The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
Letter from J. II. Hobbs.
BentonviUe, Sept. 18th. 1855

feet of know nottingham IS so prominent in th minds of the people at this time, that it ire uuently becomes necessary for an individual t give publicity to his views and sentiments il relation thereto or suffer hissposition to be mis represented and misstated by persons who ar' anxious to make a show as to power and nu merical strength. 1 write you this, not for the purpose of dictating to any individual, for holt that it is proper for all men to inform thei judgments upon all subjects, and especially up on a question that is fraught with so much in terest to the people as that of know nothing ism, and after their judgments are enlightene, by due and impartial investigation to give ven to their feelings in such manner, as reason die. tates and their consciences approve.
 This is land of freedom, country in whicl we are all proud to know that we have an in disputable right to act as we may think proper and hence 1t is that in the free enjoyment o that privilege I claim the right to speak my thoughts, though I may utter sentiments il contravention to principles set forth and con- tended for by members of the new know noth- ing or American party.
 / ane ,aot member cf the American or Anol aotling payty, nor ere my symlpatties aottb hem and as l make this declaration publicly, it seems proper 10 give some reasons for the faith that is in me.
 Perhaps there are but few individuals in the State of Arkansas who have watched the move ments of this new party with more scrutiny than have, and after all the light that have been able to receive, has been exhausted, cal come to no other conclusion but that it is an intolerant and proscriptve party, with but lit tie in view but aJoyitionism at the north and self-ag aggrandzement and the spells of office in the south
 The democratic party now stands forth in all her grandeur and majesty, cemented together by indissoluble bonds, with principles broad and salutary based upon axioms which long expe- rience has proved to be good and wholesome for the government of the American people, This party, as she now stands, well organised and never firmer, is fully adequate, anxious and ready to secure to every section of the Union the peaceful and uninterrupted enjoyment of their several rights and immunties.
 If the democratic party now stands as above stated, (and no one can successfully cotrovert lt,) why should any one who regards the Union of the States and the good of mankind, be will ling (aiter looking at the abolition and whig 2 tendencies of the American or know nothing party) to quit or abandon the democracy for ln ofo 4la organization unskilled in the management of governmental affairs and without any antece. dents to recommend them as body to the ia. vorable consideration of the people.
 We admit that some good democrats have joined this American party, but when we make this admission, we are satisfied that such dem- ocrats have joined it entirely ignorant of its principles or its designs, and that as soon as they have an opportunity to arouse, react and take second sober thought" you will see them recanting and leaving in disgust the know nothing party as men would leave sink ing ship.
 This is said to be the land of the free and the home of the brave;" the broad and sauta-
 
 it so. Stages, patriots and statesmen have lv- ed and prospered under it, and since the adop- ton of that greatest of great human works, philanthropists have always agreed that its provisions were sound.
 Recently we find party rising up, claiming to be, in numbers, as terrible as an army with banners," with words in their mouths to the eff feet that they have come forth to rescue the waning liberties of America from popes. priests and foreigners This last assertion of theirs comes with bad grace, when we reflect and see that some of the northern know nothngs are so busily engaged in denouncing Thomas lief ferson and other "lindred spirits,' because they favored civil and religious freedom. What better evidence will national man want of the corruption of a party than to hear them de- nounce Jefferson, the sage of Monticello, the father of American democracy and,the author of the declaration of independence?
 To every true democrat it strikes me, that the name of Jefferson and his compatriots, as well as the declaration of independence, (o which he was the author) looms up with mucl more conspcuousness than ever did Pompey'I Pillar or the Pyramids of Egypt. Jeffersons name and his great declaration, will be, through time, revered by the friends of humanity; they will stand forth in their glory when the mouu- ments and obelisks to the kings and princes O the world shall have been destroyed and crum- bled in dust to the earth.
 Again. am constrained to object to this so- called American party, because, 1 see in the north the three thousand New England cler- gymen (who denounced Stephen A. Doug las in the name of Almighty God, because he had the manliness and honesty to assert in the halls of legislation the great principle of non-inter- vention,) are generally members of this order, working, with their confederates, for the utter overthrow of southern rights and great nation al principles.
 In the south, the organization is (with some honorable exceptions) in the hands of the old whig party; this is clearly evidenced from the fact that all the old whig papers have quit ad- vocating such doctrines as they did in "days of yore," and are now busiy engaged in chanting that Americans must rule America" We adopt the old adagc that factions speak louder than words"
 Again, southern and northern conservative democrats should object to this new party, be- cause the know nothing organs are, almost without an exception, waging shameful and disreputable war against President Pierce, who lI1. of @l racy thereby showing their hostility to the party.
 Notwithstanding the President comes from New Hampshire, a northern State, we find in be owned by the most ultra-southerner, for