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THE WEEKLY GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
rye's /A? * '7T' \ X signatures of many of my oldest and most
Cfec ©forgiit (iflfgntjjg
— have resolved to accept your invitation; m
Breckinridge & Lane Meeting.
l^LJLG ONG--A..
Thursday, Auflpiirt GO.
efen:
FOR PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,
- * **RSTCCKY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOSEPH LANE,
or OHKGOX.
Elector* for the State at Large.
Hox. C. J. McDONALD, of Cobb.
JIon. H. It. JACKSON, of Chatham.
2nd
3rd
4th
$th
(1th
7th
8th
Elector* for the JXetei^ • ’
,—r r. i fclt CONE, of Bulloch.
IV. M. SLAUGHTER, of Dongh’ty.
O. C. GIBSON, of Spaulding.
HUGH BUCHANAN, of Coweta.
LEWIS TUMLIN, of Cass.
H. STRICKLAND, of Forsyth.
W. A. LOFTON, of Jasper.
W. M. McINTOSH. of Elbert
that I consider any
my neighbors and old
cause it may bo well to group together and re
’ fute in a public and authentic manner, accusa i
tions remarkblc for their number, their injustice) enthusiasm prevailed,
and tho persistency wit hwhiclithey have been
urged against me.’ I feel that it would be un-
| just to my principles, my friends, and myself
to remain longer in silence beneath this tor-
j rent of defamation; and’I hope to repel every
' charge which has been made, to the satisfac-
i tion of all candid and honorable men.
i It will be agreeable to me to meet my fellow,
i citizens on any day and at any place that you
: may select.
In accordance with the foree-oinp, in-. n*ooU
; inridge is to address the people of Kentucky
! at White Sulphur, Scott county, on the 6th
! proximo.
Mr. Bell and tho Georgia Platform. From (he Mobile Tribune.
Ten years ago the people of Georgia in Con- | ANOTHER ELECTOR DECLINES.
Pursuant* ±% the True Democracy ofBibb 1^r the most .nature do- j|fc John Clisby, of Coosa, one of the Bell
k . . v*. . tt it • -i j liberation, laid down their ultimatum m regard and Everett electors for Alabama, has declined
«nt(* mar of I'ftnimiw Moll in flue rtrV nil ! _
to Northern anti-slavery agitation, and sjieci- j the honor? In his letter announcing the fact,
ions I he says:
and grievances in that connection, which, in The selection, no doubt, was made upon the
her judgment should be resisted by force even presumption, that having been a M hig I tt ould
,o . dissolution of th, Confcdcrscy. Allhougl. j gSgfo
ten 3 r ears is not a long time in the nistorj ot a one j 00 — 0 f protection to property in the
State, it may bo well to refresh tho memory of Territories—and having advocated it then, and
not
;c necessary before I county met at Concert nail in this dty, on
nstituents, but be-, Thursday niglit tho ‘23d inst. The meeting , , .
. . fied particulany the threatened aggre
was an extraordinarv large one and the greatest; , . : . . .. , .
“I " u ont (movormoc ir» rnrr nnnnoefinn tvIui
youth and undisciplined tempers. The reflect
ing. conservative men of families, of this city,
should take this matter in hand and settle it.
That is our proposition.”
THE PLAGUE OF FUSION.
The New York Trilune of the 21ts devotes
page of editorials long and short—solemn and
funny—witty and pungent—to a general assault
upon tho proposed fusion of all parties in the
Northern States against Lincoln; but the very
MACON TELEGRAPH.
This excellent daily comes to us considers- j | as t shot of them all pronounces as the probable
b\y enlarged and othe™ result of the fusion “an addition of40,000 Amer-
It is now among the largest and handsomest as . ,
well as ablest daily papers in the State. We j *f«» votes* the supporters of Lincoln and Ham
have believed for several years past that Ma- - lin.” Ah, then, Philosopher Greeley, whence
con not only needed but would handsomely
Sustain a good daily. Our brother Cubby has
demonstrated that wo were right in tliat opin
ion.—Sar. Kcws.
Here is the old song, oven from an old
printer. There is nothing in which people
generally arc more mistaken than in the esti
mate of clear profits made by a printing office;
and the notion that the proprietor is hoarding
money and needs no further support is coun
tenanced and nurtured by just such para
graphs as the above. One hidf of the printing
offices, as is well known to this editor, Rre not
making expenses ou their establishments,
much less realizing prods from them. Bro.
Clisby docs indeed publish a large, handsome
and able daily in the city of Macon, but as to
its being sustained by any equivalent patron
age, that question is begged and taken for
your tears ? Is your party too large now, and
do you deprecate an accession of forty thousand
Americans to the list of prospective spoilsmen ?
Greeley, (benevolent soul,) is in a fidget about
the effect of the coalition upon each one of the
parties to it He says in one article “suppose
Breckinridge could be elected, where would the
Douglas men bo?’’ and in another “suppose
Douglas elected, where would the Breckinridge
faction be ? utterly crushed and annihilated.”
And in a third, he calls upon Washington Hunt,
to come out and honestly confess to the betrayed
masses of tho American party that they have
been “cheated”—“have' been sold out wholly
and entirely to Douglas and Johnson!” Tn
short, it is easy to see that the Tribune is won-
j a-****-**
daily from the Telegraph office, and takes it it succeeds, Mr. Tribune, let us ask you “where
for granted, as all other readers of newspapers j will the Lincoln faction be ?” In any place a
do, that it is duly paid for Ly the public. . j little this side of Tophet, as wc hope.
