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Georgia (fitiicn.
From the N. V. I'icayuna.
Sam in the South.
The Baltimore Patriot, noticing the accounts of j
the recent municipal election here, remarks that
it. is not surprised to learn the triumphant success
of the American party in our city. The editors
think that the principles of that party are adapted
to any latitude, and that they will remedy the po
litical evils of any community, North or South.—
And why should it not? It is based on the prin
ciples of official honesty and economy, and wher
ever a wicked and unprofitable servant can be
found, there the American- party finds a culprit
deserving punishment.
The success of the Americans at the South is of
great importance, we agree with the Patriot, itself
a Southern Journal in thinking. For, as the old
parties now stand, the salvation of the Union may
depend upon the union of all conservative men of
every section. The result in New Orleans will
prepare the minds of the South for harmony upon
the great questions which distract the countiy,
whilst the election of competent officers will en
able it to maintain and administer its interests
with energy and success.
We have had similar demonstrations of the ap
plicability of the American party’s principles at
the South, as well as at the North, in the re
sults of the recent elections in St. Louis, Louisville,
Augusta, Richmond, Columbia, Annapolis and
Nashville, in the States of Missouri, Kentucky, ;
Georgia, South-Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. J
And we are prepared to see, when the time comes
the State elections in each of these States, going
in precisely the same way—-only more so.
From Virginia, for example, we daily hear it
stated, on authority the most unquestionable, that
the American majority over Wise will not fall j
short of twenty thousand, and that it need not j
surprise any one should it reach torty thousand.
Thus, while this movement is seen rolling on
its victorious way in the North, overpowering all
opposition in Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island,
New Hampshire, Connecticut, New T ork, and j
Ohio, we find it crossing Mason and Dixon s line,
and making equally telling demonstrations wher
ever the opportunity offers.
This shows, as the respectable cotemporary wc
have already quoted from truly says, that the
principles of the new party “are adapted to any
latitude and will remedy the political evils of any
community, North or South.” The people, the
great body of the American people, the democra
cy, “the greatest number,” evidently entertain this
view of those principles, and are carrying them
into practical operation as fast they can. The ex
periment i destined to be tested to the fullest is
sue, and this without any distinction in action be
tween the different sections of the land.
We confess that, did we not know by experi
ence, how tenciously merely party journals, sway
ed by old partisan predilections, or influenced by
interested considerations, will hold on to a deca
dent platform, w-e should bo surprised to see the
attempts we sometimes meet with to ignore this
palpable and patent course of events, and the con
clusions to which it points. Truly, there is force
in the old saw that “none are so blind as they
who won't 3ee!”
It is a fact to be noted by all who would rightly
read the signs of the times,- that while what is
called Know’ Nothingism has met with some
checks, and even defeats, at the North, its course
is ownward without impediment in the South.—
And the reason is plain. The North is full of all
sorts of isms, and some of these are of a class that
consort with any party which will promise them
aid and support; such as Abolitionism, Freesoil
ism, Maine-lawism, and others that we might
name; and the platform of the new party “know
ing nothing” of any ism, but pure Americanism,
that party does and can do nothing for these fac
tions and so finds itself opposed by them, and in
some instances, thanks to certain coalescings and
compromisings with other parties, even defeated
by here and there.
But with none of these things is the South an
noyed. Here the new party is considered as like
ly to prepare the minds of the South for harmony
upon the great questions which distract the coun
try, and so to secure the best interests and even
the salvation of the Union. In the bugbear raised
by the opponents of the new movement to fright
en Southern support from it—the bug-bear that
in the North there are free soilers in its ranks—
there is nothing to alarm those who have this
grand object in view'. The South sees in this move
ment a remedy for many political evils of which
it has for years had to complain, and that remedy
it is evidently determined to apply, despite of
all gainsayers.
“Sam” and Slavery. —The following from the
Chicago Journal of the llthinst., a rabid Freesoil
paper, is an effectual answer to the senseless charge
of Abolitionism made against the American par
“Sam’’ and Slavery.- —The N. V. Tribune very
pithily remarks that though the Know Nothings
are a secret organization, their affinities for the
peculiar institution of the South arc fast becoming
no secret at all.
It is the rope to which the slave propagandists
are clutching, and with its help, they hope to save
themselves from sinking.
The Louisville Journal, fully in the confidence
of “Sam,” says:
We have been informed, on w hat we regard ns
wholly unquestionable authority, that a National
Council of the American Know Nothing party was
held a few days ago in the city of New York; that
it consisted of numerous delegates from all parts
el’ the Union; that a motion was made by one of
its members to engraft Freesoilism upon the party
creed; and that the resolution was voted down
unanimosly. We do not know that the American
party will fully succeed in nationalizing itself in
regard to the Slavery question, but we believe that
it is making a sincere and earnest effort to do so
in despite of the exertions of some influential men
in its organization; and w-e hope, trust and believe
that it will be successful.
That “a sincere and earnest effort is making,”
to lead ink) the support of slavery, many right
thinking men, cannot be doubted. It is the sole
object of the organization at the South, and with
doughfaced Silver Grayisra at the North, it is al
ready enabled to vote down Free Suil principles
in the National Couucil “unanimously!”
The Hon. Thomas Flournoy, the candidate of
the order in the Old Dominion for Governor, has
written a letter since his nomination, in which he
inculcates Ute idea that the South should stand
fast by the Know Nothings, as the true “Nation
al” party for, says he:
“The South is especially and deeply interested
in this question; this immense aud annual addition
to our population settle in the non-slaveholdiug
States, and the extensive territories of the West
and Northwest, out of which free States will, in
consequence, be more speedily formed, increasing
with fearful rapidity the balance of power against
us.”
We agree with the Hon. Mr. Flournoy, that
the South “is deeply interested in this question,”
but the North is equally so, and it will be its fault
if that interest be not manifest when we arc- called
upon to meet the hosts of slavery at.Phillipi.
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From the Rome Ga. Courier.
“Sam” —How he Rips Things.
.... At the Municipal election in Anapolis, Md.
the Know Nothing ticket has been elected.
.... Rome, N. Y,, the same party has triumphed
by a majority of 300.
... .The charter election in Newburgh, N. Y. re
sulted in favor of the K. N. candidate. There
were three tickets in all. The wliigs and demo
crats united.
... .Vermont has gone for Sam by a majority of j
1700.
