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' , 0 u In-'iight, in obedience
political friends, to take
Iff, Accruing the state of the
I nu „: consitl'T your polite iuvi-
v,,3 on this occasion a mere
pis your right to know
**2 iiuestiiins of public policy
T*-.)«»wbicb may affect your inter-
Ihardatr to give them. I now
tli.it duty, aud to give
m those special issues upon
have thrown themselves
FML" god seek its Ycrdict at the
,-itic party is now in power.
^ destinies of the Republic, in
Alt* public will. Its principle*
^ 3l || of the living questions of
^ drtwlv defined, and well imder-
U.-„ he competent to the task
great trust, it is ready to
in all parts ofthernion,
rounds its adversaries may
jj’ ’j'hc distinctive differences
pilo marked these adversaries,
u away, and the signs of the
taous warning to the country
...truries. North and South, are
It-jrpart the public mind for the
[asteolr of their principles, but of
fit right-', upon the altar of a com-
..tiihe Democratic party. These
s it the North arc coinmouly known
IfcsaMivaus: they agree in nothing,
gammon hostility to slavery, the
i-br liemocratic party. Wiser than
pro allies, they know and acknowl-
Lkuiucratic organisation to be the
inner aud surest safe guard of the
•he Union, against their wicked ami
gv*a! assaults upon our rights and
.tad for this reason, they wav a
■4 desire its overthrow. Theseen-
he Republic consider every blow in™
the bnuocnUic party, cither at the
u a-h, as a blow stricken in their
[,J f„ r iW>r benefit; hence, tliey ro-
ediug glad at victories over
L-ratic party- anywhere and eVery-
J.J e.iusiJ.r the victories of lilair,
avis, Adams, ami Etheridge, as
mtcivs,'*and as hopeful signs that
s from without may soon hope for
sfort from treachery from within,
iclioa te the Democratic party at
[wes its main strength to the old
L mi hitler femls between that par-
fddlVlug party. When the Whig
t N -rth uarebed over in a body in
Cuban camp, either directly and
ttiy aud secretly through the
nuatiou, a very large portion
a saw that duty, patriotism,
liamdrM and country required
■ta the Democratic party, and
lately united witli it. The greater
ui counsel from their party prej-
atifathies, anil wholly distrusting
*r. stood aloof for a year or two,
fisagrd into a crusaue against for-
thbics. and all other parties in the
l# the appellation of the American
a organization in the non-slave
to very speedily sunk into the bo-
kick Republican party, and the
- which adhered t o Fillmore, aban-
swn candidate iii 1856, and enlis-
ti brethren who vent before them,
Uck banner of Fremont The
r>iun cihihitcd more tenacity of
-t-.d a greater power of endurance
fccr and defeat. They certainly dis-
lamest desire to accommodate tbeir
Be will of the majority of the people,
ly defeat, they reconstructed their
patform, ami softened or modified
* to suit what they supposed to
' taste, and finally having des-
ss, they have, this spring, aban-
I tueir name and principles, and
fi general order, disbanding their
• If the object of this act of dis-
< American party, be to prepare
“ Bni °n of the South—for the
* the Constitution, and her own
lad well defined principles and
eallyr approve it, aud extend the
[fellowship to the authors of the
bit if it be done with the iuteut
f l D ?re perfect union and more
uion with the lilaek Hepubli
* purpose of overthrowing the
Isdsunug the Government, then
in behalf of the Constitution
■7 isd the people of Georgia, ''I
The alliance will be unholy,
■progeny “unnumbered woes'
diMolution having left the inem-
Asiericaii party free to form
P® tr-ociations, without com-
Miner brethren, os in their
*•< promote the public good,
■j - ’-vt o nsiJcration of the rca-
»ow proceed to offer them
..^t co-operation and un-
party. This party
.. v-i'ir adversaries through-
L? ** a ' f°r their position and
HT, HKVK.-ll'K AND
^^"Jjorc great questions of
■til continue such as long
“?! hsti; und the party which
k to deal with them in a
i uf loua ' “pirit, and to place
i' J ust sud constitu-
■orthy of the confidence of
that evades any of
, Jr P°b!ic danger—the party
Ili cuufe “ t » its imbecility
tu-trusted with the destinies
fl *■* Democratic party for
Lg ***■* “* v e met and grappled
, _J® Cs: ' on in all of its Federal
L**®l * most bitter oppo-
L. any period of our
FT C treachery and desertion,
^ d the timid and the tolly
■ ‘“—led in placing it upon
. j** 1 °t*rtitutional. anff satis-
■tnoan people. During this
<iiTn 1 ’ 110 ™T °f men from
khe i?' >u ' d ‘ c sufficiency nu
ll « faction, have sought
®t£«!v whatever, cither on
-her, of this question. 'The
are content with its solu-
>-^iJenee and security
feid 41 *™ t ' D R rcmeilies arc
lav. T , existing wrongs
10 *h* day in the evil there-
been achieved by
/ enlightened pre-
principle. The
denounced the De-
K^'iretdian.Mj Rio North to
khey swept many
fkiu-u., / row 'he public coun-
M, .^ f f 7'‘dulcnrappeal, to
"aO^jj^eWh. On the
"*7^ °f ‘hc South, with
and ,hc «ameap-
C?: gC< * t * ,c SOUtil-
t ^iaUriJf ^ 0n0r
'*»it^.t 0f rv ,Uvcr y t0 ll ‘e
**‘ e Democraticpar-
Ss* tll Peaaoaal and selfish
at the South,
lilZL ow .“ hua of pub-
^tsiS^S*** 0 P art y dtare-
1,11,1 ll, e
I the beaten paths
h«k,
of precedent and principle to the goal of peace
ami of safety. The Opposition were [strong
for mischief in the traditional differences of
opinion on this subject between the North and
the South. They were older than the Consti
tution, they existed during the revolution, but
were suppressed by patriotism and public
danger; they disturbed the harmonious action
of the government under the Confederation,
mid raged with violence around the council
boards of the convention which framed our
Constitution. There wisdom and patriotism
won its greatest and most enduring victory
over the fierce passions engendered by thii
apple of discord. It was found impossible
under the form of government proposed to be
adopted, to avoid the introduction of clauses
iuto the Constitution in relation to slavery,
I he representation in the House of Represen
tatives being based on population, it was in
dispensable to settle whether or not slaves
should be enumerated, and in what propor
tiou. In as much as the States were prohib
ited from keeping stauding armies, it was
necessary to settle what power in the govern
ment should suppress insurrections. As the
States were forbidden to make any treaty or
compact with eacli other, it became necessary
to provide for the rendition of fugitives from
labor, by Federal authority, wherever they
might be found in the Uniou. And the Afri
can slave trade being then by the iaw of na
tions, lawful commerce, was supposed ,to fail
under the general power to regulate commerce,
and therefore, under congressional legislation.
1 here was a wide diversity of opinions upon
these questions, and they more than once
threatened the defeat of the Constitution. The
duly of government to suppress insurrection
was unanimously admitted and adopted. The
^outh claimed that slaves should be counted
per capita as a basis of representation. The
North objected and replied, that under the
confederation we refused to estimate them on
that basis, for the purpose of taxation, and
that therefore wc ought not to do so for the
purpose of representation. The North had
the argument on their side, and the South gave
up the question, agreed to count them as worth
no more in representation than in taxation,
and settled the principle, that slaves should
be counted at three fifths, in representation,
ns they had been in taxation. The surrender
of fugitives from labor does not seem to have
been seriously contested per se, but the North
was dirsatisfied with the restriction on the
commercial power; they wished commerce
regulated by a majority mstead of a vote of
two thirds, and as soon as they succeeded in
that, we had no morn trouble on the point of
the rendition of fugitives from labor.
