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VOL.. XXIII.]
.1IIUUEDGE VIEEE GEORGIA, OCTOBER 3, 1859.
R*. 18.
SEW TAILOBI1G
ESTABLISHMENT!
TMP Subscriber would
respectfully give notice to
the citizens of Milledgpville
and vrtioiiy. that lie lias
opened a SIK)I*, oio* door
from (Harty’s old Corner.)
where lie hi lends carrying
on llie
Tailoring Business,
arid soli, its a liber.il share
of public patronage.
JUST received, a splen-
of Itroatl Cloths. <’assi-
el new and Fa-lnon-
bas gnnd Materials, which be will
.and WARRANT to fit.
held on «her First Tuesday in the month. between
the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the
afternoon, at the Court-House in the Count) in
which liie property is situated.
Notice oftliese sales most be given in a public
gazette, eokty days previous to the day of sale.
N'ottres for the sale of personal property must
be given in like manner, forty day s previous to
the day of sale.
Notices to the debtors and creditors of anestale
most also be published forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court
of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Negroes,
must be published for tiro months.
Citations for letters of Administration . most be
published thirty nays—for dismission from Ad-
ministration.monthly si/ months—for dismissioi from
Guardianship, forty days.
I!ci.es for foreclosure of morlgage must be pub
lished monthly for four months—for establishing lost
p ipem, for the full spore of three months—for com
pelling titles from Executors or Administrators,
vhere bond has been given by the deceased. <Ae
yll space of three months.
Publications will always be continued according
to these, the legal requirements, unlessotherwise
ordered.
All business of this kind will receive promptat j Travelling Community- The Proprietor hud his
tention at the Federal Union Office. j As-istants will spare no pains to make this House
Letters on business must be post paid to en- | one <.fthe best Hotels in the State.
did assortment
meres :»»»:
able sty. * lb
make up to otd
CUTTING RENOVATING and REPAIRING
don*- at she rt notice.
O' Please call and give me a trial.
J. C. Sft*£KLlVG.
Alilledgeville, Sept. 14, 1352. j5—if
FLOYS* fuOUSF
MU M®3C53i ? ©©oirgm.
T. A. GOODWIN, Proprietor.
A. B. HARTWELL, Superintendent.
This well known and popular Hotel h is been
thoroughly repaired, and is now. open, and superbly
furni.-bed fur the reception of Hoarders anil the
title them to attention.
BUSINESS CARDS.
"fra:*c *s p. Stubbs,
Attorney :iim! Counsellor >it Law.
MONROE, LA.
lone 15. 1352. 2—ly
K A B IT A «.* W II 1TEHEA I>,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, i
S AVANS AH. GEORGIA,
T ENDER their services to the patrons and friends j
of the late firm of Rabun. Fulton sV Co . in the j
sale of Colton and other produce. Orders for Bag- j
ging. Rope and other lainily supplies will he prompt- j
ly filled atthe lowest prices.
Their long experience in business induces them to
hope fur a continuance of the liberal patronage ex
tended to the late firm.
■Savannah, June 1, 1852. 52—Cm
CHAS. G. CAMPBELL,
Attorney at Law,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEO.
0jf.ee in the Darien Barth Building, next
door lo the Federal Union office.
March 28lh, 1352. 43—tf
PLANTERS’WAREHOUSE.
G. WALKEK A SOS,
Warehouse k Commission Merchants,
JACKSON STREET.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Atthe Large New Fire Proof Warehouse
formerly occupied by Walker, Bryson Sf Co.
! A. B. HARTWELL. H C. CUNNINGHAM.
| and S. LANIER will ha happy to receive and wel-
I come their old friend~'and acquaintances, and will
j ns, their utmost effort* to make them cmlTIuriable
I during their stay.
I Macon, August24, 1S52. 12lf
, Washeurn, wilder &,co.
FACTORS
j CCMMISSIONMERCHANTS,
SAVANNAH, ga.
I Jos. Washbur.y,
Jso. IL Wilder
Frys G. Dana.
Will continue the above business at 114 Bay
Street, east of ’be Exchange
Orders for Bagging.Hope. and other Supplies,
filled pro.rptiy at lowest Cash prices.
Refer to
.Major Wm. Sanford, \
Gen S P My rick, S
M. Dennis, ^
I-
S li.
Mm;
A Mr
Ira P
Marshall.
» Carter & Harvey. S
Alltim, )
■ck, S
Baldwin Co.
Putnam Co.
Messrs. Black & Cobb, )
“ Sloan & Hawkins, j
Maj. r John S. Rowland,
A ”go=t. 1352.
Twiggs Co.
Rome.
Cass Co.
10—Cm
September 23. Ic51. 1C—ly
W. D. JETHEUlIXiE A Co.
FACTORS
AND
COM MISS ION MERCHANTS,
^SAVANNAH. <i*-
8.F. Govf., W. D. Ethridof..
Savannah, April 15, 1351. do
LAMBETH 1IOPKIIS,
11 *./«/:- U O USE
AND
C O itl MI SSI ON ME R C HAN’T,
AUGUSTA. GA.
|i ||HK. undersigned begs leave to return
—i, thanks to the natrons or the late firm of
Adams. Hopkins &, Co . for their liberal soin-
I port in past years. The firm of Adams,
Hopkins & Co , having been dissolved by
! limitation on the Im July la-1 ihe WARE-*
HOUSE AM) COMMISSION BUSINESS,(at
! the same stand, in ihe city of Augusta) will be con-
j tinned by ihe undersigned, and he tenders his ser-
I virptt loifip etisromers of llie old firui and »he public.
