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THOM ASTON, GA.
VjTILL practice in Upson. Talbot. Taylor. Crawford, j
” Monroe, Pike and Merriwether Counties.
April 7.1850—1 y.
DR. JOHN GOODE,
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Al the citizens of Thomaston and its vicinity.
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aC ~, at his father's residence at night.
Thomaston, Feb. 10.
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, ~ THOMASTON, GA.
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NESS C A KPS.
GEORGE W7DAVIS,
of a beautiful Stock of Spring and Simi
le ,r ‘ J00( l s ! comprising every article usually kept in
epuntry. Call and see him at his old stand.
April 7, 1859.
HALIj,
OPPOSITE THE LANIER HOUSE,
AI ACON, GEORGIA
b. r. dense,
(Late of the flovd Home )
BUSINESS CARDS.
W. A. SNELL,
Dealer in pure Drugs and Medicines,
THOMASTON, GA.,
I r EEPS constantly on band and for sale a large Stock
V. of pure Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals and Patent
Medicines, consisting in part of Dr. Ayer’s Cherry Pec
toral and Cathartic Pills, and Sarsaparilla, IV is tar’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
Whiskey, Old Port and Madeira Wines, Fine Cigars
and Tobacco, all of the very best quality. Besides
these, be 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
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Glass. Paints, (fils, Varnishes, Dye Stuff's, Fancy and
Toilet Articles, Fine Tobacco and Havana Segars, &c..
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Os Every Description
Corner of Cherry and Third Streets,
MACON, GA.
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\V son and adjoining counties to the above Card, be
lieving we can make it to their interest to deal with
us.
Macon, Ga., November 19,1858. nov2s—tf.
Ip © L a T 0 (0 A L 3
American Meeting in Taylor.
Agreeably to previous notice a large
portion of the American party of Taylor
county met at the Court-house in Butler
on the 7th inst., for the purpose of ap
pointing Delegates to attend the Guberna
torial and Congressional Conventions soon
to assemble.
When on motion, Col. Win. J. F. Mit
chell was called to the Chair, and \\ m. P.
Edwards requested to act as Secretary.
The Chairman explained the object ot
the meeting.
A motion was then made by W. W.
Corbitt, Esq., that a committee of seven
be appointed by the Chairman, one from
each Militia District, to prepare matter for
the consideration of the meeting, which
motion was carried.
The Chairman then appointed the fol
lowing gentlemen as that committee :
W. AY. Corbitt, Butler, chairman ; E.
Nix, Reynolds, Dr. J. D. Bell, Panhan
dle. J. T. Gray, Carsonville, W. A. H.
Royal, Cedar Creek, Willis Jenks, How
ard’, L. Q. C. McCrary, Davidson.
The committee, as appointed, retired
for a short while, returned and made the
following report:
Whereas, the time is fast approaching
when another political battle is to be fought
in our State 1 , we, a portion ot the Ameri
can party of Taylor county, having met for
the purpose of taking into consideration
the political movements of the past and
present, do now come to the following con
clusions :
First, That the political elements are
discordant, there being neither peace nor
harmony in the ranks ot the two most
prominent parties in our Union. lhe
Black Republicans at the North seem to
be the most united of the two, and we are
fully of the opinion that should these piin
ciples and men succeed, then there is an
end to the peace and happiness of this
great and once happy country ; believing
as we honestly do, that the principles they
advocate and enunciate would bring about
an irruption of the Government and a fi
nal dissolution of the Union. Upon the
other hand, the Democratic party has no
thing to boast 01, but everything to la
ment ■ distraction and contusion seem to
have broken into the ranks of that party.
In fact, we are ot the opinion that it is
perfectly disrobed of its Nationality, it any
it has had for several years. We have a
Democratic party at the North with one
set of principles, and a Democratic party
at the South with another set ot princi
ples. Iu the North the party advocates
the principles of Intervention, Squatter
Sovereignty, and Alien Suffrage, as well as
Internal Improvements by the General
Government, At the South, the party
advocates the principles of Non-Interven
tion, oppose Squatter Sovereignty and the
Internal Improvements by the General
j Government, and,” with a tew exceptions,
are opposed to Alien Suffrage; and aet
both wings of the party both North and
South protess to stand upon the Cincin
i nati platform. We then are of the opin
ion that the promises which have been re
peatedly made by leading Democratic ora
: tors in our State : that the safety of the
: country rested solelv in the united Democ
racy. and that that party, if kept in pow
i er, would keep the government in its mi
: rity and deal out equal rights to all has
| been an entire subterfuge, and that these
promises have all fallen to the ground. As
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES: —DISTINCT, LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA,”
THOMASTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 18-39,
an evidence of that fact, we find an empty
Treasury when there should have been
money enough to defray every expense of
the government. We were promised peace,
and yet there is no peace. The same ques
tions are still agitating the country from
North to South. We were promised that
Kansas should be admitted into the Un
ion with a slave constitution. She is still
out of the Union as a State, and the Ter
ritory is Free-soil or Black Republican.—
The Administration has lost its friends,
having proved a total failure, and with it
the Democratic party has lost its power.
