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TUESDAY, MAY 15
Mr. Stcpheai’ Letter.
Wo think that our readers willagree with
■e that the large space occupied by this let
ter in uur columns, is room well appropri
ated. This movement on the part of Mr.
Stephens we think » very important one.—
lu the first place it saves the Georgia Plat-
form. Wo have asserted, and we again re
peat, that iu our belief the platform lately
laid down at Macon, by the K. N. Party,
upon the Slavery
sembly and Convention, all of them, or most diste . the long roll of abolition petition? - now aiding to accomplish the end, may find ; sum its u St&tCj
which <'ongress has been so much ex- J they Saw but kindled a flame to consume i b”
The whole stib stratum
aa sh© doubtless will, ;t, Southern
under tfalx Resolution, can unite
worthy brethren at the North, in voting
against it, upon’the ground that some have voted for a
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of them, were members of the clubs, for they with
could not be otherwise elected. And after cited and agitated for years past come not 1 themselves.
the question was tm — •> - | —
members next day
of Legislation nothing
matons, to register the edicts of the
though it were to behead a Monarch,
cause the blood of the best of then-
number to flow beneath the stroke ot me i nave oeen intormea .ana peneve. **ny ^oamencan taoorer. or man seeding ; onwhlcIl SoPtheni an d-Southern -Know Nothings’
axe. Is lnstory of no use? Or do our people • then should we Southern men join the Pu- , employmentthere, who ha- a role, need to j ;ir e to stand in the rejection of Kansas. But to the j ly and say that in our view nothing now
vainly imagine that Americans would not do ritans of the North bo proscribe. from office — J 1 1 ’ ’ 1 -**■“—a ^
The True leave.
We will not apologise for giving up so
space in our morning’s issue to the
evidence which the North is now daily and
as the French did under like circumstances?
the Catholics on account of their religion?
bad as
are.
Pur-
ca , more cheaply filled by a foreigner, on account of slavery? Paticniarlywhen it had open- , men f The nart of true wisdom is now we
who has none. This will be the practical ed the door fortho rejection of Kansason other grounds • P »
— ” ■* - - —- *—' ; ' m ——* - 1 —* ir think, to prepare to save ourselves. We
have been deceived in the significance of the
extracts we subjoin from recent Northern
working of the proposed reformation. This
is the philosophy of the thing. It is a blow
at the ballot box. It is an insidious attack
e« the door fortho rejection of Kansas on other grounds
by way of pretact r Why did it not plant itself upon
the principles of the Georgia Resolutions of 3850, and
say what ought to be done in case of the rejection of
a State by Congress because of slavery ? So far from
this it dors not even affirm that such rejection by their
peiise design - ; Hazed. Yet, he did all that he had been they
•ability ol the pledges made oy the State in ! told that lie would do’ “Let him that think- itanical accusers, who started this persecu-
lier last Convention. The responsibilities j eth he standeth take heed lest he fall.” Hu- tion against them say that ice are. They | upon general suffrage. In a .line .with this | papers, if our readers do not deduce from
«>1 those pledges have uow become inevita* ; man nature is the same compound of weak say we are going to perdition for the enor- j policy, the “ Know Nothing ” Governor of J cause for revering their party affiliation with them for j tbem tbe gajn g conc ] U8 i ons up0I1 which our
hie, and we firmly believe that the K. N.’s, j *™J, ties «nd erring passions everywhere - , mens sin of holding slaves. The Pope with j g^eetient has already recommended the j wonW e3V not only to the 0 - ldVy - hig , of the | mindg now rest-that is to say, that the
as a nartv do not mean to share them with 1 0f t, '? se c,ubs in Franw - nn ele ? ant wnter : * 11 j 11 ? followers cannot I suppose, even m , passage of a law denying the right of voting j 7th s aild Sth congressional District?, but to all true , „ , , " inai . ■“ 10 . y ’ * . * ®
5* pa 13, * 8 are tnem wit j has said: their judgement, be going to a worse place i to all who cannot read and write. \nd • Georgians, whether whigsor Democrots, Union men jt ! &outh need be at no further trouble m the
the Jenkins, Toombs and Stephens Whigs. : “From all other scourges which had afflict- for lidding what they consider the mon- hence, the great efforts which are now being ’ ^ ~ ' ‘ TV " *
We now hope and believe that wc are to ; ed mankind, in every age and in every na-' strops absurdity of “immaculate concep- ; made throughout the North, to influence the
have them to aid us in the next elections.— : tion. there had been some temporary refuge, tion.” And for niy part I would about as i elections, not only these, but in spending
We know full well that it will require a j some shelter until the storm might pa.-s.— soon risk my own chance for Heaven with j their money in the publication of books and
’ *' : p ll1 ' 1 ’ ’ * "with these self- tracts, written by “nobody knows who,”
Fire-Eaters whither are you drifting? Will yon not
pause and reflect ? Are we about to witness in this
insane cry against Fogeigners and Catholics a fulfilment
of the ancient Latin Proverb, 1 ‘Quern Deus vult perdirc
prius demented !" ;i When the Gods intend to destroy
they first make mad?* ? The times are indeed proten-
tions of evil. The political horizon is shrouded in dark
in «• - nntriritiKtu tr, offVvt ! During the heathenism of antiquity, and the ; him, and his crowd too, aswii
, . . ® . ! barbarism of the middle ages, the temple of righteous hypocrites who deal out fire and 1 and scattered broad-cast throughout the j ? e . 3S - ‘ s "° man knows whom he meets, whether he be
this tusion and yet the conclusion is irre- ■ a d or the shrine 0 f a sninh afforded a brimstone so liberally upon —
liberally upon our heads.-
refuge from despotic fury or popular rage. At any rate I have no* hesitaney in declar-
x - • n , , » friend or foe, except those who have the dim glare of
^OUtiiern otateH, to inliuonce elections here ! the covered light which their secret signs impart. And
by appealing to the worst of passions and j how long this will be a protection even to them, is by
bistable that it will be the part not- of pat- ^ _ ^ _ ^
riots, but of faction is ts, to refuse to make it j But French Jacobins, whether native or 1 ing that I should much sooner risk my ci- j strongest prejudices of our ^nature, not-1 verac^yaimo^aby^wofdanl a^pnLffi^Wheni r>uk
■>r to aid in preventing it. Weave earnest , adopted treated with equal scorn, the senti- vil rights with the American Catholics omitting those even which bad and wicked 1 losses caste with any people—is no longer considered
wo iIppWp nnr holiof« nients of religion and the feelings of ha- whom thevarc attempting to drive from j men can envoke under the sacred butprosti- *• virtue—and its daily and hourly violation are
ueoiare our uenei | 1 • ^ ' a* ^ ** x 1 -o t ! • looked upon with no concern but a jeer or laugh, it r
Denncrati' Convcu j mani ^y : all that man had gathered . office than with them. But sir, I am op- tuted name of religion^ 1 - - — *
quires very little forecast to see what will very soon be
what we say when
to be that the next | f rom his experience
tion should throw open the door to such al- ; revelations he Imped
lies, as wide as the gates of the east. Chat- from the sky, to bless
fering and jobbing now in politics is a fear- j existence, and elevate _
fill game, and the uarrow margin left- be- j ^ aspirations, were spurned as imposture j amongst the fold so long as a single remain- wholly unfit, nut only to minister offices at home, j other citizen, for i" have but little at«take: ami so far
■! anil desrriietirm itin kes rlie newleef ! Vj these fel! destroyer j. They would have j ing one,"
, I Hoarvi .>*; ,,, itiob-cc ,|, 0 , i oy :nere ten ucsiruycr:. i ney huuiu nave j mg uuc, be the number at first ever So great j but to represent our country, as Ministers, abroad, j as my public position and character are conecrned, I
, h 1 , * 1 ' depraved Ilian from his humanity, as they ' is left surviving. It was to guard against ! And to the gr^ut fi-auda and r/roti* abuses which : shall enjoy that consolation which is to be derived
oi any means of redemption a great crime. : attempted to decree God out of his universe, j anv such consequences as would certainly ; at present attend the administration of our natu- ; S h a “i ever e cherish^ J fnd 1 treasure. r wimt'wer^'fortune be-
But we leave our readers to comment upon : Not contented with France as a subject for ensue in this country if this effort at pros- ^bolecoanu^and^hev'^u ht^ote corrected — - tidenu ''
and to make their own conclusions from j their ruthless experiments—Europe itself j cription of this sect of religionists should be 1 Sotby a p.-oJeription 'of°alf Foreigner!,^without I
this important document. i being too narrow for their exploits, they successful, that that wise provision to which , regard to individual merits. But in the first place ;
! ‘ . send their propagandists to the new world, . I have alluded was put in the fundamental j by so amending the naturalization laws, as effectu- 1
l rout the A ugustii Chronicle * Sentinel.] - with desisrns about as charitable as those law of the Union. Aud to maintain it intact \ ally to check raid prevent these fraud* and abuse*. .
