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VOL. XXIV.
ATHENS, GEO., THUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1855.
NO.3 5
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W OULD respectfully announco to tl e citizens
of Athens and vicinity, that his office is still
over Wilson A Veal s nothing Store, College Ave
nue, opposite the Post Office.
Feb. 9—Iv.
all his life.
In loving thee
I love myself.
A heart content
Can ne’er repent.
In God and thee
Shall my joy bee.
MOORE & CARLTON,
D EALERS in Silk, Fancy mol Staple Goods,
Hardware and Crockery, No. 7, Grnntc Row,
Athens, tin
[Jan. 26.
T. II. WILSON & BROS.,
W ill ILESAI.E and retail dealers in Dry Goods,
Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Ac., Nos. 3
and 4, Colic;
March 16.
■ Avenue, Athens, Ga.
SAMUEL P. THURMOND,
A TTORNEY AT I.AW, Jefferson, Jackson coun
tv, Ga., will altuud promptly to nny business
con titled to his care. [April ID, 1855.
WILLIAM G. DELONEY,
Attorney at I.uvr,
W ILL giro especial attention to collecting, and to
the claims of all persons entitled to LAND WAR
HANTS under the late bounty land bill of the last
Cougre**.
Office on Broad Street, over the atore of I. M. Ken
ney, Athena, Ga. March 15—tf.
HILL & THOMAS,
D EALERS in Silk, Fancy, and Staple Goods,
Hardware, Crockery, Groceries, Ac., No. 4
Orauite Bow, Athens, Ga. [Jan. ID.
FERRY & REESE,
W HOLESALE and retail denlers in Hats, Caps,
Boots, Shoos, Trunks, Ac., lietween Dr*.
Lings’ and White’s comer, Broad street, Athens,
Ga. [Jan. 19.
F. W. LUCAS,
W HOLESALE and retail dealer in Drv Goods,
Grociorioa, Hardware, Ac., No.2, Broad st.
Albeit*, Ga. [Jan 19.
Quaint Mottoes.
Down to a comparitively late period it was
usual to put a “ moral” on many subjects
which are now seldom adorned with inscrip
tions. Chief among these were rings,
which frequently bore some alliterative or
rhyming motto, referring to love or the sup
posed givCT-and taker. Such a ring was
that described by Gratino, in the Merchant
of Venice:
“ a hoop of gold, a paltry ring,
That she did give me, whose posy was
For all the world like a cutler’s poetiy
Upon a knife, Lovt me, and leave me not.
In a late fiumber of “Notes and'Querrics,”
we find the following collection of wedding-
ring mottoes:
Death never parts Avoid all strife
Such loving hearts ’Twist man and wife.
I.oue and Tespect
1 do expect.
No gift can show
The loue I owe.
Joyful loue
This ring to proue.
In thee, dear wife,
I find new life.
Let him never take a Of Tapturous joye,
wife 1 am the toyc.
That will not love her
I thee I prove
The joy of love.
In loving wife
Spend all thy life. 1697
In love abide
Till death divide.
In unitie
Let’s live and dye.
Love thy chaste wife
Beyond thy life. 1731. Happy in thee
Hath God made me.
Loue and praye
Night and dnyc.
Great joy in thee
Continually.
My fond delight
By day and night
Pray to love,
Love to pray.
Silence ends the strife
With man and wife.
None can prevent
The Lord’s intent.
More weere—more
were. 1652.
Letter from Mark A. Cooper to Doctor
Joel Branham.
Etowah, Ga., Aug. 7.
Dr. Joel Branham, Eatonton, Ga.
Dear Sir :—Tour letter, of the 4tli
inst., was received yesterday. You say
that yon are “ surprised that some of
my friends, and Governor Johnson’s also,
have not given to the country a true
statement of facts in relation to the al
teration of freights on the State Road.
That-varions articles, in almost all the
Whig and Know-Nothing papers, charg
ing bribery and corruption on me and
Governor Johnson, have been published,
and are used to the injury of my charac
ter, as a private citizen, and to the in
jury of Gov. Johnson’s election.
You say it is stated that my “ vote
and influence have been bought up, hv
refunding to me $6,000 ; and that dis
criminations in freights have been made
especially in my favor, to the injury of
the State’s interests and against all oth
ers.”
ly ship com from Chattanooga or Atlan*
ta, forty five miles further than my coal
is carried, cheaper than I could ship
to Etowah. The coal cars are the cheap
est platform cars, fitted up at my coast
and loaded at my coast, whilst the com
taken in box cars, and loaded and un
loaded at the cost of the Road. The
com is worth, per bushel ten times the
freight, whilst the coal, at the place of
shipment, can be laid down at less than
I pay for freight on it.