The smaller of the three parties now in the
U nion is the American party, and to which
we are proud to say we belong, believing
as we honestly do, that its principles are
sound and conservative, and that upon
that party rests the present hope of the
country. We then, as Americans holding
ourselves aloof from either of the other
parties, do hereby enunciate and publish
the following principles, and by them we
are willing to stand or foil :
Resolved, That we re-affirm the princi
ples contained in the platform of 1850.
Resolved, That we re-affirm the princi
ples contained in the Philadelphia plat
form of 1855, and the principles ot the
American party of 1857.
Resolved, That we are opposed to the
system of Internal Improvements by the
General Government, and believe in an
equal distribution of the proceeds ot the
public lands among the States.
Resolved, That we are in favor of the
financial affairs of the government being
managed with economy and the public
Treasury watched over, and that we are
opposed to everything like extravagance
in disposing of the public funds, and es
pecially opposed to any of said money be
ing used for political purposes in buying
votes to secure the election of any man.
Resolved, That we arc opposed to the
present Administration, believing that it
has been a curse to the country and de
serves no sympathy at our hands.
Resolved, That the thanks of this meet
ing are hereby tendered the Honorable Al
fred Iverson, our Senator in Congress, for
the manly course pursued by him in the
last session of Congress, and especially tor
his speech so widely circulated in this
State. In that speech we have much to
approbate and but little to condemn, and
cannot see how that gentleman can still be
identified with the National Democracy,
as it is called. And especially is that gen
tlernan entitled to our thanks for voting
generally in opposition to his colleague.
Resolved, That we are in favor of a
State convention and a candidate for Gov
ernor, as we never intend to admit that
there is no man of our party incapable of
managing the affairs ol the State Road,
and we hereby appoint the usual number
of delegates to attend said convention.
Resolved, That we appoint delegates to
the Congressional convention to nominate
a candidate for Congress in this District.
Resolved, That as we are determined to
carry into ellect the principles herein set
forth, that the first Tuesday in July next
be for our party to meet in Butler to nom
inate candidates for the Legislature.
Resolved, That Win. J. F. Mitchell, L.
Q. C. McCrarv, Elijah M. Hicks, Jeremi
ah Wile liar, C. F. Pickling, D. O. Smith,
James Griffith, Y. H. Caldwell, Andrew
McCants, Willis Jenks and W. W. Cor
bitt are hereby appointed delegates to the
Gubernatorial convention, and that Peter
E. Riley, W. P. Edwards and B. F. Reese j
be appointed delegates to the Congression
al convention.
Before these resolutions were put upon
their passage, W. W. Corbitt, Esq., ad
dressed the meeting at some length, in ia
vor of the resolutions as reported. De
nounced Squatter Sovereignty, Alien Sui
frage, Internal Improvements by the gen
eral government, in unmeasured term,
called upon men ot classes to join the hon
est masses, and help to kick Janies Buc
hanan and his sympathisers out ot power.
Alluded in eloquent terms to the gallant
Goggin ot \ irginia, and ‘closed b\ exhoit- ,
ing^the people to come up on the first
Tuesday in July next, and nominate can
didates to represent them in the next Leg
islature.
The report was then unanimously
adopted.
On motion of B. F. Reese, it was re
quested that the proceedings of this meet
ing be published in the Georgia Citizen,
and that the Journal & Messenger, Upson
Pilot, and all other papers friendly to the
principles herein set forth copy the same.
The meeting then adjourned to meet on
the first Tuesday in July next
W. F. J. MITCHELL, Churn.
W. G. Edwards, Sec’y.
A country editor announces, in the fol
lowing terms, that he has suspended spe
cie payment: “If any man wants to see
stars, and appreciate one ot the uses to
which brickbats may be preserved, let him
approach our vicinity with an account.
p g We keep a pile of bricks in our
sanctum, and carry one in our hat.
| ’ . !
Indolence is the rust of the mind and
1 the inlet of every vice.
From the Richmond Whig.
Letcher's Tremendous Vote in
the North-west.
