The South-west Georgian. (Oglethorpe, Ga.) 1851-18??, August 22, 1851, Image 2
What we Imv Expect.
It would be well for the people seriously
to enquire hat they are to gait)in thee-
Jectiju of Mr, McDmuhlJ nrr the tri
uropb ol his party .Let u.s for a moihwff
imagine him insrallen into office, and
backed by a Legislature whose opinions
and feeling are in harmouy with his own. j
Having taken ground in the canvass a. !
gainst thesoleino action of the Slates last j
winter in Convention assembled by which
Georgia ww conimited to aaquiesre in
the cuuiproniise measures, and (lie peo-
pie having elected them with a full knowl
edge of their sentiments, of course, the
popular will, as expressed through live
ballot box, will form the basis of execu
tive and legislative action. No sooner
does be assume the Gubernatorial robes,
than all the prerogatives ofliis bitrli office
will he exercised by Governor McDons
aid to place Georgia in nit attitude of re.
instance to the General Government. As
President ol the Nashville Cohvetitiou,
he w Mice/ himself bound, ifi good faith, |
to execute its behests. A special mes
sage will the re rare dojbtless be despatch
ed through his private secretary, to both
Houses, approx i.og of the call of a South
ern Congress by the Nashville Conven
tion, advising the election ot delegates to
Congress, and recommending the neces
sary appropriation to defray their tx
paw s. This will constitute Appropria
tion No. 1.
i he design of this Southern Congress,
as we learn froth a distinguished member
of the Naihvitle Convention, is—
-Ist. To require, by solemn resolve,
that Congress shall rescind the Wilniot
Proviso as applied to the Territory of
Oregon.
2<l. Remand California back* into ter
\ritoria| pupilage, and only receive her a
||ujn its a State .with circumscribed boun
daries and the slavery clause in her con.
siiintion rescinded.
,J|rd. Require ilia repeal of the law pro
liibititig i lie slave the Distr^^j
4th. In case Congress tefuses compli
ance to these demands, to recomfnend
immediate secession and (he organization
of a Sotithern eonfederaev.
The foregoing will give the reader an
insight into the plans of the Nashville
patriots. Every one must perceive at a
glance, that if consummated, they must
inevitably lead to disunion. This Messrs.
Rhett and McDonald knew—this they
still know— this they all know.
Having put Georgiu in an altifuile of
defiance, the next step will be to imitate
Sooth Carolina, and put Iter in a candi.
tion of defence. For this purpose money
will be required. South Carolina last
winter appropriated three hundred thou
sand dollars for the purchase of arms,
ammunition, kc.. to enable her to carry”
out her doctrine of peaceable secession.—
As Georgia is a much larger State, a lar
ger sunt will be requisite say’ five hun
dred thousand dollars, to prepare her for
peaceable secession. As under the v ery
guardianship nurture ol Gov. McDonald
the old Central Rank died in his arms,
leaving the people to pay its funeral ex
penses, it would he highly desirable that
he should give the people a second exhi
bition ofliis financial skill. It is true, as
in the case of the Central Bank, the peo
ple may have to pay the piper ; but what
oj that? With cotton at five cents, and
no baccn and corn to feed the children
and negroes ; a tax of four or five dollars
per head should be given to enable Mr.
McDonald to try Ids hand at peaceable
secession, and profitable banking; and al
so, in association with Ivir. RlieU to furn
ish, out of the ruins of the present wretch
vd apology for a government, a inodi-l
Republic fir the South.
But in all seriousness, we would ask
the people if they are willing to he sad
dled w ith enormous taxes to carry out the
Quixotic schemes of the Nashville dis
nuionists l Look at the tax bills of South
Carolina and Mississippi under the rule
of the disunion—Msuns and Quitman !
Should McDonald and his party succeed
—which Heaven forbid ! —we may anti
cipate the same state ol things in Georgia.
