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CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
VOLUME 4.
NUMBER 45-
HVLftln Street, )
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1856.
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lected from the old ami elegant
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r. are now prepared to Execute
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li:no l oi ic &
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is constantly receiv- 1
ins a good supply of
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which has given them the premium over all
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$1000.
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THE andeingaed tak's this method to re
turn h.s thanks to his friends for the lile
ral eaeoanejrentent which has been extended to
him in his UK of business, and to inform them
that lv- has hU hi stal!ishment to Mr. J. Ad
Uinvon, vh. will continue the business at the
mam ataad I shall n maim in the Sahwin, as
heretofore, and w ill be happy to receive the calls
ot" my friends, as usual.
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iv yi mm ii.tnu anu
served u in anv trleoewmA.
Fine Tobacco, Segars, Wines
Brandies.
Aod the best of Liquors sreuerallv,
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called tor. s rved up at all hours, in the most ap
proved style of COOKfTT.
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desire som thmp: nice to eat and di iuk and to re
cruit the inner man.
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twiH Meoannodate them with articles of the
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tMious taste. Ch e ScbaatoMl a call, and jadge
w yom-selves. p
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Feb. .. 1856. tl
Fresh fluid rail CampMiie.
T PRITCHARD"
Drug Store, vim will
get :
artte
pure. Hmd at J per
gallon Caaaphine '.Hi cents, cash.
April 8, 1(56.
H)(D 0S AMD ID d m
S. W. DAVIS,
Attorney &. Counsellor at Law,
CHARLOTTE, Jf. C.
Jan. 1 , 1856 if
ROBERT P.
Attorney at Lti w,
(Office in building attached to the American Ho
tel, Main street,)
Charlotte, N. C.
Jan. 29, 185G. tf
HAVING located in this place, respectfully
offers his Professional Services to the citi
zens of the town and vicinity.
drOFFICE next door to Messrs. Dracker &
Somnu rs' Store. April 22, 185C. tf
ROBERT GIBBON, I. D.
OFFERS his professional service to the pul
lic, in tl- practice ot EhJRGEBT, in all
its various departments.
Dr. CroOM will operate, treat, or give advice
in all rars that may require his attention.
J.V Office No. f, Granite Kauge, Charlotte.
Fel. li, IK.. ly
A CARD.
RS. SAM E L- & JOSEPH W. CALD
V E LL have this day associated themselves
in the practice ff Medicine, and one or the other
oftliem can at all times he found at their office,
next door to the State Bank, up stairs, unless pro
fessionally engaged.
In all dangerous cases Dr. P. C. Caldwell will
act as consulting phvsician free of charge.
SAMUEL E. CALDWELL,
JOSEPH W. CALDWELL.
Jan. 22, 1 ly
Ilt. P. C. CALDWELL will be
at the Office of Doctors J. W. & S. L. Caldwell
from 8 to 10 o'clock, every morning. After that
hour, he will tie at his own house, subject to the
call of any of his friends, unless professionally
ahsent.
WRTwilEALA,
Opposite the lo?l-fHce.
ALE DRESSES cut and
made ly the celebrated
A-D-C method, and war
ranted to tit.
BONNETS
Trimmed in the latest style, at
the shortest notice.
Charlotte, Eeb 12, 185ft. tf
nn. w. j. craio,
Three doors below Trotter's Carriage Manufactory
1 1. 1 It 1.4 f TTE.
April 22, 185G. ly
.3 noons .south of the mansion house,
Charlotte.
S. M. HOWELJL
HAVING made more extensive preparations
for the Manufacture of
sl)IMJ and HARNESS,
lb' would respectfully inform the citizens of
North Carolina, that he is now prepared to fur
fnraish SADDLES Al HARNESS
of a superior quality, of his otcn manufacture,
at tin:
Very Lowest Possible Prices.
Wanting Saddles
By leaving their orders, can be furnished as low
as they can procure the same at the North.
