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THE EMPIRE STATE
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Sales of Lands .by Administrators, Executors or Guar
dians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday
in the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and
3 in the afternoon, at the Court House, in the county in
which the Land is situated. Notice of these sales must be
given in a public Garette forty days previous to the day of
sale.
Sales of Negroes must he made at public auction on the
first Tuesday of the month, between the usual hoius of sale,
at the place of public sales in tbs county where the Letters
Testamentary, or Administration, or Guardianship may
have been granted—first giving forty days notice thereof in
one of the public Gazettes of the State, and at the Court
He use where such sale is to be held. ,
. . Notice for the sale of Personal Property must he given in
like manner, forty days previous to the day of sale.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate, must be
published forty days.
. Notice that application will he made to the Co.urt of Or
dinary for leave to sell Laud, must be published for two
hientlis.
Notice for leave to sell Negroes must be published two
. oritbs before any order absolute shall be made thereon by
lie Court.
.Citations for Letters of Administration must l e publish
ed thirty dAVs - for Dismission from Administration, month
ly sii mourns ; ’{(ft Dismission from Guardianship, forty
days.
Notice for the foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish
ed monthly for four months ; for publishing Lost Pa
pers. for the full space of three months ; for compelling ti
ls* from Executors and Admiaistrafors, where a bond Ims
l eeu given by the deceased, for the spiiie of thre® months
J. A. 23. WILLIAMS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. .
“ITTILL practice in the Counties composing the Flint
Y\ Circuit. By permission, refers to Hon. Hiram War
ner, Greenville ; Levi M. Adams, Greenville ; Hon. G. J
Green, Griffin ; Hon. James H. Stark, Griffin ; Rev. Will
iam Moseley, Griffin.
June 2nd, 1856 6 ly.
JOSEPH A. THRASHER, JAMES M. HAMBRICK
THRASHER & HAMBRICK,
A.TTORNEYS AT LAW
McD-mouglt, Georgia.
April 30, 1856 1 ly
V. W. A. DOYLE, K. R. KANSONE.
HOYLE & RANSONE,
ATTORNEYS A T L A W,
Griffin,. Georgia.
April 16, 1856 50 3m
L- T. DOYAL O. M. NOLAN.
ROYAL & NOLAN,
ATTORNEYS A T L A W,
McDonough,. . .* Georgia.,
WILL practice iu the counties of Henry, Fulton, Fay
ette, Coweta, Spalding, Butts, Monroe and Newton
*3” RhfEUKNCE—THcmsclv
April 3, 1856 48....1y
Q . C . GRICE,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA.
May 15,1856 3 ts.
JAMES H. STARK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Griffin, Georgia.^
WILL practice in the Courts of the Flint Circuit, and
in the Supreme Court at Atlanta and Macon.
Feb. 13, 1856... 41... ly
JARED IRWIN WHITAKER,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
■Office front Room*, over John R. Wallace & Bros., corner
of White Hall and Alabama streets,
ATLASTA, GEORGIA.
January 30,1856 ts
W. L. GORDON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
GRIFFIN,. GEORGIA
January 30, 1856 39 ly
lIENRY HENDRICK,
AT TOR NE Y AT LA W,
Jackson, Butts County, Georgia.
May 3, 1855. ts
DANIEL & DISMUKE,
Attorneys at Law,
Will practice in the District Court of the United States
at Marietta. _
Griffin, Georgia.
L. R. DANIEL, V. D. DISMUKE.
May 3, 1855. tf_
w. POPE JORDAN,
Attorney at Law,
Georgia.
WILL practice in all the counties of the Flint Circuit.
May 3,1855. ts
J. 11. MANGHAM,
Attorney at Law,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
May 3, 1855-ly 1
WM. H. F. HALL,
attorney at law,
ZEBULON GEORGIA.
July 4, 1855. 9 ts
A. D. NUNNALLY,
ATTORNEY at law,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
June, 27,1855. Dj
UNDERWOObj HAMMOND & SON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
WILL give personal attention to all business entrusted
to their management, aud attend the Sixth Circuit
Courtof the United States, at Marietta, the Supreme Court
at Mahon and Decatur, and the Superior Courts in Cobb,
Morgan, Newton, DeKalb, Fulton, Fayette, Spalding, Pike,
Cass, Monroe, Upson, Bibb, Campbell, Coweta, Troup,
Whitfield and (Jordon, in Georgia, and Hamilton county,
{Chattanooga,) in Tennessee. May 3,1855. ts
W. L. GRICE w‘. WM. S. WALLACE.
GRICE & WALLACE,
ATTORFEYS AT LAW ,
BUTLER, GEORGIA.
