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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
'J'HE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
SAM’L B. CKAFTON,
COUNTY PRINTER.
For the Central Georgian.
To the Slou. Alexander If. Ste
phens-
. Sir :—The bitter feelings which too of
ten characterises the hostility of political
parties, derive their worst features from,
either the perversion of truth, or the delib
erate perpetration of falsehood.
Does not he, who knowingly permits a
falsehood to have its full effect, when the
means are in his possesion to check it, and
he does not use them—identify himself with
that falsehood ? Is he guiltless ?
Ij, when the evil is accomplished, for
which the falsehood was designed, he then
makes an exposure, is it to be considered a
sufficient reparation ?
I put these questions thus publicly, be
cause they concern your reputation for jus
tice, duty, aud honor ; so far a3 you are
identified with the explosion of the Ualpbin
falsehood. You exposed that unjust cal
umny ; and it has been said you deserved
ihvgratitude of Mr. Crawford’s friends for
the act. I do not intend to detract from
your deserts. The time has arrived, I sup
pose, when we are to be grateful that public
men perform their duty—or any part of it.
Still, however much your friends may fall
down aud worship you, and magnify your
claims to the adoration of Mr. Crawford’s
friends, also, 1 doubt not vour devout hu
mility, through scripture illustrations, of
which you are very familiar, will win you
to the modest propriety of not esteeming
yourself above your fellow-creatures. Es
pecially, when you come to consider how-
yery difficult it is to perform a good act,
(without self-being considered,) even by a
member of Congress.— But 1 have promis
ed you should have the full credit of this
act, and 1 shall now endeavor to fulfil it.
The charges made on the coalition of Mr.
Clav"a»d Mr. J. Q. Adams, were, without
exception, the most unjust and outrageous
calumnies ever perpetrated iu the political
history of this country. They’ hung iu the
memory of thousands as a blot upon the
life of Henry Clay, which no length of ser
vice to his country, nor glorious actions,
could entirely obliterate. Men lived and
died, believing him guilty ?—Great men—
high-minded, honorable men—Randolph -
Jackson !—And yet he was innocent!
I do not remember any circumstance oc
curring siuee, of a political nature, which
has been used to greater effect, and more
unjustly used, than that which has been
indeliibiy stamped upon the memory of the
country, under the sobriquet of “Galphin-
ism.—I believe that all the objections which
an active searching, and indefatigable op
position could hatch out, beside, were une
qual to the injury which this one foul and
malicious slander did Mr. Fillmore’s Ad
ministration aud the Whig party.
From one end of this Union to the oth
er, the moral sense of the people was shock
ed at the announcement of the perpetration
of frauds, which, to use the courtly lan
guage of a Congressman, was "passport to
perpe'ual infamy,” to those concerned in it.
The charge went forth, that the Treasury
of the United States was swindled, nay,
robbed ! through the connivance of Whig
Cabinet ministers !—The Whig Secretaries
were leagued together to swindle the Gov
ernment out of money to enrich them
selves '—That through “perjury and for
gery,” (these were the words used,) Mr.
Crawford and Mr. Corwin, had obtained
large sums of money from the Treasury, up
on fraudulent claims !—These charges were
heard, uucontradicted, by the couu'try with
amazemeut-~-and were spread again and a-
.guiti iu 4 tlie columns of the opposition news
papers, uutil they became a bye-word aud
a reproach.
The raising of a committee of investiga
tion by the House of Representatives, the
result of the labors of that committee, and
the action of the House upon them, are
matters of history. I have nothing to say
about it. I will simply observe that Mr.
Crawford did all that an honorable man
could do—that his self-respect permitted
him to do—he left it to the decisions of the
highest civil tribunal of the country, with
out argument dr defence. The result is
•well kuown. m
I wish however, to call your attention to
the fact, that thr ughout the whole mat
ter,-' yourself and Mr! Toombs, (the only
Whig Representatives, from Geor ia, and
■supposed to be the personal, as well as the
political triends of Air. Crawford and Mr.
Corwin) observed a profound silence.—If
you ever once troubled yourselves to open
your mouths upon- the subject, it is more
than lam at this time aware of.
