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[From the Charleston Mercury.']
the words of a patriot.
The following letter from one of the great
est and purest of the public men of the South,
will he read with profound interest. Judge
Cheves equally by position and character is
beyond all suspicion of prejudice, selfishness
or partisanship. The blindest party bigotry
—the bitterest party malice cannot touch
him, and dare not assign to him other motive
than reason and patriotism. The letter was
written in reply to an invitation to preside at
the celebration of the 4th of July by theciti- ;
zens of Pendleton, and is copied from the
Messenger of the 6tb:
Portman Shoals, June 27, 1844.
Gentlemen, —I have received your commu
nication of the 24th instant and feel highly
honored by your desire, that I should preside ,
at the mass meeting of the citizens of Pen
dleton and its vicinity on the 4lh of July next,
f regret very much, that I cannot meet your
wishes. 1 have, for sometime past, prescri
bed to myself an absolute retirement for the
short remainder of my life. A large portion
of the best part of it has been devoted to the
public service. This, I hope, you and my
other fellow-citizens will think entitles me to
the repose desired for the remainder of it. In
the principles and opinions which will ani
mate your inerting, 1 heartily concur. I feel
indignant at the wrongs we suffer and anx
ious for the preservation of the Rights which
are endangered.
On the subject of the annexation of Texas,
I entirely approve of the conduct of the Exe- j
jgutive Government and deeply regret the i
/ so great and wise a measure. It {
is, iudeedHawneutable, and posterity will look
with astonishment at the sophistical and mis
chievous motives which are said to have led
the Representatives of an enlightened people :
to reject an acquisition of such immense val- i
no to the greatness and welfare of the Union
and the interests of»U and of every portion of
the United States. The South, indeed, has a
i peculiar interest, on vWiich it is sensitive, but i
in all other respects it is less interested than I
\ almost any other portion of the Union. So j
TtAje acquisition of Texas j
woftld introduce aild enlarge the power of a
dangerous Rival in the prod action of (lie great 1
Agricultural staple of the Southern States;— i
But tiic North and the West and the middle 1
States have great and permanent interests,
unmixed with any disadvantages, which it j
would largely advance and improve. The j
commerce of the country generally, the car
rying trade and manufactures of the North
and the Agriculture of the middle and Western
States, would all be greatly advanced by it.— j
It is, too, emphatically a great Western ques
tion.
The day is not distant, when, but for the ;
rejection of this treaty, Texas would (and it
will and must in spite of the factious decision
of the moment!) he peopled and governed by
the people of the Western States. They
cannot and will not allow it to be governed or
controlled by any other State or people. It i
naturally belongs to and ought to be part and
parcel of their own great valley of the Mis
sissippi. It would have been little loss wise
(particularly as they are concerned) to have
lopped off from the Union, Louisiana, Missis
sippi, and other bordering States, and have |
subjected them to the influence of foreign in
trigue, than to reject, as we have done, so great
and wise and beneficent a measure as the trea
ty of annexation. But the question is not yet
decided. Texas and the people of Texas can
not be separated from us by the factious motives
and principles of the present evil hour. The
great interests and duties of that people and
those of the United States must ultimately
prevail.
If the following Toast shall accord with the
arrangements of your festivities, be pleased to
present it in my name.
Southern Rights and Southern Wrongs. —
The first should be steadily maintained, and
the last resisted at every hazard.
lam gentlemen, with great respect and
esteem, your obedient servant,
LANGDON CHEVES.
Thos. R. Chery, Geo. Seaborn. Jno. T.
Sloan, J). S. Taylor. Jno. S. Lorton. A. F.
Lewis, W. L. Jenkins,and W. 11. D. Gaillard,
Esquires,Committee, &-c., See., Sic.
MULTUM IN PAR VO.
The following is Gen. Hamilton's reply to
an invitation to attend a Texas meeting in
Macon county, Ala. It comprises in the com
pass of a nutshell, the great points in tiie Texas
question:
Oswichee Bend, June 38,1844.
My Dear Sir—l most deeply regret, I have
made engagements for to-morrow 1 cannot
violate, which preclude the possibility of my
accepting the invitation to the public meeting,
to bo held at Auburn in Macon county, to dis
cuss, without distinction of party, the Annex
ation Question. 1 left in the Post Office in
Columbus, on Wednesday eveuing last, a letter
to the Commmittee of Arrangements, com
municating my regret to them of my inability
to accept the invitation, with which they like
wise honored me.
