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DEMOCRACY OF GEORGIA.
Tickets for Members of Congress and Electors
of President and Vice President completed.
CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS,
(Election on the first Monday in October.)
Ist District—CHAßLES SPALDING,
2d “ SEABORN JONES,
3d “ A. H. CHAPPELL,
4th “ 11. A. HARALSON,
sth “ JOHN 11. LUMPKIN,
6lh “ HOWELL COBB,
7th “ ABSALOM JANES,
Bth “ E. J. BLACK.
FOR ELECTORS.
(Election on the first Monday in November, by gen
eral ticket.)
FOR PRESIDENT,
JANIES K. POLK, of Tennessee.
VICE PRESIDENT,
GEORGE M. DALLAS, of Pennsylvania.
CHARLES J. McDonald, of Cobb,
ALFRED IVERSON, of Muscogee,
ROBERT M. CHARLTON, of Chatham,
BARZJLLAI GRAVES, of Randolph,
GEORGE W. TOWNS, of Talbot,
W. F. SAM FORD, of Meriwether,
CHARLES MURPHY, of Cass,
W. B. WOFFORD, of Habersham,
11. V. JOHNSON, of Baldwin,
ELI 11. BAXTER, of Hancoc k.
[From the Augusta (Me.) Age. J
WHIGGERY AND NATIVE AME- j
lIICANISM.
These terms have become synonymous; |
and since the recent events in several of
our large cities, must have become intole
rably odious to our Irish fellow-citizens.
Let such read the following article from
the Bay State Democrat:
WHIGS vs. IRISHMEN.
There is no period in the history of our
country, since the adoption of the constitution, |
that the wings have not manifested a deadly
hatred towards foreigners, and Irishmen par
ticularly. The alien law enacted by the fed
eralists, now called whigs, is, or ought to lie,
familiar to every Irishman. From that time
may be dated a concentrated, fixed,determined
opposition to the poor, persecuted, proscribed, |
and oppressed Irishmen, by the whigs. It is |
utterly impossible for human language to ex- 1
press in adequate terms the cruel and barbar
ous treatment Irishmen have ever received
from the political party in this country now j
called whigs. Listen to a few extracts from j
their press, and their orators. 1 commence
with their leading press in the New England
States. It breathes the true spiritofwhiggery; j
“Air. Van Buren’s adherents have strong
hopes, with the aid of alien vagabonds, and !
illegal voters, they will carry the city of New
York.” —Boston Atlas, October S, 1840.
“The American people are in a fairway of
being controlled by foreigners, ignorant, su
perstitious, and brutal: and of ail fereigners
that come to this country, the lower class of ’
Irish are least capable of exercising the pri- j
vileges of freedom. With them, freedom
means unrestrained insolence, and the liberal 1
use of whiskey and shillalagh. The hope of ■
enlightening their understandings is utterly !
vain. The Ainertcan people must now right ;
themselves, and produce, as soon as possible,
an alteration of the nalnralizalionlaws. , ' > — Al
bany (whig) Daily Advertiser.
“HAD I 'ITIE POWER. I WOULD i
ERECT A GALLOWS UPON EVERY i
WHARF IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, !
AND HANG EVERY I) D IRISHMAN I
AS FAST AS THEY COAIE ON SHORE.”
—Matthew L. Davis.
This declaration was publicly made by Da
vis, in the city of Washington, upon the re
ceipt of the news of the glorious democratic
victory in the city of New York.
“The children of bigoted Catholic Ireland, '
like th efrogs that were sent as a plague against ;
Pharaoh, have come into our homes, bed
chambers, ovens and kneading-troughs. The j
Irish, when they arrive among us, are too idle I
and vicious to clear and cultivate land, but !
DtMP themselves down in our large villages j
and towns, crowding the meaner sort of tone- I
ments,and tilling them witJi wretchedness, '
filth, and disease In a political point of j
view, what are they but mere cattle?”—
Troy Whig.
“His Holiness the Pope has sent us
seven moke PKiESTS. They arrived in New j
York on Monday, in the brig Poultney. We
were about to make a harsh remark, but are
checked by the recollection tiiat the Pope has
the same rigid to send his priests into the
New World, that we have to send ours into i
the Old.”— Albany (whig) Evening Journal, j
“Our population has among its numbers
emigrants from ail European nations, as also j
large numbers from Canada. All appear res
pectable and prosperous except the low and I
uneducated Ikish, to whom the soil and cli
mate appear no way congenial. They no
sooner arrive here than theTr mental faculties
are thrown into the greatest confusion—mis
understanding ALL AGREEMENTS, WRITTEN !
