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AMERICANISM—ITS SECRECY
AND PROSCRIPTION.
We make the following extract from
an able nnd eloquent speecli, recently
delivered at Richmond, Va., by Hon. J.
M. Patton, the American candidate for
Attorney General of that State. Mr.
P. is a Jeffersonian, or old fashioned
democrat, ami we commend his views
to that cla-s. ofoifr readers
The' American party, said Mr.
Patton, choose to hold their meetings in
secret, as the Whig and Democratic
party have been and are in the habit of
bolding secret caucuses, by night or day.
This party enter it is said into mutual
obligations, ’as to their party action, no
matte.' what is their form, they can’t be
held njofc binding than the Democrats
claim to hold the-implied obligations of
tlieir pavty. A violation of them by
disobeying the behest of the party, or
quitting it, is followed by the most vehe
ment denunciation—while this party,
as I understand, allows every tnan to go
out of the p.uty when he'phases, and his
obligations are at once at art end without
denunciation. With the Democratic
party it does not seem to b3 so, for
although there is no oath taken, no
pledge registi re l, no man that acts with
them can dare to defy their behests and
dissent" front, their decrees. “ If , he
dries, off with his head. So much for
Buckingham.’’
The freedom of thought nnd opinion
which they allow at this day is happily
illustrated in an anecdote which is told
of one of Napoleon’s Marshalls, when
Napoleon was a candidate for the first
Consulship for life. It was to be deter
mined by universal suffrage. Marshall
Augercu addressed his division in the
following words—“ Soldiers, there is an
eleciion fo-il-iy to determine whether
Napoleon shall be Consul for life. It
is to be a matter of the free choice of the
people. You will march to the polls
?\nd vote just' as you think proper—but
ityait vote against Nupeleon, 1 will shoot
you' as soon as you come back.” While
I do not and cannot, according to my
notions about party engagements, come
under its obligations, T agree that, as a
general rule, yours is a proper principle
of action, and chall probably act upon it
practically mvself. There may be oc-
have put an insuperable barrier in the
constitution—you cannot do it.
And now, gentlemen, who do you
suppose inflicted the violation of - the
rights of foreigners, and incorporated it
into this constitution. In the conven
tion which formed the constitution it
wa? moved by Mr. Hunter to amend the
report by striking there-form the word
“ native,”'so as to permit foreigners to
be elected to the office of governor.
Mr. Letcher moved to amend the
amendment by striking out in the 2d
nnd 3d lines the words “shall be a native
citizen of the U. S.”
The question upon the adoption of
the said amendment being put to the
convention, was decided in the negative.
The question then recurring upon the
motion of Mr. Ilnnter, was decided in
the negative—ayes 49, nays 53.
We find among those whose names
arc jecorded in the negative the elite of
the Democracy. The exclusion of for
eigners, this dangerous violation of the
rights of foreigners kept in the const!
tution by the reform convention of Vir
ginia which boasted its pre-eminent-de
fence of equal rights! Can it be possi
ble ? Tell it not in Gath Proclaim
it not in the streets of Askalon. You
Know Nothings do know nothing—it is
not your invention at all. Listen to it
you foreigners who have been deluded
and bamboozled by this clamor that the
American party were your peculiar ene
mies, because they were depriving you
of your equal rights. Those very pen-
pie who have aroused your prejudices
and excited your passions, not content
with saying that they would not vote for
you for the r ffice of Governor as private
citizens, have ac.it&lly put it into the
constitution that you shall not be voted
for by any body Let the Hon. S. A.
Douglas hear it, and leatn that if his
gallnat and brave and patriotic fellow
citizen, General Shields, were herein
Virginia, although he were ready to
shed, as I have no doubt he is ready to
shed, a hogshead of blood if he had it in
defence of the country—if he were here
a citizen of Virginia, he would be inca
liable by law, by the constitution, of re
ceiving the office of Governor or the
comparatively insignificant office of
Lieut. Governor, although every Ameri
can in the State were anxious to make
an exception in his favor to this gener
al rule, in consideration of his great
gallantry and patriotism. This has been
done not by the accursed Know Noth-
casions under some very peculiar c.r- i ng s, but by a majority of the Converi
cumstanrcs which should induce ad-- - - --
louttjcrn BMrijnion.
