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J. KNOWLES and S. ROSE,
EDITORS AND PROPRIFTOR3.
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“Let a* Reason Together.*’
If we desire to live with the South, or an? part
of it, we mint live *•> fiienda and brothers, on
tm* of equality. This s certain. We have long
preached to this effect, but the truth is now
trough! home with an emphasis which will make
it felt. Suppose the South should secede, forming
an independent Republic! Tb-n .*ip|>ose a
portion ot the remaining States, with the ex
amp'e ot secession be Sore them, should treat
another portion as we have freaied the South, i
denouncing and harassing if, interfering with itc !
domestic concerns, stealing its property and
smel ling the robber*, stirring up insurrection,
and finally electing a sectional President to carrv
cot aggressive principles* There would sure
ly he another seers-ion. Going on in this wav,
e.icL would finally be left alone in it; jlarv.
Not Ou* would aii *'h i.e destroyed, but iudi-
Mdi! States would be sundered. Indeed, eaten j
ties and towns and even school districts would b I
root into hostile tactions. Geographies! huesj
ttj . and divide slid d.vo’vt ail the bond- of society.
C’tTd za: on would take its Sight, and barbarism
and everlasting night return.
Our government can never withstand—it was
hardly intended to withstand—a bitter and insane
sectional controversy, like that which hss been
carried on for the last few years. The fathers of
the Republic understood this, and gave the warn
ing. Those of us who were ou the stage thirty
years ago, understood it well. Usd slavery been j
ao Institution ot the North—the powerful, wealth* j
and prosperous Not th—and had the South under 1
taken to abolish it, or regulate it, to make it in i
gecure by hostile and unconstitutional legislation !
Ij robbery, bv aimed invasion, by dangerous and
annoying interference, the Republic would have
gone to Hinders long ago ’ We may complain o!
the isouth, but we should also marvel at her pa
tience, her long suffering, her forbearance. Were
•we not blinded by prejudice and puawa—had we
but half ah eye for virtues not our own—w r
should see much in her to admire. She is not ;>er
-sect. tar trorn it. t?he has nianv and grave faults
—the fault* of her climate, position, education,
society. IV e think she is no worse than *c ; nor
do we believe her any better. Rut she hasbe
kaved better than we wouldehare done, in her po
sition. 11 e would have doo worse i aud the aim
pie and sole reason is, our greater strength. Had
come John Brown, following tip a aeries of ag
gravated provocation*, invaded or territorv, on
au errand ot murder and insurrection, we would
have first bung the invaders, and then marched
over the lines in haital'on*, to let our neighbors
know “there i.- a North.'’ And had the South
sufficient surplus strength, she, r.o doubt, would
l ave done a similar thing. We are not blind ad
mirers of the South—but we do believe she has
grievances of long standing, and many causes of
compUint. As for her people, they are much
like our people—an average people—with about
our proportion ot saints and sinners, good and bad
tuen. This is the naked truth, and the sooner we
put off our self righteon*nes and acknowledge it
the sooner We mike it a governing principle ol
our conduct—the better it will be for the peace of
the country, and the union of these United States.
This representation may not Ratter our vanitv—
our ptide—but history will tte*t its faithfulness.
A €tr If<7 r+H
From G * C*>luuabu T iw#f.
Let ua ließbMit Tttselltcr.
Permit an bumble in<liviJu*l to lav before yon
h few thoughts that are burned into\i* bean of
heart* by their very truth.
ibe tbst gievt thought ia thir, the institution
ieotth m tbe “ f ederal Government,” established
br the people of the United States of America,
afa-tme. This is a fact, which cannot be gain
aii. Ir ha „e,er been in the power ot tbe
“ Federal Government” to enforce ail its own lawa
■wuhin ila own Territory, it has, therefore, been
measurably a failure from the beginiug, but its
trst convincing evidence of weakness W a in allow
ing one branch of its organization to miss an uncon
stitutional lw (the Missouri Ooinpromiee.) Its
i>exc evidence ot decrepit ode, n* it.- inability to
eufocce a Constitutional lew, (the Fugitive Slave
Law,) tbe whole labile being shaken to its inun
dation, by the only single a f tempt ol enforcement,
made bv its chief officer, (President Pferce.
1 need not enlarge in this direction. The ‘‘Fede
ral Government” a fail nr r.
t*rt then ? ’J !:,■ State*, of eomse, revert to
their original poetic: . i <c*L siivevrigii within itself,
‘i here cats be no utin-r j cMirljvimi. 1 hi-’, then,
being our position, the question tor sober, ft inking,
earne.-t men. i-, what shall we cio lor ihe Inline:’
i f-i-v i ! !w gsanted that iio matt in his senses
would ‘advocate the remaining iu so many petty
sovereignties. We would be worse than Mexicaii
ia<d by that process.
What then shall we do ‘H
In the first place, 1 would say, let us loul. around
aB.l if there ia a government’ of an enlightened
nation that ha? not vet proved a failure, but which
U not, and l.ns ever been productive of happiness
to its law abiding people. It such a govertintetil
*at. be found, a goVv-rnmt-nt w hare tirst ami onlv ob
ject is ti.e yoW, the real good, (not fa acini ooo</,
wn > ‘>nn which I fear both our fathers and
ourselves have too much run after in this country)
sci ah its people, if wth a government exi.t“, let
us examine it carefully, if it i,** api.aient eirorr, I
la9 what human institution has not) let us avoid
them, its beue&eiai at range no tuts let us adapt.—
Let us not he turned aside by it* name, i. ur lured
by its pretension-. Try it by its works, and adopt
Or condemn it by its fruits. .Vo more e cptrimeat*. \
*• I speak as to wise men, judge ye what 1 mt.” !
I am one ot a lew who have ever dated to
tiuok that Republicanism was a failure in it* inecn
tioa, and 1 have never shrunk from giviti” my
opinion when it was worth while. “
I have never wished to see this I'uiou disrupted
but if it must be, then 1 raise mv voice for a re
turn to a
fOKSTIITTfOSAI. Monarchy.
Adams’ Exprcim*.—To this institution, nex-t to
the telegraph, ate the leading journals of the
.'Outlj most indebted for the means of rupplving
their readers with early news. A correspondent
of the New York JJera/d, alluding to the Compa
ny, justly observes:
It invariably beats the mail from six to twelve
hours out of seventy, on all the great .Southern
Georgia, is the centre, and Mr.
