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of delight culled sweet thoughts, nnd wreath ed a garland rare, but its clinging tendrils are about to be severed, its beautiful union Separation is mingling her bl g’t ing bud among love's fresh flowers, wasting their dewy brightness and hastening their decay. The web of joy we have woven to gether is being intermingled with the first threads of sorrow'. Fancy, with unclipt wing, is soaring away info futurity, while unrepressed reelings arc welling up from the depths of the heart, and mingling with the gossamer dreams of reverie, dreams teeming joys and sorrows of the past. Once . more with you I pursue the paths of labori ous study, once more in the delightful hours of recreation we while away the time ’nenth the shade of our lofty oaks, or wander thro’ the sylvan retreats of the adjoining woods. Even you, little primaries and preparato ries, with your merry shouts nnd childish glee, are grouped together in the scenes of the past, and occupy a place in the dreams of the future How many little flaxen heads here contain the germs of genius, how many arc heroines in embryo, who will at last set j the Thames on fire ? How many young Fan nie Ferns, gentle Fannie Foresters, or soul- ! stirring ITemans* r How many hold Harriet Beecher Stowe's, or stnng minded woman's ‘■ rights advocates, can 1 detect among your infant ranks? Good bye little stars, shine 1 on in your own hemisphere, even the firma ment from which your rays are to be reflect ed, is yet- undiscovered. Tis impossible without a sigh or a tear to part from you my sisters, with whom I have been more in timately associated in all the simple but * sublime pleasures of the school mm School! j ’tis the place where are nurtured and ex- j panded all the finer feelings of our nature < ‘Tis the field wherein we are to labor for the promotion of our fathers’ cause, the arena j where we are to struggle for the laurel wreath worthy to encircle an angel's brow ! for is it not tlie prize awarded to those at tainments which are to be devoted to the purposes of the > Most High ?” Is it not the reward for knowledge and wisdom, which as grateful offerings we are to lay at. the foot of our maker? And shall Ino more answer to the Veil wb’c’i summon c to tit's hallowed place? No more, assembled in thes? I walls, list to the morning prayer from the i lips of our beloved principal, or mingle toy j voice with yours in the hymn of praise which ( daily goes up laden with devotion and teem- ; ing with love to heaven ? Methinks the i morning incense breathed by youthful lips, i and ascending from the temple dedicated to | knowledge, floats up on golden waves of song, while angels lean from the cerulean vault, nnd listening spirits take up the strains of melody and echo them through the vast courts of the eternal city. No more is it mine to explore the mysteries of Euclid, or solve the intricate problem of Trigonom etry. No more to scale the altitudes of the ! skies by Astronomical science, to revel in 1 the glowing imagery of Virgil, or realize its j classic beauties, to trace deep inspiration or j detect the hidden wit in the odes and satire- 1 ; of Horace, or feol the sweet influence of the : songs of Homer, the blind bard of Scin’s j . rocky isle! No more! how mournfully it j vibrates upon the heart’s chords, how swift- j ly it carries the mind back through tbe long 1 vista of years fled, how sadly it whispers that no more shall be spoken of the soul. Companions, one moment, is our band com plete to-day ? pray look among the cliil- j dren's ranks, where is the gentle one who j moved so silently among her joyous cotnpan- i ions ? the sweet flower who looked e'en then ! as if marked for heaven's own ? Where is j th abrighest, merriest one of our group, the ! ouc wo loved most of all, who seemed formed j to brighten dull earth with her joyous, lov- < ing soul, and whose silvery tones of laughter ; hath not long died away upon our hearts ? j Echo answers where—while these vacant seats and the void left in our own hearts, , sadly re-echo i<uo more.” Beloved President: ; I would consecrate to you Hie last, moments of the perioil allotted to me to day ; to the instructor, friend, guardian and father of his pupils I would hid farewell upon tho spot hallowed by so many associations cal- j culated to bring him to our grateful retnem brancc. But rather than awaken sadness, by bright recollections of the past, or by a long and lingering farewell, let me speak of our institution, of the spirit of moderation which governs it, and if your modesty forbid not, of the virtues and talents which have reflected a light upon this seminary, and equalled it, though yet in her infancy, to the many similar institutions which adorn our country. The circumstances under which you assumed the responsibilities of the office you hold* were peculiarly unfavorable. As tailed on every side with folly, envy and ignorance, ‘ tis wonderful you ever accom plished the Hysiphoean task of placing her whero she now stands, but with firmness and an unalterable fixedness of purpose and per severance in the right, you are fairly across the Kubicon. Victory and the lasting lion ors which the community will pay arc yours. Knowing that detraction of other institu tions would have defeated us. while praise from us would never have advanced our own, you have ever taught us to let moderation, charity and a spirit of Christianity, guide us ; to avoid lofty panegyrics of our own in stitution or sweeping denunciations of others , Kor as all have ono common aim, tho ad- i van cement of tho same glorious cause, all should be cemented in the heavenly bond of vniou, all plant their pil’ars upon the same ; firm foundation of religion, and all hear their tributes to the same great stream, im nrovemeut. Among your scholars you have