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(Times ant) feentinel. OuLUMtiUis, UEUIUjIA. SATURDAY LVIKING, JUNE 16, 1855 FOR GOVERNOR. IlfiHiClliSE V. JJIIVSJX. FoR CO.NGRES ht l>iMric%J'tm > it. Nmard, of Thomis. 31. Jitme* |. Smithy ul’ jpsoa. 4*h *• J Drain Wumih. . r .h “ Juo. 11. Lijni km. C ii unwell Cobb, ul Clarke. CongreKvional ( mivenUtm* District. W@ suggest that the Democrati'c Cubgief-MOnal Conven tion lor the Second Dutiict bo held at Ameiieus, on Wed m*da>, 11th July next. The Supreme Court will be in se*'io i at that lime in Americas. What aay our Demo eratic coteniporaries to this tujrgestion ’ Ihe time and place oujjht to bo agreed upon at once. wtwtd. n V Q'les’ion f*r Deniuc atic Editors. Now, what we want to know i~ this: Is there a eingle Democratic t d.tor in *itoi*.i ■, v\hi> i.- u<>w r aly and wnl ing to pledge Inin ell to a .vocaie Utie dr-rupiiou < t all tne ties that bind Iho Stale ol Geo-uia to the Union, ’ when Congress stud eject Kansas on account ui slavery I—Cdi i er ot>ne. There certainly i* one E litor in G orgia who i3 now and aiw.i.a hub e.i ready and wiling “to p edge hn> g* ll’ to advocate tne daiuption ot n 1 ti s that bind tli S.a e ot Georgia to the Union when (J mgr* ss shall re jet Kaunas on account of slaveiy.’’ ’i Ilia pledge we have given time and again and now repeat without res ervaiion or q evocation. Not only *, bjt as we un der-tand tlie position taken by the weniocratio party iu Convention at M lledg. ville on the sth inst., tin whole paity Entors and all, arc to the rams course. The Cirner Stone totally misapprehends the intent and purpose of tile dd resolution ot the Plailorm ol the Georgia Democracy. Ii was not and signed to wtaken the 4th r b lution of the Georgia Platform, but to give aim aud point to it. The Kansas question had arisen since that Platform was emend. Ii was deemed important, then lore, to apply to it specifically that I’lau.e of tin Geoigia Plaltol iii w hit h no lam! it to tie the duiy ol Geoigia to ieri.-t t ven, as a last resort, t< a disruption of the Union,‘"any letusal to admit as a Stale any l' rritory heieatirr apply mg, b'cause of the exis t* nee of sla* ery But* in.” S ich we know was the object ol the buildeis of the Platform of the Gtorgii Democracy and such will be the action of the Georgia D -umcracy, when t!-o tune lor action ai rives. The Corner Stone may, therefore, dismiss us fears as to the com st- ot the Geoig>a Democracy. I hey* are s >imiil to the lieai t’se re up *n the gr< at sectional ie-u*s >nv pending b tween the North and South. Tiuy have a hope that with the aid ol those good and wue IK'ime cruts at ihe North, who have always shown themselves loyal to the constitution, that Knsas will be admilied a a slave Suite, if she shout 1 apply for admission in taat obar toier an I therefore insist upon k eping up party relations with them lor the present ; but if this hope snail prove ab -rtive, they are pledged to strike for inde pendence, what v-r may be the opinion* of ‘*a distin tiuguislied aid very intljenual Democrat * If, however, the North shoul I relent, in view of a threat ned disco lution, itiAdalmii Km* is. we shoo and, of corn a advocate a peaty; and this we presume is all tne Mistin/u shed aid vI- ry intii-nti.il D**m *era /’ referred t • by the Corner S ot' , p in nt to alii in. c<>n the Comer Stone say as much if the new patty it is attempting to form m G. orgia? We *8 pecifdly oounnetid to the a teuton of the Corner Stone the tod owing paragraph wh'uli we * x rad from llie Chronide if* Suuiuel , o ie of ti e Dating nigum of the new par y. 1i an ar.nl • headed Fourth of July Con tention the Chronicle j- Sentinel sajs: •’ fins is h gr*a, a nuoD w*n k, worthy to enlist the b st eii* r ics and g eat* st m utal ett’irts of ev ry pa trot in the State. We repeat, t|;er*fre, send up pour dtlegat* * ; n* led the b. at, the purest men; men yledged 10 ihe support of those great conservative p'in ciplr-s proclaim and by the constructors of the Georgia platform They are the true prineipl sos the Consti tution and the Union. Nay, mo e; repudiate in your a* lection of and legates all sect one ism. and i the Coa ven ion should incorporate in its plaif>rm any sectional feature, wasli your hauls o*’ the o •ncern at oi ce and Jot ever. This is the only true ai.d pit rim io course.” I-i this the feast the Corner Stone prop >*• s to spread on the 4'h July ? All sectionalism must be repo (ha ted 7 What will brother B thuue find to lux taste in such a hcii.d ? Fizz e No 1. The Response of Sumter to the Columbus Movement. According to previous notice, as \v* Darn from th, Sumpter Republican, ihe jitiz.