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ATHENS, GA.
TJIUJWDAI MORNING, A PHIL 19, IS65
OUR POSITION.
Id defending the principles., of the
American Parly—which we heliefe it
to be our duty to do—we wish it distinct- he
Iy understood, that we wage no warfare cratic
against.{Democracy or Whiggery—
Southern Rights or Unionism—indeed,
against no party of present or past times,
except the abolitionists. So far as the
other parties named are concerned, we
regard them n ! l as essentially *' dead
cocks in the pit.” It is true that certain
designing demagogues and party hacks
—aided by a few honest but misguided
men, whom they have induced to remain
with them around these dead carcases,
are vainly endeavoring to galvanize
them into a brief and spasmodic resus
citation. But all their efforts will be
worse than fruitless. As national or
ganizations they are essentially dead,
dead,dead! This being the case, we
are willing to inscribe on their tomb
stone a suitable memorial of all the good
they have done—whilst the evil they
have brought about we are willing to
bury with their dead bodies in the tomb
of forgetfulness.
( We cannot think of waging
. | ngai.ist dead carcases—nor is there any
Clarke vilic—A Erwin,John S. H.ic* necnP? i { y / or ; t ; 9 enough for u* to
■tt, W. \\. Alley and L'cey Stewart, de y end the American party. We shall
attack none of these defunct organizu-
MEET1NG IN HABERSHAM.
On ^Wednesday last, a meeting was
held in Clarkesville, which will no doubt
to the world as a *• Demo-
notwithstanding every
Democracy, as well as
i become sc sectionalized,
JOT Mr. William Doaisn. of Atlsnu, l« our au-
lliarircd Apnt in ‘ herokee Grorgi*.
Mr'Thlapnpfrnsied. and m*y at all llme«*b« neon
at the Re.idiug Kora of Trof Hollowxt, *H Sirnr.d,
London
sar Severn! cotnmnnicatlotis unavoidably
] couponed till our next issn<v
Absent once more, kind reader.
After this week, we shall endeavor to
remain faithfully at our post—honestly
striving for what we con«cientiou.-ly be
lieve to be light, and industriously la
boring to make our sheet a Welcome
\ mtoi to the bouses of its readers.
AGEnT’SLN IIABERSIIAM.
The followin' gentlemen will please
act as Agents for the Watchmen in
Habeishtm County :
kett
Esqrs.
Mount York
-Col. P. B. II iralson, t i OIISj so far as- tliey are concerned,
Nacoochee Capt. Jno. L. Richard- ; entirely on the defensive.
son and Col. Jno Trammell.
In malting this declaration, we do not
Walton’s Ford—O. R. J.irrctt, I.sq.-; p rclend ( Q sa y that w e will not battle
Hughesbury-Mnj. Thomas S. Hughes. w j tb tbc other great new party now torm-
Loudsville —Maj. F. Logan. i ing—the unli-American, or Foreign
Allandnle—Robert Allan, Esq. j Catholic party- ve know not what name
Hollingsworth—The P. M. j it may assume. It is highly probable,
j however, that like all piratical concerns,
C1P Sec the card of the Hr.l -rsl.um ' ... . ,
on, u l »t will appropriate to its unhallowed
Hotel in our advertising columns. We
can assure our friends that the gentle-
purposes the banne*• and even Hie
, once popular name of one of the deceas-
'.nanlypropr etor.Coi. Erw ins," i I spare et j pnrties. This miserable attempt to
no pains to render their s.ijojirn beneath
hie roof p'ea^ant and comfortable.
It will he seen by reference to
our’advertising columns, that proposals
are solicted for the construction of that
loug-talked-of and much-needed r bridge
between town and the depot. We con
gratulate nil parties interested, upon the
mislead the people will, however, b*
exposed in due time, aud all parlies ac
cessory to the attempted fraud will be
held up to the contempt of their insult
ed countrymen.
£5^* The organs of his holiness, Pope
Pius IX- are so far lost to all sense of
shame as to uiiblushingly attempt to
prospect we now have of getting a new ! cast odium upon those American citi
bridge..
the statute of September 28, 1850, are
substantially these :“ Every officer, &c.
who performed military service in any
regiment, &c. in Ute servic e of the Unit
ed States in the war with Great Britain,
&e.crr in any of the Indian teas since
1790,” shall be entitled to land. The
words of the statutes of M arch 3, 1
-i , , • . that it ,,rfc ? abvt «n«ially these; Every officer,
tediiind abolitionizi d, that it &c ^bo was regularly mustered into
unger bt recognized as a na- the service of the United State-, and
can ho lotigi
tional party. As national organizations,
they are both powerless, for good; but as
sectional patties, may become potent
agencies of evil.
