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CAPTAIN FREMONT’S REPORT.
[CONTINUED.]
The prospects of the party were gloomy
enough on the 28th July, when a very discou
raging picture ol the country they were about
to explore was given them by a party oi In
dians ol the Oglallah band of Sioux :
“ The great drought, and the plague ol grass
hoppers, had swept it so that scarce a blade ol
grass was to be seen, and there was not a buffa
lo to be found in the whole region. Their peo
pie, they further said, had been nearly starved
to death, and we would find their road marked
by lodges which they had thrown away in
order to move more rapidly, and by the carcas
ses of the horses which they had eaten, or
which had perished by starvation. Such was
the prospect belore us.”
“ I called up my men, and communicated to
them fully the information I hadjusi received.
I then expressed to them my fixed determination
to proceed to the end ol the enterprise on which
I had been sent; but, as the situation of the
country gave me some reason to apprehend
that it might be attended with an unfortunate
result to some of us, I would leave it optional
with them to continue with me or return,
“Among them were some five or six who I
knew would remain. We had still ten days’
provisions; and, should no game be lound,
when this stock was expended we had our
horses and mules, which we could eat when
other means of subsistence failed. But not a
man flinched Itom the undertaking. ‘We’ll
eat the mules,’ said Basil Lajeunesse; and
thereupon we shook hands with our interpreter,
and his Indians, and parted.”
On the 30th, the narrative states —
“ We saw here numenus herds ol mountain
sheep, and frequently heard the volley oi rat
tling stones n hich accompanied their rapid
descent down the steep hills. This was the
first place at which vre had killed any of thfese
animals; and, in consequence ol this circum
stance, and of the abundance ol these sheep or
goats, (for they are called by each name.) we
gave to our encampment the name of Goat
Island. Their flesh is much esteemed by the
hunters, and has very much the flavor ol the
Alleghany mountain sheep. I have frequent
ly seen the horns of this animal three feet long
and seventeen inches in circumference at the
base, weighing eleven pounds. But two or
three of these were killed by our parly at this
place, and of these the horns were small. The
use of these horns seems to be to protect the
animal’s head in pitching down precipices to
avoid pursuing wolves—their only safety being
in idaces where they cannot be followed. The
bones are very strong and solid, the marrow
occupying but a very small portion of the bone
in the leg, about the thickness of a rye straw.
The hair is short, resembling the winter color
ol our common deer, which it nearly approach
es in size and appearance. Except in the
horns, it hasmo resemblance whatever to the
goat.” The latitude this day was 42° 33m.
275., longitude 107° 13m.295. ’
“ August I.—The hunters went ahead this
morning, as buffalo appeared tolerable abun
dant, and I was desirous to secure a small stock
of provisions; and we moved about seven miles
up ihe valley, and encamped one mile below
Rock Independence. This is an isolated granite
rock, about six hundred and fifty yards long,
and forty in height. Except in a depression of
the summit, where a little soil supports a scanty
growth ot shrubs, with a solitary dwarf pine,
it i.sentirely bare. Every where within six or
eight leet of the ground, where the surlace is
sufficiently smooth, and in some places sixty
or eighty feet above, the rock is inscribed with
the names ol travellers. Many a name famous
in the history of tl is country, and some well
know* to science, are to be lound mixed among
those of the traders and ol trave'lers (or pleasure
and curiosity, and ol missionaries among the
savages. Some ol these have been washed
away by the rain, but the greater number are
still very legible. The position ol this rock is
in longitude 107° 56m., latitude 42° 29m. 365.
“ We had to-night no shelter from the rain,
which commenced, with squalls of wind, abou 1
sunset. The country here is exceedingly pic
turesque. On either side ol the valley, which
is four or five miles broad, the mountains rise
to the height of twelve and fifteen hundred or
two thousand leet. On the south side the range
appears to be timbered, and to-night is luminous
with fires—probably the work of the Indians,
Who have just passed through the valley. On
the north, broken and granite masses rise
abruptly from the greensward of the river, ter
minating in a line of broken summits. Ex
cept in the crevices of the rock, and here and
i there on a ledge or bench ol the mountain,
where a lew hardy pines have clustered togeth
er, these are perfectly bare and destitute of
vegetation.
