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TCESn.A r HORNING. JUNK, 19 1855.
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ftit his inadequacy to the task incurred. Into
for as nnccasif ax sedan could ho oondnelva
thereto, he has labored to make the paper an
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generous cooperation on the part ef his subset!*
bars, to enhance the interests of the office, by
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ef the paper. Ilia to bo hoped their efforts
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which should man properly ha passed In the
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enemy In either too city or county, will ever
revert with the fondest icuunisrencos to
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Its future directory it will be (bund more gen
erally acceptable- & B. COBURN.
HURRAH FOR SAM!!!
A platform has been adopted
by the Philadelphia < (inven
tion. It denies the right of
Congress to legislate upon the
subject of Slavery—is opposed
fc* a repeal of the fugitive slav**
law and, in fact, grants to the
South the unmolested enjoy
ment of those constitutional
rights for which she has been
so long contend'nT- We shall
publish the platform in full
and give further particulars
next .week. So much for u the
secret machinations of this
dark lantern order. 1 * Wonder
what 'charge the ‘dry nit party*
will bring nextl
Salitxtory*
In ascordrnee with arrangements already eon-
nmated the undersigned will hereafter in coo.
junction with Ur. Dwiaell assume the proprie
torship »cd editorial management of the Coo.
rier. Sensible of toe fact that be it entering
into an untried sphere of action, be would
grace to which one who is inexperinced aa a
journalist, might expect from persons sc mated
by charitable considerations. Without stoop!> g
here to designate the precise coarse which it is
Lis design to pursue, he would venture tossy
that the political features of the Charier will
•of he changed in ay material degree. He
would simply state that bit object wiH be to
advance the cause of Republicanism, sustain
the rights of the States, and (be interests of
the South, as well as to uphold the Union as
Originally formed, regarding it as toe safe pal
ladium ef American liberty so long aa toe
Constitution, with ito recognised principles is
adhered to. Long since he has become sensi
ble of the baneful influence ef party ultraism,
of the injurious tendencies of the detsagogne
to what party soever he may belong, who seeks
promotion and emolument through toe agency
of the foreign voto. He will strive to cheek
such p<-re igias practices to the extent of bis
abilities, and, to tola end be will advocate a
change fas the naturalization law, believing a
change to be for the good of toe whole coun
try. Equally opposed to both the Federal and
State administrations, be will seek for a change
of both men up measures. Taking the consti-
tntiaa and the laws ef oar country for bis guide,
he will advocate those principles which be
eeoeeires te be right, at toe same time holding
la doe courtesy and respect toe motives and
the principles of those with wkm he may
presume to differ.
6. C. FINLEY.
Calhoun Costentiob.—The Anti American
party met on the 13th inst. to nominate a can*
didate to represent toe 5th District in Congress.
After ballotting forty-five times without success,
the leading compedi tore were dropt and on
motion of H. F. Fries, Boo. John E Lumpkin
of this place waa nominated by acclamation.
Jedge Lumpkin has not yet signified bis accep
tance, botthe general opinion is that ha wilL
Ratification Reeling;
Pursuant to previous notice torn was a meet
ing of the Democracy at the Court House in
Rome on (he evening of Thursday last for the
purpose of ratifying toe nominations of hie
Excellency H. V. Johnson and toa Hon. J. H.
Lumpkin. A marked unanimity seemed to
pervade the meeting and what struck ns into
much surprise was the courtesy shown Sam, by
the speakers of toe occasion. They seemed to
be conscious of bis presence,and acknowledged
that more of too American party were present,
0R* The present Federal administration to
tbs minds of many is a mystified and incom
prehensible enigma. When viewed la relation
to oome of its acts it teems to be nations! and
eewotitatioual in Its tone and policy and as if it
would, at least, ahow some “smack of jus tics’*
to Ike aoeth{—bat In other* it leant towards,
and favors the poltey of the rankest and vilest
fteissnewand absBflonlste. Any candid, nn-
prtjudiecd observer who is blinded neither by
perty seal nor that brilliant effulgence incident
to dm emolument* of offioe, dealing to bit ear-
did gaaer any <»« who does not try to shut up
toe avenues of truth which lead to just and
legitimate conclusions, most eee sbat toe pros-
administration has no definite, fixed and settled
pollqy upon toe greet question at Issue between
the different sections of our country, and in
comparison with which another* sink into into
significance. Tie act* of President Pierce opon
toils subject, for he eannot truly he said to have
uny policy, for that implies eoaM degree of «en-
sisteney in its various parts..some oneness of
tone and spirit, are as antagonists and opposite
both In fact and in spirit; in direct result end
remote consequences; as effecting the interests
of the old states and the new territories; and,
In relation to justice and round policy, as day
light to darkness, or truth to falsehood. But
1st ns consider the facts which characterize this
party serving vacillating administration.
fovored the passage of the Kansaa Nebraska
bill which restored justice, “long delayed,” to
the sooth; and then appointed sneh a Govern
or and other officers as were known enemies to
that MILaed who wonld do all in their power to
•defeat what might be expected us the natural
and legitimate results of it It appointed Bran
eon. a democrat noble and true to tbe Sooth,
to too Custom House of New Tork, and than
turned him out because be would not appoint
to posts under him, bis own political opponents,
disunionists, hypocritical free-soilere and
Pbarisaiealabolitionists; forks too. forsooth,
most do some sacrifice for tbe nationality of
tie party to preserve it in its integrity. It sent
8oule’to Spain with certain specific instruc
tions, ss be assorts, and then compels his return
for the ieinone crime of a faithful compliance
with them. But It ia uaelesu to give more ex
amples. Tbe grand distinguishing feature of
toe present administration is duplicity, a vain
effort to reconcile parties irreconcilable and
oomGfne elements naturally and essentially re
pulsive in their natures.
