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Sinus fimthul.
. COLUMBUS, GKOUGII
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1855.
FOR GOVERNOR.
HC2ISCIICL V. JOEIXSOV.
FOR CONGRESS
-Ist District—.lames L. Seward, of Thomas.
3d. “ James M. Smith, ol*t pson.
4th *• Hiram Warner, of Meriwether.
sth “ Jno. 11. Lumpkin.
Gill “ Howell Cobh, ol Clarke.
Congressional Convention, 2d District.
We suggest that the. Democratic Congressional Conven
tion for the Second District be held at Americas, on Wed
nesday, 11th July next. The Supreme Court will be in
session at that time in Americus. What say our Demo
cratic cotemporariea to this suggestion l Ihe time and
place ought to be agreed upon at once. wtwtd.
Democratic Hally !
There will be a Mass Meeting of the Democratic Party
of Muscogee county at Columbus, on Saturday 7th July.
<;ov. Johnson has consented to be present and ad
dress the people. Other distinguished gentlemen will be
invited and are expected to attend. The citizens of Mus
cogee and the adjoining counties, without distinction ol
parties, are respectfully invited to be present.
WILLIAM TENNILLE/J
J. F. BOZEMAN.
M. J. WELLBORN, I
ALFRED IVERSON, {Committee.
M. J CRAWFORD,
TENNENT LOMAX, J
Columbus, June 26.1854.
The ‘ k N T o Party” Party, and the “Spoils.”
An intelligent lover of his country makes no vaunt
ing boasts of superior concern for her welfare. When
wo hear loud professions of disinterested devotion on
the one hand, and senseless denunciation on the other,
an involuntary and uncontrollable contempt for
the self constituted, all sided, and protruding ignorance
of the blatant pharisee, cuts off so much as evena feel
in g of opposition, which otherwise might be aroused to
scourge with, at least a monosyllabic epithet, such
miserable and pitiful tools of either their own folly or
duplicity.
There are those, who, affecting to despise “Party”
and “party machinery,”—and doubtless a few persuade
themselves that it is not mere affectatiou—throwing
themselves outside ol party contests, vauntingly proclaim
themselves superior, and immeasurably above the
“hicks” of party movements. Such are seen period
ically, the leaders of a “band of patriots,’’ who gra
ciously condescend to mingle with the “vulgar crowd,”
and for the nonce honor them, and “the country.’’ with
their wisdom, and pure and disinterested co-operation,
as leaders in the crusade.
During certain epochs, “patriots” spring up like
mushrooms of a night. These “patriots are almost
always wilhW a party, that is to say, having been rout
ed upon their own issues, and which, no longer having
vitality, they suddenly become disgusted with man's ova
rice and want of principle. Like poor human nature, days
of repentance come when adversity overwhelms them.
In reiroapeciing their own career, the ghosts of so many
well devised plans, miscarried ; the remembrance of
ineffectual schemes, secretly, and most admirably con
cocted ; beating hearts, sick, at last, with hopes de
ferred ; finally, the chagrin of defeat, the desertion of
position ; the isolation of their proselytes ; the sad
crushing consciousness, that they have uo longer an
abiding place, and “lost in loss itself,’* the world around
reflects their own despair ; betrayed by their bitter de
nunciations and accusing knowledge of other’s plans
and motives.
The truth is now, as when Junius ntterred his phxllip
ics against this phariseeism ; ‘ Professions of patriot
ism are become stale and ridiculous .’* Never was this
nearer a truism than at the present time. Men, disap
pointed in political aspirations, without hope—but in the
luinof others, endeavoring to build up themselves by
warring upon those above them, use the very accusa
tions which their own consciousness suggests as being
guilty of themselves.
This, as we have said, is especially true of the pres
ent times. The Whig party, as a party has plunged
into the Serbonian bog of Know Nothingism. By the
merest ehichanery, they are endeavoring to strengthen
themselves with the outside cry of party corruption,
and disaffection to the South. They have cast about in
every direction for an anchoring place ; have invoked
every breeze to fill their sails, and with the most un
blushing effrontery and presumption, avow themselves
the only true champions of public good, and sectional
safety 1 What a picture do the opponents of the De
mocratic party present ! At first it had the “dry rot,”
and the South was being sold to Aboltionism. This fu
sion of all the sound elements , God save the mark !
understood belter the duty of patriots and Southern
men, and so invoked a “Union of the South for the
safety of the South.’* Hardly had the words died
upon ther lips, than a “national” movement was made
in Philadelphia, and these “saviours” of the South cry
Hosannah, to the god of Know Nothingism ! We do
not say that every individual of the fusion movement
was so false to his professions, but the body of the
“party’* which is in fact “no party,” nor can be
above a faction, as long as the Democracy maintains
its organization.
How stands the “no party,** “people’s party’* now ?
Some of its warmest adherents avow its exclusive sec
tional character ; others, equally as ardent and attach
ed to the bantling declare it a “Union National Move
ment,” in other words, the offspring of Know Noth
ingism, whose great mission it is to preserve the Uuiou
at all hazards, to keep down lbs “Irish,” to encourage
religious intolerance, and, in the absence of any other
hope at present, especially to worry the Democrat
ic party. O ! what a pure party, and what noble ends
it has in view ! Such preachers of |>i litical purity, pa
triotic aims, disinterested devotion and self-sacrifice,
have not been seen for many a day !
If ever there was. a party smelling after the flesh
pots, this “no party” stands by its acts, self-confessed.
Their short race will soon be run. Good men, and
true, will ere long see into what hands they have fallen.
Many have trusted them, but what tergiversation
trickery, promises, threats, rewards, contradiction—have
they not been guilty of l O ! what a pure party is this,
which calls upon the “people” the “dear people” to
pul down corruption and cut oft’ this “wild hunt
after the spoils.*’
How the Democracy voted on the Nebraska-
Katisas Bill.
In a speech delivered by 11. K. McClay, Esq., at
Americus recently, wo find the fallowing paragraph :
Nay, out of foity Northern Democrats m the House of
Representative?, there were but twenty one who voted for
the bill, and the party was only kept from open rupture. l>v
lh? formal announcement of the Union newspaper—the or
gan of the administration—that the Kansas Lill was no test
of party alliance. 1 give all honor to the twenty-one na
tional men who voted with us upon that occasion, but 1 do
not consider for that reason the party to which they belong,
demands my support.
When a prominent and respectable gentleman like
Mr. MeCloy attempts to form public sentiment, it is a
pity he does not first verify his facts. In this instance
Mr. McClay mistakes the (acts and does very great in
justice to the Democratic party. The facts are these.
