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MAcON, GA.
Thursday, January 7, 1858.
KANSAS APOSTASY OF JUDGE DOUGLAS.
The objections taken by Jcdoc Douglas to
the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton
Constitution, arc two; viz.: that Congress has
passed no enabling act, authorizing the people
of the territory to establish n Constitution, and
that the whole Constitution has not been sub
hiitbed to a popular vote, for ratification or re
jection. Both of these objections are flimsy and
tintenable, and we are forced to conclude that
they are aho captions and insincere—for high
ly as we have esteemed Judge Dovolas in the
past, we find it impossible to believe that a
statesman of his acknowledged ability and
thorough acquaintance with the history of our
territorial policy, can honestly entertain the
opinions which he has lately professed, end un
dertaken to propagate and defend. To say that
an enabling act is essential, before the people
vs a territory can form a Constitution, Is to as
sert that no less than eight of the new States
have been improperly admitted into the Union :
while to contend that no Constitution is valid
unless ratified by the people primarily and that
ft refusal to submit it for such ratification is
despotic and unfair, is to declare that the Fed
eral Constitution and that of a majority of the
States have been adopted in a mode w hich is
illiberal and anti-republican. The idea that
the people (primarily) meat pass' upon a Con
•stitution, can only proceed from the false as
■snmption that our form of Government is pure
ly Jlemorratic, and that no law can be enacted
and rro election made except by a mob in an
•oldTield, where every man must have a voice
in the proceedings—whereas every school-boy
knows that -Mirs is a representative republic,
•in which the people aet by theirograf* to whom
'they have delegated authority. If the people
of tilnsas had the right to establish a Consti
tution. the proposition that they could not dele
gate that duty to a Convention, is a bald falla
cy, not worthy the name of a sophism, for it
has noteven tlic poor merit of plausibility—and
•the assertion that the Convention was bound
'to refer its work back to the people, when the
•■people themselves had imposed no such obli
gation upon it, is of a pace with the rest of the
•argument ; if that may be called an lirgument,
Xvhich has falsehood for its base and folly for
the superstructure.
A weak man might fall into these errors, and
we might still respect his honesty, while we
pitied his delusion —but even then we should
-demand consistency in conduct before we could
•concede sincerity of purpose and conviction.
In the present instance, there is no such ex
reuse, Judge Douglas Ims no superior, in point
«of talents, ’among the statesmen of the country,
aud besides a thorough knowledge of the gen
reral theory of our government, is peculiarly
well versed in the history of our Territorial
system. When we hear such a man adopt the
TUlgnr cant of demagogues about popular sov
ereignty. and declare against the usage of the
country —the usage, sanctioned Uy our best
statesmen. Gen. Washington among the num
her—we find it difficult to believe that he is
the victim of his own sophistry. Hut w hen
w e find him involving himself in gross incon
sistencies, falsifying his own history and ig
noring his own record, and. withnl. stooping
to perversions which are patent and to so
phisins which arc not even ingenious, we are
compelled to give over the attempt in disgust,
and to class him with those great, yet grovel
ling natures, of whom the world's history is
too full, and in the contemplation of whose
characters we know not whether most to ad
mire the might of their intellects, or most to
despise the littleness of their souls.
The inconsistencies into which Judge Dot g
i.as has been betrayed by his avarice for place,
nre too glaring to escape the notice of the dull
est observers. He who now contends that
the Constitution of a territory must be sub
mitted to the people for ratification or rejec
tion. Inows that in a majority of instances no
■such submission has been required, and has
himself sanctioned the contrary principle by
•his action in the Senate. He who now declares
that an enabling aet is necessary. Xnoira that
•in the cases of eight of the new States no such
■act was passed, and lie himself voted for the
; admission of two of them into the Union. He
who now seeks to dictate to the people of Kan
sas the mode which they must adopt in the
formation of their Constitution, is himself the
author of the Aet declaring that the people of
Kansas shall be perfectly tree to regulate their
institutions “in their eten way." He who
now contends that Kansas <nn make no Consti
tution w ithout the enabling act by Congress,
is himselfllie father of the Bill, which removed
the vexed questions of territorial rights from
Congress, mid vested their solution solely in
the people dflthe territories themselves.
These arc someg'f the lamentable inconsis
tencies ntto which he has fallen, ami equally
lamentable are’Hie sophisms with which lie ut
tetqpls to defend:tlivm. This, from the very
natnze-tf.Un'case, wie, to have been expected.
In the fiMtqdace. like Ji hue Douglas.
