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HAVING ENEMIES.
A ninn-tVit Inset soul worth sixpence
mw*t expect »o have enemies. I« is ut
terly impassible for the inen to
please the whole world; and the sooner
this is understood, and jhe position ta
ken in Vt<fl| of the fact, the better.
Even when pretended friends are fawn-
in j upon you,seeking to gain somethin*
through your influence or y>ur means
ii is well to understand whether they
are not your worijt enemies. There is
ru<*U n small sprinkling of disinterested
friendship in our present competitive
state of society, that there is very little
,«l togeruf mistaking a true friend when
you really look sharp about you. Such
no individual comes not with loud and
blantnnt profession of good to you, nor
with ihe mask of dissimulation upon
his brow, but with a candid demeanor.
E lnin dealing, and few or no professions.
Inlike the “ artful dodger, 1 ' who is your
seeming, friend to accommodate his own
selfish purposes, the honest man is char
ry of his compliments, and would " not
flatter Neptune for his trident, nor
Jove for his power to thunder.” He is
readier to grant you favors than to re
ceive them, and bestow graciously his
smiles.
Men must expect enemies just in the
- proportion that they are thriving. ** En
mity, hatred and malice, and all unchari-
t-ihleuess.” are weeds of rank growth in
the soil of the present tiroes. J There
are enough of mean souls at every step
taken in the path of life who would like
to prevent your success: and they hate
you so long as you prosper, if for no
other reason, simply .because they are
not excelling you in your labor and
your prosper.ty. It wefe of little use
to need them or their efforts ; the sure
and brat way to triumph is to live down
their petty slanders and calumnies.
Such enemies are cowards, and they,
hate you because they fear you.
The true motto for life is, to do right,
and let the consequences take care of
themselves It is all sheer vanity to strive
to accommodate yourself at every point
to the whims and, notions of some other,
persons, and try to square your ideas to
please this or that sect or parly. On
the score ot mere personal gain alone,
you must inevitably be the loser; and
once loosing sight of your integrity and
independence, you become the slave of
petty tyrants, and m ike for yourselves
burdens heavy to be borne.
Do right—though you have enemies.
You c nnot escape them by doing
wrung. And it is litile gain to barter
away your honor and integrity, and di
ve -t yourself of moral courage, to gain
what ? Nothing. Better abide by the
truth—frown down all opposition, and
rejoice in the feelings which must in
spire a free and independent man.
Ucmi a or. Kansas Difficult!
Renewed.—A rumor is again out that
the free State and pro-slavery men el
Kansas territory have been engaged in
fi^ht ot Ei^ton. It is said that two of
the border ruffians were killed*, and that
two abolitionists were severely wounded
in an affray which commenced by the
Missourians making an attack upon
the ballot boxes The story needs con*
Urination, as it has already been stated,
that it ; was grossly exaggerated, we
find thri following in the Kickapoo Pio
neer extra Jan. Id,
Forbearance has now, inneed,
ceased to be a virtue; therefore we
call on every proslavery man in the land
to rally to the rescue. Kansas must be
immediately rescued from these tyran
nical dogs.
“The Kickapoo Rangers are at this
moment beating to arms! A large num
ber of pro-slavery men will leave this
place for Easton in twenty ‘j minutes.
The war has agan commenced, and
the abolitionists have again commenced
it. Pro-slavery men—law and order
meu —strike for your altars—strike for
your firesides —strike for your rights—
avenge the blond of your brethren who
jyrte been cowardly assailed but who
have bravely fallen in defence of South
ern institutions. Sound the bugle of war’
over the length and breadth of the land,
and .ieaTe not an abolitionist, in the
territory to relate their treacherous and
contaminating deeds—strike your pierc
ing rifle balls and your glittering steel
to their black and poisonous hearts.—
Let the warcty never cease in Kansas
again until our territory is wrested of
the last vesr'ge of abolitionism."
We expect to visit the Courts of this
circuit, and some of those of adjoining
circuits, at the spring riding—when we
hope that each and every one indebted
to us will square up, and that all oar
friends will make an effort to extend the
circulation of our paper. We have la
bored in the cause to the best of our
ability, and shall continue to do so-
feeling assured that an intelligent com
munity will appreciate and properly re
ward our labors.
YOUR COUNTY PAPERS.
