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COLUMBUS TIMES
Published Daily (Sunday.- excepted) at the rate of
per uioiitb,or • i lor three months.
X„ subscription received for a longer ti'rm than
Inn * months.
ai>vi:ktisi\«; ii aii s :
Advert Dements inserted l'or $2 00 per square for
t Ste tii 't in-ertion and $1 50 for each additional.
\V here advertisements ar.o inserted a month, the
charge will bes2o per square.
Announcing candidate.'';j>lU, which uno-i invariably
to- paid in advance.
'•A deduction of2o percent, will he made on all
advertising accounts over .>4), when prompt pay
merit is made.
4.l.olU,t.4—Marlon A oiiiitj : *
•itJLH X LSI. Whereas, Amanda L Cattle, Ad- j
it mini tratrix upon the estate of Da\ id L, Many, |
deceased, having applied for letters ol * l l mmission i
front said Admiui: (ration.
These are therelore to cite and aamnni-h all and i
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, j
1,, .now can e, if any they have, why said Adminis- I
n.itnx should not be dismissed lroui said adiuinis- j
tratu.n. ..
Hiven under my hand and official sirnuture, Or- I
tober sth, Itstri. MAlitOA. 11A1L, -
.l*;c 12 mom Ordinal
tiftlOßCilA.—Marion lounlj s
\\ 11EREAS, B. A. Stary, Administrate) upon the |
V* estate of Joseph N. Stary, lade ot said county, j
deceased, having applied tor letters ot difiussion j
troin said administration. . !
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and ,
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to he and appear at my ottice within the time pre- j
scribed hy law, to show cause, if any they nave, why
said letters of dismission should not be granted to
said applicant on the tirst Monday in October next.
tiiven tinder my hand and otticial .-.ignature. Jan.
220, Its>4. A LOOM 11AIK,
Jim 2f»m6m Ordinary’.
GUORUI A—Marion County :
RULE NISI. Whereas Carrie James. Adm’x on
the estate of Daniel James, Jr., having peti
tioned this Court for letters of dismission from r.aid
Administration. . , , . . ~ .
These are therelore to cite arid admonish all and
singular the? kindred and creditor.-* ot :tnd aeeeasjed
to be and appear at ni> office Within the tune pre
-t-ribod by law, and show cuui*e it any tney nave,
Wh> said Administratrix should not be .Lsmir-icd
lroui said Administration on tlie fii-t ivionday in
niven under my’ hand and official signature, this
December the7th, IS*A. MAL.COM HAIR,
dec 14 intim • Ordinary’.
Medical Card.
St IE E. ft. Ito SHY.
I'ORMEKLY Surgeon to the New Orleans “Fe-
T nialo infirmary," tenders his services to the Cit
izens of Columbus in all Lhe blanches of his proles -
,Special attention will he devotedjtotho treatment
of the diseases ofwomeui. t .
Surgical operations performed lor Stone in
the Bladder,Fistula in Aim, Visieo-Vaginalfistula,
Hydrocele, Congenital and Accidental Phymosis,
Varicocele, llcemorrhoids or Biles, Callous Impas
sable strictures, false Passages, Tallapesor Club
foot, and contraction of the lingers, Strabismus or
Squinting, Aneurism, Yarix or dilated veins, Ptery
gium, Cataract and liair i.ip; also for the remov
al of all tumors or abnormal growths from any part
of the body.
Diseases of ths Genito-Urinary System, couiprsing
the different stages of Uhonorrheea, Strictures,
Gravel, Spermatorrhea, Syphilis, in its primary
secondary,tertiary and heriditary forms,will receive
particular attention.
References given whenever desired as well as the
recommendation of many years practice in New Or
leans; Consultation hours every day at Ins pllice
in the Masonic Hall Building, from 111 to 12 o’clock
a, m,, and from 2to t o’clock p, ui. Patients willdo
well to call precisely at those hours, as before and
after that time will be devoted to visitiug persons in
the city.
Address all commuieations to
DR. E. A. ROSSY.
Columbus. Ga,
N. B. —Patrons from a distance will bo visited
and treated at home if desired. L shall lie thankful
to my professional brethren for any favor they may
do mo by sending mo persons requirin' Surgical
attention.
will also bestow particular attention to
the treatment of the different forms of l leers. Rheu
matism, Gout. Scrofulous affections, Syphilitic erup
tions, and all other chrome diseases of the skin. —
Medicated Fumigations and Steam Sulphurous
Baths, as employed in the hospitals in Europe and
America, will form a part of my treatment,
fob 11 IS- A. 11.
B*iesi*:aiftf Blour.
THIS old and well known SALOON we have re-
I fitted and opened for business. We have three
Bowling Alleys and necessary fixtures, and hall by
eoiiducting our business in an orderly m.inner, hope
to merit a liberal share ot patronage.
OGLETKEK A BARRINGER.
fob 10 ts
4 AEEEft.
THIS beautiful and Thorough Bred STALLION
will make the ensuing Spring Sea-ion at the
CHATTAHOOCHEE COURSE, his old land, near
Columbus, Ua., commencing the loth ii.st,, andend
iug on the loth ot J line next.
