The true Democrat., 1855-08-21

nary end reckless of all other considerations Anti-republican in its enmity to the foreign emigrant. who seeks in this land of liberty the civil and religious freedom denied him in his own; the prescription of a large and active proportion of our population and the desire to subject them to their original condition of being "govemed without theiroWn consent;" which is alike in contradiction of vital principle ol free government and the dictates of an enlght- ened humanity.
 Shall we refuse," says the author of the de- claraton of independence, " the unhappy fugi- tive from distress that hospitality which even the savages of the wilderness extended to our fla thers, arriving in this land? shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on the globe,''
 Anti-republican, in the dictation of it's coun- cls, and the blind obedience of its oath bound members, and more resembling the subtle order of the Jesuits than a party of free men, honest iy combating an objectionable policy. Let the American patriot calmly reflect, if an orgauiza- ton like this deserves or is likely to obtain the confidence of the American people, and if he can hope, that from the adoption of measures like these our country will go on itsstrcngth, to redeem in the future, the glory to its present promise,
 That democrats, So calling themselves, should have joined the new party is not more surpris- ing than to find that some men are weak and others depraved. Most of these choosing the J,,, [
 that of principle, which never errs. have enter ed its ranks trusting to its secrecy as a curtain for their faithfulness, and this veil being re- moved, find too they were deluded, and receive the just punishment of their folly.
 The snare was cunningIy laid. and whig snare, as # undoubtedly is, l cannot help believ- ing that the tu:-lar spirit of democracy had a hand m devlslng 1t, in order to purge her army of the camp-followers merely who, with hearts for the rewards only, and none for the duties of her service, retarded her progress and encum bered her march onward
 Of these, the bollc5t in the midnight con- clave will now shrink from the fellowship of the day. l can not find within my heart. sir single fear for democratic policy, from an or ganization like this; one which, so far from be- ing national, hardly dares to be local; one pre- tending to unite all parties, yet prescribing those of all; one which denouncing the demo- cratic party for an altiliation with aboltionists, derives it's strength and very foundation from that element; an organization for the spells with So little prospect of obtaining them, vet dcnouncing the aplM hunt after office. Reduc- ing conservatism to refinement which re- strcts every thing Pr0scylJes every thing, it vet claims, that old issues have died away. It de- nies to the democratic party any distinctive policy, because these old issues hare died away. which is absurdly to say that the democratic party, by virtue of its principles an superior vitality, having vanqushed the very existence Of opposition, is therefore itself also dead- Let those who demand what constitutes the democratic party and its policy be pointed to the present welfare of our urpeople for a vindica- ton of its measures, and to history forito prn- ciplcs.
 l. is that party, which first gave the govern nent to the governed, and not to HamiIto- nian ariStocracy; which combattcd ths union of church and Sate; which by its doctrines of free trade has given Us the greatest commerce of any nation on the globe; which in the destruc- ton of the bunk, rescued us from the vortex ol centralization; which denied to the general government that enormous increase of it's pa tronasc proposed by the river and harbor bill; that party which by extending the area of free dom in the acquisition of California, has filled the land with wealth, anI which, when our country only weak iii her nobler impulses would have yielded to the Ieadinss o Kossuth for intervention in behalf of his downtrodden countrymon, our brethren of liberty, said to him "we can not 'quit our own to stand on fo. reign ground, but send your countrymen here, and here they will fad a home and friends, where the strong arm of tyranny shall not reach them, nor be suffered even to reclaim them in their after wanderngs"
 That party which taught from the beginning, and still proelaims, 'E Iual and exact justice to all men of what ever State, whether religious or political; peace, commerce and honest friend- ship with all nations, entanglng alliances with none."
 ST, admire the spirit with which your pa- per has heretofore stood forth in defense of old and tried principles, and predict for your ef- forts a complete triumph over the ntinaioas qt dorhaess' and the most unhoy combination ever formed against the welfare of Arkansas, and th} hest interest of this Union
 FOLD GUARD"