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and finally staked, lias been entirely success
ful.
But, my brethren, we must for a moment
reverse this bright picture of the past. As,
in the fabled mirror, when under the power
of the magic wand, clouds obscure the view
for a time, and darkness and desolation shut
from the beholder’s eye some scene of happi
ness and joy, so, within ft short time past, has
there been hovering over the brightness of
our political horizon the dark and dismal
clouds of disunion, and the time was, and
that recently, “when the boldest held his
breath,” in anticipation of the shock which
was expected to overwhelm tho Republic.
Thanks to Almighty God, the good old ship
of Stale whether the danger that seemed about
to overwhelm her, and, like that glorious old
battle-ship, the Constitution, she lias escap
ed tlie imminent dangers of -'n shore,” and is
now again, we hnpo and trust, in smoutli wa
ter, with n cloudier* horizon nil around her.
Hett"e:t works not on earth without human
moans, nnd men and patriots were onspired
in our day of danger to enst themselves reso
lutely into the broach, and strike boldly for
the tfnion.. The names of Clay, Webster,
Cass, Foote, Cobb, Dickinson, Houston,
Douglas, nnd a host of others, shall live in
the history of tho dark storm through which
we Imvo just passed ns tho saviors of this
glorious galnxy of American Stales ; their
names shall stnnd in history ns the pillnrs of
their'country in the hour of her darkest tri
al.
I know \ shall bo excused for saying that
all snve one ot those whoso names I have
mentioned are “brethren of tho inystic. tie.”
He to who.-e eloquence you are about to lis
ten is, if I mistake not, the exciption.
To these groat, good patriotic mon, aided
ns they have been by the Executive ol llint
nation, in whose evory act a dolormimition
not to be misunderstood land boon manifested
to preserve tho Union, do wo, ns 1 firmly be
lieve, under God, owo the existence, this
■day,of these United Stales of Americn I
Thanks lie to God I thanks bo to them !
[Loud and loiig-conliniiod applause ”
And now, my brethren, do wo see nothing
here, in those eoremnnios, on this occasion,
to cheer us ? Cold indeed must bo our
hearts if they can heat on in their regain-
pulsations while our eyos behold nothing hut
a plain rock of granite hewed nnd squared,
nnd our ears hear nothing further than, “it is
n corner-stone.”
1 sco in tlicso ceremonies, ns it were, tho
spirit of Washington among us, renewed
'thehopes nnd wishes nnd prayers that he
nevor failed lo oficr in his lifetime for the per
petuation of this Union : in that corner-stone
I percoive tho seal ret to a renewed lease of
the existence ol this Union. Lnaac, did I
say ? No, a deed ot warrant In feo simple,
to have nnd to hold to us arid our heirs nnd
representatives forever I
tn tho croction of this new Capital, ad
joining the old one, I see Texas, und Cali-
iforriia, nnd New Mexico, coins in nnd unite
themselves to our old Union, nnd become
-one nnd the same with it; and, in leaving
this.old Capital untouched, l see the old
Union—"Booth Carolina and oil— stnnding
firmly„proudly,>in its glorious strength, un-
‘broken and unbreakable; nnd lot us all
firmly hope and pray, so may it stand, roit-
■KVEIt ANtJ ,von EVES !
Major French was frequently applauded
•during the delivery of his address.
Judgo Wellborn’s Letter-
'The subjoined letlor ot the Hon. Mar-
suai.i. J. NVellwirn, was addressed to ft
•committee of the Union party of Alabama
Judge W. was a member of Congsoss. (a de
mocrat,,) when the Compromise measures
were adopted, for some of which he voted.
He occupied, we believe, precisely the poji
thru ou ail thoso questions as Mr. Conn, nnd
yet wliilo Mr. Conn hns been donouncod by
(lia disudionists ns “u traitor,” who had
“sold his birth-right for a mess of pottage,”
tho same party have been desirous to run
Judge Wkm-bob.n for Congress again in his
district, mid many of them have expressed
the hope that he will be the candidate :—
Chronicle £>• Sentinel.
CouiMnus, Ga , June 10,1851.
To Mews 13. Gardener, Daniil Hall, and
others, Committee, Diifauh, Ala.
your note of the 2nd inst., informing mo
thnt “the friends of the Constitution nnd
Union, will hold n meeting in Eufnuln, on
Friday the 13th inst,” and inviting me to
“address the' people on that occasion on tho
great question now pending,” involving no
less than a dissolution oi the Union, hns
been received. Allow me in tho midst of
other pursuits, to reply through tho mail.
