Southern shield., 1851-07-26
DEMOCRATS, READ THIS!

The time has passed in Arkansas as well as in Virginia, when the name can be impos- ed upon the people for the principle. The democracry of Arkansas have intelligence and public spirit sufficient to discriminate and reject "faIse prophets" He that pre- diets the dissolution of this Union, ana does all he can by agitation to bring about such a consumation, and does not 'put hiS Sh0ul- der 10 the soheep' to sustain it, cannot be wrung in upon the democracy of Arkansas as a Union man. Arkansas wants no Un- ion party if the democracy will prove true 10 its national fidelity. If the democratic party will carry out its mission of truth, pa triotism and fidelity to the constitution as it has done, the country will be safe. The responsibility of the preservation ot this Un- ion rests upon the democratic party. This is the party power, and win the excep- tions of Harrison and Taylor. it has ruled the country in its prosperity and through its trials; and it has been capable of sustaining our free institutions. Then we say that the safety of the Union depepdsA upon the national democratic party. and whenever we divide, with northern democracy ana southern democracy, our country IS lost We appeal to the democracy, tG the PatII- otism, to the love and admiration they hold for our country, to beware ot the deSIgnlng demagogue who attempts 10 get up south ern party. He aims to get you united Tor southern confederacy. With NandaI hand he wishes to pluck from our bright constellation cluster of stars-he wishes to drag in the dust that time honored ban ner of the Eagle, which our fathers follow ed with bleeding feet and lascerated bodies, to the consummation ot their glorious revo- luton. They wish to ''peacetulIy divide" the common fame of our ancestorS--to In- gloriouslv surrender our claim upon the sa- cred precincts of Bunker Hill, Lexington, Brandywne, Saratoga, and other glorious 1 fields won by the valOr of our fathers.
 Whether Arkansas will be committed to disunion, depends upon the democracy, not upon the whigs. They are in helpless mi nority, and can neither sink nor save the country. All rational lovers of their coun- try appeal to the democracy 10 save the country.-The democratic party is Union party: then why permit ourselves to be placed in a false position, by the election ot a convicted disunionist? Why permit our State 10 be committed to disunion, by cleo ing one who has admitted that he said the Union ought 10 be disSolved-who has said those who cry "Union, Union, are traitors to the South'--one who has said those who denounce disunion had better move 10 the North!
 There can be no one honestly professing to be a unionist, who can disregard these declarations of Col. Johnson. Certainly there can be no man of intelligence, who disbelieves that Johnson has made these de. \ ll7i,.--vy.for19? True, tiloro may be nose Whc do not or cannot read for themselves, anc who pin their faith upon the sleeves ofsome designing demagogue; and these may dsubt the truth of those charges, but this class, tc the credit of the State, are not numerou; enough to injure any cause.
 As the news rolls in from the most distant parts of the State, tEe prospect ot the de feat of Col. Johnson increases. The demo cracy ever true to the Union, are rising and spurning him from them.
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