“Among these masses, where they are some
times isolated hills and ridges, green vallevs
open in upon the river, which sweeps the base
ol these mountains for thirty-six miles. Every
where its deep verdure and prolusion of beauti
ful flowers is in pleasing contrast with the
sterile grandeur ol the rock and the barrenness
of the sandy plain, wnich, from the right bank
of the river, sweeps up to the mountain range
that forms its southern boundary. The great
evaporation on the sandy soil ol this elevated
p ain, and the saline effl .rescences which
whiten the ground, and shine like lakes reflec
tlva/ion ” UD ’ a SOU Wh °‘ ly unfit for cul '
buffalo made
their appearance to-day, with herds of antelope ;
and a grizzly bear—the only one we encounter
ed during the journey —-was seen scrambling up
among the rocks. As we passed over a slight
rise near the river, we caught the first view'd
the Wind river mountains, appearing, at this
distance ol about seventy miles, to be a low
and dark mountainous ridge. The view dissi
pated in a moment the pictures which had been
created in our minds, by many descriptions of
travellers, who have compared these mountains
to the Alps in Switzerland, and speak of the
glittering peaks which rise in icy majesty
amidst the eternal glaciers nine or ten thou
sand leet into the region of eternal snows. The
nakedness of the river was relieved by groves
of willows, where we encamped at night, after
a march ot twenty-six miles; and numerous
bright-colored flowers had made the river bottom
look gay as a garden. We found here a horse,
which had been abandoned by the Indians be
cause his hoofs had been so much worn that he
was unable to travel; and, during the night, a
dog came into the camp.”
“ August 4. —Our camp was at the loot of the
granite mountains, which we climbed this
morning to take some barometrical heights;
■ Tfi-i—i riii ii ii r
and here among the rocks was seen the first
magpie. On our return we saw one at the
mouth of the Platte rivei. We led here one ol
our horses, which was unable to proceed fur
ther.”
August 7. —The expedition camped near the
South Pass of the Rocky Mountains.
“About six miles from our encampment
brought us to the summit. The ascent had
f been so gradual, that with all the intimate know
ledge possessed by Carson, who had made this
country his home for seventeen years, we were
obliged to watch very closely to find the place
at which we had reached the culminating point.
This was between two low' hills, rising on either
hand fifty or sixty feel. When 1 looked back
at them, from the foot of the immediate slope
on the western plain, their summits appeared to
be about one hundred and twenty leet above.
From the impression on my mind at this time,
and subsequently on our return, I should com
pare the elevation which we surmounted im
mediately at the Pass to the ascent to Capitol
hill from the avenue at Washington. It is diffi
cult for me to fix positively the breadth ol ihis
pass. From the broken ground where it com
mences, at the loot, of Wind river chain, the
view to the southeast is over a champaign
country, broken, at the distance of nineteen
miles, try the Table rock; which, withtheother
isolated hills in its vicinity, seems to stand on
a comparative plain. This 1 judged to be its
termination, the ndge recovering its rugged
character with the table rock. It will be seen
that it in no manner resembles the places to which
the term is commonly applied—nothing of the
gorge-5 ike character and winding ascents of the
Alleghany passes in America; nothing ol the
Great St. Bernard and Simplon passes in Eu
rope. Approaching it irum ihe mouth ol the
Sweet Water, a sandy plain, one hundred and
twenty miles long, conducts, by a gradual and
regular ascent, to the summit, about seven thou
sand leet above the sea ; and the traveller, with
out being reminded of any change by toilsome
ascents, suddenly finds himsell on the waters
which flow tothe Pacific Ocean. Bv the route
we had travelled, the dist nee from Fort Lara
mie is three hundred and twenty miles, or nine
hundred and fifty Irom the mouth ot the Kan
sas.
“Continuing our march, we reached, in eight
miles from the Pass, the Little Sandy, one ol
the tributaries o( the Colorado, or Green river
of the Gull of California. The weather had
grown fine during the morning, and we remained
here the rest ol the day, to dry our baggage and
lake some astronomical observations. The
stream was about forty leet wide, and two or
three deep, with cleat water and a lull swi(t
current, over a sandy bed. It was limbered with
a growth of low, bushy and dense \» illows,
1 among which were little verdant spots, which
gave our animals fine grass, and where 1 lound
a number of interesting plants. Among the
neighboring hills 1 noticed fragments of granite
containing magnc'ic iron. Longitude ol the
camp was 109°37 m. 59 sec, and latitude 12°
27 m. 34 sec.
