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Lct/cer of lion. Robert J. Walker, Re
signing the Office of Governor of Kan
sas*
Washington City, December 15th, 1857.
Sir : 1 resign the office of Governor of the Ter
ritory of Kansas.
I have been most reluctantly forced to this con
clusion, after anxious and careful consideration
of my duty to the country, to the people of Kan
sas, to the President of the United States, and to
myself.
The grounds assumed by the President in his
late Message to Congress, and in recent instruc
tions in connection with the events now transpir
ing here and in Kansas, admonish me that, as
Governor of that Territory, it will no longer be in
my power to preserve the peace or promote the
public welfare.
At the earnest solicitation of the President, after
repeated refusals, the last being in writing, I final
ly accepted this office, upon his letter showing the
dangers and difficulties of the Kansas question,
and the necessity of my undertaking the task <A
adjustment. Under these circumstances, notwith
standing the great sacrifices to me, personal, politi
cal, and pecuniary, I felt that 1 could no more re
fuse such a call from rny country, through her
Chief Magistrate, than the soldier in battle who is
ordered to command a forlorn hope.
1 accepted, however, on the express condition
that I should advocate the submission of the Con
stitution to the vote of the people for ratification
or rejection.
These views were clearly understood by the
President andullhisCabinet. They were distinctly
set forth in my letter of acceptance of this office,
of the 20th of March last, and reiterated in my
Inaugural Address of the 27th of May last, as fol
lows :
“ Indeed, I cannot doubt that the convention,
after having framed a State. Constitution, will sub
mit it for ratification or i ejection by a majority of
the then actual luma fide resident settlers of Kansas.
“ With these views well known to the President
and Cabinet, and approved by them, I accepted
tho uppointinent of Governor of Kansas. My in
structions from the President, through the Secre
tary of State under date of the 3oth of March
lasi, sustain * the regular legislature of the Territo
ry' iu 4 ant*mf>liny a Convention to form a Otnstitn
lv>n,' and ihey express the opinion of the Presi
dent, that' when such a Constitution shall he submit
ietl to the people of the Territory, th-y must be pro
tectc*l in the exercise of their right of voting for or
naamst that instrument; and the fair expression of
the popular will must not he interrupted by fraud or
violence."
44 1 repeat, then, as my clear conviction, that un
less the convention submit the Constitution to the
vote of ull the actual resident settlers of Kansas,
and the election be fairly and justly conducted,
the Constitution will be, uud ought to be, rejected
by Congress. "
This inaugurul most distinctly asserted that it
was not tlie question of shivery merely, (which 1
believed to be of little practical importance then,
in its application to Kansas,) but the entire Con
stitution which should be submitted to the people
for latification or rejection. These were my words
on that subject iu my inaugural: “It is not mere
ly, shall slavery exist in or disappear from Kansas,
Kilt shall the great principles of self-government
and State sovereignty he maintained or subvert
ed V” In that inaugural I proceeded further to
say, that the people “may, by a subsequent vote,
defeat the ratification of the Constitution." I de
signate this as a “great constitutional right," uml
add, “that the convention is the servant and not
the master of the people."
In my official despatch to you of 2d June last, a
copy of that inaugural address was transmitted to
you for the further information of the President
and his cabinet. No exception was ever taken to
any portion of that address ; on the contrary, it is
distinctly admitted by the President in his mes
sage, with commendable frankness, that rny in
structions in favor of the submission of the Con
stitution to the vote of the people wore “general
and iitimialified." By that inaugural and subse
quent undresses, I was pledged to the people of
Kansas to oppose, by all “law ful means," the adop
tion of any Constitution which was not fairly and
fully submitted to their vote for ratification or re
jection. These pledges I cannot recall or violate
without personal dishonor and the abandonment
of fundamental principles ; and*therefore it is im
possible for me to support what is called the Le
coinptnn Constitution, because it is not submitted
to a vote of the people for ratification or rejection.
1 hftvw over uniformly maintained the principle
that sovereignty is vested exclusively in the people
of each State, and that it perform* its first and
highest function in forming a State government
and State Constitution. This highest act of sover
eignty, in my judgement, can ouly he performed
by tin* people themselves, and cannot he delegated
to conventions or other intermediate bodies.
ludeed, the whole doctrine of the sovereignty of
conventions, as distinct from that of the people—
of conventional or delegated sovereignty, as con
tradistinguished from State or popular sovereignty
—has ever been discarded by me, and was never
heard of, to my knowledge, duriug the great, cuu
vas of 1.856. Indeed, this is the great principle of
Statu rights and State sovereignty maintained in
tho Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798-*9U,
sustained by the people in the great political revo
lution of 1800, and embraced iu that amendment
to the Federal Constitution adopted under the au
spices of Mr Jefferson, declaring that “the powers
not delegated to the United States by the Constitu
tion, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserv
ed to the States respectively, or to tho people."
The reservation to “ the States" is as separate
States, iu exercising the powets granted by their
State Constitutions; and the reservation to “Me
people" is to the people of the sever 1 States admit
ted or inchoate, in exercising their sovereign right
of framing orumeuding their State Constitution.
This view was set firth in mv printed address
deli vered at Natchez, Mississippi, iu January,
1883, against nullification, wliicli speech received
the complimentary sanction of the great and good
Madison, the principal founder of our Constitution,
as shown bv the letter of lion. Charles J. Ingcr
soll, of Philadelphia, as published in the Globe, at
Washington, in 1.336. What udds much to the
force of this opinion is the statement then made
by Mr. Madison, that these were also the view s ot
Mr. Jefferson. By this clause of the Federal Con
stitution, the sovereignty of the people of each
State is dearly reserved, and especially their own
exclusive sovereign right to form m ull its entirety
their own State Constitution.
1 shall not enter fully into tho argument of this
question at this period, but will merely state that
this is the position 1 have ever occupied; and my
reasons for entertaining this opinion are clearly
and distinctly set forth in a printed pamphlet pub
lished over my signature, on the 18th June, 1856,
and then extensively circulated, fiom which 1
quote as follows:
4i Under our confederate system, sovereignty is
that highest political power which, at its pleasure,
creates governments and delegates authority to
them. Sovereignty grants powers, but not sover
eign powers, otherwise it might extinguish itself
by making the creature of its will the equal or su
perior of its creator. Sovereignty makes Consti
tutions, uud through them establishes govern
ments. It delegates certian powers to these gov
ernments, distributing the exercise of the grauted
power among the legislative, executive, and judi
cial departments. The Constitution is not sover
eign, because it is created by sovereignty. The
government is not sovereign, for the same reason,
much less any department of that government.
Having defined sovereignty, we must not confound
the power with its source or exercise—-that is, sov
ereignty is one thing; where it resides, or how
to be exercised, is another. Under the system of
European despotisms, sovereignty was claimed to
reside in kings uud emperors, under the sacrili
gious idea of the “divine right of kings;" and
the blasphemous doctrine was, that sovereigns in
legitimate succession, although stained with
crimes and blackened with infamy, wc.*e clothed
by Deity with absolute power to* rule their sub
jects, who held nothing but privileges granted by
the crown. Such were the absurd and impious
dogmas to which the people of Europe, with few
exceptions, have been compelled to submit by the
bayonet, sustained by the more potent authority of
ignorance and superstition, under this theory,
the people were mere ciphers, and crowned heads
sub-deities—the sole representatives on earth of
the governing power of the Almighty." “Our
doctrine is just the reverse, making the people the
only source of sovereign power. But what peo
ple? With us, sovereignty res/s exclus vely with the
people of each Sate. By the revolution, eachcolo
ny, acting for itself alone, separated from Great
Britain, and sanctioned the Declaration of Inde
pendence." “Each colony having thus become a
State, and each adopting f.r itself its separate
State government, acted for itself alone under the
old Continental Congress. Each State ac'ed for
itself alone in acceding to the Articles of Confed
eration iu 1778; and each State acted for itself
alone in framing and ratifying, each for itself the
Constitution of the United States. Sovereignty,
then, with us, rests exclusively with the people of
each St*te. The Constitution of the United
States is not tor it was created bv
States, each exercising for itself that highest po
litical power called sovereignty. For ttie same
reason, the government of the United States is
t sovereign, nor does it exercise any sovereign
powers. It exercises only ‘delegated powers,’ as J
declared by the Constitution, and those powers *
only which'are granted by that instrument. Dele
gated powers are not sovereign powers, but are
powers granted by sovereignty. Sovereignty,
being this highest political power, cannot bo dele
gated—it is indivisible—it is a unit, incapable of
partition. Hence the great error of supposing
that sovereignty is divided between the States and
the United States.