I will not attempt here a long pedieree or desertp
tion.of FRANK, as his form, blood, beauty, perlor
* malices and fame, are too well known to make it
necessary. . ,
Terms —$100 for (be Season in advance, should
a mare not prove in foal, she will be entitled to his
his services another Season free of ehat>
fob Dim P, Yv r . PIIYOR.
150 ll>n. Blue Mass.
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
-A For sale by J. S. PE.VI DERTOiv.
fob 18 if Druggist under Cook's Hotel.
Oid iron WaaUt'rf,
\\7 E wish to purchase a large quantity of SCR VP
VV IRON. l 'oth cast and wr-.u. ht, Ico V, If., h . idi
will bo paid. HARRISON. BIDELL & CO.
jan 27 ts
Pino Smoking a ml Chewing Tobacco.
A T WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
A For sale by J. S. PEMJBER ION,
fob 13 tt Druggist under Dook s Hotel.
GOOEB.IGH & 00, }
of New Orleans,)
BFIO AX>
EOEWUBIi*, <4A.,
WHOLESALE - AND ISETAIL
Stap I. o c no y
DRY-GOO US.
ARE constantly receiving fresh imp.qtnliom, di
rect from Europe, ol staple and juncy DtiY
GOODS, which they offer whe-ap forca- u.
fob a 8m
Wasiitd,
THE highest price will be paid or Plow Steel given i
l in exchange for Beaver Skins, A l ove number I
wanted. Enquire at
feb22 4w L. 11A1MAN A BKO.
Albany, Eufaula, Cuthbert. Ilninbridge and
pp.ikely papers »'opy 4\v and send bills.
Wart* house
ON and after the first ilav «>! March next, the
charge for storage on Cotton in our V\ arc
houses will he ONE DOLLAR per bah per mouth. ■
KING A ALLEN.
WA KNOCK A CO.,
HUGHES A HODGES.
J. R. IVEY A CO..
GREENWOOD & GRAY,
POWELL. FRAZER & €O.
Columbus, Ga., March 2d. 1864. — 1m
N. i?!;tfe>Btal
TinLL be Sold ou the first Tuesday in April next.
VY between the -usual hours of sale, before the
Court lli>u«e in .Yl uscogee county, a line tour wheel
carriage, levied on to satisfy twenty-six ti fa- \ ■
Beall ,V Murphy, one ti la vs A. A. _ Beall and one ii
la vs R. A. Murphy,: aniishees in lavo, ot Die Con
federate States of America f.*r inter. •» on debt
to allien enemies to the toth .Vu.-i, i. l-v,
PHILIP A. CL \ Y'fON,
C. S. Marshal.
Columbus. March Lt td
\ont s:,
QUAK'fERMASTER’S oFVICK I
t'nl.i'Mi is, January 2',. PfU. j
On the first of each month. Major J no, E. Datis,
post Ouartermastev, will make payment t . all em
ployees of this department, Al-o to owmis
Gave hired, and 17*v property r. 01. and. Parti.- in
t.-re-t.-d will present their bill- to Maj.u l*.,\i
Uluuthly.
The employees of thcTransporiaiion Depai tinent
will he paid by i'apL 11. D. ColliiaH. All pilivlni- ci
ot supplie ■ and payuteip ■ theretof will be made i>>
uiyself. E. W. DILLARD.
Major and Ouarleruiaster.
ian 29 till apl 1
W tiiinl to
A GOOD FIELD HAND, Man or woman. Good
wages will be paid monthly it desired. Apply
at this ofiice. Feb. 2d
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Vol. XI.
J. \V. IVtRKEX & tO. j_ w U tKKIX, I,lion-.
(Itaiigt* ol* Schedule.
M! SCOGLE RAILROAD, )
fcl PKHIMTNOEN I ’g OfTU’E,
Columbus, Dec. 3d. ISC3.)
ON and after Dee. bth the Mail Train on this Rsad
will run as follows:
Leave Columbus 7 To P. M.
Leave Macon 6 30 P. M.
Arrive at Macon 4 18 A. M.
Arrive at Columbus 2 oO A. Af.
j Passengers can now go through to Charleston, via
1 Savannah, without delay, as the Mail Train on the
- Charleston and Savannah Railroad makes close
! connection with the Central Railroad at Savannah.
W. L. CLARK,
Dec 4 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
(Jliange oi‘Schedule.
Office Fxqinef.r and Superixtendent, 1
Chaeleston and Savaxxah Kui rgad, v
Charleston, Feb. 18, 18d4.)
ON ar,d after SUNDAY, Feb. 21 t, Passenger
Trains will
Leave Charleston 7 1-5 A. M.
Arrive at Savannah 4 25 I‘. M.
• Leave Savannah 7 00 A. M.
Arrive at Charleston 4 20 P. M.
Passengers by this route from Columbus, Mont
gomery, Albany’, Fufaula, See., pas through Sav
annah without detention.
H. S. HAINES,
feb 21 lw eoaSw „ Eug’r and Supt.
