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MR. THURMOND’S LETTER.
Jefferso*, Gi Sept. 4th, 1853.
Mutrp. Clayton, Wofford , &o.
Gentlemen!
pleasure to be with you, end to mix and
mingle with our fellow citizens of the
mouttein region on that important occa
sion, but it is impossible to do so. lam
as much impressed with the importance
of harmony in the democratic party, as
you can possibly be, and would do any*
thing reasonable that is within my pow
er, that would have a tendency to bring
about the happv result. 1 belong, as you
are aware, to that wing of the party call
ad “Union democrats,” and voted and
went for the Tugalo movement in 1852,
tinder an impression that we were not
properly treated; but I never contempla
ted or intended thereby to become a
whig. I was taught, and so believed,
that the Union party was not section
al, and was intended to put down section
al agitation—and so it was. But Messrs.
Toombs, Stephens and Jenkins have at
tempted to revive the Union, or rather
th whig party, under another name, up
on the idea of sectional agitation. Now
*sr, that was not my understanding in
1850, when the old parties were broken
up, and the Union party formed. I uni
ted with whig Union men for the express
purpose of of putting down sectional agi
tation. Now, Mr. Toombs Js the very
lasttnan in Georgia that should raise his
voice in favor of the whig or a sectional
party, for during the Legislature of 1851,
when he, Judge Hill, Col. Holt and Mr.
Jenkins, were all in the field a3 candi
dates for the United Slates Senate, the
whiga urged the claims of Messrs. Hill,
Holt, and Jenkins, because they were in
favor of adhering to the whig, and op
posed to going into the democratic party;
and Mr. Toombs was supported by dem
ocrats, because he was in favor of send
ing delegates to the democratic national
convention, as the democratic party of
the North was the soundest on the ques
lion of slavery. And on the night on
which the Union party held a caucus to
nominate a candidate for Senate, Messrs.
Bartow, Hill and others, tried to postpone
the nomination, in order, as was general
ly believed, to defeat Toomb’s nomina
tion, and it was on the ground that he was
in favor of going into the democratic
party. But the caucus finally resolved
to bring on the nomination, and did actu
ally nominate Mr. Toombs; and he was
eent for and came, and mounted the table
and boldly proclaimed that the democrats
of the North were the soundest on the
question of slavery, and that he was in fa
vor of acting with the national party which
was soundest on the question, and even
went so far as to intimate his preference
for Mr. Buchanan for President. That
was Mr. Toombs, the candidate for Sen
atorial honors; well, Mr. Toombs was
elected, and that by Union democrats, fori
without the aid of the Union democrats )
in the nomination, he would have failed,
rd well has he rewarded them for it.
Again—just before the Legislature of
1851 adjourned, a Legislative caucus of
the Union party was held, to determine
what course the party should pursue in
the then approaching President ll election.
A committee of 24 was appointed, three
from each Congressional district. The
committee repotted io favor of sending
delegates to ihe national democratic con
vention, which was supported and advo
cated by both Mr. Miller and Judge Mer
liwether, and was adopted. Well, every
union men in the State, I presume thought
that would he the course of the Union
parly of Gprrgia. Bui when the party
met ia convention in Aptil, the Ajax of
whiggery, Mr.-Jenkins, was there, and
he had not forgotten the defeat Mr.
Toombs had given him for Senator; and
I presume one of those strong desires,
as expressed in his letter, in July, there
after, came over him, of adhering to the
whig party, and it was mainly through
his influence that that convention resolv
ed not to send delegates to the Balti
more convention.
Mr. Jenkins, of all other union whigs
in the Stele, ie the most objectionable in
my view—for he not only done all in
his power todefeat the project of send
ing delegates-tb the democratic national
convention, but'as suon as the candidates
were nominated, he came out in a letter
on the Ist of July, in which he
expressed bin.self satisfied with the whig
platform, and that he had “ a stronger dr.-
tire than ever before, to adhere to the Nu
tionl Whig parly, and to give to its nom
inee \us feeble support. ‘ 1 That he did not
oppose Gen. Scott on the Southern ques
tion but because he was a military man,
fcc. &c. That “Ac should be sorry , never-
iheless , to Sit the Constitutional Union par
ty, en mass, vote for ike democratic nomi
i.” That, under existing circumstan
ces, he would not ask his deinocrat.fi
Union friends to abandon their former
allies, nor wag he at all disposed to sep
erate from his-.” That, “ there was no
reasons to suppose that they conceived a new
attachment to the whig party , and upon the
closest self-examination , he did not perceive
that he was at all democratized.” This j
was his language in substance. lie then
ttook the ground thai Union democrats
might, nay, ought to return to their old
part}'allies. Well, ! must 6ay in the
language of Jlr. Jenkins, that upon the
strictest examination, I cannot come to
the conclusion that I am at all Whig-ized,
and shall, therefore, not vote for Mr. Jen
kins. I shall take his advice, given when
there was no reason to suspect him of
demagoguoism to catch votes —I shall act
with my old allies. I think that after
Mr. Jenkins’ letter of the Ist of July,
1832, disbanding the Union party -and
honorably discharging the rank and file,
that he now comes with a-poor grace to
ask Union democrats to vote for him. He
i the last nan { should think- of voting
fur. How any Union man ean think
of voting lor him r is a mystery to me.
