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the declaration of the majority only.
and a very small majority at that. But
why were not the principles of the exist
ing laws approved ? Why the majority
of that Convention or Council opposed to
the policy of the Kansas Bill, and only
willing now, as good citizens, to- abide
by what was done I Why did their
Platform not approve it ? The reason to
my mind is apparent. Resolutions to
that effect would have blown the Coun-
oil , *'siky high,” the Southern wing as
well as the Northern 1 Mr. Rayner, of
North Carolina, one of the leading spir
its from the South inthat body, openly de
nounced the Kansas Bill as “thegre^t out
rage.” Mr. Brown, Ex-Governor of
TennBssee, also declared that he had
been opposed to the Bill, hut was now
willing to abide bv it; so did the Pilcher
of Kentucky j ani Houghton, of North
Carolina, the authorized reporter of the
proceedings, says that scarcely a memlrer
in the body from the entire South “essay
ed an apology" for it. This is the rea
son that there was no approval -of it.—
And are you “‘Georgia Platform” .men
—men who have professed to be willing
to stand by the Resolution of our last
Legislature, passed unanimously, going
now to endorse the sentiments and hold
party fellowship with even such Southern
men!
But the resolution no^ before you
stylea this Philadelphia *cem a Na
tional Platform! National indeed!—
How many men from the North voted
for it 1 And who am they 1 Only six
from all the free States, except Califor
nia !
(Mr. Wilds here interrupted, and said
there were thirty-one.]
No, sir—there were only thirty-one
from theentfre North, as I undemtand it,
that* did not abandon the Convention
when the majority carried their resolu
tion, such as it is, si mply to abide by ex
isting laws. There were but six men
from the Northern States proper, who
voted thus to let matters remain as they
are. Four of them are from New York
—Baker, Lyons, Malory and Squires ;
and two from Pennsv Tania—Beeman and
Yandane—Ji'ar in all. I have the ayes
and noes before me—the four from Cali
fornia added make ten in all from the
whole sixteen free States together, who
S ave their votes to this Conservative
lational Platform ! And now, who arc
those six men from New York and Penn
sylvania who constitute the basis of this
National American organization ? Eve
ry one of them opposed to the Kansas
bill before it was passed—bitterly op
posed and politically hostile to those
true men at the North who voted in
Congress for that measure. Still op
posed to-them; and one of their main ob
jects now is to put down and drive them
from the councils of the nation for noth
ing 60 much as their having “foisted”
(that is the word these National Ameri-
oans at the North use,) this measure upon
the country ! Are we to trust the safety
of this great measure of justico to the
South in the hands of such men, to say
nothing of their associated allies, who
would not even agree to let the law alone
—instead of in the hands of those men
at the North who voted for the law in
Congress ? Men who stood by the Con
stitution, and standing by it, stood by
your rights in tbo most perilous, cr.s.t i
This would be like trusting the lamb to
the wolves. Six men from New York
and Pennsylvania to form a National
Party upon, and those six opposed tq
the only frienus we ha<l in the. North on
the^assago of the Kansas Bill!
(Mr. Turner, interrupting, was under
stood to say that die number of sound
men at the North in the American party
was as great in proportion to the num
ber of men present in the National
C<nfhc3, as it was in the National Dem
ocratic party.]
Mr. Stepens, continuing said: Sir, I
am not defending the National Demo
cratic party; it has much bad material
in it; men whom I not only repudiate
all personal association with, but whom
politically I detest and abhor. It is this
unsound portion of the North which has
given the organization “the dry rot” I
lately spoke of, and which will certainly
•nd, as it ought, in its utter prostration
and overthrow unless that unsound por
tion be cut off. But, sir, justice as well
as duty requires me to say to the gentle
man, that bad as the National Democracy
is, it is not quite so bad as the National
American Council, even upon the princi
ple of propo rtion. On the passage of tbe
Kansas-Nebraska Bill there were 87
Northern Democrats in the House of
Representatives—counting both sound
and nnsound, good and bad. Out of
these 87 present, 44 voted for the Bill
and 43 against it, a majority of that or
ganization at the North voted for it. If
this great Southern question then had
been submitted to the Northern Demo
crats, present in tbe House when the vote
waa taken—and to them only—without
another vote for or against it, either
from the North or South, the Bill would
have passed. What would have been
its fate. or your majority platform, if left
to the Northen delegation ? These 44
men I know. I was with them in the
conflict for Kansas for days and nights
together—without sleep or rest—and
t will defend them aud stand by
them as long as they stand by the Con
stitution, by my rights and your rights,
I do not care by what party name they
are called ; they are good and true men
—tried men—constitutional American to
tbe core. Men who have come out of
the heated furnace unscathed, and with
out the smell of fire upon tbeir garments;
and X give it to you, my countrymen,
you may heed it, or not, as my deliberate
opinion, that those men at the Nertli
constitute the only nucleus around which
a sound National party, based upon “the
maintenance of the Union and our Con
stitutional right under it, ever can be
Coraadt It is true, they all call them
selves Democrats. Not a Whig or
”Know Nothing” from the entire North
came to our rescue in the hour of danger.