After making a farther recital of the
injustice done him, Mr. Cooper proceeds:
What then, you will ask, is it, that
Gov. Johnson has done, at my instance
and for my benefit, toereata such ft
noise ? I reply, nothing, and you will
reply nothing, as every candid, upright
man of any party will say, after hearing
the truth. His only error, and so say
his prominent opponents, is, that he did
not do what was done long before, and
do it in regard to all the Etowah freights.
What then, has he done ? I riow pro
ceed to give you the facts.
First. As stated before, I have striven
hard to have the principle recognized,
which is approved by justice and the
common sense of every good wagoner,
to wit; that a concession is duo-where a
large amount of freights are furnished
I now turn to the charges, and reply
that they arc all false and untrue, in
every form, and to every intent and pur
pose. If true, they are ample grounds .
for impeaching the Governor, and indict-1 Girnish regular work and save running
ing me; and that would be, in that empty cars
daily, and especially where they are
associated with hack freights, so as to
C. W. & II. R. J. LONG,
W HOLESALE anil retail Druggists, Athens,
Ga,, keep constantly on hand a largo anil well
Selected stock of Paints, Oils, Vamislioa, Dye Stuff*
Brushes. Window Glass and Putty.
Also, dealers in American, French and English
Chemical, Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery and Fancy
A articles.
[Y* Physicians, Denlers and all others, eon do
|>ond upon their order* mooting prompt attention,
upon tiie most accommodating terms. Their goods
are selected with jrreot care, and will bo wnrruntod
ns represented. Jnn. 19.
T. STIXHOUSE, C. S. AVKRILL
T. STENIIOUSE & U0„
F ORWARDING and Commission Merchants,
No. 2, Hnvn. Street, Charleston, S. C. Refer
to R. Dulin, Hand, Williams A Wilcox, Charleston;
Hand, Williams A Co. Augusta; J. Norerous, Atlan
ta: C. C. Chandler, Chattanooga; E. 11. A D. L.
Coffin A Co., Knoxville. July 20—ly.
Body and minde
In thee 1 findc.
Dear wife thy rod
Dothe lead to God.
Eternally
My loue shall be.
All I refuse,
And thee I chusc.
God aboue
Conti new our love.
1 wish to thee
All jole may bee.
With my body
I worship thee.
In thee, my lone,
All joy I proue.
Beyond this life
Loue me, dear wife.
Joye day and night
Bee our delight.
Endless my love
As this shall prove.
1647. God did decree
Onr unitie.
R. L. BLOOMFIELD,
1IOLESALE and retail Clothing Store, Brnn
Strrect, Athens, Ga. [May 10.
D. N. JUDSON,
C OMMISSON M ERCHA NT, and dealer in choice
Family Groceries, Confectionaries, Fruits, Ac.
on the comer of Broad and Jackson streets, Athens,
<•&. April 26,1855.
1
IRON AND BRASS FOUNDRY AND
MACHINE WORKS.
RON and Brass Castings of every variety and
description. Improved Iron Circnfnr Saw Mills,
warranted equal to the beet; Steam Engines, For
cing Pumps, Gold Mining, Mill, Gin, nnd all other
kinds of Geering; Mill Irons and all kinds of Ma
chinery made to order; Iron Fencing of select pat
tern. : Plough and Wagon Castings nnd Dog-irons.
Every variety of repairing and wrought iron work
promptly executed.
Our general assortment of patterns, are the anon-
mutation of years. A list will bo sent those ad
dressing, post-paid,
REUBEN NICKERSON, M. E-.
Agent Athens Steam Co., Athens, Ga.
Jan 1R—ly.
FURNITURE MANUFACTORY AND
WARE-ROOM.
T IE undersigned hogs to announce that he has
now on hand at hi* WARE-ROOM, near the
Episcopal Chmvh, an extensive assortment of Fur
niture, of every description. Connected with the
ware-room, is a CAB IKE T SHOP, where he is
prepared to make any article of fnmiture to order,
nnd at short notice, and to repair old furniture, do
upholstering. Ac., Ac. He keep* on hand an as
sortment of Oilt Mmtlihnpe, of every variety.
Fisk's Fnlrut metallic and other coffins,
eonstanftv «n hand, £y TERMS CASH.
November 3(1, 1854. WILLIAM WOOD.
