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i* such, in (lie language of ilie Georgia Platform, ‘as she tan in honor abide by,’ / have used every e/Tori in iny power loj stay this censleas and ruinous agitation North and South, and to keep the conslL tution and the Guinn where our fathers erected them— firmly on the inundation of the peop/e’s hearts. I am, very respectfully your obedient serv’t HOWELL GOBB. Messrs. John Rutherford, N. Bass. R. A. L. Atkinson and others. A® ABBBISS TO THE CITIZENS OF SUMTER AND DOOLY, BY AN OLD UNION MAN. FELLOW CITZENS: Os Dooly and Sumter, a plain old Union man not in rhe habit of writing on ly on occasions like this, when 1 see the very cradle of LIBERTY that rocked you and ine in danger, wishes yon to give a faithful hearing to what he is a bout to say, and then examine tire works, sayings, and doings, of die enemies of the country, and you will find that they are behind the masked battery of the Union to destroy the very liberty all of ns love so much. My old Union friends, a short time ago 7 thought like some of you do,that Charles J, McDonald had notjcbanged, that he was still an old Union man, but have ascertained that he is the worst kind of a ditunionist. wishing to make bis old Union friends believe be is for saving the Union ; and how does be propose to do tliis? by teaching'us dial the present UN/ON disgraces us, is shamefully dis honorable to us as Georgians, do von be. lieve this ? are not many of his friends about here trying to make ns believe dial be is on the Georgia Platform, in oilier words that lie is satisfied with our gov ernment in the Laws it passed on the sub ject of slavery ? Do rrm is not soTjiegf-ffftilt Judge McDonald ,a y 0 f (| )e i Sill of August last published in die Albany Patriot yjt 29th of same month Vic//Vue the late act* of Congress are not just, they-age gross vi ola!ions of the Confutation” What did tile Union men of Georgia and the lasi Georgia Convention say about die same late acts of Congress ou the subject of slavery? Uid they not sav, “Wo can honorably abide by the late acts'oj Con * grett on tin subject oj slavery ; (see res\ olutions of the lust Georgia Convention.) Can Georgia honorably abide gross and unjust violations of (her rights and the Constitution which would be sure if so, to ruin vs 7 No, my brethren she is too brave and sensible for this, ten thousand bayonets would instantly bristle in die air and glisten in our glorious sun of liberty if this was the case, and each man of us would die or have our rights and die Con stitution our fathers gave ns ! Then my good neighbors be not deceived into the betrayal of your liberties ns I was re cently, by voting for tliis'arcli disunions • who has followed the old federalist,Nul lifier, and deceiver, Colquitt, who pre tended to join the old Union parly in 1840’fortbe purpose of selling them to the Federalists, disunionist, and aboli tionist. In proof, look at the resolutions of the old Black Cockade Ftdtraldisls in the Hartford Convention whose leading measure was secession or the lip hi to dis regard their duty to, and the rights of the other Stales, and the holy bond of the Constitution baptised in the blood of our fathers, claiming the right to with draw from the union at pleasure. 7t is easy to sec that such principle would at once destroy our liberties. For if the old fed eralists liad’succeeded, they would have weakened anil destroyed us in time of war, by withdrawing from the Union and leaving us tiVtlie mercy of a strong and cruel enemy. The Union party do not deny as the federal Hit;Donald disunion ists say the revolutionary right to leave our government if it should say ne must have wrong, or should attempt to free the negroes among us, in that case as said by our beloved Jackson after trying peace able means, we could withdraw,and such withdrawal would not be treason. The constitutional right to withdraw or secede is no where to be found, the Constitution is the bond of the Union and did not pro vide for its own destruction ; Gen. Wasli ingion helped to make the Constitution at Philadelphia and to send an address to the Stales, when it was sent to them to be ratified, in that address lie said “ the con stitution bound (lie States in Union for ever,” without taking the powers the States had kept for themselves. Some of the Slates refused to sign it because it did not allow them to withdraw when they pleased, and contended they should he allowed so to do, but for the sake of the strength of Union, at last did sign. Let us hear what Mr. Madison, the father of our Constitution said then about their re fusing to sign, because it did not allow the right to withdraw at pleasure. ‘ Such , a condition to the ratification of the eon- ’ stitution would have destroyed it “i Thomas Jefferson Hit father of the re jiubltcan Union party in w iring against the secession principle of the black cock ade federalists who wished to secede or withdraw Jrom the Union and ruin the country said; “ but if on a temporary | superiority of the one party, the olher it !to resort to secession from the Union no Federal Government can ever exist. Immediately tee would see olher secession parties rising until our Government would be weakened down to its units. — Seeing that a company of men that will not quarrel with one another is a thing that never existed from the greatest confeder acy oj nations down to a town meeting and that we must have some body to qitars ret with , we had better keep our Northern brethren for that purpose than see our bick erings turned to others nearer to vs” Again, w hat does Judge Charles J. Mc- Donald say about secession, hear him, in his letter refered to above of 18th August murk the quotation well, 1 ‘believe a State has the right to peaceably secede or with draw from the Union when she pleases.’ In the same letter lie says, and has decided too soon, if the General Government should call on him for troops to pul down a seceeding State, * most unqoallifiedly’ that, “ lie would not obey the Govern ment,” nor the people of the State, nor his oath to the Constitution, nor the in. strnction of his constituents, and his only excuse is that lie does not think it consti tutional for a Governor to raise military force to pm down a seceding State.- Now, suppose South Carolina should withdraw formally from the union,and this •he will do, and in claiming British Pro tection, which she intends doing, gives our old enemy, Britain such a footing in our very midst, allowing her to take such deep root on our soil, of our fire sides and hearth stones, thereby trampling on the most sacred rights of Georgia and the other States, and they the Stales through their officers, and their officer, the Presi dent, of them all, should order that our erring sister he arrested in her mad ca reer.—Judge McDonald, ifElerted Gov ernor Stands pledged, to disobey the constitution of the United States which lie is sworn to obey, allowing Sonili Car ~tdwr.4B-tTtkg protection under the wing of England, oiir'/be'SncHttiter of slavery and whether it be ignorantly done or not, UlMfcug the door for the fall of the the TREE|pf LIBERTY whose shade lias saved us from certain abo lition of slavery, by suffering our ene mies to take footing on both sides of us. If California should secede with the lands that the other Slates have pai(Ffiie hun dred million of dollars for, we must wail no matter how long, for her to organise a Government of her own, for other nations to acknowledge her independence ; giv ing time for England, or Russia, to plant themselves on our soil, or the Californi ans time to hire them to w hip us with our own money. Again, Louisiana in time of war if traitors at the head of her Gov ernment, or the Slate at large saw it their interest to sell or h : re the Port of New Orleans commanding the Kee to our common country, to the destructive purposes of our Common enemy ; Gov ernor McDonald stands pledged, and : must wait for Louisiana to become a for- | eign nation acdording to the slow process l of law of nations, before he can obey the i loud calls of Ills distressed State and coun- i try, to raise and send troops to slop her i murderous purposes ? Verily, “ this is ] Black Cockade Federalism,” this is dis- i union, this—this is Treason! My dear i countrymen there are no disunion men avowedly so, that are giving their sup- , port to Mr. Cobb, the disunionist support McDonald in some parts of the State openly as a disunionist, in other parts as a Union man or behind the masked battery of ilie Union? The Southern rights can didate for Congress Col; Penning is o peitl.v lor disunion and wants a consoli dated Southern Government like old England. Gov. Towns, who pardoned his rich Friend,s negroe man, at Co lumbus the oilier week, after being con demned twice to he hung for forcing the purity of a daughter, the idol of a poor man ; is a disunionist and warm suppor ter of McDonald. Where are the old Union men of Georgia ? are they going for McDonald and the arch disunionist, Walter T. Colquitt who left the wliigs as before said coining into the Union par. ly in sheeps clothing pretending that he was a good Union man, and succeeded in getting us to change the name of our party from Union to Democratic party, and has now toled off McDonald telling him that he shall be the first President of the Southern Confederacy, and has de i ceived and carried off hundreds of oth ers to the disunion ranks, from whence lie came. I say where are the old union ■ leaders, are they with the a fore named • gendcrneii office seekers; No—Judge i Andrews, Judge Warner, Judge Cole, l Wolford, King, A. M. D.