The excitement occasioned by these start
ling calumnies, somewhat abated during
the three years which intervened till the
Presidential nominations. After these
events, they were again blazoned forth
and with renewed fury: Throughout the
entire Presidential campaign of 1852, the
opposition newspapers teemed with the
rankest abuse and charges of fraud, cor
ruption, &c., upon the Whig party; coup
ling the "Galphin swindle," as they some
times called it, with the general Whig poli
cy. Again, sir, you were silent.—Not a
word do 1 know of your having .spoken, to
arrest this basest of slanders, either in Con
gress, or out of it, while the Presidential
election .was pending. You ever remained
quiet unde such language as the following,
delivered in the. House, of which you were
a member. It is an extract from a
:speech made by Mr. Olds, from Ohio, in
July, 1852.
“Thrpugh .the investigation of Congress,
their Galphinism has been exposed ; and
Crawford, with the execrations of the Am
erican people, has received his passport, to
perpetual irifamy. But Corwin still re -
uinus• unwhippedtrf ju^cice.—True, air,. ii is
catspaw an .1 accomplice in the fraud is lo i d-
WtbirOiffraudjj by piblic senti
ment as a perjurer and forger, but tbe
master-moving spirit, tbe head and'brains
in the fraud, through the negligence of this
House, is still permitted to control the
Treasury of the United States.”
I have taken this extract from the'midst
of your speech, because it saved me some
labor of search, while it answered all neces
sary ends. The reader will perceive that
Mr. Crawford is here branded, as a perjurer
and forger /” and that this speech went out
through the country, at the beginning of
the Presidential campaign.
Now, sir, this outrageous calumny—
this most unruittigated falsehood, upon the
character of Gov Crawford, with accom
panying charges of a like nature upon the
Whig party, was herald all over the coun
try, from the beginning to the ending of
the canvass for President. It was charged
upon the Whigs at every turn. It was
continually thrust into our faces as a sam
ple of Wlnggery. Aud, so far as I know,
there was no defence set up, which could
be called a defence ; no contradiction, eith-
in Washington City, or in Georgia, by a
Georgia Representative, or a Georgia Press!
If there was any, I doubt not it was of so
feeble a character, that it went rather to
confirm the character than to refute them
Was it expecting too much of you, or
of Mr. Toombs, whom the people consider
ed at that time to be Whigs, to defend a
distinguished Whig citizen of your own
State, from so unjust a calumny?—To wipe
out this foul charge upon the Whig party,
by setting the matter in its true light? Who
could do it with so much propriety ? Who
could do it so completely ? Of whom cuiild
we expect the performance of such a duty,
if not from the talented Whig Representa
tives from Georgia ?—I ask, was it expec
ting too much from you?—I think not sir.
It was your duty—a high duty, which you
should have performed, and performed
promptly. Why was it not done ?
Will it be suggested as a reason tbai
you had no opportunity ? Alembers of
Congress in their places, found opportunity
to make use of the charges, time and again,
for political effect;—It is reasonable to
suppose, you might have found time and
opportunity to refute them, had you have
wished to do so. Why then did you not
do it ? Why was it permitted to spend its
malicious fury in destroying the brightest
hopes of the Whig party, and crushing, and
wounding the feelings of the friends of Mr.
Crawford, who doubted not its unjusiness,
but had no means of proving its falsity ?
Why were the Whig press in this State so
dumb on the subject when the reputation of
one of her best ci tizens was thus maliciously
assailed ?—When one who has been iden
tified with her grandest enterprises, and
who stauds eminent m the history of her
prosperity, was arraigned before the coun
try as a "perjurer and forger ?” I ask,
why were the Whig presses so silent ? Was
there an understanding between Mr.
Toombs, yourself and others, on the sub
ject ? Did you say to them, let it rock', it
will only, further our designs, by rendering
the Whig party odious and unpopular ?"
I simply ask the questions—Ido not
make the charges, however strong appear
ances might prompt me to do so..—And
some persons have been amiable enough
to surmise, that through the difference of
those low, and most contemptible of all pas
sions, envy and jealousy, you did not care
if Mr. Crawford’s reputation, as a public
man, was utterly ruiued. In other words
you meditated “killing him off,” through
this foul and black hearted calumny.
