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JOS. DUNLAP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Kingston, Cass co., Ga
June 10th, 1858—ly.
B. H. LEEKE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cassville, Ga.
PBESI DEBT'S MESSAGE.
Fellow-citizens or the Sexate
and House of Representatives :
When we compare the condition of the
country at the present day with what it ed to vote.
officers, for a member of Congress, and
members of the State Legislature: This
election was warmly contested by the
two political parties in Kansas, and a
greater vote was polled than at any previ
ous election. A large majority of the
members of the legislature elect belonged
to that party which had previously refus-
the northern to the southern boundary,
and from the eastern to the western boun
dary of Hie State. Congress, deeming
these claims unreasonable, provided, by
the act of May 4, 1858, to which I have
just referred, for the admission of the State
on an equal footing with the original States,
but “upon the fundamental condition pre-
The anti-slavery party were- cedent” that a majority of the people there-
was one year ago, at the meeting of Con- j thus placed in the ascendant, and the po- ofj at an election to be held for that pur-
gress, we have much reason for gratitude 1 litical power of the State was in their own ! pose, should, in place of the very large
j to that Almighty Providence, which has j hands. Had Congress admitted Kansas j grants of public lands which they had
B USINESS entrusted to my care will meet; never failed to interpose for our relief at j into the Union under the Lecompton Con- j demanded under the ordinance, except
with prompt and vigilant attention, and 1 r *
monies paid over punctually.
Feb. 1, 1858—ly.
W. V. WESTER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CALHOUN, GEO.
W ILL practice in all the counties of the
Cherokee Circuit. Particular attention
paid to the collection jf claims, and to prompt
ly paying over the same when collected.
Nov 26, 1857—ly
ANDREW H. RICE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cassville, Geo.
P RACTISES in tlie Counties of Cass, Cher
okee, Cobb, Catoosa, Gordon, Gilmer,
Fannin, Paulding and Whitfield.
Prompt attention given to the Collecting bu
siness in all of the above named counties.
Mav be found in the office formerly occu
pied by .1. II. 4 A. II. Rice.
Juue 17th, 1858—ly.
Immediately upon the formation of a j miles from home, th.ey passed the severe
new Territory, people from different States and inclement winter without a murmur,
and from foreign countries rush into it,; They looked forward with confidence for
for the lauable purpose of improving their , relief from their country in due season,—
condition. Their first duty to themselves and in this they were not disappointed,
is to open and cultivate farms, to construct! The Secretary of War employed all hla
roads, to establish schools, to erect places energies to forward them the necessary
of religious worship, and to devote their supplies, and to muster and send such a
energies generally to reclaim the wilder- military force to Utah as would render re-
ness and to lay the foundations of a flour-, sistance on the part of the Mormons hope-
ishing and prosperous commonwealth. I£ less, and thus terminate the war without
in this incipient condition, with a popula-. the effusion of blood. In his efforts he was
tion of a few thousand, they should pre- efficiently sustained by Congress. They
maturely enter the Union, they are op-' granted appropriations sufficient to cover
pressed by the burden of State taxation, ! tlie deficiency thus necessarily created,—
the most critical periods of our history.— 1 stitution, the legislature might, at its very such grants as had been made to Jlinnc-
Onc year ago, the sectional strife between i first session, have submitted the question ; sota and other new States. Under this
the North and the South, on the danger-j to a vote of tlie people, whether they \ act, should a majority reject the proposi-[and the means necessary for thc improve- and also provided for raising two regiment*
tion offered them “it shall be deemed and ment of the Territory and the advance- of volunteers, -for the purpose of quelling
ous subject of slavery, had again become would or would not have a convention to
so intense as to threaten the peace and amend their Constitution, either on the held that the people of Kansas do not dc-
perpetuity of the confederacy. The appli-! slavery or any other question, and have; sire admission into the Union with said
cation for the admission of Kansas as a adopted all necessary .means for giving Constitution under the conditions set forth
State into the Union, fostered this unhap- {speedy effect to the will of the majority.' in said proposition.” In that event, the
THOMAS J. VERDERY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDAR TOWN, GA.
