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Newspaper Page TextLOCHR V N E, fJY •'< dowsing & CO.. reaches them. until the potts close on | >•' first Monday^ in October neat! :e troth, i» » mighty, and WH J»v r. H. STKELK. j. \v. DOtVSING. Sorrows ATLANTA, GEO., v, ; UVKSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1 imwfttr iut«rv:t*. tnd. It'the Road ,is said, tin people of - ! Georgia should, have the prefetcnra iu the iloter ovhry misreprt'seniion that purch8 „, 0 f the Stock. 8*ok* should be the Staui, on the itieen who desires ii. iiii opportunity to take Stooh. and deny ing to any I'apitalista the right to take more than some reasonable amount, to t<e deter- TERMS OK THE EXAMINER. U*ily, "her annum in advance V. iM) *■_' 00 r.4l*ER. ily* per Weekly, “ * CiHPAim Daily Examiner. Weekly. " Advance payntcnW are •criptions. Direct letters to Editors Atiauu Examiner *1 4t> 50 the cunning of Out opponents can pos.- i opeuoi in every county in sildv devise, gifted as they atv itt thy ‘ same day. giving every cil possession of that virtue | /*] THE STATE HOli)! In ".onnecuoti with the foregoing, mined by the Legislature, until all the peo- we had intended to notice a ukaw : pie of the State have had a' &ir opportunity j to subscribe lor the Stock. I believe the ; Stock ot the Road in thehnndE of a private Company would be the best paying Stock in Ueorgta- The plan above proposed, M ould deny to the wealthy capitalist the op en arge made, its we are advised, by Mr. Hill , nt Covington, of fraud in the management of the State Road—* to-wit, that a Conductor on the Road, required for sub- htid overcharged him ttrcMyflVt cents, i porfnnity of seizing upon the entire Stock Oil his passage from ono point of the'of the Road, and would give the laboring 1'liis is the unlv man. though he may have money to pay but Road to another. Democratic Nominations. isN \\t \ specification that has yet been made --igle share, a .air opportunity in the i r * ... nl tlw» .Mm*L In lliV opinion, tni8 VSk^. v ' t FOit tiOVEttXOIl. JOSEPH E. BRO* V OF CHEROKEE. FOR CONGRESS, First District—JAS. L. SEW AKL>. Second. 11 I by Mr. Hill, the American eanilidate. | All others have been general and sweeping. Miserable attempt! But we i most forego our intention, on two ae- ^ sHints. First, the crowded state of our columns: and. second, wc have been advise,! that an official reply will be made to the charge, and which, from j the facts that will lie presented, Mr.’ llii ! will find himself in'it position,, 1 few of his party friends will envy. (..rtier front Judge Brumi. Third Fourth Fifth SlXth Seventh Eighth STATE LEGISL1TI III:. For Swator. JARED 1. WHITAKER. For lleprcstnlaiire JOHN G- WESTMORELAND. Cantos, Georgia, September 11th, 1S.V itta;i Nik I have vour letter .•ailing my attention to j the fact that my position in reference to the ! ,, veen ll|r ne t-work of Railroads, at each end connecting a large portion of the Atlan tic Coast* with the mighty West. There M.J. CRAWFORD. D. J. BAILEY. L. J. GARTH ELI.. V. R. WRIGHT j \S JACKSON Wale ef the Western \ Atlantic Railroad, LIN. STEPHENS. hn> been misrepresented by my opponent in A. H. STEPHENS. j hi. speechesin tour county. I wish it were ,,, m ray power to *,n that this was the only | particular m which injustice had been done me bv misn-presenttitian. The question of the sale or retention ol the j K . t- a simple question of State policy, | i:.v living r.o constitutional difficulty. Tin Road has been built with the pco- raised by taxation. It is their Whether they will sell it or not, i* .