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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1855.
Cobb County Democratic Neminations
Senator,
THOMAS H. MOORE.
Representatives.
ALFRED MAYNER,
SAMUEL M. BRADFORD.
Sheriff,
J. B. BLACKWELL.
Clerk Superior Court,
JAMES M. BARNWELL.
Clerk Inferior Court,
WILLIAM CARROLL.
Ordinarii,
BIRDSONG TOLLESON.
Muscogee Democratic-Anti Know Noth
ing Convention.
We notice in the Times & Sentinel of the
Ist. instant, a call numerously signed, for a Con
vention in Muscogee County, to nominate can
didates for the next Legislature.
Among the names, wo see that of an old
friend, and one as true to the South and the
Constitution, as ever man was, or can be—Peter
son Thweatt, Esq., u State Rights Whig, of the
Old Line. If we be not misinformed, the gen
tleman referred to, is the author of certain ar
ticles which have a wide reputation in Georgia,
originally published in the “Constitutionalist,
of Augusta over the signature, “An Old Line
Whig.” We have no other authority for this,
than rumor, a jade that deceives many. But
be this as it may, in the advocacy of Constitu
tional principles, und in opposition to the re
verse, our friend Thweatt may always be coun
ted on as a .'•urc one. May he live long to fight
the foes of State Rights, and the. Constitution
bequeathed to us, by our Revolutionary sires.
A Ring from the Bottom of the Ocean.—
We learn that, Capt. Hughes, of the schr. D.
B. Warner, on his passage from New York to
Charleston, in about 29 fathoms water. 40 miles
northeast of Frysuf Pan Sholes, in hauling up
the deep sea lead, found attached to the bottom
of it a gold ring, set with red stone, which he
now has in his possession. An occurrence of
the kind is seldom heard of.
A southerner writes to the New York Daily
Tribunk. calling attention to the following com
parison In the year 1790 the population of
Georgia was 82.090, and the year 1850 it was
906,000,an increase of eleven fold in sixty years.
In 1790 the population of New York was 340.-
000. and in 1850 it was 3,097.000, being on in-1
creaae of nine fold in sixty ywn.
THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL AND NEWS PAPER IN THE SOUTH—A WEEKLT FIRESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
New Goods.
We dropped in to see the new stock of Wm.
Herring & Son, and found enough of interest to
detain us some time. Their supply of clothing
is the most complete we have seen, and persons
desirious of re-fitting the “outer man” can be
supplied with articles in that line at prices cor
responding to the teste and pocket of the wear
er. See advertisement in another column.
Havana Plan Lottery.
The Capital Prize S-drawn at Concert Hall,
in Macon, Ga., on the 3d of September, in the
Jasper County Academy Lottery, were distrib
uted as follows:
No. 2473 -- - sl2,ooo*in -- - Macon, Ga
“ 1817 -- - 5,000 “ -- - Cleveland, O.
“ 2921 -- - 3,000 “ - - Lynchburg Va-
“ 603 -- - - 1,200 “ - Brooklyn, N. Y.
“ 4772 -- - 1,100 “ - Vicksburg, Miss.
Judicial Convention at Newnan.
At a meeting of the Anti-Know Nothing, and
Democratic Party of Fulton County held at
the City Hall on yesterday, Dr. B. F. Bomar
was called to the chair, and T. M. Cox Esq.,
appointed Secretary. The object of the meet
ing was explained by the chairman, whereupon
the following gentlemen were appointed dele*
gates to represent this County, in the Judicial
Convention, to nominate a candidate for Judge
of this Circuit; which Convention is to be held
in Newnan on Monday next.
A. Batterree, J. I. Whitaker
Sami. B. Hoyt, D. Mayer,
E. B. Reynolds.
New Music.
Jeannie Marsh of Cherry Valley, song and Cho
rus ; words by Gen. Morris; Music by Thos.
Baker.
When Morris suffers his name to be attached
to a piece of Music, we are generally satisfied
of its worth, without further examination; but
we have felt enough interest in this piece, being
aware that Jeannie is a bona fide Jeannie, and
not the creation of the General's fancy, to in
duce a lady friend to perform it for us, and are
prepared to pronounce it entirely worthy the
authors of the words and music. Enclose 25
cents to Horace Waters, 333 Broadway, N. Y.,
and secure a copy.
“Our Boys" Polka, by James Beliak; Horace
Waters, publisher, 333 Broadway, N. Y.—
price 25 cents.
This is a fine Polka, and should grace the
portfolio of every performer who desires to keep
up with the times.
Fine Cigars.
We have been presented with a selection of
several brands of fine cigars, from the manufac
tory of Mr. Simms, of Newnan, Ga., and after
a fair trial are able to pronounce them altogeth
er superior to many of the brands of more pop
ular use. We have some curiosities in this line,
at our office, yclept “ Bachelor’s Comforts,”
which might interest some of our friends who
appreciate the weed. Mr. Simms, imports his
tobacco, and employs Cubans to manufacture
it into cigars, and we cannot see why, under
the circumstances, they should not receive the
attention of smokers, more particularly as they
are furnished at a much lower rate than the
Havana article, while they are quite as good.
A Handsome Present.
