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Anti-Liquor Law Movement.
IH —Mv article upon the above
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FBiit t will now proceed to notice the article of
A Member of the Atlanta Convention.” In it
; displayed considerable tact in repelling an ar
nment. and much ingenuity in collecting
uthoritjes. But on close examination it will
e discovered that Impositions are more specious
hap sound ; his arguments more plausible than
rue. Fir-t, we differ upon what he deems an
important f*et t He says, “we propose that the
..pgisiatnrf''pass a law prohibiting the retail o*
irdentßpnts. except upon the condition that a
Tonjorinv of all the legal voters of the county or
[isfrict>give their assent to it.” On the other
suppose that the Atlanta Convention
jSAi. ,-yed to^ petition the Legislature simply to
- existing 1 cense laws, and permit by
people in their respective counties to
by vote whether or not they were wil-
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this State, as being analagous to the one under
discussion. He says that law has been before
our -Supreme Court, and its constitutionality
was not called in question. He says, also, that
lam a lawyer. Well, I have no advantage
over him in that respect. But I am somewhat
suprised that he did not discover wherein the
law which fce cites, and the one under review,
differ in principle. The "difference is this: In
the law cited, the Legislature declared, in ef
fect, that no one should practice medicine, un
less licensed to do so by a Board of Physicians
established by law , which Board can grant or re
fuse license as they deem the applicant mental
ly and morally qualified or not. The Board of
Examiner* is a corporate body , established by the
same legislative power which fixes the restraint,
and imposes the penalty. In addition to that
feature in the law, this Board are not at liberty
to set from caprice, without any rule , and refuse
i cense to an applicant merely because a ma
jority might entertain some prejudice or person
al hostility against him, or, which is more in
point, because a majority might be unfriendly
to the practice of medicine in general. They
are to be governed solely in their decision by
the rule prescribed by the Legislature, namely:
the qualification of the applicant. Were they
to act otherwise, and it could be ascertained,
they would forfeit their franchise. No one will
suppose for a moment, that if two applicants pre
sent thejr petitions for license, are examined,
and found equally competent, the Board would
be at liberty to re use one and grant the other
license. Why not, though, if the law is anala
gous to the proposed liquor law ? In the latter
law, as proposed to be enacted, two persons in
adjoining counties, of equal qualifications in eve
ry respect, paay ask for license, and one may ob
tain his request and the other be denied. The
truth is, there is a wide difference in the two
cases, and a manifest want of analogy in many
respects. The one depends tor force upon the
will of a majority of the people unrestrained by
law, the other is a living statute in force upon
the statute book, put into full and successful
operation by the Legislature, which Legislature
has appointed a corporate Body ot ExamiueJs to
pass upon the qualifications of applicants for li
cense. under rules established by the law ma
king power.
But in reference to the decision by the Su
preme Court of New York, which I quoted in
my former article, perhaps “ A Member of the
Atlanta Convention” is not so consoled by this
time with the reflection that he has *' E Pluri
bus Unum’s battery playing against himself ”
I still quote it with confidence as containing the
very principle for which I am contending. In
rhat case the law depended for its force upon the
will of a majority of the people. So in this.—
But I will give him a little more authority,
which I happened to discover after I sent my
first article off to the press. I quote from Hon.
Joseph Henry Lumpkin’s letter of the 26th May
to the Temperance Banner. .“A statute was
passed by the Legislature of Delaware. 19th Feb
ruary, 1847, providing that the citizens of the
several counties in the State should decide by
their votes whether or not the retailing of in
toxicating liquors should be permitted fin said
counties. And this, I understand, is
of redress contemplated in this State. -N:
was declared to be unconstitutional by f?;- Su
preme Court of Delaware, on the ground t ’
s he Legislature could not delegate tlie-gSwei
making laws to any power or body. 4(>t •>
rhe case of Rice vs. Foster, reported in f/i*i e ii. -
rington. 476.” N?»o
“ To the act of 1846, passed in
giving the citizens of certain counties fhedjfywei
o decide, by a vote, whether the sale of
ms and vinous liquors should be continued
n certain counties, and imposing a penalty tor
he sale of such liquors where a majority of the
voters had been against such sale, was declared
"o be unconstitutional and void, for the reason
hat legislative power could not be delegated,
*>ut must be exercised by the body created by
he Constitution for that purpose. See Parker
’*. Commonwealth, 6 Barr’s State Reports, 507.
In a late case in Vermont, these decisions were
reviewed and overruled, and a contrary doctrine
■stablished.” And I will simply add, that the
eason the decision was different in Vermont
rom those in the other States alluded to, I pre
sume. (I have not seen the decision,) is owing
o the fact that the Constitution of Vermont is
A little different in the clause which declares
;he proper repository for the legislative power,
rom the corresponding clause in all the other
state Constitutions which I have examined.
'TlTihe latter declare “The legislative power
hall be vested, &e.” The former declares,
■ The supreme legislative power shall be vested,
kc.” However this may be, my opponent mu?t
idmit that the weight oi authority is on rny side
»f the question. With these hastily penned
houghts, 1 turn him over to other hands,
■nd him an affectionate farewell, and reeorn
nend him to ponder coolly and dispassionately
r he suggestions thrown out by Judge Lumpkin,
n the latter part of the letter from which I have
just quoted two paragraphs. In so doing, per
perbaps ha may be both profited and instructed.
E Pluribus Uncm.
