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PR< H'l ‘.ssK )N ALi < WRDS.
WM. G. HORSLEY,
Atto i‘ ue v a t Ij.a w ,
TIIOMASTON, GA.
AY ILL practice in Upson, Talbot, Taylor, Crawford,
’’ Monroe. Pike and Merriwether Counties.
April 7. IB6o—ly.
DR. JOHN GOODE,
■pE&PECrFCLLY offers his Professional services to
Al the citizens of Thomaston and its vicinity.
He can be found during the day at Dr. lieard s of
uce and at hfo father’s residence at night.
Thomaston, Feb. 10.
TIIOM ABBK ALL,
attorney at law,
THOMASTON, GA.
Ic43—ly
L. \Y. ALEXANDER,
ATTORNEY at law,
nov2s—ly THOMASTOX ’ GA -
E. Warrk.v. „
C. 1. UeoDE.
WARREN & GOODE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
■•rl<v^f P£RIa ’ iIOUST °N CO., GA.
A. C. MOORE,
1) E A T IST,
THOMASTON, GA.
(j at mv House (the late residence of Mrs.
nfii “ here 1 a,u prepared to attend to all class-
Operations. My work is mvßeference.
_novig__ tf
G. A. MILLER,
ATTORNEY at law,
THOMASTON, GA.
aP T : I NESS CAR OS .
GEORGE W. DAVIS’
Lr °f a beautiful Stock of Spring and Sum
t]je f J,,(, ds. comprising every article usually kept in
(‘-country. Call and see him at his old stand.
[“'ffla-'ton, April 7,185 b.
hall,
OPPOSITE THE LANIER HOUSE,
Ai ACON, GEORGIA
O.F.DENSE,
t . (Late of the Floyd House,)
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BUSINESS CARDS-
W. A. SNELL^
Dealer In pure Drugs and Medicines,
TIIOMASTON, GA.,
KEEPS constantly on hand and for sale a large Stock
.of pure Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals and Patent
Medicines, consisting in part of Dr. Ayer’s Cherry Pec
toral and Cathartic Pills, and Sarsaparilla. Wistar’s
Balsam of Wild Cherry. Mustang Liniment. Perry Da
vis’ Vegetable Pain Killer, Roberts’ Cholic Mixture,
Alcohol, Linseed Oil, Train Oil, Spirits of Turpentine,
Coach and Japan Varnish. Also, Dye Stuffs, fine Cog
nac Brandy. Ten Year Old Apple Brandy, fine Bourbon
Whi'kev, Old Port and Madeira Wines, Fine Cigars
and Tobacco, all of the very best quality. Besides
these, he has fine and fancy articles for the Toilet,
Paints. Varnishes, &c., and in fact every thing usually
kept in a first class Drug Store.
Call and see him at the stand formerly occupied by
Harwell & Goode. Mayl9
SYDENHAM ACRE. JNO. F. IVERSON
ACEE &. IVERSON,
DRUGGISTS AID CHEMISTS,
SIGN OF GOLDEN EAGLE,
COL U MBUS, GEORGIA.
DEALERS in Foreign and Domestic Drugs, Medi
cines. Chemicals. Acids. Fine Soaps, Fine Hair and
Tooth Brushes, Perfumery, Trusses and Shoulder
Braces, Surgical and Dental instruments, pure Wines
and Liquors for Medicinal purposes. Medicine Chests,
Glass, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Fancy and
! Toilet Articles, Fine Tobacco and Havana Segars, &c..
j &c. janfi—tf.
•
HARDEMAN & GRIFFIN,
DEALERS VS
STAPLE DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES
Ol* Every Description
Corner of Cherry and Third Streets,
MACON, GA.
r E wou-d call the attention of the Planters of Up-
VV son and adjoining counties to the above Card, be
lieving we can make it to their interest to deal with
Macon, Ga.. November 19,1858. nov2s—tf.
lTy o © a lT”
Opposition Meeting.
LaGrange, May 24, 1833.