I kiss the rod
From thee and God
In loue and joy
Be our employ.
Live and loue,
Loue and live.
This ring doth binde
Body and minde.
Love and joye
Can never cloye.
The pledge I prove.
Of mutual love.
I love the rod
And thee and God.
1846.
1 doe rejoice _
In thee, my choice?
All I refuse,
But thee I chusc.
I change the life
Of mayd to wife.
True love will ne’er Endless my love
In thee my choice
I doe rejoice.
For the 6hall prove.
Endless as this
Shall be our bliss.
1719
XE1V TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT.
H AVING secured tka services ofO. P. Caldwell
formerly cutter fur Wm. O. Price, of Savannah
,vl Augusts, I will have executed, in die neatest and
■aostfashionable style, all orderaconfided to our care.
frJ-'UiT'*” • !0od,< we will taka tho measure and
Pstterntoour manufacturing establishment
i* lh * “°ph, where 1 will pay pert truly attention to
l~ material ami making, and torward the garment
’•ek to the cnatotaet in three weeks from the uue the
measure talrft.
will k»ve a good assortment of plain and fancy
, , Cassimeres, Vesting, Ac., here by the 15th of
11 which time all orders left, Will meet with
Pjwapt attention.
uttiag and nuking at the shortest notice, on very rea
f I’'™**" from this day forward.
Athens, JaoeM, 1855. K. L. BLOOMFIELD.
J. J. D. 1697. Thos. Bliss
Endless my love as
this. 1 loue myself in louing
thee,
God alone made us Love and live happy.
two one. 168*2
Divinely knit by grace are we—
Late two, now one—the pledge here sec.
1657.
But short mottoes were not confined to
rings. They were inscribed on most ob
jects—perhaps more frequently on drinking
cans than any others, as is the custom at
the present day in Germrny. One favorite
inscription on a beer cup, made in the shape
of a boot, v,
W ere-sehi-stiefel-nit-trinkenkan,
Der-let-lur-war-kein-Dentscher-Mann.
which translated, means that “ he who can
not drink out his boot is not a true German.
Several legends are told as accounting for
the origin of this inscription.
We have seen in Vienna a curious heavy
old gun, on the stock of which was inscribed
in a place where it would be likely to catch
the eye of the soldier whenever he took aim
Halt Cot vor ougen.
“ Keep God before your eyes.'
Dice boxes in Germany are frequently in
scribed with mottoes on the variableness of
earthly fortune, as for instance—
Royal favor, April weather.
Ladies love, a flaunting feather,
Turn of cards and luck at dice.
Ever alteT in a trice.
The following motto is from a hunting
horn, and may, perhaps, account for the
origin of the phrase “ in a horn”:
When first on eqrth the Truth was born.
She crept into a hunting horn.
The hunter came the horn was blown,
But where truth went was never known
A curious inscription on a flagon* is evi
dently addressed to two lovers bob-nobbing
together:
“ Sit together close as ye will.
I shall be ever between ye still.”
But a volume, instead of an article, could
be written on mottoes, and if this subject'
pursued further, it must be at another time.
Weisteb Kabl.
M RLODEOnS.—The suborn
b
bee baa opened an assortment of
j] ft (7 tjPriee A Co.’s celebrated W clod eon*,
m» - ■ * ■‘•bieh he will Belt at the Manofactu-
An P 5m’’f Mh **•MiUonof freight.
A. K. CHILDS.
tjym
LAKGE stock of Dry
•Uniw.ri 1” '77 5 at *’ Boets and Shoes,
B sate
lbs. extra Tennessee Bacon, for
T, BJ8HOP & SOM,
FARMERS IN 1776,
Men to the plow.
Wife ti the cow.
Girls to the yarn,
And all dues ate settled.
FARMERS IN 1850,
Men a mere show.
Girls Piano,
Wife silk and satin.
Boys, Greek and Latin,
And all bands gazetted.
FARMERS IN 1855,
Men all in debt,
Wiyes in*a pet,
Boys tobacco squirts.
Girls dragging skirts.
And everybody cheated.
event, the shortest and most appropri
ate mode of disposing of the Democratic
candidate. If false, they arc slanderous
and libelous ; and it would take all that
the publishers are worth to cover the
damages. I am not: in the political arena.
I have wronged no one, have provoked
nobody. I am doing all the good I can,
and as little harm as an evil nature will
allow. I have a right, therefore, to claim
exemption from such assaults.