ATHENS, GA.
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 3 1855.
Thinpaperiifiled, and m*y«*IHun«*£ «een
the Reading Room of Prof Hoiaowat, 944 Strand,
at I
London
TO ADVERTISERS.
Those who wish to buy or sell, or to
communicate with the public in the
shape of newspaper advertisements,
would do well to secure a place in the
columns of the Watchman,as we have a
larger circulation than that of any paper
ever published in this place, either now
or heretofore; and it is daily and rapid
ly increasing. A word to the wise is
sufficient.
SEND THEM ON J
Some of our friends who have under
taken to make up clubs for us, write
that they have not got the full number
that so soon as they do, they will for
ward the names, &c. Is it not belter
to forward what you have, so that they
may be getting their papers, and the
balance, together with the money, can
be sent in so soon as obtained.
We trust that our friends will not re
lax their efforts, but that everywhere
they will be watchful and vigilant, and
endeavor to place the paper in the hands
of every voter in the District who will
read it. All that the people want is
light. Circulate the documents—let
them understand the issues presented,
and they will act patriotically—they will
do right.
CIRCULATE THE DOCUMENTS
parture from that course, in respect to
the exclusion of a foreigner from all pol
itical office?. But I maintain against
Ihe world in arms, that free citizens of
this country, native, or foreign, have a
right to enter into such an agreement
without violating rights' of any other cit
izens, nnd without infringing upon any
principle of the Constitution, or the bill
of rights or any other guarantee. It is
to my mind one of the strangest and
most extraordinary perversions of prin
ciple fc'.flt has ever been seriously insis
ted upon, tbntithc rights of foreigners
arc affected because a portion of tlus
people of Virginia, who regard it as a
question of-high and important public
policy and say unite themselves for the
purpose of maintaining the principle-
that foreigners should not be allowed to
have llic political offices of the country.
Tor what are the rights of foreigners?
The rights of foreigners under our laws
arc to come here and acquire a residence
and tarry on their business under the
segis and protettions of our laws—to sit
down under their* own'vine and fig tree,
and after spending the term of probation
fixed by law to entitle them to the right
of suffrage, to exercise that right, and,
so far as the Constitution permits, to be
capable of election to any office if the
people choose tp confer it upon them—
and because a portion of the people in
the exercise of tneir fundamental, indis
putable and essential right, say vve wont
vote for you for this office, they arc re
presented ns acting in direct conflict
with the Constitution and the principles
of civil liberty. Foreigners have exact
ly the same t ight, when they become
citizens, to say we wont vote for you,
and I supposejno bo*dy would pretend to
say that was a violation and invasion of
your riglits. Why, gentlemen, do you
know—and I suppose you don’t, for you
Know Nothing—do you know that this
principle, so destructive of the rights of
foreigners, which von have advocated
and which you state is one of the rules
of sietion for your organization, is not
your thunder at all. You are the copy
ists merely. You have borrowed the
thunder, and of whom do you suppose ?
We linvc n Constitution here which, as
1 told you .some time ago, I had read
once or twice, and wc find in that Con
stitution that no person shall be eligible
to the office of Governor unless he have
attained the age of thirty years, is a
unlive titiz n of tlicUnited States, and
lias bec-n a citizen of Virginia so many
years. The Lieut. Governor shall be
elected a< the same time and for the
same t rm. and his qualifications and
manner of el •••lion’ shall lie the same ;
so that here is the Know Nothing princi
ple—so fatal and destructive to the
rights Of foreigners, so inconsistent with
equal lights of all citizens—incorporated
into (In fundmenial law of the land, bo
that if you wanted to vote for foreigners
every one of yon, tin; constitution for
bids your doing so for the office of Gov
ernor or Lieut Governor of the com
mon wealth Well now you have only
uirriod it a littlo further than the con
stitution. The constitution docs not
prohibit you Ho n doing ns you propose
in regard to Voting. It is a matter left
to the exercise of your will. Ji is per
fectly competent for the citizen in the
exercise of his fund.-iioenal and essential
right to select-for himself any particu-
laritidhidual to Vote for. The princi
ples which govern his action in this
regard cannot of course be affected by
- • ■ nor can
conflict
ti tution.