The meeting was addressed by Judge
Hilly er, our late Representative in Con
gress As we only heard a portion of
his speech, it would probably be unfair
-to refer to it further than to say that he
denounced the Know-Nothings. Whilst
looking around upon the c:owd in the
court-house, we discovered that the
chairman of the meeting was a gentle
man who, we were informed by all par
ties, is one of the staunchest friends of he
American platform in the up-couutry
and a majority of those present—Demo
crats aud Whigs alike—we recognized
as being of the “ true faith !’ and the
war best of the joke is, the members of “■ the
Athens Junta’’ did not make the dis
covery until after the meeting. Some
of the dclegats appointed to the Stale
Convention, we are informed, “ got
up right thar in meetin !” and decliued
going !
The truth is, the members of “the
Junta” are standing in slippery places.
Many of the leaders with whom they
ai e daily consulting about tic best plan
of putting down the Know-Nothings,
are active members of “ Sams” farttrni-
ty !! Biu“ignorance is bliss,and its folly
to be wise!”
which has been m-ide by foreign advet.
our origins’
Habersham county.
We spent a few days among our
Habersham friends during the session of j "^ Trenton by their patriotic ances-
it., !. Incl nrrrl tnlf A i - . « . . . . «
zens who came forward to avenge their
countrymeu who were shot down at the
elCctiou riots in Cincinnati, by the de
scendants of the hired llessions captur-
their gupcf.or Court last week, and take t tof9 | We ure the friend 0 f | aw and or .
this opportunity of tendering onr thanks ; der —h a >e always opposed all kinds ol‘
to them for the very flattering encour- mob violence,and expect to Continue to
ngemeht we received at their hands. do80 . but when*native bor$ Americans
Considering, our bodily affliction which j Rre s j,ut l down in the streets for attempt-
prevented us a part of our lime from , j n g quietly to exercise one of the pi in-
nUending to our business, our success ’ ciples for which Washington fought
was fuljy equal to our expectations. We and freemen died, if v/e take sides at
added forty-two new subscribers to our j all, we shall see to it, that we are with
lirt.
| our own countrymen
Habersham, like all the other conn-1 We have fallen upon strange times
tics we have visited, exhibits striking! indee(1 « when the ei,itor ol a "ewspa-
sig„, of physical and moral improvement. P er sho ' J ' s hirase,f 80 far ,ost to aU P a *
d more of I tr ‘ ollc impulses,as to show that liis sym
There are better houses—an
them—better fences, larger fields, or
chards, &c., along the road than former
ly ; and education, too, we believe, has j
been more generally diffused among the
! pathics are with the foreign rabble who
shoot down his brethren in the streets,
for the crime of attemptihg to vote !
j And yet, if we rightly apprehend the
scenes of busy life, than among their i
elders.
Clarkesville, the county site is a benuti-
. . . . , , meaning of a certain paragraph in the
young people just entering upon the , . r . e . ...
J ° , • 1 * ast issue of the foreign organ in this
place, the editor of that print has done
I this thing!
j In each of the wars we have had with
ful, pleasant and exceedingly beathful | Eng , aud there has & en a party in : this
mountain vi..Hge, \\ hen the heat and ; countr y w jj U opposed their countrymen
dust of summer admonish (hs dwellers 1
in the low country to” flee to the moun
tains,’’ we know of no plea-anter retreats
than Clarkesville and other points in
Habersham can furnish.
and sympathised with the enemy—.in
the first contest they were called Tor ex,
and in the second Federalists—names
which have not left a swcct-smelling
j savour in the public no-trils ! in the
great civil and bloodless revolution which
is now goinion—the object of which is
to perpetuate the civil and religious liber-
CF* We understand that a melan
choly awtdtnl' occtired in the adjoining
county of Madison recently, l>y which | ties secured by the first—there is a par-
one citizen lost his life at the hands of ty which opposes their countrymen,and is
il We heard that they were all Aboli
tionists—this has turned out not to be
so." ! 1 f
The above item came to light on the
13t.li ins:., in the town of Gieenville S.
