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DENTIST
Oomt, Georgia Office over N. J. Owbcrg’s
. ' ' Clothing Store.
January 18,1851.
« FRANCIS X. All BN,
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Dealer in Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS AND GROCDRIES.
Receives .new goods'every week.
Remo, Ga., January 8, 1851.
LIN & BRANTLY.
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MERCHANTS,
Atlanta, Ga.
(Jt^Liberol advances made on any article
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. Nov. 38.1850. . , ly
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COTTO y-GIN MANUFACTURE HS
Rome, Georgia;
r . May 0,1850.
ALEXAMDElt A: TRAMMELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BOX, OA.
Nov. 38, 1850. If-
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MACON. GEORGIA.
if dot- 3,.1630. 1 • lam.
a f PATTON At 1‘ATTON,
l ( ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
1 - ■ 1 ' 'Rome, Geoigia.
; WrLL Prsctloe In all the Counties or the' Chcro
‘ i Circuit 48 Sept. 3, 1830.
A. X. fATTOIC. J.r. rATTOJf.
W.P. WILKINS. ~
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Rome, Georgia.
Ran* to
rj. Hon. U V. PORTER, CHARLESTON, S. C.,or
w“U‘i ' - at oavkspiuno, an.
Hon w. h.undkhwood, nojiE. at.
' Hon. WILLIAM I2ZARD, DECATUR, OA.
July 18,1830.■41 ly
G. W. BEALL,
DRAPER AND TAILOR,
Broad Street .Rome, Ga,
Oetobor 10,1830.
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COULTER & COLLIE.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Feb. 11,1851.
■Rome, Georgia.
M HOTEL,
■ ROME, GEORGIA.
MRS. MARY CHOICE
L Formerly of Dablonega, lias taken charge of the
I NEW HOTEL,'and made extenslvo preparations
/for the comfort and convenience of those who nmy
flavor her with a sail. From her long experience,
1 she confidently hopes to give entire satisfaction to
llrarislont Visitors and Permanent Boatdors.
f- September 5,1850. 48 18m
OS' Persons will be carried to and from
■the Depot to the Hotel, free of charge.
WM..H. UNDERWOOD & J. W.H. UNDERWOOD.
•WH.L PRACTICE LAW
H all the Counties of the Cherokee Circuit, (ex
». cipt Dade). They will both personally nttend all
[o Courts. J. W;H. UNDERWOOD .will attend
ye Courts of JnckBon and Habersham counties of the
western Circuit. Both will attend tho seislons of the
pUPREME COURT at Cassville and .Gainesville
III business entrusted to them will he promptly and
hithfnlly attended to.
\nFFlCE next door to Hooper 3s Mitchell, “Buena
M House,” Romo, Ga., at which place one or both
I always bo found, except ubeent on prefessionel
Kit ,33, 1851
:w COTTON GINS
AT ROME, OA.
... THSTANDING our Shop hns been des-
jred twice within the last two years, once by
.id once by firo, vr.c are again manufacturing
ertor Cotton Gins, and hitve prepared ourselves
v amount of orders with which we may be
■We are not making Premlurn Gins, or Wa-
nor do wo claim all the experience that
Liired in tho art of Gin making, but we
>..acting, say that we. nre willing to
Ldo by sldu with nny made m the Uni-
r THE BEAUTY OF.'LIFE-
. . .BY MRS. 3IQ0URNXV.
'Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it isir r
the eyesitd behold, the sun.”—Solomon.
Life is (teaullfttl'i its duties
- Oldster round each passing day,
While their sweet and solemn voices
• Warn to work, to wntoh, to pray.
They alono such blessings forfeit,
Who tbrongb elotb their spirits client i
Or, In selfish stupor sitting,
See the rust their armor eot.
Life is beautiful; nflections
Thrill with joy lie golden string,
In Its opening.blossoms nestle,
Birdlike ’mid its branches sing,
Smiling rouk its cradle slumbers,
Guard with pridu its youthful bloom,
Fondly kiss its snow-white temples,
Dew the turf that decks Its tomb.