P. S'. As the above was written very rapidly,
an impoitant thought was omitted in co nec
ion with the Physicians’ law. 1 hope that the
want of analogy between that law and the pro
posed liquor law has been shown, even to the
.-atisfaction of “ A Member of the Atlanta Con-
VenJion.” There is a law, however, with
f which, and the Physicians’ law, there is a close
and striking analogy. And that is our present
aw constituting the Inferior Courts the legal
sgents to grant retail license. The Board of
Physicians in the one, and the Interior Courts iri
the other, occuppy similar potitions in reference
ro the two laws. And the difference between
our present and the contemplated law upon re
siling, in a constitutional point of view, was
shown in our former article. E. P. U.
JiiMK 23, 1853. .
Mr. Editor: —ln your paper of 22<i inst., is the
following paragraph : “‘E Pluribus Unum’s re
uly to * A Member of the Convention’ has been
eceived, but is unavoidably deferred. Perhaps
he may desire to withhold it, and reply to
• Washington’ at the same time.”
This is to inform you that he has no such de
sire. When an anonymous writer, or one un
der a fictitous name, so far forg-ets the rules of
propriety, or if so blinded by prejudice, as to
•hafrge the want of sincerity upon all who differ
with him in opinion,and has the vanity to ridicule
in able letter written by as distinguished a per
on as Jndge Lumpkin—a man of purer morali
ty, brighter intellect, or a more zealous advocate
»f temperance, than whom, lives not in Georgia
—I cannot reply to his article in a spirit which
would interest the reading public. But I will
-ay to you, Mr Editor, since you consider his
argument unanswerable, that the same reason
•na which he adopts to pio.e his second propo
sition would establish the general proposition,
that the Legislature have the constitutional
right, at its next session, tq reveal every law
upon our statute book, (when such repeal would
not impair the obligation of a contract.) and
pass an act authorizing the people in each, county
"o adopt such laws upon every < subject as they
may think proper.* If such oe the Constitution
of Georgia, then sure enough is she the “ Em
pire State” not only of the “ South,” but of the
World. “ Washington” may be able to estab
lish such a proposition to his own satisfaction,
but he cannot find a presiding Judge, in my
in Georgia, wko is deeply enough versed
in legal lore, to comprehend the force ol his argu
ment. E Pluribus Unum.
The Flying Cloud.— This fine clipper ship
has performed a prodigy of speed, as will be seen
by the following extract from her log, received
from her captain, J. P. Cressy, who was spoken
*atsea by a New London vessel on the 15th
May, in lat. 1 S , lon. 34 03 W.:
“ Wind light—fine weather ; middle and lat
ter part faint stud squally. Civil lime, this date,
15th of May, atS. i*. m., crossed the equator, iri
lon. 34,20 seventeen days from Sandy Hook, or
408 hours, averaging nine lTnots for every hour
sea. Passage shorter than ever made. Whole
distance run, on str?i ;ht lines from noon to
noon each day,is miles. No time since
leaving have sky-sails been off the ship for over
three hou. >, and Jhat only in one instance.”
Lieut. Maury mentions several clipper ships
that have approached this performance, but none
that have equalled it. The Sea Serpent, in
March, accomplished the distance in eighteen ;
the Flying FNh and the,Samuel Russell, in No
vember, each in nineteen days. The others
named by Lieutenant Maury were “ out of their
teens” before they crossed the line. So the
Flying Cloud bears the palm. She belongs to
Messrs. Grinned. Minturn & Co., and no doubt
they feel proud, in a very modest and becoming
way of course, of her “ overstepping the line” on
the seventeenth day of the voyage.— N. T. Com
mercial, 25th,
The Marriage Altar.
Judge Charlton, in an eloquent Address be
fore the Young Men’s Library Association, at
Augusta, Ga.,thus sketches the Marriage scene:
“ I have drawn for you many pictures of
death ; let me sketch for you a brief, but bright
scene of beautiful life. It is the Marriage Altar.
A lovely female clothed in all the freshness oi
youth and surpassing beauty, leans upon the arm
of him to whom she has just plighted her faith,
to whom she has just given up. herself forever.
Look in her eyes, ye gloomy philosophers, and
tell me if you dare, that there is no happiness on
earth.
See the trusting, the heroic devotion which
impels her to leave country and parents, fora
comparative stranger She has launched her
frail bark upon a wide and stormy sea ; she has
handed over her happiness and doom for this
world, to another’s keeping ; but she has done
it fearlessly, for Jove whispers to her that her
chosen guardian and protector bears a manly
and a noble heart. Oh, wo to him that forgets
his oath and his manhood !
“ Her dark wing shall the raven flap,
O’er the false hearted,
His warm blood the wolf shall lap,
Ere life bo parted.
Shame and dishonor sit,
On his grave ever ;
Blessing shall hallow it
Never ! oh, never !”
We have all read the story of the husband
who, in a moment of hasty wrath, said to her
who had but a few months before united her
fate to his—“ If you are not satisfied with my
conduct, go, return to your friends and to your
happiness.” “ And will you give me back that
which I brought to you?” asked the despairing
wife. “Yes,” he replied, “all your wealth
shall go with you; I covet it not.” “Alas,”
she answered, “ I thought not of my wealth—l
spoke of my devoted love ; can you give that
back to me?” “No !” said the man as he flung
himself at her feet. “No! I cannot restore
these, but I will do more—l will keep them un
uusullied and untainted ; —I wilt cherish them
through my life, and in rny death; and never
again will I forget that I have sworn to protect
an.l cherish her who gave up to me all she held
most dear.”
Did I not tell pou there was poetry in a wo
man’s look—a woman’s word ? See it held the
mild, the gentle reproof of love, winning back
from its tempter an angry man. Ah ! if cre
ation’s fairer sex only knew their strongest
weapons how many of wedlock’s fiercest battles
would be unfoi.ght; how much of unhappiness
and coldness would be avoided !”
An Incident.
