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THE ENTERPRISE:
ll* NOOREFIELD t its Editor*
HAMILTON, GA*:
Thurnduy Morning, Sept. *Ttb/ IMJO.
roR rRKHIDENT,
JOHN BELL,
OF TBR.VESdEE.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
EDWARD EVEERETT,
OP MASSACHUSETTS.
ELECTORAL TICKET.
FOR THE STATE AT I.AnriE,
B. H. HITYL, of Troup,
“WaVE. LAW, of Chatham.
ALTERNATES.
HINES HOLT, of Muscogee,
GAUN KTT AN I >RBWS, of Wilkes.
pon THE DISTRICTS.
Ist Dist.— S. B. SPENCER, of Thomas.
2d “ M DOUGLAS, of Randolph,
8d “ L. T. DOYAL, of Spaulding,
4th “ W. F. WRIGHT, of Coweta,
6th J. R. PARROT, of Cuss,
Gilt “ 11. P. BELL, of Forsyth,
7th “ I. E. DUPREE, ol Twiggs,
Bth “ La FAYETTE LAMAR, Lincoln
ALTERNATE ELECTORS,
lit. Ptst. —Edward 11. Wav, of Liberty,
Dr. T. A. Parsons, of Johnson.
2d “ W. 11. Itom.NSON, <if Mnron,
P. J. Stbozier, of Dougherty.
8d •• John T. Stephens, of Monroe,
Charles T. Goods, of Houston.
4th. “ C. W. Marry, of Hoard,
John M. Kikik, of Campbell.
6th “ Thomas (1. Mt Pari and, of AValkcr.
Richard W. Jones, of Whitfield,
6th “ H. D. McDaniel, of Walton,
S. J. Winn, of Gwinnett.
7th “ It. T. Harms, of Hancock,
Milks W. Lewis, of Greene.
6th “ John K. Jackson, of Richmond,
Daniel E. RonERTs, of Striven.
BUB-ELEECTORS POR HARRIS COUNTY.
11ICHART) K. KENNON,
T. F. BREWSTER,
It. H. BULLOCH.
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NIM'.AKI\G AT WHITES* IIXE.
We are authorized to state that Col. I>.
P. llili, will address tho people at Whites*
villc, on Saturday, tho 29th instant, on the
political questions of tho day. We hope tho
people will turn out and hear Col. Hill.
As£r Discussion is invited.
■•i ni,l€ HPIMKINCi.
W o are requested to announce that Col.
Nathan Bass, Douglas and Johnson Elector
for this District, will address tho people of
this county at this place on Wednesday, Oc
tober 10th, 1860.
RF* Tlio Griffin Democrat, in a notice of
the speech of non. Henry It. Jackson, ono
of tlie Breckinridge State electors, says:
“Touching lire fly upon tho record of John
8011, ho demonstrated that whenever an is
suo has been made between the North and
tho South, Itell Ims been uniformly found
voting with the Northern enemies of slave
ry. The speaker asserted that no Southern
man can ho found who is less sound upon
the rights of tho South than John Bell.”
Now, that Col Jackson asserted what is
here attributed to him, wo have no right to
gainsay; but when it is stated that lie de
monstrated it, we deny it most emphatically.
To demonstrate a proposition, is to show
that it is true, and why it is so, and we defy
Col. Jackson or anybody else to show that
John Bell has “uniformly voted with the
enemies of slavery ” It can’t he done, and
Col. Jackson, if he knows anything about
tho political history of his country, knows
it. But is’nt it strange, if Col. Jackson is
gifted with such tremendous powers of de
monstration, that ho did not “demonstrate”
this fact to Col. Obcdiuh Gibson, Breckin
ridge elector for this District? Col. Gibson
told tho people at the Court House in this
place on Inst Thursday, that John Bell hnd
generally voted with t/v South, while Col. Jack
son says to tho people of Griffin, Gibson’s
neighbors, that Bell has uniformly voted with
the enemies of tho South. We leave these
gentlemen to reconcile this difference of
Opinion between themselves as best they
may, hoping, however, that Col. Gibson will
take an early opportunity to disabuse the
fninds of the people of Griffin on this sulw
jeet, by telling them, as he did here, that Mr.