“ August 10.—The air at sunrise is clear and
pure, and the morning extremely cold, but beau
tiful. A lolty snow-peak ol the mountain is
glittering in the first rays of the sun which has
not yet reached us. The long mountain wall
to the east, rising two thousand leet abruptly
from the plain, behind which we see the peaks,
is still dark, and cuts clear against the glowing
sky. A log just risen from the river lies along
the base of the mountain. A little belbte sun
rise the thermometer was at 35°, and at sunrise
33° Water 1' oze last night, and fires are very
comfortable. The scenery becomes hourly
more interesting and grand, and the view here
is truly magnificent, but, indeed, itneeds some
thing to repay the long prairie journey of a thou
sand miles. The sun has just shot above the
wall and makes a magical change; the whole
valley is glowing and bright, and all the moun
tain peaks are gleami. g like, silver. Though
these snow mountains are not the Alps, they
have their own character of grandeui and mag
nificence, and will doubtless find pens and pen
cils to do them justice. In the scene before us
wo (eel how much wood improves a view. The
mnes on the mountain seemed to give it much
additional beauty. I wasagreeablydisappoint
ed in the character ofthtfstreams on this side of
the ridge. Instead ot the creeks, which descrip
tion had led me to expect, I find bold, broad
streams, with three or four feet water, and a ra
pid current. Tha fork on which we are en
camped is upwards of a hundred feet wide, lim
bered with groves or thickets ol the low
willow. Wc were now approaching the loftiest
part of the Wind river chain ; and I left the val
ley a few miles from our encampment, intend
ing to penetrate the mountains as far as possi
ble with the whole party. We were soon in
volved in very broken ground, among long ridges
covered with fragments of granite. Winding
our way up a long ravine we came unexpected
ly in view of a most beautiful lake, set like a
gem in the mountains. The sheet of water lay
transversely across the direction we had been
pursuing; and, descending the steepr-' clrv ridge,
where it was necessary to lead our horses, we
followed its banks to the southern extremity,
tiercaview of the utmost magnificence and
grandeur burst upon our eyes. With nothing
between us and their feel to lessen the effect of
the whole height, a grand bed of snow-capped
mountains rose before us, pile upon pile, glow
ing in the bright light of an August day. Im
mediately below them lay the lake between two
ridges, covered with dark pines, which swept
down from the main chain to the spot where we
stood. Here, where the lake glittered in the
open sunlight, its banks of yellow sand and the
light foliage of aspen groves contrasted well
with the gloomy pines, 1 Never before/ said
Mr. Prei.ss, ‘ in this country or in Europe, have
I seen such magnificently grand rocks.’ I was
so mueh pleased with the beauty ol the place
that 1 determined to make the main camp here,
where our animals w'ould find good pasturage,
and exp.ore the mountains with a small party
ol men. Proceeding a little further, we cane
suddenly upon the outlet ol the lake, where it
found its way through a narrow passage be ween
low hills. Dark pines, which overhung the
stream, and masses of rock, where the water
• foamed along, gave it much romantic beauty.
Where we crossed, which was immediately at
the outlet, if is two hundred and fifty leet wide,
and so deep th ff with difficulty we were able to
lord it. Us bed was an accumulation of rocks,
boulders, and hr >ad slabs, and angular
fragments, am mg w h hit the animals fell
repeatedly, ffv current vas very swift and
the water cold and ot a cluysial purity.”
Land Reversion, and Teachers or Poor
Children,— To day, says the Georgia Journal
ol the 2d inst, the grant lees are reduced to
twenty-five dollars per lot, and it is believed
that several hundred will be immediately ap
plied for, and taken out. A very large number
of persons are present, and it is reasonable to
anticipate that there will be received by the
Treasurer, with what is already on hand, more
than enough to pay the Teachers of Poor children,
lor their services in 1842, and 1843. This use
ful class ot citizens, it affords us pleasure to
say, are indebted to the Whig Legislature, ot
1843, and to a Whig Executive, (Governor
Crawford) for a policy, which satisfies their
claims against the State ! Neglected, to say
the least ol it, by the previous Democratic Gu
veinoi and Democratic Legislature, they will
now reap their reward. How much more hon
oiablc and wise, is this provision for the pay
ment of Teachers of Poor Children, than for
the same amount to be placed in the Central
Bank, to be loaned out to party favorites or to
be otherwise unprofitably disposed of!
The Southern Recorder estimates the proba
ble receipts into the Treasury from this source
during the present month, at eighteen or twenty
thousand dollars.
(Jlljrcmtfle nnh Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, GA 7~
THU RSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 4.
FOR GOVERNOR;
GEORGE W. CRAW TOR D.
We had no Mail last night north of
Charleston.
