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To the Independent Voters of the State of
Georgia.
Ihe moral influence and power of any party
is in its opinions and principles— except so far
as it represents well defined political opinions
and doctrines, it is a mere taction to be looked
upon with distrust, as got up to serve the ends
of designing men. In 1840 and 1844 the whig
party under the lead of Mr. Clay, had their prin
ciples floating at the head of their banners;
were a national bank, a protective
tariff, distribution of the proceeds of the public
lands, internal improvement by the general gov
ernment. and aboUtion of the qualified Veto
power. How stands the matter now, and what
position do the. whigs of Georgia occupy, and
what is their object ? The whig convention
which lately assembled at Milledgeville—in or
der to “ catch birds ot every feather” has been
designated by its friends by a variety of names.
Mr. Stephens and the committee, who a few
days ago addressed the people of Georgia, call it
“ The convention of the friends of the Georgia
Platform.” In some places it is called “the
Union convention” in others the conservative
convention, &c., &c., while the convention it
self “ resolved” that it was a convention of
“ Republican Citizens.” The wire workers of
that convention well know that no one would
ever suspect its members of belonging to the
“ Republican party” hence the necessity of “ re
solving” that it was a convention of “ Republi
can Citizens”—Speaking of men as paitisans,
and of a convention as a party, is it true that
this was a convention of “Republican Citizens.”
Are they “Republicans ;” or are they the “ same
old coons' afraid to own their cherished princi
ples, and ashamed to assume their former name,
undei which they have been so often defeated
by the Republican party, now seeking to deceive
a portion of that party by assuming their name 1
Resolving that they are Republicans won’t make
them so until they change their principles. The
“ leopard must change his spots”—but in saying
that they are not republicans, let us see if I do
them injustice.
The term “ Republican party” is well under
stood and has a definite and fixed meaning—the
first division and organization of parties after the
formation of the government was into “ Repub
licans” and “ Federalists,” from that day until
this there has been two opposing parties in the
country—although, known by different names,
yet they are the regular succession of the re
publicans and federalists. Let us trace fora mo
ment the history of the two parties, and see how
and where they now stand. “By their fruits ye
shall know them.” At the very birth of our
government, while it was yet struggling for
life, Federalism raised its head, and those who
had no confidence in the capacity of the people
for self-government, called aloud for a strong
government by which the head thereof could at
the point ot the sword enforce its mandates. In
the convention which formed the constitution,
Alexander Hamilton, was the master spirit of
this doctrine, distrusting and looking down upon
the common people, and having aristocratic no
tions, that the rich and well born should govern
the rest, it was his object, and those who acted
with him, to form and assimilate our govern
ment as nearly as possible to that of England—
Adams, Knox, and others agreeing and acting
with him.
So much were these federalists distrusted even
at that day, on account of their desire for power,
and a strong absolute government, that John
Adams was elected Vice President by a minori
ty of the votes cast, receiving enly 34 out of G 9
—35 being cast for others. During the first
Congress, Mr. Hamilton as Secretary of the
Treasury, recommended the payment of the
debts of the states by the general government—
a national Bank, an internal excise duty, &c.,
&c. The Cabinet was divided, Hamilton and
Knox advising Federal, and Jefferson and Ran
dolph. Republican measures. Jefferson styled
his party the “ Republican party.” These early
divisions into parties, and the vigilant care of the
Republican i arty, gave rise to the ten amend
ments added to the Constitution, which stands
to-day as an impregnable rampart of the rights
of the people of the States.
During Gen. Washington’s second term, par
ties became very equally divided in Congress;
so much so that in the Senate the President,
Adams, often decided by his casting vote —the
Democratic and Federal parties were now
formed, and at the close of Gen. Washington’s
administration before the Democratic—or as it
was then called Republican party—had become
fairly organised, the Federalists elected John
Adams, President—and here commences the
struggle which has lasted from that day until
this between the two parties, for the ascendan
cy in the government. The Whig party at ti.is
point made its organization, took its stand under
Mr. Adams. The Democratic party at the same
time under Mr. Jefferson, and here commences
Whig legislation. Mr. Adams called an extra
session of Congress in May, and commenced
operations with Federal majorities in both
branches of Congress. Now 7 mark closely the
analogy and consistency of action between the
Federalists of that day, and their regular line
of political successors, all the way down to the
present hour. This Congress passed a “Stamp
Act,” laying a duty on paper and parehrnen*
used for business purposes, also a duty on salt
and other necessaries used by the people. At
their next session they enacted the famous
“ Alien and Sedition Law’s,” by which the Pre
sident was authorised, at his mere will and
pleasure, to arrest any one who happened not to
have been born in the United States ; and with
out trial, without conviction, without evidence
exile him from the Country —“ order him to de
part,”—and if he refused to do so, or should be
“found at large, afterwards” within the territo
ry of the United States, “ without having a li
cense from the President' 1 should be imprisoned
three years, and never be permitted to become
a citizen of the United States. The law was
intended of course to act upon that class of men
designated in the late Whig Convention, as
“German Jews, an:! Red Republicans,” French,
Irish, Scotch, and all who seek an asylum from
oppression and tyranny in “ the land ot the free
and home of the brave.” In the struggle for the
independence of w'hich many of their fathers
and many of them fought and bled—but which
under federal Whig rule, would be more intolera
ble than the government from which they had
fled.
Under tbe Sedition laws, the mouths of the
people were to be closed ; any citizen who dared
to utter, write, or publish, a word against the
President, or his course, or his measures, or
against either house of Congress, or any member
thereof, was liable to be arrested and fined tivo
thousand dollars , and imprisoned two years—any
man who dared to deny that “the King and his
Parliament can do no wrong” —under this law,
odious and abomiuable as it was, several convic
tions took place. The people and the presses
dare not utter a word against the measures of the
government, no matter how despotic.
Tbe people were outraged at these rapid strides
to despotism, and although numerous petitions
were poured into the next Congress for the re
peal of those despotic laws, and although in Vir
ginia and Kentucky they were declared to be
direct and gross violations of the constitution,
yet they refused to repeal them. During this
administration alarming advances were made
towards establishing a standing army , by which
the will of the government might be arbitrarily
enforced upon the people and measures more des
potic than those of England, carried at the point
of the bayonet. A Bankrupt act was also brought
forward and duties laid on Sugar, Molasses, and
other necessaries. Their extravagant expendi
tures, and obnoxious measures, effected however
their own cure. The States had then but lately
achieved their independence. The republican
party were jealous ot the rights of the people.
