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ions relative to the government of
the United States, and their deter
mlnaiion to subvert it."
But, Sir, after eulogizing Cath
olics for their devotion to religious
toleration in this country, you make
two assertions, touching the Meth
odist Church, for which I wish to
arraign you, and for which the au
thorities of said Church ought to
arraign you, under that Section of
our Discipline which forbids railing
out against our Doctrim s and /U*-
(ipline. Y'ou say: “And if I were
to take the stump against you, I
would say to the honest yeomanry
of the country, ‘good people, if you
think vour liberties will be any
safer in the hands of Methodists
than Catholics, you art vastly mis
taken."
“I would add, in humiliation but
in candor, ‘yon have ten thousand
times more to fear just at this time,
from Methodists, than Catholics;
simply because the first are more
numerous than the last, because the
first are actually in the field for of
fice, while the last are not."
If you have this opinion of the
Methodist Church, you cannot be
an honest man and remain within
her jurisdiction. You ought to leave
her communion forthwith, and go
over to Rome, and doing this, you
would not hare far to go ! Occu
pying the position you do, I would
not send a child to any school or col
lege, over which you might preside.
Nor do I think any Protestant pa
rent or guardian, ought to patron
ize any school under your care.—
Your influence, whatever you may
sPossess,5 Possess, is against the Protestant
faith, and in favor of Catholicism.
In a word, you are a dangerous man
in a Republican Government.
Upon the subject of religious fol
eration by the Catholics, you seem
to have fallen into the same error
adopted by the lion. Mr. Stephens,
of Georgia, a man for whom you
have great regard now, but who,
in the (lavs of Clay was
a stench in your Locofoco nostrils!
Mr. Stephens made the assertion in
a public speech in Augusta, that
“tne Catholic Colony, of Maryland,
under the Lord Baltmore, was the
first to establish the principle of free
toleration in religious worship.’’
The Colony of Maryland was a
Catholic Colony, and the “Tolera
tion Act" was written by Lord Bal
timore himself. The act is dated
21st April, 1649, when Lord Balti
more was in the zenith of his glory.
—Here is the language of that “Act’
of religious toleration:
“Denying the Holy Trinity is to
be punished with Death, and con
fiscation of land and goods to the
Lord Proprietory, (Lord Baltimore
himself!) Persons using any re
proachful words concerning the
Blessed Virgin Mary or the Holy
Apostle or Evangelists, to be fined
£5, or in default of payment to be
publicly whipped and Imprisoned
nt the pleasure of his Lordship,(Lord
Baltimore himself!) or of his Lieu
tenant General.” See Laics of
Maryland at large, by T. Baeon,
A. D., 1765. 16 and 17 Cecil ius
Lord Baltimore.
God deliver us from such tolera
tion !— Death was the penalty for
expressing certain religious opin
ions, not acceptable to Lord Balti
more and the Holy Catln die Church!
Fines and whipping at the post, was
the penalty for speaking the image
worship of the Catholic Church.—•
But I need not pursue this subject
further —the ornes profundi is on
your side.
Speaking of Mr. Wesley, you say 1
“If Wesley were alive, what
would he think of your midnight ■
plots, and open tirades against Pa
pists? But a letter of his has been
going the rounds of the newspapers,
which the Know Nothings obvious
ly think gives the sanction of that
good man to their movement.
Not so.—Mr. Wesley was not the
man to write as inconsistently as
their version of this letter makes him
write.”
Why, Sir, Mr. Wesley goes fur
ther in his poltical opposition to
Roman Catholics than the Ameri
can party have ever proposed to go.
The American party say only that
they will not vote for Catholics,
or put them in office, because their
principles are antagonistic to the
spirit of Republican institutions.
Mr. Wesley lays down the compre
hensive, but Z/w doctrine, in this
very letter, that a no government not
Homan Catholic ought to tolerate
men of the Homan Catholic, ptersua
sion. And to show fully and clear
ly he sustains this position I quote
_ .from his letter at length. You will
“find the letter in Vol. 5, page 817,
of Wesley’s Miscellaneous Works,
dated January 12th, 17S0—it was
originally addressed to the Dublin
Freeman’s Journal. Here is what
Mr. M esley says, in the very letter
.you seek to deny out of:
“I consider not whether the Ro
mish religion is true or false ; build
nothing on one or the other suppo
sition. Therefore, away with all
your common place declamation
about intolerance and persecution
for religion ! Suppose every word
of Pope Pius’s creed be true ! Sup
pose the Council of Trent to have
been infallible; yet I insist upon it
that no government not Roman Oath
olic, ought to tolerate men of the
Roman Catholic persuasion.
