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Prom the Columbus Col. Jones’ acccft.ince* Tlie following is Coi. Jones’ reply to the letter of the Committee announcing his nomination for Congress iu this dis trict. The letter of the Committe has not come to our hands. COLUMBUS, July 1, -14. Gentlemen : Your letter of the 25th June, from Americas, informing me that I had been nominated by the democratic convention at that place, as the candidate for the 2d Congressional district, was re ceived by the hands of Mr. Everett.— That result of your deliberations was cer tainly as unexpected as it was undesira ble on my part; and a due regard to my own feelings and those of my immediate family, and to my interest, would demand of me unhesitatingly to decline such an honor. The peculiar situation,however, in which we are at present placed; this being the lirst election under the district system; the important question (the im mediate annexation of Texas to the Union) now agitating the public mind; the aSsnrances of all our friends that my refusal would cause confusion and dis traction in our ranks, and the important necessity for union and harmony in all our councils and actions, have imposed on me the necessity of putting aside my own feelings and wishes, and yielding to this manifestation of the feelings and wishes of our common friends. I have therefore determined to accept the nom ination so unexpectedly made and so kindly and flatteringly conveyed to me hy your letter, and to do all in my power to promote the harmony, union and suc cess ol the democratic party. But, gentlemen, nominations and ac ceptances are one thing, and success is another. Our opponents are able, indus trious and untiring. Flushed with suc cess in the recent elections, they will bring into action all the power and in lluenee that talents and wealth can com mand. I have never seen the democratic par ty more harmonious and united. All have with cheerful resignation given up their respective favorites, for the common good. No man of the democratic party has hesitated to abandon his favorite lead er and cling to our principles. Do the whigs love Mr. Clay ? we have loved Mr. Van Bnren not less—yet Mr. Van Btiren catering for the votes of the aboli tionists, opposed the annexation of'Tex as, and we hesitat- and not a moment, but ‘ cast him like a loathsome weed away.” Will not our whig friends do the same with Mr. Clay ? On this great question cannot all the south unite and present a firm, impregnable phalanx to the assaults of the abolitionists ? Cannot the whigs and democrats in this cause unite and say, “as we slew our great leaders for the good of the south, we have the same dag ger for others when it shall please our country to need their death.” And, gentlemen, we must not believe harmony and union are sufficient. Ac tion ! action! action! is more necessary to secure an election than to make an orator. Untiring vigilance is the safe guard of liberty', and success the reward of unceasing action. There is not a man in the democratic ranks who cannot do something. All, therefore, must be in the field on this great occasion, and de mocracy “expects every man to do his duty.” You will be pleased to make known to our constituents my grateful acceptance of the high and distinguished honor eon -1 erred on me, with a full confidence in their kind indulgence towards me, and accept for yourselves the respect and re gard of your fellow-citizen, SEABORN JONES. To John Bilbo, Cary Cox, Jacob M. Guerry, Gilbert Carmichael, Jared S. Dannard-, Djmiel Mathews, Arthur A. Garland Slatham, L’ts Goneke, George VV. Mercier, Johir If. llays, Sam uel Sullivan, E. R. Brown—Committee. Great iifaction in favor of wurr.Gi rv.— The New York Courier 4* £ inquirer t sneering at the conversions to democracy, sets them at naught, and puts them to shame, by showing the oth er side of the picture. That paper says: ‘Gen. Thomas Edwards, of Bridge port Ct. who has for many years been a prominent member of the Loco Foco par ty, and who was their candidate for Con gress, a few years since, has come out for' Clay and Frelinghnysen. Alfred Ed wards, his son, heretofore known as a successful loco foco orator, is now on a rour through the state, using all his in fluence for the whig cause. The Jenent'd of Commerce, in refer ence to this statement says, ‘ there is some’ fun in the world yet, even in politics” and by way of letting out the joke, ex plains that “Gen. Thomas Edwards, of Bridge port, Ct.” is an oid negro man, and “Al fred Edwards, his son” is a negro sim pleton, who amuses the mass meetings of boys by spelling words, in which he raises such utter rebellion against the spelling book, that the urchins cheer him right merrily. rreaent rendition of Whigery. Although the whig papers look so very gloomy,and their contents are so very vap id, yet they are no fair or adequate crite rion of the real state of feeling existing us the federal ranks. Alnost