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THK UNITED 8TATE8 A CONTINENT.
Cumin- events are said to cast their shadows
before. Is not this tl.e case in relatton to the
vast and almost indefinite expansion of our re
public of confederated states, blended into one
mighty nation for great and common purposes,
and yet preserving their separate identity ,n re
ference to local and domestic affair*? When
tve emerged from our colonial state, through a
war of revolution, par'll, nnd suffering, in'o the
triumphant cond it'on of national independence,
we numborod but thirteen states, with a popu
lation of but three millions, nnd owned a ter
ritory encompassed by the stormy Atlantic bn
tho cast, the father of rivers on the west, tho
great lakes on the north, and a foreign pmvi-r
on the south, bordering the Mexican Gulf and
commanding tlu mouth *>l tha^jMi+sisstp <1, the
great outlet of our wes’om commerce. In
lew than seventy years with what g aut Strides
have wo inarched to strength an i gre itnV*ss!
OSr northern and eastern boundaries remaining
m they were, in the great outlines impressed
by the hand of nature, the acquisition of Lou
isiana and Florid i, obtained by pe <c-fal nego
tiation and purchase, has given us the mouth of
the Mississippi, and the secure natural bounda
ry of the Golf of Mexico; and both maritime
discovery nod exploration by land an I river
have yielded us a title to transcend the Rocky
Mountains it ml claim the vast Pacific as our
western boundary. Recent negotiation, too,
has added to our already vast domain the fair
and fertile plains of Texas, peopled with those
who arc bone of our bone, and fl«sb of our
flash, our kindred and brethren in blood a id
institutions. The original number of our sis
ter republics—tho glorious old thirteen—which
blazed in emblematic and starry effulgence on
•ur revolutionary banner, are more than dou
bled in number—our territory has expanded
in yet larger ratio, until laved by two oceans,
and as well by tho great southern gulf, as the
vast inland sens of tho north—and our popula
tion has swollen in seven fold increase, from
threo to perhaps twenty-one millions ! Cor
responding, too, has been our progression in
all the elements of national greatness ami re-
nowu, and the humble colonies of England notv
whi-s of thtf present day, who advocate laws
enacted with espies reference to the pecunia
ry advantage °t a favored class, who are made
rich uv government legislation at the expo*’*"
of their fellow citizens. Yet the popular no
of whig lias been unscrupulously appropriated,
to sustain, by the perversion of the enthusiasm
of Americans fur the glorious principles of tho
revolution, a DnrtV whose measures are at war a..- ^ rr. ,
S2 principles. Men high in public direct special attention to their Tobacco to
confidence have m.t hesitut. d to assert, with a , all respect?, then Cuba m iy posstbh dud a it
Florida should command so apparently enor
mous a price as twenty five to fifty cents. At
the same lime, it will show the Courier that
there can he no real rivalry with “old Virginia, *
or wv other tobacco growing region in the
United States. When experience shall have
fully indicated the quality of lands best fitted
for our tobacco, the best mode of cultivating
ami curio- it, and when our planters shall
TELEGRAPH &
Tuesday, September 16, 1S45.
parties in this State. The eventful period of ! tnisericfancl their shackles. But Wii.uam ty
recollections of
upon to
viil, but rone oft lie States.
. From what we can learn hv inquiry, wo in
fer that our Tobacco crop of this year will be
: proportionately smaller, and perhaps o£ worse
qual-ty than that of last year. “H.’‘ We fear,
* is .somewhat of a Munchausen. If Florid 1
I Tobacco sells for 80 cents, the world may be
! defied lot a crop as profitable. The best of
; our leaf tobacco will sell probably, as hereto
fore, somewhere between 25 and 50 cts. while
the poorest will not pay transportation.
mr. McAllister.
Unharmed, unwounded, unscathed by a
single dart which the malignant baud of dc-
view to mishind tins ignorant, that the whig
principles of the present day arc those of/the
revolution. Weenever this is done, it forcibly
recalls tho description by Pollock, of the hypo
crite, ■
••Who Mole the li*er» .T-lfonven
To serve ilirdtrril in * V * *
Ann altered falsehood* of enorpion* size
Willi countenance a* grave, as iruib beseemed.”
After the lamentable miscalculations of the
"bigs, who were shown by the result of the
l ist electton, that they ha I underrated the in
telligence, nnd -ready overestimat' d tho gulli
bility of the people, we wouM have supposed
that thev would be more adroit in future. 1 ho
worn out clap-traps of the last ca ivass, wc £5^ ,.. js j I1Ir , e j ; , sa j ns n,jm, Mr. McAIlis-
thought would have been litre" 11 aside as
ken and dishonored weapons.— Cmist.