Life is beautiful; with promise
Of a orown that cannot fade:
Life Is fearful; with thp threatening
Of an everlasting shnde.
i May no thoughtless worldling scorn it,
Wandering wide in folly's,maze j
Dety, love, end hope adorn It,
Let Its latest breath bo praise.
• . America Messenger.
jmacrUaucouB.
The following article, we copy from the
Southern Presbyterian; it contains sent)
r«njts peculiarly appropriate to the limes.—
Who will heed them,—Ed. Covr.
ECONOMY-
This is a virtue occupying middling ground
between parsimony und extravagance. It
consists not of the meanness which denies
one’s self every comfort,-which refuses 'hos
pitality to friends, which robs the creditor,
or which oppresses the servant.
And it is, on the other hand,' equally op
posed to that prodigality which disdains to
search out the leaks, to enquire into prices
and oCcounts, to appear in any but the best
style, or indulge in nnyjmt luxuries and
dainties.
What, now, can be urged in fitVor of econ
omy, as thus defined ?
I. Economy hns the sanction of. the Sa
viour’s example.
“When they were filled,he said, unto his
disciples^ gather up the fragments that re
main, that nothing be lost.”
II. Economy is the subject of an express
scripture command.
“Whosoever will come after me, let him
deny himself,"and take op his cross, and fol
low me.”
“Let your moderation be known unto all
men."
Without doubt, the virtue of which we
are sparking is, in part, referred to, in tho
precepts of holy writ.
Ul„ Economy-is an equalizing habit in
sociely.
The poor ennnot compete with the rich in
spending, und the loose and lavish practices
of the opulent often make the less favored
sons of fortune feel that, there is ». wide
chasm between the two classes. But where
they both adopt, as a principle of action, the
rule l am now contending lor, the disparity
seems to diminish nnd n cement is cteate'd
between the orders of sociely.
IV. Economy conduces to contentment
and industry.
Disbursing without much ctirq, we easily
persuade ourtelves that ‘a. fortune is requisite
to meet oor wants: whereas, if we are spar
ing in our expenditures, we soon come to see
that “man needs but little here below,” nnd
consequently are satisfied with n litltle.
Ana how natural for industry to be engen
dered in a similar wity. The next step, nud
a natural quo to our looking about to guard
against want, would be to exert ourselves to
add to our store
V. Ecouomy would furnish ns means for
liberality.
DoOo a man say, he hns nothing to give to
objects of benevolence ? Let him enter up
on a system of retrenchment—storing up the
pennies,—parting tvi'h superfluities m dress
and diet—making old things do as long as
can bo, nnd he would soon find that he had
an ample sloro from which to contribute to
the cause of charity.
It hns come almost to be a proverb, that
there is no truly liberal man who is not olso
an economical mnn. N. N.
The-Wife’s Night Cap,
Mr.——, who doesn’t live more than n
mile from the post office in this city, met
some “Northern friends with Southern prin
ciples” the other evening, and in extending
to them- the hospitalities of the “Cre?ccnt
City,” visited so many of our princely Saloons
nud “Marble Halls,”.imbibing spiritual con
solation as they journeyed, that when he left
them at their hotel ut the midnight hour: ho
left, decidedly left, that he had “a brick in
his hat.” Now, he has a wife, an amiable,
accomplished, and beautiful lady, who loves
h|m devotedly,.and finds but qne fault with
him. That is his too frequent visit to tho
places whei.e these “brick," aro obtained.
After leaving his friends, Mr. paused
a moment, took his bearings, mid having
shuped a course, on the principle that con
tinual angles meet, made sail for home. In
due course of time ho nrrived there, nnd was
not very much astonished, but rather fright
ened, to find his worthy lady silting up tor
him. She always does. She smiled when
he came in. That also she always does
“How are you, dear E.?” she said—“you
staid ou.t so late, that 1 feared you had been
taken siek.” ' ,
“Hie—ain’t sick wife; b-but don’t you th-
think I’m a little t-tight
“A very little, perhaps, my dear—hut that
is nothing—you have so many friends, ns you
say, you must join tbupi ip a glass once in a
while!”
