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THE t'fSON’ EIEOT.
g. A. MILLER,’ Editor.
Thotnaston, Thursday, April 21,
Democracy ami the Union.
During the Last Presidential canvass,
Kansas, bleeding*Kansas, was flic cry, and
the oookoo note —“ vote for Buchanan and
save (he South'’ —was sweetly warbled by
JJi'tuoctntic demagogues of all colors in
every Southern bush and grove. The hon
est, confiding people listened to these po
litical syrens, and the result is recorded in
a bankrupt treasury, in official corruption,
in sectional agitation, in Presidential usur
pation, in Congressional extravagance, in
party servility and in placing the vested
rights of our “ peculiar ” domestic institu
tion in the territories, to the tender guar
dianship of aliens and squatter black Re
publicans, flushed with their many and re
cent victories. Our flag is insulted upon
the ocean—our rights in Central America
are treated with contempt—our finances
are deranged—our postal arrangements are
ruined—our laws are evaded or violated
with impunity, and every department of
the government exhibits signs of that do- j
crcpitudc characteristic of the worn out
civilization in portions of Europe and
Asia. The bloodshed and sectional dis
cord seen in 1850 by the prophetic eyes of
Clay, Calhoun, Webster and other patri
ots, in the subsequent feeble and corrupt at
tempt to improve their wisdom ant l undo
their work, is now a stubborn fact, proved
by historical evidence and demonstrated
and confirmed by a daily sad and unavail
ing experience and regret.
Political, ncr more than personal evils,
spring by chance from the ground. They j
have a cause, patent oftimes, to tho least :
observant eye, and then again their poison
root is hid deep below the surface, and en
twined amid the mysteries of our being
and enveloped in silence and darkness. The
laughing mountain rivulet over which the
wild deer leaps, is not at once transformed *
into an ocean whose maddened billows en- j
gorge whole navies. It is not from every .
drop of rain, but from windtpand vapor;
slowly and imperceptibly collected, that :
the tempest of desolation comes at last in !
its fury. It was not by a single assault—
but by force and stratagem combined after
a ten years’ siege that the proud towers !
of Troy and her mighty walls were top
pled down and trampled in tlie dust. What j
Troy was, we are, —a nation governed at
present by leaders full of pride and reck
less of consequences—what Troy is, we
may become—a sheep walk, where the ga- j
ping tourist, or perchance the graver his
torian, may, amid broken columns and i
shattered arches and temples, sit down and
meditate on the rise, progress and de
cay of an empire once of limitless extent
and surrounded by every evidence of pros
perity and perpetuity, but now infested,
like Mexico, with wandering banditti, and
crushed beneath the iron heel of each suc
cessive military usurper.
We, as a nation, possess no peculiar tal-1
isman to ward oil’ the evils which have i
either suddenly or gradually overwhelmed i
others. If we practice their vices, we will. ;
sooner or later, be visited with tlieir pun
ishments. That our rulers have degener- i
ated in wisdom and patriotism, is beyond
question. That our people exercise loss oi !
that vigilance which can alone preserve our
liberties than in the earlier and purer davs
of our Republic, is now every where appa- j
rent. c need no better evidence of these j
truths—no clearer conviction of the deep- |
seated corruption of public opinion, than
the fact that the now oft-repeated asser- 1
tion, *• the l nion must perish unless De
mocracy triumphs /” is not universally
met with that scorn and contempt which
the folly, madness and wickedness of the
sentiment implies. “ The Union must per
ish, unless Democracy triumphs”! The
sentiment is only equaled in that ignorance
and barbarity which formerlv consigned a
suspected witch to either water or the
flames:—lf thrown into the one and she
perished by drowning, she was pronounced
innocent; if she floated, she was consid
ered guilty and burnt! If Democracy
triumphs the Union must be flooded and
at last go down unknelled and imeoffined
into a sea of corruption—it the Democracy
triumphs not, then the torch must be ap
plied and the Union must writhe and twist
in consuming fire. Poor Union! yours is
infeed a sad fate! We pity you from our
inmost soul! We believe you are the
innocent victim of the frauds, conspiracies
and false-swearing of those who are now
willing to plunge you. tied neck and heels,
into the deep water, or bind you. with cords
iron to the fatal stake. You eertainlv
have been “more sinned against, tha.fi sin
ning.'’ Next to justice and liberty you
were considered by the fathers of the Con
j stitution as the mother of peace and the
! great conservator of prosperity at home
and strength and protection from abroad.
