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BUGGY-MAKING,
AND
BLASK“SMITH1N0 3
BY
H. II. HOLMES,
CASSVILLE, GA.
_ _ „ X can put up any kind of Vehicle
CtjftJMfe'wanted, at sh irt' notice, and iu as
•“ SE ~good style as it can be done <i//y-
ichere. All work warranted.
Cassville, July 1st, 1 SoS-
SHOE.
William Headden,
CASSVILLE, GEO.,
a IS prepared to make and repair
Carriages, Buggies, Wngons, or
anything in his line of business.
He has one of the best BLACKSMITH’S
and some of ttie best WOOD WORKMEN in
Georgia; , ,
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tinuance of the same. Work warranted.
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by cash or note, without delay. *
Cassville, Mch 25, IS5$—ly
i r. sroir"
ailqrt irtujw & Goiijmissioi) IVFet-eiwfti,
AUGUSTA, GA.
CONTINUES the business in all its
branches, in his large and comroo-
j dious ; Fire-Proof Ware-house, on
#Mdk«o» street, near the Globe Hotel.
Orders for Goods, A©., promptly and care
fully filled. The usual cash facilities afforded
customers. July 22, ISM— ly
ray* Messrs.'Howard A Erwin, of Carters-
villeTstre authorised 16 make cash advances on
Cotton or other produce consigned to him.
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A
B. H. LEEKE,
.ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CAssvii.i.e, Ga.
TYUSINESS entrusted to mv care will meet
IJ with prompt and vigilant attention, and
monies paid over punctually.
Feb. 1, 1858—ly.
W. V. WESTER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CALHOUN, GEO.
TT7"ILL practice in all the counties of the
T V Cherokee Circuit. Particular attention
paid to the collection of claims, and to prompt
ly paying over the same when collected.
Nov 28, 1857—ly
ANDREW H. RICE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cassville, Geo.
"PRACTISES in the Counties of Cass, Cber-
JL okee, Cobb, Caloosn. Gordon, Gilmer,
Fannin, Paulding and Whitfield.
Prompt attention given to the Collecting bu-
siness in all of the above named counties.
May be found in the office formerly occu
pied by J. H. & A. 11. Rice.
June 17th, 1858—ly.
THOMAS J. YERDERY,
AT70MEY AT LAW,
CEDAR TOWN, GA.
YMTILL practice in the counties of Floyd.
V V Polk, Paulding, Carroll, Haralson and
Cass. Strict attention paid to collecting.
Feb. 18, 1S58—ly.
M. J. CRAWFORD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
niXGOOLn, CATOOSA COUNTY, GA.
TlTILIj practice In all the counties of the
V V Cherokee Circuit.
Particular attention paid to the collecting of
money, and to paying over the same when col
lected. mh 19, 1858—ly
W offord, Crawford & Howard,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Cassville, and Cartedsville, Ga.
INFILL faithfully attend to any businessen-
V V trusted to their care, in any of the coun
ties of Upper Georgia.
Wm. T. Wofford, J. A. Crawford, Cassville;
J. A. Howard, Cartersville. July 23.
E. M. KEITH.
AHRiY AT LAW,
CASSVILLE, GEO.
"PRACTICES in the counties of Cass, Chcr-
1 okee, Gordon, Whitfield and Paulding.
All business entrusted to his care will meet
with prompt attention.
Offiee north of the public square, in Rice’s
building. Nov. 18, 1858—ly.
THOS. M. COMPTON,
CASSVILLE, GA.,
Agent of the Bank of the
State of South Carolina.
■WTTILL make advances on Produce, Ac.,
VV and attend to all the business usually
transacted bv Bank Agents.
Nov. 18, 1858 43—ly.
E. M. SEA GO & GAAR,
SUCCESSORS to e. m. skago,
Wholesale Grocers,
PRODUCE DEALERS,
AND GENERAL
Commission Merchants,
SOUTH SIDE PASSENGER DEPOT,
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S. B. O ATM AN,
Dealer in American, Italian and Egtptiam
. Statuary, and Tennessee
Marble,
Monuments, Tombs, Urns and Vases, Marble
Mantels, and Furnishing Marble,
Atlanta, Ga.
James Vaughan, Agent, Cassville, Ga.
April 22,1858—ly.
SUMMEY & HURLICK,
DEALERS IN
MARBLE
MonHincnte Tombs, Urns, Va«
SES, VAULTS, TABLETS, HEAD
AND FOOT STONES, Ac.
