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i H. CHRISTY, EDITOR.
KNOW-NOTHING ISM.
The following letter on Know Notb-
ingism, its origin, rise and progress,
which we publish as a part of the event
ful history of the times, appeared origin
ally in the New York Courier 6s En
quirer, and is said, by that journal, to
have been written “ by authority'’ for a
London newspaper :
It is not strange that Europeans
should be perplexed by the sudden ap
pearance of a new and overwhelming
party in the United States, which pro
mises to revolutionize our domestic and
foreign policy—for it is more than many
•Americans can do, to exp* ,iin the curi
ous phenomenon their.aelvcs. I have
seen, in English journals, many partial
and unsatisfac'ory accounts of the ori
gin, progress, principles, and prospects
of the Know Nothings; and as their
policy and measures will be likely to
affect European nations quite as serious
ly as our own, it may be well for your
statesmen to understand this mutter be
fore things go any further.
The Know Nothing party came up
in in Us present form only about two
years ago—it originated in causes which
although often mistaken, lie upon the
very surface of society.
First. The increasing immigration
from Europe, principally of the lower
classes, hed thrown upon our shores
within the period of t wenty years over
two millions of foreigners. Few of
them brought the means of subsistence
lower still had ever been considered
qualified to participate in the adminis
tration of civil government, and not one
in a hundred had any adequate compre
hension of our social, religious, or po
litical life. The evils which grew out
of their presence increased from year
to year, until at last they became in
tolerable. Those few comers who went
straight through ourseaportstothe broad
and fertile lands of the West, became
agriculturists, and at once began to con
tribute to th- growth and prosperity of
the communities where they settled.—
Against this class, embracing nearly,
and perhaps quite one-half of the entire
number ef immigrants, no objcciion
was or could be raised. They were
peaceable citizens; and although Eu
ropean peasants can contribute little to
the establishment of social life in Ameri
ca, yet they can, and do, contribute to
the development of the material re
sources of a new country ; and their
children grow up under higher influ
ences, and aspire to a higher life thau
their fathers. With tlic second genera
tion of Eu'opean peasantry in the Uni
ted Statec we have no trouble. Butihe
•hundreds of thousands, chiefly of Irish
.and Dutch, who linger around our sea
ports and great inland towns, and who
move about like hordes of Gipsies, from
canal to canal, and from raliroad to rail
road, have constituted a floating mass
of corruption.and proved a fruitful source
of disturbance and trouble. They have
been the llelots of the Norih, as the
Africans have been of the South; and,
had as African slavery may be, even in
tlic United States, it might admit of a
question, which of these two Helot clas
ses had made the most rapid progress in
the soci.il scale. By a close estimate, it
has been discovered that wh&re the alms
houses, and charitable foundations of
American cities have expended one dol
lar upon native Americans, they have
expended one hundred dollars upon
European paupers. The proportion is
nearly as great between natives and
foreigners who are arraigned for crime,
drunkenness,outbreaks,and disturbances,
and all sorts of infractions of statute and
municipal law.
But the evil did not stop with the
trouble which these pauper classes
brought directly upon the. country. Two
other elements of danger must be taken
into the calculation. Such is the loose
ness of onr Naturalization Laws, that
foreigners by the hundred thousand, of
the lowest condition, are enabled to vote
in our elections, almost as soon as they
land upon our shores T wo inauspicious
agencies here come into play. First,
unprincipled political uv^agogucs, who
want nothing but votes.to sccui'f power ;
and second, intriguing Catholic priest
and desuits, who stand ready to offer
those votes, which they can control, to
those demagogues, who. on being eleval
cd to . power by such influences, are
♦ready, in return, to enact such laws, arid
tptwh through such measures, ns best suit
the purposes of the Roman Catholic
hierarchy. Through these agencies,
several Presidential elections have been
decided ; while local elections have thus
been swayed in every State in the Union.
Things ha l gone so far, two or throe
years ago, that large portions of our very
best citizens abstained from voting at all.
