The Southern watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1854-1882, April 26, 1855, Image 2

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<a? OIL t*i», udk, Ate the cosstitctio.*. ATHENS, QA. TnrRSDAY UORM1XG. APRIL 26, 1865 Mr. William Done*. of Atlanta, U our au thorised Agent in Cherokee Georgia. Mf*Thiii paper 1* filed, and may at ail time* be acen the -Reading Ko--m of Prof at London !!?llowat, 944 Strand, AGENTS IN HABERSHAM. The following gentlemen will please act as Agents Tor the Watchman in Habersham County: Clarke-ville—A Erwin,John S, Hnc- keit, W. W. Alley and Lacey Stewart, Eaqrs. Mount Yonah—Col. P. B. Haralson. Nacoochec—Capt. Jno. L. Richard son and Col. Jehu Trammell. Walton’s Ford—C. K. Jarrett, Esq. IIughesburg-jM aj. Thomas S. Hughes. Loudsville —Maj. F. Logan. Allandaic—Robert Allan, Esq. Hollingsworth—The P. M. AGENTS IN* FRANKLIN. The following gentlemen will act as agents for the Southern Watchman, in Franklin County: Carnesville—James A. Harrison and P. H Langston, Esq*. Bold Spring—Maj. J. E. Caldwell and J. M. Alexander, Esq. Middle Riter—Wm. T. Martin, Esq. Erastus—James A. Langston, Esq. Walnut Hill—James C. Little. Esq, Bushviile—John Johnson, Esq. AGENTS IN MADISON COUNTY. DnnieUvillc—W. II. Griffith, Jno. Scott, Sr , B. F. Guest. Fort Lamar—Jno. N. Montgomery, and Dudley M. Jones. Esqs. Planter's Stand—B. F. O’Kelly, Esq. Paoli—Henry Williford, Esq. Brookline—J. Culbertson, Esq. Id? Fronvjr-my intimate connection- - with the press from our early youth to the present time, we have always ob- served that when the minions of party are completely driven unite'wall, and ican,” are driven to strange shift* some- OLTR POSITION. In defending the principles of the American Party—which we believe it to be} cur duty to do—wc wish it dis tinctly understood, that wc wage no warfare against Democracy or Whig- gery—Southern Rights or Unionism— indeed, against no party of present or past times, except the abolitionists. So far as the other parties named are con cerned, we regard them all as essential ly dead cocks in the pit.” It is true that certain designing demagogues and party hack*—aided by a few honest but misguided men, whom they have induc ed to. remain with them around these dead carcases, are vainly endeavoring to galvanize them into a brief and spasmo dic resuscitation. But all their efforts wi 1 be worse than frutless. As nation*! organizations they arc essentially dead, dead, dead ! This being the case, we are willing to inscribe on their tomb stones a suitable memorial of the good they have done—whilst the evil they hive brought about we are willing to bu ry with their dead bodies in the tomb of forgeifulnes*. We cannot think of waging war against dead carcases—nor is there any necessity for it. It is enough for us to defend the American party. We shall attack none of these defunct organiza tions, but so fir as they a*e concerned, act entirely oh the defensive. In making this declaration, we do not pretend to say that we will not battle with the other great new party now form ing—the anti-American, or Foreign Catholic party— we know not what name it may assume. It is highly probable, however, that like all piratical concerns, it will appropriate to its unhallowed purpose the banner and even the once popular name of one of the deceased parties. This m’serabte attempt to mis lead the people will, however, be ex posed hi due time, and all parties ac cessory to the attempted fraud will be held up to the contempt of their insult ed ccuntrv men. are utterly unable to offer one word in the shape of an argument—like the boy who “ made mouths” at his antagonist’s sister after having received a sound drubbing at his hands, they vent their impotent spleen by calling names. This is the course adopteJ by the enemies of the American party—those men who, (worse than the Tories and Federal ists,) not only sympathise with the pub lic enemy, but absolutely afford the ene my “ aid and comfort,” by entering into a conspiracy with foreign Jesuit priests, headed by Pope Pius IX. for the pur pose of gradually subverting the civil and religious liberties for which Wash ington fought and freemen died. Utter ly unable to offer one single plausible argument against the principles boldly set forth by the American party, they content themselves by pouring out the vials of their wrath upon their devoted heads, in the shape of the loweot bil lingsgate abuse that ever disgraced the American press or polluted the public morals. No epithet of their vile and