“I prove this by a plain argument
(let him answer it that can) —that
no Roman Catholic does or can
give security for his allegiance or
peaceable behaviour, I prove it
thus: It is a Roman Catholic max
im, established not by private men,
’ but by public council, that “No
’ faith is to be kept with heretics.”
This has been openly avowed by
the council of Constance; but it
lias never been openly disclaimed.
Whether private persons avow or
disavow it, it is a fixed maxim of
the Church of Rome. But as long
as it is so, nothing can be more
plain, than that the members of
that Church can give no reasonable
security to any government for their
allegiance and peaceable behaviour
T herefore, they ought not to be tol
erated by any government, Pro
testant, Mohammedan or Pagan.
You say, “nay, but thev take an
oath of allegiance.” 'True, live
hundred oaths ; but the maxim, “no
faith is to be kept with heretics,”
sweeps them all away as a spider’s
web. So that still no governors
that are not Roman Catholics can
have any security of their allegi
ance.
“Again those who acknowledge
the spiritual power of the Pope can
give no security of their allegiance
to any government; but all Roman
Catholics acknowledge this; there
fore they can give no security for
their allegiance. The power of
granting pardons for all sins, past,
present, and to come—is, and has
been for many centuries, one branch
of his spiritual powers. Butthose
who acknowledge him to have this
spiritual powers can give no securi
ty for their allegiance, since thev
believe the Pope can pardon rebel
lion, high treason and all other
sins, whatever. The power of dis
pensing with any promise, oath or
vow, is another branch of the spir
itual power of the Pope ; all who
acknowledge his spiritual power
must acknowledge this. But who
ever acknowledges the dispensing
power of the can give no
security for his allegiance to any
government. Oaths and promises
are none ; they are as light as air
’—a dispensation makes them null
and void. Nay, not only the Pope,
but even a priest, has power to par
don sins! This is au essential doc
trine of the Church of Rome. But
they that acknowledge this, cannot
possibly give any security for their
allegiance to any government. —
Oatbs are no security at all; for the
priest can pardon both perjury and
high treason. Setting their religion
aside, it is plain that upon princi
ples of reason, no government ought
to tolerate men who cannot give
any security to that government
for their allegiance and peaceful
behaviour. But this, no Romanist
can do, not only while he holds that
“no faith is to be kept with heretics,
but so long as he acknowledges
either priestly absolution, or the
spiritual power of the Pope.
“If any one pleases to answer
this, and set his name, I shall prob
ably reply. But the productions
of anonymous writers I do not prom
ise to take any notice of.
I “I am sir, your humble servant,
,i “John Wesley.
“City Road, Jan. 12,1780.”
But, Sir, you know as well as
any living man, that the history of
the Church, from the days of the
j first Pope down to the iniquitous
reign of Pius 9th, sustains Mr. Wes
ley in his views of this subject, and
justifies the steps taken by the
American party. Notwithstand
ing the oft-repeated profession of
Catholic liberality am! Romish tol
eration, so triumphantly paraded
by you, and other interested aspi
' rants and unprincipled demagogues
1 —the Catholic Church has invaria
bly shown herself to be destitute of
. both, whenever she had the oppor
tunity of using them.—Sir, intoler
ance is an element of her faith, and
persecution a specimen of her piety,
and no man knows it better than
yon do. In taking upon herself
the obligation of “true obedience
to the Pope,” the Catholic Church
imposes upon herself a task that
proves beyond all doubt, she can
not, under any circumstances, re
main faithful to that obligation,
and yet maintain “allegiance” to
such a government as ours!
Sir, I have no patience with a
Protestant Minister, who stands
forth as the apologist of Catholi
cism, nor have I any confidence in
one who does it; provided he is a
man oi intelligence, as I admit you
to be. The only excuse I can ren
der for your strange and inconsis
tent conduct, is that you are in
vour dotage—that you are a vio
lent old partizau—and that you are
the tool of designing demagogues,
infamous disunionists, and unmiti
gated repudiators. I shall not be
at all surprised to hear that you
have apostatized from the Metho
dist Church, and gone over to the
Roman Catholics. I learn from
the Little Rock Gazette, a Demo
cratic paper, that but the other day,
Gov. E. N. Carway, of Arkansas,
a member oftlie Methodist Church,
had actually apostatized from Me
thodism, and the Protestant faith,
ami united with the Roman Cath
olics. And what makes his defec
tion, from the faith of his fathers,
still more notorious, his organ is
down upon the Protestant Clergy,
in bitter and unrelenting denunci
ations! I. believe that you are pre
paring to go over to the Roman
Catholics, and to justify your change
when the time comes, you now as
sert, “in humiliation but in can
dor,” you say, that the people “have
TEN THOUSAND TIMES MORE to fear
from Methodists, than from Catho
lics.” If you believe this, you
ought to leave the Methodist Church
instantly, even without the formal-
ities of a withdrawal or expulsion
! even though you should be denied ad
mittanceinto the Catholic Church !
