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d|4,_ 290tttl)-tDe£t #io* jj t ti . YOUNGBLOOD & ALIEN, Proprieto^J VOL. I. fflHJi S@WSPiEoWSIS?!? <a|B®SR®SASSr Is Published every Friday Morning, in the new Town of Oglethorpe, Jftacon County,Ga., CHARLES B. YOUNGBLOOD, „ Edilot*end Publisher. EGBERT W. ALLEN, TRAVELING AoENT. TERMS--89 Per Year 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. % From the Southern Enterprise. We copy the following beautiful Poem on t he “Flag of our Union” from the Hoilie Journal; eVery man who has the least Patri otism in his breast ought to read it. The Flag of our Uiiea. 8T GEOAGE P. MORRIS A song for our Banner?—The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station : “United we stand—divided we fall!” It made and preserves us a nation ! The union of lakes—the union of lands— The union of States none can sever— The union of hearts—the union of hands— And tlie Flag of the Union for ever And ever! What Godin his Infinite Wisdomdesigved, And armed widt Republican thunder, Not all the earth’s despots and factions com bined. Have the power to conquer or sunder ! The union of lakes—the union of lands— “ ■ The union of States none can sever— The union of hearts—the union of hands— And the Flag of our Union for ever And ever! The Flag of our Union for ever ! ■ ■ * Saudi CaraliHa vs* tlic Union. By general consent, let the fighting State withdraw from the compact. We can have no peace with her in the Union. Against a Tariff, with discrimination in favor of home industry, she levelled her big guns, and bright bayonets some twen'- ty years ago. Much later, she drilled her militia to battle for Texas annexation. Now, we have a storm in the catnp, be’ cause California has been admitted into the Union, exactly as half doseii other States have been admitted, without slave ry. If principle be the standard of Iter action, South Carolina has been a care less spectator of events, or peculiarly de ficient in a know ledge of her rights, here* tofore. The truth is, she has not deriv ed from a low tariff, and from the annex ation ofTexas, half the benefits she claim ed in advance. Now, she sees quarries of gold in California, locked from slave labor, if she only had access to this gold, her greatness would be complete; all her visions of glory would be reali zed. The people formed a Constitution to suit themselves. Congress by admit ting California with the anti-slavery clause, has sanctioned the Wilmol Pro viso and Carolina had long since noti fied the world, that she would tear the Union into fragments, secede from it, upon her own responsibility, whenever Congress adopted the Wilinot Proviso. This is her logic and logically she is pro. ceeding to execute her threat. We hope she will try the experiment, if nothing else will silence the voice by which she disturbs the repose of her neighbors. As evidence of the temper aud infatua tion Carolina exhibits, and also of her de termination to withdraw from the speech of the Hon, Isaac E. Holmes,delivered in Congress, on the Texas boundary Bill, September3, 1850. AJter noticing many topics as a prelude, Wr. Holmes said, in reference to a Southern confederacy : •‘We shall be much stouger than at present —our slaves being employed in the industrial pursuits of the soil, dispense with the necessity of the application of the application of white labor for subsis tence. We can, il necessary, become a nation of soldiers, —having a well organ ized militia force of 400,000 men, thor oughly disciplined and animated by the love of home, and the preservation of always ready to concentrate upon an assailable point, needing uo pay, furnished by slave labor with continued supplies, supported at‘tpjfef smallest cost, and if attacked by &f§ North, ready to carry on an offensive! war against our foes. Like the States Greece,. wbH&t our lands are by tire slaves who are not required for purposes of war, we can prosecute trade,Agricul ture, and war,-at the same time. When ever our slave population shall have in creased so as to incommode us, we will find an exodus upon Southern Mexico; or if the rich placers of California should be unexhausted, we reverse the northern in vasion of Europe, and pour out from southern hives a vast population to retake the lands from which we are now unjust ly to be excluded. “We will have nothing to dread from internal dissensions, for the interests of the Southern States will be homogenous. We will be 100 strong, with half a million of soldiers, to be invaded by armies which come from abroad burdened with the ex.-, penses of transportation, provisions and ammunition. But war is threaitened from the North should the South secede. The North fights for profits, and what would it profit her to battle with the South? They could not conquer; but im poverish themselves by withdrawing from labor the persons of their armies, and from the fruits of diminished labor sub sistence for those armies. It is said that in the first instance of our secession we will not have a navy. What then?