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THE MACON GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
From the Tallahassee Star—Extra. Sept. I9ih, \S43
Severe Storm.
We were visited on Wednesday nigbt last
with one of those terrible and destructive
Storms which so often spread ruin and dismay
tiling the coast, about this season of the year.
There lial been a sligjpsquall on Wednesday,
about 12 o’clock, M., much rain foil during the
space of an hour, and the wind was high at S
E., or thereabouts. The weather continued
threatening, during the remainder of the day
and the portents of an equinoctial gale wereev
ident. S ion after sun down, the winds and the
rain came on in earnest, and continued all
tho night, with a degree of severity, which as
we are assured by that responsible and respec
table individual, the “ oldest inhabitant,” has
never been surpassed within his recollection
The course of t*re wind, when it first set in, ac
cording to the apprehension of some, was near
S. E., others think more Easterly, or to the
North of E »st. It increased in severity, as it
gradually wore round northwardly, until near
day light, when it was blowing a tremendous
gale from the northwest.
The injury sustained by buildings in Talla
hassee, is not great. The slate roof and gable
end of one brick house recently erected, and
not quite complete, was slightly injured, sever
al kitchens and outhouses, and chimneys, were
overthrjwn. The damage sustained in goods
in the temporary wooden buildings put up since
the fire, was more considerable.
As the roads ; n almost every direction are
blocked up by fallen trees, or obstructed by the
removal of bridges, we have had little inter
course with our neighbors since the Storm.—
Plantations, it is apprehended have suffered ex
tensively.
Reports of the destruction at Port Leon and
St. Marks, are alarming, though we trust ex-
agemted. It is said that the Rail Road bridge
over the St. Marks river, near Port Leon, has
been swept away, and that every warehouse
in that town, except one, that of Hamlin &
Snell, has been torn down by the winds and
tides. St. Marks it is said, was under water,
We trust the reality will not come up to the re
ports. The Rail Rond Cars left the depot for
Port Leon on yesterday morning, but had not
returned when our paper went to press.
Since the above remarks from the Star of
yesterday were penned, we have received au
thentic iuformution from below, which more
than confirms, tho most distressing reports
which had reached us. We copy the follow
ing from an Extra from the office of the Port
Leon Gazette':
TrcmcBdoni Storm—Horrible Lass of I,ife ud
JPropeity—Destruction of Port X.con,
St. Harks, amt the .Light noatc.
Commercial Gazette Office, ?
Tort Leon, Friday, Sept. 15,1843. J
Our city is in Ruins! We have been visi
ted by one of the most horrible storms that it
ever before devolved upon us to chronicle. On
Wednesday about 11 o’clock A. M. the wind
commenced blowing fresh from the South East,
bringing up a high tide, but nothing alarming,
5 P. M. the wind lulled and tide fell, tho
weather still continuing lowery. At 11 at
night, the wind freshened, and tide commenced
flowing, and by 12 o'clock it blew a perfect
hurricane, and the whole town inundated.—
The galo continued with unabated violence un
til 2 o’clock, the water making a perfect breach
ten feet deep over our town. The wind sud
denly lulled for a few minutes, and then came
from South West with redoubled violence and
blew till day-light. Every ware-house in the
town was laid flat with (he ground, except one,
Messrs. Hamlin & Snell’s, and a part of that
also fell. Nearly every dwelling was thrown
from its foundation, and many of them crushed
to atoms. The loss of property is immense.
Every inhabitant participating in the loss more
or less. None have escaped—many with only
the clothes they stand in. St. Marks suffered
in tho like proportion with ourselves. But,
our losses are nothing in comparison with that
at the Light House. Every building but the
Light House gone. And dreadful to relate,
FOURTEEN LIVES LOST, and among
them some of our most valued citizens. We
cannot attempt to estimate the loss of each in
dividual at this time, but shall reserve it until
our feelings will better enable us to investigate
it. We give below a list of those drowned, so
far as heard from.
-AT PORT LEON.
A crazy negro boy belonging to Tallahassee.
AT THE LIGHT HOUSE.
Capt. M.* C. Robei tson his wife and three
children, and a child of Dr. Tradewell’s.
Mr. Joseph Wood, a portrait paiuter from
Tallahassee.
A child of R. V. Buffins, and five negroes.
Tltoso saved are Capt. Hungerford his wife
and two children, Dr. Tradewell’s voungest
child, Messrs. Oglesbee, Blcthen and Kennedy,
Pilots, and five negroes.
Our citizens are now out, looking for any
tint may have escaped, and bring the Bodies
of those that may be found. Such a total de
struction of property, never has occurred in our
place.
Our Joss is estimated at $250,000,
In addition to the above, we have learned
that the family of Mr. Edward Walker, living
on Shell Point, wife, children and five or six
negroes, all perished. Mr. Walker himself es
caped by clinging to the branches of a tree, till
the waters subsided.
It is also stated that there are several other
persons living nt this point, and who have not
been heard from, and of whose safety, great
doubts arc entertained.