PERSONS intrtmting business to them may rely on their
fidelity, promptness and care. Dec. 10, ’56-33-Iy.
GARTRELL&. GLENN, “
attorneys at law,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
WILL attend the Courts in the Counties of Fulton, De-
Kalb, Fayette, Campbell, Meriwether, Coweta, Car
■MlfHepry, Troup, Heard, Cobb, and Spalding;
Lucius J. Gartkell, I Luther J. Glenn,
formerly of Washington, 6a. | Formerly of MeDontugh.Ga
May 16, 155§. 3tf
(Mfipirc fHH
DR. KNOTT
HAS changed his residence and, office to the first lot be
loiv Mrsj RefeVes’ Boarding House, on the east side of
the Railroad, nearly opposite the Freight Depot, where he
may be found at all times ready to attend to culls, except
when professionally engagedi
Griffin, Ga., May 3,1856’ *ly
DR. DROWN
HAVING associated himself in the practice of Medicine
and Surgery, with Dr. WM. M. HARDWICK, would,
by this means, introduce him to the confidence and patron
age of the community, satisfied that they will find him wor
thy and well qualified to fulfil all the duties incumbent on
him as a physician—under the firm, name and style of
HARDWICK & BROWN,
S3” During the absence of Dr. Brown, Di. Hardwick wAT
always be found in the Office, unless professionally engaged
WM. M. HARDWICK,. .. H. W. BROWN.
Griffin, May 14, 1856 3 ts
DR. I). M. WILLIAMS,
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN,
GRIFFIN, .. .'rVTTT;.. . GEORGIA.
tS>Officeon Hill-Street, over Banks’Boot fc Shoe Store.
May 3, tf
DR DANIEL
TENDERS his professional sendees as a Physician and
Surgeon, to the citizens of Griffin and vicinity.
*3*Office on the same floor with the Empire State,“©ft
Griffin, March 5, 1856..... .44 ly
SCIRRHtfS BREAST can be CURED
Let the Public Read!
IN niercy to the afflicted, and the gratitude and high opin
i<|ii 1 entertain of DIL MOSELEY as a Surgeon and l’hy
siciap, I deem it my duty to mention the case of my wilt,
honing at the same time that all persons similarly afflicted,
may be benefitted by it. In the first part of this year, my
wife had several small lumps make their appearance in her
breast; they continued to increase in size, until the whole
breast became a diseased mass, and very painful. I procured
‘the best medical aid in the city of Home,and notwithstanding
the earnest and faithful attention of our most skillful physi
cians, she continued to grow worse and worse, until they
gave tiie case l up sis incurable, and advised amputation. *1
was advised by many of my u'tCT.fK ty visit Dr. Moseley, of
Griflln, Ga., which idid, and, astonishing a.-? it may seem,
he had her entirely cured within one month, and she is now
in “ocd health! 1 would advise all who are afflicted with
Seirrbus, and Cancerous affections to visit the Doctor with
out delay, as I am satisfied by experience and observation,
that he is the most skillful physician in theSoiithem States,
in the treatment of that horrible disease—cancer.
WM. H. MITCHELL,
M. E. MITCHELL,
Daughter of J. W. Bradbury, ROme, Ga.
Rome, Ga.. October 25, 1854. * 5-ly
GRIFFIN HOTEL.
mJTHIS large and commodious Hotelis now
open for the accommodation of the public. The
furniture is new, and the rooms comfortable and
well ventilated. The table will at all times be
supplied with the best the market affords, and
no pains will be spared to render the fjtte st comfortable. 1
also haveiu connection with tlie house, the large and roomy
stable, formerly occupied by W. S. Birge, by wliieh stock
can and will be well taken care of.
E. F. M. MANX, Proprietor.
Griffin, Feb. 13, 1856 41 ts
Hacls. Tiines.
The undersigned being the Con
tractor to transport tlie U. States
Mail on routes, Nos. 6339 and 6340,
■--.ffL-ijjjstakes this method of informing
the public generally, that he will run his Hack as follows :
Leave (b iffin Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays via Erin,
Wamet-vilie, Jones’ Mills, Greenville and Mountville—ar
rive at LuGrange the same days. Leave LaGrange Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays via the places above men
tioned—arrive at Griffin the same days. Leave Griffin
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays via Zebulon and Flat
Shoals, and arrive* at Greenville the same days. Leave
Greenville Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays via tlie pla
ces above mentioned,and arriveat Griffin the same days.