ever been the kind friend, not the rigid mas ter, and (hough commanding always rerpeot and not suffering us to avoid the cold path* of’duly, you have at the same time smoothed and brightened its beaten, rugged way, by your generous and sympathising heart —while with conversation replete with mirth and repartee, and the easy grace of accomplished manners, you have enlivened the hours of recreation. Would that n grate ful people could weave for you as her heart prnmjts, the web of fate, or trace for you a 1 -rgtit career upon the sybilline leaves of d'S'dity : then would your old age be as se rent a.id cheerful as your useful manhood has deserved. Life’s journey would bo bright and at >ts close you would breathe your soul c it peacefully and calmly as tho dying sun sot, pva away to your last long rest. And has the time of our parting indeed arrived ! A ,i 1 to gnze no more on these dear, famil iar laces, and hear the music of joyous laughter and loving tones no more within these sacred walls? Alas! scenes of my happy school days, I bid you a last adieu ! Ilow have ye glided away, like a fairy dream, and left ntc alone, all alone, on life’s vast ocean waste ! Yet for you my gentle sisters and beloved teachers, rises the heaving sigh and flows the burning tear. Fain would I ; leave'you with the smile of happiness glad dening my cheek, but oh ! there's a voice umnrnfully whispering <* wc meet no more.” My sad heart re-echoes the words, as its lute chords vibrate with a thousand mingled i emotions, and in sadness l teach my lips to utter the words I would gladly leave unspo ken. Hear my last tribute of affection, a prayer ft r you, nnd while our hearts are wrung with the anguish of this last bitter pai ting, a petition to the throne of grace, 1 that -il ove we may have a bright, a glorious .re -union Dear friends, teachers an l com panions, 1 leave you, my last sad duty is finished, and now “ Like some low and mournful spell, I’ll whisper but one word—farewell.” Keep it before the People, That every naturalized citizen takes an oath to support the Constitution of the j country, while every Know-Nothing takes; an oath to violate the same constitution. ! Keep it before the people, that Kenneth j Itavrer, the leader of the Southern Know- Nothings, say*< that the Kansas and Nebrns- : ka bill was an outrage to the North.” !! j Keep it before the people, that the leaders and white kid gentry among the Know- Nothings, are not required to take the oath to become members of the order - , but all the wool bat boys are made to swear to get in. Keep it la-fore the people, that their Judges are many of them Know-Nothings, and under oath to respond to the red pa per” call, armed to meet ** trouble.” Keep it before the people, that the Know- Nothing Order is creating a religious war in the land, arraying son against father, broth er, and friend thereby instigating CIVIL WAR in the the land. Keep it before the people, that Garnett Andrews has proscribed two religious sects, the Uuivcrsalists and the Catholics, and that the orgin of the Andrews party in Georgia, denounced the ablest of the Primi tive Baptist m'nisters ; all going to show that, j the Know-Nothing order is determined to I erect a dominant church in this country. J Keep it before the people, that the Know- j Nothings of tin* North refuse to let Foreign ers and Catholics vote, but at the same time j give the free negroes the right to voto.— Federal Union. From the Federal Union. Things to be Remembered at the Polls. Who said that the Southern Rights men i of 1850 and 1851, w ere as bad as the TORIES of the Revolution ? Garnett Andrews. Who says the Union of the States is more | important than the Rights of the States : Garnett Andrdws. j Who. says that nil questions of doubtful constitutionality should be ’.eft to a decision of the Supreme Court of the U. S. ? Garnett Andrews. M lit) swears that no Roman Catholic or loreigncr shall hold any office in this coun try ? Garnett Andrew’s. Who decided that a Universalist's oath 1 was not good in a Court of Justice? Garnett Andrews. Who took an oath to support the Constitu tion of the United States, which says that! no religious test shall ever be required as a j qualification for any cilice or trust under the government ? Garnett Andrews. Who took a solemn oath to comply with the will of a majority of the order,” though it may conflict with his personal prefen nee 1 Garnett Andrews. Mho took a solemn oath to < respond to the claim of a sign, or a cry’ of tlio <order,’ unless it he physically impossible?” JUDGE Garnett Andrews. Who took an oath that, so far as his efforts could avail, the Union should have no end, whatever the circumstances might be ? Garnett Andrews. M’ho said lie must be excused from taking the stump on account of au infirmity ofi voire, as an apology for not meeting Gov. Johnson; and who lias been stumping, by ; himself, after refusing to meet Governor Johnson? Garnett Andrews. Who swore, while a Judge, to support a i ! Constitution, which compels liim to fly to ; the distress cry of an abolitionist or an ! abandoned outcast, provided they are mem : hers of the •* order ?” Garnett Andrews Mho is the candidate of a party, whoso members, on the stump and in the public thoroughfares, denounce the Kansas Ne braska bill ? Garnett Andrews. Who is not tit to bo Governor of Georgia ? Garnett Andews. Can a Know-Nothing be a Democrat? At a recent meeting of the Democracy of Carroll coiinty, (Md.) held at Westminster, the Capitol of the county’, the following resolution was unanimously adopted : Whereas, some Know Nothings continue to call themselves Democrats, and claim to he ns good Democrats since., as before they joined the secret order: therefore. JUsolved, That in the opinion of this Convention, it is impossible for a Know Nothing, while he continues such, to