OR VERBAL MISTAKING THEIR NEIGHBORS
PROPERTY FOR THEIR OWN, and wlloD they j
ts ink themselves tree from all restraint, run a ‘
rapid career of vice and wickedness, ending
in poverty and disgrace.”— Sew York ( whi< D
Express.
Irishmen ! True hearted sons of the “Erne- *
raid Isle,” what think youofa party, the mem
bers Os which give utterance to such senti
ments as are sanctioned in the foregoing quo- 1
tatiens? Your enemy is before you. It is
the British whig party. Will you lend the .
most feeble aid to elevate to power the can
; didate of a party who heap upon you the vilest
j epithets, impugn your motives and conduct,
and endeavor to slur and ridicule your reli- •
gion ? would deprive yon of all your civil, so- *
cial, and religions rights? Irishmen, reflect
seriously upon these things.
AN OLD GUARD. !
AKiI.STA, GEO.,
TUESDAY MORMNG, SEPT. 10, IS-ftT ~
Erratum. —ln the communication of “Free
I rader. on the first page of our last paper, j
in the 3d line from the bottom of the last col-
I umn, instead of 'jenny” read “finery.”
No mail last evening north of Charleston.
I IITOn our first page will be found the com
munication of “An Oid State Rights Man,”
a letter from Dr. W. C. Daniell to Judge Law,
and the prospectus of a new democratic paper
to he established in Savannah, to be called '
the “Georgia Sentinel.”
—
Ur If in our own State enthusiasm prevails, i
and confidence is entertained that the demo- j
cralic party will obtain a glorious triumph in
■ October and November next, we are gratified
to find that in the other States of the Union,
the same enthusiasm is spreading among all
ranks of the democracy. Public meetings
i arc held in every county and township, and
organization is the order of the day. In New !
: York the democratic spirit is gaining ground i
; every day; hickory polls are erected every
: where, and confidence in the election of Polk
and Dallas seems to acquire additional strength
as the day of the election approaches. At
. Herkimer, N. \ . a democratic meeting was
recently held, at which Benjamin Harvey !
presided. He is a Revolutionary Patriot, one ■
hundred and nine years (f age. He presided
with dignity, and scrutinized the proceedings
j with care, and at the close signed them him
; self in a good hold hand, without the aid of j
' glasses.
i At an enthusiastic and immense meeting
of the democracy of the mountain district of |
i Tennessee, held on the 21st of last month at
j McMinnville, the flag of his country was held |
i by Jacob Cagle, a flag, under which, in the
j most sanguinary battles of the Revolution, he
had gallantly fought; there he stood, hales ■
j hearty, and vigorous, now nearly approaching
liis hundredth year.
LTA Democratic Mass Meeting is to be i
| held at Griffin. Pike county, on Tuesday, the ;
• Ist of October next, at which the citizens of |
: the 3d and 4th Congressional Districts are ;
; particularly invited to attend.
L The New York Morning News ofThurs- I
day, says, that “the Syracuse Convention,
! which held its sitting yesterday, undoubtedly i
nominated Mr. Wright unanimously on the
first ballot, as we learn, from an unquestiona
; hie source, and that Governor Bouck had sent
to it a positive withdrawal from candidateship
for the nomination.”
ETThe democratic state convention of New
! Jersey, met at Trenton, on the 4th inst.,and i
nominated John R. Thompson as the candid- j
j ate of the party for Governor. Heretofore
| the governor was elected by the legislature, |
; but now he is to be chosen by the people, !
: agreeably to the new constitution.
UWe published a week or two ago a let
; ter from the notorious Cassius M. Clav, the
; abolitionist, in which lie assigned his reasons i
| for opposing the annexation of Texas and ;
! supporting Henry Clay. 'The letter first ap- )
, poured in the New York Tribune. In the !
number of the same paper, of 4th instant, we i
find what follows, in regard to a speech c!e- !
j livered by the same C. M. Clay. Remarks I
! upon the sentiments expressed by that indi
-1 vidual are unnecessary.