I deny that we have “ten thousand
times more to fear'' from the Devil
than we have from the Catholics’
and according to your argument’
the Methodists are worse than the
Devil! This, their most bitter re
vilers and enemies, do not believe,
and for obvious reasons. The Me
thodist Church has no Bartholo
mew’s Day, with its rivers of blood
staining her garments—she never
indiscriminately slaughtered the
Albigenses, or Waldcnses, or Hu
guenots—she never established an
infernal Inquisition-—she never lit
up the fires of Smithfield—never
burned the Holy Bible, and pro
hibited, upon pain of eternal death,
the printing and circulating of
God’s word— and last, but not least,
she has not sought to keep the peo
ple in ignorance. Wherever Me
thodism has been planted, the peo
ple have become great and happy.
If you please, wherever Protestant
ism has prevailed, the people have
been prosperous and happy. But
look to Ohl Spain, Italy, the Ger
man Confederacies, Sardinia, Na
ples, Austria, Belgium, Portugal,
Bavaria, Baden South America,
and Mexico, where Romanism is
the established religion, and the
places of her influence, are a hiss
ing and by-word in the eye® of the
civilized world ! Protestantism has
done more for the world in the last
hundred years, than the Roman
Catholic Church has for the eigh
teen h undred years!
Sir, the Puritans of New Eng
land ; the Hollanders of New York;
the Quakers, Lutherans, and Ger
man Reformed of Pennsylvania;
the Baptists of Rhode Island ; the
Episcopalians and Presbyterians of
Virginia; the Lutherans and fol
lowers of Wesley and Whitfieid, of
Georgia; the Ilugenots and Episco
palians of the Carolinas; and the
Secedcrs in several of the States,
who were the religious pioneers of
these States, were all Protestants
and Know Nothings, and if they
were living they would be asham
ed of you and your teachings.—
They selected this wilderness coun
try, as their home, in order that
they might enjoy those religious
privileges from which they had
been debarred in the old world, by
the very Church and people you
are seking to vindicate.
But you will say, as you have done in
substance, that this is no longer the char
acteristic of Romanism. Why is it not?
Has- she ever changed for the better ?
When did she renounce her doctiines and
practices ? Never! Rome is the same
tyrannical system now, where she has the
power, that she ever has been, and forever
must be. Wo this land of ours, if ever
Rome gets the ascendancy here ! Iler creed
is the same here and now, in this respect,
that it has everywhere been, and must al
ways be. It is her boast that she is always
right and knows no change. She practices
her unholy inquisitorial and Jesuitical doc
trines, in this country, as far as she can
and dare act them out. Iler whole system
is adverse to our republican institutions,
and she hesitates not to declare it. She
has publicly burned our Bible in different
States in this Union, and recently in New
York and Pennsylvania. Archbishop Hu
ghes, the Head of the Catholic Church in
this country, has taken an oath, adminis
tered by the Pope of Rome, of which this
is a part:
“Heretics, schismatics ami rebels to our
said Lord (the Pope) or his aforesaid suc
cessors, I will, to my utmost power, perse
cute and wage war with.”
The Church of Rome declares all who
are not its members to be heretics. It is
painful, in view of all these things, to see
an old Protestant Minister, whose head
has been withered by the frosts of seventy
winters, openly in the fields, advocating a
Church whoso Bishops, Priests and mem
bers, are “drunken with the blood of
saints.”
There is but one remaining feature of
your singular address to Know Nothing
Methodist Preachers, to be replied to, and
lam through. You assail the now party
on the score of its secrecy, and of its con
cealment of its acts from the public. Had
this objection come from any one but a
Methodist Preacher, and a known advocate
of Class-Meetings being held with closed
doors, I would now dispose of it without
occupying as much space as I shall do in
my concluding remarks!
Notwithstanding all the secresy in the
now Order of Know’ Nothings has been
set aside, by the act of the National Coun
cil which created it, and notwithstanding
our members tell all about their Councils,
where and when they meet, and our ora
tors read out, and publish to the world, our
obligations, rules, and principles—it is
still objected that ours is a secret Order, li
able to be used for bad purposes—that we
travel about with dark lanterns —that our
proceedings are not restrained by the
wholesome check of public opinion!