blackguard vocabulary is considered sufficiently harsh to apply to their fel* low-countrymen who are endeavoring to free our institutions from those bane ful foreign influences against which Washington, Madison, Jackson, Clay, and all the fathers of the Republic cau tioned the American people. Not con tent with heaping upon them all the vile epithets of domestic manufacture, they exhibit their/’oreiya instincts by travel ling uil the way to India for a name for the American party—which having adopted the name of Know-Nothings applied to thejp in derision by their enemies, just as their Revolutionary an cestors adopted “ Yankee Doodle” as the national air, which was gotten up by foreigners and torics as a burlesque— seeing that they have made nothing by this, they now apply the name of ‘‘Hin doo’’ to those patriots who prefer being governed by Americans rather than foreigners. We suppose they intend by this to compare the Know-Nothings to the Thugs of India ! Let these minions beware! public opinion is sometimes more relentless than all the Thugs of India! It can more completely anni hilate demagogues and traitors than the cord of the Thug ever did its victims ! Let them read the history of the Tories aiid Federalists of past tunes—let them contemplate their fate, and then fear and tremble! They must inevitably “ sink to a degradation so low and an infamy so profound, that the hand of political resurrection can never reach them!!’’ Those unfortunate Trojans who ad mitted the Greek horse within their walls, by which immediate destruction overwhelmed their devoted city, are to be pitted, for they knew not what they did; but American traitors, who know that the foreign horse now sought to be admitted to the very citadel of our lib erties, is filled with armed men, ready to spring forth, when the darkness of night favors their design, and fling wide its potals to the free admission of the hordes of foreign Jesuit priests, convicts and paupers, who threaten not only the desecration but the total destruction of the temple of liberty, cannot reasonably expect to excite any other emotions than those of scorn and contempt. IN A STRAIT! The organs of the foreign Jesuit priests, in their overweening anxiety to render odious the very name of 41 Amer- times. A late number of one of these filthy and polluted papers, (which we have laid away as the best specimen of billingsgate and vituperation we have ever met with,) in one article claims that the American party is only. Whig- gery revived, and composed entirely of Whigs; while in the very next column he says that the better portion of the Whig party will have nothing to do with it! This reminds us of the unfortunate predicament into which cur excellent friend, Judge Hillyer, (late Represen tative of this District in Congress,) got himself by his recent speech at Clarkes- vilie. After deploring the sad fate of Northern Democracy, which he said had been “ broken down” by all the “ isms and ologies” in the land, he ad vised his friends who were seeking po litical safety to fly to this “ great tower of strength,” the Northern Democracy! The frequency of such glaring incon sistencies and contradictions, tends to show that the enemies of “ Sam” are not well drilled. We are truly sorry to find the Judge, usually so cautious, and always “conscientious,” act’ng in con cert with them; as we fe?l satisfied he must see, and feel, and know, that the country at large, and more especially the people of the South, can hope for nothing from cither the Whig or Dem ocratic parties—both of which have ceased lo exist as national organizations; but sectionalized, demoralized and abo- litionized as they are, arc utterly pow erless for good, and patent only in mis chief. Just so loug as they remaimd living, acting, national organizations, wc enters tained some hope that they would ac complish £ood; but when they became sectionalized and disorganized, we felt willing to see them buried and their epitaphs written. There is no reason or sense in clinging to the names Whig or Democrat, when the very issues on which these distinctions were based, are themselves “dead coeks in the pit.” These defunct parties have left “names to live, while they are dead in trespasses and in sins.” joumment of tlie Legislature—a failure to perform the work within the time specified, to be considered not only a for feiture of the bond,but a bar to the pay ment for what may be completed. Let the next Legislature pass such ao act as this, and there will be no further com plaint of the non-aspearance