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Proceeding* o' th* 7th Congressional DUtrict.
Spaeta. Wednesday, Aug. 20, 1851.
The. C onvention to nominate a Representa
tive of the Southern Rights Party to Congress,
for the 7th District, assembled at Sparta on Wed
nesday, the 2011, instant.
Or, motion of J. B. Trippe, Esq., of Putnam.
Wilson Bird, Esq. of Hancock county, wa* called
to the Chair: am! or, motion of J. A. Harris, Esq.,
Jos. H. Nisbct was requested to act as Secretary-
The object of the meeting having been ex
plained.
On motion of H. C. Lang, Esq., the counties
were called, an;: the delegates reported to the
meeting as follov j
Washington C. Lang, Green Brantley,
Jno. Wicker an. C. Williamson.
B Jdwin—W. xx Mott, A. C. Devereaux, J.
H. Nisbet.
Hancock—Wilton Bird and B. T. Harris.
Morgan—W. M. Day and H. D. Harris.
Taliaferro—Wm. Bell and hi. Elliott.
Putnam—J. A. Harris, W. P. Trippe and J.
B. Trippe.
On motion of Mr. Lang of Washington coun
ty, one delegate from each county was appointed
by the Chair, to select a candidate. The Chair
man named the follow ing gentlemen as compos
ing that Committee; My srs. Lang of Washing
ton, Mott of Baldwin, Harris of Hancock. Day of
Morgan, Bell of Taliaferro and Harris of Putnam.
The Committee retired, and after a abort con
sultation, presented through their chairman, the
name of Col. Da'cd W. Lewis of Hancock as the
candidate of the Southern Right* Party of the
7th Congressional District, which waa unani
mously ratified by the Convention. Mr. Harris
of Putnam, stated that Col. Lewis Was in the
village, and would no doubt accept in person the
nomination; and made a motion that a Commit
tee be appointed by the Chair to inform Mr.
Lewis of his nomination, and solicit hi* presence
at the meeting. The Chairman appointed Messrs,
Harris of Hancock Lang of Washington and Mott
of Baldwin that committee. The Committee
returned after a short absence, with Col. Lewis,
who accepted the nomination in a few spirited
and eloquent remarks.
Mr. Lewis said that it was apparent to the
Convention, after the first word he uttered, that
his indisposition was such as to utterly preclude
any extended remaiks. The Convention, how
ever, having met in his own Village, and having
given him, as informed by the committee, a hear
ty and unamiinous nomination, and having re
quested his acceptance before the Convention it
self, he felt it was due them if possible to meet
them. He was there then, simply to say in few
words, that in accenting the nomination, he did
it in full view of all the difficult and probable
consequences resulting from the steps he was
taking.- IT > knew the calculated majority against
him in the District was from 2500 to 3000 votes.
He was aware, toor. that his opponent was not
only the must popular man in the District, but
considered by many as never having been rival
ed upon the stump—as a great user up or ‘'swal
,of all who dared to encounter him. Still,
for himself, he .ad determined already, that can
didate or no candidate he would spare no labor,
that he would r',ke every effort, that he would
under every piooability of success. He only
asked of the members of the Convention and of
the friends of the cause throughout the District,
to meet him in the same spirit in which he
should enter the can vass. He should enter it and
so should every individual man of us, enter it as
if there waa every probability of success, and as
if the result was to depend upon individual ex
ertion. True, the majority in the District is
dead against us, but that majority will be greater
or leas according to our individual and joint ef
forts .and as that majority is less or greater, so may
it effect the great result in the State for good or
for ill. Let us then make an effort worthy the
noble objects We h;’ve iu view, and teach the
Battered favorite of the 7th District, that the day
of his dictation and dominion over as may end.