CASSIUS M. CLAY IN OHIO.
[Correspondence of the New York Tribune.]
Land of the Buckeyes, >
Aug. 27th, 1844. $
I would that I could pour into the ears of |
your readers the glorious speech of the elo
quent Kentucky Statesman, Cassius M. Clay, j
For two hours he held that immense assetn- I
blage in breathless silence, while he testified !
to us of Henry Clay and his measures of pol- I
icy from fire-side knowledge of his character, !
and long intercourse with him as a private \
citizen, lie spoke of the great struggle be- |
tween Slavery and Freedom now at hand, i
and lie shewed up the question of Texas An- !
uexation in a light that carried conviction to I
every mind that it was one of the most infa- j
mous measures ever urged upon the Ameri- |
can people. He completely and totally de- I
molished every argument urged in its favor,
; and left it to rest where it should, upon the
j sole ground of the extension and perpetuity
of Slavery. He showed it to be a scheme
! concocted lor the purpose of strengthening
i the already tottering dynasty of the Slave 1
power, and that as far as it was a war of in- 1
terest, it was a contest between a few thous- ;
ands of slave-breeders on the one side, and
the whole people of the Union on the other.
He appealed to the Liberty party and all
parties to look at the subject in tiiis light, and
meet the issue on the broad ground of the I
Constitution. But I have not had time to hint I
at the leading points even of his speech. It j
was considered by many to be the most able |
address they had ever heard.
From the same Tribune of Sept. 4, we copy i
the following:
MARRIAGE OF ROSS.
HARTWELL’S HOTEL. )
Philadelphia, Tuesday,Sept. 3. £
Another grand wedding party has ‘come
oft" at tin's delightful house, so celebrated for
aftairs of this nature.
John Ross the celebrated Cherokee chief
was married in the President’s parlor of this
Hotel last night to Mary B. Stapler of Wil
mington. Delaware. He is about 55, and she is
only 18 years of age; she is a very beautiful
girl and highly accomplished; and belongs to
the Society of Friends, or did. Her father
was formerly a highly respectable Quaker |
merchaht of this city.
She was given away by her brother and
attended by her sister and a niece of John i
Ross as bridesmaids. He had collected sev- i
oral of his daughters and nephews from boar
ding school. &,c. in New Jersey to be present j 1
at the wedding; and after the ceremony a fa
mily party of 20 of the Ross’ (all half breed
Indians) sat down to a most sumptuous han-
I quet for the preparation of which he had giv
en I lartweil a carte blanche and a most elegant
affair it was. Rossis considered to be worth
I halt a million of dollars. Ho purposes so
journing with his beautiful bride at this excel
lent hotel for a short time; after which he goes
straight to his wild home in the South West
ern prairies. \ ours attentively,
JUNIUS.
tLTExtract of a letter from Habersham
county.
■‘We have no news here. Politics is the
theme in every crowd and corner of the vil
lage. The whigs will be worse beaten in this
| county than they ever have been; many of
them have forsaken the error of their ways,
and come over to the democracy. Our detno
i cratic association meets regularly every sale
day, when we take turns upon the stump.
! Habersham will give 500 majority this fall.
! All we ask is for the lower counties to do
their duty. The mountain counties will come
j down like an avalanche, and sweep every
thing before it. The whigs are straining
every nerve, but all their exertions are use
less.'”
Extract of another letter from Habersham,
written by a whig:
“We have but little news that would be
| interesting to you. Political excitement pretty
j high. \\ higs here pretty firm, but not likely
i at this election to make any inroads on the
democracy of this county. I presume that
Clay’s vote will be rather less than Harrison’s
; was, but still hope the general result will be
favorable. We had a discussion here a few
weeks since, between Col. Cobb and Major
Underwood, in which Cobb acquitted himself
in a handsome manner, and it must be admit
ted that U. propped and sustained the cause
of the whigs very well, after the powerful as-
I sault which had been made on it.”
PENNSYLVANIA.
: On the 2d instant the democratic state
convention met at Harrisburg, and nominated
Francis R. Shrink, of Allegheny county, as
| the candidate of the party for the office of Gov
ernor. The Harrisburg papers state that this
nomination was received with enthusiasm by
the immense crowd in attendance, not more
1 than one-third of whom could find room in the
Court House, where the convention assem
bled. This nomination ensures a democratic
majority at the approaching elections of up
wards of 20,000.
