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From the Const. & Hop. 30th ult.
Large and Enthusiastic Meeting—Speeches of Messrs.
Stephens, Toombs and Thomas.
An immense concourse of uur citizens assembled
t>n Monday evening at the City Hall, to hear a;i
address from the Hon. A. H. Stephens. Notwith
standing the shortness of the notice, it being an
nounced only oh that day by placards at public
places, then: being no papers issued Monday morn
ing, that Mr. Stephens would address his fell ow-
citizens, the people turned out, cn masse, to hear
their distinguished and patriotic Representative.
The Hall was crowded to suffocation, and hundreds
were standing outside, utinble to get in, and clam
orous for Mr. Stephen* to come out on the steps.
This being suggested to the speaker shortly after
he opened his address, Mr. Slept- ns said he would
acquiesce cheerfully in the gexerai wish, and pro
ceeded to the northern portal «f the Hall. Here
our citizens, to the number ol twe thousand, were
compelled to stand on the damp ground for want
of a suitable platform. Tiutnks arc due, for the ad
vantage. we suppose, to our Know-Nothing Coun
cil, w ho have thus earned out this Know-Nothing
principle of stiflling discussion. We have never
seen an orator .-peak under such disagreeable cir
cumstances, but w e have yet to see a more patient
and attentive audience. Mr. Stephens commenced
his remarks by expressing* his regret at being com
pelled to speak in the dark, for it >vas always his
pleasure when lie spoke, to Kink the people in the
eyes. He said that he had travelled over more
than half the State, in order to meet the people of
Augusta to-night.
Since his communication to Mr. Thomas had
been published, it had been said that the reason of
his retirement from the canvass in this District,
w as his fo&r of being beaten. For himself lie was
afraid of nothing—of nothing under nor above the
earth, but to do wrong. Of that he was afraid;
of being beaten, lie would’nt give a ifig for a man
who was not willing to be beaten in defence of
what he believed to be eight. He had come there
then, he said, in response to various calls, to an
nounce that lie w as again a candidate for Congress
from this District. Nominated, said he, not by any
two-thirds rule, but here upon this stand 1 nominate
mvself for Congress from the Htli Congressional
District.
Mr. Stephens was here interrupted by a deep
and enthusiastic shout of approbation from the
great crowd he was addressing. He continued,
that this Know-Notliing order had been created, it
was said, for the purpose of putting down dema
gogues, small men, tricksters. For himself he
was no trickster. Trickster* never walk in open
day. They skulk in hiding places, and he warned
the people to beware of leaden who resorted to the
dark in order to concoct their schemes.
It had be.-n said by sonic who had commented
upon his letter, hut none of whom had had the
boldness to come out. by those who were shooting
at him in the dark, that David and his adherents
formed a secret organization, and that Samuel Ad
ams and others farmed a secret clique tor the pur
pose of striking a blow for American liberty.
This object of the Know-Nothings w as revolution.
It is to overthrow the Constitution of the country;
to create a religions test, when the Constitution
said there should be no religious test. The Know-
Nothings knew that their object was revolution;
they knew that they had taken an oath not to sup
port any Catholic for of’ice- They might deny it,
and explain away tho denial by some casuistical,
slippery. Know-Nothing construction, but there
was a monitor within, which told them they had
taken it.
Mr. Stephens continued lor some time in an elo
quent strain on the sublimity of truth, the founda
tion of all honor and integrity among men; a wa.it
of which, as bad as tin Know-Nothings charged
the Catholics to be, could not lie preferred against
them: and then introduced a beautiful psssag-.- of
sacred history: ‘ It was after Judas had betrayed
Christ with a kiss, and Fetor denied him thrice,
that our Lord asked, ivliat is truth ’” He called
upon all Know-Nothings, but especially ail Minis
ters of the Gospel, w ho might have joined the or
der, to repent in sack-cloth and ashes, and to go
about and preach from tile pulpit ou that text,
“what is truth?”
He here eloquently appealed to Know-Nothings
to burst assimder these oaths, which bound them
down as with cords, and abandon this spirit of
prevarication w hich they had adopted for the pur
pose of violating the Constitution of the country!
He poured forth glowing, patriotic and forcible ap
peals in behalf of the principles laid down in his
late letter against Know-Nothingisin. He depic
ted, in masterly style, the corrupting and disas
trous influences to result to society from the de
ceitful, equivocating and fraudulent practices of
Know-Nothingism—the anti-American.anti-Repub-
lican, and unmanly character ot its organization—
The danger to liberty, to the peace of communities,
and to social order, of secret political conclaves
plotting in the darkness of midnight for the ad
vancement of purposes not disclosed to the public
they sought to govern, and whose rights they
aimed to control and dispose of in this clandestine
mode. He held that such conduct was unworthy
of men and freemen who held principles worthy of
success.
Truth never skulked from the light of day and
hid itself in dark corners, afraid of discussion and
investigation. It was the characteristic of error
and of falsehood thus to hide, and there to work
out their bad purposes. Truth was the founda
tion stone of civil order—the very life ami essence
of social integrity. Yet Know-Notliingism bowed
to a spell and ail influence more potent than truth,
and reconciled the consciences of men to resort to
equivocation and slippery construction to deceive
the public. But there was a monitor from on high,
in the breast of eveiy honest man, that must at
times whisper to him that this was wrong.
Know-Nothingism bound its votaries under the
third degree of its ritual by a solemn oath to main
tain the Union; at all hazards, against all efforts of
factionists and secessionists. But it nowhere
bound its members to maintain the Constitution;
yet that Constitution was the very life and soul of
the Union. It could only have been made by it,
and through it, and the principles it consecrates.
Without it, the Constitution would be valueless
or w orse than valueless.
There was the abolitionism of this order in dis
guise. He called on Southern men to notice it.
He, Mr. Stephens, stood upon die Georgia plat
form. Should Kansas he rejected on account of
slavery, he was for resistance. Send hint to Con-
f ress and he would resist it there; if unsuccessful,
e would return to the people and tell them to re
sist it.
It had been said that the foreigners who came to
this country joined the abolitionists in their cru
sades upon our rights. It was not so; he knew
that it was not so. The foreigners who came here,
canie with a reverence for the Constitution.
Where did these foreigners mostly settle ? In the
North West. And from the North West came the
best friends of the South, from Indiana, Illinois,
and Iowa, the last, the only State which had never
bow ed to abolitionism, and now, for the first time,
to be represented by a free-soiler, when Know-
Nothingism had sprung into existence.
Every Know-Nothing took an oatli that lie
would support no Reman Catholic for office. This
was striking at one of the fundamental principles
of the Constitution, which declares there shall be
no religious test, as a qualification for office. He,
therefore, w ho took that oath. took an oath incon
sistent with the support of the Constitution. It
was an oatli in violation of the letter, of that sa
cred instrument.
Upon the exclusion from office, and disfranchise
ment of foreign bom citizens, the orator was no
less emphatic and. forcible in his denunciation of
this feature of Know-Nothingism. Upon the social
evils, the injustice and disastrous consequences,
threatening strifes and blood-shed and civil war,
of making men aliens at heart to a government,
which thus made war upon their religion, and set
them apart, on account of their nativity as a de
graded class, the speaker was very eloquent and
convincing, and the repeated plaudits, which
greeted hint from the bogining to the dose of his
address rising up from the w liole mass, and from
every side of this dense assemblage, wrapt in
eager, and earnest attention, proved how thorough
ly he had enlisted the feelings and convinced the
judgment of auditors. We could scarcely realize
in such demonstrations that there were, in all pro
bability, hundreds of Know-Nothings among
them.
