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COLUMBUS SENTINEL AND HERALD.
VOL. X.]
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JOSEPH STURGIS.
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3d. All rule and figure work double the above prices.
Legal Advertisements published at the usual
rates, and with strict attention to the requisitions ot
the law.
All Sales regulated by law, must be made before
the Court House door, between the hours of 10 in the
morning and 4 in the evening—those of Land in
the county where it is situate ; those of Personal
Property, where the letters testamentary, of admin
istration or of guardianship were obtained—and are
required to be previously advertised in some public
Gazette, as follows:
Sheriffs’ Salf.s under regular executions for thir
ty days, under mortgage fi fas sixty days, before
the day of sale.
Sale* of Land and Negroes, by Executors, Ad
ministrators or Guardians, for sixty days before
the day of sale.
Sales of Personal Property (except Negroes) forty
days.
Citations by Clerks of the Courts of Ordinary, upon
application foh letters of administration, must
be published for thirty days.
Citations upon application for dismission, by
Executors, Administrators or Guardians, monthly
for six MONTHS.
Orders of Courts of Ordinary, (accompanied with a
copy ol the bond or agreement.) to make titles
to land, must be published three months.
Notices by Executors, Administrators or Guardians,
of application to the Court ot Ordinary for leave
to sell the Land or Negroes of an Estate, four
months.
Notices by Executors or Administrators, to the Debt
ors and Creditors of an Estate, fo r six weeks.
Sheriffs, Clerks of Court, Sic., will be allowed
the usual deduction.
Letters oii business, must be post paid,
to entitle them to attention.
All. lIUUIU2S, Attorney at I.aw, Culhbert
• Georgia.
Jan. 25. 1840. SI ts
MANSION HOUSE.
JACO B BARIt OW ,
Respectfully informs the public that he
has opened a HOUSE in the business part o(
Hroad Street for the accommodation of Travellers,
and has built new stables on his o.xn let by the solici
tation of his customers.
March 21. 5 if
LAW.
THE subscribers having connected themselvesi
the practice of LAW, will attend all the
County Courts of tho Chattahoochee Circuit, and the
adjoining counties of Alabama. Office in Mclntosh
Row immediately over Allen & Young’s Store.
ALFRED IVERSON,
Juno 14. 19tf J. M. GUF.RRY.
COLUMBUS HOTEL, 1840.
THe subscriber respectfully informs his friends and
the public generally, that be still continues to
occupy the above establishment, where he promises
refreshment and comfort to the traveller and border,
llis own personal attention will be given to his busi
ness, in which lie hopes to give genera! satisfaction,
an 1 share a liberal patronage amongst his brother
chips. JESSE B. REEVES,
i iolmubiis, Ga., Jan. 21, 1810. 51 ts
( VRIt I.JATGU OK SODA WATER.
ram IK subscribers are now prepared to furiii h their
H customers and the public with ‘Carbonated or
So la Water.
Th'-ir apparatus is constructed in such a manner,
and of such materials as to prevent t lie possibility of
auv nutalic or delerious impregnations.
TAYLOR & WALKER,
Sign of the Golden Mortar, Broad si. Columbus.
April 21. lOtf
FORT & HAMILTON,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
Lumpkin, Stewart county, Geornia-
WILLIAM A. FORT,
JOHN C. HAMILTON.
September 8, If4o. SOtf
NOTICE.
UR. SCHLEY will continue the practice of Me
dicine, Surgery. &c. Otfice at the old stand of
Chipley & Schlev,on Broad Street.
July 23, 1840.’ 24 ts
VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE
CONTAINING Two Hundred Two and a Hal
Acres of Land,mixed with oak and pine. There
aro eighty acres cleared. Also, a comfortable dwel
ling, with alt necessary out offices, a good gin house
and packing screw, a peach and tipple orchard. The
entire under good fence. It is situated within 4 miles
of Columbus, joining the plantation formerly owned
by Thomas C. Evans, Esq. Persons wishing to pur
chase cannot find a more desirable location than the
one offered for sale by the subscribers.
JOHN CODE,
Dec. 6. 44if JOHN QUIN
THOMPSON’S UTERINE TRUSS.
An effectual and radical cure for pulapsus
uteri.
THE subscribers have taken the •• for the
above valuable instrument, ami have .. <\v on
hand and will constantly keep a variety of patterns,
which they will sell ai Manufacturers’ prices. These
Trusses are superior to any instrument of the kind
ever invented, ami are now extensively employed t>\ i
sum of the most eminent practitioners in the United
States.
We anm x the certificate of the late Professor Ebcrle.
who used them with great success in his own practice.
‘ Cincinnatti, Ohio, May 11th, 1819.
1 I have carefully < cammed the Uterine Truss in
vented by Dr. Thompson of this Slate, and I can con
fidently declare, that it is uilquestion lily tiie most
perfect and useful instrument of the kind that has evei
been offered to the public. It differs essentially in
construction from the Utero Abdeminal Supporter
constructed by Dr. Hull, and is in all respects a far
(Ulterior instrument.’
Tho subscribers have also received the agency for
Dr. Chase’s Improved Surgical Truss, which is uni
versally admitted to be the most certain and lasting
cure ever discovered for Hernia or Rupture.