of the Laws and Journals in season. - BIENNIAL SESSIONS. The Grand Jury of Gwinnett county, in their Presentments, express the opi nion that the experiment of Biennial Sessions of our State Legislature has proved a failure, and they recommend a return to annual sessions. We in cline strongly to the idea of our Gwin nett neighbors. The interests of our CORRECTION. Our friend, ‘ A Staunch Whig.’ from whom we have received another com munication, is in error when he sup poses that we intended to call in question his veracity, or to insinuate that his state ment that our distinguished townsman, Hon. A. Hull,would support Mr Over by for Governor, was a fabrication. We never intended any such thing, but simply meant to say what we knew to be the fact, that Mr. H. himself never authorized him to say he was either for or against Mr. O. What we suspected to be the case, turns out to be true, however: viz. that a gentleman had as sured “ A Staunch Whig” that Mr. H. would support the Prohibition candidate. This, to our mind, was not a sufficient warranty to authorize him to state in a newspaper that the thing was so. Our correspondent concludes by expressing his regret, that, if in error, he had any agency in giving currency to it. We make this statement rather than publish his communication and our re ply to it, as we arc pressed for room. WHY IS IT! Why is it that no one ever dared to question the authenticity of the plat forms of the Democratic and Whig par ties, whilst they were in existence ? We do not remember that they were ever called in question Now, however, when the American parly has published its principles to the world, and they turn out to be of such a character that even the long nosed, keen-scenting old party hacks cannot pick a flaw in them, and even the little, be-whiekered, bc-musked, and faucy- rattaned exquisites of the land, whose instincts lead them to run after every thing foreign, are forced to acknowl edge, in their peculiar lingo, that “ it is Jem foine,’’—certain opposition edi tors—we mean the conductors of the foreign organs—affect to believe that this platform is not authentic—that it does not contain the principles of the American party! While, at the same time, they know that it is a full and thorough exposition of their ends and aims, and that all the secrecy in the matter, like that of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Sons of Temperauce, &,c., consists in some sort of “ Shib-bo-leth. which is used as a pass-word at the great «nd growing pop,.lation, now » | ccu „ cil . room ioor „ IU[ „ extended and diversified, require look- 1 K “SI’ILL THEY COME!’ Since our last issue, we have added the names of on; hundred and seventeen new subscribers to our list—chiefly res ident iu neighboring counties, but some of them from North and South Caroli na. and one away off towards sunset, in Nebraska! Whilst this is quite encouraging, we would say to our kind friends, relax not your effotis, but continue to pour them in by the hundred, and we will soon be ready to greatly enlarge, beau tify. and in every respect improve the Watchman. Wc hope every subscriber will con sider himself an agent, a»d that each one will send us half a dozen new cash subscribers. Land Warrants are said to be worth from $169 to $ -65 in New York, frnc- - ! ns in proportion. It is thought the new wilWund Ip lower the price. FRANKLIN COUNTY. We visited the county of Franklin during the sitting of the Superior Court last week. We had not been in the coun ty before for years, and, but for the ex traordinary heat of the weather should have enjoyed our trip very much. ^7e had the good fortune to renew our ac quaintance with many of our old friends, and to form many pleasant and agreea ble new acquaintances—besides which, wc enjoyed the pleasure of adding nine ty new subscribers to our li-t! This, considering the fact that wo were tauntingly told that we would “ strike slate”in Franklin,was doing pretty well! Franklin, too, (judgingby what we saw along the public highways) has improv ed much in her agriculture, the physical comforts of the people, and in educa tional faiafilie*,within the past few years. We know of no county in the circuit whose citizens arc more hospitable and sociable than those of Franklin. To those friends in Franklin who kindly aided us in extending our circu lation in that county, wo tender our warmest thanks, and hope they will not relax their 'efforts until they are satisfi ed that We are unworthy of their confi dence and support; It is stated that