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THOUGHTS FOR THE PEOPLE
The opponents of the American parly,
ns the day of Election approaches, are
changing their mode of warfare, and
begin to abate somewhat of the vile and
gross abuse. Votes atq now wanting, as
they plainly discover, and these vSe*
they must obtain,.if possible, by hook
or by crook. Hence' the abatement of
their .-landers, ancrtbc effort to draw to
their supportiby every personal and poli
tical appliance, every voter that can be
won from, the American ranks. A
Know Nothing, who a few weeks ago
was denounced ns a traitor to his coun
try, and looked upon as a little worse
than an inmate of the bottomless pit, is
now regarded as a very excellent speci
men of humanity, provided he will sacri
fice all his feelings and- principles and
join the ranks of the bogus democracy.
This, we suppose, is all fair in politics,
in the event auy of our abused and
slandered friends can be found soft and
green enough to be thus used for the
base purposes of heartless demagogues.
We have said that the hour of these
vile slanders was passing away, and
giving place to a week or so of cajoling
and friendly bamboozling. This is only
strictly tme as to the efforts of individu
als. Pamphlets and handbills will be
sequences so injurious to the interest and
disgraceful to the character of the State.
Looking at the tiansactions, then, in
the light which they are obliged to pre
sent themselves to every honest man’s
mind, how can the most devoted parti
san justify such conduct or pretend that
ibe present Executive is worthy of
further confidence ? He may be a first
rate striker for pierce and his party, he
may be a capital' sample of the bogus
National Democracy ; but his conduct
certainly proves him to be rather the
poorest apology for an efficient Govern
or that has filled the office for a quarter
of a century.—-Columbus Enquirer.
JOHNSON ORGANS—SALE OF
STATE CARS-
What can be the matter with the John
son Organs 1 are they enjoying a Rip
V an Winkle snooze—or have their
Maiies entirely failed for the last week,
that they have not heard of the sale of
the State Cars by the Sheriff of Tennes
see? That something most extraordi
nary must have befallen them, there can
be no doubt. They all profess to be
news papers and assume to be faithful
sentinels on the watch tower. Yet. here
is an occurrences involving the inter
est and honor of the people and State,
of which not the . slightest notice is ta-
The Richmond Examiner and the
Charleston Mercury ore right—Wm. L.
Yancey of Alabama is rigbt-r-when they
assert that the Democratic Party of the
North, even if it has the will is utterly
powerless to prottet the South.
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OBDII, A no TUS CONSTITUTION.
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ATHENS, GA.
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 27. 1855.
For Governor,
GARNETT ANDREWS,
OF WILKES.
scattered broad-exht over the land con- k etl b » an y one of these watchful senti-
mining the same infamous libels that
■have been uttered and published for
months and filled with charges against
our party, which individual candidates
will be shy of retailing. This is r.ow the
system of tactics adopted by our oppon-
•ents. Their presses are to flood the
f>tate with every thing abusive of our
principles, whilst their candidates are to
worm their crooked way and-win what
of our friends they can, to aid them on
ward to power. The truth of this is
every where apparent ; the success of
the scheme may not be so certain.
The people of Georgia have bad their
fill of wlmt is termed national democracy.
"rite present national Administration has
convinced them that there is no kind of
reliance on the promises of men who
seek office only to enjoy the spoils, who
use the voters of the South as instru
ments to secure power, and then wield
that power to our ruin. Pierce, in his
free soil appointments, has read them a
striking lesson on this subject, and one
too which wc are inclined to think they
will not soon forget. Our opponents,
however, appear to think that Ibis con
duct on the part of the national admin
istration is already forgotten, and that the
people are ready to stultify themselves
again by endor ing the men who have
betrayed them.
Jn the election just ahead of us we
have-something else to look to besides the
•welfare of Pierce and his gang. The
interest, and honor, and welfare of our
State, demand some little consideration.
