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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
Wednesday ’ior'lleSs|l|s|p’ Aus. 27Hi, 1556.
FOR PRESIDENT :
JAMES BUCHANAN.
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT :
J. C. BRECKENRIDGE.
OP KENTUCKY
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Democratic Electoral Ticket.
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FOR TIIE STATE AT LARGE.
ELECTORS. , ALTERNATES.
WM. W. STILE?, Henry G. Lamar.
IVERSON L. HARRIS. A. B.Wright.
ELECTORS. ALTERNATES.
Ist Di.st. Thomas M. Foreman W M Nichqt.s.
2d “ Samuel Hall, I A Tucker.
Oil “ J N Ramsey, E J McGeuee.
4th “ L J Gahtrell, J F Johnson.
sth “ John W Lewis, L W Crook.
Oth “ J I’ Simmons R McMillan.
7th “ T P Saffold, J S Hook.
6th “ A C Walker
#“R G BYARS is our authorized Agent for the county
o I'Butts.
Consressioual.
Washington, Aug. 23.
The Senate having adhered to its amendment to
the army bill, and the House having determined
that the Kansas proviso shall be attached, the
question on the passage of this bill is at an end.—
Anew bill will be introduced on Monday, and may
run the same fruitless course.
Democratic Speaking.
Hon. L. J. Gaktrei.l will address the citizens of
Henry county, at McDonough, on the Ist Tuesday
in September next. Go and hear him.
Messrs. Cobb and Lumpkin will accept our
thanks for valuable, public documents.
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Adjournment of Congress.
Congress adjourned on the 18th inst. The bill’
appropriating money for the support of the Army,!
was lost, on account of a disagreement between 1
the two Houses as to the proviso in reference to ‘
the employment of any portion of the Army in
suppressing the rebellions movements of the fanat
ics in Kansas. This proviso was tacked on to
the bill reported by the committee of Ways and
Means, as an amendment, in the House of Repre
sentatives. The Senate struck it out, and the
House refused to concur, and Congress adjourned
without passing the Bill. The country is thus
hit without tlie means of defence during the recess
our sea coast exposed to attacks from foreign
foes, and our frontier inhabitants to the merciless
Indian’s tomahawk and scalping knife. And who
is responsible for this unprecedented state of our
public affairs ? The Black Republicans, who have
the control of the House of Representatives. And
why do they resort to this measure? To force
-tiTC Dcmociatic party to abandon their policy’ in
, regard to the Kansas and Nebraska Bill and the
repeal of the Missouri Restriction. They are re
solved upon making Kansas a free State, drive the
South into their measures, or destroy the Govern
ment. Kansas is the great bone of contention,
between the two great opposing parties, the Dem
ocrats and Black Republicans. This question,
like the rod of the Jewish High Priest, has swal
lowed up all others. And yet there are men at
the South, yea, in Georgia, who are opposed to
the Kansas and Nebraska Bill. And worse than
that, there arelhousands at the South who are
zealously supporting .a man for President, who is
openly opposed to this measure, and thus throw
ing the weight of his influence in favor of the Black
Republicans, to aid them in defeating this great
.measure of justice to the Southern people* Again
WP ask, who is responsible for this deplorable
.state of things which the action of the late Con
gress has brought upon the country ? Again we
answer, the Black Republicans. And. who put
the Black Republicans in power? That great
. champion of-the rights of American born citizens,
who was to put down foreign influence, and check
mate the Pope of Rome, we mean that mythologi
cal genius, yclept S-a-m-u-e-l, alias Know Nofh
ingism. By his aid, the Democrats of the North
were beaten down and Abolitionists put in their
places. This is “Americansruling America” with
a vengance. I rom all such dominion may we ever
he delivered.
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The Multiplatform Party.
Ihe Know Nothing orators and presses some
times manifest a great contempt for Platforms.—
I his looks somewhat paradoxical, when w’e take
into consideration the number of Platforms on
which their candidates have placed “themselves
since their nomination at Philadelphia. They pro
less to be upon the Philadelphia Platform ; they
accept the nomination made at Macon, and of
course profess to be on that Platform ; and we have
seen where they have accepted a nomination ten
dered them from some other quarter. We are not
surprised at the little regard which Mr.Fillmore’s
friends have for Platforms, because one seems to
suit their candidate about as well as another, and
therefore they cannnot be expected to carry out
the principles of any of their Platforms in good
faith. Hence their horror for Platforms. They
have a multiplicity of Platforms, and still denounce
all. Oh what a consistent set of politicians !
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New Publications.