every hoifr you. may hear them in private conversa tion talking in this wise: “ Well u is astonishing. Who’d a thought one fortnight ago that so great a change could have been produced and in the feeling of both parties? Then we were all confidence and our opponents apparently troubled. Now :hey are all enthuttism (without affectation) and ap pear to entertain not a doubt of a favora ble result. The truth is, I believe as the locofocos say, Clay can never be elected President of the United States. I believe he is a doomed man, and think after all we should have done better, if we had been counselled by those who advised ta king anew man. The tide is evidently against us.” This is the present state of the Whig pulse; and it is so low they must unavoi dably soon expire, for the want of that enthusiasm of which they recently boas'- edso much, and seemed to regard as the only aliment of political existence. —New York Tribune—a Whig paper. pro'n the P .siu'x Whig paper liVfcy Tie kit the Wbigp. We have already given to our readers an outline ofouTreasons for having em braced the good cause of Democracy. We are not ashamed of this cause, for truly it is the cause of the people, against par tial and unequal laws, made for die ben efit of the few. However, we do not wish to disguise the fact, that three years ago we operated with those who tried to trample this good cause under their feet. In our youth, we, like thousands of oth ers, were deceived and imposed upon by | the good promises and Democratic pro fessions of old federalists, who had assum ed the name of Wing, without having I changed their principles. In the contest! of 1840, in order to carry the elections j they, professed to be “ pure school,” and I as we thought, faithfully and honestly j promised “to rectify all the evils under j w Jiich"the ( 'qoh|it.ry suffered, and restore j the government' (13 tile' pure Democratic i principles of Jefferson and Madison.” — i They! loudly declared that we must have a chatige in onr rulers, and inscribed on their banners (hat we must choose Harri son and ppsperity, or Van Bnren and adversity. Laying* ilveir hands upon their hearts; and looking very honest, they said if we voted “ the Democratic Whig ticket,”’the people should be bles sed “with high wages, plenty of work, good times, nrid strict economy in the piihlic expendifurcs.” By this,and such like means, thousands nrnd tens of thous | ands of honest Dem-Vtiits were induced | to Vote with the* 1 Whigs—and we went i with the throng. The election’ came— “ Tip, Ty, and Torrf r were victorious. The Whigs had a President, Vice Presi dent, and cabinet of their own choice—a Whig majority of forty six in the House of Representatives, in Congress. The Whigs carriedflieelectionstheirown way according to their own desires. They thus obtained the'power in their own hands to redeem their good promises, and prove that they were “ pure Democratic republicans,” But when they had ob titined the offices, they forfeited their pled ges.” In fact they have shown by then acts that they arc opposed to what they profess to be -that they were political hypocrites in 1814. We know of no way of judging a t ree but by its fruit. During the mad campaign, a speculator as we heard stated, said lie expected it to lies ten thousand dollars in bis pocket if the Whigs should be victorious. We entil'd not imajffric upon what foundation he built his expectations. Many men smil- il at tlie idea: they did not believe that honest men would pass a iaw to put that much money in one man’s pocket.— But they were mistaken. The Whigs at their famous extra session passed a bank rupt law, by which they authorized that man to pay oil a larger sum with—noth ing. He had obtained the benefit of that W hig law. We have been informed that lie does not now fed himself under the least obligation to pay any of his debts,be cause he has paid (tiein with the bankrupt law ! He may no\v‘sell dower rights in farms be never paid for, accumulate rich es, and ride in his'fme carriage, while his honest creditor suffers for the want of what he justly owes. Coo's vs Coon,— James Watson Webb editor of the New York Courier, once said, that llenry Clay in selling the high office, of President eff the United States to John Uuiiicy Adams, and receiving in return the appointment of Secretary in Slate,jionstinwuateuqhe greatest dishonor to the and adds, “ all the waters ot Lethe will never -wash that stain from the character of ry Clay”.— Albany Evening Mia*- r The dissolution of the Union. —The Boston Atlas, the leading whig paper in New {Sfigiqud, says : “ We shall certainly consider the an nexation of_Tc.vas or any other foreign stale to this country as a virtual dissolu tion of the qnjou ;,and we apprehend that sneh a vast addition to our territory and population would so far change the na ture and circwnstjuices of the connection as to absolve the dissenting states from obligation under the original con tract of Union.” Opinions of mr. clay expressed JIV DISTINGUISHED MEN. Jackson's opinion of Mr. Clay. “Under such circumstances, how con temptible does this demagogue appear, when he descends from his high place in the senate, and roams about the coun try retailing slanders upon the living and the dead."