For himself; he could say that he had met and
tried the metal of this “Damascus blade,' 1 and
though by many, he might be considered as hav
ing Men terribly cut up, yet he, himself, did not
feel very nervously deranged, and the only re
flection his own miud has drawn from the in
terview is, that he should not hesitate to meet
him again—and he was ready to promise that his
opponent should not find one loot of uncontested
ground in the District, and he would, if possible,
meet him wherever he heard of him, and if per
mitted, discuss with him even at any and every
disadvantage, the issues in the contest, relying
upon a good cause, and “favoring Providence”
for the result. * •
And what are the issues in this contest?—not,
as claimed bye ir opponents, Union and Disunion
—not w hether of Georgia will secede
for vast wrongs—lor our candidate for Governor
is pledgee to ajidr by the action of the Georgia
Convention, which has declared that for past of
fences agamst our section, Georgia will not go
out of the Union, and the whole scope aud tenor
ol the Resolutions cf the late Southern Rights
Convention contemplates an adherence to the
Union, and the Constitution as a means of pro
tecting our rights and of restoring the adminis
tration of the Government under the Constitu
tion as it is, to its ancient purity and virtue. What
then are the issues ia the campaign—and whence
came they He '■ uld tell the Convention and
. the count ry candii what ne thought they were,
• In the mouth of March last, a member of Con
gress from Georgia, who had held the office of
Speaker of the House of Representatives an of
fice perhaps the second in the Union for its pa-'
tranage and influence, and who had administered
that office perhaps with the approbation of the
whofe’ House, and with particular satisfaction to
the free aoilers, so much so that in one instance
at least hg has received the approval of their
convention. So successful had he been that he
was looked upon as the most probable succession
to the pdst in the next Congress. The member
of Congress, invincible in his own District—with
every probability of being returned and re-elect
ed Speaker—gives it out long in advance of the
expiration of his terviee, that he will’not return
to Congress. To carry hi* District for the Ad
ministration ia jiot enough to entitle him to pre
ference. He must carry his State, and hence the
desperate effort he is making. He comes in to
Georgia from Congress and is greeted by the
Macon regency with a complimentary dinher, is
called out in a speech, and trie organ of the Re
gency in the same article in which it gives a re
port of the speeciUh jpWeh the member of Con
gress alluded to dfee&Rfifor /ore* tosuatein the
compromise, «l»o a.jnoQBCW tn# n«m* of th*
member as a candidate, or the probe We candidate
for Governor. Whence this allusion to foree? i
Georgia had already declared for the Union under
the compromise, what could the allusion have .
been but that Georgia woold retard any efforts )
of the General Government to compel a sister
State to obedience which had virtually declared,
and which many of us now believe will go out
of the Union on account of this so-called com
promise. >f. . '
This is not all. This member of Congress is
the coalition nominee for Governor, and toe same
sentiment promulged in his Macon speech is re
echoed, by the prime minister of the Central
Government who comes into a Southern State,
and claiming to speak for the whole cabinet, de
clares for force against the secession of a State.
Whatihen are the issues? In his opinion they
were plainly and simply Federalism'agaiiist Re
publicanism—Consolidation against State Rights
—despotism against popular right*—are we pre
pared to declare, by the election of this ally of
the federal minister, for the power of the central
Government against that of a Statel
In hi* opinion, the. cries of disunion and of se
cession by Georgia, are false issues. Our candi
date is pledged to Union,kit not a Union offeree.
No worn nor deed of his can be construed fairly
to mean Disunion or Secession by Georgia, and
however much Mt. L. - tnight feel disposed to
entertain a personal respect for the ‘triumvirs,'"
for the member* ‘of the coalition,’ he could not
resist the conviction that the echoes which they
hoped to hear from the federal gun*, ovej the lost
rights ot Georgia and the South, they were now
firing, were federal honors, the tittle which they
are to present to the National Union party for
its preferments will be that Georgia, the Empire
State of the South, is in their train and at their
bidding. He wished to do injustice to no one,
but hi* candid convictions he would express.
These three members, *c long the popular fa
vorites in their respective districts—so often sus
tained and never defeated at the polls, with tal
ents so high as to rank them among the first in
the national councils—have bcamie supercilious,
dictatorial and insolent in believing that they
have a sort of chattel interest in the votes of i
their Districts, whichjthey can transfer to this or i
that political heresy as may suit their conveni
ence. Mr. Toombs and Stephens had made such
a failure in leading the 7th and Bth Districts into
the support of Taylor’s Free Soil Administration,
that for one, he wa* unwilling to be transferred
to hisaccidency Mr. Fillmore,especially as the at
tempt to do it was made without giving us edue
notice.
It might be expected that he should say a word
as to his own course if elected; that is so impos
sible, that it looks like desperation to make it
even a supposable case. He would say,however,
that if a member of Congress, he would vote
against any bill providing money and troops to
whip in a seceding State, and if such a bill was
passed over bis vote,he would surrender his com
mission to those from whom he received it, be
ing unwilling to remain a functionary in a Gov
ernment which by such act, would forfeit its
right to his confidence and affection.
He would vote also for any measure which
should be Introduced for the protection of slavery
in the Territories— either agairut the Mexican lawi
or the action of a mere Territorial Legielature.
Mr. lx. said he was unable to protract these re
mark, and would conclude. He knew that he
had not been nominated with a view to hia elec
tion; indeed, to him,personally, that was the least
unpleasant featue connected with the new posi
tion in which he was placed. But believing
that in a repreaentative government like ours, it
was every man’s duty to stand forth, when call
ed upon, even at a personal sacrifice, as the de
fender and representative at the polls and before
the people, of hi* own principles and the princi
ples of those who agreed with him, he felt bound,
at the expense of his own wishes and judgment,
to yield to the wish of this intelligent Conven
tion, and enter the canvass.
And he was prepared to reassure t hem, that he
should enter it and go through it with the same
spirit and zeal as if there was every probability
of success.
