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BY WILLIAM S. JONES.
CttRU SaCLR & SKiNTIftBL.
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r , . :,r setting out
t . ■ • •. t iri t!
• •■■■ v , • rmanent
» , in Sor 4 ye&ro. f&affihlfti, dc
a * :;rj training the plants,
/ . laoaedesirc.rofeng-.ning
au, . raace,will address D.BUDMOna.
A Uf*aata,Oa.
830 ««WAFDr
p I FAY fr m t abtwribar, raddtsc In
.t ty, near Uarriii, In August lut,|S
r • , Fruuk. i- ibout 9t> cW.'flL
f . . M.'ti, of it'- • site, has
§ >::* * f!. r< ih * si::ht of
© - . m •' • rgi .. Ih -i :r iecr
p .r'l. 1 .» i o paid for
La ' . to any :ad s• t A I pat him.
J A. 1. ASBIS,
if rbid,mdftr*
w J
| :l .! -Kr-t li tTfT.T.TAM GRAVES,
and a Sorrel MAR abost 14handshigh. The above
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any . nso lu.t l get them*
©l# ts JAB. P. YIiKSIING.
f> t W- AY f- tu • •. u i•r on the 11th of-,.
f.u t:y -*,»• U y M-’hJ, about «©
Is . • 1.1 •• i 4 v• 'n , r.i ..;r bright
y *1 . . ! e % hr * n i-tnV h-irp-y 1, t ;i: ck
an u \ 1 i. J on *-h ■ h u-ft ronn o ; home n»a !-
n .» i ! Ti-i a arr u* hh-c’t ha*, t’e ha-1 a bolt on
t k, h h wll y t show klgna. From
c ! r i •v,I i . i- i* rt ii in.. to think that the b'y
ara
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R" .. . u , . • 7 V a south of
I>e . i' ,o- ,i • ~ r rl ■r hi a>j r henslon
an * •i i : J -• : i f in. A ibtral
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a->y <n Lad:.' tricr-:*<>.
'.v ». •’ lA*- MF oAH IE, nr.
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f ■ • . ■. V io hit i i braou hea
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iu * . . . v- ' k ) • alt nvlull.
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r s . : utul .t. h» i»-,v.-ch :* >t> •: H-nse formerlv
Ji t - *• r. ' • ! In the centre of
Gt . ;o\ It oj’u otc'he Con;- hon •, and con
\ • * • D t H vi .3 fii «d it up with
n . *•r/ l ..1 ,• I,o*l,'' Ji»". ire ring to the
C lio.n: . . Mil nv. It '/ the patron*
c f.« <1 1 • t;»„ l! t public. The House
V ' -u f > tiler i, •• j • -1“ • flr-t lay of
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PRACTICE OP BUEOSBY.
JLJ date with i . • 1 | alienta as
gtt».y ,* d •ftr * ■ Sea! operations or treat*
r. • 1 o £Hi it their -ervaniH «r«
h myi-wly
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I * . s * 1 ' to g» dre .sons to
i . . ;ti ir J‘ I’oyjil • ff by « tno man.
‘ * <ynit!ty,
/ J wh ch time 1 h.re
[ w • ■ al n reward hr the
x , t • bo lo > -. ii :a
j • Gunn*
rs "" ' ;> fr th • u ’ rib •. about th.‘
r " r'.n:.* • M U Cv> -A .ti v srs
c ’. j • • > ’*s s •> > in hrs r ! .-u, one
v! e no ’ rti •’ir r t ar< -ot^d.
I v • i g ’ • u.». n I d': rig me a- • p
pii'i . . clii eivo :.:c .-.bove re M.vd.
l* E M -l».-Oy A VARY.
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T> V ■'■ f• . 1 the «*u" cal"-* pi ’r *H:n
1> ••; , - ',i Ju o » i EURO MV ,vj
u • . 3 r: f , » *K ’•]• er color. “JL
a • -V. • ; -e buti , q-i*.
8 l nil » i ,'c\ u iO—a.ttne 'D y ii, he
t< *. < • l . i» t t* r<. ivi f h • delivery to
1 > r ''it *ij . . > Jail; or if y
Do I »* v v irfj mulo j concerning him.
it; s » OAII Me ABB.
n } r. iiifti*:• ■ aca ib g com*’ny.
J . H>i l A.-'-;, Prta o t
< . _Y.». <. '• wj ■<: .•?aiM»-i«i, &!»I*>ui* 9 Mb.
To .* er -n .A ’ ;)Pt, * called to
•i • * p < a n- if ft c! e 1 ip; ic*de by
j, p ; iis cb p I.* ro th • in Louis
v * a a ius price Ihj.a cua be
at. 3 * o-r i bit v a fcrt.
u t>> i'- ' nt, or to Messrs. G RATMAN,
T. x xcJ, •l i - t p < v y rod *t low
rat* apt 4-6 m
I AID F K SAL-
Tp : |,h<3’ ' » l i it.’Tt f r aV f rht hundred
v of P vN \MUvcJt h;n six roi e* oT Au
rr- ut i .Spring*
lr. tcm oaH. ;i- Is i •a' r i t or u lots
t u . ' . lor Urtu , whi hwil be m »V a • in*
c i a [ i > JOoi-Pii K. BUr-CH.
NOTiCB.
t M. v in 1 b. d h • fi nufN. K firms*
2V , . . n or a .un , are r<qu s; it to
c '.■■■■ ii' • yi f Jay n*st, «»rd
Ifc n ’ u.a s. ' 5 i ft:a», wH rtne-thm
in ' lra r;, ..? v h e 8 ro-s cf eVsir *up the bu
-8.. ft m. AU • i C u . < U t*
- v • i;e, wd» be r» the ii ti‘i ' Atior
r. K. K. BL'ii-iit k CO.
... r' 1- •a* Ssw 1:n
€4lll 4 LKWIS»
A’. - "n .•* «• >, art*, Oa, w \ prac
: ;v :b»CsV. r . t 'Northern Oircait, and
i . . i Us. w.u »" * i-: •*. Omce
o% - . r. iU>rv. u-eor to iher'i-rbt
I D. i . Lewis.
sjL_ - > oYK iy'L- LSa iii tH~ABD
i » a :■> ax a:\N ca r>sKUi&
T' • r t*- . o’y L.nlCvi and o**-
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P-t . 3 , i ■vi ''■.’■.a a«.’;Uc
AwU, SMp.< } Tacts,
p.«.• « 1 u- -I » .:li el Ball Aw s.
f; • , ‘ ", rs, Colt.*, Shoe
v x. .3- 's, '.*•»! 'V?„ ip riding,
} . M i hi es, Kcixis,
l
f ■ *e- I Knives,
y, - b sekmg anj
i. - .. .
: a nee Bank.
:
Vl.o . A f GA .K ! ift I IP* t
-r • •, \ -.era, attt*
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- know.
f*... we a ; u-'W prepared U
rr . .. . 1: "> into sn '«-s, d»ciUeg*»
e • j c, a. as lowa rate
oi 1 ..•• • pt, be oliaiaco
ant it.-- -y i a hern tty.
* >p a cons tact arJ
• ■
u •. s, £; * a«*3
J ■ .!. ; <'■ : ail head and
L . V7.-.as (rs Tirious
■ - % i - f j w;n Capper anJ
. s.
' • . ; and Galvanised
v -• vr, fer Kitchens or Ban
• •-.m aad Irca lufl aod
i r: us
t ..A* »!«.«-*.ate |._rtonau,, aaci-eu y attend
o-i JOjLX b-OWS
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I • sc,aULOo»H
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L ■ -a :i£ T,oftn. _3pa:;era*,
t ' , ' ._e tcikbraidi
C , for Wiil c*o.
t‘ . .--rr:'.’-*!.
. i_ :-ft :o aaach lo €
••• -“-‘ :e ;:v. -loitntx**.
Bnyviv'n- sirtaer ei, ilroer & Wlgaad
L r tv- , ‘ __ j
YHJK LI. . OBAL i-' -?XLK.
i Cougv , c. ’ 'l leases qf LU
Lti :i?* a&J TLroaL
THIS c -.pco-.i C- not te too raeomreended
fori -t a •; < ':r ■.. I.atCc.tb r pt, r • «cT Jig
a-* r ;, r-ijrs ' lit Crst .oe *. lr. Cu.se* of Croup, it
relief in a very short‘imo.
T r t i 1 ' ocg* *,Bronchitia, A thma,
hr, . .... K,y upon cieace. Fortule
by V> IH.TU ; ' c
<U9d*wlf ILiid uamborg.
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
FOB S ALE. .
LABD AI D KILLS FUS bAL£.
: miMT -i . N ill •; «• ;« acre* 'f »oed
* ' •■
! xtRS
r- ? beral it m*. *<H the preirl»*i therefa ftffM*
• t, *• -
:r t r v -> r fc citj ;o propel Ma.Ltatry to th.
; **?*•; e *loV.; . Uo /d vr ..'to property i* r.otecU
| djr ug th-: cx brer months i* w. ‘ erpoiod o public
u ou rt i u.eda; cf CO I-T next, at tiv Court-
J-u t .• . rr-.a oo c\ b c-t if od by ♦ppi-a’Ha to
U .c. C. . : *l. f 11 ALL, An D U D' Jo N W NG
> • , -a li G-; o. to i.. .JOHN vCLTitL-TT, ut-r
• - ae . ap^-wd
HE LAPD SALE-
Ti ; f-ru-iss:s2£®
■•;, own twr •< rr -er.fr n Au^cata, and within ;wo r
li*/':*; cuiks of the Georgia EUllroad—kuown aa the Han
t' n Etirvey—ccutaiuir.? f 56 acres, nitre or and
.’.dud I.* lan * of Aden K*l», Jean James, Binon
. . iiue P. U<t?L.c ar u oti,.*. If not dispos'd of
b ~.:ethe flrtTstiJ*- in Nov l her n*xt 1 will offer it
at T *?‘.' : ou'.c/y or* th-* day, a: tu* Le ver Market iloust
. n dc? ringto parch ethe t'act, wil please ap
r’y to V/ra. A .Vakoa -- .n A-Kc-ttu
icr'-b-tuf Efc-LttDOA CAM7ISLD.
FOS CAL 2.
• *noacrlberoff*:rafor tale the tract of LAND^7|
I *nd Tony A res, c.<.: ; or ls»i, lying twooilos east
G&. There is
. i reehur.ir j acres of c.f =*red Land, cf wr.ich one
i '■ .Jofit is r :’i bolt -ta land a*. ; n a state of
•?.. v.: • lon. Ti t-re is opon the tr?ct Cre huud;ed acres
; or be\vHy timbered Oak ?.nd Pine l4tnd,acd two hundred
...res cf van t e bw .mp Lar •' also .well timbered.
| There i* a good orchard of choice Frut Tree*, a coclort
’ . .>j#elji:. -,'oU a splendid Gto-hooee and new Screw
| aua.&ed tp uU'.place; an eiceiient Bmoko-bouse arid
£ilt>.<az. and a »cl hot biiUoipgs cecci«s j for a farm. In
the yard, Vet^went<sie kUcbcn anddweiung, and ccovc*
meet V. both, is a •>.. pore water. Theplaoe hat
the eh* raster of ”>? Ucalthy. Any perse.a
, !ipdj * av£S *®^-
i V»K. O. inrcnrLL.
JTr # wether co , On., Auyrs* IS,-4 ,h 4. at;ii
l’.K CAL 22,
; 'piI«FARM ca led “ < len- Hoc r , w and known asrtgW
! 1 : r-i.d n- of Col Tl.' .'AiM-i; rri n, -rn-^K
taintng Eight Eondnd acd Fifty Acres, mostly eieek
.! acres etsand.
tis : tta:**«t fl • • es fr tn E n**fto_, on the Western
• '» water* atioao- ftozs.? Ra.Jr ad. T c ruidenci is
i. '-ruoi.c of the just b-uuufnl, argest, anr
Ch *o*e<;. Address CHuMa- M. DPR :I£N,
'V * y . ; , . : r.** c< urty, Ga., or apply to JAM id fc].
f'KPPKR on the premises. mh2B 6m
VALUABLE PLAfiTATIGH FOB SALE.