The Federalists distrusted the people and de
sired a strong government, to protect the high
and well bom, who as in England bear legitimate,
rule ü ßy the grace of God,” and we look with
grateful hearts to the Republicans ot those days
who swept federalism from power, and saved us
from a strong consolidated government. They
elected Mr. Jefferson as the champion ofßepub-
Jican principles—principles which have ever
since formed the creed and foundation of action
of the Pemocratic party. He was put in office
$s the enemy of, and hostile to the measures of
the Federal party. Thus overthrown by the I
will of the people, they set about re-instating 1
themselves in power. In the election. Mr. Jef
ferson for President, and Mr. Burr for Vice Presi
dent, received an equal number of votes ; as the
Constitution then stood, it devolved upon the
Mouse of Representatives to make a selection.
Ihe federalists had run Mr. Adams, but seeing
now that nothing but stratagem would save
them, and cheat the people, they did not hesitate
to make the attempt. They abandoned their
own candidate and set about defeating Mr. Jef
ferson, with Col. Burr who they considered less
hostile to their policy, and thereby endeavoring
to defeat the republican party by dividing them,
as they are now endeavoring to do in Georgia.
They voted day after day—the Federalists for
Burr and the Republicans for Jefferson. The
Federalists thus acting reereantly to their con
stituents and the country, for not a man in
America had voted for Burr for President. They
balloted four days without changing a vote.
They sought to pass an act putting the govern
ment into, the hands of an officer. The Repub
licans declared that the moment such a measure
should be carried, they would arm and appleal to
the people, that such a usurpation of power would
not be submitted to, and a convention of the peo
ple would be called. Mr. Jefferson writing to Mr.
Monroe at the time says, “the very word con
vention gives them the horrors, in the present
democratual spirit of America they fear they
should lose some of the favorite morsels of the
Constitution (“ailuding to concessions made to
them in the Convention that framed the Con
stitution.' ) Many attempts have been made to
obtain terms and promises from me, I have de
clared unequivocally that I w’oufd not receive
the government on capitulation ; that I would
not go into it with my hands tied.” The Demo
crats at last succeeded in electing Mr. Jefferson.
He at once set about reforming the abuses of the
Whig Administration. Levees, according to the
Aristocratic customs were abolished. The pom
pous parade of appearing in person before Con
gress, abandoned, and communication by writing
adopted; thus saving the time of Congress and
unnecessary aristocratic parade. The plan for a
standing army was cut off, and the Army and
Navy reduced to the necessary peace standard,
and economy in every department, strictly ob
served.—The Internal taxes on sugar, spirits,
paper and license were repealed. Under Mr
Adams’ Administration in 1798, the period fixed
for naturalization was fourteen years, by recom
mendation ol Mr. Jefferson, it was reduced to
Jive. ' Before his term cf office closed, confidence
w 7 as inspired in the government throughout the
w’hole country. Reform and retrenchment, had
succeeded costly expenditures—Republican sim
plicity in the administration ot the government
had taken the place of European models—and
here commenced the progress of the country,
which under democratic rule, is unparalleled in
the history of nations, every step of which has
been opposed by the u’hig party. When Mr.
Jefferson acquired Louisiana from France, thus
strengthening this country with an addition of
some ninety thousand inhabitants, and a million
ot square miles of territory—the Federalists op
posed it upon the same grounds that they have
ever since opposed all their acquisitions. That
it would ruin the country—that this country was
already too large, &c. When Napoleon defeated
the Prussians, and issued his “Berlin decree” and
England issued her “orders in council’ and Na
poleon again his “Milan Decree,” so destructive
to our Commerce, the evils would doubtless have
either been entirely averted, or much sooner
remedied, but for the encouragement given to
England by the course pursued by the Federal
party. Mr. Jefferson was succeeded by Mr.
Madison, and he by Mr. Monroe, both democrats
of the Jefferson school of politics. During Mr.
Madison’s administration, the w T ar with England
w’as declared, to this the Federalists as a party
were opposed, and they at once set about form
ing “a peace party.” They threw every obstacle
in the way, in fact effectually taking sides w’ith
the British against this country. They held the
memorable “Hartford Convention” carried on
publicly and privately their schemes against the
government, declaring the war unjust, unholy,
wicked and wrong—this they carried on, in
Congress and out of it, thus giving all their aid,
feelings and sympathies to our enemies.
So odious had Federalists and federal measures
become that during Mr. Monroe’s administra
tion, they shunned the mention of the “alien and
sedition laws,” “Internal excises,” “Hartford
Convention,” "Black Cockade” and the name
‘Federalist’ as carefully as Georgia whigs now
shun the mention of their former cherished
name. Their opposition ceased for a time and
old party lines were assayed to be forgotten.
This apparent repentance and political reform,
enabled them to so manage as to throw the elec
tion of President again into the house of Repre
sentatives, where they succeeded in electing
John Quincy Adams; although in the electoral
Colleges, Gen. Jackson received 99, and Mr.
Adams but 84 votes, they therefore succeeded
this time in defeating the will of the people.
When Congress met the friends of the admmistra
tion elected their Speaker, and in the Senate
they had a decided majority—one of the first
acts of this Congress was to appropriate over
three nundred thousand dollars for Internal im
provements ; at its next session immense sums of
money and grants of land were appropriated for
the same purpose, w’hich policy was followed up
during the whole term. Tne “black tariff act,”
as it was called of 1828 was passed, and Mr.
Adams in his last message to Congress hoped
that protection would not be abandoned; the
friends of the administration held the “Harris
burg Convention” to secure this end.
The people became satisfied that Federalism
was not “ dead ’ as had been pretended after its
former defeat. The Republican party again
aroused and hurled Federalism from power, and
placed Andrew Jackson in the Presidential chair.
They saw during the administration cf Mr.