At the opening of the Legislature, an ap
propriation of Irom three or five hundred
thousand dollars w ill be urged to enable
Georgia to imitate the ridiculous example
ol South Carolina. Fellow Citizens,
will; famine casting its gaunt shadow o
ver the prospective, are you ready to
plunge yourselves into difficulties that
know no terminusf If so— vote for
CHARLES J. McDonald, the pres
sdent of the Nashvill Convention !
Hume Cuurie.
From the Suvuniuih Republican.
A PiiruHi t-Joim Forsjrth and
Howell Cobb.
Thecircumst.litres wifirh now surround
Howell Cobb arc very analogous to those
which surrounded that glorious son t.f
Georgia, John Forsyth, during the ex
citing day Notification ii 1832 and’33.
Forsyth, then a Senator from Georgia
in the Congress of the U Idled .States, was
one of the first men to step forward in
the defence qf the Union of the States.—
After having battled for the Union in our
Slate in the Summer and Fall of 1832,
he continued (he goob fight in his place
ut Washington. Oobb lias done the
W” - . , . ,T > ■ |
same—lie lias supported tjie -Union at
home in his own. .State and at ‘Washing
ton. Forsyth, was at the time of the com
mencement of the Nullification contest,
trading democrat with a national repn.j
la t ion. Cobb, before the Compromise
ocrtipietr*fi position in the Democratic
party equally as distinguished as that of
j Forsyth. Aftfc eH'h had acted decidcd
tlv fir the Union, men in 1*833 and in
ISS!, made the wonderful discovery that
they were renegades.
Ask any opponent of Cobb in what
particular he ha.s violated bis principles
as a democrat, and be fails to .point it out.
To lie sure, the Federal Union, whose
wires have been pulled for the lust five
years by a certian pink ot judicial piety
(who wireil the last Georgia Convention,
bv saying lie had contempt for the whole
pack,) says it was always opposed to his
vote on the Oregon Bill. But no demo
crat ever pretended to read Howell Cobb
out of the party for that: or he would
have been obliged to read James K.
Polk out with him; and that was rather
too strong even for many of the self-con
stituted judges of Democracy in the State
of Georgia.
Well, Forsyth and Cobb had each]
earned for themselves distinguished nas
dona! reputation. Os course, Forsyth
was older man at that time than Cobb is
now, and had served abroad in a diplo
matic mis.ion; yet young as Mr. Cobb
is, the distinguished ability with which
be filled the Speaker's clctir, libs conferred
the highest natronaF reputiow* ‘upon him.—
Now in relation to tliiS'Vory kind of reputa
tion, thniejw ! always individuals who enact
the jva** of the Fox in the well known fable
ol .-Gfop, is depreciating the fruit they can
mil readi. In each case, tlio charge of a
corrupt ambition after Federal honors was
made. Now when Howell Cobb was elec
ted speaker of the House, there certainly
was great re joy ring amongst the Democrats
of Georgia. No single Democratic press
charged any undue ambition upon him.
Mujbii as in Forsyth's case, the moment he
p|Hk|Liiii>sel[ into the ranks as a champion of
the Unit; change came o’er the spit it da
their dr , eanii|wic l •rillkugkh’ low abuse of
his motives and character have hern urciibi
ted by the very presses Which tbnjipriy up-
Thc abuse of Mr. Cobh is contiiiqed daily,
and there is no use of reciting it here. 1
will content myself with .laying before my
readess, a few toasts given at the Slates
Rights festival at Forsyth Monroe County
in honor of the lion. J. M. Berrien, on the
20 1 ii June, 1833. It must be remembered
that Forsyth had voted in the Senate for the
Bill known as the force Bill. Os this bill,
and of the opinions held in Georgia about it
then, I may give some reminiscences in a
future communication.
The following are the toasts:
Sent by Wilkins Jackson, of Jones—John
Forsyth : When he shall he judged let him
be condemned: Let his prayer become
sin; let his days bo few, and let another take
his office.