First, it is said that “ Gov. Johnson
has bought up my influence and my
vote, by refunding to me $6,000.” This
unqualifiedly false, and any one who
knows what a Governor’s duties and
powers are, know? it. Money v paid by
me on account of freight, is paid to the
Treasurer of the Railroa d, and is subject
the order of the Superintendent, until
is paid into nhe State Treasury,
whence it can be taken out only by the
Governor, pursuant to an appropriation
by the Legislature. Not a dime has been
refunded to me, directly or indirectly,
notwithstanding justice wonld require it.
Enough, then, is said about the $6,000
for the present
Secondly—It is said “ that discrimi
nations in freights have been made espe
cially in my favor, to the injury of the
State’s interests, and against all others.”
This statement is wholly untrue in
every part and particle. So untrue is
this, that the very reverse is true, to
wit; unjust and oppressive discrimina
tions hare been made against the Etowah
freights, (in which ’.[ am almost exclusive
ly interested) under Gov. Johnson’s ad
ministration, by aa advance of twenty-
five per ccnt t on previous rates, when no
corresponding advance was made at any
other point on the Hoad, or on any other
person. And to v.his hour, this unjust
and oppressive discrimination is kept up
and collected out of me, by the superin
tendent, on most of the articles shipped
to me, and tolerat cd by the Governor,
to riy injury.
Again, I say that immediately after
tho Snpreintendenl, in accordance with
the Governor’s wishes and his own pro
mise, restored Air. Younge’s rates on
certain articles, and the principle adopt
ed by him, he advanced the rates from
and to Chattanooga, and thereby de
prives inc of a principle part of the bene
fit intended by their act, now so com
plained of. Hcncc, it is true that I am
now paying more per hundred, to the
State and Road, than any man who
ships the same freights on the Road, ac
cording to th§ work and labor bestowed
on my freights by the Road. I have
never received never asked, and do not
desire, any discrimination in my favor
or against others. What I have asked
was equally demanded by me, for all
others, and any other place of business
by the adoption of a rule .applicable to all
whose business would call for it—just
on the principle recognized and adopted
by every wagoner, to wit; that he can
afford to carry cheaper for one who
furnished freights to keep his team, at
all times, employed j and still cheaper,
if he will furnish back loading—and that
it is his interest to do this. I have striv
en hard to get this principle recognized
for the benefit, not of myself especially,
but of every man who has business on
the Road. I have, signally failed, ex
cept nnder Mr. Yonge’s administration ;
and it is true that whilst I have shipped
over 24,000 barrels of flour on the Road
in one year, or nearly a car load a day,
any living man could ship a single bar
rel as cheap as I conld, or a car load as
cheap as I shipped 24,000 barrels ; not
withstanding that I furnished back load
ing—130,000 bnsliels of wheat, 800
tens of Iron, and 100,000 bushels of stone
coal, besides corn, meat, goods, wares
nnd merchandise, and five hundred peo
ple, mcn.women and children to ride on
the cars, from time to time. Yes, not
withstanding all this, it is true that if
my neighbor, Dr. J. W. Lewis, or Mes
srs. Howard & Ervrip. had a single car
load of flour to ship and only once in
twelve months, the Road wonld send an
empty car from Atlanta or Chattanooga
to Etowah, to take uheir ringle car load
as cheaply as it takes my 300car loads.
It is <me, that the Road has fewer idle
men to pay, and fewer empty ears to
move, on my account tharffor any man’s
business who ships on it. It is true, that
I ship from Chattanooga from one to
two car loads of coal per day, the year
round, when the Rood can take it, to he
used as making iron, which goes back
as back loading—and yet, may man at
Cattanooga or Atlanta, conld hahi(nal<
Secondly. I contended that it was
the interest of the State, and Road also,
to reduce the rate on wheat shipped to
l>e milled on the line of the road, and
shipped in Flour, since it could be done
consistently with all fair charges for any
wayside extra work done, and the re
ceipts of the Road enhanced.
Thirdly. That it is not right to make
such heavy discriminations against way
freights, in favor of through freights.
That it was wrong in principle and oppos
ed to the true policy and interest of the
State, since the effect mnst bo to check
our growth and prosperity as a State,
and build up foreign and exterior in
terests.
Major Cooper goes on to state that
these principles were conceded by Mr.
Mitchell, and to some extent by Mr.
Wadley and Mr. Yonge. And thus stood
matters up to the time of Gov. Johnson’s
election. ‘Whatever discriminations had
been made (says he) were made by Mr.