The only remaining question was not strict
ly a sectional one. Indeed Massachusetts dis
played much more liberality on this question
than even Virginia. She (Massachusetts)
seemed to value pretty highly this description
of commerce, and on the other side Virginia
was charged with favoring a protective policy,
It is difficult at this day to say whether these
charges are but the insinuations of the wicked
or were in truth hut the weakness of humani
ty ; it is ccrtaiuly true that at that day the
States were very poor, hard pressed and sore
ly tempted to get little material advantages
lint the slave trade would liave undoubtedly
been prohibited but for the decisive action of
the Representatives from Georgia aud South
Carolina. These States resisted strongly its
immediate prohibition. They "were eminent
ly practical, they had vast raw material and
wanted labor to reduce it to a commercial val
ue, they therefore boldly declared that there
could be no uuion withont commerce with Af
rica in her only commodity (i. e.) labour. Mas
sachusetts did not think Georgia and South
Carolina wholly unreasonable, and as sbe
owned ships which would find employment
both in the transportation of labor from Afrii
aud its products from America to Europe,
she readily consented to continue a profitable
trade (now called piracy,) for one fifth of a
century. Tins was_ not only acceded to by
South Carolina and "Georgia, but they com
plimented the representatives from Massachu
setts as having acted very handsomely in the
business. So by a unanimous vote of the pa
triots who framed our present Constitution,
Congress was prohibted from interferring
with this lawful commerce in the then States
of the Union for twenty years, tc^be fully en
ded and completed. This provision was not
acceptable to Virginia, and wan exceedingly
obnoxious to Maryland, and the history of the
times proves that it was made a capital argu
ment ngainst the Constitution in both States,
and that history further proves that it excited
but little hostility in any of the northern States.
Before tlie power of Congress over the subject
attached, a change came over the policy of
both Georgia and South Carolina, and, in 179S,
ten years before the jurisdiction of Congress
attached to the subject, Georgia tolcmnly pro
hibited the trade by her Constitution, and Car
olina followed in her footsteps four years af
terwards. So that when the act of Congres
of 1807 prohibited it from and after the suc
ceeding 1st of January, the slave trade was in
fact extinct and unlawful in every State of the
Union, and the act of Congress was in fact
but an affirmance of the settled policy of all
the then States.
The question might have safely rested under
the act of 1807, and the local laws against it,
especially with the aid of the act of 1818; but
some over-zealous people in 1820, animated
by the bad spirit which prevailed in that year,
concluded to stigmatise slavery us well as to
prevent the slave trade, and with singular in
felicity of language, and in direct violation of
the plain meaning of words and the Constitu
tion of the United States, declared this traffic
piracy. Piracy was a crime against the laws
of nations, and punishable by the laws of all
civilised people ; it had a clear, certain, and
definite meaning under the laws of nations.
The framers of the Constitution used it in that
sense, for it had no other. It did not include
the African slave trade for the same law of
nations at the same time held that trade to be
lawful commerce; therefore when the act of
J 820 declared it piracy, it did a stupid thing
and attempted to do an impossible thing. It
sought to alter thenature of a thing by chang
ing its name, it destroyod all faith in human
language and departed from all sound rules or
judicial and constitutional interpretation, ami
it cannot force the intellect and judgment of
the country to abdicate its prerogative and
stultify itself by bolding that the Constitution
meant to stigmatise as piracy a commerce
which it i<crmitted for twenty years.
This act cannot be vindicated; but the ques
tion of prohibiting the slave trade baa been
settled for above fifty years, it is in harmony
with the judgment and sentiment of the coun
try, and its agitation^at this time will produce
evil, and evil only, to the country. Uet it
stand. All these questions were plainly anu
distinctly settled by the compact; hut the
Constitution, unfortunately for the country,
did not expressly settle the powers of Congress
over the Territories, and that omission has
been the fruitful source of national disquiet,
especially for the last fourteen yean. During
the fint thirty years of the Govcrnmcn , the
Territories were managed upon
equitable aml-just as to preclude a ljMt w«
of complaint. Virginia ceded to the confede
ration all the country North-west of the Ohio
river within the then limits of the Union; by
her d”«l «f cession slavery was prohibited
within it. Tho ordinance of 17&,, P* 0 *^**
apian of Government for the inhabitant, of
that country. The same ordinance excluding
ihc dausc prohibiting .larejr,.
r'KwSoSS... »Xf .1,0
firs?
from l-rance. u (l ° param0U nt jurisdiction
• • *n. opened it to the set-
ple and r
;„ a and property wiinm
s authority from time to
salon of new
> formed out
J Florida
ciscd exclusive and
over the new acquis
tlcmcntof all the p-
protection to all p'
the territory, until it
time was superseded b> '
States, in the l nion which «er -
of thia Territory .^authority again
by purchase. ^ nec( . a . ul .y extent,... ‘
reigned throughout our borders. The action
of the Federal Government was based on the
principle of equal justice to all sections of the
Union in the Territories. In 1820 Missouri
applied for admission into the Union. The
northern Federalists opposed her admission
solely on the ground that she permitted Afri
can slavery. Then this sectional war began
and was commenced by the North. Scveu
Slaveholding States had already been admit
ted into the Union, when this extraordinary
and untenable pretension was asserted. It
was resisted. At the end of the long aud
painful struggle, Missouri was admitted, but a
section was inserted in the bill admitting her.
prohibiting slavery or involuntary servitude
in all that portion of the Louisiana purchase
exterior to Missouri and North of 30“JO North
latitude. This was the first time that Con
gress ever claimed or exercised the power to
prohibit slavery in the terrritorics. It was
then adopted rather as an expedient, to get
rid of a great evil than upon any assertion of
right.