It can scarcely be doubted that many who went
there Know-Nothings came away with the scales
torn from their eyes, convinced of the miserable
delusions which had beguiled their reason, and pa
triotically resolved never more to eDter their mid
night councils, and never more to bow down to
the molten calf, which demagogues and bigots had
erected for their worship.
In this hurried sketch we have not attempted
even an outline of the whole course of argument of
Mr. Stephens, or to give all the strong points on
which he expatiated. Did time and space permit,
it wonld be impossible to transport to paper all the
strong, common sense, and patriotic views he pre
sented, or the felicitious illustrations by which he
enforced them. Still less would it be "practicable
to give to the reader an impression of the earnest
tone, the impassioned manner, and the patriotic
fervor with which Mr. Stephens appealed to his
fellow-citizens to beware of the mad folly of con
tinuing in this Know-Nothing organization. He
stood «ike a Prophet, warning them of the evils to
their eountry, hut especially to the South, that
must result from the predominance of Know-
othmgism. lie paid a just and eloquent tribute
ttiose true men of the North who had so long
«rl'o« S ^o, tr sto °d by the South in her strug-
w^ .W i.„ A . bol i t r ,s “- He Ported out who It
dcTeration ^ *n Uougress with the Southern
FVovW-tha^bS" 6 c he * • from the Wilmot
with whilh °0 nfenont J r and degradation,
with which she was threatened—that had relieved
her front the Missouri compromise restriction, and
opened Kansas to the influx of her citizens—ar.d
aided her in the enactment of the Fugitive Slave
Law. He referred by name to the noble exertions
of Douglass and Richardson, of Illinois, to protect
the Constitution an*! the rights of the South under
it, and who had sat op with him two days and two
nights without rest to secure the passage of the
Kansas Bill. He stated that these are the men at
the North that Northern Know-Nothings were en
deavoring to beat down—that of all men elected to
Congress since the par .ipc of the Bill, there was
, not one Know-Nothing who had voted for the
i measure—not one but w ho was hostile to it—that of
the forty-one Northern men who had voted for it,
twenty had been defeated on account of that vote,
and that the twenty-one that were left were the
friends of the South—that it was our duty to stand
bv to encourage and to cheer them. The danger
to our rights was not at tlie North, if we would be
firm to our friends there, and true to ourselves.
\Ye had friends in every Northern State—patriotic
and true men, who would stand by us if we would
stand by ourselves; and be true to onr own princi
ples. There were tine men even in Massachu
setts. There were one hundred guns fired on Bos
ton Common when the Governor recently vetoed
the bill to remove Judge Loring from office for is
suing a warrant to restore a fugitive slave to his
ow ner. But there was not a Know-Nothing gun
among them. They were tired by the true men of
that State, who still felt the spirit of’70 that
blazed on Bunker Hill. There were true men—
national men in New Hampshire, in Connecticut,
i in New York, in Iowa, many in Illinois, and that
| our policy w as not to join the Know-Nothings,
I who were fighting the.se men, but to stand by our
friends there, and soon they would rally again,
and gain strength. From twenty-one, they would
swell to thirty, to forty, to fifty, to one hundred
in Congress. They would stand by ns and our
rights, and with us save the Constitution and save
the country.
Mr. Stephens concluded by saying that a re
viewer of his letter had said liis late letter would
prove his political winding-sheet. If the people
of the 8th Congressional District so willed it, he
was ready to go down to his political grave. In
doing so, there was only one w inding sheet he pre
ferred above all others to be wrapped around him.
That was tho Constitution of bis country'. Next
to that, he desired no better winding-sheet to be
wrapped around him than the principles of that
letter, and he w ished his epitath to be, “Here lies
one who never deceived a friend or betrayed even
an enemy.”
Mr. Stephens beautifully compared the entrance
of this order from the North into the South, to
the entrance of Satan in the form of the subtle
serpent into the garden of Eden, with a lie in his
mouth, calling on Eve to eat of the fruit, for in
that day she should not surely die.
He concluded amid great cheering.
Such is an imperfect sketch ot this eloquent
speech, in which we have been compelled to prune
away many of its beauties, and in an abridged re
port" to impair the strength of its arguments. We
wi re forcibly reminded, while Mr. Stephens was
speaking, of an event in the life of the great Ro
man orator, to which there is a beautiful ailusion in
a recent literary address, by the Hon. F. W. Pick
ens, of South Carolina. It w as at the time when
Anthony was attempting a great chance in the
form of" the Roman Government, which escaped
! the observation of the people, that Ciecro came
i forth from his retirement to warn them of their
S danger. Unaided and alone he pointed it out, but
i they" liceded not bis warning voice, and the des
truction of the Roman Republic was the conse
quence. Let the reader make the application to
onrowu times and circumstances.
Mr. Toombs wa<* then called for, and responded
in a most eloquent and impressive speech, and in
his happiest manner. He fully coincided in Mr.
Stephens’s sentiments and uttered a splendid eolo-
ginm upon the principles of American liberty,
civil and religious—upon the noble feature of re
ligious tolerance which characterized our institu
tions r.r.d the wise policy of inviting to our shores
foreign emigration.
We regret our space will not enable us this
morning to give a sketch ot his very interesting
speech.
Mr. Thomas, of Elbert, responded to loud calls
for him, in a few appropriate remarks, which were
well received, after which the meeting dispersed
in high spirits, and in good order.
Some called out for Sam to got up, but Sara felt
so completely demolished he could not rise, and
had not a word to say. He had probably heard of
tho Virginia elections.
Speech of Henry A. Wise in Wasliimlon.
Washington. May 27.—Last night about nine
o'clock, a tremendous gathering of persons took
place at Brown’s Hotel, accompanied with music
from the Marine Band. Mr. Wise was brought
to the front part of tlie hotel, and introduced to the
crowd, but the storm of applause, hisses and boot
ings that greeted him, prevented his being gener
ally heard. After a slight lull had occurred
among tlie crowd, he commenced as follows;
“Fellow citizens: I never regretted, at any
time during my life morn than at present, that I
had not more physical strength. It is not gener
ous to trample on a defeated foe, but if that were
ever tolerated, I might be pardoned for doing it
now. If there ever was an opponent domineering
and tyranical, it is that illiberal party that lias as
sumed for its motto, “Americans shall rule Ameri
ca.” He has boasted that he was invincible and
invisible, but I have met the Black Knight with
his visor down, and his shield is broken and his
spear shivered into fragments.
He crossed the line separating the North from
the South, stamping the foot so terribly that na
tions might feel the earth tremble; but he travell
ed at night—dark lantern in hand—and did his
boasting between the hours of midnight and day
light. Men became appalled—their blood curdled
in their veins—their muscles clung to their
bones, and fear came over the people ; but I knew
he was vulnerable, and that the rock of Demo
cracy was the defence which should stay his pro
gress.