“VV!fe,you’er -too good— th-lhp truth is,
l’m d-d drunk ?’, "
‘LOh } no,.indeed, my dear—J’m suro that
'itoimO. r -d._ - —At
| v- * Aa- ■ -^1 __
even another glass wouldn’t hurt you. Now.
suppose yon take a glass of Scotch alo with
me; just as nightcap, donr ?”
‘•You are tou.kjnd, my d-dear, by half—
I khow I’m d-drunk!.”
th ^b^niy a julep too much, love—
“Yes—juleps—MoMosters made . such
stiff’uns!”
“Well—taken glass o^a|e.at any rote—it
can’t hurt you, dear: I want ono befbto I rc
t”??” ■■■■,;
. I he lady hastened, to open a, bottle,. aiid
as she placed two tumblers before her on the
sideboard, s.lie pui in ono a very powerful
emetic.•Filling the glasses with the foamitig
ale, she handed one fip her husband.
Suspicion came ohbdily upon his mind.—
She noverbeiore had been so kind when he
was drunk, He looked at the glass—-raised
it to bislips—then,liesitnled.
“Dear, w-won’t you taste mine, to make
it sweet—sweeter ?” said be.
“Certainly, !ove?”.replied the lady; taking
a mouthful, which she was careful not to
swallow.
Suspicion vanished, and so did the ale,
emetic and nil, down tho throat of,the .satis
fied husband. After .spitting out the taste,
the lady finished her glass, but seemed in no
hurry to retire. She fixed a foot tub of,wa :
ter befure nn 6usy olmir, as if Bhe intended to.
batho her beautiful little feet. But small as
were those feet, there was not water enough
in the tub to cover them. The husband bo-
gan to feel, and ho wanted to retire.
“VVaitonly a few minutes, dear,” said his
loving spouse, “1 want to road the nows ip
this afternoon’s Delta. I found it in my
pocket.”
A few minutes more elapsed, and" then—
and.thep, oh ye cods and Dan o’ tho lake,
what a time. The husband . was placed in
the onsy chair. He began to understand
why the tub was there; he soon learned what
ailed him. Suffice it to say, that when lie
aroso from that chair the brick had left his
hat: It hasn’t been there since. He says
he’lLnever drink, another julep; he can’t hoar
Scutch ale, but ho is death on lemonade./—
He lovus his wife better then ever.
Roaders, this is n truthful story, Profit by
its moral—iV. O. Delta.
Scenery of the Erie llailroutl.
In overcoming (ho giant: difficulties inter
posed by Nature: ("says the Richmond En
quirer,J the Erie RnilOrd surpasses that grent
triumph of Napoleon’s genius, the. Simplon
road-across -the. Alps. As “Observer,” in
tho Philadelphia Ledger, truly lelfmrks of the
scenery on the road, which .we* passed over
last summer very nearly ns far as Elmira. Tho
romantic mountain landful villages and ham.
lets, conched now in sequestered valleys,
now hung upon the rocks, in one continued
moving panorama. It is a perfect kaleidos
cope of rocks, forests, glens, hills, and dales,
streams, rivulets, cascndus, and gurgling
brooks, changing at every indivisible moment,
as you rattle along with your panting iron
steeds over viaducts, bridges, excavated rocks,
and steep embankments:
“Tho Italians have a proverb, ‘See Naples
nnd die.’ Alexander Dumas, in his rlmpsodial
freaks, exclams, ‘Give nto the sky of And
alusia and the love of a French womim. I say
givo mo the scenery on tho HudsohiDolnwaro,
and Susquehanna, and tho free air of these
mountains and valleys,and let me die when
1 am tired of them. There would bo n cheap
immortality for men of moderate ambition !