There were 87 Northern Democratic Representatives
in the last Congress who voted on the Nebraska Kansas
bill. On the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas bill, 44
Northern Democrats vobd for the bill and only 43
Northern Democrats voted against the bill. Now if
the majority rule is to determine the question of sound
ness of parties the Northern Democracy are sound on
the Nebraska-Kansas act. A majority of the Northern
Democrats in the House voted for the bill, and it is,
therefore, apparent that if the question bad been left
to them aloue, we should have had the bill without the
helo of a single Southern vote. Every other vote, Whig,
K. N.and what not, was cast against the bill. In this stale
of facts, is it not prepostrous to attempt to form anew
patty, out of the elements in opposition to the Democ
racy, with any hope of success iu a canvass in which
the Nebraska-Kansas bill is the main issue ? Our
friends in the Northern States are all members of the
Democratic party, taking the vote on the passage of the
Nebraska-Kansas bill as a test of soundness, and if we
wish to sustain and strengthen them and thereby pre
serve our rights in the Union, we must join the pat ty
to which they belong. They will not quit their old
party to gratify the prejudices of Southern men. They
Jove the Democratic party as much as Mr. McClay
hates it. They have nothing to gain by quitting their
lime honored party. Their rights are not attacked.
But they say to Southern men. “we, the Northern De
mocracy are the friends of the South ; we alone voted ;
for the Kansas bill; w e are attacked for this vote by |
Northern Whigs, Know 1 Nothings and Abolitionists ; j
come to our aid; with your help we can put them
down.” To such an appeal Mr. McClay and Ins friends
say “I have been a Whig from my boyhood. I can
not call myself by your name.’* Is this reply satisfac
tory ? We leave the people of the South to give the
answer.
The Corner Stone upon the Columbus Move
ment.
We have denounced the Columbus Movement as a
sham. The proof upon this point is cumulative. The
Chronicle dp Sentinel regards it. as a national organza- j
tion. Mr. Jenkins denies that it is a sectional party.—
We have yet to find the first friend of the Movement
outside of"Muscogee County, of any prominence, who
agrees with the chief authors of the movement as to
its form, character and objects. We, therefore, pre
dict that the Convention of Bth August will split asun
der, and that all the sound elements in it w ill fall -
upon the Platform of the Georgia Democracy. Our
neighbor of the Corner Slone t has discovered the no*
tional tendency of the Movement, and, iu an article
headed The Character of the Columbus Movement,
indulges in some very pertinent remarks to which vve
desire to call the attention of the public.
“Tb s movement bears sectionalism upon the face of it.
The country wafcts sectionalism and demands it. The
sectionalism of the movement is its life and its soul, and
gives it all its strength—without its sectionalism it is
worse than worthless, and shall we demoralize and de
stroy it by calling it national ?
Why shall we call it national ? To catch national
men ? they arc the very men vve are opposing. To de
coy men into it by falsehood ami deception ? Such a
course i3 tinworthy of the cause. To get numbers ? the
more men the worse, if they are to pervert the move
ment m any other than its real object.
We would not give a straw for the movement if it is
to he made a mere machine to cntcb,upon any and every
pretext, voters to beat the Democrats, either for State or
national offices. We want it for the purpose of binding
together the people of the South, not.to turn this man or
that party out of office and put others in, but to defend
the South against the North, to assert our rights as
equals, and to defend them as becomes free and brave
men ._ a y e? to defend them if need be, to the death—and
to this end, and for this purpose, we had rather start
with a few honest, earnest men who are agreed upon the
one great poiul and determined to pursue it, and to sac
rifice everything to it, than to start with thousands who
merely wish to make the organization subservient to their
own personal advancement.
“We repeat it is sectionalism and sectionalism alone,
which can give this movement power or value. If any
man wants a national organization let him go to the De
mocratic Party. It is not only the best national organi
zation that exists, hut is the best that can be formed. It
can and will grind to powder any other national organ
ization at the South, as it ought to do—sectionalism is the
only thing that is, or ought to be stronger than it. Jt is
stronger than a national Democracy—because it is the
only thing which can save the South. The feeling is
strong among the people, and is growing stronger every
day.”
Spoken like a man and a patriot, broth- r Bethune.—
It presents the true issue before the country. We op
pose the formation of a sectional party, at this time ,
because we believe we can more surely accomplish the
admission of Kansas by adhering to the national De
mocracy under whose lead the Kansas act was passed.
If we fail of our object we are pledged and so are the
Georgia Democracy to go into a sectional organization.
The Corner Stone believes the time has now arrived
for .-a sectional organization. It is an honest difference
of opinion ns to a question of policy. But the idea of
forming a national organization, co extensive with the
Union, to crush sectional encroachment, out of the
rotten materials opposed to the national Democracy is
so palpable a piece of humbuggery as to be unworthy
of a moment’s consideration. Such, however, v.e be
lieve, will be the effort of the Convention of the Bth
August. W warn Southern Rights men to guard
against this iniquity. Opposition to the Democracy is
the life and soul of the Columbus Movement outside of
tbe 2d Congressional District.
Know Nothing Statistics Corrected.
The Know Nothing presses of Georgia publish to the
world that there are in the State Department 32*
American? and 46 Foreigners in office ; in the J reusury
Department 139 Americans and 273 Foreigners ; in the
Interior Department 333 Americans and 500 boreign
ers; in the Post Office Department 11 Americans and
80 Foreigners. This ia all false.
The Washington Union of Juno 19tb, publishes a
denial of these statistics, which has appeared for the
fourth time iu that paper, and yet the Know Nothing
papers reiterate their charges. The facts are thus set
forth by the Union :
1. The Post Office Department employs in Washington
100 persons. Os these, 83 are native born Americans an<i
12 foreign born. Os the 12, five were appointed Indore the
i present administration came into power—leaving seven ap
pointed by the present Postmaster General. . .
•>. The Interior Department employs 798 persons. Oi
these, 604 are native and 83 foreign,and 106 whose birth
place is unknown.
3. The State Department employs at Washington 35
persons. Os these, 30 are native and 5 foreign born
4 The Treasury Department employ? at Washington
* and iu the custom house?, light hou? •? and coast survey?
2,093 persons. Os these 1,84# are native, 227 foreign horn,
and 26 whose birth place is unknown.
* It appear? from the e records that in the four departments
j named, there are 2,567 native, and 332 foreign bora citizens
employed. A similar statement from the oth-r depait
-5 ments would not increase the proportion oi foreign born ap
pointee?. What wo havo given is sufficient to stamp the
p charge as a gross falsehood.
The foregoing refutation was procured by the Union
from the records of the four departments in September
last, and adds that it is “now enabled to statu authori
tatively that the charges made since that time have not
increased the relative proportion of forein born citizens
1 • v „
ia office.”
r Retaliation upon Massachusetts. —The Charleston
Standard says: “When the government of Massaehu-
J setts shall have established that the clause of the con
stitution in reference to the return of fugitives from la-
bor, declares a right, but confers no power of enforce
ment upon the General Government; that with respect
* to this clause of the compact she is still sovereign, and
* that she trespasses upon the rights of the State but does
not contravene the powers of the General Government,
* —we will be prepared to meet her. If she insists that
1 the act is an indignity to us in our organized political
e ] capacity we will be able to repeal it ; and if reduced to
> j the necessity of retaliation, —of confiscating property of
a her citizens in payment of the injuries occasioned by
1 her confiscation, and of tending, if needs be, the struc
ture of this Union, —it will be a source of especial satis
faction to us to find that action forced upon us by the
- sovereign action of the Statd of Massachusetts ; and wo
will tell the Commercial Journal if he have interest in
t the action of that State, that so soon as or.e slave shall
haveescaped to that State,'whose restoration shall be pro
f \ hibited by the provisions of the law in question, that
r j instant will the property of every citizen of Massachu-
I setts within the limits of the State whose rights are
t injured, be liable to answer for the outrage, and the
J law of confiscation in that event will be no violation of
j our Federal constitution.