-. njBu-.'ii propt r tor their determination. They will, i tiie proper time, make their ieci-t, n through their representatives in the Legislature My confidence in their intelli gence induces me to believe that they are ' competent to decide ft.r them stives. whether . rr ret they will -ell their own property, i without tb purchase of the Stork ts proper. ltd. The question of freight so gaar,led in the contract of sale, that the Road could not he made an engine of op pression upon the people of Georgia in fu ture. In the event of a sale of the Road w ith out this safe-guard, the Company purchasing, would have the right, in future, to impose their own terms of freights and passage, , and the State hound by her solemn contract of sale, could not intertere to protect her I citizens. And let it not he forgotten that | the Company owning this Road would not ; he driven by competition, as most other roads are. to keep down their freights tn a reason- I b!c standard Our Road is the only connecting link, be rifuwd linger Yo HW it rt that . seven year* hqyr paaavd since tbzt time, mid it ’4* new worth five or six time* a, much a» w than a»ked tor it. \u increase of nearly $1,000,000 a year. It is true wa have iu the meantime uiudc some appropria tions for its completion hut nothing to com* pare with the increase in its value. After maturely considering tiie question, should the people, through their Represen tatives, refuse to sell the Road at present, or to lease it, or take its management out of the hands of the Executive, it will then be come my duty, if elected, to meet the re sponsibility of its management however on erous and unpleasant the task may be. 1 am aware of the embarrassments under which those charged with the management of the Read have labored in the past. But I urn of the opinion the time has come tv hen it ought to pay the Sato a handsome income. To this point, I should direct much of the energy of my ndininstratiou, requiring o 1 should be I every one holding a position on the Rond, a strtclnndsearchiuguccountubility. Believing us 1 tlo, that 1 could, in this'tvay, render an acceptable service to our beloved State, 1 should not hesitate to meet the responsibility whatever might he the consequences per sonally to me in future. The above arc in substance, the positions which l have occupied repeatedly in my speeches before the people, and in the hear ing of mt opponent. I am, dear sir, 5 -uir Obedient Servant, JOSEPH K. 1IROWN. To W. H. Bi wroN, Editor of tin Smith- Democrat, Carrollton, Ga. ioo, be ns it«d be ; hut, it he were chvted, the® Itt th*ir optaiou, there would be a orni Or. He hod been informed that u leading Know Aothiug, in a public speech, had pul thtf construct ion on Hie resolution It was Intended to V used lor the -ale of the Road where the people were lor it, and against it, where the people were agaiiut it It vvtvi like much of the policy of the leader- ol that par- | P- lr *> ty, manufactured fnrduplibity ami deception. He then noticed the Missouri Coniprnmi-e line, nt'd -howod that the South would not have had the privilege to cirry a single negro into Kansas had this uel o inabicd In force. - Ue was aware that it had lately ' een deter mined by the Supreme Court that the act was unconstitutional. But he ap»t.e of uow as it had been understood and ailed upon by the political parties of this country for over thirty years past. It was an odious restriction and lunl placed upon the domli a mark of itiferi ority. When the Compromise measures of 1850 were passed, the Southern Rights putty opposed them. Tin’ Union parly eltiitue.l that The igcncal remark >*«*, that, if in- would Unapt wilfull' - to deceive the people m „u>-1 ■ j poet, be would In another, uud that it wan no salt) to tru-t his statement 1 ! uncorroborated b, proof. Judge. Brotvn said thu Demoeraey hno endotaed the principles of the Kaunas Bill , every platform laid down by them. Chat, the 27 an,I 2Hlh, of June 1850, the America! die Counoil Ait Macon which notainu led Judge Andrews, declarcil tltat npposiliuu to tint prWlples of thia Bill was hostility i the Ci 1 ititutional righta ol the Booth, ami though they then iffiji-cUsl to the alien suffrav prlnaijle in (he/ufure legislature of the coui: try they made no complaint ot It iu the Ku sas Bill. But, said Judge Brown, my op poneut nud