The Feliciana Democrat., 1855-10-13
Ggs ftlitiana Democrat.
ANTI-AMERICANS.

tolerant and upstart know nothingism has
the hardihood, effrontery, and shameless
audacity to bestow upon all trusted, faith.
full. and trustworthy members Of the great
Democratic party. So they are styled whose
only offenceis that they stand unmoved and
unterriied in their loyalty to those princi.
lples which, in their practical application,
under Democratic rule, have made that
country oil that it is. So they are called,
who hold to the faith and treasure the me.
mories Of the great apostles Of American
republicanism Jefferson, Franklin, Madi-
son. Jackson, and Polk. The democratic
party is the anti-Amcrican party, though it
added an empire to the confederacy in 1903,
triumphantly vindicated the national hon.
or in 1912, brought Texas into it in 1S45,
terminated just and constitutional war by
cxtending the boundaries of the Union to
the golden shores of the pacific. Lewis
Cass is an anti-Amcrican, though his "a
nous protest against the Quintuplc treaty
saved the American flag from insult, dis
grace, and degradation, on the common
| highway Of nations. William L. Marcy is
an anti-American, though he IL was into
whose hands fell the first flag taken from
the enemy, in our second great struggle
against foreign aggression. Jefferson Da-
Wis is an anti-American, though under his
lead, and cheered on by his voice, the Mis-.
sissippi rifles charged at Monterey, and
rolled back the tide of victory at Buena
Vista. John A. Quitman an anti.Amcr-
ican, though his sword pointed the way to
the heights Of Chapultepcc, and his hand
first of all unfurlcd the American flag from
the halls Of the Montezumas. James Shields
is anti-Americn, though his blood flowed
like water, to attest his devotion to the
honor and glory of his adopted country.
Butler, Pillow, Lane, Bragg these and
many more, to whose patriotism many d
battle field bore witncss--all these are an
Iti-Amcricans.
On the other hand, they whose fathers,
forty and odd years ago. concocted treason
at Hartford, and burned blue lights on the
coast of New England-they who denoun-
ced the war against Mexico, as unproyoked
unholy, unjust, and constitutional
they who applauded the expression of the
hope, by one of their representatives in the
Senate Of tho United States, that the enc.
my might welcome our brave soldiers with
" bloody hands and hospitable graves
they who look upon the Constitution our
fathers made, as a compact with hell--they
who are laboring with untiring zeal to stir
up strife between the different sections of
the Union, and to rend its bonds asunder
they who bond together in the dark to
violate the rights of conscience they who
faka npp,ol ,oe 4lo l. l..
and, at the dictation of hireling press,
slaughter their fellow citizens in cold blood
without respect to SEX or agc--thcy alone
are the men in whose hearts are developed
a profoundly intense American feeling, and
to whose Argus-eyed vigilance should there.
fore be contided the protection of Amcri-
can liberty. John p. Hale, who takes his
seat in the Senate of the United States as
the very incarnation of northern fanaticisnn,
is an Amcrican-but not SO is Franklin
Pierce, who stands pledged to defend the
constitutional rights Of the south in all their
integrity, from all assaults to come, under
what pretext, or from what quarter they
may. Houston, of Texas,,an Bell, of Ten.
ncssee, whose votes stand recorded against
the repeal Of the Missouri compromise, are
Americans, but not SO are Toucey of Con-
necticut, Brodhead Of Pennsylvania, Bright
of Indiana, and Douglas of Illinois to
whose enlarged patriotism we owe it, that
southern institutions are no longer under
the ban of Congressional legislation, in
manifest violation of the spirit and letter
Of the constitution.
The three thousand Protestant clergy
men Of New England, who, in the name of
Almighty God, and in his presence, protest
ed against the Kansas and Nebraska BILL
as breach of the public faith, and viola
ton of national compact are Americans,
but not SO are the Romish Catholic
priests in that section of the country, who
unanimously refused to append their names
to the infamous remonstrance--to which
refusal is undoubtedly to be attributed the
crusade which the know nothings and 9th
er northern fanatics have since been preach
ing against the Catholic religion and in
which even southern men have been insane
enough to join.
What say you, people of Louisiana, to
all this strange misapplicaton Of terms, and
monstrous perversion Of ideas? Democrats
are Alien. s~y TY~,toy,---K now Noth;nco