? Slavery in the Dutch Reformed Church —The
* question of slavery has been troubling the Synod of the
5 i Reformed Dutch Church, in session last week at New
“ j Brunswick, New Jersey, for the first time in the his
’ | lory of that church. Rev. Thornton Butler appeared
* j from the Classis of North Carolina, stating that it had
1 j seceded from the German Reformed Church, and wish
ied to connect itself with the It. 1). Synod. The corn
-1 in it tee on correspondence recommends its admission.
It was discovered that three out of eight pasters in the
Classis were slave owners, and this provoked a warm
1 discussion. Finally the Synod was relieved from its
1 embarrassing situation by the withdrawal of the appli
-1 cation.
A Cask of Poisoning,-—We learn that an entire
family residing in the lower part of the city, were poi
soned the other day—Mrs. Malcom Persons, her three
children, father and sister. A negro woman, the
cook, belonging to Mr. John Walker, is strongly sus
pected. At last accounts three of the fami y were bet
ter ; two are still dangerously ill. The negro has runa-
Way ‘ _
Georgia Delegates to the Philadelphia Kno w
Nothing Convention. — A Philadelphia paper repr e ”
sents the following named gentlemen ns delegates 10
tho late Convention in that city, viz; Jacob R. Davi 8 >
F. 11. Cone, Washington Poe, Joshua Hill, C. Leitner*
of Columbia, B, J. Head and J. J. Word.
The Meeting at Buena Vista.
Many of the citizens, cf Marion county, assembled
! at the Court House in this place on Saturday last, in
j response to a previous call, to give expression ot their
{ approbation to the Columbus Movement. The inieet
j ing was organized by calling Win. D. Elam, Esq., to
the Chair, and requesting. Dr. Carter to net as Secre
tary. After the organization of the meeting, Dr. Je
ter moved that no definite action be taken in regard to
the position which the people of Marion county should
take in this movement—and that a committee be ap
pointed to present resolutions for our future action at
i an adjourned meeting—urging as the necessity of such
a course, that a large portion of the people were not
prepared to act differently in the matter. His"proposi
tion -was voted down.
Jct-1 K. Ruahin then offered the following resol a- j
i tinn :
Resolved, That we, as citizens of Marion county,
mutually agree and pledge ourselves and our honors to
withdraw from ali other political organizations, both
Whigs, Democrats, Know Nothings, Anti-Know Noth
ings, Temperance party, and all other political organi
zations whatever. And we further agree to know ik
North, on South, no East, no West, but mutually’
agree to form a Constitutional Republican Party. And
that the chairman appoint a committee of twelve dis
creet men, from all political parties to report matter for
the action of the meeting. And tho basis of action that,
may be agreed oil by this meeting, vve pledge ourselves
to support and carry out to the best of our abilities.
Dr. Jeter then moved as a substitute, the Demo
cratic resolutions adopted at Miiledgt’villi*, leaving out
all such as nrght bo objected to from party prejudice,
with the following amendment :
Resolved, Th .t we will give to llerschel V. John
son, our couii ! support for Governor of the State o*f
Georgia, at the ensuing Gubernatorial election. Ami
that we will unite as one people and as one party in send -
ing delegates to the Congressional Convention of this f
district, and in nominating and electing a Senator and !
Representative from this county to the next Legisla- |
lure.
These resolutions were supported by Dr. Jeter, in a ;
clear and forcible argument, pioving to a denionstra- !
lion that his resolutions formed the only b.sia upon I
which tho people could he unit’ and. That it was the j
only manuti iu which tho objects of n united party *an !
be accomplished. That it was the only way by which
a sound and reliable National party could be formed.— ‘■
That it was the only way by which Kan.*--.couid be ad- j
mitted a? a slave Flute, and thereby the Union be pro-j
served. That the formation of a party for the protection
of the lights of li e .South upon any other basis was
obliged of necessity to bo extremely sectional—would
not extend beyond tho limits of our own State, and
I would be annihilated in tho next Presidential election.
l)r. Jeter was replied t, by Win. B. Pryor, Esq., in
his usual style of furious bombast, charging the resolu
tions with the attempt to sell out tho Whig and Know
Nothing parties t<< the Democracy, denounced the Dem
ocratic party generally, and Governor Johnson, panic*
ularly, &c.
A vote was then taken upon the substitute, and it was
rejected.
I E. W. Miller, Ifoq , then addressed the meeting up- :
■ on the original iv-feuiions, showing that they wvie on- ‘
| tirely outride of the objects of the meeting. The j
| meeting wn* called t;> give an expression of approba* j
; tfori to the proceedings of the Columbus ‘iTm per mice j
j Hall Meeting, to fonvj a Southern Union party upon .
j a basis there laid down. This resolution propo-ed to ;
j form a “Constitutional Republican Union Party,” upon
* ; the basis to Ik- reported by the committee about to be
j appointed by the Chairman. Mr. Miller having conchi
? dtd his remarks, it'qaes.ed all who were in favor of Dr.
; Jeter’s resolutions to r* tiie ;r<>m tho meeting, when .
j about one half of the meeting withdraw; and many
| who remained did so through curiosity to see what
j would bo done, and lock no part in th subsequent pro
| ceedingß. This many of those who did remain told us
j since the adjournment of the meeting.
’ j The meeting then adopted ih digirati r* solution,
■ appointed a committee of twelve, who reported a ptvarn
j ble and r*solutions urging that the crisis had arrived
i which required the South to be I ‘cue people and on© par
j tv” against North*.in cncioachmcnts—unbracing the
* J doctrine of State Righ:?, acquisition of Cuba, and r.
; separation from nil present existing National organiza
| tion?, which resolutions were supported by a speech
j from Mark 11. Biandfurd, Esq., in which lie gave his
| re;;sons why st Southern party should be formed, and
j tho only reasons which he gave wn?, that- President
, Pierce had removed Bronson from office, and appoint
| ed Reeder to the* Governorship of Kansas. —Advocate
! of the South.
Cuba and the Know Nothing*,
i The public sentiment of tho people of the S ur.U ru
; States is decidedly in favor of the early annexation ol
| Cuba to tho United States. Many Know Nothings
participate in this sentiment. Did it never • •■.*/*! io
the member? of the? American party that their war : >n
catholic? and foreigners, if persisted in, will eventuate
* I in the alienation of the Creole population of the Island
( j from the United Btatv? and thn* render ihe annexation
fl of Cuba morally impossible ? The Creoles of Cuba arc
! all catholics and, lo us, foreigner.’?. Will they seek to
3 ‘ annex their beautiful Wand t> u? where they learn that
? vve are dele uni n and to exeiud them iYom offf.-e mi ao
! count of their religion? Wonder if the Northern au
> thors cf Kuo.v Nothingism did not /tcrctly hope, by
means of tho prejudices it would excite against so reign
-1 ers and catholics, to defect the annexation *t Cuba to
; the United States “because of the existence of slavery
therein ?” Wo tmtic. as a riguitieant fact that the
Philadelphia Grand Council never said ‘ Cuba” once.
