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L.NGEU.
T. MsTIKT a TTkOSK, Editors,
summary.
Ky. Ono and Jenny Lind Goldschmidt will sail for
K, mne in the -earner Atl iIiMC. in May next >; but
previous tothetrdepirture.it is said,they w.l give three
concerts in New York. They will take place the last
of April.
L\Gkan6s and West Point Railroad. —The Li-
Grunge Reporter contains the following information in
reference to the ptogress of th : s road:
“Freni a recent conversation with rfiie of the heaviest
contractors and largest stockholders connected with
the Company, we learn that the superstructure is
ready for the whole route between tin* place and New
nan. About three-fourth? us the grading is also finis.) -
ed.and several heavy section* will he completed in a
few weeks The pa?-enger train now runs nut m
Chandlers about six miffs on this side of Nrwnan.atte
bv the first of June, t will reach the twelve mile ata
tion The progress of the enterprise was greasy Inn
dered by the severe cold of the late winter. Now that
the delightful season ol spring has set in, we may hope
that the work wHi go bravely on to consummation
With thes* prospects, we safely ptedict its completion
between ;he first of November and the Ist of December
ensuing.”
oy The Legislature of Pennsylvania has repealed
the Act prohibiting ‘he use <>f the jails in that State f t
the confinement cf Fugit'Ve Slaves.
XT* Horace Presioo, a fugitive slave, the properly
of VV. \I Rose, ol Baltimore, has, after a three day
trial m New York,been reminded by the Commission
er tohis owner.
Characteristic Fact. —So desirous is little Nap. a
iruit ting hi# great Unci- in evry possible particular
that we understand he has recently and dared his mien
tion of in future regularly wearing his coats out at
Elba !
03“ The London Newt, says, that a house in l ed
brooke square, Kensington, London, ha* been taken
for M. Kossuth, whose family is expected io take pos
session on the first of ‘1 ay.
Lectures by Lola MexTM —We see it stated that
Lola is preparing a series ol lectures on the politics an
public men of Earope, which w ill be in direci contrast
in its theories and descript i>ns, with thereeen oration
and speeches of Kossuth. Lola Montez claims to be a
republican—but not a red republican.
The Presidential QrE'TiON in California —An
nitcinpt.it appears, was made in both the Whig an.’
Democratic State Convention® ol Caiitomia to instruct
their delegates to vote for particular candidates lor tin
Presidency, but in every instance they failed, and th
delegates remain unpledged. Several efforts wer
made in the Democratic convention to secure nu ex
pression of opinion in lavor of Senator Douglas; am
finally, a resolution declaring a preference for k in, hu
pledging the party to support the national nominee
provided, he be neither a tree soiler nor nn aboiiiionis’
was indefinitely postponed by a vote ol 113 in 115 -
The Whig convention instructed their delegates n
vote for no candidate lor the Presidency and V ice Pre
sidency w-ho are not known to be friendly to ihe Cotu
promise measures of the last Congress,and ardem sup
porters of the preservation ol the Union. Mr Webster,
judging tram the enthusiasm which greeted every men
lion ol his name, had a large number ot iriends in >it
convention.
The first California Novel is beirg pub:.shed at
Marysville. It is entitled “ En'.ewi,or the Moumai
Bird,” and the scene is laid among the Indians and
“ diggings.” Founded on fact, of course.
OT “ Don’t you think my execution of Odielloa
capita! performance? It is in my line is it nor ?” ask
ed an eminent tragedian of Cooke.
“ Why, yes,” replied the provoking punster; “ a'!
executions may he considered a capital performance ;
and your performance of Othello is certainly ot-e ol
that class, for you execute him in your line so efli-ctii
ally, that as soon as you lay hands upon him, he is no
Moor.
The Whig U. S Senators held a emeus in ihe Sen
uie Chamber, at Washington, on Saturday, and ap
. omled a committee to confer with a c-'tninit'ee of ihe
Whig? of the other House, for the designation ot th*-
time and place tor the assembling of the Whig Na
tional Convention to nominate a President and V.e*-
Piesnlent. It is presumed the Convention will ‘ie held
ir. Philadelphia, though preer lha New York or
Cincinnati should he s-h-cf - I Th- Ist of July will
proDi! ybe the time fixed lot t? n*s inkling.
Whig National Convention— The Whig U S
Sena lore iiel-i a caucus in the Senate Civ mber. ai
Washington, on Saturday, ihe lOdi inst . and appoint
ed a committee to confer with a committee of the
Whigs ol the oiher House, tor the designation of th
tin ■ and ii 1 ’i e to- the assembling of t!ie U big National
Convention, to n iminaie a Pre-ident an-l Vice Presi
dent. It is presumed the Convention will e held in
Philadelphia, though some preler that New Yoik or
Cincinnati should be selected. The Ist of July will
probaoly be the time fixed for its assembling.
C3- Don Valentin Caned..,* lieutenant general o
the Spanish arinv, is the name of the person said to be
appoitiled Captain General Cuba.
Thirty-five Families in one House — The way
some people live r, New York, would seem to indicate
a disposition to gam anv place in a storm. Assistant
Captain M K- ni y, of die 3 i police district, made :i re
port to the Chief of a house in Hicks street. on Friday,
and owned by Jacob Frost. Esq , which is occupied bv
about thirty five families. among which are many
cases of small pox spotted fev.-r. Mop lever, and other
contag-mu? diseases There were, at the time of the
re port, two dead bodies lying in the house.
(D 3 The Hon. Robert Toombs and family nrriv*d
at their residence, in this pin:-*, on Saturday evening
last. Mr. Toombs is stiff ieeb> from his late seven
and protracted illness, but, we t - I gratified io stair ,
is gradually recovering his usual health and strength
He will return to Washing!! n city as soon as he is m!
ficiently restored to he alee to re-ume his Uu'.es in the
House.— JFrtsA. Ga.Gazctte Jitli mst.
fZgT’ At the Municipal election in Augusta, on
Monday last Dr. VV. E. Deering was elected Mayor
of that city.
. tsr a frain of car? arrived at New York on Tues
day, in three hours and ten nimuii s from Aibany.
Kossuth in Bos t -:-n —The authorities ol Boston are
making arrangements to rece re Kossuth, who is ex
pected to arrive there about the Isth ol May.
Monument t- > Moore —Lady Morgan has addressed
a let.er to one of ibe An.ln -r? of the Benevolent Socie
ty of St Patrick’s, in Dub in. piopusing mat a monu
ment to Thomas Moore. Ireland's greatest poei.ni and
her historian, be raised in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dub
lin.
Liberation of the Irish State Prisoners A
slip purporting to be from the Dublin Freeman's Jour
tiai ol March -0, contains the to-,owing announce
ment:
It is reported that orders have actually been issued
from the Colonial Office, or sturdy wo. be issued, di
reefing the immediate release of the Irish Extn-s. sub
ject te themndition that ill- y aie not io reiurn io any
part of the British lsfcinils Mr. Whiteside had heel:
an active intercessor for liberal.on-
Mr. Stanly and Gen Scott —The linn. Edward
Stanly,of North Carolina,is out in a letiei m ihr Wash
ington Republic, in reht'io.i to me whig cimlidaie
for the Presidency, the comp:mu:-- an I liie pos:'loll ,l
fiis State. He states that .Mr. I . more is the firs,
choice ol -North Ctrolina, and that no one not known
to be in favor of the compiomise as a finality, can re
ceive its vote. He says, however:
“ But it is due to tuyeelfto say that I have sever said,
and will not now say. that ‘leant and wont go lor
Scott.’ On tiie contrary, 1 have always sa.d I knew
be was as earnest,ardent and zealous a Ir-end t ihe
compromise measure* as thete was in th - l ulled
Slates 1 know , of my own knowledge, that he was so,
before their passage through Congress a':.d a it/ r
wards. 1 heard him reprove Ncithern men w bo were
opposed to them, before th- y passed Congress, in sucti
strong ternis that 1 thought would offend them.”
Movements of Kossuth.
Kossuth at Mobile.—At the earnest solicitation of
the Committee, Kossuth consented to addiess the
people ai 11 o’clock Saturday, at the Amphitheatre.—
Long before that hour the people began to assemble,
and soon the emit; space was filled and hundreds were
unabie to gain admittance. Kossuth was welcomed
in a lormal speech by Daniel Chandler, Esq , to which
Kossuth lesponded in a speech ot about an hour and a
half. Os course, the speech was waru.ly applauded
We snail not attempt even a sketch ot it lit re, as we
presume an authentic cony, written out by one of Kos
suth’s Secretaries, will be furnished ihe two Kossuth
papers in this city, from which we shall not tail to copy.
