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SENDING DELEGATES TO CINr
CINNAT1.
At a late meeting of the “ Democrat
ic ami Anti-Know Nothing” tqpmbers
of ihe Legislature in Milledgeville, the
f>U»wiug resolution was adopted:
Hrsolccrl, That the Democratic and
A-uti Know Nothing party of the several
counties of the State of Georgh nre re
queued n* send as ’na v delegates to
M illmigevt'le as they are entitled to mem-
1 e s in the Legislature; ton Convention
of the party to he held on the loth of
.! anuary next, for the purpose of appoint
ing delegates to the National Conven
tion at Cincinnati, and to take such
other steps as may be necessary to pic-
pare for the Presidential contest of 1850.
Thus, it appears, the old line, con
servative . Whigs of Georgia are to be
" rop^d in,” and made to wear the collar
of the Democratic spoilsmen, by send
ing delegatus to the Democratic Con
vention at Cincinnati. What! Georgia
Whigs uniting in sending delegates to
a Democratic Convention! Yes, such
is the programme indicated in the above
exhaust sophistry atid fraud, but
still glares out upon us, that the
cratic party is denationalized by
tit nisni.
Let us next see what bill of health the
Know Nothing order presents. With ^
armor on and vis >r down, it dashed State,
upon the field with loud promises to
alley, sectional excitement, and inau
gurate a political milienium. Has the
performance been equal to the manifes
to ? While the swaddling clothes yet
hung about it, aud the baptismal water
was dripping from its infant brow, it
met in a National Convention. In the
shodow of Independence Hall, and amid
their heroic memaries of ’70, it was to
renew the Constitution. o! the facts.
After a weary pilgrimage, and a spas
modic gestation, it brought forth a plat-
orm. But even such as it was, the
Freescilers trampled it under foot/ At
Philadelphia the party wrestled hard
and long; but no—the fanatics bade
the spirit of nationality face the “ vul
ture eye” of Abolitionism, and march
to its hellish tattoo, or die. The na
tionality of the order is dead. If, then,
existing national parties are incurably
infected with the freesoil taint, is there
any hope that a new national organiza
tion- will arise, free from its corruption,
resolution. Are they prepared to ratify jand defiant to its demands? Who are
and carry out this programme? Are to compose it? Are not all the people
they willing to affiliate with a party
which the Charleston Mercury, a re-1
liable Democratic organ, pronounces
of the North in some one of the parties
already named, or members of the abo
lition party proper ? Can a majority of
these be reformed from their freesoil
“ abolitionizeJ, dismembered and pros- sentiments ? or, are there enough sound
men lingering around the national party
organizations to form a new party ?—
trate,” and hence it warns its party
against any affiliation with the Cincin
nati Democratic Convention. And
has it come to this, that old line Georgia
Whigs, are willing to go into a Conven
tion which South Carolina Democrats
repudiate ?
We have said South Carolina Demo
crats repudiate the Convention. We
have already laid before our readers
the views of the Charleston Mercury,
and we now propose to introduce to
them the testimony of Messrs Keitt
and Botce, two prominent members of
Congress front that State, who have in
most earnest terms warned their fellow
Democrats against such a pollution as
the dishonor as going into the National
Democratic Convention at Cincinuat
would attach to them :
r.etrnct of a speech delivered at Barnwell
Court House, S. C., on the loth of Octo
ber, 185.'!, by the lion. S. M Keitt.
1st. What hope is there for us in
National parties ?
We cannot determine this question
without examining into the condition of
national parties in the Republic, and
also the elements necessary to such an
organization. Three parties havo re
cently shared the affections and support
of the American people, and aspired to
nationality ; the Whig, Democratic and
Know-Nothing parties. In what con
dition are they ? The Whig party is
disbanded, dislocated, and dead, in its
party action. Hero and there a shred
of its old banner shivers to the wind,
and. at rare intervals, its well known
bugle call is sounded by some of its old.
leaders; but the party has desered its
flag and taken up with strangers. IIow
hippens it, that a great historical party,
which boasted so much of the wealth,
intelligence and gallantry of the coun
try, has given up its identity, abandoned
its prinaiples, and turned it* back
upon its leaders? The answer bodes
much of strife, for the an. wer is, Aboli
tionism, The Northern wing of the
Whig party, being in a large majority,
pressed its froesoil demands upon the
Southern portion of the pt.rty until the
latter became hopelessly prostrated at
the South. In a spasm of despair, or in
an agony of alarmed patriotism, it then
turned upon its faithless ally of the
North, and tore asunder the ligaments,
which bound them together. Thus,
He who believes so, is sanguine and
credulous indeed. But let us conduct
the examination a step further. Upon
what is party organization founded ?—
Upon sentiments and principles.- A
party not founded npon these, is a base
aggregation of venal spoilsmen.
