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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
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Tuesday Morning, Auguat 23.
DB90CH.VT1C HOJUBAHOW.
FOB GOVERNOR,
, OS. E. BROWN a Cce^iood Convvoti, . of tho
FOR CONGRESS—#» district.
COL. A. M. SPEER.
DiMrici laminations for Congress.
1st DUtrict—PETER E. LOVE.
2a DUtrict—MARTIN J. CRAWFORD.
3d DUtrict—ALEXANDER M. SPEER
4th District—L. J. GARTREL.
oth District—J. W. IL UNDERWOOD.
A Wrangle ami u Giik
Whether or no—without ngud toftc wialica,
■ I o: the w ,know n :ii .1 |
prt»e,i 0| po.'nion. . f .1 large majority of Hu
ps rty in six counties in the DUtrict, and with
for# counties out of the cl,wen composing the
CongressionalP-str:.: .: rv: :e-, i :he friends
M Joshua Hill mev:. «l...: they :• vhMly >•»’.!
Ueritv
party of the serenth District, and. as a matter
of course; do what ther tixed up the meeting to
da, nominate Mr. 11.11 tor reflection. A\ t are
told that Mr. Hill likes Waehingtou—that he'*
pleased with the surroundings, appurtenance*,
and accoutrements of Congweeional life—but
we really think he puts the last feather on the
camel's back when he can ask the people of the
southern part of the DUtrict to vote for him un
der the very peculiar circumstances of his pre
sent position. To call the meeting of hU Jrimds
This
6th District—JAMES JACKSON.
Tth District—ROBT. GOODLOE HARPER, j which assembled at Millcdgeville on Wednesday
8tfe District—JOHN JENKS JONES.
ALRX’R M. SPEER,
The Democratic Candidate for Congress, will | understood and
address the citiacns of the Third District
.M Valley Plains, Talbot Co,, Tuesday, * M.
• Waverly Hall HarrUCo., Thursday, •* 25. to ^ int0 Convention, and yet six enemies of
last, a CmreutMa. U a mockery, a force. The
meeting in Baldwin «thich sent delegates to tho
I Hill Convention, was an Orme meeting, and so
repres< nted by nine-tenths of
the American party in that county. The party
j had before that, in a crowded meeting, refused
Will Cotton keep dp I”
cry interesting question is discussed
-■ , : Sunday speaks ot. at some length in the New A ork Daily Tri-
-ultmg the Editor of that bune, of Thursday, with the lamentable con-
bet made clusioD that "Cotton has no inherent vitality t ( lcre ) laJ betn
Mr. Akin to resist the pressure of this or auy other siini-
The I'unsldu'lona! ■: lar derangement. It holds up longer than oth
pies, hut its downward career cannot be
i tho safety ol i
would not beat
otes.
Hamilton,
Saturday,
Macon Patent. y
Among the Patents issued during the week
gliding last Tuesday we notice one to “Thomas I
Dougherty, of Macon, Georgia, for improve-
<ent in switches for railroads.” Mr. Dougher-
.jiv, ajw Awitch, of which we saw a model
•me thne ago, U* self-regulating affair which
we believe will forever obvUte all danger of
casualties from misplaced switches. HU can
never he wrong.
The Pulaski Times.
The Times of Ust Thursday announces the
•ansfer of Mr. C. C. Horne’s interest in that
, i|ter to Mr. Charles C. Kibbce, who will here
after publish It in conjunction with Mr. Scarbo-
/-lUgtl.
Democrats Coining Back
Since the publication of the edict disbanding
the American party, a very rebellious element
lies been at work in the ranks of the Opposi-
non. Many old line Diroocrata do not like to
thus transferred from programme to pro
drome, and from platform to platform, and
from „ne name to another without any just
use, and the consequence is, that they are re-
f. rm iiig on the old line and will be found fight
ng shoulder to shoulder in the present cam
paign with their first love and ancient brethren
in arms. Come out say we—come out, old line
r ■ mocrats, take position with your old friends
iud comrades. Wo wept bitter tears when you
.-ft us and we will receive you back with shouts
,! joy. Now U the time for you to come—you
arc released from all obligations of principle and
(>arty, and we expect you to come back to the
ranks ot the time lionored and conquering De
mocracy.
Steak Firs Exams for Acosta.—The Des
patch understands that a Steam Fire Engine
will arrive in that city in the course of two
weeks, destined for the use of Clinch Company.
No. 2. We are disposed to think, one of those
self-propelling, self-woriting affairs, would be
useful in Macon. Our hills and sandbeds are
enough to exhaust the firemen in getting their
engines on the ground.
The Southern musical Convention
Will hold its next annual session at Bethel,
near Rocky Moont, Mcmwethcr county, Ga. >
commencing on Wednesday, Sept 7th, and to
continue in session for fire days.
Conciliation Indispensable
There is no disguising tK« foot that the Dem
ocratic party cannot succeed in the next Presi
dential election without the most perfect union
and complete harmony and identity of purpose.
Them must be union upon doctrines and union
upon men. Them must be a giving up, a sur
rendering upon a common altar, of unworthy
ipersonal aspirations, of low motives, of petty
jealousies, ofsinsll contrivances. Patriotic men
have got too much to grapple with in the next
ronteat to be annoyed by the paltry schemes of
jstitry men.—Boston Poll.
So justly remarks a paper, whose uniformly
conservative, unsectional, constitutional and pa
triotic course gives it a right to admonish and
a title to be heard by every good man in the
.-wintry. If the Democracy of the Union mean
U. make a stand for its integrity, they must do
it with fair, unsectional men—on fair national
grounds—not on any so palpably sectional in
character, that they divide democratic opinion
even in the section where they are advanced.
Mr. Kenan control and dictate to three hundred
friend* of Kenan. In Wilkinson, if there was
a meeting, who called it! h6w many attended
it? and was it not the action of individuals and
not of the party? Personally, wc have no ob
jection to Mr. Hill, but in the contest we desired
see Col. Kenan elected, and we at one time be
lieved that it was the policy of the Democratic
party not to run a candidate, and in that event,
we should have supported him heartily and
cheerfully, because we belieTe that fair play
and justice required it Mr. Kenan has always
been a bold, open, independent, industrious,
but courteous opponent He lias led all the
forlorn hopes of a forlorn party for the last six
years—wherever the post of danger was he
could always be found. In the last session of
the Legislature he was the leader of the party-
lie Ibuglit its battles—he led Its attacks—he
covered its retreats. To his personal populari
ty, to his chivalric courtesy, to his ability as a
parliamentarian in the House, Is the American
party indebted for the preservation of the sev
enth and third Congressional Districts intact.
But for Mr. Kenan’s influence, these districts
would have so changed as to give large Demo
cratic majorities to both.
Briiing on tlic Gubernatorial Elcc
TION.
The * Omstituiiona
an Oppositionist (An
pa ;K*r in re-;
that tin. 1
twenty tho;.
fed not express an opinion, but we fed bound.
