The true Democrat., 1856-08-12
From Bradley County.

American candidate for Congress in the south ern district, and that trustworthy democrat and noble standard bearer of Buchanan and Breck- lnrdge, Gen. S. H. Hampstead. There is an initiative principle inherent in the American people, which warns them of any danger that threatens the glorious constitution of their Is a prescience which enables them to snuff the tainted breeze afar off, and to place the ballot-box of their country as a shield of protection between them and the po- litcal miasma, which by false premises and equally fallacious deductions, is attempting to spread itself like desolating Siroco, subvert- ing the original principles of our government and overturning the worthy examples of the first fathers of the republic.
 The people were evidently on the qut vive. Something of portentious import was challeng ing their investigation but II o'clock has ar rived, and Mir. Fowler is about to commence his speech.
 It being the first time have heard him, naturally noted the outlines of his physiogno- my for an index of character. Time has suffi- ciently marbled his brow, to have given him correct appreciation of the intelligence of his countrymen; but there is A. smile, which plays upon his countenance, which clearly in- dicates, that candor and fairness are not the most prominent features that crop out in his political character. The Colonel regretted ex- tremely that he had not the pleasure of the company of his opponent Chad he not cause to smile). He desired that both sides should be heard, (and he smiled again), But as he in- tended to contine himself entirely to stubborn jacts, and not rely upon humbuggery, he confi- dently approached the subject, expecting to carry his audience along with him to proper and just conclusions, (honest Iago } Much
 Hummery, says the Colonel, has been thrown into the canvass, but strip it of humbuggery and hummery, q should like to see some speeches denuded), and the naked question is, native Americanism, or foreignism. What has
 become of that noble 8th article of the June
 platform, that promised such resistance to the
 aggressive policy and corrupting tendencies ol the Roman Catholic Church." Was it mere. ly intended as humbuggery and hummery, to their propriety If so what pity the ques- ton could not have been "stJ1gped'' little sooner, and our old women's nerves saved the wreck which threatning danger brought upon them, could they only have known that the old Pope was compelled to flee to France to get a spot ofsafety whereon to lay his old decrep.t head; that there no danger from the faggot or pincers in the valley of the Mississip- pi, and that really 'reSistance to the aggressive policy of the Roman Catholic Church." was not necessary to tie safety of the country. Many a father and son, that Is now deluded by the deceptive visions of dark -lanternism, might democracy. Yes, according to Col. Fowler, thirteen out of fourteen articles of the June platform, are eXtrancous political matter. What a change has come over the spirit of their strengthens another 50 has the loss of thirteen articles intensified this "iutense American feel ing" until 1t has become so intense iii the al- lumbyc of political aspiration, that to use the language of Monsieur Hudibert, Craylor and FIlmore's Consul to Lyons,) " 4 is past de er- presSjou @ de possible" But why desert the Catholic ques,icn? About eighteen mouths ago, he Rev. J. R. Graves, editor of the Ten nessee Baptist, leveled his cannon against the Roman Catholics, and called upon the Protest ant world to join in the assault Patson Brownlow, the editors ofthe Christian Advocate at Charleston and Memphis, (but not at New Orleans to the honor of the editor, with many other religious papers, struck in with their heaviest pieces, and such billing and coong extracting and quoting as went on for while was perfectly delightful to the nahUes But prescription and intolerance, like revolutions, can never stop the RObcspear, whose hand signs the death warrant to-day, on the morrow pays the penalty with his own head. So it turned out with the Revcrand sentleman In 1855 Mir. Graves wages war on the Catholics and calls upon the Protestant world to aid him. In 1856, he turns upon one of his main allies and says, " It is true the Catholics are Anti- CI,tsf, bu: Methodist, 50 are you. 'Ts true your mon- ey and temporal power is dangerous, but the Methodist clergy are moued monopoly, and possess far more temporal power than the Catho- lie clergy, and this is dangerous feature to American repubhcanism.' (Soe Graves Iron Wheel, page 295) and finally on page 3l, the gentleman tacks ship and says, Rome never I ,,;+l,
 followers of Luther, Calvin and Henry 9th, have shed as much Catholic blood as they ever lost by Catholic hands P These are the things that have driven Mir. Fowler and his party from the Catholic question. It was bad enough to be galfed, as they were by Albert Pike, but to be piqucd as they have been by this Rever- end gentleman was rather more than they could stand.
 But to the native question. The Colonel promised to pile Peleon upon Osa fact upon
 fact, and figure upon figure, until the most skep- tical even of the " kiM ant hin" party could not fail to be impressed with its force. He opened his case by calling George Washington to the stand, and read from some old order that has been got up among the grips. As he introduced him, we shall prove by him that he APPROVED AND SIGNED the present law rather, similar one. He next introduced Thomas Jefferson, and read some old newspaper extracts, as giving his opinions. Ye gods, what profanity I would expect as soon to see Mount Etna cast forth ice, or the frozen regions of the north pressed with harvest of tropical fruits, as to see Tho's Jefferson called on to prove the cor rectness of the Know Nothing creed. He has given his testimony (see Satesman's Manuel, vol 1st, page 157), however, and goes not only against twenty-one years, but also against four- teen. He advised "a revisal," and APPROVED AND sIGNED' :he present law.
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