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FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1855.
mrTtoombs’ LETTER.
From the “Times & Sentinel,”- we take the
letter of Mr. Toombs which will be found in to
day’s paper. We have no space for comment,
and therefore leave it to speak for itself. Doubt
less it will command the attention of the people.
Like the Editor of the Times & Sentinel, we
should like very much to know what become of
Mr. Toombs’ first letter. It was mailed.it seems,
at Milledgeville, and the mail bags should have
bten opened but once (at Macon) between there
and Columbus. As the editor of the Times &
Sentinel remarks, so do we—“We hope the effici
ent Post Masters at the three offices will investi
gate the matter.”
MARIA GERTr’iJDE BUCHANAN. I
We perceive that a volume of Poems from the I
pen of thia gifted lady, once so favorably known
to us as Miss Kyle, is about to be published, the
prospectus for which, with several extracts from
the forthcoming volume, is now before us. From
one of her poems, “Columbia and Erin,” we have
liberally extracted, that our readers may, with us,
enjoy a foretaste of the high-toned enthusiasm
and philosophy that pervade her poetry. Geor
gia, may well be proud of this gifted authoress—
Tierself a daughter of the Emerald Isle, she has
yet made this, our State, her residence, and for
many, many years, our sister of the sea-lward, ;
Savannah, has been her home. On the ancient
greatness of her native land she deiights to dwell,
while she depicts the gloomy era of its later his
tory in strains so touching that every patriot heart
is reached and fired at the proud oppressor’s
treachery and tyranny. The heart, however, of
the Irishman will swell with peculiar pride as he
reads of the genius of Erin’s eons and their glory,
unobscuted by oppression ; while that of the
American will glow as he reads the happier story
of American Liberty, which the genius of this
lady has contributed to the literature of her own
State, and adopted country.
On our first page will be found the extrat-ts to
which we have referred.
Side by side with the Poem referred to, will
stand the "vision of Erin,” and the “vision of
America.” The whole volume wili contain four
hundred pages duodecimo; will be bound in col
ored morocco; and will be presented to subscri
bers, at $3, per volume. A prospectus is at this
office, and we will lie pleased to receive the names
of subscribers.
KANSAS WEEKLY HERALD.
This paper published at Leavenworth, Kansas
Territory, reached us several days since. It yields
an unflinching support to the pro-slavery cause
in Kansas, and, at this time when ’it is so impor
tant that Southern people should keep posted of
transpiring events there, will prove a valuable ad
dition to our exchange list. We wish the propri
etors success. Eastan A Adams publishers.
$2.00 per annum.
... Ex-Governor Jones, of Tennesqf’, has
written a letter in which he declares himself in
favor of the main principles of ths k. n. order.
. . A Woihen’s State Temperance Conven
tion was held at Auburn. N. Y. last week, at
which the strong minded rallied in respectable
numbers.
.... lai Cronica. the Spanish paper published
in New York, which sustained the loyalists, has
been discontinued.
THE ATLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER.
“SKIN THE CAT”—KNOW NOTHINGS ’
OF ATLANTA.
Most of our readers have heard of one “Ma-.
jor Jones,” and the lovely “Miss Sally Stallings”
to whom the gallant Major pai4 his devoir^.—
One particular feat which the author of the Ma
jor’s “courtship” facetiously relates, we desire
briefly to notice. It was performed in this wise*
The Major was taking a walk with Miss Sally on
the banks of a certain creek, when his attention
was directed to large bunches of delicious grapes
which clung to vines that had crept to the high
est branches of a tall tree on the verge of the
aforesaid creek. Anxious to please Miss Sally,i
whose mouth watered for a taste of the luxurious 1
fruit, he hastily ascended the tall oak, and, in a ■
very short space of time, fdled to overflowing his L
lady love’s apron with the choicest bunches there- I
o£ when she implored him to desist, and with the
sweetest smiles invited his return to terra firnut-
Enchanted at his success, the Major concluded ,
to display his agility and daring a little further.
Never had he been favored with so fine an op
-1 portunity. There stood Miss Stallings to gaze
upon his prowess, her large check. apron filled
with Muscadines, while drops of the delicious
i juice from more than one of them were escaping
at the corners of her lovely mouth I What a pro
pitious time for the Major! To “skin the cat"
on a branch of the tree that overhung the creek,
he was revived. In a twinkling, he seized the
limb, and made the effort; but alas ! for the gal
lant Major, just as he was at that particular part
of the feat which required the passage of his low
er extremities between his arms, one hand re
laxed its hold of the limb, and down through the
branches of the tree, to the bottom of the creek I
went poor Major Jones! Wc leave the reader;
to think of the screams of Miss Stallings, and the |
mortification depicted upon every feature of her I
beau as he ascended “from the lower deep” the
banks of the creek. But doubly mortified he
must have been whyi he afterwards heard that
Miss Stallings declared him an awkward fellow,
for he had failed in doing that which she had ex
ecuted, while on a hunt for grapes with the girls
many and many a time.