»- a >imvre friend to the Oppositionists, to say
that unless t'....-.qa change very much between
now and the day of the election, all such bets
will be lent Whether Gov. Brown’s majority
will be less or more than 20,000 depends en
tirely on what may or may not hereafter be
done. If the vote -Mould he taken now,, wc
dare say it might result: in nearly twice that
majority. But if the “Opposition” should be
auocessful in transferring most of the late
"American" part; to this new allegiance, the
majority may, ptrhaps, l>c reduced even below
20,000. At present, the rank and file bang
back ami look upon the business with disaffec
tion and dlstnist. They say they are tired of
changes, and before they make another, want to
see how long it is to la-t. lxioking ahead for
ten or twenty years to come, the "young ’uns”
sec from the past a constant and frightful sue-
cession of names, changes and experiments,
which will leave a dear political record or ge
nealogy out of the question—and the “old ’uns’
are gettlhg out of breath and patience with the
effort to keep up with the times in the way of
party inventions. Altogether, just now there
Is “deep disgust intirely” among the rank and
file with the “opposition movement.” In some
counties, wc are credibly informed there Is
hardly a baker's dozen of Akin men yet, and
it now looks much as if all the interest in the
Akin campaign would be confined to the line
of the State Road, where the opportunities of
enlisting in the public service have been pro-
vokingly few in comparison with the applicants.
But this will change to sonic extent, when the
Opposition leaders stir round among the people
and appeal to old party affinities and old stand
ing prejudices agaiust the Democratic party.—
The great necessity of such a “movement” lias
been made so apparent that Mr. Akin was in
duced forthwith to reconsider the determination
“not to canvass” incautiously expressed a few
days ago in his letter of acceptance, and begin
at once an electioneering tour through the
State. If things had been left to take their
bent, the ballot box would have shown so lu
dicrous a record for the “Opposition'' that a
I’ROA HEW FORK.
Correspondence of the GeorgiaTelegrapli.
New Yokk. August 17. lsj'.i.
Dear Sir:—Since mv last communication.
For the Georgia Telegraph.
Stephen A. Douglas.
Anti-slavery propagandists demand interven-
eneral stagnation in the sen- tion by the general Government against slavery;
sation and excitement circles of our citv, until —slavery propagandistsdemand intervention by r J> 1
- ,i - i .. , , , r- . s •. . _ i ana
sumed itiattv foims since it- commencement,
but it now seems to be directed chielh to t ie
Territories; and judging lrom its present char
acter. 1 think we may safely anticipate that it is
rapid!vapproaching a 'finality.’ There
•dslation of Congress respecting . .
ry, derived, as it has been, from the original
' pure "
lavcryextcns;,
were carrier} 1
Democratic party, which
-than intimates in his speech (J
iomestic slave- relied upon to protect the
But the Hon. Senator
.. , ]allu llult fountain of legitimate political power great blunder when he mvoD > |
the arrival of that popular corps—the Richmond the general Government for its protection and . thc ^. ;ll „f the majority, promises ere long, to [ Sout h Carolina politician h f
have received a warm wel- spread. Judge Douglas holds that the Govern- allav t h e dangerous excitement. This legisla- ' • s
Grays; they would ^ w ^ w . r . i „ j o . uii[ ^ m ^__
come, even if the weather had been cool Their , ment cannot rightfullv, under the Constitution, ' tion is founded upon principles a- ancient as ^ J L rc ^Y 0ne ,'
tiVukrlv annrecinted be r be made an instrument to do on. thin*™- the oth- free government itself, and in accordance with that Georgia, in 1 M2, and
averted. Its turn will come next.” The parti
cular‘derangement here refen ed to is the low visit is particularly appreciated bv our Corpo- be made an instrument to do one thing or the oth
price of grain, under which, as the Tribune ration, a- it gives them an opportunity, not er; the whole question of slavery belonging to the
further remarks, “The power of the farmer to only of conferring on them the freedom of the people. This was the good old-fashioned doctrine
purchase cloth is gone, and he buys less, so city, but a larger freedom on themselves, which
the planter will find it harder to self his cot- j ; s 0 f great consideration to them; as the free-
ton, for cotton cannot long maintain its price! dom of the city, and invitations to visit the In-
when flour is low.’ And, vice versa, when stitutions, includes dinners and champagne, and
the grain market recovers by diminished pro- of course a “good time generally"—as these are
duction, the farmer begins again “to purchase | among the special duties which our City Fathers
cloth” and grain recovers to the point of de- perform with the greatest promptness, zeal and
pressing cotton again, and thus this see-saw op-1 alacrity,—I have no doubt our visitors will
leave the city very favorably impressed with
our hospitality, for which the good people are
so much indebted to our model Corporation.
cration keeps on by alternations of seven years.
The farmers have just entered their seven
years of famine—the planters their seven years
of plenty. By aud by, as thc former emerge
from, the latter will enter, the famine season,
and this mutual reactionary work, (in the ab
sence of some wonderfully sagacious tariff leg
islation which shall provide an unlimited do
mestic market for grain) must keep on ad in
finitum. .That is the Tribune’s commercial
view of the case; and it would be more satis
factory if he had backed it with some figures
showing the amount of cotton consumed by the
farmers”—how much “less” that useful class
will be able to get along with—what they will
substitute for cotton in the way of wearing ap
parel—to what extent the consumption of cot
ton in this country- affects the price, and wheth
er in point of actualfact cheap bread has not al
ways had a favorable influence on the demand
for and price of cotton. Certain it is, that, un-
of the fathers, who founded our Government.
So long as this doctrine was generally held we
had peace. It was especially a great rock, un
der whose shadow we of the South reposed in
tranquility. Up to a late day, it was univer
sally held by Southern men, that those imme
diately interested and to be affected by it, were
alone to decide whether they would have slave
ry or not So holds Judge Douglas. Non-in
tervention is his great doctrine, and in reference
union project f for no oneknovs
eorgia, in 1802, and
a ed to be led by Calhoun, Chem *
thenf has simply declared that the people r .,
Territory, like those of a State, shall decide Jor | on this subject of resistance to tH
themselves whether slavery shall nr shall nut ernment _ it like-lv thittW
exist within their limits.
The N'ebraska-Kansas .act does no more than
give thc force of law to this elementary princi
pie of self-government, declaring it to be the
true intent and meaning of this act not to legis
late slavery into any Territory or State, nor to
exclude it therefrom; but to leave the people
thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their
domestic institutions in their own way. subject camp-followers denounce the
only to the Constitution of the l nited States, as unsound on the slavery qi
This principle surely will not be controverted •- c ‘ 1 -- ”
by any individual of any party professing dev o-
tion to popular government Besides, ho a- vain
likely tkitther
ligent people of the Empire Sut*"
go out of the Union upoi the the
bidding of South Carolina dis-un :
forbid i:. Let P.hett rave about t
of the South in the Union—let s
absurd slave-trade theory 4n( j j
to tho Territories, he maintains the equal right _
There is another class of visitors now arriving | of the people of all sections to go there with , and illusory, would any other principle prove in
who make as an annual visit, to whom it Is not ’ their property, and to form such iastitutions as regard to tue tekkitories. This is apparent
suit themselves, free from any interference bv fr° m admitted by ad , *- *
„ „ . . *„ ritorv shall have entered the l mon, and become
Congress, subject only to the Constitution of: n .. ..
necessary to vote the freedom of the city, as
they take rather more freedom than is agreea
ble to our citizens, making themselves “visitors
at large.” The mosquitoes from the Jersey flats
hare delayed their coming until a later season
in tiie year than heretofore, probably to prepare
their bills for circulation, which they circulate
very freely when they do arrive; but notwith
standing they make demonstrations which fur
nish you with all the evidence you wish that
their bills are genuine without resorting to a
Counterfeit Detector; it is a sort of Jersey cur
rency we do not like to liave forced into our cir
culating medium.
