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THE COURIER.
THURSDAY MOBOTHG, 8EFT- 86,1851
J. KNOWLES, EDITOR.
NOMINATIONS OF T11B
CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY.
For Governor-
HON. HOWELL C O B.B.
For Congress.
COL. E. W.CHASTAIN,
Of Gilmer.
For Senator.
COL. JOSEPH WATTEllS.
For Representatives.
FLO VP COUNTY,
WILLIAM T. PRICE.
C1IATTOOOA COUNTY,
ROBERT CAMRON.
GORDON COUNTY',
THOMAS BYRD.
AUENTS t'OR T1IE COURIER.
Dan’i. Hix, Summerville.
Judge Wooten, Dirt Town.
J. T. Finley, Chottoogavillo.
E. R. Sasseen, LaFayotto.
NEW GOODS.
Those who ore fond of the useful, tasteful, end nr
itsmenttl, would do well to call at tho elegant csinli-
lishmem ol' Col. ftcrricn. Sea advertisement.
Our worthy friends Lambeth & Co. it will be Been
hare a splendid stock of Ready Made Clothing which
has only to be seen to be secured.
Eevery man is interested In the safe navigation of
the Coosa. Read the note of Col. Cothran and lend
a helping hand.
ELECTION RETURNS.
Our friends will greatly oblige us by for
warding promptly correct election returns.'
Don’t forget, if you please.
LADIES’FAIR."
The Ladies Working Association of the
Baptist Church, will hold a Fair for Benevo
lent purposes, on Wednesday and Thursday
evenings of next week, in the Buena Vista
H0U86.
(Jig,-, From different counties in this Dis
trict, and indeed from every part of the State
we have most cheering accounts of tho pros
pects of our enuse. Wo wain our friends
however, not to sleep on their arras. Be
ware of idle.tales and false repot lN, gotten up
nt the 11th hour.
HAVE BVERY.THING READY.
Before we converse again with all our roa
ders, the present campaign will have closed
and the fate ofthe Ropublic bedccided. We
doubt not, fellow-citizens, that you have ful
ly made up your minds and decided upon your
course of action. It therefore only remains
that ydu should curry out your honest con
victions at the ballot-box ; calmly, quietly
steadfastly. See that all things are well ar
ranged and made-entirely ready. Let every
man have tho right ticket and see that his
precinct is abundantly furnished with Union
ballots. We earnestly urge you to vote the
whole ticket. Let ns present an unbroken
front; let no voto be lost.* Do not trafTic in
voles. Remember that you are voting not
so much for men as principles. That it is
the Constitution and the Union and those you
know will defend and maintuin them that
should commnnd your support. In shorten the
first Monday in October, strike u blow for
your country that shall at once and forever
still the voice and crush the spirit of disun
ion and faction.
TO THE VOTRES OF CHATTOOGA. WALK
ER AND DADE
The assnults which hare been made for
tho last few weeks upon the fortress of your
patriotism, w»Jl, wo hope, justify no espo
cial appeal to you
The result of the election last November
taught the disunion leaders that if their un
hallowed purposes were ever consummated
you must be appronched under some less
odious garb than that of avowed enemies to
your Government. Your attachment to the
Constitution formed by the greatest and pur
cst men of whom all history speaks ; your
veneration for the name, and the counsels of
WASHINGTON ; your fresher recollection
of the precepts and action ol the HERO of
the Hermitage ; all the glorious national
memories of the past, and your patriotic ns
piralions of the future, nil stood up like
wall of adament to bni their progress, nud
shield your breasts from the “ traitorous”
distillment which sought to be infused into
them. You Hung Irom you the temptation
and'the tempter, and boldly took your posi
tion for your Government against its trnducers;
When your patience had grown threadbare,
you were again sought to be drawn out by
the talso announcement of neto actors in the
drama, and the supposed potent attraction of
beef and bread. But all these efforts hod
failed to satisfy the agitators that you were
eady to abandou the institutions of your
fathers, and plunge into an interminable sea
of revolution,—to bequeath to your children
the legacy of anarchy, of commotion, of civil
strife, of military despotism, and of servile
war; instead of the glorious heritage of ponde,
liberty and prosperity which you received;
another attempt must be inode, and all pos
sible contrivances brought to bear upon you,
by means ofa“ Southern Rights,” (save the
tnarkj Governor and a “ Southern Rights”
General the strong arm ofthe low was invok
ed to compel your attendance. If persuasion,
and humbug, and beef have not the power to
assemble you, you dai - not turn a deaf ear
to the voice of military law or resist the pet
ty despotisms of military rule. Thank God
that your suffrages ore still free. Officers
may drag your persons to and fro at their
pleasure, but the mind cannot be so enslaved,
and despite ot ail the drilling to which you
have been subjected, a day will come, when
the voice of patriotism will be heard, and the
citizen will rise high above the behests ot the
pi.rliznn leader who struts his brief hour in
lnco and feathers.