And in the second place, by holding to strict ac- j
l.rtter from Hon. A. H. Stephens
Ei.berton, Ga., May 5th, 1855.
Hon. Alexander If. Stephens—
Dear Sir: A rumor
with which Satan entered Eden.” in letter and spirit with steadfastness at j
time, I hold to be a most solemn public
scenes enacted by that self same party, duty
d by those who styl- j
seriptio
This is but a faint picture of some of the this time, I hold'to be a most solemn public ' JJJSS 1
quo c rmontn/i rvt? t n o r cnlt ^ O in P IVlfiV nnft* • ^ . *
. . J-’£ar Sir: a rumor i which was at first formed by those who styl- ■ And now, as to the other idea—the pro-
(irevails in this section,^ to a considerable j ed themselves “the friends of the Constitu- scription of foreigners—and more particu
•But if, on life’s uncertain main.
Mishap shall mar thy sail,
If. faithful, firm and true in vain,
Woe. want, and exile thou sustain.
Spend not a sigh on fortune changed."
Yours, most respectfuilv.
’ A. H. STEPHEN’S.
Col. T. W. Thomas, Elberton, Ga.
[From the Squatter (Kan.,) Sovereign.)
Governor Reeder.
We do not hesitate to say, that, in die
discussion or in the work of secession, for
the Abolition States have resolved to quit
us if we will not leave them. Upon the
present “ higher law ” interpretation of the
form and essence of this Government it is a
dead failure as an experiment of a free and
constitutional system, and should the South
lose the battle now waging, the sort of Gov
ernment that will be erected by Aboltioniats
and Abolition Know Nothings, upon the
ruins of the Constitution, will be, must of
necessity be, the vilest tyranny upon earth,
j But to the extracts.
[From the New York Times.]
Anti-Slavery in 1835 and in 1855 Con
trasted.
Notwithstanding the extreme inclemency
of the weather, a large and highly respec
table audience assembled at the Metropo
litan Theatre, last evening, to hear a lecture
by Hon. Henry Wilson, the recently elected
if. S. Senator form -Massachusetts. Sub
ject—“Anti-Slavery in 1835 and Anti-Slave
ry in 1855 contrasted.” The lecture was
delivered under the auspices of the New
York Anti-Slavery Society, aud was sup
plemental to the regular annual coarse.
The entertainments of the evening eom-
her friends. Mr. Pierce is now receiving 1
his share of oar wonted gratitude. j
THURSDAY, MAY 17.
[From the Louisville (Ky.) Democrat, May ^ j
The predominance of Anti-Slavery sen- ; Know-Nothing Election Riots iuLo»»
timent in Ohio and the District of Columbia : viile. *’
were then adverted to, and the Speaker : Saturday'morning early a crowd of ia„i.
went on to say that strong as the Anti-Sla- | a i 3> hyenas and bawdy-bouse bullies tiJu
very movement now is m tins country, there j possession of the polls in the First and s£f
is extreme danger and peril. I owe to the ; ond Wards, swearing that no anti-KuZ
truth, *io said, to speak what I know on that , Nothing, foreigner or not, should be &IK ^
nnhieet. Anti-Slaverv has met nower. has ed to vote, or even approach the polls;
they kept their words faithfully. A ffe w 0 j
subject. Anti-Slavery has met power, has
fought power, and has defeated power, and
to-day it is master of every free State of the
North, and may, if it choose, dictate the fu
ture policy of the Republic. The present
Administration has been defeated every
where in the North, and now, I predict here
to-night, it is to be defeated throughout the
South. The South never stands by a North
ern man or Northern party that has been
sacrificed for his interests; and the South is
the incidents we will give to our readers
Dr. Strader, passing down Main street
from the polls, was stoned by the crowd and
compelled to run. This was about the Kf
ginning.
An aged German, some 60 years old, wa
standing on the door sill of his house [!
Clay st., near Main, saying nothing to anv. ^t
body, when the crowd assaulted him, drai"
now going to show another of those acts of i ged him into the street, and beat him J
giggntic ingratitude that have marked its j p. Baird, Esq., endeavored to protect’ bm
history. I predict that throughout the ‘ without avail. ’ m
Southern country we are to have a series of j Geo. W. Noble went into the First Ward
polls while the crowd were off at a fight
and deposited his vote. On coming cut '
large man asked him how he voted. ,! a s j
pleased,” was the reply, when he was
knocked down. Getting up, he was knock-
ed down a second and a third time, and then
dragged some distance bv the hair of his
head.
victories over the present Administration;
and then, gentlemen, we are to have—not
then, we have it now—a demand made upon
us of the North to ignore the Slavery ques
tion—to keep quiet, and go into power in
18-56.
