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J—James E. &card,ol Thom 19.
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.11. J. Craivl jrJ, of v ?u-c:>free.
. ’ “ James) M. Smith, of Upson.
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*• Hiram Wunur, of 31eriu*ether
U “ Jno. 11. Lumpkin, us FlcyJ.
6:h 16 Howell Cobb, o! Chirke.
Circulate the Document—Know No bingism
Revealed.
We have on hand several Tracts for the Times
which we will sell low fur cash,
1. Tract of 20 pages containing A. Cl. Stephens’
speeches at Augusta and SparU, Wm. Moseley’s letter,
the vote upon the Nebraska*Kansas Bill, the Democrat
o Platform, occ.: $8 per hundred.
2. Tract of eight pages containing the Constitution
and By Laws, oaths, grips, pass words, e! cetera, of the
Order of Know Nothingism ; $5 a hundad.
“Nullification in Georgia.’*
In the face of the “Columbus m vement,” and when
the Know Nothing press of Geoigia were in full cry
upon the Democratic party as a submission party, be
-0 use it refused to cut off all connection with those good
and true men at the North who stood by the South on
the Nebraska Kansas act, Governor Johnson wrote ua
as follows i “I predict that in less than 30 Jay* the
Know Nothing press will be down on us in full cry as dis
unionists, in oiuer to frighten Union men.” The ink
was hardly dry before the Savannah Republican ralstd
the cry. It was not echoed back by the Know Nothing
press in other parts of the Staie—the Columbus move
ment was not then dead—-but every act of that party
since, gives ossuranco that the Governor’s prediction
will be verified before the canvass closes. Upon no
other supposition can we account for the nomination of
such a man as Garnett Andrews as tuu candidate of
the party for Governor of Georgia in this crisis In our
afiaira. This by the way.
The caption of this article heads a leader in the
Journal oj Commerce , of July bth, in which not only is
Governor Johnson taken to task for his letter upon the
Platform, but the solemn resolves of the peo
ple of Georgia in Convention issc moled are treat*d
with sovereign contempt; the right of Georgia, in any
event, to dissolve the ties that bind her in thy Union is
emphatically denied ; the ‘“proclamation” is insultingly
flung in her face; and &he is told that if she dates to
go out of the Union, * the faithful Stales ’ mus: “bring
her back, p aceably if they can, forcibly if they must.”
B avc words, gentlemen, very brave words. G.d for
bid that Georgia should ever be dnveti ;u the all* rna
tive o|‘pu:tmg her r solve* into t xeeu mn. But if Con
gress shall, by a reckless and sregard of constltuiionai old -
gallons, to ee her to dissolve the tics that bud her to
the Union, there is not power enough in all the Slates
combined to vthip her back into the Union. She has
within ler limits 130,0'‘11 sons capable . f bear.rig aims,
not on • of whom would hesitate to pp.'**- lit ■ world in
arms at the command of In r soveieigu p< wo. Ex*cu
live pioclamali.ins have no ierror for G*u**u>ii . 1 he)
have hta and the thunders of Was dogloii ei> •**, h.t ih.-
Ticat) was executed, lake's was bung, and Worcester
wa>* ii ga cerate din the woh of her Pc..it n uiy.
These silly threats, Geo gi i aid tier <v"pj.- despise.
But we dcpiecate more ill mwe far arr .and trgwiih the
false log o by vvhii.lt so respectable ;i p'.pt r a- i|i> Jjur~
nal of Commerce attempis to buda up a Hiiti.ff uspot
ism ill these estates, arouitd which tne a>- er. igo States
of this confederacy shall play as planets around a ?uu ;
and to them we prop so to devote a space, ITcse
arguments we shall notice and refute in their older.
The Journal of Comma ce assumes that the Unit and
Slates are one people and not a federation ol Statts. It
attempts to establish this old f* tier and ht .a -y t\ asa rling
Ist, that the Declaration of American Independence
was ‘'the act of the people in their on Ud eapac.ty.”
The editor is singularly ignorant << , f.,c sos ihia
eventful period in our history. Docs ho not know that
the delegates from each of the oid thine, n adui under
instructions from their own people? Does iie not
know that the “declaration” was delayed Dr a conside
rable space of time because the Pennsylvania delegation
Were not agreed as to the propriety of the measure ?
But it is usele?s to waste words upon this point. We
copy from the proceedings of Cong cr; :
Monday, July 1, 1776.
“A resolution of the Convention ofM ryluud, passed
the 28th of June, was laid before Congress and read,”
containing the following instructions to their deputies in
Congress : “That the deputies of said colony , or any
three or more of them, he authorized and empowered
to concur with lho other united colonies, or a majority
of them, in declaring the uuited colonies free and hide
pendent States,” tfcc. It is clear then that the Mary
land deputies acted for Maryland alone ur. ler instruc
tions from Maryland alone ; and the idea that they
could act for any “other colony’’ is excluded by tuc fad
that they were to concur with (not to net ft) the other
united colonies. They were also instructed to declare
the united colonies “free and independent States.’’ —
This also is the language of the declaration. These
words imply a preservation of Stato boundaries and
States lights. If the object had been tc make a con
ttolida’ed people, the delegates would have been in
structed to declare “the united colonits a free and in
dependent State, empire or nation.” And the facts
correspond with this view of the subject. The Slates
were independent of each other and each for itself en
tered the confederation that was afterwards found, as wo
shall hereafter show.
The Journal of Commerce next tries to prove that
the United Slates arc one consolidated people because,
it says/the nrticl s *>f confederation are styled “articles
j%f conted. ration and perpetual union,’’ and “the repre*
! sentativ. s s hmly plight and engage” the faith of their
respective consti uencies “that the articles liurtof shall
be inviolably observed by the States \v r.Hpietively
r present, and that the union shall be perpt lu al/’—
Will what of ;t? Lu l the ‘‘perpetual union” refer
red t-, the union of the States as confederal* ? and
not if the people as a consul.dated mass? The ques
tion is tio plain for comment. And now to recur to
the* first proposition.
if the I )e ‘(.nation of lodepend me Mi.de the people
of.he United States one people , by wh .t authority do
the r* presentativi sos ihe several Suites in these artieles
ot cott deration ( light and engage the faith of iheir
respective constituencies? The werus imply mat
tacit separate delegation acted fr their nwu a a:csex
clusively. And so the f.cts prove. lie antcl 8 of
C itd'i d* rat *m w. te agreed to by the del ?ga sos the
13 origin ! Sluliß in C agrees a.-sembh i, subject to
the ratification oj the Legislatuies of the seecial
S.a'es. E'ght States rat h and tintu >u he *j-.h du ,
17.8, but all did not ratify them uui l i! - Ist Match,
1781, nr ally three teats af-ei vvuid*. U to this time
i: is dear that the Unit'd buii-a were i>u* and mde*
pendt-u: States and that the people of .be United States
were not vr.e people The perpetual un on thin form
td, wusjimpiy u coiifedetation *f S ate-. And ibis is
Mill more cit hily mnmftstid In in the sac that the pres
ent conatittotiou was ad-.pud by each StiUe for itsib.—
The constitution w nt into operation .*n the 4.h March,
17b9, i having been nit Ii dby 1 1 Mates Two States,
North Carolina and Rind.- llm and. labtied it utieiw.inU
and were admitted into “the more perfect Union
and so far were our fat lit rs from ho'ding : i.it iue Unit, and
Sudes were one people at that da). . .hey extended
the laws, passed before their adnvtover tluec new
members of the Union by eptcid acts.
So far the argument of the Journal o, Commerce is
wholy destitute of plausibility. But -vys the Journal,
‘ the people of the United States, in CV* eoiiun, adopt
ed the present constitution: the people, not of the
States, but of the United Statts, —too * *ne people”—
did this act; and that it might be understood who they
were, and in what capacity thoy acted, tiny described
themselves, and declared their object in the first sen
tence of the constitution, which commences thus:
“We, the people of the United States, iu order to form
a more perfect union, ’ &e.
