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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 _ . , w ___ ... _ _ , „ WEDNESDAY MAY 16i 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.