— Could the navies of the North avail aught against us ? By no means we have only to place our rich products at the trade of ail the world, and all the world in their contest for the carrying of these products will be arrayed against the northern fleets. The fact is obvious. The South in its possession of that which all the world needs, can command the united support of the majority of the trading world, against any one. portion which may seek to monopolize its trade With what will the North support the navy ? Her thirty millions of exports will yield about six millions of dollars, a sum re quired to support her city governments. She will be impotent ‘or all purposes of offensive war. “No, sir, the South has nothing to dread—there will be no war, foreign or domestic. But there will ensue upon her seceseion a destruction of the power of the North, and annihilation of the prosperity of New England. Let the aggressions of the North, the continued violations of the Constisution force us from the Union, and the order, method and power of the States now united will at once be transferred to the Southern United States. That Confederacy, pos sessing entire control over its lands, its labor, its trade, its armies, will have peace and prosperity at ipme, respect and admiration abroad. As long as the on the principles of equality, the South will adhere to the contract, for ‘better present government, observant of tlie na tional compact, shall be administered up* for worse.’ But it ought not to be ex pected, that when all the objects of the Union are destroyed, we should still, with so many rich prospects before us, contin ue an appendage to a government,— whose honors we will have lost, whose protection been removed, whose powers given for benefits, are exercised to de spoil. As sovereign States united, the same sovereignty confers the rigljt to se cede—peacebly to secede; aud wnen ihe ends of Union are no more regarded, then to form compacts jantl seek out hew modes of happiness. Surely , if any num ber of men congregating in Califoriaivuid forming a republican constitution, lpt%e of right admission to our Union, we who have sovereign power, by virtue olyWhich we came into the Union many of right go out. Gtevious indeed would be our condition, if this were qol our right. New co-partners may come in, and be abhor rent to our views, interests, and institu tions, while we are forever to remain in the bonds of political association. The right to form a treaty, gives the right to dissolve the treaty, when its provisions are discarded. The power to create a trus tee, gives the power to dismiss the trustee when he violates the trusts. Govern ment is only an association for certain purposes and trusts; ceasing to exercie these trusts, it ceases to answer the end of its creationand may be departed from. This our fathers declared with respect to Great Britain, and this we of the South have a right to declare, as respects our brethren of the North. The right is clear; the exercise of the right is a matter ofex ediency, and policy.” k OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1851. k This programme of Southern Rights of a Southern Confederacy, is not with Mr. Holmes, nor did he to use it as such. It had beep, - V a ß retrl n P on > n ll,e Grand r of agitators and disunionists Carolina has long been tlie A poor return lias recently been ts|fde by the people of the Charleston Dijmct, lor the zeal and in trepidity with trinak Mr. Holmes asser ted the PalmettoSbctrine. Could his defeat be sentiments, it •vould be a matter of to the country at large. He is a gVqjleman of fine abilities, and like many oniT* disun ion co-laborers, without reproach snve4u political phrdnzy. By reason of this af fliction, they are entitled to the security which a straight jacket affords under cer tain manifestations. In spile of all her bullying and brava* do, we admire Carolina for many tilings. Her hospitality, intelligence, and refine ment are not surpassed by anp State in the Union. The courage of her sons, and the beauty of her daughters, would adorn any age or nation. A conviction of these advantages on the part of Caro lina, has been the prolific source of her errors. Hence, her men of wealth are more or less aristocratic in their disposi tion and habits. Society is laid off into distinct classes, seldom passing tlie bar riers prescribed by a heartless conven tionality. Merit of a very high order, to be sure, recognized and promoted; but, as a general tiling, the men of position in Carolina are not free and cordial with their fellow citizens in humble life. They have a great prociv* ify to style and parade in their way of living. This fact explains their op> position to the republican tendencies, of the day. South Carolina-igt'.ie only State,in the Union whose Qqvernor am) Presidential Electors are nayt chosen by the people. She is one oClhe very few Slates in