The present Executive is again a can-
-didate for re-election. Every voter has
aw important inquiry to make and answer
•for himself. Has the incumbent so acted,
rin his high office, ns to entitle him to
yyour support a second.time ? He may
£be a thorough going disciple of the Peirce
- lemocracy, he may look with longing
•eyes to the flesh pots that sit in the
kitchen of the National Executive, and
promise his supporters savory viands and
greasy doings uiereform. But this will
not exactly answer the purpose. It is
"it!-, him, as the Governor of Georgia,
ihat ihc people intend to deal at present.
The question returns, what has he done
in that responsible office to entitle him to
a re-election ? What great measure ot
public policy has he proposed? What
reform in the thousand abuses that have
crept into the administration of the af
fairs of the Stale has he ever tried to
accomplish ? Ilisfriends must answer
these questions, for we are at a loss to
know, or to answer.
But still lie has done some things
■which will murk his official career, he
has been guilty of some acts which have
aroused the indignant feelings ofliis con
stituents, and which,’ but fur the power
of party drill, would consign him here
after to merited disgrace. His friends,
at onetim ■, claimed for him high and
honorable feelings, a character above re
proach, and an honesty that would not
stoop to gain success by low and grovel
ling means. I !:v? he sustained this lofty
vaunt, has he come up to this high mark ?
By no tranner of means. The- history
of the transaction with Maj. Coop.r set
tles the question. It shows beyond all
truthful denial that he did sacrifice the
interest of the State in order to regain
the good will of a powerful opponent to
whom he had given offence. The testi
mony of M »j. Cooper, shows that this
official stooping and cringing was volun-
nrv on the part of his Excellency.
What now becomes of the riduculous
fury of his friends which this grave
charge at first aroused 1 The Governor,
they said, was above such conduct, lie
Was an honorable, high-minded man. and
they, for him, scorned the imputation
which the charge conveyed. But un
fortunately Maj. Cooper comes in with
a sort of li l t hand' ll e xtenuation of the
offence, ard liisteris the charge beyond
«h<: power of all unloosing. And yet
Johnson is a man that shall be again
vlrtVatod to the office which he thus pros
trates to his own pi rsonal and political
purposes!
But again. Within a week or two
pa-t the Sheriff of.a m ighbiring State
lias levied on and sold, at a great sacri
fice, the cars belonging to our great Slate
Load, at ihc very moment that the
Governor and his friend., arc pretending
tbul large amounts received from the
State road are pail into the treasury.
What kind of management is this? We
hail heard that the ignorance and in-
cotnpetency of 4h« Governor’s pet Solici
tor, Cowart, lmd caused the Mate to
lose, in a controversy with Tennessee,
some (bitty or forty thousand dollars,
but we were not exactly prepared to
li-hove that llie loss would be followed
up by. the sacrifice of the State’s pro
perty to ivhivh we have alluded. It was
hud enough to appoint such a fellow a-
Cowell, without any showing or legal,
authority, but it is njousttpgs that his
pjipo;Mtine»l Ttall be followed up by con-
nels id’ the public weal. We have not
seen in any one of them even an allu-
eion to the fact of the sale—much less
any attempt to palliate or excuse the
outrage. What does this mean ? Why
For Congress—Sixth District,
Col. L. FRANKLIN.
. For State Senate,
CINCINNATI^ PEEPLES,
For Representatives,
JOS. B. CARLTON asd THOS. F. LOWE.
FREE BARBECUE AND DISCUS
SION.
The American Party will givo a
Free Barbecue on to-morrow at Young
this sHenre ? Do they hope by this j Elder’s Spring, near the Paper-mill—on
line of policy to keep the news of the which occasion a free discussion is ex
sale from reaching the public ear ? If! pected.