A rather verdant youth from far in the inte
rior was, the other day, lounging through our
streets, hearing the music, looking after the
women, and seeing the sights in genera!—bear
ing himself amid all these temptations as straight
as a sapling and as independent as a wood-saw
yer ft In the course ot his peregrinations, he
papfiM one of the large hardware stores, and spied
ip tbeMiFside a sign of “ Japanned Waiters for
sign attiacted country’s notice, and
way walked in and began to examine
displayed through the store. Finally
U P t° on e of the clerks, approxima-
W#-Wuth to the clerk’s ear, and in a confi
”requested to be shown “ them air
iggers.”
v Jypan niggers!” exclaimed the clerk, “I
doipMunderstand you.”
‘‘Don’t understand me? Vv'al, now I think
ihat is cutting it rayther fat, stranger. Hevn’t
pou got a board out the door thar painted, Japan
waiters for sale ?”
“ Oh, yes—no—yes, not exactly,” stammered
the clerk, catching a glimpse of country’s trou
bles; “ this is what you mean ; this is a Japan
waiter,” handing him one from the counter.
Country opened his eyes like an owl and sur
veyed first the waiter and then the clerk. Fi
nally. however, he broke out with—
“ H—II and split shingles! If this ain’t a
sell! I wouldn’t hev Bill Moody know it for a
dollar. Look heje, stranger,” as soon as he could
catch breath, “ them things is called tea-trays up
in our diggins. I reckoned you hed to sell some
of them fellers, the papers say the English buy
in Chiner and carry to Cuba to work. These
’ore won’t do.
And he left.— N. O. Crescent.
Georgia and Alabama at the World’s Fair.
It has been announced that the Crystal Palace
in New York will be formally opened on the
15th July. From what we gather from the
papers, the exhibition is likely to be one that
will reflect erpditon the country at large. We
are pleased to learn that Georgia agriculture,
manufactures, and arts will be worthily repre
sented there.
A letter from a friend informs us. that the en
terprising and public spirited proprietors of the
“ Winter Iron Works” of Montgomery, Alabama,
will also see that our sister State is not over
looked in the great exhibition. At these works,
so justly celebrated for their superior engines
and machinery, a model engine, called the
“ Southern Belle,” has been built, which is thus
spoken of by the Montgomery Times of the 23d
inst. The editor says—
“ln the finish, proportions and material
of the “ Southern Belle,” proper, can be approach
ed by anything moulded or formed by thd hand
of man. it is the beautiful engine hearing this
subroquet, manufactured by the “Winder Iron
Works,” for the World’s Fair, and exhibited to
out citizens at the Factory on Saturday last,
preparatory to its journey to New York. It
will take a more practical pen than ours to de
scribe the chef-da>uvre of Southern mechanism,
but in general terms we hesitate not to say, that
not only does it surpass any piece of large ma
chinery that we have ever seen, but transcends
in beauty of design, per'eefion of finish and a toat
ensemble , any thing that we “ have ever dreamed
of in our philosophy.” We expected something
bordering upon the superb, when we learned that
the proprietors of the “ Winter Iron Works”
were aiming to contest the palm with our Yan
kee brethren in the Mechanic arts, but we con
fess we did not expect to see a Stationary Engine
of forty-horse power, with the finish of a patent
lever watch, with the brass resembling Gold,
and Alabama Iron resembling English steel.
But such is the fact, and Yankees must look to
their laurels ! ! !
“Most of the material was gathered from the
bowels of our mother earth, in Shelby and Ben
ton counties, the design and execution through
out a r e entire, the work of Montgomery artists
and mechanics, even to the carving of the g ori
ous American Eagle,which surmounts the whole,
viewing with pride the efforts of Southern
genius, and ready to battle for Southern mechani
cal triumph.”
“II beauty of design, qualify of material and
perfection of fin ish is to decide the question of
who is entitled to the first prize, the Yankees
can take ‘our hat’ if they beat the “ Southern
Belle.—That’s a'j.”
The above engine was shipped to this city
on its w 7 ay *o New York on Wednesday last.
The route via Savannah was selected as the
cheapest and best, and she “Southern Belle”
will go from our port to New York on one of
our steamers, probably the Florida, next Satur
day.— Savannah News , 29 th inst
Alabama Manufactures.—We had the
pleasure, a few days since, of examining, for a
brief moment, a splendid specin en of a Steam
Engine at the Iron Works of this city, and de
signed for the approaching Nation il and World's
Fair, at New Y rk. It is termed the “ South
ern Belle,” and is of about forty horse power.
We have never seen any machine of the nature
approaching it in accuracy of design or excel
lence of finish. It would be an ornament in
the drawing room or boudoir, such is the ele
gance and polish of its workmanship. All its
iron and steel work is of native Alabama mate
rial. The Northern machinists must look well
to their laurels, if they expect to maintain them
against this unparalleled and beautiful offspring
of the South.
The Engine went on yeste day under the
charge of our cotemporary Beattie, of the Times,
who is qualified to do it justice.— Montgomery
[Ala ) Journal
The word “ Tariff” is taken from a fortress
which is situated on the Straits of Gibraltar, a
promonitory which, from its position, is adapted
for commanding the entrance of the Mediterra
nean Sea, and watching the exit and entrance
of all ships. It was the '’ustom of the Moors to
watch from this poiut all merchant ships going
into or coming out of the Midland Sea, and is
suing from this stronghold, to levy a certain fixed
scale of duty on all merchandize passing in and
out ot the Straits, and this was called, from the
place where it was levied, “ tarifa,” or “ tariff,”
and in this way we have acquired the word.
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FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 1.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. HERSCIiEL V. JOHNSON.
Os Baldwin County.
Whig Humbug About Appointments to Office.