From the A*g**t<* (7oh*ti r ufiotta!ift.
THE COTTON CROP.
The probable extont of the cotton crop of
1845. is n question of the utmost importance,
nnd of great practical interest, now that plant
ers are beginning to send their crops to market.
They will he influenced by the opinions they
may be enabled to form, either to sell as they
may send in, or io hold on accordingly as they
may believe the market will be effected.
A short crop would unquestionably enhance
present prices. It woulJ take a very large
crop to depress prices much below what now
obtain, if other disturbing causes do not com
bine to produce this result.
If the grain crop of England be cut off, and
if the peace of the world remain uninterrupted,
cotton manufacturing must continue flourishing
and on the increase. Prices of cotton can
scarcely rule so high, with the present large
supply on hand, ns seriously to check consump
rank in the nation scale with the mightiest lion. From all the information we can gather
powers of the earth, and will not slum a com
parison with tho mother countiy, from which
they wrested their independence. Our popu-
lotion continues to increase itt a scale of pro
gression unexampled in I he history of the past,
and new States continually crowJ on the field
and heighten the lustre of our star spangled
banner. Blessed, too, are we with a political
constitution framed with such profound wisdom
uml skill, that it seems capable of expansion,
in well balanced rule, over at least all contigu
ous territory—being so admirably cons'ructed
mid exquisitely poised that, according to Mr.
wc believe it impossible that the present crop
can be a very large one. A thousand casual
ties may yet occur seriously to injure it. Bad
Weather for picking, »:orms and an early frost
may cut it off very much. The crop of Gear
-i.i and South Carolina must, under the most
favorable circumstances from this time out, bo
short. South. Western Georgia will, however,
beau exception to the rest of the state. The
crops in that section nre promising. In the
Mississ'ppi Valley the crops are also generally
promising, and we may reasonably calculate
upon the receipts in Mobile and New Oilcans,
Jefferson, every new State added to our repub- j equalling those of last year, provided nothing
lican family at once increases our national pow- j hurcafter occurs to change present prospects.—
it and welds thu more securely our national In a portion of Alabama, however, the crop,
Union—as, to use his own idea, in case of do- it is thought, will fall below an average.
niestic dissension, there will only be the great
er number of sound States to face the d s iffect-
•d ones. Who tin n can set bounds to our ter-
liorisl expansion, short of the continent on
which our deetiny is cast—what earthly power
shall say to us “so far shalt thou go and no
farther,” within that umplc area! Coming
evoats cast their shadows .before! Louisiana
is ours, Florida is ours, Texas is ours, and Ore
gon must he ours, inundated, in the course of
uaiure, by the advancing tide of our population.
Mexico threatens a war, which will provoke, if
not invite her annexation—Canada will in duo
season fall like ripe fruit into our lap—and nil
the rest will then follow of course, till the Isth
mus of Darien form our equinoctial 11ml tho
Arctic Sea our polar boundary. Coming
events cast their shadows before! Time was
when our republic, although far short of her
now colossal proportions, was deemed already
too vast and unwieldy for one government—
when it was thought the far west would natu
rally and necessarily flake off and form an in
dependent empire—or when at least tho nation
al capitol must tower on the Missouri instead
of the Potomac, to prevent our overgrown re.
public from breaking into fragments. All such
fears and speculations are now as a tale that
is told, as a legend of the past. The discove
ry and application of the uses of stcum— the
invention of the steamboat the railway, and the
locomotive—to say nothin- of the atmospheric
pressure and the electro-magnetic power, preg
nant with mighty issues—and abovo all the in
vention of the magnetic telegraph, able to flash
intelligence with the speed of Ightning fiotn
ocean to ocean, nnd pole to isthmus—literally
annihilating distance, and bringing every part
of our vast republic practically into juxtaposi
tion—seem to be the appointed means ami ap
pliances in the hands of wonder working I’rov-
idcsce, to effect the expansion of our republic,
until tho whole continent of North America
shall rejoico in our free institutions and form
one vast and enlightened nation—destined per
haps to play a mighty and a blessed part in that
tnillcnial consummation,devoutly to he wished,
when universal shall ho the reign of peace on
sarth and good will towards men.— Charles
ton Mercury.
The Savannah Republican quotes from the
Macon Messenger and editorial eulogistic of
the administration of Gov. Crawford, in which
occurs tho following sentence :
“It is a wise maxim, which we believe orig
inated with the immortal Franklin (a good
whig) ‘let well alone.’ ”
This is another specimen of whig cl ip-trap.