Mme e ymeT“eferr«niVo\hTcow‘ a nj *> *'- ry Clay," published in 1846, (before
appointment, and the Cooper arrange-, ten d* Mr. Cobb was charged with being a
ment, and as the election is near ! .i to vaitr n tct? a t? t it»> member of it,) copious extracts are made
£«Ia!iS '.“The 0 saleT j We have calmly.’ dHp.raion.tely, I f '“» • P° M «' •«*•» “ f “ S “'">
Cars. We shall see.— Chronicle and honestly and fairly—as far as human
Sentinal. frailty would permit—discussed the prin
ts TAMMANY SOCIETY A POLITICAL
OR SOCIAL ORGANIZATION»
When we charged Mr. Cobb with
being a member of that corrupt and
corrupting secret political organization
known as Tammany Society, we Hid
so with a full knowledge cf the fact,
that it is, and always has been, ever
since we can remember any thing con
cerning politics, a political organiza
tion. His Ex-Excellency, seeing that,
inasmuch as he was furiously denounc
ing secret political societies, this expos
ure would place him in an awkward po
sition, at once adopted his usual expe
dtent of writing a letter, in which he
admitted his membership in the Tam
many .Society, but most recklessly de
nied its political character, and assured
his friend that it was a harmless social
organization, in the face of the fact that
all men of intelligence knew that it was
solely political and had exercised
controlling influence upon the politics
of this country for years past.
To settle the question of veracity be
tween us, we procured and published a
political speech which he had made be
fore the Tammany Society. Since
then we have seen nor heard nothing
from him on the subject—though we
have gathered additional testimony on
onr side.
In “ Colton’s Lifeand Times of Hen-
How Johnson and Cowart Bene- c5 P ,es of llie America " part >’ from
fit the People.— Fifteen Railroad t* m © in our columns, and as this is
cars belonging to the State Road were the last issue before the election,'we can
of Tammany, or Columbian Order,
signed by “ Clarkson Crolius, Grand
Sachem,” and other officers of the Socie
ty, and dated October 4, 1819.
So it seems that the Tammany Soci-
recentjy sold at Chattanooga, for about do nothing better lban , 0 urge our frit . nds | ety was a political organization long be
pr f e . nt ' n ?? a ° eme . nt to turn out m morse on tl.e dav of the ! fore we were born! I^eed, it appean
of the Road it has i/iH «’« debt to the to ,urn outfB m<Wse on ,,MJ d «y°fthe
appears
,. . . ... , t . i by this very document, that it was in
which is next Monday. Let | f ... -
trust you will publiSS^this disclaimer,
and oblige,
Very respectfully,yours
J. KNOWLES.
P. S.—When the charge first appear
ed, I deemed it too absurd to notice.
Absence and indisposition caused the
reiteration of it to escape my attention.
J. Knowles
Tennesee Boys some ^40,0011—$37/election . —. ,
800 unpaid. How many more cars at 1 every one of them go to the polls, deter- ,be fielda3 a .P olU,Cal 0r f nuat,on ,h,r
the rates the above sold for, will m ; ned j 0 discharge ibe imperative dutv I J ears anterior to that time . So that
Johnson and Cowart acquire to satisfy . . .. , . .V i it seems that this political association
this !a«t debt ? How much did theif. they owe to themselves, to theircliddren,; ... . , „
i,” 1 ® *?.„ , e 1 ’ fr° W , muc i d,u tuese _ , - . has now been in existence a period of
260 (if the road has that number) cost their God and their country. | . . ,
the people of Georgia ? Good box cars We regard the present as one of the i six, >’* 6,3t >’ rars - And J et Howe11 Cojb »
i. ia said *600 each, at ,ha, rah, J m0! , im pomira , „ Ucll I «*» confeaaien, haa no.
the people Will have to ell S156.000' , . ,. „ , I yet found out that it is a political socie
in cars to nav this Johnson indphtod ' has occurred within our recollection, anil, 4 ...
in cars 10 pay tms jonnson indebted-, , ; _• tv! 1! If he really believes that it is a
ness to the Tennessee boys. People its result may influence the destiny of, . .
of Georgia, this must come out of your ' mi m 0 ns yet unborn. | soc,al or S an '™"™, »*e 18 I S norant to
pockets, unless the present management 1 It j ot , collte *t between 1 r *T resent the people in Congress, and if
of the Road is given to some one else . i #i f • • he docs not believe bis own statement,
besides Hersche! V. Johnson.—Colum- American nationality nnd the foreign. . ,
bus 'Enquirer. 'influence in our country, but also be-1 le ls °° conu P • ea 1:1 r,en
_ I twe „ rel ig5o U g liberty and papal intol- , Can cb °° Se wbichever Il01 » suits « heni
'best.