-n* of Sumter assembled at Ann ricus an the D.h inst, t j take into consideration the, so c ill and Cos! unbus M •vement, fur the f >rnmtinn of anew Party. Robert C J -ukius was called to the Chair, aud Adam ll Brown appointed S* cretary. N. Mcßaiu, fcj i] , Chairman ot the Committee of thirteen, appointed at a previous uieetdig, to prep ire matter for the cm s deration of the people, reported a seri-s of esolu ions setting forth that the formation of a sectional party at this time would be injurious to Southern in terests, and ad vrsing all patriots aud Southerners irre spective of fomn r party alliances, to give a liea> ty sup port to the platform and nominees of the Dcin >cratio par-y. Mr. Wi 1 s A. Hawkins, a member *>f the Commi tee, olf-red, as a sub-'.i ute, a pr.-a nble and resolutions recogn zing the necessity of the format on of anew j Party, “not sectional or disunion in its character” for ] the defence of the pe- u!iar rights of th * S >uth. The ’ leportof the C'linmitt* e was sustained 11. M More, and 1 N. iMcßain, E-qs. T. e substitute ofTe-ed by Mr. Haw- j kins was sustain and by W. A. Hawkins, H 11. McC y, i an ! dona Davis, E qs. •Juo B Worrell E q . then moved th“ previous quea 1 ti>>n which was lost. Ihe substitute was then up i nI en Mr. H. M More arise at and proceed* and to ad dr* ss the Convention, but give wav to a motion to srj >urn. oil r*d by 11. Ii L S *rre!i, Esq., which was cairied ; an*l the meeting disperse! without taking any aeti n up-ti the resolutions or npp inting dJ gates to the 4ih of July Convention. Democratic Convention-Four li Distric'. The Convention assemble*! at Newnan on the 12 th hist. On the 4th ballot, Hiram Warner wis nominated as the Ciindidato of Democratic party for 0 ngrrss in the 4ih district, having received ‘2’*7 votes out of 29? cist. Oa the 3 1 ballot, Lotlor J. Glenn received 14 votes. On the Ist and 21 ballots, L J. Gartrell re ceived OU votes On tlie Ist, 3d and 4.h ballots, A Nelson received 3<J vot< s. Resolutioi a were abound approving the platform ot principles adop'ed by the 8a e Coiivt ntion, pledging the party in the 4'h district to ssupp >rt 11. V. J <hns n fir G ivernor, and thanking the jlon. W. B, W, D*.ut for his patriotic cvui sc iu the laai Democratic Convention—Fifth Dtstric • We aie indebted to the Casscille Standard for an extra containicg the prcc* e.img of ihe Democratic Con gtes-ional Convention htld at Calhoun on the I‘2 h int. Hon. John II l.umpktu wa elected the candidate ol the party for Congiess on the Ii st ballot. Resolutions wi re pass’ <1 approving the plaif*nn of princip’eß adopt ed by the ritaio Convention aud p'edg ng the Detnoc racy of ihe bth district to the cordial support of 11. V Johnson. Flare up in the National Convention. Philadelphia, June 4th. Fifty-three out of eighty fur d* legates troni twelve free S*ates, have reced'd from the American Conven tion, in cotiseq't- tsce ot the adoption of a plaiiorm on the subject of Slaveiy, national iu its character. Removal of Gov. Reeder and other Officials of Kansas ’1 mitory. Washington June 12. 1853. The administration is so ely puzzled with Governor R eder’a case ll is i ndersloud now tlsat he will be lemoved forthwith unless he resigns, which he ia un .villmg to d>. His Associate Judges, Johnson aud El more. ami the District Attorney, wll also go by the board. Thia couree was determined on to-day by the Bi* anient. The Kmsas L gislalure meets on 2d ol J uly. New Hampshire SanaCrs. Concord, June 14. The Senate of New Hampshire have elected James B 11 for the long term, and John P. Hale for tlu* short one. Acknowledgments.— W e are to R. J. i Moses, E-q , for a number of apricots grown on hi* giounda near Columbus, for which he will accept our thanks. Mr. P* abody will please accept out thanks for an uncommonly large watermelon. Articles Deferred —We are compelled by the length ol the coir*spotidence between Governor John- P oii and Major Howard, which we publish in lull to-day, to defer, until our tuxt issue, st-verai communications, e-iitorials and inteiesting new* items to a subsequent i issue. The d< lay is unavoidable. The letter of Gov | ernor Johnson is a very able r* ply to the Columbus | movement and will amply repay perusal, Muscogee Superior C> ukt. —In the eas® of the State vi. William Stmffoer, charged with the murder of William A. Lynn, the jury returned a verdict of “not gtriity” on the 16th inst. Columbus Movement Meeting. —Tha new Party met in Temperance Hall, Saturday 16.11, to send dele gates to the 4th July Convention. Very spirited ad divane* w.ib made by Messrs. B. Y- Martin, Win. 11. Mitchell, B. A. Thornton and G. E. Thomas. The