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Democratic principles 4 .
ic measures on all leading questions of
national policy, involving the subject of
finance and taxation, and appropriations
of money, and of constitutional power
in reference thereto, have become the
fixed and settled policy of the country.
The issues therein involved, which form
erly devided Southern Democrats and
Whigs, no longer afford ground for con
tinued separation and conflict among
them. Now, other questions of practi
cal and paramount importance are press
ing up on the earnest attention of South
ern men, and arc of such a nature as re
quire cordial and fraternal concert of
action among all who concur in senti
ment upon these questions.
In view of these obvious truths, and
to secure this concert of action, the Dcm
ocratic party of Georgia in Convention
mbled, submit to their fellow citi-
asscmbL_.
zens the following platform of principles
and cordially and earnestly invite the
co-operation of all citizens of Georgia,
regardless of all party distinctions, who
desire to see them established as the
true basis of the constitutional and just
action of this government.
1st. Resolved, In the language of the
Georgia Convention of 1850, that we
hold the American Union secondary in
Drtance only to the rights and prin-
lmpo: _
ciples it was designed to perpetuate, m suggest, and shall be in conformity
that past associations, present fruition, °
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arising from our commercial relations
with Spun, alike dictate the policy of
the annexation of Cuba to this country,
at the earliest period, compatible with
out national honor and treaty obligations.
12*4. Resolved, That the democratic
and national principles declared and set
forth in the inaugural address and annu
al message of President Pierce, meet
our cordial approval, and that he is en
titled to the thanks of the country, for
his enforcement of those principles, m
the signature and approval of the Ne
braska-Kansas bill, Ins faithful execu
tion of the Fugitive Slave law, his va
rious vetoes, and other measures of ad
ministrative policy in conformity to these
f y.
principles'.
13*4.
Resolved, That the administra
tion of Gov. Johnson meets our decided
approval, and we confidently recommend
him to the people of Georgia for re-elec
tion to the office he has so ably and faith
fully filled.
Resolved, That in view of the action
of the Legislature of Massachusetts and
Vermont, and the threatened action of
other Northern. States, virtually repeal
ing the fugitive slave law, and denying
to the citizens of the South their consti
tutional rights, we recommend to our
next Legislature the adoption of such
retaliatory measures as their wisdom
and future prospects, will bind us to it
so long as it continues to be tbe safe
guard of those rights and principles.
2nd. Resolved, That we hereby de
claro our full and unqualified adhesion
to the following resolution of the Geor-
f ia Covention of 1850, and unalterable
etermination to maintain it in its letter
and spirit.
4th Resolution—Georgia Platform.
That the State of Georgia, in the
judgment of this Convention, will and
ought to resist, even (as a last resort) to
a disruption of every tie which binds her
to the Union, any action of Congress,
incompatible with the safety, domestic
tranquility, the rights and honor of the
slave holding States, or any act suppress
ing the slave trade between the slave
holding States ;* or any refusal to admit
as a state any territory hereafter apply
ing because of the existence of slavery
therein; or any act prohibiting the in
troduction of slaves into the territories
of Utah and New Mexico; or any act
repealing or materially modifying the
laws in force for the recovery of fu
gitive slaves.
3d. Resolved, That we. approve and
endorse the action of our last Congress
in the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas
act, and the principles therein establish
ed ; and in conformity whh these princi
ples, the people of Kansas have a right,
when the number of their population jus
tifies it,to form a Republican Constitution
with or without slavery as they may de
termine, and be admitted into the Union
upon an equal footing ..with the other
States, and that her rejection by Con
gress, on account of slavery would be a
just cause for the disruption of all the
ties that bind the State of Georgia, to
the Union.
4*4 Resolved ,That we adopt as our
own, the following Resolution passed
unanimously by the last Legislature of
Georgia.
4 Resolved, by the General Assembly
of the State of Georgia, That opposition
to the principles of the Nebraska Bill, in
relation to the subject of slavery, is re
garded by the people of Georgia, as hos
tility to the people of the South, and
that all peisons who partake in such op
position arc unfit to be recognized as
component parts of any party or organi
zation not hostile to the South.
5*4. Resolred, That in accordance with
the above Resolution, whilst we arc will
ing to act in party associations with all
sound and reliable men in every section
of the Union, we are not willing to affiliate
with any party that shall not recognise,
approve and carry out the principles and
provisions of the Nebratka Kansas act,
—and that the Democratic Party of
Georgia will cut off all pirty connection
with every man and party at the North
or elsewhere, that does not come up fair
ly to the line of action.
6*4. Resolved, That the National
Democracy of the North, wlio have pa
triotically fought for the Kansas and
Nebraska Acts and the maintainance of
the Fugitive Slave Law, against the
combined forces of Know Nothingism and
Abolitionism, which seek their repeal,
and who stand pledged to support the
admission of Kansas into the Union as a
slave State, should she ask it, merit the
heartfelt sympathies, thanks and en
couragement of Southern men in their
patriotic position.
