The true Democrat., 1855-11-20

have expressed of my speech, to the kindly feeling, you entertain for myself. Very truly,
 Your friend,
 To Messrs. May, Drennan Keesee, Sheppard, anC others.
 FELLOW CITIzENs
 Though not upon my native heath, I feel that residence of nearly twenty years among the people of Union county, leaves little ne. cessity for an introduction to them to-day.
 Never before, my friends, in the history of our country, was political excitement so intense and all-pervading, among every class of the Amencan community, as at the present mo- ment The great republican heart of the coun- try, from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexi- l O. from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, was never before so fully aroused. Every patriot in the land feels that the dearest ghts of him. self and his posterity, the good name and yet unsulled honor of his country; indeed the grea interests of humanity itself are fearfully i'm perlled. Nor is this profound excitement this axious solcitude, shared by good men of all religious pursuasions, and all past political as soclations, without cause.
 new political organization, without pIe dent in the past, and, l trust, without followers in the future history of oui country, and fol boldness, for audacity, for reckessness of the means by which its ends are to be accomplished without a parallel in the annals of any chris tlan country, has arayed all the elements o social, political and religious fanaticsm, in op. position to the great principles of civil and re- llglous liberty, and of universal equality, upor which our government is founded
 Brief as its career has been, the child of but yesterday as to age, but hoary and wrinkled in depravity, its infant brow is already branded with eXcesses, Outrages and crimes, which have excited the abhorrence of every just, humane and philanthropic mind throughout the broad limits of our great confederacy. In briefly ex. amlnlng some of the principles of this party and pointing out to you some of the event, which were the inevitable consequences o1 those principles, l shall speak frankly but ho- nestly. It was my misfortune to have what l said at Camden on an occasion like the present grossly misrepresented. To-day l shall en- deavor to speak plainly and distinctly. l shall employ no ambiguous language, use perhaps nc honied words or gentle phrases, and I hope that if any Know Nothing present, shall deem anything that l may utter, worthy of being re- peated at all, however inconsistent it may be with the principles of his party or the incul- cations of his oath-pervaded ritual, he will dc so truth(ully and fairly.
 The first objection to this new party which presents itself to the mind of the southerner IS the place of its nativity. If, while in the enjoyment of profound peace, and the most un- exampled national and individual prosperity we could be deluded into the belief that we were enduring social and political evils which required radical change in our governmental policy, would it be the part of wisdom and pru- dence, to take council of those men who, in their insane fanaticism, would exult over any misfortune any disaster any degredation with which 1t might please an All-wise Providence to afflict us.
 If, my friends, the fancied dangers which the Know Nothings say impend over us, were real; II our free institutions were about to be subverted, and our personal rights destroyed by the mallgn influence of the Catholic religion and foreign immigration, had we not better look to Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, and their people, between whom and ourselves, there Is perfect identity oi character, of domestic institutions. of interest. feeling, sympathy and even prejudice and an- upathles, to vindicate and defend them-than to Massachusetts and New York and their abo- htlon Know Nothing oracles, who loathe and abhor us, who would degrade us as a common. wealth, who traduce our character; who. from theIr pulplts, their political rostrums and in stltutIons of learning are eternaly fouting in- suit and contumely in our faces; who only want the courage, as they already have the dsposi- ton, to asSall with force those domestic insti- tons, and those private rights which every truc-hearted southerner is ready to defend with the last drop of his blood. If, as a citizen of slave State, l want advice for my political guidance, l will study the writings of such patriots as Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Clay and Calhoun, rather than the infidel sermons of the traitor and rebel, Theodore Parker, or the profane sayings of that hero of the "Five Points" and prize-ring, who "died a ue-Ame- rican, Bill Poole." 1 will consult Hunter and Mason, of Virginia; Butler of South Carolina; Toombs and Stephers, of Georgia; Pearce and Johnson, of Mary and other gentlemen of the democratic and old whig parties in the southern States, of established talents and un- questioned patriotism, rather than such moral and political mountebanks as Wilson and Gard her, of Massachusetts, Hale and Bell, of New Hampshire, and Campbell, of Ohio, the high priests Of the Know Nothing party, and the traitorous hounds who follow their lead
 While, my friends, it would be an insult to the public intelligence, to assert that all those rights and privileges which as freemen we ought to value and cherish, are not as secure against papal and foreign influence to-day, as when Washington affixed his signature to that sacred instrument which says, "No religious test shall ever be required as qualification to any office ofpublic trust under the United States;;" or when Mir. Jefferson "approved" that law of Con- gess, from which to-day we ascertain the pol- tica rights of our naturalized citizens, the faith ful sentinel upon the southern watch-tower cannot say that all is we'll
 Dark and portentious clouds are gathering in the north, and when the political heavens break up and send forth their deluge of envy, jeal- ousy, prejudice, hatred and revenge against the southern people and their institutions, God only can tell whether we will be able successfully to resist and roll back the aggressive tide, or are to be crushed and overwhelmed beneath it's crash.
 Wm. H. Seward, the arch.enemy of the south, an able, subtle, far seeing, ambitiou and interruptions demagogue, is the stirer of this storm," and is to be the "rdsr of the whirlwind."
 The great idea of the north, is hostility to the south. Itis their religion and their poll tics-and whether it be found in the freesoil party, the liberty party, or the Know Nothing party, he Is its representative and embodiment. Abstalning from all associations which will allenate any class of northern votes from his support; he is the head of all these parties, and in 1856 when they are fused into one, with ruin and degredation to the south," inscribed upon their banner, he is to lead them in that struggle which Is to decide forever the fate of the south, the constitution, and the Union; and it may be solve the great problem of free govern ment itself, as the crowned despots of the old world have so long and so ardently desired.- Seward we'll knows that the south, united as one man, with single will and purpose, and those steadfast friends at the north, who are found alone in the democratic party, and who