We will here remark, however, that Se nator Clemens
was assailed with greut bitterness by this man Kus
Bath, sneered at and ridiculed, an-l even denounced a
a tool . Austria! simpiy b caus- Col. Clemens preters
to follow ihe -precepts ot VN ashington, ra.her than to
become the follower ot Kossuth.
At the conclusion of Kos-uth’s speech, the meeting
was . idressed, respectiw.y. by ex Governor Gayle,
Judge Meek and Percy WaiKer.ailol whom declared
their conversion to the Kossuth doctmie o inlerven
tion for non-intervention. Judge .Vitek was very
much excited, and, with all his admitted eloquence,
was utterly incapable ol expressing the kehngs of en
thusiasm tiiat animated Jus soul. Col Percy VVaiket
was equally overwhelmed, but he was much more in
the “ melting mood” than Judge ,M. indeed, his
speech was quite affecting. The Rev. .Mr. Millmm
commended Kossuth and his cause to God, and tin
crowd d.spersed.
Kossuth left lust evening for Montgomery.
Mobile Advertiser, April 4th
The iiiustrions Hungarian arrived in our city by tire
Daniel Pratt,at about 5 o’clock on yesterday ahernoon,
and was received with much eagerne-s and euthusi
asm on the part of tiie immense crowd, that thronged
the wharf and streets He wifi be received and ad
dress the citizens at Estelle or Conceit Hail this eve-
P.ng, at hall-past , o clock —Montgomery Adv and
Gaz.
The distinguished Hungarian, L. Kossu: . and suite,
ar in ibis city yeeierday morning by the train
fro..i Auanta on his way North. We understand iliat
he had i'e.egraphed th- propiietoro! the United States
Hotel to have in readiness a suit ot rooms lor him.
But when he reached the railioad depot, and found no
comnmteeot reception, not even a crowd ot anxious
faces to welcome him, he very wisely determined that
the prespeet tor “material aid” waa not llatiermg, and
theretore,concluded not to remain, but to take tne first
train lor Charleston, which l.e did, having remained
in this cuy about an hour. Hr* presence produced not
the least excitement, and did not ca.l lorih the slightest
demonstration. So much tor the patriotism and real
g- nutiie Americanism ot the intelligent citizens of Au
gusta— Lhron and Rent, luth inst.
{Lotrespondence of’ Ike Baltimore Sun )
Washington, April 6, 1852.
The Adoption of the Compromise Resjlulion—How
it effects cerium Politicians —Major Polk’s part
in the matter — Gen. Scott's and Mr. Fillmore s
Prospects—McCormick’s Reaper, etc.
Yesterday’s vote on the compromise measures passed
juiing the long session ot the last Congress, makes a
good many politicians warble, who, but a day or two
; ago, were in high spirits,certain ol earryingeverything
their own way. Now, we shall prest-uily see whether
j the endorsement of the compromise measures will lie
! the iignal of renewed agitation,(as some have lugttbri-
I nu3'y predicted) or whether the people will make short
j work of the a-;iia;ors, by simply telling them to h-.id
j then peace. The gieat benefit of the woik ol yester
• day consists in furnishing a siandaid of political
tonesiy, by which mere demagogues and sectional
luodeciiuo politician* will be condemned. There will
>e no tnoie Presidential game ut blind man’s buff.
Asa part ol history, l would yet observe that .Viaj £
’ Po k, before Mr. Iliflyer’s amendment was proposed
,wfilch amendment is in fact Mr Polk’s original reso
u-uiii offered in caucus) wished t<> amend Mr. Jackson's
resolution, by substituting ihe worn** duly ” for “ililrii
ion,” which would have made .Mr. Jackson3 resolu
ion as sirong as any party eoul : have desii*-d it , l-ui
the Speaker gave ihe floor n> Mr. liillyer, judging no
doubt, in Ins wisdom, that die result would be iq-mlly
’ icceptuble all round.
The teport ol ill-* Senate committee on patents in
die case of M iCorui ck’s Virginia Reap- r,
is very conclusive and satisfactory; proving Mr. dlc
'orutick to be not only one of the most ingenious
nveniors, buieninledi tn,-especial tilvor of Congress
Viaong ihe testimonials to his genius are awards ol
the .Micoigun oiat* Agr,cultural .Sncieiy of the Me
ihanic’.- I-istitute, Ci c tgo; liie Frauklin In-iiiut*.
: J iiiijdelphia ; ihe Pennsylvania Slate Agricultural
Society, the S ale A ;r;eui mat Society ol W’iscoiisiu,
the New Yoik Slate Agiictiltunl Society, and tin
sward oi the World’s Fair, London, consisting of the
Council medal. It is seldom ilia’ an iiivenuon finds
iscii general acknnwte-Jgmenis in all pails ol die
vorld.
Speaking PresiJeti:ia!ly,die analysixif die compro
nis-- vu e yesteidjy. dies not advance die cause ol
i * i. Scull, whose Northern iriemt ,par excellence,
/-n-d genera!:y against the resolutions. Gen. Scoit
iiiyb- a capital h->rse; bur he wantsdiffeMit grotmi
ng to show l.is uietulon the turf. Mr. Fillmore is
la ly mcrea.-ing Ins puj ularily with the Northern
Jemocracy. and if D-mocrats could elect a Whig
/reside ut, M . Ftiliuore wouid undoubtedly be the man.
X.
lie marks of Jlr, Stephens.
At a meeting o! the Union Party of Taiialerro eoun
y, lew day?ago, the following resolution was adopt-
J:
Re soheJ, T'iit while we deem it unnecessary to give
my instinciioii* iv ourdci ga es.yet we availou:selvts
>t Mrs occ isi- n io exp ess our decided opinion against
ni* i r p i iy and expediency ol the Milledgevi leCoii-
V'-ntton, sending d-iega!cs to the Baltimore Conveo*
non. or io any oilier National Convention, which is
■ re culied upon the principles ol die Conslhuiional
Union org iinzation of tais State.
I he llott. A. 11. Stephen# (who resides in Tnliafer
o) tieilig present, w .s liiell called upon to address die
Heeling. - 1 Ins he did in Ins usu and style and vein, mi a
speech about nifnn horn’s length. He expressed in#
iiearty approval ot the resoli-tion just adopted. He re
i vn-wed me pi maples nnd objects ol the Constitutional
• U i--i: Baity, and also ibe cliaiiicter and objects t the
j Baltimore Convention. The organizations ol these
1 parties were totally different. Apuit Irom the qu. siii-n
1 ot consistency. iu<w can the Constitutional Union Par
ty expect thai ilieir delegates would be admitted at
j Baliuiioie ? What credendatu will they present ? He
a-luded to the fact that Mr. Ranioul, ol Massachusetts,
who volunteered Ins services ns a lawyer ill die irial us
! ‘he fugitive sluv Sm s, lasi year, in Boston, is alieady
elected a memiier ot that Convention. AI! recollect
ed die excitement that that case produced in Georgia
•it the lime in that case .Mr. Rantoul denounced ihe
i Fugitive Slave Law a unconstiiuuonal.and did hisul
: most 111 prevent ns execution ; diese seniimeiiis he Slid
ho ds aid : a iitL-ius
I Hut .Mr. Kaim ul was no worse than a great many
other delegate* to the same Convention Ten ol the
oelegatee Irom New Yoik alone, said Mr IS., were
,! peti i’ree-rfoilers, Burn burneis and Van Buren men
:n i- IS. and he was utt rly opposed loany party affili
ation oi association wiih such men. Some en’eilain
i iiie Delict dial ih> se men wil be ilriven out by the ma
• ;--iity in th/t Ctmveniion. It so, said Mr. S, it will
jhe time enough P r us to consider the propriety ol
*u, polling iheir nominee. lie alluded to the Fa
! Die ot die cai in tin* meal iuh. He said ihe Baltimore
j Convention might do right,but (lien again tt niight’nt
:f<* coiiciudeo by ifiging die importance oi adheimg to
1 M’.eir principle*.
From the X. Y. Courier Enquirer.
lloshs.
The full of Rosas, which had previously been some
wliai questioned, is completely confirmed by the last
advices received from England, it t?, peiliaps, die
most important event that has transpired in die his
tory of the South Ameiican Stales, 9ince die cstoh
lisliment of iheir independence. The Argentine Con
ted. ration,consisting originally of the same number ol
States as >ur own orig nal thirteen, and overspreading
nearly twice therxtrnt ot territory, by reason < Ins
geograpiiical pr*s:iit.n, it* climate, iis natural commer
c.al facilities, and n internal resources and capabilities,
tiJ tin-i lent European emigration which is setting
towards it, is p- rhaps die most importaut country in
di ■ Souihem portion of our continent.
