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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
SAUt’JL B. CRAFTOU,
COUNTY PRINTER.
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Another Presidential Electoral
Ticket.
- Mr. Holsey, the editor of the Athens
Banner, being dissatisfied with the action
of the late Union Democratic Convention at
Atlanta, has nominated himself and nine
other gentlemen as Pierce and King Elec
tors, to be voted for by those who may be
dissatisfied with the Atlanta arrangement.
The following is the ticket put forth in the
Banner:
Union Democratic Electoral Ticket.
—Gen. W. B. Wofford, H. V. M. Miller, K
E. Chisolm David Irwin, Allen Lawhon,
Joseph J. Singleton, Hopkins Holsey, John
J. Word, M. G. Slaughter Thomas W.
Thomas.
The editor introduces the ticket with the
following characteristic remarks:
The meeting at Atlanta having resulted
in a failure to effect a re-union of the Dera
ocratie party of Georgia upon the principle
of “conciliation and compromise” announced
by the Union executive committee who call
ed that meeting, we cannot consent to adopt
the policy pursued by the very small num
ber of our Union brethren assembled there
on the 18th inst., of not putting forth an
electoral ticket to which all the friends of
Pierce and King who revolt at the idea of
surrendering to the secessionists, may rally
at the ballot box. In accordance with this
feeling we have put forth an electoral ticket
at the head of our columns for which we
ask the support of all those who cannot
yield their rights to the bidding of an un
authorized faction ridiculously claiming to
be the “democratic party of Georgia. The
history of this shallow cheat is too fresh in
the recollection of our people to require rep
etition. The naked truth is, that the dem
ocratic party of Georgia is, at this time, in
the most perfect state of disorganization,
afld no section of the party has the rio-ht to
dictate in the name of the party, its electo
ral ticket more than any other. The Union
democrats have exhausted the very dregs
f of the cup of “conciliation and compromise,"
and have been met by a cold, and even in
sulting refusal from the opposite wing of the
party. They will not degrade themselves
as men and as freemen by going a single
step farther. They will not surrender °to
the tyrant* of the party who usuip their
very birthright in being entitled to a voice
in choosing their own agents. There is no
Presidential sere w that can make them sub
mit to this kind of usurpation. The rio-ht
is fundamental, and all others are worthless
without it. They will not surrender it at
the bidding of a faction, let the consequences
be what. they.may.
In. placing the above ticket before the
people of Georgia, it is needless to say that
it is merely recommendatory. It claims no
party allegiance whatever. It appeals to
the judgment and the sympathies of all
men whe hate tyranny in what ever form it
may present inself, and who at the same
time desire to support Pierce and King con
sistently irith that feeling.
As the time.is short, it has been put forth
tipon the spur of the moment, but not with
out the suggestion and approval of friends
who can bring to it a support that will de
feat the usurpers in their detestable attempts
at proscription under the screw of a Presi
dential election. Thousands of Union dem
ocrats and whigs are burning with indigna
tion at the arrogance of the secession fac
tion, and desire to vote for the National
democratic nominees for President and
Vice President in a manner congenial to
their rights and feelings as freemen. This
ticket will afford them the desired opportu
nity. We are persuaded that the people of
the fifth and sixth Congressional districts
will give it their support in spite of the oppo
sition or lukewarmness of some who are
willing to surrender to the secession faction.
It will also meet the approval of others in
almost every county in Georgia.
The single question to be put to every
just and honorable member of the party, is
whether we have asked what is right in in
sisting upon a compromise ticket? If we
have, and it was wrong in the other divis
ion of the party to refuse to accede to this
demand, should we submit to the wrong?
Justice, equality, mutual concession among
men are, we repeat, the only possible basis
of party re-union, and it must be accorded
to them, or they will nobly peril everythino-
in the attempt to maintain it.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
TtTESDAYSEPT.Ss, ;1S5*.
