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fended, or made weak. Your opposition to
Catholics and foreigners, I deem impolitic
and unchristian ; but this will never disturb
our peace, if you will not prosecute it in a
way dangerous to the yeaco of the country,
enervating to Protestantism, fostering to Ro
manism, paralyzing to Methodism, humilia
ting to her ministry, distracting to Her mem
bership, encouraging to falsehood, smother
ing to truth, and demoralising in all its as
pects and movements. And here I beg you
to bear in mind, that it is not your princi
ples I object to (if a naked conspiracy a
gainst two classes of men can be called prin
ciples) so much as to your manner of propa
gating them. But as I canuot hope to wean
you from the order, without at least shak
ing your confidence in your principles, I
shall in the first place address myself to
them.
In what I have to say upon this head. I
shall take it for granted that you nil weut
over to the Know Nothings with good inten
tions. That you sincerely believe that the
Catholics arc about to take the country; and
that foreigners are about to take it too; and
that handled as it has been by Whigs and
Democrats, it is even now, hardly worth hav
ing ; and that without the interposition of
Know Nothingiem, it will soon be bat a pu
trid carcass upon any party that shoulders
it. 1 cannot reconcile these suppositious with
each other ; but they must be made to rec
oncile the professions of your order with sin
cerity.
I will go still farther, and admit for the
sake of the argument, that every emmigtatit
who comes into the country, is a pauper nud
a Catholic. That the Pope of Rome is fully
advised of every election that comes off in
this country, from California to Maine, and
from Oregon to Florida. That every Catholic
in the land feels himself bound to vote just
ns the Pope orders him to vote, in eviry
election that occur s in this country, front
that of village constable, to that of President
of the United States. Let this tissue of ab
surdities be admitted ; and still I maintain
that Know Nothiugism is not the remedy for
the supposed evils ; and that if it were, it
is a remedy with which you should have
nothing to do. To the proof :
Paupers are anually coming by multitudes
into the country. Very well; and who are
paupers ? Wby they are poor people. They
are uot necessarily lazy or dishonest. So far
from it, they are generally both honest
and industrious. Certaiuly as honest and
industrious as natives in their condition.—
These, an oppressed, afflicted, downtrodden,
over-wrought, enslaved people, seek a shelter
and a living in your free country, where
millions of idle capital are only waiting the
hand of industry, to loom out in all that
enriches, adorns, enables and strengthens a
nation—these are the people which your
order would drive from our shore* ; simply
because they are poor! You tell us with
more candor than self-respect, that the rich
may come without opposition, but you will not
have your country burdened with paupers.
With you the old motto which you learned
from the lips of your sires and grand sires,
• America an asylum for the oppressed,” is
changed to • America an asylum for the
oppressor and a scourge to the oppressed 1”
Your aims are as impolitic as they are inhu
man. Hear the language of one who knew
the effects of emmigr&tion upon a country,
far better than the wisest man of your ordor:
* A nation receiving a stray child ( fortio
ri a grown man) ..into its bosom again,
acquires a real treasuro; inasmuch as it
receives in him, an addition to its popula
tion, an accession to the profits of national
industry, and acquisition of capital. It
at the same time recovers a lost citizen, and
the means for him to subsist upon. If the
oxile bring back his industry only, at any
rate the profits of industry are added to the
national stock. It is true that a source of
consumption is likewise superadded; but
supposing it to counterbalance the advantage,
there is no diminution of revenue while the
moral and political strength of the country
is actually augmented.” (Say's Pol. Econ.
Book 11. Chap. X. Page 308.) In this short
passage will be found the secret of our coun
try’s unparalleled advancement iu wealth
and greatness. The foreigners who nre now
flocking to the country are precisely such as
have always come to it—precisely such as
have contributed so largely to our growth
in agriculture, commerce, manufactures,
and the mechanic arts. Some who came
hither paupers when I w:is a boy, died mil
lionaires ; many died possessed of largo es
tates, and almost all of them died iu easy
circumstances. Few, very vew comparative
ly, fell upon the parish. They enriched the
country by the whole ainouut of their accu
mulations—by just so much more than it
would have possessed without them. Just
so will it bo with those who are now coming
into the country. If the amount oxponded iu
support of the helpless be compared with the
amounts raised by the industry of the sound,
any three years together, the first would bo
to the last less than one to a thousand. You
would fling away the eagles to save the
cents! You would retard the growth of the
country a hundred years to save lands for
your children upon which your children will
uot be permitted to enter, unless they will
consent to commit the keep : ng of your graves
to their slaves ! Splendid statesmen nre
coming out of tho Know Nothing factory,
truly! Ihe last Massachusetts legislature
exhibits to us the fabrics of this mnehino in
tho highest perfection. In • hat body were
fivo and twenty preachers, (one-fifth Metho
dist,) Christians mauy, and Know Nothings
almost all. Their acts ncod no comment.—
They will remain buret into tho character
of tho State in lines so deep and gangrenous,
that even tho offspring of tho Hartford rebels
and murderers of Batchcldcr will sicken at
the sight of them. These hierarchul Know
Nothing legislators arc your * brethren” iu
a double sense, and the mirabile signum
* that none but Americans should rule
America!'’ Do you not blush to fraternise
with such men? And can you believe that
you ire favoring your country or your church
iu espousing their principles ?