1 will further add, that 1 have good teams and sober dri
vers, who will spare no pains in making passengers com
sortable, aud put them through in good time, at very mode
rate prices. R. F. M. MANN, Proprietorand Contractor
Feb. 13, 1856 ....41... .ts
c a NET
AND
SASH MAKING!!
THE subscriber takes pleasure in
cing to tlie citizens of Griffin and snr-KBSji3qigg.
rounding country, that be still continues ibeVTvy xxJ
business of CARRIAGE and CABINET Making. CARRIA
GES, BUGGIES, and WAGONS made to order at short no
tice, A few of the best made Buggies always on hand.
He lias recently added to his establishment the business of
SASII MAKlNG—cheap, and good as the best.
ses, newstyle. He will be found at bis old stand, always
ready towait upon his customers. Give him a call.
J A. BELLAMY.
Griffin, Aug. 29,1855... .18... .ts
J,. K. WILLIAMS, JNO. RHEA,. WM. M. WILLIAMS.
J. E. WILLIAMS & CO.,
Successors to J. E. JVilliams,
General Commission Merchants,
AND DEALERS IN
GRAIN, BACON, LARD, FEATHERS, and TEN
NESSEE PRODUCE, GENERALLY,
Decatur Street, near the “Trout House,” Atlanta, Ga.
Letters of inquiry, iu relation to the Markets, &c.,
promptly answered. May 16,1855.-3tf
U. lu. WRIGHT,
EXCHANGE BROKER ,
ATLANTA, GEO.
WILL attend to Collections entrusted to him, and remit
promptly, at current rates of Exchange: buy and sell
uncnrrent. Bank Notes, Coin, &c. The highest cash price
paid for Bounty Land Warrants, ear Apply; W. C.
Wright, Griffin, Ga., for sale of Land Warrants.
REFERENCES.—John Thomson, Banker, ‘No. 2, Wall
street, and Caiihart, Biio. & Cos., New York ; Converse
& Cos., New Orleans. Atlanta, May 10, ’55 tt
MARSHALL COLLEGE.
BEING left alone in the managemet of this Institution for
the present, the rates of tuition will be as follows :
Ist Term. 2d Term.
For Spelling, Reading, Writing, &c 10 00 8 00
For Arithmetic, Geography,Grammar, &c. .12 00 10 00
For Algebra, Philosophy, Geometry,&c 14 00 12 00
For Latin, Greek, Trigonometry, &c sl6 00 sl4 00
o®,No extra charges, except for damage to the College
Building , . , „, ,
The first term will close about the 4th of July.
The second term will begin on the 4th of August, and
close about the last of November. J. M. CAMPBELL.
Griffin, Feb. 13, 1856... .41.. ■ -ts
Fulton House.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
D. L. GORDON, Proprietor.
January 30th, 1856. .39. .ly.
Tlx© Best
BUSINESS STAND IN ATLANTA FOB SALE.
I will sell my store and stand, at the corner of Wnite Hal
and Mitchell Streets, at a fair price, for cash, or on rea
sonable terms, to a prompt and punctual purchaser. Call
and look,as lam making a change in my business. If I
was troincr to continue in the mercantile business, I would
not dispose of it at any price. W. W. ROARK.
Atlanta, March 19, 1856 45 ts
LUMBER! LUMBER H
GAULDING'S STEAM MILL.
THE subscriber having leased the above Mill, being an
experienced Machinest, and having supplied himseW
■ with a learge quantity of the best pine timber, hoping to
e able at short notice, to furnish those with lumber, who
may favor him with their olders—orders left with A, A-
Gabiding, or A. B. Dulin, at Griffin, will receive prompt
. attention.
Jan. Btb. 1856. JAMES W. MOORE.
” Ho psnf I|f> tlfci) oi|l- ?otoel-r~<Tl)e toljole MuOles? confined is oi|ls.”
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1856.
[For the Empire State.]
The Know Nothing Meeting in
Barnesville.
Mr. Editor : While a great sectional party
is marshaling its mighty hosts under the black
banner of Republicanism at the North and
waging a relentless war upon the Constitution
of the country, and the institutions of the South,
it may be well forJSoutheri* men to exercise a
wise precaution, and trace <uit any disaffection
that may exist in the ranks of the great na
tional-army, battling upon Southern soil for
, the union and equality 6fthe States as they ex*!
isted in tlie days of Washington. From what
ever quarter this disaffection may come, till
will agree that itdeservesin the highest degree
the indignation of a free and offended people.
