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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/-'