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ATHENS, QA.
TnrRSDAY UORM1XG. APRIL 26, 1865
Mr. William Done*. of Atlanta, U our au
thorised Agent in Cherokee Georgia.
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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!
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