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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1853.
FOR GOVERNOR:
HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON.
FOR CONGRESS:
A. H. COLQUITT.
WEEKLY TIMES AND SENTINEL,
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We are just entering upon a canvass in which a
Governor, members of Congress, members of the Leg
islature, Judges of the Superior Courts, and a United
States Senator will bo elected. Every man in Georgia
is deeply interested in the result. The contest will,
therefore, be a stirring one, and afford abundant mate
rial for thought and discussion.
We will spare no labor to make our paper the vehi
cle of the fullest information upon all points discussed,
and the earliest and most reliable news from all points
of the State during the canvass.
Every citizen is interested in the political opinions of
his neighbor. His vote affects his life, liberty and
property.
We will devote our entire energies to the advocacy
of the claims of the Democratic candidates, under the
full conviction that the freedom of the States and the
preservation of the Union are involved in the success oi
Democratic principles.
Free Soil Appointments of President Pierce.
In the distribution of local offices at the North, it is
frequently impossible to avoid giving them to Free soil
ers. In many localities the whole population are or
rather were Free soilers. The only recourse left to the
President in appointments for suoh places is to give
office to free soilers, or leave them vacant. It is well
known at the South that every state at the North,
except one, instructed its representatives in Congress
to vote for the Wilmot Proviso. It is equally well
known that every prominent Whig north of the Poto
mac is or was a Free soiler, and that the very few poli
ticians who escaped the contagion belonged to the Dem
oertaic party. No administration therefore can exist
in this country for a day which refuses to give some
offices to Free soilers. No Whig government can
get along without giving more than one-half of its offices
to this despicable faction. Look at Fillmore’s admin
istration—the beau-ideal of the Conservative party, an
administration which received the cordial support of
the Conservative party of Georgia, and was zealously
supported by Messrs. Toombs and Stephens. Indeed,
his claims for the Presidency received a very earnest
advocacy at their hands. W’ho filled the chief offices
in his cabinet? Free soilers. Who filled all, or nearly
all, his offices at the North ? Free soilers. Who were
the representatives of his government at Foreign courts ?
Free soilers. Now compare his appointments with
those of Mr. Pierce. lie has but one man in his
cabinet (McClelland) who was ever charged with Free
aoilism ; and McClelland voted for the Compromise
measures, and thereby placed himself abreast with Mr.
Webster, for whom Charles J. Jenkins would have
voted if he had not died, and with whom his name # was
associated as candidate for Vico Pesident —not only
with his consent, hut with the approbation of Robert
Toombs. Again, there is not that we know of a single
Free soiler in the list of Foreign ministers; Soule,
Borland, Buchanan, Jackson, of Georgia, Seibler,
of Alabama, Walker —such are the men who have
been chosen by the President to represent this country
at Foreign courts, every one of whom has given irre
fragable evidence oi his hostility to freesoilism, and of
his devotion to the constitutional rights of the South.
Furthermore, in the selection of local officers, Mr.
Pierce has shown a commendable anxiety to select the
least objectionable men. The great bone of conten
tion betweeu the two wings of the party at the North
was the New York Collectorship. The claims of a
Free soiler were pressed with uncommon zeal upon his
attention ; yet he manfully resisted the importunities of
his friends; tendered the office to Dickinson, the ever
faithful friend of the South, and when he peremptorily
declined it, he gave it to Judge Bronson —than whom
a purer citizen does not live, it is said, in New York, and
one too whose garments are unspotted by the touch of
freesoilism.
It has been confidently asserted in the Whig prims
with unblushing effrontery that Jno. A. Dix was ten
dered the highest seat in the cabinet. It is hardly
neeensry to say this is an unqualified falsehood. The
Premiership was first offered to Hunter of Virginia,
the very head and front of the Southern Rights party,
and when by him declined, it was tendered to Marcy,
and by him accepted. It has also been extensively as
serted that the mission to France had been given to
Mr. Dix. This is also untrue. The mission has not
been filled. The only office ever given to him was
that of Sub-treasurer in New York city. We will not
say that we approve of this appointment—though can
dor compels us to acknowledge that the office is very
far beneath his talents and position. Intellectually, Mr.
Dix is one of the great men of America, and the offer
and acceptance of such an office by such a man is the
highest evidence that his freesoilism is odious to Mr.
Pierce.
This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth. Our readers are now prepared to appreciate
the siucerity of those discomfited Whig politicians who
lately assembled in Milledgeville and hurled their ana
themas at President Pierce because he has appointed
Free soilers to office. They supported Fillmore’s ad
ministration, under which we venture to say there
were five Free soilers in office to one under Pierce,
Many of them supported Scott for the Presidency, and
tfc© world knows that lie was the creatiou and choioe of
the abolition wing of the Whig party, and would have
filled all his offices with the friends of Wm. 11. Seward.
Many of them supported Webster for the Presidency,
who was himself a Free soiler—nay, more, they have
nominated Jenkins for Governor—a man who consent
ed to run on the same electoral ticket with a Free
soiler.
Yet we are told by these eminently consistent men,
that the South is in imminent peril from Mr. Pierce’s
administration, because forsooth be has made Mr. Dix
Sub-treasurer at New York.
M e have long believed that the Whig party had an
utter contempt for the intelligence of the people. W T e
are now confirmed in this opinion.
For the last four years, Southern Whigs have been
lamenting over the terrible daugers which threatened
the Union from the formation of a sectional party, and
have actually worn Washington’s Farewell Address
threadbare in their zeal for nationality. They triumph
ed before the people; they utterly prostrated a party
whose only sin was an over zealous attachment to South
ern rights ; they drove us into a national organization ;
when lo! their whole policy changes, and they are
alarmed at the imminent peril of the South— because
Dix, and a few more freesoilers, who have no doubt
long ago repented of their heresy, have received from
the hands of the President a local office in their own
States.
When California was being filched from us, and the
supremacy of the North in the Government was ren
dered certain by its admission into tho Union as a free
State, all wa6 well. W hen Texas was being bribed
and dismembered, and territory enough to form u large
slave State was taken from her and devoted to free
soil by its annexation to New Mexico, all was well.
When freedom was given to the slave as a penalty for
offering to sell him in the District of Columbia, all was
well. But the appointment of Dix ! that was the pas
sage of the Rubicon —that was the drop too much—
that was the pound which broke the camel’s back !
We have no patience to reply to such bald hypocrisy.
The New Party—Mr. Toombs’ Speech.
On Wednesday night last, the Hon. Robert Toombs
addressed a large and attentive audience in Temperance
Hall, in support of the Platform of principles erected by
him at Milledgeville, at the late Whig Gubernatorial
Convention. The speech was an able one, and was
well received by all parties. He denounced both the
Whig and Democratic National organizations as cor
rupt, and this may in part account for the very kind
reception given to the speech. When the eloquent
speaker “woke up” the Democracy the applause was
“uproarious,” but as he made it a principle throughout
his discourse to strike right and left and give the Whigs
a blow immediately after he had done with the Demo
crats, the latter took up the applause of the Whigs be
fore it died away, and paid them back in their own coin
——good measure, pressed down, shaken together and
running over. The scene was ludicrous, if not instruc
tive.
We will not attempt to give even a synopsis of Mr.
