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senses, and to enjoy the benefit of sleep—
This afflicting cas** it believed to be al
nu'S>r unparalleled, and has thus far baffled
ab the efforts of medical skill.
Little Valle Gaz.
CAiIIMET.
HJiRHENTO.W BFPT 12, ‘*29,
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1 he Governors election lias
so completely engrossed the at
tcntion of the talking part of
the. community, that it appear*
entirely forgotten that other im
portant elections are to take
place on the same day. We
-would therefore respectfully re
mind the people, who always
wish to do the thing that's right.
that there is also a member ol
congress and members of the
legislature to be elected on the
first Monday in October next:
We therefore give below the
names ©f the several candi
dates. In relation to the chmc
of a gentleman to represent id
in the Congress of the United
States, we anticipate, with com
lidcn.cc, the success of 11 KM*’
G LAM Alt Hscp whose consis
tent legislative and political
course have gamed him the
confidence and unqualified ap
proval nf the republicans of
the old school—these taken in
connexion with the section of
the State in which he resides,
eminently entitle him to the
confidence and Suffrages of the
people of Georgia.
For Governor .
f JOKL CRAWFOItn.
’ GEORGE It.GILMER.
For Congress.
HENRY G. LAMAR.
T. U. P. OH MILTON,
For the Legislature.
S E ve
ARTHUR MUNCIUKF.
Representatives.
JAMBS GRAY.
ADAM JON KS.
lIKNMS L RYAN.
ALIAS WILSON.
We heartily join in the sentiments ex
firessed in the foliowi gai tirb-from the
ast Georgia Journal. Although under
•xitine circumstances we give a decided
f reference to Mr. Crawford, yet we deem
it ol u.iuor importance whether Joe! Craw
ford or George R. Gilmer shall occupy the
Executive Chair in comparison with the
ascendency and perpetuity of the princi
ples advanced and successfully supported I
by a Thoma o Jefferson, a James Jackson
and a George M Troup.
From the Journal
e have been waiting, most anxiously
in the hope, that some ai range merit would
be made by the of the two candid
ates before the people, by which but one
would be run. The absolute necessity
of such an arrangement has been obvious
enough to every one, without a word from
tis. Ir has not, however, been made,
to our very great regret; yet we are atII
Dm able to bring ourselves to consent to
widen the breach that has been ere ted,
in the party, to the building up of which
we have conti ibuted our mite* We still
cherish the hope that it may be healed.
The time, it is true, is short—but not too
ihort to have, the matter arranged.
Most of our friends, no doubt recollect
the c a .-e that occurred iu Missouri last
year. There were two candidates up,
ot ihe Jackson party for seats i Con-!
grCss and but one ou the othei side Thei
party having the two candidates saw that
they must be divided, if both their can-i
didates wer ® *u°* . | Ttiey c therefore,]
agreed to leave the whole matter Jo Col*
Benton, binding themselves to abide by
his decision. He decided, one of the can
didates withdrew-and the Jacksoo party
were triumphant.
Why caunot a similar arrangement
be made here? VVe adjure the Troup
party, all over the state to take the
matter into serious consideration. There
is yet time enough.
caution our citizens against re
ceiving, at six and a quarter cents, the five
cent pieces just gelling into circulation:
the public has already been sufficiently
impo-ed upon by speculators bringing out
from the Mint, the ten cent pieces and
passing them al twelve and a half each.
Ihe per cent,on so small a coin, to b.e
sure, seems small, bul it will be recollect
ed that on a hundred dollars the specula
t.or nets twenty five. We therefore hope;
•hat oui Merchants and Farmers will sel
their laces against it and not receive a sin
g!e piece at more than its real value.
Eight square bales Os Cotton, says th<
\ugust* Courier of the 7th inst. oftneneiV’
p. were brought to market on Frida*
last, fom the plantation of General Da
v;d Faylor, of Burke county, packed in
ins usual fine style. We understand.