In whatsoever party this infidelity to the equal
rights and privileges of every section of the
Union is found to obtain, that party should
most summarily receive the merited rebuke
and condemnation of an enlightened and right
eous public opinion. Whatever virtues it may
possess, yet if unsound upon the great leading
question of the day, upon the proper settle
ment of which depend the perpetuity of the
Government, and the salvation of the Ameri
can people, it should be condemned by the up
lifted unanimous voice of sovereign voters
throughout the Union. If such a party seek
to evade tlie direct point at issue, and under
take lo mystify the real status of the question
itself, it becomes obnoxious to the charge of
trifling with the most vital interests of the
country, and recklessly hazarding upon mere
promotion of party, the brightest hopes of lib
erty, and the richest inheritance that could be
bequeathed to posterity.
Such, Mr. Editor, I mo.it reluctantly con
fess I believe to be the present condition of the
American Party. While the great masses of
that Party, however much deluded, are as ho
nest, and I will add as patriotic as any other
men the sun ever shone upon, yet their leaders
are certainly untrue to them, and false to the
high and noble Impulses of duty. But as I
am unwilling to indulge in the use of vituper
ative language towards this cla.-s of politicians,
1 will leave them to speak for themselves thro’
Messrs. Hill and Poe, two of the Electors up
on the Georgia Fillmore Ticket.
After the pell-mell assemblage of tho Sam
ites on the 31st of July, from various parts of
the country around our hitherto quiet aud
peaceable little village, and when the Chair
man had concluded a few brief remarks in
opening the meeting, Mr. B. H Hill, of Troup
county, being introduced to the audience, pro
ceeded in a somewhat lengthy address, to take
about the following positions, among others
equally untenable. I report to the best of my
memory, and without any wilful design to mis
construe the speaker.
After a few general remarks, Mr. Hill an
nounced tlie startling fact that instead of the
contest being between Mr Buchanan and'J.
C. Fremont, the real issue lay between the
latter candidate and Mr. Fillmore, thereby
leaving the former entirely out of the field.—
This announcement, backed by the speaker’s
pledge that he would prove its verity in the
course of his remarks, did not fail to awaken
curiosity and arouse a lively attention. Ex
pecting some new light, some revelation in re
ference to some recent change, some new de
velopment in the field of politics, you may well
imagine our disappointment when lie burned
away from this interesting topic without ad
ducing a single argument (may he not have
forgotten to do so ?) in fulfilment of his pro
mise, and commenced a random fire upon the
Cincinnati Platform, the modern Magna Charta
of American rights.
He undertook to magnify to an exceeding
extent the importance of the foreign policy of
the Democratic Party, without showing its
detrimental tendencies, and seemed to think
that like. Aaron’s rod, it should swallow up
all other questions ; and then because forsooth
Mr. Buchanan gave a qualified reply in h s let
ter of acceptance relative to the very same po
licy without distinctly endorsing it, denounced
him as unworthy of the suffrages of the Amer
ican people, and therefore deserving to be re
pudiated. The inconsistencies and paradoxes of
the American Party are sometimes remarkably
strange ! Mr. Hill seemed to have forgotten
that his own party for the last two months
have been moving all the power they have on
earth to arouse in the minds of our fellow-citi
zens a spirit of opposition and hatred to the
Democracy because of its principles avowed in
this respect. And yet for the simple reason
that Mr. Buchanan thought it not the safest
course to pre determine such questions, not
knowing what the future may briug forth - the
measures themselves being the subjects of dai
ly abuse by the American Party, he has stig
matised as unworthy of our support. This is
logic after anew fashion to which I must con
fess myself an entire stranger.
He undertook in the next place to show
that the Democratic Party is not reliable be
cause of the fact that the Internal Improve
ment Bills vetoed by a Democratic President,
were recently re-passed by a Democratic Sen
ate, with the requisite constitutional majority,
Because our Platform declares our opposition
to “a general system of Internal Improve
ments,” we are in no case to pass special bills
in certain urgent cases where great interests
are involved, and large numbers of our fellow
eitizens likely to suffer for the want of them.