time of holdmg the State Convention was deferred until Bth August. M< ssrs. Howard, Mitchell, Dougherty, Johnson and Gunby were appointed delegates to th* deferred Convention. We have no time to notice the proceedings of the me ting. We will refer to them herea ter. Denunciations of the D m ‘cracy and eulogy of the Know No.hings were th staple of the speeches we heard. Merc r Univertity. —B- A. Thornton, Esq , oi Co ’ lumbar, will deliver the Literary Address before the. Societies j of Mercer Uaiversiiy, Penfield, Ga ,on the evening of Com men cement, he last Wednesday in July next. ’ Operation of the Ma<sachuset 8 Liquor Law. - ‘o°Pph Wilde has been convict*d, in the Lawrence police couit of j selling brand > on Sunday, three tint *&, to two persons j fined SlO, and .-ent to the ho ise of correction for 140 days; He is now serving out his sentence. The Fugitive S ave Law in Connecticut —A bill de manding the repeal ol the Fugitive Slave lsw wa j voted down in the Connecticut Senate last Tuesday. Mr. Terry of Norwalk, in opposing the bill, or rather the amend ment, which include I the anti-fugit*ve slave saw clause I said th t “he was willing the North should go t® the verge ! of the Con tituiion, but ho wai not prepared to invite adi - I solution of the Union.” ONE WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL 0F TUF STEAMSHIP ATLANTIC. New York, Jun* 10. Th 1 steamer Atlantic has arrived at this poF', wi’h L ver pool dates to June ‘I and being one week’s later advices than | loose brought by the Africa. j iVlullegan’s Cucular says that the war news is important, and the Cotton market active with a speculative demand.— P.iee- have adva iced k a pent y. i Sales of iha week, 152.500 biles Speculators took 86,- 0 )0, Exporters s,Out) Sale- on Friday 20,000, halt ot which ■ went to tne trade Market closed steady. • Quotations—Fair Orleans, ?£ ; Middling 6 1 16. | Mock in port 520 000 bales, in luding 332 000 American. Breach-tuffs arr generally unchanged Closed dull.— : Piovi-ion* steady. Slight advance. Naval stores active and i nchai ged. Money is easier. Consols adva iced to 925. American Stocks active, with slight advan’e. The Allies have taken Kench between the sea of Azoff and the Black Sea Also, the Russian camp at Tarkome va, besides heir success before Sevastopol. SECOND DISPA l CK. Additi cal Intelligent). O i the nights of the 22 id ad 23rd of last month, the j French drove the Russians from an important position be- ; fore Savastop >!,called Piace d’Artnee. Tlie ki led and wounded on both sides during the engage ; nieot, 8,000. Tne French retained the position i’ne Allies sei/.ed and retained tha Russian line of de- j fences on the Tehernaya with scarcely a battle, the Rus- \ sians retreating to the h Us. - j A secret expedition of 20.000 man and 14 steamers took • the fortress of Kertcn. ’1 he Russians blew up their own | magazines on both sides of the straits and sunk 4 steamers j and 30 bansp rt-. Haifa million sacks of hread-t’ fls were elso destroyed. ■! ’! he Allies now have It steamers in the sea ot Azo'ff Tne Allies aEo destroyed the Russian Magazines in the ; inland town of Arob.it—also a shot shell toundery near j Ketch. As the Sevasto n| garrison draw most ot thsir supplies ! from thesaa of Azoff, it is proba’de that th< fad of Kertch ) and the occupation o the sea ot Azof!” will be speedily tol- | lowed by their intluence upon the seige. It was rumoied at Palis, that IVlissier had attacked and I routed Le(;randi s division, ami that Can: obert was wound j ed, and anothei French Iteneral killed m the battle. j Death from a Sting by a Locust. — We are informed. 5 says the Athens (Am.) iFruld, by a gentleman, whose | v*-ra-*ity and reliability we can v u h f.ir, that a youth in ‘ he dj imng county of Lawrence, while ont fishing oi/e ! day last week, was stung by a Lueust from the * sis eta of j which he d;ed aim st iii3 antly. Ne hid caught several 1 with the intenton of using them as bait, and put th* m in j h s hit f*.rsafe keeping, when or.e ofth* m stung him on j ihe h ad, causing the elf ot above stated. Tom Thumb not Married. —The New York Evening Poet has a* en author z and o say that tfiure is no truth in tfia sti-ry *f T m’s marriage. The lady to wh< mit hs* b en ailegt and he was married, is rri rely employed to nttand t< the v>a<4r>be ■ f the ‘’General” who is n*w * n a pro* | fetation 1 tags .