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FOR THE OKOROIA CITIZEN.
Nr. Toombs’ Misrepresenta
tion*
Mr. Editor : I propose briefly to review
the speed) of the Hon. Robert Toombs,*de
livered at Forsyth, on the 2d day of Septem
ber, 1857. He commenced by saying it
was his desire on the present occasion, to
hear from his fellow-citizens who had enroll
ed with the American party. Now, the
Honorable Senator is something like the ne
gro that was sent to hunt for the axe that
was hid in a corner of the fence. Helook
o | in every corner of the fence for the axe
but the r.ght one, and the one he knew where
the axe was to befound. So bythe Honorable
Senator. The American party, by resolu
tion, at Oglethorpe, some three weeks ago,
invited Robert Toombs to meet Hill thereon
the 19th September, and ho should have
equal terms with Mr. Hill in the discussion.
Do you think the Hon. Senator will look in
the corner of the fence where he has been
told and knows the axe can bo found ? No I
He has felt die edge of that instrument ; it
cuts deep and bleeds profusely. There is a
great deal of stale trash and rubbish in the
Senator’s speech winch I shall not notice,
but confine myself to what he calls the living
issue. He says he wishes the question de
cided, who has departed from the true polit
ical principles. It the Hon. Senator has not
departed from the true doctrine of non-inter
vention, as held and taught by Calhoun and
Berrien, how comes it that we find Martin
Van Buren and Robert Toombs agreeing in
fact and doctrine as to the policy of regulat
ing and disposing of the subject of slavery in
the Territories ? Van Buren's doctrine is
that the question of slavery should be left
to the residents of the Territory, and not to
the resident citizen, and citizens of the Unit
ed States. Mr. Toombs says, “In the bill
for the organization of the Territory of Kan
sas. we permit all the residents to vote. —
The Hon. Senator could not support Gen.
Cass in 1848, because in his Nicholson letter
he said the people of the Territory ought to
be left freo to regulate their domestic at
tains. What is a resident and inhabitant ami
bona fide settler i Neither one of the three
terms means a citizen. They all mean what
Gen. Cass meant, m 1848, when he said the
people. All the above terms a- used by
Toombs, Van Buren, den. Cass and Buchan
an, include the alien who is not a citizen of
the United States, and who may have been
in the United States only 20 or 30 days. To
be aresident of a State does not, aud cannot
make a man a citizen of a State, aud ought
not, Trow, as it never did before, until the
Van Buren principle was incorporated into
the Kansas bill.
’(tlrnlT 1 T'fvi-'Wt 1 ’ TrantTwrHlT,yTnnt. thw.dvh.
the reßiJoiu uitizen bill incorporated into jt.
They riff road none hut those who were in the
Territory at the t,ine us the passage of this act
or none but citizens of the United States shall
note in the Territory.
In tiie early history of the Government,
the practice was to express the teirtoi
rial bills thus—“none but those who were
in the Territory at tiie time of the passage
of the act, could vote or hold office.” The
reason for that was, there were few or no
foreigners coming to this country, aud there
was no necessity for their going into the ter
ritories, as the States were but tifinly settled.
So soon, however, as they began to come in
large numbers, the other words were added
to the qualification of voters, none but citi
zens ot the United States should vote or
hold office in the Territories. Mr. Toombs
says it has been the policy of the Govern
ment to allow aliens to vote in the Territo
ries. It has neither been the policy of the
Government, nor the doctrine of the South
N fe tiinein mail ever dared to vote for
and defend alien suffrage in the Territories,
except Mr. Toombs. To prove it has nei
ther been the policy of the country, nor a
doctrine of the South, it is only necessary
to look at the vote on the Clayton amend
ment to the Kansas bill. Every Southern
Senator in Congress voted for the resolution,
that none but citizens of the Unit< and States
shall vote and hold office in the Territory of
Kansas, (Page 520, Congressional Globe, vol.
28, part Ist, 1853 and 1854.) It has been
the policy oi the North to try and fasten it
on the South. Douglass and Cass labored
to engraft the principle in the Utah and New
Mexico bills, but failed.