which a property qualification is required of Voters. The taste or judg ment which would thus proscribe a poor man, would naturally be gratified with the splendors of a Court. If in tlie pro posed Southern Confederacy, Carolina knew she was to furnish no President, nor to have any direction in the Cabinet, it is quite certain she would cease her ef forts to establish a separate Government. She has cultivated her intellect, her mor als and pride to such perfection, and has such a contempt for her inferiors, that she demands to rule them. The only blot upon her ambition is, that she permits Georgia to lead the advance column, with fixed bayonelts, against the Union. The honor does not sit gracefully on Georgia. It is the appropriate laurel of Soutii|Carolina, well befitting her brow of eternal wrath and scorn. We have some curiosity to see Caroli na an independent Republic, with cus tom houses in every direction to collect revenue, and to prevent smuggling in the interior, as well as on the coast.— What ceremony and caution between foreign powers would then be observed! A poor traveler from abroad, that is, from N. Carolina, Georgia, or any other A., merican Stale, would have to show his passport from the Secretary for foreign Affairs of the Republic or Kingdom of South Carolina, describing his height, age, complexion, polor of his hair and eyes, and other marks of indeniiy. Un less lie could give this voucher, he might be taken up as a suspicious per, son, perhaps as a spy, and put to tlie ne cessity of proving himself innocent. All coasting vessels going nfter tlie cotton rice or lumber of the Republic, would be boarded by the inspecting offi cers, and sworn [manifest of cargo and passengers required as is now customary with shipsentering the port of Charleston from Liverpoo l , Hamburg or any other European power. Besides the commercial aspect of the case there would be diplomatic relations to be established with other powers, say Virginia Lotiisana, and foreign Slates generally, or with the Government of which they are menbers. In equipping Missions abroad, and entertaining those at home, the Palmetto Republic would il lustrate its propensity for seperate action and for Court ceremonies. It is true, that two distinguished Carolinians (Messrs. Pickens and Elmore,) declined tlie Mis sion to England when tendered by Mr. Polk, a few years ago; yet, this very re fusal was from State pride exclusively (as they did not wish to be indebted to the General Government lor any honors OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD IS OURS. whatever.) Carolina would submit to no honors, except those of her own creation and bestowal as a Republic into whi h condition she is about to erect herself.— *#e take it for granted that-the veritable crisis so long spoken of by her States man, has positively arrived, and that suit., able action will be had, forthwith, to re dress hoarded grievances. The tornado, of which the deep distant thunder was the presage, is now in sight, with its lifted wrecks from forest and farm, darkening the horizon. Carolina never takes a step backward. Like the Hero af Bue na Vista, she never surrenders. With blade in hand, and Coffin on back, she goes forth to meet the oppressor. Ou wd&Lbrave Slate, and Glory to thy Re public 1 Thou will be sure to conquer, or be samjylisappointed. Carolina to the Union, what re mains worth pibserviiig ! h may be in structive to watqh the progress of this country in population sqjce die Govern ment wasestabtablished in 1789: 1790 IL Whites, : : : 53,172,464’ Slaves. : : : > 697,897, Free Colored, : 466, Total, : : : 3.925L827, 1800 Whites : : : 4,304,489, Slaves, : : : : 893, 041, Free Colored, : : 108395* Total, : : : 5,305,925, 1810 Whiles, : : : 5.862,004, Slaves, : : : : 1,191,364, Free Colored, : : 18644 Q, Total. : : 182 QT Slaves, : ; 1,633,064, Free Colored, : : : 238,166, Total, : : : 9,638,191, 1830 Whites, : : 10,537,378, Slaves, : .- .- 2,009,043‘ Free Colored, : : 319,599, Total, : : : 12,866,020, 1840 Whites, : : : 14,195,805, Slaves, : : : 2,487,355, Free Colored, : : 386,293, Total, : : 17,069,453, 1850 Whites, : : 19,000,000, Slaves; : : : 3,100,000, Free Colored, : : 460,000, Total, : : 22,560,000, In 1840, South-Carolina contained 259,082 white persons. 