& N<*;w York State, with liuwv’e nunagwi#, and circus, i Intereatin? Correspondence. km. John it. Howard ro o >vsrn r tt. r. Johnson. Montgomery, Ala , June Ist, 1855. Dear Governor I sent you, a day or two sgo, fioin Columbus, (ia., the proceedings of s*>nie pairiolic and tiue men, which 1 hope you have duly consdered aud properly appreciated. bile tt* tiding a case in Court here, I snatch an hour to support the policy of the rcsoulutions referred to. Under the nettled con viction that the divisions of the South into tizan warfare, will forever render her weak and imbe cile and continue her an easy and unresisting piey to Northern aggression, l am an advocate warmly lor the union of the people of the State upon one platform Although these have be*n my opinions for some years j past l do not claim the paternity of tho resolutions of i f* r and in the Democratic meeting a few days past at Columbus, and rejected by the imprudent exclusiveness of Judge Iverson’s party policy *, they are neither John A. Joins’ nor mine, but the spontaneous effusion of a people fatigued with party end its dtlusive promises of good, no matter how successful in numerical force. A8 long aa opposing parties are tolerated and encour- ; aged at tile South, just so long will wo be scoff and at j by the North for our impotence, and humiliated in our j own estimation from a knowledge of our weakness; but j I* t us off these shackles and we are at once pla* | ced in an attitu le to comm uid respect. No time ever, ‘ in my recollection, lias been so propitious as the present j to cure this canker upon our politics. The \Y hig par j ty is rather btl*>w par in its expectations of attaining j to and maintaining a State ascendancy, and moreover, somewhat convinced that their policy, for a few years past, has not been very well calculated to advance or even to protect the intercs sos the South, they are well inclined to meet us : while the Democracy, true to tho Constitution, and beating up constantly for auxiliaries in the great work, evince openly a good tempi-r in inviting all to come forward and join them in the d* fence of the constitutional rights of the Country. The feeling; predi- ] cated upon a sound judgment of the neces sity of the thing, is good and warm among all classes of Democrats, Whigs and Know Nothing!), ex cept a few exclusives of all parties, who, from personal selfi-hness, will insist upon the propriety of their sepa rate organizations. But notwithstanding this good f*ei ing certainly prevails, still Whigs and Know Nothings will not come into the Democratic party in such num ber* as will amount to a disruption and breaking up of their own parties they must have an opportunity, by going into a g*-neral Convention, to make their own de durations of faith, and saying this is my platform ; for if Sterne’s recording Hinge! were to come down from lleavt n, and give us a platform of principles, the spir- j it of an opposing party would blot it out sot ever. I care m>t how wise, how pure, how patriotic the Dem ocratic platform of principles may he, opposing parties will rtj et the principles by their opposition to the irs* n who are chosen as the standard bearers to carry out those principles. How is this evil to bs avoided ? Sim ply by the representatives of th© Democracy who m ®t on the sth inst., consulting the known prejudice* and weakness of our nature and inviting a Convention of ail parties and the whole people to meet in July or Au gust to nominate a Governor and make a declaration of principlta free fioin the trammels ol instruction or dic tation of any patty or of any pet of exclusive politicians. Wh’gs and Know Nothings,like all other parties, to be content With, aid support the truth, must have an agency or hand in in iking a declaration of that truth ; they mupt have it in their power from practical co-ope ration to say, ‘‘here are our principles,’’ “we the people •f Georgia promulgated them ii General 0 invention.’’ But ao long as they are announced as the principles of the Democratic Pa*ty, though the principles may not be opposed, yet the Party wjl be, and the strength of tie State set at naught and destroyed by the eentin. ued divisions of the people. Had 1 your official po*i tion, aud peiso iai influen •*, at this juncture, I fl itter nttself I could, and would, do a great deal, to conciliate and reconcile old party Dements. I think, with the good disposition which prevails,that it is in the power of a few active and sensible men of the Democratic Party to bring the people together, at least, for a time, and al though they will again split into parties as new and iin port3nt qu aliens may arise.yet they most probably would be united and firm upon the questionof Northern in roads upon Southern Rights, nut only in relation to slavery, but upon all the lat tudinarian pract'eis, viola* live of the Constitution, of which we have so long and \ justly complained