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The Rupture Among the Know Noth
ings—Th“ Silver Greys Baching Out.
[From fh^ Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (organ
of Millard Fillmore and the Silver Greys) June 18.
THE KNOW NOTHING PLATFORM.
In tlie action of the Council on the
subject ofslavery, they have been guilty
of self-stultification. The Know Nothing
party was formed for quite other objects
than the settlement of the slavery ques
tion-. Its founders, by the very act of
organizing it—its members, by the very
act of joining it, declared their opinion
that there is another question paramount
to this, if not in absolute importance, at
least in present urgency.
The Council met, and by introducing,
discusssing and splitting on the salvery
question, they have contradicted the very
idea in which the party had it* origin.—
The Know Nothing organization grew up
and acquired strength in the midst of the
excitement caused by the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. But the central
idea of the organization was not antagon
ism to salvery, hut antagonism to foreig
ners. A party coining forward at that
time with that issue declared by the very
act of doing so, that, in its opinion, the
question of slavery was subordinate in pres
cut importance, to a revision of the natura
lization laws.
Whether this was a sound conclusion is
a matter on which men may differ, but
that it was the. opinion of the. Know Noth
ings themslevcs, is a logical consequence
of the convention at Philadelphia is in
perfect contradiction to all the past pro
fessions of the, party. It is more than a
confession of weakness; it is a confession
of folly. It is virtually saying that a great
party which aspired to control the general
government overrated the value of the
principles with which it started, and mis
took its mission.
It has made the discovery at Pliiladel-
ph ia, that it has no issue to present to the
country which possesses any independant
vitality; and by insisting on uniformity of
opinion in relation to slavery at the ex
pense of a rupture of a party, it shows
how little importance it really attaches to
what has heretofore been regarded as the
cardinal principle.
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The American party lacks manliness.—
It has not, yet acquired the great mascu
line virtues which give strength to char
acter; and enforce the respect of the world
It would scorn the act of being unprinci
pled, and, yet if it has principles, nobody
can tell specifically tell what they are. It
never talks about principles at all if it can
help it, and when it does, its language is
never alike on two different days or in two
different places. Here you find it saying it
will snpjKtrt no candidate who is not pro
slavery to tlie midriff, there that it will
support no candidate who is not anti-slave
ry to the backbone; to-day it will exclude
all Catholics from office, to-morrow that it
believes in the broadest religious toler--
ance; here that the nutralization laws
should be repealed: to-day that no candi
date not a member of the Ihird Degree
should be voted for, to-morrow that coali
tions may be made with other parties and
their nominees to be supported to suit cir
cumstances. The very name the Know-
Nothings have taken to themselves is any
thing but a chivalrous one. It implies
concealment, art, and dissimulation; it sug
gests all the associations connected with
cables and juntas; it dishonors truth by
assuming that truth works best when it
works in the dark; and it insults intelli
gence bv taking as its very’ badge of dis
tinction the counterfeited lack^.'f it. The
Know-Nothing organization, as it is now
constituted, cannot permanently prosper.
American though it professes to be in aim
and policy, its secret and banded charac
ter is opposed to every' American senti
ment and instinct. The American people
cannot be made to believe that American
liberty is yet so badly' off that it can only
be saved by being hoodwinked and gag
ged. They' complain, and have a right to
complain, that the titles to the American
citizenship have been, of late y*ears, scan
dalously cheapened, by dealing them out
to all sorts of interlopers; but they have too
much sense to think of curing the evil by
nailing their own titles to the counter as a
sham thing, and making themselves over,
body and soul, under oath to a divan of
darkness.— N. Y. Cou.and Enq.
Gigantic •‘Rye.-—Mr. W. -B. West, of
Stockton San Joaquin county, California,
makes the following statement of the yield
of eight grains of gigantic rye:
“They’car before last, from eight grains
of gigantic rye, I raised two pounds
of seen, from which, the past season, I ob
tained two hundred and forty-six pounds
of grain. Many' of theheads were a foot
in length, and the straw about five feet in
bight, remarkably sweet, and much relish
ed by animals. The grain was more than
double the original size, flinty in its char
acter, light-colored, and resembling flint
wheat, except in length, being shaped like
common ry r e.”
Use Copperas.—The papers are every
where urging the free use of copperas as a
disinfecting agent. It is a cheap article,
costing only three cents per pound, and can
be found at the druggists and many of the
larger grocery stores. A couple of pounds
mav bt dissolved in ten quarts of water,
and tlie solution poured into sinks, gutters,
cess-pools, and all other filthy' places, with
good effect. Wc advise all housekeepers
to buy' five, ten or fifteen pounds, and make
a free use of it as above recommended.—
Cholera or no cholera, their dwellings and
out buildings will contain a purer at
mosphere after the free use of copper
as.
Pumpkins and Squashes of American
Origin.—The common field pumpkin,
(evrurhita pepo,) as well as the squashes,
properly' so called, is believed to be of
American origin; as will appear from the
following remarks by Dr. T. W. Harris, of >
Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass
achusetts: s
“Accident led me some four years ago
to undertake the investigation of the
history of squashes and pumpkins, which
has led to quite interesting results. Most
of the older and well-known species and
varieties were by modern botanists sup
posed to have come originally from Asia,
and particularly from India. This I
have proved to be an error, and have
shown that these fruits were wholly un
known to the ancients, no mention being
made of them in the Scriptures, nor by T
Greek and Latin authors; the writers of
the middle ages, while they describe or
take note of otlier encnbitaceous plants,
entirely omit pumpkin and squashes; and
these did not begin to be known and
noticed in Europe till after the discovery
of America. Early voyagers found them
in the West Indies, I’eru, Florida, and
even on the coast of New England, where
they were cultivated by our Indians bc-
tore any settlements were made here by
the Europeans.—.
The Book of Sams.
“SAM” IN RHODE ISLAND.
A meeting of tlie Know Nothing State Council
of Rhode Island was held on Wednesday, and ap
proved the action of their delegates at Philadel
phia. A platform of principles was adopted, em
bracing the following points; the unconditional
restoration of the Missouri Compromise; the repeal
without retroactive operation, of all acts of Con
gress making grants of land to unnaturalized for
eigners; the refusal to extend the right of suffrage
to all foreigners until they shall have resided in
the United States twenty-one years: the holding of
public offices by natives only: a legal and constitu
tional prohibition of nil traffic in alcoholic liquors;
and the removal of the regulation of seertsy which
at present binds the Order. Tlie “American” por
tion of the platform is very similar in substance
and language to that of the Know Nothing Con
vention at Philadelphia.
“SAM” IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Mr. Joseph Hiss, who was expelled from the
Massachusetts Legislature, is sustained by the
Know Nothing Council to which he belongs, in
Boston, and is now the delegate to the State
Council that will meet next week.
“SAM” IN CONNECTICUT.