Wadley and Mr. Yonge ; not in favor of
me, or any other man, but in favor of
any one who was, or might be engaged
Milling or the Iron business on the
road. Not to favor any one. Not against
the interests of the State, but because
that interest was promoted by this poli
cy, so said Mr. Wadlcy, so said Mr.
Yonge, and so said any one who said
anythin
Thus stood matters when Gov. John
son came into office. Up to this time,
no one intimated or charged Gov. Cobb,
or Mr. Wadley, or Mr. Yonge, with at
tempting to buy me up, or with discrimi
nating in my favor, against others, and
against the interests of the State. And
yet, all that is now done in which I am
benefit toil, and a vast deal more, was
done tlii-ii, and done by Messrs. Wad
ley and Yonge, under Governor Cobb.”
And lie adds all that Gov. Johnson
ever promised was to let him (Maj. C.)
Leas v ell off as when Gov. J. came into
office.
When the present Superintcndant en
tered upon his duties he charged what
his predecessors had done so as to dis-
criminntc directly against, freights from
Etowah (Maj. Coopcrc’s depot) raising
his taxes 25 per cent so as to draw from
him from $5000 to $7000 per annum
above what he had previously paid. He
goes on to say :
The Governor heard of, and voluntari
ly asked me at Dalton, June, 1854, if it
was true. I told him that it was, and
tlmt if suffered to go on, wonld draw out
of me yearly, from $5,000 to $7,000
over any former taxes. He said it was
wrong and unjust, and he woidd sec to
it. Returning by Atlanta, as he has in
formed me, he had a conference with
the Suprcintendent and other friends,
and the Supreintendcnt then agreed to
adjust the difficulty satisfactorily. Thus
it was left, the Governor thinking, as he
says, that it was, or would he done. So
it remained for eleven months, and until
June 1855, during which time the tariff
of Ang. 1st, 1354, went into operation
I was taxed as above stated, and paid it
from week to week, feeling the grievance
sorely. During this period, I certainly
paid by reason of this discriminating ad
vance on my freights, from $5,000 to
$6,000 above the charges of Mr. Yonge.
In my trouble, I did what I could, and
said what I ought, until it became a
question whether I wonld submit quietly
to this wrong and injury, to preserve
what are called my political'relations {
or whether, in justice to my securities,
who are of all parties, I was not bound
to stand np for justice and right, at the
hazard of men’s opinions in regard to
my political views. I was a Democrat
and supporter of Gov. Johnson, v iew
ing the permanent interest we have in
just policy on this Road, and perceiving
the shuffling of men and issues, I saw
more in the Road and its policy than in
foreign issues, and I do yet. Avowing
my opinions In all issues, I resolved to
strike for a wise and sound administra
tion of the Road. About this time ac
all had not been done as agreed. He
said the superintendent had just direct
ed, «s far as then conld lie done, the
rates of Mr. Yonge to be restored, and
I laving nothing further to ask of him
beyond what he agreed to do, found no
cause for opposition, hence j determined
to stand as I had stood, a supporter of
the Democratic candidate.
It is true, as I 6aid, however, that
the oppressive advance of twenty five
per cent, is still on all articles, save
iron, coal, wheat and flour.
Major Cooper concludes as follows—
and we think no cnc can read his re
marks without interest.
Thavc labored here for twelve years,
with all that I am, or have, or conld
bring of men and means, and thus far
the Road and the country are the chief
bencficieries. And it now seems that a
large and respectable portion of the coun
try desire to see me robbed, as hereto
fore, to the last hour of a laborious life,
unjustly and unreasonably, of a fair por
tion of my fair gains. Perhaps they are
not informed how much they and the
country have profitted by me during
these 12 years,or they would feel asham
ed of the unjust complaints and charges
now being made. Look, sir, at the ac
counts, and you will sec that I have,
during the twelve years, on freights,
paid to the Road over $150,000 ; a sum
sufficient to bay the property I have
built up ; I have saved to the country
in the price of iron and castings sold, at
least half a cent per pound, or ten dol
lars per ton. On the amount sold in six
ears, this is equal to a gain to the coun
try of $40,000.
How much h;is been gained as a con
sequence of the venture I have made in
milling, by a change in agricultural pro
ducts, I leave the country to estimate
Know that millions would not balance
tho account.
From my own pocket, saying nothing
of what the people around me paid, I
have paid to the State and connty thou
sands of dollars for State and county
tax. I have built and kept’up the brid
ges on the public highways,at my own
cost, or the cost of the business here,
for twelve years. I have, by request of
the Inferior Court of my county, paid
out my means to feed and clothe the
public charities, and have never been re
funded or paid n dime from the State
or county for it all.
