The true Democrat., 1855-11-27
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It has been the peculiar pleasure Ot the south ern Know Nothing press, says the Memphis Appeal, to anlmadvert upon the position, doc Urine and principles of the soft shell democracy of New York; and to holi the democracy of the whole country amcnable for them This Is the mere strategy of the tactician, who would hide his own deformity from public sazc- | While we nave never endorsed the softs as constituting portion of the true democracy of the country, we have from time to time pub lished their State and county resolutions, ask ing our Know Nothing Contemporaries to off set them, t uSey cou1{ by others emanating from their party in the free States. Our ar- pcals however, have been as fr'litIass as calls upon spirits to come from the vaoty deep. They have met with no response But we do not choose, for this reason, to let the question fade from the public view. We desire to keep pace with the times, and we, therefore, transfer to our columns the resolutions below, adopted at meeting of the soft shells of New York city, held at Tammany Hall, on the evening of the 29th ult They are sound and national, and will challenge the appreciation of even our Know Nothing friends ill tile south. They will contrast well with anything that has ever yet cmauated from the Know Nothing party, either north or south. Here they are:
 Resoiuei, That the language of the Nebras- ka- Kansas bill, which declares that "the peo- pie shall be left perfectly free to form and re- sulatc their own domestic institutions in their
 
 the United States" is the honest language ot the whole northern democracy; and that we view with equal adherence every attempted invasion of this right, upon whatever pretence it may be grounded, or from whatever quarter it may be directed; confident of the capacity fl each member of the Union for self government and trusting in the healthful influences of an American civilization eventually to dispose most satisfactorily to every party, and most safely to tho Union, of the question of domestic servitude. We, therefore, are opposed to the repeal of the Nebraska bill, by which this ques- ton is virtually settled; and are equally oppos- ed to all attempts to restore the Missouri con- promise, as unwise, impotic and useless
 ResotUeI That while congratulating the de. mocracy upon the brilliant triumphS it has won over Know Nottingham, it is proud re- collection that Tammany Hall stood promptly and boldly forward as the champion of equal rights against its atrocous league. Other po- htica bodies bent before, or sought its danger ous friendship. Tammany Hall opposing it. as she opposes every invasion of the peoples rights, ummasked its hideous features, exposed the monstrous fraud, and rescued the constitu- ton from the contagiOn of those who would have prescribed men for the accident of thel birth or for the form of their religion
 Rsoolved, That the act entitled |" An act fol the suppression of intemperance, pauperism and crime," is fitting monument to the me- mory of one of the most corrupt legislative bodies of a corrupt and desperate party; aud that b ,tore its transition into black republican, ism, the whig party could by no act so pretigure the hidcousness of its coming change as by the passage of d law which strikes at the fundamcn- tai principles of all law, endangors the consti- tuition, and subverts all justice, leaving the character, the fortune, and the happiness of the citizen at the mercy of creed preached by ilnaticism and enforced by machinery little less than inquisitorial. Against this law, and all other laws of coercion upon individual coscience and private rights, old Tammany and her de- mocracy have ever protested-this law of abo minations must be repealed.
 Res0lved, That the national administration n''' i'i'n'ulI, li"Pdlt'aly, dhu eherSetlCaIly carried out the principles of the democracy, under circumstances of peculiar distraction and difficulty, and that the increasing unity and wide spread triumphs of our party, in the late elections, are the best evidence that the patri- otic course of Franklin Pierce, evincing his de- votion to the constitution and union of these States, has been justly appreciated
 Resolved, That the people of the United States, in spite of the envy, clamor and detrac- ton which have assailed Franklin Pierce, are convinced that the democracy never mistake ther man, nor elevate to the highest office r the republic one unentitled to their confidence or unworthy of their admiration