Bell has generally voted with the South.
The SpeaklßE Loil Mitui <m.t.
Col. L. T. Doyal, Bell and Everett elector
for this Congressional District, and Charles
T. Goode, Esq., one of tho Alternate elec
tors, addressed a portion of tho citizens of
Harris county at tho Court house in this
place, on Saturday last.
Mr. Goode was tho first speaker, and for
more than an hour commanded tho atten
tion of his audience. He set out by stating
that it was the duty of Southern men of ali
parties, to voto for John Bell, ho being the
only candidate now before tho people who
stands the shndow of a chance to defeat the
Black Republicans. He would say nothing
against Mr. Douglas, who hud always been
a consistent Democrat, and stood to-day up
on tho same ground heretofore occupied by
tho great National Democratic party. As
to platforms, ho cared nothing about them.
Tho Constitution and tho Union was plat
form enough, especially with such a man ns
John Bell in tho Presidential chair to ad
minister tho Government and enforce tho
laws. This was tho only platform required
in the earliar duys ol our Bepuhlic, when
such men as Washington, Jefferson, Adams
and Jackson were candidates for tho Presi
dency. Platforms wero invented by party
leaders nnd demagogues for selfish purposes,
to mislead nnd gull the honest, unsuspecting
people. Tho speaker then referred briefly
to tho course of the Democratic party on tho
subject of squatter sovereignty, and read
from speeches delivered by many of the
leaders of that party —including Brcckin
ridgo himself—showing that that dogma
had been considered one of the cardinal
principles of tho Democratic party, until re
cently, when the disunionists hnd been per
mitted to slip into their National Conven
tions, and break up tho party by introducing
the doctrine of Congressional intervention
fortlie protection of slavery in tho Teritories.
Tho Constitutional Union pnrty, with John
Bell ns its leader, contended that the Consti
tution and tho (lag of tho Union protected
the slaveholder in tho Territories, thcStates
nnd upon the sens. Wo should look to the
Constitution for protection toslavory, rather
than to an abolition Congress.
But wo cannot give anything like an out
line, even, of the speech of Mr. Goode. It
was nrgumentntivo, logical and truly elo
quent, and his frequent appeals to the patri
otism of the people to come up in solid phal
anx and rally to tho old banner of the stars
nnd st ripes, and preserve the Union of the
States, elicited frequent outbursts of ap
plause. Mr. Goode came among ns n total
stronger, but left, many warm friends in our
county, nnd wo hope that this visit among
us may prove hut the forerunner of others
equally pleasant. We assure him that his
eloquent effort here in behalf of the cause of
John Bell, the Union, the Constitution nnd
Laws, , was highly nppprcciiitcd. und the
(Mends of tho good cause alf join us in tho
hope that he may make it convenient, at
some time between this nnd November, to
pay us another visit, nnd “repeat the dose.”
Wo come now to tho speech of Col. L.
T. Doyal, our able and distinguished stan
dard hearer for this District, and we confess
our utter inability to do him justice in an
orlinnry newspaper article. Forntoro than
two hours he entertained his hearers with a
speech which for compact argument and
sound common sense views, was insurpassu
hie. To say that it was able, dignified and
unrnswerahlc, is hut to repeat what all who
are disposed to judge impartially are ready
to admit. He took up, one by’ .one, the
charges preferred ngainst John Beil, and
disposed of them in a masterly and convinc
ing manner.
In regard to the miserable charge offroe
soilism preferred against Mr. Bell, Col. Doyal
proved by tho record that it was false, and
that the leading speakers of tho Brockin
ridgo party, having been driven to tho wall
in every contest on this point, had given it
up, nnd now acknowledge, as did Col. Gib
son, that John Bell “had generally voted
with tho South.” But his vote against tho
Leeompton Constitution was now the great
sin for which Mr. Bell was to he repudiated
at the South. Col. Doyal showed from the
record, from Mr. Bell’s speech on the Lc
compton Constitution, that he had voted to
refer it hack to the people of Kansas for rat
ification, and that every Democratic Senator
in Congress voted with him, for the same
object, when they voted for tho English hill.