Some Union democrats seem to think
the question of accession is at issue in
this contest for Governor—l cannot think
so. 1 regard it as an old fashioned fight
between whiggery and democracy, and
it is so looked upon ami regarded by the |
whig party beyond- the State, and will
certainly be claimed as a whig triumph,
should Mr. Jenkins be elected. Let the
Jenkius party get the majority in the
Legislature, and those Union democrats
who are green enough now to act with
them, will see who wdl be elected Uni
ted States Senator. Will Judge An
drews, Dr. Slaughter, or Col. Holsey be
thought of? No, sirs; old fashioned
wbigs, such men as Dawson, Dougherty,
Urawfcrdj &r ILolt, wjil be elected. Let .
Jeukins be inaugurated Governor, and
who will he appointed to the Superin
tending and to all other subordinate posts
upon the State railroad? Who will be
principal keeper of the Penitentiary?
Who military store keeper at Savannah
and at Milledgeville? Think you that
the) will be democrats? I beg of Union
democrats not to deceive themselves in
such a manner. They will all be whigs
of the “straitest sect ,” and those who
hare not, upon the strictest self-examina
tion at all become democratized.
Gentlemen, you will please accept my
thanks for your very kind invitation, and
rest assured that although not ptesent,
yet I am with you in feelings.
I remain your most ohedient servant,
SAML. P. THURMOND.
Communications.
For the Georgia Jeffersonian.
Mr. Editor:
I really have no wish to intrude myself
upon your columus in the capacity of a
querulous denunciatorycorrespondent: but
I wish to indulge in a few remarks upon
an article which appeared last week in
that “most noble” of all Georgia hebdom
edafs, the Lagrange Reporter. One of
the astute editors, or perhaps one of the
many supernumeraries, connected with
that “fearful and wonderful” sheet, has
penned an editorial concerning our Spal
ding election, which I conceive to be not
only very nneditor-like, but contemptibly
dishonorable.
In the first place, what business has the
“Lagrange Ret or ter” with Spalding elec
tions? Secondly, why misrepresent, a
buse, slander and lie? In speaking of
nominations here the ‘Reporter’ says—“the
mass of the party eventually nominated
William Crittenden for the House, and
Col. P. W. A. Doyle for the Senate.”—
Now, to quote a favorite saying of all the
Union Conservative Republican Citizen
Algerine papers, if the writer of that pen
ned it ‘in ignorance he’s a fool, if he did
it designedly he’s a knave 1 “The mass of
the party” did not nominate Col. Doyle.
It was a self-nomination, as every body ill
Spalding knows; and, if the writer knows
anything at all about the matter, he knows
it too. If he has no knowledge upon the
subject he has no business meddling with
it. Again, in reference to Mr. Moseley,
the article runs thus, —“Now if we had a
rote in Spalding county, we would certain
ly not vote for Mr. Moseley for three rea
sons. First, because he professes to be a
Union Whig, and yet leans towards the
Re-united Democracy in order to catch
votes; secondly, because he believes it un
constitutional to make new counties, and
of course it would be unconstitutional to
vote for him to represent the r.ew couuty
of Spalding; and thirdly, because he has
not ail education sufficient to qualify him
to fill any office. We make the broad as-
sertion that the Rev. Wm Moseley can
) not compose ten lines (without assistance)
and “spell” all of the words correctly.”
There is a fable, Mr. Editor, of a cer
tain dog in chase of a rabbit, and certain
contingencies connected with the little
word if prevented the said dog from catch
ing said rabbit.
The fable is applicable to the first clause
of the above quotation. As to the first
reasou why the writer (I ought to say ed
itor or supernumerary) would not vote
f<>r Mr. Moseley, that’s all a lmmbug.—
The only ‘leaning’ we know anything a
bout, is Mr. Moseley’s assertion that he
would positively vote for Mr. Jenkins, and
as to the rest of the ticket, he would, in
accordance with his conscience, exclusive
of partizan considerations, vote as he tho’t
best. And what freeman is there in the
land who does not claim and exercise the
same glorious prerogative? As to the
second reason —that’s a positive unmitiga
ted lie, and if any body doubts it let him
turn to pages 48, 55, 59, 65 and 69 of
the Journal of the Senate for 1851—52.