But it ho pays i" IV hen you come to inquire : For one, we sav a solemn duty rests upon
into this matter minutely v< n find it is hard . ,. , ... ,,. , , . ,
work for the printer to rea!i.:o enough money cve T frlen<1 ofthe P“ bhc order, peace and quiet
from his establishment to kt'p it going, much in the North to fall into line with the move
less to make a fortune out . f it. In our trip ment and unite his vote with tho entire anti-
to the up-country, a Tew weeks ago, we did our- | Bllick Republican phalanx to put down the at-
self the pleasure to call on Bro. Chaby and ; len t t0 csUbIisb a sectional tyranny in the
knowing him to he a pracued printer, and a 1 ,
very good one too, and thu t he, understood what: government. If they Cul to do it, it will then be
ho was doing, we put the question directly to time for the South to consider what she ought
him, whether his Daily paid for itself. He
promptly mm ere-d, it «j;.i n..t but he 7uy>-
t‘il that it would in time. Thns tills demon
stration of the city of Macon to sustain a good
daily is ns yet existing on hope, as do ono half
of the newspapers in the State. There are-few
business establishments ol any kind so poorly
paid as printing offices. If any one thinks oth
erwise let him purchase ours. It is for sale.
If we take the capital and invest it elsewhere,
and bestow the same attention and labor upon
if, we doubt wither we could be worsted turn
where we might; and yet wc know that many
people think wc are quite liberally patronized
and coining money. Hundreds do not pay
what little they owe us, because they think we
liavc already more money than we know what
to do with.—Thomascillc Reporter.
As our friend, the Reporter, has made us a
witness, let us amplify the testimony. No
yearling Daily cau be 'expected to pay. We
shall lose money on it of course—made up our
.mind to it, and wiil lose less than we feared at
first. In the course of time and natural devcl-.
opmeat, ono of these days it will stand alone
or do better.
The newspaper business in Georgia, as the
Reporter says, is no doubt a poor one generally;
cally unintelligent competition in it, that it is a
wonder it should be no worse. Whoever can
sucoeeJ at nothing else, is sure he has a call to
start a newspaper, and is astonished in a few
months to find he has not a dime in his pocket
If he would reflect for a moment that the cash
expenses of a newspaper effiee arc large and con
stant and that they must be met by little two
dollar accretions from numerous sources, he
would see it is absurd to suppose n profitable
business of that hind can be built up in a few
months. It must be the work of yenrs of steady
toil—unremitting application—prudent and
conciliatory management The publisher must
to do for her own protection. But the threat
and tho dangwr comes from the Northern States,
and with them lies tho only peaceful remedy.
That remedy, as things stand, can alone be
found in a union of all prudent and conserva
tive men on the solitary proposition of defeating
a dangerous attempt to sectionalize and prosti
tute the common government of the country.
The movement has been started and we bid
it God speed. Tliat it is going onwnrd and
gathering a formidable strength which threatens
danger to the enemies of the public peace, wc
need no furtheiravidence than this number of the
Tribune. Let Northern patriots unito therefore
upon the grand and patriotic platform of anti-
sectionalism and a’national administration of the
government, and record their votes as one roan
against the proposition to turn tho White House
and the Capitol into abolition Conventicles. A
defeat of Lincoln at their hands on that proposi
tion will rekindle the smouldering fires of devo
tion to national unity-in the South, and be a
holy offering on the altar of a common country.
Leaving the mere party and personal results of
the coalition out of consideration as unworthy
Ulti OCCASlOn, lL'tXUT-t». .ncin^iTCN wirciv mi.
all be, if indeed the government of tho country
is to be successfully perverted into an instru
ment of attack and offence upon one half the
Slates ? Can a government of public opinion be
long wielded against public opinion and against
public and private interests? Let the North
unite, and defeat the experiment.
UNION AND DISUNION.
The Brunswick Ailcocate of last Saturday, is
out in a strong denunciation of Mr Toombs’ re
cent Breckinridge speeches in this State, be
cause as he thinks, they declare for a dissolu
tion of the Union in the event of Lincoln’s elcc-
, ,, tion. The Ailcocate objects to them on two
makeup his mind anu his purse, too, to stand a i , , .- , , . ,
, * . 1 ...... grounds: 1st, because they drag an irrelevant
long and weary siege content to find Ins income ; int0 thu canvass and) 2 <L, because they
after a while gradually rising to a remunerative j wi „ the p w . ts of n rcc kinridgc and
or profitable point Then he has earned what Lanc thcStatc _ to which thc Adt0(aU might
inhteb.nofsale.hewoulddenominate tho “good ^ wMcd onc moro . (hat t , lua . vcry se .
will” of Ins establishment, and which is about . . ... .. , . . ... . .. r
' nously injure tho ticket in States North of
Georgia. Look for a moment into the political
prints of Tennessee, Kentucky and North Car-
The meeting was called to order by appoint
ing Hon. J. J. Gresham, Chairman, and request
ing T. H. Plant to act as Secretary.
Upon taking the Chair Col. Gresham in a
brief and pertinent address, defined the object
of the meeting and assigned cogent reasons why
every man in thc South should support Breckin
ridge and Lanc.
At the conclusion of thc Chairman’s remarks
CoL John R. Hill, introduced the following res
olutions which were unanimously ratified:
Retohed, By the Democracy of Bibb, that
we now organize a Club 4o be known as
The Breckinridge & Lane Club
Of Bibb County,
and that we invite all who believe in the Equal
ity of thc States, and tho citizens thereof in their
rights of person and property (in the Territories
of the Union,) to join us in the support of our
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presi
dency.
Reeolced, Tliat the following gentlemen be
and they are hereby chosen officers of this
Club.
President.
J. J. GltESH AM.
Vice Presidents.
Dr. Joel Branham,
Wm. B. Parker,
Benjamin Lockett,
Asa Ernest,
W. G. Harris,
Richard Cain,
T. L. Ross,
J. T. Cone,
J. Rutherford,
T. H. Plant,
E. Wilson,
B. Polhill,
S. Hunter,
Joseph Clisby,
J. C. Roosevelt,
Lery Napier,
Stephen Woodward,
Lewis Avant,
T. C. Xisbct,
M. S. Thomson,
O. B. Adams,
T. B. Elf,
A. G. Butts,
Jackson Barnes.
Secretaries.
John Hill,
C. M. Ballard,
J. A. McManus.
Reeolreil, That thc President of this Club, in
conjunction with thc Democratic Executive
Committee of Bibb county, be authorized to
adoptsuch measures and action as in their judg
ment, will best promote the thorough organiza
tion of the Democracy of Bibb county, for the
approaching election, and that we pledge our
selves to use all honorable means to secure the
success of our candidates.