But if these paupors boa nuisance, whom
do they afflict ? \Yby Massachusetts, and her
colicogucs in a war upon your constitution,
rights and Christian character. With these
people you could not as Methodists, harrao
nise. They drove you away from them, by
insults and injustice insufferable—wept cro
codile tears when they saw you going—prom
ised you a peaceful parting, and an outfit
from the common fund ; and no sooner wore
your backs turned ; than they denounced
you asscismatics and ajnners, cabbaged all
Ibu common property, und kept it, uutil at
the end of seven long years, they were forc
ed to disgorge a part of it under the wing
of the law. But as Know Nothings you can,
harmonize with them, join them in an on
slaught upon Catholics nnd foreigners who
never injured you, nay who nro your neigh<
bors and friends—and even turn a cold
shoulder to a native brother at your door,
who protests against your mode of warfare !
Verily if you did not revive Catholic sins
three huudred years’ old to justify your
wrath against that Church, if you did not
at times evince a higher regard for the sin
ners of your order than for the saints of
your Church, and chafe at opposition to you
from any quarter, I should regard yours ns
the master iustitution of the world, for
teaching men to forgive injuries, and love
their enemies.
But however lawful it mnv bo for your
confreres to repel tho poor from your bor
ders it is not lawful for you nud me to do it.
Much less lawful is it for you to complot
with sinners to terrify them from the land,
when the laws allow them to conic. Take
cure brethren, I beseech you, how you prac
tice your Know Nothing tactics upon this
class of God's creatures. They are Uuder
his peculiar care and ho will hold you re
sponsible, if you do not take them under
youi’s likewise. In Ids vocabulary, * the
poor” means the poor of the world. So Paul
understood it when he collected contribu
tions in one country for the poor in another.
So Christ teaches in the story of the good
Samaritan, n Has not God chosen the poor
of this world, in faith, and heirs of the
kingdom which he hath promised to them
that love him. But ye have despised the
pocr. Do not rich men oppress you, and
draw you before the judgement seats? Do
they not blaspheme the worthy name by
which ye nre called ? ’ Blessed bo ye
poor; /or yours is the kingdom of God.”—
*• But woe unto you that are rich ! for ye
have received your consolation.” Defend
the poor and fatherless; do justice to the af
flicted nnd needy.” Deliver the poor and
needy; rid them out of the hands of the
wicked.” i. He that oppresseth the poor re
proaches bis maker.” *I know that the
Lord will maintain the case of tho afflicted,
and the right of poor.” • Thou slinlt neith
er vex a stranger nor oppress him.” • But
tho stranger that dwelleth with you shall
be as one born among you, and thou shalt
love him as thyself.” But enough. Your
Know Nothing doctrine is diroctly the re
verse of the scripture dootrine in regard to
foreigners, poor and rich. You nre bound,
if need to be, to go to tho poor of distant
lands with the gospel on your lips, and char
ity in your hearts for them. Y'ou are bouud
to do good to all men—to feed the hungry,
clothe the naked, and relieve the distressed,
no matter where found or where born. If
this be true, you should rejoice that the
poor abroad save you the trouble of going to
them by coming to you. Let law makers
exclude them if they will; but you havo no
business quitting your work to hunt up law
makers to do it. Much less have you any
business working under cover, with all sorts
of characters, to put down all law makers
hut those who will do it. I repeat it breth
ren, take care how you trifle with this class
of God's croatures. If you have experimeuts
to mke in your Know Nothing laboratory,
take caro that you do not put the souls of
men in tho crucible, to blow up your own
souls
Ami what is your remedy for immigrant
pauperism ? Why you will rote for no for
eigner rich or poor for office! Does this
remedy touch the disease, or even the person
diseased ? Men come hither from Europe
sick, and your medical colleges arc going to
cure them, by prescibing strict regimen to
all the sound who have come from the same
country, through the first and second gen
erations ! If the statement of such a case
does not shock your understanding, I pray
you in mercy to yourselves, and for the hon
or of Methodism, surrender your parchments
forthwith. You are either gulled, or you
protend to be, and in cither case, you wound
the character of our church. lam pained for
] the future destiny of our Heaven-blessed
1 country, when 1 see that the daring author
|of this nonsense should have succeeded so
| well.
Turn if you ploase to Bascom’s sermons,
(page 288) and read the letter which pre
faces the sermon beginning at that page.—
Many of you, with me heard it preached at
j the first General Conference of the Metho
: <list Church, South. We all admired it, but
I we did not know the intent with which it
was delivered. lie explains it in the intro
ductory letter, from which the following is
| an extract :
“ The many virtues and Christian death of
| your son, not to overlook the noble charity
ho founded,by requesting and obtaining from
h’s father twenty thousand dollars, with the
addition of suitable grounds for tho estab
lishment of an Orphan Asylum in his na
tive city'* (Petersburg, Va,j <> must be to
you, sources of consolation beyond any earth
I can offer. The following thoughts on death
i may enhance your estimate of this &c. For
■ the reasons &c , I ask permission, my dear
Madam, to dedicate this discourse to you.”