—Andrew Jackson. Webster' opinion of Mr. Clay. “Henry Clay has too many heresies a bout him ever to gain my support.”— Daniel Webster. Jefferson's opinion of Mr. Clay. “Henry Clay is merely a splendid ora tor. without any valuable knowledge from experience or study, or ANY DE TERMINED PUBLIC PRINCIPLES, founded in political science, either prac tical or theoretically.”— Jefferson. Randolph's opinion of Mr. Clay. “He is talented, but corrupt. He stinks and shines, and shines and stinks, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight.”— John Randolph. Knowledge without virtue, savs some one, is as a knife in the hands of a mani ac.—ls may le well employed and it may not. j SDkSI£tC uXSSaSVk',, M. JOHNSTON, EDITOR. _ “ the glory of Catsar, Out the welfare of Rome '* I MACON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, IPI4. i . g FOR PRESIDENT, JikMBS K. jPGZK, Os Tennessee. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, GSCRGE M. DALLAS, Os Pennsylvania. H3r* 7 he office of the “American Democrat” has been removed to the Second Story of the Building on Mul berry Street, formerly occupied by the Branch of the Bank of Darien. It is now easy of access, and well supplied with Job-Type of every description. — Bills, pamphlets , and all kinds of Job work will be done at the Imcest prices on sunn TNO TICE. .4 portion of the patronage of our friends and the public is respects ully solicited. THE “DEMOCRAT” FOR THE CAMPAIGN. The “ Democrat” will be sent to sub scribers from Is/ of June until the mid dle of November next, for one dollar in advance. Postmasters are authorized to receive and forward subscriptions. T. S. Reynolds. Democratic Association. The first meeting at our new Demo cratic Hall gave an ernest of the enthusi asm which animates the democracy of Bibb. Although we are every week kill ed and interred by the whig papers, we can avouch that the room was filled to overflowing, not with unsubstantial shades, but real live and thriving demo crats, with a small sprinkling of whigs. After the meeting was organized, the President called upon Geo. C. Alford, Esq. of Troup county, who responded in a most inspiriting and eloquent addiess that elicited rounds of the heartiest ap plause. Gen. Haralson of Troop next addressed the meeting. We need not say that his speech was worthy of himself and the cause. Col. Sam ford, of Meri wether, the democratic nominee for Elec tor in tire 4th dist. next made an anima ted, eloquent and argumentative address, in which he more than realized the high expectation which we had formed of him- Our Senator, Walter T. Colquitt then arose and enchained the attention of the audience, we have been informed, for two hours, but although present ourself the lapse of time was totally unnoticed. It was the finest and most effective stump speech it was ever our pleasure to hear. f#l. Chappell. The meeting that assembled in the court house last Thursday evening to hear our faithful representative’s able and eloquent vindication of his course during the recent Congress, was we be lieve, the. largest ever convened in that building. On Col. Chappell’s appear ance, he was greeted with an enthusiasm that showed that he still retained the hearts of the people, although denounced by the influential cliques and wire pul lers of the nullification, tariff, anti-tariff, Clay, whig party. The profound atten tion which he received from this large and respectable assemblage during an ad dress of two hours in length, in which he delineated with a master’s hand the de signs and objects of the whig party and pointed out the only course that a pa triot could adopt; indicated far more than uproarious applause, that his words had sunk deep into the minds of his audience. Louisiana. The latest intelligence received from this State renders it probable that the Democratic party have three'out of the four members to Congress. We believe it is admitted by our opponents that we have a majority in the Senate and in the Convention, and will have a majority in the house of Representatives, (state legis lature) and that in fact Louisiana is a de cided POLK AND DALLAS State.— We have the best reasons for believing that the “knowing ones of the Whig par ty are equally certain that Georgia is safe for Polk and Dallas in November. If Texas and the democratic party are dead and buried, why do we see such formi dable preparations made for battle? Why are ihe faithful exhorted neither to sleep or slumber? Why is Mr. Stephens and other whig doctors sent for in such hot haste to revive their fainting spirits?