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PUBLISHED WEEKLY. J A FAMILY PAPER DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, MINING. AND NEWS. ; PRICE $2 PER TEAR In Advance. ROBERT P. YAUI.(, Editor. "ft Itatrs -Bistinrt as fyt 35ilIotu, but onr ns l nv IU FI S M. UERRON) Publisher VOL.." 3. CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1855. NO. 45. From the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel. Letter from lion. A. II. Stephens. CttAWFoKDviLLE, Ga., May 9th, lboo. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 5ih irist, was re ceived some days Hgo, and idmuld have been an swered much earlier, but lor my absence from home. The rumor you mention in relation tomy candidacy for re-election to Congress, is true. I hav; slated, and repeated on various occasions, that 1 was not, and did not expect ;o be, n candidate the same i now say to you. The reason of ibis declaration ! my part was, the fact tint large: numbers of our eld political friends seemed to be emeriti" in to new combinations wnh new objects, purpos-s and peimciplet, of which 1 was not informed, and never coi.lt be, according to the rules of their ac tion and the opinions I entertain. Hence my con clusion that they had no lurlher use for me as their Reprvaenta live ; lor I presumed (ley knew enough of me la be assured if they hud any 8e cret aiyis or objects to accomplish that they never could get mv consent, evt u if they desired it, to j become a dumb instrument to execute such a pur- ! pose. I certainly never did, ami never shall, go before the people as a candidate for their suffrages with my priuc pies in my pocket. 1: has been the pride ol my life, heretofore, not only lo nuke i known fully and Ireely my sentiments upon all questions of public policy, hut in vindication of ! those s u intents thus avowi d, to mee! anv antes. ; ouisis arrayed against tie in, in open IM . . .. I mm " trife face to f .ce mid toe to toe." r turn mis , . . rule oi SCMOD, i v wineti I hav on lo this tune I i- - - ... been g vine J, 1 kali n v r d'-part. Bui vou ;ik iii'- wh it are my oniai u and views of ibis Beat parts calKU ruow-.No :liing, with a reiiuest ' . 6 , laai you be per milled to punlish ihem. Mi opm- I . ' ., . 1 ns and views, thus .-.olicited, shall be given most i . ii- . . . . . ( i' leer il V ill," : i lit' ( o-ir c BSai m l- lint.. . - - v a tu'iT i u i o in i i VJ 1 V IS'VW IIIIH I lbs pressure of business, will allow. Vou cm do wiih lie-in as you please publish them, or not. lis you l.l'.e. Tliey are the views of u private j citizen. 1 am al pri sent, to all intents and pur poses wh i'soever, literally one of the people. I bold no offion nor seek any, and as one of the people, I shall Speak to you and litem nn this, and on ah occasions, v. i Si that Irankin-ss and Mtdepen. deuce which it become lreemaii-io bear towards his fellows. And in giving my views of "KuW N'o:iiiogisui," 1 ought, perhaps, to premise by s ly ing, and saying Musi train, that 1 really "know lothing" about I be principles, aims sr jljecls if I be part 1 am about to speak of I hey are all kepi s cret being communicated and made known i n y io the imitated, and not to these until after beia t first duly pledged and sworn. Tins, io me, is a very great objection lu ihe wh de organiza t. ai. All political principles, which nre sought In Im- rarre-d in legi-la ion by any body or set of in .ii in a republic, in my opinion, ought to le op uly avowed and publicly pruclaimea. Truth ii- wr ii:ms the Itghl in-r tiriiiks frwm inve-tiga-li n or al leas', ll ouht ittver to do if. Hiding place.-., or Secret coviris, are natural resorts for error. It i", therefore, a circumstance qui'e suf ficient io exci'e supicion Sg-ttal the tratlt to see i .... - .. .i. .. .. , i . i- o ooiiiiii- u , a i i. i si. . i . oi i ii io:ii-K r . . r ' ii' in e DwcassHM auu iun in e' ig i ma ay virtuous and iut-lltgRnt people is allowed, I he re I never can be any j'it grounds to tear any danger j even from tiie greatest errors in religion or poli tics. AH rj ueat toa, tie r' lore, retail ug to the gov crniiien, oi ii iree people, mililll lo lie niuli . - . i i . i . known, chtaly understood, fully dicused, and , uud rst.iudmgl v acted up n. Indeed, I do not ' heia-ve ill it a Republicaa (Jovertim tit can last I ng, where ibis is not the case. In 'my nptnton. i no man is lit io represent a free penpla who has any ptiv i'S or secret ot.j.-c:s, or aims, that be do- s i not openly avow, or who is not ready and willing. I nil lines, when r-ijllirej or BSked, candhlly iiiid trulltjutt . to preciaim lo ihe sssemlded mill llUlde MM only his prim; pies, but Ins i icw s and sen- , Itmeata, upon all qtie.-tions that may come before htm in Ins representative cipaci y. Il was n this basts I ha I representative government was loiinded, and on this ah nc can n be m.iiiitain- d in i purity and safety. And i' any Secret parly shall , ever be so fa r SUCCySaful in litis country as lo bnr.g the g eminent in all i?s departments am! fa actions under the baneful influence of us con trol ami power, political ruin will inevitably ensue. 