The Georgia so-called democratic "party “It
one of tbe same ‘ kith and kin.” Avaflihflityis
the grand and only essential qualification for
any office whatever in the gift of the people.—
As for platforms, and they may trnly bo said to
bo “great on platforms,” their object is to so
lay their traps as to catch as many as possible
of the “sovereigns,” no matter if they do in
volve glaring Inconsistencies, and principles
directly and wholly Incompatible, the ohjeet
being not so much to set forth what the lead
ing statesmen of tbe party may deem the wisest
end beet principles to he adopted in the admin
Istmtion, but sneh ss will “take,” not only with
the more intelligent, hat also with the “great
unkempt.unwashed and unshorn” and that
shall be “broad enough for every man in Geor
gia to stand on.” Yes, that is exactly tbe idea,
make H “breed enough” Ac. catch op tee pet
plank of every party and clique, every tribe
and elan, and fit it in as best yon can. it most
be a botch job. but never mind ; and when all
the positive timber which will avail any thing
is need, bring on the negative, for this too will
serve to make a broad and attractive platform.
Those various elements must he so hewn down
and twisted that each may admit of at least
two eonstractiono and the whole be na*s to
mean any thing or nothing; so that, in the
bands of tbe demagogical expounder, it may he
made to “embrace the principles of every patri
otic Georgian.” This being done, they must
resolve that there is neither virtae nor
patriotism at the North out side of tbeir
Lobdox Quarterly and Bnixscaox Re
raws.—Tbe current Noe. of these excellent
quarterlies contain their anal amount of In
teresting reading, and it is useless for ns to
repeat toe commendations we bare frequently
expressed. .Those desiring good, substantial
foreign literatare cannot do better than to sub
scribe for them —Terms $3 each. Address L.
Scott k Co,, 72, Fulton St., N. York,
Box J. H Lumpkin.
The Hon J H Lumfxik has received tbonomi-
nation of tbs democratic party for Confrere from
this District. Up to tbe present time be bas'not
signified bis acceptance. Wear* informed that if
he accepts at all, it wiH be with extreme reluc
tance. The Floyd delegation to tbe convention
were instructed not to suffer bis name to be pot
In nomination; and In view of this fact, lodge
Lumpkin can consistently claim tbe right to de«
eline running. We know not wbat bis decision
may be, yet we are of the opinion that under
existing circumstances, he will be the standard
bearer oi tbe Democracy daring tbe compalgn.
Kumorsays that the friends of Dr. Lewis
are much disaffected, that the Calhoun conven
tion acted in bad faith towards tbe Doctor.—
Whether this be tree or not, we hardly appre
hend a disruption of the party. It will require
a unity of action, in order to give tbe opposition
party even a respectable battle.
Foobtb Di«trict.—Tbe Anti-American par
ty net at Newnan on tbe 12th lost., and noral-
nated Hon. Hiram Warszb of Keriwetherto
represent them in the next Congress. We learn
from tbe Examiner that bis nomination was
ratified by the Know Nothibgs of Atlanta. What
does this mean ? Nous terront.
• m • — ■
George Shurtridgc, Esq., of Shelby co„ Ala.,
has been nominated by the State Know .Noth
ing Convention as the candidate lor (lover-
per. ■' ‘ ** . •*<_
Verily, who eon refuse to act with suck a
party, with such a platform as a basis of princi
ples.
For the Cornier.
Bxxrox Co., Abu, Jane 10th 1855.
Hr. Editor :
I bad jndged from the tone of yonr paper
last Fall, that the people of Rome and Its vicini
ty were wide awake to the importance of bail-
ding a Rail Road from yonr city to Jacksonville.
Although It rival enterprise was set on foot by
tbe people of Daltcn, which was In a measure
countenanced by the citizens of Benton, yeti
most confess my impressions were in favor of
the Rome rente. They were grounded on a be
lief that many fniurp*sable obstacles, wonld ob
viate a possibility of the early construction of
a rail-way from Dalton to Jacksonville. The
rente, as I had apprehended when the subject
was first mooted, has by an experimsnta! sur
vey proved highly impracticable. The cost of
Its oonstructure will be so great as scarcely to
admit of a hope that tbe project will ever be
carried into execution. Had the people rfyanr
vicinity however, evinced the energy and de
termination manifested by those of Dalton, T
venture tbe assertion that it would have con
vinced the Alabamians of yonr earnestness, and
have secured their cooperation.
If I am correctly informed, the Board of Di
rectors of the Georgia and Alabama Ball Road
deemed It advisable to suspend operations, un
til they should be justified in calling (n an In
stallment of five percent on the stock taken, an.
til the pressure of money matters should be al
leviated by a prospect of a better crop season.—
Would it not be well at this time, for tbe Board
of Directors to resume their labors, and endeav
or to push on tbs enterprise? We have already
the promise of an abundantharveet, and it seems
to me that much ought now be done, by well
timed efforts, to guarantee a construction of
tbe road at no very distant day. I have no
doubt but that much seal could he awakened by
calling meetings at the several favorable points
on the rente. We can hardly expect the consu-
mation of so great en enterprise, without first
reivtaeing the people it is te their interest to
engage in It Hoping to hear that the scheme
has not been hopelessly abandoned.
I tv, Dear Sir, yours respectfully,
a. r.
The Know Nothings.
