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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 geiice nnd intelligence of n reliable kind. 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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