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LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE _STEAMER
AMERICA.
Halifax, August 15.
The steamer America has arrived
with still later intelligence from Europe.'
Cotton.—Cotton quoted at 1 16d,
to £d lower. 'The market closed steady.:
Sales for the week thirty-five thousand
bales.
Breaustuffs.—The market is un
changed. Consols are quoted at 91
and 91J.
There is no news of importance from
the Crimea
Additional per America.
Columbia, Aug. 16.
The latest advices from Sebastopol
state that everything will be prepared
for action within fifteen days; and then
a general assault will be made.
A grand expedition, by land and sea,
is asseinbliug at Kamiesch Bay.
The Russians have succeeded in
tiking the rifle pits, in front of the
French Sappers.
It is reported in Paris that the French
government received notice that the
bombardment of Sebastopol been re
sumed, preparatory to an assault.
The Viceroy of Egypt is enlisting the
Bedouins for the Crimea.
The very latest by telegraph from
London to Liverpool, was received on
Saturday at noon.
The Allies have raised the siege of
Sebastopol.
The Western Powers have received
n communication of startling interest
from Germany.
The fortification of the Allies at AzofT
is progressing; and the prrty of the
Russian army is threatened.
England.—The Queen’s message to
Parliament proposes additional provi
sions for the prosecution of the War.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer
iauttjeru tBitrjjtm
ATHENS, HA.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG 23, t855.
OUR PARTY.
Though it is but as yesterday since
the organization of the American Par
ty, we would impress it upon the minds,
especially of its opponents, that its prin
ciples are co-eval with the birth of our
Constitution. Time and again has been
arrayed before our readers evidence the
most convincing, that the minds' of
those who gave us our present liberties
were directed to the evils and dangers
consequent upon the influx of Europe’s
thousands into our country. Surely,
the warning voices of a Jefferson, Mad
ison, LaFayeite, and hosts of others,
.which time forbids and memory fails
to produce again just here, and espe
cially the admonition of the Father of
his country, ought to arrest every lover
of freedom, and awaken the most ear
nest inquiry. That a majority of the
native-born of our country are honestly
investigating, earnestly inquiring, and
unitedly striving, we honestly believe.
We confidently assert, that if to-mor
row, the name of every native Ameri-
JASPERCOUNTY ACADEMY LOTTERY. can W ere recorded with their sentiments
For Governor,
GARNRTT ANDREWS,
OF WILKES.
For Congress—Sixth District,
For State Senate,
CINCINNATI^ PEEPLES, #
- For Representatives,
JOS. B. CARLTON and THOS. F. LOWE.
VW~ Mr. It. M. Hitch is an authorised
travelling agent for this paper.
. w* Mr. M. A. Harrison is Also an au
thorised travelling agent.
ITS” M. Landrum, Esq., is our authorised
agent for Oglethorpe county.
The following are the Numbers that
the drew the Capitals on the 13th inst.,
nl Conceit Hall, Macon, Ga.:
No. 3786, 88,000, Macon, Ga,
No. 3198, 85,000, Deadfall, Ala.
No. 9399, S2,000, Richmond, Va.
No. 665, SI,000, Charleston, S.C.
No. 3368, Nashville, Tenn.
SUPERIOR WRITING FLUID.
We have been presented, by our en-
prising townsman, W. N. White, of the
To establish this, we have but to com
pare ihe votes of the party, so far, in
each of the States in which choice has
has been made for the various offices.
There are, say 3.000 foreign-born
voters in our own State, (a low esti
mate,) and of course it is expectid they
will vote against us. Allowing, for the
University Book-Store, an article of ” kc of <!'»l ill® America..
writing ink which we cVeerfully recom- P! " ,y »***? h j ere ' to who,u are ”’ e
- .... , ° . J | to attribute this defeat? To natives?
moved to issne Exchequer bills to „,o mend as a supermr an.cle-far better, Nm 3Q . bul etidem , to the , oteig „
w,nr..,nt c.r ■**,nnnn.in to our-taste, than even Harrisons. It . 0 , 6
• , . ’ , , ,1 . .1 .. rk vcte - So » ,n Alabama, this class of
, is a perfect “ breeder of thought. Or-1 , .