I hope the readers of the Telegraph will ex
cuse my giving our Corporation the benefit of
a State, no constitutional power would then ex-
the United States, as expounded l*y- the Judi- ^ which could prevent it from either abolish-
cial Tribunals.
ing or establishing slavery as the case may be.
Notwithstanding all the clamor raised at'the j according to its .sovereign will and pleasure.
- — .« « t . s il.! 1.. 11 „ m tlm 4 on -
South against this doctrine of “popular sove
reignty,” it is true, that under its benign rule,
the South has made its only acquisitions of
slave territory. Louisiana, Florida and Texas,
became slave States, by the holy baptism of
non-intervention. And now, whilst it is the po
licy of our Government, thc territory of New
Mexico has adopted a slave code, and if let alone,
will come into the confederacy a slave State.
It was this platform and this letter tliat saved
the Democratic party narrowly from defeat, and
elocted Mr. Buchanan.
Our late State Democratic Covention finding
themselves wide apart, on many questions, har
monized in endorsing and re-affirming the Cin
cinnati platform, and in doing so, endorsed Mr.
Douglas. And here stands Mr. Douglas with K,on • lrr -' es -
the Georgia Democratic Convention, on the Cin-
otic people of the South will .
stituiion until-there is a plain t , J( j J
lation of its sacred provisions-,
remain in the Union so long I
without dishonor to their s*et; 0I
the compact of Union is thus t
North, we shall be released from
ligation to maintain it and dissoV
low as a necessary consequence
thc demagogue can hasten it
for a separation between the ;
South arrives, the people will i
selres, and apply the remedy, t
the appeals of demagogues or ■
The spirit of ’70 still lives at t_
will burst forth again whentvwi,
Suppose the abolitionists in Congress should; cinnati platform, and perpendicular on the great
make an attack upon the slave code of New doctrines of non-intervention and popular sove-
But why counsel resistance J
when the South is prosperous uilk
all former example ? It is the
folly, to say the least of it; it gj
. .*. . „ ’ .1, so much space in my letters; they will please! Mexico. You would soon see Southern men reigntv. He is identified with the Democratic, - • 11 K >i
der this impression, the Southern Cotton Plan- J 1 . , , n , , , , , ’ “ - , , ,, ... . - naticism as dangerous and hma.
. , n , ,i.. ,i„ , e «t „ I to bear in mind that ours is amodeleitvgovern- again calling on Judge Douglas lor help, and Party—those who would, can t push him out of ( hosilt
ter and Dealer watches the accounts of the j bmu***,.p.i ! w. h*ln n «in come. H e hss told as in the Senate last j ,ntcreste of the South - “ •
#• , • ,, .. - ment of a eertain kind. Philadelphia and Bal- his help would again come. 1 that party. ™ — i-mj? Tk .
food crops and ban eating in Europe with anj <; ^ 1 If there Is any position, any determinate, fixed j year where he stands, and where he expects to jGr«*ley or G.dd.ngs, Thissp*
»wu vivuj «iuw uai Ml iauiuuc niiu au . . , , , . . .
anxiety scarcely inferior to that whkh he feel, i im0Pe Stnv J n S to us - <md ‘ huS far
about the growing staple at home. lwve madc *** progress; therefore it encour-
Mr. Kenan, as the working man, as one who rally next year in the Presidential election
has borne the heat and burden of the day, de-, would have been impossible. But next year
serves the support and confidence of his party» comes the grand experiment of the “combined
and so his friends thought, and for these and j opposition” in a very proliable league of odds
many other reasons, they brought himTorward. and ends of all sorts—North and South—
Yet, in the foce of all these services, Mr. Ken-1 against the Democracy for the Presidency. As
an’s friends are indignantly trampled on by a j * preparatory step a State demonstration was
haughty and unjust section of the District, and
the claims of Mr. Kenan spumed with contempt
In this connection wc liave frequently heard
gentlemen of the Opposition from the South
ask, wliat claims Mr. Hill had on his party—
what liatties had he fought—what dangers had
he passed—what risks had he encountered?—
None, said they.
Then, forsooth, Is it on account of his supe
rior endowments—his experience as a statesman
—that he claims to wear thc highest honors of
his party!—No. He is a respectable lawyer, a
: necessary, which accounts for the nomination
of Mr. Akin to a hopeless race for Governor.
To put thc party on fair negotiating terms with
the Northern allies it mast have a show of
strength at least, and this they will stir round
mightily, to get with the aid of a very respect
able candidate and a strong Southern platform.
If they should get it, the change next year from
“opposition” to “combined opposition" will be
easy and natural—the platform will still stick
for the State, and for the rest they will agree to
“ignore.” This we understand to be the pro
growing staple
But it is iu another aspect that the Tribune
sees gleefully and clearly that cotton will not
be able long to “keep up.” This isiu the light
of a formidable cotton growing competition in
Africa. “British enterprize aud philanthropy”
are doiug wonders there iu the way of cotton
growing. We arc told that the English re
ages as to give young and enterprising cities
thc benefit of our experience. Magenta and
principle the South is committed to, it Is to . s tand, when he declared:
Judge Douglas’ position, and his great doctrine “I stand firmly and immovably upon those
of non-intervention. In the fight, and triumph j great principles of self-government and State
Solferino appear to have stimulated our author- of the Kansas Nebraska Bill, Southern men sovereignty on which the campaign was fought
itics, the past few days, to deeds of valor, as pre- ■ came under an obligation of implied good faith and the election [of Buchanan] won. I stand
vious to the news of those celebrated victories,
the success of their nrms had not been altogeth
er triumpluint Thc campaign against the li
to Judge Douglas, for all he did and suffered in ),y the principles of the Democratic Party illas-
their behalf. So far as the doctrines of non-in- trated by Jefferson and Jackson, those princi-
tervention and popular sovereignty are concern- pies of State Rights, State Sovereignty, and of
ed, they have received the emphatic endorse- strict Construction, on which the great Demo-
• taco inn linn 1 • ,i r h \r t' “B •«•-»»■ — » ment of our most distinguished Southern men. eratic party has ever stood. I will stand by
. P® ,,u 3 1,1 16 0 which a part of the saloons close on Sundays and : I will name a few of the most prominent; Vice' the Constitution of thc United States with all . , , _ . .