hitbeige Tiir.sd and justly noted, for a manly
vehemence df ohatMtar and straight-forward
style of ri-aeoiii ig, corn’d not but feel ill at ease
ou his first'appearanct »the role of the rene
gade and Ike .trickster. The little weapons of
the were all-suitaii to his hand —it was
e part qif Hercules wifi the distaff —and. no
d«/bt, he sighed wore tliai once for the knot
u-tdU -club bcnotlfli whose Vrrible descent, those
-viCke-lire now folk contedo.’ates have so otteii
l imddJed together Tike tru htened sh'.ep. But
. another, and stronger reison, is, that the eon
tr.*liotions'are so glazing that the most prac
. ticetl Mjyihist of the Aiii.enian Porticos could
met •often, much lees reconcile them. The
■Kanous Act lefttSxeipiwple free to regulate their
own ‘domestic :? net trillions “in their own tray,"
subject only Ae'tbe’Constitution of the United
States. Accordingly they elected members
for a territo-iid Legislature, uod in this elec
,tion all -were Tree to vote. This Legislature,
■the legiiltty-of’whose acts, was fully acknow
lledgefi ibettli by the Executive and Congress,
ordered the election of a Contention ; in this
election, likewise, all were free to vote. This
Convention met and performed the duty as
signed to it—they formed a Constitution, and
submitted the Slavery clause to the people for
rejection or ratification —and here, again, all
were free to vote. All have voted who chose
to do so. the Slavery clause has been accepted,
and the Constitution is complete. Al) has
lieen done regularly—in pursuance of law, cus
tom. aud tlie Constitution of the country. This
Is “the ■'<"/ 'ihe people of Kansas have chosen
■ to proceed—a “ way" not prohibited by tli e
Kansas Act—a “ way" adopted by u majority
of the States of the Union. They now demand
admission ns a State —and when Jvdoe Doug
las opposes the application on the ground that
the Constitution was not submitted to the peo
ple, it is plain that he acts in defiance of the
I principle of non-inferrention of which he claims
to be the peculiar guardian, mid of the Kan
sas Act of which he assumes the paternity—
like the voracious Saturn, or a savage sow,
; (the reader may choose between the illustra
■ tions) devouring his children as fast as they
| come before him. lienee his subterfttges
in argument. Hence, his attempt to di
vert the debate from any reference to his own
I career. Hence, his demagogical rant about
popular sovereignty. Hence, above all. his im
patience under the charge of inconsistency, and
his request that Senators would let his record
alone and stick to the question before them.
We are w ell aware that it is hazardous lor
us, an “obscure critic,’’ to speak lightly of an
argument proceeding from Judge Doioi.as.
But it is precisely because we know his great
powers and acknowledge them, that we are im
patient under sophistry hardly worthy of a fifth
rate attorney; and it is precisely lieeause we
have hitherto ranked him among Democrats,
the truest of the true, that we are indignant at
the desertion. When a dunce talks nonsense,
we forgive and forget it. But when a states
man condescends to fustian, we depise him—
| for that which is a blunder in the fool is a crime
,in the sage. So. also, when a known scoundrel
deceives us, we harbor no malice—for “"tis in
I the line of his vocation.” But when lie of
whose prowess we were proud, of whose truth
1 we were confident, ami lor whose fealty we
would have pledged our lives, blasts all our
expectations by a sudden apostasy, the recol
lection of his past services mid the knowledge
of his great powers, only aggravate the treason
' and deepen the detestation of his guilt. No
doubt, many an obscure soldier deserted the
Army of Freedom in the Revolution, of whom
history takes no note, and who soon faded
even from the memory of his comrades, but
Arnold, who stained the snows of Canada
with his blood, and ranked as bravest of the
brare at Saratoga, will godown to the latest
posterity, loaded with execrations. Judge
Douglas must be content to pay the penalty,
common to all great renegades. In such cases,
the eminence of the apostate always attracts
cotemporary observation —comparisons nre in
stituted between that period of his life when
he was loyal, and that over which the treache
ry throws its shadow—and history preserves
the contrast. Even Burke lias come down to
us with a dark shade resting on the latter pe
riod of his life. And yet what an advantage
Ihe had over Douglas ! No man doubted the
' honesty of the first—not even those whom he
deserted. No man credits the sincerity of tin
iest -not even those to whom he has “ratted I"
AVe know very well that Judge Douglas
still claims to be a Democrat. But we tire
equally well aware that Judas went back into
the company of the Apostles and claimed to be
one of the chosen, even after he had arranged
the conspiracy, and. perhaps. I.ad the price
in his pocket. Let the Democracy be on their
guard, nor sutler themselves to be betrayed by
a kiss.
GEN. WALKER AND COMMODORE PAULDING.
An account of the inexcusable outrage, per
: petrated by a Commodore in the United States
Service, involving not only an act of brntul
tyranny against the person of Gen. 11 m. 11 ai k-
Hit, but, also, a high-handed invasion of an in- >
i dependent sovereignty and a wanton violation
j of the first principles of international hue, will
be found elsewhere in our columns.
That the Federal Authorities were in duty
bound to exercise every precaution in order to
prevent the fitting out. ami the departure from
our shores, of the Walker Expedition, is an
unquestionable truth, which, we suppose, no
body is disposed to controvert. Nay, had they
succeeded in capturing Walker outlie high seas
and in bringing him back to the I nited States,
though even ill that ease they would have been
in the exercise <>f n doubtful power. it is possible !
that there might have been a species of acqui
escence on the part of the people.
But the facts of the ease are widely differ
ent. Walker ha 1 succeeded in running the
gauntlet of Federal Bailiffs id New Orleans,
and had safely landed his little band at Pi nta
Arenas in full view of Chatard, I’xt lihng.
and other such sleepy guardians of the Central
American waters. He was clearly beyond the
jurisdiction of the United States. He was upon
I the soil of an independent sovereignty, with
, whom this country is at peace, lie had hoist
ed the flag to which he professed allegiance,
and stood on the land of which lie claims to
lie the rightfully elected ruler. One thing is
certain. He was neither in the territories nor
iqain the waters of the I nited States. He was
covered by the Sovereignty of Nicaiiagi a.
no matter where that sovereignty resides; and
I whether he was a patriot ora pirate, a hero or
an outlaw, does not affect the question in the
remotest degree. The vilest criminal who es
' capes into the dominions of an Independent
State, can not be arrested nor delivered into
the hand' of his own Government, except un
der positiv • treaty stipulations —nay if the of
fence was political, and none other is charged
to Walker, he might come to the United States
with the King's head in his hand, and bid de
fiance to his piirstiers./brrrer.
