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»n<l German Catholics, in one
wqjii*' than the Roinisli Church ever
gained members from yours, in twenty.,
Yon should, therefore, rejoice, if all im
migrants were Catholics; for the Pro
testants arc safe at home, ami you have
the means of converting all who come.
But What would Mr. Wesley say to
yon, if he were alive and saw you not
only engaged in unchristian warfare]
•gainst Catholics, but actually striking
at them through the Constitution of
your country 1 Suppose their religion
does spread,’ with the unexampled rapi
dity with which yours has, who has a-
right to object ? Will you forbid men
to choose their own religion ? In all the
essentials of Christianity, do they not
agree with you 1 Wesley thought so, and
I think so.* Do they differ from you wi
der in faith than your Unitarian confed
erates] Have any people on earth sur
passed them as sermonizers, tried by any
test that yon may choose ? Bossuet,
Mascaron, decider, Bourdalouc. l'citc-
lon, Massilon, Ravignnn, Lacordairc.
Bcuutain—these are Catholic preachers.
Were they ever surpassed ? \\ ill they
ever be f Will some of them ever he
equalled? Has Christianity ever had abler
champions than she has found in Cath
olics ? As a lecturer upon the evidences
of Christianity, I owe Cardinal Wiseman
a debt 1 can never repay. What 1
should have done without him, in this
age of scientilic infidelity, I do not know.
1 have been a pretty severe student for
near forty years, anil a laborious, if not
profound thinker for a long time; but
when I compare myself in intellectual
stature with that man, 1 shrink in my
own estimation to the insignificance of a
passwords; (suppose Wesley at ^your
side). 1*^ *
. Yon remained in the body *a short
time, and then took auotliertialhfr re-af-
fionin&tKe two tirsW*and t ‘ascended in
regular climax of monstrosity. Another
set of instructions followed. You re-
ceive'd tlie first with your haiid upon
the Bible; The second, with the left
}ia#d on your breast,and the right raised
to Heaven. TwERtird, with your left
in a group of live or more formed in a circle
around your country’* flag; with arms
crossed on the breast, and hands grasp
ed, right and left. Thus yon became a
member of the midnight fraternity of high
degree.
All these oaths save the first, are call
ed degrees, (and rightly in one sense).—
A degree conferred on one’s self, by sim
ple swearing \ A Methodist Preacher’s
word not to lie trusted by Know Nothings
without an oath! lie proves faithful to
God on one side, and D£ Dr. Hond on
the Other- Choose ye between them.
m. B. J.ONG3TREET.
•‘We can do Nothing and should Dis*
band.”
A ’’Know Nothing” has ^sddrcssod'a
letter to the Thomasvi(||fWatchman,
M hieh has^much significance in these
icary” tiifrcs. It' would appear that
: Noth-
on yotrr breast, and the right raised to the feeling of disgust dt the
the flag of ygur country. The fourth, j n „ or g an i za tig» prevails throughout the
State. This writer says : "
Our leaders, controlling the move
ments of the various councils, having
moved us in every direction and ascribed
to us every sort of principle until we are
befogged—at sea without compass or
rudder, and with nothing to reckon from
—we should ascertain where we are.—
Some are opposed lo all hut American
Catholics, others opposed to nllCatholics.
Some in favor of a change of the natur-
m\\}mx fanner,
Thursday,::: September 6, 1855.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. IlERSfiiEL V. JOHNSON,
Of Baldwin.
Repudiating.
It seems that Know Nothing duplicity and
sycophancy have no bounds. They tena
ciously adhered to their unconstitutional tests
and oaths, until they were completely whip
ped out upon them, in Virginia, North Cato
lina, Tennessee, Alahamaand Texas. Since
these disastrous defeats, some of their or
gans have declared that they “do not com
mend themselves to the popular mind and
now, in Georgia, they are abandoning thbir
former, organizations and coming out an open
party. Atleast,thishasbeendoneinMuscogee,
Chatham and Decatur counties, and we are
informed that our Clarke county K. N*s. last
Friday resolved to follow suit. For this, they
deserve no credit. They have been forced
into the measure, by the crushing weight o*
public opinion, which has been growin
one, and yet lie cannot be trusted with-1 alization laws, others opposed to foreign
out a second, and a third! A Methodist
Preacher pursuing himself unhidden into
this distrustful coterie, and taking les
sons in grips, signs, and pass-words,
whereby he and the children of darkness
are to recognize each other as “brothers”
(!) at all times, and in all places; and
whereby they may rally to the. support
of each other, weapon in hand, in times
of danger and conflict! ! The honorary
titles acquired by. these degrees, Know
Nuthinu and Sam! Elder Know
Nothing! Deacon Sam!
While you were stepping from oath to
oath, and lesson to lesson, through all
the solemn mockery of the Order, did
mite. He will never hear of me, of i the thought never occur to you “where
course, but il lie could, it would gratify the necessity of all this, to signify my
him to know that away here in the wild
woods of the west, where eighteen years
ago, the wigwam stood, and the Indian’s
council fires blazed, his lectures have
reached, and Messed. Would that I
were as able an advocate of the rights
of his Chuach, as he is of the truths of
Christianity.
It is the religion of such men that you
would stop the spread of, not hv expos
ing its fallacies, hut by midnight plots!
