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From the Southern Banner.
H nti.kmbn—The family circle i
the late
• •i n. James Jackson liovc, since the appear
ance of tho Southern Whig, of ilie 1 <>rtl itist.
been quite amused ot the iiicnt and accuracy of
ilie .Editor’s knowledge of theurand their deceas
ed Relative. A shaft is attempted to he sped at
that one of their Dumber who lias recently been
honored !>v the Union Convention with a nom
ination for Congress—ami he has In
ated as recreant to the prineiplcsof
Docs the Editor of tho whig know that the nom
inee above referred to, has, in the political course
which he is now pursuing, not merely our simple
assent, but our uudissomblcd approbation ? Does
ho oven suspect tbat fact? Does he know that ofi
the family of the late (Jen. Jackson, about whose <
principles ho thinks that he has such coraprehen-1
sive information, five out of six have thought i
proper to obaudon those whom he is pleased to i
call “Ilio * M
• II many other cases connected with Yazooism.
divesting it of reprehension. So far Iron Gen
Clark ever posses ing obliquity of seumnent i«-
wurds him, we have reason to helieve that I;
cherished a reverential dcfference for him—a
feeling which, doubtless, was induced in the first
instance when he himself was uyouth, by lii-lr
quently seeing him in tho camp of his Father
• ten. Elijah Clark, at the seige of Augusta in
ii individu- j 1731, and elsewhere during the war of the revo
lts ancestor. | lution. Moreover, it isdisdnetly within the ree-
ollcctions of tbat one of us already particularly
alluded to ns having been with him in Washing
ton. that only a very short time before his death,
his father received a letter full of respect and
kindness from (Jen. Clark. Nordo we know or
believe that the friends and adherents of Gen-
Clark, as a party, notwithstanding the assertions
of the Whig, ever ottered a single word in dero
gations of our deceased telative. The object of
I the Whig is snfiicient!. obvious—it is to excite
bad feeling in that branch of the Union party
which comprises those formerly the political
' friends of Gen. Clark against the nominee as a
descendant of James Jackson. We shall see
whether tho patriotic gentlemen of the old Clark j Col Sparks from Louisiana, Secretary.
party, notv forming so large and honorable a
portion of the great conservative party of Geor
gia, will not rise above the influence of such a
iany sinister appeal,
ntial i The editor of the W hig
irmai friends of the character of the
ather 1, of me nominee? Did the editor of the
Whig never hear that our senior member, the
bortber of the late Gen. Jackson, and individual
who has, wo would suppose, been sufficiently
long a resident of Clarke county for the ed
itor :o have understood, at least that such a man
is in existence—that this individual w ho apart
from the strong fraternal tie which hound them,
wa- an inmate of the General", family for
years prior to his dcalh-*-we.s hi: confi
friend and secretary, and was left an executor ol
hi-, will—that this individual, posse: ,ing more and
better knowledge of his distinguished kinsman’s
principles than any person whatsoever, or indeed
sh
i! He . i be a dili'i-rencr
opinions, decidedly the sternest foe to nullification i ness, received the very euphonic and graphic cog
& therefore the fastest friend of the Union l*arly in j uomon of the Bloody Bill 1 And that he went on
one household ! Will it he said that an individu- i in those letters to state incidentally to this cx-
al thti-- circumstanced as regards his deceased pression oT opinion, his approval of Forsyth and
brother—aud that another.individual of our house , Wayne’s vote, and that had ho heen himself in
who was in attendance at the city of Washing- i Congress he would, notwithstanding all the non
ton on the dying bed of his Father, and there re- j sense that has been ejaculated about the indivi-
reived the hist injunctions upon our family, (we j sihility of State sovereignty, have done likewise,
will say nothing of the personal or political Knowl- and thereby supported.tho glorious old man at
edge possessed by the rest of os respecting him.) j the head of the government of tho country, in his
are less qualified to know our relatives principles '■ exemplary illustration of his own never-dying
than ho, tho editor of the Whig, who never saw | motto. “The Federal Union, it must be preser-
lii/n, and probably never read an effusion of his ; veil/" Diti tbo editor ever beartbatour nominee
pen until lately, when lie has thought proper, in 1 received a written invitation to the nullification
«mder to subserve party purposes, to disturb his J festival given 2Gih May 1832, to Gov. Hamilton
ashes, and appear as his encomiast? Is it among
tho possibilities oven, that the Editor of the H big
more affprirc. by • nr intimating to him our en
ure sritisfiw tion that th< casket containing that
t ear!, .a-hr calls it.be where lit says that it new
I-. In the present pirtemons aspect of the nolr-
al horoscope, w take the liberty of thinking that j
the only safe depository for it is T E UNION j
PARTY OF GEORGIA
Our task is done. We shall appear no more J
before the public in "controversy on the matters of
his address, with the editor of the \\ hig, or with
any body else—contested with handing over him
or
nee for congress) to the peopl
will we doubt not, make a righteous settlement
of any account remaining outstanding between
the parties on thcfiist Monday in October.