This mysterious organisation appears to b# t
monster of ecarce twelve months growth. It is
evidently a politick! organisation gotten up for
otyecte and purposes, oonoeotod with tho wec|
or woe of thai greet nation. It now pervade*
every vale, and ecalesevery mountain between
the Atlantie and Faelfie oceans, with it* hands
and eras linked; U girds and brlte the entire
Republic; Iteweepe like an avalaneh, through
city, town and country, giving no warning or
monition* of its approach. It strikel* down Its
victims with aa invisible hand, giving no time
only to receive the blow, fell, look-oat, with an
tdlotio gate on the empty space around, then
ery oat *who struck Billy Patternia.’ It has hith
erto been doing its work mostly te the dark,
without any known or reoognlsed principles
bat more recently, It seems to bare been gradual
fy developing Ha prioeiplee and objects, Ilk# the
gradual unrolling of a mighty scrhll. Not
fow have been watching Its movement* with in
tense interest, and have hitherto acquired but
little knowledge of Its principles and modes op
roods*, other, than ms they have been developed
through its organs. It is said, that at a very
early day its “Banner will be un farted to tbe
breese” with its principles inscribed thereon,'’
“in the open face of dey, ” or that it will be te-
corded amongst the things that are passed.—
Amongst the doctrines said to he embodied in
Ha creed, are the following: “Purely American
te politics, Protestant in religion—virtne and
and talents the only qualification for office”—
conservative te all things, ultra tn nothing—no
Religions tests, an amendment and extension of
the time in the nataralSutinn laws, the anion
of the States, and the sovereignty of tbe States
respectfully, the American Republic meenstitn
tional union.” If these be tbeir tree doctrines,
and If they be carried out in practical "life, and
in good faith, it will, evidently be a harbinger
ef better days. Tbeir enemies, however, give
a ve«y different version of their objects and pur
poses, they charge them with “traitors and ene
mies to the conntry, proscriptionists, Jesuits,
dark lantern, underground plotters, revnlo
tionists. Ac., Ac. Be this however, as it may*
let ns not he In haste to give judgment against
them, or any one else on the unverified assertion
of an enemy. At any rate we are certain that
the late practical operations of this order, wbieh
have sent snob swift consternation and dismay
into the hearts of the old political foxes, have
not been canned by any affinity for suoh doe.
trines as have been ascribed to them by their
enemies.
We have too much respect (hr out country
men. to believe sneh unproven charges, while
sneh events are transpiring around ns almost
every day; we ascribe these extraordinary move
meats to other end very different causes. They
are evidently the result of doable causes. First,
against the excessive cultivation of foreigners,
by the demagogues, and secondly against the
miserable folly and oorrnptiona of the old pnliti
cai parties. It cannot be trnthfally denied that
for tome years now past, both Democrats and
Whigs have prostrated tbemselvos before the
alien voters in a servile end disgraceful way.
Holding the balance of power as they do be
tween the two parties, there has been no end
to the concessions, flatteries and flummeries, by
which they have been courted. Honors and of
fices have been heaped npon them with a sick
ening profession. It was much better to be an
Irishman or a German, than a native horn A-
merican; tbe M’c or O’ to one’s name, was tbe
lever by which be was lifted op to office and
into fortunes, and an mrprononncible name was
a passport to all kinds of political favor. No
tieket was a completes ticket which did not con.
tain a Sop in the shape of a candidate for tbe
Irish or German interests end this degradation
was all pervading from Governors and Senators
to the little twadling town Bailiff. Is it then
any marvel that the native Americans them
selves. ao wholly shoved Into the shadow, to
girt place for the He’s and O’s, should get a lit
tle tired of the game that always brought them
ont secured best and second them the empty and
airy posit “Berry Shaker-” for the Me*
Os. etidem genera—not at all! not at all!! In
all this, however, the foreigners are not so much
to blame except for a little presumption and im
pudence increared by tbeir success. Tbe das
tardly andnnprincipaled demagogues who whee
dled them into these excesses, are the offenders
who should bear the hotest punishment.
In tbe late upheavals, of Know Nothingism,
'hieh have come over the old political parties,
“ like an avalaneh," overwhelming, horse and
rider, captain and cattle, in one common rain—
we are disposed to rejoice and we should doso,
with a joy, unfeigned, if we were snre, tbe
effects, wonld be confined to the mangy hacks
and the sniffling demagogues, who have so
long, had control of the old parties. We should
bo rejoieed to see them and tbeir machinery,
their caucuses, their primary assemblies and
tbeir regular nomination; pitched like putrid
carcasses, into the immense tide of an indignant
peoples' wrath, never again to return or curse
thenation.
human nature. ‘The doctrines and principles
of all political and religions associations are
alone, tho criterion, by which they are to he
received or rejected, by honest and thinking
men. - ROMULUS.
For the Courier.
In those day* earns Augustus (the Neophyte)
preaching in the towns and villages and in tho
city of Rome, saying the Pope and his Priests
and his Cntholte church, stotfiSlied, Is a sore
evil In the land. For they have hid iniquity
in their hearts, and the Innocent have they
slain, and tho blood of tho righteous have they
eliedltcrieth onto toe Lord from tbe earth agalnet
them. And he opened a book oaltod the Bible
and taught tbe people out of it, and the text
whtob he read before tho people, to expound,
was ha second Tbessalonhms and after this
wiser “Who opposeth and exaltefti himself
above all that 1* called God, or that Is worship,
nd; eo that he as God, sltteth In the temple of
God, showing himself that he 1* God. * •
And then ehall that wioked be revealed, whom
toe Lord shall consume with tho spirit of hie
month, and with the brightness of bis coming.
Even him whoso coming is after the working
of satan,-with all power, aad signs, and lying
wonders, and with all deoeivahlenessl And
then he opened his month and spake with aloud
voice and expounded toe text, saying, it refored
to the Pope and the Catbolies, and that it was
the Pope whe had essayed to set himself np
above all powers, and above all that is called
God, Who woricetfa with signs and lying won
ders and all deeeitableness of unrighteousness.