If the Senator’s object was the repeal of
the Missouri restriction, how could the Leg
islature ot Georgia sanction and instruct
him to vote for a fact and principle on the
17th day of February, that never was of
fered as an amendment or submitted bv
Judge Douglas before the 15th day of Feb
ruary, 1854, only two days from the time it
was introduced iu the Senate of the United
States, before the Legislature of Georgia
sanctioned aud instructed him to vote for it ?
I leave Mr. Toombs to reconcile the thing,
(see Congressional Globe page 421, vol. 28,
part Ist, 1853 and 1854.)
Mr. Toombs, on the 2d day of September,
1857, tells you the Ordinance of 1787 ex
c'uded slavery from the Territories. On the
27th day of February, 1850, he says the ac
lion ut Congress in the Ordinance of 1787.
tloeu riot contravene the principle that tli • i
Urriiory is open to slavery and i:s protec
tion there! He invokes the great name ol
” “ B *>ington to sustain him in the declaration
that alien suffrage in the Territories has been
the policy of the Government, and names in
proof the Ordinance of 1787, as signed by
that good man. The reason the Hon. Sena- I
tor calls to his aid the name of Washington, I
is that he hopes, by the charms.of that name ‘
to reconcile the South, and make the peo- j
pie forget ttiat the South, with a singular
unanimity of sentiment and action, has uni- [
formly opposed and voted against the doc- I
trine of alien suffrage in the Territories.— 1
And why ? Because it is the doctrine with
which Seward, Hale, Chase, Sumner and |
Douglass means to crush out the life blood of j
the South in the Territories. The Hon. So- I
nator will exenseme when I give him the j
reason lie gave, oil the 27 th day of Februa
ry, 18)0, why the Ordinance of 1787, did
not exclude the slave owner from carrying
his negroes into the Territories, and were j
there adequately protected.
Mr. Toombsmid “Mr. Madison said the Or- j
ilinance o f 1787 tees void for want of power |
in the Old Government. ‘ (Appendix to Con
gressional Globe, page 200, v 01.22, part Ist,
1849 and 1850.) While Toombs in 1850, in
the House of Representatives was denounc
ing Cass’ alien suffrage and squatter sover
eignty in the Territories, Seward, Douglass
and Cass were defending it in the Senate of
the United States. In Macon, he gave as a
reason for his opposition to Gen. Cass,
his doctrine of squatter sovereignty, which
doctrine Gen. Cass says is in the Kansas bill.
He says that Mr. Hill says the first time the
doctrine that any but the citizens should vote
in the establishment of a State Government,
was started by Mr. Bimhanan in 1848. Now
Mr. Toombs says lie lias Mr. Hill's letter be
fore him. I ask the attention of those who
heard and read that speech of Mr. Toombs,
to note what Mr. Hill did say at that point
in his letter. Mr. Hill says, “As far as I
have been able to search, this is the first
time the idea was ever suggested of leaving
the question of slavery to the inhabitants
or all the people of the Territory without re
gard to citizenship.” You now have before
you what Toombs said Hill did say, and also
what llill did say I Mr. Iliil is right, for
Mr. Buchanan was the first that proposed to
use the inhabitants of the territory as an en
gine of power to exclude slavery, lor he urged
the policy of going for the Missouri line,
and to satisfy his Northern brethren who
were lor the Wilmot Proviso. He told them
that the inhabitants of that territory south of
3G deg. 30 min. would have the right to ex
clude slavery, and a majority of the people
of ttiat region, would not consent to estab
lish it. Why? Mr. Buchanan says, “be
cause a large portion of the population are
negroes, and do uot socially belong to a de
graded race. That was the reason why
the Hon. W. L. Yancey, of Ala., refused to
support Buchanan and Cass in the Conven
tion that nominated Cass in 1848? 1 wish
the people to notice the misrepresentation’s
of Mr. Toombs. It is a pointer, lor the gen
tleman’s friends to look at, lor it was a elelib
''vOXe rrrrrmmtrrrr 1 -ufjiM.T.ii, ami ‘ ry. “frm w. *T
when he did it.
