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Suppose,
giA wi’ihed ‘ojratilYi'-ew York. How, I
would aslr; ctiiml Georgia, Consistently with
the constitution, aro without jqe most high
handed tyranny, have gone nbWt It? Men,un
der tins government may think.spenkaml write
any opinion they please, and also as.ociate
to propagate their opinions, however unrea
sonable or offensive they may bo, if they do
not act to injure others. Of course, I do not
mean individuals, between whom the laws of
slander prevail, nor mobs whose impartial
behests arc above all laws and constitutions.
The English people, and even the govern
ment, might by speech and writing, have as
serted the right to tax without repre-enta-
tion, but if they had ueerr tax d us, there
would have been no war, on that account.—
They might bare claimed the right, by pen
and type, to press our so.onea, but it they
bad uni asserted it Ay the tword, there would
lia^e been no war on that account. If the
opinions and words ol (he norihern abolition
ista are so grievous that we must resort to
the ultima ratio with our Sister Stales, w hy-
do we tolerate the same, and even worse in
England, and the rest of ti e world / Kag-
land not only believes slavery wrong, but acts
ou the belief. She liberates the slaves and
puts them on an equality w ith ibe whiles
socially and politically. Kngland, with whom
some of the abhorrers—shall I say protend
ed abhorrers—of abolition, wish to ally, is
I.OW trying to put the political power of Ja
maica in the bunds ol the blacks. A bite
letter writer, from that island,says the “blacks
are rapidly increasing in the colonial parlia
ment, mid that “probably four-fifths of all
the public office* on the island are tilled by
colored people.*' Who believes in the sin
cerity of abhoirers to abolition who will not
stay in the same Union with men because
they believe, talk and write against slavery,
but are willing to become allies of a people,
who have acted in so odious a manner ! Why
this kindlier feeling for nn old enemy, and
want of loyalty to our own government /—
English abolition is tea times more offensive
than 'orthern. The former also, is aboli
tion 67 the yocermnent—the latter is that of
individuals w imm government cannot control.
JJut it is said the North will not allow us
an equal participation in the property ol the
territory acquired from Mexico. So far as
properly in the territory is concerned, wheth
er it be free or slave soil, it will be sold and
go into the treasury for the common tvcal.—
It isanswered Southerners are not permitted
to go there with their property.. And who,
1 ask, prevents ? Does the United States?
If ao, how ? Does the North ? If so, how ?
The people of California have said slavery
shall not be tolerated there, which I appre
hend they will maintain against all comers.
And if you dissolve th* Union, to secure
your rights of property ia it, you will not
only lose alt vour interest in the public lends;
but will not be permitted to go to the coun
try and work the mines, without paying twen-
ty-tivo dollars a month, liko a Mexican, or
any other foreigner, 'l is a principle ef our
government, commencing with the declara
tion of independence that California has such
right. The South has acknowledged it ns a
leading principle of democracy till now. Do
the laws ot Mexico prohibit us from going
theie ? If so, neither the North nor the Uni
ted States bad any agency in making such
law s. Hut it suits the purpose of those who
wish to bring their own governmout into dis
repute, to charge it with that for which it is
not responsible. It suits the disuuionist to
make capital against his own government, to
say we have lost every thing, when wo have
gained every thing. When this controversy
liegnn, the North asked for tho Wilinut pro
viso. The South asked for non-intervention.
The South has gained non-intervention, but
it has not brought, and is not likely to bring,
the fruits it was expected. The South did
not ask that it should bring any fruit, but that
the principle should ho lett to bear its own
fruits. And now that the fruit is bitter to our
taste, these champions of Southern rights
blame others, though they planted tho tree.
Shame! shame! tli.it men should have 110
more regard ‘or truth and consistency. The
North has uot only lost the application of
the Wilmot Proviso south, but north of 3ti
30 in the territory of Utah. And bow is it
that men, who were content with the appli
cation of the proviso when applied to Oregon,
so that it wqs not applied south of 36 30,are
now witling In dissolve our Union, though it
has been abandoned on 60/A sides of that line?