The following extract from Fowler &
Wells*' " Life illustrated,’’ is so good
ant) to the point, that we recommend it
to our friends without further comment:
MVc occasionally receive: letters in
which the writers express an intention
. to atop their country or village paper,
and take one of our publications instead.
. We always regret to receive such in
timations. We think a man ought to
support his own paper first, and then if
he can afford to take a paper from a
dis-.mce, let him do so. and we shall be
h >ppy to furnish him with "Life lllu-tra
ted." The country press, in our opin>
. ion. is the most important in its effect
on .the enlightenment of the nation,
conveys in ten thousand rills, inteili
i ger.ee to nearly every home in the court
try. The country press ought to receive
a cordial support: Every place should
-.dry to have its paper of such a character
that the people could be justly proud of
it; To this end, let them pay promptly
r» advertise liberally, recommend warmly,
. and.in every way stand by their editors
as long as they conscientiously oan.
Fuller and Richardson’s vote.—
The Union and American, in its im
pression of Tuesday, states that on the
final vote for Speaker of the U. S.
House of Representatives, Hon. H. M.
Fuller, who bad been steadily voted for
by the National Americans, “dodged.
This isuujnst to Mr. Fuller. If our
neighbor will read the debate in the
Congressional Globe of the 4th inst, he
will sec that it was stated by Mj; Walk
er, of Ala, when Mr. Fuller’s name
was called, that bc(Mr. F.)bad paired
off.—Nat. Intel.
The Democratic jou - nals of the South,
true to their instincts of seeking to make
political capital out of every question
that presents itself, have affected a won
derful degree ol indignation at the fact
that Mr. Fuller did nut vote bn the fi
nal ballot, when the Speaker of the
House was elected. Strange, indeed,
that these indignant patriots should have
omitted to inform their readers that M
Richardson also failed to vote on that
ballot! Have they no fiery darts, red
with uncommon wrath, to hurl at him ?—
Chronicle ii. Sentinel.
. FIRE. - ;
We regret to learn that the dwelling-
house, jin*house, and other out-buildings
on one of the plantations of our towns
man w m. M Morton. Esq., together
with a large quantity of cotton, were
consumed by fire op Friday night last
We have heard no estimate of the value,
of the property destroyed, but presume
it to be considerable.
Already in the Field.—It will be
seen by and article . in another column,
that Archbishop Hughes is already in
the field. Who will bid highest for the
Catholic vot;*, the Anti-American De
mocracy, Black Republicanism ? A
lively competition is expected in the
next Prsidential contest, and political
Romanism already, is at a premium in
certain quarters. Let the people look
to the matter.—Jour & Mess.
The American Party of Jeffer
son.—At a recent meeting of the Ameri
can party of^. Jefferson county* at Louis
ville, the following resolution wer
adopted :
Resolved, That we endorse the plat
form of principles put forth by the Con
1 vention of the American party, which
assembled in Milledgeville on the 20ih
December last, and that we will ap
point an Executive Commttee, as recom
mended by that Convention.
Resolved, That we approve the rour e
pursued by the American Party in Con
gress. in (he recent struggle to elect a
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Resolved That the Chairman of this,
meeting appoint an Executive Commit
tee consisting of five members.
. Foolscap Paper.—Everybody knows
what "foolscap paper" is, but would
probably be puzzled to tell how it came
to bear that singular cognomen. Well;’
when Charles I. found his revenue short,
he granted certain privileges amounting
to monoplies and among these was the
manufacture of paper, the exclusive
right of which was sold to'certain par
ties, who grew rich and enriched the
government, at the expense of those
who were obliged to use piper. At
this time, all the English paper bore in
. watermarks the royal arms The Par
liament under Cromwell made jests and
j&rfc af ltis law in every conceivable
maimer, anil among other indignities to
the memory of Charles, it was ordered
that the r-yal arms be removed from
thepnpor, anil the fitoi’s cap rand beTlIs
be substituted. These also were re
moved when the Rump Parliament \va$
prorogued, but paper of tlte size of the
Ftirlinmcnrs journals still bvaf the
name of ‘tfuulscnp.** *
. Monster Criminal.—The English
papers record the arrest of a man named
Evans, on a charge of having poisoned
his wife, his brother, his friend, and
thirteen other persons. His wife, before
marriage, was a ward in Chancery, and
entitled to a large fortune. Her guard
ir.n resolutely opposed the match, and
the Master in Chancery also withheld
his cap-rant for some time. Both finally
yielded to the entreaties of the young
lady, and yet it is believed that she was
subsequently murdered by her infamous
husband. He was a finished gamble
and a master spirit of. the turf, and his
friend, Mr. John P. Cook, gave him his
fullest confidence, aud. yet suffered the
same awful fate. In the case of his
brother, Mr. Walter Palmer, insurances
on his life were effected- to the extent of
.£23,451), and then he also, as is believ
ed, was poisoned. Nuy, it is staledthnt.
the names of no fewer tlmn sixteen per
sons are mentioned . as having suffered
death by poison through the agency oi
the prisoner
*
LAW. OKDSRv AND Till COHSTITUTWH.