Your duty on the field was merely nomi
nal and might have been dispensed with.—
The “ Review" of the day wns by the cele
brated Colonel of the Coflin Regiment ; the
Adjutant General ofthe Disunion Army, and
you should have been spared the fatigue,
dirt, and dust of tho farce which preceded it.
His subalterns had found “ n lame place
in Scott”—a defect in tho Coffin tactics, and
the chief himself has been brought up to
take command of tho detachment. Admon
ished by your votes of last year,he nppearson
the present occasion without his coflin or its
revolting garniture, not even the straps with
which he fastened it to his back, nor a fold
of the winding sheet are visible; none of the
insignia of the cemetery or the chnrnal house
are upon him, and but for the recollection of
the horrible uniform ot his corps, and the ru
inous tendency of his measures, it might be
possible to witness his bufloonry with as
much amusement ns disgust. If he were any
one else, it would astonish those who were
spectators of his billigerent demonstrations
and windy charges, at the head of his regi
ment last year, 11 over the prostrate bodies ol
tories, and through the ribs of traitors,” to
hear him now cooing Union, Union, “like
any sucking dove.” But it is not astonish
ing that impudent attempts should be made
to regain your lost confidence ot any sacrifice
of consistency, or any expenditure of duplici
ty. As in the elegant language of Governor
Towns, he “ played hell with their cause”
last yoor, he ought by all means this year to
“ play the devil” with himself in order to re
store it.
Somo disunionisls of less notqriety have
publicly withdrawn from the Southern Rights
parly to relieve it from the foul oder of their
presence, and well may the gallant Colonel
by a feat of political gymnastics of surprising
agility even fur him, attempt nt the rial
breaking his neck, to jump from his ci
upon the Georgia platform, and convjntevou
but sure I am, that they will be finally tri
umphant, and that the words, secession, se
paration, disunion, which are now so appal
ling to the hearts of many will become the
common dialect of Our children."
Hero then is the secret aim of the agita
tors revealed. “It is now unpopular" to
talk of disunion, and hence the hypocritical
peans to the constitution arising from lips
the Slates are absolutely sovereign; nations, If you
please ; what then .1 does this free them front re
sponsibility 1 Are they to bo oblivious to sacred
compacts 1 Con they at pleasure annul treaties,
without regard to the will or safety Of other high
contracting parties 1 Can they secede at pleasure,
with or without causo 1 Let us seo whet tho lavor-
ite author of our neighbor says on this head t
“There is another kind of the lnw of nations
which authors call arbitrary, because, it proceeds
from the will or consent of nations. States as well
ns individuals may acquire rights, and contract ob
ligations by express engagements, by compacts and
. ... . f . ■- sw .... f 0
but recently too familiar with cutsing; hence
tile newly issued order “ As you jyoroW Ho 'treaties! there results ftoitT those a’ konventionnl law
tho Old Union dnmorpfinv. hJ tho nnr.hamrod ?. f . nali ? n »' pcculln. to the contracting powors.’s-
the old Union democracy, by the unchanged
Nullifiers of 1833, whose war cry to- his
embattled coffin host, but a short twelve
months ago was “ disband your party organ-
izatign, and form in your line of secession a
Southern Confederacy.” They desire to
insinuate themselves into your confidence,
that they may the better carry on the work
of agitation, ot clamor?against imaginary
wrongs, and of unscrupulous invective until
“ the words secession, separation, disunion,
shall become the common dialect of your
children.”
Can the Union of your fathers withstand
these continued and insiduous attacks ? With
the fountains of political power poisoned at
its source, how long will the stream contain
pure and living waters ?
You bore yourselves nobly in the last; con
test— you rallied to the standard of your
country, and showed to the world that you
knew how to proserve her institutions, and
to mnintain inviolate the honor of your State.
Your sister States of the South have echoed
hack in thuqder.tones, the principles which
you enunciated, and have crushed to the
earth, the present hopes of the disunionists.