What is to become of the rights of nations
and into what endless broils is our Govern
ment tube involved, if every boastful eoxcomb
like Ciiatakh. or every ignorant bully like
Pavi.iiing. is to be allow ed to construe the hue
of nations for himself, and to invade the soil
of Independent States with whom we are at
peace, upon any pretext which he, in his great
wisdom, may deem sufficient? The act ad
mits of no palliation, and the manner of its
performance aggravate' the ofl'eiicc. Nothing
could be more disgusting than the braggart air
of these heroes, when telling of their exploit',
which consisted in the capture of a few ill
armed and undisciplined men. by a trained
force four times their niiiiilier and backed by
the batteries of men-of-war. Great men!
Great achievement! IfECATri: must give place
to Ciiatahk. and Vattei. and Gnonts “pale
their lights" before the brighter glories of the
sagacious Paulding.
Y. M, C. A. —Prof. 11. H. Tt cKEit. of Mer
cer University, delivered a Lecture la't Tuesday
night, at Concert Hall, beforethc Young Men's
Christian Assiiciatlon. Hissubject was “ Beau
ty a We were prevented by other en-
gagements from being present; but are inform
ed that the audience were very favorably im
pressed with the Professor, rind highly enter
mined by his Lectun
THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN AND JUDGE DOUG
LAS. ..
The “ Savannah Republican” is in high spir
its over our denunciation of Judge Douglas,
and will not even allow us the right to be sur
prised at the tergiversation of that distinguish
ed turn-coat. Very well. If we have no right
to be “ surprised” at the course of Judge Doug
las, we now claim the right to be "surprised”
at the course’of the "Republican'’ itself-and
for this simple reason :
Judge Doi glam contends fur the broadest .
interpretation of popular sovereignty— that is
to say, he insists that the people of Kansas
have the right to vote for or against the whole j
roust it at ion, the slavery clause included; and
that the failure to submit the instrument entire ,
invalidates the proceedings of the Convention. ■
He has never denied the right of slave-holders :
to migrate into Kansas with their slaves, nor ■
the right of the people of that territory to es- |
tablish the institution of slavery by law.
Mu. Fillmoke, on the contrary, has denied
both throughout his whole career. He has
uniformly sustained the “ Missouri Compro
mise,” and denounced the authors of its repeal (
and the repeal itself. Yet every body knows
that the "Missouri Compromise,” prohibited
slavery in Kansas, and every where else North
of the imaginary line 36-30,
Judge Douglas Ims uniformly contended
that the “people” of Kan-as (primarily) have
the right to establish slavery there, if they
choose—though he denies the right of a "Con- 1
vention” to do so, except by ratification of |
the people at the polls. But Mb. Fill
more, has just as uniformly been in favor of
withholding the right from the Convention and
the people both. He is the fast friend of the
measure which prohibited slavery in Kansas
under all circumstances and. forever.
Yet the “ Republican” denounces Douglas,
while it lauds Fillmore to the skies and rec- I
ommends him for the highest office in the gift
of the people ! What is the explanation ? We
think we can give it, Douglas has hitherto
been a Democrat— hiue iliac lachrymar!
THE "SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN" AND MR.
TOOMBS.
A letter-writer having intimated that M-.
Toomiis is bitterly opposed to the course of
Douglas, the prophet of the “Savannah Re
publican'’ emitteth the following plaint:
“We here record the prediction that time
w ill prove this latter supposition to \w false.''
It is well that the “ Republican” should put
on record its own predictions, for few others in
this wicked world will be at that trouble.
We indulge the hope, how ever, that “time I
I will prove" that the "Republican" is mistaken. ’
I We base our opinions upon the following /.'<■-
I solution, adopted at Milledgeville a few weeks
| ago—introduced by Mr. Stcpiiens, sustained
, by Mr. Toomiis, and voted for by other mem
■ la rs of the Georgia Delegation ;
Hrsolrrd, That licnevcr a Territory applies
for admission ns a State into the I'nion, with a i
Con-titution republican in form, and adopted I
in pursuance of the requirements of law, Con- i
gress lias no power to inquire into the matter |
of such Constitution, nor into the manner of!
its adoption, farther than to see that it embo- i
dies the legally and fairly expressed w ill of the
majority ot the people, ascertained in such way i
I ns they may have legally determined for them
; selves, mu) were gard any interference by Con
| gress, with either the math r or the iiunuier as
above stated, as equally unconstitutional ami
i dangerous to the rights of the State-.
The “Republican" may rest assured that Mr. I
Toomiis has no idea of turning tail on this Re
solution, simply toprove that paper to possess
the gift of prophv y. He is not quite so oblig-
I ing’-
For the t*tate Press.
BUCHANAN & WALKER A DISTINCTION WITH
OUT A DIFFERENCE.
Messrs. l:'ditors:—As one of your renders,
your article on the President's Message afford
ed me much pleasure, but allow me to give
you some reflections induced by its perusal. On
the issue between Buchanan and Walker, we
should carefully consider whither an uncondi-
I tional support of the former would lead ns.—
We complain of the President that he permit
ted his agent to intervene in Kansas against
the letter slid spirit of the Kansas Nebraska
act, and to intervene positively against the
I South, throwing h ; s whole weight and authority
| against us, with the palpable purpose of so slia- ■
pmg the affairs of the territory, as to make it a
free State. He is blind who does not see that
the submission of the Constitution for ratifica
tion, was an invention to give the free State
i men the adi antage ; because when first enun
| cinted it was then already firmly fixed, that
! the Convention to frame the Constitution was
i all proslavery. Walker did not desire a pro
slavery Constitution—therefore, to avoid it
he insisted that it should be submitted, that it
might be rejected. This he might well rely on
being done for, the influence of his position, and
speaking for the administration, paralyzed the
proshivery men and encouraged the free State
men—checked the emigration of the former and
promoted that of the latter, and in truth, gave
I the whole pro-slavery interest on that ques
i tion in Kansas, and all over the South, almost,
if not quite, a deathblow.