Adams, that it the Federalists remained in pow
er. the policy of the elder Adams and his friends,
would become the settled policy of the govern
ment, and the rights of the people be disregar
ded. At this period the Federalists as a par
ty, took an open and bold stand, and Mr. Clay
became their leader. During this and the suc
ceeding administration, they endeavored again
to have their former policy, measures and name
forgotten, and to get rid of the odium attached
to them. They endeavored, as they are now
doing in Georgia, to deceive democrats, by as
suming a new name : they fought them, as now,
under different names at different points. In
some places they assumed the name of “ Nation
al Republicans” as the appellation best calcula
ted to deceive democrats. For the purpose of
accomplishing this favorite end, they called a
Convention at Baltimore, thus setting the ex
ample and commencing the practice of holding
national conventions, which they so much de”
nounce now. This convention called them
seh'es National Republicans 7 and nominated
Mr. Clay in opposition to Gen. Jackson for the
Presidency—just as did the late party at
Milledgeville, “ resolved” that it was a con
vention of “ Republican Citizens,” and nomina
ted Mr. Jenkins in opposition to “ Old Hickory
Johnson.” The Anti-Masons had formed them
selves into a party in some States, and in New
York and Pennsylvania, the Clay party adop
ted the Anti-Masonic ticket. But the good sense
of the people again triumphed, and the effort of
the Federalists to gain power by attempting to
adopt the Republican name to deceive the people,
received its merited rebuke.
With Mr. Clay as their leader they now took
up boldly their favorite schemes of Internal
improvements—a protective tariff—U. States
Bank, &c.,&c. One after another of these meas
ures were defeated by Gen. Jackson and his
friends, and the country saved from their ruin
ous effects. To settle the tariff difficulty, the
Compromise act as it was called, was passed in
1833. With the questions growing out of this
measure the country was convulsed to its centre,
and the men in Georgia who are now crying out
imminent danger,” fire-eaters—disunionists,
&c., were then engeged as Nullifiers in “ calcu
lating the value of the Union.” The storm
was assuaged by the compromise act which
provided for bi-ennial reduction, so that the
duties should not exceed 20 per cent by 1842
—this was accepted and understood to be a “per
manent adjustment ,” of this vexed and danger
ous question. Let us follow up their acts and
contrast them with their present professions, and
their “ Conservative” platform lately adopted at
Milledgeville. During Gen. Jackson’s admins
tration, Mr. Clay introduced two bills to dis
tribute the proceeds of the public lands, but
without effect. After this they tried a new
expedient to obtain power, and took the name
Whig , and in 1840 dropped both their former
name and candidate and took up Gen. Har
rison, and put on the ticket with him as most
available —John Tyler. Owing to an embarras
sed state of commerce and the currency, acceler
ated by the operations of the United States
Bank, many were deceived by the hypocritical
cry of reform, free trade and equal rights, no
protective tariff, &c., proclaimed at the South,
while at the North at their conventions and
meetings—looms, anvils, and all the emblems of
working Mechanics, were paraded to tell North
ern Whigs, that the Whig party were for pro
tecting their interest, &e. Harrison was elec
ted, with a Whig majority in both branches of
Congeress. How were the pledges made to the
people redeemed, and how soon did they com
mence their favorite federal measures ? In 1840,
during the Harrison campaign, when democatic
speakers and Democratic presses told the people
of Georgia that if the Whigs got into power
they would again revive their old cherished
principles, and strike for a United States Bank,
a protective tariff, &c., we were told by Whig
presses and.speakers that these were “ dead is
sues ’ that the tariff was settled by the compro
mise act, &c. The Hon. Wm. C. Dawson, Eu
geni us A. Nesbit, Lott Warren, and Thos. But
ler King, in an address to the people of Georgia,
said, “ upon the expiration of that compromise
we will be found resisting any re-adjustment ot
the tariff as a political measure, so also will Gen.
Harrison,” this was proclaimed by all their
presses and speakers throughout the State. Now
mark their course: like the federal adminis
tration of Jno. Adams, they called an extra ses
sion of Congress, which met in May 1841,
and eosj; the country $371,477,60. An ap
propriation of this amount was the first act ap
proved by the new administration. The next
step was to boirow twelve millions of dollars. Let
it not be said that this was to pay the debts of
former administrations,for the report of the Whig
Secretary of the Treasury shows that the pub
lic debt at that time was but Five Millions in
Treasury Notes to be extended, and which in
IS42the whig administration had, instead of
paying any part of it, increased it to nine mil
lions up to July of that year although, they had
been but a lew months in power. Their cry
of retrenchment, reform and economy, were on
ly false promises made and intended to be broken,
for Mr. F lltnore as chairman of the committee of
ways and means said this “ was lather to be
desired than expected ,” the next step was to
pass a Bankrupt Law, and. “ tell it not in Gath,”
notwithstanding the holy horror with which
these “ republican citizens” now in convention
look upon the “ distribution of the proceeds, of
the lands,” and “ Gigantic schemes of internal
improvement,” their next step was at the extra
session to pass an act giving ten per cent of the
proceeds of the public lands to Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Alabama, Mississppi, Missouri, Louisi
anna, Arkansas, and Michigan, and to each of
those states Jive hunhred thousand acres of land
* for the purposes of internal improvement ,” and
specified in the act that it should be faithfully
applid to Roads, Railways, Bridges, Canals, and
improvement of watercourses and DRAINING
OF SWAMPS.” In 1842 they revived their
favorite scheme of a protective tariff; after ail
their protestations that,that question was set
tled by the compromise. They brought for
ward and passed one of the most objection
able Tariff' bills ever imposed upon the Ameri
can people, one ot its provisions was that “ all
manufactures ot cotton, or of which cotton shall
be a component part” not deyed, colored printed,
or stained, not exceeding in value 20 cents per
square yard, shall be valued at 20 cents per
square yard and duty be paid thereon according
ly.” Thus making the man who buys home
spun at five cents a yard pay four times as much
duty to the government as his more fortunate
neighbour who is able to buy a finer article.
[.TO BE CNOCLUDED TO-MORKOW. |
The Weather—The Business Season
After several days of extremely wet weather,
we had a delightful clear bright dav yesterday,
with a temperature just cool enough to remind
us that the season for the return of the absent
and the revival of business is at hand. For
some two weeks past, the activity and bustle on
our wharves with the busy throng of carts and
drays passing to the depot, loaded with bales and
boxes, have given token of the immense lor
warding business that is going on through our
channels of communication with the interior of
our own and the adjoining States. Butin a few
days our merchants and business men.who have
sought pleasure and relaxation during the sum
mer months at the North, will be crowding
back to resume their places among us; and then
will commence one of the most active and, we
trust, prospe-ous seasons ever experienced in
Savannah.— Sav. News, 14 th inst.