What has reduced you to the dreadful al
ternative of being either drowned as a
witch by Black Republicans, or burned by
Southern fire-eaters ? The victim, when
the latest bubble shall arise to tell its fate,
|or the last spark of that funeral pile be
quenched in its agonizing blood, might an
swer in the nervous language of Mr. Cal
houn—“ Hug ues and J loyalists — held to
gether under the name of Democracy, by
the cohesive principles of public plunder” !
—you are the deceivers and betrayers—let
my blood and the crushed hopes of the op
pressed throughout the world and for
! countless generations, rest on your own
heads. You have eaten, and drank, and
slept, and cheated and flattered with Black
Republicans and Disunionists, until cor
ruption has become a virtue and loyalty to
country a reproach. You, my execution
ers, first pour the “ leprous distilmcnt”
into the ears of the people, and then
fuss and threaten, and back out, when
they arc given up to domestic emaciation,
sectional convulsions and national death,
“ merely that a few may enjoy the spoils/’
Is there no rescue for the captive—no
healing balm for the sick and dying vic
tim ? We say there is, without a resort to
that last, most degrading and worn out of
political quackeries—the Union, with the
Democracy. The hair of the dog might
prove in this instance and at this time
more fatal than the bite. We prescribe a
more direct and certain remedy. Let hon
est Democrats, Whigs and Americans be
aroused to the perilous condition of our
common country. Let them remember the
broken promises and unredeemed pledges
of our rulers. Let them ask why it is that
our treasury is bankrupted—that sectional
agitation has increased—our rights in the
territories have been bartered away—the
L nion threatened and Congressional cor
ruption and Presidential usurpation stalk
unreproved in our midst. These evils, up
on enquiry, will be found to have had their
origin in that most treacherous of all or
ganizations, mis-called Democracy. Let
tlie Stars and Stripes be once more unfurl
ed, and the mist which lias gathered on the
plumage of our eagle, will be scattered in
his upward and sunward flight. The chains
of Ihe captive—Union—will be severed,
and the sick and doomed victim—the Con
stitution—will be supported by millions of
patriots, and borne aloft the heads of mis
erable demagogues with firm hearts and, if
needs be. with strong arms. Let the peo
ple awake, and so long as the virtues, the
wisdom, the valor and sufferings of a com
mon ancestry are worthy of remembrance,
we will have one country, one Constitu
tion, and one glorious destiny, in spite of
foreign and domestic foes. Old Guilford,
Savannah and King’s Mountain will speak
—York Town will cateli up the joyful sound
—Brandywine and Saratoga will prolong
♦he strain, and the echo will bo thrown
back louder than the artillery of the clouds
from Lexington and Bunker Hill— “the
Union must and shall be preserved” !—
either with or without the Democracy.
Perish Democracy, let the Union live!”
lion. Jerc. Clemens’ Speech.
On the tirst page of our paper this week
will be found the classical and powerful
Speech of the Hon. Jere. Clemens, (now
Editor of the Memphis Enquirer) deliver
ed before the Opposition State Convention
of Tennessee. Mr. Clemens’ pen possesses
all the keenness of Salad in’s scimitar, con
joined with the strength of the battle-axe
wielded by “Richard of the Lion Heart.”
He severs the leaders of modern mis-called
Democracy, even to the dividing asunder
of the joints and marrow. He lays bare
their secret corruptions until you sec each
nerve and muscle of their putrid limbs.
You watch at each lick the decaying flesh
fly from the diseased bones, until shapeless
skeletons stand before you in all their hid
eous deformity—rank with the fetid odors
of tlie charnel-house. You wonder that
such things can be and not excite our spe
cial wonder, and if you have the spirit of
an Ameritan citizen you will turn your
back on the horrid spectacle with loathing
arid disgust, and throw over it a covering
and bury it from sight soon as civilization
and decency will permit.