After the passage of tho resolutions, Col. A-
the reader in respect to the particular threat
ened aggressions which the unanimous voice
of Georgia, then or afterwards given, declared
should be resisted to th^ point of dissolution.
They are enumerated in the 4th resolution of
the platform, as follows:
“4. That Georgia, in our judgment, will
and ought to resist, even (as a fast resort) to a
disruption of every tie which binds her to thc
Union, any action of Congrtet upon thc sub
ject of slavery in the District of Columbia, or
in'places subject to the jurisdiction of Congress,
incompatible with the safety, domestic tran
quility, the right and honor of the slaveholding
States, or in any act suppressing the slave
trade between the slaveholding States, or in
any refusal to admit as a State any Territory
hereafter applying because of the'existence of
slavery therein, or in any act prohibiting the
introduction of slaves into the Territories of
Utah aud New Mexico, or in any act repealing
or imterially modifying the laws now in force
for ths recovery of fugitive slaves.”
Abtut the same time, to-wit, on the 14th
day of December, 1850, Mr. Bell made a speech
in the’U. S. Senate [voL 22, Congressional
Globe, p. 1068J on one of the Compromise
Bills, to suppress the slave trade in tho Dis
trict of Columbia, from which we make the fol
lowing extract:
“ With regard to thc constitutional power of
Congress over this subject, I would say that
the only doubt have of the existence of tho
power either to ftippress the slave trade or to
abolish slavery in this District, is inspired by
the respect I have fpr the opinions of so many
distinguished and eminent men, both in and
out of Congress, wfio hold that Congress has
no such power. Rduling the Constitution for
myself) I believe tlat Congress has all the
power over the suhiect in this district which
the States have witiin their respective juris
dictions. * * * * . *
But, however grijtt my respect, may be for
the opinions of othtrs on tho question of pow
er, there are some tonsiderations of such high
account as, in my judgment, to make it desira
ble that, unless by common consent thc pro
ject of abolition sha}l be wholly given up and
abandoned, the remnant of slavery existing in
D. Hammond of Monroe, being present at tho ! t j, c District SHOULD BE ABOLISHED AT
invitation of the Executive Committee took thc
stand and delivered an hour speech, which for
pathos, eloquence and argument cannot be sur
passed, proving from the record that John
Coll and Edward Everett were unsound upon
the great questions in which the South is so
much interested. The eloquent speaker paid a
glowing tribute to Breckinridge and Lane, and
denounced Douglas and Black Republican
ism.
Col. Hammond was repeatedly interrupted
with thc most enthusiastic demonstrations, and
con eluded his remarks amid thunders of ap
plause.
Hon. A. M. Speer being loudly called for, came
forward and as usual delivered a powerful and
telling speech, reviewing tho position of our
candidates for thc Presidency and Vico Presiden
cy and refuting mast conclusively the flimsy ar
guments of those who charge the Breckinridge
and Lane party with seeking to destroy Ihe
Union.
On motion it was
Resolceil, that the proceedings of this meet
ing be published in the Telegraph and Exam
iner.
Meeting then adjourned.
■T- J ORKSHAR Chairman.
I. IT. r LA NT,
’.vcri
all that gives it any value. Jtis the run of bus
iness, without which his types and his presses,
however costly in themselves* would be practi
cally worthless to the purchaser. There is no
newspaper office in thc country, worth buying,
of which this “ good will" does hot constitute
tho larger part of tho price. However immate
rial in substance, it constitutes thc most of what
is material to thc purchaser. It is like confi
dence, necessarily a plant of slow growth.
Now as few will take and act upon such views
of tho newspaper business, and as wc believe
them to bo the only just ones, (and we know
the Reporter, an expeiienccd publisher, will en
dorse them), is it at all wonderful that so many
neyrspaper experiments foil—that so many pub
lishers, who expect success in two months retire
in disappointment and disgust. It is an utterly
fdsc notion ufthc business itself—tho case with
which it ora be managed—and frequently a con
ceit of one’s abilities ns a writer—and an exag
gerated idea of editorial influence and position,
which lead so many amateurs into tho profes
sion at a great waste of time and money and
at the expense of a foolish and hurtful compe
tition, which renders the business as a general
thing, unprofitable.
Macon, Aug. 24, 1S<50.
At a meeting of thc Bibb County Executive
Committee, it was moved and seconded that
said committee be increased by the addition of
the following seven gentlemen—
A. M. Speer, E. L. Strohecker,
P. Tracy, Vi. C. M. Dunson,
Z. T. Conner, A. M. Lockett,
J. A. Damour.
The Bibb County Executive Committee now
consists of thc following Democrats:
T. R. BLOOM, Chairman.
P. Tracy,
Z. T. Conner,
E. L. Strohecker,
Vi. C. M. Dunson,
A. M. Lockett,
MR. BRECKINRIDGE ON THE STUMP.
Some twenty leading citizens of Kentucky
write Mr. Breckinridge on the 21st instant, ur
ging him to address the people for the purpose
of publicly vindicating himself from the violent
personal assaults made upon him since his nom
ination for the Presidency. They say:
“They have been induced to imko this re
quest more particularly, because you have been
recently assailed from tho “stump” by Judge
Douglas, at Concord, and Mr. Crittenden at
Louisville: tho former charging you with hav
ing uttered extreme opinions in favor of squat
ter sovereignty, and the latter asserting that as
the.Presidential candidate of thc National Dem
ocracy, you arc tKe head of a disunion party;
we wish*to afford you thc opportunity publicly
to repeal these assaults, believing that no just
man would bo disposed to require that you
should, by your silence, permit charges so unjust
to be promulgated under thc authority of these
distinguished men. The propriety of thus pub
licly stamping as folso these and other accusa
tion.^ is thc more obvious when we reflect, that
for the last three years, you luivo not had the
right to speak in thc Senate, although by law
its presiding officer; and because the obvious
motive of these personal assaults is to weaken
the confidence el'the people in tho National and
Constitutional Democracy.!’