“ The Constitution of the United States is the
* supreme law,’ and obligatory as such; but a law
is not sovereignty, but an act of sovereignty. All
laws imply law-inakers; and in this case, those
who framed and ratified this ‘swprcme law,’ were
those sovereignties called the States, each acting
exclusively for itself, uncontrolled by any sister
State, except by the moral force of its influence
and example. The Government of the United
States possessing, as we have shown, no sover
eignty, but only delegated powers, to them alone
it must look for the exercise of all constitutional
authorityp in Territories as well as States; for there
is not a single power granted by the Constitution
to this Government in a Territory which is not
granted in a State, except the power to admit new
• States into the Union, which, as shown by the
: Madison Faperß, the framers of the Constitution
(as first demonstrated in my Texas letter) refused
to limit to our then existing lerritories. In the
Territories, then, as well as the States, Congress
i possesses no sovereignty, and can exercise only
the powers delegated by the Constitution ; and
all the powers not thus granted are dorinunt or
reserved powers, belonging, in common territory,
to all the States, ns co-equal joint-tenants there of
that highest political power called sovereignty.’’
It will be perceived that this doctrine, that
“ sovereignty inukes Constitutions," that “ sov
ereignty rests exclusively with the people of each
State," that “ sovereignty cannot be delegated,"
that “ it is inalienable, indivisible,” “ a unit in
capable of partition,” are doctnns ever regard
ed by me us fundamental principles of public
liberty and of the Federal Constitution. It will be
seen that these views, which I huve ever enter
tained, were not framed to suit any emergency in
Kansas, but were my life-long principles, ami
were published and promulgated by me, in an
elaborate urgument over my own signature,
twelve months before my departure to that Terri
tory, and when I never thought of going to Kan
sas. These rights I have ever regarded as fully
secured to the people of “all the Terri tones," in
adopting their State Constitution, by the Kansas
and Nebraska bill. Such is the construction giv
en to that act by Congress in passing the Minne so
ta bill, so justly applauded by the President.
Such is the construction of this Kansas act by
its distinguished author, not only in. his late most
able argument, but in addresses made and pub
lished by him long antecedent to that date, show
ing that this sovereign power of the people, in act
ing upon a State Constitution, is not confined to
the question of slavery, but includes all other sub
jects embraced in such an instrument.
Indeed, I believe the Kansas and Nebraska bill
would have violated the rights of sovereignly re
served to the people of each State by the Federal
Constitution, if it had deprived them, or Congress
should now deprive them, of the right ot voting
for or against their State Constitution. The Pres
ident, in his Messuge, thinks that the rights se
cured by this bill to the people, in acting upon
their State Constitution, are confined to the slavery
question; but I think, as shown in tny address be
fore quoted, that 44 sovereignty is the power that
makes Constitutions and governments," and that ■
not only the slavery clause in a State Constitution,
hut ull others, must he submitted. The President 1
thinks that sovereignty can be delegated, at least |
in part. I think sovereignty cannot be delegated :
at all. The President believes that sovereignty is i
divisible between conventions and the people, to i
be exercised by the former on all subjects but i
slavery, and by the latter ouly on that question. I
Whereas. I think that sovereignty is “inalienable," v
“indivisible," “a unit incapable of partition," and i
“ that it cannot be delegated," in whole or in part.
It will not be denied that sovereignty is the c
only power that can make a State Constitution, f
and that it rests exclusively with the people; and t
if it is inalienable and cannot be delegated, as I t
have shown, then it can only be exercised by the r
lieople themselves. Under our Government, we p
mow no sovereigns but the people. Conventions n
are composed of “delegates." They aro mere s
agents or trustees, exercising not a sovereign but p
a delegated power, and the people are the princi- u
pals. The power delegated to such conventions f
can properly only extend to the framing of the 1
Constitution ; but its ratification or rejection can l
only be performed by the power where sovereignty i<
alone rests, namely, the people themselves. We v
must not confound sovereign with delegated pow- . s
ers. The provisional authority of a convention to l
frame a Constitution and submit it to the people,
is a delegated power; but sovereignty alone, <
which rests exclusively with the people, can ratify i
and put in force that Constitution. c
And this is the true doctrine of popular sover- *
eignty, and I know of no such thing, nor does the i
federal Constitution recognize it, us delegated or a
conventional sovereignty. The President, in a very *
lucid passage of his able message, gives unanswer- v
able reasons why the people, and not conventions, 1
should decide the question of slavery in framing t
a State Constitution. He says very truly, that \
from the necessary division of the inchoate State f
into districts, a majority of the delegates may \
think one way, and the people another, and that (
the delegates (as whs the case in Kansas 1 may vio- i
late their pledges or fail to execute the will of the
people. And why does not this reasoning apply f
with equal force to all other great questionsem- i
bodied in u State Constitution V and why should t
the question of slavery alone override and extin- i
guish the doctrine of popular sovereignty and the
rightof self-government? Moat fortunately thisisuo t
sectional question; for it belongs alike to the Stales 1
admitted or inchoate, of the Smith as of the North, i
It is not a question of slavery, but of State rights \
and of State and popular sovereignty ; and my oh- t
jections to the Lecoinpton Constitution are equally I
strong, whether Kansas, under its provisions t
should be made a free or a slave State. 1
My objections are based upon a violation of the t
right of self-government and of State and popular «
sovereignty, and of forcing any Constitution upon t
the people against their will, whether it recogni- t
Y.ed freedom or slavery. Indeed, the first question s
which the people ought to decide, in forming a gov- u
eminent for an inchoate is whether they will (
change or not from a Tet .itorial to a State govern- i
ment. Now as no one who, with me, denies Fed- a
eral or Territorial sovereignty, will conteud that a u
Territorial legislature is sovereign, or represents c
sovereignty, or that such legislature (a mere crea- s
tion of Congress) can trausfer sovereignty, which t
it does not possess, to a Territorial convention, s
this change from a territorial to a State govern- a
ment can only be made by the power where sover- c
eignty rests—namely, the people. Yota State gov- s
eminent is forced upon the people of Kansas by j
the Lecoinpton Constitution, whether they will it i
or not; for they can only vote for the Constitution, €
and not against it. But besides the change from a
Territorial to a State government, which the peo- c
pie alone have a right to make in framing a State i
Constitution, there are many other momentous u
questions included in that instrument. It involves i
ull the powers of State government. There is the s
Bill of Eights, the m&u nu chartu of the liberties ot t;
a free people: the legislative, executive and judi- t
cial functions; the taxing power, the elective Iran- 1
chise ; tho gieat question of education ; the sacred t
relations of husband and wife, parent and child t
guardian and ward; and all the l ights affecting 1
life, liberty, ar t property. There is also the ques- e
tion of Stale deb tty of banks and paper money, and i
whether they shall be permitted or prohibited. As c
all tree government, us stated by Mr. Jefferson in t
the Declaration of Independence, depends upon b
“the consent of the governed," how can it be c
known whether the people would assent to the v
Constitution unless it is submitted to their vote for l
ratification or rejection ? But if acquiescence can t
be presumed in any case, surelv it cannot be in <’
that of Kansas, where so many of the delegates vi- i
olated their pledge to submit the Constitution it- l
self to a vote of the people, where ihe delegates ’
who signed the Constitution represented scarcely i
one-tenth of the people, and where nearly one-hail '
the counties of the Territory were disfranchised, t
and, (by no fault of theirs,) did not uud could not B
give a single vote at the election lor delegates to r
the convention? I
1 have heretofore discussed this subject mainly v
on the question that conreut&onsarenot sovereign, t
and cannot rightfully make a State Constitution t
without submission to the vote ot tho people for
ratification or rejection ; yet surely even those who a
differ with me on this* point must concede, es- i
peeiallv under the Kansas-Nebraska bill, it is only t
such conventions can be called sovereign as have t
been truly elected by the people and represent i
their will. On reference, however, to my address v
of the 16th September last, on the tax quaiifieu- v
tion question—a copy of which was immediately t
transmitted to you for the information of the Pre- f
sident and Cabinet— it is evident that the Le- t
Compton Convention was not such a body. That «
convention hud vital, not technical, defects in the I
very substance ol i s organization under the Terri- *
tonal law, which could only be cured, in my 1
judgment, as set forth in my inaugural and other <
addresses, by the submission of the Constitution l
lor ratification or rejection by the people. Ou a
reference to the Territorial law under which the
» convention was assembled, thirty-fear regularly
organised counties were named as election dis
tricts for delegates to the convention. In each and
all of these counties, it was required by law that a
census should be taken and the voters registered ;
* and when this was completed, the delegates to the
convention should be apportioned accordingly. In
nineteen of these counties there was uo census,
and therefore there could be no such apportion
ment there of delegates based upon such census.