I His p.*rs.»tial attention will be given lo bii-iuesa c«»n-
NV\vo\csa\e CWv\\\n£ blouse,
No. 143. East Bay Street Corner of Queen,
CHARLES T O S, S. C.
MERCHANTS wishing to purchase
rail :iu«I Winter Clolliiiis
are invited to Call and look through the assortment
offered bv this
OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE,
they will find s.n extensive and desirable Stock to
select from at LOW PRICES.
WM. MATTHIESSEN.
Charleston. August 19, 1352. 12—8t
fid-H ■. It;
is
Pat lieu
I.ir attention
paid to the ptongp and sale of
Cotton, a
rid all oth-r'
Produce, receiving and for*
warding *
tnorfa. and
iirchfue of Planters 7 supplies.
EF as
It Aden nets
made on produce in More
wIihii r, q;
Hired.
LAMBETH HOPKINS.
Aug 21
1652.
12—4m.
i:\CELSIO R
BUILDING HARDWARE
AND
TOOL STORE EXCLUSIVELY.
The Largest and only Establishment oj the
kind tn the United States,
AV AL M. n CLEBE A BltO.,
No. 287 Market Street above Ilk,
PHILADELPHIA.
TTANUFACTURERS’ Depot for LOCKS of
I* I all kind-', warranted quality; premium proceiian
KNOBS, over 00 patterns; silver plated HINGES,
&c.. with the must complete assortment of all thh
Modern Patents in this line.
BUILDERS & DEALERS are invited to call
and examine our Stock.
Catalogues sent by Mail if directed.
Hot Air REGISTERS and V ENTILATORS, at
FACTORY PRICES.
Philadelphia March 1C, 1352. 42—ly
Sale a? CU\ "Lots, m Dalton \j
RARE CHANCE FOR
MECHANICS AUD CAPITALISTS!
A numb- r of valuable rity lots will be offered for
sale, it public auction, ill Dalton, oti the second Tues
day in October next.
TERMS ten percent cash, the balanceinsix years,
pnvibleiti equal annual instalments with interest.
A LSO. for sale, or lea-e. a large and valuable,
STISAM SAW-MIEILLs
of 65 horse-power, with room to connect therewith
a Flour or Grist mill.
ALSO, an excellent farm, known as “Cox’s
Fat id.” 640 acres, with about 30 acres cleared, and .. . ...
verv rich land, on MillCreek. with a large spring of ‘ j*’ |i)UD Pro'
FIRE PROOF WARE-HOUSE-
THU midp reigned hiving associated Mr.
^ I Ovid I*. Sparks with him in business—
/-continues io transact the
Warehouse and I’uinmission Business.
Under ih»*. name and style of HAUL) KM AN «te
SPARK^. The.r undivided attention wii! be given
to all business committed to their charge. The long
experience of the undersigned as a cotton seller, ad
ded to his desire to please Harwell as to faithfully serve
those who may Patronize the new firm give* to him
the hope that the liberal patrohage heretofore given to
Hardeman & Hamilton, wf!l be continued to Har
deman $ They will risk nothing, either in
purchasing or by advancing on Colton, as they have
determined to confine themselves to business with
Planters, and to them liberal advances will be made
on Cotton itt store. Family Supplies irith Ifi/ggititr
and Hope, will be furnished our Iriends at the lowest
Maeon prices. T.HOs. HARDEMAN.
August 17, 1652, II — ly.
200”' MAZ3?..
JOHN M. REINHART,
RESPECTFULLY tender* hi* acknowl
edge nurS to the Gentlemen of this city
ami vicini'y. for their liberal patronage, and
solicits a continuation of the some. He has
n^JUlJ.aoda supply of excellent Mate
rial, and can accommodate Customkpsat
the shortest notice. His BOOTS .are
Man it fact n red after Ihe latest and most
approved style, and of Hie very best
materials. P./mirino executed with neatness and
despatch. The public are solicited lo give him a call.
Terms liberal (Shop nezt cluur to C. 11. IVriuht's
Grocery Store }
Milledgevtlfe. August 10, 1852. 10—tf
11 coV£Va ¥cnvale
College.
excellent water, ->nd. an extensive orchard. Tlii
farm adjoins the city of Dalton, with the W &A. R.
R. running throti.h it.
Meantime. Purchases can be made, at private sale,
on favorable terms, by applying to Ben. E. Green.
Esq . at Dalton, until the first of August, or after that
time, at Washington City, until the first of October;
also, by applying to Gustavus Heerlein, at Dalton,
who will show the property.
The ct’y of Dalton is advantageously located at the
intersection of the East Tennessee and Georgia Rail
Road will; the We-teru ami Atlantic Rail Road, or
‘•8,ate Road,” and from its position must rapidly
improve BEN. F,. GREEN,
Washington, D. 0., or D-ihun, Georgia.
July 3.1-3- 6—tds
NOTICE. ~
fplIE undersigned would respectfully announce to
A the cittzetiN of Baldwin and adj iceut counties,
that lie is now located in Willcilgr.oille, where he will
be happy lo receive all orders for
HOUSE P1IXTIYG AND
PLASTEHINO.
