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■From. the .Vo iional American.
letter from at Southern Demo
crat
Ur. Editor : To uiy quiet home, day after
day, your “racy” Daily liu come, and with
it the well filled columns of the “Intelligen
oer” and “Examiner.”
I have been, sinoe the contest for Govern
or began, a silent looker on, and, when not
disgusted, a patient Journal reader. I re
solved at the outset, that I would study close
ly the character of men, and give to the bal
lot-box in October, the respect it demands
from every patriot citizen. My predilections
haw been and are still for the Southern, wing
of tne Democratic party. I love this sunny
South. The bones of uiy lathers have com
mingled With its soil; tho blood-boughtpat
rimony is tuy home, and while there lives an
enemy to its institutions, he shall ever find
in ine a foe. Tho Democratic principles of
Calhoun are my principles; they have gov
erned me thus far in life, and will ever con
tinue the basis of my political creed. Yet,
sir. Democratic as I claim to be, 1 am not to
be blinded by the fanaticism of party rule,
or have my independence compromised by
the jargon of political tricksters. lam hon
est enough to throw aside differences in opin
ion, trivial as they arc, and in the coming
election for Governor of Georgia, support
Benjamin 11. Hill, of Troup—a Christian gen
tleman and honest patriot. I have always
had for Hill, although but slightly acquaint
ed, the greatest respect. I admire his flash
ing genius—the dignity of his deportment,
and his moral excellence—would to heaven
such men were in office evry where 1 When
the Democratic nominee was auuounced, I,
lik many others of my party, was all anxie
ty to see and near the unknown stranger
fr.-ra Cherokee. I have seen him—heard
him discuss the po ileal questions of the
day, ano, as an honest citizen of Georgia, 1
declare that, I cannot support hi* election by
Vote or influence, whilst his opponent is in
tli • field.
I admire, sir, tbe spirit ‘>f your corn-spot
(lent in Monday's pnpi-r. i’he miserable
a’ l ises, cont ■ nptible iud.'cencies, tliut are
he* >ed upon the character and position of
Mr. Hill, luce sickened me, and many oth
ers. ’Tis an inauspicious day for Democra
ny when its Press becomes the channel of
such spleen, l-ailery and undignified abuse ;
the certain evidence of a conscious inferior
ity. Corrupt the fountain, and impure must
be the stream. Let the gambling technical
ities, and undignified vituperations of our
Democratic journals continue, and the party
will sink benoath the standard of patriotic
citizens. Mr. Hill is a gentleman—a Chris
tian gentleman ; the Methodist Church re
cognizes him among its best members, and
yet his character is maligned, his veracity
questioned, and his Christianity repudiated
by men whose standard of morality is noto
riously low, and who, for “the pap” of of
fice, would seek to bury worth aud superior
excellence beneath u host of the most shame
ful abuses I Let the high-minded, noble
Democrat brand such characters with a stig
ma of contempt, aud with inauly indepen
dence acknowledge the capacity and worth
of one of Georgia's noblest sons.
SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT.
roll THE GEORGIA CITIZEN.
To tbe People of Georgia.
Fellow-countrymen I ten days will not
have passed away before you, by the exer
cisa of the highest and most sacred right ot
freemen, will, through the ballot-box, have
either endorsed or condemned the Executive
interference in the affairs of Kansas. Your
decision will be for weal or wo. In your
decision is locked up the destinies of your
own sunny South and country ! How will
you condemn the source of all this evil to
your section and country ? By voting for
a man who professes to hate the treason, yet
loves and defends the traitor! Will you
vote for a man who condemns the theft but
defends the thief ? Will you vote for a man
who tells you in one breath that Walker in
Kansas is letting out the life-blood of the
pro-slavery party there, aud in the next, de
fends Buchanan, who if he chose, could at
any moment have staunched the wounds of
the bleediug South. Hag the oil of consola
tion, promised in the event of Mr. Buchan
an s election, been poured into these wounds ?