C.—its parent, the Southern Fjiiter-
pris.\ Greenville, we believe, is in ra
ther a mountainous region ; so, we may
safely, and with the greatest propriety
observe, as Democracy and Whiggery,
(two parties once in existence in this
country) have so often and triumphant
ly done,—verily, “fire is approaching
the mountains’'—barring the slight
variation.
If we chose so to do, it would he a
very easy matter to present the fellow
to this declaration, if u totally opposite
could be called such. Why, no longer
ago than a number or two back this
same papers declared ’war to the knife’
against “these midnight workers.” Now.
he sees no harm *in the K. N’s, but
thinks them the very party for the times.
But the Enterprise only speaks out
what many of the former rank oppo.
nents of the American Party feel, if they
had sufficient candor to acknowledge it
No difficulty In accountingfor this change
in the language of our young friend
—the Enterprise has had its Price. Or
that voice from Columbia so fully con
vinced him that Sam was ‘about,’ and
was‘coming,’ he thought he’d put him
self at least where many of the good
prints of our State now stand, (and
which is characteristic of them,) v.z :
where he could say, “ Good Lord—
Good Devil.”
No, hottest inquirer—true American
—the American Party, as we have as
serted befoie—as the Boston Atlas con
tinually declares—as the Tribune echos,
and as the National Era swears, ig
nores the Abolition party and all else
that lends to endanger our liberties and
this “glorious Union.”
every officer in the navy, in any of the
wars in whirls this country has been en
gaged since 1790,*' shall be entitled to
land, &.C- Now, the idea suggested to
the mind by these two forms of expres
sion is identical, to-wit, actual service in
a war. If the service is actual, and ia a
waV, it must be at the seat of war. I
cannot, therefore, entertain a doubt but
that the constructions of these statutes
should be the same.
But, to enable us to entertain the true
construction ol a law, we are permitted
to look at Hie effects and consequences,
or to tis spirit and meaning Now, if
the construction claimed be adopted,
e»ery person who was in the military or
naval service of the United States dur
ing the war with the Barbary Stales, in
180SJr’4. or - the Black Hawk war. i
-S32,. or the Florida war, from 1830 to
1842, although they were thousands of
miles irum tlie seat of war, will be enti
tled (o':mi« hundred and sixty acres of
land It makes no difference between
the man who periled his life in the har
bur ol 1 lipidi or.in the everglades of
Fioriila and the man who was at the
same time crusing in some distant waters
or quartered at some spot where no hos
tile foot could tread, if service in the
army or navy only was intended by
Congress, it should have omitted the
words "in any of the wars; but.by using
these words, it is evident that actual ser
vice in such wars was intended to en
title any one to land. 1 oin, therefore
of opinion that no person can be a bcr.e-
liciarj junder the fust section of the act
ol March 3, 1855 who ha. not perform
ed fourteen days’service at fhe seal of the
war in which he shall claim to have ser
ved.
L. P. Waldo, Commissioner.
To— .
turers to warp os from
destiny, and implant
ism broad cast in our
pke, seeing these things,
that they shall be so
men of both the
forward and rallyi
rican banner and are resolved, tha;
“ Americans shall rule America.” In
the formati< n of parlies, the lines of
demarcation must be drawn, not from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, because we
who love our glorious Union must never
consent to a sectional division of parties
—the lines that divide us as parties must
reach from Maine to Texas—from the
St. Croix to the Rio Grande. There
must be no north, no south, no east, no
west to Americans. “ Our country,
our whole country, and nothing but our
country,” must be the rallying cry, and
Union must be the watchword.
rovern the action of the President and
Departments, in doubjtful cases.
The last Congress passed an act to
lion of its officers
Ficholson, editor of
i, artd et-officio boss organ-
3. Another reason
should support tl
gatioo restir
all philanthropists to|
those who cannot be ha ( >py in this coun
try. Here the negro can never associ-
why the South
i- the ob!i-
n common with
provide a home for
L ;
nder for General Pierce, had been al ® on terms of equality with the white
elected printer to the House of Repre
sentatives. On the passage of the law, 1,1
this honest editor made out a demand
fnr only twenty thousand, and presented
it to Secretary Guthrie for liquidation.