/~\BDERS promptly filled. Address Marble
U Works P. O., Pickens Co., Ga.
James Vaughan, agent, Cassville, Ga.
Feb 1st, 1858—ly.
msnovM*
DR. J. T. GROVES,
removed to the office next door to
YOf A. C. Day’s shop, where he may be found
9 both day and night, unlessprofessionally
engaged. Prompt attention given to all calls,
by day or night.
'Cassville, Jan. 21, 1858.
M. McMURRY,
Dealer in Family Groceries,
CONFECTIONARIES, Ac.,
Cassville, Ga.
Feb. 1st, 1858—ly.
JNO. W. FOSTER,
fflctrg.
! one country, and they never can. It
: would be easy to demonstrate this impos-
jsibility, from the irreconcilable contrast
From the LaGrange Reporter.
The Poet’s Wish.
BY EDW. YOUNG HILL, JR.
I pant not for the miser’s hoard,
I envy not his treasure ;
For all the gold that was e’er stored,
.Can’t buy one solid pleasure.
Then let him keep his filthy dust—
My wealth is my mind ;
r d dine with gusto on a crust,
At peace with all mankind.
I do not ask for thrilling tones,
That strike mankind with wonder;
More musical are Ocean’s moans,
The whirlwind and the thunder;
And I can find in every blast
That wakes the sighing pine,
A song of glee for sorrows past,
A dirge for sweet “ Lang Syne.”
I do not seek wild eloquence,
To hold enthralled for hours
The silly mob or men of sense,
With rhetoric’s gaudy flowers:
land in which I shall be content to live, superscrviceable liberality, awaked them town and village throughout Georgia has
You will tell me that these fears are ex- j from their slumber, to offer and force on become x retail liquor negro shop, and a
tra vagan t and chimerical. I answer they j their acceptance the abrogation of the law ! den of thieves. I say it without hesita
between their great principles and cliarac- are so, but they are so only because the ' which declared that neither slavery nor j tion, that the free negroes and slave me-
teristics. But the experience of mankind i designs of the slaveholders must and can involuntary servitude should ever exist
has conclusively established it Slavery,
as I have already intimated, existed in
every State in Europe. Free labor has
supplanted it everywhere except in Russia
and Turkey. State necessities developed
in modern times, are now obliging even
be defeated. But it is only the possibility within that part of the ancient territory
of defeat that renders them so. They can
not be defeated by inactivity. There is
no escape from them compatible with non-
resistance. How, then, and in what way,
shall the necessary resistance be made ?—
those two nations to encourage and employ j There is only one way. The Democratic
\ free labor; and already, despotic as they j party m list le permanently dislodgedfrom
I arc, we find tliam engaged in abolishing ! the Government. The reason is, that the ! organized a new State within the region
! slavery. j Democratic party is inextricably commit-1 f hus abandoned to slavery, and applied to
j * * * * * * j ted to the designs of the slaveholders, j he admitted as a free State into the Union,
which I have described. * * *
of Louisiana which lay outside of the State
of Missouri, and north of the parallel of 36
degrees 20 minutes of nevih latitude—a
law which, with the exception of one oth
er, was the only statute of freedom then
remaining in the Federal code.
In 1S56, when the people of Kansas had
Hitherto the two systems have existed
in different States, hut side by side, with
in the American Union. This has hap
pened because the Union is a confederation
of States. But in another aspect, the Uni
ted States constitutes only- one nation.—
Increase of population, which is filling the
States out to their very borders, together
with a new and extended net-work of rail-
For rocks and groves and running' roads and other avenues, and an internal
brooks,
Each cloud and twinkling star,
Speak fo my soul in voiceless looks,
More eloquent by far.
I would not wield the warrior’s steed,
'Midst conflict’s fell destruction—
I would not heed the clarion’s peal,
Nor rolling drum’s seduction:
For though when victory’s bravely
won,
The breath of praise is sweet,
Fd never forget the evil done
In battle’s dreadful heat
No, hut I beg of Heaven the gift
To record deeds of glory—
The humble good to fame to lift,
By poet’s burning story.
Above the poet’s grave.