S. M. HOWELL.
April 15, 1856 tf
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LThe following was crowded out of our last pa
per by news articles claiming precedence.
KNOW-NOTHING MEETING.
On Wednesday, the 14th inst., a Know
Nothing meeting took place at the Court
House of Mecklenburg. It was dignified
by the Order, with the name of "Conven
tion;" but as no Delegates appeared, so far
as the proceedings would show, we are jus
tified in using the term "meeting." It was
intended as a Convention of Know Noth
ings from ten counties, to select an Elector
for President and Vice President in this
the (the 7th) District; but so meagre in
number were the Delegates in attendance,
it was resolved not to call the roll, as usual,
but to appoint all "Americans" present as
members of the Convention. This resolu
tion made us a member, who happened to
be in the Court-House, but we did not feel
it our duty to take part in the proceedings.
The Chairman was a fine-looking old gen
tleman, on crutches, from Cabarrus county.
We sympathised with him in his affliction,
while we deemed him an appropriate repre
sentative of his party, as it is also on crutch
es. A call was soon made for nominees for
the office of Elector. After a long delay,
two were put in nomination by their respec
tive friends V. C Barringer and A. J.
Dargan, Esqrs. (We wondered if it was
Andrew Jackson Dargan.) There seemed
to be but little ambition in the funeral gath
ering for the honor of representing poor
doown-trodden Sam, on the stile and stump,
through the dog-days of this summer. Out
of the ten counties, but two were put for
ward for the honor and one of them (Mr.
Barringer) declined before the vote was
taken. Mr. Dargan being left without any
opposition, it was Hobson's choice with the
meeting, and he was elected Elector with
the greatest ease indeed the vote was
"unanimous" for him ! He came forward
.1 xJ J ."I1 .1-1 t
anu uccepreu, anu sau. ne urn so, oecause ; restori the Missouri restriction, and re
he had all his life been laboring in the same j , or amendi thc Fugitive Slave
cause-evidently referring to the fact that j We have Qot tho siightest doubt but
he had always been a Whig. He proceed- the Tribune is correctly informed upon
ed at some length, in giving his brethren a , subjecti and that shouid the Senate, dur.
specimen of his capacity and powers for the . w t become as thoroughly aboli-
uuty wtucn tney nau just appointed mm.
Tho "furriners," catholics, and President
Pierce formed the burden of his song. He
made some told assertions. It was evident
that he supposed he was addressing an au
dience of Know Nothings. President Pierce
had appointed Boeder and turned out Bron- !
son ana tneretore, ho was an abolitionist. extract from a lengthy record, on which to
Mr. Dargan forgot to state, however, that ; claim for bim tbe sligbtest countenance at
Bronson was discharged for writing an im- j tbe bands of the Southern people. Show
pudent and insulting letter, in effect daring them that he was an advocate of the Wilmot
the President of the United States to dis- ! proviso, and they say ho signed the Corn
miss him and he also forgot to state that ! promise Bill. Point to his speeches on
Boeder, at the time of his appointment as bebalf of abolishing slavery in the District
Governor of Kansas, professed to be against of Columbia, and you are told that he sign-froe-soilism
in every shape and form. It ed tbe Compromise Bill. Bead them the
is susceptible of proof that at the time of Buffai0 letter, and again comes up that ev
his appointment, lieeder conversed with j erlasting Compromise Bill. Now this Coin
Southern gentlemen on the subject of slave- j promise Bill, the solitary Southern feather
ry, and assured them that "he had no more amid the waving freesoil plume that adorns
scruples in buying a slave than a horse, j Mr. Fillmore's head, was a measure which
and regretted that he had not money to
purchase a number of slaves to carry with
him to Kansas !' This part of the sub
ject, Mr. Dargan did not choose to refer to;
nor did he give the President any credit for
Reeder's dismissal, as soon as it was discov
ered that he was a free-soiler. We could
not but smile, when Pierce was boldly
charged with being an abolitionist, in the
face of all the evidence which the whole
history of the man afforded to tho contrary.