He bad previously said, that it was in
tended to otter consolation to tho mother's
ufflictod bosom, under her then recent be
j reavemeut. Tho father of thatnoblo son, is
one of the loveliest specimens of the Chris
tian character that 1 ever saw. I have it
. upon credible authority, that the magnifi
cent donation inemtioucd by llascom, is only
, about double the sum which he gives every
iyoor to benevolent purposes; and •< when
ho doctli alms, he lets not his loft hand know
; what his right band Ho will be offend
at this exposure of bis virtues 1 know; but
ho will pardon it I trust, when I assure him
it is made only to save his Church from per
il, and her ministry from discredit. That
man is a uaturalizod foreigner. If that
man were a candidate for an office requiring
special trust and confidence—if ho were a
candidate for any office—you would vote
for the most abandoned profligate in the
land in preference to him. Your vows to
that effect are registered in heaven. Nay
he was rocently a candidate for a petty of
fice in his city and I suppose Methodist K.
Nothings, perhaps proachcrs, walked round
that Asylum and over those consecrated
grounds, to rote from some competitor of his,
at the sight of whom Koligiou would start
and obarity shriek.
“ have we not a right to rote u we
please ?” No, gentlemen, you surrendered
the right when you joined the Know Noth
ing ; and 1 am ama?ed that you made the
Surrender ; for when you did that, you rir
m
tually acknowledged yourselves incompetent
to advocate any fittrtf of any measures. Y r ou
can advocate the claims of fw matt, because
you do not know that yott will be frertnittecf
to vote for him yourselves i and Ho measures*
because you have none—a beautiful predic
ament fat a freemafa to place himself in !
When a preacher votes, it is to be presumed
that he votes conscientiously and upon prin
ciple, but you vote as you are ordered, nnd
only according to a man's birthplace.—--
Know ye not to whom ye yield yourselves’
servants to obey ? His servants ye are to
whom ye obey.”
• But we love the brother, though we can
not vote for the man.” Y'ou do ? What a stu
pendous exhition of moral sublimity ! What
a beautiful combination of religion and
patriotism ! It lacks but three things to
make it perfect; First, Religion demands
that you not only lovo your brother, but
that you do nothing to forestall his love to
you. Secondly, Patriotism demands that
you always vote for the most trustworthy.
And thirdly, .< can—not” should refer to
conscience, nnd not to a gratuitous oath. I
proceed to the next head ;
By concession all who come into the coun
try are not only pnupers, but Catholics
Suppose they were Methodists would you ob
ject! Certainly not. Then you would de
termine every foreigner’s privilege to come
to the country, by his religion, would you ?
And do you not perceive that this rule would
bo impractible if you bad all power in your
own hands ? Why then do you mislead the
people by crying out against the influx of
Catholics, ns though your party could and
would stop it, if they were in authority ?
And why are you doing this when, confess
edly, you do not intend to exclude foreign
ers altogether, nud therefore, you play a
game iu such a way as to catch nil who
wish them excluded entirely, without offen
ding those who do not. You have .no office’
in your platform, nnd * no ingress* in your
speeches ; and use one, or the other, or neith
er. as best suits your purposes.
Docs this comport with Christian sincerity?
But surely, brethren, one short, year's fel
lowship with your new companion has not
taught you to hate Catholics—the men.—
it Oh, no; we love the men but hate their re
ligion ” Say .tlove the men, but oppose some
articles of their creed,” nnd I am with you
heart and hand. But to hate their religion,
which they adorn, just now, much more than
you do. ii No man that warreth,” says
Paul, i< entangleth himself with the affairs
of this life.” Tho Catholic priest obeys this
precept strictly. But where are you? (Some
of you at least.) Candidates for this, that
and the other office—going from beat to beat,
county to couuty, stumping it for votes—
haranguing the multitude amidst thumps
and screams and yells—firing at opposition
and almost coming to blows—tell vulgar
anecdotes —suppressing truth—encouraging,
if not spreading falsehood. These things nre
not done in a corner; and yet if any Bishop,
any Elder, any Deacon, any Brother, any
Press of our Church, lias raised a warning
voice against them, except my poor solitary
self and one old brother more, 1 have yet to
learn who, when or where ? From the holi
est chamber of my soul I lift a prayer to
God to have mercy on us, and save <fhr
Church front degradation and ruin. Breth
ren, I am not near done with you ; but I
must stop. My powers <f calm discussion
arc suspended. My heart and eyes take
up the cause of my periled Church in utter
ances which you might appreciate, but
which I cannot expose to the ridicule of an
unfeeling world. A. B. Longstrikt.
Gov. Johnson, and Maj. Cooper.
It is charged against Gov. Johnson that
he has bribed Maj. Cooper to vote for him
by relieving him from the payment of freight
on the State Road which he ought to pay.
