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VOLUME II.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1855.
NUMBER 2U
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janw lag with the hardnessof the times. ,f has attempted to defend or excuse this
Why is
Ffom the Chronicle St Sentinel.
JOHNSON AND COOPER
BARGAIN.
The following article, which we hud
in (he Atlanta Discipline, contains a
more minute account of the facts and
circumstances connected with the John*
son and Cooper bargain, than anything
we have seen. The editor seems to be
well posted as to the facts, and he
challenges denial from any quarter.
This ?e prretty bold language—a very
defiant tone— and yet no one of the
Johnson organs or partizans seems dis
posed to accept thejchallenge. It was
made last week, in Atlanta, and neither
of the Johnson organs there have utter
ed a word in defence or excuse of this
executive fraud upon the people.
It is a very significant fact, and one
which should not be lost sight of, that
not a single Johnson paper iu Georgia
C. B. LOMBARD,
DENTIST,
ATHEXS, GEORGIA.
Rtemmvcr the Store of Wilson tc Veal. Jan3
PITNEIi- & ENGLAND,
Wholesale & Retail Dealers in
Groceries, DrvUoods,
HARE WARE, SHOES AXD BOOTS,
April 6 Athens, Qa.
MOORE & CARLTON,
HEADERS ITT
SILK, FANCY AND STAPLE GOODS,
11A11D WARE AND CROCKER Y.
April No. 3, Granite How, Athens, Qa.
LUCAS & BILLUPS,
WHOLESALE AX'D RETAIL DEALERS IX
DRY NaOODS,
GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac. Ac.
No. 2, Broad Street. Athens.
WILLIAM G. DELONY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office over the (tore :>l Win M. Morion A- Son
Will attend promptly to all busiuessentrust-
od to his care. A’.! ens, April 6
P. A. SUMMEY & BROTHER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Staple Goods, Hardware, Crockery,
AXD ALL KIXDS OF GROCERIES,
Corner of Wall atid Broad streets, Athens.
WILLIAM N. WHITE,
WHOLESALE ANI* RETAIL
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER,
AatXcaspaper and .Vagazinr Agent
DEALER IX
MUSIC and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
LAMPS, FIXE CUTLERY, FANCY GOODS. AC.
No. 9, College Avenue, Newton Hou-e. Athens, Ga
sign of •• White’s University Uook Store.”
Orders promptly filled at Augusta rales
T. BISHOP & SON,
Wholesale and Retail Grocers,
April 6 No. 1, Broad street, Athens.
JAMES M. ROYAL,
HARNESS MAKER,
H AS removed his shop to Mitchell's old
Tavern, one door east of Grady .t Nich
olson’s—where he keeps always on hand a
general assortment of articles iuhislinc, and
ts always ready to fillordersint.he best style.
Jan 26 tf
LOOK HERE!
T UB undersigned have on hand n general
assortment of
STAPLE DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES AND HARDWARE.
which they will sell low for cash or barter
Cull and examine.
April 13 r. A. SUMMEY & BRO.
Coach-Making and Rcjjjygng.
.JAMES B. BURPEE,
A T the old atandjrecently occup
S'
Schcveucll, offers for sale a]
or articles of his own manufaett!
oed prices—consisting of
Carriages, Buggies, &c.
Orders for any thing in hisline thankfully
received and promptly executed.
,3M»“Repamng done at short notice and on
reasonable terms. ■»
T
NOTICE.
HE subscribers arc prepared to fill orders
for all kinds of
Spokes for Carriages and Wagons,
Also, at the same establishment we mauufnc
tare all kinds of
BOBBINS,
•ommonly used in our cotton factories. All
done as good and cheap as can be had from
the North. Address,
P. A. SUMMEY & BRO. Athens,Ga.
who will attend to all orders, and the ship
ping of the same. March, 1854.
f SLOAN & OATMAN,
DEALERS IX
Italian, Egyptian <k American
STATMAfcV,
AND EAST TENNESSEE MARBLE.
