The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-04-08
From the augusta (Gs.) Chronicle and Sentinel
Public Sentiment Ina Georgia."

..Pubiic Sentiment in Georgia.
Under this imposing head the Charleston Mercury
copies the following paragraphs from the Macon
Telegraph:
ssWe publish in to- days paper the proceedings Of
number of Southern Rights Meetings, held IN dir
ferent parts of the State. We have been compelled
to exclude others for want Of room They shall,
however, meet with the earliest possible attention.
ssThe proceedings of these meetings all breathe
the right spirit and show, Notwithstanding the
efforts made in certain quarters 10 demoraize this
southern movement, that Georgia is sound TO the
core, from the sea- board to the mountains. We
question not the patriotism OF any man who doubts
the propriety of sending delegates to the Nashville
Convention and who ut the same time ia in favor OF
other plan of southern action In defence OF our
rights, but we have no respect Tor those submission
lists among US who using the cast OIL twaddle OF
our enemies against the convention"
The obvious purpose and tenor OF these para
graphs and their publication are to make the i'm
preston the minds of persons not familiar with
the facts that Georgia is moving forward in sup
port of the Nashville convention. The truth Is pre-
csey the reverse, and if the writer had set out TO
indite paragraph designed to misrepresent the
state of public feeling in the State. he could not
have more successfully accomplished his purpose
whole movement is an entire failure, a miserable
abortion, and is so pronounced by every candid
man who values his character for veracity-who is
familiar with the actual state of things The pre-
tended meetings have been like angels visits, 'few
and far between" and not one of them in any Sec
ton of the State have been even respectable in point
of numbers. Indeed, such has been the total indif-
ference with which the whsle thing has been re-
ceived by the people, that several instances have
occurred in which warm advocates OF the conven-
ton have declined a nomination to serve as dele
gates alone upon that ground; that public senti-
ment seemed not to favor the project or was totally
Indifferent to it.
Since the foregoing prepared we have re-
ceived the following notice in the Southern Banner,
of a convention held in GAINESVILLE, the published
proceedings of which seem to have studiously
avoided any allusion to the number Of counties
represented the delegates in attendance. Rather
| an ominous fact The Banner says:
"IHe Gainesville C0npenfi0n.--An account of the
proceedings of this body will be found in another
column Of to-day's paper, Only four counties OF
were represented. They were Walton, jackson,
Hall and Habersham. The Wings repre-
scented only from the counties of Habersham and
Hail. There was not quorum of the district pre-
posed to nomination The members, however.
proceeded to the nomination of delegates to the
southern convention, no doubt considering their
action altogether recommendatory, and not OBJ
ligatory in party sense upon either Of the two
great political divisions. In this light will
ing to consider it, and to accept the nomination as
in accordance with public sentiment We do not
doubt that both of the distinguished nominees are
entirely acceptable to the people of the district
We have also received the reply OF DIR. Miller of
Cass, to the committee who informed him of his
nomination by the Cassvle convention, from which
we make the following extract:
81 am very sensible of the distinction conferred
by the selection and regret that cannot accept it
frankly and without reservation. But the fact that
only portion of the counties composing the dis
trct represented at Cassville, and of them
but partially, jusifes the inference that the people
of the remainder either desire representation in
the Southern convention quite Indifferent up
on the subject"
| So much for ssptlblic sentiment in Georgia.