... .The American ticket was carried by 300 ma
jority in Portland, Maine.
... .In Cincinnati the Council is composed of 11
Know Nothings and 6 Antics.
... .The whole American ticket was elected in
Columbus, Ohio, by a large majority over their
opponents.
....Lancaster has also yielded to the sway of
Sam.
.... The same result at Piqua, Ohio.
.... Entire American ticket has been elected in
Lockpprt, N. Y. by 500 majority. This town con
tains a large foreign population.
. . . .Bethlehem, Guilderland and New Scotland,
N. Y., the Americans triumphed over the Pierce
and Seward fusionists.
....In Fredonia, New York, Sam was victo
rious.
other political parties combined.-
.... North Danville has done the same tiling..
- elected his own ticket.
whig?, democrats and paddies united against Sam,
but it was no go—he defeated them all!
| ....In Carthage the American ticket has been
; triumphant.
....Ithaca, N. Y. r gives the American ticket a
sweeping victory.
The Americans have also- carried Enfield,
Ulysses and Landsing.
Warren county, N. Y. has swept the board
j for the Know Nothing candidates.
defeated a fusion of wliigs,. democrats and Anti
“Hindoos” ’ •
... .The American majority in. GciLoa has been
; 200 over all opposition.
.. . .Bardstown, Kv., has made a-victorious de
monstration for Sam.
....The Know Nothings in Hagerstown, Md.,
beat the combined forces of the other political par
ties,
The Republican ticket has been elected in
Wooster, East Union, Plain, Chester, Green, Salt
Creek, Bouglnnan and Caudan, Ohio.
Perry county, Oliio, the strong hold of Loeo
focoism, has gone for Sam.
Lima, Allen county, elected the entire Amer
ican ticket by a vote of about six to one. For
Mayor, Baxter, the American candidate, had \UU
votes, and Miligan, the Loeofoco, had 28 votes.—
The rest of the ticket was in the same proportion.
.... InYY inehester, in this State, every candidate
on the American ticket was oleeted.
elected by majority of about one lmndred,
ican ticket was elected.
all elected by large majorities.
From Versailles we learn the cheering intel
ligence that the cause of Americanism is still gain
ing ground iii that vicinity. At the election on
the 2d, the whole American ticket was elected by
a majority of about 120,
By advices from ShalesvilTe, we learn that the
j whole American ticket has been elected through
out Portage county.
Milan. Erie Cos., went strongly for the Republi
can ticket. The majority is nearly 300.
... .Tiffin—the township is K. N. by majorities
ranging from 90 to 184, The city K. N. by from
24 to 40 majority. •
routed by Sam, in every township, as far as heard
: from. In the town of Marion,, the American tick
et succeeded by a vote of nearly threo to- one.
.... In Mt Gilead, Morrow county, the People’s
ticket carried the day.
... .“Sam” visited Shelby in his round, and sent
the “Sag Nichts” after a mug of beer to drown
their sorrow.
...•In Richland, there was an election to have
been held, but only one side was out; the Sag
i Nichts expect to be out soon after the taking of
Sebastopol.
.. . .In Stark county, heretofore strongly Demo
cratic, the Americans have succeeded in a majori
ty of the townships.
ticket but two.
• cess, carrying every township, with one or two
exceptions.
... .In Youngstown, the American party have
elected all their candidates, without exception.—
In Dresden, the majority for the American party
was oue hundred and twenty-five.
The election in Sandusky, Ohio, has
terminated in the election of the entire American
ticket with one exception. This was formerly a
strong Democratic old line vicinity.
Georgetown, Brown county, elected the
American ticket.
... .Ripley also elected the American ticket with
very slight opposition.
Massillon elected the American ticket.
Canal Dover went for Sam.
Republican, 2G9; Loeofoco, 60.
... .In Bucyrus the Loeofoco secret society of Sag
Nichts were badly beaten, the people’s ticket hav
ing an average majority of 110.
beat the Sag Nichts 120 majority.
achieved a great victory. The “Old Liners” were
very sanguine of success, until about one half the
votes were counted, when they began to beat a
hasty retreat.
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From the New York Ilerald.
The Know-Nothings in Virginia—a Sweep
ing Revolution.
The Know-Nothing candidates for the suffrages
of the people of Virginia are very frank in the pro
clamation of their principles. The latest case be
fore us is that of Mr. Littlebury N. Ligon, the new
American party candidate for Congress in one of
the central districts of the State. In his circular
letter to the people of the district, published in
the Lynchburg Virginian, he says that his ante
cedents have been democratic, but that he con
siders the existing differences between the two
old parties of the country of very little account,
the lines of demarcation bet ween them having be
come almost invisible.
Anew questiou, however, has been raised,
winch he considers of absorbing and vital impor
tance—the question of curbing the growth of tho
foreign elements which, of late years, have exer
cised such a marked and powerful influence in our
political elections. Speaking of the necessity of a
check upon the present tremendous increase of
the foreign vote under the facilities of our exist
ing naturalization laws, Mr. Ligon says;—“This
foreign population, which to the extent of some
500,000 annually reaches our shores, hasten to the
new States, people them and then exclude slavery
from their borders by State constitutions.”
This is tlie Southern view of the subject, and
the key to the spread of Know Nothingism in Vir
ginia and throughout the South. They say that
the mass of our European-born citizens are anti
slavery in sentiment—that they settle in the free
States because of their prejudices against the pe
culiar institution of the South —that they consti
tute a very material portion of all the anti-slavery
parties and factions of the North, and that they
are annually swelling the anti-slavery ranks, par
ticularly in the new States and Territories of the
Northwest with alarming and continually increas
ing accessions. Hence, among the most ultra
slave-holding communities of the Southern States,
wo find the Know Nothings rising into the as
cendancy upon the ruins of both the old national
parties that have lived out their day ; hence the
remarkable progress of the Know Nothings in
Virginia, upon the all-important issue to them of j
self-preservation. Their balance of power may j
be secured by arresting the growth of the popular
vote of the North over that of the South; and
this, they think, may be done by a st ringent modi
fication or total repeal of the naturalization laws-
This modification or total repeal being the corner
stone of the Know Nothing platform, is the very
thing, therefore, which is carrying this new’ Amer
ican movement spontaneously forward in all the
Southern States against all the expedients of re
sistance, and over all sorts of obstructions.