The speaker then related his travels during the
Canvass, and the trial and suffering he hud gone
through, and said that though Sam bad achieved
victories in the North, he knew be could not
meet the masses of the people in primary assem
blage in Virginia. I knew that lie. conld not
stand before the shrill pibroch and ringing trump
et of liberty. He might live in a land of secret
ballot, but"lie could not survive the open viva voce
voting of the people. (Immense, cheering hissing
and groaning.) By that voice Sam was conquer
ed in the Old Dominion, as I have been told by
mv friends, tell yon. (Great sensation and con
fusion.) I suppose that is a demonstration of
“American's ruling America.” The ear of the
people is not allowed to listen to the language of
liberty—not only are these Sams huzzaing for
the destruction of religious liberty, but would
trample on the freedom of the press.
To Know Nothings I would say, you have found
your match in a purified majority which consists
of conscientious conservative men of both parties.
(A voice: “give us some holy wAtei”) I would I
I were the Lord's annointed, to give you holy wa
ter. You who are crying fer it are hypocrites.
(A voice: -‘That's a lie ; you don’t mean that."
You have joined the aliolitionists iu thc-lr war on
the institutions of Virginia “Interruptions.) I
thank you. (be said in an ironical tone,) from the
bottom of my heart, for your orderly conduct and
decent behavior—you have demonstrated your
worthiness to he masters of this country. VVhat
laws are to guard us. if such as you rule—you who
wili not tolerate discussion, uur the freedom of
speech?
My lungs are too weak to contend with a rab
ble'ike you. A mob of Know Nothings has seiz
ed upon the capital of the country, and I leave it
to conservative Whigs and indomitable Demo
crats to say whether this disgrace shall abide
there.
Mr. Wise refused to say more, as every sen
tence of his speech had been interrupted by hoot
ing, hissing, huzzaing, and exclamations.
When he had closed, a rostrum was erected in
the street, and J. M. Bryce, an American, made
sundry attempts to be heard, but the noise was
too great, and confusion continued upwards of an
huur after Wise hud retired.
New York anti San Francisco—The tables turned.
—Flour in San Francisco, by the last accounts,
was six dollars a barrel—here it is twelve. Tiiey
have commenced the shipment of the article, there
fore, from California wheat: (fifty to eighty bushels
to the acre,) to New York, and in a mouth or two
some thousands of barrels may he expected here
via Cape Horn. This is turning the tables upon
us in tine style. California is ambitious. Not sat
isfied with supplying us with gold, she has under
taken to till up our deficiencies of bread. Was
there ever such another country as California?—.V
F Herald.
Dead-Head Congressmen going to Europe.—A
Binghampton paper says that the extraordinary
emigration of Congressmen by the Collins'steamer
will surprise no one who is aware that every one
of them voted for the Collins’ appropriation in the
last Congress. The implication of course is, that
they are provided with free tickets. If so, it will
easily explain, perhaps, the refusal of the Compa
ny's agents to furnish our reporters, to-day, with a
list of the passengers in time for publication in the
New York Evening Post.
“Your house is on fire, sir,” said a stran
ger, rushing into the parlor of a sober citi
zen.
“Well, sir,” was the answer of the latter,
“to what cause am I indebted for the ex
traordinary intesost which yon take in the
affairs of my house.”
Meeting in Dooly.
Sati’rpay, May 26th 1855.
Agreeably to previous notice the Democratic
Party convened rliis dav at Vienna
The Meeting was organized by calling Benja
min B. Hamilton to tee Chair, and requesting 8.
N. Lasse ter to act as Secretary.
The Chairman requested Co). John B. Coining
to make known the objects of the meeting,—who
responded in a brief amt p-'rlinent address.
Ou motion of Col. John C. Motmger a commit
tee of five was appointed to draft resolutions ex
pressive of the sentiments of this meeting. Tim
Chair appointed John C. Mounger, Elijah Butts.
James Gamble, William G. Hamilton, and Caleb
Fullington. The committee retired for a few lirin-
nr.ets, when they reported through their chairman
Col. Mounger, the following preamble anil resolu
tions which were adopted, to wit:
The Democracy of Dooly county have met in
pursuance to a previous cell, not for the purpose
of affirming new principles; but for the purpose of
asserting their devotion to the time honored prin
ciples of a party, whose object from the foundation
of the Government lias lo.-en to Guarantee to all
equal priviiiges, and to force alike upon all equal
burdens; as well also, to appoint Delegates to the
Gubernatorial Convention to assemble in Mil-
ledgeville on the fifth day of June next, and to a
Congressional Convention to assemble shortly at
Americus, and to say, vve belong to that Party,,
whose guide is tlie Constitution of the Union of
the American States, and whose cherished princi
ples are based upon the solid and enduring found
ation of truth and justice; and which have been so
successfully earned out by each of the Democratic
Presidents, in their different administrations, and
that entertaining an abiding confidence in the cor
rectness of these principles, we have pledged our
selves to do battle, under the ample folds ot that
banner in opposition to all attempts at innovation
upon its long and well fried guarantees.
To the end therefore we solemnly declare, that
we will have no alliance, or affilliation with the
new political order of the day by the out doors
name of Know-Nothing.
The Democratic Party of Ibis Union, whether
North or South have ever battled for those princi
ples, which in their opinion would conduce to tlie
interest of the whole country, without regard to
geographical lilies or sectional inte.rest, and upon
the success of which principles depend the perma
nence of the American Union, and upon the well
being of which, is the progress of truth founded
in wisdom, directed by justice, and meted out in
moderation.
All secret associations or combinations, under
whatever plausible name or character,—or under
whatever pretence—with the real design to con
trol, or to counteract the free action of a tree peo
ple in the exercise of tho elective franchise, are de
structive of tlie fundamental principles of a free
Government, and fatal in their tendency. Such
we are constrained to regard the nr-w political or
der association or combination, vulgarly styled
Know-Nothings. It can only serve- to organize a
party without principles to control it, or wisdom to
direct: and to give it an extraordinary force propel
led by a recklessness as extraordinary only as it is
destructive to the rights and interest of Freemen
and of the fundamental principles of* free Gov
ernment. Combinations of this character are dan
gerous in their tendency, and may in the course of
tune be used by designing ambitious and unprinci
pled mou, to subject the power of tlie people and
to take into their own hands the reins of the Gov
ernment.. and should be firmly and steadily opposed
by every Patriot and Philanthropist.
A zealous adherence to openly declared, virtu
ous, and patriotic principles, eau iu any Govern
ment, alone secure its permanence and prosperity.
And a departure from this course in a republican
Government is more to He deprecated than famine
or the sword; and w bile we are led to mourn over
the existence of the hidden and biind organization
of a political party in our midst seeking to rule by
its own dark designing misrule, and by the admin
istration of false or mock oaths, we. would willing
ly extend tho hand of fellowsbir to all who are cor
rect in feeling, and who have been led to join the
order without due reflection, and urge them to
throw off the shackles which falsely bind them to
adhere to a dangerous, and alarming precedent.—
As well also, would we cordially invite those of
every political party who are out of the order or as
sociation, ami who are opposed to it, to unite with
us in our opposition to the further extension of the
order or association; and let us blend oui united ef
forts to advance the administration of the Govern
ment in its purity, and in conformity t<> its written
Constitution, and with a view to the interest of the
whole country regardless of fanaticism whenever
and wherever to be found, and of whatever char
acter. Satisfied as we are that experience is the
surest test of the tendency of the existing Consti
tution of a country and that our institutions have
worked happiness and prosperity to all grades and
classes of our citizens, we would earnestly invoke
the serious consideration of all, to any innovation
which may be sought liy designing men or parties
to be engrafted upon tlie institutions of this Gov
ernment, under which we have grown to such un-
paraleled power as a nation, and prosperity and
happiuess as a people.