,; tal it was sol lat 9 1-2 cents, and ship
ed to New V >rk. It is a fact worlh>
of remark, that each bale was raa k *
r,od weighed 327. The General is a fir s
rate planter, and superintend* the weigh
'Kgofhrs Colton before it is packed; 1 ’
Lucius Q. O. Lamar, F.sq* has been,
appointed by the Governor, a Direct*
of the Central Bank, in place of Cot.
S. Jones, resigned.
ELECTION ()t GOVERNOR.
Erotn the .Macon Messenger.
A writer in the Recorder, lately pio
mi Ito inform the public of the nawesof
the Junto, which nominated Mr. Gilmer
AtnenS. We wish he would do so 1
t>r although we are not, from principle,
opposed to caucus nomination*, when
fairly made, yet we are hostile to such a*
are gotten up under the pretext of public
opinion, by n ff.w, ami those not cim.*pi
cuous for influence or merit: and ift we
have been cm recti v informed, such wa-,
tne character •>! the small Junto which at
Athens, nominated an opposing candulafe
—and to which assemblage the Toux
party must o*ve all the consequences of
the present division among them in the
election of Governor Their reward, wifi
vet signer or later, be found the con
demning voice ol the people. • v *
FROM THE RECORDER. v s.
Gentlemen —l liavt delayed furnish
ing you, with a list, of the gentlemen,
who, it is repotted, nominated Mr.
Gilmer as a candidate for Governor,
under the exportation that they would
have come forward and acknowledge
their names, and the motives which
led them to niart-a candidate in oppo
position to Mr. Crawford. I have
keen disappointed in my expectation.
I, therefore subjoin the names as men ’
tioned by those who were at Athens ai
the time, of the individuals upon
whose authority Mr. Gilmer was an
nounced a candidate. This caucus 1
nomination has attracted the attention
of the pet pie in almost every county of
the State. Ti*e people are anxious to
know the names of the persons who
attended this caucus. The Savannah
Republican says, that “the people
should be informed to whom they are
indebted for such a state of things—mi
awtul responsibility rests somewhere.”
i lu giving theirnameß, 1 have a double
object in view: to let the people know
to whom they are indebted ‘for the
nomination of Mr. Gilmer, and to
draw from the nominating council an
exposition of their motives in bringing
forward Mr. Gilmer.
MY NAME IS LEGION.
Names of the gentlemen, according
to report, by whose -authority Mr.
Gilmer was nominated a candidate for
the office of Governor of Georgia.
W m. C. Dawsjn, of Greene county.
Or. Henry Branham, of Putnam,
Gol. Warren Jordan, of Jones. 1
Thomas Stocks, of Greene.
John Billups, of Oglethorpe;
Alfrd Iverson, of Jones.
Robert Hardeman, of Jones. •
From the Macon Messenger. I
The conflicting claims of two in lividu
als for the office of Governor, both of whom
profess the same political creed, and,
have equally merited by their services,
the confident and good opinion of the
public, may possibly reduce many an hon
’est voter to a perplexing embarrassing di
lemma. W ere it not for one circumstance,
I myself should be placed in a situation
similar to that of the bewildered beast,
whose judgement and discriminating fac
ulties were at a complete stand, when
placed midway between two equally at
tractive objects. Bu‘a repulsive power
lias been given to one, and 1 am now firm
and decided in my preference for theoth
er. My personal predilections are rathei
in favour of Mr. Gilmer—l kn >w hiio to
be a man of talents, of firmness, decision
<nd character of unbending integrity, and
unccmpiomiMng principle—one who lia*
‘done the state some service,’ and wh
only wants an opportunity to do it more.
