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Ison and Monroe were ny me
unequivocal sentiment of the Nation.
John Quincy Adams was disavowed by
the People, and hurled from unormal and
perilous eminence. The victorious and
nl 1-coriqueriug Jackson swept away ev
ery petty obstacle to his rise. With hint
as the Republican candidate,the Republi
can party was the American Nation. Mr.
V. B. bcaine his sueccessor; the inheritor
of his unbounded popularity ; invested
with the vast patronage of the chief exec
utive Magistrate of this great nation ; and
in the complete enjoyment of the incalcu
lable advantages of his situation, the Re
publican party, when following his for
tunes, were condemned to overwhelming
and ignominious defeat !
He retired to the walks of private life.
He left us in a state of forlorn prostration.
Nis name was separated from our cause.
Instantly, the irressible energy of our
principle rebounded from the state of un
natural degradation. The Republican
Principle, delivered from the influence of
his name, led us on to conquest after con
quest, till our bright banner now waves
in triumph throughout the broad realms
of this broad Union. And now, even
now, even before we realise our hopes
and just expectations—we are called
upon by his friends, once again, to iden
tify our cause with his —ill fortune !
In directing the attention of the coun
try to this unpleasant train of reflection,
1 am not so sanguine as to expect to
command their unanimous approbation.
I3y some I shall be deemed imprudent—
others may be ready to infer that I am
actuated by a spirit of personal hostility
to Mr. Van Buren others, even less
charitable, may question my fidelity to
the Republican cause.
As to the question of imprudence, I
must take the chances, and meet the
consequences of my conduct. If they be
evil, their operation will be exhausted on
myself.
1 indulge no feeling of personal oppo
sition to Mr. Van Buren. I deem that
he made a Republican President. But 1
believe him to be unpopular. Ido not
say justly unpopular. I believe signal
disaster has already resulted to the Re
publican Party from their past efforts to
invest him with the honors of the coun
try. 1 dread the recurrence of similar
calamity, as the result of continued, sim
ilar exertions. Acting under a painful
sense of duty, I reluctantly perform the
task of admonishing Republicans of im
pending evil. If my admonitions be dis
regarded and my torebodi: gs realised, I
shall prove my fidelity to the Republi
can cause, by sustaining it in the hour of
adversity. Jf Mr. Van Buren be chosen
as the Republican Candidate, I shall de
vote to his triumph my humble but most
cordial exertions. If we succeed, 1 ask
no other reward than the consciousness
of having discharged my duty. Should
fortune frown, and dark defeat close his
career, far from upbraiding the folly of
the selection—l would snatch our soiled
banner from the dust, and boldly unfurl
it for anothar conflict. kip kaps.
A LETTER FROM MR. CALHOUN.
To tic Editors of the National Intelligencer:
Finer Him., July -8, 1813.
Messrs. Gales & Seatun : 1 have just received from
a friend the National Intelligencer of the l'Jlh and
15lh inst., containing your remarks on a volume re
cently published by :he Harpers, of New York, enti
tled “ Speeches of Mr. Calhoun, delivered in the
Congress of the United States from 1811 to the pres
ent time.” Your remarks arc headed, “ Political
History Suppri ssed Speeches of Mr. Calhoun."
“ Suppressed” is a strong word. The highest au
thorities define it to lie, pul down, destroyed, conceal
ed; and your remarks leave no doubt that you inten
ded to use it in the strongest and most oll'ensive sense
that i s . that they have been intentionally omitted
in the compilation in order to give a partial and false
view of ii;y opinions; and, for that purpose, a false
title was given to the volume. To the truth of this
you pledge indireetly your word by heading your re
marks “ Political History.” The charge is a grave
one, and made in an imposing manner, and if true
the imposition would deserve the public reprobation.
The question, then, is, Is it true 1 Let facts answer.
The title is, indeed, false—talse every way. It cov
ers much not included in the volume, and omits much
that is—reports, letters, and other writings. You
have noticed the former, and called public attention
to it, hut not the latter, though equally obvious, and
very material in determining whether the falsity of
the title is a mere error or a fraudulent attempt at im
position. The one might, with some plausibility, he
construed to he an attempt at imposition; but it is
impossible for any ingenuity so to construe the other.
