The true Democrat., 1856-04-22

| II the object of this party is to prevent fo
 eign criminals and vagrant paupers from imm 1 grating to this country, tell them that ou
 laws are ample for that purpose now, and notl
 ing IS necessary but their faithful execution. N,
 lellow-cltizens this is not the object of this pal ty. It is victory and spells. It Is composed ( political adventurers, in great degree, who ar
 ready to join any political organization ths
 promises the least reward.
 l propose, now, to sLe eak of the fruits of thi
 Kiaow Notting organization. It is said that tn
 tree is know by its fruit. In all the election
 North that took place after the passage of tn
 Nebraska bill, all the elements in the mortimer
 States who are now, or have been for wears
 warrlng upon the constitution and the institu
 tons ot the South, formed fusion, and acte
 together. and succeeded in striking down near
 iy every man who dared to stand up, and war
 on thelr blows upon that sacred instrument-
 A large number of the true men of the North
 Who had occupied places in both branches o the national legislature, were crushed out b, that spirit of fanaticsm so common in the freI States. Let me ask, who now fills the place
 of these sound national democrats? I answer such men as the speaker elect of the House o
 Representatives, who, with one hundred others
 who agree with him politically, voted, during the p'eSentsesson ofCongress upon resolution declaring the agitation of the subject of slavery to be unjust and produce of evil, against that resolution, and in favor of agitation-men whc supported the present Speaker in his election both before and after he, in boasting spirit declared upon the floor of the House that he represented the strongest anti slavery district Tn the United States; and who, upon being ask ed whether he would so legislste as to place the black and the white race upon an equality, sald, that the stronger race would succumb to, and absorb the weaker, and he would patient ly walt to see which of the two races would aoSoro the other. These are the men that the doctrine of K,aOW Notlingasm has brought into power, In the place of those true men of the North who stand up between us and the fana- tclsm ot that section of the Union, and hurl back the tide which threaten our southern in- stitutlons. This party being in power in the House. and by the consent of portion at least of that branch of Kno,o Nothing politicians who claim nationality, ask, can it be possible that the doctrines of this party can longer exist in the South? Every lover of the Union and friend of the Constitution are ready to say mo- The country, then, can only look to the democratic party for the salvation of our institutions, and the only party who has shadow of claim to nationality. The success of the black republi- cans Tn the election of Speaker has placed it Tn his power to make another stroke at the South Tn the organization of every committee ot any importance. At the head of the con- mlttee on territories stands Mir. CROW, of Penn Sylvanla, who represents the district foremer- ly represented by Mir. Wilmot, who was was the author of that obnoxious measure known throughout the country as the Will mot provlso." Mir. WAsHBURN, of the State ot Name, was placed at the head of the con- mltee of elections, whose hostility to the insti- tutlonS of the South knows no bonds
 During several sessions past the gallant RICH ARDSoN, of Illinois, stood at the head of this committee on territories, the duties of which position he discharged with signal ability. It was him that stood in front of the memorable contest upon the Kansas and Nebraska bills, which gave to the people the power to shape their own domestic institutions; and yet he was displaced for the purpose of placing a man at the head of that committee who is understood to be one of the leaders of this black republi- can party in the State of Pennsylvania. '' At the head of the committee of ways and means stands L. D. CAMPBELL, of Ohio, who, It Is understood, is the very embodiment of the antl-slavery sentiment in his own State Nr MEACHAM, of Vermont, stands at the head of the committee for the District of Columbia, backed by a majority who agree with him upon the subject of abolishing slavery in the District, might enumerate others, and repeat, that no southern man has been appointed chair man of any committee of any importance.
 The KnOw Notling black republican party in tine north, and what is called the national tweltth-secton Knoto Nothing in the South, agree in some three or four particulars
 First. They agree in their war upon the de- .mocratic party and it's principles.
 N Secondly. They are in favor of repeating
 1T naturalization laws, and consequently ex- Euson from the privileges of American citizen Emp of all who are not so fortunate as to be born upon this side of the Atlantic ocean. Thirdly. To exclude from ali offices all Ca- tholics, whether native or foreign born-a de- monstraton of which they gave last June in excluding from their convention the delegates from Louisna
 These are some of the leading principles of this party, and, strange to say are the chief elements of the success which has attended its course. To the oppressed of the European nations they say, no matterif they were induc- ed to leave the yoke of tyranny which oppress- ed them in the Old World and no matter though their hearts were longing for the natural rights of man. like our pilgrim fathers, they turn their eyes towards our own happy land as to polar star of hope, and, dropping tear on the graves of their fathers, bid the parting word to those as dear as life, sever the ties which bind them to kindred and home take last lin gerng look upop their native hills and valleys with the fond association of the past clingirg around them, to find home upon the American soil, where they may enjoy freedom-vet this party tells them that they are enemies to the country, and unfit to exercise the dearest rights of freemen, the right of sultrage-untit to en- joy the gorious privilege of American citizen ship although they are loyal to the Constitu- ton, and have poured out their blood upon every battle field. To the Catholic they say, 1t was in vain that your fathers sought America for freedom of consciences; though you may have poured forth youE blood in common with the patriots of the revolution, without distinc- tioh of faith; though Charles Carroll, of Car rollton, the last survivor of the Declaration of Independence, was of your number; though ever since the foundation of the government you have yielded to it your ardent and honest support, and offered it some of the brightest stars in its hiStory-yet they tell you that your religion is political and at war with the interests of the country, and you must either reGounce the privilege of worshiping God according to the dictates of your own conscience or fall be- fore their triumphant march.
 After all this they tell you they make no war upon any mans religion; but as long as they remain Catholics they will disregard the constitution, and make religion test for office, and exclude them, in common with foreigners, from the rights and privileges of the American citizen. ..
 But this Kaow Nothing party will now tell us that it is true our principles, as set forth in the platform issued in June last, were very ob jectionable, so much so that they felt called upon to call another convention on the 18th of February, 1856, for the purpose of re-arrang- ing their old platform so as to obviate some of the leading objections to the original. And what is this new platform? 1 must confess that am unable to see any point in it. And in this am sustained by Mir. Sheets, of Indi- ana. member of the party, and delegate to the convention. He said that 1t was so cover- cd mn in verhiaoe that the nrpSidential elec-