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charge of all the schools in the Catholic coun
tries. They had become the confessors of
nearly all the monarchs; they were ihe spir
itual guides of nearly every person of emi
nence and rank ; they possessed the highest
confidence and interest with the Pope, and
wore regarded the moat xealoua and ®b»e
advocates of the authority of tho Papal
Court. They were relieved from the ordina
ry d ities of the other monks. The monies
Were left to their spiritualism. “The Jestut
monk* were taught to consider themselves as
formed for action, uml bound to exert thcra-
< elves continually as soldiers in the service of
Oo l and the Pop* His Vicar upon earth.
They were required to attend to matters of
the world ; to study the nature of mankind ;
to wind their way into the confidence of men
of rank and power; to cultivate their friend
ship, probe their designs, and communicate
their secrets.”
Action and intrigue were infused into evc-
vv member of the order, and all their move
ments were covered with the impenetrable
veil of secrecy ! The form and constitution
•of the order was purely monarchical.
•‘The General, who was elected for life,
pos-essed a power which was supreme and
independent, extending to every member, and
to every ease! lie nominated all officers,
and could remove at pleasure 1 In him was
vested the sovereign administration of all the
revenues mid funds of the order! Everv
member belonging to it was at his disposal,
and by his uncontrollable mandate he could
impose upon them any burden, or employ
them in whatsoever task he pleased. Ihey
had to yield to him not only outward obe
dience, but to resign to him the inclinations
of their own wills, and the sentiments of their
««» undur^tiuidiiigs.”
fTn be conduit oil next week.)
loutjjmi ‘Mrjjimtn.
LAW, URDliR, A HD THE COlfBTITUTIoX.
ATHENS, GA.
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 31, IS55.
IIP* Mr. 11. M. Hitch is an authorized
travelling agent for this paper.
fry Mr. M. A. ITnrrison is nlso an
thnrized travelling agent.
The undersigned, having chang
ed his residence to Athens, all persons
having official business with him will
please address their communications to
this place.
This notice is made public because
letters are still directed to him at Monroe,
and others at Milledgeville.
JAMES JACKSON,
Judge Sup’r Court, Western Circuit
<5^* Several communications—among
• the number, the favors of our esteemed
friends, “ Gwinnett,” “Jackson,” *• R.
•“ Y.” and others—have been necessarily
Uaid over for our next issue. Our friends
'will not blame us, we are sure, when we
nnform them that.a considerable portion
•of our own lucubrations share the same
(fate. The truth is, our limits are too
marrow—we want space. If our friends
•continue to pour in a constant stream of
mew subscribers, and more especially if
•old ones pay cp, we shall shortly be en
abled to present them with a sheet great
Ey -enlarges] and much improved.
SMITH’S SPEECH—READ IT?
We begin this week, (to be concluded
in our next issue) the publication of the
admirable speech of Mr. Smith of Ala.
in defence of the principles of the
American party. We trust that every
reader of our paper will not only give it
a careful perusal himself, but let all hi
neighbors read it. Wc regret that its
length compels us to divide it, in order
to give a general variety in our columns
It is a very easy matter, however, for
each subscriber to pre erve the first
part of it until the remainder is publish
ed next week—when it can all be read
.at once.
Those who have sent orders for this
document are informed that they shall
he filled in a few days We shall print
only a limited number. Those who
wish to circulate it Ind better send in
their orders at once. Price three dol
lars per hundred.
MR. OVERBYES SPEECH.
B. II. Overby, Esq. the Prohibition
candidate for Governor, addressed the
people of this county, according to pre
vioua appointment, at the Town Hall
in this place on Thursday last A large
and respectable number of our citizens
turned oat on the occasion ; all
whom, as far as we cau team—whether
sympathising i-i the movement or not—
were pleased with the address.
As Mr. O. is personally known to the
generality of out readers—having resid
ed for many years of his life in this sec
tion ofl he State—it is needless to inform
them that he confined himself strictly
to hi* text—the temperance cause—and
spoke honestly and earnestly in hehalf
of it. What the result of his labors
tnay be, the ides of October will dis
close.
VIRGINIA "ELECTION.
The returns from the Virginia elec
tion are meagre and unsatisfactory—
though the probability is, judging from
the rumors by telegraph which we find
in our exchanges, that Wise, the rene
gade traitor and defamer of Gen. Jack-
son, has been elected Governor. We
regret that we are obliged to go to press
before learning the actual result.