his suppotlets tire estopped Ironi saying anything against the alien enffrag 1 clause, for Mr. Fillmore sanctioned the Wash ingtou Bilr under his official oath, witli thi i rliiu— In it, uud Mr. Hill and hi* sop pollers voted fur Mr. Fillmore with tub l;uu',v!e<igr of this fuel. The alien suffrage clause in the Kansas Bill was taken from the the South was inoro than coinpt neated by the j U'nvhingtnn Bill sanctioned by .1 -.a- _■*» j pic’s inonev See Third page for l>ate News. LETTER FROM TEE H0S. JOSEPH E BR0WH ' N REPLY Tj REPRESENTATIONS OF B. H HILL. ESQ \\T have |>eec favored with i i--j , o letter, addressed by Judg'-' Bri an to W. H. Burton, Esij., Erti tor of the ‘ ‘Southorii Demoi’rat,’' wbich tve lay before our reader- t->- tay. This letter, a.-tin- reader trill cite, I.-, iii ii; • rmiti. a t-j-iy n rcpte-'cnwtions oi ll. H. H i, Estp.. which Judge Br< wn. ( a. ii.g . :i advised of, 'corrects. We hare no space tor i •ogtiu’cMiii- :ae»t. • a this admirable, and a 1 te -let ter of,Judge Brown. To State] Hoad policy, it is directed. I'lio reader, after its perusal, if 1- be titer than an inutate of some lunatic • sylum, or destined, to oecu| cell iti one. cannot but conn r . ji ■ronclusion that Judge Brown's t, -i- non. in regarvl to this great Sni in :-'rc5t is as far in advance of Mr. Hill’s, in all that pertains to a pro- vetion of the people’s interest in it, the imagination cart v.-el! cont'.-i . e. In short, Judge Brown’.- view.-, are radical, safe, sound, and honest. - Mr. Hill’s visionary, unsafe, unsound, 'iid, wc believe, like all his Know N thing tricks, insincere. But the •tter of Judge Brown -p. ale- for ■ self, and we invit • the 'attention of prep,' is a i n*ni. both interveneil tittemptevl t mod can he no competition. Hence the necessi ty iu the contract of sale for guarding the interests of the people on the subject o* freights, (including way freights,) and pas sage over the Road, cither by retaining the control of the matter iu the hands of the Legislature, or compelling the Company to submit to he governed by some reasonable standard. tth. The motley received for the Road should he protected against hasty and im provident Legislation, otherwise the whole amount might he wasted by a single Legis lature, and the people would then have uei- titer the Road nor the price received for it; and, ,n a few years, they.might be unable to point to (lie permanent benefit derived from its expenditure. One Dwrii'Aoj-Bill, linitmg the strength ol ! the different sections, and affecting different mplatn that Gov. Walker has j j oca | interests, might command votes enough Pusing, -if the fugitive slave law. and the net giving ter- itortnl governments to New Mexico and Utah lot ah si c lost in the other mensnres. A portion of the territories of New Mexico and Utah by North of the tine ( Jfi 30", mul it » as declared that these territories should be ivdntitUd into the Union os States, with, or without, *’uviry as H"7 It'gH tleJcrmiuc.- Tiiis the Union party contended was right, at.d ivn.su removal of an odious restriction, a.- t * non tin prineipl" the l moil party triumphed in Georgia L>ut llu ligi.-Jation ol 18511 did not repeal lim Missouri <Jon promi e I act, so lilt as tiif terrHori - of K visa • and Nebraska wore eoiu’ernfsi \'. 1 ' tb, tine came to give th in '.cvritot i n govt t . South insist,(I Unit the l 'mp mi • u-ni' nt 1850 should ho apt' • -t l;> " J , • the Missouri Uomprom, ■ ■ ao as to give the Sooth a ur ,;o i 1 territory. The K at su N • win trnduccd ini', tl,e N''iu,i- M I* Dontoeratie ,Seiiat!,r Until the ,\ott!i-\\ th ' --ity of being lectured on i-r v myself or my ,,pp.-- ery indepeii' -u-r it, (I iru in JUDGE BE0WN AT HOME Tbe Bible Charge, &c. Wc earnestly invite the attention ■ ir readers to the report •! . «pe,. -lirered by Judge Brown, at Cant- tin affairs <1 Kansas, and leas :i, tj;, t the peopl- as to the hi, i '.. i shall form their Conati- -rnenr. \\- say, the people of Kansas are >■ : I, decide this question for tlieill- - A -. S mid w e not accord to the people :t. r. ■ s high a standard of intelligence I ^ . • - mpetent to determine for 1 a.