If this charge be true they mark down
Gov. Johnson and Maj. Cooper as very co
rupt men—the one as entirely unfit to con
trol the management of the country- the
other as wholly unworthy of tho high char
acter for truth and integrity which ho hns
heretofore maintained. Is there a man in
Georgia who would refuse to give either of
these men a letter of introduction to a dis
tant friend as a gentleman ?
Is there any man who would rofuse to in
troduce either of these men to his family as a
gentleman ?
We doubt whether there is one ; and yet,
if there is in tho whole State a single man,
who, believing tlieso charges, would intro
duce either of these men by letter to a dis
tant friend as a gentleman and a scholar,
or introduce him into his family as a gen
tleman of character nnd integrity, he is no
better than these men, ndmiting tho charge
to be true.
Now, so far as wo can get into tho merits
of this thing, Gov Johnson's fault has been,
notin reducing tho freights; not in chang
ing.
A letter from Maj. Cooper to Dr. Bran
ham upon this subject has boon published,
from which it appears that Major Cooper
has been very unjustly treated by the Road;
and that Governor Johnson has done him
but sheer justice if that; venture
the opinion now ; That since the attention
of tho public has been called to tho subject
the next Legislature, no matter which party
may be in power, will not only authorize,
but require the Rond to do in the future
whnt Governor Johnson has now done, and
that not a single paper in Georgia will op
pose its doing or object to it ns wrong after
it is done, Corner Slone.
Sam’s Foothoid in the South.
At the last presidential election Virginia
gave a majority of 15,281 for General Pierco.
Notwithstanding fusion nnd confusion, the i
alliance of whigs nnd know nothings, and
an increased vote 0f27,123, Wisos majority j
was 10,180.
North Carolina gavo Pierco a majority ot
080. Sho now gives about 8.000 democratic
majority.
Tennessee gave a majority of 1,880 for
Scott Sho now gives about 2,000 majority j
for that unwnvcring democrat, Audrew 1
Johnson.
Alabama gave a majority of 11,843 for
Piorco. Sho now givos upwards of 12,000
for Winston.
Wo have not been advised of tho prociso
majority of (joy, peaso in Texas, but wo
have no doubt that know nothingUm has
been repudiated in Togas as decidedly as it
haa boon repudiated in any qf hep sister
States of the South .— Washington Ut)ipn.
pb’ Tho broker's board haa boon plauod
off, the shavings were eaved.
THE STASDAItI).
WILLIAM T. WOt rOBD, ? EDITORS
THOMAS A. BURKE, )
cassviLle; geo.
THURSDAY MORNING:
AUGUST 30, 1855. |
FOR GOVERNOR,
HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON,
OF BALDWIN.
FOR CONGRESS.
Ist Dist., JAS. L. SEWARD of Thomas.
2nd “ M. J. CRAWFORD of Muscogee
3d “ JAMES M, SMITH of Upson.
4th “ 11. WARNER of Meriwether.
sth “ JOHN 11. LUMPKIN of Floyd.
6th “ HOWELL COBB of Clarke
7th “ LINTON STEPHENS, Hancock. I
Bth “ A. 11. STEPHENS of Taliaferro.
FOR SENATOR,
HAWKINS F. PRICE,
FOR REPRESENT ATI VES,
ALFRED M. LINN,
Z. G. TURNER.
|f* To enable nil hands to go to the Car
tcrsville Mass meeting, we issue the Stand
ard a little earlier this week than usual.
Ourself.
It is due to myself, as well as to my
friends, that I should correct the false report
recently hunted up by the Know Nothings,
as to what I should havo said iu 1851, in
relation to the secession of South Carolina
It was reported then, and now circulated by
tho Know Nothings, that I proclaimed that
I was ready to head a company and march
to South Carolina, nnd whip her into sub
mission This is not true, and wholly mis
represents what I said on the subject Du
ring the canvass of 1851. in a public conver
sation with James C. Jones, in the 17th dis
trict, of this county, lie asked me what I
would do in case South Carolina seceded and
a contest should take place between her and
the General Government. I replied that 1
feared no such result, but if such an un
hnppy state of circumstances was to take
place, if called upon legally I should be
, compelled to take sides with the General
Government, because I and every other pa
triot would be bound to do so as long as
j Georgia remained iu the Union. It was
then and now circulated by my opponents in
politics, in a form to make people believe
| that I was anxious and ready to take up
[ arms against South Carolina in case she sc
| ceded. To prove the utter falsity of this
; charge. I refor my friends to Mr. Jones, the
gentleman with whom I had the conversa
j (ion. I mentioned the subject in a speech
but once, and that was subsequently to the
conversation, at the Wolf Pen court ground,
where I corrected the report, and stated that
I would sincerely regret to see any state
come in conflict with the General Govern
ment, but that while Georgia remained in
the Union her enemies were my enemies, her
foes my foes—let them come from where
they might, either foreign or internal. The
man who now circulates this report against
me, an huinblo member of the Democratic
party, with the hope thereby to drive natives
| of South Carolina into the ranks of the K.