be a Democrat, and we consider every man who is a Know Nothing or who sympathizes with them, as holding a position of decided hos tility to the Democratic party. Rut wo . know by what secret and insidious wiles j 1 many an honest Democrat has been induced Ito join the Know Nothings, under a belief that they and Democrats were not opposed to each other, and we earnestly entreat all ! s ' ,c h to follow the example of thousands of others, nnd i take a walk oat ofi the Lodge,’ and return to the Democratic fold which j will receive them with open arms, 1 - ■ - V Terrible Rail Road Accident. A fearful accident took place on the 29tli : ult. on the New York nnd Philadelphia Kail 1 Itoad, involving a terrible loss of life. While | the Philadelphia train was going up to Nww j York, and was near Burlington, New Jersey, j the down train was heard approaching, and i to avoid the danger of a collision, the engine was immediately reversed. Tlio train in its backward motion ran into a horse and car riage that was passing across, throwing the whole traih from the track —killing 20 per sons aud wounding sixty. THE STANDARD. CASSVIT.LK, GKO. THURSDAY MORNING : SEPTEMBER G, 1855. FOR (JOVEHXOR, HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON, OF BALDWIN. __ FOR CONGRESS. Ist Hist., JAS. L. REWARD of Thomas. 2nd “ M. J. CRAWFORD of Muscogee 3d “ .TAMES M, SMITH of Upson. 4tli “ H. WAItNEIt of Meriwether. sth “ JOHN 11. LUMPKIN of Flovd. f.th “ HOWELL COBB of Clarke. 7th “ LINTON STEPHENS, Hancock. Bth “ A. 11. STEPHENS of Taliaferro. FOR SENATOR, HAWKINS E. PRICE, FOJ { REPIiESEXT AT IV ES, ALFRED M. LINN, Z. G. TURNER. Know Nothingism: its Moral and So cial Effect. We think it is apparent to the least reflecting mind that the Know Nothing organization has disturbed more injuriously the social relations of life, and exercised a worse influence upon the morals of the country than any political party that has heretofore existed in the United States. No party has heretofore required its members to deceive their friends, and even the wives of their bosoms. Wc know of eases where the loving and confiding wife has been made to weep over the falsehood of a husband, whose word she never before doubted. We Know of ministers of the Gospel belonging to the same society refusing to attend church when another brother was to preach, on account of the bad feelings produced by this order. The seats of some of the most orderly and devout members of the church arc vacant, on the day on which certain ministers are to preach, merely because that minister opposes the bad influence of Know Nothingism. Never before has the respect for innocent fe males been so lost as to permit a female semi nary to be forcibly entered and its inmates in sulted, by a committee front the Legislature of one of the States of this Union. Never before have American citizens been denied the exercise of the right of voting, by being driven from the polls, and afterwards butchered and burned to death, its in the Cin cinnr.tti ami Louisville riots. We know there are many rood men belong ing to the order of Know Nothings, that when the coming contest is over, and their minds shall become cool and reflecting, they will shudder at the wickedness and immorality of the present political association. The results of Know Nothingism thus far have been nothing but evil. It has lessened the confidence of men in one another, nnd plac ed the standard of truth so low that falsehood ! is looked upon with lenity, and practised by even ministers of the Gospel. We call upon all men who love their country, - —who love morality and religion, to examine into this new order for themselves with an un prejudiced mind. Wc oppose the order from a conviction of duty, and we want the people to investigate its principles—or rather want of principle—-its designs and influences, and do-, e de for themselves whether it shall be sustained or not. Wake up Sam! Tin-; crack bakb.utk ok the season! Grand Rally of the. Anti-Know - Noth inys of Cherokee ! Thursday last was a day long to be remem bered by the Democrats and Anti-Know Noth ings of Cherokee Georgia. It was emphatically “great, grand and glorious.” At an early hour every road leading to Car tcrsville was thronged with pedestrians, equesti i ans and vehicles of every description, all hurry ing along to the Grand Mass Mcc-tiugaml Feast of the People, promised “in the bills of the day.” i The unterrified came thundering along as in days of yore, with heads erect, a nd countenances beaming with joy and confidence, while “through the interstices ” could be seen the long visages of mysterious Samite*, with half averted glances and faces betokening care and uncertainty.— And when the shrill whistle of the engine an nounced the approach of Hie Atlanta train, with its crowded train of cars, and when the sound of martial music saluted their ears, there went up a sound of many voices from the throats of thousands of freemen, who were resolved to re main freemen ; while “Sam,” poor fellow, hung his head and groaned in anguish of spirit, for he felt but too truly that “ his days were num bered” in Cherokee Georgia. “But Carters ville saw another sight,” and the great sight ot the day, when the Chattanooga train with near ly two thousand of the untcrrilied came thun dering into the town “with m isie and banners,” aiul then went up such another shout ns made the woods reverberate for miles around. Anv one who marked the appearance of the crowd on their arrival, could have determined at a glance who were for us and who against us. The quick j stop, merry shout, and flashy eye of the former, j and the down cast look, dogged silence, and sullen tread of the latter left “no doubt on the mind of any one as to the position of their parties. About ten o’clock the town resembled a beo hive. Crowds were hurrying to