While this was progressing, not a word of
reproach comes from the administration. It
and Walker appear to agree perfectly, until
their darling Irish is accomplished, in the sub
mission of the Constitution. Now, no candid
man will deny that the submission was enforc
ed entirely as a means of settling the slavery is
sue in the proposed new State, and that thus
I far. the President admits that Walker's poli
ce was his polii'y, ami so declared to him in
the beginning. Neither the South nor the
North regards the submission as bas ing any
vitm.importance beyond its bearing on the sla
very issue. But the object of the President is
necomplislied. and the motive for M alkcr's in
sisting on the submission has been successful,
and yet we find them now dist ring, but differ
ing, remember, only as to the umnnrr of the
submission. And that manner relates only to
the subject matter, because Walker. Buchanan,
and no other free State man could have it
more his own way. than it is in being referred
to all in true squatter sover
eignty style.
Then so fur concerns the merits of our
complaint, the President stands condemned.—
The illegal interference is well established and
it remains to be seen if its purpose is to be
consummated, in making Knnaas a free State.
If all the inhabitants of Kansas vote on the
ratification, and reject the proslavery clause,
then the President's expedient of submission
will have lost us the State, and there will be a
practical effect given to a palpable violation of
the law. If only the prosjgvery men vote,
Congress may <1 believe w ill) reject the appli
cation for admission into the Union, and put it
oti the ground Walker now take- that the
whole constitution was not submitted—thus
evading its rejection, “because of slavery there
in,'’ but still doing the work of free soil. If
perchance, Congress should admit Kansas, not
withstanding the free State men declined to
vote on the ratification, there will be no thanks
due the President, for he has made us “run
the gauntlet" in the submission, and getting it
submitted as he desired upon the only materi
al point, he could not sustain himself for a mo
ment. if he continued to side with M alker.—
It may be asked, why the present difference ,
between the two.' This I think easy of expla
nation. Walker's course in Kansas, as soon as
understood, made him the natural ally, and real
loader of the free state forces. All his sympa
thies went w itli them, and against the South, j
and for their needful support, lie was compelled i
to identify himself w ith that party. Portions
of the constitution not submitted, contain
principles the Black Republicans despise, and
provisions w hich put to the death their most
prominent and ambitious leaders. It is only
necessary to refer to two. Slavery as it exists
at the adoption of the Constitution, is to remain
, at the will of the slaveholders, and the doctrines
of the Dred Scott decision are incorporated in
to it. The Black Republican party of Kansas,
and of the whole Union would rather revolu
tionize the country, than submit even to this.
They want a elean victory for now and here
after. Walker must go with them or be with
out any support in Kansas, or among bis Black
Republican associates in the North.
Again, the qualifications for officers of the ‘
future State are peculiar. For example: the >
Governor must be twenty years a citizen of
the United Statesand five years of Kansas.--
Under this, Robinson, Lane, ik Company are
consigned to the shades for some time to come,
and a host of other Black Republican leaders,
will have to bide their time before they reach
: the places they are reaching after. Walker is
himself excluded. His interest, as well as his
svmpatliks are against the adoption of the
Constitution. And considering he is brought I
in direct antagonism with the bead ot the na- j
tional Democracy and has made a martyr of |
himself to the god of Black Republicanism,!
his interest is of the most intense and magnifi- |
cent kind. Then he and the President may i
well differ to the extent they do now without •
' changing the nature of the issue we have made i
with the former. Things are at present work- j
■ ingweil to eventuate in a free State —a result
so necessary to the perfect harmony of the na
: tional Democracy, and "hisExcellency'’ has no
intere't confined to the locality of Kansas, and :
! not being a candidate for re-election, he will I
| only look to the means of saving the Northern J
I Democracy from absolute prostration. Audit'
' it should become a slave state, he has done all
in his power to prevent it; hence such a result
I may well be charged to the folly of the Free
I State men in not voting down as they had been
invited generously to do, the Pro-slavery
I clause.
We must all. then, very readily perceive, how
we may be made to take a zealous part in an i
issue upon the result of which, we are to gain i
nothing, either in |>rim iple"or pru tice. In- ;
deed worse than nothing, for then we become
absoluti- ] artizatis of the ndmini-t ratimi. become
I co-workers in the work of our ow n destrue- '
tion. mid demoralize ourselves by a com mitt. .1
I to a policy utterly antagonistic to the positions
taken by the Georgia Democracy. Mr. Bu
chanan, since liis message, can uevi r relieve
himself from th? stern truth ot violating his
plighted faith to the Southern Democracy.
whether Kansas is a fre ■or sir■■ ■ e-'at. . In
the fight r.boiit to take place between him and
Doti'das we are compelled to : ide with him
as long as there is any thing practical in such
a course, but nevertheless upon the oft-repeat
i ed and degrading situation in v. hii h Southern
men have been placed of "taking the very best
they could get. - ’ And if not with the al solute
certainty, with the strongest probability, that
[ the crime of which we complained will be
consummated, and we become partieepscrimi
uis, or any way, “ accessories after the fact.”
The triu policy then of true Southerners is
to take no active part for the administration,
beyond the emergency which will soon pass
away, and then no more than is actually ne
cessary to advance the rights of the South, and
' to keep all the time steadily in view, a deter
mination to resent, whenever opportune, the
bartering our dearest rights for the base spoils
of partv, present and prospective.
CALHOUN.
Griffin, Jan. 2nd 1858.