Now, gentlemen, I say to you frankly, I
am the last man to object io going into pow-
[Laughter.] And especially to going
An old German, apparently about
70
er. t w
into power over the preseut dynasty that is j years of age, was beaten almost to a jell/
fastened upon the country. But I am the j and left covered with blood. Young Bam!
last man that will consent to go into power ! berger, in quietly passing along was pu r .
by ignoring or sacrificing the Slavery ques- | sued several squares, and succeeded in es-
tion. [Applause.] If my voice could be j caping only by hiding in an old building
heard by the whole country to-night—by! A large crowd pursued two Germans from
the Anti-Slavery men of the country to-night j the First Ward polls to the United States
of all parties, I would say to them, resolve I Brewery on Market, just below Wenzel st
it—write it over your door posts—engrave j An aged man, seeing the crowd
_ . _ . . „ „ coming
it on the lids of your Bibles—proclaim it hurried to pass through a private alley into
at the rising of the sun and the going down j his own house. Before he could open the
of the same, and in the broad light of noon, gate and pass iu, two or more assaulted
that any party in America, be that party j him and knocked hira down. Trying to
Whig, Democrat or American, that lifts its get up, he begged for his life ; but not his
finger to arrest the Anti-Slavery movement, | age, his gray hairs, nor his entreaties, were
to repress the Anti-Slavery sentiment, or i of any avail; the miscreant assaulting him
proscribe the Anti-Slavery men, it surely j struck with a slung-shot—the blow missed
shall begin to die—[loud applause]—it j its aim, striking the wall of the house. At
would deserve to die: it will die; and by j that moment the crowd diverted theiratten-
the blessing of God I shall do what little I ! tion to the house of P. Merkel, keeper of
can to make it die. ■ the brewery, and the poor old man escaped.
We reluctantly close our extracts from j If we did not know that the Louisville
this speech of Wilson—we cannot uow spare i Democrat was a print of well established
the room to give our readers the whole of j respectability, we would not have published
this fire brand but- we now treat them to an the above, which is only a small portion of
Editorial from the N. 3’. Tribune—a paper , an article descriptive of the recent hou-
that in our view has no equal in this Union | isville elections. As frequent a:- these
in point of influence. To our mind the first Know Nothing riots have become, we vet
three lines that introdues this incendiary ; stand amazed at these proofs that a political
appeal to Northern fanaticism has never j organization, no older than this pseudo
been equalled for wickedness in any pro
duction of the abolition press. Here is the
article:—
Freedom or Slavery.
No freedom outside the Free States, or no
views or from whatever motive, thus improperly
confer office, whether high or low, upon uudeserv- !
...... . , - — — — r i- ing Foreigner*, to the exclusion of native born ! ... ^ w
extent, that you will decline to serve us in | tion.” And where did these “secret Coun- larly that view of it which looks to the de- citizens, better qualified to fill them. Another j history of our country no instance can be
the next Congress, and the chief reascii as- j we 110W j ieai . 0 f C oiue from? Not from nial of citizenship to all those who may’ evil now felt, and which ought to be remedied, is ] f 0 ‘ nd j n w hich an officer so unfit for anv of I menced with a performance by the Iluteh-
signed is, that it is supposed a large num- j France, it is true—but from that laud of! hereafter seek a home in this country and ; tbe flooding, it is said, of some of the cities with i , , . - - ». ^ «<> universally nhiee- *nson Family, called the “Freeman's Rally-
ter * so " rass a se 1 i w* i * *■*” ^ *» *»-** ■» * ~
riprniM npfiirp tn knnw it this I i: ! 1 - ^ r , , ,,^ " ■
the secret order
retiring at this time would be felt as a loss : sachusetts Legislature, where the new po-; stop immigration, nor would the extension
by those who have relied on you through so i htical organism has more J — 1 — - e — v - i: — —:,.a ~c
many trying scenes. ] itself than any where else
What are your opinions and views of this frnUjj thore 1 ' ‘Under (lie na
vi i j* vy .1 • q , r 1 tiv - uw C* , /-via ‘ W1U »»^**v* xu »tm«.u IUDJ uitt^ Udtt; tauuwu tv ; UICCCUl lUUlilCUl, UG XU13 UUlCl WUUI1V IU11CU 1
ay party, canea ivnow-Aotnings i i\no\v- j American Party,they have armed them-; of the excess of population from toe Old to . have beeu born, and by uniting their energies j to discharge the most pressing duties, or;
- a.,. - ~ Selves against the Constitution of our com- * \W WnrM wliiph pnmmprmpd witii the • with ours mav feel a nride in ndvaneinfr the nros- \ \ 1 5* z±z. tv... x .1 x I
Ridden by the slave power.
Crushed benec-th the chain,
Now is come our rising hour.
We are ur* again :
And voices from the mountain heights
And voices from the vale.
Say for freedom's fearless hosts.
There’s no such words as fail.”
ing your willingness to give your opinions on
ill matters of public concern, I am induced j n [ on country which they
10 make the inquiry, and request permit- i port—with every member of the Legisla- : would still go cu. And what would be the j ^
•don to publish your reply. ture, I believe save eight belonging to “the j effect, even under the most modified form of tl ,
lours truly, _ ^ order,” they have by an overwhelming ina the proposed measure—that is of an exten- i j 1(
Thomas W. TnoM as.
Orawfordville, Ga., May 9th, 1855.
country not lunch less dear to them than to us.-
^inst those who thus worthily come, who quit
the misruled Empires of their “father land," whose
hearts have been fired with the love of our ideas,
if. W. BEECHER INTRODUCES THE SENATOR.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher then came for
ward and said ; ladies and gentlemen, it is
made my duty this evening, and a very
the New World, which commenced with the with ours may feel a pride in advancing the pros- j j, as a ] juse d his position lor the Tnost corrupt!
ere sworn to sup- j settlement of this continent by Europeans, j perity, development and progress of a common ! p ur p 0ses _ j
- .u—.For mouths after his appointment he ab- j a g reei {bfe duty it is, to introduce to your
seated himself from his post, though his im- j attention the speaker for the night. I
mediate presence was demanded bv the lie- should have no need to introduce him if I
cessitie3 of the Territory. His time was de-1 were i n Massachusetts, where he is well
voted to electioneering in Pennsylvania, or , kdown by his works, and good works they
to the study of Indian treaties, with a view i ^ iave an ^ 1J ? a J?°pd_ cause: for l ap-
lb ar sir: Your letter of the 5th inst. was ‘ cause the arrest of the fugitive Slave Burns. 1 from the commencement of tile law. we uc most weely and generously to extend a wel-
. i i _» u i : , • ,i • . ... c i j c .... ! , _ _ i .i i i :n: -r i„ come hand. We have from such a class nothing
to fear. When in battle or in the walks of civil
Iu reviewing this most .unheard of outrage ' should have several millions of people in
upon the Constitution, the
Hyci i
for
the
. | r . » ., c „ ........ tut »»ucii iu uullie or m me wains oi civil j w. . , . .,>
National Intel-, our midst—men of our own race—occupy- ; !ifed ; (1 Rnv sl .,. h RV . r lirn ... lrnitAr „ r rpAr „ nt ernorof its neonle. hut to sneculate in lands i not “forget tier prejudices in favor of
recched some days ago, and should have
been answered much curlier, but for my ab
sence from home. The rumor you mention
in relation to my candidacy for re-election
to Congress, is true. 1 have stated, and re
peated ou vurious'oecasions, that I was not,
and did not expect to be, a candidate—tlie . ..... — —j . .
same I now say to you. The reason of this . “If these things be done in the greeu tree, : ican Republicanism as 1 have been taught ' j S '- e 1101 l >r,J,en 1 emse ' ea £0 0 c
to speculation in their lauds. I pretend tliat he is U. S. Senator from Mass-
lie came to our Territory not to be Gov- . aehusetts because that good old State could
e* • i i , ■ ^ i i • i •»! nnf “fAvrrof nor In rnr nf' lil^-
Slavery outside the Slave States, is to be the
established doctrine of our coming politics.