The Rhine, Moselle, Rhone, Loire, and’Dan
ube nro beautiful ‘in spots’—the beauties of
tho Rhine are all concentrated botween
Mentz and’BiftgdiiL.jhoIe.ofithe Danube be
tween Passau nnd Lentz, &c., butthc beauty
of tho Delaware from tho ‘gap’ to its source,
and of the Hudson nnd Susquehnnna through
out their whole extent, is matchless in its
infinite variety..
“‘Alt,, but the caslloa !’ 1 hear some
new-fledged tourist exclaim. Lot us thank
God that we have no such remnants nnd" ve-
mitiiscences of the barbnrous ages, with their
superstitions, their vices, their oppressions,
nnd their crimes. The hand of mnn is here
boldy nnd peaceably applied to the subjec
tion of n romantic nature, without having
strangled whole generations in the attempt
to form n national society. The blood
less conquest of the wilderness, in its sublime
pristine grandeur, has not yet found its bards
and novelists, but America is not the less
poetical for the absence of those monuments
of feudalism which record but the aberra
tions of the human mind. The true destiny of
mnn is labor.:
“‘Let us work• our garden said Dr.
Panglos, in this best of worlds;’ let us build
railroads and canals, and improve the ambi
tion of the lnboVer, ik the highest precept of
a moral nnd intellectual. American. - Let us
thank God lor having reserved to . man ihe
discovery of this continent till feudalism had
already run its race in tho Old World. The
ideas to which the seventeenth and eighteoiith
centuries gave brith in Europe, would have
found no congenial soil in which to take root
and germinate ifFolumbus, had been born a
century earlier—if England and Holland lind
not been competiiors and rivals of Spain in
the softlemont of this great division, the hu-
mnn reserve, of our globe!”
Summary Execution ot a Wretch.
Our renders will remember the accounts
which wo published some weeks since of a
inurdor committed in Washington county,
Ala. by n man named JohnB. Hardin, and a
negro whom he had stolen, with their prop
erty, from a gentlemen in Florida. From
the correspondence of the Mobile Tribune,
we obtain the sequnl of the tragic aflhir.—
It seems that Hardin was urrested in Shelby
county, Ala. The writer says ;
“Ho was carried from Shelby county: to
Henry county, Ala. . A delegation was sent
from Milton, Sauta Rosacqyqty, Fia. to get
him front thio authorities' in Alabama, nnd
bring him to Milton, which was done. - Yes
terday ho was executed in : Milton'by the
people, without a trial. Tjie negro who as
sisted him, belonged.to Josoph Forsyth, was
also hung at tho same time .yesterday, Fri
day, May 30th at half-p? .t )3o’clock.
. ... 1
enough to kill four.movp. He and the
Jack wero both.liqng. to one tree, dud burled
in one grave. Rupentnnco and remorse were
strangers to him. He said his fathor and
brother wero both hung.- Ho refusod to
make itny further confossion, ns he would
implicate many heads of families \yho passed
ns respectable, and would thereby . leave
al „ turnei
loose,) be as bad ns ever, if not worse. Th
only request he had to make, was not to bo
putto torture. He.said lie wished to be
hung and decently buriod.”
POLITICAL.
CSriesjirtndenee of the Columbus Enquire-.
M.U.-O.V, June 15,1851.
It seems that Judge McDonald has accept?
cd tho nomination of tho nameless Conven
tion for the office of Governor, nqd ns dritici-
patod ho is playing the gntno “low down”'
for vote))! It is said thnt the way to make a
proud, austere and nristocratie chap a “very
clove: follow,” and “one of the'people,"
just nominate him for an office,'and the thing
is.dqqo. It seems that in these days of the
prevalence of “law and order,” of devotion
to the Union, and tho flr.e growth of Repub?
