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Snow Hothingira Exposed.
That ntr rtadrrs iwav la> u* well posted up
apnn the subject ..f Know Noihingisiu a* llicir
nriflilt i* we give Ulnwwh.it purjv.irf* to lx* nit
ifiwllhiu of the obligation* i.| ahe first. second
inti third degiecs of the order ‘I lip initial* <1 will .
I uMe to judge nf the pnrrrcln s* of ilie exp si
lem, wbilv outsider* will |*ml My find nothing
very WUputriotic wherewith to condemn (he Know
N4llUl|t*, If they should Incline to swnllow what
ithteihd In inference to them a* Gospel truth :
From the lemtsnllt J >umaJ■
lthiltTlxTKnrTiNG Docimint ir flrni isr.
Wo httee often stated. upon the nnthority of In
ftdWmUon whieh w helieve to le entirely nuthen
tic. thin (he Know Nothing or American party ol
t!i country d’ pto lni *ure* few month* ego
in it* National Cooneil for e*thlifliing n<l socu
ling it* own nationality of character everywhere
tlOMglMt the Union We have not known how
ever, whether wc should Imre an opporlifnity Inlay
before the tropin of the nution tin- proof which
we folly helirrcd to le in etiotenee. The nppur |
twoiiy **• at length offi-ra I n<—that I*, if an enemy
nf the Knew Nothing* i* to bo !>clit ved, und we
gladly avail raiiwlve* of it
The eilitor of the I‘ittaLurg fl.itelte. who i* an
enemy of the American party. ha*. lie *.iy*. got
p**ea>im> of one of the 1-a.k* in whieh the tile*
of thn order are eon tamed, und publishes what he
asserts to lat “the genuine It it >• I ol the Firrt.
8 corn! and ’'liinl Degrees a* rmw udiiimitcrid
in the seyorul eouneila.” lie doe* not ti ll how lie
name into it*scs*ion of the Kitunl, lait another
I’itlahug editor etatea that it wua among the eon j
tent* of a loat isa-kit lsk whieh the Under took
to the eilitor of the (Jaxette. who ahatrarteil the
and ..mn nt therefrom and laid it he ,ire the public
Whether the alsornetion of a document from n
loat pis-kct laaik for snail a pnrpoae ia an art of
theft or of honesty. and whether the liocument, no
pnhiiahed. ia a forgery or a genuine |>a[>er. wo pro
tend not to d"eidc. hut we do* v tl at. naauining
tli* Aiewmetlt to I* perfectly authentic unit genu
ine, it afford* the nm*t ev. rwhidming nationality
of the American |wrty that could possibly lie pro
eented to men * min i* If ‘the evidence hith rto
giren an* not wholly mti*factory. the desideratum
i* now supplied hy an enmy. !.et u see what
thi* • Ritual “ o called, ia
The oilier obligation imp wed on members of
the Kirst and S>in'l Dog crn ts. aoc'inhng t*> tin*
publication in tlie I'lttahurg p iper !;> support im
tive-htim Am"rirtin citixonn for nil offices iif honor,
trust or jiinflt in the gift of the |ie ‘pie. to the exciu
■ion of foreigners it'i’t aliens, Umn in ( at holies in
particular, nud without regard to party prcddoo
tionn. ii'nl to dicin'oo rnrcigO"rn mi l lloinin Catli
olion from office when the power to do *n in pos
•"**cd Irjr thorn taking the obligation Ihit it in
•o the Kitii'il of tin! Third Degree. on here given
to the world, that wo pirtieiilirly desire to coll
th( public iittrntion mill to invite the pnldir eeru
tiny The wlmlo country will noe on rending it.
th.it it onilenlinn whether genuine or not the
•tro'igent nnd m int solemn ant'* Northern nholition
ohligitionn iind the strongest mid most eoleinn
anti Hoiithern ni'i'i'*sion obligations llmt rniild In’
ndmininter and •in tlm pr>*neni'e of Mm glity (Iml
All .eh id I,” tu"mhi>m of the Anierii'uii order :
*n could lie driven mil from it hy n distinct on
n mnooinent of mem mid undying oppoMiion to
the denignn mid purjawen of the Ahnlitintibtn und |
Free*m|or< inu-t if thin piiMint on ■ true, hove
abandoned if nm ithn ego lor wrdn onnM not
preee a more deterin ned opposition to aneli den gon
nn I piirn-wn than in cX’Hvsnod ill tlnn obligation
of thn I bird Itogre - n'nl in the i l"<|u iit and ini
premie'charge that follow< it Fellow ciiuenn
yon know wh it liu n n I| itur-’ in an I limy nmnt
men regard the awful Silrmnitii'n or an iiith. and.
if nny editor of any iiilly undertaken ti tell you
th it tl> manner of I lion.’ men. wlionuv’ taken
■uuh an obligati ai an we are a out to lay iM-fore ;
yon from the I'itt-hurg (taper. arc vbolitionintn, or
th it th'r fivor tlm denignn of thcYrcesoilor*. or
that they are the eneoiirugern of ngitnlion upon |
the nuhj’ ot nf slavery. you utiv a ell treat the an
•ertiiai W'tll the room mid eon eulpt due to men
daC'ty and calumny Whatever may lie the er
ror* of heK nor Not Jugs. the manses are at leant j
national in tle ir p rpnsns. as they are even me
miM lining their witness leniod ion ti<ainhty hy
tic* tout the boldest in.in would tremble to never
or disregard.
Herein the document of which ft hare hern
rking, anal we n”eal not invite to it the nttcii
of the Amerieuii party a friendn or the Aine
rio*n party a enumien! It in a clincher -a paru
lj*-*r of anti-American tongues -a *h utter up of
oaff-Niolitn mouths:
RltlUL # TIIE Tllinra fIEOREE
Ttittn Degree Cop mil -The I'renident nd
miniatcrv to the candid iten elect the following
O>UC ITIOK*.