We ask of the Northern people which it
shall be ? "We put the inquiry to people of . TT . .
all parties, Whig, Democratic, Know Noth- \ the L mon whose policy for many years back
ing and Anti-Nebraska alike. Slavery de- j in l h e history ot the Government proves
Americanism, should have, at so early a
| date init3 existence, developed so much that
; is positively wicked and intolerable. Evi-
I dence like this we give from the Democrat
long ago induced us to warn the country
that the triumph of Know Nothingisin in
this country will be the same thing as civil
war. Wc yet stick to it. Those States of
beyond controversy that these were the sole
know of but ore class of people in i ends and aims of his coming.
He has declared that the office of Gov-
declaration on my part, was the fact, that i what may you expect in the dry.” - them and gloried in them from my youth i t h c United States at this time that I look upon a
large numbers of our old political friends But I have been anticipating somewhat, up. "" ’ ‘ ’ T ~ x : 1 ■
'Ccnied to lie entering into new combinations : 1 was on the preliminary question; that is,' tion
with new objects, puntoscs and principles of the secrecy which lies at the foundation of am 0 , _
which 1 was not infoimed, and never could the party—that atmosphere of darkness in eignera as a class, would not the danger be Constitution of that country which gave them ■ make monev bv the ounortunities
be, according to tho rules of their action j which “it lives, and moves, and lias its j greatly enhanced by the proposed remedy? j ’bave bMn^reMed^and'nurtured 1 "^Manyof I which would be afforded* him for speculation,
and the opinions I entertain. Hence mv being,” and without which probably it could Now it is true they are made to bear their j tbc * m are ,. Kll0w xothings." This class of men j He had not time, after his arrival, to secure
conclusion that they had no further use for not exist. I do not. however, intend to stop j share of the burthens of ^Governnienr, but ■ t } ie North, of which the Massachusetts, New \ a room, before he became a large shareholder
me as their Representative ; for I presumed i with that. 1 will go further, and give, now, j are permitted, after a residence of five years, ; Hampshire and Connecticut‘‘Know Nothing” Leg- | \ n the town of Leavenworth, in considera-
tion that it should be made the temporary
seat of government. The Delaware Indians
complained that their treaty was violated
by the location of the town upon their
lands. As Governor of the Territory he
should not have thrown the weight of his
official position against them.
By the act organizing the Territory, he
was empowered to locate a permanent seat
of government, and some §20,000 were
placed in his hands to be expended iu pub
lic buildings at the place selected. It was
his duty to act fairly and with a pure and
disinterested consideration of the Territory
in making such selection. On the contrary
for gain, he sells himself, and, for a specu
lation, promises to select a town in which
he was a large shareholder. Thai he has j
not complied with his agreement, adds but i
to his infamy.
After having sold his right to locate the j
seat of government, we next hear of him on |
dumb instrument to execute such a purpose. ! buted to the Order, though no body as an j attached to the Government and its princi- j what our Georgia friends, whether Whigs or
I certainly never did, aud never shall, go j organized party avow them,) have as I un-i pies under the operation of the present eys- | Democrats, who have gone into this “New Order,”
before tho people as a candidate for their ! derstahd them, two leading ideas, and two | tern, than they would be under the proposed j are really after, or what they intended to do, I
suffrages with my principles in my pocket, j only. These are a proscription by an ex one which would treat them as not fBucb i cannot imagine. Those of them whom I know
II has been the pride of my life, heretofore, elusion from office of all Catholics, as a! better than outcasts and outlaws? All wri- | } lavc assured me that their object is reform, both
nor only to make known fully and freely my ; class, and a proscription of all persons of tors of note, from the earliest to the latest, ! ! n pur aud Federal Administrations to put
sentiments upon all questions of public pol- foreign birth, as a cla-s: the latter to bo .to who have treated upon the elements and com- ^v^whfld authority—that ffiey^have no'sympa-
icy, but in vindication of those sentiments . complished not only by an exclusion ii in ponent parts, or members of communities j tb j e5 as p artJ - men 0 r otherwise with that class I
thus avowed, to meet any antagonists array- office of all foreigners who are now citizens and States, have pointed this out as asource ■ speak of at the North—that they nre^for sustain
ed against, them, in open and manly strife— : by naturalization, but to be more effectually ; ot real danger—having a large number of j ing the Union platform of our State of 1S50, and
• face to face and toe to toe.” From this ' carried out bv an abrogation of the natural-1 the same race not "only aliens by birth, but j l ‘ ia i f -he mask of secrecy will soon be removed
rule of action, by which I have up to this j* ' ’ “* •* ** * ! ” ‘ -* •*!«■" nU tf
-ime been governed, I shall never depart.—
But you ask me what arc my opinions and
the Helots in Greece—men of the same j j,r,te proscription of any class of citizens on ae-
raoe placed in an inferior position, and j count of their birth place or religion, then they
forming within themselves a degraded class, j will have ray co-operation, as I have told them, in
I wish to see no such State of things in this • every proper and legitimate way, to effect such a
country. With ns at the South, it is true, we ! reformation. Not as a secretly initiated co-work-
, j , . ; cr in the dark for any purpose, but as as open and
have a degraded caste, but it is oi a iace , bo j d advocate of truth in the light of day. But
views of this new party called Know-Noth- tonsible objects for all this machinery—
ings. with a request that you be permitted i these oaths—pledges—secret signs—equivo-
t<> publish them. My opinions and views ; cations—denials, and wliat not. And wliat
thus solicited, shall be given most-cheerful- i I have to say of them, is, that if these in
ly, as fully and clearly as m) - time, under deed and in truth be the principles thus at- •
the pressure of business, will allow. You j tempted to be carried out. then I am op-
■•an do with them as you please—publish : posed to both of them, openly nnd unquali-
tbem, or not, as you like. They are the fiedly.
views of n private citizen. I am at present, 1 *atn opposed to them "in a double as-
to all int'-nts and purposes whatsoever, lit- • pect,” both as a basis of party organization he was designed by nature. No training
• rally one of tin. people. I hold no office ! and upon their merits as questions of pub- j can fit him for either social or political equal- j
nor seek any, and as one of thc people I lie policy. As the basis of party organiza- ity with his superiors ; at least history fur-
sha.ll speak to you and them ou this, and on tion, they are founded upon the very erron- nishes us with no instance of the kind; nor j
ill occasions, with that frankness and iude- I eon? principle of looking, not to how the ' does the negro with us feel any degradation ,
pendenee which it becomes a freeman to country shall be governed, but who shall; in his position, because it is his natural place. I
bear towards his fellows. And in giving ; hold the offices—not to whether we shall j But such would not be the case with men of !
