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3 V >'V^’ liiutljrni ‘ll'airljnniii. U«, ORntn. 1!)D Tit* COltSTITCtJO*. ATHENS, GA. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1355. TO ADVERTISERS. The Watchman is the paper in which to advertise, if you wish your advertise ments 4 ‘ read of all men.’’ It has a larger circulation than any paper ever before enjoyed in this place, and large as it is, it is bcitig swelled by daily accessions CIRCULATE THE DOCUMENTS ! GIVE THE PEOPLE LIGHT ! The speech of Mr. Smith (Democra tic Representative in Congress from Ala bama) delivered in the House of Repre sentntives iu January last, will soon be reedy for distribution. Send in your or ders, ns we wish to ascertain the num ber needed f to supply the demand . Price $3 per hundred, caih. “ Watchman" Office, Athens, ) May 10, 1855. ) Lif’ Will our Georgia cotemporaries notice the above ? The favor will be cheerfully reciprocated. REVIVAL. A very interesting protracted meet ing h as Leon going on at the Methodist church in this place for the last two weeks. Great numbers of mourners, we understand, crowd the altar daily, arid there is, we are pleased to learn, a fair promise of a gracious revival of religion iu our midst. Several have already professed religion and connected them selves with the church. The meeting is still going on at the time we write, and will probably he protracted several days longer. . , WE FEEL SURE WE ARE RIGHT. If we had formeily had any doubts upon the subject, the fact that among the subscribers we are daily entering upon cur books, are the names of many of our patriotic and intelligent fair countrywomen, would at once dispel them. Lovely woman is ever ready to respond to the calls of patriotism. It w as so in our Revolutionary struggle ; and now, again, when foreign emissaries, headed by Jesuit priests and assisted by motive demagogues, are attempting to accomplish through the instrumentality of the ballot-box what they failed to achieve with the sword—the subjuga tion of our happy land to foreign rule— she again patriotically steps forward on the side of her country ! “ Last at the cress and earliest at the grave,”—in religion, patriotism and iife’s holy char ities, she is always foremost! God bless her 1 Among the rxent additions to our lki, we observe the name of a venera ble lady in an adjoining State, who was n witness of those scenes which *' tried men’s souls." Oft have we been charm ed by her rehearsal of the stirring events of that period. We understand that she feels as much interest in the pend ing contest between her countrymen and their enemies as she did in the first. May Heaven spare her life to witness the complete triumph of the " JtOPf,. cans” in 18561 TO SAVE WHEAT. A friend informed us ihr.t wheat may be harvested, however short by a very- simple contrivance—which consists in attaching and apron to the fingers of the THE ATHENS JUNTA. This corrupt clique—whose political trickery and dishonesty we have ex posed on all occasions, and shall con tinue, from time to time, to lay bare before the people—smarting under the effects of the well-directed blows of the Southern Watchman for some time past, and too cowardly to come forth from their hiding places, have, in the last issue ofthe “ organ of the foreign Jesuit priests, convicts and paupers,’’ over the signature of their “ man Friday”—one of the " appurtenances” belonging to the Southern Banner office—devoted half a column or so to the personal abuse of the editor of this paper—an article more remarkable for its ruffianly blackguardism, low abuse, and rile, wicked aud malicious falsehoods, than atty thing of equal length we have seen lately. To add to it* enormity, this at tack is entirely unprovoked on our part; this is not merely our own opinion, but is the calm, •deliberate conviction of every respectable gentleman in the com munity, (not connected with the before- mentioned •* clique,”) with whom we have conversed. It is true, that so far as we can learn, none of the *• clique’ pretend to claim the paternity of the vile production; but every body in this community knows full well, that low aud contemptible as it is, the indi vidual whose name they have attached to it (one james a. sledgo,) could not possibly have written it. Ordinarily, we have the “ magnanirai ty” to pass such vile attacks by, with the silent contempt they deserve, and' should do so in the present instance— not suffering it to disturb our equanimity in the slightest degree—but for the bitter, vindictive, malignant and fiendish spirit manifested in every line of it. It is not our purpose to have a news paper, or any other sort of controversy with these people ; but we will say to the real author of that low and scurril ous attack, and to the other members of the clique, that if they wish to pro voke a personal difficulty with us, they must seek some other plan than that of blackguarding us over the signature of a person we cannot regard as responsi ble—1st, because we question whether he possesses sufficient intellect to con stitute him an accountable being; and, 2d, because if he does, he acts tinder duress—is not possessed of sufficient independence to refuse to do the bidding of those bad men who control his ac tions. If they scant any thing of