The third reason is, in substance, that the
whig party for twenty-five years, has been
supporting and sustaining, by their votes,
voice and influence, a man who “has not
an education sufficient to qualify him for
any office;” that they have sent him to
legislate for them seven times and to the
electoral college once, only needing the
erudite scribes of the ‘Lagrange Reporter’
to post them np on the subject of his utter
incapacity. As to the “broad assertion”
—shade of Webster!—sceptre of Walk
er!—What is this I sec before me?”
Blakely, of the ‘Reporter/ hurling edi
torials at bad spellers. That’s one of the
riches*, jokes ever perpetrated. ‘Pot call
ing kettle black.’ ‘Satan rebuking sin.’—
Pluck the beam out of thine own eye, &c.
Mr. Reporter! Reader, examine the very
issue itself in which this abortion of a
charge is preferred against Mr. Moseley.
Count the orthographical errors, note the
grammatical faults. Asa lady of the revo
lution said to Tarlton when he taunted
her with the assertion that Washington
could not write his own name, “he may
not, Sir, but he knows how to make his
mark;” Mr. Moseley may not be as excel
lent a speller as the learned pundits of
the ‘Reporter/ but he knows how to make
his mark, and he’s going to make it too
on the second of October. W.
Communicated
Hear it Yc Savans! Listen, oh Ye Sages!
Mr Editor:—l noticed a communica-
tion in the Jeffersonian of last week, pur
porting to be from the pen of J. Y M.
Packet, a whig. Now the people have
made much inquiry who this political cen
sor is, that writes such tv bold’ and know
ing fist, dictating to the enlightened free
men of Spalding county how they should
vote in the next October election. His
extravagant laudations of the claims of
the Rev. Wm. Moseley, for the office of
Senator; would seem, to the people, that
he was a personage of some importance,
and we wonder if he did not have the
greatest cancer doctor in the world with
him as his accoucher or granny, when he
brought forth. He says that Wra. Moseley
and Dr. Simmons are the only prominent
candidates for that office. We would say
to this young statesman, get that flea out
of your ear—in your pregnant zeal for Mr.
Moseley you had forgotten that the gallant
Doyle, the regular nominee and standard
bearer of the democratic party, is in the
field, and who is proudly bearing our flag
on to glory and to victory, side by side
with the sterling Crittenden, and we think,
the signs of the times, for the last ten or
fifteen days, both in town and country,
will warrant a handsome majority for
Doyle and Crittenden. Democrats are
waking up to a sense of duty, wiping the
sand from their eyes, and ace now rallying
to the banner of principle.
The lucubration of Mr. J; Y. M. Puck-|
ett forcibly reminds me of the fable of the
donkey that robed himself in a lion’s skin
and tried to frighten some bys, but in his
attempt to roar he brought forth a dolo
rous bray. The boys, in rep y, told him
that he might have passed for a real lion,
if he bad only held his tongue. Rut alas
for you, we know who you are, Mr. Don
key. We shou and not have given Mr.
Puckett’s first born even a passing notice,
but from the fact that the voters of Spa!
ding county might know who they c<>u and
get tickets from on the day of the election.
We hope we will be excused for our brev
ity, as the game is small and we don’t
like to waste ammunition In conclusion,
we would say to this young Solon, to re
load his political gun and try again, as we
are satisfied that it does more damage at
the breech than at the mnzzle
A DEMOCRAT.
For the Georgia Jeffersonian.
Double-handed Game.
It is reported, and generally believed,
that Dr. Simmons hes been wearing two
coats. We are informed, that when he
meets up with a Memorial man, that he
favors the principle; but when he gets in
company with an anti-liquor man, he is
light in for the real old ba’.d-face, split
head whiskey. Now, Jimmy, what has
caused this change to come over the spi - I
rit of your dreams? Are you actually
converted, and determined to abandon
your first love, or do you intend to de-
ceive the people? Who put you in your
piesent position? If not, come out and
show your hand; do like Judge Wright—
face the music—stand up to your first
position though you die ny it. The old
Judge is made the right way of the dirt;
and if every man that has put his hand to
the Petition will stick up to his pledge.
Judge Wright will be the first Senator
from the county of Spalding.
Griffin, Ga. NUNCIUS.
For the Georgia Jeffersonian.
Dr. J. N. Sim morns
This gentleman, as I understand, was
nominated as the .Memorial candidate, for
the county of Spalding, to represent the
whig party as Senator in the next Gene
ral Assembly. As he has been voting on
both sides of the question, I deem it pro
per and right to ask Dr. Simmons, if he
has not, during the present canvas, said
that he was a strong and ardent support
er of the Memorial? And have you net
at other times, when meeting with those
who are opposed to the .Memorial, said,
and affirmed that you was opposed to all
such diabolical measures, and wou and do
your utmost to defeat it? Did you not
promise certain men in this place, who are
strong Memorial men, that if you was
elected you would do all in your power to
have a thousand dollar tax levied on every
groceiy keeper within the .Mate of Geor
gia? Have you not said, that groceries
were a great curse to our country, and
that the Legislature ought to abolish
them all from our country? It is said,
and believed, that all these charges are
true; and it is your duty, as a candidate,
to let the people know your correct posi
tion on those important subjects.