W ILL practice iu the counties of Floyd,
Polk, Paulding, Curroll, Haralson and
Cass. Strict attention paid to collecting.
Feb. 18, 185S—ly.
M. J. CllAWKOlil),
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
RINGGOLD, CATOOSA COUNTT, GA.
W ILL practice In all tlie counties of the
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 Cartersville, Ga.
W ILL faithfully attend to any business en
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,
mm it uw.
CASSVILLE, GEO.
P RACTICES in ihe counties of Cass, Cher
okee, Gordon, Whitfield and Paulding.
All business entrusted to bis care will meet
with prompt attention.
Office north of the public sqnare, in Rice’s
building. Nov. IS, 1858—ly.
THOS. M. COMPTON,
CASSVILLE, GA.,
Agent of the Bank of the
State of South Carolina.
W ILL sell Exchcnge on Charleston and
New York, make advances on Produce,
Ac., and attend to all tlie business usually
transacted bv Bank Agents.
Nov. 18, 1858 43—ly.
E. M- SEAGO & GAAR,
SUCCESSORS TO E. X. SEAGO,
Wholesale Grocers,
PRODUCE DEALERS,
AND GENERAL
Commission Merchants,
SOUTH SIDE PASSENGER DEPOT,
Atlanta, Ga.
March 18, 1858—ly.
S. B. O ATM AM,
Dealer in Americas, Italian axd Egyptian
Statoart, and Tennessee
Marble,
Monuments, Tombs, Urns and Vases, Mabels
Mantels, and Furnishing Marble,
Atlanta, Ga.
James Vaughan, Agent, Cassville, Go.
April 22, 1858—ly.
SUMMEY & HURLICK,
DEALERS IN
MARBLE
monnments. Tombs Urns, Vn-
SES, VAULTS, TABLETS, HEAD
AND FOOT STONES, Ac.
O RDERS promptlv filled. Address Marble
Works P. O., Pickens Co., Ga.
James Vaughan, agent, Cassville, Ga.
Feb 1st, 1858—ly. ________
DR. J. T. GROVES,
HAS removed to the office next door to
A. C. Dav’s shop, where he may be found
both day and night, unleasprofesskmally
engaged. Prompt attention given to all calls,
by day or night.
Cassville, Jan. 21, 1858.
M. McMURRY,
Dealer in Family Groceries,
CONFECTIONARIES, Atx,
Cassville, Ga.
Feb. 1st, 1S58—ly.
JNO. W. FOSTER,
CASSVILLE, GEO.
WILL do any kind of w*k ~m hit
line of busioesa at u low ratal as
it can be done by any mMvrork-
man in the State. As to his abilities as n wora-
man, he refers to any work done by him. Con
tracts taken in any part of the State.
J une 3d, 1858—ly.
»»»* 18CI1TU:
FRESH SUPPLY of Side-striped Mua-
° CARPENTER'S.
_A_ tins; also Cigars.
•’une 10
Thus the Kansas question would have
been immediately and finally settled.
Under these circumstances, I submitted
to Congress the Constitution thus framed,
with all the officers already elected neces
sary to put the State government into op
eration, accompanied by a strong recom
mendation in favor of the admission of
Kansas as a State. In the course of my
long public life I have never performed
any official act, which, in the retrospect,
has afforded me more heartfelt satisfac
tion. Its admission could have inflicted
no possible injury on any human being,
whilst it would, within a brief period,
have restored peace to Kansas and har
mony to the Union. In that event the,
slavery question would ere this have been
finally settled, according to the legally ex
pressed will of a majority of the voters,
and popular sovereignty would thus have
been vindicated in a constitutional man
ner.