— Why is Waddv Thompson’s letter to lie published, and Benton’s sjiecch to lie dis tributed by the barrel, if the “ Texas fire” be totally extinguished ? Are very ghosts so terrible as to cause all this agi tation and disturbance in the Whig camp, or is it the still small voice of con science ? The Telegraph The Telegraph will in future be tinder the control of O. H. Prince. Esq. of this city. Mr. Prince has planted himselfupon the true democratic platform and promises to do battle manfully in the good cause. We offer our salutations and extend the right hand of fellowship, wishing for him and the time honored principles he advocates, every success. Philadelphia Riots. Philadelphia has been again disgraced by the occurrence of the most des perate and bloody riots upon record in this country. If such violations of “law and order,” had caken place in the south, or Texas, we probably should never hear the end of it; but to have taken place in the firm and straight-laced city of broth erly love, is disgraceful to that city, and discreditable to the American name.— Particularly when we take into con sideration the moving cause of all this outrage and bloodshed—religious hatred and intolerance. As far as we can gath er from various accounts, the origin of the recent disturbances is attributed to the permission given by the civil and military authorities to the Irish citizens to place arms and ammunition in their churches, so as to defend them if they shall be attacked, as was apprehended on the 4th of July. On that day and the next, large and excited crowds were as sembled near St. Phillip’s church, and Saturday .the commotion had grown to such a height, that Gen. Cadwallader, repaired to the spot, at the head of sever al infantry companies, and one of Artil ery. Several conteststook placebetween the military and the mob, but no blood shed, although the order to fire was given at one time, and prevented by the Hon. Chas. Naylor, throwing himself in front of the mims. He was immediately arrested and confined in the church. — The mob continued to increase in num bers and violence, and on Sunday morn ing, brought up three pieces of Artillery, wirii which they cannonaded the church, after violently rescuing Mr. Naylor and conducting him home. The work of destruction was continued until T o’clock. Sunday evening, when the military ap peared in great force, and being vio lently resisted by the populace, a bloody conflict ensued which lasted until 1-2 past two o’clock in the morning. The military firing vollies of musketry and cannon, loaded with grape shot upon the mob, and the mob, estimated to be 6,000 in number of whom 2,000 were under arms, firing upon the troops, from win dows, the tops of houses and from the streets; their cannon loadfed' with pieces of iron and stones. Many of the military were killedand wounded: among the lat ter, was Capt. Scott of the Cadwallader Greys, and Col. Pleasonton. Cue of die worst features in this outbreak of popular violence was, the desperate determina tion evinced to kill Gen. Cadwallader, the officer in command, who received ten bullets through his clothes, and a gal lows was actually erected to hang him, if taken by the mob. Governor Porter, had arrived in the citv to assist in main taining the laws and arequisition had been sent to the President, for IJ. S. troops to) support the Pennsylvania authorities.— At the latest dates, however, the military force had withdrawn from the disturbed district, and peace was restored for the present. I ater news from Europe by Ihc Great Western. We are gratified to announce an im provement of about 1-4 of a cent in our great staple —cotton. There is not much else of interest. “Sydney Smith,” the great anti-repu diator, came out in the Western. The Emperor of Russia is in London, and has had some earnest discussions with Sir Robert Peel. O’Connell and the other repealers are very quietly “inured” in prison, and the government maintains a firm and deci ded stand towards the repealers. The delegates to the Demooratic Convention for the third Congressional district assembled in Thom a&tou on Monday, the 15th inst., and organised the Convention by unanimously electing Dr. David Kendall of Upson, Prcsiaent j and John J. Cary, Esq, Secretary; and Payne, Esq., assistant Secie tary. lion. George W. Towns was unanimously nominated as candidate for Elector of the district. — The convention adopted a resolution approving the course of the Hon. A, H. Chappell, and recommend ed him to the suffrages of the democratic party. — Prouecdings in our next. “Lay on M’DufT, and damned he he who First cries hold ! enough.” The whigs are threatening we under stand, to make the contest in this district a very bitter and personal one. Well, be it so. If either Towns or Chappell should be nominated for Congress, we shall endeavor to show that they are equal or superior to the whig candidate, in abilities; at least equally as good men, and gentlemen, aud far superior in the political principles they advocate. If our opponents push the