Cshange of Sc hedule.
ON and after March 13th, the Passenger Train
on the Montgomery Sl West Point Itiiii Road
will
Leave Montgomery 8 00 A. M.
Leave West Point 7 10 A. M.
Arrive at Columbus 5 32 P. 3Vi.
Leave Columbus f> 50 A. M.
Arrive at Montgomery’ 3 00 P. M.
Arrive at West Point 4 30 P. M. «
Freight leaves Columbus 8 4G, A. M,
Freight arrives at Columbus 8 27 P. M.
D. H. CRAM,
mar 11 til Apl 5 Supt. & Eng’r.
No!ice to Travellers and Shippers!
Office Muscogee Railroad Company, }
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 22, 1804. j
On and after this date persons purchasing tiokets
and receiving and shipping freights over this road,
will be required to furnish the exact change.
W. L. CLARK,
feb 24 lm Superintendent.
OFFICE MOB ILE & GIRAIID R. R. )
Gi raHi), February 20.1801. .1
On and after this date all parties receiving or ship
pingfreights over this Road, will be requiredltofur
nish the exact change for freight.
W. H. WILMIAMS,
feb 20 ts Agent
Notice to Stockholders in lie Hank
of Columbus*
Coluairus, U v., Feb.4th. 1864.
On the first MONDAY in April next, an election
will bo belli at the Banking House for nine Direc
tor: of raid Bank, for the ensuing year.
DANIEL GRIFFIN,
feb tde President.
Special Notice to Stockholder*.
Muscogee Railroad Company, (.
Columbus, Ga., Miureh Ist, 1864.)
Alt persons to whom Dividends are due are re
quested to call for the same on or before the 26th
lil.it.
Alt amounts not called for by that time will be
held in Confederate Treasury notes of tip- present
issues as special deposits for those to whom the same
may be due.
By order of Board of Directors.
J, M. BIVINS.,
mar 1 till 26th Sec. and Treas.
BANK OF COLUMBUS, t
Columbus, Ga,, Feb. 25, 1864.)
Notice is hereby given that all depositors in this
Bank are required, to withdraw their deposits by tlie
twenty-fifth day ofMarch next, in order that they
may choose for themselves between funding and
taxation under the new currency act, before the
first day of April following.
And that all persons having claims upon this
Bard: for Deposits, Bank Balances, Collections,
Cei.iti. ale of Deposit, Checks, Dividends or other
duo accounts are required to settle them by the 25th
March next, othwhe the amounts due them re
spcctivcly, wilt be l anded iu four per cent. Bond-),
according to the act ot Congress ot l.thinst , tar
their account.', unlc ' especially directed to the con
trary. D. ADAMS,
feb 25 till Ist April. Cashier.
Sun and Enquirer copy.
it otice.
\LL kinds-of DYEING done at my residence,
/» opposite ltniinau> l’istol Manufactory. Pro
\ i ions ot any kind taken in payment.
HENRY VuIGHT,
mar 8 lm Dyer.
Plantation an<i SlioviJ Iron*
}• HAVE on consignment “0.000 lb ', of Plantation
Iron, and will receive next week some Shovel
Iron, which 1 will exchange tor Bacon or set! tor
Confederate money. A\ . P. TURNER,
mar > i m
Pl.t tv.4
TO PURCHASE 015 BHD !
ON E that will accommodate sixty hand-.
Inquire at THIS OFFICE,
feb 26 ii
KOTIPG.
QU ARTERMASTERS OFFICE, l
Colun.bu- ; , Ga., At,well It), 1864. \
I WILL PAY A HIGH PRICE FOR
-Scrap Copper,
-delivered to any Quartermrster in this State, for
shipment to me.
Post Quartermasters are requested to buy all that
is offered, as I want it tor Shoe Rivets.
F, AV. DILLARD,
mar 111 apl 1 Major &Q. M.
To Those Interested.
Notice is hereby given to all parties having funds
in our hands, thai lUesa-memust be \\ithdvawnprior
to tlie I t of April next, or under the law we shall
bo . .uupolied to return it, which will subject them
to a til.c af thifiii rh,; . <m ,i n limit p.-r cent, on tlie
amount. ELLIS, LIVING; TON A CO..
Columbus, Ga.. March 2d. if
The undersigned respectfully give notice to all
parties huYingejaims upon them f..r Deposited, Bank
Balances, Collections, Certificates ot Deposit,
Check , Ac., to come forward and receive payment
for them >-n or before the 2.>th day ol A/arch, 1864:
l'ailin - to do so, the amounts due them, respectively,
will be funded in Four Per Cent. Confoderate Bonds,
.•..•cording to the recent act of Congress, for their
account unless specially directed t* the contrary.
A\’e will continue to receive and pay out Confede
rate Treasury Notes of alt denominations until the
r ub «.i March next, alter ihat Jin only those of the
denomination of tii e dollars and under, wiil be re
coil ed and paid .on until further notice, and all tire
non lica-ury Notes iuicuded to replace the present
D' ue will be received in payment and on deposit and
paid out. J. M. WATT.