'o i roili in notifies e mi be m ire . asilv ami lirnik iNo irulll III politlis can Ot mire a.slly ami lllllllv established, either by reason or from history, up- t on principle or uuthmity, than tins Thof nre I my opinions, candidly expressed. I know that many good and true men in Geor gia differ Irom me in tiiis particular thousands of them, I deubt not, hive joined this secret order with good intentions. Some of them have I old me s 1 1 :ind I .lo not mips'ioii ih.-ir ftiotiv A ml thousands more will, perhaps, do it with the same intentions nmj motives. Sliould it be a short lived alfnr, no harm will, or may, come ol it. But let i: succeed let it carry tl;e elections, Stie :mu Federal let the natural and inevitable laws ol its own uranism be once fully developed and the country will gu by tie board. It will go a France did. The first Jacobin club was organ-jz-d in Pans on the 6 h ol November, 1789, un der the alluring name of " ih f riends ol the Con strution, quite as specious as that we now hear of "Americans shall rule America." Many of the 1 ar!y tr,,'d :n" e r,ment wht n "Wt r"aal " best men and iruest patriots joined it and thou- 1 h-'ences ol opm. on on such questions, and went sands ol the same son of man joined ihe affiliated ' pieCeS- The Ni,,lonal DemoCTaUC Pi,rty re clubs afterwards little dreaming of the deadly ! Dcnv tryin a s'lar experiment, and are experi f.inos of lhift viner ihev vatre nunurina i ih,.,'r encing a similar late. This is what M the m uter bosoms. M any ol these very men afterwards I went to ihe Guillotine, by orders passed secretly, in these very clubs. Ail legislation was settled in the clubs numbers ol the National Assembly and Convention, all of them, or most of them, were members of the clubs, for they could not be otherwise elected. And after the question was settled in the clubs, the members next day went to the nominal Halls of Legislation, nothing but trembling automatons to register the edicts ol the "Order," though it were to behead a monarch, or to cause the blood of the best ol their number to flow beneath the stroke of the ae. Is history of nn use? Or do our people vainly imagine that Americans would not do as I be French did under : l.ke circumstances? "Is thv servant a do thai he should do this thing ?" said the haughty, self. The first assumes temporal jurjsdjctaan in Joruoi confident Hazes!. Yet he did aU that he b id consciod a" to which I am quite as much opnos been to'd th .t he would do. Let him that ed as I am :o the spii iiual powers c unrolling the j thinketh he standeth take heed lest be ML" He- temponU. 0B ss b ;d as the other both are j m in na'ure is ihe an nan compound of weak frail- i had. I am utterly opposed to mingling religi n lire and erring paselons everywhere. Oi these with politics in any way whatever, and especially j clubs in France, an eloquent writer says : j nm I opposed to making it a test in qualifications "From all other scourg-s which hul afflicted ' lor civil office. R-iigion is a matter bctecn a 'oaiikind, in every age and in every nation, there i had been some temporary refuge, some shelter until the storm might pas-. During ihe heathenism of autiqtrty, and the barbarism ol ihe middle ages, the temple of a god or the shrine of a saiul af forded a refuge from despotic lury or popular rage, liut French J.icobius, whether native or adopted, treated with equal scorn the sentiments of religion and the feeling of humanity ; and all that m ui had gathered from his experience upon earth, and the revelations he hoped had been made him Irom the kv, to blss and adorn bin mortal H existence, and elevate fits soul with immortal as pirations, were spurned is imposture by these fell lb Btroyer. They would have deprived man Irom his humanity, ns they attempted to decree God out of his universe. Not contented with France as a ubjec lor their ruthless experiments Europe i'sell being loo narrow for their exploits they s ud iheir propagandists to the new world, with d-signs shoui as charitable as those with which Satan entered Eden." This is but a faint picture of some of the scenes enacted Ly tht.1 self-same party, which was at first formed by those who first formed by those who styled themselves "the friends ol the (J-.nsli tuiioa." And where did these "secret Councils '1 w e now hear of come from ? Not from France, it is true hut from that land of isms, where ihe people would have gone into anarchy long ago, il it hud not been for the conservative influence nl lll ,.,,.rO l :.!.!,. m.nA..A .....r. ,.f ll... I, And ... 1 1 V. II1IIIUI U lilt O ,l tllC UVUIII what scenes have we lately witnessed ill the M.is sachuelts Legislature, where the new Dob tic I j organism has more fully developed itsell than 'Mi v n UI.