Now, this, the great objection to our
Order, comes from men who belong to Lod
ges of Free Masons and Odd Fellows, and
who have taken all the binding oaths at
tached to the different degrees of these re
spective Orders! The same objection is
urged against the American party, by men
who belong to the Order of Sons of Tem
perance, who have deemed a rigid secret
organization necessary to combat success
fully, a domestic evil! It is urged in bit
terness against the Order, by demagogues
and partisans, who have acted for years
with the secret political conclaves of their
respective parties, who have held their
meetings with closed doors— kept their
places of meeting a profound secret—and
when they have adjourned, they have en
joined secresy upon all present! Last, but
not least, this seccetfeature is urged against
the American organization, by the vile
apologists for the Catholic Church, and its
corrupt Priesthood and membership, in
this country. These demagogues know
that the Roman Catholic Church, is a se
cret society, directed by a talented, de
signing,and villainous 111ERARCHY—ab
solutely controlled by an anti-Republican
Priesthood, to a degree which has never
been exercised by any political party in
the known world ! The Cbn/ewionaZ is a
secret tribunal, before which every mem
ber of that church is required to make
known, not only immoral actions, but eve
ry thought and purpose of the heart, and
upon pain of incurring the anathema of
the Church, which is equivalent to a sen
tenco of eternal damnation ! The corrupt
order of Jesuits, the infamous society of
San Fedesti and the infinitely infernal so
ciety of Irish Ribbon Men—these are all
! oath-bound societies of the Catholic Church
I connected directly with the horrid opera
i tions of the '•'Holy Inquisition.”
I Now, I put the question to any man of
. reason ami common sense, if Roman Cath
olics ami their patriotic Demecratic ad
! mirers and advocates, in this country, are
not the last men on earth, who should ob
ject to the secret doings of the order of
J Know Nothings, even if their secrecy were
kept up? Every Roman Catholic in the
known world, is under the absolute control
of a secret society, by considerations not
only of a temporal, but of an eternal
weight I
But 1 am not done with.these Democrat
ic opposers of secrecy. The Convention
which formed the Constitution of the
United States, sat in the old State House
in Philadelphia, with closed, Mmrsfrom the
2oth of May, to the 17 th. of September,
wanting only eight days of four months.—
That body of men, had a Door-keeper and
Sergesnt-at-Arms, both under oath, to
keep their doors barred, and all their pro
ceedings a secret. So says Mr. Jefferson’s
biography! And such men as Washing
ton, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin,
Harrison, Hancock, Hopkins and others
composed that body! During the war of
the Revolution, Gen. Washington, Gener
als Lee, Wayne, Marion, and others, organ
ized a secret American Society, with its
branches extending from North to South,
having their passwords, signs and grips,
and writing to each other in figures, and
“an unknow tongue,” as the Know Noth
ings have been doing, and all too, with a
view to oppose Foreign intrigues and op
pression ! It is as well known as any po
litical truth, that Gen. Washington, at the
time of bis death, was the President of the
Cincinnati Society, a secret political socie
ty, in which, we sec it stated on unques
tionable authority, no man was eligible to
membership unless he was a native Ameri
can. The Columbian Order— known as
the “Tammany Society,” was a secret po
litical society and highly influential, and
maintains its existence to this day, and
without danger to the liberties of the coun
try. Gen. Sam Houston publishes to the
world that himself and Gen. Jackson were
members of this Society. What say the
anH-Americans to all these facts? Do
they believe that Gen. Washington, or
Jackson, would have united with any as
sociation or order not purely American?
Would either have entered into any polit
ical league, when secrecy was enjoined, if
he had not approved of the principle of
secrecy in political associations ? Never! —
From the characters of Washington and
Jackson —the sacrifices they made fortheir
country, united with their fervid patriot
ism, and their known preference for eve
rything American, Ido not doubt for one
moment, that if they were both now living,
they would unite with the veritable Order
of Know Nothings!
I believe the hand of God to be in this
very movement, and as much in the secre
cy of it, in the outset, as in any other fea
ture. I regard the movement as one grow
ing out of great crisis in the affairs of
our country, and a precursor of a sound,
healthful and vigorous nationality, and
which will ultimately prevent the liberties
of this country from being destroyed, by
the machinations of such demagogues and
factionists, as now seek to excuse Roman
ism, and fellowship Foreign Pauperism.
Secret societies are only dangerous to des
pots and tyrants, and history shows that
these above all others have made war up
on them. They have denounced and pro
scribed Masonry in every quarter of the
globe, where they have had the power.—
The Pope, with the aid of his Cardinals,
have crushed the ancient order of Free
Masons in his dominions. There is not a
Masonic Lodge in Italy. In our own
country, not a single Catholic is to be
found associated with the order of Free
Masons, anm why? Masonry is founded
upon the Bible, ami requires the reading
of the Protestantjßible in all its Lodges,
and this don’t suit Romanism. We state
these general and historical facts, without
knowing anything of our own knowledge
of Masonry.