You and ettoh of you. of your own free will ami
•coord, in the prenoncc of Almi hiv (bid and tliene
wihnrmn with your liiitidn juineil in token of that
fraternal affection which nltoold ever hind toget> or
Wi* KUttW of tin* Union. lorining a ring, in token
of your determination that, mi far an your efforts
M avail, this Union ahull have no end. do sol
•wMity and ainoerely ewear (or affirm ) that you
wiU MM undue any circumstances. dim-lone in any
tanner, nor aoffer it to lie done by olhera if ill
for power to prevent it. the name, nigun. pan* !
WUrda or other thin Degree, exeept to
thaiirjluwhfrpt you atar'pruve ,m trial to he brie
tfuruof tiu MUM Deg! I'O. or in o|nn council ‘or
; (hut you do hereby
WHHy declare yNkM and. union to the Union iif
then* ■'-tats* ; thut in tlW^jyhni gn|JlWr duly
•a American uitix n* yH wH!
•ad tHWid it; that you will discourage and din |
•••nMltance a y attempt eoniing from any ami
quarter, wnicli you ludieve to b” designed or
•JowUt dto destroy; nr auhvert it. or to weaken
Hthtnfi; anil that you will um> your influence.
a* in your power, in en learn” ng to procure
M>|niaaMa and eqnitahle adjustment if alt po|it
ttHMMffinta or Uifferetteen. wliieh may threaten
ilt’iiliHrllMtf *' ll^ll V"U do fui titer promise
~ yT': * ’vV.i\l',Bfe*J,'m)\ I ',Bfe*J , 'm) ~," t wII m l f.,r uny
Tpjtt's f honor. nr profit, nr trust, of
ttfW. whom you know it Mir re
PWWfe Ilw Union of tbeer
(Mm. nr ywyluee Ural re
•wit; that you
f>Kwi] office# tnnWr Union OsKno^Hpßl
*We order in preference to ,i|t iff
U wmj be (lone consist! ntly with the Constitution
|*Mir of the land. you will when elected or 1
■lipuiati and In uny official station, which may confer!
•you tlie power to ilo so, reniore from offi.-o or
■MM. all persons whom you know or believe to Is* j
la favor of a dissolution of the Union, or who ure
endeavoring In produce that result: and that you
•I# la no ease appoint such persons to uny polit-!
Iml tffitoe ur plioe whatever. All thi* you prom ‘
iMaa4 swear (or affirm) unon your'honor as
A user loan oitix'iix and friends of the American,
Union, to sustain anil abide hy without uny hesi-i
Mdan ur mental ro.ervmi. ii whatever Vou als"!
praMint and swear <■ affirm) tint this, and all 1
(A# uWifili'Si* which you hare prevent ly tolt n 1
fc> ffirf# Clrd-v. shall ever Ist kepi sier and and Wvio
hit. To all thi* yu pledge your lives, your for- 1
tMN and vuar iwnl honors. Si lodp you G<*l
** steadfast. | t ich one shull answer,
After the candidate* have I teen instrneteil in tlio J
MMWiIm of this third degree of tin* 1 >nlrr. thef
MMMriag oh trgn isgiv-n by the IWident:
. Saar If CM: Mia with irr -at pleasure that I com 1
MMhts von op *n v ur advancement to the Th rtl 1
MpH *t our • trl’T. TJie nopsuiliiiitjis you
ftaae auw assumed are inoro o.ioas uud weighty
! than tlmsc which preceded, und ore committed to
*nch t niy a* have la-cn tried und found worthy
Gur obligation* ere intended a* solemn avowal* of
our duty to the land that gave ne birth ; to the.
■ncmoiie* ol our fiitlier*; und to the happiness]
and welfare of our children. t oneerating toyour;
country n spirit unselfish und a fidelity like that
which distinguished the pntriote iif the Involu
tion. you have pli-ilged yiair aid in cmienling the )
I*.ml* ol a I’nion whitli we trut will endure for- j
ever. Your ileporiiio nl rince your initiation hna’
| nitrated your devotion to the principle* we denirej
to establish and li ,* itiKpired a confidence in your
patriotism. of wli ch we can’ give no higher proof
thun your riccption here.
I’lied ingi ra wliicli tlireaten American l.ilierty
arises from ha;” without, and from i-nemie* w ithin j
The lirt Ilegrci- pointed out the source and nature
> of our moat imminent |H-ril. and indicated the fir*t j
measure of a.ifely The aecoin! degree denned the j
i next me ilia l>y which in coming time. *ueli awaiilt* 1
may l< rendered liarmleaa The third degree, j
winch you have juat received, not only reiterate*’
the [caaon of the oilier two. hut it ia intended to j
avoid anl provide for u more remote hut mi lemj
terrible danger from domcntic eticmle* tanur free
inalllull ii- *
Our object i* briefly thia: TANARUS perfect an organ
ixati n. uoaiolerl alter that of the Constitution of
the I'nited Mate*, und eoextenaive with the con
federacy It* object mol principle* in nil mutter* i
of national concern, to he uniform nod identical,
whilat in all local matter*, the component partaj
ahull remain independent and sovereign within
their respective limit*
Ihe great result to lie ohtnined—the only one
which n secure a perfect guaranty u* to oar fa- !
ture —ia Inion . permanent, endurin.', fraternal j
Union! Allow me then tn impress upon your minds
and memories the touching sentiments of the Fa
ther • f liis country m his farewell address : -Tiioi
Unity of Governin'nt which constitutes you one
people.” say* Washington. • is justly dear to you.
i'or it ia the main pillar in the edifice of your real j
ntdiqandcnce the support of your tranquility at
home, of your peace ahroitd. of your safety. |
nmr prosperity, even that liberty you so justly
pr zo
* * It i* ofiiifinito moment tlmt you should
properly estimate the immense value of vour Nu |
tionul Union, to your collective and individual,
happiness. You -hoiitd cherish ti cordial. linhitu-!