5 The question was before the Country, why did they d-’dge
: it? This is another cat in the botomler? meal tub. ot
Know Nothingism, which, like Pandora'” box, is full of
evil and only evil for the South,
q Since the foregoing was writes we foil upon the fol
lowing paragraph in ifn article in the Constitutionalist
cf Republic , communicated by an Old Line Whig t
t ‘ which present? this subject in a very forcible point of
j view':
Is not all the talk at the South, cf opposition to, and
5 abuse and jrrosefiption of Catholics and foreign*:ts, worse
than tomfoolery—i? it not in direct opposition to a long
’ cherished desire ol the South, in one particular at least !
1 I mean the acquisition of Cuba! I should like to know
1 how Cuba could ever ho annexed to the Unin-d Slates, if
j Know Nothingism were to prevail ia this country, even
. though Spain and Cob i, and ail the 4 rest of mankind*’
1 were willing to it upon ‘‘fair toims.” F*r Catholics of
every grade are holding offices in Cuba. The Know Noth
ing creed is, that no Catholic or foreigner shall ever hold
office in our government, under any circumstances what
- ever; and the munhus of the Order are sworn to cany out
j this principle without any mental reservation whatever
It is also u part of their creed that foreigners shall not have
? the^fights of citizenship, or he allowed to vote until they
i have resided in the United States *2l years. Now will any
, Southern man, or any other man of common tense, sup
pose tor a moment that the Cubans would ever consent to
* be annexed to ihi? government, when it i- e-tabli- hed, or
* known fliut they shall be forever debarred from holding
an office, so soon as thev enter the Union ; and that they
will have to remain here 21 years before they arc allowed
; the rights of citizenship, or the light to have a voice in the
j government of the country, by even a vote ! No free man
can suppose for armament, that the Cubans or any other
> people, would consent to Ic annexed to ns under any such
circa instances And vet they can he annexed upon rio
other term?, if Know Nothing principles prevail. The suc
cess, then, of Know Nothingfom is a death blow to the an
* nexaliorvof Cuba, even with the consent of Spain. And.
, Mr. Editor, as this Order spiung up in the hot bed ot Ab
olitionism in the. Northern Mates, does not this effect look
.ike onetd the “aims and objects and purposes'* for which
i was gotten up by its originators ?
Democratic Rally in Columbus.
i There will be a mass meeting of the citizens of Mus
cogee county in Columbus on Saturday, Tth July.—
Governor Johnson, Senator Iverson and other distin
guished citizens will address the people on the occasion.
Tho people generally, without distinction of party, are
1 respectfully invited to attend. The time? are big with
1 great events, and the people have a right to know the
sentiments, opinions are purposes f those who aspire to
office. Lot them come out to our meetings. The De
mocrat-y har no eonevahnenls. Th. v themselves
upon the country, aud will abide the judgment of the
people.
First Congressional District—Alabama.
The contest waxes warm in the first district of Ala
bama. Col. StaJlswcrth, the Democratic nominee,
takes his position upon the Platform of the Georgia De
mocracy. He is 3 Southern Rights Democrat. Percy
Walker, the Know Nothing nominee, takes position
uput) the Platform of the Philadelphia Convention of
the American party. lie was a Southern Rights
Democrat. He denounces both the old parties as tainted
’ with the leprosy spot of Abolitionism ; and in answer to
* the question, “what is the South to do ?” says ; K<vn
lessthe American party can save her she is damned /”
Speech cl Hie lion. A. 11. Stephens at Sparta, i
We learn,says the Federal Union , that Mr, Stephens, 1
deliver.u*. ,:e of the ablest upon the prine ples
of the so called ‘‘American” Party, that he has ever
made, before a very large assemblage in Sparta o t’ri
day 2Grh iast. We understand that he oompKt.lv d
moliahpd every feature of its odious platform, and tlial his
arguments were so convincing as to make several of ihe
most intelligent and honest members of the organization
declare, that if his statements were hereafter verifh'd,
they would come out of the organization.
Mr. Stephens in allusion to the Democratic Platform,
vve understand, referred to it in terms of high admira
tion. and said he stood upon it, and carry him where it J
might, he would be found with its principles. He also
euiogized the forty four Northern Nebraska Democrats
of Congress, and callsd upon all so give them the most
efficient support, for their noble stand for the Consti
tution and the rights of the people under it.
Wlfen Mr. Stephens concluded, Mr. Thomas M.
Turner offered a series of resolutions in advocacy of the
doctrines of the American party. One of them, we un
derstand, was to the effect that a majority of Foreign
ers were now in the service of the United States gov
vernment. We had thought that this fabrication had
been officially, and so completely disproved, that no
man would hereafter dare to circulate it, in order to
bolster up the weakness of a decaying party, and we
are glad that Mr. Stephens stamped it as an uuqulitfod
imposition. Mr. Turner’s resolutions were so riddled,
that not a fragment was left of them.
The chairman put the questu as to their adoption or j
rejection, and, upon ascertaining the vote, declared that
they were iost.
Amid the confusion of adjournment, a Know NutSi
ing called upon all in favor oi* the resolutions t* rise,
and without asking those opposed to them to rise also
he, to the great amusemet of the crowd, took upon
himself the powers of the chairman, and declared them
adopted. But before this took place, the crowd were •
I nearly all dispersed.
| Weave glad to learn that Mr. Stephen's speech had j
j a powerful effect in Hancock, and that it wiil be a me- j
! morable incident in the history of those who had the j
j pleasure oi* hearing it.
The Action of the Georgia Know Nothing?* f
When we heard that the Georgia Know Nothings j
were in Convention at Macon on the 27th, wo !
! hoped they had met together for the purpose of ;
j disbanding their organization. It never occurred
I to us that any respectable body of men in the
State of Georgia would attempt to build up a party on
the Philadelphia Platform. There i9 no accounting, ■
however, for the actions ol desperate men intent on the \
acquisition of the spoils. The eftort to dissolve the |
Democratic party having failed ; tho responses to the j
Columbus movement having shown the irreconcileable j
elements composing the American party ; the desperate j
political gamesters who met in Macon on the 27th inst., j
resolved, as a last chance to retrieve their desperate j
fourtwnes, to stake them all upon the Know Nothing !
; card. We have a meagre account of the proceedings j
J of the Council in an extra from the office of the Jour- j
! nal Messenger. We publish it in foil iu another j
j column. “The Platform and Principles of the Ameri- j
; can Party of the State of Georgia, *‘ is a curious piece j
iof mosaic work. The first resolution “ratifies and ap- !