The Secretary asked Nicholson by what
authority he demanded payment of his
account? The editor referred him to
the act of Congress, passed to increase
the pay of its officers 1 Mr. Guthrie told
the editor that neither the letter nor the
'pirit of the act could be distorted so as
to include him in its provisions! Nichol
son kicked up, and swore that he would
have the money—presented Mr. Guthrie
race. He may bo liberated and reside
what is called a free State } but he is
still degraded.^ His pretence is every
We extend to foreigners, the cordials with Attorney General Cushing’s writ-
grasp of hospitality—we welcome them ,en opionion, stating that according t*
to our shores—we point them to the ! b * s construction of the act, Nicholson,
broad andi teeming domains of our west-! lb ® H use printer, was fairly within the
ern inheritance, and'tell them-go bny benefits conferred by it! Mr. Guthrie
and cultivate, and enjoy the fruits of the' informed Nicholson that he had great
generous soil—worship God under your! respect for the opinions of Mr. Cush
and- our viue and fig tree—but there i ing; that he was some lawyer himself;
your immunities cease—you cannot I that neither the letter nor the spirit of
vote at our municipal; state or national j the act included him ; and that, Pre
elections—to you that is forbidden ; the , fore, he should not pay the demand !
fault is not ours—a sacred duty devolves , Mr. Guthrie was threatened wi.h the
upon us, and we>re bound to perform j President’s denunciation; but the Se-
it. Your children can enjoy the privi- j cr etary so “vigilantly guarded the
lege of voting, but you. tve tell you in j ave nues” along which Nicholson was
all kindness, cannot do so until twenty { tfying to$teal into , he pub!ic Treasury
where regarded as undesirable. Some
of the free States exclude him by law.
it not then the dictate of philanthro-
py to transport him to a territory in \
which he may be relieved from a degra
dation which, it seems, necessarily at
taches to him in this country?
R.” thinks that abolitionists are
friendly to the Colonization Society.
On this matter I can assure him that he
in error. There may possibly be some
persons who are usually termed aboli
tionists, who contribute to the funds of
the Society ; but the fiercest invectives
which have ever been uttered against
the Colonization Society have proceed
ed from abolitionists.
I can think of no good reasons why
Southerners may not yield their cordial
support to the Colonization Society.— _
At its last session, the Legislature of
Virginia made a large appropriation to-
aid their funds; and I am happy to learn
that within a few days past, more than
one hundred dollars have been raised in.
this town for the same purpose; S.
Athens, April 16, 1855.
me y* or> tha11 have 'bptedfrom the day that the editor wa , forced to give b: , ck>
that you took the oath of allegiance.- j when Galhn ’ told him plainly that his
The house of Obededom was bles-ed so
another. We do not at present remem
ber the names of the parties. It seems
leaguing itself with Jesuit priests for the
puipo-e of’‘crushing out” civil and re-
thal they were turj^y-bimting—each ! ligious liberty. Let them take warnin
unaware of the presence of the other.
One of them having secreted himself in
the bu. he?, commenced an imitation of
tho *' yelping” of a turkey—the ether
being mar enough to hear it, moved
along cjutiously in the direction of the
noiM?, until he approach* d near enough
to see an object moving i n’t he bu.hcs;
supposing it to be » turkey, he instantly
fired, and running to the spot he dis
covered ho had -hot his friend through
the head !
RtDr.MrriON U. S. Stocks —$100,-
OOJ worth of U. S. Sioeks were redeem
ed at the Treasury Department "Wed
nesday.
fcxVr.DlTION AGAINST TIIE IkDIANS.-
Tlio St. Louta Republican, of Siturday,
contains the general orders issued by the
government for a military expedition
against the Indians uf the Flairs.
The expedition is tu be under the
command of General Harney. The
order dcvojdpes the, lull.strength of the
e^nodilion amd' scope of operations.
i . t* ./.I* !’- . ! *,/ ;
from the fate of their prototypes—those
who joined the public enemy before—
they may w’m lor themselves a stiil less
enviable appellation than either Tory or
Fede alist ‘
Cvane and Saratoga.—The orders
:o gel the Cyanc and Saratoga ready
for sea immediately, have been executed
promptly, and rhe sloops aie now ready
to receive the supplies of provisions on
board. Of the crew, nearly 150 men
will be transferred from the Ohio. The
officers have not yet been ordered. The
desti tution of the Cyane and Saratoga is
not yet known, but it is presumed they
will proceed to the waters of Cuba, They
will be ready for sea iu the coarse of
the present week.
tdP* We learn that a female institu
tion of learning, of a high grade, is in
contemplation, and will probably be
shortly pot in operation,* in this place. It
has long been needed, and We trust that
the enterprise and public spirit of the
place may secure its imfmedliate ! estab
lishment.