The following incident occurred at the
meeting of the convention;
“31 r. Frazer moved that George Kremer,
1 the man that cried aloud when Henry Clay
deserted Democracy, and defeated Old Hick
ory in 1824, be invited to take a seat beside
the President of the Convention, When Mr.
Kremer appeared he was greeted with three
cheers.
Mr. K. addressed the convention in a strain
of fervid eloquence, describing Henry Clay
as the man who put up the Presidency for
sale and struck it off to the highest bidder.—
He also referred to the enthusiasm existing
throughout the country in favor of the nomi
nees of the Democratic party, and said that
to doubt success in such a glorious conflict
would be to arraign the justice of an overru
ling Providence.”
COMMERCE OF NEW ORLEANS.
That valuable periodical, the New Orleans
Price-Current and Merchants’ Transcript of
the 2d instant, contains several tables show
ing the amount of exports and imports of do
mestic produce, from and into New Orleans
during the commercial year ending on the
31st. of August, 1844. From these tables we
have made the following abstracts, which will
exhibit the trade and commerce of the empo
rium of the West.
The value of produce received at New
Orleans from the interior, during the year
ending August 31, 1844, amounted to $65,-
863,866.
Among the articles received were the fol
lowing :
Bacon, assorted, value, $1,095,073
Bagging, 1,002,160
Bale Rope, 502,104
Butter, 81,324
Beef, 241.309
Cotton, 29,147,328
Corn, 407,145
Cheese, 150,996
Flour, 2,018,028
Hemp, 418,682
Lard, 2,156,904
Molasses, 1 ,000,000
Pork, 3,103,807
Sugar, 8,418,960
Tobacco. 4.109,940
The cotton exported from New Orleans du
ring the same time was as follows :
° _ j
To Great Britain, bales, 527,675
France, 119,980
Other foreign ports, 70,762
U. S. northern ports, 176,958
895,375
The arrivals of vessels at New Orleans, da- j
ring the same period, amounted to 1686 ships,
barques, brigs,and schooners,and2s7o steam
boats.
Comparative prices of middling to fair cot- j
ton at New Orleans on the first of the follow- |
ing months in 1842, 1843, and 1844, as fol
lows :
1842 1843 1844
January, 8 a9| a7| SJ a 10|- 1
May, 64: a 10 5j a 7J 6| a 8| .
September, 6 a— 5| a 8 6| a S
Specie imported into New Orleans, from [
Sept. 1, 1843, to August 31, 1844. $7,748,- j
723; last season $lO, 415.531.
COLUMBUS MASS MEETING.
A meeting of the citizens of Muscogee and
surrounding counties, was held at Columbus
on the 29th uit. The Columbus Times state j
that there were five thousand Democrats in
Council, including about 500 of the fair daugh
ters of onr State. Hon. Alfred Iverson presi
ded, assisted by ten Vice Presidents. Ad
dresses were delivered by Gen. Hamilton, ,
Hon. J. B. Belser, of Alabama, Marshall J. ‘
Welbern. Senator Colquitt, and a number of
other distinguished gentlemen. All was har
mony and enthusiasm, and the meeting tor- \
minated to the satisfaction ol the Democrats,
and to the utter dismay of the W higs, who
used every effort, by counter meetings, &c.
to keep the people away. —Georgian
o=We published in our last paper the ar
i tide from the Loudon Times, upon which the j
i following remarks from the Globe are predi
cated.
[From the Globe.]
I THE LONDON TIMES ON THE TEXAS
QUESTION.
The annexed article of tiie leading Eng
lish Journal shows that the whole bearing
of the Texas treaty is perfectly comprehend
ed by the English interest, and that they
! mean to turn it to account. We have ex
pressed the opinion from the first, that the j
sending in of atreaty, which the administra- j
tion knew would prove abortive, and contri
buted to make so by the after-thought corres- •
pondence with the British minister, Mr.