U. BRYANT.
MtHedgeville, April 13. 1852. 4.>—tl
LcsKhilii cCImrlergratifctl in iM4!> i
rilHE SI>bing 8es'ioii will commence on the 2nd i
l Monday, which is the 12th day of January. I
GEO. Y. BROWN, President and Professor of!
I Science.
Professor of Natural Science.
I. it BixANH \M, Professor of Mathematics and
Director of Music.
HENRY M. HOLTZCLAW, Professor of Belles i
Letters.
The f amity willbe assisted by the following Ladies
viz: Mrs. Brown. Mrs Branham. Misses Bennett,
Bntostead. Meredith and E. Bennett.
Catalogues containing further information may be
obtained by applying tn either of the olficers of the
College, or to either of the following gentlemen, who
constitute the Board ol'Trtistees; E. E. Jones, M. D.
President; B. M. Peeples. Esq , Treasurer; Titos.
Burney, Esq. Secretary;Col. J. B Walker, Rev. N.
G. Fost. r, Rev. C. M. Irwin, Win. S. Stokes, Ed
mund \\ alker, Zucharinh Fears, Nathan Massey,
Wm W. A. Crawford. M. IL. Benj Harris. Jas. F.
Swansop.J. W. Fears. R P. Timmerman.
Madison. Morgan county, Ga. Dec. 3,1851—30tf
N. G. NOBCBOSS’
IV oat! Planing Nlaelnnc-,
TO BF, EXHIBITED AT THE
FAIR OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE,
In New lorfliroii^li Ocfobcr n( k xt*
I lake th»« *»»-»•!#> to uoiir v ifir* pubfic. th il I shall ex-
hibit ii'v n».vv IV.ifnt plMtiing Machine, as above.
wii; plmiH ordinary hoanls with less
v, sMtwwsrs ,x«...
EkSEMT OF JAMAICA GINGER I This M.
Ttiis Essence is a preparation of unti«tial excel- ! thin one hmj Jk power ot any other Machiue in o*e
lence In ordinary diarrlicea, incipient clntlera. in j The saving nf power in running this maebine is
short, in ali cases of prnetration-of the digestive func- i worth Iron. $300 to $6(10 per year, according to the
lions, it is of inestimable value. During the preva- i value of po-ver where ihe machines are run This
lence of epidemic, cholera and summer complaints of ; machine outs with the feed of the board, and lias a ro-
children. il is peculiarly efficacious; no family or in : larv and stationary plane.
dividual should he without it The Scientific American will contain a cut of this
CAU r.ON- — Be stire to get the genuine Essence. ! machine next week: I ask examination,
which is prepared only bv K. BROWN, a! bis Drug I shall take rooms at the Howard Hotel, Broad-
cud Chemical Store. N. E Corner of Fifth and Chest- ! wav. New Yoik. to attend to business connected with
nut StneJs. Philadelphia. and for sale bv all the res- my paten’.
I shall also exhibit my patent for hanging large cir-
■ __ V tl KDI.U'RI IAS
peeiable Apo’beraries in the United States. And in
Milledgettille. by E. J. WHITE.
September. 14, 1852. 15—3m
cular saws. N. G. NOILCROsS.
Luweil, Mass. Sept. 17, 1852. 17—4t
COL. BAILEY’S Spftch at Knoxville.
KNOXVILLE. Sept, 16th, 1852.
Dear Sir;—The undersigned were this
day appointed at a meeting of the Demo
cratic party, of Crawford county, to request
for publication a copy of the able speech this
day delivered, by you behue them — relying
on your willingness to promote the election
of the Democratic candidates for the I'resi-.
demand Vice President of the United
Stales, at the approaching election, we con
fidently hope that you wi'l comply with the
wishes of your fellow-citizens, and fur-
fmriish a copy of your speech for publica
tion.
Very respectfully your ob’t servants.
GEO. R. HUN1ER, )
H. STEELE, > Com’t
JNO. M. THOMPSON, )
Col. S. T. Bailev.
KNOXVILLE, Sept. 17th, 1852.
Gentlemen: — I distrusted the partial
judgements of my kind friends of the Dem
ocracy, in thinking my remarks to the dem
ocratic party of Crawford county, on the
16th were deserving of mure extended cir
culation, until I had proof that those re
marks received the unrpialified condemna
tion of certain Whig leaders—this satisfied
me that there was more pointed truth and
virtue in what 1 said than even l htid suppos
ed, Therefore I furnish a copy of
those remarks as you tequesfed lor publics-,
timi,
With gieat regard and friendship, for
yourselves individually, and those you rep-
rerent: I am gentlemen, your obedient ser
vant.
S. T. BAILEY.
Messrs G R Hunter, H Steele, J M Thomp
son, Committee &c.
Friends and Feli.ow-citizens:—
In all free governments, in all ages,
the
people are divided into two great patties—
the party of arbitrary power, and i he patty of
popular freedom—the contest is not about
men who pass away; [but about principles
that live forever.
Our quarrel is with the Whig party, not
with their candidates. I am not going to
assail the personal character of Scott and
Webster, doubtless they have faults, being
human; yet I pity the American who does
not feel proud of their great renown who
does not claim a share, and an interest in
their just fame.
