The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-10-18
The Georgia Election.

The Savannah Republican Of yesterday has
the following angry notice of the signal defeat
Of its party and the triumph of the old State
Rights Democracy. 1t does ones heart good
to hear such scoldng:
TIE ELEcrEoN.-The contest is over The
secession and disunion principles of the Nash.
vile conyentionis:s and Southern confederation
lists have prevailed in Georgia. The second
thought Of the people seems to have convinced
them OF the truth of wiIaa Judge Johnson said
Of them, and they have through the ballot box,
confessed themselves to have been, two years
since, knaves or FOOLS" lIerschcl V. John.
son is Governor elect of Georgia, and six out
Of eight of our Congressional representatives
elect are of the same political stripe with him.
1t IS needless now to speculate upon the causes
which operated to produce snclrresuts. They
are certainly such us we did not anticipate
for we were not prepared to believe that SO
soon after the crisis Of lS50-'5l, in which
Georgia took 50 proud and prominent position,
she would be found trucking t. the dennagngue
i'ms Of the times, and presenting to the world,
in her present position, such spectacle Of in.
consistency and instability. She has literally
spit upon her own platform, and declared to
the world that the action of the State Conven.
ton of 1850 was q disgrace, discredit and
ridiculous farce" We confess that our humila.
tiol at these results is too deep and overwhelm.
lug to allow US to write. Although the eec.
tions were carried by low intrigues and secret
artifces-by using the so.called Algerne Law
against Mr.. jenkins, and the Brunswick Rail-
road scheme against Mr.. Barlow, upon purely
local and sectional issues, having nothing to do
with national politics, the result is, neverthe.
less, claimed by the Southern Rights party as
an endorsement of Pierce's patriotic admins.
traton;" and majority of our Representa-
tives are sent to Washington bIndly to support
this administration. Well, we wish Pierce joy
for all the :" aid and comfort he may receive
from the support Of these representative lumi-
naries of Georgia Democracy.
The Republican and its party does well to
talk of dcmagoguery, and OF tricky issues
sprung upon their candidate for Congress in
the Chatham district. But we scarcely re.
member an election in which more unfair
means were used to defeat an opponent, or
more personal viluperation was heapcd upon
INN, than the Wings Tor whatever e:se their
name iS.) hayc hcapcd upon Judge Johnson
How far it has been eGectual in diminishing his
majority we are unable to say. Wherever be
was known it could not injure him. We may
say the same OF his opponent. Both the can.
didates were men of admitted ability and eIc.
waited character. Mr.. jenkins had the advan-
tage of being personally the most popular man
in Georgia, and his defeat therefore, is the
strongest possible proof that the good old cause
of State Rights has resumed its ascendancy.-
We are sorry the Republican cannot share in
omr rejoicing over such an event, but there are
plenty who can, and we can do without its
countenance.
One of the salient features in the election
eering of the Wings, (are they Wings . was
the frequent assertion that the triumph OF the
Democrats was the election of Gov. Melon
aid to the United States Senate in place Of Mr.
Dawson. The people of Georgia seem to have
been not the least frightened at the prospecto OF
such an event. Charleston Mercury.$,