The country to which it was applied being
ncurly destitute of civilised inhabitants, this
usurpation at the time attracted less of the
public attention than it deserved. But it sowed
the seeds from which we were destined to reap
a plentiful harvest of trouble in the future,
Texas was our next acquisition, to which the
same division line waj applied. The war with
Mexico brought ns new acquisitions of terri
tory ; the South proposed to divide it by the
same division line; the North refused, and,
with singular unanimity, demanded the exclu
sion of slavery from all of the new acquisi
tions ; then the great struggle commenced,
in which political parties were toru up, ami
the existence of the Government itself was
greatly imperrilled. It resulted in what is
commonly, hut erroneously called, the com
promise of 1850. In 1846, when Mr. Wilmot
moved to apply tbe Missouri restriction to all
territories to be acquired from Mexico, I think
there were but four votes from tbe entire
North against it; but after near four years of
strife and thorough, able discussion of the
question, the truth was firmly established, and
nearly the whole of the Northern Democracy,
and between twenty and thirty northern
Whigs, united with the South, and voted down
the prohibition. Territorial governments in
the usual form were established over New
Mexico and Utah, providing that when they
should be admitted into the Union, they should
come in with or without slavery, as their own
constitutions might prescribe. Thus by these
p-eat measures, the principle contended for
jy Rufus King and bis followers, in 1820,
both as to States aud Territories, was over
ruled and condemned, and the early policy of
the Government restored. This condemna
tion of the power usurped by Congress to pro
hibit slavery in the States and Territories was
unanimously approved by the Democratic
party in convention, in 1852, and also approv
ed by a majority of the old Whig party in
convention, the same year. In 1851, it be
came necessary to establish territorial govern
ments for a portion of the country to which
this prohibition was applied in 1820. The
question then became practical—its solution
was a necessity. The South contended for
the application of the same principles which
had been applied to New Mexico and Utah,
and which the country had so unanimously
approved. They demanded the repeal of the
eighth section of the act of 1820, admitting
Missouri into the Union. The great majori
ty of the Democratic party at the North, amid
the terrific clamor and denunciation of a largo
majority of tbe people in tlicir own section,
backed by defection.in the South, resolutely
met the crisis, stood with fidelity and honor
by their principles, and declared the eighth
section of the act “inoperative and void."—
Thus was this Congressional usurpation again
condemned by the Executive and Legislative
departments of the Government wielded by
the Democratic party. Three years after
these events, ttie validity of this eighth sec
tion of the act of 1820 came judicially before
ferred the English bill to all others which were
submitted, and the American party in his dis
trict seem not to have considered tliat he there
in violated tbeir rights or their lionor, as they
have again returned him by an increased major
ity. The Crittendcn-Montgomery bilk which
was supported by all of the rest of the Southern
men (except Quitman and Bonham), who did
not vote for the English bill, submitted tlic I-c-
compton Constitution directly to the people of
Kanzas for ratification or rejection. Thus, ac
cording to the allegations and aspersions of the
opposition newspapers and stump orators every
man in Congress, except Quitman and Bonham,
betrayed the honor and interests of the South.
Let them pass, they don’t believe it themselves,
and will be more "composed after the election.
The principles in relation to slavery in the Ter
ritories, established in 1850, and confirmed in
1854, it is demonstrated by this tedious review,
were in no wise affected by any action upon the
various measures submitted for the admission
of Kanzas into the Union, except that all the
bills proposed to admit her with or without slav
ery, as her people might determine; and thus
sanctioned and confirmed them to that extent,
and put another and unanimous condemnation
upon the odious principles advocated by Rufus
King and the Federalists in 1820. Every Ab
olitionist in Congress, by his vote, united with
us in condemning them.
- I have thus traced, as briefly 1 as possibly, the
whole history of the legislation of Congress on
slavery in the Territories, and States, from the
beginning of the Government until the present
time, in order plainly to demonstrate the cor
rectness of the legislation of 1850, and 1854, in
relation thereto, and to vindicate that legislation
against all assailants and to prove its conformi
ty with tiie Constitution and the sound practice
of our fathers. This liecomes the more neces
sary from the constant assaults which have re
cently been made upon it, not only by the op
position, but by leading gentlemen of the dem
ocratic party, in the South and in tho North.
1 was one of your representatives when these
measures were passed, when these principles
were adopted. I gave them an earnest and
ardent support to the full extent of my poor
abilities, and if they inflict wrong upon my
country, I am one of the perpetrators, and plead
nothing in extenuation of your just condemna
tion. The interests involved were too great to
permit mistakes. “ Where knowledge is a duty,
ignorance is a crime.” 1 may safely leave the
Territorial legislation of 1850 to the judgment
already pronounced by the people of Georgia,
in Convention assembled, and if that judgment
need further vindication, it will be found in the
practice of Government already reviewed; and
in the remarks which I am about to offer in
vindication of the Kanzas and Nebraska act of
1854, its legitimate and acknowledged offspring.
There never was a public measure w hich re
ceived more universal approval from the whole
people of the South tlian the Kanzas-Xebraska
act did at the time of its enactment. It was
supported by nearly the entire delegations in
both houses of Congress of all the Southern
States, and the few who opposed were speedily
condemned and punished by the people. The
legislature of Georgia was in session and unan
imously approved it The Democratic party
approved, and the American declared that, the
opponents of its slavery clauses were not worthy
to liclong to tlieir party, not even .sound enough
for a Know Nothing. It is true these latter
speedily began tc cavil at it-; hut I U lieve that
not tody doubts hut that it was rather from po
litical necessity than conviction. Their candi
date for tlie Fresidcney, Mr. Fillmore, liad then
declared the repeal of the Missouri restriction,
Pandora’s ltox!
This act is still assailed by the Opposition
on two grounds: First, They allege tliat it ac
knowledges the constitutional right of the peo
ple of the Territories, through the Territorial
legislatures, to establish or prohibit slavery at
their own pleasure. Second, Because ft abdi
cates the. power of Congress to protect slave
property in the Territories, until such Territo
ries are admitted into the Union. But not only
the Opposition make the listst charge, hut a few
Democrats have united with them in it, among
olleague has enrol-
uouiHumn^u. J.“ J whom, I regret to see, my colleague has cnrol-
the Supreme Court of the United States, and himse i f and i aul thus compiled to defend
that august tribunal condemned it as uncon- ; of the Democratic party, and my own,
stitutional and void. 1 bus has every depart- _ ^ J ■ •
ment of the Federal Government condemned
this doctrine of Congressional prohibition in
the common Territories, and to-dny every
Territory of the United States is as t ree and
open by law to the settlement of tbe people
of all parts of tho United States, with their
property of every discretion, as the State of
Georgia. To-day, as far as I know or believe,
there is not a single inhabitant of any organ
ised Territory belonging to the United States
who complains of any want of protection to
his person or property. No serious attempt
has been made in Congress to disturb these
great principles since the year 1854. The
controversy which arose concerning the ad
mission of Kansas into the Union in no degree
legitimately involved them. The Territorial
legislature of Kansas, by law, called a oon
vention to frame .a Constitution preparatory
to admission into the Union. The freeaoil
party, who, it appears, were a large majority
of the people, refused to recognise this legis
lature, or its law, or the acts and doings of
the convention which met under it at Lccomp-
lon, but that portion of tbe people who adher
ed to the Territorial government, acted under
tbe law, elected a convention which framed
a Constitution establishing slavery and refer-
ing the slavery clanso of their Constitution to
tlie people. The free soilera refused also to
vote on this submission, its friends voted for
tlie amendment, it was declared incorporated
into the Constitution and a regular applica
tion was then made to Congress for admission
into the Union under that Constitution. The
application was violently opposed by all the
Black Republican party, by n small minority
of the Democratic party in the Senate and by
a considerable minority of that party in the
House, and by a large portion ot the Ameri
can party of the South both in the Senate and
House of Repres wtatives. The bill to admit
Kansas as a Stale uuder the Lccompton con
stitution without condition or qualification,
passed the Senate by a large majority, and was
there supported by Democrats and none oth
ers (except Mr. Kennedy of Mnryland, nn A-
mcrican.) It was opposed by all of the Black
Republicans, aud all of the Americans except
Mr. Kennedy, and by Mr. Douglas and three
other democrats. It went to the House and
was there defeated on a test vote by one hun
dred and twelve for, to ono hundred and twen
ty votes against and in favor of the Montgom
ery substitute. It was tlicro supported by all
of the Southern Democrats, by thirty-one out
of fifty-one Northern Democrats, by all of the
Southern Americans except six—to wit Messrs.
Davis, Ilicord, and Harris of .Maryland, Mar
shall and Underwood of Kentucky, and Gilmer
of North Carolina. If any four of these had
voted for the bill it would have passed by the
aid of the Speaker’s vote, but these South A-
mericans united with the Abolitionists and de
feated the bill.