And if any of these now are disposed to
lay down their araw against us, ought we
tft to require them to ley down the
lame arms against our friends at the
North* before wo take them into our alli
ance f Would it not be the most un
grateful conduct, as well as tbe most
suicidal policy for us now to join any
party* one of whose main objects is to
cause tbe .overthrow and disgrace of,
these our friends I Sooner should my
tongue cleave to the roof of my moutu,
and this right arm fall from its socket,
before I would do it. “Demagogues and
a^ali men" may charge me witn having
tamed Democrat, for thus defending
i who at* Democrats, but who are
nevertheless your friends, but it make ■
no difference with me. By the tiuth,
by the Constitution, and by your rights
and my own,. I will stand or tall, as the
case may he. I do not care who rails or
who approves. Voltaire may laugh—
Bollingbroke may sneer—and Walpole
may sav that “every man lias his price,”
but I hold that there is such a thing as
political, as well as personal integrity—
that integrity which looks to principles
rather than place or power—to country
rather than party. And this I intend to
maintain, even unto death, whether
political or physisU ! This Union and
.Southern rights can be preserved only on
the principles as I believe, set forth in
the Georgia Resolutions of 1850. To up
hold and enforce these principles, a
sound national organization must-be
formed, based upon them. Such an or
ganization most look, not to the overthrow,
but tlie support and maintenance of those
men at the North, not who only now
stand by these principles, but who sr^fl
by them during “that Priod which tried
men’s souls !” They must be essential
elements in any such organization as I
speak of. This American party never
can be such an organization, in my opin
ion. For, next to its enmity to Foreig
ners as a class, its greatest spite, even
with the best of them North, seems to he
directed against those jury men at the
North to whom I allud* and to whom
we are indebted for those very principles
so dear to us, but which so few of this
“new £rdcr” in that, the larger section
of the UniBn, now only promise to abide
by, and without even those lew giving
them their approval!
Consider this thing, not as partisans,
but as patriots. Look at it dispassion
ately and practically. Whom must your
Senatoragact with in the next Congress,
whenever your rights or your principles
are concerned ? With Hale and W ilson
—“Know Nothings”—or with Douglas,
Toucey, and ^irodhend—Democrats !
And if I am beaten, whom must my suc
cessor act with on all like questions ?
With his Anti-Catholic, Anti-Foreign
er, American brother, or with Richard
son, Harris, the Allens, and others of
the same stamp, all Democrats.
But I shall say no more—I am ex
hausted—would that my strength aud
physical ability were commensurate
with the intensity of my feelings upon
the subject, and the magnitude of your
interests involved in this issue. We are
passing au important crisis in our history.
Old parties are dissolving,and new ele
ments arc combining upon new princi
ples and new issues. To all who a»k
where I am going, I shall say go no
where but stand first by the Consti
tution and those principles of Amer
icanism which it, iu my judgmeut, as
you have this day heard, was intended
to establish and perpetuate, and also by
the same principles that I stood by in
tbe last Congress in the. conflict of the
Kansas Bill. And if elected to Congress,
1 shall stand by the same men there who
stood with me then, and all others who
may now or hereafter join vs in saving
and securing that and other kindred
measures, whatever party name the}'
may bear. There is no party organiza
tion at this time, either .State or Federal,
“hat commands my entire confidence.—
I recognise allegiance to none; and shah
truckle to the mandates of none. 1 ac
knowledge and own faulty to nothing on
earth but tbe Constitution and my coun
try. These, while hie shall last, to the
utmost of my ability, I shall defend now
and always.
(After Mr. Stephens concluded hi?
remarks upon the Resolutions, the ques
tion was put on their adoption, au 1 de
cided lost by tlie Chairman. A division
was called for, and a l.ke decision made.
One of the friends of tlie resolutions then
called for a division, putting the question
himself, and pronounced them carried.)
\ _ *_■ - - ~
From the Griffin Empire State, V
’To the People of Pike Count*.
In order to put myself right before
the country, relative to statements made
l>v inyself, sometime since, in regi:ru to
the withdrawal of thirteen names from
the Know Nothing Order, in the 9:h
district of Pike, I have put myself to no
little trouble to get up tbe names of the
parties, who withdrew from the Oidei|
at the time I made application for a dis
missal card. I make no statements, but
who.t I am able to substantiate. Let
every independent Southern man reason
calmly and dispassionately upon this
subject, and in my opinion, he cannot
help seeing the trap that is set for him
to fall in. I am satisfied that others
will do as I have done, when the monster
makes his appearance in open day. It
needs only to be seen to be feared.—
Many men, l am satisfied have been
drawn into this Order, by statements that
certain influential men in the neighbor
hood were members, without telling
real object of the organization. Others
have been induced to join, in orde.r to
assist in putting down Demagogueism,
as they say, but it is all a mistake.—
There never was an organization, .since
the establishment of this country, in my
opinion, that had more of the clments of
Denillfcogueism in it, than this same
Know Nothing order. There are more
aspirants for the different offices within
the gift of the people, in this organiza
tion, than any party that I have ever
known. How many men in Pike, have
had the promise of office, if they would
only join, or if members, just to hold on ?
