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dentil of yo»r son, not to overlook the
noble charity he fovnded,\ag requesting
nrnl obtaining from his father twenty
thousand dollars, with the addition of
suitable grounds for the establishment of
an Orphan Asylum in his native city”
(Petersburg, Ya.) “must be tor yon,
sources of consolation beyond any, earth
can offer. The following thoughts on
death may enhance your estimate of
this &c. I ask permission, my dear
Madam, to dedicate this discourse to
you.” Ho bad previously said, that it
was intended to offer consolation to the
mother’s afflicted bosom, under her then
recent bereavement. The father of that
noble son, is one of the loveliest speci
mens of the christain character that I
ever saw. I have it upon credible au
thority, that the magnificent donation
mentioned by Bascont, is only about
double the sum which he gives ercry
year to benevolent purposes; and “when
he doeth alms he lets not his left hand
know what his right hand doeth.” He
will be offended at this exposure of his
virtues 1 know; but he willl pardon it l
trust, when I assure him it is made only
to save bis Church from peril, and her
ministry from discredit. That man is a
naturalized foreigner. If that man were
a candidate for an office requiring special
trust and confidence—if lie were a can
didate for any office—you would vote for
the most abandoned profligate in the
land in preference to him. Your vows
to that effect is registered in heaven.-
Nay he was recently a candidate fora
petty office in his city and I suppose
Methodist Know Nothings, perhaps
preachers, walk around that Asylum and
over those consecrated grounds, to vote
for some conipctor of his, at the sight of
whom Religion would start and charity
shriek.
“Rut have we not a right to vote as
we please?” No gentleman, you sur
rendered the, right when you joined the
Know Nothings; and I am amazed that
you made the surrender; for when you
did that, you virtually acknowledged
yourselves incompetent to advocate any
men or any measures. You can advo
cate the claims of no man, because you
do not know that yon will be permitted
vote for him yourselves ; and no meas
ure, because von have none. -I beauti-
tiful- predicament fur a freemen to place
himself in." When a preacher votes it
is to be presumed that he votes consci-
cnciously and upon principle, but you
vote as you are ordered, and only accord
ing to a man’sbirth place. “Know ye not
to whom ye yield yourselves servants to
obey, his servants ye are to whom ye
obey.” * ,
Vftut we love tl'.e brother though we
canoot vote for the man". You do! What
a stupendous exhibition of moral sublim
ity ? What a beautiful combination of
religion and patriotism ? It lacks but
three things to make it perfect: First
Religion demands that you not only love
your brother, but you do nothing to
forfeit bis love to you. Secondly, Pa
triotism demands that you always vote
for the most trust-worthy. And thirdly,
“can—not” should refer to conscious, and
not to a gratuitousoath. 1 proceed to the
next head:
fliy conrrsssion all who come into the
country are not only paupers but Catholics.
Suppose they were Methodists would
you object? Certainly not.—Then you
would determine every foreigner’s privi
lege to come to the country, by his re-
ligon, would you ? And do you not per-
cieve that this rule would be imprncti-
hle if you had all power in your hands ?
Why then .mislead the people by cry
ing out against the influx of Catholics,
ns though your party could and would
stop then,if they were in authority ?—And
•why are you doing this when, confessed
ly, you do not intend to exclude foreign
ers of any name; but only to keep them
out of office ? Yon dare not say ♦hat
you mean to exclude foreigners altogeth
er, and therefore, you play a game in
such a way as to catch all who wish them
cxelndcdontiroly,without offending those
who do not. Yon, ‘xn office’ in your
platform, and no ingress” in your
speeches; and use one, or the other, or
neither, as best suits your purpose.
Does all this comport with Christian
sincerity? Rut surely brethren, one
short year's fellowship with your new
companions, has not taught you to hate
Catholics—the men. “Oh, no; we love
the MEN hut hate their religion.” Say
“love the men but oppose some articles
■ of their creed,” and 1 am with you heart
and hand. Rut to hate their religion,
which they adorn just at this time, much
more than you do. “No man that war
reth” says Paul, “cntnngleth himself
with the affairs of this life.” The Cath
olic priest obeys this precept strictly.—
But where are you ? (Some of you at
least ?) Candidates for this, that and
the other office*—going from beat to
beat, and country to country, stumpin
it for votes—haranguing the multitude
amidst tlmmps and screams and yells—
fuminglnt opposition, and almost com
ing to blows—telling vulgar anecdotes
—suppressing!ruth—encouraging, if not
spreading falsehood. These things are
not done in a coner; and if any Bishop
any Elder, any Deacon, any Brother,
any Press of our Church, has raised a
warning voice against the, except my
poor solitary self, and one old brother
more, I have yet to learn who, when
or where ? From the holiest chamber
of my soul, I lift a prayer to God to
have mercy upon us, and save our
Church from degradation and ruin.—
Brethren I am not near done with you;
hut I must stop. My powers of calm
discussion are suspended. My heart
and my eyes fake up the cause of my
periled Church, in utterances which you
might appreciate, but which I cannot
expose to the ridicule of an unfeeling
world.