How has Mr. Buchanan dressed these
wounds ? Where ig the bandage that wa
promised the bruised and mangled body o.
Jio South in the election of Mr. Buchanan ?
Is it necessary to remove her shroud and ex
pose the lips of her gaping wounds, that her
deep and damning wrongs may rush back
upon your memories? How she has been
deceived and wronged hy Buchanan’s inter- 1
ferencu against her rights through his man
Wa,ker >n Kansas I This is no high-wrought ‘
picture. It is truth without the touch of 1
fancy. I
What r!iff-retire will there be hetwoei 1
your voting for Joseph E. Brown, who en i
dorses Buchanan’s policy in Kansas, and
yv.ir voting for Mr, Buchanan, were he to
day a candidate tor the IVaiueney ? Think
SeioUsly of this matt.-, I Would Jllu u .
Georgia!!*, , te ter air Buuiiai.au a,;ain.
y -re he acu ididate W President ! VVoul
-'■ doit * STo. in,.. ,~n you rot,
f,*r Brown who defend* him, and would vote
for him for President
You see you cannot condemn Buchanan
and Walker by voting for Brown. Then
how can you condemn the Buchanan and
Walker policy ? The question is, how ?_
Vote far the man who condemn* the treason
and the traitor. Vote for Georgia’s own na
tive and gifted son. Vote for him who i
the brilliant orator, the logician, the patriot,
and philosophical Statesman—Benjamin H.
Hill 1 There is no other way whereby you
can condemn Buchanan and Walker. Vote
for Browu and you approve Walker’s course,
for the principal is responsible for the acts of
the agent. Vote for Hill and you condemn
Walker. Every man who votes for Brown,
endorses Buchanan and Walker’s jiolicy.—
No man can reason that conclusion away.
Let every man before he votes, sit down
and think oalmuly aud seriously belore he
does vote. Let him reinember if he votes
for Brown, he votes against the South ! If
he votes for Hill he votes for the South and
country. Remember that the destiny ot
yourself amt your children is in your own
hands. Remember that Hill, if elected Go
vernor, will recommend that policy which
will give to every little orphan and every
man's child (who by misfortune is unable,)
that which no misfortune can depress, no
clime ib stroy, no enemy alienate, no despo
tism enslave —an education ! It Brown is
elected, this blessing and boon will be with
held from the helpless orphaus, and the poor
man’s little children.
Parents, do you love your children ? Phi
larilhropists, do you seek to elevate and re
fine the helpless and indigent? Then vote
for the peoples’ candidate—B, H. Hill. Pa
triots, would you rid the State and country
of demagogues ? Would you see the veil
torn from tile political corruptions of the age ?
Then < :e or Hill. If you would wish to
make the little orphans remember where
they gamboled in early youth, the stream
upon whose flowery banks they played and
first felt gratitude to their God and their
State, vote for Hill. If you would fasten
upon their memories, and give them a green
spot in their helpless and orphatiized condi
tion, vote for Hill 1 Is the spirit of patriot
ism and chivalry that animated the South
and tiie country hurried in the corruptions
of party, or has it taken its flight for other
anil more Congenial climes ? Methinks its
impress s still on the hearts of the people,
auu the people are with their gallant leader,
B. H. Hill.
I have placed before you independence
and degradation, choose you between slave
ry and freedom, llill is not coutending for
party triumph, but for the liberties aud sa
cred rights of the people. Then fait not, 1
adjure you, to give him your hearty support.
LOWNDES.
FOR THE GEORGIA CITIZEN.
Mr, Toombs against tbe Poor
Man.
Af r, JSriUvr :
Mr. Toombs defends his votes giving 1
away the public lands to Railroad com
panies, upon the sole ground that the
government looses nothing. To whom
are these lands given ? Are they in any
one instance given to the poor and indi
gent ? Are they not given, in every in
stance, to the high and rich. The rich
are made richer, an 1 the poor poorer, by
the giving the lands to the Railroad com
panies. How are the rich made richer?
