look out doctors and law
yers;
“If you never Bned flic Devil,
With his iron, woodon shovel.”
GOV. COBB
Will be at the mass meeting in Kingston,
on Friday the 9th inst,, and will address
the assembly. We regret that the indis
position of his family made his absence
from the State indispensible, as his coun
cils and services were both desirable.—
He is now fresh from tho headquarters of
the Grand SachfM . Let the people hear.
THE ALGERINE ACT.
I here is hut one principle upon which
the Algerino law can ho maintained, and
1 hat is: if Mr. Jenkins and his friends can
satisfy itie public mind, that aR the pro
perty holders are honest and capable, and
that those less fortunate, are dishonest
and incapable, then he has a principle to
act upon—and he and its friends must
have entertained a similar opinion, or they
could not have urged its pussage and re
sisted its repeal. Big fish will eat up the
little ones.
Ills excellency Gov. Colib. ‘
We are happy to state, that Gov. Cobb
has returned to Georgia, after a short
trip W tile North, where he had gone to
Wait upon his invalid lady. Mrs. C. we
understand, lias measurably recovered
from lief indisposition, and the Governor
is now roady to take the democratic stand,
as far as his official duties will permit, and
deliver a few of his hot shot to the enemy.
We have no doubt his stalwart political
arm will do yeoman’s service in the cause,
before the close of the campaign.
Gov. Cobb has appointed lion. W. W.
lloi.t, Judge of the Superior Court of the
Middle Circuit, in place of lion A. J. Mil
ler, resigned. And Hon. F. 11. Cone,
Judge of the Ocmulgec Circuit, in place
of Hon. 11. Y. Johnson, resigned. j
Tlie Recorder's Theological Moor
buck,
i Says that Col. Trippc’s prospects are en
! couraging, and that lie met bis opponent.
! at Griffin and came out ot the conflict tri-
I umphantly. If that was a victory, he
| should henceforth ‘pray to be delivered
I from a defeat, for there would not be a grea
j sy spot left of’.dm. If to lose nine coun
j t les oll t of eleven is “encouraging,” wc will
’ not mar your joys. The hand writing
; is ou the wall, hard grinning, low equat
| thg, big sweating and no elect will be the
epitaph of the mongrel disciple of the
! ghost of Marshfield.
The Recorder’s Theological Roor- >
back,
Says Judge Johnson was at tire mass
meeting in Macon, in 1850, and sustained
Mr Rhett. Mark this wanton venal cal
umny. Judge Johnson was not at the
mass meeting. Judge Johnson was not
in Macon. Judge Johnson was at his res
idence in Milledgeville. And there can be
no expiation for so heinous an accusation,
because the truth was as easily accessible.
We hope this follower of the Apostles
John and Peter, will learn the truthfulness
of the’r teachings, by experience, if not
otherwise, that “a hypocrite with his mouth
destroyeth his neighbor, but through
knowledge shall the just be delivered.”
The Recorder's Tneolosical Roorback,
Says that Judge Johnson was appointed
United States Senator because of his dis
union services. What a whapper! Gulivcr is
nowhere! Pandemoneum disgorg’d of its bo
wels docs not contain a blacker, baseless ac
cusation. The veriest sophomore in politics,
gumbofools could not be ignorant of the fact
that Towns appointed Judge Johnson at
the session of the legislature of 1847, and
the compromise measures were not passed
until the Congress of 1850, and the legis
lature of 1849 took action with reference
to them in advance. Head, Air. Parson,
the professed man of thy council, and learn,
’that the lip of truth shall be established
forever, but a lying tongue is but for a
moment.”
The Recorder’s Theological Roorback,
Says that Judge Johnson was opposed to
our system of internal improvement by
the State. Is your ignorance and your
malignity inexhaustible? Are you de
termined without regard to truth or de
cency, to persist in the manufactory of
your assaults upon the character of a man
that never injured you nor the public in
terests of the country? Can you obtain
your consent, deliberately, to tarnish and
impugn the character and fame of a man
with whom you profess to bend around the
same altar, and tho same sacramental cov
enant? If this be Christian fellowship,
give us an inkling of the fellowship of de
vils. The charge is false, and there is
none so blind as those that will not see.
