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Creorgia Telegraph—Extra*
Dear Sir,—We learn that you have re-
fcentlv returned Iron a soul-whit protracted vi
sit to tlie North, and while there, m t with swni
difficulty in reclaiming a ftgitive slave! May
Me fesp tssupon your attention for a hriefstate
ment ofthe emb irrassments under wiiich you
labored, 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
North, in regard t) the great and absorbing
question of Abolition.
A Georgian bv adoption, and identified as
you are with the South, in all the interests of
a perm inent citizen, and so extensively known
throughout our limits, your statement canriut
fail to carry with it a most salutary influence.
Respectfully, your friends,
SAMUEL B. HUNTER.
WILLIAM SOLOMON.
A. P. POWERS.
H. K. GREEN.
D. C. CAMPBELL.
ROBERT COLLINS.
CoL. S. T. Bailey, Vineville.
VlNETILLE, 1st Oct. 1844.
Gentlemen;—Your note reached me last
hight, requiring a statement of the trials and
perils which I encountered this summer at the
North, and the position of iho two great polit
ical parties there, touching abolition. It woo'd
require too much time and space t> detail half
the striking incidents winch occurred in the
aff.ir to which you allude. Briefly—my ser
vant was seduced away from my smk family
during m* absence in Canada; I having left
them in Vermont. I ascer'ained on my return,
in what part of the country she was conceal
ed; I went with a friend and retook her, mi l
. conveyed her to Baltimore. I was pursued
through Massachusetts, Rhode tsl md and Con.
tiectiiut, by the Abolitionists; with the ener
gy of blood hounds, bu' was saved by a cor
respo 'dulg energy and vigilance of a few faith*
fill friends. O i my return to my family in
Vermont; myself and friend were arrest' d on
a charge of kidnapping, punishable in that
Stale, with ten years imprisonment imhe Pen
itentiary. D -m m* from Hell cbuld not have
manifested more ferocious malice than the
gang who arrested us, afid yet ihe majority
of those who had ai led and took a part in
that prosecution, dit not profess to be Aboli
tionists. After a tedious trial, we we>e dis
charged, and on the ground that it was not pro
ven that my servant was forced away against
her will, and therefore no kidnapping. In this
afFiir. the difference in the conduct of ihe
Whigs and Democrats was most striking. The
Dornocrats gathered in front a d'st'n"e. even
from New Hamps tire, although most of ihem
strangers to me, and gave utterance loud and
deep to their tibhorrdoce and d testation of the
infamous proceeding. Those from N. Hamp
shire, swrtru that no Southern gentlemin culd
betreatel thus in their Sta e, while the Whigs,
With but few honorable exceptions stood cold
ly aloof or directly aided in the prosecution
die of my relttives, a member of the Pres
byterian church, inform'd me that wild lever
he attempted to vi idicate me to the members
of his church, they would u'tfer one united
voice df condemnation, atid yet he ns w--11 as
they were Wnigs. indeed 1 foil id throughout
# the New England and Middle States, a d ep
Too’ed hatred of slaveholders amongst tit- great
mass of the Whig par'y. 1 t av-lled through,
all those States and watched with an anxious
desire to learn the truth, I travelled incog, as
far as practicable, that they miilht not k *ow 1
was a Southerner, and thus give them free
scope to speak their mind* without infringing
the ru'esof politeness, an I 1 c ime to n settled
conviction in my own mind, that a majorty of
the Democratic pany at the North, ar» the
warm friends of the South, and th it a majori
ty of the Whigs there are oui enemies—tnat a
large majority of the Abolitionists are from
the Whig ranks, no honest men at the North
pretends to deny. But th it there are many
Abolitionists from the Democratic ranks, and
ma iy good friends among the Whigs is just as
certain.
This state of things is easily accounted for;
the Democratic party at the North, is with
few exceptions, the same that sustained the
country during the last war while neaily all
the leaders of the Wh gs in New England are
the old Federalists of the worst school. Tnc
D-mocrats retain all their anrient hatred of
British arrogance and aggression, and there
fore, when the British slander the Southern
people or aggress upon their rights, they feel
rt an insult to themselves as Americans, while
the Federal sts side wi'h Engl tnd and join in
her slanders of the Southern people.