Over this tenitory Rosas has for die last seventeen
years neici*ed absoluit power. He obtained and es
tablished fiis supremacy bv a system ol intrigue and
corruption, ami intimidation, ami bloodshed, and kr
htrtiv in eveiy shape, such as lias no parallel even in
South American annals; and his reign, though con
ormiitg outwardly to certain constitutional forms, was
an iron despotism from beginning to end. It is true,
that in no part of the world is “ necessity, the tyrant's
plea,’ so much entitled io he taken inio account as in
South America. Factiousness, insubordination, and
rebellion, have maJe a system of government at once
liberal and stable, a tiring of almost absolute impossi
bility. But vet no possible combination of circum
stances or influences cm either ju-tiiy or exiei.uaie
such crushing ho J ,ge a* Rosas has lor so many years
| tin osed upon the country of the Plata.
We tejoice that this system of tyranny has at last
I been overthrow n, nnd the more because it has been
; effected by South Ann ricatis themselves, instead ot by
; Europ an intervention. II dR- sasyielded to die di
jpiomacy,or the threats, or the violence which lor the
.c=i dozen years have been directed against him by
England and F ance. we should have regretted it, as
giving to foreign powers an influence over American
o I, which would have reduced the famous Monroe
bit-trine to a practical nullity. Tire movement, though
-tarted .abroad, was virtually a popular revolution. It
was effected by a combination between Brazil—w h ch,
bough not a Republ'c, i* in nut ity the most prosperous
•nd progressive iniiouol South America—the Banda
Oi'eical. Entre Rios, Currier. tes, and Santa Fe ; and
wherev* r the liberating standard appeared, alter the
pa e-age of tin* Parana, it found the people as i’s uuxd
iir:<? The liberating army was led by Gen. Urqniza,
ifjrmerly a General under Rosas, but now the Governor
*! Entre Uios. one of the States of the so called Ar
gentine Confederation, but which some time since re
•mied its sovereignty in conjunction w iih die Slate of
C'MTK'tites, subject <>nly to a future Argentine Con
gres* to cons time the nation. The triumph may he
considered as that ot the UuitariaH_ov.-r the Federal
party. Those parties have existed in the Confedera
tion tor the lust twenty-five years. The former, em
Dicing nearly all of the more intelligent and enter
pr sing Gordon ot the population, have been in favor of
n united and centralised union ot States similar ill its
general plan to our own Republic. The Inner party,
compose,i chiefly of die ignorant and ba-barous gnu
chos of ihe Pampas, have sustained the sovereignly of
each State, affected only by n general league i el ween
the Slat .* sniri-. r i:t ts character to our old Couteder
itiou. Rosas himsi r. ihoui'h originally a Guucho
chef,and dent lied vii the Federal; arty, and though
and ri g l.is whole gove.mneni he has waged die most
.nr-/Ciou? peisecution against die Unitarians, has gone
iinmensorabiy tardier than the most advanced of the
l iner in support l a strong government. The per
sonal ambition and jealousy ol military leadeis has
oihtl- ss.asin every oth-r South American political
scene.played its part in theoveithrow of the Aigeti
une D.ctator, hm still the p polariinpuisi towards civ
ilization and freedom has been the controlling force in
this movement: a.id in sp-te of all the sophistry that
fia * b eii mployed in hi* favor, the downfall ol Rosss
cannot be lamented by any true Iriend ot humnniiy
No advices have yet reached us in regard to wimt
transpired after tiie flight of the Dictator; and speco
lation about the luiure would, as yet, lie altogether
premature. The effect which die intelligence had in
England, in at once raisingthevalue of Buenos Ayrean
sock twenty-two per cent., is a pretty significant in
! dication of British hnpelu ness n 11-e consequences
[The imniedi te control ot affairs will rioubthss he
giv.-n to Urquizi. He appears to have evinced great
! skill nnd persona! bravery in Ids military operat ons;
anJ the answer which he reiurned tn the jieople of
Buenos Avresafter the victory, evinces a mod-ration
an.l hb*ralitv eveiy wav worttiy t f praise. No ben: ti
cial result of this revultiiion is more certain, than that
it will have h most favorable effect in opening the riv*-r
Li Plata and -tstributaries to ihe commercial enter
prise of foreign natrons, &nd especially in effecting u
communication with Paraguay,which formerly, by the
non intercourse system of the despot Fiuncia, and ever
*ince by the policy ol Rosas, has been entirely-excluded
rom the civilized world, it is certain that Boss has
(alien never to rise again. He has no foreign allies to
whom to look for assistance, and his own people, with
all the adjacent States, are uncompromisingly corn
oined agai-ist him. He ha* taken iih him but a coin
piratively Fina l portion of Ins possessions, ami has left
behind him no soldier# that are laiihful to i is cause
I he present is a most interesting juncture in die af
fairs of the region of La Plain, and it behooves our
own Government to watch die progress ot affairs there
with the close-t regntd. Idas is now probable, a lib
eral arid enterprising rule shall b<* established, we
should leave nothing undone to form with it the most
fuendly relations, and obtain for our commerce every
needlul security and advan'nge We have n leg-n
----mate influence to be exerted in that par; ol the world,
■led never could it be more available than at die pres
‘em tune. VVe shall suffer in our character and our in
jterests, il.by want of skill or resolution, we are over
(reached or overpowered in acquiring that influence, by
the efforts which England and France will douhtle:>s
j make, each in its own favor.
I ISP At the commencement of the Univers'ly t-f
Pennsylvania. held in Piii'udelphia on the 3d inst., the
degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred on mie
hundred and four graduates Oue of ihe students, Mr.
Charles E. Maxwell, ol Savannah, Ga , alter passing
i a highly credi'able examination, and being enrolled
-among the graduates, retired to his room on Friday
I night, and the next morning was found a corpse in bed.
MACON, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14.
ORDINARY BLANKS.
W’e Invc on hand a complete assortment of legal
Blanks—those to be used by Ordinaries having been
carefully revised nnd adapted to the liew organization
of our Courts of Ordinary.
T* our Subscribers.
In the change which has recently taken place in the
proprietorship of this paper, Mr. Chapman's interest
in the stock was purchased by .). T. Nisbet, together
with all the accounts due the Office,since the first ot
January, 1852. Mr. Rose remaining in (lie concern,
no change has been made o the* firm name. In collec
ting the accounts clue prior to the Ist of January,
11.52, which beloug to S. Rose and S. T. Chapman,
Mr. Chapman insisis upon the full rates of subscrip
tion, or $3 00 per annum. ‘J his, Mr Chapman has
a right to do. us tiie published rates of this paper are
£3 00 per minimi when not paid in advance. \\ hat
we wish our subscrihcers to know is, that this exac
tion is made without the approval or consent of Mr
Rose, who still remains a proprietor of the paper,
and who is equally interested with Mr. Chapman
in the accounts prior to the Ist of January, 1052.
We are indebted to Messrs. Campbell, of Ohio,
Letcher,of Virginia, Janies C. Jones, of Tennessee,
Brooksot New York,and Win C. Dawson, for valua
ble public documents.
J H. Damour has a very superior article of
French Brandy, kept by him for medicinal purposes,
and which is the tmly pleasant medicine we have dis
covered in the whole Phaimaci paeia . We advise our
Iriends who are sick, or who have a peculiar relish and
cultivated taste tn the article of Brandy, to give our
friend Damour a trial.
IX3“ Tiie Columbians will give their first Concert
in this city this evening, at Concert Hall. See adver
tisement.
To Ordinaries.
We notice a cal! for a meeting at Columbus, of the
Ordinaries of the counties composing the Chattahoo
chee Judicial District, to arrange a uniform fre bill for
the newly organized Courts of Ordinary. We would
call the attention of the Ordinaries throughout the
State to this subject, as one of importance and of
pressing necessity. If we have be-m correctly in
formed, there is now no uniformity in the Ordinary
fees or costs in the different counties. This may be
remedied by the Ordinaries themselves. They cannot,
in the majority of instances, prercrihe their own costs.
They may, however, give regularity and uniformity to
their cost bills in many instances, where there is no
express statutory provision We hope that this move
ment in the Chattahoochee Circuit will be extended,
so as to embrace the whole State.
The Infection on Sa'uidny.