We are soon finally lo decide whether we
will acquiesce in the late measures of Con
gress, or upset, in short, the government.—
Indulge me in saying that those who regard
these measures as degrading the South from
her‘constitutional equality’ in the Union,
ntid as depriving her of her constitutional
rights, are not to lie quarrelled with f«r la
boring either to slinke them oil’, or to shake
off the Union. They would be justifiable to
throw aside the tests of political chemistry,
os to the right of secession, nud at all haz
ards, of the object of freeing themselves
from injustice and shame. Having as a re
presentative jf Georgia, supported portions
and opposed portions, of these measures, 1
linve taken, ns your letter implies, a difl’er-
ent view of them from the one reign ed to
I see iu them no degradation, to any State or
to any body—-no breach of the constitution.
In the course and greedy delight with which
nholiUon hns witnessed the opposition of the
people of California to the introduction oi
slavery among them, wo see, it is true, r
new offensive exhibit of the selfish and dim
gerous nature of thnt feeling. But after all
Ibis is but a subordinate and minor point in
the controversy, Has tho constitution con
ferred rights upon its in respect lo slavory as
u form of property in these Mexican territo
ries ? If it bus, that property ImssharcU all
along Jbe same protection which has been
-given to other forms of property within iliom.
Jf it has *wt, then wp had no rights there,
in this'particular, to receive or be' denied,
protection. Nothing wouldseem to be plain
er than this. How then, can it be justly said
ed on the North and and on the South, on
opposing claims lo go further than it has
gone in the direction of either of them, Con
gress has taken the course towards the terri
tories which is in correspondence with usage
aqd.the presumptions of public law. in -such
cases; Ergo, Alabama and Georgia ore dis
graced. Bv what cannon of logic can this
conclusion be made good ? We have ft good
cause in African slavery as it exists in the
Southern Slates ot this Union. Let us not
weaken it by pushing its claims on to
doubtful grounds, or render it odious to man
kind hy thrusting it upon them in the spirit
of arbitrary propngandism. Men are often
enslaved by the sword, but will seldom suf
fer tho sword to force upon them the slavery
of others. Wo may surely without dishon
or, waive nn issuo of war, or disunion, on ac
count or the simple declension of congress to
spread, by specific name, the institution into
localities where the demand for il assumed
that the Constitution did not convey it-and
this, too, in the absence of all pretence of ne
cessity or prospect of utility. If a necessity
fur such n demand shall nriso, we shall then
liavo a lenson for making it. Backed up by
reason, we may with confidence present it.
Jf refused, il will be then just that we hoip
ourselves by the sword or otherwise. Now
(ho popular argument urged on (his poit (hat
Cungross is bound to open tho public terri
tories, to all the forms of property held by
the citizons of nil the states, is u very good
one ; but it is proper to any it is not the only
one lobe weighed by Congress in giving
laws by tltoi public territories. It is not
therelore conclusive. Nor is slave labor the
only form of properly owned by the citizens
of the sevoriil Stntos that has not gone under
the constitution and laws ('ll ncsssert tha> it
lias not) in these territories. We may justly
resist intolerable abuses of the discretion of
Congross on such n subject s wo cannot de
grade it into mere mlnisterul body.
The objections to the Acts for the adjust
ment of the Texas boundary, (lie abolition of
the slave Unde in the district of Columbia,
in correspondence with the will of tho Dis
trict nml tho fugitive slave hill—nil inure
or less denounced—are but ofislioots of the
germ nf discontent to tie found in tho Califor
nia, Utah, and New Mexico bills—or, at
most, hut modes of expressing the passion,
indignation or alarm excited hy our general
slavery d'spules nnd slavery prospects. With
all duo deforonco to others, it seems to me,
that viewed in themsolvos, nml for | them
selves, as they ought to (jo, thoy are proper,
and free frum serious nnd well founded com
plaint.
Now, were il tho genornl sense of the
South that such is the extremity of the per
ils to winch slavery is exposed in the Union
as llint, on a comparison with thoso it may
he fairly regarded as lioblo to grow out of.it;
or that so partial and unjust nrothe dealings
of the federal government between the dif
ferent parlies to it, ns to call for its over
throw, wo should have enusoof disunion.—
We should lie hacked in the enterprise by a
motive power answering to the emergency.