Again, Mr. Hill is right when he says
they passed 70 internal improvement bills at
one session. To explain and let the people
know who is and who is not right, 1 refer
them to the Congressional Globe of 1855
aud 1856. Look under the head of “Grants,”
and you will find 10 or 15 amendments to
one bill granting lands to us many different
States. Consolidate these grants to the dif
ferent States under the bills, as named by
Mr. Toombs, and you will find Mr. Hill is
right aud Toombs wrong. There were at
one session passed 70 bills of internal im
provements. Mr. Toombs asks that he may
lie judged by the effects of the measure he
supports. Well, you in passing the Kunsa
bill, have practically inaugurated the doc
trine of alien suffrage, and that the people of
the territory, in a legislative capacity, may
or may not legislate on the subject of slave
ry. What is the effi-ct ? You have, by
voiir legislation, gotten up a contest be
tween the North and South, to see who
“hall soonest populate the territory. Not.
willing that the South should have ttie
North alone as a competitor, you fasten up
on your own section the world as her rival
for supremacy in the territory. Where is
the equality or justice in a principle that
gives to the world the right to dispose of the
South's interest in the territory? “Go wash
in the pool of Siloam.” LOWNDES.
! >.s3s>‘- “\ ft*•4'.
[Expressly for the Georgia Citizen.]
Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL
0F T,,E WEAMER
■
Advance in Cotton
Alhusta, Sept. 21.
The Steamer Indian arrived at Quebec
on Saturday from Liverpool with dates
to the 9th iust.
Sales <>t Cotton fur three days 30,000
Bales. Market was buoyant, with an !
advance of 1-10 to l-ri.
j Consols 91],
Trade in Manchester favorable.
Breadstuff’s improved !
STATE OF GEORGIA, (
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FOR GOVERNOR.
HON. BENJAMIN H. HILL.
FOR CONGRESS.
Ist. (list—Hon. F. S. II4RTOW.
2nd. “ —Bon. S. C. ELAM.
| 3rd. “—Hon. R. I* TRIPIE.
till —Hon M.M TIDWELL
• ttli “ Hon.JOSIIEA HILL ;
Silt “ —Hon. T. W MILLER. (
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
MACON, GA....SEPTEMBER 21. 1857.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
.Macon Cotton Market.
There is a good demand for the staple
in this market. About 75 bales receiv
ed per day . and sales at from 14 cents to
14-jf, extreme.
-is*
Election Ticket*.
Election Tickets can be furnished from
this office, for any county or party, ac
cording to order at (lie rate of 84 per
thousand, if one thousand of one kind are
ordered, or 00 ets per hundred for a less
quantity.
ntr. Toombs’ IHisrepi'cscntations.—"Ai
ask the attention of every reader to the Communication
of"Lowndes.” in to-day’s paper, showing up the prevu
rfeations and misrespres-'iitaiions of the Honorable
Robt. Toombs We think that this expose may he
strictly sampled as one of the “tight papers” we read of 1
ft is respectful to the honorable Senator, but is a just
and withering rebuke of that gentleman for his many
political tortuosities and remarkable mistatements of
fact and record. We tender him equal room for a reply
it he thinks “Lowndes” worthy of his attention.
“ til Hie Recency.”
If tiny thing were wanting to show the
desperate fortunes of the Brown De
mocracy, tin- insane ravings of the pen
sioned press of Atlanta, against the Hon.
Bciij. 11. iliil. and their vile abuse of
one of’ the noblest, purest men of tho_
State, at this time, would prove tile fact
to a demonstration. Verily, the maxim,
•■whom the gods wish to destroy, they
first make mad, has, in this particular
found an example and a verification. No
language is too low for the “Examiner,”
flllif bitynm-’ to use to wank
r. Iliil, for no other reason that we
can perceive, than that his prospects of
election to the L’fiief Magistracy are be
coming brighter every day, an event
which will be the signal For the downfall
of those who have “grown fat and kick
ed ‘ on the spoils of the State Road—
No wonder, they tremble in their shoes,
when they see the “hand writing on the
wall” but nevertheless, they should have
sense and decency enough not to overdo
their own work of defamation, if they
wish it to have effect.