TAYLOR it WAICER, Druggists,
Sign of the Golden Mortar, Broad-st.
Columbus. June 20,1839. 26tf
WARE HOUSE
AND COMMISSION 3USINESS.
undersigned would inform his friends and
■ the public generally, that he will continue the
above business at his Old Stand in Front street, oppo
site the new brick building if James 11. Shorter, Ksq.
and that his personal attention will be exclusively devo
ted to the same. By strict attention thereto, he hopes
to have a continuance of the liberal patronage hereto
fore bestowed upon him. He will as usual attend to
the sale of Cotton, front wagons or in s.ore ; and from
a general acquaintance with the purchasers and true
situation of the market, he believes he can generally
m ,ro than save the commission in the sale of eoiton.
Wfti. P. YONGE,
Columbus, Sept. 19,1839. 3Jy
He has in store for sale,
l.ivorpool and Blown Sal’ in sacks,
Chewing Tobacco and Scgars,
Champaur lie Wine, in baskets and boxes,
Bagging and Bale Rope
LOOK AT THIS.
RUNAWAY’ from the subscribers, about the first
March last, a negro man by name Presiey,
about fortv years of age, somewhat grey hair, very
thin, or perhaps no hair on the top of the head, quite
black, eyes small and deeply sunk in the head, wide
between the teeth, broad shoulders, and stoops, he is
rather intelligent, though unprepossessing in appear
ance, makes great profession of religion, and prays in
public every opportunity. He was in the neighborhood
of Greenville. Meriwether county, some fifteen days
after leaving this place; where he left on the 29th ult.
taking bis wife with him, who belongs to Freeman
McClendon, hying Rear Greenville j she is by the
pame of Julia, twenty years of age, common size a
bright copp r coigr, and very likely. It is believed
that they were taken off by a white man. anJ probably
travelling west m a gig, as such nforiuation reached
Mr. McClendon.
A suitable reward will be given for the apprehen
rion of said negroes and thief who cairicdtheni away,
and information given to either of the subscribers.
FR E E AIA NMcCLE NDO N,
JOHN C. MANGIIAM.
Aprg 10,1*49. 9U
FACTORAGE
gjf jjg|g
CO2ftnSBXON BUSINESS,
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.
THE subscribers continue their business at their
old stand, on Bayee & Cos. wharf, Charleston,
and are prepared to make liberal advances on Cotton
consigned to their care.
COLLINS & CLEVELAND.
Septembers, 1840. 29 2m
WAREHOUSE AND
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
<v- THE undersigned having associa
/ fern ted themselves under the firm of Hall,
L, Ruse & Cos. for the purpose of traus
acting a general Commission and
Warehouse business; would inform
their friends and the public, that they arc now prepar
ed to attend to any business entrusted to their charge.
Their Warehouse being constructed of Brick and
detached from all other buildings, may be considered
in all respects as en’ire Fire-proof. Planters will
therefore find it for their interest to store with them on
account ot the great saving in the premium of Insur
ance, and the additional safety to those who do not
insure.
They arc prepared to advance liberally upon cotton
and other merchandize stored with them, and their
rate? es storage and commissions, and all other char
ges will be as low as those charged by other houses in
the same line of business.
J. A. DEBLOIS,
H. T. HALL,
F N. RUSE.
THEY HAVE NOW INSTORE FOR SALE,
600 bags prime Havana Coffee,
300 pieces best Kentucky Bagging,
150 coils best Kentucky Rope,
25 bales domestic Goods received direct from
the manufacturers.
August 29, IS4O. 28tf
DISSOLUTION.
THE copartnership heretofore existing under the
firm of Wilson & Cravey is dissolved this day
by mutual consent of both.
SANFORD T. WILSON.
OWEN W. CRAVEY.
Gillion, July 14, 1840 23—ts
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
THE subsenoers have this day formed a connec
tion, under the firm of ROWLAND & BAR
STOVN , for the purpose of transacting a GENER
AL, COMMISSION BUSINESS in SAVAN
NAH. Particular attention will be paid to receiving
and forwarding Produce and Merchandise. They
.-are not interested in any of the Transportation Lines,
and assure their friends, that, in all cases, such con
veyances shall be selected as to promote their inter
est. WILLIAM P ROWLAND,
ELIAS B. BARSTOW.
. Savannah. 26th June. 1840.-Jm6t-22
TAVERN FOR SALE.
IF 11 >t previously disposed of, will be sold on Tues
day, the 15th day of September next, by the sub
scriber, at public auction, that well known Tavern and
furniture, known as the TALBOTTON HOTEL.
This house is well established and in rood repair, with
all necess iry outhouses convenient. Persons desiring
to purchase such properly are requested to c 11 and
examine the premises; terms v ill be made liberal, and
indisputable titles given. B. WHITHURST.
Taibotton. Ga., August 11, 1840. 26 tds.
PHOENIX HOTEL,
Bumpkin , Stewart County , Georgia.
THE subscriber having taken the above house,
situated on the North East corner of the court
house square, formerly occupied by Mr. Beacham,
takes pleasure it; informing his friends and the public
generally, that this new and commodious establish
ment is now completed, and in every way fitted up
for the accommodation of boarders and travellers : the
subscriber will give his personal attention to the super
vision of the house, and no pains or expense will be
spared to render ail comfortable who may favor him
with a call.