1. Resolved, Therefore that we have unabated
confidence in the principles of tho Democratic Par
ty, as carried out by Jefferson, Madison, and oth
er Democratic Presidents, and as declared, and
laid down in the Baltimore platform of 1848, and
1852, and that the principles therein contained are
sufficient for all the practical purposes of a well
regulated Government, and that they shall receive
our cordial support, as they have oar highest ad
miration. That we will ever rally to the standard
of Democracy, for it is in our opinion the perma
nent, firm and unshaken pillar, of American free
dom. It is a wise superstructure, on the base
ment story (The Constitution) of the American
Government.
2. Resolved, That we cannot from principle affil-
liate with the order, organization, or combination,
of a certain Political party called Know-Nothings.
We spurn the policy that would cause any politi
cal party, which has principles to direct it, tonffil-
liate with the “dark lantern” order, whose evil in
tentions exclude them from the light of day, and
whose spirit of religions intolerance is at war
with the Genius and spirit of our institutions, and
tend directly, to sap and undermine the fundamen
tal principles of our Government; it is inconsistent
with American freedom and should have no sym
pathy, either from Whigs, or Democrats.
3. Rrsolred, That we cordially invite all good
men without distinction to heretofore party lines,
to unite with us, to preserve the Union as it is,
and to save it especially from the foul touch, of
that political party, whose prominent features are
to deprive their fellow men of rights all ready
vested under the Constitution, and especially to
deprive them in the tree exercise of conscience, in
their religions tenets. A rig)it dear to freemen es
pecially to American Freemen.
4. Resol red, That we approve of tlie Administra
tion of Franklin Pierce, and believe it has been tiie
conduct of a wise, patriotic, and just man, under
the guidance of tin* Constitution—the strict ob
servance of which n e regard as paramount to all
preferences of sect or party.
5. Reunited, That we have a just appreciation of
the ability, patriotism, and integrity, of his Excel
lency H. V. Johnson, and desire his re-election;
but as Demo -rats, our hearty sanction will be giv
en to the choice of tlie Convention, irrespective of
our personal pi eferences.
fi. Res'dred, That we learn with regret “lint our
distinguished, and able representative to Congress,
A. 11. Colquitt, has declined to become our candi
date for re-election, and that we tender him, our
sincere heart felt condolence, for the severe, and
afflicting dispensation which has prompted him to
this determination.
On motion, a committee of five was appointed
to select delegates to the Gurhernatorial and Con
gressional Conventions, (Committee) John C.
Mounger, Richard Bowen, John C. Royal, James
Brown and. James M. Hamilton, who reported
through their Chairman, to the Gurhernatorial
Convention, John B. CoJding, Elijah Butts and
Andrew J. Pound, to the Congressional, Edward
Outlaw, John C. Royal and Leonard J. Cross.—
On motion, the Committee have [lower to fill va
cancies that may occur. Moved and carried that
the proceedings of this meeting be published in
the Georgia Telegraph and Federal Union.
The meeting then adjourned sine die.
B. B. HAMILTON, Chairman.
S. N. Lassltf.K, See’y.
Gov. Cobb iu the Field.
If no unforscen obstacle intervene, this distin
guished gentleman will meet the people of the 6th
District at the times and places which we givono
tice of by his card this morning. The tendency of
passing events in the political world is towards an
easy time the next campaign for the candidates of
the Democratic party. But should Know Nothing-
ism revive and make fight in the fitli District it had
best look well to its war harness, for the battle is
to be fought under the motto of the “Black IIuz-
zars”—“no quarters asked—none given.” We are
pleased to be able to say, in advance of the active
campaigning in the 6th, that Gov. Cobb is san
guine that the party will carry everything before
it next fall and that this result will be achieved by
handsome gains over previous votes. With Cobb,
Stephens, Toombs, Smith and those other good men
and true, yet to be designated by the voice of the
people, in our next Congress, we may expect to
see the black flag of Abolition stricken to the dust.
We go now stronger than ever for the Union; but
it is for the union of the stoutest hearts and most
practised arms that we can send to Washington,
that our sinking cause may be upheld, and South
ern equality vindicated.—Atlanta intelligencer.
If Governor Gardner had not voted against the
confirmation of Judge Loring, as lecturer at Har
vard, his refusal to remove the Judge from the
probate office would have had consistency as well
•(justice to grace it.
Catoosa County Democratic Meeting.
Pursuant to previous notice, a large and respec
table portion of the Democratic and a iti-Ki ow-
Nothing party of Catoosa county, assembled at the
State Depot, in Ringgold, this evening, on motion
Dr. A. L Barry was called to the Chair, and A. T.
Hackeit, Esq., -appointed Secretary.
The object of ilie meeting was stated by Col.
IT. J. Sprayberrv, to he, to appoint suitable Dele
gates to tiie Gubernatorial Convention . i he lie id
in Milledgeville on the 5th of June next, and the
Congressional Convention to be held at Calhoun,
Ga., ou the 12th of Jane next.
On motion of Col. H. J. Sprayberrv, a commit
tee of five were appointed to propose business for
the meeting, consisting of the following gentle
men, viz, P. Yates, T. M. Gordon, A. M. V\ iliiams,
H. M. Shaw, and Col. H. J. Sprayberry; the com
mittee immediately retired for consultation to an
adjoining room. In the mean time the meeting
was addressed by the Hon. E. R- Harden, in a
short, but able, eloquent and statesmanlike style.
Though the Judge stood ankle deep in a pair ot
Nebraska Moccasins, made by the Native Ameri
cans indeed, yet he is far, very far from having fal
len a prey to the political heresies and fanaticism
imbibed by and emmanating from this self-styled
American Party. The Judge showed to the audi
ence from whence this mongrel stock sprang, that
they were ot Northern origin, and abolition ex
traction; born in Massachusetts, cradled in the lap
of abolitionism, aud nourished by the papottree-
soiiism it has grown with their growth and
strengthened with their strength, to its present
fearful size, that the tenets of the party are antag
onistic to Southern interests and Southern institu
tions, and if triumphant would prove the downfall
of the proudest, purest and happiest nation that
ever adorned the civilized world, and blessed a vir
tuous and refined people- He animadverted
with pathos to the hnilders of the Temple of
Freedom, reared here upon the happy Continent
of America, showing truly that it was not native-
born Americans alone who laid the corner-stone of
the temple of freedom, that it was not that class
alone who reared its proud spires to the clouds of
Heaven. It was not them alone, who consecrated
this temple to God, to religious and political liber
ty, by the purest blood that ever flowed through
noble hearts. But that native born Americans did
accomplish this victory of victories by and
through the aid ofsuch of nature's noblemen from
foreign countries as were willing to sacrifice their
lives, their fortunes and their sacred honors upon
the altar of freedom, fighting for the rights of man,
against those oppressive aud tyranical governments
winch gave them birth. He referred to many of
this class, and called upon Southern men, both
Whigs and Democrats to cast the scales from their
eyes with which they have been blinded through
the trickerv of Northern intrigue, and to unite
heart and hand t<> give battle to this oath-bound
party of crusaders, who are sapping the fund: men
tal principles of our government, and extracting
the very life-blood from the constitution of our
country, which constitution is the glory of every
patriot and American, and the hope of the oppres
sed and down-trodden of every nation, tribe,
tongue and sect. _ ,
After the Judge closed his remarks, the commit
tee of five appointed by the chairman of tlie meet
ing io select suitable delegates to attend the Gub
ernatorial and Uongressiou.il Conventions, report
ed the following, to-wit:
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
We, tlie committee, appoint Thomas J. Gosnl
and Michael Dickson delegates to the Gubernato
rial Convention to be held at Milledgeville ou the
5th dnv of June next, and Presley Yates and Thus.