You will permit me, my dear sir. to say.
that the question itself involves one of those
self-evident propositions, which requires no
elaborate course of reasoning at least as far
as the South is concerned, to elucidate or en
force.
Ihe proposition for the South is. shall we
lave an ally on the weakest point of our whole
trentier, in entire sympathy with our interests
and institutions, who shall have sworn alle
giance to our Hag-, or shall there be built up
!i^ re , ,/ ' a foreign power in hostility to
iiLin. . consequence inevitable, from the
! rejection c f the proposals of Texas to bc
-1 come a member of our confederacy.
Tne proposition fur the whole nation is, shall
I the supply of the navigation, trade and man
-1 ufactures of Texas belong to us, under our
; cmfederate legislation, or belong to a foreign
1 or foreign nations, under discriminations in
I favoroftheir tonnage and exports,
j The question for both is, shall these advan
i tages be perilled by delay? In other words,
was not immediate annexation necessary to
i secure them? I believe it was: You will
see I treat it as a question settled under the
unfortunate rejection of the Treaty by the
Senate ot the United States, that Texas is not
to be annexed.
The letters of Mr. Clay and Mr. Van Buren
have so entirely fortified the pretensions of
Mexico, (for they are mere pretensions,) and
so far justified the interference of foreign na
tions, that it is now probably impracticable,
except through the immediate action ol the
Southern States, speaking in a language not
to ho misunderstood through a convention of
I them all. But from the unhappy divisions
j among ourselves, this. I presume, is just as ;
I impossible as any human event can well be,
although, through the organ of a public meet
: ing in this county I felt it my duty to submit
such a proposition. No, my good sir, these
two, then candidates for the Presidency, one
of them still abiding in the field, have argued
the question so thoroughly against their own
country, and so effectually in favor of the
enemy (for Mexico is such essentially and s
irreversibly) that under the time-serving sub- j
mission of a majority of the Senate of the |
United States, the South lias probably lost i
forever an impregnable boundary, and a |
staunch ally in the hour of danger and diffi- ;
culty, and the whole Union one of the most |
productive and copious threatres for our com- 1
merer, Navigation, and Manufactures in the
whole world.
As to the Northern Senators, who have gone
; against us, we must leave them to the grate
ful garlands with which they will be crowned
: by the Abolitionists of their own country.
! They have certainly labored most successful
ly in the vocation of our worst enemies. But
what shall we say to the Senators of the
j South, who, from no other motive but to sus
tiin Mr. Clay, and to prostrate Mr. Tyler and
I Mr. Calhoun, have sacrificed the interests of
their own States, by fixing us forever in a !
hopeless, degraded and colonial minority? i
Such an obedient Senate lias certainly not j
sat since the time of the Emperor Commod us. ;
I must confess I take a very gloomy view :
of public affairs. The South is divided, pros- j
trate, and undone, and prostrate and undone ;
because she is divided. There is no invoca
tion among us sufficiently powerful to recall j
the “buried war like and the wise,” and the '
living seem to have no other fate but to drink :
deeply of the waters of bitterness and humil- ;
iation.
J remain, my dear sir, with esteem, very
I respectfulhq your obedient servant,
J. HAMILTON.
John J. Harder, Esq.
[From the St. Louis Reveille.]
TERRIBLE NEWS!
| Slaughter of Joe Smith, Jfyrum Smith, and others.
| The steamer St. Croix, which arrived early
yesterday morning, enabled us, by means of
I an extra, to convey to our citizens the first
news of the violent death of Smith, the Mor
! mon Prophet, and some of his fellow prisoners.
Premising that, up to the last moment of going
j to press, the accounts continued to be centra- j
j dictory and unsatisfactory, we proceed to give !