Nothings, can have little claim to common
sense, and offers an insult to every son of
tho Palmetto State.
WM. T. WOFFORD.
Col. Tumlin.
This gentleman was among tho first set
tlers of this county, and has held office with
| only a few years’ exception, since its organ
ization. He never has been elected by any
party opposed to the Domocratic party, and
consequently owes to them an everlasting
dobt of gratitude, for taking him up, poor
nnd unknown, and elevating him to positions
of honor and profit. How is he now repay
ing that debt of gratitude ? By running as
an independent candidate, against the Dem
ocratic party! Not only so, but lie has
joined this new order of Know Nothings—an
| organization whose avowed object is to put
■ down the Democratic party. Yet he tells
j his old friends that he is still a Democrat—
i a Jackson Democrat. Now let us see if lie
is correct: that he belongs to the Know
Nothing party, we understand he no longer
denies, when closely questioned, which is tho
only organization that now opposes his old
party. Well, he does not deny that he now
1 opposes tho Democratic party, but attempts
! to evale his enmity to his old party by ns
; sorting that tho present Democratic party is
not liko tho old Democratic party, and in
J fact says that there is now no such party,
i Wo here join issue with tho Colonel, and to
! prove that he is not correct, we bring such
; as Gov. Wilson Lumpkin, Joseph
‘Day, Judge Warner, Howell Cobb, Judge
j Iverson, Judge Wellborn nnd Gov. McDon
ald. These are Georgia Democrats, well
known to her people, and in whom they havo
confidence. Their testimony will outweigh
the assertion of Col. Tumlin. Furthermore,
two years ago Col. Tumlin was supported
almost entirely by the friends of Mr. Jen
kins, an avowed Whig. It is true ho said
he voted for Gov. Johnson, nnd it is also
true that all his particular friends and rela
tions whom he could inllueuce to do so, voted
for Mr, Jenkins, and thus Col. Tumlin
played his favorite game—of voting for and :
professing to ho tho frioud of one candidate,
and nt tho snrno time electioneering for his
opponent. This has been so oftou done by \
him that we suppose none of his friends will
deny it. And if we look out of Georgia, tho
old leaders of tho Democratic party oveiy
where rise up as witnesses against him.—
There are Cass, Buchanan, Douglass, Maroy,
and a host of others, of well earned natioual
reputation, who say that Know Nothingism
is the oply pppqjjeßt of Democracy. Now,
MfhQ righfr—ppl. Tifiqlii), QF *¥3 IhFgQ
number of old, well tried Democrats, whom
tfo hayo named ? Tho weight of testimony
is overwhelmingly agaiust the Colonel, and
ho should in a spirit of fuirpess and candor,
ndmit thfU ho is gow a Know Nothing, and 1
doing all ho can to defeat his old party. Let
Col. Trnmlin come owl fairly, and tell (lire
people whose suffrages he seeks, bis princi
ples and views; let them ttndorstand him;
let no mntl bo deceived, and let him for his
own self resfect quit telling the people he is
a Jackson Democrat, when he i doing a ll in
his power to defeat the party which once
acknowledged, zwith pride, that old patriot
to be one of its greatest leaders,
Adam Hill, Esq.
We take pleasure in calling attention to
the letter of this gentleman in this week's
pnper. Mr. 11. is one of our very best citi
zens, nnd a thorough Democrat. He is an
adopted citizen, but his devotion to the Con
stitution and laws of the country have never
been doubted.
He will address the citizcrlS of Cass in the
court house in this place, on Tuesday* the
-lth inst.,on the political topics of the day.
He particularly desires that the ladies will go
out to hear him, and we hope they will uo
so. The fair sex are generally on our side,
now, but we hope to have every one of them
convinced before the election.
Professor Sofge.
Wo announced last week to the friends
and patrons of the Cassville Female College,
that the President of that Insiitution had
succeeded in securing the services of Prof.
F. M. Sofge, for the Music department.
We are not personally acquainted with
this gentleman, but a friend of ours, on whose
musical judgement we may safely rely, in
forms us that the newly elected Professor is
a musician of the highest order, and one of
those few who played together with Ole Bull.
In short, that his musical talents cannot be
surpassed in the South, if even equalled. He
has been in his profession from the tenderest
year of his life, and brings consequently
with him a large amount of experience, mu
sical as well as practical. Our informaut
observes that lie must have been born with
the Violin and cradled with the Piano, which
suggestion seems to us more than plausible,
as his father, as well as his brothers, are
all musicians of noted character.
We are indeed glad to hear such news, for
the prosperity of our Institution, as much as
for own selfish interest, being an admirer of
every art, particularly that of music, of
which Luther has said : ... Music is the art
of Prophets ; the only art whioh can calm
the agitation of the soul and put the dtvil
to flight.”
Vote as you Please.