I repeat, that such insinuations have been
made, and while I would not declare it to be
so, circumstances connected with your po-
1 tical course, for the last four years, go far
to confirm their truth. It would seem aU
most certain, that some of the presses must
have been conversant with the facts touch-
concealed the antidote to this poison, and
with the stern deliberation ; of a will that
meant to destroy, stood by, and saw it work
ing its enamoured, deadly way, through
the character of a friend, and over the
brightest hopes of a great party, that had
coufided to you the joint protection of its
most vital interests. Again I put the ques
tion—
Does not he, ivho knowingly permits a
falsehood to have its full effect, when the
means are in his possession to check it, and
he does not use them—identify himself with
that falsehood ? Is he guiltless ?
Politically, I have no sympathy for you.
Professions of personal regard, under cir
cumstances like the present, would be little
credited. Yet I may not violate the one,
nor abuse the other, when I confess bluntly,
that to my mind, your course in the matter
presents a case of moral turpitude, that is
positively astounding, when I consider the
general appearance of candour and straight
forward dealing, that has usually character
ized what you do, and what you say.
But, sir, you have cleared up the “Gal
phin swindle." beyond a doubt. And your
friends have boasted that no man attempted
to gainsay what you stated. There is a good
reason for it. Let me present the foots con
cerning vour speech, which gave a “com
plete and faithful history of the Galphin
claim.”
For nearly three years you permitted it
to go unnoticed. The Democratic party
made use of it to their hearts content—
they had gained a complete victory, and
the power of the Whig party was over
thrown. The Democratic members in
Congress were the only persons to gainsay
or controvert your statements ; and they
cared very little, after the election was over,
whether your statements were true or oth
erwise. Therefore, they did not take the
trouble to notice you—having an inkling,
beside, no doubt, that you were making a
“Buncombe speech.”
But you were wide awake to your inter-
terest—and believed that the time had
come to make a decided hit. Consequent
ly on the 13th of January, 1853, you rose
in your place in the House, and delivered
yourself of that “interesting complete, and
faithful history of the Galphin claim,”
which was to relieve Mr. Crawford from his
“unjust suffe-iug,” and claim from his
fiieuds their gratitude for your very disin
terested “history.”
It is unfortunate, sir, that our good deeds
are not always above suspicion. Your res
idence happening to be within the bounds
of the Eighth Congressional District, some
persons were indelicate enough to bint that
you were seeking to represent it; and bad
thus made this “complete and faithful his
tory,” not so much out of regard to what
was “due to truth,” and Air. Crawford, as
to secure to yourself the nomination. It
was an excellent bait, sir, I confess, and very
skillfully used among the unthinking mul
titude, who are now, so very anxious to
honor you.
Sir, your conduct verifies the truth of the
following sentence in your speech, on Gal-
phinism, and I entirely agree with you :—
"It is an easy ma tter to pander to the pas
sions or prejudices of the uninformed."
And I further agree with you, “that this
is the "fucilis descensus Averni,' the down
ward road of ’.he demagogue.”
Very Respectfully,
One of the People.
derstand this matter. If I have been cor
rectly informed, the vote of Mr. Toombs in
tbe Convention, was'given for Mr. Miller, of
Richmond. His subsequent advocacy of
Mr. Jenkins, is an act of just deference to
the will of the great majority of those with
whom he was politically associated as a
member of tbe nominating Convention—an
example not unworthy of imitation by those
who were represented in that body.
I ask you then, sir, to publish this note
in the Georgia Citizen-—and to withdraw
my name from your columns. And I rely
as well on your sense of justice, as on your
courtesy, to comply with my request. I
have availed myself of the earliest oppor
tunity which our tri weekly mail affords to
present it to you.
Very respectfully, Yours,
Jno. AIacpherson Berrien.
SMDERSVILLE, GEORGIA-
TUESDAY AUGUST 30, 1853.
Camp-Heeling.
We have been requested to say, that the
Camp-Afeeting at New Chappel Camp Ground
Col. Fremont and the Pacific Rail
road.—-We learn from the New York
Courier that Col. Fremont has just left that
city for St. Louis, from which point he will
immediately set out over the plains with a
suitable party for California. He goes to
examine the route for the Pacific railroad
along the great depression which he be
lieves to exist in the Rocky Mountains.
