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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. ixittt jem 1 Bair! ilium. LAW OBDII, A no TUS CONSTITUTION. l@Hl 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 ”