and fro, and ! the whole scene was unusually exciting. Men | were to be seen from all parts or the State— from the mountains and the seaboard, from the piny woods of lower and (lie old red hills ol middle Georgia, and from our sister {States of I Tennessee and Alabama. At about half past ‘ ten o’clock the procession was formed in front ! of the Maddox House, Judge John H. Towers j acting ns Marshal of the day. It. was one of the j largest and most imposing bodies of voters we , ever saw, although the Chattanooga train with j its thousands had not yet rtarived. About this j time “ tSam ’ blew his horn, but it called oil'so few that the crowd was not sensibly diminished. Poor fellow ! it sounded like a lust dyingellort, The procession was then marched to tile stand ! in a grove near by, where ample arrangements \ had bocu made Ibr the accommodation ot ilia crowd, and where we were pleased to see a large i number of ladies. Hie first speaker was tho Hon, John 11. Lump kin, candidate fur Congress in this district, who, for about two hours, held the unbroken atten tion of the audience, while ho reviewed the po litical topics of the (lay. Judge Lumpkin is an able man—clear, bold and thoroughly southern, lie is the man for the present crisis; and we ’ have abundant reasons for knowing that many ! an old democrat had his strength renewed by 1 his speech on this occasion, while not a few who i were disposed to waver were again built up in the faith. The next speaker was Col. L. J. Gartrell, of Atlanta, and we doubt if any man ever made a finer impression on an audience as a stmnp speaker, llis analysis of the Know Nothing j order, its platform and ritual, was absolutely terrible. He turned them over and under, a i round and accross, and drew down from the be ginning to the end of his speech the most tin i bounded applause. He took up the argument i and bore down with irrcsistublo force on the ’ secret organization and the practical effects of j its workings. We really felt for his victims, as j did every one on the ground who had a heart to j foci, and wo are glad to know that many of j them then and there determined to leave the ! sinking ship. | Dinner followed Col. Gnrtrell’s speech, and we hazard nothing in saying that a more splen didly gotten up barhacue was never furnished. Just think of Kt-rci) thousandpounds of meats, with chicken lixin’s, Ac. to match! The ladies, heaven bless them ! had two long tablcsto them i selves, covered with all the delicacies of (lie.sea son. Dinner over the crowd again repaired ! to the stand where they were addressed bv the i Hon. Allred 11. Colquitt, of Doughertv, the present representative to Congress front the 1 third district. Mr. Colquitt is quite a young ■, man, in appearance, and some of the crowd j seemed to think when lie first came forward ! that he was too ijuuntj for the occasion, but lie l soon showed them to the contrary. Fucli a wak ing up as “Sam” got at his hands we haven't heard in many a day. lie gave a very amu ’ ing account of that mysterious gentleman’* rise j and fall in the “ wire-grass country, ” and exhib ■ ited a lot of little ’jailer kicercd publications— -1 the sole remaining assets of a defunct council— hi the gazeof the admiring crowd. Ilis story of I the “chickens falling off the roost to be tied,” ! was rather a tight tit, and pleased the crowd some if we are to guess from the noise they .made. Altogether Mr. C. proved himself to lie a true chip of the old block. The concluding speech was made by Col. John W. 11. Underwood, of Floyd. To say that it was a good speech would he surplussage.— He never makes any other kind, and on this oc casion “Richard was himself” and no mistake That Cherokee circus Is not a bad idea. We should like to be able to give it as we heard it> but its of no use trying. Something about, it may be found in his Atlanta speech, cop’ed in another column, but on this occasion it was considerably elaborated. Thus ended the great gathering of the cam paign, and a most signal triumph it was for the Democratic and Anti-Know-Nothing party of Cherokee Georgia. Nothing occurred to mar the harmony and good feeling of the day. All passed off quietly and pleasantly. We saw but few drunken men, and up to the time we left the ground there had been no fights. Judge Summers’ Letter. We publish, this week, the entire letter of Judge Summers, contradicting the report that Gov. Johnson procured the publication of “ a large number of the Algerine documents to be circulated privately against. .Mr. Jenkins.”— This we do at the request of several of out party friends and also as an act of justice to Judge .Summers. Kingston, August 1855. (■apt. Wm. T. Wofford : I)eur Sir, —I notice in the Statesman of Aug. 1 fith, an article headed “an unworthy trick," which that paper credits to the American Dis cipline, charging Gov. Johnson with “using the Algerine Law” privately against Mr. Jenkins, by ordering the printing and circulation of a certain number of copies of said Law and ac companying documents from the Southerner office, for which ha refused to pay the bill for printing. This is a charge against Gov. John son’s private character unworthy of a great po litical party, and, I trust, the American party will not be held responsible for it. As an hum ble member of that party, I disavow the charge, and condemn the policy of parties or politicians either on the stump or through the public press of assaulting the private character of a candi date for high political office; and especially do I condemn this, knowing, as I do, its history.