—Lamar, r Brown, Taylor, and a host of others, old ■ leading Union men, who have watched • Mr. Coith all through the struggle in Congress for the Union and every where else—are now shoulder to shoulder with the lION. HOWELL COBB for the Constitution and for the UN/ON. Men i we once loved as fathers, as Patriots and Apostles ol liberty and die Union! i Wake up my friends! Do we not know that last year Georgia decided the lows of la<t Congress ou slavery were equal and just to the South, in opposition to the opinions of Colquitt, Towns and Mc- Donald, that McDonald says now they are grossly unjust, and does not the latter and some of the disunionists tell you lie is a Union man to get yhur help to put him into power? Did not Georgia vote twen ty to one, that the last laws of Congress that McDonald wishes to dissolve the Union for, unless Congress will grant impossibilities, are honorable and no cause of disunion? Is not the coming election a ratification of what you then said and done ? Are you going now to deny your votes of last year for the Un ion, by voting for a notorious Disunion ist ? Let not party falsehoods and decep tion lead yon to ruin your country. The friends of McDonald call themselves the Southern Rights Party, they are not Southern Rights men their doctrines lead t to disunion and abolition. The Union Cobb party are the only true Southern Rights party. If this McDonald is per- I mined to carry out his doctrines you will have to leave offyour now free and happy government that allows you to go where 1 and when you please, worship, and do al most as you please ; your taxes will he more than you can pay to support anew government, and to fatten him, Colquit and Rhett, in their great fine houses, their Sous and Daughter, will hardly speak to you ; bloody war will torment you, take you from your wives, your sis ters, and your brothers, never to return, j our wives widowed, your children left to starve—the negroes will he freed by distress, and will flock to our section be cause it is a good poor mans Country, they will drive us off, or rule us, andjUfa ry our daughters, many of us yuLbfce un able to go, and those who a*e, will he beggared! The picture so, too bad, I forbear! Mr. Cobb on the contrary will see that the poor man does ; .oot suffer, that he is not taxed too heavy, in short he will save us and our liberties. Many of you know that will vote for McDonald, you know none going for Cobb, no—they reject hips because lie is e Union man and the nominee of the Union Party, they call him sv-fraitor and use other harsli expres sions towards him, which, they cannot prove, because he loves the country oj his fathers. You will know them by their hatred toward him. Mr. Cobb, Jas. Johnson, Dr. Tomlin son, Wm. B. Cone and the Legislative nominee of Sumter are the true Un ion men, vote for them, and then you can sleep sound, for they will see that we have peace, and are not taxed too high; our cotton will bring a better price if we elect these UNION JJEjV; for men who have money do not like to it for cotton when the Union is in danger, and we are threatened with WAR! A word, my conntry-men, if you are not yet satisfied of what has been said of the Disunion principles of Charles J. McDonald, and I have done. If lie should he elected and involve us suddenly in ruin, I am clear, I raise my warning voice in time: Woe—to us when a State secedesgfrom this Union, and claims the protection of a Foreign King, and the Governors of these States refuse to obey 1 the commands front other States, through i their President, when the Governors do : ns McDonald says he will do: while the Powers ot Britain are seizing on our ve ry heart and vitals, he ould not obey the call of the General Government to protect the rights of the States and save us from ruin! Among the warm sup porters of McDonald are the Columbus Times, Columbus Sentinel, Savannah Georgian, Federal Union, Macon Tele graph, Albany Parrlot, all of whom on last year raised the cry of resistance and DISUNION! The Telegraph said, ‘‘we are for Disunion, open unqualified resis tance! So said all the rest of these pa pers; the Patriot concealed its opinions better than some of the rest. Now fellow citizens, choose yoiijtliis day whom you will serve, the GOD OF LIBERTY, or the DEVIL DISUNION! Permit me to repeat, your LIBERTIES ARE IN DANGER! We have set before you freedom and hapiness on the one hand, and on the other, bloodshed, taxes, hew ers of wood and drawers of water for the leaders of a Southern Government, and the loss of liberty and the Government of Washington. Say, will von