Toombs’ remarks. We will, however, glance at some
of his positions. He took for his starting point the cor
ruptions of both the old Whig and Democratic parties.
He denounced Internal Improvements, excessive tariffs
and the wasteful extravagance of the Federal Govern
ment in language as broad as was ever applied to them
by a Calhoun Democrat. He apprehended great dan
ger to the South from the continued agitation of the
slavery question at the North and from the meddlesome
interference of foreign powers. There was now, he
said, no danger to the Union; that was secured by the
compromise; but there was still ? mueh danger to the
South, and he would not consent to disband the Geor
gia platform party until her rights were secored. He
therefore called on Whigs and Democrats, Union men
and Southern Rights men, to join him in this good work,
and pledged himself never to desert the flag until victo
ry perched upon the standard.
In reply to the charge of being sectional,\\e said, “no
man could be sectional who stood upon constitutional
principles,” and thereby, in our humble judgment, ac
quitted the Southern Rights Party of all error in their
earnest endeavors to save the South from ruin by main
taining at all hazards her constitutional lights.
He very warmly commended President Pierce’s In
augural, and still acknowledged that the sentiments
therein expressed met his cordial approbation. Presi
dent Pierce, however, had forfeited the confidence of
the South by appointing Free Soilers to office, both at
home and abroad. He made the bold declaration, that
every one of our Foreign Ministers were committed to
the extermination of slavery, except Soule, and him he
denounced as a French Red Republican. We are will
ing to allow very great latitude to a stump speaker, but
such a broad assertion as the one above referred to
would better become a cross-road politician whose igno
lance would excuse him, than the Senator of Georgia.
Surely no sane man believes that James Buchanan is
an abolitionist, or is in the least infected with abolition
fanaticism.
He attempted to palliate his support of Fillmore’s ad
ministration by asserting that he denounced and disap
proved of his Free Sofl appointments. If this is a good
excuse in his mouth, it will surely acquit the supporters
of Pierce of all blame—especially when it is recollected
that Fillmore had three Free Soilers in his cabinet to
Pierce’s one, and the same excess in ail the other offi
ces in the gift of the President. But we must beg
leave to Fay if that Mr. Toombs did denounce Mr. Fill
more's administration for any thing of the sort, he must
have chosen a very retired place for this exercise, as we
have never before heard of it, and we presume it would
be news to Fillmore, for whose nomination to the Pres
idency, we understand, Mr. Toombs was a very zealous
advocate.
Upon the whole, howevor, we were much pleased
with Mr. Toombs’ speech. We differ witli him in
many of his specifications, but entirely concur with him
in every general principle laid down by him. Indeed,
his speech was but anew edition abridged of the speech
es of Southern Rights men during the exciting canvass
upon the compromise issues. We bid him, therefore,
God speed in his noble task of infusing sound Southern
Rights principles into the minds and hearts of his fol
lowers. If he shall succeed, we inay hope that, in the
future conflict which is sure to arise between the Federal
Government and the South on the question of slavery,
Georgians will all be united in the defence of their
altars and firesides.
Mr. Toombs occupies a very commanding position
before the country. If lie will honestly, and in good
faith, place himself in the lead of Southern sentiment;
if he will insist upon the full measure of Southern Rights;
if he will oppose tariffs, whether protective or exces
sive, Internal Improvements by the Federal Govern
ment, all wasteful expenditures, either of land or money
—if he will stand upon State Rights and there battle for
our homes and firesides, he will take the place of Cal
houn, and rally to his standard every honest and true
man in the South. God grant that he may have tho
virtue to tread this rugged road. Before, however, he
can /eeupy this lofty eminence lie must free his mind
from the bias of party prejudice, and all the hollow and
deceitful arts of the demagogue and pursue truth for the
love of it, and loose himself in his devotion to his coun
try. The leader of the South must rise above the sus
picion of selfish considerations. It will require time to
enable him to accomplish this great work. His antece
dents are not calculated to inspire public confidence.
Tohim and his colleague, A. 11. Stephens, aro we in
debted for the defeat of the Clayton compromise. They
then took the high ground that the Mexican law abol
ishing slavery must be repealed before they would con
sent to the establishment of Territorial Governments in
the territory acquired from Mexico, But they forfeited
all the confidence which these lofty pretensions inspired
by sanctioning the compromise—by the bitter hostility
which they cherished for the Southern Rights party —
and by their support of Fillmore’s administration. Their
object was the success of their party, and not the safety
of the South. It is now feared that Mr. Toombs has
been driven upon Southern ground by the hopeless de
feat and dismemberment of the Whig party, especially
at the South, and that he only designs by his present
lofty pretensions to carry the election in Georgia in
October. We hope better things.
The meeting went off well until the close.—
After Mr. Toombs sat down a zealous Whig arose
and proposed three cheers for Charles J, Jen
kins. One voice cried out, “whoo-we,’’ and a
dead silence settled over the audience. The old
gentleman was much astonished at his reception, and
gradually sunk to his seat, mumbling, “I believe it’is a
failure. ” Whether he designed his remark to apply to
his proposition, the speech of Mr Toombs, or the nomi
nation of Jenkins, we are not called on to determine.
We think it equally applicable to all.
“The Geoigia Platform saved the Union, but did not
save the South.” — Robt. Toombs.
W T e quote this remarkable sentence from Mr.
Toombs’ remarkable speech at Temperance Hall last
week. We call it “remarkable,” whether we regard
the objeot at which it was intended to arrive, to wit:
the disruption of the old Whig party—or, whether we
regard the character of the audience who sat under it,
to wit: Whigs, who were now being untaught by
their great apostle, all the political doctrines in which
he bad taken so much pains to educate them for the last
20 years; and remarkable, in view of the bold effrontery
of a man, who, undertaking this curious and Herculean
business, had the coolness at every successive recanta
tion of Whig heresy, to lay at Democratic doors all
the blame of his bad principles. Verily, we scarcely
knew whether we could trust the evidence of our senses
—was that Toombs speaking ? Were these Whigs lis
tening ? were these Whigs applauding ? Did we
dream, and were the scenes passing around us, the
fantastic visions of the night, or visible and actual reali
ties ? We pinched ourselves, and lo! sure enough, we
were awake, and there was Col. Toombs, in the visible
body of himself, in propria persona, engaged in the
actual business of Democratising and Southernising the
Whig party. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.
And now, what does this strange scene teach us, po
litically ? “I come to you in no spirit of controversy,”
said the speaker. “I speak to you, not as Whigs or
Democrats, but as countrymen, earnest seekers after
truth and tho best good of our country.” Here, then,
we have the high Priest of party, pulling down the very
altars at which he has so often officiated with tho sa
crificial hand ind bloody knife—the great Georgia
Whig ignoring Whiggery—the man, who has been
counted the most talented Demagogue in the State (we
mean no disrespect) tearing off the old vestments and
appearing before the people in a wholly new character?
Now we ask for information—is this reality or farce ?