Agent B’k State Ga.
U. H. EPPING.
Agent L ; nion Bank.
* Columbus, Ga., March 7,18 4-t mar 25.
Columbus, Ga., Tuesday Morning, March 15,1864.
Clin HUlitai n Dimtavn
HEADQUARTERS POST—II9' Eroad Street,
’ Up Stairs.
Col. J. W. Robertson, Com’g.
| Gapt. Chas. Wood, A. A. G.
Capt. J. S. Smith. A A & I d
W. T. MoKi: .GREK, Chief Clerk.
•
ESH OL LING OF Fit 'E.
Capt. W. S. Wallace —rear of Jones’ Buildinjr.
>
I OR OX A NOE 1) ERA R TMEX T.
Cor. Olgethorpe and St. Clair Sts.
Maj. F. C. 1! u m pure vs, Com’g.
Capt IV. Latham, Ex. utneer.
Lieut. J. M. Mulden, Military Store Keeper
Q CAR i ERMASTER DEE'T.
At No. la Broad Broad St.
Maj. F. AV. Dillard, Com’g.
Maj. John E. Davis, Post Q. M.
CapL. ii. D. Cothran, A. Q. M.
COMMISSARY DEP' T.
At King, Allen A Camak’s Warehouse.
Maj. A. M. Allen, Com’g.
Capt. J. 11. Gravbill, A. C. S.
ENGINEERS DEFT
Capt. Thus. Moreno.
Lieut. Wm. Hansell.
MEDICAL DEFT.
G. B. Douglass, Post Surgeon.
(Ottice at Wayside Home.)
J S AVhite, General Hospital Snrg. iu Charge.
J P Moore, “ “ Surgeon.
L D Carson, “ “ Ass’t Surgeon,
li Fowler, “ “ “
AV AA r Dickie, “ “ “ “
NAVAL DEFT.
Office near the Old Bridge.
J. 11. AV ARNE ii, Chf. Engineer.
PR OVO ST MA RSHA I.
Capt. Geo. N. Knight, (East of the Bank of
Columbus.
£~thie Hoard.
J S White, Senior Surgeon.
The Board meets at the General Hospital on
Tuesdays and Fridays.
AUCTION SALES.
15) lOHis, Livingston & Co*
ROPE AND TOBACCO!
/AN TUESDAY,,ISth of March.Jat 11 o’clock, we
* / will seliiu front of our store,
38 Coils Hemp Rope,
112 Boxes Tobacco,
1 Full ( Jase Grover A Baker Sewing Machine,
l Case Kdlickinick Tobacco,
2S) Sides Sole Leather,
60 pail Ladies’ Shoes,
3 bills Rye Whiskey,
mar 14 ' $7
'®y ESlis, saig’stoii SL (Do,
iiN TTTESDAA . March T>lh, at lljo’clock we will
AT sell in front of our store,
One \my Fine New Grover A Baker’s Sewing
Machine.
One Patent Lever Gold Watch,
mar 14 $3 50
By Ellis, Livingston «fc C'o-
BACON ANSI LARD.
ON Tuesday, loth March, at 11 o’clock, we will sell
in front of our store,
1,000 3i>s» dboice V.ard,
1,000 iS>s, Choice Macon.
mar 11 td $lO
By IF His, ltiring §ton & Cos.
THIRTEEN LIKELY NEOSOES
At Auction i
j )N TUESDAY 15th March at 11 o’clock, we will
\J sell in front of our store
ffel VERY ILfBvEV.V YOEMO MEN,
V a vying from IS to 31 years oi age.
■SSS* - Sale positive to close up a Salt Company,
mar 14 $7
Hv IGiiiis, iiiviiig’Stoia & Cos.
j \N TUESDAY, 15th March, at 11 o'clock, we will
soli in front of onr - tore,
ISO tLiglit Cloth Caps,
1 Pair Rose Blankets,
1 Excellent Gold Waleli & Chain
mar 1 1 $4
ComVdci’Rts) States Depository*
Columbus, March Ist, 1864.
H olders of Treasury Notes (.except those bearing - 1
inteve t * can now obtain Certificates which will en- ,
title them to four per cent. Bonds, which privilege <
will continue until tirst day of Apriljfor notes of uM i
denuiaiiiatinns, after that date, all notes above the j
denomination of Five dollars can only be funded a J
sixty-six and two-third cents to the dollar, except I
One Hundred Dollar Notes which arc no longer re- j
ceived after that date for public dues and ean only
e funded at a further reduction of .en percent per >
month. The Cevtiiieai -s issued, as well as the Bonds ;
or which they will be exchanged, are receivable in
payment of laxcv for i tie year 1861, and are not sub
ject to the tax imposed as on other Bonds.
Come forward promptly and obtain your Certifi
cates and notrua idle risk oi' being excluded by the
pre-lire that will take place towards the end of the
month. W. 11. YOUNG,
mar 3 till Ist April Depositary.
Enquirer and Sun copy till 1-t April and send bill
to me.
Aotiie.
Assistant Quartkrmastf.r's OrFicß, 1
Columbus, Georgia, >
March 10, 1864.)