1 ION in 0.-; •tnorps '• ;nnty, uiiaated six miles east
'fL*-' f ' r ',r ;• i: gl* >•» ncr*.-s, more or les*. There
r .ut 'i'j ix. ~u oflow gj .- s end b>-tween 4
hl i oi w.>-lilund in the tract, it is improved
* jd Lje<- !i r nr Hons .* and such oat-t
DSL; \t tar *;1 on a p.mta'ion of the tile; rteo with a Que
0' . ard of k * v Trees. T • locality for he.Utb and
good water is *urp ned by nopiaceln th** county The
sjc of t:.‘ n igboorhood is g od, and snpp.iedwith
fi h- ol*. Ai 7 ; *rson d *ircu» of purchasing will please
address the undersignedut cxingfon.
n»3 ts Z. °. LANDRUM.
PLANTATION FOB CALS.
j-HK eubveriberoff ra for sate the PLANTATION oa
* which he res. ,In Oj. icaLo.pri coc.nty t oa the A‘hc; 6
branch of the G org.ii R ri.road, 12 iu\ lea atovc Uaiot
r,j ,t Itc Ltairiß S 0 acres, more or lean; Lbout VfO
a;/•a wcii tioL. red ■'»*£ *nd pine land. T: e pUci is in
w. od repair -and well cuppl ed w th voter; a comfo t*b:e
fie ’ii.g &i.d all m e r. ary out-hnldingn, and perfectly
1 !*hy. Adjo nav *he place la 8C • ac'ts, whr ;h cm te
p tr*: a’ed UM* of which are-rcii tinhereil. Any person
d- B;rou3 of purchasing, w.:l always Lnd m»i on the premi
« \ oraddicos mo «: i x-y’d P. 0., Og'-i.Lorpe co mv,
Ga. LclO-wtfJ W. Muc I>K7.
\is AR(IK and convenient LKICK STORE, Ituated
In tho centre of business,in thcelty of now
occupies by Bobt Bal v, Druggist. This store was-dtied
uj' usaOrug Htore.witiioutregard to any reasonabiuex
pens',and with aliillealteration csuld be conrertedintc
arranged Dry Goods Store. Thejituationfor
Ihes-'.le of L>rugK, l>ry Goods ; <.r Groceries can haruiy be
equalled in theuty. Termt i’asy. Apply to
GEORG 1. RATTY,M.D.
Ko.* D r ii 4;h,18M. aprG-tf
FOB SALE.
I NOW OHFKH for sale my entire River PLANTA
TION, 2d or 80 miles South of Columbus, Ga ,ia Bar
Lour cunty, Ala.,iyingori the Chattahoochee river, con
t . t:. . *4tJ<'Acres ; some 1200n.rcs in a line rft&te ofcul
tivatum and eood repair. A good water Gin and Ferry
acroii: the Chattahoochee river. The übove will be so
sale atacy time untih< !d and potses’ion eiveo. Termstc
suit purchasers. jtfl-tf MATHBW AVFBFTTO.
Fl R B/aLE.
T!!K eabscriher offers f r sale i UIIEE PLANTA-«yd-
TiOttiio t e2d- at. of 1) ugheny county, one ZX*
cc .tAiniLg 1 acres—l,ooo a« r a op-.n lau , *ith >.oj.i
;:id ail n c * ary ’iu. ding* lor Plantation pur
p. 6e i. '1 he other coutuining 1,400 acres — 6« 0 acre* open
v-d, with go d dwedin-* an i all r- ce-i ry out huiluinrfß
n» last oon lining V* a< »s u-: pn • . Eh* above
Lands are ara ug the choic' rtCotton Lnrjtls in U <ugherty
cuunty, and witliiu l x mle«of the cor n.mplattd Bouth-
B U lilroad. 'i l e two firn •i. . i JO n, an«i
w h be ">iJ s.paiately or togetbar, as r.iy be desired.
JAMES BOND.
• rto VV.W.Chcevcr, Albany, Geo., or Jcbeph bond,
Bijc»o,Geo. dl9-w6m
FOR BAL2,
't. MM PARM known :.s t e Hawes place, 9 miles above
A Augu ta on the ' v hi gwoa Rial, con alDing 2 5
a r.‘’,l be sti -at a fair price and on time. Apply at
Augusta to LEON i’. DUG AH,
C T it* for 8-rah Ann Dixon.
CHEi.OivfcaS COUNTRY
A VALUABLE LOT 02 LAND FOR BALF.
’T'HB mbscrir-er ■ ffers for sa' * . r*ery -Utractivcir
A and valuable lot of LAND, situated between threeSE
: »wec'.y Acres of good
Up r L rrll k ; »pved to .he growth of all the small
Gr;-in»,lrish and Bweei Potatoes. Peas, the Gras?*. ,
.*j •. :ov r, Ac., and peculiarly tble for Fruit Growing,
as it is u tied on an elevated p'teau the rtach of
• r ‘inary frosts. A besot’ful Natural Pond cr Lakelet, of
.V las the centre of the Tract. The
oneol the attractive si'.e®
imagmaL’-r for a country reddence; as the supply of ws*
ler v JJminiabea, and is of groat depth Ha»i c»ear',en».
It b fouby cubterram an -iprln^p,and has no perocpi-b;e
•v . et. rhe treat l* heavily timbered, wUh Oak,
Hickory, OVcstnct, Ac., &»1 au abundance of Pine, nod is
tr thiu a ini u «Bnd qoar:er of two good daw Mills. It aso
cv * s i.u inexhausiibie quarry cf »u, erior Limestcue,
ahi h may easily ne made available for Agricultural and
iprovomeuts consist of a very
COCJ-Ortable Log House, with out-! u idion's—a weli of go.-u
v t * , Ac., wan twenty or thirty acres in cu’tivation.
i. »tti ■ ion cf fruit v r r - Kock Raisers, and all
•ies i. .* of a doiightfals iuation in a sumbriousand healthy
. . >, wit! ir - isy reach of tho best aocioty, is porlicu
i n * Ac., -ppiyto . l- iul ucribcr, or to Col. J. W.
M. 15 RUI£ ,o. Some,Ga. t who will take p t-aaure in
- oiuti g out the laud. 1). REDMOND,
au9S itwewtf Anuosta, Ga.
WHEAT THHABHHaB.
npflßunderrigned would p rticularly call the attent ; on
il ts Wheat Growers ;o his improved TflSAb. F.R 1 ,
the mo t rabstantial taachueor tbe kind in ard are
p e:erred by those who : %v- vs a the e to any other.
Tnjy Cw.u b-j Lad -t tn.v shop, 9 nl . from Augusta onlhe
Louisvi k* roa i, or at l r rs.s. In NE3 A 3HO\VN’B, rnd
vessr.i. MOoRa, Br a ’-» .Argcsta.cra Messrs. HILL,
, 8 0. —at which puces may also be had my
iroa W<!. i* CK tr*. J wi'.. a'so bui d Gins to order, or
1 ti mter at the eborteet not.ee All or
i.iß left at my sho.p,or direc tii tj the Ricbmcnd Factory
P. O. wi 1 be prom .iy aUeuciud .
ap2f-wNk* SOLOMON BARNEY.
NOTICE.
T % 0 a’l whom it may concern, 1 !i»*rcby give notice that
JauikS Mat x, late of Talirferro uoucty d ceaaed.
by hi> la*! will and testament devis d asi bequeatleJ
orr jin properly consist ng o' - 1 ands and Negroe*, to be
e«j a iy div.dvd-.raocg , < is “relati-ns according to the
suute cf distribution,” A*. will be ready
f. j trl ution as di-c id, by the Hr tof January next,
a l cl ali p - i s ettcile •t ) an nterest in it, under the will
<f .1 test*.-r, w. pl.;r*e pres : ti'eir . laims in the j
meantime, prep;rly an. e retted ac ordlvg t-> lau*.
. x’r.
Crawfor lville. Ga., 9 May, 1886. mv4->2m
tSOEWAHD,
\1711.L be paid for Ibad*.lively in any safe Jail *"*B,
VV we get him, a Negro Ma i by tbe nswe ofj»
HARRY, lekm.iog 'o Robt. E. Va lvton of Hurke'TL
c cnty.Ua. Siil N ro is c '.arg-d r .l» hav.rp 1,
Ml* ne of ou>* Servants. Harry is aV' Ut 6 feet S itches
high, of brown c irplexi n, lisps in rp * king, has a wen in
1 ta f r ' . id about tie Mte of a partridge e« i, a:.d we gh*
about .65 or 160 pounds. It is auppote.l that he will be
run off by some white rr. N. 8. A B C. TARVb R.
BorneV m v |,| g 1886. m>o wit
b Ri\LD cB SIJi.EII,
OH the n ght ot tbe 6th in-t., a bright fiorrel
MAKE about 4 or 5 yea s c- ;
we’i, ar.d has *\ few g-av ha rs about the fit s, lo
c*.her* marks. For her dt- .very, or aoy i_ onaalien so
t •1 g t her, or for the V ial, widi evidence conv ction,
a ltle a rev :ud vill be p*id by J. M OUMBAA,
>-vrßt* V i dw tfd i* o 8 0.
TO~IHE WHEAT OaoWSIS UF LINCOLN,
VI I* Ks 8 AN } COLL MBIA.
RAYSYiLLK M.LL3.
I hflAl.L be prepared by or before the Ist of June,
JL with (v :ry hi <ia ccmp e»e order, to grind ali the
u heat tfca msy eff r, acd I will guarantee to m*ke M
much ai asffOodfUOO as any .VU oa Lit: e llv«i
T o g'a - tu.j*. c preep i!f rW E*T st th- Mils.
htat cut six to e ght da>s L&fore fully r pc, ra ike
mo- nd whit r H->. r. V. M. k ARN‘B,
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UiROMCLE 4 SENTINEL
LETTER FROM THE HON A. H.
STEPHENS.
Klbexton, Ga., stli May, 1855.
Hoa. Alex*nde2 U. Stephens.— L)tar Sir: —A
ramor prevails in this section, to a considerable
esrent, that you will decline to serve na in the
n it Congress, and the chief reason aseigsed is,
that it is supposed s Isrge number ofyonr politioal
friends have gone into the secret order called
Klow ..olhings. Many of yonr Iriends desiie to
know if this rumor be true. It is considered sn
important period in our rational affaire, and your
r tiring at thia time would be felt as a loss by
those who have relied on you through so many
trying scenes.
What are tour opinions and views of this new
party, called Know Nothings! Knowing your wil
lingness to ~ve your opinions on all matters of
public concern, I am induced to make the inquiry,
a ;d request permission to publish your reply.
To.ra, truly, Thos. W. Thomas.
C bawioudvilue, Ga., 9th Msy, 1655.
Desk sib:— Your letlor of the 6th inst. was re
ceivedao • o days ago, and should have been an
ewored earlier, rot for my absence from borne,
lne rumor you mention, in relation to my caudi
d icy for re-eicction to Congross, is trne. I have
tiled, and repeated on various oocssious, tiiat 1
wa- not, and did not expect to be, aoandidate—the
asms I now ssy to yon. The reasen of this decla
rsf brfon my part, wv the fact, that Ifrge num
bers of onr o!d political friends seemed \o be en
tering into sew cimbinalions with new objects,
purposes and pnrunpies ol which I was not informod,
ar d uevor could be, according to the ruloa of their
action and the opinions I entertain. Hence my
conclusion that they had no further use forme as
heir Hcpresentative ; fori presumed they knew
enough of me to be sssurod if they had any secret
aims or objects to accomnlish that they never could
gel my oonseul, even if they desired it, to become
a dumb instrument to execute such a purpose. 1
certainly never did, and never shall, go before the
people es a candidate for their suffrages with my
pr.nciplcs in my pocket. I; has been tbe pride of
my life, heretofore, not only to rnako known fully
and freely my sontimeutr upon all q' estions of
publio policy, bat in vindication of those senti
meats thus avowed, to meet any antagonists ar
r. against thorn, in open and manly strife—
*• faco to face and toe to too." From this rule of
action, by which I h ive up to this time been gov
erned, I shall never depart. Hut you ask me what
are my opinions and views of thie now party called
Know Nothings, with a request that you be per
mitted to publish them. My opiuions and viows
thus solicited, shall be given most cheerfully, and
as lully an 1 clearly as my time, under tbe pressure
0 business, whi allow. Youcandowith them as
you please—publish thorn or not, as you like.