With my deep convictions of duty, I
could have pursued no other course. It
is true, that, as an individual, I had ex
pressed an opinion, both before and dur
ing the session of the convention, in favor
of submitting the remaining clauses of tlie
Constitution, as well as that concerning
slavery, to the people. But, acting in an
official character, neither myself nor any
human authority had the power to rejudge
the proceedings of the convention, and de
clare the Constitution which it had fram
ed to be a nullity. To have done this
would have been a violation of the Kansas
and Nebraska act, which left the people
of the Territory “ perfectly free to form
and regulate their domestic iustitutioda in
their own way, subject only to the Con
stitution of the United States.” It would
equally have violated the great principle
of popular sovereignty, at the foundation
of our institutions, to deprive the people
of the power, if they thought proper to
exercise it, of confiding to delegates elect
ed by themselves the trust of framing a
Constitution, without requiring them to
subject their constituents to the trouble,
expense and delay of a second election.—
It would have been in opposition to many
precedents in our history, commencing in
the very best age of the republic, of the
admission of Territories as States into tlie
Union, without a previous vote of the
people approving their Constitution.
It Ls to be lamented that a question so
insignificant when viewed in its practical
effects on the people of Kansas, whether
decided one way or the other, should have
kindled such a flame of excitement
throughout the country. This reflection
may prove to be a lesson of wisdom and
of warning for our future guidance.—
Practically considered, the question is
simply whether the people of that Territo
ry should first come into the Union and
then change any provision in their Con
stitution not agreeable to themselves, or
accomplish the very same object by re
maining out of the Union and framing an
other Constitution in accordance with
their wilL In either case, the result
would be precisely the same. The only
difference in point of fact is, that the ob
ject would have been much sooner attain
ed, and the pacification of Kansas more
speedily effected, had it been admitted as
a State during the last session of Con
gress.
My recommendation, however, for the
immediate admission of Kansas, failed to
meet the approbation iff Congress. They
deemed it wiser to adopt a different meas
ure for the settlement of the question. For
my own part, ! should have been willing
to yield my assent to almost any constitu
tional measure to accomplish this object.
I, therefore, cordially acquiesced in what
has been called the English compromise,
and approved the “ Act for the admission
of the State of Kansas into the Union,
upon the terms therein prescribed.
Under the ordinance which accompanied
the Lecompton Constitution, the people of
Kansas had claimed double the quantity
of public lands for the support iff common
schools, which had ever been previously
vail before the first Monday of January j granted to any State upon entering the
last, when an election was held under the > Union ; and also the alternate sections of
Constitution. A majority of the people j land for twelve miles on each side of two
then Voted for
py agitation, and brought the whole sub
ject once more before Congress. It was
the desire of every patriot that such meas
ures of legislation might be adopted as
would remove the excitement from the
States, and confine it to the Territory
where it legitimately belonged. Much has
been done, I am happy to say, towards
the accomplishment of this object, during
the last session of Congress.
Tlie Supreme Court of the United States
had previously decided that all American
citizens have an equal right to take into
the Territories whatever is held as proper
ty under the laws of any of the States,
and to hold such property there under the
guardianship of the?Federal Constitution,
so long as the Territorial condition shall
remain.
This is now a well established position,
and the proceedings of the last session
were alone wanting to give it practical ef
fect The principle has been recognized,
in some form or other, by an almost unan-
mous vote of both houses of Congress,
that a Territory has a right to come into
the Union, either as a free or a slave
State, according to the will of a majority
of its people. The just equality of all the
States has thus been vindicated, and a
fruitful source of dangerous dissension
among them has been removed.
Whilst such has been the beneficial ten
dency of your legislative proceedings out
side of Kansas, their influence has no
where been so happy as within that Ter
ritory itself. Left to manage and control
its own affairs in its own way, without
the pressure of external influence, the re
volutionary Topeka organization, and all
resistance to the Territorial government
established by Congress, have been final
ly abandoned As a natural consequence,
tliat fine Territory now appears to be
tranquil and prosperous, and is attracting
increasing thousands of immigrants to
make it their happy home.
The past unfortunate experience of
Kansas has enforced the lesson so often
already taught, that resistance to lawful
authority, under our form of government,
cannot fail in the end to prove disastrous
to its authors. Had the people of the Ter
ritory yielded obedience to the laws enact
ed by their Legislature, it would at the
present moment have contained a large
additional population of industrious and
enterprising citizens, who have been de
terred from entering its borders by the
existence of civil strife and organized re
bellion.