Oakland, Oct 26, 1858.
commerce which daily becomes more inti
mate, is rapidly bringing the States into a
higher^and more perfect social unity or
consolidation. Thus these antagonistic
systems are continually coming into clo
ser contact, and collisions result
Shall I tell you what this collision
means ? They who think that it is acci
dental, unnecessary, the work of interest
ed or fanatical agitators, and therefore
ephemeral, mistake the case altogether.—
It is an impressible conflict between oppo
sing and enduring forces, and it means
that the United States must and will,
sooner or later, become either entirely a
't^ Cn *° conquering j slaveholding nation or entirely a free-labor
I jS! 1 1 only crave j nation - Either thc mttoa aad ricc fields
Some friend may hang a rosy wreath I South Carolina, and the sugar planta-
” ” ’ ' tions of Louisiana, will ultimately be tilled
by free labor, and Charleston and New
Orleans become marts for legitimate mer
chandise alone, or else the rye fields and
wheat fields of Massachusetts and New
| the Dcmocrrtic party contemptuously rc-
The very constitution of the Democratic ! jected their petition, and drove them with
party commits it to execute all the designs! menaces and intimidations from the halls
chanics have done us more harm than all
the Abolitionists of the whole world com
bined. There is not a slave in five miles
of a city in Georgia who does not want to
quit thc fields and go to town to learn a
trade, that he too might dress fine, ride
in buggies, and smoke cigars. The slave
bites his lips, and becomes restive when
whipped for saying what thc free negro
does with impunity. And when he sees
the negro in his black cloth pants and
gaiter boots, and elegant silk hat set grace
fully to one side, dangling a splendid gold
fob, laughing and talking with some grhite
man, he too wishes to be free, and may
It is not a party of the whole Union, of all military power to enforce their submiss-
cv.
MR. SEWARD ON THE STUMP.
Extracts from a Speech Delivered at
Bochester, October 25,1858.
Fellow Citizens: The unmistakable out
breaks of zeal which occur all around me,
show that you are earnest men—and such
York must again be surrendered by their concede its claim to date from the era of
farmers to slave culture and to thc produc
tion of slaves, Boston and New York be
come once more markets for trade in the
bodies and souls of men. It is the failure
to apprehend this great truth that induces
so many unsuccessful attempts at final
compromise between the slave and free
a man am I. Let us, therefore, at least. g( a (- cs ^ an <j j s the existence of this great
for a time, pass by all secondary and col-. f act that renders all such pretended com-
latoral questions, w hether of a personal or I p ronl j seSi when made, vain and epheme-
CASSVILLE, GEO.
WILL do any kind of arark in his
line of business at as low rates as
it can be done by any food work
man in theState. As to to* pities « a work
man, be refers to any woA do^hy him. Con
tra ots taken in any part ®* “ e State.
Jane Sd, 1855—ly-
yitt IMIWMi
FRESH SUPPLY of Side-striped Mus
lins ; also Cigars. Call at
general nature, and consider the main sub
ject of the present canvass. The Demo
cratic party, or—to speak more accuratc-
ty—the party which wears that attractive
name is in possession of the Federal Gov
ernment. Thc Republicans propose to dis
lodge that party, and dismiss it from its
high trust *****
negroes, or persons more or less purely of
African derivation. But this is only acci
dental. The principle of the system is,
that labor, in every society, by whomso
ever performed, is necessarily unintellect
ual, groveling, and base, and that the la-
native or foreigner, is not enslaved only
because he cannot, as yet, be reduced to
bondage.
ral.