I A large ]nri>n of the peoj le of Troup
met at the C ur.-le ti.se, to-day, for the
! purpose of organizing themselves into an
Opposition Party, and on motion, Colonel
John II nderson was called to the chair,
and C. 11. C. Willinghaln requested to act
as {Secretary.
Dr. Beasley explained the object of the
mention, and moved that a committee of
thirteen —one from each Militia District—
b appointed to prepare matter for the con
-1 sideration of the meeting, which was car
• 1
I ned.
The Chair appointed the following gon-
I tlemen that committee : Win. B. Beas
| ley, Chairman, Mountville ; S. Tatum,
; East Vernon; B. C. Ferrell, LaGrange;
B. C. Johnson, Antioch ; H. Dennis, Long
| Cane ; James Lovelace, West Point; Jno.
B. Reid, McLendon’s ; John D. Timmons,
Harrisonville ; James M. Truitt, Factory ;
G. B. Caudle, Cross Itoads ; Daniel W.
Howell, West Vernon ; Wm. Boyd, llo
| gansville, who then retired for the trans
| action of the business entrusted to them ;
j and, while they were out, Mr. R. C. 11 um
ber was called upon and made a few spir
! ited remarks —after which the committee
i returned and made the following
report :
Whereas, The citizens of the U. States
have formed for themselves a tree govern
ment under a constitution which is and
I should he regarded by all classes of their
people, of whatever political party they j
may belong, as inviolate, and in strict con
formity of which all laws should be made j
and administered for the good ot the whene
people, without regard to sectional inter
est or the promotion of any particular po
litical party which may exist in the gov
ernment;
And Whereas, We believe that section
al interest and party politics have had, for |
several years, too much influence upon the
true policy of our government—both of
the dominant political parties being wrong,
! and neither of them entertaing or cherish
ing true national views, but both being ri
ved sectional factions —one, the Black iie
-1 publican, advocating and endeavoring to
; enforce the application of the \\ iluiot Pro
-1 viso to all the territory ot the E nited.
| States, which is the common property of
the South as well as the North and the
! other, the Democratic party, applying
•■Squatter Sovereignty, and ”Alien Sut-
I frage,” both of which in their ultimate op
i eration result alike, in excluding the citi
zens of the slaveholding States ot this L n
ion from till their rights in the Territories;
And Whereas, The latter party hascon
troled the policy, offices, and means ot the
Geneial Government for several years, and
until their leaders and office holders have
become corrupt divided among them
selves —the party dissolved, and the gov
ernment nearly bankrupted through their
unparalleled extravagance and misman
agement. Then with these views, and the
conclusion deduced from them, together
with the consideration ot the American
party, North and South being disbanded:
and firmly impressed with the neces
sity of a change in the administration of
the affairs of this government , which can
i he effected onhj by the formation of anew
| party, who will oppose and discard the
: jwlicy and acts of the Black Republican
and Democratic parties of this Union -
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES: —DISTINCT, LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA.”
THOMASTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 18-59.
Therefore,
Resolved Ist. That we believe that the
time has arrived in our national affairs,
and the crisis requires that every man in
this Union, who loves his country better
than the spoils of office and his political
party, should, as a true patriot, fearlessly
gird on his armor in opposition to all ex
isting evils, and the political parties who
have brought them upon this country.
Resolved 2d. That we believe that more
harm than good has been done by the long
continued agitation of the slavery ques
tion ; that the continuance of such agita
tion, both Norili and South, can produce
no other effect than to alienate from each
other, people who should be united ; it
jeopardizes the institutions where it exists,
and that we are opposed to the further ag
itation of that question, believing as we
do, that the power of Congress, at present,
requires no assertion on this distracting
theme, because the guarantees of existing
laws are already applied to every foot of
ground within the boundaries of this Un
ion.
Resolved3 1. That we cordially endorse the
decision of the Supreme Court of the U.
States in the Dred Scott case.