In the young and growing city of Knox
ville, it is within our own knowledge, that
many of the Irish Catholics attached them
selves to the Order of the. Sons of Tem
perance, with a view as they said, of
throwing around them the wholesome re
straints of the Order. On the first visit
of a Priest to the city commonly called
“Father Brown,” those Irish Catholics
began to drop off one by one, until not
one of them is now in the Order, and most
of those who were, are daily seen drunk
in our streets. Indeed, some of them in
withdrrwing had the candor to acknow
edge that the priest required tlu.a to do
so! And why! Because, in all the Di
visions of the Sons of Temperance here,
we have the Protestant Scriptures read,
and have Protestant prayers offered up.—
This don’t suit the Church of Rome!
I hare the honor to be,
Very truly and frankly,
W. G. BROWNLOW.
Wrights an<! Measures.
At the late session of the Illinois Legis
lature a law passed regulating weights and
mesures in the State, where no special con
tract shall be made to the contrary. It
■ provides as follows:
The weight of sheld corn shall be fifty- I
six pounds per bushel.
The weight of corn in the ear shall be
seventy pounds per bushel.
The weight of wheat shall be GO pounds
per bushel.
The weight of rye shall be 56 pounds
per bushel.
The weight of oats shall be 32 lbs. per
’ bushel.
The weight of barley shall be 48 lbs. per
bushel.
| The weight of Irish potatoes shall be
sixty pounds per bushel.
The weight of sweet potatoes shall bo
55 pounds per bushel.
The weight of beans shall be 60 lbs. per
bushel.
The weight es castor beans shall be 46
pounds per bushel.
The weight of clover seed shall be 60 lbs,
per bushel.
The weight of Timothy seed shall be 45
lbs. per bushel.
The weight of flax seed shall be 56 lbs.
per bushel.
The weight of hemp shall be 44 lbs. per
bushel. I
The weight of blue grass seed shall bo
14 lbs. per bushel.
The weight of buckwheat shall be 52 lbs
per bushel.
The weight of dried peaches shall be 33
lbs. per bushel.
The weigt of dried apples shall be 24 lbs ,
per bushel.
The weight of onions shall be 57 lbs. per ;
bushel.
The weight of salt shall be 50 lbs. per i
bushel. I
The weight of stone coal shall be 80 lbs
per bushel.
The weight of malt shall be 38 lbs. per
bushel.
The weight of bran shall be 20 lbs. per <
bushel.
The weight of turnips shall be 55 lbs.
per bushel. '
The weight of plastering hair shall be 8 |
lbs. per bushel.
The weight of unslacked lime shall be
80 lbs. per bushel.
The weight of corn meal shall be 48 lbs. .
I per bushel. j
The weight of fine salt shall be 55 lbs.
per bushel,
All laws or parts of laws inconsistent
with the above are repealed.
&l)t oa. Statesman.
CALHOUN, «A.
Thursday Morning, Oct. 11, 1855
TIIKJIS.
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within the year.
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The following named gentleman are our
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scriptions and receipt for money:
E. Barker, Calhoun, Ga.
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N. M. Howard, is our traveling Agent
—authorized to take names and receipt
for money,
and Post Masters generally.
. . .
J-SgT” We are authorized, to announce
the name ofTHOS. M. COMPTON, aaa
Candidate for clerk of the Superior Court,
at the ensuing election.
NOTICE.
On Thursday the 18th of October, the
ladies of Calhoun purpose to furnish a sup
per, and to offer a few fancy articles of
their own making for sale.
Tickets can be had forsocts. The prof
its will be equally divided among the three
churches in this place. V. ill not the citi
zens aid the ladies in their laudable un
dertaking?
“CIRCLE OF INDUSTRY.”
■ I ■
(io noon, or not at nJ!!—We have
been requested to say, that those wishing
Daguerrean likenesses has only a few days
left them to secure the same, as Mr. Mor
gan intends leaving soon. His Gallery
will be found over Jone’s Old Store, where
he will remain but a short time longer to
give good and durable pictures to all those
who may desire them.
In this week’s issue will be found
a dissection of Rev. A. B. Longstreet’s Let
ter. It is lengthy, we know, but it will
remunerate all who will take time to read
it.
Election Returns. — Gov. John
son is undoubtedly re-elected by an in
creased majority. We shall be able to
give the result in full next week. There
is thus far a large majority against remov
al. The Legislature largely Democratic.