Now it is a sufticieut answer to this argument to say
that this language was used before the cou*titution was
adopted. “The const tution had net been adopted, and
the States, in urging it, could sidy speak of themselves
in the condition in which they then existed, and not in
that iu which they would exiat under th constitution.”
The fact that after the constitution had been adopted
by the convention that fiarned it, it had no vitality un
til it was ratified by the States separately, each acting
for itself, and that even after it was ral lied by eleven
States it had no power in the limits of the two that did
in t ratify it until two year* had elapsed and then only
by their separate ratifi ‘aliens, shows beyond all contro
versy that the ad’ ptiou of the constitution was nut the
act of the One pee.pie of the United Slates, but the sep*
rate act of the States. But the constitution itself shows
that the people of ‘he Stabs were united under it as
States and not as individuals. The seventh article pro
vides that “the rat ticat'on of the Conventions of nine
States shall he sufficient for the establishment of this
constitution between the Slates so ratifying the
same ” Yes, between the States, not the people of
the States; and between the States 9o ratilkiug it and
not the whole people of the United States. It is clear,
therefore, that the union is a federal union of States
and not a consolidated government. This view of the
1 American union is still further proven by the I Oth
i amend met which provides that “the powers not dile
! gated to the United States by the constitution, nor pro
| hibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people ” Now so far ae these
reserved powers are concerded, the States are clearly
independent of each other as well as of the Federal
Government. So far as they arc concerned, the States
have the same powers as if theae were no union. No
branch of the Federal Government has auy right to
touch them, or to define them. In respect to them the
! State is unquestionably sovereign, and it is as much
bound to protect her citizens iu the enjoyment of them
as any other independent nationality. The Snpreme
Court of the United States cannot reach them ; its
power is confined to that class of questions which arise
under the constitution, laws and treaties of the United
States. Congress cannot decide upon them. The pov
!er of Coagresa is limited by the constitution. They
are States’ R ghts and for their maintenance the States
I r.loue are competent. And hence the Virginia resolu
| tious, which are part and parcel of the creed of the na
j tional Democracy, hold “that in case of a deliberate,
| palpable and dangerous exercise the Federal Gov^
I eminent ) of other powers not granted by the said com
i pact (die constitution) the Slates, who are parties
; thereto have the right, and are in duty bound , to en
| terpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for
: maintaining, within their respective limits, the authori
ties, lights and liberties appertaining to them.”
j Acting upon this high authority, the Georgia Con
; vention of 1830, representing the sovereignty of the
j State, adjudged that “the refusal of Congress to admit
; ns a State any Territory hereafter applying, because of
I tfie existence of slavery theiein,” was a case of adelibe*
! tate, palpable and dangerous exercise of other powers
j not granted by the constitution , and resolved to resist
• its exercise even to a “dissolution of every tie that
’ binds the S ate of Georgia to the Union.” Appre
i h- ndig the exeicißu of (his unconstitutional power by
I Congrt-s* in the rejection of Kansas, Governor Johnson
has expressed his purpose to bring the eubj-ct before
the next Legislature and to recommend to Georgia to
adhere to her Pat form. For this lie is chargt and by
the Savannah Republican , with an anxiety “to pre
cipitate the horrors of disunion upon the country.” The
Journal of Commerce takes up the cry and “is reluc
tant to b-li've tl at the Governor's chances of re-election
are 1 kely to be at all increased, by the utterance of
disunion sentirnen’s nod the contrivance of plans to car
ry them into iffei tand to p. epare tho people of
Georgia for a base abandonment of In r solem pledg-p,
we ar insultingly told that “the benefits and blessings
of the Union would neither he less sensibly felt, nor
less highly appreciated, by the people of Massachusetts
or of Georgia, if Kansas were to conn- into the Union
with or without slavery ” And for fear that this argu
nient would not be conclusive with men whose fathers
precipitated all the horrors of war upon the country be
cause the p oplu of B >slou did not chose to pay a tax
of two pence upon tea. we arc threatened with the ar
my and navy of the United Slates by a g<-ntl man from
Long Island, whose ancestors, we have no doubt, took
British protection in the war of the revolution !
Will the pe pie of Georgia quail before the threats of
her foes ? Will they abandon a faithful public servant
because he has proven true to the great trust confided
to his hands? Come up, Georgia Platform men; tho
Governor is fighting upon your line. Come up, South
ern Rights men ; 3 our long looked for hour has come.
Georgia has raised the banner of resistance to uncon
stitutional legislation ; let ua carry it in triumph, or gal
lantly fall with our feet to the foe. There must be no
backing now, A firm and unblushing front will save
! our rights in the Union or—out of it.
Address of the American Party.
! In a previous issue wo met and refuted the chargee
| made in the address against the Catholic church in the
| United States. We propose to notice other parts of the
address. And first as to the Platform. The address
I asserts Ist, “that the Philadelphia Platform received the
! sanction of tie representation of 18 Slates in that
: body, including the great State of New York, and the
American patty of Pennsylvania has ratified it.” This
is not true. There were but 17 States that voted for
the Platform, unless the District of Colombia is a
“State,’* and one of these is the State of California—
a State which has always voted with the South. This
loaves “the groat State of New York” alone of ;he Nor
them Slates proper upon the Philadelphia Platform'!
It is not true.that Pennsylvania has ratified it.” Wo
publish to day the action of the Pennsylvania State
Council. It utterly repudiates the 12th article of the
Philadelphia Platform and substitutes for it the aboli
tion resolution of the seoeders, headed by Gardner and
Wilson.
Are the authors of the address “ignorant of history
or do they willfully falsify it ?”
The address asserts 2d, that “the Platform which we
present to the country on the subject of slavery is high
er and broad* r than any that has ever been reartd by
any national party.” We deny that the “Platform
presented” was adopted by national party. It was
adopted by the Southern States, New York, and Cali
forma. All the balance of the States (and in them is a
large majority of the Know Nothing vote in the Union)
have expressly repudiated that portion of the Platform
“on the subject of slavery.” Twelve States seceded
upon its adoption : two more protested against it ; and
the Know Nothing pr ss in New York State have de
nounced it, and there is no doubt but that it will he re
pudiated by the Stae Council of New York at its
n*-xt session. I: is a fraud upon the peop'e to repre
rent the Philadelphia Platform as a national Platform.
Nati >nal, in the connection in which it is here used,
means, “public, g*n r tl, common to a nation;” now
this National Platform is uot common to the nation :
it is n S utlnrti Platform, “including the great State
of New York.” Vi*wed in this light, it is a miserable
abortion. Who ever h ard of any other Southern par
ty “pr* termitting any xpres-ion of opinio 1 as to the
pow r of Congress to establish or prohibit slavery in the
Tenitories.” Who ever dream *d, unit! this corrupt ;
a ?d secret emeus met at Philadelphia and demonstrated i
the fact, that any Southern party would sunender the ;
k ‘eping of its dearest rights to the Federal Judiciary ?
What other Southern party ever had the hardihood t**
declare “the Uoion the paramount political good ? The
Southern K ow Nothings arc alone in their glory.
But we assert that both tho Whig and Democratic
National Platforms of 1552 were as bound as that of the
South* rn Know Nothings for 1853. They both “rati
fied and approved the compromise measures of 1830.”
These measures recognised squatter soveteignty and j
brought forth the Nevoaska-Kansas act as their legiti
mate offspring. Doe.* the Phdadelphia Platform prom
ise better fruit ?
