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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12
knoW NothingiSm Sectional.

Fhe secession OF twO-thlrdS oil
the Northern delegates from the Phil
adelphia Convention, is conclusive
proof thatthe Know Nothing party
can never exist as national organ
ization.. Ii the Convention had been
composed of, delegates selected ac-
cording to population, instead Of
seven from each State, itwould need
no prophet to tell what would have
been their action upon the slave
question. A large majority of the
Know Nothings in the United States
are the avowed enemies of the South;
indeed, we have more to fear from
them than from the free soilers,
for while there is no difference in the
position of both as to slavery,the for
mer has more -strength-and ability to
injure US than the latter. Every man
elected'by the Northern Know Moth.
ings to Congress, is pledged to re-
deem the Kansas and Nebraska ter
ritories from slavery, and yet, South
ern men have met their enemies in
council with the hope Of acting har-
moniously. How can Southern men
expect to cooperate with Northern
Know Notbings, when, without o
solitary exception, their triumphs
have been the success of the worst
kind of abolitionism? Never since
the existence OF this government, has
there been party claiming to be ma
tional where the Northern and South
ern wings differed SO radically upon
slavery, the question which now over
shadows every other political principle.
Upon this subject, as regards the con-
stitutional rights of the South, North
ern and Southern Know Notbings
hold directly opposite opinions. Let
men, then, who have determined to
stand by the South, forsake at once
this party, whose success has been
the triumph Of our enemies in every
Northern election, g a
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12
GRoAN, SINNERS, GRoAN.


How long has it been since on
q ears we're stunned With the shouts an
huzzas of the Southern Know Moth
ings that New Hampshire vas redeem
ed, regenerated, disenthralled, purifie,
of Pierce Democracy? Another on
of Sans triumphs was recorded, ant
placed along by the side of Massachu
setts. But a change is now coming
over the spirit of their dream. Th,
dominant parry fearing they nigh
be misunderstood by their abolition
brethren, assembled few days ago
and passed the following resolutions
Ito which We call the attention OIL
all good Southern men:
Whereas, There appears to exist in
the minds Of portion Of the COM
munity, some doubts as to the posi-
ton of the American party in regard
to slavery ana its extension over the
new Observation-Disclosures,
Resolved, That the American or
ganization, as constituted and exist.
ing in New Hampshire, is not based
on one idea alone, but eomprehends
every principle that will promote
the political welfare of free people.
Resolved, That the Declaration Of
Independence, the tones and deeds of
the founders of this Republic, all in- !
dicate that our forefathers intended
that slavery should be sectional, not
national-temporary not permanent. |
Resolved, That as political party, |
pledged to regard and watch over
the best interests of the whole Union,
andto labor forits integrity and perpe-
tuity, we solemnly protest against the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
and the passage of the Kansas-Ne-
braska bill, and the Fugitive Slave
law, as violations Of the spirit Of the
constitution, and tending to disunion
and the destruction of the free insti-
tutions of the country.
Resolved, That wenever will, under
any circumstances, consent to the ad-
mission of slavery into any portion
of the territory embraced in the COM
pact of 1920, and from which it was
5hen excluded by the mutual agree
nent of both the Northern and South
ern States.
Resolved, That any attempt to
commit the American party of New
Hampshire to the advancement Of
slavery, to ignore it as a political
question, OF to enjoin silence upon
is in regard toits evils and eneroaeh-
nents deserves and shall receive our s
earnest unqualified disapprobation.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12
TlTITIETlIIE, TEEN:s. .T1URDAT, JULY IL, 1856

over the tub, and got down stairs as
you found us--all in heap ~
But, madam said the door-keep-
Ell. you are in possession Of tt, great
secret of the order and must go up
and be initiated, sworn, and ride the
goat in the regular way -. =,
Regular wayl' exclsimed the. lady,
tand do you suppose I am going near
the tarnal place again, and ride that
critter without a bride or ladies' sad
die? No, neyerl I don't want moth
ing to. do with the man that rides it
Ed. look nice perched on a billy-goatt,
wouldn't 1? No, no,, never! I'll
never go nigh it again, or your hall
nuth2r.. If can ever prevent it no
lady shall ever join the Odd Fellows
Why, I'd sooner be- a, Free Mason,
md BE- broiled on a .gridiron as long
Is fire could be kept under it, and
pulled from galret to cellar, with
lalter, ina pair of old br4eches and,
lippers, just as my poor dear has
and was! And he lived over it, too,
ut I never could live over such an
ther ride as / took to-day i
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12
Clboitt pa1trg.
One Thought of Thine.
My soul thy sacred image keeps, =