MR. COBB IN THE FIELD •
We observe in the Atlanta Intelli
gencer an announcement that Ex*Gov.
Cobb is in the field or a candidate for
Congress in this district, together with a
list of appointeincnts for addressing the
of several of the counties at an
THE EFFECT OF FOREIGN IMMIGRA
TION UPON THE INSTITUTION OF
SLAVERY.
It is an mcontc.-tible fact that when
once the limits of slavery are clearly
defined—when by an act of Congress,
or in any other manner, the enemies of
the institution can say. “ thus far shalt
thou come, but no farther"—*• the begin-
ning of the end,” the final abolition of
slavery, will be distinctly visible.
This thing is well understood by all
well-informed thinking men,both North
and South. Out of this has grown all
the sectional contests in regard to the
extension of territory, the Wilmot Pro
viso, and all other questions affecting
the expansion or contraction of the li
mits of slave territory—and hence the
bitterness of all these sectional contests
—the very existence of the institution is
jeopardized by them!
Now, we wish to ask all honest friends
of the institution—all men who truly
love the South and are determined to
preserve their rights under the constitu
tion—what reasonable hope have they
f preserving those rights, as long as all
our teritories are left open to settlement
almost exclusively by men who are
from their birth opposed to our institu
tions ? For, be it remembered, that un
der the operation of the Nebraska bill,
the question of the establishment or ex
clusion of slavery in all our vast domain
is left exclusively in the hands of the
inhabitants of the same, in forming
heir Stale constitutions. Under the
present system for the encouragement
of foreign immigration, and the opera
tion of that act, all that vast extent of
territory will be stetled by foreigners
who are opposed, almost to a man, to
our peculiar institution. The South has
heretofore complained of exclusion from
ihe territories by our own countrymen
—“ bone of our bone and flesh of our
flesh how much more humiliating to
be deprived of her full share in them by
alien races—speaking, in many instan
ces, a different language—of a different
religion—or, it may be, of no religion at
all!
This is no fancy sketch. The picture
will be fully realized just so surely as ef
fect follows cause,unless a change comes
o’er the spirit of our dreams.
What people have, and are now daily
settling our territories? They are chief
ly settled by the hordes of foreigners
that every ship which touches our shores
spews out of her overburdened gorge—
those who speak tlie‘‘rich Irish brogue’
and the “sweet German accent,’’which
hayc been considered so enchanting by
some of our office-seekers. The only
well-defined feeling possessed by these
men in regard to our institutions—the
predominating sentiment of their hearts
—is undying hostility to slavery. These
foreigners become the subduers of the
forest—the tillers of the soil—in our
territories,and may he called the ground-
work of society on the borders. The
filling-in—mechanics, merchants and
professional men—are usually from the
Northern States. It is preposterous
however, to talk of the Northern farmer
leaving his comfortable, elegant home
there, with all its conveniences and
comforts, for a log cabin on the bound
less prairies or amid the trackless forests
of the west. The chief part of the po
pulation, therefore—the agricultural—
being bitterly opposed to us, and back
ed by those who are at least not friend
ly to our institutions, when they come
to from a State constitution, it can be
nothing else than anti-slavery.
With the present tide of foreign im
migration unchecked, we may safely
count on eight or ten new free States
within the next fifteen years J We are
already fearfully outnumbered in the
Ilouae of Representatives—the same
would then be the case iu the Senate—
the free States could elect the President
in spite of our teeth, and what security
would'' 'there be for the rights of the
South ? Completely'at the mercy of
^mtfipisQi, she must either basely sur
render her rights, or do what Georgia
has threatened in the 4th resolution of
the celebrated platfrom!
Fellow-citizens! wc repeat, this is no
fancy sketch! Heaven grant that the
People of the South may he aroused to
a sense of their imminent rveril!
Is the South, then, doomed ? Is she
already in the toils? Can she do noth
ing to avert thereutened destruction ?
It U hij'i tim j,in vie.v of the imminence
of the peril—the stupendous interests
at stake, and the dangers which now
menace her—and not only the South as
a section, but the whole Union as a hap
py confederacy—that her people should
cast about and endeavor to avoid the
dread alternatives which will be forced
upon them before a great while, uni -ss
they arouse from their apathy.
We see but one single path of safely.