7*4. Resolved, That in the National
Democratic party of the North alone,
have been found these patriotic men who
have thus stood by tne rights of the
South, and judging the future by the
past, that party is the only organization
at thw North that now exists or can be
formed with which the South can con
sistently co-operate.
8*4. Resolved, That we sympathize
with the friends of the slavery cause, in
Kansas, in their manly efforts to main
tain their rights and the rights and in
terests of the Southern people, and that
we rqjoice at their recent victories over
tho paid adventurers and jesuitical hords
of northern abolitionism. That the
deep interest felt and taken by the peo
ple of Missouri in the settlement of Kan
sas and the decision of the slavery ques
tion in it, is both natural and proper, and
that it is their right and duty to extend
to their Southern brethren in that Ter
ritory every legitimate and honorable
sympathy and support.
9*4. Resolved, That we are uncom
promisingly opposed to the political or
ganization commonly called the Know
Nothing Order, or American Party, hav
ing no sympathy with their secrecy,
their oaths, their unconstitutional de
signs, their religious intolerance, their
political proscription, and their abolition
associations at tne North.
10*4. Resolved, That we hail with
delight the late signal triumph in Vir
ginia of the Democratic Party, and of
toe patriotic Whigs, who co-operate in
acheiving that result over the Know
Nothing organization, as conclusive ev
idence, that in the great practical ques
tions involved in that contest, Southern
men may honorably and 'successfully
combine without regard to past political
distinctions, to save the constitution from
desecration, and the South from being
prostrated before the power of Northern
tltnatieism and ttusrnle:
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with constitutional obligations.
From the Constitutionalist
Rowell Cobb in the Mountains,
Mb. Editor—On Tuesday, the 26th
of June, tlie Hon. Howell Cobb addressed
the people at the Baptist Church, on
Hiwassee, near Maj. Carter’s. The house
was lnrge, but it would hold scarcely
half the people. A large number of la
dies were in attendance. The speaker
and the audience retired to thegrove near
tho Church, where Gov. Cobb addressed
the people in a speech of about two hours
in length. A more able and eloquent
speech I have never listened to. It was
a masterly vindication of the principles
and platform of the Democratic party,
and of the principles of civil and religious
toleration. He exposed the Dark Lan
tern party to public gaze in all its de
formity, and showed that its principles
were at war with the Constitution of the
United States and of the State of Geor
gia. He was frequently Interrupted by
Dr. McCoy, who appeared to have the
Know Nothing cause under his protection.
When Gov. Cobb bad concluded his
speech, Dr. McCoy replied to him at
some length, and the Governor replied
to him in a speech of some twenty min
utes. He treated tbe Dr., who seems to
be a very intelligent gentleman, with the
utmost courtesy throughout the whole
discussion. But no one, probably ever
suffered more in a discussion than the Dr.
did, unless it may have been the few
Know Nothings who heard tbe scathing
rebuke which their champion received.
The Governor’s remarks were frequently
interrupted by tbe applause of the large
audience. The manifestations of feel
ing seemed to be almost unanimously in
his favor. He will carry a very large
majority in this section over any oppo
nent who may take tbe field against him
Know Nothingism has very little strength
in the mountains. It seems to be a plan
et whose culture is a little out of place
in onr mountain climate. The pure air
here does not agree with it. The tree
of civil and religious liberty grows much
better here. The Democracy of the
mountains are awake to their duty, and
the contest. With such
are prepared for
leaders as Cobb and Johnson at their
head, they have nothing to fear.
I am informed that Gov. Cobb address
ed the people at Blairsvillc, on Monday
That there was a large audience, and
that he drove terror into the ranks of the
Know Nothings, and left the Democracy
united and in fine spirits. I am inform
ed that he has lately canvassed several
of the upper counties of his district, and
that the democracy are confident of sue
cess by a very large majority. *
Hiwassee.
How is This.
We ask the attention of Southern men
and especially of Southern Know Noth
ings, to the following paragraph from a
late number of the Americon Organ
“ Our friends must not be deceived—
there has been no ‘secession of the North
and Northwest from the American party
—none at all—but simply ‘protests'
against certain portions of our platform
which negative the idea of restoration of
the Missouri Compromise of 1S20, and
involving, as before stated, a mere poiut
of sectional policy—a naked abstract
right of no earthly value to cither of the
contending parties—a question which
two years’ time would adjust, if agita
tion were suppressed.”