But one victory will not suffice. Yout adver
saries are active, talented, insiduous and per
severing. You must again throw nround
your government and her institutions, the im
penetrable shield of your strong arms and
free suffrages. You should do more ; you
should place the seal of condemnation, now
and forever, upon all who in any way parti
cipate in an open or covert attempt cause
lessly to destroy the Union of the Slates, or
ho engage in the unnatural office of aliena
ting tho hearts of the people from the govern
ment of their choice. Not until then will
your work be achieved.
that the habiliments of the grove try Jv fuct
Sovereignty, Secession, &o* *o.
Wo hove no particular closin' at present, to pro
tract a discussion with our noiglibor, upon questions,
which, from tiro opening of the pending caitvgps,
wo have deemed somewhat foreign to tho mala is
sue, and which we suppose were introduced by our
opponents to divert the public mind Irom that is-
Horotofore ns their bearing lias gene rally been
courtoous, wo liavo boon willing ns n pleasant pns-
time,occasionally to splinjcr n lauco with the Knights
ofthe Southerner-, particularly as wo thought we dis
covered a manifest improvement in their vlows,
under Abe conjoined tuition of Archbishop Whotely
od the Courier. The Inst number ofthe Southerner
however, (hows how vory dWIioult if is to eradicate
error and preconceived opinions—how hopeless tho
task ol convincing “a mnnnguitist his will." When
you think you have him fast and sure upon the firm
and luminous track of truth, impelled by sound rea
son and guided by sound discretion, ere you are a-
wnro. be flics off in pursuit of the old phantoms,
upsets himself, nnd scatters yon r box ol hones,label
led “ right side up, with care” to tho Ibnf winds
In our noiglibor, we hnyenhurd case, remarkably
so; almost hopeless; yet we do not entirely despair.
If wo can get him away from tho Influence of cer-
tnin politicalqnneks, andplncc him ttnderthe good
old regime o( Washington, Jefferson, Madison and
nothing less than the flag of yptft Country
But what think you of llto sincerity of
those professions of attachment to tho Union
extorted by defeat f Tho whole tenor of ev
ery argument addressed to you by Southern
rights speakers during the canvass has been
to convince you that your government was
unworthy ot your confidence; that it wns en
gaged systematically in oppressing you ; that
it had robbed you of your rights, and was leg
islating adversely to your property. Dcnum
cintion ot your government; assaults upon its
fairness nnd justice, have formed the staple
of all their addresses; all their energies have
been to bring it into disrepute. Even the
dying words of the Father of his country,
warning you against tho very perils which
now besot you are made n jest and bye word
by the grimaces of a mountebank, nnd the
old airs that have warmed tho breasts of your
ancestors on the battle-field, and serve now
to stir the blood within you to livelier emo'
lions of patriotism nnd honor—which chain
tho hearts of iLe young with indissoluble
cords to your country, Iter (lag and her insti
tutions, arc parodied by a pantomimic tc ex
cito the silly laugh of the besotted. Why
these efforts so persisted in, if their purposes
be fair and honorable r You have been rais
cd to venerate the Union; to recognise the
blessings which it secures; to speak of and
for the Unon ngnmst its nssailimts, and for, ,,, ,, „ r ,
, , , . ... , ,, regard it ns the Palladium of our liberties,and
your whole country against those who would .... . .. .
^ Irt (rnwn nwlurnnntIv imnn i»vavv In
rend it asunder.
Continuous efforts have been made to in
duce you this year to change that position ;
hot as before by the open advocacy of a dis
solution of the Union, but by underhanded
devices, attempts are made to allay your sus
picions, nnd persuade you to entrust the des
tinies of your State to men who were open
dfcunionisls iu 1850, or affiliates with them,
and sUai'O’their confidence in 1851.
Missionary after missionary has been sen
among you, to expel from jour benighted
minds that love of country, which stands as
an insuperable obstacle to the progress of
treason, whether it be open and rampant or
covered with the robes of? _mechination and
guej'dey after day you have been called
• homes and your avocations t<* lis
the stale and oil repeated fables of
a and in
to frown indignantly upon every attempt t<?
overthrow it. In the early life ofthe grey
headed among you, no one would have dared
to advocate so unrighteous a cause as its de
struction. During your life no jiafty can
elude your vigilance or steal away your suf
frages, hut who shall cay that this continual
abuse of your government may not poison the
minds of your children r Who can tell that
the traitor may not grow up when the ali
ment of treason is daily furnished to him
Who shall assure you that twenty years ot
agitation in Georgia, may not as in South
Carolina, bring forward a race hostile to the
Union and determined to rend it asunder ?•
“ I am aware” says a distinguished advo
cate for a dissolution of the Union in a pub
lished letter to a committee in Macon u that
the views which I have expressed are now
unpopular—too unpopular and startling to be
breathed in the lowest whisper
[Vattol, Preface L. of N.]
