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SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE. * • • a 4 VOL. Jlf. (tntci'pfise; ® ‘0 IP - ♦ ♦■ ■ - LU( II S 1311YAX, Proprietor. i— ■ if. @ ® ® kikmriptiox. @'JOE I*. MS. ynr “Si. Estixi msi ispublished Weekly of Jwo Doi.r.uts per annum, if paid in advance. If not I’ud in advance, I'mKt:*: Dollars will invariably be ■ 11 for the “J. ihoaU be accompanied by the < ®>-h. I!..- wii ; :i|o ibe direction of their |Mtper -jcbaneed will notity us from what office it is to be Inina s’ rr §) > “ ‘ih the Nan <■, County Sml State plainly written. ADVKRTIBIXG. © * Advfrtiskmf.n rs will be pushed at o@ve0 @ ve Doll ar per sipiare of twelve lines or less, for file tirst insertion, and Ma iiv ( :’ i- for h sui.se. insertion. 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P- £ J; ® ® ® ® |I a s ts - .a® g st i H do H <fee Square ‘.. $5 UO 8S if) slB 00 §l2 00 Two Squares 8 00 Tl 00 *lB 00 20 00 ,*l’ n Squares.® lo oy id.oo “I 00 25 m Four Squares 12 00117 00 : 22 00 26 00 Five Squares ,®. 11 00 20 00 25 00 30 00 Six Squares ® IS 01) -J4 00 30 00 ; 35 00 One, Half Column 25 00 JITOO 1 35 00 40 00 Three Fourths Colum# 35 00, 14 01) 52 00 00110 O Cofemnl... 250 90,60 00; 70%) SO 00 [z r Hi .sink's Cvnns. fot®tlie term At’ one year, willbe cbargdvl in proportion to the space they occupy, at <Jne “Dot la it per Line, (solid Minion.) ® • —’ . , I.ER\I. .AIM ERTIWtIENTk All persons having occasion to advertise Legal Sales, , Nonces, etc., are compelled bylaw to comply with the /allowing rules: ® A<i:>iiiiitrnini®. RM'i'iiloA or (limriliant: g AllsaL'sof Land and Negroes by Administrators,, Executors or (iuardians, are required by law to he ® held on the first Tuesday in the luofith, between thA hours o'clock in the foretwton, and three in the afternoon, at the fourthouseTu the county in Btliich 0 the property is situate. Notices of 9 these sales must he given in a public GQzctte Forty Davs previous to * t*ie day®)f sale. Sale- of i'ersoiial I*ropci-fy : - of the sale of Person:# Property must . ’ given g least Ten Days previous to the day of iSilc., Estate llrlitor* anil (’mlilorw: © %, . \oriee#t<4 Debtors and Creditors of an estate must be published Foigy Davs. * 9 Court of Ordinary Leave to SeJ 1 : 0 , NdfUe that application will he made to the Court ®of Ordinary forg ave to sell Land must be published weekly J'oisTwo Months. Adnrlaiolralion nml (Tun rili:inxli i |> : ® Citations for Letters of Administration must be,4 pul and.. I led Thirty Days: f.# Dismission from lstration, monthly for Six Months; for Dismission , Forty Days. @ . • l-'erri lo .are of tSortgagr: ® o Rules for Foreclosufr of Mortgage niu%t be pub-, 1 ished monthly for Four Months. „ * I'Nta!>li!iing Lost Papeg*: 0 Notices for establishing Lost Papers must be (Bib _ lished for the full term of Three Months. ® ® ® ® •. . ’■ Publications will al#ays be contimtfcd accoAdi*g to the above rules, unless otherwise or/cred. 2L. -J. LAW CARPS. ® ‘O, ‘ - ~~ j. is. ii. Stanley, A TTOIJNEY -AT LAW, ±\. ® QUITMAXfBUOOKS CO., GA. Will practice in the Counties of tne Southern Circuit, and Coffee, Clince, Ware and Echols of the Brunswick Circuit. \ ® def- f( tt W. 16. llcnnct, ATT©RIfeEY AT LAW, QUITMAN. BROOKSbCO., C.A. NVill practice ffi Thomas, Lowndes, Brooks and Berri en .8. El. Alexander, Attorney at law, 9 i,.!f ifs-tf * 1 JIO.MASVItiLE, c? v. ® 1. 16. Ssoirrtl, Attorney at law, m WARES BOROUGH, GA. Will practice the counties of the Circuit, and in Lowndes and Berrien Counties ot the Southern Circuit. ® je I'd ts ® Molin 11. Dyson, ® Attorney at law, @ ® ® THOMASVILLE, GA. Office next n#l>r to Dr. Bruce’s. ® mh 18 tf 1 IliikTiio 1.. Hines, Attorney at law, je 26-ts THOMAS! ILLE, GA. L. C. Bryan, Attorney at law. nih 10 ® THOMASVM.LE, GA. ® 13. C. Jlorsjau, Attorney at o law, NASHVILLE, BERRIEN CO. GA. Will praeticeon the Counties of the Southern Circuit; and the Counties of Doolv. Worth and Dougherty of the Macon; and Coffee, Clinch and Ware of the Briffiswick Circuit. Address at FUtt Creek Post Office, Ga. mh 18 ts , 11. T. Peoples, Attorney at law, NASHVIELE, BERRIEN CO., GA. ■ ts Samuel 16. Spencer, Attorney 0 at law, „ ® THOM AS VILLEN GA. IV ill give his entire attention to the Practice of Law 9 in the Counties of the Southern Circuit. Office on the second floor of Donald McLean's Brick building. mh 18 ts A. V. McCardel, TUSTICE OF THE PEACE- O Office at the Courthouse, Thomasville, Ga. All business entrusted to bint will be attended to prompt ly and dispatch. mh 2o ly # Chas. 11. Remingrton JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Office Opposite the Post Office, Thomasville. Collections