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*pcd of our country, and this, brothpfc
hood ? A. I will.
q Will you promise to see a brother of
the Second Degree righted, [that is, if h« be
ioiind right upon a Congress examination;]
to stand by him even at a court of justice, if
necessary, as a witness or juryman, and to
leave oil ordinary lies to obey the commands of
a Congress in his case? A.—I will.
Q.—Will you solemnly promise te
stand by the brothers of the Second
Degree, in preference to those of the
tion, can take any, the least pleasure,
in a movement that either tends to weak
en the South or build up Know-Noth
ingism. And so far as we know or have
heard, the opposition to Gov Cobb by
Mr. Franklin gives serious offence to ma
ny of the most devoted, friends of Gov.
McDonald, and leaves all true Southern
Rights Democrats in wonder at the mo
tive of so nselcss and so pernicious a
movement.
values a good reputation and an honora
ble pome among' his fellow-roen to lose
Yio time in separating himself from so
foul a conspiracy ; for he that counsels
and associates with men who commit
First, in the tdection for office, debates,
and in all other matters, and to support
and maintain the authority of the |3^nnd
its officers first, and the officers ot vour
£5P*iie:„t, without hesitation ? A.— I
will.
Q.— Will you promise not to assoeiple as a
friend with a Roman Catholic? A.—1 will.
Q.— Will you promise not to trade iHith or
patronize a Roman Catholic if yon knout of
anu Protc tanl in the same business ? A. I
will.
y, Will yon promise not marry or permit
any of your children to marry a Roman (.ath-
A.—1
olio, if in your power to prevent it?
Will. , .
Q. Will you promise to look upon
Roman Catholics as persons whose reli
gion is anti-republican and whose objects
are, bif means of the Jesuits and Priests,
to till .your country with their superstition
and. bigotry, and thus, by fear and fraud
conquer the land left you by the immortal
Washington ? A.—1 will.
Q.—Will yon promise to guard vour
country’s interest and your countrymen,
against all foreign influence whatever,
for our motto must be Americans alone
can govern America ? A.—I will..
The President—You have promised,
then swear,
j, a B , standing before my
maker, my right hand grasping the flag
of my country, do most solemly swear
by tliis sacred book of God, and by the
power of reverence nnd justice which
God gives man, that I will obey, word
for word, eacb promise exacted ot me
this nigltt, by this llrotherhnod, to its
fullest extent and do ns much more as
my understanding will teach me is tor
the good of my country nnd this Broth
erhood. That nothing shall wring from
me its secrets, nnd that no treachery
shall he strong enough to cause me to
expose the grips, signals of nlnrm or
other signs of the worshipful chamber of
free, accepted Americans, being a lita-
sonvv which cements our country and
its freedom. And as 1 now Salute the
knife and book, so may mv country know
of friends or foe, feeling that as a foe,
I shall feel the sharpness of the knife,
nud as a friend this holy book will help
me to keep* Columbia and my pledges
free from stain.
- The President—I now recognise you
as a brother in fuli fellowship with us,
and extend to you my hand as such,
hoping the friendly hand of the £3^*
Er«K which I now offer you, may never
be "withdrawn. Death has no earthly
terror for me, knowing that in you, at
least, 1 have, as have you in me, a pro
tector and guardian for my conntrv,
mv home, my family and my children.
The instructor will now give yon the
true grips of the Order, the other being
hut a preliminary recognition.
The candidates will now receive in
structions, after which they will leave
their names and residences registered ip
the Second Degree book.
Indiana to the Rescue! Twenty thou
sand Democrats in the Field!
The Democracy of Indiana have spok
en in thunder tones, to their brethren
throughout the Union* On the 29tli of
August, they held a monster mass meet
ing at Indianapolis, which is said to he
the largest political demonstration, ever
held in the State. We make room for
a few extracts from speeches delivered
the occasion, and the resolutions.
Such sentiments, coming as they do,
from the North, give assurances that
there are still left among the fanatical
abolitionists, fusionists, arid traitors of
every hue and shade at fhe North, a no
ble Spartan band, who will defend the
constitution, and give the South the
rights therein, guaranteed to her: “ Hon.
John W; Davis moved that Judge Al
vin P. Hovcry, of Posey county, take
the chair ; which was adopted.
“ The President, upon taking the
chair, said ; I thank you for the compli
ment conferred. The assemblage of this
vast multitude of representatives speaks
a language that cannot be misunderstood.
It is the upheaval of the democratic
principle of the State, and no ordinary
cause has produced it. You have
come from your homes for no vain dis
play—the Democratic party delights
not in ostentation or parade—but you
have come well knowing that a nation’s
preservation depends upon the party
with which you are connected. The
annals of our country preseut no paral
lel with the present.
“ The dark pages of 1854 and 1855
must record tlie bigotry, the treason,
and the degeneracy of thousands of
American-horn freemen ; tlie oath, tlie
torch, flie knife, have been the argu
ments with which they have in some in
stances temporarily triumphed. Argu
ment is not required to show that the
know-nothing party has trampled the
constitution and laws of our country un
der foot. To state their principles anil
practices is to demonstrate this asser-
tion.