How different is the present case. In an
nfl'air of tho lifo and death of society, tho
S eneral sense of the people is asking to bow
own to its particular sense. All idea of a
concerted movement being out of the ques
tion, tho hopoi of disunion me now being
turned from the South as a section, to indi
vidual States of it; the concurrence ol all to
bo finnlly brought about by the pressure of
an overruling neceisily into which they are
lo be forcibly put, Will your own noble
mid prosperous Stnle take the lead in such
an enterprise, the honor of which hns been so
distinctly declined by such of her elder con
federates as Virginia and Georgia ? Is she
so much in extremis as to become so ex
treme ? It is true, that the finger of pro
phetic warning points her down tho
long drawn aisle of tho .shadowy future to the
specltoof n chango in the constitution, by
.concurring majorities of three-fourths of non-
siavehold'ng Stales, nnd the execution by
the Federal Government in Romo mode not
precisely agreed upon, of a sweeping net ol
emancipation. Or, she is invited to antici
pate the consumption of slavery bv its con
tact with a wall of firo, in the form of a cor
don of tree States, against which it is to be
helplessly pressed soiiio fifty or nn hundred
yenrs hence. But are not these at most re
mote und speculative sources of danger ?—
May I vonturo to suggest that tho interests
of the Union nic in greater peril from a more
promximnte, more insinuating, and far more
contemptible foe than those suggested. Ag
itation threatens to lienr them oil on its wan
ton breath, and scatter them to tho winds —
agitation commencing in Hie North und em
braced in the South—denunciation of the
slave labor of the South met by denuncia
tion of tho hireling labor of the North—im
putations on the one hand, of the design to
spread slavery over the continent, on the
other, of a purpose to engross the public do
main with a view to power and the abuses
of power—all reciprocating their influence,
for evil, oil each other—nnd nil contributing
to increase tho current, now sprung up, of
sectional alienation, and what is more nlarm-
ing, of sectional animosity. The nation is
to be made to quarrel, as it were, over
fruitful theme, until separation will be de
manded by sentimeuts of self-respect and t
sort of social necessity. And indulge me in
calling your attention to the fact that from
the very nature of the case, this mischief
may be augmented, with good or bad mo
tives, os well by the defence ns the nssnult
Abolition glows not moro rapidly by the
lirado it inflicts, than the retort it receives.
The fact destroys not the right or duly of
defence, but sl.cd.s light on the best unde of
conducting it. The contest over slavery,
loo, is waged on afield of battle where there
is a tempting facility—lot it be remembered
—lo valor. Tho blood that is shed in de
fence, even, often flows from the veins of
neither the soldier nor of his foes.
But if Secession be not required by just
sentiments of self-respect in what sense is it
surely remedial of existing evils ? Is it clear
that it will arrest slavery discussions, or open
a new outlet to the ever alarming surplus
accumulations of slave population 7 Will it
insure the repose of the institution, and pro
vide an illimitable space for it to move in for
the future i
The States of the South, in common with
the States ol other sections ,are rapidly grow
ing in all the diversified forms of wealth,
power nnd 'improvement. In the Union,
however pressed, slavery holds the right to
the protection of nil the Slates, with an asso
ciated interest of the whole in the profits of
its labor—and, il deprived of this by injus-.
tice and folly, It nns at least the advan
tage in the Union, of its own union. Torn
into parts, it begins in division, and qhaos,
nnd trusts its important and delicate roture
adjustments to the guidance of chance. Pas
sion, proverbially blind may now cry “give
me my rights,”—weighing its rights in its
own prejudiced and undistinguisliing scales
—and drag a Slate or the South over n pre
cipice; but passion, and it rnny bo adacd,
panic, may prove a very unsafe counsellor in
affairs of such moment os are those under
consideration. Their handiwurk is seen in
running, not in ruling.
Should Georgia and Alabama continue tn
decline secession for themselves, they
will not by o false display of sympathy, invite
a confederate to thrust secession upon them.
Wo may conjecture, therefore, may we not ?
that they will be careless to make up major! •
ties, in the present crisis of the public affuirs,
on even the tempting assertion of the right
of separate secession. They contain no ene
mies, wo must presume, to sister confederates
identified with them in common wrongs, com
mon perils and common fortunes, hut with
single-mtmtnesB, wlU be candid to all and"
consistent with themselves.
Go on, then with your meetings and with
yotir organizations renderd most unfortunately
necessary. While you serve the constitution
nnd the Union, you will be engaged , in the
noblest service political freemen can render
the people of these States, themselves or the
world. The destruction of the one involves
with it that of the other, nnd with them both
go down, if go they do, the securities if not
the sources of our power, wealth, pence, and
ralilical name. In the two blended, we
mve a known path of prosperity and honor.
Lot us not ignobly, or prematurely, abandon
them.
Very respectfully, your oli’t serv’t
M. J. Wei ldorn.
Mr. Webster and Mr. Campbell.
The FederalUnlon of the 15 th inst. gives the follow
ing disjointed sentence os a specimen of Mr. Web
ster's sentiments:
“ Jftbe South wished ony concession from him,they
would not get It, not a hair's bresdth.”
Tho reader will be surprised when told that Mr.
Cnmpbell.in tho same paper mokes the following
alarming demand i
" Give usi an open, honest, fearless Abolitionist, like
Glduings, Hale or Sumner.”
Abie 1 Aloe!! When the great Statesman of the
North ond the great Sir Oracle of the South uttor
such sentiments, we may well derpnir of the .Repub
lic.
Tbe Boat Benson Yet.
“ Wily don’t you vote Ibr McDonald," said n see-""
slonist the oilier day to a Union Democrat;" be-' 11 * 0 ”
sold he," lie made a bod Governor before and will
hardly improve under the tuition of 1th**'& Co.” A
very good tonson though* we, whicl' others might pon
der with profit,
On- Thu mcmb'rs ol tho Constitutional Union
party oftlic Cedir Oreok district, (new district) mot
tho iotli !n«., at the Court Ground nml appoint-
dulegutor to Senntoriul Convention nt Floyd
rings ondie 31st July. Messrs. D J. Parks nml
G. ware were selected. We Imvo received tho
proceedings, hat have not room for thorn.