Where would you have been, if this mode
of dealing had been adopted against your
people, fifty years ago l
“ But by concession all Catholics and
foreigners rote under the dictation <>J the
Pope." And what do you gain by that
—yon who arc sworn to vote according
to the dictation of any scamp who may
happen to worm himself np to the dic
tatorship in your lodges? 1 presume
yon will admit, that a vote cast under a
dictation, need not necessarily be wrong.
This you must nlmit or condemn your
selves. The Catholic must vote for some
candidate of self or Protestant nomina
tion ; and ns the Pope can have no inter
est in the success of either party, it is
likely that he would order an impartial
vote—that which would best promote
the interests of the country in which his
people reside. But you cast a strictly
party vote, in utter disregard of the mer
its of candidates. Will your
candidate
opposition to Catholics and foreigners !
Aie not all to oppose them openly ’? Why
must I, and those who think with me
upon these matters, be skulking here in
the dark, and taking solemn oaths about
them ? Why swear to conceal my mem
bership and that of my fellows ! NY as
ever such an oath taken by a secret so
ciety before ? Why this parade of de
grees / What have they to do with Ca
tholics ? And grips ! What have they
to do with foreigners ? What all this
binding together in the bonds of eternal
brotherhood : simply to secure a united j
vote 1 Surely there must lie something
deeper and daiker in all this than I can
see.” Did you go stumbling on through
all t his Know Nothing flummery and pro
fanity without any misgiving of con
science, or ftar of consequences l You
should feel alarmed at your situation !
Did you feel any uneasiness! You
should have withdrawn.
“Swear not at all,” says our Saviour.
“Swear not at all,” says St. James.—
“Swear not at all,” says your discipline
in another form. “Because of swearing
the land inourneth,” says Jeremiah.
“Thou sl.nlt not take the name of the
Lord thy God in vain.” saitli the Deca
logue. “Have as little to do as possible
withoathssaithClarke. Wesley speaks
at large upon this head (vol. vi. p. 10<i
and on.) He deprecates the number of
oppose Catholics and foreigners ? That oaths required bylaw; what would he
is all yon demand of him. If he say think of this kind of swearing ? Adopt-
“yca,” you support him; though he be i»g the language of Mr. Desney as his
he veriest jackass that ever brayed in own, lie says: “Can there be anythin"
emigration altogether. Some in favor of
the Kansas bill, others virtually opposed
to it. Some adopt the Georgia platform,
others do not. We therefore agree upon
no two points.
We can consequently have no strength,
nor can we command the confidence and
respect of the countiy, and are growing
weaker every day. Virginia, Alabama,
North Carolina, Tennessee, mid Texas,
all have decided against us. What are
we to do? The truth is, we can do
nothing; and we, a's Know Nothings
should disband. Mr. Varnadoe has no
{ ability to represent us. His speech yes
terday was not even creditable to a
schoolboy. He empliit.ca’ly knows
nothing, and dcclaies himself opposed to
the Kansas bill, because it allows the in
habitants of the Territory to vote. He
lias not mind enough to suggest any
remedy against the present naturaliza
tion laws. The truth is, Mr. Varnadoe
satisfied me that Catholicism and the
cry against foreigners was gotten up i>\
Yankee freesoil politicians, so as to di
vide the South and destroy our strong*h
when the issue is made to bring Kan
into the Union as a State, and to make a
Know Nothing i’rcsident in 1856.
Mr. Varnadoe says he has not been
sworn, as a Know Nothing. If this is
true, we, as Know Nothings, are not
bound to vote for him. The obligation
is mutual, those who have been sworn
I owe no obligation to him, as he has re
fused to put himself upon the same foot-
j ing with us. He cannot properly take
any of the degrees, without taking the
oaths prescribed, because he is not re
quired to do and perform the same foot
ing with ns. For myself I have made
up niv miivl to vote for Johnson and
those who act with him. Let Georgia
ict with her sister .States of the South,
and Congress will not he the scene of abo
lition outrage.
The North will not dare assail the
united South. Hence we should not bo
divided by those collateral questions.—
Vs brethren, then, of the Know Nulli
ng order, let us break up. To call our
selves Americans, Southerners, Geor-
ians.
FOR CONGRESS,
Ini Hint.—I.. Srnrar.l,of Thoman.
44 IW. J. CruTrfordiOf flnucoRi'e.
8.1 44 Jniur* ^X. Mill it 2i, of fp«ou.
4th 44 llirnni W»i*t»op,of iTforiwothrr*
.“Stb 44 .Intiu il. 9iumpkin,of Floyd.
6fh 44 Bffowrll fo’i!), of C'lark.
7tii 44 Eiinfon Htcphruii.
Nth 44 A. IX. Mirpht-u*, ■ iitU‘i»cutIo«if
Anli-Jinow IVutlain:;.
AXTI-KXOW ■VOTIIWC TICKET*
FOR SENATE,
DR. E. S. BILLUPS.
FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WM. G DELONY, Esq.,
* * Hon. WM. DICKEN.
The Kaleidoscope Politician.
Success is pleasing to every one; but
there is a higher pleasure than this can give,
based on the consciousness that w$ deserve
success, by acting on bold and fixed princi
ples, known to the people, and like the glo
rious truths of Democracy, not bending to
temporary questions, but "-the same as they
were in the beginning—ore now—and ever
shall be.”