Ha expects to reach California in Novem
ber, and will immediately turn upon his
steps and retrace lm course to the States
in order to observe with accuracy the
depths of the snows along the line, and the
degree of obstruction which they will in
terpose to a railroad. His design is full of
daring, and worthy of the intrepid and ad
venturous spirit which he has displaped in
former explorations.”
in this county will commence on
lGth of September.
The Comet.—This interesting object
which seems to be attracting attention ev
ery where, became visible hereabouts the
first part of the past week. It may be seen
in tbe West a few degrees above the hori-
[From the Augusta Cons’itutionaliah]
Letter from Judge Berrien.
Rockingham, Aug. 20, 1853.
To the Editor of the "Georgia Citizen:"
Sir:—Your paper of the 13th inst., was
received by the last mail. It was sent to me
by some unknown person, no doubt with
kindly intentions, and so 1 have received it.
Lt contains an article, which states, and ap
ing the Galphin claim, for it was an affair of proves the determination of some of my fel
some
State.
importance in the legislation ot the i low citizens, to vote for meat the approach-
But admitting that thev were igno-! in<? election for a Governor of the State.
ing election for a Governor of the State,
rant, could you not have communicated j which imposes upon me the necessity ofad-
your knowledge to some of them, last sum I dressing, through you, to those who have
mer, during the Presidential campaign, and ; formed this determination, a respectful re-
then have nailed the infamous slander to the quest, that they will forbear to execute it
counter—and not have waited for it to do
the Whig party all the injury it could?—
You did not even do that. Were you too
much taken up with your Tertium Quid-
ism to think of it ? Doubtless your own
schemes were uppermost in your head.
Perhaps, it may be suggested, that you
I am not insensible to the “compliment”
which might be implied from it—and still
less am i indifferent, to the good opinion
of my countrymen. Nor do i question the
right of every citizen to vote for whom he
pleases—but our most absolute rights are
to be exercised with a just regard to those of
were not conversant with the facts at that others,
time, yourself. I feel authorized to sag | The necessary consequence of the pro-
that you were. The Editor of the Chronicle posed measure, would be to diminish the
<£ Sentinel, when he published your speech,
in February, 1853, took the occasion to re-
vote of Air. Jenkins, to the extent of the
votes which may be thrown away upon me
mark, that it was a complete and faithful; a nd thus, by indirection, to increase the rel-
history of the Galphin claim ; with which, j a tive vote of his opponent. I do not ask if
he adds, you “had long been familiar, this is a fair, opeu, manly exercise, of the
both in the Georgia Legislature, and subse-1 elective franchise. The" appeal which I
quently in Congress.” The obsequious Ed-1 make, is a personal one, and to that, with
itor of that Journal, thought it proper, also, i a single remark, I will confine myself,
to inform the public in general, and the | My relations with Air. Jenkins are, and
friends of Mr. Crawford in particular, that the j f rom bis early youth have been, such as to
expose which you made in that speech, was j forbid me silently to acquiesce in such a use
"not less due to the cause of truth, than .to', of my name—nay, more, they require me
Mr. Crawford, who has so unjustly suf- i thus to appeal to the sense of right of bon-
fereo in the public estimation, from the \ orabie men, whether it is just to me, and
machinations of wicked men, in grossly] proper to them, to force upon me a position,
misrepresenting his connection with this j wnich is utterly .inconsistent with . those re-
claim." (fattens—to make me an instrument, a mere
Here, sir, we have the full and distinct ad | unwilling instrument, to defeat, (if by pos-
mission, from one of your most important ! sibilitv, that should be the result) the elec-
presses, that Mr. Crawford bad "long been' tj ou of a man, who has been through life,
familiar" with the facts which could have j not merely mv political, but also my per-
relieved him from that injustice. And yet, ( SO nal friend? * i rely on the justice of those
sir, you took care to withhold them, untilI to whom 1 address myself—on that high
the thunaers ot its dreadtul malice had spent j sense of honor which is the distinguishing
their fury upon the devoted head qt their’ characteristic of Southern freemen, for the
victim; and the power of the \\ big party | success of this appeal/ I assure myself that
was overthrown. i this determination will be abandoned on re-
I pause, sir, to look around for some key j flection, as well from a conviction that it is
that will unlock to me the hidden cypher, j ^consistent with a ruauly exercise of the
by which this mystery can be explained, con-i elective franchise, as from a sense of its in
sistent w’th yam-justice, duty, and honor, 'justice to me.