Resolved 4th. That we are in favor of
the Washington policy ot peace—and
against all entangling alliances and pro
tectorate’s—and the Jackson rule of sub
mitting to nothing that is wrong; opposed
to all innovations contrary to the Consti
tution ; to giving away the public lands ;
to the enormous expenditures of the peo
ple’s money to corrupt monopolies; to
building the Pacific Railroad, especially if
it can be done only under the authority
derived from the war making power of the
Constitution ; to overtrading, or fillibus
teririg by our government ; and to placing
the purse and sword in the hands of the
President of the United States to control
at his own will.
Resolved sth. That as to our State pol
icy we are decidedly opposed to extending
the credit or funds of this State, to the
fostering of all private corporations, par
ticularly for the building of Railroads, as
it has been done by the dominant party of
our State within the last few years; be
lieving the policy wrong in principle, une
qual in its operation, and hazardous of the
true and ultimate interests of our State.
R solved 6th. That we are in favor of the
Constitution, Union, Retrenchment and
Reform.
Resolved 7th. That as the foregoing pre
amble and resolutions incorporate our pre
sent political sentiments we*are willing to
unite with all men, North, South, East
and West in the formation of anew par
ty, upon that basis of action ; and as such,
do cordially invite all the voters of Troup
county, without regard to vast political
differences, to join us in a meeting at this
place, on first Tuesday in next month, at
11 o’clock, A. M., for the purpose of organ
izing the party.
The Report was, on motion of B. C.
Ferrell, unanimously adopted.
On motion of B! C. Ferrell it was re
quest el that these proceedings be publish
ed in the LaGrange Reporter and the
West Point Citizen ; and that all Opposi
tion papers be requested to copy,
On motion the meeting adjourned.
JOHN HENDERSON, Chairman.
C. H. C. Willingham, Secretary.
From tlic Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel.
The South anil its Prosperity.
“In no section of this country has so
great a degree of uniform prosperity pre
vailed for several years past, as in the
South. We sincerely rejoice at this, and
trust that so gratifying a condition of af
fairs may long continue. During the re
cent frightful panic, the South suffered
but little, comparatively speaking. Its
great staple was in constant demand, and
at remunerating prices, and the traders and
storekeepers were benefit ted accordingly, j
The South at such a critical moment was
able very materially to assist the North,
and it did so. The majority of our breth
ren in that portion of the Union are among
the most liberal persons on the face of the
earth. They are full of noble impulses
and generous sentiments, and if the two
sections could only arrive at a satisfactory
understanding with regard to the slave
question, all apprehension of discord and
disunion would cease at once and forever.
But even with that question still unad
justed, and likely to form a topic of agita
tion till its commercial bearings against
the soil and national wealth are better un
derstood. the bond of brotherhood between
the North and South is too strong to bo
seriously affected. We all belong to the
same great nation. We all inherit the
same priceless political and civil blessings,
and we all participate in the honor which
attaches to the American name. Why,
therefore, should we disagree, or speak for
a moment of secession or separation, or en
courage zealots to do so for us ? Asa na
tion strongly united in a feeling of com
mon interests, even as politically we are
indissoluble, we may defy the world either
:in arms or in arts. Torn in fragments, or
’ divided into distinct confederacies, howev-
er, we should exhibit a sad spectacle of the
incapacity of man for self-government, and
aim a blow at human liberty, from which
it would take ages to recover. Os this
there is little or no danger. The Ultras,
the fanatics, and the madmen, who ever
and anon clamor for disunion, are but as
a mere handful compared with a popula
tion of millions that occupy these States
and Territories, and thus ghould be con
temned and derided rather than seriously
considered. Better, far better for the South
is it to realize, appreciate, and enjoy the
many blessings that have so long been
jkeumhupon that sect,: >n ot the Union—
than to resort to any change of system or
Government, and at such immense risks.”