Let us look at the contest in Clarke county,
and see if we have Hot a candidate, in a po
litical sense, “all things to all men,” and if
such is the case, will ho receive a half-dozen
votos besides those to whom he can, as their
“commander,” say, "Here it your oath, vote
against me, and you are perjured men.”
Old Straight-breast Prim, who thinks Pro
hibition and Ovorby the paramount question
Public Discussion—3th Scpteiabsr.
There will be a discussion of the political
topics of the day, at the Town Hall, in Ath
ens, on Saturday morning, the 8th of Septem
ber, between C. Peeples, Esq., and \V.w. G.
Delon v, Esq., candidates for the next Leg
islature. We hope to see a full attendance
of the friends of both parties—Know Noth
ings and anti-Know Nothings. The ringing
of the bell will be the signal lor assembling.
the veriest jack
tlie councils of tlie nation. lie may by
bis stupidity mettle thomost wholesome
laws, overleap the barriers of the Con
stitution, oppose, the best measures, ad
vocate tlie worst—in short, play the fool
at large. No matter; lie is a Know
Nothing, and opposed to Catholics, and
foreigners, and that is enough for vonr
republicanism! Unless Catholics were
as often candidates for office as Protes
tants, tlie P ope’s dictation could not
peril the liberty of the country ; but in
five hundred elections, you will not find
on an average, one Catholic candidate.—
Unless religion were involved in the
election, the l’opo’s dictation could not
possibly peril our religious liberty ; but
as we have said, if the Constitution he
not disregarded, religion can never be
involved in any election. Your Order
have the honor of mixing religion with
politics, for the first time in the history
of the country, right in the teeth of the
Constitution; and now if the Pope’s pow
er perils your religions liberty, blame
yourselves for it, and not the l’ope.—
Thus you see, under the most extrava
gant admissions, your principles are
wrong. Your practices are worse, as we
have already shown in part, and as we
now proceed to show more cleat lv. The
most shocking feature of your Order, is
its numerous and profane oaths. U pon
this head 1 shall take your published
ritual as true. Nothing more easy than
to prove it true in substance, from your
conduct and admissions. Thus, when
you charge a member who exposes vonr
proceedings with perjury, you admit
that he was sworn. When you vote in
a solid body, you show that there is a
solemn obligation among you to vote
alike. When no member will tell who
are his fellows, yon show that all are
bonud to keep that matter secret. When
you admit tlie obligation of the 3d de
gree, you admit there are two degrees.—
When you expose the one, and suppress
the two, you admit that the last will not
hear the light as well as the first, &.c.—
have not time or space to extend this
reasoning. Lately you have agreed to
acknowledge vonr membership; but it
was not so originally ; not so when most,
if not all of you, joined the delectable
fraternity.
Yon observed (speaking figuratively)
• closed door with a sign over it: “ Oppo
sition to Catholics and Foreigners Man-
Jacturcd within." What sort of opposi
tion, how and by whom conducted, on
what conditions, at what expense of
time and money; how yon were to be
worked in factory, what the moral char
acter of your co-workcrs, licw healthful
or pestilential the business, were matters
of not the least concern to you. You
liked the sign, and that was all-sufficient
for yon. You knocked, and the door
was opened hy a man who demanded an
oath of you, and yon took it. It was
an oath of secrecy, and not very repub
lican, but you took it. Yon advanced
to the council-chamber, and there, in tlie
presence of many, you took another oath
more stringent than the first. In this you
swore,among other things, that you would
“respond to the claim of a sign or cry of
the Order unless it be physically impos
sible.” Mark that word “cry.” If in
the pulpit, or at a dying bed ; when you
hear it, you must drop your holy servi
ces and obey it. Obey it, for what 1—
Why to fight for the brother, if need be,
of course i
After taking the oath, you were turn-
•d over to the instructor hi grips, and
in the world more sacred than an oath ?”
Read him. I have extended this ar
ticle too far, t; allow of further quota
tions from him.
My comments upon these oaths, I re
serve for my address to the Church at
large. For the present, I have only to
say, that whatsoever may he found ob
jectionable in them, you will be pleased
remember applies to you with double
force.
And now, brethren, have I or Mr.
Wesley hit upon one good reason why
you should not have joined the Know
Know Nothing ? If either of ns have,
then 1 beseech you to come from among
them. If we have not, yet there is an
other in reserve, which, if it does not
prevail, will show or prove to my satis
faction at least—that if an angel from
heaven were to denounce your Order,
you would cleave to it still. The last
appeal to you is froml’aul: "Be ye
not unequally i/okcd with unbe/ierers."
This has nothing to do with marriages,
save hy implication. Paul was not tip-
on that subject at all. The word here
rendered "yoked,” “signifies,” says
Clarke, “to leave one’s own rank, place,
nr order, and go to another.” It is nev
er used in tlie llihle to express marriage.
How pointed is it to your ease!