- v,- -in,pie question of dollars and j <vi i- N-niier ,t us. it elected Governor, > \ t,. introduce a hill into • iti.- r ..eh the 1,,-gislatur,. Vs no I big i, r tli, - i tin- Road can originate with the Governor, uie only question of inten st to the advocates of tiie sale of the it - fur j» :he li vemor's position is avert o, is, will he sanction the bill it passed hy the Legislature ? , If l itu fend lioveruor. in my tnaugu- ! mi addr—- I snail call the attention of the I., _ • itnre to :;us whole matter, and ask - :■ . esenlat.v, - -,t tiie people, tu t., r ' ■ ;• ruiine whether they will .taiti It d. leas* it for a term of! j- •- - w ■. ■ : any par f it. to I nv l-.al.- ..t 1 ompanies ! \nd it the. will neither. I shall submit to J . vh determination thf question; which has been submitted to previous Legislatures : — Whether it w Mild i. -t be iietter to take the management of the Road ■ et ot ttie hands of the Executive < Should the Legislature pass a hill for the salt t the Road, containing such details as t. protect the interests of the people, it ponent g' larther and sanction a bill lor tin sab- the Road, without regard to th- ue si lid fiie ioi; ol the ter i fotin n elolllltl- rich! rs win n a ir crokeo, during the late session of' > • Superior Court^in that county.— , T< , lUiajJw whi*’ 1 rag . 1 III ; i’fort has Ir tnm-nAHrn t>> tt-• lltl-tO!l lay G wep- i -Juris Bp But 1 v. a friirml, aid birfcire our n.a'ier . tion of. the letter Mr Burton, there lias m • ,i .ii our columns, tinring th > ,v u.orc important report, at. i ill coinuiarj'l more universal at anil respect. Wc regret that • "t refer t< it- several points this, spew!, of t!:r Juilot. he L;i.- ft Jiothixig uiisaid that ,-hoald be •oi--ho has j ( ot even <>initte<l to no- ••.•ruble Bibit charge dial -"me 1 : h:- ttn-cmpulous opponent? tarteel stcntlj to injure , -timati"!i • t < n,b - of Nor has i.e otaitte , , 1 "i the' ^Hill Jiihi „ a tin- State Rq;u4, and •. . . !m»l insincerity of that R.nt. ip. i: ti, important political issue.- ,! •.bedt»\. T! b mocracy of Georg; il be proud ,,f th, ir eanilidate ami. - L-peech at (lata n. Let them Th» Hoaii skill Purina is not Hoarl- 1 lli till-' I church. ■ Party" nld lie -ol, lot its lair val •* o much in debt that she i -aertf-c her property t, rai«e IM o. p, epic have been taxed to build they have invested alargeamount ... .• in it: and. in my judgment, that • ■ j iid ii ,t l/t l olishly or hastily \V, should not dc»ir> tu vll I: : -imply for tiie purpose of saying il i it. It ts said tltat it has , . ; ;number*. *,»mc six millions . ir- This t= a large sum of money, -h., ui ' of squandered, or its secn- rity mnani nt fund endangered, for the a-:v oi • . fortunes of any, even the it ost and,, - ..oiitical aspirant*. It I-1J, I gi-lature of Georgia pa*«- • :■ loll * uigtho Governor to sell tiie Road, provide,! di not take le»s than one million of Jar- fur it. 'This act re- mained in force tilt 1B50. Had the Cover- t.'tt the first of ttie ys.ir 1850 sold the Hoad as he had authority to do, for one tuil- ol dollar*, and had tm money, u* might • n thi case, been waited hy improv- 1 I .:slation, every Georgian who now 1 up i. thi Road a* being worth five or six million >, and dAt-? rj kol'NP rBOM | gretted Iu VOTER, froth the hour iti ri ”‘" of dollars, musthave deeply re- itnprudi ncr. ■ " • importance of calm din- in tie Legislature to appropriate tint whole hind. The fund could be protected against ! lii- character ot Legislation, In adding an additional section to the Constitution, setting the principal apart permanently, tor such purposes as wisdom nud justice might die - itc, and 'placing it beyond tiie power of the Legislature to reach it. The money could he secured, imhisway, 1st, to the payment of tiie