— There is no truth in it. so far as Gov. Johnson is concerned. You was present and doubtless remember a conversation between Gov. Johnson, Col. Dodd, myself and several other persons whom I do not now recollect, at the “Choice House,” in ; Rome, on the day that Gov. Johnson and Mr. ■ Jenkins spoke, when canvassing the State two [ years ago. ! During tbe conversation above alluded to | Gov. Johnson was asked why he did not use the “ Algerine Law ” in his speech on that day. lie replied Ly saying that it would be improper for him to say any thing about it unless Mr. Jenkins tendered <lie issue, by defending or speaking of the Law himself, first. A sugges tion was then made by some person present (whom I do not now recollect, but think it was yourself,) that the best, way to bring the “Al gerine ” charge against Mr. Jenkins would be to publish the Law, &c., in the shape of a hand bill. Gov. Johnson was present when this sug gestion was made and discussed by the persons then present, and, I think, acquiesced m the proposition, but 1 never heard a single expres sion from him, which, by any possible construc tion, would make him responsible for the print ing; but, on the contrary, it was understood and agreed upon that the Southerner and Stand ard should print, a quantity of those hand bills for circulation in Cherokee Georgia, and the friends of the cause in Cuss and Floyd were to pay for the printing, which, I understood, was done. This, 1 believe, to be a true statement, of all the facts of the ease, and which I doubt not cor responds with your recollection of the transac tion. I make this statement as an act of justice to Gov. Johnson. You arc at liberty to make whatever Use of it you think proper. I remain, very truly, your friend nnd ob’l serv’t. J. ir. /. SVAIAfFItS. ‘ The Number of Catholics in the Uni ted States. By the Census returns of 1850, the Methodist Church has 4,354,101 members; the Baptist 3,248,580, I’rcsby terinn 2,110,514, mid the Cath olic 675,721 being the fourth church in point of numbers, in the Union. Yet. in the face of these figures, we heard a Know Nothing make a speech in this county, iu which he asserted that the Catholics numbered larger than any other single denomination in the United States. Now, admitting that the Catholics arc as mean as the Know Nothings sny they are, wlmt harm ! can they do us? They arc not one-third as nu merous uh the Fresh) terians—not mie-lifth as the Baptists, nor one-sixth as the Methodists; and yet these Know Nothings pretend that they are afraid that this despotic church, whoso principal strength lies in the ignorance and su perstition of its members, will soon convert a majority ot (he jicoplc of the United States, and j ’ place the civil government in tlic hands of the I Pope of Rome. But they are not in earnest— they receive Catholics into their order in Lou isiana and South Carolina. Their object is to get votes, and on the day of election they will be as thankful for the support of a Catholic as a Methodist, : Letters of Mess. Wise, Clingman and Stephens. We have no room to do more than call atten tion to the letters of lion. Henry A. Wise of Virginia, Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, of(Jeor- 1 ; gin, and Hon. T. L. Clingman, of North Caroli na, in answer to invitations to attend the Mass Meeting at Cartersville. ► i Cassville Female College The Pall Term of this institution commenced on Monday last, flic -Id insf. The number of pu pils is larger than usual so early in the session, : and there is every prospect of a considerable in crease over the last term. The Crops. From all quarters we hear most favorable ac counts of the corn and cotton crops. Our far mers are now busily engaged in pulling fodder, and there is no reason to doubt that there will be the greatest plenty of everything necessary | for botli man and beast. Letter from Hon. Henry A. Wise. Oxi.v, .near Oxaxcock, Y.\., Aug. 22d, 1 .So.”. f! Kvn.KMKX: and ours of the 11 tii insf. reached me here yes terday. Its delay was owing to its being ad- I dressed to Accomack. C. 11. | For the Democracy of Virginia and formvself j T return you acknowledgements for your invifn j t ion to be present, with you at a mass meeting i of the citizens of the Cherokee section of Gcor j gin, to be held at Cartersville, Cass county, on Thursday the -30th insf. Not to me but to the noble masses of conser vative Democrats and v, ”.‘gs of the blessed “Old Dominion “ be ascribed the glory of the victory Jli tor c;vil and religious liberty in our late election. They were the solid rock of defence which turned back the flood of “ Isms” which came pouring in from the North. The people i had only to be roused—l had only to blow the , i trumpet of freedom for the Sampson of Demoe j racy and inalienable rights t<> wake up and the i labor was done. A\ e had three defences, popu lar ansemhlagex, discussion —open eUscumon up on the stump, and the pica voce election. There j was no secret gathering that had not the light jof a public meeting thrown upon it; there was j no secret, exparte lecture that was not debated | boldly before f.io assembled multitude until the , whisper and the dark lantern were shamed ! out of the popular presence', and the “ossu/dima” j of the cit'd voce looked down the mendacity and i hypocrisy which finds a cover in the secret bal | I'**. Virginia was safe because her whole sys- ; lent revolts at secrecy y because her principles are of the day and not of the night; because her j sons are independent and need no fraud and no concealment. And, we trust, that again Virgin- 1 . n j ia has saved State Rights, the Constitution, and ! j the union of the States. She stands between I the North and the South, a rampart of stiength ! and of impartial political justice. The North as i j well as the South needs tube defended from the , “ boos and heresies ”of the liour. The hour is I evil in its fruitfulness of both, (food men and j true patriots arc necessarily thrown together in j opposition to the evils of the day. If theonemv | was for a Fusion, they will soon have it in the | rally of all sound