The true Democrat., 1855-02-21
The American Party opposed to
 the Acquisition of Cuba

allay and subdue the slavery agltaton' WHICH has. f,r the last few years, threatened the peace and harmony of the Union, and that one of its means to effect this very desirable end, is oppo- stion to the acquisition of more territory; and in carrying out this policy, the Know Nothings will be always found in opposition to the acqui- sition of the Island of Cuba.
 With the principle of opposition to foreigners and all things foreign, which they profess, we can very we'll believe that the Know Nothings will oppose the incorporation of Cuba and its foreign population into this Union Indeed we cannot conceive how, under the oaths they take, they can act otherwise than in opposition to this long cherished scheme of the South to possess the Island of Cuba. Since they oppose the naturalization of foreigners, except only after an apprenticeship of long term of years, we do not understand how they could consent to and favor the incorporation into the Union of whole nation of foreigners, and at once grant them full and complete citizenship. Such thought is at war with their professions, and would unquestionably be in violation of their oaths and obligations.
 It must be true then, as the New York Her aid, their organ, proclaims, that the Know Mo- thing party are strongly averse to the acqulsl- tion of the Island of Cuba Every retlecting man must, however reluctantly, believe such to be their true and undoubted position.
 But we think the Herald places the oppo- sition of this American party, the Know Mo- things,'' to the acquisition of Cuba, upon false grounds. After their alliance and fraterniza- ton with the free-soers and abolitionists of the North, we can never be brought to believe that the Know NothingS oppose the South in its Cuban scheme, for the reason that they desire to soothe and calm the slavery agitation, and to check northern aggression upon southern rights
 Such cannot be the reason of their opposition, or why their fusion with abolitionists and free soilers? Why their deadly hostility to the great national democratic party at the North, which has always been true to the South in opposing slavery agitation, and has been and now is the only true and sound national party at the NOrlu! III Cuc ldCc oi IHlo 'ppooItloh to the only national party in the Union, and in spite of the fact of the Know Nothings having elected ill almost every single instance free-soil CTS and abolitionists to office-to the highest and most important offices in the Unon does the Herald really think to impose upon the South the idea that one of the missions of Know Nottingham is the extinguishmento of the sectional excitement that is now sweeping through the North?
 It is impossible for so enlightened people as those of the South to be thus practiced upon and deceived. They can see in the opposition of the Know Nothings to the acquisition of Cuba the real and true object sought to be accom- plshed. They can see in that opposition-not as the Herald says, the calming of slavery agi- tation-but deep and cunningly laid scheme to entrap southerners to their discontinue and ruin; they can see in 1t settled and determine ed hostility to southern interests, southern rights and southern institutions; they can see ill it nothing of peace or safety to themselves, but every thing portendng the destruction of their dearest and most cherished rights.
 It is unnecessary for us here to enter upon an argument to show to the democratic party of this State the importance, if not the absolute necessity, to the South, of the acquisition of the Island of Cuba. Every southerner knows and feels that importance, and we do not be- lieve that there is one to be found who would willingly yield the hope of seeing the star of that fair Island one day incorporated into our national galaxy. To know then that the Know Nothing party in its national organization, is at war with the South upon this point, is, we inn agine, sufficient to condemn it il the hearts of all true, loyal and patriotic southerners.
 | When it is said that the object of Know 1 Nottingham as 1t exists in the Union is the pre- vention of the wholesale importation of the paupers and criminals of foreign nations, many credulous and good citizens lend ready ear, but when the next news brings the intelligence of the election of such abolitionists as Gardner to the executive chair of Massachusetts, and Henry Wilson to the United States Senate whose whole life has been one of inveterate warfare upon the South, southerners should begin to pause and look around them.
 These Know Nothing triumphs portend no good to southern interests. They must result eventually in our ruin and destruction unless arrested by the conservatism of the great na- tional democratic party-the party that, in every struggle, from the foundation of the republic to the present day. has borne off the palm of preserving protecting, enlarging and strengthen ing our glorious Union.
 Chancery Court of Pulaski County.
 The writ of quo Warranto sued out by the State against Chancellor FAIRCHILD, to test the constitutionality of the law creating seperate court of chancery for Pulaski county, was agued before the Supreme Court by s. WILLIAMS At torney General pro tena for the State, and $. H. HAMPSTEAD and GEORGE c. WATKINS, for the