of all kinds taken on liberal terms, either in Justice's, Superior or Inferior Courts. nih 18 ts Srliofield’s _ IRON WORKS, ADJOINING THE PASSENGER DEPOT, Macon Georgia, * Manufacturers of STEAM r.ngiiic* and Boilers, Mill and <;in Gearing, Cane Mills and Pans, m Syrup Boilers, Mi ailing and Pulley. AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY MADE TO o order at snort notit e. *• E REMINGTON it SON, *J an Hly Agents, Thomasville, Ga. JoTd WorTt _ now PREPARED TO UO ALL kinds of JOB PRIN UNO, from a Visiting Card to t large Poster, at the Enterprise office Try us S ■ <> •: HR V A*. > ( _ Editor A I‘roi* iclor. - ® ® MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARDS. [medical car if:] Drs. Bruce N? lteed. Having formed a copartnership in the pr.: tiee of Medicine. ol® r their serviei* to the public. ® * l ts Ollice. the one Qjjctipieil by Bruce for/nany years. 1 in-y have ii|M-m-d a lit ISIS I'AL p~r tbe . onvenieiice us tboM* iiwiii: - - iv.-’ requiring Surgical attention; and 1 white pei sin.', nut able to pay, will he treated gra^js. Accommodations comfortable. ® R J. BRI CE. M D. Jftie 24, 1860. % J. R. M. REED, M D. ® Dr. .X. G. McDonald, IN TENDERING Ills PROFESSIONAL SERYIfES to the people .® Thomasville and vicinity, would in - form®liem that lie has been practicing medicim- ill Jetfer son County Florida, for live years, during winch time he j has met.ana treated most of the disdlses which occur in tills latitude. ® 0 ® (IFFH ’B, on tie ®le street, near the office formerly occupied l.v (’ J Harris @> RLjilDENCjff, the I louse formerly occupied by E. L. 1 Anderstfti. ® # Thomasville, January 7, 1860. ® , ts •> J)i‘. t;. .1. Olivcroß, Frfictitioer of Medicine and Surgery, jan 1 Thomas Cos., Ga. dy Dr. S. S. Adams, ITEREBY INFORM# Ills FRIENDS AND THE T public, sliat he will continue the practice of medi cine at the old stand and respectfully tenders li if services to the public. „ Thomasville, Aprik.2, 1860. * „ ® ts [kf.form practice.] Dr. I*. N. Bower, OFFERS HIS® PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Tt> the citizens of Thomasville and vicinity. Calls at all hours, promtply attended* ° mil IS ts E9r. Brandon, 0 • i Has removed to the office formerly occupied by John Miller, Esq., as a Law Ottice. Calls prongitly attended. 9 iif Special attention will given to Surgery an<Q Surgical Disease^ Thomasville,January 15. ISBO. m •* ts Dim. El. 16. 83. O. inmfffi ® . 10: ’ Resident” Thomasville, Ga. \\ r K HAVE THE Ol* T T lit!cen’years experieilte in every brsincli <f the profession. . • We can refer to many w* 1 haveJia.l the benefit of our operations in this Cmaity for the [>ast six years. ‘ ® W e hav(t,every faeiljtv for doing the best •* ‘ Piafb-Work, • •• KOW KNOWN, WHICH IS DENOMINATED Contanuows Gum Work, “• •on Platina I’tote, which i*inipervious to any of the acids. Sven in a concentrated form. * Teeth filled with pure gold in a superior manat r. Patienfe favoring with tjicir confidence may rely upon our utmost exertions to perform every operation in “as perfect a mummer as®possible. * mh 10 ts ” a#i-s. E. ga. & S3, llafon, , AATfItULD RESPECT FULLY INFORM TIIE (TTI T T iz.ens of Thomasville ® __ and vicinity, that they :&o „ f; n p fitting up their A 4jj / t/, ‘l. ilicol 11 nil llcntal ‘y.o ‘ I N The Deni vA Room is so r > arranged as not to be moles- “£<■*>'. W *",V. vUx ted by any business of the I JP. ‘ V V MiiilicaM )lli< c. and will be “ licpt Strii'lli I’rivalc , “ —® for Ladies and Gentlemen wishing Dental Operations. And our patrons in MEDICINE may l>f assniil that no ,\ct%>utl prescription to lhM>samc patient will be ad ministered by a@y other than ® m ® 16. ja. I3ATOHT, AS HE jIAS NO IN VeDICINE an& his Drvfrs are o® fresh ■9‘td correctly Labeled . OFFICE second door east of the oiu: formerly ficeupi ed bt* Bruce & Eaton. mli'K) ts * g New Dxug Store. * DIS. S 5 . N. lias opened a Drug Store IV the stand formerly occnpic4by PALMER vV BRO., E. Remington s, anal is prepared to furnish Disigs, Merflrinas, * FANCY SOAPS, Xo., < . . . # upon/air terms, to those who Jiiay favor Him with a call. To bis Reform friends lie would sav, that le has on hand a fresh and iw liabl* assortment <>t° BGTAHfdi& EK&i NE S, * and will be gl:l to supyjy them with such articles as 9 they may need. ® ® 9 ALSO, Kerosine, Fine Cjgars and Tobacco, Fine Brandies apd Wines, kept constantly on band and for stile. may 23-ts * * Dilips and .McJuiitcs. T UST RECEIVED A LARGE AND WELL SELEC ted stock of Drugs and Medicines, Chelicals ol’ all kinds. Also. Paims, Oils, G 1 ass, Putty, Varnish, Bmsheg. Dye Stuifs, Patent Medicines, Garden Seeds, Toilet Articles,. Perfumery, B@ishes, Ac. Kerosine Oil and Lamps; Campliene, Burning Fluid and I@unps. EDWARD SEIXAS, Druggist. Thomasville, May 21,1850.