On treaties of Alii ianoo, this able writer fhrther re
marks i
“ As the engagements of a treaty impose on tho
one hand n perfect obligation, they produce on the
other perfect right. To violatea treaty is, then, to
violatotho perfect right of him with whom we have
contradtod, nnd this is to do him an injury.** Vat-
tel, Book II, chap* 12.]
For a State, therefore, whether sovereign or not,
at her own will nnd discretion, to violate a solemn
compact entered into with her equals, without re
gard to thoir interests or safety, is a doctrine equally
in conflict with nntiounl law, common usage und
common sense. Tho higher the contracting parties
the greater tho reason for a faithful compliance with
all tho stipulations of the compact. Hence Black
stono snys s
“ Whatever contracts tho king engngos in, no
other power in tho kingdom can legally delay, re
sist,or annul.” [Blaokstono*s Com. vol. 1, p. 257.
It is now some years since wo made ourselves fa
miliar with Vattel, Kent, Blackstonc, and other
commentators and expounders of national nnd com
mon law; but if-otir noiglibor will make ids quota
tions from them relevant to the questions under dis
cussion^ wo shall not demur to thofr authority. IIo
will howover bear in mind that Blackstono uses the
term State, not as applicable to this republican
country, but in tcfercnco to systems of government
in the old world. Also, tin? word sovereignty. Ho
must not, however,suppose tliat wo arc oblivious of,
or averse to tho rights of titc States. Iu their appro
priate sphere, tho States nro supreme—-within its
prescribed limits the Federal Government is supreme.
The respective prerogatives ol botli are distinctly de
fined by tho constitution; if either transcends its lim
its, a constitutional umpire is provided, to which
oither cun resort for a remedy.
Here we have, in few words, the true theory of our
Government most bea&tiftilly simplified. How ad
mirable its mechanism l The central Government
turns jegularly on its appropriate constitutional axis
—supreme in its own legitimate sphere—the individual
States move on quietly and securely in their respec
tive orbits; the whole, separately and conjointly ful-
filing their great nnd glorious destiny—presenting tho
grand spectacle of thirty-one States, voluntarily sur
rendering certain rights, and banding together for
common security $ and for a more suocessiul pursuit
of national greatness, forming themselves into one
great political family, bound together by a community
of interests, and by common perils. Put him down
a consolidationist.
We shall bring forward one more authority and
then take our leave of this subjeot, for the present.—
We presume Gen. Jackson will hardly bo suspected
of Federalism ; though in these disunion times, all
^vho will not bow down to the idol which Rhett, Mo-
Donald & Co. have set up, ore suddenly trans
formed, and made to personify new characters, bear
new names and net new parts in tho politloal drama.
To fit their Procrustean bed, every mr.n must either
bend or break. But hear what Gen. Juckson snys:
"The States severally have not retained their en
tire sovereignty. It has been shown that in becoming
parts of a nation, not members of a league they sur
rendered many of their csscntinl rights of sovereignty.
The right to make treaties—declare war—levy taxes
—exercise exclusive judicial and legislative powers—
were all ol them functions of sovereign power. The
States then for all these important purposes wero no
longer sovereign.”
"How then can that State be said to be sovereign
and independent, whose citizens owe obedience to
laws not made by it, nnd whose magistrates arc sworn
to disregard those laws when they como in conflict
with those passed by another. What shows conclu-
bively that the State cannot be said to have reserved
an undivided sovereignty, is that they express!cy ced
ed the right to punish treason; not treason against
their separate power, but tr*jnson ngninst the United
States. Treason is nn oflense ngninst sovereignty,
and sovereignty must reside with the power to punish
Nick the old Hero, nnd put Atm down ub a consoli-
dntionist. In short, halter, garote, decapitate every
man, dead or living, who for a moment calls in ques-
tion the fallibility of the Nashville Convention, or
doubts that Barnweil Rhott, Charles J. McDonald and
John A. Quitman ure not greater, wiser and better
men than Washington, Madison, JeflVrson and Jack-
son,evei were or bv any possibility ever co’ld have been.
Jnckson, and other illustrious sages, and keep him
there, wo may anticipate permanent convalescence.
Ho may evon rUuin, if ho pleases, Archbishop
Whatcly as Ids Cicerone in logic and Vattol as his
Sir Oraclo in national law; nnd still wo shall look
for a permanent cure. Wo also give him full per
mission to mo Blackstono as freely ns he may desire.