Has the Senator changed his skin and spots, or is this
the very refinement of his arts of popular delusiou ? Is
he in earnest in bowing the knee to this, tohim, new and
most unaccustomed divinity, or is he but “stealing the
livery of Heaven to serve the devil in ?” These are
questions that every one must answer for himself. It
is one that can very little concern Democrats, but
which will give Whigs abundant cause to scratch their
head in dubious thought. For ourselves, when we see
Mr. Toombs coming to us to preach Democratic prin
ciples and Southern Rights principles—our answer is,
we are well instructed in that faith ; and we prefer to
trust to our own State Rights Democratic party for their
illustration and triumph, than to the zeal of anew con
vert, or to that new-fledged party to which he is now
laboring to give shape and form. We say, Timco
Danaos et dona ferrenties • And while we rejoice at
any effort from any quarter, to Southernise the Whig
party —to induce them to trample under foot those ob
noxious and anti-Southern principles of Internal Im
provements, protection and plunder, which he has so
long inculcated, because they were Whig principles,
and which we have all our lives been fighting against,
as unconstitutional dogmas of Northern creation; and
while we would, under proper circumstances, cheerfully
lock shields with Mr. Toombs in so good and patriotic
an enterprise ; \et we must have a guarantee upon
which we can rely that Mr. Toombs is in sober earnest
—that he means what ho says, and will stick to W'hat he
means, before we oan trust him as the standard-bearer
of our life-long principles. We must have better rea
son to believe, than is furnished by his past history, that
this is not another Hainilear speech ; and that having
sounded the bugle to the charge, he will not desert in
the thickest of the fight, and joining the Union hosts, be
the loudest in his denunciations of us as rebels and
traitors. And this reflection brings us to the remarka
ble sentence we have quoted above. “The Georgia
platform saved the Uuion, but did not. save the
South 111I 11 Great Heavens! that we should ever have
lived to bear Col. Toombs make that declaration—that
such a sentiment should ever have fallen from the lips
of a man who, two years ago, roared himself hoarse, on
almost every stump in Georgia, to prove to the people
that the compromise was “fair, liberal and just” to the
South—in accordance with Southern rights and South
ern honor, and a sure and perfect guarantee of Southern
safety in all time to come. What a proud vindication
is here of the Southern Rights party ! Ilow nobly do
we stand justified before our countrymen and the
world, when two years after the smoke of the battle
has cleared away, the great leader of the Union party
calmly and deliberately endorses the great principles
upon which we then stood. Mr. Toombs’ speech must
have brought all of his auditors, who were convicted
by the weight of his argument, to two consciences:—
First, that the Southern Whig party ought of right to
be dissolved ; and second, that Col. Toombs ought, im
mediately, by the force of his own doctrines, to join the
great State Rights Democratic party of his country.
But alas! to how different a result did he an ive as the
result of his laborious speech ! Ilow lame and impotene
a conclusion, when he told his audience that the sover
eign panacea and catholicou to cure all the great vitls
of the nation, was, to—“go it, Jenkins.”
No wonder the proposition of “three cheers for Jen
kins” fell still born and met with not a murmur of res
ponse. No wonder the auditory arose and lift the
houso in a titter.
A Screw Loose.
The disruption and tumbling to pieces of the old
Whig party of Georgia, which is now taking place at
the command of its masters, Messrs. Toombs and Ste
fhens, uttered at the Milledgeville Convention, last
week, presents some curious points for reflection, as
well as amusement. J ust to think of the great Whig
party —the handiwork of the fiery and eloquent Clay,
and the profound and massive Webster —stabbed to death
in “the house of its friends and falling without a
groan of regret or a struggle of resistance from one of
its friends—and the deed done publicly, the dagger
driven home by the Siamese Twins of Whiggery in the
Capitol of the State of Georgia. Why, sirs, the death
of Ctesar, in the Senate House, was nothing to it; and
poor old superannuated and deorepid Whiggery keels
over and gives up the ghost, like some brute beast
knocked on the head ; without the courage to wrap its
mantle around it to die with dignity—or the spirit to
exclaim, Et Tu, Hob and Aleck !
They killed it “dead—stone-dead, sir,” as old Bul
lion says. Witness the following resolution of the Con
vention that nominated Mr. Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins
who composed the “Georgia platform” of ISSO, and
the Algerine Law of an earlier date :
Resolved, 7'hat.in the opinion*of this Convention, both
the Whig and Democratic parties of the United States
have been faithless to their oft repeated pledges of economy
in the exjtenditure of the jtubiic money, and that we view
with great alarm and disapprobation the partial, unefual
and unjust ajqnohriation of the public lands to internal
improvements in particular States, and of a local charac
ter ; and ol the public money to wild, reckless and gigantic
schemes of internal improvement, intended for the promotion
of particular interests rather than the general benefit ol those
who bear the burthen of Taxation.
Is not this a murder “most foul”—is it not a bloody
putting to death of the political mammy at \vho6e breast
Whiglings for twenty years have tugged, until having
become as dry as a powder horn, this horrid matricide
has been perpetrated ?
But it seems that this deed was unexpected by some
of tlie faithful Whigs—or at least, they were not lot
into the secret of the purposes of the Imperial brothers.
For on the 7th inst., at a Whig party meeting in Baker
county, of this State, we road some resolutions, expressing
the utmost reverence for and an unbounded attachment
to the dear old Whig mother, who had done so much
in times past, and to whom they yet looked for the
regeneration and salvation of the country. Can you
fancy the cruel sufferings of these Baker county Whigs
when they find that the object of their idolatry has Deen
slaughtered by the high Priests wdio have longest offi
ciated at its altars ? Read these resolutions and com
pare them with those at Milledgeville—and tell us, do
these two conventions belong to the same party ; or is
the Whig party really no more ?
Thetollowing Preamble and Resolutions were then read
and unanimously adopted by the meeting:
Whereas, we as a portion of the Whig Party of Baker
county, adopt this occasion to express our continued faith
in the principles and measures of the Whig Party, and our
determination to abide and support those measures in the
approaching campaign for Governor and members to Con
giess, from this district.
And Whereas, we regard the principles of that party
as sound, conservative and national , tending to the pre
servation of ovr Union as it is, the prosjieriiy and equali
zation of all classes , and the promotion of peace through
oat the whole civilized world.
Resolved, Therefore that we will cheerfully and heartily
support the nominees ot the Whig Party for Governor, and
Congress from this district, by the respective Conventions
for the purposes aforesaid
In the meantime, we beseech the now party that lias
sprung up like a Phoenix from the blood and ashes of
departed and slaughtered W'higgerv, to agree upon a
handle to its name. Wc must have something to call
it by, and know it by. We cannot call it “a portion of
the people of Georgia, who,” &c., efec., for a half col
umn in a newspaper. We cannot call it the “Jenkins
party.” It would be mournful and sepulchral to call it
the “Toombs party.” The “Stephens party” won’t do,
for it signifies nothing; they will be angry, if we call it
the “Algerine party”—the “conservative party” is a
title only adopted by a few of them, and, the truth is,
the sponsors forgot to name the brat—and here it is be
fore the w'orld, a wandering little animal—a stranger
b e gg ,n g every body to “take it in”—a “Japhet in
search of a father.” Won J t somebody christen tho
thing ? Its friends have the first right to give it a name
—if they do not exercise it, its enemies—the foes of
humbug, deceit and hypocrisy—will bo very apt to dis
cover a suitable patronymic for it.
