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AND
CONFECTIONERY.
WARREN JACKSON,
H.is the pleasure of announcing to the
public that he has opened in the .Citv of
OGLETHORPE, on SUMTER St
door South of the Brick Store of R. H Bims
& Cos., a large and extensive tot of
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ERY they intend keeping a regular and ‘
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E \TING-HOUSE,
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H\M AND EGGS, OYSTERS FISH,,
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Oct. 31,1851. |
ToTre public.
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ceive prompt attention.
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Oglethorpp; May 14, 1852 4—ts
FAMILY GROCERY STORE.
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May 7,1852. 3 ly
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Houston, Crawford, Bibb and Twiggs, and
in the Supreme Court at the city of Macon.
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Gen. Fierce’s Denial.
The following correspondence which
we find in the Washington Republic, of
the 14th inst., embraces a letter from
Gen. Pierce exculpating himself from the
charges founded upon the published re*
port from Ins New Boston speech, (which
we published some weeks since) will com
mend itself to public attention. The let
ter gives his own version of his position
on the slavery question :
Washington, July 17th, 1852,
-TTea Sir : Enclosed you will find an
article in which, as one of the editors of
Southern Press, of this city, l took issue
with mv colleague in advocacy of your
claims to southern support for the Presi
dency. That action was predicated up
on my belief of yoor entire soundness up
on the slavery question. Within the last
week a speed), purporting to have been
delivered by you in January last, has
been republished from two Democratic
papers iu your own Stale, (which are said
now to support you.) On tile truth or
falsity of this, much depends. Neither
j those with whom / act, nor myself, can
consent that any doubt should rest on a
| matter of such importance ; but, placing
full reliance on the fearless frankness of
! yffur character, on-their behalf ar.d my
own, I respectfully ask of you. whether
that report which yotir southern support
ers believe to be without foundation as
opposed to your previous course is cor
/ect ?
The peculiar position which / occupy
must plead my apology for troubling you
, with this letter.
I Very respectfully, your obedient ser-
I vant.
EDWIN DE LEON.
General F. Pierce, Concord, N. H.
| ‘Concord, N, H„ July 23, 1852,
; My Dear Sir : Surrounded
ing engagements, / seize the earliest op
portunity to reply to your letter of the
17th instant. I much regret that anv
thing connected with myself should have
t been the cause of - disagreement between
; you and gentlemen with whom you liaye
; been associated in Fite editorial depart
ment of the Southern Press, I do not
. remember ever to have seen what pur
j ports to be a report ol a speech delivered
] by me at New Boston, in this Stale, in
January last, until my attention was call
ed to it as republished in the Republic. —
The pretended report is, and I presume
was designed to be, an entire misrepre
sentation. his not merely untruthful,
but is so grossly and absurdly false as to
render, in this vicinity, any denial of its
authenticity entirely unnecessary. The
two papers quoted ; the Independent
Democrat, published in this place, and
the Democrat published in Manchester,
—are thoroughly abolition journals ; and
have been and are zealously opposed to
the Democratic party. For a longtime
prior4o the meeting at New Boston, and
ever since, they have been unsparing in
their attacks upon me personally, and in
I their bitter denunciation of what they
have been pleased to term my pro-slavery
sentiments. Bn’ it would be something
new for either of these papers to deny the
consistency of my opinions upon the sub
ject of the constitutional rights of the
South in relation to slavery. My opin
ions and the avowal of them have been
everywhere the same. Ever mindful’ of
the difficulties-and dangers which so long
brooded over the assemblage of wise men
and pure patriots to w hose spirit of con
cession and earnest efforts we are indebt
ed to the Constitution under which we
haye enjoyed such signal prosperity, ad
vancement, and happiness, / have regard
ed the subject as too vital and delicate to
be used as an element of sectional appeal
in party conflicts. My action and my
language in New Hampshire, touching
this matter, have been at all times and
under all circumstances in entire accor
dance with my action and language at
Washington. _ My votes in the Senate
and House of Representatives weie not
republished in the Era for the first time.