327,038 slaves, and 8,276 free persons of color—total 594,398. Allowing an increase of twen ty-five per cent, on her numbers for the last ten years, she has at present 743,000 persons whftes slaves and free colored al together. Deduct this aggregate from the aggregate of the thirty Stales, as set forth in the table, and there will remain to support the diminished Union by al legiance, taxes and submission to law, 21,817,000,—5ay twenty nine thirtieths of the whole population; and to sustain them, there will reqiain about forty nine fiftieths of the area oT the Slates, exclu sive of California. This exhibition of strength would be satisfactory, and the surviving] partners , might be able to get along witlr£lheir crippled concern but for the ‘Sumter Ri flemen whose offer of service has been accepted by Gov. Seabrook, in case of need. Tlie following are the preamble aud resolutions adopted at a meeting of the “Riflemen” in August: “ Whereas, It is the duly of* people in the time of peace, to prepare for any em ergency which may arise out of their so cial, political or national relations, and whereas, present indications manifest on the part of tlie Northern poriion of the Confederacy, a fixed design to disregard the solemn obligations of the Constitution, and trample upon those rights which are dearer to the South than tlie lives of h er sons. And w hereas, it is the duty of a people to declare their sentiments for tlie guidance of those whom they have placed in authority assuming such positions as may strengthen the hands of their rulers, and the belter enable them to meet sud den emergencies, requiring prompt and speedy action. Be it therefore. ‘l. Resolved, That we hold it to be tlie duly of every man, who enjoys the benefit of a free Government, to resist the first advance of tyranny —be it the tyran* ny of one or of tlie many-even unto death. ‘Resolved , That in the present aggres sive altitude of our Northern brethren, we recognize ourselves called upon to prepare to maintain our just rights at any sacrifiice holding it ‘belter to die all free men ’ than to Mild our fortunes and our lives, at the option of a tyrannical major *ity. >a •*-i -• ‘3. Resolved, That we,the Sumter rifle men as a Company, hold ourselves ready at any moment respond to any call w hich may be made for our services in defence of Soutern Rights and Southern Honor. *4. Resolved, That we place our servi ces as a military Corps, at the disposal of his Excellency the Governor of South Carolina to be euiplyd at any lime and place lie may deem proper to demand them.’ No weapon is more to be dreaded than the Rifle, in good hands. See wlial brave Morgan dill among the British by his Rifle Brigade in the Revolution.— He picked the enemy down like black birds in a rice field. Betides carrying a ball with precision twice the distance of a musket. The rifle tears a man to pecies, without any hope from the Surgeon. A cannon bull may take off the calf of a man’s leg; a bayonet may piece bis body, and a musket shot may sti ike in sundry places without killing him on the spot. All these wounds may be healed. Not so with the deadly Rifle. Where il aims, there is the ball, and where is, there is death. With sticjj consequen ces Genecl Government in case resists Carolina ; and as many poor wilted souls will be hurried into eternity by the ‘Sumter Riflemen,’ pro vided they get a crack at their enemies, would it not be belter for tlie Government to surrender at once to Carolina, as tlie coon did to Capt. Scott, and thereby save ammuniton and blood ? The pro priety of this course will be much forti fied, if Gen. Qoatilebum, ofTexas, cel ebrity is to command tlie Brigade to whicj) thefßiflemen’ are attached. The Paixhan guns strike terror to tlie hearts of the brave in a sea-fight, and so do Ri fles on land. If Gen. Quattlebum can not be prevailed on to resign or to get sick, we advise that no opposition be made to South-Carolina. CONSERVATOR. Xli c Question < £rcssitn. We submit the following argument to the advocates of a constitutional right of secession. Either the Federal Government was endowed by those who organized it with the power of self-protection—tlie princi ple of self-preservation, or it was not so endowed. If t is so endowed a slate canuot, con stitutionally or peacbly, secede. We think that it is so endowed, first, in that clause of the Constitution which de clares Federal law supreme, Stale laws to the contrary notwithstanding. Se condly, from the oath imposed upon each federal Officer, to support the Constitu tion, and from the pow er vested in these Officers by the framers of the Constitu tion, for the purpose of effectually execu ting tlie laws of the Union. Let these be taken, among numerous other points which can he adduced, why we think tlie Constitution of tlie U. States forms a government rightfully endowed with the power of self-protection. if the government has not the right to preserve itsell Irom destruction, then the Unoin is simply a treaty or alliance be. • tween the States and as such must be con troled, in branch and obsorvance, by ‘the higher laws,’ that is to say, the law of nations. This law will recognise ali the parties to the compact as equals, in determining the good faith of each other, and if one of the parlies violates the com pact, the others have the right to hold iiim to die bargain if they can. So, wheatlier you take the one horn of the dilemma or the other, Mr. pencable se cessionist, if the time shall ever come when this magnificent system, which has i won so largely upon the admiration ol the world—when this Union, which has conferred more happiness than all the governments