N. B. His stables arc excellent and will at all times
be bountifully supplied with provender, and attended
by a steady industrious and trusty ostler, who will at
a!! times be in his place and subject to the commands
of the visitor. GIDEON H. CROXTON.
Jan 25—51-if
THE SCOUNDREL.
RANAWA Y from the subscriber on the 2d in?t.,
a youth by the name of EDWARD JOHN
SON, bound to me as an apprentice to the Cabinet
business. He is about. 1 7 years ot age, 5 feet 3j
high, or thereabouts, spare made, dark complexion,
dark hair arid hazle eyes, with a very bad countenance.
This is to forwarn all persons from employing or har
boring sud boy, as lam determined to put in force the
law against all such offenders. I will give a reward
of six cents for any information so I get said boy.
JOHN N. WEBB.
Thomaston, Upson county, August 2, 1840. 25 4t.
DISSOLUTION.
THE copartnership heretofore existing under firm
of Drs. CHIPLEY & SCHLEY, is this day
dissolved by mutual consent. The books and accounts
are in the hands of Dr. Schley, who is authorized to
settle them. Persons indebted to the firm are respect
fully requested to call as early as possible and settle.
W. S. CHIPLEY.
WM. K. SCHLEY.
July 23, 1840. 24 ts
LAW NOTICE.
T4HE undersigned will attend to the PRACTICE
OF LAW. in the name of JONES & BEN
NING, in most of the counties of this Circuit, and a
few of the adjoining counties of Alabama. Their
Office will be found near the Oglethorpe House.
SEABORN JONES,
HENRY L. BENNING.
Sept 16,1839. S3 ts
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WHEREAS, a bill has passed both branches of
the General Assembly, changing the times of
holding the sessions of the Legislature, from annual to
biennial; but whereas, i? is proper on all occasions to
ascertain the will of ;he people, whenever it can be
done without interfering with the ordinary course of
legislation: Therefore
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Represen
tatives of the Stale of Georgia in General Assembly
met. and it is hereby enacted by the authority es the
same, ‘I hat on the first Monday in October, 1840. the
voters of this State be requested to endorse on their
tiekeis, the words “ Annual ” or “ Biennial as they
max favor the meeting ot the Legislature every year,
or once in two years; and that the resolution be pub
lished in the newspapers in this State for three months
before the first Monday in October aforesaid.
’ JOSEPH DAY,
Speaker of the Hc-use of Representatives.
Attest —Joseph Stitkgis, Clerk.
In Senate, concurred in. 21st December. 1839.
ROBERT M. ECHOLS.
President of the Senate.
Attest— David J. Bailey, Secretary.
Approved December 24th. 1839.
CHARLES J. M-DONALD, Governor.
July 11 21
FOB SALE
fBIHE tract of land, known as the Broken Arrow
-ML Bend, on the Chattahoochee river, seven miles
below Columbus, on the Alabama side of the river,
containing fourteen hundred and fortv-two acres, nine
hun red of whii h are equal, if no; superior, to any land
on the river; with five hundred acres of cleared land
under good fence and in a high state of cultivation;
the balance of the tract is thin oak and hickory, and
pine lands, with good xvater and healthy situations for
residence, on which part is a good house for an over
seer and negro houses for fifty negroes. Persons xvish
ing to purchase a river plantation would do well to ex
amine it while the crop is growin.
JOHN CROWELL. Sen.
Fort Mitchell, August 12, 1840 26—ts
HAUAWAY
FROM the subscriber, living in the Hal’oca settle
ment, Muscogee county, Ga. on the 26th ult. a
mulatto fello v, named DICK, a out twenty-eight years
old, about five teet 6 or 7 inches high, rather round
shouldered, well built, xveighini! about ore hundred and
forty pounds, has a scar from the cut of a knife under
one of his shoulders.light complected, xvith hair almost
straight, shrewd, and quick spoken, but when address
ed. has a down look and is apt to smile. He is well
knoxvn in Columbus, having been partly raised in that’
citv bv the late Dr. Sullivan, from whose estate the
undersigned bought him. Reason exists for supposing
that he lias gone off with a white man. Twenty dol
lars together with reasonable expenses will he given
for the restoration of the negro, or for his being lodged
in iail so that the undersigned get him and, if stolen,
•wo hundred dollars will be gtvee for proof toe onviction
of the thief. CHARLES KING.
August 15. 1840. 26tf
The Montgomery Advertiser is requested to inse-t
ihc obove three times, and forward the accoun’ to
Charles King, Aalloca Post Office, Muscogee county,
Georgia.
BLANKS
KO t SALE AT THIS OFPMt.
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE BORN EQUAL.’
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1840.
BOARDING)
MRS. LUCAS having taken that large and com
modious two-story house on Front street,direct
•y opposite Mr. Wm. P Yonge’s residence, would be
willing to accommodate a few respectable Boarders.
None but those of strictly moral habits need apply. —
Terms to suit the times. June 11,1840. 17 ts
NOTICE.
THE partnership existing in Muscogee, was dis
solved the Ist of March, 1838. lam responsi
ble for no contracts entered into since that date.
March 14, 1840. 4tf JOHN I- HARP.