al. and iinuioviihlo iitlnchmeot to it, to think nod j
speak o| it as the palfa ‘uni of your political sife
ty, und prosperity : watching for it* preservation j
with jealous anxiety ; di-count* •mincing whatever j
may suggest evenjy suspicion tlniLvt-ratn—hi liny |
c *• ti I tic. Tui rnluind! and indignantly Irowning op |
on the first downing of evciy attempt to alienate!
any portion of our country jroip the rest, or to en- j
feeble the aucred lies which now hind together the j
various part* ‘
Let ttiese word* of paternal advice and warning j
from the greatest niun that ever lived, sink dorp;
into your hciirts ! ( licrisl, tlum ami teach your;
i hiliircii to reverence then, us you cherish und re |
vcrcncc the iiicoory **f Washington hiinself ‘I lie
Union of these States i< I lie great conservator of|
liisrty so d-ar to the A hot call heart Without
it. our greatness. ~’ u nution, would disupis'iir
mi I our Imusirit s< If government proven signal)
failuio ihe very name oi ■ ilierty. and the hopes i
of struggling freedom throughout the world, must j
perish in the wreck of this Union ! Ih-vote your ;
self, tluui to its maiiifaiinim'e. us our fathers did!
to the cniisc of iinlependeiiee . consecrnting to its|
support, a- you have svv,.rn to do. your lives, your i
fortunes and your s.icre*) honor!
Krothcrs ! Iterallifyg ti I your mi fids the solemn !
ohligationa which, you have severally taken in this;
ami tin’
untiflrd t<> nil tin* h ot UK'iiilrfMttltip in
orgiiiiiE-ition . nn>l r.ik • | h in informing you
tlmt you aru now
The Na>!ivillu lhmmr of tin* Bth inst, oopiod !
tho fnrogoiiis artiilo from tlio Louisville Jounml
and tlie- next (lay tlie'Jtli, the Banner had the fid j
lowing iii tide :
VVc republished yesterday prefaced hy an editori
al eommentary of the l.oii.svillu Jniirn il. extracts
from certain il'iciitmhls recently patdislicd in the
I‘ittsbnrg Gnx"tte, vvlueLitUat p ipor all edged were
truly Copied from one of the hooksoi the Jiiierioan
party and which constitiiti and “the genuine Ritual i
;of the First. Seen and and lliird Degrees no v ad
ministered in the se crnl Councilsl Inin thi*
■ Rilu and of tho I bird D< gree. ’ n* published hy the
tin-tie. nothing could'e more national. Well j
might the Journal pronounce it *• highly interest
ing document, if genuine ” \\ ell might the Jour
nal proclaim it. if genuine, a ** timelier -n pu nly
xer of anti American tongues ‘ The question
therefore, ol it* genuine nr**, is one of the deepest
interest and highest importance. The Gazette, a
strong Free-oil anti Know* Nothing paper insist*
that it i* genuine, and tells how it c.imc into it*
possession.
. •—■ —-——— -l
National Washington Mommknt—The Board,
of Manager* of tho Tund have issued an addrews in
which they make tin* following appeal for means
to complete the Monument :
Anew lamed of Manager* have now l>eon ap
pointed. Wo como info office under favorable j
auspice*, and with well founded hope* of moans to j
pro ecu to tho work Since our election, on the
22d ol February last, wo have not Imon idle Oar j
arrangements have l**en began, and arc in progress .
We appeal to tlir people. Wo wish no legislative ;
aid We haik to tVe. l hearts : ,we cull upon till. 1
not the liberal and tho generous alone. We'call |
upon each limn who thin diy walk* erect in all
the punnpoly of Irtcdom in this hriaul land, who!
i* not dead to tho eouinuui impulses of Immunity. |
who is worthy in the lea-t degree of the count) *s
and diversified blessing* by which lie i* surround- !
ed. w c call upon men cv ryw hore to contribute
caul* Ilia mite A great and mighty people of
-twenty #• million* cannot l>e no dead to the son
•ouafi* which an* innate in ovary breast nt the bare
miming of suck a benefactor as to refuse or neglect
to give their aid in sueli a cause
l-et every man. then, wlm feel* lii* heart heat
with American pulsation-, und every man who re
i vere* the name of rt nshington. singly or in com
panion, enmmunitiute directly with our .Verotary
and itend in hi* contidhution to our Treasurer, or
suggest a mode for its collection.
Grand Jmv I’ueskntnknt or the Know
Nothin os — The Grand Jury ul Monroe Countv.
after an investigation held by direction of the
Unrt, have presented all aitcrel combination’
nction, laU*#anmraa illemlan.l
wgiiilbilioiy 111 i jhanmi’M■
in *tlfl)lfeM | l.ili |, ii of the statute in j
relation the law was designed to
protect ami every elector in a free ami]
voluntary clmiiv in easting his hnllol, and to ul- 1
low every citizen. otherwise wortln, to lie a prop- 1
it stihjeel of sneli suffrage. Five of the Grand
Jury make a dissenting report, stating that after
investigation ot the doings am! savings of secret
| mlitie.il organizations, they have iiot lieeli aide
to find that any of them had stifled or suppressed ■
•ree speech and liberal diseussion, or violated
the election laws, i
| End or tiikiQitimvn KxesnirtoN.—lt is stat
l ed that at a meeting of the Cuban Junta, held at
New Orleans on the 20th till.. General John A.!