All wo nflki J 8 > that when lie quotes Sir William
or any other author, htJ will quote them relevantly.
To support ids novel position; ho makes tho fol
lowing extract:
" The attribute of sovereignty is inteparalle frdni
nationality,”—Arnold?b Lectures on Modern His
tory.
Now we would respectfully ask, if Georgia is a
nation ? This wo know our neighbor has asserted.
But is it so 1 Site cannot declare war nor make
peace; and yet our friends sc^in to hold on to the
hallucination that every State in tho confederacy is
an independent nnd sovereign nation; nnd lienee,
we suppose, wo are to account for tho introduction
ofthe ubovc quotation; for it certainly would other
wUe bo against our neighbor, nnd instead of giving
sovereignty to Georgia or South Carolina, would
give it to tho national government if indeed, wi
have still loft us, such a commodity ns nationality.
If our friends of tlie Southerner will go back, and
familiarize their minds with American history, and
notice carefully tho rise and progress of the Ameri
enn Government, many ofthe fallacies wldcli now
seem to bowildor them and darken thoir counsels,
would bo dispelled. They will And that tho Brit-
ish colonics, out of which* this great nation has
sprung, never pretended that they were separate
nnd distinct sovereignties, and never acted as such
To resist the encroachments of British oppression,
they, by mutual agreement through thoir deputies,
to the Continental Congress in 177-1, become a uni-
tcd^ieople, but notan independent nation. All their
remonstrances went forth ns those ol n united people.
In 1770, they drew up their mcmorublc declaration
of independence, nnd sent it forth, not sb tho nciion
of State Legislatures, nor even requiring their en
dorsement, but ns tho united voice ofthe united peo
ple of|the colonies of Great Britain. Asa united
people they achieved tlielr independence, and
brought this nation into being, as a free and inde
pendent power. Neither the Colonies nor the ori
ginal thirteen States, up to the time of the ndoption
of tho Federal Constitution exercised separately the
distinguishing prerogatives of sovereignties. They
never sent ubroad ministers to negotiate pence.—
Da. Franklin and others, were appointed by the
Government ofthe Unitol Colonies or States, an*,
were received as its accredited ngents. The peace
made with Great Britain and tho acknowledgement
of our independence, were never submitted to the
States for ratification, but to Congross. Neither tho
Colonies nor tho States, therefore oversaw the mo
ment when they separately exercised national pre
rogatives,or possessed all the attributes of sovereign
ty. Of their own free will and accord, they have
always owed and paid obedience to the General
Government, und solemnly sworn tp defend and.
Constitution.
WHO’S RIGHT?
Our iriends of the Southerner ure still disposed to
quarrel with us nnd call us naughty namus, because
we cannot or will not understand and endorse their
new system of political science, which by some novel
process suddenly separates the people of the United
States into ("thirty-one) peoples” or independent na
tions, endows them nil with sovereignty, but don’t give
one of them the right of having an army, forming ol
lipnees, declaring war,making peace, coining money,
levying imposts, or establishing a post-office or a post
road. A very beggarly batch of sovereigns this, tru
ly. We hayo heard of n iked lights; this is what
we should term naked sovereignly. And because we
contended that wo are one people, and quoted from
Washington to prove it, why we are, forsooth, a con-
| soiidatiomBt, an enemy to Stare Rights und State re
medics. Now all this clop-trap, does not answer our
argument, nor silence our authorities. And we shall
not be especially frightenened by odious appellations,
when permitted to share them with the Fathers of the
Republic. The Southerner says, wo are “not one peo
ple.'* Let us see what others say on this subject, as
well os upon the subject .of Stats sovereignly. No
one, we presume, will ifoubt that Gen. Washington
understood well, both the letter, and spirit of our Fed
eral Constitution, nnd tho sentiments and feelings of
those who framed that great instrument. In his let
ter transmitting it to Congress, he snys:
"It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Gov
ernment of these States to secure all the rights of in
dependent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the
interest and safety of nil. Individuals entering into
society must give up a share of their liberty to pro.
serve the rest. Tho magnitude of the sacrifice must
depend as well on situation and circumstances, as on
the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult
to draw with precision, the line between those rights
which must be surrendered, and those which may be
reserved. And on the present occasion this difficulty
was increased by a difference among tho several States
as to their situation, extent, habits and particular in
terests. In all our deliberations on this subject, we
kept steadily in our view that which appeared to us
the greatest interest of every true American, the con
solidation of our Union, in which is involved our
prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national exis
tence/
So much for Washington’s views oi State sover
eignty and American nationality. Put him down
gentlemen, as a. consolidationist.