Suppose, for example, the term of naturalization
w’ore extended at the next session of Congress to
twenty-one years, what would be the result? It
would probably cut off one hundred thousand of
our European reinforcements, w T ho, under the
present general law and existing local usages in
Northern States, would vote upon the Presiden
tial issue in 1856, and for the members of Congress
to be elected with the new administration. While
the accumulation of “foreigners” in the North,
therefore, from their presurc upon the native
working classes upon Protestant ideas and out
side politicians, has rallied together the natives to
the ranks of Know Nothings in the one section,
the single but vital consideration of checking the
present alarming increase of the Northern anti
slavery vote is quite sufficient to lead the Know
Nothings to victory in every quarter of the other
sections in the Union.
We have no doubt that this is the secret which
lies at the bottom of the mysterious and extraordi
nary growth of Know Nothingism in Old Virgin
ia and the Sqptli. From all present appearances,
too, the new party coalition in that State will over
throw Mr. V iseand the Pierce democracy with a
prodigious majority; and if Virginia, the citadel
of the democracy in the South, be thus carried,
the rest of the Southern States, in the order of
their elections, may be reasonably expected to fall
into line without much resistance. With the
South thus revolutionized, the Know Nothings
will he able to command tho Presidential election
upon a Union and constitutional platform, throw
ing such seditious and disorganizing branches of
the new party as that in Massachusetts entirely
out of the calculation. In this light everything
hinges upon the Virginia election, and the result
there will be the most important, perhaps, in its
consequences of any State election in the political
history of the country for the last fifty years.
Let the conservative Know Nothings of the
North prepare for a fusion with their brethren of
the South upon some common national platform.
Better dispense with their present anti-slavery
affiliations in this quarter, than enter the Presiden
tial campaign divided into two or three sectional
factions. The democracy, shuffling off the incu
bus of this administration, may yet take the field
a3 a homogeneous and powerful national party. —
Let not that be forgotten. The defeat of Mr. Wise
and the old rotten democracy by a large majori
ty in Virginia, will not only be a great and power
ful revolution in that State, the like of which lias
not happened there for fifty years past, but it will
lie the forerunner of a Know Nothing revolution
in the South—a Know Nothing revolution in the
whole Union, but perchance a Know Nothing re
volution also in England—and over all Europe.
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EXTRACT
From the Speech of the lion. Mr. Smith of Ala
bama, in the last Congress.
Foreigners Incapable of Appreciating Lib
erty.
Mr. Chairman, I contend that the mass of for
eigners who come to this country are incapable of
appreciating the policies of our government; they
do not sufficiently understand our institutions.
Patriotism is natural witli a native—but it must
be cultivated in a foreigner. Their minds are fill
ed with a vague and indefinite idea of liberty.
Liberty to them is a sort of chaotic idea. It is
not the liberty of law, but of unrestrained license.
Their oppressions at homo have cultivated and
nourished treasonable inclinations, and they come
here too often to indulge them. The foreigner
believes that America is the natural rendezvous
for all the exiled patriot#, and disaffected and tur
bulent persons of the earth, and that here they
are to meet to form plans and coueoot schemes to
revolutionize all creation, “ and the rest of man
kind. YY ell, let us see if there is any truth in
these suggestions. Here are the solemn resolu
tions of the Social Democratic Association, of
Richmond, Y irgiuia—an association existing in the
center of the Old Dominion, in the heart of “the
home of the Presidents.”
Reform in the laws of the general government,
as well as in those of the States.
“YY e demand: 1. Universal suffrage. 2. The
election of all officers by the people. 3. The aboli
tion of the Presidency. 4. Tho abolition of Sen
ates. 5. The right of the people to recall their
Representatives (cashier them) at their pleasure.
6. The right ol the people to change the consti
tution when they like. 7. All law suits to be
conducted without expense. A department of
the government to be set up for the purpose of
protecting immigration. 9. A reduced term for
acquiring citizenship.’
“ Abolition of all neutrality. 2. Interven
tion in favor of every pcoplo struggling for liber
ty.”
“Abolition of laws foi the observance of the
Sabbath; Abolition of prayers in Congress; Ab
olition of oath upon the Bible.
Tin; supporting of the slave-emancipation ex
ertions ol Cassius M. Clay by Congressional laws.
Abolition of the Christian system of punishment,
and introduction of the human amelioration sys
tem. Abolition of capital punishment.”
Let every American read this carefully aud
candidly. It is but a fair sample of the foreign
er’s ideas of liberty. Ought these men to be al
lowed to vote? No President, no Senate, no
Sabbath, no swearing upon the Bible, no perma
nent constitution, no neutrality, no Christian
punishment! Is it even probable that the second
generation of such insane fanatic* should be so
improved as to be capable of voting with discre
tion i’ These are the “fundamental principles of
refoim, ol the Democratic Society of Germans,”
and are not, confined to Y’irginia. but are ramified
throughout the whole Union, wherever the Ger
mans gc. j
Iu proof of which, and as kindred to the previ- !
ous resolutions, I here present a part ol the ad- \
dross and regulations of the American Rcvolu- j
tionary League, adopted at the Revolutionary
Congress, held at Philadelphia from January 29
to February 1, 1852:
“Fellow Citizens: The Congress of the * Amer
ican Revolutionary League for Europe’ herewith
submit the result of their deliberations to the
judgment of the people, all parties of which were
represented in that body.
“Earnestly resolved to find the means of ter
minating the desperate condition of the liberty
thirsting people of Europe, firmly convinced that
tho first great step to the attainment, of this goal
is tho cordial co-operation of all who seek it, it
was for us to explore the middle ground upon
which all parties could honorably and cheerfully
unite their forces.
“ The conscious determination to achieve a rev
olution thorough and complete was the warrant
for our actions; and of you, sovereign people, wc
ask the ratification of this warrant iu the readi
ness with which you shall erect upon the founda
tion we have laid the superstructure of an exten
sive, yea, a universal, fusion of all revolutionary
elements.
“Let us, then, be up and doing! Our cause is
noble, is sacred. The barriers that cramp the
growth of active, intelligent, and high-souled
nations are to be stricken down; mankind to be
restored to its humanity. Let the motto for the
strife be, union in the American Revolutionary
League.”
Here are the objects of the league, avowed in a
regular form:
“The object of the league shall be radical liber
alization of the European continent, for which are
required:
“ 1. The overthrow of monarcy and the estab
lishment of the Republic.
