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(Eri-Ulcckln Cljtroiuclc & Sentinel
BY WILLIAM S. JONES
anirontde ans Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, GA;
SATURDAY HORNING,....AUGUST 30
The Right of Secession*
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The authority of Mr. Calhoun on the
perpetuity of the Union, though not so direct,
is equally conclusive. He held the resump
tion of her delegated powers "a “b reach of
compact for which the State as a community
would be responsible, and not its citizens in
dividually, page EO3 ” The thought of de
nying Stale responsibility never occurred to
him. But we quoted the sentence for the pur
pose of showing Calhoun’s opinion upon
the duration of the Constitutional compact.
If each State had resumed the right to with
draw from the Union at any time, how could
such withdrawal (the inoie resumption of her
delegated powers) be a ‘breach of compact 7”
Mr. C. evidently considered the Constitution
to be a compact of perpetual obligation, by"
which the States agreed among themselves te
delegate certain powers to the General Gov
ernment, the resumption of which powers
would be a breach of such compact.
The whole argument it will be has
been directed not against the right of seces
sion for a breach of tho Constitutional com
pact, but of secession at the mate will of the
Slate* The latter doctrine is mere sheer
anarchy. The right to secede for breach of
the compact, we grant in its full extent, the
breach to be judged of by t‘ie State. Not
only has the State the right for a breach of the
compact to withdraw from the Union, but to
compel restoration of any losses incurred by
the breach. Her right to redress, as well as
withdrawal, is as unquestionable as that of the
remaining States. It is precisely co-equal to
theirs—does not fall below it—does not exceed
it. The General Government has no right to
resist her withdrawal from the Union for a
breach of the Constitution. If she withdraw
without such breach, she is herself guilty in
the opinion of Mr. Calhoun of a breach of
compact, for which she is responsible as a
State.
The question, whether there) has been a
breach of the Constitution 7 tyice decided in
the ailirmative, the General Government has
no right to interfere with the seceding State.
If this question be differently decided by the
State and Geueral Government, there is no
common arbiter to decide between them. If
the co-States undertake to decide, which is
their right in the last resort, they too are not
arbiters, hut parties, and liable to err. Their
right is no more final and exclusive than that of
the single State. The party which has made
a wrong decision is in the wrong, but whose
province is it to decido which that is f Nor
does the absurd position of the Southern
Rights party, denying to the remaining States
not only tho exclusive, but the equal right of
judgment, carry with it a solitary practical ad
vantage. If the Government decides the
question of peace or war dishonestly, when
that question is involved in the decision of the
occasion of secession—then if the right of
secession were granted it would decide dis
honestly on any frivolous pretext, immediate
ly after the State left the Union. The proper
decision of the question of secession is as
much based on good faith, as tho proper de
cision of any other matter between States.
If a Stato should secede, and her separate in
dependence be distinctly acknowledged by the
Uuited States, what would hinder the latter
from feigning a cause of war the next day
thereafter f Nothing but honesty and good
faith. Would she have acquired any more of
these in the course of the day 1
The obvious truth is, that among nations
having no common umpire, the honesty and
good faith of the stronger nation is the sole
security of the weaker. What solitary rea
son can be advanced against the right of the
Government of the United States to judge
of this question of secession, which cannot be
urged with precisely the same force against
its right to decide any question whatever in a
controversy with a weaker nation 7 Are not
the relative strength—tho relative wisdom—
the relative honesty of the parties the same
before as after the separation T
If the General Government decides wrong
ly, and interferes with the State which has
had a justifiable occasion to secede, then is the
General Government guilty of an aet of op
pression. The security against a wrong de
cision on this point is identical with the securi
ty against a wrong decision on any point
which might arise within a mouth after seces
sion. Nor has the General Government any
higher or better right to make war upon the
State when in her opinion she has violated the
compact, than has the State to make war on
her, when she, the General Government has,
in tho opinion of the State, violated it.
What but moral restraints defend tho weak
nation against tho strong 7 All those moral
restraints which would prevent the United
States from invading South Carolina were she
a distinct nation, obtain now in preventing a
dishonest and erroneous decision of the pre
sent question. We have dwelt so long upon
this point because so much insisted on by oar
opponents.
If the contest were a different one, so that
prejudice was excited on the other side of the
question, or there was entire freedom from
prejudice, the decision would bo reversed and
the equal right to judge and act on that judg
ment conceded to both parlies. Suppose the
question arose on the refusal of Ohio to de
liver up fugitive slaves. Suppose Ohio de
cided to secede rather than deliver them, and
that Kentucky should demand of her aißter
States to enforce the Constitutional obligation,
| Kentucky would say “I have an interest in the
observation of the troa./ between tho States.
