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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