“ Be vc not unequally yoked with
unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? and
what communion hath light with
darkness ? and what concord hath Christ
with Belial ? or what part hath he that
believeth with an infidel? And what
agreement hath the temple of God with
idols, for ye tire the temple of the living
God, &c. Wherefore come out from
among them, and he ye separate saith the
Lord; and touch not the unclean thin
and I will receive you, and will he
Father unto you, and ye shall be mv
sons and daughters, saith the Lord Al
mighty.” What do you do with these
scriptures ? I do not ask what the
Know Nothing laity of otir Church (at
least some of them) do with them, for
that I know experimentally ; but what
do yon ministers of the Gospel do with
them? I think I can answer the ques
tions for a goodly number of you :—
“ Why according to this, we must quit
every oath-bound secret society.” Then
quit them all, I implore you, if you can
perceive no distinction between them.
“Let God be true, and every man a liar.”
None of them are essential to salvation
or good government, 1 am well satisfied.
“But Dr. Bond”—the man who did
more to inflame the two divisions of our
Church against each other than all oth
er members put together; who villitied
the Southern division, more than any
man living ever villified it, (lie from a
slave State too; who, as editor of the
leading organ of the Church, opened its
columns to every thing vituperative from
the North, and closed them to everything
defensive from the South. “ Dr. Bond”
says “ that the Know Nothing Order is
no worse than the Order of Tammany.”
This is veiy much like Dr. Bond; and
very much like the resolution of tho
Conference of 1844 which split our
Church: So stated, that it may mean
one thing or another, as may best suit its
father’s purposes. As I understand the
Doctor’s notions of the last Order, is it a
rebuke to the Know Nothings; as all
who have copied his piece, understand
it, it is an encouragement to them; anil
so. it was doubtless intended to he.—
The. question, is submitted to yo with
From tl.u South Cumliniun, 29th ult.
The Elephant Romeo.
The mournful occurrence alluded to in
yesterday’s paper, induced us to make
some inquiry into the special circum
stances of tlie case, when we learned as
folic ws:
This elephant was landed in New
York in lsl(i, was 30 or 40 years old.
and belonged to Bailey A Co.’s Menag
erie and Circus Company. For nearly
nine years Mr. George West had been
his keeper, and had him under good con
trol.
After leaving Camden, on Sunday
morning, on his way to Columbia, lie
showed an unruly temper, as he had oc
casionally done, and it became necessary
to use some severity with him to control
him. Upon reaching a bridge, a few
miles on the road, ho broke a plank and
and refused to cross, and upon being
pressed, struck a horse a blow which
knocked him off the bridge, ripped him
open, and killed him. He was led around
and made to ford the creek. After cross
sing lie strartod up the hill, and was call
ed to by hiskeeperand stopped, but a few
minutes after he attempted to take a
wro ig road, at a fork. The keeper
seized him hy one ofhis tusks to turn
him, as was iiis custom, and probably
struck him, when he became enraged,
and struck with his tusks a blow which
broke Mr. W cut’s back and instantly
killed him. He then threw him up and
caught him on his tusks, and kept at it
until he was completely mangled—the
arms, legs, thighs and bones generally
broken, the intestines torn out and the
scalp pealed oft. The dogs which usu
ally aided in controlling him were set
upon him, but his motions were so rapid
that all was done before any interior
cnee could be made.
He then started off, and several inef
fectual attempts were made to secure
him. Mr. Bailey, the owner, being sat
isfied that it would be unsafe to trust
him again, and that under the most fa
vorable circumstances there would he
apprehension and danger from him, with
proper regard for his duty to the public,
determined to have him put to death.—
llifios were procured, and many of the
citizens of Camden gave their aid on
the occasion. On Sunday afternoon and
evening, about one hundred and fifty
balls were fired into him without effect.
Iiis eyes were shot out as a matter of
safety, as he showed a disposition for
violence. On Monday morning lie got
into a pond, where after an immense
number of shots, nearly two hundred
more, lie finally yielded and died.
^ I he estimated value of the animal was
t>10,000, and the loss a heavy one to tho
owner. . Iiis conduct is deserving of
high praise, ns lie did not hesitate to
make the sacrifice of his private interest
to the public safety. We trust a gener-
Tlie Xew link Hards.
The Hard Democrats of New York held a
convention in Syracuse on the22d ult. The
fo'lowing icsolutious were introduced by the
committee on Resolutions and passed :
1st. Resolved, 1’liat the National democratic
party of New York hereby re-ossert their ad
herence and devotion t > the principles ot
the national democracy and of the constitu
tion ; they adhere to, and sustain in theory
mud practice, the resolu'ious of the Demo
cratic National Conventions of ISIS and 18-
52, as containing the cardinal principles of
the democratic parly of the Union ; they re
adopt them with hearty good will, believing
that time and experience have demonstrated
their purity and soundness, and the necessi
ty for a strict adhcieure thereto.
2.1. Resolved, That the lessons of the fa
thers of democracy teach frugality and econo
my in the administration of public affairs,
and that we adhere to them as endurin'* ar
ticles of democratic faith.
31. Resolved, That we insist, as an firtie e
of our creed, upon the well established de
mocratic doctrine of .State rights, of a strict
construction of the constitution, and the prin
ciple of non-intervention upon all domestic
State questions; and that tlie peace and
quint of the country demand that it should
be left to the people of the Territories, as it
pertains to the people of the State, to deter
mine all local questions, including the sub
ject of slavery, to live cnc, that a subject so
disturbing in its nature and iulluence may he
wholly excluded from the action of the "ov
eminent of tlie Union.