The address drawn a frightful picture of the terrible
evils of foreign immigration. It has no sympathy for
any class— Catholics from Ireland and Italy—lnfidels
from Germany Protestants from Prussia aud Sweden
—Jews from the ends of the earth, and Idulators from
China’’—all foreigners are regarded as enemies to our
institution* and the most “terrific” consequences are ap
prehended if they are allowed to vote, because the lar
ger part are “wielded by cunning Priests and political
: ecclesiastics.” Still harping on my daughter. Are
not the authors of the address aware that the immigra
tion of Irish Catholics is decreasing every day;
and that the greater part of the immigrants now
come from Germany, and are either protestant or iufir
del?. Why then this constant reference to “cunning
Priests and political ecclesiastics ?” I it not to blow
into a flame the smouldering embers of religious intole
rance which all good men have been striving to extin
guish for the last century and a half ? In this connection
the address asserts that “the immigration may be recok
on*d at half a million annually. lis increase will be ten
millions in 20 years at that rate.” Looking over the
fact that immigration has been decreasing for 12 months
past and will continue to decrease, and admitting that
half a million will como over every year for 20 years,
we are still amazed at the broadness of this assertion.
Do fore ; giicrs never die ? The average of human life
is 33 years. We have uo means of ascertaining the
average of foreign immigrants. We will assume it to
!be 23 years. Now, at that rate, 5 millions of them
I would be dead in 20 years, and would leave us only 3
1 millions instead of 10 millions to “be wielded by cun
ning Priests and political ecclesiastics.’’ lu the mean
time the native American population will increase to
30,000,000. In view of these facts, there really does
not teem to ua to be much danger of Foreigners ruling
America.
There are many other points in the address which
we would like to notice, but space fails us. There is
only one more that we can notice.
* The address boldly declares that it was right and
i proper to pretermit any expression of opinion as to the
• power of Congress over slavery in the Territories ; “so
I ought it to be h ft,’’ is the language of the address,
j cause opinions on that subject , even at the South, are
j different.'*
\ This is news to us and ‘will doubtless be to most of
! our readers. We deny the assertion so far as the
I Democratic party is concerned. We deuy it so far as
j the State of Georgia is concerned, except as to the Ameri
! can party. Opin'ons devided! Why Georgia has
in ado the exercise of the power by Congress a cause of
dissolution of the Union ! Yet says the address, “opin
ions r.a that subject, even at the South, are different.”
Is not this giving up the whole question ? Is it not in
viting aggression. Yet says the address, “consistently
with, and in addition to these things, we stand upon
the Georgia Platform.” A hat unmitigated tom
foolery.
We now close onr comments upon the “address of
the American party to the people of Georgia.” We
do not remember who are the authors of it and hope
never to be reminded. It reflects no credit either upon
their heads or hearts.
The South ami the f uture—Niuioaal Parties,
The signs of the times are ominous of evil. Northern
fanaticism is at high wafer mark. It has swept from the
face of the earth every vestige of the old Whig party: It is
dead and buried and a most forgotten among men. Ir has
absorbed the Know Nothings in all the Northern Slates.
Hear what the N. Y. Herald, an organ of the order, says:
“In the North, the anti-slave'y fusionists are riding rough
shod over all obstructions. They have absorbed the new
American party throughout the New England States.—
They have reduced it to a capitulation in Pennsylvania.—
They hive swallowed it up ht a mouthful in Ohio and In
diana ; and almost everywhere else throughout the Northern
States, excepting ‘.hr* State of New Yoik, we find the Know
Nothings playing ‘eeond fiddle and acting as t de waters
; to the Sewaid tl ly Alliance:” and again: “The Know
Nothings of New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indi
ana have joined the anti slavery coalition, and in the re
maining Not tit-western States they will probably pursue
tiie same policy of making hostility to the extension <1
slavery the base line of their operations.'* Now, as to
New York, the Know Nothings were defeated hv Clark
and helped to elect Seward. What can the South hope
from the “American party” as a national organization
which is abs tried in New England, sic a’Lured i.p in Ohio
j and Indiana and almost every where else in the Northern
1 States by the Abolitionist, and has capitulated in Peons) 1*
! iania 1 It is poweiless lor good asa national organization,
i Can the Southern branch be converted into an efficient
( Southern sectional party ? We think not. No party of a
j Sectional character can prove efficient which is pledged to
| tho support of the Union ‘ a:: the paramount political good”
aud to refer all difficult and doubtful questions to the Su
preme Court of the Uuited States and to abide by it- do
cisions.
Is them any other National party in the United States that
can be trusted on the slavery question ? We think there is.
The great is-ue before tho country is the Nebraska-Kansas
\ act. That act wa3 passed by the National Democracy. A
1 large majority of tho Northern Democratic Senators voted
j for the bill. A majority of tho Democratic
0 Congress, from the North, voted for the bill, it 13 a fa
! vorite measure of the Administration. There is no sort of
I doubt but that the next National Convention of the Demo
; cratic party will endorse and ratify the Nebraska-Kansas
! act. Upon that issue the Democracy will sweep every
’ Southern State, carry California, Illinois, Indiana, Miehi
| gan and Connecticut; and probably Pennsylvania, and New
1 York even, if the unfortunate quarrel between the “hards”
i and the “softs” is reconciled. If this result isefiected, there
j can be no doubt but that the rights of the South will bo pre
| eCMved and the Union saved. But if the National Democ
! racy fail to erect a sound Platform on the slavery question,
| the Georg a Democracy are pledged to “resist even, as a
| last resort, to a disruption of every tie that binds h* r to the
! Union” any action of Congress inimical to Southern Rights.
| They are State? Rights men and believe in State remedies.
I Whether, thereiore, we regard the. Democracy as a t;a
; tional or State organization, they give sure guarantees to
I the South. In either point of view, the Know Nothings
I are powerless for good.
The Caucus System Organized.
; The great curse of all old party organizations has
been and is now the caucus system. The wire woik
ers would meet in little cabals and fix up the cards.—
But the people always had the power to “cal!’’ before
the hand was played, and thereby prevented tho cau
cus system from doing much harm. Om-n Conventions
| checked the evil tendencies of the system ; and if this
I remedy proved unavailing, every citiz.n could,at his op
tion, refuse his support to the ticket.
But Know Nolhingisin is the caucus system organ
ized. The members of the Order meet in secret, con
coct their plans in secret, and make their nominations
in secret ; public opinion exercises no restraint ; it is
never f* It, and never can be appealed to, because the
members are sworn never to reveal to the public the
seerets of the lodge room, no matter how gro>s the
corruption they may detect therein. Not only so ; there
are three degrees in the order ; the secrets of a higher
degree are never revealed to a lower degree member ;
the members of a higher degree are sworn to support
higher degree members in preference to lower degree
member. Now see how it can be worked. Suppose
there are 1,000 members of the Order in Muscogee
eounty. All of them are, of course, members of the
first degree. 300 of them, say, are members of the
second degree. 100 of them, say, are members of the
third degree. An important election is, we will sup
pose, about to come off The 100 third degree mem
bers in-et and apportion out theeffi -r s. Tin y are all
given to the members of the third degree, of course,
if they want them. They are, as w* said before, favoru
to support each other in preference to the members of
the lower and grees. A Council of the second degree is
then called. All th*. lUO third degree im:inhere go to
the meeting of this Council. The second degree mem
bers are totally ignorant of what lias been done by the
third degree members ; they are not even informed
us the fact that they are members of the third degree ;
but the lUO know what they are about—they art* the
leading men of the concern—they nominate the candi
dates and give him their 100 votes and as many more as
they can get from the second degree members and thus
decide the election. A Council of the first degree,
composed mostly of the wool hat boys, is then called,
the same candidates are again put in nomination and
get the five hundred votes of the second degree mem
bare, aud as many of the first degree members as they
can control. The candidates of the third and second
degrees are thus nominated almost hy acclamation, and
the 1,000 members of the first degive arc surprised and
delighted at the unanimity and harmony that prevails
iu the party ; but they clearly had no voice in th * Dom
ination. The secret council of 100 has done the work
for them. But the nomation has been made and the
whole crowd are sworn to abide by it.