Col. Chastain anti Col. finder
wood.
We regret to hear of the indisposition
of Col. Chastain, but hope it is only tem
porary. Col. Underwood has agreed to
supply his appointments, in the event ho
is precluded from being present. This is
exceeding clever in Col. Underwood, as
we understand he is a most capital stump
speaker, surd probably an over match for
any of his opponents. Wc hope lie mav
not only win golden opinions for himself,
but great numbers may flock to our stan
dard under his eloquent teachings.
Col. Chappell and Col. DcGraffcn
reid.
Addressed their fellow-citizens in Pulaski
county last week. Mr. Chappell made a
most, impressive and thri'ling appeal to his
Union friends not to abandon the adminis
tration and its friends.
Col. DeGraffenricd followed him in a
most effective and conclusive exposition of
the two pasties, and exhibited to his U
nion friends the intrigue and subtlety with
which the Toombs and Jenkins organiza
tion proposed to decoy them in tho meshes
of Whiggery. They passed this place a
few days past. They will address the citi
zens of Atlanta and McDonough in Hen
ry county. May a rich harve>t attend
their labors. lioll ou the Ball.
Mr. Jenkins ami Massachusetts.
Mr. Jenkins and Federal Frcesoil Mass
achusetts, par nobilefrat rum, are marching
hand in glove in memory of their departed
leader and prototype. What a significant
sublime spectacle, Charles J. Jenkins of
Georgia, Massachusetts and their faithful
ally Vermont, marshalling the enemies of
the administration, in front and open op
position to tho verdict and judgement of J
every slave State. Unable to enlist a sin-1
gle Southern State, in the infamous and
inexorable crusade against Gen. Pierce.—
Will democrats, men who stood by Jack
son and Polk, in storm and sunshine, rally
to this sable banner, which has been trod
den in the dust by every sovereign State
South of Mason & Dixon’s line. Rather
than tarnish you fair escutcheon, let
your motto be bcl/um internecinum. j
The American Union.
Sandy in his last, speaks of a “contro
versy between us and the Jeffersonian —
Ask pardon, Sandy—excuse us—but wo
really did not know there was such a thing
going on. What is it about? We now
and then, for our amusement, take up our
pen, and hit Sandy a “lick,” but we trust
he docs not consider our sports any demon
stration towards a controversy with h : m.
Not at all—all in fiju Sandy. Would’nt
hurt you for any thing.
CALHOUN AND DENT.
Sandy says Calhoun will “push his op
ponent hard.” Not a doubt of it, Sandy.
He will help Dent considerably with every
speech he makes. But what is the use of
it? Dent is getting on swimmingly with- j
out him. “ (
THE REPUBLICAN -
Says “that the friends of Gen. Pierce are
abandoning him,” and that “he may now
be said to be a President without a party.”
What a sage disclosure! Is this knave
or fool? Four States only voted against
Gen. Pierce at his election; and since that
time Tennessee has fallen into line, and
Kentucky divided her delegation, leaving
Vermont and Massachusetts in cordial
embrace with the Republican and his co
horts. Twenty-nine sovereign flags now
wave in gorgeou? communion over the
national bead of onr Democratic Chief.’
The secret of all this dissimulation lies
in the truthful adage, that “tho dog growls
because his own head is sore.”
Mo NS A. 11. CHAPPELL AND C. B. COLE
The Columbus Enquirer is a little res
tive at the position of these distinguished
gentlemen of the democratic party. For
this he is not seriously culpable. All ar
| dent, selfish partisans dislike to be arrayed
against the intelligence and virtue of the
nation.
But it surely is not very commendable
to his courtesy, if true, to make personal
assaults to appease his political prejudices
and discontent. Col Chappell’s charac
ter for integrity and independence, has its
equals but not its superiors. And as to
Judge Cole, his high position as a polished
gentleman, and as one of the brightest or-
I naments of an honorable profess on, isam-
I pie aegis against the puny missiles of petty
I party infatuation. Col. Chappell, we had
; thought, had long since read a lesson to
Georgia whiggery, that wculd continue
fresh in their memory. And as to Judge
Cole, he, never from his earliest life, has
done otherwise than maintain and defend
the doctrines of the national democracy— _
and has been a useful acquisition of the
party.