® ts Apothecary’s Hall. riiHE SI'BSCRIBER. HAVING*T%jvEN A STORE JL In Thouipsow’s New EScicSi i.iiifiiins, respectfully invites the attentionsjf tla* public to bis com plete and well selected stocl#of Drugs, Medicines, ChemieiJls, ® • Paints, ® ® ® Oils, Dye-Stuffs, Perfusaery, ® Spices, m Tobacco, 0 Segars, Fiue Brandies, ® Wines, Porter, Ale, Toilet-Soaps, Potash, ® g, &c., &c- ALL OF WHICH WfLL BE SOLD ON REASON ABLE TERMS. # CF 9 Attention given personally to the preparation of j lMiyMcfhii’s Piest^ipHoiis. *ff All MEDICINES warranted genuine? n. g McDonald, m. and. Thomasville, Ga.. June 6, 1860. ts Saddle and Harness Manufactory. \ LARGE AND COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF ILtiia Saddles, Rm. coMtanU, on ‘b.n.l and for stile, at the Manu- ™ ’ factory of McGLASHAN &. LITTLE. Harness and Saddle REPAIRING promptly at tended to. ® Thomasville, Books! Books! A CHOICE LOt OF BOOK'S. FROM THE BEST Authors, in store and for stile, to which the attention of Ladies and Gentlemen is invited. PREMIUMS awarded to the purchasers of seven 1 F.<.ks in the lot. V G. M. DONALD. Thomasville, Ga., June 6, 1860, , * ts ; Soda Water. • rrHIIS DELIGHTFUL BEVERAGE, INTTS PER- L fection —with choice Syrups —cool tyid sparkling — commenced Drawing to-day for the season, at the store of the undersigned. FzT K'll kept on hand constantly, and for sale by May 1,1860. ‘ JOHN SIARK .THOMASVILL-E, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29,1&>0. ADDRESSS ® • OF THE NATION®I. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE * j COXSTITI’TIOS.M. lAIOt PARTY . TO TiIt?PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. Fellutc- Citizens : —We beg leave to present I to you. for you| consideration, a few of the rea ; soil:? which, In our judgment, make it the im pejative duty of the reflecting and patriotic vo- . burs of the United StStes to cti'6 their suffrages at the coming Presidential election for John Bell and Edward Everett, the candidates of the® ; Constitutional Union party. All men?whatev- 1 ever he their politicwl convictions, “arid in what ever parts of the they may live, 1141st /yjmit that our political* at this time*, is at once unnatural and alarming. In all free ; 1 eoutitiies, governed by®representative bodies, there ate, and eer must he, parties.— The natural division til’ these parties is a coti foftuity with certain original principles in lm manTty itself. One party represents permanen cy, and one progression, one tne propelling and one the guiding principle. The prosperity and health* growth of free countries depend upon the adjustment and proportion of the forces rep resented by these two parties, moving witftin the sphere of tife Constitution, and alike in spired by natriietic impulse. The parties \\jiich, under vartoift eames, have, until a few years pa#t, divided the c®untry, have t®presented, or professed to represent, these principles, niough it has oftgiv that the particular issijgs on which tiiey were imposed were accidental, and npt essential. # But recently a change has Cime over the ’spirit of our ] 0 itics,'"find the natural ®nttigo nism of parties has been jaistfu bt'd. In fifteen of the tlsirty-tln-tfe States frhicli now comprise our ('on the institudon of African 0 slavery exists; Snd ffll a®lmit that, Within it is entirely beyond the sphere and ju risdiction o| Government.® At the D time of the formation of the Constitution it had a legal existence, at le®st, in nearly all the States. From fliat timeTo this ltTias been a subject powerfully moving the sympathies And passions, of a fart of die and it etfnnot !te denied that it has considerably “en hanced the uifficlt? : of governing and Adminis tering the country. But the grave questions’ which*<jrew®out ih‘ the slavery were always met with that wisdom and patriotism which were always requisite for their adjustment and solution, ‘j lie Constitution itself w®s th§ birth of a spirit otogencrous concessiontind magnai:iious compromise; and in a like spir iit’the country “was ltyig governed, oie crisis bf more than common,/nagnitude and anil peril oc curred in 18:30, upon the fit, Missou ri, and another in 1850-, upon the* adpiission of in both ebses aft-r some momeutsof anxious suspense, 9 the g coals of strife wen? quenched, i *pd harmony wa# restored. ® * 0 , At the adjournment of Congress in 1850, “the country was at peace. There was no por tion ot the territory of the United States widely had nflt its condition fixed by positive, and as was supposed, irrepealable law. The ahti-slu very agitation had been mainly 0 coyfine.fi to a fey? over-zealous pevson|,in certain localities.