have the Government of WASHINGTON—the old Republic of our Fathers, and boy hood, with the noble Mr. Cobb and oth ers named above, to administer it in its purity? or will you have this Black- Cockade-Secession-Disunionist McDon ald, with the turn-coat Colquitt, Rhett and South Carolina, with Old England I to RULE you? Then if you do not * choose the latter, every one of you go i with me, who am but a common man > scarcely known to some of you, who, like * y° u * glories in the country of his Fathers, I and does not expect office, to the polls, * the First Monday in October next, to * teach Old England, South Carolina, Mc * Donald and the Abolitionists, that thev ■ cannot cheat us of our LIBERTIES), * that WE KNOW OUR RIGHTS I AND WILL MAINTAIN THEM!! AN OLD UNION MAN. 7t is with pleasure that we transfer to I our columns (lie following information which we find in the Washington (Wilkes Cos.) Gazette of the 4th ins*: Judge Berrien. —We learn from a private source, altogether reliable, that Judge Berrien has taken his position in the contest, and avow himself in favor of Mr. Cobb, and opposed to Judge Mc- Donald and his party, ll has been our pride and pleasure to sustain Mr. Ber rien in times past, and none regretted more than ourselves to see the aid of his powerful mind lent, at least indirectly, to the the cause of a party whose object was the overthrow of the government. No one will be more gratified to find him, af ter a temporary aberration, again bat tling in the ranks for the Constitution and the Union. What will our Southern rights friends have to .ay to this ? We commend the fact especially to tiie notice of the South ern Rights orator at Danburg, who, in a moment of enthusiasm, exclaimed, would to God that the South had more sucic men to stand by her in her peril, as Johffl McPherson Berrien. H — i-—— THE SOUTH-WEST GEORGIAN OGLETHORPE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1851. FOR GOVERNOR] HON. HOWELL COBB, OF CLARKF, COUNTY. FOR CONGRESS: JAMES JOHNSON, Os Muscogee. For Senator, W. N. L, CROCKER, Os Macon County. For Representative, WM. H. ROBINSON, Mr. Johnson’s Appointments. Mr. Johnson, the Union candidate for Congress, in the Second Congressional Dis trict, will address the people at the following times and places. Vienna, Dooly Cos., Monday, Bth Sep. Starksville, Lee Col, Thursday, 11th “ Albany, Baker Co', Saturday, 13th “ Bainbndge, Decatur Cos., Tuesday, 16th “ Blakely, Early Cos., Friday, 19th “ Fort Gains, “ Cos., Saturday 20th “ Cuthberq Rand’lph, Cos., Tuesday 23rd “ Lumpkin, Btewurt Col, Thursday 25th “ Buenavista, Marion Cos;, Saturdap, 27th “ i The Last shift of tt Rabid Disunionist. The great “ government destroyer,” W. H. Chambers, Editor of the Columbus Senti nel, who said in his paper not many months since, “ we abandon the Union as an en gine of infamous oppression, ITe are for se cession open, unqualified, naked secession.— Henceforth, we art for war upon the Gov ernment ; it has existed but for our ruin, and to the extent of our ability to destroy, it shall exist no longer,” has lately written a letter dated Chalybeate Springs, in which he at tempts to gull the people into the belief that Mr. Johnson, our candidate for Congress, is an Abolitionist. There never was a baser falsehood than this circulated against the po litical character of any man. Mr. Johnson, in a speech to the people of Columbus, not long since, positively asserted that, * the Congress of the United States had no right to abolish slaveiy any where.’ This senti ment was uttered by Mr. Johnson, where Mr. Chambers had every opportunity to hear it, and in all probability he did hear it. It is not at all surprising though, that a man who said, as Mr. Chambers did a few months since, that “he despised the Union,” and would “ hail its dissolution as a consumation most devoutly to be hoped for,” would resort to almost any stratagem however devoid of truth it may be, to effect his unholy purpose. Mr. Chambers, charges Mr. Johnson with having said that Congress has the right to establish a monarchy in the Territories.