The true Democrat., 1855-10-23
For the True Democrat. Letter from Ashley County.
Ashzcy County, Oct. Sd, 1855.

of iotting down few itemS
 The circuit court Hon. T. F. Sorrels presid
 ino. commenced it's session on Monday last
 No business was gone through with, farthe
 than impanneling arid charging the grand jury every one being on the qui viue to hear the dis
 cusson between Col. Warren and Gen. ell Nothing however was done in the way of speak
 ing until after dinner, when To! it was announc ed that Gen. Yell not having sufficiently re- covered (from the castigation administered tt
 him by Col. Warren in Drew,) had declined speaking. As it would not do to let the mat ter go by detauh, Mr. Grace, our district attor. ney, was selected by his know nothing friends to enlighten us benighted folks on the myste rious subject of American Himlo0ism
 MT. Grace commenced, by candidly stating that Col. Warren had so badly used up Gen Yell, that the General was wholly mcapacatatea to attend to the appointment which he had made here; and that therefore he, Grace, by orders in council" was put forth as the great exponent of know nottingham. After a few more preliminary remarks whereby we gained the i1aportamt piece of information that Grace was T real Kentuckian, that he was not Yan- kee-an explanation by the by, which their orators deem it necessary to make, as uthern- CTS are becoming sensible of the fact, that it is owing to Yankee editors, doctors ht0yers a1d tercters, who have settled in every nook and corner of the south, and who endeavor (nsidi- ously) to give tone to public opinion, that there is not more unanimity among southemers on those questions which involve their very exist ence as free, Independent, and sovergn States of this great confederacy. 1 say that Grace, after putting his audience in procession ofthe as founding fact, that he was all the way from "old Kentuck," mounted the black steed Sam and dashed off at fearful rate. He labored hard for two hours and twenty minutes, to prove that Ned Buntline was the very personiication of morality, patriotism: etc., and that although incarcerated within the prison walls of Sing Sing N. r., yet he must have been natiue, and possessed great fund of patriotism or else he never could have produced such delecta- ble, such pure, such sublime production as that contained in, and embracing the ritual and ceremonies of know nottingham. Quitting this part of his subject rather abruptly, he bounced down on the Catholics, and never stopped un- til he proved it entirely to our satisfaction that we Americans are the veriest. towards on the face of the globe; (for as we stand in the ratio of seventeen Protestants to one Catholic, we could not but come to the conclusion that we had degenerated exceedingly, and was nothing more or less than an arrant set of p0ltrOons. J. Reigning up on this subject, he endeavored to prove, that know nottingham was not affiliated with abOtionism at the north. In this he made a miserable failure; nevertheless, he proved it as clear as nsud, and entirely to the satisfaction of the dark lanteJn gentleme en (who were in per feet ecStacies attheir orators remarks) that they were not indirectly assistiRg the abolitionists of the north in their hel2iSh efforts to divide the south and sOutherncrs on that all absorbing and vital question to the south, the perpetuity of its time -honored institutions. After expatiat- ing on the beauties of Sam" until the time allotted to him had expired, he wound up with that fabricated quotation, the language of which by the IlndooS is ascribed to the immortal Jefferson, but which he was as incapable of us- ing, as he was of being yfoamd Gssoctating with the federalists, alias know nothings of Jus day The language to which 1 refer, is, that he wished that the Atlantic was liquid ocean of fire that it might divide us from Europe" etc. What barefaced assertion, and that to an in teligent audience. Wonder what part of ''old Kentuck" Grace was born'd" in? Bet it was in the Kentucky purchase" But enough on this head. The people of this section are pre- pared to hear any kind of assertions from those know nothing orators; from those fustidious gentlemen, who are 50 dsgusted with the "wild hunt after ollice," that rather than be caught in that category, many have soH out their princi- ples, Gf they ever had any,) and now stand ready
 To prompt, to guard or stab, saint or damn
 IEaeSt Swiss. who fight for any God or man,
 Col. Warren now ascendeI the stand After q few introductory remarks, in which he la- mented the inability of his ertlnguishet oppo- neut to "facc the music" on that occasion, he pitched into Mr. Grace, Git being the .frst time that he had all opportunity of paying his re- spects to that gentleman, Grace always having spoken after the sable curtains ot night had been dra,cn.) It would have done you good to have witnessed the contortions of Grace as blow after blow descended upon his defenccess sconce. He fairly tctithed under the lashings inflicted by Warren. His face naturally long, gradually grew longer and longer, until it ac- tuallv exhibited all of the lineaments of the deepest detection and despair. Like his quan- dun friend Yell, "with whom for the first time he agreed" he was totally ecLipssd, erttnguished not emitting light enough for his deluded fol- lowers to make their escape by, as accustomed as they are to grQpiag in tue dark.
 The Colonel then proceeded to show the utter rottenness of Sam. He proved to de- monstration that the humbug about Catholics, the Pope. etc. was nothing but an internal ruse on the part of the abolition party, to divert the attention of southernerS from the main ques- ton at issue, viz: "Shal southerners remain in the undisturbed possession of those rights and privileges for which their patriotic sires fought and bled?" This part of the Colone's remarks told soeH, for there are many here who have been taking the Crusader, the Dollar Weekly Times, and other northern know noth- ing papers, and who had long since satisfied themselves of the rottenness of know nothing ism, and that it was but deeply laid scheme to distract and divide southerners, Qrom whom they can expect nothing while unted;) conse- quently, the Colonel, when handling this part of the subject, was greeted with laundering sounds of applause. So totally discomftted were the dark lantern gentlemen that although Stith, Hudspeth, and others of their orators were present, and who came for the avowed purposesof converting us from Christianity to Hindoosm, not one could be prevailed on to face the storm.
 " The scenes which once seemed all so bright
 Has like d vision faded"
 In vain the wire-pullers cried ho, to the res cue. Not one came forward, although Sam was in the last dtroes of death. Poor fellow he was deserted, and that too at the very moment when he most needed help. His adherents had been defeated, horse, foot and all. tell you it was a proud day for the democrats of old