without the slightest influence upon j irresponsible majoriti* s. The proposition “so be one ; people is so pre ty, md fair, and virtuous and states | manlike, that it satisfies the judgment as well aa delights the imagination. If it can be effected, it will betfio hap ; pitat era of the age, as it will bear upon its glorious i pinions more weight and influence than ail the written f Constitutions we have ever framed. Aud how glorious ! and honorable to tha Democratic Parly to make the | motion in her Convention and point the way to bring the State to its senses and unite the people in their own , defence. How magnanimous and truly praiseworthy to yield her party supremacy to a power far more poten- | till and iftVctive f*>r public good and public tranquility of the State! There in ecstacy ia the contemplation of its happy results. All this is in the scope and pow- j tr of a few men, because it i? wise, and j ust and poiit- | io. It is approved by reason and sound sense, and :n than ail, desired by the people, who always h right to govern. Who that is patriotic can object to j this ? Certainly not the Democracy, for they are now j | using the press, and their orators and statesmen, to in j voke the people to join them. The Democracy is now ■ busily electioneering for, and soliciting recruits toad- | I vance the interest of the people, and especially to pro* ; tect the South and its institutions. The Whigs now j j maintain the same principles. Why, then, keep up that , | jealous distance between the parties ? There is no i < sound philosophy or patriotism in such policy ; it ia mis* j | guided and erratic. Oh ! But the Know’ Nothings ! j ■ Who are they ? I answer they are not Bears, but : ; People too. Mm of intelligence and -.-orth, having the j [ same interest in the eoontry as other people. They ara j I composed of Wnigeaul Democrats, and very clear, in j I my judgment, of the imputations cast upon them by Mr j L Stephens, who should have rt member* and h : 3 own assoei- j ! ation with Northern Whiggmy might have subjected j j him with •q ml plausibility to the same charge of being j | found in bad company. It is <*b urd and ridiculous to | I charge them with any connection or sympathy with the j s Northern Abolition Party. Upon that question I would j | as Boon rely upon them as upon your Kxeeilmcy, and ; I from your known active exertions in defence©! S mth- j ern institutions, that, 1 would Bay, is putting the case \ for their loyalty to the South in a strong point of view. { I have no connection with them, I assure you, hut I ! have lately and Bcover.d,by their open avowals, many men j as pur*-, patriotic, and talented as our eoutry affords j • they have s*-cr* ts, I dare say, and so have ail parties • th* y are but a party upon the same organic rule ofoth- er panies, t*> stick together and promote each other in order to carry oat their principl* a. I ohj* ot to vf.air re 1 lig ouß pr<w.iiriptioa. I would fight for the free exercise ‘ f r'.l'giovis ppiciona, wh-th-r Catholic oj Prajvßtant. - y But I beln-ve this is a mere hoax to unite with them th* Protestant Clergy; but in regaid to discouraging for eign immigration, lam deeidiy with them. I care no who knows mv opinions. I hold th-s© propositions to be undeniable 1 First, That this Country, S ntts and Territories, belong to us; and by ‘ us,” I mean the nat uralixed, as well ns native citizens; Second, Th'at th* same reasons which induced the naturalization Saws, a’ the titne of their passage, do not now exist. W e then wanted sirength ; we ar* now strong enough to de f. ud ourselves against any expected combination of th* world : Third, It is our right to take care of ourse ves. and we are not under the slightest obligation to afford an asjlum to the rest of the world : .and bourth, It is had policy to pass laws which would have the effect ot prematurely filling up the country ; our population is dense enough ; we want what remains unoccupied tor ! our own children. And it is the interest and duty ol : both naturalized and native citizens to put a stop to fur ! ther immigration. I would not take from a naturalized i citizen a tittle of his privileges, and will support him j for office, according to comparative qualifications ; at hast, I,is foreign birth, shall never, with me, be an ob jection. But the true p>l cy of the country is to put an end to further immigration, and lam willing to meet any man upon that question ; the contrary opin ion cannot be defended, andwould not be attempted, but tor the policy of Parti?