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A Backwoods Sheriff'and his Dog.
Once upon a time I had taken iny Ad Jupiter,
that you have often heard ine tell ot: old Jupe
was a nice thing, I had taken her long and goue
off upon a bear hunt, had been absent two or three
weeks, aud had wandered very iar from home.
1 was a ventersome lad in those days, aud never
better satisfied than w hen alone iD the wild woods.
I had worked iny way down into the fork formed
by the emtying of the Cumberland into the Ohio
river, and ! had worried the bears I
had had rare sport. Old Jupe was in a good hu
mor, aud she and 1 was mighty loving, for she had
foult eotne tights which 1 never can forgit, and
which made me love her like anew flint, and she
loved me like 1 was a bacon bone, for l had help
ed her out of some of her difficulties, when it
would have been a goue case if I hadn’t been pre
sent; I say duhculties, for 1 never did see a dog
so tired as she was. Ido believe during som e ol
these tights that lain now talking about, I saw
the bears hug her until they stretched her out in
a long string. Yes, 1 seen ’em squeeze her until
she was’nt larger than my arm, and at least nine
oi ten feet long ; you might have wouud her up
into a ball as you have done a hank of yarn. Well,
when she was stretched out iu a string, or even
tangled up in a knot, 1 would shoot the the bear,
draw her offone side, throw, a little cold water
over her, leave her and go to butchering. In an
hour, and sometimes it would take longer, she
would begin to come together like a jointed
snake, and presently she would fetch a yelp, and
come streaking to me, shaped as she ought to be,
showing her teeth, and looking as fresh as if she
was anew made dog. And then wan t she vig’-
rous ? You might have hung a cross cut saw to
a swinging limb, and she would have chawed upon
it the balance of the day, or have throw n her a
bear’s head, aud she wouldn’t touch the meat,
hut draw all the teeth out merely for spite.”
Reading. —When the business of the day is o
▼cr, how many men does the evening hour find
comfortably seated in their evening chairs, read
ing to themselves, to some' fair friend or happy
group? In how many pleasant homes, wbilethe
ladies are seated at their morning employments,
or whatever they may please to call them, does
some glad creature read aloud, in a voice full of
music, ami marked by the sweetest emotions of a
young pure heart, a lay of our mighty bards, or a
story of one of our most cunning interweavers of
the truth of nature with the splendor of fiction, or
follow the wonderful recitals of our travelers, nat
uralists and philosophical spirits into every region
of earth or mind! Publishers may tell us that
‘poetry don’t sell, critics may cry, ‘poetry is a
drug,’ thereby making it so with the frivolous aud
unreflecting, who are the multitude—but wc ven
ture to say, that at no period was there ever more
books read by that part of our population most
qualified to draw delight and good from reading;
and when we enter mechanics’ libraries, and see
them filled with simple, quiet, earnest men, or
find them now sitting on stiles in the country,
deep-suuk into the very marrow and spirit of a
well-handled volume, where we used to meet
them iu riotous and reckless mischief, we are
proud and happy to look forward to that wide and
formally waste field over which literature is exten
ding its triumphs, and to see the beneficial con
sequences that will follow to the whole communi
ty. —[liowitt.
REBECCA LAMAR.
An affecting incident relative to this lady, who
it will be remembered was one of the female sur
vivors of the ill starred passengers on board the
Pulaski, has just come to our knoweldge. Miss
Lamar, says a Gentleman from Charleston, whose
life was saved on the same portion of the wreck,
was our guardian angel, cheering the desponding,
alleviating the sorrows of those who had seen the
waves of the ocean close over their nearest and
dearest relatives, and administering hope and con
solation even to the veteran sailor, to whom scenes
of terror and dismay had long been familiar. So
great in fine, was the confidence she inspired in
the heart of every member of otir unfortunate
the shore alive, when they felt their hour approach
ing, requested as a favor, that they might be al
lowed to rest their heads upon her lap, and breathe
out their dying moments with all the consolation
she was capable of affording. And thus all those
who wer# unable to survive the horrors of the aw
ful hour, with their last look turned towards her
who had never quailed or blanched beneath the ter
rors of the scene, although the stoutest hearts had
failed, aud the boldest trembled in anticipation of
their fate.
llow do the glories of a Catharine, a Samari
mis, or a Margaret de Valdemnr, pale before tire
virtues of such a woman. Let those who bear
the name of Lamar, henceforth cherish it more
proudly, than if if conferred wealth, or power, or
nobility upou its possessor.