It is impossible to assign to it a fraudulent object.—
But if the one is an error, why not the other! In
fact the very grossness of both can leave no doubt
that they are merely errors. It is not possible to open
the volume without detecting them. Ihe title coveis
all the speeches of Mr. Calhoun from 1811, when he
entered Congress, till the present time, while the vol
ume contains hut one speech, prior to 1833. Again:
it omits to mention any thing hut sjteecties, when ot
the four first of his productions of which the compi
lation is composed, only one is a speech. 1 o make
its grossness still more palpable, all these are headed
“Speeches.” Has fraud ever been known to do its
work in so clumsy a manner! It is id'c to waste
words on a thing so {Jain. Fhe whole title is a gross
blunder, of which 1 have much greater reason to
Complain than any one else. It looks much more
like an attempt to injure me than to impose on the
public. I, however, can suspect nothing ot the kind.
Ho a* it happened I know not; nor, is it material, so
far as it relates to the object of tins communication ;
but I deem it due to myself to state all that I know
about it.
it so happens that I have never yet seen the volume.
I saw the title and the advertisement not long since,
for the first time. I was, as may be imagined, indig
nant at the blunder. I wrote immediately to a friend
who took an interest in the publication and corres
ponded with the publishers, and pointeJ out the blun
ders in the title and the objections to the advertise
ment, and suggested the corrections that should be
made, which 1 requested him to have done forthwith.
It was too late. I reaeived his answer a tew days
since. He informed me that he had perceived the
blunders before he got my letter, and had prepared a
correction, but, owing to some delay in the transmis
sion, it was not received in time. It may be proper
to add, that the title 1 suggested (as well as I can re
collect) was, “A selection from the speeches, reports,
and other writings of Mr. Calhoun, subsequent to
Lis election as Vice President of the United States,
for the title.
I come now to the selection or compilation; and
here I take all the responsibility. It was done by me,
and if there be any fraud or concealment, I am charge
able. It: order that your readers may judge, I shall
state the reasons which governed me in making the
selection.
It is proper to premise that I have been urged from
various quarters, in the last six or seven years, to
have tny speeches collected and published, and have
iluring.the same period received numerous applications
for copies of tny speeches in pamphlet form, with
which I could not comply, because 1 had not spare
copies. Since my name has been presented to the
People in connection wi'h the Presidency, applica
tions for copies have increased, and I have been more
frequently urged to collect and publish my sjieeches,
reports, and other writings on political subjects. 1
finally consented to the publication, because 1 beli 'v
cd it to be due to the people, in the |s>sttion I occupy,
to atTord the n the means of ascertaining the opinions
and sentiments I entertain on all political subjects,
particularly on those which have agitated the country
of late, and on which the Presidential election will
probably in a great measure turn. That 1 believed
could best ho done by publishing what I had said and
written on those questions in a form which would
make the work accessible to the People. 1 would
give my opinions and sentiments in the fullest and
most authentic form, and in a manner much more
consonant to my feelings than by popular speeches
made for the occasion, or a [>er>on.il canvass.
To effect the object, it was not only necessary that
a selection should be made, but that it should be made
from the later and not the earlier of my speeches and
other discussions on political subjects. To publish
all 1 have said or written in the long period of thirty
two years, in which 1 have been without inter oission
in public life, would make the work too bulky and
expensive to be accessible to the great body of the
community; and to publish those of an early date in
stsad of those of a late, would not give the informa
tion intended. 1 accordingly fixed on the termination
of Mr. Van Monroe’s Administration, when I be
came Vice President, as the period front which to
make the selection. That may he faiily regarded as
the point of time in our politi al history which marks
the end of an old and the commencement of anew
order of things, in the midst of whiah we still arc.
From that to the present time is a period of eighteen
years, being more than half of that in which 1 have
been in the service of the Union. During the whole
I took a prominent and responsible part on all impor
tant questions. Such was my leading motive for se
lecting the period I did from which to make the com
pilation.