There are also several families from llrs
county, in summer quarters on James’Island,
on whose account much anxiety is felt. In
deed such was the violence of tho winds at the
height tn which the tide rose, that ourimagina
tions can scarcely fix limits to its ravages.
Cedar Keys, Apalachicola, St. Joseph, can
scarcely have escaped without much damage
o’clock, P. M. it reached the Catholic Chapel
at the upper end of the Parade, and reduced
that to a lieap of ruins in a very short time.
About that time the wind changed to the North
and the course of the fir^was altered, and be^
gan to return to the lower end of the town, ta
king a new a path, however. About midnight
it reached within a few houses of ours, on the
opposite side of the street. The magistrates
then ordered the houses over the way to be
blown up, in order to save Port Royal street
but it was found impossible to blow them up. as
all the powder in the city had been used in the
course of the day, to bomburd the other build
ings, and it was only with the assistance of the
soldiers, and sailors of the ships of war that
they were pulled downl The fire then abated
somewhat, and was extinguished nt about
o’clock on the evening of the 27th. I send you
a newspaper, by which you will see the almost
incredible number of blocks and buildings de
stroyed. The engines were all broken. The
negroeB would not save any thing, except the
Baptist and Methodist chapels. At 4 o’clock in
the afternoon, I went on the Parade and found
it covered with a mass of furniture—the ne
groes all standing in the streets and upon the
Parade, talking, laughing and joking—some
crying anu others stopified. The sailors and
soldiers were tearing down on one side of the
Parade, throwing out the furniture and tryin
uselessly to stay the progress of the flames,
There were bells ringing, drums beating, bombs
and cannon firing at the houses, women and
children screaming, and the whole present-d
scene of distress, terror and confusion, which
defies description. The destruction of proper
ty was enormous. I saw splendid pianos
thrown from the balconies and dashed into
thousand pieces. In returning from a walk in
the suburbs at 6 o’clock on the evening of the
27th, I found some streets actually on fire and
no one stirring near them—the houses deserted
and the people congregated about the principal
scenes of devastation. The ruin is dreadful
1 am so agitated and hurried that I can write
t;o more.”
The Kingston Journal of the 1st inst. entreats
the citizens of Kingston not to give way to their
fears of outrages on the part of the idle and
diabolically minded men who are to be found
in that city. He admits that the plunder of
property during the fire, was immense, but at
tempts to console his readers witlt the consider
ation, that pait of the plunder had been recov
ered. He says he cannot venture to assert
there is no danger, (of a general rise and sack
we presume,) but thinks it imprudent to shew
their fears.
Tho Editor of the Jamaica Despatch declares
that, had it not been for the municipal guard, the
city, in addition to the horrors of conflagration
would have become the theatre of rapine and
desolation. The fiie extended over 25 squares,
and destroyed more than 500 houses, besides
out-buildings. The loss may be estimated at
S3,000,000 oi $4,000,000.
From the Mete Orleans Republican.
Disastrous Conflagration at Kingston
We are indebted to a friend for having in
the kindest manner loaned us a letter received
by him from Kingston. Jamaica, and which
gives the following graphic account of the terri
ble calamity which lias befollen that city. The
letter bears date of tho 3d inst:
“ The whole city is in groat distress—there
are about five thousand persons without n roof
over their h< ads. An awfui conflagration broke
out on the 26ib, at 4 o’clock in tho morning, at
the East end of Kingston, when the sea breeze
blew a perfect hurricane, and raged with fury
throughout the day, defying all attempts to ex
tinguish it. The flam88 and smoke were to be
•eon at a distance of aixty miles from Kingston,
Jo the country, and far at sea. At about 6
Louisville, Ga., Sept. 9,1843.
Dear Sir:—1 have this moment received
yours of the 4th instant, informing me of my
nomination as the Democratic candidate to fill
the vacancy in our congressional delegation
occasioned by the resignation of Col. John B
Lantar. To meihe intelligence is both pleas
ant and painful—pleasant, because evincive of
the high confidence reposed in my fidelity to
Democratic principles, and of the unmerited
estimate placed by my political associates, up
on my poor abilities—painful, because, to be
elected would operate serious injury to my pri
vate interests, and would throw upon me pub-
fic duties and responsibilities, which I could not
hope to discharge and redeem, either with
credit to myself, or honor to my country. The
time to intervene between this and the gener
nl election in October, is too short for the com.
mittee to make another nomination, were I to
decline. I therefore accept, though I should
have greatly prefered, that the distinguished
honor, should have been conferred upon anoth
er.