Now, pretty much in the same position, polit
ically, as Major Jones placed himself with Miss
Stallings by over-doing the thing, have the Know
Nothings of Atlanta placed themselves by meeting
together yesterday, and ratifying the nomination
of Judge Warner. In endeavoring to do some”
thing smart, they have made a skin the cat busi
ness of it and quite overdone themselves. No
one is dull enough to be deceived as to the mo
tive which actuated the exploit, and like Major
Jones they will not only suffer Mortification at a
failure to perform it well, but will be doubly so
at being informed hereafter that it has been suc
successfully performed by others less awkward
than themselves. It was one of the early tricks
of Know Nothing adepts, and has had its run.—
A child in political warfare cannot be deceived by
it? Nous Perrons •
KNOW NOTHINGS IN THE FREE
STATES.
That the Know Nothingsin the free States are
free-soilers and abolitionists, few who examine
the record will be. bold or reckless enough to de
ny. Enemies of the Federal Constitution, lie
cause they are our enemies—enemies of the South
—they have elected none but abolitionists and !
free-soilers to the next Congress, all of whom
stand pledged to wage a deadly war against sla
very. If this be denied, we here call upon the
Know Nothing, or any other press, to designate a
representative elected to the next Congress, or
Senate of the United States, in any free States,
by the Know Nothings, that is not one, or the
other—an abolitionist or a free-soiler !
But we stop not here. We charge, from the
record before us, that every representative from
the free Slates, in the Congress or Senate of the
United States, whom the Know Nothings have
elected, or aided to elect, favors the repeal of the
Nebraska bill, and a repeal or modification, of the
Fugitive Slave Law. And that each and every
one of them is pledged to exert his utmost ener
gies to effect said repeal or modification.
So universally known are the facts, that the
Legislature of Massachusetts removed Judge Lo
ring from office, because he decided that the fu
gitive slave, Burns, should be delivered to his
master; and that they elected Henry Wilson, a
I notorious abolitionist to the Senate of the United
States, where he voted to repeal the Fugitive
Slave Law; that we deem it scarcely worth the
ink it costs to again place upon our record of the
times and men, what is so well known to the peo
ple. But v hen to these links in the chain we
connect others of equal import, they are sufficient,
if not to alarm the boldest Southern hbart, to, at
least, prepare it for an issue, in the event of
: Know Nothing success, as inevitable as it is, in
our opinion to plate. Who have
the Know Nothings of Wisconsin elected to the
. Senate of the United States? Why no less a
■ person than Durkee, an avowed, ultra. Abolition,
j ist! What instructions have been given by the
Know Nothing Legislature of Michigan to Sen
i atorsUass and Stewart? That they must vote
' for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the
* repeal of the Nebraska and Kansas bill! And
i *
in addition, the same Know Nothing Legislature
► I have passed a law refusing the use of the prisons
I of that State to the officers of the United States
I* Government to secure fugitive slaves. The Know
r i Nothing Legislature of Maine have not been be
•' hind their compeers of Michigan. They too have
’ I declared the Fugitive Slave Law unconstitution-
J al; have demanded its immediate* repeal • have
dec'ared in favor of abolishing slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia; and have averred that they
will never consent to the admission into the Fed
’ J eral Union of any more States with Constitu
s tions authorizing slavery. We might stop-here,
? but too much would be left untold. Every South-
* ern man should know that firry Governor elected
1 by the Know Nothingsin the free States, is an
Abolitionist. ’That the Grand Councils of the
Order in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New
'* j Hampshire, have passed strong abolition and an
ti-slavery resolutions. That while the Know
s Nothings of the North are proscribing all white
n foreigners and Catholics from office, they are. al
the same time, in favor of full civil liberty to al
{- free negroes. That the negroes of the North
lt vote with the Know Nothings there, and have
e been complimented for this evidence of their pa
triotism, by Northern K. N. organs. And last
j though not least, that the leading Know Noth
• ings in Kentucky, are, or have been Emancipa
I ft’onifto, wherever that question has been agita
“ ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS, WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”— Jefferson.
ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 22, 1K55.
I ted, toadenialof which, the Richmond Enquirer
1 dared the Know Nothings of Virginia, as well as
' to the other facts to-which we have referred.
We ask if better evidence is wanted of Know ,
' Nothing hostility, North, to Southern Institutions.
! and Southern Rights! If it be, we will confess
i the task hard indeed to convince one who doubts
: before such an array of facts, e must leave
! him to bis hardness of heart, perverted judgment,
and Io that defeat which will inevitably overtake
him.
(For the Examiner.)
LaGrange, Ga., June 11th 1855.
i Dear .Sir: — This morning I received the en-i
i closed letter from the Editor of the Atlanta Re-'
I publican, returning the enclosed communication
i which he refuses to publish. You will please do
fine the kindness to publish my communication to
them, as also their letter refusing to publish the
I same, and oblige yours truly,
JOHN L. STEPHENS.
JUDGESHIP OF THE COWETA CIRCUIT.
J.aGrangb, June 9th, 1855.
