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-spim ami *«Wce ^regrting into a i? .t|»e W
nomination and that tlie nominees be fh l^D the T\ lugs elected Inin to Con-
pledged to cirry But the same in good
faith in the administration of the Gov*
•eminent and the appointments to office.
‘Hon. James Johnson of Muscogee,
•offered the following resolution :
Resoloed, That the President of this
Convent'on appoint a committee of sev
en to act as a corresponding and execu
tive committee. . '
The ^solution was adopted and the
following' gentlemen were appointed that
Committee:
James Johnson of Muscogee; John
'V. A. S anford of Baldwin; Thomas J.
IT trdein.m of Bibb; E, G. Cabaniss of
Monroe, E. A. Nisbet of Bibb; J. H. R.
Washington of Bibb; John L. Harris of
Fulton.
Mr. Thornton or Muscogee offered
th^ following Resolution, which was
agreed to, vis-.
Resolved, That our representatives
in Congress, Messi s. Foster and Trippe,
be requested to appear at thfePhiladel-
phin Convention on the 18th and 22nd
ol February 1856, and soy to‘them that
the American Parly of Georgia will not
be represented in that body—also, sug
gest to them the action of this meeting
and urge them 4odefer their nomination
ond unite with as upon these principles
in n future Convention.
. Mr, Bartow offered the following Res
olution which was agreed to.nqusr
Resolved, That the members of the
party in the different counties be request
ed to Appoint Executive Committees to
report to the Central Executive Commit
tee.
Mr. Hill, moved tliat the Chair appoint
«a Committee of five to confer with the
President and Vice President of the
Convention and in connection with them
to appoint two delegates from the State
art large, and one from each Congression
al District to represent the American
Party of Georgia in the National Con
vention of that party to nominate a Presi
dent ond Vice President of the United
.States.
The Chair appointed Messrs. B< H.
Hill of Troup, C. Peeples of Clark, J.
M. Calhoun of Fulton, J. A. Billups of
Morgan and Geo. O. Dawson of Greene,
its (hatcommittee.
The committee, in connection with
the presiding officers, appointed the fol
lowing .Delegates :
•FOR TIIF. STATE AT LARUE
Delegates, Alternates.
•Geo. W. Crawford, Win. C. Dawson,
Eli II. Baxter. E. A. Nisbet.
FOR THE DISTRICTS,
lot —F. S.‘Bartow, %• _ C. Gaytan,
iid.—i nines Johnson,
■3d,—Robert P. Trippe,
4tli.-B.JC. Hill,
•uh—H.T, M, Miller,
titb.—B. D. Moore,
Tab—N. G. Foster,
Uth.—A,/. Miller,
Win. H Crawti.rd
Washington Poe.
M. M. Tidwell.
James Milner.
W. J. Peeples,
F. H, Cone.
LaF.iyctto Lamar,
.A Resolution was adopted requesting
•ffto several newspapers of ihe State, ad
vocating the principles of the American
Party, to publish the proceedings of this
.Convention.
Resolutions of thanks tothe President,
"Vice Presidents and Secretaries were
unanimously adopted and the Conven
tion adjourned sine die.
JOHN M. BERRIEN, Pres’t.
. George Jones, i
A. M. Eddleman, > Secretaries
If. L. Hunter, j
gress. and in 1851 he was reelected, but
resigned his seat to accept the mission to
China. Last Fall lie was elected again
by the K no w«k>i bitigs, his majority be
ing over 2 oflO.
Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio,was born
in that State iii 1811. His father was a
Virginian. Mr. . Cserved an apprentice
ship at the printing business, and after
wards started a Clay paper at Butler,
Ohio. In 1836 he was admitted to the
bar, and in 1840 was defeated for Con
gress by Col. Weller, by only 59 votes
out of 14 000. In 1848 lie was elected
to Congress as a Whig, and has been
a member ever sg)ce. He is distin
guished for bis decided opposition to the
further spread of slavery. His principal
business at hone is farming.
Henry M, ..Fuller, of Pennsylvania,
was born in tbat State in 1820 He is a
lawyer by profession,.and was first elected
to Congress as a Whig in 1850, having
the year before been in the legislature.
In 1852 he was defeated by Mr. Wright,
Dera., but in 1854, by the aid of the
Know Nothings, was again returned,
having this time defeated Mr. Wright.
APPOINTMENTS OF., THF. GEORGIA
CONFERENCE.
