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THE QUESTION SET I LED.
The following letter of the lion.
Kenneth Rayner, to Vespasian EHis,
Esq., shows clearly that the appoint
ment of a Pennsylvania Catholic to- a
seat in the Cabinet, was the condition
upon which Pierce got the Catholic vote
for the Presidency, in 18i^L The re •
suit of this corrupt bargain JM^cen the
Pierce party anil the pretended Vice
gerent of Heaven, was known to the
villainous Nuncio before it was com
municated to the American Minister
at Madrid. But to the letter ;
“ Raleigh, N. 0., July 19, 1855.
“ My Dear Sir: I have received
yours of the 16th insL, in which you re
fer to the denial by the Union news
paper, of the truth of the statement
(first spoken'of by ine in my speech at
Washington and .afterward-, by you. in
your oration of the 4th) of Hoij. Daniel
M. Barringer, our late Minister to
Spain.
•• Mr Barringer first mentioned.ihis
matter to me last winter, in Raleigh.
I have since taken occasion to allude to
it several times, in delivering popular
addresses. Jboqtfour weeks since, on
ray return froih Philadelphia, I met Mr.
Barringer in Bal.imore, and in the
course of conversation with him, I men
tioned the fact that I had taken occa
sion to speak publicly of what he had
■said to me about the Pope’s Nuncio,
at Madrid, having stated to him, before
he (Mr. B.) had heard, and before the
news of the same had reached Madrid,
of the formation of Mr. Pierce’s cabi
net, that he (thesaid Nuncio) could tell
h'lnpne man that would be in the cabi
net, to wit: Mr. Campbell, of Penn
sylvania, a member of the Roman
Catholic Church.
“ This was as I had received the state
ment from Mr. Barringer in the first
instance, and it was thus that 1 had
spoken of it. I asked Mr. Barringer, if
1 had repjeseuted him correctly, for that
I should probably speak of it again, and
J wished to he su o, that I might give
the statement correctly. Mr. B. re
plied that I had stated the matter cor
rectly, and then went on to relate the
occasion and incidents of this remark to
him by the Pope’s Nuncio.
“A few days since, I received a let
ter from Mr. Barringer, dated ‘Niagara
.Falls, July Oth, 1825,’ iu which, after
alluding to Cite fact that he had Litely
seen published a synopsis of my speech
in Washingiion, in which I was report
ed as having mentioned the matter in
terms somewhat variant frpm those in
which he stated it to me, and theu he
/Mr, Barringer) goes on to reiterate
•what lie had twice before Girted to
one.
“ 1 m ill quote to you, • verbatim, the
language used by him, in nil extract
from this letter, just received,(:o wit:)
“ 1 Before I had any authentic and
•certain news of the formation cf the Cabi
j*rt, and while it urns still a subject rf
•conjecture at the Court oj Madrid, tic
.(the Pope’s Nuncio) told me that Judge
«Campbell-, of Pennsylvania, tea's appoint
ed, and that he teas a Catholic ; which
jpus the first information I had, cither of
Jiis appointment or of his rcligon.
■'•This is the statement, as L had given
tir, when alluding to it in public; al
though it might have been slighily vari-
•od in the newspaper reports; and this,
I think, establishes the charge, long
since made, and believed by thousands,
that there was an under standing, to cad
it by no worse name, that the Roman
Catholic vote should be given to Mr.
Pierce, and that he, in turn, should
give to that Church a seat in his Cabinet,
as well as many other high positions.
“You arc at liberty to make any use
von please of this letter, in vindication
of yotirscif against the charge of false
hood by the Union newspaper, inasmuch
as you based your statement on my
.authority. Yours, very truly,
“K. RAYNER
“Vlsi*.\si.\n Ecus, Esq.,
Washington City.”
FOREIGNERS VS. SLAVERY.