And he proclaimed onto toe multitudes, that
tbe Romish Ctrorch was tbe mystic Babylon
and mother of Harlots spoken of in the Reve
lations’ of Saint John tbe Divine, fall of shorn
{nations and all manner of evil, and whom the
Lord wonld destroy with the power of bie
might. For, that, she had lain heavy burdens
npon men’s shoulders, and bad darkened conn
•el, and had corrupted the hearts of the children
of men and carried them away after Idols and
images and made them worship them. And
•he was ’’drunken with the blood of toe Mints
and •• 1th the blood of the martyrs of Jeans
Come out of her. my people, that ye he not par
takers tit her sins, and that ye receive not of
hor plagues: for her sins have reached onto
heaven aad God hath remembered her iniqni
ties.” “For all natim* have drank of the
wine of tbe wra tb of her fornication.” And as
he went on expounding tbe scripture, he cried
with a very lond voice against the Harlot; and
the people wondered. Bnt it came to pass after
many days that Samuel the younger journeyed
through that land and tarried in the towns and
villages and In the city of Rome, (now in the
mean time, Augustus had joined himself to the
sect called, tbe ’Fire-eaters’ and afterwards
Democrats, in the hope of reward) and Samuel
also, was displeased with tho Harlot because of
her tyranny and thirst for power and her intol
erance and wicked imaginations; and was uni
ting the people against the power and domin
ion of the Pope, and warning the people to
retain the Sceptre in tbeir own hands, and
yield it not unto strangers. Bnt Augustas, to
please the new sect to which be hod joined
himself, and because Samuel did not honor him
with the first seat in the synagogue, was wroth
and bated him. and spake against him in the
public assemblies, and tainted nt the harlot and
suspicion arose that he wonld even fall in love
with her. He began to say that she was no
worse than others and ethers were no better
than she. And the rest of the sayings and
doing* of Augustas, are they not written In the
book of memory. JONATHAN.
We were greatly aroused, during the past
winter, to see them picked np. hy an invisible
hand, one after another, and thrown over board
without parley or ceremony; giving them the
•ingle alternative of joining the general
Stampede. If this new order will practise the
ereed they profess, as we understand It;—we
hid them God's speed—hut we must confess
our donhts and fears. Should they he crowned
with sueesss. a time for the distribntion of the
offices and honors will come—will not’this event
throw them Into the hand* of the same political
Priesthood, or one equally corrupting? Bnt
should this, even be so, the nation is not
likely to snffer, in tho change, as a temporary
cheek, will have been given to the growth of
political evils, giving a little more chance for
the germ of virtne and patriotism to deepen
their roots. We did intend to say a fow words
on tbs the robjeetof the KnowNothing secrets;
but this article is alresdy too long, and we
forbear. Bat we will however say thus much.
We have no Idea, that they ean have any
dangerous secrete—wo suppose that tbe whole
of them amount to a few words, signs and
symbols, utterly unmeaning to outsiders, and
of no value to themselves, only m a mods of
recognition—whereby A may know that B is a
K. N. and B may know timt A Is a K. N. This
we eannot think embraces any serious evil or
danger to the netlon—we think the objection
on this ground a mere elap-trap, designed to
eeteb tbe prejudices of tbe ignorant and un
thinking; especially when we remembr, in
every age of tbe world, and in every conntry
on the globe, there has existsd secret associa
tions In one shape or other; even the early
Christians, after tbe cracifietion of tbeSavfonr,
when dispersed by the fires of persecution,
throughout tbe known earth, bad seoret associ
ations and communions, and doubtless signs
by which they wore known one of another—all
politicalparties in this and every other conntry
have tbeir secret conclaves and obuncils—Gen.
erals and commanders in war, have their secret
councils of war. Tho U. Senate bavo their
secret sessions. This principle is deeply inter
woven aad C7eo noeeeeary In oar poax fallen
From the Chronicle A Sentinel.
Mr. Bornm: In Mr. Stephens’ Augusta
speech, written out and authenticated by him*
self, in yonr tri-weekly of Thursday last, be
calls npon me to produce my authority for say
ing that the Jaeohina first styled themselves
“Friends of the Revolution,” instead of “Friends
of the Constitution." By reference-to Vol. VI,
of tho Encyclopaedia Americana, under the
1 “Jacobins,” the following setenco may be
fonnd:
“The private honse in which they (the Jaco
bins) first arsembled, soon became no longer ca
pable of containing the number of *Friends of
of the Resolution,’ as they first called them
selves.”
They accordingly met in a monastery of Jac
obin monks, and were from that fact called
Jacobins. This was in 1789- The diff. rence,
then, between ns, is the difference between our
historians; and analogy is very mar h against
the statement of M. Thiers.
Bnt this has bnt little to do with the great
questions at issue between Mr. Stephens and
the American party. These may he simply re
solved into two leading points. First, Is It the
policy of the Romish Church to aim at political
power in this and every country where they
ean gain the aseendancy? Second, Is there
any danger of such power ever being attained
in this country, throngh the addition of Catho
lic adherents to our population by immigration?
There are the poin’s at issue, and if they ean
be clearly established, all else that we have con
tended for Is substnntiaed. as a matter of course.
Mr. Stephens will then, by his own admissions,
justify even secret organization* for such a de
fence, as great a horror as he manifests for
them. For we have never seen more earnest
ness and fervor, not to say frenzy, manifested
against any aeet or party than be does against
the American party. He charges us with fanat
icistn against foreigners and Catholics, hut if
wild, extravagant, ill founded zeal be fanati
cism, then Mr. Stephens is gnilty of the charge
in reference to this new party. Although he
atmonnees that “he is not afraid of anything on
earth, above the earth, or nnder the earth, ex
cept to do wrong,” yet we are inclined to doubt
his assertion, after we behold the monster Know
Nothingism as depicted hy himself. He must
havei forgo*' this “manstntm horrendum" of hia
own erestion, when he said he feared nnthing.-
But let us have the pietnre. He seys that the
Native American party “is wrong in its aims
and objects.?.wrong from beginning to end, and
exceedingly unjust. Great evils and dangers
are to be apprehended from this new and most
vicioue political monster. Ha compares It to
the embodiment of vice itself, which is
“ ■ * .-of so hideous mien,
That tb J>e hated needs hut to seen.”