Kansas, in that Constitution, had demanded
more land than she was entitled to, nnd
more than the Government had awarded to
any other now State, and Mr. Bell could see
no good reason tor making her tho recip
ient of sueh partiality at tho hands of the
General Government, and hence ho desired
to have this overplus of land stricken out,
nnd then if tho people iff the territory still
desired to come into the Union under the
Leeompton Constitution, let them do so.—
This was Mr. Bell’s position, and he w**
sustained by every Southern Democratic
member of Congress save two. But suppose
Mr. Bell had voted for Leeompton, nnd Kan
sas had been admitted, what would have
been the result? We would now have one
more Black Republican State, with three
votes to aid tho election of Lincoln. Was
.Mr. Bell to ho condemned for keeping Kan
sas out of tho Union under these circum
stances? How could any any Southern man
engage in a ivarfaro upon him for such a
cause ?
Angnin, Mr. Bell was charged with voting
to make California a free State. Thiseharge
was also most signally refuted by Col. Doyal
who showed by the record , that instead of
doing ibis, Mr. Bell voted toexteiiS^^K
souri Compromise to the Pacific,
ing one-half the State open to but
in tlds lie was overpowered by a Democratic
Congress/ *
It had also been charged that Mr, Bell
had favored tho abolition of slavery fa the
District of Columbia,anil Brer-kinriflgtrWWß
papers and stump spenkers had penrfwrtod
tho truth of history’ by garbling Mr.BcH’s
speeches, and giving them a meaning which
it was nover intonded they should cojlrey.
Col. Doyal road out tho yeas and
the Congressional Globes, showing thaf Mr.
Bell had always voted against every prepo
sition to abolish slavery in tho District of
Columbia; and not only so, hut that hclhad
alwnys voted against every proposition to
abolish the slave trade in tho Distria of
Columbia.
Thus Col. Doyal went on and disposal of
tho objections urged ngainst Mr. Bell, jptlis
speech, from beginning to end, was a imblc
vindication of a jpuro and honest statesman
who has been unjustly assailed by a portion
of the people of his own section, whose in
terests nnd institutions ho has spent moro
than thirty years of his life in defending and
protecting, whenever assaulted by t*tujfiie
mios—tho Northern aliolitionists. A
Col. Doyal also defended tho eharact"jNof
Edwnrd Everett ngninst tho clmrgeslpreferr
ed ngainst him by the supporters ol'BcUck
inridge, and referred in eloquent nnd fil
ing terms to his disinterested efforts in 10--half
--half of Mount Vernon; ho had spent, his
tiino nnd his money in traveling over'the
country to rniso money to rescue
of Washington from the hands of speculators,
ami make it tho common property el’ tho
ladies of America. This singlo act should
endear him to every American citizen who
reveres the name and noble deeds
“Father of his Country.”
As to the charge of freesoilism
against Mi'. Everett. Col. Doyal
they were ill-founded, and read IrodH
speeches while Congress in which he
ed his rendinoss to shoulder his
march to the defence of tho people
South. The speaker also read an <cWact
from a speech of Mr. Breckinridge lum
self, in which he prenounccd Mr. KveEtt
a patriot “noble and true. w
We have passed hastily over only ft few
points discussed by Col. Doyftl, without at
tempting to give anything like full Synop
sis of his arguments. Our only rrfret is
that every voter in Harris county lid not
hear tho speech, lie lashed as they deserv
ed those small-potatoo cross-roads vould-be
politicians who are traveling about the coun
try asserting that John Bell is unsound on
tho subject ol slavery. In closinAii speech
Col. Doyal made an eloquent ajßal to all
who love tho Union and the
rally Urdu ml tho standard of those
live national statesmen Bell and FA’ erktt,
and bear them in triumph to tho Presiden
tial chair.