A New Southern Book.
We would call the particular attention
of our readers to the prospectus -of Dr.
Blackburn, published in another column.
The Dr. deserves, whether he will, or will
not, in*• t with success.
THE l/PSON PILOT, THURSDAY MORAINE, APRIL 21, 1859.
i Gov. Brown and him friends making
months and looking cross-eyed at
each other. v
At a late Democratic meeting in Stew
art county, the Hon. James Clarke, the
Chairman, is reported to have passed the
following compliment upon his Democrat
ic friends :
•‘Joseph E. Brown, at the commencement of the
last political campaign, was called, in derision. “ the
Cherokee Cote Driver ;” he has approved himself the
driver out of the plunderers of your country; the dri
rer out ot dishonesty in high places; ihe driver out. by
liis intrepid vetoes, of vicious aud corrupt legislation,
and the driver out of those exclusive privileges by which
one set ot men are enabled to enslave another.”
This is what we call “piling up the ago
ny” pretty strong on ex-Governor Johnson
and the Democratic friends of the Banks.
|
To he called “plunderers, dishonest, vi
i cions, corrupt and enslavers,” is (except
I among Democrats) considered a direct as
j sault on character. They, however, al
| ways speak in a Pickwickian sense—provi-
I ded the spoils can he secured—for see how
nobly (as an old friend of ours once said)
they can “swear to the controverscand re
fund the matter on the other side.” The
Atlanta Confederacy (Democratic) says of
this “driver out of plunderers” :
“ We venture the assertion, and in face of it.s conse
quences, that when the secret history of Joseph E.
Brown is exposed, (as it soon will be.) his party will
loathe him, and his Church disavow him. He never
made a profession that was not designed for a traj)—
nor did he ever seriously and with honestr purpose re
deem a promise made to anybody but himself.”
Again listen to Democratic authority :
“ Since the days of the Yazoo fraud and tho treason
of Arnold, there has been no event public or private
more villianous, unprincipled and corrupt than the fa
mous Dalton Plot originated by Joseph E. Brown, ac
cepted by Howell Cobb, and endorsed by John 11.
Lumpkin.”
Now, honest reader, you may imagine
that the “plunderers” on one side, and the
“villianous, unprincipled and corrupt”
Arnolds on the other, never could agree ex
cept on the principle that “birds of a feath
er,” Ac., &c., ; but you are as much mis
taken as if you had burnt your shirt. Let
us illustrate Ly no fancy picture. We
once had two friends who, for short and by \
way of distinction, we will call big Ugly j
and little Ugly. They were mutually jeal- j
ous of each other’s beauty, and consequent- !
ly the one hated the other with a right I
good will. Big Ugly’s mouth looked like j
a large piece of cleft raw beef stuck on ac
cidentally between Lis nose and chin. It i
was as elastic as India-Rubber and twisted ;
at times like a corkscrew. Little Ugly’s j
eyes were so crossed that they could sec at j
the same time every point of the coin pass. j
We need not add that he was a modern i
Democratic leader.
Big Ugly and Little Ugly met one day !
on the street. Each wanted to insult the !
other without speaking. Big Ugly inline- j
diately crossed his fingers in front of the j
eves of his rival beau tv. Little Uglv gazed
at him a moment as straight as the nature
of his eyes would permit, and without ut
tering a word, deliberately placed his fin
gers in his mouth and twisted it into a
horrible proportion. The by-standers
broke inro a most uproarious laugh—Big j
and Little Ugly embraced and kissed, and
ever after, they seemed delighted with each
other’s deformities.
Moved.
All must see tho resemblance between
the conduct of Big and Little Ugly and
the leaders of Demonacy—except the j
flapper-mouthed, cross-eyed political dupes !
who, deceived themselves, wish to deceive !
tlieir neighbors. .
National Democracy.