Augusta District.—J. B. Payne, P
E.,
Savannah.—Trinity : Joseph S. Key ;
Wesley Chappel : T. H. Jour-
don ;
Andrew colored mission.to be supplied;
City mission.—Jas. M. Dickey;
Springfield circuit,—T. S. L. Harwell;
Sy 1 v ania and Seriven Mission.—D. D.
: v Driskill and Jas. G. Worley;
Waynesboro’,—F. W. Reynolds and
A. J. Dean;
Burke Mission.—P. C. Harris;
Louisville,—R. J. Harwell;
Jefferson Mission—D. W. Calhoun.
Augusta.—St. Johns’: A. T. Mann; St.
James’: Win. M. Crumley ;
Trinity col’d mission,—J. M. Arm
strong.
Warrenton,—W. J. Cotter and David
F. Starr ;
Sparta,—W. B. Foote;
Hancock,—J. W. Knight;
Hancock col’d mission—D. T. Holmes;:
Columbia,—W. P. Arnold ;
Richmond.—Alexander Averette.
Athens District.— John W. Talley,
P. E.
Athens.—A.M. Wynn;
Athens colored mission,—K. H. Pal
mer ;
Watkinsvilhi,—D. Blalock and J. W
McGee;
Factory Mission,—D. Crenshaw;
Madison,—T. F. Pierce ;
Morgan,-—A. W. Rowland ,
Kingston Mission,—E. Bennet;
Greensboro’,—J. P. Duncan;
•Green colored mission, to be supplied ;
Lexington,—J. H. Grogan aod H. J.
Adams;
Washington—D. Kelsey.
Wilkes—W. T. Korman ;
Lincolnton—John S. Dunn,
Elberion—W, H. C. Cone and. J. P.
Howell.
Broad River Mission—Monroe Cran-
broad sense wq are all “ Democrats,*’ and ; ford,
it is absurd to style any particular party Mudison Female College—J. II. Echols,
the “Demoratic,’’ because all parties in Pres’t. and J. L. Pierce, Prof,
the United Stales recognize this as their Atlanta District—H. H. Parks, jP. E.
primary principle. But above all, it is.' Atlanta—Wesley Chapel and color-
absurd thus to denominate the so-called '
•“Democratic party.” Who are the j
People of any country ? Common
DEMOCRACY.
The New York Express is discussing
the true meaning of the word at the head
of this article, and says:
There has never been a word in the
English language more perverted from
its true meaning than the word Demo
cracy. It bas been made use of for the
last thirty years to designate a party
a Inch has no claim to it. Let us first
examine the etymology of the word, and
see if this statement cannot be verified.
It is derived from two Greek words
“Demos,”a people, and “Kratos,” power
—and signifies “the power, or govern
ment by the “people.” Of course, then,
a “Democratic’government is one where
the people rule themselves. Now in this
sense at once answers, the natives OF
ab
.SKETCHES OF THE CANDIDATES FOR
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF RE-
* PRESENT AT 1VF.S.
w The numerous unsuccessful ballot-
' ' dings for Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives, have naturally drawn public
attrntion to the several prominent gentle
men named for the responsible post, and
* awakened a desire to know some of their
antecedents. We therefore condense,
from the New York Herald the following
sketches:
William A. Richardson, of Illinois,
was born in Fayette county, Ky., in 1811.
His father was a Virginia farmer nnd
Ins wife one of the Edmondson family
•of the Old Dominion. Her father and
seven of his brothers died in battle.
Mr. Richardson studied law in Kentucky,
practised n short time there, and then re
moved to Illinois, wherco l.e was elected
State’s atRtrney. which officehe subse
quently resigned to accept a seat in the
legislature. For nine years he was a
Democratic member of either the Slate
senate or house, and of the latter he was
at one time speaker. In 1846 he raised
a company of volunteers and proceeded
to Mexico. At the battle of Buena Vis
ta, (where he was promoted to a major-
ship) be greaily distinguished himself.
Before hU return home be was elected to
Congress, and -has been a member ever
since. He is known ns the father of the
Knnsas-Nebraska bill.
Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts,
is a native of that State, and born in
1816. He commenced life by working
in a cotton factory,. ^hen hunted the
trade of a machinist, subsequently he
studied luw under the lion. R Runtoul,
and was admitted to thu -h i* in 1848,
hi which year -list* Democrats elected him
to the Legislature. In IS4f be was a
:Mij*orterof Mania Van Boren, and sub
sequently <»!’ General Cass. In 1851 he
was diost n t > !>;>'!i the Massachusetts
Senate und llo’i-Unaccepted the lat
ter, and was ch;>s-u Speaker by a crvili-
tii.n of Democrats and freesoilers in
1851 and 1852. Tn 1353 he was chosen
in preside over the Slate Constiiutiotiui
Convention, although he had just been
-reacted to Congress by the Dam tcrats.