The House having substituted the Montgoiu-
-ry-Crittenden hill for the Senate bill, and thus
aimed it, it came liack to the Senate, was reject
ed, and then went as usual to a committee of
conference. This committee reported hack the
hill known as the English hill. This hill in no
wise differed in principle from the original Sen
ate bill- it was in no respect worse for the South,
for Kansas, or the country, and it received my
hearty support In presenting her Constitu
tion Kansas submitted a demand from her Con
vention for above twenty millions of acres of
the public land; that demand wc refused in tlie
t proposing to admit her under the Lccompton
constitution. She certainly had the right to
refuse our act of admission, thus altering her
proposition, whether wc expressly submitted
not only against the assaults of the Opposition,
hut against those of one of its own chosen lead
ers. The hill vindicates itself from the charge;
upon the sulject of slavery it contains no doubt
ful word, phrase, or sentence. So careful were
its framers on this point, that in order to pre
vent the perversion of its meaning, a clause was
inserted in it construing it for friends and foes,
which led to tlie charge, hv Col. Benton, that
wc had “injected a stump speech into its belly.”
I aver that the charge that it ever had two con
structions, or that any two persons who voted
for it ever placed different constructions upon
any single sentence in it, is wholly untrue, as
far as my own knowledge or information extends.
The nineteenth section plainly declares, in the
language of the Utah and New Mexico acts of
1850, that the Territory, when admitted as a
State or States, “shall be received into the Un
ion with or without slavery, as tlicir constitu
tions may prescribe at the time of tlicir admis
sion.” The twenty-eighth section extends the
fugitive slave act Over Uie Territory. The twen
ty-seventh section allows an appeal to the Su
preme Court’“in all cases involving title to
slaves,” without regard to the value in contro
versy. The thirty-second section declares that
“the Constitution and all laws of the United
States, which are not locally inapplicable, sliall
have the same force and effect within said Ter
ritory of Kanzas as elsewhere within the United
States, except the eighth section of the act pre
paratory to tlie admission of Missouri into the
Union, "approved March Uth, 1820, which being
inconsistent with the principles of non-interven
tion, by Congress, with slavery in the States
and Territories as recognized by the legislation
of 1850, commonly called the compromise meas
ures, is hereby declared inoperative and void,
it being the true intent and meaning of this act
not to legislate slavery into any Territory or
State, nor to exclude it therefrom, hut to leave
the people thereof perfectly free to form aud
regulate their domestic institutiomt, in their own
way, subject only to the Constitution of the
United Stales—provided tliat nothing herein
contained shall he construed to revive, and put
in force, any law or regulation which may have
existed, prior to the act of lith March, 1820,
either protecting, establishing, prohibiting or
abolishing slavery.” These arc all the clauses
in the bill which affect slavery; nobody pre
tends to misunderstand the nineteenth, twenty-
seventh or twenty-eighth sections. The thirty
second section extends tho Constitution and all
laws, not locally inapplicable, over the Territory,
except the eighth section of the act of 1820.
That section of the law of 1820, prohibited sla
very in the Territory; that was the hone of con
tention. That law excluded more than one
third of the people of the United States from the
equal enjoyment of their own property, unless
they first divested themselves of property law
fully held in their own States. Tliat law this
section declared “inoperative and voiih” and
gave the reasons for it. The next clause was
inserted avowedly and expressly to interpret
the preceding clause. The Abolitionists were
then charging the Northern Democrats as they
are now, with extendingand establishing slavery
by act of Congress. This was expressly denied
by tlie Democracy both of the North and the
South. We said that tins prohibition was un
constitutional and unjust, and was tlie obstacle
apd the only existing obstacle to our free entry
into tlie Territory; that we wished tliat repeal
ed, but tliat wc then asked no other legislation
by Congress on the subject, nor did we seek in
tliat hill any legislation directly or indirectly
establishing slavery. Therefore, it being charg
ed that the repeal of the eighth section of that
act would, by legal construction, revive the old
French pro-slavery laws, we accepted the last
proviso, which negatived that construction—
thaTQuestion to her or not. The lir>t act of ad-1 we were willing to accept a tabula rata, holding
mission did not expressly submit the question that slavery was lawful wherever it was not pro
to her • the English act did expressly submit it. | hibited by law—we were willing to legislate on
Both hills admitted her with her pro-slavery our own principles, and to stand by them and
constitution without challenge or condition, all of thetr consequences. Wc thus swept away
1 tll : s wa \j all tlie difference in them. Both I all Congressional impediment to the free enjoy-
1 t.Mn to me. and neither violated any I mem of our rights, and rescued tlie Constitution
pretty. • The people of thc-gTerritories had in
no one instance, from the foundation of tlie Re
public, ever attempted any such iniquity,
considered ft wise, prudent'and politic, to settle
the question against our known enemy (Con
gress), even i( 1 left it unsettled as to our known
friends (the people of the Territories). W<
could not settle tlie question of tlie power of tho
people over slavery, while in a Territorial con
dition, because the Democracy differed on tliat
point; and whenever the Democracy differ, wc
liave hut small hope from the Opposition even
of the .South. They are generally in sufficient
sympathy with the common enemy always to
embarrass and frequently to defeat us. We,
therefore, declared in the bill, that we left the
people of the Territory “perfectly free to form
and regulate their domestic institutions in tlieir
own waj-, subject only to the Coustitution of
the United States.”
This clause neither attempted to give to or
take away from tlie people of the territory a
single right or power, but it provided for a con
stitutional arbiter to settle not the bill, but the
constitution. Our difference was not on the
construction of tho hill, hut it was on the con
struction of the constitution. We therefore,
provided for a reference of the constitutional
question to the Supreme Court. It has gone
there, it lias been decided in our favor, and vet
we have men who take so little trouble to in
form themselves as to assert and pretend to be
lieve tliat the Kansas aet acknowledged squat
ter or popular sovereignty. If the Kansas hilr
had never been passed, this question ofpopnlal
sovereignty would have been still unsettled ; if
if it had been defeated by the Opposition we
would have hail the Missouri restriction settled
against us by Congress and popular or “squat
ter” sovereignty, standing precisely where it
docs to-day! Therefore it is just as stupid as
false, to charge that hill with establishing any
such doctrine in any degree whatever. It kil
led Congressional prohibition, and none but the
friends of that iniquity have the least right to
complain of it. It was well known at the time
that the southern friends of the measure gener
ally repudiated the whole doctrine of popular
sovereignty in the Territories. I stand on the
records of Congress from 1848 to this hour, its
steady uncompromisingadversary; I have noth
ing oil that subject to mollify, explain or recant
By the laws of nations a people who arc con
quered or bought arc governed by the will of
tlie conqueror or purchaser; they have no road
to sovereignty except through revolution or
compacts. Until our Territories acquire sov
ereignty by one of these modes I sliall continue
to hold that the jurisdiction of Congress over
them, is exclusive anil paramount, I do not Hay
unlimited. All power must necessarily he lim
ited by the terms of the grant, and the objects
of the grant. The -power of Congress over the
Territories is an implied power, therefore, lim
ited by the objects of the grant In tlie lan
guage of Mr. Madison, “the right being given
from the necessity of the ease and in suspension
of the great principle of self government ought
not to he extended farther nor continued long
er than the occasion might fairly require.”—
Yet it exists, and Is wholly incousistent with
popular sovereignty. From the day of the a-
doptiou of the present Constitution to this hour
the Federal Government have claimed and ex
ercised the right to govern the Territories accor
ding to tlicir own will and pleasure subject on
ly to the Constitution of the United States. It
lias steadily claimed and exercised the powers
tocontrol tlieir legislation in all cases whasotever
without question or protest, therefore, on neith
er principle or authority has this new position
of Senator Douglas a single leg to stand upon,
yet I do not Ifilana In flmsu wlao denounce him ;
the organization of the Democratic party lcavts
this as an open question, he Is at full liberty to
tike cither side he may choose, und if he main
tain his ancient ground of neither making or
accepting new tests of political soundness, I.