If, like many of our brethren of the press, we
were disposed to murmur at the hardness of our
editorial lot, and the perplexities which beset
our path, we could not, in justice to many of our
friends, make a public expression of it; for,
while we do not know that we are more favored
than t|;e rest of the tribe, we are certainly the
recipients of many substantial manifestations of
the appreciation which our efforts to please our
subscribers meet at their bands. This is par
ticularly gratifying to us, at this time, when
personal feeling enters so largely into the cam
paign. and subjects us to so much vituperation
from our opponents; but it is still more grati
fying when these favors come from the ladies.—
Just now we have to repeat our obligations to
Mrs. M. E. Tench, of Coweta county, for an
other present, which is not the less welcome
from its invigorating qualities. We know she
will approve our decision when we say that we
have set it aside to discuss the night of John
son’s election. We have no fears of the result
in Coweta, all the ladies are Democrats.
Mass Meeting at Griffin.
We will not undertake to give a description
of the Mass Meeting at Griffin, on Thursday
last. We leave that to the “Empire State.’
satisfied that our brother Gaulding will do am
ple justice to it. and to the distinguished gen
tlemen, Messrs. Stephens, Ward, and Styles,
who addressed the people on the occasion.
Suffice it now to say that it was a grand de
monstration of the power of. and enthusiasm ani
mating the Anti-Know Nothing Democracy of
that section of our State. The thousands who
were present there as a unit will manifest their
determination to maintain inviolate the Consti
tution at the polls, and not only to defeat Know
Nothingism at the ballot box. but to make
that defeat a Waterloo one. “horse, foot and
dragoons.”
Our brother Gaulding's report of the meeting,
we shall spread before our readers, as soon as it
is received. Till then we hope they will be sat
isfied with our simple assertion that the de
mocracy of the third and fourth Congressional
Districts need not be apprehensive of the result-
All that is required from this to the day. and
on the day of election, is that every man shall
do his duty. That done, and WARNER,
and SMITH, and JOHNSON, our State
• “Standard Bearer,” will carry these districts
by a majority larger than our friends, who are
most sanguine, now anticipate.
Hoes in Kentucky.—According to returns
to the auditor of Kentucky, there are in that
' State, this year. 1.440.266 hogs over six months
old. against 1.682.244 last year. This decrease
in number is attributed to the short crop of corn
last year, which compelled many to kill that
I otherwise would have kept them a year'longer.
I The quantity of pork raised in the State the
| present season, however, will undoubtedly ex-
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBERS, 1855.
TheTMeeting at the Athenanun.
L We were most agreeably surprised on our
return last Thursday night, from the Mass
Meeting, at Griffin, to see the Athemeum crowd
ed from “the top to the bottom." and our late
distinguished representative in Congress from
the sixth district, the Hon. J unius Hillyer ad
dressing the audience. It would be hard to find
a gentleman any where so capable of stripping
Know Nothingism of all its covering, and ex
posing it in its naked deformity to an enquirer
after truth. We, however, were not permitted
to hear only the closing remarks of this able
champion of our cause, for from the out-door
excitement and cheering of our friends who
were escorting Mr. Stephens to the Athemeum,
the speaker closed his remarks. We hope
though he will again favor Atlanta by deliver
ing another address to its citizens.
As soon as the Hon. A. H. Stephens entered
the Athenaeum, the audience rose, and cheer al
ter cheer told how welcome he was, and what a
hold he has upon the affections of the people.
Although greatly fatigued, having spoken near
ly four hours at Griffin in the morning and af
ternoon of the same day, he yet for more than
an hour enchained the attention of theaudienee
with an exposition of the Secret Order, its as
saults upon the Constitution—and its posi
tion in reference to the Kansas Nebraska bill.
In this hurried notice we shall have to passover
much that we are compelled to omit. To sum
up the whole, it was a powerful effort, and told
against the “Order” upon the judgment of all
who were present, save those who are determin
ed not to be convinced. Upon the Anti-Know
Nothing democracy of Fulton, this address of
the gallant STEPHENS has had the effect of
causing each man to redouble his exertions in
the cause of the South and the Constitution—
the result of which will be told at the polls.
A Victim Found at Last.
The Know Nothings of the Eighth Con
gressional District, after soliciting many gen
tlemen to accept their nomination for Congress,
have at last induced Col. LaFayette Lamar, of
Lincoln county to consent to receive the distin
guished honor of opposing Mr. Stephens and
taking, as a necessary consequence, the worst
political drubbing upon record. The choice is
an excellent one, and reflects credit upon the
untiring perseverence of the order in the Eighth-
They have at last found the only man in the
District who would accept their nomination,
and for the reason that he is the only man who
has nothing to lose by it. Col. Lamar is a clev
er enough gentleman; of second rate ability as
a Lawyer, and never has before aspired to po
litical distinction, for the admirable reason that
he has never, before, fallen into hands that dared
to tell him that he had any of the requisite
qualities for success in that line
No one will presume to say that Col. Lamar
is Mr. Stephen’s equal in anything that goes
to make a statesman. We have no disposition
reflect upon his intelligence as a man, or his
qualities as a gentleman, but we must say that
the American party, in his nomination have
insulted the good sense of the voters of the
Eighth Congressional District by placing such
a man before them in opposition to Mr. Ste
phens. He will not receive the support of a
single member of the order who feels the obli
gation incumbent upon every voter to cast his
ballot for men competent to legislate for the
good of the country. They cannot, in view of
this obligation throw away their votes upon
Col. Lamar, and the nominating Council knew
it when they placed his name before the peo
ple.