It is the boast of the Democracy now
that the foreigner is a more loj’al citizen
to the interests of the South than our
native-boryi soils of the North ; and they,
cite ns a factAhe vptp, taken upon the
a bill, wherein the North-
Western States voted with more unity.
for the bill that) the older Northern States
They say, furthermore, that'the for
eigners ijye more numerous in the West'
than any where else. The forty-four
who voted for that bill, and who by their
votes aided in altering it as it came from
the Senate, by engrafting upon it that
odious feature of squatter sovereignty,
were elected ip 1853, when that bill was
not before the people. Their vote upon
it was right-, so far as regards the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise. But the
democracy or foreigners thought differ
ently, for those who advocated the bill
Liverpool dates to July 28th,
She reports a decline of 1-8 in Cot
ton—sales of the week, 35,000 bales.
Breadstufis unchanged. Consols 91.
Accounts from the War unchanged.
have nearly all been defeated. A
have saul befere, wc have but little faith
in the Administration democracy, and
st ill less in the Northern foreigners. We
give below, the letter of Dr. Thos. A.
Anderson, of Tennessee, written in
1842, thirteen years ago, when he could
have had no idea of the rise of the Know
Nothing organization of 1.854-55. Dr.
Anderson was a' Democrat. He went
to London to sell lands, mid ndt to furth
er any political part}'. He wrote home
the facts that fell under his own obser
vation. Read his letter;
“London, England, Aug. 28, 1842.
‘'Dr. IV. B. Norton—Dear S.r: I
have found it almost an impossibility to
sell lands in Tennessee, to the Emigrants
from this country. Nine-tenths of them
have tire insuperable objection that it is
laveholding State. Their prejudices
in this respect are deep and rooted. They
go to America with the fierce and fanatic
feelings of the O'Connells, the Buck
inghams and the Thompsons, on the
subject of slavery, to sw.ll the ranks of
the Abolitionists there. I have con
versed with hundreds of the emigrants,
going out from London and Liverpool
to the United States, and find them for
the most part an ignorant people. In
fact, having no correct ideas or know
ledge of our system of government—of
our social and political state—-of ourcivil
and religious liberty. They have beatd
of America as a land, where every one
in the non-slavtfholiling States does
pretty much as be pleases} and were, in
the ilnveholding States, the negroes
work in chains for their white maters
and are sulyected to starvation and con
stant stripes^ftnd almost every cru
treatment Thus Unbressed, fully nihe-
tcnlhs of tbeso; emigrants go to America,
thinking and feeing they have muission
to aid in abolishing slavery here
Texan and Mexican Revolutionary
Movements—Gen. Houston.
New Orleans, Aug 7.
Later accounts from Texas bring
reports contained in the San Antonio
we Ledger of an extensive organization in
Texas got up to aid the Mexican revolu
tionists. The first portion of the ex
peditionists arrived at Leom River Jflily
1st. Men were hourly coming in great
numbers, and expected to cross the
^ureigu jfam.
FROM
LATER
EUROPE.
IRIVAL OF THE STEAMER
§/ BALTIC.
New York, Aug. 9th.
The steamer Baltic has arrived with
>rmtjjern ‘Mrjjtnnn.
ATHENS, GA.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG 16. 1855.
Fop Governor,
GARNETT ANDREWS,
OF WILKES.
For Congress—Sixth District,
For State Senate,
CINCINNATI^ PEEPLES,
For Representatives,
JOS. B. CARLTON and THOS. F. LOWE.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MR. COBB’S I THE SPEAKING ON SATURDAY NIGHT.
VOTE ON THE WILMOT PROVISO. . , _
In former times,when we charge Mr. Not ha *'"g be en present at the Town
Cobb with having voted for “ the Wife Ha,, » on Saturday night last, a friend
mot,” as embraced in the Oregon bill, bas fom'whed «Se following account of
we were told he denied it fiercely. In tbe meeting:
1850, however, when he wished to show CimiSTY ; I had the privilege of
his extreme tb.voliori to the Union. hej hearing our exceedingly deter towna-
not only admitted that he had given this! matt and fellow-citizen, C. Peeples, on
vote, hut in a speech delivered in the Saturday night last, upon the political
Courthouse irr Walkinsville, (and which j issues now before the people. I lave
we happened to hear) boastfully, as we heard every speech delivered in the
thought, claimed that he had given Town Hail this season, commencing
that vote! It may suit his purposes with Gov. fcobb’s; and I must confess
now again to deny it. It matters not, that thereby I have been amused and
however. The pec pie now know that mortified; pleased and chagrined ; and
he and John II. Lumpkin both voted for indeed, have been in every other mood
'conceivable. I heard Gov. Johnson,
Let us look into the nature of this. . . . ... TO ,.
