The true Democrat., 1855-08-07
From the Helana Democratic Star, y Mailed to the Counter.

ANolACSA CO IA4S SONAASSA'
 We learn that rumor is circulated by certaii busy news mongers that Hon. F. P Redmond of Monroe, is know nothing. 4
 From a gentleman who has heard ColC,+ Redmond state his position, during the p,,n,nr week, we have the information that ths;crbara referred to is utterly false and s2andero, of dar, lantern humbaggery than the ta taater conntv @ - cient representative from our avv rothing;sr, The fraternal grip" which Hhow noIns"sislii , sa ,;ll cet from him will tush US iiano-the "hotherlv embrace" it l-s s'o eApee' lronl nun the hug of death. Ike other democrats, ne asks of if no mere mere, and will show it no quarter
 Why can't koT Thev hovn n1a;m eonu anrrv '"u "f .h, IosIlg democrats of the country, be- nl i the leadh afheir order; and without exception, ,no:ns naofats have given them the lie direct. No "ro, 'no laent democrat, who can show clean re- pad as to reliability, is with them or ever will be. Such reports are coined and circulated in or 1 der to deceive the honest masses of our people. Shame on party that would rest on founda- tion of lies
 The last Star contained the above editorial The Shield quotes it in full, and comments on it at length. We now re-publish and re-affirm it, and, in doing so, make these remarks, in order that the matter may be cleary y understood. Hon. F. F. Redmond, of Monroe, has dis. tinctly said to his personal and political friends that he aOas not a know nothing. His honor, as a politician and as a man, was impeached by report that he a0as know nothing When in | formed of this report, he declared it absolutely untrue
 To vndicate him, and to undeceive demo- crats who might have been msled as to his position, we wrote and published the above edi- torial. In it, we used such language as we thought the occasion demanded, calling things by what we thought their right names, and not mincing words in describing them.
 We said that the rumor that Col. Redmond was know nothing was "Mte'ly fa1se anM slan- derous" To this expression the Shield objects on the ground that the language is inelegant'' and too severe The denial of Col. Redmond authorized us to be severe, and we intended to be so. We felt indignant at this attempt to in- jure the standing of member of the demo- cratic party We had an infinite contempt for the authors of what we had right to consider false and slanderOus rumor; and we were not to be restrained by sympathy, fear, or re- gard for elegant diction,' from speaking of them and their work as we thought they de- served.
 We ask know nothings to 'confne them selves to the truth" The Shield does not itali- else that request as objectionable; but we will state why we made 1t. Know nothings had claimed such lights of the democratic party as Guthrie, Powell, Breckenridge, Dickinson, Bar ton, Glenn, Brown, Quitman and Jeff. Davis, as mcmb bers of their order. When they did it. they knew they violated that part of the deca- louge which says" Thou shaH not he,'-but their object was to hoodwink unsuspecting de- mocrats into joining them, and, to effect that ev dil not sickle at falsehood. They can not have the efrontry to deny that as to the men named, they wlfully violated the truth, and they cannot complain at being asked to con6nc themselves to what they know to be true. We hope they will do so.
 We said" no prominent democrat, who can show clean record as to reliability, IS with them ever will be ;" and asserted that when they claimed "leading' democrats, the facts gave them "the Ne direct" As to this the Shield alternately busters and quibbles- Its clustering use of the word "untruth' can not provoke Us. We used stronger worC! touching this identical matter, and the Shield cannot shift the 0nus to us by bandymg sharr adjectives It qulbbles by saying that 'some oi the oldest the truest, the best and most reliable democrats are know nothings-thus yielding the point as to 'prominent' and "leading' members of our party having joined the order Men who 1rere good democrats may have be- come know nothngs, but they have either with drawn, or will do so, or else they abandon de- mocratic principles. But the "leaders'' of the democracy are at their posts. Not one of them has deserted, or ever will.
 W. said, in concluding the article relative t Col. Redmo mond-" Shame on party that woull rest on foundation of es.' We say the samC thing now, and every honest man in Phillp county, or out of 1t, endorses the s4ntiment.-- Show uS party that chooses such a fouuda ton, and we say Stanle on Hi'
 he Shield raises clamor about our plain speaking, and apparently seeks to make tn, impression that We are, without cause, insultin! and abusive We understand that some of it strikers are doing the same thing. The attel ID is, of itself, islander. Let them clamor til doomsday. They cannot prejudice one sensi ble man against him wno speaks out boldly, an' calls lie, a lia
 Voluntarily, and not as retraction of wha we have said, or an apology Sor it, we now sa, that we did not charge az know nothings witt falSehoo and slauder. There are honorabl gentlemen among them. We ahhor their prin ciples, and loathe the company they are ir, bu on them personally we made no reflection. Gu article was aimed at the "cow boys of thei party--mcn who have joined it from corruI motives, and whose labor it is to mslead hone, voters We shall handle such fellows withou gloves.
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