What, then, are tbe sentiments and
principles prevalent at the North? Arc
they not fieesoil ? Twenty years ago
Abolitionism was puny and insignifi
cant. Its supplications were trampled
under foot, and its threat despised. Its
meetings were rudely broken.up—its
principles denounced, and its members
dishonored. Compact, inflexible, un
compromising, it has moved on, until at
last it has destroyed the most powerful
parties, and from iheir fragments, has
built up one, atrocious in its purpose,
furious in its energy, and unsparing in
its vengeance. It has reached this con
summation by means the most multi
tudinous, the most subtle and the most
irresistible. It has laid hold of ambi
tion, of venality, of educational appli
ances, and of religion. Through its unity
it acquired strength enough to subsidize
ambition—through patronage it tempt
ed venality, through schools and colleges
it corrupted and distorted the mind in
its earliest unfoldi igs—and through the
pulpit it canonized the Saviour of man
kind into a Freesoil propagandist. From
the control of the States it marched for-,
ward to clutch the sceptre of federal
dominion. It has sullied our common
record with its frauds, and deformed our
Government with its usurpations.
These are the opinions and views of
Mr. Keitt. Let us now turn to Mr.
Boyce, and hear him on the same sub
ject. In a speech delivered at Sumter--
ville, So. Ca., on the 7th of November
last, “ after stating in detail his objec
tions to the State’s being represented in
the National Democratic Convention,
which is to be held in Cincinnati in May
next, Mr. Boyce proceeded to consider
the claims of the Democratic party upon
the fealty of the Democracy of South
Carolina. In doing so he discussed the
merit claimed for the Democratic party,
on account of the passage of the Ne-
braskJ bill. Admitting that ‘some of
the Northern men who were active in
, , i the movement were actuated by the
bound them together. 1 hus, L . J
under the corrupting influences of Abo-1 no ‘ ) > est motives,’ and, accorded to them
litionism, the massive Whig organiza-1. all honor’ for their conduct on that
would oppose'the*
nd thus break
resting on
North, from her
izalioii, would
and make it a free
having had a fair
chance could not blame their Northern
allies, and the Democratic party would
remain masters of the situation. That
was a great scheme, comprehensive,
cratiy, and sagacious, and only needed
the impress of success to stamp it as a
master' movement in. party tactics.
Under this view of the case I do not
see that we are under an insupportable
weight of gratitude to the Democratic
party; certainly the burden is not as
heavy as Atlas bad to bear on his shoul
der. But if the Democratic party had
stood up to the Nebraska bill after its
passage, I could hardly have felt at lib
erty to have raised the veil Which con
cealed the secret working of the machin
ery ; but, after they had perfected their
work, they fled from it in dismay and
repudiated their own offspring. In al
most the entire North, with the except
tibn of three or Tour of the Northwestern
States where Judge Douglas’s influence
was paramount, the Democratic party
dodged the Nebraska bill or took ground
against it. How, then, can I be asked
to put confidence in a party which has
no confidence in itself, but falsifies its
own action? Lord Chatham said that
confidence was a plant of slow growth
in an aged bosom. It is never a plant
of hasty growth in the bosom of any wise
statesman. The present position of the
Democratic party is certainly not such
as to invite us to quit out own firesides
and take up bed and board with them
Had Mr. Boyce ever seen the speech
of Senator Douglass, at Indianapolis,
he certainly would not have giren him
credit for being “ true” to the South.—
In that speech Judge Douglass, “ with
a view to commend the bill to the favot a-
ble consideration of the Freesoil hear
ers, hj look the ground that the objection
to the Missouri Compromise Line was*
that while slavery was prohibited North
of the line, it was legalized South of it
and that by the repeal of that part cf ihe
.Missouri Compromise, the whole of the
territory of the United States, South of
the line, was opened to freedom ! He
ridiculed, in his speech, the idea that the
repeal of the Compromise was. a meas
ure favorable to the extension of slavery.”