— It had excited a disturbing force in the politics of some of the States ; it had “sent some ar dent partisans to the national “legislature, hf?t it had no marked influence upon the politics of the nation. No better proof can be adduced in support of this position than thcpfact, that at the i’residential election of the autumn of 1852, 51r. Hale, the candidate yf the l'reesoil party, received but 0 158,120 votes, to Mr. Fierce’s 1,590,895, and Gen. Scott’s Y, 393,089. But this auspicious calm°was disturbed, and all the winds of sectional srife were let loose by events occurring between the Presidential elec tion of 1852, 9 and that of 1850. Prominent among these were the untoward abrogation of the Missoufi Compromise in ESOsF the acts of vioionee which occurred, in Kansas, and the efforts of,the Fedral Administration 1 to force than Territory fii the Union. So great was the eflcct produced by these causes that in stead of Mr. Ilale’s meagre vote of 158,183, Gel. Fremont, the Republican candidate, liyd *1,841,514, to Mr. Buchanan,s 1,838,232, and Mr. Filti-.sfe’s 874,707. Since that time the Republican o party has nuifntaiyed its imposing character, and now presents as formidable a front before the country tj.s ft evyr did. Great pains has been |akcn in the Northern States by Republican speakers to represent the disturbance of the Missouri Compromise as a Southern measure? and one of the acts of what ’they arcgwint to call life slave power; but such speakers show inure party zeal than love u4‘ truth. Ihc Reeling in regard to that compromise was substantially the same in both sections of the country; each tint it hud yielded scftnethiug of Constitutional right, hut both ac quiesced to ihe result, as a measure of healing and peace. Its appeal took the North juid South alike by surprise; not a petition to that effect*was presented from any Southern State, and the hand that set this disastrous hall in iifbtion was the hayd of a Northern Senator^ — Thirty-seven Senators voted with him, and thir teen against him, and of these fourteen were froth the Northern States ; had these fourteen, voted the other way, the compromise would not Tiave been disturbed. The measflre was a Dem ocratic measure, and the leaders of the Demo cratic part\ are alone responsible for it, and for its consequences. ®lhsy have sown the wind, are now reaping the whirlwind. The retribu tion which has, fallen upon their once power ful organization c p an awaken 110 sympathy, for it is no more than the righteous penalty exacted from those who break the law of right. Their party is now cleft in twain, and two divided portions t|irn towards each other a countenance of conflict” and unexDinguisha ble animosity. @ There are no quarrels like jam ily o quarrels, and there is nojiatred like the ha® tred that once was love. Mr. Douglas, representing tl?e principle or rather the policy (for we deny it the name of principle) of popular sovereignty, is strong at the North. Mr. Breckinridge, representing the doctrine of national intervention in behalf of slavery, and identified wirti the present Ad ministration, is -strong Somjp Mr. Doug las will probably command a larger popular vote than Mr. Breckinridge, but he certainly cannot carry a single Southern--State, and unaided by other parties his success in any Northern State is questionable. It is doubtful whether Mr. Breckinridge can obtain the vote bf more than one Southern State, and he cannot hope td Air* ry a single or*e in the Nortfi. *4 he electioq of eitlter Mr. Breckinridge or Mr'Bonglrt.s we should regard as a serioi* mis fortune to the country. Except upon the par ticular point on which they are at issqp, we may persume that the course and policy “of their ad-- ministrations witnld he the same. Tift e! ection of eifher would continue those abuses afld corruptions which h§ve done much to demoralize® our people, which have Ifrougjit our institutions into such undeserved distrust abroad, amt ygayist which the unper-. verted conscience of the whole countw so ener getically protests. * But we deem it unnecessary a to speculate up on the consequents of an yvent which can never take place. The election of either 51 r. Douglas or Breckinridge is simply an impossi bility and the Democrat it® party North and South may well look for this act steadily in the face to day as” hereafficr, for to this conclusioe they *must at last. A political house divided against itslf cannot stand. Every man in the country, of sound mind, whose wtish is not faiher to his thoughts, mult lie convinced that neither of the Demqpratic candidates can o 0 be chosen by a popular vote. Before the peoule of the United States the contest is between f Mr.Bcll and Mr. Lincoln: and, assuming this as?a fixed fact, we proceed to state some df the reasons which shftild induce all \feil-wishers of country to vote for the former rathe# than the hitter. The** reasfins apply with equal force to the t North® and the South.