X.icy are tho views of a privute citizen. lam at
pre-'OLt, to ali intents and purposes whatsoever,
literally one of tKe people. I hold no office nor seek
any, and as one of the people 1 shali speak to you and
tloiu on this, uud on all occasions, with that frank
ness and independence which it becomes a freomau
to hear towards bis fellows. And in giving my
views of *• Kuow Nothingism,” I ought, perhaps,
to promise by eay.ug, and saying most irul y, that I
really “ know no hitig" about tho principles, aims
or ol jecte ol tho parly 1 am about tp speak of—
they uroall kept secrot —thoy are held in tho dark
—buing commnuicatod and made known only to
the initiated, and not to theso until after being
first duly pledged and eworu. This, to me, is a
vu y gruat objection to the whole organization. All
poinic.il principles, which are sought to bo carried
out in Lrgieia.iou by any body or sot of men in a
republic, iii my opiuiou, oogbl to bo openly avowed
and publicly proclaimed. Truth never shuns tho
light or shrinks from investigation—or at loast it
ought lifter to do it. Hiding places, or secret coverts,
aro natural resorts for error. It is, therefore, a oir
cuuistanoo qui.e sufficient to oxcilo suspicion
aguiust the truthlo see it pursuing such a eourso.
And in republics, where froo discussion and full
investigation by a virtuous and intelligent people
is ulluwod, tnore never can be any just grounds to
fear any danger even from the greatest errors oither
in religion or politics. All questions therefore,
roiaiiug to the government ol a free people, ought
to bu mado Li.own, clearly understood, folly die
cn-std, and underMaudingly acted upon. Indeed,
I do not boliovo that a Kepublicsn Government
c. laet long, wliero this is not the caso. Inmyopin
ion, no man is lit to represent a froe poople who
has any privato or secrot objects, or aims, that he
docs not openly avow, or who is not ready and
willing, at all times, when required or oskod, can
didly and truthfully, to proclaim to ttie .assembled
multitude not only his principles, but his viows
uud seutimcnls upon all questions that may ootue
jciore him in his representative capacity. It was
ou this busts that Koproseutalive Government was
loundoii, uud ou this alone oau it be maintained in
purity and Bafe'.y. And il any secret parly Bhall
over be so far successful ill this country as to bring
the Government in all its departments and func
lions under the baneful inflaeuooof its controland
. o.vcr, poiitioal ruin will inevitably ensue. No
liuth in politics can bo more easily and firmly es
tablished, oither by reason or troin history, upon
principle or authority, than this. Those are my
opinions, candidly exprossed.
1 kuow that many good and true men in Geor
g.a differ with me in this particular—thousands of
them, 1 doobt not, liavo joined this secret order
with good intontions. Some of them hsve told rao
bo, and I do not question their motives. And
thou: amis more wiil, perhaps, do it with the sarno
ict.-utious and motives. Hhcnld it beashortlived
utfr.ir, no harm will, or may como of it. Hut let it
succeed—let it carry all the elections, State and
e od.rul—lot tne natural and inevitable laws of its
own otgauibin bo once fully developed—and tho
country will go by tho board. It will go as France
did. Tho first Jacobin Club was organized in
Faria ou the 6th Nov., 1789, under the alluring
uumo of “tho Friends of the Constitution,” quite
ai. pocious as that we now hear of ‘‘Americans
shall rule Aa-eriov” Many of the beat men and
truest patriot* in Faria joined it—and thousands
ot the sarno sort of men joined tho affiliated clubs
afterwards—little dreaming of the deadly fangs of
that viper they were nurturing in tber besoms.—
Many ol theeo very men alterwarda wont to the
Guillotine, by ardors pesrod socretly in these very
dabs. Ah legislation was settled in the clubs—
u-emoers ol the National Assembly and Con
vention, all of them, or moat of them, wore
members cf the olubs, for they oonld not otherwise
be elected. And alter tbe question was rattled in
the olubs, tho members next day weul to the
nominal Halls of Legislation nothing but trem
bling automatons, to register the edicts of the
‘‘Order, ■’ though it were to behead a Monaroh, or
to cause tho blood cf the best of their own number
to beneath tho slroko cf the axe. Is history
einousol Or do onr people vainly imagine that
Americans would not do as tbe Freaoh did under
l:'.e circ lmstancos! ‘‘ls thy servsnt s dog that
ho should do this thing," B*id the haughty, self
o fidont Haxsel. Tel, to did all that he had been
to d that be would do. “Lot him that thinketh
he .taude’.h take heed lest ho fall.” Human nature
is tho same compound ot weak frailties *Dd erring
p-.sslons everywhere. Os these clnbs in France,
an elegant writer lias said s
“ From all other soourges which had afffictdß
mankiml, in every ago and in every nation, there
ta.l been s:mc temporary refuge, some shelter until
u,e s.orm might pan.-. During the heathenism of
antiquity, and the baibarism of the middle ages,
the ttmpio ot agod or the shrineef a sain',afforded
a refuge from despotic tury or popular rage. But
French Jacobius, whether native or adopted
tre-ted with equal scorn, the sentiments of religion
and the feelings ot humanity ; and all that man
had gathered trem his experience npon earth, and
the revelation* he hoped had been made him from
the sky, to bless and adorn his mortal existence,
' and elevate bis soul with immortal aspirations,
were spnrno I sa imposture by these tell destroyers.
They would have depraved man from his humani
i ty, as they attempted to decree God out of his
luuiverso. Not coat, nt.d with France as a subject
for their rulhle.-s experiments—Europe itself be
ing too narrow lor their exploits, they send their
t-ropagand sis to the new world, with designs
1 about as charitable as those with which Satan en
-1 tcr.d Edeu.”
Th> is but a taint pioture of some of the scenes
enacted by that self same party, which was at first
formed by those who styled themaelvea “the
I friends of the Constitution.” And where did
liuse “secret dunctie" we cow hear of, come
from! Not from France, it is true—but from that
! land of isms, where the people would have gone
: into anarchy long ago, if it had not been for the
conservative inliuenoe of the more stable minded
! men ol the South! And what soecea have ws
lately w.massed in the Massachusetts Legislature,
where this new political organism has more fully
: developed itaeif than anywhere else. What are
| its first traits there! Under the name of “The
; American Party,” they have armed themselves
against the Constitution of our common country,
which they were sworn to support—with every
, member of the Legislature, I believe, save eight
' belonging to “ the order,” they have by an over
whelming majority vote deposed Judge Loring,
' for nothing bnt the discharge of his official duty,
: in issuing a warrant as United Stales Commis
! sioner, to oanse the arrest of tne fugitive Slave
| Burns. In reviewing this most unheard of out
: rage upon the Constitution, the “National In
: tfcbigencety' at Waehirgton, says it “shudders
■ for the Judiciary.” And if they go on as they
; have begun, well may the country “ shpdder,” not
! only for the Judiciary, bat for everything else we
hold most sacred. “If these things be done in
tho green tree, what may you expect in the dry.”
Bat I have been anticipating somewhat. I was
on tho preliminary guestton ; that is, the secrecy
which lies at the foundation of the party —that
atmosphere of darkness in which “it lives, and
moves, and has its being,” end without which
probably it oonld not exist. Ido not, however,
intend to etap with thsi. I will go further, end
give, now, my opinions npon those questions,
which are said to be withia the range of Ua secret
o>j»cU and aims. The principle* as published (or
those principles which ere attributed to the Order,
though no body ea en organised party them.)
have, as I understand them, two leading idem, and
two only. These are a proscription by an exclusion
from office of all Catholics, as a class, and a pro
scription of all persons of foreign birth, as a class;
the latter to be accomplished not onlv oy an
exclusion from office of all foreigners who are
now citizens by naturalization, but to be more
effectually carried out by an abrogation of the nat
uralization law for the future, or such an amend
ment as would be virtually tantamount to it.—
These, as we are told, are the great ostensible
objects for all this machinery—these oaths—pledg
es—seeret signs—equivocations- denials, and what
not. And what I have to say of them, is, that if
these indeed and in truth be the principles thus
attempted to be carried out, then I am opposed to
both of them, openly and unqualifiedly.
I am opposed to them “in a double aspect,” both
as a bane of party organization an I upon their
merits as questions of publio policy. As the basis
of party organization, they are founded upon the
very erroneous principle of looking, not to how the
country shall be governed, but who shall hold the
offices—not to whether wo shall have wise and
wholesome laws, but who shall “ rule us,” though
they may bring rain with their rule. Upon this
principle Trumbull, who defeatod Gen. Shields for
the Senate in Illinois, can be as good a “Know
Nothing” as any man in the late “ V aeon Council,”
though he may vole, as he doubtless will, to repeal
the Fugitive Slavo law, and against the admission
of any elave State in the Union ; while Shields,
who has ever stood by the Constitution, must be
rejected by Southern men because bo was not horn
in the country! Upon this principle a Boston
Atheist, who denies the inspiration of the Bible,
because it sanctions slavery, is to be sustained by
Georgia “Know Nothings” in preference to me,
barely because I will not “bow the knee to Baal,”
this false political god they have sot up. The only
baeie of par.y organization is an agreement amongst
those who enter into it upon the paramount ques
tion of the day. And no party can laßt long with
out bringiug disaster and ruin in its train, founded
upon any other prinoipte. The old National Whig
Party tried the experiment when there was radical
differences of opinion on such questions, and went
to pieces. The National Democratic Party are
now trying a similar experiment, and are experi
encing a similar fate. This is what is the matter
with it. Its vital functions are deranged—hence
that disease which now afflicts it worse than the
dry rot. And what woof the Bouth now should do
is, not to go into any “Know Nothing” mummery
or mischief, as it may be, but to stand firmly by
those men at the North who are true to the Con
stitution and the Union, without regard either to
their birth-place or religion. The question we
should consider is not simply who “shall rule
America,” but who will vote for each measures as
will best promote the interests of America, and
with that the interests of mankind.
But to paaa to the other view of these prin
ciples—that is, the consideration of them as
questions of publio pelicy. W ith me, they both
stand in no better light in this aspect than
they do in the other. The Jiret assumes tem
poral jurisdiction in “ forum conscientice" — to
which I am quite ab much opposed as I am
to the spiritual powers controlling the temporal.
One is as bad as the other—both are bad. lam
utterly opposed to mingling religion with politics
in any way whatever; and espec'ally am 1 opposed
1 1 making it a test in qualifications for civil office.
Keligion is a matter between a man and his Crea
tor, with which governments should have nothing
to do. In this country the Constitution guarantees
to every citizen the right to entertain whatever
creed he pleases, or no creed at all if he is so in
clined ; and no other man has a right to pry into
his conscience to enquire what he believes, or what
ho does not believe. As a citizen and as a mem
ber of society, he is to be judged by his acts and
not by his treed. A Catholic, therefore, in our
country, and in all countries ought, as all other
citizens, to be permitted to stand or fall in public
favor end estimation upon his own individual
merits. “Every tub should stand upon its own
bottom.”
But I think of all the Christian denominations
in the United States, the Catholics are the last that
Southern people should join in attempting to put
under the ban of oivil proscription. For as a church
they have never wared against ns or onr peculiar
institutions. No man oan say as much of New
England Baptists, Presbyterians or Methodists ;
the long roll of abolition petitions with which Con
gress has been so much excitod and agitated for
yearn post come not from the Catholics ; their pul
pits at the North are not desecrated evory Sabbath
with anathemas against slavery. And of the
three thousand New England clergymen who sent
the anti-Nebraska memorial to the Senato last year
not one was a Catholic as I have been informed
and believe. Why then should we Southern men
join tho Puritans of the North to proscribe from
office the Catholics on acoount of their religion ?
Lot them and their religion be, as bad as they can
be, or as their accusers say they are, they
can not be worse than theso same Puritanical
accusers, who started this persecution against
them say that we are. They say wo are going to
perdition for the enormous sin of holding slaves.