tbe Hon. David J. Bailey, mil be a candidate for re-election to Congress from the Thirji District. ing alter at least once a year We take from one of our Georgia ex changes the above notice of the action of the Grand Jury of Gwinnett. In some particulars, annual sessions are desirable, but it would be absurd to re turn to them until some alteration is made in the mode of promulgating the laws after they are enacted. It is only a few days ago that the Acts of the last Legislature and the journals reached this coun'-y for distribution. In many counties they have probably not yet been received. How supremely ridicu lous it woold have been, to say nothing of the injustice and confusion that would have been the consequence, had another session been held during the pa^t win'er. It would doubtless have repealed some laws and modified others, of which our people would have been ignorant, or imperfectly informed, since they had never been put in print. Then by the time the Acts of 1854-5 were distributed, another legislature will have met, and in its turn repealed or modif.ed those Acts aud enacted uew ones of which the people would know little or nothing. There is proverbial uncertainty of the laws even when peo ple can read.them, have lawyers to ad vise upon them, and courts organized to expound them. How much worse would it not be, when the laws instead of being seen and read by all men, are closely locked up in tbe archives of the State,and the only outside knowledge the people have of them is the verbal re ports oflegisla tors speaking from un certain memory.— Const. & Hep. ^ We copy the above, for the pur pose of repeating what we have said be fore in reference to the intolerable evil complained of—an evil which we have no hope of seeing abated so long as the present law remains in force. There is a very simple remedy in the hands of the Legislature, however. Let the peo ple see to it that their Representatives are instructed to apply it; Our plan would he to fix the pay of the Public Printer at a fair remunerative rate— elect him by the Legislature—and re quire him to give bond,in a heavy amount for the faithful execution of the work WHAT ARE THEIR PR1NCIPLES ? This question is daily propouned by persons who affect to believe that the American party” dare not lay before the people the platform of their organi zation. Here are their principles—we throw the banner to tbe breeze, that these principles may be “ known and read of all men.” They possess a vitali- ty which all the party platforms in our day have wofully lacked. The great American heart beats responsive to this short but comprehensive creed, which appeals to the patrioti-m of every true native of our genial soil. It has been said with truth that the old party issues are “ dead cocks in the pit”—if we do not greatly err, the old parties themselves are “ dead cocks” too. Denationalized, sectionalized and abolitionized, they still maintain, it is true, at least the appearance of a frag mentary existence. But their days are numbered—the sceptre has departed. The American party—which is em phatically the party of the People—pre sents issues of the deepest moment— necessarily growing out of the present conditioi^ot the country—and which must settle, for weal or wo, its future destiny. Let the people of Georgia read the following declaration of American prin ciples, and regardless of the dictation of party hacks—whether Whigs nr Detno- caats—let them determine for them selves if they be not true American doctrines: OUR PRINCIPLES. First, We shall advocate a repeal of the laws of naturalization, or if that can not be accomplished, then such a modi fication of those laws as will prevent fu ture emigrants from becoming citizens, short of a residence of twenty-one years, after taking the oath of allegiance to the United States, and of abjuration of all other powers, potentates, and prin ces. Second. We shall advocate the pas sage of a stringent law by Congress to prevent immigration hitherof foreigners who are either paupers or criminals, and to send back to the countries from which they come all such foreigners of these classes as may, in violation of such law, hereafter reach our ports : and to require the President of the United States to demand from any government, which may send hither such classes of its sub jects, immediate and ample satisfaction for such outrage, and proper indemnity against the repetition thereof. Third. We shall oppose the election or appointment of any foreign born citi zens to any office of trust, honor