that have preceeded it-wlien that Star Spangled Banner, sacred as the blood ol our Ancestors, shall no longer represent, in all quarters of the globe, the greatest, happiest, best people on earth— before we can create another sys tem, from another union, hoist another flag, Italffo potent in emblematic power, we must pledge to il ‘our lives and for tunes,’ and redeem tlie pledge. Our children then will honor it as we honor the glorious Stars and Sn ipes. The Constitutional Union. > TERMS; $2 in Advance. THE DUFY OF ADOPTED CITIZENS. In a recent number of tlie Telegraph, was an article appealing to adopted citi zens in the India If efuke cause of disun ion. The writers object, evidently, was to inflame the minds of his hearers, by allusions to tlie oppressions which they had suffered under the odious Irish Un.- ion, and thereby excite them to a haired of the Government of tlie United Slates. From his signature, and from the nature of his article, the public are left tinder the iminpression that he is a foreigner. If this be the fact, lie lias not forgotten the pledge which was made for him by bis friends, and which he voluntarily assum ed, when he was admitted to the rights add priviledges of citizenship, in this free and happy country. If he has, it may be well to refresh his memory a little. Ist. Every foreigner before he is al lowed to take the oath of allegiance, it compelled to declare his intention to be come a citizen, and to obtain a certificate from some residue citizen declaring that lie is ‘attached to the Government aqji Constitution *>f the United States, ahd worthy the rights and priviligcs of aji A merican citizen.’ 2d. Heis required to take the follow ing oath: L “1 do that Ido hereby entirely absolutely and forevec, renounce and abjure allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sov ereignty whatever, and particulraly to the , whose subject I was, and that I will support the Constitution of the United States.’ Now, can any man after sanctioning the above pledge, and taking the above oath, do, or perfer any act, either direct ly or indirectly, that may result in the destruction of the Government ? To vote for men who are seeking to destroy the Union, is certainly not giving evi dence of‘attachment to the Constitntion and Government of the United States;’ nor is it supporting the Constitution of the country. The adopted citizen, is especial ly bound to do both. He has of his own free choice become a citizen. He has fled from the oppressions of the Old World, and sought an Asylum in the New, He has a* bandonod a tyiannical government, and taken refuge in this and happy land. It would be folly, it would be worse than folly in him, first to swear allegiance to a Government, and then turn directly romid and attempt to destroy that Government! It would be mad ness—it would bu worse than madness in him to sustain men who arc striving to an nihilate the only fieo Government upon the earth. The adopted citizens have reason to love the Government of their choice; be cause it is the people’s Government. They have reason to bless it, because under its pro tection, they are free,, prosperous and hap py. Our foreign citizens, who have already tasted of the gall and wormwood of despotic and montucliicul government, will be likely again to risk the chances of revolution. They will stand the present Government, rather than fly to either anarchy or royalty—in a word, they will remain true to thn Union of Washington and the Govarnment of their choice.— Union Banner. ELECTIOrTRETURNS. Alabama —The secessionists have met a Waterloo defeat in this gallant State Five Union nienrebers of Congress to two Disunionists have been returned besids a large majority of Union men in both brandies of the Legislature. Tliis is re liable information, notwithstanding the Telegraph and Savannah News report a different result. Collier, the Governor re-elected is also an anti-Southern Con* gres and anti*serssion man to whom there was no opposition. Tennessee. —lt is given up, that Camp bell, the Compromise Union Whig can didate is elected by two or three thousand over Gen. Trousdale, Disunion Demo crat. The friends of the Union will also have the ascendency in the Legislature. North Carolina. —The Union Ticket has generally prevailed in this State. Outlaw (Unhtn Oem.) is elected in the 9th District. The latest advices report that Stanly [Union Whig] has succeeded in the 7th, but this lacks confirmation. For the gratification of the numerous ap plicants for Bounty Land, under the law of Sept. 28th, 1650, who may be anxious to know when their respective claims will be reached, we publish the following extract from a letter received by a gentleman of New York from the Commissioner of Pen sions, undos date of July 23d: “All claims under the aforesaid Act are taken up and examined in the order in wbieh they are received, or in their turn. This of fice is now examining claims received in De cember, 1850.” NO. 20