Monuments, Tombs, Urns and Vases; Marble
Mantols and Furnishing Marbl a
£3TAll orders promptly filled.
r , , . ATLANTA, GA.
ta# Refer to Mr. Ross Crane. juncld
Off Sacks 1 lour fur salo by
April 26th Gradv <feNicholson
apical by J;. s!
WANTED,
10 non „ LnS - GOOD COUNTRY
. mV DACON. for which the high
est price will be paid, cash or barter, at
Jul y 5 I- M. KENNEYS.
2 GOOD j RON AXLE WAGONS. Ibr
sale by P. A. SUMMEY * llKO.
J,ll I >* 3n.
transaction. Why is this ? Is it so
girrupt and damning in its nature that
it cannot he defended or excused ? that
it will not bear the light of day ? Re
ally, it would seem that the Johnson
journals regard it such a stupendous
fraud upon the people, that it will not
do even to allude to it in their columns,
and therefore they never speak of it,
qjuch less do they ever attempt to de-
1cpd or excuse it.
We see it stated in some of our ex
changes that Major Cooper asked per
mission of a Know Nothing meeting,
last week, at Cartersville, to make an
explanation to the people, and was al
lowed half an hour. The explanation
must have been a very lame one indeed,
as the editor of the Atlanta Intelligencer,
who was present, in a two column edi
torial notice ofthe meeting and speech
es, never once alluded to Major Coop
er’s explanation. Indeed no man
would ever have dreamed, from any
thing in that notice, that Major Cooper
was oh the ground. That our impress
ion is correct, is verified by the corres
pondent of the Savannah Republican.:
“The meeting magnanimously gave the
first half hour to the Hon. Mark A.
Cooper, to explain the bargain with
Gov. Johnson. It was a lame defence,
and was directed principally to making
votes for Johnson. The crowd saw into
it and called on Dr. Miller to reply to
him, and he did reply. The cas was
made stronger against him than it was
before. It was so powerful and scath
ing that Mr Cooper could not keep his
seat, and actually left the ground amidst
the shouts of the multitude.”
We learn from another source, that
Maj. Cooper denied that the six thous
and dollars, which he asserted he had
paid above what he should have done,
had been paid him back. He did not
deny that the freights had been reduced
by Gov. Johnson lor his b^nefii—he
did not deny that he was now paying a
lower rate of freight than is paid from
any other way-station on the road—he
did not deny that he was opposed to
Johnson's re-nomination, and declared
his intention to vote against him before
the reduction of freight, unless the re
duction was made—nor did he deny
that it is his intention now to vote for him.
He was, however, very indignant, we
have no doubt, at the idea that any man
iu Georgia should even suspect him,
much more charge him with being brib
ed to vote for H. V. Johnson. Who
ever heard of such an outrage as to talk
about bribing such a distinguished, self-
inflated man as Major Mark A. Cooper,
Why the thing is monstrous indeed !
He is a real “Georgia Legislature and
of Congress, and wanted to be Govern
or. To talk about bribing him—the
hing is monstrous and not to be tolcr-
ted.
Yet the facts are as developed before
the country, and as yet denied, (that we
have seen or heard,) that Maj. A Cooper,
openly declared his intention to op
pose the re-election of H. V. Johnson?
unless a reduction was made in the rate
of freight paid by him on the State
Road. That reduction has been - made
and Major Cooper is now the advocate
nf Johnson’s election. These are the
facts as they have been submitted to the
public, and the intelligent people of
makes Georgia can determine whe her
it out a case of bribery. If the facts are
true as stated, it is certain that the vote
of Mark A. Cooper for H. V. John
son, will cost the people of Georgia
some six thousand dollars a year, or
whatever the reduction in the rate ol
freight will amount to, as long as the rate
is continued ; which vote Major Cooper
had declared should not be given to
Johnson unless the reduction was
made. That is what the vote costs the
people—because the moneys comes out
of the Treasury, or rather is kept out
of it by the bargain.