They allowed every elections to go by
vlefult; they were brow beaten and
struck down by the shilleuli, when they
appeared at the bnl!oi-!:ox. The dis
trict, the village, the county, the State
Caucuses, were scens of debauch and
riot—of intimidation and bloodshed; and
on election days, the whole country was
reeking in the fumes of rum. The
fruits of this alarming state of things be
came apparent to the whole country, and
when these evil cau>es had reached the
height of their influence, and brought
tho present Administration into power,
the whole Nation began to inquire how
Ibis statu of things had been brought
about, and what should be the remedy.
In addition to all the evils which this
system of political corruption had for
merly entailed upon the country, we
found that under Gen. Pierce it had
pervaded every department of the nat
ional administration; and with but few
exceptions, we learned with amuzeaent,
that foreigners and demagogues of the
lowest character, were Ailing posts of
honor and influence abroad to the ex
clusion of all those great mco whose cdu
u .
cation, social standing, and great public
services had specially fitted them to re
present the Republic at the Courts of
civilized Nations. Pledges the most
sacred—because they were voluntarily
given—were broken, and men of the
very highest reputation, who bad been
requested to go ubroad, in the public
service-men who had consented to do
so at great personal sacrifices, were left
in suspense, week alter week, and month
after month, until they found themselves
superceded by German Jews, Red Re
publicans, Scotch Infidels, and French
Fourieritcs. On close scrutiny, it
turned out that the ontire policy of the
Administration, at h >me and abroad, had
been made to bend to the views, the
feelings, and the selfish interest of these
foreign adventurers.
Here you have a solution of what
would otherwise be an incomprehensible
mystery—the sudden uprising of the
nationality of the country, and these
vehement and overwhelming assaults that
have been everywhere made upon the
National Administration. When the
arm was lifted to smite it, it was not to
fall until it had smitten its agents and
accomplices. Then for the first time,
the nation began to look around to see
where it stood—what it had been doing
—who were its friends, and who were
its foes—and it learned, afier a brief in
vestigation, that the causes of political
corruption and degeneracy had been in
operation long enough to threaten the
prosperity of a great and vigorous Re
public.
Such was the origin of the Know
Nothing party. The first associations
that met upon the platform, assembled
in secret, and they did all their work
quietly. They admitted none within
their enclosure except native born citi
zens of the Protestant faith, and men
who stood pledged to cast aside all for
mer political ties, and give their support
only to such American men, and such
measures as were calculated to develop
the expiring spirit of nationality, and
annihilate the political and religious in
fluence of foreigners in the United
States. These associations spread from
district to district, and from State to
State, and before the Society had been
two years in existence, its organizations
had been formed in every State and
Territory of the Union, until now they
number, without a doubt upwards of
two millions of able bodied men
Will you now ask if these men have
the element of cohesion; if they are
likely to remain a compact and irresisti
ble body ? Why should they not, at least,
until they have accomplished the ob
jects of their organization 1 They have
common principles, and they are all in
spired, more or less, by a common
feeling. The enthusi istn which brings
them together, aud now keeps so vast
an army in discipline, cannot last for
ever ; but it will last until they have
achieved their purposes ; and that in
nothing less than stripping foreigners
Catholics, Jesuits, and demagogues of
all parties of political power. They will
either enact a national statute, greatly
prolonging the time of residence, to en
title the foreigner to full citizenship, or
they will abolish the Naturalization
Lnws altogether. They will not be sa
tisfied while any man but a native born
citizen, of Protestant faith,who is friend
ly to this object, holds an office in the
the conviction is all but universal, that
he is a demagogue, rather than a states-
man;whiie he is known to have built up
the reputation he has achieved,chiefly by
agitating those questions that threaten
the permanent union of these States ;
andnis chiefest coadjutors are known to
be found within the pale of the Com
pany of Jesus.