We do not charge that this is the way nominations
have been made here heretofore ; but we have no
doubt they will be made just as we have describ'd, if
Know Nothingism eountinues to prevail amongst us. —
Whs there ever a sytem so thoroughly organized as this
Order to concentrate power in the hands of tlie few and
take it away from the hands of ill* people? Are we
not justified in saying that Know Nothingism is the cau
cus system organix and into a party ? Isa man a free
man who is bound in its meshes?
“But/’ says our Jynow Nothing friend, “you know
| nothing about it.” You are mistaken friend, we know ;
j all about it. We have your ritual in full and will pnb- |
! lisii it next week, God willing, find will show you se- I
1 crets of the Order you yourself do not drer.m of, if ■
j you have taken only tho first degree. It is you who aro !
| ignorant. To proveto you that we have given afair rep- ]
! resen tat ion of the way the nomination ol candidates may i
| be managed, just listen to us a few moments. There !
are three degrees in the order. This you know.—* J
There are many nu mbers of the first degree who can- j
not get into the f-econd degree. This you know too, i
if you are a member of the second degree. There are \
members of the second degree who cannot get into j
j the third degree. This you know too, if you are a
I member of the third degree. Tho members of the j
third degree aro sworn to support the third degree
! members in preference to first or second degree rncin
| bers. This we will prove in the ritual. So are the
j second degree members sworn to support second ae
j gree members in preference to first degree members
! This also we will prove in the same way. Taking
these facts for granted, we would like to know
what will prevent the members of the third degree,
no matter how small theit numbers, from dictating to
all the balance of the order, especially if they are men
of talents and influence, as they are sure to be ? And
if they can do it, don’t you know’ they they will do it,
if it is to their interest ?
“Bui” you say, “there art* no third degree members
jin Muscogee.” How do you know ? “They tel! me
j so.’* You don’t say so. So you told us you were not
| Know Nothings, and how much troth was there in what
! you said ? Suppose they do not call them
selves third degree members ! Now we happen to
know that there is one number of that degree r* siding
in Columbus and that there are several more in the
Siate. Every del gate front Georgia to the Philadel
phia Grand Council ’was a member of the third degree.
But what do you know about 3; ? You are only a first
degree man. Get to “crucifix” before you dispute with
us about Know-Nothingism.
The Prnnsy.vania Democracy and the Slavery
Ques.Bm.
We published, last week, a telegraphic report of j
the procetdingo of the Sitste C -nvvr.t on of the Penn- ;
syivania Democrat-}*, taken from the New York Herald, \
asserting that the Convention was silent on the subject J
if slavery. Since then we have received full accounts j
of 1 lie Convention, and aro happy to he able to contia- ‘
diet the statement of the Herald The following i. • •
iufions were unanimously adopted by the O invention :
Resolved That the i Vmocrnie party need not, on oid
and settled issues, to declare it? principles in detail. It i
sufficient tor us to say that wo belong to the Democracy of
the Union, and tecogni.-e 1.0 geographical lines between
the Noilh and South. Tiie interests of all part-- of the
countiy are the c arne to u? and so* lur as in our power we will
maintain the constitutional lights of every Siaio and recog ;
nize in its widest extent the principle of popular sovere gnty j
iu tho Territories.
Resolved, That wc are oppo ed to any chan. - in our j
Slate Con-titution conferring upon Negroes the light ofeuf ‘
huge. We are not willing tit at this class ot “Americans” {
shall rule this part ot America —conceding to other States j
the right to giatily their own tastes in this particular, how- j
‘ ever much we may differ livru them in opinion.
/ These resolutions are not as explicit as tin as adopted !
j hy the Georgia Democracy* but “they recognize in its
1 widest extent tho principle of popular sovereignty in the ;
j Territories.’’ This “principle” is at war with the (
i power of Congrtss to legislate against slavery in the
Territories and is the basis of the Nebra.-ka Kansas !
act. It iu, therefore, clear that the Pennsylvania De j
mocracy are in advance 0! the Southern branch of the
Philadelphia Know Nothing Convention who “preter- i
milted any expression of opinion as to the power of Con- I
cress over slavery in the Territories/’ But it is hardly :
fair to compare Pennsylvania Democrats with Southern !
Know Nothings on the slavery question. YVe, there- :
fore, give the
Platfuj*3l of the Pennsylvania Know Nothings.
The following resolution on the subject of slavery j
was adopted hy the State Ciuneil of tho American
party hy a v<n > of M i to .33 :
Resolved, That the question of slavery should not lx; in- !
troduoed into the 1 hiilorm of ihe American parly, being
convinced that uo such is.- uo was intended to he embraced
within it? principles and objects. That we believe in, and j
shall ever defend the right ot freedom ot opinion and dis- ‘
cushion on that and every other subject not intended to be 1
embraced within the designs of our organization. But in- !
asmuch as the t-übject has been forced upon us, wo regard |
the repeal of lie- Mbsouri Compromise, a? an infraction ol i
ihe plighted la ii h of the nation, and that it should be re- ;
j stored,and ifeffortsto that end should fail. Congress should ;
| refuse to admit any State tolerating slavery which he shall j
j 1 rmed out ol any portion oi the territory fioin which that ■
; institution was excluded by th it Cornprornho.
j Now compare the Pennsylvania Democracy with the
Pennsylvania Know Nothings, aud answer as an honest j
j man, which av the most friendly to the South ? Ihe ;
! Pennsylvania Democracy recognize the doctrine of 1
j squatter sovereignly thereby denying to Congress the !
j power to legislate on the subject of slavery in tho Ter- ;
j rituies. The Pennsylvania Know Nothings demand j
l li e restoration of tin* Missouri line, and, if this is not
! conceded, th*y demand that Congress .shall refuse to ad
; mit any State into the Union, formed cut of said Ter
i ritory, whose constitution tolerates slavery. Again
j we ifck, v\ 110 are our friends ?
Know iNofhingiMii in Louisiana.
j We see commended, in various q iaiters, liy Know Noth
-1 ing?, the platform adopted by th*; Louisiana State, Council,
j Now, there are some facts connected with the matter,
| which they could do well to note. In the fir-t place the
j Know Nothings of Louisiana do not belong to the party,
j They vpit upon the party platform, by repudiating one of
| its most vital and odious principles. Their delegates were :
! refused a place in the grand dramatics at Philadelphia,
! and went home cursing the intolerance of their brethren, j
j The delegation from that State, which was admitted, rep- ■
j resented, we are informed, but a very small portion of the I
; party. The Loui iana platform was, therefore, adopted by I
: those who were excluded from the party .because they would 1
riot consent to “the religious te-t,” and, to approve their ac- !
tion, is to join wiih them against the decrees of the Nation- ;
al Council. That our readers may judge of the feeling i
with which the Know Nothings of Louisiana regard the !
National Platform, we clip the following from the N. O.