I our readers all we yet know upon the subject,
! reserving comment for our next, when the real
! facts will be known. Our extra of yesterday
1 morning, containing the story as told by the
Quincy Whig, and which we forwarded to our
; exchanges, we will say, though, does no sort
of justice in the case. Joe Smith has been
• "Lynched,” while under the protection of Gov. j
Ford and the laws! According to the Quincy 1
account—
“ The ‘Cartilage Greys,’ a volunteer compa
ny, were placed as a guard around the Car
' thage jail. About 6 o’clock last evening (the
i 27th) an attempt was made by the Mormons
I on the outside to rescue the Mormon prisoners
I from the custody of the guard. A youth about
: nineteen years of age (a Mormon) began the I
! fray, by shooting the sentinel at the door, and
wounding him severely in the shoulder. Si
i multaneously with this attempt, the Mormons
on the inside of tlie jail, including the Smiths, ;
presented pistols through the windows and
doors of the jail, and tired upon the guard
without, wounding mortally, it is supposed,
four of the old citizens of 1 lancock! It is un- :
necessary to say that this blood-thirsty at
j tempt on the part of the Mormons was the
! signal for certain and sure vengeance. The
lives of the two Smiths and Richards were
quickly taken, and we believe no others.”
The Warsaw correspondent of the Repub
lican, in this city, sends the following extract
from his letter:
“This afternoon, (the 27th), between the
hours of 5 and G o'clock, an armed multitude
visited the jail at Carthage, bore off the guard,
and killed Joseph and Hyrum Smith. Report
says that two of Joe's associates in confine
ment vere likewise destroyed. The Govern
or hail left Carthage in the morning for Nau
voo, with 50 dragoons, for the purpose of se
! curing the balance of the State arms remain- ;
ing at Nauvoo, and during his absence tin's
scene occurred.”
The following letter, telling its story, reach
ed ns about three hours after the receipt of the i
Quincy Extra:
Joe Smith and his brother Hyrum Killed!
Steamer Dove, June 28, 1844.
Editors R vtHie —Passengers from Bryant's
Landing report the deaths of Joe Smith and
his brother Hyrum, last evening, by a mob of
200 men. dressed in disguise, with their faces
blackened, who took them from the jail in
Carthage, where they had been confined, and
shot them.
It is feared that the exasperated followers
of the “Prophet" will make an attack upon
the town of Carthage, and make a general
massacre of the citizens, unless a sufficient
force can be raised to defend the place,
i The excitement is great and the whole
country is rising, while at the same time the
Mormons will master their entire strength.
I have not time to detail ail the circumstan
ces as our passengers report them, but these
are most important. The above lias been cor
roborated by a messenger from Carthage, who
j Good upon the lauding at Bryant's.
S. Compton Smith.
We have since conversed with Capt. Reilly,
of the Mendota, who left Nauvooat 4P. M.cn
on Friday, the 28th. According to the account
which he brings, the Carthage jail is in the vi
cinity of a wood. A large body of men dis
guised and painted, broke suddently from the
covert, overpowered the 8 or 10 men who were
on guard—the larger body, appointed for that
purpose, being at a greater distance oil—en
i tered the jail, and shot Smith and his brother
at once. Richard was not hurt, but Edward
Taylor, tlie editor of the “ Nauvoo Neighbor,’
was dangerously wounded in the thigh.—
There Lad not been the slightest attempt at
rescue or escape.
('apt. Reilly had been about Nauvoo, and
up at the Temple the people were terribly
alarmed, fearing further violence. Gov. Ford.
, who bad been encamped near the city, had in
tercepred the messenger with the news of
Smith's death, and hastened to the spot, send
ing word to the people bfNanvoo to keep with
in their city, but to defend themselves, if at
tacked. As the Mendota was about to leave,
the body of Smith was brought into Nauvoo.
Still, there were no signs whatever of an out
break for vengeance. The peojde. in all the
towns, were full of alarm and fabricating fear
ful rumors.
Mr. M. C. Field, of this paper, left on the
Boreas yesterday afternoon, for the scene of
violence, and will send us full and true details
of the matter.
The St. Louis New Era of the evening of
the 29th ult., after mentioning the death of
Joe Smith and his brother, then goes on to
j say:
The killing of these men is attributed to an
attempt at rescue. Under the circumstances
this tal eis not probable. The consternation
among the Mormons was so great that it is ,
nut probable that they would make such an
attempt after they were disarmed, and when
they knew that the jail was surrounded by a
military force. It is still more improbable I
j that Joe and Ilyrum drew pistols and attempt
j ed to lire on the citizens when they were still
i in jail, and it is even very improbable that
, they were permitted to retain arms after they
i were imprisoned. The probability is that
; there was such a deep and determined hostili- !
