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By M. S. Thomson, M. D. Macon, Ga.
1 > EAD and JUDGE. “Prove all things and hold
XV fast to that which is good.” As even in our day,
in reality, “the deaf may hear, the lame may walk, and
the blind may receive their sight.”
The undersigned fully aware of the many responsibili
ties resting upon him as a practitioner of the healing art,
would again tender his services to those who may need
them with the assurance in advance, that il assiduous
care, long experience, and a thorough knowledge of in
nocent vet powerfully health’s restoring remedies, with
their judicious application will restore lost health, he
feels warranted in saying, that so far as these goto the
procurement of such de-idcratum, the afflicted or their
f r | en ds will in no case be disappointed.
\s heretofore persons afflicted with chronic diseases
and residing at a distance may have their cases treated by
Undin- their symptoms in writing as correctly as pnssi-
hle. when medicines to suit them will be compounded
and sent. Many who have pursued this course though
,vc have never seen them, are now in the enjoyment of
uninterrupted health. Persons having diseased servants
who may he to them both burihensome and expensive,
„,ay either have their cases treated or dispose of them to
the subscriber at a fair price.
Letters to ensure attention must invariably he post
paid; terms liberal and punctuality expected.
M. S THOMSON, M. D.
February 20, 1844. 36
That community may have some idea of the extremes
to which disease may go without being beyond the reach
of medicine, it is deemed proper to append the follow
ing statement of facts, taken from a number of similar
import, which may yet he submitted as room and circum
stances may admit.
Bibb County, Jan. 9th, 1844.
This may certify that my wife has been afflicted with
Dyspepsia and Liver complaint for twelve years, and
has taken a variety of medicines without apparent bene
fit ; even the justly celebrated Dr. Durham, of Clark
county, failed to benefit her. She suffered much from
nervous irritability, palpitation of the heart and extreme
weakness so as to he confined almost entirely to her bed.
In this situation I applied to Dr. M. S. Thomson of Ma
con, under whose directions and applications I am hap
py to say she soon was restored to comfortable health,
and is now able to attend to all the usual business of her
house and family.
My daughter was also afflicted with convulsive fits,
ftotn which Dr. Durham failed to relieve her. I applied
10 Dr. Thomson also in her case, and I am persuaded he
ha? finally cured her; she has had no symptom of them
in six months.
But these though certainly of their kind very eminent,
cannot he compared fora moment with the case of one
of iny sons, who has been afflicted with palsy to such a
degree as to have become perfectly helpless, he first lost
the use of Ins limbs then of his body and finally his hear
ing and eyesight, so that he might be said to he in a
manner dead only he breathed, and even that at one time
was so nearly gone, that his clothes were prepared in an
ticipation of his final exit. We had made use of ihe usu
al remedies in such cases, and even had applied to Dr.
Slringfellow, a root doctor, hut without benefit. In this
situation, Dr. Thomson was called in, who 1 am happy
to say lias restored him not only to the full and free use
of all his limbs, blit also to the use of his eyes and ears,
without which creation were a blank and life itself a bur
den. The change is so great from absolute helplessness
blindness and deafness to life and activity sight and hear
I?',, that it can hardly he realised by any but those who
have seen it. This is a cure which, numerous as those
effected by the Doctor are, will hardly give precedence to
any. ISAAC WATTS.
The Jerusalem Artichoke!
T HE Cultivation of this root is spreading rapidly in
Tennessee and the Cherokee country in Georgia,
and it is found upon experiment, to produce more nu
tritive matter per acre, for fattening hogs, than any other
Vegetable whatever. It is planted and cultivated like
corn; delights in a loose soil, and will produce from I
to 8 Hundred bushels per acre, as an examination of our
Farms at this time, upon the Oustanaulee and Etowah,
will fully prove.
One acre will keep in good condition,"fifteen head of
Voss (if they are well supplied with ashes.) from the first
of October to the first of April. Five bushels (with one
large. OI two small roots to o hill) will plant one aero
ami two ploughings and hoeings will be sufficient. The
root will lie in the ground all winter, without injury and
is relished by horses, cattle and sheep. They can be had
at our plantations by the load, at 75 cents per bushel,
ami at all other places where required, at the same price,
adding the cost of transportation.
Cj= March and April are the usual months for plant-
ing.^nj
A. T. HARDEN, Floyd.
JOHN LEAK, Cass.
Wai.ker County, Feb. 1st, 1844.
To Col. A. T. Harden Sr John Leak, Esqrs:
I have seen your advertisement, and in comp iance
with your wishes, take this opportunity to state that I
have cultivated the Jerusalem Artichoke, for the last two
years, and was, 1 believe, the first to introduce it into
Georgia from Tennessee.
There is no exaggeration in the account you give of it,
according to my experience, and its introduction into
Georgia, will create an important era, and render our
citizens in a short lime in a great measure, independent
of western supplies of pork.
DANIEL NEWNAN.
The above article, can be had in Griffin and Madison,
in a short time, at $ I 50 cents per bushel, by applying
to the Commission Merchants, Johnston, Jones & Feck,
ami McKinley & Co.
J'eb 22,1844. 38 3t
THE THOROUGH BRED HORSE,
ANDREW, JR,
, Wit.t. stand the ensuingseasori atthestable of
i 1/ A the subscriber, in Bald win county, ten milesfrom
Milledgeville, near the Clinton road, and twelve miles
from Clinton; and as the times are so hard, he will he.
lei to mares at the low price of $i2 the Season. Should
a mare not prove with foal the Spring Season, she will
be entitled to the Fall Season, GRATIS, provided she
is not traded off. He is truly a valuable Horse, and will
add greatly to the stock of the country.