In confirmation of all this, 1 may
state, with entire safety, that 1 have not
yet seen an intelligent European who
was travelling in this country or living
in the United States, who did not give
his sympathies,and openly express them,
in favor of the Know Nothing move
ment. In all the elections through the
various States, we have but one report
on this subject; and that is that intelli
gent foreigners universally take sides
with the Know Nothings. They give
good reasons for what they say and do.
They see clearer even, perhaps, than we
do ourselves, that the whole body politic
of America has been infected by the
most corrupt social influences that the
Old World had festering in its bosom.
They know well, what we know but
imperfectly—that there is not a State in
Europe, nor a Principality, with the
single exception of Russia, that has not,
during the last few years, sent to our
shores its paupers and convicts. 1 know
that is a high accusation to bring against
European States; but I know myself
from personal knowledge of many years
on the Continent of Europe, that it is
true.
A strange aud very impolitic article
has recently appeared in the Edinburgh
Review for October, which adds an un
necessarily strong confirmation of this
fact, so far as Great Britian is con
cerned. The article is entitled “ The
management and disposal of our Crimin
al population.”
I trust that I hare thus given you a
few clear indices of the causes which
gave origin to the Know Nothing party,
the spirit which guides it—the objects it
has to accomplish, and the reason for
believing that it has cohesive power
enough to hold together in compact
strength, until it has achieved its pur
poses, Of course, in this correspondence,
my own feelings are not allowed to en
ter. My business is limited to giving
your readers a transcript, by every
steamer, of events which happen, of the
causes of events which may be early
discerned, and such expositions of them
as will convey to Europeans, as nearly
as I am able to, those impressions they
would receive if they were themselves
upon the spot. The moral of it all, for
Europe, and its governments, I need not
indicate.
ATHENS, GA.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1855
KrMr. William Doans, of Atlanta, ia our au-
tnonxed Agent in Cherokee Georgia.
8CT Thi* paper ia filed. and mav at alt times bo aeon
at too Reading Room of Prof Uollowat, 944 Strand,
London
e* Several communications unavoidably
postponed till our next isane.
CONCERT.
Friday Evening, 20th inst. the Rasche
Family will give one of their entertain
ments, as perceived from their notice in
another column. They come highly
“ Noticed,” by the Press.
1^*“Sam,” has swept the city of
Augusta. Our former townsman, W.
E. Deal ing, has been chosen Mayor, by
several hundred majority
CS* In publishing the article, signed
“ A Staunch Whig," in our last issue,
we remarked thaf we published, without
endorsing it.. That portion of it, as
suming that Asbury Hull, Esq., would
support Mr. B. H. Overby, for Govern
or, we then thought, and still suppose,
to have been unauthorized; as we have
seen no intimation on that point, either
for or against. We have no doubt but
that Mr. Hull will, in due time, do as
every honest, independent citizen will,
make his choice among those who may
be candidates—and so cast his vote as
in his judgment will best promote the
interest of the people and country.
HANDSOMELY SAID
Has not every one who read the ad
dress of the American party, published
last week—and we trust all have done
so—been struck with the general sim
plicity and beauty of that document ?
particularly the reference to the “star-
spangled banner,” at the conclusion of
it. Lest some may have overlooked this,
we re-publish it:
The American party feels the respon
sibility of the position it h*-, a-sunicu.
It knows full well tue k.^-en opposition
it h?.5 to encouvuer from the conglome-
SSZLUZZSIa all fragments and faciona.of
propose to accomplish, will not b" a ch-
until more than half a million of
men now administering offices of trust
and power, are driven into private life,
to give place to the Know Nothings.
