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Newspaper Page Text<Xhc Statesman. T. B. MORGAN ( Editor A Proprietor. C VOLUME I. THE SOUTHERN STATESMAN. I* published every rrhursdav nioruiug at per annum, payable in aJrancr; 25U if ■•t paid in advance. N» subscription taken for less than one year, except nt the option of the Publisher. Ne paper discontinued until all arrearage* are paid, Advertising Katee. Advertisements inserted st the rates ef|l per square, and 50 cents for each subsequent iaeertieu— l2 lines or less considered a square. All advertisements will be continued until forbid, ami charge.] accordingly, unless the •amber of times of insertion is specified. A liber d de luetion will be made to those, ■wk* advertise by the year. Yearly advertise cots will be strictly eon lued to their res} eetive business —otherwise tAey will be charged, according to our regu lar rate*. Marriage and Obituary notices charged for whea over 5 lines. laserting Professional Cards of 6 lines. $5. Aanauncing t audidates for office. $5. Lt‘ ja I A d vcri iscuiruts. Sala of Land av.d .Negroes by Adminis traters. Executors and Guardians. p*r square 00 Bala of Perse s property y Adminis trators. Executors ai.J Guardians. par square X 25 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, . . 3 25 Matiee for leave t<> sell 4 W Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 75 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Administration 5 00 Citation for Letters of 1 Hamiasiun from Guardianship, 2 25 Salas of Land and Negroes, by A'hnin htrators. Executors, or Guardians, are re quired by law to be held on the first Tues day in the month, between the hours of ten ia tha forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house in the county in which tha property is situate. Notices of these •ales must be given in a public gazettej’or ty dayt previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Proper ty must ba given at least fen days previous 14 the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published/brfy days. Notice that application will be made to tha Court of Ordinary for leave to sell lauid or Negroes, must be published week ly for twv months. Citatioa* for Letters of Administration •naust ba published thirty days— for Dis saiaaion from .Administration, monthly six Months —for Dismission from Guardianship days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must i* published monthly for four months— for 4<mpelling titles from Executors or Ad ■ainiatratora, where a bond has been given by the deceased, ths full tpsce of three months. Publication* will always ba continued aeaording to these, the legal requirements, aalaa* otherwise ordered. Jab Work of all kinds done with neat *aca and diapatch at the Southern States mm Office. Izettera oa business must be post-paid. Ojfiss ever Scott dt Butler's Dry Goods tiers Three Boors South Gordon House.') TM« Law »f Hew«p«pcH. 1. Sabwibers who do not givoexj.raw no rea fee th* eeatrary. are considered •* wish ray feeeantinue their subscription. t. If *nb«eriber< arder the discontinuance •f their newspapers, the publisher may eon- Maaa ta •*•• the:a aatil ail arrearages are t. If »abs«rib*r» neglect or refuse to take tbair newspapers from the offices to which fcbay ar* dira*ted, they ar* held responsible aatll thay have settled the bills and ordered th«ra discontinued. A If subscribers remove to other place* without informing the publishers, and the ■•wapapera are sent to the former direction, they are held responsible. i. The Courts have decided that refining ta tak* aewspapere from the office, or re ■aaviag and leaving them uncalled for, is pri me fscxs evidence of intentional fraud. A Th* United States Courts bare also re paetwlly daeided, that a Postmaster who ne rl«Bta ta perform his duty of giving reasona ble ■•tiee, aa required by the Post Office De- MCkHiaat, of the n*f!eet of a person to take fr*aa th* i «wsuapcrs addraved to Lira, raider* th* Poaunas'er liable to the publish er forth* •übaeriptien price. -jTm? HUNTON, jftgggb REMIDSTVT DiENTfST 'HuS?© CALHOUN. GA. Would rej ■eetfuily xnnoni.ee to the citizens of Gordon and surrounding counties, that he ia prepared to do all work in his profession, in a neat and dutable manner. From nine years practice in the professor:, he feel* confident that he will be able to please ail who nay favor him with their pa tronage. Teeth inserted on pivet or gold plate, from <>■ "to a full set. Any failure in work made g.