-IC oar. , , 1111 ait; 1 1 a I una iiiitic ! Ull. I. 7U i .1 I IT.. . . . . .. di.T the name ol the American i'art), thi-v , j , , - . have arun d themselves against the Constitution . , til All l ' i . i i i i t 1 1 i i i i i i i 1 1 t v ' nib ion Ihnti ii-.. i i . i , . ,wii,iwp. ' - v n iiilii iii' y vv,i ti J J j to support with every member ol the Legisla i ture, I believe, save eight, belonging to " the or- der," they have by an overwhelming majority voted to d. pose Judge Lnng. lor the discharge of i.... ..ac : .i .1 .... ; : : . .... n. -.. j bis onicial d itv, in issuing a warrant as United State-, Commissioner, to cause the arrest of the IO. as w"b these self-righteous hypocrites, who fugitive, slave Burns. In reviewing this most un- I deal out fire and brimstone so liberally upon our heard-ol outrage upon the Constitution, the Na- ! heads. Al any rate, I have no hesitancy in de Hon .1 latelHgencer, al Washington, says it "shud- -luriig that 1 should much sooner risk my civ. I d-rs lor lite Judiciary." Ami if they go on as rights with the American Catholics, whom ihy they have begun, well may the country shudder," I nr" attempting to drive from office than with not nnly for lite Judiciary, but fur everything else i ihem. But, sir, I am opposed 5o this proscrip we hold most saen d. "If these things be done ; tion upon principle. Il it is once begun, there i in the green tree, what may you expect in the i telling where it will end. When taction once dr .'" j tastes the blood of a viciiin, it seldom ceases us Bui 1 hive been anticipating some what. I was on the preliminary question .- ihat is, the secrecy which lies at I be inundation of the party that atm sph re of darkness in which it lives, and moves, and has its being," and without which probably it C-'iild not exist. 1 do not, however, j intend to stop with thai. 1 will go further, and ; I give, now, my opinions upon those questions, j j which are said in be within ihe rang- til its secret oltjects and aims. The principles are published j (or til' se principles which are attributed to the i (Jider, though no body as an organized party annv them,) have, as I understand them, iwo . . . . Utntll ns, idea, and two omv Tie se are a pro- sctiption by an exclusion Irom office ol all Cath olic, as a class, and a proscription ol all persons , ol foreign birth, as a cb-ss: lite la'ter lo ! accom plished not only bv tin exclusion from office of 'all j foreigners who are now ci'tzens by naturalization, ! inn to be more effrctu illv carried out by an ah- rogation of tin- naturalization law for the future, ; or such an am ndinent as wo'ild be virtu illy tan tamount to it. These, we ate ui!d, are the great ostensible objects for all this machinery these j excess of population from the Old to the New oaths pl dg-s secret signs equivocations de- I Wot Id, a Inch commenced with die settlement nl niats, and what not. And what I hive to say nf this continent by Europeans, would still goon them is, that il these in deed and in Iru h be the And what would be the effect, eved under the moil principles attempted lo fee carried out, then I am : siodified form of the proposed meanure thai j., opposed to both of them, openly and unqualifiedly. ; of an extension of the period from five to twenty 1 sm opposed to them 'ui a double aspect," n years, before citizenship should be granted! both as a basis ol party organization Slid upon i Al the end nj the lit :t twenty -one years Irom the heir merits a ques ions of p.iblic policy. As the Commencement ol the law, we should have several basis ol party organisation, tbej are founded on the million l people in our midst men of our own very erroneous principle ol looking. n t to ou- Ibe country shall te governed, but trio shall hold the nraces not io whether we shall have wise and wholesome laws, but w o shall "title us,n though they may bring rirr'w wi h their rule. f ' I ' I ' t. 1 1 J s - i I L l)u" m,s principle, x rumuuu, w no ue.caieu ! ' ,l c in:....:.. I vienoiai ouiciua lor inn oni ne in iinnoin, 0111 i ood a " Know-Nothing" ns anv man in ns i tiie late ''Macon Council,' " e thouwfa he may vote as 1 C"" J he doubtless will, lu repeal she Fugitive Slave j law, and ag iinst the admission of any slave State ; in the Union ; while Shield, who has ever stood , by the Constitution, must be rejected by Southern a I r men because be was not born m the co uitrv ! up- un lhld P'incple a Boston Atheist, who denies the inspiration ol the Bible, because it sanctions slave- ry, is to be sustained bv Georgia "Know-Noth- ings in prelerence to me, barely because i win not "bow the knee to Ba.il." ibis false political ' ! -ti' God thev have set ud. The only basis ol party ; j r rf v . . orginizaluui is an agreement amongst those who enter into it upon the paramount question d the day. And no party can last long without bring- ! ing disaster and ruin in its train, founded upon any other printed". The oid National Whig . ... . . i . a . wilh Its vi,rtl functions are derang-d hence that disease which now afflict it worse than dry rot. And what we of the South now should .do; is, not to go into any "Know-Nothing" mummery or mischief, as it may be, but to stand firmly by '.hose n at the .North who are true to the Con stitution aii'l the Union, without regard either to their birth place or religion. The question we should -consider is not simply who "shall rule America.1 but u ho wiM vote lor suck measures as will best promote the interests of America, and with the interests ol mankind. But io pass to the other view of these principles ' .1.... Lt-.tM nf ill. oi noes' ions ol : of I 111.1. .T7 V.UH?1U' I'HIU" - 1 nublic policy. With me, they both stand in no j belter light in this aspect th.in they do in the other. l itli w hich government should have nothing lo do. In t Ins coumrY ilie Constitution guarantees lo every citizen lite nghl to entertain whatever creed he pleases, or no cm d at all ti tie is so inclined, and no other man bus t rigfit to pry into his conscience to inquire w hai he