And in fifteen of these counties there was no
registry of voters. These fifteen counties, iuclud
i ing many of the oldest organized counties of the
: Territory, were entirely disfranchised, and did not
give, anS (by no fault of their own) could not give a
• solitary vote for delegates to the convention. This
: result was superinduced by the fact, that the Terri
torial legislature appointed all the sheriffs and pro
bate judges in all these counties, to whom was as
i signed the duty by law of making this census and
registry. These officers were political partisans, dis
i seating from the view's ana opinions of the peo
ple of these counties, as proved by election in
October last. These officers, trom the want of
funds, as they allege, neglected or refused to take
any census or make any registry in these counties;
and therefore th y were entirely disfranchised,
and could not and did not give a single vote at the
i election for delegates to the constitutional conven
i tion. And here I wish to cull attention to the dis
tinction, which will appear in my inaugural ad
dress, in reference to those counties where the
voters were fairly registered and did not vote. In
such counties, where a full and free opportunity
was given to register and vote, and they did not
’ choose to exercise that privilege, the question is
very different from those cotimes where there was
no census or ren stry, aud no vote was given or
could he given, however anxious the people might
’ be to participate ui the election of delegates to the
■ convention. Nor could it be said these'eoautirs
■ acquiesced; for wherever they endeavored by a
subsequent census or registry »( their own to sup
ply this delect occasioned by the previous neglect
of the Territorial officers, the delegates thus chosen
were rejected by the convention. 1 repeat, that in
nineteen counties out of thirty-four th re was no
i census. In fifteen counties out of thirty-four
there was no registry, and not a solitary vote was
given or could be given for delegates to the con
vention in any one of these counties. Surely,
then, it cannot be said that such a convention,
chosen by scarcely more than one-tenth of the
present voters of Kansas, represented the people
of that Territory, and could rightly impose a Con
stitution upon tuern without their consent. These
nineteen counties in which there was no census
constituted a of the counties of the Terri
tory; and these fifteen counties in which there was
no registry gave a much larger vote at the Octo
ber election, even with the six months’ qualifica
tion, than the whole vote given to the delegates
who signed the Lecompton Constitution on the
7th November last.
If, then, sovereignty can be delegated, and con
ventions, as such, are sovereign—which I deny—
surely it must be only in such cases as when such
conventions are chosen by the people, which we
have seen was noi the cage as regards the late I*c
compton convention. It was for this, among other
reasons, that in my inaugural and other addresses
1 insisted that the Constitution should be submit
ted to the people by the convention, us the only
ineaus of curing this vital defect in its organiza
tion. It was, therefore, among other reasons,
when, as you know, the organization of the so
called Topeka State government, and, as a conse
quence, an inevitable civil war and conflict with
ihe troops, must have ensued, these results were
prevented by my assuring, not the Abolitionists,
as has been erroneously si a ted—for my address
was not to them, Lilt the people of Kansas—that
ill my judgment the Constitution would be sub
mitted fairly and freely for ratification or rejection
by their vote, and that if this was not dene, I
would unite with them, the people, as I now do,
in “lawful opposition” to such a procedure.
The power and responsibility being devolved ex
clusively upon mo by the President, of using the
federal army in Kansas to suppress insurrection,
the alternative was distinctly presented to me by
the questions propounded at*Topeka, of arresting
revolution by the slaughter of the people, or ot
preventing it, together with that civil war which
must have extended throughout the Union, by the
solemn assurance then given, that the right of the
people to frame iheir own government, so far as
my power extended, should be maintained. But
for this assurance, it is a conceded fact that the
Topeka oifcte government .*h«a assembled in legis
lat [ve OeMioii, Wotfa havebecu'pof into immediate
actual operation, Aid Inal a Sanguinary eoilitiop
with the federal at my war must have en
sued, extending, it is feared, throughout the
Union.
ludeed, the whole idea of an Inaugural Address
originated in the alarming intelligence which hud
reached Washington City of the perilous and in
cipient rebellion in Kansas, This insurrection
was rendered still more formidable on my reach
ing the Territory, by the near approach of the
assembling of the revolutionary State legislature,
and the very numerous mass conventions by
which it was’sustamed. In truth, I had to choose
between arresting that, insurrection at whatever
cost of American biood, by the federal army, or to
prevent the terrible catastrophe, as I did, by my
pledges to the people of the exertion of all my
power to obtain a fair election, und the submission
of the Constitution to the vote of the people for
ratitieation or rejection.
My Inaugural und other addresses were, there
fore, really in the nature of proclamations (so often
issued by Presidents and Governors), with a view
to prevent, as they did in this case, civil war and
insurrection.
Now, by my oath of office, I was sworn to sup
port the Constitution of the United States, which
h*ve shown, in my judgment, required 1 lie sub
mission of the Constitution to the vote of the
people. I was sworn, also, to “ take care” that
the Kansas and Nebraska bill “should be faithful
ly executed ;” which bill, in my Judgment, as here
tofore stated, required that the Constitution should
he submitted to the vote of the people ; and l was,
therefore, only performing a solemn duty, when,
as Governor of the Territory, to whose people my
first obligations were due, l* endeavored to secure
to them these results. The idea eutertaiued by
some, that l should see the Federal Constitution
and <lie Kansas-Nebraska bill overthrown, and
disregarded, und that, playing the part ot a nmie
in a pantomime of rum, 1 should acquiesce, by mv
silence, in such a result—especially where such
acquiescence involved, as an immediate conse
quence, a disastrous aud sanguinary civil war—
seems to be most preposterous. Not a drop of’
blood has been shed by the federal troops in Kan
sas during my administration. But insurrection
and civil war extending, I fear, throughout the
country, were alone prevented by the course pur
sued by me on those occasions; and the whole
people, abandoning revolutionary violence, ware
induced by me to go, for the first time, into a gen
eual and peaceful election.
These important results constitute a sufficient
consolation fur all the unjust assaults made upon
me on this subject. Ido not understand that these
assaults have ever received the slighiest counte
nance from the President; ou the contrary, his
message clearly indicates an approval of my course
up to the present most unfortunate difference about
the so-called Lecompton Constitution. Inasmuch,
however, as this ditlerence is upon a vital ques
tion, involving practical results and new instruc
t ions, it is certainly much more respectful to the
President on my part to resign the office ot Gov
ernor, and give him an opportunity of tilling it, as
is his right under the Constitution, with one who
concurs with him in his preseut opinions, rather
than go to Kausas, and force him to remove me ,
by disobedience to bis instructions. This latter ;
course, in my judgment, would be incompatible
with proper respect, for the Chief Magistrate of the i
Union, inconsistent with the rules ot moral recti- .
tude or propriety, aud could be adopted with no '
other view than to force the President to remove !
me from office. Such a course, it is alleged, would
present me to the public as a political martyr in 1
’ he defence of the great principle of self-govern
ment ; but to go to Kansas with any such purpose,
or with a certain knowledge that such a result
nm.-Nt follow, would oe ulybp unjust and improper. !