St. JHary’s money
In bills under $5 will be received in pay
ment of demands due this office.
Pay. Pay»!
Cotton is beginning to come in we see,
and.moneyis beginning to circulate, as we
hear, we don’t know this to be so bv any
contact we have had with the article, but
wishing to have some better knowledge of
what is going on in that line, we would re
spectfully ask all who are in anywise in
debted to this office, whether in money,
kicks or harsh words (as the Attorney Gen’]
is here) to come forward and settle. Mr.
Johnson, or the Editor will be happy to
receive and receipt for the former, and the
Devil may receive either of the latter. The
money indebtedness we must have, but in
dulgence can be had upon the other sort to
an almost indefinite period.
Augusta—The Fueshct—The JLow.
er Bridge Repaired.
The damages sustained by the recent fresh
et are fast disappearing. Portions of the
Georgia and South Carolina Railroads were
carried away, but in a few days both were
so far repaired as to enable passenger and
freight trains to reach their respective de
pots. The upper bridge was also carried
away, and a portion of the lower. The lat
ter, we are gratified to state, has been so far
repaired that drays and wagons will pass
over it to-day, thus affording an uninterrup
ted transportation of goods, from one road
to the other. Up to this time, goods from
the South Carolina Railroad for this city
and the interior, were brought over in flats,
averaging of late eighty dray loads per day.
Our city authorities have not been idle.
Every street in the city, and every avenue
leading to it, we believe is now in travelling
ordea.
Health of the City.— The best evidence
we have as regards the health of our city, is
that our physicians (and we have a number
of them) have but little to do. Several of
them have informed us that they have never
known the city more healthy at this season
of the year than at present. As a further
evidence, we would state that several per
sons and families who left the city, thinking
that the freshet would cause sickness, have
returned and resumed their usual occupa
tion.—Augusta Constitution.dist.
Superior Court.
The Superior Court for this county was
opened on yesterday. The attendance of
persons is rather thiner than usual, owing
doubtless to the prevalence of sickness in
the county. The Grand Jury however,
was full, we know of no county where Ju
rors are more prompt at their places, or
undertake their duties with • more alacrity
than this. The Judge in delivering his
charge to the Jury, paid our countymen
that compliment, and expressed his sincere
pleasure at meeting with those so ready and
willing to perform the duties assigned them
by the law.
We are glad to learn that the health of
the Judge is good ; the Bar is not so full as
usual, though it will probably be so before
the Session closes. Among those present
we notice the Hon. Charles J. Jenkins,
though a regular attendant at this Bar, his
friends will greet him with more than ordi
nary pleasure, occupying as he does the
high position of a candidate for the Vice
Presidency on one of the tickets before the
people. In abilities and trust-worthiness,
he has no superiors on either ticket for that,
orforthe first office in the Government. His
name, his life, and his character, are for a
time, public property property, which by
consent of the rules of party warfare, may
be traduced by his enemies, er eulogised by
his friends, without, in the latter instance,
offending his known distaste to such offer
ings and which those who know him are
ever willing to make ; we are no champion
of his, however, and only in the ohaiacter
of an unbiased and unprejudiced citizen,
speak of him, and without any intention to
disparage any other of the candidates of the
other tickets, we honestly believe Mr. Jenk
ins to be the ablest man of the State, and
judged by his life and character, the best
man in the Union. Many have occupied
higher positions in the government than
he, but few in the hearts of his friends and
acquaintances.
The preceding labors of Judge Starnes
have been such as to bring the business of
the Court within the compass of a week,
unless the Criminal docket, which is becom
ing some what cumbersome, should pro
tract it, at any rate it is not probable that
the Term will last longer ihan the present
week.
Washiugtou County Farming.