It was the resistance to rightful au
thority and the persevering attempts to
establish a revolutionary government un
der the Topeka Constitution, which caus
ed the people of Kansas to commit the
grave error of refusing to vote for dele
gates to the Convention to frame a Con
stitution, under a law not denied to be
Air and just in its provisions. This refu
sal to vote has been the prolific source of
all the evils which have followed. In then-
hostility to the territorial government,
they disregarded the principle absolutely
essential to the working of our form of
government, that a majority of those who
vote—not the majority who may remain
at home, from whatever cause—must de
cide the result of an election. For this
reason, seeking to take advantage of their
own error, they denied the authority of
the Convention thus elected to frame a
Constitution.
The Convention, notwithstanding, pro
ceeded to adopt a Constitution unexcep
tionable in its general features, and pro
viding for the submission of the slavery
question to a vote of the people, which in
my opinion, they were bound to do, un
der the Kansas and Nebraska act. This
was tile all-important question which had
alone convulsed the Territory ; and yet
the opponents of the lawful government,
persisting in their first error, refrained
from exercising their right to vote, and
preferred that slavery should continue,
rather than surrender their revolutionary
Topeka organization.
A wiser and better spirit seemed to pre
act authorises the people of the Territory
to elect delegates to fonn a Constitution
and State government for themselves,—
“whenever, and not before, it is ascertain
ed by a census, duly and legally taken,
that the population of said Territory equals
or exceeds the ratio of representation re
quired for a member of the House of Rep
resentatives of the Congress of the United
ment of their own interests, arc thus di- ( disturbances in the Territory of Utah, for
verted to very different purposes. j the protection of supply and emigrant
The Federal Government have ever ' trains, and the suppression of Indian hos-
a Governor and other State! railroads, proposed to be constructed from! eminent.
been a liberal parent to the Territories, '< tilities on the frontiers.” Happily, theru
and a generous contributor to the useful: was no occasion to call these regiments
enterprises of the early settlers. It has into service. If there had been, I should
paid the expenses of their governments have felt serious embarrassment in select-
and legislative assemblies out of the com-. ing them, so great was the number of our
mon treasury, and thus relieved them brave and patriotic citizens anxious to
from a heavy charge. Under these cir- ( serve their country in this distant and ap-
cumstanccs, nothing can be better ealeu- parcntly dangerous expedition. Thus it
lated to retard their material progress, has ever been, and thus may it ever be.
than to divert them from their useful era- The wisdom and economy of sending
States.” The delegates thus assembled | payment, by prematurely exciting angry ! sufficient reinforcements to Utah, are es-
shall first determine by a vote whether J political contests among themselves for | tablished, not only by the event, but in
it is the wish of the people of the propos- the benefit of aspiring leaders. It is sure- ‘he opinion of those who, from their posi-
ly no hardship for embryo Governors, I ‘ion and opportunities, are the most capa-
Senators and members of Congress to wait' hie of forming a correct judgment. Gen.
until the number of inhabitants sliall equal Johnston, the commander of the forces, in
those of a single Congressional district— j a ddressingthe Secretary of War from Fort
They surely ought not to be permitted to J Bridger, under date of October 18, 1857,
rush into the Union, with a population expresses the opinion that “unless a largo
less than onc-lialf of several of the large f°rcc is scut here, from the nature of the
counties in the interior of some of the! country, a protracted war on their, (the
States. This was the condition of Kansas' Mormon’s) part, is inevitable.” This ho
when it made application to be admitted considered necessary, to terminate the war
under the Topeka Constitution. Besides, I “speedily and more economically than if
it requires some time to render the mass j attempted by insufficient means.”
of a population collected in a Territory, at j ‘ n ‘he meantime, it was my anxious do-
all homogeneous, and to unite them on | s ’ rc “*at the Mormons should yield obedi-
anything like a fixed policy. Establish \ cnec ‘° ‘he Constitution aud the law*
1 the rule, and all will look forward to it j without rendering it neccssaiy to resort to
ed State to be admitted into the Union at
that time, and, if so, shall proceed to form
a Constitution, and take all necessary
steps for the establishment of a State gov
ernment in conformity with the Federal
Constitution.” After this Constitution
shall have been formed, Congress, carry
ing out the principles of popular sover
eignty and non-intervention, have left “the
mode and manner of its approval and rat
ification by the people of the proposed
State” to be “prescribed by law,” and
they shall then be admitted into the Un
ion as a State under the Constitution thus
fairly and legally made, with or without
slavery, as said Constitution may pres
cribe.