Tho Pope with all his followers can not I suppose
even in their judgment be going to a worse place
for holding what they consider the monstrous ab
surdity of the “ immaculate conception.” And
for my own part I would about as soon risk my
chance for Heaven with him, and his crowd too,
as with these self righteous hypocrites who deal
oat fire and brimstone so liberally upon our heads.
At any rate I have no hesitancy in declaring that I
ahould much sooner risk my civil rights with the
American Catholios, whom they are attempting to
drive from office than with them. But sir, lam
opposed to this proscription upon principle. If it
is ones begun there is no telling where it will end.
When faotion once tastes the blood of a victim it
seldom oeases its ravages amongst the fold so long
as a single remaining one, be tho number at first
evor so groat, is left surviving. It was to guard
against any such consequences as would certainly
ensue in this oountry if this effort at proscription
of this sect of religionists should be successful,
that that wise provision to which I have alluded
was put in the fundamental law of the Union.
And to maintain it intact in letter and spirit with
steadfastness at this time I hold to be a moat
aohmn public duty.
And now, as to the other idea—the proscription
of foreigners—and more particularly that view of
it which looks to the denial of citizenship to all
those who may hereafter seek a home in this
country and choose to cast their lots and destinies
with us. This ia a favorite idea with many who
hi ve not thought of ita effects, or reflected much
upon its consequences. The abrogation of the na
turalization laws would not stop immigration, nor
would the extension of tho term of probation, to
tne period of twenty-one years, do it. This cur
rant of migration from East to West, this Exo
dus of the excess of population from the Old to
the New World, whioh commenced with the set
tlement of this oontinent by Europeans, would
still go on. And what wonld be the effect, even
under the most modified form of the proposed
measure—that is of an extension of the period
from five to twenty one years, before citizenship
should be granted t At the end of the first twen
ty-one years from the commencement of the op
eration of the law, we should have sevoral mil
lions of people in our midst—men of onr own
race—occupying the unenviable position of being
s “ degraded caste ” in society, a species of serfs
without the just franchise of a fresman or the
needful protection due to a slave. This would be
at war with all my ideas of American Bepnblican
ism as I have been taught them and gloried in them
from youth np. If there be danger now to onr
institutions, (as eome seem to imagine, bnt which
I am far from feeling or believing,) from foreign
ers as a class, would not the danger be greatly en
hanced by the proposed remedy 1 Now, it is trne
they are made to bear tbeir share of the burthens
of Government, bnt are also permitted, after a
residence of five years, and taking an oath to sup
port the Constitution, to enjoy their just partici
pation in the privileges, honors and immnniliee
which itsecuree. Would they be less likely to be
sttaohed to the Government and its principles un
der the operation of the present system than
they wonld be under the proposed one which
wonld treat them as not much better than outcasts
and outlaws > All writers of note, from the earli
est to the latest, who have treated upon the ele
ments and oomponent parts, or members of oom
mnnitiee and States, have pointed this out as s
source of real danger—that is having a large num
ber of the same raoe not only aliens by birth, bnt
aliens in heart and feeling in the bosom of society.
Such was, to a great extent, the condition of the
Heiots in Greece—men of the same race placed in
an inferior position, end forming within themselves
e degraded class. I wish to see no snch state of
things in this country. With ns at the South, it
is true we have a “degraded caste,” but it is of a
rats fitted by nature for tbeir subordinate position.
The negro, with na, fills that plaoe in society and
under our system of civilization for which he was
designed by nature. No training can fit him for
either social or political equality with his superi
ors ; et least history furnishes os with no instance
of the kind; nor does the negro with ns feel any
degradation in his position, because it is his natu
ral plaoe. But such would not be the case with
men of the same race and coming from the same
State with ourselves. And what appears not a lit
tle strange end singular to me in considering this
late movement, is, that if it did not originate with,
yet it is now eo generally and zealously favored by
so many of those men at the North who have ex
pended so much of their misguided philanthropy
in behalf of our slaves. They have been endeav
oring for years to elevate the African to an equality
socially and politically with the white man. And
now, they are moving heaven end earth to degrade
the whiM man to a condition lower than that held
by the negro in the South. The Massachusetts
“Know Hoiking” Legislature passed a bill lately
to amend their Constitution, so as to exclude from
the poll! la that State, hereafter, all naturalised
AUGUSTA, GA.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1855.
citizen*, from whataver nation they may come;
And yet they will allow a runaway ruftotlon from
tbe South the same right to vote that they give to
their own native born sons l They thus exhibit
the strange paradox of warring against their own
race—th6ir own blood —even their own u kith
and kin,” it may be, while they are vainly and
fanatically endeavoring to r&verte the order of na
ture, by making the black man equal to the white.
Shall we second them in any movement ?
Shall w* even countenance them so far as to bear
the same name—to say nothing of the same pledgee,
passwords, signs and symbols? Bhall we affiliate
and unite ourselves under the same banner, with
men whose asts show them to be governed by such
principles, and to be bent upon such a purpose ?
This is a question for Southern men to consider.
Others may do it if they choose; but, I tell you, I
never shall; that you may set down as a “fixed
fact”—one of the fixedeat of the fixed. lam not
at all astonished at the rapid spread of this new
sentiment at the North, or rather new way of giv
ing embodiment and life to an old sentiment, long
cherished by a large class of the Northern people,
notwithstanding the paradox. It is true, “Know
Nothingism” did not originate as I understand
its origin, with the class I allude to. It com
menced with the laborers *nd men depend
ant upon capital fer work employment.—
It sprang from tho antagonist of their interests
to foreigners seeking like employments, who were
under-bidding them in the amount of wages. But
many capitalists of that eectiai, the men who hold
the land and property in theijown hands, wishing
to dispense with laborers aid employees, whose
votos at the polls are equal to<their own, seizod up
on this new way of effecting their old, lorg-cherish
ed desire. And the moie c*gerly as they saw
.hat many of tho very they have ever
dreaded as the insuperable obstacle between them
and their purpose, had become the willing, though
unconscious instruments of carrying that purpose
out, which, from the beginning, was a desire to
have a votinglets population to do their work, and
perform all the labor, both in city, town and coun
try, which capital may require. And as certainly
as such a law shall be passed, so far from its
checking imigration, there will bo whole cargoes of
people from other countries brought over, aud lit
erally bought up in foreign ports—to be brought
over in American ships to supply the market for
labor throughout all the free States of the Union.
Tne African Slave Trade, if re-oponed, would not
exhibit a worse spectacle in trafficing iu human
flesh, than those most deluded men of the North
who started this thing, and who aro now aiding
to accomplish the end, may find they have
but kindled a flame to oonsume themselves. Tbe
the whole sub stratum of Northern society will soon
be filling up with a class who can work, and who,
though white, cannot vote. Thia is what the
would-be Lords of that section have been wanting
for a long time. It is a scheme with many of them
to get white staves instead of black ones. No Ame
rican laborer, or man seeking employment there,
who has a vote, need to expect to bo retained long
when tis place can be more cheaply filled by a
foreigner, who has none. Thia will be the practi
cal working of the proposed reformation. This is
the philosophy of the thing. It i* a blow at tbe
ballot box. It is an insidious attack upon general
suffrage. In a line with this policy, the “Know
Nothing” Governor of Connecticut has already re
commended the passage of a law uenying the right
of voting to all who cannot read and write. And
hence, the great efforts which are now being made
throughout tho North, to influence the eleotionß,
not only these, but in spending their money in the
publication of book* and tracts, written by “no
body knows who,” and scattered broad-cast
throughout the Southern States, to influence elec
tions here by appealing to the worst passions and
•trougest prejudices of our nature, not omitting
those oven which bad and wicked men can evoke
under the sacred but prostituted name of religion.
Unfortunately for tho country, many evils which
all good men regret and deplore exist at this time,
which have a diroot tendency, wonderfully to aid
and move forward this ill omened crusade. These
relate to the appointment of bo many foreigners—
wholly unfit, not only to minor offices at home,
bat to represent oar country, as Ministers abroad.
And to the great frauds and gross abuses which at
present attend the administration of our natu
ralization laws—these are evils felt by the whole
country, and they ought to be corrected. Not by
a proscription of all Foreigners, without regard to
individual merits. But in the first place, by so
amending the naturalization laws, as effectually
to check and prevent these frauds and abuses.
And in the second place by holding to strict
accountability at the polls in our elections, all
thoso public functionaries, who, either with par
tizan views or from whatever motive, thus im
properly confer office, whether high or low, upon
undeserving Foreigners, to the oxolusion of native
born citizens, better qua ! ified to fill them. Another
evil now felt, and which ought to be remedied,
is the flooding, it is said, of some of tho cities
with paupers and criminals from other countries.
Those ought all to bo unconditionally exclu
ded and prohibited from coming amongst us—
there is no reason why we should be the feeders
of other nations 1 paupers, or oither the keepers or
executioners of their felons —these evils can and
ought to bo remedied without resorting to an in
discriminate onslaught upon all who by industry,
enterprise and merit may choose to better their
condition in abandoning the respective dynasties
of the old world in wf ich they may have chanced
to have been born, and by uniting their energies
with our* may feel a pride in advancing the pros
perity, development and progess of a common
oountry not much less dear lo them than to us.
Against those who thus worthily come, who quit
the misruled Empires of their “father land,”
whose hoarta have been fired with tho love of our
ideas, and our institutions even in distant climes,
I would not close the door of admission. But to
all such as our fathers did at first, so I would con
tinue most IreeJy and generously to extend a wel
come hand. Wo have from such a class nothing
to fear. When in battle or in the walks of civil
life did any suoh ever prove traitor or recreant to
the flag or cauee of bis country ? On what occa
sion havo any such ovor proven untrue or disloyal
to the Constitution !
I will not tay that no foreigner has ever beau
untrue to the Constitution ; bat as a clan, they
certainly have not proven them3olves so to be.
Indeed, 1 know of but one class of people in the
United States at this time thatl look upon as
dangerocs to the country. That class are neither
foreigners or Catholics—they are those native born
traitors at the North who are disloyal to the Con
stitution of that oonntry which gave them birth,
and under whose beneficent institutions tli9y have
been reared and nurtured. Many of them are
“Know Nothings.” This class of men at the
North, of wh ioh the Massachusetts, New Hamp
shire and Connecticut “Know Nothing” Legisla
tures are bat samples, I consider as onr worat ene
mies. And to pat them down, I will join, as po
litical allies now and forever, all trno patriots at
the North and South, whether native or adopted,
Jews or Gentiles.
What our Georgia friends, whether Whigs or
Democrat*, who have gone into this “New Order,”
are really after, or what they intend to do, I cannot
imagine. Those ofthom whom i know have assured
me that their object is ieform,both in our State and
Federal Administrations—to pat better and tru'r
men in the places of those who now wield author
ity—that they have no symp ithies as party men or
otherwise with that class t speak of at the North
—that they are for sustaming the Union platform
of our State of 1850, and that the mask of secie
cy will soon be removed when all will be made
public. If these be their objects, and also to
check the frands and correct the abuses in the ex
isting naturalization laws, which i have mentioned,
without the indiscriminate proscription of any
class of citizens on account of their birth place or
religion, then they will have my co operation, as I
have told them, in every proper and legitimate
way, to effect such a reformation. Not as a se
cretly initiated co-worker in the dark for any pur
pose, but as an open and bold advooate of troth
in the light of day. But will they do as they say I
Will they throw off the mask! That is the ques
tion. Is it possible that they will continue in po
litical party fellowship with their “ worthy breth
ren" of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hamp
shire, and the entire North 1 Every one of whom
elected to the next Congress is our deadly foe I
Do they intend to continue their alliance with
these open enemies to our institutions and the
Constitution of the country under the totally mis
named association of the “American Fatty”—
the very principle upon which it is baaed being
anti-American throughout!