If Ohio socedes, she may not choose again to
enter into such a compact. At all events, I
have rights under (he treaty, lam determined
uot to jeopard.” Suppose Kentucky to de
mand aid of her sister States, through their
agent the General Government, in the en
forcement of the treaty stipulation. Would
she not be clearly entitled to it 7 Whether it
would be expedient for her, in all insta uces—
whether she would care to demand it, or not —
she would have tho clear right to do so.
Wo have endeavored to prove in tho first
place, that the Union is, and was iutended to
be perpetual; this we prove Ist by the law of
nations. We argued tho point briefly but
quoted no authority. The authority for the
assertion is to be found in Vatteil, page 205.
We quote the following authority.
“By another general Division of treatus or
alliances, they are dis'inguished into personal
and real." “ A personal alliince expires with
him who contracted it.”
A real alliance attaches to the the body of
' the State, and subsists as long as the State,
unless the period of its duration has been lim
ited.”
Every alliance made by a Republic is iu its
own nature real, for it relates only to the body
of the State.”
The latter fact is obvious, from the fact that
there is no monarch over a republic to form a
personal treaty or alliance. All treaties or alli
ances by a republic are real, and subsist as long
as the State, unless the period of thoir duration
is limited. Tho argument is conclusive beyond
all controversy, ami could be extended, and
the authority extended, ad libitum. The point,
however, is too plain to need further illustra
tion. We have fortified it, so far as Amer can
authori y<:an go, by the direct assert on of the
Father of the Constitution, Mr. Madison, as to
-the meaning of the instrument and tho interest
of the parties, as well as by irresisdble infer
ence from Mr. Calhoun, who, in the opinion
of moderL illuminati, would, along with Mad
ison, probably bo branded as a Federalist.
That the Constitution, though in ended to be
perpetual, loses its obligations, as any treaty
would, by its own breach, to ba judged of by
the parties, with the responsibility of each for
its decision, we have not donied, but aflirmod,
and do now strongly affirm.
The equal right of each to judge of tho limits
of the powers of each, wo hv' o argued on its
own merits, and clinched the argument with a
powerful defence of such equal right offered in
tho Senate by the Hon. John C. Calhoun.
We havo finally shown that this question of
the rights and responsibilities of secession has
no greater or other difficulties than any other
dispute between nations having no common
umpire. The absurdity of denying their equal
rights of judgment on this question, does not
save the State from any harm to which she will
not be exposed immediately after her seoesiion
from the cupidity or dishonesty of her power
ful neighbor. The disparity of power between
two powers has nothing to do with the ques
tions of right between them. The strong na
tion has rights neither greater nor less than the
weak. If tempted by streDgth to do injustice
in deciding upon the right of secession, tho
same strength and as good excuses could bo
found for making war after that right had been
conceded.
Many of the South mi Rights party will deny
that the position assigned them in this argu
ment is their correct and true position. If
they abandon it we are careloss to convict them
of it. All that we have desired, has been to
spread before the country the truth upon this
subject. If the truth had enemies who have
abandoned their enmity, we shall not endeavor
to renew it. Well and good. If the above
doctrines be so true as to have forced the assent
of all thinking men, we shall not have lost our
labor in spreadin? it before those who may net
have thought sufficiently upon it. We have
argued it, however, mainly because unless ren
dered very plain, our Southern Rights friends
so speak and write of it, as to lead to the fol
lowing false inferences: Ist. That the right of
secession is based on the mere sovereign will of
the Slate, instead of an infraction of the Con
stitution. 2d, Amounts to the same thing—that
the Constitution was not intended, while un
infringed, to be perpetual. 3d. That each State
had the exclusive right ol judging and acting
on its judgment, unchecked by any like right
in the remaining States, and that the contrary
doctrine is dangerous and uo’rue. Let them
retract these assertions or deny these infer
ences, and we shall not be far apart upon this
right of secession.
As to the attempt of tho Southern Rights
party to press into the service of their new and
heretofore unheard of doctrines, the Virginia
and Kentucky Resolutions, it is indicative of
nothing but audacity. The Virginia Resolu
tions, so far from sustaining Secession «.t the
mere will of the State, asserted that “ in case
of a deliberate, palpable , and dangerous exer
cise of other power r not granted by the said com
pact, the States, who are the parties thereto,
nave the right, and a e in duty bound, to inter
pose for arresting the progress of the evil, and
for maintaining within their respective limits,
the authorities, rights and liberties appertain
ing to them.” What this “ right to interpose”
meant, is to be found in the Report of 1799,
explaining and defending the Resolutions of
’99. Secession is n>t even remotely hinted at.
