Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-23
From the New Orleans True Delta
THE WAY GEORGIA PROPOSES TO
SECEnEJ

1CilOH ClllZGuS IT'S Ill UGOT-
gia; Toombs, one of their Senators of
the United States, if possible, exceed
ing in reasonable announcements the
widest nulliier of South Carolina,
whilst Iverson, his associate in the Fed
eral Senate, acts and talks more in the
vein of the Anacharsis Clootz, of the
first French revolutionary times, than
an American of any period Among
the measures these doughty demagogues
have prepared for adoption in Georgia,
since their bolt from the Democracy,
the following bill, to be proposed to the
Legislature on its assembling, has re-
Gently been put before the public, and the
paternity of which was very generally
ascribed to Mr.. Alfred Iverson aforesaid.
The bill, which would be accurately
described as measure to incite to mur-
der and arson, has the following cap
ton, and is in these words:
GA Bill for the Protection of the
Owners of Slaves in the State of Geor-
gia-Whereas, one Abraham Lincoln,
a Black Republican, has been duly
elected President of the United States
for four years, from the 4th of March
next; and whereas, it is evident to every
unprej udiced mind that the whole power
of said Lincoln and his coadjutors will
be welded through the Government of
the United States for the destruction of
the slave interests of the South; and
whereas, the safety Of the South requires
! that the question should be met with
the most vigorous measures upon the
part of the people of the sovereign
State of Georgia; therefore,
BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of
Georgia in general assembly met and it
is hereby enacted by the authority Of
the same, That from and after the pass
aye Of this act, it shall be unlawful tor
any person whatever to receive a COM
mission from and hold an office under
the President of the United States, or to
fulfill the duties belonging to any office
IN the United States Government,
within the State of Georgia, which may
have been conferred upon any citizen or
resident Of the State Of Georgia by any
previous administration Of theSsunited
States Government.
2. BE 1t further enacted, That if any
individual whatever shall, after the 4th
of March next perform any duty by
virtue of any order or commission ema-
mating from the United States Govern
ment or any branch thereof, such per-
son shall be deemed an outlaw and trail
tor to the sovereign State Of Georgia,
and shall suffer death in any manner
which it may please any good and loyal
citizen of said State to intiict
3. Be 1t further enacted, That it shall
be no crime for any one or more good
or loyal citizens of the State of Georgia
to consume by FIRE all the perishable
property of said outlaw.
4. Be 1t further enacted, That in all
cases of outlawry as herein defined, the
habeas corpus and the right Of trial by
jury shall be suspended.
5. Be ii further enacted, That if any
judicial officer shall grant writ Of ha-
beas corpus in the cases heretofore re-
cited and set forth, he shall be deemed
guilty of ortlawry and shall suffer the
penalty Of death and conAagration as
hereinbefore provided.
1t could scarcely be supposed that
Iverson to whom the ascription of the
authorship Of this diabolical Jacobini-
cal production was very generally made,
would not, if not guilty Of it, either re-
pudiate and denounce the statement or
proclaim himself its approver. Accord
ingly, we find this weak but virulent
demagogue, who is bidding in this saw
age and brutal manner for reelection to
the Senate he would destroy, appears ia
the following characteristic letter Of ex-
PLANTATION, in which he refuses to accept
the affiliation upon him of the assassi-
nation and arson bill, declaring himself
however, in favor Of its adoption las one
Of the plans of resistance to the rule of
a Black Republican President This
is his letter:
COLUMBUS, Oct. 18, 1S60-Etlitors
1inacs-Gcntlemen [ have noticed an
article in the Star Of this city, alleging
that one of the Senators in Congress from
this State has proposed and urged that
all persons who shall accept offices un.
der Lincoln, if elected President should |
be outlawed and killed, and much holy |
horror has been expressed by that paper
and other kindred submission sheets, at
the eaorn,ity OF the proposition. If the
undersi gned is the Senator alluded to, |
take occasion to say that am not the |
originator or the advocate Of the policy
alluded to, and that | must have been
misunderstood if any one has so repre-
sented me. The policy has been sug-
gested by others, and have occasionally
in private conversation spoken of it as
one of the plans Of resistance to the rule
of a Black Republican President but l
have generally disapproved it, as many
persons in Columbia will doubtless bear
me wituess. Still, do not hesitate to
say, that in my opinion any Southern
man who would accept office from Il Re
publican President, elected upon the plat
form of the Republican party, ofavowed
hostility to Southern Slavery, would be
no better than Black Republican, and
ought to be condemned and ostracised
by universal public sentiment; and while |
| hold a seat in the Senate Of the United
States, will vote against the confirm
alton of every Southern man who will
be rotten enough and base enough to
accept office from Lincoln.
Ii this declaration will aid the cause
of Douglas or Bell here OF elsewhere,
their friends can make the most OF it
But my plan of resistance to the election
of Black Republican President, has
been too often expressed both in public
and private, to be misunderstood. If
the parties who have thus criticised what
they have obtained from street rumors
consider my position and opinions of