ATHENS, GA. I
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 2t 1856
ATTENTION.
"Know-Nothing and Southern
Rights.—The . Freesoil Washington
correspondent of the Illinois Democratic
Press, a Freesoil and anti-Know-Nothing
p*per,says:
Fuller, the Know-Nothing candidate
for Speaker, you will observe, takes ex
treme pro-slav.-ry ground. The course
of members in the House, and of Fuller,
shows' that Nebraskaisra and Know-
Nothingism are one and identical. On
the slavery question these two parties
agree, and this puts the lie Upon the as
sertion that Anti Nebraska men are
Know-Nothings. Just the reverse is
the truth.—Jour, Mess.
SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY.
The most monstrous doctrine ever
advanced by an American Statesman —
John C. Calhoun.
A* indefensible in principle and dan
gerous in practice as the Wilmol Pro
viso.— Democratic Slate Conventions o '
Virginia and Alahma.
We of the South will never submit .to
it —Richmond Enquirer. ‘
And yet, odious as this doctrine was;
to Mr. C.llioun and other Southern
Statesmen ; antagonistic as it is to the
rights and interests of the South, espe
cially when lioked to alien suffrage, the
National Americans were called upon to
endorse it by giving their support to Mr.
Richardson.—Jour. & Mess.
. An Incident that Bears its own
Com it ENT*—Isaac, a body servant of
4 veil, Quitman; arrived homo n few
days since Shortly -after the General
reached Washington city, Isaac ex-
S ressod a great desire to return home to
Iississ'ppi. ’ Ui*u» being pro.-sod fur his
runjons for so'sudden a wish lie told his
master that he- hud been repeatedly
hesot by 1 two white men from Boston
who urged him to -accept their aid to
run away front his master, lie stated
that he' wrs * afraid he would be kid
napped info IVcedora, as he blieved the
two men Woto capable -of any airociiy -
The General auve Isaac a pass with
which he safely yeaelr-d homo tq- his
infinite .satisfaction.— f Nutch<-z Fr&
Trader.
Tlte first raitr >ad in California is in
process of construction, and eighteen
miles of track b id been l«i*l, at thedate
of the. last unit steamers departure
from San Francisco, t Tlte'ronrii.-..caller!
the S icramento Valley.—Four miles ol
track only are required to he laid t«
complete it to ils temporary upper ter-
tninoos, Several other lines to various
p'aces have been projected. *
A Remarkable Man.—John Rickets,
n'Virginian by-birth, but long a citizen
of Georgia, died near*. Lexington, Ogle
thorpe county .the 30th ult^at thereroark-
nble nge of 104 years. He was a hard
wot king,industrious man from his youth,
and whenn«-ar tOOyeafsold w as occupi
ed regularly in iHe field, and was wont'to
Ituasl that lie could put up more fence
than any man in the county. Last year he
cultivated a few acres in corn, with the.
and made good corn. When lie was over
100 years old, he would’frequently walk
to Uxingioa -a distance of -about 9
miles—transact bis business and walk
back home the Same day. lie wa< a
poor man,and lived on the plainest diet.
He took great interest in politics, and
gloried in the name of whig, and believ-
ed-that all parlies bearing a different
name were no more nor less titan tories
"f the Revolution. His father, John
Frederick Rickies, died in Oglethorpe
county in 1825, at the advanced age 100
years.—Georgian.