The Convention would accept his thanks for
this evidence of their confidence in him.
It was suggested by Mr. J. B. Trippe of Put
nam, and acquiesced in by the Convention, that
Col. Lewis be requested to appoint, at his dis
cretion, a time place in each county of the Dis
trict, for the purpose of addressing the people on
the great questions of the day; and furthermore,
that it is the wish of the Southern Rights party
in the District, to have Mr. Stephens meet Col.
Lewis and participate in the discussion at each
of the specified places.
On motion ofMr. Harris of Putnam, the Fed
eral Union was requested to publish the proceed
ings of the Convention, and the Constitionalist
requested to copy. The Convention then ad
journed.
WILSON BIRD, Chairman.
J. H. Nisubt, Secretary.
[From the New- Orleans Crescent , 25tA inst.
Xus ImuDBNTS op Ykstkrdav.—Yesterday
New Orleans was alive with excitement and
movement. The streets were thro'nged with
people, and angry and violent crowds paraded
througn the city, breaking into the cigar and
liquor shops kept by the Spaniards, gutting them
of thair contents, and destroying everything they
could lay hands upon. If our levees had given
way and the current of the Mississippi permit
ted to rush through our streets, the turmoil, con
tusion and agitation could not have been less.
We will briefly detail the incidents as they oc
curred.
The melancholy news of the late of Critten
den, Kerr, Brandt, and their companions, cast,
early in the morning, a deep shade of gloom over
the community- The several hundred fillibus
ters in the city immediately put on crape. Up
to 11 a. M., no sign of disorder was manifested.
About that time an “Extra,” of a very offensive
and improper character, was issued by La Union
office, the Spanish organ in this city. It was
an irritating outrage upon the feelings of the
friends and relatives, numerous in this city, of
the gallant dead, and it was at once generally
known that the Union office would be attacked
and gutted. About this time, Spaniards still fur
ther fanned the spreading flame of excitement by
public remarks, some of a most brutal, and all of
a most offensive character. The Spanish Consul
also hoisted his flag. They had presumed too
much upon the perfect impunity of the past.
About 4 o’clock r. m. a crowd entered the of
fice of La Union, and in a few minutes it was a
total wreck. The editor narrowly escaped with
his life, through the intercession of Mayor Cross
man.
Thence the crowd proceeded to the corner of
Gravier and St. Charles, where a very odious
Spaniard, Romagosa, tended the Coriuna cigar
shop. Some demonstrations were made, but th*
doors were closed, when, after the expiration of
an hour, Romagosa appeared at one of the doors
with a drawn knife in his hand, and expressed a
desire to sheath it in four or five cursed Yankees.
A rush was made, when Romagosa made his es
cape into the store, closing the door after him,
first wounding three persons, one severely. The
ruins of the St. Charles furnished the materials
with which the doors were speedily battered in,
every window broken, the shop gutted, and a
costly stock of cigars scattered in the streets.
Romagosa made his escape by a back door, ran
up street under a shower of missiles, his face
streaming with blood and himself hotly pursued.
He succeeded in sheltering himself in the city
prison. r'J.
The crowd proceeded to the office of the Span
ish Consul, who was not at home to Bee com
pany. They gutted his offics and tore down his.
sign.
Thence the torrent of people poured down i
Poydras, to attack the U. S. Exchange. A hap
py remark from the barkeeper, and a speech from'
District Attorney Reynolds, diverted.them from :
their purpose, and after taking “a drink,all ,
round,” free, they concentrated upon the Jenny ’
Lind Coffee House, corner ofJSt. Charles and i
Perdido. It wa* gutted in a few minutes, end i
tire strw* sfrswn wjth tfw wreck.
! About this time (8 P. M) an immense crowd
I had gathered in Lafayette Square It wa* ad
dressed by Judge Walker and Col. Field, of the
Louisiana Regiment. Col. Christie was called
I for, but did not speak. Judge Walker very sen
; siblv advised the crowd to bottle their wrath for
, use in Cuba, the article would very well bear
exportation. Strong resolutions, denunciatory
of the Spanish authorities, were passed in a hnr
j rah. Concha, Captain General of Cuba, was
i then hung in effigy, and burnt amid the shouts
' of the crowd.
A cry was raised for “White Hall," a coffee -
. house opposite the St. Louis Hotel, and about a
[thousand persons poured down that direction.
On their way a number Os Spanish shops in Ex
change Alley were broken into and gutted. At
this moment we cannot say positively, but sup
pose, White Hall, a large and costty establish
j merit, was clearly gutted.
Throughout the day and night the Spanish
I population were in the utmost reputation. Their
shops were generally closed. The excited mass
of ’ gutters 5 ’ seemed to have entire control of the
whole city. No Watchmen or military were
visiWe, and the authorities were powerless or
would not act. The city was given up to a mass
of frienzied men, every moment growing more
excited, and we know not what record we may
have to add to this. The streets, at a late hour,
were thronged with men, Shouting, hurrying to
and fro, and fprojecting we know not what.