Let the people read the following ar
ticle, and determine whether H. V.
Johnson is worthy of their confidence
and support:
Gov. JoUNSON AND THE STATE RoAD.
It las been charged and not denied, as
wc have seen, that Gov. Johnson has
not only given such direction to the af
fairs of the State Road during his ad
ministration, as thought best calculated
to secure his re-lection, but has recently,
actually made a direct bid for the friend
ship and influence of a certain promi
nent citizen of Cass, (Mark A. Cooper.)
Atid rumor says, the bid has been ac
cepted ; and that the said prominent
citizen, who, (.is is well known,)a few
weeks ago was violently opposed to
Johnson, is now boldly advocating his
cause. But to the history of the case.
Shortly after the present Superintendent
took charge of the Road, he established
and published a new tariff of 'rates of
freight. In that tariff, the rates were
equalized as necr as possible, to all the
stations along the line. To do this effec
tually, the Superintendent had to raise
the price of freight considerably, to and
from Etowah Depot—the rate to that
point being much lower than any other,
in proportion to distance. No one, we
imagine, will say this was wrong. Why
should people who ship to and from
Etowah Depot, pay the Road than those-
who live at other stations along the
line ? It is true, Maj. Mark A. Cooper
is almost the only patron of Etowah De
pot, and ships a very large amount of
wheat, flour, iron coal, &c., to and from
that place ; and is also, a prominent and
influential democrat. Yet we cannot
see any juslice or equality in charging
him less for freight, than other people,
who may happen to live at some other
station on the road. As soon as the rate
to Etowah was raised to about what is
charged to other points along the line,
according to distance, Maj. Mark A.
Cooper entered his protest, and from
that day to within a few weeks past has
kept up au incessant war against the
Governor and Superintendent. Said
the rates charged him were exhorbitant
—that they were extorting from him
about six thousand dollars per annum
more than he ought to pay—iliat the
Superintendent must be removed. He
should be removed. He was no dem
ocrat. No simon pure of that ancient
faith would thus oppress a brother of a
high degree. The patron of Etowah
Depot anJ the sage of Coosa, Hon.
John II. Lumpkin finally joined hands
in an effort to remove the Superinten
dent. But all their exertions were un
successful, either to get him removed,
or Etowah freights reduced, until very
recently—since Johnson was nominated
for re-clection, and the sage became the
candidate of his party for a seat in Con
gress.
During all this war, which had lasted
a year, the Superintendent, an officer
knowing his duty and sworn to perform
it, pursued the even tenor of his way,
and persisted in the policy which lie
had adopted of treating Maj. Cooper just
as he did other patrons of the Road.—
Never for a moment, supposing it to he
proper or lawful for the state Road (the
property of the people of Georgia,) to
contribute six thousand dollars a year,
or any sum to aid the proprieter of the
Etowah works in the prosecution of his
useful enterprise. The superintendent
of the Road knew he had done nothin"
more than to place Maj. Mark A. Coop
er on an equality with other customers
of the Road, and there he intended to
keep him as long as his authority was
respected. But a higher power has in
tervened. Gov. Johnson has directed
that the State Road shall contribute
six th-rusanddollars per annum to the
support of the Etowah works. Or, in
other words, that the proprietor shall
get his freighting done six thousand dol
lars ayear cheaper than any body else
having the same amount to be carried
the same distance. We have every rea
son tobeleive that this “act of justice,"
as the Cassville Standard calls it, has
been done by the Governor on his own
responsibility, entirely contrary to the
opinion, and without the consent of the
Superintendent of the Road.