Good Sailing. —The schooner Virginia, Capt.
Ax worthy, consigned to H. K. Washburn, Esq.,
arrived yesterday, in seventy-five hours from
New York ! During the passage she encoun
strong head winds, but for which she would
have arrived in a still shorter time— Sav. Geor
gian, 14 th inst.
Aid to New Orleans and Mobile.— The
City Council of Macon, at its meeting on the
2d instant, appropriated SSOO for the relief of
the sufferers by Yellow Fever in the city of
New Orleans, and authorized the Mayor to ap
point a Committee to solicit subscriptions from
the citizens ; that Committee reported to Coun
cil, on the 9th inst., $874,50 as the amount col
lected, SSOO of which, by a resolution of Council,
was lorwarded to Mobile, and the remainder to
New Orleans. This change from its original
j destination, of a part of the fund was made on ac
count of the abatement of the epidemic in the
latter, and its fearful increase in the former city,
which recent accounts exhibit. Besides this
amount of $1374.50, subscribed by the Council
and citizens of Macon, other small sums have
been forwarded to Aiobile and New Orleans by
individuals.— Macon Messenger, 14th inst.
The people of Peru are so indolent that they
open pea pods with an oyster knife. In driving
horses, they always have two men to each quad
ruped—one to hold the reins and the other to
holler “ Whoa!”
When a Kenteky judge, some years since, was
asked by an attorney upon some strange ruling,
“ Is that law, your honor ?’' he replied, “If the
Court understands herself, and she thinks she
does, it are !”
A celebrated toper intending to go to a masked
ball, consulted an acquaintance in what charac
ter he should disguise himself. “Go sober,” re
plied his friend, ‘ and your most intimate ac
quaintance will not know you.”
An Arkansas volunteer in the Mexican war,
riding on horseback, came across an Ulinoian,
who was shot in the leg. The Ulinoian told
him where he was wounded, and suggested to
be taken up and conveyed out of danger. “ Ar
kansas” placed him on behind the saddle and
fastened him to himself with a leather strap.
While they were hastening from danger, a grape
shot took “ Illinois’ ” head off; but “ Arkansas”
thought he had only fainted from fatigue and
pain. When a safe place was arrived at, the
horseman releasing his charge exclai ned: ‘ Well!
these Illinoians are the d st liars Here,
this rascal told me that he was shot in the leg.’‘
Seeing and Hearing. —A parishioner com
plained to his parson, that his pew was too far
Irorn the pulpit, and said that he must purchase
one nearer.
“Why,” asked the parson, “can’t you see
plainly?” J
t Yes, I can see perfectly well.”
u Well, then, what can be the trouble?”
Why, there are so many in front of me, who
eaten what you say first, that by the time your
words reach my ears, they are as flat as dish
water !
Charley Grab took a field to plant at halves.
At harvest time the owner came for his share of
the produce ; but the wag told hirn very cooly
that he was sorry there was nothing for him as
the land did not yield but half a crop, which lie
had taken for his half. *’
A crack brained man who was slighted by
the females, very modestly asked a young lady,
“ if she would let him spend the evening with
her.”
“ No,” she angrily replied, “ that’s what I
wont.
“ Why,” replied he, “ you needn’t be so fus
sy; I didn’t mean this evening, but some stormy
one when I cant go anywhere else /”
“ Hollo, mister! have you got any grain to
sell ?”
“ No. Why do you ask ?”
14 Bekase I see you’ve a wry face !”
Law is a country dance —people are led up and
down in it till they are fairly tired out. Law 7 is
like a book of surgery—there are a great many
terrible cases in it. It is like physic, too —they
that take the least of it are best off. It is like a
scolding wife—very bad when it follows us.
Law is like a new fashion—people are bewitch
ed to get into it; and like bad weather, most peo
ple are glad to get out of it.
Augusta, ga.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 16.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. H. V. JOHNSON,
Os Baldwin County.
DIST - FOR CONGRESS.
1— JAMES L. SEWARD, of Thomas.
2A. H. COLQUITT, of Baker.
3 DAVID J. BAILEY, of Butts.
4W. B. W. DENT, of Coweta.
SE. W. CHASTAIN, of Gilmer.
7 THOMAS P. SAFFOLD, of Madison.
8— JOHN J. JONES, of Burke.
Election Tickets.
We are prepared to print Election Tickets, at
short notice, at the following rates: for 100 tick
ets $1; 200 tickets 51.50, and 25 cents for every
additional hundred. The money must accompa
ny the order.
Bth Congressional District.
John J. Jones will address his fellow r citi
zens as follows:
Louisville, Wednesday, 14th Sept.
Augusta, Friday evening, 16th “
Dearing, Satuiday, 17th “
Warrenton, Monday 19t’n “
Sylvania, Tuesday, 27th “
HON. H. V. JOHNSON
Will address the citizens of Richmond
county, at the City Hall, on Saturday even
ing, at 7 o’clock, on the political topics of
the day. Come one, come all.
The Buffalo Platform.
The recent letter of the Hon. John A. Dix,
defining his position, published in this paper,
has thrown the agitatois of the Whig press into
a new spasm of sectionalism and rage. It is
well calculated to counteract their laborious ef
forts to get up another excitement upon the
slavery question, upon the plea that President
Pierce appoints Freesoilers to office, thereby en
dangering the peace and security of the country.
Mr. Dix has been industriously paraded by the
agitators before the Southern people, as a Ravv-
Head-and-Bloody-Bones monster, of such awful
power and malignity that he only required such
a foothold as a subordinate office under General
Pierce, to overthrow this great Republic, and
swallow, at one voracious meal, all the rights
held by the South under the Constitution.
But what are the facts as they stand, for this
is a practical question of facts, not of reminiscen
ces. It appears, under Mr. Dix’s own hand, and
the record of his life proves, that he is not an
Abolitionist, and never was—that he never de
sired, nor has he ever attempted, to interfere
with slavery in the States where it already ex
ists and is protected by the Constitution—that
the head aud front of his offending against the
South, has been, that he opposed the introduction
of slavery into territories now free. This was
the great and leading principle of the Freesoilers.