Boston Times.
A llamerous Lady —The following anecdote,
related in a northern paper is too good to be lost;
The lady of a member of congress, had spent the
winter at Washington and returned home. Her
husband not hearing from her for a number of days,
gently chided her for'.hei silence. The next mail
brought him a letter saying she had written him
before, but unfortunately like the sub-treasury
bill, her letter happened to be “laid on the table”
instead of being sent to the post office. She hop
ed this explanation would be satisfactory ; but eveu
if it were not she presumed she should hear no
more about it; for she learned, whilst attending
the proceedings of congress that when any matter
was “laid on table” it was no longer “open
to debate.”^
BraUdreth’s Pills— A new way to get Money
from a Bank. —A good joke is told in the Cincin
natian, of the extraordinary efficacy of these pills,
in the most hopeless case. A merchant of Cincin
nati, (the story says,) was refused a discount at
bank, was disconsolate ; had a note to lift next
day. and was out of funds. Despair was written
on his face, when he espied a newspaper in which
was related the circumstance of an old and decre
pid woman being restored to blooming youth, by
merely tjjg s j £t . over one 0 f jy r Btand
reth s “own offices." idea fl aflhe(l Ul<on him
—he determined to make the experiment of try
ing their efficacy on Bank Directors, aud accor
dingly he repaired immediately to the office, and
procured a box. This he folded up with his note,
and sent a counterhopper to the Bank who pre
sented the same to the Directors and awaited the
issue.
The result will soen be told—the sight of the
box worked upon them so forcibly that they or
dered the money to be shelled out insutuer ?
TO THE PUBLIC. 1
TIIE GEORGIA FEMALE COLLEGE.
The building for this Institution, the most airy,
spacious, and splended, perhaps, ol auy in the
State of Georgia ; containing seventy-two rooms,
with ample space for at least two hundred hoarders
is now almost being completed. It stands on a
beautiful eminence, overlooking the City ol Ma
con, and will be opened for public instruction, on
the first day of January, 1839. It will be under
the charge of the Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, (so well
known iu the State of Georgia,) as President, and
who will reside iu the Institution, assisted by an
able and efficient faculty, and from whom the pu
pils consigned to their care, will no doubt receive
a practical and complete education. In the Col
lege will be taught not only the whole course of
English Letters and Scieuce, but also vocal and
instrumental Music, Drawing and Painting, to
gether with the Latin, Geeek, French, Spanish,
and Italian Languages; and last, though not least,
there will be in operation a system of Domestic
Economy, by w hich the young ladies, under the
direction of experienced teachers, will he enabled,
and required to prepare, and keep in good order,
all their own clothing, thereby avoiding milliner’s
bills w hile at school, and at rim same limp pro
paring themselves and families, in future life—
The great object of the Trustees will be, to make
the course of studies practical and moral, as well
as literary, thereby rendering the pupils that may
pass through this Institution, the comfort and
pride of all associated with them in after years.
It is contemplated that the fixed expense of each
pupil will be about Two Hundred and Fifty Dol
lars per annum. This sum will cover the ex
pense for the use of a room , for eating, and tuition
fees, of every description ; or in other words, for
the use of a room aud eating, $l5O, and for tuition
of every description, SIOO. The parents of pu
pils w ill have to furnish their own rooms, with
such furniture as they deem necessary; or if re
quired, it will be done by the faculty, and charged
in their bills. ’This last expense is more nominal
than real, as, on leaving, the furniture can always
be sold to the next occupant for nearly its original
cost.
The Trusrees are desirous to ascertain what the
probable number of pupils will be, at the opening
of the Institution, and for this purpose, earnestly
request all persons intending to send, to signify it
by letter, addressed to Col. E. Hamilton, (post
paid,) at Macon, or soon as may be convenient.