Ay- We have been informed by Mr. Perry, our
Pest Master, that tho Post jfllce ot Earle’s Furnnco
tins been discontinued. Etowah l. tho nearest post
lllcc to tlm Fnrnoco.
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 24,1851
Tknuwlbs, editor'’.
“ Should Congress at ang time exhibit its
purpose to war upon our properly, or withhold
our just constitutional rights, we stand ready to
vindicate those rights, in the Union as long
us possible, and out oj the Union when we are
left no other alternative.”
NOMINATIONS OF THE
CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY.
For Governor-
HON. HOWELL COBB.
Fob Congress.
COL. E. W. CHASTAIN,
Oj Gilmer.
THE COURIER.
TH CAMPAIGN AND THE COURIER.
The campaign lias fairly opened—the two
parlies have selected their respective leaders
and unfurled their banners to the wind. The
conflict will be novel nnd exciting, conducted
however, wo trust, in good nature nnd cour
tesy. Upon tho new issue, Greek will meet
Greek, nnd old Democrats and old Whigs
will bo found side by side, shoulder to shoul
der, battling for tbe constitution nnd the Un
ion. Both will v ant, and must have inlelli
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APPOINTMENTS OP COL- CHASTAIN
Thursday, 31st July, Floyd Springs
A tig
Saturday,
Tuesday,
Thursday,
Saturday,
Monday,
Wednesday
Friday,
Tuesday,
2d
5th
7lh
9th
llth
13th
15th
19th
Van Wert,
Marietta,
Cnssville,
Summerville,
LaFuyetle,
Trenton,
Ringgold,
Canton,
filutional rights,- hy the -into legislation
{.Congress applied to thpsp territories >
, if we bring our claim for property ns it
1 tied, from its high plaooiu tboCon-
' j door of Congross; two things
.that we admit the jijwa-
jbith
The late census shows an increase during
- . . .... , the last ten years of slavo population in eve-
; that the South has lost its “00115111111101181 r y border sinve State even, .excopt Mary-
quality,” and has been deprived oi its ‘con-
..iivU’ia * L.r ihn intn lo*»isliitifin
land. She bos (alien off only fiyp' hundred,
in round numbers It shows' too, a. compar
atively greater increase of the native whjte
papulation in the slnvoholding, than in the
non-sloveholding States, if my information
be correct, 1 assume, too, whatever others
may say of the nou-execution of the fugitive
lave bill, that - the axintonce of this
Don’t Forget
The Grand Union H olley at Floyd Springs on Thurs
day next, thu 31si inst. Severn! dwtiaguishedupenkera
will be present, ond a barbacue served up on Hie oc
casion. Lei the people come cn masse with their ban
ners flying. The country is In danger, let every free
man to the breach-
Tlio Superior Court
For this County is now in session al this plncc, Judge
Lumckin, presiding. We were much pleased with
his Honor’s charge lathe Grand Jury, nud hope llint
tho" ond every good citizen will sec the propriety of
’aiding in the faithful execution of the laws.
ID"VVc would suggest 10 the delegates from the
Militia districts of Chattooga nnd Floyd, that the/
to the Senatorial District Convention prepared to »e
loci their candidates for (lie Representative branch of
tho Legislature; nnd here friends, allow us to spy ope
word—let personal prejudices ond prepossessions
thrown asidp, and every {pan in tile spirit of concilia
tion and compromise, stand i;oMy qp to tljo cause,
The Congressional Cpni|idatc*
Messrs. Chastain and Stiles nro at present ip our
city. They addressed the people op yesterday al the
Coprt House. Mr. Chastain, we learn, proposod
Mr- Stiles nn arrangement by which they should cun-
kick tho other, however,
organizing an efficient volunteer military corps. There
ore moteriols in our midst, which wrought upon by
■he wicked ond desperate, may at come Allure day
require to bo owed into obedience by aueh an array,—
An efficient mounted corps, would give character to
the city, if not needed for it»,security. Who will
move in this matter 1 There should be three volunteer
companies in the county at least.
The Southerner and hi* eurreepon
During our.brief obaene- *< seems a discus'-’' 1 ' v ' ,,
gotten up be'.wten tt- 'dauthernet nnd an ' tllon y moUB
writer and the '"“rior. Now it I* not out intention
tocontinn t[, is controversy so gratuitously begun
and ire'foporly ojntlnood. Neither Messrs. LrarsiN,
•p-LER or Alexander ore bofore the people for office,
and we see no reason why their names should bo ban
died about, nnd their epcinl relations and private of-
fairs rudely paraded before tho public.