> ■<!. or thamoney refunded, and all debts will be considered due as soon as the work is done r>3—ly W. J. A B. L. KEY, CALHOUN, GEORGIA. DEALERS IN Good . Ready-made (i’otbitig. Hats, Caps, Boots an 1 >hoee, Drugs, Hard ware, Groceries and al' article-* usually kept in a Drv Goo Is Store. Ail <»’ which will be ■•ld at the lowest market price-, and on the most accommodating terms. Feb. 22 —nfl —ly. Im/roN iiousE, ATLANTA. GEORGIA. Sih Si Si& PROPRIETOR. 10,000 ACRES. Cash will be paid for any number of LAND WARRANTS by july 5 J. IL B. SHACKELFORD. LAND WARRANTS. THOSE entitled to Warrants un der the act of March 3rd, 1855, can have them speedily obtained by applica tion to J. IL B- SHACKELFORD. April 5, 1855. T. M. COMPTON, WILL attend to ah claims for Land "Warrants, Ac., against the General Government. He will be found js his office iu the Court lloufe, Calhoun, Ga. A 5. nIS -ly THE BEST POLICY, HONESTY; THE BEST PBOTECTION, INDUSTRY; THE BEST PARTY, OUR COUNTRY. W. 11. DABNEY, Attorney ‘at Law, CALHOUN. GA. Will practice in all the Courts of Law and Equity in the Cherokee Circuit. B. O. CRAWFORD, AJtoruey at Law, CALHOUN. Ga. Will praatice in Gordon and th* •unround ing count!**. G. J~EAIN~ Attorney A Counsellor nt E.aw. CALHOUN. GA. Will practice in all the Courts of the Cher okee Circuit. LAW PARTS JEKSHIP. SH II’KELFORIH- PHILLIPS CALHOUN', GORDON CO.. GA. Acil-les D. Shackelford <t Jonathan D. Piiu.i.'.rs will practice law jointly under the above *tyle. jam 20—n2. ~JOHn7T (fSIJIELPS, Attorney aS i.aw. CALHOUN, Gordon Co., Ga. Will ’practice in all the Counties ot the Cherokee 1 ireuit, and in Fannin, Gilmer and Pickens <>t ‘he Blue Hi.‘ge Circuit. J. E. ALSOBROOK, Altoruej at I.atv. Morganton. Fannin Co., Ga. TV ill give strict attention to all business en trusted to his care. Jan. 13. ’55. [nl —ly] HENRY A. (lARTREI.L, Attorney at Law, ROME, Ga. UNDERWC)OD & SMI TH,” Attorneys al Law, ROME, Ga. C. IL Smith,] [J. W. H. Underwood. * DR. 11. S. DAVENPORT, RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, CALHOUN, GA. [GdEre over Shelton <t Mr Dill's old stand.] ~ DR’~DrG.~HUNT?’ SURGEOIT AND PHYSICIAN, CALHOUN, GEOE.GIA. —oooo— HUNT having completed his profes sional studies at the Jefferson Medical College of Pennsylvania, now tenders his ser vices to the citizens of Gordon ami adjoining counties, in the practice of Medicine and Sur gery. Having had two years experience in the practice of Surgery in the Hospitals of Philadelphia, feels confident that he can per form any operation with success, that may come within the scope of his practice. April 19, ISss.—nl4—ly ROBUCK & ORR. KEEP constantly on hand a fine assort ment of Tin Ware, Cooking, Office, and Parlor Stoves. They are prepared to do all kinds of work in their line,—Job Work, Roofing and Guttering Houses, aud will work as cheap and upon as accommodating terms as any other establishment. April s.—ly HENRY A. SMn'H, Kook-si’and Slit * C... REEPS constantly on hand. Miscellane ous, ehool and Blank Books, Paper, Music and Fancy Notions. "Y K ivooD Teo. g. R<?me, Georgia. J/Tuat JS7 A f. 17 RS I A CLOCKS, JEWELRY. SIL- V W ver Ware, Gutlery, Guns, Plated and Brittania Ware, China, Musical Instrument, Walking Canes, Fancy Articles aud Fine Household Wares. Watch and Cloak Repairing, Jewelry Work, Engraving, Hair Braiding, Fitting Spectacle Glasaes, Repairing Musical Instruments, <tc. io. Jan. 13,’55. [nl —ly] C'33ASIFE de KIuRR, MERCHANT TAILORS, B.OME, GEC’R.'GIA. KEEP constantly on hand, a fine assort ment of CLOTHS, CASSLMBRS VBSTIXGS, h:il every thing to be found in an out fitting establishment. Also, a fine lot of superior Boots and other articles of gentlemen’s wear. Every thing ma le in the latest style. WATCH MAKERS. MASKET STREET, C’HATTANNOCGA, TENNESSEE. S !.G leave to inform the public tha’ they hil & imvi. just opened business in Chattau nooga. ami solicit a share of patronage. Their motto is to give satisfaction to lheir customers. T’tiev feel confident if the public twill give them a trial that their work will be their bc-t recommendation. April l> 55. noi2-tf GEORGE WADSWORTH, Civil Engineer and Surveyor. Inquire at the Statesman Ojfi.ce. GIIJAJ.AND, IMPORTERS and wholesale dealers in Dry Goods and Clothing. 33 Hayne Street, Charleston, b. C. McDILL & SHELTON, .DEALERS IX Ory Good<« and Groceries. CALHOUN, GEORGIA. May be found at their new stand, west of the Kail Road. Feb. 15, 1855. J. W. HICKS & CO. WKI<>EES AL E DEALERS In Drugs, Chemicals, &c., &c. Broad Street, Rome, Ga. FISK’S METALLIC BURIAL CASES. OF all sizes, with SILVER °i‘ common Mounting. For sale by IL M. YOUNG. CALHOUN, GA., OCTOBER 11, 1855. PLATFORM ani> inn: xcipi.es of the AMERICAN PARTY. I.