The Know Nothing Council No. 147, located at
Lynn, (Conn.) tlie charter of which was lately re
voke,1 by the Grand Council of the State, has pub
lished a'manifesto denouncing the Order, and re
commending the people of Connecticut to unite
for the purpose of overthrow ing Americanism in
that State.
“SAM" IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Lowell Journal, a leading Know-Nothing
Organ, thus discourses on the election of the Free
Sobers Hale and Bell;
The mere fact of the election of Hale, as it flash
ed along the telegraph, (“where our Southern
brethren” tolerate such a “northern clap-trap,”)
will carry more dismay among the. disunioaists
and slavery tillibusters and propagators, than any
other event that has happened for a long time.—
The election of Bell, too, w ith his sterling integri
ty and thorough committal to the most unyielding
Northern principles, is a cause far congratulation
to those w ho have lamented for many years over
the suicidal course, of his predecessors an all the
questions affecting the peculiar rights and honor
of their immediate constituents. A new day is
opening on New Hampshire, and most auspicious
ly dawns the morning.
“SAM” IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The Know Nothings at Eastou, (l’a.) hold a
meeting on Thursday night to endorse the action
of the Southern members of the party at the na
tional council held in Philadelphia. This •they did
after a fashion—Hamlet sine I ianbet—deprecating
“in the most solemn and emphatic terms the re
peal of the Missouri Compromise ac t of 1820, as a
breach of a sacred compact between tlie North and
South,” and declaring that the meeting endorsed
the platform on the understanding that its twolith
section did not approve the “Missouri outrage.”—
We apprehend that tlie Southern gentlemen who
insisted upon the adoption of that section will not
thank the E as tomans for such an endorsement.
/V. ) . Com. Advertiser.
“SAM” IN KENTUCKY.
The Louisville Times says :
“The Know-Nothing lodges arc very busy in
this city just now. They are actively employed
in receiving and discussing applications for de
mits. The Democrats w'ho were deluded into the
concern have discovered the trick, and are extri
cating themselves as fast as possible. The Know
Nothing managers are doing all that is possible to
put a stop to the exodus—even going to the extent
of refusing their applications for discharge, on tlie
ground that the application should bare been
made prior to the nominations, and that no demit
can he granted after the .nominations are made.—
They have also promised to nominate Gen. Pilch
er for the senate if the Democrats will stay in the
order. All their exertions me of no avail, howev
er. The Democrats have determined to leave, and
unless their discharges are granted, they w ill an
nounce through the public press their disconnec
tion with the party. We have now in our posses
sion tlie names of twenty-five gentlemen who in
tend to pursue tliis course unless their demands
are acceded to at tlie next meeting of the coun
cils.”
“SAM” IN TENNESSEE.
The Memphis Appeal says that Colonel Gentry,
Know Nothing candidate for Governor of Tennes
see, admitted and boasted in a recent speech, that
he was the only member of Congress from that
State who voted for the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia.
The Stampede in Tennessee.
The trick of know-nothingisir. is now thorough
ly understood and properly appreciated by the de
mocracy of Tennessee. There are now few per
sons belonging to the lodges in that State who
were originally members ot the democratic party,
and as for the old-line whips, they repudiate tlie
know-nothing organization w ith scorn and con
tempt. The reader will perceive from the sub
joined letter that the “order” is in about as flour
ishing a condition in Tennessee as it is in the Old
Dominion :
TO THE PUBLIC.
Lewisburc Marshall County,
Tennessee, June 21, 1855.
The undersigned, citizens of Lew isburg.and its
vicinity, take occasion to state to the public that
we were induced, by invidious persuasion, to join
the “know-nothing organization.” Among other
devices, we were informed that there .was nothing
in the order that interfered with our principles,
and that its object and tendency was to advance
sound and conservative principles, and to nut
down denmgogtsni. A fair trial lias satisfied us
that no man who claims to be a freeman can be a
know-nothing without a surrender of bis rights
and privileges: that it is at war with the spirit of
republicanism, and virtually destroys the “power
of the ballot-box-"
We have, therefore, withdrawn from the associ
ation, and earnestly warn our friends against be
ing caught in a snare so dangerous to civil and re
ligious liberty. Many of us have been denoun
ced for our withdrawal, but wc care not for it.—
We intend to be freemen, and to do our duty as
such
James F. Yowell,
James J. Mirrray,
George Collins,
J. E. Yowell,
R. A. Fraley,
Elisha Collins,
R. M. Harvill,
James M. Payne,
IV. R. Phillips,
Sam. Armstrong,
A. J. Call,
Buck Collins,
Hardin Keer,
John M. Laws,
W. A. Jackson,
W. J. Blaekmorc,
fj. G. Alston,
J. H. Hill,
W. M. S. Jackson,
W. C. Squires,
Thes. N. Bowden,
John G. Coggin,
S. D. Cunningham,
Tims. F. Brooks,
Willis Kerr,
N. R en frow.
Another Know-Nothing Explosion .
The know-nothing order at Centre Star, in Lau
derdale county, says the Tuecumhia (Ala.) En
quirer, has hursted asunder from alhits oaths, and
forty of 125 of that council came out in a card in
the Florence Gazette, denouncing the know-noth
ing order. We have not space this week to pub
lish their card, but, may make an extract or two.—
The forty call the order “anti-republican organi
zation.” they contend that "the bonds by which
we were held to this know-nothing society were
contrary to the laws of both God and our country.”
They call upon the members of oiir councils to
come out, and “you will then be untranieled at
the Ballot box by OATHS or threats of ex-com
munication of this unhallowed order, and lie free
from all its wireworkers.” The card sets forth the
following:
“We this night quit this Know-Nothing Order
for tlie following reasons: 1st, We believe it or
iginated with those w'ho care not for God or coun
try, so they can get the power to hold offices of
the country. 2nd. We believe it unconstitutional,
proscribing one class of our citizens because they
differ with ns in opinion in regard to religion.”
The forty who publish the card hit know-noth-
ingism another sledge hammer blow:
“We oppose it upon its organization; for free
men, in a free country, to be meeting in the dark,
slipping around their neighbors, for fear thev
might see them, denying tlieir creed, and telling
falsehoods to tlieir best, friends, to keep from vio
lating tlieir pledges, is enough, in oirr opinion,
within itself to put down this order. <)h our
country, lias it come to this ! that freedom can be
maintained only through this midnight conclave
in its midnight meetings'! Yes, in this country,
where freedom of speech, of the press, of action
and of conscience are allowed to their fullest ex
tent, this political junto says that darkness suits it
best. What better evidence do you want of its
evil designs than this. None. Secret republican
principles, what an absurdity /”
After the know-nothings of Centre Star heard
the address, a resolution was “carried unanimous
ly that the Constitution, and all other papers be
longing to the knew-nothing society there,beburn-
eil, which done, the society adjourned to meet no
more under tlie black banner of Know-Nothing-
While in Dalton, a few days ago, -we were grat-
fied at the exhibition, there displayed, of a deter
mined hostility to Know Nothingisru and its pro
gress, on the part of a large portion ofits citizens;
and were advised, also, of the fact, that, through
out the county, the Dark Lantern associates had
failed to make any impression, comparatively, ex
cept an unfavorable one, upon the the people.—
The Democracy there stand firm, while not a few,
but many, independent whigs, will do battle a-
gainsta causeTenowned only for its humbuggery
and assaults upuo the Constitution.—Atlanta Ex
aminer.