■Quitman handed in his resignation ax eomuian- i
der in ehiefof the expedition which has been sol
i long organized against Cuba. All of the Atner- ]
j ican officers who held commission* in this Quit- ‘
Lilian army have also resigned, am) the Jnn'a il
| self hits lieeli formally dissolved Thus ends
1 the, Quitman expedition and the Cabanexccutlvel
c oineil, nn end vvhielr. it is idlcdgx| thev, allrib-1
u’e to the determined opjsisitioii of l'rcujileut
Pierce and his cabiucl. j
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY MORKIJTG. MAY 19, 1855.
• Brn * Bi **,•’ r.T it —We cannot permit the ]
; reflection upon our gallantry, contained in “Boccu j
BungaV note to the Kditor. to pas* iinretaliatcd..
i Her implied suspicion Unit our lip* are not her- j
| metieully sealed ujsm the confidences of female ,
correspondent*, ran only be atoned for hy u prompt
compliance with ll,e rule. We would not lav ini
portunatr, hut ‘ Becca ’ must Is* conscious of owing
ns atonement, uml we trust she will lift tier veil
lout. The delay of another week, whieh the
’ crowded state of our column* enforces, will giie
her nn opfsirtunity to make the nrurwie h ninttililr. 1
, There are oilier communications which vve nre
j compelled to lay over until next week.
Mr. Stephens’ Letter.
Our Democratic friends of Uriflin having conde- |
! cendinglv 1 oluntecred to read for their follow eiti
xrn*. ournelf among the nutnhey, the letter of lion j
A 11. Stephen* against Know Nothingism. we
presume it is expeeted that we will ni'khowledge ;
the courtesy hy no elaborate exposition of our ,
opinion of it. Such, however, is not our design, j
, Wc arc happy in the belief that .Mr Stephens will, i
once nt lenst, have justice done him by bis politi- j
[ cnl enemies, nod thut the Democratic press will so !
! overdo the part of eu ogista. aa to leave nothing ‘
• for hi* party frienila t*i say MV have too long es- |
i teemed Mr Stephens a head a,nd shoulders above
I any man in the Democratic ranks, to quarrel with |
! him now for forcing them to admit the fact, even
though we cannot concur in all of his opinions |
i To us i*. is a triumph to see Democracy bend the |
knee nf homage to Ai.i:\ vmii.u II Si kiuikxs—j
1 the man against whom they have literally waged
| a war to the boi/r. To find i e r ring- lenders plan j
I ning from liohind a “masked battery'’ (for tiny
! timi have their secrets') the propagation of “l.itt e •
I Aleck s ‘ political views among the rank and file
| of the Unterrified.’ ia ind-'ed somethitn; for Whigs
to be proud of We appreciate the embarrassment [
of a position which tenders it necessity for tln-m
to make nscof catspavv Whig* at first, as a s.lvo j
to the pride of Democracy, and pu li them fnrwuid ,
in a scheme for S'rplu'ni -1 the anti-StepVieiiites. i
The masses of the party, retaining a faint rvcollec- ‘
tion * f the vituperative abuse heaped upon .Mr
Step lien* hy the very press and lenders who are
now about to become his most obsequious eulogists, i
will need a little drilling before they can he per- i
suaded to link their judgment to the train of his !
political opinion*. They must not he surprised ,
even to find those of their own party’ leaders, who i
not only ‘ approved'’ hut were “highly delighted ‘
with “ Mr Pierce's appointments, now commend
ing the letter of Mr. Stephens, which unerpiivo
rally condemns those appointments; f. r he at- 1
tributes as tending to aid the Kpovv Nothing
movement, “the appointment, of so many foreign- j
ers, who/hi unfit, not only to minor offices at home. |
hut turepresent our country as Ministers abroad “
lie also asserts that “great frauds and great aims- !
i es ntteml the present udmihistiation of-ourii.ititral
i ixation laws,” and assumes that they * nujit to he J
1 corrected. '’
■ Surely if Democracy can applaud this censure of \
its own administration. Whig* and Know Noth- ]
; ings may well ..fford to treat leniently any differ- j
cnee of opinion which may exist between them
and Mr. Stephens. The Whigs, as a class, arc !
proverbially tenacious of their own opinion*, and j
ultln ugh they have been characterised as --man j
worshippers,’ it is will known that they follow!
the h-ad of no mail whose opinions are essentially
jat v irieocirwftli their own. While they have re- j
quently deferred to the judgment of men in whom ]
pliiCTtl implicit oimft lenc*', upon matters nf j
pnlitifii] (‘ipcdiuncy, tlny never liuv** Leon nr :
| never wiil Le hlvcn to the opinion of mere party
| lemler*. Much us they admire Mr. St*p!iens 1
tin y will not follow him one step further than the !
; <liuU4e* of their own shall prompt. If j
. they In-lievr. ns doubtless many of them do. und
as Mr Stephens l imits, that the American move !
meat ha* resulted from the prevalence of pa- ;
litieal abuses and and is necessary !
to their reform, t ey will give it their hear- ]
ty approval Os the pnrpises of the new par ]
1 ty they are ns competent to judge as Mr Stephens i
; is. for its platform of principles has heen present- I
;ed to the public, ns will he any modifications or ;
! additions w hich the interests, of the American jwo- I
f |de may seem to demand Mr. Stephen* has act- :
ed and sympathized with the Whigs too long not ]
i to understand that noble trait in their character
which prompts them to investigate all new ques- i
I tions affecting the public interest, and accept or 1
’ reject them, according to the dictates of their own
judgment. It he can. without a sacrifice of piio
; eiple. agree with them, lie will do so. Indeed, we 1
h ive an indirect assurance of his co-operation even !
I with the American party of the South, in the fob ,
lowing possugo from his letter, with which we ;
i slmll close for the present :
, “VVlint our Georgia friends, whether Whig* or |
Democrats, wlm have gone into this “New Order.” i
nre really after, or wlutt they intend to do. I can- I
not imagine. Thuve of them whom 1 know have I
nssured me that their object is reform, both in onr .