There were others of a subordinate character which
had their inllttence. It was the portion of my public
life in regard to widen tutor,nation (as l believed) was
most desired. I infer so, among oilier reasons, from
the fact that the applications 1 have received for cop
ies of tny speeches were almost exclusively confined
to it. Tliete was another still stronger. It is tlie
period in which my speeches and otuer publications
contain nty mature and sc tied opinions on tlie prin
ciples and policy of the Government; adopted alter
long experience and much rcficction, which have mu
ddied, or changed, if you prefer, in many particulars,
uiy earlier and less matured impressions. About tlie
commencement of the period, tny mind settled down
in t:ic views of the principles and policy of tlie Gov
erumeul 1 now en.erlain, and to woich I have ever
since adhered, regardless of personal consequences
and unintiueaced by parly considerations; thus giv
ing the strongest proof possible of my deep conviction
both of their truth and vital importance. By them 1
desire to be judged, and by them to stand or tall.
Guided by these motives, l compiled the volume in
the first instance exclusiuely from that period; hut
afterwards yielded to the persuasion of my friends,
against my judgment, to include the s|>ecch already
referred to, delivered in 1811. They urged it upon
the ground that, as it was uiy first etfort in Congress
and on a subject of lasting interest, it was desuable
it should be inserted, although a departure from the
principles on which the volume was compiled.
But even within this period a selection became ne
cessary to cfiecl the object in view. To publish all
my productions on political subjects during the peri
od would uiuke the volume slid 100 bulky and expen
sive lo be acceptable to the general mass of readers
Here, again, the leading reason which governed me
in selecting tlie period, governed also in making the
selection tor the compilation. It is accordingly full
on the subject of banks, sub-treasury, currency, tar
ili, distribution, Male lights, and the principles and
policy winch should control in the administration of
toe Government. i hose which discussed subjects
of a more isolated character were lor the most part
omitted. But alter the compilation was li.sl made
vvillnn these restrictions, the work was thought to be
still too bulky, and many were struck Horn it, which
It Wobld have been desirable lo retain.
Such art the tacts in rctcrei.ee to the compilation.
T ney snow conclusively that tile charge ot suppres
sion against it, is as entirely uniounUcd as that of
fraudulent imposition ag mat tire title. The very
charge is absurd, flow could the spree lies be de
stroyed or concealed I They were to he lound not
only lit the files ot tfie Intelligencer, hut in those of
mat y oilier journals and publications of the day,
where they are just as safe aitd open to inspection as
if placed among tlie public records. To attempt to
keep them from the pUnhc eye would only cause them
to he more greedily sought alter. The very speeches
you have published, as if they were new attd un
known to tue public, are the very ones which have
been republished divers times, and have again and
agaiu been repeatedly referred to in Congress, in po
litical harangues, and by newspapers; and that tor
the very pu.pose tor which you now republish them.
They are the very last which any oite who was ba«e
enough to resort to a fraud would think of conceal
ing. But why speak of them as being suppressed
when they are reierred to in the biographical sketch
to which you allude, and which, it would seem from
its index was intended to he included in the work !
Again, wlty speak of them as suppressed, when all
the speeches which 1 made during the war to rouse
and animate the country to the defence of its rights
and honor, and to sustain the burden and privations
of the war with fortitude, and which are now unani
mously applauded, are in the same predicament ex
cept one ! Are they, 100, suppressed or designedly
concealed !
Why, indeed, should I attempt to conceal them, or
or any of my early speeches not contained in the vol
ume, even those which contain opinions different
front those I now entertain ! What is there about
them that l should repudiate them! Do they not
breathe lofty sentiments and a devoted attachment to
the country, and evince foresight and firmness!—
Were they not applauded by the Republican party at
that time ! And are they not now eulogized by you
and other political opponents! Why, then, should
1 he ashamed of them, or cast them away because
they contain opinions in several particulars which
now, alter more than a quarter of a century, 1 do not
approve ! Should Ibe ashamed to acknowledge that
1 have lived to improve, and have had the sense to
see, and the firmness to correct early errors 1 No .
I am far from repudiating these nty mote yo thful
efforts. Their very errors lean to the side ot the
country. They belong to the times, and giew out of
ardent feelings es patriot ion.
The danger which then threatened the country was
hostile to popular Governments, and it threatened to
turn its power against this continent in order t > sup
press the free States which had sprung out of the old
Spanish possessions. There was then no knowing
at what moment we might be involved in a contest
far more terrific than that which had just terminated.