® * • • ® , The great, the oh\/ou, 4hc insuperable ob jection to Mr. Lincoln's claims is founded uj*m fact that he is a sectional candidate, and that the n is a sectional parky. In fifteen out of the thirty-three States, which, compose our Union, the Republican party has no substantial existence : and, should 51 r. Lin culn be chosen, his administration could have no Southern support, but only Southern oppo sition. We are well aware how energetically the Republican party disclaims all designs hos tile to the Constitutional rights of the Soutli ! we believe that nftny ®f its members are ton cere in these disclaimers; the distrtist awaken ed thftughout the # Sk>uth by the existence and attitude of tfie Republican party may be a “groundless distrust. That the Republican party is lionesfcly believ ed throughout the whole South to be g section al party, and,%s sucli, is viewed with fib com promising hostilitji,is ’enough for the purpose of our argument. IT they have caraed suuii a reputatiorj without deserving it, it is a nnstor tune, to the Amscipiences of ;*lmit. 13ut surely they liuvin not earned it without cause. To°say nothing of ihc atrocious afld ranCairatitable language which their m#st popular Speakers Sre in the habit of using-—to say nothing of the’fact that many of their cam paign documents are mere abolition'harangues, made up of the foulesP and fiercest aiuse of the ’entire South —the unconstitutional statutes which sosie of the Northerly, States have pass ed against the execution of the fugitive slave o . # law, are in direct opposition to the professions of the party, and justify the distrust iflnch the South entertains of them. * We do not say that the election of slr. Lin eo% would he fatfll to the Unfim. We are no disunionists ; ?md no disunionist has a right to be a member of the Constitutional Union party. Lnderany combinationoof circumstan- we cannot conceive of a dissolution of the Union as anything hut the greatest of calami ties. Come what T ill, *We shaft stand by the Union as the myst prScious jewel of our souls. But knowing the pjoud and sensativc spirit of the Southern people, we do say that tin? elec tion o of 51r. Lincoln o the Union to a peril” to which no true patriot should wish to it “exposed. And, further we d o o say that the attempt to govern the country upon the dis tinctive and peculiar principles of the Repub lican party would he fut*d to the Union. In other words, ®the on the® part of the National Government, by positive law, to ex clude slavery from such portion of the national* domain as would becoiie slave territory but for such exclusion, would, in our opinion, break up the Union. And the converse of #he proposi tion is equally true; any attempt on the part of the National Government to force slavery by positive law into sucli* portion of the national domatn as wpuld become Tree territory hfit, for *uch intervention,would also break up the Union. The calm and dispassionate obsever can see in the Republican movement only a combina tion of the Northern States to take the govern ment of thee whole country into their handg, and to administer it with reference to an exclu sively Northern goli?y. And in like manner, the supporters of*Breckinridge propose to take the gofernment of the whole country into their hands, with a view of administering it with ref erence to an exclusively Southern policy. In either case, tha result, would he a diversion of the General Governnftent from its legitimate sphere; or rather®an assumption of powers 411 the part of the General Government not dele gated to it, which one half of the Confederacy regard us a usurpation, and to which it would refuse to submit. The fact that our Union is composed in part of slaveholding States, and fti part of non-slaveholding States, imposes grave©duties upon both sections —du- ties of forbearance, concessions, and concilia tion; respect for each other’s convictions; ten derness in handling <kch others sensitive points —in short, such of self-control and self-a government as regulate in social life, and in the relation of business,’the intercourse of gentle men who may chance In differ widely on the grawest questions. To these duties *we°would fain recall both The North and South. e Ihe Union is a blessing, the continuance of which ifnposes soon? sacrifices ob both