It is to close, in some degree, the door
to foreign immigration— an evil ten-fold
greater to the South thin to any other
ection. This may he done- the Ameri
can party proposes to do it—by extend
ing the term of naturalization and by
positively prohibiting the importation of
foreign convicts and paupers. This
done, instead of the foreign population
alien in language and religion—
strangers in our political Israel—form
ing the ground-work of society, as is the
case in the western States at present—
the agricultural interests will be com
posed chiefly of enterprising slavehold
ers from the South, whose slaves will
find ample employment in that depart
ment of industry for which they are
specially fitted, and where their labor is
pie, being the true Sovereigns, have the
remedy in their own hands—they can
elect other men to office! The proposal
to do this thing, is what has brought
upon the heads of the American party
the ridiculous and nonsensical charge
of religious intolerance—than which a
more unfounded accusation was never
brought against nny party.
men, North and South. It looks the sub
ject full in the face and presents the true
issue, and it is to be hoped that the sug
gestions offered will receive due atten
tion, while the disastrous results allud
ed to may be averted. How far they
may be heeded by the reckless fanaticism
to which they are especially addressed,
is involved in the doubtful mists of the
future:
No more Slave Statks.—“The
Legislatures of several Northern States
Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut
and others—have passed resolution*,"
says the N. Y. Herald, “declaring,
among other things, that there shall be
‘ no more slave States.’ If this doctrine
prevails in the North they will have the
But
PROSCRIPTION—WHAT IS IT?
There is a great bug-bear raised by
the Foreign party concerning proscrip
tion ! proscription ! when, in truth, one-
half of those who use the word so glib-
... . . , . , ly, know nothing of its signification;
most profitable,—we mean in subduing ... , , , , , .
, f I whilst those who do know what it means,
the i orests and reducing the v ‘ r S‘" 801 are well aware that, according to the' P°. wer to etlforce **«» Congress
tillage. This would give the South . . . , i it is easy to see that the ’attempt to
fair chance, (unde, ,he Nebraska hill) T+TT ,f ,c ! thr ’ ““ entem, It will pa. as upon .he high read
. , . • I Constitution of the United States itself, to disunion. The only guarantee which
.0 prepare a slave Slate for adm,s,.o» 1.^ thing in .he nature of can now insure ,hc Jerpe.ni.y of the
whenever a free State appl;es-.hus pre-1 tra . m w _. s „ essence of U “““- is like a balance of
serving the balance of power in the . . ; power to the South, as a breakwater in
Senate, and at the same time furnish- P roscr,pt,on ‘ As these people are so . Ihe genial government agairm the ag-
* ,, _ . . /• u sorely exercised on the subject, it is a gressions of the North. This balance,
tngnew fields of employment for er L onder the do no , make „ al . u ,| le before the admission of California, the
surplus slave popula.,on-tl,e oul, c „ nstitut i„„ and laws of the land-open Pressed i„tb. Senate of the
mode by which the institution of slave- „ . , . , , r , United States; but the addition of Cali-
ry, our rights under the constitution, f t"' 0 ” «£* »P°" , form. to the free States has destroyed
every thing in the shape of law. ; this equilibrium. The South desires,
and the Union of these States, can be The Constitution of the United States therefore,—and t hey have the right to
preserved. j provides that no one shall be eligible to admission of another slave-
Viewed iu this nspect-and w* cannot the office of President unless he be a j
see how any Southern man can view it native of the U. S. who shall hare «i
. ... , , , ... „ ,. Io this end we may expect to see
m any other light—the proposed change attained the age of thirty-five years.— Kansas, within a year or two, knocking
in the naturalization laws is not a matter Now, does not this (according to these : for admission into the Union. Should
of trifling conseqnence to the people of gentlemen) proscribe their especial pets, tbe North refuse to admit her, in the
e .v c .1 • fl L j- • I , , , ‘ „! event of a constitution recognizing the
the South, as some of the enemies of the the foreigners, and not only so, but all, existence 0 f slavery, we are hurried
American party have asserted. If every natives who are so unfortunate as to he j to the ultimate question of union or dis
feature of the American platform were I under’thirty-flve years of age? Are not
objectionable,its soundness on this ques- we, and all otkers under 35, proscribed?, ! b f 1 P ower ot tbe North in Congress
. ,. , • . „ . * . . ’ , f- 1 is to be devoted to the * crushing out’ the
tion, which is the great question of the And does not; this same instrument con-j institution of slavery, the alternative of
day—a question the importance of which tain any (number of proscriptive. secession comes up in a palpable shape,
cannot be over-estimated—will surely provisions besides the one referred to?: And this is the drift of this Kansas ira-
commend it to the hearty approval ofl If the proscription whereof they speak
every Southern man who is seeking! is so grievous a burden, why do they
the good of his country. The election J not denounoe the constitution, which is
of certain men to Congress is a matter of full of it ?