liedn principles', the wny’to bring a fire-eator
or disunionist to their common .sense—or to
make an old Federalist, nnd then Revolution
ist (out ofLis own mouth will I condemn
him) oome down to soberness, and nut forth
or admit something like Republican doctrines,
(‘doctrines which lie hns scouted, nnd. put
his feet upon dll his past life) just nominate
him for office, and he is just “Mar*’—if ; he
is not,'indeed, “all things to nil mem”
Let me promise, 1 that in what I shall say
of Judge McDonald, : 1' shall 1 not speak of
him as a private gentleman, nnd a sociable
nnd kind friond—in that capacity no one
who does not k'notV him better than the wri-
ter.cnn appreciate him more highly. But
a politician, both, in his professions and'his
acts, there is not one other in-the State more
objectionable—not one but in whom 1 would
havo more confidence of his carrying dot the
true principles of onr Government, while we
remain in the Union, than in him. Did I
want a dissolution of the Union, and were
sura Hint by voting ’for or sustaining him it
could bo done, aria that a Sounhern Confed
eracy would be'formed, I might havo a Ibeti
ter opinion of hitn-‘-for than I might hope
that Iho Constitutinn of-the Republic might
be so framed, that Ae could not look upon it’,
and act. as if it was s consolidated Govern
ment—and that he could then recognize that
a State had some right to effectually protect
its citizens and property from harm, other
wise than hv “revolution,” or measures “not
recognized i>y the Constitution." But yreol-
ly preferring the Union, under existing cir
cumstances, to a dissolution, or secession', or
to any other act “not warranted by the Con
stitution,” he is not the man for me, nor the
people of Georgia. And secondly, ns the
people of Georgia desire and intend to re-
trinin'in the Union, until all other legitimate
ami constitutional rights are exhausted, he is
the last man in these “troublous times,” that
should bo at the helm of State. I have re
flected upon what is here said, Messrs. Edi
tors, and if you will give me the use of your
columns, nnd health is given me, “tho docu
ments” will be forthcomirig.toprove to every
uprejudiced and Republican mind, that I am
right in triy conclusions, oral least that I am
not very far wrong. But I will proceed at
present to tho notice of Judge McDonald’s
letter "of acceptance—let us glance at it 'a
moment.
The Judge sots out wilh thanking the
Convention for the nomination—^'accepts it—
nnd pledges himself, if elected, that “euery
obligation imposed on me by the Constilulimi,
State and Federal, and the laws enacted in
conformity thereto, shall be faithfully fulfill
ed-" I wish the reader, and particularly the
“Southern Bights men," or “State • Rights
men” who are not for secession or disunion,
to hoar in.mind the above, ns before the cam
paign is through 1 Will try (and I think suc
cessfully) to maintain fully the second ! pro
position above laid down.
The Judge then alluded lo the “Govern
ment of our venerated ancestors,” nnd its
principles, and says'“dri no other principles
can it'sland.” He then asks, “If the beauti
ful principles of equality nnd justice on which
it rests, nro disregarded nnd set at naught,,
what is there to hind tho affections of the"
people to it ?” Most men would say that if
the Constitution was Bct at naught," and “a
flagrant and fata) 1 violation upon it, and our
rights, were perpetrated,it would not'only
unbiud their affections for it, but they would
be lor l, fujlii," for'“bursting up tho concern,”
viz. 'tho Union ; Or do nny "other •'desperate
thing hut . thnt they Would bring to life again
“tho beautiful principles of equality and jus
tice upon which it rbsts;" It'is true that
others, and their "ow'n friends too, might *dif-’
for with therti and over-rule them, for- the
lime being nrid ns Berisiblo men nnd -goqd
citizens they might not rebel or'jtrike up-
arms against (hem—but so long'as the con
viction rested upon thorn that they were'
degraded, that the last nnd fatal lick had
been given, men of “true pluck’’* and who
felt what they said, Would be for reversing
the matter, and would proclaim it boldly '—
Nay more, not only n “prudeftt" mnn, but
even n coward, while laboring under the im
pression that his rights had been taken from
him, and he had been, and was still, degra
ded, would be still for Obtaining satisfaction
in sotno way, and tho latter would even
sneak to do it—he might sny ho wns-for
peace, that his friends said Ito must be peace
able, arid “their decision Ought Hot to be dis
turbed,” but let him get the power to upset,
or to injure, or destro” * lw '
with the thought o'
nd that no restitution had b
would pursue ? None—this is human na
ture. ■’ 1 **’* a “3* S#
But Judge McDonald, in speaking of the’
action af the General’ Government, siiys:
“In no instance has there boon a: more fla
grant nitd fatal violation of them, four consti
tutional rights) than in tho adoption by Con
gress of tho measures (the late Compro
mise) referred to in tho 7th resolution of th*
Convention ” And further he says : “It is
Claiified for them that they aro a Compro
mise. It is a fraud upon an injured people
(evon) to call them so," &c. And ngain he
says; “hut if it bo a compromise, it is a
compromise by which the interests of the
weaker party (the South) nre sacrificed."