True Americanism, as I have learned it, is like
true Christianity—disciples in neither are confined
to any nation, clime, or soil whatsoever. Ameri
canism is not the product of the soil; it springs
not from the land or the ground ; it is not of the
earth, or earthy ; it emanates from the head and
the heart; it looks upward, and onward and out
ward ; its life and soul are those grand ideas of
government which characterize our institutions
and distinguish ns from all other people; and
there is no two features in our system which so
signally distinguish us.from all other nations, as
fru toleration of religion and the doctrine of expa
triation—Xha right of a man to throw off his alle
giance to any and every other State, Prinoe, or
Potentate whatsoever, and by nataraltaation to be
incorporated as oitixens into oar body politic.
Both these principles are specially provided for
and firmly established ia our Constitution. But
these American ideas which were proclaimed in
17*9 by our “sirea of 78,” are by their “aona” at this
day derided and soeffed at. We are now told that
“natural:xitien” is a “humbug,” and that it ia an
“impossibility.” Bo did not oar lathers think.
This'“humbug” and “impossibility” they planted
in the Constitution; and a vindication of the
same principle was one of the causes of our
second war of independence. England held that
“naturalization” was an impossible thing. She
claimed-the allegiaaoe of subjects born within her
realm, notwithstanding they had beoome jitixens
of this Republic by our Constitution and laws.
She not only claimed their allegiance, but she
t anned the right to search oar ships upon the high
seas, and take from them all such who might be
found in them. It was in pursuit of this doctrine
of hers—of the right of search lor oar “ naturalised"
citizens—that the Chesapeake was fired into, which
was the immediate causo of tho war of 1812. Lot
no man then, bare’y because he was born in Ame
rica, presume to be imbued wiih real and true
“ Americanism” who either ignores the direct and
positive obligaUcus of the Constitution, or ignores
this, one of i!s most striking characteristics. As
well might any unbelieving siuuer claim to bo one
of the faithful—one of the elect eveu—barely be
cause he was born some where within the limits
of Christendom. And jut-t as well nrgh' tho Jaco
bins, who “decreed God out cf his Universe,”
have dabbed their club a “ Christian Association,”
because they wore born on Christian soil. Ihe
genuine disciples of “ true Americanism,” like tho
genuine followers of the Cross, aro those whoso
hearts are warmed and fired—purified, elevated
and ennobled—by thoso principles, doctrines and
precepts which characterize their respective sys
tems. It is for this reason that a Kumscbatkan, a
Briton, a Jew, or a Hindoo, can be us good a Chris
tian as any one born on “Calvary’s brow,” or
where the “Sermon on the Yount” was preached 1
And for the same reason an Irish mar, a French
man, a German, or Russian, can bo as thoroughly
“ American” as it he had been born within the
wall» of old Independence Hall its If. Which wus
the “true American,” Arnold or Hamilton ? The
one was a native the other was an adopted eon. Bit
to return. What do our Georgia friends iutoed to
dot Is it not time that thoy had shown their
hand! Do they intend to abandon the Georgia
Platform, and go over “horse, Lot and dragoons”
into a political alliance with Trumbull, Durkee,
Wilson & Co.! Is this the eourso marked out lor
themselves by any of the gallant old Whigs of tho
7th aud Bth Congressional District ? I trust nut,
1 hepe not. But if they do not intend thus to
commit themselves, is it not time to pause and re
flect? Is it not time to take a reckoning aud see
whither thoy aro drifting? When “tho blind
lead the blind” where is the hope of safety ? 1
havo boeu cited to tho resolution which, it i > said,
the late Kuow Nothing Convention passed in
Macon. This, it soems, is tho only thing that the
600 delegates could bring forth after a two day s’
“labor”—aud of it wo may well say, “ Montes
parturient et ridiculus tnus nascitur ” — “ The
mountains have boeu in labor and a ridioulous
mouse is born.” It simply affirms, most meek
ly and submissively, what no man South ot
Mason and Dixon’s lino for the Eat thirty
fi/e years would have vontured to deny, with
out justly subjecting himself to tho charge of
incivism —that is, that “ Congress has no con
stitutional power to intervene by excluding a now
State applying for admission into tho Union,
upon the ground that tho constitution of suoh
State recognizes slavery.” This is tho whole life
and soul of it, unless wo except the secret blade of
Joab which it bears towards Kansas aud Nebraska,
ooucealed under a garb. It is well known to all
who are informed, tuat iu tho organic law of thoso
territories tho right of voting, while they remain
territories, was given to all who hud filed a declu
ration of intention to become citizens. This was
iu strict compliance with the usual practice of the
Government in organizing Territories ; and under
this provision that class oi persons are now outitled
to vote. Kansas, in two elections under this law,
has shown that an overwhelming majority ol hor
people are in favor of slavery , notwithstanding all
the Executive influence of tho Freesoil Governor
(Reeder) whom Mr. Pierce Bout out there to pr event
it; but whom the people havo lately driven, us thoy
ought to have done, from tho country. Now then,
when Kansas appliosfor admission as a Biave State,
asshe doubtless will, a Southern “Kuow Nothing,”
under this Resolution, can unite with his “ worthy
brethren” at the North, in voting against it, upon
the ground that som? havo votsd for a Constitu
tion recognizing Slavery, who had net been
“naturaliz3d,” but had only declared their in
tention. Fo: this Resolution iu its very heart and
core, declares that tho right to establish Slave
institutions “in tho organization of State Gov
ernments, belongs to the native aud naturalized
citizens,” excluding those who havo only declared
their intention. A more insidious attack, was
never made upon the principles of the Kansu * and
Nebraska Bill. And is this to be thn plank ou
which Northern and Southern “ Know Nothings”
are to stand in the rejection of Kansas But
to the other aud main objection to tho reso
lution, why did it stop with v simplo denial ol the
power of Congress to reject a State on account of sla
very! Particularly w non it had opened the door
for the rejection or Kuusae on otner grounds by
way of pretext t Why did it not plant itself upon
the principles of the Georgia Resolutions of JB*so,
and say what ought to bo do no in c:te of the r j o
tion of a State by Congress bocauso of slavery i
8o far fiom this it does not even i.ffirm that such
rejection by their “worthy brethren” of the North
would be sufficient cause fur severing their party
affiliation with them for it ? Again I would say
not only to tho old Wiiigs ot tho 7th an 13th Con
gressional Districts, but to ali true Georgians,
whether Whigs or Democrats, Union men or Fire-
Eaters whither are you drifting? Will you not
pause and reflect ? Are wo about to witne- o in this
insane cry against Foreigners aud Catholics a ful
filment ot 'he ancient Latin Proverb, “ Quern Dtus
vult perdire print dementat"l “ Whom the Gods
intend to destroy they fir*t make mud?”
Tho times are indeod portentous of evil. The
political horizsn is shrouded in darkness. No
man knows whom he meets, whether ho be friend
or foe, except those who have the dim glare ot the
oovered light which their iecretsigns imparl. And
how long this will boa protection even to them, is
by no moans certain. They havo already made
truth and veracity almost a by word and a reproach.
When truth loses cast© with any people—is no
longer considorod aa a virtue—and its daily and
hourly violations aro looked upon with no con
cern but a jejr or a laugh, it requires but li'tlo
forecast to seo what will vory soon be tho charac
ter of that people. But, sir, como what msy, 1
shall pursue that course which asoneo of du'y do
mandsofme. While I hope lor tho boat, I shall
be prepared for the worst; and if tho “worst
comes to tho worst,” as it may, 1 shall, in common
with my fellow citizens bear with paPenco my
part of the common ills. They will affect mo quite
as little as any othor citizen, for I have but little at
stake ; and so far »3 my public position aud ct ar
acter aro concerned, I shall enjoy that c insolation
which is to bo derived from a precept taught mo
in early life, and which I shall ovor cherish and
treasure, whatever fortune betid-’ mo:
“But if, on life’s unce t iin main,
Mishap shall mir thv pail.
If, faithful, firm and true in vain,
Wet, irnnt, and exile thou (.attain,
Bpend not a sigh on fortune charged.’ 1
Youra, most respectfully,
Alexander H. Stephens.
Col* Thomas W. Thomas, Fiber ton, Ga.
Eire n* Huntsville. —The Huntsville, Alabama,
Democrat of the 10th instant, say 3:
“On Monday night la-t, about 9 ’clock, a fire
broke out in the Bell Tavern in this place, which
resulted in the complete dectruciion of that well
known hotel, owned by Messrs. Nieh, and Z. P.
Davis, and kept by Messrs. J. J. Pittman and Z.
P. Davis. fortunately, there was scarcely a breath
of air stirring, and no other buildings were in
jnred. The Democrat office, and the house on the
corner, owned by Thomas W. White, and occupied
by A. Noe!, being immediately on tho opposite
side of the street, were the most exposed, and tho
least wind in that direction would have caused
their destruction. Tho loss is a severe blow to tho
owners and to Huntsville, and must result in great
inconvenience to tho travelling public, from tho
fact, that the hotel accommodation., wore 100 limi
ted for the town even before this event. It is be
lieved to have been the work of an incendiary, as
the flames first issued from a loft or vacant room
next to the roof in the large tfcreo story building,
known as the private part.. f the Tavern, on the
west end, used principally for tho accommodation
of ladies and families. Most of the furniture v
saved in a damaged state, but the gross less is es
timated at about 135,000, on whioh them ■* as in
surance of SIB,OOO on the building and *2,000 on
the furniture, in some two or three offices.
“ Whether the present owners of the property
design to rebuild, we are cot informed ; but unless
additional accommodations are speedily erected,
Huntsville will bo visited by fewer stamrera than
foimerly. Southern Hotel, kept by Maj. Hickman,
and Franklin Hotel, by Thomas Gaia, are trie ot,ti.
public houses no win the place. It was on the 8d
of May, 1850, that the great fire occurred which
destroyed two or three Equares of our town.
DrsoovxßT or a New People.—A correspond
ent of tae New Orleans Picayune states that dur
ing the late trip of the U. S. sloop of war Decatur,
through the Straits of Magellan, Dr. Bainbridgo
and another officer obtainod leave of absence for a
few days, daring a calm, and were landed at Terre
del Fuego. They then ascended a mountain to the
height ot 8,500 feet, when they came upon e plain
of surpassing richness and beauty; fertile fields,
the greatest variety of frnit trees in full tearing,
and signs of cultivation and refinement. Their
appearance astonished the inhabitants, who, how
ever, did not treat them unfriendly. The men all
range from S to 6% feet in height, well propor
tioned, very athletic and straight as an arrow. The
women were among the most perfect models of
beauty ever formed, averaging 5 feet high, very
plump, with small feet and hands, and with a jet
black eye. The wrier addß:
The teachers of religion speak the Italian lan
guage, and have traditions frern successive priest-,
through half hundred centuries. They tell us
that this island was once attached to the main land;
that about 1900 years ago, by their records, their
oonntry was visited by a v olent earthquake, Wr.ich
occasioned the rent now known as the Straits of
Maggellan , that on the top of tho mountain which
lifted its head to the sun, whose base rested where
the waters now flow, stood their great temple—
which, according to thier description, as eom
paredjto the one now existing we s.w, r.ast Lave
been 17,200 feet square, and over 1,100 feet high,
built of the purest pantile marble.
The officers remained two weeks with these
strange people,and obtained from tfcem’a specimen
of painting on porcelain, over 8,000 years old.
The men, women"and children number abont 8,000,
and when the children multiply too fast, they are
saerifised by the priests. Tmy live in huts or cot
tagea, each one by himself, avoiding company and
discourse, employing all their time in contempla
tion and their religions duties.
The Baltimore Patriot, of Wednesday, says:
“ Officer Dulany, of the U. S. Marshal's office,
yesterday afternoon arrested a seaman named
Brown on the eaarge cf being recently engaged io
the slave trade. The charge is made by Capt. Jas.
Maguire, who is now sick at the Fountain Hotel.
Capt. Maguire states that on a recent voyage cf the
brig Horatio, of which he Bailed as mas-er, from
New York to the coast of Africa, the crew mutin
ied. anl placing him in irons on board, proceeded
to the West Coast of Africa, where they took on
board a cargo of slaves, and conveyed them to the
Island of Cuba, where they were landed. Cap!.