Sir, if this country belonged to any
good man, a wise economist, he might
double the value of it in ten years, by
reducing the freight charges so as to in
duce capital nnd people to stop on or
near the line of the road and build up a
continuous city from Atlanta to Ope
lika. If the road did not pay at once it
would make its return annually in more
ways than one.
The executive charges on the road
have been the greatest drawback in the
influx of both capital and population of
this country. Wo have everything else,
and these wc need to make the country
what nature designed it, the best in the
world; and this State, the first in the
Union.
Hoping that all this is for your good,
and the country’s good may be done,
and that Gov. Johnson may receive jus
tice.
I remain Very respectfully yours,
MARK A. COOPER.
cidcnt brought me in communication
with Gov. Johnson, and without seeking >
it of him. he unexpectedly expressed
his views in accordance with the princi
ples contended for, and his regrets that
surrenderingtlie freeman’s right of speech,
and because with my notions of the mor
al character and aims of your order, we
never can live in peace, whiloyou remain
in the Methodist Church. How “can
twowalktogetherexceptthevheagrecd?”
I am not the only Methodist by hundreds,
if not thonsands, who entertain my opin
ions of your order; and I should sup- .them. These hicrarchal Know-Nothing
perfection. In that body were five and
twenty preachers, (one fifth Methodist,
almost all.) Their acts need no com
ment. They will remain, burnt into the
character of the State, in ljpes so deep
and gangrenous, that even the offspring
of the Hartford rebels, and murderers of
Bachcldor, will sicken at the sight of
To the Know Nothing Preachers of the
Methodist Church South.
Brethren.—I have concluded to divide
my promised appeal to the Methodist
Church, into two parts, and to address
the first to you, and tho last to the
Church at large. And here, in the lan
guage of Mr. Wesley let me say to you
“I beseech you brethren by tlic mercies
of God, by whatever love you hear to
God, to your country, to your own souls,
do not consider who speaks but what is
spoken. If it be possible, for one hour,
lay prejudice aside; give what is advanc
ed a fair hearing. Consider simply on
eaeli head. Is it true or is it false ? Is
it reasonable or is not!” Remember,
brethren, I am not before you to propose,
bnt to resist innovations upon old Meth
odism. I stand where I always stood
since I joined tho Church, upon the,
“platform” of Wesley. Yon stand with
one foot upon that platform, and the oth
er upon a rickety structure, first reared
pose, whatever yon think of it, that for
their sakes you would abandon it upon
the principle that you should do nothing
whereby thy brother stumbletb, or is
offended, or is made weak. Your opposi
tion to Catholics and foreigners, I deem
impolitic and unchristian ; but this will
never disturb onr peace, if yon will nbV
prosecute it in a way dangerous to the
peace of the country, enervating to Pro-
testanism, fostering to Romanism, paral
yzing to Methodism, humiliating to her
membership, encouraging to falsehood,
smothering to truth, and deiroraliamg in
all its aspects and movements. And
here I beg yon to hear in mind, that it
is not your principles to which I object
(if a naked conspiracy against two class
es of men can be called principles) so
much as to your manner of propagating
them. But as I cannot hope to wean you
from the order, without at least shaking
yonr confidence in your principles I shall
in tlic first place address myself to
them.
In what I have to say upon this head,
I shall take it for granted that you all
went over to the Know Nothings with
good intentions. That you sincerely be
lieve that the Catholics arc about to take
the country ; and that handled as it has
been by Whigs and Democrats, it is even
now, hardly worth having; and that
without the interposition of Know Notli-
ingism, it will be soon he bnt a putrid
carcass upon any party that shoulders it.
I cannot reconcile these suppositions with
each other; but they must be made to
reconcile the professions of your order
with sincerity,
I will go still farther, and admit for
the sake of the argument, every immigrant
who come into tho country, a pauper
and a Catholic. That the Pope of Rome
is fully advised of every election that
comes off in this country, from Califor
nia to Maine, and from Oregon to Flor
ida. That every Catholic in the land
feels himself bound to vote, in every
election that occurs in this country, from
that of village constable, to that of Pres
ident of the United States. Let this
tissue of absurdities he admitted ; and
still 1 maintain that Know Nothingisin
is not the remedy for the supposed evils;
and that if it were, it is a remedy with
which you should have nothing to do.—
To the proof,;
Paupers are annually coming by mul
titudes into this country. Very well;
and who are paupers ? Why, they are
poor people. They are not necessarily
lazy or dishonest. So far from it, they
are generally hotli honest and industrious
as natives in their condition. These, an
oppressed, afflicted, down-trodden, over
wrought, enslaved people, seek a shelter
and a living in your free country, where
millions of idle capital are only waiting
the hand of industry, to loom out in all
that enriches, adorns, ennobles and
strengthens a nation—these arc the peo
ple which your order would drive from
our shores, simply because they are poor!
