Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-09-28
GEORGIA.:


GEoRsE w. Towns, GOVERNOR OF SAID STATE,
To the Electors thereof greeting,
Having been officially informed that the Congress of the
United States has admitted California into the Union of the
States of the Confederacy upon equal terms with the original
States, duty devoyes upon me in performance of which
shall uespass upon the public but briefly.
An uneigned Difference for public opinion and the profound
regard entertain for tine wisdom, rnes and patriotism Of
my eow-citizens of Georgia, will justify me- in paper
of this character, in repeating my known and unchanged
opinions the duty Of the South in repeing soil
coachment and aestiDg, by all proper means, usrpaon
by Congress.
Whatever is compatible with the honor and obligations of
the people of this State to the country, its laws and its ins
tutions, doubt not viii receive their warm support
In hour of danger, when your institutions are in
jeopardy your feelings wanony outraged your social orga
nzaon deded honor deeply wounded and the Federal
Constitution violated, by series of aggressive measures all
tending to the consummaion of object the abolition of
slavery when your equal right to occupy and enjoy the
territory Of all has been denied you, in the solemn form
Of law under preences the most shallow well becomes you
assemble deliberate and counsel together for your mutual
preservation and safety
Whatever the extraordinary events by which
encompassed will demand justify, must be left, should
be, to the patriotism mness and prudence Of the people
themselves Upon them devoves the duty Of redresng pre-
sent wrongs and providing other safeguards for future
cury Neither the the other of which, however,
will be efectuay accomplished until by patriotic eff
FORTS perfect harmony and concord Of feeling restored and
confidence and Of action produced among the people
Of the South.
In view, therefore, of the aocous Freeso sentiment and
olcy merely Of the nonsayehodng States but of the
Govenment-o the imminent peril to which the institution
of slavery reduced by the act of Congress admitting the
State Of California into the Union, with constitution
tanning the principle Of the Wmot provso in defiance of
warning and remonstance view Of the deporable
fact that diversity Of opinion exists in of the South
State the proper mode of redessng the wrongs and
aveng the dangers which all must and feel let me, fell
lowc,zens earnestly eneat you to cultivate for each other
deep and abiding sentiment of atena regard and conf
dence Approach the task from which there is escape,
of deciding upon your duty to Georgia and the country with
firm step, but not without calm, deliberate, and patient in
vestgaton consulting neither fears dangers the
hand permitting yourselves from exaspeatcd feelings OF
wrong the other be rashy urged extreme measures
which have received the full sanction of your judgment
Then shall despair seeing the whole State man.
proposing nothing beyond what the emergency may demand
failing to perform whatever patriotism, honor, and right
may require at your hands.
The General Assembly of this State by an act approved
9Th February, $780, having required me, upon the happen
ing of certain events Of which the admission OF Cali
fornia State into the Union, to issue proclamation
ordering election to be held in each and every county for
Delegates Convention Of the People Of this State take
into consideration such compo with the extraor
binary posture of relations coates and to decide
upon what steps necessary and proper to be taken compa
tble with honor and constitutional obligations, well as
eecualy right of property in slaves, and
all aggressons, by section of the Union, upon
the free enjoyment of the constitutional rights Of the other
and lastly preserve nae the equality Of the States Of the
Uuion, guaranteed under the constitution Therefore, be
il known, that George w. Towns, Governor of the State
of Georgia, by the authority and mandate Of the law do issue
this my proclamation, ordering and directing that the quail
fed voters for the most branch Of the General As
semby do meet at the several places Of holding elections as
fixed by law, in the several countes of this State within the
hours fixed for voting, Monday the 18th day Of Novem
and then and there, by ballot elect two delegates
in each Of the counties entitled to epre enave in
the General Assembly and four delegates in such counties as
now entitled to two representatives
The managers Of said election required to certify and
forward to this department the returns Of said election in the
prescribed by law for the election of representatives
in the General Assembly and is further ordered that the
delegates who may be elected by majority Of the legal voters
of their respective countless do at the Capitol Of said
State on Tuesday, the 10th day Of December next.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Executive De-
partment, at the capitol, in Mlledgevlle, this twenty
third day of September, in the year Of Lord eighteen
hundred and fifty. GEO. w. TOWNS.
By the Governor
]. M. PArros, Sec'y Elk. Department.