Let the Governor’s friends in Chero
kee Georgia, let the voters in every sec
tion of the State reflect on the ‘-picture”
herein given, which is true to the best
of our knowledge * and belief. The
whole sum and substance is, and we
charge it, and re-charge it upon his
Excellency, and all others who have
the hardihood to defend him in this in-
famus transaction, that he has taken the
people’s money and is using it to pro
mote his own re-electi >r. That the
rates he has ordeerd for Etowah are
partial, and operate alone to the bene
fit of a distinguished party friend ; and
that he would never have' ordered any
change in the rates to Etowah, had it
not been to secure the friendship and
influence of that distinguished partizan
in the present campaign.
Before concluding this article we can
not forego speaking of the levers which
were placed under the Governor, that
so suddenly brought him to terms,and in
duced him to perform that “ act of justice”
towards Maj. Mark A. Cooper, which
bad been so long delayed.
It will be remembered that the Hon.
John H. Lumpkin was a long time
making up his mind, as to whether lie
would accept the nomination tendered
him for Congress or not. And he never
would have accepted, if the Governor
had not promised to remove the present
Superintendent, at a certain time, and to
make peace immediately with Maj Mark
A. Cooper. Lumpkin told Johnson,
(whether by letter or otherwise, is im
material,) *• Sir, unless you pledge your
self to remove Jim Cooper from the
Superintendency' of the State Road, and
make peace immediately with Maj. Mark
Cooper, I will not accept the nomination
for Congress, and our prospects in this
(the 5th) District will be ruined. Mark
A. will'certainly throw his influence
against you in this canvass, unless you
order the Superintendent to comply with
his just demands; and I cannot run the
race, unless you will grant me that little
favor so often asked—that James F.
Cooper be removed from the Superinten
dency of the Road.”
Soon after this demand was made upon
Johnson, Judge Lumpkin’s letter of ac
ceptance appeared in the public prints,
and he and Maj. Mark A. Cooper, have
ever since, we understand, been indus
triously engaged in fruitless efforts to
sustain the policy and fortunes of the
“dry rot” regency in Cherokee.
One of the things demanded of his
Excellency, a3 a condition upon which
Judge Lumpkin would enter the canvass
has been done; and we entertain not the
slightest doubt, but that the Judge and
Maj. Mark A. Cooper have received a
pledge from his Excellency, that the
present Superintendent shall be remov
ed, provided he (Johnson) happens to
be re-elected; and that one, more sub
servient to the interests of the head men
of the democratic party, shall be appoint
ed in his place.
In conclusion, we repeat that all we
have stated here is substantially true,
and we challange the parties implicated
to deny it.
DEEDS OF DARKNESS.
In looking over the history of the last
two hundred years I see that the most
prominent deeds of darkness may be
found under the following heads.
IsL The Massacre of St. liartholmew,
in which 100,000 Frencli Protestants
were murdered in cold blood, because
they denied the infallibility of the Pope,
and preferred to worship God in a dif
ferent manner from the majority of the
Frencli nation.
2d. The Conquest of (he Finest Pro
vinces of Hindostan, whereby the Brit
ish Governmant seized territory as large
as the kingdom of France, abounding in
manufacturing towns, an immense popu
lation, and yielding a magnificent reve
nue. Inconsequence of this conquest
the benefits of the whole trade to India,
Thibet, China, Persia, Arabia, and near
ly the whole of Eastern Asia, has been
secured to the English.
3d. The American War, waged
against Colonists trom England, Ireland
and Scotland,by means of English troops,
aided by hired Hessians, and pitiless
savages, because they claimed the pri
vileges of British subjects, and deman
ded to be represented when taxed.
4th. The French Revolution, deplo
rable but perhaps necessary in its san
guinary character to teach the danger of
oppressing the masses too heavily; but
lashed into a desolating torrent, after
settling down, undlr an Emperor chosen
by the people, to force on them a govern
ment which they had repudiated. In
this, England was the chief actor, and
could not succeed until aided by this
very Russia, whom she now pronounces
destined, by war and desolation, to spread
darkness, misery, &c.