From the Rives' Tuesday's Globe.
Know-Nothing Piety.
The first clause solemnly acknowledges the ex
istence of an “Almighty Being who rules the Uni
verse,” which, until we saw that confession of
faith, we suppose was acknowledged everywhere
by all men and parties and factions—by the Amer
ican party even, until this manifestation of a solic
itude to show to the world that, whatever it may
he, it is not atheistical. This is an instance ot
overdoing a thing, of overacting a part; for this
solemn annunciation seems to be as much the child
of hypocrisy as the child of religion. Why assert
so solemnly and so formally what nobody vvonld
have questioned if they had been silent, unless sa
cred things are to be invoked for unhallowed pur
poses, or unless conscience, which makes cowards
of all men, was not smiting then and there the
know-nothing oracles ? The draughtsman of that
first clause must be a reader of Shakspeare, we
think, and had in his mind that celebrated police-
officer Captain I)o<rberrv. who, in Much Ada Aboui
Nothing, says some things singularly coincidental
with the first clause of the platform:
“ Dogh. Masters do you serve God?
“Can. Bern. Yea, sir, we hope
“Dogb. Write down—they hope the}'serve God:
—and write God first; for God defend but God
should go before such villians i”
So the platform-makers wrote God first, and,
like Conrade and JJorachio, would fain make the
world believe they serve him also. We do not
apply the word villains to the know-nothings, be
it observed. For some of them whom we know
we have personally much respect; for their political
opinions, and their platform, non'’.
From the Louisville Times.
The Canvass in Kcntuckey.
Our information from all parts of the State is
of the most cheering character, aud plainly indi
cates the success of the democratic ticket in Au
gust. We may be deceived in the matter, but our
letters from gentlemen of the most reliable char
acter and judgment, who have the best means of
ascertaining public sentiment, point out a deci
sive triumph.
Our candidates are also sanguine. Messrs.
Clarke, Magoffin, and Wollcy, who have visited
and spokan in a large number of counties, express
the highest confidence in the signal triumph of the
ticket.
In the first district, Henry C. Burnett lias really
no opposition. He will beat General Morrow, his
know-nothing opponent, about 5,000 majority and
tlie district will give about 4,000 majority for the
State ticket.
In the second, third, fourth, and fifth districts,
the contest is very animated, and there is every
reason to hope that the democratic ticket will tri-
amph in all four of them. In the second, it is ful
ly believed that Dr. Peyton will beat John B.
Campbell, and that the district will vote for the
State, ticket, In the third, Colonel Bate’s friends
think he will be. elected, and that the State ticket
will triumph. In the fourth, Talbott will beat
Fox a thousand votes, and the contest on tlie
State ticket will be close. In the fifth, Jewett will
beat Charley Winter about l,OU0; and the State
ticket will carry by about tlie same vote.
In the sixth, seventh, and eighth districts, the
contest will be hard fought, but we feel confident,
that the congressional and State tickets will carry
in all of them. In the Louisville district, Pres
ton’s election is certain and our information from
tlie mountains speaks in tlie most confident terms
of fin success of Elliot.
In the ninth district, Stanton will be elected by
about 1,000 majority; and tin- tenth, Harris will
beat Swope about 3,0( 0. The State ticket will
succeed in the same districts by from 3,<100 to
4,000 majority.
The Earthquake at Baltimore .
In the Baltimore American we find the follow
ing additional particulars respecting the earth
quake filt at Baltimore and in its vicinity:
On Madison avenue and at Mount Vernon place,
the shock is represented to have hern very severe,
instantly arousing the soundest sleepers, and ap
parently jarring the. houses to the very founda
tions. On Fell’s Point the vibration was also ve
ry sharp, and in some instances the people ran in
to the streets in their night clothing, whilst glas
ses are said to have been broken in some of tlie
windows.
But we have heard from every part of the eitv,
and it was distinctly felt in al! directions, causing
more or less alarm. We have heard of a number
of ladles having fainted from the effects of the
shock, whilst some of the negroes thought the
world was coining to an end. One old black wo
man is said to have rushed down stairs, crying out,
“Massa! massa! judgment day has come, and
Dinah’s not readv 1”
We learn that persons on 'boats and steamers
coming up the bay and river felt the shock very
distinctly, and that flic surrounding water was
not only greatly agitated, hut that the fish even
jumped up in tlie water, apparently frightened
out of their element.
The plaster on tlie Ceilings of some dwellings in
Watson street, between High and Exeter streets,
was almost entirely knocked off by the concus
sion.
The Shock was very severe on Fells’ Point and
rreated a good deal of alarm among the inhabi
tants. At the corner of Alice Anna and Ann
streets the, houses seemed to be moving to tlie
"Northward, the motion being undulating, like
that of a vessel in a sea way. Tlie windows in
the houses were shaken, and many of the people
I.-ft their premises fearful that it would be follow
ed by another and more severe convulsion. At
the corner of Exeter and Granby street^ if is said
a bedstead was moved several inches from its po
sition.
On Fairmount hill the shock was also sensibly
felt, and more so in the neighborhood of Madison
square, where the people were much alarmed.
At Mount Washington, a few miles from the
city, the shock was like the explosion of a heavy
armament, followed by a rumbling as of distant
thunder. The impression at first was that the
powder mill in that vicinity had exploded. At the
residence of Mr. R. R. Griffith, near Woodbury,
the whole family were aroused, but it was sup
posed to he an explosion and attracted no further
notice. The operatives at Washington factory
were, however, generally aroused and much
alarmed.
A minor was current through the citv. yester
day afternoon that a house had been thrown down
in the Western section of the city, but such was
not the case, nor was the shock sufficient for any
thing of thekind.
• We learn from a gentleman residing outlie Hil-
len road, about six miles from tlie city, that tlie
shock was felt there with great severity, bringing
everybody out, the impression prevailing that
there had been an awful explosion of some de
scription in the city, many persons saddling their
horses and coming to-town to Hearn tlie extent of
the. supposed catastrophe.
Strange and Mysterious Double Suicide.
At about five o'clock this morning, piercino
shrieks alarmed the neighborhood of a dwelling
situate in Clarmount, three doors from Myrtle
avenue, Brooklyn, when upon the neighbors rush
ing to'the spot, Mrs. Gustin, an aged lady occupy
ing the house, was found in a fainting condition,
and beside her a spectacle such as is rarely wit
nessed. Upon a lounge on the back piazza re
clined the body of a beautiful female, apparently
about twenty five years of age, and in her arms,
with bis head reposing upon Iter bosom, was tlie
body of Horatio X. Gustin, the son of the lady
above alluded to, both buried in the deep slumber
of death. Beside them lay a phial, nearly empted,
the small piece of bladder which usually covers
such volatile poisons, still adhering to the cork.