A VOTER.
For tiie Georgia Jeffersonian l .
Be on ycur guard.
I am informed that there are all
kinds of false certificates against the Hon.
V’ illiam Moseley, being circulated through
out the county. By this disreputable and
dishonest means, a portion of the Doyle
and Simmonites, hope to gull the people
into the support of their conglomerated
candidates. Spurn them from you, my
fellow-citizens, and hurl your indignant
rebuke against a cause that has to be sus
tained by such wretched expedients. It
is reported, and generally believed to be
true, that. Col. Doyle has* been induced to
become a candidate by some of the Scott
whigs, for the express purpose of trying
to defeat Moseley and elect Simmons.—
Who is, and has been, his counsellors in
this matter? We believe, just such men
as Dr. Simmons, who has been publicly
assisting the Colonel in his speeches a
gainst Mr. Moseley. What does all this
mean?—Straws show which way the wind
blows. This we suppose is the way that
Col. Doyle intends making the Demo
cratic party howl on the first Monday in
October next. DEMOCRATS
Griffin, Ga.
For the Georgia Jeffersonian.
Mr. Editor:
I do not wish to be inquisitive; but be
ing an individual of very humble capaci
ties, compared with some of the luminaries
in the present Senatorial candidacy, I
wish to obtain a few items of information
upon a diabolical subject broached by one
of our Spalding constellations a short time
since.
I wish to locate Pandimonium. Is it
not the Legislative Hall of the infernal
regions? It seems to me that it is. And
who was Moloch? Was he not one of
the principal counsellors, and one of the
most malignant of that unholy convoca
tion? So, I think, Milton represents him,
Can any Democrat, 1 would ask, vote for
an individual who represents his party as
possessed of a Pandimonium, and two of
its most talented members as “the Molochs”
of the infernal den? If anyone Democrat
can, I don’t know who he is. And, yet,
such a denunciation was indulged in by a
mythological candidate last week.
And if “temples, sanhedrims, Molochs
and Pandemoniums” constitute his only
capital; he bad better stand from under—
A BRICK.
Curious Co-incidence. —That while
the Conservative presses are casting up
on Gen. Pierce the odium of being an
Abolitionist-Garrison, Greely, and their
friends, are denouncing hitn as the Presi
dent of the Slavery interest. About as
unaccountable is the fact that some of
those who, two years ago, drew up and
passed the Georgia Plattorrii, and raved
to plant the whole county upon it, should
have so soon deserted their own princi
ples, and now cry aloud that the finality
cf the Compromise is not the test, that
there is something more than that neces
sary to render a N’orthern man sound
i They are difficult to satisfy.— Alb. Pa-
triot.
MCIRRIOnPES,
TBIAKEN in the best style of the ait—Dagneri
JL reolvpe stock for sale. Watches and Jewel
ry repaired in the best manner bv
JOHN M. LUNQ.UTST.
Hill!,.Griffin, G., Ang.2l,lSj.l. 31 — 1 y
THE JEFFERSONIAN
G-RIFITn. SEPTUMBER 29 , 1853
FOR GOVERNOR
HEftSMEL \. JOHNSON*
FOR CONGRESS
DAVID J. BaILEV, third District.
W. B. W. DEN I’, Fourth District.
von representative,
WILLIAM* CRITTENDEN.
— ■
SELLING OUT.
We refer our readers to our advertise
rnent, and pafticuldrly request our breth
ren of the proses to-give us a lift in getting
off by giving the advertisement a few in
sertions.
Election Tickets.
Wc will he pleased to execute any or
ders sent to us for Election Tickets, at
60 cents per hundred, with a liberal dis
count when a thousind or more are or
dered. All orders must be accompanied
by ihe cash or they will receive no atten
| ‘.ion, either from town or country.
>
GRIFFIN LYCEUM.
The next Lecture will be delivered on
this (Thursday) evening, at candle light,
in the Baptist Church, bv Allen* Flem
ing.
Proceedings of Council.
Owing to a press of ottier matter we
have been obliged to postpone publishing
the proceedings of last meeting of Coun
cil till next wetk.
Ho for Jonesboro.
Cars will start from Griffin to the Jones
boro Mass Meeting, on Thursday morn
ing, at 7 o’clock. Return again, leaving
Jonesboro’ at 50r6 P. M C mie one,
come all! Go l . Chappell, G >v. Cobb and
Judge Johnson, Col. Dent, Col. Stell
and Cl. Glenn, are expected to address
the meeting.
Grand Democratic Rally.
A Meeting of the Democracy of De*
Kalb county will he h**l-J in Atlanta, on
Saturday evening, October Is*. Gov.