trifling moment, but the closing of this The laws of all the States in refer-
Joreign fio idgate, which threatens to ence to the qualification of electors of
destroy the fairest fabric ever erected members of Congress, Governor, State
by the hands of man,should employ the I Legislature, &c. are eminently pro-
time, talents and energy of every patriot scr ^/ re _ all prov iding that none but
in the land
For tho P ,uth»m Watchman.
Mr. Editor : I have read the graphic
and amusing account of the “ Demo-
ratic meeting in Franklin,” by your
correspondent 1 Secretaire.’ He handles
his materials well, and I trust he will
continue to give us an occasional touch
of men and things over in his quarter of
Sam’s" vineyard. He calls things by
their proper names. 1 like this way of
ailing spades spades.
such male citizens as hare attained the
age of 21 years, (and sente even going
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
Among other false accusations brought J so far as to require the payment of taxes,
against the Americans by the Foreign I as a condition precedent) shall exercise
party, is the charge that they are oppos- the inestimable blessing—the glorious
ed to religious freedom—to that toiler- j privilege—of participating in the choice
ance which the framers of our Govern-] of our rulers. Does not this law pro
ment regarded as essential to the per- ] scribe all the fairer and better portion
feet enjoyment of their liberties. Had! of the human, family, as well as all the
the Arch Fiend himself been offered a j males who are under twenty-one years
premium for the biggest lie he could of age—largely more than one-half—
invent, he could not have done better yea, at leart nine-tenths of every com-
than those who put in circulation this munity? And yet the young men thus
vile slander ! proscribed are required by our laws to
So far from the American party be- work the roads and bear arms in the
ing opposed to religious tolerance, the! service of the country!—and thousands
preservation in all its parity of that fea- of , them, thus proscribed—natives
ture in our system is one of its cardinal though they were—have left their bones
objects. to bleach on the plains of Mexico, and
It was high time that this matter othcr battle-fields, arid never did and
should be looked to. Already had the never wiH » enjoy the inestimable
Catholics, in one or two of the North- r '6 bt f° r which their sires and them-
ern States—New York and Maine, per- se,ves b,ed and died 1! ,f these misera *
haps—attempted to drive God’s Holy b,e crocodiles—1the corrupt party hacks
Word from the public schools, besides whose e y es are novv running over with
exhibiting unmistakeable signs of that pretended sympathy for the foreign
spirit of intolerance which all history criminals and paupers they wish to ad-
admonishes us they have always dis- vance t° the dignity of American free
played, wherever they possessed the men » desire something to call forth their
power. They have always sought to j rca ^ sympathies, let them weep for the
connect church and state, wherever r® te tbe ' r brave young countrymen,
they have been in the ascendancy.— whose “ uncoffined bones lie thick on
This has ever been, and is now, their evcr ? battle-field—left there to bleach
openly avowed policy. They are de- “nder the operation of our pro-
termined to do the same thing here just scriplire laws !!
so soon as they gain sufficient strength. Again, all our evangelical churches
This policy is opposed to the very genius (according to these wise expounders of
of our republican institutions. Ail en- pbelaw) are eminently proscriptive,
tire divorcement and complete separation ^ et an y brot ter be detected in the
of spiritual and temporal affairs, as adopt- P r * ctice oC gross immorality, and be is
ed by the wise and patriotic framers ofl once se ' zed nec ^ and beds, and
our constitution is the only security | cast oul 38 ^ ‘ This ie, of course
to religious freedom. The preservation I proscription! / Indeed, according t<
intact of this glorious feature mourl^ 6 definition of this Foreign party
system uoDe of the cardinal principles ever y thing that has a tendency to re-
ofthe American party. They are de- h ,rai R the vices of human na,ure . as
termined to preserve it as well against designed to guard the
the schoolings and machinations of the P urit y ofthe e,ective franchi9R > is PB0 *
different Protestant sects ( should such liCarrxinN '' ^' vav w ‘ tb 8Ucb bun™
attempts be made by them) as against bu S ! - such Enright hypocrisy !!-
those of the Catholics themselves. “ The offence is B,nelIetb to
If this be proscription, ihen let our beaven
enemies make the most of it. What do these sticklers on this point
The truth i*, the American party think of Mr. Pierce’s recent act ofpro-
wages no warfare against any religion— scription—real proscription, and
either Catholic or Protestant. Their mistake—we mean the turning out of
batteries are turned again-t the corrupt Mr. Polk from office because he was a
commingling of religion and politics, Know Nothing, and the appointment
of which the Catholics have been guilty of a Catholic in his place? Now, if
in all countries, and for which that order there was one particle of honesty at the
known as Jesuits havo been at some bottom of all this talk about proscrip
time or other expelled from almost every
nation under the sun. They have al
ready tampered with the political affairs
of this Government—having prostituted
some of its highest offices, in which,
broglio.