Mr. Breckinridge's reply is dated tho 21st,
at Lexingtqn, and in it lie says:
olina, (we care not of what party,) and the
reader will see at once that the main effort of
the assailants of tho ticket is to fix upon it the
“ taint of disunion,” while half thc labor of thc
Breckinridge organs is expended in rebutting
the charge. If, therefore, any thing shall be
gained in Georgia by thc advocates of Breckin
ridge on this contingent disunion position, it
will like enough involve a corresponding or
even much greater loss in other States. It fur
nishes new ground for assault and disarms de
fence. Breckinridge and Lane we understand
to be running on a platform of principles which
embraces every legitimate subject matter ofthe
canvass. They can be held to nothing more
than these principles and their own position
in respect to them. Thc question of tho proper
action of Georgians a sovereign State, after the
election, and in the event of thc defeat of the
ticket, is ono which docs not belong to thc can
vass—cannot properly he made during it—is
prematiiro—out of ordor. One thing at a time.
It is altogether probable that a proposition togo
out of the Union if Lincoln is elected would
bring about in Georgia an altogether different
arrangement of parties from that which now ex
ists. Let us elect Breckinridge first and settle
thc disunion question afterward.
J. M. Green,
R. A. Smith,
Vi. S. Mouglion,
Asa Ernest,
Stephen Woodward,
A. M. Speer,
J. A. Damocr, Secretary Ex. Com.
The following gentlemen were appointed as
Committee of Arrangements—J. A. Mo
Manus, W. C. M. Dunson, J. J. Riley,
Corresponding Committee—J. A. Damour,
J. M. Green, R. A. Smith.
Political Movements.—Senator Toombs
spoke in Augusta last Saturday night, non,
Linton Stephens speaks there to-night, for
Douglas and Johnson. Thc Constitutionalist
of Saturday announces the lion. A. II. Stephens’
acceptance of his nomination as Elector for thc
State at large on thc Douglas ticket, and says
he will speak in Augusta next Saturday.
Lewis D. Campbell, the somewhat noted frcc-
soiler, has declared his purpose to support Bell
and Everett But mark, in a speech a few days
since, before a Cincinnati audience, ho said:
“I am one of those who believe tliat Congress
has the power to exclude slavery from the Ter
ritories, and the exercise of that power lies in
the discretion of that body.”
Well what of it? We wish every freesoiler
in thc land would voto for Breckinridge, or for
Dougins, or for Bell—for any body except a free-
soilcr. We arc glad to see Campbell doing bet
ter than we feared he would.
REPUDIATION.
We are surprised and pained to sec the ar
ticle wo coyy from the Charleston Mercury,
on the matter of the repudiation by the city
of Montgomery of certain of her bonds. It is
a suicidal—a ruinous policy, and it is an im
practicable policy, too, It cannot be carried
out. The city may repudinte os much as she
pleases, but every dollars’ worth of real prop
erty within her limits can be made liable for
the principal and interest of those bonds.—
NEW YORK.
Tho Breckinridge State Committee met at
Saratoga Springs on the 21st, for the purposo of
consultation in reference to a coalition. Thc
Journal of Commerce says:
“ We have strong hope that a cordial co-op-
peration with thc Douglas and Bell ticket will
be resolved on, for the common good, if it can
be had on honorable terms, as we believe it can
be.”
Wc have thus for no information about the
result An address of the National Democratic
Volunteers of the city of New York (a Breckin
ridge Association) was issued thc same day ap
pealing to the State Committees of the three
anti-Black Republican Parties in behalfa com
promise upon onc electoral ticket
WHEN ROGUES FALL OUT, AC.
The Black Republican leaders in New York,
sro in an encouraging state of mutual crimina
tion, which threatens a general disclosure,
without thc intervention of any Covode Com
mittee. Greeley and Weed are ventillating each
other's peculations in no very enviable temper
and onc of tho Black Republican State Senators
incensed that Gov. Morgan should take thc bene
fit of “Roman integrity and firmness” at thc
expense of thc Legislature for vetoing some of
tiie corrupt bills passed lost winter, admits that
he voted for bills his conscience could not ap-
piovercharges that ho did so on thc solicitation
of Thurlow Weed himself) acting for Morgan,
who gave him to understand that Morgan was
to veto the bills to save his character, but it was
understood all round that thc bills were to pass
over thc veto, and in the case of two of them, a
bonus of fifty thousand dollars was to bo paid
over to the Black Republican fund, by those for
whose benefit thc bills were passed. lie charges
that not onc of thc bills would have been pass
ed over the Governor’s veto had it not been dis
tinctly understood that such was the Governor’s
desire. There is a Morgan for you—a virtuous,
j indignant and patriotic Roman. There will be
Nothing can save her but a declaration of in
dependence of all civil process. But surely ; nicny tiroes wben Weed, Greeley, Morgan and
Montgomery will reconsider—pay up and 6avc 1 Honest Abe get possession of the United States
her reputation. jTniasuiy.
ONCE; at the prestnt moment, however, the
excited state of public sentiment in the South,
growing out of territorial questions, may seem
to forbid such a course. For myself, if the
sentiment of the adjacent States and of the
South generally were less inflamed, I WOULD
PREFEP. THAT COURSE TO KEEPING IT
AN OPEN QUESTION.