Messrs. Editors : —Since writing on the sub
ject of Mr. Buchanan’s course in reference to
Kansas, we have heard from the President, and
it appears that he and Mr. Douglas, the two
! great Democratic Doctors, differ about the ad
mission of Kansas into the Union. Mr. Buch
anan seems to think that as the conven
tion framing the Kansas Constitution submit
ted the slavery question to the people that
i Congress ought to admit the State —that being
the only portion upon which Congress had
taken the precaution to divest it-s-ls of all pow
er and to vest such power irrevocably in the
people of the Territory—it follows, as a matter
of course, that this is the only matter about
which Congress will now enter into an enqui
re, to see whether or not they have regu
! lated the subject of slavery “in their own
way." Congress having “left the people of the
Territory perfectly free to regulate their do
mestic institutions in their own way," it de
! voices upon the Bresident and Congress, to see
to it that they shall "regulate them in their
own way"— that “their own way" a certain
particular way dictated by Gov. M alker to the
people of the Territory as the only way by
which they could come into the Union, and
as the people have done the thing that way.
they have therefore "regulated their domes
tic institutions in their own way." and Congress
being bound not to interfere with that matter
Congress ought not to interfere with “anything
else!" That Congress ought not to look intoany
thing but the slavery question as that is the on
ly subject Congress wastaledged to let alone.
For some purpose, best known to himself,
Mr. Buchanan determined to control the action of
the people of Kansas on the slavery question;
thedesign was unlawful but he accomplished it,
, and is therefore ready to receive the State,
w hile Mr. Douglas having forgotten that Cali
fornia was admitted w ithout any territorial or
ganization, and without any legal author-
I ity, the whole proceeding being an un
precedented usurpation and an nnparelleled
fraud, thinks Kansas ought to be remanded to
her territorial condition until Congress gives
her the privilege of becoming a State.
The organic act provides that Kansas may
lie admitted as a State with or without slavery
-that the territorial Legislature 'hall have
power to legislate on all rightful subjects of leg
islation—and that the time, place and manner
of holding and conducting all elections by the
people shall be prescribed by law —ami that
the Legislature shall prescribe the qualification
of voters after the first election. Then why
should their action be annulled and the State
remanded to a territorial condition ? They
have in their own way had one election on the
slaverv question, and in Mr. Buchanan s and
Walker's way bad another, it is now proposed
to send them back ami in Mr. Douglas's way |
let them have two more elections on the same
subject —perhaps by that time, if not sooner,
the abolitionists with the help of the aid-soci- I
eties may be enabled to have a complete tri- I
umph.
Whether the new State ought to desire to
get into the Union when so much injustice !
is dune to slave owners, is quite another ques
tion. It is the duty of every independent
State to protect the private property of her
citizens, and this is a duty of higher obligation
than the adherence to leagues or confedera
tions, and it is not to be presumed that any in
dependent State would quietly submit to the
wrongs ami robberies upon the property of her
citizens which most of thcSonthern States have
endured. Such a State would demand and re
ceive satisfaction for such violations ot the
rights of private property. It would then be
come the interest of the neighboring States to
i discourage negro stealing and it would conse-
I quentlv become in all probability, a criminal
■ offence even in such States as now encourage
I it by passing laws in open defiance of the Con
stitution and laws of the I nited States. In
stead of being engaged in making it a penal
offence for any of their citizens to assist in
carrying out tl.e fugitive slave law and refusing
the use of their jails for the safe keeping ot ,
such fugitives, they would be passing laws mak
ing it a high crime to give any assistance to a
fugitive slave and y ielding the use of their jails
both tor the fugitive and his abettor.
j If ourmembersof Congress felt that they rep
i resent States that were fully independent, could
thev with honor to themselves and their Con
| stituency sit and vote with members from States
which have passed laws in open hostility to
■ the Constitution and laws of the Union and to
i the rights of the private property of the people
! they represent ? Such States have no right to
I the privileges of the I nion or a place in Con
gress. When one nation violatesa treaty made
with another the world considers the latter dis
graced if she does not compel reparation—our
Constitution being a contract of higher nutlior-
I ity and more solemn obligation than a treaty
it follows that we are under greater obligations
to compel a compliance with its stipulations.—
But we have permitted some of the Northern
States to choose what part of the Constitution
thev will abide mid wliat part they will disre
gard. and our members to Congress still sit and
act with them asifno wrong had been done.—
Under such circumstances it is exceedingly
questionable whether a pro-slavery State or
' territorv now out of the I nion would be ad
vancing its own interests by seeking an en-
I trance into the Union. Were our own good
State out and truly independent, could we with
our own eX|H-i'ieiicC‘ again seek a place in such a
I’nion; or rather would we not seek a more
ei>n"u:ii;il. a more hospitable and a more just
and horn ral.-le Union a I nion of Southern
Stat. s and Southern iiiten-'ts—a I'n'mn which
v. uuldgive ii'indcp, nikliiv of ya a kit dom and the
world! We have the power but are not <-mi
'i i,'!~ <•!'it. ami will not be perhaps till driven
' to t!:i • courage of despuir.'’
A DEMOCRAT.
For the Stun 1 Press. ]
Me."i:s. Editors: —Allow me to express
through your columns my gratification upon
seeing the name of our worthy representative,
Judge Henry Faulk, recorded with the gal
lant 33 members of the House who stool firm I
tothe principles of tlieir constituents by voting
to sn-tain the Executive veto of the abomina
ble Bank Bill. The Judge w ill receive the
plaudits of nine-tenths of the honest citizens of
old Twiggs (the county of his nativity) for his
vote on this measure. He lias proved himself
a Jacksonian Democrat, and a faithful guardian
of public interests.