Because the lands are given to the rich.
How are the poor made poorer ? Be
cause before the lands were given away
to Railroads the poor man could get
them for a dollar and twenty-five cents
an acre, now if he gets them he has to
pay two dollars and a half an acre. Be
sides, ’tis said, members to Congress are
sometimes interested in the Railroads
and lands that are voted to these rich
companies.
Toombs says wheie every other sec
tion of land is given to Railroad com
panies the Government loses nothing.
Why, because the value of every other
section is increased from one dollar and
twenty-five cents to two dollars and a
half an acre. Each section contains six
hundred acres of land. Now, to a poor
man it would make a great difference
whether he paid #1,25 per acre or 12,50
per acre for a section of these lands.—
Mr. Toombs is giving to the rich.—
W beivas seven hundred and fifty dollars
would have purchased and secured to the
poor man in moderate circumstances, a
section of land, now it will take fif
teen hundred dollars to buy the same
number of acres of land. Is that not leg
islating for the rich alone ? What right
has the Government to turn speculator
in the public lands? Who is it that
goes into the new couutries 1 Is it the
rich or poor ? Do the rich and aristo
crat c go into the forest, cut down, clear
up and till the lands, or rather is it not
the >oor man, who goes there, hoping to
he r..ue, from the low price of one dollar
and twenty-five cents per acre, for lands,
to purchase from his government, and se
cure to his industrious and thrifty wife
and lit'le ones, a home, but the magnan
imity of tile lion. Senator, and his party,
step - in and says the i.-cids are too plen
ty m.deheap, we will giveaway one
half to the rich that will increase the val
ue of the remaining half to double its
value now, though practically excluding
the poor man from a home in the wilder
tices of his country. Such, my country
men, is Democratic legislation. Such is
a fair sample of the tender mercies of
the Democratic leaders for the poor of
tha land. BERRIEN. 1
Manifest Destiny.
The Mercury comments oil the “Muni
fest Destiny” article of the last West
minster Review. It says that this arti
cle proves too much for the Abolitionists
themselves, and that their own organs
cry out against it. The author proves,
says the Mercury, that the Union is in a
rapid progress of disintegration—an as
sertion long ago made by a largo portion
of the Southern press and politicians.
The Mercury adds :
“No! no! Mr. llurlburt, if you be
the man of‘manifest destiny,’ the North
ern people do not want to dissolve the
Union. Dissolve their bread and butler
—dissolve their prosperity—kill the
goose that lays for them all the golden
eggs! No! no! the Union is their mine,
their mule, their milch cow, feeding on
Southern pastures, and milked exclusive
ly by Northern hands! Destroy that!
No! no! The North is the Old Man of
the Sea. He. rides on the Southern Sin
bad. Sinbad is Ins water-bearer, his
pack-horse, his miner, digger, delver, up
on whose muscles he fattens—upon whose
fat he feeds. The Old Man of the Sea
never kills his Sinbad deliberately; nev
er, if he can help it. He will work him
to skin and bone, hut not be unwilling
that Sinbad shall thrive, so long as his
digestion is good, and thistles are in plen
ty. He will no more destroy him than
you would destroy your mule, your ox,
your ass, or any thing that is yours.—
We do not read that the ‘Old Man’ made
any such attempt on Sinbad; but we
do read that Sinbad, one day plucked up
courage enough to brain the old despot
as he slept. Let our despots consider
the moral. It is as old as the days of
Mathuselah !It is the moral in the history
of every confederacy of States, where the
hig ones—the commercial—preted upon
the little ones—held always to be feeble
—tho agricultural. The stone goes, and
grows as it goes. The rod is in pickle,
even now. The tricks of party are dis
covered. The wire-pullers are caught in
the act The people—Sinbad—is awake,
and he will brain you before he sleeps
again.”
in Earnest Word to tlic Ameri
can Party.