debt of the State; grid, for the education of the children of the Slate. Let a sufficient sum, -ay, two or three millions of dollars, he set apart perpetually for this purpose, aiul only the annual interest used, and used only for the education of the children of the State. This w ould be an educational fund of which w,- might justly he proud. The remainder of tiie money might lie invested in good Stocks, and the interest paid annually into the Treasury of the state, thus reducing the taxes of the pcopb ; or it might be used in | lending aid to the construction of other ! Roads, provided those desiring its use, could make the State amply urcure by mortgage or other sufficient security. (Ir it might he otherwise disposed of, as prudence and wis dom might dictate for the benefit ol the peo ple. Ol course 1 refer hi r only to the re mainder after payment of th- State debt, and the permanent establishment of a suffi cient school fund. 1 regard these objects as paramount and a- taking precedence over all otliers. Tin; above are the four important points which have suggested themselves to mv tmml as necessary to he guarded mth* event nt tin salt of the Hoad. With these points substantially guarded, I should not hesitate to giye my sanction to a hill for the -ale of ilie R,.ail. in determining the ques tion of time, when it would be best to sell the Road, the people should take into the account the tact that tiie amount ot annual | income from the Road will have much to do I in determining the price which the Hoad will command in the market. The recent | completion oi the Memphis n Charleston Rood is greatly increasing the freights and travel over our Road. The Road from Xash- vrb to Louisville, Kentucky, passing thro’ tlo rich valleys ot Kentucky, and conni cling or Rond w ith the Ohio, as it i« now con ic*-, i with the .Mississippi river, will be completed within a year or two from this time, which will add immensely to the freights and travel on the State Road. Add to this the further fact that the East Tt-nnes S"c ti Virginia Road will be completed in a few months, forming a continuous Railroad connection from Dalton to Washington City, and it is probable that the increase in the value ot our Road, when the connections are formed, will be very great. As long a* tiie annual increase in the value of the Road is more than the interest on the money in vested, the question as to the policy of its sale, is one which addresses itself to the calm judgment, and sober, second thought of the people. From 1^13 to 1850, the Governor was au thorized to sell the Road for 81,000.000. In 1850, the Legislature repealed the act. and For the Examimr. J l n M M L N I C A 1 t D . J Judge Brown at Home—HisSpeech The Bible Charge. &c. Mk. Editor On Tuesday (lie 8th inst., our Superior Court being in m-osmn, Judge Brown addressed his lellow c'ticetn in Canton. A fetv days pre vious, notice had been given and tiie attend ance was utm.-uully large. There were over 1000 voters in attendance that day. and Ihe iIci’Iicm interest scemcl to Ik’ ma' t listed. I'he Judge commenced his speech by referring to n chaige which had been circulated against him, that he was nn advocate of » new version of the Bible. 11, said the charge was wholly un founded—Unit his position on the subject had been known to sotre of fhe lending clergy Of his church for the last two ur three vents.• , m, , . , . nii ed, who ip] Btil and win, p The best scholars ol all the denominutiuu* nil- ! mittedjtbat there were some ,'Tors in th, received 1 translation, known as King Janie * translation, j 11 This be did not deny, but he wus of opinion i ■ ,, , , ", | . , • , siderahli wins of the deimicrutie party 11 that tr.ost who might now translate it. might, , ‘ ,,, ... , u!-o omio.'id 11 uu I i lined the B!tt"k Kepa while correcting some errors commit others 11 In the liil' ws me ,rp of popula' aivcivurni aiiioj of onr govc.im in prineipl, Th" they meet in t > nveut stituliou should Ik petu.it'od to , rm ttlale their own ii;.