believes, or what he does not believe. As n citi- zeu and ay a member of Society, he is to be judged by his acts and not ny his cried. A Qulholic, therefore, in our country, and in all countries ought, as all other citizens, to be permitted In stand or fall in public favor and estimation uon his own individual meats. "Every tub should stand upon i 1 s own bottom.' But 1 think of all the christian denomination in the United States, the Catholics are the last shit Southern people should join in attempting to bill j under ihe ban of civil proscription. For, as a i church, they have never warred against u or our ! peculiar institutions. No man cm say m much j New England Baptists, Preshyiet ians or Mlh- j ndisl ; the long n il nl abolition petitions with ) which Congress has been so much excited and agi- j Isted lor years past, come not from ihe Catholic. j Their pulpits at the North are not desecrated every Sabbath with nuath- mas against slavers. And ol the three thousand New England Clergymen who sent the anti-Nebraska memorial to ihe Senate last year, not one was a Catholic, as I have been in formed and believe. Why, then, should we South ern men join the Puritans ol lhj North to pro- j scriht Irom nlliee the Catholics on account ol ibeir religion? Let them and their religion be as had a can be, or as their accusers say they are, they cannot be worse than these same Puritanical tc- cusers, no started this persecution against Ihem ay that we arc. They say we are going to per- diction lor the enormous sin of holding slaves. The Pope, wiih all his followers, cannot, 1 suj 1)08., even in their j idgment, be going lu a wors place for holding what they consider the mon j stfous absurdity ol " immaculate conception." A'J, br my part, I would about as soon risk my ....... n.- II.... :.u i i: . .. .. ; own chance for Heaven with him, and his crowd j ravages amongst the fold so long as a single re maiuiug one.be the number at first ever so great, is led surviving. It was to guard against Hiiy such coneqijences, as would certainly ensue in J this country if this effort at proscription of tlm sect of religionists should be successlul, that thai wise provision to which I have alluded was put in the fundamental law of the Union. And lo main tain it intact, in b iter and spirit, with steadfast ness tit this time, I hold to be a most solemn public duty. And now, as to the other idea the proscrip'i.m ol foreigners and more particularly that view ol it which looks in ihe denial ot citizenship to ail those who may hereal:erse k a home in this coun lrv and choose to cast their lots and destinies will us. This i.J a favorite idea with many who have not thought el its effects, or r fleeted much upon its consequences. The abrogation of the natural, isation laws would not stop immigration, nor would the extension ot the term ot probation, to the peruid of twenty-one years, d it. This current of eim graiion from ihe East to West, this Fxodtis ot the "c "lcnhii nn uu. nvmvie pumuuii vi uemjj a d-gracJ- ci c i -te in society, a species ol serts withoul the just franchise of a freeman, or the neediul protection due to a slave. This would be r wiMl y ideas of American Republi nntilin im I lltivn In nti lannlil lloon ourl rrlivr tori its - .ih.m from in v von b an. If thorn h Jnnomr nnw j j i " " '-o1-' institutions, (s some seem to imghv, bui which 1 am far Irom leeluig or believing.) from for- i i gncrs as a class, wouitf not tneOangr De greatly enhanced by the proposed remedy ? Now, it is llle3" nr0 mado to bear their share of the bur- hea of Government, but are permitted, after a til aa Kiln a maaiai -t n.-t I .. biior .. r. on I h to ouo '"lur" ...g a.. Ua... port the Constitution, to enjoy their just participa tion in the privih-g'-s, honors and immunities which ii secures. Would I hey be less likely to be at- taoli.l in tKn (loturn t i . nl inri itm nriMPtiiloi 1 1 1 1 1 - r "- v-" K---s-r-- operation of the present system, than they u : . I . 1 I l i.l wouiu ue nnucr me prop ,seu one, vvmcn won-u treat them as not much better than outcasts and outlaws ? All writers of note, from the earliest to the latest, who have treated upon the elements , man and his Creator, with and component parts, or members nl communities j neriy confer office, whether high or low, upon and Stales, have pointed this out as a source ol ; ,imh serving foreigners, lo the exclusion of native real danger having a large number of the same Durn Clllz, w b.,Ier onalijied tu fill them. An race not only aliens by birth, but aliens in heart l0tberetil now felt, and which ought to be rente and feeling in the bosom of society. ls me Hooding, it is said, of some of the cities Such was, to a great extent, the condition of the ; with paupers and criminals from other conn-j Helots in Greece men of the same race plac d in i tries. These ought ali to be unconditionally ex an inferior position, and forming within themselves. I eluded and prohibited from coming amongst ot a degrad'd class. I wish to see no such state of things in this coun'ry. With us ai the South, h is true, we have a ' degraded caste," but it is ol a race fitted by naturejor ih ir subordinate position. The negro, with us, fills that dace in society and under our sy stem of civilization for which he w.is designed by n ature. No training can fit him for either social or political equality with his superiors; at least history furnishes us with no instance ol ihe Kind ; nor d ies the negro with us feel any de gradilion in his position, because it is his natural place. Bui such would not be the case with men of the same race and coming from the same State with ourselves. And wht appears noi a Imle strange and singular Id me in considering this late movement is, tht if it did not originate with, yet i' is now so generally end z-:'.lousy favored by so many of ihove men at the Norih who hsve expand ed so much of iheir misguided philanthropy in be half ol our slaves. They have been endeavoring lor years tu .