They have been again and again paraded
to arouse the passions and prejudices of
our people against me individually, and
against the party with which it lias beet)
my pride and pleasure to act. There
has been no attempt to evade the force ol
the record. It lias been at all times free
ly admitted, and my position sustained
upon grounds satisfactory to m/ own
mind. lam not surprised to ItMow that
the attempt to prove me an abolitionist
provokes much merriment antfmg men of
I HORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 1852.
OGLE r
all parlies here ; and this weak and un.-
truthful sketch of what purports to be inv
speech, is really too ridiculous to be con.
sidered in any serious Jiglit.
/ am in the daily receipt of letters, pro
pounding tlte greatest variety of curious
questions upon all conceivable subjects.
Letters of this character cannot be ans*
wered, of course. No individual could
command either the time or strength the
herculean task would require. I may
add, that such a correspondence would
by no means comport with my views of
duty. The Democratic party sent its
delegates to Baltimore not alone to nom
inate candidates, but to reaffirm princi
ples and to present the leading tssuhs up
on which the canvass should be conduct
ed.
If I could deem myself capable of irm
i proving tile platform there adopted, it is
i quite certain that I should decline, either
> at the call of individuals or associations,
to incur the charge ol arrogance to which
any attempt tq,alter, amend, or enlarge
it, would inevitably subject me.
Your letter is of an entirely different
character, It seeks truth in relation to
an alleged fact ; it speaks of history, too
searching an appeal cannot be made. 1
appreciate (lie estimate you seem to have
of my character for directness ; and beg
you to accept my thanks for your efiot is
to vindicate my claim to that trait, at
; least, before the public.
/ am, with high esteem, your most obe
dient servant,
FRANK PIERCE,
i Edwin DeLeon, esq., Washington D. C.
Spirit of the Georgia Whig Press.
The Lagrange Reporter, edited by
that most worthy divine and devoted pat
riot, Rev. Alexander Speer, speaking of
the nomination of Webster and Jenkins,
says:
“Tlte Convention has acted nobly, and
, we challenge all men to say whether this
. is not the. noblest ticket in the field, and
whether these men would not be number
one, even if there were a thousand others
in nomination. Whether we succeed is
not for us to say, our business is to do
. right; to do the best for our countiy, and
leave consequences to Providence. We
. are proud of our nominations, and when
we call their names, no sense of shame
will color our cheeks, or cause us to hang
our heads.”
The Augusta Chronicle Sentinel
. says:—
“To-day we spread our banner to tlte
breeze, with the names of Daniel Webster,
, of Massachusetts, and Charles J. Jenkins
; of Georgiti, inscribed upon its folds, for
the two first offices iu the Republic.
They have been nominated in convention,
by delegates representing those indepen
dent freemen of Georgia, who refuse to
abide the decision of the two conventions
recently assembled in Baltimore—men
distinguished, not less for conservatism
and devotion (o all the great interests o/
the country, than for their sound national
principles, and their determination to pre
serve, as far as possible, the freedom ol the
elective franchise. In the exercise of this
high privilege they have risen sup/rior to
the dictation of irrispqnsible contentions,
and shaken off - the fetters with which those
conventions sought to bind them; thus dis
playing a degree of moral con rage, and
earnet devoted patriotism, worthy the pur
est days of the Republic.
“Os the nominees themselves, we need
not attempt any eulogium. They are
known to the people of Georgia. The
name of Daniel Webster is written in
broad and legible characters on every
page of his country’s history for the last
tliiriy years. Eminently distinguished for
the greatpowerofhis gigantic intellect, his
profound scholarship, Itis enlightened, ele
vated and liberal statesmanship and Itis sa
gacious diplomacy, he has enrolled Ins
name high upon the temple of Fame, and
secured lor himself the proud distinction t
of the great defender of the Constitution.
Suclyis Daniel Webster, in whose bosom
pulsates an American heart, whose feelings
are American, and who, in his devotion.
t(/lhe Union, ‘knows no North, no South,
pD East, no West.’