Slavery in the District of Columbia is now
thc only remaining ground of contention—the
only remaining point of objection and assault
on thc part of (he anti-slavery North. I do
not include thc fanatics. They will be satis
fied with nothing short of the extinction of
slavery in tho State; but all others at the North
disclaim any intention, or design, or any con
stitutional power to interfere with slavery any
where but in the District of Columbia. I
would be glad to see all cause of disturbance
and contention in the District wholly removed;
but let one say that this can never be done by
the abolition of slavery, unless it be accompa
nied by some adequate provisions for the remov
al or thc effective control of thc slaves after
the}’ shall be emancipated. With this qualifi
cation and in order to test tha determination
of the North in regard to any further and con
tinued aggression upon Southern feelings and
the security of southern property, I WOULD
BE CONTENT TO SEE SLAVERY IN THE
DISTRICT ABOLISHED TO-DAY. In one
aspect of thc subject, I am not sure that it
would not he A GREAT CONSERVATIVE
relieved of all sources of dissension, wc would
be speedily enlightened upon thc question
whether the North would stop there or raise
new and more dangerous issues. If all agita
tion should cease, then would the whole coun
try, in all its sections and interests, experience
the blessings of repose from this distracting
controversy; on the other hand should the
North manifest a determination to continue the
strife, by attacking other points, the uncertain
ty which now hangs over the fortunes of the
South would he dispelled, and the people would
then have the option of deciding their own
destiny without further delay. They could
either make up their minds to submit in quiet,
and with becoming grace, to whatever the
North may decree, or to take steps for success
ful resistance. If) sir, it were proposed now
to eradicate slavery from the District, and at
thc same time provide proper securities for the
removal or effective control of the free colored
population, I AM NOT PREPARED TO SAY
THAT THE SOUTH SHOULD RESIST THE
MEASURE.
since a Southern rights man, I could not aban
don it to support men (although once old
Whigs) nominated by a professedly new party,
and not committed to any line of policy.—
Where then should I go? Why, to a party ad
vocating my principles, of course, and that
leads me, (upon principle) to the support of
Breckinridge and Lane, even at thc hazard of
being called a Democrat New issues or par
ties formed on those issues, necessarily involve
new associations, and I do not expect to be thc
only man that will have strange bed-fellows
before the canvass closes; neither will I under
take to defend thc record of any politician; the
present is what we have to do with. However
open to criticism may be thc record of Mr.
Breckinridge, his character for honor and in
tegrity has not been assailed, and that satisfies
mo in*the belief, that if elected, he will faith
fully carry out the principles set forth in thc
platform, and which in his letter of acceptance
ho not only endorses, but eloquently defends.
The noiscst argument (if it may be dignified
so much) against him is the secession and dis
union clement that mingled in his nomination,
and for that reason, Union Whigs should not
support him. That bugbear will not deter me.
If simply demanding our rights under thc
Constitution endangers the Union, let those
who refuse those rights answer for it. Never
will I, by vote or otherwise, concede a right to
save it * “Thrice is he armed who hath his
quarrel just” And our gallant Yancey iray
safely trust that triple armour to deft-iid him
against all thc shafts that envy, malice, and
hatred can hurl at him, and all the charges of
disunion made by Lilliputan intellect I have
yet to see thc evidence of his desire to dissolve
the Union, except upon one contingency—and
no man North or South, would be a Union man
under all circumstances; and where he leads I
dare follow, in this fight, at least. On thc con
trary, in my opinion, thc foundation is now
laying broad and deep:—embracing the Union
in'itslimits—for a party truiy national, divest
ed of Wilmot Provisos, Squatter Sovereign
ty, aud all other heresies, that will be success
ful under thc banner of Constitutional Equality
in the Union, and I intend to assist in rearing
this glorious superstructure, call ii what you
may. The nomination of Bell and Everett is
simply an attempt to revive tho old Whig par
ty minus their principles; it was unsuccessful
in its palmiest days, and what can be expected
of it now; its brightest intellects mouldering
in the dust, and not a recruit from cither party
to supply their places? If, as many believe,
it is the duty of every party to rally to the
MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD.
We rode down to thc Railroad Bridge yes
terday, with Judge Cochran, the President of
the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company,
following, for the greater part of thc way, the
Railroad track. The distance of the bridge
from town is about five miles, and this is all
graded with the exception of less than half a
mile to tho bridge. An embankment of about
five feet on an average for thisdistance remains
to be thrown up, and this is being rapidly done
by a large force. Capt. J. H. Andrews, is thc
contractor for this grading and is pushing it
ahead rapidly. Beyond the bridge, the grading
is nearly done to a distance of about twenty
eight miles from town. The superstructure of
the road is also in fair progress. A little short
of two miles of the track has been laid, and this
part of the work is now going on at thc rate of
about a mile and a half per week.
Thc Bridge is nearly done. Thc frame work
is all up, and the flooring and enclosure are about
all that remain to be done. This structure is
322 feet long and rests in the centre and both
ends upon solid stone abutments handsomely laid
in cement It is a truss bridge—the main string
ers formed by three pieces of thirteen inch square
timber, while the upper stringers are a little
lighter, and the whole frame work isinteriapped
and bound together in a manner perfectly sur
prising to thc novice in bridge building. It is
thc best and strongest specimen of bridge fram
ing we ever saw—not only in its design, which
was quite novel to us—but in thc character and
accuracy ofthe work.
It was planned and framed by Mr. William
B. Bronk, a gentleman who has had great ex
perience in bridge building, and says he has
seen a bridge of this construction tested with
a coal train covering its entire length, which
settled the camber or crown of the bridge about
an eighth of an inch. The rise in each span of
this bridge is in the centre of thc span three
inches from a dead level, and it needs no me
chanic to sec that any amount of weight which
may be piled upon it can never bring it to a
straight line. The frame work is so thorough
ly interlocked and the bracing so phiiosophi-
callyapplied and adjusted with so much nicety,
that no perpendicular shock or strain that the
bridge can receive, will ever even fairly test its
power of endurance. All this intricate frame
work was got out in Macon, carried down thc
river in fiats and put together, without the
THE NEW YORK DELEGATION
To Charleston and Baltimore have been the
recipients of a great many back banded com
pliments. The other il: }*, in Indiana, Senator
Fitch tried his hand on them with the follow
ing result:
No man shall ever fitly tell the prisoned
swecls of thc New York Committee Room-
how royal “Bourbon" bled at every bung, and
Douglas leaders in every purse—how each new
scheme of knavery was stamped with approval
and a dozen “ green seal,” and each broken
pledge decorated with handsomo quivocations
and sparkling “ Gordon Rouge''—how honest
Peter Caggcr’s oily face glowed with fresh
bumpers, and increased bribes, while heavy
oaths and light corks freighted the air till you
would have sworn there were “six Richmonds
in the field.” These are all the sweet secrets
for future times and historians, and now
that they have rested from their labor, let us
be just to them. They were generous in every
sacrafice of principle involving their neighbor’s
rights, and firm in their resolve to he moved
by no weakness for tho public weal. Yv ith the
honor of a harlot and thc arts of a gamester,
they presen t a bright examples of how men, with
a philosophic scorn for the “phantom reputa
tion,” can yet attain a brilliant eminence of in
famy, backed by no merit but the “plain devil
and dissembling looks.” Wherever that Dele
gation maybe scattered, so ceaseless, so tireless
were their libations for their country’s honor, ip
whatever vale secluded, upon whatever mount
exalted, there will linger around them forever
in unit and en masse the halo of the Rogue,
and the aroma of Bran d v Smash.