Thoso who uro curious to know what U10 opinions
of these gentlemen are, and what they have been, can
readily gratify themselves by referring to the proceed
ings of tho two meetings held in this City lost fall—
All present on those occasions, will doubtless recol
lect, Mint in theirspeecheaandinthe resolutions pas
sed, tho doctrine of non-intervention was explicitly
espoused ond obly advocated by oil three of these gen
tlemen. At the time of tho first meeting, Congress
woo still in session, and the Compromise measures
wero then before it, togethor with tho Nashville ulti
matum. Judge Lumpkin, it will he recollected, nt
(hot meeting, in the resolutions which ho presented,
and in the accompanying speech, whilst ho main
tained that tho doottlne of non-intervention wus the
_*rfchd to feel in -4?
to waive all minor conslde^- Lib „.
big nor democrat, but
their political confederate*,
The Right of Secession.
We have bofore stated and ognin repent it, that the
question now pending, ond which the people oi Geor
gia will be required to decide at the ballot box in Oc
tober next, is no/ upon the naked ond abstract right
of a State to secede from the Union whenever it may
suit her whims nnd caprices to do so, without the
slightest regard to tho wishes, prosperity or witty of
her political confederates; but the question we are to
decide is—whether tho Compromise mensures passed
1851 .shall be acquiesced in or resisted 1 Whether
this great government shall be rent In pieces for pnst
grievances and aggressions 1 This is u practical quea-
our opponents know full we)l, and which the
people can understand, and wisely determine. The
other they know la less susceptible of satisfactory so*
lutlon, und hence their uttceosing efforts to bewil
der ami mirlcad the honest ond patriotic, but unsus
pecting people. Let the people of Georgia once de
cide (we siiy it with emphiisls) nt tho ballot-box that
secession is a constitutional right and peaceful rem
cdy, nud tho knoll of this Union is sounded. The
Nashville Convention, at whieh Messrs, tthett i.nd
McDonald ministered t\s High Priests, proclaimed
this doctrine, and prescribed secession as a remedy
for our grievances; nnd already is South Carolina
prepuring. sword in hand, to test its efficacy. The
history of that State will bo but a transcript of our
own, if we but udopi its fatnl dogmas. Wo aro now
only called upon to endorse this remedy; the next requi
sition will bo to try its efficacy by marching vi et arm is
nt (he tap of the South Curolinn drum out of the Un
ion. In Georgia, secession now appears In robes of
pence; in Souih Carolina, in spurs and epnuletts —
South Carolina only pauses until Georgia shall nc
quiesce in her dogmas, when the fully believes sho
wilt go with her out of the T’nion. Does uny ol\c
doubt, let him read the Carolina prints, which are dui
ly filled with the most inflammable sentiments. Let
him rend the following toast, from one of the most
distinguished men of that State, given at the late 4th
of July celebration in Chester district i
Ry Major T. Stark—President of the day—The
Revolution of ’76—It began with blows, nnd brought
co-operation. South Carolina values the example,
and is prepuring to strike for Southern deliverance.”
This is tho policy. With the bewilderingand tempt
ing bait of an abstract question—with a false issue,
the advocates of secession hope to lead (he people ofT
from the true issue, keeping out of view if possible,
the Nashville plot, until they shall gut into office,and
power Then will South Curolinn •* strike' 1 nnd Rhett
cry out—“ I.ay on McDonald /” (not McDuffi)
In conclusion, we sny to tho people, beware of die
mochintlons of such men. Do not barter away nil
you hold denrfor an idle phantom. Support no man
whose attachments to the Union arc not above BPspi-
Thero is but a step between you and anarchy,
ruin and woe.
A Decided Hit
Our attention was arrested the other day by quite
nn animated colloquy between two ex-editors, the
one a Union man the other a fire-eater. The lattor
in most opprobious language was denouncing Mr.
Cobb as a tnnn without talents or principle; thnt al
though be had been in public life for many years, he
had done nothing to distinguish himself or the State.
At the dose of this tirade, our Union friend very qui-
lly observed—“ it is vory strange you Have kept this
matter so leng concealed, and for years supported a
man without principle or talent.” So thought we,
and so thought others who were highly amused at the
fire-eater’s dilemma.
true Southern doctrine, expressed his willingness that
Congress should adjust our sectional difficulties upon
the basis of the Missouri! Compromise, rather tho\i
the Union should be destroyed. And this we believe
was the position of Dr. Miller nnd Col. Alexander,
and indeed of nil the members of the Union Party.
Mr* Chastain.
The letter of acceptance of this gentleman will be
found on the 4th page of our paper to-day. It is a
plain, straightforward, matter-of-fact document which
every body can readily enmprehend, and which wo
commend to the perusal of our readers. Attempts
open nnd covert aro mado to prejudice the public mind
ngninat the political consistency nnd soundness of
Col. Chastain- It is due to lum ond the uouse in
which we are enlisted, to give him a hearing before
rendering in a decision adverse to his claims. We,
therefore, soy to the people, hear, and then judge him
impartially.