This preference far Mr. Gilmer has not
resulted from any comparison prejudicial,
to Mr. Crawford, the latter, for aught >
know, may posses the attributes above
enumerated in fully as eminent a degre*.
as the former—Mr. Crawford is repr
sented to be a man “sows puer sans re
proclie ,” (without fear aid without rt>
prpach) and such l believe him to be.
hjjll therefore take it for granted, th,’
icy are both competent for the discharge
the duties ol Govern- r. It is the od
ious interposition of Mr Gfi!meV‘s frieu <>.
*iAt has determined th rt course of many
cover ing v iter—Well has this gentleman
°ason to ejaculate Save me from m>
riends.* The citizens in this portion ol
the country, a>e too ind pendent to yieh
fothe beck or n dos -ny individual ors
of individuals. VVe acknowledge sobser
yiency to no dictation. Conviction ma.
be accomplished by reasoning and argu
;nent, but the word of command is unio
telligble to an independent vo er. A
number of individual*, or rather I
amost inglorious few, have arrogated to
themselves an assumption of power, ann
presumed to dictat* 1 to the free citizens of
Georgia,‘he mode and manner in which
they fire to exercise the elective franchise.
And ’ nedd they think the community
were s-< we ik, *o ductile as to yield obe
dience to the tr>su ‘;<•* of four m Jive inch
vidua! ? affront for ••titbit*; save th-ii
assurance?—Will i*ur fee citizens give
up this first and most glorious privilege,
the free clinic# of our rul® at the will of
• s *lf constitu-cd junto? In times of pol
itical contention and strife, a conventional
understanding to support someone par
tieulir Candidate, may be a measure dic
tated by prudence and policy. But ‘in’
these piping times of peace’ there is no
need fur such extranet us aid, to assist our
judgement. We are able and willing to
determine for ourselves.—These men who
ever they may be. de erv* the ,*ecrations
of every member of the party to which
they profess to belong, their officious and
ill-timed introduction of Mr Gilmer, has
threatened sch'sm- and breaches which the
utmost zeal and assiduity on the part of
vhe friends of good order must heal— ur |
opponent* who are on m que vine* for such |
disseations, will takc-> •-ul.'fotage of them,
in a few years, the tables may be turned,
and instead of resting on out arms, the
war of party with its thousand ills must
again be waged. Who arc .they who
compose this IVittenagemont,—whose fiat
regulates the vote* of the people— \t e
they, our Patres conscript?— the wise and
learned of the lami! delegated by the
people for this responsible consultation!—
No, they are political ‘Gourmands’—
each of whom, is solicitous for a share of
the loaves and fishes, and whose principal
object of finesse is to reserve for himelf
Benjamne‘B portion—Beware gentlemen;
death may be in the pot, and your feast
may be a famine The atmosphere of our
literary emporium possesses truly a most
magic quality—inhale it freely, and drink
but lightly, or rather sip of the Pyerian
spring, fyr few have drank of this beverage
in our modern Athens to intoxication, and
you are not only transmuted into one of
the literati, but you become immediately a
complete Jlachiadel , you are inducted in
to the arcana of state affairs, and qualified
to determine who shall, and shall not be
the peopled choice. Truly ‘a little
learning it a dangerous thing.’
macon.
From the Columbus Enquirer.
The time is drawing nigh when the
people will have to decide between the
claims of Maj. Crawford and Mr. Gilmer
to the executive chair. Every individual’
lli*’ she privilege of choosing fur hnus elf.
and it is tube hoped that the ..noire will
be made witnopt any uunecrss try excite’
( inent on the occasion. Buffi cindi ate*
, belong to the republican r inks? profess
the same policed principles and hove
, served their country with eqoT zeal and
fidelity. VVe cannot help regretting that
, any circumstances should hsve brought
i two such distinguished citizen ? tariffing
, so high in the confidence of th** pablk\ ip
. opposition to each other. Tin? *oo.jbcfc
i may endanger the political haiinoay of :j,e
state and can at best be produr. |,\e <f po
good, but inasmuch as they are b'f.ne,
i public and neither likely to < etire ’ fyom.