During tho Inst canvass the corps of the defuot
Bank of the United States wt's sought to be rc-
stisciied hy'llie m igic of the name of Washing
ton. “He signed a Bank Charter, therefore,
it was constitutional and right. If I e thought
so, who should undertake to be wiser than he I ’
No w Dr. Franklin’s name is pressed into tho
service. He (a good whig) had originated, tho
tnixinr, “Let well enough alone.” As to the
maxim being of such modern dale, wc arc som
what doubtful. Perhaps the Editor had some
smoky recollection of the following passage in
Franklin’s essay on Industry and Commerce.
“Perhaps in general, it wou'd bo better if
Government meddle no further with trade than
to protect it, and let it lake its corns”. Most
of the statutes or acts, odicts, arrets and pin-
carts of parliaments, princes and state?, fiir re-- j ropean houses were here, purchasing all that
cilaiing, directing or restraining of trade, have j could bo had. The cultivation immediately
wc think b«cii cither political blunders or jobs revived, and Tobacco now forms part the crop
•obtained by artful me a for private advantage | of perhaps a majority of the planters in Mid-
under |<releuco of public good. When Colbeit die Florida.
.assembled some w ise old merchants of Franco ' But Florida Tobacco is an essentially differ-
ruul desired their novice uud opinion holy ho ent article from that produced in any other
could best serve and promote commerce, their section of the Union, uud applied to the use
answer, afior consultation iwniii three words ‘
only—Laitscz nous fairc. Let us alone.”
This is the Motto of Democratic Florida.—
That Franklin was a good whig was undenia
ble. But how much like whigery of the pre
sent day, we leave the intelligent reader to
judge. *n.i. essay was written in 177-1. then, j so nr as appearance goes it has tho preference,)
uneqnl laws and unjust taxation were the watch superior and beautiful *cgars are pro luced.
words of resistance, and arouse 1 lie gallunt | n " ‘ 0
whig epirii of America to deeds of glory. .Nov
If, however, the entire crop does not exceed
that of 1S41, we may consider it a short crop.
For the probability is that the quantity of land
planted is greater. There has been a steady
annual increase to the force applied to the cul
ture, and this was stimulated last spring by a
rise in the price of cotton, at the period of
planting.
The account? of the 3rd March last, received
on this side from Liverpool, reported a rise in
price, produced partly by accounts from Amer
ica of diminished receipts, and stiffened prices,
nnd partty by foe proposition in Parliament
(which afterwards became a law) to lake off the
duty on eoiton. From that time the market
continued to go up. This hud its influence
in some sections to a limited extent to increase
the quantity planted. But the greatly increased
consumption would cause a crop of 2,400,000
to press less heavily on the market than did
that of 1844
The futility of all calculations on the amount
ofo growing crop, however, is strikingly illus
trated by the circumstance that as late as Janu
ary .29:h, 1844, a very distinguished Senator,
in n speech of that date in the United States
Senate, expressed the opinion that the crop of
1845, would not much exceed 1,000,000 bales,
aud stated that “no body estimated it at more
than 1,8U0,000.” It in'fact exceeded 2,000,-
000. Yet few men are better informed or more
apt to come to correct conclusions 011 this sub
ject.
Business operations could scarcely be based
with safety upon calculations tltus early upon
the amount of tho cotton crop of 1S45.
From the Tallahauec Sentinel.
TOBACCO CULTURE IN FLORIDA.
The Charleston Courier of the 26:h ult. says
—“A letter recently received front Florida
shows that this new member of our family of
States is about to set up a rivalry with old
Virginia, us to which is hereafter to be the To
bacco State of the Union. It snys,
“Every body here is going into the Tobac
co culture, which promises to replace the
Orange, as it inquirers no machinery, ui.d the
poorest cun engage in it. The experiments
that have been made, notwithstanding the worst
season ever known, have proved extremely
encouraging. The article is a superior quality
atid commands a high price in New York—
from 40 to 80 cents. H , who has just ar
rived from thence, states that the choice quali
ties will coniruund this latter price. There
will be mucli done in it here next year, and
there is every prospect of its becoming the
staple of Florida.”
Tho letter ulludcd to and quoted, wc infer
was from East Florida, where the Tobacco
crop has bed 1 inoro recently intioduccd. In
Middle Florio'a it has been cultivated, to’a
greater or loss extent, for the last twelve or
fifteen years, wi'h every variety of result—the
prices for the leaf tobacco ranging from three
to fifty cents per lb. Six or seven years since,
the greater part of tl.e crop was manufactured
into segars here, waiefa at first, commanded a
ready sale at goo J prices ; hut subsequently,
became a perfect drug in the market. The
manufacture and, in many instance?, the cul
tivation of Tobacco was then abandoned, until
wiihiu three year, years past, when it was as
certained that the leaf was in request and could
he cultivated to profit. In fact, agents of Eu-
ter stand# before the people of Georgia, the
chosen representative ofher ancient principles.
