The true Democrat., 1854-05-02
Washington Correspondence.

oad Little Rock Rasboad-Pacifc Raaz,oad-
 Judge Sebastian, etc., etc.
 Washington, April 1Oth 1854.
 DEAR JOHNSON: It is not necessary to inform you that Congress is still in session'-you know that-and that it is likely to be until the "dog days'' are far advanced, discussing many subjects of vital interest to the nation. To Ar kansas in a local, or perhaps I should say in a pecuniary sense, this is an important Congress- If we can get the lands now asked for the achieved much; and that too that will tell on our future prosperity. know Congress has been very liberal to us, but owing to our peculiar slt- uaton and circumstances 1t should, and l trust will do more.
 The Senate has recently been almost exclu- sively engaged in discussing, in executive ses- sion the much talked of Gadsden treaty, which it is said, will be rejected by that body.
 In the House, the members have pro and con slet-off ''-and are still "letting off''-and are likely for some time to continue letting off, on the Nebraska bill. Within the last ten days many able speeches have been made ln favor of the measure, greatly to the edifcation of the House and galleries.
 What will be the final action in the House, on this vexed question:, no one-at least at this present tme-can define; for strange to say, and much to be regretted, it meets with the op- position of southern members, from whom bet ter things should be expected. Hitherto the result of popular election, and the verdict of jury, have par excellence been classed by con- mon consent, as two of the most uncertain of human events, upon which an opinion can be predicated, approximating the final result; but the course of men in public life, is making rapid strides to become more doubtful than even . those.
 It is indeed strange that southern men should act in opposition to this Nebraska bill, and such opposition can only be reasonably accounted fer, as being connected with some miserable and near-si ghted presidential skirmishing. It is un- derstood that movement is on foot, in which few southern whigs have engaged, looking to f some show of life-with the abolition phase predominant-u under the leadership of John Bell of Tennessee, preparatory to the contest in 1856. MT. Bell opposed the bill in the Sa- nate, and the we'll drilled subalterans, who are l leagued in this movement, in the House and elsewhere, are following in his wake. The mass of the whig party south, will surely re- pudiate all such alliances, and courting of favor of freesoilism, as the course of many promi- nent Whigs plainly show.
 The South has every inducement to 'act we'll her part" in this crisis. A large portion of the northern and western democrats have ] firmly planted themselves on the true national ground show willingness to do justice to the South and crush forever slavery agitation in every form whatsoever; but still we ind south ern whigs refusing to seize such an opportuni- ty to settle this vexed question. The body of the southern whigs in Congress-in fact, all who are not intimately connected with this ''Wild goose chase" of presidential move ment--are sound on this queston-that their course meets with the full approval of their constituency is not questioned-that those from the South who oppose t. do so against the known and expressed wishes of the people who sent them there. Let the South put her mark upon these men.
 At the North the democrats who are advo- cates of the Neuraska bill, will have to con- tend against the whigs and abolitionists com- bined, as the recent elections there must con- clusively demonstrate. With the lights be- i fore them" + is time the southern whigs should become satisfied "they are in bad company and fully realize the result of their atiiliation with northern whiggery which is synonv- nous with abolitionism. Facts of recent oc- cuTence, tell too plainly the character of the whi8 party north. The vote in the Senate on this bill stands as finger board in this case. and cannot be mistaken for ''he who runs may read" Fourteen northern democrats voted aye on the passage of the bill, and not one northern whig Senator
 The entire northern whig press-the north ern whig clergy-the northern whig legislative bodies-the northern whig members of Con- gress, and even the whig national organ here the National ntelligencer-oppose this mea- sure. Villifying newspaper abuse, remarkable for its coarse and vituperous epithets-burnings in efigy by it's low populace, after all their boasted superiority over the South as law abiding and moral people-holy! God save the mark incantations from it's sanctimoni- ous clergy, calling down the vengeance of Heaven upon the nation if the measure is pas sed. These things and many others show that the whig party north, has become corrupty abolitionized. It is believed southern whigs are now satisfied that ''the last measure of the cup is full" and that they can no longer CO., alesce with men, whose doctrines and every feeling are directly at war with their best inte- rests. But the southern whigs who are con- nected with this presidential move, and who consider its success paramount to all other con-