Parties holding Certificates of Purchase or Im
pressment, made by ihaj. J. F. Waddell, will pre
sent their claim- li>r pu>rnent by the 25th inst.
11. D. COTHRAN.
mar 10 2w Capt, Sc A. Q. M.
Sun copy.
To ( oniedciTiU’ Tai Payers.
I am instructed to forward to the State GilloeAw
allmoney received in payment oi fax •as to reach
him before the LV.thinst. On and aLer Monday, the !
21 «t iust., this office w ill he , 1.-cd for a tew days, amt
consequently the present currency will not be re- j
reived it par in payment of Confederate Tax.
J. A. L. LEE- :
C. 8, Tax Col. for l)i.- t. Xu. 41.
mail 4 lw
Laiui for Sale.
4 Til.l FT of EIGHT HUNDRED acre land, Iv ,
il\ iug near Spline Hill, in Barbour county- Ala
bama. Bet v.ven 2*) ami ot)U acres cl eared, all fresh.
; havhu been in cultivation only two or three years-
ThL- section of country is among the best cotton piv
,luring lands in Alabama wr Georgia. Parties wish
ing to invest in euoh propei tv amv call mc.W
twoen this nnd the 2nth Inst., after that it wiil b«
withdraw u Loin market. Apply to
\\ m. C. ivii AV .
at Greenwood J. Gray •; ‘Alice,
i mar it) Gl 2i>tU inav
TOR SSAI.ILL
MY PREMISES containing two full lots, on whkAi
are two cottages, good barn and other houses,
j with a brick curbed well of never foiling water. —
Possession can be given in a few days. Call on Dr,
iW. P. ■Turner, in my absence, who authorized tq
| make the sale. A. ii. DeWITT,
mar 3 2w* fA
floiidny Evening
Old Tspi* Octal for Sale.
AVe have a few bundled pounds ofOldjType Metal
for sale. Persons wishing to pufehasq should make
immediate application. Apply to tho
mar 3 ts TIMES OFFICE.
■» -a- *
TEIEGEAPHIS.
Ucjiopts ol tlu* Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States lor
the Northern District of Georgia.
Charleston, March 13.—Eight shells have
been tired at the city Alice last night.*
Nothing else.
OF
lIIS EXCELLENCY JOSEPH E. BLOWN, 1
TO TIIK
EXTRA SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE,
CONVENED MARCH I (HU, 1864.
[CONTINUED.]
1 have aaitl the South i.s not the guilty
! party in this dreadful carnage, and J. think
it not inappropriate that the reaaoiLS should
he often repeated at the bar of an intelli
gent public opinion; that our own people
and the world should have ‘‘line upon
line” and “precept upon precept.” “here a
little and there a little,” “in season and
out of season,” as some may suppose, to
show the true nature of this contest —the
principles involved—the objects of the
war on our side, as well as that of the en
emy, that all right minded men every
where may see and understand, that this
contest is not of our seeking and that, we
had no wish or desire to injure those who
war against us, except so lar as has been
necessary for the protection and preserva
tion of ourselves. Our sole object from
the beginning has been to defend, main
tain and preserve our ancient usages, cus
toms, liberties and institutions, as achieved
and established by our ancestors in the
revolution of 1770.
/i'llat Revolution was undertaken to es
tablish two great rights—State Sovereign
ty— and self-government. Upon these
the declaration of Independence was pre
dicated, and they were the corner stontf
upon which the Constitution rested. The
denial of these two great principles cost
Great Britain her American Colonies
which had so long been her pride. And
the denial of them by the Government at
Washington ifpivsisted in must cost the
people of the Untied Statca ig<> Uwa»t/A*
of themselves and their posterity. These
are the pillars upon which the temple of
Constitutional liberty stand ;, and if the
Northern people iu their mad eftoit to de
stroy the Sovereignty of the Southern
States and take from our people the right
of self-government, should he able, with
the strength of an ancient Sampson, to
lay hold upon the pillars, and overturn the
edifice, they must necessarily be crashed
beneath its ruins, as the destruction of
State Sovereignty and the right of self
government, in the Southern States, by the
agency of the Federal Government, nec
essarily involves the like destruction in
the Northern States, as no people can
maintain these rights for themselves who
will shed the blood of their neighbors to
destroy them in others, ft is impossible
tor half the States ot the Confederacy, if
they assist the central government to de
stroy the rights and liberties of the other
I half, to maintain their own rights and lib
-1 erties, against the central power, after it
| has crushed their eo-States.
; The two great truths announced by Mr
j Jefferson, in the declaration of ludepen
| denee and concurred in hy all tlie great
men of the revolution were, Ist, “That.
Governments derive their just powers
from the consent of Governed.” 2d,
“Taut these United Colonies are, and of
right ought to he free and independent
1 States.
\Vit are not to under,Manil l>y the first
\ j'lvat truth that each individul member of
j’ the aggregate muss com posing the State
must give his consent before ue ean he
) justly governed; «*r that the eonsent ol
t each, or a particular class of individuals
iin a State is neeessarv. By the governed
! is evidently here meant communities and
bodies of me]n capable of organizing and
maintaining government. The “consent
ol' the governed,” refers to the aggregate
rvill of the cijnnnunity or State in its legit
imate and jnjopcrly constituted organs.