Here-is his own language:
The objection to the Missouri pro
hibition is, that it is unsound in princi
pie,- and legalizes slavery South, as much
as it prohibits it North.” “ What one
man now in this vast assemblage, is wil
ling to restore this line? If one, let
him give his name.” “Is there an abo
litionist present who is willing to restore
this line? Is there a Know Nothing?
If so give us his name, for Barnum
wants him, Any one can make his for
tune, hy exhibiting him at a money
show.”
“ Surely Mr. Boyce never could have
seen this speech of Judge Douglas, or
he could not consider the author of it
as ‘true’ to the South. Judge Doug
las, neither dodged nor took ground
against the Nebraska bill; but he did
See the school advertisemen
Messrs. Scudder and Rutherford.—
These gentlemen are both favorably
knowu in this community as successful
teachers.
See, also, the announcement of
Rev. G. H, Cartledge’s school at He
bron, Franklin county. Mr. C. we un
derstand, has had a very large and flour
ishing school the past year, and clearly
demonstrated that his capacity for teach
ing, is of a high order.
tion dissolved into wreck, aud floated
away in fragments.
How fares it now with the Democrat
ic party ? Its banners still glam, o in
the sun, and its legions still rally at their
chieftains’ biddings. But what inscrip
tions are on the banners ? And what
cries resound over the field ? Are not
the Softs the Democratic party in New
York? and have they not upon their
ling the Wilmot Proviso, in the shape
of “ uncompromising hostility to the
extension of slave territory ?” Did not
Bigler, in bis canvass for Governor of
Pennsylvania, carry a banner with free-
*oil on one side, and conservatism on
he other ? Did not the party in all the
’lew England States skulk from the
lavery question, and supervene to local
sues? Is the pic'are any brighter in
•. ic Northwest ? Where, in all that re
ion, save Illinois, have the const it u-
onal rights of the South been boldly
..pheld ? How stands the p-uty even
upon the Nebraska bill ? In the free
States it is maintained upon the ground
of squatter sovereignty, and alien suf
frage, aud Northern facilities for coloni
zation. Can the South uphold it upon
these grounds? Who, here, will en
dorse the monstrous doctrine of squatter
sovereignty, born of political cowardice,
aud selfish ambition? Where then is
the unity of the Democratic party ? ' It
differs in the defence even of its funda
mental measure. Here and there at
the North, a noble leader and a body
S juard stand firm, but they fight n hopc-
ess battle.
The President is true, but his party
has betray ed even him.
“ »*. ,K '"ity, to profits
relative
occasion, he went on to * raise the veil,*
as he said, ‘ which concealed the secret
working of the machinery’ employed in
the movement, and to expose ‘ the great
schemes, comprehensive, crafty and sa
gacious,’ which was had in view in the
passage of the bill .”
Just here we must digress for a mo
ment, to ask of our old line Whig friends,
if they have any recollection of having
heard or read, during.the late canvass,
Hay very laudatory panegyrics upon the
“forty four sound Northern men:” who
vo:ed for the Nebraska Bill— or upon
Senators Douglass and Shields? If
they did hear or see any such eulogtum
pronounced, we beg they will investigate
■carefully the evidence of Mr. Boyce,
himself a Democrat, and the extracts
from the speeches of Douglass and
Suields, which wo subjoiu, and then
determine what claims the “ forty four,"
Messrs. Douglass and Shields, have
Upon the Sr uth. Mr. Boyce, like a trne
patriot and Southern man, “lifts the
veil,’'.and exposes the secret motives of
ihese Dimming demagogues in all their
deformity. He said:
But when I have said this much I must
be allowed to say what the truth of his
tory demands—that the repeal of the
Missouri restriction in its general scope
was not so fnuch an act of justice intend
ed to the South as a great political move
by which the South was to.be.conciliat
ed, the North to loose nothing, and all
rough the agency of the Democratic
who were to be t'he real benefi-
aries of the movement. The move
nt I have no doubt went on this pro
of policy; that the Democratic
, by opening Kansas to the South,
of the South;
worse, he openly defended it as a meas
ure which would infallibly enure to the
benefit of Freesoilism—as a measure
which would infallibly operate in favor
of Freesoilism! His then colleague in
the Senate of the United States, Gen
Shields, defended the passage of the
bill on the same grounds. In a speech
made by him at Springfield, in hi3 own
State, after the passage of tile bill, he
said :
“ Kansas and Nebraska were now
free, and the people there would keep
them free *•«*** the es
tablishment of slavery in these Territo
ries was not only improbable, but im
possible. •***•**•
This principle of nonintervention would
not only keep them such as they are
now—free—but would, by its full and
fair operation, if we acquire the Conti
nent to the Isthmus of Darien, work with
such powerful force and effect, that no
man could ever see another Slave Siate
on this Continent.