| ty in the minds of the surrounding inhabitants
i against the Mormons, that they were deter- |
mined to kill Joe at all events, and that they
were ready to seize on any outbreak or im
prudent act on the part of the Mormons as a
pretext for carrying their designs into execu- i
lion. In the excitement that prevailed, it is
| probable that any little disturbance would be j
i called an attempt at rescue. The worst of
• consequences are to be apprehended.
| The same paper, announcing the arrival of i
the steamer Mendota with the latest news
from Nauvoo, has the following :
‘•The Mendota left yesterday afternoon, the
, 28th. at 4 o’clock. The Captain says lie staid
i at Nauvoo several hours and talked with a
I number of the Mormons; that whilst there a
i body of Mormons came in bearing the dead
i bodies of Joe Smith and Ilyrum Smith. Mr.
I Phelps was not killed, but was in Nauvoo
i when the Mendota left, making a speech to the
i Mormons, and advising them to peace. No
i Mormons were killed except Joe and Ilyrum, j
| Smith. The Mormons all expressed a deter- :
; mination to keep the peace, and not to resort i
to arms except in necessary self defence.— 1
They state that at Carthage the Mormons I
were confined; that about fifty or one hundred 1
men disguised suddenly rushed on the jail i
j house; that the guard fired on them and
| wounded throe of them; that the men in clis
■ guise fired into the jail and killed Ilyrum
I Smith before the door was opened. Joe Smith
, had a revolving pistol, and lired it two or three
times without effect, but was himself soon
killed by the assailants; that Taylor, the editor
of the Nauvoo Neighbor,gwas hr jail, and was
shot through the thigh, but not seriously in
jured; Richards was not injured. After the |
assault the disguised mob retreated, and it
was not even known who they were. The
1 guard consisted of fifty men, left by the Gov
ernor, of whom eight or teu were on duty I
| when the attack was made oa the jail house. !
[From the Pensacola Gazette.]
I We are indebted to an officer of the Vin
j ccnnes for the following translated copy of
I Gen. Santa Anna’s letter on the subject of
1 annexing Texas to the United States, from
i the Mexican official journal the El Siglo of
1 June 12th:
j Very Excellent Sir:
In an American Steamer which anchored
at Cera Cruz on the J4th inst. arrived an
Agent of the United States named Gilbert
L. Thompson, Chief Engineer of the Navy of
that republic, and as he had informed the Ge
neral Commandant of Vera Cruz of his wish |
j to confer with me personally, I caused that
functionary to Icthim know that he could pass !
to this place, to which I would repair yester
! day.
Accordingly the said agent arrived tn-day
; in the Diligence, accompanied by the “Inten
dent of Marine, Don Joaquin Maria del Cas- ;
tilloy Lanzas”—to act as interpreter, and as-
I ter tiie usual forms and courtesies he declared !
himself to the following effect;—That the !
President of the United States had signed a i
treaty with Commissioners on the part ol Tex- !
as, thereby incorporating its territory with |
that of the union—that this treaty ha d been i
brought before the Senate and upon its discus
! sion there, it had been deemed an iudispensa- |
1 ble act of justice before any definite action on j
1 the subject, to confer with Mexico, seeing the
relations of amity which cxLt between the
| two republics; that the American Government |
had been compelled to this procedure in con- \
sequence of the necessity of attending to her
own preservation, having observed the sinis
ter views manifested by the English Cabinet ,
in proportion as it gains strength in Texas, j
and in consideration of her commercial inter
ests which suffered enormous injury from the
introduction of the products of the various '•
countries of Europe, which in the course of
; one year, according to information furnished
; to the agent, Mr. Thompson, had been import- i
1 ed into Texas to the value of at least two mil- 1
; lions of dollars, and of which the larger part |
was introduced clandestinely into the United |
States and Mexico—that for the rest, it could
not have been the intention of the President
of those States, as it certainly was not that of
the Senate, to decide upon a subject of so
much gravity, without previously consulting
the wishes of this Republic, and in such case
offeringa competent indemnity, and that there
fore, not only that body, but that all friends cf
justice and persons of judgment agreed in
j asking the consent of Mexico as a preliminary
step; further, that an opinion has been strong-
Iv pronounced throughout the United States
in favor of the annexation of Texas in such
terms, that even the opposition party were
obliged to acknowledge it. but not in such
terms as to lose sight of that which the honor
of the country, and justice demanded; —that
it was considered to the interest of Mexico to
proceed immediately to the establishment ol a
| boundary, although in doing so she might yield
i up some part of iier territory in view of a cor
responding indemnity—and that the final de
termination of the boundary T m ight be made
under the guarantee of the United States
j themselves, crif the case required it. even un
der that of some of the powers of Europe—so
; that in this manner, a well ordered state of
things might be established, free from all for
eign influence and from the pernicious effects
of an unlimited contraband, to sustain which,
j there are fears that in the end some of the
principal porUof ’lie Coast ol Texas may be
declared free, in order thus to admit without !