Bulletin,a, Whig Know Nothing organ:
“The eighth article of the national platform, written in j
that sophistical and ambiguo 1? language, which political 1
tricksters know so uvll how to use, for ihe purpose ot de- 1
ception, has a couveit, bat palpable meaning, which can- j
not be vi-il -d by accompanying qualifications, or what ‘
lawyer-caii, imtendocs. Ii first declares resistance to tho j
aggressive policy and corrupt tend -ncic- ot the Roman }
j Catholic Chu <*h, a id cuts them off’from tli-s enjoyment of j
■ all political offices. It will not do to say, tiiat this restrie- j
1 tion only applies t> Roman Catholics who hold civil ail -
| gianee directly or indiic-jtly to any foreign power. This
i savi :g clause i.s a piti.nl blind, a miserable cheat; for the I
bigots who famed that section, contend strenuously that j
ail Roman Catholics owe civil allegiance to the F*pe, and j
this too, in tiie face of the most so'esnn protestations of !
those who from ir.teiligmiee and position are capable of j
comprehending, and authorized to declare the tenets of that j
Church. It is a contemptible eva-ion of apa lpable design, i
for them to say th it any Roman Catholic who abjures c.vil ;
allegiance to the Pope is, by t< i? section, entitled to a tail i
t uition of all the rig, X< and !; an ;hi vs of American citizen- !
ship, because the fanatical majority who composed that j
Convention have no laid; in any such abjuration, however ;
solemnly mad-* by a Catholic, for they believe or profess to ■
believe that absolute a’Jfgiarsce to the Papal power, civil as j
well as spiritual, is a fundamental element of the Cathriic j
faith. ‘1 his construction of this article of th3 platform is :
further confirmed by the conduct of the Convention in re !
luring admission t > the Loui-bina delegation, because they i
repre euted Catholic c..hstituonees; they wore tabooed by 1
their Know Nothing brethren, I ecause they iteid cornmun- \
ion with Catholics —tic* taint occasioned by such intercourse I
was suffi . irnt to exclude them bom the society of the faith- i
lui. Out upon such miserable fanaticism!'’
Bat tiie Louisiana Platform was not only the work of
men not belonging to the party, but of men who were de
termined to prove their f rith by thrir work?. Their norni- ;
nee lur Governor, Charles Dsrbigny, is a Roman Catholic, j
Nor did they stop here. Bui they declare, as will be seen j
below, “that we shall oppose all who oppose us in the ad- j
voeacy of these gieat American principles” So that after !
denouncing tbs Philadelphia platform, striking out the j
Catholic restriction, aud nominating a Catholic for tho !
j highest office in the State, they swear war upon ail who |
dare oppose them ! What heresy to the orthodox creed! j
Really we are lost in the mazes and entanglements of i
contradiction and inconsistency which envelope this Know j
Nothing party. In New York it is Unionism. In Virg'nia |
it is Con.olidation and rabid Whiggery :iu Tennessee it is !
abolition of the Slave Tiade in the District of Columbia ;
in Georgia, Unionism in one breath and Disunion in tiie
next. Everywhere anti-Catholicism, save in Louisiana,
and there it is toleration to the knife! And it is from such
a chaos as this, that the magic wand of spoils and power
is to bring ioith a party which will protect all rights and
redress all wrong?; a party which, rising aloft, in lliesub
iirnity ot its “iti-gusl for the wild hunt alter office which
characterises the age,” shall dispense j Mice, and give peace
to the war.nig elements which shako the Union! Still
more, when the South, with all her bi ter experience? of
the past, is again dragged through the mire ofp irty pollu
tion ; it is from such an organization that she is to derive
new’ hope and file !—Charleston Mercury,
Withdrawals from tho Ordor.
Our Alabama exchanges ere groaning under
I long lists of withdrawals from tiie secret councils of the
; Know Nothings. Wo notice a few of them,
i Autauga County, Ala.— The Advertiser <7as
1 zetlee publishes a card signed by 40 men giving their
i reasons for quitting the American Party. They be
! longed to the Council at Chestnut Cretk. They say
j they quit because they believe tho Order “will have a
| bad effect both upon church aud State, and U an üboli* j
j tion move of Northern Abolitionists, got up for the
| purpose of riding men into office, and of sapping the
foundation of this government.” They ought to know. •
They have seen Sam.
j Randolph County, Ala. —Tin* Advertiser <j- Ga
zette publishes a card signed by 17 gentlemen residing j
ct Wesabuiga, Ala., notifying the public of their with- 1
drawn! from the Order. They “advise the friends of
the Democracy to beware of the Know Nothing organ
iziliun ; fur in this part of the country their manliest j
intention is to overthrew the Democratic party of the
country. There are but a few hft in the Kennel say j
they, “say six or more, mostly Whigs.”
Chandler A la —Tile same paper publish- j
es the names and card of 25 gentlemen who left the or
der at Chandler Springe, Ala. The Council refused •
to let some of them withdraw', whereupon they met to*,
getl.er and resolved themselves out of the order. ;
Russell County, Ala.—We have it from good an
thority that one hundred and twenty five members 5
quit the older at Salem during the last month.
Mobile County, Ala.—The M obile Register says
tho withdrawals are so numerous in that county that it I
has received an order for five hundred blanks , all of
which will be used.
M ore WHhtlrawals.
Messrs Henry L. Battle, M- M. IloUey, James Tl. ,
Mitchell, A. B. Buckner, Frank Burnet and J. W. j
Johnson,all of Hancock county, Ga., have published a card j
in the Chronicle if Sentinel announcingthcir withdrawal j
: from the Know Nothings. That is right. Confession i
j is a proper atonement for wrong. Let all who with
s draw publish the fact to the world. It encourages the
j timid to follow suit, it requires some nerve to brave j
j the denunciations of the order. These gentlemen of
; Hancock say:
j “We deem it proper to stab? that on entering the j
: Order we were assured that trhenever we might be- j
! coma dissatisfied with it, we could withdraw in good
i faith , and without hindrance or obstruction. Without j
, this assurance men could never be induced to assume ;
the obligations of tiie O.dc-r. This fine privilege of j
quitting, is universally used by Know Nothings as an :
answer to the charge that the Order trammels the free- j
: dom of the elective franchise, by subjecting the individu- ,
j al judgment of its members to the will of the Order.
We, therefore, in widiri:awing, considered that wc were :
j exercising a right w hich bad been guaranteed to u.s
from the beginning, and which could not justly expose j
! u 3 to a charge of “treason” or ‘perjury/ It may be j
j true in theory that any member yiav quit when ho j
; pleases, hut, practically . it is false when ho tan obtain •
i Ids discharge only by p issing through the terrible ordeal
of being denounced as a deserter, a ‘traitor* hod ‘per
\ jured renegade,’nr.d as having signed ‘the manliest ”f j
I his own infamy.’ Such denunciations, as illustrated in !
| the newspapers and 021 the streets, and in the bye-wavs .
l and corners, are not so much intended to act upon those ;
: who have quit, as they are meant to play upon the fears j
jof lhose who y**t remain in. They are intended to
I throw mi obstruction and hindrance and terror around :
: the exercise of the right to quit—the rigl t of cxereis
; i:ig individual will and private judgment. Thty are not :
j so mu eh an insult to those who go out, uo they are a
i tyranny over those who yet remain in. The theory is, :
j you may pass out of the gate whenever you {.lease ; the j
j practice, as you learn it from the fearful experience of j
| those who have gone out.before you, i?, that you must
pass out under tiie laugh of d*-ri&i<Mi and tin* finger of
j scorn, through a phalanx ol’ gate keepers, hissing into ;
your ears tho charge of ‘renegade,’ ’traitor’ and ‘per- ;
j jury/ This tystein of holding the faithjul in the pen *
| by 1 lie terrors of denunciation, is not confined to Mr.
1 Short. Every fold has its gate keepers. They are j
j held t< iheir places by pride and inter eat. They seek
| to hold other people bv fear. ’
Arc they all Sworn ?
: Avery instructive as well as amusing incident oc
curred nt Crawford, Russell county, Al.s., during the.
I discussion there between Messra. Dowdell and Watts.
; Mr. Dowdell charged that tho Know Nothings took
1 certain oaths in th* ir several degrees which a free man j
j ought not to take, and v.as making it tell against his i
’ adversary when the following dialogue occurred ;
Mr. Watts.—“l never took an oath.’’
Mr. Dowdell. —“It there is another Know Nothing in 1
the house who has not been sworn, I hope he will rise ■
and make it known,”
Mr. B. 11. Baker.—“l never was sworn.’’
Many Voices.—“We were:” “we were:” “we
were.”