“ All this mock philanthropy about
human freedom, liberty, and the horrors
of Southern slavery is mere stuff and
nonsense. The real question is union
or disunion. The African race whether
as slaves in the South or ( free colored
Americans' in the North, occupy the
position, socially and politically, of an
inferior race, and properly so, and sim
ply because the great Greater has made
them an inferior race. In the same com
munity with the white man, the black,
enslaved or emancipated, must forever
occupy a degraded position. In a com
munity purely African, even the civiliz
ed black, relapses again to African in
dolence and barbarism. See Haytii,
see Jamaica! Stop the snpplies of chris
tianized recruits from our Southen States
to Liberia, and that republic, io the
space of two or three generations, would
probably degenerate into a petty king
dom of cannibals, with a savage beast
as their ruler, horrible and bloody as the
King of Dadotney. The three millions
of the African race, the most enlighten
ed and tho happiest in the world, are the
three million slaves of our Southern
States.
The cry of slavery, the horrors of
slavery, stop the extension of slavery,
is therefore a mockery and a snare
Reduced to its final consequences,
means disruption, disunion, a war
sections, a war of races, a fire and sword
anarchy and Indiscriminate slaughter
And these ultimate consequences are
interwoven into the treacherous web of
this Kansas controversy. The sectional
agitations, jealousies and revenges of
half a century, are concentrated in this
Kansas question. The beginning
ominous—the end will be diastrous
right or wrong, just or unjust, there an
to be * no more slave States.’’
tion, they would denounce the Presi
dent in unmeasured terms for this high
handed act But we suppose that, like
the foreigners with whom they are
unfortURntely f« tta country', they hove lea *“ od - * tee "’l'" 1 ‘ he ^
1 scription of a “ d d vulgar native”
a small matter !!!
been placed, to the furtherance of their
ambitious schemes. It is high time that
this thing should be looked to. They
cannot be banished from our Govern-
A WORD IN SEASON.
The New York Herald has the sub-
ment, as they have been from the de-1 joined, which contains matter for the
f-potisms of the old world ; but our peo-i calm consideration of all conservative
Cool, Decidedly.—There is an in
finite degree of amusement in the ef
frontery with which the loco-foco, fire-
eaiing press of this State have taken for
cible possession of Messrs. Toombs and
Stephens, and appropriated them, body
and soul, to their service. A writer in
the Constitutionalist marks out a road
for the “faithful” after this manner
•* Let the Democratic party take such
action as will seal a treaty of alliance,
offensive and defensive, between it and
Messrs. Toombs and Stephens, &c.”
With Mr. “ Anti-Jacobin” the old.
notion that “ it takes two to make a
bargain” seems to be a profound mys
tery.
The Atlanta Examiner is also parti
cularly interesting on this point. Just
hear him: After exorting the Demo
cracy to gather in the recruits, it says
“The Democratic party have now to re
gard Mr. Stephens as an ally—an open
and avowed one—upou^whose aid they
may confidently rely to do battle for
Democratic principles, &c.”
Now, isn’t that fine ? Counting chick
ens hefore they are hatched, or string
ing fish before they are cuught, is but a
mere circumstance to this modern in
vention for building up the broken for
tunes of Democracy.
But seriously, we advise these valiant
knights to save their steam until they
no can expend it to a more profitable pur
pose. Messrs. Toombs and Stephens,
or either of them, would accede to their
propositions for an “ alliance” about as
soon as Gen. Washington would have
accepted a similar offer from the Tories.