It is clear that Letcher owes his elec
tion to the tremendous vote he received in
the \\ cst —in those counties bordering on
Ohio and Pennsylvania, in which there are
scarcely any slaves, and in which there con
sequently exists a strong and predominant
anti-slavery sentiment. We are far from
accusing the great body of the people in
that section cf the State of being Aboli
tionists ; but the fact is perfectly demon
strable that free labor notions are widely
prevalent in that entire region, and that
the mass of the citizens of a large number
ol counties there, have been long accus
tomed to look upon slavery as a social and
political, if not a moral, evil. It is no
wonder, therefore, that a firm and resolute
pro-slavery candidate for office should be
given the cold shoulder by persons who re
gard the institution of domestic slavery in
the light we have described. It is no won
der that a candidate with f? nii-slavery an
tecedents, like Mr. Letcher, should receive
their cordial and overwhelming support.
It is no wonder that Letcher, the Emanci
pationist, should have swept the Freesoil
counties of the State, after the manner of
a tornado, who is himself a large slave
holder, and who has never faltered on the
great and vital question, should have re
ceived but a meagre minority of votes in
the same counties. The thing is perfectly
natural, and the result in the North-west
does not astonish us in the least.
We repeat that Letcher owes his elec
tion to the tremendous majority in those
counties to his anti-slavery record —to his
endorsement of the wild and mischievous
Abolition sentiments and doctrines of the
Ruffner pamphlet. We stand not alone in
this opinion and this belief. We have
proof at hand from an authoritative source.
We have before us a Freesoil paper, in
Brooks county —in the Panhandle, a dis
trict of country lying between Pennsylva
nia and Ohio. This paper is called the
Wellsburg Herald, and its editor and pro
proprietor J. G. Jacob. Now, how does
the Herald account for the large gains of
Letcher in its own section of the State ?
Hear what it says in its issue of Friday last,
th*. 3d wf June i
“In the West Goggin hardly received
or J
the usual Wing and American vote. In
the Panhandle he fell considerably behind
>t —to the amount of several hundred votes.
In none of the Western counties (that is,
in the North-western counties) do there
appear to have been any gains—indeed the
vote was rather a light one all over the
State. Goggin was objectionable to many
of liberal notions on the slavery question,
who otherwise would have supported him,
some of whom voted for Letcher oil the
strength of his opinions in 1848, and for
the sake of the moral effect of his election,
thinking that his conversion having been
so recent and radical, the masses would set
it down, and regard it as insincere, and his
election being thus equivalent, in some de
gree and in effect, to a Blaclc Republican
triumph in the State of Virginia.”
There, people of Virginia of all parties,
is the real reason, and the only reason,
why Letcher ran in the Freesoil counties
of the Northwest, like a mammoth loco
motive on a down grade. There is the
reason of His election to the office of Gov
ernor of this hitherto proud and glo
rious Commonwealth. “ Goggin was ob
jectionable to many of liberal notions on
the slavery question,” and therefore couldn’t
travel in the Panhandle and the counties
adjacent thereto. But Letcher was not
“objectionable” on that score to the large
majority of the citizens of the Northwest.
On the contrary, they cheerfully voted for
him, “on the strength of his (Abolition)
opinions in 1848, and for the sake of the i
moral effect of his election”—knowing |
that his election would be “equivalent, in j
some degree and effect, to a Black Repub
lican triumph in the Slate of Virginia!
Great Heavens! can it be possible that
Virginia, the largest slaveholding State in
the Confederacy and the most renowned
and honored of the fair sisterhood, has ;
come to such a melancholy and pitiable j
pass? Is it creditable that the man she j
has just elected to the honors and digni- j
ties of the gubernatorial office, owes his ;
election to the votes of Blade Republicans.
And yet such, people of Virginia, Whigs
and Democrats all, is the lamentable and
incontrovertible fact. Such is the dis- ,
graceful fact, people of all .the slavehold
ing States, and in announcing it, we bow
our head with shame and confusion of
face. Never before have Virginians been
called upon to blush for Virginia.
But the deed is done. Letcher is elect
ed, and Goggin is defeated. Freesoilism
has triumphed even here in Virginia, and
what the end shall be, no man can foresee.
The gallant and patriotic Opposition fought
with unceasing energy and zeal, for three
or four long months. By the vote of Vir
ginia and Virginians, Wm. L. Goggin is
to-day the Governor elect of the State by
untold thousands. But the Yankeeism
and Black Republicanism of the Panhan
dle and other portions of the Northwest
have carried John Letcher into th a guber-
natorial office; and we congratulate the
Eastern Democracy upon their abolition
allies, and upon the shameful triumph
they have achieved. Thank Heaven, we
have no part nor lot in the responsibility
for such a triumph. The skirts of the Op
position are clear.
