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luuiljmi tUutrijman. 14D, «|BH, THt CO!MT«TCTIOI». ATHENS, GA. THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1865. ST Mr. It. M. Hitch is an authorized travelling agent for this paper. 0* Mr. M. A. Harrison is also an au thorised travelling agent. |*“M. Laxdrcm, Esq., is our authorized agent for Oglethorpe county. TO ADVERTISERS. The Watchman is the paper in which to advertise, if you wish your advertise* ments “ 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 being swelled by daily accessions. «HAVE YOU SEEN SAM?” The meeting next Saturday. Let all the friends of the American cause— till who sympathise with ihe American move ment—atteud the meeting at the Town Hall on Saturday nest. It will no doubt be a spirited affair, and it is desirable that all who sympathise with those who are attempting to preserve ourcivilaud religious liberties nnd our Protestant nationality, should mingle in its deliberations. The invitation, it will be observed, is broad and distinct—embrac ing all members of tbe American party, and all who sympathise with it, regardless of past party alignments. |g*We are indebted to Messrs McWhorter nud Erwin for first-rate specimens of chew ing tobacco. These gentlemen are offering a great Variety of article*, both useful and ornamental. MR. COBB ON THE STUMP. His Ex-Excellency, we are informed—for we were not present—-(.orry that we were otherwise engaged, for we want to do him. justice)—delivered a very considerable har angue at the Town Hall in this place on Thursday last. The most remarkable feature of the performance ofthc Foreign candidate for Congress, was the entire absence of every thing like argument against the Know Noth ings, but an extra quantity of twaddle about *• secresy," “ intolerance,” <fcc. It is not our intention to attempt a general reply to Mr C., but in regard to his talk about “secret oath-bound political societies,” we bave *'somewhat” to say. The opinion is very prevalent ir Georgia, and elsewhere, that he was himself a member of a secret political society long before Know-Xotbingism was thought of! We refer to that infamously corrupt Jesuitical political association, known as “ St. Tammany Society." We remember distinctly, that while, as Governor of Geor gia, lie was on one of thtosc political pilgrim ages to the city of New York, ostensibly for the purpose of disposing of State bonds, the newspapers there reported him ns attending one of those meetings, at which he was toast ed as a “sachem'’ of the order, and to which lie responded in a speech of some length This is our recollection of the affair: if our memory be treacheous, we hope some one will set us right. Is not Mr. Cobb a nice man to preach against secret political societies—himself not merely a private member, but a “ sachem' in the most notoriously corrupt and iufamnu* political society ever known, except tbe Ja- cobiu clubs of Paris ! 11 THE ISSUE. The issue between tbe parties in this State may be briefly stated, as follows: It is to U teriuinewluthcr America shall be governed by Natives or Foreigners.and whether Native Protestantism is to succumb to the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Choose ye, fellow citi zens, which party you will act with. God grant that you may act intelligently, NOMINATIONS FOR CONGRESS. Judge Hiram Warner has been nominated as the “ Democratic” candidate for Congress in tbe 4th district. Judge John U Luitrxis is the ''Democra tic” nomiuee for Congress in tbe fifth district Col. Lewis TcutiN.an old-time Democrat, U liis " American” opponent. Negro Birkt Aura—A negro who, after attempting to violate the person of sn interest ing young girl iu Alabama, murdered her to prevent her testifying against him, was con fined in jail some time ago, to await his trial at the regular term of Sumter Superior Court When the case was called for trial, a motion for change of venue to the county of Green was granted. This so exasperated the citi -sens of Sumter, (many of whom Were in favor of summary punishment in the outset.) that a large number of them collected on the 83d ult, took him out of prison, chained him to a stake on the very spot where tbe murder committed, and in the presence of two ot three thousand negroes and a large number of white people, burnt him alive l KF* Tbe Know-Nothings of Atlauta, we learu from tLe papers of that city, held meeting at Ihe City Hall in that place on last Friday, at which the nomination of Judge Warner, (the regular Democratic candidate for Congress in the fourth district) was ralifi ed, and the party pledged to his support Does this look like a Whig movement f does it look like proscribing honest Democrats! It strikes us that if ‘ Sam” should deter mine throughout the entire district to uipjiort the Judge, that his chances for electiun are pretty certain.! He will make an excellent member of Congress, and we doubt not is sound on the great issue of the day. The Atlanta Intelligencer and Chero kee Advocate have been united in one paper, ‘The Intelligencer & Advocate.’ to be edited by Mcisrs. Rucrgles, Itrd and Hunt, I THE NATIONAL PLATFORM. After a somewhat protracted session, the K. N. National Council has presented a plat form for the consideration of their country men. We publish that portion of it relating to the subject of slavery. The National Council is entitled to the thanks of the whole country for this plat form. Unlike the platforms heretofore adopt ed by the national parties, it does not deal in vague generalities, susceptible of different constructions in different sections of the coun try, and meaning nothing at last This plat form—particularly that portion relating to slavery—is broad and comprehensive ; plain, pointed and specific; free from all ambiguity, and eminently natinoal and conservative in its tone. No man of ordinary sense can possibly mistake its meaning. No man who possesses any character for fair-dealing and honesty,can attempt to controvert the fact that it fully meets the issues presented—tbe admission of Kansas and other Territories free from slave ry restriction—slavery in the District of Co lumbia, and tbe Fugitive Slave Act. In all of this, it is fully up to tbe demands of the South. No man of candor will dare deny that it is the best platform for the South ever presented, or likely to be presented by any national party. The anti American pariy cannot say a word against the platform—feeling conscious that they- can never offer the people of the South any thing to compare with it—but great is their rejoicing over the fact that some fifty members of tbe Council—including the entire delegation from Masachusetts—seced ed, on the ground of its strong pro-slavery features- Now, we can most heartily join them in thn—though actuated by far differ ent motives. We rejoice that tbe organiza tion has been purged, cleansed and purified from the contamination of such cattle as the notorious Wilson. “ Sam” can now lift up “ clean hands” before the people,and cordial ly invite all conservative national patriots— regardless of past party alignments—to take their places upon the platform. It is the platform of the Constitution, tbe Union, and our rights uuder them. Let all honest men in Georgia who are really anxious to prescut an unbroken front on the “ paramount issue of tbe day,” lay aside all party prejudice and partisan bitter ness, and determine to make a rally in behalf of the rights of the States and the integrity of the Union. Let those who appear anxious to rally the people of the South upon one common platform, all step forward manfully to tiie task of supporting and sustaining the best platform ever presented to the people of the South, and thus prove their faith by their works. Resolved, That the American party, having arisen upon the ruins and in de spite of the opposition of the whig and democratic parties, cannot be held in any manner responsible for the obnoxi ous acts or violated pledges of either; that the systematic agitation of the slave ry question by those parties, has eleva ted sectional hostility into a positive element of political power, and brought our institutions into peril. It has, there fore, become the imperative duty of the American party to interpose for the pur pose of giving peace to the country and perpetuity to the Union ; that, as experi ence has shown, it is impossible to recon cile opinions so extreme, as those which separate the disputants; and, as there can be no dishonor in submitting to the laws, the National Council has deemed the best guarantee of common justice and of future peace to abide by and maintain the existing laws upon the sub ject of slavery, as a final and conclusive settlement of that subject in spirit and in substance. Resolved, That regarding it the highest duty to avow these opinions, upon a subject so important, in distinct and unequivocal terms, it is hereby de clared as the sense of this National Council, that Congress possesses no power under the constitution to legislate upon tbe subject of slavery in the Stales, or to exclude any Stale from admission into the Union because its constitution does or does not recognise the institution of slavery as a part of the social system, and expressly prefer* milted any expression of opinion upon the power of Congress to establish or pro hibit slavery in any territory.it is the sense of this National Council that Congress ought not to legislate upon the subject of slavery as it exists in the District of Columbia, and that any interference of Congress with slavery, as it exists in the said District, would be a violation of the spirit and intention of the compact by which the Stale of Maryland ceded itto the United States, and a breach of the national faith. W« lcara also that the Convention deter mined to remove tbe veil of secresy, and en ter the field openly. We are glad of tbie. Secrecy waa no doubt necessary in tbe be- ^moing-but “Saro”hxs now sufficient strcngtS to openly defy his enemies. Let him go furtb “ couquering and to conquer,” until our American nationality shall by fully establish ed. and tbe degraded party hacks and gam bling politicians, as well as the foreign hordes who are ready to back them in the subver sion of onr civil and religious liberties, are made to know their proper places. 