“ To the foreign-bom citizens they
deny that equality which is emblazoned
iu living light on the glorious Declara-
Fiom the Atlanta Imelli^eneer.
Opposition to Got. fohb.
It is with much mortification that we
learn of the announcement of a candidate
in opposition to Gov. Cobh, who, while
professing to he a Democrat, enters tlie
campaign under 1\. N. auspices. Had
that party seen fit to run its head against
a post while fairly represent cd.jry one of
its own members, we, t o far from regret
ting the circumstance, would have rejoic
ed in tlie faefe. We needed just some
such a foil as this to setoff our victory in
the Gth District. But the idea conveyed
by the present, antagonism to our regu
lar ticket is, that those members of the
Democratic party having Southern
Rights affinities have also Southern
Rights grudges and revenges that are to
nurtured and indulged at, “all hazards
and to the last extremity.” We for our
part have nothing to keep hack in rela
tion to this view of our past party rela
tions. While we differed with Gov. Cobh
in our notions of State policy and sec
tional policy as applicable to the then
state of the Republic, wo did so without
mincing our words. If we did not sin
against moderation nnd justice in that
opposition, heaven bears us witness we
sinned not, at least in our purposes. But
* we will just as plainly and unreservedly
avow our present full accord with Gov.
Cobh in his views of Southern policy
and State aetiou. In our opinion there
is not a man living in the South, old or
young, whose heart and whose resolves
arc more truly and sternly loyal. One
must love to nurse his wrath, if for noth
ing else, that it jnay he kept hot, who can
see nothing in Howell Cobh’s course in
the late Democratic Convention to ad
mire and approve as a Southern man.—
He to whom, in the greater part, we owe
our present Stato plntform lias taken the
lead in effecting in State politics what
should have l>ecu done fifteen years ago
in every Southern State. He* began at
home to make a national party ; he built
in Milledgeville a •platform for all Dem
ocrats wherever found in this Union. To
that platform all must conform before th ere
can be co-operation with Georgia by the
Democrats of tlie Union and by any oth
er party whatever. The question then
recurs, what does that platform lack of
perfection ?—in what consists its short
comings and how will opposition to the
regular Democratic nomination reform or
improve our published creed 1 One of
the most crushing charges that Demo
crats hurled upon the K. N. schism is,
that without necessity and in the teeth
of the constitution, causes of division and
estrangement have been introduced into
the South when our very political, yes, so
cial existence depended upon the strength
that unity alone could give us. Are not
thefriendsofMr. Fraiiklinaggravativetliis
evil? Ifhlcris u member of the K. N.
party ana avows it, why there is an end
of the argument. But if this is not the
fact, as we learn, and he runs as a South
ern Rights man who thinks that class of
paj-tymen have an unsettled account with
c-jEsT ^ ^
tion of American Independence, and, in
violation of our federal and State con
stitutions, they established religious
tests for office. The leaders of this un
principled party in this State year after
year have vied with the democratic
party in establishing the constitution
and laws which they nbw spunt and
despise. The journals of our constitu
tional convention and laws of our State
will fully 6how their former course and
present baseness.
“ They would now .willingly fasten
upon your foreign-horn citizens the bonds
of political serfdom.
. “ Another party not less dangerous
to our national existence is in ourmulst
—a liighcr-law party, who spit upon and
burn the constitution of our republic,
and steal, as they conceive, with the np
probation of God. No promises or con
stitutional compacts in regard to the in
stitution of slavery in the South isregard-
cd by them. This many-headed party,
ranging from the Bible-hating Garri
sonian to the wily Sewardite, arc labor-
ana associates w.m T V*~
these most revoking crimes is a partic-^
ipator in their guilt, and morally, if not
legally, responsible for their acts.
"RAohedr That we hereby proclaim
r decided hostility to the principle
and conduct of tjiat sectional and fanati
cal party, known as abolitionists, who
have so recently unfurled their banner
of abolitionism and disunion throughout
the northern States ; that wc view their
proceedings with increasing apprehen
sion of great injury to the peace and pros
perity of our common eountry, and as
being diametrically opposed to the pro
visions and requirements of the consti
tution of the United States, which, if
violated, as they propose, must bring the
dreadful result of disouion, civil war, the
ruin of onr beloved country, and the
destruction of the last pillar which sus
tains the temple of Liberty on earth.
7“ Resolved, That we cordially reaf
firm the principles of the Democratic
National Convention of 184S and of
1852,. ns embodying the only practical
system of action which can he taken on
the great national questions to which
they refer, and as best tending to perpet-
uate.thc peace, harmony, and integrity
of the Union. “* ' ,
“ Resolved, That we most positively
and unequivocally condemn and oppose
all attempts to control by force and vi
olence tlie rights of free suffrage of citi
zens at the polls, either in the States or
Territories of this Union. The will of'
‘the people properly expressed is the
highest law, lint if that expression
stifled or defeated there is an end of
civil government, nnd a failure of the
power of the people to protect them
selves.