Surely Mr. Dargan must have supposed
that he was not only addressing an audience
ot "Know rsothmgs," but ot fools, who
knew nothing of the history of the times. I
Trace Gen. Pierce's political history from
step to step, from the first moment of his
entrance into public life, down to the pres
ent late period, and we defy Mr. Dargan,
or any other person, to prove to any can-
did or unprejudiced mind that he (Gen. P.) :
is or ever has been in the slightest degree fa Congress, in favor of fanaticism. And
tainted with abolitionism. The last warm wbat has he said or done since, to show
Presidential contest brought nothing to j that he is sound on the slavery question ?
light, to sustain such a charge and we j Nothing. His opinions on this vital sub
point to his messages, to his course in re- j ject are kept in the dark. Is he in favor of
gard to the Kansas-Nebraska bills, and to
his course in regard to ransas itself, to re
fute such a charge. The more surprisi ig
the more impudent we may say, was such ;
a charge, from such a source, in face of toe Who can answer these questions? No per
fact that Mr. Dargan is supporting Millard : son ! And yet we find the K now Nothing
Fillmore for the very office which he de- ', party "going it blind" for Millard Fillmore
enures Mr. Fierce unfit to hold, beeauso of . not knowing what his sentiments on these
his alleged abolitionism. Millard Fillmore ! vital questions are, at this momentous cri-
whose record smells rank to the heavens ! sis, farther than they have been revealed
with abolitionism a record reeking with 1 by his uniform course of abolitionism! Read
abolitionism, from the moment he first en- I his record look at his "sealed book" on
tered public life until by accident he be- the present questions agitating and threa
came President of the United States. Star- ' tening the very salvation of the Union, and
tie not. reader, at this declaration. Before ; wi1Q can believe that Southerners, familiar
we are done, we will produce the evidence ! witn the facts, will be found supporting him?
full and complete of the truth of the The South, we are suro, will never trust a
charge. We defy Seward, Chase, or Gid- ' man wi10 keeps dark on the Kausas-Ne-dings.
to present a record more deeply i)iaska questions a man who has always,
stained with abolitionism, than that of Mil- wheu he had an opportunity to do so, acted
lard Fillmore. It will be found appended u favor of abolitionism. With the bare
to this article. We ask for it a calm and exception of the signing of the fugitive slave
attentive perusal and then we appeal to bill, Mr. Fillmore, while President, acted
every man who has read it, to say, if it is iu accordance with his uniform sentiments,
not conclusive of the abolitionism of Mil- ; so far as he had opportunity. lie pardoned
lard Fillmore ? It is evidence from the re- some men convicted of slave stealing, and
cord, and cannot be gain-saved. The only ' did other acts showing which way thc "wind
act of his life showing any inconsistency j blew."
from his uniform course was the signing of j We pass to another subject. Mr. Dargan,
the fugitive slave bill a bill enacted in the new Elector,after belaboring President
pursuance of a plain Constitutional provi
sion, requiring the North and all other sec
tions, to surrender our slave property when
it shall escape from us. A bill, too, that
was coupled as it were with three other
bills, the whole forming a Siamese connex
ion and dubbed the Compromise bills.
Measures, as a whole, supported by Clay,
Webster, and nearly the entire Whig party
ot the country Mr. Fillmore's own party,
at the time. And yet, notwithstanding the
imperative circumstances under which the
fugitive slave bill went up to him for signa
ture notwithstanding it was passed under
an express provision of the Constitution,
Mr. Fillmore hesitated about signing it
thought it was unconstitutional, &c ! ! Many
of his leading friends, hpwever, were in fa
vor of it another Presidential election was
approaching the bill was an arm of three
others forming a body, all making conces
sions to free-soilism the fugitive slave bill
being the only share of the South in tho
Compromise, and Mr. F., under these cir
cumstances, did finally, though hesitatingly
and reluctantly, consent to sign it ! And
this one single act is to give the lie to Mr.