Description.—Andrew. Jr. is a beautiful dark chest
nut sorrel. 1G hands high, of fine hone and muscle, with
excellent limb and action
1’edigree.—Andrew, Jr. was got by the celebrated
horse. Sir Andrew, owned by Col. It. M. Johnson, ol
Virginia, (the Napoleon of the turf.) whose performances
as a race horse needs no comment, and out of a Gallatin
mare, one of the best of the stock.
Performances.—He was trained when three years
old, for a match race for $1,000—mile heats, which was
run over the Milledgeville course, and which he won
with ease in two heats, running under a hard pull and
beating Major Richard Rowell's fine colt Truffle. lie
was again trained in 1841, and was entered with three
others, best 3 in 5, and in the third heat he threw his rider
at the stand, and but for this accident it was thought by
the best of judges, that he would have taken the purse.
In training for this race, he run one mile over the Milledge-
villc turf in two minutes with twenty pounds overweight;
la 1 also run over the same course ttco miles in four min-
utes and twenty three seconds.
Mares sent to the Horse will be taken care of and every
attention paid to prevent accidents or escapes, but no
liability for either. Notes will be required payable next
Christmas which must be sent with the mare.
50 Cents to the Groom for each mare.
03” The Season will commence the firstof March and
end the first of June. ABRAM FOARD.
Feb. C, 1844. 5t
REINDEER.
THIS thorough-bred Race-horse (own bro-
rT>iher to Alice Gray.) will stand the next season
FTs'S at CLINTON, Jones county, and will he let to
mares at the reduced price of $£5 the season.
REINDEER was sired by the celebrated Henry, the
competitor of Eclipse; his dam Sportmistress by Hickory,
Mile best son of the imported Whip) his graudam. Mil
ler's Damsel, the dam of American Eclipse; she was sired
by imported Messenger. Great grandam, the imported
marc by Potoxas, great great grandam by Giincraek—
Snap Dragoon, by Snap—Regulus—Bartlett's Childers
—Honey Woods Arabian, out of the Two True Blues.
REINDEER is a chesnut sorrel, 16 hands high, of
larne hone, strongly made, short back, fine eyes, and of
commanding appearance. He was bred by Thomas
Pearsall, of Long Island. New York, will be 9 years old
iu May next. There is not a better blooded horse in the
I’nited States, either native or imported.
JOHN WYNENS.
Feb. 13,1844. 35 5t
Ccntrai~Moiiey at par.
Family Grocery Store,
r pHE undersigned respectfully informs the citizens
X of Millcdgccille and Baldwin county, that he has
la lien the stand formerly occupied by Mr- Ragsdale, im
mediately apposite the State Bank, and has on haud a
Large and General Assortment of
FAMILY GROCERIES.
Embracing every article usually kept in the line, select
ed by an experienced hand, which he will dispose ofat
Wholesale or Retail, on more reasonable terras for cash,
than can he purchased elsewhere in the city. His
CONFECTIONARY
Immediately in the rear of the “ Family Grocery,”
where Confectionaries, Fruits, and choice Liquors, Sfc.
lee., can he had at all times. E. ROWLEY.
Jan. 15, 1844. tf— 31
R ANAWAY from my residence, on the morning of
the 1st instant, in Wilkinson county, Ga., my ne
gro man Mu ton, about 23 or 24 years of age, very dark
complected with a very noted scar between his eyes.
He is about 5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, and stout built,
Weighing 140 or 150 pounds. Said boy can read and
write a little, and perhaps has written his own pass. A
suitable reward will be paid to any person, who will de-
,"’ tr bim to me, or lodge him in any Jail so that I get
bun agaim. ° 1
, n DANIEL BURKE.
January 9,1844. 30 tf
man
Br PARK A ROGERS.]
!*S
S. SPENCER & II. S. STEWART,
Attorney s at "Low,
OFFICE, TROUPVILLE,
Lowndes County, Ga.
CHARLES J. WILLIAMS,
Attorney atliaw,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEO.
Nov. 10,1843. 22
C. NIJRPIIEY, Attorney at Law.
CASSVILLE, Georgia.
NT, 7 ILL attend to business in any Countv. in the
vr Cherokee Circuit, and in DeKalb and Cobb, of
the Coweta Circuit.
January 30, 1844. 33 3ni
COMMISSION BUSINESS, r ,
T HE undersigned have formed a partnership for the
transaction of a Factorage and Commission Busi
ness, in the city of Savannah, and will open an office
on the first day of August next. They intend to give
their personal attention to the business, and hope to
merit, and if so, to receive a liberal share of public
patronage.
JOHN L. SWINNEY & Co.
Partners—John T,. Swinney, }
James II. Burnett. )
February, 1843. 37 tf
HAMILTON, IIIKDEMAX, A CO.
FACTORS
AM)
^gH GENERAL COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
Savannah, Ga.
Savannah, July 20.18-13.
Look at this before you go further!
TOST RECEIVING BY
A. &, J. Leon,
At the Branch Depot of the N. Y. Dry Goods
AND
CLOTHING STORE,
A FINE assortment of SPRING and SUMMER
Dry Goods, suitable for Ladies and Gentlemen,
consisting of calicoes, prints o f all descriptions, &c.;
cloths, fancy casameres, a large stock of ready made
clothing, gentlemen’s hoots and shoes, iadie's shoes,
hats, caps, &c. All of which will he sold at the lowest
cash prices One of the former being in New York all
the time, the goods received at the Branch Depot are
selected with care and upon the most favorable terms,
consequently we can sell as good, as fine, as durable and
as cheap, if not cheaper goods, than can be purchased at
any other establishment at the South. All that we ask,
IS for the ladies and gentlemen to call and examine for
themselves, it will cost nothing and we shall he glad to
see them.
N. B Clothing ciltfmt with neatness and despatch, at
the 0= BRANCH DEPOT,xfl next door to the
State Bank.
Milledgeville, Feb. 13, 1844. 8t—35
Penitentiary.—HIDES, HIDES.