1 , . •. nil 1 .7 u . voters being much greater in that Stati
ders, in any quantity, filled at the short-1 , „
than our own, out defeat is owing to the
annexed, a decided majority would be
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
/ ARTS
Was conferred, at the late commencement
of Frauklin College, upon the following
(28) young gentlemen—vix :
Alexander Atkinson, Edwin G. Baxter,
Edward K. Bozeman, Felix F. Brown, Wal
ter S. Chisolm. Wm. A. Clark,- Samuel J.
Dean, Samuel Eber(iart, Henry W. D. S.
Ford, Robert R. Fudge? Eben Stark Law,
Robert C. McGough, Alex. R. M. McMullen,
Jerome C. Matthews, Audley Maxwell, El
bert Miller, James H. Neal, Joseph J. Nor
ton, Joseph Person, Geo. W. Philpott, Jno.
A. Reid, Duflkap Scott, Julius A. Stanly,
Beuj. F. Thomson, Joseph R. Tolbert, David
A. Walker, W. D. Wash and Eliab H. Wells.
And upon the following, the degree of Mas
ter of Arts—viz: (
Young J. Anderson, Wm. E. Epps, Lee
Roy W.Hayes, J. L. llearl, J. L. Hill, Ed. P
Lumpkin, Anderson W. Reese, Wm. H. Wad-
del, Wm.T. Harris, and R. Oscar Reynolds,
graduates of tho College, and Steven V.
Benet a graduate of the Military Academy,
West Point.
MR.
MISSTATE-
ABUSIYE EPITHETS.
“ Some politicians seem to regard
abusive language calling names, as the
most powerful weapons of offense and
defense in political warfare. # Now we
found laboring with one hearty effort are sure that butlittle good-can Corneof
for the success of the American Party ' it* either to the party which resoris to
amount of .£7,000,000.
The enlistment of ineu at Halifax
for the war with Russia, has been slop
ped, to prevent the possibility of a diffi-
■culty with the United States,
It is rumored that Spain will send a
contingent army to the Crimea ; but it
is doubted.
It is reported that Spain would ask
therefor a territorial guarantee, includ
ing Cuba.
Private correspondence from Lom
bardy and Venice indicate that impor
tant events were nearly ripe.
DEMOCRATIC CONSISTENCY
It has not been long since the nomi
nee of the American order, Garnett
Andrews, was run and elected by the
.Democratic parly to the bench in the
Judicial district in which lie resides.
.The obnoxious decision made by the
Judge in 1841, was as well known then
as it is now. If it forms a good objec
Vicn to 'him as Governor, it certainly
shoud have been as cogent against him
for Judge. Nay, much more so; as
Governor,, he has nothing to do with ex
pounding the laws of evidence. Yet not
«one word'was urged against his election
nolhe Judgeship, by the “dry rot” gen
try. Thq decision was permitted to
.sleep amid the rubbish of the past; no
sympathy was excited for the poor uni
•vorsalist; no holy horror fell for the
violated Constitution. These vigilant
guardians of our constitutional rights
remained silent and let this unrighteous
Judge again assume the ermine, and
disgrace the bench. Where then slept
the thunders of Democracy ? The mys
tory is easily explained. Garnett An
drews was then acting with the Democ
ratic party; he now belongs 10 the
American Order ]!! This is the damn
ing sin; lor shame gentlemen, cease
your unreasonable clamors ; your stupid
course in finding fault with him on ac
count of this decision, is well calculated
to drive all true hearted honest patroits
out of ymr ranks.—Sumter Republican,
^ MORE PROSCRIPTION.
The Calhoun Statesman of August
9lh says:
“Our worthy and much esteemed
Postmaster, George IV. Ransom:, has,
under the proscribing powers that be,
been removed from office, on the sole
ground that he chose to attach himself to
the American Party.
Whenever a Government becomes so
debased that its rulers are permitted to
proscribe, for opinions’ sake, then it
must, like ancient Athens when invaded
by Philip «.f Macedor, deplore the loss
“f its luxuries rather than that of its
liberties.”
est notice, at his place of business.
Tiir Louisville Riot.—The Lou-. only with this difference: fewer natives
isville JournalJof Monday morning, con- ; acted in conjunction with kreigners,
tains many affidavits touching the cause
and origin of the riots in that city last
week. Some of them are from Irish
Catholics residing in the vicinity of the
riot, and show that the Irish were arm
ed several days previous.
same cause. In Tennessee, the same;
In the case of Epps vs. The
State, which is in progress of trial while
we pen these lines, there was perhaps
as great difficulty in securing a Jury as
the history of our county can furnish.