5th. The Destruction of Copenhagen,
effected by ail overpowering English
fleet, by surprise and against a nation at
peace with England, upon the mere
ground of expediency, lest the Danish
fleet should fall into the hands of the
French. By this deed, a weak nation,
but considerable naval power, was crush
ed, a beautiful city destroyed, and thou
sands of women, children and old prople,
were massacred, and battalions of sol
diers slaughtered for no personal or na
tion al offences.
6ili. The Battle of Navarino, by
which, aided by France and tliat destin
ed nation Russia, the English destroyed
the fleet of that nation for whose exist
ence they now wage a terrible war, and
which war has doubtless been hastened
if not made necessary by said courageous
exploit against an effete and crumbling
people.
7tli. The Caffre War, by which a
horde of poor Africans—who in a state
of beneficent slavery in America would
have been pitied, have been conquered
and deprived of their country, because
they were not content to see it gradually
taken from them by the advance of a
foreign colony.
8th. The Opium War, waged to force
the drug upon an independent nation,
whose Government endeavored to re-’
strict a trade destructive to the morals,
health, and welfare of a civilzed people.
9th. And lastly—The Siege of Sebas
topol, in which the immense destruction
of life in the British trenches, has been
proved to have resulted from the ineffi
ciency of a Govcrment controlled by the
aristocracy of England, for the benefit
of their own members and protegees;
and of which the great crime of Ameri
cans and their friends of the Manchester
school, is to doubt the infallibility and
utility in a Government professing to be
liberal and enlightened.—New York
Observer.
Hon. A. J. Miller.—This highly
esteemed citizen of our State has writ
ten a letter to the Chronicle, which,
after declaring that he is “out of politics”
thus defines his position:
“ Entertaining a strong sense of the
value of Mr. Stephens’ service to the
country, and agreeing with him almost
entirely in principle, I shall certainly
vote for him to represent this District in
Congress ; and opposed as I am to the
present National and State administra
tions of government, and looking to
Judge Andrews for a wise, efficient and
conservative administration of the chief
executive office in Georgia, I shall vote
for him for Governor.
Your obedient scrv’l,
A. J. MILLER.
From the New York Observer.
BISHOPS HUGHES AND SPALD-
ING.
The American correspondent of the
News of the Churches, published in
Edinburgh, keeping that monthly paper
apprised of the state and progress of
religion iu this country,refers in his last
letter to the recent controversies in
which Bishop Hughes and Senator
Brooks, and Bishop SpalJing and Prof.
Morse have been engaged. The wri
ter disposes of the subject in very brief
terms, and we doubt not that our rea
ders will be pleased to see his' reflec
tions.
As I have a special interest in keep
ing you informed as to the various pha
ses of Romanism, I must say a word as
to a controversy just closed with Bish
op Hughes, of New-York. During his
“immaculate conception” visit to Rome
the State of New York passed an act,
making it unlawful for ecclesiastics to
hold church property. The law was,
no doubt, ainied at papal bishops who
were putting their canon law into opera
tion here, and who were claiming the
right to hold all church property in their
own name. In the debate upon the law in
the legislature, Senator Brooks, of New-
T ork city', stated that Bishop Hughes
held, in his own right, church property
worth nearly five million dollars. This,
on his return, the bishop denied, and
avowed his poverty : and charged the
senator with falsehood. The contro
versy was as to matters of fact and of
records. The senator, with great calm
ness, has made good his charge; and the
archbishop first lost his temper, then his
cause, and now liis character. The proof
is palpable that he holds an enormous
amount of property in iiis own name
and right; and the charges of falsehood
which in the most vulgar manner he
uttered against the senator, have fallen
with crushing weight upon the bishop 1
Such is the indignation of the masses
against the mitred priest, that he may
hare to run away, ns did the famot a
“ Bedini, the Nuncio, to Brazil, taking
the United States in his way.” The
poor bishop has to disgorge his property,
to be managed by lay trustees; and, as
the private property of John Hughes, it
has to pay enormous taxes. A large
increase in the feeling of opposition to
Popery lias been the result ol’ this con
troversy. The senator has not only
routed, but slain the bishop.