DISSOLUTION.
THE copartnership heretofore existing under the
name and stile of S. D. Heard & Cos., is this
day dissolved by mutual consent. Those having
claims against said coucern. will present them to C.
U. Murdock or William Ansley for payment, and
those indebtod are respectfully requested to call and
settle their respective amounts due with them, who
are auth rised to use the name of said concern in the
settling of its business.
S. D. HEARD,
C. G. MURDOCK,
WM. ANSLEY.
Taibotton, August 1,1840. 25 6t
GEORGIA STATE LOTTERY.
CLASS No. 35.
To be dravr.i on Saturday, Septembers,lß4o.
Capitals, §40,000, §15.000, §5,000, 53,000 §2,500,
2,297, and 50 of §I,OOO. 59 of §3OO, &c. Tickets
§lO, shares in proportion.
CLASS No. 36.
To be drawn on Saturday, September 12.
‘Capitals §20,000, §IO,OOO, §5.000, §3,000, §2,000
and 100 of §I,OOO, 16 of §SOO, &c. Tickets §lO,
shares in proportion.
CLASS No. 37.
To be drawn on Saturday, September 19
Capitals §30,00!, £lO 000, §5.000, §3.000, §2,000,
and 100 of §1,0(0, 50 of §SOO, &c. Tickets §lO,
shares in proportion.
CLASS No. 38.
To be drawn on Saturday, September 26.
Capitals §40,000, §12,000, §B,OOO, §5,000, §3,000.
§2.500. §2,000, and 20 of §I,OOO, 50 of §SOO, 50 of
§4OO. &c. Tickets §lO, shares in proportion.
For sale either bv the package or single Ticket by
‘J. H. ANDREWS, A’-ent.
Columbus, Georgia.
Where all Orders for Tickets should be sent.
August 29. 28
TO THE TICKET HOLDERS OF THE N. O.
MAMMOTH LOTTERY.
THE following letter from Sylvester & Cos. will
put the public in possession of the facts in rela
tion to mv connexion with tfiis Lottery.
136 Broadway New York, August 21, iB4O.
J. H. Andrews, Esq. Columbus, Ga.
Dear Sir—ln reply to your questions we do no. hes
itate to acknowledge ourselves liable (if any body is)
to return the money paid by such persons to.you, as our
agent, xvho purchased tickets in the New Orleans
Mammoth Lottery. All the money you received,
(less a triflng commission) xvas immediately forward
ed to us and disposed of according to the directions
(by contract) of our principal, Louis Schmidt, of New
Orleans, who was the sole acting manager of the said
Lottery. Yours very respectfully,
SYLVESTER & CO.
By this it will be seen the money received has been
remitted promptly, according to my instruction (for
which we had given bond and security) to Messrs.
Sylvester & Cos., of New York, and by them to Mr.
Louis Schmidt,’he acting manager, together xvith the
trustees appointed for that purpose. According to the
best information I can get on the subject, there is now
a large amount, of money deposited in Lank in New
Orleans, to the credit of this Lottery, and a distribu
tion of said funds will be made to the creditors as soon
as it can be done, according to the laws of that State,
which will probably be some time during the coming
winter. The holders of Tickets purchased in this |
place can send them to me for collection, and a receipt j
will be returned for the same.
J. 11. ANDREWS, Agent
for Sylvester & Cos.
Columbus, August 28,1840. 28
4VESTKHIV BANK OF GEORGIA.
THIS institution will resume business on the
FIRST OF OCTOBER NEXT, and until
a general resumption of specie payments, will continue
to pay her liabilities in such funds as are passing at
par, either in the Western part ol Georgia, North
Alabama, or East Teninssee. When a general re
sumption takes place in this State, the Western Bank
will be lotind behind no other Bank in redeeming her
notes wiih specie.
This Bank, like many others, had done a liberal
business in accomodation notes, or wha: the Banks
call slow paper, and which was found too “slow” to be
made available when the great pressure cams—a
pressure that compelled the soundest and best manag
ed banks to stri. e their colors. It is not surprising,
then, ti.at an institution, whose managers deserved
more credit lor plain honesty than Jinaticial skill,
-hould have stepped at such a crisis; while other banks,
with large embarrassments and larger credit , should
have coniinued to he moving “things of life.”
With a capital as little impaired as any Bank that
has lost any thing, the Western Bank has now in suit
and in judgment, seventy-five or eighty thousand
dollars of good claims, which during ‘he present year
she has been pressing to an issue, with a view to dis
charge fully her obligations to the public. W ith these
means, and her cash in hand, she cannot fail to pay
by the Ist of October, her whole circulation (rioxv lit
tle over thirty-five thousand dollars) wish all her other
indebtedness, winch is merely nominal.
Thus circumstanced, the Western Bank of Geor
gia will in resuming her station arnoug the Georgia
Banks, seek no more credit than she deserves, and
can fairly maintain in a legitimate couasc of business.
Knowing her condition to be sound, 1 pledge xvhatever
reputation I may have, that no business xvill be done,
during my connection xvith the bank, lhai may endan
ger the rights of those xvho confide in the goodness of
her bills.