portions of the coanfry. Neither pro-slavery o zealots nor anti slavery zealots can use the powers of the Gen eral Government for the advancement of their own peculiar views,however honestly entertained. It is a necessary consequence of the unhappy fact that our political contests have become mere struggles for the possession of power be tween the North and the South, that our politi cal discussions haveiUectWe little else than mutual criminations and recriminations. The | people no ldbger listen to arguments, addressed j toHheir reasons, Pn defence of peculiaf mcas- * Hires, fir a certain course of “policy, hut to ex citing appeals to •they’ sectional prejudices, which only heat the blood and inflame the pas sions. The North is taught to hate the South, and the South is taught to hate the Nojtli. On both sides, language is used which is studiousjy selected for its °oxa*pcj;uthg quali ties. There is no recognition of the law of charity, which suffers loot? andis kind; there is 114 admission yf the treinenckius difficult ies | which environ the whole subject of Slavery ; Northern speakers denounce the South for ufain taining the system, and yet they are unable to suggest any scheme for getting rid of it; South urn speakers make no distinction between the rankest abolitionism and that abstract opposition to slavery in itself, which is an almost universal sentiment at the Nbrtli. And out of the im mense mass of speeches on the subject of sla very which have be® inflicted upon the country, iy Congress hnd out of it, not one hint or sug gestiqp can he gathered of tlie®least pratical value toifards a solution of the problem of sla very, or even a mitigation of its assumed evils. The coftscquences of this miserable agitation have been of the most melancholy kind. The attachment which formerly united the iforth and south is fast, and estrangement, alienation and ill will are taking its place. ’ The two sections ofe the country are learning to look upon £ach other as natffval enemies. This state of feeling renders it impossible for the “National Legislature to legislate calady, judiciously, dis passionatqJjPfor the common g®nd of the whole counfry? Congressional debates have degener ated into mutual vituperations and denuncia tions, and arc disgraced by the most offensive personalities. All propositions are judged of, not by their essential expediency hut by the quarter from which they come. Os what use 9 i* it, then, for the Republican party to spread forth in ..platform an ehijjorate array of measures and principles,*so long as sectional di vision Exists in our politics* which makes °one half of the country look wit°h suspicion find distrust upon Vvery movement of Jie otlnyi’ Nor is this all. The tendency of this sec tional qxcitement is to repel wise and good nftn from the sphere of politic®, and thus to lower the tone of government. sfqp endowed with statesmanlike powers will not take part in an agitation which dwarfs the understanding while 4t ififl ames the passions. The.consequence is, that while we are rapidly increasing in wealth and all the indications of material civilization, and surely not declining in virtue and intelli gence, “Ihe series of our public men marks a descending scale, and the Standard of Congres sional debate is constantly lowering. Itelligent foreigners who come among us are puzzled t<* account for the singular fact, that so few men of superior ability are part iu the gov ernment of the country, indeed, the yirtue ahd “intelligence of the country are fast ebbing away from the spitfire of politics, and its vices and passions are usurping their places. 0o The pro-slavery and anti-slavery agitation which has beeqso long convulsing°the coftntry, is as unnecessary as it is mischievous. The mhre conservative portion of the B c P u^>can ]?arty have tacitly ifcquicsccd in the*Fugitive 81ave tt law, isl tjie existence of slavery in the district of Columbia, and in the right to carry t slaves from one StateJ.o anothci” and they have, always disclaimed any right, or any intefttion, to yiterferq Hath slavery in the 9 States then® selves. TJie subject of slavery in the Territo ries, and the power of Congress over it there, are the only poiuts*tliqy leave lor discussion and difference. Jf government he a practical ifrtj as s,:rely it is—if the object off government be, 1 not to enunciate principles, hut td pfavide for each emergency as it arises—all this fixeitement and all this conflict are ngarly purposeless *tnd idle. We have been familiar •with slavery lfmg enough to know by wlrot laws it is°regulated and “Experience and observation have shown that slavery is (pjpetftlentHipftn c#n ditisns of and climate, and lies beyond the resell j)f political combinations. 