The true Democrat., 1855-11-06
The Discussion---Col. Warren and
 Dr. Borland

Warren led oH and the Doctor replied. After supper, Col. Warren again spoke and .Dr. Bor- land replied
 As the discussion was determined upon, Col Warren affirmed and undertook to prove that every vote given in the south in favor of Know Nottingham was vote sustaining and encou- raging northern abolitionism. This proposition Col. Warren triumphantly sustained by both facts ncontrovertable and arguments unan- swerabe.
 He showed first that the Know Nothing party was not national, but divided into two great factions one at the north, tinctured with abolitionism, and the other at the south He showed this in the vote at Philadelphia upon the resolution affirming the rights of the south. Weak and unsatisfactory as that resolution was to the South, pretermittng" as it did the main issue, the northern States with only one exception voted agninst it. They repudiated even that pretermitting" clause, as favorable as it was to them, and demanded at the hands of southern Know Nothings still greater sac rifce.
 He showed too that, since the adjournment of fthe.Philadelphia national council, the party in every single State north of Mason and Dix on's line had stricken out from the platform the slavery clause, and adopted in its stead strong abolition resolutions. This he showed was done in every single northern State by Know Nothings.
 He showed that the order had fused" open- ly with the abolitionists in Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois, in the recent elections, against the democratic party who were running national Nebraska candi. dates.
 He showed that every Governor elected by the Know Nothings at the north was an abo- ltionist
 He showed that every U. s. Senator elected by the Know Nothngs at the north was an abolitionst
 He showed that every member to the next House of Representatives of Congress elected by the Know Nothings was an abolitionist
 He showed that the next House of Represen- tatives was composed of majority ofaboliton- ists for tue first time in the history c the govern ment, and that it was made so by this new or der of Know Nothngs.
 He showed, too, that every man in the south who joined the aboltionists in opposing the passage of the Nebraska bill, is now a Know Nothing and supported by Know Nothings, from old Sam Houston, the traitor, down to the lowest grade.
 Hence Col. Warren very justly inferred that every vote given at the south in favor of Know Nottingham was in favor of abolitionsm-for the triumphs of the Know Nothing party in the south were encourage cement to their breth- ren at the north in their assaults upon the con- stitutional rights of the south.
 These issues, though made in the plainest language, were not met by Dr. Borland at all. Dr. Borland constantly introduced new matter contrary to all rules of debate, and was lodging all the time. He never once attempted to de- fend the nationality of the Know Nothings.- Consequently, in our opinion, he failed most signally to meet Col. Warren, but left him triumphantly in the possession of the field.
 But we will allude to few of the DO ints made by the hero of Greytown.
 Borland said the adoption of the Know No- thing platform drove off Wilson, the abolition ist. But he did not state that it also drove off the whole northern portion of his party for the very same reason that Wilson left, and that it left but squad at the south who were playing second fiddle to northern Know No- things who scorned the slavery plank.
 Borland said that the democratic platform was opposed by the south, and was only ac- cepted as the best that could be got; but he said not a word of the practice of democrats standing on that platform both north and south. He said not word about the passage of the Nebraska bill by the national democratic party the Nebraska law to which southern Know Nothings appeal by their platform to show heir nationality He said not word about the re- jection of the Know Nothing platform, as bad as it is for the south, by every State Council of Know Nothings at the north.
 He says democrats complain that the Know N >thing party pretermits the vital issue while democrats omitted it entirely. We should like to know if the national democratic party omitted the vital issue when they were called upon to prove their faith by their fruits-when they passed the Nebraska bill? Was that preter- mptting or omitting either? We put the ques- tion to Dr. Borland
 But Dr. Borland susprsed us most when he said that the question of legislating upon the subject of slavery in the territories was not a practical one! This we thought truly a Know Nothing declaration. Whatever Dr. Borland may think, southern patriots will not receive this doctrine. It is doctrine to gull the south to sleep, while the north may go on and legis- late slavery out of every territory, and thus bring into the Union asufficiency of free States, to change the constitution, the last safe- -guarI of the south in the Union. This declaration ought forever to damn Dr. Borland in the eyes of southern men.
 Other points in Dr. Borland's speech we may allude to next week. For the present we will pass them by Dr. Borland has assuredly got his hands full when he attempts to make good his positions assumed in the discussion. Per- haps he is not viewing the slavery question as a practical one, may account for his deserton from his post in Congress pending the com- promise struggle of 1850.
 The discussion resulted in the triumph of Col. Warren in everything he attempted, and the complete overthrow of Dr. Borland, who clearly evaded and lodged every issue tender ed to him. Even the issue upon the matiossah- ty of the Know Nothing party on the Cathohc test, Dr. Borland evaded. Col. Warren showed that Catholics were persecuted in Arkansas, and, in Louisiana, a neighboring State, Catholics were brought out as the candidates of the Know Nothings for the highest offices in the State.