From the Empire State.
Col. J. M. Smith’s Letter of Acceptance.
We take pleasure in placing before onr readers
t’:<* letter of the nominee for the Third Congres
sional District, accepting the nomination. The.
letter is short, hot to the point. He euuorses the
resolutions of the Convention, and places himself
fairly before the country in regard to his opinions
upon the questions in issue between the present
contesting parties.
Thomaston, Ga.. May 24,1855.
Col. James Af. Smith.—Dear Sir: The Democrat
ic Convention which assembled at Forsyth, the
22d inst., to select a candidate to represent the
Third Congressional District in the ensuing Con
gress of the United States, unanimously nomina
ted you, and appointed tlie undersigned a commit
tee to notify you of your nomination, and solicit
vour acceptance of the same.
It is hoped, in view of the great unanimity with
which the nomination was made by the Conven
tion. and the satisfaction with which it lias been
received by the party generally, that you will not
fed at liberty to decline, or to permit any consid
erations of a personal character to intervene be
tween you and the interest of the party, which
seeks to make you its standard-bearer in the ap
proaching contest.
Yours, very respectfully,
JOHN B. KENDALL, )
T. A. D. WEAVER, !• Com.
JAMES W. GREENE, S
Thomaston, Ga., May 25th, 1855.
Messrs. John B, Kendall, Tracis A. D. B earer, aud
James It'. Greene:
Gentlemen:—Your favor of yesterday, informing
me of my nomination by the Convention assem
bled at Forsyth on the22d inst, as a candidate for
Congress in the Third Congressional District of
thi* State, and requesting me in behalf of the Con
vention to accept the same, lias been received. 1
regret that the nomination did not fail upon some
other, better qualified than myself to discharge
the duties which it imposes; but the circumstances
under which it was made, admonish me that it is
my duty to yield to the will of the Convention as
expressed through yon. Allow me to add, that 1
bav e been favored with an opportunity of examin
ing the resolutions adopted by the Convention,
and that they contain my views in reference to the
questions upon which they touch.
I am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
Your ob’t ser’vt,
JAMES M. SMITH.
State Hights, and United States 1 Higfeis.
A Sectional Parly.
The proceedings of a meeting of the citizens of
Columbus, in which several leading Know-Noth
ings of that place, taken prominent part, held at
Temperance Hall, on Saturday, 28th inst., have
been sent us in a circular; they have also been
published in the Colu.nlas Enquirer. Our co-oper
ation is asked in the movement therein proposed—
which, as we understand one of the Resolutions,
proposes to us to repudiate all fellowship and con
nection with the present national political organ
izations. This we respectfully decline to do. We
shall adhere to the National Democratic organiza
tion, as one sound in its principles, its aims and
purposes. Upon it, and its acti* \ and upon the
conservative influences it will rnliv to its support
at the North wherewith to defeat and checkmate
Freesoilism and Know-Nothing den..igogiteism,
we base our hopes of its being able, the South co
operating, to preserve the Constitution and the
Union. When wo give up that hope and abandon
ternates.
And we further recommend that the delegates
have power to till anv vacancy that may occur.
PKKSJ.EY YATES
J, M. GORDON,
A. A. WILLIAMS, ^Committee.
HIRAM M. SHAW, |
H J. SPRAYBERRV, )
The Committee reported the following resolu
tions, to-v.it:
Resolved, That we look upon onr present chief
magistrate of State, as a wise and judicious states
man, as a public servant who has faithfully and
fully discharged his duty.
Resolved, therefore, that he is our first choice
for rononrination, and that we cordially recom
mend uur delegates to the Gubernatorial Conven
tion, to be held at Milledgeville on the 5th day of
June next, to support him accordingly.
Resolved, That we fully endorse the sentiments
of the Hon. A. H. Stephens, as held forth in lus
able letter to Col. Thomas W. Thomas <>f Elberton,
denouncing the secret midnight inquisition called
the Know-Nothing party.
Resolved, That we recommend him to all tme
statesmen-of liis district, as a most tit, able and
efficient Southern champion to be returned to the
next Congress.
appointment of the committee “to draft and report
suitable matter for the consideration of the meet;
ing,” is, avowedly, and per se a disunionist. We
do not. yet despair of the Union.—Constitutionalist
Sf Republic. %
Base Forgery Exposed.—Tiie Cincinnati Daily
Enquirer of October 1st, 1844, contained an article
stating that the words “that if ever the liberty of
the United States is destroyed, it will he by Rom
ish priests.” had been “dug out” of the letter
written by LaFayette to a gentleman in New
York, shortly after tho last visit of the marquis to
this country in 1829, and that the words were
quoted by Lafayette from the letter of the
New Yorker only to be refuted. A long extract
from the alleged letter of Lafayette was given
in the Enquirer, from w hich it is sufficient for us
to quote the following:—
From Lafayette's AUrgrd Letter.—I cannot lint
admire your noble sentiments of devotion and at
tachment to your country and its institutions.
But I must be permitted to assure you that the
fears which, in your patriotic zeal, yon seem to
entertain [that if ever the liberty of the Cnitrd States
Resolved, That we view the dark lantern, oath- • j A . destroyed, it tciil hr by Romish Priests.] are cer-
bonnd party called the Kuow-Notliings, as the most ; tainly without any shadow of foundation w hat-
dangerous and deep-rooted foe to our free and | p Ver . An intimate acquaintance of more than
happy institutions, that ever has been gendered | half a centnry with the prominent and influential
and* nourished upon American soil. I priests and members of that church, both in Eu-
llesolved, That it behooves all true Southern ! rope and America, warrants me in assuring you
men, to unite in one solid phalanx, and make com- that you need entertain no apprehension of uan-
tnon cause against these underground plotters. [ ger to your republican institutions from that quar-
Resolved, that we offer the right hand of fellow
ship to all Lite Whigs, and recommend a union of
all partii*s who are opposed to this new older.
Resolved, That it is with deep and heartfelt
commiseration, vve behold the apostaey of a por
tion of our Democratic brethren, who are back
sliders from the path of true republican principles,
and who have been so unmindful of their duty
to themselves, to their country, aud to their party,
as to unite themselves with this abolition order.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting,
together with the resolutions, he published in the
Rome Southerner, C'assville Standard, Federal
Union, and Augusta Constitutionalist.
On motion, the meeting adjourned sine die.
A. L. BARRY, Chra’n.
A. T. Ilnckett, Sec’v.
If there is any of our readers who doubt the magic
powers of Perry Davis’ Pain Killer to relieve pain
we advise them to buy one twenty-five cent bottle
of the Agent, and give it a fair trial. We never
vet knew it to fail.
The testimonials Professor Holloway has re
ceived from thousands of persons in the Union,
grateful for tie* benefit they have derived by using
Hnlowav’s Ointment and Pills, are convincing
proofs of their efficacy, as no restraint is required
while using them, they arc invaluable as a com
panion. either at home or abroad; the friend of tho
afflicted, the exterminator of suffering; the citizens
of lie* Union should never be without these inval
uable remedies, which if handy, when wanted,
ter.’
