The true Democrat., 1855-11-20


 he might afterwards conquer us.
 The workings of this moral poison ill the southern mind, this apple of discord thrown by the hand of a political incendiary into our midst, he watches with the eye of demon- Thank God, they have thus far achieved few successes over which his guilty soul may gloat.
 And my fellowcitizens, are the southern people to fall victims to that stale and shallow artifce (for when understood, it is nothing more than this) of burglars and robbers who always raise false alarm of fire or murder that they may perpetrate their schemes of theft and plllage with more security and success. Are we to be divested by the cry of Catholic, Pope Confessional, foreigner, from fore-arming against the real dangers that threaten us from the north? For Arkansas, I believe may an- swer with confidence. Good and pious men have, know, united themselves with this or ganization, but in my heart and conscience, feel that all democrats and whigs, who are truly republican patriots and aU Protestant christians q do not mean those canting pharasaical, hy. pocrtlcal Protestant professors, whose religion IS as much capital in trade as much means and instrument of interest or ambition as their wares or merchandise, their goods and chattels, lands and tenements or the trades and profess slons by which they hope to advance their for tunes in the world;) but those good and sin cercly pious men. who conform their lives to those severe maxims of mortality, and those pure, elevated and sublime sentiments of uni versal love, justice and charity which are in cucated by the divine word of God; when they have stripped this hideous monster, (which to be hated, needs but to be Seen,'' of its wordy embellshments-whe they understand its real motives, principles and tendencies, they will cast 1t from them with scorn and loathing.
 hut J,,1o d. might have hoped and believed in the incep- ton of this new party, notwithstanding it's self condemning origin, that it would be conserva- tive and national; that 1t would oppose an un- broken phalanx to the surging waves of north- ern treason and rebellion which seem doomed to use the figure of Printiss, of Mississippi, to "submerge the last Ararat on which our be- loved constitution can be saved" But have their hopes been realized? Judge ye, my friends, the tree by its fruits. Those Know Nothings in the south, who indulged such hopes, who will not admit that they have been cruelty and utterly disappointed are shameless ly false and insincere? Have the northern Know Nothlngs been true and loyal 10 these principles and professions which their southern confederates claimed for them. Have they proven themselves to be our reliable friends, or our most uncompromising and inveterate foes?
 
 sachusetts, in which there was but one solitary man-a lone star gmmering amid the gloom and darkness of abolition treason and sediton who was not a member of this order, answer let the persona-liberty bill, an avowed deli berate notification of constitutional law of | Congress, answer-iet the ostracism of the ho- nest and self sacrificing Loring, for performing a sworn duty as public officer of the United States, answer. Let the election of Wilson to the United States Senate, who, for ability strong will and malignant hatred of the south, IS the rval-nay, the peer and equal of Seward himself, if he has an equal, answer Nor has It been in Massachusetts alone, that the Know Nothlngs have cvinced their implacable hatred of the south. Every Know Nothing triumph north of Mason and Dixon's line has been achieved over those good and true men, those honest and patriotic democrats who have stood by the south in defence of her honor, equality. and constitutional rights Of the fortv-four northern democrats who voted with the south ln her last sectional struggle with the north nearly all have been succeeded by Know Moth lngs who are distinguished for nothing but their avowed contempt for the federal constitution and their clamorouS ostentatons, insulting and habtual denunclatlons of the southern people and theT lnstltutons-who are pledged to urge upon the next Congress the poSsage of mea- sures which, if successful, as sure as there is a God in Heaven will result in dissolution of this Union.
 The Know Nothings in the place of Dodge, Walker, Shields, Norris, Atherton, Bradbury of Maine and Everett whig of Massachusetts. all of whom, while faithful and honest repre- sentatlves of their own immediate States and constituents in the United States Senate, ac- knowedged the obligations of the constitution. observed the oath they sworn to support it. and recognized and respected the rights which 1t guaranteed to every portion of the conrede- racy, have g ven us Harlan Trumbul, Durkee Fessenden, Bell, Hale and Wilson. who open- y scoh at and condemn constitutution, oaths and all other moral restraints that would stay them ln their crusade against the slave States Of the Union. After all their successes in the north winch, as a sOutherner, I blush to declare here to-day, were received with shouts of ioy and eXultaton by their brethern in the south let any Know Nothing present, let any Know Nothing Tn the State point, if he can, to sin gle member of his party from the north. in either house of Congress, who is not the stern and unyielding foe of his own State and it's people?
 But If the democratic party is asked where it's freinds are in the north, (without going to the House of Representatives) with pride and confidence l point to Cass, Douglas, Bright. Stuart, Toucey Wright Thompson, Gwinn, and Weller, who, with their brave honest, and loyal hearts and eloquent tongues, are still in the Senate of the United States, ready again to light the battles of the constitution, the Un- lon and the south It would be uncandid and unjust to charge many southern Know Noth- ings with sympathizing with their confederates Tn the north, but have shown to you gentle | u1 in tbo an entire Know Nothing delegation to Con- gress, they would of necessity either affiliate with the enemies of their own constituents. or be poor, feeble, helpless, impracticabe mino- rty, mere igment of Congress as power- less to do good as to resist evil
 Then my whig friends and my Protestant friends, whose love of country is stronger than your prejudice against party name or an un- popular religion, the first law of nature, the great motive of sef-preservation, leaves you no alternative for the present, at least, but to rally around the standard of that party, which is to-day, where it has ever been, the great champion of the constitution and of those ights which we all claim and enjoy under it.
 From what have already said, 1 cannot per ceive how any southern mind, not warped and blinded by prejudice and passion, cannot see, that, however well this new party may answer the purposes of It's authors, the abolltOnlstS of the New England and northern States, it has no claims upon the confidence or support of the southern people.
 But, gentlemen, have not urged upon your consideration the only or greatest objection to this new party. For the credit of my country, and the era in which we live, would to Hea- ven that had I have thus far only shown that as citizens of a southern State at crisis in our public affairs like the present, when our most cherished rights those of which we are most jealous, and about which we are most sen- sitive, are about to be invaded by the cohorts of northern abolitionism, Know Nottingham, now in its expiring agonies, is but viper which would sting the southern bosoms that are asked to warm it into life and strength. But now not only as citizens of Arkansas. not only