4th. Resolved,That the national democra
cy is opposed to all secret political societies,
and that the first principles of a free govern
went demand open and unrestricted discus
sion in all matters ot public concern; i!
the guarantees »i freedom, of religious ftitli
and worship, contained in our Stale and Fe
deral constitutions lie ft the foundation of our
national liberties aa I prosperity ; that any
attempt to abridge the privileges now grant
ed to aliens ot becoming citizens and owners
of tho soil among us, is to affect their rights
to a full ana equal pntieipation in govern
mental affairs, as defined by tho constitution,
and ought to lie restricted, ns anlagonisiical
to the genius of republican institutions—and
that we, as democrats, recognize, as eviden
ce of fidelity or merit, no distinction of faith
or religious creed, believing it is the mission
of the democracy to proclaim a:.d maintain
die great doctrines ot civil and religious li
berty, and to uphold and enforce tlie consti
tution in its sublime principles of justice and
equity.
5th. Resolved, That wo regard the pro
hibitory liquor act passed hy tlie Legislature
ot this State at its late session, as not only
a violation of the constitution, but also as
subversive of personal liberty and the rights
ot private property, and ihat its repeal is in
our opinion imperatively demanded.
6th. Resolved, Thatall who agree in prin
ciple upon the leading principles of the. day
shoal 1 act together, regardless of minor con
siderations ; taat we cordialy invite all who
agree with us in the doctrines here enumerat
ed, regardless of former associations, to unite
with us in engrafti ig them upon the po-
licj' of the country ; but it is upon principle
alone that we invite a union. We denounce
al! coalitions of those holding hostilo senti
ments as unprincipled and demoralizing.
Tue uDove sentiments, particularly the 3d
and 1th resolutions, will find a responsive
throb in the heart of every true national de
mocrat, north or south ; and the following
stronger against them every flay. It is the of the day, goes to the ballot box in Athens,
act of a drowning man. Members were and depositing a vote for C. Peeples, says to
withdrawing by scores every day. Outside himself, “well, now, we shall have the retail
“sympathizers” were becoming disgusted groggeries stopped, for 1 have hoard Mr.
with the profanity, tyranny, duplicity and Peeples, in the Temperance Convention in
flummery of the Order, and in order to save 1854, know his vote in the Town Council
themselves, the cunning leaders, who have °n this queslio t, in fact lie is as good a Pro-
deluded the people into this iniquity, as a hibitionist as Overby.” Mr. Prim goes
last resort, have pretended to throw off and home, and feeds that he has voted on princi
repudiate the oaths by which they are as pic- Didn’t he and the other Prohibitionists
much bound now, (hy the divine and inoral ca ll a meeting at Watktusville, Court week!
law,) as they were before. The effect of this Certainly. Did they put up any candidate ?
will be, to sink them to a still greater depth I No! for didn’t Prim and associates know the
of shame. The party who expresses its dis- plastic K. N. candidate for Senator and his
gust at the “ wild hunt after offiee,” is the antecedents! Let him say a word or so to the
one which is now disgusting the world by “unterrified,” he knows how to manage
its.frenzied chase after the loaves and fishes. I things, “ in a sly way.” Havn’t the Pro-
\Ye really pity Judge Andrews in this I hibitionist* of Clarke county, got backbone*
matter. The order has committed him to its Certainly they have, but Prim winks one
secrecy, oaths, grips, &c., and he is now tra- I e y e » * or l ,e also, knows “a sly wav-
veiling over tlie State defending them, while D ,e, » there is Torn Jones, a jolly good citi-
the very men who put him out, are repudia- ze " and neighbor, but who likes a drink when
ting them. They should at least have re-1 inclined that way; he steps up and hands in
snected his feelings, so far as to inform him a vote for Peeples. Says he, boys stand by
of their intentions a short time before-hand* our principles, for let those anti-Know No-
Ina recent speech in Augusta, he justified I things talk as they will, 1 heard Mr. Peeples
them, upon the ground that they arc a eheei; * n * ,ls S P PPC ’* at Watkins villa, since he was
to a man’s vote, just as a drunkard's- and a ®attdidate, the other day, say he was oppos
gambler’s oath is a cheek to them. Our | ed to any legislation upon the liquor question.
sprightly cotemporary of the Federal Union, Bi " Smith, the Grocery keeper, says that is
says the Judge means to say, in other words, e,10tr ?h for hi nt; and so Jones & Smith
that Americans have become so degraded, so "° °ff locked arms, shouting hurrah for Pco-
debased, in his eyes, that they must bind an * ^ rco ret ail groceries, for they con-
themselves by an awful oath, to vote as the scicntiouil y i,f! ' ieve »»ave voted on
will of the majority dictate,-their own will I P r,nc, P l0 ’ a,,(1 lhat ?he coarse ol C -
~~~ , d
painted red, and he sees blood on the shoe-
maker’s awl. Peeples will save him. Our
country Iras millions of acres—enough to last
6,000 years; but Peeples will drive back the
poor of this toorld, to let them still starve and
be oppressed in Europe. Cfiir Fathers have
but just landed on the soil of the, New World.