Tin. family or the late gov
Athens, July, 21 1835.
them (with particular reference to the uorni- t tn F> a 13 TT
? for congress) to the people of Georgia, who X Hi _I_i S~J AV A A J •
MACOPT, Ga.
THURSDAY, AUGUST G 1835.
Jackson-
Meeting of the Southern Gentlemen in A(w
York.—This meeting was held on Monday eve
ning 20th inst at Tammany Hall. At half past
5 o’clock. Dr. David (’. Carr, of New Orleans
was called ou to preside. Mr. John Hutchins, from
Mississippi, was appointed Vice President, and
DOMINATIONS
wethercock policy” says the Chrouicle, “will only
tend to strengthen the cause of the State Rights
party.” True, no doubt, since it is from a most
pitiable pliancy of politics and wethercock poli
cy that the State Rights party derives its entire
support—suppress the exhibition of all such ma
terials and it would be struck dumb forever;
the abundant sustenance afforded it by the Chro.
nicle, however, renders all further wethercock
helps front the Clark party, at thi- time, unne
cessary.
My Dear
Washington. Ga- 3Jst July ’35.
-Having reached a stopping
place. I will proceed to give you some account
of myself, since you last heard from me. Leav
ing McDonough under the escort of a broiling
sun, I was not sorrv to see, an hour or two after
wards. indications'of an approaching storm, gath
ering thick aud fast, upon my left. At this sea
son of die year, a shower can hardly come amiss
—and in that section, the parched earth and
twisted corn blades, imported that one had been
long prayed for: and not knowing how soon I
might have another opportunity of enjoying a
shower bath, was not over anxious to avoid it. &
“Have tee shown any preference for H bite,” | SO on received a good drenching,
says the Chronicle, “nav—have we not said, and
shown that we conceive it to the interest of the
South that Mr. Van Buren should be elected,
but without the aid of the State Rights party
Of the Union Party of Georgia. ; —being a northern man, and as we believe,
the most unpopular of all northern men at the
A Preamble was submitted, aud which slavery
was admitted to bean evil, the abolitionists con
demned. credit claimed for the South for its aid
to the Colonization Society, and coucludiug its
follows:
“Y'our committee are happy on the occasion
io say that on this momentous question they find
in accordance with fteir own the sentiments and
was pleased also to
announce the nominee for Congress from onr fam
ily, ns “ a new convert to the Union creed.”—
Did the cditoi ever hear that the nominee wrote
letters to Savannah and elsewhere in the winter j f, clings of a largo portiou of the people of tho
tau till persons whosoever, has shaken off the ! of J832—3, expressing bis free assent to the mens-1 non-slave-holding slues, and that enlightened
tackles of party, & that he is at the present time, j uresnf the President and Congress against South j portion of their fellow citizens of New York.—
at all in the strength of our j Carolina >> indicated in what has, in very gentle-J From this fact they augur much good: truth
must ultimately triumph, and to this end they res
pectfully invoke the enlightened people of the
nourslavc-holding states, to ttnito with them in
frowning down th:n. spirit of fanaticism aud false
philanthropy, which is uow gaining upon the
feelings of too many of our fellow citizcus, and
which threatens not noly the peace, but very ex
istence of our government.
••That the feelings of the people of the same
slave-holding States may be fully and entirely
known upon the subject of slavery as it exists
among us, and upon the project of its immediate
abolition as proposed by the Abolitionists,
your committee recommended the adoption of
•the following resolution.
“Resolved, That a committee of two be ap
pointed by the Chairman of <lie meeting to cor
respond witlt intelligent aud distinguished individ
uals of each sIave-ho;ding state, reqnestiug them
to cull nieetiugf and to iioininatu delegates to
roeet*at some"suitable time and place, to tike in
consideration the proper course of slave-holding
•States to adopt in the present alarming crisis.
The Preamble and resolutions railed forth a
disrussi..u in which the meeting itself ai d the
spirit of the Preamble and the measure recom-
meuded by the resolution were generally con
demned by the Southern gentlemen present. We
give the following spoolhesas calculated toshow
both Southern aud Noihern feeling on the sub
ject.
‘•The ('barman said, thiy if there was any one
present who objected to the resolution, ho would
i>e happy to hear his reasons for dissenting from
may know more nbout his principles*ban we our
selves do? The person who Says that he believes
that it ii, must, we opine, be of that very pc-
ctt'iar and not every-day faith which is said to be
tilde to move mountains; or be must be after the
order of that particular religionist who guilty in
tho phrase of the schoolmen or the tg nor alio clen-
chi, aud eschewing demonstration because faith
only is pretended to, adopts the Tertrllinii mode ot
belief, and piously circulates as the argument of
hi-; tenet, Ore do quia impossible est.
But what induced she family of James Jack-
sou to nhandou those whom the editor denomin
ates “the original friends of his character?'’—
Because thoso friends abandoned wltal we
thought proper to consider his principles, when
they adopted tho Resolutions of Nov. 1833 at
Mill edge viUc. Tho confidence of the family in
those frieuds, to speak ingenuously, was painfully
shaken in 1832 by suspicions at that time vague,
but since confirmed, that some of those friends
were taking John C. Calhoun, aud his nestling
nullification, to their busonis—nnd tin influence
of the- ■- suspicious in our exercise of the elective
franchise was such, that wc give a mixed vote in.