An Agency of the Bank will be fixed at Columbus,
Ga., which is designed as a convenience to the Banks
and people of the interior having settlements to
make xvith her. All notes payable at the Agency,
xviil be redeemed xvith specie, on demand now und
forever. Letters to the Cashier xviil bo addressed to
Columbus, Georgia.
R. A. GREENE, Cashier.
Rome, 22d August, 1840. 29—3 t
The Georgian, at Rome, Constitutionalist, Augus
ta Journal and Standard, Milledgevtile, Messenget
and Tel graph, Macon, Jeffersonian, West Point,
and all the Columbus papers will insert three times
and forxvard accounts for payment.
GERMAN) INDIAN AND TIIOMSONIAN
OR,
PRIMITIVE, PRACTICAL. BOTANICO
BEE DIG AX. SCHOOL,
Treated seven miles Hast of IMarion, near Hamburg
IN uniting these several Medical Systems or modes
ot practice, Dr. B. R. THOMAS, the Principal
of tiir School, begs leave to state, for the information
of the afflicted and pub.ic generally, that he has been
many years engaged in the practice of Medicine, and
lias d-voted much of his time, labor and practice, xvith
many of the most intelligent and successful German
and Indian Doctors, both in the United States and
Canada, to the treatment of acute and chronic dis
ea es of every name, stage and type, and of the most
malignant character; and has, by practicing xvith them,
acquired a thorough kiioxvledge of a'.i their valuable
secret Recipes and manner of treatment, which is far
superior to any thing knoxvn or taught in the Medical
Schools, and which has been successful, by the bles
sings of the Almighty, in restoring to health, hundreds
and thousands of persons that had been treated for a
number of years by many of the most learned and
s lentific Physicians of the day, and pronounced to be
entirely beyond the reacn of remedv, and given over
idle. Y'et by thesiinple, efficacious Vegetable Medi
lcines,not poisons, they xvere snatched from the jaws of
the gum monster, death, and restored to health, the
greatest of all earthly blessings; lor xvhat is riche’
and elegant dwellings, without health to enjoy them
Health is the poor man's xvealth, and the rich man’s
bliss. To a man laboring under disease, the world is
little better than a dreary solitude, a cheerless waste
enlivened by no variety, a joyless scene cheered bv
m social sweets ; for the soul in a diseased body, like
a martyr in nis dungeon, may retain its value, but it
has lost its usefulness.
Will be added to this institution, as soon as the ne
c <6sai x’arrangements can be made, an infirmary—the
: ltd, bot, tepid, shower, sulphur and i he German, Rus
sian and I’homsoman Medicated Vapor Baths ; and
every thing that can possibly be of any advantage in
icsloriug the sick to health, or relieving suffering hu
manity, will be promptly and constantly attended to;
yrd where the student xviil learn by practical experi
ence, (;he best kind of logic.) the true principles cit
ahe hen ing art. Price of tuition xviil be §2OO, payable
in adva >ce.
All persons afflicted with lingering and chron
ic disea ;s, (ol anv name, state, stage or type, for xvt
haveba tied disease in a thousan ! forms.) xvho cannot’
convent ittly apply in person, xviil send the symptoms
>1 their liseascs in xvriting to Dr. B. R. Thomas,
llambu , Ala , where M tdieines will be prepared in
the best manner to snit each case. Although the'’
iiiav hax ■ b j -n of manv years standing, and treated
nv a doz n difDrent D j:?tor . it is no good reason xxhv
ihcv can ot be cured by the subscriber. Perscs s liv
ing at a ustance must expect to pay for their Medi
cines wh 1 tii-v get them, as no Medicines will be
sent from ho tfice on a credit
.etters addressed to the subscriber xviil not
be taken “m the office, uaie*s i>ost-eatd.
4.39 stf 8. li. THOMAS.
ADDRESS
TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA.
Fredericksburg, ( Va .) Aug. 29, 1840.
On rny way to the Indian Springs
to meet such of my fellow-citizens
as might comply with the invitation
to be present at a dinner to be giv
en to our Senators and three of our
Representatives in Congress, on the
2d of September, 1 am detained
here by a painful disorder, incom
patible with the prosecution of my
journey. In my own judgment, the
detention is of no importance ex
cept to myself, as I cannot presume
that my presence or absence will
in the slightest degree affect the
opinions and action of any of the
persons who may compose that as
semblage. I regret it, nevertheless,
as I am deprived of an opportunity
to meet valued friends, and am un
able to do that which others for
whom I entertain a strong affection,
and whose prudence and good sense
give weight to their recommenda
tions, have thought would be use
ful in the present agitated state of
our country.
I have seen nothing to shake my
confidence in the power of truth;
nothing to make me doubt the fu
tility of all attempts to delude the
people by ingenious equivocations,
artful exaggerations, blustering
pretensions, or open falsehoods.
When the spirit of inquiry is awak
end, the people are not to be turn
ed from the pursuit of facts by pro
cessions and parades, by travelling
orators and ballad singers, by fid
dlings and revelries. A careful
investigation of those facts, and
calm reflection upon thefn at home,
give to the humblest citizen the pow
er to decide wisely in whose hands
the Chief xMagistracy of the nation
can he safely intrusted for the pre
servation of external peace, and a
perpetuation of those domestic in
stitutions with which are insepara
bly connected the harmony of the
Union, and prosperity, national and
individual. These will he used, and,
being used, the result will be right.
