The true Democrat., 1855-11-20
For the True Democrat. Federalism Dissected, Or Federalism alias Whigism shown in their true ColOrS.
WM. DICKSON, Sec'y.

NO. II.
 In my last communication, endcavored to show that the present K"ow Nothing confede- racy was none other than the old federal whg party in disguise, and that their peculiar mea- sures were perfectly in accordance with those professed by that odious and much-detested party. We will now proceed to scan another of the measures of the old federal party, and see if the present Know Nothing party have not adopted the same presumptuous and az sressive policy.
 In order to curb that generous feeling which ever pervades the American bosom when, not wrapped by political prejudice, and which in that instance could not find vent otherwise than in long and loud denunciation of Adams and that abominable party who advocated such illi- beral and anti-American SC ntiments, the fede- ral party of that day passed law, that "any prreon speaking, ,0ritiny or publishing anytAtng aganst tue President, his cabinet, or hs measures, sAould De subjected to heavy fine and imprison- naent." Thus, not only endeavoring to disfran- chise foreigners, but they actually tried to muzzle the press, in order that 1t should not sound the tocsn of alarm, and thus arouse the country to sense of the impending blow aim ed at the liberty and independence of Amer- cans.
 So thoroughly aroused were the republicans of that day, and so disgusted and mortified were they at the illiberal and ant-republcan senti- ments advanced by Adams and his confederates, that they arose in their might and hurled him and his obsequious followers from office; nor has any one ever had the effrontery, the auda- city to introduce such measure into an Ame- rican Congress, until the coon and hard cider excitement of 184O carried that noted federal ist':. Archer of Virginia, into the United States Senate, when he had the temerty Composing that the late political agitation had extinguish- ed all that was noble or generous in the Ame- rican bosom) to introduce a bill for disfranchis- ing foreigners, and which signed his political death warrant, consigning him to that obscurity from which he never could have emerged, had which Virginia, and in fact the whole country labared, at the time. Laying aside all political prejudice, all party predilections, let us take a calm and dispassonate view of the existing state of affairs Is there no affinity then, no analogy in the measures of the old federal par- ty of 1795, and those now proposed and advo- cated so strenuously by the quondam Know Nothing party? Did not the federal party en- deavor to exclude foreigners from all of the privileges and immunities of American citizens, and also to try to exercise daring censorship over the press? Do not the present Know Nothing organization avow the same principles? Is it not one of the fundamental articles of their creed, that foreigners shall be deprived of the privileges of American citizens "unt7 they haue resided ,oithn the hmits of the United States tacenty- one years," and do not all of their coun- cils prohibit the reading of democratic papers? Did not the President of the Grand Council at Little Rock, candidly acknowledge, that he forbid members to read the True Democra, published at that place? And why forsooth did he do that? Simply, because that paper is the most ably edited of any in the State.- It has ever occupied the proud position of a faithful sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty, and having early discovered the corruptness of men in high places, as well as the utter unsound'