There is another fact connected with
THEIR NOR THERN ALLIES, i e rance and bigotry—between.Protestant
In every northern Slate, says the 1 - , . ° . .. ,
Macon Messenger, in which general elec-1 re ^ om a ' 11 0 10 l - m - this Tammany address, that is rather re
lion, hare been held since .he pnenge j Le. no tree (nend of Ins eonn.r, un- m , rUb|e „ ta fl|V „ r of Jome! , ic
of the Nebraska Kansas act, the great dervaluc the importance of this contest, 1 c ,
invincible National Democratic Party J b ,, t , et eve one etern , determine,' manufaclurt6and
has suffered disaster and defeat. | . . * ■ . 1
In almost nearly every Northern (® od filing his helper) to
State, the great invincible National De- ! “Strike, till the last arm’d foe expires;
raocratic Party is in the minority—power- ■ Strike for your altars and your fires;
less, even if it had the will to protect; Strike for the green graves of your 6irc»,
God,and your native land!”
the rights of the South, or to cheek the !
progress of Freesoil encroachments.
In every Northern State without one >
solitary exception, the great invincible,;
National Democratic Party has yielded
to the popular clamor against the Ne-
opposed to foreigners
and foreign influence in this coin.try !
Any one who feels any curiosity on tlu-
subject, can find the whole matter on
pages 294 to 301, 2d vol. Colton’s Life
and Times of Henry Clay.
Now we beg the people to bear in
mind, that this Tammany Society is not
THE MAILS !
When we say that at no former pe- , .. . ^ ...
..... J ... . 1 only a political association—but, bein
riod within our recollection have we
bruska bill, and the repeal of the Mis- seen and heard such a universal and
souri Compromise ; and if it has defend
ed it at all, has done it upon the ground
that it wus a triumph of Freesoil, and an
extension of the area of freedom, “even
to the Isthmus of Darien,” to use Gen.
Shields’ expression.
In every Northern State, (with the
exception of Indiana and Massachusetts,
—and in the latter State it is but a
corporal’s guard of FedralofficiaU,) the
great invincible, National Democratic
Party, wherever it has met in State
Convention, t > announce its position in
view of the Presidential canvass of L85C,
the head and front of the New York
.. , ... „ . “Softs”'(the Administration wing of
wide-spread complaint in reference to' ... , ,, »rJ-w •
.the party) it is thoroughly ABOLI-
TIONIZED !! ! a.gang of traitors who
doubt that the observation of every one
will confirm the correctness of the re
mark.
ought to be hanged as high as Haman—
and as such, this “ delightful and ele-
So many complaints reach us from S™t" Tammany crowd, among whom
points within a hundred miles of this
Gov. Cobb is a shining light, was re
place, to the effect that our paper | cenl, J denounced in unmeasured terms
misses all the time anti the Banner ty the Hards!
never fails, that we are satisfied that j People of the 6th District! Howell
.i-.ucm.ncanv some of the understrappers of the Jesu- CcM is not only a member of a secret
Ins refused to endorse the Nebraska bill!Postmaster General are determined to . P°Utical society, but that society is a
or has gone farther, and declared in i impair the usefulness of our paper in S' J ng of red-mouthed Abolitionists!!!
favor of the restoration of the Missouri .l:„ :_r
Compromise. We refer particularly to
the recent State Conventions ot the
Administration Democracy of Pennsyl
vania, Maine and New York.
this manner. Indeed, we were inform-
If this and his '* Wilmot’’ vote does
ed by a respectable gentleman last week ( not sal ‘ s ly y° u tbat be wou 1 do ^ or
that a postmaster in Franklin county ' Southern men to trust-why, then, you
had told him that he had refused to let! wil1 believe ’ eve ” th °" gh ° ne
should rise from the dead!
The native State of Gen. Fierce— j three or four of his neighbors have our
ni CN p. mnpr-n^L- 1 i ' V u . sl °P°^ -paper from his office and had ordered
Senate of the United States by a FreesoU i,s discontinuance, because they had AK0TIIE[t “ROORBACK 1 NAIL
no business taking an American paper! j ED!