Maguire says he managed to escape from the brig,
ane Brown, one of the crew, having come to Bal
timore, the charge was preferred sgairst him. By
the laws of the United States the act is dec’aiel to
be piracy, a dis punishable with death. The ac
cosed was fully committed by John Hanna, Esq.,
United States Commissioner,
Judge S. Huntingdon, of Connecticut, has been
appointed clerk of the coart cf claims, in Wash
ington,
The French Kmperor on the Wtr.
The following, from the Moniteur of April 16th,
is tho promised second article on the Expedition
to the East:
“ 11. Political Part. —After having told the
country the whole truth on tho plan of the cam
paign and ou the txpoditiou to the East, it remains
tor us to state how policy understood its task, its
duty, the houor of France, and the interests ol
Europe. What were the general causes of the
war ? For what interests were France and England
to carry their military and naval forces so tar from
their own shores? On what point do tho differ
ont Stales of Europe touch upon this question of
European order? What is the object which
ought to bo kept in view for the interests of all ?
How are tho four guarantees to be understood
end accepted on either side as a basis for negotia
tion ? Is it just, is it useful, to limit the power of
Russia in tho Black Sea? What will be the result
or the Vienna Conferences, for peace or for war ?
This is what we wish to examine in the second
part of this task, that, on the eve of the decisive
solution now under achievement, public opinion,
completely enlightened, may accept, with equal
confidence, peace, if it is possible—war, if it is
necessary.
“Tho commencement of this great struggle is
known; it originated in a small claim brought
rgainst Turkey on tho gronud of concessions she
had granted iu favor of the Latins in the Holy
Land. Russia only wanted a pretext. For her
the tomb of Christ Wus only the stepping stone to
power. But that sacred stone could not become
a stumbling-block for the peace of the world,
lhe Government of tho Emperor of tho French,
by regulating that question in the most equitable
manner, forced the Cabinet of St. Petersburg to
unmask its real thoughts. Every one at once dis
covered that Russia had only originated the dis
cussion to open the Bosphorus to her sovereignty,
i'ho forced interpretation which she drew from
the treaty ot Kainardji was, in fact, nothing else
than the moral fall ot the Sultan. The question
then ceased to boa religious one—it became spo
liiical onot The whole of Europe found itself
engaged it it, It became necessary to make it
understand its interests, defend its rights, and
•fcl-ow its strongth.
“ Ali tho < Hurts of tho French Government were
direc.ed to that result. England, deceived at first
by tho protended religious character of the ques
tion, vory eoon understood, with her clear and
s traight forward common sense, its real bearing,
bho felt like us, tho threat and arrogance of that
domination, and her hand was stretched forth to
m t ours, already extended to seal the alliance be
tween the two great countries, who represent the
civilizut on of the West.
“For France, as for England, the Eastorn question
represented an interest superior to that of their
own ambition. Russia wished to dominate at Con
stantinople. It was necessary to prevent if Rus
sia, mistress of tho Black Sea, having only to ex
tend her hand to touch the Bosphorus, placed the
Mediterranean under tne menace of the fleets of
Sevastopol. In advancing towards the Dardanel
les she brought her frontiers to the shores of the
Mediterranean. Whenever her vesaols could reach,
her preponderance was assured. From hor inac
cessible ports she touched ali empires, aud all
kingdoms. Not only had France and England a
rival, not only did Gormany bond beneath tho
voight of tlio Colossus that leaut upon hor, but
Greeco, Italy, Spain, Egypt, and all tho secondary
States, found themselves struck by tho same blow
in their security aud independence. Strange cir
cumstance ! Europe had shut its eyes to thia in
vasion ot the north. In 1828 France aud England,
burning tho Turkish fleet at Navanno, destroyed
the force which protected the west. At that peri
od we sought an ally at St. Petersburg, iustead ot
beholding there an adversity of our influence and
of our civilization. In 1840 England, Prussia, aud
Austria, leaving aside the Cabinet of the Tuileries,
again United themselves without suspicion. Se
vastopol, closed to every investigation, hiding in
its inaccessible port tho activity of its dockyard*
and arsenals, did not appear to any one as a me
nace. It was forgotten that aa far back as 1806 a
fleet left that point with 12,000 men on board,
landed them in Italy, and brought tho Russians
cud French in contact in tho Mo s iterranean. Yet
that wns a warning worthy of record, for it proved
that Russia from tho crooks of the Euxino, by the
domination of tho Straits, could reach to the en
trai.co of the Adriatic.
“Some years later Russia, having to struggle
aguiust Franco united to Austria, defined her in
vading policy much moro precisely by tho object
she pursued and by tho means which she employ
ed. The plan of that policy is a rovolaticn iu it
self. Wc borrow it from an authentic document
recently published in tho memoirs of a statesman,
Admiral Tichakoff, to whom the Emperor Alexan
der gave the following instructions under date of
oi April 19 1812:
‘“The astute conduct of Austria, which has just
allied itself with Franco, obliges Russia to employ
every means in its power to disooncert tho hostile
intentions of those two Powers. Tho most impor
tant is to turn to our account tho military gouius
of tho Slavonic people, as Sorvia, Bosnia, Dalma
tia, Montenegro, Croatia, aud Illyria, who, once
armed and under military organization, would co
operate powerfully with our operations. The Hun
garians, dissatisfied with the proceedings of their
actual Government, offer to us also an excellent
means for alarming Austria, for making a diver
sion to her hostile idea, and, consequently for
weakening hor resources. All theso tribes united
to our regular troops would form a vory imposing
militia, not only to provide against tho hostile in
tentions of Austria, but to effect a marked diver
sion upon tho right wiug of tho French posses
sions, uud to give us a sure means of striking a
blow in the direction of Nisßaor Sophia. The ob
ject of the diversion against Franco must be to
occupy Bosnia, Daimutia, Croatia, and to direct
their militia upon the moat important points of the
Adriatic, more especially on Trieste, Fiurno, Boc
ca di-Cattare, so as to ebtablish there, according
to opportunhy, relations with tho English fleet,
and to make every effort to fan into a flame tho
discontort in the Tyrol and Switzerland, and to
act in common with those brave populations, dis
satisfied with their actual Government. You must
employ ovoiy possible moans to exalt tho Slave
populations, to bring them to servo our object.—
For example, you can promise them independence,
the erection of a Slave king lom, pecuniary re
wards for the most influential men among thorn,
decorations and suitublo titles tor tho chiefs and
troops. Finally, you may add to thoso means any
other you may deem expedient to gain them ovor
most comfortable to actual circumstances.”
“Such were the views of Russia as far back as
1812, not only against Franco, but against Austria.
This incondiary plan could not have left the ar
chives of St. Petersburg at a more fitting moment
to snow to Europe, and especially to the Cabinet
of Vienna, the immense interest that evory one
must have to put finally a barrier to a policy which
completely justified by its means andofjaots tho
foresight of the Emperor Napoleon I. If the heirs
of Peter tho Great should ever dominate at Con
stantinople by the Black Sea, Austria, surrounded,
embraced on all sides by the powerful arm of
Rns ia, would be at the merpv of an enterprise
suoh as the daring mind of the Emperor Alexander
had conceived. Hungary, open to its action by
the Danube, would be given up to all the excite
ments ol its remembrances: Tho Adriatic, exposed
to the brusque attack of a Slave coalition, would
cease to be the mart and bulwark of the Austrian
empire, and tho key of the Gulf of Trieste would
paiis by a surprise from Vienna to St, Petersburg.
“There is therefore nothing moro legitimate,
more Dccensary, and more just before God and
universal conscience than this ro istancoof which
tho two nuval Governments of tho West gave tho
signal in the month of April, 1854. England and
France drew the sword in the cause of every other
State. Their armies and fleets were the ax ant
gardes of Europe. Having the honor of arriving
first on the theatre of war they had the right to
oxpect thoy would bo followed there, and they
confidently awaited Austria and Prussia at this
it*tides ousof tho equilibrium and of the inde
pendence of European order.”
“Austria and Pruss’a did not hesitate to place
themselvee in the solidarity of the into rats for tho
defence of which France and England wore about
to fight. In the protocols signed at Vienna they
recognized tho rights of Turkey; they rejected the
advui cos of the Czar, who, not daring to ask thoir
support, confined himself to propose to them resig
nation and neutrality ; they united themselves by
a trea f y for the guarantee of Gorman interests they
placed their armies on a war footing, aud they in
vited the German Confederation to follow their
example ; but, while preparing themselves for ac
tion, the two great German Powers h6Bitated to
act. It was not courage whioh they wanted -for
Government that have the responsibility of the
honor aud wclfaro of their country at heart are
never deficient in that; what they wanted was
confidence. Co interested in the causes of the war,
they arc uncertain of its object. It was that object
which it was necessary to define, so as to leave
them no cause for hesitation or distrust.
“The E npei or. in opening the legislative session
of 1851, said in his speech :
“ ‘Europe is aware, beyond a doubt, that if
France draws the sword it is because sho is com
pelled to do so. It knows that France has no idea
of uggrandzement. She only wishes to resist dan
gerous outbursts; and I am proud openly to declare
that the time of conquests is arroyocaoly past, for
it is not by extending the limits of its territory
that a nation can henceforth become honored and
powerful, it is by placing itself at the bead of gen
erouß ideas, by making everywhere to prevail the
empire cf right and j ustice.”
“That solemn declaration left no doubt upon the
character of tho war; it allowed no distrust of the
war • it allowed no distrust of the intentions of
the • lovernment of Franco and England. Thuß,
when G rmany had the question put to ns bow far
wo intended to go, It was easy for M. Drouyn de
Lhuys, in concert with Lord Clarendon, to reply
in the name of the Emperor in his memorable note
to M. de Bonrquency, in formulating the geuoral
conditions upon whioh the allied Powers would
consent to treat for the restoration of peace. Those
condi'ions comprise what is conventionally under
stood by the ‘Four guarantees.’
“Germany, however, would not come to a de
cision, and, while notes and connternotes were
exchanged between Vienna Berlin, and St. Peters
burg, war continued and developed itself in tfce
Crimea; Fr nee and England fought before Se
vastopol for the common cause, and they lavished
their blood for tbe independence and equilibrium
of Europo. Finally Austria asked us if we would
still co sent to treat upon the bases of tbe four
guarantees. The hesitation was long in the coun
cils of the two allied Powers. It appeared to them
tha’, after such glorious efforts aDd such sad sacri
fices, after having gained two victories, at Alma
and Inkermann, when tceir armies were besieging
Sevastopol, and when their fleets occupied tbe
Black Sea, they bad the right to exact more. But
the interest ot an alliance with Austria for peace
as for war overruled the inspiration of those le
gitime e exactios. The treaty of the 2d of De
cember was the reeult of that policy.
“It was, therefore, from consideration to Aus
tria, from the desire of an offensive and defensive
alliance with her, and to give to Germany an une
quivocal proof of moderation, that we accepted
the c verture of negotiations on the basis of the
four guarantees, r .serving to ourselves always the
right of introducing therein any other condition
that might result from the chances of war.
“On the pert of tbe allied Governments, this act
of mo aeration cost nothing to their dignity, nor to
the interests which they defend; for, had it been
so, they never would have given their consent. In
fact, there was but one of two things possible;
those negotiations would succeed or would fail.
If Bucct-. ful, Europe, by the four gua antees, ob
tained conditions which, fonr months previously,
Count Ncsselrcde declared he could only accept
a ter :en years of di-astrona warfare; it a failure
Austria, whose alliance became an offensive one’
entered into armed action, and the weight of her
sword would soon obtain by war what her influ
ence eouid not e ffect in the Conferences.
“Thus, in either ease, it was well to negotiate at
Vienna, while continuing all the time to fight in
the Crimea. 6
“As regards tbe C'nditions of peace, nothing
can be more ja-t, more moderate, more conforma
ble to the rights aud interacts of Furope. It will
be easy for us to establish this by characterizing
clearly the thought which dictated them, and the
object which they wore to scheive. Tho first of
the four conditions, in patting an end to the pro
tcctorat of Bussia in the principalities of Molds
via, Wallaehia and Servia, and in placing their
privileges under the collective guarantee of the
G rest Power-, takes away from the Gabinet of St
Petersburg the rights which it pretended to hold
from ancient treaties, and. whioh were only the
meunß for subjugating thosg populations, for dom
inating Turkey, lor app/oachmg Austria on her
VOL, LXIX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XIX.— NO. 20.
most vulnerable bide, and for troubling the whole
of Europe; the socoud by stipulating the free
navigation of the Danube, liberates the commerce
of all nations, especially of Austria—from tho
moral and material obstacles which impede it, and
throws open the mouths of that great river to the
States of which it is the fortuno and defence.