Our Senator (Mr. Griffin) was absent from
Providential causes at the time the vote on tin*
veto was taken ; but I do not doubt that lie
would have been found shoulder to shoulder
with the Governor in his efforts to protect the
interests of the people.
Yours, &c., TWIGGS.
[< OMMI mi atei>.]
THREE DEER KILLED AT ONE SHOT.
About the 10th of last month. W. T. Guice,
of Butler, Ga., while on a hunt in Clinch comi
ty. killed, at one shot, three deer, w hich were
all that ran by him. It was his first deer-hunt.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR.
The following are the appointments of Gov.
Brown, as far as made :
Gen. Eli McConnell, Principal Keeper Pen
itentiary.
Capt. John Jones. Assist. Keeper Peniten’y.
W. A. Williams, Book Keeper.
Dr. Geo. D. Case, Physician.
Rev. R. C. Smith, Chaplain.
Mr. Wellborn, State Librarian.
Benj. Cook. ('apt. State House Guard.
Drs. T. Fort and E. L. Stroheckcr and B.
j P. Stubbs. Esqr.. Trustees of the Lunatic Asyl
: urn.
The follow ing gentlemen have been appoint
ed Trustees of the Georgia Military Institute:
Hon. David Irwin, of Cobb.
Hon. C. -I. McDonald “
Davis Ardis,
Hon. John Milledge, of Richmond.
Capt. W. T. Woflbrd, of Cass.
BOARD OF VISITORS.
Gen. G. P. Harrison, of Chatham.
R. L. Mott, of Muscogee.
Capt. Tims. Hardeman, of Bibb.
Gen. A. J. Hansell, of Cobh.
Hon. E. W. Chastain, of Fannin.
Col. A. A. F. Hill, of Clarke.
Col. W. S, Rockwell, of Baldwin.
Maj. Goode Bryan, of Richmond.
Col. 11. Strickland, of Forsyth.
Hon. D. J. Bailey, of Butts.
11. 11. Watters. Esq., of Canton, Ga., Secre
. tary of the Executive Department in the place
of J. 11. Steele, resigned.
The Governor has also appointed the follow
ing Commissioners of the Georgia Asylum for
the Deaf and Dumb.
lion. J. 11. Lumpkin, of Floyd.
Hon. J. W. 11. Underwood, of Floyd.
Geo. W. Thomas.
F. C. Shropshire.
Alfred J. King.
W. R. Webster.
Samuel Moblev.
P. W. Me Daniel.
I 11. Fielder.
Cheap Corn.—( orn throughout the interior
j of Indiana mid Illinois, is said to be offereil
freely at 10 and 15 cents |wr bushel.
M ain Trunk. —At the meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroacl
company, on the 28th ult., the following offi
cers were elected :
E. L. Ileriot. Chief Engineer.
W. W. Ward, Secretary.
I loiiald McDonald, Treasurer.
The following gentlemen were elected,
yesterday, President and Direc tors ot the Cen
tral Railroad and Banking Company, for the
ensuing year. It is the old Board without
change:
R. R. Ct ti er, President
J. W. Anderson, J. R. Wilder,
Andrew Low, J. B. Gallic.
Thomas Purse, W. R. Fleming, i
W. Crabtree, F. G. Dana.
NEWS ITEMS.
Foreign Intelligence.—The Steamship Ni- 1
i ngara arrived in New York on the 2d inst., ;
with Liverpool dates to 19th ult. She reports
the sale of 28,000 bales of cotton during the
week, at a decline of l-2d. Breadstutls quiet;
Money slightly easier; political intelligence
uninteresting; no later news from India; the
commercial crisis still continues in the North
of Europe; several heavy failures have occur
red in London; the Bank of I ranee has reduced
its rates of discount to six per cent, and it was 1
expected that the Bank of England would re
duce her rate during the week ; the American
Companies have abandoned the attempt to
raise the Russian ships at Sebastopol.
Washington, Jan. 4.—ln the Senate to-day
a motion was made by Fitzpatrick, that the in
structions and correspondence relative to the
seizure of W alker be called for. Pugh intro
duced a Kansas compromise bill, proposing to
admit her under the Lecompton Constitution,
i submitting the slavery clause to the people,
and authorising the right to amend the consti
! tution in convention, to meet on the 7th April.
In the House. Kansas affairs were discussed.
Mr. Clingman introduced a resolution, which ,
was amended and passed, calling tor informa- ,
! tion concerning the instructions and corres- !
pondence relative to the seizure of Walker.-
The discussion was calm. Mr.- Quitman asked i
consent —which was refused—to introduce a I
bill for the repeal of the neutrality laws.
Nn AiiAGt a.—The Washington Star coltains
a letter from Gen. Heiiningsen. addressed to j
the Hon. A. 11. stephens, in which he gives a
minute account of the population of Nicaragua, I
their incapacity for self government, and the
plans of Walker for instituting a new rule over
the country. He rejects the idea of paeiliecol
onization.advanced by the President, ns illusory,
an.l says the country can only be redeemed by
force." To this end he urges a modification of
our neutrality law s so as to permit free egress
to military expeditions that may be -et on foct
: by our citizens.
Kansas.—At Leavenworth. Kansas, on Elec
: tion dav, the vote stood—for the Constitution (
with Slavery, 238 —without 9. Many Missou
rians were said to have been present and were
pat under arrest, but released upon writs es '
habeas Corpus by Judge Lecompt. I’rc-i- ‘
dent Calhoun wii' burned in effigy—Ely Moore
shot in the leg. The St. Louis Denus rat says
: that passengers report an engagemuiit between
Lane and the Dragoon*, in which the latter
were worsted, retiring with the loss of three
I men. Both sides are expecting reinforcements.