re, put a
governor, or
^Legislators
tion of Virginia, who have engrafted it
into the cons'itntion to stand for all time.
What as Intelligent German
THINKS OF THE KNOW NOTHINGS.—
Mr. Valentine Heckler, a German, now
residing in Richmond, has published a
letter, in which he says: “ If I was at
iny native home in Germany, and an
American citizen was to come there
and set himself up for an office, I should
not feel that he had any right to com
plain of me, and feel unkindly towards
me, because I preferred iny own coun
trymen to him ; and I think it would be
a very hard matter for any Americau to
get an office where I came from, that
was worth anybody’s having; and for
that reason I don’t complain that Amer
icans choose to have their country con
trolled by their own people in preference
to mine.” Again he sdys: “ As for
proscription, I don’t see, that as a Ger
man, I am any more proscribed by the
Know Nothings, tlian as a Whig, 1 was
proscribed by the Democrats.” And in
another place he says: “ I an under
greater obligations to the natives, than
I am to foreigners—and, therefore,
mean to vote with them. I have been
three times ruined since I have been
here—twice by fire, and once by robbe
ry—and have been three times re-estab
lished in business, and every time by the
uaiivc Wliigs and Democrats; and no
fellow-countryman of mine ever yet lent
me any aid in my distress, and they
have no claims on me to support them
for offices, that, by the way, they will
never gel; and if any of my country
men are weak and silly enough to let
the democrats use them as tools for their
own purposes, up to the time of the
clecliuu, and then be laughed at for their
folly, they may do it, but they don’t catch
me in any such trap.”
SEND IN YOUR ORDERS I
We will shortly have ready for dis
tribution a large edition of the speech
of Mr. Smith, (Democratic Representa
tive in Congress from Alabama,) deliv
ered in the House of Representatives in
January last, in defence of tie princi
ples of the Know Nothings, or Ameri
can party. It is one of the ablest and
most elaborate arguments on the subject
which we have seen, and its general
circulation caunot fail to do great good.
Price $3 per hundred, cash. This
is so low, (the Washington City price)
that we trust our friends will not ask us
to wait for the money.
Send in your orders at once, as
we wish to kuow what number to pi iut.
Watchman Office, May 3, 1855.
NATIONALITY and conservatism
OF THE KNOW NOTHINGS.
The National Era, at Washington
Chy—the great central organ of Aboli
tionism, and which, - by the way, is one
of the ablest papers in the country
—contains, in its issue of the 26th ult.,
a lengthy and able article on . the subject
of “ Nationality—Conservatism—Igno
ring the Slave Question.” We regret
that owing to its length we are unable
to publish it, as it would show the peo
ple of the South the candid, philosophic
opinion entertained by the Abolition
party of the new order of Know-Noth-
ingism. We must content ourself with
a few extracts.
Before introducing them, however, it
is necessary to a proper understanding
of the writer’s meaning to state, that lie
understands “ Nationality” to mean
“ devotion to the interests of slavery, or
habitual submission to its requirements
Conservatism is defined as follows:—
“ Conservatism’’ is another word, spe
cially appropriated by Pro-Slavery men
In its legitimate sense, it means respect
for the laws and order of Society, but
according to popular signification, it de
fines the policy of preserving and per
petuating whatever is, exempt from in
novation or change. The Slavery par
ty, having construed Nationality to
mean, fidelity to Slavery, assumes that
Conservatism consists specially in pre
serving that system, exempt from inno
vation, in acquiescing in all its preten
sions, in resisting all attempts to arraign
if before the tribunal of public epiniou.”