There arc scores of them.* Power!
Power !! Power! !! is the great desid
eratum of the whole concern. If they
should get it, the people of tin# country
may not be as well off as they now are.
Freedom of speech and conscience,
without being bound up by oaths or ob
ligations in future, so far as I am con
cerned, shall always find a resting pla>\
in mv breast. My advice to every man
who loves liberty, that is, to be tree to
think and act for himself, is to keep out
of this concern.
So long as you are members, you can
not, in a free aud independent w;;y, ex
ercise the elective frsuichise. Below are
the names of those persons, who with
drew from the Order at the time I made
application for a withdrawal card. Mr.
Drake, who certified to the correctness
of my statainent, is at this time an act
ing justice of the Peace of the 9th Dis-
rct. - _ JOHN R. SPIER.
Williamsville, July 4th, 1835.
We the undersigned, certify that we
authorized John R. Speir to have our
names taken liora the Order, aptly
known as the Know Nothing Order, at a
meeting held on Friday n'ght, the 8th
ult.
John J.. Cox,
M. C. Cochran,
W in. B. Cochran,
his
Chas. M. X Bailey,
mark
F. M. Fleming,
II. W. Jourdan,
A. G. \Y illis,
Win. Clark,
lbs
IV. II. y. Brunt,
mark
John J. Willis,
John II. Speir,
A. W. Be .vers,
Ja -. li. Willis.
T’.ds is to certify, that I am a member
ii the Order, temied the Know Nothing
Outer, and was piesent at the meeting
rn Friday night, the 8th ult., and the
names presented by John R. Spier, as
above stated, was put before the Council
and unanimously discharged.
W. C. DRAKE.
July 4th, 1855.
- ViftifRit* C : n-nici
• t * . . _
From t ♦* SnV. -Km w u. (
ty There was a grand American rati- K. 10 W thJi U Va S IU
fic .non meeting in New Orleans, Wed- , C-C’-G
meeting
nevday last, which was addressed by
Ab>m Pjke and others. Several thou
sand persons were present, and great en
thusiasm prevailed. Among other reso
lutions adopted was the following:
4. Resolved, That wc are the friends
of religious as well as civil liberty, and
t tat we are opposed to any political pro
scription for religious faith, either as to
the right of voting or holding office,
Mr. Pike, as well as the American par-
tv in Louisiana, takes a liberal and cor
rect view .of the religious feature of the
new movement. He is opposed to it,
and was in'favor of admitting the Lou
isiana Catholic delegates at Philadel
phia.
He believes, however, that the party
will become more liberalizqpas it grows
older, and that iu the course of a year—
say at the next meeting of the National
Council—the resolution in regard to
Catholics will be stricken out. Such a
modification he desires to see accom
plished. The party is young yet, and
it would be strange if it had laid down
at its first national meeting a perfect
programme of principles. Give it time, . . , . , . . .. ,
and it will prune off what is objcction;iflH||
• V J
U1 IUIV ' o llV/ * t v o
paupers and criminals shall h ive
checked, “worthy foreigners,” he
ble.
He thinks also, that some modification
will be made in regard to the better class
of foreigners. Wireu the imnrg ation of
been
says,
“might be chosen to office, but not till
then.”
In regard to the naturalization laws,
it may be well to remark, that the
American party looks only to the future.
It docs not propose to interfere with for
eign born citizens already naturalized,
or who have taken the initiatory steps
to become naturalized. Its plans in this
respect are entirely prospective. It
seeks to accomplish such a modification
of existing enactment as well as arrest,
for the future, the tide of paupers and
criminals now pouring into the country
from all quarters of the globe. Some
nod men must suffer inconvenience from
such a change; this is tobe regretted;
but wbcu theevil shall have been abated
SpartA July 12tli, 1855.
Mr. Editor :—We, the undersigned,
citizens of Hancock,, comprising a prut of
those who have withilr&Wn from the
Order of Know Nothings in this county,
and being therefore embraced in that
class which is most grossly assailed by a
writer, who appears in your paper of
yesterday, over tlie signature of “Bob
Short,” ask the privilege of defending
ourselves through the same columns
which have been used as the vehicle
the attack.