Mr. Dowdell. —“llow is this, fellow citizens? The
chiefs of the party, the wire workers, it seems, are not !
sworn ; their pledge of honor, I presume, is sufficient!
i But the wool hat boys, the honest yeomen of the coun
try are compelled to take an oath before they are per
mitted to enjoy the benefits of Know Nothingism.’’
The effect of this hit may bo better imagined than
described. The house rung with applause. llow is
I it? Aro they all sworn, or dots the order discriminate i
, between its membership and take the words of some,
i and pin others down by solemn oaths?
Montgomery Advertiser Ktute Gazatte.
i Messrs. Rrittan and Blue, the enterprising proprietors !
i of this sterling Democratic paper, have procured the I
| assistance of Id. 11. DeWilt, Kq., of Richmond, Ya ,
j in tiie editorial department. Mr. lie Witt was, for j
years, co editor of the Richmond Examiner, one of
| the strongest papers in the Union, and, it is said, con- I
trihated much to give it its high character. We vvd- j
j come him to the extreme South, as a valuable co laborer !
lin the Democratic cause. Having* conlributee to the ;
triumph of sound principles in tho old Dominion and ‘
, participated in the victory of the gallant Wise over the i
I knights of the dark lantern, he lias reached Alabama j
i>i time to strike many killing blows in the contest
now raging there and will he rewarded by a victory 1
; moie “crowning” than lias yet been won by tiie South I
ern Democracy. j
Know Noth. 11 jj Nominee for Goiigjj ?*.
| A telegraph despatch, wc learn, lias been received |
: in this city, which announces the fact that the K. N.
j Convention, which assembled in Americuson the 18th I
; inst, nominated Wiilis A. Hawkins of Sumter as the |
candidate of the Order for Congress. Poor fellow, wc ;
are sorry for him. It will be poor pay for the iabor ,
and expense of canvassing 13 counties to bs left at ‘
home.
Where arc we drifting ?—Cos. \Va!ts ? Position.
| Mr. walts, the Know Nothing candidate for Con- :
j gress in the third die rict, Alabama, declared his up- !
1 position to the annexation of Cuba to the United States, j
at Girard. This, we thought, would and ought to de- j
feat him. But at Ydlula, wo learn that he denounced j
the Nebraska Kansas act —that great measure of justice !
whtreby tho Missouri restriction was repealed and the j
| South admitted into an equal participation in the Ter- j
; ritori Will the freemen of tho third district support •
; a man, whatever may be his private wort!), who is so
| deadly an enemy of Southern Rights. Wou'd’nt too
; Montgomery Mail co more for Southern Rights by
j pouring a little hot shot into Col. Watts for Iris aban
| domm nt of these great Southern measures than by its
j Reeder tirades ? The Greeks arc at jour door, brother
Hooper. Your own candidate for Congress is un
! sound.
—->—<s*r—
j Garnett Andrews Accepts-—The Know Nothing pa
| pers of the State publish Garnett Andrews’ letter of accep
tance. We may notice it hereafter. There are some ren
tences in it which we have not been able, as yet, to compre
hend. Wo will take a day or two more to study them be
fore we venture to review tho letter.
Th 9 Know Nothing of Illinois.
Chicago, July 13, 1555.
The Know Nothing Sta:e Council, lately in sesiou at
Springfield, has closed its labors. A platform of prin
ciples was adopted. There was Considerable difficulty
on the slavery question, but finally anti slavery resolu
tions, including the restoration of the Missouri Com
promise, were adopted by ayes 71, nays 33.
What arc you afraid of?
We happened the ether day to bear a dialogue be- !
tween a Democrat and a Whig, which throw some \
light on the mysterious workings of Know Nothingism. |
it occurred iu the city of Columbus, on Sunday morn- ;
ing last, as follows :
Democrat.— Well, F., teil me candidly, are you real- J
ly afraid of Catholic and Foreign influence it* the United 1
States ?
Know Nothing.—No, eiree, i am afraid of nothing !
! on the earth, above the earth, or under the earth, but ;
the Democratic party. 1 would join auy party to put j
; down the Democracy ?
1 Democrat.—That’s just what I suspected, and have, j
I therefore, kept out of the order. How do you expect i
- to keep those Democrats in lino who have joined the j
I Know Nothings ?
| Know Nothing made no reply. The argument was |
• exhausted. •
Democratic fleeting at jltliedgevilte—lverson j
Jj. Harris.
i At a meeting of tho Democracy of Baldwin county, j
j held at MiJledgoviile on the 14th inst, to appoint dole- j
| gates to a Congressional Convention to be held at Ea- 1
| lonton on the 24th inst., Iverson L. Harris, one of the j
| noblest and most, talented \Vhigs in Georgia, arose and j
j explained the reasons which had impelled him, as an old j
; Whig, to act, in the present condition of parties in lieor- j
gin, with the Democratic party. He said he was not a !
| Democrat, but belicveu that the. Democratic party was j
the only sound National party now iu existence: and to ,
! defeat tin principles of Know Nothingism, he was ready !
to co-operate with that party.
In an able and eloquent speech, lie investigated the .
principles i.-f tiie so-called “American party,” and j
j showed conclusively the dangers with which this new I
j party menaced the country, and particularly the insti
j Unions of the South. After addressing tho meeting ;
i for an hour, be closed amid great applause.
! Communications Crowded Out. —The demand upon j
j our columns is so great, at present, that we are compelled
j to defer the publication of several communications until a
I subsequent issue. Re patient, friends ;we will give you all
a showing in due time.
Fourth District.
The District Con vent’on of the American Party
: which assembled at Newnan <n the 12th inst , we an
| dcrstnnd, nominated Bfi j. ii. Hill, Esq., of Troup
i county, as a candidate for Congress from Ihe 4th Dis
; trial.
I The Columbus Movement.—There was attempt last
j week to get u;> a meeting of tha friends of the Col uni
; bus Movement, for the purpose of determining w hat
j should b.* done with it—but alas ! if it ever bad am
• friends tho greater part of them took their departure
: with the nomination of Andrews ns the Know Nothing
| candidate for Governor—there were n<t more than
j fifteen.c r tw- nlv vv?s.> attended—not enough to give it
; the appearance of life, nor even a decent burial. Toe
low whoweie present dispersed without organising.—
| Corner Stone . j
Decisions of the Supreme Court-
We understand that the Supreme Court, now in ses
; sion at Americas, on Tuesday last (17th) confirmed the J
I decision of the Superior Court of this county, in tho j
ca<e of The State vs. David Wright charged with the \
’ murder of AKx M. Vtobmrou. The frame tribunal, /
• w< learn, has refused also to grant anew trial iu the j
; case of the N**gro boy, belonging to Messrs. Pius & ,
• Hatch*.r of tiff; ritv, who was found guilty oi the ir.ur- !
. del* of bis Iffffa- servant.
They will bo ro si-ntene'J, and another day set i
: apait for their execution, by Judge Worrili, at an ad- j
: jouined term of the Superior Court on the first Mon- j
; day iu August next. —Columbus Enquirer,
The Daily Suit.
| Thi* is the title of a newspaper just started in Co- j
; lumbus, Ga., by Thomas Da Wolf, E liter and Priori- j
i etor ; devted to now*, miscellany and general reeling, i
It will take ii {'.:rt in politics. Terms, $3 per annum, j
Grand Aiifi-Ktiaw Nothing Rally in Harris,
j Thera w, published in handbill form, a call for a j
Grand Anti know Nothing Rally at Hamilton, Har
ris eounty, Gi., on Saturday *2Sth inst., signed by over
j fifty wrings and any quantity of Democrats.
Desaocra!ic Nominations.
; Gordon County.—At a Convention of the Demo
j cralic Party, held at Calhoun on tho lOih inst., Cos!.