I trust, gentlemen, I have sufficiently an
swered your questions. Itiswth reluctance
that I have answered you—idthi.g but the
rules of politenes* has drawn lotto this answer
—a civd q iestib i demands a reply. 1 do not
desire to be drawn into the disturbing current
of politics, nil 1 ask, i$ to be permitte t, as
heretofore, to glide along in an humble station,
while others worry eac i other like dogs, on
the pul tical arena, and while I snail neither
seek office nor set myself up as a teacher of
pihtical science, I shill claim the privdege bf
voting with whatever party I may honestly be
lieve vvll best secure the interest and safety
of the South. But, uentlemen, allow me in
conclusion, to quo'e from the sp ech of the
Hm. Rifu3Cnoate, Senator from Massachu
setts, delivered before the Clay Cmb of Bos
ton, in August last.
“Doe* he reflect ho * vast a change the sen
timents of civilization have undergone on that
whole subject (slavery) since 1S'20? Does he
remember that in that learning, the world is
hve hundred years older than it was then ?—
Can he not read the gathering signs of the
times ? Does he not mark the blazing char
acters traced by th" lodi/css hand as m the un
finished picture '{ Does he not remember what
the nations have done and especially what
England hns done within twenty year*? Does
he nut s< e and feel that in that interval a public
opinion has been ge crated, has been organi
zed whrilly new, aggressive, into?front of the
sight, intolerant of the cry of man in chains ?”
Tuen. gentlemen, you have the embodied
—the printed sentiments ot the W> ig party of
ttie North and of some of the D mocrats of
the North; And he must be blind indeed who
can travel, and tarry any considerable time at
the Nor'h, and l iioi read the gathering signs of
the times" nor “see the bodiless hand on
the wall" And if I might he p rmitied with
out arrogance, I would beseech the whole
South to lay aside their parly warfare, ni d
squabble for offied, and unite thfeir best coun
sels. ami their be*t energies to provide for their
future safety bef>fe “the bodiless hand” writes
their ii revocable doom. The time is surely
coming, when they cannot rely rin either Whigs
or Democrats at the North, and When that day
comes, happy will it b • for them, if they have
prdvided means of self-reliance.
I rfema n, gentlemen,
Respectfully, vr-urs, &c.
S. T. BAILEY;
Messrs Hunter, and others.
Whig Iotc for Xamralized Citizens.
Extract from Clay's speech, ^r.
Ext r art front the speech of Mr; Clay, of Ken-
lucky, on the pre-emption bill, delivered in
the Senate, Wednesday, January 6,1841.
Mr. Clay said he also believed, bovo <1 the
mountains, aliens were allowed to hold land ;
but he also believed tha' tucre whs some condi
tion required iri almost all the States—in some
of them a residence oftwoor time years. Now
it might be a question whether they should ex
tend the privilege, except to those holding by
state authority—and aliens who hold, are not
e .tided to a vote; but he {Mr. Clay) Was op-
prised on principle, to the proposition that
ALIENS should be invited from every portion
of the inhabitable globe, to take, possession of the.
public lands, on terms so peculiarly favorable
as were proposed hi/ this bill. v.
****** There
was another p »int, on which there ought no* to
ba any diver-i’y of opin'on. Though it mig'it
be the. practice of our government to sell, the soil
of our country alike to aliens as to citizens,
there should not be extended an invitation to
aliens to come and purchase our lands ; and yet
such would be the effect of this bill.
We doubt if the author of such illiberal and
anti-American scnt : m' nts will find much favor
with the natural zeu citizens of this country.—
They will find more satisfaction in the just,
libeiu], and magnanimous se diments of Mr*
Buch man, on the sam; occasion, u'tcred in re
ply to Mr. Clay:
Mr. Buchanan, in reply, said: Now, in re
gard to aliens, t'.e Senator Ins admitted that,
from the origin of the Government until the
present tints, they have bee" p- rm tted to pur
chase the pub'ic lands of the vve-t either by
public s de or by private entry. This fact is
incontrovertible. Ti.en why make ah odious
distinction against foreigners in this particular
case ? If you permit them to purchase in eve
ry other foim, why deny to them the privilege
of purchasing as pre-emptioners. The alien
who fl.es from oppression at home, and makes
his way into the Far West, and there fixes his
habitation, at the same time, places his body as
a barrier against the attacks of the savage foe,
which your policy has collected on the frontier.