~ . of course, when he threw down Whig
vote. Every member of Congress is _ , „ 6
. ... r, ... . m, and Democratic bars, thereby allow
sworn to support the Constitution. The . ’ J
THE WATCHMAN
tSTFOR THE CAMPAIGN!!
river the 24th. Capt. Henry, late of j
the Texan volunteers is their commander To meet the wishes of our friends, and
He has issued addresses to the people
of Texas and Mexico. To the former
he says that it is his-intention to aid in
the establishment of a republic under
in the hope of aiding the great cause,
we are induced to offer our paper for
the campaign at FIFTY CENTS to sin
gle subscribers, or TWELVE copies
the protection of the United States. To for FIVE DOLLARS—the cash to ac-
the latter, he says he wishes to see the company the order, in all cases
Mexicans govern themselves.
General Houston has written a letter
publicly endorsing the Know Nothings.
YELLOW FEVER.
New Orleans, Aug. 6.
The deaths of the last week were 336,
of which 200 were from yellow fever.
Liberty Council, No. 1C, of the
American part;', meets in their Hall, over
John I. Huggins' store, every Friday evening
at 6 o’clock.
The editor will be necessarily ab
sent for the next three weeks. He hopes
: — ; the paper will not suffer in interest in
ADDITIONAL PER BALTIC. > the meantime, as kind friends have con
On the night of the 13th ult.., the fire
THE REMOVAL OF GOV. REED
ER.
The Eastern Argitt, publish.-d at
Reeder’s former home, states that his re
moval has elicited the^Mto^st expres
sions or indiguatioia^^^^^^BMftrthe
Argus, besides
ilenrl
ments.c
unpleasant t
dent. W
“ Iav.nali:
held in Kansas, oil
Missouri invaders cabled ilpon*
iJeUl T imd£l!ed their compin'
tc G oYcrfiitff* cbanjl tig ~ li
•st ei&tiou
r another.* of the
CfCi
From the Sholhyvillc Expositor, Sint. 12ili, l«5t.
JOHN MITCHELL ON THE PA
PAL GOVERNMENT—A DOCU
WENT FOR THE TIMES!
John Mitchell, an Irish Refugee a man
of distinguished talent, and a Catholic
is publishing in the “Citizen, w a-series
ofjetters addressed to Archbishop Hu
ghes, of New York, in which he shows
-up the great Prelate and the Govern
ment ofRome in a most sriking man-
net? Of the 1 latter he says :
“Americans and those Irishmen who,
in America, scornnd know what free
dom and justice are, had better consid
er a little the nature of the Papal gov
ernment, in order that they may learn to
regard it with utter execration as one
of the worst and meanest despotisms
that now deform Europe.
‘•Think, then,’ bf a government in
which all offices of trust and emolument
are filled hy clergymen and' monks?
In which one of the ‘congregation,’ the
congregation of the Index, with a Car
dinal for a pr Pet, and a monk for sec
retary, prescribes to every Roman what
book he may read, and what not, un
der pains and penalties ! In which an
other congregation, called Inquisition
or Holy Office, has cognizance of all
heresies, blasphemies, bad books, pro
fanations, abuse of sacrements, accusa
tions of sorcery, and, in general, of eve
rything that interests religion and the
faith ? In wlMfeh the dungeons of San
Angelo, and the galley, and the penal
labor of the maTshes, and fines, and im
prisonment, await those who may be
convicted of reading any of the twenty
thousand books named in the Index of
prohibited literature, including the writ
ings of Thomas Jefferson and Benja
min Franklin ? In which certain
bankers have a monopoly to sell some
of the necessaries of life, in considera
tion of lending ma aey to the Pope to pay
foreign troops for Crushing his people?