The countenance of the female was so placid aud
serene, so lifelike and smiling, that it seemed im
possible life could have quitted her frame; and
that of fhcTWingman, although less tranquil, in
dicated nothing of a death by violent means. The
bottle was at once taken to Mr. Barber, who is a
skilful chemist, and he unhesitatingly pronounced
it to contain prussic acid, so that death must have
followed the means almost instairtaneonslv.
From ivliat we could Irani, among those inti
mately acquainted with Horatio N. Gustin, the
deceased, we present the following facts—
The deceased is 22years of age, son of Mr. T. I 1 .
Gustin, a man of some wealth, residing at the
scene of the tragedy. He went, some years ago,
and settled himself in business at Muscotine, Ia.
His mother, however, was reluctant to allow him
to reside at such a distance'from her, and repeat
edly importuned him to return. This he at last
consented to do, and ho returned home where he
remained several weeks.
About ten days since he started off to close up
Iris business, and his return was daily looked for.
Tlie circumstances which we have just detailed are
those under which he first met his parent’s sight
on hisr 'turn.
Upon the person of the female, whom nobody
could identify or recognize, was found a dague-
reotype of the deceased young man.
The general appearance of tlie lady is that of a
person of much respectability.
She was dressed in a black silk dress, with five
flounces in it; a black silk mantilla with lace trim
ming; black silk opeu work mits; brown pencil
gaiters; slate colored stockings, and a tine straw
laced hat with blue colored trimmings. Around
the nock was a gold chain having attached to it a
gold stud, engraved with the initials “T. G. R.”
In her hand she had an ivory fan.
Toe Coroner was called, and a preliminary in
vestigation held in a rather singular manner before
a jury of six of the neighbors of tlie. family. Tlie
body of the unfortunate female, who had probably
loved not wisely, but too well, was hurried off to
the City Hall, and no testimony taken, save that
of the father.—Stew York Harold.
From the Georgia Telegraph.
The Canvass—Gov. Johnson’s Appointments.
Gov. Johnson addressed the people of Knox
ville on Friday. He was followed by .J M. Smith
Esq , the r < iiuicratic candidate for Cungn ss, and
byisanc ■■; Hall Esq., of Oglethorpe, and 1’. Tracy,
Eo | ■ of Hus place. Tlie people mauifc-K d a real
wish r: i::re<teat» the points at issue, and from
al! that wecaWgarn, wo feel assured that tlie
Democratic cause in Crawford county is not only
in good condition, but constantly improving.
On Saturday, thy Governor, and accompanied by
Messrs. Smith and Hall, addressed a very large
and attentive audience in Taylor county: \Ye
understand that the Democrats of that county are
in fine spirits, and that the Kuow-Nothikgs are
plainly on the wane.
The Governor will address the people at Co-
Lt'MTtrs on the 7th—at Talfottox, on the 9th
and at Amfruts, on the 11th.
So the Ball is fairly in motion.
From the Constitutionalist & Republic.
June 3 th, 1855.
James Gardner., Esq: I am one of those
thoughtless Democrats xv ho joined the Know Noth
ing or American party, and my heart has never
had its regular beat,"until I had withdrawn from
it. Some remarks purporting to have come from
the Hon. Jno. M. Clayton, induced me to join this
party. He (Hon. J. M. C.) and I have ever dif
fered in polities, but I considered him a man true
to the Constitution, and what lie would sav, would
be the dictates of his conscience. He said that he
believed that this party would bring about a re
conciliation between the North and South, and
that if the American party got in the ascendency
the agitation of the Slavery question would be for
ever buried. These are not his words but the sub
stance. It lias ever been an object dear to my
heart, to see the different sections of the country
united in bonds of fraternal love, and thinking
this party would bring about this desired object, I
joined it. On mature reflection, I have come to
the conclusion that it is a trick of tlnpAbolitioiiiste
to further their nefarious designs, and in this be
lief, I stand not alone for others in this section of
the country who have joined the party, are of the
same opinion and will do what 1 have done—
WITHDRAW.
An American but not a Know-Nothing.
The Mae on Nomination.
Some of our exchanges speak of extensive dis
satisfaction among Know Nothings in conse
quence of'the nomination of Judge Andrews by
the recent Macon Convention. In Columbus, it
is said that his nomination will result in the with
drawal of large numbers from the order. In At
lanta, the news of the nomination was received
with manifest disgust and mortification by promi
nent members of the order, and we have heard the
assemblage in Macon violently denounced by
friends of the “American movement” here, as a
packed convention. Wo understand that it was
generally expected by a majority of the members
of the order, that the nomination of a candidate for
Governor would be made at a convention to be
held in Atlanta, some time in August, in accor
dance with the arrangement made at the first gen
eral convention held in Macon, and the conven
tion which nominated Judge Andrews was looked
upon, even by many of the delegates that attend
ed it, as simply called to ratify the platform of the
Philadelphia convention. Instead of tliis, how
ever, the knowing ones, after the convention was
assembled, spiung tiie nomination, and succeeded
in carrying it through successfully. Here is a
specimen of the fruits of this purifying organiza
tion that was formed exclusively to put down po
litic*! trickery and wire-pulling demagogues. It
seems to ns, however, that they could not have
made a more appropriate nomination under any
circumstances than they did. For as the nominee
is understood to be the Judge who decided on the
bench, that a Univorsalist is not competent to tes
tify in a court of justice, he is, above all others,
the man best fitted by his antecedents to take tlie
lead in tlie great work of religious proscription.—
Atlanta Intelligencer.
Hear Mr. Fillmore’s Organ.—The organ of
the “Silver Grays” in New York, the Buffalo Ad
vertiser, speaking also for no less a personage than
Mr. Fillmore himself, frankly gives the “the aboli
tionists and their co-labo-ers” the greatest part of
tlie credit tor late defeats of the Democratic party
of the free States. It adds, also, that but for tlie
aid of the Northern Know-Nothings the abolition
ists would not have been triumphant over the ad
ministration! And, as if in utter despair at the
bare idea of another Democratic triumph in 1856,
it appeals to these very abolitionists to cease their
independent organization and to make common
cause with the Know-Nothings. We copy from
the Advertiser of tlie. 27th of June, and beg our
reader to remember that it is the reputed reflector
of the sentiments of 5fr. Fillmore and the Silver
Grays. This testimony is mint important in the
presen t juncture:
The Abolitionists rs. the Democrats.—The abo-
lilionists and their co-laborers, the extreme free-
soilers, are confident of success in the sectional
contest which they have already begun and which
they intend to prosecute until a President is elin-
sen in 1856. They seem to suppose that the. Anti-
Administration triumphs achieved in nearly all the
free States of the Union ore the result of theirown un
aided exertions, overlooking altogether the American
Organization, an element rather important to consid
er in reasoning upon the future from the past. It may
in I! he doubted whether they rnnld have carried cither
Ilhodr stand or Connecticut—certainly thry could
hare made no sensible impression upon the Democratic
phalanx in Maine or New Hampshire—without the
assistance of this needy formed party. In Ohio the
anti-Nebraska sentiment is deep and wide-spread:
but some of the best-informed men in that State,
freesoilers, too, have no hesitation in avowing tlieir
conviction that the democrats will regain the as
cendency if the freesoilers undertake to run an inde
pendent ticket. And the same is true of four-fifths
of the States were the whigs ami know-nothings
acting in concert hare triumphed orer the democrats,
in many instances l/y immense majorities. And yet,
with these facts staring them in the face, they
talk in this insolent and prejmsterous strain:
“ A war of extermination against northern
dough faces will bo waged this year and the next
in tlie free States that will know no mercy and lie
fatal to the whole race. The North will have no
fellowship with those who do not make the restor
ation of freedom to Kansas and Nebraska the vita!