I proves the Platform of Principles adopted by the late j
| National Cuuncil h os the American party, iv. Philadel- j
■ phia ’* This piwiaus document has already appeared ;
j in our columns. It declare? that the “Union of the j
I United States i? the paramount political good;” that 1
i the Supremo Court is the only tribunal tn ascertain !
| and expound constitutional questions; and pretermits !
i any expression of opinion as to the constitutional power i
i of Cunzres* ever the subject of slavery in the Territo- ‘
l ies. These big!, federal'doctrines were, no doubt, dis- :
tasteful to the GeotgiaCouncil and to avoid them, they j
have tacked on to them eight more resolutions, some of
which are in the teeth of the Philadelphia Platform. ,
To the 4th resolve, they re-affirm the Georgia Platform j
of 1850 and pledge themselves to stand by and carry ‘
out its principles. Now it is well known that the j
Georgia Platform expressly asserts that th** Union is ‘
secondary to the rights and principles it was designed j
to perpetuate : and that in ihe solemn resolve to resist j
tiie action af four specified points, the |
Georgia Convention took the responsibility of inter
preting the constitution for itself in utter disregard of \
the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United
States. Thus it will be seen that the two Platforms are \
wholy irrccouciie&ble and that no party can stand on j
both. The one ia founded upon State Rights and'looks j
to State remedies. The other i? old Federalism revived J
and pledges the people of Georgia to submission to any i
outrage Congress may perpetrate upon Southern Rights, !
which the Supreme Court may sanction. Such du
plicity as this is beneath contempt. It is a wretched at- 1
tempt to run with the hare and hun*. with the hounds, j
It can fool nobody who is not determined to be bain- ;
boozl* *l.
But this i* but one of many of the attempts made i
by this wretched council to deceive the people. In :
th ir seventh resolution they concur in the opinion ex- •
pressed in th*.* meeting of the citizens of Columbus, held
on the 26th May, “that ilie lime has arrived when •
our feilow citizen? should cease from their dissensions
aud forget the differences which have separated them” ■
and pledge the Know Nothings to “cheerfully co
opt rate with all who may unite with (them) in the en- ‘
dearer to accomplish so noble and patriotic an object.” j
N*w it will be remembered that the Columbus'move- ;
m -at looked to a dissolution of all connection with exist- [
ing organizations and the formation of a party upon the ;
Georgia Platform of 1850. We have already shown i
!;< w irreoonrifoabte are the Georgia and Philadelphia ;
Platforms. If we aro right in our interpretation, then
!lie glaring insincerity of this 7th resolution is palpable. :
The truth of this position was foil and acknowledged by :
ihe citizens of Columbus who started the Columbus
movement. They expressly advised the Know Nothing
j S*ate Council to make no nomination for Governor.—
! They did so because the American party was an exist
ing national organization, formed for other objects and
purposes than the union of the South to resist “a com -
mon danger and common enemy.”
The second resolution of the Platform is equally iiisin- j
cere and deceptive. It “utterly disclaims any intention >
to prescribe a religious test as a qualification for office ;*’ j
yet it is known that the members of the American party j
are sworn not to vote for a Catholic for any office : nay,
more ; the Catholic Know Nothings were excluded
from seats in the Philadelphia Grand Council solely on
account of their religion.
The sixth resolution denounces “all opposition to the
j principles of the Nebraska-Kansas act, in relation to
i slavery, as hostility to the constitutional rights of the
‘ South; and a!! persons who partake in such opposi
tion p.s unfit to be recognized as members of the
j American party.” This all sounds very well. But
, what power has the Georgia Council to read even such
, Southern traitors as Rayner, of N. C , and Stewart, of
Ala., cut of the party. They denounce the Nebraska
j Kansas act as “an outrage upon the North” and yet
[ they are members of the National Grand Council
i which gives the law to the Georgia State Council.
But the most deceptive of all the series of resolutions
; embraced in the Platform of the Georgia Know Noth
ings i- the 9th. ‘ In the favor of the acquisition of Cuba !*’
What ? Add 1,000,000 Foreigners and Catholics to j
the voting population of the United States by a dash of |
the pen ? It. cannot he possible ? Yet such is the j
meaning of the resolution.
The denunciations of the Federal and State admin- j
istrations are a matter of course. It is sufficient that |
they were Democratic to secure Know Nothing hoslili- !
ty. In the last canvass For Governor the appointments i
of the President were passed upon by the people of
Georgia,and in the main approved. IK* has done nothing
hinee to outrage public sentiment. Would it not have
been more patriotic to approve the great measure of
the administration by which the Missouri restriction
was repealed and the South enabled to appropriate
Kansas to her own use ? Could they see nothing in
tbe enforcement of the Fugitive Slave law in Boston
to approve ? Were not his vetoes worthy of commen
dation ? Why then “unqualified condemn’’ the admin
istration ? Even admitting that some objectionable men
have been appointed to office, is not this a small matter
when compared with the great measures of the admin
istration ? Without wasting further space upon this
matter, vve affirm that under the present admistration
the Smith occupies a more controlling position than she
had enjoyed under any other since Andrew Jacksou
sat in the Presidential chair.
The attack upon Governor Johnson*e administration
is not made in direct berms : wo presume, however,
that the resolution about tho State Road was intended
to reflect upon him. The only objection we ever heard
made to the management of the State Road is that
freights were too high. Ia it the purpose of the Know
Nothings to reduce them aud thus make this great
work a charge upon the people? We would like to ;
meet that issue.
We have now gone through with this Georgia Know
Nothing Platform, and our judgment is, that it is a !
poor, weak, sickly concern, which must break down be- ‘
fore the canvass is half over. Every body can see that j
k is a botch, constructed of all sorts of timber, and ereo- !
j |ed by ’prentice hands. L is a miserable effort to ;
trpiteaH persons, factions, cliques, orders and parties j
in opposition to the Democracy, and is but another evi- {
dence of “the wild hunt after office’’ that characterizes !
the age. With one breath they propose to check for- \
eign immigration; with the next to add 1,000,000;
foreigners to our population. With one breath they de- j
nonne? the Catholics ; with tho nest they are anxious j
to add a State to the Union in which the whole popula
tion are Catholics. With one breath they assert that
the Supreme Court of the United States is the only le
gitimate tribunal to decide upon the constitutionality of
laws; with the next they adopt the Georgia Platform
by which Georgia assumes the right to judge for her
self of infractions of her constitutional rights. \\ ith
•ne breath they declare “the Union tube the paramount
political good with the next lhe> pledge themselves j
to the Columbus Movement the princpal object of w hich
I was to prepare the people of Georgia for dissoluton un
der certain contingencies.
The statue at Rhodes strided the harbor ; hut this
modern divinity like the American Eagle of 4th July
orators, dips one wing in the Atlantic and the other in
the Pacific, drinks out of tho lakes, and flaps its tail iu
the Gulf of Mexico. It plants or.e foot on Federalism,
and the other on States Rights. It's as double faced as
Janus. It is all things to all men. W e are ashamed
!of it. There is nothing in it to admire.
The Cluonicle Ac Ssntinel on the Columbus
.Movement.