You tell us with more candor than self-
respect, that tho rich may come without
opposition, but you will not have your
country burdened with paupers. With
you the old motto which you learned
from your sires and grand sires, “Ameri
ca an asylum for the oppressed,’ ’ is chang
ed to “America an asylum for the oppres
sor and a scourge to the oppressed! ” Your
aims are as impolitic as they arc inhu
man. Hear the language of one who
knew tlic effects of immigration upon a
country, far better than the wisest man
of your order: “A nation receiving a
stray child (a fortiori a grown man) into
its bosom again acquires a real treasure;
as much as it receives in lain, an addition
to its population, an accession to the
profits of national industry, and acquisi
tion of capital. It at the same time re
covers a lost citizen, and the means for
him to subsist upon. If the exile bring
back his industry only, at any rate the
industry is added to the national stock.
It is true that a scource of consumption
is likewise superadded; hut supposing it
to counterbalance the advantage, there
by a criminal, if report be true, and mis- is no diminution of revenue while the
ni-nWxr nntr.hed bv unchristian hands. I moral and political strength of the coun-
erahly patched by unchristian
would have you withdraw the truant
limb from this dangerous platform, to its
original position.
When we covonated together, we
were of one heart and one mind. But
you have formed new covenants with
men who have no kindred feelings with
yon. “There is no fear of God before
their eyes.” They cause division and
offences contrary to the doctrine which
yon have learned.” “Their mouth
speaketh great swelling words, having
men’s persons in admiration because of
advantage." These be they who separ
ate themselres, sensual, hairing not the
spirit.’ “They are such as serve not
the Lord Jesus Clirist, but their own
belly, and by good words and fair speech
es deceive the hearts of the simple.”**-
“They are given to debates, envyings,
wraths, strifes, backbitting, whisperings,
swelling, tumults.” “With feigned words
they make merchandise of yon.” They
are ashamed “Aren to speak- of those
things which are done of them in secret.’
These he the men to whom you have
yoked yourselves. I do not say all your
companions are such $ bnt J know many
of them to he such; and most of them to
be men of the world. I would withdraw
you Qtwn thorn; but if I cannot, fad a
final separation should take place be
tween us, remember, if yon please, that
you made the first move in it,
“But why not quietly enjoy onr own
opinions, and live in. peace ?” I answer
because your lodges will not allow me to
enjoy my opinions in peace upon pain of
try is actually augmented.” (Say’s Pol.
Econ. Book II. Chap. X. Page 368.]—
In this short passage will be found the
secret of our country's unparalleled ad
vancement in wealth and greatness.—
The foreigners who are now flocking to
the country are precisely such as have
always come to it—precisely such as
have contributed so largely to onr growth
in agriculture, commerce, manufactures,
and the mechanic arts. Some who came
hither paupers when I was a hoy, died
millionaries; many died possessed of
large estates, and almostlall them died in
easy circumstances. Few, very few
comparatively, fell upon the parish,—
They enriched the country by the whole
of their accumulations by just so much
more than it would ever have possessed
without them. Just so will it be with
those who are now coming into this coun
try. If the amount expended in support
of the helpless, be compared with the
amounts raised by the industry of the
sound, for any three years_together, the
first would be to the last, less than one
to a thousand. You wonld fling away
the eagles to save the cents! You
would retard the growth of the coun
try a hundred years, to save land for your
children upon which yonr children will
not be permitted to enter, unless they
will consent to commit the keeping of
yonr graves, to their slaves! Splendid
statesmen are coming out of the Know
Nothing Factory, truly ! The last Mas-
saehusetts legislature exhibits to us the
frabrics of this machine in. their highest
•legislators are your “brethren” in a dou
ble sense and ilie mirabile lignum “that
none but Americans should rule Ameri
ca !” Do you not blush to fraternize
with such men 1 And can you believe
that you are favoring your country or
your church, in espousing their princi
ples ? .