If it were necessary or proper, I
could bear my humble testimony
to the fidelity with which the de
clared opinions of the present in
cumbent have been acted upon.
Necessary it is not, since the chief
ground of objection to him is, that
he has performed his engagements,
and “followed in the footsteps of
his predecessor.” Proper it will
not be considered, ns I have been
intimately associated with his ad
ministration, and identified in feel
ing and judgment with the great
measures of its fiscal and foreign
policy, and would be looked upon as
a volunteer and interested witness.
Instead, therefore, of speaking what
I know and believe to he just of
Mr. Van Bu ren and General Harri
son, I will use the right of every
member of the community, to refer
to things of common notoriety,
which will aid my fellow-citizens in
Georgia in discovering to which of
these persons they may safely con
fide the Executive power, as it may
influence or control the great ques
tions—
Os a protective tariff;
Os internal improvements;
Ot appropriation and expendi
ture;
Os the mode of keeping and dis
bursing the public funds;
Os slavery, as it exists from the
northern confines of Maryland to
the Sabine and Red rivers.
(Questions of foreign policy aro
omitted, for, strange to say, they
are not topics in the Presidential
canvass, and on that subject tho ad
vocates of universal reform intend
to make no change.)
On these questions the opinions
of Mr. Van Buren and General
Ha rrison have been in various forms I
and at different periods asked for.
What their answers were, at what
time and in what manner given, are
well known facts. My fellow-citi
zens can readily decide, with these
facts in view, which of these gen
tlernen agrees with them on these
important and vital subjects. By
comparing the explicit, frank,
prompt, public, and uniform com
munications of Mr. Van Buren, giv
en with like readiness to friend or
toe, with the reluctant, equivocal,
and not unfrequently contradictory
givings out of General Harrison—
sometimes by reference to former
declarations, sometimes by letters
from friends and friendly commit
tees; again by speeches at arranged
meetings, and then by private letters
for use hut not publication —they
can, without difficulty, determine
which of them deserves their con
fidence. Shoul i any doubt remain,
after this comparison, there are
two other facts not unworthy to he
remembered in forming a correct
judgment: Mr. Van Buren has im
puted to him by his advocates every
where the same opinions and the
same principles; the opinions and
principles imputed to General Har
rison by his friends and supporters
are variant and confra^od—cha
meleon like, they take their hues
from the objects upon which they
rest while you are called upon to
examine them, and show a color to
suit the region where they are pre
sented to view.
Should the belief be entertained
tin t the declarations of the parties
themselves, or those friends anxious
to promote their success, are not
safe guides, the motive to conceal
ment, equivocation, or deception
being so powerful, try the parlies
by the experimentum crucis.
In various stations each has been
before the public for more than
thirty years. Compare their pro
fession with their acts, and then the
results of each comparison. If still
not satisfied, there are other broad
facts that cannot fail to bring con
viction to the honestly inquiring
mind. A better judgment of the
probable conduct of an administra
tion in this country is to he formed
by looking at the parties by whom
its chief is brought forward, and by
whom he will he supported if they
succeed, than by a scrutiny into the
particular opinions and political
course of the person who is pro
posed for that station. Mr. Van
Buren is the candidate of that par
ty in all the States, who, under the
lead of General Jackson, arrested
the gigantic and mad scheme of
universal internal improvement—
who wrested the public money from
the hands of irresponsible and doubt
ful corporation, and broke their
power—who seek to reduce duties
and taxes to the wants of the Go
vernment —and who believe lin t
these wants admit of diminutions
of the public expenditure; of a par
ty every where arrayed against
abolition, and ready, at all hazards
and at all times, to see that the
constitutional guaranty of Southern
property is fairly and faithfully
maintained. He is equally accep
table to that party in the Southern,
Western,Eastern,and Middle States
—has been forced upon neither by
combinations or intrigues.
General Harrison is the candi
date of all the parties in the United
States who can be brought to act a
gainst the present Administration by
the common instinct of hatred. He
was forced upon the southern portion
of these parties by the combination
of Anti-masonry and Abolitionism.
Not one Southern vote was given
to him in the Harrisburg Conven
tion. Among his supporters are
ranked the higli tariff and internal
improvement men, under the ban
ners of Mr. Cloy; the high-toned
politician of the New England
States—who construe the Constitu
tion like the common law, which,
contracted as it may seem, expands
indefinitely according to the sup
posed exigency of the times—who
believe there is no safety or pros
perity without the agency of a Na
tional Bank to manage the fiscal
concerns of the Government* and
furnish a currency for the people—
opposed the late war, and establish
ed, according to the opinions ex
pressed in the British Parliament,
a sort of understood neutrality with
the enemy during its continuance—
who acknowledge as their leader
and standard-bearer, Mr. Webster,
of Boston: Ihe Abolitionists of ail
colors, under Slade of Vermont,
Seward and Bradish, Governor and
Lieutenant Governor of New York,
tinder whose auspices a deliberate
attempt has been made, by State;
legislation, to evade that provision
of tho Federal Constitution which
was adopted for the protection of
Southern rights: the Consei vatives,
under the guidance of Mr. Rives,
who have abandoned their former!
friends because the keys of the;
vaults where the public treasure isj
deposted are kept in the pockets of
officers of Government, and not by
cashiers of State hanks; and who
predict ruin and desolation to the
country because that treasure can
no longer, under the control of all
sorts of State hank directors, he!
made the basis of* loans to stimulate
every species of corporation folly
or private speculation: a fragment
of the Nulhfiers, under Mr. Preston
and General Waddy Thompson,
who have been whirled, like atoms
} of dust, from the chariot wheels otfj
South Caro ina, as they rolled into 1
their ancient tracts in the ranks of
Democracy.