“Os Charles J. Jenkins, the distinguish
ed ciiiien.pure patriot,and profound states
man, whojis placed on the ticket for the sec
ond office j nothing that we can say will ele
vate him in tlte estimation of the people ol
Georgia. To them he is known—they
are familiar with the purity of his private
life-liis unsullied integrity, ardent patriot
ism, sagacious statesmanship, and sincere
devotion to the Union and Constitution.
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD IS OURS.
A man, who, if he had never performed
any other public act, has enrolled his
name high among the conservative pa
triots of the Republic, by giving to tlte
world the platform of the Constitutional
Union party, of which he was the author.
He is eminently conservative in Itis prin
ciples and feelings, and has no higher am
bition than to preserve and perpetuate
the Union and the Constitution.
Such are the men who compose the In
dependent Ticket—which combines more
talent and capacity for the discharge of
lire high and responsible duties of the of
fices to which we would elevate them, than
both the other tickets combined four limes
over.”
The NewTork Mirror is quite enthusi
astic upon the reception given to Mr.
Webster in Boston, on Friday. Itsays—
* The oft repeated lie, of the political
abolitionists, that Daniel Webster is not
popular in Massachusetts, was answered
yesterday by the firing of canon, the ring
ing of bells, the waving of banners, and
the spontaneous huzzas of hundreds of
thousands of his fellow citizens. Thirty
thousand men marching in procession un
der a burning July sun, with the mercury
at 102 in the shade, while every house
top and Itill-top was crowded witli count
less multitudes of men, women and child
ren, showed clearly enough that the heart
of New England burns with pride and
gratitude for her great and glorious son,
who has shed immortal honor upon her
name and history. Such an ovation was
worthy of the man who received and of
the men who bestowed it.
Now is it not notoi iotts that the fierce
advocates of Scott’s nomination were ihe
very politicians who pursued Millard Fill
more with a bitterness of political hatred
and a vileness of political abuse unparall
eled in our history; and simply because,
they alleged, he had proved traitorous to
abolitionism ? Is it not notorious that
these same politicians run down Mr.
Webster because he came out boldly and
advocated a compliance witli all the pro
visions of tlTfe constitution? /sit not
notorious Ihtrt Wailliam H- fieward, the
author of the higher law doctrine and tlie
great leader of the freesoil forces, and the
Ajax of the Scott party, is a bitter enemy
of the compromise and is held in the high
est confidence by tlie abolitionists ?
Sut'li politicians as these are the bone and
muscle of tlte Scott party. They piatle
the nomination. They are tlte working
men in its support, and are the ones who
are to gain by success.
Tlte country has its appropriate re
wards for the varied services that its sons
may bestimulataed to render. There are
gallantry and good conduct on political
fields as well as on battle grounds; and
it is sometimes the case that those gilied
with the courage and skill to meet an
enemy’s charge in a conflict are weak
and ineffectual before a demagogue’s ap*.
peal, oran insidious and dangerous prin
ciple as to civil affairs. General Scott
has done service against the enemies of
the country in the battle-field, and his
country will ever hold him in honor for it;
but lie has ministered to the fell spirit of
Abolitionism, and is so much in the hands
of the very authors of higher law princi
ples, that a triumph of one w ill be the
triumph of the other.
Mr. Webster and Gen. Scott.
The Boston Courier, now, and for
many years, Mr. Webster’s organ, gives
the public very clearly to understand that
Mr. Webster will not support General
Scott. We make the following extract
fiom the Courier of the latest date :
We see it constantly asserted, in vari..
ous Whig papers, in different parts of the
country, that Mr, Webster will support
the nomination of Gen, Scott, Decla
rations of his are quoted to the effect that
he lias always been a Whig, and alwavs
will be one, to the end of his days. We
have no doubt of it, in the sense in which
siicli declarations were evidently made by
him but we entertain great doubt whether
those declarations w ill bear the construc
tion which some persons now attempt
to put upon them, That Mr. Webster will
ever change his views as to the great prin
ciples on which the general'government
ought to be administered—-principles
which were settled as the policy of the
Whig party in the days of its purity and
integrity, and which it owes, in a very
large degree, to his influence—it were
abstired to suppose. That he will ever
do any thing to cause or iduce Itis friends
to support or sanction doctrines which he
and they have always opposed, or that
he will ever retract any political sentiment
that he has ever uttered, would he simply
a tediculous assertion.