State und Federal Administrations—to put better j
und truer men in the places of those who now i
wield nnthority - tlmt thej have no sympathies ns !
party men or otherwise with that class I speaK of
nt the North—that they are lor sustaining the !
Union platform of our Btute of 1850 and that tlm >
mask of seorecy will stsm lie removed when all
will lie made public. If these he their ohj. .-t*. und
also to check the frauds and correct tin- nbuses in j
the existing natural aation laws, which I have
mentioned without the indiaorimimitc proscription i
of pny class of citisensun account of their hii th
place or .religion, then they will have my on ;
! “peranfm #*yl bare told BitM-Ai every projatr
and legitimate wtyr. to uffeefiTMeh s rctm ina- I
(ion” ,<■;
; ’•Tkmptation. or Httins sty
J. Frederick Smith, uutlrhr of Stanfield Hall.
Amy Lawrence. Minnie fTn>, &c Garrett &
Cos . IS Ann street. ,V V . ptildiobm
We are indehted to the politeness of tiiTptrtfllsh
; ers for a copy of the iilmve work and when wesny
that, vvitli our laittor judgment arrayed against
that branch of literature which snltscrvcs no prac
tical! useful end. we have read it through with
i unusual interest, we pay it a compliment which
j the habitual novel reader will appreciate. “How.
ever questionable the morality of any .work which
aims no higher then the gratification of a morbid
appetite for the ideal, we do not feel called upon
to attempt a reform of pnblie taste in that partic
ular. “Temptation'’ onco commenced will be
read through with deep intercat. The book will
be found at the Book Stdre of Messrs Richards
fit Brothers, Hill street
j - - l IT— Tjh
1 The Hightower (hobor.--The new Bridge
acme* the Hightower river is now in a condition
to permit the train# of the State Railroad to pass
over without danger.
Southern Baptist ConTextion*
Wc are indebted to the politene*of Rev J. H.
Cvxpaxu for file*of the Montgomery papers, con
taining the daily proceedings of the Southern Bap
! tist Convention in that city. Our space will not
! [*•_£ mit a detailed statement of the transactions of
i that body. The Convention commenced its es
-1 sion on Friday the 11th inst . Rev. R B. C. How
! ell. D D . of Virginia. President, and adjourned
Tuesday evening, the 15th. The fol owlng States j
were represented ; Maryland. District of Colum
hiu. V rginia. North Carolina! Fouth Carolina.,
! (Jeorgia, Al. Inina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ken-J
tucky, laruiaiann and Horivl*. The business id
the first dav was limited to the reception of dele
gates, appoindng committees, reading repoits. &c
On Saturday, the Southern Baptist Publication
Nrcicty was in session. Among the transactions
of Monday, wc find the following :
Rev. W C. Crane moved the adoption of the
! following resolution, whieh was adopted ;
Resolved, that a committee of one from each
I State he appointed to draft u memorial to the
President and Senate ol the United States, prny
; ing that the same religious liberty shall be gutir.
! nntoed by the treaties existing between this and
; Foreign Naiions, and hy treaties hereafter formed
; to American citixens residing in Foreign lands.
under the flag of our country which is guaranteed
, to all foreigners residing on American soil
Messrs Burrows, Foster. Bennett. Williams. Io
; hey, Waller. Holmes, Farrar. Sanvlidge, Duncan
and Mercer, were appointed on said committee
Os the last day's proceedings, (Tuesday) we
have only time to give the following nominations;
Fohkign Mission Boakh. Kislimond. Va Rev.
.1. It. .liter, D. D. Prc-udent ; Rev James B Tuy
i lor. and A M Poindexter, Corresponding Secreta
ries : A Thomas, Treasurer.
DoMKSTir Mission Boakd. Million. Ala—Rev.
J II De Votie, President ; Rev J Walker, Cor
responding Secretary: W llornhuckle. Treasurer.
llibi.k Bo.viit). Nashville. Tenn Rev. W. 11.
Bay less, Presi-amt. Rev. A. Dayton. Correspond
, ing Secretary ; (.’ A Fuller. Treasurer.
The Convention adjourned to meet nt Louisville.
Ky , on the 21 Friday in May, 1857.
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Sam's Strength.
There seen a to lie a diffi uiice of opinion as to
the relative strength of the American and an
ti American parties.at the meeting in this city in
Monday evening last. Many have inf* rmed us,
and “iir ow n impression was that Sam's folks num
bered the strongest, the stairway being entirely
h|..okcd up with them, besides the large number
that were outside of the court room bur. TlieOc
jtuber elections will probably test the matter. In
the mean time, let patriotic Americans stand firm
at their posts, strong in the integrity of tl.eir pur
poses and purity of motives. Let thens meet tiie
II suiny of ehe present day as their ancestors (lid j
those of the Revolution, and the result wi 1 he, as
then! an American triumph.
DriT.t.Nf.s -“Col. (J. J. tirecn has a letter in the
last “Umpire State, ‘ declining to run as a candi
date for Congress from the Third Congressional
District. We presume lie is still bo ore the Ladies,
however, for l ew suffrages, and we hold to our
promise of endorsing him
New Firm.- By their card in another column
it will he seen that the old firm of Woodruff &
(recn lias been dissolved, and that our fellow
townsman. Wm. L Gordon h is gone into the Car
riage business with W. \V. Woodruff. We hope
the public will give the new firm the liberal pat
ronage it deserves.
Cm ; r of Cl. vims.—President Pierce has ap
pointed Judge Scar burg. Law Professor of William
and Mary College, Virginia, to the place upon the
Bench of the Court of Claim*, wo ich was declined
hy Judge Lumpkin, of this State.