I should be pleased to mingle extensively
with the people, not to play the part of the itin
erant demagogue ; but, that 1 might become
personally known to them, and iudulge freely
in the expression and interchange of senti
ments, upon the great questions which now ag
itate the country. But the shortness of the
time and other pressing engagements, render it
impracticable. I must therefore content my
self, by assuring my democratic fellow-citizens,
every where, that I am thoroughly identified
with them in all the great principles, which
compose the political school to which we are
attached, and which boasts os its founder the
illustrious Jefferson:—that I cordially unite
with them in deprecating the leading measures
of the federal whig party, as disclosed by their
conduct in the sessions of the last Congress. I
deprecate them as founded in error of princi
ple—as violative of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, and as ruinous in their tendency, to
the best interests and highest happiness of the
American people. And judging from the re
cent elections in several States, it would seem
that I am not singular in this opinion. They
speak a voice which is any thing hut flatiering
to the prospects of Henry Clay—that constant
and persevering ttaducer of Georgia, the fa
ther of the protective policy, which is but anoth
er name for southern oppression, the champion
of a National Bank, which is the synonym of
all that is loathsome in fraud and detestable in
political corruption, and the originator of the
measure for the distribution of the proceeds of
the sales of the public lands, with the view,
first, to bribe the people into the support of his
claims to the Presidency, then to diminish the
revenue in order to create the pretext for high
duties on imports, and finally, to bring about as
a crowning result, an assumption oft be debts of
the States by the General Government. I love
to battle in the ranks of democracy, against
gia is surpassed by no star that bestuds our
glorious national banner.
My thanks to the committee who have thus
honored me, and my grateful acknowledge
ments to you for the kind manner in which you
have communicated the bestowal.
In haste, your obedient and humble servant.
HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON.
Mr. P. C. Guieu, Chairman. &c.
DEMOCRACY.
throw in a blank vote, or not vote at all—for, it is
at once seen, that one vote neutralizes the other.
No one, possessing independence enough to enti
tle him to a vote, will in times of parly excitement,
throw in a split ticket. A split ticket! faugh.
The practice, we have heard said, originated with
the Cow-boys nf the Revolution—who were eith
er Whigs or Tories, as suited their convenience.
But perhaps you have some friend on your tick
et, that you would prefer to see elected to all the
rest—and hence, are willing to enter into a bar
gain and sale with the opposite party, for the sake
of effecting that object! that is, you, though
Democrat, agree to vote, and to urge others to
vote, for the whole of their ticket, except one, pro
vided somebody on that side, will promise, (for it
peUIom amounts to any thing else,) to vote for one
name on your ticket. We know this is often done,
and we have heard it justified, sometimes on
the pica of friendship or consanguinity—at other
times, an alleged superiority in qualifications—or
perhaps, to save a bell
But whatever the motive may be. the practice
is morally and politically wrong. Morally wrong,
„ . „ , _ . because it leads to, and encourages treachery, de-
Dcinocrntic Candidates for President. .... ... n i-.-
ception. duplicity, equivocation, &c. &c. Holm
C» CAIaIIOUA 9 of SO. C<1. rally wrong, because it disorganizes parlies, unset-
MARTIN VAN BUREN, of N. V. ties the permanency of our institutions, favors j
j^jjYITIS CASS Of Ohio demagogueistn, and is in effect little better than
RICII’O 1ft TAIINSOIv’ of lfv pu,tin " " P public Stati ° nS *° the bi8hest bidder
It. M. Jull.ISU.Vi OK Hy. Another practice, equally reprehensible, is that
JAMES BUCHANAN, of Penn. of voting single shots, or plumpers, for a favorite
JOIIN TYLER, of Virginia.
MACON:
TUESDAY nOltXIXG, SEPT. 46, (S43.
Ta be decided by et .'rational Contention in .Vay,
1844.
FOR GOVERNOR,
MARK A. COOPER, of Murray.
FOR CONGRESS.
J. IV. Stark, of Butts,
II. V. Jphnson, of Jeflferson.
Bibb Democratic Ticket for the Legislature.
FOR SENATE.
Col. A. P. POWERS.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES.
8TEPHEN WOODWARD.
JOHN LAMAR. j,
WILLIAM F. CLARK.
To the Democrats of Bibb.
Why stand ye idle, all the day ?
As thjs will be the last, opportunity we shall
have of saying a word to our friends, before the
election, we must, in duty to our cause, say, io all
candor, to them, there is too much of a disposition
to wait for some other person to do, what each man
should do himself. There is not sufficient energy
and activity manifested. There is too much sleepy,
do-nothing sort of confidence.
Arouse! Democrats of Bibb, to a sense of duty to
your cause! Awaken! from the false security,
into which you have lulled yourselves!
Your adversaries are active, vigilant, and unti
ring, conscious that their cause is bad, and can do j
candidate. This practice is worse if, possible,
than the other. It is a strong suspicion that those
who resoit to it, have been bribed, by favors given
or promised, so to act. It shows very clearly,
they care nothing for principle, but every tiling for
themselves. We should very much doubt the
patriotism of any man who owed his election to
the single shots of his friends and dependents—and
we should also incline to the opinion, that no high
minded honorable man. would take a seat to which
be might be elected by such mean3
Brother Democrats! Pardon these few hasty
suggestions. We know, that none among you
merit the imputation they would seem to imply
But, there are wolves in sheep's clothing among us,
against whom we must be on our guard. There
are many amongst us, that are not of us. They
will eat with you, and drink with you; and talk,
justasyou want them, but who never act with
you. They always have a reason for voting a
gainst you, whenever the voting time comes round
Against such Judases be on youi guard
Be true to your principles—stand firm to your
posts, and victory again is yours
•We have 6een a letter from Savannah, which, (in
speaking of the late Aldermen’s Election in that city,) says:
•• There were a considerable majority of Democratic votes
polled ; but unfortunately, many of them were split tick
ets—and thus we were to all intents and purposes defeat'
ed by ourselves.”
