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mt iSottflj-iDist #eo£|jwtL YOUNGBLOOD & ALLEN, I. SJHIi ©H®JE®S JSSff JT* PMirficd every Fritlay Morning, in the new Town of •Oglethorpe, Jflacon County,Ga., CHARLES B. YOUNGBLOOD, Editor and Publisher. EGBERT W. ALLEN, TRAVELING AgENT. TERMS—S 9 Per Pear in advance RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollar per square (of 12 lines or less) for the first nsertion, and Fifty Cents for each insertion thereafter. A liberal deduction will be made to those who adver tise by the year. Advertisements not specified as to time, will be pub lished till ordered out and charged accordingly. poetry. A Song for the Ladies* The glorious day is drawing gills, When women shall be free— When gowns and bonnet, caps and shawls, No longer we shall see ! Miss Webber, bless her heart sweet girl! Has put the scheme on foot, She leads the trump of male attire, And we must follow suit. We’ll dress in real “bifurcates,” girls, Willi glossy beaver hats; And don the most bewitching coals, And brummel-tied cravats. We’ll wear superb gilt bullions, girls, Upon our vest of buff— Bright, extra rich, plain, treble gilt, Flat surface that’s enough ! Oh! won’t we look bewiching, girls, When we’re so trimly drest 1 No mortal man can brave our charms, Though he may strive his best. Bfwhisker’d folks may envy girls, Our manly gard and airs; But let them fret until liiey tire— Poor fellows ! no one cares. Perhaps a few may “cut” us girls, And lay us on the shelves; But what of that ? we’ll crook our arms, And if they wont sav Marry, girls. We’ll call them sad galants; But come what will—float, sink or swim We’ll never yield our pants! Washing! on- BY J. W. CRYCb. He was the noblest hero of all time ! No princely rank on him ils false rav shed Nor crowned a kingly diadem his head; I No abject venal praise bis glories chime, Yet mortal name was never so sublime ! A braver champion, wise and true, ne’er * led To battle freedom’s host. The tyrant’s | dread. I Through deathless ages, and in every clime. His fame shall be the patriots priceless dower, Whose only triumphs for mankind were won, * Who, continue in Victory’s tempting hour Did thoughts of low ambition proudly shun, And quell within bis heart the lust of pow er, Leaving behind no name *o bright as Wash ington I THE AMERICAN UNION. At the opening of the Pacific Railroad at St. Louis, the Hon. Edward Bates, in his oration, made use of the following language; We need not dwell upon (hat darkest period of our history, the interval between the Declaration of Independence and the establishment of the Federal Constitu tion. Collapsed after the excitement of the Revolution, exhausted by the efforts of a seven years’ war, without trade, without manufactures, without the presti ges ofa name among nations, and the Slates bound together only by the feeble lies of the Articles of Confederation, our country stood in her utmost peril.—The kings of Europe looked on with the hope and expectation of seeing the failure of our republican experiment. The wisest of our countymen were at and the spirits of the bravest of our patri ots sunk within them. But the same good providence of Qod, which had shielded our fathers front the perils of the Rovolution was still ibver them. Hope was revived, courage renanimated, and virtue, and strength were given to our statesmen, and they were enabled to pro duce the glorious Constitution under whifh we live. It was made, as the preamble declares In order to form a more perfect Union j to establish justce, ensure domestic trun- qujlity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and the blessings of liberty to ourselves and 1 our posterity. And has not it accom plished to the letter, all its grand designs:* Never was a nation so blessed with all the elements of prosperity, and all the means of honest and virtuous power.— Individual comfort and national glory are not only within our reach, but are actually attained. Our territory, stretching across the breadth of the con tinent, is not only enough for us and our posterity, but enough also, to supply plentiful and happy homes to the landless and houseless millions of redundant Europe. Our nation, though yet green and vigorous in youth, stands a giant a mong the nations of the earth. Our flag floats with honor in every port. Our commerce whitens every sea; and the name of our country is published in the thunder arround the globe. And all these blessings are the fruits of that glo rious Constitution. Hence, of her sacred charter proud, Wih ev’ry earthly good endow’d, O’er land and sea unfurl’d, Columbia waives her standard wide— Hence seas her freighted navies ride, O’er rivers, lakes, and ocean’s tide, The wonder of the world! It is hard to conceive of an American citizen striving to overthrow that Consti tution, and plotting to dismember that great and growing nation. And yet the unwilling mind is