The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
the sublime mysteries of know nottingham that they without reflection join in those thberal and n1aki. Aaapricra nrniac

and anti- American orgies.
 "Not one looks 6ackward, onward still he goes,
 Yet ne'er looks forward further than his noes."
 Blinded by the imaginary dangers to which they are exposed from their Catholic fellow citizens, they are totally .toryettM of the Jtact that at this uery moment, the a0lole of our Pro- testant population at the north, headed by their respective preachers, are concocting schemes for the final overthrow of the south and its insti- tutions. If this is not so why is it that our Me- thodist Baptist and Presbyterian churches at the south had to dyuao the line of demarkation JetlOeen themselves and their northern brethren2 Surely it was not because they were afraid they were Catholics! Among the three thousand preachers who signed that memorable abolition petition which was presented to an American Congress at its last session, how naany of them were Catholics? Not one. It is our Protest ant brethren at the north who are "the head and the front of the offending" and who have been, and are cen no,0 preaching their unhal- lowed crusades against the south and its peculiar and tine-honorea institutions. The present know nothing movement is only one of tho msany schemes devisea by northern fanatics to divide the south. "Conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity, it seemed for a aohile to fulfill its erecrable mission, but Virginia soon dis covered the mefarlous designs of know nottingham, and draggeI the monster to the hght, where for the first time were discovered its aboainable features, it's hideous deformity. It was soon made mani fest, that the great hunabug about the Catholics the Pope, etc., was only ruse to draa0 the at- tertion of southerners of from the encroachnaents made on their rights by northern fanatics. The consequence was that Virginia auithdrew by Thousands from the know nothing lodges and at the succeellng election deteated the know nothing by an overwhelming majority. North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama, the three last States heard from have administered Wa. tcrloo deteats to the se.fstyAd native American party. Now whilst the whole southern States have discarded the ansideo,.s and anh- southern principles of know nothingism shall we of Arkansas take to our bosom and cherish such soul-destroying, illiberal and exploded doc trines? Shall it be said of us in this case, as it is in all others, that Arkansas is fifty years behind the age;;'' and that "so fond are the Arkansians of novelty or change, that they would change their God every week if they had but half chance?" Heavon forbd!- Never let it be recorded of us,
 :" That self abasemcnt paved the way | To william bonds and dcspot sway"
 The formation of s~ch lodges as those of the know nothings in Ireland, has been the unhap- py cause of the subjugation of that country, and of keeping aive the spirit of religious ia- tolerance and prescription which prevents them from making a mited effort to accomplish the independence of their doa0n-trollea and oppressed country The internal haitors of that unfotu- mute country in their maiaaigM conclaves, their orange hages, concoct those he12ish schemes which have for two hundred years Wastea the sociaI and political prospects of u,Aappy Ireland and droue her sons to this last refuge of liberty It was in such conclaves and such lolqes that Robespherre, Cloots, Danton Marat, Cauthon and others plotted the destruction of their aaative France. It was in those secret and Jzooly coun- cls, that the tates of from one to one and Aalf million of the best citizens of France were de- clded; and which caused not only the streets of Paris, but every part of France to streana with the blood of victims. No age, sex or condition was spa'ed, but all aoeH-neaning and peaceaJle citizens were doomed to indiscrinanate slaughter In aH ages, and in aA countries, secret cabals con- claveS, and lntr1gues have been the means re- sorted to in order to steal the liberties of the peo- pie. Are not the pages of history pregnant with innumerablc instances of the overthroaU of republics and kingdoms by just such means?
 Having then the history and the .tates of all nations spread out betore us for our guidance and for our aoarning, shall we be of the number of those "who having eyes see not" and who hav- ing understandings understand not? Heaven forbid!
 By an examination of the hu7,fM pages of history, we find, that in every instance where the people of any nation were led eG from the paths of rectltude and right it was invar1ably at the instance of some aspiring demagogue or de- magogues. They were incited to those unAuao- ful deeds, those antipot,1otic measures by those ambitious men who sought to build their tortnues upon the downfaN and ruin of their beloved country.
 " How like mountain devil in the heart
 Rules the unreined ambition Let it once
 But play the monarch and its naughty brow
 Glows with beauty that 5euilders thought
 And uatArones peace to7erer."
 Shall we by toolisA1y following in tho oake of those aspiring demagogues, Yell, Pike, Bor- land & Co.,, rush madly into that vorter of secta- rianism which has inflicted an indelhble disgrace on some of our neighboring States; which if per sisted in, must enevitably plunge this proud and happy republic into aN the horrors of intestine war and blood-shed. Shall we follow the councils of this a0ust'sous trio, when of the first it is aoeU knoa0n, that he is only the a0reck of his former r-sef; whilst his late political vaga- ries are only the result of deceased and morbid imagination, hcightenal Owe are charitable enough to believe) by dwelling with such in- tensity on the seat made vocant by his iN1strious confederate the immortal Solos of Nicaragua memory? Shall we obsequiously tolloaO in the trafn of the second whence it is aoeW kaoaon that instead of repeling the intamous slang, the shoc- ing and revoAing denuncation of the so,th and its institutions, which was poured forth at the great Philadelphia know nothing convention, of which be was an Honorary member he, with true Yankee teelng, which no length of resi- dence at the south can ever change or molAty, licked the hands that inflicted the blows, in order that he might deliver that stN- born speech wherein he pledged Arkansas to knoao not1singism, and consequently abolitiomisms Shall we bow at the mandate of our modern Solon, who by his great diplomatic tact managed to be kicked out of office; not however, until he had acquir- loI c,,ch n for |. IL f