Fillmore's whole political career, and prove
that he is no abolitionist!! Wonderful
proof, truly, of soundness, on the slavery
question ! And what reason does his Nor
thern friends assign for the act ? The New
Albany Tribune says:
"Mr. Fillmore gave his official sanction
to the Fugitive Slave bill because "we got
other laws on which our hearts were set,
that wo should not have got, had not that
law been passed also," and because "in do
ing so he was but carrying out one of the
great principles of the party which elected
him that the personal opinions of the Exe
cutive, on mere questions of policy, ought
never to be brought into conflict with the
will of the people's representatives, by an
arbitrary exercise of the veto power."
The Tribune also informs its readers that
Mr. Fillmore would just as readily sign bills
tionized as the House is noWi Concress will
find in Mr. F. a willing agent for carrying
out their measures.
The signing of the Compromise bills, as
the Petersburg Democrat remarks, "is the
only trophy of Ex-President Fillmore, the
(n, act nf bis lif(1 wbich his friends can
! it would have staggered the unblushing as-
surance of a Giddings to Jave vetoed under
the circumstances. It was proposed by
one great leader of the party which placed
Mr. Fillmore in his seat, and sustained by
the other. It was a far greater concession
to Northern than to Southern ultraists, and
was denounced by some of the ablest men
of this section of the Union. To have ve
toed it would have been as great a violence
to what we may call, following the latest
nomenclature, "national whiggery," as to
democracy, and would have subjected him
to as much denunciation from the one as
the other."
So much for Millard Fillmore's course up
to the close of his Administration. There
was, in truth, nothing inconsistent with his
uniform abolitionism, before he became
President, or repudiating in the smallest
degree his declared sentiments and his votes
a bill for the admission of territories, as !
States, freed from any restriction on the
subject of Slavery ? Or is he in favor of
the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska bill?
Pierce and the Democratic party for some
time, came at last to the "furriners" ami
Catholics, when he became grandiloquent.
The poor Catholics were anathematised in
the severest terms. He would not vote for
one, for any office and from the excitement
which he exhibited on the subject, we could
not but think he would take pleasure in
having a Catholic roasted every morning
for his breakfast. He was savage as a
meat-axe upon the Catholic religion, while
he was quite complimentary uponJp
tcstantism. In this, we could not help slyly
thinking, there was an object. But, we will
not assign motives, whatever we may think.
If the voters, however, were nearly all
Catholics instead of Potestants, it is proba
ble that so much fiery indignation would
not have been exhibited against them. We
felt at the time curious to know whether or
not the speaker was a pious member of any
church. We are yet in the dark on this
subject, although we must say, if he is a
member of a church, he did not exhibit a
very christian spirit on the occasion to
which we allude. Illiberal denunciation of
one church against another, is no evidence
of a genuine spirit of Christianity. Each
branch of Professors would do well to aim
to secure their own salvation, without med
dling themselves about their neighbor's re
ligion. If they can manage to secure their
own salvation, it will probably be as much
as they will be able to accomplish. The
Know Nothing party finding fault with the
religion of others ! Is it not funny ? O,
the pious souls ! They are all bound for
heaven, no doubt ! Thousands of them
with no religion at all never had any, and
in all probability never will have any. find
ing fault with the religion of others ! Oh,
consistency, thou art a jewel! Swaggering
about the streets, high ways, and byways
denouncing the Catholic religion, while they
have no religion of any kind themselves !
We do not wish to bo understood as advo
cates or apologists of the Catholic religion.
We are amongst those who care but little
about professions, whether Catholic or Pro
testant. We respect all, by whatsoever
name they may bear, who are sincere and
conscientious in their religious opinions, let
them be however so much mistaken in their
faith. If a man acknowledges his accounta
bility to, and dependence upon God, and
worships him in spirit and in truth, by doing
unto others as he would be done by, we care
not whether he be Protestant or Catholic.