“The fourth, in dolivoring Turkey from the pre
tensions oi Russia to a religious protectorate over
the Greok subjects of the Sultan, nevertheless as
sures more thau ever freedom of conscience at the
sarno time that destroys tho supremacy which tho
Czars arrag-ued to themselves, tho political object
of which, the better to impose, was concealod un
der a roligious mask.
“As regards the third of theso condition—that
which has for object to limit tho preponderance ot
Russia in tho Black Sea—we havo ro*orved it cx
pressly as the most important and most contested,
so as to explain it hero, categorically. First of all,
how must it be understood ? Evidcn'ly anytf ing
equivocal on so gravo a point cannot suit any one.
The Allied Governments, who have a conscious
ness of tho jastice of their preteusions, have not
feared defining them. Russia has turned tho Black
Sea into a Russian lake; she has gradually found
ed maritime establishments thore of tho first c ase;
she has accumulated there, with as much persever
ance as mystery, considerable naval forces, and it
may be said that by that exclusive domination of
tho Black Sea sho has placed Goustauiuople iu a
permanent state ol siego.
“This state of things is not possible, because it
is incompatible not only with the integrity of tho
Ottoman empire but with the socurity of tho
whole of Europe.
“ France and England, iu demanding Russia to
limit hor powor in tho Black Seu, oi to neutralize
that nea, aro therefore completely iu their right. If
that result was not obtained by pcuce or by war,
such a peace would be ephetnoral aud such a wsr
useless ; and, let it be well observed, this domand
for the limitation of Russia powor, or for the neu
tralization of the Black Sea, does not respond only
to Anglo French interests, it responds also to tho
interests of Austria, for which tho Danube, a com
mercial and military river, is a magnificent high
way, open to her activity towards the Euzino and
Asia. An argument is brought against this pie
teusion which we do not think serious, it is srid
to the Allied Rowers, ‘You ask a concession from
Russia,-which at meet might no tho price of the
surrender ol Sevastopol, and that place is still hold
by the Russian army.’ Our r< ply is this: —‘The
law of nations grants that a portion of what is ob
tainod by war may bo kept by peaco. Wo liavo
not yet taken Sevastopol, that is true; but what is
Sevastopol at the present moment to Rassia ? It is
no longer a naval port, as her floot, sunk ct tho
mouth of the harbor, or shut up behind that in
surpassablo barrier, is withdrawn from tho strug
gle. The Black Sea is tho battlefield which \to
have wen—or, if they like it, which has been
abandoned to us by the enemy. Tho Russian flag
could not show itself there. Our ships and tho o
of England and Turkey navigate it in every senso.
Its domination has changed hands. It has gone
from Sevastopol to Constantino.
“Who compels us to give up this pledge! Is
not Buch a situation the .ory best we could have?
Aud not only do we occupy the Black Sea, but wo
besiege Sevastopol, we aro fortified at Kameisch
and at Balaklava, Omar Pasha is ontroneho ! at
Eupatoria, Odessa is menaced by our fleets. What
can Russia do? Could sho suffer for any length
of time without detriment to hor moral strength
and without ruin to her commerce tho blockade
whioh wi«l shut her up in ovorv part of tho B t ok
Sea aud of the Baltic? Could sho live in that
paralysis whi •'>. in hor strikes the vital principle
of nations—that is to Bay, movement, action, tho
right of exporting and exchanging her prodneo,
aud which would condemn her to isolation,
sterility, impotency, in tho immensity of her em
pire ? To ask Russiu to limit hor naval forces, or
to neutralize tho Black Sea—that is to say, to ex
clude therefrom all vessels ot war of any nation
whatsoever, is therefore to exact from her much
loss than whatwc have acquired by war, pud which
wo could maintain without an effort. In tact,
what does it require to prevent Russia from ovor
entering tho Black Sea again ! Four men-of-war
of each of the maritime Powers, Fiance, England,
aud Turkey. Such a oruisiug squadron would
suffice to occupy the Black Soa and to transplant
its domination from the shores of tho Crimoa to
tho entrance of the Bosphorus.
“What Russia has lost, what she cannot recovor
by war, no matter how long, is hor preponderance
ovor tho East. What she may legitimate y ask is
a share of influence in tho affairs ol tho world.
Sho would find, if needs bo, a coalition of all States
to restrain hor ambition; but no one wishes to
humiliate her. What is asked from hor Europe
has tho right, and it is its duty, to exact, if sho
grants it, tho peace of the world is assured, tho
object of the allied Powers attained. If **he ro
sanes, war will continue and decide it.
“At tho moment wo write these grave solutions
are being prepared and discussed at the Vienna
Conferences, where Mr. Drouyn de Lhnys and
Lord John Russell have taken, with the authority
of their character and position, tho expression of
the common thought of their Governments. The
country must confidently await the result of that
decisive trial. U may *ay that peace will be con
cluded, if it is possible with honor to the flags of
France and England, and security for their influ
ence, and that war, if it should continuo, will no
necessary for the object proposed by the allied
Governments and from whicn nothing can turn
thorn aside.
“But a great result is acquirod nlroady from tho
very faot of theso negotiations. France and Eng
land have loyally negotiated with Austria to sllow
hor policy to exhaust tho last resources ol concil
iation. Those conferences of which Vienna is the
contie, are the loyal aud honest act of the Empo
ror Francis Joseph. But tho allied powers kuow
that it Austria docs not succeed in this noble effort
of her Europoan patriotism, sho will fight ro o
lntely with them. In limiting thoir demand to tho
very conditions accepted by tho Vienna Cabinet
in the treaty of tho Second of Jlcoembcr, thoy
have gained tho common cause an important and
devoted ally. The possibility of peace, like the
necessity of war, must henceforth be only a fa i
in common to tho three Powers, who slgnod that
treaty. The solidarity of their interests and of
their engagements would unite th un in the strug
gle as it has united them i (1 the Conferences, sticl
that grand European conlederation wili soon havo
triumphed over every resistanoo.
“Franco and England may, therefore, congratu
late themselvos in having consented to negotiate
while continuing to fight. In acting thus, they
have not ODly given a proof of moderation—they
have incroasod their strength. Their adhesion to
an honorable aud poesiblo peaco, having ns u con
sequence the support of Austria in a necessary
and legitimate war, is an act counselled by wisdom,
aud which will be approved by public opinion.
“ One word moro, in conclusion, ft Is perhaps,
a novel and bold thing to sp ak of the military
and diplomatic conductor a war while tho army is
fighting and negotiations are ponding. Wo thought
that it was precisely the moment to epeah to the
country. Truth is only a danger for the weak.
With right and strength on their eido, it honors
those who apeak it—it ro assures those who hoar
A Letter from Mr. ferry.
The roader will find below a latter from Mr. Per
ry, Secretary of Legation at Madrid. It is in ropiy
to some allusions to him oontainod in tho Wash
ington correspondence of r Now Y'o'k paper. bn‘,
as it contains also some explanations of his c fK 'a!
conduct and references to certain questions which
have become public, wo copy tho Ic’tur both in
jnstioe to him and for the ialormition of
our reeaders. It may be proper lor us to add
that, wi’hout being able to make a comparison of
dates, or not thinking of doing so, tho reads- may
fall into the orror of supposing this letter of
Perry’s to have reference to Mr. Uoalc’g letter~*to
the Editors of the Intell goncor. That letter ap
peared in tho Intelligencer on the 24th of March,
and tjid not leave the oountry for Europe until the
»Btb, and of course had cotreaehed Mudrid at tho
dato of Mr. Perry’s letter, tho lith of April
Nat. Intel,
Jftrom Iks New York Times of Saturday.
Madrid Wkdnisdat Amil 11, 1565.
To the Editor of the A cut York Da i'y Times. — Sir :
A letter from the Wa&hmgton correspondent of
the New York Herald, dated March 17th, and pnb
lißhod in that journal ot tfca 18th, contains state
ments whohy inexact and at the same timo irju
rioua to me.
If Mr. Cushing or Mr. Calderon do la Barca liavo
at any timo interested themselves in my favor, ns
alleged, it is an honor which I esteem; but I have
never received a word from eithor of those gentio
men, nor have lever addros .od either of them on
the subject referred to in that leltor. If such in
terest was manifested it was entirely unsolicited
by me, and oonseq -cully still moro entitled to my
acknowledgment.
I have never played the spy to any body nor for
any body. I havo never failed in my duty to
wards Mr. Soule as Secrets y of this legation,
nor have I ever addressed Mr Marcy, or any other
rnomber of the Government, directly or indirectly,
concerning the affairs of this legation, while Mr.
Soule was at its head and responsible for what
might here occur. But when \ myself became the
solo Bcprosentativo of the United States at the
Court of Spain, I In my turn became directly
responsible to the President and the county lor
whatsoever might be done or left undone here.
Whatever may have boen my course during that
period, it is not open to the charge of insubordina
tion towards Mr. Soule, seeing that I was not the
Charge <VAffaires ot Mr. Soulo, but of the Uni od
States of America, whlih is quite a different thing.
While Mr. Soulo waa in the position of a Minis
ter Plenipotentiary appointed to Spain, but not in
the exercise of his functions, nor recognised by the
Spanish Government, whatever instructions ho
might choose to give me, not proceeding directly
from the President or the Secretary of State, conlrl
bo viewed aa nothing more than counsel and ad
vice—counsel which I always took pains to follow,
in form at least, out of respect to him who had
been and might aga'n bo my superior officer ;
counsel which 1 followed iu form, and in spirit
also, whenever in my judgment it was not clearly
opposed to the express instruction oi the Govern
ment at Washington or the sacred interests of the
United State then trusted to my charge.
1 performed my duty towards America as I was
able in the difficult circumstances in which I was
placed. Events will prove whether 1 periormod
it woll or ill. If my judgment waa different from
that of Mr. Soule as to the policy which ought to
be pursued here, I am responsible for its justness
or its error, not to him, but to the Cover- moot
and to the ceuntry. I certainly did not conceal
my opinions upon affairs eitner fr m Mr. Soule or
the Secretary of State, nor did I hesitate to speak
them to the Spanish Government whenever I
thought that course necessary for the interests ot
the United States, guarding always the letter of
the directions of Mr. Soule as far as possible, from
respe-t to the dignity ho enjoyed, and bolding up
that dignity in the presence ot the Government
and people of Spain, then highly incensed against
him, on all occasions and in every manner.
I was not aware that 1 enjoyed the putr nage of
anybody. W.th Mr. Marcy I have not the honor
ot a personal acquaintance. I havo never address
ed him except as Secretary of State, and the first
* xt ever received from him was it the lest days
of November, J 854, simply acknowledging the ro
oeiptof documents.
* 8 utterly false that whilst I was writing one
thing to the Secretary of State I was writing another
and a different thing to Mr. Soulo, apposing the
Administration and speaking of its conduct as
treacherous and cowardly.
J&Such things should not bo written without tho
presentation of the proof. I call for that proof
from every one who may suppose that he has evi
dence to the truth of the statement, without ex
ception ol any; and if it should not appear, I
leave the author of that statement under tho
weight of his own work in tho opinion of all
honorable men. Sir, your obedient servant,
Horatio J. Pjerry.
Sale oi a Coal Mine Interest.—Wc learn that
a sale of one-sixth of a c al mine belonging to
the prominent stockholders in tho East Tennes
see iron Manufacturing Company of this city
»‘ red ° feW ?*** sinc0 > <or th 9 round sum of
125,000. This sale waa made by K. Cravens, Eq.
to Mr. Boyce of Chxrioston 80. Ca. This company
hold extensive mineral lands in East Tennessee
but the sale in question, we believe, ia of a mine
in the Raccoon mountain-a mine of vast extent.
— Advertiser .