There weie between four and five hun
dred sworn, and this occupied the at
tention of the Court for between three
and four days. That there is some
great deficiency in the present mode of
selecting Jurors, we are free to assert;
and ff the question were left to the peo
ple of Clarke, but lew days-would alapse
until .an entire change was made.—
What the best mode would be, we are
not at present prepared to suggest.—
Some incline to the opinion that such
Juries should be selected from the
Grand Jury; others, that they should
be taken from those of our citizens who
are the most intelligent and upright,
in opposition to that policy which seeks
ignorance and indifference—that spe
cies of indifference which allows deci
sions without reference to the best in
terests of the country. Indeed, various
are the suggestions which? wc have not
time or inclination, just now, to notice.
Since penning the above, the above
case has been argued. The jury, after
retiring a short time rendered a verdict
of “ guilty.” Counsel for Epps appli
ed for and obtained a new trial, on the
ground of incompelency of oucof the
witnesses.
IToxor. to whom IIonou is Due.—
A few days ago we published a notice
of a new brake for Rail Road cars
which we yaw was attracting considera
ble notice from the press of the country.
This new and improved brake has licen
tested on the Orleans line in France,
with complete success The applica
tion of the resisti-g power is app iedto
the engine and through the means of
ilie momentum of the entire train. This
invention seems to be identically the
same as the one suggested to Mr.
Young formerly Superiniciied of State
Road by Samuel Elam, Esor. of this
city, more than 2 years ago.—At Jut.
Churches in New York City.—
There are in the city of New York 29
Baptist churches, numbering 8383 com-
munioants; S Congregational churches,
with 1050 communicants; 23 Dutch
Reformed churches, with 4*66 com
municants; 5 Lutheran church es. with
3048 communicants ; 35 Methodist
Episcopal churches, with 8452 com
municants ; 48 Presbyterian churches,
with 13,947 communicants; and 48
Protestant Episcopal churches, with
8163 communicants. This makes an
jirrgregate of 19b churches.
' Only 196 churches for 759,000 peo-
pic, <u I for every 3,700 persons!—
What a small proportion of the people
can ;ft to Church at all!
PUBLIC SPEAKING.
Being in attendance at Court in Wat-
kinsville on last Friday, we were privi
leged with listening to the highly-ac-
ceptable and telling address of our t« wns-
man, C. Peeples, Esq, To say that'al!
ietired from the court-house, after the
address was over, highly pleased, would
be a mistake ; for the Johnsonocracy,
if we may be allowed to judge from
npprearances, left with a “ flee in their
ears”—at any rate, the length of their
faces indicated great uneasiness .-
But it were needless to give assurances,
for Mr. Peeples, since he has been be
fore the people, as candidate for the
Senate, hns left little room to doubt his
perfect ability to bear the standard of
the American party to final and glori
ous victory.
On Wednesday of last week, two days
previous to Mr. Peeples’s address, Mr
Overby met the people at the same
stand, and his friends seem highly pleas
ed with his effort. Thursday, Mr. Cobb
also held forth; but as we might be
accused of slight partiality, we shall ex
cu«e ourselves from more thau the sim
ple observation, that after his speech,
more thau one of the “ unterrified”
were making diligent inquiry for the
representatives of Snm, being desirous
of separating themselves from all con
nection with the Foreign Party.
where they were equally numerous, and
hence our success. In Kentucky,
where there are five to one in Georgia,
with a far less division of the natives,
the assertion holds good, and is more
apparent. We may thus go the rounds
of the States, and nothing is more evi
dent than that the success of the Ameri
can Party is heightened as the natives are
united, or that their defeat is owing
entirely to the balance of power which
foreigners hold and me by voting with
our opponents and causing their suc
cesses. What would have been the
result in Virginia but for the 10,000
Irish voters?
No American, then, need be depress
ed on account of any past temporary
defeat. On the contrary, let them
breathe more freely from a conscious
ness that they have done their duty, and
that it only needs future developments
to place America in her proper posi
tion—in the hands of Americans.