A. B. LONGSTREET.
From the Mercury.
Know-Xotliingism—Its tendencies.
H*m.—Do you see yonder cloud, that’s al
most in shape of a camel 1
Pol.—By the mass, and it’s like a camel
indeed.
Ham.—Methinks it’s like a weasel.
Pol.—It is hacked like a weasel.
Ham.—Or like a whale
Pol.—Vcry like a whale.
The American party, falsely so styl
ed, liasevidently been adroitly construct
ed. It presents much, that, like the
Dead Sea fruit, to the casual observer,
appears beautiful and true, but which,
on examination, proves to he deceptive,
bitter, and filled with ashes. Its leaders
fully understand the art of appearances.
For the most part, the disappointed and
hackneyed politicians of other parties,
they certainly need no instruction in
party tactics or appliances. Their doc
trine. if it may so he termed, is “.nil
things to all men;” their object, elevation
to power ; their aim, to catch ihe popu
lar vote; opposition to foreigners and
Catholics, strings with which to play
upon the popular heart—delusive watch
words, with which to entrap the unwary,
to be abandoned or used, modified nr ex
tended, as interest may require. Hence,
in different States, various platforms are
presented to view. IV bat is a vital^ prin
ciple, in one, is utterly discarded in the
other. What in certain sections is avow
ed as the object and purposes of the par-
tv, is repudiated, and the reverse pro
claimed, in others. The Mecca towards
which the political pilgrimage elsewhere
is turned. They are the political Bar-
nums of the day ; seeking to control by
appeals to tlie passions and not to the in
telligence or reason of the man. Does
the religions proscriptive feature impede
the. success of the party in Louisiana ?—
It is immediately denounced as unwor
thy of freemen, abandoned, and lo! a
Catholic becomes the Know Nothing
nominate for Governor. Does South
Carolina rise to a higher view than that
indicated by petty and disastrous preju
dice, and discuss the question, under tin
lights of the Constitution and other law '!
That sentiment must be trimmed to.—
And the coat, scarcely on, is readily
doffed for one supposed to be more suit
able and convenient. The platform
which, but a short time since, was vaunt
ed as containing all that was precious
and estimable, and for which all were
proscribed as Anti-American and Foreign
who did not embrace and adore it, sud
denly disappears from the scene, and is
soonreplaced by another, manufactured
for the occasion. As the competitor of
of the chameleon, it fairly vies with it.
in the variety and change of its hues. 1
speak not of the sentiments or intentions
of individuals, hut of the manifest ten
dencies of the party. There is but one
object it lias in common, and that cer
tainly does not recommend it very stron^
ly to our confidence ; that is, dcnuciatiou
of the most reliable administration the
South lias ever had. It lias hitherto
borne hut one practical fruit, and that i
the elevation to office of men hostile to
our institutions and interests. Every
triumph at the North has not been the
promotion of lior most reliable sons. At
the North it is thoroughly Abolition, and
the Tepcal of the Missouri Compromise
line. At the Smith it is Wliiggery un
der a new name, with a few recruits from
the disappointed Democracy, in battle
array against Southern Rights statesmen.
It has accomplished nothing against the
Democracy. It has been confined strict
ly to its old Whig limits. It has not
even carried the old Whig vote. The
before his name, we presume, l>y way of
adding to the importance of his office.
It is very clear from the way in which
the affairs of the monument are now be
ing conducted that all the money paid
towards its completion, while under its
{ iresent control, will never raise it a foot
ligher, while there are office seeking
Know Nothings in Washington to be
pensioned, or money required to be' ex
pended for Know-Nothing party purpo
ses.— Washington Star.
Card of Bishop Spaulding—To Ihe
Public.
Fellow-Citizens : In the Louisville
Journal of this morning I find the follow
ing passage : “We are not now prepar
ed” to sav that they (assanlts committed
bv foreigners) * * * were instigated by
direct instructions of men with fiendish
hearts who control in a great measure
the passions, and are able to dictate ac
tions to the Germans and Irish, who made
these attacks.”
If—as soma have understood it—this
passage was meant to refer to the Cath
olic Bishop and priests of this city, I beg
respectfully, hut most distinctly and
earnestly to deny the truth of the inju
rious insinuation conveyed by its lan
guage. I have myself been, until the
last day or two, confined to my room for
two weeks by illness, and I have the
most positive information that none of
the Catholic clergy of this city have had
any agency, direct or indirect, in bring
ing about the recent lamentable outra
ges, which no one deplores more than
we do. Our voice lias been uniformly
for peace. We have not even in any
way interfered in the late election, being
overwhelmed with laborous duties in a
different sphere altogether. 1 venture
also to appeal to the sense of justice and
fairness manifested for so many years by
the editor of the Journal, and to ask him
to correct this impression so injurious to
us, if such was the meaning of the pas
sage—which I would he loathe to be
lieve
To all whom tlie influence of my voice
can in any way reach, I beg to say that
I entreat them, in the name ot Jesus
Christ, the God of Peace, to abstain from
all violence, to remain quietly at home
or attending to their business, to keep
awav from all excited assemblies, and
if they think they have been injured to
return good for evil, and to pray fortliose
who have wronged them. I appeal to
them and to the world whether this has
not been always the tenor of my instruc
tion to them, both public anil private,
and also that of all tlie Catholic clergy.