Just as this controversy was ending,
another sprung up between the famous
Professor Morse, of telegraph celebrity,
one of the most truly excellent men of
our country, and Spaulding, the popish
bishop of Kentucky, who is, I believe,
the only native American prelate of that
chuich. The point of controversy is,
whether or not Lafayette ever said, “ If
the liberties of the United States are ever
destroyed, they will be by Romish
priests.” This the professor asserted of
his own knowledge ; and this the Ken
tucky bishop undertook to refute; and
quotes from a letter, written by Lajfay-
etle himself, a sentence asserting directly
the contrary, which letter was published
in a book, printed in Paris in 1735.
And thus the bishop branded the profes
sor as a slanderer and liar. And lo!
when the hook containing the letter is
demanded, it is not to be found ; nor
can all the researches of the most emi
nent bibliopolists in Paris discover the
least trace of evidence that such a book
as the one named by the bishop has ever
been published! Having thus turned
the tables on poor Spaulding, he next
gives the testimony of a living man, to
whom Lafayette uttered substantially the
same sentiment. Thus the controversy
6tands at present! So that by an honora
ble senator, Bishop Hughes is pilloried
in New-York as a notorious falsifier;
and by the world-renowned Professor
Morse, Bishop Spaulding is pilloried in
Kentucky as endorsing a forgery, for
the purpose of disproving a sentiment
the truth of which is becoming more and
more apparent, and which is likely to
become a watchword of the great and
growing Protestant party in our land
We know not how England may shape
its course,—we are amazed when we
hear tli# your Lord John Russell went
through the prescribed genuflections at
a high mass in Vienna, but of one thing
you may be certain there is no peace
for “that Wicked” in these United
States.
From the Journal and Messenger.
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION—SOUTHERN
RIGHTS.
There is one view of the effect pro
duced by foreign, immigration, which
has not received the notice it deserves.
We allude to the effect, which it has had,
and which it will yet have, on the re
presentative strength of the free and
slave States, in the popular branch of
Congress. It is desirable that the rela
tive strength of these two sections of
the Union should remain as nearly equal
as possible; but the free States have ob
tained au undue preponderance, and
they are indebted, in no small degree,
to foreign immigration for it.
Au examination of the census of
1859 will not be without instruction on
this point,
In the Congress of 1789, the first one
held under our Constitution, the States
north of the Potomac, in which slavery
then had a feeble existence, and which
arc now free, had 35 representatives —
the Southern States 30. The first
census was taken in 1790. ‘Under the
apportionment of representation then
made, the Northern States had 57 rep
resentatives and the Southern 49—in
1800, the free States 76 r and the slave
States 65—in 1810, the free States 97,
and the slave 78—in 1820, the free
States 123, and the slave States 89—in
1830, the free States 141, and the slate
99—in 1840, the free States 135, and'
the slave States 88—and in 1850 the
free States 144 representatives and the
slave States 90.
In 1780 the free Slates had 5 majority.
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II
Thus it will be seen that there has
been a gradual increase in the represen
tative strength of the free States in Con
gress up to 1850. This iucrease has
not arisen from an increase of the free
States over that of the slave States—the
equality in that respect was preserved
until the admission of California, which
gave the free States a majority of one;
nor has it arisen alone from the natural
increase of the native population. For
eign immigration has been one of the
causes which have disturbed the equality
between the representation of the two
sections of our country in the House of
Representatives. We now proceed to
prove it.