good feeling which occurred under the
Administration of President Monroe. At
that time in this State, and about that
time in many others of the free States, the
Democratic party deliberately disfranchis
ed thc free colored or African citizen, and
it has pertinaciously continued this dis
franchisement ever since. This was an ef
fective aid to slavery; for while the slave
holder votes for his slaves against freedom,
the freed slave, in thc free States, is pro-
j hibited from voting against slavery. In
Thc fathers knew that the two systems 11824, thc Democracy resisted thc election
could not endure within the Union, and i of John Quincy Adams—himself before
expected that within a short period slave-1 that time an acceptable Democrat, and in
ry would disappear forever. Moreover, in j 1828 it expelled him from the Presidency,
order that these modifications might not j and put a slaveholder in his place, altho’
altogether defeat their grand design of a : the office had been filled by slaveholders
Our country is a t eatre w ic i exhibits, re p U T>li c maintaining universal equality, j thirty-two out of forty years,
in full operation, ho radically different t j, ev p rov id e d that two-thirds of the States j In 1830, Martin Van Buren—the first
political systyms t e one resting on the j amend thc Constitution. * * If; non-siavehbldirig citizen of a free State to
basis of servile or s vc a r, t e ot er on ; these states are to again become univer- j whose election the Democratic party ever
the basis of voluntary labor of cemcn. gaily slaveholding, I do not pretend to say j consented—signalized his inauguration in-
fhe laborers who are enslaved are alb witJl wha t violations of the Constitution j to the Presidency by a gratuitous an-
that end shall be accomplished. On the ■ nouncement that under no circumstance
other hand, while I do confidently believe ! would he ever approve a bill abolishing
and hope that my country will yet become j slavery in the District of Columbia. From
a land of universal freedom, I do not ex- j 1838 to 1844 the subject of abolishing
pect that it will be made so otherwise than j slavery in the District of Columbia, and in
through the action of the several States, ; the national dock-yards and arsenals, was
borer, equally for his own good and for j c(H3 p era ting with the Federal Government, ! brought before Congress by repeated pop-
the welfare of the State, ought to beien-j ^ al]> acting in strict conformity with ^ appeals. The Democratic party there-
siaved. The white labonng man, whether j their respectivc constitutions. ' upon promptly denied the right of peti-
The strife and contentions concerning ; tion, and effectually suppressed the free-
slavery, which gently-disposed persons so . dom of speech in Congress, as far as the
habitually deprecate, is nothing more than i institution of slavery was concerned,
the ripening of the conflict Which the fath- j prom 1840 to 1843, good and wise men
ers themselves not only thus regarded ’ counseled that Texas should remain out-
with favor, but which they inay be said to j s j ( ] e the Union until she should consent to
have instituted. j relinquish her self-instituted slavery; but
It is not to be denied, however, that the Democratic party precipitated her ad-
thus far the course of that contest has not mission into thc Union not only without
been according to their humane antic’pn- j that condition, but even with a covenant
of the slaveholders, whatever they may be. i of Congress, and armed the President with I now be devising the ways and means,
some dark night, when you least expect
it, to strike the dagger te* your heart, or
put the knife to your throat. Unfortunate
as this might l*e, they are exerting an in
fluence still more appalling—the degrada
tion of the whites.
Having much rfiore property, and dres
sing so much finer than many of our de
graded poor white citizens, they are look
ed up to by them as their equals, and In
numerous instances are tlieirassociates.—
And this is every day making the free ne
gro more independent, bold and daring.
Why sir, let your’s or my wife be walk
ing thc streets alone, and he will brush
by her as though he was her equal. They
can do to-day what twenty years ago they
dare not speak about. They can take lib
erties to-day for what thirty years ago
they would have forfeited their heads.—
Casting their eyes and hopes upward to
that high position which we now occupy,
they have presumed to amalgamate with
the whites. To-day there is a large fami
ly of black and whi te blood in the coun
ty adjoining me; and but a short time
since in our own seaport city a free mu
latto scoundrel was put in jail for marry
ing a white Woman. God forbid that the
cheek of Circassia’s fair daughters should
ever be stained with one drop of black
blood, or that the God-like intellect of n
Saxon’s son should ever be hid in tho scull
of a negro. In the South there should be
but two classes; bond and free. Any in
termediate class only serving to pull up
the one and draw down thc other.
Right here 1 am asked if these free ne
groes should choose to leave the State,
\fherc arc they to go ? No Southern State
will receive them, for there is a statute
law in foree in every one of them forbid
ding free negroes frpm coming into and
residing within their limits. And why ?
For the very reasons assigned in the pre
amble to my resolutions; namely, they
are an incubus, a curse, a plague upon
them. And it is for this very reason I
would have Georgia to get rid of the in
stitution altogether. And now, Mr.
Speaker, is the proper time to do it, for
the longer it is deferred the more difficult
it wiii be, but that it will have to be done
the free States and all of the slave States;
nor yet is it a party of the free States in
the North and in the Northwest, but it is
a sectional and local part)*, having practi
cally its seat within the slave States, and
counting its consistency chiefly and almost
exclusively there. Of all its representa
tives in Congress and in the electoral col
leges, two-thirds uniformly come from
these States. Its great element of strength
lies in the vote of slaveholders, augmented
by the representation of three-fifths of the
slaves. Deprive the Democratic party of
this strength, and it would be a helpless
and hopeless minority, incapable of con
tinued organization.