1856. It may be safely assumed that there will be three parties in the field in tbe Presiden tial campaign of 1856. 1st. The National American Party. 2d. The so-callod Democratic party. Cd, The great sectional Seward party. Viewed in a sectional aspect, the South has much to dread from this third party; as tbe Free States can, by uniting upon Se ward. elect him in spite of the South. Such a result would, of course, bo the death knell of the American Union. It then becomes a matter of the greavest mdmeilt to the people of the South—to all true friends-oftbeUnion-to throw their whole influence in favor of that one of the other parlies which possesses the greatest strength in tbe free Staten, and whose platform i*» the sound * e slavery question. It requires no argument to prove that tbe platform of the American party is sounder than any national platform heretofore adopt ed, or likely to be constructedhereafter. It is equally clear that tbe so-called Demo cratic party cannot carry a single free State, with a " Higher Law” candidate in the field; because, weak as the “ rank and file” of that party has been proven by the last elections to be, in all the Free States, great numbers of its members would desert to the sectional anti-slavery standard, and leave but a cor poral’s guard to sustain tbe Democratic na tional platform, rickety and unsafe as it is. The American party, on the other hand, it may be safely assumed, can carry many of the free States—New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, and a majority of tbe States of the Great West. This, added to its strength at the South, will elect the next President, if the South it only true to herself. We would implore all honest men at the South—those who love the Uuion and their conntry better than mere party names—to ex amine this aspect of the question before rash ly determining to enter upon a course which may, indirectly, bring about a dissolution of the Union, There really is danger ahead. “ A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE COMPA NY HE KEEPS.” Apply this time-honored maxim to the native members of the Anti-American party —for we grieve to say that many natives have joined that organization—and they are made to look rather mall. What company then, do they keep 1 They are acting in con cert, and therefore, politically, keeping com pany with, tbe Abolitionists and Free Boilers of the North—Seward, Greeley, Preston King, Garrison, the Van Burcns, Sumner, Chose, Henry Ward Beecher, Theodore Parker, old Harriet Stowe, Abby Folsom, Fred Douglass, and all the other magnates “ of that ilk.” In addition to this, they are associated with all the old jaded, spavined, wind-broken, superannuated office-holders and office-hunters, gambling politicians, political prostitutes, quacks, and mounte banks in the land. Bat this is not all—they aie required to associate, politically, with the foreign Jesuit priests, who serve that old “ Mother of Harlots,” long since “drunk with the blood of the saints.” And besides all this, their ranks are swollen by the transcendentalism of Germany, tbe Infidel Red Republicanism and licentiousness of France, the intolerant bigotry and disgusting superstition of the priest-ridden Papists of Ireland—the foreign paupers and criminals from every nation under the sun, including the snail and rat-eating Chinese idolaters of California and the plague-polluted, filthy, vermin-crawling Neapolitan lazfikroni 11! All, all of these, and other elements still more disgusting, are component parts of the anti-American party 11 This is the party that virtuous, God-wor shipping American Protestant freemen are invited to join—for what ? Simply to enable the blood suckers that, vampirei-like have battened upon the body-politic, to re tain their bold upon Government pap.— These traitor-knaves are willing to barter away the civil rights of American 'freemen, yea, their very hopes of salvation, for office 1 ai.d like “ the horse-leech's daughter,” they are never satisfied I Thar insatiate craving extorts the frantic cry, ” Give, give!” It is for refusing to join this motley crowd and thereby promote the interests of these disinterested patriots—it is tor having an nounced their determination that “ America shall he ruled by Americans” and that Catholic intolerance shall not pollute this heritage of freedom as it has desecrated every other civilized nation under the face of heaven—to which end, it has been an nounced that tlio American party will not only exclude those foes to religiona liberty from office, but also such of our native place- hunters and partisan demagogues as sympa thise with the «Beast with Seven Heads and Ten Horns”-it is for these causes that party hacks and unscrupulous demagogues denounce as ” Thugs,” “ hypocrites,” “ li- ars,” and "midnight conspirators," such uative Americans as have determined that, God willing, they will rescue