shall .still consider him a political friend, and
will accept him as the representative of the par
ty whenever it may tender him, and in the
meantime if he should even wander after strange
gods, I do not hesitate to tell you that with
Ills errors I prefer him, and would support him
to-morrow against any Opposition man in Amer
ica. I have but a single point remaining to
present to you on this occasion. Wc are told
that wc must put a new plank in the Democrat
ic platform, and demand the affirmance of the
duty of Congress to protect slavery in the ter
ritories, whenever such territories fail to dis-
cliargc" this unquestionable duty. Some of the
Opposition leaders say if you will do that we
will act with you. Now, I reply I do not think
ise to do the thing proposed—and in the
second place, I do not think tlie inducement
proposed helps the proposition. While I have
already asserted full and complete power in
Congress to do this thing, I think with Mr.
Madison, that such a power should he most pru
dently and carefully exercised; that it ought
uot to be exercised until occasion for it is im
perative. • There has been no occasion for its
exercise from 1789 to this hour; there is no
case to-day calling for it, and I ain more than
willing that the Territories shall continue to
govern themselves in tlieir own way, so long as
they respect the rights of all the people of
the States and their own fellow citizens. I
will not insult them by supposing them capa
ble of disregarding the Constitution as expoun
ded by the Supreme Court; I will not insult
them by assuming that they are incapable of
honest self-government and "are capable of abu
sing power to the injury of their fellow citizens.
If they should show themselves incapable of
honestly exercising tlie powers with which we
have entrusted them, perhaps the judiciary may
he adequate to right the wrong. It may ho that
the powers of the executive may be adequate to
that purpose but if all these safeguards fail, I
shall then he prepared to protect all the rights
of all the people in tho Territories as well as
elsewhere by all the powers of the govern
ment
But I sliall prescribe no new tests of party
fealty to Northern Democrats; those who re
main of them have hitherto stood with fidelity
and honor upon their engagements. They have
maintained the truth to their own hurt* they
have displayed a patriotism, a magnanimity
rarely equalled, never excelled in the world's
history, and I shall endeavor in sunshine and
storm, with your approbation if I can get it,
without it if I must, to stand by them with a
fidelity equal to tlieir great deserts. If you
will stand with me and them wc shall conquor
faction in tlie North and in the South, we shall
save the country from the curse of being ruled
by the heterogenous compound now calling it
self the opposition, and shall leave this great
country for our children as we found it, united,
strong, prosperous and happy.
fertilizers
' GENERAL* AGENCY.
ryrhe undersigned respectfully announces
Planters and others interested, that they are con
stantly receiving direct from the Islands, and from
the manufacturers, tho following most ArmorxD
Fzetilizziu how shown, all of which have been
thoroughly and satisfactorily tested, viz:
No. 1 Peruvian Guano,
Sombrero Guano,
Rhodes’ Super Phosphate of Lime,
National Fertilizer,
Ground Plaster.
These articles, wbicli will have onr brand, and be
guaranteed as genuine, we shall, at all times, be
prepared to furnish in amounts required, and at the
lowest prices. The “Super Phosphate,” and "Fer
tilizer,” at manufacturers’ rates, with expenses of
transportation added.
PATTEN -4b DULLER.
Savannah, May 3—ly
Change ot Schedule-
SAVANNAH AND CHARLESTON
STEAMPACKETLINE
IN CONK SECTION with the CENTRAL and
North Eastern Rail Roads,
rp IIK splendid and Fast Running
■ J file
GOllDON, F. Harden,Commander,leavesSavan-
nab for Charleston every Sunday and Wednesday
afternoons at 3 o’clock und connects at Charleston
with the traiu of the North Eastern Rail Road going
North; returning, leaves Charleston every Monday
aud Friday uight at o’clock (after the arrival
of tho oars of the North Eastern R. Road.) and ar
rives at Savaunah early the following mornings.
By this mute Passengers can obtain through tick
eta to and from Savannah, Ga., and Wilmington, N,
Carolina.
Having a through freight arrangement with the
the Central Rail Road anu its connections, all freights
between Charleston and the interior of Georgia con
signed to the agents of this line will be forwarded
with dispatch and FREE of CHARGE.
J. P. BROOKS, Ag’t, Savannah.
E. LAFITTE & CO., Ag’ts, Charleston.
jan io
MACON & WESTERN BAIL ROAR
O N and after Thursday, 15th July, the Trains .vili
be run as follows:
Leave Macon at 12 night. Arrive at Atlanta 7.15
A. M.
Leave Macon at 10 A. M. Arrive at Atlanta 4.00
P. M.
Leave Atlanta at 12 night. Arrive at Macon 7.15
A. M. ^
Leave Atlanta at 11 A. M. Arrive at Macon 5.00
P.M.
The night train will not be run on Sundavs. The
12 night traiu from Macon conuects with the Geor
gia R. Road for Augusta, at 10 A. M., and Atlanta
West Point R. R. at 12.15 A. M. •
The 10 day train from Macou, conuects with the
Western and Atlantic Rail Road for Chattanooga.
Dalton, Knoxville, Nashville, and Memphis, at 5.00
A. M., with Georgia R. R- at 12.00 night and at At
lanta Jc West Poiut R. R- at 12.15 A. M. •
The completion of the Virginia and Tennessee
Rail Road, makes this the most pleasant and direct
route to the
-\7"±x-siML±£v Springs
Through Tickets to which may be had at Macon,
for *23 00, and to New York for *35 25.
Further information in regard to this route can be
had at the O-neral Tickrt
iuly 12 Superintendent
CHANGE OF
SCHEDULE ON THE
Soiltli-Wcstern R. R.
OVER WHICH PASSES THE
GREAT NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS MAILS.
this
interfere
Spring thee* thirl)’ years p*‘<*
,ition. l ur
anil
cued
Fire Proof Composition to Resist Fire
for Five Hqdm-—Dissolve, in cold water, as
much pearlash as it is capable of holding in
solution, and wash or daub with it all the
boards, wainscoating, timber, See. Then di
luting the same liquid with a little water, add
to it such a portion of line yellow clay as will
make the mixture the same consistence as
common paint; stir in it a small quantity of
paperhauger's flour paste, to combine both the
other substances. (Jive three coats of this
mixture. When dry, apply the following
mixture: Put iuto a pot equal quantities of
nclfiy pulverized iron tilings, brick dust aud
ashes ; pour over them size or glue water; set
the whole near a fire, anu when warm stir
them together. With this liquid composition,
or size, give one coat; and on its getting dry,
give it a second coat. It resists tire for five
hours, and prevents the wood from ever burst
ing into flames. It resists the ravages of fire
so as ouly to be reduced to coals or embers,
without spreading the conflagration by addi
tional flames; by which five clear hours are
gained in removing valuable effects to a place
of safety, as well as preserving the lives of all
the family from danger! Furniture, chairs,
tables, &.C., particularly staircases, may be
so protected. Twenty pounds of finely sifted
yellow clay, a pound aud a half of ileur for
making the paste, and one pound of pearlash,
are sufficient to prepare a square rood of deal
boards. When the Chiuese were told the risk
we ran of being roasted alive in our many-
‘ t "What lit-
tliat compels
ho persists in
Two Daily Trains between Macon <$• Columbus
Leave Macon at 11.45 p. m. and 9.45 a. m. Arrive
at Columbus S.35 a. m. aud 3.45 p. m.