It was in this state of things that Congress Was call
ed on to settle the peace establishment, on the termi
nation ofthe late war with England. My attention
was intently turned to what 1 believed to he the point
of danger; and I was anxious tu put the couutry in a
condition to meet whatever might come. The opin
ions I expressed in reference to manufactures, inter
nal improvements, and a permanent system of reve
nue, kept constantly in view my leadingobjeet —prep-
aration for defence—as much so as what 1 then said
in reference to the army, the military academy, and
the navy, as the speeches themselves show.
The danger from without fortunately passed away,
and that from within began to disclose itself. I was
not slow to see the strong tendency the government
was taking towards consolidation, and that many of
the inaans which I had regarded as neccsiary to de
fend against external danger, contributed not a little
to increase the danger within. That led to a rein
vestigation, and that to the modification or change of
opinion which took place.
So far from casting away or desiring lo conceal or
keep out of viovv my early speeches, I have long in
tended lo collect and publish them. I see you prom
ise to publish freely from them. You cannot do me
a greater favor, and 1 hope you will not halt till you
have republished all. I was so careless as to neg
lect to preserve copies of my speeches or other publi
cations prior to my election as Vice President. Since
then I have been more careful. Your republican m
will give me copies in a much more convenient form
than that of manuscripts, and save me much time and
trouble in collecting and some littleexpense for copy
ing. I shall preserve earef dly the two contained in
the Intelligencer sen' by my friend, and I shall take
care to get such others as you may publish.
Li t me, in conclusion, say, I wish you to under
stand that I make no complaint. So far from it, I
feel rather obliged to you than otherwise. Be your
motives what they may, you have afforded me an op
portunity of giving an explanation made necessary
hv the awkward manner in which the volume has
been introduced to tlie public, and in which I have
been compelled to state much that ought to have ap
peared in a preface to the volume.
With respect, [ am, &c.
J. C. CALHOUN.
domavip*
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST IG, 1843.
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
JOHN C. CALHOUN,
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
LEVI UOODBVIIV,
FOR GOVERNOR,
MARK A. COOPER. OF MURRAY.
FOR CONGRESS,
JAMES 11. STARK, OF RUTTS.
The Communication over the signature of Justice
(S. L,) came to hand too late for insertion in this
number, but shall be attended lo in the next.
RE JIOCRAT.C MEETING.
Wc call (he attention of our friends to the an
nouncement below of a-meeting of the Democratic
Party of Bibb County, at the Court House to-morrow.
Let every Democrat attend, and aid in making such
a Ticket for Bibb as will insure the triumph of our
party and principles at the approaching October elec
tion.
“ Come one, come all."
?~*f The Democratic Party of Bibb County are
requested to meet at the Court House in Macon, on
Thursday, the 17th inst., at the hour of 11 o’clock,
A M-, for the purpose of nominating candidates for
the Legislature.
A general attendance is requested: the members
V eing elected fur two years service, makes it an im
portant election.
"RIP RAPS.”
Wc call the attention of every Republican reader,
to the able and eloquent remarks addressed to the
people of Virginia, by a writer under the signature
of “Rip Raps/’ which will be found in to-day’s Dem
ocrat. The manly and dignified manner of the wri
ter of this address, and the importance of the sub
ject treated, will commend (his article to the notice
of every Democratic Georgian, without further re
marks from us in its favor.
VACANCY IN CONGRESS.
We notice in yesterday’s Telegraph that the Sa
vannah Georgian (which we did not receive) has
nominated Herschel V. Johnson Esq. as a candidate
to fill the vacancy in our Congressional delegation.
We concur heartily in the nomination, and know no
man whose claims to that high office, we should ad
vocate with greater zeal or pleasure.
We hope that the nominating committee will act
with the most careful and deliberate consideration,
for the party has given more than one evidence that
however strong their devotion to democratic princi.
pies, they wil not bo trilled with.
MR CALHOUN’S i.ET FER TO THE NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCER.