matter farther than good manners or ‘ decency" should justify, we say let the hardest fend off. In casting about the libellous appellations ,of Benedict Arnold, traitor, and renegade ! let them remember that “those who live ; m glass houses should not throw stones.” J. M'Pherson Esrriea. We notice that this senator is peram bulating the northern states, in company with Daniel Webster and other?, iioasting of the unanimity of opinion, which per vades and animates the whole whig party—that a whig at the south is as good a whig a3 a northern one, &c, which means we presume, that they have taken a farewell, a iong farewell, of ail their state rights, free trade, and nullification doctrines, so ably advocated by him and dearly cherished by them, are now completely and thoroughly identified, with the northern, federal, tariff party. We have been informed on good authori ty, that Mr. B. denies that he ever was a nullifier. Now this is a little more than we expected, although, we had seen Mr. Berrien’s rapid gyrations in vigilant pur suit of the loaves and fishes; from “black cockade” and sedition law, federalism, to nullification and free trade, and from theseback again to federalism. We a re, we confess, a little surprised, that the ac knowledged head and leader of the nulli fication party should deny that he ever believed in the doctrine. We think that it would be dangerous for Mr. Berrien to appeal to the citizens of Monioe and Bibb, in proof that he had not “strayed into the sinful ways of nullification and free trade,” for our court house walls yet ring with his ardent and intemperate ap peals in favor of both. If Mr. Berrien means, that, while he had many honied words of state rights and state remedies on his tongue , he had the same old fed eral bearer in his heart —we believe him. Cooilng Off. Before the nomination of Polk and Dallas, the whigs were so avaricious as to claim almost the entire electoral vote for Mr. Clay. But symptoms of cooling off are apparent in every direction. The New York Tribune, oneof the most rabid whig prints in the union says: We believe Louisiana is lost on annex ation, and that Kentucky will give us only some 5,000 tor Governor. Only 5,000 for Kentucky. If that is 1 all they can expect from the banner state, surely we may claim all the rest, with entire assurance. The Tribune adds: “This annexation will change the votes of Louisiana and Mississippi from Clay to Polk, and give the whigs of oth er southern states their hands full to de feat the Polk Electors. We shall be ve ry happy to find that wc are mistaken in these impressions; bnt it would be very silly, short-sighted policy to conceal from our readers the belief forced upon us by evidence Does not this look a- little like clawing off. Mr. Dallas anil a Bank. The Messenger, in a cunningly de vised article, attempts to show that Mr. Dallas is in favor of a l ank. All that the Messenger’s garbled extracts prove if veracious is, that Mr. Dallas was WIL LING ter obey the instructions of his state, in presenting a memorial, and vo ting for the reehartcr of the U. S. Bank, and that he at one time believed it to he not unconstitutional. We can indicate a prominent indvidual who has under gone a much more remarkable change of opinion than this, and upon this very subject, as we could prove by publishing hissplendid speech against abank, where he chases the vagrertrt power to create one, from one part to the other, until he leaves it no abiding place in the consti tution. Here is a just exposition of Mr. Dal las’s views, which we extract from the New Haven Register: BANK OR NO BANK. “The Clayites wince when this issue is presented. The Courant tries to shake it off by charging upon George M. Dal las opinions favorable to the Monster!— “Whatare Mr. Dallas’ views,” sneering ly asks that paper. We give them to you in his own thrilling eloquence.— When addressed by a democratic com mittee in 1836, he replied in a masterly letter from which we take the following extracts. Now will you say that this i»- sue is not well made up ? “The bill passed both houses of Con gress, but met trorn the Roman tribune which filled the Executiveoffice, in whose elevation I had taken an active part, and from the great current of whose policy and spirit the democracy of America ex pected the wonders of renovation and re form he has since achieved, a signal and overwhelming veto. “From the moment of the veto, the enraged hoard, heretofore discreet and plausible, tore off the mask, stripped it self rapidly of all disguise, ai.d under the flimsy prefextof beiug first assailed, entered at a bound and with a bluster in to the arena of political strife. Tire chief magistrate of the Union became the mark ©fits contumely and vindicive thrusts.