Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-11-28
From the Pittsburg Gazette
MESSAGE OF GOV. JOHNSON, OF GEORGIA

Gov. johnson appears to be painfully consci
Gus Of the neglect of education in the Empire
State Of the South. at is demonstrated by the
! TACT that there are many thousand adults in oui
midst who can neither read nor write, and as many
poor children who must lie forever debarred the
blessings Of education, in consequence Of the poy
erty of their parents; 10y the great deficiency OF
teachers 10 supply the demand in almost every sec
ton OF the State; by the fact that many Of oul
children are sent to distant States for education
where they are liable to imbibe doctrines hostile
! to our peculiar social organization, and are sur
rounded by influences calculated to mpart an anti
Southern t0ne TO their sentiments and feelings by
the crime that burdens our criminal dockets and
levies its thousands Of tribute upon the earnings
OF honest industry,to support paupers and prisons
by the violence and corruption that desecrate the
ballot boz, at all our popular elections by the
exhaustion Of the soil under system Of Agrcul
ture that Elures in excluding tie application oil
scientific principles"
This is certainly a sorry picture, but we honor
the executive for speaking out boldly on the sub
ect, in order to impress the Legislature with the
necessity Of a more liberal education system. lie
urges, fUrciLly and at length, the formation oi
wha, Georgia would seem now utterly to lack ga
system Of common school education". lie also
urges tie want Of "a university proper.
Having passed over the various matters of State
interest. the remainder of which possess little or nc
general importance the Governor proceeds TO speak
OF "our federal relations The signs, to him
look dark and foiebodng. He discovers that
reckoning Delaware, which we may safely do, as
virtually a uun.slaveholdiug State, the equilibrium
between the North and the South. in the Senate of
the United States, is already permanently destroy.
ed. This inequality is going to lie greatly in
creased by the admission of new States "in quick
succession" The only hope for the South is in
the Democratic party.
Sc long us it can preserve its ascendcncy," he
says, we may expect security, But hOw Gckle and
unstable is such reliance" lie does not entertain
any such hatterng opinion Of the results Of tie
recent elections in the free States as some of his
Northern brethren express. 1t is horing almost
against hope, he continues to expect such an or
gnnizatiOn TO stand against the growing strength
If Abolition ianatcism. Our friends 10 the nLn.
slavcholding States annually becoming weak
er, and in view Of the large number Of non.
slavehodng States which must be carved out of
the Territories, thsy must inevitably fall at last,
and leave the South in a minority, to fight her own
battles" But when worst comes 70 worst he is
fully prepared to fall back upon the Georgia Plat
term (Southern Rights or disunion,) and face
the storm with the untnching trmness of mar
tyr's courage"
All this is very "hightoned". We canot help
thinking however, that il ia more the air Of mere
clustering bravado; that IT sounds rather like
"shrieking" for buncome than anything more dan
gerous Some of the Southern governors, as is al
SO true Of many Northern ones, seem to think
that certain amount OF raving about Slavery j:
one Of the chief duties Of their Office.
HUNTING FUGITIvs SLAVES IN KANsAs.-The
last act which "our glorious army" in Kansas,
have heen engaged in, is hunting fugitive slaves.
Some months since, negro blacksmith escaped
from Wcs,port Mo-, and found his way to To-
peka, Kansas, where he obtained work at his trade,
and concluded to remain. A5nut week ago his
IN ister arrived at Topeka, from Westport in
search of him. lie found his "chattle." but did
not dare attempt to arrest him. lie then went to
| Lecompton and procured squad Of U. S. troops.
aud with them returned to Topeka. But 'tbe bind
had flown" and after an unsuccessful search, he
returned to Missouri a "sndder" il not wiser"
mar These slave owners will soon find, If they
have not already learned it, that the Fugitive
Slave Law" has bun few supporters in kansas
and il they wish assistance in capturing their
fugitive "chattles," they will have to obtain it
from the o. 5. army alone Kansas NerS.