The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
For the True Democrat. To the Democrats of Arkansas

FELLOW CITIZENS:-ln less than twelve months from this time, you will have to con- front your political opponents, the whig alias the know nothing party, at the ballot-box.- Does 1t not behoove us then to take prospec- tive glance at affairs? Can we safely say that when that time shall have arrived, we will be l fully prepared for the contest? No one can say this who is really friend to his party and to his country. Every true denaocrat, and every true American must see, that whilst we have been ingloriously sleeping on our already ac- quired honors; whilst we have been reposing in fancied security our opponents, under the very euphonious title of "know nothings," have stolen march on us. In accordance with their Machiavelian policy, and with the whig creden- da, da0ide ct imperia (divide and conquer they have labored with more than their usual tact and ingenuity, to SOW the seeds of dissension in our midst. Under the cloak of secrecy, and under the uile, hypocritical pretence of abridg- ing the rights of foreigners and of throwing restraints around the Catholic portion of our citizens, they have organized their know noth- ing clubs, where under those yfalse and helzish pretences, they are infictng deadly stabs at the aoe!tare of the democratic party, and at the peace and harmony of our beloved country Do you doubt this? If so, pause moment and reflect! What is it that has for the first time in the History of our country arrayed the native population against the adopted citizens of our country? What is it that has caused the torch of the incendiary to be applied to the d,oe1ings of his telo,ocitizens, and has avhetted the mives of the assassin and the murderer, whereby many of our citizens, both matiue and adopted, have fallen sacrlfces at the baletM shrine of political prescription and bhnd fanaticism? What is it tha. has caused the late disgracetM and anti republican scenes to be enacted at New Orleans, St. Louis Columbus, Ohio, and Louisville? Is it not the abominabe schemes the heauen-defy- ing deeds of those selfstyzel know nothings, alias whigs? Who is it that is so ignorant of the history of his country as not to knoo, that the same atrcious and anti-republican principles were attempted to be foistea on our patriotic fore-fathers siaty gears ago, or in 1795, when the elder Adams, that deeply-dyea federalist was at the heaa of affairs in these United States? s?- Were not the same atrocious plans concocte1- the same dsabolicaI measures aduocated, and the same in)ernal scenes attempted to be enacted by the federalists of that day, which has been more successfully perpetrated by their soorthy descendants in the enhghtened nineteenth cen tury? But mark the contrast. While the de- mocratic party of Aat day, headed by the im- mortal Jefferson, early detected their netarious schemes, and drove them to the shades of dwk- ness from whence they sprung, many of their degenerate sons passively submit to be bound hand and foot, and are offered ,oilltng sacrifices upon the altar of whig dupIcity and unholy ambition.
 "There was time, my friends, glorious time
 When had a sfngLe man of your tore. .fatbsrs
 | ----met a host in arms,
 His courage scarce had turned, hin,self had stood
 Alone had stood, the bulsoark of his country!'
 Not so many of the ishy democrats of our own Arkansas; for after being apprised of the tac, that the present know nothing faction is none other than their old arch-enensies decked out and bedizened in the ,fend-like trappings of know nottingham, such is their irscreduhty, cou- pied with Joolssb desire to become possessed of