It is not every virtuous great, or good
man that is fit for President, thousands of
monarchists are honest, virtuous, and capa
ble; and yet have no faith in the capacity of
the people, for fteedom, and who
believe that the many is born to serve the
few.
Ifany Whig is to be the next President,
all agree it must be Gen Scott. Mr. Web
ster is out of the question, his mvn friends
being the judges, and if he stood any chance
there is abundant proof in his own repeated
confessions, that he is in principle a Free-
Soiler.
Let mo give extracts from his speeches at
Springfield in 1847, at Abbington 1843, and
tepeateil in the Senate in 1S50 and a Buf
falo in 1S51, viz:
"Really the exclusive appropriation of
the name of Free soil by the patty, was a
vety bold proceeding. They have certainly
stolen tlie sentiment from the Whigs, it was
a clear case of larceny. Are these men
belter lovers of liberty than we are? —
No! We are as good liberty men, and anti
slavery men as they profess to be them
selves.
Again in the same speech, he says:
"We will know, gentlemen, that the
Buffalo platform contains nothing in relation
to this matter which does not meet the ap
probation and the unqualified approbation
of the whigs of the Northern State9. Now,
suppose for argument's sake,that we should !
join the Ftee soil party, we should he the j
Whig party under a different name,and tiiat '
would he all. But these gentlemen propo
ses to us to go a step further, which l allow i
would he making a gieat change—in short, j
they propose to put Mr. Van Buren at the
head of the whig parly.”
"Now, sir, wherever there is a practical
good to he done, wherever there L an inch
of land to he stayed hack from becoming yell of the savage, and his Tomahwk reeks
slave territory, 1 am ready to insert the with the blood of the mothers, while the
■principle of the exclusion of slavery I’m darkness of midnight is turned lo noon, by
pledged to that from 183S —pledged to it the blaze of their dwellings, this peculiar
again and again—and l will perform those favorite ofSouthern Whigs, can find no bet-
pledges." ter imployment for the troops of the Uuion,
We object to the election of Gen. Scott, than to crowd them into all the forts around
for two great teasons. First, because he is Charleston, to dragoon a sovereign State
a soldier, in all his education and instincts, j into a filial love of robbery. And here lies
with no wisdom or discretion for the direc- all the secret of this new-born love of
lion of civil affairs. Secondly, because by j Southern Whigs.forthisAbolitonFederal-
his election whig misrule is perpetuated,and ist, Mr. Fillmore.
that national party fixed in power, whose
whole political history has been evil and
that continually.
Let us for a moment contemplate some
South Carolina has ever been Demecrat-
ic, and always opposed to Federal misrule
and plunder, arid therefore any body can be
a favorite with them, who will make war
of the political offences of this party, which on South Carolina. Let the Indians and
stand out conspicuously in history, and see
how true to federal sympathies they have
continued from the eatliest times, down to
the preseent.
The history of the country establishes,
that the whig party is the old federal party
under a new name;and the same history im
peaches them for ihe following flagrant of
fences.
They passed the Alien and Sidilion laws
whereby they ionfeired on the federal gov
ernment, control of the freedom of the press,
and freedom of speech.
They opposed the acquisition ofLouisana,
Florida, Texas, California, and New
Mexico. And yet. the Statesman would
be deemed mad. who should now seri
ously propose to give hack all that vast em
pire.
They opposed the war with England,and
the war with Mexico, anti sided with the
enemy in both wars, “giving them aid and
comfort,” and yet are now appropriating
the credit of those wars to themselves to ac
quire office and power.
They sided with the Indians.in every con
test between the savages and the Southern
people.
They prevented tfie admission of Missou
ri, into the Union, until slavery should be
abolished, in nea ly all the Territory west
of the Mississippi.
They voted first against the war with
Mexico, and then against the Treaty of
peace, because Mexico agreed to pay us
for the expense of the war by ceding
Territory, having no other means of pay
ment.
The notorious Senator Corwin, invoked
the Mexicans to receive our soldiers “with
Negroes mob and murder our citizens as
they may, South Carolina is far more hateful
to them.
Certainly if such flagrant political offen
ces do not merit rebuke, they do not de
serve reward.—Shall we not reward them
if we suff er a Whig President to be elec
ted.
It i9 idle to 9ay the President can do no
harm, so long as there is a majority in Con
gress against him Have not all the fla
grant sins of this administration, been com
mitted in spite of Cong-ess.
Our President is far more powerful for
evil, than a King or Queen of England if
he is so disposed—an English Cabinet can
not stand a week against a majority in Par
liament, here, on the contrary, the Cabinet
must agree with the Prasident and not with
Congress. Notwithstanding there has
been a latge Democraticanajority in Con
gress, during all the term of this adminis
tration, yet there has been never a more
Federal Cabinet, never in the history of the
country, have Executive appointments and
measures been more Federal, and we may
expect it to be still worse under General
Scott, if we can trust his character for can
dor, and his repealed avowals.
