The true Democrat., 1856-07-22
Federalism---Biack Republicanism.

Since the nomination of MT. Buchanan, we hear good deal about federalism, from Know Nothing orators and editors-thev affect to feel a holy horror of federalists, and point back more than quarter of a century, and resur- rect stale and oft refuted charges against Mir. Buchanan-forgetful all the while that their own platform for this State contains the ouint- essence of federal doctrine, the exploded>and federal doctrine of perpetual aNegiance Judge Luther Martin of Maryland, in a charge to the grand jury, at Baltimore in 1913, stated: " hold 1t, gentlemen, as grand and incontro- vertible truth-a truth of which I cannot doubt that no citizen can more nghteousy divest himself of his allegiance to his government without its consent than his government can, without his consent, deprive him of it's protec- tion. This truth is found in the very nature of civil society" Judge Martin was leading federalist of that day, and opposed the war which was waged on our part because England insisted upon her right to impress the seamen in our navy, who had become citizens of the United States. The grand jury replied to the charge of the Judge, and exposed its many er- TOTS, and particularly, the absurd and uncon- stitutonal ground of the courts remarks, in defence of perpetual allegiance" The same doctrine held by the federalists, in the war of 1872, and by which they justified their opposi- ton to the war, is now again revived by the Know Nothing party of Arkansas-a doctrine too absurd, to be defended by any man of brains "a miserable spawn of a shallow-pate. It is the doctrine by which kingly power was sus- tained, and was long since swept away by the onward march of our great republic Mr. Bu- chanan volunteered in 1914, and fought as a private soldier in the ranks, in defence of Bal. tlmore In early youth, his ardent patriotism led him to the field, to fight the battles of his country, against foreign foe. His career, as a statesman has, since then, enriched his coun. try's history, and now in the ripe maturity of his life, he has been chosen the standard bearer ot the great conservative, national party of the Unlon. lie goes forth to battle against an in- sldlous domestic foe, more insidous and dan- gerous than any which has ever threatened the safety of the nation. The great black repub. lican party, rallying under its reasonable ban her, followers of every hue and shade of opin- ion, have determined upon the destruction of the democratic party-which party alone op- poses it's damning designs upon the Union.- Opposition to the Kansas bill brought it to life --is its main basis. The Know Nothipgs in our State occupy precisely the same ground. The speeches of Yell, Fowler, Grace and Bor- land, would suit the hottest abolition district in the north.
 Even the "short stock" of the order, such as Sol. Clark, play upon the same string, and in his miserable effort to reply to Maj Green, at this place on last Saturday, he distinguished himself by an avowal of ultra republican doc trines. His speech was such as would have ellclted approving plaudits from an abolition gathering in Boston. How long will the south remain neglectful of these things? How long will honest men remain in an organization which can only hope to defeat the democracy by eecting an abolitionist president. - Fort Smith Herald.