By W. H. Mitchell, of Hillsboro—John
Forsyth: Georgia’s apostate Senator, who
glided into the Gubanotoiial chair upon his
own boasting terms, lam always leadyj’or
trunk In 1832, when called upon bv the
people ol Georgia in their sovereign capaci
ty to come to trial, skulks off with the poor
pitiful excuse, 1 am not ready.’
* Sent by Cutbhertjßeese Esq., of Hillsboro.
Forsyth and Wayne. Deserters for their
political ranks, gone over to the enemy; may
they he tried by the citizens of Georgia and
condemned to he exiled from the office for
life.
By Ishtim S. Rainey, of Newnan—For
syth and Wayne being weighed in the bal
ances, ate found wauling; may they receive
the just retribution of an indignant people.
These anathemas bad no effect or. the
brilliant career of Georgia's favorite.son. —
Death mowed him down at a moment when
the Democracy of the whole Union had be
gun to turn their eyes-to him as the next
Democratic candidate for PiosidoM.
Had he lived up to this time, it is easy to
decide upon which side lie would now lie
found. The man who so boldlv did bis duty
to his country in 1833, would not shrink
from any responsibility now. To be sure,
in this case we would have had a queer spec
tacle presented to us, of the son lecturing
the father,
John Forsv th, jr, the present editor of the
Columbus Times, would be called upon to
stigmatize his father as a submissionists.—
That, bv the way, was the very epithet that
used to be applied to ns Union Democrats
of 1833. John Fursvth supsorted and voted
for the Forco Bill, a Bill which Mr McDuf
fie said hurried the Constitution. Can it be
doubted that if alive he would have suppor
ted tlm Compromise of 18501 1 think not
U is fairly presumable that Howell Cobb
will survive politically all the aSusn heaped
upon him. He lias been highly complimen
ted by the fact that the very men who had
voilently opposed him on the old party issues
of Wbiggery and Democracy, were the first
to suggest Ids mime us a candidate for Gov
ernor. The charge of his being started in
Washington City is supremely ridiculous.
It is notorious that lie was spoken of us a
candidate during the session of the Georgia
Convention last Fall. lie firmly seated in
die affections of liie pewplu of Geoigin, hence
his nomination, lienee, the spontaneous ex
pression of opinion in his favor from every
section of the State:
A Bright lewaid uwnits him. The peo
ple will confirm his nomination by a majori
ty never liefote given to any candidate.
A Union Democrat of 1832 &, 1833
The present crisis is an important one,
and the people of Georgia should be very
careful how they make their choice,—
Howell Cobh is the man.
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—JggSi
THE S#TB.rVEsfSmAN
OGLETHORPE,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22,1851.
FOR (JO\ r ERiNOIf,
HON. II OWELL COBB
OF CLARKE COUNTY.
FOR CONGRESS:
JAMES JOHNSON,
Os Muscosee.
Agents for the South-West Georgian,
Stenckr Cai.dwell, Fort Gaines, Ga
Jeter A. Hogue, wear Americas, do.
J. P. Gaulden, liainbridge, do.
Col. Wm. T. Perkins, Cuthlcrt, do.
G. Carithers, Esq. Cvtlibert, do.
Gilbert M. Stokes, Slade, Lee co. do.
Dr. Wm. M. Stokes, Dooly co. jktiSt,
M. L. Holman, lirootsrillc,
A. A, Blakely, Griffin, P^sArnff do,
Jon.v W. Griffin, do.
J. TANARUS, May, Francimttlt, do.
A. J. Ii for Sumter co.
CT’We u tkc attention of our
subscribers Uwour published Terms, and re
quest l!uJj who have not complied, to do
so ivithiHdpyelay, as our expenses are con
stamlyiSpvmg on, and without the means
we catfiVot lessen them.
If payment is not made by the Ist of
October, we w ill he compelled to claim an
(additional Fifty Cents on each subscriber
then in arrears.
Change in our Publication Bay.