Never has a candidate for office been more
wilfully misrepresented, more violently abused,
or been met by a deeper, darker spirit of per
sonal animosity—in the whole political, history
of the State. Is it surprising, then, that those
who know him best, who can feel to their full
extent the virtues of his iieart while they ad
mire the powers of his intellect—is it wonder-
ful that such, contemplate with more than or
dinary emotions of pride, the signal triumph
lie has already achieved over the bitter assaults
of h : s enemies, whether political or personal?
How stands his character now before the
people of Georgia 2 And while wc ask the
question, we would have it remembered, that
we have never claimed their support for our
candidate upon the ground of his personal pre
tensions. We pointed to him as a firm, con
sistent Republican—a statesman of unfaltering
principle which, like truth itself, has known
no change,—a politician, whose ardour has al
ways been tempered by wisdom and whose
passions have never mastered his reason.
—True principle is always tempeiatc.
In it we find no fierce extremes. It is to-day
what it was yesterday, and what it is to-morrow
Pointing to Mr. McAllister, we unhesitatingly
said, as a politician lie is eminently consistent.
Trace the stream of his public life back to its
fountain sources—in light or darkness, sun
shine or shadow, storm or calm—whatever has
been the state of the political elements around
him—we find that it lias flowed onward through
the same Republican channel, aud received
its lute from the same pure Republican sky.—
We have defied attack upon the great cardi
nal principles of his political creed. The hun
gry pack of assailants which have been let
loose upon him, have turned in despair from
the firm tampan of consistent principle which
is built up uround him, and have endeavored
to satiate their greedy appetite for abuse, by
assaulting his personal character. How su
premely ridiculous ! We have never paraded
our candidate before the public upon his per
sonal claims and pretensions—nor have we
supposed it at all necessary to take very espe
cial note of the nonsensical falsities which have
been mustered into the Whig service against
them. We felt that Ins character was elevated
FOR GOVERNOR.
HI. HALL HIcAIiIiISTER,'
Of Chntlmui.
For Senator of the 20tli Distri't,
A. II. CHAPPJBI.il,
Of Bran.
FOU .nEPRESKSTATIVES.
SA.IIlIEIi 31. STRONG,
J.43IKS XV. A It 31 ST KONG.
Democratic Nomination* for Senators.
1st Di*t. Chatham county—Joseph W. Jackson.
2d “ Bryan and Liberty—Raymond Harris.
3d ** McIntosh and Glynn—Edward Delegal.
■jih *• Wayne nnd Camden—J. J. Dufour.
5th “ Ware and Lowndes—William Jones.
Cih “ Appling and Montgomery Conner.
7lh “ Tatnall and Bulloch—Peter Cone.
81I1 “ Ediogham and Seriven—Geo. W. Boston
Oih " Burke and Emanuel—Geo. W. Clinon.
10th “ Laurens and Wilkinson—Geo. M. Troup, Jr.
llth “ Telfair nnd Irwin—Geo. Wilcox.
12th “ Decatur and Thomas—William Williams.
I3th “ Baker and Early—John Colley.
14th “ Randolph and Stewart—Wm. A. Tcnnille.
15th “ Lee and Sumter—Williams Mims.
ICth •* Muscogee and Harris—James Johnson.
17th *" Houston and Macon—James llolderness.
18th 11 Talbot and Marion—Geo. W.U. Townes.
19th « Pulaski and Dooly—Wm.S. Whitfield.
20th •* Bibb and Twiggs—A. H. Chappell.
21st 11 Washington and Jefferson—I. II. Saffold.
22d " Richmond and Columbia—
23il '** Warren and Taliaferro.
24th -• Hancock and Bt Id win
25lh 41 Putnsm and Jones—'.William Turner.
2Gth “ Monroe and Pike—Jacob Martin.
2'tb “ Crawford and Upson
28th “ Meriwether and Coweta—S. Lee.
29lh •• Troup and Heard—
30th “ Carroll and Campbell—William Beall. .
31st “ Fayette and Henry—John D. Stell.
32d “ Butts and Jasper—E. A.Broddus and J.Waters.
33d * Newton and Walton—Warren J. Ilill.
34th “ Morgan and Greene
33th “ Wilkes and Lincoln
36th “ Elbert and Franklin—Martin Dedwyler.
37th u Oglethorpe and Madison
38th “ Clark and Jackson—Thomas F. Anderson.
