The true Democrat., 1855-11-13
BOYSs CLOTHING.
TVI VIC TUC IVUII Federalism Dissected.
Or Federalism alias Whigism shown il
 their true COiOrS.

l NO. I.
 The period having arrived when it becomes necessary that every man who boasts of the proud and hitherto honored name of American should put forth his best energies, his best abi litles in stemming the vile torrent of fanatcism the political Judaism, which having
 ''Stole the livery of Heaven | To serve the devil in,'
 threatens with its odious and abominable prin- ciples to crush all that is honorable, all that k sacred in the eyes of humanity, all that is neal and dear to every true American bosom, beneatl the iron wheels of political prescription and blind, religious intolerance the writer propose. to show by series of articles in the True De. mOcrat, that the measures now advocated by the political organization of latter day saints styled Know Nothlngs, are with some additions the very same as those brought forward and supported by the old federal party; who, after having assumed as many names as Proteus had shapes, have again, in order to cloak their inter- nal designs adopted the very euphonous title of Know Nothings.
 In dscharging the ungrateful duty which have assumed,
 Light were my task, if every gentle breast
 Owned the just laws of native truth imprest,
 For not by hopes of vain applause misled, Our countrys injured cause alone plead, 'Ils you to oJudge, nor that judgment fear | If truth be sacred, and if virtues dear"
 That the present Know Nothing faction is none other than the resurrected spirit of an. cient and accursed federalism against which our republican forefathers fought so manfully and successfully, is evident to every sensible person, from the very measures which they bring forward, and which they, in their blind and fanatical zeal, attempt to advocate
 Es As early as the year 1795, the federal party under the guidance of the elder Adams, intro. duced the same illiberal and anti. American measures, and advocated the same pernicious disgusting, and abominable doctrines that their worthy descendants have and are now attempt ing to do at this day and in this enlightened age of the world. Under the auspices of that northern president, the federal party of which he was the arch-leader, foisted off on the peo- pie of this proud and happy republic, that de- testable code of laws known as the alien and sedition laws, but which was signally discard ed by the whole of the republican party of that day. Now let us look but for a moment at those abominable measures and see if they do not bear aclose similitude to the present shame full and odious credenda of the ycleped Know Nothing party?
 | In the first instance, the alien law of the fe- deral party enacted, that foreigners should be deprived of all of the privileges and immuni- ties of American citizens, until they had resid- ed "within the limits of the United States fol the space of twenty. one years" Does not that measure bear some affinity, does it no, bear a striking resemblance to the favorite measure proposed and advocated by the present Know Nothing party? And yet there are ma- ny persons, especially the democratic portion of the Know Nothing party, who would shrink back in horror and disgust at the very idea of being called federalists, or at the very thought of associating with those politically who advo. cate such anti-liberal and anti-American mea- sures. We'll may they shrink back in horror and dismay, when rehecting, that they have arrayed themselves, and are now preparing to battle against equal rights and the liberty of conscience, those inestimable boons bestowed upon man by his all-wise Creator for benefcienl purposes, but which his puny and sinful fellow. mortals strive to rob him of. We'll may they feel the goadings of conscience when they re- fleet, that they have impiously pledged them. selves to overthrow every and all of the mea. sures which they themselves, by their votes have assisted to establish, and which their pa triotic forefathers spent whole, useful, and an honorable life in sustaining and promulgat- 1 ing.
 l ARKANSAS.