Thus speaks the Philadelphia Inquirer ,
a journal always distinguished for its sound,
Common sense, practical views of all ques
tions, and its thorough conservatism, both
in State and national politics. In notic
ing these remarks, we desire to suggest to
our cotemporary, and through it to the
Northern people, the propriety of letting
the fanatics and ultraists prate as much as
they please, while the masses attend to
their own business, and give themselves
no concern about the South or its institu
tions. By this course harmony would soon
be restored, and the demagogues and po
litical tricksters of the South, who are al
ways boasting about their devotion to the
South and her institutions, would be in
the same category as the fanatics and ul
.lre.U.ts of the North, and all combined,
equally impotent in disturbing the univer
sal harmony. The truth is very apparent
to every observant, intelligent mind, that
the great mass of the people South, have
no sympathy whatever with the ultraists
of this section, and regard them as brawl
ing demagogues and political tricksters,
who are unworthy of public confidence ;
and we presume the same is true with the
masses at the North, in reference to their
fanatics and ultraists ; but the people
there, the intelligent masses, have become
such mere party machines, that they have
not the independence to repudiate the mis
erable brawlers, and hence have permitted
public sentiment to be grossly misrepre
sented. It is time, we think, and we hope
flic day is at. hand, when the intelligent
.ij‘.-rvative men of all sections will
unYe, -and in a common bffort, drive out
ana crush forever these common enemies
of <-ur common country and her glorious
institutions.
From tbe Baltimore Clipper.
The South to be sold in 1860
by the Democratic—Freesoil
Party.
The tactics of the Democratic party in
reference to the presidential election, of
18(50, are just beginning to he developed.
For years it has existed upon slavery agi
tation alone. Having no principles in
common, finding no two States in which
the masses of the party agree in regard to
any of the great questions ot national poli
cy. it lias been the aim of the locofoco lead
ers to keep alive slavery agitation ; to
thrust it into every political contest and
to make it the paramount issue in State
and federal elections. In 1854 they brought
forward the two-faced Kansas-Nebruska
bill, upon which all the factions nominally
agreed while it was capable of a free-soil
construction in the North and pro-slavery
interpretation at the South. This infa
mous swindle was exposed and a storm of
indignation was about to burst upon the
democracy in the South, when its wily
leaders presented themselves as Southern
pro-slavery ultraists, and professedly the
warmest friends and strongest defenders of
Southern institutions and Southern inter
ests. The party has essentially sectional
ized, and in its present position there is
not only no hope, but not even the shad
ow of a chance of its success in a federal
election.
The leaders see and appreciate the pre
dicament in which the party is placed, and
are sedulously working, not to nationalize
the party, but to form alliances which may
give them some strength in the North and
enable them to present a formidable front
in tlie freesoil States. To effect this pur
pose they rely exclusively upon slavery ag
itation. They are pressing it forward in
every canvass in the South and earnestly
trying to make it again the paramount is
sue. Those in the South who believe that
the democratic party intend to take posi
tion upon the Southern side of this ques
tion in the approaching Presidential con
test are egregiously deceived. The demo
cratic leaders intend to do no sitch tiling.
They know that the Northern States will
have a majority in the Charleston conven
tion and the ability to select the candidate
and adopt the platform. They know that
the whole democratic party in the North
is intensely free-soil. and they see the ne
cessity of making concessions to these free
soil prejudices. With this purpose in view
the leaders of the democratic party in the
South are deliberately preparing to betray
the South, by the adoption of the Squat
ter Sovereignty platform of Senator Doug
las. In Virginia and Kentucky, and Ten
ues: *:o and Louisiana, the very men, who,
a few months ago, were violently denoun
cing Douglas as a heretic and a traitor to
his party, are now actively advocating the
very doctrines which when uttered by him
were pronounced heresies and treasons. —
To make favor in the North and to regain
the Northern, allies who have gone off’ up
on this slavery question, the Southern
leaders of the party are preparing to inau
gurate Douglas’ squatter sovereignty doc
trine as the main plank of their party plat
form. This squatter sovereignty, says a
respected cotemporary, is the denial of the
power of Congress to protect the rights of
the minority in the Territories against the
! despotism of the majority, is, beside its
shameful lack of all pretensions to states
manship or authority or constitutional
warrant, the most swift, unerring, and de
structive agency of anti-slavery ever con
ceived in the fertile brain of the North.—
There is nothing redeeming about it. It
is jacobinism in theory, and abolitionism
in practice. It secures to the South in 1
the common Territories of the Union no!