Tney hive a “home for the brave," and Pro
vidence lias blessed us: Where is the true
American heart that will crush and denounce
the liberty-Ii Ving emigrant, and his wife and
little children, who, though poor, are yet like
us, made in the image of God ? ;
Yet, from the public speeches and protes.
tations of Mr. Peeples, you would suppose
certainly old Smith, so violent against all
foreigners, will surely be represented fully
by Iiis acts at Milledgeville. But stop, a
quiet word here. This K.N. candidate in |>is
‘/n/eror/ia/.iniertcanfeeling’ tells a naturalized
citizen of Athens, that if lie cannot vote fur
him for Legislative, ho can for Judicial
officers. The Philadelphia platform, intend-'
eJ for the public, don’t so read, hut Mr. Pee
ples is a “commander,” U re, and that voto
will be much need d in October. Isn’t lie
desirous to be considered the foreigncrV
friend, when he has a vote 1 Mr. P. g >estfor
Cuba, and as they must have some rights,-
let old Smith in his fright think of those for--
eign-born 400,000 Justices of the Peace.
People of Clarke, who will be deceived,
the frightened old Smith, or the 400,000 for
eigners, that this K. N. will have holding
Judicial offices?
Wc road that Joseph had a coat of many
yihrs. Can it equal tlie many opposite princi
ples which certain voters think will be certain
ly represented by this sclf-announ6e<l “ com
mander of a battalion of Sam’s.” Voters of
Clarke conmty, who oi you, looking at his
whole political course, feel that your doc
trine is the plank he stauds upon, or rather
will continue upon ? Do you want to be
seesawed in that way!—or do you wish a man
whom you know where to find, his principle*
fixed, tlie same in 1855 and 1854—the same
as a citizen, as when acandidate for the pop
ular suffrage.
being untrustworthy and unsafe,
refer to this subject again.
We shall
.Yot Suited to tlie Popular Mind.”
•Such was the honest confession of a Know-
Nothing Journal, about * Sam' after the Ala
bama election. Such is the verdict upon this
National Secret Order, hy the Southern
elections. Sam’s Councils in Georgia, arc
giving it]) their charters, even before the
election, thus virtually acknowledging that
their organization as received from Freesoil
Barker, is not adapted to Georgia. Northern
K. N’s say plainly and fully that North of
Esq., iu the Legislature, will not be contrary
to wh it they heard from his own lips..
Voters of (fiarke county, look plainly upon
this question. A gentleman asks to repre
sent you in the Legislature. Is lie not, from
the di Front people w to sunp >rt him, plaoej
like a man astr iJ lie a fence, Prohibition
swinging on to one leg on one side, ar J anti-
Prohibition holding on to the other. When
the question co nes upin tho next Legislature
w licit wiy does he jump? Can you both
be represented.
Let the Republican Whigs and Democracy
rally to the support of Dr. E. S, Btu.ups,
Mason ar.d Dixon line, they are freesoil and I ' v ' 10 ^ la3 *th feet upon one platform. H i
abolition; Where then is the boasted Nation- l*k es sne *nen live temperately, hut he will
il party ? The voice of the people have con- n,,t 'nuke himself ctaiy about the liquor other
derailed the Secret Sam. people drink. He oelieves that some legis-
Tliey have declared that in a free Repub- ^ at * on ^ ue t0 good upright men, that they
lie, with a press unfettered, and people free ! fiave some rights, and that laws are not t6 be
to meet and act on their wishes, such secret
associations arc uncalled for. dangerous tc
the existence of government, and especial
ly an order which depends for its life blood
enacted, leiving out their rights, because the
vicious or unfortunate may turn tins or that
to bad account.
Here comes another voter, his name is
upon the dangerous Anti-American doctrines registered as .Inunadab Slick. He has an
of Religious Intolerance and prnscrip'ion. idea that true Christian'ty is only exprssed
Shall Georgia f ill backwards into the deadly hy singing Psalms through the nose like the
embrace of this federal freesoil serpent of Now England Puritans, and that Pope Pia*
Stra, whose bruised IbrniJJis now wriggling IX will stop this privilege soon; he lias
back into its original Northern abolition heard C. Peeples, Esq., declare that Kama,
caverns ? People of Georgia do you wish to is not tho paramount question, but that the
take your stand hy tlie Know-Nothing Lo- i Catholics and Foreigners, are the only ones
gisnture of Missachusettes, which placed now at issue. He has heard his abuse and
rochildrcnin the same school with whitest I terrible denunciations against one religion,
and of New York, where 12,000 negro voters the Catholic. So Aminadab votes for Pee-
crying aloud with Francis Cone, “ Ameri- pies. Aminadab believes he has voted for
cans shall rule America,” tell the white mar, his principles, for he believes the religious
because ho is an honest immigrant, stand pioscriptivc feature of Know Nothingisio
back I and when these same negro Ameri- its principal and best part, and ihat they
cans shall say to- a Grandson of Chas. Car- after .all their Protestant pretensions, will put
roll—because he is a Catholic, you shall hold up no one unless "strictly Evangelical."
no office, for we Sam, and Sambo will protect, Then comes Jack Dus halt ami bands a
Protestant America ! We know that Geur- vote for Peeples. Jack has never troubled
gia will in October, put herself in line by himself much about different forms ofwor-
the side of the triumphant elections of V:r j ship, and don’t care whether tlie Catholic
The Last Prop Gone!
The New Jersey and New York delegi.