-jlevate the A'ricari to an cqu.ifiiy so cially and politic-illy vit'; the white men. An! now, they are moving heaven and earth to de- i grade ihe white: man lo a condition lower dun 'th.it held by the riearo in the S.iuth. The Msa- j ettOSlts Know-Nu'hing L gislature passed mil I -tely to amend iheir Cou.-inuiion, so as to 'exclude from ihe polls in that Slate, hep alter, all ! natuializt d l iux ns, hom whatever nation the) j m rome ; and jet th- y will allow a i uuaw y j neio stave trnm the South the same riyhl lo vote J lhai ihey give to .heir own native born mmis ! j Th-y ifius exhibit the Strang" paradox of wan 'tng j agam.sl their own rce ibeir own bmod even i their own kuh and kin," u may be, while they j we vainly and fanatically endeavoring In reverse i the older of nature, by making the black man ; equal lo the while. Shall we second ihem in any ( such movement ? Sball we even Covnieiiance nen so lar as to bear the same name to sv 1 nothing ol the same pledges. passwords, signs and : symbols ? Shall we affiliate and unite ourselves j meter the game h inner, with men whise uc s show j them tu lie governed by such principles, and lobe ; bent upon such purpose. This is a question lor Southern men tu consider. Others may do it il they chouse.'; but, 1 iell you, I never shall; that j ou may set down as a " tixed fact" one ol the lixedest ol the fixed. I am not al all astonished at the rapid spread of this new sentiment at the North, or rallier new way rf giving embodiment and life to an o'd sentiment, long cherished by a large class ol the N ;nheni people, noiw il hsland- ing the paradox. It is true, "Know-Noihiugism I did not originate, as I understand its origin, wiih I the clas I allude to. It commenced with the I laborers nod men depend ant upon capital lor work j and employment. Ii sprang irom the antagonism ol iheir interests to loreiiyners Seekius like em- I ployments, who were under-bidding ihem in the amount of wages. Bui ma y capitalists of that ection, the men who hod the land uud property in their own bands wishing to dispense wiih la- borers and employers whose votes at the polls are equal to their own, seized upon this new way ( ' en; clil lUelt ,lJd un , cherished desire and the more eagerly as they saw thai many of the very hum; whom they have ever dieaded as ihe insu perable obstacle between them and iheir purpose, had become the willing, though unconscious in strumeai o carrying that purpose ou', which, Irom the beginning, was a desire to have a Votingless population to do iheir work, and perform all the labor, both in city, town and country, which cap ital may require. And as certainly as such a law shall be passed, so fir from its checking immigra tion, ihere will be whole cargoes of people from other countries brought over, and literally bought up in foreign ports to be brought over in Amer ican ships to supply the market lor labor through out all ihe Iree States ol the Union. The African Slave Trade, il re -opened, would not exhibit a Worse spectacle in tiaflicing in hum mi flesh. And tho-e most tn !ud. d men ol ihe iXorlli who started ihis thing, and are now a.umg to accompusn ...e s i i ' li I Q . I 'I . I .1 ... consume litems Ises. The whole sub tratum of nn lll'I linu liny tit vr: uu - rviii'm i a umv w . . . . . 1 1 . i t . . - ri . un iun u i nn ion -j it . i 1 1 1 irt Northern society will soon be filled up with a class who can work and who, though white, cannot Vale. This is what the wjuld be Lords ol that section have been wanting lor a long time. It is a scheme wiih many of ihem to get w hue slaves instead of black one. No American laborer, or man seeking employment there, who has a vote, need to be retained long when his place can be more cheaply filled by a Joirigner who has none. This will be the practical working ol the proposed reformation. This is the philosophy of ihe thing. It is a blow at the bdlot box. It is an insidious attack upon general suffrage. In a line with this policy, ilie Know-Nothing" Governor ol Connec ticut has already recommended the passage ol a law denying the right oi voting to all who cannot read and write." And hence, the great efforts which are now being made throughout the North, to influence the elections, not only there, hut in spending their money in the publication ol books and tracts, w ritten by "nobody knows who,' and j scattered broad casi throughout the bouthern j States, to influence elections here, by appealing to i the worst ot passions and strongest prejudices ol , our nature, not omitting those even which bad and wicked men can invoke under the sacred but pios- ti'u'ed name