Is this true 1 Was it merely a pro
test, and not secession, then the “Amer
ican Organ, and Keneth Rayner. and
John H. Haughton, and Albert Pike,
at Neal S. Brown, and other Southern
men, ara still in alliance withjjardner
and Wilson of Massachusetts." How is
it? Can the Star or the Register ex
plain? Some of the Know Nothings
about here have been badly bit recently
by the Cincinnatti Times; they took
it for a sound journal on the slavery
question, though we told them all along,
and proved it too, by extracts from its
editions—one of the North and the oth
er of the South—that it was an abolition
concern. Let them now keep an eye
upon their *national organ at Washing
ton. It declares that they are still in
alliance with the abolition portion of the
Know Nothing party; and that the
Missouri line involves an idea of "no
earthly value" to the South ! One more
step in the same direction, and the
“American Organ” will be an abolition
journal.—Raleigh Standard.
From tbe Comtitktk>o«li*t tc. BepubUp.
.» Lawren-ceville, Ga.v; *
July 3d, 1855.
Mr. Gardner: In the Southern Re
corder, of the 26th Jane, I find an arb-.
tide, signed “Union Democrat,” in
which he pretends to give a sketch of
the speecn and success of the Hon.
Howell Cobb, delivered in this place, on
the lgjth ultimo. The whole affair is
y and knowingly misrepresented
by him. He says that “the admirers of j:.
the said Howell are very much dissatis-.
fied with the meeting.” Now, if he had
said the “Sams” were very much dissat
isfied, there would have teensome -strong,
grounds for accusing him of speaking
the troth, for if we are to judge from
their manifest oneasn&s, ana the great
pains they take in-misconstruing the
words ana obvious meaning of Governor
Cobb, then we may say that we have
some reason to believe that they are not
only dissatisfied, but in great trouble.—
This “Union Democrat” says that Gov.
Cobb accuses the Clergy, of lying! Gov.
Cobb said no such thing-—the accusa
tion is a base slander. - He said from
what he conld learn of the “Know Noth
ing or American Order” its- members
were bound, by an oath, to deny the ex
istence of such an Order, or their mem
bership, and if this was true, the mem
bers of the Church, or ministers of the
Gospel, who were members, must, if
interrogated, deny it, or violate their
oath—and if such be the fact, every
candid man must say that, if when inter
rogated, they either deny the existence
of such an organization, or their mem
bership, that they violate the spirit of
truth, at least. If they own it, they
violate their obligation as a member of
the Order. Again, he says that Gov.
Cobb, in liis speech said, “that, should
a war take place between Roman Catho
lics and Protestants of this country, he
would shoulder his musket and fight for
the Catholics! I would ask this “Union
Democrat” if he attempts to write facts,
to state them truly, and to remember
that he who circulates a falsehood, is
equally culpable with the one who ori
ginates it. The man who told him that
(Jov. Cobb uttered the above sentiment,
told a falsehood, and “Union Democrat'
has put it in print, and given it circula
tion.
Gov. Cobb, to the best of my recollec
tion, said, “that he was reared by Pro
testant parents, in the Pretestant faith,
and that his feelings and prejudices
were in favor of the Protestant Church,
but that he was opposed to religious
proscription, and an advocate of the
rights of all sects and denominations
under the Constitutions of our State and
Government, and that if any denomina
tion should seek to violate the Constitu
tion, by attempting to put down the
Catholics or any other denomination, he
wonld shoulder his musket and fight,
even though it be side by side with the
Catholic—that if the Catholic fell by
the next
until the
st rongest would predominate by over
riding a?* the weaker. And thus in
time would be established, what every
true patriot and Republican deprecates
above all other evils, the overthrow of
the liberty of conscience and of speech,
and the establishment of a religion by
the Government. I ask, is there a true
patriot, saint or sinner, in the whole Re
public of the United States, having one
spark o! Republicanism in his heart, or
one drop of the blood of our fathers oi
'76 in his veins, who would not only say,
hut do as much ? Gov. Cobb’s speech
was able, strong and impressive, and
down on Know Nothingism and its evil
tendencies, and its advocates have felt
its force and writhe under it, and hence
the communication of “Union Democrat.”
He sees and feels the effects of that
speech, and knows that something must
he done to counteract the influences ar
rayed against him, or Cobb men will be
too numerous for them in October next.
What arc they to do ? If lie circulates
facts, they will give Cobb votes. It
will not do for him to come out and
make these charges over his proper sig
nature, for there he wonld find himseli
contradicted by many good and true
men, “who had self-respect enough to
hear Gov. Cobh,” and know what he
did say. He carries out the principles
of the Order tc which he belongs,- by
withholding his true name from the pub
lic, and using one calculated to convey
a false impression in my opinion, for i
do not doubt that this “Union Demo
crat” is in truth a “Union Whig,” seek
ing office, and struggling most desperate
ly at the contemplation of the fall which
lie and his party are doomed to receive,
and which I trust, may be like that ol
Lucifer, “a foil, to rise no more.”