Moke Fusion*.—A special dispatch to the
Charleston Courier states that “an important
and jather unexpected political movement is
about to be consummated in New York. The
Breckinridge and Lane leaders have at last,
agreed to co-operate with the Douglas and Bell
parties, to secure the defeat of the Black Repub
licans. The arrangement for the Union will be
completed on Wednesday next. You can relv
on this as certain. Thus the last nail is driven
into thc political coffin of Abraham Lincoln.”
There is another nail soon to be driven into
“Old Abe’s” coffin by a similar fusion in Penn
sylvania, which is now in course of progression
and soon to be completed, and made public.—
The sentiment of the whole conservative North
is in favor of any combination to defeat the
Black Republicans, and we will not be surpris
ed at farther developments of unity in tho dis-
strongest ticket to defeat Lincoln, may we not | slightest alteration, and yet the joints, made in
reasonably expect, from present indications, every conceivable angle, fit with the nicety of
tliat Breckinridge and Lane will receive many j cabinet work. It is really an admirable piece
such votes, and result in their election by the 0 f mechanism and ought to be a winning card
rwinnln 9 If non nml um I IK* < nnn nnlncc PAID- °
people ? It can and will be done, unless com
bination of thc Bell and Douglas parties pre
vent it, which are already hinted at.
KENNETH RAYNOR.
It having been reported that this distinguish
ed North Carolinean has declared for Breckin
ridge and Lane, Mr. Raynor addresses a letter ; out a single deflection for eleven miles. It has a
to the constructor. We trust it will attract
the attention of our rail road men, and be the
means of introducing Mr. Bronk to many a
shnilarjob.
The road on reaching thc Ocmulgce bottoms,
takes a bee line, and follows it, we arc told, with-
to the Raleigh Register, in. which he urges a
withdrawal of all the anti-black republican
candidates and a Union of thc conservative voto
of the entire country on one ticket. If that
cannot be done, he proposes, next, onc elector
al ticket only in each of thc Southern States,
leaving it discretionary with the electors so to
cast their votes as to make the united electoral
five foot embankment about all the way through
the bottoms on this side, and the soil is a tena
cious clay which will furnish, in time, a capital
road bed. The immense and beautiful gi owth
of timber in these bottoms will open a new
and large supply of fuel for this market, while
thc country beyond will furnish ucw supplies of
lumber. Both are getting too scarce in M icon.
vote ofthe South effective in thc defeat of Lin- i We hope by next December to see thirty miles
coin. But if this be impracticable, then lie ! of thc Road in operation, and that it will .-each
jointed, powerless factions which now divide the
true men of the country North as well as South.
Savannah Republican, 29th.
A pregnant hint of fusion “South as well as
North.” Well let it come. We go for fusion
in the North any how against Lincoln, and if
we must take it South against Breckinridge let
it come. Wc will do our best to meet it, and
fancy it will be just as like to effect a less as a
gain to the coalitionists.
AT FULL VALUATION.
The Atlanta Confederacy of the 27tli speak
ing of Mr. Stephens’ canvass of Georgia, says:
If Sir. Stephens canvasses Georgia, as wc
team he intends doing thoroughly, the State
will go for Douglas by fifteen thousand major-
ity. If he only makes two speeches in the
State it is safe for Douglas by six or eight
thousand majority.
That is putting Mr. Stephens’ speeches at
full valuation.
THE HON. EMERSON ETHERIDGE.
A member of Congress from thc 9th Tennes
see district, recently, in Terre Haute, Indiana,
was serenaded by a Company of Bell men. In
return for the compliment he gave them some
advice, exhorting them to give their united sup
port to Lincoln, and said that if he were living
in Indiana, he should vote for Lincoln, in order
to overthrow the Democratic party. This is a
strong sample of party antipathy run mad.—
will vote for either of the three candidates who a point opposite Hawkinsvilleby Spring. Itis Etheridge would burn up his own house in or-
shall be able to compete most formidably with ; certain that the enterprise under thc zealous
the black republican candidate. Mr. Raynor ; and efficient direction of Judge Cochran, is
dcr to destroy those of his Democratic neigh
bors.
is very much alarmed about the public dangers. . being pushed forward with energy, judgment ! -
election, he sa}s. The Macon Cotton Planters'Pair—Heturn
As I regard tho pending Presidential issue, , of Hon. Howell Cobb,
the result which every patriot, North as well The IIon Howell Cobb 0 f Houston, Presi-
as South should trv to prevent, is the election i * c ™ » ... ,
of Lincoln. I speak not so much of his anti- | dentof thu Cctton Planfcers Association, and
slavery sentiments, which alone arc odious th*- 1 Commission from that body to Europe,
enough to repel every national man in every ; arrived in town night before last, direct from
section of thc country. I speak more particu- the Continent of Europe, and favored us with
facts and events, which practical men cannot - to * eat ’ rl “ om * Mm diat the object of his mission
and must not ignore—a logic more powerful has been accomplished. He has succeeded even
and unanswerable, than that of all the learn- beyond his expectations in interesting thc Con-
ingof all the schools Such is the state-of : tinenta , manufacturers and merchants, espoci-
pubhc feeling, such the exasperation of tho . ’ 1 .
public mind, in several of the Southern States, those of Belgium, in thc proposed foreign
that if Lincoln should be elected President, a ; and domestic fair of the Cotton Planters’ Asso-
dissolution of thc Union can hardly be avoid- ciatidn, in Macon, and has thc most ample as-
ed.
surancc not only from the merchants and man
ufacturers but also from the venerable King
of the Belgians, before whom he had a longau-
No reader need ask a more singular illustra
tion of political inconstancy and inconsistency,
than is now afforded by thc supporters of Mr.