o' religion. Unfortunately lor.the country, many evils which ' all good men regrei and deplore, exist at this time, found in them. It w as in pursuit of th-'s doctrine which have a direct tendency wonderfully to aid J of hers of the right of sfakch for our "uaturali and move forward ibis ill omened crusade. ' These j zalion" citizens that the Chesapeake was fired p late lo the appointment of so many foreigners j into, which was the immediate cause of the war wholly unfit, not only to minister offices at home,; of 1812. Let no man then, barely because he but lo represent our country as Ministers abroad j was born in America, presume to be imbued with and to the great frauds and gross abuses which j real and true "Americanism" who either ignores at present attend the administration of our natur- j the direct and positive obligations of tb Consti abz nion laws. These are the evils felt by the I tution, or ignores this, one of its most striking whole country, and they ought lo be corrected J characteristics. As well might any unbelieving not bv a proscription ol all foreigners, without re- j sinner claim to he one of the lahhful one of ihe gird "to individual merits; but, in the first place, elect even barely because he was born som-. by so amending the naturalization laws, as elf. c- j where within the limits of Chruintendom. And lually to check and pievent these f rauds and I jut as well might the Jacobins, w ho "decreed G"d abuse and, in the second place, by holding to out ol his Universe," have dubbed Iheir club a s'net accountability at the poils in our elections,! "Christian Ass.cia'ion," because they were horn all those nublic lunciionaries who. either with par- ! on Christian soil. The genuine disciples of "True llSH views, or from whatever motive, thus impro- i i here is no reason why we should be the ,'eeders of other nations' paupers, or either the keepers or executioners of ibear felons. These evils can and ought to be remedied without resorting to n indis criminate onslaught up m all who, by industry, enterprise nnd merit, may choose to belter their condition in abandoning ihe respective dynasties of the old world in which they may have chanced lo have been born, and by uniting their energies with ours, m iv leel a pride in advancing the pros perity, development and progress of a common c untry noi much less dear to them than to us. Against those who trtus worthily enme, who quit the misruled empires of their "lather land," whose bearti have ben fired with the love sf our ideas nd our ins'itutious even in distant climes, I would not close ihe door of admis.-ion. But lo all such, s our la'hers did at first, so I would em'inue most freelv and generously to extend a welcome hand. We have from such a chess nothing to fear. When in battle or in the walks of civil life did any such ever prove traitor or recreant to the flag or cause of his country ? On what occasion have ny such ever proven untrue or disloyal to the Constitution? f I will not say that no foreigner lias ever been untrue to the Constitution ; lut as a class they eer tainly have not proven theite-elves so lo be. In deed, I know n hnl one clas if pe pie in ihe Cm ed States! this time hat I look upon as danger ous to the country. That class are neith- r for eigners or Catholics iby are ihose native Ijoi ii trudors at the North who are diloa! t the Cm. stiiutioii of that counlrv which gave ihein birth, and under whose hem fien nt instito'ions they have been reared an if nurtured. Many of them are ' Know Nothings."' This class of men at tie North, of w hich the Massachusetts, New Hamp shire and Connecticut " Know-Nothing"! gisl a -'ures are hut samples, I consider as our worst ene. mies. And to put theni down. I wilt join, us poljlic! allies now and forever, all true patriots at the North and South, whether native or adopted, Jews or Gentih s. What our Georgia friends, whether whig or Democrats, who have gone into this "New Onler," are really after, or, what they intend to do, 1 can not imagine. Those of them who I know have assured me that their object is reform, bo'h in our State and Federal Administrations to put beiter and truer men in the places of those who nnw wield authority that they have no s mpaUnes a i party men or otherwise with that class I speak nl j "t the Norm that ihey are for sustaining the I Union platform of our State of 1850, and that ihe mask of secrecy will soon he removed whin all will be made public, ll thee be iheir oljects, i and also to check lUe frauds and correct the abuses i the existing naturalization law, which J have J mentioned, without the indiscriminate proscription of any class ol citizens on account ol their birth place or religion, then they will have my co-oper at ion, as I have told them, in every proper and legitimate way,io effect such a reformation. Not as secretly initialed co-worker in ihe dark foi any purpose, but as an open and bold advocate ol tru'h in the light of dav. But will lin y do as they say? Will ihey throw off the mask ? Thai is the ques tion. Is it possible that they will continue in po litioal party fellowship with their worthy breth ren" of Massachusetss, Connecticut, New Hamp shire, and the entire North ? everv one ol w hom elected to the next Congress i our deadly loe ! tan; Do tbey intend to continue their