or emo lument, under the Federal or Slate governments, or the employment or en listment of such persi ns iu the army or navy in time of war ; maintaining, as we do the opinion, that the native bors citizens of the United States hvve the right to govern the land of their birth ; and that immigrants from abroad be con tent with the enjoy me it of life, liberty and property under our institutions, without seeking to participate in the enaction,administration, or execution of our laws. Fourth. We shall advocate and urge the adoption of such an amended form of an oath to supnort the Consiitutiori of the United States, and to be adrtimis tered to all person elected or appointed to any office of trust, honor, or emolu ment, under the Federal or State gov ernments, as will effectual!) exclude from such offices all persons who shall not directly and explicitly recognize the ob ligations and binding force of the Con stitution of the United States, as para of the hand, by which members may recognize each other in the streets. Out of this has grown all the hubbub raised by certain editors against secret societies, many of whom belong them selves to same of the secret societies of the day! The principles of the so-called Know- Nothings are daily published to the world, so that all men may read them They will be found iu another column | mount to all obligations of adhesion or “DID YOU EVER!” We learn from the Asheville (N. C.) Spectator, that the Grand Jury of that County, (Buncombe,) at the late session of the Superior Court in that place, pre sented the Know-Nothings for conspira cy ! We enjoyed the pleasure of a resi- tence of several years in that County, and despite the generally prevalent no tion to the contrary,imbibed the opinion that the citizens of Bundombe—all things considered—were a very respect able community; we still think this is true of a great many of them—and not only so, but that numbers of them are distinguished for their intelligence, hos pitality and virtue; but we must confess that this presentment of their Grand Jury, as well as the result of some of their elections within the last few years, has very materially weakened our confi dence in the general intelligence of the masses of the people of that “ ancient State.” We do not know the name of a single individual composing the late “grand inquest,” but we will venture a pewter button that we can guess one-half of them. H«>nest Dogberry’s chief ambi tion seemed to be that Justice Shallow should “ write him down an ass /” These old fogies have got ahead of Dog berry, they have written themselves down! “ Conspiracy,” forsooth! Against whom and what ? Do these miserable ignoramuses, these blind party hacks, think that an attempt to break up the conspiracy against our civil and religious liberties, long since hatched in the brain of foreign Jesuit priests, nnd now sought to be consummated by political huck sters and demagogues—is itself a con spiracy? Can they be so ignorant as to believe for one moment that the de scendants of those who fought the battle of King’s Mountain, and were at Guil ford and many other well-contested fields, would raise a conspiracy against the liberties their father*’ valor won, whilst the Jesuit priests, foreign con victs and paupers, with their aiders and abettors, are persecuted patriots and holy saints! “ Angels and ministers of grace!” save our country from such stupidity—such folly—such downright assininity ! We remember well, that in 1840, a young aspirant for legislative honors in that County, proposed as a relief ineas- ure for the “hard times” then existing, that the Legislature of North Carolina should n^ss an Act making a dime of the value of one dollar!! We also recol lect that an old man threatened to pros ecute one of his neighbors for calling Martin Van Buren, (then President,) “ a d—d rascal,” on the ground, to bor row his own language, that it was “ a heinous crime to speak d respectfully of the ‘ Lord’s anointed !’ ” The former gentleman must have been f< reman, and some of the relatives of the latter mem bers of that celebrated Grand Jury, which is destined to figure heieafter “ in song and in story!” For the sake of the intelligent portion of the citizens of Buncombe, we regret that the story ever found its way into the newspapers. LOCAL ITEMS. We were presented the other day by Messrs. T. Bishop & Son, with a paper of “MountEagle Tripoli,” for cleans* ing and burnishing all finished metallic and glass surfaces, an article which is said to be admirably adapted to the pur pose for which it is made. Messrs. T: B &. Son, keep a great variety of use ful as well as good articles for sale at their st>>reon Broadway. Fire in the Woods.