their native land—their homes and their altars—their civil and religious liberties—for which Washington fought and their ancestors died —from the impending destruction with which they are threatened at the bands cf foreign Jesuit priests and native demagogues! Tlic.'o conspirators are now going up and down in the land, on their mission ofdeath —death to American freedom and Protestant Christianity—their object being to delude the people into the belief that Catholics are not so bad after all, and that tho liberties of the country and tho interests of tho soul are much safer in the hands of the Catholics than in those of Methodist*, Baptists and Presbyterians !11 Let the friends of civil and religions liberty and of the Protestant religion look well to the company these creatures keep, and trmtt them according’y. “ The Watchman. By J. A. M. 1 voL 12rao. M. Long ib Brother, New York. We are indebted to the enterprising pub lishers for an early copy of this new novel. To say that it is well written and that the characters are made to act consistently, is saying a good deal for it. But it is more than this—there is a pure moral tone per vading its pages—there is no straining after effect, and every thiDg is natural. The hero of the story is a poor little houseless wanderer picked up by the goodSamaritan Watchman. The book details bis adventures at home and abroad, and his final success, not only in gaining position and amassing wealth, but in the discovery of his relatives, Like " The Lamplighter,” it is an embodiment of “The short and simple annals of the poor.” There has been a liquor law riot in Portland, Me. Neal Dow, the Mayor, nnd author of the Maine law, purchased a quantity of liquor to sell at a profit to the town agency. Complaint was made, but the agency purchased the liquor, a riot ensued, in which one person lost his life, and several others were wounded. Neal Dow has been acquitted of the charge of violating the liquor law. TENNESSEE. The new-fangled sort of Democracy —known in Tennessee as the ‘‘Jacob’s Ladder Democracy”—of which one An dy Johnson is the great high priest— don’t seem to be very well relished by Jackson’s “ old guard.” Among the prominent withdrawals from the concern, we notice the names of A. J. Donelson, Esq. the adopted son of Gen. Jackson, Dr. Thomas A. Anderson, and various others. Dr. Anderson, who has grown gray in the service of the party, and who is widely known as one of its ablest champions, is the American candidate for Congress in the fourth district. He says that the Democracy of the present day is even worse than Mr. Stephens has represented it. Stephens says it is dying of the “ dry rot.” Dr. Anderson says it is afflicted with “ leprosy”—a “ rottenness in its flesh and bones”— that it is not the Democracy of former days—that it must die, as it ought to, of this loathsome leprosy. ',l’he contest between Johnson and Gentry is fierce and furious. Johnson is an able man on the stump ; but in the eloquent and chivalric Gentry he has met his master, and must succumb. The pure, honest,old-line Democracy— the bone and sinew of the party—are, in Tennessee, as elsewhere, engaged heart and soul in the American move ment. The party hacks of both old organizations oppose it there, as they do elsewhere. WHO REJOICES ? Who rejoices over the election of Henry A. Wise in Virginia ? The For eign Catholic party ofGeorgia and else where, the Abolition and Freesoil par- lies of the North—Franklin Pierce, John Van Buren, Preston King, Wm. H. Seward, Horace Greeley, Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, and the whole crew of Northern Freesoiters, and their sympathisers. It is said that men are known by the company they keep. If so, the anti-American party of Georgia will soon gain an unenviable notoriety. Notwithstanding the above incontesti- ble facts, these gentlemen impudently ask such Whigs ofGeorgia as refuse to act with the American party to affiliate with the Van Burens, Preston King, et id omne genus, and absolutely seem to think that they will do it ! ! HUMBUG. Tjje bjJdest humbug yet attempted is the effort made by certain party hacks to induce the people to believe that the admission of Kansas is the paramount question of the day, after these same men met in solemn convention the other day and unanimously resolved to laud the Administration of Brigadier Pierce—one of the acts of whioh, (ac cording to Mr. Stephens, who is just at this time good authority with them) was the appointment of the notorious Abolitionist Reeder as Governor of Kansas, for the purpose*of excluding slavery from that State ! ! Such misera ble attempts at humbug will damn any party in the estimation of honorable men. There will be no trouble about the admission of Kansas. By the time that question is brought before Congress, •* Sam” will hold the reins, and being opposed to all sectional agitation and devoted to the Union, he will trot the young St ate in among her sisters without permitting any of them to inquire what sort of property she holds. *• Sam” is in favor of non-intervention, in