It i6 a little curious that we find these two sets of
resolutions side by side in the columns of the last En
quirer—presenting quite as remarkable and unique a
contradiction as that of the Editorial of our neighbor in
the same paper, “pitching into” the disunionists, in
amicable juxtaposition to that other resolution of its
Milledgeville convention, squinting awfully at a South
ern Rights flurry and disuniou rumpus. Really, our
neighbor will have to “mend his lick,” and get anew
set of pipes ; and we trow, the public will be gainers
by it, for that bagpipe squeak of his about a “shattered
union,” &0., &c,, has become terribly monotonous and
tiresome.
The city of Charleston has appropriated $32,000 to
aid in deepening Moffitt's channel.
Summer Retreats.
We do not underrate the benefits of travel. This,
however, is a very different thing from the habit of
absenteeism so common at the South. No sooner
does the sun pass the summer solstice, than thousands
of families annually shut up their houses, dismiss their
servants, turn over the management of their farms to
agents, and seek pleasure in the thronged cities and
watering places at the North. The effects of this prac
tice upon Southern society are lamentable. The gay
and the beautiful all flown ; parlors all closed ; churches
partially deserted ; the busy workers alone left; there
is nothing to relieve life of its monotony, but the pierc
ing rays of a summer’s sun, and the clouds of dust which
every breeze flings in the face, during the long summer
months in the sunny South. The flowers bloom in
vain ; in vain does the mocking bird trill its melodious
song. And for what is all this sacrifice made? For
the inconveniences of a bad hotel at a watering place, or
the bustle of a crowded city, far, far away.
“Home, home, sweet, sweet home,
Be it ever so humble
There’s no place like home.”
This is a very popular song, but a very unpopular
sentiment. Our people not only leave home for half
the year, but are not content unless they can place be
tween them and home an interminable tract of land or
sea. A writer in one of our periodicals well says:
“We, of the South, at great cost of time and money,
make pilgrimages to the Catskill, the banks of the Juni
atta, and the limpid lakes of the North. W e must hear
the reverberating roar of the Niagara, and feel its ‘terri
ble majestv.’ This is well. We condemn it not. Yet
how lew of us know that there is within our own limits,
scenery, which for beauty, compares well with the clas
sic vale of Wyoming, and for grandeur, with Niagara.—
Have our readers stood upon the br.nk of Tallulah’s
yawning gulf, cut slowly through the granite hills of
Rabun, and seen, far below their feet, the dancing stream
pencilled on its bed, like fairy tracery ? There is Tuceoa,
too, the gem of the hills; and Naucoochee , the happy
valley ; and Currahee, springing, slmft-like, from the
level plain, and rising, conical and alone, to bathe its
summit in the light of the upper sky.”
But not only is the South deprived of the presence
of great numbers of her people during the summer
months, but the golden harvest of her cotton fields is pour
ed with a profuse hand into the pockets of Northern
people. And by these summer flights to colder lati
tudes, not only is her social enjoyments interrupted, but
her wealth is abstracted. If therefore her people find
it necessary to seek health by removal toother localities,
let them wander upon the granite cliffs of Tallulah's
yawning gulf, and nestle in Naucoocbee’s quiet shade—or
findhealth and pleasure in the romantic glens of Meri
wether. The sparkling waters of the Chalybeate and
White Sulphur springs are as curative as those of Sarato
ga, and there is not on earth a bath so refreshing as those
provided by our townsman at the Warm springs.—
There is nothing needed to make these charming re
sorts the very Eden, but the glancing eyes and bright
smiles of our blooming maidens;
u O ! how the blest charms ofuature improve,
When we see them reflected from looks that we love.”
Fire.
We regret to state that the extensive carpenters’ shop
of the Messrs. Barringer was totally consumed by
fire yesterday (July 1) noon, together with a large
quantity of finished work, lumber, and nearly all the
tools of the establishment. The Messrs. Barringer had
recently enlarged and improved their shop, erected a
steam engine and all the modern appliances of labor
saving machines. The whole has been swept away.
The liveliest sympathy is felt and expressed for these
worthy citizens and enterprising mechanics. Their loss
is total, not a dollar of insurance having been effected.
The public sympathy was promptly manifested, by almost
immediately starting a subscription list for their relief;
and we are happy to hear that it has been generously
met by our citizens.
Our firemen, as usual, covered themselves with glory.
It was entirely owing to their gallant exertions that the
whole block was not consunv-d.
Criminal Causes.
The State, vs. Neal, a slave, the property of Chas.
Fisher. —M urder.
This cause came on for trial on Wednesday last.
The Solicitor General for the Suite, and Messrs. A. Me-
Dougald and R. Emmett Dixon, Esqrs., for the defence.
Neal was charged with the murder of Philip, a slave,
the property also of Chas. Fisher. After a full and
patient investigation of the cause, the jury returned a
verdict of “Guilty of Manslaughter.” The punishment
annexed to the offence is whipping and branding.
Ist District.
Mr. Bartow declines being a candidate for Congress
in the Ist Congressional District.
Congressional Nomination.
We publish the proceedings of the convention at Al
bany, and have time only to hoist the name of the nomi
nee, A. 11. COLQUITT, Esq., and to leave it to the
editor, now absent on military duty in camp, to intro
duce the Democratic standard-bearer to the readers of
the Times.
The Rail Road to Eutaula,
We learn from the Spirit of the South that the
town council of Eufaula lias subscribed $20,000 to the
Railroad connecting that place with the Girard Rail
road. Some time since we learned that $60,000 had
been subseribered by private individuals in the town
alone. This is a good beginning. Now is the time for
our city and citizens to act. Many of our wealthiest
citizens have plantations below. If proper exertions are
made by our Eufaula friends, we are satisfied that they
would all make very liberal subscriptions. We there
fore suggest, that a committee be appointed to solicit
aid in this noble enterprise. No time ought to be lost,
as many of our citizens will leave very shortly for tlie
North.
We presume the road will either run by Glennville
to Villula, or along the bauks of the river up to Fort
Mitchell—and that the amouut subscribed along either
route will determine the location. We believe one
hundred thousand dollars could be raised in this city
alone for the liver route. Let Glennville, therefore,
look to her interests, or she will inevitably be passed by,
and a rival town be built on the road which will un
dermine her prosperity.
liarnden’s Express.
We are indebted to Mr. Potts, the agent of Ham
den's Express, for New York papers in advance of the
mail. He will please accept our thanks for his courte
sy-
Horrible Murder.
We have not before heard of the sad occurrence re
ferred to in the subjoined note. Mr. Norton was, we
believe, a resident of Randolph county, Ga.
Cuthbert, June 25ih, 1853.
Messrs. Editors: The circumstances attending the
death ot Mr. Norton, were diabolical in the extreme. A
negro belonging to Mr. Stewart, the father of Mrs. Nor
ton, soon after the family had retired, entered the house,
and with an axe killed Mr. Norton, his little son, six years
old, and no doubt supposed that he had also killed Mrs.
Norton, as she had received no less than seven blows on
the head with the axe. She is Istill alive, though uncon
scious. The negro is now confined in Jail. There are now
five persons in our Jail for murder.
Respectfully, <fec.. **+♦**
Factories at Work Again.
The dam has been repaired, and the Eagle and Cow
eta Factories and Palace Mills are all again at work. —
We understand, however, that there is a very great
scarcity of operatives.