forced to the conclu sion that our country has a few such na tural and parricidal sonS. Men, soured by disappointment perverted by false B dieas of sectional interests, and blinded to truth and reason by the madness of their own lawless ambition. Men whose morals do not restrain them from taking the oath of allegiance, while they are plotting treason—whose pride cannot deter them from dishonoring their fathers; and whose patriotism is not strong en ough to prevent them trom denouncing and desecrating all that history has re corded as great and good in the worthies of the Revolution. Men who, for the gratifiction of their own bad passions, would renounce all the blessings we now enjoy, to destroy the world’s last hope, and tear their country to pieces for the sake of ruling one of its lacerated frag ments. But, thanks be Gto od, they are pow erless for such mighty mischief. There is, pervading the whole mass of our peo ple, a deep-seated, heartfelt loyalty to our institutions. Whenever real danger shall present itself, millions of freemen will rally to the rescue and drive back or crush the foe, whether foreign or domes tic. Before one line of the Constitution shall he erased or one stone removed from the Capital, by treacherous conspiracy or hostile violence, thousands and thousands of loyal freemen will die in its defence. But if, in the wrath of Heaven, some ambitious leader should be allowed to ac-; complish the awful ruin, his name would go down to posterity a blackened monu ment of parricidal crime. Living, he would bear the execration of the wise and good throughout all Christendom: and in his own desolate land— Maids and matrons on his name, Would call down wretchedness and shame And infamy and weo— Woe to the traitor —woe ! GOV. OLLIER’S POSITION. Sjj The Southern Rights’s press of Geor gia claim Gov. Collier as belonging to their party. If he had belonged to it lie would not have been elected, as the re turns demonstrate. But this is not ilia only evidence we have of his being Union man, He denies that secession i§ a nssei ' ts <e.* t lion to be exercised, as” Gen. Jackson said in his proclamation as a Insl-reiurt.- He differs in toto from Gov. MeDonlld, who thinks (he right flows from ‘our govs ernmental organization,’ and agrees with Madison, Jackson and the Georgia plat form in this particular. How then can he be considered a Southern rights man in the sense in which the phrase is used ? In another column, on the inside of the paper, will be found an article beaded “what tve may expect, ”in which the object of that Southern Congress, called by McDonald’s Nashville Convention, is defined. We wish j it carefully read, for be it remembered, that if Me. is elected, that Congress will assemble. OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2>, 1851. | WHO IS AFRAID TO SPEAK OUT. Bin- neighbor ot the Times, still in sifjEtes that Mr. Cobb is afraid to meet tligjPkojlionists, and discuss the greal q ll eSttiHou which the people are to rle cide ini-Hfccoming eletions. How is this ? Mr. C<H®M|£ry where proposes to meet MrDonone else who is au thorized t ( ’ mHBL in his name and for whose views anfLimressions McDonald will hold himseirp*musible. Who else should he meet ? are hundreds of men that would likSfc be pulled into notoriety by hanging would be unwilling to be resnoifcsiblc.— Such men Mr. Cobb will not cotttgiii to discuss these great matters with. tie. is notified however to stand on the Gebrs gia Platform and defend the integrity of the Union and the value of the existing government belore the people of Geor gia. This he intends to do every where. Bat how stands his competitor? Where is the bugle blower of Mr. Rhett ? Do we find him blowing his horn for a South ern Congress ? Docs he ceme forward and proclaim the fact that he and his master. Rhett, are bent on destroying tlie Union? That lie and Quitman are blowing the bugle to rouse up the slum bering people of Georgia and Mississippi to a sense of their rights, and that when they are awakened they are to rush blind folded into the darkness of despotism ? We ask again, where is McDonald ? Shall we give the answer ? He it seems has taken up with the chivalry of South Carolina. lie will not condescend to mingle with the people and give his views about that Southern Congress. Oh no! He is the caudate for the short-tailed ar istocracy, who are a little better than vul gar men ! The people have no right to his opinions Mum is the wo id with hint,- But litis will serve no voie.geuing purposes. We ail recollect that he was prominent: in the Nashville that vile assemblage which -.endeavored to place the South in a yvj ;ong position, we all recollect that hp presided over the Macon Convention, where disunion was openly avowed and victoriously applaud ed : we all knbw that lie is in favor of a Southern Congress, the very object of which is to form a Southern Confederacy and dissolve the Union, What more do the wish id know? He may then assume an unfelt dignity and stay at home and keep mum, or like a man come forth and meet his competitor—it will be all the same, lie is a.dead cock in the pit, and the people will show him on the fust Monday in October that no man who blows the bugle for Rhett can sit in the Exciitive Chair of Georgia.