On our Agricultural column will be
found an article under the above head, in
which the writer disapproves of the plan of
Fall and Winter ploughing as practiced in
this county. The writer is an intelligent
gentleman and practical farmer, whose
opinions are in every way worthy of atten
tion. He is willing however to hear and
weigh the reasons of all who are opposed to
him, and for that purpose we cheerfully ex
tend the use of that department of our pa
per. We are willing, indeed solicitous at
all times that our planting friends should
appropriate that portion of the “Georgian”
to the propagation and advancement of
their peculiar views on the interesting sub
ject of Agriculture. We shall be pleased
to hear from “A Book Farmer,” again, on
that, or any other branch of the science he
may propose to discuss, one so capable as
himself of writing on this subject should
feel nnder some sort of obligation to corres
pond with the public occasionally.
Suicide.—Dr. Geo. K. Halloway of Al
bany, Ga., committed suicide on the 11th
inst., by taking a dose of morphine. Wheth
er he took it for the purpose of destroying
himself, or to prevent the recurrence of a
chill with which he was threatened is not
positively known. Dr. H. was well known
in Warren, Laurens and Wilkinson coun
ties.
Casuality.—Dr. Thos. J. Jonhson of
Jeffersonville, Twiggs county, a physician
much esteemed in that community, was
killed by being thrown from his horse on
the 16 th in st.
New Y ork.—Gov. Hunt has been nom
inated by the Whig,convention of this State
for re-election.
Another Tugalo Ticket.
The Athens Banner, writhing under the
failure to reconstruct the Democratic ticket
at Atlanta, has put out a simon-pure Tuga-
loo. The names which compose his ticket,
together with his announcement of the fact,
will be seen in another column of this pa
per. As “brother Heard,” the amusing
vender of divers patent nostrums would
say, this is rich, racy, spicy and juicy;.’’ The.
last effort of the Banner is to save the
Union somewhere in the Fifth and Sixth
Congressional Districts : there is where the,
danger lies now; and if those two the only
remaining, (we are happy to say it,) Bleed
ing wounds can be healed, the Union is
saved and no mistake. We are glad tha 1,
the industrious Col. has at last found out
the exact spot, in our large State, where
the fracture is likely to occur, in charity we
could hope that this last effort would not
prove as dead stock on his hands as his
preceding ones, but it smacks so strongly
of his imperturbable vanity and self-conceit
that we dare not entertain the hope. The
party which it forms may be a tithe larger
than the names which compose the ticket,
if it is, its friends may compose themselves
in the happy belief, that it is not the “par
ty of spoils,” but a fortiorari, a patriotic
junto fighting for principle, liberty, equality
and justice and against all sorts of tyrany.
It has taken a large scope pf territory for its
operations, but unluckily for its prospects,
the good sense of the people is the only
“tyrany” it has to battle against. We re
cognise on this ticket the name of one of
the gentlemen who would not receive or
embrace the christain religion if it denied
him the sweet privilege of hating the fire-
eaters. If he still indulges in such amiable
and christainl’ke feelings, we hope the emer
gencies of his salvation will require no
moderation in this particular, the love of
such men could be spared, while their ha
tred would be indispensable to good gov
eminent and clear consciences.
A New Press foe Baling Cotton.—
The labile Tri^upe notices an invention of
a new press or baling cotton. The only
drawback upon it is that the bales are round,
and round bales have been pretty generally
proscribed. The Tribune says “By con
necting it to the gin, tWcotton is made up
at once into bales by the same power and
at the same time. To appreciate the great
degree of compactness to wbieh a bale may
be pressed by this machine, one has only
to take a small piece of cotton and to press
it slightly while rolling it between the fin
gers. The principle embraced in this ma.
chine is precisely similar—-and by a contin
uous layer of cotton revolving round itself
under constant pressure, while the rollers
are turning, the bale is formed of extreme
compactness, requiring no after compress
ing. It is thought that this mode of form
ing the bale will supercede the necessity of
roping.”
