The true Democrat., 1855-10-09

seem to rise to the highest pitch, and he scru- pies not to charge any one with whom he may differ, with the highest crimes. His accusations against the post masters at this place and Little Rock, were of the gravest character and If true, should consign both of them to the penitentia- ry. These charges, we learn, Col. Fowler will DC required to prove at court of justice, where, we oplne, his jury will not be composed entire y of know nothings.
 Hon. w. K. Patterson had been invited to speak upon the occasion; but when Borland and Fowler concluded, 1t was late in the evening. and most of the audience had left. We did not hear his speech, but hear it spoken of in the highest terms by all. Mir. Patterson had committed the great error of joining the know nothings, but has seen his error and withdrawn. and is now all right. He is man of genius and ability and we predict for him course of usefulness to his country.
 At the conclusion of the speech of Mir. Pat terson the speaking adjourned to Soulesbury college, where after supper, Messrs. Keith and McCurdy made speeches. The speech of Mir. Keith was characteristic of himself-full of pleasant wit and sarcasm-well interlined with sophistry. As an evidence that the know noth- ing move was not whig trick, Mir. Keith stat ed, that the whigs had been thoroughly defeat | cU III all tucT lllCdSuIcS-ludL JncN ndu aDdll- doned national bank, protective tariff, dis tribution, etc., and hence, that it was the duty of all parties to join the know nothings Now is this not trdiculous--that the democratic party, because it has been triumphant and successful, should disband and go to the defeated party the whigs? Would it not be as reasonable to argue that because Gen. Washington conquered the British at Yorktown he should have sur rendered to them? or that Scott should have surrendered to the enemy at the city of Mexico, because of his success? We call upon demo- crats to stand up to their faith. Be not de- ceived, though the whigs have changed their names. All that is glorious ill this republic is the work of democrats. To the administration of Jefferson belongs the glory of having swept from the statute book the alien and sedition laws, and restored to freemen their rights-anC the acquisition of Louisiana. Madison, by the war of 1872, rebuked British tyranny and win dlcated the free institutions of his county-- Monroe redeemed Florida from Spain, and ad ded to the freedom and wealth of the nation Jackson crushed those despotic institutions; national bank and the protective policy Var Buren reared that beautiful system, the sub- treasury, which restored the public money tC the national treasury, where the constitution de. signed 1t to be- To Folks administration. be. longs the tariff of 1846 and the acquisition of California. To Franklin Pierce the glory ol the doctrine that the people of the territories have the right to establish their own form O government, wherever that territory may be- and to carry out the constitution and laws o the countryin all their bearings. Now, we call upon the democrats who have gone to the wings to show what that party has done- They passed the bankrupt law-but even now pretend to have abandoned that! What have the whigs done for the glory of this country What have the democratic party failed to dc that any man should desertit?