In this connexion, it may not be improper to notice a
I very puerile effort of the Columbus Times to misrepre*
| sent the objects and purposes of the advocates of the
j movement, by publishing an extract from the Columbus
i Corner Stone, an open and avowed disunion, for the sake
| of disunion, organ, which declines it h sectional move
ment, and therefore favors it. If that was the purpose of
; the editor of the Corner Stone in participating in the
meeting at Columbus, he will find when the convention
meets, that he reckoned without his host, and was entire
ly out of place in that meeting. Else there is no judging
*-f public sentiment, by the avowals <>f the people in their
j primary assemblies.— Chronicle f Sentinel,
i Without stopping to repcll the charge of “inisresenta
tion,” which is false, contained in the foregoing extract,
• we pass on t<> say that it the U dumbus movement is not
j sectional it is utterly contemptible and cannot carry a
! county iu the second congressional district. We de
| nounced it from the first because we believed it to be an
• attempt to perpetrate a fraud upon the people of this dis
j trict by pretending to be sectional while in fact it was a
! mere reconstruction of the old Whig party under anew i
| name. That our denunciations were well funded, the
, above extract fr m the Chronicle f Sentinel conclusive- j
|!y proves. The auti-Kuow Nothing Democrats, who
j joined the Columbus movement aud made It iexpectable, J
; were, and are, violent Southern Rights men, with strut g :
leanings towards disuuiou, That their object and pur- ,
1 pose was the formation ot a sectional party, we know, aud I
1 r sped them accordingly. Once prove to them that the
• movement is national and not sectional, and tin y would
| fly from it r.s fjorn the plague. Whil* we dis- j
, for from these patriotic men as to the policy o;’ the tor- j
i mation of a st-tional party at this time, we h;.v.- warned
them ngaiual being carried oft’ by the ( olumbis n ove- !
merit into a national organization out side of the D m< *
I eratic party. Instead, therefore, of misrepresenting tho
1 Columbus movement as charged by tho Chronicle tj-
Scntinel t our effort has been to kill it by shoeing that it
’ was national and not sectional. If the t h inge of uatfon
j ality is established, there is an end of tho Columbus move
j merit in this section, and we tender our tlmnks to the
! Chronicle Sentinel for its valuable aid in sustaining
our charge.
The Know Nothing Nominee I’or Governor.
j The Han. Garnett Andrews is a resident of Wilkes
j County, Ga. Ho filled the office of Judge of the Su
; perior Court for some years and acquired very great
j notoriety fqr a decision by which Universa’ists were
| prevented from giving evidence in a Court of justice,
|on account of their religious belief. He would seem
: to be a fit representative of a party which would ex
! elude Catht! es from office oo account of their religion
; and foreign born citizens from the polls, ou account
: of their birth place.
We ore not aware that he ever held any political office.
; At any rate, the fame of his political acts has never j
| reached us, and we do not know where to find them. !
; On the 31st August, 1850, he wrote a letter which j
; was published in the Columbus Enquirer, on the Bth j
! October 1850. By the kindness of the conductors of j
that journal, we have been favored will) a re-perusal cf
i that remarkable State paper. In these troublous times,
! when section is arrayed against section, and the word
resistance iB upon every tongue, we had some curiosity to
! know how lion. Garnett Andrews felt during a similar
period in our history. We regret to say that the sen
timents contained in hi? letter satisfy us that he is the
last man in Georgia who ought to be trusted with pow
;er in this momentous crisis in our affairs. There was ;
a class of Union men in that day who differed with
us as to the remedy for the evils with which the South
i was threatened ; but they looked the North sternly in
the face, and in the solemn language of the 4th resolu
tion of the Georgia Platform, pledged the Slate of Geor
gia “lo iesist even, as a last resort, lo a disruption of
every tie that bound her to the the Union,” if the Con
gress of the United States infringed certain specified
constitutional rights of tho South. Wo thought the
time had come for Georgia to act; we think so still ;
but Georgia decided differently, and we, as loyal citi
zens, submitted to her decision. We then took our
1 stand Ufon the fighting line of the Georgia Platform,
| and are now willing to lock shields with nil men, with*
| out regard to former divisions, and die on that line,
i Is Hon. Garnett Andrews ou that line ? Was he
ever on that line ? Can he ever get up to that line ?
We fear not. Our only meaus of forming an opinion j
upon tliis interesting subject, is his aforesaid letter, from i
which we cull the following extracts : He says : “It
has not yet been shown, or hardly attempted to be
shown, that disunion would remedy any wrong, or give
security to any right of the South. So far from it, it
would remedy no evil , and would destroy the main se
curity for slavery.”
The Georgia Platform men did think so. Read
the 4th resolution and judge for yourselves.
But hear the Know Nothing nominee again : “But
says rampant chivalry, shall we always submit to ag- j
gression, outrage and inequality • No. When an act ,
of aggression shall be committed that shall infringe our :
rights, I would recommend an appropriate resistance, j
IN’hat appropriate resistance is, v.e aro not so tdearly
informed. It i9 not disunion, however, in the opinion
;of Judge Andrews. Hear him again .
| “1 consider a dissolution no remedy for, or resistance i
jto anything. If the Wilmot Proviso were passed”—
he would resist even, as a last resort, to a disruption ;
lof every tie that binds Georgia to the Union ? No, ,
I Sir. 4 I would advise,’* says Judge Andrews, “a col
onization of the country by force of a'uns, as a better :
! remedy than a dissolution of the Union.”
But we must close this sickening record. We are •
sorry Garnett Andrews was nominated by even the ;
Know Nothings, la the forcible language of Mr. Web- ;
stt-r, “it was a nomination not fit to be made*’ in this cri- j
sis of our affairs. We would be u nder many obligations !
to his supporters if they would ask him “what course he j
would pursue as Governor of Georgia if Kansas were I
refused admission into the Union because of slavery.” j
Manufacturers’ and Mechanics’ Bank.— We call
the special attention of business men to the advertise
ment of this institution. K. T. Taylor, the President,
is well known in this community as a gentleman of ca
pacity and honesty. J. 11. Fonda, Cashier, is a com
parative stranger, but brings with him the highest tes
timonials from unquestionable sources as to his qualifi
cations and character. We believe tbe public will be
entirely safe in dealing with the bank under its present
organization.
The Charge of Disunion Renewed.
. While the Southern Union men in this section Bre
denouncing the Democratic party as the Submission
party, the advocates of the movement ia other parts of
the State are charging them with beiug u Disunion
party. In commenting upon Governor Johnson’s last
j letter the Savannah Republican says :
! “It will bo seen that his Excellency, like Gov. Towns,
seems anxious lo precipitate the horrors of disunion
| upon the country- He is already putting his house in
! order for that event.’*
i Now the truth is that the Georgia Democracy are
! neither submissionists nor disunioniats. They stand
! . upon the 4th resoultion of the Georgia Platform. If
j either of the four points of that resolution are violated,
\ the Georgia Democracy are pledged to disunion as a last
j resort. If the rights of the South are respected by the
j Federal Government,the Georgia Democracy will be sub
j missionists as will be every other good oitizen.—
| There is no doubt about the wisdom of their po-
I si tion. It is sufficiently sectional for all practical
purposes. While they are pledged to “the horrors of
disunion” in the event of a violation of the four points
of the Georgia Platform, they are in favor of n constitu
tional union. No man can object to this position unless
he is a disunionist per se, or a submissionist per se. —
Governor Johnson had nothing to do with “putting
the house (Georgia) in order.” That was done by the
Union Republicans in 185$. Governor Johnson stands
j square footed upou the Georgia Platform. Unless the
Convention of 1850 was “anxious to precipitate tho
horrors of disunion upon the country,’* then it is an out
rage upon decency for the supporters of that Convention
to charge Governor Johnson with “putting his house in
order for that event.” \A ill the Republican answer a
plain question ? Suppose Congress shall violate either
of the four points of the Georgia Platform, will it advo
cate resistance or submission ? Governor Johnson is
for resistance. So arc the Georgia Democracy. So is
the State, come what will,
Louisiana and Georgia.