This was the great and prominent plank in the
Buffalo Platform.
But the Websterites of Georgia now profess
great horror of that same Buffalo platform, and,
because Mr. Dix stood on it live years ago, think
him utterly unfit, whatever be his present sen
timents, to hold even a subordinate office under
Gen.-Pierce—indeed they pretend to think the
country is “in great and imminent danger ” from
this, and a few similar appointments made by
the President. Yet these very men thought,
only last year, that no man was so lit to be Pre
sident as Daniel Webster. Now, if the country
is in imminent danger because Dix is Sub Trea
surer at New York city, he being a Buffalo plat
form man in 1848, what would have been its
condition if Daniel Webster, another Buffalo
platform man, had been made President of the
United States ?
To prove that Dix was no worse in the mud
than Webster was in the mire of Freesoil we
have only to quote the latter himself. We have
his own word for it.
At Abington (Mass.,) Oct. 10, 1848, Mr.
Webster, declared that the Freesoilers at Buffalo
had stolen their sentiments from the Northern
Whigs. It was a clear case of petty larceny —that
there was nothing in the platform that did not
meet the unqualified approbation of the Northern
Whigs—that if the Northern Whigs were to join
the Freesoil party, “ We” said Mr. Webster ,
should still be the Whig party, under a different
name, and that would be all.”
Mr. Webster’s Freesoil sentiments were very
plainly reiterated by him at Buffalo, May 22d,
1851, on which occasion he emphatically de
clared :
“ 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 that for one, I never would con
sent: and no matter what may be said at the
Syracuse Convention, or at any other assem
blage ot insane persons, 1 never would consent, and
never have consented, that there should be one foot of
slave territory beyond what the old Thirteen
States 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 w'ould
sneak away, and slink away, or hire a mercenary
press that he might cry out, w hat an apostate
from liberty Daniel Webster has become. He
knows himself to be a hypocrite and a falsifier.”
Here we find Mr. Webster boasting of his be
ing a Freesoiler, only a year before his name is
presented by the assailants of Gen. Pierce, io the
people of Georgia, as a fit person to be President.
Yet these very men now tell the people the
country is in danger because a few' Buffalo plat
form men, who have,since 1848,abandoned that
Buffalo organization and are now acting in good
faith with the national Democracy, are holding
subordinate offices ! Out upon such hyprocricy.
Were these pretended apprehensions for the
safety of the country at any time sincere and pa
triotic, one would suppose these disquieted pa
tiiots would find relief in the letter of Mr. Dix.
1 hat letter declares : Ist, That he has no desire
and never had, to interfere with slavery in the
States where it exists. 2d, That he has no de
sire to disturb the Compromise. 3d, That he
desires to see the fugitive slave law', the only
unexecuted part of that Compromise, faithfully
executed. What more would they ask 1 What
more did they expect from Daniel Webster, or
Millard Fillmore? What more did either of
these ever promise. Could the South have ex
pected as much if Mr. Webster’s bill introduced
in the Senate pending the Compromise measures,
giving fugitive slaves a trial by <fury in the
State in which they were arrested, had been
passed 1
These agitators, so solicitous for the peace and
quiet of the country, and the security of slave
piopeity, have fiddled on this one string—Free
! S 0 appointments—until they have worn it out
| worn themselves out—worn the patience of the
| people out, but have utterly failed to fiddle up an
alarm and an excitement among the people. The
agitators tried it in the North Carolina and fail
ed. They tried it in Kentucky and failed.—
They tried it in Alabama, and failed. They
tried it in Tennessee and failed—utterly failed
and broke down; and that heretofore Whig
State, disgusted at these reckless experiments
upon popular credulity, and sectional prejudice,
has become a Democratic State, and ranged itself
on the side of the Administration.
The people ot Georgia, tired of the intempe
rate rant of Whig orators, and the inflated sus
tain of Whig newspapers about '''‘great and im
minent danger have looked coolly around to
descry the signs thereof. They see the w'hole
country in a serene and quiet state—sectional
rage and ferment allayed—the laws faithfully
executed at home, and the rights and honor of
the Republic vindicated abroad—the people
prosperous, contented, pursuing their avocations
in peace and security. They behold the South
progressing in wealth, in prosperity and in en
terprise—her great staples commanding good
prices under the Democratic principles of an un
shackled commerce and repudiation of legisla
tive favoritism to manufacturing capital—her
slave property advancing in value in defiance of
the clamor of the alarmists. They behold the
Buffalo platform a shivered wreck—its frag
ments floating helplessly aw’ay and sinking
from sight, never more to be reconstructed while
the Democratic party bears sway, and the Presi
dent stands firmly to its principles and to the
pledges of his inaugural. To that party, and to
the firm, patriotic and statesmanlike course ol
President Pierce, since his advent to office, are
these happy results to be mainly attributed.—
Such will be the recorded opinion of the people
of Georgia at the ensuing election.
The Algerine Law.
The Chronicle &r Sentinel in its effort of the
7th inst., to uphold and defend the Algerine Law
as “ right in principle, theory and practice sets up
the following pretexts for that odious measure :
A w’ord as to the reason for desiring such a
law by those who signed the petition. The
City Council is generally composed of men, few
of whom own any real estate, and some of them
no property whatever, unless it may be a
little house-furniture—(some of the latter class
are always in Council.) and as they pay no
tax but poll, cannot generally be regarded as
feeling as great an interest in the city as a hold
er of real estate. These are notorious facts in
the history of the City Council, and we allude
to them simply as facts, and in no disparage
ment to any man or member. The Council
have unlimited power to tax the people—and to
run the city in debt. In a single year they may
create a debt of a million of dollars, and the
people, the property-holders, who pay the tax
es, could not prevent them.
A word here as to taxation and the city debt.
In 1841, when the Algerine Law was passed,
the city debt was less than two hundred thousand
dollars, and the rate of taxation was thirty-one
cents on every hundred dollars value of real es
tate and merchandise. Now the debt is four
hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars; more
than double ; and the rate of taxation on real
estate, one dollar for every hundred dollars val
ue, and fifty rents for every hundred dollars val
ue of merchandise and personal property. Think,
reader, of the difference and recollect that the
people have now no check on the Council after
they are elected, during their term of service,
which is one year.