Hypocrites, with which, we fear, the world
has many, we despise and we have no
doubt they are to be found in all Churches,
Protestant as well as Catholic. But, what
has a man's religious belief to do with his
patriotism ? Cannot he be a good citizen and
love his country, if he is a believer in the
Catholic Church7 Know-Nothingism, in
effect, says ho cannot, for it not only pro
scribes him and denies him the privilege of
holding any office of trust, but goes so far
as to say that he is not to be trusted even if
he has married a Catholic woman ! Is not
this alone sufficient to show the illiberality
and absurdity of the warfare against Cath
olicism ? An American born, with merits as
a citizen of the very highest order, is to be
proscribed, and placed as it were on the
footing of the negro- who is not allowed to
hold office, simply because he may have ac
cidentally married a Catholic girl ! This
feature of Know-Nothingism ought alone to
damn it, for illiberality and absurdity, with
out any other of its many odious and non
sensical features. But, say this new Order
of Religionists, the Pope of Rome governs
his Church here, and we suppose wives, like
the Pope, govern their husbands. The
Pope of Rome and the Catholics "ruling
America!" The very essence and quin
tessence of nonsense .' The seventh census
shows that the number of foreigners in this
country are 2,240,535, and the natives
2U,031,569 two foreigners to every twenty
natives, and yet we are in danger of for
eigners ! Let war break out to-morrow with
England, and who will be first and foremost
in offering their services to fight our battles?
Why these much-abused and now alleged
disloyal Irishmen. Who fought our battles
with Mexico? Thousands of Irishmen, side
by side with our own countrymen, making
war against Catholic Mexico thus giving j
the lie to the charge that a Catholic is to
his country disloyal and untrue where his
Church is concerned. All Churches have
their Popes, so far as influence over their
members is concerned, but we would not
undertake to say that that influence in any
case is exercised against the interests of the
country, for we do not, unlike Know-Nothingism,
believe that it is, in any case.
Who was it defended Suttle, of Alexandria,
when he went to Boston after his runaway
slave, Anthony Burns? A Boston mob of
Abolitionists were surrounding Suttle's ho
tel, threatening every moment his life, for
attempting to secure his property, when a
large body of Irishmen went forward and
assured him that if he should be murdered,
tho abolitionists would first have to walk
over their dead bodies. And what com
panies were they that were disbanded in
Massachusetts, for turning out on that oo
casion to defend a Southerner ? The Irish
companies. It is the abolitionists, not the
foreigners, that this country, that this Union,
have to dread. A plank in the Know
Nothing platform against them, would have
some merit in it but, Know-Nothingism
can see no objection to Abolitionism, if we
are to judgo by their actB. Why was the
"12th section," the only southern splinter in
the KnowNothing platform, repudiated and
discarded by the National Convention of
Know-Nothings at Philadelphia, in Feb
ruary last ? It has been asserted, because
Millard Fillmore could not walk on to the
platform with that plank in it, and, this we
think it probable, was one of the reasons
for throwing: it out. If. however, Catholics
err in their religious faith and must be put
down, let tho Protestants, who number
twenty to one, carry on the war against
them. Let Church fight against Church
if there must be a fight on religious subjects.
Uniting Church and State matters, and in
volving the political parties of the Country
with religious subjects, is altogether wrong.
It has proved to be the bane and destruc
tion of sooiety and government, wherever
civil and religious matters have become
blended, from the earliest to the latest
periods of history. Why should Know
Nothings agitate this subject? Why should
they endeavor to build up a subject on
which they can have no political action ?
You arc forbidden to act by the Constitu
tion of the United States. The Constitu
tion says, that "Congress shall make no law
respecting the establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Take
this case: Suppose a President having
sworn in Know-Nothing councils that he
will appoint no Roman Catholic to office, is
elected. He takes an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States. That
Constitution says, that "no religious test
shall ever be required as a qualification to
any office or public trust under the United
States." Suppose, then, a man is presented
for office; does he not have to inquire, un
der his first oath, if the man is a Catholic ?