Leave Columbus 4.00 a. in. and 3.45 p. in. Arrive st
Macon 9.50 a. m. and 9.18 p. m.
On and slier Sunday. September 4th. the Passen
ger and Mail Train for Albauy and Cuthbert will run
as follows:
Leave Macon, at 10.40 a. in., arrive at Albany, at 5.41
p. ni.
esve Albany, at 1.40 p. in., “ “ Macon at 8.44
he Mail and Passenger Train from Cuthbert will
connect with the Albany Mail Train st Smitliville,
No. le. South Western R. R.
Leave Cuthbert, at 12.45 p. in., arrive st SmithviUe,
st 3.18 p. m.
Leave Smith ville, at 4.05 p. m., arrive at Cntbbert,
at 6.39 p.m.
Making the connection with the up and down Al
bany Mail Train.
Trans to Columbus form a through connection
to Montgomery, Alabama and Augusta, Kingsville
Wilmington. Savannah, Milledgoville and Eatonton.
Post Coaches ran from Albany to Tallahassee
Bainbridge, Thomasville, Ac., daily; also, tri-week
ly from Dawson to Cuthbeit, Fort Gaines, Ac.
Hack9 run six times a week from Fort Valley to
Perry, Haynesville and Ilawkinsville, and tri-week
ly to Knoxville, Qa.
Passengers for points below Fort Valley, should
take the Day Trains from Augusta and Savannah to
avoid detention in Macon. For other points lake ei
ther Train.
First class steamships leave Savannah for New
York, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Passage in
the Cabin 815, Steerage *6.
Through Tickets can be procured from Hail Road
Agents at Montgomery, Columbus and Albany via
Savannah to New York, by Steamships, in Cabin, as
follows: Montgomery *26; Columbus <23 ; Albany
*24 25. VIRGIL POWEHS, Eng rASnp’t.
Macon, Sep. 6, ’59.
STRONG & WOOD,
Dealers in
BOOTS & SHOES,
Leather, Ilats A Caps,
At their olil Stand on Second Street, Opposite
BOSTICK & KEIN,
MACON. GEORGIA,
H AVE now a full supply of Goods in their line,
to which they are making constant additions,
of all the different styles of workmanship and wear,
and which will be sold on as good terms, for cash or
approved short credit, as any Shoe establishment in
Georgia. They solicit a continuanco of the liberal
patronage so long enjoyed by the firm,
may 31—ly
THE
GREATFEYER AND AGUE
3EIEMEDY.
THE GREAT ELIXIR
THE GREAT ELIXIR
IS WARRANTED TO CURE
IS WARRANTED TO CURE
FEVER AND AGUE.
FEVER AND AGUE.
TIIE GRENADA ELIXIR
THE GRENADA ELIXIR
IS WARRANTED TO CURE
IS WARRANTED TO CURE
CHILLS AND FEVER.
CHILLS AND FEVER.
THE GRENADA ELIXIR
THE GRENADA ELIXIR
IS WARRANTED TO CONTAIN
IS WARRANTED TO CONTAIN
NO MERCURY OR ARSENIC.
NO MERCURY OR ARSENIC.
The Grenada Elixir is warranted to cure in every
esse where every other remedy fails, or the money
will be refunded. Tins Elixir is warranted to con
tain nothing the least injorions to the system, and
can be given in all cases nnd under all circumstan
ces with perfect safety. Try a bottle and be con
vinced that it is not only tbe Rest but tbe CHEAP
EST remedy before the public. A 61 bottle has
enred from 5 to 6 cases.
Prepared and sold wholesale and retail by
PEMBERTON A CARTER.
Colnmbus, Georgia.;
Also, sold by all Druggists in tho city and through
out the country,
july 12—l in
For sale by
DR. E. L. STROHECKEK.
To Southern Dealers!
J. H. RANSOM & C0„
39 COURTLAND AND 39 DEY STREETS,
IIW VO It 14,
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS & SHOES,
HAVE constantly onhan«l a LARGE STOCK
OF FINE and NEGRO GOODS, expressly for tho
Southern Trade, which they will sell at the lowest
market prices for cash or approved credit.
jan 18
Book Binding’.
CLANK ACCOUNT ROOKS made toorderof
J3 Courts and Counting House, aud the numbers
printed on the pages without extra charge.
MAGAZINES, MUSIC AND LAW’ ROOKS,
bound in neat and uheap styles.
DAVID ROSS,
Cor. 3d tuid Cherry Streets,
feb 1 Over George T. Rogers A Son*
T HE subscriber ha* purchased the Right to Kow-
and'* Patent Carriages and Springs for Blank
Account Books, which he will put on work when
instructed. DAVID ROSS,
feb l
MACON
DIR,XTGr MARKET
For 1859,
W ILL be kept constantly supplied with all the
most desirable articles in the line of
MEDICINES. CHEMICALS
PHARMACUTICAL PREPARATIONS,
SADDLE BAGS. INSTRUMENTS,
SPICES. .MEDICINE CHESTS,
PERFUMERY, Ac., Ac.,
from the Store of 7.EILIN *
Opposite Telegraph Building, Macon, Ga.
Now is tlie Time to suoserme
LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL JOURNAL,
DZTOTZD TO
Art, Science, Literature, Agriculture,
Eomanco, and Hews.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY,
BY J. BUSSELL & CO.,
IN THE CITY OF MACON, GEORGIA.
The most Eminent Writers of tlie Day
Contribute to its Columns.
Trasc*, inyakiault ix Adtaxci—One subscriber on«» year,
$2 00, with Lottery Ticket* worth $1.00—four subscribers
one year, S6.00, with Lottery Ticket* worth $1.00— ten sub
scribers one year, 812.50, with Lottery Tickets worth $10.00.
the Ticket* to be rejected by the subscriber* from *ny of
1I0DGE3, DAVIS & CO.’s Scheme* of the Consolidated
Lotteries of Georgia.
N. B. A specimen copy will be sent to any ono who
desires It, free of cost, when further particular* will b« 4
furnished and inducement* offered to subscriber*, superior
to those of any other literary journal now published.
{£?* Don’t fail to send for a Copy.
Subscriptions will be received at the office of the
American Republic, in Ralston’s Building on Third
Street, until October 1st, when the office will be re
moved to Ayres’ new Building on Mulberry street.
*vg 30
FRESII ARRIVAL OF
DRY GOODS.
(\ c CASES PRINTS, 25 do. Ginghams, 25 cases
/iOPrinted Muslins, 13 do. Stripes, 12 do. Bleach
ed Shirtings and Sheetings, 5 do. Organdio and Ba
rege Robes, 2 do. Printed Jaconets and Swiss Mus
lins. The above, with every other article usually
kept in the
DRY GOODS LINE.
Having been recently purchased in New York, at
the Package Auction SaIes.-To purchasers of goods
by the quantity, we would say, that onr prices will
induce you to purchase, as we are otTering Great
Bargains. (july 26 ) J. B. & W. A. ROSS.