Messrs. Editors;— ln your paper of the 7th .
inst., I find an article,headed “Judicial Platform,” I
signed “Atlanta,” and containing allusions highly \
injurious to myself as a man and to my position j
as candidate for Judge of the Coweta circuit.— ,
Your paper having been made the medium of i
the injurious reflections, becomes the appropriate I
channel through which to convey to the public, i
my correction and vindication : —And the Exam-,
iner having been the first to announce my position ;
as candidate, will please do me the favor Io copy |
this article as a “definition” of my position and |
as a security, once for always, against any future ;
misapprehension or misrepresentation concerning '
it.
| The only “platform” on which I have chosen ;
to appear before the v.oters of the Coweta circuit,
jis thaX contained in my card announcing my
candidacy for the Judgeship, and consisting of
these simple words, —“Mr. Editor,you will please ;
announce my name as the Anti-Know Nothing I
candidate for Judge of the Coweta Circuit.” 1
have placed myself upon this platform, because 1
stand opposed to the Order of Know Nothings,
on account of their “secresy, their oaths, their un
constitutional designs, their religious intolerance,
their political proscription, and their Abolition as
sociations at the North”; and because I regard
these reasons as sufficient to unite all branches of
the government, the legislative, the judicial and
the executive, in one common effort to put down
a dangerous organization and save the institutions
of the country.
If it constitutes a platform, tor me to announce
that in any official station to which I may be
called, I shall maintain the Republican institu
tions under which America has prospered be-,
yond the prosperity of all other nations, and that;
I shall oppose my strength personal and official,
to any organization in its tendencies hostile to I
those institutions, then indeed 1 do stand upon a
"■platform" which may be denominated “judicial” |
or political, but which shall govern my actions :
in every position wherein I may lie required to
discharge the duties of a citizens.
Standing on this •‘platform” I can inform your |
correspondent and all others concerned, that 11
desire no “nomination” from any “judicial nomi. |
nating caucus of this circuit.” Standing on this |
platform, I do not conceive that 1 “degrade our ;
judiciary” by holding it aloof from considerations ■
of “political popularity” or mere ordinary “politi ,
cal principles.”
If “Atlanta” thinks that “our judiciary” would
be elevated and purified by throwing questions of
j “political popularity” and “political principles”
into the election of our judges, he is welcome to
his opinion and need not be surprised to find
himself singular in it. I have assumed no plat
form upon the subject of “any law prohibiting
the sale of liquors,” nor do I intend so pre-judge
any law upon that subject or any other subject,
“sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Let
i me repeat that the “platform” which I have above
stated ; the platform which asserts fealty to the
Republican institutions under Which our country
has grown great and which proclaims opposition
to all hostile tendencies ; is the only platform on
which I choose to appear before the voters of the I
Coweta circuit, and the platform on which I am
willing to commit my election to the people, with
out asking the permission of any judicial nomi
nating caucus of this circuit, or appealing to anv
considerations of “political popularity.” This
platform may not be able to “push the Bull oft
the bridge” but it is one which may excite a very
natural desire among the people, to know wheth
er or not “the Bull” stands on the bridge, and
whether or not the various aspirants to the office
of Judge, are standing on this platform of fealty
to the Constitution and unceasing op|>osition to
its foes.
JOHN L. STEPHENS.
Atlanta, Ga., June 9th, 1855.
i John L. .Stephens, Esq.,—Dear .Sir.-— Your'
letter, of to-day, intended for publication in the I
Republican is at hand.
The position you assume in your card is in- '
compatible with the views that now govern the
i Republiban and we cannot admit of a defense of I
that position in our columns. It might be done ,
as a matter of accommodation if there was no j
other paper published in our city, and the district; I
: 1 must decline publishing your letter,
Very respectfully your ob'dt ser’vt,
, i ’ J. NORCROSS.
NEUTRALITY LAWS.
We find the following piece of news in
' our Northern exchanges:
I “A company of Canadian volunteer ri-
1 flemen, armed and equipped, bound for j
1 the Crimea, recently passed over the Cen-!
tral Railroad. The company number!
' about sixty young men, and were in high :
1 spirits. At Boston they go on board a!
- packet ship bound for Constantinople.” I
’: This is reported as coolly as if it were ;
■' only a visit of one military company to
: ■ another, and there is no intimation that'
p! there could possibly be an objection to a
I j British army marching through the Uni-1
e! ted States to attack Russia. Y'et that is |
s | the amount of it. Why is our territory
s ' made the marching ground—the conveni
' enee—of one of the parties to the present
J European war ? When Napoleon 1., tra
, i versed the Prussian dominions, because
they afforded the most convenient road to
the seat of war, it was considered a great
‘ outrage, and was only approved on the
” i same principle as Nero’s performance on
' ' the lyre —that the master of forty legions
! was irresisiable.
*‘l We have before called the attention of
e ’l the Government towhat we considered the
: unwarrantable use of American shipping
ll ! in the transport of the Allied troops and
n munitions of war to the Crimea. We
e have seen no explanation of it, and now
w we have the transport of armed companies
i- from Canada, for the Crimea. Is this
w maintaining our position as neutrals ?
te Charleston Mercury.
... The printers of Cincinnati have formed a
H military company.
It! 5&~0f504 deaths in New, Orleans for the
,c, week ending the 4th inst., 276 were from chol
it . . .. M Jullien is about to revisit the United
h : States.
■ The water in the Ohio river at Pittsburg
u : on the Bth inst., measured six feet, and was ri-
B ' i ,ln S'
COLUMBIA AND ERIN.
BV MARIA ur.HTRI l>E BI'CHANAN, FOHMKRLV MAIHA
C.HRTRtDE KYLE.
Once, o’er Columbia s favored land,
Oppression’s cloud in darkness bung.