Gen. Bethune, the honest and faithful
Editor of the Columbus Corner Stone,
draws the following life-like portait of a
National Democrat :
“We know no principle which a national democrat
may not advocate, no measure for which lie may not
vote, and lind in the party a sufficient power and re
spectability of support to maintain him in full fellow
ship and communion. There is but one unerring test
of the soundness of his democracy, and that is, to vote
for the nominee of the party. For all other sins there
is a ready absolution : to fail to do this, is the only sin
that admits of no pardon.”
Southern Convention.
“\\ o see from the address of the commit
tee, that the next “Debating Society” (as
the late Southern Convention at Montsrom
o
ery was somewhat facetiously called by
Breckinridge of La.,) will assemble in
Vicksburg, Miss., on the ninth of next
May. Our pocket has a somewhat feeling
recollection that a high tariff on the per
pendicular system was levied on the dele
gates at Montgomery. Will the Montgom
ery Editors please inform many afflicted
Southern rights men what disposition was
made of that assessment ? We hope the
Convention at Vicksburg will do some
thing else than discuss niggers, African
slave trade and French Brandy and Wines.
We annex the follow ing sensible sugges
tions to one ol tlie Southern Commercial
Conventions, taken from a paper of old
date, but still pertinent to the present
| subject:
i “if the delegates to the Southern Convention will
i take note of a few particulars on their way. perhaps
•hey may find food f<>r tT<>ll nt<re wthnbU’ than
ha* hitherto been submitted in resolutions aud mani
festos.
They will start in some stage or rail road coach made
.injhe North; an engine ot Northern manufacture will
take their train and boat along, at every meal they will
sit down in Yankee chairs to a Yankee table, spread
with a Yankee cloth. With a Yankee spoon they will
take from Yankee dishes sugar, salt and coffee which
have paid tribute to a Yankee trade and with Yankee
knives and forks they will put into their mouths the
only thing Southern they will get on the trip.
At night they will pull off a pair of boots with a Yan
kee boot jack: and throwing a lot of Yankee toggery
on a Yankee chair, lie down to dream of Southern in
dependence in a Yankee bed with not even a thread of
cotton aii uml them that has not gone through a Yan
kee loom, or come out of a Yankee shop.
In the morning they will get up to fix themselves by a
12 to 14 looking-glass, with a Yankee brush and comb,
after perhaps washing ofl’ a little of the soil of the South
from their faces with water drawn in a Yankee bucket,
and put in a Yankee washstand, the partner in honor
aide exile with a lot of Yankee wares that make up the
sum of the furniture.
Think of these things, gentlemen, and ask yourselves
is there no remedy for this dependence! Ask your
selves if there be not some mode of action which will
bring about a change and keep your cotton, wheat and
tobacco crops from going out of the South to buy for
you the tilings you must have to be up with the age ? ‘
Columbus Sun.
The proprietors of the Columbus Sun
have disposed of one third interest in their
daily to Mr. R. J. Yarrington, of Barbour
county, Alabama, who will soon enter upon
his new duties. The Daily and Weekly
Sun are to he enlarged ere long, to about
double tlieir present size. Success to the
Sun, and may it never be shorn of a single
beam, or its light obscured for a single day.
For the Upson Pilot.
ANSWER TO I,
liY LKOI.A.
“lamia! breathe again thy Muse’s witching lay,
From rosy bower, thou singest in youth’s entrancing
May,
You sing so sweet of friendship, that lured by the
theme,
My heart but answers to the strain, and echoes back
thy dream.”
And do the simple whisperings, the dreams of idle ■
hem s,
The garlands culled by youthful hands from Poesy’s
sweet bowers.
E’er find within one unknown breast a kind and ans
wering strain,
Which feels their love of Nature's soul, and echoes
back again !
Alt! would they were more beautiful, more worthy of
thy lay,
The gentle muse within my soul would hold a higher
sway!
I'd sing then of the purling rills, that from their foun- I
tains glide,
Os nature’s landscape, fair and bright, -when decked in
vernal pride.
I'd be at times a twinkling star, to watch o’er those I
love,
To cast a light o'er sorrow’s dearth, and sing of bliss
above,
And oil ! I’d tell them of tho charms that moot tho
’raptured eye,
When borne by silver moonbeams, to their home be
yond the sky.