In conclusion, I would advise “Un
ion Democrat,” if he ever attempts to
write again for the columns of a newspa
per, to summon “self-rospect enough to
tell the truth.” If his cause requires
falsehood and deception to uphold it,
ancl the low, petty slander that he hat
uttered against Gov. Cobb, in order tc
excite the religious prejudices of mem
bers of the Protestant Churches, then I
say it is a very bad cause, and the soon
er he abandons it the better. Y.
three days LATER FROM EUROPE.
'. Arrival of the America.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWS.
Halifax, Jnly 5,1855.
The Royal mail steamship America,
[apt. Long, from Liverpool at 1 o’clock
n Saturday afternoon, the 23d nit., ar-
ived at this port yesterday afternoon.
The Amenca brings dates from Liver-
ol to the 23d of June.
The news is scanty, but in the highest
e important. j . . .
.e^Alliea ..had. met with a: seriotts
cfc'Before Sevastopol.
jOn the n 18th of June the French and
^English* respectively attacked the Mala-
koff and Redan towers, bat were both
repulsed with great slaughter.
According toone account the British
loss alone was not short of four 1 ,thousand,
including amongst' the killed General
Campbell, and upwards of seventy other
officers.
Contradictory rumors prevailed, and
it was thought that (he above was some
what exaggerated.
In the British Parliament, Mr. Roe
buck had moved a vete of censure against
the Ministry.
A large new French loan was to be
immediately negotiated.
In' the Liverpool cotton market de
pression had succeeded the buoyancy
lately exhibited, and with a very limited
demand prices had considerably declin
ed—-in some cases to the extent of one
farthing per lb.
• The week’s business has been restrict-
to some 24;000 bales—mostly for the
trade.
Breadstuff's, with the exception of In
dian corn, which had slightly advanced,
ranged at about the rates current on the
departure of the Baltic.
Pi
persecution and proscription, t
weakest would fall in its turn,
Ono of the “National Men.”
The New York Tribune publishes a
note from Gov. Johnston; who remained
in the Philadelphia Convention after the
adoption of the majority platform, in
which he says:
“I did not vote for said platform and
do not intend to do so hereafter. I op
posed it in Convention, spoke against
itft adoption in the Convention, protested
against it and refined all co-operation
with any National organization that re-
cognizated, or adopted it. I am now,
what I have ever Been—a firm and con
sistent opponent of slavery extension.*’
That ip the way in which the New
York and Pennsylvania Know Nothings
propose to adharo to Philadelphia
platform.
The Under-ground System.
I he Atlanta Intelligencer thus excel
lently speaks of the secret system of a
party, that now endeavors to get the of
fices in this country.
ipos of this—onr friend repeats
what has in every shape of iteration gone
the Know Nothing rounds, that knowing
nothing of the principles of the order,
he can say nothing—he should say noth
ing. Here, just here, is the condemna
tion of that party irrevocably pronoun
ced. A Secret political party ? A set
of men—a man, for angfat yon know,
way under ground, forging hand-caffs
for your wrists and gyves for your legs 1
Men as politicians, diseasing principles
and measures that are to bind you and
yours, and you thrust out of the council L dsbete
Who was the daring cohsprator that firs'. +
concocted this wholesale perversion' oi,
the Republican sentiment of this people i
But because we don't know what these
patriots are doingin secret for us, we are'
oi c ■ T table if we suspect them and be- ‘
cause their deeds are done in darkness,
it is uncivil and hard in us' if-w»-ih5nk
them evil. • v ; '£ed:;
4* bylamLr
There are five thousand negro Know
Nothings in New York. They aredeatii J
on the “d d foreigners.” and the
pride of their white Know-Nothing bretb* —The.
rem -- -* • - • - hlft-'aCM
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'revisions generally were steady at
former quotations.
The London money market was still
easier, and Consols had declined to 90 j.
The War.
T4e Siege of Sebastopol—Repulse of the
AUies—the Mamelon Tower Re-taken
by the Russians.
Lord Raglan’s despatch and the news
papers correspondence are to band, de
scribing the gallant capture of the Mam-
melon and the quarries. The details
ar&highly interesting, but the main facts
have been already stated with general
correctness.
The Allies have made an unsuccess
ful attempt to storm Sebastopol. The
most sinister rumors prevail in regard to
the transaction. By some accounts the
English loss' is s$t down at 4,000 men,
but the* report is believed to be much
exaggerated.
The following are the only official no
tifications of the event:
Lord Panmure regrets to have to an
nounce that he has received information
that the English troops attacked the
Redan, and the French the Malakoff
towers, at daylight on the morning of the
18th, without success, which has hither
to attended our efforts. Both the Fren ch
and ourselves have suffered considerabl
The names of the officers who have fa.i
en will be forwarded immediately, but it
will be impossible to receive complete
returns of all the casualities before the
30th inst.. (June) at the earliest.”