] have too high an opinion of my fel
low-citizens of every class to believe for
a moment that the threats which have
been made by some will be carried out.
I entreat all to pause and reflect, to com
mit no violence which they would regret
in their cooler moments, and to believe
no idle rumors, and to cultivate that
peace and love which are the characteris
tics of the religion of Christ. We are to
remain on earth but a few years ; let us
not add to tlie necessary ills of life those
more awful ones of civil fends and bloody
strife. M. J. Spalding.—Louisville,
August 7.
aimer
Tharsday,::::: :Aug. 30, 1855.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HOW IIERSCIIEL V. JOHNSON,
Of Baldwin.
FOR CONGRESS,
1st nist.—.James L. Nrtrur<l,of Thamna.
Jil “ M. J. Craivfonl.of Alusrogrr.
.Til “ James 71. Smith, of Cpxon.
4th “ Hiram Warner,of HleriH'cther.
3th “ John 11. liiimpkin, of Floyd.
Gth “ _ Howell Cobb, of Clark.
7th “ I.inton Stephens.
Slh “ A. If. Stephens, Independent
Auti-Kuosr Nothing.
ANTI-KNOW NOTHING TICKET.
FOR SENATE,
DR. E. S. BILLUPS.
FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTANIVES,
WM. G DELONY, Esq.,
Hon. WM. DICKEN.
our Protestant religion is in danger from
Pope Pius IX ; when, in truth, Ais own sub
jects would dethronejiim to-day.
They seem to say, we, the Know Nothings,
will keep religion intact; we will stir up
the evil prejudices in the hearts of one por
tion of the people against another, even to
killing women and children, that we may
get into office. We shall proclaim through
Saint Francis, to unbelievers, even as a re
ligious council, that there is a God. YPe
shall say one Church, the Catholic, is not
right, but behold us, the New Apostles of Reli
gious Truth !—tho saintly preservers of true
Christianity in America. Bow down your
selves to our religious standard, and bind
yourselves with an oath.
Georgians, are these the purer days of the
Republic? Can aught but evil come of this
state of things? When wild hunters for
office, men, who in their public speeches,
declare themselves “outside barbarians,
shall put on priestly vestments, go into se
cret councils, and lay down religious tests to
develope the Protestant feeling, how long
will religion, pure and undefiled, as taught
by the Ministers of God, remain with us ?
People of Georgia, do away with these
modern isms which come among us, as a Tro
jan horse, but to destroy. Let us stand by
the ancient landmarks. The Church can
fight its own battles. Stand * upon the glo
rious old Constitutional platform of the Na
tional Democracy, which is the ark of our
safety, protecting alike tlie rights of all.
and religious liberty. This step’of Delony
into our State Legislature, while he is a
young man, we now predict is but the be
ginning, of those higher ^Congressional hon
ors, which toward the meridian of a brilliant
life, the people will be proud to confer upon
him. r
new plmse lias lost, not gained ground.—
With its fusion, its sccresv, its oaths, its
changing and any-construction platf
orm, it has succeeded alone where
Wliiggery prevailed, and that to but
a limited extent. If such are its vic
tories, a few more such triumphs and t
is gone—gone to the land from whence t
came ; the land of Hale and of WILSOX,
of Gardner and of Chase, whose hands
it lias strengthened, and xvliosc spirit it
lias invigorated against our dearest rights
and interests, in their unholy war against
law and order, against the Constitution
of their Country, and against civil, social,
and religious liberty.
It lias assumed the lion’s roar and skin.
It has endeavored fo play his part. The
keen'eye of the people, lias, however, de
tected the guise, und swept from it tl:e
flimsy covering. It now stands fully re
vealed in the wild hunt for office. “This
its one great, uniform, consistent princi
ple.” The people are rising in the ma
jesty of their might. They have pro
claimed the counterfeit, and will yet sit
in judgment on those who would thus
conduct them to anachy and misrule.
X.
In a Quandary.
Undoubtedly many respectable whigs
are betrothed to know how so cateli the
present state of politics. A Louisianna
paper relates that “on old gentleman was
in I'laqucminc on Sunday last, and got
into a little conversation about know-
nothingism. 11c acknowledged his for
mer love and attachment to the whig
party and its principles, but in strong
terms denounced know notbingism ; but,
says lie, ‘YY bat can 1 do ! I have been
quarcling with the loeos all my life. The
"'big party is dead ; its leaders and jour
nals say so. If I do not ex press my sen
timents freely, I am suspieiuiied a Sam
ite. If 1 icinain neutral, 1 am called
nobody. On tlie whole, 1 tlimk I am in
nearly as bad a predicament as was Gen
eral Scott at one time when be got betwen
two fires. I do not know that I shall go
to the polls; but if 1 do, I’ll chop off
everything that smells like Bunfliuism,
and make a clean thing of it; but wheth
er I go or not, democracy will win anv
how.”