protection, no equality, no justice. It vir
tually excludes the South. It is the vile
but light-footed alter ego of the Wilmot
; Proviso. Adopt it, let it be established
under the wing of a great and dominant
party, and the rights of the South in the
Territories will instantly and henceforth
become as delusive and unsubstantial as a
phantom of the air. Our citizens, it is true,
may, if they choose, take their slave prop- j
! erty into the Territories, but the moment i
thny get it there, it will be snatched or:
spirited out of their possession with abso
lute impunity. It will vanish on the in
stant for the want of adequate protection.
The right will become a mere and sheer
cheat.
The coalition of the Northern free-soil
democrats and Southern pretended pro
slavery democrats upon this abolition plat
form in disguise, is tlie only living chance
for the success of the Democratic party,
and in the achievement of this success, the
South will be mercilessly betrayed. In
this movement the democratic leaders are
playing upon the credulity of the people
of the South. For the chance of carrying
Illinois and Indiana and Pennsylvania, the
| Southern democratic politicians are willing
i to make this concession to the abolition
! ism of the North, and they are now indus
; triously working to present themselves be
fore the North as the free-soil party of the
South. There is no difference in fact be
tween Squatter Sovereignty and abolition
ism, and, while these arrangements are in
progress, in every Southern State, the de
mocratic organs and speakers are inveigh
ing clamorously against the of
Know-Nothings and Republicans under!
the name of the Opposition party. They
are themselves doing the very act for which
they falsely upbraid the Opposition. They
are advocating doctrines essentially aboli
tion. The only refuge for the South and
for tbe country in this emergency, is to
build up a party based upon other issues
than this effete and useless slavery ques
tion.
The idea of the Democracy, as at pres
ent organized, saving the country is rather
a shallow foundation on which to base so
patriotic nn expectation. That party is in
power now. Mr. Buchanan holds the
reins of government and under his man
agement the whole country is drifting to
the dogs. Talk about the Democracy of
‘the present day saving the country, when
officials in every department of the Gov
ernment are plundering the treasury, when
the most unblushing frauds are daily being
exposed, when by a course of reckless ex
travagance and profligacy the expenditures
of the Government are ranging far above
the revenues of the country, when the
treasury is bankrupt and the Government
in debt, issuing treasury notes and borrow
ing money to keep afloat —talk about the
Democracy saving the country when it is
that very party that has brought, the gov
ernment to its present deplorable condition
—talk about the plunderers of the treasu
ry saving the country, is simply ridiculous.
Save the country from whom ?
Who is it that is preying upon the en
ergies and resources of the country but this
same Democracy which from the very
stench of its corruptions boasts that it alone
can save the country / From whose insa
tiate greed is country to be saved but from
the Democracy ? It is hardly reasonable
to suppose that the people of the country
will look to the Democracy for help when
that same Democracy is bleeding the trea
sury at every pore. Just save the country
from the Democracy and then there will
be something like a reasonable hope for the
country. Drive off the vultures that are
gnawing at the very vitals of the country,
and the first step towards the salvation of
the country is taken. —Lexington (Ua)
Gazette.
The Rev. Dr. Cox is writting a scries of
letters in The American Presbyterian, de
signed to show that the Apocalyptic bat
tle of “Armageddon” is, in all probability,
at hand, in the grand rupture of the peace
of Europe now taking effect
From the Atlanta American.
God and Hope.
Doubt not the existence of a ‘‘Living
I God while there is such thiug as hope. —*
It is this blessed gift that sustains thn
equilibrium of the mind and gives present
, contentment to the soul. Destroy this
central beam of life and light, which ema
nates from the Throne of Heaven, and tho
entire fabricof Reason crumbles into chaos.