Cobb, Judge Johnson, Hon. A. H. Cnap
p-11, Col. Dent nod other distinguished
Democrats will tie present and address
the people on the political questions o*
the day.
A great time for the B'hoya.
‘I hr-Jonesboro’ Democratic Mass Meet-
ing conies (iff to-day.
W hig Barbecue in Griffin to-morrow.
Democratic Mass Meeting at Atlanta
on Saturday.
General Election on Monday.
We think we had a monstrous mean
correspondent from Possum Trot meeting
house last wetk, and if he thinks other
wise we will prove it to him. lie knew
i the contents of his letter was no concern
of ours, and yet he forwarded it without
paying the postage. Now if he is not an
exceedingly mean man, he will vet send
us that haJf dime without further charge
Let us se* iftie will, As to publishing
his epistle, we hope he does not suppose
us so verdent as to publish fora man who
is cheating us, and is so mean that he
would rather make us pay five cents which
we ought not to pay, than pay three cents
himself which he ought justly to pay.
Slessrs. King and Thurmond’s
Letters.
The first of these admirable letters is
on our first page. The other we pub'ish
in a preceding column on this page.—
They are both copied from the Cassvillc
Standard, and were written in reply to
invitations to attend the Kingston meet
ing. Messrs. King and Thurmond are
both old Union Democrats. These let
ters will amply repay for the trouble of
perusing them.
Arthur's Home Ala;aziae.
‘I his is rather an unpretending monthly,
scarcely out of its teens, yet it now ranks
among the best periodicals of the day. I<
is true, it contains no flashy fashion plates,
but when you search for good readable
matter, you find it. We have before us
the October number, being No. 4 of the
second volume, and we had rather have
that one-ruember thaw a volume of Godey
or Graham. These “old fogies” will
have to give place to “young America.”
Mr. Jenkins’ popularity in Geor
gl.
In 1844 Mr. Jenkins was a candidate
for Elector on the Clay Presidential whig
ticket, and. received the smallest vote of the
whole twenty candidates before the peo
ple. Even in Richmond county Mr.
Jenkins was the hindmost, and brought
up the rear.
The Lagrange Reporter wants a thou
sand dollars to be taken from the State
Treasury and given to an orator “who
will enlist in favor of Mr. Jenkins for the
next ten days;” but he does not like Gov.
Cobb to be making addresses around the
couritiy in favor of Judge Johnson.
In this world of tisjly freex,
Circumstances niter cases,
Says the Reporter. But ho says, he is
not a bit ulraid.
“God forbid ihat I should ever go to
the Democratic party.” This was Mr.
Jenkins’ expression at Marietta, in a
public address. Suppose he should he
elected Governor, if that be a supposeable
ease, think you he would gt> to the Dem
ociats the offices within his
gift? Not a step, to one of them. And
yet it is said some Union Democrats are
disposed to ’Jote for him, when thev have
choice between’ him and Johnson, who
will fairly divide the offices between U
uion and Slate Rights mu.
Deutli of JiriTge Kin?.
It is with sincere regret that we an-
nounce the death of the Hon> Angus M. I
D. King. He died at Americus, on the •
sth inst., after a lingering illness, of
consumpt:on. He was for several years !
Judge of the Superior Courts of the Flint 1
Circuit, and discharged the duties of the’
office with credit and ability. He was
a good citizen—a just and upright man,
—and possessed social and amiable qual
ities which endeared him to all who knew ‘
hitn. I
Oar first
On thfe drat page of this paper will be
found an atticle in support of Col. Doyle
for the Senate and Judge Crittenden for
the House.
In the four-handed game for the Senate
we did not intend to take any part, nor
do we now, further than to correct what
are well known to he misstatements.—
Had the LaGrange ReporUr kept his jaw
to himself, he should have had no
thing from us on the subject. Our rea
ders must look over the communication
on the first page, and our article on the
second, and judge for themse ves.
In the nomination of Judge Crittenden
we concur most hetfrtily, as we believe
does everybody else. He is a sterling
man, full of kind offices, and friendly to
all. We hope he will receive the cordial
support of the People of Spalding county.
Next is an extract from an address to
the people of Georgia, by Hon. Robert
McMjllin, in which the old Whig party
is handled with gloves off. We hope no
one who takes our paper will fail to pe
ruse it.
Then follows a letter from Hon. John”
P. King, formerly U. S. Senator, now
President of the Georgia Rail Road, ad
dressed to the Committee of Invitation at
the Kingston meeting. This is an admi
rable letter, and wilt well compensate the
reader for the time and trouble bestowed
in perusing it.
The next is an article from a Scott
Whig writer in ihe Central Georgian, over
the signature of One of the People. He !
shows up Toombs, Stephens and Jenkins, j
the political trinity in the new Conserva- I
the Republican Citizens party, in due
form, and gives them to understand that
as the Scott Whigs will have but little
gain in the election of Jenkins, they will
tak*? but little interest in tbe canvass to
elect him.