— Columbus Enquirer. From the Union Banner. Alessrs Editors: —Down here in the wingrass , we have not got the righ hang of things, and 1 have been requested to ask you to post us up on certain matters. Who is this Judge McDonald who is running against Cobb ? There is a dis pute i down here, as to his | identity . — Some say lie is the man who presided at the Nashville Convention—the mail who wanted a Southern Congress, and a Southern -Confederacy. Some say lie is the same McDonald who was president of the Disunion meeting at Macon, when the fire-eaters talked of temporary seces sion, gun-powder, and coffins, A few deny his being there at all. Some say afasu the McDonald who is running a- Cobh is a disunionisls—others swear Cobb’s opponent is a bully Union man. One will declare that the McDonald he is going to vole for, is on the Geor gia Platform. Another with a big oath, will bet he is not; while a third w ith equal warmth he has not, he will, and that he has the documents to prove it. One gen. tleman a good old citizen, who does not meddle in politics, asks me if titis man McDonald is the same who ‘spitle’ Cen tral Bank money, when lie was governor before, by which lie lost one hundred dol lars discount; another hottest old joker, wanted to know, if it*is the aid who promised relief to the people re lief before his election and alterw ards. taxed them twenty-five per cent. Many think it is the same man, some few doubt, and all would like to know. And as it is impossible to settle these disputes among ourselves, we have all concluded to leave the matter with yourst-lves and the editors of the Telegraph, and shall look anxious ly to the two papers for the removal of nur doubts. OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD IS OURS. E. B.—l would also enquire if Rhett and his bugle-men. McDONALD and QUITMAN, succeeded in blowing up the Union, whether we old soldiers, who fought in the wars will get our land war rants. WIRE GRASS. Kush for the Georgia Platform. The fire-eaters are just at this time ma king a trniendous rush for the Georgia IHatform. They seem to be making a preconcerted effort to take forcible pos session of it, and, if possible, to drive ofl\ the rightful owners.—The disunion ora’ tors—the disunion presses—and the very street brawlers, nearly all profess to be standing upon the Georgia Platform! jjUlßjsyif them even pretend to have a bel ter elalSkto that noble structure’ than the men \vh#n*de it. They profess to be the best—thexery best, Union men in the world—mddl|Lof patriotism, and of devotion to the gqjjtmient. What is the meaning of all this? Has the “Ethiopian changed, his skin, or the leopard his spots? that men who villified anil abused the Uiiion last year, should now pretend to be its best friends Are these men honest?Ar- they sincere? Or are they, indeed andfctjutji, making the Union a ‘masked battery il! Have they seen the error of their ways? or are they striving to derieve and cheat the people into their support by false pre tences and false professions? is it like ly—is it probable— that they love the government any belter now than they did when they threw up their hats and shouted for disunion last year? Does any man who is not an idiot* or a knave, suppose that the. ‘l'imes and Sentinel of Southern , of Rome, tUtrEpiisltutionalist and Repub lic, of Augusta the Georgian, of Savan nah, the Telegraph, at Macon, and the -organs of that party are less hostile to the Union now than they were when they bodly declared for open Resistance, Se cession and Disunion last year? The thing is absurd. To what conclusion then must the honest voters of Georgia be driven? What opinions must they be likely to entertain of those who are ma king these hollow and hypocritical pro fessions ? Suppose a body of men were to visit the house of a planter at midnight, with faces black with bat, and with horrid im precations on their lips, attempt to farce an enlcrance to despoil him of his goods, and to tare down his shelter which his father had erected for the protection of his wife and children. Suppose the planter was to succeede in driving back these murderous bmglars, and overwhelming them with defeat, would he be likely to trust them, if, on the succeeding night, they should return with professions of friendship on their lips ? Would he not be likely to regard them as enemies in disguise—as very imps of satan—unwor thy of quarter —unworthy of his confi dence or respect ? Would he be likely to ‘kill the fatted ealP—to invite them in and give them seats of honor at his hos pitable board ? Smreiy no sensible man would be guilty of folly like this. Such is precisely the present position of those disuninriists who now claim to occupy the Georgia Platform. Last year they attempted to destroy the Union by storm.