In pursuance of a Proclamation of the Mayor of the
city, poll was opened on Saturday last, at the Court’
house, to obtain an expression of tiie wislms of the
citizens respecting the subscription of twenty thousand
dollars, hy the City Council, towards the construction
of a P'ank Road Irom this place, in the direction o*
Perry and Henderson, in Hurston county. Two hun
dred and eighteen votes were polled, out of which, we
are gratified in being able to state, there were only
fourteen opposed to the contemplated subscription.—
Tiie City Council has now authority to act, for
which it has waited, and we oust that measures will
be taken immediately, for the organization of tlie Ma
con and Houston Plank Road Company, and we call
upon the citizens of Houston, to redeem the pledges
which their delegation made for them, in the Plank
Road Convention held in this City, on the 25th ult., by
subscribing liberally to tfie proposed Rom/.
Macon has not received an equivalent^Vthe large
sums which she has expended, in sut to flail
Roads. These Roads have, if we the expres
sion, removed beyond her the navigation,
with all its advantages—changed the relations of trade
of the country upon which she principally depended
and taken from her, r.er wagon trade. We are not
opposed to Rail Roads or to the connexion of the
Roads which meet at this point. We have a just pride
in the extended system of Railways, which have done,
and are doing so much tOydevelcpe the resources of our
State. To complete av (d perfect this system, Macon
has done every thing in le. r p*.wer —hy assenting to n
junction of the Roads within her corporate limits, and
thus removing every obstruction to an uninterrupted
transit of passengers and freights. She has sacrificed
her local interests, in a commendable spirit of liberali
ty, to the interest of the public and of the State. If
she will still depend, as heretofore, upon tiie cotton
trade, as the basis of her business atfd her prosperity,
she must devi*e means to bring back the cotton wa
gons and cotton bales to her streets and warehouse*.-
A system of Plank Roads, rndintii g from this point, to
every point around us, may effect this object- Many
of our citizens who have large planting interests in
Houston, are immediately interested in the proposed
Road to Henderson. Their private interest®, it not the
gen ral interest of the City, should induce them to sub
scribe liberally to it. We tni*t that this Road, if built >
may verify the predictions of its friends, in yielding a
handsome dividend to its Stockholders, and in materi
ally increasing the business of our city, that our citi
zens, encouraged hy its success, may project other
P lank Roads to other points around us.
Resolutions of the Union I’a.ty of Richmond
and Baker C’otm'ies—Vote on Jackson’*
Resolution and HillyerN Amendment.
We publish to-day the proceedings of a number of
meetings of the Party in differ
ent counties, called to appoint delegates to the Un on
Convention to be held in Mil'edjeville on the 22nd
inst. We are gad to see that such interest is mani
fested ill the meeting of that Convention, and that it
promises to be a large and able representation of the
Party. We are glad, farther, to see that the people
are aroused a.- to the importance cf the action of that
Convention, and that they have, in many instances,
instructed their delegates as to the course of policy
which they desire the Convention to adopt. This is ns
jt should be. Tiie people of Georgia called the Union
Party mlo existence before a vote was taken upon the
Compromise, and bpfore the position of a single one
of their representatives in Congress was clearly de
fined, as in favor of the Plan of Adjustment. It is
their creature, and therefore they should watch over its
destinies.
We desire to call the attention of our readers particu
larly to the proceedings oi the Richmond and Baker
county meetings Both mmiing* instructed their del
egates tottie Miiledgeville Convention to maintain, by
ilieir action in that Convention, the ptinciples and
present organization of the Union Party—to stand aioo
from the Conventions of the Whig or Democratic Par
lies—to leave to Southern Rights men Free Soil affili
ations and Northern alliances, nnd to preserve intact
the purity, independence and integrity of the Party
The resolutions ol the Richmond meeting were re
ported by Mr. Jenkins—those of the Baker meeting,
by Judge Andrews. Mr. Jenkins need? no endorse
ment from us. He i? firmly established in the affec
tions of the people of Georgia. His ability, his private
worth, his public virtue, his unselfish patriotism, ate
known, and acknowledged and appreciated by the
people of every party and ot every section. He was,
besid, s, the Chairman of the Committee of thirty
three in the Convention f 1850, which reported the
Georgia Platform—upon which the Union organiza•
tion of the State and of the South is based. Mr. Jen
kins’opinions upon the policy of the Union Party at
this juncture, we claim, are entitled to particular
weight; and when lie affirms that there is nothing in
the position ol the two great national parties, which
makes it the policy or duty ot the Union Party of
Georgia to commit itself to the support of either, we
feel assured that lie will be sustained by the great
mass of the Party. Judge Andrews, like Mr. Jen
kins, is extensively and favorably known in Georgia
IPs admirable letters, upon the Compromise of 1830,
and the .ssues wlticli were made upon it in Geor. ia,
were valuible contributions to the cause of Union.—
Mr. Jenkins ts n Wliig—Judge Andrews is a Demo
crat —both are removed Irom active political life—both
are wiser and better, ihnn many who muire pol tics a
11 a ie and publicity nn object—both are opposed to send
ing Delegates to the Democratic Contention—both a e
opposed tosemiiiK’ delegates to the WhigC. n-.ention
Unit are still Union men, ns th* y were in 1830. and de
terntint and to carry out, and perfect the work which w;
then begun. VVe believe they reflect the opinions of ti.
great mass ot the people of the Party. Why should
the people of the party de-ire to tie represented at Bnl
limore,or Philadelphia ? li the Baltimore Convention
nominee is the sniest tor the Southern Union Party,
wiil not that fact appear as clear, alter that Convention
lias acted, as it does now ? Il the \\ hig Convention
nominee is the safest for us to support, will not that
fict appear as clear after that Convention has acted,
as it does now ? Why should we be ther. ,at Balti
more or Philadelphia, fraternising and consulting with
men,and committed in advance to their action, which
mayor may not carry out our views? Why should
the people of the Union Party act upon a probability
— a supposition, in determining to which Party, Whig
or Democratic, they will attach themselves, when, by
waning until the Conventions ol these parties have
laid down their piuttornts and nominated iheir can
didates, they may act upon facts —upon a certainty.
These are questions which the people ot t lie party
desire to be answered. In asking them, we simply
give expression to the thought and feeling ot the ma
jority ot the people of the Constitutional Unum Party.
I lie vote upon the resolutions of Messrs. Jackson
and iitiiyer of tins Estate, in tiie House oi Representa
tives on tiie Dili inst., will douLniess be claimed by every
one disposed to commit the Union Party of Georgia
to the support of the nominee of the Baltimore Conven
tion, as conclusive evidence oi the soundness ot the
Democratic Party upon the subject of slavery. We at
tach little importance to these Legislative recognitions
of the finality of the Compromise. Let Party Conven
lio s uuu party caucuses organise upon it as a basis,
and exclude those who oppose it, and there will be more
significance in a declaration of the finality of the Com
promise. But what are the developments upon this
vote, on Jackson’s Resolution and iltiiyer’s Amend
ment! Thai a Democratic Congress lias endorsed
die policy of a Whig Administration, by declaring the
finuli.y oi the Compromise ; thai a majority of North
ern Democrats voted in favor of, whilst a majority of
tiie Northern Whig* voted against them—dial a larger
number ol Southern Whigs than oi Southern Demo
crats voted in tavor oi them —tiiat a large majotity of
the Northern votes in the House, was cast against
them, and that forty members were absent or dodged
the question. If the Northern Democrats are soun er
than Northern Wh.gs, it is a relative soundness oniy,
and the party which is only relatively sound upon any
question, may be rotten to ihe erne. If the vole on
these resolutions is an evidence tiiat the finality oi the
Compromise is a pecu'iar Democratic idea, then Presi
dent Ftihnore, a Northern Whig President, is pro tan
to, an orthodox Democrat, because his administration
Iras been fiasco upon this idea, at.d Southern Whigs
are better Democrats than Southern Democrats. \V iil
the Baltimore Convention act upon this vote as a cri
terion ot-Deinocratic orthodoxy ! Will it exclude the
Free-soilers and Secessionists who voted against these
resolutions? W.ll it exclude Robert Rantoul, Jr.,al
ready elected a delegate to that Convention by the De
mocracy ol Massachusetts? Will it exclude the dele
gates from thesui disant Democratic Convention which
lately assembled in Miiledgeville, which said nothing
upon the Compromise,and one ot whose representatives
in Congress, David J. Bailey, from this District, voted
in the negative with Free-Soilers and Secessionists
upon these resolutions? Will it do this? We do not
believe it. The Washington Union, the centra
organ of the Democratic Party, in the same number
in which it claims the result of the votes upon Hillyer’s
and Jackson’s resolutions, as a Democratic triumph,
gives the proceedings of the Southern Rights Demo
cratie Convention at Mill dgeville, which said nothing
upon the Compromise, and adds :
‘‘ It is highly gratifying for us to observe, with the
Constitutionalist, the renewed evidence afforded by
these proceedings, ol a determination on the part of
the democracy *f Georgia, cord ally to unite in the
National organization of the democratic party to sustain
and rirry into dffect its time-honored principles and
policy.”