The Washington Monument.
Desolation.—The neighbors where
the fires and riots of Monday occurred,
are being fast deserted, especially by
foreign citizens. They are also leaving
other localities in considerable numbers.
They are leaving tho city in such con
veyances as they can procure. The
houses on Fifth, between Maine and
Water street, from Fifth to tlie head of
the canal, we expect to see entirely be
fore the week closes, Tho only pros
poet before us now is, that the value of
property in tlie city will he lessened at
least 25 per cent. It has fallen consid
erably.
There is no one willing to invest at
any price at this time. Desolation reigns
where two days ago, all was life.—
Louisville Democrat.
IVe hear, after all the grandiloquent
professions and promises of the Know-
Nothings, who, through frauds, &,<•.,
some months ago, obtained possession of
the Washington Monument and its af
fairs, they have managed to gather into ro "'
its treasury up to this time the enormous
amount of some S700, while the salaries
they have agreed to pay to officers who
have nothing to do (owing to their app
rent utterfailure to obtain the confidence,
and, through that, the money, of their
followers;) have amounted to something
more than the whole sum they have
gathered ! Not a stroke of work toward
the prosecution of the erection of the tes
timonials has been done, that may lie
perceived—certainly not a stone stands
on the shaft that was not there before
they took forcible possession! Tlie sea
son lias so far advanced as to render it
certain that it is an entire season lost so
far as that enterprise is concerned. It
will he remembered that those who now
hold possession of the work boasted tint
they were, going to send it up to the
heavens “with a jerk.” As far as enn
be perceived, their “jerk” in connection
with the work bids fair only to be suffi
ciently effective to extract from the pock
ets of their friends money enough to sup
port a number of Washington Know-
Nothings in utter idleness, who, though
incapable for the most part of earning rm
honest living in competition with their
fellow-citizens at large have been prom
ised to be “provided for” by the Know-
Nothing managers around us, for services
rendered in our municipal politics.
According to a recent publication of
those fradulently in control of the affairs
of the monumeut, Mr. John Wilson, la te
Commissioner of the General Land of
fice, and now. President of the Second
Ward Know-Nothing lodge of this city,
lms been made tlieir general agent.—
They are to give him a salary of $2,000
per annum, and have prefixed “Hon.”
Negro Thieves in Charleston.—
We learn from the Mercury, that tlie
store of Mr. James Bancroft, on East
Bay, has been entered at different times
within the last three weeks, and twenty
eight thousand Segars stolen, valued at
nine hundred dollars. On Saturday
morning, seven negroes were pounced
upon by the Police, and much of tlie sto
len property found with them.
Death of Hon. Abbott Lawrence.
A telegraph dispatch from Boston an
nounces the death, in that citv Saturday
morning, of the distinguished Abbott
Lawrence an event which ha", for sever
al days, been expected, but which will
produce an universal sensation of sor-
1 lie Sultan of Turkey has ordered
magnificent necklaces in brilliants to lie
made, ns presents for Queen Victoria
and Empress Eugenie, and saddles, all
emhroided in brilliants, to be made for the
Emperor, the King of Sardinia, and
Pnnce Albert.
Southwestern News—We have
omitted to mention that this paper lias
recently changed hands, Mr. Register
having disposed of bis interest to Wm.
B. Guerry, Esq. The editorial depart
ment is now under the control of Wm. B
Guerry and H. M. Moore, Esqs. We
welcome the new editors to die chair ed
itorial, and sincerely wish that they may
find their new enterprise a lucrative one.
^ F -b ! ' mv Fever in New Orleans.—
NewOrleans,Aug.22.-Theyellowfcveris
rapidly on the increase. Deaths for the
"eck amount to five hundred and seven
teen, including three hundred and uinetv-
four from fever.
Horrible.—We understand that
about four o’clock yesterday evening, a
woman and ten children were found in
the rnins of Quinn’s house, on Main
street, burned into cinders. On whose
heads he the deaths of these little “inno
cents.”—Louisville Times,
Courts Martial have been held on two
officers in the Crimea for drunkenness
while on duty, and they have been sen
fenced to be cashiered. The officers in
question are Captain Colin Maxwell,
93d Highlanders, and Captain TJhas
Spencer Gaynor, 9th Regiment. The
Court in both case^ '.'commended the
prisoners to fa*.v. •’: .* • ’
“ The Purer Days of the Republic.”
Do we approach them, or are we drfting
off from tho good old times, when men
boldly contended for great principles of gov
ernmental policy,'and sought not to shape
legislation by secret organizations, whose
leading idea is to swear that they sre the
rightful office holders? In 1787, when our
Constitution was adopted, the wisest men of
of our sovereign States met together; the.e
sat the Puritan, tho Huguenot, the Catholic,
and the Protestant, and they recorded a sol
emn covenant—“ no religious test shall be
requiredfur any office."