The writer, among other things, says :
(the italics being his own) “Ninety nine
hundredths of tlie pretended communica
tions and anonymous letters announcing
hopes for deseitions, are the dishonest
fabrications of the unprincipled editors
who seek to foist them on the public as
“genuine and reliable:” tlie remaining
i u :dre;lth are the precious confess.ons of
perjured renegades and foreign spies,
who, cajoled by flattery, or bribed by re
ward or the hope thereof, ate induced to
sign the manifests of their own infamy,
as written out for them bv men who ‘love
If
ns writer means anything at all by thjys
sentence, except to throw vile epithets
at “deserters,” from under a form of
words so constructed as to contaiu the
epithets but not to incur the responsibil
ity of any definite meaning, then he seems
to mean that for a man to sign a “con
fession” of having withdrawn from the
Know Nothing Order, is for him to sign
a “manifest of his own infamy” and to
show himself a “peijurcd renegade.”—
But this writer in another place is (in
cautiously perhaps) too explicit to be
possibly misunderstood. He “says they
can no longer hope to induoe desertions
from tile American camp, for every trai
tor, true to his instinct, (the italics liis,
again) has already gone over to tlieir
own ranks,” dec. Here is the distinct
declaration that there can he no more
desertions from the Know Nothings, be
cause every traitor true to liis instinct,
has already quit them and joined their
opponents. The stock of “traitors” be-
qu.it what they lid. not 1 k ; but we will two «f th
.remark, and conclude wi !i remarking, < P.ipe—bqJ
that one of tbe objections we bhve to the j rich hrogj
Order.ia tlie pract.cal a d assiduous os ‘.very
struction which is thrown aroun l the ex-
erc so of a right which they profess to,
leave free ; a right which can never he
abandoned or impaired without destroy
ing the purity of elections aud endanger
ing liberty.
^ Yours, &c.,
Henry L. Battle,
M. M. IIolsey,
Jas. H. Mitchell,
A. B. Buckner,
Frank Burnet,
J. W. Johnson.
is '« M,
P-'ecl
•-on-.
S Vtunl
[ghtei s of
a certain
lvating to “is r
ueteiof Mexico. Gentry. oiTennWe
enouncdlr tlie unfortunate 0 a ft .ffic*.....
the*- vehement eloquence aileristio
of the man; but at the so ’ ”«.=* h e j a
not insensible to the adva Oath-
olic colleges and school •• 1,-
children are, or were a short th:, s i lco
pupils of'an institution rimilar to the one
made famous ky the visitation ot II;
and his companions. Such are the pro-
fessions and practices of Know Nothin^,
ism!”
and a proper law enacted, then some I exhausted, for the future .nobody
more liberal arrangement will be made «Pf c ^ d V uL lliat “ *o
by which worthy and intelligent men
will not be excluded. In the mean
time, nothing will not he done to molest
those citizens of foreign birth who have
already taken np their abode amon.
Got. Johnson in Americas—Public
Speaking.
Gov. Johnson addressed the people at
Americus, on tlie 11th inst. We un
derstand that an immense concourse
were assembled to hear him aiul that for
more than two hours lie held the atten
tion of tlie vast audience perfectly en
chained. Without any attempt to mor
tify the feelings or impeach the honesty
of the great mass of those who differed
with him, lie proceeded, calmly, dispas
sionately, and logically, to discuss the
great topics of the day, and, as we learn,
with the very happiest effect. He was
interrupted, time and again, by loud and
irrepressible applause, and closed his
speech amid repeated cries of “Go on,”
from those who heard him.
As the Governor was concluding liis
remarks, he said that he could introduce
to the meeting, a gentleman who had
seen Sam, and whose experience of the
New Order had only served to comrincc
him that it was no place for a patriotic
citizen to stay.
In answer to this, Needham Collier,
Esq., of Dougherty county, occupied the
stand for a few minutes. Mr. Collier is
one of those Democrats who has been
imposed upon, for a time, by the cun
ning misrepresentations of the Know
Nothings, but who has had the courage
and manliness to withdraw from the As
sociation on finding out liis mistake.—
We may remark, by the way, that he
was one of the Delegates to the late Con
vention in Macon. Mr.Collier’sremarks
were very happy, and produced a mark
ed impression. He said that lie’ had
come out of the Order on the third day
of July, because on the recurrence of
the glorious Fourth, he was determined
to feel that he was a freeman once more.
Mr. Collier deserves great credit for his
honest and manly conduct, and his ex
ample will be imitated by scores through
out the State.
The public speaking wss renewed at
night—-when the people were addressed
by Samuel Hall, Esq, of Oglethorpe,
James Ramsey, Esq., of Harris, John
H. Tucker and B. Harrison Esq., of
Stewart, and the Hon. Alfred Colquitt,
late member of Congress from the 2nd
District. -The Democracy arc fairly
aroused throughout the State, and they
ask nothing of the opposition except that
they will notsliirk/atr and open discus-
sion.
“No South.”—It was noticeable to visi-
tore at Doicfieeter, on the Fourib, ej^e tbe
Boston Post, that tbe rear ot’ tbe re&itence ol
Gov, Gardner (one of tbe delegates, to tbe
recent Know Noiuing Council at Philadel
phia,) waa distiugnlened by a wind-null £io
a weather-cock, aud that while the points ot
tbe compass N. E. and W. were designated
therein, tbe S. was entirely omitted^
From L.e G. ffi E i.c S ate.
lVckt Iu aud Come Out.
Some months since I was induced by
I hardly know what, to join the Order
of Know Nothings. My stay in that
concern was short. Suffice it to say, I
am now out, and feel free again. There
are different versions of the origin of the
Order. Some say it is a Whig trick;
sonic say no trick, hut I think it is a
trick oftlie Devil. But 1 now announce,
FEARLESSLY, I am out, and if the
Order wishes to test my honesty, or my
treachery as regards my obligation, I
say to them 1 am ready. I object to
this Order because of the slyness of the
officers, while they are administering the
obi igation. They seem to me to he rath
er too much alarmed to be in a good
cause. “The wicked flee when no uian
pursueth, but tlie righteous are as bold
as a lion.” I object to it again, because
of the character of its obligations. I am
unwilling to he hound to support a man
for office upon the terms imposed by the
party. 1 not only object to it, but 1
am determined not to be thus hound.