The first intellects of the country, in
every community are giving all their
might and powers to the accomplishment
of this object. The Protestant clergy of
all denominations are with the move
ment, because it has pointed its lance
against the Pope of Rome. The up-
right, the honest, the unsophisticated—
and above all the intelligent mass of
the people, join in the crusade, because
it has been proclaimed against demago
gues. The virtuous, the temperate,
and the sober, applaud the movement,
because most of the evils of intemper
ance, which degrade and disgust us,
have grown up under the “Caucus Sys
tem,” where, ,in a thouand different
places in every Territory and State, de
signing demagogues hare rallied around
them in every rum-hole and gin-shop,
the unprincipled portion of the communi
ty, and ift their night revels of drunken
ness, organized their political machine
ry for the sccompliihmetit of their ob
jects. National meii of all f'‘finer par
ties—men who have lamented over the
U" The Know Nothings have carr i-
rd Connecticut and Vermont, at the re
cent State elections, besides any num
ber oi municipal elections in the various
States since our last issue—among the
number the State Capital of South Caro
lina.
& Certain editors in Georgia seem
to be “in a pucker” because Gov. Met-
call, of New Hampshire, and other
prominent members of the American
party in the Free States, liavejopenly ex
pressed their disapproval of the institu
tion of slavery! Can these gentlemen
point to a single statesman of the North
—Democrat, Whig, or what not—who
is or ever has been, in favor of slavery ?
On the contrary, have they not, them
selves, time and again,said, when speak
ing of the opposition of distinguished
Democrats, that the people of the South
could not ask their Northern brethren
to become slavery propagandists—that
all they demanded was to be ,l let alone 1 .”
Is not this precisely what the American
party proposes doing, by ignoring the
slavery question as a national issue, and
leaving it where it belongs, in the bands
of the people of the several States ?
And while we have these gentlemen
on the stand, we would most respectful
ly inquire, did they not, to a man, sup
port one Lewis Cass in 1848, notwith
standing he boldly declared,(speaking of
slavery) “I deprecate its existence and
pray for its abolition everywhere!”
Now, in view of the fact that it is ijo as near a nom ’ nat * on 38 he
sin for a Democrat to oppose slavery, is
it not strange that these gentlemen are
so shocked because a Northern member
of the American party should differ
with them on the abstract question of
slavery ?
The truth is, these gentlemen have in
years gone by made much capital at the
South by the constant cry of ‘Abolition !
abolition !’ while their party at the North
has basely pandered to this vile fanati
cisra and been ever foremost to coalesce
with the Abolitionists, whenever, by so
doing, they could secure place and power.
Are they not pretty fellows to prate
about abolition ?
the old effete democratic and whig par
ties, with their alien allies, names that
were once hallowed and had a meaning.
Errors it may commit—inferior men
may attain elevation from its swelling
ranks ; such matters are unavoidable in
all great popular movements and revo
lutions ; but they are not its principles
nor its high aims, and will be corrected
National in feeling, national in name
American in all things, it claims as be
longing to its brotherhood and entitled
to all its rights and privileges, any and
every true-hearted citizen, no matter to
what party he may have belonged, no
matter in what pursuit he may be engag
ed, whether in subduing the forest, till
ing the earth, levelling the mountai s,
filling up valleys, wielding our com
merce, toiling amid the din and bustle
of crowded cities, sailing on the ocean,
digging in the mines, seizing on the idle
streams that flow from our mountain
sides, and causing them to leap upon the
water wheels and labor millions of spin
dles into motion; or amidst the dust aud
whirl of bright machinery, he is in
God’s appointed vocation, moulding and
fashioning the rude materials of nature
into forms of strength, usefulness and
beauty. Holms only to feel in his
factions that have torn the country—J ow'.*> heart that he approves and adopts
KF* There was a fearful riot at Cin
cinnati at the late election. It origiori-
ated, so far as we have been able to
learn,in the fact that in one of the wards
where the Dutch had great strength,
native citizens were not permitted to
vote! Things have reached a pretty
pass, when the descendants of “ the
Hessians”, by armed opposition, drive
natives from the ballot-box! The Ame
ricans mounted a cannon or two and
bred into the Dutch—several lives lost.