At the recent Democratic State Convention of Louisi
ana, held at Baton Rouge, the following ticket for Slate
officers was nominated with general approval :
“For Governor, R. C. Wick lift e : (Jentcnunt Gover
nor, C. H. Moulon ; Secretary of State, A. S. Herron ;
Treasurer, C. E. Groneaux ; Auditor. Samuel F. Marks;
Superintedent ot Public Education, Samuel Bard ; At
torney General, E. W. Moise.
The New Orleans Bulletin (Whig) says “this is most
indubitably a strong ticket.” But the most gratifying
part of the proceedings was the adoption of the ‘‘Georgia
Platform,” which, though we have more than once pub
lished it, deserves to be repeated iu connection with this
important sanction. It reads thus :
“That the State of Georgia, in the judgment of this
Convention, will and ought to resist, even (as a last resort)
to u disruption of every tie which binds her to the Union,
any action of Congress upon t lie subject of slavery in the
District of Columbia, or in places subject to the jurif-dio.
tion of Congress, incompatible with the safety, domestic
tranquilty, the rights and honor of the slaveholding States;
cr any act suppressing the slave trade the slave
holding States ; or any refusal to admit as a State any
j territory hereafter applying, because of the existence of
j slavery therein ; or any act prohibiting the introduction
i of slaves into the territories of Utah and New Mexico :
j or any act repealing cr materially modifying the laws in
force for the recovery of fugitive slaves.”
Upon this point the Commercial Bulletin remarks :
“ibis is a rational, national, conservative profession of
: faith, which every good citizen can subscribe to, and the j
party that does not adopt it in its details, as well a? iu the
! aggregate, cannot expect to be sustained by Southern ,
! votes.”
This is the language of a Whig paper, and shows that j
there is, independent of. any party organization, a fooling ‘
; in Louisiana, strong enough to control any tendency to
: mere, “Unionism” at the expense of Southern right? and
safety, They have come to feel there, that there is im
! pending a great struggle of principles in which victory
is saf- ty, and defeat isbjth injury and dishonor.
on Mery’ car
Response oI Troup County to the Columbus
Mo vrniput.
A meeting of citizens of Troup county was held in
LaGrange on the 16th, to respond to the Columbus
Movement. After passing resolutions heartily approv
ing the objects of the movement; and inviting the co
operation of members of all existing parlies ; the follow
ing resolution was otferred by A. T* Fannin K<q., and
adopted by the meeting ;
Resolved, r J hat the primary object of this meeting i? the
perpetuity of the Union, for tho preservation of our rights
and interests. For tho security of this patriotic aim, we
pledge co operation with constitutional organizations, or
parties, North, South, East or West ; discarding the pre
judice or favoritism ol past political affiliation.
This looks to us, like an effort to transfer the Colum
bus Movement men to the Philadelphia boards. The
great mass of Know Nothings, with whom we have con
versed, avow their satisfaction at the platform of princi
ples adopted by the Grand Couucil, at Philadelphia,
and express a determina ion to adhere to the organiza
] tion. is not this “the Constitutional organization,’* afo
! luded to iu Mr. Fannin’s resolution, and with which the
| citizens of* Troup “pledge co-operation ?*’ We suspect
| so. At any late there is a wonderful similarity in “the
j primary objects” of the two Conventions. Tho Phila
delphia Convention regarded “the Union of the United
States as the paramount political good.” “The primary
object*’ of the Troup meeting “is the perpetuity of the
U oion.*’
Oar Muscogee fusiouists certainly professed a very
different object. They said they regarded “the Un
ion as secondary to the rights it was designed to se
cure,” and that “the primary object*’ of the meeting
was “the protection of Southern Rights.”
Tn© response of Troup is not an echo of the voice of
Muscogee. Can such discordant elements be fused be
fore Bth August. There is great power, we know, in
a Know Nothing blow pipe. It brought Albert Pike,
of Arkansas, and Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts,
cheek by jowl in the Philadelphia Grand Council and
may reconcile the Union-savers of Troup and the
union-haters of Muscogee. The experiment is a curious
one and wo will watch its progress with interest. The
result may be expeoted to be announced by the 9th
A UgUßt.
Georgia Know Nothings in Council.—The
Georgia Know Nothings met in Slate Convention at
Macon on Wednesday 27th inst. A large delegation
attended tho Convention from this place, and among
them are several of the leading members of the Co
| lumbux movement. What does this mean ? I? it un
\ derstuod that it is not necessary for a Know Nothing
to quit the National American Party before he be
comes a leader in the No Party party.
East Alabama Female College.—We are iu re
ceipt of an annual catalogue of this flourishing institution
located at Tuskegee, Ala. It is under the patronage of
: the Baptist Church. During the current year there
: were 219 pupils in attendance.
Ciiunnynuggee Fkmalf Collfqe.—W© are in re
i eeipt of the first annual catalogue of the Channvnug
; geo Female College, located at Chunnynuggee, Macon
County, Ala., and under the charge of Rev. Win. H.
Ellison, D. I). There ore 74 pupils in attendance.—
, The Board of instruction is a very superior one. The
; covnunity that patronzies the school is one of the most
cultivated, refined and moral hi the country. We know
i of no Female College more worthy of public confi
| dence and support.
Georgia Military Institute.—Gov. Johnson has
: appointed Capt. P. 11. Colquitt, of this city, one of the
! Board ofVistors to the Georgia Military •Institute at
■ Marietta. The Borud convenes on the 9th proximo.
The Georgia Delegation to the Know Nothing j
| Convention , —Much curiosity has been exhibited to j
; know who had been selected t< represent the Know
; Nothing? of Georgia iu the Philadelphia Convention. ‘
i The National Intelligencer of the 16th inst. reveal? the ;
| secret. It appears that, Poe, Cone, Hill, Davis, Leit
! ner, Head and Word are the names of the Georgia
delegation. Poe we know, and Cone we know, and
wo have heard of Hill, Word and Davis. But who in
the name of darkness are Leitner and Head ?
Wilkes Republican Office for Sale. —This office is
offered for sale. It has a good subscription list, and a
handsome advertising list. All the materials arc nearly
new, and the supply of type abundant for the paper and
job work. To an approved purchaser the terras will
be liberal. An early application is desired.
Janies W. Darker an Abolitionist.
Janies W. Baker, the ex-High Priest of Kn ~,
Nothingism and tho leadt-r of the order in New TANARUS,, r k
is an avowed Abolitionist. We make the assertion v }i . J
the authority of a speech of his made at a recent Know
Nothing council and reported in the New York Times
The following is his language :
“Much 'excitement and bad feeling havebr. n .... . c ,i ...
the order in consequence o! the course'pm >n< <! i , .
ot'our brothers upon the election of Uuited Stafos rs*:
last winter, but that question is now settl.d ; and L u. .
much we may admire the anti slavery views of Mr.
ard, we cannot support him, for he is opposed to thi? O.
der. I know that Mr. Seward’s views upwii -the Slav
• question coincide with mine, and aU with the vie..- , r
roost of* our brethren of the Northern States.”