Mr. Mad.son, the author of the report, tho au
thor, though not the offerer, of the Resolutions,
has been quoted by us to show his opinions,
favorable to our views, of the perpetuity of
the compact.
Where the right contended for by the South
ern Rights party is to be found in the Kentucky
Resolutions, is equally a matter of mystery
Speaking of the Constitution, the Ist resolution
says: “That to this compact, each State acce
ded as a State, and is an integral par'y, its co-
States forming as to itself the other party.”—
AUGUSTA, GA. SUNDAY MOItNING, AUGUST 31. 1851.
Like the panics to any other treaty, the parties
to the Constitution have each the right to judge,
subject to the equal right of the other party to
judge—and each party responsible to tho other,
if not for tho correctness of its decisions—at
any rate, for tho correctness of its action upon
that decision. Tho oxc'usivo right of judg
ment exists, we repeat it, no where.
The largest merchant vessel ever built was
launched at New York on tho 13th inst. She is
a clipper ship, called the Trade Wind, and is 263
feet long, 42 feet breadth of beam, and 23
feet hold. Sire is destined for the California
trade.
Thikd Ward. —At a meeting of the Con
stitutional Union party of the thir d ward, the
followitrg gentlemen were nom nated as dele
gates to tho County Convention, to be held on
the first Tuesday in September, for the pur
pose of nominating candidates to the Legisla
ture, vix: II- 11. Cum ming, VV E. Jackson,
Wm. R. Richmond, John Cashin.
Mr. Cobb in Atlanta.
The following notice of Mr. Cobb’s speech
ia Atlanta we copy from the “Inntetligencer
On Friday evening last the 22nd inst., in pursu
ance cf previous appointment, Hon. Howell Cobh,
addressed our citizens on the political topics of the
day. The audience was large aud much inter-.st
was e*h bited by the people in their anxiely to hear
the remarks which he urged on tlie occasion. His
positions were all substantially the same as those put
forward in his letters and other speeches del vered
during liie campaign. He declared himseifopon the
Georgia Platform, and in regard to the Compromi.se
measures he declared them all such as the South
could honorably acquiesce in. Iu fact, every mea
sure received upproval except the admission of Cali
fornia as a State, and in that he saw nothing vio
lative ofthe consti'utioai rights of the South, althoug i
ho would have preferred to h: ve her remain a few
years under territorial government before being ad
mitted as a State.
He held that tin South ha 1 received all, and even
more, than she had demanded of Congress. The
South had demanded non-intervention and had got
it at the bands of Congress I—thot Southern men
could go at aoy time with their slave property into
the territories of Utah and New Mexico—that it had
always been held by his party that the Mexican
laws wou'd be abrogated upon the organization of a
territorial government over the country. He did
not say whether he himself believed that the Mexican
laws were in force or not. We would have been
glad to hear Mr. Cobb express his own present be
lief on that subject. Altogether the Ex-Speaker’s
address was a strong one and his arguments were
enforced with much log’crl precision. It gave very
general satisfaction among his friends.
Ameetinowss held by the Constitutional
Union Party, at the shop of Robt. Wiggins,
Erq in the 123 District—Dr. James T. Bar
ton, Frederick R. Shaw, Lewis A L Hois
ciair and Alfred Sego, were appointed dele
gates, and were requested to attend a conven
ven'ion, to bo held in Augusta, on tho second
of September next, to nominate candidates to
represent this county in the next Legislature.
Small Pox in Oglethorpe.
A correspondent of the Athens Herald, wri
ting from Lexington, under date the 23J inst.,
says:
11 There have been a few, say five or six new cases
of small pox in the county during the past week;
but they are confined entirely to the localities
where it has been since its first apj earauce. In
town, the case reported is doing well—convalescing
very fast—as in fact are all the others with perhaps
one exception. Our place is ns dull as a meat-axe ;
we have a “ perpetual sabbath.” —no business do
ing, and not even a case of tooth ache .”