H. If. Plant, the general suj>erinteiident of the
Houthern division, is a gentleman of such indom
energy and acute business habits, that the
additional trouble of taking charge of mail matter
will.be °* very little account with him. In cverv
■fettonofthe Southern country Mr. riant ha* gen
.U,e totegrity as assistants, and
Kvnrei li^. PUcMa,e of the Adams’
. P , tr c ibt finest husiue&s struc
mrcs, and located in the most busy parts of the
has e . r h P Tr’ • ,‘ | Ch u rle %° n ’ **•* * arolina, lie
b the mdefa -gable W oodward, who suffers no
i# to his eyelids when business is t 0
to; in Savannah, Ga. t he has the - popular ami
aealons Spooner, through whose hands nearly H ||
the large money transactions — and they amount
;to ion ions almost weekly —of the State of Georgia
wu other places hare passed without tlie loss of
* dollar, for years ; and there isjtullock, and Has-
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equality Demand* Co-operation. i
Editor Enqnirtr: —l was at a respectable meet- }
ing in our city to-day, 15th ia9t. Tire object of
the meeting was to nominate a ticket tor the J
Convention in January, and to discuss the grounds
ar.d reasons for railing a second ticket. lam with
the friends of this ticket. 1 fully concurred in *
much that I heard, in Home things I differed— |
totally differed. As, for Insist*nee, if South Caro- j
lina, or any other Slab', rashly, and as I conceive 1
discourteously, rusher out of the Union, and gets
into trouble—after having been politely requested j
to abide a wise co-operation with other States, ‘
; every way her equal, before going out—it is fool
ish, rash and wrong for Georgia to pledge her
blood or treasure in aid of sucii rashness. What
is the effect of such unguarded pledges of sustain
ing any State that will, inuie-like, pull out of the
Union, ready or not ready, and partly from a v&in
gloi ious desire to do something that will give it a pe
culiar historic fame ? All these incautious pledges,
made for Buncombe, amount to nothing more oor
less than a premium offered by platform orators
to South Carolina, or Florida, or any other State,
to carry out its own hot-headed notions, and that
we will yield our equal honor and equal right to be
heard at their feet, amd that we will espouse, not
their cause merely, but their indiscreet judgment
too. No my friends of Muscogee—let this be
your rule, and your reason for action : If South
Carolina wants to become an independent State,
and remain so, I have no advice to give—help her
according to your taste. But if she desires to be
come one of the States of a Southern Confedera
cy, and will have her own wav, let her have it at
tier own risk. This is our only chance of equal
honor. No one of the Southern States can main
tain its equal honor, if it is dragooned into line.—
We can only be equal, if we nobly confer, as States
about to declare themselves independent of the
old Federal compact.
lam glad to see in the Doily RerorJt r, received
>inee 1 penned the foregoing thoughts, that the
Georgia Senate refused lo pass that rash act of the
House, pledging Ceotgia as the protectress of
j South Carolina, without limitation as to her action,
j Tr.is would be a humiliation of our sovereignty, to
1 which I couid never be a party. lam for counsel
i —for concert. Solomon says, “without counsel,
| purposes ate disappointed, hut in the multitude of
I counsellors they are eitnbl shed.” I confess lam
more inclined to the instruction of Solomon than
to the hasty, single-handed judgment of any one
1 hope 1 shall find much good company
;*efore it is too late. I expect some of my friends
will scowl u|K>n my saving anything on this mo
urn tous i-sue. 1 cannot help the murmurings of
; -orne. No one ever complains e see pit those with
whom I cannot agree. 1 never soil my holy voca
ioii with mere politicians—they are defenders ol
parly policies. But the issue which is now before
us, is jne identified with statesmanlike views and
p.mioiic measures. The generous will not impugn
iit motives, or deny mv right to interpose my
opinion when mv counti v and mv children need
the expression of it. And be not ruprised when I
-iy that if mi opinion had been asked to-day, I
would have responded with a free good will. 1
*ould have done it as a moral dutv.
L. FIERCE.
Evils of Stare Sovereignly.
The grave responsibilities and the evils which
would attend the sotting up of a separate State
sovereignty arc thus presented by R. 11. Smith,
F.-1, in a letter declining a nomination to a State
Convention of Alabama : w
Oil the other hand, there is a large party in this
community, who have tendered tne a nomination,
iho pince little or *no stress upon eo-operation
with other State*, and who wish immediately to
withdraw Alabama from the Union, and to trust
to the future for alliance with other States.—
t hese gentlemen proposed at once to make a sep
arate, independent nation r.f the State, and to
>-.und out before the world in this position for a
shorter or longer time, necessarily beaiing in the
meanwhile all the burdens and enjoying but few
of the benefits of national existence, lor Alaba
ma would only be a nation by her own declaration,
and not by acknowledgements of any other pow
rd not o/ iier own eiaCcr Htatve of Poutb.
These views fail to commend my assent, and
therefore I could not become the party candidate
of those who entertain them. While it is my
opinion that Alabama must take this position if
necessary for the a-sertion and maintenance of
of her rights, I do not believe it will be necessa
ry, ar.d atn not w illing in advance to accept it, be
cause I think it will be fraught with many and big
evils to our people, our cause, and to republican
institutions. Depreciation of property, depression
of business, withdrawal of capital, derangement of
currency, increase of taxes, miscarriage of public
enterprises, and destruction of State credit, arc
.-omc of the necessary consequences of any revo
lution of government, and we must, and I trust
will, make up our minds to bear these things
should Alabama go on: of the Union alone, and
>o remain but for one month, she must, so long,
solely bear the burdens of national existence ;
must raise and sustain a military force ; must in
crease her police expenses; must do something
tor the regulation of commerce; must prop, aa
best she can, a deranged currency ; must regulate
and lix the value of coin and of weights and meas
ures, and must provide some postal arrangement
lor tfie people ; and she must raise the money for
these ends.
The experiment, for one short month would, I
•tin fearful, so oppress our people ns to give the
■•r.use a serious set back mid day by day incline
U.e public to submit to present evils, besides all
these and many more ills that I cannot enumerate
in one short letter, we shall inaugurate a condition
ot successive changes of government that w ill find
a parallel in the revolutions of Mexico. No one I
suppose will expect Alabama to remain a separate
nation, and hence the public mind will be kept in
all the feveiish excitement of—what is next to
come? As one Slate and another may come out
and propose to join us, government will have to
be formed anti reformed ; for there will be no ex
isting confederation into which, like new States
of the present Union, they are to be admitted.—
Each coining tiiate may have some peculiar inter
ests of its ow n to provide for and some peculiar
dangers to be guarded against, and so we shall
! be constantly revolving u|*o the giddy wheel of
j revolution until the country may submit to an
j areiiv or despotism. It is easy to act on the siu-
I pie idea “let the in ion slide,” for it is easy enough
j to poll down; Imi*. if Alabama undertakes to do
; it wiioont uttr io combine with some States
jin tbe movement, we will let the earnings ol hon
-1 est men, and their business, and credit, and the
! honor ot the State, and it-, ability lo work out our
right®, and the hopes of a slable government
“slide” along with it, ami we may lore the most
auspicious mowteni for combining w ith other Slates;
lor, when each one becomes a separate nation,
each may stand more or less upon the bargain to
be made, and each may feel that no respect has
been paid by the other to the common honor,
common rights .tml common dangers of all.