principle in tlieir political creed. This much we
undertake to say can lie safely depended on.'
‘ These are the words of tho Tribune, lint they
express the feelings and expectations of its coad
jutors in all parts of the country.”
From the f onst. A Republic.
A Catholic’s Thanks,
To a properly constituted mind, the performance
of a duty carries along with it a sufficient reward.
In vindicating the principle of civil and religious
liberty, assailed by Know-Notliingism, we have
only asserted the equal rights of our Catholic fel
low-citizens, while defending our own, and claim
no essential gratitude from that quarter. We con
sider the rights of Protestants, no less than of
Catholics, involved in the issue; for when the
Catholics are conquered and trampled down, whose
turn conics next? Probably that of some Protest
ant sect that may become obnoxious to the dom
inant power. Still, thanks for even the perform
ance of a duty are not nupleasing, and we confess
to being gratified at receiving flic following. It is
from a highly intelligent professional gentleman.
We publish it ns an item to show how deeply this
war of proscription upon Catholics stirs their deep
est and purest sensibilities:
fCOMMUNICATED. ]
Mr. Editor:—Duir Sir: I obey, for the first
time, an impulse which T have felt a hundred times
—as often, in faet, as the gushing tide of grateful
emotions has been called tip in my bosom by the
nolde stand of some such noble Protestant as Hun
ter, or Stephens, or Toombs, or Douglass, or Long-
street, or Wise, or Cobb, or yourself (your modes
ty must indulge me) in defence of those rights of
conscience, and immunities and privileges so in
expressibly dear to every Amarican Catholic. Inn
will readily divine the nature of that impulse; I
mean the outpouring of some of that gratitude, the
expression of which is not, I take it, to be convey
ed in words or forms of sjieech. Gratitude! lou
nia\ never know tlie deliciously painful feeling of
gratitude such as I allude to, and such as I feel.
When I sit down to m.v table and look at my two
little boys, and reflect how little the bright inno
cents know of the deadly serpent that is seeking
to crush thorn in its folds, because they and their
father, and the mother that bore them are Catho
lics; and when I reflect again upon that noble
hand of patriots who are fighting their battles for
them, can you wonder if, from under the gloomy
brow, the tear of gratitude shall obscure for a mo
ment the gaze that affection lias fixed upon chil
dren and wife? The mere expression of thanks
would be hut a paltry reward for such conduct as
yours and that of your compatriots, and certainly
hut a miserable exponent of the feelings that
would prompt its utterance. But it is something;
it is better than nothing; it is all that a Catholic
can now give, hnt not all that he may give. As
long as Israel shall remember with detestation the
tyrant Herod who would despoil her, so long will
tefullv cherisli the niemorv of the Moses
Demoentie and Anti-Know-Xothin; meeting ia
Putnam.
Eatonton, Ga., July 4th, 1855.
According to previous notice, a respectable por
tion of the anti-Know-Nothing Whigs and Dem
ocrats of Putnam County, convened in the Court
House to-day.
f>n motion, Dr. Joel Branham was made Chair
man, and Win. P. Thompson was requested to act
as Secretary.
The Chairman having stated the object of the
meeting to be the selection of Delegates to repre
sent Putnam County in the Democratic Congres
sional Convention of the Seventh District, on mo
tion of Joseph A. Turner, Esq., tlie Chair appoint
ed Messrs. Joseph A. Turner, John W. Hudson,
William O'Biien, Albert O. Moscly, A. A. Hunt,
Peter McHenry, Thomas McManus, Richmond A.
Reid and John Godkin, a Committee to recom
mend five suitable persons to act as Delegates to
sai'l Convention.
The committee, after consultation, recommended
Benjamin F. Adams, Daniel Slade, Elmore Caila-
'.vay, James McKirizie and John W. Hudson, as
Delegates.
(hi motion of James C. Denham, the reeommen-
da ion of the Committee was confirmed, and the
Delegates empowered to fill vacancies in their
ranks, if any should occur.
On motion of William O’Brien, the meeting
Resolved, That our political friends be invited to
hold the District Convention in Eatonton, on
Tuesday the 24th inst.—that a Free Rarhnrucbe
furnished on that occasion—that the people of
the 7th Congressional District, without respect of
Party, be invited to the same, and that a Commit
tee of five from the town district, and two from
each of the remaining districts in the county, be
appointed by the Chairman, as a Committee of
Arrangements, to prepare for the same.
Whereupon, the’CUairman appointed the follow
ing persons as Committee of Arrangements:
William O’Brien, James Taney,
Andrew Reid, John Hollis,
A. II. Cox, R. H. Griffin,
A. A. Hunt, R. R. De Jnmatte,
Stephen Wright. James C. Denham,
Jonathan Adams, Bradley Avcra,
Allen Lawrence, Sr. Janies MeKinzie,
Davis R. Andrews, Isham B. Wright,
John 15. Pounds, Blakey Batchelor,
Dr. C. N. Horne, Dr. Godkin,
Wiley B. Jordan, William Turner,
Allen A. Beall, Freeman Perryman,
Irby H. Seott, William Myrick,
John I.incli, George Carter,
James Coats, Abner Woolsey,
David Moore, James Wright, Jr.
Green Wiggins, Evan J. Harvey,
On motion of Joseph A. Turner, Esq., the, fol
lowing Committee, consisting of .Joseph A. Tur
ner, Junius A. Wingfield, A. S. Reid, Elmore Cal-
away and A. A. Adams, were appointed to invite
distinguished anti-Know-Nothing Whig and Dem
ocratic speakers to address the people on tlie day
of the (.'(invention.
The following resolution was offered liy Joseph
A. Turner, and adopted by the meeting:
Rreotred, That the Democrats and anti-Know-
Nothing Whigs ratify and adopt as their own, the
Platform of Principles put forth by the late Dem
ocratic Convention in Miliedgeville, and that they
pledge themselves to use all honorable means to
secure the success of these principles.