It he is, then he must refuse him on that
account. If he dot.3 so refuse him, ho
violates his last oath, because he then swore
he would make "no religious test." Is com
ment necessary ?
The new Elector held the President re
sponsible for the troubles in Kansas ; but
he did not undertake to show in what man
ner the President became responsible.
When he undertakes such a task, it will be
to show that the President is to blamo for
arraying himself against the freesoilers, and
refusing to allow them to run rough-shod
over the Constitution, law, justice, equal
and southern rights, to establish abolition
ism and a bastard government in Kansas.
There are those who are so much opposod
to "slavery agitation" that they deem it
best to let abolitionism have its own way,
for the sake of peace and quiet ; and Mr.
uargan may De among tnose wno mus minic;
but there are others who hold altogether a
different opinion. The Elector also charged
President Pierce with the responsibility of
the present difficulty with England. His
memory here again was so conveniently obli
vious as to cause him to forget to state that
to Mr. Fillmore's administration is due the
origin of the difficulty. The Clayton-Bul-wer
treaty was such a bungling piece of
work, that thc English construe it one way
and our Government another way ; and the
external relations of the country generally
were left by the Fillmore Cabinet in confu
sion and embarrassment. President Pierce
has been constantly engaged with the set
tlement of disputes ; but his inheritance of
litigation was so great, that he has not yet
quite relieved the estate of the inheritance.
The insolence of England he has rebuked
by a demand of apology and redress that
will not be denied. By insisting on the ri
gid performance of treaty stipulations, ho
has compelled Great Britain to relax her
grasp of aggression in Central America,
and has vindicated the sanctity of a treaty
which, though the single diplomatic achieve
ment (bungling, as it was) of the late Whig
administration, was by them abandoned to
the contempt and insult of our adversary.
President Pierco has also honorably and
satisfactorily closed several irritating and
alarming disputes. He has reconciled the
conflicting claims of tho Fisheries, by a
treaty which secured substantial advan
tages to the people of this country. He
has adjusted a disagreeable difficulty with
France, in a manner that strengthened the
relations of good understanding and amity
between the two nations. He has enforced
ample apology and restitution to an Ameri
can citizen who, in the distant East, was de
spoiled of his property and insulted in his
person, t rom opain he has extorted in
demnity for certain wrongs, and a promise
of a redress of other grievances. By an
attitude of firm but courteous remonstrance,
he has driven Denmark to an abandonment
of its absurd pretensions to levy tribute on
the commerce of the Baltic. By a wise and
vigorous policy, he has kept the country
clear of the complications of the Eastern
war, at the same time that he has compelled
a respectful observance of our neutral
rights. The great principle of the inviola
bility of neutral commerce, he has esta
blished on the impregnable basis of acknow
ledged public law. In short, while Presi
dent Pierce has extorted indemnity for old
wrongs and outstanding claims, he has ex
tended and strengthened the amioable, com
mercial alliances of the oountry in every
direction.
The new Eleotor found another subject
of complaint against the Administration.
The public expenditures were largor, he
said, than they had ever been before. Ho
forgot to state, however, that for the first
time in the history of the Government, we
have so much surplus money in the public
treasury that we are at a loss to kuow what
to do with it. Thero are at this time about
twenty-five millions of dollars lying idle iu
the treasury, while the Government is ea
gerly embracing every opportunity present
ed for paying public debts in anticipation
of the time at which they become due.
That the expenditures have increased is
not wonderful. It is a natural result of the
expansion and growth of the country. The
expenditures, we apprehend, will continue
to increase with the rapid progress of our
country. The receipts, however, have in
creased, and will we have no doubt continue
to increase in a corresponding ratio. Tho
resources necessary to govern and control
a country of the vast extent of out's, are
necessarily large ; though for one we hope
the entire resources may be expended, if it
be done for legitimate purposes and for de
veloping the infant proportions of our re
public and for strengthening and protecting
us as a great nation. Wo have no desire
to see a plethoric treasury, over which fac
tions may bo contending and wrangling for
the spoils. Strengthen our navy, increase
our mail facilities, that information may be
spread amongst the people. An enlightened
people cannot be the dupes of demagogues
or be enslaved. Appropriate the money to
almost any use, rather than let it lie idle in
the treasury as a temptation to corruption.