From the Washington States, (Democratic.)
The Black Lettered List Again—
Bennett, Wykoff. Grmid, Fleu
ret, et id ornne genus.
We have not hesitated, even at the risk
j of incurring the frowns of the President, to
expose this infamous concern to the just
indignation of the American people.
Never have we had occasion to deplore
I anything more, of a public nature, than
the bewitching influence which Bennett
; and his degraded mercenaries seem to exer
i cise upon the Executive of this great re
public.
We have heard it stated that the port
als of the White House are ever open to
each and all of Bennett’s underlings, while
j elevated gentlemen from distant parts of
j the Union have been made to wait for days
i before they could obtain a pYivate inter
! view, upon official business, with its illus
i trious occupant. Spirits of departed Pres
idents, can such tilings be without causing
you to linger around your exalted place of
abode on earth, sorrowing for its demorali
zation I
“There was that virtue once in Rome,”
says Cicero, “that a wicked citizen was
held more execrable than the deadliest foe.”
Could the voices of Washington, Adams,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy
Adams, Jackson, Harrison, Polk, and Tay
lor be heard on earth, they would doubt
less remark, “there was that virtue once in
America that the Presidential mansion
would have considered it disreputable to
the country to have admitted within its
walls, or social intercourse, the Jack Ketch
of editors, or any member of his polluted
clique.”
The peculiar relation of the Bennett con
cern with the President has been a heavy
load tor the Democracy of Virginia to car
ry in the recent contest. There is not an
; upright citizen within the embraces of the
| slaveholding States who does not feel a
deep humiliation that such relation should
exist. Hundreds of them remark that they
are disinclined to ever cross the threshold
of the old mansion again. As it has be
come the nursery of knaves and convicts,
it should cease, until a change is effected,
to be a receptacle for conscious worth.
Truly have the Bennetts been a favored
concern by the government. They may
well exclaim, when counting over their ill
gotten gain, of the Administration, as the
stranger of the old time exclaimed on be
holding the encampment of the people of
God, “How goodly are thy tenls 0 ! Ja
cob, and thy tabernacles 0 ! Israel.” They
will have basked in its rays to an amount
of patronage of something like SIOO,OOO !
—unless they be lopped off by it with a
vengeance at once, in which case the sum
may be considerably diminished.
The Blade Lettered, List is far from com
plete. There are names that we withhold
for the present that would extend alike its
length and il l enormity. We shall have
to tell of hireling slaves of Bennett, who,
as mere nominal bearers of despatches, lux
uriated abroad for months on eight dollars
per day and their expenses defrayed, if in
deed service it was, ought to have been
performed in as many weeks.
Jack Ketch may endeavor to frighten
the Departments into siler.ce, as he did the
other day when he called a distinguished
gentleman in the Treasury to account for
divulging, as he intimated, the secrets with
reference to WykofFs employment, but it
will avail him nothing even if he succeeds
in his purpose. The truth, where there is
guilt or wrong, will be certain to force its
way to light.
Has Wykoff been stopped in London,
and there dismissed ? Has Grand been
recalled ? Has Monsieur Gabriel Fleuret,
who, it is understood, was confirmed by
Black Republican votes, been removed ?
Let the President do justice to himself, and
to the party which reposed its confidence
in him, by answering in the affirmative.
We tell him emphatically that he has
one of two things to do : Either to break
with the Bennetts or break with the moral
sentimentof the republic. This sentiment, j
in the majesty of its resistless power, is
aroused and arousing at the disgraceful
barefaced outrages committed upon it, and
if it be not pacified it will make itself heard
in a manner that will cause the Adminis
tration officially to quake.
Let Mr. Buchanan act upon the princi
ple, now that his eyes are opening, if not
opened, “that the praise of the wicked is
short,” and demonstrate to Jack Ketch and
his co-workers in iniquity, “that the joy of
the hypocrite is but for a moment.” Then
will his noble constituency be prepared to
accord to him credit for prompt resolution,
and indulgence for deplorable mistakes. —
After his return from his delightful visit !
to Old Rip Van Winkle, let him, in recom
mencing the discharge of his important
duties, inform the beneficiaries of t\io Black
Lettered Lid that the honor of the country
imperatively requires of him the immedi
ate, utter repudiation of the Bennett con
: ceru—entire.