Now, we hope the reader will keep
these definitions in view, and then read
what this rank Abolition sheet says of
the Know Nothings. Let every man
in Georgia read what follows, copied
from the leading mouthpiece of Aboli
tion in the United Stales, and then say
whether those editors in Georgia who
have charged them with “ playing into
the hands of Abolition” have i.ied or
tatives now is. Although the people of
the South are not so directly interested
in the repeal of the present naturaliza
tion laws as their Northern brethren,
from the fact that there are compara
tively but few foreigners among them ;
yet, indirectly, the very existence of
their peculiar institution and the sta
bility of the Union itself hang suspend
ed upon the settlement of this question-
Let all who are opposed to the Aboli
tionists and in favor of preserving the
Union at once determine to act with
the American party. Those who wish
to see Abolition prosper and the Union
eventually dissolved will, of course, join
their enemies, under whatever name
they may fight.
The conclusion of the Era—legiti
mately deduced from the premises laid
down—is as follows. Let the slander
ers of the American party go “ hide
their diminished heads.”
“Let Anti-Slavery men bb assured
of this—that whatever be the methods
adopted to suit local circumstances—
the one great purpose is, to recover the
Northern mind from its temporary en
thusiasm on the Slaveiy Question, and
gradually to “ Nationalize” it, so as to
bring it up to the support of “ Nation
ality” and “ Conservatism” in 1856
and the chosen instrument for accom
plishing this purpose is, Know Nothing-
ism
HOV DID THE NAME KNOW-NOTHING
ORIGINATE?
We heard the other day of a conver
sation between two highly respectable
clergymen belonging to the “ old school
Baptist persuasion,” not a thousand
miles from here, which has afforded us
food for reflection.
The one opposed to the Know Noth
ings being asked by his friend if he
knew how the name originated, said,
he presumed the Devil had started it.
“ Not so, brother —said the
other. “ Do you not remember that
during Paul’s ministry, there was a
York bej.’T’
ture, (as was alleged by these 0 Jf^
be the fact)—is it not passing 8 ^ ,to
that they should,by resolution.denn,,^
themselves ? nte
of the
If the prostituted presses
foreign party could honestly l ay c j.
to one particle of magnanimity and
dealing, we should call on them t 0 '
il—A ,1m VAAAnt AA.Iah -Til XT ^
tice the recent action of the Now
Senate, and to retract their slandi
great splitting up of professed Christians
into schisms, parties and sects—some
saying ‘T am of Paul,” and others “I
am of Apollos ?” “ Yes, yes. I remem
ber that.” “ Well, do you recollect
what Paul said ? He emphatically de
clared, “ Henceforth, I am determined
to know nothing but Jesus Christ and |
him crucified !’
And just so, brother
charges. But as they knew them i
untrue in the beginning,it is idle tok,
that they will make the correction no,
although, without it, they must
before an intelligent community convict
ed of deliberate falsehood.
JUST AS WE EXPECTED!
The organ in this place of the fore',,,
Jesuit priests, European and Asiatic
convicts and paupers, recently Cop ^
from a Virginia paper a statement fr orn
one William R. Johnson, setting f ort ),
, patriotic j that he had joined the Know Nothings
not.
{We have been told that there
is a merchant in this place who boldly
says be would not believe a Know No
thing on oath 1 Can this be so l Surely,
there must be some mistake about this
matter. We know that the Know No-
ihings are abused by their opponents
with a fiendish malignity that would
disgust the Evil One himself, but surely
there is no man in our midst fool enough
to make the remak above attributed to
one of our citizens.
Healtii of Hon. W. T. Colquitt.
Prom information received yesterday,
says the Columbus Enquirer, vve have
reason to fear that the condition of this
distinguished gentlemen is becoming
more critical He is still in Macon,—it nut
having been deemed prudent to attempt
his removal to Montvale Springs, as at
first intended. ! " ; 15
A Severe Sentence.—In the Police
Court, Boston,a woman, convicted of be
ing a common night walker, wav sentenc
ed to five yesrs’ imprisonment in the
House of Coriection. This is the first
sentence under the new law concerning
night walkers, which went into effect
last Wednesday, in Boston.