To show our readers that we do not
speak at random, we select a few choice
phrases epithets culled from one is
sue of each of the papers named;
The “Intelligencer” says,
BRAND THE SLANDERER.
Ur. Hill’s disregard for fruth, long
since made deplorably manifest, is now
aggravated by his wanton violation of
decency. We venture the assertion that
never before, in the history of party po
lities in this Slate, has any public man
given such exhibitions, on the stump of
shameless disregard of the claims of
truth, justice and self respect. * *
■Ben Hill, by long, sharp professional
praetice.no doubt, cannot conceive how a
man can better his fortunes, in a twelve
month, but by stealing, and to stealing
he naturally enough refers the whole,
thing for an easy solution. Contempti
ble charlatan and calumniator—like a
vile maggot fly. the man is crawling over
the whole universe, to find some ednge
nial rotten spot, upon which he would
spurn (?) the creations of his intellect.
******
“And here we have a man asking us
to elevate his little soul into the high
plaoc of Governor of this noble old State, I
that goes poking and nosing about like 1
a vile vermin, into every corner of a}
man's private affairs, that nobody buti?
ruffian or a rogue would invade much less I
hoid up to public desecration. But hoi
will in due time return back to his old!
.and congenial vomit, never more, we feel 1
Certain, to disgust and demoralize the;
public, by the exercise of his base arts.”
The “Examiner” is a little more re-;
spectful, but is perhaps quite as severe.*
, It navs of Mr. Hill, that it has “never
| known a public! man. who has in so many
: eases, without grounds, without measure’
| without dignity, or regard for public deA
oeney, outraged that propriety and grto
vity of deportment that should ev*
| mark the course of a leading public man!
Me has in many cases, as we hear, acted
! directly towards his honorable opponent
on the stand with disrespectful freedom
and levity of manner, and descended to
those petty tricks of tho stump more fit
fitting the character of the charlatan jjifl
player, than the status of a caudidatiß
the highest office in our gift.” M .
Tnnt paper also calls Mr. Hill a “re
morseless aristocrat,’’ the “candidate of
(he broadcloth gentry” a “wandering
.lew, asking men. and devils for all they
| van do to put him into office,” with oth-1
1 cr such i ibnldry !
Vud what is Mr. Hill's oflenoe, dear
reader, that he should be thus stigma -
! t ized by this brace of worthies, who con
j trol the columns of a portion of tliepub
; lie Press ! Why, simply because Air.
i Hill lias had occasion to speak of certain
loose management and corrupt practices,
in the conduct of the State Road, which •
j have come to his knowledge, and which
i are, in part at least, confessed to be true j
I by these inaligners, themselves!
That the public may form some idea
of the reliance to be placed on the state
ments of the “Intelligencer,” and “Ex
aminer” in reference to Mr. Hill, we take
the liberty of informing them that the
“Examiner” is owned by O. A. Loch
rane, Esq., of this city, the naturalized
“citizen of Georgia,” by special act, af
ter only eighteen months residence in the
country, and that Maj. Steele is the Ed
itor, hired to do the work of defaming
his old Whig friends, for the benefit of
bogus Democracy.
The “Intelligencer” is owned and edit
ed by a young sprig of the law, of the
name of Duncan, who has for a number 1
of years, been the special pet of his Ex- ]
ccllency, Gov. Johnson, and whom Bob
Toombs once dubbed a “little übiquitous
devil, who was everywhere, in every body's
way.” He has a “fat take” as Printer
for the State Road, and, if report says
true, helps to swell, considerably, the
item of “construction” in the expense
account of the road. Hence, he very
disinterestedly, of course, does not wish
Air. Hill elected Governor of Geotgia.