Wni. H. Dabney, was nominated as the candidate of the
! party for the Senate : and Messrs. David B. Barrett and j
Henry McConnell, for the House.
Ocean Steamers from Boston. —Wo see that the
; “solid men of Boston’’ have commenced a movement j
! for the building of five first class steamships to ply be- ■
tween Boston and Liverpool direct. The Bostonians |
j say that if they had a direct lino of steamships to Eu* j
; rope they could do all the carrying trade for Canada
under the new reciprocity treaty ; and that as Boston
; is nearer to I/verponl by a day’s journey, the new
j line would get all the Southern travel that now goes to
New York. Mr. Donald M’Kay thinks he can build
vessels to cross the Atlantic in eight days. A com
-1 miltee of 36 gentlemen were appointed to solicit sub
. scriplioQs for the new line.
A Lot of Rich, Ribs Fruit. —We are indebted to |
i Charles A. Peabody, of the Soil of the. South, fora j
j basket of peaches, juicy, and sweet, fur a hisket of
j pears, mellow and nice, for a basket of stiawberries, ;
rat* r small for want of water, and anew variety of |
| musk melon which those who helptd eat pronounced
more highly ll ivored than any they had ever tasted. It
| is called the “Christina.”
Accident on the Central Railroad.—On the
j morning of the 18th inst., the passenger train ran off
i tho track and several cars were smashed. The engi
j neer was seriously injured and several passengers bruis
| ed. The accident occurred within 5 1-2 miles of .Ma
con. On the same morning two freight trains came in
! collision near Milieu. Much damage was done.
j Counterfeits —Wo understand, says the Atlanta In- j
j telligencer , I‘Jth, that a rest of counterfeiters was broken j
| up, in Chattanooga, on Tuesday last, and that theprin- j
; cipal members of tho fang were at rested. They had i
; oeen engaged in counterfeiting the bills of t!-.e Bank of i
I Georgetown, S. C., to a large extent.
lion . Garnett Andrews —We art* in receipt of two
. letters from this gentleman, written on the sth and 6th
| inst., from Montv.de Springs, E Ist Tennessee. At the
! date of his hist letter, although awaio of hid nomination *
j for Governor by the American Patty, he had received i
no official notification of the Get. We have no doubt of i
; his acceptance. lie returns to iris home at Wahhing- i
ton, this week, and will probably address the citizens i
j of Floyd county, at R<*me, this evening, when ho will
! take occasion to give his views at length, noon the Na- :
j tional and ►State Platforms of the American Party.
[Jour. 4* Mess., IDA. i
j Garnett Amhirwr on the Stump.—We learn from 1
tie Sjutherner, that the Know Nothing nominee for
.Governor of Georgia, addec-saed the people of Rome on j
the 10th inst. His speech is represented as a very poor |
affair. We are not yet informed whether ho will accept
or decline the nomination.
Democratic Prospects in Upper Georgia.. —We i
have been shown a letter from a distinguished gentle
man in Cherokee, representing tiie political sky as j
bright and brightening in all that ngion. Lumpkin j
and Cobb, the Democratic candidates for Congress, are i
addressing the people at every point, and Know Noth- j
ings everywhere, W higand Democrat are abandoning, j
in disgust the odious order into which they were un- !
wittingly seduced.
In Floyd county alone, where a large number of De
mocrats had joined the oath-bound society, over one
hundred have withdrawn, and others are determined
to follow suit at an early day.
The writer, who is well advised as to the precise
state of feeling among the people, declares that by the
first Monday in October, not a corporal’s guard will
have been left behind, and that we shall sweep the
mountain districts overwhelmingly.— -West Point Bea
con,
Discussion nt Villula July 10 1835.
; Watts against Cuba and the Nebraska Bill.
j Messrs, Editors :
{ The debate between Dowdell and Watts came off t
j this place to-day. it has never been my good fortune to
| witness a more courteous and dignified disc us.?-on, be*
j tween political opponents. Tni-ir .-pev-effo wa re diverted,
|in a a great degree, 4 >f their usu.ri fund of anecdotes, and
1 confined to close reasoning.
| The prominent arguments of the two l* nth no n, wh o
| set forth in part in your last Dowdrii in the op-r.-
■ ing speech tonified his position*, hi-herto taken, douhiy
! strong, and added much new mutter with illustrations
1 rich and varied. Ho threw a charm over th whole,
I which was h re:-;-riffle, as \v. s manifisud by frequent
j bursts of applause and eyes swimming in te. is. Ou the
manner he became a candidate, State aid, ihe poor man’s
• statute, tie* admission of ivm - h. the Nebraska Biff, for*
j eign influence, conservatism of foreigners North, their
| devotivii v *ur country in the Smtc and in rl * fi l l of
j bailie, political supremacy of tin Pope, the nine foreign
! paupers iu Alabama, tiie Philadelphia Plattorm, th<„
| Georgia Platform, and tho Cuba quest'..;, fj *• : - right
■ home to the hearts of A!abam:a:i = and i-.u :> -i\ the }•;•;.*
! p r and and only s ;urce of power—the iv..--. n i sym*
j p-ithies ol the people. Wo have closely on rv--<l the
j workings of the minds and feebtigs of y au<ffncs
• even oh greater oeearioLH, and let! fully and rial v,e
i speak the truth when we assort that Iris speech 1 ft an
j impression deep and abiding, which Col. Watts, ;riier a
• labored argument of two aud half hours, t arid re*
j move. Tee anecdotes of the latter gentleman die.ted
| applause, bur not Iris argument.
j At Girard Mr.W. avowed himself against the acquin ■
j tion of Cuba ; here he opposed the. Kansas Nebraska
; Bill, aud said that he believed that Cr agrees had /• ir
! er to legit late over the Territories on ti: .-oV rent que •
I tion . ii we understand Hit? p:vva ling - . : . of
j this Da-triot, and Felings of Southern na n, ih.se ;,<j.
; missoas, independent of the Kn av .Nffthriv; ► 1 -ffou,
j wi 1 irray a host against him, winch hv eam.vt .. -k by
j die first Monthly in August.
j They will prove booming bastions fringe! . b tire,
j which lie must etfh**r batter do.vri or crawi unff r, be
| lore lie can obtain :he suffrages of au enlightened con*
I stitDeucy.
j 11. 3 reply to the cloud of witnesses, and heaps of tes
j liiuouy, that Dowdell aflduceJ to prove the conserve ffm
Jof fordgners North w.is tame in the txtrem . lie nr
i gurd that there were now 4,OOiqflOO lordgsi*rs North,
i and only half a million &>ul!i. More foreigners settled
North than South, ergo, tln*y liked their so/u-sy, and *<p
sed our institutions, iie nfiirme 1, if any one thing, more
than another influenced him to join tho Know Nothings,
it was this. The true reason, we fancy, why that vast
m-ijorisy setile North, -s. because they cannot compete
with slave labour South. This is an argument in cur
favor, and fata! to his whole cause. If it proves anything
it proves that the foreign influence is not now, nor never
can be, formidable bomb.
i! it should become *o North, wo are great fools to ho
running away up in New Engl md and tshnkriig hands
with Gardner and Wilson, erring out, “Whoop ! Cone.*
along bays, we t\i.i help you to hunt J >wn for*ignets,”
wlieb tbce same fort igaeis’ are ever r*-ndy to rtaud by
you and tho Constitution Th. ir hutes and . very State,
li ive the r< medy in th r own bands to correct the evii,
ii it is one, and what’s the nee hy of making a nation
al question of it in preference to the p. ram uni question.
Slavery ?
We care not if those Northern f:\nv.X csure troubl e
with s? niHih ng : it will probably occupy their attention
so much, that they will let our neg. s a'-lie. Ev. ry
foreigner North will align liirns ’f with the Rational De
mocracy and vote lor trio admission of Kansas ami Cuba.