Wo have been induced from several con
siderations, to change our publication day lo
Friday, instead of Thursday. This will en
able man subscribers to gat their pa- i
per a day earlier uftetjjublished than they
now do. ‘ V ,
(£?“The first new bale of cotton, was
received here on the 14th inst. It was
raised by Mr. Geo. E. Pless, living in
half a mile of the city. It sold for 9cts.
(t/*VVe call attention to the Card of
Messrs. Horne k Bro. No Planter
need fear to entrust his business with them
that he desires faithfully’ attended to.
also call altenlion to the Ad
vertisement of Henry Lothrop, of Sav.
The Secession Hobby.
We cannot for our life see the necessity
of discussing the right of secession in the
present political canvass, unless the party
who are urging the discussion and claiming
the tight, are determined to exercise it by
forcing Georgia to secede from the Union.
It is certainly useless to be contending for'a
right, when the party contending have no de
sire to exercise that right. A few of the dis
union party admit there is no call for imme
diate secession, but from the tone of the se
cession papers and speakers, it requires no
extraordinary efi’urt to discover that seces
sion or dissolution of the Union is what the
great mass of the party are striving for,and
if thwerted in the latter for the want of the
co-operation of other States, they are des
perately determined to accomplish the for
mer.
r I lie Union party of Georgia have never
denied the right of secession as a remedy for
unconstitutional impositions upon a State,
which is plainly to be seen from the 4th res
olution of the Georgia Platform. That res
olution declared, that upon the happening
es certain things, Georgia would resist, even
to a disruption of every tie that binds her to
the Union: This is all that any man can
desire, unless he is in favor of immediate
disruption.
But the McDonald party say they are in
favor of peacable secession, well, if the un
happy day should ever arrive that made se
cession necessary for the good of the State,
there is not a Union man in it but would pre-
fer its being done peacabty , but nt th ■ same
time, the Union party hold that it is wrong
for a single State to exercise the right of se
cession, unless she lias the consent of all the
ollmr Sihies, as such an act would, perhaps,
injure them, and thereby be a violation of
the obligations of the Federal Compact.
We are of the honest opinion tlmjf if Mc-
Donald is elected there will bq an effort
made to bring about secession. Suppose
this should be the case und Georgia, under
his administration sliunld secede, even peac
ably, who would be able to bear the tremen
dous taxation that would necessarily have to
be imposed upon the people, to support the
young republic of Georgia? But can sho
cteedn pencnhly, even if such a right wn
acknowledged by all? We believe not, tile
interests -of all the Slates are so identified
that it would be impossible. Then it must
be done forcibly to some extent or not at all,
Here* we would find created at once a civil
war, and an additional tax imposed to carry
out that war. Who is prepared for all this?
Certainly the Disunion party are led on
j blindly by a set of ambitious, black-hearted
office seekers, who as a last resort for politi
cal elevation, seek to build themselves on the
wreck of their country. They ceitainly do
not see the end to which their political course
is tending, or they are untrue to the cause
of liberty. Voters of Georgia, will you
support a man for Governor who is weded to
Disunion, and thereby destroy your peace
mid prospetity as a people and as a State,
involving your selves in war and
will you turn about and support a
is laboring to restore peace and hanKpis to
the country, through the influencehon
orable compromise? We feel that
prefer the latter.
invite you, if you would awpitiitging about
your own destruction, tqJflH ffdr Cobb and
the. Union; Torn nwaMghm McDonald,
Secession and ruinM^^m
UanM| August sth 1851.
Wm. 11. Rou^JpEsQ:
Deaß^Sir; —The undersigned have been
apmMtgpH a committee to inform yon that
v6u‘were this day unanimously nominated by
the Union Party of Macon County, as their I
candidate for the lower branch of the next
legislature of this Slate and we earflfestly ask
your acceptance of titosame; from the confi
dence we have in yourinlegrity and ability we
feel assured.tbal oui cause and the cause of
the Union will he safe in your hands With
our best wishes for the success of the party
in this county and State, we are
Truly Yours,
G. H. SLAPPY,
N. BRYANT,
W. VV. CORBITT.
Committee.
LaNier, August, 15 1851.