“The people ot Georgia have now belorc
them the real and true grounds ot contest, in the
election which is now so near at hand. They
have these in the clear expositions ot our State
affairs, which have from time to time been
spread betore them, through the public press of
the Slate. These relate to the actual practical
working of the ship ot State, when the helm has
been controlled by each ot the parlies. It has
been substantiated by proofs which neither have,
nor can be overthrown, that the administration
ot the present Executive, who is now betore the
people for re-election, has been one of the most
happy in its effects upon the general interests
of the State, as well as one of the most economi
cal and laborious, which has ever distinguished
the history of the country.
“ It has been shown that whatever efficiency
coukl perform, has been performed by the present
State Government, to reform what required re
form, and to reinstate the character and pros
perity of the country; and that the people need
not hope fora more propitious administration ol
their public affairs, for all time to come, than
that of the last two years. And it remains for
them to declare whether they are tired of sound
government, and arc determined to go back to
what they have so lately experienced. It is for
them to decide, whether State credit is to be
maintained, and plain, sound, prudent govern
ment to be perpetuated ; or whether the former
rule of recklessness and ruinous experimenting
and humbnggery is to substitute it.
“We say humbuggery , emphatically, for it
does seem to us that our opponents will live
and die by their favorite system of humbug.—
And as one of the most striking exemplifica
tions of this fact, witness the proposed Septem
ber general jollification a few days prior to the
election, and to which is tagged the name of
Texas !!—And for what is this? Texas was
annexed by Congress last spring. It was con
summated by the action ot Texas somewhere
about the 4th of July last. And on the Satur
day preceding our State elections in October,
our opponents are to have a barbacue Texas
jubilee! If this is not humbug palpable, what
does the word humbug mean?”
What say you, voters of Georgia, to the fore
going remarks of the Southern Recorder ? Are
they true? Is it true that the Whig press of the
State have laid before you the true grounds of
contest in the approaching election ? Have the
Whig press shown to you by proofs which have
not been and cannot be successfully controvert
ed, that the administration of Gov. Crawford
has been one of the most happy in its effects
upon the general interests ot the State, as well
as one of the most economical that has ever
distinguished the history of Georgia ? Is it
true that they have shown to you, by testimony
taken from the record, that much oi the disaster
lo which you have been subjected, was the re
sult of the mal-administration of the democrats?
Aye, and is it true, that Gov. Crawford has
accomplished all thrt could be done, in the short
space ot two years, towards reforming the
abuses that had crept into the administration of
Ihe affairs ot the State?
These things are all true—aye, and much
more—with all of which the intelligent and pa
triotic voters of Georgia are quite familiar. 1-
it not strange, then, people of Georgia, that any
portion of our citizens should seek to displace
-'itch a public officer as Governor Crawford,
to place in his stead one who is untried, and
greatly deficient, aye, entirely wanting, in ex
perience? ’Tis, in feed, passing strange, and
still more strange to observe the means used to
divert the minds of the intelligent voters from
the investigation of the real question at issue
before the people. Why is this? Are they
aware that the democratic administration of the
affairs of the State have been so bad that they
cannot defend themselves successfully before
the people? ’Tis even so. Hence the aversion
of the democrats and their leading organs to the
local affairs of the State, and their seeking to
evade by every possible means, the discussion ot
Slate politics—hence the anxiety to drag 'ntothe
present canvass, Oregon, Texas, the Tariff, &c.,
as though the election of a Governor had any
thing lo do with settling these grave questions.
People ot Georgia, are you to be gulled by
such clap-trap devices of demagogueism as this?
Will you resign yourselves voluntarily in
to the hands and control of those who de
sire to dictate to you for whom you shall,
and for whom you shrill not vote? If not>
if you are still free and independent, ask those
would-be leaders, who seek to dictate to you,
what a Governor of Georgia has lo do with the
Oregon, Texas or Tariff questions? What
vote can he give—what influence can he exer
cise in their adjustment ? And then hear their
answers. But before you leave them, interro
gate them as to G iv, Crawford’s administra
tion; ask them to point out to you in what he
has done wrong, or omitted to do what the law
and the interests of the State and her people de
manded at his hands? Aye, ask them these
things, and, it you piease, hear their answers.
Heed those answers well, and mark how they
smack of unadulterated demagogueism—how
they savor of a love of office for the sake of the
emolument it confers, and not from any desire
to render the people more prosperous or happy.