Mv only alternative, that of a respectful
resignation, in the hope that Kansas aud our be
loved country may be shielded from that civil war
with which I fear both are threatened, by any at- i
tempt to force the so-called Lecompton Constitu- ;
tion upon the people of Kansas.
I state it as a fact, based on a long and intimate
association with the people of Kansas, that an
overwhelming majority of that people are opposed
to that instrument, and mv letters state that but
one out of twenty of the press of Kansas sustaius
it. Some oppose it because so many counties
were disfiancoised and unrepresented in the con
vention. »tanie who are opposed to paper money,
because it authorises a bank of enormous capital
for Kansas, nearly unlimited in its issues, and in
the denomination of its notes, from one dollar up
and down. Statue because of what they consider a
Know Nothing clause, by requiring that the Gov
ernor shall have been twenty years a citizen of the
United States. Some because the elective fran
chise is rot free, as they cannot vote against the
Constitution, but only on the single issue, whether
any more slaves may be imported, and then only
! upon that issue by voting for the Constitution.
which they are opposed. They regard this tut
• a mockery of the elective franchise, and a perilous
sporting with the sacred rightaof ihepeuple. Some
k oppose because the Constitution distinctly recognt
! sesand adopts the Oxford fraud in apportioning le
‘ gislutive members for Johnson county, upon the
1 fraudulent and fictitious return*, so falsely called,
from that precinct; which recognition of that
fraud in the Constitution is abhorent to the moral
sense of the people. Others oppose, because, ul
-1 though in other cases the Presidents of conven
■ tions have been authorised to issue writs of elec
-1 tion to the regular Territorial or State officers,
with the usual judges, with the established pre
■ cincts and adjudication of returns, in this case un
frecedented and vice-regal powers are given to the
’resident of the Convention to make the precincts,
the judges, and to decide finally upon the returns.
From the grant of these unusual and enormous
powers, and from other reasons connected with
the fraudulent returns of Oxford and McGee, an
overwhelming majority of the people of Kansas
have no faith in the validity of these returns, and
therefore w ill not vote. Indeed, disguise it as we
may to ourselves, under the influence of the pre
sent excitement, the facts will demonstrate that any
attempt by Congress to force this Constitution upon
the people of Kansas will be an effort to substi
tute the will of a small minority for that of an
overwhelming majorty of the people of Kansas,
that it will not settle the Kansas question, or lo
calise the issue ; that it will, I fear, be attended
by civil war, extending, perhaps, throughout the
Union; thus bringing this question back again
upon Congress and before the people iu its most
dangerous and alarming aspect.
Tlie President takes a different view of the sub
ject in his message; and, from the event** occur
ing in Kansas, as well as here, it is evident that
the question is passing from theory into practice;
1 and that, as Governor of Kansas, I should be cum
■ polled to carry out new instructious, differing, on u
■ vital question, Iron: those received at the date of
my appointment. Such instructions l could not
1 execute, consistently with my views of the Feder
al Constitution, of the Kansas and Nebraska bill,
or with my pledges to the people of Kansas. Un
der these circumstances, no alternative is left rue
1 but to resign the office of Governor of the Territo
■ ry of Kansas.
No one can more deeply regret than myself this
necessity; but it arises from uo change of opinion
on my part. On the contrary, I should most cheer
fully’ hate returned to Kansas to carry out m v
■ original instructions, and thus preserve the peace
1 of the Territory, and finally settle the Kansas
1 questiou by redeeming mv pledges to the people.
it is not my intention to discuss, at this time, the
1 peculiar circumstances and unexpected events
which have modified the opinions of the Presi
dent uoon a point so vital as the submission
of the Constitution for ratification or rejection by
the vote of the people ; much less do I desire auv
controversy with the President on this subject*;
yet, however widely my views may differ from
those entertained by him on this question—views
which I have held all my life, ana which, as in
volving fundamental principles of public liberty
and of the Constitution, are unchangeable— yet, as
regards all those great Democratic mcusuies
which, 1 trust, will constitute the policy of his
administration in other respects, it will give me
pleasure, as a private citizen, to yield my cordial
support.
I have said that the slavery question as a prac
tical issue had disappeared from Kausas long be
fore my arrival there, and the question of self
government had been substituted in its place. Ou
some future occasion I shull dissipate the delusion
which has prevailed upon this subject, and show
that, after three years experiment, when I arrived
in Kansas, there were less than three hundred
slaves there, and the number constantly diminish
ing ; that, as proved by the official records of
Congress, published and authenticated by those
distinguished southern states nen, John U. Cal
houn and Jefferson Davis, the winter climate, even
of Eastern Kansas, is colder than that of New
England ; und that the pro-slavery territorial con
vention of Kansas, consolidated with the pro
slavery territorial legislature, on the 4th of January,
1887, nearly five months before my arrival there,
did distinctly abandon the slavery issue, because,
as set forth by one of their number, “the pro
slavery party was in a small and admitted minor
ity,” “aud tne co-operation of the free State Dem
ocrats was invited, as the only hope of succees, not
to make Kansas a slave State, which was conceded
to be impossible, but to make it a conservative
Democratic free State.”
Even ap late us the 3rd of July, 1857, when the
Democratic Territorial Convention assembled at
Lecompton, iu Consequence of the laws of climate
und the well known will of the people, none con
tended that slavery could be established there.
Nor Was il until mv southern opponents interfered
in the affairs of Kansas, and by denunciation,
menace, und otherwise, aided at a critical period
by several federal office-holders of Kansas, includ
ing the surveyor general, (the president of the
convention,) with his immense patronage, embra
cing many hundred employes, intervened, and, as
1 believe, without the knowledge or approbation
of the President of the United States, produced the
extraordinary paper called the Lecompton Consti
tution. Vet this act of intervention by federal of
ficers to defeat the will of the people seems to be
-ustiined by mv opponents; whilst my interven
tion, U 9 it is called, in obedience to my duty and
oath of office to support the Federal Constitution,
and to take care that our organic law should be
fairly executed, by endeavoring to secure to the
people of Kansas their rights under that act, is de
nounced and calumniated.
It is still more extraordinary, that the hypotheti
cal remarks made by me as regards climate in its
connection with its influence upon the question of
slavery in Kansas, afier that issue had been aban
doned there, which view's were consolidating the
union between conservative, free State, and pro
slavery Democrats, so as to prevent the confisca
tion of the small number ot slaves then held in
Kansas, have beeu denounced by many distin
guished southern Senators, who, when the Kansas
and Nebraska bill was pending iu Congress, and
when such remarks from them, if ever, might af
fect southern emigration, were then loudest in pro
claiming that, because of its climate, Kansas could
never become a slave State, ludeed, it seems that
all persons in aud out of Kansas, whether in pub
lic or in private life, may publish what opinions
they please in regard to these questions, except
the Governor of that Territory, who has so little
power and no palrouage.
And now be pleased to express to the Presi
dent my deep regret as regards our unfortunate
difference ot opinion in relation to the Lecompton
Constitution; and to say to him, that as infalli
bility does not belong to man, however exalted in
intellect, purity of intention, or position, yet if he
lias committed any errors in this respect, may
they bo overruled by a superintending Providence, !
for the perpetuation of our Union, and the ad- I
vancemcnt of the honor and interest of our beloved
country.
Iu now dissolving my official connection with ,
your Department, 1 beg leave to tender to you my
thanks for your constant courtesy and kindness.
Most respectfully, your obedient servant,
R. J. Walker.
Don. Lewis Cass, Secretary of State.
HOWARD ASSOCIATION, PHILADELPHIA.
4 UE.\fcYOLIL\T I Btitution, established special en !
i.IL duwment for tne relief of the sick and distn.'St d, afflicted J
with Virulent ami Epidemic diseases.
To all persons afflicted with bcxual Diseases, Fuch ns Sper- !
m torrhcea. Seminal Weakness.lmpotence, Gonorrhoea,Gleet
Syphilis, tlu* vice of Onanism, or Self Abuse, Ac.