And then I’d bo the summer breeze, that softly fans j
the brow,
Os affection true, and girlhood friends, that throng
around me now,
I'd whisper low a dream of Love, of Love that never ;
fades,
But ever blooms within tho heart ‘mid amaranthine
shades.
I'd be a Fairy, pure and fair, an elfin form of light,
To tlii about this beauteous world, and sing of all that's
bright,
I’d nurse my favorite pleasure then, and touch my
Harp once more,
And breathe the wildest measure there, that Fancy
could explore.
I'd be a lute, a silvery lute with soft enchanting tone,
And sing a lay of Hope and Joy, to cheer the spirit
’lone,
And when its whispers once so gay, with grief and woe
is prest,
I'd kindly thank the generous friend, v.ho'd soothe
their chords to rest.
But alas! ‘tis vain, and worse than vain to sigh for Na
ture's gift
Os Genius bright, and dreams that high the sordid spir
it lift,
Far, far from common earthly scenes to Poesy's fair
home,
When hand in hand with Muses, I should ever love to
roam.
Then away ! ye working dreams of Fame, and let me
careless sing,
In simple strains a cheerful song, fur those who round
me cling,
I envy not the victor's wreath, nor would I have them
bow.
With flattery, and artful smiles to place it on my brow.
Amid tho cool and fragrant dells of Upson’s spreading
shades,
Its brooks so dear in childhood hours, its soft and slop
ing glades.
Where oft my fervent evening prayers with child-like
faith ascend,
I’ll scatter flowers here and there, for those who call
me friend.
And if among them one should touch some heart afar
from mine,
A stranger heart, that echoed e'en with -trains so soft
as thine,
Then sweet twill ever be for me, to cull these simple
flowers, x
Till they form a never fading wreath in Eternity's
bright bowers !
Bel!wood Farm, Epson county, Ga..
For the Upson Pilot.
Woman and lier Influences on
31 an.
PA PE It NO. 1.
The writer projfoses, in a plain straight
forward manner to write a few papers on
“Woman and her influence on Man.” He
does not intend to go (it he were compe
tent) into a metaphysical disquisition on
woman, hut merely to notice the most
glaring of her faults ; at the si me time, he
will endeavor to mete out just praise to
her many virtues—her many noble and en
dearing traits of character.* Jn short, in
these articles, his aim will Ih\ to
“■ Shoot Folly as if flios
Amt < the planners living as thev rise.'’
Perhaps it will be best to notice singly,
the different—the distinct—characters
which belong pre-eminently to the women
of this age. Let ns then draw aside the
curtain and take a peep at our ‘'drcnnalis
persona
First then there is your ordinary novel
reader ; by intruding ourselves into her
reading room (for which we beg her to ex
cuse us.) we find that her chief—perhaps
only—books are what, are usually and very
appropriately styled “yellow back” novels;
over this trash she spends hours upon
hours of her time ; time,which Young tells
us,
* “Is dealt out by par tides, and each
Mingled with ihe streaming sands ot life.”
Now we are rather inclined, to cast in a
great degree, the blame for this kind of
reading on the parents ; in nine cases out
of ten, it certainly lies in their power, if
not to form, at least to prevent their daugh
ters from forming, a taste for this kind of
trashy literature ; if indeed such stuff be
worthy the honorable name of literature.
It is no excuse for them (the parents) to
plead ignorance or what is more plausible
business, in their defence; because, if they
are ignorant of what are proper books to
be put into the hands of their daughters,
there is always some person in the com
munity who is able and willing to tell them
what works would be proper and profita
ble for young ladies to read.
But let us return to the young lady her
self. Behold her eyes redening over the
pages of an unheard of and unreasonable
romance, perhaps it is of that species of
tales which are found in such journals as
the New York Ledger or the Golden Prize.