Hon. Natuaniel P. Banks, Jr., the
new Speaker of the House of Represen
tatives, is thus described by a. writer:
‘•Mr. Banks* personal appearance
somewhat resembles that of Senator
Seward, though a more youthful and’
handsome looking man than that distin
guished statesman. He is' of medium
height, and sliutly built, with a pale face,
a keen eye, an intellectual forehead, fris
ky hair of iron grey mixture, standing
erect as an Indian, walking with the
measured and courtly air of a prince,
and having withal a stilted stiffness aboot
him, which some have described as ‘cler
ical,’ and others aa ‘Puritanic,’ but whfcu,
be it what it may, unmistek’&jy jhdj.
cates, to my mind, that with him the
intellectual faultier predominate, and
that in social life he is cold as an icicle,
fudging him by his appearance, he would
very naturally be taken as a sprig of the
aristocracy of the -so-called Athens of
America, instead of the man of the peo
ple, and a recent workman in the ma
chine shop. ‘He has the air,' says one
writter, and he says so with some truth,
‘of a New England clergyman pacing
the deck of a steamer which he expects
every minute to he blown up.’ His ap
pearance, in a word, marks him- as a
man of note. Though stiff and cold,
hf is yet not forbidding in his manners,
and his personal demeanor resembles
much the lofty condescending, dignity,
yet ever courteous and urbane manner,
of the polished and elegant Wiuthrop.
He is a native of Massachusetts, and re
presents the seventh Congressional Dis
trict of that S'ate, being born at Wal
tham, in tile county ot Middlesex, in
January, 1816, aud is therefore u.ow
forty years of age. His habits are ex
cellent, and his private character pure
and unspotted.” .
ALIEN SUFFRAGE. ,
We copy the following excellent re
marks from that able and excellent
American paper—the Macon Journal
Messenger, and commend them to the
attention of all unprejudiced minds.:
’To our Iasi issue we denied the
statement of the Washington Union,
that the only reason -Why the national
Americans would not support Mr. Rich
ardson for Speaker, was the obnoxious
character of the caucus platform upon
which he was presented as a candidate.
It is true, this, taken in connection
with the offensive declarations of J.
Glancy Jones. Cobb, Caldwalader and
others, formed, a valid reason and ex
cuse for withholding their co-operation
in. securing his election. But there
wefe other and serious obstacles to bis
support. - Passing by his notorious uu-
Soundness upon the doctrines of non
intervention and squatter sovereignty,
we will revert again to the odious alien
suffrage provision of the Kan9as-Ne-
braskia bill, which owt$ its paternity to
Mr. Richardson. In proof that this
provision was justly obnoxious to the
South, we have but to give the vote of
the Senate upon the motion to strike it
out from the bill reported to that body
bj Mr. Douglass, the friend of Mr. R.
The Senate repudiated .and rejected it,
and we would direct the particular*at
tentionof our readers to the following
extract from the Congressional Globe,
vol. 28, pg. 520; containing the vote
in the' Senate upon the proposition of
Mr.-Clayton, of Delaware, to amend
the Kansas-Nebraska act, so as to re
strict the right of suffrage to citizens of
the United States.
Mr. Clayton troved -to amend- by
striking out in the provision.conferring
the right of - suffrage and holding office,
these words:
A lid those who have declared on oath
their intention to become soch, and shall
have taken an oath to support the Con
stifuiion of the United States and the
provisions of the act.
So it shall read :
Provided, That the right of suffrage
and of holding office, shall be exercised
only by citizens of the. United States.
Mr. Seward called for the yeas and
nays, and they were ordered with the
following result:
Yeas—Messrs. Adams, Atchison,
Badger, Bell, Benjamin, Brodhead,
Brown, Butler, Clay, Clayton, Dawson,
Dixon, Evans, Fitzpatrick, Houston,
Hunter, Johnson, Jones, of Tennessee,
Mason, Morton, Pratt, Sebastian, and
Slidell,—23.
Mf ...
Nays—Messrs. Chase, Dodge, of
Wisconsin, Dodge, of Iowa. Dougl tss,
Fessenden, Fish, Foote, Gwin* Hamlin.
Jones of Iowa, Norris, Petit, Seward,
Shields. Smith, Stewart, Summer,,Tou-
cey, Wade, Walker and Williams.—21.
So it was agreed to.
Is there nothing significant in this
vote, in this sectional division of the
Senate upon this question of suffrage?