“But that he is to promote or aid the
success of the Whig party under the lead
of the men who are now its assumed lea
ders, notwithstanding tlte manner in
which he has been treated—that lie is to
use Itis great influence to give power and
consequence to a class of politicians who
have been the bitter opponents of the
great policy of the compromise, which he
periled so much to establish aod perpet
uate that he will thus enable those men
to overturn what it has cost him so much
effort to build up ; and that lie will con
sider himself bound to do so, because lie
has said that lie is and always will be a
whig, are suppositions, in our judgement
quite as absurd as the idea of Itis changing
his political opinions.”
Gen. Pierce and John Van Buren-
A dispatch to the Baltimore papers, da
ted Concord, (N. II.) the 18th inst. savs:
“A large party of the New Yorkers
passed through here to-day for Hillsbor
ough, there being an immense gathering
‘litre to-morrow. Tlte farmers ol Hills
borough county, with their wives and
children, are o tit cn masse to attend the
re-union of the Bth regiment there to-mor
row. Gen. Pierce will preside, and Gov.
Seymour of Connecticut, Col. Clemens of
Alabama, Col. Lully, and other officers
w ho served under Gen. Pierce, will be in
attendance.
SECOND DESPATCH.
“August 19.—The Hillsborough meet
ing was addres-ed by . ohn Van Buren,
Senator Dix, Governor Seymour of Conn.
Col. Clemens and others. There were
at least 25,000 persons present, and the
greatest eniliusiam was manifested.”
Join) Van Buren ex-Senator Dix
are two of tiie most uncompromising Free
soilers ip the United Stales; yet they are
the chosen speakers at a meeting got up
expressly as a complement to Gen. Pierce,
and over w hich he presided.
The New-York Express savs that Mr.
Webster will leave Washington for
Massachusetts in pigltl or ten days ; but
the rumor again started that he contem
plates the resignation of bis office, at that
lime, is as incorrect as all the previous
rumors. He is closely engaged not in the
rouline of the Department, but iu Diplo
matic affairs. The fact of Mr. Webster
having directed a portion of his library to
be sent to Marshfield, assisted by fertile
imaginations, furnished the only staple for
the rumor of his resignation.
(EF* The Boston Journal is authorised I
to state, ‘ Directly and authoritatively,’
that there is no truth whatever in the
statement that Mr. Webster told F. A.
Tallntadge, in New York, that he, Mr.
Webster, was willing to give the whig
ticket his cordial support. The storv
appeared in the N. Y. Times, purport
ing to be the substance of Tall nadge’s
speech at a Lundy’s Lane Club, and is
greedily seized on by the Srott Press as
proof that ‘ Mr. Webster supports Gen.
Scott.’ The agitators who support tlte
military chieftain must wait ygl a season
for Mr. Webster’s endorsement. Do they
think there was no meaning in (lie grand
Boston reception ofFridav ?
Kossuth Conspiracy. —No less than
250 persons had been arrested iu Lom
bardy previous iothe24ihof July, on
suspicion of being privy to a conspiracy
against the government, a cine to which
was obtained by intercepting Kossuth’s
letters.
Trade with the Canadas. —At the
opening of the next session of the Cana
dian Parlament a hill will be introduced
providing lor a reduction of the duties
on imports via the St. Lawrence, and a
protective duty on imports from the At
lantic ports of the United Stales. Facil
ities will he granted on some articles of
western produce. The Montreal Courier
says that on this hangs the question “how
long will this colony belong to Great
Britain !”
The Boston Bee states that an address,
in the form of a circular, will make its
appearance in that citv to.day, advoca
ting the election of Mr, Webster to the
Presidency. It will be accompanied by
the proceedings of the recent meetings of
his friends lie LI in Fciieuil Hill.