This, Whigs of Georgia, is a true and
faithful sketch of the Northern Democra
cy, including Messrs. Douglass
Shields, and most of those “forty four
Northern Democrats” of whom you have
heard so much. It becomes your duty,
therefore, as Whigs, as Georgians, and
as Southern patriots, to determine wheth
er you will affiliate with inch a party, or
whether it is not better to stand aloof
and act only with those who have the
patriotism and independence to stand
out boldly for the Constitution and rights
of the South. You have seen by the
testimony of Democrats, that the ‘Nation
al Democracy” are unworthy of confi
dence—that they are ready and willing
to adopt any platform, of principles to
securq the spoils. Can you, as true
Southern men, as Georgians, act with
them ?
Rendering
Pain.-'I
states thai
deredins
posed of
which is
a tooth, like a
such pills afford i
toothaches, but '
mation. This remedy for toothache is
simple, safe, and can
any person,
luut|)eni ittofcjjinnn.
Law, OftDBR, AND THE COEBTITUtlOlf.
ATHENS, GA.
THTTRSDAY MORNING, DEC. 20, 1855.
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FRANKLIN COLLEGE.
See announcement in our advertising
columns of the next term of this insti
tution.
It will be seen that Dr. Joseph Le-
Conte still occupies the chair of Natural
Sciences. We mention this, because it
has been announced in many of the pa
pers that he had resigned. We under
stand that he did at one time contem
plate doing so.
IdP* The Chronicle & Sentinel of
Monday contains a long letter from tbe
venerable President of Franklin College,
in reply to Dr. John LeConte, whose
strictures upon a former letter of Dr.
Church’s, have created some feeling
among the friends of the College. We
have not as yet published any of these
articles, because, as a sincere friend of
the institution, we have doubled whether
their publication would at all advance its
interests.
Of Dr. Church’s defence wo may
remark, that; all things considered, its
tone is mild, -gentlemanly and dignified
IRISH NATIONAL CONVEN
TION.
A convention of the Irish emigrants
in this country was lately held in "New
York city. A large number of delegates
was in attendance, and they formed a
National Association to be called the
IrislijjEmigrant Aid Society.”
In their address to the people of Ire
land, (the manifest object of which is
to excite a spirit of insubordination in
that unfortunate country) the committee
remind them that England is now in such
condition that she can no longer hold
their country in subjection by an armed
force. The concluding paragraph—pro
mising “ aid and comfort” from this
country—is as follows:
*• Pronounce, then, that it is your will
to emancipate yourselves from the thrall
of a foreign government, and you shall
not be left to struggle alone in the effort
to accomplish that purpose. The Irish
race in America were never so strong
in numbers, so rich in wealth, or so uni
ted in purpose as at the present time.—
As loyal citizens of this Republic they
are ready to protect its honor, in defian-
cer of the threats of Lord Clarendon and
REMOVAL OF THE PENITENTIARY
The majority of the Committee on the
Penitentiary have reported In favor of its
removal to Stone Mountain. The old
establishment is in a dilapidated condi
l.on, and it is believed to be impossible
to make it pay at Milledgeville.
The Southern Recorder urges
the delegates to the American Slate Con
vention to assemble in Milledgeville on
i he 19th, instead of the 20th of this
month, In order that soch members of
the Legislature as are delegates may
participate in its deliberations—ns the
Legislature will take a recess on the
20th.
The Georgia Telegraph, hereto
fore owned by Messrs. Green, Barnes
& Co. and edited by P. Tracy, Esq
has been purchased by Joseph Clisby
Esq. who will edit the paper in future
Mr. C. was for many years the able
editor of the Florida Sentinel.
The Savannah Republican and
the Journal have both lately donned new
dresses, and thereby very much improv
ed their appearance. They are both
good papers, and no doubt well sustain
ed.
E3P The political friends of Col. Gard
ner, the able editor of the Augusta Con
stitutionalist, recently presented him with
a handsome silver service, as a testimo
nial of their appriciation of his services
as an editor in the late campaign.