The first number of the Cuthbcrt Reporter has
reached us. It is published in Cuthbe r t, Ran
dolph county, Ga., by B. F. White & Cos. The
specimen plumber received, exhibits very respecta
ble mechanical execution, and the contents promise
much ability in its future management. It pro
fesscs to t,e “independent in all things ; neutral in
Ua f’ w e extend to our friend, the Major,
the right hand of fellowship, and wish him abun
dant success in his editorial labors.
The-Educational Journal is’,'the'titlc of anew
paper recently established in [Forsyth, Ga. It is
printed in quarto form, and contains a large amount
of reading matter. It is printed on good paper,
wijb good type, and is devoted to the educational
interests ol Georgia. Edited by Messrs. R. T.
Aslmry A AV. C. Wilkes, and (published by B. R.
Gi Linger A Cos. Price $2 per annum in advance.
.Editorial Change.
Col. Thomas C. Howard has withdrawn from the
editorial chair of the Atlanta Intelligencer. The
paper will for the present be conducted by Mr.
it-’ former Editor and Proprietor.
Fatal Accident.
On Monday evening last, a young man and his
wife, named Ogletree, from Monroe county, were dri
ving down Hill street, when the horse suddenly
stopped, commenced kicking and rearing, up. By
some twitch or other of the reins, the horse was
thrown upon his head and broke his neck. Buggy,
damaged slightly; horse worth S2OO. It is suppos
ed the horse became frightened at the evening train
of car:.
Tlie CatlioliC3 and Slavery.
It is not our desire at this late day, to raise up
the ghost of Know Nothingism, in all its hideous
deformities, as exhibited in its oaths and rituals of
last year. We know that many, very many of the
members of that secret oath-bound political Order,
who still adhere to the so-called Amcricau Party,
are truly ashamed of many of the principles and
practices of that Order ; and were it not that their
presses occasionally permit their hostility to the
Catholics to betray them into some indiscreet
thrusts at that religious denomination, we would
be content to let poor Ham sleep undisturbed in
his grave, “unwept, unhonorcjl and unsung.” But
their old enmity will not suffer them to do the Cath
olics, in this country, justice, and they are frequent
ly endeavoring to create the impression that the
Catholics arc unsafe upon the slavery question.—
They dare not charge upon those living South any
want of fidelity to Southern Institutions, but re
present this branch of the Christian Church, at
the North, as wholly unsound upon the slavery
question. We will not undertake to say that none
of the members of that Church are tainted with
Abolitionism ; we know there are some thus in
fected. But we will say, that take them as a body,
North and South, they are as true to the Consti
tution of the country, and to the rights of the peo
ple in every section of the Union, as any other re
ligious denomination. And in the North we be
lieve they are more so, with the exception of the
Hard Shell Baptists. As an evidence of the truth
of this position, it is only necessary to refer to those
Three Thousand Christian!!! Ministers who signed
the petition to Congress against the Kansas and Ne
braska Bill ; among that vast number of professed
Ministers of the various religious denominations
of the country, it has been asserted, and we believe
it to be true, that there was not to be found one
Catholic or Herd Shell Baptist ! Does not this
speak volumes in behalf of the soundness of these peo
ple on the question of slavery ? Yet Kcow Noth
ing stump orators and newspapers still tell us the
Catholics are going to ruin the country ; ruin the
South, because a large majority of them are for
eigners who mostly settle at the North, and owe
allegiance to the Pope of Rome. The Irish pop
ulation in this country, are generally Catholics in
their religious faith, and they are almost universal
ly Democrats. The first political exclamation they
learn to utter as soon as they laud in this country,
is “Hurrah for General Jackson !” and walk right
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i into the Democratic ranks. At the North, the en
emies of the South say Slavcocracy and Democra
cy are identical. And the universal creed of the
party is, “protection to the rights of all sections of
the Union,” and therefore a true Democrat cannot
be an Abolitionist ; hence it is clear that the great
mass of the Catholics being Democrats, must ne
cessarily be sound on the slavery question. We
are no apologist for the religious tenets of this Or
der of Christians. With many of them we are
totally at variance. But we do profess to be the
friend and advocate of religious toleration, and
therefore our feeble arm shall ever be nerved in de
fence of the political rights of Catholics as well as
Protestauts.
