The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-24

| ei OF GOVERNOR TOWNS,
! TO the Electors Of the Slate Of Georgia
MACON, Georgia, Sept. $50 clock, p. m.
Below forward the Proclamation Of Governor
Towns, Of Georgia: fl
| GEoRcE w. Towns, Governor of said State, to
the electors thereof, greeting Having been olici
ally informed that the Congress ofthe United States
has admitted California into the Union of the
States Of the Confederacy upon equal terms with
the original States duty devolves upon me. in
the performance Of which ! shall trespass upon
| the public but briefly. An unfeigned Difference
for public opinion, and the profound regard en-
| terrain for the wisdom, frmness, and patriotism
of my fellow-citizens of Georgia. will not Justify.
me in paper of this character, in repeating nv
known and unchanged opinions as to the duy OF
the South in repelling Free-soil encroachnent, and
arresting by all proper means, usurpation by Con-
| gress. Whatever is compatible with the honor and
obligations of the people Of this State to the coun-
try, IFS laws, and its Institutions, | doubt not
will receive their warm support, in an hour Of
danger, when your institutions are in jeopardy
your feelings wantonly outrnged-your social or
gan'zation derded-your honor deeply wounded,
and the Federal Constitution violated by series of
aggressive measures-all tending to the consume
ton one object,-the abolition of slavery. The
common territory of all which you have an equal
right to occupy and enjoy, has been denied you in
the solemn form OF law, under pretenses the most
deliberate and counsel together for your mutu-
al preservation and safety, whatever it may
cost. The extraordinary events by which we
are encompassed and the measures will demand or
justify mustb left Jas should be to the patriotism
hrmness, and prudence of the people themselves
Upon them devolves the duty ofredressing present
wrongs, and providing other safeguards for future
securlty-neither the one nor the other of which
however will ever be effectually accomplished until
by patriotic efforts, perfect harmony and concord Of
feeling are restored, and concert of action pro-
duced among the people of the South.
In view therefore, of the atrocious Free-so SEN
tlment and policy, not merely Of the non slave
holding States, but of the Government-of the i'm
mnent peril to which the institution of slavery is
reduced by the act of Congress-, admitting the
State OF California into the Union with constitu-
ton containing the principle Of the Wiln,of Proriso
and in defiance of our warning and earnest remon-
STRANGE. In view ofthe deplorable fact that some
diversity OF opinion exists in some oil the Southern
States, as to the proper mode Of redressing the
wrongs and avoiding the dangers which all must
see and feel let me, feow-citiZens, earnestly en-
treat you to cultivate for each other, deep and
abiding sentiment Of fraterna regard and conf
dence, and approach the task from which there is
no escape, Of deciding upon your duty to Georgia
and the country, with firm STEP but not without
calm, deliberate and patient investigation, consult
ing neither fears or dangers on the one hand nor
permitting yourselves from exasperated feelings
of wrong on the other, to be rashly urged to Ex-
IRENE Measures, which have not received the full
sanction ofyour Judgment Then | shall not de-
SPAR of seeing the whole State as one man pro-
posing nothing beyond what the emergency
may demand, or failing to perform whatever
patriotism, honor, and right may require at your
hands. The General Assembly of this State. bv
an act approved the 9Th Of February 1850 havinu
required me upon the happening Of certain events,
one or which Is the admission Of California as a
State into the Union, to issue proclamation or
a tn he oaob pd
county for delegates to Convention of the peo-
pie of this State, to take into consideration such
measures as comport with the extraordinary pos
ture of our relations to co-Sates, and to
decide upon what measures necessary and
proper to be taken compatible with our honor,
and constitutional obligations, as well as more eff
fectualy to secure right of property in slaves,
and to arrest all agressions by section of the
Union upon the free enjoyment of the consttu-
tona rights of the other; and lastly, to preserve,
invioate, the equality Of the States of the Union
guaranteed under the Constitution; therefore.
be it known that |, Gro. w. Towns, Governor
of the State of Georgia, by the authority and mar
date of the law, do issue this, my proclamation,
ordering and directing that the qualified voters for
the most numerous branch Of the General Assembly
domeet at the the several places of this State, hold
ing elections, fixed by law, in the several coun-
ties OF this state within the hours fixed for voting on
Moncay the 18th day of November next, and then
and there by ballot to elect delegates in each of
the counties now entitled to one representative in
the General Assembly, and four delegates in such
OF the counties as are now entitled to two repre-
sentatives; the managers Of said election are re-
quired to certify, and forward to this Department,
the names of such, elected in the manner prescribed
by law for the election Representatives in the gen
era assembly; aud be it further ordered, that such
delegates as may be elected by majority OF their
representative counties, be convened at the Capt.
iol OF SAID State, on Tuesday the 10th day of
December next.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the Ex-
ecutive Department at the Capitol in M ledgeville
this 23d day Of September, in the year Of our
Lord 1850
GEORGE w. TOWNS, Governor
}. w. PATTON, Secreia,y, Erecutrs Department
HARPERs FERRY--No Cholerd.--The editor
of the Charestown. Jefferson county Va Free