alliance with ! n simple denial of the power of Congiess to reject these open enemies of our institutions and he j State on account of slavery particularly when Constitution of the country under the totals mis- I it had opened the door for the rejection ol Kansas named association of ihe "American Par'y" the J " other grounds by way of pretext! Why did very principle upon which it is based being ani- j no1 Pla'" itself uon the principles of the Geor American lhrou"hout ? ' resolutions of 1850. and say what ought to bi True Americanism, as I have learned it, is like ! ,lo"e in W ol EH? nf SlH'e b? true Chris.ianity d.sc.pb s in neither are confined ''aue of slavery ? So far from this it does not to any nation, clime, or soil whatsoever. Ameri- i ,,ir'r,m ,hl,t "Sh -ejection by their worthy canisin i pot the product of the soil ; not trom the land or He' erounn : n is hoi In :Re it snrines I . r .1 I. J I I .... I , n w .r.rl.kl! t( i- it.. . i... It. ri.'lll lllll - -."' " -"" a A th.. hurt t l..j.L-3iirirtsi iiid oriirn id -ilitl olll. i if ii' ri . it t n r i i it ' u. nun tin n o i j iu w u i - ward ; its life and soul are those grand ideas of government which characterize our institutions ..nd rlis.inanish li Irom ..II other l.eonle : ai d ., "... , Lkij. , ; there are no two features in our system whicn so .. .. . r .. ;, . ,. - mgnally distinguish us Irom all olber nations, ns ,& . . . b . ... . ., . , e ! free toleration of religion ;.nd the doctrine of ex- t ' . . . i. .i r u ' puliation the right ol a man to throw on his ; ' . i . o . n-. i allegiance to any and everv other fc ate. rrince or i n . . . . . .-'. I Potentate whatsoever, and bv naturalization o , - . . .;,- be incorporated as citizens into our body politic. , K . , r Both these principles are special y iirovided lor' ,r . , . . i ' ,- ,, Rll, ! and firmly established in our Constitution. liut ., , J . i i ; x these Amcijciiu ideas which were proclaimed in . c i u ..o 1789 by our ' sires of '76, are by i heir " sons u- j j a j a a-a . ai at this day derided and scoff d at. VVe are now J . ..... 1 told that "nafuraliz ition" is a humbug." and that ! , it is an " impossibility So did nut our fathers I think. This "humbug" and 'Mrrrpossibility" they plant ed in the Constitution ; and a vindication of the same principle was one of the cause of our se. cond war ol independence England held that "naturahz itum was an impossible thing, one claimed the allegiance of subjects born within her realm, notwithstanding they had become citizens t,f ibis Republic by our Constitution and laws. She not only claimed their allegiance, but she claimed the rigid to search our ships upon the high seas, and take from them all such who might be Americanism," like the genuine followers of im Cros. are those whose hearts are warmed and fired pur.fied, elevated and enobled by those principles, doctrines and precepts which charac terize ilu ir respective systems. It is for tis rea son that a Kamschaikan, a Brittnn, a Jew, or a Hindoo, can be as good a Christian as any one born on "Calvary's brow," or where the "Sermon on the Mount" was preached ! And for the same reason an I neb men, frenchman, a Uerman or Russian, can be as thoroughly "American as if he had been born within the walls of ihe old Iiid-- pendence Hall itself. Which was the "true A- j merican." Arnold or Hamdton ? Th" one was j a native and the other was an ad pn d son. Bui ' ftA - - - - IVknft .-1 . . 12... .riri. 1. .....!.. Ir.li.t A III . m i , . . i , .- do? Is ll not time that they had shown their , . ,. p,' hind 7 Do they intend to abandon the Georgia m . j .. r . a a. ....o." Platform, and go over "horse, foot and dragoons into a p-.li.ical alliance with Trumbull. D irkee, W.lsou & Do! Is this .he course marked hnl i u , ,, , nlA vvi.o.a ..i for themselves bv any ol the gallant old Whigs of ,u i Z a a, i n i n; -ri,.i- T I 7r..i the 7th and 8th Congressional Districts f I trust not I hope not But if they do not intend thus to commit them- selves, is it not limp to take a reckoning and seo whether they are drifting? When Mhe Mind lead the blind ' where is the hope of safely ? I have been eiied to the re. iiut.on wh.ch. it is -aid, the lu reiuii. nn oi , ijui '"c," o rap ,wl late Know.Nothins Convention passed in Macon, Thi. it seems, is the only thing tliat the 600 de - - m w legates could bring forth after a two dtys' ' labor' snd ol it we may wall say, 'Moiles porturierti rt ridiculus mus tiuacitur.n The mountains have been in labor and a ridiculous mouse is born.' rlt stmpiy effirms, must meekly and submissively, w hat no man South ol Mason and Dixon s line for the iast th. ny-five years would have ventured w3 deny, without justly subjecting himself to tWit charge of in-jvism that i, that Congress baa no consiiuiiional power to intervene by excluding m ue w Suite apply mg tor admission ioto ihe Union, upon ihe ground that the constitutions! power to intervene y ex--hiding a new Slate applying for admission into the Union, upon the ground that tin- constitution of such State recognises slavery.' Ti. is is the whole life and soul of it, unless we ex cept the secret Uade of Joab which ii bears towards Kansas and N- bia.ska, concealed under a garb. It is will known to all wh are informed, that in h" organic law ot these