Last but not least, vve give the letter
of M>. Joseph E. Brown, to which he
adds a certificate signed by fill)-one
name's of respectability in Cherokeecoun*
iy, which throws a wet blanket upon the
certificate contained in the Theological
Roorback two weeks ago, and show/
conclusively that Judge Johnson’s Buz
zard speech never was made. That it is
a ‘‘weak invention of the enemy.”
Be sure to read all these articled.
Re-united Democracy tnr ft Stenr.
The Rc-un ted Democracy of the new
county of Spalding seem to 1 be in quite a
snarl. The Union party made a harmoni
ous nomination; but when the “Re-united”
held their convention, there was a general
scrummage for the nomination, tfhftfi re
suited in the withdrawal of a portion of
the party; but the mass of the party event
ually nominated Win. Crittenden for the
House, and Col. F. W. A. Doyle for the
Senate. Either of these gentlemen would
make competent democratic representa
tives. —La Gra nrje Reporter.
Wc extract the above article from the
last week’s LaGrange Reporter. The
candidates for Senate of this county live
in Griffin, are our personal acquaintances,
and we trust friends, as we arc theirs
For this reason we determined, at the out
set of the canvass, to have as little to say
on the subject through the press as possi
ble, bat to leave the whole matter to;cor
respondents and stump orators. But here
comes in an interloper from-another coun- j
ty, and if we were to let his statement pass
uncohtradictcd, it would be taken pro eon
fesso, and Col. Doyle would be ShoWn
round as the Democratic nominee as tri
umphantly as a full-blooded stud li ;
no, not a shirt button, but a nominated i
candidate. We must therefore beg leave
to correct an error or two, into which the
LaGrange editor lias designedly or by in
advertence fallen. First, then, there was
no general scrummage in the re-united de
mocracy, if wc understand what the edi
tor means by the word scrummage The
facts are simply those: The Democratic
party held a meeting in this place on the
first Saturday in August, and then and
there nominated Judge Crittenden for the
House, ou the first ballot, with but few
dissenting voices. At this meeting there
were 82 votes polled. They then resolv
ed, by a considerable majority, that it was
inexpedient to nominate for the Senate at
that time, a.il then aljo i-nei. The mi
nority, who were in favor of a nomination,
called another meeting, to be held on the
following Saturday, for the purpose of
nominating for the Senate, at which meet
ing, previous to balloting, it was ruled
that all who were not in favor of nomina
ting were not entitled to vote. On bal
loting, sixteen votes were cast, eleven for
Col. Doyle, and five for another gentle
man. In a short address before the meet
ing, at that time, Col. Doyle accepted the
nomination; but afterwards, we think in
the following week, in a newspaper com
munication, he declined the nomination.—
In a week or two after having thus de
clined, he announced himself as a candi
date tor the Senate without any public mut
ing or nomination whatever. From this
plain detail our readers can judge whether
Col. Doyle is the nominee of the “mass of
the party” or not. We regret that these
things are so. We regret that we are
called on to make this statement. Per
sonally Col Doyle has not got a better
friend in the county, one who would more
cheerfully have supported him. had he been
the regular nomiuec of the party. But if
the above is a nomination by the “mass of
the party,” and by it Democrats are bound
to support Col. Doyle, we should like to
know how the editor of the Reporter makes
it out. It is beyond our cyphering. Ac
cording to our humble conception Col.
Doyle is an independent candidate, with*
out any nomination whatever, the same as
I Mr. Moseley and Judge Wright; for the
only nomination he did receive he after
j wards declined, and* he has received no
i other one since. We do not wish to be
understood to say aught in disparagement
of Col. Doyle, or that the nomination was
not made by democrats—on the contrary,
wo believe the whole eleven votes were
cast by Democrats; but we do mean to
say, that the finmber of
sent at the meeting who were rulßPout
from voting far outnumbered the vo
ters, and this made the nomination void
—and if this had not been the case, Mr.
Doyle made it void afterwards by volunta
rily declining it. We admit farther that
the friends of Col. Doyle had the perfect
right to cast the votes they did, but the
other portion of the meeting, who were
ruled out from voting, are not legally,
morally or equitably bound by their deci
sion, because they were in the minority.—
There is but one way of determining pub
lic nominations. It is by a majority of the
party present, and when you rule out a
large majority from voting, yon cannot ex.
pect them afterwards to be bound by your
decision.
Hon- Win. Moseley and Ourself,
We have been referred to a number of
times recently by our friends, to know
what passed between Hon. Wm. Moseley
and ourself in relation to the election of
U. S. Senator, which will come off at the
ensuing session of the Legislature. It is
a short tale and can soon be told. We
J presume Mr. Moseley can have no care
|to keep it a seeret, and we are sure we
{have none. It was simply this. Mr.