The Whigs have always been notorious as
croakers, and among their various aliases we
suggest as singularly appropriate to them, es
pecially at this juncture, that of The Croaking
Party. They are constantly croaking about
evils impending, and predicting all manner of
cafastrophies to the country—even to the down
fall of the Republic itself from Democratic rule,
Democratic po'iey. and Democratic progress.—
But still our countrymen continue prosperous,
and our great and magnificent Republic continues
to stride on under Democratic auspices in ever
increasing power and grandeur, to the manifest
terror of despotism, while it is the admiration
and hope of oppressed nations. It stands out as
the complete and model illustration of the ca
' pacity of man for self government, and the bea
con light of hope to a down trodden*world.
The croakings of the Whigs are but as the
weight of a fly on the wheels of .our glorious
; onward destiny. Look for a moment at the
; Whig croakings of the past. The want of a
! National Bank was to destroy all mercantile en
terprise and energy in our country, and over
. shadow the land with bankruptcy. The Sub
i Treasury was to be the cormorant monster that
j would swallow all the specie of the country, and
cause a deluge of worthless shin-plasters crea
ting one currency, (gold an 1 silver,) for the gov
ernment, and another, rag money, for the people.
A revenue Tariff was to prostrate all manufac
turing interests, and bring pauperism and starva
tion upon our people. The absence of internal im
provements by the Federal Government was to
stagnate our internal commerce, and bring blight
and mildew on our industry. The neglect of the
Government to improve rivers and haibors,
was to cause our own vessels to rot at our
wharves, drive foreign commerce away to more
friendly shores, and bring grass and weeds into
the streets, and bats and owls into the houses of
i our crumbling and desolate seaports. The flood
j of foreign population pouring in upon us, and
the unrestricted suffrage granted foreigners after
a few 'years of residence, were to sweep away
our liberties, and overthrow the social fabric.
The continuance of the Veto power was to con
vert our representative government into an olig
j archy, and place a more than imperial sceptre in
; the hand of the people’s Chief Magistrate.—
j The annexation of Territory was to make our
I mighty Republic too alarmingly great—the sway
| of the Confederacy too widely extended for it s
i safety; and its swift destruction was time and
j again croaked over and predicted in Whig Jour,
uals. But in response to Whig croakings, she
incredulous Democracy of the country— the peo
ple—cried humbug, and time, experience, and his
tory all write humbug ! humbug! humbug ! upon
each of these Whig devices and imaginings.
The only humbug now left to the Whigs in
Georgia, having the slightest promise of availa
j bility, is about President Pierce’s appointirunts
!to office. The Whigs are reduced to this strait.
I They are forced to pretend that they see great
and imminent danger to the rights of the southern
j states and to the stability of the Republic from a
| few office-holders in subordinate positions. They
j allege that there are four or five free soilers and
j abolitionists in office under Gen. Pierce —asub-
I treasurer, a post-master or two, a district attoi-
I ney, and a Register of a land-office. This is, so
| far as we have seen or heard, the extent of the
; alleged danger to the Union 1 Oh ! how appall
| ing the danger! In what portentous proportions
do these Catalines of the Confederacy, with the
: robes of office around them, loom upon the hor
-1 ror-stricken imagination! Oh! heart ot Free
! dom ! Oh! last Hope of mankind! Oh! Hum
| bug!
I The following is one of the resolutions of the
! late Whig Convention at Milledgeville :
Reso'ved , That we adhere to the Report and
Resolutions of the Georgia Convention of 1850.
; because we consider the principles therein pro
j claimed are not less important to the mainte
nance of the rights of ihe States than of the
Union of the States ; and that we consider the
rights of the Southern States as in great and im
i mirient danger, and the principles of the Georgia
! Convention greatly jeoparded bv any political
\ party whatever may be its name, which r-cog-
I nizes Abolitionists and Freesoilers as worthy of
public honors and public emoluments.
Now, reader, who are those men who have
had the effrontery to put forth this declaration—
what have been their antecedents in regard to
Free Soilers and Abolition is-s holding office—
and what are the antecedents of Mr. Jenkins
himself, their nominated candidate for Gov
ernor, in this particular ?
We premise, how T ever, by stating that of the
few appointees to office under Gen. Pierce,
alleged to be Free Soilers and Abolitionists, not
one of them pioposes, or countenances, any in
terference with the rights of the South as recog
nized in the Cimpromise of 1850—not one of
them opposes adherence to that Compromise, or
refuses his assent to its faithful execution. In
other words, not one of them but stands solemn
ly pledged to and bound by the declaration of
the Baltimore Democratic platform of 1852, as
his creed and his rule of action—to wit:
“ Resolved, That the loregoing proposition
covers, and was intended to embrace the whole
subject of slavery agitation in Congress, and
1 therefore, the Democratic party of the Union,
j standing on the national platform, will abide by
j and adhere to a faithful execution of the acts
known as the compromise measures, settled by
| the last Congress: “ the act for reclaiming fugi
tives from service or lauor,” included—which
act being designed to carry out an expres pro
vision of tne Constitution, cannot with fidelity
thereto, be repealed, or so changed as to destroy
or impair its efficiency.”
This is the recognized doctrine and sentiment
of President Pierce and the National Democ
racy, and as lone as that party is sustained by
the people, the South has no ground to fear the
repeal or non-execution of the fugitive-slave
law r . Georgia is in no danger of being called on
by Mr. Jenkins and his friends, nor by any other
party, to “ disrupt the ties which bind her to the
Union f as provided for in the bloody fourth res
olution of the Georgia platform.
This same Whig party which nominates Mr.
Jenkins, for Governor, was last year divided
between two tickets, for President and Vice-
President of the United States.
