The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-06-24
THE REPUBLIC.
The Issus in Georgia.


Strenuous efforts have been made by the
Disunion or Southern Rights party, both in
Georgia and other Southern States, to mystify
the true issues between them and their oppo-
nents, and to prevent the people from coming
to knowledge of their real designs. We
showed what these were in Alabama, yester-
day.. by the extracts which we published from
the Mobile Register AS to Georgia, we are
indebted to the Milledgeville Recorder which
has the name Of the Hon. HOW'LL CoBB
standing at its head as candidate for Governor,
for clear and explicit statement of the issues
now pending between the two parties in that
State. In an article headed "Where are ,ce-
aciere are theys the Recorder says:
sour opponents had themselves chosen to align
parties according to their own designation under
the flags of resistance and submission. When
asked to define their resistance, it resistance to
the action of the Government upon the Compro-
mise, and submission was acquiescence in that
measure But how stands the matter now? While
there is violent opposition on the part of
large portion of our party opponents to the Com
promise, others, and, if we understand his letter.
Governor Mcdonald amongst them, yield to this
and have become submissionists too. Strange
then, that Governor Mcdonald. and the submission
portion of his party should consider it necessary
wage war with their associates of the submission
party. and not turn their arms against the resist
ance branch of their own family, with whom alone
can there be any continued strife"
After noticing the attempt of its opponents
to mystify their unpopular position, the Re
corder says:
"We will join issue on no such question as
whether State has or has the right to scccde.
The question with US, and now before the country
is not whether Georgia has the right to secede, but
whether, for present causes, she shall secede. The
country is not now agitated by distractions, but
by realties and it is childish to be whiting at the
one when VIC are actually forced to grapple with
the other.
'tShall Georgia decide the question that she will
secede from the Federal Union either with South
Carolina or alone, or, as seems the more popular
idea, follow the indication of the Nashville Conven-
ton, aud unite in forming Southern confederacy'
This ia the real question before the people,
'sMr. Com is the nominee of the one party, as
everybody knows, because OF his known Union
principles and feelings-for his opposition to State
secession, for present causes, either alone with
South Carolina, or by means Of Southern Con-
federacy, to be effected by Southern Congress,
according to the purpose of the Nashville Conven-
ton. Governor MCDONALD, the other hand,
has been chosen and presented to the people by our
opponents, their candidate, with at least his
principles as fully known Of opposition and resist
ance tothc Compromise, and his hearty participa-
ton in the purposes and recommendations of the
Nashville Convention in relation to that Compro-
mse-its call of a Southern Congress, and every
thing else promising form or substance in its re-
sistance to the settlement made by Congress. The
question, then, before the people is, whether they
will have the power and influence of the State gov
ment of Georgia to be welded in favor of the Com
promise and the peace of the country-or whether
they will yield that influence to be welded against
it?''
In short, the decision Georgia in this election
must be either that Of honest and hearty effort
to restore the peace and harmony Of the country
on the basis of the Compromise and the resolutions
of our own Convention the one hand, or of
yielding the influence of the State government in
opposition to the Compromise, and to continued
agitation in relation to the union of the Confedera
cy. 1t is for the people, in view of what they
themselves know full well with regard to both can
didates on this great issue, to make their sclec-
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