❖ * * * * sje
To expect thc Democratic party to resist
slaveryand favor freedom i 4 as unreasonable
as to look for Protestant missionaries to
the Catholic Propaganda of Rome. The
history of the Democratic party commits
it to the policy of slavery. It has been
the Democratic party, and no other agen
cy, which has carried that policy up to its
present alarming culmination. Without
stopping to ascertain critically thc origin
of the present Democratic party, we may
ion to a slave code, established over them
by fraud and usurpation. At every sub
sequent stage of the long contest which
has since raged in Kansas, the Democratic
party has lent its sympathies, its aid, and
all the powers of the Government which
it controlled to enforce slavery upon that
unwilling and injured people. And now,
even at this day, while it mocks us with
the assurance that Kansas Is free, the De
mocratic party keeps the State excluded
from her just and proper place in the .Un
ion, under the hope that she may yet be
dragooned into the acceptance of slavery.
The Democratic party finally has pro
cured from a supreme judiciary, fixed in
its interests a decree that slavery exists
by force of the Constitution in every Ter
ritory of the United States, paramount to
all legislative authority either within the
Territory or residing in Congress.
The Democratic party denies emancipa
tion in thc District of Columbia, even
with compensation to masters and the
consent of the people, on the ground of an
implied constitutional inhibition, although
the constitution expressly confers upon
Congress sovereign legislative power in
that District, and although the Democrat
ic party is tenacious of the principle of
strict construction. It violated the express
provisions of thc Constitution in surrpres-
sing petition and debate on the subject of
slavery through fear of disturbance of the
public harmony, although it claims that
the electors have a right to instruct their
representatives, and even demand their
resignation in case of contumacy. It ex
tended slavery over Texas, and connived
at the attempt to spread it across the Mex
ican territory, even to the shores of thc
Pacific ocean, under the plea of enlarging
the area of freedom. It abrogated the
Mexican slave law, and thc Missouri Com
promise prohibition of slaveiy in Kansas^
not to open the new territories to slavery,
but to try therein the new and fascinating
theories of non-intervention and popular
sovereignty; and finally it overthrew
both those new and elegant systems by
the English Lecompton bill and the Dred
Scott Decision, on the ground that the
free States ought not to enter thc Union sooner or later, I am satisfied. Where
The great melioration of human society
which modern times exhibit, is mainly due
to the substitution of the system of volun
tary labor for the old one of the servile la
bor, which has already taken place. * *
* * The slave system is
not only intolerant, unjust, and inhuman
towards thc laborer, whom, only because
he is a laborer, it loads down with chains
and converts into merchandise, but scarce
ly less so to thc freeman to whom, only
because be is aalaborer from necessity, it
denies facilities for employment and whom
it expels from the community because it
cannot enslave and convert him into mer
chandise also. * * * * In
States where the slave system prevails,
without a population equal to the repre
sentative basis of one member of Congress,
although slave States might come in with
out inspection as to their numbers*
Will any member of the Democratic
party now here claim that the authorities
chosen by the suffrages of the party tran
scended their partisan platforms, and so
misrepresented the party in the various
transactions I have recited ? Then I ask
him to name one Democratic statesman or
legislator, from Van Buren to Walker,
who,- either timidly or cautiously, like
them, or boldly and defiantly, like Doug
las, ever refused to execute a behest of the
slaveholders, and was not, therefor, and
for no other cause, immediately denounced
now are they to go ? To the North, at
course. Their friends there have been
long and loud in their professions of
friendship towards them; contending that
by the laws of God and nature they are
our equals, and entitled to freedom, and
all the rights of citizenship. That little
bank of sympathisers, commonly called
Abolitionists, were but a few years ago a
mere handful, laughed at e^en at tba
North for their numbers, ridiculed for
th ’ir numbers, and despised for their prin
ciples. But that little lump of leaven has
leavened the whole, aqtkit now stands
forth thc embodiment of northern senti
ment, of northern determination.
The religious donominations at the
and deposed from his trust, and repudia-: North have met in their politico-Ecdesi-
ted by the Democratic party for that con- j astical sanctuaries, and pronounced the
tumacy. fugitive slave law a violation of the high-
tions and wishes. In|foe field of Federal • that the State might be divided and re-or-
; politics, slavery, deriving unlooked-for nd-; ganized so^s to constitute four slave States ! I think, fellow-citizens, that I have j er law of God, and pledged themselves to
vantages from commercial changes and en- instead of one. — r ~~ 1 =' 1 1 — “ iL * :
In 1846, when the United States became
involved in a war with Mexico, and it was
ergies, and unforeseen from the facilities
of combination between members of the
slaveholding class and between that class apparent that the struggle would end in
shown you that it is high time for the ' its repeal. Grave legislatures in their ao-
friends of freedom to rush to the rescue of j thoritative capacity have nullified it And
the Constitution, and that their very first! let you or I travel over a northern rail-
duty is to dismiss the Democratic party ! road and we will have to pay for every
and other p.QJperty classes, early rallied | the dismemberment of that republic, which frola the administration of the Govern- j inch of progress. A runaway slave has a
and has at length made a stand, not mere- j was a non-slaveholding power, the Demo- nmnt. | free ticket. And when you rdach .their
ly to retain its original defensive position, cratic party rejected a declaration that
but to extend its sway throughout the ^ slavery should not be established within
whole Union. It is certain that the slave- ' the territory to be. acquired. When, in
the masters, direetty or indirectly, secure . ......