She reads on ; her imagination becomes j
distorted, in her fancy she is following,
and vainly endeavoring to clasp an “empty
shadow ;” a shadow, which in the world
of reason or the moral world, never had a ,
moment's existence. In a short time she i
becomes wedded to this sort of reading ;
nothing else will suit her ; her mind is con
tinually wandering in the regions of a wild
and dangerous fancy ; soon she becomes a
ready prey to some villain who can talk a
little sentimentality—such sentimentality
as is found only in “'yellow back” novels :
some heartless rascal sees her, converses
with her, and in a short time elopes with
her ; the consequence is a broken heart,
and a miserable and disgraceful life, tin
suffering of which, death alone can termi
nate. However it is not the villain alone
that marries this class of women ; in the
course of this article they will be duly con- j
sidered.
• But what “Influence” says the reader
j has-this character “on Man The ans
i wer is two fold. First, it encourages (by
| giving “aid and comfort” to) the publish
er in issuing such works, and fu-nce gene
rates an evil, that is scattered broadcast in
the country as fast as steam can carry it.
Second, if young ladies will read such “nov
els, (trash would be more proper) and form
such ridiculous notions from the reading
| ot them, they thereby encourage the young
! men of the land, in the reading of such ef
i fetniuo sentimentality in order to make
their taste —their conversation—congenial
to that of the ladies, that they may win
| their smiles ; now such a man as this is
not fit for a life-companion for a woman
to whose temperament he has formed his
own, or iii fact for any woman; indeed he
is a pest to society ; and I do not believe
it would be too much to write in this con
nection et vice versa. Such men in nine
| ty-ninc cases out of every hundred areper
! lect drones to society ; in the event that.
| they marry (which is usually the case with
■ such characters,) poverty, disgrace, and
i wretchedness are their sure companions.
| So far I have spoken of this evil per sc :
J let us endeavor to find the remedy. We
| arc essentially a reading people ; “there is
i scarcely (comparatively speaking) a house
i in this land but what has the benefit of a
| weekly newspaper of some sort; the far
mer, the mechanic, the professional man—
all have concluded that they cannot do
without a newspaper. It is “through the
Press then that we can most easily and ef
fectually reach this growing evil. Then
let the Press with a unanimous voice, in
clarion tones, condemn such deleterious
reading. Say to parents “your daughters
are in the paths of vice, soon if they do
not retrace their steps their morals will be
ruined, their character destroyed and their
: happiness—their peace—forever blasted.”
Say to the young ladies “you know nt
what mighty dangers threaten you ; you
are not aware of the awful precipice or.
which you stand ; around the base of that
precipice, roll the turbid waters of ruin
and despair ; young lady only glance at
the angry waves as they furiously lave the
rocks below ; see your giddy height, only
; glance at it, do not stop to” look; already
you arc tottering to fall ; fly! fly !or you
will bo hopelessly lost.” Young ladies—
readers of such novels as I have told you
| of—ii you persist in your course, soon.
; very soon, you will feel” the truth of these
1 words.
In view of all tin's, it is astonishing that
i the Press—as well the guardian of morals
; as ot liberty—is silent, has not one word
|of condemnation to utter. Oh ! where is
the high tone, the independence and the
love ot virtue which once characterized the
journals of this country. I say to the
press, it you would have the people rc
i form, it you would have pure morals, if
you would perpetuate that liberty, that
freedom, which our patriot forefathers so
nobly bequeathed to us. you must crush
this hydra-headed monster; raise vour
voice so loud in condcrnnatorv tones, that
a publishing house that cares*anything for
its name, will n<>t dare to bon* a nov-l.
j unless it is front the best writers and con
’ tains wholesome and moral lessons, that
will elevate morality and lit woman for
that honorable, responsible and important
position for which she was created.
JE UN ESSE.
Social Corner, April 15th 1559.
From the Baltimore Clipper.
The .TTectins of tlse State Council.
The meeting of the American State
Council of Maryland, held at Temperance
Temple yesterday, was largely attended.
Full delegations from nearly all the coun
ties in the State were present. No politi
cal convention ever assembled in our State
has brought together more intelligence and
experience and ability than characterized
the body of delegates in this Council. It
was composed of men of whom the State
of Maryland is justly proud. Actuated by
motives of purest patriotism, and by high
souled devotion to principle, these repre
sentatives of the American party address
ed themselves earnestly and seriously to
the purposes of the meeting. Their delib
erations were marked with strict decorum
and most charming harmony and enthusi
astic zeal. They were assembled to make
arrangements for the complete organization
of the opposition to tne Federal adminis
tration in the State, and to take such ac
tion as shall keep our gallant old common
wealth in the proud position she has won,
as the staunch and unwavering champion
of national, conservative American princi
ples.