Again, I object to the Order because of
the deception iu denying the existence
ot the Know Nothing party, when they
know the common acceptation in which
their party name is known, is that of
Know Nothings, and although thus un
derstood, they deceive by denying it-,
and have any name or no name as shall
suit the occasion.
Again, I object to it because of its
times and places of meeting. I cannot
think that it suits the freemeu of the
country to meet in old out-houses, at the
hour of midnight, to attend the political
affairs *of the country ; I object to it
because it changes its name 6o often,
and runs from one to another with
out stopping for explanation; I ob
ject to its name since the Con
vention at Philadelphia. I was an
American before that Convention met.
The blood of my father that smoked
on the soil ot Carolina, entitles me
to the name and character of Ameri
can. I am not wanting in anything
done by said Convention to give me posi
tion.
And now to my friends, who like me,
have joined the new Order, let me ad
vise you to come out. • My opinion is,
you had better look out! To the Demo
crats who have gone in—to you 1 would
speak in conclusion. “What I say un
to one 1 say unto all, watch /”—
If let alone, I am. done; if not
1 may say a few more things
shortly, To those opposed to this Know
Nothing party, Wjng or Democrat, let
me make of you this request: • Forgive
me for the past. for the balance of the
route I am with you.
JAMES Pr COX.
Pike county, July 11,1855.
From the New York Hern! J. (Know Nothing Organ.j
Air. John Wilson Out of the Land Of
fice After the Pope.
John Willson, late Commissioner of
the General Land Office at Washington,
having been discharged from that berth
by President Pierce, on tlie discovery
that he liai turned Know Nothing, lias
come out with his card. We find it in
the Washington O g;in, in the shape ot
a letter, three columns long, addressed
to t ie Pies le it, ail leveled at the
Pope, the Cat u>Lc ite-rarcliy and the
Catholic Church, from beginning to end,
inclu ting a side blow at our Gath die
Postmaster General. It is the old story
of a Popish conspiracy to subveit tlu
institutions oltae United States, tinough
the instrumentality of A r c li b i s li r, p
Hughes an 1 the Irish Cathol.cs. Tiie
scheme is complete, tiie (gunpowder plot
ofGuy Fawkes was a sura!! p int > e >n-
eeni compared with this tremendous
Jesuitical conspiracy for blow ing up the
American Union.
We have no doubt that Mr Wilso..
believe? all this ; for if his facts and ar
guments against the Pope’s Nuncio, Be-
dini, and Archbishop Hag 1 .os be simply
intended to frighteu the unsophisticated
natives, there is knavery -u tiie trick,
of which we could not suppose Mr.
Wilson to he guilty. But fully believ
ing what he says, it is evident lie needs
into mat .on upon (he special s ihject con-
cciiung wt.ich he would have us to un
derpaid lie knows everything. We
u " fed with it, we could withdraw in good,
faith, ahd without hiuderunce or obsiraC-
say, nobody but a “traitor can quit, and
and every man who has quit is a “trai
tor.” We deem it proper to state that
on entering the Order we were assured
that whatever we might become dissatis-
tion. Without this assurance men could
never he induced to assume the obliga
tions of the Order. This free privilege
of quitting, is universally used by Know
Nothings as au answer to the charge ti at
the Order trammels the freedom[<*f i.tio
elective franchise, by subjecting the iu-
d vidual judgment of its memoeis to the
will of the Order. We, therefore, in
withdrawing, considered that we were
exercising a right which- had been guar
anteed to us from the beginning, and
which could not justly expose us to a
c-iargo of “treason ,<r “perjury*” 1
may be true in theory th ;t anj manutu
m y quit when lie pleases, but j.rac:
ly, it is false when he can obtain Ui.> h.-,-
ch i ge only by pass ng through the, ca
.able or leal of ,o ng .ieo-maced as a de
serter, a “trait u” an 1 “peg-area rene
gade,” and as hav^'ng signed “She man
ifest-if nls iv i un'iiay. ’ ri mb ieuau-
ciations, as illustrated in the newspapers
sod on the streets, an t in the bye-ways
a'*d comers, are not so much?intended to
,ct upon tii se who have quit, as they
lire meant’to vlay upon the fears of those
who yet remain in. Taey are intended
to throw an obstruction and liiuderaace
an l terror around tlie exercise of tiie
right to quit—the right of exercising in
dividual vill and private judgment.—
They are not so much au insult to those
who g > out, as they arc a ty anny over
those who yet lema u in. The theory is,
y m may pass out of the gate whenever
you please; the practice, as you learn
it from the fearful experience of those
uld. theieiorej inform Mr, Wilson wlip have gone out before you, is that
Anuiltcr Burst Up.
