The true Democrat., 1855-11-27
For the True Democrat Federalism Dissected,
Or Federalism alias Whigism shown ill
 their true COIOrs.

Passing over, through mere charity sake, many of the dark acts and secret sins of the old federal party, who have ever been opposed to our prosperous and happy government from its first formation, we proceed to give, (being unwilling that such truly native American deeds should perish for the lack of proper chroni- cler,) as accurate a history of the machinations and misdeeds of the federal party, from the year 1912, to the year 1915, as the limits as- signed us will admit of
 It IS we'll known to every one, who professes to know anything, that owing to the insulting and aggressive acts on the part of England, that the U Unted States, after submitting to eve ry species of lndlgnlty, found themselves dri- ven to the dire necessity of declaring war, not only in order to defend the rights and interests of private citizens, but to uphold and sustain the national honor. No sooner was this mea- sure resolved on, than such was the intense 1 feeling" prevailing in the federal ranks, that they immediately set themselves to work to concoct schemes and to hatch plans in secret to defeat the retalatory measures adopted by the | United States government. meeting of the chief consplrators was secretly held at Hartford | Dec. 18th, 1914, and there 1t was determined in council, to cripple the energies and resources of the government by withholding the quota of men and the quantity of supplies required by government, of the Eastern States To such lengths did these arch traitors carry their designs, that the British government sent John Henry as special agent to negotiate with them for the return of all Yankeedom into the arms of their attectionate mother country. It is not difficult to imagine how much they dreaded foreign intuence,' when they basely, shame fully, and treacherously refused t. assist their native country in her unequal and sanguuary strugg e, whilst they gave all the "ald and comIort" Tn thelr power to her enemies. | Determined that none other than "Ameri- cans should rule America,' ' they entered into secret alliance with the commander of the British squadron, then blockading the American fleet in New London, to be- tray the whole of that gallant little fleet n- to his hands. True to the principles which have ever governed this detestabe party, they chose the dark and dreary hour of midnight to consummate their treacherous and helllsh schemes, when, with intense Anaerican feelinq," which burned forth in the shape of "Wuc hgllts," by the preconcerted si sna between them selves and the British commander they sue ceeded in decoylng the whole of the Ameri- can fleet into h.s hands.
 50 completely dsgusted was the nation at large with the acts of that secret band of inter- nal traitors, that the very name of federlist ex- cited shudder ot horror and indignation when accidentally mentioned Traitor and federal lst became synonymous terms, since which time although they have changed names often, and by which means they have duped thousands ot honest and unSuspectng persons, not one has ever had the audacity to come out in his true colors,-in other words to acknowledge himself federalist
 With such versatility, characteristic of them when changing their names they now adopted Janus-iaced policy, presenting one set of principles to suit the north, and another to suit the south Being adopts in the Machiavelian policy of dividing and diStractng their oppo- nents, they succeeded in gaining considerable accesslons by adopting successively the names of national, and republican federalsts, like ther worthy descendants, the Know Nothing party, who have at the north assumed respec- lively the names of fusonsts, republicans, na- tive Americans, and Know Nothings, in order to distract the people, and thus secure major- ty of the votes in the localities where they have adopted those names
 In spite of all their machinations and de- signs,-in spite of all their former protestations of being actuated solely by "love for the dear people,"- and of their now false declara- tons of being "disgusted with the wild hunt after ottice;' the people themselves have torn the spacious mask from their hideous faces, when To, the old, atrocious and abominable fe- deral party stands forth before the world in all it. naked deformity!
 ARKANSAS