Arid what, gentle render, or (ire-eater, or
any other person of common or uncommon
resentment, or of common or uncommon
sense—whnt
- ..—t do you suppose Judge McDon-
, who rit ptesont entortains theso sen
timents, says lie is now for ? What do you
suppose .Judge "McDonald now says lie was
all
over the
after, when lie wits traveling
countly---^* 1 ”' 1 — a --
—reilrci
lure 1 V
when ho was' tra . , .
associating with rind conferring with -Rhottj
rind others like him in Georgia; and-else
where ? AVhat do you supprise ho wns alter,
when he wns heading those wliri were" for
“ledress for the past” and “new guards for
llVo future,” and who' nroilaimed to the
world oporily and boldly that -all this meant'
secession ! ondthis, too, 'riller the compro
mise measures -wore passed ‘by : Congress ?
“Tell it' not in Gallv, proclaim it not in the
streets of Askelon but you; Messis. Edi-
lors; can publish it in thp city of Columbus,
that Judge McDonald now wants the people
to believe thnt ho'’ is for “submission to -the
past,” and ,that he w'ent to tho Nashvillo
Convention, to advise us lo'jiitmtl to \vhat he
conceived a “flagrant and fatal violation”
of our constitutional rights. Do 1' misropre-
* fl nd that either the peace, quiet, or
ness of the country cun possibly lie promo
by his oleclion—he never was more mistu,
in all his life. And this 1 will attempt n,
fully to satisfy them of hereafter, if notlring
happens. But enough for tho present.
Having been rather oil the regular mail
lino, it was but a few days since that I saw
the the comments or my friends of ilia "Senti
nel” and “Times” upon my leltor giving an
nccount of tho doings ol the Convention. 1
may, or may not, at some future time, no
tice ono or two points in their nrticles. At
present however, 1 will.only say, that the
letter was written to let your renders know
the true state of things at Milledgovillo dur
ing tho Convention. I-waswell aw are oftr oppo
nents were disposed to represent or to throw
us into a fills0 position, and merely wished
the facts communicated to tho public. If
our opponents nro not pleased with the con- ■
tents ot that letter it cannot bo helped—it
was not written for that purpose.
, But before closing,.however,.1 would ask
- a "resistance" mv. fricndtlho editor of the “Times,” to state
cssfor the past, and security for thefu- whether or not the old “Union Democratic
What do you 'suppose ho wns after, Republican parly,” formed iu MiliedgevilU in
’—to'South.Oerohwa, 1833, was a State Rights and .Kepublcan
party—or, whether or not its fundamental
principles woro based upon n strict construc
tion of tho Constitution and of Slnto Rights ?
Let him answer’
Very respectfully, T.
of our constitutional rights. Do r Misrepre
sent, him ?J Let.lacts speak for 'themselves.-
l)i addition to : Whitt’ is hboVet tiuoted, ihe
says :
“Tho rapidly increasing slave population
of tho'South is pent up ; there'is no outlet
for it. Tho slaves nre to'retpaln here, and
the Work of the abolitionist is to bo accom
plished, through ihri vast multiplication of
the race, or by the constitution to be effected
by the early formation and admission of free
States into.the Union.