The excitement is iiiteli.se.
Nk aragt a Meeting in M< mi ss.—Jan. 2.
A meeting of the citizens W ils held to-night,
aud resolutions pa"' / censuring the Adminis
tration for the arrest Vs Gen. Walk', r d.-mai d
ing his restoration to Nicaragua, i.nd urging
,:..• I . I I
the repeal oi tie n. ir.lit;. 11 . iromi.uiit
Democrats denounce the inU-rv.:.t'mn of our
Government in invading Niii.rn;. na, a., out
rageous.
Sai.i;.' at tiiu Coui.'T llo:»t. We notice
. among tl.e sales :;t th? Court Htoise i n yesler
terdav a gang ot m grocs, comprising *»4 in
number, which brought at the average Soii‘l a
piece. Also the sales of 13 shares Marine
Bank stock at $4'J 12. and t n shar<s at 50. —
There were some 75 iliares ot South \\e-tcr:i
Rail Road stock sold, but prices were not made
known. —.Sir.
Ten Brolck Course, llie Race at the leu
1 Broeck Course opened yesterday. Notwjth-
■ standing the inclemency of the weather, the
concourse was large.— lb.
The Month >mf.i:y Adveiitisei:.- Mr. George
11. Shorter has purchased an interest in this
journal, and will hereafter devote his time and
■ talents to the interests of the establishment.
We wish him success and prosperity in his
new vocation.
Exciting Tonies.- Nicaragua, Kansas and
Utah, bid fair to furnish plenty of exciting
material for some time to c line. The old year
passes away amid fillibustering, civil war, re
bellion and polygamy. So wego!
The number of emigrants arrived at the
port of New York during 1857 wius 183.228 —
an increase of 4(1.886 as compared with 1856.
CLIPPINGS.
Walker Excitement in Virginia.—Private
despatches from Richmond say there is great
excitement and indignation there and in Peters
burg, on the seizure of Walker. Resolutions
censuring and 'ondemning the act. were* intro
■ duced to-day in the Virginia legislature.
The Gaines Case. —The New Orleans Pica
: yune says that some new and unexpected evi
dence bus been educed by that indomitable lit
tle woman, Mrs, Myra Clark Gaines, in her la
mous case. She brings forward various wit
nesses, engravers, writing musters, and other
experts, to show that the signature of her fa
ther, Daniel Clark, affixed to various doeu
uments, is a fogery. Au interesting point in
the testimony to the effect that these signatures
were executed with a steel pen, whereas it is
well known that, at the time of their dates,
1794, steel pens were not then in use.— Tele-
■ graqh.
Tennessee Banks.—-The Knoxville (Tenn.)
Citizen says that the Bank.'of Tuzewell and
j Claiborne in that State, will probably soon
be reinstated in public confidence. At present
: their bills are selling at 75e. on the dollar, and
the notes of the Bank of East Tennessee at on
ly 20 cents.
Exchange is selling there at 5 to 6 per cent.
' premium, and very little to lie had at those
I rates.
Election in Brunswick.—The election which
came off in Brunswick on Saturday last result
ed in the triumph of w bat was called the Con
servative Ticket. The following gentlemen
compose the ticket:
Mayor— Carey W. Styles.
Aldermen— H.MeConn, John McDonough,
S. L. Guest, John Pratt; A. S. Osgood, W. Har
ris, J. B. Miller, E. H. Gatchell.
Texas. —The Lamar Enquirer of recent date
savs, “ Immigration still continues. Wagons
are continually rolling past our office to the
tar west. All sorts of provisions are in good
demand, and no one is doing so well as our
farmers ami planters. We think the immigra
tion will equal, if not surpass that of last fall.
Accident to Hon. M m. Griffin.—The Al
bany Patriot says that the Senator from Cal
houn. while pa-s’mg through that place, on his
way home from the Legislature, was thrown
from his carriage, his horsestaking fright, and
one of his legs was fractured. He was able,
how ever, soon after, to continue his journey.
1 Melancholy Rencontre.—Me understand
that a difficulty took place at die 'tore of N. B.
Allen ut Stevensville, Wilkinson bounty, in
w hich Gen. Jas. B. Bostwick was shot by Mr.
Allen, and died in a few minutes.
Broke Jail.—Young Witcher, who killed
his father in Atlanta, last spring, and two or
three other persona confined in the jail at At
lanta, escaped a few days since, by burning
through the floor, and arc still at large.
Recruits for Nicaragua.—Dispatches to
the New York papers say that eight hundred
men sailed from Texas for Nicaragua on the
16th ultimo.
Discontinued.—The Post Office at Whiting,
we learn, has been discontinued.
MISCELLANY.
"Ixioii, the Washington correspondent erf
the South, ilescribes the notorious Sumner, of
Massachusetts, us “a large, tall Senator, who
I sits mar the main entrance, (of the Senate
Chamber. I His posture is one of the most in
imitable conceit, with his bend raised, his eves
elevated and resting on a pleasant vacancy, his
body turned superciliously away from the neigh
boring Senators, and without even the least
sign of attention to betray his consideration
for anything that is passing around him. This
huge coxcomb, with his hair so tenderly part
ed and his big, white hands so constantly en
; gaged in strokinghimself, still smiling and talk
ing to the lickspittles that surround him, isthat
pampered, cane-marked hound, A lairles Sum
ner.'’