, t _____
Abolition Rejoicing over Letcher’s
Election. —Some idea limy he formed of
the moral effect of the election of a Free
! soiler to be Governor of Virginia by the
Democrats of that State, from the follow
ing, taken from two } rominent auti-slave-
Iry journals at the nortli. The least the
South has of such Democratic victories, the
J better it will be for her :
From the Boston Libeyator, May 30, 1860,
Abolition Victory in tiie South.—
The telegraph informs 11s of the election of
a Virginia Abolitionist to the office of chief
magistrate of the Old Dominion. We were
1 not prepared for such cheering news, llis
majority may be small, but we have abun
, dant cause to rejoice that slave-ocracy is
! on the wane in Virginia, and that so large
a portion of her people is imbued with the
principles of the early, and best and purest
! statesmen. The Governorclect lives among
j the Scotch Irish in the heart of the State,
I was the ardent advocate, a few years ago,
j of the obolition of slavery in Western Vir
! gmia.
| From the New York Evening Post. (Democratic Free
Soil,) May 30, 1859.
It fills us with Jov to report the election
of a Democratic Free Soiler to the impor
tant oiliec of Governor of Virginia. It
justifies the policy we have sustained, of
refusing to join the Abolitionists in invad
ing the institutions of the Southern States.
With no agency of ours, the black wave is
receding to the South. Mr. Letcher was
an advocate of emancipation in Western
Virginia some 10 or I*2 years ago, and
though driven by apparent policy to palter
to Eastern Virginia, it is well known that
he cherishes bis earlier opinions, and will
be encouraged by bis election to resume
them at an appropriate season. His Dem
ocratic Free Soil brethren at the North
hail this victory with unalloyed pleasure.
We submit these extracts to the people
of Georgia—the Democrats and tho Aboli
tionists rejoicing together over a common
victory !
A Capital Suggestion. —lnalludingto
j the tact that 31 r. Goggiu has been named,
as a candidate for the next Presidency, the
Fredericksburg News makes the following
capital suggestion, which wo- commend, to
the attentive consideration of the Emanci
pation Democracy of Virginia. It says :
“Letcher must not be slighted. If the
Democracy take no notice of his Presiden
tial claims, we commend him to the Black
Republican Convention to be held in
Wheeling next year. His majority comes
from that neighborhood, and his Euffner
antecedents entitle him to the considera
tion of the Convention proposed tube held
where his best friends reside.’’
That’s a good idea. The Black Repub
lican Convention will no doubt beheld in
Wheeling, and from his tremendous Free
soil vote in the neighborhood of Wheeling,
Letcher is clearly entitled to the Black
Republican nomination for the Presidency.
Huzza for Emancipation John and his
brightening prospects ! And Huzza for
the Abolitionized Democracy of Virginia,
I generally ! —Richmond Whig.
S. S. Prkntjs?.—When this gentleman
was in his glory, jn tlie State of Mississip
pi, during a season of high political ex
citement. there was a convention at Her
nando. Prentiss was there, and set every
thing ablaze with his burning eloquence
and inimitable wit. As was usual, hun
dreds of ladies crowded the ground to hear
him, antPwhen he had concluded,’ the wel
kin rang with shouts of applause.’ Now
there was present one Didemus Brief, Esq.,
opponent, who, like the gnat in the fable,
never suffered to pass unimproved an op
portunity to inflict liis bite on the ox’s
legs. He arose to reply to some of Mr.
Prentiss’ arguments. When Didemus has
gone through his ‘piece,’ and had given it
the last finishing touch of gesticulation,
peculiarly his own, lie sat down apparent
ly exhausted. Prentiss meanwhile, sat
looking on, with a peculiar twinkle in his
eye, enjoying the thing hugely. At the
conclusion he slowly arose, advanced to
the front of the stand, intending no doubt
to drop an admonitory hint to such thick
headed zelots, when at that moment a
neighboring jackass, quartered bard by,
‘opened his mouth and spoke’ long and
loud. Mr. Prentiss turned his eyes in the
direction of his new assailant, fairly gaped
with astonishment without uttering a
word for a moment, and then, ere the re
verberating lobes of the ass had died away
he turned to the audience, and throwing
up his hand deprecalingly to his first op
ponent, exclaimed, “Ah ! ladies and gen
tlemen, another competitor ! I can't stand
it ?” and sat down amidst the deafening
shouts of the multitude. Didemus Brief,
Esq., became thoroughly disgusted with
the “vulgar Whig meeting,” and with
drew'.
The true aim of satire should be like
that of our guns, to make a good report,
but wounding no one-
Number 31.