“2. The union for these ends of all persons,
associations, parties, and nations, lor the annihila
tion of oppression.
Art. lll.—Means.
“Sec. 1. Agitation as well in Europe as in
America.
“ Sec. 2. Accumulation of a revolutionary fund.
“Sec. 3. Formation of armed organizations de
sirous of entering personally into the struggle, and
of preparing for its military exercise.”
And this is not the more idle resolve of a club
at a town meeting. You will see that they so
arranged this league as to extend it to every prin
cipal town in the country. As thus appears:
“ 1. In the principal towns of cv every State
there shall be established a State committee.
“2. The duty of the State committee shall be
to receive the communications of the board, and
transmit them to the several associations, and to
transmit the proposals of associations to the board,
to establish new associations, and generally to
make all possible exertions in furtherance of the
cause in the State assigned to its care.”
Here, sir, is a brief outline of a most extensive
association, formed and organized upon American
soil, by foreign agitators, the avowed object of
which is: “Agitation as well in Europeas Amer
ica. Are these hot bloods capable of voting and
mingling in the governmental affairs of the na
tion? No, sir. The liberty our fathers fought
for, and which we enjoy, is not the privilege to sit
and hatch treasons; to disturb, with unhallowed
plottings, the princes of other realms; to break
constitutions at pleasure, to raise armies without
authority of law, nor to take from their neighbor
his goods, because he has most; but it is his
privilege to be protected by Jaws from the evils
of anarchy and oppression. There is no tyrant
so relentless as anarchy —none so oppressive.
In these proceeding and regulations, you have
frequent mention of “ the accumulation of the
Revolutionary Fund,” and while these patriots are
orming constitutions and laying plans, we hear of
the financial operations of their allies, Kossuth
and Kinkle. We see Kossuth peddling his dollar,
of which here is a curious copy:
“ Hungarian Fund. —On demand one year af
ter the establishment in fact of the Independent
Hungarian Government, the holders thereof shall
be entitled to One Dollar, payable at the Nation
al Treasury, or at either of its agencies at London
or New York, or to exchange the same in sums
of fifty dollars or over, for certificates bearing four
per cent, interest, payable in ten equal annual in
stalments from one year after said event.
L. Kossuth.”
YY e see the accomplished Kinkle, delighting au
diences with his eloquent speeches, and plausible
plans; and raising fifteen and twenty thousand
dollars a night from the pockets of the sage in
habitants of the western States—all to be used
either in aid of the American Revolutionary
League, or for some kindred purpose. And these
money orators arc aided in there schemes, and the
people kept constantly excited by such appeals as
this:
“To the Germans in America! —The news
brought to these shores by each successive steam
er from Europe, proves that the hour of insur
rection is near; therefore, the refugees must or
ganize and hold themselves in readiness.”
*******
“To oiir former revolutionary companions we
say, be prepared! The approaching struggle be
tween liberty and despotism will be severe, but
it will be the last; for it will only terminate with
the annihilation of one of the two opposing and
irreconcilable principles.”
Add to this the sage reflections of Mazzini. In
writing to sonic friend, some member of this rev
olutionary league, perhaps, he says:
“ Twenty-four millions of emancipated Italians
will be twenty-four millions Abolitionists to aid
their brothers in America!
Nor am I permitted to pause here! These
disorganizing sentiments have spread with fearful
suceess! Read the following extract of a speech
of Mr. Roedol to the German portion of the au
dience, made in New York a few days ago:
“Brethren: For the first time I speak in an
assembly like this. YY’e have not all tho same
language, but our feelings are the same; they
unite us here with the American people. For tho
advancement of these sentiments wo must not
only unite with them in speeches, but also in acts.
In our country we have fought for liberty, and
many of us have lost, in battle, our fathers, broth
ers, or sons. Here we are free, but not free
enough; we want the liberty of living. (Ap
plause.) YY e have fought in Germany for liberty
of speech and the liberty of the press. The Ger
man press is against us in this movement; but we
need not care for what those papers say; we must
act on our own hook. Here we have social lib—
erty, liberty of speech, and liberty of the press;
and when we want anything that is just we are
bound to obtain it (Applause.) If you don’t
know your rights yet, hunger will teach them to
you. \ou don’t get bread nor wood, and there
is plenty. At our revolution in June, we obtained
three month s credit, because we were two hundred
thousand strong. I have nothing further to say
than to advise you to put in practice the principles
ol the social Republic. The Tribune said to-day,
♦hat the rich would give us a million, if they were
fbleed to it; but now they will hold their money
in their pockets, and refuse to give it up. YVhen
the wolf is hungry he has no consideration, and
takes his food fearlessly where lie finds it; it must
be the same with the masses. Help yourselves i
and then God will help you. YY'e must act as the i
wolf, and we do not want any auxiliaries! Let i
us act by ourselves.” [Applause.]
Hunger is the excuse for these sentiments. It j
was the pretence of hunger that brought the Danes j
and Normans to England It was the pretence of
hanger that brought the Gotha and Vandals to j
desolate the fairest portions of the eastern world.
This plea of hunger may brings millions of immi
grant invaders to this fair land, to take from, those
who have plenty, without law and without jus
tice.
♦*A* • * * *
Mr. Chairman, I would not exclude the foreign
er from these shores; but 1 want the privilege of
picking the clas* that comes. Ido not want the
vermin-covered convicts of the European conti
nent. Ido not want the crime-hardened felona
of the European prisons. I do not want those
exiled traitors, who call themselves patriots, whose
oaths of allegiance to their own kings have al
ready been broken—for who can expect faith from
the faithless, or truth from the perjured! Ido not
want the propagandist, who comes to interpret
the Constitution of the United States for us and
for our children and to prate in unmeaning jargon
about the policy of Washington. I do not want
those swarms of paupers, with pestilence in their
skins and famine in their throats, to: consume the
bread of the native poor. Charity begins at home
—charity forbids the coming of those groaning,
limping vumpiixs. *
For the Georgia Citizen.
“American Society of United Irishmen.”
Mr. Eiiitor. —ln the public papers, in the streets, and in jovi
al converse in families, much has been said and continues to be
said about the “Know Nothing” organizations throughout the
Union. By many, the Know Nothings are denounced as anti
republicans, and as enemies of civil and religious liberty, and
I have no sympathy with the Know Nothing party, so far as
their hatred to Catholics and friendship to Protestants are con
cerned. I have no religious friendships nor religious animosi
ties, and know none as a citizen of this Union.