Alas,and alas! for the strength of party discipline
arid prejudice, and the cohesive power of public plun
der! If the Free Soilersand Secessionists are thus to
he welcomed into a National Democratic Convention,
where is tlie significance which some pretend to see in
the vote upon Jackson’s and Hillyer’s Resolution’s?
Where is the practical rebuke which it has administered
t sectiona!i.*ts North or South,or the practical good it
lias effected in quieting slavery agitation, or the de
monstration it gives that these Resolutions will be
made the basis of parly organization in the Conven
tions of either party ?
Our Rook Table.
We have received from J. M. Boardman the follow
ing new publications:
History of the United States, from the discovery of
Ihe Ameiican Continent, by George Bancroft, vol.
4th. Boston. Little, Brown & Cos , 1852
We need only announce ih* .s*ue of il-is volume, as
the preceding volumes of the same work have estab
lished the repuiation of its author.- Commencing at
the interesting period of the Treaty ol Aix La Cha
pelle, it exhibits, besides a view* of the condition of the
French and English Colonies of North America, up
to the commencement of our revolution, the policy of
the British Government, which had sown the seeds
discontent for years among the inhabitants of her N.
American colonies, and whiclt forced them ultimately,
with reluctance, to revolt against Iter. The next
volume must be one of great interest, as it will probably
record the events ot the Revolution,the birth of Parties,
the formation of our present Constitution, and the in
fluences exerted by different parties, in shaping the
Federal Constitution, and the character anti policy of
the Government which it created. The history of
the period immediately preceding and following the
adoption of the Federal Constitution, is a record of the
conservatism, patriotism, wisdom and integiity of the
great Federal Party. We shill look wiih =agerne9s
and anxiety, for the concluding volume or volumes of
Mr. Bancroft’s history, to discover it he has with the
impartiality of the historian, vindicated this truth of
history. We wish Sidney Smith could have lived to
ee the completion of Bancroit’s and Prescott's histo
ries, and the redemption ol Pennsylvania Bond*.—
The reverend gentleman would have repented of much
that he has said and published of American literature
and American honesty
The Yellow Plush Papers, by Win. M. Thackeray ;
and The Maiden and Married life of Mary Powell,
afterwards Mrs Milton —being vols. 2nd and 3i and
of Appleton's Popular Library.
The first contains much shrewd and philosophical
reflection, fr om a valet de chambre, who is placed in
many positions where he has a near and intimate view of
English high life. There is abundant reason for laughter
and tears in this volume. The papers embraced in it
were first contributed to Fraser’s Magazine, and do
no discredit to the reputation of the author of Vanity
Fair and Pendennis. The second is a half-truthful, half
poetical account of the life of Milton, and his first
wife and their estrangement, (the facts ol which are
given in Dr. Johnson’s life of Milton,) written in the
pleasing style and method ot lady Willoughby’s Diary.
COMMUNICATED.
JHcssis. Editors: —1 desire to present to your readers
the following analysis of the vote on the Resolutions
of Messrs. Jackson and liillyer, with a tew inferences
therefrom.
Jackson’s Resolution reads as follows:
Resolved, That we recognize the binding efficacy
of the compromises of (lie Constitution, and believe it
to be the intention of the people generally, as we here
by declare it to be ours individually, to uuide such
compromises, and to sustain the laws necessary to
eairy them out—the provision for the delivery of fugi
tive slaves, and the act oi the last Congress for that
purpose included—nnd that we deprecate till further
agnation of questions growing out of that provision,
-.rthe questions embraced in tlie acts of the last Con
gress known as the Compromise, and ot questions
generally connected with the institution ot sluvery, us
unnecessary, useless, and dangerous.
On this Resolution,the vote stood thus:
YEAS.
Northern Democrats. — Messrs. Allen,Bu*by,Clark,
Curtis, Davis,, Dawson, Dunham, Fickiin, Fitch, Flo
rence, Fuller, Gamble, Gorman, Hart, Hendricks,
Henn, Hibbard, Ingersoll. Kurtz, Lockhart, Marshall,
McCorkle, McDonald, Murray. lVuslee, Price, Rich
unison, Robbins, Jr., Robinson, Ross, David L. Sey
mour, Origin S. Seymour, Abraham I*. Stevens, -Stew
art, Sutherland —35.
Southern Democrats —Thomas If - Bailey, Bocoek,
Bragg, Breckenridge, Brown, Caskie, Cobb, Daniel,
Edmondson, Faulkner, Freeman, Hall, Hamilton,
Hammond, liillyer, Houston, Howard, Joseph IV.
Jackson, Andrew* Johnson, James Johnson, Jones,
Letcher, Mason, McMullen, Meade, Nabors, Penn,
Phillips, Polk, Riddle, Savage, Scurry, Smith, Freder
ick P. Stanton, Richard [I. Stanton, Stone,St. Martin,
1 hoinpF-in, Venable, Wilcox—4o.
Northern Whigs— Messrs. Appleton, Brook®,
llawes, Haven, F. S. Martin, Parker, Schemer
horn—7.
Southern Whigs —Messrs. Bowie, Calfll, D ck
cry, Ewing, Gentry, Gray, Landry. H. Marshall,
Vliller. Moore, Mmehead, Outlaw, Strother, Alex.
While, Williams, Watkins, Ward, A. While, (Ky.,) j
Walsh—l 9.
NAYS.
Northern Democrats Bartlett, Buel, Jot. Cable, T.
Campbell, Dean, James I). Doty, Charles Durkee, \
Eastman Edgorton, Floyd, Gnylord, Grow, Ives, j
Jenkins, John Johnspn, D. F Jones, Preston King, I
Maloney, Robert Rantoul,Jr .Smart,Stratton,Sweet- I
•/.er—22.
Southern Democrats —Messrs Wm Aiken. Ashe 1 ‘
Averett , David J■ Baxley Holliday, John McQueen, |
VLllson, James L. Oir, Powell, Wallace, Wood
ward — 11.
Northern Whigs. — Messrs. Allison, Bret ton,G. H.
Brown, Lewis D. Campbell, Chapman, Conger, Fowl
er, Goodenow, Goodrich, Ha.per, T. M. Howe, Hos
lord, Kahns, [l race Mann, Meaclvm, Mner, New
ton, Pemiiman, Perkins, Snckrtt, Schoolcraft, Scud*
der, Benjamin Stanton, Benjamin Thompson, Tuck,
W(Abridge, Washburn, Wells, Yates, Barrere— 30.
Southern I Vhig.— Thomas L. Ciingman.
Hillyer’s amendment is as follows:
Resolved, That the series of acts passed during the
first session of the thirty first Congress, known as the
Compromise, are regarded as a final adjustment and a
permanent settlement of the questions therein em
braced, and should be maintained and executed as
such.
And the vote on it stands thus:
YEAS.
Northern Democrats. —Messrs. Allen, Busby,Clark,
Curtis. Davis, Dawson, Dean, Dunham, Ficklin, Fitch,
Florence. Fuller.(iambi**, Gorman, Hart, Hendricks.
Henn, Hibbard. Ingersoll, Kurtz, Lockhart, Edward
C. Marshall, McCorkle, McDonald, Murray, Peaslee,
Price, Richardson, Robbins,Robinson, Ross, D L. Sey
mour. O S. Seymour.) Abraham P. Stevens, Stewart,
Suthe kmd—l 6
Southern Democrats —Thomas H Bavlev, Breck
enridge, Cobh, Edmondson, Freeman, Hall, Hamilton,
Hammond, Hillaer. Houston, Howard. Jar.kson, An
drew Johnson, James Johnson, G. W. Jones. Letchet.
M R3on, Mc.Mul'en. Nabobs, Penn jPolk, Riddle. Sav
age, Scurry. Smith. F. P. Stanton, R H. Stanton.
Stone. St. Marti ,Tho upon, Wilcox—3l.