It is suid, however, that the Union docs not
protect us, because the Northern rogues steal
our negroes, and some of the States obstruct
their recovery, by giving trial by jury and
prohibiting their own officers from aiding in
their recaptuic. Mr. Clay's compromise
sought to remedy this, hut the ultras would
have none of it. And they further object
that because the Northern States -vitt not,
or ennnot, control the mobs, that we should
dissolve ell connection with them. There is
inure force in this argument than in any which
has been used. Dot the argument though
s|>eciou», and if applied to strong and arbi
trary governments, might he tenable, cannot
hold where mob violence, so often oveirides
the restraints of law, as in some, I fear I may
say, ia nil of our states. More especially
should the disunionists who seem so willing
|to resort to mob law,not complain of itspow-
r and authority. If the Union must lie dis
‘ved, because e citizen of one State is de
1 of his rights another,by mob law,
two States would remain united for
ylf New York and other 8te*.es,
,a ftw years since, were pro*
' shapes,
tire neck ’at onelkilling ? And when tbo
father of one of tte victims applied to tne
laws for redress far the blood of Jus son,
mob law, or some other lew, dented him ro*
dress. Out upon such hypocritical preten*
cut! How happens it that Georgi* fad
South Carolina are the foremost champion*
of all the world, for avenging thi* evi.. 1 noy
lose 100 Slava*) ftolen by the rogues ol slave
states, to one taken by abolition rogues.
Maryland, Virginia, Kontucky, Tennessee
1 Missouri, the border, and suffering
IT mi run wWadiaiill n tin Union on
this account. *fThesf,' why, volunteer to re
dress lluic wrongs ? \Vrltn the burthen is
too grievious to he borne they will speak for
themselves. They are the principal suffer
ers, hut know they would sutler more if the
Union were dissolved. It would, at least,
bo modest to know if this knight-errantry on
their behalf is acceptable. If you dissolved
connection with the mob only, there would
lie som seme in the move; hut why dis
solve with a whole state for the violence of
a few ? 1 have suid tho Union was a securi
ty to Southern rights, because its pre
servation wns a motive with the North to
w ithhold such aggression as might cause its
dissolution. We I ear it constantly a sorted
by all parties, at the South, that the North
can nnpwell do without the South. This
is true, and however important the Union is
to the South, it is more so to the North.
And the South, mid southern slavery, is
becoming more anil more important to the
North und the world every day that it lasts ;
and the cotton cold that hinds us to the com
mercial wot Id, is of more security than alt the
swords wo can ever draw. Then, why cut
asunder this secure ligament that ties the
stave to us and the soil ? No man, in his
.enscs, doubts that wo should he at war
from the moment we should seperate; and
then, instead of its being to ‘.lie interest of
the United Slates that we sir uld prosper,
it would be their interest and desire to des
troy us. Then can I hold him anything hut
au enemy to the South who, without cause
or reason, will demolish two of the best
securities she has fur her rights and proper
ty ? It is not love of the South, it cannot
be, that promps such lolly and wickedness.
It is hatted to the Northern people, in the
first place, and to the government of the
United Stutes, in the sec--.id; und ir.uny
men who ar» boiling over with honest
indignation at the supposed and rest wrongs
of the South, if they wilt analyze the'r feel
ings, will find 1 have stated the true source
of this southern patriotism. That Southern
their
Georgia, had
further (to
(he United Slates,'* The Norflt have
all the white, $%t under this provision
the constitution, Congress had tho right to
abolish slavery in the district of Columbia.
- tbo* it Mends, end hs. stood
anon tom half a century, muter tho «
unfavorable circumstances, cn imposing evi
dence of tho protection ot the Union
slave property. After this experienee
the security, not to say, impregnability of
slavery in the Union, its greatert enemy is
bo wntf^would wantonly, without reason,,
and merely to gratify his feeling of resent
ment however justifiable, abandon this long
tried protection.