Did you do justice to dr. Crawford ? Did , a single other remark. I infer from the
you perform your duty like a faithful rep- article, which has occasioned this note, as
resentative to the Whig party ? Did you we ij a3 f 10m the public papers, that some
tulni the promptings of honor, like a high : persons oppose the election of Mr. Jenkins,
minded geutleman l No sir I You sacn-1 from a belief that he is a?,
ficed them all to an ulterior purpose ! You I » t he Toombs candidate.”
it is expressed,
I do not so un-
Warm Weather.—Several days of the
past week were exceedingly warm, in fact
we should not like to see any warmer days
than Thursday, Friday and Saturday ; Sun
day was a little more pleasant, and yester
day morning was as chilly as a September
season. Rains and thunder clouds have
been passing about for several days. We
have had none however at this place, and
would be tbe belter of a little.
Fiiday the zon ^ a ^ about 8 o’clock, about which time
it appears very brilliant; speaking of this
fffW Lieut. Evans, of the U. S, Dra
goons, arrived in this p'ace the past week
on a visit to his brother, Mr. B. D. Evans,
who has been seriously indisposed for sev
eral weeks past.
Is it So.—We understand that
appearance, Prof. Bond of the Cambridge
University, says :—“This interesting object
has been observed by astronomers for one
or two months past, during which time it
has been gradually increasing in brightness.
Its distance from the sun is now thirty mill
ions of miles ; but from the earth it is two
or three times more remote. Several per
sons in Baltimore are said to have seen it
last week,”
The. AIission to France.—The Wash
ington Star of Monday last says :■ “We
are satisfied that the idea of tendering the
French Mission to Governor Howell Cobb,
of Georgia, is not entertained by the Ad
ministration, more especially as it is well
it is re
ported on the Olioopie, that there was two ‘ known, that when recently iu Washington
sorts of ‘Liquor petitions’ handed round
one which left tbe question with the people,
and the other to be acted on by the Legis
lature, without refering it to the people.
This is news to some of us, who never heard
of but tbe one. The other document we
have not seen. Will some one be so kind
as to produce it ?
There are many idle tales begining to be
set afloat about us, which we would rather
not notice, but if persisted in, shall be ex
posed no matter from what source they em
anate. Plain sailing and fair dealing we
like, but‘privateering’we cannot nor will
not stand-
he frankly assured various members of tbe
government, as well as many of bis private
friends, that though his sympathies were
warmly with tbe President and bis policy,
he could not consent to hold'any office un
der the General Government. Gov. C. is
looking to the Senate.”
Jgr The Yellow Fever is still doing its
work of death in New Orleans at a fearful
rate ; the misery and destitution of the poor
of the city is represented as being almost in
describable. Aid has been arid is still be
ing sent from various parts of the country*
which may in some degree mitigate their
sufferings. The number ofaleaths from the
lstof July to the 20th of August, from this
Judge Holt on the Bench.—The nu
merous friends of this gentleman, will learn cause alone, is 5390, of this number 4005
have died during the 20 days of August,
with pleasure that be has been appointed
•Judge of the Superior Courts of this circuit,
in the place of the Hon. A- J- Miller, re
signed. The Judge will preside at the next
session of our Superior Court. We notice
that in several counties of the circuit meet
ings have been held, in which he has been
solicited to suffer his name used as a candi
date for the office at the election in Octo
ber next. From a lettor of his, published in
reply to a similar proposition in Scriven, he
will doubtless accede to the request, if the
people of the circuit, desire it,
0^7" Air. Cuyler W. Young, Indepen
dent candidate for Congress in the 8th Dis
trict, requests us to say that he will address
the people of Jefferson county at Louisville
on Saturday next, and on the Tuesday fol
lowing will be at Waynesboro. As our
being an average of 200 per day.