He rays that with Its general embrace hy the
people of this eonntry, comes political rain and
death. ,,-He who fosters it. fostera an insidious
and poisonous serpent in his bosom. One of
its general effects is to deceive, equivocate and
previricate. Hundreds and thonsands go about
daily and hourly telling palpable lies. He ad
mits that all do not do this, hut it is common
with the order, thus to equivocate, mislead and
deceive. Even ministers of the gospel, nnder
the infinenee of this organisation, may preach
from your pulpits. and then tell lies at yonr ta
ble ahont their connection with the order —
Church members are also as deep in the mud as
the preachers are In the mire. The whole
thing, be says, lends to deception, hypocrisy,
knavery, and universal treachery, and the only
remedy is for this great moneter vine to he held
np to the public gaze, that It may he seen, hated,
and abandoned speedily, as it onghr to he. He
farther says, “that it. Is anti-American, anfl-re-
pnhlican. at war with the fundamental law of
tho Union, and revolutionary in its chsracter.”
All this Mr. Stephens has said of an order and
its membership, of which he professed a few
days since to know nothing, without bringing
the first particle of proof to substantiate a sin
gle eharge.
We call npon all the candid and right think
ing men in the country to decide the question,
which evinces the most arrant fanaticism, to
contend that Catholic supremacy in this eonn.
try will rain it, or that the precedence of the
native American party will. Mr. Stephens has
•aid harder things, wilder things, more extrav
agant toings of the Know Nothings, than we
over did of the Catholics, and yet. when we re
fer to Smithfleld and St. Bartholomew’s nnmi*»
takoahle facie In history, as warning ns what
might he done in this conntry if the same im
mutable chnrch gats in the ascendency, he begs
hia constituents not to listen to sneh fanatical
appeals: while, without any guarantees of his
tory to fall Lack npon, save the Jacobins, and
without any similarity of objects, aims and
sympathies, between then and the Knees Koth-
ings. only that they are both secret societies, be \ gress to establish or prohibit slavery in any
makes an appeal against them, that has more of
tb* wildness and frensy of politieel fanaticism,
than any thing we have ever read in toe history
of p irty politics atths Sooth. We admit Ibat
•tnong Northern abolitionists, toe monster sla
very bee some each hideous proportions m this
now ordtr presents, nnder tbe touob of Hr. Ste
phen’s pencil, (indeed we are straok with tbe
similarity In come points ) bnt at the 8»nth we
have heretofore baa no suob specimens. Plain,
honest, eomroon sense, statesman-like views
have generally characterised our politieel do-
bates. Bold assertion, empty declamation and
fanatleal destraction, bare generally been left
for the lend of isms. Foe once the gentleman
has overshot himself; wnile be may stagger a
few enrveillant whips, who have dared for once
in their lives to think before Mr. Stephens
apeak*, the great mass, we have reason to know
will not only think for themselves, hut can nev
er forget, in all tbe alter political strifes in wbieh
his name may be preaeatentod before the pub
lic, the unwarranted, unexpected, uncalled for
attack, made by him on this, new American pare
ty. who have organised together for tbe perpet
uation of the rights of eonscienc. which Catho
lics and foreigners mntosUy enjoy in thle land
of freodom. They never will forget tbe un
founded assumption* which Mr. Stephens has
made against them; for knowing that the ob
jeots, aims and principles of tbe order are sneh.
as every true patriot, every opponent of a com
bination of chnreh and 8tate. every lover of
the religions liberty of his native land, can
sustain and vote ftu. they will either award to
him a wild fanatical teal for a bad cause, or
something more nnsernpalons and leu to be
pitied
But Mr Stephens charges the Native Ameri
can party with rebellion against the government
of this country. “Not ao open and manly re>
hellion, fwo nse bis own word*) but a secret and
covert attempt to undermine the very rnrnor
stone of the temple of nnr liberties.” Did he
weigh the ponderous dimensions of tbstsentenee
when he uttered it? and afterwards, when with
tbe sober secoad thought he denied it 7 If so, 1
then he may be able to bear its weight Tf he
does, he win prove himself greater than Aristi
de*. for it is enough to eraab any political aspi
rant in too land. ”Tis true, he has attempted
somewhat to parry the fore# of this deadly blow
levelled at the honor, integrity and patriotism
of the very men who have made him whatho is,
by saying that “those who heard him and thou
sands of others, hard gene into the urganhation
unwillingly,” hat they hud been deceived, (we
new speak inferentiatiy.) they bad not sense
enough to know what the thing would lead to.
poor deluded, spell bound creatures, rebelling
against government, undermining the corner
stone of liberty, and not knowing what they
were ahont. until he. Mr. Stephens, had pene
trated with a prophetic ken. almost supernatu
ral. into the deep prnfonnd of Know Nothinginn,
and nnveiled to thorn the dirty work hi which
they were engaged. Does not Mr. Stephens per
ceive in this admission, that tbe whole force of
his argument, fonndod on the Jaenhit,* in bis
letter Is overturned. If all the Know Nothings
who heard him, and thonMndsof others, are too
patriotic to turn Jaeohina. then there are . no el
ements in this country at least in Aognsta, to
make Jacobins of. If there are no such ele
ments here, and the people are ret 1 patriots, and
only hngged the monster because they knew not
what they were doing, then all the hue and cry
raised hy Mr. Stephens, about “rebellion and
undermining liberties.” amount to shoot the
same thing as the ery of “wolf.” when there’s
nothing on the air bnt tbe bleating of a lamb.
Bnt Mr. Stephens brings up a constitutional
difficulty, into which this new Order ha*became
entangled. He quotes from the Constitution
of the United States, as follows:
“Bnt no religions test shall ever be reqoired,
as a qualification to any office or public trust
under tbe United States.” He then shows
good authority, that the Know Nothings are
opposed to elevating Roman Catholics to office
in this eonntry. [How does it happen that the
Native Creole Catholics are supported by the
Know Nothings in New Orleans?] Ho says
“they have thus pledged themselves to set
np a religions test in qualifications for office,
against tho express words of the Constitution
of tbe United State.” He here attempts to
place the American party in antagonism with
the Constitution, in refusing to vote for Roman
Catholics. Now, we unequivocally deny—1st.