Interesting Incident. —Tho following incident
connected with the recent trip of the President
to the Virginia Springs (says the Staunton Spec
tator) has been furnished by a friend for pub
lication :
Six miles north-west of Staunton, on the
stago route to the Warm Springs, is the village
of West View. Here resides an aged Presbyte
rian Minister, venerable not only for years but
piety ; original in thought and manner, decisive
in character, and bold In the expression of his
sentiments. Although trembling under the
weight of years and disease, he had attended
carefully to the passing events connected wilh
the political condition of the country. Always
a warm friend of the Secretary of the Interior,
he had requested him, through a friend, to call
wilh tho President at his cottage in West View,
on their passage to the Springs. As might have
been expected, the roquest was courteously
complied with.
The ceremony took placo while the feeble ard
aged man lay reclining on his bed.
“ Mr. Fillmore,” said he, “ I am grateful for
your trouble and condescension in this call, and
regrot that my physical condition forbids the
respect, even in posture, which I am disposed
to render.” ”No condescension, sir,” replied
tho President-*” lam sorry to find your health
so feeble.” “lam no man worshipper,” con
tinued the speaker, “ but honor the office creat
ed by the people, and the public officer who is
determined to execute the laws and maintain
the Union. The sin of a distinguished relative,
now no more, was never my sin. I love this
Union. My desire has been to take you by the
hand, as the friend of the Union, and I am satis
fied and pleased. I pray God to put into the
hearts of the people to take you as their Cheif
Magistrate for the next Presidential term. I be
lieve it would stay and strengthen the Union.
And now, may the rich blessings of Heaven rest
upon your head., lain done, sir, and wish no
reply.”
Tho President bowed and pressed tho hand
of the venerable Christian patriot. ‘My Reve
rend Father,’ he said, ‘ I am under groat obli
gations to you for your kind ieclings and bless
ings.’
At his side stood tho manly form of the
Secretary of the Interior, not without visiblo
emotions from the novel and affec'ing scene.
Tho establishment of a Penny Post for the
eity of New York, under arrangements desig
nated by the Postmaster General, is about to
be made. Two hundred places have been
selected for tho location of letter boxes, and a
superintendent and forty five letter oarriers
have been appointed. These will be hereufter
increased as circumstances may require. Let
ters, circulars and handbills dropped in the
boxes or handed to the carriers, will be deliv
ered in any part of the city for ono cent each,
and newspapers and pamphlets for one half
cent each.
Letters from any placo out of the city will
bo delivered at the poat-offiee free of charge,
but those dropped in the post office for city
delivery will be charged one cent each, in ad
dition to the usual drop letter postage, and let
ters from tho mails will bs charged two cents
each for delivery, as heretofore.
Last week, a company of 28 persons, all the
way from Maine, passed through here for Wal
den’s Ridge, where they design to permanent
ly locate. Tney are fro n the farming popnla
tion, and bring with them habits ol industry
and frugality. We oaa vouch for their making
i good citiz tie. We understand from them that
many others are designing to follow them.
, There is still room enough for thousands more
among the hills and val'eys.— Chattanooga
Adv.
t
Public Meeting*
Pursuant to a public call, a very large and
enthusiastic number of the citizens of Augus
ta, friendly to the cause of Cuban Indepen
dence, assembled in the City Hall, on Thurs
day evening, August 28, at 8 o’clock.
On motion of William H. Oakman, Jr.,
I John C. Sneed, Esq., was called to the Chair,
and William R. MoLaws, Esq., requested to
act as Secretary.
A. 11. H. Dawson, Esq., tnoyed that a Com
roittojj of Twelvo be appointed by the Chair,
to report Resolutions for the action of the meet*
ing, which being seconded, was unanimously
adopted.
It having been made known that the Court
It'om was 100 mail to contain the number in
attendance—On motion, the meeting adjourned
to the Park, where, having been called to or
der, the Chair announced the following gentle
men as composing the Committee of Twelve:
A. H. Dawson, Esq., Col. G. F. Parish, Wil
liam 11. Oakman, Jr., Dr. Wm. E Dearing,
Henry D. Bell, James M. Simpson, Samuel
C. Wilson, Gustav us A. Parker, Beujatnin F.
Chew, Sr., Dr. J. M. Hill, James B. Hart, and
Sam’J. H. Crump, Esq.
During tho absence of the Committee, John
Phinizv, Jr., Fsq., being called upon, addressed
lire meeting in nn eloquent and patriotic man"
r.er
A 11. H Dawson, E-q , from the Commit
tee oi Twelve, reported the following Resolu
tions :
Ist Resolved, That we respond with enthusiasm
to the;nob r e sentiments of sympathy every where man
ifested throughout the United States with the heroic
stand the citizens of Cuba are making in the causj
of human liberty.