my views of “ Know Nothingism,” I ought, | have wise and wholesome laws, but v:ho the same race and coming from the same !
perhaps, to premise by saying, and saying shall “rule us,” though they may bring ruin State with ourselves. And what appears j
most truly, that I really “ know nothing " with their rule. Upon this principle Trum- not a little strange and singular tome in;
about thc principles, aims ur objects of the bull, who defeated Gen. Shields for the Sen- considering this late movement is, that if it i Aiuoricaui-ufi^' niD the ’ product of the° C ' er ’
fitted by nature for thcirsubordiDateposition. , w ;]j t be y as they sav ? Will they throw ofi the
The negro, with US, fills that place in society | mark? * That is the question. Is it possible that
and under our system of civilization for which they will continue in political party fellowship
lie was designed by nature. No training | with iheir "worthy brethren" of Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New Hampshire, and thc entire
North? Every one of whom elected to the next
Congress is our deadly foe! Ho they intend^
conunue^their alliance with these open enemies 1 ^'
our institutions and the Constitution of the coun
try under the totally misnamed association of the
“American Party”—thc very principle upon which
it is based beiug anti-American throughout?
True Americanism, as I have learned it, is like
true Christianity—disciples in neither are confin
such a meeting as this would not have been
held. 1 think that Castle Garden Union
Everlasting Safety Committee—what was
it called?—would scarcely have been found
permitting such a meeting as this; and if
it had been held, I think that the U. S. Sen
ators from Massachusets would not have
then been tlie speakers, or if they had been
the speakers, I apprehend that 1 should not
have been tlie man to introduce them.—
[Laughter and applause.] You may under
stand that the world moves when there has
been such a complete revolution of thc wheel
that I am set to introduce to you the shoe
maker of Natick, U. S. Senator from Mass
achusets. [Great applause.] I regard it
as one of the most admirable features of our
political system that a man is nothing more
on account of his occupation, and nothing
less: and as old Connecticut sent Rogers
Sherman, the shoemaker, to the U. S. Senate,
so Massachusetts has imitated her example,
and sent the shoemaker from Natick. Let
us this evening see what kind of work he
can do. [Applause.]
* * * -x- * *
We pass over much of the introductory
history of the rise and progress of abolition
in the country as given by Senator Wilson,
and tiike here and there from his speech per.
tineut and spicy illustrations of the success
a professed tour of observation, made under i and triumphs of his party. In the iollowing
passage we are given to understand that the
North speaks falsely when she says that there
isno intention of disturbing “the institution”
in the States where it exists.
In other times, when thc movement then
• UIIILW «u x/V/^tu<uvtvu OLl vi* ; JUULU 'JJ L’UUlllUUI U1LU GLI.UUOG UL tl UO UUl j
men in a republic, in my opinion, ought to j born in the country? Upon this principle
be openly avowed and publicly proclaimed, a Boston Atheist, who denies the inspiration
, — —, „ _ ,ery great and against the admission ol any slave ' behalf ot our slaves. They - .
objection to the whole organization. All ' State in the Union; while Shields, who has ! deavoring for j’ears to elevate the African to ! [ ut !°“ £ aci ^, dlstul ° u ‘_ u . om °. t ” er P 6 ®? 1 ®’
political principles, which are sought to be ; ever stood by the Constitution, must be re- an equality socially and politically with the j go ?ignaflv^dGtimuiish us from^U other^aTiono
arried in Legislation by any body or set of ! jected by Southern men because he was not white man. And nuw, they are moving j Hi f r „ c t 0 lcrotion%[ religion and the doctrine of
heaven and earth to degrade the white man 1 expatriation—thcrigki of a man to throw off his
to a condition lower than that held by the ! allegiance to any and every other State, Prince or \
Truitt never shuns the light nor shrinks : of the Bible, because it sanctions slavery, is ; negro in thc South. The Massachusetts ! Potentate whatsoever, and by naturalization to be
from investigation—or at least it ought nee- to be “sustained bv Georgia “Know Noth- “ Know Nothing” Legislature passed a bill , - n e? r P , - irl * te <-l as citizens into our body politic.—
•r to do it. Hiding places, or secret coverts, j ings” iu preference io me, barely because I; lately to amend tlieir Constitution, so as to : . i°i rn Vr S «f ^ r*
ire natural resorts for error. _ It is, there- will not “bow the knee to Baal,” this false , exclude from the polls in that State, hercaf- ^ c ! se American ideas which were proclaimed in
foriq a circumstance quite sufficient to excite political God they have set up. The only ter, all naturalized citizens, from whatever 1769 by our “sires of’76,” are by their “sons” at
suspicion against the’truth to see it pursuing ' basis of party organization is an agreement' nation they may come; and yet they will this da*y derided and scoffed at. We are now told
-uch a course. And in republics whore free amongst those who enter into it upon the allow a ivnaway negro slave from the South that “naturalization” is a “humbug,” and that it is
discussion aud full investigation by a virtu-1 paramount question of the day. And no 1 the same right to vote that they give to • ln "impossibility,. ’ so did not our fathers think,
-•us and intelligent people is allowed, there party cun last long without bringing disas- tlioir own native born sons ! Tbev thus ex- This "humbug and “impossibility ’ they plant-
iiever can he any just grounds to fear any ter and ruin in its train, founded'upon any Dibit the strange paradox ot warring against! “ au £ pri nci°pTe was one of the caSseTof “ur sec!