us, toe can at all times he found at our office or on the street! We call on Heaven to witness our sincerity, when we say that it is, and lias been, our earnest de sire to live at peace with our neighbors. Nevertheless, if wicked men—rather demons in human foira—are determin ed that we shall not maintain that “peace and charity with all men 1 ’ which our holy religion inculcates—if these fiends shall so far forget ,*ur personal rights os to attempt to trample upon them, we shall, in the discharge of our duty to our family, our country, and to the Great Being who created us, defend our self to the last extremity. We have Been persecuted for years by these individuals, solely on account of political differences. Whilst we have never shunned such of them Sts are in aud denounces venerable gray-haired patriots, whose lived have been spent in the service of their country, and holy men who minister at God’s altar—to say nothing of the great majority of the most worthy and respectable private citizens of the State—as “Thugs,’’ conspirators,” and all that sort of slang: when, not content with this,it parades in its prostituted columns the names of the honored dead, to bolster up the cause of the foreign mercenaries aud native demagogues in whose ser vice it has enlisted, it may expect to be skinned as heretofore, “ only more so /” This is an avocation in which we take no pleasure—but, sickened and dis gusted, we enter upon it just as a skilful surgeon undertakes the eradication of a malevolent tumor or the healing of a putrid ulcer—solely from a sense ofduty. ENCOURAGING. We receive the most encouraging news from our friends everywhere. A gentleman, writing to us from a neigh boring county the other day, for our pa per, says : “ I expect to send you in a few days the names of quite a number of staunch old line Democrats. I am myself a Democrat of the straitest sect, but most cordially adopt the American platform.” Another one, by the same mail, sent us twenty-nine new subscri bers! We do not mention these as sin gle isolated cases— for they are of fre quent occurrence. We refer to them simply to show our friends how the tide is setting. We do not think it at all remarkable that gentlemen who formerly acted with the Democratic party should be among the most zealous “ Americans” in the land—for we believe, in the language of a distinguished lawyer who former ly acted with that party, that the Amer- icfh platform is based uptn true Demo cratic principles, and as such commeuds itself to thesuppo:t of the whole Ameri can people. THEY DARE NOT MEET THEM! Our readers have no doubt observed, as we have, that the foreign organs— notwithstanding all their frenzied zeal in behalf of their allies—the Jesuit priests, convicts and paupers—dare not attack the principles or meet the argu ments of the A uiericau party. Their plat form of principles is invulnerable, and the most reckles of its opposers will not dare to attack it. So far front doing this, they proclaim their own weakness to the world, and bring obloquy and re proach upon American journalism, by a resort to ruffianly blackguardism, low personal abuse, and the most shameless, brazen, bald-headed lying that has ever characterised the course of any party. When overwhelmed with argument and completely driven to the wall by the omnipotent power of truth, they betake themselves to the low billingsgate of the fishmarket—denouncing venerable, gray-headed patriots who have freely spilt their blood in defence of the coun try’s rights and honor, and aged and holy ministers of the Gospel who have difference between our correspondent and informant is in regard to the object of tho. meeting—and the latter being the gentleman who conceived the idea of getting up the meeting, 9urely ought to know what motives actuated himself and the other gentlemen who took a leading part in it—one of whom he as sures us is known to be zealous in his advocacy of the American platform— we shall at present decline publishing our correspondent’s account ofthe meet ing, solely on the ground that it might embarrass the future action of our friends in Oglethorpe. WHAT THE FATHERS OF THE REPUBLIC THOUGHT. Our young men should have the sen timents of our fathers or the subjects which now engross the public mind kept constantly before their eyes. To this end, we re-publish the following sentiments, uttered by Washington, Jefferbon, Madison, Monroe, Jack- son, &c.&c. Was Washington, whose name and fame the American people will ever cherish and perpetuate—were these other illustrious patriots, soldiers and statesmen “ Thugs,” “ Hindoos,” “ Miduight Conspirators,” “ Traitors ?” We can tell tho^e who thus traduce their countrymen in order to please the foreign party,who was a •‘midnight con spirator’’of that day. It was a certain Be nedict Arnold,whose association with the foreign enemy was more intimate than that of any other American officer of whom we have any account 1! Let them beware lest their zeal against their own countrymen shall place them in the same category! “ Against the insidious wiles of For- eign Influence, (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizen’*,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake. It is one of the most baneful foes of a Republican Government.”