gfST The first bale of Sea Island Cotton
which lias been seen this seiison, reached
Savannah on Friday last. It was from the
plantation of E. Branniu, erf Bulloch county-
public places, and even in dram shops, the
way to “inculcate moral suasion” and treat
ing the friends of the cause, (say the least
of it) with perfect indifference. But, savs
he “should any other measure be proposed
to the legislature, which I believe to be free
from constitutional objections, conducive to
good order, and morality, efficient and ben-
eficiaBin its operation,! would feel bound
to give it my support.” Ah, Judge, be s 0
good as to inform us if the modification of
the license laws, or tbe extirpation of the
Retail Traffic in ardent spirits would be
unconstitutional; or the Retail Traffic
“conducive to good order and morality, ef
ficient and beneficial in its operation” upon
individuals, families, and the whole coun
try. Notwithstanding, you desire to go to
the legislature, “free to act upon this and
every other question according to the dic
tates of your conscience, and untrameled
by pledges.”
“Many Voters” would still like to know
your views, in regard to the “modification
of the license law3,” or the extirpation of the
Retail Traffic, before the first Monday in
October next, as they might enable you to
go, and have you to exercise' your judg
ment—or might enable you to stay at home*
where you might be free to act upon it, iu
an individual capacity, and not be the rep
resentative of those that might differ with
you in opinion* - MANY VOTERS.
Jefferson Co., Aug. 23d, 1853.
For the Central Georgian.
Mr. Editor:—We have candidates in
abundance in this county. In addition to
the number already out, Capt. Eli. McCroan;
s before the people of this county for the-.
Senate. The Capt. stands very high in the-
county, and no doubt but that he will be
warmly supportod by his many friends.
Perhaps some of these cases at leant, wh l
verify the Scripture, that says, “the first
shall be last, and the last first.” We regret
very much however to see the party so
much distractad, and no doubt but if the
right step had been taken in. the outset,
all, this. distraction, and confusion would
have be-u avoided. A. B. C„
Jefferson county, Aug. 2.4th, 1853.
SPOT Dr. Lewis, the Independent Demo-
ciatic candidate for Congress in the fifth
District, has declined running, and retired
from the canvass.
[For the Central Georgian.]
Mr, Editor:—I see an article iu your I
paper of the 16th inst., coming from Judge
Robert Boyd, in answer to a communica
tion from Dr. E. H. W. Hunter, in regard
to the “modification of the license laws;”
strange to tell, that the Judge has wholly
mistaken the subject “agitated,” for he sets
out by saying, “while I am decidedly op
friend Capt. Poliiill is in the field, and is
running for a modicum at least, of the mil- j pose d t0 ' ai ega l traffic," &c., &c., now
itary glory of the country, possibly he aud , there is no agitation in regard to the illegal
Mr. Young might go ‘cheek by jowl’ on ! traffic in ardent spirits ; for tlie law pro-
tbat question, as we believe it is one of the
issues which he agitates.
Ma,il Robbery.—We learn, says the
Mobile Tribune of the 10th just., that the
mail between Atlanta, Ga.,-and Montgom
ery, Ala., has been robbed of several pack
ages of letters intended for Afobile, New
Orleans, and Montgomery. Tbe bags ap
pear t£> have-been opened on several occa
sions about or since the lstof July.—From
$20,000 to $50,000 have been thus extrac
ted.
J£3T Sikes, the Engineer who was in
charge of the locomotive Rahul, which was
blown up on the State Road the week be^
fore la8t, has been arrested under a warrant
obtained by the Superintendaut of tlfo
road. After an examination before two
Magistrates at Marrietta, was discharged,
For Sale,—One half of the Savannah
Courier is offered for sale; the machinery
and material are said to be among the best
in the Southern country. Mr. Chapman
wishes to devote more of his time to edito
rial labors.
Hopkins Holsey, Esq,, formerly
Editor of the Athens Banner, is announced
as a candidate for Congress in the sixth dis
trict.