The Hot Weather. —We observe by our exchanges
that the w T eather has been unusually warm in the
Northern and Western cities. A dispatch from Cin
cinnati says the thermometer, at 3 o’clock on Monday
afternoon, 20th, stood at 100 in the shade in that city,
and ranged from 88 to 96 during all of last week. At
Wheeling, on the same day, it rose to 98; at Pittsburg
to 90, and at Boston to 93 degrees. In Philadelphia,
at noon on Tuesday 21st., it stood at 96, and it is stated
would have gone up as high as 100 had not a good
breeze of wind prevailed. In New York, on the
same day, the thermometer was up to 90, which was
9 degrees higher than on the same day last year,
and more oppressive and suflboating than any 21st of
June for the last ten years. At Harrisburg, Pa., on
Monday and Tuesday, the thermometer ranged from
95 to 98 deg. At Hagerstown, Md-, on Monday, the
thermometer ranged from 90 to 99, and at Frederick,
Md., from 95 to 100 deg.
John Caldwell, of Charleston, has been elected Presi
dent of the South Carolina Railroad, vice H. W. Con
nor, resigned.
The Government and the Indians. —A reliable au
thority in Washington communicates the wtloome in
telligence that the President has recently expressed his
determination to act promptly and energetically in the
matter of the removal of the remnant of Seminoles now
remaining in the Peninsula of this State. The gallant
Harney, it is thought, will bo dispatched to Florida if
his services elsewhere can be dispensed with, The
Government could not make a better selection for this
difficult and delicate service.— Floridian <j- Journal.
Opinions of the Press.— The nomination is a good
one—a better could not have been made. Judge John
son is well and favorably known to the people of Geor
gia as a man of talent and ability. A more reliable
man there is not in the whole State, fie is eminently
qualified for the Chief Magistracy of the State, and
will, if elected, discharge the duties of the Executive
Office with eminent success.— West Point Beacon.
The Maryland Colony in Liberia has decided to
form an independent State government, and lias appoin
ted commissioners to visit this country, and arrange
their future relations with the Maryland State
Colonization Society. The colony appears to be in a
flourishing condition j food was abundant: the demand
for mechanical and other labor active and increasing;
the crops exceedingly large, and the people generally
contented and prosperous.
It is stated on the authority of private letters,
that Mrs. Ives, the wife of Dr. L. S. Ives, lately Bish
op of North Carolina, will return home witli her broth
er, Dr. Hobart, lie having received notice from the
Pope, that Dr. Ives would be ordained priest in the
summer, and could no longer be considered her hus
band.—Delta.
(K 5“ By hie card in the Georgian of yesterday, we
perceive that JosErH Ganaiil, Esq., lias retired from
his editorial connection witli that paper. Mr. Ganahl
enters upon the practice of the Law, a pursuit which,
we trust, he may find more lucrative and pleasant than
tile arduous one he has left.— Sav. News .
Our College goes bravely on. The seeds of a Rail
road to the village are germinating in good ground,
and if only carefully guarded, will soon bring forth
good fruit. Iluzzali for Cnssviile ! Won’t some of
our brethren of the Press encourage us by saying so,
too ?—CassviUe Standard.
O’ Hon. Yolney E. Howard, formerly of Mississippi,
and late a member of Congress from Texas, has been
appointed by the President, Law Agent to represent
the Government of the United States before the Board
of Land Commissioners of California.
Filibusters. —Tile following mysterious telegraph
dispatch appears in the New Orleans papers :
Head of the Passes, June 22.—Two suspicious ves
sels, armed to the teeth, left the Head of the Passes at
2 o'clock this afternoon, and went to sea.
Prospect of a Long Nap. —Some of the most de
spairing of the whig journals inform us that their party
is dead ; others, a little more hopeful, say that “it is
not dead, but deepeth.” When its nap is out, let us
know.
[IT Hon. A. 11. Stephens has been “cordially and
unanimously” recommended to the people of liis dis
trict (formerly Toombs’) as a candidate for Congress by
a meeting of iiis party in Wilkes county. It is said
that all the other counties in the district concur.
Several wheat fields in Maryland which were ma
nured with guano, are said to have escaped the ravages
of the fly, if it can be shown that this was due to the
guano, the fact will be of great importance to farmers.
Mr. Lunge, Superintendent of the State Road, has
commenced running an accommodation train between
Marietta and Atlanta, leaving Marietta daily, Sundays
excepted, at 12 o’clock and 45 minutes P. M. and At
lanta at G P. M.
Declination. —Wo learn from the Georgian that the
Hon. J. W. Jackson has withdrawn his name from
before tho people as the candidate for the Judgeship
ofj the Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit.
lion. Patrick W. Tompkins, formerly a Congressman
from Mississippi, died in San Francisco on the Bth ult.,
aged 48 years.
Major Drake has been appointed by the federal gov
ernment to run a base line for the Pensacola and Apa
lachicola canal.
To the Hon. Ilobert Toombs.
Dear Sir :—Circumstances beyond my control de
prived me of tlie pleasure of hearing your speech at Tem
perance Hall, Columbus, on the night of the 29th June,
but I have conversed witli many wiio heard it, and they
all agreed that had it been delivered in 1850, it would
have been the best Southern Rights speech of the memo
rable campaign in which you and your colleague did such
vailiant battle against our party.
In 1850, the great battle fought by Southern Democ
racy was misunderstood by the masses, and this misunder
standing w-as in a great degree attributable to the fact,
that you and your colleague, A. 11. Stephens, induced
the people to believe that our objeet was to dissolve the
Union, when in truth, it was on our part an effort to save
the Union by preserving the rights of tho Southern section.
We believed that their violation and the perpetuity of the
Union were inconsistent, that unless the rights of the
Soutli were vindicated from the misrule of the hour, that
sooner or later, a separation must inevitably take place;
we believed that tile safety of the South was dependent
upon itself, and that it could only unite in its own de
fence by a total separation from botli of the National par
ties. You believed that to form a sectional party was to
array the North against us, dissolve the confederacy and
entail ruin upon ourselves and posterity. You pointed
us to tlie national arm for safety, we preferred lo rely up
on ourselves; you appeared before the people, and tlie
burden of your song was the Eulogy of Fillmore and Web
ster, and the deep and bitter hatred of Calhoun, whose
principles you are now endeavoring to inculcate into tlie
minds of your hearers.
You say now, that you will never support any National
party that appoints Free soilers and Abolitionists to of
fice. You, who two years since supported Fillmore’s
administration witli Tom Corwin an unblushing Free
soiler in his cabinet. Fillmore ! owing his own political
elevation to the undoubted evidences of Freesoilism that
marked his whole political course. At a later period you
advocated Webster’s nomination for the Presidency, well
knowing that he boasted of no prouder claim to political
distinction than his consistent opposition to the admission
of an additional inch of slave territory to our National do
main, and only waived tbs Wilmot Proviso in the Mexico
and Utah bills, because he believed tlie country unfitted
for slave labor, and that the insertion of the Proviso
would be to inflict an unnecessary insult upon the South.