Every Southern Senator, whether Whig
or 0emocrat,Union or Southern Rights
American or Anti-American, voted in
favor of Clayton’s amendment—taking
from aliens the privilege' of voting! and
every Northern Senator, with two ex
ceptions, whether Whig or Democrat
Conservative, Freesoil or Abolition,
American or Anti-American, ' voted
against it! The reason is plain,
was a sectional question—upon which
the Srriith opposed the North in a Col
unm as dblid and as unbrokt-n as
would have ptesented,- if, instead of
proposition to permit aliens to vote in
Kansas and Nebraska, it had been q pro
position to engraft the W»!, n ot Proviso
upon the bill for ineir organization.—
Southern Senators feared the one as
Kttch ai the other. They knew that th8
great lido of foreign immigration flow*
ed into the Northern States,. aud into
"Liberty in the estimation ofthe^pco
pie of all the nations of Europe, is li
centiousness, lawlessness, ajjd so it will
“THE INNOCENT, HARMLESS
'^pr» t X!ATHOLICS."
Read theVolIowing extract from the
be, l fear, until there be a change in u Frtrm(ln > s j ourna t "the leading Caiho-
tfieir minds, htbtts, education, -kind —
modes of thinking. They do not un
derstand or appifeciate its first principles.
Men to be capable of maintaning law and
order in a free Government, must be
schooled in the elementary principles.”
Arid why was the alien Suffrage pro
vision in the bill justly obnoxious to the
South ? Because it permitted emigrants
(including paupers and felons from the
prisons and 1 sewers of Europe.) of all
the kindied* and tribes under Heaven,
so soon as they entered these Territo
ries,,whilst totally ignorant of the genius
of our institutions—and therefore gen
erally hostile to slavery—to exercise the
right of suffrage. With this provision
in the organic law of our Territories,
and the recognition of the right of Con
gress and Territorial legislatures to
shut put slavery from the public domain
—a right conceded by Messrs. Cass,
Camberleng, Richardson, Stephens and
others—who does not see the mortify
ing and deplorable attitude and condi
tion in which the South is placed ! No!
no! Mr. Richardson is the very Ia3t
man in the Democratic ranks thatshould
expect Southern votes from any party.
Messrs., Cobb, Jones, Stephens dc Co.,
never expected when they drew up their
programme for the -organization of the
House, that it would command the sup
port of the National Americans—they
did not des re it. But now, driven
fmm their proud and arrogant position
amid the jeers and censures of their
confederates,, and ihe unmistakable
signs of displeasure from their constit
uents, these gentlemen, it may be hoped,
will leant a lesson of wisdom from sad
experience. They will at least learn,
that the spirit and principles of the
American Party, are not afraid to con
front their enemies even under the dome
of the Federal Capitol, in the effulgence
of noon-day."
lie paper in this country and special
organ of Archbishop Hughes, the Pope’s
vicegefent in American, together with
the comments of the New York Ex
press. edkedSby that true Atne> ican
patriot. IIbn r Erastus. Brooks, to
whom all Protestant" Christians in the
United States are. indebted for the man
ner in whii^L he handled his controversy
vith this grJat Popal dignitary— in which
controversy [tlie said " Dagger John"
came off •»{',.jond best.
Political’jicksters and debased de-
magogues n hr ^attempt to conceal the
fact as much as they can—but it is
nevertheless true that the Catholic in
fluence is so' rapidly increasing in this
country as to embolden its leaders to
throw off the mask iu some degree and
at times to show their real design—
which is, in the language of Bronson—
the boldest arid most honest man among
leaders of the Black Republican
nov^—apd in the new dress they h
put on, we find them to be now as n,?8
the confederates, instruments, and
engineers of Rome and the Romi.t, •
ti/rests in the United States. IQ '
We shall never forget the deep i m
pression made upon an American an?
encc, some two or three months sin
when, on a well remembered occasi**’
an able and eloquent witness agai OI,f
Jesuitism in America, exhibited toil!!
pnb'ic gaze, a collection of these Corn
train School books, with the black
marks and erasures that had been inu
print.-d on fbeir pages, to please th
Archbishop arid his political
frii-nds."—the Sewardites and a!
M red.',—at Albany. |A:tbrill Of bofr!!!
fan through the whole assemblage th t
showed how deeply and serioraW If
ArcM, S h„p-, - bV„” ssh xu;
Was felt by the people, ^
The next “blow” was dealt, to, h*
street preachers, who dared to in)j t J
the example of the prirnttiVe AposS
in discoursing to the multitude
open air, at the Crystal Palace ,?!