conservatives ofall parties in jto one unconquerable host of freedom. We will ! be banded like brothers bent upon the safety of ! our country, to defend Ist. The Lights of these States and the Union ! of these States. | 2ndlv. Ml the inalienable rights of men belong \ ing to our people. ; The most precious of the rights of the States i lis the right of the un ion of the States, Virginia claims that right as the “ palladium , ” in the; language of her Rater Fatriae, son of her liber ! ties. Foreign iutiuence is assailing that right i most sorely. It comes in from Old England \ through New England. Its secret policy is that | the Sampson of America shall be shorn of his ! j strength by either abolishing African slavery in the South, or by dissolving the Union between the North and South. Either alternative would i shave Sampson. “ Cotton is Kim , ” and by a ! cotton string our Sampson bolds the British lion, I (lailic cock, and Russian black eagle so still 1 that even now we need no taxes for a standing 5 : arm}’ or navy, not even whilst “ Red battle stamps his font “And nations feel the. shock “ Os the sulphurous siroc. ” I And yet a secret party of three thousand preach ers of Christian politics in the North, with the } 1 motto “Americans shall rule America;’’ “away with foreign influence;” are aiding this insidi l. . . , ous foreign influence to shave Sampson, to abol ish slavery or dissolve the American Union.- : They know that Cotton is the very liair of our i Sampson, that it can he planted and lined and gathered in the South alone, and in the land of the sun by negro hands alone; ami that | the abolition of slavery, therefore, is the true Delilah! When shorn and blinded what a gi- , ant he would be of universal and self dcstruc tion! The cry is “ Repeal Ihe Nebraska anti Kansas laws and restore the Missouri compromise."— M hat did the Nebraska bill do? Simply re store ns to the statu quo <tn U IS lit, where Wash ington and Hancock, Adams and Jefferson stood j in L7s7 —where the nation stood under the Con stitution up to 1819 —’20. Was not the Const i tntion enough ? No. It. was postponed to a ■ statutory compromise t called the Missouri, which was in fact, the first violation of Washington’s farewell address, not admit of section at did• slantt and. separation. It began the dissolution, of i the t'nion. It set, up a border tine between .Xorlh and South. It let in the I tel Hah of dissolution. What v ere its fruits ? —freesoilism, abolitionism and at last, know-iiothiugisin, until all comity as well as all constitution has nearly ceased be tween North and South. The Wheeler case in Philadelphia would be resented by war if not redressed, had it been perpetrated by (treat Bri- I tain or France. A minister of diplomacy pass i ing from State to State is set at naught and ) insulted and assaulted by a minister of Christ inn polities united with runaway or emancipated negroes. How long are scenes like this not to be prevented as well as not to be punished?- (trey Town was severely punished summarily and righteously. We would exercise no such remedies or redress against our own city of brotherly love; hut how long will the conserva tive patriots of Philadelphia continue to allow madness to rule her police and permit such out rages to be perpetrated? I rely upon them for redress ami reform, but we must rely more up on ourselves, Let others do ns they mav, as for Virginia and her authorities, she will never consent that the Sampson of American shall be shorn—that a compromise of separation shall be restored—that a recurrence to the constitution by law shall be repealed. She requires no sif ter State, no territory, to accept or refuse the j institution of slavery; uud demands only that abolition and fret-soil and dissolution of the Union shall not be forced upon her, In a word, she abides immovably by the Federal Constitu ti-jn j and so far as depends upon her arm, will | defend it by all means, peaceably if she can, for , cibly if she must. If force must be resorted to, I regret to admit that it is not in Ute North a lone we will find enemies to subdue, there, too, the constitution and the union have yet friends enough, thank God, to keep them in check in their own section. But, it is no longer to be disguised that we have traitors to our own al tars in our very midst; leaders w ho are duping the masses by every art of the demagogue, and who are not only conducting a secret corres pondence with their allies in the North, but who are driving mobs to violence at our own polls. These secret foes must be watched in the South, and when fairly caught must he punished ac cording to law. They are more dangerous than the Sewards and Wilsons and Gardners of New ork and Massachusetts. Not only are the rights of the States and the union of ilie States invaded, but tho indieidual inalienable rights are openly assailed. We h ive a secret party crying out also, “ Down with the I’ope! ’ and at this very moment they arc aiding to build u\)apriisl-ofuft potetr which assumes to tell us what we shall eat, w hat we shall drink and wherewithal we shall be clothed ! The am bitious sectarians of religion tire leaving the spiritual kingdom and are daring to lay their hands on political power. If they succeed they will corrupt the church and destroy the liber* : ties of the State, They will not educate men to morality, but by Maine liquor laws they w ould ! teuishi/’ men to sobriety, until by-and-by every j voter would have on every subject to go to the ! parish parson or preacher of the congregation I for counsel before he goes to the polls of the 1 election. They would take charge of manners ! and morals, and land titles, and negro titles, and now before they are done with th r finite ti tles to things earthly, they are sealing heaven’s very ho'ghts to take into their holy keeping the i only right poor humanity lias here below, which ! it can pretend to call and cherish as immortal, as infinite, as alone reaching to heaven- tin /tea ecu high eight “J religious freedom, the rie/ht of conscience unit of free will in the worship >f Ueitjf! Now, before these Stale fgU-, this right <g the union of States and these tnuiiefinU!