—The acknowledgement of that Almigh ty Being, who rules over the Universe, who presides over the t'ouneils of Nations, who 1 conducts the affairs of men. and who, in eve ’ rv step by which we have advanced to the oliaraeter of an independent nation, has dis tinguished us by some token of Providential agency. IL—The cultivation and development of a sentiment of profoundly intense American feeling; of passionate attachment to our eounlrv, its history audits institutions; of admiration for the purer days of our nation al existence; of veneration for the heroism that precipitated our Bevolution, mid of em ulation ofthe virtue wisdom and patriotism that framed • r f’onstitution and first suc eessfull', i.pplied its provisions. }]],.— >i lt . maiutaiimnee ofthe Union of these United States as the paramount politi cal good, or to use the language of Washing ton. ’ tl:e primary object ot patriotic desire.’ And hence: Ist. Opposition to all attempts to v eako.i or sub vert it. 2 1. U neompromi.-ing antagonism to every principle of policy that endangers it. 3rd. ihe advocacy of an equitable adjust ment of all political ditrerenees which threat en its integ itv or perpetuity. 4th. Tin oppression of ail tendencies to political di visions founded on “geographical discriminations, or on the belief that there is a real diiference of interests am! views,” be tween the various seitions ofthe Union. | sth. The full recognition ofthe rights of the several States, as expressed ami reserved in the Constitution, and a caret d avoidance, by the General Government, of all interfer ence with their lights by legislative or exec utive action. IV. Obedience to the Coiistitution of these United States as the supreme law of the land, i inti-redly obligatory upon all its parts and members, and steadfa.-t resistance to the spir it of innovation upon its prineipk-s, however specious in pretext. Avowing that in all • doubtful or disputed points it may olny be legally ascertained aud expounded by the Judicial power ofthe United States. And as a corollary to the above:— 1. A habit of reverential obedience to the laws whether National. State or Municipal, until they are either repealed or declared unconstitutional by the proper authority. 2. A tender and sacred regard for those acts of statemanship, which are to be contra distinguished from acts of ordinary legisla tion. by the fact of their being of the nature of compacts and agreements; and so, to be considered as fixed and settled national poli- , °y- . s V.—A radical revision and modification of i the laws regulating immigration, and the ; settlement of immigrants. Ottering to the i honest immigrant, who from love of liberty ! or hatred of oppression, seeks an asylum in ’ the United States, a friendly reception and • protection. But unqualifiedly condemning ; the transmission to our shores, of felons and paupers. V I.— modification of theNat uralizat The Legisfivttires of the re spective State'S;‘lsl'-‘all State laws allowing foreigners not naturalized tofvote. 'Die repeal, without retroactive operation, of all acts of Congress making grant -of land to unnaturalized foreigners, and allowing i them to vote in the Territories. ! Vll.—Hostility to the corrupt means by which the leaders of party have hitherto ■ forced upon us our rulers and our political creeds. Implacable enmity against the present de j moralizing system of rewards for political ; subserviency, and of punishments for politi cal independence. r»isgusi for the wild hunt after office which ; charactei izes the ago. i These on the one hand. On the other— i Imitation ofthe piaetiee of the purer days I of the Republic; and admiration of the max- I ini that “office should seek the man, and not ! man the office,” and of the rule that, the just I mode of ascertaining fitness for office is the I capability, the faithfulness, and the honesty ofthe incumbent or candidate. ' Vlll.—Resistance to the aggressive policy I and corrupting tendencies of the Roman I Catholic church in our country by the ad l vancement to all political station.'—executive, j legislative, judicial or diplamatic—of those ■ only who do not hold civil allegia ee. direet- I ly <>r indirectly, to any foreign power, whetli ' er civil or ecclesiastical, and who are Atner ! icans by birtii, education am: training, thus i fulfilling the maxim “Americans only Shall Govern Amei'.r'an.” I The protection of all citizens in the legal I anfl ]>roper exercise of their civil and reli : gious rights and privileges; the maintenance i ofthe right of every man to the full, unre ' strained and peaceful enjoyment of his own i religious opinions and worship, and a jealous ' resistance of al! attempts by any sect, denom ; ination or church, to obtain an ascendancy ! over any other in the btate by means of any i special privileges or exemption, by any polit j ical eoinbinnt ion of its members, or by a di vision of their oivil allegiance with any for j eign jiower. potentate or ecclesiastic. Lx.