any kind of restriction, the entrance ot ad
foreign vessels; —finaliy he set forth that the
actual population of Texas had undergone a
notable change, because already for each citi- |
zen from the United States, there were five !
from other nations—and that in no manner
could the rights of Mexico over that territory
fie denied, an important basis for the negotia
tion under consideration, and that under this i
j aspect, it would be of the highest importance
! to throw aside as if it had never existed, the so
called “Texas question” and proceed to the i
| establishment of a boundary without respect to :
1 the class of inhabitants living in that territo
ry. That the government of the United States
having considered all these causes had deem
ed it proper to declare them to that of Mexi- :
cc, and to set on foot the preliminaries of a
treaty which having a regard to equity and 1
justice, might do away the difficulties which \
presented themselves, consulting at the same ;
time the mutual interests of both Republics,
which henceforward would have a cause com
mon to both , that of American interests which
they ought to protect and sustain, with the
firmest union and good faith against all the
artifices and interested views of any of the j
European powers.
To all tiiis reasoning I replied—that of the 1
illegal traffic which is carried on in Texas, if j
prejudicial to the interests of the United
Etates, it is their own fault, because of the
: protection they have given to the adventurers
who have there united themselves, even to the
degree of recognizing them as a nation—that i
the President of the United States in my opin- '
ion has not acted very properly in treating of |
the annexation of Texas with its actual pos- t
! sessors, because the majority of these being j
| but a portion of the American community, I
l although with the name of Texians, they i
1 have no right to enter into Treaty of a Terri- |
tory which does not belong to them. That |
t Mexico being resolved to sustain her rights |
| without ever yielding them, because she con
; siders them unquestionable, thought, the pro
j position made on the part of the Americans
| to be inadmissible, and renounced all idea of I
j ceding her territory. That Mexico was re
j solved again to undertake vigorously the cam
paign against Texas, for which she held in
readiness a large Army, with all the necessary
resources which the peace she lias latterly
enjoyed, and tiie general prosperity of the
country has enabled her to obtain. That if
she has not proceeded to open the campaign
during the present year, it is because she lias
been awaiting the result of the armistice
agreed upon, in order to treat of the termina
tion of the actual war. That if the United
States desire in good faith to arrrest the dis
order which exists there so much to their pre
i judice, the best plan is to induce Texas to re
| cognise the sovereignty of Mexico, disposed
; as she is to make every concession which sit
j nation, religion, custom, &c., may require,
: but that in no manner will she consent to
dismember her territory, rather will she carry
j the war to any extreme which may be neces
sary to sustain her rights; and as nations do
not die, the right of reconquering that territory
shall remain to our children and our grand
children, that this was the opinion of the gov- |
ernment and of the Mexicans.
With respect to the establishment of the
boundaries of the two countries, it is known
that at several former periods, arrangements
had been made for thqt purpose, but without
j consummating it, as the Mexican government
:so much desired—at one time on account of j
| the Spanish invasion of 1829, and latterly o\v- I
, ing to the internal disturbances of the Repub
lic—and she ought not in any way to sanction
an act which may tend to the recognition of
Texas, nor even give her consent or approba
tion to the annexation of that territory to the
; U. States. In reference to the demarcation
I of boundaries, there is no reason why a scien
; tific operation might not be set afoot forth
; with, under the articles of the treaty for
j running the boundary line, based upon those
j points which since the time of the Spanish
J Government, have been considered as fixed.
I have the honor of advising your Excel
j lency upon this affair, in order that his Ex
dtllency, the President ad interim, may have
cognizance of it, adding, that the agent, Mr.
Thompson, starts for the Capital in the first
| Diligence.
I 1 take the opportunity of renewing to your
Excellency the assurance of my esteem.
God and Liberty,
Puente Nacional,
May 17, 1844.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
To his Excellency the minister of Foreign i
j relations and Government of Mexico.