•tho October elections of 1832; and a still more
compounded one in those of 1833. One month af-
lor tlio latter election, the Resolutions referred to,
embracingns they did. the Carolina politics which
wo have always held ill abhorrence, perfected our j
at Hamburg, and that he treated it with such
tacit contumely that he would not even reply to
it ? that being in Athens at that time, he resisted
most pressing invitations from highly valuable
personal friends to go in August 1832 to Lexing
ton, to tlfat far-famed dinner which may well he
indicated as tho jnmetum saliens of Nullifu ation
in Georgia? that he placed a card of August 115,
1832 to attend the nullifying Dinner in Columbus
in ihcsnme category as tho invitation to Ham
burg ?—that at least two individuals, the Hon.
gentleman now the Secretary ot State at Wash
ington, and a gentleman thee as now a resident
of Athens and of opposite politics to those of
the nominee, are or were in possession of letters
from hint written immediately after the w ithdraw
al of the Union delegates from the convention
ofNovember 1832, in which lie unequivocally de
clared that had he been a delegate fro-" tin-coun
ty of Jefferson, in which he then resided, and from
which he was asked to go but declined, lie would,
unhesitatingly, have been with thesccrders ? Did
the editor ever hear, lastly, that the nominee for
Congress rejected with disdain requests re him
at the commencement in August 1833, to - at-
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE U. S.
Martin Van Bnren.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
Richard US, Johnson.
FOR GOVERNOR,
William Schley.
FOR CONGRESS,
Jabez Jackson.
Jesse F. Cleveland.
Bibb County.
For the Senate—AMBROSE SABER.
For Representatives—LEWIS LAWSHE,
‘ SAMUEL B. HUNTER.
I stopped atau
old ftiend’s in Bulls ard took dinner—where I
was kindly entertained—and was sorry to learn
that the drought had been very severe in most
parts of that county. Proceeding on, I crossed
the Oemulgee at Key's Ferry, and was surprised
on being recognized by the ferryman who recol
lected setting n.e across at the same place some
_ , . , . ,, _ . i ten years before 1 In gettidg into Jasper. I could
South and thereby enabling the south to op- uot J but wonder at the ..umber of old fdds turn-
Crawford County
For the Senate—HENRY CROWELL
For Representatives,
J. M. D. KING,
WILLIAM COLBERT.
j pose hiui and his abuses more effectually than
i those of a southern man ?” Here again, through
this weaker vessel of the State Rights party,
leaks out the plot by which they yet vainly hope
to come into power- to excite a quarrel between
the northern aud southern states, whicn shall
! lead to their disunion. Tips is the plot which
; the Union party long since detected and exposed,
and have thus far, successfully defeated, and by
j which they have incurred the malice of the ene
mies of civil liberty itt foreign climes, as well as
of their allies, the wltigs and nulbfiers. in our
out, in tins apparently new country. Large
bodies of land, the timber entirely destroyed, the
soil exhausted, cut up by huge gullies, the hous
es and fences mouldered away, with the dead
trees still standi'r g, aud stretching their withered
arms toward heaven, as if imprecating its venge-'
ance for the destruction caused by civilization !
strikes one with sorrow and shame. Notwith
standing the desolation, a tippling house was'
here and there to he seen : and so perhaps it is
not to he wondered at. One follows the other
as Irilly as effect follows cause. Where tippling
is patronised, fanning is neglected, and estates
ruined. Had Common Schools received thc sumo
attention, a different aspect might now he presen
ted. Schools, Lyceums Agricultural Societies,
own. It is not strange that the adherence of the
Telegraph to that party and those principles, j and well-selected Periodicals, are agreeable sub
which are so irritating to the jaundiced eyo of! stitutes for the dram shop anil the law ground.
the friends of monarchical government, should 1. 11 " as late before I reached Monticclh ; and
... ° .being fatigued. I r; tired soon to rest. But. the
awaken the bitter feelings especially of those tm- ; S( , U1I[ | 0 fa Piano from a neighboring dwelling, of
ported hog-trotters, who bring with them all their i a /lute here, and a violin there, showed that the
dominations of the State Right* Party of Georgia j hereditary' hostility to every thing republican! taste rttid refinement.'he gaiety and sociability,
VOR president, who have no feelings or interest in common with J for which lillS charming village has always been
celebrated,-were still fostered ;
HUGH LAWSON WHITE.
FOR GOVERNOR.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY
As Jabez Jackson, sen of the lato Gov. James
candidate of
Americans, and would
citizens of the north aud south, bathiu
hands in each other’s blood, if, upon that contin
j gency aloue, depended the gratification of their
ladly see the peaceful) j£ n were reca ilcd by memory, oft!