That the Constitution makes any such test for
voters at the ballot box, and 2d. That the
Know Nothings in tbeir pledges make, by in
tention, a religious test in tbe selection of men
to fill offices of honor and trust nnder the United
States.
Tbe sentence in the Constitution, which bss
been dissotnbered by Mr. Stephens, reads tiro*:
“The Senators and Representatives befre men
tioned. and the members of the several State
Legislatures, and all executive aad Judicial
officers, both of the United States and the sev
eral States, 8kail be bound by oath or affirma
tion, to support this Constitution; but no reli
gions test shall over bo required, as a qualifica
tion to any office or public trust nnder tbe
United States.”
Now what connection would there be in the
two parts of this sentence under Mr. Stephens’
construction. It would read about tiros: “ The
several officers above mentioned, shall be bound
by oath to support the Constisntion: but tho
people shall be bound to make the religions
test in electing men to office.” Can it be sup
posed that the framers of the Constitution,
would have been guilty of sneh sheer nonsense,
in connecting two subjects so irrelevant, by a
conjunction, into the umt sentence. Now as
tbe first part of the sentence refers to what tbe
officers shall be required to do, aa a teat of bold
ing office, vis: take an oath to support tho
Constitution, so tbe second part shows what
they shall not be required to do, as a test of
holding office, that is give in their adhesion to
any religions faith or sect. The Constitution
means to say, that after the people have elected
a man to office, the oath of office shall be ad
ministered to him whether he be a Protestant,
Catholie, Mormon or Atheist, provided he is
not debarred by any other principle in tbe Con
stitution. But Mr. Stephens makes this reli
gious test to apply at the ballot box, which is so
palpably absurd as to hardly bear the eharge
of sophistry even. He says, “So of all the
reasons yon (the voters) may have, or objt c-
tions, or disqualifications in tbe eeleetion of men
to office or places of public trust, under the Uni
ted States, you may make any other test but
this religious test” While it is trao as we ad
mit, that if an Atheist should be elected Pres-
dent of the United 8tates, the Judge adminis
tering the oath of office could not interrogate
him as to his religious opinions, yetitis equally
true, and within the letter and spirit ot the
Constitution that a voter at the ballot box has a
right to interrogate him and refuse to east bis
vote for him purely on the ground of his reii*
gious faith. So much for Mr. Stephens’ Con
stitutional religious test. That would be a glo
rious instrument indeed, for the basis of a fiee
government, worthy to be made tbe political
winding sheet of this modern Aristides, if with
all the other rights guaranteed by it to a free
people, it withheld the rightof votingfor whom
they pleased.
We propose, Mr. Editor, throngh your court
esy, in a few days to substantiate what we
asserted above, vis., that tbe Native American
party do not, by intention, make any religious
test in their selection of men to fill offices under
territory. It Is tbb sense of this 'National
Council, that Congress onght not to legislate
upon the snbjrot of slavery within tbe Terri
tories of the United States, and that any inter
ference of Congress with slavery as it exists in
the District of Columbia, would be a violation
of the epirit and intention of tbe compact by
which the State of Maryland ceded tbe District
to tbe United States, and * breach of the na
tional faith.
LATER FROM EUROPE
IBRITAL OF THE 8TEAHSHIP
ATLANTIC.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM THE SEAT
OF WAR?
SANOVIEAR T CONFLICTS 11
Success of the Allied!!
EIGHT THOUSAND BILLED f
New York, Jane 13, M.—Tbe mall steam
ship Atlantie has arrived) brings news from Eu
rope to tbe 2d Inst. Her news Is, by far, the
most important since the battle of Alma.
Tbe Allies, had captured Keneh in tbe So*
of Azof, after a prolangcd resistance; had also
carried tbe Russian camp at Tcbernsya, and
gained sveral successes before Sevastopol.
The news comprises the accounts of the three
several snecesseeof tbe Allied armies.
’ Firstly, of the French troops who were com
pletely vietorions in «MBgninnry conflict las
ting through tbe whole of the 22d and 23d of
May. Daring this Rattle the French took an
important position of defence or placed’ Armos
before Sebastopol which they still retain. No
fewer than 8,000 men were killid or wonnded,
mostly in band to band enoountors with tbe
bayWnet. ■ •
The second success was In a brilliant and ra
pid advance on Tebernaya, in wbieh they sue*
eeeded in seizing and retaining the Russian lines
without sustaining much loss. Tbe Russians
abandoned tbeir emnp and retreated to tbe
bills.
Tbe third success was the secret expedition
of the Allies directed to the Sea of Azof. The
expedition obtained possession of the fortress of
Kertcband command tbe Sea in wbieh there
are fourteen of the Allies steamers.
The Rnssins on approach of the enemy, blew
up the forts and set fire to four steamers thirty
transports and half a million sacks of bread
stuffs, to prevent them falling into hands of the
Allies.
France and England have decisively declined
any farther conferences at Vienna.
Latest News.—Belgium is ahont joining the
Allies.
■Breadstuff* dull and unchanged. Provisions
advanced. Cotton active.
The French have established a camp a Tche-
rgnun.
It i* now eertain that Belgium will famish
20,000 men to aid the Allies.
Some hopes of peace are said to prevail in
consequence of the recent Russian reverses.
[For the Courier]
I WOULD NOT DIE FROM HOME.
BT HAL RATV0RD
Democracy and Know Nothingism.