its true sense. CHARACTERISTIC. A catholic priest, (President of a College in Maryland, and probably a Jesuit) uelivered a discourse some time since in the Baltimore Cathedral, in which b« took occasion to contrast the difference between the conduct ofPro- testan l and Catholic Priests. In doing this,he adrerted to the calamitous visita tion of Savannah last fall—at which time he said the Protestant clergy fled like cowards from the pestilence,and left the Catholic Priests alone in the field. Two of the Baltimore papers reported the sub stance of his sermon the next morning —both reporters agreeing substantially in what he had said. No contradiction was made and no correction of alleged errors demanded. The press of Savan nah, however, took the matter in hand, and handled his reverence without gloves—as every man knew his state ment to be one of the most unmitigated falsehoods ever uttered. All at once, his reverence discovers that he has been misrepresented, and denies ever having made the statement imputed to him! The Baltimore papers re-affirm it,.and Mr. Waugh (probably son of Bishop Waugh) pastor of one of the Metho dist churches in Baltimore, certifies that he heard him make the declaration, and that he even went so far as to com pare the Catholic priest to “ the good shepherd who careth for the sheep,” and the Protestant minister to “an hire ling,’’who fleeth when danger approach es ! ! We have no sort of question but that this man McCaffrey did use the lan guage imputed to him. Any man who evef attended a Catholic Church and lis tened to the arrogant pretensions set up by their priests, and the “cock and bull stories”of miracles wrought by them, will know that he said it! We have nothing to say against the Catholic religion.as such. We wish eve ry American citizen to enjoy the liber ty of engaging in their mummery if he wishes to, and of believing all their fa bles, traditions and humbugs, if he de sires it; but we are opposed to such men taking possession of our temporal affairs and swaying the destinies of this Go vernment—whilst they claim allegiance to a “higher power,’’the Pope of Rome. For this opposition we have been pro scribed—for this we are denounced as a “ midnight conspirator,” and all that sort of thing.by men who belong to half- a-dozen secret societies, political and otherwise, whilst we do not, and never did, for a single hour or minute, belong to a secret order of any sort or descrip tion whatever ! For advocating the principles of the American party, and refusing to bow the knee to the foreign Baal introduced for Americans to wor ship, we and all those with whom we sympathise and act, are denounced in unmeasured terms—yea, persecuted, by those who have * sold themselves to the Dutch,’and,like the Tories of the Revo- lution,sympathise with the foreign foe ! Let those days return, and these same men would figure under Lord Rawdon’s banner, in Tafleton’s Legion, and as sist Ferguson at King’s Mountain ! But thank Heaven ! we hare reason to be lieve that they are not so numerous as were the Tories. For tho Southern Watchman. Mr. Editor: My former articles have been written on political subjects, and in reference to the position and practices of politicians. Your readers are doubtless tired of such discourses. To give variety to my performances, I shall, on the present occasion, discourse briefly on matters pertaining to trade and traders. This is a trading age, and ours is a trading country. Some men make ad ventures on cotton, and fail. Some again speculate in provisions, and make money by the operation. We have a few men in our country who live by trade in altogether a different commodity. This class follow the business of traffick ing in the votes of the people, and in the offices of the country ; and it is about trades of this sort I am going to speak. We had a memorable trade of this sort in 1850 and 1851. The negotiations between the contracting parties had been a long time on foot before this period ; but the terms and all the de tails were not finally agreed upon, ano ther paper signed and exchanged till 1850. The people whose interests were the subject matter of this bargain, were not exactly informed about it at the time; but reposing the utmost confi dence in the patriotism and integrity of their agents, were disposed to regard everything as having been fairly trans acted, of course, for theii benefit Mr. Toombs, according to the un derstanding of the parties, was to talk eloquently about ‘ Hamilcar’ and swear ing his children on the altar of their country.” Mr. Stephens was to talk, as he only can talk, about “ nnrehing up to a line,"and “ digging his grave” right there in defense of that line; whilst Mr. Cobb, as Speaker of the House, was to carry out a good many other things in the programme of operations agreed up on and understood between them. The pay was this : Mr. Toombs was to go to the Senate of the United States ; Mr. Cobb was to be invested with honors Gubernatorial, at Milledge •ville, and Mr. Stephens was to go into the Cabinet of Mr. Fillmore