Later from Mexico.—Matamoras dates
to the 14th have been received at New Or
leans. Great excitement exists on account
of the Cardenas usurpation. The Nation
al Guard has declared in favor of Prieta,
and encamped on the American side of Rio
Grande. Avalos had issued a proclama
tion which seems to be received with favor
at Cardenas and the principal cities. Tam
aulipas is opposite Cardenas.
Incendiary Attempt.—The Savannah
Courier of Saturday says :—An attempt
was made to fire the Alhambra Saloon on
Thursday night last, by placing a large
bundle of cotton between two boards, which
were slightly sprung. The cotton was fired
and nearly all consumed, but fortunately
the draft was insufficient, and the boards
too damp to get up a conflagration. There
was but little damage done. Our citizens
and the authorities cannot be too constant
ly on the alert, as there are evidently in
cendiaries still prowling about the city.
Webster and Jenkins.—The Webster
meeting was not so small an affair as was
reported. There were from 2,500 to 3,000
present, and the nomination was received
with great applause. Mr. J. L. Dimmick,
in announcing as the candidate for Vice
President the name of the Hon. Chas. J.
Jenkins of Georgia, said that he was as
great a mau as Mr. Webster only he was
not so well knwn in Massachusetts.
A Valuable Lover.—Mr. Charles Mc
Gee, the contractor for building the new
State Capitol of Texas died at Boston on the
3d inst. He was married oh his death-bed
a few days before his decease He was a
man of great wealth, and the purpose of
his marriage was to secure a dower in his
property to the lady who possessed his af
fections.
Frost.—There was a frost in Columbia
county, New York on the 13th inst., There
was also a white frost at several places in
Massachusetts and Maine on the same day.
It was hot enough at this place on Tues
day and Wednesday last for midsummer.
Reception of Gen. Scott.—Advices
from Columbus Ohio states that the recep
tion of Gen. Scott along the route he has
taken has been very enthusiastic. He
reached Portsmouth Ohio, on 23d inst. A
German was killed on the day previous
while firing a salute. Gen. Scott on hear
ing the circumstance presented his widow
with four hundred dollars.
Defalcation.—A heavy defalcation has
been discovered in a new banking institu
tion called to the “The Suffolk Bank,” star
ted in June last, at New York. W. Earl
Arnold, the President pro tern, was arres
ted on the 14th, charged with embezzling
$17,000 of the funds. The evidence was
pretty strong against him, and he was com
mitted to await further action. The police
are in pursuit of other parties implicated
with him.
The Slave Trade in Cuba.—A letter
from Havana says—“That you may not be
mistaken with regard to our new Captain
General, I inform you of the fact that about
500 negroes, from Africa, have been landed
at Ortigosa, in this island, and two ounces
(34 dols.) per head were paid for winking
at the business.
Resigned.—The Hon. Thos. Cowin has
resigned his office as Secritarv of the Treas
ury. If many more resigne, the President
will have a new cabinet before his adminis
tration closes. . - ' - •
The Florida Indians.^—The Washing
ton Republic learns, but not officially* that
preliminary arrangements have been enter
ed into with Billy Bowlegs, by the Com
missioner of Indian Aaffairs, for the remo
val of the remnant of the Seminoles, now in
Florida, to the west of the Mississippi river,
and that the emigration will commence du
ring the ptesent season.
A Preambulating Ballot-Box.
The
Texan judges of elections have adopted a
plan to save voters much inconvenience, in
a country where the election district cov
ers considerable ground. The ballot-boxes,
accompanied by the judges and clerks, were
recently taken up and down the river, and
the votes of the sovereigns received wherev
er they found them.
The
rationally have concluded among themselves
if they could not take the liberty with you, bis traducers would have refused the offer
i.r. 1 -1 ' 1-1 .1 n -vr... • of “beftominor t.hfi almnr.or nf AA-
with who else could they? You see, sir,
that? “evil communications” not only “cor
rupt good manners,” as our old copies used
to teach us, but sometimes place a man in the offer made, upon the slender chance of
Seizure of an American Vessel.