Never has there been a political contest
since our recollection, until the present one,
in which we feared that an Americnn citizen 1
might not vote as he pleased. We have good
reasons to believe that the Know Nothing
organization will cause many men to vote
against their judgement and personal pref
erences. Our only hope for those who havo
been deceived into the Know Nothing ranks,
is that they will have moral courage to do
us they please, regardless of any man or
body of men. The right of voting according
to our own wish and desire, is a privilege of
inestimable value, and restraint upon that
right endangers the very existence of our
Government. Our advice to every voter is
to exercise this highest of all privileges ac
cording to his own judgement and feelings,
uninfluenced by any other motivo than a
desire to do his duty to his country. Let
every man feel that he has the right to vote
as he pleases, and he has an inward pleas
ure which is the very height of political
enjoyment. Any restraint upon the will of
a voter is illegal, and is one step towards
the destruction of the elective franchise, the
very essence of freedom. Let the will of all
men be free and untrammelled by any oath
or obligation, and then wo may expect at
each election a fair expression of tho public
sentiment. Let no citizen of this, the freest
of all governments, suffer his vote to be con
trol led against his judgement by demagogues
and office seskers who will make any prom
ise to secure their election.
Cass County Marble.
We read some timo ago, in tho Atlnntn
Intelligencer, quite a complimentary notice
of some specimens from the marble quarry ,
of Col. J. T. Rowland, of this county. We
havo before spoken of specimens of several
beautiful varieties which have been left at
our office. Since then we have visited the
quarry, aud can fully testify to the truth of
| all that has been said about it. There seems
, to beau inexhaustible bed of the finest mar
ble we we have ever seen, comprising a great
variety of colors. A gentleman, well ac
quainted with the marble business, who had
visited many quarries iu Europe nnd this
country, told us that he hnd uo where found
in this country, such fine marble, uor had
he ever seen it surpassed in any other part
of tho world. We are glad to hear that Col.
Howland is making arrangements to have
this quarry fully developed.
The Cherokee country is rich in minerals, j
—rich in every thing that brings wealth to !
her people. It is the *• garden spot” of the j
world. The fertility .of its doil cannot be
surpassed in tho United States, while its
climate, water, and ail other things desira
ble in a place of residence nre unequalled.
* . .
Her citizeus, to make Cherokee Georgia iu
reality the garden spot of tho world, havo
only got to go to work and dovelopo her ag
ricultural und mineral resources. When
this is properly done, (and the acknowledged
energy of hor people load us to hope that
the day is not far distaut,) it will bo tho
most dtsirnble couutry on tho faco of tho
globe.
Be on your Guard.
Wo hope our friends every where will bo
activo, cautious nn<l industrious; nothing
but the untiring onergy of evory member of
our party will enable us to beat the Know
Nothings. Thoir organisation is the most
perfect, and at the same time the most secret
and deceitful, that evor had an existence.
All their ineotings aro held with olosed doors,
their acts and rosolves aro unknown to tho
world, and they havo their (pies mixing and
assooiuting with Democrats, denying their
oonneotiou with the order, merely seeking
to asoertain the feelingc and views of our
friends. They have been highly entertained
with the thought that they have dooeived
Peipocpats by imposing members of their
order on qa, without opr knowledge, hoping
to asoertaiu some faptV by such an unmanly
course, that would suable them to sqcoeed.
We are willing for them to know all we do ;
we have no secrets, nor aro wo boqnd by •
solemn oaths to hold our tongues- We meet
in open day, in the light of heaven, and let
the people see what wo do, and know our
principles. Bat on the other hand, they do.
all their manoeuvring in secret, and it is fox
this reason that we must be on our guard.
They have their blind followers, ready to
go at any hour, who have taken an oath to
reveal nothing said or done by them in
council. Then no one can know their de
signs, and our only hope is to watch them.
Let all men who ore opposed to this new or
der be up and doing; let ns guard our pres
ent glorious Constitution, nnd suffer no am
bitious office seeker to alter one letter of that
sacred instrument.
FOR the standard.
Col. Tumlin in Gilmer.
ELLIJAY, GA., Aug. 22, 1855.
Fbjknd Burke :
Col. Tumlin left here yesterday, in the
direction of SpriDg Place, having finished
his tour IP this and Funnin county. lie
left, I learn, ill high spirits— some of bis
friends at this place .having told him that
lie would beat Judge Limpkiri this coun
ty. How any sane man couiJ reason ki m ’
self into such a belief, I am at a logs to
conceive. I have been used to guessing at!
the vote of Gilmer county these twenty years, j
nnd if Lumpkin does not beat Tumlin 300
votes, or the rise, you may set me down ns
n Know Nothing. Tumlin will not get ex
ceeding 300 votes in the county —the friends
may rely on that, certain.
Yours truly, GILMER.
rOR THE STANDARD.
Communicated.
There is a man of great renown,
lie lives a quarter from this town;
A lawyer is of high degree,
From sin and folly always free;
Takes cases all, of every’hue,
No matter what—black, white or blue:
He’ll save a negro if you pay him—
If not, lie’ll turn and sure he’ll slay him.
Now lie’s the man to plead for you,
He’ll have his way, none else will do ;
He’ll gain your cause, by law or random,
No judge or jury can withstand him;
He preaches some, or rather tries,
The devils all before him flies —
He vows that drinking is an evil,
“ I’ll semi the grog shops to the devil;
Poor whiskey drinkers 1 do hate.