— This is a foul slander on the character of Mr, Johnson—one which no man,unless prompt ed by the basest motives, could ever have circulated. Mr. Johnson said in his speech at Columbus, that “ he believed in tho prin ciple of non-intervention, that the late Com promise bills, disposing of the territories were based upon that principle—that is, that the people there have been left free to determine their social condition, and to come into the Union, as States, with or without ■lvavery.” h is hardly possible then that Mr. Johnson ever entertained the opinion that Mr. Chambers has charged him with. He has charged Mr. Johnson with being an anii-slaveiy man. Thisis another foul slander which he himself gives the lie in the next breath, by saying that he believes “ he is not an abolitionist.” He has also made several other untruthfnl charges in this little docu mint which lie has sent abroad in the land. ! to gull the unsuspecting, bpt they are all of ‘such a nature that a close examination can not fail to reveal the whole affair as the poli tical trick of a hot headed Disunionist, to defeat Mr. Johnson. This letter no doubt was put forth at the instigation of Mr. Ben ning, who is now going the tounds, holding up the letter before the people as a of truth. But we are hardly this letter, for a man that is as anxiWl for office as Mr. Bennittg and the political principle that he is as wellcalculated to resort to any and every nopiVfil intrigue, however groveling, in ordfer to secure his own election, Mr. Bennltg, dare hot meet Mr. Johnson with this foal ducument, for lie well knowsjhftfiArft political trickery would be exnosdjt But while his opponent is in a of the District, pursuing an (honorable canvass, he is going the rounds, (sending this obnoxious letter a day or too in advance of him. We warn the people to beware of this underhanded trickery.—more especially beware of the man who employs it. He is uot worthy of their confidence.—. He was last year a disunionist per see. He was not only In favor of a (Southern Confeder acy, but of a Southern Consolidated Govern ment. He wished to see all state lines blot ted out and one General Government organ ized ! He has not changed from his old po sition yet—he still occupies the same ground, to prove which we have only to refer to the sixth resolution of the Albany Convention to which he has assented, thereby denying all allegiance to the General Government It is a Disunion platfotm and those who vote for Mr. vote for a Disunionist —and no mistake. Our neighbor over the way lias taken the liborly in his yesterdays paper to blow terri bly over a meeting of the Union party held at Cabaniss’ build a few days since. He seems to boast and make light of it, as a fail ure, because there werebutlnineleen attended the meeting. Well in order that be may be prevented from rejoicing himself to death, we will inform him that it was only a kind of Committee meeting of the parly. Now as often as the so-called South hrn Rights party have met in squads of eight or ten, we have never seen fit to blow about it. But if it is our neighbor's intention to brag on numbers, we say here goes: with all his hand bills and playcards to get the people to hear Mr. Ben ning, the great Southern Rights Champion ( speak, he succeeded in getting between 50 to 75 persons together, at least a majority of whom were Union mtn / Mr. BENNING’S SPEECH We have not time this week to notice (hit speech at length, but intend doing so in onr next. We shall however notice a few fea tures and for the present let it rest. In the first place, from Mr. Banning’s speech, we discover that he is yet in favor of a Southern Consolidated Confederacy. In the second place, he acknowledges him., self to be a disunionist, by saying that “the Georgia Platform perils the Union” and that “lie is on the Georgia Platform.” A large portion of his speech was a desperate effort to prove that the Georgia Platform, would destroy the Union which, in- our opinion was a complete failure. In the third place, he acknowledged hint self an open unqualified secessionist, and be lieves that the Compromise measures are sufficient cause for the Southern states to secede. We shall quote from his speed) to prove all the above assertions in our next issue, for the present we leave them for our readers to re flect on. We would call attention to the Adver tisement of James O. Hodges, which will be found in another column. We have seen his goods, they are of the finest qual ity and the latest stylo, and Mr. Hodges assures us that he will sell (hem very cheap. We would also call attention to the Advertisement of S. B. King, Dealer in Harness. GLORIOUS NEWS. Mississippi State Convention'. Triumph oj the Union Cause We have received by telegraph some important news of the recent elections in Mississippi for members to a State Con vention soon to assemble, similar to the Convention of Georgia, which was held in December, 1850, and for the consider ation of the same subjects which conven - ed our people on that occasion, same issues were presented to the peo ple of Mississippi which now divide par ties in Georgia. The principles involved in the electorial campaign in Mississippi were ahly and elaborately discussed through the press and hustings, and, up on the issue, joined the people recorded their verdict through the ballot box on the Ist iuslant. That verdict is in favor of the Union and Constitution as they now exist. Thirty-six counties in Missis sippi have been beared from, and we learn that of the seventy-one members elected, sixty-four are Constitutional Un ion men, and only seven are secession ists ! Glory enough for one day ! This result rendtrs it certain—beyond the possibility of a doubt—that Gen. Foote will be elected over Gen. Quitman, the Governor of Mississippi, by an over, whelming majority. What now will t) le ‘hugleman of the west’ say ? lie will be left in a minority, numberindOcarcely a conMraTsgnard. now the u# to hope or expect jP Detobe.