39th * Gwinnett and DeKalb— Charles Murphy.
40th “ Paulding and Cass—Rbeese McGregor.
41st “ C« bb and Cherokee—John W. Lewis.
42d *• Forsyth nnd Hall—George Kellogg.
43d “ Habersham and Rabun—Wfllinm II. Wofford.
4 J11, *• Lumpkin and Union—John D. Field.
43th “ Gilmer and Mnt ray—J. Bates & E.W. Chastain
46th “ Walker and Dade—R. M. Aycock.
47tll “ Floyd and Chattooga—Thomas C. Ilackett.
1S40, needs but be allud'd to, to portray in all
its shameless inconsistency, tiic party that sup
ported a presidential cand el ite on precisely
opposite giouiids to those which they had pre
viously avowed as the principles of their faith.
Not satisfied with fighting the Bank, t&r>ff, and
other questions, over, with the federal party
that year, they became emboldened by their
success, made a boast of their shame, and were
ready to go a step further. In the reeling shock
of 1840, the south lost everything. The re- : the party returned to the city, delighted with i|,„
crcancy ol her sons made her contemptible in | trip, each other, and especially grateful to the
Gordon has erected a nobler and more er.du
ring monument: one that while it records i|,j
iis genius and his patriotic,
memories of Georgia’s sons, t |, e
same time presents as a heritage to tlte p,,^
a work that secures extraordinary udvanta<r es
to them and transfers incalculable benefits t 0
their posterity.
At that time when
“Light thickens and the crow
AIake3 wing to the rooky wood/*
of Virgiuia or Western tobacco, it would be
almost valueless. It has a fine, silky, fanciful
leal of comparatively little strength, and pecu
liarly fit for the purpose of wrappers to strong-
1 or.and more fragrant tobacco. When used in
s manner, with choice Cuba filling, (to which,
thi
far above.such pitiful assaults—that no man
could attain to the distinction wincti m> tiss
reached, without exciting tha hatred of some
of his opponents,—but that the people, the sov
ereign people, who are about to decide between
him and his antagonist, could uotfail to do him
justice.
And we ask, in triumph, how stands his char
acter now before the people of Georgia?
Is it not all the brighter for the abu-e which
has been heaped upon it 2 Arc not honest,
intelligent Whigs disgusted at thu miserable
co irse which has been pursued towards him ?
Do they not cry out shame i shame! shame !
upon the men who Imvc circulated against him
such baseless slanders 2 Do they not feel that
ttteir own cause has been weakened by the
champions who have labored to sustain it 2—
Four weeks must elapse before the day of
election arrives, and yet Mr. McAllister has
already triumphed over every assault that has
been heaped upon him. In helpless, hopeless
confusion bis calumniators stand before the
searching eye of public scrutiny. Their hopes
prostrated, their purposes defeated, many of
their own political associates disgusted, they
wll loarn a bitter lesson of experience, which
rnay be of service In controlling their course
for the future. Such a man as Mr. McAllister
is not to bo wounded by weapons of the kind
which they have been wielding. There is such
a tiling as a just public opinion, which is con
fined to no political party. It controls every
intelligent mind and every honorable heart. It
can readily distinguish between what is a po
litical, and what is a personal attack upon a
man. While it may condemn tli'o political
principles of a candidate for office, it will not
allow of unjust and uncalled lor attacK3 upon
his private character. Such a public opinion
is already forming in behalf of Air. AIcAllister.
Indications in various quarters of the State con
clusively show it:—and while it may not give
him Whig votes at the polls, it will secure him
a moral power which will bring to the field
every Democrat, and which will place him high
in tiie esteem of his fellow-citizens of both
parties.— Georgian.
EXPENSES OF THE STATE OF TEXAS.
As every thing connected with this young
State is interesting to the older members of
the sisterhood, we extract from the report of
the Special committee on Finance, in the Tex
as Convention, their estimate of expenditures
for tho support of the new State Government
It will be seen that they set out with notions
of strict economy—and that the salaries of their
officers are far from high enough to tempt the
mercenary office seeker. Able men must
make a patriotic sacrifice by consenting to
serve their country at such a reduced com
pensation. Tho Committee put the amount
id expenditures but for the support ol the State
Government at S44,500, nllowing the Govern
or an annual saluary of $2,000 ; Secretary of
State, Treasurer and Comptroller, $1,000 each,
three supreme Judges, $2,000 cadi ; six Dis
trict Judges. SI,000 each; Attorney General
$500 ; District Attorneys, $300 each ; sixty
Legislators, $3 per day each, and mileage;
Clerks and Chaplains the same. The Execu
tive Department is put at $6,000, the Judi-
ci.uy at $17,300, and the Legislative at $20,-
560. The committee do not include the ex
penses of the Land Office, believing it should
be made to eefray its own expenses.—
The estimated revenue is $47,492 52.