law. That already there are somei 2000 Gins; ^ ‘£ majn whether these are the President Breckenridge,-Senators Mason and jfe compromises, and perform all my obligations, f£ vl,ted * he ?“ ef ****
in use among the natives, and hke OUver Qn wbich ‘ ^ of is to u ne . j Hunter, of Virginia-A. P. Butler, of S. C- u „der it” I WhwVer UkeS U " S P ° S “ 10n ’ *
1 vial tliAV am “aalr in nr (nr niorn ’ I hot o' I > ^ n m „
Noble man—proud and giflwi Senator—wor
ceipts of African
,, , r jlf" , quordealers,towhiclilalludo<linafonnerlet-
Cotton rase from 1300 pounds, 1 ..... . . , .
rm havmg resulted in a sort of armistice, by
for existing caases, now so nupj
quarters, mast be met—must h|
the iallot-box, or all will be lest I
To reflect Judge Iverson, then,)
endorsement of 'his dis-union sol
policy—would violate the tieoiga]
1850—would be tantamount to I
that Georgia was in favor of a did
Union in the event, merely, thatif
timing views different from ouri
on a subject of great interest to J
1 wist, they are "asking for more.’ That a gotiate ^ j al|| una bl e to say; at any rate, the | Geo. E. Badger, of N. C.—Toombs, Stephens,
single native tru cr in nca made sales of cot- 0 ^ waP j ias remoml to Hogdom—a and Cobb, of Ga.—Senator Benjamin, of Louis-! thy, intrepid, unflinching champion of the peo- 11
ton last year to the amount of £0,500, and that location the uppcr part of the island, which ; iana—Senator Brown, of Mississippi—Senator pie’s cause. N. ™
gentleman of good character and of courteous J g ramrac ? hut as things stand, a bet against
manners, but he is not remarkable either for! 20 - 000 >n»jority for Gov. Brown is unsafe, and
his natural or acquired accomplishments. He we woldd advise thc opposition not to go into it
however belongs to thc Morgan and Greene and
Newton Regency—and they have always and
will continue to control the district They
claim the member of Congress; they also want
ed thc Judgeship, but Hardeman rebelled, and
the people sustained him, and now that he is
about to resign, they have a candidate ready to
Somethin-!; New—Tnr. Mykia Tver.—We
find the following description of a new inven-
tion in the London (Englandj Morning Star:
The invention of the myria type of Mr. Com-
barieu has been submitted to the Government
and accepted for inspection. The marveloas
invention being destined to operate an immense
and immediate revolution in the art of printing,
, . in the upper part of .the
the testimony of all travelers is uniform as to incIu(]ed in ] mu l s appropriated for thc new Clingtnan, of N. C., and our own deeply lament-
tlie -capacity’ of Africa to produce -unlimited Central Park This locality ^ | K ^. n occupied | «1 late Senatoi, William C. Dawson. All these
quantities.” But a few years will be neeessa- for several years by a population composed of nan are on the record, side by side, and shoul-
ry with the supply of labor there, to develope; Irij . h an)1 i>utcli, who go the whole hog for 'ler to shoulder with Mr. Douglas, in public
,i power u competitor in cottou growing, an . S q lul (( er sovereignty; their shanties, piggeries, speeches made by them in 1854 and 1850. And
hen good bye to Sou hern supremacy. Cot- ^ ^ rccUing witb ^ an j j yet, forsooth, some of our keen-.seente,l patriots,
ton can “keep up” no longer. ‘ ° - L - -
exhaling pestilential odors until the neighbor-. can see in Judge Douglas’ position only treason
Unluckily for I he Tribune’s vaticinations, h(KX j Bn intolerable nuisance to people j to thc South! If there Is any treason in his
the world has heard before of formidable com- w j 10 - wcre obliged to pass, besides endangering 1 position, then indeed liave our cherished South-
petition in cotton growing from India, Egypt, I tho hcaUho r the city ; paying no attention to no- - era statesmen been traitors. It becomes a very
the very native soil of cottou, and from Algc- : g; vcn them to remove their pig-peas and ; pertinent question, to determine what will the
ria. British -philanthropy” has been very in- their pigs out of the city, the IIcaltli AV’ar- 1 South gain or lose by the practical working out
effectually busy with experiments of tho kind j dens decIarcd waI . and hy thc police,
for twenty years past. and if she had kept an armcd w itli clubs and sappers’ implements, such
as pick-axes, Ac., proceeded to thc scat of war,
For the Georgia Telegraph.
Judge Iverson’s Speech at GrlOin.
tiie majority to rule and rtpuc*
mental principle of all represa
ment. Should the elevation of i
, lican to the Presidency, howcJ
by an overt act of aggression J
amounting to a palpable vi
The election of a Black Republican Chief Ma
gistrate is thc culminating point in this Speech.
Upon the happening of this event. Judge Iver
son advises the Slave States at once to withdraw
stitution, then it will he time kl
late the valueof the Union." hJ
what Is tiie duty of the Southern^
ly, to do every thing in his jw
from the Union, and establish a Southern Con- peace and harmony between then
account current of profit aud loss in the busi- j.
pop out for the vacancy. Will the independent. it is worth description. Hitherto the characters
gentlemen of the southern part of the District j used in printing nave been composed of a mix-
never learn to use their power—will they suffer I tl,re antimony; these characters,
. .... i by reason of their extreme softness, wear out
to the bitter end. quickly, and are, besides, very expensive. The
Tlic First District.
Judge Love, it seems, is to have tho honor of
a deer and uncontestod field in the First Dis
trict, a thing which has not often happened to
mny fwigHBin— 1 »« Georgia. The
Savannah Republican of Saturday has the fol
lowing:
“ From consultation with political friends
from nearly every section of this District, we
feel authorised to state that there will be no
candidate, so far as they arc concerned, in op
position to .lodge Love. If the Democrats are
satisfied with their candidate, wc suppose we
must be, and take the chances of getting a re
spectable Representative in the public councils.
Indeed, we are not so sure, after all, that Judge
Love is, politically, so very objectionable to the
Opposition, as might be supposed. There are,
at least, some important questions on which his
opinions pretty well agree with our own, so for
as we are advised, and we profess to have pretty
good authority for what wo say. We shall
with our present understanding of his views,
confide in him to resist sll attempts to create
division In thc South upon local questions, and
to upset the settled policy of thc country.
“Should the Judge not prove »*>. efficient
Representative of our interests in the Federal
legislature, thc fault will lie at the door of the
Democratic party. He is their candidate, and
the Opposition liave not the power to beat him
if they would, single handed.”
Wc will underwrite the Judge “to make a
respectable representative in the pablic coun
cils but natheless the First District and its
Democratic candidate afford so fine a field and
so heroic an occasion to illustrate the principle
of " Opposition,” its a pity they should be last.
How shall such a sacrifice of principle bo justi
fied? Is there nobody in the First District
willing to be martyred for the sake of the “ Op
position” principle?
Tiie Gubernatorial Canvass.
Cou WARREN AKIN,
The candidate of the Opposition party for tiie
office of Governor, will address the people as
follows, vix:
At Atlanta, Tuesday night, August 2:1,
Macon, Wednesday night, “ 24,
Columbus, Friday, 11 o’cl, A. M. “ 2l),
Albany, Saturday, 11 o'd, A. M. “ 27,
Americas, Saturday night, “ 27,
Cuthbcrt, Monday, 11 o’cl, A. M. “ 29,
Savannah, Wednesday night,... “ 31,
Augusta, Thursday night, Sept. 1,
Warrenton, Saturday, 11 o’cl, A. M. “ 3,
Elberton, Monday, 11 o’cl, A. M.... “ 5.
