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THE CO UNTRYMAK
TURNWOIl), OA., APRIL 11, 1865.
Democratic Meeting in Putnam.
—Eatonton, Ga., July 4th, 1855.—
According to previous notice, a re
spectable portion of the anti-know-
nothing whigs, and democrats, of Put
nam county, convened in the court
house, today.
On motion, Dr. Joel Branham was
made chairman, and Wm. P. Thomn?
son was requested to act as secretary.
The chairman having stated the ob
ject of the meeting to be the selection
of delegates, to represent Putnam Co.
in the democratic congressional con
vention of the seventh district, on mo
tion of Joseph A. Turner, Esq., the
chair appointed Messrs. Joseph A.
Turner, John W. Hudson, William
O’Brien, Albert 0. Moseley, A. A.
Hunt, Peter McHenry, Thomas Mc
Manus, Richmond A. lleid, and John
Godkin, a committee to recommend
five suitable persons to aot as dele
gates to said convention.
The committee, after consultation,
recommended Benjamin F. Adams,
Daniel Slade, Elmore Calloway, Jas.
McKenzie, and John W. Hudson, as
delegates.
On motion of James 0. Denham,
the recommendation of the committee
was confirmed, and the delegates em~
fclU?. caucies in their ranks
On motion of William O’Brien, the
meeting—
Resolved, That our political friends
bo invited to hold tho district conven
tion in Eatonton, on tuesday, the 24th
irist. ; that a free barbecue be furnish
ed, ou that occasion ; that the people
of the 7th congressional district, with
out respect to party, he invited to the
same, and that a committee of five
from the town district, and two from
eaclr of the remaining districts in the
county, bo appointed, by the chair
man, as a committee of arrangements,
to prepare for the same.
Whereupon, the chairman appoint
ed the following persons as committee
of arrangements :
William O'Brien, Andrew Reid, A.
II. Cox, A. A. Hunt, Stephen Wright,
Jonathau Adams, Allen Lawrence, Sr.,
Davis R. Andrews, John B. Pound,
Dr. C. N. Horne, Wiley B. Jordan,
Allen A. Beall, Irby H. Scott, John
Lmch, James Coates, David Moore,
Green Wiggins, James Yancey, John
Hollis, R. H. Griffin, It. R. DeJar-
nette, James C. Denham, Bradley
Avery, James McKenzie, Isdiarn B.
Wright, Blakey Batchelor. Dr. John
R. Godkin, William W. Turner, Free
man Perryman, William Myrick, Geo.
Carter, Abner Woolsey, Jas. Wright,
Jr., Evan J. Ilaivey.
On motion of Joseph A. Turner,
Esq., the following committee, con
sisting of Joseph A. Turner, Junius
A. Wingfield, A. S. Reid, Elmore
Calloway, and A. A. Adams, were ap
pointed to invite distinguished anti-
know-nothing whig and democratic
speakers, to address the people on the
day of the convention.
The following resolution was offer
ed by Joseph A. Turner, Esq., and
adopted by tho meeting :
Resolved, That the democrats, and
anti-know-nothing whigs, ratify, and
adopt as their own, the platform of
principles put forth by the late demo
cratic convention, in Milledgeville, and
that they pledgo themselves to use all
honorable means to secure the success
of these principles.
On motion of Joseph A. Turner,
Esq., the editors of tho Federal Union,
and of the Constitutionalist and Re
public, were requested to publish the
proceedings of this meeting.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
Joel Branham,Chairman*
William P. Thompson, Sec’y. -
Know Nothing Rhetoric.—The
rhetoric of the ki.ow nothings is tru
ly sublime. Wo verily believe they
>• o : -i,t name. The Southern
Recorder says :
‘From tho Blue Ridge to the sea
board, let the swelling tide of patri
otism flow, and njeet, and mingle its
waves in towering grandeur, in the
capital of our groat state.’
If Milledgeville doesn’t mind how
brother Knowles goes on in this style,
it will bo washed away. This is the
first time we over heard of any thing
meeting itself. And then, if the tide
flows from the Blue Ridge to the sea
board, how can it be stopped in the
capital of our great state 1 Has the
Recorder made the arrangements ?
Are the dams stiong enough to stop
this swelling tide, which is to meet,
and mingle its waves, in towering
grandeur, in Milledgeville ? It is true
the know nothings are damning at a
terible rate, but all their damns won’t
keep them from being washed away
by another flood than that of the Re
corder—we mean the democratic
flood.
But we tell the people of Milledge-
vilje again, they are in danger of
brother Knowles’s invocation, as we
can convince them by an anecdote.
There was once a Methodist preach
er travelling in the summer. There
had been a protracted drought, the
earth was parched, and dry, and veg
etation wilted. At night, our Meth
odist fiieud stopped in front of a
house which belonged to a widow
lady, and asked permission to stay all
night. Tho old lady told him that
bread was scarce, that corn was still
more scarce, and that she did not
know whether she could spare enough
to feed him and his horse. The trav
eller answered her that he was a min
ister, and if she would allow him to
stay all night, he would pray for rain.
Upon this she consented. That night,
and next morning the preacher put
up long and fervent prayers for rain,
and again went on his way rejoicing.
The night after he left, there came
a tremendous storm. Tho old lady,
on getting up in the morning, found
her garden flooded, her fences swept
away, her plantation washed in gul
lies, while ruin, and devastation star
ed her in the face. Turning to one
who was standing by, she said :
‘Plague take the Methodist preach
ers, they always overdo * tho tiling.
I was afraid of this, night before last,
whon that fellow kept praying so
loud !’
Now if brother Knowles doesn’t
mind, be will overdo the thing, when
lie says : ‘From the Blue Ridge to
the seaboard,let the swelling tide of pa
triotism flow, and meet, and mingle
its waves in towering grandeur in the
-“p 1 - 1 etreat state ’ If the
people of Milledgeville don’t prepara
well for the coming flood, they will
bo washed away.
But v-e have another specimen of
know nothing rhetoric, fiom tho At
lanta Republican. That paper says :
‘It is so seldom that we meet with
anything truly rich, and sublime, that
we cannot refuse ourselves the luxu-
ry of dippiug into such a spectacle,
when it comes directly before us. Such
is the case with the so-called demon
cratic platform, adopted at Milledge->
villo on the fifth.’
Will our Atlanta brother shut his
eyes to tlie fact, that the reason ho so
seldom meets with anything rich, and
subliino, is, because he confines his
observations to his own, and other
know nothing columns ? Will he also
inform us how he can ‘dip into a spec
tacle,’ or how a platform can be called
a spectacle ? Our friend evidently
looks through know knothing specta
cles. — Anti-Jacobin. — Savannah
Georgian, 1855.
‘ The bride’s orange blessom ©ften bears
bitter fruit.’
‘ lie Is truly wise who con tnduie evjl,
and enjoy good,’