—On Friday last; a fire broke out in the woodlands over the river, near the mill of our townsman, Col. Wm. A. Carr, which destroyed a great deal of timber and an immense quantity of fencing. The principal suf ferers are Carr, Carlton and others. Numbeis of our citizens turned out and aftirded such aid as they could. It is said that the fire had been carelessly left ouf by some persons who had been fishing at the mill-pond the night before. Warm Weather.—-Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week were certainly the warmest days we ev er experienced in the month of April. At Carnesville, (where we were at the time,) the mercury rose as high as 9ft deg., and we suppose it was still highet here. Singular Occurrence.—We learn from the Hon. A. Hull, that at his planta tion, four miles from town, on Friday last, when the sky was perfectly cloud less, a whirlwind suddenly sprang up, which scattered in every direction a strong ‘staked and ridered’ fence around his horse-lot, raised the roof (shingled.) off his stable, sixty feet in length, and twisted and tore uptl’o pines in a neigh boring old field at a terrible rate. We do not remember ever before to have heard of so vio’ent a whirlwind on such a day. of this paper. FROM WASHINGTON. Columbia, April 20. The Cabinet is entirely harmonious on the Cuba question. McCauley’s in structions are not warlike, and will re sort to force only under circumstance* fully justified by international law. The Administration is strongly in favor of a pacific policy, and Spain is fully aware of the fact. The Cuban outrages against our commerce are believed to jiave arisen from deep seated conspira cies among the Islanders, which irritate aud confuse Concha; but he now knows these mpst cease. The Administration feels confident without war. that all can be settled within sixty or ninety days after the ad- The Augusta Bridge.—The se rious legal and legislative questions which were raised on the grant to Mes srs. Jones and Kennedy of the franchise to collect toll, at the Carolina end of this famed bridge, have been adjusted between the parties. The City Council of Augusta have purchased from those gentlemen their right under the charter from the South Carolina Legislaure, at a price satisfactory to both sides, and have thus united in one body the whole interests in and direction of the bridge. Terrible Shipwreck—Five Hun DRed Lives Lost.—Letters from Syd- ney, at Boston, state that a vessel, name unknown, has been wrecked in Baropton Shoals, and five hundred Chi nese, and a portion of the crew lost. Her captain and eight men only were saved These made for Capo Dennis in a boat, but on landing were attacked by the na- tivejfcand five of them killed,leaving but three survivors out of 550 souls allegiance to any foreign prince, power, potentate, or authority whatever, under any and all circumstances. Fifth. We shall maintain the doctrine that no on<-of the States of this Union has the right to admit to the enjoyment of free suffrage any person of foreign birth, who has not been first made a citizens of the United States, according to the ‘‘uniform rule” of naturalization prescribed by Congress,under the provi- sionsof the constitution. Sixth. We shall oppose now and here after any “union of Church and State,” no matter what class of religionists shall serk to bring about such union. Seventh. We shall vigorously main tain the vested rights of all persons, of native or fore.gu birth, and shall at all times oppose the slightest interference with such vested rights. Eighth. We shall oppose ar.d protest against all abridgement of religious li berty, holding it as a cardinal maxim, that religious faith is a question between each individual and his God and over which no political government, or other human power, can rightfully exercise any supervision or control, at any time, in any place, or in any form. Ninth. We shall oppose all “higher law” doctrines, by which the constitu tion is to be set at nought, violated, or disregarded, whether by politicians, by religionists, or by the adherents or fol lowers of either, or by any other class of persons. Tenth. We shall maintain and defend the constitution as it stands, the Union as it exists, and the rights of the State*, without diminution, as guaranteed there by ; opposing at all times, and to the ex tent of our ability and influence, all who may assail them, or either of them. Eleventh. We shall oppose no man.and sustain no man on the ground of the op position to, or his support of, Democra tic measures or Whig measures, but we shall oppose those who oppose our doc trines, and sustain those who sustain our doctrines. Twelfth. And lastly, we shall use our utmost exertions to build up an “Ameai- can parly," whose maxim shall be, Americans shall rule their country ! Crime in Atlanta.