Now let us sec what Mr. Madison says upon this
subject, and secession nlsu. In a letter written by
him in 1830, in opposition to the South Carolina con
gtruction of the Virginia Resolutions of 90, he says:
It (the Constitution) was formod by the States,
that is, by the People in each of the States, acting in
thoir highest sovereign capacity; and formed conse
quently by the same authority which formed the State
Constitutions.
"The Constitution being a compact among the
States iu their highest sovereign capacity, ami consti
tuting the people thereof one people for certain pur
poses, it cannot be altered or annulled at the will of
the States individually, ns the Constitution of a State
may be at its individual will."
Thus much from Mr. Madison, and if it wero nec
essary, we could furnish more from the same nnthori
ty to fortify our position. Put him down as a consol
idationist.
It is known that Patrick Henry was opposed to
the adoption of the Federal Constitution on the ground
that it abridged the sovereignty of the States; and he
declared that it produced
A revolution as radical as that which separated
us from Great Britain. It is ns rndical, if in this trans
ition our rights and privileges are endangered, and the
sovereignty of the States be relinquished ; and cun
not we plainly see, that this is actuully the ease ?
Here, then* wc have another witness in our favor
of no ordinary character. Put him down as a consol
dationist.
But what does Mr. Jefferson say upon this subject?
Let us see. I u letter written by him to Madison
after the ndoption of the Constitution, in which
lie discusses its effects upon the Union, he says
This instrument (die Constitution,) forms us into
State, ns to certain objects, and gives us a Legis
lative nnd Executive body for those objects." [Jeffer
son’s works, vol. 2, page 442.]
What these objects arc, is explained in tho follow
ing sentence :
But the true barriers of our liberty in this country
our State Government!*, and the wisest conserva
tive power ever contrived by man is that of which our
Revolution and present Government found us pos
sessed. Seventeen distinct States amalgamated into
one as to their foreign concerns, but single and inde
pendent as to their interim! administration.”—Vol. 4
page 1G2.
Again lie snys
“The cnpitol nnd leading object of the Constitu
tion was to leave with States all authorities which re
Bpected their own citizens only, nnd to transfci to the
United Stntes those which respected citizens of for
eign or other States, to make its several as to our
selves, but one os to all others.”—Vol. 4 ; Pago 373
Speaking of the State and Federal Governments,
lie says
"They are co-ordinate departments of one simple
and integral whole.*'
"The one is the domestic, tho other the foreign,
branch of the same Government.”
“Those two.Bets Qfqfllcers,eaqh independent of-the
other constitute thus a whole of governfa?$nt fop each
separately? \ i
Hib
nre associated, wo shall handle him and all,
him without gloves* '
Election of Judge.*
Tlie people will bear in mind that the
following action was taken by tlie last Leg
islature : '
“ Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of Georgia
in General Assembly convened. 1'bat nt the
next general election for Governor nnd
Members of tho Legislnturo, the peoplo of
thia State be requested to express thoir wish
es as to the manner in which the Judges of
the Superior Courts shall thereafter be elect
ed, by endorsing on their tickets, “By tho
Legislature,” or “ By the People.”
Assented to, December 12th 1840.
UR. COLQUITT IN ROUE.
When we penned onr complimentary notice of this
gentleman last week, littledld we think,that he would
eo aoon favor us with his presence, Rat It la always
somewhat difficult to predict where Mr. Colquitt will
or will not be, nt any particular time, either in peraon
or principles. As his appearanee in our oommunlly
tvas honored with a General turnout of tho milt tnry' of
thia, and the presence of distinguished Southern Rights
men from adjoining oountics, wa presume, it was not
entirely unexpected. Indeed, we learn that a series
of Regiment'd mustora have been arranged, in order,
we suppose, to glvo the distinguished commander of
the coffin regiment, an opportunity o( looking into
Bubmiasion camps, inspecting their strength, «ttd If
possible, winning them over to tho oanso OfRhett,
McDonald Jc Co. This waa deemed undoubtedly a
master stroke of policy, by the wire-pullers, but If we
nre not greatly deceived they will find the peoplo aveno'
to being drilled Inin tho support of McDonald, Stiles
and d!Stinlqnism,cilhc>|by Gen. Patton or Mr. Colquitt,
The mutterlngs which were heard in our streets or>
Saturday last, were but tho presago of the October
gale. Mr. Colquitt nndhis friends have entirely mis
taken the character ol the Cherokee population if they
suppose they can be changed about by every novelty*
As regards Mr. Colquitt’s entertainment at tho 1
ware-house, wo hardly know how to characterize iti-
It was certaTnly no argument, whatever else- if may
have been. It contained eelect viewa of hie own pub
lic life, and of the different parties with which he had
been associat'd, with an occasional apostrophe to Un
ion editors in general and the Rome Courier In par
ticular. He also referred with much patho* to hi*
coffin lino, and with a look ontireiy hie own, laid he
woo not like the wltito livers, but oottld look right into
a coffin without roar. Ho rapped Lumpkin a littlo,
Cobb and Toombs more, kicked, cuffed and gouged
the Georgia platform; glorified hlmaeir, tho Nash
ville Convention, McDonald and Stiles; mads an af- -
feeling und touching appeal to old Democrats, nnd
wound up with an exhortation to the people to vote
ob they pleased ; a thing they had long sinee deter
mined to do. The whole was intorapersed with stale
anecdotes, sullies of dull wit, and fltir specimens of
pantomime,mimickry and bufloonry. Tlie boys wero
delighted, but the sober nnd reflecting of all parties
wero disappointed. Wo Buy again, in all sincerity,
Mr. Colquitt's course is calculated to injuronny cause.