At the last Congressional election lie was
nominated by both Democrats and Know
Nothings, un i although many; of the for
mer bolted i lie nomination because of
£$gopposition to the Nebraska hill, he
was elected by about. 7.000 majority
nm n.t ropnrey Marshall, of Ky., was born
ill 4fcU State in 1812. and is a distant
relative of the late Chief Jn>:iiv .Mur-
shall, llis mother is the sifter of John
G. Bit nev, so often the candidate of the
Liberty party for the Presidency. Mr.
Marshall is a graduate of West 1
and served as a lieutenant under
Jjjcott in the Black Huwk war lie also
■Hr ^
that Country ! Would it not be
surd, were it asked “ What are the!
people of Ireland called ?” to reply, j
“ Americans!” or “ English ” If then, j
the people of Ireland are the nrtives of
its sail, so we say that the People of j
America are the natives of the country ;I
they are Americans, aad not French, j
etc. Now apply this test to the so-cal-!
led 4 ‘ Democratic” party. Will any
*ane man pretend that the self-styled
“Democraic parly” is a party composed
of the people ef the United .States? Is it
not notorious that that party has main
tained itself by the fact that it is largely
composed of foreigners ? The People,
then, of the United States do not rule
themselves, but are controlled by the
natives of other countries, who have
come to this country to reside. We re
peat, that it is a gross misnomer to call j
ihe party of office holders, many of
whom the Priests direct, the Democrat
ic party. The truth is,it is a party of po
liticians who care chiefly for the spoils
of office, having held and hunted office
so long they do not care to be outted
and will support any party which seems
to them to promise the best pay. Having
had control of the country, through the
aid of foreign prelates and votes, for the
major part of the last thirty years, they
have deemed themselves invulnerable,
and have resisted all attempts at reform.
But now they begin to quake at the pro-
peels of the compaign of 1856. We
should not wonder now that they find
that political Priests are poor sticks to
lean on, that they will leave them in the
lurch, and for the sake of retaining of
fice, will become loud-mouthed Ameri
cans. Can a party of men, political
tricksters, holding office through foreign
votes, be in any sense a Democratic
partyl Wc maintain they cannot.
True Democracy is when a people of
a country, the natives of its ‘soil, rule
themselves, cither directly or through
their representatives. But, with some
noble exceptions, the so called Demo
cratic office holders repre-ent chiefly the
foreign vote, for which they bai gained,
and wh:£h elected them to their places.
But the American people intend, hence
forth, to be represented by men who will
not truckle to Foreign Prelates or con
sult them in any political matters.
WHO ARE THE PROSCRIBERS ?
It is a favorite employment with the
Anti-American newspapers to charge
the American Party with proscription,
and this too, in the-face of facts which
proclaim that party as the most unscru
pulously proscriptive which has ever ex
isted in the country*. 1 They are savagely
intolerant of opposition. They look upou
the members ot the American Party as
ogres, who should be driven Without the
precincts of civiliz;uion. To retain nn
American in office when they have the
power.to eject him, is, with them, nn
unpaidutiable violation of the laws of
party fealty. These men who prate in
paling strain* about proscription for
opinion’s sake, Would not let the sun go
down on na American officer if they had
the power to dismiss him from it And
yet, with shameless effrontery, they
make the welkinTing with the wolf-cry
of proscription. American citizens,
jealous of their liberties, and impelled by
a high sense of patriotic duty, cannot
assemble anil quietly resolve amon"
i hem selves that they will no: support
fur office men whose circumstances of
birth and rearing render it impossible
ihilt they should understand and appre
ciate our institutions, without being
denounced as traitors and conspirators,
men who come as “thieves in thenffibr
to sieul a .vay the liberties of the country!
The Know Nothings of Washing
ton City announce a, “ grand national
^ l " 1 * Jubilee on the 8th of January incom-
memorationof the battle of New Orleans.
Fc
■es-s-ss-
-John B. McGehee. D.
Mission—J. T.
■*—
BBSi
ed mission: C. A ^Jewett; J. Bor
ing, super; Trinity and Evans chap
el ; L. J. Davis;
Atlanta circuit—Claiborne Trussed;
Decatur—A. Dormftn ,
Lawrence vide—J. W. Burke;
Monroe—A. Gray ;
Newton—J. W. Yarborough ;
Covington and Oxford—W. B. Bran
ham;
McDonough—Richard Lane ;
Powder Spring—W. F. Conally ;
Marietta—W. J. Scott ;
Roswell—J. W. Craven;
Emory College—W. J. Sassnette.