The quintescence of the first of the above par
agraphs is,that the most patriotic man, is he that
has the most property—the citizen who holds
real estate cares more for the city, its interests
and welfare, than he who has the ill luck to be
poor and propertyless. Property and public
spirit are twin principles, and it is only when
the citizen begins to accumulate one, does he be
gin to feel the other.
Not only, according to this view, do the pro
perty holders absorb the greater part of the feel
ing of interest for the public good, but it is pre
sumed their brains increase with their money
bags—their intelligence rises in the scale as pro
perty advancesh. Wile a man had a lot, 20
teet by 50, for instance, worth only SIOO, his
capacity has not matured sufficiently to be, or
even to vote for, an Alderman. But by the
time it is enhanced to SIOOO, his brains had de
veloped ten fold —he had expanded to the intel
lectual proportions of a full blown Alderman,
or at least of a citizen capable of voting for one.
The same wonderful results would have ensued,
if, by steady perseverance in the science of
mint juleps and sherry cobblers, he had become
the happy possessor of a “ billiard table/’
The second paragraph, involves one imputa
tion upon the intelligence and fidelity to the
public interests of the members Council, under
whose auspices the public debt and the rate of
taxation have] been increased in the last few
years.
It is true, that the debt of the City has been
increased some $250,000 in that time. But
who have done it ? Has it been done on the more
motion, and from a reckless extravagance of the
members of Council, who own no property, but
a little house-furniture, and in opposition to the
solemn protests of their more wealthy fellovv
councilmen ?
What has increased this city debt ? We an
swer, the Canal.
Who proposed, urged and succeeded in carry
ing this measure? Was it the poll tax payers,
and owners of a little house-furniture merely?
No. Its most strenuous advocates were among
the owners if SIOOO, and upwards, of real es
tate, and tax payers to the figure of $25, and up
wards, annually.
Was this measure for the benefit especially of
of these poll tax payers, and the owners of a lit
tle house-furniture.
It was not ; nor was the measure advocated i
on the ground that they were to be the chief :
beneficiaries. It was advocated on the ground j
| that it would promote the general business, and i
j increase the population of the city, by estab- j
' lishing manufacturing pursuits here, and would \
enhance the value as real estate. It was urged that !
the canal would only cost about $84,000, and |
that the real estate holders, who would be chief- j
ly benefited, ought to pay this. The tax I
known as the canal tax, was imposed to the 1
i amount of SIOO,OOO, to cover this cost. The
J canal has already cost about $250,000. How
! much more it is yet to cost,before it may be call- j
ed finished, we are not prepared to state. Who
is to'pay the additional $150,000 or S2OO 000 of j
the cost? The real estate holders? No. But J
the tax payors generally. Those who pay less j
than $25, annually, down to the owners of aj
little, house-furniture; and payers simply of a poll
tax, must pay their share, according to their
means.
Have the real estate holders any reason to com-
I plain of this great increase of the city debt?— i
; We should suppose not, when the great increase j
| in the value of the real estate of the city, since j
; the canal has been brought into use,is taken into j
! view. The year the canal was commenced, j
j the value of the real estate in the city, subject !
to taxation, was assessed and taxed at a value of j
about $1,900,000. Its value has been steadily ad
vancing, since the projection of the canal. Its as
sessed value is about $2,700,000, and it is taxed
at that rate for the current year.
an increase of SSOO,OOO, besides a
very large increase in the value of untaxed real
estate, belonging to the city, the Richmond Aca
demy, the Railroad and Manufacturing Compa
nies, and other corporations. How much the
canal has contributed to this result, cannot be 1
precisely ascertained; but it has unquestionably 1
had its influence. Among other items, from <
25,000 to 30,000 bales of cotton are annually
brought down the canal, which formerly came '
down the river, and most of which was landed ]
at Hamburg. The canal has added much to the ;
population ot the city, and to various business
interests, the rents of the landlords included. •
But we need not enlarge on this point, as we a
are not aware that the advocates of the Algerine J
Law are, or ever were, as a body, opposed to the
canal, or look upon it as one of the “ wild vis
ionary schemes of internal improvement,” to
prevent which the Chronicle considers an Alge
rine law desirable. What we have here said is
to show that the increase of the city debt and
the city taxes has not worked oppressively on
real estate holders, and does not afford a pretext
to the Algerines for a re-enactment of the law. i
Indeedit may fairly be contended that the
city has prospered under the financial manage
ment of those Councilmen, who pay only a poll
tax, and own only a littlt house-furniture.
It is a fair subject of inquiry, what did the
Board of Aldermen accomplish financially for the
city during its brief administration in 1842 ?
We have been told that the only measures of a
financial character which distinguished its ca- :
reer, was the reduction of the nightly pay of the
City Watchmen from $1 to 87J cents, and the j
increase in the nrice of dog collars from $1 25 to !
$1 50 a piece. If that Board performed any
other exploits for the benefit of the city finances,
we will take pleasure in lecognizing and re
cording them, upon due information. It was
composed of very intelligent gentlemen, and it
was but reasonable for the friends of the Alge
rine law to expect from them something to
I prove that the institution of the upper Board
| was expedient and proper.
The Algerine Law.
We mentioned in our last, that we were in
I errorin stating that the petition to the Legisla
! ture was signed by the late Philip McGran, De
i mocrat, and said that it must have been signed
by Philip McCan, one of our worthy Whig Me
chanics. This gentleman has called on us, and
i states that he never saw nor signed the petition,
| and that his name is not McCan, but McCann.
\ Who is Philip McCan?
To the Independent Voters of the State of
Georgia.
Under this heading, we commence this morn
ing, the publication of an able address from the
pen of Robert McMillan, Esq., to which we
would call the attention of our readers, particu
larly the younger portion of them. Mr. McMil
lan pourtrays, in a masterly manner, the princi
ples of the two great political parties of this
country, from its formation to the present time.
We bespeak for this aiticle a careful and .atten
tive perusal.
Ho ! for Bearing!
Those who wish to pay a visit to Dearing
on Saturday, and hear the Hon. H. V. Johnson,
and other Democratic speakers, can do so at a
moderate cost, by leaving their names at this of
j fice to-day. Should forty or more go, we are in
i formed that the Railroad Company will provide
an extra car for their conveyance,and will charge
only one fare for the trip.