But this is my object. If the secret Order of Know Nothings
are so justly obnoxious to censure, —so very reprehensible as
secret, political organisations—what can or will he said of the
“American Society of United Irishmen.”
The art of Printing has been said to be the “art preservative
of all arts,” and while it is so, it is likewise preservative of many
old documents which frequently start up and vex and confuse
the most philosophical. Below, I promise you a few extracts
from the “Declaration and Constitution of the American Socie
ty of United Irishmen, Philadelphia, printed for the Society,
August 8, 1797.”
CONSTITUTION.
“Section 6. Before a person elect shall be considered a mem
ber, the President shall put to him the following questions :
“Ist. Do you believe a free form of Government and uncon
trolled opinion on all subject*, to be the common rights of all
the human species ?
“2nd. Do you think the people of Ireland are in possession of
those rights ?
“3d. Do you think the government of Great Britain over was,
or is disposed to acknowledge or assent to the freedom of Ire
land ?
“4th. Do you think Great Britain ought of right to govern
Ireland ?
“Oth. Are you willing to do all that in you lies to promote the
emancipation of Ireland, and the establishment of a republican
form of government there?
“tith. Are you willing to hind yourself, by a solemn obligation,
to the principles you have acknowledged ?
“Section S. That upon the candidate answering these ques
tions, as required by the sth Section, the following shall be ,ad
uiiuistered as a test, all present standing :
TEST.
“I, A. B. in the presence of the Supreme Being, do most sol
emnly swear, that I will, to the utmost of my power, promote
the emancipation of Ireland, from the tyranny of the British
Government. That I will use the like endeavors for increasing
and perpetuating the warmest affeetiou among all religious de
nominations of men, and for the attaintainments of liberty and
equality to all mankind, in whatever nation they may reside.—
Moreover, I do swear, that 1 will, as far in me lies, promote the
interest of this and every other Society of United Irishmen, and
of each of its members, and that 1 will never, from fear of pun
ishment or hope of reward, divulge any of its secrets given to me
as such.”
So far as the sympathies of Irishmen, enlisted in favor of the
reform of any then existing abuses in Ireland, were concerned,
no person could ob’ect —but they formed a secret cubal, —vio-
lated their own oaths, for they had sworn in our high judicial
places, to support the Constitution and laws of this government,
and in the face of tiieir oaths, in utter disregard of the privil
eges extended to them, with base ingratitude they attempted to
abrogate the most sacred treaty stipulations of our country with
England, and violate the solemn laws of our own Union.
Co-eval with the organization ot this government, began the
exorcise of r “foreign influence” among us. It has often threat
ened the existcuce of our Union. Daring the administra
tion of Washington, a powerful French influence, was in opera
tion here —and without recounting the numberless instances, in
subsequent years, we may refer to the recent inflammatory har
raugues of Kossuth and others in different portions of our Union,
and of the efforts he made to compromise our countryin European
troubles. We have excellent laws to protect our relations with
foreign countries, with which we are on terms of peace, and yet
year after year, foreign influences are in operation among us to
induce us to violate the sanctity of our treaties and the saered
ness of ur laws. And these influences often affect the iniuds of
our own ciliscuq, w ho can be induced by love of notoriety, hope
of gain, or the gratification of ambition. And, in truth, it occa
sionally happens, that we are led off by motives of the most
honorable and praise-worthy character, although we may vio
late the laws to gratify them.
The great body of the Roman Catholics, in this country, ob
ject to our Free School system, or so much thereof, as requires
from them any contributions to its support. They desire to have
Schools of their own. Now, so far us this matter is concerned,
the people of this country care nothing, further than this—it is
necessary that the masses of the people should be educated, and
that the money to support all Free Schools should be collected
from the resident and tax paying citizens of the country, without
regard to tiieir being Protestants or Catholics—Jews or Irreli
gionists. The Holy See or Pope of Rome either originated or
has sanctioned this policy of the Catholics in the United States,
aud so far, at least, has exercised a foreigu influence, in oppo
sition to our laws and govemniiut. It is true, the Catholics
urge, that our Common Schools do not sufficiently regard the
early training and morals of youth ; but if we look through the
communities, we cannot recognize the moral sujienority of Cath
olic youth, over Protestant youth. And, if we run lines of com
parison between the matured Catholic population here and the
native born citizens, we cannot recognize any superiority, in
morals, among the Catholics.
There is a quiet but steady opposition, among the Catholics,
to the general tax levied to support Free Schools among us.—
Not that they object to Free Schools, but they desire that all
their contributions, in that way, shall be given to their own
Catholic Free Schools. This we consider as at war with the spi
rit and laws of our land —and they regard it as the only means
of keeping the moral of their youth free from the corrupting in
fluences of Protestant principles. Now, if we could see that the
Catholics supported their own paupers, and endowed their own
hospitals, and conducted themselves with more sobriety, were
better citizens and were more exemplary in every way, than Pro
testants generally, the objections they urge to the Free Schools
of this country, would be more favorably considered. The peo
ple regard their interference as turbulent and meddlesome, and
more objectionable as the lloiy Sec enjoins the observance of
the policy persued by the Catholics here. While Brownson, in
his Catholic Magazine, somewhat favors the American system of
Free Schools, the Freeman’s Journal (Catholic) condemns it as
Anti Catholic, and introduces the authority of the Pope to sus
trin its |>osition. Asa general principle, we affirm, that oppo
sition to taxation to support Free Schools in this country, whore
all classes and creeds are instructed, is the Catholic sentiment
in the United States.
But, the object of this communication is less to comment upon
the vexed School question, than to bring to the notice of the
public the organization, in the early history of this government,
of a Secret Society of Irishmeti, known as the “American So
ciety of United Irishmen.” If there exists substantial reasons
against the Know-Nothings” as, a secret, political body of Auier
can citizeus, how much more censurable should be regarded a
secret political body of Irishmen ? Is that Society of “United
Irishmen” abandoned ? If so, are there not the elements or
seeds ready for germination existing at the present day? The
Irish patriot John Mitchell, bold proclaims himself a revolu
tionist ; and doubtless the senthueut finds favor in the minds of
many of his countrymen. But enough for the present.
RICHMOND.
Another Cuban Outrage.