—’< he reformation of the character of our . aiional Legislature, by elevating to that dig.:died n-1 :e : poa-ible position men 1 of ! iglier ijualifieaiions, purer morals, aud ; mot v ■: . ■'•ltish pat rio.i-m. X. The restriction of executive patronage —especially in the matter of ap[>oiiiinieuts to ! office—ao far as it may be permitted L tin i constitution, and consistent with the public i good. XI. —The education of the youth of our country in schools provided by the State; which schools shall be common to all, with out distinction of creed or party, and free from any influe .ce or direction of a denomi national or partizan character. And, inasmuch as Christianity, by the eon ' stitutionsot nearly all the states, by the de cisions of the most eminent judicial authori ties, and by the consent ofthe people of America, is considered an element of our j»o --litical system, and as the Holy Bible is at once thesource of christ ianily, and the depo ; sitory and fountain of all civil and religious freedom, we oppose every at tempt to exclude it from the schools thus established in the States. XII. —That the American Party having arisen itj.on the ruins and in despite of the op position ofthe Whig and Democrat ie parties, cannot be held in any manner responsible for the obnoxious acts or violated pledges of either; that the systematic agitation of the slavery question by those parties has eleva ted sectional hostility into a positive element of political power, and brought our institu tions into peril. It has, therefore, become the imperative duty of the elmerican Party to interpose for the purpose of giving peace to the country and perpetuit y t o the Union; t hat as experience has shown, it is impossible to reconcile opinions so extreme as those which separate the disput ants, and, as there can be no dishonor in submitting to the laws, the National Council has deemed it the best guarantee of justice ami of future peace to i abide by and maintain the existing laws up on the subject of slavery, as a final and con clusive settlement of that subject in spirit and in substance. That regarding it the highest duty to svow these opinions, upon a eubjeet one- I quivoeal terms, it is hereby declared, as the sense of this National Council, that Congress ! possesses no power under the Constitution, to legislate upon the subject ot shivery in the States, or to exclude any State from nil mission into the Union because her constitu tion docs or does not. recognize the institu tion of slavery as a part of her social system, and expressly pretermitting any expressions of opinion upon he. power of Congress to es tablish or prohibit slavery in any territory. It is the sense of this National Council, that ! Congress ought, not to legislate upon the sub jeet of slavery within the Territories of the United. States ami that any interference of Congress with slavery as it exists in the Dis trict of Columlna, would be a violation of the spirit and intention of the compact by which the State of Maryland ceiled the Dis trict to the I nited States, and a breach of the national faith. NHL—The policy of the Government of the United Sti tes, i i its re.:-lions Wi’h for eign governments, is Lu exsit jo-iice from tin* stronges'. and do justice to the weakest; restraining, by all the power ofthe Govern ment, all its citizens from interfe;ence with the internal concerns of tm’.ions with whom we are at pence. XlV.—This National Council declares that ill! tiie principles of the t n-der:shall be hence forward everywhere openly a.vowed; and that each member shall be at liberty to make known the existence of the Order, ami the fact that he himself is a member; and it re ; commends that there be no concealment of the places of meeting of the subordinate Councils. E. B. BARTLETT, of Kentucky, I‘res.' .ent of National Council. C. D. Desiu’ a, of X. Jersey, Co; responding Secretary. Jas. if. Stephens, of Maryland, Recording Secretary. P£*ATFOBm AND PRINCIPLES OF THE AMERICAN PARTY, OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. Passed at a Meeting held in Macon* on the 'll th June, 1855. Resolved, Ist.— That we ratify and approve of t he Platform of principles, adopted by the late National Council of the American Partv, at Philadelphia. Resolved, 2.