( 1ASII OR BARTER, will he paid for all kinds of
j Hides, suitable for being tanned, desired at this In
stitution.
Persons at a distance, desiring to make sale of hides,
for Cash or Barter, will please open a communication
with the Inspector of the Penitentiary, or with the un
dersigned. a. W. REDDING,
f ftBGtputf -
Feb. 5,1844.
35 8t
Just Published,
Price Cents,
And for sale at this Office, and by the Author,
T HE Essay on the soils and available manures of
Georgia, with their application and management;
founded on a Geological and Agricultural survey, by
JOHN RUGGLES COTTING,
State Geologist of Georgia, and Member of the Associ
ation of American Geologists.
Dec. 25,1843. 23
NOTICE.
T HE undersigned having sold out his Confectionary
establishment to Mr. VVm. Stephens, respectfully
solicits a continuance of that patronage to the establish
ment, which has heretofore been so liberally extended to
him.
Being desirous of bringing his affairs to a speedy
close, all persons indebted to him either by note or ac
count, are requested to make payment by the first of
April, as all claims after that date, will be placed in the
hands of an officer for collection.
LEWIS A. BOX.
Milledgeville, March 19,1844. 40 3t
R UNAWAY from my plantation in Marion county,
eleven miles west ofTazwell, on the road leading
to Columbus, a negro fellow whose name is Scy or
Seyms, about twenty-five years old ; five feet eight
or ten inches high, rather slender built and when spoken
is inclined to laugh, no marks recollected, but few scars
about his back; he left in company with one other negro
belonging to Benjamin Story, named Hiram, six feet or
the rise in height, raw bone and stout and very black
complected, had on when he left a fine grey cloth dress
coat, with a velvet collar and had some two or three pair
of fine pants which he stole before he left; he is a cohlin
blacksmith; they are supposed to have been decoyed off
by some white person, in person or by giving them pas
ses; all patroons of Boats and agents for railroads, are
cautioned from receiving such negroes on board of their
respective charges.
A reward of twenty dollars will he given for both of
said negroes delivered to the owners at their respective
places of abode, or lodged in some Jail, so that they can
be got. or ten dollars for eitherof them. Any information
addressed to Jacob A. Clements, at Centerville Talbot
county, or to Benjamin Story, in Marion county, Taze
well or Pineville post office either, will he thankfully
received. JACOB A. CLEMENTS, Talbot.
BENJAMIN STORY, Marion.
March 5th, 1844. 4t 39
Georgia, DeKalb county.
Drought to Jail,
ON che 4th instant, a negro man
of black complexion, by the name
of Jesse, between twenty-five and
thirty years of age, and says that he
belongs to William B. Bazor, of
Macon county. Alabama. The own
er is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges, and take him away.
* J. B. BUCHANAN, Jailer.
Marc h G, 1844. 39
Assignee's Sale.
STWY^ILL be sold in McDonough, Henry county, on
\f'jf the first Tuesday in April next, as the property
of VVm. J. Lewis, a petitiouer in bankruptcy, the fol
lowing property, to-wit:
Lot of land No. 2, in the 8th district, of Gilmer coun
ty; also, lot No. 22, in the 10th district and 2nd section
of Gilmer county ; also, an undivided half of No. 397,
in the 10th district of formerly Irwin now Lowndes
county; also. No. 284, in the 4th district of Irwin coun
ty; also,lot No. 175. in the 2nd district and 2nd section
of Cherokee county; also, lot No 33, in the 2nd dis
trict and 2ud section of Cherokee county.
Also, the executions, notes, accounts and receipts ren
dered by the said Lewis, together with a variety of
books, a silver watch, and other articles.
WM. MARKHAM, Agent
for M. M yres, Gen. Assignee for Dist. of Ga.
McDonough, March 5, 1844. 39
Notice to Debtors anti Creditors.
A LL persons indebted to the estate of James Hum
phryes. late of Newton county, deceased, are re
quested to make immediate payment; and those having
dematids against the estate are requested to present them
within the time prescribed by law.
CHARLES LUCAS, Adm’r.
Nov. 7, 1843. 22
New Spring Goods
At Cowles’.
T HIS DAY opening the following articles:—
a good assortment of small figured prints, rich;
small check ginghams;
inusliu ginghams, a new article for dresses;
4-4 figured balzavmes, new and rich;
strip’d grantham lawns, new;
rich printed lawns;
crewel canvass, lace striped muslins:
linen cambric handkerchiefs;
Georgia nankeen:
Carolina hoes, Brades patent hoes:
cist steel garden hoes, with handles;
cotton plough lines;
super, super, fine fashionable hats, all of which will
be sold cheap, considering.
March 4th, 1844. 38 tf
.Wf££,ED6£
mw:.
CEOJtG/J,
JPJHD 3, 1841.
[VOL. 14. NO. 43.
A LL i ERSONS indebted to the estate of the late
John Rawls, deceased, of Pulaski county, are here
by requested to make immediate payment. And all per-
sons having demands against said deceased, will render
them in agreeable to law, to
CHARLES E. TAYLOR, adm’or.
39 CAROLINE M. RAWLS, adm’rx.
Major Cooper’s reply to Mr. Stephens.
TO THE PEOPLE OF MURRAY COUNTY,
GEORGIA.
Madison, Morgan county, Ga. )
March 18.-1S44. J
Fellow Citizens:—On my way from my
farm to this place, recently, Mr. A. H. Ste
phens’ Address, published in the Georgia
Journal of the 13th February last, met my
eyes for the first time. It relates to an issue,
made between us at Spring Place, in August
last, I think, which was induced by misrepre
sentations then made by him before you, in re
gard to my private affairs in connection with
the Trust Company—for the purpose of pro
moting his election, as we supposed, he as
sumed the responsibility of statements not
founded in fact, calculated to present me, as
well as the party I associated with, in an in
consistent attitude before you.