or Mr. Web ster, to be formed the 4th of Marc,hl853. Contrary to all human (Whig) calcula tions, the Baltimore Convention nomi nated old “ Fuss and Feathers” for President, ignoring the claims of Fill more and Webster altogether. The Democratic Convention, contrary even to Democratic calculations, (always wide and loose enough to suit any body, and every body, everywhere,) passed by the claims of Gen. Cass, Mr. Douglas, Buchanan, and all the other great lights of the party, and quietly settled down on Brigadier Pierce,of New Hampshire. The Brigadier no body ever before heard of as a civilian, or much of a man any way. He had been to Mexico, where he had become somewhat famous for having spasms, especially on the eve of a battle; and every body had learned to be sorry fot him on account of the dread ful bruises he received, in falling from his horse, when one of those strange spells came on him. Scott, born on the soil of Virginia, was “ an abolitionist," and he would not do. The fainting Brigadier, born and nurtured high up in the frosty ravines of New Hampshire, where abolitionists grow and mature spontaneously and luxuriantly as Irish potatoes do over in Buncomb, County, N. Carolina, was “ sound upon the sub ject of slavery” the “ peculiar friend” of the “ peculiar institution,” and was the man, above Scott and all others, to put in the Presidential Chair. The Southern States, with the exception of Tennessee, all voted for Pierce. Even S. Carolinia pitched in, and gave him her vote—that is, the aristocrats there did; for the people of .Carolina had no say on the subject, one way or another. Mr. Brigadier went into the office of President by an almost unanimons vote; every body felt good—agitation was to cease—the South was to think no more ofNashville Conventions and a Southern Confederacy ; the North was to hush up the mouths of the Sewards, Wilmots, Eeeders, and all that batch. Mr. Briga dier had only to say the word and the “ fur was to fly.” Mr. Stephens was thus prevented from getting his part of the pay : but being always in a comfortable berth, he was not disposed to complain ! —Toombs and Cobb were in the actnal receipt of their portions of the spoil, and they were gloriously contented. In 1853, Mr. Cobb’s term of office being about to expire, he began to cast about him for employment after the first Wednesday in November of that year. He and Herschet! V. Johnson shook hands over tbe dead carcass of the Geor gia Platform—made friends—and s truck a bargain about after this fashion—Mr. Cobb, on his part, agreed to take the stump- for Johnson for Governor ; and Johnson, if elected, and there should be a majority of Democrats, on joint ballot, in the Legislature of 1853, was to see to it that the fire-eating members should vote to make Cobb Senator to Congress, in the room of Hon. W. C. Dawson ! This was the contract, and both went furiously to work. Johnson^ was elect ed by a bare majority over Mr. Jenkins, and a small majority of Democrats was secured in both branches of the Gener al Assembly. The Legislature met, Johnson was inaugurated—a caucus was held—the fire-eating members would not dance up!—Cobb was voted down —and Charles J. McDonald was the no minee for Senator ! Mr. Cobb’s friend*, the Union Democratic members, could not go McDonald. The day of election rolled round—a ballot is taken. McDon ald not elected! another ballot, no elec tion—many ballots,and still no election —Cobb presented and McDonald on hand,the election postponed— resolution reconsidered—election again brought on—Mr. I verson,of Columbus, is declar ed duly elected Senator for six years ! McDonald and Cobb’s Union friends quarrelling over it, in the streets of Mil- ledgevilie ; and the fire-eating members, friends of McDonald, looking daggers at Mr. Cobb ! There the show ended in 1853! Another trade in 1855! Cobb,Toombs, and Stephens still at their old tricks !— all at once,without any premonition what ever, all three are out against the Know Nothings!—Comment is unnecessary. The people know the game now playing, and they are prepared for it!—dema gogues have got to die!—no help for it! must and will take place ! Prepare, Mr. Cobb, for your burial after the first Mon day in October next ! SAMUEL,. T he President’s privy council, or cabi net, lender that, measurably, unneces sary for himself. A Southern Vice ~ esident, wish Fillmore or Law, ia a reliable Ticket for the next canvass. HORTENSIUs! t THE PRESIDENCY. The signs of tbe times omen stirring events ahead with the Aborigines, with the Mormons, with the Abolitionists and with Massachusetts ! An experienced Executive of the Government, Federal —a tried man like Mr. Fillmore, or a strong sound common sensed—such as is George Law—whom the Legislature of Pennsylvania, the same State that brought out Andrew Jackson, has no minated—is needful for the next Presi dent. I am untoward as to having only Legal, or any one particular class of men as our standing Rulers, and for reasons paramount; but should George Law not have the nomination of the Great American Party, I