—That the American Party unqualifiedly condemns, and will ever en deavor to Cotto teract all efforts by anv sect or party, to bring about a union of Church and State, and utterly disclaims any inten tion to prescribe a religious test as a qualifi cation for office. Resolved, 3. —That as the naturalization laws have been so long perverted to the ba sest purposes, by corrupt political dema : gogues, as to cause the foreign element t» grow up to lie a dangerous power in our midst, deciding our political contests as it pleases, there exists an imperative necessity for their radical modification, and stricter enforcement. Resolved, -L—That we re-affnm the Geor gia jilatform of 1850. as indicating the right policy, in the event of the contingencies ; therein mentioned; ami we hereby pledge ! ourselves to stand by and | ciples. i Resolved, s.—That we unqualifiedly eor : demn the Administration of President Pierce, j for the appointment of Foreigners to repre ! sent our country abroad; for appointing and ; retaining free-soilers in office; and especially ! do we condemn the President for not remov i ing Gov. Reeder from office, when it was : first known that he had used his official sta tion both to enable him to speculate in the ; Indian Reservations, and to sustain and car ; ry out the views of the Free Soil party of Kansas. • Resolved, fl.—That this Council, (while re pudiating the policy of allowing, in the fu ture legislation of the country, unnaturalized foreigners to vote in th ? I’erritorial elec- ■ tions.) iegar-ds all opposition to the princi ples ofthe Nebraska, Kansas Act, in relation ■to slavery, as hostility to the constitutional i rights of the South; ami all jiersons who ■ partake in such opposition as. unfit to lie re ! cognised as members of the America!! Party. R‘ solved, 7.—That we concur in the opin- • ion expressed in the meeting of our fellow- I citizens of Columbus, held on the 26th day of • May, 1855, that the time has arrived when ; our fellow-citizens should cease from their dissensions, am! forget the difierences which i have separated them; ami that a common danger and common enemy hould unite us for our common defense and safety, and that | we will cheerful! i co-opei Ui. with nil who may unite with us in the et leavor to accom i plish so noble ami patriotic an object. Resolved, B.—That the ’V estera <t Atlantic ' Rail Road was projected nl built for the general good ofthe whole jiqsle of Georgia; > ami we utterly condemn any policy which has sought, or which may seek to make it ■ subservient to the interest or purpose of any i political party whatever. Resolved, !•.—That we are in favor of the acquisition of Cuba, whenever it can be ac complished up<m fair ami honoiable grounds, or whenever anv European power shall seek to make it. a ’.oio-t from which to assail the rights an-i im -itittions cf m:v portion of this country: am! tluii we .<rorg!v condemn the va-eilhiting policy of ti e Ah, inistratioii. as calculated, if not designed, o defeat the ac i(tusi.ion of ;hat Islam*. Wm. HONE, President State Council. Geo. S. Jones. See., pro tern. Fads For “tin People. Who can read tin* following facts and then deny that Northern Democrats are Abolitionists enemies to the South, the Fed ( eral Union and the Constitution? . It is a Fact.— That the Democrats in the Foee States have elected none but Aboli- ! tionists and Freesoilcrs to the Congress of the United States. ’ It is a Fact.— That the Administration papers of the South are unable to designate : a representative elected to the Congress or Senate ofthe United States, in any of the free States bv the Democrats, who is not an Abolitionist or Freest filer. /f /s a Fact.— That every representative from the Free States in the Congress or Senate of the United States, that the Dem i ocrats have elected or assisted to elect since the passage ofthe Nebraska bill, is in fa vor of its repeal and the repeal or modifi cation of the fugitive slave law. It is a Fact.— That Judge Loring was not removed—that be now holds his office— , that Henry Wilson, an Abolitionist, et id omne genus, have seceded from the Nation al Council and are not now in affiliation with the National men of the Order, who have adopted a National Platform embra cing all the South ever asked for on the slavery question. It is a, Fact.— That Durkee, elected to the U. S. Senate, by the Legislature of Wisconsin, is an ultra-abolition anti-Ne braska Democrat, and that the Legislature which elected him passed resolutions de nouncing the Know-Nothings. It is a Fact.— That the last Democratic , Convention held in Ohio, denounced Slave i ry. and passed, a resolution asserting i f to bs the duty of Democrats to use all consti tutional means to eradicate slavery wherever it exists. It is a Fact.