Col. O. C. Cilison.
This gentleman, Breckinridge elector for
this District, addressed a very small portion
of the voters of this county on Thursday iast
upon the political issues of the day.
Col. Gibson commenced by stating that
he was a member of the Nashville Conven
tion, and stood by and advocated the same
principles to-day that he did in 1 Sod. lie
viewed the political course of event- dneo
that time, and found that he was contend
ing for tho same doctrine now that he Con
tended for then, lie lauded the American
party for having demanded protcctiiß in
their Macon and Millcdgcvillc i
But how changed! Then there use.
ing good in tho platform or party,
Gibson opposed the American party as fierce
ly as ho now opposes tho Constitutional
Union party. If tho platform was sueh an
excellent one then, as Col. Gibson now says
it was, why didn't he come along and get
on it and go with them? Oh, consist nry,
thou art a jewel! There was no protection
needed then by Col. Gibson’s party —they
were satisfied with the doctrine of non-in
tervention. But now, the abstraction of
other days is demanded (when necessary)
according to tho abolition platform maker
of Massachusetts, B. F. llallct.
The Union party is to-day in favor ofpro
tection, the only protection that can ever be
available, that is, Constitutional protection.
They believe that tho Constitution is a safer
relianeeTorproteetion.t liana Black Bepnblian
Congress. But Col Gibson admitted that
the Constitution carried slavery into nil the
Territories, and protected itthoro under the
Drod Seott Decision, and fuilodto show that
we could over get any betteb or moro am
ple protection—thus admitting that our plat
form was the best on that question. Even
allowing that wo should have a Democratic
President and Congress wo have no’ assur
ance that they would deem protection “ne
cessary,” as there is only a small faction of
the party that demand it.
As to John 8011, Col. Gibson admitted
that he had generally voted fortlie interests
of his section; but ho objected to him be
cause ho was weak in judgment. Now this is
an now charge against Mr. Bell,
nnd one that wo havo nover heard urged be
fore. But like all others, it is easily , elu
ted. Wo ask you to look to the histo
ry of tho country, and you will sec that for
forty years past John Bell lms boon honored
by the people of his State with offices of
honor and distinction. If he is weak in
judgment, the State of Tennessee have hern
willing to trust her interests in his hands.
If you believe he is weak in judgment go
look at his record—though dusty from ago
it will well repay investigation. There too,
you will find tho acts, votes and sayings of
a statesman and a patriot, nnd notono%ord
or voto but is directed by a pure patriotism
and devotion to liis country. John Bell
weak in judgment! Admired by Jackson
in his younger days—in riper years tho
compeer of Clay, Webster and Calhoun,
John Bell stands to-day with the flag of our
counfry, to protect tho Constitution, perpet
uate tho Union and cnforco tho laws of the
country, looking with disfavor upon tho
black flag of oppression nt the North ns
well as upon tho red ling of disunion at the 1
South, and with an honest heart desires tho
overthrow of these twin enemies of the
Constitution.
A Crazy Newspaper. —The homo organ
of Breckinridge, tho Lexington Statesmen,
stunned and crazed by tho late crushing
overthrow of its champion in Kentucky,
puts forth the following insane paragraph':
Thcro is not a Northern State in which
the friends of Breckinridge and Lane do not
outnumber, iu tho votes, two to one of tho
BrlLmcu. All but two or three Southern
States are quite certain for Breckinridge,
nnd thoso excepted are, to claim the least,
doubtful.
Tho absurdity of this was too great for
Democrats, even, and so tho Cincinnati En
quirer, the lending Democratic paper inOhio,
replies by saying:
“There is not a Northern State where the
Bell men do not outnumber the Breckinridge
Disunionists ten to one. This every body
knows who lives in the free States. The
truth is, the Breckinridge party is a sham in
the Jforth. In numbers they do not exceed
the old Tyler party of 1842. As to the South,
Breckinridge will not carry one Southern
Statdltoiccpt South Carolina.”