“Judge yc between them.”
Next Monday, the people will be called on to decide be
tween the minions of Federalism—revived, and the friends
of the Constitution.
It is for them to say, if by their vote, they will lend their
nothing for them, they are doing every thing for j countenance to the reckless prodigality, which has marked
their cause. Do you not see it ? Then quit your I every footstep of Whig domination, or if they wish it au
lazy seats under the trees, anti on the boxes at ev- P erseded b * a s * 8,em of vet'-ochment.
, , , , -n It is for them to say, if they desue the protective tariff
ery corner, and go out and do your dutv. Remem- . . ,
J ® J I of Mr. Clay s Congress, to become a permanent system, and
her, that much regret and mortification, after the I l / ie K h 0 [ e industry of eighteen millions of people, to be
election, can be avoided, by a little exertion now. I taxed toenrieh Mr. Clay, and his neighbors in the man
And is it not woith that exertion? ufaclureof Kentucky bagging, and a few thousand
Your cause is a good one—it is the cause of truth I millionaires, who manufacture Lowell Osnaburgs,
and right, and requires no mean evasions, no piti
ful subterfuges, no criminal distortion of facts, to
sustain it. All it claims of its advocates, is zeal in
prints, SfC., or if they wish the tariff brought down to
Revenue Standard, whereby all can “liveand let live.”
It is for tliein to say, if they wish tnealr; ady heavy debt
I of tne country, to be increased with the intent of creating
making it known to the people! energy and activi- I a splendid government, at the expense of an impover
ty in enforcing its truths on the minds of every vo- i*hcd peoplt, like that of England, when one little fraction
ter, who may have become bewildered by the mis- °f. lbe P"P ul »‘> i °“ re ’ elin »ches, and the mass, starve, in
Constructions and false statements of Its arch ene- j It is for them to say, if a coriupt institution is to be es
mies. I tab’ished'by which the currency, the value of property and
This.it demands at your bands! This, you J the price of labour, is to be kept in a perpetual state of
owe to it, and cannot refuse, without injustice to fluctuation, an d noman beable to know to day, what that
youiselves, and injury to the best interests of the I institution will let his money pass for, or hi, day, labour
be worth to morrow ; or if they are disposed to let the unerr
ing laws nf trade, affix something like a natural and steady
country! And will you not perform this duty?
\esl yes! every true Democrat will exclaim, | p r "j ce to labour nnd its proceeds, which can be relied on to
I will!” Then lay your shoulders to the wheel, be governed by no other laws, but the infallible legislation
And on the night of the election, when the De- I of demand and supply!!
That party, which places so little reliance on the intel
ligence of the people, ns to be ashamed and afraid to avow
their principles, hope by falsehood and effrontery, or by
evasion and subterfuge, to deceive the people into the sup
port of their nefariops schemes. Bat they have uoderra
ted the sagacity of the people.
But the good sense of the people, have penetrated their
mocracy of Macon shall have shown itself true to
the country, let the returns from “Hazzard" come
to swell the number! Let the voice of “Rutland'
be a sound of joy to the faithful! And the ’‘Tenth
Legion” of Democracy, the unterrified “ War
rior!" will not fail to be heard among them.
Be active! be vigilant! and let the returns from designs.as much as they have mystified them, and torn
Bibb, tejoice the hearts of our friends abroad,
remember—
“Trust in God, but keep your powder dry.
But
Democrats of Georgia:
The Election being close at hand, and this the
last paper we shall utter, before that important
event shall have passed, you will pardon us for I
saying a word or two more—though, we know
your minds are all made up; and that you are de
aside the veil which concealed their treachery. Theirbase
desertions of principle, and the intetest of the country, are
now fully understood. And the ballstbox.onnextMonday,
will thunder in their ears the indignant voice of a people,
whose confidence has been trifled with, whose intelligence
has been insulted.
•’ Lochiel! Lochiel 1 beware the day."
Our Prospect*.
“ Trust roe my liege, all hitherto gnea well;
The good people do by numbers swarm to us.”
To infuse a temjrorary confidence in their ranks.
termined to be true to your principles true to your the Whig emissaries have industriously circulated
country—and true to your party. I reports of their gains in pattirular sections. But
Jt is needless at this time to go over the whole} the truth has soon followed, and crushed their ri-
ground of controversy again. We have trod it of- sing hopes. Indeed, this mode of “speaking to
tentimes together; and doubtless, all its crocks and I Buncombe,” as it is technically called, is very well
•urns, its knolls and curves, are as well known to understood, to have long been one of their shrewd-
you, (and better, to many of you,) than to ourselves. I est tricks, to deceive the people. It is now too well
But you have an insidious enemy to contend understood, to impose on the most “ verdant” tyro
with—one profoundly experienced in electioneering m politics.
