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THE AMERICAN PARTY.
Local GRAND Council, CHARLESTON,
Noreo,boF lie 1OES


NOCember To- 1850
Whereas, in the opinion of this Local Grand
Council, representing the subordinate Councils
of the American Order in the city of Charleston,
the disaster to that party in the late municipal
election is attributable to causes arising from
its past organization, and from misapprehen-
sion of some of its principles, as well as to in
testine division upon municipal policy and ofIi-
ces; and whereas, also, this Council has an
abiding confidence in the strength of the Amer
lean sentiment, and the business of the reforms
which it claims, when properly presented to an
intelligent public, and expounded in public
form; therefore,
l. Resolred, That this Council recommend
TO the subordinate Councils in this city to dis
band their present organizations, and discharge
their members Individually from its existing
obligations.
2. ResoLcea, That this Council recommend
to the State Council and to the other subordi-
nate Councils cf the State a similar dissolution.
3. ResOLred, That, in the opinion of this
Council, all secrecy in political associations,
any intermixture however misconceived) of
sectarian with political questions, and the ad-
ministration of oaths in party obligation. should
be repudiated and abandoned by the American
party in this city and State.
1. ReSOtped, That at a propitious period
when party acerbity has abated and rational
calm exists, public movement should here be
made in favor of essential reforms in naturali-
cation and suffrage.
5. ResOlced, That while the American party
of this community will ever hold themselves
sternly ready, as Southern men, to maintain
in all exigeRcies the rights of the State and the
South, they will not, on the one hand, commit
themselves to blind adherence to Federal
parties and Nominations, nor, on the other,
urge, at any impolitic iuncture and for prema,
ture ends, policy which looks to the disrup.
ton of the Confederacy, except lin the language
of the Georgia platform) as "a last resort"
JONI CUNNINGHAM, President
A. J. Russell, Secret1r,L
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A TRULY ANT BOOK.
THE TASK: A POEM,