— Washing ton. “ I hope we may find some means in future of shielding ourselves from foreign influence—political, commercial, or in whatever form it may be attempted, wish there were an ocean of fir>- between this and the old world.”—Jefferson. *• Foreign Influence is a greciatt horse to the Republic—we cannot ’ be too careful to exclude its entrance.”—Madi son. “ It is time that we should become a little more Americanized; and in stead of feeding the paupers and la borers of England, feed our own, or else, in a short time, by our present po licy. we shall be paupers ourselves.” Jackson. “ Americans can do their own voting And their own fighting.”—Gen. Harri scheme will find, that if the people are son ‘ „ . , “ Foreigners will render our election MORE EVIDENCE! We have shown from their leading men and all their presses that the Abo litionists of the North are as bitter against the Enow Nothings as any party can be, on the ground that they will “ crush out” anti-slavery agitation. The enemies of the American party at the South, however, have triumphantly en quired, why did the Legislature of Mas sachusetts elect Wilson, the abolitionist, to the U. S, Senate! Well, we don’t know tohy they did it; probably because he was a member of the American party, and as such, pledged against the further agitation of the subject of slavery. It seems, however, that this man Wil son, in a late lecture in Boston, denoun ced the Know Nothing organization as “ perilous to the anti-slavery sentiment ! The following report of his remarks is copied from the Boston Telegraph : “ Gen. Wilson gave the closing lec ture of the anti-slavery course, last even ing, at the Temple. He explained for himself the position with regard to sla very that he bad occupied for twenty years, arid cajled upon all to oppose any party that should try to smother the anti slavery sentiment. He assumed that this course had been the death of the two great parties, AND MUST BE OF THE OTHER PARTYNOW FORM ING. He said THIS PARTY WAS PERILOUS TO THE ANTI- SLAVERT SENTIMENT, and called upon the anti-slavery party to KILL OFF the ‘AMERICAN doughfaces/ as they had the others/’ — —4 A NEW “ DEMOCRATIC ’” TEST. We learn from the Rome Courier that the watchers around the defunct body of Democracy—persons 'who formerly belonged to that onfe powerful party, and have appropriated its mme as a rallying cry in the unnatural and frater- cidal warfare they and their foreign legions are now waging against those who are so unfortunate as to be natives— the leaders of this party in Floyd coun ty, we understand, are circulating a written pledge among the people, re quiring the independent voters of that county to declare by their signatures that they are not now, and never intend to become, members of the Know Nothing organization!!! The Courier says that among the foreigners the pledge is signed very readily—some ef them declaring “ it is petter ash goot 1” but many of the natives spurn the idea of “signing away their liberties !” We understand that the signing of this pledge is to be the future test of De- mOeracy^in Fli^d.' The ptovers in this he counted them, and found the number to be precisely one dozen—among whom he recognized two or three old-time Whigs,and he does not know how many of the crowd may have been Rnow- nothings. Upon inquiry among them, he learned they had beenholding the so- called “ Democratic meeting,” which, by the time it reaches the seaboard, will no doubt, be magnified into a “ great mass meeting!” Our informant’s charac ter for truth and veracity is as good as that of any gentleman in Jackson coun ty ; and if any one wishes to call in question the facts substantially given above, they can have his name. subjected to this sort of test, there will be very few so-called Democrats left! Fuied Tripe.—We beard the other day, an incident in the travels of our friend,Jim , which amused us no little. Oh a recent trip to the lower part of the State, he stopped at a house where, among other things, was some nice fried tripe upon the table, “ done brown.” Now, it so happened that Jim had never been accustomed to eat ing “ beefs innards” a£a •* sich like” at cradle. IT? When so much wheat is short grain <o scarce as at prerent, it is of the utraast importance that every st.dk should be saved. TEMPERANCE NOTICE. B. II Overby, Esq, will deliver the Tthfanniversnry address before Father Mathew Division, No. 34 Sons of Tem perance, at the Town llail on Thursday, 24th inst. at I0J o’clock, A. M. The friends of Temperance and tho public are earnestly requested to attend. 13** Members of the order will please meet at Temperance Hall at 9} o’clocK, to form a procession. E. L NEWTON. j I. A§. KENNEY, > Com. R .1. GARDENER, ) May 16th, l«o5. of that Gospel, tmd buffeting me waves of Popish su££-jrst’jtion, the infidelity, tr! i7iscendentalism aud atheism imported bus.ness, but have Spent m:.k,v a dollar I into this COUDtr ^ fron1 for€, S n Ia,,dl? ’ as wiUi and entertumed for them, personally, the kindest feelings—no pains have been spared to injure us in our business aud private character.