-ttutioua. m tlii irjj’ subject >nly tu the eonslituli m ol th< Stale-. \* tl'C Bill was right • principle i should,Is .leffildnl to Ihe lust. II,' tlien ark United | 1 Mr. Fillmore him mil U u . --aid he, how was the South in jitred by’this cl,iu.-,: The aliens were only pet. tuitled to vote at the lust election, and ut thu' the South triumphed an, 1 eleclcd a Southern Legislature which passed it law making it fell ny lor any or.,, to deny the right to hold slaver in Kaiwii* I low did this injure tile South? The snot,- f/'gi aititr,' pruscibtd the qiialiliea tion of, volets, mid denied the right of any hut citizens to vote: and thus the law 1ms stood anti during all the lime that ihe agitation is kept up in Georgia about alien suffrage, in Runs■ no alien can vote there. There is uu. d r th u ,1 • territorial L gislatwrc, im such thing ns uiien saffrugc there. Then why • id il.. . iff. IgO in Kat. .. J ur , with-qn tUei sovereignty. Mr. Oi 11 a ’ . ; ;h liiai pivaeiied ,i nil over Georgia tlmi I, >,a.- ,-quiitt,'i ,,ver, ignly in the Bill. t - ii t’uurt nt the Unite*! Slates bav,- aid lli,"., . . ) such tiling Whirh cltotlld th- , rp' •• Mr. Hill, or the Suprenr i unit «• the Uu ' d state .* Hr lind tIm- -lU'Wn that there was tv-it her squattier sover- , y ' ', alien -iiflVa, in Ihe Kanstv Bill, wba uiiiei otijeciious had bis upptmeals lo it ’• II, had lieuid „! nolle. Vtid Vet Bin Convetl. ) tion wl I, lomiu.ited .Mr. Hill, burl taken im . n" 'lin li.the American Party had said m I* and . i’ kd of saying, ns they I ben said Every mcmbei of Gougress who vriis d at Not i ot M i on k Dix . *nli ,:r . Ii would not do injiiJi," a t pp ,r! i" im' principles of the bill wan lie-t iiityt-, the constitutional rights of the South they ir w >",y in thei 1 * platform n( Silt July „ | 1KT. tii.it this ..im" principles are dnngerou; . , nml anti- 'uni‘turnlioclritic*?. I he/////.Atner- nr.d ilie new trntislation might in iii-- end be no more correct iltnu tim o d. He was con tent will) it ns it i-\ it either of th ■ denomi nations complained ot the present translation in their eonUiv.'ttsics with each ot her. the had minist -rs win, were scholars and could rend Ihe original and translale Ibr theinw'lves.— Tin |„.-op!,' and Un uiininers were lamiiiar with that present Version, and, in his opinion tve had better 'It" well enough alone'" He said, while he wa- bints. If opp red to the new v ision? he made no war npou those who fa vored it. lie made no w.ir upon ntiy one for j his religions views. He was glad the Ameri can party hid abandoned tiiat part of their creed, which proscribed the catholic, on account of his religion, and had in their late platform I jo Milledgevillc denounced as unfit for office nil persons who deny the Great American Doctrine, of liberty of conscience in matters of religion Ihe people tad taught them at the Ballot Box, tu respect tills i/ieat doctrine. It wa.- truly American, and while they opposed it thry were anti-American.- iT woa glad they bad learned to icsped it in .their party plot forms, but was sorry that they were still >lis posed to sloli opponents in th, dark on ac count of their religions sentiments. This Bi ble charge bail been industriously eirculalei ngaiti.it Hiuf in a dark, insinuating, manner The presses and the public speaker* of the par ty were ashamed to use it, but it wa- peddled about ir. private by appealing to jtl,e prejud ees of those least informed. The charge was false. But suppose, said he, it were true what would that have to do with my pjutilica- lions for the cilice of Governor, or with my discharge of the duties of that office if elected Nothing ut all ' Said he, if you will not v»i for a man lieeause he disagrees with you a? to the proper translations of a verse, ‘here i* tie- sam,; reason why you should not vote for him if he disagrees with you a* to th proper meaning oi construction ot a vers, and, in