The true Democrat., 1854-12-13

O Southern whig papers, says the Louis vile Times, with an unfairness, of which whig papers alone seem capable, have been making 1 the recent defeats of the democratic party of the free States the basis of an argument against the soundness claimed for them by the South ern democrats. It is almost equal to the argu- ment by which the same press account for the weakness of the administration. They say that President Pierce is unpopular because he appointed freesoilers to office and at the same time call the election of freesoilers to Congress "rebuke to the administration It would be useless to expose the absurdity of such To- glc; no sensible man can be imposed upon by 1t. We believe that sound national sent- ment pervades the democratic party north.- The press, which is the best exponent of the feeling of party, is true to the constitution and the rights of the States. It betrays no symp- toms of defeat but is as buovant with hope as ever. The following from the Burlington (Vt) Sentinel Is a fair sample of the tone of large majority of the Northern democratic papers:
 THE RECENT ELECTIONS. - The canvass | out parallel in the political history of this country. From beginning to end it has been conducted on the part of the opponents of the democratic party, with the most marked and 1 reprehensible peculiarities. We imagined that the whigs and aboltionist had exhausted all the party tactics which men fertile in tricks and experiments could invent; but never be- fore have they exhibited such an utter aban- 1 IOnmpOt Ot rI,lo nch l.. volence-such disregard of truth, justice and right-such unwise and infamable appeals to passion and prejudice, and such bold and shame less repudiation of all party usages, ties and obligations
 i Smarting under their defeat on the Nebraska question, severed by this course from the South ern section of their party, the whigs north re- solved to rally around their standard all the elements of sectional strife, and thus form a great northern party that should crush not only the democracy out of political existence, but give them control of the national government They have left nothing undone to effect their purposes They dropped their old issues abandoned men and measures, and principles, and united with all the factions of every hue and stripe. They called mass conventions sent forth lmfammatory appeals addressed to the passion and prejudces of the people; they discarded their old party name, and founded a new Republican party,'' and inscribed upon their banners the disunion sentiments of their abolition allies. By auch vile practices they hoped to produce such an uprising of the peo- ple-such an overwhelming expression of pop ular indignation against the Nebraska swindle as never was before seen in this country. At the outset their prospects looked fattering. To all human appearances the great "fusion party' was harmonious in feeling and purpose. But they had calculated too strongly upon dis union sentiment-they found fewer traitors in the ranks of the democracy than they antici pated, and the small result has not fulfilled ex. pectaton, but fallen immeasurable below it, One of their leading organs is constrained to ac knowledge that the result is no expression O sentiment upon the question of slavery. ane the compromises relating to it.'' In Vernon their majority was less than an told fashio1 whig victory" In Pennsylvania, Massachu setts and New Jersey they were led by th, "No-Nothings'- New York more than tw, thirds of the vote of the State was cast aoains them; and in other States their successes hay, been so partial, that taken as whole the, may be set down as "no expression of senti ment," but rather a verdict against the mos unprlnclpled and dangerous attempt the coun try has ever witnessed, of wicked men to rid, into power on the swelling of a wave of a re- newed and tenfold exasperated storm of sec tional agitation.