The reason assigned by Southern Whigs
why the Convention did not nominate Fill
more instead of Scott, viz : that he was in
favor of the Compromise, and had enforced
the Fugitive Slave law, has not a particle of
truth lo sustain it. For in the first place he
was known to be opposed to the Compro
mise as a whole, and had to have the writ
ten advice of the Attorney General, before
he would sign the Fugitive Slave part of it,
—the only crumb of bran bread vouchsafed
bloody hands and inhospital graves!” and
as a reward for this cruel and unnatural
treason, he is appointed secretary of the
Treasury, by a whig President, who has
been invited to visit Georgia, as if purposely
to insult those brave men who survive, and
the friends of those who filled those
“graves.”
They have ever striven to fasten to the
country, a high tariff, a bank, internal im
provements by Congress, and a bankrupt
law, and all other extravigant measures,
whereby to strengthen central power, and
weaken the Stales.
They have b>r many years been bitterly
hostile to Southern slavery, and the now
dangerous anti uncrntrolable anti-slavery
party of tire North, owes its origin and
power to the Whigs, as Mr. Webster truth
fully and boastingly confessed, in his
Springfield speech in 1817 and again at Ab
bington, in the year following.
They have ever patronized southern men
who were unfaithful to the South,as especi
al favorites, and hunted down, as enemies,
her ablest and mosl fruitful children. Wit
ness Clay and Calhoun—the first their idol,
and the last their victim.
Their present favorite administration, at
the request of Spain, ordered our navy to
protect our dominions, against the invasion
of foes to tyranny, while abolitionists at the
North, were suffered to mob and murder
Southern men, in pursuit of their property,
and then interfered to shield them, by hav-
ingthem addicted for treason instead of mur
der.
They permitted the despots of Spain,
without censure and punishment, to put to
death in cold blood, and withont tiial, more
than fifty unarmed American citizens, not
withstanding we had a treaty with Spain,
explicitly declaring,that no American citi
zen shall be put to death, without a fair
trial and conviction of some capital offenc.*.
and this was done in the range of the very
guns sent to protect tire cruel despots. And
as if this was trot humiliation enough, when
the friends of the murdered victims, at the
sight of their mangled cotpes landed at
New Orleans, became frantic with rage and
mobbed a Spanish official, our government,
on demand, made an apology.
They suffered an innocent and virtuous
American citizen, Mr. Thrasher to cry to
them in vain for protection, from the loath
some dungeons of Cuba, where he was
starving and rotting for many months, with
no offence laid to his charge, only that he
sympathised with, and mourned for his
countrymen. And when he was sentenced
to perpetual slavery in Africa, lire ship that
transported him across the sea, was suffered
to pass out beneath the very muzzles of the
American guns, that ought to have sent
her to the bottom and have rescued the cap
tive.
They suffered British understrappers, in
the teeth of express treatv stipulations, to
drive our citizens out of Nicaragua, and a
British man of war to fire into an American
vessel, to compel obedience and tribute to a
greesy savage, called a British Ally, and
have not this day, demanded the punish
ment. or temoval of the marauders from of
fice.
The terrible cry,“I am a Roman citizen,”
was a protecting shfelJ to the Roman, all
over ihe world, like the voice of an aveng,
ing Deity. St. Paul traversing a hostile
world, in himself and friends a poor and de
fenceless. a despised Jew by parentage,
often saved himself from violence and
death, and caused his furious foes to trem
ble, by quietly saying—“I am a Roman !”
What avail is it under a Whig adminis
tration other ihan mockery, to cry, "I am an
American citizen !”
Their Whig President Fillmore, as if
afraid iliat this new-born popularity at the
South, may injure him with his Abolition
j friends at the North, turns loose from pris-
: on Drayton and Sears, convicted of stealing
! seventy slaves, while nearly at the same
| moment, he writes his loving friends in
: Georgia, that he is anxious to make them a
j family visit, and intends to do so shortly !
While Southern men, in pursuit of their
property, are mobbed and murdered with
impunity, while a wailing cry for help, goes
up from ail the borders of Texas, while the
slumbers of the cradle, are startled bv the
to to the South, in the distribution of all that
rich plunder.
And as to ht9 enforcing that law, the
sight has yet to be seen; never in one in
stance has he enforced it, unless it be in that
discreet mode, with which “Peter the Tes
ty” made war on the Yankees, by sanguina
ry proclamation, so far from putting forth
any thing, more alarming than wind, in be
half of the slave owner, he has seen repea
ted failures, on the part of Federal officers,
to arrest or retain fugitives, he has seen re
peated rescues, mobs overpowering the
officers, when the law put at the command
of those officers, all the able bodied male
citizens of the Union, if necessery to the
enforcement of the law, and to summon
whom, in case of necessity, was their sworn
duty, and yet they diJ not do it, and were
rmt in a single instance removed, or even
reprimanded by this law-loving, South lov
ing, President Fillmore.
He saw ihe mob overpower the officers,
and lescue a fugitive, he saw them assassin
ate the owner, and dangerously wound the
aon of the owner, with intent to kill, and
when the whole South cried for vengance,
ho hushed that cry, and shielded the assas
sins, by having them indicted for Treason
instead of minder, of which, every tyro in
the law ought to know, they were not guilty.
Thereby protecting them, knowing the
constitution forbids putting in jeopardy of
life or limb, twice for the same offence.
Talk about Mr. Fillmore having enforced
the fugitive slave law !! Gullibility and
Humbug can no further go!