Straw. —A vote was taken in
of Whitcsvillo, in this county on
of September, with the following
result:
Bell and Everett 35.
Douglas and Johnson 3.
Breckinridge and Lane 2.
Abandons the Democratic Party. —The
Vicksburg Whig contains a letter from the
Hon. E. M- Verger, a distinguished citizens
of Mississippi, in which that gentleman de
clares himself lor Bell and Everett. It is
well known that Inst December, Mr. Verger
publicly allied himself with the Democratic
party. Believing from the unerring signs
of the times, that Bell and Everett are the
only ticket which stands a ghost of a chance
of success over tho Black Republicans, he
gives his support in this contest to Bell and
Everett. We copy tho concluding portion of
Mr. Verger’s letter:
“Withoutattempting to discuss the pro
fessed principles of eithc party in tho hold,
it seems to me that tho only questions a pa
triot should now ask, ought to he: How
we sitvo the Union? How can wo crush!
the Black Republicans? Whatever party 1
wo may heretofore havo acted with, we of
the South are tor the rights of the South,
and it becomes us as a great and intelligent
people, to put an end to the reign of party
tyranny, ll has already nearly proved fil
ial to ourcounlry. Individual independence
is now necessary to preserve it. Without
doubting tho devotion of any party in Mis
sissippi in the interests of the South, it can
not. I think, he successfully denied that the
Democracy have failed as a national party
to secure that which was the very germ of
the dissolution. Those opinions are now
held within my own knowledge, by some of
the most distinguished supporters of Mr.
Breckinridge in Mississippi, who have fur
thermore, patriotically dcclnrrud their wil
lingness to support Mr. Bell, should it in
deed appear that he is the strongest candi
date in tho field. The recent elections, I
think, have clearly proved this to be a liict
and it is not too much to hope that tho pu
trotism of these gentlemen will soon show
hbjelf hv an open declaration for Mr. Bell.
this contest I am lor crushing the lle
pnfTiean party', rather than the elevation of
any'other, and shall therefore east my voto
tor Bell and Everett, in my judgment, the
strongest national candidates in the field.—
Your obedient servant.
Edward M. Yergek.
Yancey and the Union. — “l am no wor
shipper of the Union ? lam not fortlie Un
ion, nor against the Union. 1 am not for
disunion, nor against disunion!” The above
is from the speech of W. Ij. Yancey, at the
Maryland Institute, after Breckinridge and
Lane had been nominated, and it was warm
ly and enthusiastically received by the del
egates and Breckinridge outsiders in atten
dance. Mr. Yancey was the head engineer
of tho secession movement from the begin
ning, and did more to nominate Breckin
ridge than any other one hundred men.—
His idea, as avowed in his letter to Colonel
Slaughter in ISSS, “is to precipitate the Cot
ton States into revolution.’’ The cause is to
he tho election of Lincoln, the means of af
fecting which is to divide the anti-Lincoln
vote, by keeping Breckinridge in the field.—
Richmond Whig.
Let the People Take Notice, says the
Richmond Whig, That the Lychburg Repub
lican, n hot Breckinridge organ, announces
that “the moment ‘the lightning flash shall
convey the intelligence of the election, of
Lincoln it will unlMrl to tho breeze tho flag
of Disunion.”
Let tho people remember, also, that the
Republican's position is the position of nine
tenths of the Breckinridge papers in Vir
ginia ! Tho Republican is only a littlo bold
er than the others—thnt’s all.
No Chance for Breckinridge. —Tho
Brockinridge-Yancy State Convention at
Chnrlottsvillo instructed its electors to voto
for cither Douglas or Bell to defeat Lincoln
There is good evidence they had no idea of
the election of Breckinridge. Why do they
aid in kcepiijgtho young man on tho track,
when they know his remaining there can
do nothing towards the defeat of tho Repub
licans, but is calculated to aid the fanatics?—
Richmond Whig.
From the Nashville Patriot.
Mr. Hell's Prospects In the North.