Northern IFAigs —App'elon, Brooks, (i H. Brown,
Chandler. Haws, Haven, Kuhns, F S. Martin,Parker,
Schemerhorn, Stiles—ll
Southern Wh gs Bowie, Cabell.Dockery. Ewing,
Faulkner, Gentry. Grey. Landry, H. Marshall, Miller.
Moore, Mo’-ehead, Outlaw. Porter, Stanly. Strother,
Walsh, Ward, Watkins, Addison White, Alexander
White, Williams—22.
NAYS.
Northern Democrats —Messrs Bartlett, Burl, Cu
ble, I'. Campbell, Duly, Durkee, Eastman, Edgerton,
Floyd, Gaylord, Grew, Ives, Jenkins, John Johnson,
D. T Jones, King, Maloney, Rantoul, Smart, Sweet
zer— 2o.
Southern Democrats — Aiken, Ashe, Averett, Da
vid J- Bailey, Uncock, Bragg,Caskie, Daniel, Hollt
day, McQueen, Meade, >I;llon, Orr, Venable, Wal
lace, Woodward. Powell—l 7.
Northern IVhiss —Allison, Rrenton, L D. Camp
bell, Chapman, Conger, Fowler, Goodenow, Good
rich, Harper, Hosford, flow, Mann, Meachem.Mi
tier, Newton, Pemiiman, Perkins, Sackett, School
craft, Scudder, B. Stanton, B. Thompson, Tuck,
Walbridge, Washburn, Wells, Barrere—27.
Southern Whig.— Thomas L Ciingman.
I propose to cal! the attention of your readers to
some facts exhibited by these votes, and to leave every
one to make bis own comments, and draw his own
conclusions.
First. It appears that the resolutions w ere supported
by the Norther n Democrats in the proportion of nearly
two to one.
Secondly. That the Northern Whigs v*>ted against
the same resolutions nearly in the proportion of three
to one.
Thirdly. That the Union Democrats of the South,
and the Southern Whigs voted w ith the great body of
the Democracy, in favour of these resolutions.
Fourthly. That the Secessionists are found voting
w’ith Northern Freesoilersand Abolitionists against the
resolutions.
Fifthly. The position of our immediate representa
tive, Col Bailey, is worthy of special notice. He iia 9
professed to be in“ full fellowship” with the Democra
cy at Washington. Look at his vote,and you will see
the kind of people he is in “Tull fellowship” with. His
name is recorded with eleven Southern Secessionists,
and twenty-four Free-soi! Democrats on one vote, and
seventeen Secessionists, and twenty-two Free-sei
Democrats on the other. What will the true Demo
crats of Georgia say to this full fellowship of their
Southern Rights Representative? On the other hand,
the names of Col. Jackson, and the Union Democrats
of Georgia, are recorded with forty Southern Demo
crats, and thirty five Northern national Democrats on
the one vole, and with thirty-two Southern Democrats
and thirty five Northern national Democrats on the
other. I leave it with any honest man to say, who of
these representatives is in “ full fellowship ” with the
Democracy—Col. Bailey, or Col. Jackson and the
Union Democrats ?
Col. Bailey and Col. Jackson are thus arrayed agaii.st
each other on this vital issue. And the question is pre
sented to every Southern Rights man to determine.—
Will you follow Col. Bailey into the association of
Southern Secessionists and Northern Free-soiiers ? or,
will you follow Col. Jackson into the association with
Union and National Democrats?
The late Southern Rights Convention at Milledge
ville has virtually decided in advance, in favor of the
Bailey lead. What will the honest masses say and
do ? As Mr. Ritchie would say, “ Nous verrons.”
TOWALIGA
The Cotton Convention.
This assemblage is to meet next month in Mont
gomery, Alabama, for the defence, it may be said, of
the Cotton Planter; and, in saying that, you embrace
every individual in the cotton growing States,for there
is no one, no matter what his pursuit, but is depend
ent, more or less, upon the Cotton Plante*, for a large
portion of his income. And yet, uoone here,noteven
the Cotton Planter himself, seems to have taken any
notice of this proposal to convene and deliberate, and
to try and suggest and adopt some course of trade and
policy which might preserve the article of cotton from
those ruinous fluctuations which occur, and we may
say, are brought about so frequently in the price o|
cotton, and consequently, mote or less in the incomes
of the whole cotton growing country, and bring among
us more of the profits of the trade. That which is the
business of all, seems to he the business of no one
And, pray, why is this? Is it thought there is no ne
cessity for a change in the course of the cotton trade ?
Or, is it supposed that nothing can be done, and there
fore it is useless for any one to trouble himself in the
matter? Now, if any one thinks either is the case,
one who has devoted the best part of his life studying
the subject, thinks quite the contrary, and has come to
the conclusion that there is both necessity for some
thing to be done, and that something can be done—bur
that something must be done by the Cotton Pinnter
himself. It cannot be done by the merchant, for he
has not the means nor power. He has not the
power, with all his aids of banks and correspond
ents, and financiering, to darn up the cotton current
after the Planter lets it go. As soon as the planter
does, it must, in the present state and course of
trade, flow on until it reaches the spinner, and he
can only delay it. while it is passing through his ma
chinery. ‘l'he immense amount of money which
it takes to buy the crop, and to manufacture it,
makes it i : possible to hold it long, even if there was
not anoiher crop to follow, or for any set of men, ex
cepting the planters who grow it, to exercise much
control beyond running out here a pier to check the
current, until tin y can manage ; portion on their own
terms, and there a jutty to shoot it forward into their
hands, according to Ih-ir own will, and this they do,
39 the trade is con ducted most efficiently. This, any
one can see who watches the course of the trade, and
is acquainted with all its machinery. That there is a
necessity for something to be don. to relieve the planter
from being the “ hewer of wood and dra wet of water,”
to the speculative operator, and the English spinner,
and to preserve the profits of the trade more at the
South, a few facts would show ; but we have not the
statistics at hand to present it in as clear light as we
desire. Thai there is a necessity for a change, the fact
that a considerable portion of tiie crop is sent to Eng
land,and then sent from thence,at a profit, to a conti
nental port, is a positive proof. England receives more
than she can profitably manufacture,and receiving a sur
plus, it enables her to regulate the price without fearot
preventing a sufficient quantity being shipped to tier
ports. The surplus being sent or curried to her, banishes
allfearof deficiency in her supply. If another market
wascreated to take the surplus and a little more, John
Bull would soon bid higher and more regular prices.—
And that she is constantly exporting as tegularly as she
receives the cotton, shows that there are other markets,
and all that we have to do is, to supply those markets
directly. Aid as our merchants have not commercial
connection with those markets, and have not the cap
ital to buy and send all the cotton that uluy he re
quired, lb- Planters should aid until the trade and con
fidence is established between those new markets ai.d
our merchants and country. That good would result
from such a course, every man must admit who re
fleets upon the results ol competition for any article.
And that there is not too much cotton made, the fact
that the stocks of cotton were smaller at the end of the
year 1849, when th* preceding crop wa52,728 5% bales,
than it was at the end of the year 1348, with a crop to
oousutne ni only 2,317,634, and the crop preceding
that amounting only to 1,773,050 bales, clearly shows.
And il an accidental surplus of 3 to 400,000 bales has
been so readily used up, in the year, by Engla and, does
it not show what she can do, and what she will Jo, if
competition is only raised up against her tor the colto*
crop. Send delegates to the Cotton Convention, and
let the subject he fully canvassed. Something can be
done, and ought to he done: and if the Planters and
Merchants continue to meet, they will pas3 off their
crude ideas, and at last combine upon some measure
which will remedy the evil of such fluctuating prices,
and of the loss of the profits ol the trade, and a little
more, to the South. A Georgian.
Uniun Meeting in Augusta.
At a meeting of the Union Party of Richmond coun
ty, at Augusta, on Tuesday last, the lion Andrew J
Miller, Hon John Milledge seconding them, offered,
and in a few pertinent and appropriate remarks, sup
poreJ the following Resolutions.
Resolved, That the Constitutional Union Party ot
Richmond county, adhere to the principles upon which
the jviity of the State has hern formed, growing out ot
the Compromise Measures,and that the adoption and
carrying oui ot those measures in good faith, is ttu
cardinal principle upon yvhich only wtl we act with
any oilier political party.
Resolved, That we are ready to ex'enJ the right
hand ot fellowship to the patriots of all parts of the
Union, and of all political parties who agree with us
upon these principles, and that we will meet in coun
cil with them on ail occasions for consultation, and to
devise means for their proper supremacy.
Resolved. That we will appoint tour delegates to
the State Convention of the Coii-titutional Union Par
ty. with authority to till any vacancy occurring in their
number.