0 These will not force slavery into the regions where ik is not profitable 9 At this moment no one wul question the correctness of the state ment that is not„a foot of the territory of the United States, the condition of which in reference to slavery is not already fixed bv law, and flicrcis 110 place within the Federal do main, upoi? which the abstract theories of the extremists of either section, in regard,4o the exclusion of slavery from the Territories or its introduction into them, can he pr itically applied. The whole question of slavery in the Territo ries, a£ now presented, is an abstraction quire, and simple, incapable of practical application, find prolific ofit serious mischief. It hasalfeady produced sectional alienation, and now menaces the integrity of the Union. ® To.create and maintain this unhappy® agita tion, North and SoutH, Democrats and Repub lican’s—we need ntft stop to inquire in what proportions —liavfi botlj contributed in times past; hut St this moment, the Republican party are mainly responsible for its continuance. ,§4 he great object which they proposed to accomplish was the admission of Kansas ®as a fre#State. This was the excuse and* justification for the formation of a*purely sectional organization.— This e)ement°gave them their great strength in 185 G. It was for this that many moderate and conservative men in the Northern and 51iddle* • ® States gave them their votes at that time. But that© object is now accomplished. No one cfbifbts that Kansas is to be admitted as a free State. The Democrats have lost the stake for wlych they played so desperate a game. What need then L there for the further con tinuance of sectional agitation, and for keeping it up by a mischievous sectional organization ‘( What immediate end do they propose to accom plish ? What tangible object Lal*e they in view? They have not now that moral element which gave them strength in 1856. They can now take no higher attitude than that of a com bination of ambitious fice seekers, who, having tasted the sweets of power, ar#i its substantial rewards, in many of the States, are panting for the more splcnSid prize of a national victorypand for that purpose are diligently fanning flic fires of sectional hate, which every true patriot should wish to have extinguished. o So far as the claims and qualifications of can didates are concerned, we surely need not shrink from comparison with the Republican party.— *• For the first time in the history of the country, a O * S TERMS. TWO DOLLARS, ) C Iu Advance. ® ® J a gret party has nominated for the Presidency a man ifliknown, even by nanie, to a majority of the people. 31 r. Lincoln, we admit, is a re spectable man, a respectable lawyer, and as a popu!ar*speaker, of probably more than average ability; but what a meagre catalogue is this of claims for the highest office! Nothing what* eveys known of his executive or administrative capacity —limbing of his views as to the great questions of foreign and domestic*policy which are likely to arise in the©conduct of the Gov ernment —nothing as to his knowledge of the great interests and relations of the country. lie served but a single term in the House of Representatives, aqd there earned no conspicu ous distinction. His nomination was extorted 0 from the Chicago Convention by the force of local pressure, and presents the most glaring example of the pitiful doctrine of availability tlufct the political annals of the country have ever shown. His claims for the office of Presi dent of the United States®rest* upon the fact that* in a 9 popular contest before the people of Illinois, \sitli Mr. Douglas, he sustained him self energy and faiF ability. Nor ieqd we do lyore than advert to the fact, which is another illustration of the sefttional character” of the Republican Organization, 111 at their can- c didate for the Presidency Ts talren®from the ex treme Nftrthwestf and their candidate for the Vice Presidency is taken from the Northeast. What means can they have for ktlowing Ofr ascertaining the qualifications of persons to fill the Federal offices in the South ern States. *® @ °® The candidates presented by the Constitution - l al l uion party have every possible claim upon the confidence and suppifrt of the American people. There is littfo need gs setting fortK jhese claims in detail ©and by particulars for to* suppose any oiffe ignormit of the merits and services of John Bell and Edward Everett is to him ignorant of the history of the country daring the last -thirty yeass. Both have been distinguished.anckinfluential mem bo*rs of both branches of Congress. Ah\ Bell lias