Prussian Blue.—We have been
sho ' n (says Marietta Georgian) a box
of mineral .Mtnilar in nil respects to Prus
sian Blue,so much used in Paints, Dyes,
&e. It was made from a deposits found
near the 1 ron Works of Mark A. Coop
er, and sent by him to Win. Root, to be
tested. Mr. R. thinks it will subserveall
the purposes of Prussian Blue. We write
this arlielo with ink made by him from
a piece of it—Wbas it there, in the min-
oral world that cannot he obtained in
qld Georgia?
tdF* We were shown, the other day,
by the polite and energetic agent an d
superintendent of the Athens Steam
Company’s Works, a most excellent
steam saw-mill just put up at that estab
lishment for our enterprising townsman,
Mr. Ross Crane. The frame is cast in
on& solid piece, and all the work is high
ly creditable to the establishment. We
saw, also, two steam engines in a state <<f
forwardness, though not yet completed.
The fact is, every thing in the shape of
machinery', from an iron boot-jack to a
steam engine or steam saw-mill, can be
got up in the best style at the Foundry
and Machine-shop. We are informed
that they are daily executing orders from
Augusta, Atlanta, and from beyond the
Blue Ridge, for various kinds of ma
chinery, but especially mili-irons. One
of the most intelligent practical manufac
turers in the Southern States has pro
nounced their manufactures in this de
partment superior to any thing south of
the Potomac. Such wealth-creating es
tablisbments should be fostered and en
couragcd in our midst, as it is manufac
turing alone that can build up inland
towns.
IN A FIX.
It is said that the renegade Wise,
when addressing a large assembly in
Richmond, Va., recently, tauntingly re
marked that lie had heard of the Know
Nothings wherever he had been, but
that lie had so far failed to meet with
any of them. “ If,” said he, elevating
his voice, “ there is one of those unfor
tunate creatures present, and he is not
afraid of the honest daylight, let him
rise up, that I may have an opportunity
of seeing him.” Instantly, that vast as
semblage, with the exception of baredy
eight individuals, simultaneously arose !!
It is believed that Mr. Wise has seen
Sam !' fgB • ■■
Says the Era: “ It follows, that in
adhering to this organization, (the Know
Nothing) which excludes the Question
which slaveholders insist must be ex
cluded from any Party professing to be
National, they have taken the first dt-
gree in Nationality. The second is,
not only to exclude the Question of
Slavery, but to ignore it, that is, to as
sume that no cause exists for its present
ment before the country, and that there
fore its agitation must be suppressed.—
This policy, as is now notorious, has
been agreed upon by the National Coun
cil, which met at Cincinnati, and a sys
tematic effort is on foot to carry it out in
all the States. The Order in New York,
as we all know, has, at the cost of a par
tial schism, put it in force. Why not?
The Slave Power plainly tells the new
Party, and the Whigs and Democrats
within its pale understand what is told
them—“ Nationalize your Order—sink
the Slavery Question—suppress its agi
tation—select a National and Conserva
tive man, Houston or Fillmore, Bell or
Stockton, Clayton or George Law, and
we shall be satisfied.” The efforts to
do this are succeeding. The Tjouisvillc
(Ky.) Journal announces that the new
Party is really more National than either
of the old ones ever was. Leading De
mocrats m Virginia hail it as the star of
hope to the South, so lately in danger
of a combined crusade against its in
stitutions. The Whig Party of the
South, almost en masse, lias l tishcd into
the Order, and with it have gone large
numbers of Southern Democrats—some,
disgusted with the Administration, some,
discontented with the rule of recognised
respectabilities, some, hopeless of the
reconstruction of an efficient National
Democratic Party, some, glad of a
chance to ally themselves with North
ern men in a movement calculated to
check the growth of Northern political
power and the multiplication of free
States.”