But there is another view of this matter.—
the nomination of Col. Lamar is an act of tyr
anny towards the members of the order sworn
to support the nominee of the council, which is
unparalleled in the history of Southern politics
Here are then who have sufficient confidence in
the leaders of the party to which they are at
tached to swear that they will support any
man whom they choose to place before them.
How is that confidence abused by the nomina
tion of a man unskilled in the affairs of govern
ment and totally unequal to the task of their
management! But, if they vote at all, they
must vote for Lamar ; they cannot vote for
Stephens! What an alternative to present to
freemen. Not all the puffing they can give
their candidate can delude the most ignorant
man in the order into the belief that he is com
petent to discharge the duties of the post to
which he aspires, or that he approaches in hail
ing distance of his opponent in the requisites
of a Representative in Congress, and yet in a
choice between the two, they arc compelled to
vote for such a man as Lamar! They must
cither give up their elective privilege, or pros
titute it to the gratification of a malicious spite
their leaders have against Mr. Stephens, who
have put up Col. Lamar in a weak attempt to
annoy him.
This is not the first instance of the policy of
the order to place men of small calibre in oppo
sition to our candidates who have universally
been selected from the front rank of talent and
distinguished ability. Varnadoc, in the First,
against Seward; Hill in the Fourth, against
Warner; Tumlin, in the Fifth, against Lump
kin ; and Lamar in the Eighth against Stephens!
—“pigmies attempting to stride with giantsl”
God help the South, if her interests are entrust
ed into such hands.
Jarni-s C. Thompson, of Albany. New York,
has received the appointment of Chief Engineer
of the Russian Navy and is now in Washington,
making the necessary arrangements with the
Russian Minister. The offer is made for three
years, at a salary of S6OOO per annum, with
house rent free.
The Last of Rurgoyne'sArmy.—Alexander
McCracken, a Scotchman by birth, and who
came to this country during the revolution .with
Bnrgoyne, and taken prisoner with his army,died
at Colchester. Conn., ontne23 iust.. in the 124th
year of his age.
A man named Brown has been arrested at
Galena on a charge of bigamy. “He loved not
winly, but two walk"
[ Communicate. J
Messrs. Editors :— Gentlemen— l notice in
the “Discipline” of the sth iust., an article hea
ded, “The Mails, saying they had received
letters from several of their subscribers, notify
ing them that the American Discipline did not
reach them regularly. The editor appears to be
at a loss to know how this is. but they smell
“something rotten in Denmark,” as they send
their paper regularly to the Post Office, plainly
directed.
Now it is a w-ell known fact that the prin
cipal asistant Post Master at this place
and the one who distributes most of the
mails is a Whig and a Know Nothing. The
fault, then, must be somewhere else, as they
would not charge one of their own party of
acting in bad faith; and as I am somewhat
connected with the mails, I hope the editor will
give the public a list of the names who have
been thus wronged, and their post offices, in or
der that the fellow who struck their own es
teemed friend, Billy Patterson, may be detected
Should it fall on me, it is your duty, as good
citizens and editors of a public journal to report
the facts to the Post Master General, or so me
one of the special agents, that the wrong may
be righted. What we desire is that the.case be
made out plainly, in order that the public may
not censure all who are connected with the mails
either as Post Masters or Route Agents.—
Come out, gentlemen, as honorable, high-minded
men should do, and let us have the names and
Post Office, and we will be content with the re.
suit.
ROUTE AGENT, State Road. I
[communicated.]
“We give it as a sample of the hypocricy and
base falsehood which characterises the editorial
columns of Johnson’s home organ. There is
falsehood and slander enough in the article from
which we clip the paragraph, to render the wri
ter insolvent, and incarcerate his body in prison
for life.”
The American Discipline, in noticing an ex
tract from the Federal Union, disgorges itself
of the above elegant combination of words.—
The italics are ours, which we use for the pur
pose of clearly illustrating the ability of that
paper to properly observe fixed usages of gram
mar. Then, how elegant his diction in refe
rence to the editor of the L T nion! Whose body
he would have incarcerated in prison Why.
brother Discipline, you have never read much
Latin, nor have you studied the English vocab
ulary to much advantage, else you had not
conceived such an idea as incarceration in pris
on. Could you incarcerate elsewhere ? Web
ster says incarcerated means “to confine in jail.”
See the Latin word for prison.
We are are not surprised that a writer, who,
in six lines, will make three such blunders as
above described, should be deemed a lit editor
for Know Nothings. A.
communicated.
To the Editor of<the Examiner:
Having listened attentively to the address of
Mr. Glenn on Saturday evening, before the De
mocratic Association, I unhesitatingly pro
nounce it one of the best argumentative, brief and
eloquent speeches, delivered before the Society,
and would urge its publication for general dis
tribution ; confident there is not a man, woman
or child in the whole South, whose life, liberty,
and pursuit of happiness, are not identified in
the great undeniable truths he invokes. Its
publication by the Society can do much good
and I would urge a general subscription, there
fore, I subscribe ten dollars for a general dis
tribution, and five dollars, to have it printed on
Satin and presented to every Know Nothing
lodge in the State, with the declaration to eve
ry Know Nothing who denies its great truths,
and disregards its behests, cannot, will not, prove
a true friend to the best interests of the South.