There is one thing, says the Athens
“ Watchman,” we would like to say to
every American voter in Georgia, and
repeat twice a day from this time until
the day of election. It is this: Vote
all together. In Congressional Districts
and counties where we have no candi
dates in the field, and the opposite party
have a plurality, let our friends vote as
one man. Let them concentrate their
entire strength upon one man and “put
him through.” Let there be no divi
sion IN OUR RANKS.
The policy of this course will be read
ily perceived by reflecting men, and it is
useless to address any others.
We have been proscribed as a party
—we have been insulted, abused, slan
dered and reviled by the hired minions
of power. W e have borne all this with
becoming dignity—conscious of the rec
titude of our course, and knowing that a
day of retribution was at hand. The
day of vengeance “ draweth nigh.” The
sth of October is the “ set time.”
Then
“Strike for your altars and your fires,
Strike for the green graves of your sires,
God and your u&tire land ! ”
Let your revilurs know that you are
not powerless—learn them to respect
you ! This can be done alone by united
action. Divided, we become powerless
and contemptible ; united, we hold the
balance of power in our hands ! Think
of these things friends, and act according
ly.—Athens Watchman.
Ah Enigma.
I am composed of twenty letters.
My 3 20 13 is a number.
My 13 47 2 is the name of a cruel
Tyrant.
My 15 8 I<> i> 18 is a piece of money.
My 1(1 7 0 1 4 is to verily.
My 51210 11 is one of the Reasoned
My 1 i7 13 4 is a vegetable produc
tion.
Mv 18 817 11 10 918 s the name
of an Indian chief.
My 7 9 14 14 10 4is an an Enigma.
My whole is what every citizen of the
third District should do at the coming
election.
“C'lialkisig (heir IIa(.”
We have been told that an ex-conduc
tor on the State Hail load will swear, if,
necessary, that there is a practice on that
road of designating favorites and “dead
heads,” who pay nothing tor their rides
|by a chalk mark on the hat. Mr. Hill
lid say here that he had heard of such
being the practice auj we have also
heard it from disintkhested parties, who
could have no motive for telling an un
truth upon the subject.
Hie truth is Mr. Hill has stirred up
the sinners of the State Road considera- !
bly. lie has detected and exposed their j
iniquity, and they try to compensate
themselves for the unpalatable truths ha
has told by defamation and low abuse o 1
him. It won’t Vdo. Benjamin 11. Hill
has a private imputation which any man
might he proqß of Wtide not believe
that he would wilfully tell the most in
significant falsehood, even if he was sure
that, by so doing he could sgciire his elec
tion. Thu oblige of cheating him on tin-
State Road i%sti sfa’rfied by the Very con
ductor aud we belive the chalk
mark equally jKu'c, though wear ■ not cer
tain that Mr. 11 ill jjtciil ioued that as a fact
within his own knowledge.— (frijKn
(’/tion. fjwß
From-the Atlanta American.
“ tier*! it not Duncan.”
Did the inflated little egotist, who is
the oxtensilfx editor of the Intelligencer,
make the te/nark, that, inasmuch as Gov
ernor Johnson was not present at the
Memphis celebration, he was the most
suitable pcL,on to represent the State of
Georgia odpthat occasion ? If lie did.
ougflf uotjgis modesty “ to be framed’
aud baud*ijjhnvii as an heirloom to pos
terity ? Is he not fearful that his exets
eire diOL we will conceal his real worth
fro'rjjhe.pjlljlie gaze ? Does such maid
en become tho “ sterner sex ?“
Did hit at a wine party, given by a
citizen üßMemphis, to the Georgia dele
gation, ’or the Commercial House, dis
play unmual discretion by proposing a
Democratic toast, when a large propor
tion, if knot a majority of the persons
present! were members of the American
party ?! Was that toast drank ? If so
was it fluid deafening shouts of applause,
or in smemu silence? Did this discretion
reflecWity credit on the “Empire State
of th .'South ?”