But, says rampanhriuYalrv. shall we al
ways submit to QggrcWion, outrage and ine
quality ? No 1 when an net of aggression
shall he committed that shall infringe out
rights, I would recommend an appropriate
resistance. I consider a dissolution no rem
edy for, or resistance to, anythin; ■ If the
Wilmot proviso were to be passed, I would
advise a colonization of the country, by
torce of arms, as a better remedy than a dis
solution of the Union. I would throw the
burthen ami crime of dissolution on our ene
mies,whose interest in the preserva ion nf
the Union, 1 have no doubt, would prove an
incentive strong enough to prevent them tak
ing the final step.
Honest and patriotic Southern men feel,
that they should do something to avert the
threatened evils of abolition, and think they
would be doing that something by manifest
ing their abhorrence of the insolence of fanat
icism. And they know of no manifestation
stronger than dissolving the Union. Yes,
something would he done. But would that
something arrest the apprehended evil? I
think I have shown it would nut. Then
rage and dispair will ask, must nothing he
done? Can nothing be done ? If we will
consult prudence instead of passion; if we
will seek security and protection of our
rights, instead uf the gratification of our ha
tred and lesentment ; if instead of precipitat
ing a crisis that tnay never urrive. we would
prepare for it should it come ; if, instead of
looking up a fight that may never occur, for
fear it may miss it, and it may-full to the lot
of posterity, we would prepare posterity for
the battle, if it should come, then something
might bo done, and effectually done. It it
many f eare( j (hat the abolition societies, press, and
pulpit, shall at some future day, prepare the
public mind, in the United States, for the
abolitioa of slavery in the States, without
our consent, let uf prepare for that appeal
to arms which must decide the matter, when
men should feel indignant and outraged, in , 8U( .j, a crisis arrives, in or out of the Union,
their feelings, at this constant railing of limit- ik„i .h s ii i,»
of them. I hope (till alive and'faithful to
their principles end their country to dolt
again. I never hetr the enitbete' ‘ tubmis-
sionlst’and ‘toiy’bot I tee the sign of the old
nullificrs and disunionists. For tljpse who
were Union meo then, there ia m excuse
for desertion of the cause now. The Union
man then, for the sake of tho Union, submit
ted to tho tariffwhich he believed to be op-
pressive, and imposed by a majority in Con
gress against bis consent. We ero not ask
ed now to submit to anything imposed upon
as by Congrcwi. We are required to abide
by nothing but what the South has asked for,
and always maintained was right. The
Mexican war w«» • Southern measure.—
, The South contended that the Mexican Ter
ritory should be ceded us without interven-
I tied on the subject of slavery, and afterwards
that the people of the country should form
their own governments without intervention
by congress. This we maintained and ob
tained. And if we cannot please ourselves,
let us complain of ourselves, not of others.
Because I have forborne to speak of the
glory and power of the Union; of its past re
nown, present prosperity, and future hopes,
you w|l not suppose that 1 do not appreci
ate it «s a citizen of the U. S, who is, and
should be proud of the flagof the ‘Grand Re
public,’ I would not give the common glory
aud renown of that flag ** BimWer’* Hill,
Yorktown Lundy's Lane, New Orleans,
Buena Vista, and on the road from the cas-
tleof San Juan ’Ulloa to the grand plaza of
Mexico, for all the gold of California, and
‘Southern chivalry’ too. But it is not for
all these I prize the Union most. It is for
the security it has afforded tne ns a Southern
slaveholder. It has proved its faith and
strength for seventy yeto-s, and if the great
mass of thinking men in this country will, as
they can, control fanaticism and disunion, I
will trust it for seventy times seventy.
Some twenty years ago during, the nulli
fication assault on the Union, we were told
it was a curse ; that we were slaves in it,
and we could never prosper until it should
ho dissolved. At no period of our history
has the South with the rest of the country,
prospered more than during the last twenty
years. Our arms have triumphed over our
enemies, our commerce has extended over
11 the seas, and our Union has been bound
together by sinews of iron, and made sensi
tive with a net work of wire nerves which
makes the whole literally one body ; and the
limb that shall be severed therefrom will
surely wither and die.
Respectfully, yours, &c.