Public Speaking.
j On Thursday evening last, the Hon. James 11.
| Stark addressed the Buchanan and Breckenridge
i Club, of this county, w ith much zeal and ability.
| Ilis speech was a plain, common sense argument,
| addressed to the reason and the judgment of his
bearei’s, with a simplicity and cogency of reasoning
which made it intelligible to all This is the kind
of speaking which produces effect, when the voice
of conscience whispers its admonitions, in the hour
of cold and cool reflection. .We joyfully welcome
the Judge again to the political rostrum from
which he has long been a stranger on accouut of
his position as the presiding officer of our Judicial
District. E. W. Beck followed in a few remarks,
pertinent, bold, convincing. Mr. B. is a young
man of fine promise, and bids fair to excel in the
art of public speaking. “Buck and Breck” are
doing well in Spalding.
Appointments by tlie Governor.
. Jas M Spullock, Superintendent of the W. &A.
Railroad, vice James F. Cooper, resigned.
A. A. Gaulding. Auditor of the W. & A. Rail
road, viee James M Spullock, promoted.
HfeYTlead the advertisement of Messrs. Ragland
& Gaulding in another column. Bargains—yes
bargains may be had, both in regard to the quality
and prices of goods.
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Dentistry.
Wc have seen a very remarkable specimen of a
late improvement in Dentistry. It was shown us
by Messrs. Lunquest & Lavender, and was manu
factured at their office. It was an upper and low
er set of teeth, fixed in Gutta Percba instead of
Gold. This is a recent invention, and has not yet
been sufficiently tested to prove its durability.—
Should it succeed, it will lessen the cost of artifi
cial teeth at least one-half, and bring this great
blessing (good teeth) within the’ means of many
who are unable to afford the expensive work here
tofore put up.
Pomological Curiosity.
Mrs. Hendley Varner, of Spalding county, a
few days since, presented us with a specimeu ofap
ples, which is very rare in this country. It is call
ed the “Ladies’ Apple,” about the size of the com
mon wild apple ; colored like the yellow plum, and
shaped very much like the Marillo Cherry, and ve
ry pleasant to the taste. The trees were brought
from the North, and the fruit is indeed a curiosity.
Mrs. Varner will accept our thanks for this mark
of her kind regard, and our best wishes for her
success in all her undertakings, and especially in
fruit raising.
Mr. A. Sledge will also accept our acknowledge
ments for a large lot of fine soft peaches, and two
large citrons. His appreciation’ of the good-will
ol the printer, shows that he i man of sense and
judgment. .
Cupidity and envyV/uld not resist the ne
ver-ebbiug, successful tjjfif “Dr. M’Lane’s Ver
mifuge and Liver Pills” throughout the land. Se
veral miserable imitations have already made their
appearance, and whose mission, where they suc
ceed in imposing upon the public, will.be to sick
en and destroy. If any of our readers use the ar
ticles, they had better'examine carefully, aud see
that the outside wrapper of each box or vial be
signed Fleming Bros. Without this signature
they cannot be genuine. Fleming Bros., Pitts
burg, Pa., are the sole pioprietors and manufac
turers.
That Ten Cents Charge.
The opposition to Mr. Buchanan set out with a
charge that he once had .declared “that he was in
favor of reducing the wages of labor to ten cents
a day.” This picayune game has been abandoned
by all, except the most unscrupulous of the
Ivuow Nothing and Abolition orators and presses,
who still persist in repeating the charge, though
the friends of Mr. Buchanan have hurled defiance
in their teeth, and even pecuniary rewards have
been offered to any one who would produce satis
factory evidence of the truth of’ the charge. The
rewards yet remain unclaimed while tlie slander is
persisted in. Now all this slang about the “10
cents per day,” is manufactured out of a speech
made by Mr. Buchanan in support of Gen. Jack
son’s policy towards the United States Bank. The
desperate struggle which that venerable patriot
had with that hydra-headed monopoly* is yet fresh
in the recollection of many of our readers. It
was a leading feature in his Administration to
check the arrogance of the overgrown monster,
and establish a sound currency, founded upon a
pure specie basis. The contest was long and bit
ter. The responsibility way awful, yet the old pa
triot boldly assumed it, and though opposed by the
corrupted and paid minions of the Bank, as well
as by many mistaken, though honest and pure pa
triot-*, he finally triumphed. The sub-treasury sys
tem was engrafted upon the financial policy of the
Government, and the result has triumphantly de
monstrated the wisdom and foresight of General
Jackson in the course he pursued. When the fa
tal deed (the veto of the United States Bank Char
ter.) was clone, the country stood aghast at the ap
parent rashness of the iron-nCrved patriot ; his
foes raged with redoubled fury ; his friends trem
bled with fearful apprehension for the consequen
ces, and some of them fled from him in terror and
dismay. But there were others who were made of
sterner stuff They stuck the closer to their old
Chief, and battled under his banner, till the victo
ry was won. Among that number stood pre-emi
nent in the front rank, James Buchanan, the nomi
nee of the Democratic Party. He boldly and elo
quently advocated every where the policy of Jack
son's Administration, and in a speech in support of
this measure, he used the language which his ene
mies have tortured into advocacy of “ten cents a
clay for labor.” He was illustrating tlie effects of
a sound pure currency, upon the general interests
of a country, by referring to the sounder circulat
ing medium of other countries, and showed that
its effect was to lessen the price of labor, and at
the same time, and in tho same proportion, lessen
the price of the articles consumed by the laboring
classes, and by placing money in their pockets
which would not depreciate, confer alasting benefit
upon this class of community. This is the origin
of the “ten cents” charge. Let those who are at
this late day opposed to Gen. Jackson, and his po
licy in regard to the currency, oppose Mr. Buchan
an for the active part he took in sustaining Gen.
