The true Democrat., 1855-09-18
ely upon. Senator Benjamin again

to repeal the 1uglIlVe SidVe law commando Ge eleven votes in tie Senate! The recent ele, tions of northern senators have displaced ma
 ny of the tirmest and most consistent suppo
 ters of public law-Shields of Illinois, Dodo
 of Iowa, Petit of Indiana, and Norris of Ne,
 Hampshire all able, eloquent and independen statesmen, who fearlessly struggled for ou rights have been succeeded by avowed freeso
 CTS; and in the present state of public opinio at the north l entertain no doubt that propo sltion to repeal the fugitive slave law woul ma twenty advocates in the Senate; in tha Senate to which we have been accustomed t
 look as the last refuge of the constitution" | The repeal of the fugitive slave law com manded eleven votes!! Who were they?-
 They acere northern achags and abolitionists!-
 Who were your best friends, the whigs or tn, abolitionists? or was there any difference Tn lwhig was the same as the abolitionists, and tn
 whig is now the know nothing
 Not one democrat voted with them It vii
 be asserted that Chase and Sumner auere demo crats! N IS (alse. Those men have been re pudaated by the democratic Senators for years
 They are not admitted to democratic caucus b democratic Senator's They are gecte1 from eau GUS, and that election is enforced by the north ern as well as southern democratic Senators who declare that they "belong to" no healthy DO hticat organization, and refuse to council witt or recognize them, or any others like them, whc dsavow the constitution of the U. S. whether, by words or votes. Chase and Sumner are aJo htlonists. They avow it, and Chase is now tht candidate for Governor of Ohio and is nom mated and supported by the fusion party, to wit the abolitionists and know nothings. Sumner and Wilson are acting with the same concern il Massachusetts.
 Who are the men over whose defeat MT. Benjamin Car southern whig and a true love of his coun.ry) laments so bitterly? Shields Dodge, Petit and Norris. Are they whigs O know nothings? No, they are northern democrat every one of them, and voted to sustain the | fugitive slave law, which is law expressly provided and secured to us by the United States constitution. Who of the Senators from the north sustained it? Wings? not one None but northern democrats.
 The facts here quoted from the address of Mir Benjamin are true to my own personal knowl- edge, and will receive the sanction of every Senator from the south of any party what ever.
 The democratic Senators all know and de- clare them to be so. They are true, not to the fugitive slave law alone, but also to the Kan sas and Nebraska bill, and Missouri compro- mise, and to all questions of any and every nature whatsoever relating to the rights of the south in her slave property.
 That the know nothngs of the north are the old whig party of the north mainly, if de- nied by an intelligent politician, can only be denied bya hypocrite and a creature so low and depraved, as to excite our contempt and call for our pity.
 There are we'll informed and honorable men in the know nothing party, but hey will not deny that with the exception of renegade de- mocrats and original freesoiers, it is made ur wholly of the old whig party.
 Of that party, (the whig party at the north, we have the concuwing testimony to those fact, of hundreds of intelligent whigs in all parts ot the south; among them will only name few and they that are we'll known and who have long sustained themselves in the public eye, and by the confidence, admiration, and votes of the whig party of the south, to wit, Toombs, and Steph ems of Ga, Kerr and Clingman O N. C., lickenson an Preston of Ky, Jas c Jones of Tenn. and Benjamin of La; four Se- nators and four Representatives m Congress each one of whom has been a star in the old whlg party, but now utterly repudiates the know nothing party; and every one of whom with the exception perhaps of Clngman refuses to this hour to yield up his opposition to the democratic party
 This, then is the. know nothing party of the north, which, as Mr. Benjamin says, has con- trol of the next Congress in the House of Repre- sentatlveS. This then is the know nothing par ty which has defeated and destroyed the sound constitutional democrats of the north, over whom he laments, and has sent to the legisla. tive hall so great number of freesolers as to give them absolutely majority This too k the know nothing party which Is NATIONAL and our southern know nothing party are the politicians who stand before the world as Meiy sa0O'7a brothers, and who invite southern men t. join them, and thus to abandon their fellow ship with the faithful democrats of the north who are pressed to the wall, and to side with and give aid and comfort to our own most bit. ter foes.
 To take course like this, with full knowl edge of what we do, were a bitter task for ans southern naaa @ any party; but for democrat to dc it IS degralirg indeed.
 Whiggery and know nottingham are synony nous, upon all points of the slavery question The northern whig or know nothing abandons and makes war on his weaker southern whia brother, declaiming openly that the defeat o the northern whg party, was to be attributed to the dead weight which it carried by recog- nizing in their national platform the constitu tional rights of the south. So all such nationa platforms and renognitons are repudiated b, both the old whig and the new know nothing party. The northern whg and know nothin; brother repudiates and Spits upon the rights o his southern brother.
 But success is all that is sought by the apos l ties at the south, so they adhere to the mer that repudiate, denounce and vilify them.- They are sworn to do so, and they seek to swea all they can seduce to the same loathsome task
 On the other hand, northern democrat is true to the constitutional rights of his demo cratic brother at the south; and though pressed to the earth by his powerful know nothing foe abused as dough face and Il slave of the south ern people, he stW shouts aloud tor tte const5tu ton and it's invjolaJilty.
 This is a true picture. What shall south ern man of any party do under these circum stances? But above all what shall southern democrat do? Abandon the northern demo cratic brother, join the national know nothing Punic faith between united brethren were an gelic faith, by the side of an act like this Imagine the feelings of northern democrat struggling to maintain that constitution, upol which your rights, hopes and existence are de- pendent, reproached as your friend, repudated as a traitor to his own section, and slave tt the sIavocracy. Imagine his feelings when tn twhig and know nothing comes forward witt the southern poll books in his hands, and taunt him saying, "See what you do; you labor fo the heartless, impious, and degraded southerner who in defiance of humanity holds human beings in bondage from the cradle to the grave and now they repudiate you, and dispise you for your puslanimity. On the contrary w know nothings repuiiate them and their plat forms, scorn and denounce their ways of life their inhumanity, repudiate their principles their parties, their politicians and their religion professions, and their clergy; and we denounc' them in public and private, in the newspapers in Congress and on the stump, and 'aoao see Her tue result; we kick them and they respect Us Treat them as they deserve, and they have n honorable heart; they leave you and makin: parties new or old, they join heneselUes to ,s an( all our protests and published horror for them