Is if true, that when this same Scot
tish Chief—this “ little übiquitous” in
dividual—lived in Milledgeville, when
ever the Governor and his advisers had
important matters to discuss, it was made
the duty of one of the private Secreta
ries to look up the chimney, under the
table, behind the window curtains, under
senlps of paper, and in the cracks of the
ceiling, for fear State secrets might in
stupe way leak out ? Is the “ Intelligen
cer man” a wizard, and can he elude
pursuit by assuming Protean shapes?
Is it true, that a certain very mighty
individual, with more abdominal rotun-
Jltvnhfin brains, who when sued by the
State Road officials proclaimed himself
the victim of political proscription, re
cently hursted in the Intelligencer office?
If he did, does that account for the
vast amount of editorial filth which has
for some time past disgraced the columns
of that delectable sheet?
‘1 hose absorbing questions must be
answered, or democracy is lost forever.
An awful crisis is impending; muttering
tllfmder is heard in the distance—the
heavens gather blackness—the forked
lightning flashes across the bosom of an
angry political horizon, w hich threatens
to sweep away’ every vestige of the pa
triot’s hope.
Rome was once saved by the cack
ling of geese. Will not the Substance
and the Shadow, emulate this bright ex
ample ?
ANTI-MUGGINS.
Minnesota—Alien Suffrage
A few days since we indulged in some re
flections upon the evil consequences to the
South, of Alien Suffrage in the free States.
That it was a most dangerous element, be
cause it might control the election of Presi
dent and Congress, and therefore, the destr
nies of the country. Since that article was
published, we have seen the following sy
nopsis of some of the provisions of the Con
stitution of Minnesota, which has been adopt
ed by the Black Republicans and Democrats
of Convention. Upon the question of Alien
Suffrage, the Democrats and B 1 k Rcpi
cans co-operate most ecu Jially. The follow
ing a p the provisions to which we have re
ferred :
Slavery or involuntary servitude shall ne
ves exist in the State—that the liberty
of the press shall ever remain inviolate—that
the trial hy jury shall extend to all classes a’
law—and that no religious or property test
shall ever be required to qualify a manfrom
holding office or voting.
Every male person of the age of twenty
one years or upwards, belonging to either of
the following classes, who shall have resided
in the United States one year, aud in the
State four months next preceding any elec
tion, are to be entitled to vote, as follows:
White citizens of the United States.—
White persons of foreign birth who shall
have declared their intentions to become cit
izens comfortable to the laws of the United
States upon the subject of naturalization.—
Persons of mixed white and Indian blood
who have adopted the customs and habits of
civilized lift. Persons of Indian blood re
siding in the State who have adopted the lan
guage, customs and habits of civilization, af
ter an examination before any District Court
of the State, in such manner as may be pro
vided by law, and shall have been pronounc
ed by said Court capable of enjoying the
rights of utizwuskip within the Slate.
These provisions should attract the atten- 1
tion of Southern men ; for they are at war,
not only with the pi tu iples of the Govern
ment and the Const! mi in, tint they are es
pecially antagonistic to the South and hot
institutions.— Chronicle if- Sentinel.
M aterial for Makixu National Democrats.
—We have long known that a good National
Democrat could bo made out of most any kind
ot material. A full-blooded, life-long Abolition
ist answers quite us well as anything or any
body else. All he has to do, is to Call himself
a Democrat, aud ho is forthwith taken by the
hand and baptised in the new faith, and either
given an office, or put in the liue of promotion.
The following from the Lynchburg Virginian il
lustrates the truth of our observation:—Knox
ville Register.
“To judge from the loud professions of devo
tion which the Democracy are constantly making
to the rights and interests of the South, one
would suppose that there never was such a pure
and immaculate party. The idea of having to do
with a Free-soiler in a political sense, is one that
their Southern organs would reject with the ut
most vehemence.