Di:. Bi:i:niii.'EU—The Mormon delegate in
Congress. Dr. Bernliisel, the question of whose
excommimieiitioii is agitating that pure and
patriotic conclave, is described as a little old
man. with a bald head, spectacles, and so near
sighted that when he writes, he is obliged to
bend very low npbn his desk, and almost touch
his paper with his nose. It is not known of
how many wives Dr. Bernliisel is proprietor,
but the members of Congress seem very en
vious of the old fellow.
Com. Paiiiuxg. Hiram Paulding comes
, honestly by his.skill in arresting unlawful ex
peditions. His father was that celebrated John
Paulding, the Peekskill farmer, who was one
of the three captors of Major Andre. Hiriu.i
was born in Westeliester county, and early in
life entered the Navy, where lie inis gradually
I worked bis way up through the grades of Mid
| shipmaii, Lieutenant,Commander aud Captain.
. —Albany Journal.
The Greased Pm.—lt is said that at least
five hundred people witnessed the catching of
a greased pig, on Christnuw day, in Dorches
ter. Ma.". Twenty-light persons competed
for the prize, each one paying an entrance fee
ot twenty-five cents, making $7 in all. War
ren Haley was successful. There was a foot
race immediately after the pig race, in w hich
Jonathan Baker, one of the six youngmen who
I engaged, outstripped h:s competitors,
A Bov Eaten i v a Bear.—M e learn from
the Lexington (Mi".) Advertiser, that a young
negro l«>y of John ."Stew art, Esq., living about
tin miles from that place, while out a short
.I stance trom t e house after cows, was seize I
upon and eaten up by a bear.
Ihe Si.avi: 1 8.-,t>E in Texas.—A series of
resolutions, rermnmeudiug the re-opening of
the Alrican Slave Trade, has been introduced
in the lower House of the Texas Legislature,
by John Henry Brown.
Fki>ei:atw:. Movement in Alstraua.—A
n .tion il party has been formed in Aiv-tmlia,
the object being to bring about a union of all
tie Au'traliau provinces in one great Feilcrnl
State.
Chat op Arms. It was recpntly stu
t''i| at iui anti Mormon meeting that the arms
of Utah consist of it l ee-hive, protected l>» n
lion rampa: t. at whose feet is the Ameritan
e.iuic. '■oueiiimt. and Inidly plucked.
VZxT AND KUMOK.
Pt nmng Dtsr.vrities.—Gen. Havelock is a
wit a- well as a warrior. The following is tho
di'p:it' li b. wlihli he conveyed the intelli
gence of ills la't success in India tothe Govern
or General:
Din: General.—Let all our past misfor
tunes be forgotten, fir we are in Luck-now.
Yours,
Havei.ih K.
This is nearly a- good as Sir Sydney Smith's
famous dispateli anno.inciiig the capture of
Si inde : "Peceavi"—"l have sinned.”
They both, doubtless, at some time servedill
the Punjob.
An lione-t Dutchman, in ti.'lining up his son
in the way he should go, frequently exercised
him in Bible lessons. On one of these occa
j sions lie asked him :
“Who vas dat would no sleep mit Botiplier's
I life?’’
j “Slioscph."
“Dat s a good poy . W il. vat vas de reason
he voiild not sldeep mit her ?"’
"Don't know— slipose lie vasn't sleepy.”
A wag says of a certain congregation
that they pray on their knees Sundays, and prey
mi their neighbor's the rest of the week.
2-t?’ A boy in a Latin school, gave the pas
sage, " I’ouipi iusc.laiiat iiorte Casar pa la in set
• iuhrdiu." the following rendering: “Pompey
ate clams by night, Caesar by the pailful and
, i in the day time."
Fa< t. —On one of the grave stones ill a buri
al ground in Gloucester is the following epi
taph :
This little boy wl.o lieth hero
Was conquered by a diarrhea.
Jej?* Tho following is on a tombstone in Ire
r land :
“Here lies th ■ body of Joh n Mound,
1.0-t ut sea, and never found."’
II
' Wh it the Kansas Lehiseature did. —The
- late special session of the Kansas Legislature
■ resulted in the eiiactment of only two laws—
one submitting the, whole Lecompton constitu
tution to a vote of the people, on the 4th of
Janmiry. Mid the other making the perpetra-
1 tion of election frauds felony. Several other
i bill-, among them the mtritia bill, for orgaui
-1 zing the territorial militia, under the command
t of Jim Lane, were passed over the Governor’s
I veto. but. ns they were not signed by the
prc-ideirt of the Council and the speaker of
the House, they are not laws. So says the St.
Louis Intelligencer.
Sales Yesterday.—Not many buyers scem
i ed to be about yesterday mid consequently
1 sales were dull and things laid low around our
" Citv Court House.
Mr. T. J. Walsh sold 64 negroes at an aver
age of $556. Those were purchased by <>ue of
our Georgia planters.
Messrs. Wylly & Collins sold 13 shares Mar
’ ine Bank stock at $49 50, and 10 do. at SSO.
Messr-. Minis & Johnson sold 75 shares South
Western Railroad stock, as follows: 25 at 81
and 50 at 80. at which the sale stopped.—N»r.
Georgian.
I Ni:w-capei: ii('.ii,iEiMTiiE —W« li.ne re
r ceived the prospectus of “The Express," a new
_ Ilemoeratic paper about to be established attho
I flourishing village of Cartersville, in Cass Co,
Satu'l 11. Smith (late editor of the Cassville
. ‘ Standard) is the editor and publisher.—-
. Terms; $2 per annum, in advance. — Nar. Re
s publican.
n
1 Treasury Notes. —Secretary Cobb has dc
'■ eided to adopt 3 per cent., as the rates of in
terest for the Treasury Notes, six millions of
which are abont to be issued, in sums of one
1 hundred, five hundred, and one thousand dol
'• lars.