From a private letter received in this city
from n gcmtloman now in Now York, woaro
permitted to make tho oxtmet subjoined.
The writer is a cool headed business man,
and his statements are entirely reliable :
New York, Aug. 10 lfftlO.
* * * “When I left Nashville, I deter
mined to mix about with tho people on ev
ery train of ears I was aboard of, nnd from
tho time I struck the Kentucky lino I began
to see tho excitement. j\t every depot and
station crowds of people were gathered and
shouting over the glorious victory in our
sister State. As I passed through Ohio and
Pennsylvania, I found upon every train a
majority for Bell and Everett; and upon but
one train during our mholo trip to New
York, lmd Breckinridge a majority over
Douglas and that was at some point be
tween Nashville nnd Louisville, which vote
stood, for Bell 62, Breckinridge 31, Douglas
26, and Lincoln 2. As I came on, I* of course,
mot friends of all the candidates, particular
ly ns I neared this city, for I regret to say
Mr Lincoln has many friends in this local
ity. It is, however, gratifying to mo to bo
aide to assure you that all over this northern
country, Mr. 801 l is the second elioico of the
friends of all the other candidates. Since I
havo been in this city I have talked with a
great many business men, and 1 find them
all for Mr. Beit, with here and there an ex
ception. They SUV they are willing to vote
for any man to defeat the Black Republi
cans, and they can soo JJO c’banco to do this
nnd save tho Union, unless they concentrate
upon and elect Mr. Roll, and they are going
to work with that determination and with
full confidence of success. The late elec
tions in Missouri, North Carolina and Ken
tucky have inspired the people in the North
with confidence, and tho leaves hardly fall
faster from tho trees after a biting frost in
autumn, than arc tho friends of Breckin
ridge and Douglas deserting them and join
ing The great union of honest conservative
men, who are tho only hope for the perpetu
ity and glory of this great nation. I assure
you there is a great revolution going on in
this section. Old men, whoso silver locks
betoken that they are on the grave’s brink,
who for years have taken no part in politics
arc going in droves to the political gather
ings and joining the younger in the loud
shout for Bell ond Everett. Old Democrats
who have been so all their lives, are wash
ing their hands of it and coming out for our
Union candidates.
The same feeling is aroused in Philadel
phia. While there on Saturday last, I was
told by our old friend G. that in three hous
es there adjoining each other, (his being ono
of them,) there wore 38 to 40 voters, and
every one for Bell and Everett except two.
These are truths that cannot begotten over
and tell in tones of thunder how our party
is gaining ground.
neli anil Ilierctt-LioaiiN or Hie
lllacK Republican Press.
Wluit ever elso may be said about the
convention which placed Messers. Bell and
Everett in nomination, it cannot be denied
that tho dolgAtos solected for both places
on their ticket are gentlemen who deserve
well of their country. If we had more men
of tho same sort, the government would bo
carried on with much moro dignity than at
present. While this fact is generally ftc
kaow\dged, v*e notice that some of the
black republican journals attempt to throw
ridicule upon the ticket, and tiius divert
public attention from thenominees. This
shows that the Black republicans arc not
a littlo frightened at the idea ot having
three or four strong tickotsin the field
against them. Avery aide and statesman
like letter from Mr. Everett has called out
some of the black republican attacks, which,
through written with apparent goodhumor.
show signs of latent rancor and concealed
aprehensions. It is quite true that it can not
he said of Mr. Bell or Mr. Everett thatoilher
of them kept a grocery, ordistillod whiskey,
or was judge of a fist light ora horse race,
that either of them ever split rails which
seemed to ho Mr. Lincoln's onh points.—
Other wise, however, we are oblige to say
that Bell and Everett have largely tho ad
vantage of their opponents.
The former are men of cultivation, education
and refinement—scholars, gentlein*n and
statesmen of large experience. Jn their
hands tho government would command con
fidence at home and respect abroad. In all
that constitute fitness lor tho discharge of
the duties of the executive branch of the
government, there is no comparison between
Bell and Everett and Lincoln and llamlin.
so vastly superior arc the former. It argues
badly for republican institutions, when such
men as John Bell and Edward Everett, arc
denounced and abused.— N. Y. Herald.