Pakenham, for which the treaty was held
back, and which was tied as a millstone
round its neck, would be seized as a pretext j
by England to urge Mexico into new hostili- j
ties. We now see the London Times co-op
erating with the British government, urging
; this very point on Mexico, and employing it
i to vindidate, in the eyes of the world, the ef
fort to reduce Texas under the yoke of the j
tyrant and dictator of Mexico. And can any |
doubt, with the aims of the British interests .
developed in the Times, that the government 1
will pursue them, by secretly supplying the ;
funds to enable the exhausted treasury of i
Mexico to bear the burden of a new war with
Texas?
The Times article shows the calculations
in England, on which the success of the gov
ernment’s scheme against Texas is founded.
1. It tells the public (to throw the weight
■ of the United Slates out of the balance
j against the British scheme) that there is little
j doubt, that the candidate of the party (Mr. Clay) 1
1 most, hostile to annexation will succeed to the j
I presidency.''’
\ 2. “The presence of a slave population with-
I in its boundaries, whose future condition de
| pends altogether on the political condition of the
\ State, is an element of danger in the heart of
| every village, and every dwelling.” This shows
| that England is looking to the instigation of
a servile war in the heart of Texas, t hrough
the instrumentality of Mexico, as one of the
means of bringing the prey within her power.
3. It is assumed that “ Texas is ill-furnish
ed with Ike means of carrying on the war; and
President Houston, who appears never to have
i been a partisan of annexation, allhough he lent
himself to the late treaty, must perceive that the
1 future independence of his country, and the re-
I establishment of peace, depend on the vigor
j with which he may carry out the principles first
i proclaimed by its founders.” Tiie weakness
I of Texas—its severance from the hope of sue- I
j enr from the United Slates, by the election of
1 Clay as President, and the defection of Hous
i ton from the cause of tiie people in Texas,
! are thrown in as ingredients to work with the
threat meant to reach tiie latter, that “the fu
ture independence ” and “ re-establishment of j
peace” within their borders depends upon car- j
rying out the principles of the founders of the |
State, as England interprets them—meaning J
j the acquisition of those blessings through j
i British agency, purchased by subserviency to j
British influence. The founders of the State '
i proposed annexation with their kindred of the !
j United States, as the first step after founding j
i their constitution, and never dreamed of a for- i
; eign alliance, or, in other words, a foreign \
; “protectorate ,” as it is properly christened
' abroad, as will be seen from one of Mr.
I Walsh’s late letters.
The most striking declaration which is to
| put an end to the hopes of Texas and the mass
j of the people of the United States, is that
j “these hopes and views (of creating a ‘new
j southern community in which commerce might
j be carried onto itko ul restrict ions,’’ for the ben
efit of the great monopolizing protector of
commerce) were in no way peculiar to Great
Britain ; they are shown in the fullest extent by
France , Holland , Belgium, and all the Euro
j pean countries by which Texas has been recog
| nised.”
Here is the main point. The same powers j
1 which England sought to enlist against the |
■ United States, to establish her arrogant, and !
i dangerous, and denationalizing principle, mis
! named the right of visit or search on the high
! seas, are combined to dictate the policy of the
1 independent States on this continent. Upon
t what principle do these powers of the old con
tinent interpose to defeat the wishes of the
j people of Texas to become a portion of the con-
I federacy from which they sprung? They are
exceedingly tender of the African race, and
j justly abhor the slave trade, which tears its
| unwilling victims from the land of their na
-1 tivity and the state of barbarism which they
1 have the natural right to prefer. Why, then,
i do they undertake to seperate the people of
j Texas from the kindred country that gave |
j them birth—tear them from tiie free and en
; lightened government they love—and subject j
: them, against their will, to a European protec
| torate, or to semi-barbarous oppression under i
the bastard Spanish despotism of a Mexican
dictatorship?
We trust the people of the United States, i
1 and their children, the people of Texas, will !
prove to Great Britain that they can maintain
j their rights on their own continent, and also
j on the highway of nations.
[co:,i M UXICATED. ]
i HIGH DUTIES MAKE LOW PRICES!
The last whig legislature of Georgia pass- :
j ed this resolution:
“Resolved by the Senate and House of Re- j
j presentatives of the State of Georgia, in Gene- !
j Assembly met, That the Senators and Re- :
I presentatives of the State of Georgia in the i
Congress oi the United States, be requested j
| to ask of Congress the passage of a law to j
remit the duty on all Rail Road Iron imported
, into the United States, for the sole purpose of
using the same in the construction of Rail
Roads.”