W£ are pleased to record this act, so
honorable to them and so flattering to
him, because, in his warfare against the
American party, he never, so far as we
remember, stooped to that low black
guardism and scurrilous abuse which
disgraced so many of the Antir American
papers in this State,
NEW COUNTIES.
Just at this time, when there is such
a rage lbr new counties in this State,we
consider the following remarks from the
Savannah Republican, aswell-timed and
appropriate. The truth is, we already
have too many counties, and-yet in all
sections of the State there seems to be a
desire to increase the number. The
last Legislature e-tablished some ten or
fifteen. This is surely enough for the
next ten or twenty years. With the
Republican,. we hope that the present
Legislature will put a check to this per
nicious policy:
“We are very far from opposing any
measMre that is justified by such consid
erations as the public necessity or con
venience. A number of bills, however,
have been introduced into the present
Legislature* which, we think, have the
support of neither, and as public journa
lists, we take the liberty of entering our
protest against them. We allude to the
bills for the creation of new counties,
some thirty of which are now on the
Speakers’ desks of the two houses.
“We cannot think there is any real
necessity for the passage of these bills,
.. , ,.., fT , , , or at least, a large majority of them
Ins compeers; and as chi dren or Ireland, o , . ® .
. 1 , ’ ,. .. . .1 Such movements are frequently set on
to evenge the wrongs of their mother- - . , . n ^ .
. , ° . . .. , ; foot on by some man who has a selfish
Tr ■"““P- ,bIe purpose to accomplish, or by apolitical
with their duty to tins country whose ! £ ^ whoge scM H me8 , have ^ Ie 7 ur . der
institution they have sworn to ""Hi-, * . geographical lines, or by some
* „ • J j little crossroad village that vainly nna-
s * jec ’ I gines it is to be built up into vast pro- so
| portions by the change. No measure
adopted by she Convention : j based on such motives should receive
Resolved, That neither the laws of the favorable consideration of the Le>
nations nor the laws of the United States gislature. The additional expense and
prevent any portion of the American inconvenience to the State; the aug-
people from meeting and combining to- mentation of our legislative body, and
gether to give weight to their opinions j the moral effect upon society of ,a large
regarding the acts of a tyrant—to ex- j number of small towns, afford strong
press their sympathy for the oppressed, I reasons for opposition to these bills, ex-
whether an individual or a people ; to cept ip cases where they are clearly de-
encourage the down-trodden, by a word manded by a large local interest,
of good cheer, again to struggle for rights j- A comparison with other States will
of which they may have been tempora-. show that we are already far advanced
rily deprived by brute force, or to en- j j n a policy which they consider expen-
deavor by combination, by facts* by argu- sive and unwise
ment and by action, so to shape tbe con-1 Georgia,with an area of58,000 square
duct of nations in certain ccntingencies miles and a population of 900,185,
as to induce this or any other, when a ; (census of 1850) has 112 counties,
lawful opportunity presents itself, to do | New York, with an area of 46,000
some great act of moral and historical i square miles and a population of 3,100,-
000, has 59 counties,
Pennsylvania, with an area of 41,000
square miles, and a population of2,31I,-
0011, has 63 counties.
North Carolina, with an area of 50,
canism into our legislation and law
quelling the sectional strife which
threatens a dissolution of the Union,
securing to qtll sections—East, West,
North and South—their constitutional
rights. We ask them not to join the
Know-Nothing lodges. They have
passed away—all secresy is removed,
and the American party occupies open
ground and challenges an investigation
of its principles.
wheat!
We are informed that wheat never
looked better than it does at present in
this section. A much greater breadth of -
land than usual has been sown, and the
probability is that the next crop will bo
nearly double the last, provided the sea
sons are propitious between this time
and harvest.
“ Look well to the provision crop.*
We volunteered this advice to oar
agricultural friends last year. The
present prices of grain, pork, Ac. show
that it was good. We repeat it again
concerning next year’s business, with
perfect confidence that the provision will
hay better than tbe cotton crop.
Our farmers, now that they hare abun
dance of corn, otight to pay more
attention than usual to their hogs;
that, if they should next year
make a full corn crop, they may make
their own pork also.
justice.