—Cunn Costly, only 17 years old, was convicted at At-, lanta. a few days ago, of the murder of James S. Kent. On Thursday last, in the vicinity of a drinking saloon in Atlanta, a difficulty occurred between James Martin and Daneil Dougherty, which resulted in the death of the latter. Mr. J. B. Cubbage,late associate editor of the Savannah Journal & Courier, has withdrawn from that post, and is succeed ed by Mr. Isaac S. Clark, formerly connected with the Georgian. Drought.—The small grain crops— and indeed young corn—have suffered considerably from drought. At the time we write, (Monday afternoon) we have every indication of a fine rain. We observe a paragraph Copied from a Washington paper, setting forth that the lion. Joseph Henry Lump kin has absolutely accepted the appoint ment tendered to him as one of the Judges of the Court of Claims, and would be in Washington on the 19th, for the purpose of assisting in its organ ization. This we have no doubt, is a mistake—as on that day, he was in Cassville, bolding tbe Supreme Court of Georgia. To the Toadies.—We are happy to inform our lady readers, that Mr. and Mrs. Mills, (celebrated teachers of the New Art of Dress-fitting,) are in town, and from what ouf contemporaries say of them, we think the ladies of Athens will find it much to their advantage to call and examine for themselves. For further particulars, we refer them to those who have already learned in Ath j ens, and Mr. and Mrs r M., at the New ton House. [communicated.] Mr. Editor:—The extremely warm weather for the past week, reminds us of the following, perpetrated by a young lady of the “ shanghai order," on a very hot summer dz'j, a few years ago. “ La.l me!” says'she, (fanning herself with all her might,) *• How ( do fi^te tu be bothered with gna& K flies, qad suct\ little QuadrupedsV % For the Southern Watchman. THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY, AGAIN. Mr. Editor: -1 perceive, over the signature of “ S.” a reply to my article on the subject of the African Coloniza tion Society, in a former issue of the Watchman. The writer thinks I in dulge “a strain of remarks calculated to prejudice” t his society, “ in the esti mation of slaveholders.” Says-he, to show why Southerners should support the Colonization Society, “ I beg leave to offer a reason or two for my faith.” Before proceeding lo examine these rbasons, which are the stereotyped ones of this Society and its friends, let me re peat what may be found in my first number, viz : that I do not oppose the avotced object of this Society—and add, that if I could have faith in bare profes- sions, and that in the face of the actings and sayings of the managers of the Col onization Society, ns recorded by its own publication, I should cheerfully commend it. Farther, if I could be convinced that these “ fr.ends of hu manity” were confining themselves to their true limits, I should cheerfully become a life and lively member of the Society. But to the examination of the “reason or two” for “ S.’s” faith: Says he,—‘‘The Colonization Socie ty does not propose to disturb, in any way whatever, the relation of master and slave. There is nothing in its Consti tution which contains, either expressly or implied, the slightest censure of Southern institutions ” In reply to this, let me ask this writer and ail Southerners, to read the address of Gov. Dutton, of Connecticut, found in the Repository for Mareb, who, I think, was their chief spokesman for that, their annual meeting. Even many of those present were compelled to pro nounce some of his remarks “mon strous.” Another gentleman who de livered, by invitation, an address on the same occasion, went so far as to 3peak of the practicability and duty of govern ment to settle our entire colored popula tion, free and bond, in some of our \yes*V tern territory—New Mexico, perhaps. Iu truth, “ monstrous” language, to, Southerners, fell from, the lips of several other gentlemcD* who wero invited to address the meeting on that occasion ; ( and yet, such a Society, with such man ager*,. should receive the support of Southerners! rt