My soul thy sacred image keeps, i
~. Ny midnight dreams are all Of thee
For nature then in silence sleeps,
And silence broodso'er land and sea;
. Oh, in that still, mysterious hour, =
How oft from waking dreams | start, :
To find thee but a fancy flower,
Thou cherished idol Of my heart! ''
.Thouhasteach thought and dream ofmine-
!; Have in turn one sthoughto of thine?
: Forever thine my dreams viii be, Isl
Whate'er may be my, fortune here;.
ask not love-I claim from thee
Only one boon, a gentle tear;
: May e'er blest visions from above
Play brightly round thy happy heart,
And may the beams of peace and loye,
= Meier from thy glowing soul depart!
: Farewelllmy dreams are still with thee
Hast thou one tender thought of me-?
Nv joys like summer birds-may fly,
Ny hopes like summer blooms depart,
But there's one flower that cannot die
The holy memory in my heart: ~.
! No dews that fowrets cup may fill,
No,sunGghtto its leaves be given,
But twill live and flourish STILL.
As desthless as thing of Heaven!
Ny soul greets thine, unasked, unsought-
Hast thou for me one gentle thought? -
FAREWELL FAREWELL! my far-off friend!
= Between us broad blue rivers flow,
And forests wave, and plains extend,
: And mountains in the sunlight glow.
The wind that breathed upon thy brow
Is not the wind that breathes on mine,
THE star-beams shining on thee now
y Are not the beams that on me shine!
But memory's spell is with us yet ssz.
Canst thou the holy past forget? 3se.~
The bitter tears that you and!.I
- Mayshed whene'er by anguish bowed
-Exhaled into the noontide SKY,
May et.and ,minsle in the cloudl =.
And thus. mgswell-beloyel. though We
Too far apart must live and moye,
Our souls. when God shall set them free, /
Can mingle in the world of love
This were an ecstacy to me-
Say, would it be joy to thec.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12
The Know NolhiDg Platform.

We have read The platform adopted
in the National Convention of Know
Nothings, recently assembled in
Philadelphia. We use the word ma
ti0naI, because it was intended so to
be, but the secession of two-thirds Of
the Northern Know Nothings upon
adoption of constitutional po-
sition upon the subject of slavery,
shows the utter improbability of the
theparty ever becoming anything but
a sectional organization. The plat
form as presented to US by Southern
men is Objectionable on the slavery
question, and although there are ma
ny commonplace and unmeaning
generalities in their Resolutions, still
we have no particular objections to
anything they have done, except
their unjust war upon the Catholics
and Foreigners. We fear very much
that some of their promises were
made in bad faith, for in the third
section of their code, they advise
resistance to the spirit of innova-
ton upon the principles of the Con-
stitution of the United States, how
ever specious the pretext," when we
know that their prescription of Cath
olics strikes deeply at that tima-hon-
ored and should be, sacred in
strument. We must admit a want
Of confidence in, that party which,
while it processes great friendship for
the Constitution and laws, seeks to
promulgate views inconsistent with
the provisions Of the former.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12
The Name Defined.

r We have often wondered why the
! new party whose mission is to perse-
: cute men on account of the place
where they we're born, and the man
! ner in Which they may choose to wor-
: ship God, should have been called
know nothings rather than to have
been called some other name. The
) explanation given by an intelligent
contemporary, with which we met
few days ago, shows that the terms
are judiciously applied, ,and thatnoEe
other would have been so we'll adapt
ed. The head men at the North the
leaders who founded theparty formed
tits ritual and made its creed know
what they intend to do; they know,
and know for themselves only, the de-
signs to be accomplished by the or
ganization. The members who join
and bind themselves together by SCH
emn oaths to dowhat they are hidden,
though it may conflict with their owa
private judgment, are kept in pro.
found ignorance, as are the councils,
and. the leaders of the councils, to
which they belong, Of what the priR-
cipal rulers of the party intend to do.
1t is their business to obey and not TO
know. They are, therefore. in the
appropriate language of the party, de-
nominated know nOthangs. Can one
position more servile, more
in which free American
citizen can beplaeed, politically? And
should the repeal Of the fugitive slave
law, the prohibition of slavery in Kan
sas, or the abolition of slavery alto
gether, be among the objects con-
by this secret band, num-
bering multiplied thousands, can a
man be found true to the rights and
interests of the South, that does
aot see threatening ruin, as the result
IF the concealment movements Of
Ibis party. These objects, too, have
oeen ayowed by Hale and others, who
belong to the party. Members Of the
party in Tennessee, who have been
luped into this covenant with dark
ness, may think themselves informed
IN the subject and familiar With the
objects of the conspiracy. They must
lowever, permit us to tell them they
inoa0 nothing. Their leaders, on the
'ther side of Mason & Dixon's line,
snow the objects aimed at, and it is
heir duty todo what they are hidden,
'ut they must be know nuthings.
Is there any feature in this horrid
ociety that can be called American,
or Democratic? Surely
lot. An organization moving in
darkness, concealing its proportions,
nd its purposes, is dangerous in
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12
The Forest Grave.