W. J. Purks, Ag’t.
G. J. Pierce, Ag’t Am. Bible Society.
Dahloneoa District—D. D. Ccx P. E.
Dahlonega— G. Bright and W. A.
Edwards;
Gainesville—J. W. Turner ;
Carnesville—J. W. Braidyaud R. II.
Waters ;
Clarksville—Win Brewer and J. Bul
lock ;
Canton—J. M. Bright;
Elijay Mission—J. II. Mashburn;
Bl iirsville Mission—W. G. Allen ;
Duck Town Mission—J. Chambers;
Murphy Mission—J. Crewel! ;
Clayton Mission—A. J. Devours :
Rohe District—J. C. Sinunons, P. E.
Rome—L. B. Payne ;
Etowah Mission—W. P. Pledger ;
Cave Spring—T. B. Harbin and \\\
H. Mortoi>;
Cassville—A. Neiee :
Calhoun—R. F.Jones;
Dalton—M. A. Clotttz;
Spring Place—J. A Strickland;
LaF iyette—W. D. Bond;
Dade Mission—L. Q, Allen;
Summerville—II P. Pitchford;
Subligua—T. T. Christian;
La Grange Dismiccr-Sarn’l Anthony.
P. E.
La Grange—W. G. Connor;
Troop—W. D. Matthews and J.
Brantley ;
Troup col’rd miss—To be supplied ;
Greenville—J. B. Littlejohn and F.
W. Bagg.rsby, Sup,;
Zebulun—J. Jones ; m
Jackson—M. Beilah ;
Griffiu—(J. W. Key;
Fayetteville- -W. P. Clonty;
Newnan—W H. Evans and W. S.
Turner;
Palmetto—No%h Smi*h ;
Palmetto col’rd miss—To he supplied;
Carrolloi*—R. Stripling;
Villa Rica—Jhoa Boring;
Franklin—Jackson Rusk;
C. W. Thomas, Chaplain, U. S. N
Macon District—John W. Glenn, P.E,
Macon—James E. Evans.
Col. Mission—Geo. G. N. McDonell.
Clinton—M. W. Arnold.
Monticello—W. A. Florence.
Eatontnn—E. P, Burch.
Col. Mission—W. D. Cook.
Milledgeville and Bethel—Thos H.
Stewart.
Bethel Col’d Mission—M. H. Heb-
liard.
Jeffersonville-—P. M. Ryburn.
Perry—John M. Marshall.
Ocmulgee Mission—James Dun-
woody.
Fort Valley—W. F. Smith.
Colored Mission to be supplied
Knoxville to be supplied.
Culloden—John B Wardlaw,
Forsyth—C. A. Fulwood.
Wesleyan Female College-O. A.
Smith President.
J Blakely Smith. Tract Agent.
E II. Myers, Ed. So. Christian Ad
vocate.
Columbus District.—Lovick Pierce,
P.E;
Columbus ami Col’d Mission-E W
Speer; J II Harris;
Factory Mission—M F Malsby;
Buena Vista-S H Cooper Y F Tig-
nor. Sup.
Lumpkin—W. G. Parks.
Stewart—Ira*. L Potter, J. B. K«jf. B
Chattaho »ch ee M ission—John hi.
Sente!!.
Cuthbert and Emmaus—Jas, B. Jack-
son;'
t Gitines-
Morris.
Randolph Colored
Ainsworth.
Starkville—W. M. Watts.
Sumter Colored Mission--D. Wil
liamson.
Oglethorpi—W. B Shea.
Talbotton—ft. B. Lester.
Talbotton Ct—R. A. Conner.
Colored Mission—E. M. Bowman.
Thomaston—-J. O. Clake.
Upson and Colored Mission—T. H.
Whitby, M. Hamby.
Hamilton—L Rush.
. Harris Colored Mission—W. W. Tid
well.
Ahertcus Dist.—Goe. C Clark. P. E.
Americus--J. W. Hinton.
Americas Ct—J. T. Turner.
Vienna—James W. Trawick.
Hawkiosville—Jas H. Reese.
W. H. Potter, J- H. Caldwell, Profat
Andrew Female College.
Sandersville DisT,-WaIter Knox, P. E
Sandersville--Josiah Lewis, B. E
Breedlove.
Irwinton—Jno Patfio.
Dublin—H. II. M’Hau, .