“ A movement calculated to check
the growth of Northern political power,
and the multiplication of free States.”—
Let the South never lose sight of this.
It will certainly be one of the effects
of the Know Nothing movement.—
By checking foreign emigration to this
country and prolonging the probationa
ry period for qualifying voters, there
will be not only a check to the growth
of •* Northern political power” in the
House of Representatives, but the “ mul
tiplication of free States,” which is
rapidly destroying the conservatism of
the Senate, will be also checked. By
stopping the immense rush of foreigners
into our territories, the South will be,
(under the operation of the Nebraska
bill) placed on an equal footing with the
Norih; so that, in the admission of new
States, something like an equilibrium
at least may be preserved in the Senate;
which, otherwise, would necessarily be
come as overwhelmingly free-soil in its
proclivities as the House of Reprcsen-
THE DIOSCOREA JAPONICA.
As this new and excellent tuber is
about to be introduced into our midst—
a gentleman of this town having pro*
cured some of the roots—there is noth
ing, perhaps, which would be more in
teresting to our agricultural friends
than the following description of it,
which we copy from the American
Agriculturist:
The introduction of this excellent ve
getable into France and the United
States, and the cultivation of it as far as
known, is worthy the attention of nil.
The Dinscorea is destined by its deli
cious taste and great productiveness, to
replace in a great measure the Potato.
It is a native of Japan, and is cultivated
there and in the north-ofChina, in great
quantities, and feasted upon by rich
and poor, all the year rV.und. This re
markable vegetable was introduced into
France in the year 1849, by M. Maut-
reprey ,then Consul of France in China.
It was given him by a missionary.' Mr.
M. sent it to the “ Jardin des Plants,”
where it remained unnoticed (as it did
not flower,) until his return to France in
1853, when he was perfectly astonished
to find so invaluable an article still un
cultivated and not in all markets of
France.
A friend of mine, M. Palliet, (who
by the way is a regular wide-awake
horticulturist,) being acquainted with
Mr. M., and hearing him describe its
great merit, set to work in earnest, and
propagated between 50,000, and 60,000
the first year ; and is preparing to cul
tivate it in all the different departments
of France. Some of the roots were sent
last June to the great Horticultural Ex
hibition in Paris, and gained for Mr. P.
the award for the introduction of the
most useful plant; beside which, the
“ Ministre de Agriculture,” presented
him with 3000 irancs. Some of the
roots weighing two and a half pounds a
piece, were presented to his Majesty the
Emperor ; they were eaten by the Em
peror and Court, and pronounced ex
cellent ; after which Mr. P. received an
order for 40.000 to be distributed
throughout Franca.
The cultivation of the Dioscorea is
very simple, not requiring as much labor
as the potato. It will do well in any
soil, but light or sandy is preferred, as
they will be more mealy than when
raised in heavy bottom land The
roots are cut about 2 inches long, and
planted 10 or 12 inches apart—in rows,
and kept clear of weeds until -ready to
dig, which will be in October and No
vember. If left in the ground two years,
it will go on increasing, and the root
will improvd in quality. If kept dry,
they will keep 8 and 10 months out of
the grouud, which will be d great ad
vantage,e -pecially for shipping purposes.
It is estimated that the Dioscorea will
exceed any other produce.
It may be remarked here that the in
ner part of the root is a fine white, very
mealy—very, agreeable to the taste, re
sembling arrow-root, and can be cook
ed in 10 minutes. Its growth and out
ward appearance, resemble the sweet
potato, and there is no doubt it will be
cultivated more extensively than that
excellent vegetable, as it possesses the
advantage of being hardy, and of being
kept a much longer time. I have a
drawing, and will have a few plants,
which can be seen at my establishment.
It is unnecessary to say any more at
present, as M. Palliet is about pub
lishing a treatise upon the subject, for
the opening < f the Paris Industrial Ex
hibition in May next, which any person
can obtain a copy of by applying to me.