The supporters of tlie General in
Georgia, I need not designate, i
They are known—what they have
been, what they are, and what they;
wish to he. Some of them have!
had, and have lost, popular confi
dence; some yet enjoy it; und they
unite in their endeavors—the one to
recover, the other to retain, popu-l
iar favor. To effect their common I
object, they are closely allied to pol
jiticians whose principles they have
j solemnly rejected; whose conduct
j they have repeatedly denounced;
| whose objects they have always pro
cessed to. abhor. If there is any
; truth in the maxim of noscitvr a
swiitj it will nut very difficult to
decide, from this array of his friends*
w hat reliance can be placed on Gen
eral Harrison by Georgians.
The only Chief Magistrate to
w hom the Southern States can safe
ly trust themselves, is one who will
use the influence of his place wisely
to lead congressional legislation on
the subjects that must arise for dis
cussion within the coming presiden
tial term —the appointment of rep
resentation, the system of revenue,
the admission of new States into
the Union; and one who will use his
power fearlessly and fully to control
all attempts at legislation ou that
subject which is exclusively South
ern. On this there can he no par
ley, for it admits of no compromise.
Those who agitate it, do evil, what
ever he their pretences or their mo
tives. Those who associate, com
bine* and act with those agitators,
must look to have the finger of sus
picion pointed at thorn. No South
ern man, who will read dipassion
ately the address to the people of
the slaveholding States, and the ac
companying evidence, from the de
mocratic Members of Congress
from those States, can have any ex
cuse for mistaking his duty when ho
act on this question. To the im
bodied evidence presented of the
movements within the United States
of the disturbers of Southern repose,
may he usefully added a reference
to what is going on abroad. The
Government ofGi eat Britain, which
has always permitted the Canadas
to ho tiie asylum of runaway slaves,
lias, within a few yeais, converted
all its West India possessions into
places of refuge for them* and has
formally declared that no claim for
them will be availing, although they
fetich their possessions by fraud or
violence. The same Government
has been lately employing itself as
the volunteer or selected agent oftlie
Pope, in presenting an apostolic let
ter on slavery to some of the Span
ish American States—a letter which
it is not at all improbable was pre
pared under influences proceeding
from the British isles.
Under its convention with Spain
respecting the slave trade, it has
commissioners in Havana scrutini
zing into the commercial pursuits
of all nations, and marking all ves
sels, not British, hound to the coast
of Africa, as suspected of the slave
trade, when loaded with cargoes
which are lawful commerce in Eng
lish vessels from Sierra Leone to a
i\y parts of the slave coast from
whence the slave factories are sup
plied with them. It has black regi
ments in its service in the Canadas
and in the West Indies. It is fill
ing up the ranks of its army by the
enlistment of recaptured Africans.
Some of the statesmen and pamph
leteers of England are engaged,
since emancipation in the Wsst In
dies lias diminished the productive
value of their West India islands,
in devising schemes to give a pre
sent preference in their markets to
the productions of free labor, (like
that in British Indiu !) and gradual
ly to exclude from them the pro
ducts of tho labor of slaves. Oftlie
temper and intentions of the agita
tors oftlie question of slavery* and
the means to he employed, abundant
! evidences are afforded in the pro
ceedings of the “World’s Conven
tion,” which met in London on the
12th, and continued until the 23d
of last June. Two resolutions were
! unanimously adopted, too significant
I to require much comment. Those
resolutions denounce the removal
of slaves from the old to the new
States as an unrighteous traffic, of
which eighty thousand are annually
; victims; as exciting detestation.
j t
i Surprise and abhorrence are ac
knowledged, that it should he pro
tected and cherished by this Gov
ernment. That it involves hard
ness ol heart in the traders, and cru
elty to the negroes, is asserted; and
that effectual means should he im
mediately taken to remove this stain
! from the character of this nation.
Was there ever such a compound
of ignorance, folly, and insolence ?
The brutal O’CormeH was quite at
home in such a convention; and his
j insults to the representative of a
foreign Government near his own,
his vituperation of two of our emi
-1 nent public men, were quite in har
mony with the occasion. The trans
portation of our properly from Vir
ginia to Loiisiuua, the internal slave
1 trade, mark you, is “unrighteous,”
’ and effectual means ought to he ta
: ken in the United States forthwith
! to remove the stain from this nation.
What are these means? We can
guess. First, prohibition by Con
gress of the transportation of slaves
! by land or sea from one State to
! another; next, a prohibition of the
sale of slaves by one man to anoth
er in the same .State; and then we
shall be ripe for either the late Mr.