•‘That we may see how far such a claim is sup
ported by facts, let us adduce a few modern in
stances.” The Representative just elected to
Congress, as a Democrat, from Nebraska Terri
tory is an old Michigan Eree-soibr, who voted,
while a member of the Michigan Legislature, to
instruct Gen. Cass to support a law excluding
slavery from the Territories.
“The Democratic candidate for Congress in
Kansas is ex-Governor Ransom of Michigan,
who advocated the Wilmot. Proviso in his mes.
sago, and opposed Gen. Cass for the Senate be
cause tho latter was not sufficiently free-soil in
his notions.
“The consul recently appointed to Aspiuwull
by the President—C. J. Fox of Michigan—was
at one time the Editor of a free-soil paper in that
State and a leading advocate of the Wilmet Pro
viso. ,
“These aro throe instances only from one
State. Tlte list might bo indefinitely extended.
—These old chronic Freesoilers are now regular
Patent “National” Ddmocrats; and, as such,
must be accepted into full fellowship by the
people of the South. Is this the feast to which
we are invited, Avhen appealed to surrender our
opposition to National Democracy?”
Amerlenn Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. BENJAMIN H, HILL.
FOR CONGRESS.
Ist. Dist—Hon. F. S. BARTOW.
2nd “ —lion. S. C. ELA.H,
3rd. “—Hon. It. P. TRIPPE.
411 “ -llon M.M TIDWELL
till “ Hon.JOSHUA IIIEL
Stli “ —lion. T. W MILLER.
Bibb County
American Ticket.
FOR THE SENATE,
THOM AS P. STL If IIS, ESQ.
FOB THE 1101 T 6E OF It EFBESEVTATIVES,
THOMAS HARDEMAN, Jr.,
DR. EDMUND FITZGERALD.
GEORGIA CITIZEN?
MACON, GA....SEPTEMBER 28, 1857
L. F. W. ANDREWS. Editor.
Election Tickets.
Election Tickets can he furnished from
this office, for any county or party, ac
cording to order at the rate of #5 per
thousand, if one thousand of one kind are
ordered, or 60 cts per hundred for a less
quantity.
Public Meeting.
The Hon. R-.bt. P. Trippe will address his
fi-llow citizens of Bibb, to-morrow evening,
(Tuesday, 29*,) at 71-2 o’clock. The pub
lic, without distinction of party, arerespect
fully invited.
lie ware of Tricks!
We understand that a deep game is
now being played hy the Democratic
leaders, in order to defeat Trippe and
elect Bailey. The plan is something like
this—to tradeon the enthusiasm for Hill,
by swapping off Brown with Americans
for Bailey. They feel sure of Brown’s
election, therefore they think they can
spare twenty or thirty Brown votes in
each comity in the District, if they can
get that many Americans to agree to
vote for Bailey, on condition that an
equal number of Democrats will vote
for Hill!
Now, we caution the Americans a
gainst all such trading, swapping or
splitting tickets. You have no surety,
whatever, that those who make such
offers will not cheat you badly, if you
listen to their propositions. They will
play any trick to get your votes, hut will
not stand up to their part of the contract.
11 they did, you have nothing to gain by
any such traffic, but everything to lose.
Let Americans then be wary and vote
the regular American Ticket, the whole
ticket and nothing but the tiofcet, for
Governor. ('( and legislature and
if we ure beaten, of w hit-h we have no
‘em, we shall have the e<insolation to
know that defeat brings no dishonor.
■touts Suspensions.
The recent suspensions ot the Banks of
Philadelphia and Baltimore, is attributa
ble, mainly, if not entirely, by well-in
formed commercial men, to the over trad
ing and speculating in lands in the West,
by merchants and other classes of the
community. For example, a Western
merchant goes to Philadelphia and pur
chases say $150,000 worth of gt >ods, ships
them to their destination, makes rapid
sales, and immediately invests proceeds
in lands, leaving the jobber and seller in
Philadelphia and Baltimore to wait till
he can realize on his lands, or until
compelled to pay by due course of law.
