The true Democrat., 1855-09-18
Letter from Hon. w. K Platter
 son.
Jach.s0np0lt. Aug. f. 1855.


 lIoN R. B. MACON, Dear !Sir:--Thc delay ID replying to your favor, received some time since, has not resulted from any disinclinatiou to take my position upon the subject of your letter.
 I distinctly remember my promise to you, upon the passage of my cxpungng resolutions which will now perform, as t was then serl- ously and candidly made
 1 wen. to Little ROcl, as the humble repre- sentative of Jackson, with no desire of Iolit- cal speculation, but desiring only to represont my people faithfully and fully, and to advance the interests of the State, by the passage of wholesome, well-digested laws for our genera. prosperity, and especially to promote the inter- nal improvement interests of the State upon broad and general prnoiples--knowin. 10 par ty, no locality upon this subject, bu, acting as honestly thought would rebound in the greatest good to the greatest number.
 Acting upon this principle, l opposed all par ty organization, and the agitation of all ques- tions likely to excite political feeling 1st. Be- cause 1 believed the democratic party of Ar kansas safely in the majority, and thought that strict organization was unnecessary to sustain that majority. And again: the party was d. vided into factions, under the lead of bitter enc. mics, between whom violent personal warfare had waged with unmtigatcd bitterness, involv- ing but little real difference of principle; and I believed that a session of the Legislature pas sing quietly without exciting these feuds to op- position would do more to unite the masses of the party than strict organization, which would 'have resulted ill the election of tue members of one faction, to the exclusion of the other arousing an increase of bitter personal feeling already indulged in to the damage of the State and the democratic party
 There times in the history of parties when strict organization is absolutely neces- sary to theIr very existence--that time is even now at hand with the democratic party in this State; but did not think such a state of things existed away last winter. In this 1 may have erred; but if did, 1t was an errorthat resulted from sincere desire that a singleneSs of pur- pose, above party feeling, should move the men bers of the Legislature to enact series of laws which would place our down-trodden, op- pressed and discredited State upon honorable equality with her older sisters in her inter- nal improvements and financial relations
 The political quiet of the Legislature was first seriously disturbed by the introduction of your antf-know nothing resolutions, which then thought premature, inopportune and un- necessary--and the third resolution was parti- cularly objectionable, assuming in my judgment, from the developments at that time-without proof-that this new organization was unsafe upon the slavery question, and that it's north ern members were anti N ebraska men and abo- litionists.
 These positions then thought and hoped "existed only in the heated brain of the au- thor of the resolutions referred to-"
 In support of my course, let me refer you to II, T l> /al more devoted to political investigation of ge- neral character, had discovered more) of this new party, from all the sources available
 1st. Horace Greeley was denouncing the know nothing party, with great bitterness as a pro-slavery movement
 2d. The New York Legislature was know nothing by decided majority, and it was said by southern papers and the Savans at the capi- tai, that w. II. Seward defeat was fixed fact. It was declared that the grand object of the or der was, to quiet the exciting subjects of aboli- tionism at the north, secession and disunion at the south-to prohibit the introduction into the country of felons and mendicants from Europe who take the place of our negroes ill the towns and cities, or fill our poor houses and prisons with infamy and pollution, unknown to native born Americans--to protect our native citizens ill the free exercise of the elective franchise in localities already overrun with that class of fo- reign population who do not appreciate our in- sttutions nor their privilege under them-who disregard the rights of freemen, and attempt to control regular elections with bully force and brutal courage.
 America was to be America nized, ,''and all foreign influence and intervention in the affairs of our heaven-favored government and country were to cease under the united strength of the good men of all parties-not as political par ty, for the purpose of supplanting another party in the country, but an organization in which the most jealous of either of the parties of the country might unite without sacrifice of princ- pie, banded together as patriots to regulate our intercourse with other governments, and forever put to rest the dangerous questions of abolition ism and slavery
 With this brilliant and imposing programme for the future acts of this association, l was unwilling to denouncei it as unholy, anti-republi- or disapprove entirely until their acts should demonstrate the truth of these pretensions or dissipate the fond hopes of patriotic men, by failing to perform what had been promised.
 Had this party exhibited, in the incipient de- velopment of its greatness and power, its abi- lity to suppress all slavery agitation upon terms just and honorable to the south and satsfacto- ry to the north, it would, in my judgment,