tactics, and one who is up to all the arts and tactics I Out cause, thanks to the unerring power of truth
of modern political strategy. Henry Clay, their and right, requires no such expedients. The cause
head and leader, is an old veteran nt this game; of Democracy, recommends itself to the reason of
and his subalterns, or party managers in this State, every man, who is notan ambitious demagogue
are not far behind him. Besides, acting under the j himself, ot the blind follower of such. Disguise it
execrable motto, that “all is fair in politics”—nnd 03 they may, deny it as they will, every Whig who
the more atrocious doctrine, that “the end justifies bas intelligence enough to ascertain what his patty
the means”—[the very words Messrs. Preston. \ advocates, and what are the principles of*Demo-
Berrien, <fcc. 6cc. are said to have used, in their fa- crats, feels in his secret heart, that the cause of De-
thorpe, Greene, Troup, and other of the late strong
holds of Whiggery.
Besides the persons who have already left “ the P rPS:
tents of the wicked,” there are yet many who re
main in name, but are not witlt them in feeling.
There are many virtuous, intelligent men, who
yet endure the name of Whig, who see with sor
row the tendency of their party, and disapprove its
purposes; but from a blended feeling of r^ret, in
leaving their old associates of past years, ami a fear
of that ancient and time-worn stereotype of “ Rene
gade" so profusely applied on such occasions, they
yet suffer themselves to be called Whigs.
But they are not Whigs at heart, and although
they may think “ the hour has not come,” for them
to proclaim themselves Democrats; yet they will
not do violence to their feelings and principles, in
voting for the minions of Clay and Protection.—
They will either remain at home, passive, or going
to the polls, they will vote only for personal friends
among the Whig candidates.
This is not idle conjecture. Almost every man
knows, in the range of his own acquaintance, Whigs
Who are sick and disgusted with the duplicity and
tergiversations of their party—some express it can
didly, others make it known in hints and indirect
expressions. A slight knowledge of the operations
of the human mind, under the conviction of truth,
and in the absence of the immediate excitement of
personal interest, will prove its correctness. And
the election returns after Monday, from strong Whig
counties, will shew a falling from their usual vote,
that will prove that we have not erred.
And while the silent operations of truth, have
added to us many sturdy soldiers, who once battled 8tea ^ t * >e I‘ ver y Heaven to serve the Devil in j
in the opposite ranks, in the days when “ State j t; °" ia a mo,t d ^ ble «»•".orally .ad polity
1 , , , J , only be excused, when resorted to as * set-off
Rights was yet an honorable name among them; , |ioa< But the writer of the p!ece signed v„
while many of their centurions and chosen leaders did not even I)ave ^ excuse,
of cohorts and legions, have drawn their swords on j The writer either misunderstands the actionc
our side; where are the old Democrats of 1840? islature for the last three years, or grossly a,;,,,
Verily, they are at their posts, with hearts inspired t' e conduct of the Democratic portion of th«t b<*dy—
with a determined zeal in the cause of the Constitu- j
Pe^tJ
gument, enlightening public < pmlon
representation in Congress. u uj c|
His hopes were in the influence ofa free , j
press, the virlue of the people and tbs
truth. He alluded to the la e statement
Department, and said the late bill took off > t 1
from protected articles which were —tidAlT* 1
cles nfSouthernconsumpiion, believed that f'v 0 '
ments in the bill would be made bv surcA- 1
till we shall have attained all thai 'we eonw??'’*
duetion of duties to the revenue standard H ,
syth lived to mingle in ihe political confho. A" 1 ,
day. he would have found that the exactions If ?
lianists were those of the horseleech, never, 0 'A'
' 10 “t ii
FOR THE MACON TELEGRAPH
Dr. Bartlett.—In the Messenger of the ii s . •
along winded address directed thus—“ To He}''''"
upright voters of Houston county." ***■
I shall not attempt to weary your readers v
this writer through every stage of his tortuocj '
but content myself by exposing some of the
ry of which it abounds. * 1
This writer assumes the’name of"
utter disregard must the man have to the K
Father of his, country to attach his name to 5 j; ^
partizan,juggling essay like his ! Oh, shate'*
Where is thy blush.
I dont remembet to have ever before seen 0*,
ous name so abused as in the use made ofa bv ,1 *
Hia piece, evidently a partizan effort—* Wy,
catch votes by unfair means—under the Sanctis,/''
Burned name of the immortal Washington—
virtue, whose glorious achievements, whusedrecj , I
endeared the memory of his name to every
free countries, whatever dissentions ,maj bst t
among themselves. I hope and trnst never ,-v. j
that great and glorious name attached to the p.- . "
duetion* of any partizan scnblcr.
Bntwhy was the name of Washington attached• •
only conjecture, the reason—the proper answer --
haps be found in two other questions—why did ih
put on the Shepherd’s garment? Why did the bv-'- ■
tion. They are ready for the onslaught.
“ Firm paced and slow, a horrid front they form,
Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm;
Low murm'ring sounds along their banners fly.
Constitution, the watch-word and reply."
Louisiana.