This was but the sequal of a corresponding
attempt made by him in his own county, at a
public discussion, in which I bore a part, in
1S40. On that occasion he knows he was the
aggressor.—It then descended to personality
of such nature, as to prevent any agreeable
intercourse between us from that day till the
day we met in Spring Place.
I had heard of his dwelling on the same to
pics, with his characteristic “refinement and
delicacy of sentiment,” at various points, be
fore we met and before he reached Spring
Place. He was reported to me to have re
peatedly expressed a desire to meet me, and
on one occasion I was told he said he had wait
ed two days, hoping I might arrive.—Know
ing, as he did, that by agreement with Mr.
Crawford, I was not permitted to enter the
lists; remembering, as he must, that these to
pics had interrupted our personal relations, he
manifested in this but little of that “refinement
and deli aey,” which I am happy to learn i3
the teaching of four months schooling at
Washington.
I sat this conduct down to the account of
the vanity of his pretensions, and suffered it to
pass unnoticed. If that had been the first
time Mr. Stephens had rendered himself offen
sive to me personally, as well as to truth, in
relation to the same subject, charity to him, if
not respect to myself, would have induced me
to put him on his guard by a friendly caution,
as I lmd done three years before, in his own
county. With mature reflection, in spite of
that warning, he has shot at a venture, with
“malice aforethought,” intending his dart to
wound others. If it shall recoil and pierce
the man who sprung the bow, he is left to re
peat. “ The consequences must be borne by
those who assume the responsibility.’’
I had done nothing to provoke this person
ality, but as you know, have forborne enough
to permit it to die with the occasion. Mr. Ste-
1 ’ . the, rasp in 1840. dursued it in
to Murray in 43—1 there corrected ntm, and
told him he was mistating facts, which he
ought to know. He appeared by hand-bill,
reaffirming his mis-statements. 1 replied, de
nying them. On the morning of the election,
a friend of his appeared by hand bill for him,
which I did not condescend to reply to. Four
months elapsed, and nothing more was said.
I have been privately attending to my farm,
supposing that he rested content. On the
13th February last, he re-appears by an ad
dress published in the Georgia Journal, above
referred to. In this address he seems to ex
cept to the use of certain words, (“falsehood,”
“liar,” &c., used by me, as he says,) on the
score of taste and refinement. It may be that
he is right, I will not join issue with him on
this point, since “there is no disputing ab iut
matters of taste.” His reasons, no doubt, are
fully as good as were those of Doctor Sit-
greeves in the novel, who complained bitterly
of the “unscientific” manner in which Cap
tain Laughton cut off the heads of his enemies,
“for,” said he, “there is an end of them, andno
room is left to exhibit, the lights of science.”
My education (and in this I do not complain
of it) has taught me to speak of things by their
right names. It may be I pursued it as mat
ter of habit on the occasion referred to.
I have no recollection, in the course of our
controversy, of using the terms “lies, liar and
falsehoods” in strict application to Mr. Ste
phens, however much ptovoked to do it. If I
had, it might have furnished an occasion for a
gentleman of “refitted sensibility” to stop the
controversy. If I had not, I would under all
circumstances have said so. Nevertheless, I
may have used those words as the most appro
priate I could command for the occasion.—If I
did, be assured no disrespect was intended to
you to my party, or myself.
Y r ou will remember that I did not interrupt
Mr. Stephen’s speech, till it was reported to
me that he had ventured the declaration that
“the Trust Company had issued Paper Money
and Bank Bills for circulation,” that he said
this to make you believe that “we hard monoy
Democrats “were the greatest issuers and
users of Paper Money, and the largest gainers
by it, through a charter of the largest privile
ges, &c. He said, when replied to by me on
that point, that if not Bills, we issued “Certif
icates of Deposite” and asked me if I would
deny that. I told the audience, “I did not
stand there to he catechized by the gentle
man” nor would I interrupt him, unless speak
ing of me and my affairs” he made mis-state
ments. He proceeded, and said, he would
take that for an admission that “we did issue
certificates of deposit.” I made no reply.—
He proceeded then to state, that these “certif
icates or something intended to answer the
purpose of circulation, under that name or
some other title, intended for circulation, were
by the Company issued, and used as such.”
Here I interrupted him and said, that was not
the fact. That statement he repeated in his
hand-bill substantially. In my reply it was
pronounced to be “untrue.” He seems to
take no distinction between that phraseology
and another, which he says is in bad taste.
By the apology he has made to you for a-
gain troubling you, he, by innuendo imputes
‘corruption’—thereby giving us to understand
that to say of a man he is “corrupt” is in
“good taste," is “refined” and “delicate,” whilst
it is in bad taste to say of him, he states what
“is not true.”
“Corruption” involves motive. If what I
denied were untrue, being myself not a mover
of the topic, seeking not to profit by it, I had
nothing to expect or gain. If what he affirm
ed voluntarily, were “untrue,” he, being the
mover of it, had everything to hope for—eve
rything to gain for the purpose of his argu
ment, as well as for the success of his elec
tion. Whether he or I were corrupt in the
matter, will be determined by reference to the
truth which I exhibit—truth which he so great
ly mangled and distorted for purposes of his
own.
He says his first hand-bill was put forth for
the purpose of affording me an opportunity of
a denial. My reply to that was written for
the purpose of a denial, that Mr. Stephens,
who assumed the responsibility, might have
an opportunity of proving it. He has attempt
ed it. His witnesses (two of them at least,)
were known to me. Concerning these, (the
ex-member of Congress and the minister of
the Gospel,) I have only to say, I never men
tion them if I can avoid it, and never think of
them unless reminded of them. As to the
others, I am willing they should pass for all
Mr. Stephens commends them for. Sure I
am, that if they are what he represents them,
and I am willing to admit them to be the
truth, as I will establish it, will open their
eyes. Let it he borne in mind, that the point
between us, touches the “intention” of the
Company in issuing “Trust certificates”—the
use made of them by the Company, to-ivit: as
a “circulation,” as “paper money,” as well as
the fact of giving them out.