#, to cater for votes. r ihe Know Nothing* of Muscogee, under the beautiful prop oaition of becoming one people, will go into tho Con vention and support rou or any other candidate the peo ple will put forward. I speiik advisedly. By such a Convention, you ought, and would be chosen, because harmony is the spirit and soul of the movement, and n<> obj ction could, or would be urged against you.— Mr.—, I understand, says that he could not ex tend to you hie support, under any circumstances, what ever. 1 think he would be found, with ail his influ* ence, a solitary exception. The very act of going into Convention dissolves the Know Nothings as a party, and ipso facto mergts them, aa it does all others, into the great mass of the people. Though in great haste, l tnay have written too much, but I have said nothing wrong, as my whole aim is to unite the people, by dis sipating their mere party prejudices; if this can be done by a pa riotio course of the Democratic Convention, ] shall indeed be happy : the people, I am sure, desire this union of political and social action ; and the re sponsibility of rejecting their wishes rests not upon I the Democratic party, but upon those gentlemen at ; Mill* dgeviile who, pro forma, represent a portion of the ►party. . lam truly and friendly Yours, &o , J. 11. Howard. P. S. Please show this to my friends, Pringle and Clark, as I have an adjourned difficulty with these gen tl m n, in regard to the propriety of my position. And also to any of our friends you please, saving those men who may be too proud or vain to think. J. H. 11. Governor H. V. Johnson to Maj John H. Howard. Executive Chamber, t Milledgeville, Geo., June Uth. f Maj. Joiim H. Howard, Columbus, Geo. Dear Sir 1 received yaur favor, enclosing me a copy of the proceedings of the “Meeting &t Temperance Hall’ on the 26th of May, in which you beg me “not to oppose this movement.” 1 also received your communication of the Ist in t., wii ten at Montgomery, AD., supporting, by inelaborate a:gument, the policy foreshadowed in the reso lutions adopted by the meeting referred to. My nomina tion, and acceptance of the candidacy for the office orGov ernor, by the late Democratic Convention, apprise jou more so eibly than I could express, in word?, of try u er and entiie diss* nt from.the line of policy, which jo i urt e. Not desiring o be conspicuous I rhould not have cbtrui td my views upon the public, but my great re p -ct for jou would not permit me to be silent, and justice to.mysel', in view of th • positi n 1 occupy before the people ofG.org a, requires? that I should be fuly understood, in order that I m iy not eatm captiously to oppose a movement so specious, and emanating fiom a source so respectable. Without arrogance, I believe 1 am as true a Southern Rights man as any you can find—as firmly attached to Sou hern interests—as prompt to un te in their energetic vindication and support. 1 fully evinced all this in the con test of 1850, which grew out of the acts of Congress, known as the “Compromise Measures.” Upon that issue I acted with the Southern Rights party. In common with them, I was in favor of a ternporaty severance of party alliance with the North—temporarily, untii that issue should be set tied. For this purpose, I desired to see ail the slaveholding State? constitute “one people and one party,” and that they should meet in Southern Convention; not to dissolve the Union, but to adopt a platform upon which Southern Right? might be maintained and the Union preserved. I preferred this course to seperate action by the State, because I believed that its moral effect upon the North would be potent for the accomplishment of our patriotic purposes. But the people of this State, by an overwhelming majority, adjudged other wise. They decided that Georgia should act for herself, trike her own position and lay down her own platform.— In sovereign Convention,she gave expression to her final ae termination in the bold, fearless and solemn language of the 4th Resolution, to wit: I the Slate of Georgia, in the judgment of this i convention, will and ought to resist, even fas a last resort - ’ *o i a disruption of every tie which binds her to the Union, any action of Congress upon the subject of Slavery in the District of Columbia, or in piaces subject to the jurisdiction of Congress, incompatible with the safety, ; domestic tranquility, the rights and honored'the slavehold | ing States; or any act suppressing the siave trade between | the siaveholding States; or any relu ai to admit as a | State any territory hereafter applying, because of the exis j fence o* slavery therein; or any act prohibiting the in* ; troduction ol slave- into ihe territories of Utah and New i Mexico; or any act repealing or materially modifying the laws in force tor the recovery of lugitive slaves. When Georgia had thus authoritatively decided to ac quiesce in the Compromise Measures—to act tor herself, I irrespective of our sister Southern Stales, by announcing | solemnly the future conditions on which she would remain j in the Union, i regarded the question which gave rise to the | formation of the Southern Rights and Union parti#? as set- I tied, and that, consequently, the necessity for their continu ; ance as political organizations ceased. 