Need I say more l That these are the
facts, neither your Grace, nor any one of
your three Graces, can venture to dis
pute ; asd, t»me, and to every Ameri
can, and to every layman 1 have met
w vWifh. they furnish the exact idea not on
rvfty grr-hatl pjfc»yfAhe very worst Gov
ernment of England and Ireland.”
v/R IIIC nigm OI me lOlu ull^ Ul“ HI L eunlPtl tfl anrrn it Ir* 1 « l
from the Russi.n halterie, iscojeJ ' ° 11 lils
the new work, which ike French had j (y Superior Court for Clarke Coon-
erected before S -bastopol. I. , . „ „
The German Diet accepts the propo- ^ commence its fa 1 session at Wat-
sals of Austria concerning the three ad- kinsville on Monday last—bis honor
dilional points submitted by Russia. Judge Jackson presiding. We believe
The attitude of Austria causes con-, tbat the most imporlant ea5C likely to
siderable uneasiness to the allies. • | ... .... „ '
Additional troops are being sent to come be ore ,l » 13 tbat ot ^ be State vs -
Italy. General Tottleben is dead. ^ohn Epps, for the k'lling of hi
The Turkish army at Kars is hemmed father.
in by tbe Ru-sians, who ace preparing- —
to attack and Erzeroum simultane- j EVERY BODY READ!
ously. . j We shall endeavor to visit in person,
Ihe revolt among the Arabs was or ibrough our agent, every county in
caused by the scarcity of provisions. .. , - . . . .... *
Turkish troops are constantly leaving | rt “ 3 ’ and sorae of those ,n ^joining. Ctr-
Constaiuinople for Erzeroum, to assist ; cuits, at the Fall riding of our Courts,
in the defence of the latter place. Ig it asking too much to request all our
The Russians are fortifying the mouth ; _ . , ,. . .
of the Don; nnd nhio placing obstroo- ! f " e!,ds who “d^d-oror, one of
tions in the entrance. .them to pay without fail? Wc hope
The French division will land at that not a single one will fail to respond
Varna sometime during August, for the t0 t his call,
campaign on the Danube.
The general health of the allied Melancholy Accident.—On Friday
ar xr CS i' 3 *f O0( *’ ,.. . , , morning Jasr, a melancholy accident oc
Naples has prohibited the export of , ,
grain to tbe Crimea. i C8Tre ' 1 at Woodv.lle. Just as the train
from this phti^e to Union Point was. put
One of the most ludicrous efforts of j man) attempted to get oni board the
tlic speakers and presses of the foreign cars, and missing his footing, fell upon
party to strengthen it in the South is
the attempt to fasten the charge of abo
litionism upon the American Party.
According to them, Wilson of Massa
chusetts and Seward of New York are short time—notwithstanding the best
in confederacy with the “ Know Nolls- ulC(]iCi j and s ^ ski „ was in atlea(] .
ings” everywhere throughout the Union
to abolish the institutions of slavery *and i,nce '
pull the constitution to pieces. Do j NEW CHURN,
these very consideatc friends of for- . . . , " , , .
cigners here ever say anything about 1 We have 1U3t tned-and therefore
the fraternal bond existing between Sew-; s P e:ik knowingly—a new churn, (Till-
ard and Archbishop Hughes? Do they inghast’s.patent) which is for sale by
ever tell their hearers and readers about Suiumcy &, Jones, corner of Broad and
the speeches of this man Hughes deliv- i *._ . rg,,. , . c
ereJ in C.rroll Htdl in f,,o,!fSew,rd > ; Wa " 51 eel *- Tl " 3 cl,ur " ,s far 5 “l M " or
Do they ever mention the fact that Sew- j to an y tb,n g wc h aTe ever seci * ,n tbat * ,ne
ard and Hughes have been for years ‘‘as [ and will doubtless come into general
thick as thieves,” and that it has been ^ use . L et our f rie nds give it a trial,
the settled policy ol Seward to proni-1 .. ,, . T u i , .