- riext?hopeless dffeat, and ffiothing else ! Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi have repudiated the hollow, hearted schemes of the Disunionists fan tastically disguised as they were, under the false titles and glittering robes of “State Sovereignty” and ‘‘Southern Rights.” We hail these results as foresliawowing the result of the coming elections in Geor gia, w hich, we have not a doubt, will be attended with disaster aud defeat to the disunionists here as overwhelming as the election in Mississippi has been to them there. All hail Mississippi! Your triumph in the cause of the Union has proven you to be a worthy daughter of the Empire State of the South. Long may you en joy the blessings aud benefits of our glori ous Union, and continue to adorn the sisterhood of the American Stales. Circular. To the Teachers in the State of Gsorgia: Gentlemen, —At a public meeting held in the city of Macon, to appoint Dele gates to the Common School Convention, a resolution was passed inviting teachers throughout our State to hold a Teacher’s Convention in this city on the 29th day of October next. The nndersigned were at the same time appointed a committee to extend this invitation to the educators of the State, a duty, which we cheerfully perform. There have been many attempts with in two or three years to obtain such a Convention at different points, hut all have failed, doubtless more from want of a consentaneous mevement, tliau from a sense of the inutility of this step. We now propose a meeting at acentral point, one easily accessible from all parts of the Stale; and at a time, when the State Ag ricultural Fair will doubtless bring many teachers as visitors to the city. Uutler tiiese circumstances may we not hope for a full meeting of those engaged in the work of education ? An interchange of views upon many topics; a more general agreement as t what constitutes a good shool Education, and as to the course to be pnrfued to make it thorough; a conference and concurrence upon the choice of text books; a consultation as to the best meth ods of dicipline, may all find place a tnong the subjects of discussion at such a convention, If no more, an acquain tance begun and a sympathy established between Presidents, Professors, Rectors and TeaHiers in our Colleges, Acade mies and schools will he a result obtained worthy the pains and lime it will cost. We therefore respectfully invite a gen eral attendance of all these different grades of Teachers to the Convention, in October. Macon, Aug. 19th, 1851. E. H. Myers, j U. W. Wise, | P. A. Strobe), y Com’t. H. Mead, M. M. Mason, J P. S.—Will the Editors in the State who feel interested in the cause of Educa tion, please give the above an insertion. Marshal’s Sale. WILL be sold in the Town of Ogle thorpe on Saturday the 29th intt, the following property to-wit; One Gray Horse, levied upon as tho pro perty of 11. \V: 6c. T. W. Ellis to satisfy an executicn for non-payment of Taxes. Also will be sold on the same day TANARUS; Wl Eli ’ interest in the same horse, to satis, fy a fine imposed on said Ellis bv the Town Council. J. R. NELSON,'Marshal. Sept. 12, 1851, 22—to Harness! Harness 1 THE undereigned will keep con* stantly on hand, and for sale at G.iC..Carmichael & Co’s Ware-House, cor ner of Baker and Cuiler streets. A large supply of Harness of all description, Car riages, Buggies, Wagons and Drays; also ex tra Bridle lines Ac. Which will be sold at the lowest prices; all oiders promptly attended to. S'. B. KING. Sept, 12, 1851; 22—4 m. Books! Books!! 60 COPIES OF THE Married Woman's Medical Companion , Tor sale at the “South-West Georgian” Of fice by C. B. YOUNGBLOOD. P. S. All orders from abroad promptly attended to. Sept. 12,1851. plantation for Sale. CONSISTING- of eight hundred aesrs of excellent ping land, lying five miles a bove Oglethorpe and two miles below La nier. Upon the above premises are one hun dred and twenty-five of cleared land, in a fine state of cultivation, together with a comfortable framed dwelling, and other out buildings. Persons wishing to look at this place will find the owner on the premises. WM. H. FELTON. Sept. Ist, 1851. 22—1 m*