When in Paris last summer, I had
the pleasure of seeing the Dioscorea
’ H D. Bcll.
native Americans,discovering that their but finding that he was the only Demo,
cou n try men"(yere divided into parties ; crat in it, and that it was nothing
and sects in politics, and that while the “ John Adams Federalism revival* ^
masses, in huzzaing for favorite party had withdrawn in disgust!! Now,,.,-
leaders who were endeavoring to secure course, every body knew that no hon^
the spoils of office,had entirely lost sight hie man would act in this way;
of the good of the country, which was fast hence we concluded that said Johnson,
becoming a prey to the rapacity of the true character would soon leakouu
foreign mercenaries called in to aid the And sure enough, we find the followin;
different parties in the field—just at this reference to the creature in a letter fro^
crisis in our history, certain patriotic Lynchburg, Virginia, to the editor
natives, whose love of country is greater the Knoxville Whig :
than their thirst for office, have, like “ At the request of several gentlemn.
Paul, raised their warning voices, and °f this place, I write you a line in re!a-
, ... , . Z T *• 47 j turn to one Wm. R. Johnson, nowd
boldly declare, Henceforth we are de- Abingdon> but fortne rly ofthis place!
termined to Know Nothing hut our SaidJohns«n states that he joined tbt
country ancl the preservation of its in- Order of Know Nothings when thej
tfihiiion« /” wcre first or g anizefl here—that he to!?
a relative of his that lie intended todi
The reverend opponent of the new so w ; tb a v ; evv to betray and expose thet
party “ curled up and quit!” j—and he now boasts of having dote
so. It is said that the expose of dj
It seems that the people of Kan- Order, spread out before the people?
, 1 1 , . Virginia, in so many papers, cat-
sas are very much exasperated against lhrough this man j ohn son, but how* jj
Gov. Reeder, whose alleged interfer- I do not know, as lam not a met
ence on the side of the Freesoilers in her, nor do 1 know whether his expos
Kansas has made >s a true one or not.
Johnson petitioned a lodge of 01;
Fellows here, to join them, but wasi/ari
the late election in
his very name odious to the people of the
lerritory A meeting was held balled out, at an awful, not to saji
other day, at which resolution? were dying rate. This he will haidlytellto
adopted denouncing Reeder as unwor- his anti-Know Nothing associates
thv the trust reposed in him—requiring Abingdon ! He had to leave DrmriL
. . . , ... . in great haste, or he would have bee:
h.s immediate removal, and intimating a f J e a rai}f and vvore a coat of tit
determination to designate to the Presi- | aH d leathers. The materials were be-
dent a suitable successor! While these ing prepared when Johnson made !i:>
proceedings are irregular, we cannot. ©-'Cape. 1 his is r. second occurrence in
help believing thet Reeder is unfit fc,!! 1 * “go?. <*» life -
i he will hardly tell his new acquaintance!
the station he holds.and ought,therefore, j n Abingdon !”
to be removed. Indeed, lie ought never : We congratulate the organs of the
to hare been appointed. By what right f ore jg n Jesuits, convicts, paupe’ts ) u-
the people of the Territory claim the | native demagogues, upon their gt |
privilege of selecting his successor we fortane in collecting testimony fri
cannot sec. Wejsuppose, however,?t isl^ pol]uted sourceg ag thii felet
another progressive step in the doctrine Johnson They cannot get ite !*|
squatter sot ereigntj. j where. No honorable man will bejg
I found willing to circulate falsehoodiij
of
ti
Elf’ A citizen of this place in con-. _ . . ,. ,,
‘ reference to any organization wnicnfct
versing the other day with Mr. Toombs i i i mi •
. . ° , . may have abandoned, lhis lelloi
—who we understand, not only denies T r n . r
Tr Johnson is an excellent witness torui«*
all affiliation with the Know Nothings, . . vf
“ I foreign party, and we trust they ma\ t
but, like a certain gentleman mentioned t. ,
. . . , have a “ good
in Holy Wr-t, who was intimately con- ,
} J j meet!