> | The Meeting To-Night.
> j J. J. Jones, Esq., the Democratic nominee to
; j represent the Sth District in the next Congress,
; ! will address the citizens of Augusta This Even
i ling, at the City Hall. Mr. Jones is a young
man of promising talents, and although there is
but little probability of his election, still he is
. willing, for the good old cause of Democracy, to
. stand up and defend the principles of his party.
Let there be a good attendance of Democrats.—
f To our Whig friends we extend, in his behalf,
. a cordial invite.
Thk Race between the British Glibber
5 Guiding Star and the Boston Clibber Am
r biutrite.— These two vessels left St. Johns, N.
' 8., together, on the 21st of July, for England.—
j The Guiding Star, bound to Liverpool, arrived
there on the the 20th ult., and the Amphitrue,
’ bound to London, arrived at Deal on the 25th
■ ult. The latter has thus lost the race.
£• Alarming Disclosure..— One Prof. J. W.
Jewett of North Carolina, informs the Fayette
ville North Carolinian that he has made comets
his study for the last 31 years, and that the one
i which has just left us has only made a brief de
. tour—tor the purpose of acquiring more momen
f j turn perhaps--and was to have returned on the
j 13th of this month and strike this planet! The
; same result will then doubtless happen as in the
, case hypothetically put to Mrs. Partington, who
t | on being asked, “if an irresistible force should
, ! come in contact with an immoveable body,”
gave her opinion that, “one or Hother of ’em will
get hurt !”
! The Detroit Free Press, says that Gen. Cass
• . is in the enjoyment cf most excellent health.—
j Those who saw him ten yeais ago can now dis
i cover few- if any, of the changes that are usual- !
| ly wrought by a half score of years upon men of |
j his age.
i I William Lloyd Garrison, stated, at a recent
convention at Metropolitan Hall, that he was
opposed to the Maine Liquor Law, because, by
voting for it, he would be recognising the laws
S and canstitution of the United States, which he
could not conscientiously do.
Commander Tatnall. —The Mobile Adver- j
| tiserot Friday says : “ We are pleased to learn, '
| from reliable authority that this distinguished of
ficer is recovering from a severe attack of yellow
fever of which he has recently been ill at Pen
sacola Navy Yard J 5
Rain, Rain I —lhe Sandersville Georgian of
! the 13th inst., says : “ The rains have continued
1 to iall during the greater part of the past w r eek, |
j indeed it has been as gloomy and disagreeable a
j season as we have seen; it was showery from
Thursday evening to Saturday' morning, when it
! set in real good earnest, and continued for tw'en
ty-six hours without ceasing, since then it has
; been cloudy, gloomy, chilly, drizzly, mucky, and
foggy.
A stallion seized Mr. Boyington, of Oberlin,
Ohio, in his moutlf, and thew him into the air;
j when he struck the ground the horse jumped
! upon him with his fore feet, seized him by the
| bead, and broke his n*ck short off, severing the
jugular veins with his teeth.
Gen. Cass’ Letter to the Presieent.-
Ihe letter which Gen. Cassis reported to have
written to President Pierce is said to be the
most cordial. He assures him of his high per
sonal and political regard, and declares no Presi
! dent ever had so many difficulties to encounter ;
; that his course has been wise, judicious and
j patriotic ; and that the writer will accept no
! position uuder the government, but as Senator
: the President can rely upon his earnest and
hearty support of the administration. Secretary
McClelland received a letter of like import.
Died, in Falmouth, Maine, August 24, Mr.
James Dobbins, aged 102 years, 5 months and
; 17 days. Mr. Dibbins was born in Pennsylvania
March 7, 1751. At the age of 12 years, he re
moved with his father to the State of Georgia.
He served an apprenticeship of seven years to
learn the ship carpenter’s trade, and wrought at
that business till the Revolutionary war broke
out. He then entered the army for sixteen
months, and at the end of that time he again en
listed for the war, and served, until peace was
declared, under General Lincoln. He was ta
ken prisoner by the British at Charleston, S. C.
Mr. D. had a brother in the army who was kill
ed. After the war he returned home, and em
ployed himself at his trade until about the year
1787, when he came to Maine. He married
Catharine Pitman, daughter of John Pitman of
Halifax, in May, 1788. Mrs. Dobbins was born
in Richmond, Va., March 7, 1?71. He wrought
at his trade till about 1801, when he removed to
Falmouth, where he resided till his death.
[communicHed.]
To 73 Railroad Mechanics
The objection made to Mr. Milled- a. i ,
Osmond, as candidates for the Legislatu • Mr ’
tainly a peculiar one. Mr.
ra Good Citizen,” and Mr. Osmond
tleman.” Can any better combi nation b ***
The elements which compose a % ' e m ade,
and a u gentleman,” are the nearest C ‘ tlZf!ll
God’s imago on earth-., J ‘ '"""■'kt.
We doubt if two better men could b«
more particularly the latter, Mr. Osrno ]
although absent from the city, is ’
spected not only as a ** gentleman” h./ a ' ld ' e
chanic. 1 a a
We assure the “ 73 Railroad Mechanic.), r
there is no trickery or pretense in the
is simply to elevate men who deserve it t *
position to which they are entitled ’ °
Jl! i A . Ra,l * oat> Mechanic.
Sudden Death Joseph GeoroTF..,
the most respectable citizens of Savann^ 01 * of
suddenly at his house yesterday rnomi d
apoplexy. He had previously eniov* ng ’ 01
health, and had risen early, to open th^L- 8 ?
his servants, and again retired to bed u Ol
seven o’clock he rose as usual, but onlv'st ° Ut
a few feet from his bedside, he returned
down. As his actions were unusual S 3
looks indicated distress, Mrs. George
her children, but before thev could “et
room, the vital spark had fled °M r p he
was sixty-three years of age, and was aw?
time of his death, our City Treasurer the
lice he has filled with fidelity for ° l
past. He was a native of New York bJT*
been a constant resident of this city, since mu
Savannah Republican , 14 th inst, ' 3b '
Iron for the Augusta & Waynes. ,
Railroad -The ship Naomi, which arS
here yesterday from Cardiff, Wales hasnn u J
650 tons Railroad Iron, to Padleford Fay & p
for the Augusta & Waynesboro’ road This ’
the last cargo that will be required for the cJ
pletion of the road, and as all the timber for ft
superstructure is ready we look for an earlv
| pletion of the entire line. We believe there a
only about eight miles of the track to lav now
and that after the Ist of October there will L
but four or five miles of staging between here
and Augusta.— lb.