shall be happy, considering the approaching emergency, to be *• hand and glove” with Millard Fillmore ! At any and ev ery rate the proposal by a Floridian co temporary of the Hon. W. C. Dawson, for Vice President, meets our unquali fied approbation. The Vice President, as presiding officer of the Senate, ought to be deeply conversant with Laws and the spirit of Constitutions, so as to ex plicate knotty points of order, and to determine on a sagacious casting pf the vote when an equilibrium supervenes. A Lawyer,or one well-read in, at least Blackstone, Kent, and Justinian’s Code, is the man suitable for such a station For The Southern Watchman. Mr. Editor : To one, whose occupa- tion forbids his indulgence in the politi cal excitement of the day, who regards his province that of the calm observer of the scene, rather than the excited actor in the conflict, the state of parties and the .peculiar position of many poli- ticians must be amusing, as well as interesting. . ' "Vj There are two classes of parsons in our country, which are, and from the nature of things, must be diametrically opposite to each. The one is composed of individuals, who are actuated in their exertions and labors, by pure, noble and honest motives.' The other, of those unfortunate beings who are the victims of blind ambition, of selfish and nnsoond principles. Between the true patriot and the common politician, there is a broad field. While the one with the love of country planted deep in his bosom, builds up a reputation, which will re sist for ages the atte ropted injuries- and abuses of competitors and) enemies— the other sacrifices truth* and honesty to the love of esteem and; praise, and unconsciously digs a grave iotto which his contemptible and lifeless character is soon to sink, never again to rise. The distinction between these two characters, can be clearly observed at the present time. As the true patriot, at this day stands upon the theshold of lib erty, and views the political- slty almost cleared of the daric and? fiery clouds, under whose fearful thunderings our country has been trembling for a quar ter of a century - r as- he looks to the past, to the recent dbeline and downfall of the two-great political parties, which have for so long a time-, had onr people at variance with each other, he experi ences a feeling of pride, mingled with emotions of joy. But the politican, as he mnses oirthe new organization, which has sprung up in our midst, on its integ rity, its pure, sincere and honest mo tives; and then turns and gazes on the ruins of his party, on the wreck of the old ship which has sp often borne him 1 safely into office, is heard to exclaim 1 with saddened accents, “ A change has cotae o’er the spirit of my dream." Hear him as he stands with trembling form, as it were, on the very brink of an earthquake, or as he treads with pallid countenance amid the ahses of a volcano, conscious of the i-uin be fore him, yet too proud and vain to hum ble himself to the truth, calling out to his old parly men, who are engaged in a proud and glorious straggle, asking them, what they intend to da Why did you not consult me before rushing headlong into that new organization^? Why did you not put me in the lead as you are wont to do? Are men becom ing honest enough to act for themselves? or is their love of country—their devo tion to liberty—to be my ruin? I will write a letter, I will abuse this organiza tion, and make an effort to rally my old supporters, again to my standard. These are the musings of the politician, who has for a year been standing with folded arms, waiting for this hew army to make him their captain. Let me say to you, politician, whoever you be, that the dictates of truth, honesty and liberty, superseded your mandates admirably well. The time has come when Ameri cans can act for themselves, when they must consult the interest of their conn- try, more than leading party men; when they must raise the star-spangled ban ner, again to wave over a pore and free country, cleansed of the evils which have been poisoning its liberty. More than a year ago a new feeling, actuated by pure, noble and patriotic motives, burst forth in old New England, from the enthralment which has held it bound down for half a century, and with the speed of the wind, has rolled its tide from the frozen lakes of the North, to \ the streaming gulf of the South. A feeding, not that of strife and enmity, which has been the characteristic of old parties, but one based upon the love of country, and the truth—yes the truth, that immortal essence before which falsehood shrinks abashed, and sophistry vanishes into vapor. Patriots have turned to our shores, thronging with sti angers—strangers, who are the victions of a degrading su perstition, and tyrannical i ule—who arSs in alliance with a politico-religious sys- tem, toreign and hostile to our republi can institutions; who are leagued to the most deadly enemy h< tli of protest- ant religion and liberal government.—— I hey have examined the dnrk ptgr: of the history of Catholicism : have follow*