In 1851 and 1855, we sec fanaticism in
Northern States, sending K. N. agents to
Georgia, to secretly administer to her voters
an'oath,‘ that they will never vote for a Ro
man Catholic, and will remove such when in
office; nor can a mart whose wife is of this
religion be an officer among them.
Georgians, you will have to say ir. Octo
ber, whether this proscription of 1855 ac
cords with the spirit of the days of 1787
\\ hen the thirteen colonies determined to
he free, they adopted, on the 4th of July,
1776, the Declaration of Independence; there
was n meaning in its words, where it said of
King George III, and fought on the prin
ciple: “He has endeavored to prevent the
population of these States, for that purpose
obstructing tlie naturalization of foreigners,
refusing to pass others to encourage their
migration hither, and raising the conditions
of new appropriations of lands.”
In 1855, we have three acres of public
land to where we then had one; but Federal
Sam, sides with the views of King George,
and endeavors lo do away with this great
idea of the American Revolution. People
of Georgia, choose ye between the glorious
old American motto which has been dear to
our hearts and to our fathers from 1776 to
this day, that ours is “Tlie land of the free
and the home of the brarc," and this Know
Notbingism of King George’s principles,
which would make America “a dog in the
manger”—fatness and plenty filling our
land, but the poor of this world shall not
come and rejoice with us.
Gen. Oglethorpe landed at Savannah
with some of tlie poor of the old world,
and Georgia has grown to be a great
State. The settlers of America, when they
had become comfortable, acted towards those
who wished to come and live with us on
the principles of the Bible—“Thou shah
neither vex a stranger nor oppress him.”—
“ But, (he stranger that drfelleth with you
slialj IfS P s one born among you. and thou
shall loc: him as thyself." This was '.he cus
tom of the olden time.
Look at the picture in 1855, when North
ern Sam is about. You hear from the K. N.
press and the stump, a portion of our citi
zens abused and stigmatized because they
were horn in a foreign land, and hold to a
certain religion. The brains of little chil
dren are beaten out, and Catholic women
burnt in their houses, by a Louisville Know-
Nothing mob.
Georgians, do you prefer the times in
which our Churches lived at peace, or this
Know Notbingism which is civil war.
In days past, we had Protestant Churches,
as now, all over our land, and there came
unto them Ministers of the Gospel who, in
reverence, preached “ Christ and him cruci
fied.” Living in a land where there was
free toleration of all religious denominations,
the Church fought its own battles. They
feared not in this age of open discussion, the
supremacy of Catholics, and required not
the aid of any political party to keep their
religion pure. They ask not the aid of
worldly politicians, and so their orthordoxy
had not to bend itself to secure and propitiate
that support.
But a new day in 1855, of new ideas, filled
wi'h storm and darkness comes upon Amer
ica. The Northern spider of Know Nothing-
ism spreads its secret web with more than
Jesuitical craftiness. It seems to say to our
Churches, stand thou aside, toe, the modern
politicians of immaculate purity will devel
ope in all its beauty and fullness, Protestant
America. Has not Cone written in tlie Phila
delphia Council, and permitted you to believe
that there is a Supreme Being, and does not
& Reverend Horace Virgil Mario Miller, tell
you. Know Nothings paste it in their Bibles,
and reading it, can hardly tell the difference?
Have we not fallen upon evil times? Is not
ihotChurch in danger when a Minister, one
with the saintly robes on him, tells the peo
ple' that this production of Francis Cone,
goes in their Bibles; and has the reverend
“Cataline of the mountains” forgotten what is
said in Revelations—“ If any man shall add
unto these things, God shall add unto him
the plagues that are written in this book.'
In modern New England, many Protestant
Churches preach not the Gospel, but negroes
and politics, and 3,000 clergymen send their
blasphemous petitions to Congress. They
mix with tho world, and so Sam tries to use
them. In their mixed fanaticism, a secret
sworn political order ia raised by free-soil
I Barker ** .2 Buntlinc, who cry alcud that
Merit.
In the Old World, much of a man’s
destiny depends upon his birth; wheth
er he wears princely titles and honors,
though he may be a fool, or follows the
simplest occupations. In America, it has
been the proud beast that success and ad
vancement depend upon individual merit.
Know Notbingism, after acting upon the
worst principles of Jesuitism, is endeavor
ing to do away with our American^idca, and
place things upon the European one of
birth. The Democracy say proscrilio no
man because of this or that religion, or be
cause horn in this or that State ; hut see, ii
he capable, is he honest, is he worthy ? VVe
appeal to the people of Georgia to stand by
the old landmarks of our country, to let live
in the hearts of Americans, the old motto
“ Honor nml shame from no condition rise,
Act ice// your part, there nil the honor lies.”