— That the notorious Fred Douglas is a Democrat, and has repeatedly addressed Democratic meetings at the North and North-west. It is a Fact.— That the arch abolition agitator, Charles Sumner, is a Democrat— that Martin Van Buren, John Van Buren, David Wilmot, Preston King, Dix, Durkee, Trumbull. B. F. Butler, llallet, Wentworth, Bryant, of the Post, Fowler, Post Master at New York, Rediield, Cochrane, Chase, Wade and others, are Democrats and Abo litionists, or Freesoilcrs of the deepest dye It is a Fact.— That Gen. Cass is the au thor and the able expounder ofthe Squat ter Sovereignty doctrine, against which the South lias manfully battled. It is a Fact.— That Geu. Milson, a Dem ocrat from ibe Norfolk Itistrict, in Virgin ia, was the only representative from that State, who voted against, and spoke against the Nebraska Bill, and notwithstanding he was re-elected to Congress in the late elec tions iu that State by the Democrats, alias Anti-Americans.— Sumter Whig. To Rev. A. B. Longstreet, Professor of Methodism, liomnaism and Locofocuism. Reverend Sir:—l see a pastoral address of yours, to ‘‘Methodist Know Nothing Preachers,” going the rounds ofthe Locofoco Foreign Sag Nicht papers ofthe South, oc cupying from four to six columns, according to the dimensions ofthe papers copying. I have waded through your learned address, and find it to be one of more ponderous magnitude than the Report made to the British House of Commons, by Lord North, on a subject of far greater interest ! And as lam one ofthe class of men you address, not withstanding your great advantage over me in point of age and experi ence; and as no one has made a formal response to your/zw/ws toar nings, it will ’not be deemed inso lent in me to take you up. My first acquaintance with you, was in 1847, at an Annual Meeting of the Georgia Conference, held in Madison; and although the impres sions made upon my mind by you, on that occasion, were any thing but favorable to yon. as a man, still, I am capable, as I believe, of doing yon justice. T suppose you then to be the rise of sixty years, certainly in yowrdotage aiidjamongthe vaiw st old gentlemen I had ever met with. You obtained leave, as I understand by your own seeking, to deliver a lecture to the Conference, upon the subject of corrrctli/ reading and pronouncing th Scriptures. I was in attendance, and listened to you with all the attention and impartial ity I was capable of exercising. I thought it aViiiW prr'ninptiious for anv one man to assume to teach more than one’hundred able Minis ters how to read and pronounce the inspired writing; and the more so, when 1 knew that several of the number were Presidents and pro fessors in different male and female Colleges, and that many others of them were graduates of the best literary institutions in the South. Still, my apology for you was, that you was a vain old gentleman, and that to listen to yon respectfully, was to obey the Divine teaching of one who has taught us to “bear the infirmities of the weak.” Your samples both of reading and pro nunciation, wore amusing and novel to me. An<l so far as I could gath er the prevailing sentiment, it was, that to adopt your style would ren der the reading of the Scriptures perfectly rediculons. Tn your address to “Methodist Know Noshing Preachers,” I dis cover that yon are still the man you was at 'ladison, in 1847 —you have a srreat deal to say about yourself and make free use of the personal pronoun 1! / advise—/ believe— /am satisfied—/will not agree— / warn and caution—/ fear, or / apprehend. Ac. To parse the dif ferent sentences in your partizan harangue syntactically, little else is necessary but to understand the frst pterson singular, anb to repeat the rule as often as it occurs —a pe culiarity which characterizes every paragraph in your labored address. Beside the frequent use of the pro noun /. me, mg, m ine, Ac., too fre quent occur, to be worth estimate. —And it will be seen, upon examin ation, that not merely the verbage, | bvt the sentiment, is thus egotistic throughout, exhibiting a degree of arrogance and self-imporlance, only to be met with in a Clerical Loco foco, used by bad men for ignoble i purposes. To carry out the idea of your vanity, yon say in the winding up of your address : “And now, brethren, have /or Mr. Wesley hit upon one good rea son why you should have joined the Know Nothings ? If either of us have, then / beseech you to come from among them. If we have not, there is yet another in reserve which if it does not prevail will show— or prove to my