“ Rcsolred, That we view with dis
gust and disapprobation the- conduct of
non-resident know nothing bullies from
Missouri, or hired abolition fanatics from
Massachusetts and elsewhere, in their in
teterferencc with the legal rights of the
actual settlers of Kansas to vote as they
please, or to deprive them of the sacred
and inestimable privilege of deciding
the laws which are to govern them as
citizens of tlie Territory.
•‘RvsolceJ, That we cordially invite all
men of a national sentiment and faith to
co-operate with us in maintaining' the
sanctity of the American constitution,
the principles of the Declaration of In
dependence, and the integrity cf the
Union, against the attempts of fanatical
abolitionists and demagogues who are
aiming to array one section of the con
federacy against the other, and whose
ambition to possess political power would
induce them is sacrifice the dearest in
terests of the country, nnd to entail the
dreadful consequences of civil war,blood
shed, disunion, nnd anarchy upon the
ruins of our now happy, prospqrOuit, and
mighty nation. * 1
“Resolved, That we will most stren
uous^ maintain the fundamental prin
ciples' of the rights of civil and religions
liberty, the right of the citizen to wor
ship according to the dictates of his own
conscience, the frecdomof speech and. of.
the press, the offering (n the bene fits of
our laws nnd institutions to men of eve
ry nation and of every clime, the equal
ity of all good citizens, and tlie protec
tion of government to every man who
Thursday,::: September 20, 1855.
FOR GOVERNOR,
DON, UERSCIIEL V. JOHNSON,
Of Baldwin.
tmt ntx.-
Sd “
3d “
4th «,
3th “
6th “ J
7th “
8th
FOR CONGRESS,
Jamn I— Sr ward, of Thomna.
M. J. Crawford,of ITIuacoacc.
Jaun 31. Smith, of l : p«on.
Hiram Warner, of Meriwether.
John II. f.nmpkin, of Floyd.
Howell Cobb, of Clnrk. •
I.inton Stephena, of Hancock. *
A. H. Stephena, Independent
Anti-^Cnow Nothing.
ANTI-KNOW NOTHING TICKET.
FOR SENATE,
,, DR. E. S. BILLUPS.
OR. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
AVM. G DELONY, Esq.,
. Hon. WM. DICKEN. .
i that there
c Free Barbecue.
Wq ate authorized to announce tha
will he a’free barbecue at Big Spring meet
ing house, in Low’s district, Clarke County,
on Fridvtv, the 21st inet. Hon Howell Cobb,
Win. Ct. tlelony.and other public speakers are
expected to be present. ,
Barbecue.
We are requested to say that there will be
a barbecue at Point Peter in this county, on
Saturday the 29d inst. Hon. Howell Cobh
ana Win. G. Debny will be there.
Remember, this Barbecue is on Saturday,
the 2Dtli, and not the 22d, as printed last
week.
lion. Howell Cobb.
Will address the Public on the political
questions of the day—bn the evening of Sat-
29th inst., at the Town Hall in
‘S',,-..- - -
is the proper person to represent them in the
next exciting session of Congress. As qn
evidence, the*“American party’' in OgTh-'
thorpe herd a meeting, and have published
that thn K. N, nomination, “ they do Hereby
most emphatically repudiate as unwisc.and
unpatriotic.” AndbeHevlng “that the crieio
demanded that the Hon. A. H. Stephens
should be returned to his post in Congress,
they choose the part of patriotism rather
than that of partizans.”
While we believe Know Nothingism
dangerous, this conduct shows, there are
some among them, who have State pride,
at d heads and hearts that will act as they
concieve for the interest and good of the
country. ,,
Look at the 5th District, where the Demo
cracy have, as their standard bearer, the Hon.
‘Jons H. Lumpkin. He has served in Con
gress and his constituents know his great
worth, as a sound, able,--'"reliable repre
sentative. Can the people cast him aside,
to entrust their rights to such a man as Lewis
Tumlin, the Know Nothing candidate ? Can
Tutnlin even make an effort at a speech in
defense of his.princples? It is only neces-
saiy for the people to contrast the two men
to decide which one approaches to tho “purer
days of the Republic.”
Look at tire Sixth District. Of the Demo
cratic and Anti-Know Nothing Candidate,
the Hon. Howell Cobb, he is like Ste
phens, one of the first and ablest statesmen
in America.
The people of this District, of Georgia,
of the whole Union, know his proud fan
and admire him. Lfct the most terrible crii
arrive,, they feel and know lie is a man,
whom they can confidently trust at the helm.
Every charge of his enemies has fallen hafht-
less at his feet, and he stands to-dav, firm
and steadfast in the confidence and affection
of the people. It is just such statesmen,
that Georgia now needs* and the people
know it. Upon what ground will his oppo
nent, Col. Franklin, be supported ? Is it
because he advocates Andrews or Johnson
or Overby 1 Does he go with a National
party, President Pierce, or a Sectional one ?