BOUNTY LAND APPLICANTS.
Tho Commissioner of Pensions has
made the following important decision,
in which he draws tho distinction be
tween distant and actual service in time
of war:
Pension Offics, April 5, 1855.
Sir: Frequent inquiries are made
whether a person who was in the milita
ry or naval service of the United States
during any of the wars in which tin's
country has been engaged Since 179UIs
entitled to bounty laud under the act of
March 3, 1855, if ho wa - wot at Hie seat
of war.
In executing the act of September 28,
1850, tbe Department early decided
that no person could be a beneficiary,
under that act, for military service dur
ing any of the Indian wars since 1793,
unies- be was at the seat of w*ar in
which lie claimed to have served. This
decision has been uniformly pursued,
and has received the approbation of the
present Secretary of the Interior. But
it is now suggested that there is such a
difference in the language of tbe Stat
utes of September 28,1850, aud March
3, 1853, as to warrant the conclusion
that Congress intended to make all per
sons beneficiaries under the latter act
who were in either military or naval
service during any of said wars, whether
they were actually at tbe seat of war or
not.
I here carefully collated the language
of the two acts, and am unable to dis
cover such a difference as will justify
the conclusion claimed. The words of
For the Southern tVatchiuan.
Mr. Editcr : Having read the plat
form of the American Party, I am as
tonished that any man can possibly ob
ject to any portion of it. It is certainly
a desideratum long heeded; for, to my
mind the old parties died with their two
world-renowned leaders, Clay and Cal
houn ; and the people, left without lead
ers, were wandering sadly estray.
In all ages of the world, God has had
a peculiar family, community, or people,
as the especial objects of his care atid
kind regard; and his Providential pro
tection has ever been clearly shown to
them in everything that concerned them,
either of a spiritual or temporal na
ture. Any man who has ever read the
history pf tlje early settlement of our
country and her subsequent struggle for
Independence and a national character,
must have observed that a superintend
ing Providence guided our venerated
fore-fathers iu their early attempts to
establish and fix a home and a country
for their descendants—directed the en
ergies of the leaders of our revolutionary
struggle, proving a pillcr offire by night
and of cloud by day—cheered and sus
tained them in the darkest hour of trial
and suffering—defeated the well-fed and
well clad troops of the enemy—and
ultimately crowned their efforts with a
victory such as the world had never
seen ncr can ever witue s again.
In view of these great blessing*, one
is irresistably forced to the conclusion
that we are the favored people of Heaven,
and that the Supreme Ruler of men and
nations designs us as a peculiar people,
that he may illustrate his high and holy
designs through and by us as such,—
Can any sane man doubt these positions?
Does any one who has derived one drop
of revolutionary blood or inherited one
scintilla of the fire that animated the
bosoms of those good and great men,
cavil at the premises here laid down ?
If there is such an one,I am not address
ing these few rurabling’thoughts to him.
Assuming that the positions here
laid down are not questioned by any
American,I will proceed to deduce argu
ments therefrom to sustain the tiidyi
now being, made by the people iff our
country to perpetuate the sacred institu
tions Vef(Calhi d to us by our fmhers.
Mr. Jefferson remarked that there
must needs be two parties in our coun
try, and there has always been two par
ties—there ever will be; there is a ne
cessity for it; in the very nature of things
it cannot be otherwise. The old Whig
and Democratic parties are now hv
common consent considered defunct-—
tho people are now, as a nation, resolv
ed back into their original elements—
the masses are in a fused state—they
are naturally casting about for some
nucleus around which togather—the
latent energies of this mighty people
are quiescent; but though quiescent,
they are not asleep. They have 6een
the corruptions which have crept into
the Government—the innovations which
have been introduced'into the frame
work of our system—they have beheld
the gradual decadence of the stern in
tegrity which should ever characterize
the men to whom' the helm of the ship
of state is entrusted-—and the attempt
long ns the ark of the sacred Covenant
was enshrined within its walls, aud
when it was removed thence to be
carried to the Temple, and those who i
bore it seerried to loiter and stumble,and
Gaiphinism could not be tolerated, and
if its payment was required of him. by
the President, the latter might consider
' his resignation in his hands 1
The heirs of Galphin were paid by
the hands of those not belonging to the! virtuc of an act of Con g re f^ and the
sacerdotal family were extended to save Payment <*t the claim, principal and in-
it, they were stricken to the earth— ! terest, was authorized by the plain letter
so let those who belong not to us be ad-1 of law, and the usages of the Depart
monished to touch not the ark of our i ment, since tho organization of the
safety, and intermeddle not with those j Government; and whether right
institutions whose principles they do wrong,Mr.Fillmore s administration was
not understand. The Constitution is about as responsible for it as was the Sar
the iEgis of our protection—tbe palla-j dinian Government, or the Government
diuin of our rights—the ark of our , of Netherlands India! And this is the
safety. When falls that Constitution, | man who now talks so flippantly about
For the Southern Watchman.