nected with the crowing a of cock, ‘curs-1
*
esand swears’ at a great rate whenever ; BEAUTIFUL CONSISTENCY,
the subject is mentioned in his pre-ence j The Richmond Enquirer charges tb
infoms us that that gentleman’s Know Nothing candidate for k Lieule^
chief objection to the new order is its al- j ant-Governor of Virginia with being
leged secrecy—which, by the way, is j out-and-out Abolitionist; and bases ths
about the only objection that any one ( charge upon the allegation that while
will now dare urge, as its, platform is ; member of Congress he voted forth*
impregnable. In order to combat this ! abolition of the slave trade in the Di-^
objection, our friend reminded the j trict Columbia. Mr. Beale, it is we J
Senator that if not a member of any of known, was elected as a Democr:.3
served several years in Congress as!*
under cultivation.
BPThe drought which we noticed last
week, still continues here, to the great
damage of the small grain crop*.
It is ueedless to inform our
readers—as they doubtless all saw it
themselves—that there was a total
eclipse of the moon on Tuesday night.
When a young lady offers to hem
cambric handkerchief for a rich bachelor,,
she means to sow in orJcr that she might
reap.
time of it” whentbi
the secret societies of (he day, he was at
least a member of the U. S. Senate,
which body spent much of its time in
secret session. *.* True, true,” said Mr.
T., “but when the proper time comes,
you and every body else are informed
of our doings, besides which, when in
secret session we are always engaged
upon foreign affairs'.” “So are we,”
said the K N., ‘ and when the proper
time comes (after the votes are count-
cd)\ve too publish our proceedings !”
The New York Senate has adopted
resolutions denouncing the Nebraska
bill, slavery, the fugitive slave bill, and
Know-Notliingism. 1 crat, his vote was all right, but
We are not willing to let the above I that he is known as a Know NotMjj
Democrat, and is now a Democrat-^ 1
Now, in the name of all that is pat/w® f <*
why did not the editor of the
raise his warning voice at the time'f’
vote was given, which in his opni::
justifies him in classing Mr. B. as-^
abolitionist ? Why did he not |ouni
upon and expose him so soon as thed-‘
covery was made ? Why did he
seize him in the very act ? Why ^
five years before saying any thing
it ? Just simply because Mr. Be> J
had not embraced the principles
American party then ! While
recognized by the Enquirer as aT ,eC>
item of news pass without a word of
comment. It will be recollected that
the foreign Catholic organs in our midst,
which have combined with the Nation
al Era, New York Tribune, and other
Abolition papers to LIE the Know-
Nothings down, boldly, impudently and
unblushingly asserted some time ago,
that the Know-Nothings elected the no
torious Seward (who is not only an ene
my of the order, but another Abolition
ally of these prostituted sheets) to the
United States Senate,and that, therefore,
they were Abolitionists.
Now, see what this same New York
Legislature that elected Seward has
done! They have adopted resolutions
denouncing the Nebraska bill, slavery,
the fugitive slave act, and Know-Noth
ing ism ! If Is it not strange that if the
K N’s possess sufficient strength
it becomes “ damnable heresy! ’
As inconsistent as the Enquirer B
proved itself to be, it is nevertheless 1, j|
that the Georgia echoes of the Na 11
Era approvingly copy his rem*’^ 5
this subject. What a beautiful 51 ' n
fellows are these organs of his 6° .
ness!
We are pained to learn, *B|
Albany, Ga. Patriot of the 20ib) 1 S'
Mrs. A. II. Colquitt, consort ot ° Uf
resentative in Congress b‘O m 1 * s t.
trict, died at the residence « 1 ,
band, in Baker County, on ihe lU ° ra "3
of the l?th instant.
“Snuibo if de deni
tail, wlmr would lu
to i0.' c
no 10 S 1
Uft
one ? “ Why, to de Grocery-
—dal’s de only place "’hat I ?
wbar dey rc-tail had sp erl ts