In his letter, he started to define his princi
ples. Did he take any ground against the
heresy of Know Nothingism, which is now
a great question before the people? Upon
The Argument Ended.
The questions involved in the present j Our present able Chief Magistrate having
nteof in uoarma kotrn knnn Inmnnrvliltr « i • n* .■ . *
contest in Georgia, have been thoroughly
canvassed by the press and public speakers
.of the State; and the time draws nigh when
they are to be submitted to the public for
decision at the ballot box.- In making up
such a decision, it behoove* the patriot to
weigh well in his mind the arguments which
hare been advanced on either side, and vote
accordingly. If the freemen of Georgia will
do this calmnly and dispassionately, we will
be content, let the verdict be what it may.—
In doing tins- all party prejudice and former
predilections should be thrown aside, and the
only question asked—“which set of princi
ples will best promote the interests and wel
fare of my country!” On the one side, we
have, the undying principles of civil and
religious UBERTV; on the other, intolerance
in its most proscriptive form, and an oath-
bound organization which seeks to turn the
government from its legitimate channel, and
place it in the hands of men whose acts arc
veiled from the public under the sanction of
an oath, and whose National Council is to
decide npou all questions of National poli
cy. If Georgians are prepared thus blindly
to submit to the dictation of a secret con
clave, let them vote the “American!’ ticket;
if not, cast your vote in favor bf the men
arrayed agaiust those who have thu s used
that sacred'name to finch
Got. Jobmnr.
lit all the Voters Remember, { %
Oirtheday of election, thjf the Know No
things, si nee the veil ofsecrecy has been remov
ed, and the Ritual discarded as they say hy the
Know Nothing Order, throughout the State,
are left entirely free to vote as they please.—
It was so stated by C. Peeples, Piesident of
the Council at Athens, on Saturday, the 15th
inst., in the discussion with \V. G. Delony,
Esq., when the question was directly put
to him by. the latter gentleman.
legally claims to l>o an American citi
zen.” • JBHK
these, the real issues of the present day, he
does not tellyis whepier “I brittle in,” or
American Party in Oglethorpe.
At a mooting of tlie American party
of Oglethorhe, hold this day, the follow
ing Preamble and Resolutions wbtc pass
ed, to-wit:
of
National Democracy.
The late large and enthusiastic Democratic
Convention iu Indiana, in passing national
resolves, with sentiments friendly to the
Sduth,' ind resolving to stand by our Consti
tutional rights, come upon us iu these times
of embittered feeling, as pleasant and blessed
the benefits ofHrgrds, lijps the summer shower on the parch
ed earth. They make us feel that we still
love the people of this whole Union—that
upon the National Democratic party rests
alone its security and its safety;
“ Like Hojjio tail clifi' whose awful form "*
Swvllainfhcbrqezp.aud m'nlway leave* the storm,
Though tuund it* brso ihe routine billow* spread,
Eternal suaniline nettles on its head.'' *t
And in Massachusetts, a iandonce proudly j
adorned by a Webstrr and an Everett,
whether, “f do not believe in,” in that let-
i£, which is, as far as wc know, the only
politicaldocument the voters oftfie Sixth Con
gressional District have to base their opin
ions upon! A ntan may be a good citizen
and neighbor, an excellent gentleman in all
the relations of life, but these things cannot
demand our support for n seat- in the next
exciting Congress, over wett^ried, faithful
statesmen, who can eloquently “ give a rea
son for the faith in them.” Know Nothings
in their last gxtremity, have ta^ea up Col
Franklin, and these will vote for him, though
his Virginia Resolutions of *98 and'’99 must
illy suit their taste. Let the people compare
the two candidates. We arc willing to trust
to their decision.
A Know Nothing Trick Exposed.
The Hon. David Irwin, candidate for
fudge of the Blue Ridge Circuit, has been
leforc the people of that Circuit, professedly
as a no-party man—having a profound dis
gust for “ the wild hunt for office,” and par
ticularly for mixing politic^ with judicial
elections. This idea has been kept promi
nently before the people during tliq campaign;
and the Democrats have been vilified and
abused for running a party'man for that office.
It has recently come to light that this pure,
high-minded judge was ndminated hy a regu
lar Convention of Know Nothings in Mari
etta, six months ago; and it would probably
have never been known had it not come out
through a withdrawn member. The Atlanta
Intelligencer very appropriately remarks:
“Whatever, it may be, it surely is not
that open, brave, singleness of purpose, that
the “ pure at heart” is at all times ready to
die by. Ills not that ingenuous candor that
is born of the spirit of trutj). It is not that
scornful avoidance of double dealing and in
direction that should be the guide of manly
honor, and that should be the polar star of him
who guards the sanctuary of tho laws.”
* > • ■—' f
Assuming New Faces.