this way you would, in every election drag religion into politics Persecute a Bap t'st for bis religious opinions this year, and yon may persecute a Methodist or Presbyterian next year. This principle ot intolerance t caused rivers of blood to flow oo the Eastern Continent, and if acted upon here would one day take men's heads from their tipdii s and burn their bodies at the stake. Hi* opponents. said, were liarJ ion lor u charge against him. He had lived fourt years in Cherokee county. He challenged the strictest scrutiny ol his character and bid d fiance to every calumniator A ( ter exhaust in,/ their ingenuity, he was glad that ids opponents could not get up a charge that hud some found at ion in fact. lie gave ins views in reference to the State Road nt length, the sub tanceof which is con taitxd in bir published speech delivered at Canton 1st Tuesday in July last. He noticed tbe platform laid down by the Know Nothing Convention which nominated Mr. Hill. They favored the sale of two-thirds or the whole of tbe Road if nrtj he. He construed this to oicau that if the Know Nothing candidate wus elected Governor, and the Know Noth - jogugot (be offiew, there would, in their opio- Frnm the So tb. wvtrat w ■ I, ul limit it, nud lie was mortified at being oldigrsl tn *ay tlint lw" dcnincratti from tin* j South had opposed it. tine of them, old Nam IIou-imu. doubtless thought at tin tini. that ' i/,ning Ham might maki >/</ Sam President ; licce his opposition. But In* liad receives! his rewiml the oth r day iu T vi ,. . *r- whelmiog deft at fot Uovei n Bntt U sound Democrats N, rth. and all th" uth em Demoeraey. and wc had not still the p ov er to pass the. Bill. I lieu how did we pa it ? By the help of a majority of the gallant Whig ol the Bontli, who rising above party, stood by ilieir country despising u name if, to main tain it, they most sacrifice a principle. While Douglas and Richardson were lending on th Democracy to the passage of the Bill, Alex ander 11. Stephens, of Georgia, a noble and gallant spirit, stood 'by the Bill with uu flinching B'niti'.' *, and rallied Southern Whig a, o its support. Mr. Stephens, by his able and patriotic course on this question, Itad won new laurels, and given new evidences of patriotic devotion lo the bt-.v intcretts of iii country.— He v.us proud of h ; m as u man and a Georgia Statesman. Lie would not forget the bold, noble,and ehivalrou.? conduct of oui gallant Senator, .Mr. Toombs, mid his manly exertions n favor of the Bid. Ii, Southern Whigs who voteu for the Bill, wi re entitled to a little more praise than tbe Democracy, for they, with the Demoeraey, stood firm upon principle to do which, i; wasucco-ary for them to sacrifice party nam and party .v delation, and lo endure the taunt* of old party friends. All purtic-H in Georgia at first approval the principles of Kansas Bill. On the 17th day of Feb. 1854, the I .eg Mature by a unanimous vote, endors, ,1 the Bill, .Squatter Sovereignty, Alien Suffrage, and all i (Just here it was dated in the crowd that Mr. Hill had said in Ida Speech at Canton, on the 1st day of Sep tember, inst., that the uiien suffrage clause had been stricken out of the Bill in the Senate of tin C. S , before the vote of the Legislature approving the Bill on the 17th Feb.. 1854 | Judge Brown asked if Mr. Hill had so slated. A number ol intelligent Gentianen replied that be had, and that it could be proved by 500 per sou* uiio beard it. .fudge Brown said, he re. gretted it if so, as .Mr. Hill knew that such was cot the foci. Tliut Mr. Hill had been correct ed in this statement before. That the public press had called bis attention tc hi- palpable mbtatement before, and that Mr Hdl, to ruaintuin Ids conzisteney. ought not to assert what he knew to be untrue. Judge Brown, then read from the Congressional Globe and appeudix, and showed from tin Record that the allien suffrage clans wo in the Bill t: the tini< wlien the Georgia Legi'iuttin pa xi