The following extracts, says the Mdntevallo
Herald of the 8th inst., from the Dallas Oavette,
induce us to believe that tbe editor is .pretty
well posted up in regard to the leading features
of tbe new party, if he ia not one himself; and
that he does not find any thing therein very
inimical to the Southern Democracy:
“We think that the Democratic leader of
the conntry. and especially the great central
organ, the Washington Union, and Mr. Wise,
the Democratic candidate for Governor of
Virginia, have committed a grave and fatal
error in joining issue with the Know Nothings
in opposirg the change in the naturalization
laws. It was bad—it was wretched policy-
and showed a lamentable ignorance of the
true feeling of the great masses of the people on
the subject Ever eince the advent of Koesnth,
we believe that three fonrtbs of the people of
the United States have been in favor of any
sort of policy that wonld limit tbe infinenee of
foreigners, and we are astonished that clear
headed and sagacious party leaders did not find
it out and shape their conrse according to the
circumstances of the case. They have been
fighting against the almost unanimous wish of
the .people, and the resnlt has been that they
have driven from the ranks .thousands and hun
dreds of thousand* of Democrats, who have
joined the Know Nothings, for the sole pur
pose of having that one principle carried ont
wbieh was rejected by their party leaden.—
Those Democrats who have joined the Know
Nothings believed that the increnseof tbe for
eign vote, and infinenee should be checked, bnt
how con’d they bring it abont when Democratic
leaders not only violently opposed the principle
bnt were striving to make everybody else do
the same ? and for a private in the ranks to re
fuse to acknowledge every Irish or German
emigrant to bo a patriot of the first water, and
consequently entitled to tbe first privileges and
the honors of the Republic, he was almost re
garded as a traitor to his party and country!—
The result of this is that myriads of Democrats
have left.their party because its leaders reject
ed a principle they believed to be wise and
good, and have joined the Know Nothings, Who
are pledged to carry ont that principle.
‘That a majority should rale* is not only
Democratic but Republican doctrine, and as
soon as onr leaders saw, as they must have
seen, that the sentiment of our native citisens
was so universal against foreigners, they should
have ceased to oppose the proposed changes of
the naturalisation laws, and endorsed and not
condemned the leading principle in the Know
Nothings—the principle that gives them their
greatest strength.
Our views have undergone no change what
ever from that time to this, and the recent
election in Mobile satisfies ns that we are right,
and that Democrats should no longer be the
defenders of foreigners. At the Mobile elec
tion. the Register says that * ont of one hundred
Irish votes cast, seventy of that number were
given to the Know Nothing candidate, and the
Advertiser, a Know Nothing organ, actually
thanks the foreigners for laying aside their pre
judices and voting the American ticket!t
Shall we. as Democrats, any longer strive to
secure political rights to men, who have not
the conrage or honor to stand hy their friends?
whoin thehour of trial and danger, will desert
those who are risking everything in their de«
fence. We, for ono, declare that the Demo
crats shonld give them np and cease to join is
sue wi b the Know Nothings on the question—
The canvass Is now opening in this State, and
all of the candidates will he before the people.
We advise those who are selected hy the Demo
crats to he silent on the subject unless it is for
ced npon them, and if it is, instead of opposing
any preposition to change tbe naturalization
laws, let them, especially our candidates for
Congress, go as far as tbeir opponents in advo
cating any system that will destroy the influ
ence of foreigners.”
I would not die from home, for then
No mother’s voice would over blend,
Its soothing accents with my own,
To'cheer me to my last lone home.
Oh! who would die from homo andmiss
A mother’s last fond Iing’ring kiss;
Fraught with affection’s holy love,
That points us to the realms above.
Die from home and not be blessed,
With sister’s lore and dear caress,
Would haunt my spirit to the tomb,
And cast-o'er death a hopeless gloom-.
Who has been in a distant land,
And felt deaths unrelenting hand
Fix’d in tbeir soul, that did not moan
For mother, father, friends and home.
• I know that I am doom’d to die,
And in the dark, sold grave to lie;
Then place me by those dead and gone,
I lov'd so well in childhood’s Home.
Rome, June 15, ’65.
, v The Union movement.
The Columbus Enquirer says: As we folly
anticipated, the movement projected at tbe
meeting at Temperance Hall in this city on the
2fah nit., meets with the most gratifying indi
cations of popalar favor in every direction
where its principles and aims have been fairly
made known, it finds, so far as we are advised)
bnt one class of opponents—and this composed
notef the masses of the people—men who allow
themselves to be guided hy honest impulses of
their hearts, rather than by the -deliberate cal
culations of selfishness, or of the results of ul-
terror party chicanery upon individual of party
schemes. Who then are tbe opponents of B
movement originating, as we understand, in a
spirit of fraternal union, intended to compass
purely national, constitutional and conservative
ends, and eminently calculated in its every
endnney and final result to protect and secure
the rights of the South? We find them thud
far only among those who, from political mo
tives, are committed to the policy of maintain
ing an alliance with a national Democratic
organizatin—those to whom the charm of
spoils is more potent than the love of their
section—to whom tbe appetizing aroma of the
flesh-pots is too strong to allow of their doing
nnght that might by possibility lessen their ho-
ped forsbare. We confess We did hope, thongh
we cannot say with much confidence, that this
movement—sanctioned, as It is, by every con
sideration that could move the true patriot—
wonld have commanded the support of all
classes, at least at tbe South, even including
the Democratic Convention at Milledgeville,
bnt we find that we reckoned too much upon
their patriotism, and too little npon the cohe
sive power of the spoils, and that the vision of
the Union of the Snath for the sake of her
Constitutional Rights Is destined yet for a time
to he unrealized. If we read the signs aright,
however, the “consummation so devoutly to
he wished” cannot long be delayed: and that,
notwithstanding the efforts of false guides and
nnfaithfol watchmen, the people will, in the
exereise of their sovereign will and power, see
to it that mere individual aggrandizement and
party ascendency shall not be allowed to con
travene and subverts greahjrablic good; and
that, so far at least as the great mas? of the
citizens are concerned, despite the evil coun
sel* of selfish politicians and partisans, they
will be One People and One Party.
We are therefore content to risk the fate of
this movement—not only in Georgia, but
throughout the entire Sontb—with the people*
We feel assured that it must command a gene
ral acquiescence, and that, notwithstanding the
efforts of partisan-leaders and a partisan press
to the contrary, the great public necessity of i
nnion of sentiment and of action throngh on
tbe South is so clear and imperative that i(
must in good time be accomplished. Unlike
the cause of its opponents, It needs not the
specious advocacy of^eXpert political pleaders,
hot finds Its effective justification in tbe history
of the past and the prospect of the fntore—icy
the maxim that “in anion there Is strength,”
and in that honest spontaneous impulse of pa
triotism which bails as a brother and a friend
every man who sineerely devotes himself to
the accomplishment of n great public good.