The Howard Association, in view of the awful destructlo: \
of human life, caused by Sexual diseases, and the deception ’
practiced upon the unfortunat victims >f such diseases bj j
Quacks, several years ago directed their Consulting Surgeon, 1
as u charitable aet worthy of their name, to open a Dispensan !
f»*r the treatment of this class of diseases, in all their forma,
and to give Medical advice gratis, toad who apply by letter,
with a description of their condition, (age, • ccujmtinn, habits
of lift*. Ac.,) aud in case* of extreme poverty, to furnish medi
cines free of charge. It is needless to a d that th«- As-ocia
tlon commands the highest Medical skill of the age, and will t
furnish the most approved modern treatment. :
The Directors, on a review of the past, feel assured that i
their labors in tids sphere of benevolent effort, have been of i
great benefit to the afflicted, especially to the young, and they
have resolved t<> devote them** Ives, with renewed zeal, to this :
very important but much despised cause. i
Just pt»oilulled by the Association, a Report cn Sperma- i
torrhcea, or Seminal Weakness, the Vice of Onanism, .v astur
batlou or Self Abuse, and other diseases of ihe .Sexual Orga? s. <
by the Consulting Surgt on, which w ill be sent by mail (in a {
se led letter envelope,) five of charge, on receipt of two i
Stamps for postage. ;
Address, for Report or treatment, Dr. George R. Calhovj*. j
Consulting Surgeon, Howard Association. No.*2>outh Ninth
Street, Philadelphia, Pa. By order of the P rectors.
EZRA D. HEARTWELL, President.
Qrobok Fairchtlp, Secretary. cl>* n.-v 25
NOTICE.
THE thorough-bred Stallion. HIGHFLIER, will make Hie :
en-uing season at my Plantation in Columbia county, sit
uated about seven miles from Augusta. Season to commence
the 10th of February, and close the Ist of July. The season
will be #25. In all cases persous failiug to get a colt, a second
season given gratis. ,
Highflier, ch. li., by Wagner; dam Theta, by imp. Priam ;
grand dram Gamma, she by old Pacific ; great »rand dam by
Imported Eagle: great great grand dam by Wilks* W coder;
Chantider, imp. Sterling ; Clodius. imp. Silver Eve ; Jolly
Roger; Partner; imp. Monkey; imp. mare of tlie stud of Har
rison of Brandon.
Description.—Said Horse is a very rich sorrel, three years
old. fifteen hands and a half high, of great bone, fine racing
points, good action, and excellent disposition.
At the last State Fair held at Auguste lie took the first pre
mium. when at six mouths old, and then unfortunately slipped
and displaced his knee joint. Marcs fn-m a distance will re
c* ive every care at f.-rtv cents per day; but I will not be res
ponsible for accidents.
N. B—One Dollar to the groom in all cases.
coy 11 C THOS. W. E. BEALLE.
Taliaferro County !
TALIAFESEO SHERIFFS SALE.
WILL be sold, before the Court House door, in the twn '
77 of Crawfordville ou the first Tuesday In JANUARY.
1866. within the usual hours of sale, one Negro Hoy, named •
Gilbert, about twenty five years «»f age. Levied ou as the |
property of Dewxiles W. McJunkln, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued ;
from Taliaferro Superior Court in fuvorof Sarah T. Whitt vs.
Dew at its W. McJnukin and W. F. Nance, endorser. Proper
ty pointed out by defendant.
<ed> A. M. WOLIffIN. Sheriff.
ADMINISTRATORS’ SALE.
YVTLL be sold, on the first Tuesday in JANUARY next,
77 at the Court House door iu Craws. rdviile. Taliaferro
county. Georgia, within the usual hours of rale, the following
Lunds, lying and being situate iu said county : One tract, cm
taining. according to survey, two hur.dmt and nineteen r.cre*.
he the same more or less, adjoining lands of Wilburn Moore,
Seaborn Acre. William Meadows, and others, and being part
of what is known as the Henry Crenshaw piace. One tract of
Land, containing eight hundred and fifteen acres, according to
survey, adjoining lau :s of Elisabeth Wyon. and others, known
as the HiUows and Akins places, and part cf the Crenshaw
place. One tract of Land, containing five hundred and tw*n
ty.flve acres, according tosurwv. adjoining Win. Meadow-,
and others, known a- part of the Swain and Goins plate. All
the above land* to be sole as the property «>f Jonathan Gunn,
late of Warren county, in raid State, Ueceawd, and sold In
pursuance of an order of the ordinary of raid county of War
r6n. The first and second pieces have good improvements.
Terms of sale to be made known on the dnv.
JOHN RHODES. Ja .) . , .
cell JOEL W. GUNN. ) Adm rs.
C± FOHGIA, TALIAFERRO COT Gto.
\T F Ilristow has made applicat'mn to me for Letters of Ad
ministration on the estate of George W. Jarrett, late of said
county, deceased—
H|The>e are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and sin- I
gul-r, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be ar.d j
appear at my office, within the time g»n *cril*-d uy law, ;uid
9how eanse. If any they hr.ve, why said letters should not be
granted.
Given under my hand, at office in Crawfordviilo. this Wh day i
of November. 1307. novrl QUINEA O’NEAL. Ordinary. !
f‘l EOPGI \. T ALIAFERRO CO V NTY.—Whereas, Mar
. \ A ti d. A v ..uxit and W d;iam A. Remold* have made
application to aa for Letters of Admn.istration on the estate of
< e. a:, x .kmt r-.*v »,t •• mty.•.
These are, i lierefif.nl to eHe, “uaMivn and admonish, ail and
singular, tiie kindred ar.d creditors Os said deceased. to i*e and
apj*ar at my office, within the time prescribed by law, and
show cause, If any they hare, why said letters should not be
Givi !i under niv hand, at' ffi-.-e in Orawf<*rdville. this 20th d;*v
f N qUL\ EA •
f1 KO.tGIA, TALIAFERRO COUNTY.—Whereas, G*o.
■ O . r.;u. liU- twitertiwi ll*
ship of rfvsse Wo ilull, orp. :u« of Mur*in Woodall, Jr., do-
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, ail and singular
the kindred and friends of said orphan, to be and appear :U nit
office, wit in the time pres ri t-T by !:iw, and show cause. If
anv they have, why raid letters should not l** gr.*::ted.
Give:, under tny hand, at offl -e m < ‘r iwforilvilie, this 3d ruv
N .•
(A KOHL!\, TAI.IA! ERltn ■
T Christ Overton. Executor of the la-- will and testament r.f
I James S. Maddox, deceased,* ha* made application to n.e foj
Letters of Dismission from the Administration of raid do
ceased:
These arc, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular,
the kindred and creditors of raid deceased, to be and appear at my
office, «.n the first Monday In December next, and show cause,
if any they have, why said letters of Dismission should not Ls
granted.
Given under my hand, at office in Crawfordville, this 14th
ay of May. 1857. myty QUINEA O'NEAL, Ordinary.
(< BORGI\. WARREN COIN. 1 .
K Phelps applies to me for Letters of Guardianship of the
person and property of Elbridge fcmitb, a mhror under fourteen
years of age.
These art, therefore, to cite, summon and admonish all
and singular, the kindred and friends of said minor to he and
up; ear at my office Within the time presoriUd bv law to show
cause. If any they have, why said Letters nh uld net be
granted.
Given under my har.d. at office in Warrenton, this 3d d. v of
December, 1897. dec# HENRY R. CODY, Ordinary.
fIEDRGIA, BURKE COUNTY. —Whereas. Sarah Car
\ T sun applies for Letters of Guaruianship id Richard ami
Virginia Carson, minora of Andrew Car.- ou, deceased, late of
said county—
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and singular,
the kindred, and all other per**-*n> c<*ntvri..-d, t" i<• and appear
before the Court of Ordinary, to be held in and for «:ud county,
on tiie becond Monday in January next, and show cause, if
any they have, why said letters should not he granted.