ti,e r< to- lution, und wiu onlyitrick, nt m tiie N,'oat, the jeeomiday ol Alarch ineieali,*. I hu* the Bill went to the limite when, a -uojtiluti was passed retaining the danse ami tin* .iib>litute wu* passed in the Neuate and io-caim the !i»w The icaiiing of this record in the beariug of of those who but one week previous had h-ani Mr. IJill wuke this reckies? bmcvtion,; dacad au astonishing effect. All saw that I. was convicted of wilful »ad palpable auMUteneoi ic.oi iviity of 1857 then-fore occupied precise ■' the opposite position to thut occupied on tli,- question hy ttie American pmly of 1855 It - i i.ut tlieii I i, the iiimr party, and no mi ml I the Ymerienn party of 1855 owed any party alkgiunee ,o the .;o-eaille(l Ainni party of 1857 They were two distinct, party organizations that o| 1855 eu dorsed '( [Cm..-. Bill; that or 1857 de noun, • J th* tune bill. But th" Milledgevillc plutlorm ,,| 1857*suys. that thff American par ty have i, nin and again warned tiie country again th e dangerous «rt(,'-Southern doe Dm the principles of the Kansas bill.) \\ Im did they tiro warn the country against tin e principles When Mr. Fillmore re turned from his visit to the Pope and made hi. Rod t r pci oh, fie denounced tiie repeal ol tiie Missouri Compromise act iu the Pan dora's Bov ike. It wns the Ncbraskn-Kaosas act which repealed tie .Missouri Compromise act. W hen therefore Mr. Fillmore denounced the repeal of Hie Missouri Compromise net he. in tlie same breath, denounced the Nebras ka-Kane.vs net which ti! repeal it, and the //(//■Americana ot Georgia, followed suit und they too denounced the Kansas act.— they then j,reached .qnattir sovereignty, and -aid that, under tbe provisions of the Km i* a,*, the territorial legislature might abo'.-h l.ivt ry in the territory, and the South ern man lose his negro there, This deterred Southern men from going to Kansas with their -lui and injured tbe cause of the South in Kansu*. If therefore we have lost Kansas, the blame Ii, at their door; for the Supreme Court have decided in the Dred Scott ease tl it then- wu lioeqnaUcr sovereignty iu the bill—that t'eagrcps itself had no power to prohibit slavery there; und the American party therefore stand convicted of having attempted to deceive the people of Georgia- -the Supreme Court being the Judge. Is it safe thou, he said, again to trust those who have deceived or attempted to deceive us ii|kui a quesiiou ol fu- h itul interest ? But the American party now attempt to conceal their guilt in this mat ter, and to divert public attention from it, by b<r,oning loud and bold in their denunciation of Walker and Buthanan. It was not strange that tli, ; should denounce Buchanan. They had always done so; and would have contin ued to do so ict him have taken what course be miq-l. They never intended to be pleased with hi* administration. Judge B. then point ed ont the conduct of Walker which he rc g lid'd as improper intervention in the affair. ol Kansu-, anil said that for this be condemned Walker, and that if Mr. Buchanan approved o! Walker’s course in these particulars Tor that lie should condemn Mr. Bucliauau. That it was not with the Democracy us it was with the Know Nothings. Tiie Democracy were not twam to abide the decision of any Grand Council or great loader. That they were al ways free to condemn the wrong and approve the right lie would wait till the time when lb" CoiiUitution said Mr. Buchanan should *p,".ik, and if he then put himself right before the country he would continue lo give lii.t ad- imni-trati<m u warm support. If he did not, and it nut manifest that ATr. Buchanan bad betrayed ibe South, tv* would then condemn him Now, .aid tbe Judge, when h« is fairly heard 1 will agree to condemn him if he has betrayed us. Will you Know Nothings make

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Atlanta daily examiner. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1854-1857, September 16, 1857, Image 2