(he contest, the people must make choice*
between them; and whilst we exercise
i the right of choosing for ourselves, we are
not disposed to quarrel with thrse who
nay think proper to make a different
choice.—Under existing circumstances
we ’'ave no hesitancy in giv n our and. ci
ded preference to Maj >r ( raw ford. He
is emphatically an honest man t;d -inhere
patriot. VVe consider lurn inferior to
no man in our State, in pu itv of heart,-
soundness of political doom es and in a
study attachment to the re and i’uerest
the country. And in this respect we
think h • s ands preeminen*—that he nev
ar attempts to climb into power by syco
p riutrv, caballing or poii ical bartering,,
bit re! \in • altogether np u merit for sue
es9,he has ever kept aim from praeti
es of any of the degrading yet too of en
successful tricks of a demagogue. ’This
praise is justly awarded'by ti.e hie rhcnind
e<i of all parties and whilst we urge it in
h s b* 1 half -is a distinguish rg feature of
his ch iractee, ive are not and sposed to de
tract aught from the high reputation of hi?
competitor nor enter into a comparison
between the virtues of th. two nun. Both
have long stood irreproachable in the eye
oft e community. But without laying our
selves liable to the impmatioa of uuiue
partiality, we think that we can justly
render to Mr. Crawford the credit of su
perior abilities and higher inteHecual at
tainments. Not that we esteem Mr G.
deficient in the nedessary qualifications of
an efficient Statesman, for we consider
nim amply adequate to the discharge of
any duties that he m-iy. b>’ called upon to
perform ; Nor are. we insensible to his
claims upon (he office to which he aspires,
ami at a more suitable period we should
ha ve urged them wi * G pleasure and zeal
but we cannot resist the conviction that
those, claims are at present diminished'by
, the circumstances under which fie has
I been brought before the people. And this
. forms the conclusive reason of our pra
, Terence for Maj. Crawford. But a short
i time ago the friends of Mr. ‘.j. w* h bis
, assent were riinning him for a re elec ion
. to congress, and it was not until he vis ted .
, Athens that he was persuaded to take the
, field of opposition, by a set of men who
II fire not eminent for the possessi *n of these
, j exalted qualities of the mind or heal that
I j can palliate their arrogant endeavor to
, I direct the political destiny of the State.
,jGov Troup was there, but did n>? join
-j in the combination. He could .-a tail
jto view with regret, vuch an un >,ona-
I ble and uncalled for arrangement. Oilier
:gentlemen oi high distinction, n are
told, also avoided the cabal kno v ng that,
the step about to be taken, wo ,i lead to
dissention and strife, which it * die dqty
,of every good citizen v *c<i if possible.
Factious disturbances i-ve too long and -s*
i troyed the peace of so iety and paralize
j thejenergies of our Sute, and *ve think'-
,• it high time that the people should be
. I suffered toenjov a little tranquility; but
.j if the late Junto at Athens are übe sup
fj ported in their ambitious schemes, the-.
I republican ranks will soon be weakened
Fj division and the people awakened from
, i their present temporary repose to a
frrah and fierce warfare. And is it not
- to be lamented that with designs so pal
. pable, they are able to march on to their
accomplishment by means of a deserved
popularity of one of our most distinguish
ed fellow-citizens? We expressed ouv
regret when Mr. Gilmer resigned his sear
■ his zealous labors in the national councils,
would have been rewarded by the gratitude
of every citizen of the State, but by aspir
ing to a higner situation he must unavoid
ably engender irceconcilable dissentions
in the party to which he belongs—a re
sult which however unpleasing to
will nevertheless be gratifying to some of
the would-be-great men who brought him
out, and to all the disaffected who hope
to benefit themselvesjna new scramble fur
power. Mr. Crawford is decidedly the
choice of the distinguished republican lea
ders. And what good object do the sub-,
ialtems propose by their opposition.