We respectfully invite the serious aitention of our
fellow-citizens to this valuable document—it is ev
ery way worthy of its author. It is marked by tha
quiet dignity, which conscious, high souled rectit
tude, always displays when vindicating itself against
the assaults of meanness and malignity. Were
the miserable hacks of the Intelligencer sensible to
even one emotion of honest shame, steeped as they
are in political infamy, they must wriihe under the
exposure, inflicted on them. But what caie they
for exposure ! Have they not for the last thirty
years been, at one time the hacks, and at another the
libellers and calumniators of every party that has
risen abeve the political horizon of this Country.
BAIT TO CATCH GUDGEONS.
Some of our kind Whig friends, who take an in
terest in the concerns of the Democratic parly, and
attend to our affairs as if they were their own, seem
desirous of making the impression, that even should
Van Buren be nominated, by she National Conven
tion, he will not receive the undivided support of the
party.
Wc believe there is no room, for anxiety on tha'
point, for though we sincerely believe a vast majority
ofthe democracy of the Union entertain the most
decided preference for Mr. C. still, if the convention,
the organ, by which the people choose to express their
will, (no caucusing, or intrigue, being employed to
as we do from several of our highly esteemed friends,
respecting the claims and capabilities of the two can
didates, and feeling the strongest convictions that
Martin Van Buren, is not the man for the Unit —not
the man for the moremenJ, indis|>ensah!e to save our
government from the revolution whieh Federalism,
disguised as Whiggery, is preparing, still if he lie
fairly nomin ted, we will stand foot to foot, shoulder
to shoulder, with his friends, and battle for his elec
tion as heartily as the best of them, lo the best of our
humble ability.
For although we should view Mr. Van Burcn’s
nomination as greatly to he deprecated, in the pres
ent circumstances of the country —although we are
certain, it would delay, impede, perhaps jeopardize
the permanent triumph of constitutional principles
and of the lasting predominance ofthe Democratic
party, which, if led by a wise and intrepid chief
they have now clearly within their reach, still we
give him infinitely the preference, to any Federalist,
especiclty to Henry Clay, a far more dangerous, be
cause, a far more reckless, daring and unscrupulous
one, than Alexander Hamiltou himself. But let
neither our friends or opponents be uneasy; there
are, to be sure, honest diffrences of opinion entertain
ed respecting the eligibility of the two prominent
candidates —what of that! U|xin what subject do
men all think alike! When the tug comes the De
mocracy will act as a unit.
We make these remarks to warn our Democratic
brethren to keep wide awake, and not allow their at
tention to he distracted, nor their confidence in the
strength and ultimate success of the great cause they
conteml for, by the artful and impudent misrepresen
tion that distrust and disunion prevail in our ranks.
Tjjese fables are circulated, to make little party cap
ital. preparatory to our State elections.
THE ENTERPRISE:
Anew Journal, democratic in its character, and
favorable to Mr. Calhoun’s election, published weekly
in Forsyth Monroe county, in this Stale, by F. W.
Johnson.
We hail with much satisfaction tlie appearance of
anew ally in the political arena, ready to do battle
in the soul stirring cause of equal rights, free trade,
arid constitutional liberty.
To us, it has another recommendation, of no ordi
nary interest—it advocates the claims of the collossal
statesman of the Union—of civilized man, John C.
Calßoi'n.
The paper is handsomely got up—the editorial ar
ticles useful and well written—the selections made
with judgement and good taste. The Enterprise has
our best wishes for its success. We trust its labors
will meet with a hearty welcome and liberal patron
age from our Democratic brethren. It is among the
auspicious signs of the times that, the Anti-Federal
press is receiving fresh accessions, both In number
and talent almost daily in every State in the Union.
COOPER AND STARK.
From every part of the State we have received the
most cheering intelligence. In the Cherokee coun
ties we shall increase our majorities ut least twenty
live per cent. From Chatham, Richmond, Musco
gee, Meriwether, and Troup, we have the host ac
counts, hut what most lays the flattering unction io
our souls is, that the “ Old Oglethorpe School,” have
indignantly rejected the nauseous doses of “ Old
Adams” Federalism that the quack doctors were at
tempting to force down theii throats in the slia|ie of a
United States Bank, a Protective Tariff, Dis
tribution (and we are afraid they had in reserve a
fatal poison under the name of Assumption of State
Debts) while pretending to lead them under the gui
dance of a veiled prophet to the promised land of po
litical virtue and fertility. The political veil of glit
tering silver having been rent asunder by a deceived
and deluded people, the true State Rights men of
“ Old Oglethorpe,” “Old Elbert”—yes! blessed he
God, of every other eoitnty in the State, now see the
unveiled Idol in all its disgusting horror and deformi
ty. Having united with the great Democratic Army
on the broad platform of the Democratic Republican
code of '9B, they are prepared to rush to victory! We
extend to them the true right hand of Fellowship.