tiate the Catholic vote of this country for I Messrs * & J * have alw ^ s « h: ' nd
the Presidency! Not they ! “Oh no, | a i ar g« and varied assortment of goods,
they never mention” now the name of. both useful and ornamental, which they
“the Nor:hem man with Southern prin-; arc aIwa *. b to exhi5it to , hcir
ciples—they are as mule as the dead I r . , „ , ,
concerning the long array of Democratic ! fnen ‘ l3 ’ and atuxtremely low prices,
uames upon the lists of the Abolitionists j 1 he public will do well to give them a
and Free Soilers; it would never do to call. See advertisement in another col-
give tha people “the truth, the whole
Mt
iViund, ‘I a a satisfied !?:::
ll.-cdei* possesses lininit-s ; , honest^- and
.-capacity, nnd a hi i.i who has these three
q i ililies, don’t olWu^gut wrong.’ We
li..p|K-u to know, ialtf that our Chief
M igi>tr «te give (>ov6rnpr Reeder re
pented perspiul assuTqifCre that ‘heap-
proved of liis Cmuse, and would have
acted precisely as lie did in the same
poshihn.’’' 3 •••
Tile Hoi. A. II. SrHiuiK^s, in his
letter to T. W. Thomas; ^latcd that the
President sent Reeder 1 to Kansas to
make it a free Stale, and the. declaration
of iho Argiijt, that he give Reeder re-'
phated personal a-surancei - that he
(Pt^RCE) approved of hi* course, arid
would have acted precisely dbhe- \did in
the same position," proves conclusively
the truth^T Mr. SrEftiENs’ position. —
('/iron. $ Sait.
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^ihJIaitists in Georgia. — From the
minntTP5*of the last Georgia Baptist Con
veniion, we gathei the following statis
tics of this largemnd re-p ctable denom
nation:
Npmber of Astoclation, 5g; Churches,
2*240, Of daided Ministers, 706 ; Licen
tiates. 200; Communicant, 82,3000; (of
•this number,21,000'are colored) Nett
gain during the year, 1,148.
As unassociated churches are not in
Lduded in the minutes, and as the returns
from eleven Associations are' taken from
the minutes ofpreceding year the
jicttial number^A'Brtptist imho State
komewhat exi*«6d' tho number reported
alwre. The increase in the last ten years
has been 23,919
nt tins a lohg list of
civilians to the army,
we Unit -the names
d AwhuV Siiaai;
A Man who could help IIimself-
A writer in the Christian Witness say
bf the late Bi-hop' Griswold, tlrat not one
an in a thousand ever gave so little
P
HNTMENTSi— The' Wash- 'trouble to his friends. Wimt lie could
do for himself he allowed none to do for
him. He was a hewer of wood and
water, made his own fires,
his own boots, carried his valise
nd did bis own errands.
RICH»
in motion, Jeremiah Blackman, (fire-
Wilmot Promo is either conslitotiooal I ia * <•«"•»«*, unp.rralleled ocoor-
or it is unconstitutional. We will not
insult Messrs. Cobb and Lumpkin
by inquiring whether they believe the
Proviso to be constitutional. Of
course they do; for no honorable man
will forswear himself; and if they believed
it unconstitutional, they could not have
voted for it without doing so!
Are the people of the fifth and sixth
districts willing, at this momentous
crisis in our affairs, to send these men
back to Congress ? If they beleire the
Proviso to be constitutional, what se
curity have we that they will not vote
for it again ?
rence with his party,) every roan to think
and vote according to his conscience!
Yes, he actually did say—and we would
have every man calling himself a Demo
crat, to bear in mind—that present issues
are outside of the Democratic partys;
l and of course that nobody was now
| called upon to vote as a Democrat,
that party being dead or forgotten, just
as may suit the fancy. Bear in mind,
we again say—there is uo Democratic
party—active—now in existences ac
cording even to the old “ coon-killer’s'
admissions. Therefore, those who leave
the former leaders of this party*, violate
not their “sacred honors,” nor expose
themselves to the horrors of a traitor’s
doom. Gov. Johnson, as was clearly
A MATTER OF TASTE.
. We understand that the “ Fope’a Nun
cio,” (who can bellow like the “ hulls I perceived, with his party, were on the
ofBashan,”) speaks in all his public! Georgia Piatfom,so far as it regarded
addresses of the patriotism and valor of] the “disrupting every tie,” past of it.