Such Miens thus lurais i stronger evidence of
their fid-lity to the country, and of their inten
tion to become citizcis, than they could do by
a mere declaration to this < fleet under the na
turalization law; though lie presumes, such a
declaration was made by them in almost eve
ry instance. A man who merely does this,
mav change his intention b fore lie becomes a
citizen; but the man who makes a settlement
on the public land, and purchases it from the
government, thus iden'ifies his own fate and
that of his r amily, for weal or for wn with our
government. From such men we have noth
ing to apprehend. And shall we suffer even
the alien speculator; who has no intention of
ever becoming a citizen, to purchase the hum
ble dwelling of this poor man and drive him
out of possession ? Such might often be t ie
case, if it were not for your pre-emption laws.
For my own part, 1 shall always must cheer-
fu.ly, as long a I shall be Inmo ed wth a seat
in the Senate, gra d this trifl ng privilege to the
actual settler, whether he lias emigrated from
the old to the new states, to improve his condi
tion, or has fii-d from oppression in the old
world, to live under the protection of our repub
lican institutions.
[From the New England Democrat ]
“NATIVE AMERICANISM.”
Mr. Archer, a member ofthe United States
Senate front Virginia,andm e of the Mo*t ultra
whigs in that body, at the last session of Con
gress pledged himsi lfto introduce ai d advocate
the change in the Naturalization Laws which
has been proposed by the “Native American
Party”—That is, to require a residenceof twen
ty one years as a qualifit at'on for the naturali
zation of foreigners. This arbitrary and unjust
me isure we reg ird as certain to be carried into
effect; should the whigs be successful in the ap
proaching elecion, as that of a National Bai k
or the D.stributinnofthe proceedsol the Public
Lands. Although it has not been deemed poli
tic by the friends of Mr. Clay to commit them
selves as a party in its favor, there a e sighs and
evidencesi nough to sn tisfy any reasonable mind
that it meets with their cordial approval and
will be carried iftto eff ct Whoever they obtain
possession of tbet government.
At the late chatter election in the c.ty of
New York the wltigs supported the “Native
American” ticket, n d it was elected by their
votbs. In Philadelphia tlm same identity of
fefcling and opinion exists between the two, and
in the lawless acts of violence and bloodshed
there was, in a moral point of view, neither se
paration not distinction. The whigs as a par
ty had applaud -d and encourag- tl the spirit of
malignant hatred which has actuated and gov
erned all the the proceedings of the "Native A-
tncricans.” and fln y are a d ought to be he'd
accountable for the cons'-queuces. And th s is
true not on : y in regard to ttie wh gs of Phila
delphia and New York, but of Pittsburg a- d
every other place where “Native American
ism” ha* assumed an organized shape.
The truth of this position n ay be furri er il
lustrated from the sentiments w ! ich drily ap
pear n the leading whig papd-rs throug' out the
Union. The National Intelligencer, the or
gan of whiggery.it Washington, in speaking of
the New York charter election, to winch we
have just alluded, said that the “struggle had
been «>ri« of virtue and vice”—t*-at the “whig
party was lUenalional party”—and then that
there might bo no mistake as to the intentions
of the Whig* whenever they had the power to
carry tlmir views into practice, it sig ifica' t!y
add'd, that—“Americans will notallow
ANY PARTY TO GATHER ABOUND THE A THE
MISERABLE. DELUDED. IGNORANT
REFUGEES OF OTHER COUNTRIES.”
And even this language was n«»t plam * r bit
ter enough t<> express all which the InieHigen-
ccr desired to express and wished to h ive un
derstood. We quote once more from its col
umns: —
•• Already do we feel the demoralizing effects of emigra
tion. Those foreigners who have emigrated to this country
for the laot few years are of the loves! grade of beings.—
(CP THEY SHOULD BE EXCLUDED FROM PAR
TICIPATING IN ELECTIONS”
The Cincinnati G .Z ’tte. the leading whig pa
per in O do, has expressed similar sentiments
in ns plain language. It says :—
‘ Foreign emigrants are men whose wants, if not whose
VICES, have sent them from other slates to seek bread by
service if not by PLUNDER.”
Tin-New Yo.k Courier & Enquirer is an
other whig press which has been equally open-
mouthed on this subject. It says:—
“The naturalization laws must tie changed and the time
extended to TWENTY-ONE YEARS, nr we shall be
over-run wah a LAWLESS. IGNORANT. PROFLI
GATE, AND DRUNKEN SET OF FOREIGNERS.”