Leaving out the foreign immigration,
the increase in the population of the
slave States, from 1840 to 1850, was
2,039,844, and the increase in the free
States was 2,004,275, showing a slight
gain in favorof the slave States; and
yet the free States gained 7 majority in
representation in Congress ; and to ac
count for it, we must look to the foreign
immigration— it cannot be accounted
for in any other way. The foreign
immigration from 1840 to 1850 was
1,397,350. It is safe, as we shall show
hereafter, to assume that six sevenths of
that immigration settled in the free States
and onc-seventh in the slave States. If
that be so, the free States then gained
twelve representatives from foreign im
migration. and the slave States two. Sjx-
sevenths of the foreign immigration
from 1840 to 1850 would increase the
population of the free States 1,197,730,
and the present ratio of representation is
93,420, which would give an increase
in representation of twelve members—
one-seventh of the same immigration
would increase the population in the
slave States 199,620 and would give
two additional representatives.
Now let us see what effect the total
foreign population of the United States
under the census of 1850 has had on
representation in Congress. The census
shows not only the total number of for
eigners in the United Stutes in 1859,but
the number in each Stated-adding them
up, we find there were in the free Slates
1,905,292, which gave them 20 repre
sentatives. There were in the slave
States 305,547, which gave them 3 rep
resentatives.
The census tables also show that
about six-sevenths of the foreign popu
lation of 1850 was in the .free States,
and the remaining onc-seventh in the
slave States.
There is another tables which shows
the relative proportion of the foreign im
migration, which goes to the free and
slave States respectively.
According to the annual report of the
State Department, transmitted to the
House of Representatives, there landed
at the ports of the free States in 1854,
391 416 foreigners ; and at the ports of
the slave States 68,993—making in all
460,474.
It is estimated that the foreign emi
gration through Canada, not noticed in
the foregoing table, would make the for
eign immigration in 1850 at least 500,-
000. In 10 years it would amount to
5,000,000. Giving the free States six-
sevenths, there would he added to their
representation in Congress, according to
the present apportionment,.4G members,
and to the slave States 7.
Thus it will he seen that foreign immi
gration has produced, and is producing,
in a still greater degree, an undue pre
ponderance in the representation of the
free States in Congress.
How then can any Southern man ob
ject to checking it? C.
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.
Who can read the following facts and
then deny that Northern anti-Ameri
cans are Abolitionists, enemies to the
South, the Federal Union and the Con
stitution ?
It is a Fact—That the an-Ameri-
cans in the free States have elected none
but Abolitionists and Free-soilers to the
Congress of the United Sates.
It is a Fact—That the Administra
tion papers at the South are unable to
designate a representative elected to the
Congress or Senate of the United States,
in any of the free States by the anti-
Americans, who is not an Abolitionist
or Freesoiler.
It is a Fact—That every represen
tative from the free States in the Con
gress or Senate of the United States,
that the anti-Americans have elected or
assisted to elect since the passage of
the Nebraska? bill, is in favor of its re
peal and the repeal or modification of
the fugitive slave-law.
It is a Fact—That Judge Loring
was not removed—that he now hold*
his office—that Henry Wilson, an Abo
litionist, et id omne genus, have'sectided'
from the National Council and are not'
now in affiliation with the Nhttoftkl 1
men of the order, who have adopted 1 a !
National Platform, embracing all the
South ever asked for on the slavery
question.
It is a Fact—That Durkee, elected’
to the U. S. Senate by the Legislature
of Wisconsin, is an ultra-abolition, anti-
Nebraska, anti American, and that the
Legislature which elected him passed re-'
solutions denouncing the Know Noth
ings. ■ •
It is a Fact—That Maine and Michi
gan are anti-American States, and that
a majority of their last Legislature were
anti-Administration anti-Nebraska anti-
Americans.
It is a frACT—That the anti-Aineri-*
can Convention held in Ohio, denounc-*
ed slavery, passed a resolution asserting
it to be the duty of anti-Americans to
use all conssituiional means to eradicate-
slavery wherever it exists.
It ts a Fact-—That the notorious
»ed Douglass is anti-American, and
has repeatedly addressed anti-Ameri
can meetings at the North and North
west.
It is a Fact—That the arch Abo
lition agitator, Charles Summer, is an’
anti-American—that Martin Van Buren,
John Van Buren, Daniel Wilmot, Pres
ton King, Dix, Durkee, Trumbull, B.