We have some fear that he ia trying to get upon tho
Goorgla platform. If so, our friends will please
‘stand from under,"
Wire Pulling.
Mr. Colquitt tho other day gnve a very
clear and forcible exposition of wire pulling
and wire pullers. From his large experience
in this art, his views should be received with
ominentjdeffeienco.
Tho Contrast.
Every one must have noticed the differ
ence between thq m'ntter end manner of Mr.
Cobb and that of Mij. Colquitt. The former
argumentative, clear, weighty respectful,
dignified: the latter, flippant, dessuittory,
artful, censorious. Mr. Colquitt we think
has greatly underrated the intelligence and
mistaken the taste of our population. Tho
people of Cherokeo Georgia, can very readi
ly discriminate between fustoin and harle.
quinism and sound argument.
AS WE EXPECTED.
The Mountain Signal gives an elaborate
and cheering report of the meeting aud dis
cussion between Mvssts McDonald and (' obb
at Dahlonega. We regret that a press of
matter, prevents us from laying the entire
article before our readers. Tho following
however is too important to be omitted, and
wo beg those who beard Mr. Colquitt on
Saturday last assert that ho was now un the
Georgia Platform, whilst tlie Union Parly
would not stand up to it, to rend it. If Mr,
Colquitt is honest in his new professions he
is obliged to quit McDonald or vole against
his own principles. But wo say again Read
fellow-citizens for yourselves the following
extract
“ It has been claimed by the friends of
Mr.Me Donald that he wns not only a Union
man, but that he was on the Georgia Plat
form I Indeed, he hns said himself, that he
was bound to acquiesce in the action ol that
Convention. Where is he now—what does
he say > Mr. Cobb asked him the question,
in public, if he was on the Georgia Platform?
What wns his reply ? Here it is, in his own
words—“/Vo, I am aol\ nor do J wish to be
No wonder the frionds of McDonald have
tried to keep their candidate housed, and out
of the way of Mr. Cobb, and havo sent out
in his stead, and to follow in the tracks ofthe
latter gentleman one more suple and artful,
But it all will not do I With a bold and man
]y hand, Mr. Cobb has lorn away his am'
bush nnd he now stands forth in his truo cha
racter, the opponent ot his own Stale. This
is ns we expected.
QUITE CORRECT.
Wo did notdistinotlylieiirMr. Colquitt’s remarks
relative to our iillusious to him in the last Courier,
but understood him to say that ho supposed our re
marks referred to him politically, not personally.—
In tills, his impressions are entirely correct,
our limited intercourse with him. we have always
found him tlie pleasant companion nnd ngrccablc
gotilloman, and as such wo have ulwoys endeavored
to treat him'. And even if it wore otherwise, we
should not feel ourselves nt liberty to assail bis pri
vnte charnctsr. But whilst there nre onr views, nnd
this onr position, wo feet at perfect liberty to speak
freely of ids political character nnd course, and
shall most certainly do so, so long us ho continues
so prominent and zealous nn opponent nf our enuso,
Either for good pny or good will, he hns espoused
the cause of McDonald, Stiles&Co., nnd ns a sort
political missionary la traversing Cherokee Georgii
endeavoring to propiote thoir election, and that by
moans npt the most dignified or commendable. Ho
need not therofqfo he surprised if wo disclose his
-A
MOST UNFORTUNATE.