To tiie Editors of the Boston Post:—l have
just arrived from San Juan <le los Remedios, Cu
ba, in the bark Jane Uoten, ofßath, Me., of which
vessel I am master, and write you in hopes you
will publish an account of the treatment I receiv
ed at the port named. Vessels are obliged to take
in their cargoes at Carbarien, about seven miles
from Sau J nan, when masters are obliged to go
to San Juan <le los Remedios to clear their vessels.
After getting my vessel loaded, I went there for
that purpose, and as I was on my way to my con
signees 1 was stopped and questioned by a police
man. I informed him I was an American ship
master, and was there to clear my vessel. But
that, would not do, and I was marched through
the streets, like a criminal, to the police office,
about half a mile. When I got there the captain
was not there, and I was questioned and insulted
by all the policemen in the room, and after awhile
was marched by the same policemen and two
soldiers, armed with guns, swords, Ac. through
the streets, which were full of soldiers, it being a
holiday, and was insulted all the way by the sol
diers and people in the street; was taken before
the Governor, detained a long time, and question
ed like a criminal. He sent for an interprerer,
who after a while made him understand who I was
and what I wanted, whdn lie told me to go. The
American Consul took no interest to get me re
leased, and had it not been for my consignees, no
doubt I should liave been imprisioned. That
Luther, of the hark Mar. It. if .m ..
and myself, w ere at the hotel, and were obliged 1
to suffertnsults of the soldiers there, and T don’t. ♦
know but what we slioulu hare been arrested
again, had not the landlord told tire people we
were English captains, not Americans.
When we sailed from there we were chased by
a man of war, but our vessels being good sailors,
she could not overhaul us.
This is only one of the many ease3 of the same
kind that happens in Cuba to Americans. I write j
tiiis to let my countrymen know that the Arneri
flag is no protection to them in Cuba.
George R Hersey, Master bark Jane Doten.
Boston, April 25, 1855.
(htornia (fitinn.
* O
-L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR.
MACON, GEORGIA, . . . MAY 5, 1855.
it ain at last.—On Thursday evening we were favored
with copious and refreshing rains, which have made glad the
j hearts of ail the iieople. We indulge the hope that these rains
j have been general and that the fear of famine in the land will
j bave thereby been banished from our thoughts. Lam Deo t
A Stirring 1 Week. —Our city has been crowded with
strangers from all parts of the State, during the present week,
I and great has been the speculation among the outsiders as to
the meaning of the gathering together of so many persons at
this particular juncture. Some thought it was a convention of
FilMbusters who were preparing to make a coup de tat de
monstration on the “gem of the Antilles,” and this idea gained
credit from the fact, that Maj. Jack ll——, a distinguished Filli*
imstero of a neighboring city, was known to be in town, and
j from tha rumor that Gen. John A. Quitman was hourly expect
ed, to take command of the exj(edition J Others said that the
Grand Encampment of the Knights of Jericho or Jerusalem (we
don’t know which) was holding its annual Sanhedrim and were
concocting measures for the advancement of the cause of be
nevolence and charity. Other some were of the opinion thai
Dhis was only the advance guard of “ SamV* great American
army, who were about to take the field in Georgia, in defence
of the time-honored and time-hallowed principles of the sires
of ’76, and under the “stars and stripes” which have so long
floated over this land of liberty!
hatever may have been the occasion of the gathering, or the
character of it, one tiling is very palpable, that it was the most
imposing body of men that ever convened in Georgia. We
learn that tiiey numbered about GOO, and that nearly every
l county in the State was represented. It was also a remarkably
| orderly crowd—as goodly a company of intelligent looking men
as we ever saw convened under like circumstances. We saw
: nothing to indicate a spirit of Fillibusterism or unlawful com
bination against the rights and liberties of the people, but nmch
i that savored of patriotic conservatism and constitutional law
abiding purpose. If such indications are not deceitful, we feel
to bid such men “ God speed” in any cause in which they may
| engage.
May Day Celebration.
The Sabbath Schools of the city had one grand celebration on
Tuesday, according to the following Programme, after the long
procession of juvenile and interesting humanity had taken their
places in the New Baptist Church of this city :
1. Music by the Choir.
2. Prayer, by the Rev. S. Landrum.
3. Music by the Choir.
4. Speech,—“Bible language and Bible Facts,by Mast. Robert
Morris, Baptist School.
5. Speech,—“The Bible,” by Mast. Herbert Varner, Metho
dist School.
<5. Music by the Choir.
| 7. Speech, by Mast. John Bankston, Vineville School.
; 8. Speech,—“Sunday Schools,” by Mast. Ed. Scott, Episcopal
School.
9. Speech,—“America,” by Mast. Alien Holt, Presbyterian
School.
lft. Music by the Choir.
11. Address? hy Benj. M. Polhill.
i 12. Music hy the Choir.
; 13. Benediction.
| These exercises were received with high favor hy a large and
brilliant audience. Mr. Polhill’s Address is spoken of as a well
digested and excellent discourse. All tongues, too, are loud in
praise of the performances of Master Herbert Varner and Mas
ter Allen Holt, on the occasion. Both these pupils give promise
of much distinction in the path of life which may be adopted
by them:
I On the same day, the “Floyd Rifles” Capt. Ross, turned out
| on parade find made a fine display. After some evolutions in
I the streets, the company inarched to Vineville where arrange
i ments had been made for Target shooting. This accordingly
i came off with the following result:
First Prize—a gold Medal, won by private EJ. Johnson.
Second Prize—a silver Cup, won by private Tbos. M. £den.
military Company and Pic-Jiic.—The Macon
Volunteers, Capt. Iloht. A. Smith, went into camp at the Fair
Ground on Wednesday morning, where they have been having
a good time generally. On yesterday the Encampment broke
up and the citizen soldiers returned to their homes after three
days of mimic rear on the tented field. On Thursday evening,
hy invitation, we repaired to the Camp ground, to witness the
crowning joy of the occasion, the Pic-nic entertainment pro
vided by the Volunteers, and in which their brethren in arms
the “ Floyd Rifles,” Capt. Ross, and a large number of Ladies
and gentlemen participated, as guests. The festivities of the
day were opened by the presentation of the prizes recently won
by the soldiers, at Target practice. Lieut. U. S. Lanier, in an
appropriate speech, on behalf of the Volunteers, presented two
cajis and plumes to Honorary member S. Rose and private
Rhodes. Lieut. Hardeman of the “ Rifles” performed the same
duty for his company, and in a beautifully classic aud eloquent
address tendered the first prize, a gold medal, to private Ed
ward Johnson, and the second, a silver cup, to private Thor
M. Edens, who, ou Tuesday, had won the same.
After this ceremony the immense throng of beauty and chiv
alry there convened, had the signal given to repair to the place
where Mr. S. Isaacs had erected a long drawn-out platform and
covered the same with the choicest and richest delicacies of the
season. In justice to him, we have to say, that his widely ex
tended fame iu constructing such platforms was not tarnished
but brightened by this last effort of his genius. The board lit
erally groaned with the good things furnished by him and his
associate, Mr. C. 11. Freeman, and the company did the most
ample justice to the entertainment.