5000 majority for cooper and stark! !!
TIIE SOUTHERN dUARTERLY REVIEW.
The July No. of that valuable periodical was re
cently handed to us by one of its friends in this city,
with a request that if we appropriated a column of
the Democrat to Literary notices, the Southern Re
view shonld not be forgotten. Literary notices of
valuable hooks and interesting periodicals, was an
item in our original plan, to the execution of which
we looked forward with pleasure, and from its ac
complishment we have been hitherto prevented by the
unexpected annoyances and impediments thrown in
the way of our publication.
The Review was placed in our hands too short a
time before our paper went to press, to permit tha
careful examination we desired to bestow upon it
From the [terusal, howecer, of three of the articles
and a hasty glance over others, we are gratified to
find the old Southern Review lias found so respecta
ble a successor. The subject selected for review in
the present number are chosen judiciously, and the
candor, judgment ability and learning shewn in their
critical examination, highly creditable to the editors.
The resuscitation of the Review in Charleston, was
a desideratum —the permanent existence and wide
circulation of such a journal is connected with many
of the vitally important interests of the South, and
it should be patronized in proportion.
DOCTOR PUSEY’S SERMON ON THE EU
CHARIST.
Mr. Barnes has placed on our table this celebrated
and much talked of Sermon, which has attracted the
public attention in so remarkable a degree, both in
Great Britain and in this country, and of which
three editions of six thousand each, have hcCn s Id
in London, ami the Har|>ers have issued an immense
edition at the astonishingly low price of six Cents.
Df. Puscy advocates the doctiine that tlie bread arp
“ The Tiu. - Issue for True Churchmen,” or a state
ment of Facts relative to a recent ordination by Drs.
Smith and Anlhon—being the opposite side of the
question, no two publications have excited more in
terest.
Mr. Barnes has also received anew supply of the
Biographical Memoir of Mr. Calhoun.
We take pleasure in referring to the columns of
last week’s Telegraph for an able, conclusive and
complete vindication of Mr. Calhoun's course with
regard to our Indian affairs.
The more that the political life of this great states
man is investigated—the more his public measures
are subjected lo the fiery furnace of opposition inves
tigation—the more minutely they are scrutinized and
examined—like gold seven times rtfined, the bright
er, the purer, and the more valuable do they seem.
In public, as he is unquestionably in private life, with
out fear, and without just reproach.
The Telegraph, not satisfied with a verdict of ac
quittal for Mr. Calhoun, brings Henry Cl,ay to the
bar of public opinion and “ liefore God, and before
the People of Ge. rgia,” charges him with “Ebony
and Topaz,” as being the prime mover in these nefa
rious affairs.
In proof of this charge, the Telegraph calls lo the
stand witnesses of the highest authority. It is pleas
ing to observe that while Mr. Calhoun was using his
utmost efforts to induce the Indians to remove to the
prairies of the Far West, he was not unmindful of
the just claims they had on all honorable men to hu
mane and tender treatment. Their fate cihnot even
now be contemplated without sympathy, v Originally,
uncontrolled masters of this wide domain—from the
frozen regions of the North to the (then undiscover
ed) “ Land of Flowers”—from the billowy edge of
the turbulent Atlantic, to the far margin of the peace
ful Pacific, they acknowledged no superior hut the
Great Spirit. Suddenly brought into contact with
an unknown race, the “ pale faces,” apparently more
from some inscrutable fiat of nature, than from war;
like Sennacherib’s army, they have faded like “the
leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown.”
Communications.
The following Gentleman, if nominated, would
receive tlie enthusiastic support of the Democracy
of Bibb County, at the approaching October Elec
tion.