By increasing the present tax on land of
one tenth of one per cent., to one-fifth of
they ate the watchwords of
(no
, j one per cent., the revenue would amount
nt Jli is statement will account for tins (to many) ; to $65,492 52. A provision in the Constitu-
’ ! I*: 0 ."'. . C , ° la . CI » , i , . at Western and Vir- j non, to ensure a more prompt and efficient col-
poileis, the ' giniu tobacco is selling for from two to njx cts. j lection of taxes, is recommended.
The last throw of the die with tho wliigs in
this state is about to come off, and like the fal
len Archangel they will be desperate from de
spair. Everything with them in this State is
upon tho hazard no* ! Let our friends he ac
tive and energetic, and meet them at every
turn and the people will place an indelible stamp
of reprobation and infamy upon the principles
of whigery. We must speak plainly now; the
times demand it. It is not alone as a matter
of individual consideration that we look upon
the election of McAllister as the most important
executive election that has taken place for
years. We consider it politically of the last
importance nvt only to ti,;» but to »l,o
whole south. If the whigs succeed now it will
be an inducement for them to persist itt their
anti southern hercsie-; and it will diminish the
ardor and confidence with which the Republi
cans will resist them. Honest in their impul
ses ar.d just in their designs, if the people of
Georgia will review calmly and honestly the
ground occupied by tho two political parties ol
the stale, we have no fears for the result. It is
human nature and Heaven’s decree that error
and falsehood shall be struck down by the om
nipotence of reacting truth, and when once the
reaction comes, and conic it will, sooner or la
ter, as sure as there is truth in one or justice in
the other, whig principles cannot stand at the
south. Who doubts now, that the people see
the true secret of opposition In the leaders of
that party, but that thousands of honest men of
this State who followed the ignis fatuus of fed
eralism last year in oppos 1 ion to Texas, are
now waiting to repair au unintentional injury
inflicted upon their country.
It was Nero, we believe, who hung the tables
of the Roman law so high, and diminished the
s : zo of the characters so much that its spirit
could not he apprehended, and instead of being
a public blessing to Ins countrymen, it be
came not only an absurdity, but a snare to the
great mas* of the people.
Tlie history of the fo leral party of this coun
try under all its names, from its first formation
under the elder Adams, down to the present
day, in the deception^ which have been practi
ced upon, the people have improved upon the
refinements of that tyrant. No man can com-
pare the measures of that party, when they
have been in power, with their public avowals,
without being convinced of this fac'. In "hit
contest have thoy not attempted to deceive the
people as to the real issues bt?fore them. Such
has been their aim in all the federal ami local
elections since 1800. Such was their course
in 1840 and 1814; and such is ihe effort the
whig leaders are making in 'tliisStuto now.
For forty years the Union has had no repose.
The order of Government has been changed ;
wild innovations have been proposed, and even
the sacred legacy of our fathers, the Constitu
tion, has been threatened with pollution from
violent hauls to accomplish their schemes at
the hazard ol public liberty itself. Still, all
this has been done under the comprehensive
term of the general welfare ! Until 1840, fed
eralism never had any footholJ at the Smith,
ahhough it had scattered here and there a dis
ciple among the leaders of the whig parly;
yet they never dared risk their fortunes with
the people. After tho nomination of General
Harrison, by disguising their principles, the
leaders of tho whig party in this Slate betray
ed the people into the support of measures, great work, the Central Rail Road
which, bad thoy been avowed, there would hard- 1 one of his beautiful poems says that
ly have been a division of opinion as to the pro- I “®?* 1 P rl,t ces have great playthings—some have play’d
. . 1 At heaving mountains into men, and .some
pnety of oppposing them, by ninety-nine bun- Aibuildingh uinan wonders mountain lii^li;
dredths of tho people of both parties at the and this lias been done either to gratify the
south. Wo speak to those whose memories whims of the moment or to divert the rnindd of
tho eyes of others. She sank into a mi
nority. Candidates for fedoial offices no lon
ger courted her. The federalists had secured
a monopoly of the nation. Mr. Clay in a spirit
of pride and dictation was ready to lay hands
upon her [only remaining safeguard. The ve
to was to be struck from the constitution, and
liis followers at the south were willing' blindly
to make the surrender. Flushed and madden
ed with the prospect, Mr. Clay threw himself
again at the head of the federal party, with no
particular principles for ‘‘the public eye} 1 At
the south, his friends were unwilling to admit
Texas into the Union, under the treaty of Mr.