DO SOMETHING.
COMMUNICATED.
Vermont always Faithful.
This State whose elections for the last forty
years were al ways heralded with exultation by
the opposition party of the South (alias Whig,
alias Know Nothing, alias American) as being
with us. She has never failed to send a full
delegation of abolitionists to Congress.
“The tree is known by its fruit.”
What has been the result of this exultation
of the South ? W hat has been the cncoura ge
ment of Northern whigs in their wild hunt for
office? When the writer left the Northern
States there were 16 abolitionists in Congress ;
now it numbers 121. Still keep the ball in mo
tion my Know Nothing friends in your wild
hunt for office and the last remaining prop of
the North in support of Southern rights will
have fallen. DO SOMETHING.
COMMUNICATED.
Abolition Villainy.
There must exist in the Northern regions, a
great proportion of villainy or a numerous class
of citizens most naturally and philosophically
Know Nothings, to reconcile the following pro
ceedings of Indiana, with the inveterate, igno
minious crusade of cut throat abolitionists.
A Law exists iu Indiana prohibiting under a
penalty, any negro or mulatto from entering the
State. James P. Brow a free colored man. of
Ohio travelling westward, stopped at Fort
Waytie, when he was arrested, fined SlO and
cost, and in default of payment, sent to jail.—
Indiana is a free State.
DO SOMETHING.
COMMUNICATED.
Mr. Editor : Has it ever occurred to you
the probable cause why there exists in the
breasts of some a cordial dislike and hatred to
our foreign population ? Is it for any other
cause than they are generally firm, unflinching
Democrats ? In the days of Marion—History
tells ns DeKalb. Pulaski, and a host of for
eigners were hunted by a zealous band—are
any of their descendants engaged in the same
hunt? DO SOMETHING.
Security Against Railroad Accidents.—
In Great Britain all railroads pass under or over
eommon roads, and the track is securely fenced in,
so that no animal can stay before’a train which
in this covnty a ths coansos oause of railroad
[ Written for the Examiner.]
The Sunny South.
BY MONA.
Land ol the South! my own dear home!
The spot so fraught, with beauty’s light;
There’s not beneath the heaven’s pure, dome
A land so pleasing to the sight.
The sun beams forth his softest rays.
And gentlest zephyrs waft the breeze;
A streamlet ’midst each meadow plays,
And luscious fruits bedeck the trees.
Great mountains raise their hoary heads
Al! crowned with ever living green;
Proud rivers rush o’er stony beds
And add new bejuty to the scene.
The jasmine spreads its fragrance round,
While summer breezes softly play
O’er every gently rising mound,
With sweet and softly murm’ringriay
The air seems laden with perfume,
Far sweeter than from Ceylon’s isle;
Here’s always beauty without gloom—
On lovelier land, light ne’er will smile.
There’s grandeur in each gentle swell
Or steep of lofty green lull-side;
There’s loveliness in every dell
That lifts the soul with noblest pride
The mighty torrents dash and foam,
As down the mountain’s gorge they rush,
And when I gaze upon my home
My very life-throb seems to hush.
r
Sublimity ! aye thou art here,
’Midst craggy heights and waters foam ;
I would not dwellbeyond thy sphere,
Through other lands I 4 need not roam.
Bright sunny South 1 Oh glorious land 1
Let other climes their tributes bring.
Thy name may scandal’s tongues ne’er brand
But all the earth tliy praises sing.
Newnan Ga.
[Written for the Examiner.]
April and December.
BY ADIE.
In the valley, where the shadows
Os the rock rest on the wave,
Wild vines, with radient, flowers
Cluster round the mountain cave;
Where the silvery moonlight sleeping
fin the gems the night is weeping
And the holy stars above
Their mute vigils keep of love;
Where the wild birds sweetly Bing
Where the gushing fountains spring.
And the breeze sighs through the bowers
Sweet with kisses from the flowers;
There I dwelt, and dreamed of heaven.
And upon that lakelets share,
First embraced that earth-born angel
My evangel, Elinore!
In the valley where the shadow
Os the gathering tempest frown,
Ami the turbid wintry’ torrent
Comes rebounding echoing dowon;
Where the lightning’s luried glow
Shows the inky flood below;
Where witii crash like planets riven
Rolls the thunder drum of heaven ;
Where the footsteps of the storm
Crush the giant oak-tree’s form,
And spirits of by-gone days
Sadly moan in gloomy lays;
Where I roam and ponder sadly
On the bliss that all is o'er,
And at night sleep cold and lonely
On the grave of Elinore !
White Path Ga.
Hon. Alfred Iverson.
In compliance with an invitation extended
this distinguished gentleman, he addressed a
very large and intelligent audience of our fel
low citizens iu Concert Hall on Saturday morn
ing last. It was indeed a splendid and power
ful effort, worthy of the man and of his fame.