2d. Resolved, That we ardently cherish the hope
that the Antillian Queen will soon be tree, and that
the achievement of her independence may and will
be effected in a manner so signally gal'ant and bril
liant, that she will be recognized at once throughout
the civilized world as a co-equal in dignity to, and
entitled to a place among the nations cf the earth.
3d. Resolved , That in cur opinion, the day cannot
be far distant, when Cuba must an 1 will be free, and
that we fondly trußt no disasier thut may in the vicis
situdes of war, bef.ll the Patriots, will be permitted
to stay the work of destiny on that long oppress d,
though still bright little Isle of the ocean.
4ih. Resolved , That we hold, that any freeboi n
American citizen has the unqualified and unq es
tionable righi to expatriate himself at h*s ovn pleas
ure, and that th 3 legal right belongs not. t > our gov
ernment to demand of him, when he is about to have
his native land, whither he goeth 7 nar to interdict
his departure; and therefore be it
sth. Resolved, That the Chairman of this meeting
do appoint a Committee of fire to receive contributions
ibr ilie equipment of such of our fellow citizens us are
willing and anxious to become identified with the
career of the star of liberty that is rising now on tho
love'y, though f ttered little Queen of the Antilles.
Gth. Resolved, That if the forty Aineiicanci izans
who were recently executed by the Spani.h auihori
ties at Havana weie pu to death wittiout first hav
ing Ind such a fair anj impartial trial as they were
by law e' titled to, that it is, in our ( pinion, whether
they might have teen eonvieted egilly or not, nev
ertheless the boundenduiy of our insulted and injured
government to write upm the deathless page t f hiato
ry, in the best b.ood of old Spain, a terrible warning
to the balance of the world to beware how they rath°
ly tamper with the lives of . merican citizens.
7ta. Resolved, That, as G orgians, we will cx
press no opinion about the behaviour of our fellow
citizen, Allen P. Owen, U. S. Consul at Havana,
towards the ill-fated Americans who met their doom
at tl at place, until intelligence more authentic as (o
his conduct shall reach u , and he has first been
heard in his own defence.
Which report being seconded, upon motion
for their adoption, John Phinizy, Jr., objected
to .he passage cf die last Resolution, and mo
ved a Bubslitute, which gave rise to an able,
animated and spirited discussion, Mr. Phinizy
advocating his amendment, and James Gard
ner, Jr., A. 11. 11. Dawson, and Dr. J, M.
Hill sustaining the original Resolution.
The substitute beiug negatived, the original
Resolution was unanimously adopted.
It having been made known to the meeting
that Col. Robert McMillan, of Elbert, had just
arrived upon die ground, and there being a
general ca I made for him, and a considerable
desire manifested to hear him, he was conduct
ed o the stand, and after being introduced bv
ihe Chair, addressed the meeting in un able and
eloquent manner, approbatory of the action of
the meeting.
Under t'la Fifth Resolution tho Chair ap
pointed the following gentlemen as composing
the Committee of Five: Jas. Girdner, Jr.,
Joliu Pninizy, Jr., A. 11. 11. Dawson, Dr. W.
E Dearing, and Robt. A Whyte
On motion, the.meeting then adjourned.
John C. Sneed, Chairman.
William R. Me Laws, Secretary.
Another Fugitive Slave Case —Three
deputies of the U. S Marshal proceeded to
Poughkeepsie yesterday, and arrested John
Bolding, an alleged fugitive slave, claimed as
the property of Mr. Barnet Anderson, of
Columbia, South Carolina. The prisoner
was brought to this city last evening, and lock
ed up in the Tombs. He is a mulatto, about
twenty five years of age, and has a wife in
Poughkeepsie, where he is said t * have been
doing business as a tailor for several years.
Judge Barculo of the Supreme Courr has
issued a writ of habeas corpus, and tho LJ.
S Marshal has gone to Poughkeepsie this
afternoon to make return. The claimant’s
testimony will be heard by the U. S. Com
missioner, Mr. Bringhum, at ten o’clock to
morrow moruirg,— N. Y. Com. Ado., 20th
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Mr. Cobb in Floyd.
Rome, Aug. 27, 1851.