Coiisiderations like these induced me as
tfhe of niy Stato's representatives, in the
Southern Convention,' to endeavor to bring
ffl<
pasi--6\i; no !' nobody
over contended or oven- thought of that I-
Ihoy were all Resistance men, not submission^
ists !!] which if continued, must result In the
overthrow of constitutional liberty or the
subvertion of the Union.”
Bui the Judge find his doubts ns to wheth
er, (after what he had done) the people
would believe him, and consider him'“soimd;”
He, and Rliett,.arid others, had kicked up
such n-fuis generally; nt, Macon, Nashville,
and elsewhere last tall rind winter, and there
lind been so mariy' imprudent men among
them (‘such ns our respected friends of the
Times nnd tho Sentinel) and ns ho wants the
vines, he deems it necossnry to go still farther,
and here he completely “lets down:”
“Georgia, in ndvnlite of her sisters, has
met in her sovereign capacity, and her peo
ple have determined; to pretermit the out
rage committed on her rights; by tho admis
sion of California into the Uniou ns n State
with her highly objectionable Constitution.
This they nave done not from nny ■ affection
they haye for the measure or the policy
which dictated if, hut from their- extraordi
nary forbonmnee, and encouraged- to hopo
too, by the agreeable proclariiation uf some
of their sentinels on duty, that’ “all’s well:’’
Their decision ought not to bo disturbed,
iiowovcr much it inay conflict with individ
ual opinjoris. In a Government of law and
order, such decisions must be considered au
thoritative. ' They are the will of the peo-
plq. If the people have authority to say,
that they will resist, and to'determine the ex
tent of that resistance, thfly havo the like
authority to sjy that-thpy will not resist.
This principle 1 hold lo be incontrovertible,
nnd necosSnry to the safety rind happiness of
mankind.’’
He 'does it. qtiilo' gracefully; considering.
his post position. But the Judge is used to
such tilings. This is'not tho first time he
has sliiled, I know him of old—nnd it was
thabkaowiedge ol him, and of his aptness
in humhuggery nnd deception, nnd also of
that of his followers, that caused me to warn
the Union .party in my last to be “wide
awake and duly bober.”
But will any one who has looked over his
past course, whq. will look! at his present
coufse fc 'believe him sincere when lie says the
action of : the lest December Conven'ion,
ind which was olso re-edopted by the late
riion Convention that nominated Mr,?Cobb/
"aught pot lo be disturbed i" If he is sincere,
why does he oppose, and try to overthrow
thosp who adopted it. Is not Mr. > Cobb of
tho" old- Democratic party, nnd wherein does
Aject to Mr. Cobb. It is true Mr. Cobb
pposed to his old Federal notions, his
U. 3."Bank, Protective Tariff, and latitudi-
narian notions, but Judgo McDonald has all
along forgiven him for that, and hnssupport-
ed-Tum up to the Inst year. If he is sincere,
why docs ho become the leader of a party-
who are now striving to obtain the power to
reverse that decision—and who are striving,-
at least,to hitch Georgia on to South Carolina,
to bolster that State up, and to encourage her
to secede ? Why is it that thosp^.wJvu not.
only desire South Carolina to secede, but
who still want Georgia to revorso. her decis
ion and secede, too, why do they supppvt him
so warmly ? If there bo a renl Union man—
one who is sickandtited pfall this ngitation,
and who wishes to see it stopped, and all in
tho South be “one people”—if there b:
is so silly as to believe Judgo M
From the Chronicjo 3s Somincl
Gov. McDonald’* Trucks.
In the confusion of n campnign, especially
upon new issues, it is often difficult to con-
victn man of occupying a prisiitsn which lie
occupies in fact. He may have ncled wilh a
party, yet imft no speeches, written uo let
ters, attended nu conventions—in a word,'-
made no tracks. In such cases, it is only by
monns of tho company ho kept than a judg
ment can be formed ot him. . v!