Tun Rom. or Honor.— The following is a list of
revolutionary soldiers on the rolls of the State of
Georgia and Alabama, who arc regularly receiving
their pensions, and their ages in 1859 :
Micsjali 1 .rooks, I'oik county, (ia., 93 years of
:.go.
\V in. Cogg'n, Gordon county, Ga., 104 years of
age.
John Haines, *>r., Money county, Ga., 107 years
of age.
John McMiilen, Ilalrersham county, Ga., ltd
years of age.
John Nicholson, Union county, Ga., 96 years of
age.
Reuben Steven-*, Chambers county, Ala., 97
yea re of age.
Tkmiknciks or the Aoe.—A New York Judge,
in resigning his position on the bench of that city,
says : “It is easy to and monstratc that, in the yet
discovered world, there is not such another ex
travagant people in proportion to its real vta/l/t,
its that which inhabits New York.” The one idea
is “a frantic determination to get in some bmue
•bate way, the means of afutennn;/ to be rich.”—
Roth men aud women, he says, urc selling them
selves for money ; the passion for the appearance
of walth is terrific. The cry of every soul and
the clutch of every arm is lor money—money to
be spent it extravagance. The country is niad
for money, money, and all for show, dress, and
miserable ostenta.iou and vanity in every shape
and form.
rW’ The Philadelphia Kcm % ( Republican) says :
—Congress has the undoubted power to pass the
requisite law for a vote of the people to determine
this question of recession. It w ould he becoming
in any State that now wishes to secede to lay her
giievances and her request before Congress, when
that body should immediately submit the question
to the sovereign people. We have no doubt that
in the case of South Carolina the decision of a
Constitutional majority of the people of the Union
wou'd be to let her go. Os course the permission
I might and should be accompanied with conditions
—tor instance that the seceding State should not
eng*g ( > in the slave traffic, and certain regulations
tegardiug commerce should be made. In the
case of Horida we should oppose granting permis
sion to ’.eave the Union. That State was puichas
ed with lund- of the General Government, and
lmr position ia j ieP rr jt or j 8 needed
for out defence.
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TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
A Recommendation.
Numerous appeals have been made to me by
pious and patriotic associations of citizaos, in view
of the present distracted and dangerous condition
of our country, to recommend that a day be set
apart lor Hi uiliatio.v, Fasting, and Prater,
throughout the Union.
In compliance with their request and my own
sense of duty, I designate Frii*av, the 4th jay
of Jam-art, 1801, lor this purpose, and recom
mend that the People assemble ou that day, ac
cording tu their several forms of worship, to keep
it as as a solemn Fast.
The Union of the States is at the present moment
threatened with alarmiug and immediate danger;
panic and distress of a fearful character prevail
throughout the laud ; our laboriug population are
without employment, and consequently deprived
of the means of earniug their bread. Indeed,
hope seems to have deserted the minds of men.
All clus-es are in a slate of contusion and dismay,
and the w isest counsels of our best and purest men
are wholly disregarded.
In this hour ot our calamity and ‘peril to whom
shall we resort for relief but to the God of our
fathers? His omnipotent arm only can save us
from the awful effects of our own crimes and fol
lies—our own ingratitude and guilt towards our
Heavenly F'ather.
Let us, then, with deep contrition and penitent
sorrow, unite in humbling ourselves before the
Most High, >u confessing our individual and nation
al sins, and in acknowledging the justice of our
punishment. Let us implore Him to remove from
our hearts that false pride of opinion which would
impel us to persevere in wrong for the sake of con
sistency, rather than yield a just submission to the
unforeseen exigencies by which we are surrounded.
Let us witli deep reverence beseech him to restore
the friendship and good will which prevailed in
former days among the people of the several
States; and, above all, to save us from the horrors
of civil war and “ blood guiltiness.” Let our fer
vent prayers ascend to His Throne that he would
not desert us in this hour of extreme peril, but
remember us as He did our fathers in the darkest
day 9 of the Revolution, and preserve our Consti
tution and our I'nion, the work of their hands, for
ages yet to come.
An Omnipotent Providence may overrule exist
ing evils lor permanent good. He can make the
wrath of man to praise Him, and the remainder of
wraih lie cun restrain. Let me invoke every in
dividual, in whatever sphere of life he may be
placed, to fed a personal responsibility to God and
bis country <ot keeping this day holy, and for con
tributing ail in his power to remove our actual and
impending calamities.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
W a sill no ton, December 14, iB6O.
fleeting tn t'rau(orl Coiti.i), Decent be r
16(b, I SCO.
A part of the citizens of Crawford county, met
in Knoxviile and organized by calling Jonathan
B. Kiss to the chair and requesting A. J. McAfee
to act as Secretary.
Col. Samuel Kuiheiford offered the following
preamble and resolutions, which were adopted :
\Y hereas, from the great political excitement in
the Southern States from the election of Abraham
Lincoln as President of the United States, the
State of Georgia, by her representative bodv, the
General Assembly lias called a convention of the
people, through their representatives, to meet at
the seat of government to decide upon the mode
and measure of redress ; and whereas, in our
opinion there is a majority of the voters of Geor
gia opposed to the immediate secession of the
State of Georgia, or any other Southern State,
therefore,
Resolved, That in our opinion, the people of
Georgia, in Convention, should request a general
convention of all the Southern States, to consider
together the mode and measure of redress.
Resolved, That we tavor a co-operation of all
the Southern Mates, or a majority thereof, for our
mutual protection, as a more certain and bloodless
measure for the redress of our mutual rights.
Resolved, That although, in our opiuion, the
ciri,iiuu < . nni just cause for se
cession, as he ha 9 been elected accoiding to the
forms and words of the Constitution, and it was
our niistortune to be out-voted in the
still we have grievances which must be redressed,
and we will not rest satisfied even to the dis
ruption of every tie that binds us to this Union,
till those grievances are rectified and until the
North gives us indemnity for the past and secutity
for the future.