Jackson, is before the people as „ yum. «. , thim for powcr . Thc chronicle would prefer
the democratic republican party of Georgia, for Mr V an Buren because, he being a northern
Congress, tho letter found in our columns today, | ma0f tho Sou(h be J Ore effeclua „ y excited
from the family of Gov. Jackson, touching facts, to . oppos j tion !lsaiust t|ie gener al administration
which, for party purposes, have hceu made the
subject of misrepresentation, will not fail to be
interesting to a large portiou of our readers.
“Col. Foster of Georgia, whose remarks as
well as those of nil other speakers, we aro obli
ged to curtail, theu addressing the meeting and
said—That he very unexpectedly came to the
meeting which he would uot have done, did lie
designation of the ••ontince as “a new convert
to the Uuiou creed?” The price of the new con
version. it is said, is to he the nominee’s election
to congress. The nominee will here merely
hint that if he had been very desirous of an
olitjctl estrangement from those friends. Wo he- 1 election to Congress he might as he believes
Ii' ved the Union of these States to been dangcrcd , (and as the editor if he choose, may perchance,
by those Resolutions, because they were cognate hr consulting some of the new lights of the old
with thoso flagitious politics: and ourownimmedi Troup party, find out) have bad the honor of ;■
ate sense of political obligation being quite in nomination at least for Congress, and the support
harmony with one of thc injunctions of the late : of that party for the station, some ten yeors a-
lload of our Mouse, that the duty which we owe go.
to bur country transcends 'hat which we owe to J Wc think it at least within the range of the
our parry, we acted accordingly. Wo knew no-; possibilities, that the party to which the editor of
tend the public dinner ut Athens in Honor of anticipate sorb a resolution as the one which was
George McDuffie? Will the editor adhere to his rci ,j. A*. However, he was at t
thing thereafter about Troop or Clark party—we
knew only our country—wc went for it—it was
then onr party; ard even at thc hazard of aban
doning w lint the \\ big calls “original friends.”
wcctiose to avow that “the friends of thc Union
were our friends, and its enemies our enemies.”
Apart, too, from our duty to our country always
employing the first and tho best cares of our hearts
w e could m i. as philarthroj ist;, bn insensible to
the force of the deprecation by Lafayette of the
Conduct of South Carolina, lie ejaculated
in the bitterness or feeling, that she had thrown
hack liberty in Europe half a century. Could
wc lie tloiihh treacherous ? First to the religious
cause of our ow u country ; and then to the saert d
cause ol" Freedom all over the world by aiding
(though it wo re only by our votes) to make our
own Georgia throw hack liberty another halfcou-
! the Whig belongs, will not ho eager in their prof-
! fer of thanks to him for being the occasion <>fthe
making of this communication to you, gctith met.
the meeting he
felt houm) to express his dissent from tho resolu
tion. He objected to it. iu the first place, be
cause it give too much importance to n set of fan
atics, who he believed, bad not the power to do
mischief, & 'herefore hewoufd uot hold out such
an idea to the country. Let the meeting but con
template 'he ci'll ■•rqurnr.es of this resolution, sttp-
posiug it he passed, aud that thc Southern States
concurred in it, aud held a convention in Caro
lina or Kentucky ; might not such a convention
ofislave holding States impress the country with
an idea that there was going to be a dissolution
of the Union ? Any idea of this sort was, howe-
ever, mere gasconading and nonsense. All the
people of the South wanted was to protect their
property. The South itself would not approve
of such a meeting, for the Southerners did not
pie ofGcorgia- And quite as possible that there
will speedily he found those of the party front
whose breasts the old deprecatory ejaculation of
save vs from our friends. Sec. will he aspirated.
The Whig itself, deprecating as it does iu it' last
uunibcrthc u.io of the nominee's name in the ap
proaching canvass, ought to have had more of its
wits about it. Were wed imposed to consult party
strategy rather tlnn domestic privacy, it is not
utterly without The probabilities that we ourselves
would compensate the editor of tho Whig for his
Iossof the thanks of his own party, by the prof
fer of our thanks lor bis bring the occasion of this
ns:- of w hat wc prefer to call the nominee's fn
ther's name.
We think it unnecessary to apologize to the
public for the seemingly full vein of family feeling
displayed in the above observations. We have
not had the smallest inclination for such a dis
play—we would readily have shrunk from it—
wo have not been ai alt desirous of an ostenta
tious exhibition of the deceased Head of our
House—and wo are convinced that the moral
sense of tho public, wounded by t lie wnntouness
of the attack upon us through one of our numhei,
entirely unprovoked as it w as—will be disinclined
lochiifous. lfindeed ••urowii principles only had
been attempted to be distorted, we tni^lii have re
mained silent—but w e arc resolved that that por
lion of tho people ofGcorgia who may honor his
memory by cherishing favorable reminiscences
of our late lamented kinsman, shall uotbcinsul-
i v made to bo irve one tiling ot him, whilst
we, the only true • xpoiicnts of his principles,
know another and verv different thing ofhitti —
Certainly wc Haim for our opinions ou general!
politics no -special importance—but we do claim i
fer them iu tho matter of political faith of our re
the w ar of thc Revolutii u. 1 iow precipitately. & ] Intivc, very especial importance—siucc we take \
the liberty, as just said, ot considering ourselves |
his only true exponents. If direct evidence, we I
and of its elimination by your press to the peo- be , ieve lha , fhe f ;matics possessed any influence
tury
in Europe?