On motion of Joseph A. Turner, Esq., the Editor
of the Federal Union and of the Constitutionalist
& Republic were requested to publish the pro
ceedings of this meeting.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
JOEL BRANHAM, Chairman.
WilliaM P. Thompson, Secretary.
■*——
From tlie Georgia Telegraph.
That Public Meeting.
The Know Nothings ought not to he alarmed
for keeping tlieir proceedings secret—a few more
public meetings, like that of Wednesday night,
would effectually wind up their organization.
We did not hoar Judge Nisliet, and cannot speak
as to him. As to the other speakers, they were
not worth tlie ink it requires to name them.—
Such a pitiable exhibition of drivelling imbecility,
was never before witnessed in Macon. There
was no eloquence, no argument, no enthusiasm
at all. The boys shouted—the band played—the
•camion filed. But, alas! it was no go. The
“speaking” was positively awful. Some bores,
we have seen—others, we have read of—but we
never conceived anything like the frightful re
alities of Wednesday night. That human beings,
endowed with reasoning attributes, could pour
forth such incoherent stuff, and that other human
beings could be found to applaud it, are stagger
ing reflections to those who believe in the ulti
mate perfection of the species. Miller, of Floyd,
we should perhaps except from these sweeping
criticism, lie, indeed, was neither eloquent nor
argumentative, but he gave some evidences that
he might be both, provided he had a platform to
stand on. The fact is, he has none at all. He
had just come out of a Convention which had
ratified the Philadelphia platform. Yet he an
nounced that lie was opposed to any change in
tin 1 naturalization laws, and to the proscription
of Catholics. It is plain, therefore, that he has
no business among the Know Nothings. We can
only account for such gross inconsistencies on
the supposition that there is something stultify
ing in the atmosphere of a Know 1 Nothing Lodge.
The other orators gave vent to tlie merest drivel,
and, incredible as it may appear to those who
heard them, they actually seemed to believe that
they were making an argument! A more mourn
ful instance of human infatuation can hardly be
imagined.
One of the speakers gave us something worse
than trash. He was absolutely filthy and might
very justly have been committed to the calaboose
on the charge of public indecency. What made
the matter worse, was that ladic s were in hearing
distance. It is only just to add that the gentle
men of his own party were thoroughly disgusted
and very indignant. Indeed, it is not too much
to say that most of the Know Nothings present,
were quite ashamed of the whole proceedings.
It is not necessary to name the speakers. If
we did it is not probable that von would know
them—none of them being men of any considera
ble prominence or importance. We are happy to
say that there was not one Democrat among
them. The whigs had it all their own way,
and let theirs he the glory. We feel sure that
the effect of the meeting was to inspire a vety
general sentiment of dissatisfaction among the
Know Nothingjthemselves.
Wonderful Harvest in Kentucky.—The Louisville
Courier has information from all sections of the
State, to the effect that there is every reasonable
prospect of a harvest unparalleled in the history
of Kentucky. Every species of grain has grown
with the greatest luxuriance. The orchards are
bowed down with their fruitful loads. Hemp
promises to lie a fine yield, and the tobacco will
be far better than last year.
yra
jlie .j .
and (lie Joshua, who marshaled her forth from the
night of despotism, into the day of liberty and
freedom. Ever and gratefully yours,
A Native-born Catholic.
^
Corn Falling.—The Montgomery (Ala.) Adver
tiser of Tuesday last, says:
Corn was offered at 80 cents per bushel—and
seemed to go a begging at that. It will goon, we
think, be down at tne old live and let live price,
fifty ce*ts.”
■I. K. Fnrreil’-Celebrated Arabian l.i uinient
TH1U Ml’llA NT OVER DISEASE.
This truly great mrdieine still goes on, ronqnering
d,sense, and snatching many a poor powerless vi< tiin
from the grave, tty iis powerfully stimulating, pen-
(■tuning and anodyne qualuieg, it restores the use of
linihs wliieli have hetii palsied fi r years; and tiy its
singular power of reproducing ihe synovial fluid or joint
Winer, it cures nil disease of the joints with surprising
rapidity. For rheumatism, and affections of the spine
and spleen, it lias proved itself a|spefic; end for affection*
of tlie lungs, liver and kindtteys, it is a most vain hie and
ami powerful auxiliary; also, lor all diseases of the
glands, scrofula, goitre 01 swelled neck, etc., etc. And
indeed lor almost any disease where an external
application is required, this nu dieine stands unparalleled.
Sprains, bruises, cramps, wounds, chilblains, burns,
etc., are s|*eedily cured by it.
From the Hon. Peter Menard, one ol the oldest set
tler* in Illinois—It gives me piiasureto laid my lesii
mony to the virtues of your great medicine. One of
my blooded horses had a swelling over the cap of the
knee, nboul the size of a hen's egg. Some said it was a
si ram, and some, that it was the joint w ater from the
knee,and could not he cured. I then, by persuasion
of mv friends, tried H. G. Farrell's Arabian Liniment,
and I was happy to find it take effect alter a few days,
and it finally enrol the noble animal entirely. 1 think
it is decidedly the grenlest liniment for horse’s, as well as
human flesh, I ever knew.
Tremont, Tazewell co , March 16llt, 1849.
Palsy or Paralysis—T'.adeus Smith of Mudd
Crok, Tnzwell omniy, Illinois,says: “I had lost iho use
of my arm for more than a year, by palsy or paralysi-;
lhe flesh had entirely witheied away, leaving nothing
hut skin, muscle ami bone. I tried all Ihe tiest doctors,
arid all the remedies I could bear of. hut they did no
gissl, I then commenced tlie use of H G Farrell’s Arabi
an Liniment, and a (. w bottles entirely cured me, and
my arm is now as strong and fleshy as the other: it is al
so first rate fut burns, sprains and bruises.
Look out for Couistkrfeits'—The public are can
tinned against another counterfeit, which has lately made
its appearance, called (V B Farrell’s arnhian Liniment,
the most dangerous id all the counterfeits, because his
having used tlie t ame of Farrell, many will buy it in good
(hi■ It without the knowledge that a counterfeit exists, and
they will perhaps only discover their error when the
spurious mixiure has wrought its evil effects.
The genuine article is mannlaetiired only hv HG Far
rell; sole inventor and proprietor, and w holesale drug
gist, No. 17 Main street. Peoria, Illinois, to whom all ap
plications for agencies must he addressed. Besure yon
get it with the Inters HG before Farrell’s, thus—HG
Farrell’s—nnd his signature on the wrapper, all olh-r
ere are counterfeit gsM by E J White, Miliedgeville,
Isaac Newell, Gordon; Haverland At Kisley, Augusta;
and by regularly authorised agents throughout the Unit
ed Slates. PRICE 25 and 50 cents, nnd $1 per bottle.
etgemt* Il'aafrS in every town, village and hamlet
in the United States, in which one is not already estab
lished. Address H G Farrell as above, accompanied
with good reference as te character, responsibility <fce 4
State Rights, and United States' Rights.