The words in brackets are taken from the con
text and attributed to Lafayette who quoted them
only to refute them! The Louisville know-noth
ings, aided by the telenraph, are trying to make it
appear that Professor Morse “proves” that Lafay
ette used the expression above. Bo he did, and
said besides that the fears implied in the expression
were “WITHOUT anv SHADOW OF FOUNDA
TION WHATE VER."’—Boston Post.
Hear the Other Side.
We do frankly confess that in the case of Gov.
Reeder we thought there was serious cause of of
fence against Gen. Pierce, so far as his Southern
supporters were concerned, in that functionary’s
official conduct. We never believed that in the
mere fact of Reeder’s appointment ns Governor of
Kansas we bad solid ground of objections, but in
his being allowed to return to the territory after
liis clearly expressed partiality for the Freesuil
party there, we. thought we had the gravest provo
cation against Gen. Pierce. Our readers have no
doubt seen the flying rumors of the newspapers to
the effect that Gov. Reeder had been returned to
his post by the President, but after a refusal ou
the part of the Administration to back him with
military support.
We can now state upon the highest authority—
that of a distinguished fontionaiy of the Govern
ment, tliat Reeder has not been sent back to his
post, as Governor of Kansas, nor would hr hr under
tiny circumstances. This is gratifying intelligence
to ns, for we admit, that had Gen. Pierce have giv
en way in this particular case, to the rage of tho
M. Gordon as alternates, and for tlie Congression- that Northern organization, the National Democra-
ai convention to be lieid at Calhoun, on the 12tli cy of the North, that has never abandoned ns, and
day of June next, A. 8. Harry and S. N. Bai nes, resort to a merely sectional aud Southern organ
on,1 A. S. Haekett, and Daniel R. Bantings as al- j ization to defend the South, we see plainly that it
must result in disunion. This result may commend
it to some who participated in that Columbus
meeting. We have no doubt it did. One at least
among them, the gentleman who moved for the
“ ] l i“ tilt* Mar Spangled B urner, oh. long inay it wave.
O’er the laud o| 1 Ilf- Free, mid I hr Home ot the Brave."
Tuesday Morning, June 5, 1855.
will prove a blessing more easily conceived than Abolition party, excited bv the loss of Kansas, to
described, as they will cure the most desperate j t j, c . f ;lna tjca "
wounds, ulcers, and sores. They are sold at all
Medicine Stores, throughout the Union, and at
Professor Holoway’s, Wholesale Depot, 38, corner
of Ann and Naussan-strects, New York
IT IS A FA LT ESTABLISH Kit ttiid iv ell known
thru the Arabians ntiaineil a hi-iglii in the knowledgi
m'dieirie » hit'll e«u*d tiie whole world to wonder and
Kitm're. Willi llit ni the science of chemistry hail its
birih, and ll is. then lure, not al bII strange that a |teo-
jde so eminentlv successful in the healing an, arid so
per evering and daring in charm ter, should hv arlnnl
anil untiring experiment, discover remedies far sur
passing in effieaey all others, for the cure of llmsc dis
eases incident to ih«m float their m*«leof life. The
greater port of lliejr inae ‘being spent in hazardous hud
bloody wtrlare with the different tribes, they were sub
j-x-l to ihe most violent attacks of rheumatism, partly is,
nruralgie pains and various inflammatory diseases, as
also the most horid wounds, sprains, bruises, tumors,
swellings, diseases ofihe joints, ect., eel.. Ail these
diseases ihey were so surprisingly efficient in curing,
that the iiuitiiiiated looked with wurnler and attributed
their skill to th“ powers of magic-
II. G. Farrell’- Celebrated Arabian Liniment
is a composition of balsams and oils,from rare plants pe
culiar io this country, aud it was by the use ot thenr-
lirjes ronqst-ing lilts great remedy that not only llteir
physicians, hut even the wild Arabs of the desert were
enabled to perform such miraculous cures. The Arab
steed is world-renowned for his beautiful symmetry nf
lorm his unsurpassed speed and agility, and the incred
ible fatigue he is rapahle ol enduring VI by is it ? Be
cause from the time of his birth his limbs are carefully
watched, aud upon the firrt appearance of disease the
magic lot ion is applied, and such things a» confirmed
sweeny, poll-evil, fistula; ringbone, semlelies, spavin,
lameness, ect, ect., are unknown. The same result will
follow in nil eases where II. G. Farrell’s Genuine Ara
bian Liniment is used in time. ^Therefore delay not in
procuring a good supply of it, for every dollar spent in
it will save you twenty, and a great deal of suffering, if
not your life.
Look out for Counterfeits'—'The public are can
lioned against another counterfeit, which has lately made
its appearance, called W B Farrell's Arabian Liniment,
the most dangerous of all ilie counterfeits, because his
having used the name of Farrell, many will buy it in good
faiili. w ithout the knowledge that a counterfeit exists, and
they will perhaps only discover their error when Ihe
spurious mixture has wrought its evil effects.
The genuine article is manufactured only hv IIG Far
rell ; side inventor and proprietor, and wholesale drug
gist. No. 17 Main street, Peoria, Illinoispto whom all ap
plications fur agencies must be addressed. Be sure yon
get it with the letters H G before Farrell's, thus—IIG
Farrell’s—and his signature on the wrapper, all oth
ers are counterfeit Sold by E J White. Milledgeville,
Isaac Newell, Gordon; Haveriand & Kndey, Augusta;
and by regularly authorised sgents throughout ihe Unit
ed Slates. PRICK *5 and 50 cents, and 91 per bottle.
gents HVwM in every town, village and hamlet
in the United Slates, in which one is nut already estab
lished. Address H G Farrell as above, accompanied
with gaud reference as to character, responsibility tie 5J
1 crew, we should have lost ntcch of
our regard for his independence, arid have had our
confidence in the uprightness of his purposes, in
a great degree destroyed.—At. h.. Iligenccr.
— - ■—mem**
Desperate Battle Beticeen the Arabs and Persians.
—We have been put in possession of the following
particulars, says the Calcutta Morning Chronicle,
regarding a desperate battle between the Arabs
and Persians at Bunder Abbas, and the retaking
of that place by ihe Persians. About the begin
ning of last month a Persian force, consisting of
12,600 horsemen, with .six guns and two mortars,
arrived before Bunder Abbas, when they commen
ced shelling the place, which lasted for two days
and nights; on the third day the garrison, consist
ing of Only 1769 men, met the. Persians at the.
gates, and a hand to hand engagement with
swords took place, which lasted for several hours;
but being overpowered by numbers, the remnant
of the Arab force took to their boats, and made for
the man-of-war belonging to the Imaum of Mus
cat; the Arabs lost in killed and wounded about
1,430 men, whilst the Persians lost about 4,666.
The Arabs were commanded by Synd TwcDv,
eldest son of the Imaum. The young man was so
mortified with the defeat, that lie refused to return
to Muscat, though repeatedly urged to do so by
his father. He is determined to hazard another
battle before finally giving up Bunder Abbas to
the Persians. The Imaum is also said to be mus
tering a large force, which lie will command in
person, so we may shortly expect to hear of anoth
er engagement.