If a man is a good citizen, as a Gaston of
N. C. and a Chief Justice Taney of /he U.
S. Supreme Court, or a Chas. Carroll, a sign
er of the Declaration of Independence,
shall he he secretly proscribed because he
has a religious faith different from us? If a
man isavaliant soldicrin time of war—and the
brave blood of Irishmen, mingling with native
Americans cn the fields of Mexico, prove
their devotion to this “asylum of the exile”—
shall secret associations put him under civil
disabilities, because his body horn on one
side of a river and we on another ? Is the
mind, the soul which loves liberty, in this
land of freedom to be of no account ? Is
man’s merits, no matter what his ability, learn
ing and purity to be set at naught by a Ritual
of Barker, because his wife is a Roman Ca
tholic? Let all stand or fall by their individu
al worth.
“ Shall I ask thebravosuldicr who fi Jits by my side
In the cause <if mankind, if <mr creeds fierce?
Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried.
If he kneels uot before the same altar with ine !
From tlie heretic j-irl of my soul shall I flv,
To seek somewhere else a more orthodox'kiss !
So! |iorish the hearts and laws that try
Truth, valor, iiud love, by n standard like this.”
Our Candidates for the Legislature
The signs are cheering, for the success of
tlie anti-Know Nothing ticket in Clarke
county. Instead of a candidate for Senate
who is prohibition and anti-prohibition
against foreign horn, and for Judicial foreign
ers; blowing hot, and blowing cold, in the
same breath; pretending to lie a State’s rights
man, and yet going for the Philadelphia
Platform, which says the Supreme Court is
to be the final arbiter of w//questions, and a
secret National Council lo decide on Na
tional politics, the people have before them
Dr. E. S. Billups, a whole-souled, straight
up and down oil all subjects, clever gentle
man. He goes not into secret sworn coun
cils against his neighbor. He does not try
to stir up civil war by arraying one religion
against another. He goes not into a Tern
perance Convention in 1854 and roars like
lion about liquor—that it is best to get Tem
perance men in the Legislature, as says
Prohibition organ of one, “in a sly way
and then when a candidate before the peo
ple in 1855 fearing that this doctrine may
not be popular enough, talk soft as a cooing
dove about retail groceries, that he will not
go for any legislation against them.
Billups is a man, the people have conft
dence in, that when they vote for him, he
will at Milledgeville vote and act by princi
ples in which no one "ill be deceived. He
is a Ivansas-Nebraska Bill man, the vital
question of tho day, and will not stab the
South by insinuations against, while pro
fessing to be for it. If an emergency arises
he has no secret National Council to wait
for to receive orders how he should act on
National questions; and if he does not make
as many self-laudatory speeches, his heart
and his hand, will be ever ready on the side of
the honor and interest of the sovereign State
of Georgia.
As to our candidates for the House, the
people have long favorably known Hon.
Wm. Dicken. His uprightness, his integri-
ty, his good hard sense, his determination
see the laws enforced, and not pardon every
murderer, who comes before the Legist
ture, condemned by twelve honest jurors
all recommend him to the friends of religious
toleration, and no proscription.
Then, there is Wm. G. Delonv, Esq., who
deserves success in any and every point of
view. Bold, eloquent, and determined, he
can “ give a reason for the faith within him,”
by his pen, oron the publichustings,with hon
or to himself and the people of Georgia. His
contests on the stump with C. Peeples, Esq.,
from the information we have, are complete
triumphs over the K. N. candidate, over
throwing by his poworful reasoning, his at
tempted arguments, leaving Mr. P. nothing
to stand on but a few Jokes, and 4th of July
declamation about “Amerikins ruling Amer-
iky.” Could all tlie voters of Clarke hear
them, and none were beforehand secretly
sworn to vote for Know Nothingiam and
Peeples, we believe that, were both for the
same office, Delony would beat him 300 or
400 votes in the county.
Let the Democracy and Republican Whigs
thoh, rally to the ticket which a goes for civil
“Hewers of Wood, and Drawers of
Water.”
In a free republic, parties should be based
upon principles, as is the case with the Na
tional Democratic in America. But Know
Nothingiam is not fouuded, as we conceive,
on great and good principles, but on the
sworn doctrine that they are alone the right
ful office holders. Notwithstanding, tho anti-
Know-Nothing majorities of Native Ameri
cans, as expressed in .the elections in Vir
ginia, North Carolina,Tennesse, Alabaniaand
Texas Secret Lodges, representing a minor
ity, arrogate to themselves all American
feeling, and term the popular voice and
people, the “Foreign party." That the’ old
serpent of Federalism, raising its head un
der the secret guise of Know Notbingism,
but to have it bruised at the South, should
call the majority such names, is what would
be expected. They are of course against
the Democracy, as they were against Jeffer
son, Jackson, Monroe, and Pierce; but we
believe that the first and second Degree
members of the Order are themselves usod
instruments by the Union or 3d Degree,
which these scheming adventures of poli
ticians are hoisted into office. Read the
three oaths of the different Degrees, and you
will sec that the offices must almost neces
sarily go to the Union Degree members.—
These last, a select few, must support each
other in preference to all others. They hold
caucus and nominate; they go down to
the second Degree, and being United on one
man, and using their influence, he is there
selected, and thus the two palm him off on
the first Degree or “ wool-hat hoys.”