The fact of giving out (as for ‘issuing* in the
banking sense of that word none were issued)
or of issuing in the ordinary meaning of that
term, I never denied it. And Mr. Stephens
proceeded as if silence gave consent, to define
the “intention” and use of them as a “circula
tion,” as “paper money.” At this point I in
terposed my “denial.”
In his last address, Mr. Stephens repeats
the issue in these words, to-wit: he stated that
the “company did issue something intended to
answer the purpose of circulation under the
name of certificates of deposite or some other
title.”
In the same paragraph, he explains one of
the objects of making that statement it was to
answer the pretended cry (as he called it) a-
gainst Banks, Corporations, Monopolies, ex
clusive privileges, and paper money.” To do
away “the impression” (being made) that
“Maj. Cooper was opposed to such institu
tions. To effect which object, he proceeded
as he states—to show that “Major Cooper,
their candidate for Governor, had been for
years at the head of the institution alluded to,
which had also entered the list of competitors,
in the use of paper money, or something in
tended for circulation.”
To which he says, “he resorted to a broad,
downright, unqualified denial”—and adds, “to
this course I have no objection, or to the issue
which has been joined.”
Neither have I. So you perceive, fellow-
citizens, we have both gone into the issue with
our eyes open. Whether both, with sights
fixed on the naked truth, or on the objects to
be gained by a perversion of it, you shall
judge.
I say that, from the day I first took my seat
as a member of Congress, elected by the State
Rights party of Georgia, up to this moment,
I have advocated but one opinion as to “paper
money f which is, that it is an evil, an unne
cessary evil, demoralizing to the people, and
destructive of free government—that my “faith
and practice” have been in perfect harmony.
This was known to all my colleagues, and no
one can say to the contrary.
That the Trust Company, over which I had
’— *- ... — — — I oil limn? • /trvstw
istered on the same principles. That it nev
er, at any time, “used or resorted to,” or “in
tended to use or resort to” bills, certificate of
deposit, or anything, under any other title, as
“circulation” or “paper money.” This is all I
have said. It is all true to the letter, and I
will now prove it.
In the proof I shall offer, I will not confine
myself to the political opponents of Mr. Ste
phens. Nor will /offer a known personal en
emy of his to testify against him. My proof
shall come from the record. My witnesses
shall not only be of known respectability, but
free from bias, having a right to know the
truth above all others.
First, then, is the “Memorial of the West
ern Insurance and Trust Company,” to the
Georgia Legislature, dated October 13, 1840.
Mr. Stephens, I think, was a member, and act
ed on it, I presume. In bis address of the
13th February last, he states that Memorial
“is before me.” It was because I knew he
must have seen this, that 1 told him at Spring
Place, “he ought to have known that his state
ments were not true.” That Memorial explain
ed the object and intent of these "certificates,”
thus, to-wit:
[Seepage 5.]
“This Company went into operation in
1S38. It has pursued its charter according to
their understanding of it. No act has been
done to violate it. It has not injured the cur
rency, but benefitted it. It has issued no bills.
It receives money on trust and deposite, and
gives certificates for it according to the fact of
the case. Certificates of this kind to the a-
mount of six hundred dollars have been issu
ed. These have, at all times, been redeemable
in specie when demanded. Every one of these
has been redeemed, except one of twenty dol
lars. which will be redeemed in specie when
presented. So we design it to be, both for
our good and the good of the country.
We have injured no man, and none have
we wronged. We have inquired after no
one’s necessities—We have tempted none—
We have loaned to no one who did not seek
us; and that, too, because he could do better at
our door than elsewhere. Of this, however,
all such have been permitted to judge for
themselves.”
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“Other institutions have made profit both
by their credit and their capital. Their inter
est, too, ha3 exceeded the lawful rate, but it is
covered up by the mystery of banking.”
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“We have made our interest on our actual
capital, and have thereby rendered available
thousands of unavailable means heretofore
vested in available lands.”
With these facts before him, will any one of
you hesitate to say he ought to have known
better than to state what he did state!
Yes, but Mr. Davis, Mr. Sims, Mr. Berry,
Mr. Harrison, Mr. Meriwether, and Dr. Chip-
ley, (the four first of Coweta, the fifth of Put-
uam, and the last of Muscogee,) all saw these
“Certificates!”—Yes, Mr. Davis,a Minister of
the Gospel,-saw “one” of them—Mr. Sims saw
“one” of them—Mr. Berry saw “one” of them
—Mr. Harrison saw “one”—and Mr. Meri
wether says, “I have seen a certificate corres
ponding in every respect with the above de
scribed “one.” Yes, they all saw “one”—one,
and no doubt the same one. The Memorial
tells of “one” that bad not come up to demand
the specie it was given for—“one” of twenty
dollars. At Columbus, we heard of “one”
which we were told a gentleman of Coweta
chased down and kidnapped in that city,
When caught, a man said he would not take
hundreds of dollars for it—a twenty dollar
“one”—the same “one,” no doubt, seen by
the five witnesses, and spoken of in the Me
morial.
The history of this “one,” if recorded by
Mr. Paulding, would furnish the very best
commentary on this part of the testimony that
could be given.—It was held and shown at di
vers points and places, for the great and wor
thy purpose of stirring up prejudice against
the Company and the man who presided over
it. And finally, after it went to its long home,
where it will sleep, after every “one” has rest
ed, there, Mr. Stephens goes into Cherokee
to persuade the good people in the mountains,
that Major Cooper, by his Company of vast
privileges, had issued vastly of “paper money. "
Honest men of Murray—good people of
Cherokee, what think you of such an effort?