Gau.NF.TT Andrews.
ticisiu, is to he oxpected. 'I hut we arc to
be goaded almost to madness, by their folly
and wickedness, 1 feel every day of my life;
and hence the desire of some to dssolve the
Union, through resentment, by way of pun
ishing such insolence and wickedness.—
Just at this lime the South has her indigna
tion greatly whetted by the loss of Califor
nia, und 1 apprehend New Mexico too ('if the
choice by the people of those countries of
governments contrary to our wishes is to he
catted a loss) and we feel somewhat like a
man who has lost his election, and is dispos
ed toblauie everything but hisonn populari
ty-
1 wish not to he understood as sanctioning
Gen. Taylor's policy in regard to Colifornia
and New Mexico, ljns too late now
to remedy his errors. You and I expected
no better of him, but i.g was forced on us hy
men wlm were too Southern to touch a
Northern mun, although our friend, lint 1
now protest that some 4f such men shall
hazard mine und your fights and security,
to be revenged against their own folly, it
is not for the sake of Southern rights or
Southern security, but it is for the sake of
resenting it, even nt the hazard of Southern
rights and security, that the disunionists
would gratify their passions. The first error
in taking this sort of revenge is, that you
accommodate the abolitionists, who jjesirc a
dissolution of the Union for tho reason above
stated; and the second that you risk aud
sacrifice too much to your indignation.
That man is no friend to the South, vvho,
however justifiable his indignation and imty-
ever much he may thirst for his revenge^
will sacrifice to his passions such formida
ble outworks to her security—formidable for
the reasons above given, and formidable
from expet ience, Shall we uot have
faith in them, when they have with
stood abolition assaults for three quarters of
a century without a breach ? That portion
of the preamble of the indignation meeting
above quoted says ‘ these aggressions have
existed from 1737 down to this time.” His
tory tells us they began with the govern
ment, for, if 1 recollect correctly, the Qua
kers presented petitions for the abolition of
slavery to the convention that formed the
soostilutiun.
But, say the disunionists, abolitionism is
progressing, and will lav at some future day
Its unholy hands on die institution in the
States.—My first answer is, if at the end of
another 73 years, should this crisis arrive,
why will not our posterity be as able to de
fend thoir rights by arms as we ? Then why
hazard a civil war by anticipating a crisis
that may never arrive ? It would he ns
unreasonable if, apprehending that social
doctrines would overspread the country and
demolish all rights of property, wo were to
Volunteer to fight for posterity n battle that
tnay never he needed. My next answer is,
are you quite sure that our fears and appre
hensions may aol have progressed quite us
much as abolition doctrines'? It is the recol
lection, I presume, of half the voters in Geor
gia, that it was a common sentiment, ex
pressed not many years since, in our S'ote,
that slavery waa a moral and political evil;
that the school books contained speeches
against slavery, that were spoken in the
schools, and that many ofthe most popular
preachers, on account of conscientious scru
ples, would not hold sieves, and yet they
were not thought enemies of the South, nei
ther did sny feel that because of such opin
When that appeal shall be made, money
ami disciplined men will be needed. Then
let us he preparing the one and accumulat
ing the other. This would not only be pre
paring the proper remedies, but would test
some of the windy patriotism of the hour.