Or disprove that ther.e is an Infinite Be
ing, and oiir reliance is without foundation
and our source of dependence and auppoß
i lost, inevitably surrendered to the blight
of despondency. But Satah was not tliefi-n
presumptions when he endeavored tg
tempt the Savior than he who would ‘at
tempt to do this. Even how fearful must
have been Tom Paine or Voltaire to pre
j tend to disbelieve the theorem ot Divinity,
i or to denounce the Scriptures as untrue !
Let the wretch of Atheispi confound the
Truth of Holy Writ, and establish hie
doctrines of infidelity as pure, and he may
command the winds to cease to blow or
the sun to stand still, and they will obey
him. Indeed, it is mockery—it isogregip.ua
blasphemy to doubt against DiVirib Wis
i dom and the power of JehoVah as maud
; lin egotists and human theorists would
| have us do. It is, moreover, a selfishness
| and vanity not less contemptible despisa
ble than were the instincts ot Pride which
sunk Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction.
It is a fearful thing to doubt the exist
ence of a “Living God.” But we may
boldly and conscientiously assort His Be
ing, when His Power and Glory is so clear
ly and unmistakably manifest in everything
which He has created, from the smallest
atom to the most sublime and resplendent
spheres that illuminate Immensity.
Then, begone with such sophistry and
egotism, which pretend that the works b!
the Almighty are but works of ch'dtibe—
that acknowledge incredulity as to the Su
preme Spirit, and attempt to teach that all
things have their being without a Giver.—
Such reasoning, more fallacious than in
telligent, is untit to be regarded or respect
ed by any rational mind, and should be
left to perish upon the desert of its own
groundless doctrines.
There is, as the Bible eaith, ft “Living
God,” Hence
‘ Etenial hop* ! when yonder spheres Buhlim*
Peal'd their first notes to sound tl e march of Time,
Thy joyous youth bc:ran —but not to fade—
When all the sister planets have decay’d ;
When wrapt in tins the realms of eth *r glow,
And heav’n's last thunder shakes the world below ;
Thou undismay’d, shalt o’er the ruins smile,
And light thy torch st nature’s funeral pile.”
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Do it Yourself. For the following
valuable piece to scholars we are indebted
to the Connecticut Common School Jour
nal. We hope our readers will not only
remember this advice, but endeator to ac
quire the habit of self-reliance which id
here inculcated :
“Do not ask the teacher or some class
mate to solve that hard problem. Do it
yourself. You might as well ask them to
eat your dinner as to do your sums for
you. It is in studying as in eating ; ho
that does it gets the beuefi*, and not ho
that sees it done. In almost any school 1
would give more for what the teachLf
learns, than for what the best scholar
learns, simply because the teacher is com
pelled to solve all the problems, and an
swer all the questions of the lazy boys.
Do not ask him to the difficult,
words, or assist you in the performance of
any of your studies. Do it yourself. Never
mind, though they look as dark as Egypt.
Don’t ask even a hint from any uu Try
again. Every trial increases yotlr ability,
and you will finally succeed by dint of ev
ery wisdom and strength gained in the ef
fort, even though the problem was at first
beyond your skill. It is the study and not.
the answer that really rewards your pains.
“Look at that boy, who has succeedv and
after six hours of hard study, perhaps—*
how his large eyes light up with proud joy
as he marches to his class, lie treads like
ft conqueror, and well may he. Last night
his lamp burned and this morning ho
w’aked up at dawn. Once or twice ho
nearly gave it up. He had tried his last
thought, but anew thought strikes him,
and he ponders the last process. He trietf
once more, and he succeeds: and now mark
the air of conscious strength with which
he pronounces the demonstration.
His poor weak schoolmate, who gave up
that same problem, alter his first trial,
now looks up to him with something of
wonder, as a superior being.
And he is superior. That problem lies
there, a great gulf between those boys
who stood side by side yesterday. That
boy that did it himself has taken a strido
upward, and what is better still, has gain
ed strength to take other and better ones.
The boy who waited to see others do it has
lost both strength and courage, and is al
ready looking for so me good excuse to give
Up school and study f. rev or. Remember,
do it yourself.
Lucy Stone says, “there cotton in that
ears, and hope in the bosoms of .#
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