Jacksonville—R N Cotter,
Riedsville-W S Baker,
Hinesviile-D J Myrick,
M’Intesh Mission-Edwin White,
Darien -Jas M Austin,
Bjyan and Bulloch—W C Rowland,
W B M’Han. sup,
Emanuel—F W Flanders,*
John M Bonnell transferred to Ken
tucky Conference,
J W M’ Grary' and Wm Davise, to*
Florida Conference,
O P Fitzgerald transferred to Pacific
Conference,
Next Conference to be held at Ameri
cas, Dec, 10,1856,
ACTS PASSED AND APPROVED
BY THE GOVERNOR.
1. To authorize the Justices of the
Inferior Court of Washington county
to revise their Jury Box and for other
purposes.
2. To authorize the county of Doug
herty to aid in the construction of the
Georgia and Florida R iilroad between
Albany nnd Americus or any Railroad
running to said county by subscription
for stock and the issue of Bonds upon a
vote of the citizens.
3. To change the times of holding the
Inferior Court of DeKalb, and fur other
purposes therein mentioned. The times
fixed are the third Mondays in January
and July, instead of June and Decem
ber. ]
4. To authorize theState Treasurer
to make certain advances. [To wit;
the per diem pay of members and officers
of the Legist attire up to time of applica-
lion.J -
5. To add a part of the county of Ware
to the county of Charlton. [It adds
the 10th district of Ware to Chariton.]
6. To amend an Act entitled an Act
to incorporate the Brunswick Improve
ment Companv, passed on the 9ih Feb
ruary, 1854. [It a mends the 9tb section
of said act of incorporation so as to rend
thus: “That the said Company shall be
sued at Brunswick, Glynn county,” and
repeals all the remaining portion of said
section.]
7. To change certain county lines
therein enumerated. [It includes the
whole of Lot No. 131 and Fraction 9,
in the 1st district or’originally Troup, in
Meriwether county. It also adds Lot
149. in the 7th district of Coffee county,
to tlie county of Clinch, the same being
ihe residence of John Williams, sen. It
further adds Lot 284, in the 4th district
of Calhoun, to the county of Randolph.]
8. To pardon John T. Boyd of the
c« unty of Muscogee, now under scutencc
of death for the crime of murder.
9. Declaratory of the intention of the
Act entitled an Act for the relief of
honest debtors, approved on the 19th
December, 1833. and 10 allow persons
arrested under mesne process, the ben
efit of the same |jj| allows persons
who have taken “prison bounds” and
those who have given bail, either before
or after taking ‘‘prison bounds” the ben
efits of said act of 1853 for the" relief of
honest debtors.]
19. To preserve r.nd dispose of the
property and effects of Corporations after
their dissolution, and to provide for the
payment of the debts due by the same.
[It provides that all the property, real
and personal, and all the assets of such
corporations shall constitute a trust fund
for payment first of the debts thereof;
and second, for distribution among the
stockholders. The Judge of the Supe
rior Court is to appoint a Receiver to
whom the President and Directors are
to turn over all the property and assets
of the Corporatism, or show good cause
for not doing the same, and on failure
to do one or the other, they are made
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con
viction are to be’confined in the Peni
tentiary not less than two ucr more than
four years.]
11. For the relief of Francis Ponsell.
an infirm and indigent person. [It per
mits him to peddle in the counties of
the 1st Congressional District without
procuring a license,]
12. To incorporate the Canton Min
ing Company of Georgia, [Capital
Stock S960,000 and may be increased.
Principal office to be at Canton, Cher
okee county, where all. suits—not involv
ing titles to landP-are to be brought
against the Company, aud all „notifica-
tions and processes served on them.]
13. To authorixe Lewis Zffigfer of
the Slate of Louisiana, and*Uenry Zei-
gler of the State of Alabama td^qualify
and act as Executors of the la*t will and
testament of William Zeigler, late of
Crawford county, deceased.
14 To change the time of holding
the Inferior Court of the county of Scald
ing, [Time changed fr<*n) third Mon-
doy in January and July to tlrrd Mon
day in February and August.]
15. To change the time for holding
the Superior and Inferior Courts in
Floyd county. (Superior Courts to be
held on the second Mondays in February
and August, and allowed t<» sit three
weeks; and the Inferior Courts to sit on
seen :d Mondays in May and Novem-
ber.) -,-r
10. To authorize and direct his Ex
cellency the|| Governor of Georgia to
draw his warrant"on any , funds in the
State Treasury for the payment of the
principal, interest and cost of a judg
ment in Baldwin Superior Court in favor
of A. P. Hood,'adm’r of Mrs. Blanche
Gibson vs the Central Bank of Georgia,
and for other purposes therein named.