While Tyranny's ensanguined hand
Around her sons strong fetters flung;
Beauteous as now looked Nature s brow
Beneath young Spring’s half-opened Bowers,
As brightly beamed the sunny glow
That wanned her cheek in Summer hours;
As rich the tints that Autumn wove
To deck her ’mid the fading grove,
As pure the smoky robe that lay
Around her form in Winter’s day :■—
As grandly free Niagara swept:—
His waters o’er the rocks’ dead side,
As fair the “Thousand Islands” slept
On road St. Laurence’s tranquil tide;
As Queenlight lay far famed Chamalain
Einbosamed ’mid her mountains vast,
As fairy like rapt Music’s strain
O’er Seneca’s calm bosom past ;
As proudly Mississippi rushed
Right onward to his ocean bed ;
As sweetly dewy morning blushed,
Where Hudson his blue walers spread;
Yes! Beateous was our much-loved land.
From Plymouth’s rock to Sable's strand.
But to the eye where lurks the glow,
That’s kindled at the Soule’s dread lire.
When the proud knee is forced to bow
Beneath oppression's mandates dire.
What matter if the sun looks bright
Upon a thousand beauties round ’
Dimmed is the pure, the peerless light.
In Liberty’s high Temple found ;
And round its sacred altar stand
Where every knee should freely bow—
The red ranks of a foreign land,
Guarding its fa int, expiring glow,
With wrathtul looks, as if they fear
Some dauntless hand will yet draw nigh.
To light anew the flame so dear,
Or by its waning splendor die.
And see ! behind the altar kneeling.
Where day’s declining beam is stealing,
Like eagle cow’ring 'neath the storm
Which his bold wing no more can brave,
Fair Freedom’s self—her singing form
Is seen beside an open grave,
Dug by th’ Invaders swords to hide
Her glory in its vioceless gloom,
When Tyranny, with mocking pride,
Should seal her fated children’s doom-
Crushed is her amaranthine crown.
And dimmed the lustre of th it eye.
Whose light led Roman Brutus on.
Fearless to conquer or to die.
Ah, Freedom! in this mighty land,
The Stab wrested from the night of ages
By him whose high, heroic hand,
Enrolled its name on Time’s vast pages.
Thou once didst fondly ho]>e l > raise
A Temple, whose foundation sure
(Os every age the boast and praise,l
Should to earth’s latest hour endure.
Vain hope ! for even in this clime,
Over whose virgin, dazzling brow.
So lightly moved the wing of Time,
It seemed as if its beauty now,
Fresh from creation’s fingers burst,
Nor felt, as yet, earth’s doom accurst.
Even HERE the Oppressor’s voice is heard.
Even HC«K is felt his withering sway—
While the sort’s deepest founts are stirred.
And madentiing pulses wildly play
Beneath the galling chains t, at rest.
Disgraceful on the free-hom breast.
THE ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN BANNER.
“Wait, wait," the enraptured Goddess cries,
“I’d weave for you a banner bright,
Whose folds beneath Columbia’s skies
Shall ever prove a Beacon light
To all, whose struggling, sinking bark—
Is wildly tossed upon that sea,
Whose treacherous waters chill and dark.
Bear the fell name of Tyranny.
To guide them o’er its whelming wave.
Where Tyranny has found a grare —
In this unrivalled, glorious Land.”
With kindling eye and eager hand
Her altar’s spotless d rapery
She took, and on her bended knee
She dipped it in her children’s gore,—
Her flowing Veil in “Stripes” she tore,
And from the dazzling crown she wore.
She caught each “Star Gem” flashing bight
Then from the rich braids of her hair
(As bright as morning sunbeams are)
She plucked some threads of purest gold.
And wove them both crimsoned fold.
"This i» Columbia’s Flag or Light,”
She cried in loud, exulting tone,
And thine oh ! peerless Washington.
Thine is the hand this Flag to hold—
For thine the sori, to guard its fold
Ah! once in Erin’s lovely Isle
Fair Freedom's Temple reared its head.
While streaming from the sacret pile—
Its source her ever radiant smile—
A brilliant light was shed
Over those sunny vales tha' lie.
Beneath Hibernia’s weeping sky;
And warmed by that ennobling light
Proud Science opened his wonderous page.
Yes ! when the clouds of mental night.
Hung o’er the world, Hibernia’s sage
It secrets scanned with kindling eye,
And waved aloft the torch whose gleam.
Bright as the sun-god’s noonday beam,
Can never, never die.
But now .that Temple prostrate lies,
And the lone night-wind’s fitful sighs
Around the broken altars stealing
Awakes the Patriot’s saddest feeling.
But, oh ! within those ruins dark.
Amid that desolation dire.
Glows yet a faint but living spark
Os Liberty’s celestial fire;
And by that pale and trembling light.
Hibernia her sad watch has kept.
While age on age. in rapid flight.
Has o'er her beauteous island swept;
And still beside that sacred fire.
Heart-sick she yet her vigil keeps.
While o'er the chords of her sweet lyre.
Her hand in fitful fancy sweeps,
And wakes such tender, burning strains.
That floating o’er the emerald'plains.
They reach the spirits inmost cells.
While high the patriot /errer swells.
