The true Democrat., 1856-07-22
VI bilb Our Liberties.

PARTIES AND PARTY NAMEs-THE TORY AND THE wHIG--rHE REPUBLICAN AND THE FE- DERALI,T--THE DEMOCRAT AND wHIG-THE
 DEMOCRAT AND KNOW NOTHING.
 No. VII.
 For some time previous to the election of General Pierce to the presidency the democratic and whig organizations had been passing swiftly into state of decomposition. To use figure -the whig party contended that certain wing of our great domicle should be reared after particular fashon-whist the democratic party loeH on constructing it after model of its own and, in spite of opposition, 80 yfnished it-the thing ,cas done, the carpets laid down-the fur niture moved in, and whigs as we'll as demo- crats after liXiaS in it while, concluded it was pretty WI contrived establishment after all-at least, men were hard to find, mad enough to propose tearing it doecn again. The building subject of controversy had become obsoete-the dispute was ouly about ho,o it should be done, and not about ,0ho should have a soy-so in doing it-therefore the folks of both parties had pretty generally agreed with regard to this difference of opinion-to let by-g zones be by-gones.
 This, we say, was about the state of things when General Pierce came into o1ice, and it was much more so afterwards. Various ex- pedents were resorted to, to keep up the old organizations, but they were generally found impracticable. The vanquished had "cred enough'' long before, and the vctors saw noth- ing more to fight about; consequently, like an army in such predcament, there was nothing left to be done but to give up the war trade and go home until something else turned upto call the people again into action. 'Tis true some local controversies were carried on in particular section, but tue line between the two great par ties was almost entirely obliterated. Thus it was in the year 1854. In the spring of that year could there have been found politician democrat or conservative, in Arkansas, who, if he had had the political vocabulary before him would have selected for nea0 political issues those questions contained in Know Nottingham, which have since that time been thrust with such fanatical energy before the American peo- ple. NOC one could nave been iOuuU so crazy. What practical politician in hunt ofnew issues would have gone to England and selected the veriest tory measure of her political history for the. action of the American people? A mea- s,ire which the English people themselves, as we have before seen, have hurled from their political arena-a proposition to "dtnainish" hse "capacities' poaoe a0hich Roman Catholic citi. aens might haue, in common aoiM Protestants, to control the policy cf the gove,nment-to leave the policy of the government under the control of the Protestant citizens, by cutting loose from it the influence of the Catholic. This is con- yfessedly the object here-it was notoriously the object there. The reasons for the prescription used here are identical with those used in England. Col. Clemens, in his second letter to Gen. Cass, which letter Major Borland calls "another golden apple"-states that the peo- ple of England erred in relieving the Catholics of those dsqualifcations and prosecutions by what was called the Catholic emancipation bill.