Now this position, and the gentleman’s argu
ments supporting it, are simply ridiculous, and
too futile to entitle them to serious notice.—
Wherever in the wisdom of the legislative de
partment of our Government, the passage of
certain laws has been deemed necessary, the
Constitution, that charter of our liberties, has
provided a remedy which even supercedes the
veto of the Executive ; and our Democratic
members in both branches of Congress have
availed themselves of its benefits in different
cases, and demonstrated to the world that they
are not willing to sacrifice upon* the altar of
party consistency the great interests of their
sovereign constituencies. The fact that the
speaker essayed to manufacture capital from
this “inconsistency,” is certainly more highly
indicative of the weakness of his owu cause,
than of any want of reliability in the princi
ples of the invincible Democracy.
Mr. Hill next proceeded in a tirade of abuse
against the pacification bill of Messrs. Toombs
ant: Douglas, alleging with great stress that it
repealed those provisions in tlie Kan-as and
Nebraska Bill so favorable to the rights of
the South. He Uncertainly either entirely un
acquainted with the last named instrument, or
willfully misrepresents its plain and positive
meaning, when he affirms that the bill recent
ly introduced into the Senate by this distin
guished Chairman of the Committee on Ter
ritories, was not made iu the strictest, conform
ity with the provisions'of the original act.—
alien suffrage feature expung
ed by .a Demoemic vote, there is nothing iri
either bill iniipicalT&mnything in the other--
and the gentleman aft&L mystifying the true
state of the case to the utmost extent of his
ability, seemed studiously direful to institute
no rigid comparison between \hetn, expressly
avoiding any indication or enumeration of their
conflicting elements. He attached a oteat
degree :£ *•**■■- ‘..as tie importance <to the alien
suffrage amendment, sufficient to arouse the
slumbering sensibilities of his very patient au
dience, and enkindle a singular snple upon their
otherwise somewhat somnolent physiognomies.
In regard to the antagonism existing between
the two bins, I think his hearers will agree
with me, that his allusion evidently was to
that clause in the original Kansas act declar
ing that “the true intent and meaning of this
act, is not to legislate slavery into any Terri
tory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but
to leave the people thereof perfectly freaAo
form and regulate their domestic institutions
in their own way, subject only to the Constitution i
of the United States. ‘ 7 The reader should par
ticularly notice the last clause in the above ex
tract, for upon it turns the whole point at issue.
Now in the late bill reported from, the com
mittee on territories, and passed by thh Senate,
we find a prohibitory enactment substantially
repealing those territorial law’s establishing test
oaths, and abridging freedom of speech and
discussion on every subject of legislation in the
territory. Is there any thing in this repeal by
the United State? Senate of these anti-repub
lican laws, enacted by the Kansas Legislature,
in violation of the very spirit of our free insti
tutions, amounting in the slightest degree to a
repeal of the original organic act of the terri
tory which declares that the people shall regu
late their institutions in their own w r ay, except
so far as they are subject to the Constitution
of the United States ? We think not, and
challenge the combined power of the whole
American Party from the “Demosthenes of the
mountains*’ to the lowest biped upon our
coast for the proof,
Mr. Hill then stated that the Baltimore
Platform of 1852, pledged the Democracy
against the further agitation of slavery, and he
attempted to show its infidelity to that pledge.
His argument on this point was certainly hyp
ocritical, and amounts to nothing more nor less
than a thrust at the Kansas Bill, needing no
argument lo prove that its tendency is in fa
vor of the old and'exploded doctrines or tutr
Missouri Compromise, under whose galling re
straints the South suffered for more than 30
years. He is welcome to all the thunder he
can manufacture iu this quarter, and may ful
minate his anathemas against the best party
organization the world ever beheld until every
hair in his head turns white, without ever ef
fecting the slightest breach in the impenetra
ble phalanx of. brave soldiers enlisted under
the banner of the mighty “unterrified.”
In the position Mr. Hill next assumed, he
appeared to'have made a wonderful discovery;
and proceeded in a lengthy argument lo prove
what everylintelligeut advocate of the Kansas
Bill knew before, viz : That the object of that
bill was not to make Kansas a slave State, but
to locate the question of slavery with the people
of the territory. So far so good, and we agree
with the gentleman to the full exteut he goes,
for as far as he went he made a correct state
ment of one of the provisions of that bill, and
if he had only added “subject only to the Con
stitution of the United States,” we could not
have objected to any deductions legitimately
derived from such premises. But the suppres
sion of this important clause, whatever other
merits his argument may have possessed, de
stroys all its claims upon our serious attention.
