New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-14
The Georgia Result.

Inc GeCTgIH htsuit'
Two years ago, Charles J. Mcdonald
was chosen Governor of Georgia over Ed
WARD Y. HILL, the Wing candidate, by
1892 majority-the vote being a very large
one The State is very evenly divided be-
tween the two great parties, but Nc Donald
rode the high horse on Southern Rights,
while Hid pointedly refused to do any such
thing, and that refusal turned the scale
against him The State was thus put de-
cidedly against the Wing party.
Mcdonald seems to have been in earnest
in his semi Calhounism. He knew how he
had won his election, and he went ahead
accordingly. Southern Conventions, South
ern Congresses, and various games OF that
sort found in him a ready and ardent sup
porter. About half his party, and very
light springing of quasi Wings earnestly
sympathized with him. But the mass of
the People did not-far from it. Thousands
who had humored the Joke SO long as they
regarded it as mere party ruSe to beat the
Wings, began to back water so soon as the
matter came to look serious. At the head
of these stands HOWELL COBB, Speaker of
the last House, shrewd and strong man.
who has made many stump speech to prove
the Northern Wings essentially Abolition
lied, and quoted The Tribune to prove his
assertion, but who has no idea of going out
of the Union, Proviso or no Proviso. And
this brings us to another interesting feature
of the present contest.
Georgia, like Virginia, and, less thorough
", MARYLAND, North Carolina and Alabama,
is State containing two antagonist Social
systems-the Slave system in the South
East and the Free Labor system in the
Northwest When the Slavery Propa-
ganda compelled Gen Jackson to drive the
Cherokees out of Georgia, in atrocIous de-
fiance of Justice, humanity and public faith,
it had previously been found necessary, in
order to stimulate the whole People of
Georgia to sustain the Multiplying position of
Gov. Troup toward the Federal Govern
ment under the Presidency of Mr. Adams,
to set up all the lands to be obtained from
the Indians to be gambled for in a gigantic
State Lottery, every Georgian having
free ticket Thus the Cherokees lands.
before the original and rightful owners had
been driven away from them, had already
been distributed by lottery mainly in small
tracts, to many thousands of citizens \
gold fever broke out about this time and
precipitated the settlement while pre-
venting the aggregation Of these lands
and thus Northwestern Georgia has
been recently settled in farms too small
to be proftably cultivated by slave la
Dor and by farmers who had no slaves
to work, even though they had land on
which to employ them. And thus it hap
pens that this most thrifty and powerful
/ I'm voting section of the State, which
has hitherto gone Democratic because
1 their lands were wrenched from the In
/ dams by Gen. Jackson, has now put its veto
on the Slavery Propaganda by golng almost
en- maSSe for the Union ticket. In the older
Counties generally, where Slavery bears
sway, Cobbs vote Is that of the Whig
! party and very little beside in the most
Southern and peculiarly Cotton and Rice
growing section, Cobb has less than the
Wing vote in former years; but in the
young NORTHWEST the majorities for Cobb
/ roll nm affer rbiS IA shion