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THE
COUNTEYMA N.
Emancipation for Recognition.
— We bad read, and heard it before,
but were surprised to hear one of the
speaker* at the citizens’ meeting, a
few evenings since, enunciate the doc
trine of emancipation, as best calcu
lated to gain us favor in the, eyes of
the ruling powers of the world. To
him, and those who entertain such
fallacious hopes, we commend the
reading of the article, in another col
umn, from the London Times.
The English have their Exeter
Hall fanatics, and hold their anti
slavery mass meetings, and we may
say that the sentiment of the nation
is as rank abolition as the New Eng
land States ; but we have to deal wi h
a government. Governments have
no soul—no sentiment. England will
continue to act from a selfish policy,
alone. It is to her interest that the
old union remain dissolved. But it is
also to her interest that the labor sys
tem of the confederacy I’emain unim
paired. To offer her emancipation,in
favor of recognition, may suit the
rabble, but not the government. She
is now drawing deep into the national
purse, to feed her cotton paupers, on
ly biding her time to see two govern
ments established here. But her in
terests demand the security of our
cotton labor institutions.
The Times may speak for England,
but goes out of its province to speak
for France. The last named is not
abolitionized, and the Emperor’s poli
cy is beyond the ken of English
miud. To us, it is plain that Louis
Napoleon is not only favorable, per
sonally, to our cause, but his interests
also demand our success, with our
jnost yjtal institution. What would
be the character of the Confederate
States, with her labor system abolish
ed 1 The answer is found in the his
tory of San Domingo. The Confed
erate States would be powerless to af
ford protection to Maximilian, and his
dominions, against the yankee inva
der—in short, would be hut a map of
woe, and desolation.—Selma Dis
patch.
•t The Boston papers are in a flatter,
in consequence of the revelations of
hospitalities to Mr. Pollard, in that
city, an acpount of which was pub
lished in yesterday morning’s Tri
bune. The Boston Journal says the
f traitors ’ are democrats, and Mc
Clellan men.”
•f ‘I mean to abandon my habits of
life,’ said a dissipated gentleman.
♦Are yop sure, sir, that they are not
aba ndoned epougb, already V ”
ging his own grave—for it is appar
ent that he has seized the opportuni
ties for discontent, within Georgia, to
give expression to the angry, and,
we must say, unmanly impulses of
his heart; and we shall not bt sur
prised if the loyal people of the state
crush him into insignificance.
His recommendation to the other
states, will be, as it ought to be,
treated with contempt. It is only a
proposition for single state action,
and which every one supposed was
annihilated by the treatment of our
late peace commissioners. Perhaps,
however, Gov. Brown’s message was
prepared prior to the delivery of Mr.
Line dn’s ultimatum ; or he is so join
ed to his peculiar idols, that even a
messenger from heaven could not
raise him up to a magnanimity whifth
could forget, in the emergency of the
present, the personal prejudices bf the
past.—■Mobile Tribune.
Gen. Johnston.—“On the subject
of the appointment of Gen. Lee, as
Commander-in-chief, and of the re
storation of Gen. J. E. Johnston, we
have the following testimony from an
enemy—the Louisville Journal :
We confess that, as friends of the
federal cause, we should be glad to
see both the resolution in regard to
Lee, and that in regard to Johnston,
disregaided by the executive power
of the confederacy. Next to Lee,
he is esteemed, and no doubt justly,
the greatest’general in the confedera
cy. He is prudent, brave, and capa
ble of comprehensive, and far reach
ing plans. With such a force at his
command as he had when he was su
perseded, he might give us great
trouble. Still, if he had been, or
shall be reappointed, we may reason
ably cheerish a strong trust that the
army, so badly shattered in his ab
sence, can never, in the present ad
verse condition of the confederacy,
become formidable again. And at
any rate, we may feel that the calm,
and stern old war-giant, Thomas, is a
match for anybody. The wave, how
ever huge, that dashes against him,
will probably become foam. The
confederate forces have certainly con
templated an invasion of Kentucky,
from beyond her southern border, but
Thomas and his army stand more
impassable than the Alp6, in the time
of JLannibal, between us and them.”
The Taunton Gazette says, that
at a resent church fair, a set of Coop
er’s works was promised tq him who
should answer a set of conundrums.
The winner received a set of wooden
pads."
the east, the gentle rays of coming peace- Godf
has other means, than by forpe of soBtfiertJ
anna, and southern valor, to bring us oat con
querors. There is such a complication of op
posing interests, among the nations, Hiat the
high ha'hd, of the race of northern IsbmaelitPs,
will soon be arrested in its mad career of tyran
ny, and bloodshed. Ere long, the confederacy
will stand among the recognized nations of the
earth, and wealth, and power, and prosperity,
and glory, and fame will perch upon her ban
ners. And what, then, will be the feeling of the-
traitors, who now counsel submission, in order
to save their property ? Why, they will come
out from their holeB of infamy,and shame, and,
with their bold, brazen fronts, claim as much
honor, and glory, as anyone. It is then that
the black roll, which must be kept against
them, shall be brought to light, and tho infam
ous culprits be lashed from the temple of our
freedom, ard independence.
We repeat it, we know some of these tories*
and traitors, and we intend to make a record
of their names, and in the bright day that is
coming for the south, if they dare to obtrude
their reptile forms into the company of gentle
men, and patriots, they shall be exposed, not
only to the hissing, and scorn, of indignant
freemen, but to the rope of the hangman, and
the lash ol the scourger of oulprits, and crimi
nals.
Gov. Brown’s Message.—A syn
opsis of the message of , Governor
Brown, to the Georgia legislature,
will be found under the telegraph
head. Is it not amazing that the
governor of any southern state should
express such opiujM;* », 1 They were
becom ug enough in peace time*—
or, rather, excusable in such times—
but now, m the mid s', of a w*j? ,iy>
magnitude of this, is it not amazing,
that any man, professing to be loyal
should thiow such a firebrand among
our peo; le ? It seems to us that it
is amazing ; and if one should con
clude that Governor Brown were get
ting ready to make his way to the
yankee lines, it would be pardonable.
He may be an honest, and a patri
otic man, but that he is a wrong-head
ed, and an unwise man, no one with
any sense can fail to conclude. It is
painful, and also shameful that this
man has authority in so great a state
as Georgia. He is one of those who,
how honest soever their intentions
may be, derive their opinions from
what they consider their personal
grievances. Mr. Davis has not treat
ed Gov. Brown’s trivialities with all
that deference that he demands for
them, and the result is, that he for
gets Ins country, in order to heal his
own selfish wounds. It is sad to
think that any state has at its head a
man of this kind—a marplot, a sores
headed, sore-hearted man, who can
not iise above the narrow region of his
own egotism.
Well, we think that Brown is dig-
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