Jackson and his Administration.
Extra Session of Congress.
A friend sent us a dispatch yesterday from
Washington City, announcing that the Presi
’ dent has been compelled to call an extra ses
! sion of Congress. The failure of the Black
! Republican and Know Nothing majority, in
| the Ilepresentave branch of Congress, to pass
, important bills to sustain the government, has
compelled the President to convene an extra
session of Congress.
Every patriotic citizen will applaud the
promptness and energy displayed by the Presi
dent in issniug his Proclamation for an Extra
Session. It is a just rebuke to those disorgan
izing- fanatics and demagogues, who, by then
votes, insisting on the Kansas amendment to
j the army bill, made, it necessary. They mis
i took tlie Senate in supposing it would counte-
I nance treason and rebellion by omitting to arm
j the President with the necessarypporerw r er for en
forcing law and order in Kansas. They mis
took tin? President in supposing, that when the
House insisted on embarrassing the army bill,
with its prohibition of the use of the army in
Kansas, thus causing its. loss, .he would shrink
from compelling them to rc-assenible. The
President has again nobly manifested his disre
gard of anti-slavery clamor, and proved his fi
delity to the Constitution and his oath of of
fice. ,
The whole country will now have fair view
of the factionists who are pursuing the game
of rule or ruin. Even the fanatical constitu
ents of these demagogues and traitors will have
time to pause in their mad career, and weigh
well the cost of their folly. There is conserv
atism enough even in the most Abolition infect
ed States, to cause some check to the disunion
tendencies of their Congressmen, and an out
side pressure will lie brought to bear on them
even from home, that will force some of them
to retrace fheir steps. Let the President and
the Democratic party stand firm—let the uni
ted South, in the Lou’er House,stand firmly up
to the President and to the Senate, and all will
be sa fe. —Const it iitiond list.
Col Benton on Fremont.— The Hon. Thos. 11.
Benton, in a letter dated the 10th inst. recommend
ing the -withdrawal of the Benton electoral ticket
in Missouri, thus refers to Col. Fremont. ,
“There is a design here, on the part of some, to
put up an electoral ticket for Fremont, about
which no one speaks to nic, as I have character
enough to keep at a distance, all class of persons
who, dishonorable themselves, could approach a
man with a dishonorable proposition. But my
sentiments are known, and that I should consider
such a step injurious under any aspect—mortifying
to Fremont himself, from the small vote the ticket
would receive—and injurious to the public, by ag
gravating the sectional feeling which now arrays
each half of the Union against the other. I was
opposing the bringing out of Fremont for nearly
half a year before those who now charge me with
promoting it, knew t>f any sach design. There are
cases, in which, public duty rises above personal
consideration, though there are a great many peo
ple who cannot conceive it possible. Thus, when
I supported Jackson, (with whom I had been on
ill terms,) thirty years ago, the sordid motive of
office was assigned for it; now, when* I support
Buchanan, (with whom I am on ill terms) and
support him against a number of my own family,
the same class of people can see nothing in it but
falsehood and treachery. Incapable; themselves,
of anything disinterested and patriotic,they believe
others to be equally so, and attack, with base mo
tives, all the actions which are above the compre
hension of their political morality.
Then and Now.
Who rose into political lifd upon the Anti-Ma
sonic excitement in New York? Millard Fill
more.
Who, by the use ofa counterfeit Morgan, got in
to Congress to invariably vote against the South ?
Millard Fillmore.
Who, after denouncing secret societies to ride
into public life, afterwards took the seret oaths of
Know Nothingism ? Millard Fillmore.
Who was initiated in the K. N. Lodge, No. 177,
in New York, with ull the mummery and oaths]
bv Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs? MILLARD
FILLMORE.
l’eoplc of Georgia ! These are established facts.