•: rights of man shall le J<<lroy<d, Virginia will again set you the example which she did in the Revolution; and I pray that God may again | give her the men of counsel and the men at ■ arms to guide her and to make her light so shine as to guide her sister States and her children j States back again to liberty and law and love to each other, and order and peace. It is impossible for me to accept vour invita tion, gentlemen, but I am vours hastily but devotedly, HENRY A. WISE. To James G. Rvals, \W Mii.xnit, Ac., Ac., Cartersville , da. Letter from Hon. A. K. Stephens. CitA'.vronnvii.i.K, Ga. :j Ist July, is:,.*. Giixrr.t:mi n : I got home yesterday and found your letter of the 20th itist. I have now but a moment to • say that I cannot comply with your request.— My positive engagements occupy all my time for the present month. T wish I could go to your ‘ place, but 1 cannot. 1 have, perhaps, a bur dru) urgent calls at other places where T would wish likewise to go, but cannot. My health is feeble, but what I can do shall be done for the “consti tutional cause ”in this great crisis in our history. On this our friends every where may rely. I am at work day and night to save the country i front the most mischievous work of those who now, under a fatal delusion, are laying the foun dation stones fora new government, and sowing broadcast the seeds of revolution. Tills National Council i see the constitution of it) proposes nothing short of Revolution. The j government under its lead would be transfer- , red from the bands of those in which it is put by the constitution, and placed in a great central consolidated head, with constituted power to j and ecideal! questions of political matters for the United States; and with power to tax and pun ish without limitation or restriction. Did ever ever such a political monster show its bead before ? Did such an enormous con spiracy ever arise before in any free govern- i merit ? What are th* honest people of this j country thinking of by continuing their connec- I tion with such an organization? Can it be that we are about to run mad and throw away the i glorious institutions of our fathers? May hca- i veil defend and save us from such a curse. ALEX. 11. STEPHENS, j J. G. Ryai.s A OTttr.es, Cartersville, da. Letter from Hon. T. L. Clingman. A-.nr.viu. f., Aug. 18th, 1855. | Gentlemen': Vour note was received a day lor two since, in which you have done me the ! favor to invite me to tye present ata massmect- I ing of the citizens of your section of Georgia who I are opposed to the “new order” styling itself | “ American. ” In your opposition to this organ j ization you have my hearty concurrence and my best wishes for your success. As the so-called “American party” is hostile to the great ! principles of our Republican system, as well as < subversive of all sound, moral principles—and on account of the strength given it by the anti i slavery feeling of the North —the most danger | ous that has ever existed in our country, it would give me great pleasure to join with you in mak- I ing opposition to its movements; such, however, I are my engagements that it will not be in my ! power to attend the meeting you propose to hold. > Entertaining no tears but that your noble State j will do her duty to the country in the coming ! contest, permit me to send you, in Feu of my ; presence, the sentiment below. 1 1 uni, with sentiments of the highest respect. Yours, Ac., T. L. OLIXGMAN. Messrs. G. Ryais, W. Hakims, W. Milner, , i A. Nicholson, A. Habt, Cartersville, (la. S Georgia, by her enterprise she has acquired the title of the Empire State of the South. A-, I gainst the dangers which menace the rights of j | our section, and the principles of constitutional : government and sound morals everywhere, mav her sons, whether formerly known as whigs ! lor democrats, Southron Rights or Union, stand ! shoulder to shoulder together, and win for her ! | the right to bear the banner of Umpire wher -1 ever truth and liberty are prized. Removal Question. The following, wc clip from the Inst Fed eral Union : Sue. 1. He it enacted by the Senate and House of lirpi csrntatio< sos the State ot | Georgia in General .Isscmtdy met, and it is hereby enacted by the uuthoiity oj the same, That tho question of Removal and Lo cation of the Seat of Government of the Stato of Georgia he referred to the legal voters of said State, and that they be I required at tho next general election, to endorse on their tickets .. Removal” or .. No Removal.” If to be removed, where- And it shall be the duty of tho managers of such election, to make return, to his Excellency tho Governor, the number of votes polled for j and against Removal, and the places voted for. Approved, February 17th, 1854. Where are the Boys ?—An Ohio paper, recording an accident to an individual, speaks of him ns <. a young man between 7 and 8 years of age.” Wbar's the boys ? . most in shape of aVifcl? U C outl, that’s nl j Pol.—lly the ineAs and jf s in... „ j deed. T 8 a crind in i like n weasel ! <.l—lt is backcd\ike a weaseh * Ham.—Or like a wliiale. I Pol.