' But if these paiipers he a nuisance,
whom do they afflict? Why aid Massachu
setts, and her colleagues, in a war upon
your constitutional rights and Christian
characters? With these people you
could not as Methodists harmonize.—>
They drove you away from them, by in
sults and injustice insufferable—wept
crocodile tears when they saw you going
—promised you a peaceful parting, and
an outfit from the common fund; nnd no
sooner were j’our backs turned, than
they denounced you as scismatics and
sinners, cabbaged all the common prop
erty, and kept it until at the end of sev
en long years, they were forced to dis
gorge a part of it undor tho whip of tho
law. But as Knoic Nothings you can
harmonize with them, join them in an
onslaught upon Catholics and foroignors
who have never injured you—nay who
arc your neighbors and friends—atid
even turn a cold shoulder to a native
brother when lie protests against the
mode of warfare! Verily if you. did not
revive Catholic sins three hundred years’
old to justify your wrath against that
Church, if you did not at times evince a
higher regard for the sinners of yonr Or
der, than for tho saints of your Church,
and chafe at opposition to you from any
quarter, I should regard yours as. tlic
master-institution of the world, fat touch
ing mon to forgive iqjtufep, aim love
their enemies. ' - # < ’ c
But however lawfully it may he fbr
your confrere to repell the poor from your
borders it is not lawful fob you and
me to do it. Much worse is it for you
to complot with sinners to terrify them,
from the land, when the laws allow them
to come. Take care brethren, I be
seech yon, how you pratice you Know-
Nothing tactics upon this class of God’s
creature. They are under His peculiar
care and He will hold you responsible,
if you do not take them nnder likewise,
In this vocabulary “the poob” means
the poor of the world. So Paul under
stood it when he collected contributions
in one country for the poor in another.
So Chri»t teaches in the story of tho
good Samaritan. “Hath not God cho
sen the poor of this world, in faith, and
heirs of the kingdom which he hath
promised to them that love liim. But
ye have despised to poor. Do not rich
men oppress you, and draw you be
fore the judgment sent? do they not
blaspheme the name l»y which ye are
called ? “Blessed be ye poor; for yours
is the kingdom of God.” “But woe for ■
ye that are rich? for ye have received
your consolation.” “Defend the poor
and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted
and needy j rid thorn out of the hands
of the wicked.” “He that oppresseth
the poor reproaches his Maker.” “I*
know that the Lord will maintain the
cause of the afflicted, and the right of
the poor.” “Thou shalt neither vex a
stranger nor oppress him.” “But the
stranger that dwellcth with you shall
be as one bom among you, and thou
shalt love him as thyself.” But enough,
your Know Nothing doctrine is directly
the reverse of the Scripture doctrine in
regard to foreigners, poor and rich. You
are bound if need be, to go to the poor
of c(istant lands with the gospel on yonr
lips, and charity in your hearts for them.
You are bound to do good to all them—*
to feed the hungry, clothe tha naked,
and relieve the distressed, no matter
where found, or where bom. If this be
true, yon should rejoice that the poor
abroad save you the trouble of going to
them, by coming to yon. Let law-mak
ers exclude them if they will; but you
have no business quitting your works to
hunt up law-makers to do it. Mnch lass
have you any business working nnder
cover with all sorts of character, to put
down all law-makers, Jtmt those who will
do it, I repeat it brethren take care
how you trine with this class of God’s
creatures. If you have experiments
to try in your Know Nothing laborato
ry, take care that you do not put tho
souls of men in the crucible, or blow up
yonr own souls.
And what is yonr remedy for immi
grant pauperism 1 Why you will votb
FOB NO FORRIONBB BU’H OB POOB FOB
office? Does this remedy touch tho
disease, or even the person diseased ?
Men come hither from Europe, sick and
your medical colleges are going to pwo
them’ by prescribing Strict regimen to
all the sound who have come from tho
same country, through the first and sec
ond generations l If the statement of
such a case does not shock your under
standings, I pray yon in mercy to your
selves, and for the honor of Metodism,
surrender your parchment forthwith.-—
You are either gulled, or pretend to he,
and in either case, yon wound the char
acter of our chrch, I am pained for tho -
future destiny of onr Heaven-bleaped
country, when I see that the daring au
thor of this nonsense should have, suc
ceeded so well.
Turn if yon please to Bascom’s ser
mons* (page 288) and read the letter
which prefaces the^sermon beginning at
that page. Many of you, with me,
heordit preached at the firstGeneralCon-
ferenco of the Methodist Church South.
Well all admired it, but we did not know
the intent with which it was delivered,
He explains it in the introductory letter,
from which the following is an extract:
The many virtues and christain