I apprehend, most of it will be exhausted bv
the preambles and resolutions of ratification
meetings. To carry on the civil wars that
must ensue from disunion, would require
millions of money, and tens of thousands of
lives. An increase of our taxation, hut at
the ratio of fifty per cent, and a rigid militia
system, by way of preparation, would, I fear,
demonstrate that much of this pretended de
votion for Southern rights, is but resolution
deep. Now let them propose, like reasona
ble men, a reasonable remedy for the appre
hended evil, and 1 have no doubt a large ma
jority of this patriotism will he proved hut
empty breath. Measures for Southern ruin
are proposed and called “Southern rights,”
and Union men are rebuked lor not uniting
upon them. Once we were called upon to
unite ngainst the Wilmot proviso, and all in
tervention by Congress on the subject of sla
very. We did so, ar.d succeeded, even for
more than we asked. Now, we are asked to
belie our former principles, and unite on an
impracticable and destructive platform, which
would be abandoned if success wero possible,
at the moment of success, for some other still
more impracticable and ruinous. A histo
rian says when Louis XVI, was (nought to
tho guillotine, that out of the two hundred
thousand spectators at the scaffold, perhaps
there was not one who did not, in his heart,
secretly believe, and wish thnt the King
whould be pardoned, and yet, there wns not
nr!hat vast inultitqde ona.who would make
the honest dfecfaration publicly. • To have
shown mercy for a monarch, would have
given a pretext for enemies to aay it was a
sentiment in favor of monarchy. This feel
ing prevailed in France, at that time until
men dared not show Dicrey, refinement,
learning, and above all, goodness, lest they
should gire pretexts for tho accusation of
being aristocrats. And thus political capi
tal was made of everything that wns good
and great until the days of terror seized on
the land, and Ilcsven made the nation pun
ish the nation. Men were sick and disgust
ed with cruelty and injustice long before
they had the courage to rebuke them. They
would not resist the temptation to make
political capital out of the errors of the na
tion, till they with the nation, were involved
in one common ruin. The hatred of mon
archy ar.d aristocracy was right, but that
feeling was afterwards made the pretext for
crowding into a small space more cruelty
and wrong than monarchy had done the na
tion ^br ages. Krror, when it will not he
corrected by reason, will come to a crisis
which will bring its own appropriate punish
ment.
And if men and pai ties, for the sake of
making capital out of this strong and just
feeling of hatred lo abolition, will take and
urge ruinous measures, successfully, while
those who see and feel this tendency will re
main silent, for fear they may he charged
falsely, and knowingly, with want of suffi
cient regard for'Southern rights,’ things will
soon be brought to a crisis and the days of
terror will come on this country, and that
right speedily, which will involve, in one com
mon ruin, those who, Imve sinned by omiisiou,
as well os by commission.
The physical and political power of thq
country ia against na. The lattei, with ‘
ions the institution was in dan.er. No Pres- aid of northern friend*, whom we once had,
idonts ever saga more popular in tbs South we might have natalned. But, for tbe sakc
than WashWioa aod /efferson, both of of mtkiqC political capital we eoented
| enough onhem to pat M, )f the mercy of a
northern majority. And now by taking _ the
most
seem:
ns the t
idents ever
than Wi
whom utti
would bow he j. .» - . ^ .
by snmoasjtmiinggilirdianj of Southern
The’ 70 yean hav*'pawned not only
r effort to abolish slavery *" **“
.wh; mut any party in the
do’so, i* not tl
Horded by the
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Will be continued to the old patrons of the “ Eagli
unless otherwise directed. We shall labor to make it
worthy of their favor. We trust our friends will exert
themselves to increase the circulation of the “Courier,* 1
farticulariy in Cherokee, Georgia. We have the
promise of several able contributors t* its columns, and
intend to make it an efficient champion of “ Union
and Southern Rights.”
The Coosa Association of the Baptist Church com-
rttneed its session in this City on Saturday last. A
Urge number of delegates and visiting brethren wero
present, and the religious exercises on the occasion
were of on interesting character, and will, wc trust be
productive of much good.
Accident.—Mr. W. Ciiiock, ol this city, win
thrown fom his buggy on Monday evening la^t,
and seriously injured. His wounds, though vevere,
ve trust will not prove fatal*'
(fc>-By a notice in the Augusta papers, wo perceive
that we are likely to lose, for a season at least, oures*
teemed fellow citizen, Dr. H. V. M. Miller. We
regret this, however, the less, i consideration of the*
fact, that his services will not be lost to the State, but
will fill t post where he can increase his own alrea
dy well established reputation ssan able physician, and
odd to the character of the Institution to which he is
called.
Tlte AUunla Republican.
We have received the first number of a new pu-
ptr bearing the above title, published at Atlanta.
The Republican is neat In appearance, and spirited
in its advocacy of tho Union. We hope It may re
ceive that patronage its devotion to the best inter
ests of tho country entitle it. It is published by
U iley lleneau, aud edited by J» Reneatt, Esq.,late
editor of the A'ng/r f Bulletin.