The meeting was called to order by Hon.
>J. B. Kicaud, President, by whom a state
ment of the object of the call of the Coun
cil was made in a brief, but eloquent and
impressive address. . After the reports of
the state of the counties, which wore most
cheering and gratifying, upon motion of
Mr. Schley, oi Frederick, a committee on
resolutions was appointed by the chair
consisting of one from each congressional
district, as follows:—From the first, dis
trict, Dr. 11. G. Grieves, of Dorchester;
second district, Edwin IP \\ ebster, of Har
ford ; third district, l’eter G. Cockev, of
Baltimore* county ; fourth district, Win.
11. Hayward, of Baltimore city ; fifth dis
trict, E.G. Hall, of Montgomery ;and sixth
district, Frederick Eehlev, of Frederick,
chairman of the committee.
The Council then proceeded to the elec
tion of’oftlcera. Hon. J. B. Kicaud, who
has lailhtully and zealously discharged the
duties of President for more than three
years, declined a re-election to that office.
The following’ were elected by unanimous
acclamation: Edwin H. Webster, of Har
ford, President ; Dr. 11. G. Grieves,of Dor
chester, Vice President ; Win. 11. Vanno
strand, ot Baltimore, Treasurer ; and F.
A. Supplvo, ot Baltimore, Secretary.
Upon assuming the chair MY Webster
addressed the assemblage in eloquent and
appropriate terms. Hon. J. B. Kicaud, of
Kent, was added to the Committee on Res
olutions in the place of Mr. Webster. The
following resolutions were unanimously re
ported, anff, alter several spirited and en
thusiastic speeches, adopted by the coun
cil :
Jlcsolved , i hat 1 lie State Council of the
American party of Maiyland, repudiating
sectionalism in every shape and form,
whether as abolitionism at 1 lie North or
secession at the South, congratulate the
country on the auspicious prospect of the
union id all the conservative elements of
opposition to the present Democratic ad
ministration.
And. inspired by this'prospect, the peo
ple ot Maryland, whilst they re-affirm and
hereby express, their unalterable attach
ment to the principles which have hitherto*
characterized the American ] arty, invite
the whole body of Conservative Opposition
in all the States of the Union, to co-oper
ate with them in selecting hereafter dele
gates to a National Convention, to be char
ged with the sole duty ot nominating can
didates for the offices of President and
\ ice President of the United States, to be
voted for by the whole body of the Oppo
sition in 1860, and whose past life, emi
nent fitness, and unquestionable nationali
ty, snail entitle them to the conservative
vote oi the whole country.
Unsolved, That it is recommended that all
the elements of opposition to the present
corrupt Dem ocrat ie xl dministration be in
vited cordially to unite with the American
Party in the State in sending Delegates to.
the Conventions to be called, for the nom
ination of candidates fir flic various offices
to bo filled by the popular elections of the*
coming Fall.
And, whereas the State of Mankind, ia
the contest of 1850, evinced her loyalty to
the T nion, her stern repudiation of allsec
tionalism, whether South or North, and
her unfaltering devotion to those princi
ples of a broad and earnest nationality, in
tended to be perpetuated by the Federal
Constitution, in adherence to which aluoo
rests the safety and honor of the country
in ihe strife ot factions and tlie struggles
of geographical parties ; therefore
Jlcsolved , That we will enter upon the
coining State elections with an unwaver
ing faith in our ability to maintain the
high position hitherto held by our State,
and determined to devote our best ener
gies personally and collectively to the ac
complishment oi such results “as will keep
Maryland in the vanguard of a triumphant
national movement.
. After the adoption of a resolution pro
viding for the appointment of a State Cen
tral Committee, the meeting adjourn'd
sine die.
Ni:w Yohk, April HI, —Two thousand
bales cotton wore sold to-day tmarketquid*
Pread Muff’ firm,