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W ftOWERS COUECriflff ) )- * ' i-t • Georgia tele graph- Extra, dot'll Col. S. T. Bailey's Letter. We call aMentjon to the following correspond" encc between Messrs. Huoter and others, and Col S. T. BaiJey. We trust the Whigs of Georgia who congratulated themselves on the victory obtained, toe other day in Vermont, will peruse it with care Col Bailey is well known in this District and Circuit, as a prominent and talented lawyer of the Bar, and has hitherto been'a member of the Whig party t ■;•••* - MACON, 30th Sept., 1844. Dear Sir,—We learn that you have re cently returned from a somewhat protracted vi sit to the North, and while there, met with som> difficulty in reclaiming a fugitive slave ! May we trespass upon your attention for a brief state ment of the embarrassments under which you laborfed, and a history of the personal peril you encountered in the reclamation of your properly. You will readily perceive that our object in addressing you this note, is to ascer tain, from a reliable source, the true position of the Whig and Democratic parties at the Nonh, in regard to the great and absorbing question of Abolition. . A Georgian by adoption, arid identified as you are with the South, in all the interests of a permanent citizen, and so extensively known throuobout our limits,-your statement, cannot fail ttTcarry with it a most salutary influence, Respectfullv, your friends, • F SAMUEL B. HUNTER. WILLIAM SOLOMON. A. P. POWERS. .V H. K. GREEN. D. C. CAMPBELL. !■ ROBERT COLLINS. Col. S- T. Bailee, Vineville. < r - Vineville, 1st Oct. 1814. Gentlemen,—Your note reached me last night, requiring a statement of the trials and penis’which I encountered this summer at the North attd the position of the two great polit ical partiesthere, touching abolition. It woo'd require too much time and space to detail half the striking incidents which occurred in the aff <if to which vou allude. Briefly—toy ser vant was seduced away from my sick family durog mv absence in Canada ; I having left them in Vermont. I ascertained on my return, in what part of thfe country she was conceal ed- I went with a friend and retook her, and conveyed her to Baltimore. I was pursued through Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con necticut, by the Abolitionists, with the ener gy of blood hounds, but was saved by a cor responding energy and vigilance of a fbvv faith- ful friends. On. my return to my family m Vermont, myself and friend were arrested on a charge of kidnapping,, punishable in that State, with ten years imprisonment in the Pen- ■ itentiarv. Demons from He]l cotilfl noj have manifested more ferocious malice than the gang who arrested us, and yet tjife majority of those Who had aided and took a part m that prosecution, did not pWess to be Aboli tionists. After a tedious trial, we were dis charged, and on the ground that it was not pro ven that my servant was forced away against her'will, and 'therefore rib kidndppmg. In this affair, the difference in the cbnduct ofMhe Whigs arid Democrats was most striking: The Dortocrats gathered in from a distance, even from New Hampshire, although most of them Strangers to me, and gave utterance loud and deep to their abborrenceand detestation of the infamous proceeding. Those from N. ilamp- shire, swbte thatiio Southern gentleman could he treated thus in their State, while the Whigs frith but few honorable exceptions stood cold. 1$ aloof dt directly aided in the prosecution— bnfe of my relatives, a member of the Pres byterian church, informed me that whenevei he attempted to vindicate me to the members of his church, they would utter ““' Ied voice of condemnation, and yet he f as they were Whigs: Indeed I found throughout the New England and Middle St f k* deep -4L rooted hatred of slaveholders amongst the great mass of the Whig party. I travelled through all those States and watched with an anxious desire to learn the truth, I travelled incog, as far as practicable, that they might not know I was a Southerner, and thus give them free scope to speak their minds without infringing the rules of politeness, and I came to a settled, conviction in my own mind, that a majority of the Democratic party at the North, are the warm friends of the South, arid that a majori ty of the Whigs tlifere are our enemies that a large majority of the Abolitionists are front the Whig ranks, no honest men at the North pretends to deny. But that there arfe many Abolitionists from the Democratic ranks, and many good friends among the Whigs is just as certain. • This state of things is easily accounted for; he Democratic parly at the North, is with few exceptions, the same that Sustained the country during the last war while, neatly all the leaders of the Whigs in New England are the old Federalists of the worst school. The. Democrats retain all their ancient hatred of British arrogance and aggression, and there fore, when the British slander the Southern people or aggress upon their rights, they feel it an insult to themselves as Americans, While the Federalists side with England and join in her slanders of the Southern people. 1 trust, gentlemen, I havo sufficiently an swered your Questions. It is with reluctance that I have answered you—nothing but the rules of politeness has drawn forth this answer —a civil question demands a reply. 1 do not desire to be drawn into the disturbing current of politics, all I ask, is to be permitted, as heretofore, to glide along in an humble station, while others worry each other like dogs, on the political arena, and while I shall neither seek office nor set myself up as a teacher of political science, I shall claim the privilege of voting with whatever party I may honestly be- l eve will best secure the interest and safety of the South. But, gentlemen, allow me in conclusion, to quote from the speech of the Hon. Rufus Choate, Senator from Massachu setts, delivered before the Clay Club of Bos ton, in August last. Does he reflect how vast a change the sen timents of civilization have undergone on that whole subject (slavery) since 1820 ? Does he reihember that in that learning, the world is live hundred years o]derthanit was then?— Can he not read the gathering signs of the limes ? Does he not mark the blaiing cliar- aciers traced by the bodiless hand as in the un finished picture f Does ha not remember what the nations have done and especially what England has done within twenty years ? Does iie not si*e and feel that in that interval a public opinion has been generated, has been organi zed wholly new, aggressive, intolerant of the sight, intolerant of the cry of Than in chains ?" Then, gentlemen,.you have the embodied | the printed sentiments of the Whig party of he North and of some of the Democrats of he North. And he must be blind indeed who can travel, and tarry any considerable time at the North, and '■•hot read the gathering signs of the times'" nor “.see the bodiless hand ox theiball" And if I might be permitted with- ut arrogance, I would beseech the whole South to lay aside their party warfare, and squabble for office, and unite their best coun sels, and their best energies to provide for their future safety before “thebodiless hand” writes iheir irrevocable doom. The lime is surely coming, when they cannot rely on either Whigs or Democrats st the North, arid when that day comes, happy will it be for them, if they have provided means of self-reliance. 1 remain, gentlemen, ftefipectfUlTy, vclSrs, &c. S. T. BAILEY; Messrs. Hunter, and others.