Of course, the blame will be laid by the
foreigners and their abettors, upon “the
d— d vulgar natives,” who had no busi
ness to vote in this country, which is so
free—to foreigners !
the isms which have disturbed the Na
tionnl Councils, and scattered the virus
of jealousy, animosity, and hatred
through all the veins of Society—such
m'6n bid' the Know-Nothings “God
speed,” for they here see a remedy for
those ill-mined agitations which have
been nothing but agitations, although
they have promised vast but impossible
reforms. And those hundreds of thou
sands of men who sympathize with
Henry Clay in his American policy,
with General Jackson in the spirit of
partriotism which always inspired'him*
and with Daniel Webster, who was the
best exponent of the spirit of the Feder
al Union—all combine together, either
to give countenance or personal aid to
this vast organization.
A greater mistake could not be made,
than to suppose that the Know Nothings,
are waging a war against Foreigners,
as such. Their chiefest hostility is, in
fact, levelled against American native
born demagogues, who are known to
have intrigues with Jesuit leaders and
Catholic Bishopj, to buy in foreign
votes, and sell American institutions in
payment therefor. At the present mo
ment, when the Legislature of the State
of New York is in Session, and must
within a few days elect a Senator of;
the United States, the whole country is
agitated by the question. Mr. Seward,
whose term expires on the 4th of next
March, is a man of great political saga
city and large public experience ; but
-—
our principles, and that he is ready,
w hen the Star-spangled banner is un
furled, to stand under it and by it. True
it is but a piece of bunting. 3 painted
rag—yet what hallowed associations
cluster round it! It waved in glorious
triumph when Baindridge, Decatur,
Perry, Hull, broke the charm of British
nvincibility on the ocean ; Stark had
it at Bennington, Warren at Bunker
Hill, Gates at Saratoga, Sumpter, Ma
rion and. Greene in the South, and
Washington bore it aloft and stood un
der its ample folds when he sealed our
nation’s independence on the plains of
Yorktown. It is now, as it was then,
the emblem of our nationality and
power.
Finally, and above all, we desire to
see our Union preserved, strengthened
and perpetuated, as the bright links of
a chain that has no end; and to this, be
fore all the rest, we pledge our unalter
able faith and the whole power of the
American party.
ISSUE OF THE FOREIGN ORGAN
IN THIS PLACE.
IdP The last contains a paragraph,
the obvious intention of which is to create
the impression that ill this region the
disorganized Democracy have lost noth
ing by the political revolution which is
sweeping this Union from one extremi
ty to.the other! The avowal is not di
ts nelly made, but it is clearly the writer's
intension to create that impression.
Such “ weak inventions of the enemy
need no contradiction here ; but for the
information of our friends at a distance,
we state that we have freely “ mixed
with the people,” (to borrow one of the
favorite expressions of the day) and that
wherever we have been—and we have
visited more counties than the “ Banner
man” has—a large majority of the peo
ple of all parties believe in the “Ameri
can platform.” We do not pretend to
say that they have jonined the Know
Nothings—for we Know of but one
man in the State who acknowledges
that he has—but they are with them in
prfhcijple, heart and soul—thoroughly
sick and disgusted with the effete or
ganizations, and fully determined to act
with the new party.
The dashing 93 Highlanders, the
pride of the English army, left Constan
tinople 800 strong, and after their arri
val in the Crimea received an addition
of 150 men. This gallant regiment has
recently returned to Constantinople, re
duced to fourteen men and five officer*,
though still bearing with them their
glorious and unsullied banner.
“SAVE, CASSIUS, OR I PERISH !”
In view of the losses sustained by the
National Era, in consequence of the
Know-Nothings having’ “ crushed out”
the anti-slavery excitement at the North,
the editor of that print, in his issue of
the 29th ult., publishes the following
“ earnest cry and prayer" to the faith
ful. Will not his Georgia coadjutors ex
tend to him a helping hand ?
“As we do not intend to suffer the
Era to be run down by proscription,
but to maintain in vigorous life,the only
Press which, at the Capital of the Na
tion, on slave-soil, advocates the Prin
ciples and Ideas of Freedom, we have
addressed a private circular to many of
its subscribers who have shown an
earnest disposition to sustain it, ex
plaining to them the extent of the de
fection occasioned by Know Nothingism,
and the amount of subscribers required
to replace those lost. May we not ex
pect a generous response ?”