Now is not such conduct insufferable? j The puerile, silly and ridiculous sto-
Certain postmasters and grog-shop *7 *hat a Milledgeville editor had said
Democrat! John P. Hale.
Illinois, the adopted State of Mr.
Douglass, (who has succeeded in steal
ing from Mr. Dixon, of Kentucky, and , . ... .• . -a- “ 1
appropriating to himself, all the credit '« ad ers will continue tr.fl.ng with us
and all the glory of originating the pro- unt d we show them up in their true
position for the repeal ol llie Missouri colors. We shall have leisure to attend
al-
Compromise,) is represei.ted in the! to their cases after the flection, and we
3eimte of the United States by n Tree. , , , „ ,, ,
Soil Democrat'.-Lyman Trumbull. i donow P ,ed g e oursc,f that ,f ^ do
Recent elections have sent four Free! mrt cease meddling with our business
Soil Democrats to the Senate of the we will make their very names a stench
United States to conspire with Wilson, jn honest mau . 8 nostril8 .
Sumer and Seward, against the Con
stitution,the Union and then rights of llie
South, viz: Hale from New Hampshire,
Dur .ee from Wisconsin, Harlan from
Iowa, and Trumbull from Illinois—all
Fi we Soilers, aye, and ail Democrats—
as reliable upon the subject of slavery as
A. W. Reeder, or John Van Buren, or. _ , . . r-.* ii \j:i
many others of ibe officials or the favor- | ballot-box. Let them see that there is ments, in which it is alleged, that a Mil
ites of the Pierce Administration. i no illegal voting permitted and no frauds
This then is a general view of the ' com niitted
™, Jitioi. of the great, mvineibloNaUoo- ^ aW and qlliel | t0
at Democratic l arty ol the North, upon' 6 / • , n u ,~ l ,ia
which Georgia Democrats ask us to lean l lte —kt thetfl'ttujlioUsly avo.d all e-wrote to the u g , J; _ t
GUARD THE BALLOT-BOX!
The enemies of A mericanism having,
by their unscrupulous and reckless course,
shown themselves to be capable of any
enormity, let our friends look well to the
in this place, during Commencement
week, that Judge Andrews’ letter of
acceptence was not fit to go before t‘ie
public until he (the said editor) had
“licked'itinto shape”—which “Roor
back” originated in this place—is thus
nailed to the counter >y the Rev.
Knowles, the Milledgeville editor
luded to.
Milledgeville, Ga., Sept. 19,1855.
To the Editors of the Savannah
Georgian ;
Gentlemen ;—I observe in your pa
per of yesterday an extract from the
Athens Banner, accompanied with com
CAUGHT AGAIN !
The Foreign party have certainly ex
hibited greater industry in lying than
any pnrty that ever took the field be
fore, but they have been exceedingly
unfortunate in suffering almost imme
diate detection ia nearly every instance.
No sooner was the sale of the cars of
the State Road by the Tennessee She
riff made known to the public than num
bers of “ the faithful” attempted to
clear it up—some saying that the Super
intendent sent an agent to buy in the
cars, and others, with sundry knowing
winks and nods, assuring the “ Dirn-
mocracjr” that there were grave reasons
for it, which, for the present, must be
kept secret. Sundry and various other
explanations have been offered, equally
puerile and ridiculous.
We call the attention of our readers
to the following statement of a witness
on the spot—a disinterested gentleman,
wh«» furnished it for the Chronicle &
Sentinel :
Chattanooga, Sept. 21,1855.
J. W. Jones, Dear Sir: Yours of the
20ih inst. was received at 5 o'clock this
evening, hardly giving me time to reply
with such full information as I could do
with another mail.
Mr. Robert Campbell, deputy Sheriff
for Hamilton county, levied on 15 cars,
belonging to the Western & Atlantic
R. R., to satisfy cnc fi. fa. in favor of
Poole & Co., and one in favor of McTier
—which fi. fas. were from judgments
awarded by Judges at Cleveland, by
consent of parties.