A bottle was picked up last Sunday week on
Sandy Hook, containing a letter, purporting to be
written by John Edmondson, supercargo of the
British brig Edwin, Capt. Stillwater, bound from
Havana to London, stating tiiat the said brig was
captured by a piratical schooner, called the Sham
rock, on the 13th of March, all hands except him
self murdered, and the vessel burned, having been,
rifled of all her valuables.
The letter is dated on board the Shamrock, lat-
39, Ion. 6 a . _
A Funny Mistake.—We learn that a gentleman
named Noble reached our city on Monday evening*
last, and complained to our city police that he had
been robbed of $2500 on the cars, and also point
ed out two men whom he suspicioned of the rob
bery. Onr vigilant officers repaired immediately
to the hotel, and but for the opportune interfer
ence of the Mayor, would have had them safely
lodged in the caliboose. He fortunately discover
ed that one of the gentlemen was Col. Jeff. Davis,
Secretary of War, just in time tosave him the
mortification of an arrest. The affair excited con
siderable merriment, and the Secretary laughed as
heartily as the rest at what liked to have proven
an awkward blunder.—At. Examiner, 36tA.
She Federal Union for the Campaign,
We will furnish to subscribers the FEDERAL
UNION, from the 12th of June to the 12th of De
cember, on the follow ing terms:
One copy - - - . SI 00
Five copies - - - - $4 Ort
Ten copies - - - - $7 00
No paper will be sent without the money accom
panies the order.
As tiie approaching Campaign promises to be one
of great importance and unusual interest, we hope
our influential Democratic friends in tlie different
counties will exert themselves to spread our circu
lation. Let tlie people have light., and they will
not heed darkness. The first number of the cam
paign paper will contain tlie proceedings of the
Democratic State Convention.
Kdurnlian.
The views of our correspondent, Mr. J. C. Pan-
lett, on this trite subject, to be found on our first
page, will suggest to the reader new ideas, if they
do not convince the judgment as to the feasibility
and wisdom of the plan suggested. The subject
is one deeply agitating the public mind in Geor
gia, and every Christian and Patriot will admit
that something more has to he done, and done
quickly, if we would preserve our State pride, and
rescue the children of Poverty from Ignorance and
Crime.
1'airrisi‘r of Georgia*
M ith the advice of the President cf the Senate
and Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Governor Johnson has appointed the following
gentlemen, a Board of Visitors to attend the filial
examinations of the Senior Class of the Universi
ty of Georgia, to commence on the Uitli of Jane,
lion. Joseph E. Brown of Cherokee,
Col. A. A. Oauldingof Spalding,
Dr. M. A. Franklin of Bibb,
Hon. John N. Williamson of Newton,
“ Alex. Pope of Wilkes,
Mr. Charles Julies, jr., of Chatham,
Rev. George Clarke of “
Col. Samuel Hall of Macon,
“ Henry 11. Cuiuming of Richmond,
“ Thomas W. Thomas of Elbert,
“ Robert McMillan of Habersham,
“ Thus. P. Saffold of Morgan,
“ Thus. li. R. Cobb of Clarke,
ITon. James Jackson of “
Dr. Henry Hull of “
Barker’* Double Acting Pump.
We call attention to the Advertisement of Bar
ker's Double Acting Pump. It is highly recom
mended. and to us its action was highly satisfac
tory.
F.i-G«r. Tie Do n a Id’* I.cttcr.
We have received the very able letterof ex-Gov.
McDonald, to Mr. P. Tracy, of Macon, on the sub
ject of Know-Nothingism. We will publish it
next week, when our readers may be prepared for
a rich treat.
TIr. Mtephen* n Candidate for Congress.
At a very large meeting in the city of Augusta,
the proceedings of which we publish to-day, Mr.
Stephens addressed his constituents on the topic of
the day. In the course of his speech he announc
ed himself a candidate for re-election to Con
gress, from the 8th Congressional District. He
said that it had been charged that his detemina-
tion not to be a candidate for re-election, was the
result of a fear of being defeated by tlie “Sam”
party. But to show how little he feared “Sam.”
he announced himself a candidate, and bid defi
ance to the dark lantern association. The gaunt
let has been thrown down to “Sam;” will ho Like
it up! Will he “run a tilt” against tlie man who
“drove the nail in his coffin in Georgia?” The man
who bearded the lion in liis den, the man who, if
elected, will be looked to as the uncompromising
enemy of “Sam's" association in Congress; will
he be permitted to walk over the necks of the K.
N's in the 8th District? Permitted or not, he wiil
do it. and do it handsomely. Old Samuel, Samu
el, old
The Aiurrirau Taiaa.
In bis comments upon the Virginia election,
the editor of the American Union says, that
Wise’s present majority is a very considerable fall
ing off from his former vote, and that under all the
circumstances “Sam has done as tcell as could he
expected." We ask the American Union, when Mr.
Wise ever received a larger rote for Governor of
Virginia than at this time? And if “Sam” has
done as well as could be expected, why did the
Know Nothing Organs in Washington City and
in Virginia, on the day of the election, declare that
the State was just as certain to go for Sam as the.
sun teas to set! Were they so badly deceived, or
did they tell all of these abominable lies just for
effect?
■ ■ lm
9The progress of the American Party is
onward.”
The above oracular announcement, is from a
Know Nothing paper in Georgia. The announce
ment is undoubtedly correct as farasitgoes; the
progress of tin* Know Nothing party is onward and
eastward, and the Virginia election has greatly
accelerated the motion. Sam is no doubt run
ning as fast as liis legs can carry him, and we
strongly suspect be will not stop until he gets to
Boston.
“Flabbergasted.”
When the news from the Richmond Municipal
election reached this city, some months ago, the
Southern Recorder was so elated with the intelli
gence that it could not forbear using the above
piece of elegant wit as well as phraseology, to ex
press the countenance of the anti-Know-Nothings
in this city. We must confess that “Sam” has
made himself scarce about the public places for
nearly a week. On Sunday last the news from tlie
Know-Nothing stronghold in Va. reached this city.
“Sam” was out in great strength. He was to be
seen at the corners of the streets, and all publie
places, with a “pocket full of rocks” which he
shook at the Wise men. It was as easy to tell a
Know-Nothing on that day as it would he to track
the sun in a cloudless sky. “Sam” was on bis
high liorsi* then; but his day ef rejoicing was short
lived. With Monday came the terrible reality.—
Since which time, tho “dry rot” or something
worse has got into “Sam's” family, they are all
“down.” Bob the Barber lias an eye on them
when they enter his shop, and lie positively refu
ses, it is said, to shave any of the lanterned-jawed
fraternity under double rates.
One good result «f Knatv.Notbiagi*na.
The formation of tlie Know-Nothing Party at
the North had the effect of drawing into its arms
all the fanatical Whig Abolitionists in the New
England States ami most of those in the Middle
and Western States, and attracted also the Aboli
tionists and Free-Soilers who had heretofore acted
with the Democratic Party in those sections. The
natural consequence was, tliat the State Govern
ments in these sections were placed in the hands
of corrupt and dangerous men, who have so out
raged public sentiment that thousands of the best
Whigs of the North will hereafter act with the
Democratic party. It will be so in Massachusetts
at the next State election, so in New Hampshire,
and throughout the North. Power has been given
to men who have used it to the public detriment-
confidence has been abased. and the “second sober
thought” of the people of the North will sweep
from office a brood of political miscreants who will
never more, we thwt, disgrace our eonntry with
their appearance !» high places.
Tfc* Democratic Stale Convention.