Moseley made the remark to a third per
son in our presence, that he was always
ready and willing to answer any question
of a public character which might be pro.
pounded to him. Whereupon we asked,
incase he should be elected, and the
question of U. 8. Set a or came up before
him between Gov. McDonald, Governor
Cobb and Judge Warner, whom of those
three would he prefer? We men’ioned
no other names to him in connection
with that office, either before, at the time
or since; nor was Whig or Democrat,
Union, Conservative, Red Republican, or
any other party name mentioned in our !
short confab, and this is the only conver- I
sa’ion we have ever had with Mr. Most-!
ley on the subject of U. S. Senator.— j
There Sandy, fill your crop with it, if you
can.
fcvery man Ills’Post.
This is our last Lsue before the dav of 1
election. Next Monday will be the trial !
of strength between the friends of Gen. j
Pieree and his opponents-—between the j
friends of Democracy and of* Federalism
—the friends of a reckless expenditure of
money and a prudent economy of the
public Treasure—the friends of a mod
erate tariff and a high protective tax on j
foreign imports—between frugality and
extravagance the poor and the rich
the plebeian and the aristocrat—the hum
ble laborer and the bloated swell head
the Algerine thousand dollar aristocrat
and the poor militia man, mechanic and
road vtfolker, wMio bfears the heat and
burthen of the day. Aie you all ready?
Let no man who values his citizenship,
| his principles and his country, stay away
from the polls. It is every one’s doty to
vote. It is every one’s duty to stand up
foi his principles, .'.nc aid in the councils of
his country in the selection of upright and
good men to fill her offices, dispense jus
tice, do her legislation, and discharge her
Executive trusts. Rally then to tbe polls,
each'and every o ie. Let no one stay be
lli id. Aid your poor neighbor who has
not the means of conveyance. Stir up
your lukewarm friend, who thinks thnt
one vote will make no difference. Twice
has the Governor of Massachusetts been
elected by one vote within the last ten
years. Texas was admitted into the U
nion by only one vote. ‘The Mexican
war whs declared by only one vote. The
Missouri Compromise was passed by only
one vote. These instances show the im
portance of one vote, and of your vote,
and of your neighbor’s vote. Vote the
whole ticket. Let no one caj >le you in
to voting for this, or the other one—to
swap off—to trade. Vote your whole
ticket, and your triumph will be a whole
tiiumph. Every man go to the polls.—
We desire to caution our friends against
whig deception. 8 mie members of that
party make it their bis in ess to coin and
propogate falsehood, and for this purpose
they will stickle at nothing, however
gross, that they think they ean make you
believe. Belieye nothing they may tell
you. Ten to one it is the coinage of
their own brain, without a word of truth.
Go co the polls—3tick to your own can
didates and your own principles, and your
tr itiuiph is certain.
We presented the name of Mr. Jenkins
in the first place with every .hope of suc
cess; in fact we were sanguine in his elec-
tion. The numerous ill irges that have
been alledged against him , have all proven
groundless and abortive.— LaGrang-. Re
porter.
Go it, my dear Reporter! Then Mr.
Jenkins did not support the Algeiine law
after all—was not in favor of it in the Le
gislature,and did not want poor people to
have a thousand dollars before they should
be entitled to vote for Aldermen in the
city ot Augusta. The Reporter Ims dis
proved it. It is all “groundless and a
bortive.”
Nor did Mr Jenkins vote against re
-1 moving the property qualification in the
constitution for Governor. It is tiue the
record in tha proceedings.* of the Legisla-
ture stands against him, hut the Reporter
has removed it, and'it is all now “ground
less and abortive.’ 1
Col. Nelsop’s brigade marched to
Milledgeville, and asked for assistance
to march against the enemies of their
country. The Record says that Mr.
Jenkins vbted “no,” but the Reporter
says, if-has all been “proven groundless
and abortive.’’
Well, the Reporter is great at proof, i
ithe Mnlatto Roorback.
Last Saturday’s Savannah Republican
speaking of the reported appointment of a
mulatto as kCCpef of the Long Shoal
Light Boat, remarks, “wo wore utterly
surprised to see respectable presses in
Georgia apologizing tor,. imd excusing an
appointment, the announcement of w hich
they themselves believed to be true, or
regarded as probable. ,f We were not*
for we do not recollect of ever seeing,
any; if tbe Republican saw them, it Wa#
more than we did.