Whereas^ The American pn:ty
_ . Oglethorpe county have received intelli-
ingto dissever tlie Union. I cannot through thepnl.li?prints, that the
dwell upon thissubjcct. There.may lie
parts of this confederacy that might not
immediately feel the whole force of the
shock, but the separation, should it ever
come, cannot lie bloodless. The fair
banks of the beautiful Ohio would be
stained with gore. Our commerce would
he paralyzed; our lands would be worth
less ; and wc, a border State, would be
left to bear the brunt of intestine war
brought on by the illegal intermeddling
of the fanatics of the North.
Against all these illegal combina
tions the democratic party is arrayed,
and now calls upon every lover of free
dom and constitutional rights to battle
in her cause.
“ The questions are no longer of a
limited or sectional character, but the
broad issue between the democratic par
ty and its opponents is whether the con
stitution shall be obeyed or disregarded,
and on this issue, as the old whig party
is no more, we call on cvcy national
whig to do battle for the common cause
of constitutional freedom. No; the law-
abiding whig party is no more, but the
constitution-loving, law-loving, peace-
loving democratic party is not dean. 25.-
000 of its noble-hearted representatives
are before me. No, it is not dead—
“ Like some tall cliff whose awful form
Swells h the breeze and ni dway leaves
the storm,
Though round its breast the roaring thun
ders spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head.”
Cobb to be adjusted, why then we
fay, it is not only schismatic but factious
conduct, afld we wipe our hands of all
cuch vindication of Southern* Rights.-<-
And if Mr. Franklin looks (pr aid or com
fort from the distinguished influence of
one nearly connected with him he'
“counts without his host. We can
believe that Gov. McDonald,
jtevfir „ p „i se beats true to his see
whqtd? ctw,* r
“ No, when it dies the last hope of
freedom will expire, and anarchy and
despotism will triumph o’er its fall,
After-eloquent speeches from other
gcntlcmen.thc following resolutions were
adopted by acclamation;
“ Wereas, as we have assembled here
to-day as a mass meeting of the national
democracy oflndiana, we deem it more
appropriate to postpone adopting aiiy
resolutions upon State policy until our
next State convention shall be called to
nominate candidates for State offices.
“ Resolved, That we claim with pride
the name of national democrats ; that
wc are ‘ old liners,’ and always expect
rked
to follow the old lines so plainly marl
by flie patriots and sages of the revolu
tion tn the Declaratioii of Independence
and in the constitution of the Uuited
States. Onr name is as unchangeable
as onr principles, and our principles are
as immutable as are the fnnd&tions of
the universe.
“ Resolved, That we annouce our con
tinued hostility to all secret political so
cieties and organizations, os being inim
teal to the genius of our institutions, and
revolting to the pride and manly spirit
of a free and intelligent people; that we
deeply deplore the ‘frequent scenes of
riot, outrage, murder, arson, and desola
tion, which have been occasioned by
these worse eban Jacobin organizations
and that wo appeal to every man who
American party in Convention held in
Augusta on the 5th inst., have nominat
ed Lafayette Lamar, Esq., a candi
date for Congress in the 8th Congress
ional District, in opposition to the lion.
A. H. Stephens, which nomination'they
do hereby most emphatically repudiate
as unwise and unpatriotic :
Be ft resol red. That they have not
been impelled to this course by any want
of respect for the nominee, but having
ever believed that the crisis demanded
that the lion. A. H. Stephens should bo
returned to his post in Congress, they
choose the part of patriotism,rather than
that of partisans. »
Resolved further. That the members
of the American party, contrary to the
oft-repeated misrepresentations of the
public prints and public speakers, have
never sunenderqd the right of exercising
suffrage according to tho dictation of their
conscience and their belief of the public
good.
On motion, the foregoing was ordered
to be published in the Chronicle &- Sen
tinel and Southern Recorder.
A true extract from the minutes.
F. J. Robinson, Secretary.
Lexington, Ga., Sept. 6, IS55.
so disgraced by a late K. N. Legislature^
♦here is yet left a Spartan band of National
patriots, led on and sustained, in long adver
sity by Greene, of the Boston Post, who
deserves much at the Lands of the country.
Five or six hundred dele gates, assembled
at the Democratic Convention at Worcester
on the 5th instant. “Tho resolutions
adopted fully cndoise the National Adminis-
tratjpn-j-dcnounce Know Nothingism with
Imnphasis—compliment Henry A. Wise
Know Nothingism NO Remedy.
Admit, for the moment that there are too
many foreign born and Catholics here, is the
secret Order any remedy ? Know Nothings
say, as in Clemens letter,, that even if de
prived of voting, as many will still come as
before. Here they are; now what relief do
Know Nothings offer ? We will say they,
to show an “ intense American fueling,” go
inton secret place, and swear not Jo vote for
lft<
them. Of course if this short-sigmed policy
The Next Congress.
Senate.—There are sixty members in
the. Senate. Thirty-nine are in favor of
the Nebraska and Kansas Bill, eighteen
opposed to it, with five vacancies to fill.
Alabama and Missouri will unquestion
ably elect anti-Nebraska senators,—
leaving California doubtful. In full the
vote would be 40 for the repeal of the
bill, 20 against it,—assuming that the
Southern Senators who voted agaiust the
bill would yet not vote to disturb it.