A 1 swer by your votes bow you like this character.
- >')Hthern Banner.
Political Meeting.
W illiamsville, Pike co., Ga.,)
August 16, 1856. |
According to notice, a considerable crowd
met at this place to-day, to hear a political
speech from Col. G. A. Hall, an old line Whig.
Upon motion of Judge Speer, W. D. Thomp
son was called to the Chair, and J. A. ‘Wil
liams requested to act as Secretary.
Col. .Hall being introduced, took the position
that the contest was alone between Buchanan
• and Fremont, as Fillmore only run by the
North as a blind. He argued and proved con
clusively that the Whig Party no longer had
an existence, and it behooved every conserva
tive man to ally himself with the Democratic
Party as the only National organization to
which the South could look for safety. This
party is for the principles of the Kansas Ne
braska Act, in’ which are guaranteed the con
stitutional rights of the South. He contrasted
the Philadelphia Platforms, and asserted with
out fear of contradiction, that an American of
1855, could not consistently support Mr. Fill
more. He briefly alluded to the Cincinnati
Platform, its principles of equal rights and
non-intervention policy ; also the standard-bear
er of that Platform, their capabilities, honesty,
soundness, &c.
I perceive that time and space will not allow
following the speaker through the whole of his
interesting and truly forcible speech of two
hours, during which time he poured hot shot
and bomb shells into the dilapidated ranks of
Sam like a thousand of brick, scattering asun
der every vestige of his claims to the Presiden
cy, not leaving a greasy spot to mark his de
mise, and in next November his epitaph will be
indelibly written, tekel. So set down the
Bloody Ninth almost a unit for Buchanan and
Kansas. W. D. THOMPSON, Ch’n.
J. A. Williams, Secretary.
[F rom the Constitutionalist.]
jgigf* Extract from a letter received by one
of our large business houses, dated
Boston, Aug. 13, 1856.
Madness rules the hour with us, and politi
cians of the Black Republican school arc ready
and willing to risk the Union on the question
of slavery extension. I have voted since 1818,
and for nine Presidents, all of whom have been
elected but three, and I expect to see our fa
vorite of the Keystone State, triumphantly j
elected. Under no circumstances could I touch
that sacred instrument, the Constitution, not
even as “Sumner” said, as “I understand it.”
It was intended that the people should make
their own laws in States, unrestricted, and the
coustruction I would place upon the subject of
noh-intervention, now and forever. I think
much on this subject at tills time—and old
Massachusetts (ever opposed to the govern
ment,) may yet, in her divisions, be not sure
for Fremont ; many are the chances to divide
his party here; Rhode Island and Vermont
will vote for him, and Ohio also—lowa possi
bly, too. Thus in the greatest extreme Buch
anan, I think, will get all but four States, and
two of them uncertain.
We consider now that New Hampshire is
sure, Connecticut also, and Maine is fully or
ganized, and the work is being done up in good
order. Thus, for the opinions of a Northern
man, who never flinches in liis duty, in spite of
the anathemas, “dough-faces,” &c., which are
daily hurled at us. Mr. Cobb, of Georgia,
shelled them well in Portland, and Benjamin
also gave them good points.
Wc will not here accept of two hundred elec
toral votes, for we feel certain that Buchanan
will obtain more.
The Ilider of The Army Bil3.
The following is the provision which the
Black Republican Know Nothings in the rep
resentative branch of Congress, insist upon at
taching to the army bill, and which the Senate
by a large majority, declare shall not be added
to the bill.— — [Ex.
Provided, however, and it is hereby declared,
that no part of the military force of the United
States, for the support ofwhich appropriations
are made by this act, shall be employed in aid
of the inforcement of any enactment of the
body claiming to be the Territorial Legislature
of Kansas until such enactments shall have
been affirmed and approved by Congress; but
this proviso shall not be so construed as to pre
vent the President from employing an adequate
military force; but it shall be his duty to em
ploy such force to prevent the invasion of said
Territory by armed bands of non-residents, or
any other body of non-residents, acting or
claiming to act as a posse comitatus of any of
ficer in said Territory, in the enforcement, of
any such enactment, aud to protect the persons
and property therein, and upon the national
highways leading to said territory, from all un
lawful searches and seizures; and it shad be
his further duty to take efficient measures to j
compel the return of and withhold all arms of
the United States, distributed in or to said
Territory, in pursuance of any law of the Uni
ted States authorizing the distribution of arms
to the States and Territories.