WAR! WAR!! WAR!!!
ON
DRY GOODS,
E, EINSTEIN’S.
I jEING obliged to repair <
JU) menced a general warl
our Store, we have com-
U .u-J.irr "f ext« r.niimtion of
prices on onr Goods.
We are now selling the balance of our stock of
Goods at
!¥ew York Cost,
To make room, among which will be fouud a bexu-
tifnl Stock of
French Lace Mantles and Points, Double Jape and
two Flounced Silk Robes, Double Skirt and two
Flounced Barego Robes, Organdies and Ja
conet Double Jape Robes, Figured end
Striped Fancy Silks, Plain and Fig
ured Black Silks, Swiss and Ja
conet Coliars and Sleeves,
Embroidered and Lace
Setts, Kid Gloves,
Ladies&Misscs 3E5S
Hosiery,
Hoop Skirts, Muslins of all kinds, Men’s and Boy’s
wear, Bleached and Brown Sheetingand Shirting.
Irish Linens. Table Damasks, Linen Drills and far
mer's Satin, Cottonade, Ac., Ac.
EP*Call and see for yourselves.
ELIAS EINSTEIN,
jnne 7 Cor. 2d St. and Triangular Block.
New Goods
AT
E. SAULSBURY’S.
E is now receiving a very large and well assor
ted Stock of SPRING CLOTHS, CASSl MERES
and VESTINGS, of the latest importations..
Ho has also received the report of Fashions tor
this Spring, with a wietyofnowandelegautslyles.
His Stock of Fine READY -MADE CLOTHING
will be replenished with tho changes of the Seasons
from the best houses in Nc-w York.
HisFURNISHING GOODS comprise everything
that is new and desirable, in the way of Hosiery,
Shirts, Collars, Ties. Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Ac.-
AJI of which he invites his friends and customeis
call and examine,
mar 1
FOR SALE.
O r. A RUNES CANDLES, 50 do. Soap, 100 do.
Soda, 20 do. Mustard, 20 do. Yeast Powders,
20 do. Tea, 55 do. Pickles, 75 do. Starch.
July 26 J. B. A W. A. ROSS.
PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS.
1 r Afifi LBS. Pure Lead, 5,000 do. Pure and
J O.UUU No. 1 Zinc, 100 Boxes Glass, 80 Bar
rels Oil, all kinds, with all kinds of colors, for sale
low by (july 26) J. B. A \V. A. ROSS.
FOR SALE.
hoxesJCANDY, 10 do. Loaf Sugar, llOb.ir-
1 UUrels Sugar, 200 sacks Coffee, 100 boxes To
bacco. 50,000 Cigars, 100 Gross Matches.
jnly 26 J. B. & W. A. ROSS.
FOR SALE.
, r A sacks SALT, 50 hhds. Mol»*»®»,oso lihds
J.OUU liarnu, cobarrels Lard, 50 barrels Vine
gar, 25 dozen Brooms, 25 dozen Shovels and Spades
400 doz. Buckets, 25 doz. Axes.
july 26 J. B. A W. A. ROSS.
OSNABURCS, YARNS, KERSEYS
AC., AC., AC.
1 Sft I*** 6 * No. 1, Osnaburgs, 95 do. No. 2 Osna-
J.OU burgs, 175 do. Georgia Kerseys, 100 do
Macon Sheeting, 20 do. Macon Drilling, 26 do. Ma
con 7-8 Shirting, 200 Macon Yarns, for salesat Fac
tory prices, by J. B. A W A. ROSS,
july 26
BOLTING CLOTH,
cr\ PIECES of the celebrated Dutcn Anchor
O Ubrands of Bolting Cloth, for sale at New York
prices by (jnly 26) J. B. A VV. A. ROSS.
IIATS! IIATS!
- CASES of Hats, all kinds, will be sold at cost
OOMerchants purchasing by the case.
jnly 26 J. B. A W. A. ROS .
Spring & Summer Fashions for
1859.
TO THE LADIES!
MRS. F. DESSAU,
TRIANGULAR BLOCK,
Adjoining Bostick, Kein & Co’s Store.
G RATEFUL for the very liberal patron
age of which she has so long been the re
cipient from both city ami country, begs to’ _ _
announce to her patrons and the ladies generally,
that she is now receiving her Spring and Summer
Stock, consisting of every description ot
ITIillincry Sc. Dress Trimming
Goods,
which for richness of material, elegance of style,
extent and variety, are worthy of attention. Hi
SILK, BAREGE AND ORGANDY ROBES,
Laces, Mantillas and Cloaks, Traveling Dress
Goods, Embroideries, Ribbons, Head Dresses, Flow
ers, Wreaths, and Bouquets are all of the very la
test importations, and will be sold at reasonable pri
ces. All orders by mail promptly attended to.
mar 29—tf
Fancy and Staple
DRY-GOODS.
YE W STOCK.
W E have just opened & large and elegant Sfoci
of Goods in one of the New Stores under
GRANITE HALL,
Selected with great care to init tho trade of Macon,
and adjoining country—among which are:
SILK ROBES A LEZ,
SILK ROBES DOUBLE JUPE,
SILK ROBES VOLANTES, or 2 FLOUNCES,
FANCY SILKS in great variety,
PLAIN and FIGURED BLACK SILKS,
EVENING DRESSES.
DeLAINE and MERINO ROBES A LEZ.
PLAIN anu FIGURED DeLAINES,
PLAIN and FIGURED MKRINOE8,
VALENCIAS, POPLINS, PLAIDS,
POIL DE CHEVRES. MOURNING, and varf
ous other styles of
Embroideries, Real French Cambric and Swiss
Collars, Setts, Handkerchiefs, Ac.
Valenciennes Collars and Setts,
Linen and Piquo Collars and Setts,
Mourning CoUars and Setts,
Illusion Berthas,
Real Thread and Valenciennes Lares,
Hosiery and Gloves, great variety,
Dress Trimmings, Ribbons,
Cloaks, from Brodie’s,
SHAWLS—Nett, Stella, Long, Mourning, ana oioer
varieties.
A full assortment of
STAPLE GOODS,
Which we offer to sell on ns favorable terras as any
House in the State.
jyPLEASE CALL AND EXAMINE.
N. 8. I’KIIDDEX ,V CO.,
oct!9 Granite Hall Block, Macon, (1»
Mrs. S. Audoin,
H AS returned from New York with a beautiful
assortment of •
SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS,
Consisting of all the Newest and most desirable
styles of
Frencla Hats,
of every variety. Also, many rich and fancy arti
cles, beautiful Embroidery, elegant Laces, Pompa
dour Lace Betts, Hair Ornaments of every style,
Grecian Curls, Side and Back Braids, Wigs, Fans,
Ac. Call and examine for yourselves before pur
chasing, as it will be much to your interest. She is
thankful for past favors, and solicits a share of the
liberal patronage of our thriving city and surround
ing counties. Terms Cash. [mat 29.
FASSMAN’S
RON HOOPS AND TIES,
FOR COTTON BALES.
Price G cents per pound, 25 per cent, less Otan
Rope.
Any one considering the advantages of Iron over
Rope as a material for binding cotton bales, will be
surprised tliat it has not been adopted long since.—
In is security against fire, there is an overwhelming
reason for Its adoption.