And as Mr. Fillmore intended to set the
world a laughing at Southern Gullibility,
he takes the occasion of their loudest Hu-
sanah to his praise, while their votes for
him were not yet dry, and while his silly
friends in Georgia are inviting him to come
over and sleep with them, to turn loose two
of the most famous negro stealers on record
to prey upon the Southern people, they
having been convicted of stealing seventy
slaves, and sentenced to the Penitentiary
for life.
Why then, it is asked, was not Mr. Fill-
mere preferred, by Northern Anti-Slavery
Whigs, to Scott ? The answer is obvious,
Mr. Seward, of the two, is much the ablest
man; they both live in New York, both can
never he President, one may, and Seward
is resolved to he that one, therefore Scott,
as good a freesoiler as Fillmore was selec
ted to clear the track for Seward. And
besides, Scott is stronger than Fillmore,
with Se ward's help, for while Seward brings
up all the fanatical forces, that could he
brought to Fillmore, in aid of Scott, the
fife and drum will rally, iu addition, “our
artny swearing terribly in Flanders;” and
thus, while the rowdy cavaliers charge us
in front, the ghostly round heads are to
lake us in flank.
This hunting for military chiefs for the
highest civil office, is a remarkable and pal
pable backward movement, towards dark
and barbarous ages, and is decidedly one
of the most discouraging and alarming signs
to the true patriot. Ailtheold monarchies
had their beginning, in thus selecting mili
tary men for civil rulers.
Wherein shall we differ from the French
people, and wherein shall we have to boast
over them, il we elect Gen. Scott? Does
not Louis Napoleon hold his office by the
suffrages of six millions of French voters?
Does not the at my govern France? The
Whig parly, that patty which boasts of its
conservatism, par excellence! the party,
falsely boasting of all the intelligence and
decency, will have, through after ages, lo
bear the disgrace of having first set the bad
precedent, of selecting men for Presidant,
solely because they were famous soldiers.
The skirts of Democracy are clear of this
great s»ii. Gen. Jackson was no military
man, more than any talented and brave
patriot, he had no military education, only
what he picked up, while fighting the ene
mies of his country, his head was already
white with the snows of nearly half a cen
tury, spent at (he bar, on the bench and in
Congress before he slept in a camp.
General Taylor was the first of the pre-
torian cohorts, who hid for the Empire,
and it was knocked off to him at the price
of Buena Vista.
With all his undoubted honesty of pur
pose and patriotism, his total ignorance of
the delicate machinery of our government,
and his military instincts, led him to the
verv brink of a sanguinary civil war. Al
ready were his bugles sounding the charge
of his myrmidoms, upon Texas, a sovereign
State of the confederacy, when the arm of
Jehovah, ever stretched out for our protec
tion. hushed the voice of those bugles in
death.
And yet. as if not satisfied with being
bulked by death, in making wat on a sov-
eteign State, to put her down by the sword,
the whigs in their very next selection, ask
freemen to set over them a man, who has
been schtYoled for forty years, in all the ty«*
ranny of the camp, a man who never con
jectured, that the idea of law could be sep-
erated from that of force. A man whose
ideas have all been trained to the belief that
fear is a much better motive power than
love.
This repeated selection of military men,
by the Whig party, to become the “Com
mander in-Chief of the Army and Navy of
the Union,” is most significant, and their
object is patent. They are the successors
of the old Federalists; they all believe in a
strong central government, a government
that can rule by force, not only individuals,
but States; they hold, the Slates and their
citizens owe their first allegiance to the
Federal Government, and that obedience
should be enforced by the sword, to all hei
mandates, be they right or wrong. Hence
they select men who agree with them, in
practice B9 well as theory. They want a
man at the head ot the “army and navy”
who is able ami willing to crush with the
'iron heel,’ whateverthey pleasetocall rebel-
ion whether of citizens or State. If they had
any faith in the virture of the people, they
would at once Bee, auch a government
could not be suffered lo endure twen’y
years, they would know, that the cry would
go up, over all the land,—“put up again
thy sword into its place, for all they that
take ihe sword shall 1 perish with the
sword.”
Aside from this great objection tn Gen
eral Scott, as a military man, he holds opin
ions on political affairs, which all parties in
the South have ever agreed in condem
ning, in theory, if not in practice. In Octo
ber 1S51, Gen. Scott writes :
“1 hope, by an early amendment of the
Constitution, to see a reduction of the Pres
ident's Veto. There can be no good rea
son, why the veto should not be overcome
by a bare majority of each bouse of Con
gress.”
In the same letter, be says :
“If I had the honor of a vote,/(on the
occasion of the late extra session of Con
gress,) it would have been given in favor of
the Land Distribution Bill, the Bankrupt
Bill, and the second bill for creating a fiscal
corporation, (that is a National Bank.”)
In February, 1843, Gen. Scott writes:
“In boyhood, at William and Mary Col
lege, I became deeply impressed with the
views given by Mr. Jefferson, in hia notes
on Virginia, and by Judge Tucker in his
edition of Blackstone, in favor of a gradual
emancipation of slavery. My early im
pressions are freso and enchanged.