Gov MoDonald does not occupy this po
sition. His position ns -n .Disunion mini—
among tho Disunion: men of Georgia, and of
the South, hns been far from unconspicuous.
It was tnkon with an rippearcrit honesty
Which we honored, until ho abandoned it.—
Wo will first tnko occasion to point out his-
TRACKS TOWARDS DISUNION,
A second pointing in n like direction he made
at Macon in August of last year, when, pre
aiding over a Mass (!) Meeting then, which
wns agreeably entertained by Mr. Rhett, of
South Carolina, Mr. Ynncy of Aiabams,—
Messrs. Colquitt, nnd others of Georgia, and
not quite .so agreeably by the no«-moderate
Mr. Stiles of Georgia. A third, nnd the
most distirict nnd decisive track of all was
mndo nt Nashv’ilo, while ucting ns Presi
dent of that body, nt the socond session of"
the Southern Convention,
Howasnt the times referred to among
that rilass ot disunion men who were in favor
of a dissolution-of the Union for existing anis
es. This is what we mean by classing him
among Disunion men. In other words, be
was among those who prof-rred Disunion to
ihe Compromise. Tho compromise at the
latter of these dales was an existing thing.
We have been thus precise in determining
i Innrillan 4 o iviirn L’m n A ..
mntler of indiflerence. He wns’once, as we
sha)l show, a DisUriionist rattier than abide
tho existing compromise.
The first Nashville Convention' pranourid--
ed tho Missutiri Comprotriiso line Us “ex
treme consession.” As Congress iiad not'
then acted, it declared thnt it “did not - feel
nl liberty to disc'tlss the method' sitllrible for
" —IE . -ai tdijpfodi”'
a resistance lo monsures riot ydt . ...
It irilimalcd it to bo the “duty of. Congre;
to accopt its ultimatum iri order to avoid
(lie dimox of shdmo arising from “a ter
mination of this controversy by llio disrup
tion oftlic confederacy.”- ‘
If these resolutions mennt more than an
idle boast, they meant "the \iltimntum—or
Disunion.” ’
“While pfeaidirig over the Macon Mass
Meeting tho cry of “Disunion" was receiv
ed with cheers. We beljpve the President
did not offer to rebuke the mode of its recep
tion. But passing over nil equivocal signs,
the third hack distinctly idefines Gov. Mc
Donald's position. With the second Nash
ville Convention lift was thoroughly identified.
Ho called it. He was its President. If be
stnhds uncommitted by its action, then is it
impossible for any inao to find means to ccsn-
•init himsplf. " .
'I he Convention declared that all the evils
anticipated by itself at its first session had
boon realized—it recommended tbo formation
of local societies—the appointment of com
mittees of vigilance—and other machinery of
a sectional party—declared that it had no
powers that were binding on the Stutes it
'by way of filling the gap m#
tsed the following resu
lts own powers) passe
lulioa'j'*.? , j^W- •#* ^
Resolved, That in view of ilie'ibpp’res.srons
and. outrages inflicted Upon the South and
those threatened rind impending, we recom
mending'that each of Ihe' Soulhe'Mi States in-
Heading that each <. ...
the mode she may adopt, do appoint dele
gate to a geiieral Convention of all Ihe as
sailed States to he held nt—qn the
day of- dollied with fuirauthoritii to delib
erate and act, with all the sort reign potetr'gf^ “
the people, with the view of arresting furth
er aggression nrid restoring the constitution
al rghts of the boiitb—if possible—and "if
not, then to provido fiif the safety and inde
pendence ofthe South in the last resort. -
Tho constitutional rights of-the South they
declared to be violated by the compromise.
There,wss an existing stn'e of thing* to be
subverted a compromise to be overt!
if possible. If not, then Disunion. ]
cue:.
This is the meaning of it, ope
The resolutions do cot