The foregoing facts are suggestive of
this thought: We are constantly re
minded of the numerical weakness of
of our foreign-born population, as com
pared with the native. Allow this to
to be true. If, however, divided, as
they are, amongst the States, they can
find a party sufficiently reckless of their
country’s good, and so lost to everything
save their own perpetuity and prefer
ment as'to unite with this small number
of foreigners, and carry out every meas
ure which they may desire, how easy
for this handful to lead America into
the arms of the Pope himself! This
small band has found the very party they
want—a party either too ignorant to
see, or seeing, so base as to lend them
selves a willing tool. Foreigners may
not see their power, or seeing, may not
design evil; but oh, the “ bell may soon
be rung which shall be the knell to hu
man freedom 1”
Do the people see these things ?
Then the warnings of a Jeffer-on, a
Madison, and a Washington, have
not been in vain. Otherwise, we have
but to close our eyes and await the cat
astrophe. But our whole nation is
aroused; and it requires but a few more
days until she shakes from around her
the coil, which, firmly settled, would
have required rivers of blood and thou
sands of treasure to cast off. And in
all this we but make the simple request
and exercise the natural right of having
“ Americans to rule America,” and
thereby secure the privilege of worship
ping God according to the dictates of
our consciences. Do we ask more than
the Constitution guarantees? In the
name of all that is good, can even a for
eigner fail to grant this natural anJ
inalienable right?
Honest American! Lover of free
dom ! Ask for your true friends—seek
them diligently; and when found, stand
by them for your own defence.
For quite a number of days re
cently we have had cool, invigorating
weather. Indeed, fires have been quite
acceptable, in the earlier part of the
morning.
STEPHENS’
MENT.
This gentleman, in his statistics on
the the subject of the Kansas and Ne
braska Bill vote says:
“ From this it will be seen that the
North-Western states, Ohio, Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michi
gan, where it is said the foreign popula
tion controls the election, there were
25 votes given on the bill, of which there
13 for it and: 12 against it.”
To which a correspondent of the
Sumpter Republican replies:
What are the facts in this case ?—
I rely as a member of the American
Party, upon the law and the facts, and
that law, too, as published for the in
spection of the people of Georgia, by
the Hon. Mr. Stephens. 1 will give the
vote as I get it from the re-published re
port of Mr. Stephens, and leave every
Georgian tc judge for himself of the
blunder of the gentlefnan. The vote
of those six states is as follows :
Ohio, Aff. 4 Neg. 15 Total 19
3
Indiana,
Illinois,
Wisconsin,
Iowa,
Michigan,
6
3
1
2
lfr
4
2
2
26
9
7
2
1
4
42
it, or to the country, but it is the source
of incalculable mischief by aggravat
ing the violence of party animosity,
when the critical condition of tho South
demands the maintenance of the most
amicable relations among its citizens.
For ourselves, we do not feel at liberty
to apply to our opponents the vulgar
epithets, Hindoos, midnight order, dark
lantern, while at the same time we have
but little respect for the course of those
who can’t designate the Democratic
party, by other names than the Foreign
party, the dry rot party, the Pierce &.
Forney Democracy, &c.”
The above morsel we get from a pa
per advocating principles favorable to
foreigners—and, as we conceive, more
favorable than to our own country and
countrymen. That there is good rea
son for clubing the so-called Demo
cratic Party with each and all of the
names cited, we hope we have already
sufficiently shown. Especially for term
ingitthe “ Foreign Party for it is
apparent to every one who can read or
who has ears, that whenever difficulties
occur between natives and foreigners,
the latter receive their sympathies.—
Instantly, it is proclaimed that the in
discretion of the natives was the cause.
But touch the hem of a foreigner’s gar
ment, and the whole Dry Rot Press are
upon you. But dare speak of the evil
tendencies likely to arise from immi
gration to this country of such hordes
of infidel Germans, Priest-ridden Irish,
or the scum and filth from various other
quarters, and the Foreign Party cry
proscription, midnight assassins, and
every other vile epithet to be found in
the English language,-they ever repeat
the cry,“ down with the d—d natives!”
Inquire into the soundness of Mr. Pierce
upon the slavery question ; throw out a
suspicion of his having discharged
Reeder for no other reason, than that lie
speculated somewhat in land, and the
Pierce &. Forney Democracy are heard
in praise of their chief and denouncing
Southern Americans as in league with
Seward. As for that, their weekly and
daily pastime is to accuse Know Noth
ings of being in league with somebody
even worse than Seward—even tho fa'h,
er of all lias and liars, and consequently
a very near relation of the Dry Rot-
Foreign, Pierce &» Forney Party.