Should eny of our readers wish *fo adorn thei
persons with choice Jetrefry, they would do well to
call on Messrs. Ross Sc McKinzie, near the De|»ot.
See advertisement in another column.
Upon n close examination of the advertisetnent
of the “ New York Store.” to be found in our pa
per to-day, we hove no doubt the reader will learn
the wherenbouts of many just such articles is he
stands in need of. Ladies need’nt keep their ey»*s
off, as there arc many articles, “rich and rare,”
Mentioned, that will “tickle their fancies” ami suit
their tastes.
Broke Jail.—Crawford, who was confined in
jail in this place, for murder, made bis escape on
Sunday night !a*»
It mny be interesting to our readers to know
Itmt Illicit lias taken another pinch of snuff. Will
hisjtdmirets in Georgia sneeze t Wo pause for-—
an ixpolsirm.
l Tito meeting
KOf Iks frinda ofth* ConBtaflooal Union
tek Rights on Ttonday Wit. waa bigs »to isMaln
ST It waa mainly sompassil of tlia boat sBlxBtosf
the com try-men daeplf and persooally intrmted in
il.rmh sto .fai psitl "— ssi jjsjtoyto goes
old Georgia, la
' Tto
Ml
Thoaglt the
Tbo Canvass.
Unfortunately for the peace and harmony of the
State, the Iasi Legislature of Georgia, thought proper
to make the occurrence of a certain event, the signal for
the aaaembUng of* Convention of the people* It hi
true come think the act aoftliilug CaUforfUtaa* State
into the Union, did not under tho taw of the last Legis
lature, make it absolutely obligatory upon the Execu
tive to call this Convention. We shall not, however,
iitop at present to express an opinion upon this point;
the edict haa gone forth, and as good citizens we feel
bound promptly to obey, if we cannot fully concur with
the powers that be. There la now left to the people
no alternative but to select delegates to t.'tis august
council, and from the very natuie of the issue made up,
we may expect a most interesting and exciting canvass.
We need not tell our readers that upon the result of the
pending struggle is possibly susiH-nded the very exis
tence of our free institutions with all their teeming nnd
untold benefits—that it involves ill its brief endurance,
interests of priceless value to every patriot heart.
These considerations in connexion with others which
may hereafter be presented, should induce all, and es
pecially the young and ardent, to cultivate a spirit of
honest enquiry; to divesi their minds of prejudice and
prepossession; of opinions hastily espoused, and suspi
ciously entertained, and earnestly seek for the truth.
But most earnestly would we urge upon all,the impor
tance of cherishing a spirit of moderation during the
pending canvass. In the excitement of debate, in the
enthusiasm of the hour, let us never forget that we are
neighbors nnd friqnds, fellow citizens of the good old
Empire State of the South.
For ourselves, we have no harsh epithets, no bitter
invective, no gall and wormwood fur our political op
ponents. These appliances may gratify a depraved and
grovelling taste, and suit a desperate iu«n with a still
more desperate cause, but we shall neither seek their
aid nor desire their comfort. All wc ask is, that the
people may have the issue fuirly presented to their
ininds, that they may net understandingly at the ap
proaching election. We will ^not' knowingly deceive
them ourselves—we will not, if possible, suffer them to
be deceived by other*.
Our Candidates.
Wc look upon the selection of Mr. Ware and Col.
Waters, all things considered, as most fortunate for
our cause in this county. They are old and valuable
citizens, whose loyally to the Slate and devotion to the
rights and honor of tho South, ia above suspicion.—
Large and successful planters, personally and permaq
ently identified with our social syatyfriNp^fTsafely
intrust the character and interests of the country to
their keeping. Hud the last Legislature been made
up of such material, the peoule of Georgia would not
have been afflicted by a wild and reckless system of
legislation, and faxed to sustain a Convention, called
to resist the exercise of a constitutional prerogative by
Congre f j. Such men know the value of the Union—
the blr agings of free institutions Under their protect
ing md fosteiing care, they have long lived and pros
pered, and they are unwilling upon trivial grounds to
surrender them to the fury of northern nnd southern
disunionists. Let us, citizens of Floyd, rally to their
support. lathe battle now pending in Georgia, let
Floyd, when the struggle is over, be proclaimed the
Banner County of the South.