Little Pee Dee R. R. Bridge—We learn
that the bridge across the Little Pee Dee is com
pleted, and that on or about Wednesday next th
cars will cross it. This will shorten the preset,
stage line about four miles. The energetic con
tractors of the road expect, and have the facin'
ty, to complete the unfinished part of the road
very rapidly.— Morion Star, Tuesday.
Boston, Sept. 12.— Seizure of Fiskm* Vend,
—Trouble Expected.— The schooner James Ri x
has arrived here from the Bay of Cbaleur Her
captain reports that the American schooner Ga
zelle, of Dennis, also three schooners of New
buryport, Massachusetts, and three vessels 01
Cape Ann, have been seized by the British upon
the charge of violating the fishing laws.’ All
the above vessels were taken off Fox river. The
affair has caused no small degree of excitement
and trouble is anticipated,
j Washington Sept. 12.—Washington Ajfatn.
—All the rumors of a rupture between Mr
Marcy and the President are incorrect. The
cabinet is regarded as a unit. They had a long
session to-day, at which ioreign affairs weredis’
cussed. Captain Ingraham will ceitainly be
sustained.
George M. Dallas is in town, and may possi
bly get the mission to China or to France.
The rumor that Secretary Davis is about to
leave the cabinet to run for United States Sena
tor from Mississippi is regarded as unfounded.
Beverely Tucker’s paper, the Sentinel,mil
not make its appearance till the 19th inst.
Camden, N. J., Sept. 12.— Trial of Hiikp
Doane. — Ihe Court of Bishops re-assembled
here this morning. Bishop Doane occupied the
whole morning with his speech in reply to Bish
op Mcllvaine, and the question in regard to
quashing the presentment will hardly be reached
today. •
I Second Despatch.]
Camden, Sept. 12.—Bishop Done concluded
his speech about 2 o’clock to-day, when the
Court adjourned till to morrow. The vote will
then be taken to decide whether the case is to
be tried or not.
FUNERAL NOTICE.
The Friends and Acquaintance of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Richards, and family, aro re
quested to attend the Funeral ofMrs. RICHARDS,
from her late residence, comer of Reynold and
Jackson streets, this morning, at half past tea
o’clock. sept 16
MARRIED.
On the 17th of August, by the Rev. Luke S.
Novve!, Mr Green Foster to Miss M. Elizabeth
Lawshe. all of Bibb county.
DIED,
la Harris county, Ga., on the 24th ult, Miss
Caroline H. S., daughter of Judge Morgan, in
the 16th year of her age.
Died, in Americus, on the sth inst., Hon. A.M.
D. King, in the 58th year of his age.
Comoimiul.
Augusta, Sept. 15—6,p. m.
The river is in good boating order—seven anda
half feet of water in the channel.
MACON, Sept. 14.— Cotton. —Very little Cotton
; has arrived during the past week, in consequence
of the recent rains, and few, if any sales made.
quote prices from 8 to 10 cents.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 13, P. M.^~Cotton —There
wassomedemaad to-day, and the sales amounts
87 bales, all new, at the following prices : 3 at 8h
4 at 101, 74 at 10|, and 6 bales at 11 cents.
SAVANNAH IMPORTS—Sept. 13.
Per ship Noami, from Cardiff, Wales—6so tons
Rail Road Iron.
CHARLESTON IMPORTS—SEPTEMBER 14-
Ha vana—Brig Adela—9o hhds. Sugar, and a
quantity of Fruit, to J. Chapman ; 15 boxes Sugar,
to J. & G. E. Gibbon ; 2 cases Segars, to Dawson
<fc Skinner, of Augusta.
_ Shipping JntrUigrnrr.
ARRIVALS FROM CHARLESTON.
Schr Laurel, Dodge, Bangor.
Schr A. M. Ward, Wilmington, N. C.
cleared for charleston.
Brig L. W. Maxwell, Burt, at Boston.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 15.—Arrived, Larqu®
George, Now York; barque Radient, Flinn,
ton; brigs Mary Adeline, Gram, Rio Janeiro; Ade
la, Westendorif, Havana; Alida, Swenson,
A ork; M. H. Chappell, Errickson, Pniladelpan*
schrs J. Garrison, Hallock, New \ r ork: J. R Glover,
Ogier, Camden, Me.; P. C. Ferguson, Roberts,
Baltimore.
Cleared, brig G. L. Abbott, Getty, New Orleans,
■ schr Eclipse, Chapman, Key West and Havana.
Went to sea. steam ship Union, Adams,
York; barques Maria Morton, Francis, New to l *'
' Como, Smith, Boston; brig Caroline, Harding
I Boston; schrs Sami. Bolton, Mershon, Phiißdc
, phia; Lucent, Paridge, New York.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 14.—Arrived, steam ship
Augusta, Lyon, New York; ship Noauii, Jonpso •
Cardiff, Wales; barque Harvest, Nichols, N 0 '
brigs Francis P. Beck, Smith. Boston; navel •
Madison, Boston; schrs Jonas Smith, Furman.
York; Virginia, Axworthy, New \ork; /
English, Philadelphia; D. L. Clinch, Watts,
more.
NEW GOODS.
P. & M. GALtAHER to
HAVE just received tlie following H jV n
which they respectfully invite the. a
of the public :
Rich Bonnet and Neck RIBBONS'-
Black and Colored Velvet do.
Black Gimps and Fringes.
Black Lace, all w dtlis. C]
Embroidered Chemisetts and Under '
Embroidered Cuffs and Collars.
Black and Colored Kid Gloves.
Jaconots and Swiss Incerting and LUgi S-
E j.broidered Linen Cambric Handkeic 1
Linen Lawn and Linen Cambric.
Brocade and Pla d Silks.
Bombazenes and Alpacas rr^
Also a select stock of Ladles and Gents- *
which wiil be sold at very reduced prices. wr j
Shirtings, Osnaburgs and Kerseys, a jj
prices. ts F