We heartily subscribe to the advice
given to the Johnsonocracy, and hope
his followers will faithfully observe it.—
They certainly are the most unscrupu
lous and unrefined of all the enemies a
decent party has to Contend with while
fighting the battles of his country.
Americans abuse uo man; and there
fore, the closing advice is altogether
unnecessary.
Impudence.—How can we call it
anything else? Our readers, we dare
say, have often been disgusted with it,
while honest men, even of their our
faith, are forced to withdraw from con
nection with a party having such lea
ders. What is it? To hear speakers
and editors of the Johnson bargain and
corruption party calling upon members
of the American Party “ to come out
from the concern.” Why, gentlemen,
the American Party, is now*the only
salt in the land. The Philadelphia
Platform is the mouctian of safety for
the present, and for the future security.
“ Come out!’’ Where will those com
ing out go ? Certainly you would not
have your honest fellow-country-men
fall upon your platform. Dry-Rot is at
its foundation, and the crazy, rickety
concern would fall with such a load.—
It is an insult to any Georgian, for the
orators of the day to call upon them to
“quit the concern,” and support a man
who will take state treasure to buy votes
that he may secure his own election.
^jqfpLi-t the issue be kept in mind—
Protestantism against Romanism.
Majority of votes in the negative 10.
Thus"slands the votes of those six
states where foreign population controls
the election. So far from casting only
25 votes as Mr. S. says, there were 42.
And so far from giving a majority of
one to the Kansas and Nebraska bill,
they give a majority of ten against it”
Another of a thousand misstatements
shown up. It is to be hoped Mr. Ste
phens, for the sake of his own reputa
tion, will not be again caught in so un
enviable a position. But there is scarce
ly room for hope while he acts in con
cert with a party whose trade it is to
eaves-drop, slander and lie. Our great
fear is, that toq large a portion of our
time and energies will necessarily be
exhausted in exposing falsehood, to
permit full justice being donellie Ameri
can cause: fur it would require the
entire attention of any ordinary party
to protect the people against the imposi
tions of this Foreign, Dry Rot crew.
WHAT IS SAID OF FRANKLIN
COLLEGE.
The remarks below are found in the
letter of a correspondent of the Colum
bus Times 8f Sentinel. We would not
be understood as urging his views, but
we should be happy in commending any
course that would bring back former
patrouage—especially secure future
prosperity; our pride, as a Georgian,
prompts it, and our interest in the growth
of Athens equally operates to hope that
“ something will be done” to relieve
our institution from her present embar
rassments and place her above the criti
cism of newspaper scribblers. We
present these remarks to our readers,
simply that they may know what is
t jlked of in the world.
In ‘ 53 your correspondent attended the
Commencement exercises of the “ State
University,” and after expressing his
views of the advantages afforded, and
the glaring deficiencies, owing to the
parsimony of our legislators, was most
vociferously assailed, as decrying the
institution and wilfully misrepresenting
its advantages. It was but a few months
following, that an animated controversy
sprung up, in the eastern portion of the
State, upon this same subject, and has
been since so often referred to, that he
would be a partial and blind friend of the
University, indeed, who would not admit
that the State does herself but little honor
by pretending to keep up a University,
when not a sufficient salary even is af
forded to retain a professor of eminence
in the most important department—to
say nothing of the facilities, or want of
facilities rather’ patent in almost every
division.
“ It is in general more profitable to re
ckon up our deficiencies than to boast of
our attainments.” This is very mortify
ing to our vain natures but facts speak
for themselves very often, and like
Banquo’s ghost, will not down at our
bidding. So deplorably deficient has
Franklin College become in all the es
sentials to a College much more a Uni
versity that the Alumni have been con
sidering the scheme of taking the College
off the hands of the State and themselves
making an endowment which will give it
a respectable standing.
Patronage has been diminishing du£
ring the last few years; new Colleges
are started in various parts of the State;
sectarian institutions upon small founda
tions, are springing up everywhere,
while the entire number upon the com
bined catalogues would hardly supply a
patronage sufficient to sustain one good
University or College even. The thing
has almost become a farce. The whole
of them are beggars, and annually the
charity-box is handed/ound to sustain
our College—for our people, of our
churches, or, our section. It seems a
futile task to attempt an arrest of the evil,
but we will soon feel it, in superficial
acquirements, loose mental discipline,
and decaying establishments.