Mr. Stiles-
We regret (especially on his own account) to see
thnt this gentleman has aaceptud a nomination from
the secessionists of this diitriot. Wc understand h|s
position has been so equivocal upon the great ques
tions of the day, that at different times, he has been
claimed by both parties. His letter of acceptance is
to us, quite os enigmatical and unsatisfactory os his
past courso has been eccentric and wayward. After
perusing it with core, we confess our inability to de
termine precisely where he is or what be wonts, un
IchS it be a plenty of Union votes; which he will hard
ly receive, after throwing himself into tho anna of the
fire-eaters. This is no time to support men of ques
tionable attitude, and doubtful sentiments The Re
public is in peril,nnd those only who ota inflexible in
‘their course, and ardent in their devotion to the Union
opn gain our support. For * r. Stiles, and mnnyoth
ers who act with him, we have personally the high*
est respect, but believing that their principles nnd
aims are dangerous to tbe peace and security of the
country, nnd to the perpetuation of our free institu
tions. wo shall labor for their defi/ut; hoping that in
the retirement of private life, they may learn to clier-
i*hn warmer attachment for their political birthright.
We will endeavor to give Mr. Stiles’ letter to our rea
ders next week.
tho present great struggl
ty, that there is nej
that all Union
and b ret lire
itton Planter* Convention.
fee it proposed in certain quarters, to hold
Convention to be composed of cotton planters;
tbe meeting to take plaoe in Macoti, nt the timo of
the State Fair, in Ootobor next. The ol^ect of the
proposed Convention, it appears, is, to protect the
cotton grower IVom ruinous fluctuations : in the
prices of this great staple. Now wo have no doubt
but an agreoablo meeting nnd greeting-of cotton
planters, and oorn and whoat growers, nnd stock
raisers, and others engaged in tho various Induktil-
ul pursuits, will take place at the approachingngsi-
culturnl festival at Macon, hut that any plan will or
can be devissd to protect the groat staple from the
ordinary or extraordinary fluctuations occasioned
by the general laws ol trade—of supply and de
mand—we think quite problematical. These ex
periments Imvo been tried before, and proved en
tirely unsatisfactory. If this wliolo Interest' could
be confided to tlio conttol of oue hundred coltoro
planters of honor and honesty, the ense would ap
pear moro hopeful; but to supposo that the resolves
of a cotton convention, will bind the plows ntut
hoes of one hundred thousand cotton planters, or
cause them to move nt their bidding. Is absurd.—
tiupposo every cotton producer in Georgia should
agree to raise no more cottou until the price appro*
oiatos to t o cents; liow many Mississippi and Tex-■* ‘
as planters would commend their wisdom or fol
low their example 1
The remedy, and the only remedy, against these-
ruinous revulsions is, in so diversifying invest
ments oi capital und multiplying and equalising
tho products of tho soil and workshops, ns tliatono-
shall not be overlooked for the apparent benofit of
the other. Or, more explicitly, let every planter
become also n scientific farmer, a thrlfly husband
man ; raise his pork, horses, mules, &o. Should 1 ,
ho have in lmnd ready cash, as under this system,
lie would have, tut 111m hot invest it in ue-
grocs or lands, but In tho improvement of those ho
nlroady possesses; in cotton, woolen, shoe, hot and
other factories, which will oronte a homo market,
for every thing he raises. We want no cotton con
ventions. We Imvo dangled too long upon this oner
idea, and giveu it nnomnipotenoo whieh lias well-
nigh ruined us—made us tributary to Lowell and
Manchester, nnd converted a sunny domiin into,
broomsedge wastes*
Our Stuto.nud Agrlcultuial Associations ind’
Fairs, nro doing something, and will yet do.
more, to correct the errors of the post, nnd bright*
on the prospects of tlm future. L it them be foster*
ed-aml encouraged,, .and the South, will become-
prcxpeioits, Independent arid great.
Common Schools.
The proceedings of the Educational Convention re
cently held in Marietta will attract the attention of
our rendcts,and we trust, enlist publio interest in one
of the most important movements of the day. The
Convention was deeply sensible of the very responsi
ble trust confided to its hands by the people of the
State, and that in devising and carrying out any great
scheme of Common School instruction,the utmost wis
dom and caution would be requisite at the outset to
guard it from popular prejudice and secure for it ul
timate success. Oar greatest apprehension was that
too much would be attempted at first—that in our
mxlety tosend the school master abroad, we should
le«e sight of certain pre-requisites, entirely necessary
to permanent success. The Convention, therefore,
very properly, proposes but little for the present, lest
attempting too much, we shall fall to accomplish any
thing.
In looking over the large and enlightened assembly
convened at Marietta from every part of tlio Slate,
one tiling was quite evident to our mind ; and that
was, that n deep interest is nt length aroused it) Geor
gia upon this important subject. It may, ond proba
bly will, take ten or fifteen years to devise and con
summate a plan which shall be adupted to the diver
sified character of our country,-and meet tho neces
sities of the different sections of the State. Bo it so.