(The principal amounts to §9,470. ,
17. To alter and amend an Act pass
ed the 10th December, 1845, appoint-,
ing the places for holding the Supreme
Court. (Ilieduces the places to five,
and provides that the Court shall sit at
ihe times and places following, viz : At
Savannah cn the second Mondays in
January and June: at Macon on the
4th Mondays in January and June; at
Atlanta on the fourth Monday in March
and second Monday in August ; at
Athens on the fourth Mondays in May
and November; and at Milledgeville on
the second Mondays in May and No
vember.
18. To authorize the Inferior Court
of Washington county to levy and col
lect an extra tax for building of a Court
house and Jail in said county,
19. To incorporate the town of Cusseta
in the couuty of Chattahoochee, and to
render permanent the county site, and
appoint Intendaut and Commissioners,
and regulate the duties of the same.
loutlji'ra ‘Miijtmm.
UW, ORDER, AND THE CONSTITUTION.
ATEEffS, GAi
THURSDAY MORNING* JAN. 3, t85fl.
EXPENSES OE THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT.
The estimates of the Treasury De
partment have, through the New York
papers, found their way to the public in
despite of the caution understood to be
exercised in reference to public docu
ments.—From these estimates it appears
that the expenditures for the fiscal year
ending on the 30th of June next,’will be
within a fraction of seventy millions of
dollars. Daring the administration of
the younger Adams, when the expenses
of the government scarcely reached a
fourth of this amount, many of those
whose subsequent recklessness has con
tributed to the present expenditure, were
loud in their denunciations of the waste
fulness and prodigality ol him and
his advisers. We joined in the cry.
and lent our feeble aid to overthrow an
administration which we thought, in
using some twelve or fifteen millions a
year, was wilfully wasting tire public
money.
It is known that, with the exception
of a few brief years,the democratic party
have had control of the .gotferraent from
the defeat of Adams until the present
day. All of that long and somewhat event
ful period the country has been looking
for some proof that economy in the man
agement of public affairs which at each
^uccesssvc election has been so loudly
'and lavishly promised. Thus tar the
promises have been unredeemed. From
year to year tlie people have witnessed
a fearful swelling of the almost ^fearful
amount demanded as necessary to sup
port an economical administration of
their goverment until they find it now
of a size’equalling in magnitude the ex
penditures of European despotism.
We knDw. as well as others, that in
the last twenty five or thirty years our
country Jias largely increased in popu
lation and territory, and that more raon
ey is consequently required to carry on
its various civil aud military operations.
But have the legitimate demands on*the
Treasury increased, within that time, to
justify the increased expenditure 7 The
government must have a sufficiency of
money to enable it, without being
cramped, to guard the great interests of
the country, and meet, without sacrifice,
all its pecuniary liabilities. But that it
should require, in time of peace, an
expenditure of the nmoum reported by
the Secretary of the Treasury will excite
surprise, if it engenders no worse fh 1-
ing*, throughout the country. '
It was charged and admitted, a short
time since,tlml the officials of the govern
ment were taxed ‘ given amount, in
order to raise a fund to be used in cor
rupting the people and controlling the
electtion8in the several States. May
it not be possible that some of this seventy
millions of dollars may take the same
direction, and be used for the same un
holy purpose ? With an administration
desperately bent on retaining power and
not overly scrupulous as to the means of
doing it. Such-perversion of the monney
of the nation to such an object would be
regarded as a capital piece of political
financiering.
There are also other ways of wasting
the public money besides its direct ap
plication to purposes of personal and
political corruption. Millions of dollars
are appropriated to works of internal
improvements of no general or naiional
value, whilst other millions are squan
dered on private government contracts
in the way of good fat jobs, ivnilsfthe
extra allowances to the fqvored under
takers are sometimes swelled to an
amount al < ost equal to the original con
tract. Millions of Dollars are also
swallowed up in’ purchasing rites lor
Arsenals, Navy Yards, &c., and then
abandoned as utterly unsuited to the pur
poses the which they were obtained.
Tlie beautiful speculation at Memphis,
Tenq. is a striking illustration of the
truth of what we are saying.
But \ye have not tiiqe nor is it our
purpose at this time, to notice the various
ways by which the Treasury js eased of
its fiscal plethora. Its fearful depletion
has been tlie work of the democracy,—
That party have held the purse strings,
and with all their boast about economy,
wlficli^ust before every election seems
a most- to reach the downward pomi of
niggardness, they have managed to ex
tract from that purse the round little sum
of seventy millions of dollars annually.