Mr. hjditor : This being the day appointed by
Mr. Cobb to address the people of this county,
about six hundred persons assembled to hear
him. His famo as a public speaker and states
man, had prepared the mind, of the people to
expect something more than common. In this
they wore not disappointed. For two hours and
a half he rivetted the attention of his au
dience, by a masterly vindication of his cou.se
in Congress upon the Compromise measures,
and taking thorn up one by one, he demonstrated
to the satisfaction as I donbt not of every un
prejudiced voter who heard hitn, that the action
of Congress upon the territorial question, arising
out of the fruits of the Mexican war, was in
perfect accordance with the position assumed
by the Whig and Democratic parties of the State
prior to the time of the settlement. lie proved
that the bills establishing Territorial Govern
ments for Utah and New ‘Mexico, were based
upon the doctrine of non-intervention, that this
was the doctrine contended for, advocated and
resolved, in every Convention, Whig or Demo
cratic, which had assembled in the State of
Georgia, that it was the universal voice of the
people. That these bills not only indirectly ad
mitted that the people of the Territories had the
ritrht to determine the question of slavery for
themselves, but directly and distinctly recog
nized the right, and declaied that Congress
should aintit them as States, into the Union,
upon application, whether they settled the
question one way or the other. He asked the
Disunionists to answer the question, whether in
the passage of these bills the North triumphed
in tiie principles of the Wilmot Proviso, or
whether the South triumphed in the establish
ment of the principles of the good old Repub
lican doctrine of non-intervention.
The admission of California, although in sumo
respects objectionable, he showed not to be in
consistent, but rather in accordance with the
doctrinecf non-intervention—the right to deter
mine whether slavery should or should not form
a part of their social system, was in the people,
they had exercised that right, and Congress had
no power under the Constitution to say they had
wisely or unwisely settled the question.
It would not be proper to follow him through
ail his argument upon these questions. Suffice
it to say, that h,s arguments were unanswerable,
and such as would convince beyond a reasonable
doubt nine-tenths of the people of Georgia, if
they could but hear him ; that instead of the
South having occasion to complain of, and resist
the action ol the General Government, there is
much in that action to approve and to rejoice
their hearts, and that in the language of the
Georgia Convention they could honorably ac
quiesce.”
Mr. Cobb having concluded his examination
of each of the bills embraced in the Compro
mise, next reviewed the Georgia platform and
declared himself satisfied with it—that lie felt no
“ degradation ” in acquiescing—that he heartily
approved the action ot the Convention, and was
willing to star d or fall upon the principles therein
set forth.
He next argued the doctrine of Secession, and
he e permit me to say, that in this part of the
State, we are fortunate in having forced the Dia
u.,ionists to throw oli the veil under which they
have been covering their political sins, and ini
quities, and to come out and avow the abstract
principle, for the maintenance and establishment
of which they have formed themselves into a
party. It is this, “that a State has the right to
secede from the Union with or without jus- cause
at her own mere will and pleasure,” 1 speak by
the “bugle." It is the last blast which Mr.
itheli’s bugleman in Georgia has blown. The
sound proceeds from near the heights of Kiuno
saw. Mr. Cobb’s examination of this abstract
doctrine of Governmental policy as it is called,
it seems to me would make even Governor IMcj-
Donald “honorab y acquiesce" in the “degrada
tion" (if such a thing were possible) of the bu
gleman who blows such a bbst.
This has been a proud diy to- tho friends of
the Union and one of dismay to iis enemies. I
know tho effort has been made to impress the
public with the belief that the people of Cherokee
were not sound upon the questions involved in
this contest, 1 assure you that they are sound,
that Cobb will cross tho Chaitahoochic with at
least five thousand majority, and that the “Ams
trian Equestrian •* will be so far distanced, that
not even an “abrii act principle,” will ever allow
itself to be rode by him again. Lest some may
not understand the ‘ zeal without knowledge”
of a few of the sons of chivalry, who in their
wanderings to and fro upon the face of the earth
since they left the Palmetto State, hive found
their way into this section of Georgia, 1 must
offer an apology for (hern. Vou know, that in
that State a convention man has not tho right
to vote fur Governor, that privilege is confined
to a favorjd few, who are in office, and it ought
not to be & matter of surprise when one ol' the
chivalry gets over into Georgia where he can ex
ercise a privilege common to all our people, but
heretofore denied to him, that ho should almost go
beside himself. They ought to be excused, they
will get over it when they get a little more used
t 0 R* Coosa.
fßHPtgiinun itihih mmmmmm m—i mamm —■ m > nmn m m ammm
MONTHS after date, application will
JL be made to the Honorable the Inferior Gout of
Columbia county, when sitting for ordinary purpose-,
for leave to sell the LAND belonging to the estute of
Edmund Cartledge, late of raid county, deceased.
UKIAH PLANCHAUD, Adta’r.
August 30, 1651.
