The true Democrat., 1855-08-14
V From the S0nth stan The Rally on Saturday.

and honorable enemy, or whether With those congregated at midnight within the pale of a secret and oatnbound organization. When the lion is aroused, the little animals must hide themselves. When the democracy speaks, federalism, whiggery, and, most contemptible of all, abolitionzed kr ow nottingham, must stand abashed. Federalism whether coming in the questionable shape of know nothingiSm, or in its native deformity, must hide its face when the giant democracy "li(ts up its voice and speaksl' Soit was on Saturday. More than a thousand of the stawart yeomanry of the country assembled on that day, at the Steam Mill, one mile south of Camden, merely to let Sam" and his dark lantern friends know that the democracy was not quite dead--that there still remained tea0 unwasted sands in the hour | glass of the Odachita mocracy!--notwlth- standing the information heralded through the know nothing press and their platform of prin- ciples that the ''great American party had risen on the ms of the old whig and democrat lc partes.' This demonstration, we say, was made merely to teach Sam" few facts, of which he has heretofore either feigned igno- rance, or else is indeed literal know nothing wiz: That the democrats of Ouachita county are fully aware of the existence of the celebrat- ed individual in their midst, and that they re- cognize in him the marked features of his grand daddy, who years ago. in the times that tried meh'S sous," sought ''ro PREVENT THE PoPU- LAYTON OF THESE STATES, BY oBSTRUCTING THE LAWS FOR THE NATURALIZATION OF FOREIGN FRS, and refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither"-that they recognize him as the legitimate progeny of those who blackened page of the country's history with the odious alien and sedition laws!--that they, in fine, see in him traces of that same old ringtailed coon, | .f.1l. his unpro6table lfe and was so unmercfullv hunted down and slaughtered in 1852!
 Saturday, we say was glorious day. Over thousand democrats (the opinion of those who took some pains to make an estimate'' for the Herald, to the contrary notwithstanding were present at the barbecue and mass meeting on that day. Hon. ALBERT RUST first addressed the meeting. For us to attempt to portray the sarcastic, yet able and disnified mannern which he handled poor chopfellen know nottingham his whitening denunciation of its originators and its leaders, the objects and aims of the or ganization and its blighting effects upon the free institutions of the country, if carried out would be useless He stood upon the demo- cratic platform; was opposed to the intolerant and proscriptve policy advocated by the know noihtngs, believing that the privilege to wor- ship God a. one chooses, Is one of those una licnable rights, for which our forefatherS con- tended he was in favor of our country remain ing as 1t IS, the asylum of the oppressed of every naton." He was not in favor Gas mis- stated by the Herald) of "Opening our doors to the hordCs of paupers and criminals, etc, but he distinctly stated that he would vote for law excluding convicts and criminals, and did not see that our shores were so much infested with paupers as our know nothing friends would endeavor to make appear. Many pauper upon the soil of his childhood, is, and has been by crossing the Atlantic, converted into good and respectable citizen. The forefathers of many a man who heard Col. Rust on that day were paupers in their native country-down I trodden by the iron heel of oppression such as know nottingham is seeking to institute on this soil. Animated by the desire to spend the remnant of their days in a land of liberty, they came to our soil and raised up these its defen- ders. It is no crime to be poor. Were 1t so, the spotless records of those who spilled their ileblood in defence of Ameri- can soil, and of these ther happy and prosper ous descendants, would be blackened with dis grace and iniamy Whether Col. Rust did or did not oppose the emigration of honest foreign 1 paupers, we will venture the assertion, for oursclt, and upon our own responsibility, that this country fortcts its title to the "land of the free and the home of the brave''' the asylum of the oppressed d"-when it ceases to encour- age the emigration Of the honest millions who slave in poverty under the rule of despotic gO- vernment. Let them come, Ii they are honest; they will make good citizens. Let us not ob- ject to foreign bone and muscle; it is foreign Ideas we should guard against.
 Col. Rust handled the great Grand Flum of the order in Arkansas, without gloves He paid fine compliment lover the lefD to the dtstnterested patriotism of Capt. Pike; the Cap tain was not after of1icc--no !!-t were ungen- erous to insinuate that he--Capt. Pike--covet- ed even the Vice Presidency! Captain Pike should be willing to rest upon his laurels as q fnancier, aud should hot on any account enter the political arena at this late day--even while the country Is in danger from the rule of 'Jack- son democratsl'
 ./Col. E. w. CAN'T next followed and wove Ia garland of the flowers of rhetoric and the cOarSer though not less beautiful blossoms of reason and good seuse--a boquet which he gave his audience, and enrapturcd them. His posi- tlons were sound and democratic and as they have not been miSrepresented we will omit taking them up for the present. Suffice it, that to all who beard him, anything from us coull not increase the overwhel dining admiration they
 
 q democrat.
 Hon. E. A. WARREN was loudly called for and responded with his usual promptness, in an effort of great power and telling effect. When the Colonel riddled the platform of the know nothings, we felt for them-onr bowels were aching with compassion!, The Colonel show cd wherein that platform is deficient even in the respect .pon which is based its sole recom- mendation to the patronage of the southern peo- pie. We mean the slavery issue. He said that, while the know nothing platform "ex- preSSly pretermitted an expression of opinion in regard to slavery in the territories" the demo- cracy were truly southern upon that subject-- having not only made a stronger expression ir their platform but that the Nebraska Kansas law, opposed as it was by every know nothing north and south, and supported by the almos unanimous voice of the democracy, both nortl and south might be regarded as final settle ment of the question of soundness upon tha subject Col. Warren was severe upon the re l ligious test; and particularly did he scathe tn bgotry of those Protestant christians, when thei narrow views permitted them to look no fur ther towards the advancement of Christianity than will serve the interests of therown denom . ination. As whole, his speech was a grea l effort such as Col W. is capable of making.
 Dinner was prepared for the multitude an' ' the multitude partook thereof bountifuly. w hereby thank the managers on the occasion 10 e our part of the good things, and must say tha they deserve great credit for the taste displayed
 the good order preserved. etc. on the ground Y Judge Cullen was called upon to address tn
 meeting after the audience were again seated ) to which he responded in very happy and ef fective manner. His arguments were clear an, forcible, showing how blighting to the institu tons under which we live, are tho traitorou dogmas of know nottingham.
 Dr. D. o. Williams arose amid the deafenin shouts of the multitude, and addressed them i few concise and pointed remarks in favor c
 the people clngng to the good old democrati shil which has borne through every contes