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(Mm 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'* - i ! ‘.J •-. *f •■ • v--.it mr. !•-• •