Allowing the Know-Nothings to be
every whit as great rascals as they are
represented to be, we would be glad to
know what a man would make by quit
ting the service of Beelzebub to enlist
under the banner of the devil.— Wilkes
Republican.
What Horace Greely thinks of
foreign Influence.—“ The foreigners
are the men who have made these states
free, and they are the men who will
carry abolitionism into the territories.”
We hope that Mr. Stephens will put
this into his pipe and smoke it.—Macon
Citizen. i
The meeting in Franklin is precisely
similar to one held at Cumming, in
Forsyth county, the first Tuesday in this
month. I have read, in the Savannah
Georgian, and other papers, of the
foreign party, that the meetings in
Franklin and Forsyth were “ large and
enthusiastic Conventions” of the Demo
cracy, in those counties! Upr here,
they are called, very modestly, “'meet
ings;” hut down in the gopher and
swell-head region of Georgia, they et*
pand into the marvellous proportions
of “ Conventions 1”
The meeting at Cumming was com
posed of precisely 21 persons, all told l
Twelve pjf these were Johnson Demo
crats ; seven were Know Nothings, and
two Conservatives. 1 was not in the
court house, but learn these facts from
two gentlemen, both Democrats, and
one of them a member of the Commit
tee appointed to select delegates to the
Democratic Convention, at MilleJge-
ville, the 5th of June next. The meet
ing mast have been contemptibly di
minutive in point of numbers, because
there were very few persons in the village
on that day.
The richest things remain to be told.
In ihe first place, this “ large and enthu
siastic Convention” of the Democracy
of Forsyth did not express a preference
for Howell Cobb, for Congress! Is’nt
this strange, considering that “the voice
of the party” was, a short time back,
everywhere in favor of commissioning
him to Washington, as the ne#t repre
sentative from the Sixth District ? Io
the next place, one of the delegates, ap
pointed by this “ Convention,” has since
declared for “ Prohibition,” and as a
matter of course, will give his vote and
influence to Mr. Overby, the Temper
ance candidate! I understand that the
M Convention,” to wit: the twelve lea
ders, got together a day oatwo ago, and
formally excluded this refractory dele
gate from the pale of the anli-proscrip-
tive Democratic party! In the third
place, this" large and enthusiastic Con
ventioa" of twelve adjourned, having
“ resolved” to meet again the first Tues
day in July, to nominate candidates for
the Legislature. The people of the
several magistrate’s districts were re
quested to appoint delegates, in the
mean time, to attend this July meeting,
which will of course be trumpeted forth
as another “ large and enthusiastic
Convention” of the Forsyth Democra
cy.. The proceedings of this meeting
and the resolutions all appear fair en
ough ; but I know, and so do many
others here know, that the candidates
for both branches of the General As-
e sembly have long ago been agreed upon !
One of the prominent men, in this same
meeting, this day disclosed to me, and
several others, the names of the candi
dates for Senator and Representatives
This work was done at Cumming, du
ring court week, in April, by a caucus,
in a small room, the door of which was
closed, and but a dozen or so allowed
to participate in it, or to know anythiug
of its action! The question as to who
shall be the candidates for legislative
honors, in Forsyth county, at the Octo
ber election, is just as well settled now,
as it will be on the day <>f the election
It is true, the people, the poor, ignorant
slaves of the ten or twelve party leaders,
are made to believe that all things have
been fairly conducted, in order to induce
them tp vote for those whom the wire-
workers, have already determined shall
be the-1candidates; and at the proper
time the serfs will bo ordered out and
forced to. register the decree of caucus,
willing or unwilling, right or wrong 1
If the voteis exhibit any sort of opposi
tion, or independence, they are proscrib
ed—denounced by these leaders as
“ no Democrats”—•“ deserters to the
Whigs”—and are threatened with bail
writs, and every affliction, civil and re
ligious, that can be visited on their re
cusant heads !