Mammoth Strawberries. —The cab
i bages of California are famous for their
! size; they have had their day in items '
' The Sacramento Union is now giving
! California strawberries a turn. It chroni
cles a basket of big ones that was held
■ before the editor on Wednesday. It
says:
“The largest specimen of the many
presented is of the shape of a tig leaf, and
measures exactly six inches in circumfer
ence latitudinally, and five and a half
inches longitudinally. This is by far the
most enormous strawberry we have ever
seen or even heard of, and we challenge
! the world to produce its equal. Only
I think of a strawberry measuring over half
j a foot in circumference Other speci
mens in the basket, of pine-apple shape,
measure from three to five inches in cir
' cumference, and ten of the largest weigh
, ‘one quarter of a pound.’ These huge
■ ’ samples of our most luscious fruit were
• raised in the famous garden of A. P. Smith,
on the American river, three miles above
I Sacramento.”
... The British government are about voting
’ money to assist in the establishment of free pub
lic, libraries in Ireland.
[A'rowi the Vollimbus Times d A'en/<n<>/.]
LETTER FROM HON- ROBERT TOOMBS ON KNOW
NOTHINGISM.
Bosion, Mass., .June tith,
Dear Sir :—More than time weeks
ago, in compliance with my promise, L
wrote to you, giving my opinions of the
new political organization, commonly
known as •‘Know Nothings," oi the
American party. I did not learn until I
reached Augusta, on my way here, that
you had not received it. If it should yet
come to hand, I wish you to publish it, as
it was much fuller and more carefully pre
pared exposition of my opinions than this
letter can be. 1 shall embark to-day for
Liverpool, and, for want of time, must
confine myself to a very brief statement,
rather than an argument on the sebject.
Mv first objection to the New Party
is one independent of its principles. 1
am opposed to it because it is a xecref po
litical society. Society has a right to
know the men, and the principles, and the
policy of the men, who seek to direct
its affairs and control its destiny. Public
ity is the life-blood of a representative
Republic. 'Without it, public liberty must
soon perish, and no necessity, short of
that which would justify revolution, can
justify the surrender of this great securi
ty of popular government. All party as
sociations are constantly liable to be used
by the cunning, the unprincipled and en
terprising members for the promotion of
personal objects rather than the public
interests, and it needs no argument to
prove that secrecy greatly increases this
tendency and facilitates the accomplish
ment of such unworthy ends. Secrecy is
| the natural covering of fraud, the natural
error and the enemy of truth. The pa
triots who framed our constitution gave it
a La tai blow, by provisions which secure
the freedom of speech and the liberty of
I the press.
This objection of the New Party de
' rives additional force from the obligation
; which is said to be imposed upon the ap
> plieant for admission, that he will carry
out its decrees whether his judgment ap
proves them or not. If this be true, it is
a surrender of the dearest rights of free
men, and is a crime against society.
My next objection to the American par
ty is, that it proposes, in some way. to in
vade the rights of conscience, or to call
men in question for the free exercise there
' of. lam opposed to all religious tests of
every sort and for every purpose. Our
■ constitution protects us against the putting
of such tests upon the statnte book, but
i the principle is founded on truth and
| justice, and ought to be the rule of the
individual action, as well as of the public
conduct of every citizen. Centuries of
unavailing persecution taught our fathers
the folly, as well as the wickedness, of at
j tempting to control men’s consciences by
’. penal statutes, or civil disabilities ; they,
therefore, put the sting of disability into
the temptation to disgrace our statute book
with this sort of legislation. We will de-
■ feat their noble objects, in part at least,
j by enacting a different rule in the exercise
: of our political rights.
It is charged that the Roman Catholic
polity is cruel, intolerant and despotic.—-
The charge is not wholly unfounded. If
! it be true, it is greatly to be condetned
1 and deplored, and, above all things, we
i should avoid imitating their vices, and
; thereby justly subjecting ourselves to this
! great condemnation. We can neithercon
' quer nor eradicate the vices of Romanism
! whatever they may be, by imitating them,
!or by persecution. The world has tried
these remedies for centuries past, and tried
them in vain Let us rather oppose her
with kindness, her intolerance with free
toleration, (in substance as well as form)
her despotism with freedom, and then we
! may reasonably look for different and bet
! ter results. The moment that the simple
. yet sublime truth, got itself acknowledged
by our government, that the citizen is re
sponsible to the State for his civil conduct,
but to God only for his religious faith, the
unholy bonds which unite the church to
the State were broken, persecution for con
science sake became impossible here, and
religious toleration entered upon its career
of universal dominion. Its first great tri
umph was to strike the fetters from the
consciences of Ir sh Roman Catholics. It
has begun a similar good work for the
Protestants in Spain and Sardinia, and
for the Greek in Turkey, and it will go
on “conquering and to conquer,” until
the Demon of persecution—blind, deaf
and stupid—shall have no more abiding
i place upon the face of the earth.
The naturalization laws arc greatly com
plained of by the American Party. I
think them founded on just principles, and
are. in the main, wise and good laws. To
naturalize an intelligent foreigner of good
moral character, and attached to free gov
ernment, and the principles of our consti
tution, and who has resided among us
long enough to test these qualifications, is
a great benefit to the state, as well as to
the individual who receives the high priv
ilege. These are the conditions and safe
guards which our laws seek to throw
around the right of citizenship. These
laws are, no doubt, frequently violated;
they are, doubtless, imperfect, and do not
fully effect the objects intended by them.