satisfaction at least— that if an angel f rom heaven were to denounce your Order, you would cleave to it stil 1.” Any one man bntyourself, would, from considerations of have I given John Wesley* the preference, in this connection, and come in as : second best— But no, you are first in place, and in your own estimation, in importance likewise, as a reli- ! gious teacher. I have no doubt you consider yourself a much greater man than John Wesley ever was ; and in proof of this, I need only cite what you have said in reference to Mr. Wesley’s opposition to Roman- I ism : i “Even good old John Wesley caught the spirit of the times, and wrote that letter, from which it ap pears he thought of the Catholics got in power, they would abuse Pro testants. What abuse they could have heaped on them, greater than they heaped on Catholics, short of cutting their throats, I cannot con- ' eeive.” i The only superior you acknowl i edge, is Cardinal Wiseman, a big j oted Roman Catholic, and you seem i to knock under to him quite reluc- I tantly and not without infoming the ' public that you have been a labori i ous student for forty vears, and “a i profound thinker” Ilere are your ; praise: i “I have been a pretty severe stu dent for near forty years, and a la- ; borious, if not profound thinker for a long time; but when I com pare myself in intellectual stature i with that man, I shrink in my own estimation to the insignificance of, a mite.’ 7 So much byway of noticing van-: ity.—You are a literary and theo logical star ofthe first magnitude! j Yon arc an encyclopedia of the I learning, science, patriotism, and religion ofthe country !—Sir, if you possessed a little more sheep-faced modesty and could exhibit a little I less of impudence than I you do, you would be a much more ■ useful, not to say successful Minis-' i ter of the new Testament! Sir, you have taken the field in | opposition to Know Nothingism ■professedly through your deep and i abiding concern for Christianity, ■ and the interests of Methodism.— i You say: “You cannot surely be so weak as to suppose you can crush Ro manism by Know Nothing agen cies; but you have almost ruined ■ Methodism by them already.” “Now the ruler of this nation is spoken evil of by your party con- i tinually. and therefore, in the judg- 1 ment of Wesley, I might stand up , in the pulpit and defend him.” I The truth is, you are influenced j alone by partizan political feelings; 1 and occupying a position in a Mis ' sissippi College; in the midst of Fire-eating Disunion Progressive ! Democracy, you desire to please i them, rather than serve the inter ’ ests of your country or Church.— To take the stump, or the pulpit in i defense of Frank Pierce and his corrupt Administration, -would be a pleasant talk to you, who have been, all your life time, an inveter ate Locofoco in politics, and “a pro- 1 found thinker” in favor otits iniq uitous measuresjindjtrinci pies. In j your early political training, you i have been swayed by interest and i popular favor, and in most cases at i the expense of truth, just as you now are, in your mad vindication of Romanism. A tool for others to work with, till you have found yourself in a condition to use such tools as you yourself have been, ' you are now a trimmer and weath- i er cock, leading on men of less i sense than yourself, to such distinc tion as interest and ambition may ! dictate! Sir, you take the ground, through out, that there is no danger of Catholics in this c nintry, and that they do not seek to establish their religion. Here is a specimen of: your logic : “Thank God no religions sect can tyrannize over another in this 1 country, so long as they all respect the Federal Constitution. Until we see then, the Catholics treating that instrument with disrespect it is madness to entertain fears of them; j and worse than madness to form combinations against them. Now, sir, the foregoing statement is untrue, and in making it, you could not have been sincere. You are a man of too much sense, and of too much information, to believe what you are wickedlv trying to palm upon others. Rrownson's Quarterly Review, the most able, as well as the most authentic organ of Catholicism in the United States, employs the following language to the American people—mark it: Are your free institutions infal lible? Are they founded on Di vine right? This you deny. Is not the proper question for yon to discuss, then, not whether the Pa pacy be, or be not compatible with republican government, but wheth er it be or be not founded in Divine right? If the Papacy be founded in Divine right, it is supreme over whatever is founded only in