1 was satisfied with | th<> platfoim, and if a Southern Convention had been held, ; 1 could not have a-ked it to take higher and stronger i ground. I would have been better pleased with the same | platform adopted by such a body, for the reason .onfy, of it* greater moral weight, with the Northern portion of our Confederacy. The Southern Rights and Union parties of 1850 and ‘sl j being thus disbanded by the cessation of the causes which brought them into being, it became a question with us all- Whigs and Democrats—whither should we go? The Democrats of Georgia, myself included, seeing that among the Northern Democracy were sound rnen—ready to sta: and by the South—ready to execute the Fugitive Slar * law ar and consider the passage of the “Comproroi @ Measures*’ as a iinal settlement of the slavery agitation—determined to be represented in the, then, app oadvng Baltimore Convention, to support its nominees and abide its action, provided they would pome squarely up ;q pyr position. That body did so. They determined to stand by the Compromise Met* sure*; to enforce the Fugitive Slave law, and resist its rept al or modification. They rominated General Pierce, aid with him as our leader, and those principles inscribed upon our banner, the National Democratic party wa thoroughly reorganized and marched to victory. Now I respctfully a?k, has not General Pierce faithfully carried out the prin ciple* of that Baltimore piatlorm i Has he not enforced the execution of the Fugitive Slave Law ? Has he not given evidence of great firmness and soundness ol constitu tional construction, in his able and admirable vetoes 1 Aye more—in the la?t Congress when one great principle of the Compromise Measures, that new States should be admit ted mto the Union, with or without slavery, as their people might determine for themselves, came to be practically ap plied on the passage of the Kansas-Ntbraeka bill,did not a I large portion of Northern and Western Democratic mem j bers faithfully redeem their pledges ? D and they not aid th* South in repealing the lestriciion, under which she had writhed for thirty years, as deg ading to her equali ty and violative of the Constitution l Ii these things be true, why should Georgia dissolve her alliance with the sound Democrats of the Nor.h? What have they done since we marched with them to victory in the late Presi dential election, to foifeit our confidence I I know that ail Northern Democrats are not, necessarily, sound upon the slavery question—many of them are rotten to the beau's centre. But Ido believe that the sound men among thorn govern the Democratic party North, seas to prevent a per manent course of policy by that party hostile to the right* and interests of the South. They are at least tiie exponent* of a powerful substratum of patriotism and constitutional conservatism among the masses of the people of the North, which will crop out in times of peril and stand like a wall of granite against the tide of fanaticism. Therefore, l think, we are bound in good faith to stand by them ?o long a* they “are true to the pltdges to which I have alluded. Let us preserve the brotherhood of party alliance between the North and the South while it affords a hope tor the maim tainanee of our rights in the Union. But the preamble to your resolutions asserts “that the g iliani band of patriots within those States who are lriends to the South and faithful to the constitution, and whom we remember with gratitude, have been routed, disbanded and alnrust annihilated,” and therefore, the Temperance Hall meeting solemnly resolve “to repudiate all fellowship with the present national political organizations.” It is even true that these, our friends, have fallen. But how and at whose hands ? Fallen in their strife for us—for repealing the Missouri restriction —tor standing by the principle that the people of new States shall determine for themselves the question of slavery, and be admitted into the Union accord ingly—for abiding the Fugitive Slave law—fallen at the hinds of the enemies of the South, banded together in infer nal alliance under the sable flag of Know Nolhingism, which, at the