Let all proper additions and amendments,
necessary to carry out these objects, be
made, and then let the law be faithfully
administered, and these things can be done
without the aid of secret societies.
There is another objection to this party,
which should put it under the ban of
Southern opinion. We have had a great
struggle, for the last six years, upon an
j intensely exciting sectional issue. This
issue has been settled by the wisdom of
the representatives of the people. This
• issue found its solution in the legislation
• of 1850 and 1854 The peace and safety
1 ! of the Republic demand that this legisla
!. tion should not only be undisturbed, but
'■ vigorously upheld by the nation. The
» American Party, in the north, whenevei
J ; it has had power, has shown the most vig
i orous hostility to this legislation. The
..Know Nothings of Massachusetts hav<
attempted to nullify it, and have shown :
; total disregard of their publ : .z oaths, ant
therefore, are wholly incapable of giving
any pledge, open or secret, that a man of
honesty ought to accept Political asso
ciation with these men is moral complici
ty with their crimes
The true policy of thesotith is to unite ;
to lav aside all party divisions; Whigs,
Democrats and Know Nothings should
come to-gether, and combine for their
common safety. If we are wise enough .
to do this, to present one unbroken eol -
umn of fifteen States united for the pres-!
ervation of their own rights, the constitu-.
tion and the Union, and to uphold and
support that noble band of patriots, at the i
North, who have stood for the constitution I
and the rights against the tempest of fa-!
naticism, folly and treason which has as- ’
sailed them, we shall succeed. We shall
then have conquered a peace which will
be enduring, and by means which will not |
invite further aggression.
I am, very respectfully,
Your ob’t servant,
R. TOOMBS.
Coi,. T. Lomax,
Editor Times & Sentinel,
Columbus Georgia
PATERNITY OF THE KNOW NOTHING CHIEF.
note from cot.. tHOMas.
Elberton, GEo:,9th .June, 1855.
* Editor of tn. .Savannah Republican ■
Dear Sir : I see in the last weekly
i Chronicle ft- Sentinel un extract from a let-;
ter published in your paper, in which I >
’ am reported assaying in Augusta, on Mon-'
day night the 28th May, “that it was sus
ceptible of proof in a court of justice, that'
the chief officer of the Know Nothings in
Georgia was the son of an Irishman, who
who was sold to pay his passage
.to this country. What I did say,
! to the best of my recollect : on, was literal- ;
jly this: “lam told it is susceptilde q/J
proof in a court of justice, that the father :
of one of the head Know Nothings in Gear- \
j ;/ia was an Irishman, and was sold to pay i
\ h<spassage to this country’’— adding as
| correctly observed by the Chronicle <1- •
! course I know nothing of the i
\ facts myself."
I am positively certain I said nothing ;
about any “chief officer, ’’ for I never heard !
even a who the chief officer i
is. I should like very much to know. I
1 was certainly informed as above stat
ed, and if any gentleman feels that he is
entitled, under, the description, “one of
the head K,now Nothings,’’ to call for an
explanation, I will prove “the truth
of what I said, or take it back.
I did not intend it as a slur on any one’s I
lineage, but only as a reason why we j
should be kindly disposed towards Irish- i
men, instead of persecuting them; for !
they are the near kith and kin of many of
us.
I also said on the saineoccasion, that of
one would never hide myself, in a back
room in the dark hours, to defend those
! rights, and liberties against foreigners,
i which my ancestors had wrested
j from foreigners sword in hand on the bat
| tic field, —and I believe in this short let
| ter you have a pretty full report of all I
J did say.
1 did not dream that I was putting the
| “chief of the Know Nothings in danger,”
j and to relieve bis fears, please say to him
'if you know him, that I have nothing
against him, and would not barm a hair of
his head for the world.
As an act of justice, please publish this ;
note
V’ery respectfully,
Titos. W. Thomas.
Why Don’t Lawyers Advertise. — ■
We ask the membe.s of the bai why their
business cards arc not found in our jour
nals?
Apropos to the question—wc saw a
paragraph in a Virginia paper the other
day to this effect: A gentleman went to
a printing office to examine an exchange
paper, coming from a place some fifty or I
one hundred miles distant, with the view i
to discover the name of some lawyers there
to whom he wished to confide the trans- j
action of some business matters of pressing;
importance. After running his eyes care
fully over the paper, he laid it aside and
remarked—“ Well, 1 can’t find the name
of a single Attorney in the paper ; and .
any member of the profession at the place <
alluded to, could have obtained a fee of
fifty dollars from me by having a card in
that paper, and I would have paid the
amount rather than take the trip at this
particular time.”
Later from Liberia—Advices from;
Monrovia to the 13th of April state that;
President Roberts, accompanied by a party
of 75 men, had gone on a visit to Cape;
Mount, to commence a new
there. Each man received 88 from the .
government.
Mr. David Moore, one of the most re- >
spectable residents of Monrovia, died on
the 4th of March.
Mrs. Brown, wife of Rev. George S.
Brown, died on the 18th of March, Mr.;
Brown is now on a visit to the T’nited
States.