— The same indeed, is true of our feelings heretofore towards even the young man whose name is appended to this most unprovoked and unwarrantable attack heine, mistaking the nice brown spent a life-time in battling for the truths, 1 Square pieces of tripe for waffles, he helped himself to a piece. After sawing away for some time in an ineffectual attempt to cut off one corner, he looked intently into his plate, and throw- ARRESTED. John Epps, charged with the murder of his father—and whose escape from jail we noticed last week—was arrested by oar Ex-Marshal, Capt. Win H. Dor sey, on Thursday night list, and is tin iu jail at WatkinsvHle. The tin, we learn, also captured some six runaway negroes last week. — ...... upon us. We have not only uniformly extended to him, personally, those little kindnesses and courtesies of every-day life which every individual in the human form may confidently claim at our hands, but have traveled out of the way to ex hibit a’kindness to him or to do him a favor,wheuever an opportunity present ed itself 1 In view, then, of these facts, we leave it to an intelligent community to say why this demoniacal spirit of persecution should be carried into the walks of private life. ( Several gentle men have suggested that it grows out of the fact tiiat the clique regard it att unpardonable sin in us to publish a pa per in this town opposed to them in politics—and more especially so, since they have ascertained that the South ern Watchman has a larger circulation than their peculiar organ.) We have borne with it long and patiently, and now, in conclusion, we inform the “Junta” that it remains with them to deternrne whe.her the war shall be “ carried into Africa” or not! t the Stone Moun- Railroad by fire last week In regard to the ** foreign organ,” if it wishes to avoid the excoriating casti gations which have caused it to writhe and howl with impotent rage, let it confine itself to the paths of truth and “V When it steps out of this line —as it frequently has done of late- midnight conspirators,” “ Thugs, “ Traitors,” and other equally choice appellations!!! Are the conductors of these presses aware that the eyes of their country men are upon them ? Do they know that the people are taking cognizance of their course ? Do they know that the American party is by no means con fined within the walls of its council- rooms—that there are twenty outsiders to where there is one insider ? Above all, do they acknowledge their respon sibility to their Maker in the highly important po ts they fill, as conductors of the public press—professedly a ve hicle of knowledge, public intelligence, Truth? Have they fougotten that the All-Seeing Eye is upon them? Do they think that the vengeance of Heav enwill always sleep? Or have they abandoned themselves to the infidelity, transcendentalism, atheism and licen tiousness of their imported allies, with whom they are so zealously battling against their own countrymen, the* chief corner-stone of whose political faith is, that “ Americans shall rule America !” Let the people observe the course of these presses, and whenever any of them produce one solitary fact, or ‘drum up* even a plausible argument againstthe principles of the American pary, give it full credit for being at least sincere; but so long as they confine themselves to base slanders, low abuse aud the most unmitigated falsehoods, the people will know—cannot help knowing— that there is “ something ratten” covered up! Chronicle & Sentinel fob sale.— Dr. Wm. S. Jones, the proprietor, now offering the Augusta Chronicle & Sen tinel for saje. It is doubtless good news paper property ing down his knife and fork, bawled to the waiter, “ Here, sir, take my plate, and bring me some waffle that has no rags in it! The scene that followed may be imagined, but not described. THE OGLETHORPE MEETING. We are informed by a gentleman whese integrity and veracity cannot be questioned, that our correspondent, whose communication in reference to the so-called “anti-Know-Nothing meet ing ” in Lexington we noticed last week, is mistaken in regard to the character of that meeting. Our correspondent, we believe to he h gentleman of the strictest veracity,aud no one who knows him will dare hint that he would know ingly misrepresent any body. Our informant, who, by the by, was, we understand, the prime mover in get ting up the Oglethorpe meeting, assures us that it was uot intended to oppose any party—that its whole object was to make a demonstration in favor of Mr. Ste phens becoming a candidate for Con gress without reference to past or pre sent party differences—and that to avoid even all appearance of party ism, one of the officers of the meeting was an old- time Whig and the other formerly a Democrat—that it bad been claimed afterwards that they were both “ Atueri cans” in sentiment—whether this was so, he himself did not pretend to know. As the crowd in attendance—number ing some fifty or sixty—was small, and it was thought desirable, in order to have a large meeting of the citizens, irrespective of party differences, a mo tion to adjourn until some time next a curse instead of a blessing.”—Martin Van Buren. “ I most devoutly wish we had not a single foreigner amongst us, except the Marquis de Lafayette, wlifi acts <>n very different principles from tho>e which govern the rest.”