Gentlemen: —Yours of the sth inst inform
ing me of my nomination by the Union Par
ty of Macon County as a candidate for Rep
resentative in the next Legislature, and so
liciting my acceptance, has been received.—
I accept the nomination.
As one of the delegates from this County
to the State Convention, 1 voted for the Pre-
amide and Resolutions of the Committee of
thirty known as the Georgia Platform.
I believcd|Uen in the principles and policy
therein set forth.—My observation and expe
rience confirms me in that belief.
Allow me to teuUqjr to you gentlemen, and
through you to the Party, my grateful ac..
knowledgenients for this renewed manifesta
tion of their regard and confidence.
Your obedient Servant
WM. H. ROBINSON.
To George H. Shippy, Nathan Bryan, W-
W. Corbitt, Committee.
Progress of the Campaign.
We give below some extracts from letters,
received from highly respectable gentlemen
in different portions of South Western Geor
gia, together with extiacts copied from the
Union Banner:
Brooksvili-e, Randolph Cos., August 10.-
Cobb’s Prospects in this section arc daily
growing brighter—Me. and Disunion don’t
seem to lake well w ith the ‘wool-hat boys.
Homestead, Macon Cos. August 16—1
have just returned fiotn a tour through Lee,
Randolph and Sumpter counties, and wher
ever 1 have been, Howell Cobb will carry
everything by storm. In some portions of
these counties you cou’.d hardly find a Me..
Donald man with a starch- warrant. Cobb’s
speeches have gained him hundreds of votes.
Fort Gaines, Early Cos;, August 12.
l have strong reasons to believe that Early
will come out right side up yot. Cobb’s
speeches have settled the question, he will
get a small majority in fire-eating Early.
Cijthbf.rt, Randolph Cos. Aug. 10.—The
cause of the Union is steadily advancing,
Cobb will get a larger majority than was giv
en for the Union Idst fall.
Buena Vista, Marion Cos Aug. 15.
Politics are raging high here, the Fire-eaters’
are daily abandoning their unholy warfare
against the Union. Cobb’s majority in this
county will be overwhelming.
Knxville, Crawford Cos. Aug. 11 Our
cause is gaining ground, the few who v in the
beginning of the canvass, were peisuaded to
leave us are docking back to the support of
the Union. Crawford will do her duty at the
approaching election.
Rome, Floyd Cos.. July 29th.—I am
just front old Habersham—saw Gen’l
Wofford —who says Habersham will give
Hiliyer and Cobb the largest majority ev
er given in llie county in proportion to
i tlie vote. Ttfc gable’ end is all right.—
Don’t if the sth and 6th
ivex Cobb 10,000 majority.
Gainesville, Hall Cos., July 25.—The
nomination of Cobb takes well here. 1
think we can safely calculate upon a ma
jority of 400 in the county. Our Con
gressional and Senatorial candidates ore
very strong.
Palmetto, Campbell Cos., Aug. Ist.
The canvass is r.ot yet fairly opened in
this County. Cobb is decidedly stron
ger now than he was a month ago. All
the people want is correct information.
McDoNALD and WASHINGTON-
The Southern Advertiser , a small sleet
published at Buena Vista, Marion coun
ty, in its disregard ot truth, surpasses
even the Federal Union in the palmiest
days of the Bull-Frog Regency , In his
paper of the Dili inst., the editor
j takes to give the whereabouts of
J. He says: ajfl
Positively be is in the samejdpflbn as ‘
that which Washington, Jef
ferson Mudisoti and the old
cowardly tories occudffTn the revolu
tionary war! ! Am
W as hingUmi^^jjHp|ust! Washing
ton in f a v<y*pdes(royThg the very gov
cn*iHcny*jpi he perilled his life and
! Washington, Frank
jppb Jefferson and Madison, all labored to
firanie the present constitution. Is it
likely that they thought they were man
ufacturing a bom-shell to blow the Union
to atoms!