House of Representatives.—Of
the members now elected, eightv-five
are Nebraska men. One hundred nnd
twenty six anti-Nebraska. *Four South
ern States are to elect, nHiich will add
23 Nebraska votes, fnaking the aggregate
of votes opposed to the repeal 108—ma
jority of anti-Nebraska members 18* *
for th# bold stand he takes against the “ se
cret party” in Virginia—unequivocally con
demn the Mai**e Law in Massachusetts, and
call upon all democrats and liberal men to
vote for the democratic nominees.”
Let us see who are the National Demo
crats of New York. The true test was laid
down by the Georgia Democratic Conven
tion last June, viz: that “ wc are not wil
ling to affiliate with any party, that shall nob
recognize, approve, and carry out the princi
ples and provisions of tho Nchraska-Kansas
act.” Tho majority of N^t-shell Democrats
have gone with the Freesoil doctrines of. the
New York Know Nothings,and as they have
left us in this our time of need, we are not
of them. There are sound men in this party
particular!j those from and about New York
city. Let them leavo the Freesoil faction
and join the National tnen.
There are the New Yoik Hard Democra
cy, whom the Southern Banner have never
thrown aside, who ate with us on the great
question of tho day. Amid the bowlings
of fanaticism, the seductions of Freesoil
Know Nothingism, they have been firm as
the rock of Gibraltar on the Slavery question.
Gen. T'djlor, on the b.itlle-field of Bgena
Vista, said, “he would never leave his
wounded behind him:” so the south, in its
chivalry and true Amerfcaninm? though she
may fall, will never desert her friends.
gets a majority, and you permit not the
pe
stranger to/ amalgamate tfhd become
part of us, he will, in self-defence have to
form a band with others, persecuted like
himself, and thus, instead of being part and
parcel of onr strength, bound up in the same
bundle of destiny and interests with us, as
is the great idea of America, we have a body
in our midst, disenfranchised to all^ intents
and purposes, ‘by *reasoh N .of their religious
opinions, and by reasonTtf their birth.
If Know Nothings are sincere in being
afraid„of foreigners and Catholics, let them
do away with their Philadelphia Platform,
which offers to the imigrant a “friendly recep
tion and protection,” thus enticing them here
Mr. Greeley, of the Tribune, some
times forgets his isms, and confesses to a
natural prejudice against the association
of whites and negroes. In a recent let
ter, describing the Cremorn Garden at,
London, he says: :
“The English are not skillful in vam-
ishing vice—at least X have seen no.evi
dence of their tact in that line. I have
endured the spectahle of iqen dancinj
with women when rather beery am
smoking, but at las! the sight of a dark
and by no means elegant mulatto, waltz
ing with a decent looking white girl,
while puffing away a rather bad segar,
S roved too much for my Yankee preju
ice and I started.”
Stribbling G. Cato, of Ala., has been
appointed Associate Justice of Kansas
vice Elmore removed.
nave we Stato Pride ?
The people at heart are right; and they
will sustain that which they honestly con
ceive to be for thn honor and interest of th<£
country. Hot-headed politicians will, in
times of excitement, vote for the candidate
of their party, right or wrong, whether an
able fit man ora blank. But there are many
honest plain men who are not lead away by
this prejudice who will sustain the man that
they believe the most capable, and who will
repfesenfc the State with the mos^ credit.—
Let us look at the Congressional Districts
around here, and see which party offers us
the ablest statesmen, the most wise and
reliable men., In the 8th District, there is
the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, whose
fatue is national, and who stands as an orator
and a statesman in the very first rank in
America^ - -
Who have the Know Nothings nominated
in opposition to him? Mr. LaFaytUe Lamar,
of Lincoln county, an estimable, high-toned
gentleman; but' the idea of sending him to
Washington over the head of Stephens could
enter no brain, but that of the most intense
bigoted Know Nothing. The people hare
the jjood common sense to know 'who
to make a degraded caste of them, aud-^ome
out boldly in open day and say they shall not
and upon our soil. Their secret proscription
is no defense against the dangers they conjure
up. if the stranger is to live amoffg us, let
him become identified by the rights and privi
leges which ennoble man. Don’t build up
a Chinese wall between the heart, affections
and associations of himself and ourselves.
rAgain, has Know Noihingism stopped the
spread of Catholicism ? No. It has done
more to call it into notice, to strengthen it, and
build it up than any thing else. Persecution
has made the weak in the faith—strong,
zealous supporters. It has ny its secret
s vont proscription rallied to its defence the
liberal minds of the nation, who stantftiy the
great Constitutional idea of civil and reli
gious liberty, tRat no religious lest shall be
required for any office. That Barker, free
soil to the hack-hone, and such confreres,
should get into a cavern or seqret hiding
place in the North, and concoct a system of
government adapted to the great progress
and giant strides of America is hardly credi
ble. That any Southern man should ha7e
been tickled^with his grips and signs, and
spocious words is indeed miraculous. But
thank Heaven, the Southern elections have
torn aside the veil which hides the serpent.