Parish Brooklyn, and Williamsburg
Americans, ou these oecasinm
pSTSis;
3 s r a ™ th* hand
soil of St Patrick,—and to
them—to put jn end to " the so-called
Aich
liberty of conscience,” which some of Know^Nothingism*' carried .E,? 310
clamaiions from the Mayor£
necessary to preserver from E2
riots, and reigns of terror.
them avoiv "workethall manner of here- clamaiions from the Mayor
TheArebbishop’s next "hl ow " waj
Let protestants beware how they act
with that party which i* daily adding! levelled against the Americanism tS*
strength to Catholicism in the Uuited. had crept into the laity of the Church of
o. ° n ' j St Louis, at. Buffalo. The “ blot?
States.. . , was dealt in the shape of a bull of ex-
From the “ Freeman’s Journal."—(Oqpn ofv communication, promulgated by bishop
— . Archbishop Hughes.) Timon, Monsignor Bedini, and the
A lecture from Archbishop Hughes Holy Father himself. But that ini'for
L t •*. - ! the time being, “ Blow," thelast The
Atnerican| people, rallying under the
now triumphing banner of the then
mythical ‘‘Sam,’’ began to give “ blow”
THE RECORD.
To “vindicate the truth and majesty
of history"' and to show the people of
the South who are sound and who. are
not, we present below the.**cnnfession ot
faith*’ of the Democratic and Ameri
can candidates f»r the Speakership, te-
speclively, on’the slavery question.—
These are the sentiments uttered by
each in presence of the House of Rep:
resentatives when pubiicly interrogated
on the subject The. reply of Fuller
ia such as might, have been expected
from the soundest Southern statesman;
while that of Richardson is anything
else than satisfactory to those who re
pudiate the abominable doctrine of
•‘squatter, sovereignty," And yet, the
Democratic papers of this State gener
ally brand Fuller as a Freesoiler, and
call upon the constituents of those
Southern men' who voted for him, to
"turn them out !" What beautiful con
sistency 111. It is due to one of our
Democratic exchanges—the Colutrihns
Times Sf Sentinel— to say, that with a
spirit of manly fairness has commended
the sentiments of Fuller as'being
worthy of John C. Calhoun nimself.
But here is the record. Reatl and
examine for yourselves:
MR. RICHARDSON’S POSITION.
"I do not and cannot believz that our
Constitution carries n;. t i protects slave•
ry, ex ept in Slrj eSt nordo j M iree that
its framr- s intended that it shoul i extend
ihi$ im/itution. 1 bttlievd it was formed
for far higher and nobler purposes.. It
was formed to preserve forever a nnion
of these States, and to guard and protect
each and every oitizen whose lot might
be cast in it in. his person and property
is an epoch in public affairs. So it has
been in the past. His lectures on the
Decline of Protestantism ” and again
un the “ Catholic Chapter in the His
tory of the United States,” marked each
a noted period in the history of public
sentiment. In his lecture of last week
in Baltimore the Archbishop has struck
the fatal blow at Know-thlngism. * * *
The great fact thus presented to the
public m>od. its truth appears self-evi
dent,' The public recognise its correct
ness. Know Nothingism falls dead to
the ground. Its spinal column is bro
ken.’ i
We respectfully beg leave to invite
the attention of the American public to
this self-endorsement rf the Most Re*
verend Archbishop and especially to
markthe * fatal blow to Know-Jlothi*g-
tsm’ be is supposed to have dealt at
Baltimore, because it does but carroH
borate the- statement we made, some
days since, that the Romish Hierarchy
in the United States had enlisted for the
Presidential campaign. 1 The Arch
bishop’s lecture, we are here told, by
His Reverence himself, as it were, had
a particular political (riot.religious) pur
pose in view,—that is-to say, to “ stike
a blow’* kt’Americanism. It is some
thing to get Jesuitism to admit any-
tliing, pnrithtf admi-sjon ttt this case (pa
quoted above) is a sufficient answer to
all who may be doped or deluded into
the belief that the “ popular lectures”
which the Hierarchy are delivering just
now, in all patts of the country, are
designed to promote the cause of The
meek and lowly Jesus,—instead of the
cause "f Caesar. .