For Senator,
A. P. POWERS.
Representatives.
T. M. FURLOW,
M. JOHNSTON,
JOHN G. COLEMAN.
“GEORGIA.”
Dr. IFm. Green: Allow me to suggest to the
Democratic Party of Bibb, the following Gentlemen
as suitable candidates to repre-ent us in the next
Legislature.
For Senator,
A. P. POWERS.
Represen to tires,
GEN. VV. G. SMITH,
M. JOHNSON, Esq.
JOHN LAMAR, Esq.
“OGLETHORPE.”
Dr. Wm. Green:— The vacancy in our Congres
sional representation, occasioned by the resignation
ofthe H'n. Jokn B. Lamar, cannot be better or
more acceptably filled by the committee, than by the
nomination of Dr. U. D. Arnold, of Savannah. Dr.
A. is an unswerving, liberal, and enlightened
Democrat, and if elected, would reflect honor alike
on his party and the State. His course, while a mem
ber of the Legislature, has won the approhaiion, not
only of his friends, but of every liberal and intelli
gent Whig in Middle Georgia. “MACON.”
Dr. I Urn. Green .-—The committee appointed to fill
vacancies in our representation in Congress, cannot
fill that occasioned by the resignation wfc.Col. Lamar,
better than by the nomination of James M. Kelly, of
Houston. Col. Kelly is an old and well-tried Dem
ocrat, and I hope his claims will not be overlooked.
“TROUP.”
Dr. Green : —As it will be the duty of the Demo
cratic Commi ttce to fill the vacancy occasioned in
our Con gressional representation, by the resignation
of Col. John B Lamar, allow me to suggest to the
committee the name ofCoL A. P. Powers, of Macon,
as a suitable gentleman to fill that vacancy. Middle
Georgia— indeed the whole State will have in him,
if elected, an able representative, and the Demo
cratic party a zealous and unflinching champion.
“OCMULGEE.”
Air. Editor :—1 hear a great many people spoken
of to fill the vacancy in our delegation to Congress,
caused by the resignation of Col. I.arnar. Now, sir,
1 know none who would suit me as well, and I be
lieve the great body of the Democratic party, os
that old-fashioned, Democrat, R. SI. Echols, ol Wal
ton. None who would represent their principles
more faithfully, or study their interests more con
stantly. I believe the Democracy would rally with
unparallcled unanimity to the support of 'his patri
otic veteran. FORSYTH.
Air. Editor : —I discover from the Telegraph of
yesterday, and other papers, that the names of vari
ous gentlemen have been "submitted to the Demo
cratic committee to fill the vacancy in Congress, oc
casioned by the resignali m of Hon. J B. Lamar.
1 beg therefore to submit to the same the name of
Col. John I.amar, of this County, as a suitable gen
tleman to fill said vacancy, and one every way qual
ified to maintain our principles, and the reputation of
the State in the councils of the Nation. Mr. Lamar
would receive the warm and cheerful support of the
Democratic party. “LEONIDAS.”
Air. Editor: —As it will shortly be the duty of tlie
Democratic Committee to fill the vacancy in our
representation in Congress, occasioned by the with
drawal <f Col. J. B. I.amar, permit me to suggest
to said committee, the name of Solomon Cohen, of
Chatham, as a gr rtleinan well qualified to ffil the
same. Mr. C. is among our most rising and promi
sing Democrats, and his able and dignified course in
our last Legislature, gives promise that the day is
not distant when the State as well as his party may
point to him with just feelings of pride. We beg
therefore to recommend him to the committee.
“MIDDLE GEORGIA.”
COL. JOHN B. LAMAR.
We publish below the letter of this gentleman re
signing his seat in the next Congress.
Macon, July 79, 1543.
His Excellency, Charles J. McDonald :
Sir—You will please hereby accept my resigna
tion cf the office of Member of Congress.
Reasons of a nature altogether private, a recital of
which would be uninteresting to the public, have
induced me to resign into the hands of the people,
an office so generously conferred by them, and for
which I shall always feci grateful.
With sentimentscif great regard,
I am your humble servant.
JOHN B. LAMAR.
TO KENT
THE large two story DWELLING HOUSE, on
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