We wore to, be
nc
ithcr (ir
iven
nor
led 'n any in-
w political fold I
\y
auy mmi or
sel (
•f men, conir
ary to onr own
cl
car convict-
tion
of right. \V
<• have nettr lie
Cli
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rern
nny tiling so
cabnllnstick iu t
hc
mere i:a
incs
of men, no matte
■r who they ' ere. t
r it bat
they
had
been, that
we should there
;i ft
. r imptii
[fitly
follow their lend.
Attd w c can c
nsi
ly prefi;
jure
to Ot
irsdvcs wltH,
, if it could
■iso
, would
! be
he
the measure of thc indignnttoiiof the shade of
deceased Head, on ft tiding some of those w hem
Whig is pleased to cali bis “original friends,” so
far abandoning his principles as to strain ev
ery nerve to tube Itisowu Georgia (as in the ful
ii.-s, ••!* hi-; gratitude to Iter I'tr the .ben* r-
i'. hit It she never cease I to -how er down upon him
he w is wont to denominate her) play what has
so happily l.ct n characterised by one of the no
blest <>f the sous of Georgia, a subaltern part to
South Carolina,” and make her lent! her counte
nance to the cxhaltation of the ensigns armorial
of tho palmetto button, over the stars and the
stripes of the confederacy, for the establishment
nf w hit h he hail periled ilie youth of his life in
for very shame at the course of lhc30 Ins original
friends’, would not his shade shrink hack within
its t-eremt-nt! But the above argument concedes
lootnurh: We deny that we have abandoned
our or our relative's' original Irientls. "1 hat relative
had no more near nor dear friend nor has his family
since liis deec se had a more near or dc ar friend
than the most respectable and patriotic man. now
the efficient Head of the Union party in lower
Georgia—wo refer to the individual whom Sa-
vniinob has so long delighted to honor as amongst
the most emineul «.V worthy ofher t ili/.cns. <*11)1:
distinguished names might easily be adduced of
devoted friends of our relative and of us, w ho
prominent members of tin: Uuiou I’arty
whatever. He w ished to let the North see that
.he South relied upon it, and as for the fanatics,
bedefied them.
i “Col. Knapp, (from Boston) agreed in opin
ion with tiic Iasi speaker, and from what ho hoard,
from all quarters ho was convinced that the
Sooth was every day gaining strength. The
people of the North viewed th question of slav
ery with clear heads and hottest hearts, and in
his opiniou, it was better 'or the people of the
South not to interfere with them, 'sto the fan
atics, they were only (lie- upon the linns inane,
which he could shake off" whenever it pleased him.
Who were those fanatics? Addle-headed fools,
who could find uo other means of acquiring glo
ry riian pouring out their dollars, and speaking
about w hat they knew nothing of. In former
times it was certainly believed that the Southern-
els usf <1 the whip too often with theirslaves, hut
he had been in the South himself and lie did not
believe ilia- there ever was a people iu bondage
treated with as much humanity. !lo believed
tint the people of tiie South would one day or
other see slavery at an end, but tho people of
the North did uot waul to force them prematurely
to it. If it was believed for a moment that the
fanatics could . i jure the people of the South the
men of the North would put their feet upon them
and crash out their very venom; mud if a servile
war should ever arise in the South, let.tlie tnen
of the North be but called upon, and they will,
trample it down at once—(Cheers.”)
liberations by the adoption of the following teso
lutions. w ith but too dis&eutiug voices, in lieu
ol both the preamble and resolutions above men
tioned.
"Resolved, 'J h;.t whether slavery in our conn-
try be ail evil or no', it is a question belonged
solely to the .''.tales iu which it is tolerated, and
whether i f shall be continued orabolished, itnl<o
...ay in this connexion add. were required of his . „ tlou wllich belongs solely to those States
sacred regard for the Umon of the States, re- (k .‘ or|niue
Icreuec might lit; made to the protest ol i^eor^ia 0
against certain nets of the Federal authorities in j "Resolved* l hat the people of the outli can-
relation to the Mississippi Territory. That doe |! °t hu a moment indulge any seiioiis appic-bon-
I.ment, WC believe, emanated from his pen whilst j si on that the efforts of abolitionist on the subject
he filled the Executive Chair in 1800; and af- |
fords unequivocal evidence of his desire to avoid
Tito following paragraphs are from tho Charle
ston Courier of tho 3lst ult. by which it will be
seen that considerable excitement has been pro
duced at that place, by the abuse to which the U
S Mail has been subjected, as a medium of dis
tribution for the incendiary publications of nor
thern fanatics.
However laudable thc firmtiess aud resolution
with which the citizens of Charleston aro deter
mined to resist all these despicable attempts to
interfere with their civil rights, it caunot but be
painful to the friends of a well regulated liberty N;
supremacy of the laws, to witness the outrage to
which it has led upon the Postoffire of that city.