Need we repeat toyou, voters of Georgia, that
you have a faithful, honest and capable Gover
nor, in the person of George W. Crawford—
one who is ever vigilant and watchful in guard
ing your interests—one who seeks, by all the
means and power which the laws confer on
him, lo fender you prosperous and happy?—
Need wc repeat these things to you ? We
think not. We feel that you are too intelligent
not fully to appreciate his able and impartial
administration, and we feel confident that you
are too watchful of your own and the great in
terests of the State, to exclude such a faithful
public servant from your service. You are too
familiar with the truth of that aphorism “let
well enough alone,” to desire lo introduce into
your service a new and untried man, who
comes no better recommended than Mr. Mc-
Allister. Such an acton your part, ali prudent
men would pronounce rash—aye, the extreme
of folly. See, then, that you ate not guilty ol
such rashness and such tolly.
Democracy and Whiggery—ov Parties
Contrasted according to their Acts.
The following article from the Macon Mes
senger deserves- lo be read by every voter in
Georgia, and we commend it to every reader ol
the Chronicle Sentinel.
“A Gubernatorial election, together with an.
election in each county respectively, for mem
bers ot the General Assembly, is now at hand.
Gov. Crawford is the Whig anil McAllister the
Democratic candidate for the Executive chair.
What inquiries should be made and answered
in order to enable each independent voter, to vole
understanding!}', irrespective of the misrepresen
tations ot interested demagogues? Mr. Craw
ford has been our Governor for two years. Has
he been the people’s faithful steward? Has he
not returned the talents which he has received?
Yea, has not he that received but one talent, re
funded ten? We appeal to even the most un
generous of his opponents for an answer. We
indeed are willing to risk the result of the ap
proaching elections upon this issue. Point to
one solitary act of Crawford, since he has been
in his present unbought post of honor, which any
disinterested patriot Georgian dare condemn, and
we yield Sampson to the Philistines. What
lias he done against the interest of the State?
What has he left undone which it has been in
his power to perfotrn for the good and the honor
of the State ? Let the honest hard-fisied farmers
who pay the taxes of the State reply. Has he
not restored to par—dollat for dollar—the Cen
tral Bank bills which McDonald and his party
had reduced to forty per cent, discount? Did
not (hose bills constantly depreciate during the
administration of McDonald, whose only re
commendation was his electioneering smile? But
lo and behold, within two short mouths alter
Crawford’s election, those same bills were
equivalent, each dollar, to the Spanish milled
dollar—one hundred cents. Under the adminis
tration of McDonald, and all his Democratic
predecessors in office, the State Penitentiary
was a constant drain upon the Public Treasury.
Crawford has made it a source of profit , and by
means of the revenue thus derived has materi
ally diminished the debt which the Democratic
parly had incurred on account of that Institu
tion. Under Democratic misrule, the Poor
School Fund, intended for the substantial educa
tion of the children of the Poor, was squandered,
basely squandered to the material injury of those
for whose benefit it was intended—the teacher
were left unpaid, and the poor children remained
uninstructed, although the false-hearted pseudo
statesmen who have so long misruled the De
mocracy, were ever trumpeting their love for
the dear people—forever declaring their sympa
thy lor the poor. Gov. Crawfoid has investiga
ted this subject—he has caused the Commis
sioners of the Poor School fund lo make theii
reports according lo law—he has inquired into
all abuses touching this grama nuercst of the
poor men ot the Slate. So far as he has been
able he has corrected those abuses, and if Geor
gia be, as we have no doubt she will again be,
blessed with a Crawford and a sterling Whig
Legislature, the Poor will again receive tht
blessings of good education, their children will
again rejoice in the light ot science and letters
This, according lo the Whig doctrine, is the pre
rogative of the poor, and according to Whig
practice wherever it has prevailed over dema
gogueism, this invaluable right, the education o.
their children, has been accorded to the poor.
“ Under the Democrats—the State credit was
prostrated—Georgia was under protest for a
heavy debt contracted tinder the reign of our op
patients, for some i|300,000. The Democrats
had not the honesty or political firmness at once
to relieve the State of that indebtedness by the
only legitimate means, taxation. The Whig
went into power in 1840, under this slate of as
fairs.
“ They at once, patriotically and honestly de
termined, without reference to their own party
ascendancy, to relieve the State and people from
the enormous burden in the way of interest ,
which was!hen being paid upon the public debt.
