The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1855-07-14

Gs-" The native American party is the only tru
" national party in our countryall honor to those
who have shown most clearly that they have thrown
aside all sectional jcalousics. and have built theil
positions on the mprcgnablc rock of the Constitu-
ton. "--1mercnn Patriot.
What unblushing efrontery? "Thc only truly
national party " indeed? Where is the evidenced
When did that party acquire the right to be consd
cred national party at all SO far as we can trace
Its history y certainly has but little right to any
such claim. A party that does not embrace the
whole country in its creed and every section in Its
platform of principlesa creed that all Its members
may avow, and principles upon which the entire
brotherhood can stand Is not fairly entitled to the
appellation of national party. The know nothings
assembled in Convention at Philadelphia, tried to
make themselves national party, but signally fail
cd by the withdrawal of the members of twelve Of
the northern states, who have published platform
Of their own. Thus we have platform from the
know nothngs south, and another from the know
nothings north Most persons, would conclude, that
so far from being national, the know nothing party
Is truly n sectional party The democratic party on
the contrary, embraces the whole Union In its Or
ganization, Its creed, and its principles. We have
no north no south, no east, and no west All stand
1852. Our party organization is nearly as old as
the government itself and at tho last Presidential
election, carried almost every state in the Union for
its nominees for President and Vice President In
its organization for that year. If we are not msta.
KEN II numbered among Its advocates one of the ed
itors of the Patriot, perhaps the very man who
penned the above extract. 1t is hardly reasonable
that such great national party, should all at once
be broken up, and give place to party of mush-
room-growth, which can scarcely boast of years
existence No, gentlemen, bare assertion will not
avail you anything unsupported by facts, and that
recent events so clearly discredit The people have
memory and will not fail to compare your assertions
with the history of the country as developed in the
political contest between the wing and democratic
party in 1852, and for many years past. Because
the wing party have died out and gone into know
nothingism, do not latter yourselves with the hope
that the democratic party will do the same.
Who are the northern statesmen to whom the Pa
tro refers entitled to such honor II is not Gard
ner, Wilson, and the ifyone Others that bolted
and set up for themselves, at the late Philadelphia
Convention II is not Governor johnson, of Penn
sylvania who connived at the murder of citizen of
Maryland, who sought to reclaim his fugitive slave
under the constitution and laws of the nation
know nothing convention at Philadelphia, of real
national reputation. Not one of the great lights
of both the wing and democratic parties, are to be
found among their number. This speaksa voice not
to be misunderstood. They everywhere condemn
know nothingism as wrong in principle, and dan
gerous in practice.