Precedents of the kind arc dangerous in the ex
treme, and when no danger can result from a
delay necessary for the operation of more legal
preventives to such abt.ses, they ought by no
means to be countenanced by the friends of gov
ernment and good order.
‘ Attack on the Post Office.—The recent abuses
of tho U. S. mail to the purpose of disseminating J
the vile and criminal incendiarism of northern i ' an I’ uro,1 > a, td yet it would
fanatics, has caused a great and general excite- *“ ‘‘ *“
meat iu our community, and led, on Wednesday-
night, as may have been expected, to an attack
on the Post Office, which, although perhaps not
to lie justified, had much to excuse it, in the cause
of provocation. Between tho hours of 10 and 11
o’clock, that night, a number of persons assem
bled about the Exchange', and without any noise
ot- disturbance, made a forcible entry into the Post
Office,by wrenching open one of its windows, and
caried off the packages containing the incendia
ry matter. We trust that this proceeding will
tend to opeu the eyes of northern frieuds to the
necessity of some energetic step to prevent the
unwarrantable and criminal interference of north
ern fanaticism with southern interests, & even in
duce our northern enemies to pause in their work ; tinto the field of the neuter gender, in tiie Presi-
of reckless mischief. Phe exposure.of thc U- S. j j e utial campaign. There is too much Ameri-
mail and Post Offices to mob violence, which, ; . , ■. . „
, . „„ I can ism about either White or Van Bnren. to
however tomperate now, may ultimately fall m- !
to its usual and dangerous exccses, is an evil ofi leave oven the slightest spark of hopo to such
serious magnitude aud general concern, and one ultra-American aspirants for power, as Calhoun
that ought not to bo thus wantonly provoked. J amJ McDuffie, and the miserable race of fawo-
The only regret we feel, m rclatiou to tins af- . , . . . r .
in. ’ , | i mg sycophants who crouch for the crumbs that
fair, arises from tbo fact, that arrangements had ° J ? ...
been made at the post office in this city* to arrest; ^^3 hill from then masters tables, tbat in the
the circulation of the incendiary matter until in ' event of tho election of either of these candidates
structions could he received from the Post Office I tbo Union will ho sacrificed to the love of mon
Department, at Washington. It might, pet haps ! M chica , , cr .
have been better to have awaited the result ol i ' 1
the application for instructions, before proceed- 1 Chronicle expresses much sympathy o(
ing ta extremities.” : feeling for his quondam Clark friends. No doubi
“Public Alceting■—It is suggested that th*- In- j tfig bare mention of the name brings to his bittei
tondant of the City should call a meeting of the : remejIlbr;inco the .( gIorious state from u hicfl h( .
citizens as early as possible, tit order tiiat any ° .
future proceedings, intended to prevent the fur- j * e ‘‘- '' e ’ a ‘ s0 ' caa hardly restrain the emotion
ther abuse of the public Mail to incendiary pur- | of pity, when .ve' consider the runaway steps,
poses, may have the sanction of public and rc- , v hich have thus placed him between hav k and
sponsible authority. The just excitement now bmmnd aad lhu cruel diBtres3 in , vhich hc np .
s “ aUJ ' | |,lics for Hill to dio.D.ao of Go.tai.h ,o !Jp
“A Bonfire was made last night on the Parade i lum cbnsUs , e t „ tbe Telegraph for whipping him up
Ground in front of thc Citadel, of the incendiary j a stump. he < hronicle makes Goldsmith sa\
publications abstracted f>-om the Post Office, on j that “the Dodo is an unresisting thing, equally
Wednesday night last.” ; incapable, of flight or defence ; its legs are too
j short fo>- running, & its body too fat to be strong.
The Augusta Chronicle, it seems, feels rather ) It is a silly simple bird, and is very easily taken.’’
uneasy atvay from that “despicable scramble” in : And then the Chronicle opens his mouth & speaks
the participation or which he has been fobidden j “Verily the Telegraph is a Dodo politician !”—
by itis tutor McDuffie; and desperately snaps at j Spirit of inspiration! are not thy revelations
of government iu his hands, through the greater
facilities which would be offered to political hyp
ocrites to blow up the flames of sectional jcslous-
ies; &. a dissolution of the Uuiou thereby effected,
which, it would seem, the Chronicle conceives
to be the only avenue leading to the aggrandize
ment of the restless faction whicn composes his
party—thus it appears.
On the contrary tho Telegraph would rejoice
at the election of Mr. Van Buren, not only be
cause he is able to oppose a powerful barrier to
such a state of things as the Chronicle contem
plates, and would do all-iti his power to perveut
jt, but because he is the choice of a large major
ity of the Democratic Republicans of the United
States, whose kuowu integ ily and pure patrio
tic principles entitle their'choice to respect.
Again says the Chronicle, -‘And though as
things now stand, tee could not honestly or hon
orably support White, yet they [the Clark men]
might, aud have thereby gratified our regard for
their character, though it could not have advan
ced our interest.” The Chronicle conceives it
would not he for the interest of the South that
Mr White should be elected in preference to Mr.
he gratifiug to him
to see southern people engaged in his support!