Good brandy’s for the rich and great;
I’m now become a rich divine,
I’ll drink my brandy and my wine—
I’ll vote for him that’ll surely say
I’ll take the license law away—
Blit now I turn and say right face,
We’ll have a man to till the place;
Now is the man,
Through storm and tempest sure to stand;
lie’ll neither nuke, nor drink, nor sell,
i All such vile men he’d send to h—II;
Now all my friends, let’s right about,
I’ll throw my keg of brandy out —
We’ll drive all liquor from the land,
And have a holv temperance band ;
Then all that’s left will mind my word.
I’ll teach them how to serve the Lord.
This lawyer’s at the head of all,
All men must answer at his call—■
lie’s at the head of every thing,
Y'et to that cause he’d ruin bring;
Except in law he nothing brings,
| He’s addle in all other things.
A. IIILL.
for the standard.
The Legislature.
Mr.ss. Editors :
When 1 became an independent candidate,
: I had reasons to believe that the Know Noth
| ings were few and far between, but recently
| 1 discover they have crawled out of the
; ground, hollow trees nnd old barns in such
alarming numbers, aud being urged on by
unprincipled lawyers and demagogues, that
it become* a matter of great importance to
stop their mad career, and save this happy
country from anarchy, civil war and ruin ;
and 1 for one am determined to make sacri
fices of any kind to put a stop to such fanat
icism, and knowing as I do that every vote
I get, will add so many to the Know Noth
ings, consequently I am no ioDger a candi
date-1 decline in favor of the democratic
ticket, and will do all I can to promote its
success. Here I make another sacrifice, be
cause I like most of ihe Know Nothing can
didates (as individuals) the best, but they
are against the constitution and 1 am against
them.
Brethren of the Masonic ordor ! where
hive you gone ? Are you blowing to a flame
sedition aud civil war ? Would you sell the
peace of this happy country for any consid
eration ? Have you forgotten the first rudi
ments of your obligation— to be true to the
constitution nnd faithful to the laws? 1
beseech you then (as my oldest and best
friends,) to examine the matter carefully
1 and decide like honest men. Y'ou certainly
have not counted the cost. Oh, ye members
of the church, professors of religion, follow
ers of the humble Jesus, where havo you all
gone to ? Have you forgotten your solemn
promise, in presence of God and the church,
that you would cherish harmony and broth
erly love, and be obedient to the powers
that be ? Remember Christ commanded you
to love one another, fall not out by the way, j
love your enemies; but ninny of you have
gone alter strange things, you have created
strife and ill feeling amongst your brethren,
and for what? For even less than Esau
sold his birthright. The ruin of the church,
nnd if you succeed, the ruin of your happy
country will be the result. I beseech you, ,
then, to repent, nnd do your first work over!
Return, before it bo forever too late!
This article is already too long. You may
hear from mo ngniu.
Respectfully, ADAM HILL.
FOR THE STANDARD.
Letter from Texas.
Bus net Court House, Texas, )
August 4th, 1865. >
Dear Tom :
Leaving this place on a bright, beautiful
Thursday evening, the west illumined by
the brilliant rays of Old Sol, in company
with nine others, all as clever and compan
ionable as could bo desired, wo turned our
course westward, to explore the Pecan Bayou
couutry. On the same evening wo passed
tho last settlements, and ontered a wild,
uninhabited country. As nothing worthy of
record transpired on this evening, I made
no notes. After selecting a•• live Oak,
suitable for a camping ground, wc unpacked
and staked our horses, while our cook pro
tern, busied himself in preparing an excel
lent supper, oomposed of bacou and oorn
bread, to which wo did ample justice. Up
on examination it was ascertained that only
four of the company were armed, whereupon
the proposition was made that some of the
company should return to the settlements
and procure arms and overtake us on the
morrow. No one being willing to do so, we
commepocd our march early the next morn
iug, all bauds willing to rely npon the arms
in company. There was nothing ofi.u"”
connected with the expedition T ** t
day—the country passed through was*”*
etnlly poor and much broken. OcewicSu
we discovered a small, xich valley but \
dom, and for the next day or two’lhe conn.’
try wns uninteresting. On this day We ’
ehase to several bear, deer, antelopes &
*d succeeded in killing one hear, and t w’
deer. On the fourth day we arrived at th
mouth of Pecan river, and for a distance If
ten or twelve miles up the stream, thecoun.
try w broken, and my expectations con
cerning it were beginning to fade anil f ße
when my feelings were revived by suddenly
entering one of the most interesting v a lli
I had ever seen, broad end beantifnl beyond
description, and from this time ei, as s„
up the stream as I traveled, nothing but
Tallies were to be seen, and decidedly sape .