We have been for several days in the
midst of very high excitement. The
bursting up ot the KnovANothing Lodge
at this place, and the endeavor to rally
and re-organize, have almost destroyed
the social relations and confidence here
tofore existing among our Townsmen—
criminations prevail, aud hard feelings
and heart-burnings are the order of the
day.
It is tlie subject of conversation in al
most every circle where a few accident
ly meet together, and disputation not un
commonly succeeds. What will be the
end of these things we cannot foresee;
until lately, such a state of affairs were
only spoken of as existing else where,
and in the dim distance, but they are
now in our midst, and we are really fear
ful that a great and important crisis is
upon us, and that its aim is, and its end
will be, if the agitators arc successful, to
Sup the foundation of our liberties, to
throw aside tlie dear bought privileges
of American freemen, and bring us un
der a bondage worse than the monarchies
of Europe entail. Many Democrats, we
are told have gone over to the enemy,
and are now. shoulder to shoulder with
their former enemies, and against their
old and tried friends, and are moving
heaven and earth to forge fetters for
themselves, as well as their best friends.
Many of them, we have no doubt, are
honest, hut arc deceived; we beseech
them to examine and investigate the
matter more fully, and come out from
.among their enemies, and be restored to
their first love, where they will lie most
kindly received; and to others of the
Democratic party, we will say in all
kindness, beware. “Bell not your birth
right tor a mess of pottage.” “Touch
not the unclean thing,” but stand for
the liberties for which your fathers
fought; stand for the rights guaranteed
to you by the laws of your country of
voting for whom you will. Reserve to
yourselves the privilege of voting for the
man of your choice.—Jacksonville ( Ma.)
Sunny South.
From Cio C-.uu - uu m . a. & Ue-aub’ic.
’[COMMUNICATE!*,j
Mr. Eiktur—Dear Sir: I take pleas
ure in handing you a copy of th.: K ->w-
Nodm ^ •■■i American pai.y U«msi» u- on
at
Thursday, i s i s: .-July 26, 185S.
FOIt GOVERXUE,
IIOY. IIERSUIUL V. J01I.YS0.Y,
Of Baldwin.
FOR CONGRESS.
la* Dial.—Jamra t.. Ncwavil, of Tlioinna.
*<1 “ HI. J. Crawford,of Itln.cagcc.
It I “ Jamc* M. Miniili, of 1'pnou.
4th “ Hiram Warner,of Itlrriwrthrr.
5lh “ John II. I.ampkin, of Floyd,
6th “ Howell Cobb, of Clnrk.
Free Barheeue.
that this fust iin and flummery against
the Catholics has been tided and found
wanting. It won’t hold water. The
American party in Louisiana have pub
licly repudiated, in consequence, this
anti-American doctrine of the universal
proscription of Catholics. They arc do
ing the same thing, we believe, in Ala
bama and in Maryland; and if Air. Al
bert lkko, of Arkansas, a prominent
member of the late Philadelphia Council,
may be credited, (lie abomination will
lie struck from the Know Nothing plat
form at the next national assemblage of
tlie Order. The subject was freely* dis
cussed at Philadelphia; but at the in
stance of Kenneth Rayner, the extermi
nation of the Catholics from all public
offices was still retained in view of the
approaching North Carolina election.—
1 here are scarcely any Catholics in the
Old North State. ” Oil the contrary, the
facts and principles laid down in Fox’s
Book of Martyrs arejthe almost univer
sal belief of the people of said State.—
And y*et we believe that the American
party in North Carolina would have lost
nothing, but gained many accessions, by
consenting to graduate their creed in
strict conformity with the constitution
of the United States at the National
Council.
The interference of the clergy of the
Catholic or any othqr church in our po
litical elections or State affairs, a9 a
balance of political power, is certainly a
proper subject for an organized political
resistance; hut the exclusion of Catholics
from all political trust or einolumet, is
quite a different thing. It is a perni
cious thing in even* way, but is calcu
lated to do more damage to the party
acting upon the d:ctrine than any other
party. Mr. Pike is therefore correct.—
This plank will be taken from the
American platform. Much has been
done towards its removal already, and
the work is still going on. In this View
the letter of Mr. John Wilson is behind
the times, and its publication by the
American Organ at Washington is ah in
judicious act of courtesy to au unfortu
nate politician, j.
Painful RumOb.—Ttfs Atlanta Examiner
is informed, by a gentlemen from Marietta,
there is little doubt -that the two Georgians
reported to be lost on the ill-fated Lexington
who got on Smitlilaud, were Messrs? C. i-.
audit. Bostwiek of the former pl.ipe, they
having taken that route North, and being in
the vicinity, when last heard from. "Two gen-
tleaieii left Marietta, Sunday evening for the
sdene of disaster, anj will ascertain if it be
so. The iVl .aais.- y*s:«Y«5k -were amongst
ta«v uiw:4iuiij;otic mu influential citizens
oftMlueita, auu- W tiklMt-fc**'
is painful and exciting*
you must pass out under the laugh of
derision and the finger of scorn, through
a phalanx of gate-keepers, hissing into
y*our years tlie charge of “renegade,”
“traitor” and “perjury.” This system
of holding the faithful in the pen by tlie
terrors of denunciation, is not confined to
Mr. Short. Every fold has its gate-keep
ers. They are held to tlieir places by
pride and interest. They seek to hold
other people by fear, It :s told of one of
the earliest martyrs to American inde
pendence, that when one, day going to
the town of Goncoid to dispose of uisht
tie store of marketable goods, he was met
by a party of British soldiers, who jies-
tioned hun as to whither , he was go.ng.