Dontyou see what a disguise is this Know
Notbingism with its different degrees, to
defeat the free and popular will, even among
themselves ? They distrust the people; they
distrust even their own sworn members, un
less they can have a scale of degrees by
hieh the little leaders may plan and plot
for themselves. Their candidate is brought
out, and called the American candidate with
great flourish of trumpets, when out of the
100,000 voters in Georgia, perhaps not 500
or 1,000 had any hand in the management of
the affair.
All delegales to the National Council must
be Union or third Degree members. This
Grand Council is Supreme ; it lias the right
to tell all the members of the Know Nothing
party, Nos. I, 2, and 3, what they are to do
in National politics—sends you rituals and
constitutions, and grips and oaths—takos the
right to levy taxes uponyou—and even to pun
ish you when you obey not their orders. This
is all done by the higher members. Such posts
of responsibility cannot be trust-d with the
people, and their delegates, but the select <le
grees are they who are meant to “ rule
America.”
You who are in the order, look at this
matter. Are not the Jesuitical Federalists
of the higher degrees under their specious
words, making you of the first and second
degrees “ hewers of wood ami drawers of
water.”
Democratic Candidates forLegisIatm..
from 6th District. '
The following gentlemen have been nom.
mated in their respective counties for
Legislatutw: ***
Walton. Senate, Col. J. T. Grant; House.
Blake J. Cooper, and J. H. Kilgore. ^
Clarke. -Senate, Dr.E.S. Billups- House
YY. G. Delony and Wirt. Dicken. *
Jackson.—Senate, Robert White; House.
Russel Parks and Russel Daniel.
Madison—Senate, S. Colbert; House r
A. Bird. * ' •
Habersham—Senate, Dr. G. Philli Da .
House, R. McMillan. P *
Gwinnett.—Senate, Brown; House
Hudson and Whitworth. *
Rabun.—Senate, Gen. Coffee and John Q
Adams; House, Horace Cannon and K
Cannon ; All Democrats—local division, We
presume.
Lmon—Senate, Jamison; House
Eli Smith.
Hall.—Senate, Joseph Dunnagan ;
have heard of no nomination for the Housu,
In Franklin, Forsyth, Hart, and Lumpkin,
we have heard of no regular nominations.—
Our friends will confer a favor by sending us
the names of the candidates in those conn-
ties, as soon as the nominations are made.
If there is any error in any of tUe-above
lists, we will take pleasure in correcting it.
Sick with his own Medicine.
The following card appears in the Dalton
Times
A CARD.
bellow Citizens of Gordon —1 am official!?
informed that liuust no longer serve as your
Postmaster. I am deprived ot office, on
which I mainly depended for support, not he.
cause of any official delinquency, but simply
because I espouse tie doctrines of Walt
ington; because I love my country and de-
sire to see it rt led by Native Americans, rath-
er than by Catholic Forngners. Is it cometo
! h| s—that a man must be proscribed for giv-
Judge of the Northern Circuit.
Thos. W. Thomas, Esq., of Elbert, lias
been appointed by Gov. Johnson, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Judge Andrews. It is a most excellent ap
pointment, and the Governor has taken the
most prompt steps, that none of the Courts
will he adjourned over.
So closes the public life of Garnett Andrews.
As a Judge, lie took away the civil rights
of Universalist citizens, because of their re
ligious belief. True to his proscription, he
has secretly sworn never to vote for, and to
remove when he can, all Catholics from of
fice—though the Constitution, which a Go
vernor swears to support, declares that no
religious test shall he required for any office.
And Know Nothings think it takes his let
ter a long while to find Gov. Johnson !—
Perhaps one reason is, that he sent it like
his unique Poe “letter of acceptance;” a Mil
ledgevillc editor gets it, and is compelled to
write to the Judge, that really it is not yet in
a condition to go before the people; he re
ceives an answer to fix it the best he can,
and after a long time, we read th'13 truly
know nothing mixture, which was a merri
ment to his opponents, and considering it
was from a candidate for Governor of Geor
gia, must have been anything- but
to his friends.
pecteii, when bigoted Roman Catholics tk
f oreigners are put in office. But, thank
God, they can never bribe nie to dismiisc tm
real sentiments; they can never drive me
tram the firm defence of those glorious prin
ciples o! civil and religious freedom for which
my fathers hied, and which was distilled i„u,
my infant mind by a pious mother.
G. YV. RANSONE.
Mr. Ransone doubtless feels easier ii nM
this grandiloquent effusion and declaration if
independence of foreigners and Catholics
Now, we would like to know if Mr. Ran-
sone’s successor is a Catholic and foreigner,
or a native and Protestant. Tho card inti
mates that he is both a foreigner and Catho
lic. These Know Nothings, whose verv
part}' is based upon the idea of proscription,
whine most piteously, when they receiv
what thej’ are sworn to administer to others.