With these antecedents, you may very well imagine that
your present course is looked upon with more or less sur
prise by those who yet smart under the bitter denuneia’
tion which you were pleased in no measured terms to lav
ish upon them for the advocacy of the very doctrines which
you to-day proclaim to be proper for the adoption of the
South. It is to be regretted that you had not brought your
powerful influence to their support, when two-thirds of the
Democrats and a respectable minority of the Whigs had al
ready abandoned all National organizations, dropped all par
ty distinctions, and rallied as one man to the formation of a
new party, whose first objeet should bs to protect the
rights of the Soutli in tlie Union, never for a moment
contemplating its dissolution, unless the extreme measure
should lie rendered necessary by tlie fact appearing that
in the Union these rights could no longer be maintained.
If you are sincere in your present position, as I truly
hope you are, it must be a matter of deep regret to you to
know that you have driven into a National organization
thousands who with their lives would have sustained tlie
platform upon which you now stand.
Would you denounce Democrats for going back to their
party allegiance, when you used your successful efforts to
prevent a majority oi the State from uniting as a party in
dependent of either of tlie National political organiza
tions- Surely not ; they tried to form an independent party
You and your friends defeated them, and left them in tile
presidential election the alternative of voting for Scott or
Fierce ; you did not vote lor either, nor did I. You would
have voted for Webster or Fillmore, and in doingso, let me
ask you upon which of their antecedents you would have
predicated an opinion that they would not have endanger
ed tlie Union by appointing Free Soilers and Abolitionists
to office!
That they would have been more southern than Frank
lin Pierce, when you review your course for the last two
years, 1 think that you will allow that it requires consid
erable faith to rely upon your sincerity ; yet, sir, I for one
arid I know there are many others in this county Whigs’
and Democrats who deeire to join just such a party as that
which you profess to advocate, but we are a little fearful
that atter we have joined, you may change your opinions
and leave us the rank and file without a leader. This you I
will admit. I say the least of it, would be to us an
awkward predicament, to it is our present position, the great
Southern Rights Party of which we were zealous members
have left us with its principles while tho party iself don
ning the Democratic uniform revels at the National (east.
Our great objeet was not disunion but the formation oi a
party tiiat would see Southern Rights vindicated. We be
lieved and still believe that if tlie South would unite upon
such ground that there is a conservative minority at tlie
North, in combination, large enough to control the govern
ment and bring it back to its proper sphere, the equal pro
tection and advancement oi it e interest ot all sections oi
the United States, withhold regard to the iattitude of
its location or tho domestic institutions that it may approve
or condemn. Then, sir, all that we want to know is wiieth
er you (of course we cannot expoct you to answer for oth
ers) stand pledged to oppose every National party that will
not give assurance of maintaining tlie Milledgeville reso
lutions ; if so thexte are many ot us who will tight under
your banner so long as vou adhere *o your present pro
fession.” A SOUTHERN RIGHTS MAN.
[FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
“Truth is mighty and will Prevail.”
Milledgeville, June 23, 1853.
To the Editors Times and Sentinel:
I have been reminded of this “truism,” Messrs. Editors,
by recurring to the past and looking to the present. But
let the past and present speak for themselves.
rs o t more than twelve months ago, when the members oi
the old Whig party so far forgot their own principles, and
the interest of our common country, and especially that of
the South, as to go to the Baltimore Whig Convention,
whan they there agreed to certain resolutions in favor of a
Protective Tariff and Internal Improvements by the Gene
ral Government, and these resolutions being in opposition
to those upon which the old Georgia “State Rights” or
“Whig” party was formed ; and when the two wing 9 of
the paity, the “Scott” and “Webster” parties met at Macon
and re-adopted these Baltimore Whig resolutions—at this
time, Messrs. Editors, your humble servant, (though but an
humble and “obscure” member of the old Georgia Whig
party,) raised a warning voice, and protested against his old
friends thus going over to and trailing after our old and
common enemy—the Federal and Consolidation party of
the United States. The writer over the signature of “One
of tue old “Whig” Guard,” notified you and his old po
litical friends that the “principles of the Scott and Webster
parties were not the principles of the old Georgia Whig
party”—he contended that the principle- of these Northern
Whigs were not the Republican principles, which we, the
younger members of the party had learned from “our fath
ers,” and the Constitution of our country. And wishing
not to be believed, if he spoke not the truth, from the re
cord, he produced that “record” in the shape of “votes”
and “resolves” of his old pally—in the past. And in ad
dition to all this he referred to honorable gentlemen by
name, who were then arrayed in opposition to him, to say
if the record was not fairly presented, and if his deductions
were not true. And lor all this, what did 1 receive from
my old friends ? Was it the response of “well done,” and
“continue in your good work”! No. Were those exposi
tions received in a kind and generous manner ? 1 guess
not—for about the only responses that were heard, were,
“he has quit the Whigs,” “he is a turn coat,” or “he has
become a Democrat,” (fee., and one or two base un
principled scoundrels among them were heard to charge
the writer with being an “office seeker”—as the motive lor
this honest arid fair and truthful exposition of the error of
his old political friends—and done, too, for their benefit
and for the benefit of the South, especially. But now, what
is the result ? Twelve months have not yet rolled round,
and where do we now find tlie members of the “Scott” and
“ Webster” parties? Having got out of the ‘tight fix’ in which
their attempt to co-operate with the National Whig party
had placed them—do we now find them—men of princi
ple.—standing up to their Baltimore Whig Platform ? do we
even find them sticking to this “glorious Whig party,” or
even terming or proclaiming themselves “Whigs?” No,
no. But,on the contrary, their Convention that assembled
here yesterday, not only “quit the Whig name,” but
it actually “quit the Whig party,” too, (as I did about
12 months since) —lor in all their resolutions the term
“Whig” or “Whigs” is used but once; and that is done
only to denounce past conduct of the Whig party. Is this
not true ? Let any one who doubts, read the resolutions.
But this is not all. The Convention not only refused to
call themselves “Wliigs”—and it not only denounced the
Whig party for its past extravagance and faithless and ruin
ous conduct to the country—and it not only passed a reso
lution striking directly at, and in direct opposition to, tho
Baltimore Whig Platform in relation to Internal Improve
ments by the General Government, but it actually had as its
President a Democratic Pierce man. Who have “q uit the
IVhigs” now 1 And, as I and others like me, 12 months
since, were considered by some as “turn coats”—who is it
that have become * turn coats” now ; who is it that have
“become Democrats” <fec., <fec. now ? Let those of my old
Whig friends who now belong to this present “Uniou-Re
publiean-Conservative, and no? “Whig” organization ; let
those who endorse the action of the Convention yesterday,
and who thereby “quit the Whig party” themselves, answer
truthfully, if they will, and I shall be content.
I wish not to be misunderstood, Messrs. Editors. Ido
not censure my old political friends, for thus returning to
the old and true, and only sale path, that will lead co tho
happiness and prosperity of our people, and the perpetuity
ofour glorious Union, (and glorious it is, too, when admin
istered in the spirit ofour Constitution.) 1 am ready, as 1 do
now “welcome,” the“ return” of these “prodigals,” from their
wanderings atter false and ruinous lights. Let them con
tinue and “tarry” for awhile—and il they do this, and give
evidence that they will not again wander and lead others in
the dark morass, from which they have just dragged them
selves, the day may not be distant, when “we shall meet
again,” accompanied by many, who will never learn that
“the king (or party) can do no wrong.” Verb. sap. sat.