Jrncr. Loaisi; Governor Gardiner has refused
to sign the bill of the Massachusetts Legislature
removing Judge Lnring from office. The Cover
-1 nor of Massachusetts has hut discharged a duty
in refusing his santinn to the high-lmnded meas
ures of a fanatical Legislature, lint he is ncvcrthc
, le.-s entitled to praise for the hold manner with
: which lie has confronted the prejudices of large
; numbers of his immediate fellow citixens
Blasphemous.
We are astonished that u paper making preten
sion* to respectability, should have permitted the
! following Mu-phcmnus article to appear in its
! column* without a word of censure. Surely such
; profanity can subserve no good political end. and
| our friends of the Savannah Georgian must have
j been in a strait for argn icnt against Know Noth
ingism when they condescended to use so contempt
ible an effort at vulgar wit, as fcflvidenced in the
• Prayer ‘ below. Wc republish it with these com
; meats, in the hope to deter others from perverting
lady things to base purposes :
• Know Nothing Pksvf.ii —A fiend says the
Americas News, lias handed u* the following
•prayer.’ which was really offered up u few days
ago lie a good old Know frothing brother, down in
tie- dark corner of Clinch :
O Lord, send thy power down with a mighty
rn-li like a pack of Hounds after an old Cat an'd
take me home to heaven or some other happyplacc.
for I he and -d if we have tiny money down here.
<* Loidy. do send down copious showers of ruin,
so that vve can make large curs of corn and none
of your and —d nubbins!*
O l.only deliver es from nil evils, from the
Spaniard*, from the Fillibusters. and Nitan, but
more especially the Know Nothing party.
O Lonly we offer you ns a propitiation for our
sin* our son. (jfani) ah! Lord take him hy the eye
brows and shake him over hell until he bleats
like a Calf; hut 0 lairdy, don't let him-tjraj> in.”
Tired of the Drill.
It seems that the editor of the Dalton Ttmrs
] ins come under the ban of a portion of his party,
for daring to exercise a little independence of
. thought. Although a Democrat, and heretofore
j active in promoting the came of Democracy, he
oppose# ttyr rc noitilnatjotv of Got*. Johnson, and,
a* we Utjfik. for good and sufficient fsesons Ala
recent meeting of the unterrified in Whitfield
county, the Times and its editor was pretty rough
■ ly handled hy sonic of the wire-workers, upon
which the editor lets slip the dogs of war and
throws hot shot into camp alter the full -wing
fashion :
I The erimo we hnve committed in the eye of the
democracy is. that we have had the presumption i
to tlunk for ourselves, a* all men ought to do and i
not.suffer themselves dictate I so by political dmi-1
gogues. who care no more for the common voter,
than the do for the Flat Head Indian, only so far
ns they can mako him subserve their interest, by
crying out.—- Nomination ’ You are no democrat
unless yon go for the man that your leaders shall
say must be the man.”
Now, we hold, that the poorest eitisen in the
government has just ns much right to lewd, and to
exwreise hi# npinrm in matter# of govern m- nt, a#
the tallest nabob in the land, notwithstanding he
mas lie clothed in purple and fine linen, and may
fivre sumptuously every day Party leaders wifi
destroy any party, if the party wilf follow impli
] citly. whithersoever they may land. The time hae
wluie. ai>d the old of
SSL (iTwhoin there'are about a down in every
countv) huve met together and brought out tin.
candidates, and the voters Imve n
to vote for them, under pemit'J <>f being ‘?•!{£
the hull of excovnmon Cation : hut wc believe tht ,
time has now come, when the voters w. l exeom-1
municate the leaders, and read them out of tin r
respective parties, unless they acknowledge the
! sovereignty of the voter, and his right to think and j
act for himself, independent of the threats of party i
leaders. - , I
When, in tho history of conventions, have the
voters been icpreseated in them ? Demagogue*
and office seek, r- have been represented there, and
it is (or their benefit that conventions haveailvvavs
l,een held, and unit, ascertain who is the best
qualified to represent the interest# of the largest
number of voters The inquiry is, who would he
the strongest man. without regard to his qualifica
tions. or his moral worth : and it will he so. as
long as the people suffer themselves humbugged
l)yciucuscsmiii conventions! ...
So far as wc understand the principles of the
American party, one of their cardinal doctrines is.
to put down demagogues and office seekers II
this he their aim, we bid them God speed, in so
noble an undertaking. If this be one of their
objects, no wonder there is such opposition among
party leaders to their organization. This 0| posi
tion is in our opinion, otic of the strongest argu
ments in its favor The leaders want to do the
secret work in t:\ing up candidates, them-elves
They have so long monopolized th s branch of
politics, that they have conic to the conclusion
that they ought t.'i have a patent right for the con-;
corn, and that it i* not proper for others to meet j
secretly, and presumptuously infringe the rights |
of party leaders. Lv fixing up their own candidates |
indeed, a few have so long • zeroised the right of j
meeting -ocretly. and making nominations, that it j
lias iilmo-t become a law : not quite, however : for :
vve think that the memory of man iuns hack to a ;
time in the history of this government, when there:
was an su h thing as party c .ileuses and nnminn- i
tions. and when presidents were elected without |
having liven nifininated hy a convention But in |
these davs of political p ogre.-sioii. (when otir.
country is filled up with sages aid orators, who
are both able to plan with trie wisdom of a Solomon,
and to sway the masses with the eloquence of a
Cicero.) it is criminal in any one to attempt to set
op his own opinions in opposition to those “t our
political rules When these speak, in their ail ■
tlioritativc manner, through a convention, the vn .
ters “f the parly mu-tfall down and worship the j
image which the convention lias set up. or. like,
Simdraoh Meslutc •• and Ahi-dnego. they must be:
cast into the furnace of political condemnation :
but like them, they shall pass through the li rv J
ordeal unharmed Then shall Conventions he ,
forced to cry out. “Blessed he the man who did;
not take part in conventions!’
T
Mr. Stephens and the Macon Resolution.