A Loose Cannibal !—We under
stand that Ilowell Cobb said, in a pub
lic speech, that he would agree to eat all
the r*en that voted for Overby, above
five thousand. We are under the im
pression if he docs, that even his appe
tite lor voters will be satisfied, and that
be will have much better tem
perance principles “ in his belly than he
has in bis head.”— Temp. Banner.
From the Chronicle tf Sentinel.
"Power is a Trust held from God, for
the commom good and may be forfeit
ed by abuse.”
The above is from “ A Catholic” in
the Constitutionalist Sf Republic of last
Sunday.
“ We hold these truths to be self-
evident—that all men are created equal
—that they are endowed by their Crea
tor with certain unalienable rights—-
that among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness That to secure
these rights, governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed—that
when any form of government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the right
of the people to alter or abolish it, and
to institute a new government.” This
is from our Declaration of Indepen
dence.
The above are distinct and diametri
cally opposite propositions. The first
is the exponent of a principle of vital
importance to the Roman Catholic
Church—and the other is of equal im
portance to all Democratic Americans.
Both cannot be true in this or any other
country at the same time, and in this
country the first is eminently false.
Here I would seriously suggest to
such Democrats a9 may be courting aid
from the Catholic Church, that they, if
not directly, are by implication, compro
mising the fundamental principles of
liberty, a political sin, the punishment
of which may, at no distant day, be
visited upon them with fearful retribu
tion.
It will not do to say, that the Catho
lic Church force in the country is small,
and consequently is not dangerous.—
Small as it may be, you dare not deceive
it, and if you take it by the hand it will
soon overgrow any limits you may pre
scribe. Sneaking and crawling, it will
be satisfied at first with the crumbs, but
it will live and grow, and finally kick
your children out of the inheritance
which your fathers provided for you.
In the same paper I observe a defiant
challenge by one “ Thomas Byrue, a
foreign born Roman Catholic,” to meet
any of the Know Nothing orators, with
in twenty days, at Atlanta, to discuss the
temporal power of the Pope of Rome,
&c.
Happening to have a copy of the Se
cret Instructions of the Jesuits—
Princeton edition, 1831—I have looked
into it with a view of satisfying my curi-
osi;y as to how such a discussion would
be conducted before tbe Democratic
people of Georgia. 1 find charter 11
ordering “ In what manner the society
must deport, that they may work them
selves into, and after that, preserve a
familiarity with noblemen, and persons
of great distinctionand it says:—
Princes and persons of distinction
every where must by all means
be so managed, that we may have
their car, and that will easily secure
their hearts, by which way of proceed
ing, all persons will become our crea
tures.”
your opponent with false crimes to take
away bis credit, as well as kill him.”
Again: “By the command of God, ii
is lawful to murder the innocent, to rob;
and to commit all lewdness, because he
is Lord of life, and death and all things
and thus to fulfil his mandate is our
duty.”
With these things before hint, can any
reasonable man expect that a foreign
Roman Catholic, (perhaps a Jesuit) go-
terned'by- principles utterly subversive
of honesty, truth, the authority of the
statute-laws and human life, will go into
a fair discussion of any question id
which the interests of his creed arh con-
concerned. I, for one, think such a
thing utterly 'mpossible. If the chab
lenge is accepted, the people of Atlanta
will have an opportunity'of seeing how
by pious fraud and dissembled sanctity
the fi iends of the Pope are working for
the exercise of power over them and the
rest of mankind.
Brother Jonathan.
In the appendix to this little work we
find a pretty clear indication of the
means to be used. Thus Lainez con
tended at the Council of Trent, “ that
Jesus Christ having the authority to
dispense with all sorts oflaws; the Pope,
his vicar, has the same authority.”—
“ Vallestigny, deputy of Alva, presented
to Ferdinand, the King of Spain, this
address: “The mass of the human fami
ly are born, not to govern, but to be
governed.” “ Pope.Pius VII in a rescript
addressed to his nuncio at Venice, asserts
his pontificial right to depose sovereigns ;
but he adds, although it is not always
convenient to exercise the jurisdiction.’
By the same Pope: “All marriages
without a Roman Priest’s celebration
a?e null and void.” “The Priests of the
United States, .like those of Ireland, are
extremely devoted to the Pope. They
are very rigorous in their exactions. In
due time, they will embarrass the Go
vernment of the United States, as those of
Ireland have disconcerted the British
Government.”
These facts will of course be denied,
but in tbe denial we may look for the
full development of other principles.