If tins were all true, and the Buena
Vista Editor had been the first to make
the discovery, he would certainly have
been doomed to immortality ! It appears
however, from another article in this pa
per, that the discovery was made some
where out West—that a certain Mr. Ruf
fin of North Carolina, attempted recent
ly to avail himself of it, by first cutting it
out of a newspaper, then pinning it into
the life of Marshall, and then reading it
out ol the life of Marshall, to the people
yf Nor'h Carolina J
He was caught, exposed, disgraced
and defeated as he ought to have been.
Any man who would attempt such a fraud
is worse than Murrell himself. Benedict
Arnold was a gentleman to him. Ar
nold did attiempl to betray his country;
hut nold never was base enough to slan
der George Washington.
Journal Messenger.
WASHINGTON, NO SECES,
SIONIST.
The people are requested to be very
cautious how they receive the statements
of the disunion orators and presses. Thev
are evidently driven to desperation
and are resolved not to hesitate at any
means however dishonorable, to accom
plish their purpose. Candidates for high
offices have been detected recently in the
most disreputable and disgraceful con
duct. Look at the following instance.
We copy the North State fVhig —one of
the most reliable papers in North Caro
lina, the following article:
Fraud Exposed. —in the course of the
discussion at Bath between Messrs. Stan
ly and Ruffin, the latter attempted to
prove that Washington favored the doc
trine of secession. He opened a large
book and read his authority lor the asserv
lion, remarking before be commenced
reading, 1 have you, sir, (turning to Mr.
Stanly) on this point/ 1 can prove that
Washington admitted the right to secede.
in replying Mr. Stanly held the book
up before the audience, open at the place
where Ruffin had pretended to read from,
and reader, w hat do you think w as there ?
Why a slip cut from a newspaper, and
pinned on one of the leaves of the book !! !
The audience were struck dumb with
amazement —the Democrats hung their
heads—that a man aspiring to represent
an honest, intelligent people in the coun
cils of the nation should be guilty of so
rascally a piece of meanness.
Mr. Stanly very effectually exposed the
fraud, and showed from the file of Wash
ington written by Judge Marshall, that
assertion that Whshinglon ever favored
secession was a vile slander of the Father
of his Conntry. in reply to a question
asked hint by Mr. Stanly, Ruffin said lie
cut tfie slip from a paper printed in Choc
taw county Alabama !!
ff/®* Tl)e following article is from our
paper of the 29(he July last, We repub
lish it, because we think it proves bey ond
the possibility of a doubt that Judg Mc-
Donald does not stand upon the Georgia
Platform. It is now nearly four weeks
since the article first appeared in our
columns, and it has not been replied to by
AleDcnald’s organ in this city, nor, as
far as we know, has there been any at
tempt made by any of bisorgans elsewhere
in the Slate, to answer it.—Now that
friends are attempting to re
vive the impression that he is standing up
?>n the Georgia Platform, we reproduce
the article and chalenge a refutation of it.
Savannah Republican
Charles X Mcdonald and the
Georgia Platform.
It is commonly asserted by the advo
cates of Charles J. McDonald that he
stands on the Georgia Platform. Noth
ing has been plainer to see than the utter
annihilation of any politician in Georgia,
w ho might place himself in direct opposi
tion to the deliberately expressed opinion
of the Convention of 1850. Hence all
the restless and dissatisfied spirits of the
times, even whilst they shew- that, in heart,
they disapprove of what the Convention
did, merely seek to gain political ascend’
ancy by projessing acquiescence in its ac
tion. This hypocrisy is becoming so
apparent that no true lover of bit coun
try as it is—no sincere advocate of the
Union as it is, can fail to see
We say, without fear of successful ccm
tradiction, that Judge McDonald” „ ot
on iheGeorgia C\d\(ormg£)otl as he had
himself there
;tly and above board, so he has not
pttnuing enough to jpt there by any 0 f
I the devices which lie may practice. W#
J think that we have the most convincing
J proof of w hat we say, and we proceed to
its adduction.