Those cases were long in litigation,
and with" others were removed from’this
(Hamilton) county.* These fi. fas. were
levied on the 2Slh or 29th of August,
and advertised according to our laws,
ten days, at t/ireepublic places, in the
town and county.
The cars were sold on Saturday the
8th day of this month, at public outcry
to the highest bidder. No agent or
any other perron for the State of Geor
gia, was T here. Even Mr. Welsh, the
agent of the Depot here, had gone down
to Marietta to his family, where he goes
nearly every Saturday.
Judge Robert M. Hooke, whom I
bate just conversed with, says : he at
tended the sale entirely at his own in
stance, without the knowledge of any
agent or representative for Georgia, and
bid for and bought them on his own
account. Fifteen were levied on, but
two had been misplaced, and only thir
teen were sold, which brought 81680,
an average of $129.23 each. The cars
were Box and Platform, but little used,
and were worth an average of $590
each, cash. Judge Hooke, after the
sale, voluntarily told one of the clerks if)
the Depot here, to say to Major Welsh,
at his return, that if he would pay him
the money again, by the 13th, he would
give back the cars to him. The money
was paid on the 15th, and no return
charge made by Hooke, who could have
done ro, as he was not under any obli
gation to the parties.
These judgements for*$36000, have
given the parties plaintiffs a deal of trou
ble, and every one collected by them
has been al a discount. Thos. Calloway,
President of the Ocoee Bank, has been
buying them at such discount as he
could arrange in trade with the parties.
I could not see the Sheriff, else 1 could
report the balance due. Grenville,
Pardue, James, Ramsey and one other,
have been paid in a heavy sham.
Yours, truly,
H. W. MASSINGALE.
fraud are countenanced in this inannei 1 ,
no man’s life or property is safe.
Let our friends be «»n the elert—let
them be, watchful and vigilant—they
have an enemy to deal with that will
scruple at nothing which is low and
mean.
We have in this county a ticket of
which the friends of American nation
ality and Protestant civilization may feel
justly proud. This, too, is the case, so
far as we have learned, in all this region
of the State, Let our friends in the
several counties, therefore, see to it,
that the Legjblative ticket shall have
the undividetFSUpporl of the party. Let
there be no **jplitting” or “ swapping”
of tickets. |
ledgeville editorstated, during the late
Commencement in Athens—“That
Judge Andrews’ Letter of Acceptance
was sent to him : that after reading it,
NEVER GIVE UP!
As the American party is engaged in
a contest for principle, and not a
mere scramble for office—it is of the ut
most importance to the success of our
principles, that whether success or de
feat awaits us on Mouday next, the bat
tle shall go on, with unabated zeal—
yea, with redoubled energy 1 Men are
but transitory—principles are eternal.
If our principles be correct—and who
honestly doubts them ? not one of the
bitterest enemies of the cause—they
will be just as important after the elec
tion as they were before.
The American party in the States of
North Carolina and Tennessee—where
it was recently partially defeated—
keeps up as brisk a fire to-day, and far
more effective, than all its efforts be
fore the late elections. Let us then
imitate their glorious example. Re
member, the Presidential campaign
will shortly open. One year and a menth
from this time a President is to elect
Let all true Americans keep their armor
bright. Let them be “ instant in season
and out of seas-in.” Let them not fold
their hands in idleness until a victory
unparalleled in political warfare, shall
crown their efforts.
It was related of old Zach,” after
the battle of Buena Vista, that Santa
Anna remarked to a friend that the
American General had been whipped
three times that day, if he had had sense
enough to know it; “ but the d—d old
fool,” added he, “ lought on, and gain
ed a victory at last!”
Let our friends learn a lesson from
this; and, like old Zach, let them fight
on, whether success or defeat attends
them, until the foreign e nemy (as did
Santa Anna and his army) retires Irom
the’field without waiting to bury his
dead!
blackguards who care neither for coun
try nor religion, provided they can be
permitted to fill their pockets at the
public crib. S
The conduct of these creatures—
seven-fold worse than that of the Tories-
of the Revolution, for they were taught
that loyalty to their king was their
highest duty—is sowing broadcast seeds-
of discord which the lapse of years can--
not obliterate. Indeed, it is a wonder
to us that the indignation of true Ameri
can patriots can be restrained at all
when these hired minions of the old-
Mother of Harlots” abuse them as
though they were dogs!!