The first article of the Constitution 1
provides for granting charters to subor
dinate “ Aid Societies,” and we suppose
the intention of the leaders in this move- 000 square nii | e:Si afl ,| a population of
ment is to establish them throughout the 860,000, has 70 counties,
land, | South Carolina, with an area of 30,
The following is the oath which mem-, 000 s T iare ,niles > population 668,000,
t * * * 1 lino OQ nnnntioc
bers are required to take upon their in
itiation :
Insurrection in Kansas.—Re
cent accounts from Kansas seem to
indicate that a state of civil war exists
in that Territory. Gov. Shannon has
issued his proclamation, calling upon all
civil and military officers to aid in quel
ling the insurrection and restoring peace.
CONGRESS.
House not yet organized. The self-
styled “ friends of the South,” the Anti-
Americans of that body, having insult
ingly declined to act with the American
party in effecting an organization by the
election of sound-national men, we hope
that the American members will ballot
for their own candidate “to the bitter
and let thb responsibility rest
it belongs, with the
cy. They have a:
ni>ter the government. I
not themselves al ’
call to their aid the
oftheNi
I, , in presence of Almighty
God. do hereby solemly swear, that jn
all future time I will keep secret all and
every thing entrusted to me as a member
of the Irish Auxiliary Aid.Society, and
to use all lawful means to forward the
purposes of said Society ; and l further
more pledge myself to lend all mjE pow
ers to the emancipation of my native
land, and in all things to abide by the
Constitution and By Laws of the said
Society, and cheerfully submit to tbe
orders of the duly elected officers of said
Association.”
We give the above general features
of this plan for embroiling this country
in a war with England, for the purpose
of expressing our regret that the Irish,
as a body, should pursue a course so un
wise and so utterly at variance with their
duties as American citizens. That their
sympathies should be with the “ould
country,”is natural, and perfectly right
—we despise most heartily the man who
does not love his native land “ more
than all other lands beside.” But in
assuming the duties and responsibilities
of American citizenship, they should re
member tflat they cease to be Irishmen
and become Americans, in the eye of the
law—and that,as loyal citizens, they have
no right to aid in fitting out hostile ex
peditions against a Government with
which we are at peace, or in fomenting
insurrection and insubordination among
its subjects.
This movement of the Irish, together
with the “ German Revolutionary
Leagues” established in this country
after the advent of I^Apth, ought to
teach our people an instructive, lesson,
and inevitably would dq so,but for the ma
chinations of scheming demagogues, Who
are ever ready to sell our inestimable
birthright as American citizens for a
mess of pottage.
Those who see the danger and have
raised the voice of warning to their coun
trymen, are denounced by unscrupulous
party hacks as “ traitors” and “conspi
rators.” The people will one day see
who was right—who patriotic—and who
traitors; but it may be too late ! As
long as they blindly follow the lead of
those who make their bread by deceiving
them, and cry “ peace, peace, when
there is lio peace,” we have little hope
for the future of this great country,
FOREIGN NEWS.
The latest is by the Baltic. Cotton
had declined an eighth to a quarter.—
Market firm. Sales of the week 49,-
000 bales. Flour had also declined 6d
^ We are requested to state that
the Book-Bindery, corner of Rroad
Street and College Avenue, is now open,
and that all.descriptions of binding oan
be done it) the best manner,
has 29 counties.
Alabama, with an erea of 46,000
square miles, population 771,000, has
52 counties.
Ohio, area 44,000, population 1.980,
000, has 87 counties.
Tennessee, with a population <>f 1,000,
000, has 79 counties.
Aud so we might goon through the
whole catalogue of States, showing that,
as compared with extent and population,
we have already a much larger number
of counties than any other State in the
Union. -Present indications are that
there is to be no end to the increase,
and we hope the Legislature will put a
check to a policy that is unnecessary, if
not absolutely pernicious.”
REMEMBER THE 41,200!!
We hope that our Legislature, now
in session at Milledgeville, will relin
quish the important task of chartering
bridges, changing names, building party
platforms and discussing national poli
tics, long enough to acton the petition
(which has been before them ever since
1850) ol the forty-one thousand two
hundred free white citizens over 21
years of age who can neither read nor
write!! Such a state of things is a re
proach to the great State of Georgia
and the Legislature can do much to re
move this stain from the fair escutcheon
of the “ Empire State of the South
We hope the present Legislature will
do something. The year 1860 is ap
proaching, when the census returns will
again reveal the fact that popular educa
lion is much neglected. Let us try to
make a better showing at the end of the
next decade. The people are readyy**
sustain those members who will do theiV
duty in this regard. Let all gd to work
in gqpd earnest, and a plan may be de
vised and carried into effect which will
forever J bless and benefit ourjieople.