GiT We have mislaid a number of
the Boston Atlas, from which we wished
to make some extracts, showing the
estimation in which the Know Nothings
are held by this ancient organ of the ef
fete Whig party of old Federal, Aboli
tion Massachusetts. Reader, if the
Know Nothings are abolitionists, why
should that paper—one of the vilest
abolition sheets we know of—berate
them soundly for not “taking a bold
stand in favor of freedom," (or some
such abolition clap-trap,) we believe
we have quoted correctly. If they are
Abolitionists, why is it that the central
organ ofthat party—the National Era—
should denounce them at a rate second
only to the Federal Union, Atlanta Ex
aminer, and one or two other papers
“ofthat ilk.” (By the way—a word of
advice to the Georgia Coadjutors of the
National Era—they might improve their
manners much by taking lessons from
their Washington confrere. He nevei
descends to billingsgate and “fish-mar
ket vituperation :” is always dignified,
argumentative, courteous and polite.) If
they exhibit the least affinity foraboli
tion, why does the organ of the Aboli
tion, Red Republican Whigs of New
York—the infamous Tribune—de
nounce them daily ?
The truth is. no sane man in Georgia
can continue to reiterate this charge
against them—in view of the accumu
lating evidence of its utter falsity—and
maintain his character for truth and
veracity!
TOOMBS AND STEPHENS ON KNOW
NOTHINGISM.
We are glad to learn that both of these
distinguished gentleman are open and
avowed in their opposition to this secret
political organization—Know-Nothing
j$m. With their well known influence
with the great body of what once con-
stitnted the Whig party, and the almost
united opposition of the Democratic
party, we have nothing to fear on this
subject. We say more in sorrow than
ir. anger, for we know that'many worthy
Democrats have been, we would fain
believe, misled into these, to them, “ for
tunes strange and new'.” We are con
fident that a thorough exposure of the
tendencies of this organization, combin
ed with the rapid march of events at the
North, will compel our Democratic
friends, at least, to return to the ancient
fold.
We copy the above from the Macon
Telegraph. We are not aware that the
editors of that paper enjoy the confi
dence of Messrs Toombs and Stephens
in a greater degree than any body else—
and hence we question the reliability of 1
the announcement. But be this as it
may, all we have to say is tLis : that it
makes not the slightest difference ima
ginable with “ Sam,” whether these
gentlemen, or any other two or half
dozen men oppose him or not. It is
true, he could find work for them to do,
if they desire it; if not, there will be no
lack of able and willing hands to take
their places. Whether the above is
true or not, is of no consequence to
“ Sam,” but it is of the utmost impor
tance to the gentlemeu named. “ Sam”
asks no favors and shrinks from no re-
; sponsibility.
Dr. H. A. Ramsay has with
drawn from the editorial management
of the Atlanta Examiner. His successor
has not been announced.
For the Southern Watchman.
Mr. Editor : Is it proper for the op
ponents of the present corrupt and im
becile, spoils-burrowingadministrations,
State and Federal, to hold a convention,
in the Sixth District, to nominate a
candidate for Congress? Although “ tho
voice of the party” has settled down
in favor of Mr Cobb, yet I presume the
“ reorganized” will call one, for form’s
sake. mer^V to register the decree al
ready issued fr*' un the Cobbham junto.
And just here, being a kind-hearted,
anti-intermeddling, communicative sort
of animal, I will venture a sTuall piece
of advice to the Banner, and those who
have fixed up this business: Take care,
gentlemen, that, in the appointment ot
delegates, in the several county meet-
ings, you do not fail to see to it tint the
delegations are packed in fyvor of Mr.