Schooner Caroline Knight, ofNewburyport
Mass., valued at $6000 has been seized for
an alleged violation of the fishery treaty.
Will this abominable difficulty ever be
settled? The Peruvian Guano and “our
fishery difficulties” are grievous boores of
which the country ought by this time to
be heartly sick and tired.
The Post Master at St. Louis has receiv
ed a letter from Ireland, enquiring for an
Irishman named Robert Baldwin who has
recently fallen heir to nearly $100,000.
Whjsre are you Bob ? If it is not a lot of
old debts accumulated against some good
natured.ancestor, you are lucky fellow.
Congress at its last session authorised
the payment of double wages to all officers
and men who went out in the Advance and
Rescue, m search of Sir John Franklin.
'rihteJs of Cleveland Ohio are on a
strike for higher wages. The price of com-
positers now is only twenty five cents per
thousand eras.
Scott and Graham.—A Texas Whig
Editor stopped his press to announce the
nomination of Scott and Graham, and then
went on and said :
“©en. Scott, the hero of several wars, and
the conqueror of Mexico, is too well known
to need comment.
Mr. Graham is well known to the politi
cal and literary world, more especially to
the literary, he having for some years back
been engaged in publishing Graham’s Mag
azine, which as a literary work stands un
equalled in America.
With two such standard bearers, the
Whigs know no defeat. Nine cheers for
the ticket.”
[for THH CENTRAL* GEORGIAN.]
Letter Till.
To the Hon. Charles J. Jenkins :—
It is a maxim in moral phylosophy, that
a good man can never suffer disgrace. But
the position in which I find you placed by a
portion of your political friends, would seem
to indicate a disposition on their part to
challenge the truth of it. In that respect,
however, you may be like the just Athenian
to whom some one observed on a certain
occasion, “the people deride you,” to which
he replied, “But I am not derided.’’—
Whether your, reputation is sufficient to
bear without injury, the load of honor now
essayed to be heaped upon you, I wil[ not
pretend to say—but t think it likely your
friends, in placing you in voar present sit
uation, consulted their own fancy more than
the propriety of the act, and their own no
tions, rather than the delicacy of your feel
ings. How far your own conduct, however,
may have influenced thereto attempt the
manufacture of a Vice President out of
you, is not easily ascertained; but they
may have claimed, by analagous reasoning
from your letter to the Editor of the Repub
lican, that you were desirious the attempt
should be made upon some one—and very
a very awkward situation. Twill not say
that it would be desirable to you now, to re
call that letter. But charity persuades me
to believe you wrote hastily, as weak men
somestimes do—and that after all, you are
moved by like passions as ourselves. You
may not have considered sufficiently the
anomalous character of some of your party
friends—that the moon comes near the
earth, and that men of your pretentions are
in danger at such times—not so much from
themselves as from being unable to tell
what may not happen to them from the
lunacy of others. Why, sir, who can give
to every man thatasketh, a reason fof what
is done ? When it is done, who can tell us
who did it ? Who can say truly, what will
be done next? In short, sir, who can tell
what he is to come to, when he looks with
feelings more of sorrow than anger, to your
condition ?—
When the proud steed shall know why man
restrains;
His fiery course, or drives him o’er the
plains; ,v,-/
When the dull Ox, why now he breaks the
clod,
Is now a victim, and now Egypt’s god—
Then shall men’s pride and dutness compre
hend, ’ *
His actions, passions, brings, use and end:—
Why doing, suffering, check’d, impeU’d deed
why
This hour a slave, the next a deity.”
And perhaps, when the ides of November
have come, and some one, honest as well as
wise, may be able^to explain to us, why it
was you were unfit to be the Representa
tive of Richmond county in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
one, and the year thereafter, worthy to be
Vice President of these United States ?—
Why it was that certain wise and conscien
tious men should get upon your Platform
then, and flirt out their sharp designs, like
porcupine quills, and push you off; and
now haul you upon, and boast of it, as your
handiwork ? Why strip you then, of well-
merited honors, and turn you out naked
and friendless, and now take you in and
clothe you with their nauseous, ridiculous
and fulsome adulations ?