The next piece of testimony is the certifi
cate of Robert B. Murdoch, Esq., Secretary
of the Company, showing the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth, as follows:
Columbus, March 15, 1S44.
2b Mark A. Cooper, Esq:
Sir:—In answer to the questions you have
propounded to me, I reply, that I was the Se
cretary and acted as Cashier of the Western
Insurance and Trust Company, almost the
whole time that it transacted business; I was
intimately acquainted with the policy of the
Institution and with your individual views of
its management. As Secretary, 1 signed and
gave out all the Trust Certificates referred to
by you. They were all registered as Trust
Certificates on our Books, and in order to
show you how many were given out, at what
time each was given, to whom given, and for
what amount given, I have extracted the en
tries in each case and subjoin a statement.
The first were issued in 1S39. The last was
issued in 1S43. They were issued in denom
inations to suit the depositors. In every in
stance, they were given for coin actually de
posited. The coin was actually held as the
property of the depositor and always returned
when the certificate was presented. This was
well understood in our city. Specie sold at
a premium above ordinary Bank paper cur
rency, of ten or fifteen per cent, from time to
time, hence these certificates were held and
sold as specie. For this reason they could not
circulate as ordinary Bank currency. In
form, they were receipts for money deposited
which the Company held in trust and would
agree to pay at their office in New York,
Charleston, Augusta, Mobile, New-Orleans or
elsewhere, as the blanks might be filled up.
They were of such form and appearance as, in
a sound and healthy state of currency and ex
changes, might have justified the attempt to
use them as currency, if it had been deemed
ad visable. This, however, was not the case,
and you are light in saying the company did
not use them as currency or money, for the
purpose of loaning, discounting or buying any
thing—they were used as a written certificate
would have been, without profit to the com
pany.
Many and urgent solicitations were made
by Brokers anil Merchants, that these certifi
cates might be used as a circulating medium,
and repeatedly declined by you. Finally,
these solicitations were so presented as to in
duce you to call for the action of the Board of
Directors. The result of that action taken
from the minutes kept by me, was as follows,
to-wit:
EXTRACT.
Office of the Western Insurance and Trust Company of the
City of Columbus, oth January, 1342.
The Board met, the following members present, viz:
A.*6auey, James Shorter, and Austin talker.
Mr. James Shorter made the following' proposition
for the consideration of the Board, suggested to him by
the officers of the Banking institutions of the city aud by
a number of the citizens, viz:
That the company should issue itscertificatesofdeposit
payable in current funds in a form suitable for circula
tion as currency.
The proposition having been discussed, the President
gave the following reasons against the proposition.
1st. It places the institution in the position of aiding
and abetting of a false system of banking and of bank
fraud; contrary to the whole policy of the board hereto
fore, which has tended to counteract the evils of depre
ciated and irredeemable currency, a policy, injurious to
the interests of the country and to the members of the
company to change.
2nd. It will place the credit of the company on a par
with the depreciated current funds ofthe day; thus inju
ring the fair standing it now has, wherever known, both
at home and abroad, and presenting the use of it to ad
vantage when it may be demanded advisable to resort
to it.
3rd. The misrepresentations and exaggerations that the
company may expect from its enemies, when paper of
this description makes its appearance in the country,
will produce much clamor and excitement, that it.may
be well to avoid, as injurious to th: ordiuary business of
the company.
4th. The great risk of loss, which will attend the ex
change of the credit of the company for the paper (fluc
tuating in value and greatly depreciated,) now circula
ting, is an operation that may subject the company to
demands for the only currency known to the iaw, on
their obligations, while the value received may not be
such as will produce specie; a consequence, to be feared
just in proportion as the currency depreciates from the
standard of value. To this, may he added, the risk inci
dent to holding a large amount of unsound paper, ne
cessary to protect a circulation sufficiently large to ren
der the operation worthy of consideration.
The above reasons were adopted by the board and the
proposition rejected.”
Note —It is not to be supposed that even Mr. Shor
ter who made the proposition was in favor of it. We
are authorized to say it had no advocate in the board.
As to the original design of these certifi
cates, I understood that they were intended to
carry out a feature in the character designated
by the term “Trust,” that you had planned
them to be used as a medium of exchanges be
tween distant points. It was thought too, that
they might be used for the purpose of advan
cing on planters’ cotton going to market, so as
to give them the benefit of the exchange by
making the certificates passable in New York,
two or three months after date, taking to the
company the ordinary profits of such transac
tions.
The law of the State against post notes
(made it was supposed to apply to those cer
tificates, was interposed and that use of them
was never made, and the idea was abandoned.
They were engraved in sums of 20, 50, 100
to 500 dollars, none less than 20, none over
500.
It is due to you to say, that your individual
opinions of sound currency, whenever ex
pressed were uniformly opposed to the issue
of paper money by the company.
Trusting the above may render all the in
formation required.
I remain respectfully,
ROBT. B. MURDOCK.
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Here, then, Fellow citizens, you have the
whole affair—$4270 “issued” during four
years for specie deposited. Was ever such a
business heard of at a Bank or Company
which had entered the list as ‘ Competitor in
the paper money?” Not one cent made by i l
—not one cent asked or received for the use
of them, not one of them used or circulated by
the company as currency. People of Murray
—lovers of truth and justice, where stands
Mr. Stephens’statement now? In 1842, see,
the policy was rejected and reasons assigned
by M. A. Cooper, President.
The next is Mr. James R. Jones’ statement
as follows, to-wit:
Columbus, 16th March, 1S44.