For myself, I shall duly claim —and I think it due me—that
should I hereafter Do a candidate for any thing, these old
associates of mine ought to give me their united support—
as one of the earliest to “discover” and act upon the “dis
covery”—that the Northern Whig party and its principles
would not do to remain with longer—and as about the first
to strike at its flag, and to raise a warning voice to them,
to flee the wrath of further association with it —which they
have at last heeded. Let this be the case, and we will not
grumble. Until then, their injustice is remembered, though
it is forgiven ! The Great and the Powerful flhad not then
spoken. It was but a still small voice at that time. And
the “rank and file,” in giving currency to the coinage of
knaves, knew not what they did.
In relation to the resolutions of this Convention, I pre
sume that neither you, Messrs. Editors,nor any other Dem
ocrat can materially object to them. If the whole spirit
and meaning of them are not Southern Democratic doc
trine, then I have been mistaken in my interpretation of
those principles. It is true, there is a fling at the Freesoil
appointments of Gen. Pierce—and from observing 9ome of
the “signs” in the Conservative or Democratic papers at
tho North, lam sorry to think, that, perhaps there is som*
just cause of complaint with Gen. Pierce, upon this
But is this sufficient cause, for those who invt-Aigated t | lo
past life and course of Gen. Pierce, and \vho had strong
confidence in his conservatism, &.c., <fec.,to “give him up,”
and denounce him ? I think not. I have all along con
curred with one of these resolutions, and until the Demo
crats of Georgia in denying that Abolitionists and Free
soilers were worthy of public honors and public emolu
ments. And when Mr. Fillmore appointed Mr. Corwin
and a few others to office, it was quite distasteful at first, to
me. But having voted for him, I was disposed to extend
to him a little “generous confidence,” and did riot make an
issue with him upon that point. Mr. Fillmore’s “experi
ment” having worked well—and made Mr. Corwin and
others good “compromise” or “conservative” men in the
Northern sense. I was prepared to see General Pierce
pursue a somewhat similar, though limited course—and I
was prepared to sustain him in it—but 1 fear he ha 9 given
us too much of this policy. But not being sufficiently in
formed at this time upon this point, to form and express a
decided opinion in relation to this matter, as friends of Gen.
Pierce, this resolution strikes us rather “tenderly.” But
otherwise, they are good and true ; and will you dis
pute them ? I trow not. Then let us rather commend than
condemn the disposition of men now to come right, who
have heretofore been doing wrong. Let the Democrats re
collect thaf the Whigs are not the only men who have
heretofore been “led astray,” and returned to their “first
love.” And if this is remembered and acted upon—now
that all are trying to do right—this present canvuss will be
less heated, and more agreeable than we have seen for many
years in Georgia. For as to the candidates for Governor,
they are both highly able men, highly moral, and honora
ble in their course with their fellow citizens—and eminent
examples for many who may possibly traduce and villify
them, during the ensuing campaign.
In relation to the Convention generally—things seemed
to go on quite harmoniously. It is true, there were a few
Whigs that did not like to doff their name and principles,
and assume that of ultra “Union” “Republican” or “Con
servative.” They were a little restive, and some still so
—but 1 thought 1 discovered a little “docility” among this
class, before they left. And there was some euthusiasrn
evinced among many of the delegates before they left.
However, this may be—while I think Johnson will be
elected, yet I can tell you now, that there will be no
“child’s play” in the matter —and if the Democrats don’t
keep a sharp look out, you will see a raco, that will aston
ish the natives.
The “Union Republicans” or “Conservatives” nominated
their candidate for Congress lor this district Inst evening.
Dr. David A. Reese, of Jasper, was the fortunate man.
And as thfe District i9 largely Anti-Democratic (some 1200
or 1500 majority) and Dr. Reese one of the best of men—
one who is generally known and popular —and loved much
by those who know him be9t—this nomination may be
considered as the same as an election. I learn that the
Democrats have not yet determined to offer opposition to
him—having but little hope of success. Col. A. K. Kenan
was an aspirant, with some hopes, by his friends, of a nom
ination. But on the day, not liking the complexion of the
Convention, he withdrew his name from its consideration,
and announced himselt as an Independent Whig Candidate
—but to-day I learn he has reconsidered the matter, and
will not run. Dr. Reese had no opponent and received all
but one vote in the Convention.
But I must bring this communication to a close, with the
request to excuse haste and correct errors, as I am just about
to leave, and am writing this in a public room, with persons
coming in and conversing around me.
Yours, respectfully,
“ONE OF THE OLD WHIG GUARD.”
Mexican Ports Declared, Open.—A synopsis of Santa
Anna’s New Mexican tariff is published in the New Or.
leans I’ieayune. The following ports are declared open
to foreign commerce :
On the Gulf of Mexico, Sisal, Campeache, San Juan,
Bautista de tabasco, Vera Cruz, Tampico de Tairiaulipas
and Matainoras.
On the Pacific Ocean, Acapulco, Manzanilla, San Bias,
Mazatlan, and Gaimas in the Gulf of California.
On the Northern frontier, Matamoras, Presidio del
Norte. On the Southern frontier, Comitan and Tuxtla
Chico.
I lie mail steamer Teviofc brings Buenos Ayres dates to
May 2d. Ihenewa is very unfavorable, The city is
closely besieged and blockaded; besiegers destroying
much life and property without decisive effect. Money
and trade deplorable. Foreign agents detested by libe
rals. 1 his news depressed Buenos Ayres bonds, in Lon
don, four per cent.
At Bahia fears had been entertained of a Negro insur*
rection, which, however, proved groundless.
The wife of T. F. Meagher, according to late advices
had arrived in London from Van Diemen’s land, and was
I with her husband’s father, the member for Waterford
Mrs. Meagher will visit Ireland before sailing for Ameri
ca, to rejoin her husband.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION OF THE SECOND
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Albany, June 23, 1853.
The meeting whs organized by calling B. K. Harri
son, of Stewart, t the Chair, and R. 11. 1). Sorrel, Se
cretary. The call of counties being made, the follow
ing counties were represented :
Muscogee—Porter Ingram, Peter McLaren, A. li.
Ragan.
Stewart—John Fitzgerald, B. K. Harrison, B. May.
Marion—M. U. BlountforJ, T. J. Colquitt.
Macon—John T. Brown, It. 11. I). Sorrel.
Sumter—T. M. Furlow, M. Meßane, W . B. Guer
ry.
Dooly—Dr. W. F. Bynum.
Lee—B. G. Smith, J. 11. Giiltnore, G. B. Mayo.
Randolph—G. L. Barry, M. G. Stamper, E. L. Dou
glass.
Baker—B. M. Cox, J. G. Slappey.
Early—W. C. Cook.
Pulaski
Decatur
T. M. Furlow moved that a committee of five be ap
pointed by the Chair, to nominate permanent officers for
tlie Convention.
Committee —T. M. Furlow, of Sumter, Benj. May,of
Stewart, J. 11. Gillmore, of Lee, Dr. J. Si. Slappey, of
Baker, E. L. Douglass, of Randolph.