Given under my hand, at office in Wav .v this 4di tkij’
. EI»U \l.l> tjAKl.il K. t
( lEXMB6I\. BURKE COL N i i -
If llurdel l applies for Letters of Guardianship of Ada Bur
dell minor of I)r. F. V. Burdt 11, deceased, late of said county—
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular,
the kindred, and all other persons concerned, to he and appear
before the Court of Ordinary*, to be held in and for said county,
on riie i-ccond Monday in January next, then and there to show
cause, if any they have, why said letters should not U- granted.
Given under my hand, at office in Waynesboro*, this 4th day
of December, 185«. dec# EPWARD GARI.ICK. Ordinary.
GtEORtilA. BURKE COUNTY.-Whereas, Green O.
f Walson applies for Letters of Adruinistratlon on the estate
of Everett B. Tindall, late of said county, deceased—
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular,
the kludred and creditors ot said deceased, to be and appear be
fore the Court of Ordinary, to be held in and for said county, on
the second Monday In January next, then and there to sln-w
came, if any they nave, why said letter.-* should not be granted.
Given under my hand, at office in Waynesboro*, this 4th day
of December 1857. dec# EDWARD GAKLICK, Ordinary.
EXECUTORS’ SALE.
PI RSUAXT to the last will ami testament of Lucinda
Deadwyler. deceased, will be sold, on the first Tuesday
iu FEBRUARY. 1838, before the Court House door In the
town of Elbeiton, Elbert counts, Ga., wtlnn the leg l Mile
hours, seven N- sroes, n wit: Pataey. twen warn old.
and her two children, F:ink a boy three years old ai d Sor h
an Infant lx* months olu ; Joseph, a man fwenty-nne years old;
MnlU.ua. a woman eighteen > ears old; Patience, a girl eight
y*am old; a. d BUI, a blind man twenty-thre*- year* old. Sold
as the prooertvof tue estate of Lucinda Deadwyter, deceased,
for a distribution among rhe distributees of saidVsiute.
JOHN G. DEADWYLER, Ex’r.
det-17 MARTHA DBADWI LEH, Ex x.
FOR SALE
T HIM subscribers off. r for sale tin* PLANTATION of tt
. late Thomas L. Wynn, situated on the line of Hancoc
and Taliaferro counties, containing about two thousand six bun
dred acres. There are on the place a good mansion, ail twees,
•ary out-bulMlng*. Ac. The place ism good repair, ami is one
of the best plantations In Middle Georgia. We will sell the
place now, oral any time before next Christmas, to deliver
possession at Christmas. There are altoui two hundred and
twenty acres of bottom land on it. Those who wish atirst rate
bargain, ought to apply soon. We w ill sell *i>w.
JOHN DkUTTT, )
W. E. BIRD. 5 Ex're.
'• i• i -• *• * i : t .»f K. M. -i.*.in -1 n. >
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
f |Mill next term of this Institution will commence on the
X fifteenth day of JANUARY. I*sß.
For admi-Mbm into the Fivriunaji Class at that time, an np
plicant must he able to read with em**. Cicero’s Commentaries.
Cicero’s Orations, Virgil, Sallust, and at least two book*of
Ovid. Greek Reader, Greek Testament, two tonl-a oi Xeno
phon's Anabasis, ami first hook of Her dolus : and have a cor
rect knowledge of Greek and Latin Grammar, m. Imling Pros
ody, English Gramu ar. Arithmetic, and Geography, Algebra,
through equation ot the first ami second degree?, power* and
roots.
For admission Into the Freshman Class next August, candi
dates will he required. in addition to the above, ro have rend
two more books of the Ai -ai a-i>. two bocks ot Hurra rV i'. lad,
through the subjects of Ratio ami Proportion iu Algebra, ai;o
three books of Davies’ Legem m *s Geometry.
The Faculty consists ot the following otitcem:
A. Cnrarii, D. D., President nod Professor of Moral and
Mental Philosophy and Toiitl al E *»i;uni\.
Rev. I* H. Mai.!., A. M„ Broles-n-r of Auden’ Language
and Literalure.
Wm. RtrniKnmrn, A. if.. Profess* ref Mathematics. As- I
trunomy and Civil Engineering.
Jon.N D. Ea.**teh, Phil. Dr., Professor of Natural Pblloso- !
phy and Chemistry.
Richard M. Johnston, A. M„ Profess- ref Belle*Lettres. I
Evidences of Christianity ami Histoiv.
Johm-hJonks. M. D.,Pioie.vm < f Nat .ral. - lem-o.
Daniel Lee. M. D.. Terrell» rofessor of Agriculti.ru.
Hon. Joseph H. Lumpkin. L.L. D., Proses or of Law.
William H. W add el, a. M„ Tutor in Languages.
William D. Wash, A. M„ Tutor in Mathematics.
Athens, Nov. 13,1367. c 6 nc-v2O
VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE.
fllllK subscriber being desirous • * moving f: nl.- r South,
i offers for sale his very valuable PLANTATION, situated
fourteen miles Sout hi west of Americux. containing sixb e:. hun
dred and seventy acres, nine hundred of which are in a high
state of cultivation; eleven hundred and ten ams lie*in the
county of Terrell. I will sell a part or all of sain Plantation.
The purchaser. If be desires it, can be supplied with Corn,
Fodder. Peas, Oats, Ac. As persons desiring ui pure!-::se, will
probably wish to examine the place for themselves, it is unne
cessary for me to enter into detail*, though there are induce
ments of a supe ior character not mentioned here. I invite
persons to come and exn • ine the lands, the present crop, and
the Improvements. The purchaser can secure t. sv term*.
nov3 ctf JOHN U. EVANS.
LAND AGENCY AND REAL ESTATE BRO
KERAGE.
fTHH undersigned will buy and sell LAND and REAL
X ESTATE of ail kinds in any poit of Georgia. Florida or
Texas. Also, Houses and Lota, Railroad and Bank Stock, Ac.,
Ac. He lias nowin his office fer sale 1.400,000 acres of laud
l\*iug in South-western and Cherokee Georgia; two leagues of
Texas land, and some fine lai.d in Florida; one piantatioc
in Arkausas, and several well improved plantations in Burke,
Greene and other counties it. Georgia. Also, several gold, cop
per. and silver mining interests. Persons desiring to buy or
sell Real Estate of any kind. Houses ami Lots, Stocks, A<\
will do well to give him a call, as he intends to make his office
a mculum for sale and purchase of all kinds of real estate. 4 >f
flee in Warren Range, Jackson Street, near the comer of Broad
street. JAMES M. DAVISON,
my# cly Land Agent ami Real Estate Broker
ESTABLISHED IN 1843.
D AILEY’S NURSERY, near McDonough. Henry county.
Geo. Nine thousand Grafted Apple TKEE> tc-r pale, the
grafting of a native Georgian. The tn.es art-of cu e and two
Summers’ growth, and embrace fourteen choice kind* that
ripen from the 15th of June to the 15th of Octoi er. Sortie of
the varieties will keep through the winter to June following.
1 will mark each kina, do them up in good order, put straw
and cloth around ti e toots, and deliver them at the Joiosmo
rough Station, on the Macon and Western railroad, eighty
mile* above Macon.
Price h ran average size, ten dollars per hundred, in gold or
eleven dollars per hundred n bill* on the-South Carolina, Au
gusta and Savannah banks. Fasten you.'gold securely between
two thin pieces of leather bv si wing. Write distinctly your
name, post office, comity and State. Rigister your money and
send at my risk, and 1 will send the Tret s.
Mv address is McDonough, Henry countv. Georgia.
iiovi’tt _ John dailey.
LAW NOTICE.
fIMIE undersigned have formed a Partnership Jundcrthe
L name and style of Gbauam A M ahek, for the practice of
Law and Equity, in Barnwell District. S. O.
Office and residence of both are at Bur: c!l C. 11., S. (*.
WINCHESTER GEAKAM,
JOHN J. MAHER.
Mr. Graham will attend to any business which may beco
ded to him in tlie adjacent Districts. c#m ,jvl-
A FINE PLANTATION FOR SALE.