'•ions in the Philadelphia Convention, were
the only Nor hern States (aside from Cali
fornia) which supported that Grand National
Platform, drawn up by Father Cone, and sent
out to the w irld as a balm for all our national
ills, and a quietus to the slavery agitation.—
New Je.'sey, by her State Coun il, has re-
pod a ed the twelfth article, ir slavery clause
ol" tlie platform, and tlte mails ha vejust brought
intelligence'of a similar act on the part of
the New r York State Convention. Thus the
last prop has been knocked front under them,
and they are now Itfft without a peg to hanga
hope upon. Alas, poorYorick! Read tho
following:
“ The Know Nothing Convention of
New York.—This convention which lias
been in session for the past three days at
Jiqghamton, adjourned sine die on Thursday,
it appears it did n.fl adopt the national plat
form; but instead of doing so, lias-adopted
and published one of its own, which is offi
cially published in the New York Express.
The following is the part relative to slavery:
Resolved- That the national adini istration
by iis general course of official conduc , with
an attempt to destroy the repose, harmauy
and fraternal relation of the country in th«
repeal of the Missouri C onpremise and tho
encouragement ol" aggressions upon the go-
vern.nent of the territorial inhabitants of
Kansas, deserves an should receive, the
uiled c' (l -muation of the Americau pec-
l.-, ami ,li it the-institution of slavery should
rive no extension from such repeal.
Resolved, That iu tnc organization of the
American Order, the institution of involunta
ry servitude was, and now i.;, reg rdeil a*
local and not national iu its character, a sub
ject for the toleration of a difference of opin
ion hy the citizens of the Northern ard
Southern States, and as such, has no right
ful place in the platform of the National
American party.
They also resolved to bold a Natioul
Convention at Cleveland on the 21st No
vember.”
ginia, Nortli-Caroliua, Tennessee, Alabama
and Texas.
amendment, which was adopt >d, speaks in
unmistakable language the sentiment of the
northern national de uocracy upon the “para
mount question of the day
“1'hul the Kansas-Si braska bill be approved,
and ail efforts to reslor: the Missouri Compro
mise he discountenanced."
It is to bo regretted that a disposition was
manifested on the part ot a few of the mem
bers ol the convention to keep up the old
feud between that wing of the pirty and the
national administration. President Pierce
has done all that any conservative national
man or tlie South could ask. His policy
throughout has been national, and instead of
shaping that policy to the detriment or ad
vantage ofany particular section, ho has been
tho ruler of the whole country—knowing no
North, no South, no East, no VVflst. What,
then, is to bo gained hy this continued war
fare upon him by this handful of discon
tents. That they do riot represent the feel
ings of tho great body of haid democrats is
o»« public will amply mmmernte b"m im "“"“T 4 ^ T'l”*. "VT
the proper spirit shown on tho occasion. Lotthom ihoo hoy tho hatdmt.
Wc passed a short time yesterday in
exaraiug the collection of animals and
witnessing the exercises, and are pleased
to say, that they seem quite deserving of
the patronage of the citizens.
^ We publish elsewhere late news from
sequiseS' of Judge Shaver, who recenly
died at Great Salt Lake City. The
ravages of the grass-hoppers had for the
third time destroyed tho crops, the sup
ply of seed had nearly tailed, and star
vation or removal seems to be the only
alternative open to the Latter Day
Saints.
and unite with their democratic brethren
throughout the union iu sustaining the pre
sent patriotic national administration in its
efforts to preserve intact that sacred charier
of our liberties—the constitution—and pre
serving inviolate its guarantees.
Planters Club of Hancock County.
We have received from the Secretary, Mr.
Titos. C. Audits, the Premium list, and Re
gulations, of the anmsal fair, of this club,
which will be held in Sparta, on the 25th
26th,and 27th day9 of October 1855. The an
nual address will be delivered by tlie Hon
A. H. Stephens, on Friday the 26lh..
First Calc of Democratic Anti-Know
NcIIur? Cotton.
Mr. M. M. Shk.vts, of this county, brought
to Athens the first bale of new cotton this
year, last Saturday, and sold it to J. R. & L.
C. Matthews, at 10] cents. He calls it De
mocratic Anti-Know Nothing Cotton, in
which there is more good sense than fancy.
The growers of the great Southern staple,
have shown by their votes in die South that
they consider tlie doctrines and tendencies of
the so-called“Anierican”party pregnant with
danger to themselves and subversive of the
rights,interests and institutions of the South;
they have planted thomselves upon the consti
tution, in opposition to this newparty, know-
crosses himself with holy water, or the Pro
testant lets it alone. It is true lie heard some
flourishes in his speech about St. Barthole
mew’s massacre, and that, as said Breeken-
ridge, a day of settlement was coming, but
Jack bolicvi-s, and vve will do the justice t-
say that wc think he is right, that Mr. Pee
ples is not really going to interfere with any
body's religion. Tnc anti Catholic furor
seems to be " popular—Know Xoiiiingisni
says down on thorn, and of course a “com
mander” of Sam’s must ride on the wave
or not go to .Milledgeville. Now Aminadab
goes for putting under civil disabilities, and
real persecution those differing, as Catholics
do, from his religion. Jack don’t want this.