Bell in Georgia in connection with the forego
ing extracts. Nearly every one of them, of
sufficient age, sustained the avowals of thc 4th
resolution, which at that time practically ex
cluded Mr. Bell from all political affiliation
with their supporters. They declared “ any
[unfriendly] action of Congress upon thc sub
ject of slavery in the District of Columbia,
thing which should bo resisted to thc poin) of
disunion, while in thc same year Mr. Bell in
Congress, not only admitted the power of that
body to abolish slavery, but on some accounts
thought it highly desirable that it should be
done at once.
And in another part of his letter he alludes
to the divisions in the South, thus:
The apparent security and unconcern which
prevail among the Southern people, in view of d'erlee, that Germany shall be largely repre-
the dangers which environ us, arc utterly in- senfed at the Fair, in all her departments of
comprehensible. A common enemy is thun- manufacturing industry. The King was warm-
dcring at our gates, anil yet wc are engaged in Iy Jntcrcs t e d in thc subjcct-the Prince Royal
ail internecine war with each other. Even if ,, , ... . „
we were united, the odds arc against us ._ ->lso extended the full benefit of his mflucnce
What, then, are we to expect, if we keep lip to the enterprise, and the Belgian American
our divisions ? By our party dissensions, we i Trade Company have appropriated a consider-
not only weaken ourselves, but we strengthen ; ab j c sum for tbe I)Urp0 se. Under their aus-
tlio common foe, who is gloating over the , c ±1. ’ . . - , .
prospect of his easy triumph. Why are Bell ! p . lce ® for the receipt of goods for exporta-
men, and Breckinridge men, and Douglas men j tion bare been established at Brussels, Antwerp,
A CHRONIC DISEASE.
Wo are sick of Democracy in every form and
shape, and have no disposition to take it, wheth
er prescribed through Breckinridge or Douglas;
both are political quacks, in our opinion, and
unworthy o( confidence; we certainly shall not
take the “protection”mcdicinc of the one, or the
“squatter sovereign” remedy ofthe other. Tho
interest, welfare and future peace ofthe country
demands, imperatively demands, the defeat of
both factions of the Democratic party and tho
election of Bell and Everett, tho only conserva
tive and national candidates of thc country.
So says the Millodgcvillc Recorder, and says
it “feelingly” nodoubt The j&eimZerhasJbeen
laboring under that sickness, lo! these many
years; and now relies only on thc desperate
chance of thc election of Bell for recovery. lie
is in a sad case. Wo fear the election of Lin
coln and a real disease of the body politic so
much that wc would compromise with thc Re
corder, if we could, and put in Bell for tho next
four years, andtlim feel certain the same old
Democracy would sicken thc Recorder for the
remainder of his natural life.
■ TnE Position or Goverxob Lktciiek.—A
dispatch to the Charleston Mercury says: “It
is now understood in well informed political
circles in this city, that Governor John Letch
er, of Virginia, will decline to take any active
part in the contest between thc respective par
tisans of Breckinridge and Douglas. Ho be
lieves that Lincoln’s election is rendered certain
by tltc divisions and broils in the Democratic
camp, and regards thc dissolution ofthe Union
as inevitable, in that event Ho further declares
that in such an emergency, he will immediately
take steps to put Virginia in a position to bo
ready, at all hazards, to maintain her rights as
asovereign State.”
Wc insist Gov. Letcher is mistaken, and that
tho people will, after all, overrule the politicians
and save the country by the defeat of Lincoln.
devouring each other, when the danger is, aye,
the prospect is, tliat if the common enemy,
aided by our divisions, should succeed, we
shall not only have no party spoils to squabble
over, but we shall have no Union left ? With
no Union wc shall have no government as a
nation ; with no government, no country, no
freedom! Why, why is it, that the people of
this country cannot wake up to a sense of the
awful dangers that threaten them—to the heavy
responsibility resting upon them ? How is it,
that they can remain so careless and indifferent,
when the very earthquake is rocking beneath
their feet ? The probability of Lincoln’s elec
tion is admitted by all. It is underrating the
high spirit, and indignant sensibility of tho
people of tho “ Cotton States” to snppose that
their threats of withdrawal from thc Union, in
case of Lincoln’s election, is mere idle and
empty gasconade.
'What an awful thought, that in less than
four months from this time, this Union hallow
ed by so many heart-stirring associations, may
be rent-asunder! And yet truth extorts thc
admission, that it is no improbable event.—
What may be eliminated out of the several
fragments, no human wisdom can foresee.—
The combined intellect and patriotism of the
South should be engaged in an examination of
what is best to be done, and in preparing for
the evil day, before it is upon us. How can
this be done calmly and dispassionately, if all
our energies are engaged in a senseless strug
gle for political supremacy and partisan tri
umph ? The times call for a self-sacrifice, for
harmony and conciliation. He must be a poor
creature indeed, who can think of nothing but
party strife and party spoils, when .the pros
perity, the very existence of our institutions
arc in peril. If the present party divisions are
kept up, and party bitterness and dcnuciation
shall keep us apart, we shall be but illy pre
pared for that forbearance, compromise and
conciliatory discretion, which will be necessa-
ry to save us frrfm wreck and ruin, when thc
storm shall have burst upon us.