Among them there were not, so far as we and
officers of the highest rank among the Filibus
ters could see, any of these “emigrants.” At dif
ferent Recorder Genois, Col. Christie and
Attorney Reynolds were the only persons who
sought (o arrest the progress of scenes, which,
for the credit of our city, notwithstanding the
strong and bitter provocation to them, we can
not but deeply regret.
AUGUSTA, GA.
SATURDAY MORNING-, AUGUST 3«.
For Governor.
CHARLES J. MCDONALD
For Congress—Eighth District,
ROBERT McMILLAN, of Elbert.
THE LARGEST cSuLAI SON IN THE STATtL
Appointments of Col. McMillan.
Col. McMillan will address his fellow-citizens
At Augusta, Tuesday, Sept 2nd;
At Judge Neal's Mills, Warren co., Thursday,
Sept, 4th,
Public Barbacue.
A Public Barbacue will be given to Col. Ro
bert McMillan, the Southern Rights candidate
for Congress, in this district, on Tuesday next,
2nd day of September, at the Lafayette Race
Course. ; ■ y*;.
Hon. Charles J. McDonald, Hon. J. M. Ber
rien, Hon. Charles Dougherty, Hon. J. H.
Hammond, Hon. Hershell V. Johnson, Jodge
Colquitt, L. J. Gartiell, Esq., Col. Billups, J. W.
Harris, Esq., and others have been invited to be
present on the occasion. The Barbacue” will be
free to all. Every oue is invited to attend.—
Como one I Come all 1
A. H. McLAWS,
ROBERT A. WHYTE.
WM. E. DEARINO,
ALEX. DEAS,
TURNER CLANTON,
T.W. FLEMING,
H. D. GREENWOOD,
Committee of Arrangements
N. B. Col. McMillan it expected to address
the citizensdt Augusta, at 8 o’clock, on the eve
ning of the same day, at the City Halt.
There will be a Barbacue and Free Dis
cussion at Dearing, on the Georgia Railroad, on
Friday, Sept. flth. on which occasion Col. Mc-
Millan will address the people.
■ By Proprietors of Warehouses in Augusta and
Hamburg will please have the Cotton in their
respective Warehouses carefully counted for us
this morning.
Ouban Meeting in Augusta.
The meeting at the City Hall Park, on Thurs
day night, presented a cheering spectacle to the
lovers of Republican freedom, and the friends of
oppressed Cuba. It was truly a people’s meet
ing—a dense mass of citizens, glowing with fer
vent enthusiasm for Cuba, and burning with in
dignation at the savage butchery of the gallant
Crittenden, Kerr, and their hapless comrades,
crowded the platform and loudly cheered the re
solutions passed on the occasion. This was a
meeting of the people, emphatically.
Many, too many of our citizens who ordinari
ly give weight to popular movements were ab
sent. It was feared by some, perhaps, that the
over zealous exertions of the Federal Adminis
tration to cut off American sympathy and aid to
Cuba might be rebuked. Perhaps the current of
their sympathies ran in the direction of ‘"law
and order ’ in that worst spirit of conservatism
which always takes the side of the government
against the people, though the struggle be be
tween power and right.
Be this as it may, a large number of our most
respectable citizens—respectable in its best sense,
were there. The people were there, of all ages
and pursuits. Many a hand, hardened by toil,'
was clenched in stern resolve, and many manly
. brows were knit with indignant passion, and the
universal heart of the large assemblage swelled
with responsive sympathy to the appeals of the
speakers in favor of Cuba, and vengeance for the
■ blood of our inhumanly butchered and mutilated
countrymen.
It was evideut that a very strong feeling of in
dignation prevailed against Mr. Owen, the Ame
rican Consul, who stands charged with the most
shameful indifference to the fate of his country
men, sentenced without a trial.
But the meeting, after full argument, determined
that he should not be condemed before he was
heard in his defence.
From Santa Fe.
Mr. H, Barthel, of Santa Fe, was a passenger
in the steamer Cataract, which arrived at St
Louis on the 16th inst., Iromthe Missouri river.
He brings no later advices than were previously
received, but the Republican learns from him
one or two items of interest The corn crop of
New Mexico, it was feared, would prove a failure;
business was dull, and things wore rather a,
gloomy appearance.
A man by the name of Harris, of Missouri
who went out as a passenger in Sims & Me
Cauley’a train, died on the 28th July, and was
buried on Mud Creek. When Mr. R. saw the
grave, the body had been disinterred by the
beasts and birds, and was no where to be seen.