En,” taken from tht GongrpaaioMl _De- *
bates, and which list Cfan. IHaree, declares
in his late letter, to DeLeon, »• correctly
given by the “Era.” The following are
hia votes against receiving Abolition peti
tions; February. 1S35, be voted with the
South against the reception of a petition
against slavery, while all the Northern
Whigs and several Democrats voted to re
ceive them. Again, in February, 1336, bJ *
did the same and made a speech on that,
occasion denouncing abolitionists. Again, ,
in February, 1S37; and said on that oc- I
casion.that the house ought to Teject them
without referiing them at all. Again, (in
December, be gave the same vote on tbred
several occasions. After the house bad
adopted the rule to reject them, there were
many efforts made and votes taken to re
peal the rule, Gen. Pierce voting against
! the repeal of the rule in every instance.—
[ When in February, 1S37, John Quincy
Adams stated that he had a petition from
some slaves, ptaying for the abolition of
| slavery in the District of Columbia, Gen.
! Pierce voted for resolutions strongly con
demning the course of Mr. Adams. After
Mr. Pierce went into the Senate, tbe “Era”
says:
In the year 1837, he became a member
of the United States Senate. Following
him thither, we shall find that he continued
In the same letter, he says, Congress has . to pursue the same line of policy in relation
- * * L - o-—— l... i ' to t |, e 9 ) aver y question. He took his stand
by the aide of Mr. Calhoun,and stood by
no power over slavery in the Stales, but has
in the District of Columbia, and may set
them free, with consent of tbe owners, or
by paying a compensation
Again, in the same letter, he says:
“I have from the first been of the opin
ion, that Congress was bound by the Con
stitution, to receive, refer and report upon
petitions relating to domestic slavery.”
Again, he writes: “I am persuaded (hat it
is a high moral obligation of master and
States, to employ all means, not incompat- I.
ible with the safety of both colors, to me- j‘
iiorate slavery, even to extermination.” |.
In June, 1S49, he writes: j)
“Though opposed to incorporating with
us, any district densly people with the Mex
ican race, I should be most happy to fra
ternize, with our Northern and Northeas
tern neighbors.”
Here are no leas than six articles of po
litical faith avowed by Gen. Scott, of vital
him in hia efforts to suppress anti-slavery
agitation and discussion.
December 27, 1837, Mr. Calhoun brought
forward his celebrated resolutions on the
subject of slavery in the District. Territo
ries, and States, designed avowedly to sup
press the discussion of all questions of sla
very.
Several amendments were moved to the
fir8tfour of these resolutions, intended to
modify their phraseology so as to remove
any implication against free discussion, but
they were firmly resisted by Mr. Calhoun
and his friends, and in every case defeated
—Franklin Pierce uniformly voting with
him.
When the fifth resolution came up, as
serting substantially that efforts by the peo
ple of the Slates or the States themselves to
* procure the abolition of slavery in the Dis
trict or Territories, were "direct and dan-
importance to Southern men, and about
which, heretofore, there has been no divis- ! gerous attacks on the institutious of the
ion of parties in the South. jj slaveholding States,” though ali the States
1. He would virtually abolish the veto, are made responsible by the Constitution
for if a bare majority may over ride it, the and Congress for slavery in the District and
same majority that passed a law, will over : Territories, Mr. Pierce took occasion to
be ready to affirm it, in spite of the veto.! define his position. This resolution, he
Then where will be the safety of the South, ! said, was the ground on which this contest
now forever hereafter in the minority? j was to be determined, "with perhaps, some
2. He would have a National Bank, to modification, would present the true issue
strengthen the few against the many, and here and to the country—an issue which
then he would have a Brankrupt Law, to would raise, not a mere question ot expe-
lift up that few, when they fall, and enable j, dieocy, but one of much higher character,
them to repudiate their just debts to the ' in which the public faith, is directly invol-
many. ved.” He then proceeded to sustain the
3. His Abolition sentiments of his boy- j resolution in its length and breadth, and to
hood, are fresh and unchanged in old age, vindicate the whole series as offered by Mr.
and therefore he holds it a high moral ob
ligation of masters and slates to get rid of
slavery.
4. He holds Congress may, by paying the
owners, set the slaves free in the district of
Columbia, and of course in all the territo-
Calhoun against the assaults made upon
them.
But, while Mr. Pierce was anxious to
put through all these resolutions, Mr. Clay
and other Slaveholding Senators thought
the fifth and sixth too sweeping and un-
ries, and that too in the teeth of the plain ; guarded; and he moved a aubstiiute, direc-
injunction of the Constitution, and the eter
nal principles of common justice and com
mon law that private property shall not be
taken, but for public use, and I hen on just
compensation.
5. He holds that Congress is bound to
receive, refer and report upon abolition pa
led only against interference by the citizens
of one State with the institutions of another,
containing no declaration that attempts to
bring abont the abolition of slavery here
"were a direct and dangerous attach upon
the institutions of all the Slaveholding
States,” but recognising, in express terms.
titions. wherein the Southern people are the duty of Congress to receive and re
denounced, as monsters, thieves and rob
bers;—a benighted and heaven abandoned
race.
6. He would annex British provinces
on the North, but cannot stand Spanish ter
ritory on the South; he is aware that the
first would increase whig and anti-alavery
votes, the latter would not.
I need not ask Democrats to vote against
one who avows these six cardinal, deadly
heresies. But may I not conjure all South
ern men, who love their peaceful homes,
and have hitherto sal under their own vine
and fig tree, with none to make them afraid,
not to invite destruction, by voting for one
who holds opinions that sanction their
ruin.