(Os course such a system will re-act npon
the Eastern cities engaged in trade with
the West. But New York and Boston
markets are not so influenced, being sup
ported chiefly by the trade of the East,
North, and South. Consequently, we
are led to believe that the present panic
in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the cities
South as far as North Carolina, which
are intimately connected with Philadel
phia and Baltimore, will not in the least
affect our markets in Georgia. Besides,
our Georgia Banks are now in the sound
est possible condition to meet any crisis
in financial affairs. They owe nothing
to Northern Banks, and have little or
none of their funds on deposit in the lat
ter institutions, at this season of the year.
And as Cotton begins to come in, they
will be able to offer the usual facilities
on good bills, although prudence will
dictate that on speculative paper they
will be stringent, for a short time.
—
Party Credulity. --The Constitu
tionalist affects to believe the misrepresenta
tions of its correspondent “Oconee,” touch
ing the speech of Mr. Hill, at Cool Spring,
Wilkinson county, in preference to believ
ing the statement of Mr. Hill, on the very
point at issue, that of Democrats travelling
over the State Road free of charge, with a
cross on their hats to designate the dead
heads and Brown men. Mr. Hill has an
swered such misrepresentations in such a
way as to have caused the Editor of the
Constitutionalist to have withheld the epi
thets “contemptible and unfounded,” when
applied to Mr. Hill, if there had been a spark
of manliness left in his bosom.
Joe Brown’s Tyranny !
Poor Men not allowed to be Jurors !!
The Dahlonega Signal has a communica
tion from a “Voter,” stating that the Inferi
or Court of that county, on revising the Ju
ry-box recently, threw out the names of all
persons who were unable to pay their taxes
last year, and the executions against whom
were sold at public out-cry at the court
house, a few months since, and that the In
ferior Court acted in this matter by order or
direction of the Hon. Joseph E. Brown, then
Judge of the Circuit.
This correspondent thus speaks of tbedis-
Iranchisemeut and debarring of the Ameri
can-born citizens from the Jury-box for the
crime ot poverty !
“Is not this a pretty piece of liigh-handed
oppression upon the poor working men of
our county ? This is the law passed by a
Democratic Legislature of Georgia! The
poor American born, who is unable to pay
his taxes, shall not have the right to vote or
io serve upon a jury—while thousands of
lousy, thieving, cut-throat, foreign felons, are
enjoying those privileges every year I The
Know Nothings have never been guilty of
such infernal foul play and oppression as
that. Now, freemen, will you—can you
vote for this man Judge Brown, after his
coming to Lumpkin county and directing the
Inferior Court to throw out of your Jury
boxes the names of your poor citizens—ma
king your “honest poverty” a crime ? But
through accident, the Judge has lately be
come rich, and he, no doubt, has all at once
acquired a great disgust for poor white
folks !
But to this Democratic law. How the
Judge in his wisdom could discover that the
poor men, whose tax fi. fas. were sold at pub
'ic outcry, were for this reason debarred
from serving as Jurors and voting, is a puzzle
to me. Does lie mean that the mere matter
ot being in debt should cut a person out of
of his vote and kick him out of the Jury
box ? If a debt to the State should thus
disqualify a man, would not a debt to an in
dividual do the same thing ? Ido not see
why it is that J udge Brown thinks it so
much more a sin to owe the State than to
owe some honest neighbor I But perhaps,
Mr. Editor, you can tell me, as I am not skill
ed in such villiauous aud oppressive code of
politics as this. VOTER.”
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Dr. Slappey’g Communication.
This document has elicited unqualified
commendation of all honest men, who
hate the appearance of tyrany on the part
of a J udge of the land. Dr. S. is a gen
tleman of wealth and influence who has
heretofore acted with the Democracy,
but who cannot give his support to little
loseph of “ no-si r-ree-bob” notoriety.—
He will vote for Hill and use all his in
fluence to defeat the overbearing and ty
rannical Judge—who is not willing that
a poor man should serve on the Jury,
because he is unable to pay his taxes.