Russell & Jones’ train were met at the Moro,
] Hubbell’s at Cinserone, Spencer’s at the samer
place, Otero's at Rio Jornadu, Major Ruggles’s
: at FortMackay, Aubrey’s at Big Cow Creek,
pMajo*;Miiea;at Jurkey JCreek, and a Mormon !
party at Rio Colorado. All were getting along
well. No sicknew except a few cases at Fort
Mackay, only three of which were fatal. j
■ —■ 1 r 11 ~ *
Election of Judges sad State Home Officer* by
tke People.
We have purposely avoided the discussion of
this question down to this point in the present
canvass, as we did not desire to mingle it with
the vital political issues now dividing the two
parties in our State. We believe a large ma
jority of the people of either party, if a fair
expression of opinion can be obtained, will
prove to be in favor of depriving the Legislature
of these elections and placing them where they
ought to be, and where they properly belong, di
rectly in the hands of the people.
As an original question a different system from
either of these two might meet with popular fa
vor. The nomination of Judges by the Gov
ernor to the Senate, two-thirds of whom would
be necessary to ratification, the noniinations to
be of an equal number from each political party,
and in case of a {vacancy the nomination
to be from the ranks of the party, which by the
vacancy is left with the smallest number of
judges on the Bench, is a plan which has been
suggested to us, and has its advocates and strong
arguments to sustain it. But the merits of this
plan we do not undertake to discuss, as it is . not
now properly before the people.
But the last Legislature provided for the ascer
tainment of the popular voice on the question,
whether these elections should be by the
Legislature, or av the People. The voters
are requested to signify their wishes on their bal
lots at the election in October.
The strictly party character of the elections
1 ire OVIiLVTJ pui w ——
by the Legislature, and the utter disregard of ,
all claims to office, except political services i
performed in behajf of the dominant party,
which have uniformly marked those elections, 1
demonstrate the utter unfitness of that body ]
to be entrusted with the disposal of judicial s
offices. It he popular and influential among the 1
voter) l What has he done for the party ? and j
what benefit will his election be to the party! are (
the questions much more freely discussed in party \
caucuuet and cotorio, than is he a good jurist ?
is he a man of ability, firmness and impartiality?
“it he honett ? is he capable ?” The plausible in
triguant, the man of shallow pretensions, but
pleasant address, and with active political friends
—the man who is popular on the stump, and has
often carried his county for his party by indus
trious electioneering in hotly contested canvasses,
has generally, much stronger claims, and brighter
prospects for success under the present system
than the most learned jurist of retiring habits,
and but little addi ted to strife of politics and
the brawling conuicts of the hustings. The lat
ter stands no possible chance for such promo
tion, though the calm and discriminating judge
ment of the people, nor the question submitted
to them would at once decide in his favor.
We will not extend our argument at this time
in favor of klf.ction op Judges by the People,
but we will occasionally recur to the subject be
tween this and the election ih October.
The log-rolling, Inrgaining and electioneering
which biennially take place at Milledgeville,
have disgusted many who were originally averse
to giving the elections to the people, and have
thoroughly convinced them, that the Legislature
is an unfit depository of such power and
age.
The influences and considerations which con
trol these elections are wrong in principle, and a
perversion of the authority vested in the hands of
the Legislaturei If the people will resume this
authority and take these elections into their own
hands, and we now speak especially of elections
for judges, tliey will be apt to vote with more wis
dom and quite as much honesty. The system
has been adopted in the States of New York and
Mississippi, and has worked well. It lias been
adopted in other States, and we hear no com
plaints or dissatisfaction with its operation. The
system of popular elections will create a class of
office-holders and aspirants for judicial honors
distinct from the politicians. The claims they
will bring before the constituent body, will be
based on professional merit and personal good
character. They will not be the political ser
vices rendered to party and party leaders, or tact
and adroitness upon the stump, or electioneering
accomplishments at the polls.
Many of the arguments we would Urge against
the election of judges by the people will apply
with equal force to elections by that body oif the
Solicitors and State House officers. The people
are too large a constituent body, and too disinter
ested in their motives of action to be influenced
by the sinister views that control the action of
political parlies in Legislative bodies. A man
of the most exalted claims to office—of the most
admirable fitness—of the purest integrity—of
the most exemplary morals Btands but little
chance for an election if his party happen to be
in a minority -in the Legislature, in opposition to
. a man on the otter side of the commonest abili
ties—of inferior qualifications—of intemperate
habits—and even of questionable integrity.—
Those things ought not to be. Yet they have
often been witnessed in the case of elections by
Legislatures. . The people would not thus dis
pose of offices bestowed directly by their suf
frages.
Interesting Fact. —We copied a notice a
day or two since, of a fire in the basement of
the chemical warehouse of Messrs. Haskell, Mer
rick & Bull, New Y’ork. We have since been
informed that the flames were spreading repidly,
when they were instantly subdued by the acci
dental breaking of a dem.john of ammonia.