Resolved, That without undertaking to decide
the Constitutional right of a State to secede from
this L uion, we are of opinion it w ould be disas
trous ill the rslrcino to cooij t . n.l lRt no
would be secured or hereafter protected by dis
union, us we will by that measure debar ourselves
of any claim upon those who commit injury upon
us, and therefore weuken and render ourselves
liable to the ridicule of our enemies and lose the
sympathy of our friends.
Resolved, That we believe we ought to remain
in the Union and demand our tights as equal mem
bers of this Confederacy, for we do not consider
that the general government oppresses us, hut
several of the Northern fanatical States ; and it
will be our duty, having a majority of Congress
and the Suprume Court, and a ma jority of this
government willing to give us our rights—to lorce
those recreant Stales, those nullifying the laws of
Congress, and refusing our rights and property—
to secede and loose the benefits of the Union.
On motion—
HeMolved, That this meeting do now proceed to
the selection of candidates to represent the coun
ty of Craw ford in the approaching convention.
On motion—
Jienolred, That we nominate candidates by ac
clamation—when Jonathan B. Ross and Vincent
Nichols were nominated unanimously.
On motion—
liesolred, That the Macon papers be requested
to publish the proceeding of this meeting.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
JONATHAN H. ROSS, Chairman.
A. J. MeAitic, Secretary.
l.ofeßCfc ly tlie!l*mnlc.
The New Yoik Herald gives the following re
capitulation of tlie estimated losses by deprecia
tion at the North aud South, consequent on the
present crisis:
l.osre at tUr South.
Cotton, $18,000,000
Rice, tobacco and naval stores 2,000,000
Railroad shares, bonds, stocks and other
securities. 10,500,000
Depreciation in lands and negroes. .. 160,000,000
Total 1180,500,000
IjOkhch at the North.
Flour at tide water, New York $1,000,000
Wheat at tide water. New York 800,000
Corn ut tide water, New York 860,000
Flour iu the interior 20,000,000
Wheat in the interior 10,000,000
Old and new corn in the interior 10,000,000
I’oik in the interior 760,000
impelled and domestic articles, iron,
woolens, Ac 20,000,009
Lops to manufacturers by suspensions,
half work, less interest on money, Ac. 10,000,000
Decline in railroad shares and bonds,
State, county and city bonds, bank.
capital and shares 102,000,000
Decline in wool 3,700,000
Loss on real and personal estate in New
York 150,000,000
Loss on real and personal estate in the
interior free States and cities 150,000,000
Total £.478,620,000
Grand total of losses in the North arid
South £069,120,000
Senators Wadk ani> Pugh.—There seems to ha
quite a difference of opinion, with regard to public
sentiment at the North, between the Ohio Senators.
Some days ago, Mr. Wade, the Black Republican,
made a speech, breathing anything but conciliation,
and which has created more irritation at the South
than anything that has been said or done since tlie
opening of Congress. Thursday, however, Mr.
Pugh, the democratic Senator from the same State,
replied to his arguments and statements, declaring
that the people of Ohio were misrepresented by
his colleague, aud that if he (Mr. PJ believed for
a moment that they agreed with Mr. Wade in their
sentiments, lie would forthwith resign his seat in
the Senate.
The late letter of Senator Toombs Las created quite
n panic in the rauks. A few of the immediate Seces
sionists endeavor to console themselves ov pretending
to believe that it is only a trick to catch the co opera
tion gulls. O'hers take it for deface, mnd tbe curses
are loud and deep among these men. who are not chary
of culling Mr. To':mbs a traitor to the Secession cause.
The d*jn,<jn of the letter is not our business—tbe
of it will be an overwhelming defeat of Vtie immediate
Secessionists, whatever mav have been the design.
The Savannah .Yuh refers disparaging! v to the course
of Mr. Toombs in 1649 and 1339, and specially te
niarks on the flumtlcar speech. If then* ha any trick
in i he Senator’s manifesto, it was simply proper that
all the clan should have been infor med beforehand.
Rut here we would say, remember that t!|e Utter ia in
Hack and is on record, but nnt&tf th* Sega*
tor • urn,— ajuftoffe -Sfatmti,
MACON, GEORGIA : j
Wednesday, December 26,1860.
Co-Operatiou Ticket for Bibb (ouuty*
COL. N. BASS,
JAS. 11. K. WASHINGTON,
CICERO Til ARI*. ’
Election on the first Wednesday in January.
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COTTON iri ARKKT.
There is a good demand and considerable sales at
prices ranging from Bto 10 cents. Must ot the sales
are from 9 to 10 cents,
Mr. Scrutchin, it will be seen, offers a fine
plantation for sale, in Sumter.
HOVSTON CANDIDATES- j
We are requested to suggest the name of Dr.
Patterson, of Fort Valley, as a suitable candidate
for Justice-of the Inferior Court.
THE LETTER OF JUDGE STEPHE NS
Should be read by every body. It is one of the
most philosphical and logical papers that has re
cently come under out observation. It should
be widely disseminated.
LEAVING.
A gentleman informs us that he saw last week
two laree trains from South Carolina on their way
to other lands. This looks significant.
HON THOMAS HARDEMAN.
It D stated m the streets that Mr. Hardeman de
clines a candidacy on the co-operation ticket lor tiio
Convention in the county, and is himself in favor of
secession. — Telegraph of Monday.
YVe have it from good authority that he is for co
operative State action. YVe would put the people
on their guard against street rumors.
EDUCATIONAL.
YY'e would direct attention *o the advertisements
of the “Pianter’s High School,” located in this
county and the “Collingsworth Institute,” located
atTdlbotton. Located in intelligent and moral
communities, and under the direction of able
teachers, they casnot fail to be prosperous.
A CAUTION
An honest difference of opinion exists in this and
indeed in all the counties of our great State, upon
the particular line of policy to be pursued by the
Convention which is soou to meet at Millodgeville.
Whilst this is the case, and opposing candidates
are in the field, everything like bitterness of feel
ing and intolerance of spirit should be avoided.—
In exercising the prerogatives of American free
men, let us not forget the amenities and courte
sies due to a common brotherhood.
CHRISTMAS.
In order to give our employees Christmas, we
anticipate the usual publication day of our paper.
Next week the Carrier will deliver his address,
which he hopes will raise some new and pleasant
issues from the pocket nerve of his worthy pat
rons. It will be remembered that he lias claims
for two yenie—his muse having unexpectedly, last
year, taken a holiday.