Who is prepared to say what use a govern
ment of northern fanatics would make of an
overflowing treasury? And who can tell
what the Kuow-Nothing party, who are
making a great clamor over proscnt expen
ditures, would do with the money, if they
could succeed in getting their clutches on
the public purse-strings ? Of thc happen
ing of this contingency, however, wo have
no fears. The people will never trust them,
unless they mend their principles and their
manners. The charge of an extruvugant
expenditure of money by President Pierce,
in the Elector's indictment, only proved
that he was hard run for subjects of com
plaint against tho Administration. Tho
President cannot touch a dollar, until it haa
been appropriated for a specific purpose.
After the new Elector had "delivered
himself" of his long-corked up abortions on
Gen. Pierco and his measures, we expected
him to tell us what were the principles of
his candidate for the Presidency, what
measures he would advocate, and what re
forms he would introduce, differing from
those of the present Administration, of
which he found so much fault. But, we
were doomed to disappointment. The El
ector evidently knew that tho least said a
bout Millard Fillmore's principles to a South
ern people, the better would it be for him
and his party. Of Mr. Donelson, he said,
he knew nothing and this was all tho no
tice that this renegade Democrat received
from the new Elector.
There were three other orators on this in
teresting occasion Gen. J. A. Young, J. Q.
Bynum, and V. C. Barringer. We havo
not time and space to notice, except very
briefly, their labored efforts. One of the
number (Mr. Bynum) declared that Banks
was elected Speaker by tho Democratic
party! When tho truth is, every De
mocrat iu the House of Representatives
voted against him. Before the meeting
of Congress the Know Nothings wore in
the habit of boasting of having 50 majority in
that body. When they selected Banks as
their candidate, a man who is unable to
determine which is the superior, the whito
man or the negro this large Know Noth
ing majority .Southern Know Nothings would
have us believe, all at once dwindled down
to some 30 or 40 the little squad of Fuller
factionists! And thus they attempt to iret
krid of the odium of electing Banks and
actually go so far as to assert that they,
who had a majority of 50 before tho assem
bling of Congress, had no part or lot in the
election of Banks ! Is the Fuller voto of
30 or 40 the full Know Nothing (or "Amer
ican" if you please) strength in Congress?
If so, it shows rather badly for the success
of Millard Fillmore. His party the Know
Nothing party 12 months ago with 50 ma
jority in Congress, now dwindled down to
30 or 40 ! But this classification is not the
true one. Thero is still a clear Know No
thing majority in the House of Representa
tives. A member recently rose in his place
and named them, from A to Z and not one
of the number dared deny the correctness
of the classification. And in the face of
all these facts, Mr. Bynum asserts that the
Democrats elected Banks, when the truth
is, as we have already remarked, not a sin
gle Democrat voted for him ! There is, wa
admit, a shade of difference between Nor
thern and Southern Know Nothingism and
thh shade constitutes the only difference.
It is the "black" shade the "nigger" shade.
Northern Know Nothingism having foreign
ers, catholics, and "uiggers" in their plat
form, and Southern Know Nothingism with
foreigners and catholics and no "nigger"
feature in their platform. The one is
"black" Republ .can Know Nothingism
the other white "American" (not African)
Know Nothingism. That is the only differ
ence. They are all Know-Nothings, alia
"Americans," with the same prinoiples.with
the single exceptiou of the "liiggor" fea
ture. Mr. Bynum, after indulging very libe
rally in the poet's license, in making other
charges against tbe Democratic party, clos
ed his speeoh by relating an aneodote of a