Col. Akin will attend each of the above ap
pointments, whether he is able to address the
people or not, unless anything should occur re-
3 Hiring a change in any of them; in which case
ue notice will be given.
It will lie seen from the foregoing, that since
his letter accepting the nomination for Governor.
Col. Akin has been “talked to” and induced to
ehangc fils determination not to canvass.
In tiie Field Again.
Mr. Wise, of the Richmond Enquiier, took
to the “field of honor” again last Saturday to
meet Air. Old, one of tiie Editors of tlic Rich
mond Examiner. The parties fought long and
well—fired twice at each other and came off as
we are pleased to road, altogether unhurt.—
These are pleasant, unexceptionable duels
wbich leave no trace of sorrow and pain behind
them.
Medical Lectures.
Savannah Medical College.—We are re
quested to ask attention to thc advertisement
of this College today. It is a very well endow-
ed institution, and from its locality offers pecu
liar advantages to the student-in its clinical
practice.
Pie Medical Department of the University
Louisiana, lias a national reputation, and
0 fT,focilitUs to students not surpassed in the
tTnitfed States. See announcement.
Southern Field and Fireside.
We are glad to see that this elegant weekly
mi meeting with extraordinary success. The
high character of its contributors, with Judge
Lonsstrcct at tho head of thc list, ought to in
sure Its introduction into every intelligent
Southern family circle.
The Cullibcrt Reporter
Comes with the salutatory of A\. A. Clark,
Kgq., lato of the Abbeville (Ala.) Advertiser,
who has assumed the editorial management of
the Reporter, which now takes position os a
Democratic paper. We wish it every success.
it Wc ifiiotc lrom Ihe Report.”
,11 tb« Alhany Patriot explain from what
ol what Hep- rt ofwliat officer of the Sou th-
uistorn Railway'Ci mpany, it “quotes'
upon
:h'
.niiparatn
business ami financial comli-
Arrival of flic Asia.
The steamship Asia arrived at New York on
Thursday, with Liverpool dates to the 8th inst
The General News is of no great importance.
The English Parliament were to adjourn on the
13th. The Zurich Peace Conference were as
sembling—one representative each from France,
Sardinia, and Austria. The London Builders
were on a great strike, and forty thousand
would l>e unemployed on tho Gth. The mam
moth steamship Great Eastern was to be de
livered to her owners in sailing order on tiie
8th. In France, the naval disarmament was
progressing. The hundred millions unexpend
ed balance of the war loan was to be devoted
to Internal Improvements. Breadstufls were
admitted duty free. The Bourse wsn firm with
higher quotations, and the rates ol discount
had been reduced to 2).
Liverpool Cotton Market.—Sales of Cotton
for thc week 46,000 bales—including 3,500 to
speculators and 5,500 to exporters. Stock on
hand 657,000 bales, of which 590,000 were
American. Alarket was quiet—holders offer
ing freely, but not pressing sales. Fair Up
lands were quoted at 7} and Middling from C
to C 15-16ths. Trade in Manchester favorable.
Consols 95} to 95}. Wheat and Provision
market very dull, heavy and declining.
Sicki.es orrERs to Resign.—The N. Y. Even
ing Post says: “It is understood, that upon cer
tain conditions which have been duly consider
ed by his personal friends, Air. Sickles will vol
untarily surrender his claims to represent tiie
Third Congressional District of New York”
The following paragraph is taken from a re
cent article in the Free Press, of Detroit,
Michigan:
The Black Republican doctrine cf interven
tion by Congress in the affairs of the Territo
ries, is exceedingly popular among the Opposi-
rtf |Ka CnillVl ’I’liA I hiHA.-iflAn Clsln I >11.
characters are moulded one by one; thc best
workmen can scarcely produce five thousand of
them in a day in the rough. They hare after
wards to be finished up and pass through sev
eral hands. AI. Combarieu, by an ingeniously
invented machine, produces ten thousand of
these characters at one stroke. Each letter is
then separated by a mechanical saw, which di
vides them with mathematical regularity and
precision. The consequence of this invention
wiH be—production, increased per cent; exact
itude and regularity, hitherto unattainable; the
use of harder metal, which will avoid the fre
quent renewals of printers’ materials; reduction
(by one half) of tne outlay; and at length, the
one great object—an increase of printing, and
an enormous diminution in thc price of hooks!
Look now through the vista of approaching
years, and behold the glorious result Af. Com
barieu announces his intention of producing
characters in steel, the durability of which will
be beyond calculation.
Admitting thc facts stated, in th® foregoing,
the deduction respecting an “enormous diminu
tion” in the cost and price of books consequent
upon the discovery, is altogether unfounded.
The cost of types is by no means a main item
in the expense of book-making. To illustrate:
the cost of the types which made the impression
the reader is now perusing was 40 c. per pound
Four pounds would compose what the printers
technically style a thousand ems; and for every
timo they were set up, the workman would re
ceive 37} cents, or nearly a quarter the original
cast of the type. In a book of500 pages he would
ordinarily reset the same tyjic twenty times,
and there would be paid, therefore, to the com
positor $7.50 for printing done with $1.60 in
original value of type; and ti{e same type could
be used in producing several such books with
out materially impairing its beauty. Thus it
will be seen that the cost of type is not, com-
parativeiy, a very important item in the expense
oi producing books, and no cheapening of type
can very materially affect thc business. I'aper
and lalmr are the J,reat items. . Great newspa
per establishments like the New A’urk Herald
which have a hundred thousand dollars invested
in fast presses, consume daily nearly a thousand
dollars’ value in paper, and renew their type
three times a year, do not destroy eight thous
and dollars’ worth of type in the whole year.
When stereotyping is resorted to, the propor
tional expense of type is even far less than tlic
foregoing.
Latest Foreign News.
The Quebec steamer Hungarian passed Far
ther Point Saturday morning, with Liverpool
dates to Wednesday, August 16th. The sales
of Cotton for three days were 20,000 bales,
with a steady market Aliddling Uplands quo
ted at 0}d. Breadstuff* and Provisions dull—
Consols 95} to 95}.
The Zurich Conference met on tho 8th and
were warmly welcomed. The completion of
thc Great Eastern steamship was celebrated on
tiie 8th.
The 8ubscriptiors to the stock of the new
Cable Company were progressing favorably. A
long list of subscriptions had been obtained,
including the names of Baring Brothers & Co.,
Geo. Peabody, F. Hutli t Ca, Samuel Gurney,
N. Rothschilds A Ca, Hankey A Ca, Barclay,
Beaver A Ca, J. II. Schroedtr, C. M. lam
poon, Thos. Brasscy, Wm. Brown, and others.
nesr, she ought to have suffered enough by this I and commenced demolishing theirpeas but soon
time to be wiser. The Tribune’s African hope foluld that they wcre in ^me danger of being
demolished themselves; an army of Irish and
will perish in the using.