‘•Why then a vietim, and now Faction’s god.”
I believe I shall be constrained to admit that
of all the men whom I have known* every
thing considered, you have the most “clear
and undisputed right,” to cry out, “save me
from my friends."
But, sir, whatever may have beeiggfhe mo
tives of the gentlemen who placed you on a
Presidential ticket, with “the greatest in
tellect of the age,” I will not believe it was
at your seeking. Yet, then, are some things
in your letter, which, for your sake now, I
would were not there. If Gen. Scott was
chosen by the Whig National Convention,
on account of his “availability,” as seems to
be your opinion, there are some circum
stances connected with your nomination, of
an ulterior character, that give to it, in par
ticular, a somewhat similar caste. I will
not call it “political juggling,"—such ex
pressions are used by gentlemen who are
hanl pressed for reasons, for non-eoraply-
ing with their obligations to principle and
party. It could scarcely have been expect
ed, (and ! doubt whether those gentlemen
“Will it be pretended,” that any of
of “becoming the almoner of fifty millions
of dollars,” upon the same conditions? I
think not. And certainly there are amonv
them some, to whom I would regret to see
their refusing it. But, sir, your friends have
not given you the opportunity, officially, of
refusing proffered honors—'“and there
by hangs a tale /” They have refused, or
perhaps will not permit you, the occasion, to
express your profound acknowledgements,
your grateful feelings, and your exalted sense
of the high honor they would confer upon
you, and all that sort of thing. Why not ?
They have even refused you the beggarly
permission of consenting to be their leader l
“ Was that done like Cassius ?” Why have
they thus departed from ancient customs,
and committed so palpable a breach of the
good old ways 1 Do they intend to make
all things new ? It is to be regretted that
they locked out from you such golden op
portunities, wherein you could have shows
your position in its true light—and they
have saved their credit. “’Tis strange l
’Tis passing strange.”
But, sir, I do not admit that Gen. Scott
was chosen ou the score of availability, anv
more that it is notorious all candidates are
chosen. You are well aware that some men,
highly deserving, can never be elected >,©
office,— and men are not often canvassed
for the purpose of being defeated. Candi
dates for the Presidency, mast, from the
very nature of circumstances, be chosen to -
a certain extent, on the ground of availa
bility. Mr. Clay was beaten, yet at the
time, he was decidedly the mo t available
candidate the Whig party could put for
ward. Is Gen. Scott the less entitled to our
support, because he is charged with a thing
he cannot help—and whieh, in truth, with
out it, he would not have been selected 1—
His availability is of an affirmative charac
ter decidedly. His “antecedents’" are less
exceptional ble than any distinguished man
iu the country. His talents, both civil and
military, are of the highest order. Mr.
Webster perhaps, may exceed him in ab
struse constitutional learning—but I do not
fear to assert that 1 betieve Gen. Scott to be,
without a just exception, the most accom
plished gentleman of the age ; and would in
this, or any other country, where ability is
appreciated, command the respect of a peo
ple, and the honors of a government. Be
sides, sir, it must be recollected that Gen*
Scott has been a prominent citizen before
the country for the Presidency, at least
twelve years—and that his friends have re
peatedly given way to the wishes and pre
ferences of their party ; and in no instance,
on his account, endeavored to distract or
divide it, because of his being left out in
the choice. Some consideration is due to
their wishes and feelings from us, ou that
account, if nothing else. No, sir, while the
success of sound and wholesome principles
are of the least importance to the welfare
of the country, parties must be held in the
main, in tact—and the plea of availability,
will, therefore, - attach more or less, to all
men who are run on strict party grounds.-—
So also, will that stale, sickeLing, disgust
ing, Contemptible, filthy, low, vile, dema
gogue plea of Abolition and Free-soil in
fluence, so long as our morbid sensitiveness
on one question alone, so easily renders us
the dupes of designing politicians. Sir, I
honor you from my heart, that you hare
not made that an objection to Gen. Scott.