A tax was therefore laid by the Legislature of
1840 Upon that tax, sounded the cry ol “Me
Donald and Relief;” the Whigs were in 1841
displaced, and the Democrats again came into
power. They had promised the people to re
lieve them from the tax, which their own ill-ad
vised legislation had made necessary. They
deceived the people, wilfully and with malice
aforethought. They pass a law reducing this
tax 20 per cent., with the full understanding that
it is to be, as was done, veined by their Governor
The Legislature of 1842, which also promised
and pledged to remove said tax, raised the same
twenty-five per cent. So that the poor man, who,
under the Whig administration of 1840, paid
one dollar, under the Democrats in 1842, paid
one dollar and twenty-five cents tax. That was
McDonald’s Relief and Democracy. Yet the
tax so raised Irom the people, was squandered
upon public printers and other political favorites
and hirelings, and the public debt, upon which
the same people were paying interest, was re
duced but little, if any. Well, Crawford and
the Whigs again came into power. Immedi
ately public credit revived; State Bonds, which
had been hawked through both the home and
foreign markets, advanced in value; the public
debt began to be reduced; the interest thereon was j
punctually paid, and Georgia oncf> more, un
der Crawford’s wise Whig administration j
stands “redeemed, regenerated and disenthral
led” from the blot which had been cast upon her
escutcheon—a blot almost as foul as that of
Mississippi repudiation—-a h*.ot which Democ
racy placed upon our coat ot arms, and which
Crawford and the Whirls have most nobly
erased.
“It is a wise maxim, which we believe origi
nated with the immortal Franklin, (a good
Whig,) “let well alone.” Then, if State af
fairs, under the pre sent administration, are pro
gressing as we wish, we will be more than fool
ish to attempt a change. A patient of good
sense who was reduced to a crisis by the pre
scriptions of quacks, and has sine e been restored
to health by a skilful physician, would be insane
voluntarily to go back from life unto death .
Such, wo say, and believe qn all honesty
heart, will be the folly of the people of Georgia,
to return from a sound Whig administration,
which has carried “healing upon its wings,”
and placed the Stale among the proudest of the
proud, to political quacks, who reduced us to the
lowest point of national distress and degrada
tion, and who cate nothing lor the “dear pco
pie,” provided they, the ofice seekers and aspirant $
for place , can be ‘ clothed with a little brief au
thority.’ Oh, that Georgia may distinguish
between her true and her false friends, and not
suffer herself to be betrayed by the treacherous
kisses (it may be in some instances) of unprin
cipled fortune-hunters .”
The Mexican War.
“Therefore, we say. that the papers of the W hig
party are pursuing a most suicidal policy.
Their utter silence as to all generous feeling
upon the subject of war—their constant denun
ciations ol the measure of Texan annexation—
the manifest disposition of all of them still to be
vociferous in their condemnation ol the policy
which they presume will involve us in war, and
the wild abase heaped by a portion of them at
the North upon the whole project from its first
inception, down to the present time, as being
suggested by the basest designs, arid upneld for
what they conceive to be the blackest of objects,
will, as surely as cause produces effect, kill
their party forever in case of a war.”
The above we clip from Mr. McAllister’s or
gan (the Savannah Georgian) of Saturday
last, not with any hope of inducing the writer
to correct the misstatements which the article
contains, but with the view, says the Republi
can, of exposing its disingenuousness and the
gross slanders which it promulges against the
Whigs of Georgia.
Only a few sentences after uttering the above
broad and sweeping charges against the Whig
press, and by inference against the members ol
that party, as a body, the writer adds •
“In no spirit of hypocracy might we -say to
those of the Whig leaders, who are thus prov
ing themselves false to every emotion of a lofty
patriotism, ‘Go on, gentlemen, you are only
ruining yourselves i’ The people of Georgia
will have no disposition to occupy' a similar
page in their country’s history, with the Hart
lord Conventionists of former days. If a war
should come, they will go for their country first
—for their party afterwards. They will not
merge the title of an American Ireeman, con
tending for the honor of his country’s flag, in
'hat ©f a partisan Whig, fighting for the re
election of George W. Crawford.”
Here then is the whole charge brought to the
simple proposition, as we understand it, that
the Whigs of Georgia ate opposed to a Mexican
War; and therefore should be ranked, v:ilh the
Hartford Conventionists of 1813.