STATE LEGISLATURE.
Little business yet finished—but a
great deal of work done.
Among the matters of special interest
to the people of this region, we observe
that the Judiciary Committee has re
ported in favor ot the establishment ofe
new Judicial Circuit, to be composed of
the counties of Habetsham, Rabun,
Lumpkin, Union, Gilmer, Fannin and
Murray, and t<> be called the North
eastern circuit.
A bill to reduce the number of places
at which the Supreme Court shall sit,
has passed the Senate. It provides that
it shall hereafter meet at Savannah,
Macon, Atlan'a, Athens and Milledge-
ville.
The bill granting State aid to the
Savannah and- Brunswick Railroad has
also gassed the Senate *‘ mit a very tight
squeeze.” ■ :srr—
Many of our exchanges' have
made the descovery that Christinas
will bj here on the 25th inst.!! Glad to
hear it, and hope there will be no disap
pointment.
T!
For the Southan) Watchman.
PEOPLE’S TICKET.
Mr. Editor : The following gentle
men will be supported by the People of
Athens, for Town Wardens the ensu
ing year.* Yours, &c.
ONE OF EM.
1st Ward—Dr. J. B. Carlton,
John W. Ncholson,
S. C. Reese.
2d Ward—John I. Huggins,
3d Ward—Col. L. Franklin,
E. P. Lumpkin, Esq.
NO APPEAL FROM THE POPE,
Persons who doubt—if there are any
who do doubt—that the Romish Church
claims temporal, as well as spiritual, al
legiance from its disciples in the United
States, would do well to read the pas
toral letter of the Archbishops and
Bishops of the “ Province of Sl Louis,”
in council assembled^ just issued. -Thai
document explicitly says:
We maintain the superiority of the
spiritual over the temporal order. We
maintain that the temporal ruler is bound
to conform his enactments to the Divine
law. We maintain that the Church is
the supreme Judge of all questions con
cerning faith and morals, and that, iq
the determination of such questions,^
Pontiff as Vicar of Jesus Christ, con
stitutes a tribunal, from which there is no
appeal and to whose award all the chil
dren of the church must yield ^obedience,
After this authoritative and official
announcement, let us have no more fine
drawn distinctions between spiritual al
legiance and temporal allegiance. Wq
see here that both are binding alike.
, Anti-American editors may deny that
Roman Catholics in this country owq
temporal allegiance to the Pope; and
even Roman Catholic Archbishops an<}
Bi-hops, writing in Anti-American
papers, may put forth % similar denial {
but we tell you, fellow-citizens, that* no
council of Archbishops and Bishops iq
this country will ever make such a denial.
No Roman Catholic council will ever
make such a denial: No Roman Catho-
n lie council will ever officially promul
gate or ratify the doctrine that aRomaq
Catholic citizen is not bound to render
implicit obedience to the Church and
the Pope in regard to every thing which
the Church and thd Pope may decidq
to be a matter of faith or morals or coot
science. No Romau Catholic council
dares say that a Catholic is not bound tq
disobey every constitution and every law
that the Church or the Pcipe may declare
to be contrary to the law of God.
Now we appeal to any and every jus|
minded patriot to say whether a maq
whose snpport of the constitution and
laws of the United States depends (
the will of a
Italy is^fit to hold office in. t
■
KP We hope that our friends among
the “ old-line Whigs” will read aud
ponder the able article we copy from the
Chronicle & Sentinel this week. What
have they to expect, for themselves, tbe
South, or the country at large, by acting
with the Democrotic party, as at present
constituted ? They refused to act with
it in its palmiest days—when Demo
cracy meant something definite—
the party was national and had some
claims upon their sympathies, if they
would not. under these circumstances
act with it, why should they now form
such a coalition ? Is it because it is
demoralized, dena tionalized, sectional,
zed, foreignized, and dyiug of the
“ dry-rot ?”
We do not, cannot, will not, believe
that the mass of the old Whig party will
y thing to do with Democracy
called,” in its present falleir
Let them act with the American party
in infusing a thorough spirit of Atneri- | try.—Exchange..
-A
JMP