The Board will meet in the City of Macon, on
the 28th of November, at which time they wish
to have this information before them, as they then
expect to fill the remaining offices, and make the
final arrangements for opening the College on the
first day of January, 1838. We will merely fur
ther add, that although it is very desirable, and
earnestly recommended, that the pupils be boar
ded in the college building, yet the rule is not im
perative, and parents prefering to do so, have the
privilege of boarding their daughters within the
City or Vineville, both of which are sufficiently
convenient.
The friends of this Institution will have expen
ded, ol their private funds, in its erection and out
fit, considerable more than Fifty Thousand Dol
lars, without expecting any other return or bene
fit, than that which every other citizen of the
country may receive. Their object lias been the
public good, and now with confidence and pleasure
they offer its treasures to the rising generation of
their beloved country women.
By order of the Executive Committee.
LOVICK PIERCE, Agent.
Macon, Sept. 18, 1838.
SPECIE AND SPECIE PAYMENTS.
Wc have observed, that since the resumption
of specie payments in Augusta, Charleston and
other places, there has been no denial by any of
the Banks of this place to pay specie for their
notes whenever demanded of them : and, virtual
ly, the resumption commenced here on the first
of September, as well as these places where pub
lic proclamation was made of the fact. So that
the first of October will come and pass as other
days without any undue excitement, as many have
supposed there would be. If there are farmers
V '’‘“J''*'* ”■~' v ” v “ “'V us 'l*® Banks ill
this place, and are dubious about their solvency,
let them come forward and demand the specie for
them, and they will be accommodated. We
think, if we understand the spirit and manage
ment of th** various Banking Institutions in this
place, that it is a challenging one, in the stead of
shrinking from the test. Therefore, let those
come forward who are fearful and demand and re
ceive the specie for their paper; there is not a
Bank in Macon that will refuse. The above re
marks have been the result of our own observation,
connected with facts that have come within our
knowledge. We understand that thirty thousand
dollars of specie has been received, during the
present week, by the Octmilgee Bank, in addition
to the twenty thousand received some time since
by the steamer Comet. We hope that this influx
of the real grit will continue.— Macon Post.
REMARKABLE GROWTH OF COTTON.
We have received the following authenticated
statement of the growth of the Cotton Plant, which
we have been told by old Planters is so wonder
ful, that they would not have believed it, but from
a personal knowledge of the subscribers to the
statement given below. And yet we are informed
that the field, from which the stalk in question
was taken, was of such remarkable fertility, that
many other specimens of equal productiveness
might have been selected.— Brunswick Advocate.
The undersigned certify that a stalk of Cot
ton was taken by them from the Swamp
Field at Waverley Plantation, on the evening of
the 4tli inst, and the forms and bolls from "the
said stalk being carefully cut off', were counted,
when it appeared that there were eight hundred and
fifty-four forms and bolls. The runners and bran
ches were then carefully examined, and it appear
ed that the said stalk had shed or dropped one
hundred and eighty-seven forms aud bolls previous
to its being cut, making in all One thousand and
forty-one forms and bolls that the same stalk of
Cotton had borne.
(Signed.) GEO. C. DUNHAM.
JEFFERSON STONE.
Waverley Plantation, Camden County, sth Sep
tember, 1838.
.. The drought of the present season has proba
bly been greater mo» u.o ~1 Bes .
tlement of the country. The early part of the
season was not materially unfavorable to most of
the crops. Wheat and oats were good—corn that
was planted early has produced a fair crop; late
corn has been considerably cut off: but as there
was a large crop planted in this vicinity, there w ill
be a full supply. Potatoes, peas turnips, and gar
den vegetables are almost entirely destroyed; the
two former, in many cases, will hot produce the
THE GEORGIA MIRROR.
seed that was planted, Provisions of course, most
be scarce and high.— Mess.
MANUFACTURE OF PUBLIC OPINION.
It uot unfrequently happens that political agita
tors and aspii i uts for offices whic* they could nev
er reach through merit, contrive to manufacture
public opinion, and give tone and direction to pub
lic meetings n subserve their own purposes. A
remarkable instance of the kind occulted recently.
