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Newspaper
Columbus Times
Location
Columbus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1850
Page
3
The piece argues that subscription lists show broad support for Southern defense and attacks abolition. A subscriber from Fort Mitcnet explains leaving due to tone, while defenders cite slavery as protecting white labor. It recalls a Savannah meeting on the Adjusted Bill and Nashville Convention and notes Texas support for the Southern cause.
An 1850 Atlanta writer shares impressions from Oxford viewing a college town, praising its neat homes, hospitality, and refined morals. Highlights include Rev. Louie Pierce’s commencement sermon on wisdom and a Junior class exhibition with notable speeches by Burkhalter Dowdell Howell Easterline. James C Longstreet earns high praise for the graduation address noted as outstanding in thought, diction, and eloquence.
The steamship Isabel, Capt. Rollins, arrived yesterday morning with a full cargo and a number of passengers. Among them is General Campbell, the United States Consul at Havana, a distinguished local citizen. Correspondents from Havana and Key West provide letters below.
In a letter from the American consulate, prisoners including A B Moore are pardoned or sent abroad under vigilance with a two year ban on returning to the US lands. Others face possible galley punishment while naval officers show limited concern. General Campbell sails to Washington as locals support his honesty. Cholera ebb returns to the port amid a light local American presence.
In Macon on August 2 to 10 am, the Omnibus Bill fractured in the Senate with only the Utah Territorial Government passage surviving. It advanced to engrossment as 34 to 18, with Bell and Pearce the sole Southern senators voting no.
A terse note praises a southern triumph in Harris County and mentions the arrest of Young Terry in Columbus Mississippi for the Doles killing last June. The brief item implies a pursuit and capture connected to a prior county crime.
A 36.30 gathering in Cobb County deems the Nashville Convention resolutions worthy and denounces the federal poem bill as surrender. It pledges to call a state convention if Congress excludes the South from equal territorial participation and vows to defend sovereignty, lives, property, and honor.
The Athens gathering of the 27th adjourned until Thursday after the commencement without a vote. A heated debate split between the wait and do nothing faction led by Judges Dougherty Hillyer and H R Jackson, and the Nashville platform advocates led by Wm. L. Mitchell Col. H. G. Lamar. Col. John Billups attended but left ill. The meeting appeared drawn, with the Omnibus attack claiming a setback. The report suggests the do nothings lack momentum to renew the effort Thursday.
The writer urges that the central issue in Congress is whether slavery shall be abolished, not merely the territorial question. He argues Clay's bill, Wilmot Proviso, and 36 30 shape a struggle where Northern and Southern editors, abolitionists, and political factions align to influence the fate of slavery. He warns that supporting Clay’s bill advances universal emancipation and calls for clear political positions.
A Southern writer defends Mr. Rhett against North led abolitionist vituperation. The piece condemns critiques as traitor hunts while praising Rhett for speaking boldly in defense of the South and urging a harsher view of Union memories and heritage. It lauds the speech as timely, manly, and Southern.
Telegraphed items from the Asia report cotton prices rising to 85,000 bales sold and corn firm while the London money market eases. Russians and Circassians clash with heavy losses. Denmark and Prussia in serious threat of war. Hon. J. A. Pearce declines the Interior Secretary post.
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