But is there uo remedy for the tribune ?— Dutch women, armed with coffee-pots, gridirons,
Alusttbis King Cotton and the South still as- and sauce-pans, with advanced posts of vicious
sert their supremacy ? Alust slave labor still dogSj rat her a formidable enemy; but our
annually and forever turn out the world’s great! brave Pohce moved forward In an unbroken
trophy of agricultural industry ? Will noth- j column; and after demolishing a certain number
Of Judge Douglas’ doctrines. Is there any
power, any where, that can stamp and fix the
slavery status upon a Territory, aside from the
great law of soil and productions? Suppose
tlic Union—to labor assUuouslv J
federacy. Wliat for ? To protect the institu
tion of slavery! Now if the South cannot have j fwniI y quarrel upon principles
adequate protection for her slave institutions, in ‘■'quality. Our Government—tk- j.
the Union, shielded as they now are from sue- establishes—Is of too much
cessful attack by the Constitution and the Ju- j touch blood and tfeasure, Uj be J
dietary, how can we reasonably expect them to ■ without a struggle being nude i
be more secure when deprived of these consti- ourselves, and transmit its bfe- JB
tutional guaranties ? Out of the Union, we j ferity. P
Congress should pass a slave code for a territo-1 should find equal, if not greater, opposition to J And now, in taking leave of |
ry, of wliat avail would it be, if it had to be ' the institution than now exists; and the Free j an <l his Griffin speech, I beg I
ing happen to set free-soilism on its legs again
and show the Western -farmers” better, safer
and richer customers than these Southern slave
holding cotton meu ? Black Republicanism
mourns over the crippled grain growing inter
ests mainly for political reasons. When wheat
stood at three dollars per bushel and the West
teemed with a gold beariug foreign immigra
tion, what a strong political card for free-soil
ism to contrast the mighty -free West” with
thc “poor South.” What manufacturer, mer
chant or inecliauic could hesitate a moment as
to a choice of labor systems and results ? And
therein lay much of thc rampaut free-soilism
of J85B. llut immigration has abated—grain
is down to just about thc measure of its true
capital and labor value—slandiugnow, in fact,
about on a par with cotton. If it were possi
ble for the Western farmer to cultivate cotton,
wc suppose be would produce by his individu
al labor, just about thc value iu cotton at pre
sent prices, as be now docs of wheat. Probably
not as much. Hare tlieu begins something
like a test of the efficacy of the two agricultu
ral labor systems to work out important, so
cial and financial results. We have a coinpar-
risou of well organized labor aud capital work
ing in the field agaiust isolated or hired labor.
The beginning of such competition is the end
of it.. Thc necessaries of life will, in the long
run, command a fair reward for labor and a ro
of thc piggeries, a cessation of hostilities was
agreed upon, by which the women agreed to re
move their pigs forthwith. The reader would
very naturally inquire why was the enemy com
posed entirely of women and dogs ? I will state
that thc men were nearly all down town engag
ed in various pursuits, such as carrying the hod,
gathering offal, Ac., and the grand coup.de-main
of thc Police was in making the attack during
their absence. It was found necessary to visit
them frequently, to compel them to carry out
thc stipulations of the armistice, as the pigs were
hid in all manner of places—many liad them'in
their shanties hid under their beds, under wash
tubs and in old chests. It is said that one Irish
woman sat outside of her shanty, her diess cov
ering a larger space than is usual, as that class
are not suspected of wearing hoops, she protest
ed to the officers when they had approached
within hearing, that not “a divil of a pig ” was
about there; hut the propensity of pigs to
grunt, led to the discovery of seven young ones
in a basket under her skirt It is hoped the
war will be continued until the city is rid of all
these nuisances, but as I have previously stated
ours is a model city government, and the ques
tion may arise as to these measures being strict
ly according to our municipal system.
TTie Croton Water is at present demanding
a good share of attention. For the past few
days it lias been flavored with a something which
munerating return for the investment. Under, has increased, until all sorts of speculation anil
this rule graiu growing miut inevitably, in thc
main, rule only as a moderately profitable busi
ness. Thc crops must represent in the market
simply the profits of white labor, minus the
rent of the land and cost of transportation to
market. The cotton crop represents the pro
fits of a much more economical labor minus a
less rent aud cheaper transportation. The
odds nuke the difference.
One would suppose ou thc strength of his
alternate cotton and wheat famine theory our
sagacious free soilers would rejoice in that di
versity of interests which would always leave
them one good customer, no matter which of
the two suffered famine. But the Tribune
would bite its own nose off to spite the cottou
interest.
tion at thc South. The Opposition State Con
vention in Georgia, lately resolved tliat Con
gress can legislate on the subject of slavery in
the Territories—precisely what the Philadel
phia platform resolved—but only in one way,
or its protection ; while the Black Republicans
insist tliat the legislation must be for its exclu-,
sion—the same principle exactly, with only a majority of 12.. 12
difference of application. The Georgia Black stand :i to 7. Tl
Tennessee Badly Misrepresented.
The Chattanooga Advertiser of the 18th says,
that the seven Opposition members recently
elected to Congress iu that State, have an ag
gregate majority of three thousand six hundred
and seventy-eight votes, while tiie three Demo-
ratic members show an aggregate majority of
fifteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight
representative Democratic
and yet the representatives
‘ votes. There
Seventh Congressional District.
The democratic aud -opposition” Conven
tions for this District met in Alillcdgeville lost
week—the former on Tuesday, and the latter
on Wednesday. Ill thc democratic Conven
tion, a most judicious nomination was made in
thc selection of Robert Goodloe Harper, Esq.,
a yonng man of thc finest mental endowments,
and who, we hope, is just now beginning a
public career which shall be crowned with
honor and usefulness. Air. Harper’s recent
‘Argumeut against the Policy of Re-opening
the Slave Trade’’ has inspired us with so high
an estimate of his ability, independence and
good sense, that we are confident he lacks on
ly time and opportunity to take a leading po
sition among the pablic men of thc State. Let
our political friends in the 7th bend their ener
gies to the work of electing him, and they will
be well *snd ably represented.
The Opposition Convention re-nominated
the Hon. Joshua Hill. Col. Kenan, it is said,
is still an independent opposition candidate,
and matters remaining in this status, Mr,
Harper will be elected easily. Single handed
he will give Air. Ilill a tight race with a good
chance of beating him. Success to Harper.
Perky, Ga., 20th Aug., 1859.
Mu. Editor—I have just time before thc
mail closes, to say that the Democratic party of
Houston have nominated
Dr. E. J. McGeiiee for Senate, and
Dr. AY. I. Greene and Josiah Hodges for
the House.
The meeting was a Urge one, and thc selec
tion of these gentlemen is most harmoniously
acquiesced in by all present Other worthy
Tciiiicssm Congressional i antl *^ c raen were placed before the meeting,
difference of application. The Georgia Black .stand 8 to 7. The Unncssee Congresstonal
BapubBy have infinite faith in thc virtues of Districts must have been badly gerrymandered. m^eti/a^rtai.S theywere witl!"