An election was held throughout Kan
sas, in pursuance of the provisions of this
act, on the second day of August last, and
and govern themselves accordingly. j military force. To aid in accomplishing
But justice to the people of the several-* ‘l** 8 object, I deemed it advisable in April
States requires tliat this rule should be j last, to dispatch two distinguished citizens
established by Congress. Each State is j of the United States, Messrs. Powell and
it resulted in the rejection, by a large ma- j entitled to two Senators and at least one j McCulloch, to Utah. They bore with them
jority, of the proposition submitted to the
people by Congress. This being the case,
they are now authorized to form another
Constitution, preparatory to admission in
to the Union, but not until their numlier,
as ascertained by a census, shall equal or
exceed the ratio required to elect a mem
ber to the House of Representatives.
It is not probable, in the present state
of the case, tliat a third Constitution can
be lawfully framed and presented to Con
gress by Kansas, liefore its population
shall have reached the designated number, j ratification of treaties, and of Executive
Representative in Congress. Should the
people of the States fail to elect a Vice
President, the power devolves upon th<!
Senate to select this officer from the two
highest candidates on tlie list In case of
the death of the President, the Vice Pres
ident thus elected by the Senate, becomes
President of the United States. On all
questions of legislation, the Senators from
the smallest States of the Union have an
equal vote with those from the largest.—
The same may be said in regard to the
Nor is it to be presumed that, after their
sad experience in resisting the territorial
laws, they will attempt to adopt a Consti
tution in express violation of the provis
ions of an act of Congress. During the
appointments. All this has worked ad
mirably in practice, whilst it conforms in
a proclamation addressed by myself to the
inhabitants to Utah, dated on the 6th day
of that month, warning them of their true
condition, and how hopeless it was on their
part to persist in rebellion against the U-
nited States, and offering all those who
should submit to the laws, a full pardon
for their past seditions and treasons. At
the same time, I assured those who should
persist in rebellion against the United
States, that they must expect no further
lenity, but look to be rigorously dealt with
according to their deserts. The instruc
tions to these agents, as well as a copy of
the proclamation, and their reports are
principle with the cliaracter of a govern- \ i ,ere with submitted. It will be seen by
ment instituted by sovereign States, 1 . ‘heir report of the 3rd of July last, that
presume no American citizen would desire i ‘ be y bave fully confirmed the opinion ex*
session of 1856 much of the time of Con- j the slightest cliange in, the arrangement: pressed by General Johnston in the pro
gress was occupied on the question of ad- Still, is it not unjust and unequal to the i v ' ous October, as to the necessity of send-
mitting Kansas under the Topeka Consti-j existing States to invest some forty or! * n E reinforcements to Utah. In this they
tution. Again, nearly the whole of the fifty thousand people collected in a Terri- sbl ‘ e ‘* u ‘ ‘ be J r “ are fin’d}' impressed with
last session was dovoted to the question ; tory with the attributes of sovereignty,
of its admission under the Lecompton * and place them on an equal footing with
Constitution. Surely it is not unreason-' Virginia and New York in the Senate of
able to require the people of Kansas to the United States 7
wait, before making a third attempt, un-; For these reasons, I earnestly recom-
the belief that the presence of the army
here and the large additional force that
had been ordered to this Territory, were
the chief inducements that caused the Mor
mons to abandon tlie idea iff resisting the
authority of the United States. A lert
decisive jiolicy would probably have re
sulted in a long, bloody and expensive
amount to ninety-three thousand four sliall provide that upon the application of
hundred and twenty. During this brief a territorial legislature, declaring their
period the harmony of the States, as well belief that the Territory contains a num-1 " ar '"
as the great business interests of the coun-1 ber of inhabitants which, if in a State, 1 These S entlel,,en conducted themselves