Which of the two will have their principles
represented by the election of this K. X ?—
Aminadab has gone into the Lo !ge, and
sworn on a Bible, with Peeples never to vote
uig that their only hone of remaining in the, _ , , . . _
® , , • • , • jar a Catholic, and remove such when in office.
union and at tlie same time preserving their . , . ....
rights, lies in tho National Deni'icratic or^
ganization. Let the cotton planteis of Geor
gia anil the South remember this fact when
they’ go to the polls.
After writing tho above, we were informed
that Mr. John F. Diggers, of Oglethorpe,
Jack will not swear to obey anybody, but he
has been caught by the name American par
ty, and he re.ids their -public principles at
Macon, utterly disclaiming any religious
test.
Fellow-citizens of Clarke, lot us relieve
iso brought a bale of new cotton (425 lbs.) Mr - P. of tho dilemma ot sacrificing either of
oil the same day, about two huurs before M 1 ' 3 0 PP 08 ito triend9. We can sustain Dr.
Mr. S’s arrived, but was nqt sold before his; Billups, who has not gone with Aminadab
so it is a draw game between the two- gentle- j an ^ *'' 9 secret sworn persecution of one re-
men. Tho only manuer in which tlie contest I ligion, hut one who stands by the Constitu-
can be decided is lor them to try it again | ?' on °f United States and the State of
next year; Mr. B. sold his cotton to Messrs j Georgia, and believes in it heart and soul
Grady & Nickloson at 11 cents. He is also “that no religious test shall be required for
a democrat of the old school, and both havu
been long subscribers to the Banner, and
pay up promptly. Coulu thoy desire a better
recommendation ?
Curiosities of Literature.
D’lsrneUin his nextedition of the “Curiosi
ties of Literature” will want the original let
ter of Judge Andrews, accepting the nomina
tion, before it was corrected and arranged by
a Milledgeville editor: He will endeavourto
make fun of the sovereign states by pub
lishing both.
1st, Specimen of Georgia Literature, by a
Know-Nothing,
2nd, Same- document as corrected by a
Know-less (Knowles.)
As Georgians have some state pride yet,
don't let thia “furrinor” get hold of both doc
uments. The old Judge is a good meaning
man, and gentleman, so spar® him by reason
ef his “ infirmity of voice.”
any office.” Who goes for tho great Ameri
can idea of civil aud religious liberty, not for
one sect alone, but for all. Upon thia we
have become a great geople; and if we livo
now by it, and the doctrine “ principles not
meu,” we will continue to advance
Again, there is old Mr. Smith, who is get
ting a little shaky in his mind, and very
nervous. He saw the other day,pass.by his
plantation, a little Italian with plaster of
Paris figures for sale; besides he knows that
there is a shoemaker in Athens, who was
born in Ireland. Old Smith is frightened
Peeples told him of so many foreigners,
that he cannot sleep in safety. It is true that
his son John, took the Census returns and
showed him that in Georgia there is np
more than one foreign-born to every one hun
dred and forty native Americans. That this
one is identified to us by his. wife and chil
dren born among us; but no—jpld Smith is
afraid. He saw one of them plaster figures
Kcc? it before tlie People.
That C. Peeples, Esq. the Know Nothing
candidate for Senate-in Clark countv, was
understood as a Prohibitionist down to a
recent period, since’which lime, although fre
quently called upon to define his position on
that subject, we do not think the people know
certainly, where he is.
Keep it before the People, That C. Pt -
pies Esq., stated to a naturalized citizen of
Athens, that although Know-Nothings could
not vote for tlie foreign born for legislative,
yet they could for Judicial officers.
Wonder if the “W.ld hunt for office” got
that vote ?
Keep it before the people.—that C. Peeples
Esq : is a member of a secret political asso
ciation sworn not to vote for a Catholic or
foreigner, and yet this same Mr. Peeples
goes for Cuba, and 400,000 Catholieiand 400,-
000 foreigners.
Let the people remember this K. X. poli*
tician—with his 400,000 foreign Judicial
officers, and Iiis 400,000foreign Justices of the
Peace.
Keep it before the People, That Mr. Lovrr,
one of the Know Nothing candidates forth*
House in Clark county, was in tho Atlanta
Prohibition Convention which nominal
Mr. Overby,, and we understand, voted l® 1
him.
Keep it befbre the People, That the ssnra
Mr. Lowe was in tlte Macon Know Nothing
Convention which nominated Judge An
drews, and, we understand, voted foe bint-
in the Banner of August 23, there appeared
the statement bel->w:
"Keep it before the People, That tlie same
Mr. Lowe says that he occupies the sam*
position that his father does; and that his
father is an avowed Ovcrb), Prohibit!* 0
tnan.”
In a conversation with Mr. Lowe, on th*
evening of the 23d, he stated that this ®’ s ‘
represented his position, that for six month*
he had differed from his father on thisq'i**’
tion, and that lie (the candidate) was ®P*
posed to legislation on the liquor question-^
We stated our perfect willingness:to do-? r ’
Lowe justice, that we wished not to pi***
him in a false position, and if he would j°*
state where he now was* we would pah 15
it. He then said he wou-d write w c
the next morning,defining-his position,
sine*
which, we have heard net a word fr° m
That be has been a Prohibition man, J
most extreme hind, he willuot oeitaiiily
What position as- a candidate ho nose
pumes rests-with him.
affray occurred in Madison
on last Saturday, in which 2 Mr. Yabcy
seriously injured, by Wm» Pooa. . .