We hope the Democratic Convention about to
assemble in this place, will lay down a breed
National Democratic Platform; so liberal that all
patriotic National men, opposed to the bigrted
and proscriptive Know Nothings, can stand np**n
it. Those National men at the North who have
stood by the South through evil as well as good
report should be sustained. With Mr. Stephens
we believe that the greatest danger to our rights
is not at the North, if we will be firm to onr
friends there, and true to ourselves. A re-action
has already commenced, and with such aid and
encouragement as the South can give them we
believe the friends of the constitution and laws,
will soon bo in the majority in many of the North
ern States. We most sincerely hope that in erect
ing our platform, no effort will be mad** to warp
it so as to suit the views or accommodate the exi
gences of any netc lights just emerged from a
Know Nothing cavern. Our brethren in Virginia
made no compromise with the dark lantern fra
ternity, and we most solem nly assure cur politi
cians, that the people of Georgia will not permit
any compromise to be made with them here. With
abroad, liberal, National, Democratic platform, wo
can accommodate all the good and true National
men, and with them we can bid defiance to Sant
and all his tcorks, and make the first Monday in
October to Georgia, what the 24th of May has
been to Virginia.
“Bald thins* can he d*nr an well •«
•then.”
The above is the closing' paragraph of a r.iv-
ing, ranting appeal to the voters of Richmond,
made on the morning of the late election, by the
Editor of the Richmond Whig. "We strongly sus
pect the Editor of the Whig doubts the truth of
this maxim now. It certainly has not proved true
in the late contest in Virginia. Ifthe Know-Noth
ings could do some things as well as they can do
others, Wise would have been beaten by thous
ands. ‘ If the Knights of the Dark Lantern could
vote as well as they can lie, the Democracy would
have been crushed. They declared repeatedly be
fore the election, they had seventy two thousand
members of tlie order in the StatP, all ready to
vote the Know-Nothing ticket, but when tailed
for, they did not come. It seems then, that some
things cannot be done as well as others. If they
had the seventy two thousands members, they can
get members much better than they can get votes.
If they could perform as well as they can brag,
they would never he defeated. But the people
have learned that Know-Nothings cannot do some
things as well as others. They .can exceed all men
that we have ever heard of in boasting and lying,
but tlie result shows that the Democracy, when
aroused, can beat them in voting.
I.rlagextraardinarf.
Not since the day that the father of lies enter
ed the garden of Eden, and with barefaced impu
dent lying deceived our grandmother Eve, onto
the present day, have we heard or read of sn**h
wholesale and retail lying as has been perpe
trated by the Krow Nothings concerning the Virgin
ia election. For days and weeks before and even
down to the very day of the election, the Know-
Nothing Newspapers about Richmond and Wash
ington city boasted that the defeat of the Demo
cracy, was just as certain as that the Sun should
rise and set. They put forth these assertions,
not as matters of opinion, hut as matter of fart, of
irhirh they had positive demonstration. They assert
ed positively, that they had seventy-two thousand
members of the order in the State all ready pre
pared to vote the Know Nothing ticket. We sup
pose they have tlie means of knowing just how
many members they have in a State. If this is so,
either thonsands of their members must have dis
regarded their oaths and voted against them, or
else the conductors of these newspapers, and their
correspondents were guilty of the most awful
lying ever... perpetrated since the world began.—
But perhaps no one should be astonished at this,
for lying appears to be one of the first duties im
posed upon a member when he joins one of their
councils. Now when this law of tlie Order is un
derstood, who will hereafter believe one word
coming from a Know Nothing, concerning that
society. Will those who have been duped and
have lost their money on the Virginia election?
We think not, Sam has lost his power to deceive!
his lies and his bragging have carried him through
many elections, but liis tactics are now well
known, and his vain boastings will pass by like
the idle wind.
The Grergia Platfarna.
The Southern Recorder is greatly exercised for
fear the opponents of Know-Nothingism in Geor
gia will make an application of the “Georgia Plat
form” not calculated to foster the interests of the
Dark Lantern Party. We have always had a
great preference for the 4th Resolution over any
other part of tlie “Georgia Platform,” because
there is some meaning in it. It proposes a reme
dy for Northern aggression on Southern Rights,
and men of all parties at the South should unite,
cordially unite, in enforcing the remedy whenever
such an infraction of the Constitutional rights of
the South occurs, as is contemplated by the pro
visions of said 4th Resolution. We are told hy
men who sympathize with the Know-Nothing Par
ty, that the Philadelphia June Convention of
Know-Nothings will plant itself on the 4th Reso
lution of the Georgia Platform. We dont believe
it will. Something, in the shape of a Resolution,
which w ill mean nothing, may be concocted at
Philadelphia, that will look like a concession to
Southern Rights, but the Georgia Platform, in its
entirety, will not be adopted by the Know-Noth
ings as a basis for national organisation. That
tnay be relied on as a fixed fact. Will the Recor
der act with any Party in a national contest that
ignores or rejects the Georgia Platform ? The
Recorder says the “Know-Nothing or American
Party is as true to the Georgia Platform as Musco
gee Democracy can be.” If the Recorder had
said the Know-Nothing Party, of Georgia, there
might have been more plausibility in the assertion:
but we are well convinced the Know-Nothing Par
ty, as it exists at the North, is not true to the
Georgia Platform. All its fruits prove the contra
ry. Know-Nothingism at the North is synonomous
with Abolitionism. Tlie freemen of \ irginia hare
just passed sentence on this party. They have
banished it from their pure atmosphere, and have
consigned its leaders to an oblivion the hand of
Time cannot relieve or repair. To suppose that a
Party at the North, made up of the Whig Party in
that section, and the bad portion of the Democrat
ic Party North, can be true to the Georgia Pla>-
form, is simply absurd. As well expect the skin o
Fred Douglass to tnrn white: as wellexpect Ward
Beecher and Theodore Parker to become slaver}
propagandists.
We hope there will be no difference among
Southern men, on the 4 th Resolution of the Geor
gia Platform. It is all we got by the hard fight in
’51; we will not give it up without a struggle —
The Constitutional Union Doctors gave us tit-
remedy—let it have a fair trial.
nigh authority against the Know*
Nothing party.
The Journal of Commerce, a highly conserve
tive Northern paper, thus speaks of the Know
Nothing party. We commend its remarks to i
true Southern Union men.
“With the single exception of the State of Ne 1 ’
York, Know-Nothingism in the Northern anfl -' ( ’
Western States, lies only served asa watchword
unite the anti-Dfc:iiocratic factions; and the t‘‘ ■
pound is found to contain a more concentre
virus of sectional fanaticism than either ottfie
pics of which it is composed. The State * ,
KiiDw-Nothingi.-ni has most completely tnjonp V
is the .State which has most disgraced itst-li .-
olition madness and rebellion How can
is the Mate which hast
ilition madness and reoeus-u r:~ t t,e
xpected that the South will throw itsell^mto
embrace of such a party We dd at one r
that Know-Noth ing is m mould vour od upon taelr
Isd waters of sectional stnje-but we hope• » »« p
ger. It has shown its cloven feet too
be any longer trusted. It the country is ^
ed from the dangers which threaten it, W ^
cratic party is doubtless the appointed m > ^
We are therefore not sorry,. but ? ll ‘ d ’ r ^,re has
Virginia successfully breasting the tide »« e "
already swept over so large a portion ot t e
try.” *