MY PLANTATION Is for sa.e. It lie* three miles from
Warretiton, on the Waynesboro’ road, contains four hun
dred acres of open, arable land, in a high state of cultivation,
and five hundred uncleared, and heavily timbered whh o»Jt
hickory and pine. It is well watered, in every part, from good
springs: Is near the Georgia Railroad, and well located fur a
saw mill. There is a neat dwelling, comfortably framed kitch
ens and negro houses, and convenient Improvement* on the
premises. The neighborhood is as good os any in Georgia.
The plantation adjoins Judge Edwards, Win. A. Ricketson.
Esq., -Judget'odj. Mrs. Lucy English, John S. Johnson, Esq.,
ami others I wish to sell and buy a smaller p?ftce. Terms
reasonable. R. 0. JOHNSON.
Warran county, Ga., July 11,1857. elf jy!s
{ MERIWETHER SUPERIOR COURT.
! Nancy Corley, by Lor n«i£tj
i friend and Trustee, Levi il.
I Adams, _
vs. Pill for Pbtrihclu'n and R*. *
i Austin W. Corley, her bus- lief, in Meriwether Superior
j baud, and John Jones ai.d oth- Court, Aug\i*i Term, 1657.
• rr«, creditors, Ac., and John
j Rledaoc and others, to-Dis-
J tributeea. J
rj'llE Complainant in the above cause having proved, in h«r
J raid Bill for a Distribution of the Negroes given in trust
by John and Ann Arlldge to Mark Math!-, for Use use and
benefit of Complainant's mother, Esther Weeks ami her chil
dre*i. during the lifetime of the said Esther, and at her death
to be distributed equally amongst the children, and that the
portion of said Negroes accruing to Complainant upon said
distribution, may lie decreed to her for the sole and separate
use of herseif and children, exempt from the control or liabili
ties of her said husband; ar.d a portion of said DLu ributeea.
to wit: Lew is Bledsoe in right of bis wife Matilda, deceased *
John Bledsoe in right of his wife Eliza, and Berryman Bledsoe, £
being residents or the State of South Carolina, and William \
Adams In right of his wife Martha, being a resident of Ala
bama, a* appear?-from said Bill. It is, on motion of Complain
ant's Counsel, Ordered by the Court, That said Lewis Bled
soe. husband of Matikia, fdeceaaed. John Bledsoe and wife
Eliza, Berryman Bledsoe, and William Adams and wife Mar
tha, be ana appear at the next Superior Court, to beheld in
! and for raid county, on the 3d Monday in February Mxt, then {
and there to plead,' answer o r demur, not de muring alone. And ;
tint this order te.- served, by publication in the Augusta Consti
tutionalist, a public newspaper of this State, once a month for
four month? otter the adjournment of this Court.
By the Court.
GEO. A. IIALL, Coror'ainant’s Solicitor. ,
A true extract from the Minutes of Meriwether Superb'?
Court, at August Term, 1657.
WILLIAM A. ADAMS. Clerk.
seplfi claiatia
Lucy Ite*-s, by her next friend j
Isaiah F. Johnson,
vs. ■ Bill Ac.,
William O. Johnson, Exr. A !
I Francis Johnson, Exr. J
{ J I’ a pearing to the Court that John C. Itees is irt created lOf
I A the decree sought in the aU«ve case, and re-ides out cf said
! stalls it Uoidered on motion of complainant's eoliutor, that {
: the said John C. Rees do pits t, r- surer, demur, net «leuinring i
alone to said, within four months after the adjournment of '
Court, am; that ou fr.i.ure to do so, all he alligations. In su'.T; *
bl«l fc' a,' bel&ken as con . as to hi®. And it is furt!><»»
ooj*Ted. that the ’le kof the Court, d »cause copy of this j
••rde; r-« h.* p M ‘-';shcd in the Constitutionalist of ot.xo
a mouth f : four BiOnths. •
The above is a trie extract from the minutes of Court, Gdx?
Novtudier itb, 1-57.
IH'V- Q. W. DICKSON, Clerk.
NOTE LOST.
ICWT, about the last of Novi-inb r. a Promtaorv NOTE. **
J drawn ly V. m. C. K*=l.om. now deceased, for sl6. dated
about the first of January, ls-5. and payable one day after
date to tbt undersigned. All p» noi.., ai c cautioned net to
for rai l Note, us payment has been stoppl’d.
James i.. eshom. <
■ unty, I *ee. 5,1857. deefi «• I
BANKS! BANKS! LANDS! LANbt!!!
Vl.\t'.<ih quantity of the tn&t £*luntir.g and Farming
LA NDS in Southern Georgia, ami elsewhere, iu trails o* a
t a n hundred and ftft> to two thousand acres to suit
Also, ten to fifteen ievucsof select Texas Lands, with clear*
titles, is now offering at very low rates at the Georgia I.anJ
Office. In Augusta.
Bills i.f the Augusta, Suvannah, Athens, and the Char’estoa
ar.d Hamburg suspended Banks, will be taken in pavment at <
par value. Negroes will be taken also, and the highest cash %
prices allowed. '•**
I’t-rsons desirous of forming settlements, or making safe ir.--*-
w-tmci.ts, will find it to their interest t.. call nt ..ur office, 3
*'• • L.c - • \--g M. I»AVi.->N,
oc2*J d‘.actf Land Agent and Real Ertate Broker. . |
NOTICE.
Cll \TIII A I LIYA, nud her hi!ra, are hereby notified ?u ft
j come forward, and flic a legal claim to the legacy leflf V ,
her by her mother, Judith Seilers deceased, late of llalmm
county. State of Georgia, within three years, or tin* samftL,
will iaj se, and be distributed to the other heirs of raid
ceased.
I’u'dished by order of the Honorable Court of Cl ai.ccry, a*
September Terra. le&7. M. W. BROWN. Exec-tor of I
Judith Sellers, deceased. J
(■ i'" ' ■ lia ! f-> G-*.. O.'t. CTlb.. 1*,'.7. c. airH ;n o«: 30 J
DF.. PROPHITT S CELEBKATED LIVER i&LDjm
‘1 CINE. rjHW
l Medicine is a nafe and certain remedy for all kinds|
I Liver ui-ease, and other disorders arising from the inartlsS
ity "r disease of the Liver, Budi as Chronic and Acute
r matron, L>yspep*ia, Sick Headache, Sourne** of the i
L«-- f Appetite. Lowness of Fplrita, Colic Coatr eouss,
l and may be given to any one, male or female, at <1 at all p*IW
ri«Hi>. with perfect saft ty. It also remove* all BlotcLis and tin#
V healthy api-t-arunces from the skin, and leave* the patienfT
heal’.hy ana sprightly, Ac. ,
My Liver mectielne is purely vegetable—l* put up In pad*
r s. an<l will be sent to ar.y part of the United Utalea. f» vtv. W
postage, at f 2 a pa. kage, in advance, with directions. His Fc-Xf'
- male ionic. Iris Anoaine Puin Killer, hit mipetlot YermiAuiv
• which !• infallible, his Ague Pills, anti-BlUioua riils, Z iJ
4 Dtarhrea < ord:ui, all of which l* prepared by O. I‘roahiH®
• only, at Covington, Ga. M
v Also, the Canadian Ointment, the speediest remedy nosfl
known, as an external application for all kinds of l’ains. JH
v cure* Kiieumatism, Neuralgia, Headache, and ail other kind®
of recent pains immediately: and pain* of all kinds, A cut®
and < ’hruitic, are relieved by the u*e of it. Buy aba ttle of 1®
• and you will want more. Prepared by O. S. Frophltt A Co®
e Covington, Geo. fj
Allot the above named Medicine* are all the time forsalflF
4 by BARRETT, CARTER A CO., Augusta,Ga. j
; my 14
FILES! PILES!! PILES!!!
riMIIN hithertointractaide disease, ot every form and h .iV
X ry stage, cured by external applicutioD only. m
Dr. * l*ile Halve
Will never fall In giving immediate relief, and positive!v , udr
the worst and most obstinate cases of Hemorrhoid* <>r
It is tlia only invaluable remedy known here or else where!