The following are the items of apppropriations
of the bill which thus hangs suspended upon
this proviso:
For the support of the army—
Army proper $10,580,249
Armories arsenals and minutes of war. .935,040
Military academy 1t3,894
Fortifications and other works of de
fence 1,745,300
Surveys, &c • 122,000
Miscellaneous objects 1,400,000
A rrearages 2,000
“What is to become of the Whites.”
Such is the question which the Cincinnati En
quirer urges very appropriately on the attention
of the besotted and debauched idolaters of the ab
olition dagon, who are lashing themselves into fa
natical convulsions. From this article, we extract
a passage of some interest aud value from snch a
source.
“Nothing is more easily demonstrated than that
the North lias a greater interest in the continuance
of slavery in the South, than the South itself. All
the burden, blight and evil of slavery fall upon the
South. The North quietly divides the products
of the labor, washes its hands of all the sinfulness
of it, and is protected from all its evils and incon
veniences. Kvery pound of cotton raised in tie
South adds to the wealth of the North. Boston
makes more out of each bale shipped from New
Qrleans than the latter city: she makes it .in the
freight of cotton aboard ou her ships, in tbo sup
ply of raw material for her manufactories, and iu
the articles required by the planter to produce it,
which are fabricated by Northern artisans.
“No wonder tho North prospers so much more
than the South. She lias all the benefits of slave
ry and none of its evils. She taxes the South for
her support and enrichment. Let slavery be abol
ished in the South, mid you may reverse the rela
tions of the two sections. The North will then
have to support those whose consumption has so
long burdened and weakened the South. We be
lieve that the abolition of slavery would he a great
evil to the country, but in the division of the evil
the North would come in for the largest share.”
Hurrah ! for Buck and Brock.
Official.
By the President of the U. S. of America.
A PROCLAMATION. \
Whereas, whilst hostilities exist with various
Indian tribes on the remote frontiers of the U.
S., and whilst in other respect the public peace 5
is seriously threatened, Congress has adjoured (
without granting necessary supplies for the Ar- ‘
my, depriving the Executive of’ the power to
perform his duty in relation to the common de
fence and security, and an extraordinary occa
sion has thus arisen for assembling the two
Houses of Congress*: I do therefore, by this my
proclamation, convene the said Houses to meet
at the Capital, in the City of Washington, on
Thursday, the 21st day of August, instant;
hereby requiring the respective {Senators and
Representatives then and there to assemble,
to consult and determine on such measures as
the state of the Union may seem to require.
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal
of the United States to be hereunto
[l. s.] affixed and signed the same with my
hand.
Done at the City of ’Washington, the 18th
day of August, in the year of our Lord one;
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and the !
independence of the United States the eighty
first. Franklin Fierce.
By Order:
W. L. Marey, Sc’ty. of State.
President’s Message.
FclloiO Clli-cvs of the Senate and
House of lieprcscnlalivcs.
In consequence of the failure of Congress at;
its recent session, to make provision for the j
support of the Army, it became imperatively ,
incumbent oi me to exercise the power which
the Constitution confers on the Executive for 1
extraordinary occasions, and promptly to eon-j
veue the two Houses iu order to afford them an j
opportunity ol’ reconsidering a subject of such i
vital iuterest to the peace and welfare of the j
Union.
With exceptions of a partial authority rest- 1
ed by law in the Secretary of War, to contract 1
for supply of clothing and subsistence, the Ar
my is wholly dependent on the appropriations
annually made by Congress. The omission of
Congress to act, iu this respect, before the ter
mination of the fiscal year, had already caused,
i embarrassments io the service, which were over
j come only in expectation of appropriations be
; fore the close of the present month. If the j
requisite funds be not speedily provided, the j
Executive will no longer be able to furnish the ■
transportations, equipments and munitions,
which are essential to the-effectiveness of a mil- j
itary force in the field. With no provision for !
the pay of troops, the contracts of enlistment j
I would be broken, and the Army must in effect■
| be disbanded ; the consequence of which would
ibe so disastrous as to demand all possible c-f- ;
forts to avert the calamity.
It is not merely that the officers and enlisted
men of the Army are to be thus deprived of;
the pay aud emoluments to.which they are en
titled by standing laws ; that the construction
of arms at the public armories, the repair and
construction of ordnance at the arsenals,
and the manufacture of military clothing and
camp equipage must be discontinued ; and the
persons connected with this branch of the pub
lic service thus be deprived suddenly of the em
ployment essential to their subsistence. Nor is
li merely the waste consequent on the forced
> abandonment of the sea board fortifications,
; and of the interior military posts ancUother es
| tablislunents, and the enormous expense of re
• cruiting and reorganizing the Army, and again
distributing it over the vast regions which it
now occupies. These are evils, which may, it
is true, be repaired hereafter by taxes inqtosed
on the country.