THE YANCEY-SEIBELS CONTROVERSY
Has, we regret, to see taken a very vindictive
shape. Both the gentlemen abuse each other
in cards of unexampled malignity. The Mail
of last Saturday noon says:
“Mr, Yancey and Col. Scibcls arc both men
of mature age, disconnected for many years, if
hot with the asperities of political war, at least
with'its most unseemly phases; and now, with
families anil friends clustering around each, in
the city of his residence, it is past the time
Bremen and various other important towns,from
whence they will be shipped direct to Savan
nah, consigned to the house of Brigham, Bald
win & Co. We are also gratified to state in-
this connection, that upon learning that these
positive arrangements had been effected for
the shipment of the goods, the President of the
Central-Rail Road Company, Mr. Cuylcr, made
a voluntary and entirely unsolicited proffer to
carry the goods over his Road to Macon, the
place of exhibition, 'free of charge, and return
them for reshipinentat Savannah on the same
terms, if they still remain tho property of the
exhibitors. This public spirit and liberality of
tho Central Rail Road Company will bo highly
appreciated by tho Cotton Planters’ Conven
tion and all who arc interested in tho success of
the forthcoming Fair.
We learn from Mr. Cobb that he left be
hind him, Mr. Barbiere, of Memphis, busily en
gaged in selecting goods adapted to the South
ern market, for thc proposed exhibition, and
that it is thc purpose of thc Belgian Company
to establish in Macon a permanent depot for
thc sale of goods and the reception of orders to
Continental manufacturers.
Mr. Cobb will shortly submit to thc Cotton
Planters’ Convention and the public an extend
ed report of the result of his mission and the
prospects of tho direct trade movement.—
Meanwhile let popular interest be aroused on
the subject of tho approaching Fair. It will
probably be for the largest and most interest
ing exhibition of the kind ever made in the
Southern country. Thc most ample prepara
tions should be made for it, and Macon espe
cially should see to it that nothing is omitted
to sustain her reputation for enterprise and
hospitality.
I-'HM nePiigTeaioffie‘Baltimore Son.]
Senator Hamlin and tho Seven Thonssnd
Dollar Tee.
Washington', August 17.-—The claim upon
which Hannibal Hainliu received a seven thous
and dollar lobby fee, as charged by Col. Smart,
of Maine, upon the, authority of an ex-member
of CongreSvS, is represented by the latter to be
<rom money received from the government of
Brazil. He adds that the commission was con
stituted for its distribution, and the legislation
of the thirty-second Congress was to enlarge
the time. It was hastened through the Senate
at thc same sitting it was reported, and when it
went down to the Houso of Representative, Sen.
ator Hamlin followed It and personally solicited
members to go for it No one supposed at that
time that lie had the interest of a lobby agent
in any claim to be heard by virtue of the reso
lution. Hamlin acted as attorney for several
claimants, he then being Senator.’ His written
agreement in the case is nowon file in the State
Department He received seven thousand dol
lars for his services, which he invested to thc
full amount, or a principal part thereof, in a
western railroad. The speech of Col. Smart,
democratic candidate' for Governor of Maine,
was made on the 4th of August and published
on the 8th. It is not known here that any con
tradiction of the above charge-has been made
by Senator Hamlin or his friends. IL
In a recent speech, ex-Lieut Gov. Raymond
told the audience that when he visited Lincoln,
shortly after hLs nomination, he heard a voice
from an an upper room crying out, “Abraham!
Abraham! come and put this child to bed!”
Whether Mrs. L. meant herself or the baby by
the expression, “ this child,” Mr. Raymond
did’nt inform his audience—probably lie didn’t
know. Nor did he explain whether he told the
story to show what a lady-like person Mrs. L.
_ — is, or what a good “dry miss’” Old Abe is,—
when thej ; can go back to the violence of heady i Anyway it’s a charming story of domestic lifo.
HARPER FOR SEPTEMBER
Has been received at Boardman’s. This num
ber opens with an illustrated poetical article,
by Fitz James O'Brien, under title of “Tho
Sewing Bird.” No. 2, “with pictures to match”
is the second paper on “A summer in New Ea
land.” “Spiders—their structure and habits,”
is the ugly subject of the third, in which all the
hideous rcpulsivencss of the tribe is pictorial!}’
set forth in microscopical aggravation. The
cruise of thc two deacons completed—Some
body’s Love Story—Eaton’s Barbary Expedi
tions*—Bachelor’s Hail—The Four Georges—
and sundry other articles, together with the Ed
itorial departments, make up a lively number.
We abstract the two following coins from thc
“Drawer”:
One of thc Bourbons in Kentucky writes to
the Drawer, and, among other things, says:
‘One of our most prominent big mule feeders,
sold a lot of stock to a trader, who was to pay
him in four months (lawful tender in Bourbon).
At thc expiration of tiro months thc trader sent
him an accepted bill on New York for half thc
money, and wrote him he would pay thc bal
ance at maturity. xVfter overhauling all the
mapsand school geographies-lie goes down to
the store,and says, ‘See here! where is this
place they call Maturity f I can’t find it on thc
map, and I have a note payable there; and J fear
I won’t be able to get there, for I can’t find.it
on thc map!’ ”
“Little Eddy, thc Presbyterian minister’s son,
had been committing to memory tbe Catechism,
He was a thoughtful child. For some juvenile
delinquency the father had found it necessary
to administer the rod, to save the child. Eddy
as usual, under such dispensations, was feeling
very sad as he came from the up-stairs study to
his mother’s room. She, to impress the lesson
just given, began: ‘My son, I am sorry your
father has had to punish you. What was it
for?’ Eddy hung his head, while his mind ran
in the direction of the Catechism. ‘What was
it for, my son ?’ In deeply solemn tones and
earnest, he answered, 'For hie own glory T”
But here is another and brighter:
- “John,” said one boy to another, one day, as
they were strolling by a duck pond, “do you
know why a duck goes under water ?”
“No,” answered his companion; “let me ask
you why?”
“Fov (HrerY(divers) reasons,” said John.
“AVeil, well,” said the Other, “can you tell
me why he.comes up again ?”
"So," replied John, somewhat curio isly.
“Then John,” said his companion, “you are
caught this time. Of course thc duck comes
up for sun-dry purposes.’'
if
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