—They were discomfited, bea ten, driven back overwhelmed by the people. Then, they ‘hated the Union like b—ll.’ Now, they come like Judas to betray it with a kiss. Will they voters trust them! Will they beslow offices an I honors upon them? Will the allow them to occupy high places in their con fiidence and esteem ? Will they not rather mark every man of them, and con sign them to political’banishment during their natural lives?—This is just the question to be settled on the first Monday in October. Let every honest man on that day beware of ‘wolves in sheep’s clotihng., • Discussion. We noticed a few days since that Mr. Cqiiß had made several appointments to address his fellow-citizens of the Cherokee counties. We have since learned from Air. Coßß’scard, published in the Athens Bunny, that lie has extended a public invitatiot) to Judge McDonald to attend all his appointments in Cherokee, and participate on equal terms with him in public discussion. Because lvlr. Cobb would not be inierruped in the course of his appointments in South Western Geor gia, by every driveling politician he met, wiio had no principle of his own and knew less of McDonald’s, he was twitted with the cry. He wont debate. Mr. Coßlt being engaged on the side of virtue and the Constitution against a vicious and corrupt triumvirate, and having nothing to conceal, is determined to carry the War into Africa. His appointment for the 23d insi., is at Maiietta, the head quarters of Rhett’s bugleman, and we will now see who ‘wont debate.’ JT Front the Union Banner. / Keep at Before tlie People* “ Keep it before the people. —That there exists a fixed determination on the part of the English Government, backed by tlie popular sentiments of that nation, and In ker press, to dissolve tlie North American Union ! Keep it before the people —That Eng land is at tilts lime, by a1 i tlie means she can bring to her aid, fanning into a flame, of abolition at die North, ami disunion at the South? Keep it before the people —That tlie proceedings of the late Charleston Seces. sion Convention, were hailed by the peo ple of England, w hit the most extrava gant joy, ns the entering wedge towards the destruction of a government and peo ple, she lias in vain tried to subdue by iter mercenary armies, headed by the jnost valiant Generals ! jKL j 1 Keep it before the people —That thin ‘proceedings of tkxuiid CharWtoiV Con- j venlioti, the tume and spirit, of the (ire, eating ptescat the North, Have led all the people afl|Eftgland to look upon the dissolution of our happy Union, as a fix ed fact, to be expected with certainly, by the enemies pf popular constitutional liberty throughout the world ! Keep it before the people —That as a consequence of tlie disruption of this Un ion, a deadly antagonism will take place among the several Slates, and that whilst we are warring among ourselves, Great Britain, which will have had a finger in the getting up of die difficulties between us, will come and geather her lions share of the spoils! Keep it before the people —That the British G ivernmenl has already held out to South Carolina, the prospect of Brit- by British treaties, and, may be, by British arms, if the comes to the worst ! Keep it before the people —That such allianre with our. deadliest enemv, on the pari of South Carolina and her Southern Confederacy ofStates, would be but en tering within the coils ofthe Boa Ccnslric* tor, whose embrace has proved the sub jugation and national death of every pow er wbich’-lias confided in her integrity and gentle embraces, since the American Revolution! Keep if before the people —That a dis olulion ofthe LTnion, will be the certain destruction of slavery and all dial we hold dear, and that alliance with England will as certainly lead to the liberation of our servile population, as that England has accomplished tne destruction of slavery in the British West /tidies! Keep it before the people —That Illicit, McDonald and Quitman, in this western world, are “ blowing a bugle,” wich is rocking tlie Union to its centre, and ihrentning it with retain destruction; whose wild notes, too, send a thrill of ‘extravagant joy, through the rotten pol luted aristocratic hearts ofevery monarch ist in Europe ! And, finult/, let it be kept bejore the People —That a catastrophe such as is threatened to the Union, by its disguised or open foes at home or abroad , can only be prevented by united, uniJimiuished ef fort on the part of all true lovers of the Union, beneath whose banner of the glo rious stars and stripes, Warren fell, Wash ington fought, anil the brave soldiers of the line, endured hardships nnd pri vations, which nothing but a sincere de votion to their country, and a desire to