Rest thee, loved one, I'VE have laid thee, !:
Where the wild wood maketb. sighs, -
Tears perfume the bed we;made thee,
= W.herefthe withered foliage lies. -.
Distant FROM thy native dwelling,
We must chant thy requism:
For the hearts with sadness swelling, ~
Few vii, join the funeral hymn. g..
On, the morrow we must leave thee,
. Lonely il. thy woodland grave,
Where the vine tomb shall leave thee, :.
Creeping where the branches wave, :. =,
All thy love, let nature breathe it,
When the vernal hours return, -.
Write thy name with, flowers, and wrcatho
Round thy holy forest urn.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12
Know Netting TriumDbs.

= would you know lew OF the tr
umphs Of know nothingism at th
North? Read these:
The monster sympathy and Sun
day procession in New York on ac
count of the death of a prize fighter
The election of a band of infdel
to the Legislature of Massachusetts
The defeat Of an accomplished
yirtuous and intellectual statesman
likeJos. r. Chandler,for his religious
belief ve.
The declarationof war upon fifteen
sovereign States because of their
local institutions.
The formal trial and torture OF
Judge Loring, of Massachusetts, for
daring to vindicate the Constitution
of the United States in a judicial
decision.
The removal of female school
teachers on account of their religion.
| Tbe proposed exclusion by statute
in the Legislature of Massachusetts,
of all persons Of the Catholic persua-
sion from holding Office.
The prostitution of the pulpit to
inAammatory political harangues, as
in the case of the demagogue priest
who initiated Mark Anthony in his
Sundays sermon over the dead body
of Poole, the pugilist.
a riot in Chelseain which a Cath
olic church was ignobly mutilated.
A Catholic church blown up at
Alton, and nothing left standing but
portions of the walls. 4
A church gallantly mobbed and
ransacked, and d-torn to pieces in Man.
chester, N. H., in honor Of the BIRTH
day Of freedom. !
A Catholic church burned in Bath, |
Me, by know nothing mob.
Another riot between the Ameri-
cans and foreigners at Newark, N. j.,
In which one man was killed and-the
Papist church gloriously torn to
pieces. @
The destruction Of the ballot boxes
at Cincinnati.
Street fights and mob encounters,
week after week, in the streets of
New York and Brooklyn, last sum-
mer, under the preaching of Angel
Such are their heroic deeds, not to
such trifles as the outrage
upon Parr Baptist, at Ellsworth, and
the like deeds which challenged the
admiration and applause ola christian
world
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12

The. Marshall Texas Meridian says
a gentleman of that county died a
few Jays ago, from the bite of a tick.
The same man has had, in the course
of his life, his leg broken in two
places, several Of his ribs broken
and severed from the spine, and his
whole body mashed fiat by the falling
of heavy gin timbers upon him. All
this he survived, and got we'll to die
of a tick bite.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12

The Know Nothings Of Mass. have
finally declared that an extra-session
of the State Council shall be called
on the 20,h, when the delegates to
the late convention in Philadelphia
will report-tbe obligation of secrecy
will be thrown off, and measures will
be taken preliminary to grand mass
meeting Of, all persons in favor Of
abolition and general philanthropy.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12

A Mr.. Mcclure recently died in
one Of the Western States, leaving
property TO the value Of two millions
Of dollars. In his will he bequeathed
to every society in the United States
founded by, and, for the benefit Of, me-
chanics and workipg-m men, the sum Of
five hundred dollars. Application
must he made to the executors.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12
A Thought for the Times.

+ Persecution, religiously5 speaking,
has often been the best evidence of
genuineness in the sect prosecuted.
La tho. history Of christianity, this
has beenexemplified again and again,
from the days of the martyrs dewn:
What is more, this persecution has in
almost all instances been directed by
Providence to thegood andSadYance.
lnentof the prosecuted. Remember
the "seed Of the Church. Shall
Protestants, then, become the inquis-
itors Of the 10Th 'centupy? If they
do, it needs messenger from above
to declare towards whom. the SYM
'pathy of Heaven must fl1w.s lie.
but the lurid sun of intolerance rise
in the midst of our protestant sky,
and'"all that is pure. and lovely, aud
of good report" viii be ledSof God
to seek refuge in the bosom of some
holier faith. Should not the reilec-
ton agive Us pause?" As we leve
Professionalism, let US eschew aughtI
that ,savors of persecution.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12
GIeanings from ear Exchanges,
IKM EEtofId Sprtnklings.
In ralatinn to Land Warrants,