Our advice to our friends, however,
is, to keep cool. The people, whec-
properly enlightened, will consign these-
miserable tricksters to their proper place
here, and their own stupendous wicked
ness will give them a suitable location
hereafter !
BE NOT DECEIVED!
Let the voters of Georgia remember,
that they are called upon to decide—
not whether the Whig or Democratic
parties were in their day, right, (for they
have both passed away)—not whether
secret political socie'ies are necessary :
they too are gone, and the American
party an open organization—but wheth
er the principles of the American party,,
(as set forth in the Philadelphia and.
Macon platforms,) are correct. The-
chief corner-stone cf the platform ia the-
doctrine that “ Americans shall rule-
America. ’ Those who oppose this,
must necessarily 'hold: that “ Americans
shall not rule America.” There is no
dodging the issue. It is a plain one, and
every voter must espouse one side of the
other, “ Those who are not for us are
against us.”
Voters of Georgia ! before go mg to
the polls next Monday morning, call up
your children—such of you as have
any—observe their helpless innocence
—and then if you can coolly determine
that when they arrive at maturity they
ought to be crowded out of aH offices
and driren from theix very homes by
the foreigner and the alien —then, rote
the Foreign ticket l If you. have not
determined to sacrifice your children’s
rights for the-benefit of party, then, fop
God’s sake; let your voice and influence:
be heard: and felt on the side of your
own eouojtsy and countrymen 1
reply, directed
“' so ar
range it”
As I was at Athens during the Com
mencement, 1 presume allusion is made
to me in the foregoing extract i and in
I'vr support, mid to which they ask us to angry altercation—let them keep the ' > tbat t * ie J ud S e . J*P J*,.
look for lli*» vindication of constitutional peace; but, by all means, watch the bnl- ,m *° >
principles and ibe protection of Southern tot . b and d against illegal voti
rights 1 A minority throughout the _ , °
Northern Suites—in rapid process of DON’T FORGET
p^m'mble to‘Jrotert^'imTnd 1 me^^or Tbat Wilmot vote and Mr. Cobb’s' reply, will merely ohserve, that neither
defend sound principles—routed, disor- membership in St. Tammany Society, of the editors ol the Recorder saw Judge
ganized, denationaliz 'd and afflicted with which is the head and front of the New Andrews’ Letter of Acceptance, until it
the ‘ dryrot”—this is the broken reed York D.-mocracy !—the “ social organi-, appeared in prrnt, and therefore, could
upon which Georgia Democrats would zation before which bis Ex-Excellency is have made no such statement. :
have the South to lean. j wont to make political speeches} j As an act of justice tQ all parties, I
OUR COUNTY CANDIDATES
We trust that it is not necessary to
remind our friends in the several coun
ties that, inasmuch as it is exceedingly
desirable that the American party shall
have a majority in the Legislature, it is
of the utmost importance that they
should look well to their county tickets.
In this county, the enemy, aware of
his weakness, and driven to desperation
in view of impending defeat, has resort
ed to the most unparalleled system of
lying and abuse ever witnessed any
where—a course of couduct which must
utterly damn the actors in it in the esti
mation of all honorable men.
. It was at first charged that Mr, Pee
bles, our candidate for Senator, and
Mr. Lowe, one of the candidates for the
other hranoh, were prohibitionists, A s
soon as this base (khriosti on was nailed
to the coqnter, a story was industrious
ly circulated that Peeples had furnished
money to “ treat on.” This is row be
ing repeated by men who kqow it to be
false! In such a cognmunity, where
lying and has? deception, cheating and
BRAZEN MENDACITY.
The organs and orators of the For
eign party in Georgia have exhibited
thus iar the most perfect dissegacd of
truth and fair-dealing that has ever dis
graced, a party struggle u* oar day.—
No lie is so monstrous as to stagger
them in the least—no device too Iow„
and mean, and contemptible for them U>
stoop to. They may, possibly, by this
unscrupulous course,so far delude- the
people as to gain a temporary .victory.