Colb's nomination ! If you leave “ the
party”/rec to act as they please in this
matter, I am keen to swear, in advance,
that the ex-Governor will come about
did of his
election to the Senate of the United
States, by the “ reorganized,” -in the
Legislature, at its session, in 1853!
Although the hatchet was buried in
1852, at Atlanta, between the two wings
of the party, (Southern Rights and
Union,) and a “ reorganization” effect
ed, yet I know that the delegates from
my county to the democratic, Guberna
torial Convention in 1853;went instruct
ed to vote against the nomination of How
ell Cobb! Thissentimentstill prevails to
an alarming extent,, and is now as viru
lent as it was in 1851 and 1853! “Sam”
is also about, numbering in my <( baili
wick ’ not less than 650 voters, two hun
dred and fifty of whom are old line De
mocrats ! Wise, the candidate of the
foreign party, in Virginia, for Governor,
will be beaten by at least 25,000; and
this, with the total overthrow of the
miserable Pierce dynasty, in the old
Dominion, will give just such an impe
tus to “ Sam’s” progress that nothing—
no power on this earth—can stop it!
The result in Virginia will add to the
American party in Georgia 30,000 good,
true, valiant recruits! Fix up your
ropes then well, you who are forcing
Gov. Cobb before the people of the
Sixth,against their feelings and wishes:
for if you do not. I assure you the jig
will not be as easily danced as you ima
gine ! “Jordan,” at all times ** a hard
road totravel,” will be found not to be
in a forceable condition at all; and in
attempting to reach the opposite bank,
you will all be swallowed up and drown
ed in its angry billows ! But I am clear
away from the object of this communica
tion. My notion is, and it is also that
of a great many with whom I have con
versed, that it is best for us to hold a
convention, composed of delegates pro
perly chosen from all the counties in the
District. This course will prevent a
multiplicity of candidates, and a scrub
race, such as we had in 1853, and which
brought about the defeat of Mr. Jenkins.
Let the Delegates from each county be
appointed without any restrictions what
ever—let them be intelligent men—
Union democrats and Union whigs,
Southern Rights democrats and South
ern Rights whigs, opposed to Pierce
and Johnson, and their time-serving
Jesuitical, anti-American, anti-Protest
ant policy ; let them assemble at Jeffer
son or Gainesville, on a given day, in
May, and agree upon a candidate—one
who is honest, capable, and who will
prove fait! ful to those who support him ;
and my word for it, that with “ Sam’s”
help, added to the luke-warmness of
the Cobb Democrats, and the deep-seated
hatred of the Southern Rights, McDon-
alit-uVingl Demacrats and Whigs, an
easy victory will be the result of our
efforts. I will guaranty a clean majori
ty of 300 in my county over Howell
Cobb, or any other the clique may bring
out in opposition to the principles of the
great American Party!
Let us hear from you, Mr. Edftor, on
the subject- Yours is the ouly out and
out paper in the Distr; ct that advocates
our principles, &n d from you we wish
to hear on t«e subject of Convention.—
Fhe Dahlouega Signal is wheeling into
I'.ne, u n <j will doubtless be fully with us,
i hearty co-operater in the glorious re
form we intend carrying out.
If no Conventions is held by us, and
no one can be found to oppose him whom
the “ voice of the party’’ has designat
ed, then, in this event, you may con
sider me “ in /” Mr. Cobb shall not
walk unaccompanied over the track !
I shall, of course, travel at an immense
distance before him, and will not, there-
fore, have much chance to chat with
him, or revive his drooping spirits in his
fruitless, vain effort to get out of the
woods, and reach the opposite banks of
“Jordan!” I am, however, too kind-
hearted—too thoroughly saturated with
the milk of human kindness, to think
-
of seeing him start and go all the way
of his lonesome journey by himself?
Company—good, jolly, glorious com
pany—he shall have!—mark it!
SAMUEL.