Our readers w ill remember the celebrated mee
ting in Franklin county, at w hich the itquisitorial
resolutions were passed, calling upon af. the can
didates lor Congress to give their sentinents in
relation to the Sub-Treasury and the caulidates
for the Presidency. These resolutions were ush
ered forth to the world as the production of a
committee of the citizens of that comity, and ad
opted by the meeting, when in fact, as w e are iu
tormed on good authority, they were the produc
tion of one of the Union candidates for Congress,
who attended that meeting ! It is certainly a nov
elty iu the political canvasses of Georgia, fora
candidate for Congress, to smuggle in .n^«v, 6 u «
packed committee, a report and resolutions, by
which such a tone is given to the proceedings of
a public meeting, as will subserve his own inter
ests in the contest. Little did the people of Frank
lin suppose that these resolutions had been “cut
and dried” for them before they assembled, by one
of the candidates for Congress, in whose favor
they were to operate if passed, and only required
to be juggled through, to be heralded forth to the
world as “public opinion.” Little did they suppose
that tliev were suffering themselves to be made
unconscious instruments in the hands of one can
didate to catechise and cross examine his fellow
candidates ! That candidate too, must have felt a
little odd in replying to his own enquiries about his
own political sentiments! His answer should
have commenced thus.—‘Gentlemen —In reply to
the questions which I prompted you to put tome
relative to my own political sentiments” &c.
Thus it often happens that what is trumpeted
forth to the world as “public,” the “voice of Dem
ocracy, "dec. is nothing more than the selfinter
ested prompting of some aspirant for office, who
puts people up to do what they had never dreamed
of before. But the most singular thing of all in
relation to this procedure, is. that the resolutions
denounce a National Bank in unmeasured terms,
while the very candidate who prepared those res
olutions had always been a Bank man during the
whole of his past life, down to the period of his
nomination for Congress, wheti it became conven
ient tu get on the other side of the fence !
Augusta Sentinel.
As this will be the last opportunity we shall have
of addressing through the columns of our weekly
paper, those of our friends who reside in coun
ties remote from this place, we cannot permit it to
escape without saying a few words of caution and
admonition to them.
We are on the eve of an election in which for
many considerations, otir success is of deep and
lasting importance, it is important to the suc
cess of those great and paramount principles of
State Rights which lie at the inundation of our
political creed ; it is important to the character of
the State to have a representation in Congress
capable of maintaining and defending the rights
of their constituents with dignity, energy and abil
ity ; it is important to fix the condemnation of the
people of Georgia upon the corrupt and profligate
practices which have grown up under the late and
present administrations of the General Govern
ment ; important iu fact for every reason that our
organization as a party is important. Impelled
by all these high considerations let us rally to the
polls with alacrity, euergy and confidence, in that
strength which carried us trumphantly through
the last election. All that is required to ensure
success is unanimity in action, and undiscoura
ged perseverauce. To tlie polls then, once more
we say, State Rights men of Georgia ! To the
Polls!— ib.
A GREAT DAY FOR THE COUNTRY.
To <tc>T alt ihe.Bxnus ofNew England, the Mid
dle States, parts of the Southern States, and parts
of the Western States, resume specie payments.
There is to be a Jubilee there upon in many
par’s ol Pennsylvania. We now deem it highly
; probable, that on the Ist of January next, ail the
oilier States will have a sound and a substantial
currency. Tennessee and Louisiana are prepar
ing. Alabama and Mississippi must follow suit
anon.
About ten years ago now, tinkers of the cur
rency, from the Capitol at Washington, where
Blind Chance in the whirling of party, had tossed
them, promulgated their dissatisfaction with a cur
rency, then the best on the earth, considering the
extent of country in which it circulated. They
then promised the nation a better currency, and a
hard money government. They got control of the
Federal Government, & of two thirds of the States,
and they made Banks, without number, troubling
them in quantity, and in the amount of their pa
per issues.—The bubble, thus inflated by the
Government itself, burst on the 10th of May, 1637
For the “Yellow Boys that were to flow up the
Mississippi,” and “the Golden. Eagles that were
to peep through the interstices of the long silken
purses,” we have had the Wild Cat money of
Michigan, the Shin Plasters of the Corporations,
and “Good for a Shave,” and "Good for a Drink
Arc. Are. ; and for the Hard Money Government,
we have had protested treasury drafts, without
number. And last, though not least, we now have
laws for twenty milions of treasury notes, signed
by Martin V an Buteu himself, the only irredeem
able currency, after to day. north of the Potomac,
or the Ohio river; or in Virginia, N. Carolina, or
Kentucky !