Douglas Ticket in the Field.—Breckin
ridge’s lust hope of Florida is gone. Messrs.
Roden, Culpepper and Jones, are announced
as Electors for the “Little Grant 1 * in this
Stale. Gen. Redout has opened the canvass
in good earnest in tho East. “Alas! poor
Yorick.” Brock’s friends havo floated on
little Florida , hut now she slips from his
grasp. The tables are turned. It's the
Giant killing Jack—uo longer “Jack the Gi
ant killer.” The Douglas men of the state
so long bulicd and browbeaten by the Yan
cey-Breckinridge men, have at last asserted
their independence and the ides of Novem
ber will show many a voter for the Popular
Sovereign. This ticket gives the State to
Bell without a doubt. “So much for Buck
ingham !”— Florida Sentinel.
No Mistake about Virginia.— A prominent
gentleman of this State, a member of the
last Legislature, and a Breckinridge man
passed through this place on last Monday
on his way home from Virginia, where lie
had spent some time ; and ho gave it as his
decided opinion, that tlie Old Dominion was
sure for Bell and Everett. All of our own
friends, who have visited there this summer
have uniformly givon us the same informa
tion, and we are glad to have it continued
by a very intelligent and prominent friend
of Mr. Breckinridge.
And if Virginia is thus unmistakably for
801 l and Everett, who can doubt how tho
adjoining States will go? The same causes
which operate in Virginia to give that State
to the Union ticket, will opperate still more
strongly in North Carolina, Delawnre, Ken
tucky, Maryland, nnd Tennessee, and give
the whole of them, with their 60 votes, to
Bell and Everett.— Montgomery Post.
The Chinese picture of ambition: ‘‘a man
darin trying to catch a comet by putting
salt on its tail.”
“Mr. Hell to take the Slump.”
Under tho above heading tho Louisville
Courier of Thursday alluded to the asser
tion of tho Louisville Journal that “Mr.
Bell will not take the stump,” as “prema
ture,” und quotes tho following in confirma
tion of its position from the Lexington
Statesman:
“The Louisville Journal is very much ex--
cited over tho announcement that Mr-
Breckinridge proposes to respond in person
to tho charges that tlio Journal has aided
to circulate, nnd says thnt if any of its read
ers hear it intimated that John Bell would
take the stump, it will be safe to character
ize tho statement as false and slanderous. —
The Journal is a ’degree too rapid. Wo
havo tho best reason to believe that John
Bell is contemplating that very movement.
He said to a friend a very few days ago, that
if Mr. Breckinridge makes speeches, ho wilt
follow the example. The Journal ought to
be better posted before it uses languago so
strong. It cannot well take back all it Has
said, but will have it to do.”
M isery loves company, nnd the support
ers of Mr. Breckinridge, conscious of tlio
humiliating attitude in which that gentle
man lias placed liimself as a stump candi
date for the Presidency, are very anxious to
reduce Mr. Bell to the same level. But they
will most signally tail iu tins. Wo have no
idea that Mr. Bell everuttored the words so
positively attributed to him by the states
man. Tho idea of John Bell following tho
example of Hr. Breckinridge is quite amus
ing. *
Whntover misrepresentations or specula
tions upon this point may bo circulated by
the Breckidridge organs, let it be understood
once for all, that Mr. Bell is not a stump can
didate for tho Presidency, and all assertions
that he will lollow Mr. Breckinridge’s ex
ample are untrue, and a reflection upon his
high character as a statesman.— Nashville
Banner.
The Meeting Saturday Night.—Notwith
standing a pretty full house nt Temperance
Hall, the moetng in the yard of the Ogle
thorpe Hotel was very large nnd inthusias
tic. We were glad to soo, in the compact
crowd, a number of Breckinridge and Doug
las men; their presence maifested a desiro
to hear and weigh tlio arguments of a speak
er who has acquired such distinguished and
deserved eminence ns a popular orator ns
Hon. B. H. Hill. Mr. Hill’s speech was all
that his mostTsnnguinc friend anticipated—
calm, argumentative, pointed nnd eloquent.