If this is their economy, it strikes us that
a specimen of their extravagance woulej
he quite a curiosity at the next World’s
L' air.—Columbus Enquirer.
Hon. John Sf. Mason has been re
clamed to the United States Senate float
VTfginja, WMM
EJECTION OP COUNTY OFFICERS.
Monday next, (the first Mofiday in
January) is the day fixed by law for the
election of County Officers. The sever
al Counties will this year elect Ordina
ries, Sheriffs, Clerks of Superior and
Inferior Courts, Tax Collectors, Receiv
ers of Tax Returns, Coroners and Coun
ty Surveyors; and the several Militia
Districts will elect Magistrates and Con
stables.
BOUNTY LAND.
The Attorney General of the U- S.
has decided that the provisions of the
Act ol March 3,1855, apply to the vol
unteers who assisted in the removal of
the Cherokees. As many of our readers
are interested in this matter, it will be
good news to them,
AMERICAN STATE CONVENTION.
We published last week -the proceed
ings of this body, , which came to hand so
late that we had neither time nor room
for comment. We republish it this week,
together with the national platform, in
order that our friends may have both
platforms—State and National—in our
first issue of.the new year. Save this
paper, it will be valuable for future re
ference.
The Macon Journal & Messenger
speaks as follows of the Convention.
“ The proceeding* of this body, which
will be found in out gaper to day, (and
for which we are indebted to a slip from
the Southern Recorder office,) will be
read with interest-iudeed. with ureat sat
isfaction by patriotic men of all parties,
every* where. From first to last, the
kindest feeling and utmost enthusiasm
pervaded the large and intelligent assem
blage which met on Thursday last to
deliberate upon the great and vital ques
tions of the day, and to devise measures
to still the troubled waters of sectional
strife and bitterness, and preSerre and
transmit, if possible, unimpaired, our
free institutions to coming generations;
The Convention was mostly composed
of the substantia), considerate, unaspi
ring men of the State.
“The impromptu.address of Gen. San
ford, on taking the Chair preliminary to
organization, was most happy in thought-
and chaste in utterance. So was that of
Judge Baxter, on the suceeding day,
who very satisfactorily discharged the
duties of President pro tem. The ap
pearance in the Chamber on Thursday
afternoon, of the venerable and venera
ted BERRlEN.produced a scene and awa
kened emotions not easily described or
forgotten. From his first announce
ment until placed in the Chair, the House
resounded withdeaflfhingand protracted!
applause. When he arose to nddress
the Convenlion, the large anditory.
above and below, were hushed into pro
found silence. In his brief address,
THE OLD AND NEW YEAftT
Eighteen Hundred and ;Fifty.p iTe
is now numbered with the “ things th^
were,”—and"oh 1 the disappointed hope,
frustrated plans, unrealized dreams anj
good resolutions that lie buried wift
the old yearl And alas! what numbers
of the young and beantiful, the aged
and reverend—friends, relatives and ac.
quaintnnees—have we seen the g raTft
•close over during the year that i 8 gone ,
War has been busy in decimating
nations of the Old World, and “ the pes.
ttlence which walketh in darkness an*
wasteth at noonday” harfMone its work!
Do nut these things admonish us that
we too are mortal, and that “ in th e
midst of life we are in death I” In V »ev
df this, is there any otre who has
been spared to see the close of the year
so callous .as not to join heartily i n the
Psalmist’s prayer-* so teach us
number our days that we may apply 0Bf
hearts unto wisdom!”
he hastily surveyed the present alarm- . . .
ing aspect of the country —spoke appro- .promised and ‘settled several times,
vingly of the principles anil object of the but which “wont stay settled !”
American Party-urged upon its mem
bers the importance of thorough organ
izution, steadfastness of principles, firm
ness of purpose, promptitude of action,
and predicted for it a final and glorious
triumph. The address throughout was
listened to with deep interest, and must
leave a lasting ipipress upon the heart'
•r.d judgment of all who heard it
“In regard to the resolutions adopted
by the Convention, wo have noWflime.
at present, to notice them at large. They
are, ju tone and language, decided and
explicit, yet calm and conciliatory—in
pleasant contrast with the denunciatory
ones lately adopted by the Democratic
Anti-Know Nomfng Party. We again
commend them to our readers.
On the whole, though the business of
In entering this morning, (Tuesday
January 1st, 1856.) upon the tfutj j
trials, responsibilities and labors of a
New Year, we wish each and every one
of our kind readers a happy and pros-
peroos voyage down the stream of f, me .
