The true Democrat., 1855-10-02

 made that the defeat of the whig party was to be attributed to the dead weight which it car N red at the north, by the recognition in the na. tonal platform of the constitutional rights of thu south.
 Atthe last session of Congress propositim to repeal the fugitive slave law commanded s eleven votes in the Senatei The recent cleo K tions of Northern Senators have displaced man, of the hrmest and most consistent supporte of public law. Shields, of Illinois, Dodge. of Iowa, Petit, of Indiana, Norris, of New Hamn shire, all able, eloquent and independent states men, who fearlessly struggled for the rgb, have beensucceeded by avowed freesoilers; arj E in the present state of public opinion at tbs north, l entertain no doubt that a propositior to repeal the fugitive slave law would fn1 | twenty advocates in the Senate in that Sepa, to which We have been accustomed to look a the last refuge of the constitutions; as formn, for Its defense an agis so impenetrabe tha, even the lightning of infuriated fanaticisn might play innocuous about it.
 How stands the case in the other brancE of the national Congress? Infinitely worse
 majority of the next House of Represents. tves will be freesoers. Prominent member ot the last House, leaders of that factious mi. norty which sought by an abuse of parliaments. ry rules to detea the tascertained will of the ma 1 jorty, were heard to threaten that they would return to the next Congress prepared to repea the Nebraska law and the fugitive slave law or break up the government in the attempt Most of these men have been reelected after 1 pledging themselves to the people of their dis trlcts, to carry out their reasonable designs by means of amendments to be offered to the arl prop1lation bills at the next session of Congress 1 Thus, the very existence of this governmem will be put at issue within the next twelve months.
 Permit me, for the purpose of making mysel more clearly understood, to develop the effect of such a course of conduct as is threatened by these traitors.
 The general appropriation bill, as its nam. imports, is that which provides for the paymen. of nearly all the current civil expenses of the government. The salaries of all public oficen of the judges of the courts of those who col. lect keep and disburse the public revenue, are provided for in this bill If it fail to pass, you public offices would be closed, your courts o justice shutu yourrevenue officers arrested iu the discharge of their duties and the whole government brought to a stand still.
 The bill of course requires the assent of both branches of Congress, and the scheme is, to add a clause to it repeating the fugitive slave law and the Nebraska law, so as to force the Se- nate to assent to these unconstitutional mea- sures or to assume the responsibility of stopping | the wheels of government by rejecting the l whole bill
 state my deliberate conviction that this at- tempt will be made in the House of Represen. tatives. 1 state my most serious apprehension that it will succeed in that body and my entire | 69oppo tbot tho Sonata will resist tho ipfa nous project to the end. If these appreheu. sions be realized, the next session will be closed without providing the supplies necessary to ad. minister the government, and the Representa-. tves will go home to their constituencies to rel. der an account of their action. The PresdeI will be compelled to call an extra session of Con- gress in order to provide means to carry on the government; and the only hope left to save the country will be the returning sense of jus. tce in the masses of the north, when brought Ill view of the appalling danger that will then have become so manifest and so impending ' as to force immediate and decided action. Ii they shall fail to choose the wise course of Obe. dlence to the constitution; if they shall supiney acqueSce ln the mad and reasonable warfare 1 Wa9ed against the south, the constitution and common humanity, the days of this Repub- lie will have been numbered; and 1 have nei- ther heart nor courage to seek further to pene- trate the veil that darkly hides the future.
 Strang, unprecented in history, is the fact that In government framed by common consent for the common protection of all the interests of the governed, one half of the people should carry on malignant and relentless warfare against the dearest rights of the other half, without the slightest interests in the subject matter without protesting even to perceive any advantage that could be derived by themselves in the event of success and with blind and savage disregard of tEe caamities that must ensue If that success were possible. Suppose a body of insane fanatics i'll this section of the con. fedracy should avow their belief in the sinful ness of subecting the animal creation to the | domination and service of man, and should, un- der the dictates of this ''higher law,' act on their conviction of the duty of stealing from the northern farmers, the focks and herds which form so large portion of.their wealth | Suppose that to effect this they should organ lze bands Ofrobbers and incendiaries who should make the night lurid with the flames of their barns and granareS, and even threaten with the torch the roofs that protect their families Suppose that in this course of conduct they were not only excused, but encouraged and aIr plauded by the south, and that southern legs latures took pride in passing laws for their pro- lection and aSSlstanCe-how long, think you the north would remain as patient and as for. bearing as the south has shown herself to bel Yet this is but a faint picture of the actual war fare now waged against the unreslstiug south for superadded to all the other horrors of the servile instruction to which the north is con. stantly melting our slaves, are the nameles hor. TOTS which sdcn a calamity would intlict on oul wives and our daughters.
 And now, fellow citizens, when the gloomy aspect of public affairs should induce you tC take counsel with each otherin devising means to avert dangers so imminent, what are the people of Louisiana doing? Are they uniting in one great southern party upon some platform similar to that of Georgia, on which we can all stand together and meet with frmnesS the coming shock? Are they like watchmen wards the quarter whence danger impends: Not at all.
 f The whigs of Louisiaua or four-ffths ot , them have been seduced into joining an organ ization, which, although calling itself the Ame- } rican party, has no claim to the name of party } at all. It is mere association for the purpose l of influencing, not the measures by which the public good is to be attained but the men by
 
 wretched fall from the proud traditions of the gallant whigs of the olden timel
 Although entirely unnecessary to recapitulat, the often urged objections against this new or ganization, will state succinctly that l am op posed to their principles;
 Because they are anti-republican in refus. ing equal political rights to all American cit zens;
 Because they violate the spirit, if not tn. very letter of the constitution by, the proscrp- ton of citizens on the ground of their religion: belief;
 Because they are retrogression toward: the errors of the dark ages in tending to- wards union of church and State. union equally dangerous to civil and religious li- berty;
 Because they present issues addressed to the passions and prejudices of the people, and thus tend to divert their attention from those higher subjects over which 1t is their duty to keep