Os imposing presence; graceful in action and
manner ; a voice of great power and of singular
sweetness, he impressed his hearers as much by
the felicity of his style and appositeness of his
illustrations, as by his broad and statesmanlike
propositions and his logical and unanswerable
deductions. We do not propose, for want of
time and space, to follow him throughout his
greaLargument, or his expositions and analysis
of the various elements that have entered into
all parties that have sought power from the
times of Adams and Jefferson down to the
present day. He showed that the same intol
erance that characterized the administration of
the elder Adams, was now raging in the Amer
ican party, with the additional element of reli
gious proscription, the most dangerous and de
moralizing in its effects that had ever entered
into American politics, always excepting the
Abolition doctrines of the American party
North. England, more than sixty years ago.
had cast off, as unworthy of the age, the gar
ments of religious proscription all seared by the
fires of persecution; and the singular and mor
tifying spectacle Was presented, without exam
ple in our history, of a portion of the American
people, in the 19th century, an age of civil and
religious liberty, taking up the exploded dog
mas of Monarchial England, and advocating
them with more than fanatical zeal. In the
language of Burke in a speech on similar is
sues, “We are told that this is not a religious
persecution, and its abettors are loud in dis
claiming ail severities on account of conscience;
***** they are not perse
cutors ; they are only tyrants.” Speaking of
Sir George Savile's act for removing Catholic
disabilities, the same great statesman and ora
tor said that in its effects it was “an act for
tolerating and protecting Protestantism through
out Europe.” We must close our remarks by
expressing the hope, that a speech so pregnant
with profound and statesmanlike views, may
be given to the public, that the Southern mind
may lie made to understand and comprehend
the' true and vital issues affecting its interests.
—Georgia Telegraph, 28th.
Thk Louisville Exodus.—The Chicago
Demmocrat says that J. T. Speed. Esq., for sev
eral years prior to the present, mayor of Louis
ville, has removed to Chicago. The Democrat
adds: “He'is one of a veryflarge number of weal
thy and refined gentlemen who have recently
come hither from Kintucky, or who, within the
last ten days, have baen making arrangmonts
for the removal of their familias and capital to
tMs efty.”
Madiboc, Aug. 30, 1855.—The Wisconsin
Democratic State Convention to-day nominated
Governor Barstow for iWectioa by 108 votes
«m of a®.
GeueraljCaf«s''on£Know Nothing
ism and the Power of Congress
over the Territories.
Below will be found a letter from < Jcneral
Cass, defining fully and clearly his views upon
Know-nothingism and the powtfr of Congress
over the Territories:
Detroit, Aug. 22,1855.
To the Editor of the Detroit Free Press :i
Sir : The public journals contain a letter dat
ed July 24th, written by General Houston,
which has just met my eye, and in which he
says he perceives, by the papers of the day,
that “General Cass has approved the platform
of the American Order, as proclaimed to the
world by the convention at Philadelphia.” I
had observed the statements to which General
Houston alludes, and let them pass unnoticed,
for it would be a hopeless task to endeavor to
correct all the misapprehensions, and misrepre
sentations to which it is my lot, as well as that
of all other public men, to be exposed in these
days of party strife. And, indeed, I could not
suppose that such assertions would deceive any
one who had heard or had read my re
marks in the Senate of the United States,
on the sth of February last upon the
presenntation of the Legislature of Michigan
instructing the senators of that State to vote
au act of Congress prohibiting the introduction
of slavery into the Territories of the Unital
States. Upon that occasion, while declining to
comply with those instructions, I took the op
portunity to express my sentiments in relation
to the new political movement, which sought
to acquire and exercise power by secret com
binations, bound together by the sanction of
an oath, which, it is said, made it the duty of
its members to surrender their individual con
victions to the expressed will of a major
ity of their associates. I then observed :
'“Strange doctrines are abroad, and strange
organizations are employed to promulgate and
enforce them. Our political history contains
no such chapter in the progress of our country,
as that which is now opening. The questions
of constitutionality and policy, which have
been so long the battle-cry of parties, are con
temptuously rejected, and intolerance, religious
and political, feuds zealous, and it may be they
will prove sucessful, advocates in this middle of
the nineteenth century, boastiug with much
self-complacency of its intelligence, and in this
free country, founded upon immigration, and
powerful by tolerations * * * We want
no new parties, no new platforms, no new or
ganizations, and the sooner these dangerous ef
forts are abandoned, the better will it be for us,
and for those who are to follow us in this herit
age of freedom.”
I might well suppose after the expression of
these views upon the floor of the Senate, and
under circumstances of peculiar responsibility,
that any further action on my part would be
unnecessary to prove my consistency, as a dis
ciple of the school of Washington, and Jeffer
son, and Madison, and Jackson, in the re
jection of a dangerous innovation, inconsistent
with all the principles those patriots taught,
and which, in effect, aims to transfer the great
political duty of an American citizen from the
light of day, where it should be exercised in
this land of freedom, to secret conclaves, as un
friendly to calm investigation, as to wise and
patriotic decision. But the extract from the
letter of General Honston have shown me that
these reports have received more credit than I
had believed, and this consideration have in
duced me thus publicly to notice and to contra
dict them. My opinions, indeed, upon any
subject are but of little consequence except to
myself, but, if they are worth referring to, they
are worth the trouble of making the reference
a true one.