Better to spend fifty ycirs in laying the foundation of
a fabriok thnt shall stand, than to witness tho downfall
of a structure hastily devised and poorly executed
The Convention,however,as,wiUbe£een, have made
a commencement. Tfiey b av .° giyen the people at
least a topic tp tltiujt, tojk and wrjte qbojjt; something
Which we humbly trust jiill prove the basis of a wise
and permanent system of piental enlightenment.
Fire Compamefl’
The last Southerner very properly urges upon our
citizens the importance of organizing oneoriqpre fire
companies, and securing thu necessary engines and
other facilities to guard the oily in some degree,
gainst future, fires. Had this been dons before tbe
into conflagration, one of the depot?, we believe,
might have been measurably preserved, and the loss of
property greatly diminished.
tin's subject we wm^d .arge upon our
Senator King of Alabama*
Tills distinguished Democrat and Pre idem of the
United States Senate, we hre happy to s e, refuses to
endorse the ridiculous doctrine of constitutional secu-
■ion. Of course, though his whole political life has
been given to theonu-e of Jeffersonian Democracy,
under the Rhett nnd McDonald regime he becomes a
federalist, consolidation 1st, nnd traitor to the South
by his avowals, and a fit subject for the disunion gul-
lotinc. Off* with his head, gentlemen, nnd consign him
nnd his doctrines to infamy. He is evidently a blue
light,hear him:
“ lam not hmoever, prepared to admit that the States
possess either the constitutional or the reserved right to
secede from the Union. I consider it to be a paramount
right, inherent in every people, tofreo themselves from
oppression, when the action oflJie government violates
their ej8entinl rights, and becomes too grievous to be
borne; and that from the nittr.-e of our f deraiive sys
tem, it would be the most effectual mode to accom
plish that object.”
Exactly so, Mr. King. Whe | he action of die gov
ernment becomes oppressive, violative of our essential
rights, and too grievous to be borne, we will rise up
Jilto freemen and destroy it. Not under the delusive
plea of a const itutioiul* right, but under the lofty im
pulse of an inhcr.mt principle implanted by Deity in
the bronst of every freeman.
The sentiments of Mr. King are fa entirely our own
that we intend to keep them flying upon our bannei
Until the present conflict shall be decided. We shoul.i
rejoice to see this veteran of the old republic in school
promoted from the 2d to the first office in tho govern
ment.
A Whig Trick.
By tho free use of tho above inngic word*, our
opponents hope so to excite distrust in the minds
of Union Democrats, ns to incite them to abandon
the noble bnnncr tinder which they in .common
with Uoion Whigs have enlisted. To n limited
extent, this libel upon history nnd fraud upon the
people, will prove successful, uml accomplish tho
purposes of thoso who have sent it forth upon its
deceptive errand. Fortunately., however, lor
cause, the great mass of tho people of this nnjight-
ed Common wealth, aroitoo well wi formed and to©
well inclined «o be either alarmed or seduced by
such an idle bug-benr. Every one at all fumili
with the stirring events of the last 18 months,
knows full well, that causes entirely fortuitous, oc
casioned the severance of old party ties, and rlie
abandonment of old political platforms. An is
sue overshadowing and swallowing up all others,
almost without the knowledge, nnd entirely with
out the consent of a majority of cither party, was
suddenly and unhappily sprung upon tl\e country
—-an issue invqlving tl;o vory existence pCjtJio Con?
stitujripn aryl the Union. For this issue, so ruin
qus to old political qrgunifrations und appellations,
and so futal tq the peace of the country, we pro
nounce ttie Nashville Secessionists responsible.^
They officiully and otherwise urged forwaid tho
present political amalgamations, and by solemn
resolve, in Convention assembled, advised thenban
donment of old political connexions and usages,
CHARLES J. MoDONALD was president of that
Convention, und signed the death ^arrant qf the
old political parties in Georgia. And yet the pcor
pie are gravely told that the new order of things is
tho result cf Whig trickery l
Now, we unhesitatingly declare, that in the
whole movement whioh has resulted in the disracm
bermont of old and the lormation of new parties
in Georgia, Whigs have, been the led, tai
Nomination of William H Stile*.
We learn frum the Dalton Timet, thnt a portion .if
hr Southern Rights mny,of til* Fifth Dlitricl.mct
; Kiiip.tnn on tho 3,1 Inal, ond notnitintcd tho Hon.