•‘ The Archbishop has struck a’blow”
.at A me. icanism,—has hfet • -Well, what
then? It is not the first blow he has
struck, or attempted to strike, by a: great
deal. He tried to strike a blow at
Americanism when he entered a noisy,
political assemblage of Irish Romanists
and other foreigners, on the ere of an
important and exciting election in this
city, some years since,—and instructed
the foreigo-niob there, how ‘,’riey should
vitj, with an expre^ view t<* the ad
vancement of the Papal cause in this
City Mid State. The " blow, 1 ’ on that
Mcasion, was to obtain some of the
people’s money, to promote Romanism,
! of Pnnnliliputucm "R»lt it fltH
in return. The Papal Nuncio cot one
oj those “ .blows/’—when he wu 0 6/,v
ed-to flee the city, in disgum.iseicipe
the indignation of in outraged,
aroused community. At Wuhiajtaa,
we remember, about the same time,
some of the politicians there received i
“ blow” for bending their knee to this
Italian Baa! which made them red it
the time, and froth which they have not
yet.—and we doubt if they ever till,
recover. The haughty aspirant for t
Cardinal’s hat even now staggers un
der the Church Property bill “ blow,"
and though the Albany politicians, and
their Bla, k Republican cohorts gener
ally. ntay come to his rescue,—to con
sideration’of the Roman Catholic rote
being cast for their Presidential can
didate, “ Sam," we lfare say, is “not
afraid." 'Phe,Young ‘ Hercules, m id'
alive mid' vigorous,no aiikeiy
condition to withstand, to the bitter end,
ell that Rome and Africa cando agrina
him.—N. Y. Express.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
We copy from the Chron. & Sentind
ihe proceedings of;the-Senate, oratfc..
15th inst., in reference to the Atlanta
Bank, and the bill which provtdeslbr
the partial sale of the Western & M-
antic Railroad. '
Milledgeville, Feb. 15, P. h.
•*'*• : ' ' . SENATE; ‘’
Home is emphatically the poor man’s
paradise. The rich, with their many
esources, too often live away from th<-
lenrth sto-jn*, in heart if not iu person ,
>ut to the virtuous poor, domestic t’es
ire the only legitimate and positive
source of happiness short of that holier
heaven which t< the souUs home. . •
••; SIGNIFICANT! . ^
From the Free States hail, a^ our
officers, President U. S., Speaker of
the House of' Representatives, Presi
dent of the Senate, Minister to Eng
land, and almost every other important
officer, including every chairman of thu
various committees recently appointed,
but f vc.
, . , TT . » Stovery existed before theDonstitu-
Ihe unoccupied Territories of the Union, /,* oni and , n his judgment, now exists, in-
and that to permit foreigners to vote in
Kansas and Nebraska, would be to com
mit the control of the question of slave
ry it;.those Territories, to a certain-ex
tent, to' a population whose interest it is;
(to say nothing of their ' opinions) to
avoid contact with slavery and competi
tion with slave labor—and they voted lor
the Clayton amendment. Northern
Senators knew the same thinjj—and
they .voted for it.. Is it so very strgnge,
that the American Party In the South
ern States should follow the unbroken
column of Southern Senators, in repu
diating the policy of allowing unnatur
alized foreigners to vote in the Territo
ries of the Union ? Is it so very strange
that the American party of Georgia,
should attach importance to the opin
ions of the distinguished men of its
own State, uud remember the grave and
weighty consideration* (independent ot
the slavery question) which the Hon.
A. H. Stephens urged, in his address
before the Maryland Institute, on the
23d of February. ! 852, against the pol
icy (as we apply his remarks) of con
ferring the elective franchise upon un
naturalized foreigners. On that pocsi-
ston he said in substance as follows , v
and conscience.’*
mr. fuller’s position.
dependent of the- Constitution. When
the people of the confederate States met
by their representatives in convention
to form the Constitution, slavery existed
in all but one of the States of the con
federacy. The people, having the right
to hold slaves, conceded through their
representatives the right to prohibit the
importation of them after the year 1808.
They made ho .concession so far as re
garded the existence of domestic slave
ry.- They claimed the right, and it was
granted.to them, to reclaim slaves-in
cases of escape. T^hey claimed the
right of representation, and it was grant
ed. A hell that Congress had no right
to legislate upon the subject ofslaverg,
and that the territories are the common
property, of all the States, therefore, had
a rtght to enter upon and occupy that
Territory, and were protected by the fag
of the country. He thought that Con
gress had no right to legislate it into or
exclude it front a Territory, and in his
judgment, th- territorial legislature had
no right to legislate upon the subject, ex
cept so far as to protect the citizens of the
Territory in the enjoyment of their pro
perty
Let it.be remembered that Cobh,
Stephens, Warner, Seward, Crawford
and Lumpkin, Georgia Representatives
in Congress, did, in this session of that
body, support Richardson for Speaker
in preference tri Fuller, after the opin
ions of both had been placed on record,
before their eyes!
instead of Republicanism. But U,did
not succeed. The blow was carried by
the patriotism and intelligence of a
noble band of Americans, who were
then bat just beginning to sound the
alarm at the' schemes of the 1! ambitions
foreign priesthood among us.