Tyler, without the consent of Alexico; at the
north they were unwilling to admit it unless
slavery was abolished.
Fellow citizens of Georgia, are wc mistaken
in supposing that thousands of you have been
led into error and kept in ignorance of the real
designs of tho whig party? We think not.—
Wc cannot believe that any portion of our fel
low citizens would have been so blinded by
party excitement as to have acted with them
had it been otherwise. The questions of state
policy, about which the whig leaders make so
much noise, are not the real measures
that the two candidates for Governor arc
contending for, and upon which the vote of the
people wdl be regarded as decisive of their
will. The issue is the ascendancy of republi
can principles, or the triumph of federal here
sies. Tiie administration of equal laws, or the
favoritism of stringent federal monopolies.
It is under this solemn conviction that we
make this appeal. We are sure that every
Georgian owes a higher fealty to his country
than he does to any party. By such this ap
peal "ill not be censured; and we shall
address them in that plait ness of speech
which the occasion requires. Wc address not
democrats; we address not whigs; but we
address Georgians cf all parties ! We caution
them to beware! Let no party subserviency
lead you to support measures whose triumph
will seal your dtstruction !
Wc have, ourselves, no party griefs to re
venge, nor do wo go out to the struggle for polit
ical spoils. Identified wit 1 the siuth by birth,
by interest, and by every holy consideration
and association that actuates unit i. ciu s to ac
tion, we feel as if this contest is one in which
she has the deepest in'ertst. Already her good
name lias been soiled with thu lairt of fed
eralism. But still there is time to stop the
plague from going any further. Now is that
time. For her sake, tliea; for the sake of our
own dear country, dishonored as it lias been
by those who ought to have been her friends,
we appeal to Iter sms, the men who have been
nursed upon the fatuess of her bosom to vindi
cate her honor now ; for the sake of her pa-t
history, which, lose whatever else wo may, will
•still he ours, but which will heighten and deep
en our shame should we be utimiudfu] of i s
precepts ; for the memory of the past and the
hopes of the future; fur the sake of those
about us and those to come after os, k-t us show
that .we appreciate the present crisis, and are
prepared to meet it! We have a sacred trust
in tin* institutions bequeathed by our lathers.
Let us be true to that trust. /
V
Tiie ISitil *Eo;i;l Excursion—New car.
On Wednesday evening last a numerous com
pany of the ladies and gentlemen of tne city
assembled at the Central Rail Road Dnpol to
respond to a kind invitation upon the part of
the President inviting them to a pleasure excur
sion to Gordon.
The turn out "as such a one as must have
been gratifying to the officers of the company.
The city was ably represented by both sexes.—
The grave citizen clad in “russet brown”—
witching beauty in all the joyousm ss of gay,
laughing, rosy seventeen, and the beau,
‘•Trimmed like a youker prancing to liis love,”
were all there to contribute their full quota to
the pleasures of the occasion.
At a little past “two of the. clock” away we
went witli the rush of the wind in the lead of a
powerful locomotive that cut the air with the
speed of a “feadn-rod Mercury.” In a fow mi
nutes the party was safe in Gordon and invited
to partake of the refreshments prepared for the
occasion, fruits of the season; iced lemonade
occasionally spatkled with a few “drops of
sorrow’s medicine,” and at intervals tho heart
stirring explosions of champaigoe guns wiled
away an agreeable hour.
In vain amidst the large circle did wc seek a
sombre countenance. The utmost harmony,
exhilaration and pleasure reigned, and “loathed
melancholy” indeed fled to
“Stygian caves forlorn.”
What an infinite source of usefulness, social
pleasures and public good have these splendid
enterprises originated; and how natural, when
on this subject it is to pay a passing tribute to
the memory of him who of ail others by liis ac
tive mind, his expansive patriotism, his enlarged
conceptions aud his indefatigable energy and
industry, contributed so much to the primary
movement the and ultimate consummation of that
officers of the company for the opportunity
afforded them of breaking through the dull ^
notony of summer life in Macon. Btfure
had reached our several homes
“Xox era', cl ett'o fulgtbal luna screno
Inter minora sidcra,”
which only means that her nocturnal majesty
was coursing along the calm sky with her asua |
attendants of “hvingsappbircs,” lending t],,,:.
silent charms to tho soft evening beauties of
the world around.
But we will dismiss this theme; it would rt
quire a “freer pen” than ours to paint in *5
their delightful colors the pleasures of the trie
The new car Washington, in which the panv
.vns transported, speaks well for the onterprj*
of the mechanics employed in its construclios.