Resolved, That said delegates he instructed so to
net, in their judgement, best advance the prin
ciples of l ie party, and secure their adoption and sup
port.
Hon. Charles Jenkins opposed the resolutions and
offered, as a substitute, the following—
1. Resolved, That we regard the Constitutional Union
Party of Georgia, as an organization, ioimed (irr< epec
tive of pre existing paity issues,) for the maintenance
of the principles announced by the State Convention,
assembled by authority ot law, at M illedgeviile, in De
cember, 1*50; we re assert our adherence to those
ptinctples
2. Resolved, That we deem the representation of
hat party, in eiilitr of the tw proposed National
Conventions inexpedient, under existing circumstan
ces, and incompatible with its position before the coun
ty.
3. Resolved, That with this expression of our opin
ion. we will appoint four delega es to meet and confer
with delegates if the same patty, in Convention at
Alilledgeville on the 22d inst., with power to fill vacan
cies in their own body.
After a very interesting discussion between Mr.
Jenkins, in favor of the substitute, and Mr. .Miller, in
support of the original resolutions, in which Mr. Mil
ledge and Mr. Daniel Hand participated, the substi
cate was adopted by a large majority in lieu of the
otiginal resolutions.
The following gentlemen were appointed delegates te
the Union Convention at Milledgeville: Hon. Charles
jJ-Jenkins, Robt. F. Poe, Esq , Hon. Alexander C.
j Walker and William McLaughlin, Esq.
Union Meeting in linker County.
Newton, Ga , April 6th. 1852.
According to previous notice, a portion of the Union
Parly of Baker county, having assembled at the Court
House, Jacob Watson, Esq. was, upon motion, called
to the Chair, and William Smith appointed Secretary-
After the Chair had explained the object of the meet
ing, Judge Garnett Andrews introduced and moved
the adoption of the following resolutions, in his usual
able,earnest and impressive manner:
The Central Committee of the Union Party of Geor
gia,having called a Convention of the Pary, to he held
in .Milledgeville on the 22nd of this month, for the pur
pose of taking into consideration the propriety of send
ing delegates to the Baltimore Presidential nomination’
ami we a portion of the Union Party of Baker county*
assembled under notice for that purpose, do
Resolve, That the Chair appoint a Committee of
five, to nominate two names suitable to represent this
county in said Convention, and present tkem to this
meeting for rejection or approval.
Resolved, That we wish our Delegates when at
Milledgeville, “ to take into consideration the next
Presidential election,” or any other matter lor the inter
est of the party.
It we believed the Union Party would be able to con
trol the action ol the Ball more Convention, then we
should recommend that it be there represented, but ap
prehending it would be poweßess for good, and that
good fa th if we should be represented, would demand
acquiesence in action to which we should not submit)
we are of the opinion, that the Union Party should not
send delegates to that Convention. But being willing
to trust the judgment and discretion of our Delegates
to Milledgeville, we resolve, that they exercise their
discretion on the matter, after their arrival at that
place.
The Union Party havingbeen organised to putdown
those at the South, who sought to destroy the Union
without cause, and those at the North, ready to give
cause, when they shall have sufficient strength, its
mission is but half accomplished, so long as the latter
are undefeated and undismayed. The former, having
been defeated by State politics, and the latter being ac
cessible only through national politics, our organization
is necessary, to meet them on the only field where we
can strive against them. While they by State combi
nations, are destroying the friends of the South in al]
the free States ; they may well ask a truce on the only
ground where the South can meet them, which we, as
tne true fi iends ol the South, resolve not to grant. And if
any he disheartened at the fewness of our numbers :n
the national contest,then “ Let him turn and flee.”
The cid parties having been disorganized by the
Southern disorganizers, on account of the danger to be
apprehended from tiieir co-workers in disorganization
at the North, and we seeing no abatement in shat dan
ger, know of no reason for disbanding, to reconstruct
old parties, whose principal object of contest seems to
be, the fifty millions of patronage as a prize to the win
ner. And believing, with Mr. Buchanan, as expressed
in his late letter to the Democratic Committee of Bal
timore, that “ most, if not all the great questions of pub
lic policy, which formerly divided (parlies ) have been
settled in favor (ol the Democratic Party.) and that no
person at this day, thinks of establishing another Na
tional Bank, or repealing the Independent Treasury,
or distributing the proceeds of the public lands among
theseveral States, or abolishing the veto power:”
Therefore, resolved, There is less reason fora Whig
or Democratic party, than for a Union party, and
that good faith requires that we be not hasty to aban
don those who stood with us when reviled as Submis
sionists and mrentened us traitors.
It the Union Party, by its firmness and strength, can
induce one or both ot the old national parties to adopt
its requisitions against the disorganizes of the North,
then will it lnve achieved more than any other party
since the existence of the Government, and upon its
success, in combining the well aflected against the
enemies of the South and the country, will depend the
necessity of its existence. On the other hand, if one
or both of the old parties shall prefer an alliance with
the Abolitionists, for the sake ofMieir votes, there is
the mo e reason or the existence and exertions of the
Union Party.
Resolved, therefore, That we call upon the disband
ed members of the party lately in opposition to us, who
were honest in their lute professions of devotion to
Southern Rights, to “let by-goties be by gones,” and
unite the whole South with us in opposition to that
abolition interest of which they were but lately so loud
in denouncing.
“I’he Abolitionists by combining, in defiance of old
party organizations, threaten to control the country,
and ifby their votes, they shall aid in electing the *ex t
President, they will expect and have their reward.—
Then, all those who care for Southern Rights, more
than the hope of participating in the fifty millio is to
be parceled out among the winners of the old party
that may succeed, should continue and present an in
fluence more powerful than our enemies.
Resolved, therefore. That while the enemies of the
South combine, we will combine, and while they mine,
we will countermine.
Let those who will, in disregard to the interests of
the South, and in their anxiety to clutch the public plun
der, take it, and ask no questions, hut for us, we had
rather loose all participations in the reward,than share
it with the enemies of the South. So far from desir
ing hirntony with the abolitionists, we prefer making
an issue with them ; let such issue crush whom and
what party it may—
Therefore. resolved. That we advise the Union
Party, alter the two old parties have put in nomination
their candidates, to put such questions as shall ascertain
whether either can Ik* trusted by the South— and such
questions as shall make an issue A’ilh the abolitionists ;
ol the North,and then take such course as *he interests i
of the Smith, rather than the interests of obsolete and |
superannuated parties may require— parties “bose
tgid discipline is such, as to force its members to com- j
bine again-*! the interests of their country, and who as
■ut lately declared, have lived too long already.
Though the Union may have been saved from the
terilsol the ialc crisis, we may not be able to .-Ineld it
rom die dangers of the future, if the abolition pohticil
actics nr*, left unobstrui ted.
Therefore, Resolved, That we are not satisfied
viih having made the peace, nut we wish the danger
ms put in bonds to keep the p'ace.
Upon motion, they were unanimously adopted.
The Chair, in accordance with the first lesolutiort,
ippoiiite*! Messrs. Peter J. Strozier, J. M iples, Mur
jhy Taylor, A C. Jolly and Win‘Clifton, a Commit
•ee to nominate Delegates; the Committee having re
tired, returned and reported the names o! Garnett An
drews and Phhieas M. Nightingale,as suitable persons.
Whereupon, it was
Resolved, That Garnett Andrews and P. M Night
ingale he and they are hereby appointed Delegates, to
represent the Constitutional Union Party ot Baker, in
the Convention ot said Party, to be convened on the
22nd inst ,at Milledgeville, Ga.. and'hatthey have tiie
authority to fill all vacancies which may occur.
It was further resolved, That the foregoing p •-
ceedtngs and resolution? be published
i M-I**ol] and that ( ! 1 w ]’
and another Union papers be requesteTuTc,
I be meeting then ajjonrned.
JACOB WA ISON n, •
“m E S-arrii! Soc’ry. ’ U!a '"^r.