Latest from Sevastopol.—Another
Sanguinary Battle. —A postscript to
a letter from a prominent merchant in Liv
erpool, addressed to Messrs. Duncan, Sher
man & Co., dated Saturday, May 26, states ‘
that a telegraph despatch had just been
posted in the Liverpool Exchange, stating
that a serious engagement had taken place'
on the day previous, in front of Sebastopol i
between the Russians and allies. The
fight was a long and bloody one, a large
number of troops being engaged ; and af
ter a heavy loss on both sides, the battle
terminated in the decisive success of the
allies. We have no notice of this battle
from any other source.—-V. Y. Tribune,
June 9.
.... The Knoxville Whig has an account Os
some exceedingly rich specimens of copper ore
recently discovered in Blount county, Tenn.
.... A Whig Stale Convention for nominating
Governor, &c. is to be held in Maine on the 28th
insant.
Uli tJelegrnpl).
Seven Days Later From Europe. ,
ARKIYAL OF THE
ATLANTIC-
COTTON ADVANCED HALFPENNY.
New York, June 12.
The steamer Atlantic has arrived with
one week's later advices from Europe.
Milligan’s Circular says the War nows
is important.
Liverpool Market— Cotton.— There
was an active speculative demand, and pri
ces had advanced half-penny. The sales
of the week reach one hundred and fifty
two thousand five hundred bales, of which
eighty-one thousand five hundred bales
were on speculation, and five thousand for
exportation. The sales on Friday were
twenty thousand bales, half of which were
to the trade.
The stock in port was five hundred and
twenty-nine thousand bales including three !
hundred and thirty-two thousand of Amer
ican
Bread-stuffs, generally, were unchanged
; and closed dull. Provisions were, steady
•it a slight advance.
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
The allies had taken Kertch, on the ; ■
! straits between Azoff and the Black Sea. ; >
Also the Russian camp on Tcherneya. 1 ,
On the night of the 22d and 23d j;
i the French drove the Russians from an ',
important position before Sevastopol, call-1 1
ed Place Dearmee. The killed and!,
Wounded on both sides amount to eight I,
j thousand. The French retained the posi- )
; tion.
! The allies seized and retained the Rus- :
j sian line of defences of the Tchernaya with j
i scarcely a battle. The Russian retreated '
; to the hills.
A secret expedition, composed of twen- ;
ity men and fourteen steamers, took the !
‘ fortress of Kerch The Russians blew up ■
; their own Magazines on both sides of the ■
i Strait, sunk four steamers, thirty trans- j
! ports and destroyed half a million sacks |
' of breadstuff's.
The allies now have fourteen steamers j
in the Sea of Azoft'.
The allies destroyed the Russian maga-1
sines at the inland town of Arabat, the ]
shot, shell and foundry near Kerch, a gar-j
rison near Sevastopol, and drew most of ;
■ the supplies from the Sea of Azoff'.
The fall of Kertchand its occupation by j
' the allies will have a speedy influence up- ’
| on the siege
It was rumored at Paris that Peliasier |
had attacked and routed Liprandi, that 1
Canrobert and other French generals were ’
wounded.
The allies have completed the fourth ;
parllel and the British were mounting |
heavy guns upon it.
The Venna Conference has not been re- i
opened
It was rumored that England and
France had refused the proposition of Aus
tria.
Re-inforcement were daily arriving at
Constantinople. The Sardinia Contin
gent landed iff excellent condition and well
supplied with the material of war.
Large convoys had entered Sebastopol
The Russians were vigorously erecting
! defences on the north side of the Bal
‘ tic. _ ',
It was reported at 1 lautzic that the first I
division of Russian gun boats had moved |,
in the direction of Riga. • | (
The French squadron had sailed from j j
Keil. The English squadron was last re-1.
ported at Nargin. ,
A British Steamer boarded an Ameri- j.
can Ship and found by her bills of lading ! ,
that she had just discharged thirty thou-j
sand rifles and ten thousand revolvers in I j
I a Russian port.
It is rumored that the Grande Duke I,
! Constantine had resigned the Command of j ,
j the Russian Navy, and that the peace | (
I party of St. Petersburg is in the ascend-1
ent.
The British East India Fleet would J,
rendezvous in Japan, and then proceed to ;
the Russian settlements northward. It!
! is said that Belgium would furnish twen- !.
i ty thousand men.
FROM CHINA.
The Shanghai insurgents are making l
such advances in the interior as to lead to j
the belief that it might affect the export |
trade of Shanghai.
i Canton was threatened with famine,
i Bombay letters state that a formidable;
English expedition was aboutto commence ‘
; offensive operations against Shay of Per- i
I sin.
SAILING OF THE PACIFIC.
i The Pacific sailed to-day with over a!
I million and a half in tpecie.
KNOW NOTHING CONVENTION.
Philadelphia, June 12. ;
The Know Nothing Platform Commit
; tee reported two Pla.forms. The majori
'ty declares that the American party are
not responsible lor the past legislation, and
that the best guarantee for peace is to
i abide by existing laws—that Congress has
■ no right to legislate on slavery, or exclude
any slave State from the Union, and that i
interference with slavery in the District of
Columbia would be a violation of the com-1
pact with Maryland and Virginia.
The minority resolutions declare that '
; the Nebraska act is an infraction of the I
i plighted faith, and should jbe re-1
’ j pealed, and that no new State tolerating I
! I slavery, formed of any portion of that,
’ I territory, should be admitted into the I
! l Union.
New York, June 18. |
The Know Nothings of New Hampshire
, have elected John P. Hale United States!
i Senator.
f LATER FROM MEXICO,
e! New Orleans, June 12.