try, demand that the people of the Union entitle them to elect a member of Con-j to my entire satisfcction, and rendered ose-
shall not, for a third time, be convulsed gress, it thall be the duty of the President ful services ,n executing the humane in*
by another agitation on the Kansas ques- 'to cause a census of the inhabitants to ten ‘ i ° nS ° f government,
non. By waiting for a short time, and be taken, and if found sufficient, then by j 11 also altords nie ^ rcat sa ‘ ,sGlct,on
feting in obedience to law,* Kansas will the terms of this act to authorize them to ’ State ’ that GoV ’ Cumniin g has performed
glide into the Union without the slightest proceed “in their own way” to frame dut ' V in an abIc and conciliatory man-
impediment i State Constitution preparatory to admfe-| ncP ’ anU with the hap / ,iest effect 1
This excellent provision, which Con- si on into the Union. I also recommend Cann0t ’ . ,n tliLS connection, refrain from
gress have applied to Kansas, ought to be that an appropriation may be made to en-} ,,,entio,liu " the viJuab,c ^'vices of CoL
extended and rendered applicable to all able the President to take a census of the j TboInas L Kane > wbo ’ from mo ‘ iTe *
Territories which mav hereafter seek ad- people of Kansas. j P ure benevolence, and without any official
mission into the Union. j The present condition of the Territory ' ct-arecter or pccuniarj compensation, vis*
Whilst Congress possesses theundoubt- of ftah, when contrasted with what f t btah d « n ng last mclement w.n-
ed power of admitting a new State into; was ^ vear k a subject ofcongr;lt . ter ff thc Purpose of contributing to the
the Union, however small may be the |UlatiolL * it was then in a state location of the Temtiny.
number of its inhabitants, yet this power rebellion, and, cost what it might, thc' 1 am ha I’Py ‘° inform you that the Gov-
ought not, in my opinion, to be exercised character of thc government require-1,! crnor ’ and oth<T civil offi c els of Uta h, are
before the population shall amount to the ! that this rebeUion should be suppressed,, n0 "" Performing their appropriate funo-
ratio required by the act for the admission ' and ^ Monn0 ns compelled to yield obe-1 tions vvitho,lt resistance. The authority
of Kansas. Had this been previously the diencc to the Constitution and the laws.! of the Constitution and the laws has been
rule, tiie country would have escaped afl In order to accomplish this object, as i fu»} restored, and peace prevails through-
the evils and misfortunes to which it has info^ed vou in mv last annual message, ] out the Territory.
been exposed by the Kansas question. I appo i n t^l a new governor, instead of- A portion of the troops sent to Utah an
Of course, it would be unjust ^ to give Brigham Young, and other federal officers,
this rule a retrospective application, and t0 ^dee the place of those who, consulting
exclude a State which, acting upon the r their personal safety, had found it neces-
past practice of the government, has al* ^ to witM raw from ^ Territory. To
ready formed its Constitution, elected ite p^t^t these dvil officers, and to aid them
legislature and other officers, and is now M # ^ eomitatvK in the execution of
prepared to enter the Union. the laws in cane of need, I ordered a de-
H* rule ought to he adopted, whether ^ ^ to thcm
we consider its bearing on the people of r-f.L tl.
the Territories or. upon the people of the
to Utah. The necessity for adopting these
measures is now demonstrated.
Our little army behaved admirably in
existing States. Many of the serious dis
ms which have prevailed in Con- .... . . „ ., ,
and throughout the country, would thc,r em ' an, P roent at Fort Bnd S er ’ undcr
ami uuuugnmu uu. cuuuuj, woum tw trying prison, In the midst iff
the mountains, in a dreary, unsettled, and
inhospitable region,' more than a thousand
hare been avoided, had this rule been es
tablished at an earlier period of the gov-
now encamped in Cedar YaDev, forty-four
miles South-west of Salt Lake City ; and
the remainder have been ordered to Ore
gon to suppress Indian hostilities.
The march of the army to Salt Lake
City, through the Indian Territory, ban
bad a powerful effect in restraining the
hostile feelings against the United State*
which existed among the Indians in timt
region, and in seeming emigrants to the
fer West against their depredations. This
will also be the means of establishing mili
tary posts and promoting settlements *-
long the mute.
I recommend that the benefits of on