Maj. M. A. Cooper—
Sir:—I have been a Director of the West
ern and Insurance and Trust Company, from
the organization to the close of it. I think I
know the object and the circumstances under
which were issued the Trust Certificates of
the engraved form. Gen. Bailey and myself,
I think, received the first that were issued in
1839. If I am not mistaken, I was at the time
of receiving these certificates buying and sell
ing Bank notes and specie. I made my de
posits in the vault of said Company. Being
located on a different street, I found it difficult
to goto the vault as often a9 I sold small sums
of specie. To save me the trouble I asked
the Company as a favor to me, to issue these
certificates, and I sold and passed them as spe
cie. The specie was my own and I operated
for myself.
The Company did not pass or use certifi
cates as paper money, or as a circulating me
dium; aud iu issuing them to me, they had no
expectation in the then state of the currency
they could so be used by them.
Respectfully yours,
J. R. JONES.
Next i3 Gen. S. A. Bailey’s statement, as
follows, to-wit:
Maj. M. A. Cooper:—
Dear Sir:—At your request, I state that I
have been a Director of the Western Insu
rance and Trust Company, from a very short
period after its organization to the present
time. During all the time the Company was
in operation, especially during the years ’41
and ’42 they were constantly urged to use pa
per as a circulating medium, and the solicita
tions I received from various persons in this
city and its neighborhood, urging me to that
course, were so great as to become disagreea
ble. These requests were uniformly and
promptly declined by the Board of Directors.
Having generally attended the meetings of the
Board of Directors and constantly over-looked
with great care the business of the office, I
can with confidence say that the Company did
not at anytime issue or use their Trust Cer
tificates as money, for the purpose of discount
ing notes or buying paper or in the purchase
of any other thing; nor did they ever issue one
at a farthing’s profit. Those that were issued
(mo3t of which 1 believe were to myself or at
my instance) were given at the request of de-
r> os I tors for specie actually deposited in the
vault ofthe Company, wnicti sp«Vto wo*. <*-
part as a special deposit to meet the certifi
cates, whenever they were returned. I re
member well that the first issue were issued
at my request, under the following circumstan
ces: I had collected for a client by execution
some four hundred dollars in silver (which was
then at a considerable premium above the cur
rency of the country,) and desiring to be rid
of the trouble of transporting the coin to him.
I asked the company as a favor, to give me its
engraved certificates of Deposit for the coin,
which I had previously deposited in their
vaults, which was agreed to as an accommoda
tion to me, and the identical coin kept there
until the certificates were returned to demand
it. Then certificates did not and could not
have entered into the currency ofthe country
at the time they were issued because they re
presented specie and no specie paying Bank
bills were then in circulation.
I am, dear sir,
Respectfully, &c.,
S. ARMSTRONG BAILEY.
The next is the statement of the Directors
of the Company, to-wit:
Columbus, 16th March, 1814.
Sir:—In reply to your verbal inquiries, we
state that iu company with yourself, we were
Directors of the Western Insurance and
Trust Company of the city of Columbus dur
ing the time it transacted business. The Board
uniformly declined to issue Bills or certificates
of any form, as money. They did not at any
instance issue or use their Trust Certificates
as money, for the purpose of disseminating
paper, or buying note3, or in the purchase of
any other thing. Nor did they ever let them
out at interest or use them so as to add to
their interest or discount account. There were
but few issued at any time. In all, they did
not exceed from four to six thousand dollars.
Those issued were only given for coin deposit
ed, and in every instance, the coin was held to
respond to the certificate and paid out when it
was presented. In all these issues the Com
pany made nothing whatever, but held the coin
safely as a mere accomodation to those who
confided it to them.
Repeated solicitations were made to the
Directors; by Bankers, merchants and others,
urging the Company to issue their certificates
as paper money, and declined. Finally the
proposition was formally presented to the
Board, and formally acted on. The result of
their action you will see by reference to the
minutes of the Board, January 5th, 1S42.—
However well fitted those certificates might
have been for use as a circulating medium,
for the reasons then assigned, the Board
promptly refused to use them. And however
those already out may have been used by the
holders, the Company never used or passed
them as paper money or bills. In the commu
nity they were well knowu to be issued for
specie deposited. They therefore sold at the
specie rate of premium, above the ordinary
paper money.
We remain, sir, respectfully,
Yours, &c.
J. R. JONES,
S. BOYKIN,
A. M. WALKER,
J. H. SHORTER.
Maj. Mark A. Cooper.
The next is Mr. A. B. Davis’s statement:
Columbus, March 16th, IS44.
Maj. Mark A. Cooper—
Sir :—I was Cashier of the Bank of Colum
bus whilst you were President of the West
ern Insurance and Trust Company. I re
member to have suggested to you the policy
of issuing your bills or certificates of deposite
to aid our currency. For reasons that seem
ed to be satisfactory to yourself, you declined
to adopt my suggestion.
Very respectfully,
Your ob’t. ser’vt.
A. B. DAVIS.
I am here authorised to state, that General
Daniel McDougald, if called on, will state to
the effect Mr. A. B. Davis has. Gen. Mc
Dougald was the late President of the Plan
ters’ and Mechanics’ Bank at Columbus.
The next and last is an extract from the ed
itorial of the Columbus Enquirer, a leading
Whig paper, of the 5th July, 1843, which
Mr. Stephens declined to show you, although
I referred to it. It reads as follows, to-wit:
“ While, however, we make these remarks
in all sincerity, justice to the many respecta
ble citizens who seem to have thought it right
to participate in the operations of the Com
pany, requires us to say, that so far as we
know anything of their dealings, the only sin
chargeable to their account has been that of
demanding what the law allowed them to ask
—a higher rate of interest than was usual
with other Institutions, for their money. In
all else they have been fair and generous, and
have done much to rid the country of a spuri
ous circulation, by their consistent refusal to
deal in any other than the best Bank bills, and
“ the pewter” itself.
