The true Democrat., 1855-10-09
The Democratic Party.

Discussion IS now gong on all over the State Mass meetings are being held in every county and the principles of democracy that for decades of years have ruled and shaped the policy oi the government are undergoing thorough ex- position before the people. The order of know nothings and their new creed have brought this on. There is no election at hand, no candl- dates for any office in the field, and yet we ne- yer remember to have seen so much excite ment, and so much enthusiasm in the ranks of the democratic party. To attack the prin- ciples of democracy in this State, is to attack our citizens upon their most tender point. It arouses them immediately, and inctes them to action. Principles that they have been taught to revere and support from their cradle, and un- der the guidance of which, they have seen the United States growing rapidly and steadily from British province, to be one of the greatest and most powerful nations upon the globe, they would as soon surrender as life itself.
 Hence the commotion now in the public mind. The people are moving-are working and thinking and before their might, the mach nations of the clique of know nothings at this place, who aspire to rule the people by oaths of the most terrible nature, will dissolve and disappear as the mist of the morning be- fore the shining sun.
 The democracy never had more glorous mission than the one of to-day. Know noth- ingism with its federalism and its alien and se- dition laws rears its head but to be broken and trodden under foot by the mighty power of a democratic people, whose highest boast is that they possess the land of the free--the home and asylum of the oppressed of all nations on earth. And too never were they more sanguine of suc- cess-never more united-more true, more faithful or more active.
 It would require more space than we have and more time than we can at present spare, to enumerate and recount the contests now going on in each county in the State Our speakers. good and true, and always alive to the interests and prosperity of the party, are up and doing. Every county, almost every neghborhood, has It's democratic speaker who loses no occasion to warn his countrymen and neghbors of the baleful influence and tendency of the secret political organization, which, not trusting to mans inherent honesty and devotion to his country, seeks to bind him down as a slave by oaths that the ingenuity of faithless political renegades alone could have ever conceived or invented
 Democracy and know nottingham are found- ed and based upon two entirely different prin- ciples. The democratic party trusts for it's SUD- port to the love of country and principle which is born within the breast of every patriot, while know nottingham, suspicious of its best and firmest friends, trusts alone to the efficacy oi unhallowed and sacrilcsious oaths administered in the solemn hours of the night. Democracy appeals to the patriotism of the man, know no- thingism to his prejudices and his pas8ion5- Democracy appeals to his sense of justice, to his love of principle, while know nottingham relies upon the dupcs it has tied to its order by oaths that It hopes to enforce against reason and truth
 We were never more pleased than we now are with the hopes of the democratic partv.- The party was never before 50 united so firm so Jealous and true. A glorious victory awaits it at the next election: A larger demo- cratic majority will be rolled up next August than ever has been at any previous election.-- Let the day of trial come, sooner or later, the democrats are prepared to meet it. They are equal at all times to all emergencies.