This, however, we will not believe until
an actual count of the vote shall dis
close the fact. IF they should’ succeed
in this way, their triumph, will be brief—
as the honest voters cannot be bam
boozled forever. They will detect the
frauds practised upon them by these
gambling politicians, and, insulted by
the discovery, fierce indeed will be their
resentment. Every hypocritical knave-1
who has contributed to deceive them
will be forced to“ walk the [dank,” aud-
their very names become a hissing and
a by-word !
We had rather be defeated a thousand
times over, than to resort. to the low
trickery, the base defamation of charac
ter—the downright, absolute lying
practised by these political mounte
banks. Let the American party so con
duct itself that, if defeated, it may proud
ly and truthfully say, “ We have not
lost all—WE HAVE PRESERVED OCR
HONOR.” '
We have seen from the beginning,
and daily witness the whole foreign
pack—“ Tray, Blanche and Sweet
heart”—in full cry after the purest and
best men in the State—descendants of
those who fought the battles of the
Revolution—vilely denouncing them as
* traitors,’ “ conspirators,’ * assassins,’—
and for what ? Simply because they
love their own country, for which theip
fathers fought, and their own country-,
men, better than they do the hordes of
foreign convicts and paupers daily land
ing upon our shores, to swell the tide of
crime, pauperism and abolition! 1 This
is the' 1 head aqd front of their offencW
ing,” is for this, and their firm ad
herence to that glorious Protestant rer
ligion for which the army of martyrs
fought* and the first principles of which
they learned, in. their mother’s laps-r-tfiot
they are hunted with a blood-hound
BRIGHT 1
We-neaently. heard.a., mam m a- neiglf-
j boring county riolently declaiming in a
crowd ia, the following style : “ I don’t
want any other Constitution—the one
Washington and ou* foiefathers gover
ns is good enough lot me. This.-
Amerieae party wants, to change it so.
las to make such men as you and me-
slaves! The rich men about here:
hava’t negroes enough to satisfy them>.
and'so they have determined to change
;the Constitution, so? as-to make slaves of!
poor people ! 1 P”
Now, one would think that nobody is
fool enough, to be deceived by such liea.
as the above, aadyct we have nodoubfe
that several men in the crowd believed
it. We were completely “ done for”
by the oralox, who. we took to be some
poor ignorant feHon unable to read ^
hence we remarked to him that we
hoped the American, party would so.
change the law that every white child
in Amerieu might be- at least so fan
educated as to know, that such ‘‘ raw-
head-and-bloody-bones’* stories as he
was "detail ing were hut the weak- fabric
cations of cross-road politicians.”
Judge of our surprise, when informs
ed that he was one of the leaders of the-
county and had held an important of-,
flee.
It is thus that artful and designing;
meu stir up the prejudices ol the igno
rant portion of the community againsft
the American party.
This story about making slaves of'
white folks is intended for the poor peo
ple. They have one for the rich, also,
which is that the Know-Nothings are-
Abolitionists ! There is just as muebu
truth in one as the other,
__—i —-
What Brownson said!—“It (tho
Catholic church) must become the arbi
ter between the State and the subject..
It must guard the roan by interposing its
flaming sword as a defence. It must
construe constitutions and expound laws,,
deciding where is the limit of centralized
power, and what is its absolute duty to-
perform.’*
“The Pope is the proper Power to
decide whether the Constitution of the
Country ia or is not repugnrnt to tke-
Laws of God.”
In his Review of October, 1852, Mr
Brownson said ;
“The liberty of heresy and unbelief
is not a natural right.—All the rights
the 6ects have or can have are derived,
from the State, and rest on expediency.
As they have in their character of sects
hostile to the true religion, no right*
true
under the law of God, tlu-y are neither 1
wronged orelenrived of liberty if ther
T* -AX TT VVUU r rTT" State refuses to'grant them any right*
ferocity RRd denounced by hireling ( al a j b ”