We shall not dwell now on the sentiments
expressed on vaiious occasions by Gen. Scott,
on the subject of slavery, and its abolition, n<..r
upon the probabilities of of Free Soilers and Abo
litionists holding office under him, had he been
elevated to the Presidency. That is a topic wor
thy of a .‘■eparate chapter.
Nor will we here review; the history of the
Whig partv from the accession of Gen. Taylor
to the Executive Chair ; and his appointment of
Free Soilers and Abolitionists to office, from
seats in his Cabinet, down to the pettiest posts
under Government. That also deserves a sep
arate chapter.
Nor will we here discuss, the abolition senti
ments. ot Millard Fillmore, Whig Vice-Pres
ident, and successor to Gen. Taylor, the black
record of whose votes in Congress, side by side |
with Giddings and Slade, against the South on j
every question touching slavery, glares out from
the Congressional Journals, to sear the eye balls
of Southern Whigs.
This also deserves a separate chapter.
But we come to the recorded opinions of
Daniel Webster, candidate of the Jenkins
Whigs of Georgia, on whose ticket Mr. Jen
kins ran for the Vice-Presidency. There was
too much abo'itionism about the Scott and Gra
ham ticket, both southern born men, for Mr.
Jenkins and his friends, and therefore they must
needs place Daniel Webster before the people
as a more acceptable exponent of opinion—as a
safer repository of the rights of the Southern
States.
What were his opinions on slavery? and what
the promise of safety to the South and stability
to the Union under his auspices? What the
prospect under him of free soilers and abolition
ists being excluded from office ?
We furnish a few extiacts from his speeches :
Extracts from Mr. Webster 1 s Speech , delivered at
Abington , Mass., Oct. 10, 1848.
“ A party has arisen among us calling itself
the Free Soil party. The assumption of such a
name by this party, reminds me of a joke made
by Swift, or some other humorist, on a person
who had made not a very tasteful use as a Latin
phrase—
Dulce et natale solum.
Fine words, I wonder where he stoic 'em.
“Reallv. the exclusive appropriation of the
name of Free Soil by this party, w T as a very bold
proceeding. They have certainly stolen the
sentiment from the Whigs; it was a clear case
of petty larceny. Are these men better lovers
of liberty than we are? No! We are as good
liberty men and anti-slavery men as they pro
fess to be themselves.
“ But what is the history of this so-called
Free Soil party * Why, just this. Some years
ago a schism broke out in the Democratic party
of New York. This widened by degrees, and
at length Mr. Van Boren put himself at the
head of the smaller portion. When Silas Wright
was nominated a second time for Governor of
New York, the two parties had become very
hostile to each other, and assumed the rival
names of Hunkers and Barnburners, which ap
pellation they continue to bear to this day. It
appears, therefore, that this schism in the Demo
cratic party is of rather long standing. There
was an actual outbreak years ago among them,
and all this before any question of Free Soil
arose in that quarter, and before the Wilmot
Proviso or any opposition to slavery as a party
principle. Down to the period of the annexa
tion of Texas, all the Democratic party followed
the party doctrines, and went for the annexation,
slavery extension and all. The opposition to
this measure proceeded in the first instance sole
ly from the Whigs. I say the Whigs alone, for
it is notorious that no-body else, either in the
East, West, North or South, raised a fi-ger
against it. If such an effort was made, it was
so inconsiderable that it attracted no notice till,
by the efforts of the Whigs, the people were
roused to a sense of their danger, and feeling of
opposition to the extension of slave power
Then, and not till then, the Barnburners seize' l
upon this branch of Whig doctrine and attached
it, to their policy, merely to give them a certain
predominancy over their rivals.
‘'Originally, therefore, the Barnburners had
no more to do with the doctrine of free soil than
with the question of masonary or anti masonry.
They only adopted it to secure an advantage
over the Hunkers. But having appropriated
this just sentiment, though still retaining all the
rest of the thirty-nine articles of the Locofoco
creed, they now call upon the Whigs ol Massa
chusetts to enlist under them ! I had almost
said to be subsidized by them, only to give them
the ascendency in New York politics ! For one.
I propose to do no such thing. Ido not like the
servic‘d.
“ I repeat, that this Buffalo platform, this col
lect of the Barnburners, contains no new thing
that is good, it has nothing new which the
Whigs of the Middle and Northern States might
not adopt. But it is going too ( ar for that party
to ask the Whigs of Massachusetts to carry that
matter into their S f ate election.
“ We shall know, gentlemen, that the Buffalo
platform contains nothing in relation to this
matter which does not meet the approbation
and unqualified approbation of the Whigs of the
Northern States. Now. suppose for argument’s
sake, that we should join the Free Soil party,
we should still he the Whig party under a dif
ferent name, and that would he all. But these
gentlemen propose to us to go a step further,
which I allow would be making a great change
—in short, thev propose to put Mr. Van Buren
at the head of the Whig party.”
Extract from Mr. Webster's Speech , at Buffalo ,
May 22d. 1851.
“ My opinion remains unchanged, that it was
not within the original scope or design of the
Constitution to admit new States out of foreign
territory; and tha for one, I npver would con
sent; and no matter what may be said at the
Syracuse Convention, or at an v other assemblage
of insane persons. 1 never would consent , and never
have consented , that there should be one foot ot slave
territory beyond what the old Thirteen S f ates
had at the time of the formation of the Union.
Never ! never !! The man cannot show his face
to me and say he can prove that I ever departed
from that doctrine. He would sneak awav, and
slink away, or hire a mercenary press that he
might erv out, what an apostate from liberty
Daniel Webster has become. He knows himself
to he a hypocrite and a falsifier.”
Referring to his speech at a public dinner in
New York, in 1837, he says :
“ I went out of my way on that occasion, for
the purpose of showing what I anticipated in
the attempt to annex Texas as a slave territory,
and said it should be opposed by ti e to the last
exteemity.”