, Gen Harris’ majority over Netherland is about ' drau -n, arid all are now resolved to elect thc-
reports have been put afloat with regard to the
cause; stories of dead horses, human bodies,
eels, Ac., have affected some persons possessed
of rather weak imaginations, to curb a degree
that they liave become ill from its use; some of
tiie lower classes liave refrained from its use for
tcashing purposes, if we may judge from ap
pearances ; I presume it puts them to very
little inconvenient. Tiie Croton AYater Com
missioners are now investigating the matter, and
I presume that thc cause of all this hubbub will
prove to be nothing, more or less, than tliat the
recent heavy rains have washed more vegetable
matter into thc Croton River tlian usual.
In a future letter, I shall endeavor to give you
a full description of tiie new Central Park. This
is destined, when completed, to lie one of the
most magnificent Parks in the world. It con
tains about 90ft acres, and will have eight miles
of carriage way, and 25 miles of walks; 2,500
men arc employed in grading, beautifying it, Ac.
The Peace of A’illa Franca Is causing a good
deal of speculation, in connection with thc fu
tore policy of Ixiuis Napoleon, among those who
take thc greatest interest in foreign affairs. Thc
ultra revolutionary Italians express great dis
satisfaction, but thc more intelligent of that
people appear to be more reconciled than when
the news of the Peace was first received. Every
arrival of the Foreign News is looked for with
anxiety, to learn every movement which has a
bearing on the complicate state of matters in
Italy. A'ery respectfully, yours, C.
Robert Goodloe Harper, Esq., and
THE SEVENTH.
The Democratic Congressional Convention of
the Seventh District, inct at Milledgevillo on
Tuesday last, and nominated Robert Goodloe
Harjicr, Esq. of Newton county, as their Stan
dard bearer in the present contest.
This nomination pleases us; he was our favor
ite, and we iiope the Democracy will enter into
canvass with a determination to succeed. In
the person of Air. Harper we can assure our
readers of the Seventh, that they have a candi
date fully up to the standard of high qualifica
tions which marked the selection of public ser
vants in tho better days of the Republic.
Learned, eloquent, enthusiastic,' and ehival-
ric, we predict for him a brilliant career in the
councils of the nation. That be will be rc-elect-
cd, wo will not permit ourselves for one moment
to doubt. BIBB.
RjCUARnsax's New AIethod tor the Piano
Forte. — This New Instruction Book has re
ceived golden opinions from all to whom it has
drawn,
8,40u. The Democrats liave three majority in ticket by a handsome majority-,
the State Senate, and seven in the House. The enthusiasm for CoL Speer is unbounded
rt »»» — and liis majority will be larger—much larger of 18Wi
\ returned Pike's Peeker says he lived ten than tliat ol any previous candidate for Con-
Bou. Worm.—We understand tliat the boll
worm lias injured and is injuring tl
crop very materially. We >hoiild he glad to
hear from our friends more fully in regard to
this fact, inasmuch as it is an item of news in
which all feel interested.—flairkinsrille Times
tion of that Company. AVe were under th
iinou - 'ii that we hud compiled the statement I been submitted. It is handsomely got up, and j days on the flesh of his dog! A’ery disagreahle J gresa.
fr om thc two last annual Reports of the Road. I we believe it will supersede a!l others.
dog days they must bare been!
Yours privately,
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed mopey
expose the poverty of the borrower,
enforced against the desires of the people? And
how certainly would it give place to a different
code, as soon as the people came to form a Con
stitution. A notable example is furnished in
thc • history of Illinois. AVhilst it was a Ter-
ritory, the Territorial Legislature established
slavery, and maintained it for years, in opposi
tion to the Ordinance of 1787. But no power
could fix on Illinois the slave status—its first
settlers were pro-slavery men, from the South
ern States, but its destiny was to be a fre^tate,
and they could not make it a slave State. Con
gress might liave passed the most stringent code,
giving every protection to slave property in the
territory of lllinoispand yet it would have been,
as it is, a free State. After all, nature assigns
territory for free and slave labor, and her re
scripts are more authoritative than Wilmot pro
visos or Kansas Bills.
There is no greater desideratum with the
South, than to remove the slavery question en
tirely from Congress. There has abolitionism
found its best field, and from its halls has gone
forth that spirit of fanaticism which now imper
ils Southern interests. Looking to the future,
what has the South to gain from Congressional
legislation, or rather, what has it not to lose?
Both Senate and House of Representatives are al
ready numerically against us—steadily will that
numerical majority increase against the South.
AYliy, then, continue the agitation of thc slavery
question in Cpngrps?? Is it not greatly to the
interest of the South to adopt Judge Douglas’
plan, of hanishing it frura that forum forever,
and giving it over entirely to the people? It
is among the unaccountable things, that the
Southern people will insist on throwing so deli
cate and dangerous a question into the Congres
sional arena, full before the gaze of the world,
where our enemies can stick faggots into its bo
dy, and surround it with combustibles; some
day or other, to produce an awful conflagration.
Look the history of Abolitionism. It was a
feeble, powerless thing, until it found its way
into Congress. Once in, jt began to grow. ' It
incorporated itself into the right of petition,
ami drew thenee nourishing milk. It allied it
self with politics, and soon rallied around its
banner one of ihe great parties of the country
—it finally waxed into a contest of sections,
stirring up pride, jealousy and bate, until, in
the Brooks and Sumner difficulty, its struggle
had well nigh culminated to a bloody revolution.
If the agitation continues in Congress, the re-
suit will not lie doubtful—the North will grow
fiercer and stronger—the South weaker and
more exposed And who can tell the end ? Who
predict the consequences? AYho look into the
abyssmal regions? I am a Southern man, and
when that rlroail day comes,'if come it must, I
will stand by my section, but with a confiding
trust to the last that Judge Douglas will lie our
friend and ally.
One more position and I am done for this
time. The doctrines of non-intervention and
popular sovereignty are the fundamental articles
of the Democratic creed. In the compromise
measures of 1850, the great principle was, that
the people of each State and Territory should
establish and regulate their domestic institutions
to suit themselves. The Kansas Nebraska Bill
was, throughout, an embodiment of the same
cardinal doctrine. The Cincinnati platform,
stripped of its generalities and platitudes, has
hut one pervading idea, and that is, non-inter
vention. Here Is the important resolution of
that platform:
“I. Resolved, Tliat claiming fellowship with
and desiring the co-operation of all who regard
the preservation of tlic Union under the Con
stitution as the paramount issue—-and repudia
ting all sectional parties and platforms concern
ing domestic slavery which seek to embroil the
States and incite to treason and armed resist
ance to law in the Territories, and whose avow
ed purposes if consummated musf end in civil
war and disunion,—the American Democracy
recognize and adopt the principles contained in
the organic laws, establishing the Territories of
Kansas and Nebraska, as embodying tlic only
sound and safe solution of the ‘slavery ques
tion’ upon which thc great national idea of the
people of this whole country can repose in its
determined conservatism of the Union—non-in
terference by Congress with Slavery in State
cotton ; and Territory, nr in the District of Columbia.”
James Buchanan was nominated and elected
on that platform, nml his letter of acceptance
thus endorses it, with emphasis:
“The agitation on the question of domestic
slavery has too long distracted anti divided the
people of this Union, and alienated their affee
tions from each other. This agitation has sg.