Montgomery, Lafayette, Pulaski, De- And we would take ©ceasron, in this
Kalb and Koskiusko, to whom be. says I connection, to warn every Union man,
we are indebted for our liberties; ] that the so-called Democratic pattj-,
while Washington, Green?, Knox, j with Johnson as its leader, is now at-
Stark, Putnam, Sumpter, Marion, tempting to place our State in the pre-
and the “embattled hosts of freedom” cise position he would have done had
who were so Mn/brteuafe as to be native b * 3 P r,nc ‘P^ es been tr i um P^ aBt in the
born, are never ntpntioned by him ! campaign between Cobb and McDcnald,
No, no! Like his foreign coadjutors, I wbeB tbe ^ atter °* d gentleman was so
THE DEMOCRACY OF GEORGIA
ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
Surely Satan himself never exhibit
ed as nun ch impudence as the leaders,
meu and presses of the Foreign-
Catholic “ Dry-Rot” party of this State
do, in charging the American Party
with being unsound on the slarery
question ; and this, too, in view of the
fact that it has in national convention re
cently adopted the only sound platform
now before the country—a platform
which the national Democracy cannot
even attempt to adopt without bursting
intotfragmems instantly.
To add to the daring recklessness of
their position on this question, these
men have two individuals in the field
for Congress, (Howell Cobb and John
H. Lumpkin) who voted for the Wilmot
proviso in ihe Oregon bill, and of course
believe it constitutional. They are
now begging the people of the fifth and
sixth districts to send them back again!!
What security can they give that they
will not again vote for it, or for some
other measures equally obnoxious ?
And again, these “ Dry-Rot” gen
tlemen are in full fellowship with and
endorse the ftee-soil Pierce-Reeder ad
ministration, which has made war up,»n,
and endeavored to prostrate the New
York “ Hards,” the only truly conser
vative faction of the Democratic party
at the North 11 And not only so; bat
they are “ cheek by jowl ” with the Abo
lition and Free-Soil fusionists of Ohio
and all the free ^tates—ready to give
the friendly grip and fraternal hug to
Sumner, Chase, Ford, >Giddings, Sey
mour, & Co-, and yet they denounce the
he hates “the d d natives.” To
such an extent is this carried, that we
are told he never alludes to the splen
did achievements of Scott,Taylor,Worth
I effectually driven from the Cenrgia
Platform—when, in his words—
he“ did not want to stand on it.”
It was said that this speech of Mr.
the track; and before the cars could he
stoped, was so badly crushed and mau-
gled that he died of his injuries in a
and others in Mexico, but can speak Johnson’s could not be answered •; and
eloquently of “the patriotic Shields, the I so it has been remarked of every Anti s
true Irishman V’ j speech delivered in that Town Hall.—
His proposition, reduce! to plain j With peopte of common understanding.
English, amounts »o this : That La- it would be useless to argue that mat-
fayette, Pulaski and a few other distin- ter; for it is conceded by the candid,
guished foreign adventurers, who loved that especially the coon- killer s
military glory more than they did free- speech bore the impress of desperation ,
dom, achieved our independence, ahd an ^ worse than all, that he attempted
that Gen. Shields fought the brilliant to deceive the people as to the character
battles of Mexico! ! ! of the Philadelphia National Platform.
This is a matter of taste. Mr. Cobb With all his professions of patriotism,
has a right to prefer foreigners over '* demagogue” was w» itten on his foi c-
and above his fellow countrymen, and I head, while his hands were stained with
no man has a right to gainsay it. In | the Cooper contract.
like manner, “the d d natives” Mr. Delony, a few evenings since
may take it into their heads to prefer also addresse( j t h e good people. He is
some gentleman over him as represen-1 a young man of promise and cleverness,
1 a tire in Congress; some one who, but we ° wou 'd exhort him to get better
true to the instincts of his nature, loves em pi ovm ent than being a “ camp-fol-
his own land and his own countrymen h ower >’ ofsuch a man and such a party
better than all the world beside. The L s H. V. Johnson and his party. We
man who does not is not safe to be trust- do not desire to wound his feelings, he
ed with any thing. j cause we admire his energy and gener-
lireathex there the man with seal so dead,
American party, which is the only o::o
a
Who to himself hath never said
This is my own, my native land 1
If such there be, let him go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored and unsung!”
truth” in relation to the present political
history of the country. Verily have
we fallen upon evil times if s.ich men
are suffered to control the destinies of
the Union.