“And in Niblo’s Garden, in March, 1837, I
made a speech. I said, on that occasion :
“ Gentlemen—We all see that by whomsoever
possessed, Texas is likely to be a slaveholding
country, and I frankly avow mv entire unwil
lingness to do anything that shall extend the
slavery of the African on this continent, or add
other slaveholding Spates to the Union. When
I said that, I regarded slavery as a great moral
and political evil. I only used language that
has been adopted by distinguished men, them
selves citizens of slaveholding States. I shall
do nothing, therefore, to extend or encourage its
further extension.”
As another notable feature in the history of
Mr. Webster, it may not be amiss here to state
that while the compromise measures were pend
ing before Congress, he introduced a fugitive
slave bill in the Senate, which provided a trial
by jury to the slave in the fme State in which
he was captured—a bill which, if enacted, would
have been as practical a nullification cf the clause
in the Constitution securing the rendition
fugitive slaves to their owners, as is the nullify
ing act of the Whig State of Vermont.
It was to a man holding these sentiments and
declaring these purposes, that the Jenkins Whigs
of Georgia would have confided southern rights
in preference to General Pierce. And who is
the General Pierce who has aroused the patriotic
alarms of Mr. Toombs by a few appointments to
subordinate offices, of men who once held opin
ions corresponding with those entertained by
Mr. Webster to the day of his death, and which
Mr. Fillmore holds now—opinions which in fact
are held by the entire body of the northern
Whigs with whom the Jenkins Whigs were in
loving affilia'ion last summer !
He is the same gentleman of whom Mr.
Toombs said last summer, “ he was the safest
man or the south on the slavery question north
of Mason & Dixon’s line.” He is the same gen
tleman whom Mr. Stephens lauded in terms al
most as sweeping. He is the same gentleman
of whom Mr. Webster said, that on the slavery
question, he was as safe a man for the south, as
was John C- Calhoun himself.
He is the same gentleman of whom Mr. Mil
ler said last summer, “he presents in his past
Congressional and public life ‘os fair a record'
upon the questions connected with the institu
tiou of slavery as any man north of Mason
Dixon's line." It was for this gentleman Mr
Miller voted for President of the United States
These Whig gentlemen may now, for partizan
purposes, fartiously desire to build their party
up in Georgia in opposition to the administration
of a President thus vouched for by themselves—
rekindle the flames of sectional strife, unsettle
the public tnind in Georgia now calmly reposing
upon an adjustment between the north and the
south, which neither the President or the Demo
cracy seek to disturb—become adgitators and
scctionalists of the most infuriate class, rioting in
the spirit of discord, conjured up by their own
passions and for their own ambitious ends. But
when they base their opposition upon fears for the
Union from free soil and abolition appointments
to office by such a President, it is a humbug too
bad and contemptible to impose on any man of
common sense. The honest sentiment of the
country will rebuke the disingenuousness of such
a pretence. The people of Georgia will vindi
cate at the ballot box the scandalous imputation
on the President of their choice.
Fire.
An alarm of fire was given last evening about
7 o’clock, by the ringing of the bells, and the
streets were soon densely thronged with people
rushing to the scene of action. The firemen,
as usual on occasions when their efficient ser
vices are needed, promptly repaired to the spot
but fortunately! the fire was not of sufficient mag
nitude to require their aid. A cask of Liquor
only was consumed, it having taken fire from a
lighted candle, which was brought in contact
with the liquor while examining the stock in
the store of Messrs Baker & Wilcox. No other
damage was done.
The planetarium invented by Thomas H. Bar
low, of Lexington, Ky., and intended for the
exhibition at the Crystal Palace, is now at Cin
cinnati, at Greenwood’s foundry. Its mechan
ism, although complex, is constructed on math
ematical and astronomical principles, and is in
tended to show the revolutions of the earth
around its axis—the revolutions of the moon, of
Venus and other planets, around their centres
Tt is a moveable representation of the solar sys
tem, illustrating the science of astronomy bj
calculations derived from more than two thou
sand years of observations.
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The Tallahassee Floridian and Journal, of the
28th June, says, speaking of the action of the
government towards the remnant of Indians it
that State, that “ a reliable authority in Wash
ington communicates the welcome intelligence
that the President has recently expressed his
determination to act promptly and energetical!}
in the matter of the removal of the remnant o<
Seminoles now remaining in the Peninsula o'
this State. The gallant Harney, it is thought
will be dispatched to Florida, if his services else-
Where can be dispensed with. The governmenV
could not make a better selection for the difficult
and delicate service.”
The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Company have been subjected to SSOOO damage.'
for breaking the leg of a passenger named Mas
sino. The counsel for the plaintiff plead tba'
the accident was the result of the negligence of
the engineer, and the Jury’s verdict seems tc
have been rendered accordingly.
The wife of T. F. Meagher, according to lab
advices, had arrived in London from Van Die
men’s Land, and was with her husband's lathei
the member for Waterford Mrs. Meagher wil 1
visit Ireland before sailing for America to rejoir
her husband.
Sun Strokes have been numerous and fatal i»
many of the Northern cities, within the past te
days. Many deaths have occurred also fron
drinking cold water, when the system wa
in a heated and fatigued state. Great cautioi
is necessary to preserve health and life in sucl
hot weather as we are now experiencing.
The New York Commercial states that out o
twenty-nine cases of “sun stroke,” or appo
plexy superinduced by excessive heat, whicl
occurred in that city, twenty-four resulted la
ta 11 y.
There were also seven deaths in Brooklyt
two in Williamsburgb, twelve in Philadelphia
and eight in Baltimore, on Wadneschiy last fron
the same cause. So great a mortality frotr
Couo-de soliel, was never before known.