Noty Benney: One idea l had al--
most forgot to mention. It is this:—
The democratic party of the Sixth Dis--
trict; and all democrats therein who
now, or may hereafter have aspirations
for a seat in Congress, may prepare
themselves to be controlled and govern
ed from Athens, in this and all subse--
quent elections! When you shall takeA
it into your heads, any of you,to run for
Congress, in this District, be sure you
have yooFT pretensions endorsed by the-
Cobbham Sanhedrim; for, unless you
can show the documents granting you'
the liberty, you may rest assured you*
‘ can’t come in f r That’s all, for this*
time! SAMUEL.'
For lb* So Bittern Watchman.
THE PRESIDENCY.
Mr. Editor :
The next President may be a man of
the American Party. The Pennsvl-
yania Legislature, composed principally
of s.'tch, have nominated Mr. Geo. Law,
of New York, who, in an able and strong
commonseosed letter, accepted.
Whom the Democrats, as a party pro
per, and the Whigs will put op, H is not
yet known. As distinct parties, neither
can succeed with their Lawyers, or those
beautiful interludes of the military
two castes that may act on our National
fortunes, pretty much like Cmsar and
Cicero, in antagonism on Rome, while
Cato—the Farmer—the Censor, was un
looked to and Roman Liberty fell with
him 1
I shall vote for George Law—if a
Ticket for his Election be gotten up in
Georgia.
Mr. Law is a mechanic and a self
made genius This, with me, and ought
to be with all Americans having any
soul at all, suffipient:—inasmuch as
it breaks the spell so long imposed upon
the country, of nominations, and gives
the people no body to elect, on either
hand, but some Barrister or some Gene
ral.
I have no hostility towards the legal
profession or its conductors; my only
plea is that of Brutus:—I love my coun
try more. It is a sign of despotism,
eventually, to elect no one for ruler but
out of a comparatively small class of the
population. This makes them, in spite
of themselves, (if they did resist the
pride at all,) an overbearing body ia
the State, as certainly as in the Courts.
They can mould the successes and dis
comfiture of cases, to suit their affection
for, or detestation of, particular individ-
ua ^ s • Gracchus.
jfiireigu $l?m.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF~THE^STEAMER
. BALTIC.
The steamer Baltic arrived at New
York on the 6th, with one week’s later
news from Europe.
LlVERrOOL MARKET.
Liverfool, March 24.—Cotton has
advanced 1-16 to £d. Sales of the week
87,000 bales, idcluding 14,000 to spe
culators and 18,000 to exporters.
The steamer St Louis arrived out on
the 24th.
s,e ^- M6 - e * -**
1 he \ ienna Conference have unani*
mously adopted the first of the four
points, placing the Danubian Principal!,
ties under the joint protectorate of the
four powers.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
We received yesterday our foreign
letters and files of papers brought by the
Asia to Boston, but find little news of
importance in addition to that already
published. We subjoin, however, the
following items:
The Independence 0 f Br^i* men
Sper rr- pb . '«■«
hmipercr of Austria to the Emperor of
r - r enc.i, m which the disposition of
Hussia is described as such as gives
hopes of happy results, on condition that
moderation be observed on both sides.
The King of Prussia has, says tho
Pans Constitutional, manifested a desire
to supply, by an autograph letter ad
dressed both to th B |Emperorof the
, renc,1 > 33 d to the Queen of England,
the want of the official notifications which
the Emperor Alexander would have
made to them directly, if the war had
not interrupted the diplomatic relations
7,f 'w be Court ofSt ' Petersburg
mid the Western powers. The Emperor
Napoleon III, and Queen Victoria,
jusHy appreciating this offer of King
l< rederick William, appear not only dis
posed to accede to it with the best grace,
but even to order a court mourning as
soon as the King of Prussia shall have
notified to them by an autograph letter
huv^ 6 d<iath ° f h ' 3 au ° ust brother-in
London, Saturday Morning.—In
binglatu peace is regarded as probable
without the razeeing of Sevastopol
being a preliminary step.
. Pbe imports ot gold into England con
tinue large. The bank was shortly ex
pected to reduce the rate of discount*
It " as rumored also that England was