After this operation had been successfully performed, the par
ty returned to the large room set apart and decorated as the
Dancing Hall, where Immediately music was struck up, aud the
young people, (and some in the mellow meridian of life,) took
the floor and kept the same, less a few short intervals, till the
small hours of the morning put a Jtnis to the geuial and de
lightful occasion.
Bibb Democracy.—The Democracy of Bibb had a
meeting on Tuesday last, to send delegates to the approaching
Gubernatorial and Congressional Conventions of the party. Al
though it was sale day, the meetiug was rather a slim affair,
many of the old stagers and hitherto active members of the
Democracy absenting themselves from the place. We under
stand that the delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention are
Johnson men, and those to the Congressional Convention are
frieuds of L. Q. C. Lamar, Esq.
Accessions to the brand Krcesoil Army.—
We invite the atention of our readers to the fact set forth by
Mr. Ligon, a candidate of the American Party of Virginia, for
Congress, from one of the Central Districts, as to the grand
cause for the great increase of the Frec-eoil or Abolition party
of the North. This fact is the vast immigration of foreigner*
into the country who settle in the Northern and Western States
in obedience to their free-soii and anti-slavery instinct*. Per
haps ninety-nine hundreths of these foreigners do thus settle
themselves and become citizens of the Free States and Territo
ries. It is thus that the Free-soif party is hourly strengthened by
a class of mm who invariably give their influence and suffrage
to exclude slavery from the common territory, which is the pro
perty of ail the States. Hence it is that we look upon the Amer
ican Party as the only true Southern. Rights party of the
country. It is a party which aims by striking at the root of the
evil, to destroy the growing influence which threatens to tramp
le in tiie dust, the dearest institutions of the Sooth. And we
marvel much that a single Southern man should be found to op
pose a movement which is so well calculated to accomplish an
object of so momentous a nature to every Southern interest. In
stead, therefore, of charging the heresy of abolitionism upon the
American Order as some partizans are accustomed to do, the
jicople of the South should rally, as one man, to its support and
defence. Never was there a better occasion for a Union of the
South for the sake of the South. Never can a better opportuni
ty be offered for crushing forever the growth and advancement
of that llyra-Headed monster of Abolition which seeks to sub
vert our institutions and overthrow our confederacy.
Fire in Montgomery.—’We regret to learn that the
extensive Flouring Mills of Winter A Cos., of Montgomery, Ala.,
were destroyed by fire ou Monday night last. Los* about #50,-
000.
Dec lines Ihe Honor,—The Hon. Iliram ‘.Varner, In
a letter to the Cherokee Advocate, declines the honor of a nom
ination ius the Democratic Candidate for Congress from the 4th
District. The reasons giveD are, that “ having voluntarily relin
quished an official station to become a private citizen” he has
“ not the least desire or intention of being a candidate for Con
gress or any other office.”
Locusts.—This is the year of the 17 year locusts, and tha
dreaded visitant has made its appearance iu the upper part of
this county, on the plantation of Judge \Cm. Lundy and in that
vicinity. Also in Spaulding and other counties. Judge L, has
shown us a live apecimen of the Locus;, which ho picked up on
his way to the city, a day or two since. It is a large insect,
with prominent red eyes, black body, and dark brown wings.
Although tolerably numerous, they have as yet done no injury
to vegetation. Their sonorous buzzing, we are told, is loud
enough to be heard at a great ditan:e.
The Eclipse.—Among the extraordinary events of the
week, we may mention the Phenomenon that occurred on Tues
day night last, in this latitude. The moon was eclipsed for
several hours, between 8 P. M. and 1 A. M. of Wednesday
morning. It ig whispered about, that hundreds of the “ dark
Lantern” party embraced the hour of this obfuscation of Lu
na's disc, to make a descent on Macon. Doubtless the descent
was made, but whether by any such crowd, not knotting we
cannot say ! The celestial exhibition was certainly a very “ cu-
I rious coincidence, ’ in the judgment of many eminent philoso
| phers wlm witnessed it and the ro'empoi &rieou.* event men- j
I ! < ne<i
like to seo a pood “hit “ ~~—
whence it may, nd the Temped •
Governor lets off a good „„ c eometinT
Is one: “ es - H ere
An incident occurred whilst Mr n ,
speaking in Fayette, which is wort], I'*?
During the delivery of his speech he -
was any one present who did not V rather*
existence of God, and the doctor,- nlV* 111 4*
wards and ponishments. Some
replied, 1 es, many an one.” “Th, n ”
Overby, -you are the men above Mr
should enlist under the banner of *ho
ifyour hopes arc bounded by f*
should, by all means, 3ee k to make it
ami this can never be done as l ont , 1
mains a grogshop in it.” The effect r *-
: was electrical, aud brought down Vi , a r, Tlv
plause from the audience to the’ am h “ n,lerm g&{J
discomfiture of “smarty.” azem it at,.;
The “good hit” above spoken
be the “smallest Potatoc” affair of the *° Uifo
goes upon the supposition that there II
Atheists iu Georgia but that V .**! “* ° nly
Atheism are synonymous terms. Wm w7‘
put himself on this position? If*, Jve %
one*, intelligence than we pave
Wedonbuhe exigence of. 501i,,,,. All „. ur ~
State, and we are sure that no class of *
firmer believers in Divine Revelation **
Universal ists. Why then, this odious an T
classification, unless with a view to cast JOSt
I upon the large class of religious people/T7 h
Iwe see the apposite ness ofthe remark ofM r 9 ’
j b -V, l hat, because some men do not believe ‘7*
\ pain they have no hope, beyoad
Tins a , non yhr which no man of—
j would deduce from the premises. K o r is j t
j apparent what the effort to make this 7, 4 7
| much a paradise as possible has to do with 7 *
ing Mr. Overby to ride into the Executive ‘(7
of the State on the Prohibition stalking-h
Verily, too, the assumption is illogical and hr
fetched, that a p , ivadisial state on earth is d< •
dent ou such an event! If, therefore, such ( f7
icidal attempt of Mr. Overby to beat his
brains out is to be regarded as a “good hit
shall esteem it fortunate for the country if the 7
tempt be successful.