Mr. Ransone is perfectly willing to hold ai
office under a Catholic, when he is, at the
same time, bound by an oath, were their po
sitions reversed, to remove Mr. Campbell.—
YY e hope President Pierce will keep up the
good work, until they become sick of their
odious doctrines. YY'e like to hea: them jell
when the pincers arc stuck to them.
“ The Cooper and Johnson Bargain,”
The Know Nothing press of Georgia are
deprived of their last argument against Gor.
Johnson. They have been occupying then-
selves for several weeks, with the cock and
bull story of Gov. Johnson's buying the
support of Maj. Cooper. No one who
knows either gentleman, would for a moniett
credit the absurd charge; but to those wlo
might have been deceived, the lottor of Maj,
Cooper, on our first page, will be a satisfac
tory refutation. Those who have repeated ii
heretofore, have been deceived by these mil-
representations, and ilia charity to suppose
that they believed what they, wore saying;
but any one who repeats it, alter reading the
letter, will do so with his eyes open, and a
wilful falsehood on his tongue. Thus has
the only charge brought against Gov. John
son been successfully swept away. Hi)
private character, his administration, ard
his political principles are invulnerable,—
There is not a flaw to he found in him. ffe '*
are sure that the people of Georgia will re
buke these whole-sale libellers and slander
ers, and teach them that ihere is somethin;
higher than a more party triumph.
gratifying
Tennessee.,
It appeared that the Know Nothings in this
State would have in the Legislature a major
ity of one in the Senate, and one in the
House; but it seems that Collum, of Blount,
classed as a know nothing, denounced the
Order before and since the election. This,
if so, gives the Democrats a majority of one
in the House. There is no U. S. Senator
to be elected by the present Legislature.
Taylor and Cullum, K. N. YY’higs, who
voted against the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in
Congress, were defeated. Etheridge, K. N.
YVhig, who voted with them is the only one
of these anti-Nebraska men re-elected.
As to the bragging of know nothings, that
no one may hereafter be deceived, let us give
an example. A know nothing paper stated
that in Giles Co., there were 2400 men,
pledged to vote the know nothing ticket;
there were 3300 votes, and this would give
Gentry 1500 majority. After the election,
let ns see: Johnson beat Gentry 137 votes.
So much for confidence in know nothing
records. _
Mademoiselle Rachel; the Actress.
Mademoiselle Rachel (Felix,) the greatest
French actress, par excellence, now living, if
not the greatest in the world, arrived in New
York in the steamer Pacific, on the 22d inst.
The fashionable world are in great excite
ment, and everybody studying French so as
to hear her. Mind is powerfiil, but when
coupled with beautiful mutter, it is irresisti
ble. Pice lej dames de la belle France.
The Mails.
Some of our friends at Erastus write that
the Banner comes very irregularly. YVe will
do our best to have no mistakes, and hope
our friends will let us know whenever they
do not receive their papers. ^ • %
Deaths in New Orleans for the week were
475, including 357 from yellow fever.
The Roil Robert Toombs,
YY ill return home from a visit to Europe, t5
the Dili proximo. The voice of this ablest?
eloquent statesman will be heard against Nr-
them Sam, and in defence of the pet;
American idea of civil and religious liberty.
Dr. aT s. TiitiTofAlabama.
YY'e are glad to welcome onavisitamongi-
, our former townsman, Dr. Hill-
fr'ends, and his old companions of the 9**
gia Regiment in Mexico; will be |
hear that he is in greatly improved
and most excellent spirits.
Mr, Anderson YV. Reese, ot Athens, 1 1
the August term of tho Superior Court i
Clarke county, was admitted as an Attort*!
and Counsellor, to plead and practice in *
different Courts of Law and Equity in ^
State.
Public Discussion—8tli September
There will be a discussion of the politic.
topics of the day, at the Town Hall, in
ens, on Saturday morning, tlte 8/A of
ber, between C. Peebles, Rsq., and YVv-^
Deloney, Esq., candidates for the next U?
islature. We hope to see a full attend:^*
of the friends of both parties—Know
ings and anti-Know Nothings.
Agricultural * Fair—Atlanta.
The Southern Central Agricultural ft',
will begin the exhibition of this year at A 1 ■
lanta, on the llth of September. It ‘ 3
permanently located there, and every
is arranged on the finest scale. The Mi
gen/ccr speaks in the highest terms of the*?'.
TV I
ergy and arrangements qf the efficient
retary, Dr. James Camakv of Athens*
Railroads will have plenty of'acpommoda®*
trains, and at reduced prices, Th ere *' ^
many persons p-esent, but thp people® ' ,
lanta have everything ready to take cate
all who como. The ‘Fair’has dorte ®
for Georgia-«let her people sustain
which contributes to her progress ami
vancement.
JKgrThe July Wettminsterjand ^
Reviews, we have front L. Scott & ^
Gold-sL, New York. A new
begins. They ought to be in every
nan’s library, with Jte rest of the n
Reviews and Blackwood’s MagfcrinSi