For Congress, Messrs. Foster and Trippe,
Americans, are elected; and Messrs. Sew
ard, Crawford, Warner, Lumpkin, Cobb
and A. H. Stephens, on the Democratic
side. Judges elected, Messrs. Powers for
the Macon Circuit; Allen, for the South
western; Bull, for the Coweta; Brown, for
the Blue Ridge, and ’Sfcqmas, for the
Northern.
To ti*c Readers of the Southern
Statesman.
Frem circumstances beyond my control,
the “Thirteenth Chapter of Chronicles”
will not appear until the next week’s issue,
when you will see a firm streak of
LIGHTNING.
]Dr. A. I. Loiussberry.—Tn anoth
er column, our readers will see the card
of the above gentleman, patentee and
proprietor of Abdominal Supporter and
Hernia Truss. These health and life pre
serving articles have been in use but for a
short time, but with results the most gra
tifying and satisfactory. In our vicinity,
we might furnish a number of testimonials
in its favor, but the modesty or diffidence
of the inventor, or his great aversion to
all Awr/zJvys, has prevented him from per
mitting us so to do. We believe the Truss
and Supporter are by far superior and the
most valuable articles of the sort ever in
vented. We have known the Doctor for
some time past, during which time he has
sustained the character of an honest, hon
orable and Christian gentleman. For his
sake, but more for the sake of afflicted hu
manity, we wish him great success. We
add the following from an eminent physi
cian of our town :
“Having examined Dr. A. I Lounsber
ry’s Supporter, for the cure of Prolapsus
Uteri, or falling of the womb, and having
conversed with ladies of this place who I
knew were thus afflicted, can, with confi
dence, recommend it to the public as be
ing the easiest, safest and surest supporter
now offered to the public. Also his Truss
for the cure of Hernia. This certainly is
equal in all respects to the Supporter, and
is superior to anything of the kind ever of
fered to the public.
Ladies and gentlemen would make life
more comfortable to call and procure those
instruments, while Dr. Lounsberry re
mains in our place, with his accomplished
lady, who will wait on the ladies at our
old friend’s. Mr. Dunn’s.
HENRY S. DAVENPORT.
Calhhoun, Sept. 19, 1855,
Additional References.
11. Owen, President, J. 0. Cooper, Di
rector of Summerville Bank; E. Dickinson,
Duke Williams, A. B. Washington. M. D.,
and Dr. Wilkerson, Sommerville, Tenn.
Rev. Hall Morrison, M. D., Cottage
Home, North Carolina.
T. M. Patterson, Nashville, Tenn.
Drs. Booth Guthrie, Dr. Gabbot, and
S. Tate, Esq., Memphis, Tenn.
Col. Boswell, Dunlap’s Springs, Bolivar,
Tenn,
Drs. Fenner, Snider and Harris, Jack
son, Tenn.
Dr. Tuthill, New York City.
I®- Gov. Johnson's spittoon,—the
“Georgia Platform.”
“It is the misfortune of some men to be
gifted with the faculty of exaggeration.—
Georgia Platform."
IST It is the misfortune of others not
to be gifted with any faculty at all.
Jia gazines.— Harper’s, for October,
is upon our table, and we can but reiterate
what has already been said of it over and
again: that it is one of the most popular
Monthlies in the world,as it well deserves
to be. It has become one of the Literary
wonders of this country, being almost ex
clusively composed of the works of Ameri
can authors and artists. It is a fact, wel
known to its readers, that in all its pages
its aim is the highest standard of Literature
and the purest of Morals. Those of our
lady friends, or gentlemen desiring this ex
cellent„Magazine, can either leave their
orders with us, or address Harper & Bros.,
Franklin Square, New York. Price: $3
per annum.
Another good Magazine is Peterson’s,
the October number of which we have also
received. The reading mattar is, as usual,
of the most interesting character. The
fashion Plates far excel any contained in
former numbers, and we notice, that like
this progressive age, it improves at each
! successive issue, while every number seems
to leave no room for anything superior,
appearing to the most fastidious to have
gained the “'top notch” in everything to
which it is devoted. Next week, we in
tend showing* through our advertising col
umns, what Mr. Peterson proposes doing
the year 1856, and we desire the ladies to
read it and be convinced, that when they
subscribe to bis Magazine, they get both
an excellent and cheap one. Specimen
■ copies can be seen by calling on us.
‘•Windy.”— The Georgia Platform is
a great paper—one of which th* “Sag
Nichts,” the “pur furener,” and “Johnson
ites” generally, can and ought to be proud.