Iu elaborating this great, truth Air. Jef
ferson in the declaration ot Independence
says that governments are instituted
among men to secure certain “inalienaye
rights”-—that “among these are life, lib
erty and the pursuit of hapjiiuess;” “that
: whenever any form of government becomes
! destructive of these ends, it is the right, of
i the people to alter or to abolish it, and to
I institute a jnew government lay up its
! foundation on such principles, and organ
izing its powers in such form, a;> to them
shall seem most likely to effect their safe-
I ty and happiness.”
According to this great fundamental
| principle the ooverign States ot Amer
ica, North and South, ean only be govern
; ed by their owrt consent, becomes distinc
tive of the great ends of which it wa term
ed.thcy have a perfect right to “abolish it,
hy withdrawing their consent lroui it, as
the Uolonies did from the British Bov
ernm, ntjand to form a “new Government
with its foundations laid on such princi
ples, and its powers organized in . ueff
form as to them shall seem most likely to
| effect their safety and happiness.” t port
the application to (Jiepr» fill eoiitroYer
of this gre|at principle, to whieli the
Northern k S'tate are as firmi\ committed
, as the Southern States, Georgia can
, proudly challenge New York to trial be
j lore the bar of enlightened public opinion,
j and impartial his lory’ must write the ve;>
i diet in her favor, and triumphantly vin-
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dieate her action in the course she has
pursued.
Not only all the Sovereign States of
America have heretofore recognize, this
great truth, hut it ha*) been recognized by j
the able and enlightened Kmperor of tlie
French who owes las present elevation
to the consent of the governed.
He was called to the Presidency t.y the free
suffrages or consent of the French people, and
when he assumed the imperial title he again
submitted the question to the “governed at
the ballot box, and they gave I heir “consent."
At the recent treaty of pence with the Em
peror of Austria he ceded an Austrian prov
ince to France, and Napoleon refused to
“govern it," til) the people at the ballot Imx
gave their “consent,' that he should do so.
The Northern States of America arc to-day.
through the agency of the despotism at \\ ash
ington, waging a bloody war upon the .South
ern States, to crush out the great American
principle, announced and maintained in a
seven years war, by our common ancestry. !
alter it ha-' won the approbation of tho ablest
and most enlightened Sovereign of Europe.
in discussing this great principle, 1 can but
remark, how strange is the contrast bt tween
the conduct ot the Emperor Napoleon, and
that of President Lincoln. Napoleon refuses
to govern a province till a majority of the
people at the ballot box has given their con
sent. Lincoln after hating done all in his
power to destroy tin* freedom and parity of
the ballot box, announces in his proclamation
his determination to govern the Sovereign
States of the South bt force, and to recognize
and maintain as the Government of these
States, not those who at the ballot box can
obtain the consent of the '‘governed,’’ or of a
majority of the people, but those who can ob
tain the consent of one tenth of the people ot
the State. Knowing that lie can never govern
these States witli “the consent of.the govern
ed,' he tramples the declaration of Independ
ence under his feet, and proclaims to the v\ orld
that he will govern these. States, not by the
“consent of the governed” but by military
power, so soon as he can lind one tenth of the
governed humiliated enough to give their
consent.
But the world must be struck with the ab
surdity of tlie pretext upon which lie bases
this extraordinary piefension. Ho says, in
substance, the Constitution requires him to
guarantee to each State a republican form of
Government. And for the purpose of carry
ing out this provision ot the Constitution he
proclaims tltqt, so soon as'one tenth of the
people of each of States shall be
found abject enough to take an oath to sup
port Ids unconstitutional acts, and at the same
time to support the Constitution, and shall do
this monstrous deed, tie will permit them to
organize a State Government, and will recog
nize them as the government of the State, and
their office!s as the regular constituted au
thorities of the State. These lie will aid in
putting down, driving out, expelling, and ex
terminating, the other nine tenths, if they do
not likewise take the prescribed oath.
One tenth of the people of a State put up,
and aided by military force, to rule, govern
or exterminate idue tenths ! And this to be
done it idler vne j’nioc. <>»• orofV- <‘d object of
guaranteeing republicanism ! AVbai
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Ad
ams. Hancock, or even Hamilton, have said
to this kind of republicanism ? What say the
conservative Northern .statesmen of tlie pres
ent day, it permitted to speak '.' Does such a
government as this derive its just powers
from the -‘consent of the governed D Is this
their understanding of the republican govern
ment, which the United Slato3 is to guarantee
to each Etate ? If so, what, guaranty have
they for the freedom of their posterity? If the
government at Washington, guarantees such
republicanism as this to Georgia, in 1864,
what may be her guaranty to Ohio and other
Western States in 1874.
The absurdity of such a position on Con
stitutional principles or views, is too glaring
for comment. AV hen such terms arc offered
to thorn, well may the people of these States
be nerved to defend their right.-' and liberties
at every hazard, under every privation, and to
the last extremity.