Kansas Emigrants Bkicrsing.—A number of
returning Kansas emigrants passed through Al
bany, for Beaton, a lew days ago. They said they
had “seen the elephant,” apd were satisfied.
W'aihlngion Kailoti&l Monument.
Address of the Hoard of Managers of the B aeh
ington Nitioyial Monument Society to the People
of the U . States.
Fm.,.,w.c mzES3 : We address you on behalf of
Washington National Monument Assoc'dion,
i na submit lor your consideration the following ro-
POft of what has boon dono:
18 C *’. rn ? r “? ne was laid on the 4th of July,
At that timo thorn was in the treasury of
theAssocmt.ou the sum of $62,450.66
lbe work ban arono on wit-h varied progrops,
until the sum ot $280,000, tho product of voluntary
contributions ulono, hus boon expended in its orco
tion.
Tbo original estimate of tho cost of tho whole
work—tho shaft, tho hose, and tho ornamental
pari—exceeded $1,222,000.
Tho base, built of tho blue stoue of tho Potomac,
soli- 1 and iudostructiblo, is sunk eight foot below
tho surface, aud ri: o seventeen and a half feet
above the surface of the surrounding earth. It is
titty live toot square at its top. From this springs
tho shaft, tho wal’s of blue stone fifteen foot thick,
faced with white marble fourteen inches thick, in
courses two foet in height, tiod and bounded into
tho blue stone at ovory course. In its ascent it
diminishes gradually and regularly in tho exterior
line.
Tho interior is carried up a straight undoviating
chamber. Within, and sot into the solid wails of
this interior, according to tho tasto of tho architect,
havo been plac d, and are yet to bo placed, tho
stouos con.ributed by States, communities, and
associations.
Th.s naked shaft, thus rigidly cut, thus firmly
based, thus indissolubly bonded, now lises in its
simplo uud grand proportions ono hundred aud
ilfty-two and a half loot above tho blue stono bn o.
It is already ono of tho firet objects whiol meet the
oye of tno travoll r as ho passes through tho hills
by which tho city is hemmed in, and ho starts to
find the immense) machi or/ on its top designed
for lilting stono still idle, and anxiously inquires
tho cause.
Follow-countrymon, wo are pninod to pay it in
your neglect. When tho scattered and subjugated
Polish nat ion, and tho friends of liberty in Europe
began to erectmonument to tho> made
it a labor of love*, and from valley, and moun
tain and plain, and running stream, tar ana near,
they brought stones aud piled and heaped them
into a vast pyramidal racund to testily that love.
And now, alter tho lapse of thirty yoais, amid the
convulsions which have shaken that unhappy
country, pilgrim hands still swell that pile witbi
constant contributions.
Wo are erecting a monument toonegreatorthan
Kosciusko-—to him who in history or myth is
known among every kindred and nation of tho
cartli; who laid tho foundations, gave tbo propor
tions, and superintended tho structure of that
Govornmont which, with maraoulous speed, has
risen to tho front rank among the nations, and wa
call upon yon for aid. Men well known to you
havo given to it long yours of carefulness and labor.
They havo boon urgent and pressing in Ihoir calls
for help, and you Lave, to a certain extent, respon
ded to their call. It was not their work, it was
yours; they were giving their time,
and euro uud labor, and money in tho sarno causa
with you.
But they have failed; not for lack of enorgy or
zeal on their part, but from want of that ac.iou and
sympathy on yours which .vas essential to success.
You tho people of this broad and happy land; yon
tho children of Washington ; you, to whom he has
left tho priceless bo quest of his services aid liis
love, have held hack tho contrloution neoded from
each to erect to his memory a suitable Monument
in tho National Metropolis. While thousands
havo answerod promptly the appeal to their pa
triotism, and contributed the amount already re
ceived, and expended, tho far greater number,
either from apathy or want of opportunity, h vo
failed to join in this work of graceful duty. This
failure compelled our prodecossors to arrest the
prosecution of tho work, uud to appeal to Congress
for assistance.
Fellow-countrymen, this is not a suitable object,
of legislative provision. A free, a prosperous, a.
thriving people will not allow a debt of lovo and
gratitude, duo by ovory individual heart, to bo
discharged by an uct of Congress. r
A new Board ot Managers havo now been ap
pointed. Wo come into cilice under'favorablo
auspices, and with well founded hopes of moans
to prosecute the work. Since our election, on tho
22a February last, wo have not boon idle. Our
arrangements havo bcon begun, and are in pro
gress. Wo appeal to tho peoplo. Wo wish no
legislative aid. Wo look to Ires hearts ; we call
upon all, not the liboral and tho genorous alono.
Wo call upon each man who this day walks erect
in ah the panoply of freedom in this broad land,
who is not dead to tho common impulses of hu
manity, who is worthy in tho loast degree of the
oountless and diversified blessings by which ho is
surrounded, wo call upon men evorywhero to con
tribute one;i his mite. A great and mighty people
of twenty five millions cannot bo so dead to tho
sensations which are iuuato in every breast at tho
baro naming of such a beuoiuctor as to refuse or
neglect to give their aid in such a cause.
Lot ovory man, who feels his heart beat with
American pu'suations, and every mau who roveres
tho name of Washington, singly or in companies,
commumcato directly with our ttocrelary and scud
in his contribution to our 'Treasurer, or suggest u.
mode lor its collection. By order of tho Board:
( IiAS. <J. TUCKER, Secretary.»
Washington, May, 1855.
The following arc tho present Oilicors and Mana
gers of tho Society, all ot wUom, except tho Presi
dont and Second Vico President, were elected on
tho 22 l February last, to wit: Franklin Pieros.
President ot United States and ex otlicio
President. Vespasian Ellis,
i'j rst Vico i 'residont.
John M. Towers,
Mayoroi Washington and ex nfficio2.i Vice Pres
ident. Gkohue H. Plant,
Third Vice President,
John M. Mol’alla,
Treasurer.
Chas. C. Tucker. 800.
MANAGERS.
Henry Addison, bnrmiol C. Rusey,
Charles R. licit, James Gordon,
French 8 Evans, Robert T. Knight,
Charles W. Davis, Josoph Libhy, sr.
Samuel E. Douglas, Thor:,is A. Breolro,
Thomas D. Bandy, J obu N. Craig.
Jos. H. Bradley,
P. S. Editors friendly to tho cause aro requested
to insert tho above address.
An Incident or War.—Wo oxtraot tho follow
ing passage from tho lotter of a private soldier,
dated at Sevastopol, and published in the London
Times:
“ Having sooa Mr. Russell's glowing description
of the battle oi Inkormann, I noed not attempt to
say a word on the subject. From his desciipUon
all you wanted to givo Ji'e to tho word-pointing
was to hear tho roaring of the cannons, and listen,
to the clash of arms. Ono scone, however, I can
not withheld, as it affected mo so muoli. In tho
heat of the batllo a young Russian offleor rnado
himre f very conspicuous, and appeared irdiffer
out to danger. lie was young, tali, handsome,
and indeed beautiful. Twieo 1 hod my rills raised
to shoot him, but my hoart eiduVo me, and I turnod
it in another direction. 11l an hour I saw him
again, but, oh, how changed. Hi* cheeks, which
haft jeon noshed with the heat of the strife, were
now doadly.palo. He lay, or half-reclined, on tho
edge of a tVhio'ek, and held the miniature-likeness
of a pvestv young lady in his hand, which had
b»ou tied to his neck by a small gold ehaia. His
eyes wore fixed npon it, but they vero fixed in
death. I cannot toll you what my footings woro.
Indeed, I cannot venture. It would unman me.”
I Tbk Late Emperor Nicholas. —Dr. Mend*, the
I physician who atlcndod the Oar Nicholas iu his
last iilnns-q has published a circumstantial account
of the closing scenes of the monarch’s life. ‘At
10 minutes past 8; says the doctor, ‘ho asked mo,
after I had mentioned the name of his fatheroon
fossor, ‘Must I then die ?’ I ans wered, ‘Yes, sir.’
Not a muscle of hisfaco mevod, not the least quick
ening of pulsation. ‘How,’said he,‘cun you find
the courage thus to doom mo to death ; to tail mo
so to my face!’ ‘First,’ said I, ‘by so doing I ful
fil! a promise made to yon a year and a haii ago!:
the moment of wbi h you then spoke to me, alas I
has noma; moreover, I thus fulfill u doty to tho
Emperor. You have several hour* to live; you aro
in full possession of your faculties, and oau direct
them at your will; at least, I boliove so. La-tly,
Sire, 1 love you, and this is not tho moment to
conceal the truth, which I am sure you can b ar to
hear,’ Ilis countenance booame Berono, and ho
stretched out his hand saying, ‘I thank you I,
“Such was the Emperor.”
Virginia Election. —This olection takes place
on Thursday, the 2V hos the present mouth. The
Governor, other State officers, members of Con
gress, and of tho Legislature, are to be oleoted.
Mr. Wise in a late speech stated that he bad
spoken 143 hours in canvass, and expressed hia
conviction that he would bo elected by 19,000
majority. The Know Nothings claim g majority
of 80,000. Mr. Flournoy, the Know Nothing
candidate for Governor, makes no speeches, but
leaves the whole ma ter in tho hinds of his p arty
friend-',— hall. Amtr.
Measurement ov Eabthouakes.—The former di
rector of the Observatory at Prague, Dr. Kroil, has
invented an ingenious instrument to measure the
forco, duration, and direction of earthquakes. It
consists of a pendulum so contrived that, whilst it
oau move in any direction, it cannot rotnrn. A
perpendicular cylinder is attached, which, by
menus of clock work, turns on its vertieai axis in
twer.ly-four I ours. A polo with a thin elastic arm
is fixed near the pondulnm ; this arm points to
wards the cylinder, and presses on it gently a
pencil, by which moans an unbroken line is formed
on the surfaoe of the cylinders us long as the pen
dulum is at rest, but if it is put iu motion by an
earthquake, the pencil makes broken marks, which
show the strength, direction, and period of the
earthquake.
Tick Enjoyment oe Occupation— The mind re
quires some object on which its powers must be
txerci-.od, and without, it preys upon itself and
becomes miserable. A porson accustomed to a
life oi activity long for case and retirement, and
when he hasaccomplishe J his purpose, findi hirri
sell wretched. Tho pleasure of relaxation is
known to those only who have regular and intor
resting occupation. Continued relaxation soon
becomes a wearincas; and, on this ground, wo
may safely assert that tho greaicEt degree of real
enjoyment bciODga not to the roan of wealth, or
tho listless vo’ary of fashion, hut to tho middle
classes of society, who along with tho comforts of
life, have constant and important occupation.
New Moca ce Potting bp Pins— The Oakville
(Waterbury, Cl.) Mauui.during Company pat up
their pins by steam power, on strips of paper
which are rolled up in a compact form, leaving the
heads exposed on one end of the ey infer, in a
mauner convenient for nso, without being trans
ferred to a pin oushion. Each roll contains 280
pins—tho number usually sold in a single paper.
The ship Southport, which wont ashore near
Tybee in the gale of the 21st ult., and was subse
quently abandoned, has bien got off by means of
? B , team pump, and towed up to town. We are not
informed of the extent of the damage she will havo
to go into the Dry Dock for repairs. She was got
off under the superintendence of an agent of the
New York under writers.—Ads. hep.
New Yorx, May B —The ship Living Ago,report
ed lost m the China seas, was an American voss, 1 -
she was bound from Shanghai to New York, with
a cargo of teas valued at near sßt>o,ooo, which is
heavily insured in Boston and New York offices.
Father Gscchi, of tho observatory at Home sug
gests calling in the aid if the electio telegraph in
the observation of the shooting stars. For in
stance, a meteor being seen at ono observatory,
information of tho fact ia to be instantaneously
flashed to tho noxt beyond, and so on, and then,
b7 subsequent comparison and calculation, to dis
cover whethor they at! eaw it at tho same instant,
and in the same part oi the sky. These and some
other points being ascertained, it will be possible
to clear up certain doubts that now confuse the
question of shooting atars.
, Kain —We had a bounteous and most refreshing
rain here uight bofore last and yesterday.— hath.
Whig Hit.