The Banks now, the 13th of August, 1638, after
a period of intense distress to the Nation, have
just been enabled to take the back tiack to tile lOlh
of May, 1837. We are now where we were then,
the Humbuggers with their Humbugs, as active
as ever, promising nowand again, with promises
as irredeemable as their Treasury Shin Plasters; a
hard money Government, for a hard money peo
ple, singing the old song of 1834, ’35, and ’37,
that if we will take as much of Silas Wright’s ex
pedients as we took of bis experiments,this dose will
not hurt us, as that did, but “the Yellow Boys
will positively peep out the interstices of the long
silken purses, and t.lie gold and silver certainly
flow' up the Mississippi.” We have only to say, j
to those who like suc&Quacks and such Quack- |
erv, they are welcome to take them. A hard 1
money Governmeut and a hard money People, !
and sub-treasuries, too, exist in Mexico, Peru, |
Chili, and Central America ; or over the Ocean, in
I ersia. with the Turks, and the Wandering Arabs, j
too ; and now that the federal Government has I
resumed its connection with Nick Biddle, we ail- )
vise them all to enjoy the Government of their
hearts, and take up their flight to the Deserts of
Arabia.
The Standard of Union still talks about the Ab
olitionists, but does not tell its readers who voted
to RECEIVE THER PETITIONS in Con
gress.
Will it inform them who voted for free negro
suffrage in the state ot New A ork ?
Who voted in favor of restricting slavery in
Missouri ?
Who had not “ light ’ enough to know whether
Congress had not a right to abolish slavery in the
district of Columbia !
Will it toil its readers who are these men, and
what party supports them ?
What Martin Van Buren had to do in these
matters —and themselves ; the self-styled real dem
ocracy of the country ?— Messenger.
It is reallv diverting to observe the weight, au
thority and importance attached to State Rights
men, and their political opinions, as recently man
ifested by our political opponents. Wonderful
Uiaugc, macro : iiiat the opinions of those so late
ly branded as disunionists and traitors, aliuuU Lv.
appealed to, and relied on with such implicit con
fidence, as sustaining the orthodoxy of the Union
Van Buren, Democratic, Republican, United
States Bank, no United States Bank, Pet Bank
and no Pet Bank, Are. Are party of Georgia.—
But why should we wonder at this ; is it not nat
ural for a sinking cause to strive to sustain itself
in any way it can? Any thing for votes, no mat
ter what the material out of which it is made;
hence a traitor's vote, will count one for Van aud
the party, as well as tlie vote of a-trueblue Union,
Van Buren, Democratic, Republican, Are. Are.
man. Well, we can’t olqect, in this their day of
need, to our opponents, resorting to any means to
keep themselves iu power a little longer; but it
will be all iu vain. That case is settled. The
ides of March is at hand, and Cassar must fall.
The last catch trap which we have noticed, is
the claim laid by these consistent presses, to Gov.
Troup, as a Sub-Treasury man. Governor Troup
is about as much a Sub-Treasury man, according
to the Van Buren signification, as• we are. Gov.
Troup’s well known opposition to a United States
Bank, has been eagerly laid hold of by his oppo
nents, as identifying hint with the Van Buren Sub-
Treasury men. Why, Gov. Troup was eloquent
ly and powerfully opposing this institution in the
Congress of the United States, a score of years
before the Sub-Treasury plan was ever dreamed
of. Gov. Troup is, we will venture to assert, in
favor of no measure which will give more power
to the Federal Executive; he has better done his
part to check the exercise of federal usurpation,
than any other man in the Union; he knows too
well, and has resisted too successfully, the inva
sions of the Government on the people, to second
any measure which can add to a power even now
more than monarchical. Hu.vever, to be short
on this point, we are willing to make a bargain
with our cotemporaries of tlie Van Buren press,
on this point. We will heartily subscribe to, aud
advocate any Treasury plan, that George M.