In relation to Land Warrants
Ikompson's Reporter says:
Land Warrants are coming int
the market freely. The demand ioi
them, however. is such as to enable
US TO pay 81 ,07 per acre. Most o
the Warrants that now come into the
market are of the denomination o.
120 and 100 acres, owing tothe TACT
there will be no more 40's, and the
new SOS have not yet made theiI
appearances. We would impress par,
ties who send warrants for sale, with
the importance of having the assign
ments made in exact accordance with
the form prescribed by the Depart
ment at Washington, as the slightest
informality may cause their rejection
Those who desire the forms of assign
.ment, may have them gratis, by
addressing US by mail or otherwise;
also forms Of application forobtalning
Warrants.
Ga the 1st of July, the provisions
of the new Post Office law in relation
to money letters, went into opera
ton. Letters Of pecunialy value
may, therefore, be registered on pay
ment of five cents additional fee.
This does not insure the sender of
the maney against loss. 1t only
gives additional facilities for tracing
stray letters.
A farmer in Wayne county, Ohio,
who was sowing lime on his wheat
to kill the weevil, like to have killed
himself, his clothes having become
covered with lime, and shower OF
rain coming up soaking him through:
The Cherokee Indians are said to
be in great distress, from a-scarelty oil
bread stulfs and other necessarles OF
life. 4 recent account mentions the
death of three Of them by starvation.
The liquor law lately voted on. in
Illinois, was curious piece of leg
isIatioa. If majority voted in its
favor, it was to go into effect in 1902,
if a minority voted against it, it would
90 into effect in 1857. This is like
the preacher who gave out that he
would preach here next Sabbath t the
Lord willing, and two weeks from that
time anyhow.
Governor Clark, of New York, has
-pardoned man named Higgins, from
the penitentiary Of Rochester, on
condition that he shall "whollyabstam
from using Intoxicating liquOrs,ex'
cept in case of sickness, when pre-
scribed by regular praetlclng physi-
cian.'
At the grand ratification meeting
of the Know Nothings in the Park,
in New York city, of which mention
is made in the papers, Mr.. Pollock,
Of Baltimore, uttered a good many
words in denuneiation of Senator
W;lson--eomparing him to a painted
.ao,,ass While Sam. he said, was the
real zebra. A figure more loreible
than elegant.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12

The proceeds of land and property,
ecclesiastical and other, to be sold
under the new Spanish law, are
estimated at $5,OOO,00o,O0O, which,
when it begins to come in play, will
make a great difference in the state
of things in Spain.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12

Arcbdeacon Jelreys, missionary
in the East Indies, stated that for
one really converted Christian as
the fruit of missionary labor, the
drinking practice of the English had
made full one thousand drunkards in
India. e,.-5. ais--
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12

A conspiracy Of prisoners in the
Canada penitentiary: to murder the
keepers and escape, has been discoy-
cred in consequence Of one Of them,
a Roman Catholic, confessing it TO bis
priest. One hundred Of them geEo
found armed.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12
The New York Herald recently con.

The New York Herald recently con-
tanned an article on ffogging GRIM
inals, whereupon the Tribune OBJ
served that fof once that paper
treats Of a subject it fully under
stands-its editor having been nine
times publicly horse whipped.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12

METHoDIsM VS.. Known oTHWG.-
So great is the moral wrong Of taking
rash extra-judicial oaths, binding men
to secrecy, and spledging them to
practice deception, says-4the Missis-
sippiau,. thatit.is expressly condemn
cd in the Methodist Discipline. ? The
following is the 25th Article Of
Faith: - a,.-s.s.,4.
sAs we confess that vainand rash
swearing is forbidden, Christian men
by our Lord Jesus Christ, ,.by james,
by bis apostles, so We Judge that the
Christian religion doth not prohibit,
but that a man may swear when the
magistrate reqaireth, in a cause of
faith and charity, SO let it be done ac-
cording to the prophets, teaching in
justice, judgmentand truth. .
+ "Vain and rash swearing is forbid
den throughout the Scriptures, and
we do not wonder that the Christian
denominations generally, are becom-
ing aroused against the blasphemous
system which is attemped to be intro
duced in the country, in the name Of
Americanism, to corrupt public NOR
+ ais, destroy confidence andinjure the
cause of Religion. - So -i,.e-.s rs
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12

There are in Philadelphia 1913
Sabbath Schools, taught by 4,s1G
teachers, and attended by ASST
pupils.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-07-12

The Northampton Courier relates
a singular case regarding a daughter
of James Daman, of Chesterfield, who
some three years since fell down a
flight Of stairs, bringing on sickness
which it was thought would result in
death. She recovered, however, with
the. loss of her sight and hearing, but
her appetite took a peculiar turn, and
for weeks she would eat nothing but
candy and raisins, and since last fall
nothing but apples. A few weeks
age she commenced eating maple
buds, since which time she has nearly
regained her former health and ac-
tivity, and her sight and hearing are
restored. n