danger even h-om the greatest errors m re- other principle. The old National W hig their own race—their own blood—even their : onc i w lir 0 f independence. England held that
ligion or politics. All questions, therefore, j Party tried the experiment when there was i own " kith and kin,” it may be, while they j -naturalization” was an impossible thing. She
relating to the government of a free people, radical differences of opinion ou such ques-' are vainly aud ianaticallv endeavoring to ! claimed the aiiegiauce of subjects born wiibin her
ought to be made known clearly understood, I tions, and went to pieces. The National ' reverse the order of nature, by making the j ms'RepubUc'bfouf^nstltu^n^dTws"’^^
Sully discussed, and unaerstandingly acted Democratic Party are now trying a similar black man equal to the white. Shall we i only claimed their allegiance, but she claimed the right
upon. Indeed, I do not believe that a Re- : experiment, and are experiencing a similar second them in any such movement? Shall search our_ships upon the high seas, and take from
publican Government can la6t long, where fate. This is what is the matter with it.— ; we even countenance them so far as to bear ! parsuh of this doctrine of“hers—of'?he right o?Srch
this is riot the ease. In mv opinion, no man Its vital functions are deranged—hence that' the same name—to say nothin g of the same ! for our-'naturalization’’citizens—that the Chesapeake
- ’ • • ” & • - - - - °- - - c— P ,— 1-.. ! of the
2 lie was
real and
direct and
ignores this,
well might
le faithful
—one of the elect even—barely because he was born
;omewhere within the limits of Christendom. And
i ‘decreed God out
club a 4 “Christian
born on Christian
soil. The genuine disciples of ki True Americanism,”
like the genuing followers of the Cross ; are those whose
armed and fired—purified, elevated and
y those principles, doctrines and precepts
- • x -- , ‘ * ul v*'' Jlc ' V* «uu«i».ua. iiV - ” '*| which characterize their respective systems. It ia tor
any secr<t party shall ever De so tar success- But to pass to the other view of these intent and life to an old sentiment, long cher- i this reason that a Kamschatkan. a Briton, a Jew, or a
ful in this country as to bring the Govern-, principles—that * u “ :J —— ~ r ; -i- J ’ 1 - 1 - ^ ” -■ : ni.j^ i,.„ > i-hrWi.n „...k,,™ ™
inont in all its departments and functions ; them as question
under the baneful influence of its control ! me, they both stand in no better light in i true, “ Know Nothingism
and power political ruin will inevitably en- ! this aspect than they do in the other? The note as I understand its origin, with the 1
sue. ao truth m politics can be more easi- jimassumes rvMjxn-af jurisdiction in "Jorum class I allude to. It commenced with the i which was the “true American," Arnold or Ham-
lv and firmly established, either by reason conteienfiee”—to which I am quite as much laborers and men dependant upon capital for iltonr Tlie onc ‘ ' vas * native and the >.the r was an ad-
7r from history, upon principle or authority, opposed as I am to the spiritual powers con- work and employment. It sprang from the ! ^natod# ultSi timeUn.uhev ha.^Swn
Tlian tins. J nese are my opinions, candidly I trolling the tcmperal. One is as Lad as tlie antagonism of their interests to foreigners , their hand? Do they intend to abandon the Georgia
expressed. other—both are bad. I am utterly opposed seeking like employments, who were under- | P!a fd J > ™i*iv 1 g n C e wlth Trumbuff 1 a Durkee 8 waso lDt °
1 know that many good and true men in to mingling religiou with politics in any bidding them in the amount of wages. But ' co P ?‘ i^histhe course martedout ffirthomaVives" hv
< leorgia difler with me iu this particular— • way whatever, and especially am I opposed many capitalists of that section, the men any or tho gallant old Whigs of the ttu and 8th Con-
iliousands of them, I doubt not, have joined to making it a test in qualifications for civil j who hold the land and property in their own ‘ e rc ° sional Hisrncts? i trust not, i hope not.
this secret order with good intenti.-.s.— office. Religiou is a matter between a man hands, wishing to disperse with laborers and ; is “tta totekVnrortonte^ a 0 nd wWttcri™y
Some of them have told me so, and I«? nut and his Creator, with which governments employees, whose votes at the polls are equal j arc' driving? tv n tic blind lead the blind” wh re
.1 u *-- - - • ' ■* T jl * * I x_ *1. - • » - . -' •*— ‘••''pe Hi .«»••_• I have been cited to he
which, A i.s said, the late Know Noih-
_ _ o ition passed in Macon. This, it seems, is
w J eagerly as they saw that man\ r j tli °‘ onl y thing that the 600 delegates could bring forth
lived affair, no harm will, ot may come of pleases, or no creed at all ifhe is so inclined, ; of the very men ‘whom they have ever \
it. But let it succeed—let it carry all the < no other man lias a right to pry into dreaded as the insuperable obstacle between j mountains have been in labor and a ridiculous mouse
.-lections, State and Federal—let the natural j his conscience to enquire what he believes, ! them and their purpose, had become the : l *. born ” it simply affirms, most meekly and submis
and inevitable laws of its own organism be j or what he does not believe. As a citizen , willing, though unconscious instrument of forlheTaaVtifirty-fivc^woMdYvrc ventured 1 ’to
slice lullv developed—aud tlie country will i aQ d as a member of society, he is to be : carrying that purpose out, which, from the deny, without ‘ justly subjecting himself to the
* - - - 1 *-- J — J '— l: •* J ” ..... ... charge of ineivitm—that is, that “Congress has no
constitutional power to iutervene by excluding a new
State applying for admission into tho Union, upon the
ground that the constitution of such State recognizes
slaver}*." This is the whole life and soul of it, unless
we except the secret blade of Joab which it bears to*
wards Kansas and Nebraska, concealed under a garb.
It is well known to all who are informed, that in the
pretence of obtaining the necessary infor
mation to enable him to organize the gov
ernment. This tour is hardly commenced
before it is found to be a tour of speculation.
While absenting himself from the Territory
he has rumaged the files of old treaties at
Washington, and believes he has discovered j inaugurated shall have triumphed, as tri-
the foundation of a fortune. As Governor, ! umph it surely will—[applause]—when the
claiming to he second only to the “Great J flag of the Republic shall not wave over a
Father,” he imposes upon the credulity of i single inch of the Continent trod by the
thc poor half breeds, and purchases their i foot of the slave, a grateful posterity will
land for a song. This speculation is not > turn back to an age illustrated by the ser-
sufficient. Hecontinues his tour, and again, | vices of Adams, Jackson, Clay, Webster,
for a song, becomes a lai’ge proprietor in and Calhoun, and do justice to the motives
oil: it! the town of Pawnee. At once it is pro- j and deeds, the names and memories of the
claimed that this is to be the seat of got’- j humble, but heroic, men who laid the foun-
ernment. So long as his official position ; dation of a movement that give freedom to
can be abused for the profitable sale of | a race in America. [Loud applause.]
stock, he is found “buying in.” ! *******
His “tour ’ completed, to give time to re- : 'p} ie speaker traced the progress of Anti-
alise on his investments, he defers the call ; gj aver y sentiment and power in the North
of a Legislature as that body would possess | p rom the time of the Florida war, through
the power to locate tlie seat ot government, ; c j ]e p 0r ; 0( ] that intervened until the admis-
and might defeat his speculations. In this, ; s ; on 0 f Ftah and New Mexico as Slave tcr-
too he acted as agent of the abolitionists.— ; r ; t01 .; es an( ] enactment of the Fugitive Slave
Had the Legislature assembled last fall it i Law of i 8 50. Even then, lie said, the
was clear that the pro-slavery party would , Anti-Slavery party hurled defiance at these
succeed. To defeat them, it was necessary ; aggressive measures. When those days
to give further time to Ihayer & pO., to j came — ne ver hereafter to he mentioned by
ship their hirelings; and not until tne o'- 8 ] - un American without a blush—those days
moment until, indeed, as we are informed . w p en 0 ] t [ politicians tottered up and down
mands permission togo whereit likes, and it
likes to go everywhere. It declares its right
to go wherever the territory of the Union
extends. It assumes that there shall be no
freedom outside the Free States. What do
the Free States say to that position ? They
cannot dodge the issue; they must be for or
against; they must- acquiesce or oppose.—
Are they ready for such ignoble surrender
of their principles as aequiesence implies ?
Are they ready to permit Slavery to sur
round them, as with a Dismal Swamp, and
forever forbid them and their descendants
from going beyond tho limits which their
fathers’ virtue and patriotic resolution have
secured already to them ? Have they spirit
enough left to defend even the claims of
their own posterity to occupy any portion
of the broad domain of the prolific West, or
will they tamely surrender all to such ruf
fian hordes as have attempted, and propose
| to consumate, the subjection of Kansas ?