“ *Tis tlie £*tar Spangled Banner, oh, ni*y it wave,
O’er the I .and of the Kree. nnd the Home of the Brave.”
Tuesday Morning, July III, 1855.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HERSCIIEL V. JOHNSON,
OF BALDWIN COUNTY.
FOR CONGRESS,
1st District, JAS. L. SEWARD, of Thomas.
3rd “ JAS. M. SMITH, of Upson.
4th “ HIRAM WARNER, of Mcrriwither.
5th “ JNO. II. LUMPKIN, of Flovd.
6th “ HOWELL COBH, of Clarke.
Cat. Johnson’s Appointments.
Gov. Johnson will address his fellow-citizens on
the political questions of the day at the following
times and places:
Americus, Wednesday, July 11th.
Lumpkin, Friday, July 13th.
Cutlibert, Saturday July 14th.
Fort Gaities, Monday, July 16th.
Blaklev, Tuesday, July 17th.
Bainbridge, Thursday, July 19th.
Newton, Saturday, July 21st.
Albany, Monday, July 23d.
The balance will be published next week.
.Ilrctiiig in Baldwin.
The friends of the Miliedgeville Democratic
Platform in Baldwin county, and all opposed to
Know Nothingism, are requested-to nicetiiiMil-
ledgeville, on Saturday tho 14th of July inst. at
11 o’clock, A. M., to select delegates to a Conven
tion of tlie 7th Congressional District.
fy Next week being Commencement Week at
Oglethorpe University, we arc requested to say
that an extra train of cars will leave Miliedgeville
for the College on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednes
day mornings at 10 o'clock, and also on Sunday
and Monday nights after supper, to enable the cit
izens to attend the exercises.
An extra train will also leave Eatonton on Wed
nesday morning after breakfast, and returning
leave the College grounds at 5 o’clock, P. M.
tyProvided the repairs on the road be done in
time.
Fine Fruit.
Mrs. Green H. Jordan of this city, sent into our
sanctum, on Thursday last, a Watermelon which
weighed 30 pounds. We have never tasted a more
luscious melon so early in the season. If this is a
sample of Mrs. Jordan’s June melons, what may
wo not expect from her vines in August. She
will accept our kindest thanks for her most ac
ceptable present. *
.Itidgc Lniujikin’s letter of Aereptnnee.
We find in the Rome Southerner of the 5th inst.,
Judge Lumpkin’s letter of acceptance. We will
publish it in our next. Wc are gratified at this
course on the part of Judge Lumpkin. It secures
to the Democratic party a large majority in tiie 5th
District. Dr. Lewis, we arc much gratified to see,
has written to Judge Lumpkin soliciting him to
accept the nomination. Dr. L. intends to take the
stump for Lumpkin & Johnson.
Death of Or. Trrrill .
Dr. Wnt. Terrill, died in Sparta, on the morn
ing of the 4th ot July. The event is thus announ
ced by a correspondent of the Savannah Journal
& Courier.
“Sparta, July 4, 3, A. M.
“Our much esteemed friend, Dr. Terrill expired
quietly and without a struggle tliis morning at half
pa-t one o'clock. A good and honest man is the
noblest work of God. I read and prayed with
him and trust he died in the true faith."
The prosper! ill C'hcrokrc.
We have tlie most encouraging intelligence
from the Cherokee country. Our leaders are all
united on Gov. Johnson, and the rank and file are
standing up to the Old Democratic flag as they
did in by gone days. Gov. Johnson returned to
this city from a visit to the 5th District, on Thurs
day last. He is delighted with the prospect in
Cherokee, and is confident of an overwhelming
victory for the Democracy in October. Let Mid
dle and Southern Georgia but do tlieir duty, and
such a triumph will be ours, as never crowned the
efforts of the Democracy heretofore.
How it takm •
We have not seen, from any section of the State,
the first symptom of satisfaction among the K. N’s.
at the nomination of Garnett Andrews for Govern
or. In fact we doubt not, the only pleasure in has
occasioned has fallen to the lot of the Democrats.
We doubt, if thousands were not pledged to vote
for Andrews on a sacred oath, whether he would
get Twenty thousand votes in the whole State.
Mainucl Ylaking Tracks.
A correspondent of the Recorder writing from
Walker county, says that “Samuel is making some
foot prints in that county.” We had heard before
that Sain was making tracks very fast, aud what is
a little remarkable they are all turned towards the
North; if Sam knows when he is safe he will not
stop making tracks until he gets to old Massachu
setts.
Is hr a Democrat?
The Journal & Messenger of the 4th inst., says,
“Garnett Andrews is and always has been a Dem
ocrat.” What says our friend O., Jr., of the Re
corder, to this admission of its contemporary ?
Will our friend vote for Judge Andrew s if he “is
a Democrat" ? We wait with some anxiety the
response of our neighbor.
Sam looking np.
The Know-Nothings are trying to keep their
spirits up by telling each other that Sam is look
ing up in other places. Sam is looking up every
where, and there is a very good reason for it; the
rascal is Hat on his back, and lie can’t look in any
other direction.
Good News.
The Recorder professes to hoar the most cheer
ing accounts front every direction. Does he in
deed ? Has he heard from the late elections in
New Orleans, in San Francisco, in Norfolk, in
Illinois ! If he has not, his exchanges will inform
him that the Know-Nothings have been wofully
defeated, within a few days, in all of those places.
We have not heard of the Know-Nothings gaining
one victory since the Philadelphia election. Have
you neighbor !
Who is the Dupe?
Somebody lias been badly fooled, that is cer
tain. Either the Know-Nothings have fooled those
who started tho Columbus movement, or they
have fooled tlie people. Was it to nominate
Garnett Andrews that the meeting at Tetnperunce
Hall was gotten up. Was it for the purpose ot ac
cepting the rickety and rotten Know-Nothing plat
form, and ratifying the nomination of Garnett An
drews that the Convention was to meet here on
the 8th of August? It appears that this is the way
the Recorder understands it, for the Recorder is al
ready pledged to Judge Andrews if he accepts, and
the Recorder wishes to turn the convention into a
Know-Nothing ratification meeting. The people
have been urged to hold meetings and send on
delegates to a convention on the 8th of August,
but what will the convention have to do, the can
didate has already been nominated, and the dele
gates have nothing to do but to hold a Know-Noth
ing mass meeting. The Know-Nothings don’t be
lieve in any conventions, but Know-Nothing con
ventions, and they perfectly despise demagogues
and political tricksters—unless they belong to their
order.
Tfce Kuow-Nuthiug Address !• n, e Fe*^
•f Georgia.