In 1840 the total wine crop of this countr)
was only 124,000 gallons. In ISSO it was 221 -
249 gallons, being an increase of almost a hun
dred per cent, in ten years. The amount im
ported last year was 6,160.000 gallons—ar
amount which our country will be able to sup
ply for its own consumption in sixty years
even at the present rate of increase.
Sentence of Death —Lewis Montague, con
victed at Petersburg, Va., of the murder o
Thompson, has been denied a new trial, am
sentenced to be executed on the sth of Augus*
The prisoner made a speech to the court, ii
which he admitted that he killed the deceased,
but denied that it was his intention to commi’
murder He charged that Thompson had re
peatedly threatened him, and abused his family
and made an affecting appeal on behalf of his
wife and children.
Execution of John S. Wormley, for the
Murder of his Son-in-Law — John S Worm
ley was hung at Chesterfield Court House, Va,
on Frulay last, for the murder of Anthony T.
Robiou, his son-in-law. The execution was
witnessed hy about 2.500 persons, whom the
prisoner addressed for about a quarter of an hour.
He confessed the murder of Robicu, remarked
that under similar circumstances he would re
peat the crime, and then gave an account of the
facts which led to the unfortunale event.
Masonic Celebration. —The festival of St.
John was celebra ed at Worcester, Mass., on
Friday, by the Free Masons, in an imposing
manner. Fifteen hundred Masons were pres
ent, including the Grand Lodge of Massachu
setts and numerous subordinate Lodges. The
oration was delivered by Philip C. Tucker,
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Vermont.
The Horse Trade has of late years assumed an
importance in Philadelphia and New’ V ork vvhich
few persons attach to it. A fact is mentioned
by the Lancaster Independent Whig, which
shows this strikingly. It is, that a single for
warding house in that city, Messrs Pow! &
Mishler, has. since the beginning of the present
year, sent 1183 head ot horses, by railroad, to
Philadelphia. So exceedingly great has been
the growth of this city as well as New York,
that the number of horses required for use is im
mens.and constantly augmenting. Hard work,
warm weather, disease, casualty, age, and other
causes, diminish the number of our horses con
tinually, and the chief supplies to re-place them
and to meet the growing demand, are derived
from the inferior of our own State, and the great
West. — Phila. U. S. Gazette.
Young Men on Imperial Thrones. —Some
of the most important empires on the globe are
now ruled bv young men. The Emperor of
China, Hien Fung, is now in the twenty-second
year of his age, and the third of his reign. It
w’ill be recollected that he is of the Tartar or
Tu-tsing dynasty. Prince Chu-kisin, of the
Ming dyna ty, who aspires to the throne of
China, is about nineteen years old. The Sultan
or Shah of Persia, Nasser-ad-Din, is about twen
ty years of age. Abdul-Medjid-khan, the Sul
tan of Turkey, was born in 1823 —0 f course he
is now little over thirty years of age. The Em
peror Francis Joseph of Austria, is nearly twen
tv-three, having been born in August. 1830. —
He ascended the imperial throne in December
1848. These empires embrace more than one
third of the population ot the world.
We have the gratification to announce that
the vote yesterday was decisive iri regard to tht
halt million subscription of our city to the Ala
bama and Fiorina Railroad. The vote in the
several wa ! ds was—
For the subscription 18.171
Against it 650
17 521
majority for it. The SIOO,OOO yet to be made
jjfp by private subscription to enable the com
pany to get the bonds ot the city, wilt soon be
procured. —Montgomery Advertiser , 28 tk June.
Matrimony and Friendship —Sam Slick,
in his “ Wise-Saws,” says that the natur of
matrimony is one thing, and the natur of friend
ship is another. A tall man likes a short wife ;
a great talker likes a silent woman, for both |
can’t talk atypnce. A gay man likes a domestic
gall, for he can leave her at once to nurse chil
dren and make pap, while he is er joyin of him
self at parties. A man that ain’t any music in
him likes it in his spouse, and so on It chimes 1
beautiful, for they ain’t in each other’s way.
Now, friendship is the other way : you must
like the same thing in each other and be friends.
A similarity ot tastes, studies, pursuits and re
creations (what they call congenial souls;} a
toper tor a toper, a smoker for a smoker, a horse
racer for a horse-racer, a prize-figluer for a prize- ,
fighter, and so on. Matrimony likes contrasts ,
friendship seeks its own counterparts.
MARRIED,
On the 28th ult., by the Rev. Mr. Burges, Henry
L. Murray Esp., and Miss F;. daughter
o: E Lockhart, Esq., all of Lincoln cou .ty.
Commcrrtol.
Savannah Exports—June 28.
Per ship State Rights, for Liverpool—3,237 bales
Upland and 217 do. Sea Island Cotton.
Savannah, June 28, P. M.— Cotton,— The sales
to-day reached 177 bales, as follows : 9 at 9. 48 at
9|. 8 at 10J, 31 at 10], 29 at 10$. 10 at, 10J, and
42 bales at 11 cents No change in prices.
S’ifijijJing Jiitdliarnirr. |
Savannah, June 28.—Arrived, barque Evact, j
Crumley, New York; brig Macon, Watkins, Now
York : schrs. Cataract, Rice, New York : J. F To
bia. Hand, Philadelphia; Satilla, Staples, Bulti- I
aore. J
Cleand, ship State Rights, Paxton, Liverpool. 9
Departed, steamer Oregon, Moody. Augusta. A
Charleston, Jane 30.—Arrived, ship Austria, 9
Tessier, New York. 3
Cleared, steamships Southerner, Foster, Now ■
York; Isabel, Ro lins. Key West and Havana. I
Went tosea, steamsh p New York ; 1
kino ship Sullivan, Mitchell, New York ; brig Vic- I
toria, Julia, Barcelona. J
■— i ii ■ ■ wmmKaßmmmmmumm wzjrvmmtzm
CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH OF JULY fl
At 6 o'clock. A. M., the Procession will bo formed fl
n front of the U. S. Hotel, under the command fl
>f the Senior Commissioned Officer present. The 9
Procession will then move down Broad to Centre fl
-treet, through Centro to Greene, and up Greene fl
■dreet to tho City Ilall Park, where, after prayer, 9
l .he Declaration of Independence will be read by 9
William A. Walton, Esq., and an oraticn deliv- fl
arod by James G. Gould, Esq. The centre
reserved for the Procession.