The Moniteur announces that the gov
ernment has received two despatches
from General, Peljjsier. The first, dated
the 17tii,'informs of operations concocted
between the General and liis allies, and
that the Turks and Chasseurs made a
reconnoisance towards Aitodar, General
Bosquet occupying the Tehcrnaya. The
next day, at daybreak, the French and
English were to attack the Malakoff
Tower. The second dispatch, dated the
18th, announces that the attack had foil
ed, and that, altliough the troops had
showed the greatest ardor, and gained a
footing in the Malakoff Tower, General
Pelissier was obliged to order their re
tirement into the parallel. This was
effected with order, and without moles
tation by the enemy.
Private accounts published in the Lon
don Standard, say the loss of British of
ficers, in killed and wounded, amounts to
no less than seventy. Among the killed
aud wbulided are General Sir J. Camp
bell, Coll Yea and Col. Sliadforth.—
From the obstinacy and courage with
which the combat was maintained by
the British at the Redan, and the ne
cessity of eventually retiring from the
attack, the slaughter on all sides has
oeen immense; and if the information bo
correct, the loss in killed and wounded of
the British alone amounts to very little
short of four thousand. The greatest
portion of the loss was experienced in a
ravine, where a powerful and unexpect
ed battery was opened on the troops.—
There is reason to fear that the loss has
been very great, but Lord Palmerston
said on Friday night no additional in
formation had arrived. The allies lose
terribly by the Russians springing a mine,
and during the confusion they (the Rus
sians) recaptured the Mamelon tower.
Previous advices were to the 17th,
stating that there had been smart firing-
on both sides, but without any result oi
mportanpe. ", * ’ . ■
All the camps are healthy excepting
tliat at Balaklava, where cholera pre
vails. The Sardinians are suffering, and
General Marmora, the younger, is dead.
Operation against Perekop.
A despatch front Bucharest, via Vien
na. confirms the report that an expedi
tion has been undertaken against Pere
kop. Pelessier is exceedingly savage
against the telegraphic messages which
Napoleon .sends him. He is reported to
have recently replied, that when any
thing occurs he will let the Emperor
know, bat that he has not time to act as
a telegraph operator. This, according
to rumor, accounts for the recent absence
of news in the Moniteur.
Russian Accounts of the Allies Success
in the Sea of Azoff.
Tlie. Russian account of the successes
)f the -allies in the Sea of Azoff is pub-
ee i ; - r * ■ \
Sakoff confirms the successes'
ldme'd by the allies; but Bays that op
erations against the" Sea of Azoff were
expected—that not haying means to op
pose the hostile fleets, the garrison had
blow'up the batteries and re
tire—that the grain stores burned by
jffio alQes were mostly private-property,
twcLtldi no$ .materially affect the
inasmuch, anticipate
Btly convey-,
thst&cilitie.
a.-
horn-j: £
)ei r
t"
A boat expedition iaramored-to be pre
paring to enter the river Don, bat the
Russians have the entrance defended
by twenty-seven gun boats.
General Adujanow, Vice-Hetman of
the Cossacks of the Don, has issued an
address for their general enrolment as
militia*
Tho Russian forces have advanced
and encamped . near Redout Kale.—
The Turks have evacuated Batoum
and Chonronk Su. Nassif Pacha has ad
vanced with his staff to Kars.
A. despatch from Varna, dated June
17, which was retarded on the way, says
the Russians had made an unsuccessful
attack on Kats* and it was reported they
had retaken Anapa*
The Austrian commander has pro
claimed martial law in Moldavia, but
the Moldavian authorities refuse to pro
mulgate the order unless authorised by
the Sultan.
Constantine Balshe, son of the reign
ing prince, was killed at Jassy, in a
duel, by the Austrain Major Stalberg.
The affair had caused considerable sen
sation in tbe Principalities.
The Massacre at Hango— Operations in
the Baltic. .
Admiral Baines, with a squadron of
seventeen steamers, has left Kiel for the
Baltic. The rest of the fleet lay off
Seaker Island.
The recent attack on an English
boat’s crew at Hango, under a flag of
truce, causes much excitement in Eng-
gland. Evidence rests solely on the
authority-of a negro, the sole survivor,
who asserts he heard the Russian com
mander say, “I dont care a damn for a
flag of truce.” Unprejudiced supposi
tion is, that the Russians supposed the
boat was taking soundings, as recently
was done at Kertch.
Admiral Dundas has communicated
with the Russian authorities and British
government through the Danish Minis
ter at St. Petersburg, and demands re
dress. The Russian account in the In-
vallide Russ says six were killed, and
the remainder are prisoners. A des
patch from Dantzic confirms that the
officers of the boat, Lieut. Genest, Dr.
Eastins, Mr. Sullivan, and all of the
crew, except six, are prisoners.
Diplomatic Matters.
Prince Gorschakoff is appointed resi
dent Russian Minister at Vienna, M.
Titoff to Wurtemberg, and M. Fonton
to Hanover.
Russian influence is very active even
in the smallest German Courts.