But I must nciice tlie other great truth,
promulgated in the declaration of independ
ence—“that 11 1 os3 United Colonies are. and of
right ought to be, free and independent."
George the 111 denied this great truth in
1776, and. sent his armies into Virginia, the
Carolinas, and Georgia, to crush out its advo-
cate.s and laaiuLvin over the people, a govei ti
ment which did not derive its powers from the
* consent of the governed, g President Lin
coln in 1861. has made war upon the same
States and their Confederates to cm dyout tlie
same doctrine by armed iorce. Tet he has
none of the apparent justification before the
world that the British King hud. The colo
nies bad been planted, nurtured and governed
by Great Britain. As States, they hud never
been independent and never claimed to be.
This claim was set up for the tir -t time in the
declaration of independence. Under these
ci rcti m ;l ances, there was some reason nh' tlie
British Grown should resist it. Butth,' smc iI
truth proclaimed was more powerlill than the
arum*.-’ and navy of Great Britain.
On the 4th ol July, U. 76. our father made
this declaration of the freedom and ind.-pen.l
enee of the States. The revolution was tough i
upon this declaration, and on the 3d >la% “i
September, I) Si, in the treaty wf peace, “ilis
Britanic Majesty, .acknowli'daes tin* -aid l ni
ted States, to-wit: New Hsm; - hue. Ma .‘u im
setis Bay, Rhode Island and Providence J’bsn
tations. Connecticut, New York. New Jfvev.
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia,
to be free, sovereign and independent Stater,
that he treats with them a3 such. Lc.
On and after that day Georgia stood before
the world, clad in all the habiliments, and
possessed of all the attributes of sovereignty.
When did Georgia lose this sovereignty Was
it by virtue of her previous compact with Imr
! sisti r States ’ Certainly no!.
The Articles of Confederation between the
colonic-, during the struggle, set torth tin- off
■ to be attained, and the nature ot P.u
bond between the parties to it. and the sepa
rate soveu*ignty of each of the States a p; in
to it, wa- expres- lj re efva 1. Was it when
she with the otic r States formed the Conyti
tntion in 1757 ' Clearly not. The Constiiu
tiim was a compact lie-tv* ecn the thirteen
States, each of which bad ' yen recognized
separately by name, by the British King, as a
free, sovereign and independent Si n<
The objects and purposes for which the fed
j *- r;t | (fowiuvcent was formed, were distinctly
| specified and were all set forth in the compact.
' The government created by it was limited in
* it- powers by the grant, with an express reser
. ration of all” powers not delegated. Thf- great
; attiibute of separate Stale Sovereignty, was
not delegated. In this particular, there was
i no change from the Articles of Confederation.
.Sovereigntj was still i•■'.d and abided
, with tin* States i. spectre. i\
li.. mure “perfect Baiun w, ’■« ‘‘d up ui
the assumption that it wa-’ f r tic be a m*:r
--<-. t ol all the States to enter into it 'vith the
additional grfuit of powers and guarantees
V each State being bound as a Sovereign to
perform and discharge to the othc*. . all the
new obligations of the compact It wa ;o
submitted to the people of the States respect
j ively and so acceded by them.
Tho Shriek did not part with their separate
sovereignty by the adoption of the Constitu
tion. Iu that instrument all the powers dele
gated, are specially mentioned. Sovereignty,
the greatest ot all others emanate, is not
amongst those mentioned. D could not have
h en united with except by giant either ex
pressed or clearly implied. • The most degra
ding act a State can do is to lav down or sur
render her sov ercignty. Indeed it can not be
done except by deed or grant. The surren
der is not to be found in the Constitution
amongst the expressly granted powers. It
can not be amongst those granted by implica
tion ; tor by the terms ot the compact noue are
granted by implication except such as are in
cidental to, or necessary and proper to exe
cute those that are expressly granted. Tha
incident can never be greater than the object
and ii nothirtg in the powers expressly
granted, amounted to sovereignty, that which
is the greatest of all powers, can not follow or
be carried after a lesser one. as an incident by
implication—and then to put the matter at
rest forever, it is expressly declared that the
powers not delegated, are reserved to the
States respectively, or to the people. Sover
eignty the greatest source oi all power, there
fore, was left with the States by the compact,
loft where King George left it, and left where
it has eygr since remained, ana will remain
forever if tho people of States are true to Lhem
aelves, and true to the great principles which
their forefathers achieved at such a cost of
blood and treasure, in the war of 1776.
The Constitution was only the written con
tract or bond between the sovereign States in
which the covenants were all plainly express
ed. and each State as a sovereign, pledged its
faith to its sister States, to observe and keep
these covenants. So long as each did this, all
were bound by compact. But. it is a rule as
well known and universally recognized in
savage as in civilized life—as well understood
and as generally acquisced in between sov
ereign States, as between private individuals,
that when one party to a contract refuses to
be bound by it and conform to its requirements,
the other party is released from further corn-’
pliance.