In vain may the partisan pres* seek to preju
dice this movement in the estimation of their
former friends and allies—by impugning the
motives of those engaged in it—by singing
hosannas to the National Democracy—or hy
anathamatizing the Know Nothings. Tho peo
ple will look for themselves, both to the one
and the other, and decide for themselves in
which direction their Imc interest* lie.— wneth-
er in a blind adherence to the ancient organi
zations of the North, or in the union of all
head* and hearts and hands upon the principle
of the Georgia platform: comnStncing at the
Snnth and extending Northward as lqgg as a
friend ean be fonnd to join the constitutional
alliance; knowing no Whig or Democrat. Know
Nothing or Temperance man. only as they are
entitled to recognition as tbe friends of Jnstice,
the Constitution, and the rights of the South.
.. Philadelphia, June 35.
Tbe Know Nothing Platform is published.
It embraces the majority resolutions on the
slavery question, and declares that the princi
ples of the order will henceforth be openly
avowed, and members will be at liberty to de
clare their membership, and there will he no
concealment in regard to places of meeting.
“I introduce a hill for the destruction of
worms,” as the wood-pecker said in a stomp
speech.
MARRIED.
On Thursday evening 14th inst., by the Rev.
Jesse Lamberth, Mr. ANDREW J. CARTER
and Miss CAROLINE FORD, all of this city.
ROME PRICES CURRENT
CORRECTED WEEKLY BT J. L. LOO AX.
Tallabasse, Fla., May 28,1855.
Tho Know Nothing party made aclenn sweep
the United 8tates, and this will involve a reply hero the other day, hy two hundred majority,
to the disavowal of Mr. Stephens in behalf of
the Catholics as a church, that they form a
political party in this country, or seeking for
political power. Mblaxctbox.
Sparta, June 9th, 1855.
The following is the Platform adopted upon
the slavery question:
Resolved, That tbe American party, having
arisen upon the ruins and in despite of the op
position of the whig and democratic parties,
eannot be held in any manner responsible for the
obnoxious acts or violated pledges of cither;
that the systematic agitation of the slavery
question by those parties has elevated sectional ’ w ho have in past years found it so convenient
heating tbe Democratic candidate that much.
Until the day of the election nothing bad been
seen or heard ef Sam, bnt he eame to the polls
and east his vote, and that was all that was
heard of him. with that two hundred majority.
Yours respectily, A. H. H.
There ean he no question that the 8ag
Nichts, or Say Nothings, the new secret Order
at. the. West among tbe German and Irish
‘Democrats,” is now in fall blast. The Ohio
Journal says it is made up of the worst elements
of our foreign population and the demagogues
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.250-3(WNail Rod— . 8ic-7c
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20-25(7Salt—pr sack 260-75
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Cabdli
hostility into a positive element of political po
wsr, and brought our institutions into peril.—
It has, therefore, become the imperative duty of
the American party to interpose for the purpose
of giving pesos to the country and perpetuity
to the Union; that, as experience has shown,
U is impossible to reconcile opinions so extreme
as those wbieh separate tbe disputants; and, ss
there ean be no dishonor in submitting to the
laws, t e National Council has deemed it tbe
best guarantee of common justico and of future
peace to abido by and m intain the existing
to ride into power hy the foreign vote. It says ;
“There can be no mistake as to tbe organisa
tion of secret societies all over tha country, es
pecially at the West, nnder the patronage of
the general government In this State Gen.
Joel W. Wilson, of Tiffin, is the President of
tbe order. Wo have tne names of the officers
of the Grand Council, but only deem it necessa
ry at present to dwell on the general foots. At
laws upon tbe subject of slavery, as a final and j Washington, tho Postmaster General, a Roman
" 1 Catholic, takes the eoneern under bis patronage;
and a fellow named Jones, who is clerk at
Washington, is maintained at the expense of
the people to eolleot the correspondence and
elaborate the facts gathered from different parts
conclusive settlement of that subjoot in spirit
and in substance.
Resolved, That, regardin ’ it the highest
doty to avow these opinions, upon a subject |
so important, indistinct and uneqoivncai terms,
it is hereby declared, as tbe sense of this Na
tional Council, that Congress possesses no 1
power under the Constitution to legilate npon
tho subject of slavery in the States, for to 'ex
clude any 8tate from admission into the Union
because her constitution does or does notrecog-
nise the institution of slavery as a part of her
■oeial system, and expressly pretermitting any
Georgia,
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Mackerel—bl$17-$U
Madder--lb. 1 20c-25c
Meal—per hu.l35-15C
>Tallow—lb.
JTea—per lb,
‘ “’heat—
per bushel,
\W ool—lb,
SPECIAL NOTICES.
OFFICE ROME RAIL ROAD, )
.. June 18th 1855. ;
The anunl meeting of the Stockholders of the
Rome Rail Road, will take place »t their office
in the city of Rome on Wednesday the 11th Ju
ly next, at eleven o’clock, a. m.
WM R SMITH,
jul9 President.
We Hate Patebt Medicines.—No person
shonld start for California without a supply of
Sloan’s Medicines. W e hate patent medicines,
—but we tell our friends honestly, that there is
no “take in” in these popular remedies. They
have virtues which are known and testified to
of the country—a work he is qualified for If he by tnousands in all parts of the country. If we
ean be kept sober and under control. He is
placed at Washington for reasons whiob will
strike any ono on a moment’s consideration; he
there can be furnished with printing, stationary I
expressions of opinion npon tho power of Con- 1 and franks to any extent,”— Tenn. paper.
were going over tho plains, we should take a
supply of these medicines with us,—Iowa Hem.
Enquirer.
See Sloan’s advertisement in another col
umn.