bceti speaker of the House of Representa tives and Secretary©of Wiir. Mr. Everett has been Governor *of “Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain utal Secretary of State. Both, are then of groat political experiance, and both have proved their fitness for the highest trusts* Both ;tre animated by the spirit of a generous and conTprelnsisive patriotism. Os all South ern Statesmen, none is more popular at the North than Mr. Bell; of all Northern states men, none is more endeared to the pe®ple.of the South than Mr. Everett. .So commanding, indeed, is the merit of both our candidates, that it is fully and freely conced ed by all our opponents. Republicans, support ers of Aft. Douglas, aftd supporter of Mr.’ Breckinridge, olleulmit that, while they prefer otheas, the interest of the coifntry would bo*en tirely said inthe. hands of Mr. Bell, and Mr. Everett. All would acquiestfe in the election of°our candidates. Indeed, the argument most gtnenflly and most persistently pressed against” Them is, liiat they cannot be elected. 0 We need not say hdw grave a charge agajnst the intelli gence and• integrity of our people * in this declaration, and that every ma7>wliQ resolves to vote for them, he the resist w?i a fit may, doa# something to lessen the weight of this objection. Let us have the vote of eyery man in the country who sincerely believes that ours is the host ticket, and wejisk no more. j3uch, fellow citizens, are a few of the most oh vious arguments in behalf of the candidates of the Constitutional Union party. 0 We cannot 1 it from you we look forward to the future with grave anxiety. Tlifs is natural when we consider the excitability of the Ameri can peophs, and the ©inflamatory character, of ,tRe political issues which now divide them.— Surely, great dangers lie in the path on which o we are moving, o Our appeal is lo the patriotism, the wisdom and the conscience of thl country to leave thes# perilous edges df sectional strife, and thus avoid tjaese dangers.© We would fain 0 recall the American people ?o a ftesll sense of the aifactionate and fraternal wisdom which breathes through th Farewell 6 Address of the Father of his Country. @ There are men now living who, when tlys ad* dress first appeared, w?re of an age to compre hend its spirit, and to be touched by its coun sels ; what a change have lived to witness in the sentiments entertained towards each other by the ®alienated sections of out once xinited country. And how do our altered hearts ancT averted faces vindicate the prophetic sagacity ■ iof Washington ? We readily admit there have been on both sides, let us not employ ourselves in the ungracious office of comparing offences and weighing provocations, but Jet us open wide the arms of reconciliation, and cease to use the language of reproach.— The blessing promised to the peftce-makers shall * rest upon all who address themselves to this beneficient work. We o wish to preserve the Union and transmit it to our children, and a Union animated by th<2 life blood of a paternal spirit, without which it is a shadow and not a° substance. © . Let us revive in the hearts of our countfyy men the prophetic declaration of tHe patriot £lay, in his memorable speech before the Ken tucky Legislature, when he was called, in 1850, to breathe out las life in the last grand effort to give peace to a distracted country : “ I may be asked, as I have been asked, when I woul<%;onsent to a dissolution of the Union. I an swer, Never! Never'. Never! * * * Iftheagi ,lation in regard to the fugitive slave law should con tinue and increase, and become alarming, it will* fetid to the formation of two new parties, one for the Union, and the other against the Union, * * * and the platform of that Union party will be, The Union, the Constitution, and the Enforcement of the Laics. And if it should pc necessary to form such a party, and it chould be accordingly formed, 1 an nounce myself in this place a gnember, of that ° whatever may be its component elements. „ The time so eloquently and graphically predicted has arrived. That Union party is now organized. It the countrymen of Washingion and Clay sos their support. It entreats them to gather in serried phalanx around the Union and the Consti tution, and defend them from the fierce assaults of sectionalism whencesoever they may come ; and, by the election of our natural and patriotic candidates to preserve for our sons the glorious heritage be queathed us by our sires, it shall remain the boast® of American citizens that they have “one country, one Constitution, and one destiny.” By order of the Committee. • ALEX. R, BOTELER, Chairman. , L. A. Whitley, Secretary. NO. 21, •