The steamer OrizabaJ has with
g advices from Mexico to the 2d inst.
h Santa Anna had taken possession of
! Sonoria, which the insurrectionists left on
PROPRIETOR
NUMBER 43.
his approach. The fugitives were pursued
and routed, and 2000 prisoners taken
Santa Anna returned to Morelia on the
21st, and left on the 23d for Rio Comfort
with 2500 men. Several smaller bands
of revolutionists have been routed hy
government troops.
The Empire City arrived from Havana
wtih dates to the II th. Her news is
unimportant.
CHARLESTON COTTON MARKET.
Charleston, June 13.
The sales to-day were only 300 hales, at 11J
to 12J cents. The market has l>een inactive.—
Operators are waiting the Atlantic’s accounts.
THE STEPHENiToF KENTUCKY,
The lion. W. Preston the able Clay
Whig representative of the Lousisville,
(Ky.,) District, in the last Congress, has
written the following letter to the Louis
ville Times. It was called out ty the
urgent request of a large and intelli
gent constituency that he would canvass
the District, in opposition to Hon. Hum
phrey Marshall, the candidate of the Know
Nothings. Showing as it does that the
Conservative Whigs of Kentucky have
taken the same ground as their political
friends of Georgia, it hits surpassing in
terest : — Sar. Giorgian.
Louisville, June 1, 1855.
To the Editors of the Daily Eouisrille
Times:
Gentlemen: Many friends, irrespec
tive of party, knowing my views to be op
posed to the organization and policy of the
know nothings, have warmly urged me to
become a candidate for re-election to Con
gress from this district. I have stated
that I would consider the proposition and
give them an answer by the first of June.
After reflecton upon the subject, I do not
think 1 am the appropriate person to make
the canvass, and therefore decline the in
vitation.
The old whig party by which I was se
lected is disbanded. A new organization
which proposes to introduce questions of
religious belief as criterions for office and
to repeal the naturalization laws under
which wc have lived from the beginning
of our government, with the single excep
tion of the federal interregnum under Ad
ams, when they were extended to fourteen
years, has arrayed itself in the field ot
politics. In addition, we find that the
new party maintains an ominous silence in
relation to the rights of the Southern
States which should till every patriotic
heart with fear. I have ever been, and
yet am inflexibly opposed to such princi
ples.
The' regularly nominated democratic
ticket is the only opponent in the field
against this new party. It is clear that it
cannot achieve success unless, as in Vir
ginia, by the aid of honest and fearless
Southern whigs, who will not be absorbed
in secret fraternities, and who desire no
ambiguous alliance with northern know
nothings. Their aid has given the first
check to this new party, and annihilated
its prestige ot victory. But with these
facts before us, it cannot be concealed that
the main body of the opponents of the
know-nothings is composed of democrats.
It is natural they should desire their can
didate not only to be the representative of
their sentiments upon the topics, in oppo
sition to the know-nothings, but also to
coincide with them upon the general poli
cy of the democratic party, and to yield
aequiesence upon the issues of the past.—
I do not mean to say that this would be
required as the terms of support, but I
have heard it suggested as requisite to con
centrate the full energy of opposition.—
Indeed it has been intimated that an ac
quiescence in the policy of the democratic
administration might be necessary to give
force and coherence to the movement.—
Standing in the attitude I occupy, I could
only consent to make the nice as an inde
pendent candidate, free from all pledges
whatever.
For these reasons, 1 am convinced thal
in order to achieve success and com
bine the party, it is better for the demo
cracy to select a candidate from their own
ranks, and intrust to him the advocacy o 1
their cause. For my own part, my beliel
is decided that the know nothing move
inent is as transient as its growth has beer
sudden. As between the democracy an<
itself, my choice is quickly made ; but I
feel that I best consult my own dignit)
and relieve myself from all suspicions o
unworthy motives, if, at the same tim
that I avow my determination to suppoi:
the principles of the party, 1 decline it
honors. All that I ask is to sustain b
my vote the wise, great, and nobly liber:;
principles upon which I know the repub
lie is founded, and by the faithful obsei
vance of which I am profoundly consciou
the social repose and political prosperity <
the nation can alone be secured.
Permit me to return my
to those friends, both whigs and democrat
who have so generally offered to give n
their warm support.
I remain with respect,
W. PRESTON.
Another Weapon of War.—o '•<
Bee says that a gentleman in Ipswich 1
invented a machine which is capable > .
throwing, with great force one hundi
cannon balls in a minute ; and this with •
the use of powder or any other explo;
agent. Contrigual motion is the pri:
pie by which the power is obtained, : i
the inventor is confident that the inst ■;
ment would be very efficacious in repel! •
assaults, defending forts, and in throv
red hot shot at a vesse.l or into a towi
i llbwA/fr Tibgraph.
.... Buckingham Smith, the new
■ retary of Legation to Spain, is said t<
lan accomplished Spanish scholar, \
I great tact and experience as a dipl<>
| having been Secretary of Legation to .
ico under Mr. Letcher, and for a \, ...
performed the duties of the Minisb i >
the entire satisfaction of his govern:.
4<sy Different sounds travel with dis.
velocity. A call to dinner will run
a ten-acrc lot in a minute and a half,
a summons to work will take from 1
ten minute.