territorial the right of voting, while they remain territories, was giveirlo all who had filtd a declaration of intention to be. come citizens. Tins was in strict compliance with the usual prnctice ol ihe Government in organil ing Territories ; and under this provision that class id persons nre now entitled to vote. Kan sas, in two elections under this law, has shown thai an overwhelming majority of her people ara in favor slavery, noi w il hstandmg the Executive influence ol ihe Freesoil Governor (hVeder) whom .Mr. Pierce has sent ' in there lo prevent it; but whom the people have lately driven, as they ought to have done, from ihe country. Now, then, when Kmsns applies for admission as a Slave State, as she doubtless will, a Southern ' Know -Nothing, under this resolution, can units with his 4 worthy bpt thren ' at the Ncrth, in voting ngainst it, upon the ground I hat some have vot' d tor a Constitution recognizing slavery, who hud not been ' naturalized,' but had only declared their in temion. For this resolution, in its very heart and core, declares Ihui the rigiit to establish Slave in stitutions ' in the organization of ihe State Gov ernments, belongs to the native and naturalized citizen,' excluding those who have only declared their intent ions. A more insidious attack, was never made upon the principles of the Kansas end Nebraska Bill. And ;s tins to be the plank on which Northern and Southern ' Know-Nothings are to stand in the rejection ol Kansas. But hi j tliu other and main objection, why did it stop with nreinreii oi ine ior'ti wouiu ue sumciem causa r ... i -nii""i"ii won on m$ r.. Again I would say nut only to the old Whigs of 1 '' 7h and 8th Congressional Districts, but lo II true Georgians, whether Whigs or Democrats, Union men or Fire-Eaiers, a hither are you drift . 0 M7.ll I .. n... 7 A mmmL ,w& mmm . about to witness in this insane cry against ror . ... , , eigners and Catholics a fulfilment ol the ancient . Latin Proverb, Quern Dens full perdue prius . ., ,,,,c . drrucntat Whom the Gods intend to destroy . . . , . thi-v first make mad ? 1 he limes are indeed por . . , . tenuous o evi . I bn no itica horizon is shrouned . . . , , . in darkness. No man knows whom lie tneuu. ........ r . , . whether he be friend or foe, except those who hsv ' . .' . . , ihe dun glare of the covered light which Ihfir . . . . secret siiins impart. And how long this will be a1 r , protection even to them, is by no means certain . , . ' . Ihey have ulready made truth and varacity al- J . . f imml n l.i-.tir..rrt cwl n ronfnnfh Wlie.l frufn. ," " r """" ' " T" ' I . ..... c .m . . . I . . ti I I, ... .. ........ .. r. b ,inri AoM . ,w'c y3,c " 1 . T , . , L B i siuerej as n virtue ana its oaity anu nouriy vio lation are looked upon wiih no concern but a jeer or laugh, it requires very little forecast lo see w h.-.t will very soon be the character ol that people.- But, sir, come what may, I shall pursue a course which sense of duly demands ol mo. V1nle I hope for the best, 1 shall be prepared for the worst, and, if the worst comes, wiih my fellow citizens bear wiih patience my part of ihe common ills. They will afT-el .me quite as little as any other citizen, for I have but little ut stake; and so (sras my public position and character ore concerned, 1 shall enjoy iln consolation whi?h is to bo deriv ed from a precept taught me in early life, and which I shall ever cherish and treasure, whatever fortune betide un; : " But if, on lilt's uncertain niiin, Mish.oi shall inff thy f-ail. It, luithi'ul, firm jnd was in vain. Woe, Wmt a rid exile Hum Utuin, Spend not a nigh on fortune changed." ft Youm, most respectfully, A. II STEPHEN To Col. T. W. Th imas, Elbfirton, Ga. The Appkkmkk System. There is a very general, as well as a very erroneous, impression prevailing relative lo i he workings of the appren tice system, just introduced into the service by Secretary Dobbin. The system, after mature deliberation, has been, adopted, not with the view of furnishing the light kind of material for lieuten ants, capiains, and commodores, but to effect a ra dical and permanent improvement in the employ of the government. Naval apprentice are not in the line of promotion. They may by good con duet be advanced to the grade of a petty officer, but beyond that grade they cannot advance. Washington Union. Carrots a ScBSTirtrrB ror Cogs in Fcddiko. B lied carrot when properly prepared, form an admirable substitute for eggs, in the making of puddu g. Thev must, for ibis purpose, be boiled anJ smashed, and afterwards run through ti coarse cloth, or scive made of boras hair. The pulp. wnen tnu cieareo oi any citancr noruui or - , f" ... . ,. . ; u tr m dter, isviy be introduced among other in . . :,. , ,,.i : gradients constituiiufi the pudding witn the total ;5 .' . . ,n .u. nise.on ol egg,. ,n a quantity proportionate to he l former. A pudding, composed partly of the above materia , will be found considerably " iff iter, than if the sjme had been made with 'trff. 6 -j . nd ""F14'1 8 ,or nr,ore 6raltf1u aod grC'-,aiin flttVor ' 1' m . Wokat Ceof M NoRTIC WM.-ni j sytville (N. C.) Observer of the 80th ultimo says: We barn Irom several source in the , .i . country that the wl.ea crop ti noi u varu.ip. not promising, too dry. The winter and spriog have been