The presses in the seaport cities have been the
maiu cause of its not being generally adopted; but
now that objection is removed generally, and the
Orleans Press, the largest in New Orleans, gives it
the preference over rope. The Passman Iron Hoop
and Tie is the improvement of one of the proprietors,
and is adopted from the fact, that it is found, after
long experiment, to combine the greatest merits in
simplicity and facility of application of anvone yet
tie. It is so prepared as to require no change for
compressing. Thus obviating the only remain-
: difficulty at the seaboard cities.
The hoops aru sent of any length, from eight ot
ten feet, and a full guarantee given that neither the
Ties nor Hoops shkll break. And further, that all
cotton bound in them shall be received on the same
terms, at the Orleans Press, as rope bound cotton.—
The weight per bale is about the same as rope, not
one pound more or less.
To show the opinion shipmasters have of it, we
give the following, among numerous commenda
tions we have:
The undersigned masters of vessels, bavins' had
cotton compressed with Passman’s new Iron Hoops
and Ties, hereby recommend the same. The bales
being well compressed, and the buttons or Loops,
never breaking when thrown down in the ship’s
hold, or when stowed.
Li. Condey, Captain of ship Moses Davenport,
Robinson, “ t% Madras,
James Thomas, 44 44 Henry,
A. Talbot, 44 “ Ilareasecket,
John Dean, 44 •* James Flint,
John C. Wilner, 44 44 Mulhouse,
II. Kopenholdt. 4 ‘ 44 Ella A. Clark-
. P. Merill, 44 Bark Kimball.
The price of IIoops aud Ties at New Orleans is C
cents per pound, and all orders will receive prompt
attention. Liberal deductions made to merchants
for city acceptance, by F. BELCHER, Agent,
may 31—Cm 124 Commercial Place, N. O.
CITY HOTEL, ff
TALLAHASSEE, FLA. H-'il
•I. L. DEiVIILLY, Proprietor-
LA* Til* Stage Office is kept at thia Hotel.
HAVANA SEGARS;
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
M EES A SALCEDO, Importers of Havana Se-
gars, keep constantly on hand a large aud well
selected stock of the best Havana and Domestic
brand* from fs to 8300 per thousand, Corner Cher
ry Street and Cotton Avenue, Macon, Ga.
aug 1C—ly",
Now Is the chance to buy SunuikOf
CLOTHING f
AT
COST ANTX> LESS!
FOR CASH ONLY'.
1STO HUMBUG-!
Our policy is to have a
FRESH STOCK EVERY SEASON.
C. H. BAIRD
july 26 TelegraphBui'ding.
SEW BOOKS; NKWJMK3
TU8T received atBoardman’s, Mitchelet on Love:
Memoirs of Empress Catherine the Second-
written by herself; Triumphs of Paul Morphy; Tbe
Age—by the Author of Festus; Tho New and the
Old; Sixty Year* Gleaning* •- Popular Tales from
tlie Norse; Diary of Lady Morgan; Tent and the
Harem; The Jealous Husband; Life of Jas. Watt;
The Avenger, Sec.—& new volume, by DeQnincy
Horses and Hounds; Law and Lawyers; Eric, or
Little by Little; The Roman Question, by About j
Episodes of French History, by Pardoe; The Cava
lier, by G. P. R. James; To Cabs and Back ; Popu
lar Geology, by Hugh Miller, edited by bis wife ;
The Tin Trumpet; Science and Art of Chess; Hand
Book of Draughts, Cesar Borgia.
Also, a new supply of Prince of the House of Da
vid ; The Pillar of Fire; Anecdotes of Love, by Lo
la Montcz; The Autocrat of the Breakfast Tabk*
German Literature in 12 volumes; The Land and
the Book, by Thompson ; Curiosities of Literature,
Ac., by D’lsraeH; Matrimonial brokerage in the
Metropolis; Tho Adventures of Kit Carson : Em
pire ot Austria, by Abbott; “What will he do with
it?” byBulwer; Comptes Positive Philosophy; the
cheap Waverly Novels, 25cts. each; Harper, Godey,
and Peterson for August. A fine lot of Engravi ugs,
&c., See. aug 2
Grans, P2-ifl.es, <Sz7C.,
Manufactured by
MARKWALTM&MORSE;
3NC-A.C03ST, C3-.A.-
FTllIE subscribers having formed a co-partnership
A for the purpose of Manufacturing
RiilCS, Double-Barrelled Guns nnd
PISTOLS,
They are now prepared to make the 11m Kill-,
manufactured in the United States, upon Mr. Morse's
entirely new plan.
Guns Re-Stocked and Repaired on the most rea
sonable terms, at short notice.
The undersigned being Practical Workmen, guar
antee all Work entrusted to their care, and invito the
public to give them a trial, at the Floyd Hou- -. op
posite Dr. Thomson's Drug Store.
WM. MARKWALTEK,
Late of Augusta, Ga.
T. MORSE,
Late ol Hodgkins A Son, Macon, Ga.
aug 30—ly
MRS. WINSLOW,
A N experienced Nurse and Female Phy. ii inn,
I. presents to tbe attention of mothers her
SOOTHING SYRUP,
FOR CHILDREN TEETHING,
which greatly facilitates the process of teething, by
•ofteningthe gums, reducing all infianmiatior.— will
allay all pain and spasmodic action, and is sun to re
gulate bowels. Depend upon it, mothers, it will give
rest to yourselves, and relief and health to your in
fant*. We have put up and sold this article tor over
ten yuan, and can say, in confidence and truth of it.
whatwe have ne-
say of any other
lias it failed, in a
to effect a cure,
used. Never did
stance of dissat-
one who used it.
all are delighted
.lira,
'Winfelow’i
gooiliiiig
al efie
ver been «bte to
vn-tii.
i
when timely
we know an in-
isfaction by any
On the contrary;
with its opera
terpig r* ■ —
<1 mediSkTvirtue*.
We speak in this matter “what we know,” after ten
years exp»*rionoo, ami pledge our reputation for the
fulfilment of what we here declare. In almost every
instac.ce where the infant is suffering from jai* and
exhaustion, relief will be found in fifteen or twenty
minutes after tho syrup is administered.
This valuable preparation is the prescription M
one ofthe most experienced and skillful Nur.-.-s in
New England, and lias been used with never miling
success in thousands of cases. It not only relieve*
the child from pain, but invigorates the stomai h amd
bowels, corrects acidity, and gives tons and * nergy
to the whole system. It wilf almost instantly re
lieve griping in the bowels, and Wind Col to, and
overcome convulsions, which, if not speedily reme
died, end in death. "\\Y 1*<
Ueve it tho best ; ; and surest rein. -
dy in tho world, * , . . , 0 J : in all c .se* ft
Dysentery and: SJy 1 - r e Diarrhea ru chi I
dren, whether it ; rcelh,n ff‘ • arise* from teeth
ing or any other cause.
\\ e would say to every mother who ha*_ * child
suffering from any of the foregoing complains — do
not lot your prejudices, nor the prejudices 01 othere,
stand between your suffering child and tU .* V. I *‘ I
that will be sore—yes, absolutely ••tire—1>* ifllfw
this medicine, if timely used. Full directi. i> 1. r
using will accompany each bottle. Nom• uiiiin-
unless tho fac simile of CURTIS A FEkKLN - .« ■ u
York, is on the outside wrapper.
r^Sold by Druggists throughout the world.
Principal Office, No. 13 Cedar-st, >. Y.
sep'6 1S59 ly Frice only 25 cents per bottle.