1 Which motto shall be emblazoned on the
! banner of the North ? No Freedom outside
j the Free States, or no Slavery outside the
j Slave States? Answer, Northern men of
: all parties and all factions and sects!—
j Choose your colors, whatever they may be,
j and be ready for the coming struggle. We
! are in a crisis on the Slavery question, and
! the issue must soon be determined.
Slavery is to triumph over Freedom, or
Freedom is to repeal the aggressions of Slave
ry. The North is to be humiliated, hum
bled in the dust, the Government to be sur
rendered into the hands of the slave drivers,
all our territory opened to their sway ; or
Freedom must assert its prerogative and
firmly resist aud quell the audacious attempt
at subjugation and conquest now making
by the Slave power.—A r . U. Tribune.
Here, again, is an extract from the last
Semi-Weekly Post. We have heard how a
Northern Senator, then how a Yankee phi
losopher discourses of us and our future.—
Now let us see what a poet thinks. In
replying to an article of the Charleston
Mercury reviewing the history of the recent
elections in Kansas, here is what the N. Y.
Post has to say :
The Mercury expects that the administra
tion will look at the question from the point
of view which that journal has itself taken
—that- is to say, will regard the wrong done
to the inhabitants of the territory as having
been committed in a contest for the rights
of the South, and therefore to be connived
at, if not applauded. There have been men
of the South, in the better days of the re
public. and we hope the class is not yet ex
tinct, in whom such language as that- which
we have quoted would have awakened a
feeling of the strongest indignation. The
to the assembled multitude not only his are true to the Constitution and the Union, ' question for Southern men to consider.
* * * “J r V CJUtjjij :* uvi - nan > uit < jihli iv.il. us a Jl.
this basis that Representative Government ; but who will vote for such measures as will. the fixed. I am not at all astonished at the e
was founded., and on this alone can it be | best promote the interests of America, aud ] rapid spread of this new sentiment at the ; hearts are
maintained in purity and safety. And if ! with that the interests of mankind. North, or rather new way of giving embod- ! w” d chei!arac
he was ordered by the President—did he
take steps to call a Legislature. Even then
the time was extended, to enable the abo
litionists to forward their last man.
During all this time he was the head of a
secret organization for the purpose of mak
ing Kansas a den of abolitionists—actively
corresponding with all parts of the country,
urging the shipment of abolitionists—advis-
the land invoking the people to conquer
their prejudices—when merchants assem
bled at Castle Garden—[laughter]—when
the sentiment uttered by a great statesman
of New York, that there was a higher law,
was received with a scoff and a jeer that
went up to the throne of Him whose hand
moves the stars and heaves the pulses of
the deep—[applause]—when those days
ing them long in advance of the hour at j were u , 3 o n us—when true men were hunted
which they would be needed—studious!y, to j ^[ own an( j no maR CO uld receive an office in
the last moment, concealing from others the j the countrv U11 i esa h i s right hand was bath-
day of the electnon. _ He appointed men to | ed in negr “> s blood—in those days a mer-
take the census, notoriously unfit, who would j c | iail ^ ; 0 f New York uttered the sentiment of
uot scruple, and did not hesitate, to omit j t j ie A.nti-Slavery men of the country when
the names of those opposed to abolition, he hurled defiance at their threats, and de-
with a view to deprive pro-slavery districts j clared that his goods were for sale, not his
of their proper representation. He shame- j princ i p i es . [Led applause.]
fully gerrymandered districts for the pur- ‘ * * * * * *
pose of dividing, and thus defeatining the j
pro-slavery party.
He has usurped legislative and judicial
power! In the one ease, assuming to ar
rest, imprison, and try a man under the
charge of murder! In the others, craftily
andcunuingly assuming to imposequalificu-
tions on voters, which he hoped would ope
The Hon. Senator referred to the passage
of the Nebraska bill in terms of warm con
demnation, but congratulated the people on
the fact that the haughty and insolent choifs
of the Slave power, and the Administration
under whose lead that act was consumated,
have gone down before the stormy wrath of
a betraved and indignant people. Of the
rate m favor of abolitionists: appointing “ Representatives of the fcorth, only 15
justices of the peace, and introducing them ; P f the Nebraska i n i quit y will
to admimster the law of the State from ■ d PP d f the ncxt II( J e J Kep .
. * hlch \ he y - re “ ove l’ and : hnally prolnbi- ™ entatives . [Vehement and prolonged
ting and punishing the sale of whiskey - , , For l the first time in our history
This last, though a clear, usurpation, is the , t , e P Novth J has sent a decisive majority t o
society, he is io
go by tbe board. It will go as France did. ! judged by his acts and not by liis creed,— beginning, was a desire to have a votingless
The first Jacobin Club was organized in i A Catholic, therefore, in our country, and population to do their work, and perform all
Paris on the Gtli Nov., 1789, under the al-! in all countries ought, as all other citizens, the labor, both in city, town and country,
luring name of “the Friends of the Consti- ; to be premitted to_ stand or fall in public ! which capital may require. And as certain-
Tution,” quite as specious as that we now ' favor and estimation upon his owm indicid- • ly as such a law shall be passed, so far from
hear of “ Americans shall rule America.”— ual merits. “Every tub should stand upon j its checking immigration, there will be whole i ... . ... . .. -
-• Many of the best men and truest patriots | its own botumi.” . . car g o esofpeoplefromothercountricsbrought ; “iSc Oiey’reniainterritories^was given to ail who bid
mined it—and thousands of the same sort! But I think of all thc cbnstam denomi- ] over, and literally bought, up in foreign ports Bind a declaration of intention to become citizen*. This
* - ” ‘ -to be brought over in A&eriean to I
milieu ii—luuuoiui'.- — — | — .—-— -- —---- -— --
Lf men joined the affiliate clubs afterwards j nations in the L. S. the Catholics are
er in American shins to
these very clubs! All legislation was settled , totiojw. No man can say -- “77 “ ,D i lately anVen, as ‘thcv ought to have done ffom the
in the clubs—members of tbe National As- England Baptists, Presbvtenans or Methc- North who started this thing, and who are country. Now then, when Kansas applies for admit-
only instance in which a good motive can j ™ p le dg ed
be found for his action. I to the poUcy of freedom, and that majority
A letter dated Sebastopol, April 10th, i received 350,000 of a popular majority.—
says: “At 12i ---id a t un per diem, we [Applause.]
can fire i . . vs without much
damage to uu. • ■• place does not
fall then, it is n- , im ;.-ower of artillery
to take it, and we must either get ready to
invest the north and south, or try the dread
ful alternative of a general storm, unaided
by the ships, whicii seem at present all but
useless.”
From California.
New Orleaas, May 14.—The steamer Pro
metheus has arrived, bringing advices from
California to the 24th ult.
She . brings but little intelligence of im
portance.
The United States Land Commissioner
has confirmed the Weber claim of eleven
square leagues, on which the city of Stock-
ton stands.