We are aware that smarting under griev-
ious wrongs, perpetrated by a majority in
Congress, many of our State Rights friends
feel a repugnance against taking any part
in tbe election of President. To all such,
we appeal and ask, who are they from
whom you have received such wrongs ?
spectfully treat all petitions, in decorous
language, against slavery in the District.
This substitute was adopted, with some
slight modification—19 to 13—Mr. Buch
anan and Mr. Clay voting yea Mr. Calhoun
and Mr. Pierce nay.
Subsequently, the substitute was divided,
and its various part9 amended and adopted
successively—Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Pierce
generally voting together.
During his two terms in the House, and
until he resigned his seat in the Senate; he
was always true to the Slave power, and
gave no vote which subjected him to its
displeasure or suspicion.
It may be said that others in those days
voted as he did, who since then have shown
their devotion to Freedom. True, but he
kas continued unchanged.
Such is the testimony of the leading ab
olition paper, and which Gen. Pierce has
pronounced true in his letter just referred
to.
No candid, intelligent and honest man
Who treated you as underlings, and drove ran doubt or deny, that Gen. Pierce is as
you out of California? and partitioned Tex
as like Poland ? Who stole your slaves
and mobbed and murdered your fellow
citizens when in pursuit of them? Were
they not Whigs by vast odds? Who was
that devoted band, small though they were,
that stood up bravely and plead for you ?
Who breasted, unto political death, the
Northern hordes, (most unnaturally backed
by Southern whigs) and perished in your
defence? Were they not Democrats? Now
that they have rallied again for another |
struggle, and cry to us to come up to the
fight and help overthrow the mutual foe?
Shall we not heed that cry? Shall we like j end.
sound upon the slavery question as any
man in the whole Union, and for that cause,
his foes atthe North 9eekand expect to de
feat him, and if he is defeated that will be
the sole cause.
And now I tell the Southern people, that
having despaired of electing a Southern
President faithful to the South, and having
tried to elect a Northern man who has pro
ved himself faithful, and we should be des
feated, they may make up their minds once
for all, never to expect justice from an uns
just and tyranical majority. They may set
down m despair and await the approaching
cowards, and ingrates desert our friends
while they shout to us—
"Once more, onto the breach, dear friends, once
more!”
and leave them to perish in the breach? Can :
we hope to quiet our consciences, with the j
miserable excuse that our foes have wrong-
As to the charge of cowardice and
drunkenness, made against Gen Pierce, by
such thieves as Foss, every intelligent roan
in America knows it to be false, and none
but the basest of cowards and lowest of
liars, ever repeat it as true. Such men as
took good care to stay at home, aud called
ed us? Who that would act thus, can ex-» upon the Mexicans, to “receive Gen. Pierce
pect, nay, who will deserve to have any ,
friends?
Who, and what manner of man ia he, ;
that the Democracy have presented as their
candidate for your suffrages? Does ancient
or modern story present you a purer model?
I am not his eulogist, he needs no praise
from living lips. History has already se
cured his fame. as a statesman and patriot,
beyond the reach and blot of lying slanders;
there it is, on the page of American Histo
ry, and there it will remain secure forever,
whether you make him President or not.
Read it; and teach your sons to read, and
remember the lesson it will teach; let them
aee; and seeing, know that you approve—
how strict virtue, great dilegence and scru
pulous honesty of purpose, from early
youth, have formed an eminent and honest
statesman.
Need I assure you, that Gen. Pierce has
ever been faithful to the Constitution, and
of course faithful to the South? We have
the undivided testimony for years, of all
his whig and abolition adversaries at the
North, that he has been as southern in prin
ciple as South Carolina, and that he has
made southern New Hampshire a northern
South Carolina. That be ever voted with
Calhoun. And they parade the Congres
sional diary to prove it on him, and are
seeking to defeat him on this charge
chiefly.
As an evidence, that Gen. Pierce always
voted with the southern members while in
Congress upon the subject of slavery. 1 will
give a brief list of his votes, as published
in tbe abolition organ, called tbe "Natiouai-
and his men wite bloody hands and hospit
able graves.”
What have we to hope in the defeat of
Gen. Pierce save only consolidation of the
Central Government, and extinction of
State Rights—vast increase of the abolition
forces, ending in the extinction of slavery,
and total ruin ot the Southern people. It
is certainly alarming, that there should be
so large a number, of a roost worthy and re
spectable citizens in the Snuih, who deem
it their duty to vote fora soldier for Presi
dent, who avows that a "high moral obli
gation rests upon slaveholders and States,
to exterminate »lavery, as soon as the safety
of both colors will permit!” And another
large number just as respectable voting for
one, who is daily and publicly boasting of
his warfare upon slavery during a long pub
lic life and his consistent passed and prom
ised future opposition to any increase of
slave territory—thereby boasting that he
has ever been and ever will be a freesoiler.
And this too in a land professing to believe
in the Divine inspiration of the Bible, sanc
tioning—nay, ordering slavery aa plainly
and explicitly, as it commands obedience
of children to parents, and wives to hus
bands. In a land of schools and light and
knowledge, where the history of all agea
may be read, teaching that tbe negro race
are no more capable of rational freedom,
than moneys.
“This ‘moral obligation’ of oniveraal free
dom, or rather anarchy, is the very text
from which, Garrison and hip mad crew
preach.
Alter putting tbe blacks above tbe whites.