So grave a charge as this deserves to be sus
tained by something more than the mere asser
tion of an unknown writer. It should be backed
by some evidence of its truthfulness. We un
dertake to aver that he has spoken not only
without the record but in direct contradiction of
the facts, as they have plainly and palpably
been made known to the reading public gene
rally. We must in charily suppose him at the
same lime to be utterly ignorant of the senti
ments of the Whig press as well as of the Whig
party of Georgia, in regard to the question of
which he writes. Tnat press has not only
spoken out promptly, but constantly in favor ol
a vigorous and decisive prosecution of the war,
I but it has be.en decidedly in advance of the Dem
ocratic papers on that point. The truth is, the
democracy have been disappointed at the
promptness and patriotism ol Ihe Whigs in
.-oming up to the aid of their country, right or
wrong. It has been supposed that, an annexa
tion war would be popular, and that if they
could force the Whigs into a false position on
he question they might carry their candidates
mto office. They are perfectly willing to see
heir countrymen divided on this war question,
-rovided thy can thereby secure the loaves and
fishes. At this moment, we have before a
copy of the Albany Patriot, in which the editor
finds serious fault with ns for presuming to bid
he Democracy God-speed in their Annexation
jubilees! He regards it as the height of pre
-.umption in us, as good citizens, to offer obe
iienceto the laws and to yield our assent to a
measure the consummation “of which we op
posed.” He even finds fault with us for sug
gesting that these jubilees should be made na
tional and not political. He thin!*? the glory
belongs solely to the Democracy, and that they
should have the jollification to themselves. Be
it so. These men, it seems, are not only deter
mined to exclude the Whigs from their jubilees,
but they are about to denounce them as Hart
ford Conventionists, because they have not run
head long to do the fighting of the country,
while the Democracy remained at home to en
joy their annexation jollifications and revel in
the spoils of office. Even if the Whigs had
been a little dilatory in marching forward to the
aid o! such a party, they would not have been
culpable—they might perhaps have been ex
cusable (or acting as did the French towards the
faithless Greeks, who crept over the sides of
their vessels and attempted to rob under cover
of darkness, the men who had gone to rescue
them from the power of the Turks.
But this charge against the Whigs is utterly
without foundation. We assert it as an indis
putable fact, that the Whig presses of the State
of Georgia, without a dissenting voice, have
spoken openly, boldly, and unequivocally in
favor of sustaining the act of annexation, and
of taking active measures to secure a prompt
expulsion of the Mexicans from Texas in ease
of an invasion. They have shown no luke
! warmness—they have maintained no silence—
j they have spoken out boldly and fearlessly—and
their very forwardness to defend and sustain
J their country is at the bottom of this unprinci
pled aback upon their patriotism. Even the
very article from the Columbus Enquirer, from
which a garbled extract is taken, abounds in
sentiments of devotion to the country, in respect
to a Mexican war. We give two paragraphs,
to show that the Editor entertains no such sen
timents as are attributed to him in the discon
nected paragraph copied into the organ:
“ Be it remembered that our motto, the motto
of the Whig parly, is the echo of the sentiment
of our own gallant Tattnall, “a'ways right if
possible, but always for our country, whether
right or wrong.” Without pretending to claim
for the Whig party, all the patriotism and pub
lie spirit of the country, we will say. they are of
the blond of the old Whigs of the Revolution,
who achieved liberty for their children, and
came at the clarion call of Henry Clay of Ken
tucky, to the rescue of the nation’s honor, in the
second war of independence.
“ They have inherited, it is true, their fathers'
hatred of all national wrong and injustice- k
as the paramount sense of duty, obedience r
the voice ol their country, when she summon*
hei sons to strife with their foes—we ask tl ,
we care not whether the grandson of a Bulk ° ■
a descendant of Washington sits in the place °(
authority, our country, our country, “ with i°i
thy faults, we love thee still;” and when the
drum beats to arms, no matter whether it be t
seal the iniquitous “annexation” of a disnnt d
territory ol a liiend and neighbor, by the sh i
ding of her blood, or to resent the insults of am
ancient and twice beaten enemy, the Wt J
will come with true American hearts and han!f. S
foremost to the fight.”
Are these the sentiments which the sapient
writer thinks “will be met in every quarter of the
Stale with (he simple monosyllable shame' . tM
shame!” If so, who will be most likely « De
branded as Hartford Conventionists by the people
of Georgia?
Speaking of the course ol the Northern press
on this war question, would it not be well for
the Democracy to look to their own papers?