I nian Meetisi” in n,u. i
flonMon
-*-t a meeting of a portion* o! ti )e Cos ’
Union Parly of Houston county, held'in
‘T w 9 ranni*rdby ci,!inDMV **
Woopson to the Chair, and appomfincT f J 1,1
M ..meerly Secretary. Dr. Woodson.cn
Uiair, briefly explained the < ! ;*>ct of t’ e “
when Gen. Warren offered the following
and resolutions, which were unanimously ad, J"*
The question of slavery in the United St- ltf . ,
g.ven rise to more astta’hm and
convulsed more seriously and more obviously f; ,, j”
gered the government under which we live
Union of the States, th in anything else since'th ‘**
knoweldgment by Great Britain of our
dependence. 081 k
It should, therefore, be the ardent wih 0 f a ||
citizens of this vast Republic, who love th
ment of our fathers, who wish the Union of the Sr ‘
that was fi.unded by them preserved and perpetuate *
to see all agitation and excitement upon the suhJ,.,
slavery in the United Slates cease, and pal forever 3
’ rest, and let the institution of slavery he left free by the
government of the U. States,and the North and We.,’
he governed and regulated by the people immediate.
interested in it, and using such property in tL
own way, without any governmental restraint, v hat
ever, either in the States or territories. We are ~v
fled that upon such a recognition of the rights of
South, the peace and quiet of the country, and *i
preservation of the Union deppnd.
Therefore, Resolved 1 st. That the question of Mr
ryingoul the late measures of Congress, on jhesidiiVt
ot slavery, as a final settlement of tint dan** \
question, is paramount in importance to allothe- *
the approaching Presidnlial election, and that we w
support no man lor that office, who is not full*
ly and undisguisedly in tavor of those measure's*, ap'd
determined to sustain and carry them out in adniinis
teiing the government; and also in favor of the In!
stitutional rig'nis cf the South, and opposed to any ami
all further interlerence with slavery, or agitation u , on
the subject from any quarter. Wedo i.g as k a CJU .
didate for the Presidency, or our Not them brethern to
believe as we do, that slavery is not a moral evil in
the abstract, as It exists among us, bu: ve do as . nn.'i
demand of him and them, that they i* uve the mau-r
with us to act as we may choose, according to ihe
tates ol our own consciences, and un*i* r .h- :
ties of the Constitution of the United ft v (ott
any the slightest governmental interie: .c m our
right so to do, and we care not where fie n . iiuuietor
President lives, North or South, nor t y v ha! old { arty
name he may be called, provided lie te / recognizes
our Constitutional rights as we reco r ,;e them, and
w ill stand pledged to maintain them.
2. Resolved, That we believe it to be the true poll
cy of the South to stand aioi ffor the ptesent at least
from all National Whig or Democratic Conventions
tor the nomination of candidates for President and
Vice President ol the United States ; for we are sorry
to know that there are at the North, many who are at
tach.ed td both those parties, who seek to control the
Government, and who are opposed to and would if they
could, destrey our rights under the Constitution to our
slave property, and that with our friends in our sister
State ot Alabama, we believe that there should be a
National Convention held in the city of Washington,
at a suitable time, during the approaching summer,by
the ft iends of a Constitutional Union throughout the
Union, who are opposed to Abolitionism, in all its un
constitutional forms, and opposed to all further agita
tion on the subject of slavery in the Uniied States*.and
pledged to support,sustain and carry out to the letter
the iate “Compromise measures” ot Congress, on the
subject of slavery. And that such a Convention, with
out reference to old party lines, should nominate tor
President and Vice President, competent and patriots
candidates of their principles, feelings and determina
tions on the subject of the riglusof the South undths;
too, without reference to, and whether such candidates
live North or South—for m inch a contest, we knew 110
North, we know no South, we know only our frier,os
and ttie friends ot the Constitution, ar.d our enemies
and its enemies, and shall act with our friends where
ever they may live, and against our and their enemies
wherever they are.
3. Resolved, That this meeting now proceed to ap
point lour del- gates to represent the Constitutional
Union Party ot Houston county in the State Convei.-
t,on, t<> be held in Milledgeville, on the 22d ntst.,t#
take into consideration the propriety of sending dele
gates to a National Convention ior the nomination 0;
candidates for President and Vice President oi tin
United States, who will stand pledged to oppose all in
terference by Congress with the subject of slavery, ant
all further agitation on that subject.
Under the last resolution, Messvs. George Bivins,
Meredith Joiner, Capt Ezekiel Wimberly and Dr.Jro
J. Hampton, were appointed delegates to <he Sta.t
Convention, with power to fill their own vacancies
they 1 houlcTnot he able to attend.
It was, on mot ion,
Ordered, that these proceedings be published in tk
Georgia Citizen and the Journal and Messerige 1
Macon.
CREED T WOODSON, Ch mn.
Ezekiel Wimberly, Secretary.
Union fleeting in Morgan.
At a meeting of the Constitutional Union Party °j
Morgan county, held at the Courthouse in the town of
Madison, on the first Tuesday of April, inst.,an or
ganization was effected by calling Col. A. Reese to
the Chair, and appointing Charles E. Nisbet Secre
tary. This being done, the following preamble ana
resolutions, offered by Isham S. Fannin, Esq., the
original having been amended in some irnmatetiai
particulars, were unanimously adopted.
Whereas, at a meeting of the Constitutional Union
Patty at Mtlledgeville, in December last, it was deter
mined to call a Convention of the Party,for the purpose
of taking action on the next Presidential election, and
the Executive Committee the 1 e appointed,having cabed
a Convention of the Party for that purpose, to take
place on the 22nJ instant:
Be it therefoie resolved, That the Chair appoint a
Committee of seven, for the purpose of reporting the
names of two suitable individuals as delegates to repte
sent this county in said Convention.
Resolved, That we heaitily approve of the princi
ples laid down by the Georgia Convention in Novem
ber, 1850, and we recommend our delegates to the
Convention at Mtlledgeville, to take such action as
snail make those p rmciples the permanent p iicy of the
country.
Resolved, That with the lights before us, we are n<:
prepared to go by delegates into the B tiinore or
Philadelphia Conventions. We, therefore ask oar
delegates to the Mtlledgeville Convention to take such
action, ns in their jugment shail be most hi- ,to secure
us a right of decision alter the action < ooth these
Conventions, as to o.tr course in the Pies aha. ■. ac
tion.
Under the first resolution, the Cha,. appointed
the following gentlemen a committee, vi- : 11 m ‘
Fannin, Wilds Kolb, ThomasD. Speer,! • - Gibb?
Caswell J. Allen, Robert A. Prior, On - e' ll **'’
who reported the names of Isham Sfa aan i Au
gustus Reese, Esqs., as delegates, whie.. report “-■
confirmed by the meeting.
Upon motion of Col. T. Hollingsworth, it as
Resolved, That the proceedings be published n
the Chronicle and Senlineland Jour mil & Messei/gf’-
AUGUSTUS REESE, Chan
Charles E. N'tsbet, Sec’y.
Union Meeting m Meriwether.
At a meeting of the Union Party of Meriwfthei
county, held in Greenville, on the 6th inst.,
non of Judge Reeves, Wit. A. J. Philips was caned
to the Chair, and George W. Gram requests
act as Secretary. v
The Chairman, on takiffg his seat, stated the oa
,ct of the meeting to be, toselect suitable delegates to
j fnd tl.e Union State Convention, to be held u>
M Pedgeviile on the 22d inst.
Oa motion, a committee of five gentlemen was ap
pointed by the Chair, to report the names of If * y
■ ns as de. gates to the Convention. TsieCoh*
consisting ot Mean’s. John L Dixon, John P. Sewe.i.
F. VV. Blou-at, Tyree Reevesand Janies M. Rob n->
hiving retired a lew moments, returned, and iepr y
the following gentlemen as delegates: Joan S. B
lock.G. W.Grant, F. Kendall and \V. A. J Hu“i-’
On motion, the teport was adopted.
The following resolution was then introduced, a*-
unanimously agreed to. *
Resolved, That the delegates appointed to r e P r ’
sent M.-nweiher county, lit the Union State t I
lion, to he held til A1 tUedgeviiie, <<n the ‘- J lllf ”
a::d they tire hereby instructed to oppose a., h
lions to send delegates to eititer ol the N-iito i
vent ions. .
There being no other business, the meeting
J, ’ UlT “' d ’ W J. PHILIPS, Chaimtf!
G. W. Grant, Secretary.
Union Meeting in Monroe.
Forsyth, April t-m,
Agreeably to previous notice, a meeting “I l
party of Monroe county was hem this day m me
House, Judge Powell acting as Chairman, and
Alexander as Secretary.
A Cuininittee ol five was appoiutet to e ‘' lt!
to represent us in ti.e Mihedgeville Co " ve " l !" n ’ ‘V iS
held on the 2'2d ,to elect delegates to the i hila h 4
Convention. The gentlemen appointed were, _
Norman, EG. Cubaniss, A-A • ,jnl * ‘
and Gabriel Parks, Esqrs. They reported the wu- -