Columbia County Land.
TUB subscriber offers for sale
his FARM in Columbia county, 27
mile* above Augusta, on the Augusta 1
i nil Washington road, containing Five Hundred t.nd
Twenty-one (521) Acres, nearly one fourth wood
land. Persona wishing to purchase, will please ca'l
on the premises, or address tho subscriber ut Win
field, Ga. Eight Hundred Acres udjofring this land
cm be I ought on good terms.
au33-wtf AL M. BARNES.
NEW AND FASHIOItfABLE GOODS
WM. O. TRICK A CO,
COATS*
Dress ai:d
Frock,
OcOrsay and
Business
COMP,
Cotnfur tables
and Sack
COATS,
Silk, Linen
and Gingham
COATS,
of ail descrip
tions.
Plain & fancy
PANTS
and
VESTS,
SHI UTS,
Under Shirts
and
DRAWERS,
CRAVATS
and
SCARFS.
Tailoring und Furnish
' ing
! ESTABLISHMENT,
and
Wholesale and Retail
Dealers in
CLOTHING,
258 Droad Street,
AUGUSTA,
INVITO
the attention of their
CUSTOM KltS
AND
STKANtiERS
Visiting the City
TO THHZR
Spring Styles oj
GOODS
and
GARMENTS
AU orders promptly executed. np27
notTcjJ." “
ALL l* Kit SO NS indebted to tlio lute firms o
William Grimsley A Co., Grimsley & Avory,
and Minor R. Jones iV. Co., are requested to make
immediate payment to the undersigned, by note or
otherwise, as it is absolutely necessary to compel
collodions, in order to meet the claims against said
firms. A. COLVAUD, Attorney, &c,
Appling, August 5, 1851. uuß sw2<u
VOLUME XV.-IVO. 105.
TELE GRAPHIC ts EWS.
t i aciniiiUd for the Ohronie!« ft Stul intll
From the Charleston Courier—By Telegraph
New Orleans Market.
New Oblkanb, Friday, Aug. 29, 9.10 P. M.
Cottost. 300 bales new Middling sold to-day at
8 a Bs. Receipts of new Cotton to date 3100 bales,
Stock 16,000 bales.
Flour dull. Oh’o $3,624. Bacon firm; Hibhed
Sides 12 cents.
Nkw Orleans, Aug 25.—The Spanish Con
aul has takon down his flag, and dosed his
office, transferring his functions to the British
and French Consults, and placing, he says, the
persons and property of Spanish subjects un
dor the protection of the Americun Govern
ment.
Sixty Liberators arrived this morning from
Montgo very, Alabama.
New Orleans, Aug. 25.—One hundred bales
of Cotton were arid on Monday. Middling
new is quoted at Bj. and old at cents.
Mixed Corn is worth 42, yellow 44, and white
54 cents. Flour is dull, and Ohio commands
$4, Prime Cincinnati Sides are at 11 £to .12
cents. Whisky is worth 19 cents.
Arrived ships Union nine days from New
York. Barquo Saranac, Capt. Share, from
Charleston.
New Orleans, August 2G.—Five hundred
bales of Cotton were disposod of to day
Good Middling new is worth 8| cts. Pork
is heavy—Mess is quoted at slo.^.
The ship Clifton has arrived from New
York, and the brig Afuilla from llio, with 4,
500 bags of Code*?.
From the Baltimore American —By Telegraph ,
Nkw York, August 26th.—Another tremon
dons gathering of the Cuban sympathisers was
held in the Park to-night. Blackman preeid
ed, and the meeting was addressed by Enoch
Camp, Tr.os. N. Carr, Unpt. Jlynders end
others. The language o! the speakers was
more violent and exciting titan on the prevt
ous evening, and as a consequence, the moh
were raided to'ho highest state of enthusiasm
Banners wi>h bloody mottoes were distributed
amongst (he crowd,'and every means u*ed to
increase the feeling of resentment against he
Cuban authorities. Cheers, screams, and
groans were heurd on alUides, and the latter
especially predominated when the Courier,
Express and Tribune papers were alluded to.
One ■ f the speakers, in the midst of a vi t
lent Impinge, begged the listeners to do nothing
rashly, and especially deprecated the attempt
to tuolest tl.o Spanish Consul, as had been
threatened. “His office,” said he, “is at 119
Leonard street, but to n’t, my friends, do any
thing unlawful.”