Just before the election' in New York, of
which we have already once or twice spoken,
the whig committee of one of the wards issued
electioneering handbills, calling on the “Native
Americans'’ lo put down “ignorant, bloated
rabble, unprincipled Scotch, French rob
bers, Jew thieves, Dutch and Irish vaga-
bovds.” and to support a.ticket “not POLLU
TED with fo'eign blood.”
We might go on und fill columns with evi
dence like this going to show, that this “Native
Americanism” in its principles and in its action
is but another name for federal whiggery.— .
The whig paper and (he whig meeting which
has condemned the views and objects with and
for which it has sprung into existence; is yet
qnknovvn to us; we have seen nonb, heard of
none, and know of none.
And this whig hatred of foreigners is noth
ing new. It has existed since the commence
ment of th" government. The federalists un
der the a Imimstrutinn of John Adams passed
that act of infamous immortality—THE A-
L1EN LAW—which requ red a residence of
fourteen years to quid fy foreigners for natura-
lizatioti. In his first annual message, Presi
dent Jefferson alluded to the law ift the follow
ing terms:—
11 1 cannot omit recommending a reversal of tne laws on
the subject of naturalization. Considering the ordinary
chances of human life, a denial ofcitizei amp under fourteen
years is a denial to a great proportion of those who ask it;
and controls a policy pursued from their first settlement by
many of these slates, and still believed of consequence to
their prosperity. And shall ire refuse the unhappy fugi
tives from distress that hospitality tchiclilhe savages of
the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in tins
land! Shall oppressed humanity find r.o asylum on
this globe ! The constitution, indeed, lias wisely provided
that, lor admission to certain offices ol important trust, a re
sidence shallbe required suffic ent to develope character
and design. But might not the general character and capa
bilities ol a citizen be safely communicated to every one
manifesting a bona fide purpose of embarking his life and
fortunes pefmautly witn us ?"
The language of Mr. Jefferson spoke flto
sentiments of every democrat iuthe Union, ai d
with other oppressive laws of the Adams ad-
minis'tation tins Alien act was stricken with
indignation from the statute book. The fed
eralists of our day, it would sem have a deep
er hatred of our foreign population than was
manifested by their foiefatlnrs, and they pro
pose to make twenty-one years irfstend of four
teen the necessary term of residence to qualify
foreigners fir citizenship.
Are the people ready for another ALIEN
L \ W ? Are the blessi .gs of this free govern
ment to he denied to the oppressed of tue old
world? Is tms the mission of democracy ?—
Are we to erect walls and barriers to shut nut
the subjects of tyrants and despots who seek
our shores to enjoy the rights, the liberty they
are Hemed on their own—the men who in the
matter are what we ourselves once were, andf
vviiat w e still should be but for the sympathy
and aid they extended to us in the days of our
adversity ? Whs it to establish feelings and
doctri es like these that Lafayette, Steuben,
Barry; DeKelb, and a host of illustrious forei
gner.*, fought to establish Ameridan indepen
dence ? Is it right to require of every foreign
er who shall cornu among us all the duties of
citizens and deny them the rights of citizens l
Shall they pay taxes, peiforni military service,
nnd in another respects be held liable to do
the duties "f citizens, and shall they be denied
the most valuable tights of citizens ?
VVe appeal to every democrat in the’ Union,
to evey friend of human rights, to'every lover
of justice—above all we appeal to the ADOP
TED CITIZENS of this land, who are most
nearly interested m this right settlement of this
question—to come nut and oppose by vVord, by
influence and by deed the party who are pre
pared and ready to deprive them of the rghts
and privileges for the v.-rv purpose of enjoying
which they left their own country and cante to
this—to establish and secure which to all was
the purpose and object ofthe American Revo,
lution.
From the Savannah. Georgian.
Mr. W. S. Archer, the legal and known ex
pounder and representative of whig principles
in the Senate of the United States, and the a-
vowed political friend ofthe great‘embodiment’
—Henry Clay—uses the following expressive
language, in h's late very social correspondence
with the “Native American Association” of
New York.
“At the ensuing session of Congress I shaft
set our ball in motion. It will be driven back'
for a time, for the slang—“Asylum ofthe op
pressed of all nations,” is just now ascendant,
importing as it really does in all its results, that
the oppressed shall be received here without
restraint.
“ But we shull subdue the slang. As politi
cal men come to find that they' may express
their nausea for it with impunity, 4*c.
“W. S. ARCHER/-'