The true Democrat., 1855-08-21
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For the True Democrat. MR. EDIToR:-I have received your enlarged issue and congratulate you upon the improve ment.
 At this moment, when the insurgents for the spells are marshall;ng, with parade and clamor we'll designed to dazzle the simple and terrify the weak hearted, your determined stand in defence of law and religion, demands the ap- lroval, as 1t is worthy the imitation, of every advocate of truth, and friend of his country.
 With persistence of evil, which defeat does not vanquish nor disaster depress, our old ene- mics once more upon us; disgusting old issues, and presenting new and still more allur- ing devices, for another and desperate struggle for party domination.
 The very cagerness of their zeal, as well as the recklessness of their pretexts, ought to go far to prove, that the wants they would remedy are chiefly indicdua1 ones and the defciea- ces which grieve them are n their own exhaust ed purses rather than n the measures of the present government. Let any man point to period when the condition and promise of this republic was better than at present.
 We are charged with being a yainglorous people, and would for the happiness of men that all nations had grounds for a like pride of country. Our prosperity is at this moment the admiration, as it is the envy of the world; the rapiIity with which we have achieved it uu- puralIelcd in the annals of time; declarations which have become as trte as they are just.
 Iii contemplating this extraordinary growth and greatness, the mind turns naturally to the consideration of the more wonderful ele- ments to which 1t is attributable, and that more admirable system, by which under Providence, it has been attained and perfected
 Will we find it, let me ask, and 1 do not de- sire to obtrude upon your time at present with other than such survey of tile grounds as shall suggest a more thorough examination; will we find it in the sactariansln of our Puri- tan fathers, who were hard y established in their refuge from bgotry and oppression, than they were ready to inllict fercer intolerance upon their dissenting bretheren and felow-exile~?
 Will any man tell me- that it moved the per secutions of the peaceful German in Pennsyi- vania; the same who made garden of the val- ley of the Wyoming and by his industry and patient subseryience to the laws, has helped in giving to that State, a strength and importance, which has denomnated it the Keystone of this Union?
 In our own time, when the embryo State, with a. escape from these evils which indicated its future destiny, had grown into an acknowl- edged, active existence; is the element of it's present power, to be sought for in that policy, which generated the monster of bank; az in- sidious serpent seeking to entold in it's deadly coils the fair proportions of the young republic, but which was happily endowed with strength and energy to strangle it?
 It is claimed to have been a constituent in the restrictive policy of prohibitory tariffs, which aimed at the destruction of commerce. and the building up and sustaining a Saturan mono poly greedy to fatten on its own offspring?
 Is it professed to have been displayed in the opposition to that just war, which by its achieve ments in arms, and acquisitions in territory, at the same time it gave Gus indemnity for the past and security for the future, against flith- less neighbor helped us on to our last greatest stride to wealth and power?
 Is it to be found in the incendiary efforts of northern abolitionists; who, blaspheming the name of religion, by an appeal to law higher than that they have sworn to support, repud- ate the constitution, abjure the Union and pro- scribe the shareholder?
 Or is 1t to be discovered at last in the hidden principles of the know nothings, by the magic of which they now propose to redeem the country from the dread evils which they tell us threaten its stability and the very existence of civil lber- ty, by the divinity of which they engage to fur nish measures which shall allay all storms of facton," questions of constitutionalty forever put at rest; heal religious controversies; repel the foreign emigrant threatening to sink the continent; unite the disunonst of the north and the south; fill the hearts of men with pa triotsm and brothery love and by " "vindcating mans capacity for sef-government," render him especially independent of the bylaws of secret organization and the confusion of "third de- gress."
 Ofall associations, purporting to have for their object the largest liberty to the largest num- ber," there never was cabal, more opposed in its every element to the nature and spirit of free government, than this know nothing, or self styled American y-anti-republicanin the former and doubtless continued suppression of it's principles, and still secret acton by which it violates the freedom of political discussion; anti republican in its religious intolerance, which at- tacks vital principle of liberty and is in direct question of the right of all men to" worship God according 10 the dictates of their own conscien- ces"
 And that the destinction they would affect in some sections to hold between religious and political prescription is destinction without a difference and clearly impracticable, is proven to the experience of the order itself by the withdrawal of the native Catholics of Louisia- na; and that it was never honestly made is evil dent in the proposition so plain to all that a simple modification of the naturalization law, which they advocate, strikes at once at the root of the evil of which they complain. Equally plain is it, that instead of question of policy it is designed only as an appeal to Protestan, prejudice, as degrading means to merce.