"W ithout entering into an argument toshow
the manner in which tue Northern States had
perverted the contract, and warped its terms
to suit their own interest, in the enactments
and enforcements of tariff' laws for the protec
tion of their industry at the expeuse of the
.South, and in the enactment of internal im
provement laws, coast navigation laws, fishery
laws, &c., &c., which were intended to enrich
them at the expense of the people of the South,
1 need cite but a single instance ot open avow
ed, self-confessed, and even boasted violation
of the compact of Northern States to prove
that the Southern States were released, and
discharged from further obligation to the
Northern States, by every known rule of law,
morality, or camity.
One of the express covenants in the written
bond, to which the Northern States subscribed,
and without which as fs clearly seen by refer
ence to the debates in tho Convention which
formed the Convention, the Southern States
never would have agreed to or formed tho
compact, was in these words:
“No person held to service or labor in ono
State, under the laws thereof escaping into
another, shall in consequence of any law or
regulation therein be discharged from such
service or labor, but shall be delivered up on
claim of the party to whom such seivice or
labor may be due.”
Massachusetts and other Abolition States, ut
terly repudiated and annulled and sot at naught
this provision ol the Constitution, and refused
either to execute it or to permit the eonstituted
authorities of the United States to carry it out,
within their limits.
This shameful violation by Massachusetts, of
tier plighted faith to Georgia, and this refusal to
bo bound by the parts of the Constitution which
she regarded burdensome to her ami unacceptable
to her people, released Georgia according to every
principle of international law, from further com
pliance on her pari. In other words, the Consti
tution was the bond of Union between Georgia
and Mo- aehusetts, and when Massachusetts re
fused longer to be bound by the Constitution, she
thereby dissolved tho Union between her and
Georgia.
It is truthfully said in the declaration of Inde
pendence that “experience hath shown that man
kind are more disposed to suffer while evils are
sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.” So it
was with Georgia and lief Southern sisters in this
case. Though Massachusetts and other northern
States, by their faithless acts and repudiation of
the compact, had dissolved the union existing be
tween the States, the Southern States did not de
clare the dissolution, hoping that a returning
sense of justice on the part of the northern States
might cause them agaiu to observe their Constitu
tional obligations. So lar from this being the case,
they construed our forbearance into a conscious
ness of our weakness and inability to defend our
selves, and they organized a great sectional party
tv hose political creed was founded in injustice to
the South, and whose public declarations and acta
sustained the action of Massachusetts and the other
faithless States.
This party, whose creed was hostility to tho
rights of the South, triumphed in the election for
President in i a6O. The election of a federal Ex
ecutive by a sectional party, upon a platform of
avowed hostility to the Constitutional rights of the
South, to carry out in the federal administration
the doctrines of Massachusetts and other faithless
States, left no Aurther ground for hope that the
rights of the South would longer he respected by
the northern Staffs which had not only the Execu
tive, luit a majority of the Congress.
The people of the Southern States, each sove
reign State acting for itself, then met in conven
tion, and in the most solemn manner known to our
form of government, resumed the exeroise of the
powers which they had delegated to the common
agent, now faithless to the trust reposed in it.
The right of Georgia, as a member to the original
compact, to do thi is too clear for successful de
nial. And the right of Alabama and the otfier
States which had been admitted into the union
since tho adoption of the Constitution, is equally
incontrovertible, as each new State came into the
union as a sovereign, upon an equal footing, in
ill! respects whatever, with the original parties to
the compact.
ft OTIC E.
HEADQUARTERS POST, (
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 27, 1864. j
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 6,
I. All officer: or soldiers remaining in Columbus
over Iffjioui will require a pass from these Head
quarters,
FI. All persons between the ages of 18 and 45 years
vi-dting Coluiu bus (Officers of the Navy and Army
tatioued at this Post excepted) wili-iu future be re
quired t<> procure a pass front thckCommandimt of
ihei’o.-t. No other document than the pass spec
ified will be regarded by the officer charged with the
examination of passes.
111. Officers and soldiers absent from their com
mand.-. or citizens claiming exemption by virtue ol
contracts or oth.a wise, will save themselves annoy
ance by immediately procuring the required pass.
fly order of Col. ROBERTSON.
CHAS. WOOD, A. A. G.
jan 29 ts
OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY, (.
Com iIBL.S, Ga.. I eh, 14tll, 1864. )
Much complaint being made of lije delays of this
; (’..rupany in forwarding merchandise, 1 am instruc
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quire that 6'-mecii»o?id pafkugaa shall have prece
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Idler.- in the field or hospitals. The observation
! of this rule together with limited facilities for trans
portation, necessarily cause delay in the forwarding
of packages for merchants and others.
S. 11. IIILL,
feb 13 lm Agent,
OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY. »
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i Legal notice is hereby nice,, to ol!concerned, that
I persons who ship packages containing spiiit-, wines
and cordials, without informing our Agents of the
fact wiil not be entitled to, nor will they receive, the
benefit of valuation. Spirits, wines or cordials, will
noi j, c forwarded by this. Company except under
.pecial contract JAMES SHORTER, Supt.
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