I’ reemou of Georgia and Americans!
will you not make one strong, united and
: continuous effort from now till the day
of election, to vindicate the fair fame of
your gallant standard-bearer, B. 11. Hill,
from the aspersions attempted to be east
upon him. \\ e say attempted, because,
thank God, the spittle of vipers that
crawl so low, can never reach higher than
the shoe-latchet of the object of its malice.
4’lie Const nationalist and Our
self.
The very dignified Editor of the Constitution
■ ia .. too . Cud ou the s',
ftis I.<y* •h-compiactifey, to be at all approach
able b\ common men, but as lie has condescen
ded to notice us, indirectly, and to insinuate that
our Journal is not only “careless” but “unscrup
ulous” in “making nlfroad assertion” but fool
ish enough at the same time to “furnish the ev
idenee-which grov"s‘it to be false,” we may be
pardoned for this feeble attempt to set ourselves
right,, in the matter at issue between us. “A
cat niav look at a King,” therefore, dear Sir, al
low an humble .American to look you in the face,
if wi)cannot hope to reach your superior judg
ment] and understanding.
The Constitutionalist, ohjeets to -our version
of the following passage in the President's Let
ter tp the Connecticut Parsons:—
“TPio convention will soon nssemhlo to per
form tile solemn dutv of framing a Constitution
for themselves and their posterity: and in the
state of incipient rebellion which still exists
in Kansas it is m v imperative duty to emplov the
troops of the United States, should this become
necessary, in defending the convention ntrainst
violence whilst framing the Constitution, and in
projecting the “bona fide inhabitants!” qualified
to vote under the provision of this instrument,
in the freo exercise of the ritrbt of suffrage, v’hni
it shall he. submitted to them for their approbation
or rejection.”
We thought and still think that this Letter
contains the odious doctrine of squatter sovereign
ty. and that Mr. Buchanan has taken for granted
what his man Walker has dictated must be done,
toywit—that the Constitution of the Kansas
C-ttivention must be submitted to all the “bona
-o(|p inhabitants” of the Territory, or else Kansas
would not be admitted into tho eonfederaeyof the
states. The Constitutionalist thinks that the
idirase, “qualified to vote under the provisions of
i- instrument !” in the above extract, proves
tlfiit 1> Buchanan meant only to say that the
•strident citizens” qualitWflTb ’vote by act of the
’Bfiritoriai Legislature, should exercise that priv
ilege and be protected in doing so, by the Mili-
power of the country.
fWp think that this is a far fetched inference.
If Mr. Buchanan did not intend to intervene
ft:te Executive influence in this matter, why men
tion it at all just in time to influence tho Con
tention i Herein is seen the “cloven foot” of
interference, which is so dangerous
So the South. As the Charleston Courier well
pays, ou this very point, “Coming from the
[President of the United Sta tes, the dispenser of
letars and garters and the holder of the Veto pow
er; this amounts to dictation to the Convention
_of Kansas. What right had Mr. Buchanan to
use private language, in reference to an uncer
tain event, to a hypothetical case ? Wlmt right
or warrant had lie to say, “When it (the Consti
tution of Kansas) shall be submitted to them (the
people of Kansas) for their approbation?” It
.is obvious that ho should at loast have put the
matter with an “if’—the peacemaker “if.” In
selecting the positive instead of the hypothetical,
his object could only have been covertly to en
dorse Walkerißm.”
This assumption of the President was unwar
rantable, because the Legislature of Kansas had
already ordained that none but “resident citi
zens” who had registered their names on the 13 th
of March lust, should vote and hold office in the
Territory.” If lie was not auxious for the con
vention to enlarge the area of suffrage, why say
any tiling about the submission of the Constilu- j
lion baek to tin) “Inna fide inhabitants.” Why
not have used the legislative phrase ot ‘citizens ?’ !
Tliere eau be but one answer to tills question, and i
timt answer manifestly and palpably implicates
Buchanan in a strong desire to carry out the j
views of Gov. Walker in his Inaugural address
and Topoka speech, when tho latum said, lie did
not mean those who were residing there on the
13th March last—but not only those who were
there then but those who will bo there next fall
os “actual residents.” The Black Republicans
in their convention of March 20th, demanded
the same tiling, and tho National Democracy
represented in Kansas are now clamorous for
, the extension of the elective franchise beyond
what the Legislature of the Territory provided,
also the submission of the constitution to the
vote of tho “ bona-fide inhabitants.”