He told them he was going to Concord.
The soldiers having received orders to let
no man go to Concord that day in con
sequence of an apprehended rising theie
among the patriots, informed him that
he could proceed no further. He replied
that he had a right to go to Concord,
and pressed forward. They remonstrat
ed. He persisted that he bed a right to
go to Concord. They informed him that
lie could go only at the peril of liis life.
He still gave the same steady reply that
lie had a right to go to Concord, and
pursued his own unflinching way. He
fell at last under the murderous fire of
the British tyrants, but when weltering
in his blood, lie still shouted from las
dying lips that he “had a right to go to
Concord.”
This first blood of American Indepen
dence was shed in vindicating the right,
because it was opposed, and in vindicat
ing it by exercising it. That was the
spirit which acliieved our liberties, aud
that is the spirit which must maintaiu
them. The right to quit the Kuow
Nothings, has been assailed,, it ought to
be vindicated by being exercised. For
ourselves, we do not repent of the step
we have taken, although our withdraw
al may have been made the occasion of
illustrating to those who are left behind
us, the beasts of bondage, by pointing to
the infamy of our freedom. We have a
right to go to Concord, and we are con
tent, if need be, to tall in tl}0 mainten
ance of the rights, of freemen. It is the
right and the duty of every citizen $o
cast his vote according to # the dictates; of
liis own judgment. We cannot be deter
red from the exercise of that right, nor
the discharge of that duty, by the uqreaia
of desperate men, Virtupsliould i eci i iceu*
couragemeut from the praises of the good,
but net less from the denunciations of
the-vile. We dp nqt wish tp speak evil,
even -of those who habitually, and on
system, s^e^k evil of, its, aud all. others,
who have exercised the independence to
tuns.- a si .
gay Cl ail) , j
fui -vr. v
A free Barbecue will be served up at the
School House near Alfred Smiths s, near
the line of Madison and Jackson counties,
about two miles East of Newtown, on San
dy Creek, uud twelve miles from Athens,
on Friday, the 3d of August next. Gov.
Johnson, Hon. Howell Cobb, and other dis
tinguished spe.aker8 are expected to be there.
The eitizeus of Jackson and Madison coun
ties, and the public generally are respectfully
Invited to attend.
The ladies are also respectfully invited to
attend.
of b s cite, tv’i.cli, for the beuv
l i .si ic, auil the public
.e publish.
t? uo c >g lizance what
ever as to the- uiauuer in which the ori
ginal was obtained. And lie further dis-
c'.a m ?ha\\ :g been directly or indirectly
concerned iu tlmt affair. I can, howev-
evar, vouch for the correctness oi this
copy, it be.ng a fatt.iful transcript of the
orig.nal, a id so acrunwle igod l-.y one
of the four tvhosc sigaatu e ? an: attached
to tlie document. Ymu giving it publici
ty, will oblige-yours,
C LAS A RIO.
KNOW NOTHING CONSTITUTION.
Art. 1. This organization shall b *
known as Council Number Six, of the
State of Geo: gm.
Art. 2 The objects shall be to resist
the ins di ms p they of the Church of
Home, and all foreign influence against
tlie institutions of tli s country, by plac
ing in till oliiccs in the gift of the people,
whether by election or appointment,
none but native born protestant citizens.
Akt. 3 A person to become a mem
ber, must he twenty-one years of age,
and believe iu the existence of a Supreme
Being, as the preserver of the universe,
and bora within the jurisdiction of tlie
Un ted States, of at least on; native horn
patent, or grand parents, or parents who
took an active part in the revolution on
die Republican side, and he a Protestant
in faith himself and of Protestant parents
and not United in marriage with a Ro
man Catholic.
Art. 6 There shall he a Committee
of Five, the most active members of the
Council, which committee shall be
styled “ The Commute of Vigilance,”
whose duty it shall be to pry into the par
ticular religion ancUaeliability and re
spectability of all future applicants for
admission to membership in this Council.
Such Committee shall be appointed by
the President, he first consulting with
the Vice President aud Instructor; and
said Coinnutee shall hold for two quar
ters, or six mouths.
Art. S AU nominations for public
offices shall take place at mass meeting
of the Order, and the “brother” receiv
ing the majority of the votes cast, shall
be declared duly nominated by the Or
der, and shall receive the unanimous
support of each member of the Order,
whether he be present at such nomina
tion or not. Iu case uo brother should
wish to he a caudiuate, then the meeting
may elect from those outside iu the same
manner. F. Blodget, Jr.,
J. H. Meade,
{1, J. Qsboru,
L. L. Antony,
Committee,
Our Fricnds at the North.