What say they to such language as this, even
from the Albany Argus, the leading Democratic
organ in New-York? That paper says;
•Tt would be well for such politicians to re
member that war is not as popular as in formes
times. People begin to rest ct and compare its
results belore they plunge into its miseries ft
is perceived that wars undertaken for the extension
of dominion exalt the leaders and managers while
they crush and impoverish the masses. ° ’
“ The trappings ol the war horse and the glit
ter of armed legions, tickle the fancy and please
the eye, but people see tha ithey place a leaden
weight upon the hand of honest labor. It is lor
this reason that true statesmen regard wars un
dertnken for such selfish purposes as one of the
GREATEST EVILS' THAT CAN AFFLICT A COUNTRY/’
Does this show that the Northern Democratic
press is in favor of such a war? Here is anoth
er specimen from the Democratic Review, for
August. The writer says:
“ That the negotiation with Texas hasbeen
a sad issue of diplomatic blundering; and that
the object in view might have been more satis
factorily accomplished had ‘counselsless vio
lent, less rude, less one-sided, less eager in pre
cipitation from motives widely foreign to the
national question,’ presided over the earlier
-tages of the affair. The Review even goes
farther and says: “ We have yet laid ourselves
open to a great deal of denunciation hard to re
pel, and impossible to silence; and all history
will carry it down as a certain lact, that Mexico
would have declared war against us, and would
have waged it seriously, if she had. not been pre
vented by that very weakness which should have
constituted, her best defence.”
We have not room, in this article, to array the
sentiments ol the leading Whig papers at the
North on this War question. The Boston Atlas,
the New-York Express, the New-York Courier
& Enquirer, the National Intelligencer, the Phil
adelphia U. S. Gazette, and the Baltimore Ame
rican, and the Patriot, have all spoken, and
spoken most patriotically on the subject. Only
such papers as the Tribune, and a few others
if like character, whose editors run mad after
every passing humbug, have taken other than
proper and national grounds on the subject—but
what is their, influence compared with the Alba
ny Argus and the Democratic Review, papers
having a leading influence with the Democratic
party, and read in every section of the Union.
Let the Democracy look out. The defection on
the Mexican question will not eome from the
Whigs. As Mr. McAllister said about Aboli
tionism, in the wheat-growing regions, “the
cloud is over their own heads,” and there is no
telling how soon it may burst ujion them. The
difficulty is with themselves, and Jet them look
to it.
Mr. McAllister’s Republicanism.
We desire, says the Georgia Journal, tosee
Georgia b\' the side of Republican Georgia,and not
oy the side of Republican Virginia. Our State
is free, sovereign, and independent, and when
ever, in local affairs, she is placed by Mr Mc-
Allister, side by side with his, so called, Republi
can Virginia, thousands ot the free voters of our
Siate will rue the day, and anathematize the
man. What! place Georgia, by his election,,
side by side with Virginia? Are the free vo
ters of our State prepared for this? Do they
know, that, in Republican Virginia, a man must
BE A FREEHOLDER, OR HE CANNOT VOTE? Do
they know, that a poor man, however intelli
gent, however patriotic, however much he mat
have
“Braved the battle and the breeze,”
in defence of Liberty, has no voice, no vote; but,
while he is compelled to shoulder his musket
and fight for the rights of his State, others, the
favorites of fortune, and they alone, enjoy the
privilege ot choosing their rulers? But thi>
not all? In Virginia, the landholder can tote
in every county in the State where he pos>u
ses a lew acres of land. Ten, twenty tii' lo -:
may he vote, if he can get to the polls to do so
while th epoor man cannot vote once. Is Ueoi
gia to be placed, side by side, with Virginia, m
these respects? Are the free voters ot otn ® taie
lobe proscribed, and the power to be wie.ki
by lordly aristocrats? If not, what does Mi
: McAllister mean, by placing his State, side b\
‘ side, with “Republican Virginia?
‘ Look to these things, people of Georgia! 1
they are ; meaning expressions—mere “dap
' traps ” put forth to gull the people,-treat them as
■ they deserve. Georgia is Republican enough a
! she now stands. She needs no pattern-ami.
1 least of all, such a one as Mr. McAllister m
1 selected. The oppression by .Virginia of her off'
1 poor, si ows what she would do, it she were so
preme-if she wielded 'he sceptre over t«
■ whole Union. Rather lei her people take |*
tern from Republican Georgia, and stn e
their rights! Rather let her Governor >«m
the Republican spirit ot a Crawford,
scorns to trample upon the rights and pi*
r ufthe poor!
-Gsn. ai.KM.-The Charleston ***>£
yesterday says,-We And m the la *‘ ,
something still more pointed than we M fl(
before louching the position of the e
the South-western Division. The Union P
"The fact is, that Gen. G. has actec |hcy
orders; and. be his motives as P ur ‘ censll re
may, they cannot exempt him trom . , <. ar my
of the Executive, The command ' , am (
of observation” was given to Gen. meddled
General Gaines ought never to ha
with his command.” . fln o i,t
It seems hard to join in a cry again
and honest soldier. But a * ca u
and have Irom the first, that Gen- Ta ut re
was without sufficient cause, we ..ig cU ]t]f
gret any excitement which adds to i
ol keeping the peace.