States, released from the constitutional obliga- 1 him that it is easier to destroy i,
tion not to interfere with the institution where : ment than to build one up—thx|
it now exists, would furnish new and increased dissolve this Union than to re
facilities for thc escape of slaves from the bor-. od fragments—and that if he b|
der States, while we should be left without the : tution that he has sworn to sc
means of re-capturing them, except by force and
violence, which would lead to constant border
feuds and bloody wars. In such a struggle we
should have the North and North-AVest, to say-
nothing of the whole of Europe,-arrayed against
the South. Supposo the whole South to be for the putrid carcass of a died
in our opinion, render far mores
to his constituents by exerting ij
ties and influence in endeavor!
amicable adjustment of the i
between the North and South, t
united In the defence of the slave interest (which
is by no means certain), how long would the
institution of slavery stand against such over
whelming numbers ? This is a grave question
abstraction. A NATIONAL Kl
FOR THE TELMRtM
Consistent-}'. Tliou an f
■‘If, through the partialityd|
which must be met, and saiisiactorily answered . ^ ^shall iJTch^
too, before the Slave Slates will take the first y- e j n the next Congress, I
step towards a dissolution of the Union. If we ' to Iring to the task assigned me,
are to have an open rupture with the North, on j pose—tojiet and vote i:i suchu
this subject, the safest epurse fpr the South is m F judgment, best promote ti
to stand on the defensive—rStand on the Con- ' ,re !;u " e 0 4 le i>ou ^ 1 an ^ ! lt 1
... .. , .. . . ‘ " , regerd to fprly or to party M
stitution, and fight our enemies is the Inion and <. Ther _ j appeal to p ia
not out of it, as Judge Iverson proposes. Thus ; (the Sebastopol of whiggery ini
defending our constitutional rights, the moral throw themselves into thc bract
force of our position would iijiparf Irresistible ! ou r government,”
strength to our cause — and victory would he
certain.
Judge Iverson, however, makes quite a labor- AYright, Esq., the Opposition
Theabove are precious
j very lengthy letter of ace
attiibui
U Bill,
he j
ed argument to prove that In the event of the j gross in the 8th District,
election of an Anti-Slavery candidate to the III have not been misinfonwi
Presidency, on an Anti-Slavery platform, it! Air. AVright, fairly stated, reads
would be the duty of the Slave States, without
waiting for any overt act of aggression upon
their rights, to take the initiative — throw off
the Union, and at once proceed to organize a
Southern Confederacy. This plan of an Inde
pendent Southern Republic, advocated with so
much zeal in this speech, did not originate with
Judge Iverson—it has not even the poor merit
of originality—but is the off-shoct of the pro
lific brain of a South Carolina disunionist, the
Hon. Langdon Cheeves. The argument upon
this subject, contained in the Griffin speech, is
derived from Air. Cheeves’ celebrated dis-union
speech, delivered in the Nashville Convention,
on the 14 th November, 1850. I have that speech
before me, ar.d upon a careful examination and
comparison of it jvith life Griffin speech, I fiqd
that the Carolina disunionist, apd the represen
tative of thc “fire-eating secession wing” of
the Georgia democracy,' both start from the
same point—the destruction of the slave prop
erty of tlic South; they both recommend tlic
same remedy—a Southern Confederacy; and
both insist upon the capacity of the South to
maintain it; and l>oth paint, in glowing colors,
the advantages which would result to the South
from a separation from the North, and the estab
lishment of a Southern Republic,
Speaking of the new Southern Confederacy,
Air. Cheeves exclaims: “ We shall be united.
“ AA’c shall be one and indivisible; we shall live
“ free and great, the pride and blessing of our
“posterity for a hundred generations.” Now
hear Judge Iverson — speaking upon this same
subject, he says in his Griffin speech: “And
“ thus, with a Republic larger in extent tlian
all Europe, united under a government more
“ perfect than was ever formed by the wisdonT
and patriotism of man, we should exhibit to
“ thc world an example of greatness, prosper
ity and power, which nothing but the hand
of God could ever weaken or destroy.” Judge
Iverson, then, was merely re-hcarsing to his
constituents the dis-union argument of the great 1
South Carolina dis-unionist! He exhumes from
the grave of oblivion, the despicable sentiments
of Judge Cheeves, and urges tl
the people of Georgia! AVhy, is Judge Iverson
so ignorant as not to know tliat these sentiments
were condemned at the time they were uttered
1350 A ’51.—Ultra Fire E»tH
ist.
1353 A’54.-Pierce A
Democrat.
1855. —Know Nothing, inis
Andrews, an ulfra Union min, for j
1856. —A Fillmore man fcr T
he had denounced in 1850 :
Slavery question.
1857. —An American, volinf 6
emor.
1859.—Opposition and Imk'|
On what side will you he I
AVright?
By publishing the almve, you I
Tlit* Altiscogee Bal
tt'o have been favored .wit
Report of the Aluscogce Railrt
on ling 31st July, 1859, and t
in noticing the record of its i
siness of the road has largely
its expenses in proportion to i
decreased—showing pnidencfj
fidelity In its management. “
bales of cotton transported w**’
5f .288 for thc preceding year,
Thc Report shows that
The gross earnings of the ye»r«
Equal to 84,054 35 per mile.^.
The expenses, including eiu
charges.
; mgt
I bill •
Interest on Bonds and Preferreds
has been paid for she year...-
Leaving net profits
Or 15 per cent, on the Capital S
Company.
The Stockholders liave rci'clred’
cent. Dividend
Leaves.....
Carried to surplus promts, 'tbicc *
to the previous balance, now
to 'j
Or nearly 15 per cent, on tie
Capita) Stock, ,
Tin- Report slioa - in : '> I
ihe l’oail, to which we refer.
| AVe congratulate the stoo
ir adoption by i gratifying exhibit. They M
perfect order, well equipped,'
ncreasing daily—paying n“
per annum, and having »*
land to the amount of m per \
. 'iotia
by Judge Cheeves’ own State, and throughout :al. With thy -1)owing,
,1ns stock should notrank if 1 *
Georgia.—Columbus KnqsVy
TIionuutrtH*
At an election recently ''
of »*
House for thc purpose >
easioned by the resignation
Captain and A. II.
the entire South, or is he vain enough to be
lieve that he can popularize sentiments which
fell Still-born from the lips of the distinguished
Carolinian ?
Again, when Judge Cheeves delivered his
speech, the South was writhing under the loss j "
of California—to one half of which she w
entitled under the Missouri Compromise ; now, j • Thomasville Guardi’ lflt
the South has no real or just ground of com
plaint— the legislation of Congress and the
action of the Judiciary department of the Gov
ernment, having for years been friendly to the
lave interests of the South. Since 1 SoO, the
odious Missouri restriction has been removed,
and the decision ot the Supreme Court, made
in the Dred Scott case, carries slavery, under
the Constitution, into all the Territories of the
l nion. \\ hat more could the most enthusias-
•ere elected: , .
Benjamin F. Hubert, I*
Charles J. Harris,
Simeon Smith.
Charles S. Rockwell.
A Patlander ang
,.nJ to keep hi* Hue nna
Jpon being asked J: pj
ron t the “ rf
if tke webw •
San
10 keep out u