The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-05
The Feeling In Georgia.

The following extracts of q letter from q
New York gentleman, now in Georgia, to
the Journal Of Commerce, gives fair in.
sight into the feeling in Georgia:
SAVANNAH, March 18th, 1861.
MY DEAR SIR IL have written several
letters to mutual friends on the subject OF the
times, as they appear to me at the south
which have requested them to read, hoping
they might interest them, and furnish them
with material with which they could make
up their own opinions as to the hope of the
future settlement of our federal relations,
which, like all good men, you eminently de
sire. Since my arrival here I have had
several interesting interviews with the Gov.
ernor and other leading men, and also mer-
chants OF judgement, social position and
Union procllvitles, many of them New Eng
land men or their descendants.
have also freely mixed with the populace
OF the city, and members of the convention,
and Others from the rural districts of less
social political advantages and influence /;
yet l have found but one avowed friend of
reconstruction on the old basis OF the Union,
as recognized by the present national adj.
minstration, under the most liberal doctrines
of Republicanism.
Still the tone here is not near as enthus-
astic, nor is the military spirit near as evil
dent as that OF South Carolina. The right
of secession here is not so strenuously insisted
on as matter of political orthodoxy, but
secession is justified on the basis of incom-
patlblllty OF sentiment, and necessary aggres-
sion which such sentiments produce under
the influence OF demagogues at the north, for
personal ends.
Col. Hunter, one of the Oldest and most
respectable merchants here 1.-THE father-in in
law OF the late Senator Berrien,) informs
me that the last interview he had with his
Old friend Daniel Webster, the great states.
man, with almost prophetic wisdom informed
HIM that the days OF the Union were num-
bered, because the slavery element was so
repugnant to eastern sentiment as to form
lasting refuge to every unsuccessful votary
OF political power, and to every tyro for
political favor, in catering to the prejudices
which were gradually overriding every
other question, and which required less abil-
lty to maintain as a ladder of preferment.
The new contederacy is becoming a fixed
fact in all relations OF every day life. The
new flag streams over the public buildings,
and even over the hotel l am writing.
Montgomery is freely spoken of as the CAPT.
tai /; Jefferson Davis as the President. Yes
terday dined with the British consul, and,
among other leading men, the collector of
the port, who spoke OF the revenue law, and
his correspondence with the secretary as to
the proper construction of certain clauses.
Indeed one is astonished how readily this
entire change is concerned to, and fixed in
the minds of all persons here; and yet
northern papers and even the President s
message ignore the whole thing.
The new constitution seems to give uni
versal satisfaction here, and will be immedi
ately adopted, without amendment. The
features OF its provisions are highly conserv-
alive and show that the revolution is in the
hands OF substantial and earnest men, de-
voted to the real interest of their respective
localities, and not to initiate the slave trade,
or to make politics trade for corrupt Office
seekers.
The state convention, now in session here,
is composed principally of middle aged and
old men, and comprise the wealth and social
influence of the state Many of them are
old line Whigs-devoted followers of Henry
Clay and ardent supporters of the Union
and had the last Congress showed the least
practical evidence OF justice towards the
south, under Mr.. Crittendens or any other
project OF equality in the territories, Geor-
gla could have been seved and the Union
kept intactby the influence and votes of these
men; for the number and influence of seces-
sionistsper Sc was small and unimportant. But
Union men looked in vain to the Legislature
in New York and the Congress at WASH
ington, and lost all hope, and finally yielded
many of them, under their disappoint.
ment, becoming more ardent than their lead.
erS. 1t is remarkable fact, in this connec-
ton, that the professional local politicians
las such) were literally pressed into seces-
sion by the public sentiment of the masses,
and that part, too, who have the wealth and
influence.
At the north politics is profession, fol-
lowed by men of shipwrecked fortunes, and,
too, often shipwrecked character the
respectful, quiet, thinking men, of means and
social position, whose enterprise gives wealth
and whose probity gives character, shrink
from the arena Of politics, and submit like
martyrs to such taxes and exactions of
money and reputation as their ignorant and
INSCRIPTIONS rulers think proper to exact,
at the price of their exemption from citizens
duties. At the south every one is politi-
clan in the extended sense of the word, and
there are lew professionally Science pub.
lie interest is closely looked after. And
men unfit for public employment rarely in
tiict themselves on the community, or if they
do, they are made to feel responsibility in
more ways than would be agreeable to New
York legislators of the forty thieves stamp.
dislike mob law, yet coat of tar and
feathers to the unblushing frauds of some of
our New York councilmen, would cover
multitude of such sins far more effectually
than charity itself.
GOOD ADvICE.-Hon. @. B. SEDGwICK;
has written the appended reply to a note
which be received from clergyman asking
his inf7upnca Tn obtain n cuhordinoto c1orl,