—George TPasA ington. THE AGONY OYER! Mr. Stephens has at last defined bis pos'Ubn in regard to Know-Nothingism His letter is written in reply to inqui ries addressed to him by Thomas W Thomas, Esq., of Elberl. We gather from his letter—which is very lengthy —that he is opposed to Sam “ right smartly,” and that he declines runnin for Congress this year. Mr. S is an able man—has beyond all question '* done the State some ser vice,” and might have done much more if he had been content to remain with the people. It seems, however, that he has voluntarily placed a barrier between himself and future preferment. This he had a perfect right to do. If he could not conscientiously act with the Ameri can party, no one would be so unreason able as to ask him to violate his sense of duty. It has been suggested that his opposition grows out of the fact that he was not consulted with regard to the American movement, and having so long led public opinion, was not willing to fall into the ranks as a ‘ high private.’ We know not how this may be ; but, as an admirer of this truly gifted man, we hope he may not be betrayed into the folly of running a tilt against “Sam” in his district —the result of which would be like that of the attack the Quaker s ram made upon the hat on the end of a pitchfork. It is our intention to give his letter a more extended notice here after. GREAT UPHEAVING OF THE MASSES IN JACKSON! We are informed by a gentleman who sat in full view of the court house in Jef ferson the day of the great demonstra tion, of which our readers may have heard something. Being anxious to wit ness the proceedings of the meeting, he assures ns that he watched diligently for hours, and could not see a sufficient number of people going into the court house to create even a suspicion that a meeting was on hand ' About the time he had given up all hope of seeing “ the show” he observed several geutlemen month, was introduced into and passed I coming out of the door together, and by the meeting. As the only material I thinking it might be “ the meeting,” For tlis Southern Watchman. Mr. Editor : I am delighted, yes, I may say 1 am in ecstacy at the present state of Politics in this State and the United States. Prior to the event, which gave birth to existing circum stances, Parties had become corrupt in the extreme; they were nothing short of complete mass of putridity. But a new order of things has come about, a new organization has sprung into exist ence, a«j organization founded by a pure man, an organization which has for it’s end, integrity, justice, hone>ty and truth, backed by a sincere and ar dent love of country. The iwo old par ties are nearly defunct. The Whig party is gone—it is useless to contend that a vestige remains—it is clean gone forever! The rotten ship barely held together up to the time of the storm of ’52, and then, in that gale, it went down to rise no more; and it ought to have gone down, it or auy other craft who had for a captain a man who was fond of hear ing “ the rich Irish brogue and the sweet German accent.” If the Democratic party is not totally gone, it has, at least had-serious cavities made in it’s ranks by the Anti-Catholic party. The two great parties of the country will now be either the Native and Foreign, or the Anti-Catholic and the Catholic parlies But in expressing my felicity at the present state of affairs, I am not so much delighted at the idea of the destruction ofthe old parties (though I am heartily glad of that,) as I am that the people have organized a party upon pure prin ciples. a party the object of which is to guard the Liberty of our country! For I contend that it is essential to liberty to fight Catholicism to the death, I ask where in the annals of the world, can you show me, that liberty and Catholi c srri have dwelt in the same country I contend-nhat to enjoy liberty you mus exterminate the Catholics; to live under a Catholic religion you must annihilate liberty ; the one naturally destroys the other; they are as much opposed to each other as black and white; to contend that liberty and Catholicism can live in the same*atmosphere, is an absurdi ty ; you might as well say that light and darkness can exist in the same place; it is an impossibility—it cannot be : and 1 challenge the man (if such a man there be) who believes they can, to show me upon what he grounds his belief. I don't ask him to show me that it can be done, fori know ihat that is an impossibility, but I am curious to know ih the name of reason and common sense, upon what he grounds his augutnents. Then beleiving as I do, that it is essen tial to liberty to wage an eternal warfare against that creed which ever has been and ever will be opposed to it, am I not right in calling upon every American to stand by the principles of the Know Nothing Parly—1 do conscientiously believe (and He who knows my heart, knows that I speak the truth,) that it is the solemn duty of every American, every lover of liberty, every patriot to connect himsellfwith ihatjpure party,that Godsend to the Republic, which has for it’s objecUAe libert'y of our country. But there arc men who contend that the dangfer is far off, “ why do you wish to fight the few Catholics that are here now, they are a mere handful, wait until there is a necessity.” That man does not speak like a phi losopher—a wise mau looks far ahead Look like statesmen a hundred years into futurity—don’t be so selfish as juet to