Pure aud spotless Amerieau patriot! your affec
tion for the North has just been seen, and here*
your weakness betrays the regard yon have for
the interests of the South. For you would have
tho.se for whom you profess friendship, operate
against somheru interests, or your professed re
gard for the honor of their character, in a prooj
of your iusincerity aud Jiolluw-beartcd hypocrisy-
But if tho Chronicle is an anomaly for short
sightedness and obliquity of political principle, he
is no less remarkable for the servile obedience
with which he follows his leader McDuffie, even
uch an extremity of measures as might
the confederacy— for if it possess a fault, thi
uot, wc think, be said to lie that it betrays too
prurient a passion to hang out thc banner of the
bcllipotent Rattlesnake (ready from hi: motto, for
'/'lie edit;*) of the Wh ig has thought proper to ' !gbt) in defiance of thc pacific Standard ol Union,
iutiodueo tie name of the late G<-n. John Clark We respond to the sentiment of llis Houor Judge
in the same connexion with that of ourdeeeas- 1 I’olhill at the Union convention dinner, tmtivith
i.d relative, and iu reference to Y'azooisat.— standing the sueer of the Whig—we give it our
We «ro yet to learn that the relations of imprimatur—wc ourselves, in thc language of
friendship between them were ever uudered . that sentiment, resolve to “rescue ti'e memory of
and that General Clark wasa frequent and James Jackson from tiie calumny of tiullifira
welcome visitor of the family when its Head was I tion.” As res|>oels the excessive alarm (which
Governor of Georgia from 17!.)S to 1801, several for his sake, tve a"e sorry to see so incommoding
years after the period at which he was concern- to him) of the editor of the Whig about tilt- cus-
cd iu that transaction, is a conclusive argument
with >»s, at least, with till deference to thc editor
of the. Whig, lha f Governor Jackson was convin-
t! at there were circumstance* in that panic-
tody ofthc “pearl above all price,” as he is pleas
ed to term our deceased relative's chararrcr. yv
bid him good cheer—let him be easy : for il he
be nor, we must however painful to us, subject
cave, as every body knows that t'_ene were} hitn to the hazard of having his seasibiliw 'till ( I
on the
lavery can s< riously affect public opinion, c-
vru in the North: and that yvc rely yyith confi
dence ou the iuu-lligeiiee of our Northern breth
ren to frustrate and defeat the mischievous
srlie i s of designing dcmag« sues and deluded
fanatics. Bui should atrisis. tvInch we earnest
ly deprecate, unhappily arrive wo warn our fel
low i itizc ns that i.ui nghis nf property are sacred,
aud w ill he maintained.
“Judge Lkkett moved that the resolutions be
put s<-p:i' iit-ly, yy I till \t,is accordingly done, aud
passed yyiib only two disseiring voices.
“A resolution was thtn passed to publish the
preamble and resolutions in a!l the papers of N.
York and another thanking the Chairman for his
< otidu' t iu presiding. 3 in- meeting then adjourn
ed.”
ind scenes long
.... ... . ¥ . , 0 *y dduce,
their I the pleasant soiree, and the delightful walk, in
this very place—“ere my head was grey." Ano
ther generation has ltorv come,on, and quondam
belles dress their daughters for the same scenes.
Left .Montieello next day, and passing some
beautiful plantations, growing yyith luxuriant
corn, fruit trees bending to the earth with red &
golden fruit. 1 arrived iu iMiidisoti by dark. \i his
village contains a population and wealth, corres
pondent to the richness of the lauds adjacent.—
Several fire-proof stores, and a number of sph u-
did dwelling .housed, are here. '•'his town
seems to have been the model for most of thc up-
country villages—for all are built on thc same
plan—and in describing one you describe them
all, viz. a large square, ou rising ground, with a
brick Court House in the centre, surrounded by
China trees and a paling; a tavern on two or
three of the corners, with stores and shops be
tween ; a feyv streets aud lanes ctossing each olh-
‘er at right angles, lined with dwelling houses,
kitchens, stables, &c: Off on one side, aud as
distant from each other as possible, are the Me
thodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian Meetiug Hou
ses. rftill more remote, and most profanely ne
glected, is the common burying ground ; seldom
enclosed, or embellished yvith alleys or shade
trees, and the graves exposed to the rootings of
syvine and the tramplings cf cattle ! I have been
shock' d at the manifest irreverence, not to say-
sacrilege. shown to the dead by some of our most
enlightened cities. One would think that a spot
so peculiarly the property of all, as connecting
the dead yvith the living, and the living yvith each
ofher, would he protected and cherished by ail;
that the guardians of the town would take it un
der their especial care- Menu and sordid must
that people Ve, .who caunot at the least, afford to
enclose such a spot. At Madison, however, the
burying ground is enclosed by a substantial fence
find shaded by trees; hut so grown up with briers
and glass that a visitor finds it impossible to exa
mine the proud monuments that have been erect
ed in memory < :he dead, even without the pad
lock yvliich is carefully placed < it the gate J This
ought not to be so. The briers and weeds should
be kept down, alleys cut our, and free access giv-
cu to visitors, at the same time that hogs, rattle
and horses are excluded. Nothing sooner strikes
the atteutiou of a stang'tr than the condition of
the burying ground ; nothing peril ps is moree-
viiu-ive of the moral feeling of the inhabitants ;
and nothing better calculated to promote religious
thoughts and feelings than frequent visits there.