—Very like a whale. The American party, falsely so st yl oJ ! evidently been adroitly constructed H sents much, that like the Dead Sea fruit tc’ ! the casual observer, appears beautiful ’and ;( rue, but which on examination, proves to b 0 | deceptive, bitter, and tilled with ashes. lt 9 leaders fully understand the art of appear • aUt ; C ®’ f or thu most P !irt - ‘he disappointed ; anJ hackneyed politicians of other parties they certainly need no instruction in party tactics or appliances. Their doctrine, if j t may so be termed, is . all things to allmem’’ theii object, elevation to power; their aim to catch the j opal nr vote ; opposition to for eigners and Catholics, strings with which to piny upon the popular heart—delusive watch-words, wish width to entrap the un wary, to he abandoned or used, modified or extended, as interest may require. lj elicc> in different States, various platforms are presented to the view. What is a vital prin ciple in one, is utterly discarded in the oth er. What in certain sections is vowed a* the object and purposes of the party, j 9 repudiated, and the reverse proclaimed, iu others. The Mecca towards which the eyes ;of the true believer here is directed, is not the Mecca towards which the political p>}. grimage elsewhere is turned. They are the political Barnums of the day ; seekim* • to control by appeals to the passions and not to intelligence or reason of the man. Hoes the religious proscriptive feature imjule the success of the party in Louisiana : It is im mediately denounced as unworthy of freemen, abandoned, and loa Catholic becomes the ( Kacv Nothing w mince for Govern r. Toesj South Carolina lisc to a higher view th.-.n that indicated by petty and disastrous prej udice, find discuss the question, under the ligltts of the Constitution and other law ■— That sentiment must he trimmed to. And the coat, scarcely on, is readily doffed for one suj'poscd to be more suitable and conve nient. The platform, which, but a short time since, was vaunted as containing all ■ that was precious and estimable, and lor ; which all were proscribed as Anti-American and foreign who did not embrace and adoro it, suddenly disappears from the scene, ami is soon replaced by another, manufactured ’ for the occasion. As the competitor of the chameleon, it fairly vies with it, in the va riety and change of its Lucs. 1 speak me of sentiments or intentions of individuals, but of the manifest tendencies of the party. There is but cue object it has n common, and that certainly does not rtcommend it ; very strongly to our confidence ; that is, de nunciation of the most reliable administra tion the South has ever had. Jt basbitlnr to borne but one practical fruit, and that m the elevation to olth e of men hostile to tor institutions and interests. Every triumph at the North has not been the pioniutit nos : her most reliable sons. At the North it :t thoroughly Abolition, and stands opposed t-> tiie Democracy, in battle array ngnin.-i Southern llights statesmen. It has accent plisbed nothing against the Democracy, ft j has been confined strictly to its obi ll’itig i limits. It has not even carried the vld llliig vote. The new phase lias lest, not gaiin i i ground. With its fusion, its oaths, in ! changing and any construction platform, it has succeeded alone where whiggery j mim ed, and that to but a limited extent. 11 such | are its victories, a few more such tnumpi-s and it is gone—gone to the land from whence l it came ; the land of Hale and bilsoti, D Gardner and of Chase, whose ban is : t hns I strengthened, and whose spirit it bus tnvig ! orated against our dearest rights and inter ests, iu their unholy war against law and order, against the Constitution of tLevr j country, and agniiist civil social, and r ligious liberty. It has assumed the lion's roar and atkir. — It has endeavored to play Lis ] art. Ihe keen eye of the people, has however, detec ted the guise, aud swept fiom it the fciu.sy covering. It now stands fully revealed in the wild hunt for office. .* This its one great, uniform, consistent principle.” The people are rising in the majesty of their might They have proclaimed the counter j feit, and will vet sit in judgment on those j who would thus conduct them to auurchyamt misrule. From the Atlanta Intelligencer. Remarks at the Athenaeum of John j W. H. Underwood, Esq., of Rome- We promised our readers a report ot th is gentleman's speech at the Athcntvmu, in this j place, a few nights ago. We now, in j art, redeem that promise, with an aj'ology to ,lie 1 speaker for the meagreness of the report, and for the absence of his opening and closing remarks. Mr. Underwood said, my time will 11 ; allow a full examination of this Knew ! Nothing Platform. If it has a face, at, all. that face is without a nose, nud when ciif Know Nothing friends got to Macon, tho sickly concern would have dice butters great Doctor, my friend, l>r. Miller; aid i you will know we are friends from the vl’ l speak, lie, the Doctor, gave it many dose : he is a great Doctor, and In s ‘Has - been more celebrated Tor the • size oi - pills, than the quality of the materials of which they arc composed, lie lias been c* 8 ‘ lonized in poetry, and his memory will b f ; wherever the English language is read; W the Poet hath said of him: 1 “And then he struts, and then he cries • 1 love a party large in size.’ ” First, our friend, the Doctor, tried to his patient hold up his head, by giving'* (lie Fourth Resolution of the Georgia l>’ veution, without any regard, whatever- 1 the inconsistency apparent at the first E u>l ” to tho understanding of an ordinary W' l " 1 fl for the Doctor is not only a learned !1111 scientific man, but can tuvu a souii# et ” readily backwards as forward, and i l ' l secui to come to him as easy one way ßs ' 1 other. The Doctor then gave Ids pat* airful dose ! Notwithstanding ho * s^e ' U , hostile to all Catholics and foreign ßl made up a pill composed of sewral l. uQl thousand oatkol’cs, several hundred foreigners, a great many negroes, an whole Island of Cuba! This pid . strangled the patieut, but it still its best friends think it may 6urvt|- the first Monday in October next patieut had no nose, uud the D oC,l,r unable to find uuy healthy skiu fu* 8