Bui, say our Know Nothing iff mis, we would prefer a
repeal rather than an affiriasion with such rrirics. They
i should take care. Defeat in the form*:', is ri smlutffn.—
i ;ffj vfss in both ff a triimphof the South and the Union.
The ad cagtandum port.’ nos L'*wd*-i;*ij speech was
rich all over as a summer’s hi: set.
llowatd h.-adiug the r.avy of England agar st the Ar
mada; Shields in Mexico ;utd ir* the Senate, then turned
{ out t * give place to a !hv.-S< iffr ; Rui .ski with Iris ba-j
----j ner given by th • turnwhich proved his winding sinvt
o*l the field of Savannah ; Washington ive; ring over the
j grave of i>e Ivaib ; Batch- !-!-r sassing in defence of the
• Cou.ffiiutdii and lb- 4 South iu the * rian t House at Bcs-oi-;
i each brought down the house. Wc must e-mlff-:- that
jwe hung cl-.ct rifled upon his lips—his doctrine was ..
! good and so true. We brou.ghi at; inn-iuntary yell iu
| conedusiou when he described Know Nothing ; *iu as,
•‘The blind Sampson in our kind
Shorn of his strength aud bound i< boons of steel,
Which may m some grim revel raff * I is hands,
j Anri shake the pillars of this Cot a coon weal,
’Til the vast Temple of our Liberties
A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish li. s ”
R *
Gov. Jolinvoii in Katidulph.
j Randolph County, Ga., July 10, 1853.
Messrs. Editors i was in Cnthbert on Saturday the
: I Ufa inst , where I had the extreme grrri float ion of !.ear
| ing Govei nor Johnson address the people. He took the
sand, which was erected in a line grove near the village,
; about 11 o’clock, and made a lengthly, able and ail eon
! viiieing speech. With great pow* rand cl Hnievs he *!e
----| mniairatci that the Dcmooratie party wa*ttie only ono
: in the country that took the true ground, b) which th<
; Union might he preserved, and the S-,uth..a thes. c.ic time,
; maintain her rights and honor; and that it was ;ht.- only
| true, s.\fo II *pul:ffican party in the United S ates.
: Ah with a pencil of right, he portrayed the enormity,
the auipßepublican, anti American and pn scriptive prin
i ciples of Ktiov Nothingism. He sent terror and dismay
- to the hearts of its advocates. lie bearded the beast in
j its lair, and show* and that it was Sta king most insidiously
j to devour our civil and religious liberty. He was inter
■ rupted by frequent and loud apj-'auso. The glorious Do
j mocracy and anti-Know Nothings left the stand at tho
j cU.se o! the speech with their strength resumed, and their
faith in the justness and soundness of tin ir Republican
j doctrines, built up and more thortughiy cstahiished. All
j excellent and abundant baihacu-j v.as pi pared and par
| taken of by the people wiih great reiish.
At night, by previous appointment, a fed? noting was
held in tho Methodist Chap I. L. w.-s l!r.-t ;* l*iia .sed Ly
lion. T. L. (iueiTy, our candidate fur iff* > a: - Senate,
lie made a chaste aud forcible speech. He was ibilowed
by Col. Kidd*)o, in an eanics-, zealous and irbetive
speech. Then (roverner Johnson again took the stand
and addressed th*‘ audience, liis appeals were even more
powerful, if passible, than in the day. In thumb -r-tones,
lie called upon I fernocr.Us inside and >u: of the dark lan
tern order, and upon independent R publican Whigs
everywhere, to shun :t as they would the quicksands and
j pestilence of death. Surely there never wire mote elo-
J quent and touching appeals made by any orator, on any
; occasi 11 in Georgia than he made to the p.-opV, warning
| them against threa’ening danger, and in (avor ot freedom
| of speech, freedom of voting and freedom of religious
j opinion. I would r*> G .and, every tra - soa of Georgia could
| have heard him ! j-ri -r and trembling havo seized upon
: the hearts and c- iisciencts of the sons o! daikness in this
i country. The liJt* i- turning against them. Their da\s
are aim-st numbered. 1 hey are btg ning to hre; k tlio
chains despotieni, and to come out into tho “fight aud
liberty” of freemen. Alta ad y some 15 or 20 have with
drawn {’mm tlu m in this the cry is “Mill they
come.” The p -litieni heart of Sou h-west-.-rn Georgia
begins to beat in tlt f place—its blood is being purified.—*
Freemen will b** free. Eighth.
COSI.'.IU MCATED.
Messrs. Editors: —ln the facetious report ot the pro*
j coed ings of th? “Chattahoochee Democratic Meet! g” te
i cently published in your paper, I find r, position given to
I me to which I arn not entitled. Wiieih -r to attribute it to
j the gentleman who was made to contribute to the amuse
-1 mentql the audience on that occasion, or to the fruitful irn
| agination oi your correspondent,!)? a matter of no great m
---| ;x>rtance. Be it either way, or however emu!! tie matter
; may be in the estimation of the public, I desire to correct
i the impression it is calculated to make,
j Ido not in*w, r.or have 1 hercto.oie held ary office in
the Councils ot the American party, and could not, there
fore, ‘administer” any degree of the order. S*f .r a<the
“third degree” is concerned, I have never received it, or
seen it con lei red, and coaid, thereiiyre, know n *t.;iwg au
thorilaUveiy about it.
JOHfrJ. Me KEN DR EE.
[For the Times & Scnhnrl ]
\ , Mr.isas. E.oi r..p,s —Shortly before Mr. CuTo-m’.* death,
; he was heard f equently to decrate that Herschel V. John
| -“on was the ablest man of his age tiiea in tiie Congre-s of
\ ihe Uiiitcd States. Such a com nendatiou tr > none who
; understood so well what he was sayirg, entiiles i:> jeeipi
j cv.tht the unanimous confidence ot the pta.; le of Georgia,
j R %va? the “laying of hands” which consecrated him to ihe
j service ot the South, and he has never given us any reason
! to doubt that the spirit of the old Apostle Uetcmded with
I his blessing.
j And, Er, with this Messing of Calhoun on the head of
| our Governor, and with the in a rifle of Forsyth *0:1 t’n
shoulders cl our Senator, may vve not hope that the old
State will yet stand asa “rock of help’ in th*
; troublous tint’s which arc corning upon us.
; Teach tho irionlh that “Know Nothincisni’’ is a mr-ro
! political fire-brand thrown in among th whom tuliri
\ ii to conquer. Teach them that flie.r is the “North,’ *
: and that a calm, united, unbroken resistance there, will oi*
! list the sympathies of all other sections. Teach them that
I wirile the blood of the “Purium” jr vails, the South lias
i nothing to fear from the Foreigner. Tune may tcniper the
Irish and in-:terial!y enliven the Dutch, but the Yankee de
fe-s the power of lime and the attrition oi *
ExirOdence lias narrowed his prosperity has
harden* and his heart, and kindness h - eorre Iris tc;n; *r.
His religion has descended thiouah Unitada* ism t Infi
delity, and his polities have cxe-u ied tbtoug i he*lcriiii e tn
i to Tyranny. The same who ri .i from I'kigUud to Hol'anJ
I because he cou’d not govern the Government, who fled
: from Holland for the same rea>on. is devoting the same
I encr-iies same purpi'se in tiie Un:t *d Stales, and God
grant that the issue may be similar.
Teach these things and you will secure die gratitude as
well as the safety ot the South. For myself, 1 commit my
share of the public horor and public inteie.-ts to the keeping
and guidance of those front whose doctrine the “rights of tiie
States” springs as freely as does the fangus ol abolition’em
from the old stump of VVliiggery. T.
Georgia Slate Teachers’ Association,— We have
been requested by a member to nuke it known that
the next Annual Meeting of the Georgia State Teach
ers* Association will be held in M toon, nu Wednesday,
the Sih August.— Madison Visitor ,