May their years be many and their lives
usefully employed. May success re*
ward all their laudable undertakings,
and may an eternity of happiness be their
portion hereafter.
The Ntw Year is destined to bean
important one in our political history u
a nation. “ Events Big with the late of
Caesar and of Rome,” w.ll cn,»4die
political calendar, and future agesvik
date back to 1856, either as the time
when the girat Republic made a clear
derfjpnstratton of the fact that “the
People—American People—are capa
ble of self-government;” or, as the “ be
ginning of the ei*l”—(which Heaven
forbid!)—the end of oer civil and religi
ous freedom! Crowned heads of royal
ty in the Old World, and cowled monks
and shuffling priests will watch the con
flict with eager interest. Already do
they Bee with ifhdisguised delight, that
immense numbers of the native-born
sons of-the soil, seduced by the siren
song of patty, have in an evil hour
joined the foreign cohorts-the “Grecian
horse’’Introduced into our citadel. If
they can only blind the natives by ap
pealing to past party prejudices and re--
viving effete party issues, and by re--
sorting to every species of humbuggery,
they expect success to crown their efforts
This fearful contest between Protestant
Civilization' and Civil.and Religious
Liberty on one side, and unhallowed,
priestcraft, superstition and intolerant**
bigotry on the ot ; ter>*will be settled by
the Presidential election of 1856..
There are other issues ofvast importance
to be settled, by this Presidential-
election—foremost'among which is the
delicate, dangerous and exciting ques
tion of slavery—which has been “com-.
The American Party of the country,,
is, as we consciensciously believe, the
only party in it IBle to effect a perman
ent settlement of this vexed question—
which, like an old ulcer, has become so
irritable that a bare touch of theprourf
fiesh causes spasmodic twitchings. Be
lieving that this party is in earnest abojjt
tfijs matter, and that it is nearer right
in the main than any other political or
ganization in the coifnttf, we shaH con
tinue to support it to the best of our-
ability—actuated by an honest desire to.
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discharge our duty to our country au
to posterity, and with no hope of regard
the Convention was conducted in n more „ rea ter than a clear conscience can af-.
hurried manner than we could have .
desired, we trustYne 'final action of that
body will be satisfactory to its constituen
cy throughout the State.”
v • -V .HON. N, G. FOSTER, 4 *
The American Representative of ll^e
Seventh District,\ve are glad to perceive,
has made a favorable impression in the
House of Representatives. Even Hor
ace Greeley, who believes that nothing
good can come from the South, thus ofour paper this year?
speaks of his debut in the House:
“ The other debutant was Mr. N. G.
Foster of Ga. (a Baptist clergyman, I
believe,) who proved himself just the
strongest man who has spoken for the
Southern Americans yet, unless Humph
rey* Marshall be excepted.' Mr. Foster
is a large built, dark complexion; Web-
ster-looking mnn, still in the prime of life,
with a good faculty of putting words very
solidly together. His leading idea was
the impolicy of making a measure instead
of a principle the basis of political con
cord—especially a measure subjected to
so many conflicting interpretations as the
Nebraska4»ill. His was about the best
first speech I ever heard made. 5 ’ t>-
II
An Affecting Appeal.—An un
fortunate editor in Kentucky, thus
addresses his delinquent subscribers:
“Friends, we are almost penniless— JooV
turkey was a millionaire compared with
1 ur present depressed treasury! To day,
if the price of salt was two’cents a barrel
ful, we couldn’t buy enough to pickle a
jaybird.”
ford, -- V gj
The commencemenf of a new year is.
a favorite t'tra^ with some to begin their-
subscription to a nfcwgpnper. Such of
our friends and fello\V-citizens as wish
to subscribe for the Watchman will
please send in their names at once. Will
not our friends in the different counties,
make an effott to double the circulation
We. itrust so.
Who will send us the first five, ten, ftf*.
teen or twenty new subscribers 1
£3FTn noticing recent editorial chang
es in Georgia, we everlooked two of the
most important. J. Knovyl.ees, Es<1i
who has for some time past, been coq:
nected with the Southern Recorder, has
retired, leaving the paper in the hantte
of R. M. Orme & Son. Mr. O, is a
veteran in the service, and “long m 3 !
he wave.” !
James A. Nisbet, Esq. has retire*!
from the editorial chair of the Macon
Jour/ial &, Messenger, which he fiU e ‘l
with signal ability for four years, an<]
is succeeded by J. Knowi.s, Esq- '1
gentleman distinguished as much f° !
his polite bearing and gentlemanly cour.
tesy, as for his great ability as an editot.
We hope success may attend e ich an f
all «f. them. .’
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