CO-OPERAIION TICKtT
Under the peculiar circumstances and responsi
bilities of his present delicate position, Capt. Har
deman feels compelled to decline a candidacy for
the Slate Convention. This will be regretted by
bis friends tuid fellow-citizens, as they would like
*. !.--*• i>ia iiuaii) and ellicient services in that
very important body. They will, however, be
happy to learn that the vacancy has been filled by
the name of one of our oldest and most intelligent
and patriotic citizens. YVe now have a ticket
made up of our best men. Let those who believe
that Georgia should not suddenly aud separately
and without consultation with her sisters, precipi
tate herself out of the Union, vote for this ticket.
POV.TTUiar VWTTKfiS.
Proceedings of political meetings will be found
on our first page. From present indications a
large majority of counties in the State will go for
co-operation. The Augusta Chronicle dr Sentinel
contains a call lor a co-operation meeting signed
by hundreds of the first men of the city.
Usr"The New Haven (Conn.) Register says that
two thousand men are out of employment in that
city, owing to the withdrawal of Southern trade.
Had the people of Connecticut followed the
advice and admonitions of the New Haven Regis
ter, previous to the Presidential election, not one
of these two thousand laborers would now be out
of employment. That paper has battled long and
hard in defense of the Constitutional rights of all
the Union, and is, and fchould be recognised as a
bright star in the small galaxy of Northern news
papers which have done their duty. YVith it, we
might class the “Journal of Commerce,” “Albany
Argus,” and “Boston Courier.” They deserve the
thanks of the whole country, aud many a hungry
workman will now lament the disregard of their
admonitions.
DOOLY COUNTY MEETING.
The citizens of Doolv county held a meeting at
the Court House in said county, the 17th inst., to
nominate candidates for the State Convention.—
Col. John S. Thomas acting as Chairman and Mr.
S. N. I.asieterua Secretary. Mr. Elijah Butts,
and Col. John S. Thomas were nominated by ac
clamation, and accepted the nomination.
LET US EEASON TOGETHER.
Two articles under this caption maybe found
in our paper to-day. One from the New Haven
Rtyinter and the other from the Columbus Times.
They are both worthy of perusal. We arc glad
to sec that many of the influential papers north
are speaking out boldly and truthfully in this cri
sis The article from the Columbus Times, gives
us an insight into the views and plans of some of
those who are so ready to pronounce our Govern
ment a failure. We ask those of our fellow-citi
zens, who are not utterly given up to delusion,
whether, in view of the prosperous and brilliant
career of this Government, they are willing to ex
change a Constitutional Republic for a Constitution
al Monarchy ? We have fallen upon evil times,
truly, when American freemen, like certain infat
uated ancients, cry out for a King. Let the peo
ple awake, or thoir liberties will be swallowed up in
anarchy, instead of monarchy.
Attention is directed to the proclamation
of the President. The prospective downfall of a
great chaisiian government, framed in the blood
and prayers and tears of Christian patriots, may
be cause for the jubilant ringing of bells, and ho
sannas from a people who have grown great and
prosperous under its expanding and benefieient
shadow. We think such nn event, though it were
necessary, would be more appropriately celebrated
in mournful requiums and sackcloth and ashes.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
The news from Congress is not of a character to
inspire much hope in the minds of those who de
sire the perpetuity of our republican institutions.
There is but little yielding upon the part of the
black republican members, though they are some
what more conciliatory and courteous than hereto
fore. A revolution is going on, however, among
the masses, at the North, which will speedily
change the tone of their State legislators and Con
gressmen, or sweep them from oflice.
Iu the meantime we are glad to see that the
Southern Suites are daily becoming more and more
united, and, unless prevented by the premature
action of separate State.?, will stand nobly and
grandly together in maintaining their rights in the
Union, or securing a proud and powerful national
ity out of it. Every event, every developeinent
of pubHo sentiment, more than ever declare for
deliberate w-eperaUre State 00,
ELECTION OF DELEGATES -
Before another issue of our paper reaches our
numerous ami intelligent readers, the people of
Georgia will have elected their delegates to the
State Convention. We need not impress upon
their minds the rnagnitjj^'of the issues now be
fore them—how deeply they involve the weal or
woe of thennelves and their poster^?.
We have endeavored fairly to lay before our
readers such information as would enable them to
make up a wise and judicious verdict in the pres
ent petilloua crisis. We have given them articles
on both sides of the only question which now
divides the people of Georgia—to wit: immediate
separate State secession or co operative and simul
taneous action by all the aggrieved States. Dives
ting themselves of all pa°sion and undue excite
ment, we now appeal to the freemen of Georgia,
in the fear of God, to make up their verdict. To
that verdict, as announced by the approaching
Convention, every good and loyal citizen will
cheerfully bow.
SUSPENSION IN ALABAMA.
The Governor of Alabama, in consequence of
the present crisis, advised the banks in that State
to suspend specie payments. The Central Bank at
Montgomery, the F. istern bank at Eufaula, and
the Commercial banks, at Selma, promptly sus
pended ; but the Bank of Mobile, the Southern
bank of Alabama, and the Northern bank at
Huntsville, refused to suspend.
FINANCE- TRADE* MONEY.
Auction Sales. —Wilder A Son sold t the Brok
ers’ Exchange, coiner of State and Clialmers-stroots,
on Thursday, a lot. with a two story house and out
. buildings, in Bogard-street. One of the lots measured
thirty-five by over one hundred and fifteen; the
other was thirty feet square. The whole brought
seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Those gentlemen also sold at the same place, on
Thursday, a two story wooden building in Laurel-st.,
on a lot twenty-eight feet front by forty feet deep, for
the sum of four-hundred and fifty-five dollars.
The above from theCharle. ton Courier, shows that
real estate i* not very rapidly appreciating under the
new order of things in South Carolina. This sale
was made on the very’ day. of South Carolina's inde
pendence. llow will it be in Georgia?
A COINCIDENCE.
Yesterday, nearly at the moment when, according
to the telegraph, the secession ordinance passed the
South Carolina Convention, says the Augusta Sen
tinel, the large banner which was hung across Broad
street for some time, was “precipitated” to the
earth by the giving way of the rope which sup
ported it. A coincidence if not an omen. It was
soon replaced. Soon after “Big Steve” tolled out
his doleful notes, causing a thrill of sorrow in ma
ny axious and patriotic hearts. When he again
utters his voice may it not be over another limb
torn from the country, but in exultation, when
again our natioaal eagle shall be
“Proudly careering his course of joy,
Firm on In* own native vigor relying,
Breast ns; the dark storm, the red bolt defying.