Troup will sanction. Will our opponents agree
to this? If they do, wc will assure them, they
will have to advocate a very different thing from
that proposed by Mr. Van Buren, or that plan as
amended by Mr. Calhoun.
This ruse will not take, with the State Rights
party, neighbors; you must get up something else,
or you are doomed to fall in your attempt to di
vide and ruin the State Rights party of Georgia.
.Southern Recorder,
Our neighbor the Standard, has got up another
charge against the Governor, over which it crows,
as if it had discovered some mighty matter. It is
very much of a piece with the other mighty char
ges which the Standard, offer all its throws, has
been able to muster against our patriotic and in
vulnerable Executive; equally important and e
qually valid. What a pity it is the Governor can
not be induced to do something wrong, just to
please our neighbor, and give him some founda
tion on which to build charges against him. Sup
pose our neighbor writes him another letter, re
spectfully requesting him to organize a Cherokee
regiment, or some other unconstitutional and ille
gal act, that he may have the gratification of villi
fy. ig him for it. We really pity tlie anxiety of
o h nr ;hl>or in this behalf; surely such good in
tentions as those of the Standard ought not to be
wholly baffled. But we fear, so long as the pre
sent Governor continues to preside over the af
fairs ot Georgia, we can offer our neighbor no con
solation. lie is destined to labor in vain, and
spend his strength for nought
But to tiie matter iu hand. The Standard char
ges the Governor with omitting to publish two o.
the laws of the last session, ordered to be publish
ed by that body six months before the elections;
and the Standard seems to suppose, as the election
is close at hand, and the laws not being published,
he has got the Governor iu a preminiri. And this
is the great charge, against tlie Governor, over
which the Standard rejoices. Why, if the Gov
ernor had not pnblished it, it would have been no
such mighty matter; tlie liberal of all parties, we
fancy, would at the worst have classed it as a very
pardonable oversight, amid the pressure of much
more important duties.
But to the point. If the Standard will consult
its own columns, when the other laws were pub
lished, it will find the very Idles m question publish
! e, i in them , and that too by order of this much abus
j ed Governor; and not only so, but it mil find the
j same thing done, by the same authority, in every pa
i l' cr °f Milledgeville, of both parties. So much
j for the charge of omission of duty by the Goveru
| or, in publishing, and so much for the usual weigh
ty charges of the Standard of Union.— ib.
Loco Foro Literature. —An extract from the ad
dress of Mr. C’achell of Montgomery county Ken
tucky, Loco Foco candidate for Congress was
copied, with some appropriate and not very flat
tering comments, to the Louisville Journal. In
reply to this same person has come out with an
other specimen of his literary ability. The fol
lowing is the concluding paragraph, in which he
intimates his benevolent design upon the offend
ing editor.
“ 1 he first snufl T get at him, I, in the fierce
ness of my wrath, wdl pounce upon him like a cat
amount on a skunk—snatch pieces of hide from
him as big as a muskrat, skin at a grab—l will
black both of his peepers—chaw off his fingers—
ciop his ears slit his nose---knock out his eye
teeth —bite oft" chunks of flesh by the pound
twitch off his right arm and beat him with the
bloody end—l will crack his thigh bones Ac grease
niy moccasins with the marrow—l will take his
brains to dress buckskin; and his skull in place
of a tortoise skull to make tny wife a soup-goatd
—I will literally e.ithitn up, as a Yankee would a
dish of codfish and potatoes, aud on the fragments
I will feast my dog.
l ours respectfully,
ISAC CACHELL.
Hamilton Cos. la., July JUt 1838.”
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FLORENCE, GA.
Saturday, Scpteml>er 20, i 83m,
Slate It iff/its Ticket .
The following gentlemen have been nominated
by the State Rights Party of this county, as cuu j
didates for the next Legislature:
SENATE.