By late arrivals from|f,he-Babamas,
the death of Gov. Gregory is reported.—
He died on the SO.lh of July of an enlarger
ment of the heart. .
tects us against that; but the agitation is
in regard to the legal traffic, and that is
the question “Alany Voters” would like
to call his attention ; but as be has conde
scended to answer Dr. E. H. W. Hunter,
one of the men that brought him out for
the Senate, they have to try'and find out
what bis views are from that communica
tion. He says, “that be has doubts as to
the constitutionality of the legislation pro
posed by the Atlanta Convention;” and
that the “question has pot been agitated
long;” nor as he believes, “fully discussed,”
without giving any reason for his “doubts’’
as to the constitutionality of the law pro
posed; and as to the agitation of the sub
ject long, and being fully discussed; if he
had^ labored as bard as some of us, for tbe
last two years, particularly the last twelve
months, he would have thought it had been
‘‘agitated Jong” and “fully discussed”—but
the total indifference, and disregard he has
exercised towards the movement makes him
not understand the subject “agitated.”
He says, “I believe it purely a moral
question and should be inculcated by mort
al suasion ; consequently I am opposed to
the law proposed by the Atlanta Conven
tion.” Ah, Judge, this question has been
agitated for the last ten or fifteen years, up
on moral suasion principles by the friends
of moral suasion ; how legal suasion, and
they have yet to learn that you have ever
put forth the first effort for the cause in that
way ; unless you consider dram drinking in
IHfect&i&r iu Jeffersou-
At a meeting of a portion of the citizens
of Jefferson, county,, held in Louisville on t
Saturday 2.0th inst., oa motion Henry Ar
rington. vyas called, to the Chair, and An
drew E. Tatv.er requested, to act. a» Secreta
ry-
On motion a committee of three were ap
pointed to present resolutions, expressive
of tbe object and. sense of the meeting-.
The chairman'appointed Thos. II. Bolin Ii..
Charles Ii. Moore, and. James H. . Bostick,.
Esqs.!, that committee. The committee re
tired for a short time,, and on return sub
mitted the folio-wing report.
Whereas, by recent enactment of the-
Legislature of Georgia, the Judges of the
Superior Court are to be elected.bv the peo
ple of each Judicial district, and. believing,
as we do that tbe Judge should be sought
for by the people, and not tbe office by in
dividuals, therefore, resolved, that this-
meeting give an expression of opinion on
the subject of their prefevances for that,
high and responsible office, and whereas,,
the lion. William W’. Holt during his oc
cupancy of the Chair judicial in tlie Middle-
Circuit, evidenced himself to be most tini
nehtly qualified for that post, not only by-
his profound legal acquirements and entire-
impartiality in administering the laws, but
also by the constant exhibition of that high
toned morality which shoulcljever character
ise one acting iu that very high and respon
sible capacity, therefore,
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
meeting, the Hon. William W. Holt, of the
county of Richmond, is decidedly the choice
of a large majority of the voters of Jefferson
countv for the Judgeship of the Middle-
district ol'Georgia, and if a candidate in
October next, will receive our warmest and
most cordial support.
Resolved, That a committe of three be
appointed by the Chair, to forward to Judge
Holt a copy of these resolutions and earn
estly request him to suffer his name used in
connection with that office.
On motion of Dr. P. S. Lemle, the re
port was received and uuanimously adopt
ed; the Chairman appointed the commit
tee of threeas follows :,Dr. P. S. Lemle,
Thos. H, Poliiill, and C. R. Aloore, Esqrs.
Dr. P. S. Lemle, offered the following
resolution,
Resolved, That a committee be appoint
ed by the Chair, to invite the Hon. Ohas.
J. Jenkins and tbe Hon. A. H.-Stephens,
to visit our town and address the people of
our county in the political issues of the day,
at such time as may be’most convenient to
them, and if consistent with other and more
important engagements ; which was adopt
ed: Committee appointed,- Dr. P. S. Lemle
Eli M’Croari, Thos. JI. Polhill, J. W. Alex
ander, A. E. Tarver, Dr.E. H. W. Hunter,
Win. S. Alexander, and Chas. R. Moore.
On motion of Dr. L. C. Belt, .resolved
that the proceedings of the meeting be
signed by the Chairman and Secretary, ana
forwarded to Chronicle & Sentinel, Consti-
tutionalistdr Republic and Central Georgi
an, with a request that they should publish
the same. v-- - - - ^ -
On motion of Chas. R. Moore, the meek
ing: adjourned sine die. _______
ourueu
.y, - HENRY ARRINGTON, Char n.
Ai lE. Tarver, Sect’ry.
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