After hia speech the sympathisers formed a
procorslor/, headed by u band of anisic, and
proceeded up Broadway, in the direction of
Leonard streot, hooting, yelling and threaten
ing vengeance. The Spanish Consul kept out
of the way, uinlets ainliiu that a coat of tar
and feathers had been prepared for him in eon
sequence of threats directed against L. Chro
nicle, iho Spanish paper. An extra police of
300 men has been stationed there.
Nkw York, Aug. 20 —At present all is quiet
and there are no indications of violence. The
mob has dispersed.
New York, Aug 20.—The steamship Flor
idu has arrived wilh Savannah dates to Satur
day Sne re parts that tho Pampero was in
Deboc Sound, 50 miles below Savannah and
would arrive at Savannah on Saturday night,
where a largo number were waiting to em
bark for Cuba.
Fike is Concord.
Concord. N. 11, Aug. 2G.—The most disas
trous fire that ever visited tlfs place occurred
last night and this inor ting.
It btoko out about If o’clo.’k, in Abbot's
paint shop, adjoining the Eagle Coffee House,
and directly in front of the Stale House.
It lit xt spread to the stables of'the Eagle House
und other outbuildings ; thence to Porter and
Itolle's iron store, P/escoit’s livery stable and
a number of other buildinge in the rear of the
hotel. Tnence to tho hotel itself, and South
to the new Merchants’ Exchange. It then
reached a two story wooden building, s-veep
ing everything in its course to Low’s new
block, where i.s progress in that direction was
stayed.
To he North of the Eagle Hotel, Stickrtey’s
brick block, und all the mas* of woodon buil
dings in the rear, were levelled to the ground
At about 3 o’clock he flames at that point
were stayed at Sticmnny’s woeden block by the
efforts of the firemen.
All the buildings on the Northern side ol
Main street, from Low's block, opposite tha
Ga-s Hotel, are totally de-lroyed and also
every one between that and the railroad t ac.k.
The bui'dings on the other side of Main
street were in eomiderabio danger, but riot
material y injured.
Tho hss is from SIOO,OOO to $150,000 n
iarge portion of whic. is covered by insu
ranee.
Tho safe in the Mechanics Bank contained
about 150 000 in Bunk bills, $lO 000 in specie
and SIOO 000 railroad bonds, till o! which are
now in the ruins of the building.
The fie was no doubt the work of an in
cend.ary.
A negro, called Jack Robinson, is suspeo
ted, and hu*s keen arrested.
Chicago, August 24. —The largo ware
houses of Messrs. II Norton & Co. and .Mr.
Hadock, at this place, took fire list night, und
before the Harm s could be subdued the build
ing# wore nearly a heap of tuinv.
There were besides some eight or ten other
buildings burned, with their comeutJ, includ
ing Hour, wheat, provisions, &.c.
■■■■— Ml Ml m in -'
DIED,
In Atlanta on the 26i!> of August, Hkniiy,
son of Joseph B and Sarah A. Jones, of Burke
county, aged 13 months an i 21 days.
A CERTIFICATE FROM J. F. AD
KINS T<> tut. 13. W. HAH KBit.
IDO IIKUKWV OKtITIKY, that the char
ges made against Dr. E. W. Barker, in a letter
wiilton on or about the 31st of May lurt were made
without due reflection, and while I was laboring un
der too grout excitement properly to appreciate my
com! ict i and 1 hereby voluntarily retract and with
draw all thut I have said, and do most freely and
fully exonerate him from said charges.
(Signed) j. ADKINS.
Jefferson co, Ga., Aug. 20,1861. auSO-wl
SHE RIFF'S SALH. —Will bo
J Bold, in t’ue town of Elbert n, Elbert county,
within tho legal hours of sale, tho following property,
to wit; Three Hundred and Twcnty-ono Acres of
I*ANI), more rr lees, on the waters of Broad River,
joining tho lunds <l' Nelms, Denny, and others,
whereon William B. Dudley now lives. Also, Iho
forty landing thereon, and the ferry boat. All levied
on an the pr tpetty c.f William B. Dudley, to satisfy
u fi. la. In favor of James Long & Co., vs. said Wil
limn B. Dudley, and sundry o her fi. fas vs. a«t*i
Wi liam B. Dudley.
DOZIER THORNTON, Dep SVfT
August 30, 1851.
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Shoulder
HR ACES,
Money Helts,
Toilet Cni-os.
RRUSHES,
Cloth
Hair, aud
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Furnishing
GOODS
of etrery de
scription.
GLOVES,
STOCKS,
PURSES
and
Suspenders.
Full supply of
TbIMMINQ*
for the Trade.