"n the Mai© Commit fed ?
A great dT,>rt i* made to convince the people of
Georgia that they arc in honor bound to assume a hos
tile attitude to the General Government, because the
last Legislature threatened that they would do so. Is
this the ease 1 In other words, ifthe Legislature, form
ing a just cstimnte of its own dignity, chooses to play
the part of Ha nsy Sniffle, must the people of Georgia
nnd the United States, take the rcle of Bill Staliiiis
and Boh Durham 1
A few words will settle this question. Is the Legis
lature the servant or the master ofthe people 1 If the
former, it can do nothing for which it has not express,
written authority. There is nothing in the constitu
tion of the Htnte which gives to the Legislature tho
power to pledge her to hostility to the General Govern
ment; they, therefore, acted without authority, and the
people owe it to themselves lo repudiate the action.
Suppose a faithless overseer who has been employ
ed to manage a plantation, abandons his duties, and
contracts, without authority, largo obligations upon the
promise that his employer would comply with them
does any thing in honor, in conscience or in law.com*
pci the latter to their fulfilment 1 His duty to society
would bind him at once to expose the knave, repudiate
his contracts, and pursue him with the utmost rigor of
the penal law.
Florida Election.-—The election in this State for
members to the Legislature and Representative to
^Congress cams off on the 1st Monday in October, i
The Union party have undoubtedly triumphed by a
handsome majority. Mr. Beard came out f r disunion,
and his opponent Mr. Cabell, the present able repre
sentative from that State it is thought is elected by an
increased majority.
Ileiisiitiiru
At the meeting cn Thursday last, Mr Alexander,
very properly temorked that secession was not resis
tance but running. This is just what the freesoilera
want us to do. For one, we are nut disposed to gratify
them. We will stand up and boldly battle for our
constitutional rights to the lost.
“ At all of the late State and county Conventions of
the Whig party in the Northern and Eastern States,
the alavcry question has been the chief subject of com*
ment, and they have universallv condemned the action
of Congress in the passage of the Texas Boundary and
Fugitive Slave Bills, while the same body hos been
very st'ongiy censured for not incorporating the slave
ry prohibition in the New Mexico and Utah bill.”
So say* the New York Herald, a neutral paper.—
Alas, for the Union when extremes meet for its over
throw T Let conservative spirits North and South, un
der the banner of the constitution, boldly march to its
Mr. Colquitt's notion of resistance though rather la
dictous, is entirely sensible. He would march up to the
line of36.10, with his coffin on his back,and if ne
cessary, take pueaea^en of all South of that line. Thia
is bold and manly, and can ba understood. If in the
admission of California into the Union, the constitu
tion has been violated, our disunion friends with their
•laws, should march into that State and at the point of
thtbay«rot,m*inttto«k*^^fo*^ There arc adfru*.
cd to bo in thi* State •«** twenty thousand disunion-
IftocaptU* of bearing anas, odd lho« tothowhojo
Ckrotoro,*** yoowould boro*
vtsy romtnnio anoy, and If the coffin ide
tfed oot, the spectacle would be naoot oold
padogo Mho it, even Yonkee cupidity
from its golden harmta and leave the enemy to
aero tho land. We aay again, in all candor, the Ji
fe ibMjaty effective one for nsimnet.
Bold, one of the delegates j
t from Alabama,
ding tl
rtfellMeri
rMhriogs
OOP-South Carolqta as the
waxes warmer and warmer, si
we foar, for all her Southern
longer. Like the pugcUstJu
■he is in imayi jNHMRy
rvglmenta'of fre ccottem, and tmleea
era on the alert the straggle will be
rive at the ecene of carnage.