human right, and then your institutions should bo made to harmonize with i j TERBffiS: ( $2 00 in advaiiee. NUMBER 39 it; not it with your institutions! I! The real question, then, is not the compatibility, or the incompatibil ity of the Catholic Church with democratic institutions, but is'the 4 Catholic Church, the Church of i God. “Settle this question first. But jin point of fact; democracy isa'mis- I ch/ievous dream, wherever the Cath olic Church does not predominate, to inspire the people with rever ence, and to teach and accustonr them to obedience to authority.” J Here is still plainer language I from the Roman Catholic Bishop of St. Louis: “Heresy and unbelief are crimes; and in Christian countries, as in It aly and Spain, for instance, where the Catholic religion is an essential i part of the law of the land, they are punished as other crimes.” i Here is what the Boston Pilot says, as Catholic paper of high standing: “AY good government can exist without religion, and there can be : no religion without an inquisition, which is wisely designed for the promotion and protection of the true faith.” Here is the Shepherd of the Val ley, published under the eye, ami with the approbation of the Bishop of St. Louis: “The Church is, of necessity in- I tolerant. Heresy she endures when | and where she but she bates it, and directs all her energies to its destruction. If Catholics ever gain an immense numerical major ity, religious freedom in this coun try is at an end— so say our enemies —so say we.” And here is what Ramble says, a devoted Catholic periodical, high in the confidence of the Bishops and Priests of that Church :—■ “You ask if he (the Pope.) were lord in the land, and you were in the minority, if not in numbers, yet in power, what would he do to you? That, we say, would entirely de pend on circumstances. If it would benefit the cause of Catholicism, he would tolerate you —if he would imprison you, banish you, fine you, probably he might even hang you; but, be assured of one thing, he would never tolerate you for the sake of the ‘glorious princi ples’ of civil and religious liberty.” I could give other quotations of this character, which have met your eye long since, but I forbear, as. they would extend my letter be yond the limit I have prescribed for myself. Hi s? are the publications, which, in part at least, have given rise to the Know Nothing organi zation, so cordially hated by you. You say there is no danger of in jury to our institutions, from the rapid strides of Romanism. Allow me to ask your attention to the fol lowing remarkable political pre diction by the Duke of Richmond, late Governor General of Canada, and a British noble, who declared himself hostile to the United States on all occasions. Speaking of our Government, this deadly enemy said: “It will be destroyed; it ought i not, it will not be permitted to cx ist.” “The curse of the French revolution, and subsequent warn and commotion in Europe, are to be attributed to its example ; and so long as it exists, no prince will ! be safe upon his throne : and the ; sovereigns of Europe are aware of , it; and they have determined upon its destruction, and have come to an I understanding upon this subject ; o// have decided on the means to ' accomplish it; and they will event ually succeed, by SUBVERSION rather than conquest.” “All the low and surplus population of the : different nations of Europe will be I carried into that country. It is, and will be a receptacle for the bad and disaffected population of Europe, when they are not wanted for soldiers, or to supply the na tives ; and the. government of Eu rope tcill favor such a course.—• •*< This will create a surplus and ma- • jority of low population, who are- so' very casdy e-rcited and they will bring with them their pri netpies ; and in nine cases out often adhere to their ancient ami former govern ments, laws, manners, customs, and * religion; and will transmit them to their posterity ; and in many cases propagate them among the natives. These men will become citizens, and by the constitution and law will be invested with the right of suffrage” “Hence, discord, dm sention, anarchy and civil war wild ensue; and some popular individu al will assume the government, ami restore order, and the sovereigns of Europe, the emmigrants, and ma ny of the natives will sustain him.” “The church of Rome has a design upon that country ; and it will in time be the established religion, and will aid in the destruc'ion of that Republic.” ‘d have'’.-wr rs< / with many of the sovereigns and princes of Europe and, they huvv unan im/yusly ernr ss-d thes 'oui.n-