The third resolution in the series of
resolutions adopted by the Convention,
rerds as follows:
Thirdly, That in this spirit, the State
of Georgia had maturely considered the
action of Congress mbraceing a series
of measures for the admission of Califor
nia into the Union, the organization of a
Territorial Government for Utah and
New Mexico, the establishment of a
boundary between the latter and the State
of Texas; the suppression of the slave
trade in the District of Columbia; and the
extradition of fugitive slaves; and (con
nected with them) the rejection of propo
sitions to exclude slavery from the Mexi
can teritories and to abolish it in the Dis
trict of Columbia; and while she does not
wltoly approved, will ab;de it as a per
manent adjustment of this sectional con
troversy.
Now, Judge McDonald, in his letter
of July 3d James Cantrell, esq, r (pub
lished in the Georgian) says:—‘l know
of no adjustment by Congress of the sla
very and Territorial question. The
measures so called, contain not a single
element of an adjustment.
Is Judge McDonald on the Georgia
platform? h his declaration in his letter
to James Cantrell consistent with the
third resolution of the Georgia Conven
tion ?
The fact is that the Candidate of the
Resistance parly is bolder than the Con
vention which nominated him. That
Convention had not temerity to say it
placed itself on the Union Platform: It
was, undisguisedly against it in letter and
spirit, as all its resolutions show. Will
any honest man then, in search of truth,
believe Judge McDonald, or any of his
newspapers, aiders and abettors, w hen lie
or they shall again say he is on the Geor
gia Platform. We hope that the Judge
will write, and write on, for his fate will
become that of all demagogues in the end
—entanglement in the snares which they
set for the people. “Oh ! that mine ene
my would write abook.”— Republican.
THE UNION NOT YET SAVED.
If the disiinionists are serious about oc
cupying the Georgia platform, why do
they not ground their arms of rebelion f
Why do thpy not exhibit the modesty of
strange company ? Why do they not,
like true repentant*, take the lower seats
at least, until they are invited by the
people to occupy the posts of honor'?—
Why do they not act as if this platfrom
belonged to the men who toiled and
struggled for its construction ?
The truth of the matter is, the disunt
tonists still cherish their burglarious in
tents. They are unwilling to occupy the
Georgia platform unless they can drive
the Union men from it. They do not
love it half as much as they pretend.—
They are driven to it as a house of refuge
for the present. They propose to occu
py it only until the wrath of the people is
assuaged, and until they can concoct and
mature fresh plans to destroy the Govern
ment. This purpose is plainly shadow
ed forth in the sth Resolution of the AL ‘
banv platform.
That resolution was concocted by a
committee of Fire Eaters at Columbus.-
It is said to have been drawm by Mr.
Benntng, the disunion candidate for Con
gress in the Second District. What doe*
it declare? Jt pledges them to remain
on the Georgia platform so ’ long,
and so long only —“a* the will of the
people oj Georgia remains unchanged
Now suppose these men should by any
accident get the power in the State.Jk.
Suppose McDonald and Benning and
Stell and (heir allies should carry the fall
elections by tlieiy trickery and false pro
fessions. Would they not declare that the
popular will had been changed, and pro
ceed at once to carry out the schemes of
the Nashville Convention.
Judge McDonald approves of the prov
position lor a Southern Congress, clothed’
with power to dissolve the Union, to pro
claim the independence of the South ancf
to establish a Southern Confederacy -
How long before he would ask the Legis-
Uture to authorize him to issue writs for
Fithjflection ? How long before Georgia
and Carolina would be at open sea ?
How longbefore a conflict would be up.
on us ? Hjuv long before the people of
Georgia would be taxed millions to sup
port armies and navies and diplomatic
officers ? j.
The truth is, if lie people of Georgia
desire to enjoy theft* present prosperity
and happiness, the sqoner they put all
these agitators down (Im; better. Jt will
not do to defeat them by a small major!*
ty. They will not cease to excite the
people until they are given to under
stand by some stern and overwhelming
rebuke, that they can never succeed ex
cept in the contingencies named in th