His w ng on the wind, hi* eye on the sun,
He swerves not a hair, hut beais onward—right on.”
The Chaileston Mercury copies tho proceed
ings of Congress under the head of “Foreign News.”
Hon. Herschel V. Johnson has been nominated
for the State Convention, by a co-operation meet
ing of the citizens of Jefferson county.
Adjourned Courts.—Tho Legislature has passed
a resolution authorizing tho adjournment of all Courts
conflicting with the sitting of the Convention to as
semble on the 10th of January.
A Most Humane Law. —We understand that
our Legislature, near the close of the late session,
passed an act conferring upon the Inferior Courts of
tho several counties of the State, the power, in their
discretion, to appropriate the Poor School fund tor
1861, or any part thereof, to the purchase of I’ood
and fire-wood fur the poor.
General Scott as a Pacificator. —A Wash
ington despatch savs : Gen. Scott’s intervention is
pregnant with meaning, and the duties to be as
signed to him will end in good or evil. It is be
lieved he is in harmony with the President, and
that he has counseled a wise and masterly inac
tivity in regard to reinforcing the federal troops
at the South, if it should eo turn out that he Is
to be sent South,it w ill be only in the character of
a pacificator, and in that capacity he will be re
ceived with respect.
Death of B. Y. Martin, Esqr.— A despatch
dated Columbus, Dec. 19, says: B. Y. Martin,
E-q., long the efficient Reporter of the Supreme
Court of Georgia, and elector for the Second Dis
trict on the Douglas and Johnson ticket in tho
late Presidential canvass, and an able lawyer and
highly esteemed gentleman, died in this city, at ” I
o’clock in the morning.
A FIRE IN THE REAR.
The old .Y> tional hiMVaencer pours a broadside into
the President’s empty locker, and hits off the retiring
Chancellor of Exchequer as follows :
“ It but a tithe of the zeal that has been displayed
in tbe immolation of Democrats as farored the heresy
of ‘ squatter sovereignty’ had been turned to the dis
couragement of those whom the President stigmatizes
iu his message as attempting ‘neither more nor less
than a revolution,’ we should not have hud the specta
cle of a Cabinet officer, while in the full discharge of
his official duties, inditing an address to the people of
Georgia, urging them by every consideration to com
mit thut net of scceesiou which the President in his
message had solemnly denounced us revolutionary and
as without justification. Or, if a Cabinet officer had
written an address of this kind on the 6th of December
we should not have had ‘ deep regrets’ expressed on
the Bth of December at his withdrawal froni a Govern
ment whose destruction be was invoking, and from
which be wua withdrawing only in order to work more
effectually lor its overthrow. And that tbe imprima
tur of the Administration might not seem to be with
held from Mr. Cobb’s disuniou counsel, even after he
bad withdrawn from the Cabinet, the Government pa
per of the 13th instant affords him the satisfaction of
having bis manifesto spread at length upon its pages,
extending, r.s it does, through six dreary columns. It
is u happy appointment of Providence that tbe talents
and influence of some men should fall so far short ot
their ambition, else, with such opportunities aatj facili
ties for evil, tl.ev might ‘owe their greatness to tfceir
country’s i uin.’ ’’
By tbe way, the financial skill of Mr. Cobb will
doubtless commend him to the notice of the first Pie
sident, or King, as the case ntay be, of the new Gor
ment.
THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
We find in the Government paper, says the
National Intelligencer , the official notificaton
of the resignation of the Hon. Howell Cobb,
late Secretary of the Treasury, together with
the correspondence in which that gar.tlenian
announces his determination to the President, and
receives fiom the latter an expression of “deep
regret” at the separation of the official relations
previously subsisting between them. In yielding
to the “sense of duty to the State of Georgia”
which “requires that he should no longer be a
member of the President’s Cabinet,” Mr. Cobb has
abandoned the Federal Treasury at a period of
embarrassment which has bad no parallel in our
history since the war of 1812, and at the conclu
sion of that exhausting struggle. The state of
our national finances—with a Treasury actually
compelled to dishonor its own drafts—is one
which no American, even in this hour of appre
hension on other grounds, can contemplate with
other than feelings of national humiliation. W>
allude to this subject mainly to call the attention
of Congress to the pressing exigencies of the Fed
eral Exchequer, and to express the hope that the
Hon. Philip F. Thomas, the late Commissioner of
Patents, whose nomination as Secretary of the
Treasury was confirmed by the Senate yesterday,
may by the vigor of his administration, revive its
waning cfedit.
The Tyler Sentinel (Smith county) notices the
arrival and settlement in the neighborhood of
Tyler, two families, numbering over one hundred
souls—ail from Cobb county, Georgia. Other
families from the same county are coming to
Smith county, which haa received, says tbe Senti
o), at least 000 of her population from Cobh
MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD.
We passed over fifteen miles of this road, & few
days since, and are gratified to find it very sub
stantially built, with heavy iron rails and super
structure. The laying down of the iron is now
going on with all possible rapidity.
Last week a lot of over seventy bales of cotton
came over it to this city, which, we believe, was
the first of our staple that has been transported
on it. Two trains run daily, mostly for the pur
pose of transporting iron arid carrying such pas
sengers as hve along the line, and to bring fire
wood to our city. In this respect it is a valuable
accession to us, as inexhaustible quantities are
along the road and much already prepared for
market and piled along the line. In a few months
it will be complete to a point opposite to Haw
kiDsville, where, we trust, it will be met by a
branch from that place during the next year.
HOUSELESS AND HOMELESS
The political leaders in South Carolina are
already beginning to fear and tremble in the pres
ence of the fearful responsibility they have as
sumed. When the people shall be loosed from
the awful spell that is upon them, and awake to
find themselves without commerce, cut off from
all the facilities of domestic and foreign intercom
munion ; with a standing army ; cut off from all
supplies of groceries and staple goods • perhaps
in war and famine : with foes withiu and without;
sorely taxed, and yet no teeming harvests to meet
the greedy tax gatherer—they may mourn their
hasty action and regret that they had not heeded
the voice of their more prudent brethren, who are
identified with them in all that concerns Southern
rights and Southern interests, but who believe in
united and concerted action. We copy the fol
lowing from the Convention debates.
Mr. Calhoun said : We have pulled the Temple
of Liberty down, which has existed for three
quarters of a century ; we must now clear away
the rubbish, and re-construct another. We are
now houseless and homeless, and must make pro
vision to secure ourselves from storms and Dou
bles.
Mr. MAG RAT 11. I think the special matter of
that Ordinance should be immediately considered.
