The true Democrat., 1855-06-19
NO. 36.

The whig we may meet again as we have met them before-perhaps at Philppi on the 18th of November, 1S56 Then. as on Thursday week, the democracy will know how to take care of 'HSlnlaS honor In such cause there Is not member of ltwhO would not stand by the side of Leonidas in the pass.
 we nave an abiding and confident belief that the example of self-sacrifcing devotion to prin- ciple which Virginians have furnished. will hot be lost sight of by their political brethren of the Southern States, who are to bestow their suffrages during the summer and autumn of this year. We have cheering intelligence from North CaroGnla. In several districts whggery Scorntully declines recognition of Sam" while ill others democracy despises and dehes him. In Georgia, Stephens, the eloquent whig. has denounced him as the verlest of impostors, and, aided by Cobb and other democrats. has driven him beyond the confines of the State.- Johnson is almost as good as elected in Tennes see. Alabama will take fresh courage from our signal victory Kentucky is putting forth all her energies, and the indications have not been SO encouraging since her departure from the Jeffer- sonian creed in 1882, that the daughter will again stand by the side of the mother In Mississippi, Louisiana and Maryland the can vasS has not yet fairly commenced, but our friends ln each are actively preparing for the contest.
 A distinguished Stateman remarked, when reading the proceedings of the Hartford con- yentlon, that the time would come when con- stltutlonal liberty at the North would have to be lighted anew at the altar of the institutions of the South That atperiod, if 1t has not arriv- ed, is evidently hastening. State after State, embracing even the "Old Keystone,o beyond Mason & Dixon's line, seems, in one way or another, to have become bewildered by unsub- stantial but fascinating dogrnas, until it has to- tally dlSregarded some of the most important provisions of the national compact. To those provisions to every provision il that instru- ment Virginia has steadfastlv adhered and in tends hereafter to adhere. With the aid of her southern sisters, upon which she knows she will not reckon in vain she is determined to make no more sacrifices to the North The compro- nlSeS Of l,81 must be vigorously observed ill letter and i'll spirit As administered, the South has been the victim, not the beneficiary, of the constitution. The so-caled Missouri compro- mise was a palpabe volaton..of it's rights It was Ill direct opposition to the sentiments of concession and forbearance which animated the convention, as stated by Washington in his letter to that body recommending the adoption of that constitution Moreover the territory excluded from slavery came into the Union as slave territory, just as Texas territory came in as slave territory. The entire free soil move. ment, beginning with the Missouri compromise, has been a dsgraceful transgression upon the rights of the South, and must be resisted in it's operation.
 We again solelnnly appeal to every slave State to be true to itself in its approaching elec- tlon--to leave no portion of its duty undone- and to be prepared for the worst question that can arise for the South. We are for the Union flor the Union, now and forever-but not at the price of bondage and dishonor. If such an Union as our ancestors gave us, is to @ perverted so as to accord with the selfish v signs and intolerant machinatons of free -soilers, then it is not worth preserving; and this fact, for the good of all concerned, cannot be too soon or too generally known.