1 have no sympathy with this plan of polit
ical organization—none whatever; neither with
the means it employs, nor the objects it seeks to
attain. Its secrecy, its oath-bound obligations,
its control of the ballot-box, its system of pro
scription; striking both at political rights and
religious duties, and its inevitable tendency to
array one portion of the community agaiust
another, and to carry deadly feuds into every
corner of the land, of which we have just had a
terrible proof, written in characters of blood,
and are doomed to have many more, if this
movement goes on, for this is but the instal
ment of death, and now many others are to fol
low, and to what extent, and when the last is
to be paid, and after what lamentable viscissi
tudes, is known only to Him who foresees
events and can control them—these character
istics mark it as the most dangerous scheme
which has ever been introduced into this country
to regulate its public action or its social condi
tion. It is the Orangeism of a republic, scarce
ly better in principle than its monarchical pro
totype—of a republic whose freedom and
equality justily as little as they invite the in
troduction of a machinery whose operation is
concealed from public observation, but whose
consequences are as clear as they are alarm
ing.
Gen. Houston gives credence to the report
that I approve “the platform of the American
order, as proclaimed to the world by the Con
vention at Philadelphia.” I am aware that
changes have been made, both in the name and
in some of the principles of this new organiza
tion. But these changes do not remove my
objectiods to it Its spirit of exclusion and in
tolerance remains, and, with it. its evils and
dangers. It is a book to which I cannot be
reconciled, whatever edition, whether the old
one or the new one, is offered to me. There,
is indeed, one principle laid down in that con
vention which meets my concurrence, and that
is, the declaration that “Congress ought not to
legislate upon the subject of slavery, within
the territory of the United States.’ I regret,
however, that the body which thus pronounced
agaiust the exercise of the power did not also
pronunce its existence, but carefully pretermit
ted—to use its own words —the expression of
any opinion upon that point. Still. I approve
its action upon the subject, so far as it goes.—
It is a step in the right direction, and I should
rejoice to see it followed by every political par
ty in our country. It is a step, too, towards
the security of political rights—this opposition
to the legislation of Congress over the internal
affairs of the people of the Territories, and,
among others, over the relation of master and
servant, or that of husband and wife, or parent
and child ; for these matters of domestic policy
are subjects which should lie left to the Ter
ritorial communities, and to divest them of the
power to regulate them, is an act of uumitigat.
ed despotism. The negation of all power of
interference by Congress in the internal govern
ment of the Territories is the true constitution
al doctrine, and the only safe and practical one,
and I om rejoiced, that, after years of opposi
tion—of obloquy, indeedi t is fast establishing
itself upon impregnable grounds.
The misapprehension which has prevailed
upon this grave subject is among the most ex
traordinary political events of my time. One
would naturally suppose, that in this country,
the dogma of internal government by an irre
sponsible legislature over a distant community,
unrepresented in the ruling body, would find
but little favor, and that the power to establish
and put in operation a government might well
be defended, while the power to control all the
concerns of human life would be left without
an advocate. The difference is broad and prac
tical and should be the dearer to us, as it was
the very consideration urged by our Revolu
tionary fathers in their contest with the mother
country, which began by argument, but ended
by ann». It «aa KMrtad m early at 1774,
when the Continental Congress declared that
the English colonists “ are entitled to free and
exclusive power of legislation in their several
provincial legislatures, where their right of rep
resentation can alone be preserved, in all cases
of taxation apd internal policy, &c,” In that
great struggle, the patriots who conducted it
conceded to the British Parliament the author
ity to organize colonial government. but de
nied their right to touch the internal policy of
the people. At.d for the support of that, great
principle, denied and derided as it is now, they
went to war.
I observe that a highly respectable and intel
ligent gentleman, Governor 11 unt, of New York,
in a letter just published, speaks of the Nebras
ka bill as “based on the bsurd theory of ter
ritorial sovereignty.” I never heard a man
support that measure or approve it for such a
reason. Gov. Hunt has mistaken the sneers of
its enemies for the views of its friends. The
Nebraska bill rests upon no such theory—upon
no theory at all, but upon the stanle foundation
of the federal constitution, and of the natural
rights of man.
I know of no one who claims sovereignty for
the Territories. All concede their dependence
upon the United States. But within this rela
tion, there are mutual rights and duties, and the
questions—what power may Congress lawfully
exercise, and are ti e people of the Territories
divested of all rights—must be determined, not
by politico-metaphysical considerations, arising
out of the attribute of sovereignty, but by the
Constitution of the United States. To the
law, and to the testimony. By the Constitution,
the general government is a government, not
only of granted, but limited powers, and Con
gress can exercise no authority which is not
given by the great charter that brought it into
existence. Let any man put his finger upon
the clause of that instrument which confers this
power of internal interference, and 1 will aban
don the principle, as long as it has been cher
ished by me, and that in many years, as will
appear by reference to the Globe of March 31st,
1852, which contains an article written by me,
and entitled, “ A Review of the Opinion of
“the Supreme Court in the Cherokee case.”
In that article I observe, that tho claus< of
the Constitution authorizing Congress “ t# dis
pose of and make all needful rules and regula
tions respecting the Territory or other proper
ty of the United States, refers to Territorial
rights, and grants no jurisdiction over persons.”