Order of Procession.
1 Oglethorpe Infantry.
2 Irish Volunteers.
3 Augusta Guards. 9^9
4 Clinch Rifles.
5 Major General and Staff.
6 Brigadier General and Staff
7 Officers of tho 10th Regiment
8 Officers of the Army and Navy
9 Orator and Reader.
10 Reverend Clergy.
11 City Authorities.
12 Magistrates of the City and County.
13 Firo Companies.
14 Odd Fellows.
15 Rons of Temperance.
16 Cold Water Army.
17 Medical Faculty. 99
18 Students at Law. *J|
19 Young Mens Library Association. fl
20 Citizens Generally.
After a benediction tho Procession will agai: j
form and return up Greene-street to Campbell,
through Campbell to Broad-street, and
Broad to tho United States Hotel.
At sunrise, and at sunset, a Federal Salute
be fired, and a Na ional Salute at 12, M.
The Rev. Clergy, the City Author ties.
of the different Soeitics, the Fire Companies,
cal Faculty and Students, the Students at Law,
and the citizens generally, are respectfully
to participate in the celebration of ihe day. H
By order of the Corumitieeof A nangements. H
june 29 3 H
Likely Young Negroes at Private Sa V. I
AT 1G ST AT E-ST R EET, and Hamburg, S. U. 98
Consisting of fl
PLOUGH BOYS, 9
FELLOWS, NURSES. fl
SEAMSTRESSES, WASHERS fl
AND IRONERS. CHAMBER MAIDS, Ac. fl
We will continue to receive throughou the season
fresh supplies of Negrees, of every
description, both at our office 9n .
in Charleston, and Ham-
burg. SPIRES A WILSOflfl
Brokers and Commission Agents,
No. 16 State-st, Charleston,
feb 5 ft and Front-st. Hamburg, ’S^^^fl
S'jiffini lloiirrs. 9
'Jit' Or 'ifi'if Terrapins will
served up to-day, at 11
july 1 Lamback A Cooper.
Black Leghorn* —A new style
Leghorns for Gents’ and Youths’,
received in large quantities. .98
may 8 __ J. Tayiqr, Jr. A Co,
® r ‘ ‘ * te **ier offers his Pro-#? |
fessional services to the citizens of Au-l
gusta and its vicinity. His residence is over tho*
Drug Store of Dr. Tutt. 3m* mar 31
Professional Notice. —Dr Paul F
Eve, having returned to re«ido in Au
gusta, offers his services to tho community. Ser
vants requiring operations, or special care, can bo
accommodated on his lot. . 6m feb 4
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MARINE
INSURANCE.
Tho subscriber, as Agent of the COLUMBIA!
V ’S. C.) INSURANCE CO . takes Fire and Marinoi
Risks on tho most favorable terms.
J. II ANDERSON, Agent,
jan 14 ly Mclntosh street.
The Bel Air Train will eommr 1
running on Monday, tho 27th i'
Leaves Augusta at 6 p. in.
juno 25 ts
A » t u i - Kptflil Merlin* 1
The citizens ot Hancock
arc in lavpr of reducing our Taxis, ’veiling o nr
criminal Docket-depopulating oir ’ and
saving the health and lives of ma jy * addicte(i t o
the social vice, by getting the n# xt Legislature, to
pass a law allow ng the several districts and coun-
Ues. to have jurisdiction » this matter, either
through their Courts or AW * iso , will ~o nre ne at
the Court House in S p Ata on Monday,! e4th of
July, at 3 o clock, y.. *,j t) to consult oponlv and
freely on the subj eo t. t H e People.
_J ,JUc22 d&c3
lit * Gilm an » Chemist and Drug.
gist, Pennsv Ivania Avenue, City of
Washington, Inventor and solo Proprietor of Gil-
I mass Instantaneous Liqvid Hair Dye, tha
| only ’.ostantaneous Hair Dye, which is permanent, f
G ilman’s Liquid Hair Dyo is the only article
now used in this city. Gentlemen who wear whis- ,
i k.ers or moustaches of » gray or reddish hue wish-f
( ing to attend a ball or party, can appear in a suit
!of black, by dovo'ing one additional minute at J
their toilet, in using the very celebrated article
which heads tb?s notice — P/n/i/deJphia Ledger.
07?= This valuable Hair Dye is for sale by Phil- {
ip A. Mms£, Druggist, 195 Broad street, under
t..e August Hotel.
a-.r to d&c3m lr
Marriage Invitations and Visiting *
Cards written by Master Ep. Willis
-Cash laid for WOOLLF,N,~LINE N
COTTON and SILK RAGS, by K,
E CAMPFTFLD. M
jan 20 ts Corner River and Jackson st.
Fa. Itailroal, Augusta, Geo.. 21st
May, 1853.—0 n and after Monday,
23d ins*'., a Passenger Train, will leave Aiken,
daily, (Tuesday and Sunday except- d) at 8:30 a. m.,
and Hamburg at 5 p m.. until further notice. (
may 22 G. B. Lythgos, Gen 1- Sup.
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