But the Republican has to give in at
last. At first he pretended to doubt the
genuineness of the recantation, but the
proof has been pushed so closely upan
him, that he is obliged to acknowledge
the truth, and admit that the report was
nothing but a Whig Roorback. Tire
Norfolk Beacon, a Whig press, thus nails
the falsehood to ihe counter:
‘“The Amende Honorable ’ —Having
copied, some time since, from tbe Iforth
State Whig, a statement that a mulatto
had been api o’nted to office in North Ca
rolina, we now copy from that paper the
following correction. Toe editor of tiro
Whirl is a very careful and considerate
editor, and we are satisfied would have
j made no such statement except on w hat
he might consule p good authority. Ihe
Whig says:
‘•ln spite of all the prudence and cau
tion which they can exercise, editors will
sometimes be led into error- Sach was
our case in regard to the appointment ot
keeper of the Long Shoal Light Boat
Instead of a mulatto having been ap
pointed, as w’e were informed on most re
spectable authori'y was the case, we
learn from a letter from a friend in Hyde,
and from another friend in this place who
was in that county last week, that Cap'.
Robert llill son lias been appointed to
the Long Shoal Boat; that Capt. R.
is a very respectable citizen of Hyde,
one of (he acting Magistrates'of ihe coun
ty, and that the appointment is the best
which has been made in that region.—
| Os course our informants weie misinform
ed as to who bad been appointed to the
j Long St.oal Boat.”
The Reporter’s Roorback
We have been noticing from week to
week the political Roorbacks of the La
i Grange Reporter, and being aware that ho
j was in the hot-bed of Whiggery, where
such things were expected of him, we let
them pass for what they were worth. Bat
iu his last paper he says—-‘lf we have
’charged Mr. Jo nson with disloyalty to
| the Union, or with being an unfit man for
; the office of Governor, by characteristic
I objections (?) without satisfactory proof
:of tne same, wc do not know it.” O lie,
| brother Blakely; come, come; the charges
and attempt to make people believe them
i are bad enough, but when you pretend to
believe them yourself, the thing becomes
too barefaced. Study law, Blakely, study
law; why your cheek is hard enough to
say any thing to gain a ea.se. You would
make a most capital lawyer. You’ll beat
Parson Knowles at a Roorback shortly.
After saying a great deal about*fair
dealing, showing the documents, addu
cing the proof, and that kind of rigmarole,
which has about as much application to
his paper ft3 to a dog’s hind leg, he con
tinues:—‘’lf we cannot convince mankind
of an error by the proof of an assertion,
how are we toestabli h any fact? In our
columns to day will be found the certifi
cate of eighteen respectable citizens of
Cherokee county to establish the fact that
Judge Johnson did use such langu.ne as
we have often attributed to him, iu regard
to Union men, and especially Union Dem
ocrats.”
Now here is the proof truelv, to the
charge of which he speaks. But Mr.
Blakely knows as well as we do, that
there is a counter certificate of fifty-0110
equally respectable names to the contrary,
while the whole charge contradicts the en
tire end and aim for which Judge Johnson
went to C herokee county. The charge
bears upon its very face the stamp of ab
surdity, and yet brother Blakely drinks it
down and deals it out like hot coffee, and
whines between draughts about his affec
tionate amiability towards Judge Johnson.
All safe, go ahead.
The Cornet, according to the predic
tions of Prof. Jewett, of North Carolina,
who professes to have made comets his
study for the last thirty years, was to
have struck the earth, on ‘Tuesday the
13th, doing an immense and incalculable
amount ot damage. In order that our
readers may see what danger they have
escaped, we give the essential part of
the Professor’s communication;
“The diameter of this comet (says
Prof. Jewett,) is lOi),OOJ mites, and i-is
velocity about 30,000 tnif s a minute;,
consequently, its direct concussion would
produce consequences disastrous in the
extreme to all its inhabitants. But if it
strikes the earth slanting, making an n
cule plane with the angle of its surface,
(which I think it will between the 34
and 13th September,) it will probaWv
glance without actually carrying away
any portion of the surface, bm only ver'v
gieatly distuib it, and of course destroy
all objects, animate or inanimate, which
maybe in its course. It may become us un
der circumstances like these to consider
if there be any possible means ot avert
ing the danger. I cannot find any tella
ble data for calculations as to what part
of the earth’s surface will be the first
point ot contact. The number of victim*
ot this dread judgement might probably
he greatly decreased bv the removal of
the inhabitants from that and placing
them in comparative security on the op
posite side of the globe; but hold no delu
sions— i leave that matter in obscurity,
because, as I said the data a;c
insufficient. if the cordfifc should fiist
stiike the water —say in the middle of
the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean—it may
cause a partial or deluge, as one
didr in, the time of Noah, In that case
the best plan would be to take to boats,-
If it should strike on solid land, the evils
to be apprehended would he multifarious.
The concussion would extinguish life in
a great many—the subterranean fires
might be stirred up and made to burn so
fiercely as to consume the whole world.
At .all events, the axis of the earth would
be chaugeJ so much that it would be
necessary to remove the poles and place
ts etn nearer the centre of bearing, draw
new lines for the tropics and the equator;
and those changes might place our coqrj.