Old Wilkinson erect.
This staunch pillar of the Democratic
Temple still stands firm and firmer, invul
nerable to the battery of the adversary.—
Wc have an excellent ticket for that coun
ty, mounted with Col. A. Cochran fertile
Senate, who never flinches, and never sur
renders, and never gets whipped. Our cor
respondent says Johnson is decidedly strong
and will combine more numbers than has
been concentrated upon the Democracy
for many years, to the tune of—
“ Possum up I hr? gum ‘rep,
Cooney in the hollow.”
A GLORIOUS WHIG VICTORY AT LAST
William J Boon is elected constableiiv
Linn Boyd’s district. T his is the first whig
gun fired upon Frank Pierce since his In
auguration. How the Algerines chuckle
and their proud spirits titter. * Glorious
shades of Ashland. Shout “Charley”
shout. It’s “marrow to thy bones and fat to
thy belly.” “Praise upon the loud cym
! bals. Praise upon the high-sounding cvm
! bals.” *
Whitfield Uauaij .
This noble county wflp raise a momi
j incut to the Democracy in October next,
j From bur intelligence front this-connty, we
expect to place her in the list of the ban
ner counties. Our correspondent- says,
“mark from five tourer? hundred toYVhit
-1 field.” The people are roused in Chcro-
I kee, the Democracy is moving like a rear
: ing lion, and as terrible as an army with’
! banners. The Algerines arc taking their
j caves. Let tlie chmqucpin ridge catch the
1 spirit, mise their signals and bon-fircs, and- 1
f*ud back the glad tidings to our brave
| friends of the mountains.
| Pike Coinuy
1 As we are a rib of mother Pike, we
j l )ear a fil’ and love for her weal; and our
■young limits grow, as we hear she has
: ttiken a welding heat upon her county
j feuds. We want to hear of their jnldug
| the cncm !/ and not each other. See to it
jour good brothers Green, Arnold and
\ 1 r ' ce - Dehold, says the psalmist, “how
good and how pleasant it is for brethren
to dwell together in unity.”
GEN. DIX.
This brut am fulmsn has expired in its
own shame, and has been nailed to the
counter as spurious coin, and it would be
but a retribution of jusiice, if its author
was nailed to the same counter by his
ears, provided it was not Bobuel.
BOBUEL.
M e have not been enabled to record a
single truth uttered by Bobuel, during his
j mission ofbolderdash among the people.
S Unless his declaration that “the Algerine
law will beat Jenkins to h —II” be veri
fied, he has got a clear record of black.
The Jenkins Stock
Has declined rapidly since his missionary
explorations through the Cherokee coun
try, in the Scott Whig Market .
TalLiot.
In this county the Scott boys have o-ot
the terlium quids where Waddv had The
h£)i] and the Pierce boys are sure of help
ing em. Catch is a mighty good dog,
but Hold-fast is a better. S
ALGERINE PROBLEM.
If a man owns a Jack Worth one thou
sand dollars, and under Mr. Jenkins’ law
he votes, and afterwards the Jack dies.
(Query) Who voted the Jack or his
ownei ?
j SOMEBODY ELSE DEAD BESIDES US;
| Fire in tlie Whig warn!! !
Seven candidates in Warren county,
and as many in Newton and Talbot.
“Jim ernck com
1 don’t care.”
THE SPEECH ON SATURDAY.
From a commerce of opinions will) our
citizens, we arc confident, that the demo
cratic party would do well to lake stork
in the I combs’ meetings, particularly if
attended with similar results as the one
on the third instant in this place. We
would have his friends to inform him,
that we would like to have his services
in all our militia districts. He is making
valuable acquisitions for our cause; and
j we opine the Scott w higs w ill sty we
are not far from the mark, as he gave
them particulary'ewe, as well as we, us and
company. 1 hey have a happy tact,
however, of consoling themselves, by
saying, “who cares wha|t Bob Toombs
says.”
Bibb Nominations. —-We perceive by>
the proceedings of a meeting held in
con, on Saturday last, that James Dean,
Esq., has been nominated by the demo
cratic party as Senator for that county,
and Dr. 11. K. Green and Stephen Slo
cpmb. Esq., as Representatives,-
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