Rock Island h actort.—This property was w |,j
under mortgage oft Monday the 23dinst ami 7
bought by K. L. Mott, Esq., of Columbus for *wl
250.
1 lie Empire Slalc.-We welcome thin i, e „ CMdl(U|t
for popular favor to our exchange table. Col. A. v Gaud,
Griffin, Geo. Editor and Proprietor. The firrt number 7Crrt
itable specimen, aud barring its Anti-Auiericau principle.
worthy of extended patrouafre.
Precisely.—A bitter anti-American Journal offer, fl*,
following a* a valid argument again*; the doctrine* •ftbeAmtr.
lean party:
In the state of Georgia, according to the ccneoi o’ ln o.
foreigu born population was nearly one and a quarter per am
of the whole, or nearly Pre foreign born, to four hundred ni
t.ce born. But if there is no danger Iron, •• foreign influenced
Georgia, jierhaps there may to- in some of tiie adjoininz <iu
Let us nee. In Alabama the proportion of foreign borVtu V
live born, is less than tvu to one hundred; in Tennt~.tr nl
than three-quarters 0/ one to one hundred; in South Can iw.
less than three atid a quarter to one hundred; j u North tJ*
olina less than one-half of one to one hnndred, and in Floridw
less rhan sir to one hundred. These include all the surround
mg State*, and certainly lie number of foreign born ciuir i
can furnish no subject of alarm to tiie pe‘>l*le of Georgia.
The proper answer to this i* the admitted fact that mo*t of the
foreign population settle in tiie Northern and Western State*
instead of in the Southern. Hence the danger to Georgia is
terests, not so much from the small number within her limits
but from the nine-tenths that go to swell the Freesoil nuyoritie*
of the North against the South. The argument is thus wrested
from the hands of the opponent* of Americanism and turned
against themselves.
Getting his Reward— We regret that so dis
tinguished ami so able a gentleman as the lion.
A. 11. Stephens, should have subjected hansel! to
such reproaches as are contained iu the following
article from that old-time Whig paper, the Ala
bama Journal. But we are inclined to think that
the houorable gentleman deserves the rebuku
which he has received. His vacillating and dis
organizing course during the last Presidential can
vass, and the “cold shoulder” which he and kij
Twin Siamese Brother, tiie Hon. Robert Toouiw,
have both given to the glorious American organi
zation during the present Anno Domini, have
done much to prejudice his beet friends against
the gentleman. Although he made the best speech
of the last session of Congress and most gallantly
and successfully vindicated the South from the
slanders of the Abolitionists, yet when the mist
favorable occasion presented itself for Mr. Stephens
to lead the American movement in his owu State,
and to carry it on to a triumphant issue, he isola
ted himself on his pinnacle of dignity and de
nounced it as a “ramshackle” uotiou unworthy ts
his thought or ambition! Well, the consequence
is already foreshadowed in the rumor that Mr.
Stephens will not be a candidate for re-election
to Congress from the Bth District, and that ‘ our
distinguished Senator” meditates a trip to Europe,
this summer, to be out of the way of a contest in
which his own self-aggrandizement is not an ele
ment ! Os course it were asking a little too rauen
of these patriotic gentlemen to engage in a cause
in which they can reap no personal advantage,
but nevertheless, that cause, we have faith to be
lieve, will rise above all obstacles, even the dead
veight of these two distinguished gentlemen,
though the burden were ten times greater than :t
was in 1853. But we are keeping the reader
from the remarks of the “Journal. Here it is, w
extenso.
“Alexander 11. Stephens, Esq. —l\e learn
a gentleman from Georgia, that Mr. Stephens * 1
if is believed, decline any further canvas? of nis
district—that he is aware that he is marked
the Know Nothings for his opposition to their se
cret feature, and has now no party to fall back on.
If this is true, it is a mortifying position to onto
his talents and ambition, and may prove an apt. • ’
lustration from Macbeth: “Os the poisoned cc
lice commended to his own iips.” Being ami s
the chiefest of those who so ruthlessly F*f tr **
ted the gallant conservative Whig Party of beft
gia—the ladder by which he attained high l”"’
tions, and trod ungratefully on the neck arm
ings of those by whose devoted labor? and <
tions through long years, he was elevated an
tained, he has now no friends, and will be p “o
down as mercilessly, by hands he cannot
Who will pity him?—though many way fr] ’ J
such an end to such a towering and brilhau- “■
lect, unmatched, perhaps, in the whole brca< 1
the Union.”
CORRESPONDENCE.
Down South, April 27th, 1855-
Doctor Andrtwt:
Dear Sir. — l observe that an anor.>
“Whig” in this district, says in the Georgia ll
Watchman; that a “wire grass man out
wants to go to “Congress” and intimate? 85 f
reason for his wishing to go, that he ha? aF 1
liar aversion, to the “bustle” and “poli? 11 °‘^ C
“gentlemen.” Now, as it is not probal “
district which has been represented bv
Wayne, Owens, Floyd. Clinch and King, w
like to be tied down specially upon an iIC
“grass,” when there are so many other thing
equal nuignitude to arrest the attention 1 r
commonwealth, I would suggest the p r <J
of fixing at once upon someone to meet )
only on this important question, but <0 j
before the country, and the icorld in g (1l(T
presume there will be no Convention ca
nominate a Candidate, as the people a f‘P e
have repudiated them ;we shall, therefore ,
to test our strength at the only true D ,in : n
liberty , the ballot-box. They speak ol bn|
connection with the laborious and unc<r - 1 -®
paign, and those few have too much g°° ,
to destroy themselves forever by *^ s '7Lagg,
Yours very truly, ALL
ißev. Easil Manley. D. D. ,
From the Southern Baptist we gather
distinguished Divine for tire last Q'ir“ Ltt .
President of the Alabama T. uiveiwy