We invite attention to the following com ■
■Dents of the Journal <t* JilisWiiijir upon Mr. |
Stephens* objection In the la solution ]>:issed hv j
the Slate Council of the Anieiicaii I‘aity at Ma- j
con :
Mr. Stephens is already too fast in declaring j
against the Older in this Suite, on I lie hi lint 1
of its Nm them nfliiiatiolis, or its position upon;
the subject of slavery, and alined her wrong in
assuming that the Resolution which lie criticise-!
completely defines their position. ‘I he recent !
Stale Coiiimil held in this city, as vve are inform- |
oil, assembled in pnr-iiaiice of a ptovi-imi of the
Constitution of the Order to transact* the regular j
routine business of the State Council not to!
nominate candidates, or to avliqit a platio.im up- |
oil vvhieli to enter the Gubernatorial canvass.—
A part of such regular business at the .'inntial i
meetings of Stale Councils, as vve have i’ a-''il t“i
heliev e. is to provide tor their repieseiitatioii in
i tlie National Council, vvhieli, for the present 1
year will be held in June, in the city of l’liila !
delphia. The resolutionwhich lie tidicides as j
the product of alt incphatioii of three days, al
though with the lights before him lie does not
know and cannot say that it occupied the atten
tion of the .Connell one lionr, was probably pass-,
ed in vievy of this meeting of tlit; National Conn-1
oil, and designed as a notification to the Ordoi j
throughout the United States, of the position of j
the Order in this State upon questions which j
will lie made between the Ninth and the South, j
hy the continued agitation of the subject of I
slavery. It may be .simply declaratory of that!
aliout which there is no conflict of opinion,!
among men South of Mason's and lLxon's Line, j
and at the same time, such a declaration may !
be lieeessaty. and may be decidedly sii/nijicnnl :
to men north of Mason's and Dixon's Line, It"J
tile National Council at Philadelphia refuses to
adopt the policy of non intervention upon the
subject of slavery, or if it attempts to ignore this
whole sill (jert, in the face of the fact, that the
Know Nothing organization in several of the
Free Stales is wedded against the South, South
ern delegates cannot and will not remain there.
We regard the Resolution of the Council of this
State as all evidence, although it does not express
it in terms, oi the determination of Georgia Know
Nothing* at least, to affiliate with no Council !
in any northern State which will make war up- ■
on the Smith, or refuse it its rights in the Ter-!
ritories of the Union. Time will determine]
whether ourliope or XI r. Stephens’ fear upon this;
[mint is better founded.
Hut Mr. Stephens objects particularly, to that
portion of the Resolution which declares that the
right to establish Slave institutions’ “in the or
ganization ot State Government.*, belongs to na
tive and naturalized citizens,” which excludes
foreigners who have declared their intention to
become citizens, but have not been
whilst by the provision of the Kansas-Nebraska
act, this class of jajrsons are entitled to vote in
tli<>3e territories. This lie denounces ns “an iu
siditoiis attack” upon the principles of the Kan
sas Nebraska Bill, and says that under this Res
olution, when Kansas applies for admission into
the Union as a Slave Stale, a Southern Know
Nothing can unite with his brethren at the
North, in voting against it upon the ground that
some of the inhabitants of that Territory have
voted for n Constitution recognizing slavery, who
had not been “naturalized,” tail had oiily%*c!r
ed their intention ! in fact, that it has opened
the door for the rejection of Kansan hpon k pre
text I I* it possible that MIF Stephens t hiuk*
so meanly of any class of hfs felhiw citizens bT
Georgia! Is it pomible Unit lie designs to charge
! upon the framers of this resolution a delils-rato
intention to sup/jest to the North a pretext upon ‘
Wliieli to oppose the admission of Kansas ? Is]
it possible tlmt he can believe that Southern!
men. u/x>n such a bald and naked pretext, trill
[collude with Northern fanatics to cheat the
| South ofits rights ! lie dins not believe it;’
I yet lit* intimates that it “can” be done. Don’t!
he know that it never will he ilone ? This dec- ]
laratioti of theßesolution, tlmt the right to fix]
and determine the character of the iiisTitqtioiis of j
a State in the organization of it* State Govern-1
ment, belongs to “the native and nat ralizwl cit-l
izen of our Territories, is a simple declaration of
opinion. It has no reference to Kansas or Ne
braska. True it is in conflict with tlmt provis
ion of the hill organizing these Territories which
gores the right of voting to foreigner* who Imre
declared their intention. But tlmt bill lias been
passed—it t* the law of the land—and Mr. Sto
phens ninst not think that the Know Nothi
of Georgia, design to attack or nullify R,
they have expressed an opinion which amoom*
to a disapptoval upon policy or upon princinl*
of one of its provisions. Mr. Stephens may j*’
clare an opinion which amounts to a <li**pn eo J 1 j
of some provision of the fundamental la* of in’
Stale, lait is that dedal at ion any intimation th *
1 he designs to disregard the laws of the land * a
ito assert a higher law of individual opir,’j o| ?y
; His language upon this Resolution, is, lo zayil/
j lenst of it, unfortunate and will prevent, to *
j great extent, the effect which hfi designed h*
letter to produce. * ’*
We have thus objected to a portion of the U
n r of Mr. Stephens. We may conclude, how!
ever, with the expression of our earnest hone”
that no circumstances or conflict of opinion amon
us, may deprive us of the benefit of his etnineuf
services in the House of Representatives.
From the Colutubus Fnquirer.
Democracy the Author* of Know Nothin*.