The Journal of St. Petersburg pub
lishes the semi-official discussion on
Count Walewski’s* "French circular of
May 23d.
The Journal also semi-officially says
that peace Is possible, if France and
England are willing, inasmuch as the
fourth point is morally, although not
not formally, settled, and the other
S tints, namely, the navigation of the
anube and the evacuation of the Prin
cipalities, are also settled—leaving on
ly the Vienna third point to be arranged
Hali Pacha remains in office. A na
tional monument is to be erected to the
English dead at Scutari.
xnrtijern^amtef
Thursday,:::::: July, 12, 1855.
FOB GotfEfiXOft,
HON. HERSCHEL Y. JOHNSON,
Of Baldwifu
FoB congbess,
1st Dial.—jnrara I*. Seward, TK«mu.
3d “ Janies H. Smith; of Upson.
4th « Hiram WarlMj *f Uteri wether.
3th “ John H. LUmpkiii, Of FlAjd.
6th “ Howell Cobb, of Clark.
can slavery in America is right, politically
morally and socially. -
Again says ths Hon* Nell 8. Brown, to
Pennsylvanians J»
“ 1 appeal to yoti, as an American eitixen
and not as a Tennesseean—as one who lota!
this Onion more than he loves his own de»*
State—as one who would give np his btelotJ
birth place to insure the harmony of tkl.
distracted nation.’ 4
Know Nothingism (s Welcome to such
sentiments. As for us, while we lore and
revere the Union as it was formed
constitutional brotherhood of commonwealths
yet, when the rights of the sovereign Stat*
of Georgia, are trampled upon—when the
Union is of more importance than ihe prio*
ciples it was designed to perpetuate, oat
heart and hands will stand by the proud po.
sition of our native State, at any and ererj
hazard.
'of the
ndence
Know Nothin;? Piety.
The first clause solemnly acknowled
ges the existence of an “Almighty Be
ing who rules the Universe,” which, un
til we saw that confession of faith, we
supposed was acknowledged everywhere
by all men, and parties, and factions—
by the American party even, until this
manifestation of a solicitude to show to
the world that, whatever else it may be,
it is not atheistical. This is an instance
of overdoing a thing, of overacting a part;
for this solemn annunciation seems to be
as much the child of hypocrisy as the
child of religion. Why assert so sol
emnly and so formally that nobody
would have questioned if they had been
silent, unless sacred things are to be in
voked for unhallowed purposes, or un
less conscience, which makes cowards of
all men, wa9 not smitting them and there
the Know Nothing oracles? The draugts-
mon of that first clause must be a reader
of Shakspeare, we think, and had in
his mind that celebrated police officer
Captain Dogberry, who, in Much Ado
About Nothing, says some things singu
larly coincidental with the first clause of
the platform:
“Dogb. Masters, do you serve God?
“Cor. Bor.i. Yea. sir, we hope.
"Dogb. Write down—that they hope
they serve God :—and write God first;
for God defend but God should go before
such villains!”
So the platform-makers wrote God
first, and, like Conrade and Borachio,
would fain make tbe world believe they
serve him also. We do not apply the
word villians to the Know Nothings, be
it observed. For some of them whom
we know we have personally much res
pect ; for their political opinions, and for
their platform, none.— Washington Un
ion.
Nationality of the Know Nothings.
The Know Nothings claim the majority
platform of the Philadelphia Convention, as
the national platfornf of their party. Is it a
platform upon which Georgians can meet as
one party and one people 1 Is it a platform
upon which any one true-hearted Georgian
can honestly and conscientiously stand, with
the lights before him? In the American Weekly
Organ, published during the sitting of the
Philadelphia Council, and while the platform
committee were out, the temporary Editor
says, that he understands a platform was
submitted to the Convention, by Vespasian
Ellis, the editor of that paper, approving the
Fugitive Slave Bill and the Kansas-Nebras-
ka Bill. In corroboration of that rumor, the
correspondent of the New York Tribune
states, that such a platform was submitted
and passed, by a vote of 15 to 14 in the com
mittee. Why, Georgians, was not that plat
form submitted to the convention, by the
committee ? The reason is too plain—be
cause not one of the Northern men voted fur
it. Not one Northern Know Nothing ap
proved the Fugitive Slave Bill, and the
Kansas-Nebraska Bill. Yea—not one.—
Lyons, the New York Know Nothing, of
whom the Know Nothings boast so much,
and who carried the New York delegation
for the National Know Nothing platform,
was a member of the last Congress; and the
record there says, he voted against the Kansas-
Nebraska Bill. The Know Nothings in
Pennsylvania have elected an Anti-Ne
braska man Governor of the State. The
leading Know Nothing papers in New Jer.
sey indignantly repudiate the idea that the
Know Nothings in that State favor the Ne
braska Bill and the Fugitive Slave Law.—
And, Georgians, these are the only States
North, where a Know Nothing could be found
to vote for their Grand National Platform.—
And even then, the weak-hearted Know
Nothings of the South, to get their votes,
were compelled to brand the Fugitive Slave
Bill and Nebraska Bill, as “ obnoxious acts
and viol it id pledges.” Were they obnox
ious to you, as Southerners, when your rights
were recognized and protected—or were they
obnoxious to Lyons,-and Pollock, and Ray
ner, of North Carolina, who voted side by
side with Northern-Abolitionists, against the
sacred rights of his native State. 'Will such
men or such a party be recognized or toler
ated at the South. We have too much faith
in the intelligence and virtue of our people to
believe it.