The people of this State, we perceive, ate about
holding a Convention, for the purpose of amending
or remodelling their present Constitution, to adopt
it more to the enlightened spirit of the age, and
more conformable to the progress of civil liberty
and free discussion in other parts of the Union.
Among other candidates, whose names we have
seen announced in the Louisiana papers for seats in
this important Convention, we notice with pleasure,
that of Dr. Epward Delont, of East Feliciana,
formerly of Georgia. We have long been acquain
ted with Dr. D., and can bear testimony to his
high moral character and sterling worth. If the
few years since he left us, has wrought no change
in his feelings and principles, we congratulate the
citizens of East Feliciana in having so estimable a
citizen, and so skilful a physician among them. In
Georgia, Dr. Delony was attached to the Jefferso
nian State Rights Democratic doctrines—and was
no weak advocate in their cause. We trnst his re
moval to another State has worked no change in
his principles.
Tke Anlutnnl Equinox.
This event occurred as usual with heavy storms of wind
and rain. In this neighborhood, and through Georgia gen-
erally, we believe the damage has been comparatively slight.
In various other parts of the country, the damages have
been immense. Further particulars will be found in anoth
erpart of the paper.
The following article from the Savannah Geor
gian, is a very seasonable reminiscence. The
Tariffactof 1832, was an important concession to
the feelings and interests of the South, and in that
light was viewed by Wayne, Forsyth and others.
Though, not yielding all that was asked, it was
thought better than nothing—the lesser oftwo ev
ils.—Had this act not passed, that of 1828, deci
dedly more oppressive, would have continued in > ,, , , , ,
. I had the good Isck bv some hook or crook to gtt
force.
lion. JT. in. Wayne and Ihe TariflT.
Ever and anon, we see in one or more of the Whig
presses of Georgia, the vote of Judge Wayne paraded as
evidence that he favored the Tariff of 1832.”
It is true, that at the first session of the 22d Congress, of
which Judge Wayne was a member, that he voted for the
Tarifl'Bill of 1832. But how was this vote, given in com
pany with the virtuous patriot, Wiliian Drayton, of S. C.,
with Messrs Blair and Mitchell of the same State, receiv
ed by his fellow citizens of Geotgia ?
Placed S3 Judge Wayne was. in the canvass of 1832,
befi re the people of Georgia, for re election to Consress,
wc find him not only obtaining in Chatham the highest vote
for Congress, but seventy-nine votes more than Hon. R H.
that the party in power a-e responsible to the
any and every mismanagement that occars in the i : .,]
tration of public affairs. This is not true to the er- J
6erted by the writer “ Washington." Ke hu ,
neglected to examine the Legislative Jonrnilsof-i t?<
referred to by hitn. In them he will find that hUli i—
priating money, to support the various objects ofp>
roent, are seldom if ever made party questions.
Mr. T. B. King, requiring the State to indorse Bj3 j
Bonds to the amount of some £5,000.000. came asmuh
made a party question in the Senate of Georgia i !K; ,
er bill. Eighteen Senators voted for it. sixteen of i a
were Whigs then, and are whigs now. who noiMbsc
with the writer •• Washington,” in villifying M( j ^
the Democratic party for the wasteful expendiicrtc'-j
public money, when the sin will be found to lie attbe-n
doors. This writer says the money. several million oTjJ
lars, was squandered and the state left a million of icSnJ
debt—but as to the manner, or upon what objects, or bt»
son of whose votes it was squandered, this writercUobJ
studied.premeditated silence. And why? BecicK[:I
sooth the names of the silvery tongued George W. Cxi
ford, Whig candidate for Governor, and of tie fk»n
and logical Alexander H. Stephens were to be faitj
the list of the squanderers voting away the public i
They who actually aided in this supposed sqotm'titgtf^
public money are to go free. And Cooper, SttriinijJ
son. who had no voice in the matter of squanderist. it J
be denounced and voted against because the Deoner
party was in power. This is the measure of Jostieed
ed by a man who assumes the name of Wajbicjim.a
whoin his pieceeven would profane the name sad tit i
of Jesus Christ, by comparing man who is bota wom,v
him. The Democrats dont fear any investigation >i ttl
public expenditnres, nor as respects the Central ButJ
long as the records are in reach, and so long aa an nbnl
ened people, will hold each Senator and HeprwmarJ
responsible lor his own acts and not for the definite!:
carriage of others. The Democratic Tirket ifHctmJ
good enough, and knowing the people’s ritrhta titer:
maintain them. HOUSTON.
TOR THE MACON TELEGRAPH.
Dr. Bartlett,—Several copies of the speech of I
Morehead. Senator from Kentucky, on the Bill to inctr
rate the subscribers to the Fiscal Bank of the fa
States, delivered in the Senate, July 27th, 1841. ’
ceived at our Post-office on Thursday morning lart,«
the frank of the Hon. Thomas Butler King; and
quickened movement of some of the disciples of tilt Enj
gentleman living hereabouts, it would seem that qcil
aensatioa was produced by the arrival of the potent t
them; and I am at a loss to determine upon lootici ■
the speech, which oircumstauce strikes me with mmi’®
the name of the Hon. Speaker, the name of the prop 0
Bank—Fiscality. a whig word—or the matter cf i
gument,—or the fact that the whule seems to have fcee: , j
dopted by Mr. King as his sentiments, he having fra*
it to the people to instroct them in the myaterion scit*^
whig Fiscal,f cations. This wotd T have adopt'd»
fair derivation from the whig word *• Fiscality.” and*
see 1 add something to their vocabolinr.