The reader will notice that tho term citizen
is no where used by the President or his man
Walker. Is this not prima facie evidence that
this dictation by the President was intended to
operato upon tho Convention to bring that
about which the Legislature of the Territory,
working under the organic act of Congress di A
not see proper to do ?
Mark it, that this organic act stipulated
that “the qualifications of voters and of hold
ing office at all subsequent elections, (to the
first,) shall be such as shall be prescribed by
the Legislative Assembly.” Gov. Walker,
howevsr, steps in, and as the authorized and
unrecalled agent of the President, a man in
whom tiie President says lie has full confi
dence, declares that all the people shall vote
there next October, whether “citizens” of
j Kansas or not—thus basely truckling to the
S demands of Black Republicanism. It was
this very interference of Walker that called
forth tho 3d Resolution of the Georgia State
Convention, demanding the recall of Walk
er, which demand has not yet been answer
ed by the President, although he had time
to reply to the Abolitionists of Connecticut,
whom the Editor of the Constitutionalist
denounces as “incorrigible, pharisaical, dog
matic, anti-slavery fanatics, whose counsels
have been denounced by the people of their
own vicinage.”
We repeat then, that this is tho true in
terpretation of Mr. Buchanan’s letter to the
Connecticut preachers, and “its meaning
cannot be misunderstood by any intelligent
man who is disposed to construe it fairly,”
to use the Editor’s own language.
By the way, is not the Editor as liable to
a bias in favor of Buchanan as we are liable
to be influenced against him ? Is it uot as
far from his house to to ours, as from ours to
his ? Such being the case, we submit wheth
er all the facts and circumstances of the case
are not in favor of the presumption that
Buchanan is playing into tho hands of the
Northern Freesoil Democracy and to make
Kansas a free State.
, . “Wu therefore, thaLuut* coteropcAftr .
ry of the” Constitutionalist “whenever he
makes a broad unfounded assertion” in im
putation of the veracity or understanding of
his brethren of the press, will pause and
reflect whether his otvu position as a newly
fledged convert to Democracy may not jus
tify the presumption that he, like all new
proselytes, has more zeal than knowledge,
or “a zeal not according to knowledge 1”
Aleck Stephens—tle Trimmer.
In reply to the Constitutionalist who
said it was “a notorious fact)that Mr.
Stephens was prominent, active and in
fluential in the re-insertion of the alien
suffrage clause of the Kansas Bill,” the
Griffin Union states another fact not
quite so notorious, hut destined to be
so, in the history of Air. Stephens, that
“ Mr. S. himself introduced a hill into
the House WITH THE CITIZEN SUF
FRAGE SUBSTITUTED FOR THE
ALIEN SUFFRAGE CLAUSE and
further that “ Mr. Toombs introduced
precisely the same bill into the Senate I
Mr. Trippe has a copy of these bills in
his possession as originally printed for
the use of Congress !
And yet Stephens and Toombs threw
aside their own bills and took up with
the Black Republican substitutes of
Richardson and Douglass, and are now
advocating alien suffrage and foreign
emigration of paupers and felons into
this country ! Was there ever such a
pair of inconsistent and unprincipled
politicians! Let the people mark these
things and mete gift, deserved punishment
to the’ demagogues.
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Mr. Stephens Cornered.
In a discussion between Mr. Stephen.*
; and Thomas W. Miller, at Augusta, Mr.
M, charged Stephens with saying, during
! the last canvass “Elect me and save Han.
xus. This Mr. Stephens denied, when
Malconiß. Jones Esq. was given as Mil
ler’s authority. Mr. .Jones, however,
when called on, did not sustain Miller. —
He found it convenient not to recollect
giving the information to Mr. M„ who
was therefore compelled to waive his ac
cusation. At Appling, however, Air. M.
j repeated the charge, in presence of Aleck,
; and called upon the assembled multitude
: to confirm what he said, whereupon Mr.