Now look to the record of the Democratic
party. A majority of the Northern members
of that party, voted in favor of the Nebraska
Bill. The record says, the vote stood, in fa
vor of it, 44 Northern Democrats—against it,
43 Northern Democrats. Not one Whig or
Know Nothing at the North, voted in favor
of it. Again, in July 1854, Mr. Elliott, of
Massachusetts, asked consent to repeal the
Fugitive Slave Law. The record says, the
vote in favor of the repeal stood, ayes 45—
noes 120. Among the noes, we notice the
names of the Northern democrats in favor of
the Nebraska Bill, and most of the Northern
Democrats who voted against it, but not one
Know Nothing—and only one Whig from the
Northern States, the Know Nothings claim,
a man by the name of Haven, from N. York.
Which party, fellow-citizens, is to be trusted,
the Democratic party, which, on every test
question, has always voted with the South,
or the Know Nothing party, which repu
diates the foreign white man’s vote, and takes
that of the fugitive slave. The record
speaks, and needs no comment. Let Geor
gians decide.
From the Borne Southerner.
Dr. Lewis.
The following letter breathes the spir
it of one who has magnanimity and pat
riotism enough to forget self in the tri
umph of another and the success of the
Democratic party. We are sorry to
know that there are few men in the fifth
District who would act as nobly as the
writer has done.
Cartrbsvillb, I3th Jane, 1855.
Dear Sir ;—I have just heard the re
sult of the Convention at Calhoun yes
terday. I am gratified at the expression
of confidence manifested there by my
friends towards me. As an individual I
am defeated—as a Democrat I tan not,
nor is the Democratic party, nor will
they be, if trae to their principles. I
trust yon will accept the nomination.—
I pledge myself not only to sustain yon,
but to do it cheerfully.
Very respectfully your ob’t serv’t
7 JNO.W. LEWIS.
Hon. J. H. Lumpkin.
lyThs Know Nothings here are in
nabout the Montgomery platform,
they laugh until their sides are sore: not
we fear, because it is sound—but, be
cause it looks so much like a sound one—
we think the -8partads held that it did
not matter what yon did, so yon escaped
.detection. If the Jesuits are ihe sort of
men we hear-they aie-^the Know Noth-
:mgs will beat them'to death at their own
'fScMhU
Tactics of the Opposition.
After the recent election in Virginia, it waj
said that the Democrats of the Old Dominion
could out-vote, and the Know Nothings oat.
lie, any parties in the world. As to the cor-
redness of the proposition in regard to tha
Democrats, we are satisfied they t»il? make
it good On the first Monday # ln October, in
Georgia; and the Know Nothings of tho
6th Congressional District, are emulating the
example of their worthy brethren of ihe Old
Dominion, in a manner which must exceed
their fondest expectations. Unscrupulous
members of the Order, have set themselves
regularly to a work of misrepresentation and
perversion of facts, which is a disgrace
to the Order. That there are honorable,
high-minded men among them, there is not
a doubt; but for the honor of themselves
and their children, they should endeavor to
stop this mighty torrent of falsehood that
some of the Order are now deluging tho
land with. The greater part of these mis
representations have been aimed at our gal
lant standard-bearer, Hon. Howell Cobb.—
Writhing under the ponderous blows inflict
ed upon them by that gentleman, in his late
canvassing of the District, they have not
hesitated to resort to the means indicated for
the accomplishment of an inglorious end—
Where it will stop, God only knows. The
whole system can be easily traced to the
fountain-head; the first step was the obliga
tion of each member to deny his connexion
with the Order, which familiarized them with
falsehood, and from that they took to it on
general principles. We will give a fetr in
stances—to give them all, would fill volumes.-
Gov. Cobb, at his house in Cobbham, in
a short address to the students and citizens
of tho place, alluding to the three thousand
Northern puritan Clergymen who signed the
petition for the repeal of the Nebraska-Kan
sas bill, said he would sooner trust his life
and property in the hands of a Southern Ro
man Catholic, than his pocket-book, with
ten cents in it, with one of these three thou
sand clergyman. Whereupon, these sel£
appointed K. N. preservers of the religion
and morals of the country, very industrious
ly circulated it, that the Governor had said
that he would rather trust his life and pro
perty in the hands of a Roman Catholic,
than his pocket-book, Sic., with any Protes
tant Clergyman!