F. Butler, Halletl, Wentworth, Bryant;
of the Post, Fowler. Postmaster at New
York, Redfield, Coekrane, Chase,.
ade and others, aro anti-Americans
and Abolitionists or Freesoilers of the
deepest dye.
It is a Fact—That Gen Millson,.
an anti-American from the Norfolk Dis^
trict, in Virginia, was the only repre-*
sentative from that State who voted'
against, and spoke against, the Nebraska
bill, and notwithstanding he was re-*
elected to Congress in the late elections*
in that State, by the anti-Americans,i
alias Democrats.—Sumter Whig.
THE NORTHERN MOVEMENT.-
We referred yesterday lo the jOfrit*
movements of the Van Buren anil’
Seward factions in New York. About
t he same time, the fused factions cf Ohio,
animated by similar feelings, and aiming
at the same ends, met in convention and 1
nominated candidates for Slate offices.
An entire fusion of the old parties ap
pears to have taken place on the Seward 1
platform, and the ticket nominated con
sists of men heretofore politically oppos-’
ed. Mr. Chase, the nominee for Cover- *
nor, was formerly a leading Democrat-
in the State, and more recently in the’
Senate of the U. S. Mr. Ford (for Lieut.
Governor) formerly a Whig, hut an in
dividual of less notoriety. Mr. Brin-*
kenhoff, tor Judge Supreme Court, a'
few years ago,one of the most e nthusias--
tic and thorough-going Locofoos in Con
gress ; and so on to the end. The New
York Herald -peaking of these proceed--
ings, says:
“ They show that the Seward anti-
slavery coalition is assuming the propor-*
tions of a powerful Northern party, atod*
that secession in the South is also moving"
in the 1 direction of a violent sectional o£
ganization for the Presidential struggle.
Between these opposing forces the ad
ministration democracy have already'
been crushed. Our hopes, then, of id
third party in behalf of the conservative
people of both sections, and in support
of the Constitution oftli • Union, still rests-
with national Know Nothings of New"
York and the South, and their platform.
Meantime, between a surrender to Sew
ard and the -maintenance of tlu ir inde
pendent posii ion, kt the Order i.i New
York prepare to decide.”
While tlie.-e organizations arc taking
place in the North, for the purpose of
insuring the election ofB Northern Pro-’
sident by' Northern votes! pledged to
war upon the rights and institutions of
the South, where isthe National De
mocracy^ what i^ft doing ? Has it an'
■existence?—if so, 1s it taking any step*
to defeat the schemes of this sectional-
combination? W’e look in v:tiu lo tlie'
North for a single sign of vir ility—save
that which it exhibits in the r inks of
the Fusionisis Tn the South, all it*
operations consist in hostility to the
Kuow Nothings,-or American p irtv, the
bitter foe of Seward; and 1 the only or
ganization that gave'any promise of be
ing able to effect hjs defeat.
So remarks the Richmond Whig of
last week ; and wc car. hear testiinon-v
to the fact, as admitted above, tint off
that the Democracy of the South aim 1 ,
at, is the defeat of the American Party'
on the Philadelphia platform—the only
conservative one' of die c'otnitry—the
only one which has not an abolitionist
in its ranks—the only Northern party
.which has a regard for the South, oT
! the Constitution of their country, and!
yet, strange’ to teli,. Southerners now op-'
pose it! What will’ they (Southern?
Democrats) do when Seward hecoim ff
the Northern- candidate' of all parties
but the American party i Things? ttt-
tainly tend that wayi It would b<s‘
strange if the Southern Democfafe in'
1856 should be found knocking (• $ ad.--
mission at the' ilrtor of ifee' Americanf
party, or begging for a Wre bit” of
that Platform to stand on, which is now
their scorn—not stranger than theii* re
lative positions in 1850 and 1855. We
shall see.—Southern Recorder*