D. L. R.
Excitement in Kansas.—A gentle
man just from Kansas, who left on the
same boat with the bearer of the mem
orial, praying for the removal of Gover
nor Reeder, describes the state of affairs
in and about Kansas, as exciting.—At
Shawnee Mission there was a good deal
of feeling on account of Gov. Reeder’s
determination to ignore the so called
Legislature.—The Editor of the Chicago
Press, who met this gentleman, says:
“Our informant had traveled through
the greater portion of Northern Kansas,
and given it as his opinion that before
three months are over, every settlement
of free state men in the Territory will
have its rifle brigade. There is a fixed
determination settling down upon them
that “fighting” is to be the order of the
day, and they are gjgparing themselves
to meet the enemy af every point. They
are not now excited, but are coolly at
work fixing their fire-arms, running bul
lets, making cartridges, and going
through tbe drill exercise.”
umn.
We learn that our friend Bridge-
man has a contract for the construction
of a large number of these machines.—
We don’t know how any body can keep
hou-e comfortably without the churn
and w.ashinjr machine.
ANOTHER RIOT.
At the late election in Kentucky, ano
ther riot occurred. A number of Irish
men attacked and shot down several
natives. This sheddin'g of American
blood by foreigners on American soil is
a dangerous experiment to be tried, and
no where more so than in Kentucky
Some Irishmen were hung and several
houses burnt.
As a friend to law and order, we re
gret—deeply regret—the occurence of
scenes of violence; but if bad men will
instigate ignorant foreigners to commit
these high-handed acts, the sin be upon
their own heads. When our fellow
citizens are shot down by hirelings of the
Pope for merely exercising one of the
dearest rights for which Washingtoi
Very sad.—A few months ago, an
English family, consisting of a man, his
wife, four children and aged mother,
arrived at New Orleans, La., from Liv
erpool. When the cholera came to that
city soon after their arrival, the two
elder children sickened and died, and
fought and freemen died, we are weak
enough to sympathise with them—albeit,
we blush to say we have men among us
unworthy of tie soil that gave them
birth who are ever ready to take the
side of the foriSgbers against their
on the 28th ult, the man and his wife; countrymen. On two former occasions
died within a few days of each other, of ^ — fouIldin America. Their
black vomit, leaving the aged mother of
the wife and two infant childreu, un
provided, in a strange land.
fate ought to bo a warning to their imi
tators and followers of the present day
which can- show clean hands in regard
to this matter—which has been thorough
ly purged of Us free soil . elements—
with being dangerous to the South ! 1!
Merciful Heaven! was such impu
dence—such unblushing effrontery ever
witnessed before!
Let not the American party stop to
defend itself againsufoese foul slanders,
which none but a fool will believe, and
none but a corrupt political trickster
utter; but let il turn upon its traducers,
let it charge frame upon them the fact
that it is they who are guilty not only
of selling, the birthright of the south for
a mess of pottage in times past, but of
an evident determination to do so again,
provided they can secure temporay suc
cess thereby. “Carry the war into
Africa,” “ Cry aloud and spare not,”
until the people are enlightened nr re
gard to these matters. If, after having
been properly informed, they still de
termine again to trust those who have
betrayed thorn, why then the sin will be
upoti l heir own heads. But for Heav
en’s sake, don’t let them be deceived by
this most grossly slanderous and un
founded charge against the only party
which can possibly preserve our rights
and the Union loo»
al cleverness.
Mr. Peeples has spoken twice. His
effort on Saturday night, was far better
than his previous one, and we may
safely say—the best speech of the sea
son. The answer of a candid audience,
we feel very confident, will fully bear us
out in the assertion. A number of An-
RECENT ELECTIONS
Kentucky,—“ Sam” has, as we ex
pected he would do, swept every thing. ] ties were out, whose countenances will
All his candidates are elected. do so, if their words do not.
Tennessee.—We are sorry to say Without hesitation, and with a pas-
tliat “ the young giajit,” our gallant na- Igionate fondness for truth, we do, with-
tive State, lias disappointed our expec-1 out *• fear,favor or affection,” pronoune
tations somewhat. It is true, we knew, Mr. Peeple’s, speech of Saturday night
that Johnson was ten thousand stronger « unanswerable;” and any one denying
than any man in the Foreign-Catholic it will have to do so at the imminent
ranks, and that Gentry, although one of | peril of his reputation.
the best men in the State, would lose a
great many votes in consequence of his
course in the last Presidential contest;
hut notwithstanding these drawbacks,
Success to Sa n and his mission.