The Stoem. —A violent storm of wind and
rain from the north-east raged in this vicinity on
Saturday evening last, and continued all night
and until meridian on Sunday.—After noon it
moderated, and by nightfall had cleared away.
The damage done to the standing corn and cot
ton has been considerable. On the seaboard we
understand the storm was more violent, and fear
much damage to the rice and cotton. The
shipping on the coast must have suffered consid
erably.—Griffin Jeffertonian, 28 th nut.
Revival at McDonough. —We neglected to
state in our last, as we had intended, that the
people of McDonough and its vicinity, have re
cently been the subjects of a most powerful re
vival cf religion. After incessant labor on the
.part of the religious community in that place,
for seventeen days, the "result has been nearly
one hundred conversions, with.sixty members
added to the Baptist and forty-seven to the
Methodist Churches.— lb.
j jjsT —.—————
The Best Shot Yet. —We understand that
on Thursday, Col. Lumsden, of the Picayune,
made six shots at Pass Christain for the dueling
pistols, which measured five-sixteenths of one
inch. This beats the shot of Mr. Price, which
our correspondent mentioned a few days ago, by
! seven-sixteenths of an inch. Who can beat this?
1 -A’ 0. Mia, 2W in*. *
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feSSt *" Public Meeting.
PcßtstAM to a public call, a very large a®4 !
enthusiastic number of the citizens of Augusta,
friendly to the cause of Cuban Independence, as- ,
sembled in the City Hall, on Thursday evening,
August 29, at 8 o’clock
On motion of William H. Oakman, Jr., Jolm j
C. Sneed, Esq., was called to the Chair, and Wil- j
liam R. McLaws. Esq., requested to act as Se- :
cretary.
A. H. H. Dawson. Esq., moved that a Com
mittee of Twelve!* appointed by the Chair, to
report Resolutions for the action of the meeting,
which being seconded, was unanimously adopt
ed- ' - k'./'- .1 *< , " j
It having been made known that-the Court, i
Boom was too small to contain the number in j
attendance —on motion, the meeting adjourned
to the Paik, where, having been called to order
the Chair announced the following gentlemen as
[ composing the Committee of Twelve: A. H. H.
Dawson, Esq., Col. G. F. Parish, William H.
Oakman, Jr., Dr Wm. E. Dearing, Henry D.
: Bell, James M. Simpson, Samuel C. Wilson,
1 Gustavus A. Parker, Benjamin F. Chew, Sr., Dr.
J. M. Hill, James B. Hart, andSam’l. H. Crump,
• Esqs. ■ * > *
During the absence of the Committee, John
1 Phinizy, Jr., Esq., being called upon, addiessed
’ the meeting in an eloquent and patriotic man
tier ’ \ %%
A, H. H. Dawson, Esq., from the Committee
of Twelve, reported the following Resolutions:
Ist. Resolved, That we respond with enthusi
asm to the noble sentiments of sympathy every
where manifested throughout tlie United States
with the heroic stand the citizens of Cuba are
making in the cause of human liberty.
2d. Reeolved, That we ardently cherish the
hope that the Antillian Queen will soon be free,
and that the achievement of her independence
may and will be effected in a manner so signally
gallant and brilliant, that she will be recognized
at once throughout the civilized world as a Co
equal in dignity to, and entitled to a place among
the nations of the earth.
3d. Retolred, That in our opinion, the day can
not be far distant, when Cuba mast and will be
free, and that we fondly trust no disaster that
may, in the vicissitudes of war, befall the Patriots,
will be permitted to stay the work of destiny on
that long oppressed, though still, bright little Isle
ot the ocean.
4th. Resolved, That we hold, that any free- 1
bom American citizen has the unqualified and <
unquestionable right to expatriate himself at his
own pleasure, and that the legal right belongs ,
not to our government to demand of him, when
he is about to leave his native land, whither he
goeth ? nor to interdict his departure; and there- | 1
fore be it , >■<
,»th. Resolved, That the Chairman of this meet
ting do appoint aCommittee of five to receive con
tributions for the equipment of such of our fellow
citizens as are willing and anxious to become
identified with the career of the star of liberty ;
that is rising now on the lovely, though fettered
little Queen of the Antilles.
6th. Readied, That if the forty American
citizens who were recently executed by the
Spanish authorities at Havana week put to death
without first having had such a fair and impar
tial trial as they were by law entitled to, that it
is, in our opinion, whether they might have
been convicted legally or not, nevertheless
the bounden duty of our insulted and injured
government to write upon the deathless page of
istory, in the best blood of old Spain, a terrible
warning to the balance of the world, to beware I
how they rashly tamper with the lives of Ame
rican citizens.