Half a day’s ride from Madison brings you to
Greensboro . This is an old town, comparative
ly speaking, and though in the centre of a rich
cotton growing country, does not seem to in
crease in size nor advance in prosperity. As far
as I can see, every thing looks just as it did when
I last visited it, ten years n.o. The In uses wear
the same grey appearance, and the same venera
ble whiie-headed tavern keeper who then waited
upon you, shows his hospitality and cracks his
j ke.s now. I was told this old gentleman had
occupied the same stand some 20 or 30 years;
and had. notwithstanding the many security debts
his kindness of heart had occasioned him to pay,
accumulated a handsome property for his chil
dren. One would suppose that ar his time of
life, a man would hardly think of breaking up his
establishment, leaving the f lends aud associates
of a quarter of a ceutury. aud looking around for
a new home! But so it is. A desire to move,
so characteristic of all our people, is as a|'p irent-
in this veteran of 70. as in the stripling of 20 ; &
vvhai he told me (he first time I saw hitn. he a-
gaiii repeated, namely, that he wanted to move
iwav to the new countries so soon as he could ar
range his affairs ! The same tale was told ate
by an old gentleman at the Indian Springs a
week ago. This person has lived in one (dace
for 25 years, but still never feels settled ! he is
anxious to sell, that he may move to one of the
new counties ! This moving propensity in our
population is a serious cheek upon improvement
of every kind. A man feels no interest in preser
ving land, or establishing schools, or making
roads, or any other improvement, in •<: settlement
The official v; lur.iinti «>f real estate in »he city
aud comity of I'liilidelplint, as mart up to the Ist
inst. is $115,040.987. The valuation of real est.
«»f the ut> & eo. of N. Y. in '24—? 123.5-49,280.
every thing that passes by, whose notice may re- j written iu the book of the Chronicle’s,
lieve him from the obscurity, in which he would ; Verily, if the Telegraph has incurred all this by
otherwise languish. whipping the Cbrouicleup a stump, he will has- |
It appears from his compliments to the Tele- ten to w hip him down again. The Chronicle is j
graph, in a recent number, that he has discovered ! not so unfortunately iu the vocative, as the Tele- j
that “an Editor who has no opinion of his own, I graph ; he has excellent heels for defence, ami i
or not firinu ess enough to support those he has, is legs that are used to High;—the verv same on
unfit to preside over a public press; and wore it which he ran from the Clark party, when the
not that “poor human nature” is rendered blind | fearful hinting of a great many leet was behind
to its own deformity, by an alt-pervading par- him. We would not rob the beast of burden of
tialitv to self, the Chronicle would have extend- his due, by calling hint a bird of any kind. We
ed his discoveries still further, and have found
that there is also a corruption of principle which
poisons every thing within its influence, and a
self-conceited obstinacy which refuses to listen to
the better counsel of friends, that may also dis
qualify a person for being a useful conductor of
•he Press.
“Every exhibitiou of your pliant politics, and'
which ho expects shortly to leave, ‘proposof
the Indian Springs: why don’t more of our !<>' r
country frieuds turn their steps this way. instead
of-northwardly ? They would find hitherivaid,
waters as medicinal, air as pure, aud fare as
wholesome, as await them at the north. Those
who seek pleasure merely, should consider, whe
ther they might not find t* profit, in visiting the
up country : as tho money they spend here,
would be returned to them with interest. One
half of the money that is commonly carried eiit-
of the 'Hate, and wastefullv expeuded, would be
amply sufficient to construct a railroad from Ty-
heo to Nicojnck ; and in ten years, to run through
all parts wf the State, east aud west, north aud
south !
But to return. Greeusboro’ is a great thoro-
fare to and from Augusta : and it is iu contem
plation to bring the rail road from that city here.
From 3 to 500 bags of cotton, it is said, pass here
poultry yard did from that of the bell, of which <i:,il y for ,h:,t market ’ durin & ,lie husiueSS ^
the soon-informed lox sagaciously remarked, “a J j no ticcd in Greensboro’ aud some other places
long tongue, a hollow head, but there is no trap where even the shade and ornamental trees were
there ” And if we htive any apology to make from our forests, sueh as the Locust Black V a
to the Chronicle for the length of our uotic®, il is, ,‘J!! 1 ’ Syca ®°r e ’ Popla . r ’ !, n d
, , . , , , ' They ?tood the severitv ot the last winter, .w"
that to him be long cars to hear. k !low forra beautiful shades ; while tho C'hiua ire®
do not know, however, that the Clark party have
suffered more from his loss thau the farmer