Another instance—of his expressing his
willingness to join Roman Catholics to shoot
down Protestants, is almost too ridicnlous
and absnrd for denial. A satisfactory refu
tation of the charge will be found in anotber
column, copied from the Constitutionalist.—
We heard an entirely new and original one
while in Hall county, the other day, to the
effect that he had boasted in a speech in
Cumming^that lie had gambled off the Demo
cratic party, in 1850. We presume, howev-
that this is too absurd to demand a
denial; he pronounced it utterly false
and without the slightest foundation, in lii*
speech in Gainesville last Saturday. But
we forbear. It would be a Herculean task
to run down and deny all these willful mis
representations. Their loud-mouthed boast
ings of strength and accessions, we are sat
isfied are equally false. If they would
maintain the guise of probability in these
stories, something might be accomplished,
but such Roorbacks as those above alluded
to, arctooapparent. Truly, we are approv
ing an unenviable state of affairs, when men
concoct falsehoods at niidiiight in dark rooms,
cellars and culverts, and circulate then, by
the light of the noou-day sun; when all con
fidence between man and man is destroyed,
and neighbors are set at variance.
Ex-Gov. Brown of Tennessee,
Just after the meeting of the Philadelphia
“ conclave if ineapables,” there appeared in
the Northern Press several Know Nothing
speeches by “ Ex-Governor Brown, of Ten
nessee.” As there are two gentlemen who
have this same name, but as different in pc
iitical opinions as Federalism is from De
mocracy, it is simple justice to “render unto
Cesar the things which are Cesar’s.” Both
ara Ex-Governors of Tennessee. Tbe Know
Kothing speaker is the Hon. Nru. S. Brown,
once a Whig, but a late representative to the
Grand Know Nothing Council.
The other is the Hon. Aaron V. Brown,
one of the ablest, most fearless and distin
guished Democrats in the Union. Could the
independence of such a mind sacrifice its
individuality in the sworn submission to a
Know Nothing Lodge? There are two
classes of politicians. Webster in his ora
tion, in 1826, on the lives of Jefferson and
Adams, thus spoke of them:
“They were not men made great by office,
but great men on whom the country, for its
own benefit, had conferred office.”
The Hon. Neil S. Brown, just emerging
from the secret sworn Chamber, thus Spoke
in Independence Square, of the Know
Nothing Platform, passed mostly by South
ern Know Nothings.
“When you hear it said this is a pro
slavery platform, I deny it. On constitu-
al grounds, and on the literal rendering -of
the'term, it ie not a pro-slavery platform.—
We ask no snch thing. It is a national
platform, and merely asserts (hat this institu
tion, whether good or bad, is engrafted on
the Soutiiem States.”
This is the opinion of one of the framers,
a'Southemtnan at that. People ofthe South
\ -doyou want such platforms? ‘Wepitehour
tearlqr.foe.side 'of io party or men,. at the:
hoBse on foe - *‘paramouht.- question
*th.e 4ay.”' believing as
dust-
How K. S. Works.
The people of Louisiana have had a fore
taste of Know Nothingism in the late nomi
nation of Sheriff for the parish of Orleans,
ueneral DcBuys, the old standard bearer of
the Creole Whigs, was a candidate, and no
one entertained a doubt of his success. “ But
as he was a Catholic, and born under the
Spanish flag, a New England shopkeeper,
who has been here but a short time, and
whom nobody knows, was prefered to him.
Such will, in all cases, be the rule.”—Speech
if P. A. Host, of La.
As Know Nothingism sprung from the
fanaticism and office-seeking small politi
cians of the North, and sent out here, why
not as well send along their agents to make
Sheriffs and fill other offices ?
Cigars.—rWe found upon OUT table, a
nch of most excellent cigars, pl*oed‘tiiere
by Cobb & Crawford, They have on haad
quantity of the real HaVannas, w hich they
W-
tip, that Afii-Uorthcm m New York.
Death of Dr. Terrell.
Dr. William Terrell, the enlightened,
public-spirited endower of the Chair of Agri
culture, in Franklin College, known as the
Terrell Professorship, died at his residence
in Sparta, on the morning of tire 4tb inst.—
His health had been bad for sometime; and
the event, though a sad one, aud received
with universal regret throughout the State,
was not unexpected. We learn from the
Chronicle and Sentinel, that the deceased
was a native of Wilkes; when a young man
he removed to Hancock county, which he
repeatedly represented in the Legislature of
Georgia. Later in life, he served in the
Congress of the United States; and still la
ter, in obedience to a nearly or quite snani-
mous call of that constituency, .represent
ed the counties of Hancock and Baldwin in
the Senate of Georgia.”
May his example as a Christian and a pa
triot be emulated.by the rising generation of
the State of which he was eo treble a aon,.
remembering always that •