I am not prepared to say that I cannot vote for
the Ordinance as it now is in your hands. Ac
cording to my understanding of our position, there
is no Collector, no Postmaster, in the limits of
South Carolina. \Y hat you have done to-day has
extinguished the authority of every man in South
Carolina deriving that authority from the General
Government. lam in favor of the State of South
Carolina immediately putting its commissions into
the hands of its officers. I am in favor of this
body proceeding at once to make such proviaional
arrangements as may be necessary dming the in
terval which exists between this moment and the
time the Legislature may act, but I am not to be
implicated lor having sanctioned the idea that
there i3 no law iul authority within the limits of the
State except that having been derived from the
General Government.
The discussion heretofore has scarcely attached
what I regard as the meaning of this important
issue. There is under that Ordinance, to mv
mind, a compromise I aei unwilling the State of
South Carolina should make. The President of
the Tinted States has thrown down the gauntlet.
Iu his message he lias said it is his duty to collect
the Revenue, and that he will do it. We have
said if South Carolina leaves this Union all Reve
nue falls to the ground.
There is then a direct issue between South Car
olina and the Administration. On the one side the
government claims and declares its intention to
execute the power of collecting the Revenue in
our ports. On the other side our declaration is
that we are free. I desire no compromise. From
the time of my boyhood I have seen nothing in
politics but comprouii.se after compromise, and 1
have hoped now we have got to an end, and I
hope there will be no more compromises. I desire
to meet the Lsue which is tendered us by the
Government. Wo say that we are and will be free.
But the President of the United Status says he
will exercise the laws of the United States over
us. If he chooses to try let him try. lam not
for postponing the issue, I am for meeting it at
once. It has been said that it is of the highest
importance that the wheels of commerce should
continue.
Ho, Mr.’ President, I regard postal arrangements. I
agree with my friend that this is the proper time to !
make a change in our postal system, and put it in the
bands of private individuals. I think proper to change
it, but not at this time. lam not willing that tbe laws
of the United Slates shall be enforced oTer tbe inde
pendent State ot South Carolina for tbe collection of
postage and oilier matters connected with the mail.
In the passage of this Ordinance I see the first time
when I could consider myself a free citizen of a free
Republic, and not as a subject residing in a tributary
province, And I desiie no compromise or intenegnum
between one government aDd the other.
M-. GREGG- breoffered a e ubstitute to the original:
Whereas, we. the people of tbe State of South Caro
lina, in Convention assembled, do declare an Ordinance,
that until otherwise provided for by the General As
sembly, the importation of merchandise introduced in
to thiiState shall be free and unrestricted, and it will
be tbe duly of Government to make such temporary
regulations us will be requisite concerning the entry
and clearance of vessels, and appoint such ollicets as
may be needful for the purpose.
S*:rTtox 2. And it is further ordained and declared,
that until otherwise provided for by the General As
‘ sembly, it shall be the duty of the Governor to appoint
a Postmaster, and make sucu temporary arraugemeuts
as ate requisite for the transportation of the mail, hav
ing due tegatd for tbe term of the Government of the
United States now subsisting.
Mr. liAItNWKLI, said: It is a coDfiict between poli
tics and interests of the country who are asserting their
rights. We have seceded from tbe United States and
established an independence. We cannot allow tbe
Unr.ed States to exercise authority over us any mote.
It seems to me, sir, the positions are an indignity.
And, disguise them as we mav, we are, for a temporary
conforence, willing to postpone the full demand of our
political rights. I not beli-ve we can avoid the issue
we now seek to evade, or rather avoid. It mnst come
out at some later day, perhaps at some more qnfortu
uate time. We must meet the issue. Great sacrifices
must be made. I.et tbe I’ostoffice be disarranged; let
Cuitoms no longer be collected by tbe General Govern
; ment. Let us meet the issue, as this is promising great
advantages; let us be prepared to meet it with sacri
fices. There is never anything to be purchased woitb
having unless it cost sacrifices. I believe tbe States
Sfwith are prepared for niakmg any sacrifice which is
required of them. This is as hour ol peril; let it be
one of difficulty. Let us not say in words we have lell
the Union Let the proceedings go on without inter
ioption. In (yet, lgt us meet the issue before encoun
tering the difficulties, and let ns stand up for our rights.
We leave the reader to determine what are the pros
poets of peace, prosperity and security in Sooth Caro
lina.
While South Carolina, in Convention assembled
and represented, will give proper reception and
lieuiing to all Commissioners bringing credentials
from sovereign States, we trust no time will be
wasted on representatives or delegates appointed
by Union-saving Meetings without authority,
The above, from the Charleston Courier, we
suppose has especial allusion to the proceedings of
the co operation members, and is more fullt ex
plained by the following summary action of the
Convention :
Mr. MAZYCK moved that the address to this
Convention front Georgia be read by tbe President
and printed.
Mr. INCUS. He thought it impolitic for them
to take np tj,js communication and print it, as it
was unofficial ana emanating only from a portion
of the Legislature of Georgia. He was in favor of
hearing any communication coming to the Conven
tion officially from the Legislature of any State.
Mr. MAZYCK withdrew his resolution, when,
on motion, it was laid on the table for tbe inform
ation of members.
Tnr. Resri-T to Western Pockets.— A contem
porary illustrates the effect ot Lincoln’s election
out West by pjting the case of one State. The
others are as bad, if not worse off.
“ Michigan gave Lincoln 20,000 majority. Mich
igan has 4,000,000 bushels of wheat to sell, which
before Lincoln’s election brought readily SI.OB.
It now is a drug at SO cts. The loss on 4,000,000
at 28 cents per bushel, amounts to the snug little
sum of one million one hundred and twelve thous
and dollars. This falls wholly on the farmers.
The same may be said of all the Wheat States.”
Tux Hon. Robert E. Scott, of Virginia, iu a let
ter to the editors of the Richmond Enquirer, ad
vocates the call of a State Convention, but declares
himself unalterably opposed to “that secession
which would Jeaye a diminished number of the
slavebolding States exposed, defenceless, to the
Federal power; and equally opposed to any form
of secession which would leave the present Fede
ral Government installed at Washington.”
Bates Accepts I.lncolu’e Appointment.
St. Lons, Mo., Dec. 21.—Tbo Daily Democrat i
soya that Bates haa accepted thq appointment of i
SMpfcrj Ml* ip Umvft
FOR THE JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
Letter from .fudge Stephens,
Sparta, 17th Dec’r, 1860.