ON TOP OF THE FENCE, IIA I,
Mr. Editor : Dear Sir, I See a short
piece in the “ Watchman*” from some
friend of yours, cautioning you about
giving “ aid & comfort,” to the “ Amv-
ican party,” & thinks you had better
* watch and wait,” awhile before com
mitting youself to the doctrin. The Edi
tors of the Recorder, and Chronical &
Sentinel, have, he says, been far more
prudent, in Seating themselves upon the
fence. Now Mr. Editor, I- never did like
these “ fence men,” in my .life. No sir-
" r ree, Bob,” they wont do, no way you-
America falls; when America falls, the ;
World! GWINNETT.
Galp’.inism ! If pnymentof the Galphin
claim, by virtue of law, and the estab
fished usage of the department, was a
fraud upon the Treasury, what would
payment of the Nicholson claim, without
authority of law, and in the \ ery teeth
oflaw and usage, have amounted to?—
Reader, Behold the two cases!—the
contrast!—and form your own estimate
of the character of the Washington
Union! Ghost of Swautwout.
For tbe Southern Watchman.
GALPHINISM VS. NICIIOLS0NISM {
A CONTRAST!!
Mr. Editor: The Washington Union,
the organ-grinder of Brigadier Pierce's
administration, has for months past, been
reading to his patrons long homilies on
tho subject if the Gaiphinism of Mr.
Fillmore’s administration, interspersed
with fulsome eulogies on the vigilance For tho southern vvatchm-in.
wi h which Secretary Guthrie guards SHOULD SOUTHERNERS SUP
the avenues leading into the Public' PORT THE COLONIZATION
Treasury at Washington. All this is well [ SOCIETY?
enough ; and if these laudations pro-1 Mr. Editor : In a receirt issue of
ceeded fiom a pure and honest source j y our paper, a writer who signs himself
the people might be expected to receive | “R-»” indulges a strain of remarks,.ca
and appreciate them in a kind spirit.—- culated to prejudice the Colonization
Let us briefly examine tlie facts, hover-! Society iu the estimation of slaveholder
er, and see how the matter stands.
The claim of the heirs of Galphin, the
readers of your paper are familiar with ;
and I shall not ei.ter into an investiga
tion of its history, or the grounds on
which its payment was advocated in or
out of Congress. The act for the pay-!
ment of this claim was passed during j
the administration of Polk. The Con
gress that considered and passed the law
was overwhelmingly Democratic in both
branches, and that the President (Polk)
who sanctioned and approved the mea
sure was slightly tinctured wi<h Demo
cratic principles, all will admit. The
act authorizedthe payment of the claim,
saying nothing on the question of the
interest, or its liquidation. The princi
pal was paid by Robert J. Walker,
Mr. Polk’s Secretary of the Treasury,
and if I mistake not, it was the opinion
of Mr Walker, and also of Mr. Polk’s
Attorny General, the claim carried in
terest with it, and that this should be
paid by the Government. I am not cer
tain about this, however. When Gen.
Taylor canto into office, the interest was
paid, in accordance with the decision
of the then Secretary of the Treasury,
supported by the written opinion of the
Attorney General, the law officer of the
Government. So that the claim and
the interest accruing on it were paid,
under and by virtue of “ an act of C(hf
gress in that case made and provided.”