Tlie mismanagement and misdeeds of onr oppo-
nenis together, have already shocked add mortified
ns. Wo know much of this may have been attri
butable to the dospernto character of their causo ;
still, under any and overy disadvantage, it appears
to ua, men of talent and forecast ought to have man-
ugeil their nfliilrn more disoreotly, Hod they stood
lip generally nnd squarely to tho issue they first
made, like men of candor, nnd which some, wo nre
happy to any, have done, thoy would ltovo goto lar
ger share of public support nnd rospoot. There
hns been, howover, so much of vneolllation, so mnny
Ihlsc issues nnd contradictory declarations made by
them, that tho public mind hns become bewildered
nnd public confidence destroyed in most of tlieiv
men nnd all of their measures.
To ett! the work of destruction short, Mr. Col
quitt lias been despatched from below, to enlight
en old Cliorokoo Union Demoornls, and rally them
upon old issues. Was there ever a mere suieidnll
stroke of policy 1 Walter T. Colquitt the politloal'
renegndo, toaetlilmeetfur as teacher 6f these whoso
bonds have whitened in the good old Demoeratio
school. Walter T. Colquitt, who has always been
a thorn in theeideof the Union Domoornts, sentTn-
to Choroken Georgia to tell them how lovotcl Was
there over such madness! Well it is said “whom the
god’s destroy they first make mad.” In spile of all wa
Clin say or do, our fire-eating friehde will,have their
own way, nnd must therefore reap the bitter conse
quences of their folly.
Rail Road Meeting. -i
The proceedings ol a Roil Road meeting, hrtf ag
Cedar Bluff, Ala., will be found in another col—n, -
Wo hope all interested will attend the prnpeaed Caa-i
tendon, We regret the: the lime fixed for iiame*a^
ing is about tho Mine of thtt at vihich many will Jet.
sire to be at the Macon Fair. Perhaps our friend* la;
Alabama may yet change the time without detriment,
to the great interest they have eo laudably taken, let
hand. Wo like to see these movements, and'aa-tUaw-
in deeply interested, wc hope ehe will bo well regea-
sented in the proposed Convention.11 , - a
The Pennsylvania Tragedy- v-* j
This Is truly a year of violence, blood-shed, trim*
and general disaster, There have been more horrid
tragedies, more fearful outbreaks ofhuman passion;
more destructive floods aod fires; more storms and
blight than has over occurred in the snme lapse of
time within our recollection. Tho melancholy riol
which recently occurred in Pennsylvania, presents
a sad picture of the lawlessness of the times, Where
this spirit ol resistance to law and order willend inly
our country, we cannot tell. We arepleased to see
that some SO or more of tho participators in the
Christiana tragedy havo bcetf'arrested; and that
the Governor of tho State has offered a reward of|
one thousand dollars ibr the detcotion of tho guilty
parties. We regret to observe that our op;
are trying to mako politloal capital ont of It
happy affair' In tills they will fait There
ry evidence that tho State and Fcdoral officers
determined to see tho laws rigidly enforced and
guilty punished.
Since writing tlie foregoing a partial investigi
of the cnee before the court, hae toil no doubt
mind dial it wns a free-negro riot altogether.
Cotton Pioking.
We refer those who are skeptical on tho subjt
or Colton raising in Cherokee Georgia, to tho <
mimicetion of a Pauldkig planter, found ii
other column. Time and enlightened and ct
culture will show that good average crops of t
may be grown almost any where, south and e
the Lookout and Cohntta Mountains. Our onl
is, that it will grow too well, to the exclusion I
grain, grass, potato and fruit culture. Ours shot
be made a farming and manufacturing, not a pf^
mg country. If our’frtcmls In Paulding, how-
will plant cotton, wo havo no objection to t
ing Lower Georgia and “the rest of mank
■pile Nashville Spirit/
The spirit of arrogance nnd dictatio
hibited by the Nashville Conventi
in session, and the attempt of its laed
domineer over the people after their .1
hits been a subject of general observatl
remark. In the spiritof dictation th«yj|
ted tlje Coffin line, and in the ap‘ '
scription they treated with ridicule and
tempt those who would not adopt thaffi
ultimatum. A w-ritifr in Sfltfh ^ 1
allusion to this quotas from
Got;. Hammond of : that
true oharaetpr and warn tlie people against his de*
vices, iSoloqaashpoon'flnqestho rpvilerqf Mr.Qobb, I ///iVsharkeV who ol
the opposer of Mr. Chastain, und ondenyore to heap Jua B 0 Bna T( .
ridicule upoq, the catlap and party with which tve 1 handed measures
ffijecte