He must be ignorant indeed, who does not.
know that their votes, and their influence
have mingled with ours, iu all of our Pre
sidential elections. And that it is necessary
they should continue to do so, if we regard
our own safety, the interests or the perpe
tuity of the Union. •
And, sir, while your position is a delicate
one, whether regarded iu the light of a real,
bonatide candidate, or as a supernumerary
—a kind of advertisement board, whereon
may lie watered sundry “Independent” .no
tices of persons “to let,” to the highest bid*
who pushed you off your platform, ever ^er, if early application H made to
thought of it, in their present haste to do ol
you honor !) that when you suggested the
charge of “availability,” against that illus
trious citizen, and against the judgment of
your peers, it would so soon, by so sudden
and so democratic-like a revolution of for
tune’s wheel,, have been brought to bear up
on your own- honorable self. “Curses, like
chickens, will come home to roost.” And
it is not unfrequeutly the case that our hard
after the 1st day of November
next—a very grave question intervenes, of
how far such a del Ucctidn from duty to a
National organization of party may extend,
without endangering the safety and the
well-being of principles you and your
friends profess to hold sacred. In other
words, how far can you presume to hold
others responsible for pledges, which were
made under mutual obligations, and for
your* especial protection, while you are the
first to disregard a prominent condition ot
... , , their fulfilment? 1 have charged Mr. Toombs
sayings-return to rest upon our own heads wkh bad faitil in suggesting and encourag*
As an “available,” you are-eertaioly no bet
ter than Gen. Scott—and in a much less
enviable position, for you occupy the place
of him, against whom no fault was found.
It does irot imply ability, worth or deserving
It does not acknowledged man to be hon
est, conscientious, truthful or politic. It
gives to him preference only on the score
of being in a condition to be turned, moulds
ed, or worked to the best advantage for cer
tain ends. It does not even vouch to the
public that those ends are honorable,—it
gives no assurance of sincerity on the part
of those who make use of it ; or that ulti
mate good is to be accomplished. But
the actions of the present, and c
regards yourself, foreshadows w&at ma
expected in the future.
But all that availability may imply, good,
bad or indifferent, I am as far from laying
to you, as I am to Gen. Scott; I do not wish
to charge upon you now, what he might
not have prevented, any more than you
have done : though he was fairly, honora
bly and unanimously chosen by his country
men as a suitable candidate for the Presi
dency, according to the well approved cus
toms of the party; and has acknowledged
the act, and accepted the nomination upon
their conditions ”
Honor
demand for him
ife
ing the running of a third candidate; and
I contend that the position in which you
are placed by the followers of that sugges
tion, wfipther with or without an express
ion of your approval, is antagonistical to
the integrity of the Whig party, and can
not be persisted in without endangering its
success. It aims a blow at peace and har
mony, which cannot be easily reconciled
with honor o£. consistency—and one, if fol
lowed up, must produce a total and irrecon
cilable hostility between old party friends.—
I contend further, sir, that in uttering such
opinions as are contained in Mr. Toomb’s
speech, and your letter, and occupvingyour
present position, you give to our northern
brethren the very best possible excuse for
* ad faith to us. v You set them an example,
nd an unworthy one, which were they to
allow, when in the full tide of success and
and pow^f, would throw you upon that last
of all resorts, “a disruption of the Union."
Suppose, sir, that Gen. Scott is elected
in spite of your defection, (and I do not en
tertain a doubt but he will be,) and Mr.
Toomb’s declarations shall govern Southern
statesmen, the . language of your position
will be this to the Administration :—“ Well
gentlemen, you are elected, though decided*
ly against our wishes nevertheless,
expect you to stand i
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