WMJ Hi STILLS, of Cn.., a. thrir candidate foe
Congress. The position of the nominee has hitherto,
lit','it rrgnnk'd u, rather equivocal. We do not think
*o. It will be recollected thnt cl the Mucon Conven
tion lust year, tbe cry of DISUNION wn» raised white
Mr. Stiles waa speaking,and 111 consequence of aomo
II aiuns which tin made to the Stars and Stripe,,—
ln'n was the time when he oughttohave withdrawn
front Ihajfiaunlonlaie.j Did lie do aol Far from it. If
wo remember corriTWly, he remained In hi, positi jo
until the cry of Disuni n had ccatcd. He then re
in irked t 3 Bit/-/.. GENTLEMEN, IP THAT
IS YOUR POSITION, l AM WITH YOU
and he proceeded with hi, fpeach. We hove nevet-
had any confidence in Mr. Stiles’ unionism (rum that,
day to this. No true lover nf the Union could- hqyo
stood as he atoo,l;and addressed a meeting which hint
insulted the flog thnt protected him In e foreign ianfl.
trhould lie accept the King.ton nomination, he will
thus fully identify hinireil' with the tifninioni.te, and
will be easily beaten. Indeed, we nre informed that
Col. Chr,slain would defeat him even if he were to cur.
ae a full-blooded Union iptm.
The foregoing we copy from the Macon Journal Jp
Me,Huger. The recent letter of Mr. Stiles, seems-to,
conflrm the above expressed opinion that Mr, 8tiles.
;sn disunionisp, for ns will he seen by nn’extract from,
b,t letter which weg've below, hr distinctly avow*
that it is not the present Union which he reverences^
As to Mr. Seward, Giddings, and Hole, they arena, S
much opposed to the cotnpromisr and the “ Glorious
Union" as ts Messrs. McDonald, Rhett, Stiles tV Co. v
ond arc os zealously engaged in dlccting tho destruc-. I
dull of both. It is ngiiiim the luncldnitfons .of these
hnters of thu Compromise nnd the Union, North nnd:
South, that the " masked battery” of the friends J
of the Compromise and the Constitution ia directed t
But the Union which I especially reverenced, war
not the “ gtor/on. Union" of Seward, of Glddinge.or
of Hole, nor yet the masked battery from behind Which
the constitution und tho right, of the Booth nre to be-
o-kuilcd," but it wno the Unvat a, you remark, “ for-
meet by onr faihert," and before it, beauty had been
ntiiried bynny ol'ihoBe “ aiianfls,” which Wisjdngs.
ton in liis farewell ndd.ess so prophetically foretells.
“ It wna the Union ns it misted before any attempt
hod been mode " to effect it in the forms of the con
stitution.” Alterations which will impair the energy
of die system,and thus undermine that which cannot
be directly overthrown.
“ Before any manifestation nf " the spirit ol en-.
cronchinent tending lo consolidate the powers of all
tbe departments in one, and thus create whatever dip.
form of government,a real despotism.”
For the Cornier.
England and Disunion-
Mr. Editor: Permit mo, through the columns of' J
your valuable pnper, to glvo to the public tho fol
lowing extract of a letter published in tho Rich
mond Enquirer from Judge Duncan, one of tlieCom-. I
mis.-ionersTrom Virginia to the World’s Fnir-; In the
letter lie complains thu; Horace Greeley, “the knowiv
advocate of doctrines tho most disorganizing and
tho most horrible and disgusting that can bo con
ceived by a southern man,’’ lma been placed at tlm \
head of the panel of American Jurqrs. “And as if
designedly to n;njcu ,tJjo li\0lt more polgtiant, lio.|
may bo seen Iuckc.1 urpis with u negro nltondir-
nholMion ipoefings n; Exeter JJn|l, nnd other plac
Where those worthies assepiblo to denounce tfc
Southern States, nod ndvnpiUo disunion,’’
Such is tlie feet, that a mlserniWe faction oCmSe-
lit ion ditunionitL North, in common with Englan<tJ
nnd other powers noross tho Atlantic, nre praying
tor a dissolution of tho Amorioan Union, ns thf
surest meuns of overthrowing tho institution^ c
slavery in tlio Southern States. That these plans,
if carried out, will prove effeotivo.nabnoonri doirb'.g
nnd that the first proclamation of a Stato that she J
owes no farther allegiance to tho Governm v en,t of th^
United States, yyill be jljo funeral fadi of Africa,
slavery, is too p|uh; to he mistaken* Had not il
gmong lie who nro Inboring so zealously to
tlio people believe that thoy ore only guRrdia
ol Southern Right, and inter..!., bettor be cti
whose bands they piny into! Lot our :
ovor in South Carolina, and tholf "bugle-man^
Georgin, read nnd ponder well the ndmoutli
Judgo Uoncan, nnd "stick to tlio Unicn
UNCLE 8*
“1 believe, nay, I am confident, tbi|(
exists a fixed determination on the r
.the English Government, baeked by the]
ul.-ir sentiment of the nation, and I
p/ess, tq dissolve the American Un’ionJ
it, hy nij the nppliancos which she t
so hear, nnd Heaven knows they
and powerful, at this time fan"'" -
in tho,North and disunioq ra-
proceedings oft“
intion