Bat to be serious, the Hon. Mr. K : ng is esteecf-
the knowing whips of this neighborhood, as being nf* 5
nil V/WIIUIC33, uumsvcaiaj-iuue V until aauii. u ii, : . . . _ , V ’
Wilde, who was on die same ticket with him. and next in P«mt of talents, tntegnty and public worth to then.
Vice Piesident Mr. Berrien himself; and m twhh!m ;:| |
the letterofMr. King to die Taliaferro Committee
cing a National Bank, yet it can be proved by difto lS l
nesses, (whig witnesses) that Mr. King has nererrh'- 1 *!
order, and 259 votes more than Judge A. S. Clayton ; 324
votes more than Hon. T. F. Foster, all of whom voted a-
gainst the Tariff Act of 1832, and were running on the
same ticket.with Judge Wayne.
All these gentlemen, who were candidates for re-elec- „
lion, were successful, before the people, in 1832. although —no, not he—not even upon the subject of pledffnt?-’ , 1
two of the candidates on the ticket on which their names mi „ ions 0 f dollars of the taxes paid bv the penpk ■'
“ppeared were defeated. j 1 * ' ,J
What was Judffe Wayne's vote that year in the Slate ? ral1 roar?s in the Sta,e earned onbv incorporated WM
The answer is, 31,131—only 4,319 rotes over Mr. Wilde, Bat the \\ hips never change.—The enn, moon, infly-
8.366 votes over Judge Clayton, and 8.864 over Mr. Fos- itars mav varV; but the Whigs never cliince. ButW
ter, all of these pentlemen being his Colleagues in the . . \ , mv ,, , r iwlfi
House when the ^Tariff Bill of 1838 was pasfed. Judge turn *° ^/P^ch-The name if More-Hcada
Wayn Vs majority over the ninth member elected in that noogn to strike the illiterate with some degree ot
year from Georgia, was only KJ* 12,117 votes. | And Mr. Editor you know the Whigs look upon the
This result mo. was in the face of a violent denunciation crat5 _ nav denounce them as poor ignoramuses- I”'!
of Judge Warm's course in Congress, by the ultra anti- , - . . -1 ■
Tatiff men of Georgia at that period, many of whom now P°P u,ar s3 . v,n ? ond a true one ’ that lhrre ,s ", ,1
hug to their bosoms Clay and bis new broached measure name,” but we know from the bitter experience ?!!-•
such measures, feeling lhat defeat in such a Cbon-veotion Speechos, in Macon, in 18401—1 mocracy is the cause of right, is the cause of the
cause would be glorious, whilst victory, under . , . i
5 | M ,Wklo„ai ,.,i,nJ;„ovr,n. You must be on your guard against the kind of country!
means they attempt lo use. If they beat us by such I T* 113 ^ act a l° ne ' 3 a pr esl 'S fi °‘ success!! The
such a leader, bearing a flag whose inscrip
lions are so unfriendly to the welfare of ihe
union und the interests of the south, would be
shame and reproach.
A Georgian by birth, by education, and in
interest, I am proud of her inexhaustible natu
ral resources, and the integrity and industry of
her citizens. And I rejoice in the fond antici
pation, that the day is not far distant, when, by
the wisdom of her councils, and the intelligent
direction of her energies, her stores of wealth
shall have been exhumed from their mountain
beds, her works of public enterprise and Inter
nal Improvement, shall have b-en prosecuted
to n successful consummation, 3 d the peopla
shall have been properly awakened to the in
calculable interests of popular education -and
public virtue. It may be said with truth, that
in the brightness of her lustre and the stead
iness and uniformity of her revolution*. Geor-
as are fair and honorable, we shall have not a word I human heart is seldom so perverted, but that it re^
to say; on the contrary, will acquiesce cheerfully 3 P e c |s ,ru, h ' n others, however deeply tinged itself
in the decision of the ballot box, be it for us or a- nia y have become in the nauseous dyes of false-
gainsl us. But if the means they expect to use— booth
and which they think the end (iheir success,) will Instances, honorable instances are numerous,
justify—arethoseof bribery, intimidation, violence, where the wise, the virtuous, the talented of the
! to throw all others that I have ever heard of b«f ort ’
into the shade. This is the effect of it.— 1 They fV Ke
of their strikers “Here tskc the great speech of ' -
More-Head—he proves the constitutionality of a ,1
Bank beyant dispute—he’s a long headed ’old fe;'* 0 * ^ I
you—Here take it and pais it round—it’s P : n* ,or u . I
Hood’* speech.”—Away goes the striker—Sinstor - I
of • incidental protection.” Whigs trained murh and probablv all they aid P ;|
Will any hot zealot of Clay, at the present day. in Geor- . _*• ..»• „„ j Tt'r I* P
gia. whether connected with'the pressor not. «se.t that »he oft repeated names of T.ppecanoc and Iff \
the People of Georgia, in 1632, were advocates of a high ; Now More-Head it strikes meisca.culatedasair.
protective Tariff?