all political power, and constitute a ruling ! holdin S chss of American citizens indulge 18.50, governments were to be instituted
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aristocracy. In the State where the free
labor system prevails, universal suffrage
necessarily obtains, and the State inevita
bly becomes, sooner or later, a Republic
or Democracy.
Russia yet maintains slavery, and is a
this high ambition, and that they derive ; n the Territories of California and New
encouragement for it from the rapid and Mexico, the fruits of that war, the Demo-
effective political successes which they cratic party refused to admit New Mexico
have already obtained. as a free State, and only consented to ad-
i hotels you and 1 are expected to pay from
Speech of Mr. Moore, Of Clarke, j two to three dollars a day ; the runaway
The Rouse having before its considera- ! glare is a distinguished guest Let yoa
tion the bill to regulate and dispose of the j or I runaway with our neighbor’s money
free persons of color in this State, Mr. 1 and the arms of every jailor in Maseacbu-
Moore, of Clarke, said: ! setts is stretched out to embrace us. But
Mr. Speaker:—That the free negroes of j let your property go there in the shape ef
A ,.
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CAKFENTEB’S.
Georgia have become a nuisance to their
mit California as a free State on the con-! immediate neighborhoods, is too plainly
_ _ When the free States shall be sufficient- aition, as it has since explained the trans- [ manifest to have escaped the attention of
despotism/ 'Most of the other European | ly demoralized to tolerate these designs, | action, of leaving all of New Mexico and ' each and every one of us. Living in heu-
V™*™- - - - • ’ ’ -r. T-i.i, —- *—ses of their own, without the restraint and
supervision of a master, their tenements
become the repository of everything our
slaves can steal that will bring a dime or
a drink. There go your chickens, your
States have abolished slavery and adopted i they reasonably conclude that slavery will Utah open to slavery, to which was also
the «vstem of free labor. It was the an- be accepted by those States themselves.— added the concession of perpetual slavery
tagonistic political tendencies of the two
systems which the first Napoleon was con
templating when ha predicted that Europe
I shall not stop to show how speedy or in the District of Columbia, and the pass-
how complete would be the ruin, which age of an unconstitutional, cruel and hu-
the ^Mi p iKhm«t of these slavehoHing initiating law, for the recapture of fugitive
woidd ultimately be either ah Cossack or; schemes would Wing upon the country.— slaves, with a further stipulation that the turkeys, your ducks, your pigs, your corn,
all Republican. Never did huraw^agaci- For one, I should not remain in the coun- subject of slavery should never again be *” J
tv utter a more pregnant truth. The two! try to test the sad exjJeriment Having agitated » «th«* chamber of Congress.-
sjntfems are at once perceived to be incouij spentmy manhood, though
unions. But thev are more than ineofc-! life, in a free State, no aristocracy of any tentedly reposing on these great advanta-
they are tacompfiMe. They nev- kind, much less an aristocracy of slave- ges, then so recently won. the Democratic
your wheat, and your fruit—yes, sir,-this
trading and trafficing between free ne
groes and staves, free negroes and vaga
bond white people, has becomes tax upon
the rich, and an intolerable burthen upon
er hare permanently existed together in | bidders, shall ever make the laws of the party, unnecessarily, officiously, and with the middle classes. Yes, sir, every city,
a slave—property by our laws, property
by the Constitution—and ^icr jails are
locked against us, her courts of justice and
equity closed upon us. and her lawyers
upon pain of excommunication forbidden
to assist us. And as soon as Congress
convenes, the gathering storm of political
demagogues and religious fanatics will
empty their wrath upon our devoted heads.
I wish to put this professed sympathy to
a practical test by telling them that if they
do not rignify their frQlingncss to receive
our free negroes within twelve months sf
ter Hie passage ef tin bill, all the fires ne
groes found in Georgia at that time will
be sold into bondage. What l they will