The President of the company mentioned
to us a fact in connexion with the winding up
of the institution, which is so creditable to all
concerned, that we cannot forbear repeating
it. It was, that the company had conducted
all its business, wound up all its affairs, divid
ed out all its profits, losses and capital, to the
entire satisfaction of each member, and when
it dissolved, all parted with feelings of mutu
al confidence, and regard—without a word of
complaint from any.”
If the like was ever said of the manage
ment of any other monied institution having
thirty or forty stockholders, then I will admit
that this is no commendation, and Mr. Ste
phens may have the benefit of it.
This closes the evidence I have to offer.
Having “contrasted the facts with Mr. Ste
phen’s statements,” I leave you to pass the
judgment on the latter.
If you believe the witnesses, (and they are
uncontradicted, because contradiction is im
possible,) you must believe that the Trust
Company never “issued or used their bills,
certificates, or anything by any other title, in
tended for circulation as paper money.” Nev
er did enter the list of competitors in the is
sue of “ paper money.”
Believingjthis, there is no escape from the
conclusion, that Mr. Stephens has stated what
is untrue.
I will now correct Mr. Stephens in one
gross perversion of a remark of mine. He
makes me say that “those Trust Certificates
were such as are ordinarily issued by banks
upon the deposite of money.” He finds no
where such a statement of mine. I never
heard of a Trust Certificate such as those
were, being given by a Bank proper. Of
course; I never said so. I said that the receiv
ing of “ special deposites” (gold and silver,
those days, were always special deposites,)
and giving certificates—“ this was the daily
busiues*s of Banks, and yet such were never
before construed into circulation.” I might
have added, too, that such certificates, given
by Banks, were often stricken on silk paper.
However different ours may have been, in
appearance, however fitted for circulation,
and however they may have been so used by
others for the mere purpose of charging it on
us, with a view to create prejudice, or make
political capital at Milledgeville or elsewhere,
to aid the attempt to repeal our charter, or af
fect an election, it is true to the letter, we nev
er issued the first one to circulate or use it as
“ paper money.”
Mr. Stephens refers to me statement that
the certificates referred to were only issued
“ to the amount of from 4 to 5,000 dollars”—
then adverts to the statement that the depos
ites were reduced from 90,000 to 3,000—and
very sagaciously infers, with an air of tri-
umpVi, eitVier “ that Major Cooper erred in
saying ‘that they only amounted’ to 4 or $5,-
009, or the Compauy had other kinds of cer
tificates given to those who deposited gold
and silver, for they had 890,000 deposited
with them, for which some kind of Certificates
must have been given,” &c.
How exceedingly awkward he appears in
these statements and inferences! The 890,-
000 deposited was not “ gold or silver.” It
was bank bills, under par, the then ordinary
currency. For these, no kind of certificates
were given. For such deposites, Banks rare
ly ever give certificates. Is Mr. Stephens so
ignorant as to commit that blunder ?—Or un
derstanding the fact, can it be possible he
would impose on you the belief that we had
890.000 of certificates issued, in addition to
the 4 or 85,000 ? This is as fatal an error as
the one we joined issue upon. And yet it
seems he really intended to make that impres
sion, for he says of this 890.000 that “some
kind of certificates must have been given.”—
The 4 or $5,000 deposited was “ gold and sil
ver”—for this the engraved certificates was
given. It was placed to the credit of the de
positor on the books, and he checked it out
as he wanted it. Was Mr. Stephens ever in
side of a Bank ? Does he know anything of
the subject he presumes tQ inform you on ?
If so, he ought not to have made it necessary
for me to tell the people of Murray what ev
ery counting-house clerk of twelve years old
understands. The entire sum of these certi
ficates ever issued then was 4 or 85,009 as
stated—sprinkled out during four years—600
one year—1,500 another—120 another—and
2.000 another—given at request of depositors,
f»r no profit to the Company—never used,
intended or represented by them as “ paper
money” as sold as specie—brought, back to
claim the identical specie it was given for-
returned in the shortest time, except “ one”
poor twenty dollar certificate, ran down,
caught and kidnapped, fingered, passed from
hand to hand amongst my political and per
sonal enemies, and exhibited, to enable hon
est men to certify, for those who, like Mr.
Stephens, had political ends to compass; for
all who have prejudices to find; and such as
have hatred and malice to cherish.
This is the sort of a case Mr. Stephens has
been laboring before you. If he has an ounce
of blood in him, it will gather in his cheeks,
and make them tingle with shame.
I refer you to the Testimony—especially
to my reasons recorded in 1842 on the Com
pany minutes—to every word and act of
mine every where—to the witnesses I have
produced, two or three of whom are not
my political friends—and here I leave the case
and Mr. Stephens. For him. I am resolved
to cherish no bad feelings. The worst I would
wish of him is, that he may forget his folly
and apply himself unto wisdom.
I remain your obedient servant, Sec.
MARK A. COOPER.
DEMOCRATIC GIRL’S SONG.
Tuse—Rosin the Bow.
If e’er I conclude to get married,
And I certainly think I may soon,
The lad that I give my fair hand to
Shall not be a fussy old coon.
He must toil in the great undertaking,-
Be stiring by night and by day, ”
And vote against that Demon of Evil,
The reckless and bad Hary Clay.
In the heat of the contest no flinching '
But firm for the land and the laws,
The lad that will win me most battle
For the good old republican cause.
Though his locks may be brilliant as morning,
His countenance fair as the moon,
In my heart there’s -no place for a tory,
Do youtnink I would marry a coos 7
Now look to it well ye yonng gallants,
The times will admit no delay,
Would you win the frank heart of this maiden,
You must work ’gainst the debauchee Clay-
Then I’ll tender my hand at the alter,
‘-To one who is able to say.
The battle is fought my beloved,
And we’ve beaten the dissolute Clay.
President Tyler has presented 8200 to the
mother of his black servant, who was killed at
the time of the recent explosion on board of
the Princeton.