Among other things I say : “ The power to
dispose of and make needful rules and regula
tions respecting, the Territory and other prop
erty of the United States, and the power to
exercise general jurisdiction over persons upon
it, arc essentially different and independent.—
The former is general, and is given in the clause
referred to, the latter is special and is found in
another clause, and is confined to the federal
tract, (the District of Columbia,) and to places
purchased by consent of the Ilegislature of the
State in which the same shall be, for the erec
tion of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards,
and other needful buildings.” This is the same
doctrine subsequently advocated, and more fully
developed, in my N icholson letter. I repeat
that this power of internal legislation cannot
be found in the Constitution, and vain have
been the efforts, by pressing into its service a
thousand and one expressions in that instrument,
to prove it to be there; a diversity of reference
which, of itself, furnishes a strong presumption
against the authority, even if there were no
other grounds of objection.
' Judge McLean, of the Supreme Court of the
United Slates, in some considerations published
by him upon this subject, and to which I have
elsewhere referred, well remarked, that “ there
is no specific power in the Constitution which
authorizes the organization of Territorial gov
ernments.” He adds; “If this power be im
plied from the specific power to regulate the
disposition of the public lands, it must, under
the above rule, be limited to means suitable to
the ends in view. If Congress go beyond this,
in the organization of a Territorial government,
they act without limitation, and may establish
a monarchy. Admit that they inay organize
a government which shall protect the land pur
chased, and provide for the administration of
justice among the settlers, it does by no means
follow that they may establish slavery.” .1 udge
McLean here brings the Constitution of the
United States to the support of the good old
revolutionary doctrine, that the right to estab
lish Colonics or Territories does not carry with
it the just power to interfere with and regulate
the domestic concerns of the people who inhab
it them. He pronounces slavery to be one of
these concerns, saying that “it is a municipal
relation of limited extent, and of an equally lim
ited origin. It is a domestic relation over
which the federal government can exercise no
control.
1 have never known the time when the Demo
cratic party was called upon by higher conside
rations to adhere, faithfully and zealously, to
their organization and their principles, than
they are at this day. Our confederation is
passing through the most severe trial that it has
yet undergone. Unceasing efforts are making
to excite hostile and sectional feelings, against
which we were prophetically warmed by the
Father of his Country, and if these are success
ful, the days of the Constitution arc numbered.
The continued assaults upon the South, upon
its character, its constitutional rights, and its
institutions, and the systematic jierscvcrance
and the bitter spirit with which these are pur
sued, while they warn the Democratic party of
the danger should also incite it to united and
vigorous action. They warn it, too, that the
time has come when all other differences which
may have divided it should give way to the du
ty of defending the Constitution, and when
that great party, coeval with the government,
should be united as one man for the accom
plishment of the work to which it is now called,
and before it is too late. It is the American
party, for it has neither sectional prejudices nor
sectional preferences, and its care and its efforts
extend wherever the Constitution of its country
extends, with equal regard to the rightsand in
terests of all. 1 believe the fate of this great
republic is now in its hands, and, so believing,
I earnestly hope that its action will be firm,
prompt, and united, yielding not one hair’s
breadth of its time honored principles, and resist
ing to the last the dangerous eflbrts with which
we are menaced; and, if so, the victory of the
Constitution, 1 doubt not, will be achieved.
I am. Sir, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
LEWIS CASS.
Hostility in Embryo.
A correspondent of the Montgomery Mail,
in a letter dated Livingston, Alabama, August
26th. says:
Gov. Winston is likely to get into a “muss,”
so says “Madam Rumor.” A gentleman in
Gainesville remarked, during the absence of his
Excellency, that “ John Anthony tried to
join the Know Nothings.” The Governor pro
nounced it “a he." The gentleman sent him a
written communication. This the Governor
declined, on the ground that he did not consider
the writer a gentleman. The bearer of the
commnnicatioii inquired of his Excellency, “Do
you consider me a gentleman?” The reply
was, “I do.” So far as heard from, the matter
stands in statu quo. Mr. H. W. Watt is the
gentleman from whom Col. W. refused to re
ceive a written communication on the ground
above stated. Dr. A. G. Weston was the
bearer of the communication, and is the gentle
man who now temahM bi statu quo with his
ftaoUtacy.
WM. KA/ PROPRIETOR
NUMBER 5.
To the Public.
The last time the Proprietor of the Georgian
had occasion to apjiear before the public in self
defence, against mo«t malignant and libelous
attacks in the Savannah Republican on his pri
vate character, he respectfully stated to his
friends and fellow citizens that knowing himself
to be innocent, he would be able, within a rea
sonable time, to bring satisfactory evidence that
the grossly libellous charges made against him
were without a shadow of foundation. It is in
fulfilment of this promise and in deference to
the people of .Savannah and of Georgia, among
whom he has so long resided, that he hastens
to lay before them the following dispatch re
ceived yesterday morning:
Charleston, Sept. 1,12 M.
P. J. Punch, Esq.—Sir: We find a credit
of three dollars paid by you for a Certificate of
your Declaration of Intention to become a citi
zen, on Mr. Horiheck’s Cash Book, dated sth
July, 1850. Txiok for Certificate to this effect
by mail.
N ORTHRcr & Allkmonob, Att'ys.
Since the above was written, the following
additional dispatch has been received:
Charleston, Sept. 1, 9.30 P. M.
P. J. Punch, Esq.:
Sir : We have found your original paper, de
claring your intention to become a citizen, filed
away m the name of Bunch. Expect letter by
mail.
Northrup & Allemonor, Att'vs.