Cur people still believe that the great ques
tions which are ta shape the destiny of our
common country, can still be met and ex
pounded by our wise, great, and good states
man in open day, as they have been in the
olden time.
F«r an army to change its front in the hour
of battle is an e- idence of its weakness; and
the last dodges of Sun—some sending hack
their charters to Wm^ Hone, and some
^browing off the secrecy, some retaining’the
Lodges* as “valuable suxileries”—all show
that^the sworn Order, ill its last extremity, is
like a drowning man catching at straws; but
the great wave pf Southern public opinion
will soon roll over them forever. Sain, in
some places, now cries out, that we have
given up the oaths nnd Rituals, and grips,
and are now the “American” party, and that
injustice is done to charge these things on
them. Gentlemen, you fought wife, your
secret Lodges until public indignation whip
ped it out of you, and you deserve no credit,'
with defeat staring you in the face, to say
“We drop then.” You may sty out bloody
spot, but -there it remains. You inay cry
we have no oaths, but we have read them.
The stripes on the coon are there still.
We wish the voters to remember that
Judge Andrews, in Augusta, attempted to
justify these oaths, that they are right—like
a drunkard's oath, that they are necessary to
keep him in the way he has promised. Are
Americans so debased, that they must he
sworn on ihc Bible, to enable them at the polls
to act rightly and honestly ? And will Geor
gians support the man, who puts upon their
reputation such a slander ? The oaths are, in
most places, being abandoned, but the vener
able Judge of Universalist memory is trying'
to defend them. Why don’t some of his
friends take. pity on, and tell him he i9 be
hind even tlie movements of his own party.
-Are such teachings of Judge Andrews dem
ocratic or republican? Does it show a belief
in the people of their capability for self-
government ? No, sir! It is an insult to
the intelligence, tha worth, the honesty of the
masses. It is pure Federalism. Let Geor
gians at the ballot-box crush such teachings.
ditcharged the duties of his office to the hon
or and interest of Georgia, an approving
public will, in October, triumphantly re
elect him to the same proud position, as the
head of the Empire State of the South. It
is the fortune of our great men to be assailed
and the Know' Nothings have so acted te
Gov. Johnson, with cven’vindictiveness; but
from every charge he stands triqmphantly
acquitted, like pore gold from the furnace*—
It was published that he agreed in 1853, to
meet Mr. Jenkins in Sparta and canvass the
State together, but that he failed to keep his
agreement, and went tq South-Western
Georgia alone and addressed the people iq
Jenkin’s absence.
Jenkins immediately wrote a letter that
the charge against Qov. Johnson was false.
It was again said that. Got. Johnson had
documents printed in Rome, in 1853, and
then refused to pay for them. Mr. Dodd, of
the Southerner, at whose office the work was
done, writes adette’r which completely erW
crates Gov. Johnson from that slander.
The Know N othing press, gotTip a report
about one A. G. Adams and the entering a
tracts, of land at Milledgevitle. This ’ has-
been proved an utter falsehood.
The Know Nothing press have talked
much of the “Cooper Bargain” a fid thfe State
Road. -The letters of Msj(-Ct>Op9c*n that
subject, are a complete vindication of Gov-
Johnson. The honest masses will sustain
the reputation- of our worthy Governor.—
When has Gov. Johnson been found wanting
upon any question ? The people know he
is the man for this time, or for any emer
gency.
There is now circulating a ridiculous story
yibout the selling of Slate Road Cars a t
Chattanooga. - When the higher Courts set.
tic that the debt is just against the State,
Gov. Johnson will see that the Superinten
dent pays it, and docs what is right in the
matter; but he is not going ta pay out our
money to those little Courts and its claimants
around Chattanooga, so thtft if.we do recover
we cannot get the moneyHlgain. The Can
and Depot, they can-t run away with. Don't
believe these slanders which they spriq
just on tlie evp ot an election. IFthe Soper,
intendent has neglected any of -hid duty ji
attending to these things, Gov.-Johnaon will
straighten the whole affahf * 5a4 V ;l1
The Journal 4' Messenger,- even in ity op
position, was compelled to admit that Bor
Johnson had made “a good—yes, a very
good governor.” The verdict in October
with his great majorities over both Orerfcy
and Andrews, will “well done, good and
•faithful servsnt.”
Beaulies of Know JiolIiingisiB.
A gentleman of Jackson county, and i
member of the Methodist Church, say9 that
he joined the Know Nothingsand took their
oaths, and that now he would give aoy
amount in' his power to' be relieved thus
them. They hang upon him with a le-drn
weight, and he no longer fuels that he ii»
freeman. He lias never felt iree since hr
joined the organization. He desires to rotr
for Cobb, but thinks he cannot... Y>'e hare so
doubt that unscrupulous membetjp of the or
der will hold these up to many an hrneu
man, and attempt thereby to controHn*-rote;
but we would say to all such, throw off thee*
shackles and be free again. Mr. Pccplci, ,
tlie “Commander” of the order in A then, .(
staled the other day, in a speech, when tbit *
cueslion was made directly to him, that the |
oaths were now removed, and that they and r
vote, as they pleased.. Wc hope that the gm-
tlenian in question, and all others who in
galled by the Know Nothing chain, willtair* '-
him at his word.