IIow long will the people, the bone
and sinew of our country, its support in
peace, and prop and stay in time of
trouble—how long, let me ask, will the
honest and industriom masses of our
fellow-citizens suffer themselves to be
gulled and deceived, kicked and driven,
to. and fro, by the interested partizan
leaders, and low-flung, unprincipled
demagogues who now disgrace and
scourge our land! Talk about “ the
secrets” and “ dark lantern” operations
of the Know Nothings 1 These sink
into perfect insignificance when com
pared to the dark, midnight orgies, that
have often been perpetrated, in every
county in Georgia, in the name of
Whiggery and Democracy 1 Talk about
secret • oaths and pledges 1” What
could have been more binding, more
fettering on the act ions of the voters of
these defunct old parties than the secret
resolves" of irresponsible, midnight,
still-house, Whig and Democratic cau
cuses 1 Many men have been elected
to the Legislature, and to other posi
tions, in the county and State Govern-'
ments, not because of their fitness foi 1
the office, or the wishes of the people;
but because some junto, or dirty cau
cus, assembled in the back room of a
filthy doggery, or among the stinking
mobby stands of a superannuated, old,
pine-pole stiff-house, had so decreed if
to be I These heretofore all-powerful
caucuses frequently assembled, as aff
know, not in day light, or in the week
alloted for work : but between the going
dowo apd rising of the sun, and on holy
Sabbath nights at that 1 And then these'
party lenders talk about the “ proscrip-'
tion” of the Know Nothings! Whaf
eouTd hate been more proscriptive than*
the party wel fare of the old Whig and 1
Democratic organizations? What De
mocrat ever smelled an office in a Whig
county, if the leaders could prevent it
by hart)lying? What Whig ever filled
an office in a Democratic county, if the
Democratic leaders could, by falsehood
or persona! detraction, prevent such
a result ? Democrats voted for Demo-'
crats and Whigs for Whigs, for adP offi
cers, from President down to a mid
wife 1 Hands at a corn-shucking or
log-rolling were clrosen and invited in
strict accordance with tire party pree
lections of him whose com was to be
husked, or whose logs were to be rolled !
Because a man affiliated with the Whig
party, his Democratic neighbor must be
looked on and avoided as a personal
enemy ; and to be a good, reliable De
mocrat required that the individual
shoo'd hate his Whig fellow-citizen as
he did the very devil! This picture
is a strong one ; but those of your rea
ders, Mr. Editor, who have been watch
ful observers of the movements of the
old parties, in our country, for the past
few years, know that I have not painted
their villainous deeds in colors toe- black
or strong.
Proscription,” indeed? There is
one glorious idea connected with the
proscriptiveness of the American party.
They do not proscribe their own fellow-
citizens, their own neighbors f They v
proscribe nobody but the villainous
jesuit and the scabby convict foreigner—
those who areshiped to thiscouatny^heir
hands reeking with the blood! of their
murdered victims at the home they have
been forced to leave 1 These scape-gal
lows ragamuffins, whose characters ate
so low and degraded, that theim own
governments can stand them no longer,
and cause them to be sent over tv this
country, ought to be proscribed, and
kicked and driven out of it. The Ame
rican party does not proscribe respecta
ble foreigners, though poor, or wish to
see them excluded the country. On the
con.rary.the intelligent virtuous foreign
er is invited to come here, as many of
them as please, and enjoy the blessings
of good, democratic government, along
with the native born citizens. This
class of persons,seeking a home in these
United States, will not be denied any of
their rights of life, liberty, or property,
now or hereafter ; nor will any attempt
ever be made to inhibit to them, aud all
mankind, the inestimable privilege of
worshipping the Almighty according to
the dictates of their own consciences.
To be “ of the American party” does
not require the performance of any act,
inconsistent with one’s duty to the con
stitution ofthe United States, the State
in which he lives, or the laws passed in
conformity to them ; and when editors
of the foreign party assert anything to
the contrary,they assert what every mem
her of the American party in Georgia
knows to be false.
I have extended this beyond the li
mits at first intended. I have been si
lent for some weeks ; but you and your
readers will know from the foregoing
that 1 am still olive and kicking. I am
brim full of news for your paper and
will write you often during the summer.
I am a plain man, and talk plain Eng
lish. I have not the polish about me
that would mark the composition of an
educated man; and hence your readers
must make due allowance for what I
say, as well as my manner o( saying it
I design discussing,through your pa
per, in a future number, a great ques
tion in psychology 1 I regard it as throw
ing into the shade all other questions of
the present day 1 I have been study
ing about it, so long,and intently, that I
am afraid sometimes of gqin.; mad about
it! But, what is the ques ion, all your
readers ask at once ? It is this : Ark
BntuAmER Gen’l Franklin, Fierce'*
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