Its Editor is not only firm to his party, and
an able advocate of those principles which
take the “spoils,” but he is a real “scra
per,” and with a little more practice and
forethought, could be “tolerably funny.”
In hi* last issue, he produces the following
new end would-be chuckling suggestion:
“that if it were possible for the Know-
Nothings to have a more appropriate name,
he would suggest that of “WINDY.”—
Who would have thought of that but him?
Who could have let it out “so nice,” even
had it arisen in the knowledge-box of some
others of the same opinion as himself?
No one, and you deserve a complimentary
notice for the same, Mr. Platform. Win
dy '. We would suppose, that when you say
the K. N’s., you have reference to the
American Party, which some others of
your firm, with equal suggestive propensi
ties to that of your own, have seen fit to
give that name. Well, if you don’t like
that name, we are perfectly willing that
you should try another, even “Windy”—
but, do you know the only true title for
your oion Party—an army of enemies to
their country? I here propose, for your
own benefit, to give it to you, and all oth
ers belonging thereto. It is not “Windy,”
but the '•'•Bogus Democratic Foreign Sag
Nicht Tory Free Nigger Party.” Which
sounds best, the above name or that of
Windy ?
Attention!—-Company.— O u r
neighbor of the Platform last week, at
tempted to give a facetious account of an
epidemic prevailing in our midst, which
he calls the “long faced” disease. We
think that the editor of the Platform
ought to be the last man to chuckle over a
disease of the face. A man of his*rtraor
dinary beauty should keep mute about the
contortions of others’ faces. The disease
that has seized upon his features is not ep
idemic, but. is a chronic disease, and will
likely carry him to his grave. How pain
ful must be such a face!
The Review.— It is needless to say
that we regret the result of the election ■
just past, for we believe the principle* of
the American Party to be the TRUE prin
ciples of our country. The defeat of
Americanism we regard as a great politi
cal calamity. No one who has one drop
of patriotic blood in his veins, can contem
plate the great influx of Foreigners in our
midst, without some apprehension of dan
ger to the institutions of our country. Ev
ery year 500,000 emigrants, almost as
many as the white population of Georgia,
arc landed upon our shores to swell the
tide of abolitionism at the North, which is
one day to roll down upon the South.—
We desired that some discouragement
should be given to this great influx of for
eigners. According to the present laws of
the country 500,000 foreigners may land
at New York to-day—to-morrow they can
proceed to Kansas, and in thirty days will
be allowed to say whether or not Kansas
shall be a slave State. We ask our Demo
cratic friends if they can place their hands
upon their hearts and pronounce this a
just and righteous law? We are opposed
to this feature of Squatter Sovereignty.—
It is ruinous to the country, and must in
evitably cause its downfall sooner or later.
According to a law enacted at the last
Congress, this distinction was made be
tween natives and foreigners: a native can
not sell his land and receive a donation of
160 acres of land by moving into the terri
tories; whereas, millions of the rcriest
serfs of Europe will be allowed 160 acres
of land each, by moving here. Is this
good political economy ? Every honest
heart will answer—No! We have now
aid-societies at the North, who are shov
ing foreigners and abolitionists off to Kan
sas as first as possible, to erect a free State :
of that territory, and they will succeed, if ‘
we do not exercise a little more energy in
populating Kansas with Southern men. >
In view of these evils of which wc com
plain, we repeat it, that the present elec
tion affords us no grounds for rejoicing.—
We have no hope that any reform will be
brought about by the party at present in
power at Washington. A party more con
servative must get the ascendency. We
believe there is material in the Union, yet, >
to form such a party. The people upon [
the high-ways and hedges have not had !
time to understand and appreciate our
principles. Great reforms must necessari
ly be slow in their work. Under all the
circumstances, our party has done well in I
the State. We have endeavored to do our
duty to our subscribersand our country in
the canvass just over, for wo felt that prin
ciples, without which American Indepen
dence could scarcely be preserved, were at!
stake. And we feel so still. We should
not lay down outran nor because we have
been temporarily defeated. Let us rally
around our proud banner, till it shall float
triumphantly over the whole Union.—
Rome was not built in a day. Seven
years was the cost of American indepen
dence. He who falter* thus early in the
action, is not worthy of the proud name
which he bears— an AMERICAN.