II the Lodges do not meet, put yoor rela
tion in the Post Office, directed to the l‘rt»P
dent of the Lodge and this will separate jn -.
from them.
Again’gentlemen,say you have been iwen N
to vote for a third degree member—d* q
present Know-Nothing .candidate forCw- 0 *
Tbc Pestilence in \orlolk and Ports-
900th.
ft. view of the app&Iling accounts daily re
ceived from these streken cities, we propose
to open a subscription at our office for the
contributions, of the benevolent, that we may
unite in the work of merej^ will those who
are so nobly endeavoring to relieve the sick
comfort the dying, and give-food to the starv
ing. Whatever we may be fortunate enough
to receive, will be forwarded, next week
through the Howard Association say
Charleston. Blest, as we are, in abounding
plenty, and health,v:an any grateful heart re
fuse to aid the suffering and perislting ?
gress, Col. Franklin, h>* not'been in»I
and so you are under no obligation to wltf
him. Men may endeavor to hold yout
over you to force you to support hin,
<*11
show them you have an idea of your j
what binds you, and that you are no* *
chained as to have lost all personal in^
pendence. „
At Elherton Superior Court, romnitnciq -
3d Monday in September, T. 8. DAXua"^ i
admitted to plead and practice, with »H
Solicitor w >
privileges of an Attorney,
Counsellor at Law.
Overby a Know Nothin?
Recollect if you vote for Overby, ytteO
for a Know Sothtny. He entered the vk
in those djys when people were juw» t*-'
He took their oaths, and was voted !=’ ’ |
the secret Macon Convention, as accndi ’
for Governor. You may not. like to go* 1 -
the Democracy, or with Know Noiki*£
and so vote on the TeaTpcrfeRce Qucsa -
Overby ; hut if you believe ,in the grea
trine of civil and religious liberty-^
not your vote away on this Know .
He cannot be elected, and if y 00 arf '
ocrat why lose your vote, that '
Andrews, may come one nearer w
hor Johnson. Let the victory be •*
Sam will never come under any •
ern disguises into Georgia.
ty Let thq. people remember, that the
Know Nothings have not succeeded in sus
taining themselves in ttya successive elec
tions; One trial, when successful, has been
sufficient to open the eyes of the people to
their pretences,and their real principles when
in offic?. They publicly profess religious
toleration, but are sworn in secret tmt to
vote for a man of a certain religion. Xike
Lucifer, they may have succeeded by specious
words for awhile, but like him, they now
“ F»U to ri»e to no more.”
The election is nefir at band. Let the i 8 m and they were true, for we ha*"*'
l.. mAn irttin wore initu^
Col. Franklin the K. N. Candidate
We wish the voters of the Sixth District
to understand plainly, that Col. Franklin is
supported by the Know Nothings—his name
is in their party papers as the “ American
Candidate,” and thongh not initiated iRto
the order, he it the Know Nothing Candidate.
His election would be a Know-nothing tri
umph, and let Democrats and Republican
Whigs remember this at the polks. Outside
< f the Order and its sympathisers, we*do not
think he wilLreceive twenty votes, and those
-will be from persoual considerations. We*
venture the prediction that the Hon. v Howell
Cobb will be elected by 3000 majority, and
wqshall not he butpeised if it goes up jp
3500. *
Democracy and Republican Whigs bfevigi-
lant. They may try to spring some trap on
ytuigpn the' eve of an election; be ye
not decei
f
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ceived hy theqt.
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its able Faewliy, see theit advertisement in
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The Templars or CbiearooB*
Read on cur first page the expesuret^
new infamous Order of Tom plat*.
up by Know Nothings, if not / r0!B f( ji
Nothingism. Some may say .
them is a humbug, but we l"*" ^ I
original oaths,'etc., of old Ivnow^^-
informed by men who were inw ^
tlift'Onlflr- Let each one read,» ...
the Order. Let e«ch one
see the dangerous tendency of <
• Remember the question of Removal or No
Removal to be voted on in October*-' If you
wish the Capitol changed say so on youi tick
et aiffl "'here to. If not vote No Removal.
OLL tuu U'*ll-V S - %M # J
ingistri; for the; human mind t» P . ^ .
into ultraism. Know Nothing!*® ^ j
quered, but it has. sown, evil **- ‘JjjM
land will long be cursed with ever . m
secret sworn political _ s0C *Vi -pi
men who, before,the
will be seeking, preferment '
band- May Georgia be ** ved ^ ,
of a “CKicaroon”—she has t?
in reputation, from, the addftf^,^^
Hone, President of Know »
he advised, to keep were* d** 1 * 06 *
enter tha council.of the enemy-
To Corresponding
We hava a number of cotu®“" #
iavbulolycro^ 90 -
hand which are um
week.