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To tie Voters of tie 3d Congressional District, ana cspcciallj* the Old Baptists. W c ask you as freemen, calmly and dispassion ately, :o read section the 10th, article the 4tb, of the Constitution under which wo live—that clause which secures to us all, rich or poor, learned or un learned, the "inestimable privilege of worshipping God in a manner agreeable to his own conscience.” That part of the Constitution to which \vc refer, reads as follows: "No person within this State shall, upon any pretence, be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshipping God in a manner agreeable to his own conscience, nor be coin- j>elled to attend any place of worship, contrary to liig own faith and judgment, nor shall he ever be obliged to pay tithes taxes, or any other rate, for the building or repairing any place of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or ministry, contrary to what he believes to be right, or hath voluntarily engaged to do. No one religious Society shall ever be established in this State in preference to another, uor shall any person l>e denied the enjoyment of any civil right merely on account of his religious principle.” Were not the sages and patriots who drew up that charter, right in thus sccuting to us this great Constitutional privilege ? Is there one of you who feels willing to surrender it? No! There can be uo freeman who feels prepared to yield the privileges of freedom of conscience, and of worshipping God after his own faith. Who then would deprive us of this blessing'' Read the subjoined statement by two of vour own fellow citizens, mcnofunblemished reputations, and of unexceptionable Christian character, and reflect we}l upon its contents. They reside hero in our midst, their loee of truth has. triumphed over even then reluctance to appear be*,re <hc public, and they now give their testimony that they may he in some measure, the instruments of securin'. t 0 you those rights without which there can be "no civil Government. We meat, freedom of „p itlionf an( , freedom ofcanseience. S. M. STKO\G . . MACON. September 2t»», ; 8 ->t vUszszMi s&rsiran -,**«* j Council of Macon, whilst Washm-ton ?£' ,0 ,'‘ ,e c 'ty Xh- City, for a small lot of laod sav^m J T Ma * or half acre, if that much, to build’ u Meetim/w Per ' aps ’ ,llan * Primitive Baptists, and Mr “ S'“““r ° n /° r thc JJjl have it, faying that the- C?xv Baptist denomination one Lot, and that we 8 u Ve ® of dividing and spliuinc up, or words to , b ^f d no bu, ">e»s atwed that we did’ntwant them m ^ive i, hnSLT**' wc Willing to pay for the ground, but the word ,u C , w , ere had let the Baptists have one Lot, and if wo muJl t{le > together we coold'nt have another, which T h ag . r f e Poe's remarks. The ..id Lot is h^no h n , k ’ 3 Mr - so far as my knowledge extends has Jf n3T ® l . aa ble,an<J at any rate, it is unoccupied and nn beCD d,s r osed ° r - fflgfcffiiiSpSa** lmpwoKh, and we take pte, t „,e in 3a,i„ s "ba t we have the mosl unqualified confidence in (heir veracity and respectability. JOHN LAMAR. W. W. chapman. THOMAS L. ROSS. JAMES LEAN. SAM’L. J. RAY, ■mg „ v/ &- O, SMITH. IC&ioa, sapt. -jA, 1^4.