7th. Resolved, That, as Georgians, we will ex
firess no opinion about the behaviour of our fel
ow-citizen, Allen F. Owen, U. S. Consol at
Havana, toward the ill-fated Americans who
met their doom at tliat place, untill intelligence
more authentic as to his conduct shall reach us, 1
and he has first been heard i*» his own defence.
Which report being seconded, upon motion for
their adoption, John Phinizy, Jr., objected to the
passage of the last Resolution, and moved a sub
stitute, which gave rise to an able, animated and
spirited discussion, Mr. Phinizy advocating his
amendment and James Gardner, Jr., A- H. H.
Dawson, and Dr. J. M. Hill sustaining the origi
nal Resolution.
The substitute being negatived, the original j
Resolution was unanimously adopted.
It having been made known to the meeting j
that Col. Robert McMillan, of Elbert, had just j
arrived upon the ground, and there being a gen
eral call made for him, and a considerable desire
manifested to hear him, he was conducted to the
stand, and after being introduced by the Chair,
addressed the meeting in an able and eloquent
manner, approbatory of the action of the meet
ing. u > ' . ; _ v
Under the Fifth Resolution, the Chair appoint
ed the following gentlemen as composing the
Committee of Five: Jas. Gardner, Jr., John
Phinizy, Jr,, A. H. H. Dawson, Dr. W. E. Bear
ing, and Robt. A. Whyte. f .
On motion, the meeting then adjourned.
John C. Sneed, Chairman.
Wir.i.tAM R. Me Laws, Secretary.
(communicated.) j
Messrs. Editors: —We have had glory enough
for one day at Social Circle.
On Saturday, the 23rd inst., according to pre
vious notice, a large assemblage of people col
lected together at the Academy at Social Circle,
Walton county. The Committee of Arraiige
ments took all the advantage they wished in fa
vor of the Union Party, by calling up Mr. Jones
first, at eleven o’clock, who spoke one hour and
a quarter; then calling up the Hon. Mr. Hillyen
who occupied one hour and a halt; and also the
. Hon. Mr. Toombs one hour and. a., half: after
which Mr. W. J. Vason, one of the native sons
of Morgan, but now a citizen of Louisiana, was
allowed to addressed the meetingbut notwith
standing the day was far spent, it being 5 o'clock,
the people were determined to remain and hear
the champion of Southern and States rights, and
if I am any judge of language, I think the Hon.
Robert Toombs got the most glorious political
thrashing that has ever been listened, to in this
county; even the ladies clapp’d their hands and
rejoiced at Mr. Vason’s plain and pointed truths.
- - . EBENEZER.
We have another letter from an eye witness
to the discussion at Social Circle, who confirms
the above statement as to the severe handling
which Mr. Toombs suffered on the occasion.
We are informed that the leading gentlemen
connected with the Cuba emigrants now in this
city bave'&ld a meeting and given the whole di
rection of their affairs into the hands of Felix
Huston, and the Collecting Committee has pur
sued the same course. The promptitude and
energy of Gen. Huston, and his long experience
in affairs of the kind, entitle him to full confi
dence, rendering it unnecessary for him to dis
cloae(his plans to any one. We nave been assured,
however, that whatever he does will be in strict
accordance with the laws of the country, any
violation of which he will be areful to guard
against. The Collecting Committee are going
to make a vigorous effort to-morrow, and they
request the co-operation of the public that it may
be seen what can be done,—M Q f, wf .
ICOJMWHCATF.I, 1
WALTON COUNTV. Aug lv 1
Meurs. Gardner and Smyth. y r , u . ■
16th instant, has just been placed
containing an article over th<- , _ . ■
Visiter,': which I must notice
* lam swe I would riot ha\e
writer had not referred to some matu.,-, . I
by falsehood and misrepresen t ___ ■
fied into such-importance, that I Vv , 'S
myself of this poor occasion ■
aspersion vyhieh malignant ‘ ■
sought to fix upou me.
- A Visiter" speaking of. JV ,
“On a Visit to the North io uie q me
[ called to see a friend who was anal™;*;'"™
| the name of Chester. Said Chester ! ! .■
Hon. Judge to dine with him,
lustratinghis doctrine by his practue he ■
a quatroon wench on the right han.ln , ■
yer. After dinner, Chester said to hi. I
‘ White I was a resident in the South,'■
great repugnance to this kind ut
since I nave become an abolition].-: - H
doctrine has inspired me with greater ■
my species, and particularly the m-gro ... H
When Mr. Hillyer returned to the i:at-iB
gia, and being full of the inspiratj. „ B
above doctrines, ami the tear of the r. .. H
North, he had occasion to address u . H
his fellow-citizens."
. Now, in this paragraph there is u B
mat ion that while in New York by I
tion with Mr. Chester became inspires B
doctrine that the white and negro race B
and that the doctrine of the abolition ■
ous. This imputation is absolutely ■
mously false. For by no word or , ■
life have I ever intimated an opinion ■
white and negro race were or ought : F
, footing of political or social equality.