The questions relative to foreigners were
then introduced and discussed in their usual
stereotyped method ; but really, Mr Editor,
they are of so little interest to the country at
this time, that I will not waste time to rehearse
them here.
The “ten cent” charge, and that of “squat
ter sovereignty,” a favorite hobby with onr
Know Nothing friends, received a large share
of the speaker's attention ; but as they have
been sufficiently answered over and over again
by able pens, I will hurry on to other points
so as to hasten as much as possible the con
clusion of this cursory review.
Mr. Hill made a beautiful peroration with
Mr. Fillmore himself, as a theme. He said
that he felt sometimes as if “suspended in the
air ,” when reading his recent speeches at A1
bany and elsewhere. To these speeches he
looked for “Millard Fillmoi’e’sPlatform,’’and
he really seemed to forget that Mr. F. was
not dependent upon such feeble efforts for the
security cf a Platform, inasmuch as his Know
Nothing friends gave him one at Philadelphia
in February last, which he has most cordially
endorsed, and upon which he has embarked
his destiuies in the contest now beginning to
agitate the country The memory of the
American Party appears to have grown re
markably treacherous of late in regard to the
action of their in
National Convention, who announced the prin
ciples and nominated the standard-bearer their
party now take so much delight in glorifying.
Mr. Poe, the second speaker introduced to
the auditory, took accasion to magnify the
compromise measures of 1850 as having restor
ed peace and quiet to an agitated eountry,
and to abuse Mr. Pierce for the part his Ad
ministration took in re-opening sectional agi
tation by the repeal of the Missouri Compro
mise. This speaker seems to take peculiar
pleasure in ridiculing our Chief Magistrate,
and enjoys such sport with great gusto on ev
ery occasion when speaking of him. Not ma
ny months since, before a similar body, he so
lemnly declared that Mr. Pierce was no better
qualified to discharge the duties of President
than he himself. Mr. Poe entertains great
veneration for the time-honored restriction upon
the territorial rights of the South , and thinks
if a ruthless hand that would tear away such
a shield from off the peace and happiness of
the Union. He regards it as a most “solemn
compact” entered into with the North, which
should in no ease be violated by the South,
however much repudiated by the othef 1 con
tracting party. It was truly ludicrous to hear
him speak of the little importance the people
should attach to Platforms, when not longer
than cwelve months ago under the same roof,
and before the same auditory, he glorified the
Philadelphia Platform of June, 1855, to the
skies ! Mr. Poe is a very shrewd stump ora
tor. When his party has a good Platform, it
should not lose the benefit of it ; but when a
bad one, why then Platforms are of course but
little service.
Mr. Kdito , let me relate a solemn fact, and
briefly, as this p ece has already grown to P'o
rreot length. The bulk of Mr. Poe’s speech
teas directed against the Kansas Nebraska Bill.
He affirmed that no new enactments were ne
cessary for those ten itorics, and did himself
the credit of opposing the great measure of ter
ritorial equality to the South, openly and boid-
Iv ! Notwithstanding the fact that 3000 New
England clergymen had by petition solemnly
remonstrated with Congress against its pas
sage—notwithstanding abolitionism has raised
its huge front in the halls of our National Leg
islature in threatening and united opposition to
it - notwithstanding every hill and dale at the
North had resounded with its denunciations,
yet this speaker undertook to stultify his hoar
ders by telling them that it was a ‘ northern 1
measure carried by northern votes !” He de
nounced Mr. Douglas, the father of the bill,
as an “arch fiend” and an enemy to the South,
andjthe bill itself as a movement gotten up
express')’ for the promotion of party, “con
ceived in fraud and brought forth in iniquity.”
ignored the fact that it was sup
ported and finally successfully carried through
Congress by the votes of Southern Democrats
amMSouthern Whigs, aided by 44 Northern
Democrats.
• Notwithstanding the long and glorious re
gard of Mr. Buchanan’s votes on the slavery
during his protracted career in Con
gross, his opinions on tlie annexation of Texas
were made the subject of perversion, and he
denounced as the “arch enemy of the South !”
Iu the document where those opinions are to
be found, he states in substance most distinct
ly, that no consideration whatever could in
duce him to withhold from the South her rights
under the Constitution ; and this statement is
verified to the fullest extent by every action of
his life whilst a member of Congress, and oc
cupying a leading position in the councils of
his country.