This resolution appears strange —it is a sad |
commentan- upon whig logic: for they have j
‘ been preaching every where that “high duties I
I make low prices.” ' AN EXAMINER. •
[communicated. ]
; TEXAS—STEPHENS & DOUGHERTY! ;
j Messrs. Stephens and Dougherty were a !
portion of the Committee on the State of the
Republic in the Georgia legislature in 1838.
Just read one of their resolutions, and get
j offin some private place and laugh—Hereitis: 1
“Resolve!:. r \ hat we view the annexation of !
: Texas to the Lnited States of the deepest im
portance.'—House Journal, p. 425.
At that time these gentlemen did not con
, cur in the philanthropic views of the people of
Rhode Island and Ohio upon annexation. —
How stands the matter now?
A VOTER.
[COM MUN ICA TED. J
WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
In the House of Representatives, in 1838,
(see Journal, p. 179.) .Mr. James A. Meri
wether introduced the following resolution;
“Resolved, That the establishment of a Na
tional Bank, in any form, is unconstitutional.”
OLD JOURNALS.
[COM MUXICATED.]
WHO IS ROBERT TOOMBS ?
As this gentleman’s name is presented be
fore the people of this Congressional District,
for the responsible office of member to Con
gress, it becomes the duty of the people to
i inquire “Who is Robert. Toombs?" —And
what are his claims upon the people for their
suffrages?
As this investigation only pertains to Mr.
Toombs' public character, I have had refer
ence to the only sources of correct informa
tion, the journals of the Legislature.
THE VOTES OF A PATRIOT !
On the passage of the bill in the legislature
in 1837, to make an appropriation to pay the
expenses of the Georgia troops, to go to
Florida, Mr. Toombs voted against the appro
i priation. —See Journal of House of Rep. p. 94.
On the bill to appropriate money for the
I payment of supplies furnished the troops un
-1 dcr the command ofCapt. Richard Floyd, and
Capt. Win. P. Wilson, in 1835 and 1836,
Mr. Toombs voted against it. —See Journal
House of Rep. 1838, p. 359.
On the bill for the relief and to provide for
the support of certain invalid soldiers, render
ed so in consequence of wounds received in
the late Creek war; and also, to provide for
j certain widows and orphans of citizen sol
j 1
diers killed in battle in the late war with the
Creek Indians— Mr. Toombs voted against
the bill. —See Journal House of Rep. 1839,
p. 85.
On the bill to appropriate the sum of 600
dollars, or as much thereof as may be neces
sary, to pay the troop of Glynn county Huz
zars, for services and expenses— Mr. Toombs
voted against it. —See Journal, page 236.
SOUND CURRENCY VOTES!
On the bill to incorporate the Augusta and
Waynesboro’ Rail Road and Banking Com
pany, a motion was made to strike out so
much of the bill as relates to Bonking privi
leges—Mr. Toombs opposed it.—See Jour.
1833, page 158.
Mr. Toombs likewise sustained the Wilkes
Rail Road and Banking Company.
Mr. Toombs voted to incorporate a Bank
ing Company under the name and style of
the Merchants & Planters Bank of West
Point in 1837.—See Jour. House, p. 292.
Tin’s last Bank was something like the
great Pigeon Roost Bank.
The biii to change the name of the Bank
of Hawkinsville, and to impose that broken
and worthless concern upon the people under
a new name, Air. Toombs voted for.
The bill for the state to appropriate 200,000
dollars to that rotten and swindling Bank,
the Monroe Rail Road Bank, and after all its
swindling operations had been known and
sorely felt by the people,— Air. Toombs voted
for. He absolutely went so far on the 13th
December, 1842, as to formally protest against
the legislature not appropriating this 200,000
dollars.
On the motion to get the state to subscribe
for one half of the capital stock of the Bruns
wick and Florida Rail Road, Mr. Toombs
voted not to lay the report on the table, which
is virtually a vote in favor of the measure.—
See Jour. House of Rep, 1838, p. 331.
POOR PEOPLE AND POOR SCHOOL
VOTES!
“Andhe it.further enacted, That the sum of
60,000 dollars be, and the same is hereby ap
propriated out of any money in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated, as a common
school fund, for the year 1839, to be equally
distributed amongst the several counties in
this state, agreeable to an act, entitled an
act to establish a general system of education
by common schools.”— Mr. 'Toombs voted
against it. —See Journal 1839, p. 225.