This is a concise history of this claim,
so {hr as the act for that purpose and
the payment of the principal and inter-?
est due on it are concerned. If it be
said that the act did not authorize the
payment of the interest, in its terms, I
reply that according to its spirit it did
so authorize, and in proof, refer to the
opinions of the Secretary of the Trea
sury and of the Attorney General whose
decisions on questions of this sort r always
By introducing into his ©ommunrcatiw
the names of several citizens of Geor
gia who have contributed to the funds
of this Society, the writer seems dispos
ed to condemn, as auti-Southern, a
persons who patronize the Institute.
Totally dissenting from the views of
*'R and responding affirmatively to
the question propounded" in the caption
of .his article, I beg leave to offer
reason or two for my faith,
1. The Colonization Society does
not propose to disturb, in any way what
ever, the relation of master and slave
There is nothing in its constitution
which contains, either expressly or by
implication, the slighest censure ol
Southern institutions. At*the last an
niversary of the Society, held in W r ash
ington city, the prominent speaker on
the occasion remarked i “ You do not
meddle with the question, whether sla
very shall be abolished, or whether
shall he perpetuated ; whether it shall
be restricted within narrower limits, or
shall be allowed to pervade a wider
sphere; you do not consider yourselves
a tribunal for the trial of offences; your
work iff one of philanthropy, not of cen
sufe. On the subject of slavery, you
leave men to think and talk as they
please.”
2. The Colonization Society propos
es to remove from the country, a class
of population whose presence amongst
us, in any numbers, renders our ser
vants restless and dissatisfied. I mean
the free blacks. By providing, free
can fix “ em”—Esspecially Politicians.
My doctrine, Mr. Editor, is, when
they get “on” the fence lay them “down,”
on the shelf
These “ fence men,’’Mr. Editor, puts,
me in mind of an old Dutchman &-
his son, going to look for their Caro.
When they got to the branch, the old
man says,- Shon, you go on de- •* tudderV
side of de branch & I will go on dish
side, for, I believe she i>h on
both sides.” But when they fonnd the
cow, I expect that th- y both got on* ;
‘ one” side- of the u Branch.” And now
Mr. Editor, that is jest the way wirh-a
great many men,& especially politicians,
aud some- few Editors ; they always
wait to see which side of the “ Branch,”
the old ‘* Bell” Cow is on, before they
know which side to go on. Year friend
thinks, that if you continue to give aid
& comfort” to the *" American Party",” ,
that you may loose subscribers, to your
paper, Now Mr. Editor, if you have
lost one single subscriber just let
“■Sam” know it, and he will subscribe"
for another copy and give it to *‘ dad.
For “ dad” ant a subscriber to no paper.-
now, but “ dad” use to take the “ Ban
ner man’s” Paper; but “dad” he “fell j 1
out"’with the “Banner” Paper, and I 1
couldent get him to take it no U nger;,
but says I “dad” you been taken the-
“ Banner Man’s.” Paper ever since t;
can 1 recollect, and “ dad” dont go t(L
stopen it now. But *fdad"’ would stop
it, and “dad” did stop it—And nothin 1
in the world neither, Mr. Editor, only
“cause”they would break up that“Un":on
Hotel” Party, or union somethin. 1 for-.
get now what they called it.—But *‘daiHy
he wasen’t willen to breaks up the good*-
“ Union Hotel,” and you see the “Ban
ner man” was, and so jou see, Mr.
Editor, “ dad" jest tells him to stop his.
Paper.
Mr. Editor,that is all I have got to say.
u about the “ American Party” if there is
not Enough Native Americans in this
country thats smart enough to fill all of
our offices—I say if we have n<*t got
men competent and smart enough, to.
make our laws, and carry them out—
We had better “ sell out” to some other
nation that has. Now, Mr.Editor 1 them
is my sentiments adzactly. “ SA M.”
New Use for Chloroform.—At
the Patent Office at Washington, chloro
form has been tried to kill weave! ia
wheat, In two or three minutes, after
a few drops of chloroform had Wen ad-
ministered, the insects naturally enough,
expense, the means of transportation, began to exhibit unmistakable symptoms
and by offering them a comfortable
home in Liberia it has encouraged thou
sands of free negroes to leave the Unit
ed States. On account of the political
benefit of the Society to the South, the
legislatures of several Southern States
have, at various tiroes,made large grants
of money to promote colonization.
of uneasiness which proved to be thfe
certain precursors of a quiet, respectable
death.
An election was held at Hagerstown*
Md. on Monday, for five members of thu
Council. The Know-Nothing candi
dates were elected by an average
majority of 323. ( ^
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