TERMS: $2 in Advance.
Baltimore Commercial Convention
The Cotton Plant says there is to be
held, in December next, at Baltimore, one
of the largest conventions ever assem
bled in the South, for the promotion of
Southern Commerce. The most exten
sive arrangements have been made. It
is contemplated to adjourn the meeting to
Memphis, then to New-Orleans, then to
Mobile or Montgomery, then to Macon
or Savannah, then to Charleston, and
then to Richmond, and so on.
The Liverpool papers simply mention
Kossuth’s arrival at that port, under the
name of Alexander Smith, and his depart
ure the same day for London. The Lon
don papers are utterly silent concerning
him.
“Gen. Scott cannot obtain the vote of
Kentucky any more than lie can com
mand the powers of Heaven,” The au
thor of this emphatic remark, Humphery
Marshall, w hig member of congress from
Kentucky, has been appointed by Presi
dent Flltnore commissioner to China.
The Knoxville, * Tenn., Whig says
that Dr Crozier and M. M. Gaines,
Esq., leading and influental wbigs, are
against Scott, and that Mr Walker, a
respectablle merchant and an influential
w hig, offered a resolution at awltig meet
ing repudiating Scott, which was secon
ded and advocated by W. G. Swan, Esq,,
whig attorney general of the state of
Tennessee, “in a speech of some length,
and of decided ability, in which he showed
deary that Scott’s nomination was a fraud
upon the whig party, and had been
achieved by the abolition vote of the con
vention.”
Major A. M. Dunn, an able lawyer
anti a popular whig orator of Louisiana,
a neighbor and friend of General Taylor,
addressed the democratic ratification
meeting’at Baton Roge, at which the go
vernor if the State presided, and declar
ed that he should not vote for Scott and
Graham This avowal was received with
tremendous cheers. Eneas Adams, an
other influental w hig, came foward and
made the same declaration.
Mayor Harral, of Bridgeport, Connect
icut, has renounced General Scott.
Lucius Polk, a prominent whig of
Tennessee, being on a visit to Washing
ton, freely avows that he is with Gentry
and Williams in their opposition to Scott,
“heart and soul.”
Dr. David Long, of Batavia, New
York, a revolutionary soldier, who hns
never voted a democratic ticket, repu
diates Scott. *
Captain Williams, tlte leading whig
of Chattanooga, Tennessee, made a
speed) at a whig meeting at that place
recently, announcing that he could not
vole for General Scott. He was sustained
by Col. Whiteside, Dr W. S. Bell, Dr
Milo Smith, and other prominent wltigs.
Dr John H. Hill, whig candidate for
tlte North Carolina house of commons
from Brunswick county, has withdrawn
from the canvass, because “he could not
and would not support Gen. Scott.
William L. Harris, one of tlte ablest
whig orators in Mississippi, has come out
unequivocally against Scott.
A correspondent of the Boston Daily
Advertiser, regards the principle that in
dividual wltigs shall yield their preferences
nii& abide by a regular nomination sound;
but alleges a nomination obtained by
fraduleni and irregular manoeuvres to be
notone of this class, and concludes as fol
lows: ‘
“Believing the nomination ol Winfield
Scott to Ivave been tints procured, 1 can
not think myself bound to acknowledge
it to De the regular whig nomination. I
will not vote lor Scott. Should Mr. Web
ster be nominated, though / cannot anti
cipate so great a blessing for the country
as Itis election would be, I shall prefer to
waste mv powder, on the honor of that
great nianjShouldjMr. Webster not be so
placed before the public that I can vote
for him, I will not vote at all, butstay at
home, and *pray God to preserve the
Union, w hich will probably be quite as
carefully regarded by Franklin Pierce as
by Winfield Scott.
An Old Grey Whig.
Rev. Mr. Brownlow, of the Knoxville*
Whig, says that if his life is spared he wtl*
“how up Gen. Scott in his true charaeten
that of the veriest humbug alive.” The
parson has great influence among (he
Tennessee w Itigs.
NO. 19.