But other evils arc involved, which no ex
penditures however lavish, could remedy—in
comparison with which local and personal inju
ries and interests sink into insignificance.
A great part of the army is situated on the
remote frontier, or in the deserts and mountains
of the interior. To discharge large bodies of
men in such places, without the means of re
gaining their homes, aud where few, if any,
could obtain subsistence by honest industry,
would be to subject them to suffering andtcinp
tation, with disregard of justice and right most
derogatory to the Government.
In the Territories of Washington and Ore
gon, numerous bands of Indians are in arms,
and are waging a war of extermination against
the white inhabitants ; and although our troops
are already carrying on the campaign, we have
no intelligence as yet of a’ successful result.—
On the western plains, notwithstanding the im
posing display of military force recently made
there, and the chastisement inflicted cm the re
bellious tribes, others, far from being dismayed,
have manifested hostile intentions, aud been
guilty of outrages, which, if not designed to
provoke a conflict, serve to show that the ap
prehension of it is insufficient wholly to restrain
their vicious propensities. A strong force in
the tState of Texas has produced the tempora
ry suspension of hostilities there ; but in New
Mexico, incessant activity on the part of the
troops is required to keep in check the marau
ding tribes which infest the Territory. The
hostile Indians have not been removed from
the State of Florida ; and the withdrawal of
the troops therefrom, leaving the object unae- j
complished, would be most injurious to the in-!
habitants, and a breach of tho positive engage- j
ment of the General Government.
To refuse supplies to the army, therefore, is
to compel the complete cessation of all its ope
rations, and its practical disbandment, and thus
to invite hordes of predatory savages from the
western plains and the Rocky Mountains to
spread devastation along a frontier of more
tiiau four thousand miles in extent, and to de
liver up the sparse population of a vast tract
of country to rapine and murder.
Such, in substance, would be the direct and
immediate effects of the refusal of Congress,
for the first time in the history of the Govern
ment, to grant supplies for the maintenance of
the army ; the inevitable waste of millions of
public t reasure—the infliction of extreme wrong
upon all persons connected with the military
establishment by service, employment or con
tracts—the recall of forces from the field—the
fearful sacrifice of life and incalculable destruc
tion of property on the remote frontiers—the
striking of our national flag on the battlements
of the fortresses which defend our maritime ci
ties against foreign invasion—the violation of
public honor and good faith—and the discredit
of the United States in the eyes of the civilized
world.
I confidently trust that these considerations,
and others appertaining to the domestic peace
of the country which cannot fail to suggest
themselves to every patriotic mind, will, on re
flection, be duly appreciated by both Houses
of Congress, and induce the enactment of the
requisite provisions of law for the support of
the army of the United States.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
Washington, August 21, 1856.
4®* We had a very good shower of rain, on
Sunday evening, the 24th iost.
Prospects in Maryland.
Je friend now on a visit to Maryland writes
us as follows in regard to the prospects of
Buchanan in that State:— Gen. fy Journal
When Fillmore accepted his nomination, I
set down Maryland as probably good for his
electorial ticket. I continued to be of this
opiniomon until since my arrival here. Now, I
have backed the oposite opinion by the venture
ot a sombrero. This change is founded upon
the tact that, with but one or two exceptions,
eveiy prominent whig in the State is advoca
ting the election ot James Buchanan. Ido not
follow the example of a certain near neighbor
ot yours, and make this assertion at hazard. -
/ can name the men. Besides the two U S
Senators Pratt and Pearce, I name cx-Senator
Merrick, Chambers and Johnson, Judge Ecles
ton, of the Court of Appeals, Alex. Evans, late
whig member of Congress from this district,
Col. J (’. Goodin, an old Clay whig, well known
throughout the State. In this county, I do
not know a single lawyer of any standing who
is now with the democratic party. And I be
lieve I might almost say jhe same of every
county in the State.
| \\ ith these lads before me. I cannot believe
i but that Maryland is safe for Buchanan and
the Union.
In Y\ ashiugton nobody is so ignorant as to
talk of Fillmore’s prospects seriously. The
contest is known to be between Buchanan and
Fremont, and no democrat wishes Fillmore out
of the field. The dcmocratis know that in the
Northern States every vote cast for Fillmore
is a vote taken from Fremont.
Carroll.