The Charlestoi^tg^ppsf the llth
letter from Mrflil^^nwhich he aaye:
“ Our minds must then be made up to rtairt
iquity, either with or without thetr (otbfer Stai
operation, at all hazards; for count the cost as o
no coercion, won in conquest of us, could be more ruin*
otis and degrading than the destruction of our slave in
stitutions. It would make a wilder ucoa and a Golgo
tha of our State.”
So gentlemen, if you would participant) In the I
you must shoulder your knapsacks and coffins, and ill
the tap of the muj/lcd drum, be off in a trice. —
But seriously Mr. Rhett and bla associates never In
tended to lie led by Georgia. All his petting and flat- h
tering, was only intended to drive Georgia info on At
titude where South Carolina •• cold *ise her as she
pleased, to carry out her own mischievous designs.—
Mr. Colquitt haa only been his pliant adjutant to
ter the deluded Georgians into hit service. That't uttf
Ifoiniuniloui*
The Union candidates in Cnss county, nro. Colsi
Tumliu, Akin, Johnson and Wofford, ailgoodmoii
and true.* They will bo elected with great ease.
Our friends in Cobb presents strong ticket. Thu
candidates are Col. David Irwin, Dr. M* J* Slaugh
ter, Gen. A- J. Uuiiscll and N. M. Cauldca
In Bibb, the Union and Southern Rights party
Itavo self eted Robert Cellini, Washington Poe, A*
P. Powers nnd Win. Scott, Esq*., os theirstandqrd
bearers in tho approaching election. A good tick,
et, nnd will certainly succeed.
Monroe county presents a popular and influen
tial ticket. The cundidntej are-Hon* A*M*D. King;
Col. J. S. Pincknrd,} ’jLesscurer und II. Phiii|*v
zy. Esqs. -tr
medical College off Georgia*
Dr. H. V. M. Miller, of Rome,! <
gin, has been appointed to the <
siology and Pathologic*! Anaton
Institution, vacate «i>4*
_ L. A. Duos* to | ~ — b-j> —
lias amcpKtfih. appointment. The Facul
ty is therefore now complete.
The selection of Dr. M., we think a
admirable oue, end we congratulate the*
friends and patrons of the College theroon.-
With a sound, clear, discriminating mind,’
highly cultivated in the science ofhis |
sion, and much practical experience in its
application, added to hia rare powers e) e
lecturer and orator, we feel sanguino that h# ;
will fill the chair with distinguished ability
—Chronicle & Sentinel.
Judge- Sltarhey,
{jt^AYc observe by late Mississippi |
that this distinguished citizen, Pnsii
the Nashville Convention, waa to address t
meeting of the friends of the Union*) Vkfcs-
buig. He repudiates ultrnism innilil
and sustains the action of
udjustnicnt ofthe questions growing oats f
the acquisition of Mexican territory,
will he rather a severe blow to the disagio
i-sts in Mississippi,
Government Finances.—Th*’-* U. J -
Trensurer’s statement shows the i
his credit, by returns received to
23d Sept., to be $15,300,836 30. Of tbte]
there wsa at Washington, $100,9
Boston, $2,878,812.27; New York,!
227.23. Philadelphia, $1,01
tiinore, $38,906.37 ; Richmond, $9,i
Norfolk, $2,871.67;Wilmington, 3Y1
633.38 ; Mint, Philadelphia, SW,i ’
Branch Mint, New Orleans,
Transfers ordered to Treasury U. S., I
ington, $200,000.
^•Father Matthew arrived at
on the 23rd ult, and is the gnj^
Right Rev. BUhop_ Koadrick.
at the Cathedral, and by hte^
ness, and unaffected morality
favorable impression. He
ensuing week to the
pledge. He has given
quarter of e million since bo has
country, and in New Orleans
Fvoativk Siaves.—A
pondent of the New York
a party from Maryland:
endeavoring to arrest
the fugativo slave, and tint 1
known to bo several
in Columbia, Lancasi
burg, the ownen of several bl
have already taken steps for,
and there will soon be “
direction." ,T
Ham. waa bang art
nstant, in i
the Coart. We are l
sir-n of the i
edition, m
sentence,
edition]
the gallows,]
of their
have betel
■shamed to i