The Proprietor of the Georgian forbears
comment on this singular transaction till the
certified papers shall have arrived. He feels it
his duty, however, hero to state that he has rea
son to believe that a deep-laid conspiracy has
been formed against him in the secret political
organization of the Order of Know Notliings,
the length and breadth of which the people do
not even dream , but which will be fully exposed
at the proper time.— Sav. Georgian.
Drath of an Old Citizen,—Mrs. Elizabeth
Lewis Gilmer died on Thursday morning in this
county, at the residence of her son-in-law, B. 8.
Bibb, nt the extreme age of 92 years. She was
a.nativeof Virginia, and the year after her mar
riage to Thomas M. Gilmer, moved to Broad
River in Georgia. Peachy R. Gilmer md
Charles L, Gilmer of this county, W. B. S.
Gilmer of Chambers county, Gen. J. J. Gilmer
of Tallassee, Thos. Lewis Gilmer of Columbus,
Miss,, Mrs. Judge Bibb of this county, and Ex-
Governor George R. Cilmer, arc among her
Childern. The death of Charles L. Gilmer, her
sixth son, was the first in her family for 50 years.
Her husband died in 1817, and she consequently
was a widow for 38 years. We extract the fol
lowing notice of her from the recent work of her
son, George R. Gilmer, of Georgia:
•!She still cnioys the good things of life with
a pleasant relish. She has endured its evils with
unfailing patience. Maliceand envy seem never
to have found a resting place with her for a mo
ment. Cheerfulness constantly shines in her
face, and is heard in her voice. Iler gentle spirit
of her kindness. Charity covers the faults
of others from her sight, w'hilst gratitude is ever
filling her heart far fogiveness of her own.!’—
Montgomery Advertiser.
Ex-President Quincy.—A private letter
from Boston, (says the New York Evening
Post,) which has been put into our hands by a
friend to whom it was addressed says:
“Mr. mentioned to me yesterday a pleas-
ant fact of recent occurrence connected witn our
venerable friend, ex-Prcsident Quincy. It seems
that the father of Mr. Quincy, who died in
1775, had made his will a boquest of S,OOO to
Harvard College in case his only son Josiah,
died before be attained his majority. This fact
was recently brought to the notice of President
Quincy by Mo. W inthorp, when Nr. Quincy
remarked that he seould be sorry to have the
college suffer becaus his wife was preserved and
he immediately gave the college SIO,OO for the
purpose of publishing the doings of the astrono
mical observers at the college observatory.
Each volume published from this fund is to be
marked us having been published from the be
quest of'Josiah Quincy, a patriot of the revolu
tion.' The charming old gentleman, now in the
84 th year of his age, is as bright und active as a
man of forty’ His long life hits been crowded
with acts of patriotism and usefulness. May ho
be still longer spared a noble example to the
young men of the times I”
Brtk,. The St. Ixmis Democrat contains an
account of several daring attempts to swindle
merchants in that, city, made by a man named
Wm. Houser, who repesented himself to be the
government agent for Creek Indians, and wished
to purchase a lot of firearms and accoutrements
for the use of the government. He also at
tempted to sell $5(1,000 worth of bounty-land
warrants issued to the Cherokee Indians. On
inquiry at the office of Indian affairs, we learn
that the statement in the St. Louis Daily Dem
ocrat is correct, and also that this office had
been telegrahed to for information as to whether
Wm. Houser is agent for the Crock Indians,
ami whether he is authorised to draw on the de
partment. Subsequently a letter was received
from the banking-house to whom he offered the
bounty-land warrants. Mr. Mix, acting commis
sioner, immediately placed the required informa
tion in the hands of these parties, which has led
to his arrest. His place of residence is Van
Buren, Arkansas.
Mr. Greeley, of the Tribune, sometimes for
gets his isms, and confesses to a natural prejudice
against the association of whites and negroes. In
a recent letter, describing the Cremorn Garden
at London, he says:
“The English are not skilful in varnishing
vice— at least I have seen no evidence of their
tact in that line. I have endured the spectacle
of men dancing with woman when rather berry
und smoking, but at last the sight of a dark and
by no means elegant mulatto, waltzing with a
decent looking white girl, while puffing away ut
a rather bud segar, proved too much for my
Yankee prcjudiceand I started.”
Dn. Stone. —We learn from the Norfolk
Beacon that Dr. Warren Stone, of this city left
Norfolk on the 21st hist, for Baftimore. The
Beacon says:
Ever since his arrival he has been engaged
daily and nightly in visiting the sick in this city
at the City Hospital, and has paid two visits to
the Naval Hospital. He has given all our phy
sicians the benefit of his professional experience
and observation in yellow fever cases in New
Orleans. His visit and that of Drs. Penniston
and Freeman has had a most happy effect on
our afflicted community, giving more confidence
and allaying apprehension.
We cut the following from the Shiawas
see Democrat:
Wheat after Corn.—Last year in this vic
inity, a large amount of wheat'was sowed after
corn. We have watched the result, and find
that the wheat thus .put in is universally good:
and will average better than the crop got in any
other manner. As a general thing,, it is less
injured by the insect,—-doubtless owing to its
being sowed later, and it satnds very clean from
font 4 iff. We recommend to our farmers to
try agasn this fall, sowing wheat after corn
Cowles' History of Plants notices the virWe
of hemp thus laconically: “By this cordage,
ships are guidod,Jbells are rung, and rogues kept
tn nW.”