Thus, in regard to Honesty, it is held
that “ servants may steal from their
masters as much as they judge their labor
is worth, more than the wages they re
ceive. They deal with Truth thus:
“ It is lawful to use ambiguous terms to
give the impression a difierent sense from
that which you understood yourself.”
Agaiu: “ He who is not bound to state
the truth before swearing, is not bound
by his oath, provided he makes internal
restriction that excludes the present
case.” With regard to the authority of
the laws, they'say: “The spiritual
power must rule the temporal by all sorts
of means and expedients when necessa
ry.” They hold w ith regard to Homi
cide, that *• If an adulterous priest, even
aware of his danger, having visited an
adultress, is assailed by her husband,
kills the man in his own defence, it is not
criminal.” AgainYou may charge
THE “ DEMOSTHENES OF THE
MOUNTAINS” SHOWN UP BY
JOHN W. H. UNDERWOOD.
At a public meeting, where there was
a free discussion, at Fields’ Cross Roads
in Cherokee county, John W. H. Un*
dervvood, Esq., thus paid his respects
to Dr. Homer Virgil Maro Miller. Wo
think ‘ Demosthenes’' was somewhat
‘put through.' Col. Underwood said :
He charged upon him, (Dr. Miller)
that, in one day, he was seeking the
Democratic Anti-Know Nothing nomi
nation, as a candidate for Congress,
for the Fifth Congressional District, and
failing to receive it of being in a Know
Nothing Council on the next; of actu
ally caucassing with Democrats, to-day,
and, disappointed in his personal aspi
rations, of going over to the enemy to
morrow. His exposure and rebuke of
the “ lofty patriotism” (?) of this- “ Cata-
line of Rome,” electrified the crowd,
and told terribly against the * Order.'
We clip the foregoing from the Iasi
Federal Union. That the ponderous
blows dealt by Dr. Miller upon the pie
bald bead of bogus Democracy should
wrathfully rahe its dandruff, ievery
natural and excusable. It is also very
natural for it t<* try to break, as Sax a?
possible, their force, by the expedients
of ridicule and misrepresentation^—
Now, we think we know well the posi
tion of Dr. Miller. Since 1850, he has
uniformly acted with the Union Party,
and been identified with the Union De
mocracy. In 1853, as a Union Demo
crat, he declared his unwillingness to
vote for an opponent of the Georgia
Platform, and did not therefore support
Judge Johnson. In 1855, he adhered
to the same position, and assured us,
that he would not support Johnson
against an original Georgia Platform
candidate. His position upon this sub
ject was well known in the fifth dis
trict, as were also his views in regard
to the American Party. And we here
challenge any man to come forward and
prove that Dr. Miller has ever sought a
nomination from the Johnson democra-
cy, or pledged himself to support the
claims of its nominee. Yea, more; we
challenge them to show that he has ever
sought a nomination from the American
Party.
The position of Dr. Miller is a com
manding one. Since 1850, althongh
he voted for Gen. Pierce in 1852, he
has been identified fully with no politi
cal party, but has sympathised with the
Hard Democracy of the North- and
the Union men of the South. As he
and Judge Andrews have uniformly
acted together since 1850, he can very
consistently and appropriately advocate
and urge bis claims; and the ability and
zeal with which he is doing it, deserves
the admiration and praise of the true
friends of the country.
We know, and challenge contradic
tion, that Dr. Miller’s attachment to the
American Party was several months
prior to the meeting of the District Con
vention which nominated Judge Lump
kin. So much for that misrepresenta
tion. What next ?—South. Recorder.
So far as Col. Underwood—the “swift
witness” against Dr. Miller—is con
cerned, we do know, that at Habersham
spring court he professed great attach
ment for the principles of the American
party—said he had believed in them
ever since the Native American party
elected Levin to Congress—and mads
so clear and forcible an arguntont ^
their favor that we were induced to ask
him to furnish his views for publica
tion—which he promised to do. How
he happens to be so furious on the other
side now, we do not pretend to know.
As he has never been considered an office-
seeker, of course nobody will believe
that “ the wild hunt after office” has
had anything to do with his marvellous
conversion!
THE OFFICIAL VOTE OF VIR
GIN I A.
The Ric hmond Enquirer of Friday
the lOili inst. publishes the official vote
cast at the late election in Virginia. Tho
vote for Governor is as follows :
Wis: 83,4:4
Flournoy .734244
Wise’s majority....
.10,180