Now if William 11. Seward is an Abolitionist,
W. Barker isjone also, for he say?, “Mr. Seward’*
views upon the slavery question coincide with uiin
and also with the view? of most oi* our brethrt nos tr....
Northern States.’* Will the South he cheated into
affiliation with such a fanatical crew by the unmeaning
generalities of the Philadelphia Platform ?
. But this extract from the speech of the ex G; . ;
i Sachem proves another thing which we have over ard
again asserted, namely, that the opposition to Wm. 11.
Seward on the part of a portion of the New York
Know Nothings was independent of his abolitionism.
Mr. Barker makes this point perfectly clear. Ho Fay
“However much we may admire the anti-slavery v,-w,
of Mr. Seward ,we eaunot support him, for he is
\ po?ed to this order.”
Now when it is remembered that the New York
| Know Nothings alone, of th*-* Northern members of p
; order, stood firmly by the South in the Philadeiph:;
j Grand Council, aud that James W. Baker is regarded
as the soundest and most conservative of tho membei.-
of the order in New York, soma idea may be form
of the feasibility of building up a national party, t!.s.
shall prove true to the South on the slavery question,
out of Know Nothing materials. The planks to bo ust-d
are ail rotten.
Hancock County Jieeting.
A meeting of tho citizens of Hancock county, with u;
distinction of party, was held at Sparta on the 22d iu-
The object of the ineetiug was to appoint delegates u
a Convention to nominate a candidate for Congress
the third district upon the Platform of the Georgia I.)
mocracy. Hon. Linton Stephens took an active i.r:
in the deliberations ol* the meeting. The* following
lotion among others were adopted :
Resolved , That we cordially approve the poliu. al pfo;
form made by the late Convention at Miliedgeville; o| the
sth inst , and will co-operate without former dMiet’fofH
party, in all laudable effort? to secure the triumph of u,
principles.
The notion of the people of Hancock is worthy of
general imitation. Nothing keeps Georgia Wh:.
and Democrats asunder except the ambition of party
leaders. We aro all agreed upou principle.
Governor Johnson's Appointments.
We to-day a coi rected ii?t of Governor
son’s appointments in South Western Georgia. V : ,
which have published the first list are respectfully i*
quested to follow copy. We congratulate the people .*,
this section of the State upon the opportunity now ..fo ~
ed of hearing one of Georgia’s most distinguished 3n i
reliable statesmen upon the great question? nnw
ting the public mind.* Governor Johm..;i has so *
equals iu the State as a popular orator. Hfo Hoco.;
is graceful, fluent and impressive. II scorns the an,
I of the demagogue, and add rosso# himself to ti: *
j sense of the people. Let all citizens attend hi? appoim
j ments. They will be wt*li repaid for the time and
i trouble.
The Know Nothings and the Columbus
Movement.
Our readers will bear as witness that we It.ivc eoa?i,;r t~
j!y urged tiie Democrats of Mus* ogetbounty m
i a preliminary tu co.operating, with Know Nothings in rU
Columbus movement that they come out of the id.:.
The wisdom ol our Advice is vindicated h v the . v.:
Many of the leading members of the order, who partifop .1
in the Columbus movement, were delegates to t! < .e
| Know Nothing convention at Macon and are command
thereby to” the support of thePhilaffolphin Platform a:.:
! the nominee of the party.
A Southern Sectional Organization.
We do not think there is any danger u> the Sound
j or the Union iu the formation of a Southern sections;
i organization, provided the South could be united in
• movement. We have always contended, and how bt
: lieve, that the North would yield whatever the South
would demand with firmness and unanmity. But th
j danger is, that if the Southern Democracy should form
| on a Southern line, the opposition in the South would
: raise the Union standard again, and conquer them :e*
i they did in 1850. In order to avoid this calamity ti
j Georgia Democracy formed upon the 4lh resolution •
| the Georgia Platform, to which the entire Union party
I in Georgia is commuted. We place before them the
j alternative of co operating with ns or of abandoning
their own fighting line. If they co-operate with us.
i even in an opposing organization, all is well. If they
j back out, they forfeit public confidence and give u* un
j easy victory.
M ill thtt Nth August Convention he Held f
It was understood that if the Columbus movement fa !-
! ed to unite the people of Georgia, the leading Democrat
| who participated in it were pledged to tiill back upon the
j Democratic party. The object of the movement ha? fail
■ ed. The fight iti Georgia will be between the Demoe
! racy and the Know Nothings. It now becomes the duty
I of those men to take sides between these two parties.—
The body of the people are on one side or tho other. \
third party will be crushed in the collision of these oppos
ing hosts. We therefore hope that the Convention of th i
Bih of August will not be held, and that our friends who
have gone off from ns will come hack and aid u? in sus
taining tiie Platform of Georgia Democracy ag .uist the
Philadelphia Platform of the Know Nothings.
A Valuable Recruit. — We learn by a private left*.r
from Polk county that th a Republican Union , ol* Cedar
Town, heretofore a rank Know Nothing paper which
flaunted at its masthead the name of C. J. Jenkins for
Governor, has recently changed hands, end will here
after be under the editorial control of 11. Fielder, Esq ,
& thorough auti-Know Nothing Democrat. The-next
issue of the Union , we understand, will raise the name
of H. V. Johnson as its candidate for Governor.—At
lautu Intelligencer.
Mercer University. —We learn from tho Temps*
ranee Runner of the lGth inst., that the final examina
tion of the Senior Class of this institution took place on
Tuesday and Wednesday <4 last week, afa r which th.*
honors were conferred as follows : Dt honor upon
j F. E. Wimberly, and 2*l upon G. M. Patterson and
| A. S. Worrell, and the 3d upon •], A. Simmons and
B. F. Walker. There are eighteen members in *ihs
graduating class. The commencement day occurs on
Wednesday the 251 h day of July.
Sudden Death in Staunton , Virginia —On M*n
--j dao afternoon Dr. Jos. Addison Waddell, an old and
highly respectable citizen of Staunton, died quite sud
; denly. I! was in the 65th year of his age. He was
a son of the “Blind Preacher,” whose eloquence was
immortalized by W irt in the “British Spy.” Dr.
Waddell was a physician of great eminence in his pro
fession, and a man of pure and elevated piety v Through
the whole of his long life he enjoytd the highest con
fidence and respect of all who knew him.
Elections to Take Place. — Alabama, Arkaimi
i lowa, Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas, hold their eleo
| tions on the first Monday in August; Tennessee on the
. first Thursday, and North Carolina on the second
Thursday, of the same month. On the second Monday
in September the election in Maine occurs, that of
Vermont on the first Tuesday of the same month, and that
of Georgia on the first Monday in October. In Alabama,
Georgia, Kentucky, Texas, and North Carolina aud
Tennessee, members of Congress are lobe elected. In
the other States mentioned, they were elected last,
year.
Valedictory Addrr??.—Dr. Wm. YV, Fiewe’fen, ot
this city, has been chosen to deliver the Va'ediotory Ad
dress before the graduating class in the Atlanta M*di
eal College.