transmit to their posterity, a model Gov ernment, could have induced them to en counter! A GOOD SIGN OF THE TIMES. Almost every man who lias had any thing to do with the poiltiecs of Georgia (or the last quarter ol a century, knows Orion Stroud, ns a port patriot, a slraight fowaril gentleman of great personal worth and influence. They will read his letter below with the more interest, because they must feel confident that his couise will be but an index to that ol many oth ers of tlie pure, peace-loving property., holders of the South, /t will be seen that Mr. Stroud is tried of this cverlust | TERMS: $2 in Advance. ing excitement, nnd Jdesires to have the whole question settled upon the basis of the Georgia Convention. Let pure and good men read what lie says, and go and do likewise : Monroe, Ga., July 2,1851. Dear Sir :—You well know that last year in the election of the Convention, I acted with what was called the ‘Southern Rights party.’ 1 did so because 1 was apprehensive that the Un shm party would not pass such resolutions as>l wanted—perhaps they might ad jourrythe Convention and pass none. I was n\t i:i favor of resistance or disunion, or anything of the sort; 1 have always been a Union man. The Convention ol last year met and passed their preamble and resolutions, known now as the ‘Geor gia Platform.’ I approve of that plau form ; I Relieve it is as near right as such a number of men could make any tiling, and such a platform was all that the ‘Southern Rights’ men in the country — at least so far as I know —said they want ed ; and I cannot, for my life, see whv all who acted w ith me then, cannot now, with perfect consistency, stand upon it. The Union of the South is what we wantr ed, and all the Southern States, excejp Carolina, have adopted substantially this .platform ; and now an effort has bJEfn ngK|c, nn;l is a par ty in Gwigi. .-•List her own position, and to prevent the very thing which we Southern Rights men have been clamor ous for, to wit: Union in the South, it is even contended for by the papers and the Convention of this party, that a State may seceede from the Union at her own will and pleasure, without pretending any violation of the Conslution, and this at a lime when all the efforts of the wisest ant! best men of South Carolina, and of all true triends of the South, and the union of the South, are needful to keep her from takig this step, and separating her. self not only from the North, but firm her sister States of the South. This is nei ther the Southern Rights nor Democracy which I remember, ofthe limes of Gen. Jackson; and I feel willing Cos act, and shall act with that party which is opposed to all such new doctrines. But I am extending (his letter too far. / simply wished to send for your paper, and while doing so, 1 thought I would explain to you how 1 had acted, and where / stand. I have known HOW ELL COBB from boyhood ; 1 believe him to be as honest and sound n politician as / have ever seen, and 1 shall support him with as hearty good w ill as I have ever supported hint since he has been before the people. Respectfully, your friend, ORION STROUD. Hopkins Hulsey, Esq., Ed. Banner. Mr. MADISON’S VOICE. The following was among the last pro ductions that emanated from Mr. Madi, son’s pen. /t was petted not long before his death ; Advice to my Country. —As this ad vice if it ever should see the light, w ill not do so until /am notnore, it may be considered as issuing from tne tomb, where truth alone can be respected and the happiness of men alone consulted.— It will be entitled, therefore, to whatever weight can be derived from good inten tions, and from the experience of one who lias served his country in various stations through a period of forty years; who espoused in his youth, and adhered through his life, to the cause of liberty; and who lias borne a part in most of tlie great transactions which will constitute epochs in ils destiny*. The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my conviction is, that the un* ion o f ihe States be cherished and perpel. ttaied. Let llie open enemy to it be re garded as a Pandora with her box open, ed, and the disguised one as the serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into Para dise. Can a person, who is either openly or eov erily endeavoring to bring about a dissolu tion of the Union, consistently lake the oath of office required by the Constitution! Can Charles J, MiDonald, the President of the Nashville Convention, which ordered the holding of a Southern Congress, for the pur pose of taking measures to dissolve the Un ion and form a Southern Republic, swear to support tlie Constitution ofthe United States! Certainly, with all his foul disunion senti ments, lie would not he base enough even to attempt to lake the oath of office, should ha be elected Governor of Georgia. Certainly no man can swear to support that which ha is enileii voting to destroy. NO 19