1 thu Piles, and is tiie result of years of patient study a..tl i> M
’ ligation.
Sufferers fYoin Piles n«>w have a remedy at hard which ■ —,
stand the tost of trial, without a fear of failure on its port t^*J^ ir I
• a!) tliu pru; Tit-tor claims fbr It*
| Full directionsaccomt'any each box ; and all that G
i* r- liyf • i <'h-t i'Vi nod t\ e*ire is o*na>.. V> l
Tire proprietor refers tr the folluwiaateat’meulau 'rr.n -*.X ,
tlemeti of character and standing, who have voiiinUtr'l v J* pßa
- their certificates in its favor, in r egard to its efficacy :a ihf' y ’^ r *
own case*. Read them.
ihe fop owing is front one of the mo*t reliable cUlataaf*
Chicago, the late Treasurer of Cook county. 111.:
Chicago, July 2B ISM
Dr. Cavanaugh—Doarßir: I wish hereby t-> make know*}
t!ic afflicted that I ’ .vi- bdit troubled witii the riles for tX
tv years or upward*, and at times most severely. And dtw*
a recent and exceedingly painful attack, a friend procuSv
box <»f your Salve and anted me to give it atrial, i fi.m*
Not, however, with the expectation of benefit tin-; mvdi®,
fv*t truly 1 had tried so many applications I had lot-t •‘unfi®?-
in all. But in making use of your Salve, I soon founds*
it was doing me good ; a,id really it isincrcdii-U- to my.-"
with only alxud two week's use of your Salve, 1 am, so tact
can (ate, :t weP
I nil- t cheerfully make this statement, believing h
to yourself and such a* may be afflicted with this :n <
and painful »ii*c-a-e. I do rot hesitate to savthat!
vour pruj .iration on invaluable remedy for iLc Pile?
-iiicetely yours, H. N. IIEA®
»Le llon. Richard Yates, late member of Congress fr®h
Spn : 'field. 111.,district,says* /
Jackson vi llk. 111., Nov. 16. k
Dr. tiros. H. ('avannugh—Dear Sir: 'l'he
liiiugh n Pile e-alvc, which you furnished, 1 found of
vin , [.M ucli.(anvw>yu»( <«Md]ruin. ICo übnli,
rectann.c n it a* ai* * rivaluable remedy lor the l’i »•-•*.
Rgspect oliy, RICHARD YA' X
Die followin'*, from Rev. B. F. Bristow, is a sufficient 4 -m
» endatioD in itself:
Jauxsonvillb, 111., December 15, i.
t.»r. t’avanaugl.—i conceive it to be a duty 1 t-wetd *t
tiicte.l to u.akt k:<own the invaluable virtues and n-nw
oieticv of your ITle ta!ve. I was. for several weeks, si f il"
tlic-cd wiiii that painful and loathsome disease, the ha.
After havii;.' exhaustco my {Biticiue in trying varim-* |*t rip.
Hot *« f physician* and others without receiving any bv .by
the strong r* ci.mn:e..d .t,oi» of your Salve, by my fries thu
lion. Richard Yah :-, 1 w.;.» itoluced to try it. 1:u?j ha yi»
j saying ;ur application «-f your Salve, fortnree d:i>.v. per -
ian entire cure. Respectfully your*,
B. F. BIUS fi V.
J Sold it* this city, wholesale aiid retail, by PI.U A
■ LKir.NCK. i LARSE, WKLI.S .V M'KAUf .n d J)n jrrt,
j cnentUy. .■
j .Mill per b* x Pn. J II t•A V A NAl’l®,>-
mE LONG ESTABLISHED FURNITURE fNE
CARPET WARE ROOM. I
beg respectfully to inform our numerous filcrJ-and
T f customer* that we have greatly increased our Silk for
the coming season, and have made arrangements to la Lully
supplied with ad articles in our line, which, in beauty* *d va
riety. -hall U unsurpassed in the South, v isile our pih .* will
alwa> sbe found such us to meet the approbation ot the ifiaeat
We desire especially to call attention to our large str> ’of
ENGLISH VELVET AND BRUSSEL CARFf fe.
whidi we warrant to be as represented, and the first l < Mrt*?
tlon ever received in this place direct from England, f'
CARPETS OK AMERICAN MANUFACTUTifc
Brussels Tapestry CARPETS;
Velvet ” “ Yw. •1
Three Fly “ first quality; „V
** “ second ** P’.
gupertne Ingrain •• V
Flue ” “ I
Union fine • “ of all qualities, ■
DRUGGETS, of a! width*and qualities: ■
CRUMB OLOTHs, 1.-4,14-4, and 16-4; V
Mosaic,Che: illeandTufterl RUGS; >XI
Twilled and Plain \ enecian O A KPETS, of al! .
DOOR MATTS. J
most varied ussurtinent ' can be produced, wlu-® *wUI
.sell at remarkably low r-ri- es. u
FURNITURE. m
We have low on hand a most excellent assoriaiK »f all,
finished in our ho<i style, which we are confident
all our customers, both as regard* beauty ar.d pric* ®c th
pt-ctr-dli ask a look through ottr extensive
r*f\ all. It is cot cvccMjary for us to enumerate for
we shall keep constut.ilv on hand eventhing in from
the cheapest atricie to the finest. While we feel for
the liberal patronage bestowed upon us in the
for itscc»nti!'uat:vv in the future. jar
I-AMAsK. I.A C E AND MUS LIN C URJ®VC
Satin DEI.AIN ii. of handsome patterns k
Crimson Satin DELAINE;
D \ V. ASK, of all qualities and prices; Ik
Muslin CURTAINS, by the pair or yard 11
whi.ii we wii! makeup to order in the latent afash
'’'"“"ovkMOSS. CURTAIN HANDS AMUR
The arg.st and ci.oaj • .< ass -r'.im-U in the *
FU‘OR OIL CLOTHS.
Os the be>t English anti Ajoericun ipdtbf
piec-'. a'd ci.arii .f ■; the quantity it tak *‘ U
Oi'K EXTENSIV E CABINET MANUlfl^M|#?
W. ih.s carry.r-g . whereever)-thibf to
'1: i‘i A ! i:! M. and UF: lV >LS i : El 11 xo r-eatflfH:
A«. tiooiis purei :i*"«i <>' us are packed free oftlL®,
S'-pIT 3m Opposite the Bar.‘c ;L.
S'J.uLTHiKc: MW ioR r ihE
'| 11.-. i C ih-.-nrM - nd TU y wr.n.lerfut I(|®fOlL or
5 i.M M I;N K r Kin nm. Vi-n:. and it
■::-.pt. e-sand re ief Klrt'UuinUsm, -- .
• • ."i ra:i s, r reisw. Jhiii.'* in tbebackorsi.*\f»4gK^«S*
' v • ff*- > ittr.es- or Soreness In tl nrfk iifoo
cli:a. A ecri' ts, S. asms. D< afness -r Enr-a*hia C oup, and
i r. i.-a . feyer. :» in in acute puin b> 6<r> ©nvrto flf
u*e . tnoiutii-q -: t !nrm'eM- to the i-diest, a-iv.i pr. pared
Wit out mcicury or p..1-01:9. It Will rerfonn « ottftnr
and v.- 1> : .or- c*nau: 4 y than anv of the Eiect.ji
b - • di* i e ed. : m&t this
vv v ' :0 ' ! a ; and bid defiance to ull oppo-f'JftX^Ytactg
a3»:t i. i.t. Die retie s, : . , )r di . «d Tot-i«r *
It d• ■ 1 vomit, purge or:,: sferthe patient. but*
in tavorof luif jtres I have
•e :’.e Eiectrit«-!! -*ivcr..l veare ago.
jrev. x ..'.that he: Ic. Try it '*r. p.red
I t,,, . „ C. PKM RLE, A .i/jnt'a. G%.
s -!•! .> A Him Blk *k ■ xr, opposite the Ba.. ,-f AugusUk
an' I’:’ F.-0.-.kt v. under the Augusts uAStfil .
sepS df«Mj6m.