Jesse Walton, a highly respectable gen
tleman, rose up and said he heard Mr.
Stephens say so. Air. Stephens, thus
confronted with the witness against him,
(says a correspondent of the Chronicle
d-Sentinel,) “stood mute, and ‘like a lamb
led to the slaughter, opened not his
mouth.” What a humiliating specticle!
Another correspondent of the same
paper, revives the charge, that in 1855,
Mr. Stephens tried to drive a bargain
with the Delegates to the American Con
vention, held in this city, and that Air. S.
stated on that occasion, that he expected
to act with the American party, and that
the “naturalization laws of the United
States ought to be so revised and amend
ed, as to exclude all foreign paupers and
criminals, and so thoroughly to check
and prevent those gross frauds and abus
es which now attend their administration.’
This is, we think, a true bill; for wa
distinctly recollect that certain delegates
front W arren and Alorgan and perhaps
Wilkes, made an effort to get the plat
form to be adopted by that Convention,
so framed, as to meet the views of Air.
Stephens, and, we believe, partially suc
ceeded. What say Mr. Pottle. Colonel
Reese and Air. Sneed, in regard to this
matter? We rather think they know
something about it, especially Air. Pot
tle.
FOR TIIE GEORGIA CITIZEN.
Hon. Ilowell Cobb’s Position.
Alr. Editor : It is rumored that Howell
Cobb has written to someone in Georgia,
giving it as his opinion, that it is best for
the South, for Kansas to come in as a free
State! Can it be possible ? Have you
heard any thing of the treason ? CATO.
ARRIVALS AT BROWN'S HOTEL.
MACON, September2o, 1867.
L 8 Morgan, DeKalb
J R Glenn, Forsyth
M Williams, Terrell co
L Ethridge, Starksville
C L Varner, Houston co
Rev C P Martin, Griffin
A L Garrard Columbus
E O Cox, Ga
A B Holt, Columbus
C L Rogers, do
Qm i Joues. do
J C Sellers, Jackson Ga
B H Mathis, Beuna Vista
W Sampson, Ga
“W W Davis, Montezuma
T B Raines, Kando.ph Ga
M Baird, Philadelphia
W P Bonner, and lady Milledgevllle
G M Satterwkite, C R R 8
D V Arden, Ga
w D McKay, Americus
G T Granger Texas
C B Leirner, Geneva Ga
J M Stubbs, Macon co
M L Bivins, Pineville Ga
H Cooper, Miss
A M Hull, Columbuß
D J Alexander, do
H Brutnlev, La
W P Bottom, August a
J L Wyman, Florida
L Brewer, Americus Ga-
R G Lockett, Ga
Mrs L Young, Ala
Col J B Cooper, Ga
E G Ponder, Thomasville
J R Gilbert, Lee co
F II Johnston Americus
lion B H Overby, Atlanta
A Lilly, New Orleans
J McHenry, Sav’h
J D Moore, Green co
W A Msore, do
S T Andrews, Cuthbert
F K Davis, Ga
D RMarshen.do
J B Vatighn, N C
M Thornton, Ga
A J Elder, do
T P Stubbs, do
J P Harvey,
Consignees—Macon & Western Rail Road.
MACON, September 31, 1857.
Bowdre A Anderson, J B A W A Ross. C H Elza, M E
Gray, L L W Andrews, E Wimberly, [W,] [T ]
Consignees—Sooth-Western Railroad.
MACON, September 21. 1857.
R Findlay, H N Bntchel'or. II B Troutman, T A Har
ris, A Ayres, H A Sparks, N H Beall.
Consignees—Central Railroad.
MACON, September 21. 1857.
H A Grffln, J H Goodman, h
FIW, A Cn, Bostick * Krin, EWln.hlp, A MBlacksbea”
R p McElroy, L A Smith.
DeZ 4 t B b E n eln ’o M * Wowlanrl. M A Buckley, F
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lo do Osnaburgs,
sdo do Striped,
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3 <’ases of assorted Lmsev.
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