[ From the N. O. Picayune .l
LATE FROM MEXICO.
By the arrival last evening of the schooner
| Pilot, Capt. Baker, we have received Vera
| Cruz dates to the 23d and from the city of
j Mexico to the 19th ult.
The news of the death of the darino-
Gen. Sentmanat and of the total failure of
: Ins unfortunate expedition, is fully confirmed,
j A passenger, who came in the" Pilot, says
that the head of Sentmanat was cut off and
cooked in oil, as we have previously stated
and placed in the public square at the city of
Tobasco. Fourteen of his followers had also
j been shot, but their bodies were left untouch
j ed. One ot the Mexican generals insisted
that the dead should be respected, as their mu
tilation would be a disgrace to tiie Mexican
character. Capt. Petit, the commander of
the Win. A. Turner, together with all his
crew, have been ordered to be shot along with
< the rest of Sentmanat’s men, who have all
been ordered to execution. Capt. Petit’s ves
sel, which was the one that transported the
revolutionists from this city instead of the
V\ m. I ono, was in a sinking condition from
a ball received from the Mexican man-of-war
that drove her ashore. The information can
be relied upon,
j A journal of the capital, La Hesperia, an
nounces that the Government had received
despatches from Gen. Micheltorena, hv the
way of Tepic, apprising it that a thousand
American riflemen, and various other parties,
were hovering upon the frontiers of Upper
California. Ihe editor is reminded by this of
the demonstration of American good feeling
mace by Com. uones at Monterev, and speaks
in terras ot bitter though ironical severity of
the peaceable designs of the United States upon
the extensive and beautiful territory of Cali
fornia.
The Diario del Gobierno correct La Hespe
ria, and declares that the Government lias
received no official intelligence whatever of
this Kind, ana thinks it should be received with
extreme distrust—we dure say it should.—
i lie valiant Micheltorena had probably be
come alarmed by hearing of some Oregon or
trading party through some circuitous channel
cf information.
S3TM.M VJNLEY. Attorney at Imw, Lexiug
i ton, Oglethorpe county. Claims of any size in
Ogletliorge or the adjoining counties, will be accu
rately attended to if intrusted to his tare i
Sept 30 44
AUGUSTA. GEO,.
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 13. 1844. i
i UTOn our first page we have placed the ,
proceedings of the Internal Improvement
Convention, which met at Huntsville, Ala
bama, on the 17th of June.
| XT We call the attention of our readers to the
letter of Judge Langdon Chevcs, and to ano- ;
ther letter of Gen. James Hamilton, on Texas,
which will be found in other columns of this
day's paper.
XTln the letter of Santa Anna, which we
publish in this day’s paper, he appears to be 1
firm in his designs of reconquering Texas, and !
, intimates that Mexico cannot consent to a j
! dismemberment of the republic. But cannot
1 one draw the conclusion, from his language ;
and the arguments he adduces as a reply to
the conclusion of the treaty of annexation be- ;
tween the United States and Texas, that had
the irresistible arguments been employed, his
! tone would have been less lofty, and the con
sent of Mexico would have been obtained, so
i far at least as Santa Anna was concerned?
IT We shall publish in our next paper the
Texas meeting in Hall county 7 , on the 2d inst.
It seems that the two parties met, and agreed
; to have two chairmen and two secretaries ta
ken from both parties. Dr. Daniel presented
a preamble and resolutions on behalf of the
■ democratic portion of the meeting. Mr. C.
| Peeples, on the part of the whigs, offered a
I substitute. Both papers were read; after
| which the meeting was addressed by Dr. Dan
i iel, J. Dunagan, E. R. Harden, and the Hon.
11. Gobb in favor of the original, and C. Pee
ples, W. J. Peeples, J. Rivers, and J. W. 11.
Underwood, supported the substitute. After
which a division was had, and the preamble
and resolutions of Dr. Daniel were carried by
a fair majority 7 .
ITA remarkable instance of inconsistency
j and mutability in the political course of Geor
| gia is now exhibited, which, in the eyes of tiie
philosopher, must degrade still more poor
human nature. Who would have predicted
twelve years ago, that the very men who
were the first in the country to put in question
the value ofthe Union, would, twelve years
after, become the champions of [that Union
which they 7 considered as of less .value than
resistance to a protective tariff'! Twelve
years ago the charge was brought home to
them, that they were aiming at the dissolu
tion of the union of the states; and we confess
we were among those who made the charge.