-'•-T-.A— '<■——;
PUBLC DISCUSSIONS.
Tbc people of Georgia are likely to be
our confidence in the intelligence and 1 culightened(!) as far as stump-speaking
virtue of the people was such, that we caR do it. We have heard of a great
calculated on Gentry's election. In East many public addres6ses in litis section of
Tennessee—glorious East Tennessee— the State within the last two or three
the gains over Johnson were immense, weeks; and we presume it will he con-
and had the same ratio of gain been tinued until the election,
maintained throughout the State, the That a lree, fair and honest discussion
American party would have triumphed Q f political questions is beneficial, we do
by 20,000 majority, as it no doubt will not doubt; but that the consumption of
do in the Presidential election—as in- barbecued meat and bad whiskey will
dicated by the result of the Congression- prom ote the cause of good morals, re
al election. ligion or politics, we do question ; and
Alabama.—Full returns have not | f b at the abusive, heated, one-sided and
been received; but it irpretty certain unfair 8pee ches, delivered for the pur-
that Winston 1ms been re-elected. The p03e of deceiving honest voters, are an
question of “ State aid” to railroad com- evilj and that continually, W e do know
panies exercised a controlling influence, t0 be true>
no doubt.
North Carolina.—The election in | BARBECUE AND DISCUSSION,
this State was for members of Congress There will be a barbecue and discus-
alone. The Anti-American party elect- sion at the court ground in the Moun-
ed a majority of the members. j tain district of Walton county, on the
The recent elections—including Vir- Friday keforethe second Saturday in
ginia—have clearly demonstrated that ] September, The public are invited to
“ Sara” can carry all of them.
attend.
For tha Southern Watchman
Mu. Editor: The Savannah Geor
gian of June 19,contained the following
base, lnw-fiung Roman Catholic libel
against Hon. E. B. Bartlett’, of Kentucky,
Grand President of the American order.
It was copied by the Georgian and other
Catholic organs in this State from that
Pierce and Reed er, abolition reservoir,
the Washington Star :
Hz’s a Massachusetts Man —It
seems that Senator Wilson & Ca’s new
president of the Know Nothing National
Council, Dr. Bartlett, is not a Kentuck
ian, as alleged, but a Lowell Yankee,
transpb^dtp Kentucky some ten years
ago, wh® Ihe has been pursuing tbe
businessot a theological and litera-
i- rv teacher. He is in fact one of the
ojflHfl|fe^unrigtiteoti*s and damnable”
, class of Yankee deputy preachers or
lecflHQPEof the class whose names
are to be found upon the list of the three
thousand abolition clergymen who
anathematized the President, Congress,
the South,' and Senator Douglas espe-
cial'-j in hope of thus defeating the
enactment of the Nebraska bill. This
accounts for tbe fact that though from
Kentucky, lie was a suppporter of the
views of Senator Wilson in the conven
tion, and the unanimity with which the
Senator and all his abolition coadjutors
there assembled sustained his preten
sions, though a delegate from a slave
holding State, over Barker, a pro-slavery
New Yorker.— Wash. Star,
On reading the above in the Geor
gian, and other libels of the same sort,
in other organs of tbe Toombs and Ste
phens, Cobb and Johnson, and Kossuth
“Dry-Rot” regency, I addressed the
following note to Mr. Bartlett, in order
to arrive at the true facts of the case :
“ Hon. E. B. Bartlett : The South
ern anti-American presses, orators, and
party hacks are just at this time paying
a good deal of attention to you, your
political principles and affiliationsT As
a matter of course, you are charged with
being a Massachusetts Abolitionist, in
full fellowship with Wilson, Grecly. and
all-that crowd. Yon are charged alsq
with having sympathised with the move
ments of the New England clergymen
who sent the anti Nebraska memorial
to the Senate of the United Sates at the
last session of Congress—you are de
nounced, likewise, fur your opposition,