With Illustrations by Birket Foster.
Printed on fine tinted paper, and elegantly
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We wonder what the Bard of Ouse would say TO this
exquisite edition OF his avore poem could he il.
Such lover of nature he was how his eye would
have lighted up Mr.. Fosters delicious bits of land
scape-smple, TRUTHFUL and poeiical the lines they IL
lustrae. We have often had occasion commend Mr..
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One of the most beautiful gift books which has appeared
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ever appeared in any season-is edition Of" the
Task" of Cowper. richly illustrated by Brket Foster
London QttdytsRy RerieW.
Among the pictorial gi-books of the season. the chief
place belongs 10 the ILLUSTRATED edition Of COwpers
TASK IL is altogether beautiful work, adm OF pc
renria value.-Litrary Gazette
A truly beautiful book printed tinted paper, and in
and exquisitey executed The Task
sumptuous adjoining, repeie with the pures, moral
ty, thoughts elcvatng and Christian, and the genuine
spirit poetry 1t will he neglected as we believe
10y Christian readers and IL Is wish that
may be entced, by this beautiful edition, faml
sentiments and genial spirit.-Presbyteria'.
We have here, with regard to both its typography and
binding one of the most elegant of illustrated orks which
was ever laid upon the table of parior drawing
The illustrations. which are made up mostly OF Eagsh
landscapes prove the great perfection which the
In this rich but chase attire actually discovers
beauties IN the sweet pensive strain of thought that
through this masterpiece of the first of Christian poets
EreHi1ig TfdrtAev
beautiful edition of Cowpers Task illustrated with
profusIon of graceful designs executed in admirable
manner has been published by Mesers Carter. No poem
IN the language better deserves the aectonate attention
of art So genial sensible full OF the pures spirit of
poetry ought 10 be III every library and amaro every
acknowledgements
The letter press the tinted paper the usra ons, and
The external hnlsh OF the voinme are all IN the highest style
of art The TasI has indicated its right a
high place in tie poetry of Britan and long the
English tongue remains vehicle of thought. long will
this graceful and yet profound work OF Cowper be
tcCmed.-Edt1.eT
JUST PUBLISHED BY
RORERT CARTER A. RROTHEPS
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CUHCCS--AidDdilld, CdlllOTuld, / ln-
diana, /; Missouri Pennsylvania, Is.
Contested
Senate OF Iowa protests.
Eouse of Representatives till March 3, 1857
Maine.
John NJ. Wood. Samuel 2. Benson
John j. Perry. Israel Washburn, jr x
Ebenezer Knowlton. Thomas j. ID. Fuller. x
Ne,O Hampshire.
James Pike. Aaron H. Cragin.
Mason W. Tappan.
Vermont
James Meacham* Alvah Sabin.*
Justin S. Morrill,.
Massachusetts.
Robert B. Hail. Nathl P. Banks. ir.#
James Burlington. Chauncey l.. Knapp.
William s. Damrell. Alexander De Witt
Linus B. Comins C. C. Chaffee.
Arson Burlingame. Mark Tralton.
Timothy Davis.
Rhode Island.
Nathaniel B. Durfee. Beng. B. Thurston.*
Connecticut
Ezra Clark, jr. Sidney Dean.
John Woodruff. w. W. Welsh.
Neac York
William w. Waikiki Thomas r. Horton.
JAS. S. 7. Stranahan. Jonas A. Hughstop.
Guy R. Pelton. o. B. Matteson.*
John Kelly. Henry Bennett
Thomas R. Whitneyt Andrew Il. McCarty.
John Wheeler William A. Gilbert.
Thomas Childs, ir. Amos P. Granger.
Abram Wakeman. Edwin B. Morgan
Bayard Clark. Andrew Oliver*
Ambrose S. Murray. John NJ. Parker.
Kuius ID. King. William 81. Kelsey.
klllian Miller. John Williams.
Russell Sage Benjamin Pringle.*
Samuel Dickson. Thomas T, Flaoler.*
Edward Dodd. Solomon G. Haven xi
George A. Simmons.* Francis S. Edwards +
Francis H. Spinner
Nec Jersey.
Isaiah Clawson. George VaiI.*
George r. Robbins. A. C. NJ. PENNINGTON \
James Bishop.
Pennsylvania.
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JOB Il. Tyson. John j. Pearce.
William Millward. Lemuel Todd.
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John Hickman John Covode
Samuel C. Bradshaw. Jonathan Knight.
J. CLANCY Jones.* David Ritchie.*
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LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH
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List of United States Senators in the Thirtyfourth
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0TDOuglas Jerrold is not the smallest
among those whose attacks on the British
Government have of late been so bitter and
mercless. He says the whole fabric of the
military system is structure of century or
more of the most shameful injustice, vilest
jobbing, and the most selfish ignorsnce-the
"aristocratic dry rot'' is the name he gives to
it. He congratulatcs the country on the fall
of the Ministry, and says: "Henceforth, we
mnst have generals and officers from the
grea: mass of the people and not from few
coteries. Genius. and wounds, and service,
must henceforth purchase military rank, and
not cash. Scars may buy promotions, but
no bank checks. And the time is fast CON-
ling-present events hurry it onward-when
the people of England will no longer be the
property of two or three houses--coroneted
Noodles and Doodles; imbecilities that scame
in with the Conqueror, and will 90 out with
the coming of the conquering mass-but " il
supply their own statesmen. Brains will
rule, and not baubles."
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I.ebukcd from Abroad.

The Cincinnati Commercial, q neutral
paper, thus plainly speaks of the action of
the Old Line in the late Legislature of this
state:
The failure of the legislature to elect
Senator of the United States, through the
determination Of the minority of that body
not to comply with the provisions Of the
constitution, though not without precedent,
is none the less criminal OH that account.
and it has never been done without leaving
the imprint of disgrace upon the body by
which it was committed. 1t lie acts like
these which, more than any other, lead ra-
tional men to doubt whether the experiment
Of self-government with US is not a failure,
and whether our institutions are not, at this
moment, incurring the dilapidation of a
premature senility. 1t is to be hoped that
these corruptions are rather to be attributed
to the rottenness of parties in state of dis.
solution, than 10 so great a defect in the
popular character as, at first sight, they
would seem to Indicate. Still they cannot
be looked upon without fear, nor be remem-
bered without apprehension Their history
travels far and wide, and makes an impress
sion upon the public mind which years are
not sufficient to eradicate.