North, is out another name for Freeaoil and A'ooiitionism Is it for euch area-on as this, we frhould abandon them ? Southern chivalry revolts at the propon iion. Southern gratitude will not permit it to Le entertain ed. Ours are not the people to leave the wounded and dying on the field when they have received the blowa tor tignting by their side. They will rather administer to them—succor, aid and encourage them, that we may have their service* in tho next and rapidly approaching vtruggle. In the next Congress there will be, perhaps, a score of members from the free States, who stood by the South on the Kansas-Nebraska bill; and if Kansas applies with aj ro slavery Constitution, these men will vote lor htr admission. But will they do it, ii they find that the South has cut off ail party alliance with them l Is it to ba expeet-d? And suppose Kansas, with suih a Constitution, should be teject e 1, a* she probably will, and an appeal should be made to the non slaveholding States to return members to the fol lowing Congress who will vote for her admission, w hat hope i should we then have of a successful appeal, if we shall have uitly -none. If the South s(Ctionaiiz6a herself, the North will take a simi lar position ; and'being in the minority, we must either sub mit to dishonor and degradation, or dissolve the Union.— Tiier® is no avoiding one of these alternatives, and, there fo.e, I am tor standing by our Northern friends, lor the ; present, as the best course to maina in our rights in the ! Union. ! In 1850, ft * before remarked, I wa? an rdent but humble memDer of the Southern Rights part . it was a section-1 organization,* from the very nature ol the circumstances, &id q estionsf which brought it inti b* g. 1 belonged to . that party, because the compromise measures, in my judg ment, were of such a character, as to demand firm and united action on the pirt of the Southern States. We had present* ®i tous a practical, tangible, exciting and solemn ist-ue, involving the iiiiferests of our democratic institut ons. The two parties thsu then sprung up, grew naturally character of thw question to be decided. But is there such issue now'|? Has Congress committed any overt act hostile to the slavery interest ? So far from this being true, the measures ol thel last Congress evince more justice to the South than has heenSawarded to her for many years ; and what is more irnportantt, those measures were sustained by a large number of Northern and Western Democratic mem ber*. What then is to/ be gained by sectional organization ? Show me the necessity for it, and I shall advocate it with earnest zeal. i The “Columbus Movement,” as it is called, is put for ward under the spetf oussuggestion for us to be “one people aid one party.”- ‘if his indeed sounds beautifully. It smacks of a prliticai milleuiumV But, however, desirable, we can not be “one people and oree party,” until we shall all think alike. In a government liike oars, where freedom of thought ana debit-* ii tolerated, diversity of sentiment must need? exist. Now, right or Vwrong, experience shows this to be true. In 1832, it was considered that patriotism should prompt us to be “one people on the Tar.ff question. In 1850, many of ue thought we should^one” * people and one party” on the Compromise q lestion. On each of these occasions there was a great exciting issue, deeply affecting the rights and interests of the South. But iaow egregiousiy were we divided ! you have no such isst e now—indeed, no present pending issue. Then, if we could not be ‘ one people and one party” in 1832 and 1850, when there were g eit subjects of excitement, is it not utopian to expect it now, in th; abseence ol any condensing element in the popular mind? In action, the masses oi freemen are h irmonious; in discussion, rarely ever. We shall differ m Georgia, and be arranged into party organizations until the ti oe tor action shall come. Then we shall be “one peofie ani one party.” Let the 4th Re-olution of the Georgia Convention ot 185 G, be trampled under foot by Congress* and then our people wish one accord, without the suggestion of preliminary meetings, will rush together, like the gather ing element? of the brewing tempest. Loosing at all the circumstances, I can but regard the “Coiurnbus Movement” as very singular. Congress hs been adjourned ever since ihe-lth of March; the Northern and Western elections have transpired several week* ag°* no very recent development hostile to Southern Rights hae occurred, and yet not a syllable issugge-tsd, as to the for mation of a Southern party, until two of the most promi” neqt leaders ot the Whig party, io Georgia, have throws