Bbth Speakers took special Cate, although
occasionally alluding to the subject, not to con
trast the rccorJ of the two candidates on the
slavery question. Mr. Fillmore’s Erie Letter
was entirely overlooked , w vote to <Whu-f>
slaves’free when out upon the high seas, was
forgotten ; ahd those in favor of abolishing
slavery in the District of Columbia, and forev
er excluding it from the territories of the Uni
ted States, were passed by in sileniie. And
well they were, for the contrast taken from the
record would have proved as striking as that
between midnight and noon, and altogether
against them.
The broad light of Mr Buchanan’s lofty
mind, lias ever shone over the whole extent of
the Union, and illumined every part of the
Constitution of his country, whilst the flicker
ing torch of y>. Fillmore’s intellect, with but
one exception, lias never sent is feeble light
beyond the limits of the hazy atmosphere en
veloping our Northern horizon.
Mr Poe denounced Mr. Buchanan most un
qualifiedly as the “arch enemy of the South,”
and ventured so far into the field of fiction and
hyperbole as to assert seriously that if Mr B.
was elected President, slavery would speedily
be abolished “throughout the Union.” This
statement, I think, with many others he utter
ed on the occasion, furnishing convinCifig evi
dence that his thoughts were either not digest
ed at all, or that Col. Hill, who preceded him,-
“stole his thunder” by occupying most of his
grounds, and -thereby left him under the neces
sity for want of something new of firing impul
sively and at random, like boys shooting birds
in a brush-heap.
Finally, Mr. Editor, the last speaker had
Mr. Buchanan advising our Government in the
celebrated Ostend Circular, if Spain would not
sell Cuba for a just equivrdent, to take uncon
ditional possession of that Island at once, and
by force. We will not do Mr P. the injustice
to suppose that he has ever read that Circular
carefully, for if he had, notwithstanding the
great cloud of prejudices overhanging his mind,
he would never have made such a statement
in such unqualified terms. The leading princi
ple euunciated in the document referred to,
when properly, understood, is so elevated in
the patriotism of its sentiment, as that no true
American, whether native born or adopted,
can refuse to endorse it ; and we shall be un
willing even to believe that the patriot sons of
our revolutionary sires will stand inactive and
silently by, when the very existence of their
country is periled by movements set on foot in
an adjacent country, the province ot a distant
Empire in close alliance with the enemies of
human freedom.
Such, Mr Editor, are the chief positions ta
ken by these distinguished speakers before their
audience in Barnesville. If we have miscon
strued, or iu any manner mil-interpreted either
of them, we are sincerely sorry for it. Having
no personal acquaintance with either, and en
tertaining for each that high respect due to
their positions, we are influenced to pen this
criticism by no other motive than the love of
the truth
Other speakers followed them, and the day
passed off quietly, a hopeful indication, I take
it, of a peaceable and agreeable campaign.
After surveying the ground occupied by the
enemy, the Democratic hosts of Georgia have
nothing to fear in the coming contest. Victo
ry will inevitably perch upon our banner, and
to effect a complete rout, and forever break up
the camps of Know Nothingism in our midst,
we have only to ‘spread ourselves'a few short
months longer. BARNLSVILLL-
August, 1856.
Jel-liKS-HSS.OO.Iii
| I’ rum the Atlanta Intelligencer.
Democratic JWeefidg on Saturday.
At a very late hour on going to press we
have but a moment left to say to our distant
readers that this meeting was a very auspi-
I C , IO,JS a,ul . gratifying one. Indeed, from the very
short notice made of it we feared that it would
have been a failure as to numbers—but at an
early hour in the day the crowds of men and
women and the great number of vehicles in our
streets removed all apprehensions on that score.
l S f!i V 7°ri Ca 10W miiUy were P res ent, and
our h lends differ among themselves as to that.
no speaker of experience in such guesses puts
the crowd down at 6,000, but we will wive
oor opinion, which i5 nearer than any nner
ical calculation: There were two Ughills full
of people, and the most of them good listeners.
Judge lllllyer opened the meeting after its
organization. His speech was a ‘ calm and
statesman-like view of our present political
troubles, and a complete refutation of all the
charges brought against the candidates of
the democratic party. He was followed by
Judge T. W. Thcmas, of Elbert, who was lis
tened to for nearly two hours with rapt atten
tion, while he delivered as forcible, as connect
ed and as fair an argument as we ever heard
from the stump ’I hose of our readers who
have been so fortunate as to have heard Judge
Thomas and see his manly and noble presence
animated by a theme that fully engaged his
powi rs, will, as a matter of course, expect that
he was powerful and happy in his effort—and
so we believe all who heard him Saturday will
agree in saying. We defy any Southern man
to answer his temperate atid Coniiritifig argu
ment against the ruinous impolicy of dividing
and frittering away our strength by running
Mr Fdlmore for the Presidency. We do hope
that every patriotic objector and opponent
who heard Judge Thomas will ponder well the
argument lie addressed with so much fairness
and respect to their Judgement.