look to the good of your own days, but let magnanimity possess you look to the good of posterity—to the welfare of your children, and your chil dren’s children—look to the day when your brow will be crossed and re-crossed with wrinkles,and your hairs white as the drifting snow. When the mariner hears the low rumbling of distant thunter, does he close his eyes to sleep, saying there is no danger or it is far off. or rather, does he not put his ship in trim that she may out ride the coming storm. Americans let us rise and put our ship in order so that when the storm comes she will not prove to be “ the shuddering toy of the winds and the waves, but will ride like thing of glorious life, growing in grace and beauty, with the swell of the billow and fury ofthe storm.” Is it the part of a skilful General, when he comes it! sight of his enemy, and perceiving that they are vastly in the minority, to coni- r irand his sbldiers to rest on their arms; uhtil the fortes of his adversary Shall equal those! of his Bwn, before he gives him battle ? Away with such absurds tv. You may remember, Mr. Editor; that a hare and a turtle once ran a race; and the hare knowing his superiority, in swiftness, laid himself down to sleep; intending to awake in time to wen »he race, but, alas, when he did wake it was only in time to see the turtle reaching the goal; it was then that he put himself out at the top of his speed,- but all in vain, ’twas too late. Americans,you have been sleeping since the days of seventy six, and I am glad that you are at length waking up The turtle has not yet reached the goal, but he is half way—the storm has not yet come, but if you will listen, yotr can bear the distant thunder—the Army of Catholicsdoes not equal us yet, but they are fast recruiting. Americans, wake—arouse! shake off your drowsi ness-shake off the sleep of seventy eight years—the Republic is in danger —your country is in danger—liberty is in danger / Arouse and rally around your flag, unfurl it amid the smoke of battle, bear it on to victory ; never let it fall from the high position which it now occupies to crumble into dust, unless it falls to cover- the blood stained corpse of the last American, as though it would shield him from the exulting gaze of a triumphant foe! Yours, very re spectfully, NATIVE. For tlie Southern Watchman. Jackson CO., Ga., May 2, 1855. Mr. Editor: The following debate came off a few days ago in this vicini ty. aud will be very well recollected by some of the Watchman readers, if it appears iu its popular pages. Being interogated by a gentleman, relative to my opinions ofthe Native American Party, 1 could only inform bint that I believed it to be a good thing, &c.— Knowing tny weakness to enter upon a political controversy, I merely said that 1 did not wish to distinguish my self as a political character, being in a sphere of life that was in a manucr oh- 4. liged to court the smiles of my employ ers. Upon this, he gave some tremend ous blows at tny timidity, and, as 1 thought, resolved to convince me of my error by his repeated hatrangues to prove to the company that our principles ere such that I wanted to conceal them—charging us with many grievous things, such as illegal secret conspira cies—saying too, that our motives were anu-Republican, &,c. Here I began to want a d< fensive cap upon tny head, and immediately entered into a rather warm discussion with the old party de fender—asserting that the American party promised more for the protection of our happy country than any other platform of principles abroad in the land. Being somewhat surprised by such adventures on my part, he began anew to charge, with redoubled energy, said party as having its origin in the bosom of Abolition, and to bring certain cases of an outrageous nature, that never have transpired, against us—such as clandes tine mobbings, dtc., which he said were playing sad havoc with innocent contented citizens. This, I of course disputed—declaring that I belevedthat every clandestine adventurer was prompted by the rebellious outrages of the Catholic creed—challenging my antagonist to point out one well-founded objection to the principles of our party, that were seen every week in the columns of the Watchman, rather than concealed in the bosom of the Order. He here seemed inclined to drop the controversy, by acknowledging that he knew nothing only what he had gotten from the old party advocates; that he had not seen even the principles. I as sured him that my well wishes were with the Native American party as I was depending on it to drive , the highly inflamed spirit ofparty away (the mur derer of liberty) and unguildingly wave the sta-spangled banner of liberty over the children of Washington. Advise your readers to circulate the Watchman. Let those read it that have not subscribed ; ltt the principles ofthe preserving party inhabit every patriotic bosom, and who can object ? M. 8SF 3 We rejoice to sec correct princi- pies prevail, but we think our friend is in error when he advises persons wh> have not subscribed for our paper to read it. Our advice, is, Let those who have net subscribed for it do so at once a —Pay frr it—mu! then read it. When a man takes a paper and pays for it, it is his own property. Otherwise, be is“ sponging'’ on somebody.,.