There still beats in the hearts of the
of the American people a conservative
fraternal feeling, which will protect the
Constitution, the Union, and the Rights of the
Sovereign Staves. Fanaticism and Know
Nothmgism may occupy some forts and
places, but the great citadel of the National
D -i,uwracy stan is impregnable, the guaran
tee of our salety. Th-*. Hards of New York,
though unfortunately at variance upon
State question^ 'tfridt the Administration,
ire true upon the Nebraska-Kansas bill
and the slavery question. The New York
Day Hook with great ability has always stood
>y us, an,; -iiua nobly express.?? l•.•**;•’ up-.-ti
sectional foi'..mtibi:3 at ti»3 S' nth :
Kuow Nothing Consistency.
The’Washington Union, commenting
on the phase in which Know, Notlniigisin
exhibits itself iu Louisiana says:
The Know Nothings of Louisiana have
held a State Convention, have nominated
a State ticket, and have constructed a
platform for hoipe use, As Know Noth-
tugism iseonsisteut only in its inconsisten
cies, our readers will not be surprised to
learn that the regularly-nominated
Know Nothing candidate for Governor
of Louisiana is not only a French creol,
but he is a member of the Roman Catho
lic Church, The aifri-Cktholic senti
ment of tiie Know Not.tings is just
now bcautilully illustrated in the prac-
piactices of three of tlieir GuSiematonal
nomiuces.^ v Derbiguy, of j Louisiana, as
we have just stated, is a, i^emiier of the
Roma i Catholic Chur^a. More head of
Kentucky, shoj^, liis,, implati&bilify , tq
foreigners in general, and’to, Roma in
particular, by marrying in sqcoessjon
“ Will'll,
gentle,nen, did
JiC De..i
of tiie Nor
h desert you or
r:i...v . ......
by youJ
Never! it gave
you Prvs’.d r.:
Poll: and
Yx.s—audit gii
p you ;ac fu^.-
live slave
i.-.v, .nd i-g-v.-
y-, u Prc-ai e:.t
Pierce uu
tiie \ei-r .nki hi:
i. Wi...r. a. rc
can you ask ! V>"c. ret (fly
.;:i. that tlu'&e
were vmir
i \vr jjui
•») them only
t*> snow in,
i. L.h i>e
tioCMcy .ilwuys
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prvji diets,-
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justly :ior«-.f r,
tniioe ahull, s’: -.
druie party, m . m,- as-.-t ,
you, and you vv n
from “ Nonhtvn r
Men of tint Sju a, •: •„ • iv,?
f.iauds we have Nor-h I
u.en.s toucli a cord in your bcs).i.~, u
> on itmi wc ere die preservers of a com-
non heru ge bequeathed to us by our
Revolutionary Fathers. Northern Know
Nothiugisin is Abolitionism through and
through. There were thirty-one of these
sworn in,” who remained in the Phiiadel-
phi t Convention,after the 1*2States withdrew,
hut how many do you suppose voted far the
South ? Five from New York, and four from
some other States, and one from a Territory;
ten in all, Is it the part "of reason to say
K. N*s. ein give you any hope of National
support* — i piriy of the.a North which will
iii.i tin? iv.nsas Bill, and the Fugitive
Slive Liw ? Taey Know that the Order ri
completely sretionalized. The South with
half a grain of seuse, sees that Northern
li. S's. (with a few exceptions, so few rs
to be uttesly powerless for good to us) are
against us on the groat questions of the day.
We all wish to sue the Uuion preserved it'
possible, with honor to all; and how can sane
Southern men enter sworn Lodges who have
not friends at North to sustain the South.—
The National Democracy have been and are
true to. the Constitution and the rights of all.
We had on the Kansas Bill vote a majority
of the Nutiunal Democracy with us. Tbi*
band of patriots have been reduced, in the next.
Congress to twenty-onef their places filled
with Free Soil Know Nothings. Jf K.N’a- ar *
for Disunion say so. If Kansas is rejected
we are for resistance. The Democracy, » D d
they alone can save from disunion and disso-.
lution, this “ Land of the free and ho® 0 °*
the brave.”
Know Nothing Morality*
If the published rituals he true, (and»»
have'never yet heard foem disputed), eyerj
member of a Know Nothing lodge, who has
initiated before the meeting of the Philade
phia National Council, took Rn oath not to
reveal during.life, the existence of such a»
order or his connection jfiffi fo Since
National Council have permitted than tote
the truth, and acknowledge its existence * B
their connection with it, is not that oa **
binding upon them sjnee tlie action o
Philadelphia closed-door concern **c**-**J
before ? Can that convention absolve th« .
from tlie paffi, o^hayethey “ perjured” them
selves by telling the truth 1 This. i*.»P r ® ’
leiu ill murals Mfe like , ti) sph soR
.fthey decide, tfrat it is not, they are gn“J
of what they charge Ogian the Catholic
belief iu the power of the priest to forg 1
since. If it still hinds theta,; wshwOd^
there were as raagy - “ perjured i
inside the order as out of it*