We have read this address with perfect aston
ishment. It is written by a Rhetorician; its periods
are well turned, and its language is fine and clnu.
sical, but the spirit and the sentiment of the whole
production is pernicious. We have no idea ivho
the author may be, but wc feel sure he is a bi^
in religion, a quack in politics, and a faaatic°m
everything. There is about the whole of this
composition an air of sincerity and earnestness
which would lead us to believe that tho sentiments
put forth in this address are tlie real sentiments of
the author, and yet in cur whole life, we do not
remember ever to have read an article of the same
length, which contained so much sophistry, so
much of bitterness towards political opponents
and such a large amount of narrow, couf-aeted'
hide bound, fanaticism. We pass over the. writer's
labored attempt to prove the necessity of secrecy
in the origin and management of tho Know-Noth
ing faction. It is sufficient for us to show that ; n
the estimation of all good men, secrecy and dark
ness have been associated with guilt and evil. p s .
pecially will we array against tho sophistry of this
writer tlie precepts and example of our Saviour
and wc leave it to the American people to decide
whether they will believe the Saviour of the
World, who has commanded ali good men every
where to let their light shine before all nmn, o r
whether they will believe this Apostle of Know-
Nothingism, who contends for secrecy and dark
ness in the accomplishment of a great work. Let
us examine what the great expounder of Know-
Nothingism says about the necessity of such a
society:
The necessity of such a rartv was found in the
departure of the Government from the primary
constitutional course—in the increase of Executive
power and patronage—in the deterioration of the
representative character—in the absence from the
councils of the Nation and States of wise and «-ood
tnen, and the presence there of noisy brawlereamj
mediocre statesmen.
If the evils did really exist, we call on every hon
est ntan in Massachusetts, in Connecticut and
Pennsylvania, where the K now-Nothings have had
complete control of Legislation the last year, to
say if they have cured these evils. The conduct
of the Know-Nothing Legislatures of these States
is before the world, and it is a disgrace to our
name and Nation, a stigma upon our institutions
and a foul blot upon the civilization of the age.
Will any man, who has the lea«t regard for his
character, with the conduct of these Know-Noth
ing Legislatures before his eyes, say, that they
have shown more wisdom, purity, or statesman
ship, than those Legislatures formerly elected in
the same States by the old parties ? We do not be
lieve there is an intelligent man in the U. S. who
believes any such thing. It requires the utmost
stretch of charity to admit that the w riter of the
address could iiave believed such an absurdity,
and if wc defend his honesty, we must do it at the
expense of his judgment. There is not a single
instance where a State has been governed by
Know-Nothings, where we do not find acts of follv,
bigotry, and fanaticism, disgracing the Journals of
their Legislature. The reverence which the
Know-Nothings profess towards the fathers of the
Revolution, docs not sound well, coming from
tlieir mouths. It savors strongly of liypoc-
ricy when it is mingled with then' abuse of For
eigners and Catholics, for the whole world knows,
that many of the heroes of the Revolution were of
foreign birth, and were of the Roman Catholic
communion. All of these have been denounced: and
their very graves dishonored by this Know-Noth
ing faction, men who have many hypocritical pro
fessions of patriotism upon their lips, which are
contradicted by the whole history of their lives. Itis
whilst speaking of Foreigners and Catholics that
the concentrated bitterness of the writer of tliis
Know-Nothing address finds vent. All of the hor
rors of Romanism, culled from Fox's Book of-Mar
tyrs, or handed down by tradition, have been gar
nereJ up, and are used by him to demolish
the Church of Rome, and the Democratic
Party also, as the protector of the liberty and
equality of all denominations; and as if this was
not enough, tho writer has drawn largely upon his
imagination for facts to complete his fancy picture.
We arc not called upon to defend the Clntrch of
Rome. We are not of her faith; nor do we appre
hend there is the least danger of that faith ever
becoming the predominant religion of the II. S.
It is sufficient for our purpose to refer to the well
known Historical fact, that persecution never cor
rected the errors of any religious denomination.
The Constitution gives the members of the Roman
Church every civil, religious, and political right
which belongs toother people, and he that attempts
directly or indirectly to defraud and deprive them
of these rights, is an enemy to civil aud religious
liberty, and no matter what may he his pretensions
to piety or patriotism, if he had the power of tho
State to back him, lie would put down all other
denominations but his own: if necessary, with fire
and the sword. The general sentiment and feel
ing of this address savors strongly o{ the spirit
and feeling which prevailed in Salem and at Bos
ton, when unfortunate old women were burned for
witches, and when Quakers and Baptists were
hanged, whipped, and driven into the wilderness,to
find an asylum among the Indians. God help tho
people, when such men as the writer of this ad
dress shall rule America. Let the people take
warning in time, and guard the civil and religious
freedom aud equality that the Constitution and
our Revolutionary fathers have given equally toail
our citizens; and especially let us guard against
those men who, under the professions of piety and
patriotism, would kindle in this happy country the
tires of Religious persecution.
How hr .lamps!
The Southern Recorder of Tuesday, June 26th.
said, “we have calmly and carefully considered this
recommendation—(the 8th of August Convention)
and have so far modified ottr views and determina
tions, as not only to give it our sanction, but the
aid of our lmntble and zealous efforts.” This is
in substance, what the Recorder said on the 26th
of June, of a proposition to hold a convention of
tlie people, hg£r it in mind, on the 8th of August—
But tlie Know-Nothings met in Macon and put out
a party candidate for Governor, when, lo and be
hold! the Recorder in one week’s time, jumps off 1,1
its position, and jumps on tothe Know-Nothing
pjatforin and candidate, and politely invite;- the 6th
of August convention, to come up and rarity thut
action! Was there ever seen such tergiver
sation, such a total absence of all consistency a B< i
principle, on the part of the opponents of the Dem
ocratic party in Georgia. One week they take a
position, which next week they abandon and re
pudiate. Like a straw in a tempest, they are
borne in every direction, perfectly at the mercy of
the elements, and unable to resist fora day the
changing winds. Is there common sense among
the readers of the Recorder; then they, at
such as are honest, must be heartily sickened at
the fickleness which has been the chief character
istic of that paper for the last six months. «
has not Liken one firm and decided position on an)
policy or principle for six months past: and with ah
its trimmings and tackings it is to-day in an ocean,
without compass or rudder, supporting, fio m C0|B '
pulsion, and “the circumstances and embarrass
ments of tlie case” a cause it can but be disgust
ed with, and a candidate whose merits, compared
to Mr. Jenkins, even the K<*cordcr would no*
confess, are as “Hyperion to a Satyr."
Is it a Whig conrrrs ?
The Know Nothing party is not a Southern
Whig concern—it is repudiated by the Statesmen
of the old Whig party at the South. But what
makes it more objectionable—what renders it-J’
obnoxious to every State Rights man at the S®®*
is this : it is a party founded on Northern Fe tT
al doctrine. It puts forth as its principles a set <
dogmas as deepiy dyed in blue light federalism,
ever were the principles ot Adams. It holds
Southern State, when greviously oppref«j
must submit to the decision of afcdcral tribuna "
a position at war with the Georgia platform
Know-Nothingisra had its birth in the ashes o *
old federal Whig party, North; and its P r ‘ 7!CJ h^
are but a pafcch-work of the principles of that
one organisation.