They defended themselves as well as they
could; but the charge had its effect; every
shot told that was fired at them: they began
in a minority', and- remained in a minority,
until they succeeded-in an amalgamation with
another strong party in the United States.
And what do we now behold? The very men
j who had calculated the value of the Union;
who had maintained that a state had the right,
of itself, to judge of the constitutionality of a
protective tariff law, and to nullify it, if found
unconstitutional; these very men are, at the
present time, great sticklers for the Union;
appear to feel a holy hon'or at any language
which might be construed as upholding dis
union in a certain contingency! If another |
Van Winkle had slept from 1832 to 1844, how
large would he open his eyes, at the wonders j
that in twelve years have taken place in |
Georgia! The cry was, disunion, or no tariff, i
Van Winkle would hear the same men cry i
now, union and a protective tariff. Van
Winkle heard in 1832, when he went to sleep,
men exclaim, “state rights,” “state sovereign
ty,” “state interposition,” “resistance even
to disunion to all unconstitutional laws.”
I But when he awakes in 1844, what does he
j hear? “Tariff for protection,” “abolition of
: the Veto Power,” “Concentration of all pow
! ersin the hands of Congress for the general
welfare, in order that home industry might be
protected, that a uniform currency might be
established through the instrumentality of a
national bank,” &c. &c. Could Van Winkle
believe that the men who cried in 1832 one
way, and in 1844 another, are the same?
Would he not be very apt to believe that those j
very men had, like him, taken a nap of twelve 1
years, and when awoke forgotten all what
they had done before? And yet those men
have the assurance to speak of our “glorious
Union,” and to point the finger of reprobation |
attheir former brethren, for expressions which
certainly are not as censurable as those which
they^themselves made use of when in full com- !
rnunion together. And yet those men dare j
to insinuate that the democratic party of :
Georgia would countenance expressions—
mere idle expressions—which this democrat
ic party—this union party —so victoriously 1
condemned in 1832! These men now speak
of the integrity of the Union, without regard
ing whom they have in their own ranks.
Whom have they in their ranks? If they are
so sensitive about the Union, the integrity of 1
the Union, and the permanency of this glori- !
ous Union; why do they not discard the abo- j
litionists, who have more than once adopted
resolutions for the immediate dissolution of |
the Union? Why do they not reject all polit- j
ical association with John Quincy Adams, I
Giddings, Slade, and others of the same stamp? !
Why do they not express regret at the nomi- !
nation of Slade as a candidate for the office of
Governor of Vermont? Why have they j
placed tiie name of Frelinhuysen at the head
of the columns of their papers, as a candidate .
for Vice President? We will have to say |
more upon the subject.
XT We have before us a neat and curious
book, “Traditions and Fairy Legends ofthe 1
South of Ireland.” In a letter to the author, I
Sir Walter Scott says; “I have been oblicred ;
by the courtesy which sent me your very j
interesting work on Irish superstitions; and j
no less by the amusement which it lias as- i
forded me, both from the interest ofthe stories,
and the lively manner in which they are told. I
The extreme similarity of your fictions to ours
in Scotland, is very striking.”
The work is for sale at the bookstore of Mr.
Richards.
O’Political consistency is a rare commodi
ty now-a-days. Though many, of late, have
bartered it away for an equivalent which
must turn out to be but a mere shadow of the
substance they believe tube within their reach,
yet it is gratifying to find that others remain
: tiue to their old principles, and have had res
olution enough to follow the dictates of their
consciences than to follow the dictation of am
bitious and interested party leaders. W’eco
| py what follows from the I%liunbus Times:
‘•We have seen a letter from the Hon. Wm.
; Taylor of Randolph, to a friend in this city.
! The Judge says that, he cannot longer act
i with the whigs, whose acts are so antagonis
-1 tical to tueir professions; that lie is convinced
that the whig party are now the tariff party
of the south—as the whole party in Congress,
with only one honorable exception, went in a
solid column for the protective tariff*of 1842;
and also refused in the Senate to pass Mr. Ben
ton’s resolutions by a party vote, which had for
their object the annexation of Texas, in ac
cordance with the treaty stipulations of the
whigs. The judge therefore, on the 4th inst.
at a meeting of the Clay Club of Randolph
county, resigned tiie Presidency thereof, and
announced his iudepenednce of wlim party
trammels.”