rior to any lands I have ever seen. TANARUS/i fw
vallies vary in size, from fovr to twenty
mites long, und two to right wide, and
level as any floor. Th* bottoms *f ty,
stream are well timbered-cotton wood, burr
oak, pecan, innequite, elm, &e., all grow
abundantly here, and post oak snfbeiest tj>
fence the whole river from head to month
There were several old Texiani in company
who .‘‘ad lived on Texas soil for 25 y cal ,
who bad seen the elephant in Texan, and
who had been OTCf greater j oition of
the State now settled, all oi ponitively
affirm that it was superior to any portion of
the State known to them. As sci myself, I
am fully convinced that I have never seen 1
country equal to that on Pecan river. J U( | g .
ing from the wild rye growing in the lot
toms, I am convinced it is an excellent grain
country. In places I could have reaped
bushels of this rye, a natural growth of th*
country, for miles. The bottoms are per
fcctly weighed down with it nnd the i. nim
bio nill” grass. The bottoms vary in width
—in some places they are fully one mil*
in width—in others not so w.de. They then
strike off into level, smooth rallies, or rath
er second bottoms, void of all tiu.Ler, save
now and then u few musquite shrub#, and I
candidly believe that I saw Severn! of tho*
Tallies half as large as Cass county, an d u
level as man or nature could have nude
them. I saw no springs or running branch
es after leaving the broken country. Th*
river water is excellent, and said to be per
fectly cool uine months in the year. I*n
told that it was warmrr now than at sny
other time, and 1 found it to drink fiusly.
I think this country far superior to th*Col
orado, with which 1 was so much dsligbWd,
and wrote you concerning. It is impossible
for a country to offer more advanUgts to
settlers and emigrants than this does. The
water good, the binds rich, timber conve
nient, Hie range the best in the world—what
more, 1 ask, could tnun desire ? Wlint more
culd nature hnv* done ? Here she reposes
in her most lovely form. The whole coon
try spreads before you a field for i-ptculatioa
and thought, only bounded by the limits of
the human mind. And, while seated untie
margin of the stream, 1 reflected that the
: vast region of rich s< il that lay bef.r* me
w*3 still the hunting grounds of tbs wild
indian, and 1 was struck with astonishment.
Here, the flower, the cream, the richest por
tion of tiiis rich landed State, was a perfect
wilderness, while so ninny in the aliliir
States, both rich and poor, were toiling,
striving and laboring, from Christmas to
Christmas, endenvor : ng to make mouey by
cultivating old, worn out fields or rocky hill
sides, expending moro money in preparing
for a crop than it would absolutely require
here to make on**.
Every spot indicates that this was on
the abode of iudiaus, and is now ilieir hunt
ing grounds. Some of them are now idly
lounging about above the Leads of this
stream, occasionally committing depreda
tions on the frontier country, while othara
of them are idling in the vale of eternity,
where I trust they may all soon be gather
ed. Were it not for the Indians this section
i would have been settled long since. 1 think
it would be rashness for a few settlers to
move into it even at this time.
The lands immediately on the stream and
all the larger rallies, have been long since
located, and could be bought at a very low
price—from $1 to £2 per acre, probably for
| a less amount. This is a country where
I you can raise stock to any amount, without
ever cutting any hay or fodder for then),
‘ aud it is unnecessary to house them *ny
portion of the year. There are more in
: duoeuients offered to stock raisers than in
1 any other portion of Texas. The whole
couutry is one magnificent pnsturc, so form
| ed by nature, cnpable of supporting count
less numbers of entile, sheep, &c, while th*
i winters, with the exception of an occasional
j ..norther,” are so mild that stock of all
kinds flourish on grass Ihe entire year. The
stream is between thirty and forty yard*
wide, and from twenty to fifty feet deep,
aud where tho banks were fifty feat hist),
the soil wns as rich at the bottom as ou the
surface. This last assertion may be hard to
swallow, but it is emphatically true. The
soil has a clny foundation—there is some
sand mixed with it, not more than enough,
however k to keep a plough smooth and bright.
This land is undoubtedly adapted to the
cultivation of cotton—as yet it has never
been tested. Ido not make this last asser
tion on the strength of my own observation,
alone : I have heard old and good farmer*
say it was first rate cotton laud, ami taler
stand that first rate cottou lands in Texas
yield two bags of cotton per acre, and bear
in mind that these first rate grain and cot
ton lands can be bought for or $2 rr
acre.
I would not advise any of my Georgia
friends to move to Texas, but I would mlvis
them to come and see this country—at aH
events the western part of the State, n i *
particularly the Pecau Bayou, aud if J va
returned dissatisfied, you would, accord'"!?
to tny way of thiuking, stand in your own
light, and the fault would be with you, so s
1 have written this fairly and without exr
oration. Her rioh lands, her bcautif" 1
scenery, her many advantages and her wi<l fl
fields, all urge and invito you to come Dll
engage iu the enterprise, aud make Te** s
what she deserves and one dny will b®> tb *
•. Empire State” of the Union, and for yo ur
selves overwhelming fortunes. Com* oD ’
Georgians, and look at tho country, nnd ®
word for it you will be delighted and net*
regret the step. As I remarked hefo* ’
don’t stop in the Eastern portion of
State. Bear up manfully, until you r®*
the Western world, the ocean of lnd,
vale of flowers. In reading over c< * ,
munication I see that I have signally al