It is, wc understand, throughout a specimen of
Savannah mechanical labor, and reflects great
credit upon the skill, taste and enterprise of jj
•builders. Even upon the great routes in ti*
northern states where all the appliantes of w
and materials are at hand we have met wi:j
few cars more commodious or elegantly fo.
nished. This road in all its departments is
under the most efficient management, fo
where north or south on any road of its length
is there greater regularity either in the trans-
portatidti of passengers or freight. No vrlien
will you meet with u more accommodating or
gentlemanly set of agents and conductors; and
we feel assured that in a very short time ittriff
become the chief thoroughfare for travellen
from thu States of the Gulf and south west
on their way to the Atlantic ar.d eastern citie*.
To the Republicans.
We cannot too urgently appeal to our re
publican friends throughout the State, toberp
and doing. We must now commence ihewort
iu earnest. The decisive day is close at hand,
ami delay- can no longer be safely indulged in. I
We feel that we need not urge particularly lie
motives which should now prompt oar citizen
to action. We need not tell a proud and high
spirited people that they have a name and t
reputation, as well as the highest iiitere*B,la
.guard and protect in this contest.
Aside from the great and moving interest!tf I
a sectional and local nature, there are otter
motives to impel us to ami at more than as
ordinary triumph. Wo are under responsibil
ities to be foremost and strongest in support cf I
an administration, winch has added a nc»[
state to theS with, and which is pledged, more
over to relieve it of the burthens of an iuq i-l
tous tar ff.
L' i t us, then, all take hold like men deter-1
mined to spare no effort from ties linietotlel
election, to secure democratic voters, and nf
have ill. in promptly at the polk Let w|
achieve a victory worthy of Georgians; a vic
tory becoming the proud position which tel
Siuie ought to occupy among the great sail
powerful members of the American Union.
Tiso messenger agtiicist Bancroft,
La Rochefoucauld in one of the gSnoarcftl
of those bitter maxims which lie lias fuunddl
on iiis system of universal human depravity,I
expresses tho opinion that “in tiie worst misfit-1
tunes of our friends we alw .vs ii id sentcthujl
at which wc are secretly pleased.” In
of the late of its late wing ally, Cassius Al.CIaj, I
'lie Moss; nger s< e:ns to have heel) detiiat' 4 I
that poo-consolation. Although the rcnwbl
to which wc allude, were not coupled withtlx*f I
unde in re';.; Mil to C!:.y, yet the let ii. ;» • j
prompted them may easily be detected. H*t|
in order to settle the charge made by the J?* - 1
senger of last week, wc \v.iI give o.;r rt.-'j
both authorities. Against the Mcsscngrr **I
quote iiom his great work, the History I 1
United States, the opinions of George Bascnf I
himself upo 1 tiie subject of Slivcry. M
Messenger we know^vill carry the day ^I
some, but we ate inclined to think that R-T
croft will carry it with the ca idiJ, the j
gent, the reflecting, and with posterity. ^ I
is the charge in the Alessenger':
“AI- II McAllister, " as during the "bq’ I
ihe same summer making speeches at the - y'-l
He disdained to slump it among the P r0 P\" I
his own State. On one of these occas oD-v I
w.is in (It ■ city of New York, on lire same j
form with tiie abolitionftr, George
who advocated annexation, because, I*
it would be tho means of abolishing
Air, McAllister never opened liis mouth*? 3 /-
this sentiment, nor said one word in '
Southern slave holders.
Here is the extract from Bancroft:
“Slavery and the slave-trade are older ,
the records of human society: they arc I
a*'c hunW k
I
to have existed, wherever the sav
can to assume the habits of pastoral or*?
luralhfe; and, with tho exception of An*
si’i, they have extended to every porfio-t
globe. They pervaded every nation
zed antiquity, The earliest gfl m P s ®* pf
, tian history exhibit pictures ofboodlF'
| oldest inonumepts of human Jabcr on h |L '
tian soil are evidently the resuits ofsl a,e Ij( *
The founder of the Jewish nation
holder and n purchaser of slaves, t'-'- 1
trmrcli was lord in his own household^
“The Hebrews, when they burst d K v
of their own thraldom, cairied with the ^
yond the desui t the institution ot slaver." ^
. light that broke from Sinai scattered 1 ' t
Cow per in i])|Jsions „ f r()lvlhe ism : but
planted itself even in the prorn' se< ^ * ft
banks of Silo i, near tho oracles of Goo-
11-brew father might doom liis datightei' ^ .
dago; the wife, and children, and l luS ^ r .'i.'
the emancipated slave, remained the
the master and his heirs; and if a '
^ need not he refreshed upon tho history ol J their subjects from the contemplation of their j mortally wounded by liis master
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