A gentleman writing to the editor of the
Savannah Georgian,- from Carrollton, says,
that Carroll will give Buchanan only one thou
sand, or one thousand one hundred majority, in
November, as three hundred votes were cutoff
to the new county, Haralson, by the last Leg
islature; two hundred and sevent y four of whom
are for Buchanan. Only one thousand majori
ty ! why did’nt he say only all ? Where is
Mr. Benjamin Hill? —-Atlanta Intelligencer.
Mr. Overby Declines rise Nomina*
tion.
This gentleman, says the Georgia Platform,
who was last year the candidate of the Prohibi
tionists, and who was recently nominated by
the Fillmore Know Nothing party, as alternate
for Presidential elector in the 4th Congßcssion
al District, declines the nomination tendered
him, as may be seen by the following extract
from the Crusader :
“He stated to the Convention, that he had
recently been nominated as an elector in the
| Presidential campaign, but he said he positive
ly could not accept the nomination, assigning
as his reasons, that he could not mix and com
mingle with the evils and contaminating ele
ments attendant upon a political campaign.”
Buclsanan.on Slavery.
lion. James Buchanan, in 1826, in a speech
in the House of Representatives, uttered the
following noble sentiment :
“Is there an/ man in this Union who could,
for one moment, indulge the horrid idea of
abolishing slavery, by the massacre of the high
minded, and the chivalrous race of men at the
! South ? 1 trust there is not one. FOR MY
| OWN PART. I WOULD, WITHOUT
| HESITATION, BUCKLE ONMYKNAP
jSACK, AND MARCH, in company with my
i friend from Massachusetts, (Mr. Everett,) IN
I DEFENCE OF THEIR CAUSE.”
The Germans in Connecticut.
. There has been much said against the Bermans;
land some Know Nothing papers, South, seem to
i rejoice that some of them, instead of voting for
: Buchanan, will go for Fremont. “When the South*
has so much at stake, and the Democratic party
alone has thrown itself into the breach, is not such,
malignant rejoicings ill-timed and reprehensi
ble !
But we are rejoiced to notice an immense mass
I meeting’ of the Germans of Connecticut, at liart
; ford, who were unanimous for. Buchanan. Though
I lie is there called by the Black Republicans the
; slavery candidate, the meeting passed the follow
jig : •
Rewired, That we approve of and adopt tho
Plat fox m of the Democratic National Convention,,
i recently assembled in Cineinnatti.
This shows their national position to be right ;;
! for tlry are planted on a sound platform, which
gutu sinti-es the Constitutinonal rights of every sec
tion. Tbev stand firm, even in this land of “wood
en nutmegs, though native Abolition Know Noth
ings and Black Republicans howl in concert
against us. Let us make an united charge upon
the enenmy of the Constitution—upon the enemies
of the Kiutsas bill—upon our enemies :
“Oned more our glorious banner ont
I pou the breeze we throw,
IJcneath its folds with song or shout
We ll charge upon the foe.’’
Southern Banner.
Jit hern Defence.
Speaking i>f tho threats of the free-soilers to
‘subjugating ihc South*” in ease she should” re
sist tho execution of (heir purpose, the Rich
mond Despatch makes some remarks which meet
our hearty commendation:—[Ex.
To such insults the south ought not to reply
jin words. But one thing is certain—if she has
! any leading minis left, it she has statesmen in
I W ashington and iu her State government
! worthy of the vast interests they represent,
and they do not. consult together and calmly
and fully prepare ,I‘or the future, they are false
to their country pud will be. responsible for all
the ruin and misery, that may conic upon her
head. Let southern leaders, without distinc
tion of party, prepare for any contingency
that may come upon the South.
The political horizon is full of signs of com
ing hurricane, and the roar of the breakers is
already in our ears. Woe, woe to the pilot
who at such an horn* sleeps at his post! A
punishment more terrible than that which the
vilest abolitionist of them all deserves, is due
i to Southern statesmen who in the face of such
warnings as continually sound in their cars,
neglect to provide for the safety of” their coun- •
try.
Reutou*s Electoral Ticket Taken
Down.
A dispatch from St. Louis, says the Georgia
Platform, states that the Benton electoral tick
et for Buchanan and Brcckenridge, has been
withdrawn in Missouri. Before the recent
election in that State, it was feared that this
ticket might give Missouri to Fillmore. *
Cholera.— The cholera is committing fear
ful ravages at Guana, Porto Rico, among the
blacks. The epidemic was more violent than
usual, and had assumed the character of a
plague. Elevated localities as well as habita
tions upon low ground were severly attacked.
Every expedient had been resorted to to prevent
the spread of the contagion to other portions of
jhe island.
It's hot a few about these digs ins, fchure.