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Newspaper
Cartersville Express
Location
Cartersville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1860
Page
2
A reprint from Augusta True Democrat questions Douglas stance on slavery and constitutional balance. It recalls remarks from 1859 urging gradual emancipation and warns Southern readers to evaluate his professed friendship to slavery, urging vigilance at the polls.
A letter from Secretary Cobb urges Georgia voters to back Breckinridge and Lane in the 1860 election. He frames the choice as constitutional defense for the South against Lincoln and the Black Republicans, warns against Douglas and Johnson, and calls for a united Southern effort to preserve the Union and constitutional rights.
The record enumerates individuals by placing and county: Peter Cone Bulloch, W M Slaughter Dougherty, O C Gibson Spaulding, Hugo Buchanan Coweta, Lewis Tumlin Cass, Hardy Strickland Forsyth, Wa F Lofton Jasper, W M McIntosh Elbert, Y J Anderson Laurens, C A Evans Stewart, J M Smith Upson, Ga Bull Troup, W K Moore Whitfield, C H W Sutton Habersham, RL Wartilen Washington, W S Vason Richmond.
The text outlines that a Congress organized territorial government is provisional and guarantees equal rights to all United States citizens to settle with their property. It states the Federal Government must protect person and property rights. It asserts sovereignty begins when settlers form a state constitution and is consummated upon admission, regardless of slavery provisions.
The text argues that under the Constitution the federal government has no power over person or property in territories beyond what is granted. It asserts all rights are reserved and denied to Congress, extending to territories and territorial governments, ensuring citizens there enjoy the same protections as states against implied powers. It emphasizes protecting slave property as a defined right and that Congress cannot empower local governments to violate constitutional provisions.
Frankfort 1859 speech argues that neither Congress nor territorial legislatures can confiscate private property in a territory. It declares territorial governments subordinate, non sovereign, under Congress, and citizens from any state may enter territories with property and enjoy it during territorial rule. The excerpt frames equality of states as essential to constitutional Union and calls for protection of rights during territorial status.
The excerpt cites John Bell’s speech arguing abolition in the District hinges on protecting slaveholders' property and moving toward abolition only with safeguards. It notes Bell’s support for ending the slave trade in the District and his view that suppression requires adequate post emancipation control.
Lincoln era exchange on whether a U S Territory can legally exclude slavery before a state constitution. Douglas asserts the people can, via lawful means, establish or prevent slavery through local legislation and elected representatives, regardless of Supreme Court dicta. He cites the Nebraska bill 1854 1855 1856 and claims the territorial status is fixed by popular will.
The speaker notes that twelve states were slave states at the Constitution’s adoption and six have abolished slavery since. He argues crime of EreRpoM has progressed while slavery receded, predicting Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri and likely North Carolina and Tennessee will adopt gradual emancipation, becoming free over time.
In a lively exchange the writer questions what makes a convention truly regular and whether a nomination can be deemed regular if the body breaks its own rules. He argues that party allegiance cannot be based on procedural regularity alone and raises scenarios about different slates and majorities to test the claim. The piece probes whether a convention’s legality should govern loyalties or its principles.
A lengthy critique argues neither Stephen A. Douglas nor Breckinridge were nominated per party usage. It also accuses Douglas of collusion with Black Republicans to undermine the Democratic Party and favor northern interests, citing letters, editorials, and public figures to question southern support for him.
The National American of Atlanta questions John Bell's sanity in a pointed editorial. It derides his followers as mad and warns that sacrificing the nation's god for personal presidential elevation risks lynching or worse.
Report describes three enslaved men from local planters in a northern county allegedly plotting insurrection before Christmas. One man whipped and confessed. Sledge’s son Green exposed the scheme, which targeted a Baptist Church gathering on Armachee creek. Villagers planned to send Green out of state. No white accomplices proven. vigilance urged. Separately, Dubuque Democrats met to ratify Breckinridge and Lane.
Special notices announce a scaled envelope lecture by Dr Robert J Culverwell on nature and treatment of spermatoraoae and seminal weakness. It claims self cure without internal medicines or caustics, offered by mail for two postage stamps from Dr Ch J Carine of New York, dated April 13, 1960.
A fragment from a business directory shows numerous firm names such as Gilliland Howell and Co Jomunston Crews and Co Chamberlain Miller Co Joman G Milnor and Co Nayler Smitie and Co Hyatt McBurney and Co Crane Boylston and Co J and Le Bowie and Co Cadow Mckenzie and Co Kerreson Tmt In Peper eereenere. The text is a partial, unreadable list of merchants and partnerships.
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