The imputation is here clearly sous.. L
1 thrown upon mg, that while in New I
the house of M r Chester, roy conduct!. 1
, as to degrade me among gentlemen 1 I
; pair my character as a Southern mal-J
imputation I repeat is false, and he w’ i
’ it lies.
f.mn "
It is not true that Mr. Chester ii.wt. -1
dine with him. While in New York I . JIB '
house my home. I went there as prom
he had been my brother, and I will not
any living man upon the propriety of mv , j
done so. *
Mr. Chester, more than thirty years as. Wm 1
the friend of any father, and jubsequei.' j
friend of my widowed mother and hei 1
children. And on my leaving College . If
been educated by the charity of my grim!. |
er) without one cent of money in my pod !
not a change of clothing in my wardrobe. -
me by the hand and gave me food and i.
and sheltered and brought me forward |
profession. I owe him'gratitude. An,lt,
memory remains, and I recognize the pi op
pulses of the human heart, I am his frier
he shall have my band.
On the first evening of my arrival at tin:
of Mr. Chester, there came in to supper io.
five women, and I learned afterwards iron.
Chester that one of them was from the IsL.
Bermuda, and was supposed to have r.t
blood in her. There was nothing in hero
manner or appearance which induced me to,
pose that she was other than a white worn::
I assert positively, that white in the non-nii
ding States I never even spoke t o any of the
gro race except the waiters at the hotels, ai
Chester is the only abolitionist I saw.
I do not believe that “ A~Ti*iter'' think,:
while in New York I associated with ire,
groes on terms of equality. Ido not bein',, .
he thinks I am tainted with abolitionism.
Nor do I believe that in his heart lie do-,
that I am as true to the institution pfalaver,
he is himself. And yet Ire has insinuate,l t>
things against me without proof, and v,
taking any trouble to ascertain the truth. U j
! not say he is a wicked and bad’man : bnf : ,
I say that in writing his communication
j committed a great folly.
| Tho balance of his piece, Twill not .„: |
1 ceued to notice, further than to say (win. j
ing) that it is a mixture of. misrepresent,c M
and falsehoods, and sinks below contempt.
This correspondence is now closed
part. Ido not intend to be drawn into a ne"* 1
paper controversy with every body that I
proper to asperse me. I have no idea
writer is. I did not know that I had but
personal enemy in the world, and I do not sw
pecthim of being the author of such a pm,
i tion. , JUMUS HILLYF.K
[From the Baltimore Sun, 21th inst.}
Cuban Intelligence.-Loss of the Finnc
! The Southern mail last night brought us I
j papers from points beyond Petersburg, Va., ror||
sequently we have nothing later by the F.r fl
pire City at New Orleans, from Havana. Ti- ■
announcement by telegraph yesterday, of tb®
presence in New Orleans of the bodies of Col B
Crittenden and Captain Kerr, has caused much
speculation at the North, especially as all prev;
ous accounts had given the name of Clendenin.
instead of Crittenden,'as-the commander of the
party arrested and massacred.—Further intelli
gence with regard to this and other matters that jg
have been briefly alluded to by the telegraph. m
willbe looked lor with great interest. Th,»
New York papers of yesterday morning contains
some additional extracts from Havana letters,!
and we extract the following from the Herald
Havana, August 17,1751
Tomitted giving you an accouut oi tire I’iza;
io, and the inhuman treatment of tjie pilot ant ,
engineer. The pilot, in taking her into Bahii-
Honda, happened to get her aground, at the en
trance of the harbor. As soon as she struck, the
commander, or the officer in of the
troops, drew his sword and split the pilot s hey
open at one blow, and, report says, killed
instantly.
In endeavoring to -back the vessel o jj;
part of the engine gave out. The eng i neer w»
immediately put under arrest, e; lJ( j jt j s believe!
here that he has been shot. The ship is now a
wreck, as there caiiie oo a heavy blow, and re
port says she has bilge-.,. The A i men dares is u.
this morning, but J nave not beenable to get anv
further news from the seat of war. ■
I ' p i
Steamep. Soutbeener.— From a -telegraphi,
dispatch dated New-York, 26th inst, and receiv
ed yesterday morning, by the Agent in this city
we learn that the Southerner arrived at hei
wharf on Tuesday morning, the 26th inst, ai
so’clpck— not a bad passage.— Charleston Car
rier, 2 9th fnif.-i
Drowned at Sea.—We understand that the
line ship Columbia Capt. Grumiey,which arriv
ed at this port yesterday from New-York, ex
perienced, on Sunday night last, the late heavy
gale from the South East. We regret to stale
that during its prevalece at about two o’clock, on
Monday morning, Mr. Wm. Kelly of New-York,
the chief mate, waa knocked overboard by the
clue of the foreeail, and was drowned. —lb