Mr. Hull, of Athens, followed Judge Thom
as in a compact andßeautiful address. Asa
speaker he is as full of thought as an egg is of
meat and has as little slip-slop about his style
as any speaker we ever heard. We would re
joice if we could be as hopeful of the Republic
as the eloquent speaker. Democratic policy
and success we believe with him, however, will
save us if indeed it is the wdl of Heaven to
spare us from the horrors of the wicked wil
fullness of northern fanatics.
Our old friend Mr. Ramsey, of Harris, next
took the stand. .He is something better than
a game cock, lie belongs to the higher typo
of pluck found in the Silver Pheasant and gaf
fed with a sarcasm keener than, a lancet; he
drew blood every lick. Poor Rarfisay, if the
abolitionists get us at last what will become
of you ? You have the worst shape nck for
a collar that we ever saw. We for one would
not be your master for all that could be made
out of you by the sturdiest nigger worshipper
■An earth „ Rut We fear your memory of the
good old days of 6is most too vtvwTvvhen the
very last that Georgians were tame enough to
concede was the “Missouri line.' 1 ' 1 Now wfe tell
you, our good fellow, there can be found, and
got together SO,OOO men in Georgia who will
fight you upon the issue of nigger or no nigger.
All that is wanted is a leader with his banner
inscribed upon it “death, to the democrats.”
Judge Wright, of Rome, concluded the
speaking and that’s enough to say. Judge
Wright never yet disappointed an audience for
he could speak, and no doubt does speak in
his sleep a better speech than one hears from
live know nothings wide awake. We say to
the ‘black belt,” to the wire grass, to mankind
geuerally, that the Cherokees ate on the hunt for
Millard Fillmore’s voolly scalp, tomahawk in
hand.
Letter of U. S. Senator [Whig] in fa
rorofßuchanan.
Hon. Thos G Pratt, one of the Senators fiom
Maryland in Congress of the United States,
has addressed a powerful appeal to the Whigs
in behalf of the democratic Presidential ticket.
Asserting that the very life of the Union-is in
danger from the Black Republican party, apd
that the two organizations in opposition to it
are those headed by Buchanan and Fillmore,
he says the only question which Whigs should
ask themselves is, which of these “offers the
the best guarranicc of success in crushing out
of existence this new and monstrous sectional
party, which threatens the life of our country.
He expresses the opinion that in most of
the Northern States Fillmore will have, no
electoral ticket, and states it as his ‘deliber
ate judgement,’ that he cannot carry a single
non-slaveholding State. His electoral votes,
then, can come alone from the South; and
should hi-- friends carry all that they claim for
him—Maryland, Kentucky, Louisiana and
Tennessee—they at most do no more than car
ry the election into the House of Representa
tives, where his sueress is altogether out of
the question.— Georgian <|* Journal.
—
flgy-At a recent meeting of the Connecticut
Fillmore State Convention,Mr. Sumners, Presi
dent of the Know Nothing State Council of
N. York, made a speech, in which he denounced
the Know Nothings who had goftfc 6ver to Fre
mont, and highly eulogized Mr. Fillmore, de
claring that he had the best freesoil reputation
of any man in the country. lie asserted that
every act of his political life was just what it
should have been, except singning the fugitive
slave law, and that it was his duty to do under
the Constitution. These are the reasons why
Fillmore is supported by the few in the’ Nortfc
who will vote for him.
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Wonderful Discovry at the Mammoth Cave
—On the 11th Inst., Stephen Bishop, the guide,
and three students, Robert Taylor, Clarence
Bate and WmL Stone., while rambling 1 iu the’
cave, discovered an entirely Unknown passage
of some 2 miles in length. By this important
discovery the cave, already the largest in the
world is found to extend eleven miles instead
of nine miles, as lias Hitherto bee* supposed
This passage was found by the party to lead
to chambers far surpassing all those formerly
known • both in extent and magnificence. It is
supposed that this discovery will lead to others
of still greater importance, —Louisville Jour
%al.
Ko. 10.