Gentlemen Yonr letter of the 14th instant,
requesting me to address the citizens of yonr city
and county, on a day to be named by rue, i n rela
tion to the line of policy to be pursued in tbe pre
sent crisis of our country, is received. I have
received like applications from other quarters
and as circumstances which I need not mention
but which are controlling, will preclude a response
to any of thesp applications in the form of a -peed >
permit me to answer them all through you j ri
the form of a letter for the press. You ran giv e
it publication or not, just as you may deem or
not, that it contains any thing worthy of con
sideration. M> sole motive for writing it, j 9 t 0
give my views to those of my feiiow citizens who
desire to hear from me, in the only way which cir
cumstances leave to me. To-day our sister State
South Carolina, meets in solemn Convention to
decide upon her course in the present crisis. Not
withstanding the almost universal conviction to
the contrary, I do not believe that she will take
the step of immediate and unconditional seces
sion, leaving no door open for a review of tbe
whole ground in consultation with her Southern
sisters. My faith may be a blind one, but my be
lief that she will not do so, is founded on the
strong reason that she ought not. All of the slave
States have a common interest in this question,
and the action of either one will affect all tbe rest,
either for weal or for woe. It is not attempted to
be disguised, and could not be disguised if the at.
ternpt were made, that any State who may secede,
will go out of the Union with a strong reliance
upon her Southern sisters to support her against
any attempt which may }>e made to coerce her
back. Without that reliance, no State would go
out. Has any State, then, the right , in seeking a
remedy, to choose one which may depend for its
efficacy upon the co operation of other States, arid
which in case of the necessity, is expected, and
therefore intended, to draw those other States into
a collision with the Federal Government, without
first consulting these who are to be soT vitally
affected ? I do not hesitate to say that in my
judgment, any one Southern State ought to be
supported by all the rest, in any just and jtroprr
measure of redress which she may adopt; but for
the very reason that all ought to support it in case
of necessity, all ought to be consulted about it,
before it is adopted as a finality. It is ungenerous
and unjust for any State to take such action as is
expected and intended in a certain contingency, to
draw others into its consequences, without first
taking counsel with a’.l concerned, At the sams
time I believe that each State has a right to decide
her final action for herself, and that she would be
justified in coming to a decision and adopting &
course different from tbe majority, if she should
after consultation with the rest, deem that her
honor or her safety required it. The only limita
tion I mean to urge, upon separate State action, is
that as all are or may be involved in the conse
quences of such final action as may be taken by
either one, all ought to be consulted before final
action is taken by either one. This course com
mends itself to a sense of justice, generosity, and
State comity, and also to a regard for expediency
acd policy. The way to obtain a united South, ia
to make an effort for it.
My voice then is for a consultation and confer
ence among all the slaveholding States, as soon as
it can be obtained. In that conference, and in tbe
several State Conventions, and among all the peo
ple, there ought to prevail a determination to get
upon a common line of policy if possible, each be
ing willing to concede something cf bio own pre
ferred views, and each State wiiiing to advance one
step forward or to fall one step back, in order to
stand upon common ground, not surrendering any
principle, however, which any State may deem vi
tal to her honor or her safety. If this spirit shall
prevail, instead of denunciation and intolerance, I
believe that almost all, if not all, the Southern
States will be united upon a line of poliev where
all can consent to stand. Then, whether we re
main in the Union or go out of it, we shall avoid
the worst possible calamity of either coarse—the
calamity of discordant and hostile factions at home,
—leading to consequences which no patriot can
contemplate without horror and dread. For my
self, I confess that my preference is for remaining
in the Union, if we can get “ indemnity for {be
past and security for the future.” The great bulk
of the people in every State will sanction the sen
t:ment, but many are exclaiming that it can not be
done. I am not one of those who have lost all
hope. Let us at least make the effort. There is
nothing to be lost by it, and a great deal to be
gained. It may gain a concession of all that we
a;ay deem necessary from the North, but it will
certainly gain the cooperation—-the earnest, hear
ty and zealous co-operation—of a large body of
men at home, whose eo operation can not be had
on any other terms. Is there any man so blind
with passion, so eager to go out of the Union, that
he feels indifferent as to whether he shall have the
co-operation or the opposition of a very large num
ber of our fellow citizens, who feel our wrongs as
keenly as himself and arc as determined to redress
them ? To get siiph co-operation, what mao is so
bigoted in bis own views and so intojeraut of any
difference from them, that he can not sacrifice a
single shade of his preferred policy, when the con
cession is made to his friends, conceding nothing
to the enemy!
There are two leading reasons why I prefer to
remain in the Inion, can secure proper
terms. The firt is, the great uncertainty of tbe
if we gq out. What are we to have then *
A monarchy after the medei of England, or a mil
itary dictatorship, or a consolidated Republic with
all State linos blotted out and a general Congress
to do everything that is now done by Congress
and the State Legislatures, or anarchy, or what
are we to have? What leader has informed us of
his scheme? Nay more—how many leaders are
there Tnd how many schemes will be proposed *
Who is unmindful of the teachings oj history?
Remember the leaders whe have deluded the peo
ple with one scheme to break up the old order of
things, and adopted another when the old order
was broken up—using one as a watch-word to get
power and a very diff-‘rcnt one as tbe most efficient
engine of wielding it. Bonaparte struck for a Re
public and ended with an empire. What title have
we got to nn exemption from the fate which has
befallen other nations in the like circumstances ?
Is it racer I have hparu it said that the Anglo-
Saxon race ha3 a quality of steadiness and conser
vatism which always carries it safely through revo
lutions. Ilow has it been with England, the home
of that race? Witness her centuries of civil w us—
uot wars of national independence, but wars of
brother with brother to decide the choice between
tyrants. Cromwell, with the cry of liberty or his
lips, struck off the head of a tyrant, and took bis
place. When death had relaxed the grasp of
Cromwell’s iron hand, the people gladly returned
to the old dynasty from which he bad rescued
them. Their desolating wars wear the features of
struggles between the friends and the enemies of
liberty. Shall I be pointed to our own Revolution
as an instance to cheer us with better hopes?
And wfitt saved us, even at the end of that snug
gle, from a military empire or a king? Nothing
but the forbearance, the heroic forbearance of our
unequalled Washington. Where is the norl Wash
jpgton, to refuse the crown when it shall be of
fered to him? Besides, the instance is an unfor
tunate gne ; if indeed it be true as we are told from
high quarters, that this government which the He
volution gave us, “is a grand failure.” Who will
venture to tread where Washington failed? Wash
ington’s system depends for its success on the vir
tue and intelligence of the people. If it b&a failed^