A bill to abolish securities in this state, is
one of Toombs' hobbies—he seems desirous
of tearing off the last and only hope of the
poor, honest and frugal man to obtain the en
couragement and influence of wealthy men—
he has been trying for some years to abolish
securities —that done, and what will be the
condition of the poor?
“The house took up the report on the hill
of the Senate, more effectually to enable poor
persons to obtain their just rights.” Toombs
voted against it. —See Jour. House of Rep.
1842, page 463.
“The bill for the protection and preserva
tion of the rights and property of married
women, and to provide a remedy for the re
covery and sale of their property in certain
cases.” Mr. Toombs voted against. —See
Journal 1843. page 178.
Thus much, to-day, of Mr. Toombs’ acts in
the Georgia Legislature.—As soon as time
will permit I will continue to present addi
tional claims this gentleman has upon the
voters of our congressional district.
RICHMOND.
[From the X. Y. Evening Post.]
MR. CLAY IN THE RIGHT.
We are not of those who reject a truth be
cause it happens to be announced or acknowl- 1
edged bv an enemy. The great leader of the j
whig party himself, wrong as he is on so ma
ny questions of legislation, is right on some j
others, and now and then utters truths which
come in direct conflict with the theories of his
followers.
For example, the whig journals and speak- I
ers at whig meetings, are never tired of re
peating that log chains and fustians, and cot
ton sheetings, are not at all dearer for being
highly taxed by the tariff, but are in fact a
great deal cheaper. In this they are contra
dicted not only by common sense, but by the
father of the American system himself. Tiie
! following- words were uttered by Mr. Clay in
I Congress; they will be found in Gales and
Seaton's Debates, volume ix, page 465.
“If there is any truth in political economy, it can
not bo that the result would agree with the predic
tion —for we are instructed by all experience, that
the consumption of any article is in proportion to
tlie reduction of its price, and that in general it may
be taken as a rule, that the duty ujmjii an article
forms a portion of its price.”
Mr. Clay probably little thought when he
1 was uttering this plain truth, that it was to
i overset the beautiful theory which his follow
i ers have been building up with so much pains.
I The duty upon an article forms, says Mr.
Clay, a portion of its price. Let us take this
rule of Mr. Clay's along with us and try Mr
! Clay’s moderate and reasonable tariff by it.
Ox-chains pay four cents a pound on the
; iron of which they are made. This is com
puted to be about 175 per cent upon its value
1 The woodman therefore who spends ten dol
-1 lars in log chains, pay more than six of it
I either to the government or to the American
manufacturer. The duty, says Mr. Clay,
forms a portion of the price.
JSmothing irons pay two cents ami a half a
pound in Mr. Clay’s moderate and reasonable
tarilf. This makes an addition of about a hun
dred per cent, their to cost. According to Mr.
Clay’s bill, the laundress, for this implement
of her vocation, is taxed two dollars and a
half, out of every live which she pays for it.
Sugar pays two cents and a half a pound;
molasses pays four mills and a half a pound.
On these articles if Mr. Clay’s rule be true,
; the farmer pays, on an average, half the price
i that they cost here, either to the treasury or
I to the Louisiana planter.
We are charged with six cents duty on re-
I fined sugar. According to Mr. Cly, this forms
a part of the [trice, and we cannot sweeten
i onr tea without paying a tribute to Mr. Wool
| sey, who left England to help make a tarilf
j for Americans, of which he now reaps the
i benefit.
Salt pays a duty of sixteen cents on the
| hundred weight. This makes part of the price;
; it is paid to the government or pocketed by
| the salt bailor.
■ | Brass kettles are charged each twelve
j cents for every pound they weigh. If Mr.
■ | Clay’s rule be true, the tax goes into the pock
! ets of Phelps and Dodge.
1 i Fustians, the most durable of all cotton fab
! rics, pay a duty of more than their original
i cost. According to Mr. Clay, of every dollar
. j which the laborer expends fora pair of fustian
. j pantaloons, lie pays at least fifty cents to Mr.
Schenck, of Matteawan.