Judge Lumpkin** Letter.—We
can now talk coolly and dispassionately
about matters and things of importance,
after passing through a heated election
I canvass, and so we propose to notice brief
; ly the above gentleman’s letter, which ap
■ peared in the Rome Southerner some week
!or two previous to the election. We no-
I ticed in that paper, Lumpkin’s organ, an
j elaborate letter, in vindication of himself
I against the charges brought forth by some
: of the citizens of the sth Congressional Dic
: trict. It would seem that innocence would
have elicited a letter from him before; but
: the Southerner informs us that he appeared
then only a at the earnest' solicitation of hi*
friends—and from that we would suppose#
it ha* not been the work of a clear con
science. Why he delayed writing a letter
till that late date, is very apparent: lie
i knew very well that there would not be
> time to di»prove his assertions before the
election, and hence, to the satisfaction of
. “his friends,” could make those false asser
tions, and it being so near the time for vo
ting, unintelligent citizen*, not being in
formed to the contrary, would believe the
same and vote for him. There was m
great necessity one month previous, for
the explanation he made, as at the time he
made it. Ilia friends, however, were una
ble to “draw him out" until upon the eve
of the election. Truth ought never to fear
discussion, and th* Judge should not have
hesitated to defend hi* own good charac
| ter, so soon as it was impeached.
Whether the Judge is guilty of the
charges made against him, we know not;
but, from the statements of truthful men,
and the assent given them by his long si
lence, we were led to the conviction that
he wa*. Why it was that he withheld his
“explanation” to so late a period, we leave
it to our readers to judge; from appear
ances, we concluded that “there wa* some
thing rotten in Denmark.” It was not
our intention, at the outset, to discuss the
merits or demerits of Judge Lumpkin’s let
ter, so far as it related to the charges pre
ferred against him, but to give a contra
diction to the vile slander uttered by Judge
Lumpkin, concerning ourself.
Lumpkin spoke of the Statesman as the
“hired agent of Col. will
here inform His Satanic Majesty, that thia
assertion is a base falsehood and the dictate
of malice, uttered without regard even to
the shadow of truth or justice. When we
took charge of the Statesman, from the
hands of its former editor and proprietor,
Col. Dodd, we hoisted the name of Col.
Tumlin, for Congress. We did so, because
:he was our personal preference, and our
I preference, because we knew him to be a
man of principle, whose politics accorded
with our own, and a worthy gentleman
in every respect, as has never been proven
to the contrary, while on the oth*r hand,
we were aware of the fact, that Jndge
Lumpkin had proven himself unfaithful
and undeserving the support of honest m*n,
in a great many of both his political and
private actions. We advocated Tumlin**
election farther, because we believed he
would suit a majority of the people of thia
District, just as any party paper wonld
have done. Had any one else been select
ed in Lis stead, we would have readily
yielded our preference, for the good of the
American Party. Tumlin has had nothing
to do in the transfer of this paper from
Col. Dodd to ourself. He brought th* pa
per under no obligations to him. It is free
and untrammelled. The assertion, then,
of Judge Lumpkin, is/aisc and slanderous.
Judge Lumpkin, no doubt, thought his d*-
dcclaration would give credence, from tb*
fact that Col. Tumlin was known through
out the Cherokee country, and has always
been known as a gentleman of great liber
ality. Judge Lumpkin took advantage of
this well known fact, to propagate a talse
hood that would appear plausible to the
reader. While we know this much of his
letter to be so grossly incorrect, what opin
ion are Meto form of the remainder ?
If it be true, that Judge Lumpkin sub
scribed to neither the Democratic Expositor
or Georgia Platform — but we have seen
no denial of the charge—we think we can,
with propriety, compare him to the God
serving hero; as presented in the fable:
that a pious member of a Church once told
the parson, that he had belonged to th*
church for five and twenty years, and it
had never cost him one cent. “May th*
Lord have mercy on your poor stingy
soul!” was the response of the minister of
God. Judge Lumpkin has hold office for
twenty years, and it is known, that up to
1854, it bad never cost him one cent, while
it is also known, that so far from liberality
or even justice to his political friends, he
plead the Statute of Limitations, to avoid
paying a just debt which he owed on* of
his firm supporters— may the Lord have
mercy on his poor stingy, dishonest, slan
derous soul, and may the Devil nev*r draw
closer to him than truth was when h* as
serted the Statesman to be the “hired
agent of Col. Lewis Tumlin,” is our sin
cere prayer.
mission of the American Party.
The Louisville Journal is the prince of
papers. It every issue is fraught with
wholesome teaching of the true policy of
our country. Think you not so, reader,
after perusing the following article ?
“The American party has a high and
holy mission to perform. Its attributes ar*
peculiar; they are such as have never be
fore distinguished any political organiza
tion in this country; It does not owe its
origin to the crafty designs of vaunting
demagoguos and unscrupulous tricksters
seeking to build up for themselves a great
hobby upon which to ride over the necks
of the people into power and place. It is
the result of a spontaneous uprising of •
free people, in defence of their birth-plac*
and their liberties. It wa* conceived by