— Town meetings were convened to exas perate party. Bank banners were para ded on every election ground. Official manifestos equally arrogant and inflama tory were issued. Legislation was to tie overawed, the citizens intimidated, the elective franchise deprecated or control led, the country revolutionized! This was a process of recharter which seemed to prostrate the powers and to defeat the purposes of the corporation. It in volved practice and pretentions qtlcrly irreconcilable with what were welt knovnto rase to have been the pure ob jects and democratic principles of it j launders. It gave reality at once to the vivid pictures drawn rfa Congress, of the ambitions tendencies and dangerous in fluences of such a moneyed agent. It threw me irresistibly back upon the pledge which, as a republican Senator, I had openly given in that high sphere of representative duty, and J witnessed and shared with, pride the manly, vigorous, and triumphant resistance by which its usurpations were encountered and fi nally prostrated .” “But uncompromising hostility to any bank which shall start from its prescrib ed path and strict subordination, shall venture to mingle in politics, and shall, covertly or boldly, formally or uniformal ly, gather, exasperate or lend party for the attainment of its ends, is, in mv es timation, an imperative obligation upon those whose desire to perpetuate the vir tue and freedom which characterise our social and political system. “ The people of America can never again incur the risk of a national bank.” “Providence among its numerous mer ciful dispensations, ordained this strug gle to occur while yet enough of primi tive democracy and revolutionary energy remained to secure its issue; at a time when the watch tower was tenanted by one whose lofty patriotism attracted un bounded confidence, while from his stern presence and inflexible purpose the ef forts of intimidation, clamor or blandish ments withdrew defeated and unavail ing.” Go to Work- We call upon every voter in Georgia, (in the language of the New England Democrat,) who desires the success of the democratic President and to have the, government administered on democratic principles—who is opposed to a nation al bank, to the land distribution, to the assumption of die state debts, to the abolL tion of the veto power, and in fine, to the measures generally, which the election of Henry Clay, would entail upon the country. We call upon every voter of this stamp to every friend of Texas and annexation to no to work, actively, zealously and above all, go to work NOW ! Go TO work “And organize iirevery State, county, city, and town, by the appointment of rallying and vigilance committees. No cause ever yet triumphed without a thorough organization of its friends.— Remember that ! It is the first, th« great step to success. Go TO WORK And circulate democratic tracts and pa pers which discuss fairly and ably the great question at issue in the Coming contest. Falsehood and misrepresenta tion arc already in the field, and they must be followed close up with facts ami’ truth. Go TO WORK And get up nieetingsandconventions,that you may he able to learn each other’s views; consult, advise, and become per sonally acquainted. You can thus act unitedly, and united action can alone b« efficient action. Go TO WORK And inculcate the necessity of harmony on all occasions and at all times —that action without union is vain and useless —that every man must adopt an ACT UPON the motto of glorious Tom Ben ton : “ Union, harmony , self-denial, con cession:; EVERY THING FOR THE CAUSE NOTHING FOR MEN.” Go TO WORK And make arrangements for lectures and public discussion of the measures of the democratic and federal parties. Demo cracy always gains by fair, open, honest discussion of public questions. The peo ple want light. Let in come in floods. Go TO WORK And. on all proper occasions, reason with 11 1 ose wl l oarew i 11 ingto 1 i ste nto reason an and argument. Labor to confirm the waver ing, and win the doubtful. Everyman, however humble his sphere, possesses some influence with his neighbors and friends. Let every democrat use this in fluence to advance democratic principles. He ought to do it—ho cun accomplish much if he will do it—he can contribute his mite, and swell tjae tide of democratic victory, which will then ipjely spread over the, whole Union.' GO TO WORK!” Mr. Polk’s Letter, Our whig friends are desperately off for a little political capital. Two years since they' were to a man opposed to a protec tive tariff; one year since their main ob ject was to prove that Mr. Clay had giv en up the principle of protection and was a rigid adherent of the compromise act; and now with shame be it spoken, they openly advocate a protective tariff anil endeavor to prove that Mr. Polk is as much committed to the protective policy', as Mr. Clay. In this, however, they have been somewhat premature, and have evidently acted without consulting their bretliern of the northern whig press. — This we shall proceed to show, and thus havinggiven them the right cue, we hope they will be properly thankful, and not contradict their northern brethren again.