Rufus King’s or General Harrison’s
plan ot gradual emancipation; the
.Government purchase of the blacks
I by the proceeds of the public lands,
or by the oftlie surplus revenue
—taxes and duties be ins; properly
increased to make that surplus large
enough to effectuate the object.
The shadows of the troubles in
store for us, at home and abroad,
are darkening and stealing upon us.
\\ hat note of preparation is heard?
V\hat measures of precaution are
required? The gravest thought and
tnost anxious deliberation are de
manded, to meet the dangers which
will sooner or later come. What
others may persuade themselves
should he done, I cannot tell; but
no step Would seem to be better
adapted to bring them upon us at
an early day, and when we shall
be utterly destitute of preparation,
than placing the power of the Gen
eral Government in the hands of
the heterogeneous coalition that
now seek to obtain it in the person
of one without the requisite quali
fications for the Chief Magistrate
of a great republic, and who is ac
cused, with too much appearance of
trui h, of having, in a public address,
engaged, if elected, not to thwart
Congress by the use of the veto
POWER.
The veto power ! a portion of the
authority given to the Executive by
the wise framers of our Govern
ment, which the incumbent of the
Presidential chair can neither sur
render nor trammel himself in the
exercise of, without personal dis
honor and treachery to the Consti
tution. ‘Fhe veto power! the safe
guard of the people against impro
vident legislation, or congressional
encroachment on the rights of the
States and of the co-ordinate south
ern States; used for them, it is im
possible, while the equality of sena
torial representation remains, and
ihe present relative proportion of
the slave States is preserved, for the
phrenzy of fanaticism and the reck
lessness of associated party profli
gacy to disturb our repose, or assail
our firesides, under the sanction of
congressional enactments.
. Mr. Van Buren is pledged to use it
for that purpose—General liarrisou
is not.
JOHN FORSYTH.
APPENDIX.
State of the vote at the liarruturg Convention.— As
there will be naturally anxiety to know precisely how
the delegations from the various Stales voied, we
have obtained, in an authentic shape, the following
statement, showing the result of the first ballot in the
Committee of States.
RESULT OF THE FIRST BALLOT.
Harrison. Clay. Scott.
Maine . , 10
New Hampshire . 7
Massachusetts . 14
Connecticut . , 8
Rhode Island . . 4
New York . ; 4 i
New Jersey . . g
Pennsylvania . . Jo
Delaware . . i 3
Maryland . ; . 10
Virginia ... 23
Norili Carolina . ; lj
Alabama .... 7
Louisiana . , 5
Mississippi . . <t
Kentucky . . 13
Indiana . . . 9
Ohio . . .21
Missouri ... i
Michigan . . (divided.)
Vermont . . 7
Illinois ... ft
91 103 57
The vote first given for General Harrison never
was reduced. Aficr several hallotings had
Connecticut changed her vote from Mr. Clay tc Gen
Scott; a id Michigan (the third delegate having arriv
ed) cast her vote in like manner: waning Scott’s vo'o
68, and reducing Mr. Clay’s to 95. On the tinal and
decisive vote, New York, Michigan, and Vermont
changed from Scott, and Illinois from Clay, and voted
for Harrison.— American.
General Anti-Slavery Convention, called hy the com
mittee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery So
ciety, he,ld in London on the 12th June, 1840, arid
confirmed by adjournment to the 23d of the same
month
The following resolutions were passed unanimous
ly:
Resolved, That this convention lias heard wiih dec;,
regret and sorrow of the e.t’ent to which the internal
slave-trade is carried on from the older to the more
newly settled slave Stales < f the American Union—
to the extent of upwards of 80,000 victims annually to
this unrighteous traffic.
Resolved, That in expressing their detestalion of
this traffic, and in acknowledging that it excites ih'fir
debp surprise and abhorrence that it should be pro’ec
ted and cherished by a nation which has abolished the
Af ican slave trade, afl l declared it to be piracy; ihi.t
convention is impressed with the convicion that such
a systematic trade in man must be attended with ex
cessive cruelty and wrong to the objects of it, and in
volves in its prosecution a fearful extent of barbarity
and hardness of heart on the part of the man-trader,
and that effectual means ought to be forthwith l?ken
in the United States of America to remove this stain
from the character of the nation.
DEMOCRATS!—-Cook through
the whig press from Maine to Geor
gia, and can you find any denuncia
tion of old federal measures? Can
you find any ONE of the present
whig journals disclaiming that they
have in their ranks the great body
of the old federal party? Can you
find ONE of the whig editors irtfli<j
rinntly disowning federal principles?
When Austin and Duane, and oth
ers of the old democrats, were de
fending Madison and Gerry from the
fierce assaults of Russell and Cal
lender, where then was Daniel Web
ster, who stands forth as a leader of
the whig procession on the 10th of
September? fl?* Defending the ac
tors in the Hartford Con vent ion l_/r)
Denouncing the measures of
Mad ison’s
tiiere now a whig press that does not
endorse Webster’s principles?
Democrats reflect and then ACT.—
Huston Post.
From the Augusta Canslitutionulist.
Accepted Testimony —As the Fed
oral party have accepted the rest:
rnonv of Col. Richard M. Johnso-.
as unimpeachable,-let them take it
following along with the r;.sf *! h
evidence. Itt his speech at Ch ;l E
ccthtyOhio,
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