The Petersburg Intelligencer —which hv th e
way is a troublesome thorn in the side of the
Democratic opponents of the American party j n
the old Dominion — itia late issue introduces to
their consideration the preamble and resolution
a copy of which vve subjoin, prefaced by some
pertinent coiTmietits. Although intended f or
the latitude of Virginia, we think it not jn*p.
phipriate further South, and would particularly
| commend it to the notice of our contemporary
|of the Times & Sentinel. Here ns. in Virgin!*
; vve find the opponents if (lie new party denoune-’
ing the older and their principles as Anti-Ameri
can, anti-lb-publican, anti-Dcmocratic. They
call upon their Democratic friends to “con*
i out from among them and lie seperate,” to‘touch
not, taste not. handle not the unclean thing.’ ut
j terlv oblivions,or apparently so, of the pregnant
I fad that the Democratic party, the friend of the
| foreigner /uir excdl nce , are in fact the origin*.
I tors or first promulgators of the odious doctrine
against which they declaim with such pious
zeal.
Hut we will let the Intelligencer speak for it
s-If. It says:
We believe that the Virginia Legislature of
j 1799 wa* distinguished for its ardent zeal in
I the Vaunted old Jcfi'ersonian Repblican cause.
! Ihe Resolutions ol 08 and ‘OO, commonly so
I called, are of themselves, sufficient evidence of
I the spii it and temper of that body. These U
i moils Resolutions have in fact immortalized it.
(Well. IRe \ iigmia Junta Democracy have
j worshipped at the shrine (if these old political
i deities until their knees have been nearly worn
lout, and surely tha/ will not fail to embrace and
t honor with enthusiastic i-uiotioiis whatever was
] said and done by the Legislature which passed
! the Resolutions'‘of.'9B and ‘9O. These Resolu
tions u hidi have been idolatrously called, or
j considered, by the Virgini,, Democracy, a second
; Lotist.ittition of the I nited States, were passed
‘""-I't her, 1798. On the Kith of the
i toll"” ing January vve find the following PRE
AMIILh and lII*.S< LU 1 1< >N, passed hv the
j same body, and duly entered upon the record,
jli which We extract them. It is to this Pre
amble and Resolution, w hich seem to have had
| a prophetic reference to the future in whose
j womb laid, as then* authors thought, the veiv
(.event winch now constitutes the leading topic
!“• universal. dismission in our lam], that we in
j voke the special and careful attention of the peo
| l':ect Virginia. I hey will here see declared
: hi the most s,.!,.|||[| form, and under the highest
; sai n*'inn far hack as the Legislative session of
j 1798- 99. the identical doctiiue and (iiineiplcs
} regarding torcigu influence, with the striking
i ami important dill'crcnce—that the Preamble
i and resolution in tpn-tion advocateil a Constitu
tional amendment hv which “no foreigner who
iii i .
; sslirii) not have aei|iiireii rights under the
i liitioiinn.l laws .it the time of making the amend
’ “I.” sli-'ll he KLltilliLE to the larinos offi
j res specified. The American party of the pres-
I cut day <!<> tint dispute or deny the eligibility of
j toieigneis to hold office if they Oa'i get voles
‘ onoiiol, t,, cleet them.
i I‘rtomhle ami Ihsolution passed by the Ltq
j istuture of Virginia on the \6th of January,
1
j [from Henning's Statutes at large, vol 2 (new aerien,)
| P 19T]
I lint the (letieral Asseinhly nevertheless con
j I'tirritig in optnioti with the Legislature of Mas-
I saelitiM'its, that every Cotistitutimal harritr
slioti and lie (ipposi-il t,, tlm iiitroiluetion of foreign
influence into ottr NaltoiuiT Councils t
“Restilrut, licit the Coiistituiion ought to l>o
■m amended that no toieigner who shall not have
•nipiifeil rights under the Constitution and
l.aus, at the time id making this amendment,
shall tliereatter be eligible to the office of Sell*’
toror lieptesi nta'ive in the Congress of l he Unit
ed States, nor to any office in the Judiciary or
; e.veetttive Departinents.
! “Agreed to by the Senate January 16tb,
1700. •
| ScnMt "r “ ilsvn said, in a lecture at Taunton. >
j ‘ ew evenings sHiee, that if the Know Nothing par
I t\ commit ed. the error of ignoring the slavery
‘piestion. • in that day it would surely begin to die;
and hy the h es-ing of God, he would do what he
could to mtike it die.'’
Our friend of th Savannah Georgian, from
w ieh we clip the above, should have added, that
lie stands shoulder to shoulder with the Aholttum
>h Wilson, in hiseflorts to kill the Know Nothing
party!
Nkw okk Know Nothing Convkntion.—
Aew l ork, Map 11.—The New York Times
has a <:orres|Hiiident at Syracuse, who profeMes
to give the proceedings of the Know Nothing
Convention, hrastus Brooks was in the Chair,
and one member had been expelled for attempt
ing anti-slavery views.
The Know Nothing# in New York met in
State CiHineiCat Syr acne* laat week. According
lo the He|li%neM harmony prmiM. The
question war ,|„ Nation
alCoumtiFwin,•li'vttiaaaid, PlirlaMeliia
The aceordingtoTH
He.ald s correspondent, was le-affinned by the
Conned. If.seems to la* t| lo impression,. tlmt
], “ a, " r “ 11x0,1 °t Massaehnsets” would have to
j ka '‘‘ ‘ IlL ‘ °f* ler ;° account of liis fanthml eowrse,
! a, "l tllat l,le Know Nolhinga of Massachusetts
were disced to retrace their steiisaud return to
j common sense.
I Is it So^? The Atl.inia Examiner aavs, the
Lhronn/e <£• Sentinel is now “the open enemy”
jol the Know Nothings. Is it so f
i i Salk. Dr. Win. S. Jones, proprietor of
i the Chronicled: Sentinel office. Augusta, wishing
to retire from the Lusiness, offers the establish
ment for sale.
Col. Bkstox Mi lcted fob Slakdcb.—Advi
ces from St. Louis state that the slander anit of
Birch vs. Benton has resulted in a verdict of M,-
000 damsgea for plaintiff. The case will be car
ried by B id ton to the Supreme Court.