Two heavy failures have occurred, Jose
Duncan for eighty thousand dollars; aud j ^ ^TtiTthotpolicy. [Applause.]
George B. Bupton for one hundred thou i . , , „ „ ,,
j Here is a home lick at the polioy of the
Business was dull. 1 South and at the returns she has made to
The increase of power to the Anti-Slave
ry party, was exhibited in the recent elec
tions and legislative action of New Hamp
shire, Connecticut and Massachusetts, in
the latter of which, the Legislature gave 94
majority in the House aud 16 in the Sen
ate, for the removal from the judicial bench
of a Judge who had given a man to a Vir
ginia negro hunter. [Loud applause, ming
led with hisses.] Come here, he continued,
to your own City of New York, and where
are the men who voted last year for the Ne
braska bill? They have your leave to re
main at home with their wives and little
ones. [Applause.] And J. Wheeler, who
had courage and manliness enough to resist
to the last, [loud applause,] you have plac*
ed in the next Congress to vote for the policy
of freedom, and I am very sure that he will
that they regard the mere brute force of
numbers, a majority simply, as the real, the
ouly government, may tolerate such scandal
upon Republicanism as the Cincinnati,
Brooklyn and Louisville riots, but among
Southern people these outrages cannot, will
not be endured. We may depend upon it,
and the sooner we come to believe it the
better for all of us, that no party South that
votes with the Catholic vote or the foreign
vote, let the party be Whig, or Democrat,
or Prohibitionist, will ever stand by and
suffer their friends singled out, as they seem
to have been at the elections spoken of, as
victims of insult aud outrage. Here the
man or set of men who sustain our princi
ples, or who, more correctly speaking, aid
us in a common creed, will find us standing
by them to the last and ready to share with
them a common fate. Men of Georgia, be
warned in time. This whole thing of re
ligious persecution, this war against a race
for no other reason than because that relig
ion and that race are not ours, brings shame
upon our republican professions and wil!
surely bring bloodshed and carnage into our
Anticipated Trouble in Boston.—The
amended Maine law of Massachusetts goes
into operation on the 20th inst., and as its
provisions are of the most restrictive charac
ter, fears are entertained in Boston of open
resistance, if not riot and bloodshed. The
Times of that city says there is a secret or
ganization of 1,700 men, pledged to resist
the law, and that the first gallon of liquor
destroyed by the authorities will be the sig
nal for action. Tbe Mayor, however, seems
determined to enforce the law, and has is
sued his proclamation calling upon the citi
zens to observe its provisions, or take the
consequences.
No doubt of it, that they will resist. A
-Massachusetts pharisee has always been
I distinguished for his utter disregard of
j pains and penalties, so they fell on other
! people. This now notorious State is in for
a general lustration of all the foul spots in
our geography, and is willing to help the
purgation on with fire and sword—butMas
sachusetts must be left- out of this trouble
some sort of inquisition. We will makeanv
reasonable wager, aud against any unrea
sonable odds, that the law is not enforced,
and that the rummies in Boston will “take
the consequences,” and take them in their
brandy smashes. “For they bind heavy
South, those men would have said, has no ; burthens and grievous to be borne,
interest beyond right and justice. No j - " '
battle fought with the weapons of fraud j
is the battle of the South. If the cause of'
the South cannot be sustained by honorable j
means; if it cannot be upheld without tramp- |
ling upon the liberties and franchises of our J
Jellow citizens, let it perish.
lay them upon other men's shoulders; bm
they themselves, will not move them with
one of their fingers.”
She Wears It oil her Head.
Our fair countrywomen who do not adhere
to the present vogue of wearing the bennet
Now, “ trampling upon the liberties and , Qn the back> wiU be deli hted> n0 doubt) to
franchises of our fellow citizens means, !
the demand that Southern men make upon
Abolitionists to be let alone—to be allowed
to take what our original compact promis
ed, neither more nor less, and the right to
fight the Devil with his own fire. When a
slave runs away from us, and his master, in
the name of his Government and the Con
stitution, demands to have him restored, the
magnanimous Abolitionists in hordes set
upon him and, sometimes, with savage
butchery and always with outrage and in
sult, foot the demand. This perfidious con-
learn that they are right in the stand they
have taken on this important question.
The Empress Eugenie is clearly in favor of
moving the femenine “tile” a leetle higher
up. The London Morning Post makes this
grand announcement:
In regard to the much mooted question
as to whether a bonnet should be worn on
the head or off of it, may not be amiss to
, take advantage of the actual presence ol
; her Imperial Majesty, who is said to have
i introduced this popular femenine eccen-
! tricity, to place on record that, although the
bonnet of the Empress Eugenie display -
fully her face and hair, it does not convey
they have not complied with our political j *° beholder the idea of its beiug
contract, like pious citizens they have ful- 1 t0 ^ / rorn . t * 10 behind, but rt
J L | seems to cling to and support the nair ^
filled the higher law. And, our masters j that posit ; on . °q his gives a lightness and
and conscience keepers North chuckle at all | grace of carriage to tho head totally di-“
this, and are hugely delighted at our dis- l tinct from that boldness and barefacednesi
comfiture. But when it comes to our time, ! which have characterised the English a >’p
and the chance allowed us is anything like j ^ on ^ ie b rench Imperial fashion.
even, why the game pinches and they cry j Endorsing air. Stephens,
out, “ no freedom outside the free States, or ; \y 0 learn from the last Empire Stub' that
no Slavery outside the slave States or, if | the citizens of Griffin held a public meeting
the cause of the South cannot be up- Tuesday night “ for tlie purpose of consul-
held “ without trampling upon the liber- j ering the propriety of ratifying t' 16 “ oC
ties and franchises of our fellow citizens, trines contained ” in Mr. Stephens recent
let it perish.” With the Democracy ‘ letter on Know Nothingism. b woul j|
we confidently believe thousands of pat- ! seem, from the names attached to the en*
riotic Whigs are stripping for the great for the meeting, that it was a movement ot
fight. With a united people the cause of • both Whigs and Democrats. Among t
the South is safe, and her position upon the i resolutions passed we have the following:
question of Slavery in the Union is im- j jfeaofced; That it is our earnest desire
pregnable against the very worst that tho j and request that the lion. A. II. Steph^
hireling States can do. We are now fully j will not decline running f "
persuaded that reason and patriotism, yea, j pending contest, but will.
the
for Congress, in the
_ | _ as is consistent
even the instinct of self-preservation itself, ! ™ th his character, beard the Jion’n-^
, , , -j ,’ den, and in our opinion be re-eiectcu, ^
have been overlaid or obliterated in the ma j or i tJj that will put Know Nothingism
present turmoil and croze that have posses- to shame. . q r
sion of the Northern mind. Nothing in the j stS^
history of our people is as lamentable, un- ; oath-bound orders and tlieir co-workers, «
leas indeed it be our apathv and incredulity will join as political allies, now and of® -
, „ , “ , , . all true patriots at the North ana aou ’
when we are called upon to wake and de-; ^ hether native or adopted, Jews or Gen
fend ourselves. ; tiles.