The Archbishop’s next "blow." »t
Americanism was,-to drive the Bible
out of the Public Schools altogether,
if possible,—but if that was not possible,
so to. limit its application to the scholars
as to be next to useless. The blow
made “ Sam" stagger a little,—but in
daggering* Providence be praised, he
had his eyes opened a little wider, to
see what was going on already here.
Tbegooij Bishop’s next “ blow" was
so to emasculate all English and other
historical works, as tell of the perseou
ttons of the “ Bloody Mary,” or that
venture to speak a word in favor of
Oliver Cromwell, or the Pilgrim Fathers.
Books that praised Martin Luther and
Meianchon. were mutilated, revised,and
torn,—in order that no violence be done
to the prejudices and tastes-ol Bishop
Hughes. The massacre of St. Barthol
omew was sugared over, so as to give
that awful atrocity less the appearance
of a Roman Catholic butchery of Pro
testants, than a master stroke of Stale
policy. Books that told of the Rovoca
lion of Nat.ies. compelling the Hugue
nets to seek personal liberty, and free
dom to worship God according tc the
dictates of their own conscience,—
books that informed their readers of the
tortures oft ie inquisition.ar.d the popish
persecutions of the Albigen»es and
Waldense>,—all these were pui under
the ban, and revised to suit the Bislto;
Hughes' market. And in this base
work—with shame we say it.—this
Foreign, Anti-Republican, Un-Ameri
can, illiberal and domineering llierar
chy—found willing allies in a certain
class of Albany demagongos, who were
anxious to secure the Irish, vote. The
demagogues th.it aided tlus Bishop to
The Senate spent a great portin
the rooming on the motion to reqqfi)
the indefinitely postponed Reports a
the Atlanta Bank; but the motion- fiJ
ed after a very animated debate.
The Senate then took up the B
which provides for-a partial sale of tk
Western & .Atlantic Railroad. TU
btH proposed to organize a Com
be oalied the W. & A. R R.
who were to own two-thirrf» of the
slock, the whole amount of triadt ***
to be fixed at $550,600. It wmibmm
to strike out this sqm, apd thejgpp*
being agreed tty the Senate ik«» *?*•
menced'filling the blank. ' Tdn, hid*.
tight, and seven millions were propos
ed, but all voted down, The
then fii|ed \y'nh six millions.
The Senate riekt took up eecond sec
tion. Mr. Buchannan amended souse
provide that no 0<>e individual w cor
poration should take more^ thoo. **
shares for the first twelve months afitj
the opening of books. Mr. Fope mom
to amend further by so changing
sectien'as to provide that if the
stock were not taken in twelve
by citizens ofGeorgia, the lifts
scriptijin should then he.oper-
scribers from any portion of...-
State. The motion failed* ana
It is a mistake, s:1 ?
Exponent, that ‘ he f ^usaD-l^
. ... , playe upon a harp ot a V. ^ jj, .
strike his “blow,” at. 'hat. day,J are the j The organ of that patty u
1'be motion
journeu. .
No business ; other, than tue * ,
Senate then adjourned.
was transacted to-day. .J
notes .of the debates on the abo«»
will write out a report for toy neX *
Retaliation.—Mr, Jones. } >v
viding for attachments iri cer,#in f( . J
authorizing a seizure of the
those States who refuse to J
fugitives from labor, was callc*
discussed by Mr. Jones of Mu*■ ^
mAVnll !l ^ ..n.
npdt,
in such free State. Upon > ^ r
copies were ordered to be ! irin
the whole question was se ld°^ ql
cussion on Thursday.—Ga.
Newspaper Education-^
pers coutrilnite more than 0 f I
are aware of, to the ctlucid 1
The 1
young members of a family-^ .r ^I
cords of Occurences - In ici * , jn
admirably to instruct y oU
nraclioal rca ities ol even- y jjt*I
tlmvjt .jiwt win them from «h°JL
lions ami win tlietn from
fantasies. PNo well regu 8 ^
ever without its favorite new-'pl f
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