The committee reported the following: Col* Porter
Ingram, President, Col. It. 11. D. Sorrel, Secretary.
Dr. Slappey moved that a committee of three he ap
pointed to conduct the President to his seat.
The following gentlemen were appointed that com
mittee : A. B. ltngan, of Muscogee, M. Blountfield, of
Marion, and Col. B. M. Cox, of Baker.
The President, on taking his seat, made a very ap
propriate and stirring speech, which wus received with
marked approbation by the Convention.
B. lv. Harrison, of Stewart, moved that each oounty be
entitled to one vote for each Senator and two for each
Representative. Adopted.
On motion of Mr. Ilarrison, the two-thirds rule was
adopted unanimously.
R. 11. D. Sorrel, of Macon, moved that tlie Conven
tion proceed to ballot without announcing the name us
any candidate, which being seconded, was unanimously
carried.
Mr. Ilarrison stated that Col. 11. L. Penning and .1.
A. Tucker would not accept the nomination.
FIRST BALLOT.
Colquitt 17 ; Clarke 1 ; Robinson 10 ; Williams 8.
R. 11. J). Sorrel stated that Mr. Clarke’s name was
not before the Convention.
SECOND BALLOT.
Colquitt 1G ; Robinson 15; Williams 5.
THIRD BALLOT.
Robinson 13 ; Colquitt 19 ; Williams 4.
Mr. Me Bane, of Sumter, then withdrew the name
of A. A. Robinson.
M. Blountford moved that the Convention adjourn
until 2 o’oloek, which was decided in the negative.
FOURTH BALLOT.
Colquitt 19 ; Furlow 17.
Mr. Meßane moved an adjournment until 2 o’clock,
which was carried.
The Convention met according to adjournment.
Fifth Ballot. —Colquitt 20—Furlow 16.
Mr. Meßane withdrew the name of Mr. Furlo,w
Mr. Ilarrison of Stewart moved that A. 11, Cokpu;’
be unanimously declared the candidate of this PHtfriet.
This was received with marked approbation Audi w;t
unanimously carried.
R. H. D. Sorrel moved that a committee- of otk?
from each county be appointed, by the Chair, to- i iuity
the Hon. A. 11. Colquitt of his nomination and a4 his
acceptance thereof.
The following gentlemen were appointed’ that com
mittee :
A B Ragan, Muscogee ; B K llarrison r Stewart;
M H Blanford Marion ; J T. Brown, Macon ; M
Meßane, Sumter ; W F Bynum, Dooly ; B G Smith,
Loe ; E L Douglass, Randolph i J G Slappey, Baker ;
W C Cook, Early.
Ihe committee introduced Mr. Colquitt to the ineet
ing, when he made some happy remarks—accepting:
the nomination.
R II U Sorrel then moved that a committee of one
from each county be appointed to draft resolutions.—
Ihe following gentlemen were appointed :—R II 1>
Sorrel, of Macon, P McLaren, of Muscogee. J> May,
of Stewart ; P J Colqijiti, of Marion ; T M Furlow,
of Sumter, W F of Dooly, J II Gillmore, of
Lee, M G Stamper* of Randolph - R M Cox, of Ba
ker ; W C Cook* of Early.
1 lie committee retired and soon after reported the
following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted :
Resolved. That we adopt as tho cardinal rule of
our poli*/ lCa | f a ith, the Resolutions of the Baltimore
Convention of 1852, and forgetting all past divisions
} and differences of opinion upon questions already set
tled, we cordially invite all, by whatever name hereto
fore known, who now agree witli us in principle, to join
with us in carrying out in practical operation, tho great
Constitutional, States Rights and Republican doctrines
embraced in those resolutions.
Resolved , That we have an unshaken confidence in
tho patriotism, integrity and firmness of Franklin
Pierce, tho President of the United States—Uiat his
republican simplicity, his stern adherence to th* strict
letter of the Constitution in all his public life, the
noble and patriotic principles contained in his Inaugu
ral Address, commend him to the love and admiration
of the great party that elevated him to power, and
that the Democracy of this Congressional District will
come up with one united voice, and give to his admin
istration a hearty and cordial^support.
Resolved , That the mprfibers of this Convention .
speaking for themselves and those whom they represent.
cordially and freely respond to, and ratify the proceed
ings of the late Democratic Convention at Milledgev
and .that we will use all honorable means to secure xh*
election of the distinguished nominee of that Cos
tion, the Hon. 11. V. Johnson.
Resolved , That Alfred 11. Colquitt, Esq., \ f j lo j J?g
been made the candidate of the Democracy of t j lo n fl<i
District by the unanimous voice of the Conven t j on -, H a
well qualified and worthy representative of <
i , , , ->ur princi
ples, and we hope the electors of the Distr’ iet ra j.
ly in thousands to his support.
Dr. Bynum moved that tlie proceedings oi ti’
vention be published in the Patriot. J ‘ .
Times* Sentinel—carried. *>ocrat, ae-4
B K Harrison, of Stewart, mured tli .j . r
this convention be tendered tothePrer j.i.., ‘ ,
tery demand Seo*—
On motion of B M C.x, tlie con vent’ ,■
sine die. .on adjourn ■
PORTER INC,RA’ p
R. H. D. Soexel, secretary. P '' eß,aem ’
State Democratic ation <or
Governor.
The Convention adopted the ‘7’ ■ , GovernOT -
Democratic pmy , wh.V r.L^n^™ 1 ’' 08 ° f ,h,>
Union, with Krauklin °' h tU
No r S tly i UlU “‘ P 7 d - The Codvention welf
No pola.oai event iatsoocurmlsiuco the election of Presi
dent Pierce, which has given us such unalloyed atisfao
tion as the nomination of H. V. Johnson for Governor’
Smte °of f °" e ° f tho P“-‘ men in the
btate. Os such a man every citizen may j ustl v feel proud
lie has ever been a Democrat min, true sense-a
porter OI the political equality and right* of the people to
gether with tlie ngnts of the States and the Union of’th,
States formed by the Constitution \Viih i
for oar candidate, and with such principles to battle for’in
ssrresr- D *~ a* * C-
The Whig press, heading a faction whose arincmles
ated’bv'ffie IV T en n ePeate<,ly and repudi
ated by the people, will resort to every expedient to ere-
Tv ffitu7n amo ' ,g T~'° d ‘ Vide a, “‘’ £?. Know-
Z ati v 7 W rv‘° Ve ° l "‘ coumr y. pZ our priori.
wifl’hZl.i ° Ur , M ' e ? eß - le t avoid the snares that
—ho nUvi / US ’ en< l—the good ot our countrv
A va)Ti uppermost in our minds, and we shull sv
Z ;l ,r" V of feeiing and action, which in such a
, are the guarantees of success. —Albany Patriot.
War between Bolivia and Peru. The N. Y
°t Commerce has been favored with extracts
26ih uU S “ PurU ’ tbe lateßt of whicli is dated
They show that a war between Peru and Bolt i t
was inevHable ; or, perhaps we should sny, was a,- •
reaqy bt?gun. A Peruvian squadron was at Islay
> the last accounts, and was in three or
tour days to attack the Bolivian port Cobija. The
1 resident of Bolivia had refused satisfaction to Peru,,
and is said to be anxious for war.