Loveril ilryan.
HOUSE OF RERESENTATIVES.
John West.
State night* Ticket
roa CONGRESS.
J. C. ALFORD, of Troup.
E. J. BL\CK, of Scriven.
W. T. COLQUITT, of Muscogee.
M. A. COOPER, of Hall.
W. C. DAWSON, of Greene.
K. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
T. B. KING, of Glynn.
E. A. NIS BET. of Bibb,
L. WARREN, of Sumter.
FREEMEY, TO THE POLLS!
We cannot refrain from again calling on all who
are opposed to the corruptions of Martin Van Bu
ren, as well as those who uphold these corrup
tions in Georgia, to be at the polls—let nothing
keep you away. A desperate effort is now making
by our opponents to maintain the ascendancy in
the State. Their recent defeats have greatly ex
asperated them, and they are rallying their forces
to a man : meet them with firmness and a deter
mination to vanquish them, and victory will perch
upon the banner of State Rights and Liberty
but nothing but a concentration of forces and a
united effort can produce a result so beneficial and
happy.
Exertions have been made by our opponents to
divide and distract tlie State Rights party, (and we
tear they have been but too successful,) in order
that they might succeed in the election of their
Congressional ticket- —notorious for nothing but
their weakness and ignorance. Opposed to them
are those who have faithfully discharged their du
ties both iu the councils of their country and up
on her battle fields. Who docs nut remember an
Alford, who nobly breasted the storm of battle iu
opposition to the marauding Crocks that were
murdering our citizens and pillaging their planta
tions ; and afterwards stood boldly forth in the Con
gress o! the United States to assert their rights
and defend their i-'terests? Send him back to
Congress, and you will discharge vour duty to
yourself, your children and your country. Do
you desire that your State should occupy an hon
orable and exalted station in the councils of the
nation ; represented by men who will be able and
eloquent defenders of Southern rights and South
ern interests, who will be able to present vour
claims iu such a light, and urge them with an el
oquence which your bitterest enemies could not
resist ? If you do, vote, for Alford, Black, Col
quitt, Cooper, Dawson, Habersham, King, Nisbet
and Warren, who have all distinguished them
selves as statesmen and patriots, and have strong
claims upon the suffrages of tlie people of Geor
gia ; give them then your support, and by so doing
you will not only advance your own interest ami
the interest of your fellow-citizens generally, hut
you ivil! redeem the character of your State, ami
place her again on that eminence which she oc
cupied when represented by a Wilde, a Gilmer,
a Clayton, and others, alike distinguished fortheir
eloquence and patriotism.
We cannot conclude this appeal in behalf of onr
Congressional candidates, without calling the at
tention ol the voters particularly of Stewart coun
ty, to one who has stood by them in the most try
ing Ac dangerous times ; who bravely defended this
country against the merciless attacks of a savage
enemy; one who never faltered or quailed; and
who, when the storm of battle ceased to rage, has
urged their claims in the Congress of the United
States with a manliness, independence and elo
quence coequal with their justness and propriety.
Me mean Wm. C. Dawson—the man who has
watched over your rights and interests with an un
ceasing and vigilant eye, and front hts untiring
exertions for the last eighteen months in Congress,
is better acquainted with the nature of your claims
thau any man you could possibly select to repre
sent you. All men, of both parties, in this sec
tion ot the State at least, should give him their
frae and undivided support, for we can assure them
that an abler defender of their rights is not to be
found, and one who discharges his duty more faith
fully and zealously is not known. Come then, all,
we again repeat, who have the least spark of grat
itude burning in your breasts, and give to Wm. C.
Dawson your hearty and undivided support—i£
is his due.
And in going to the polls reflect well whom you
select to represent you in the Legislature. Re
member that by voting for BRYAN and WEST,
you support men who have many claims upon
you, and who are every way worthy to receive that
support, and, if elected, would represent the moral
character, as well as the pecuniary interest of
Stewart county in such a manner as would reflect
great credit upou themselves and honor upon their
constituents, and whose labors would be of last
ing benefit to those they represent.
Wc are aware, and are free to acknowledge, that