With as much propriety may it be charged that Henry
Clay was not detested as a renegade from'the Republican
ranks, and one who could not have received from the Re
publicans of that day a decent support for any office in the
gift ot the people.
Our readers will remember, that at the Lexington meet
ing nf August, 1832, at which John Moore of Oglethorpe,
presided, nnd where a State Convention to consider the
subject of the Tariff, and to maintain, preserve and defend . Head’s speech is all the go. Its the longest
the rightsand privilege. of the free citizens of this State, duetion in all natur.
was agitated, the Tariff was denounced as filching from I „ , . .... ,
Southern labor its hard-earnttl pittance, to gtatify the cu- But as to ,be maUer oftb,s s P secb ~ ^ I
oidity and inflate the pride of the Northern manufacturer I If the famous Sedition law of the eh.er Adam . ^ l
and capitalist*, contrary to the Constitution, and to the ju^tfy be considered one of the fathers of the police c " j
meaning and intention of the framers thereof d{ . rn wfa - wa5 of force> j might be afraid » «
Ou the other side we may. ns in the case above, refer os , _ ... - . , ..jnstice^
one of many to a resolution of an Anti-Nullification meeting what I really think of it, because sc. J ^
in Augusta, at which Gen. Val. Walker presided, and J . Whig would be sure to indict me. and the con> ^
McLawswas secretary, which declared the tariff (in the might beiwo thousond dollars fine and twelve ® o:31 ^
language of Col. Cumming,) the mover, unequal in its opera- !sonment ; n some safe j.;!. but aa the DetnocrW °
tion, and therefore unjust and inconsistent with the spirit of ^ J . - i ?.*, J fI M
the constitution, which demands that all public burdens ^ a y repealed said obnoxious and tyran 1 ^ I
should be equitably apportioned amongst those by whom just say of Mr. Morehead’s speech, that it is a 11:05 ^
they are borne. , ical tissue of federalism throughout, substituting i
The proper remedy for the planting interest was the \ one ... - . n „ ft*. a f the
of contention which divided the Ami-Tariff men of Geor- , ln heu of lhe Constitution. The name of* *
gia, of that day. Washington is invoked, as having assented
At this Augusta meeting of the Citizens of Richmond J3 a nk Charter.—and we who oppose a Bank as |
double voting, false swearing, nnd the like, they I Whig Parly, have yielded to the “still small. P So h rpw^ott«Usfways'mS* un-’ ; *i° n " L " re “V* - and
should be frowned down, as well as the party that I voice” of conscience, and shaking off the shackles ■ tiring hostility—alluded to the proscription ofhimseif and the Father ol na country. *- “ mf “ 1 w ..hia*wu *** I
. , , . ■. , - ,, , , ... j,, ; Mr. Wayne bv tho Oglethorpe meeting—eul'gized Mr. falsehood—Don’t they know that Gen. waan e . u> -
sanctions them, by a virtuous and indignant people, nfold party and petsonal associations, arrayed them- Wavne ,’ nd v j ndie . ted bis con a act os oneWthe moat uotir. ted to the very last of lhe ten a.ya allowed him
Beware of splittine of tickets! and swapping of\ selves by the side of the friends of “ Low duties, no '"?• zealous and efficient opponents of the Tariflsoft824 . . . ,. , eqU ailv divided upon
. ,. V ® .. , , . and ’28 and that of 1832 as different in character, but the Hon.—ttiat tiia-amnet was cqua.ir Do" tlSf :
votes! Go your whole ticket, and nothing but your debt, and retrenchment.” Such instances are too , nme in pr ; nc jpi e The protective policy he o ? po=ed both lion, and that he was 1-th t- sign the btii r j
ticket! How can you, believing in the greater pu- numerous and too noted to call for any especial re- Unconstitutional ami inexpedient. The acts of’24 and know that he was but a man. and liable to err a=" j
rity, the superior utility of Democratic doctrines, j mark. The individuals are known to fame—they jnfewtf but thatVf twa waT framed with the"viewto^ 1 And above a11, do '^ the G f° r ]l a *
leave off from your ticket the name ofa staunch are not like the “men in buckram suits.” those J?sLtoro or
supporter of thosodocirines, to give place W ao op- I impalpable personages, without any “ local babita- that alone—though it was not all we desired and had a tbe General Assembly of the State, denounced a - ^
poser of them? Such a course is contemptible and tion or name,” referred to in tbe Whig accounts of . r ’" bt *° demand, it was still a great encouragement to ui, 1 noton i v aa -unconstitutional" but also a»'
pusillanimous to the SXtremt.’ You might as well j 11 numerous accessionsThey reside m Ogle- j hava zlwaya foUowad, attack th# ayatam by reason and ar- ent and dangerous io tbe Utxrty oj?