Shirtings are still more heavily taxed.—
.More than hall of what the laborer pays for
ins shirt, if there is any truth in Mr. Clay’s
rule, goes to the owners of the Lowell facto
| ries.
Printed calicoes are burdened with an equal
I tax. The farmer, when lie buys a calico
| frock for his wife which cost him two dollars
j and a half, pays the greater part of the money,
if we take Air. Clay’s rule for true, to Mr.
Simmons, or some otiier Rhode Islander.
We might go on (his way through the whole
of the tariff. It is true that when the duty is
so enormously high as to be wholly prohibi
tory, the price of the article is not always
raised in proportion to the amount of the duty.
But the only reason is, that, in such:cases the
duty is so heavy that if it were added to the
price, it would make the price so exhorbitant
that few would have the means to purchase.
The increase of price hv however, even in,
i such cases, an approximation more or less
| hear to the amount o£ the duty imposed, and
| Air. Clay in laying down the rule that the duty
is included in the-pricej uttered an important
general truth at the same time that he pro
nounced the severest condemnation of the
tariff which he now calls moderate and bene
ficial.
FREE BARBAGUE.
A Free B.v.rbacue will be given by the Demo
cralic party of Richmond County, on Saturday the
21st instant, at Brothersville, near the centre
*of the County. The Democratic Association ad
jonrned to meet at that place, at a time to be desig
nated by the President, who has selected the 21sf..
day of the present month. Our political opponents
' are respectfully invited, to partake of onr good
cheer, and hear the Democratic orators. Several
new speakers of great eloquence maybe expected..
G. A. INGRAHAM. Secretary.
CCF’ The following gentlemen compose the Com
mittee of Arrangements in the country, and will
please act accordingly.
Burch and Branham's District.—G. W. Twiggs,
Green B. Red, Robert Schley, Wm. Longstreet,
Geo. Cogle.
Bridge District. —J. D. Thomas, Thomas Dun
bar, Robert W. Harris, John D. Mongin, Floyd
Crockett.
Tarver's District. —E. J. Tarver, Wm. Byne,.
Henry Johnson, Win. A. Bugg, John A. Rhodes.
Rock District. —Thomas Skinner, Jno. McKin
ney, Abner Read, Floyd Thomas, Thomas Wylds.
DEMOGRATIC MASSMEETINOjN
COBB COUNTY, GEORGIA.
The Committee of Invitation, in compliance with
the wishes of the Democracy of Cobb, and other
adjoining counties, extend to their fellow-citizens
of the other counties of this State and of the States
of Alabama,Tennessee, North and South Carolina,
their warm and heartfelt salutations, and request
their presence, aid and co-operation, at Marietta,
on the 26th of the present month, in the effort then
and there to be made to give an additional impetus
to tlie Republican Ball which is now rolling over
and crushing Federalism throughout the length and
I breadth of the United States. We say come one—
■ come all—and partake of that feast for mind and
: body, which the Democracy will serve up for you
j on that day.
Distinguished individuals of this and the above
| named States will be invited to proclaim the prin
! ciples of the Democratic party, and expose the er
\ rors, inconsistencies and absurdities of the modem
j Whig party. We say, come Democrats, because
, you are our brethren.—come Whigs, because you
| should be, and it is our hearty desire, not as parti
; sans, but as southern freemen once more (as we did
[in 1829, : 30 and ’3l) to embrace you as brethren,
I and, with a united voice, proclaim—a Tariff for
. protection is unjust, unconstitutional ami oppres
-1 sive, and, in the spirit of a people determined not
to be enslaved, we indulge a hope that you may
j thereafter be heard to declare to your leaders—you
have forsaken your own and the faith of your
fathers, we w ill not, we dare not follow you.
j Ample preparations will be made fur the recep
j of thousands, we, therefore, .again say, COME.
c. j. McDonald,i
J. G. FARRAR, o*
J. LEAK, 3
J. S. ANDERSON, f S.
N. M. CALDER, ?
H. R. FOOTE, J ?
Marietta. September 4th. 1844. [sept 7
Philip D. Woolhofter, will act as
my attorney and have the charge of my business
during my absence from the state.
aug3l ISAAC MOISE.
{fcr W. MILO OLIN, Attorney at Law. Consti
tutionals Rage, Augusta. Georgia. Practices in
Richmond, Burke and Warren counties. f<]ee 5