The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-12-14
A Voice from Georgia.
JoURNAL AND MESSENGER OFFICE, !
MACON Suy, 80. 1869. {


JouRNAL AND MESSENGER OFFICE,
MACON, Nov. 80, 1869.
]. o CONVERSE, ESQ
Sir:-A friend living in your County has
sont mo your paper Of the 10Th inst. con-
tanning tho article enclose to you. have
many relatives living in your County, and
therefore take the privilege Of addressing
this to you. | wish you to know that SO
cesson' is no idle talk" here now. The
conservative elements of the South" arc ut
! tho end of their endurance. have been
ono of them, but feel it no longer. can
didly think that igo States will be out Of
tho U Iion in sixty days. How could you
expect them to remain in it, when tho only
doctrine of those who are to govern them, is
the slaughter Of themselves their wives and
chiidrun-tho destruction of their proporty7
And for what: Wu found Slavery here
What cun VIC do with it /! tho pricU of
| blood Ia counted. tho inhabitants OF Massa.
chusctts. Connecticut, Rhode Island and
other Northern States have it in thur
pockots. Tho South imported no slaves.
aud werc the first to prevent il. Their de.
sccndants. (the North of which am one,
should consider this and feel it. DO.
Military companies ard Minute Men are
now organized throughout this and several
other States and ready for any emergency.
| havo tho musket of NV father, who was
minute man" before 1916, and which was
before tho walls of Quebec, and is now
ready for service at tho head of n company.
Yours, respectfully, s. ROSE.
REMARKS.
In tho article which Nj. Roso has dona
us tho honor to peruso, We expressed the
opinion that, until South Carolina could
change tho face of nature, sho would never,
either sngly or in company With othor re.
and that tho Secession movement could re-
suit only in bringing the worst evils upon
, tho South. We have not materially changed
that opinion. II is probable that South
Carolina, by her delegates in Convention
assembled, will declare herself out of the
Union, and that other Cotton States may
follow suit but no State can thus, of her
own FREQ will, absolve herself from her Con
sliiutionul obligations, and, until tho OK
pertinent shall havo been tried and found
successful, We shall continue to regard all
talk about it as idle Mr.. Rose to tho con-
trary notwithstanding. Itremains to b0 seen
whether we have dono tho South moro than
justice in supposing that her conservative
mon outnumber her cracked brainod Fire
caters. Mr.. Roso thinks we have, but il is
to be hoped ho will forgive this apparent
excess of good nature on our part. Still.
/: he and his friends, whethor fow or
numerous, desire to secede, we would not
dotan them a moment.
Our Georgia friend is evidently botter
versod in military tactics than the political
history of tho country. His assertion that
"tho South imported no slaves, and we're
tho first to preventit it, is tho exact reverse of
tho truth. 1t is notorious shat the clause
in tho original draft of the Declaration of
Independence, reprobating the African
Slave Trado, was stricken out in compliance
with tho wishes of South Carolina and Goor-
gia. and that. in tho Convention which
framed the Federal Constitution, these two
Firo.eating States insisted ON q continuance
of that accursed traffic as tho condition of
their taking part in the Union. They now
} purpose to break up tho Union, because,
:, among other reasons, they dusre TO giyc an
unrestrained license TO tho African Slave
Trade; and, to did them in this work. Mr..
Rose, it seems, is ready, with his fathers old
! musket to head q company Of rcbols You
: arc most cgregiously mistaken, Mr.. Rose !!
: Some docetful wretch has msinformcd you,
The South--at least, that portion of the
> South now clamorous for sccessOn-so far
l from being the first to prevent the impor-
taiion Of slaves, have never entirely desisted
from it, and are now carrying it on with
considerable vigor, in defiance of the senti.
! ment of the civilized world, and our laws de
} nouncng it as piracy. Northern enterprise,
undoubtedly, has always furnished most OF
the ships in which the slaves have been i'm
ported, while the Southern States have never
failed to furnish ready market and abund-
ant employment for tho wretchod creatures
, We would not paliato the conduct OF
those Northern villains Sho. for Southern
gold, engage in this piratical commerce
but II is upon just such men that tho friends
of a Southern Confederacy will have to rely
to effect their purposes.
We acknowledge and sincerely deprecaie
y all the difficulties by which the slaveholderi
arc surrounded, and, notwithstanding We
arc accused of murderous desigos, would moi
' intentionally Rggravato single one OF them
but. great as these difficulties are, they are
only Increased by Southern folly and wrong
doing. IL slaves are a dangerous element
d 10 socIety the moro their numbers arc mul
tiplied and dffused through tho land, the