For about two hours and a half he held an
attentive audience deeply interested in his re
mnjks. Disdaining the little quibbles nnds hal
low sophistries so common in stump speak
ers, lie treated the questions at issue in a
statesmanlike nnd candid manner, and op
posed to prejudice and partisan blindness
tlie force of truth and the persuasive app rt *l ß
of an enlarged patrotism. If they ,W 1 not
reach and carry conviction to heart,
it was because party had ste. f cd them agaist
the influence of politi—.* truth nnd the forco
of the most cogent argument. Ho exposed
and refuted in a masterly manner many of
the frivolous charges against Mr. Bell, and
riddled with his logic and sarcasm tho in
consistencies and subterfuges of tho seces
sionist. Their cry of “platform,” especial
ly, was ridiculed and exposed in a masterly
manner; and the “aid and comfort” which
they are indirectly iriviny to Lincoln was
apt before thp people in light. IV£
regret that every voter in the State cannot* 1
hear Mr. Hill- ->ve should feel sure of a vio
tory for our good cause, even with the pecu
liar dificiillios in our way in Georgia. It
was a noble nnd telling speech, and will long
be remembered by those who heard it as
the most powerful effort they ever listened
to on such an occasion.
Mr. Jlill will speak this week at Knoxville,
Tcnn., Home, Ga., and other places north of
ns. Wherever he may go, and in whatever
distinguish! company ho may speak, tho
people will recognize him as the model stump
orator, and good will follow his efforts.—Col
umbus Enquirer.
A Union Victory in Delaware. —Tho
Wilmington Commonwealth pronounces the
result of the municipal election in that city
on Tuesday last as a triumph of the Consti
tutional Union men, tlio organs of the Re
publicans to “the contrary notwithstand
ing.” The candidates for city* officers aro
Constitutional Union men, and wore nomi
nated by that party as such ono week, at
least, before the People's party took up their
names and placed them upon their ticket.—
The ward officers, however, were nominated
by the People’s party, for whom tho Union
men worked nobly and through whose exer
tions they were carried successfully through.
Hogs. —We hear tho inquiry made every
day as to the probable nninbcr nnd price of
hogs in this Stato the approaching season,
and from the best information we are able
to get, from those best posted on the subject,.
wo aro led to believe there will be loss pork,,
and the prices higher, than we have had in
Tennessee, within the last ten years. This
is owing to several causes; first, the fiiiluro
of our corn crop for several years; Second
ly, tho cholera has made such destruction
among the hogs that farmers are discourag
ed from attempting to raise them. Besides
the discrimination against our farmers, by
the Rail Roads in this country, in the trans
portation of their Provisions and Bread
stuff’s, and in favor of more distant sections,
all contribute to discourage the further rais
ing of hogs for market.
Our neighbors ofGeorgia, South Carolina,
and Alabama, who havo horotofbrc been dx>
pendont on this State, for their pork, must
look out for some other market the present
season. If they havo then, to look to tho
North West for their Provisions, would it
not he well for them to take into considera
tion the question, whether or not, it is their
interest to aid in building tho Rail Road
from this place direct to Cincinati, by which
one half tho freight would ho saved, and suro
and speedy transportation, always secured,
with the largest nnd best market in tho
North West ?
If iivo of tho principlal Roads in Georgia
would appropriate one third of thoir net
earnings to aid in the construction of this
Road, tor five years, they would be moro
than repaid in the next tivo years, in tho
traffic over their Roads by the incroase of
business this great feeder would bring them.
—Chattanooga Advertiser.
6@"Council Clark, a gentleman in Sump
ter county, was placed on tho Democratic
Executive Com'mitteo, but ho could’nt stand
it and lias declared himself in favor of Bell
and Everett-