[CTA correspondent of the Savannah Re
publican, writes from Augusta, under date of
July 8. that the whig meeting which was held
here on Saturday last, in the morning, “was
attended by between 1 and 500, although the
heat was excessive, and the room in the court
house very close;” and that “at night it was
held in the open air and about 700 persons
were present.” The writer of this paragraph
was not present at either of the meetings, but
from the information he could obtain, the cor
respondent of the Republican must have used
on both occasions spectacles with magnifying
glasses, or glasses which had the power to
double or treble the objects looked at.
RIOT IN PHILADELPHIA.
By last evening’s mail we received detailed
accounts ol the riots which occurred in Phil
adelphia last week. We shall publish a
sketch of them in our next paper. We have
only time to say, that the riots ended in a
conflict between the rioters and the military,
and that about 50 nr GO individuals were
wounded or killed. At one time Philadelphia
was in complete possession of the rioters,
who fired on the military with small arms and
three pieces of cannon. The latest account
we have represents the city as being tranquil.
Application had been made on the President
of the United States, for assistance, which
had been granted, but it is to be hoped that it
will not he needed.
THE MACON TELEGRAPH.
It is with pleasure we find that the edito
rial department of this democratic paper, will
bo under the controul of O. If. Prince. No
man in Georgia was more distinguished and
respected, while he lived, than the father of
Mr. Prince, who, it seems, has inherited the
talents and devotion to Georgia of his sire.
The foliowing appears in the last Telegraph :
To the Patrons of the Georgia Telegraph.
While under my control, this Paper will,
as heretofore, advocate tho great principles
of the Democratic Republican Party of the
country, as expounded and administered bv
Jefferson, Madison, and their venerated com
peers. It will insist on a strict and literal
construction of the Constitution, and the pre
servation of that sacred instrument intact and
inviolate, as the only safe constitutional
check on the co-ordinate branches of the Fed
eral Government. It will oppose every
species of partial legislation, intended to ad
vance the interests of one class of citizens, at
the expense of another. Jt will advocate the
immediate Annexation of Texas, as a mea
sure of the greatest importance, in a national
point of view, as well as of the highest con
sideration to the Southern portion of the Con
federacy.—And although our blade may not
j he as bright and keen as some of our older and.
j more experienced contemporaries, yet it will
; be wielded as zealously and willingly as that
! of the oldest veteran in the field.
O. 11. PRINCE.
LOUISIANA.
; The following, from the New Orleans Cou
rier of 6th instant, is the latest information
we have received of the result of the election.
The Election. —We believe Mr. Labranchc
; has lost his election. If he had been in the
j district a fortnight before the Ist July, the re
i suit would have been different. He arrived
! at the house of a relative, on the banks of the
| river, two or three days before the election ex
tremely ill —and was thus disabled from ma
king use of the short time before him. We
trust the interests of the sugar planters may
not suffer by the change of their representa
tive.
The steamers have brought us some returns
j of a favorable character. The whigs have
j raised the cry of victory in New Orleans, al
though, after depriving many hundreds of de
mocrats of the right of suffrage, we have
succeeded in electing three representatives,
which, allowing no further gain in the coun
try parishes, will ensure us a majority in that
: branch of the General Assembly. At the last
I session, the whigs had TEN representatives
| from the city of New Orleans—at the next,
| they will have only SEVEN! This is their
| victory.
In the parish of est Feliciana, the demo
j crats have elected Messrs. Howell and Marks,
| both democrats, to the house of representatives.
I In the parishes of Iberville, East and West
Baton Rouge, all the democratic candidates
j are elected, as we are informed, and have rea
i son to believe.
V* e have little doubt that the democrats
; have elected a clear and decided majority in
■ botj l houses oi the General Assembly, as well
I as in the Convention. Here is another Whig
i victory!
As to the election for President in Novem
j her, that is in the hands of Providence and the
j good people of the-State. We doubt not that
j it will be a glorious triumph for the democra
| cy. It is the game of the whigs to brag—but
; neither brag nor hard cider will save them
I this time.
i Our readers will bear in mind that all the
j strong-holds of the whigs have been heard
j from, and the democrats have gained more
! than they lost. Nearly all the returns to be