The true Democrat., 1856-08-05

into difficulties as inextricable as those b, which he was surrounded when he ignominous ly deserted his companions in the snow at Taos -Pennsyluanian.
 Speeches of Hon. A Dixon and Col. T. B Stevenson.
 The following sketch of the speeches Q Messrs. Dixon and Stevenson at the Kentuck- whlg convention, we extract from the Lexing ton Statesman:
 MT. Dixon arose, as he said, to repe tn charge made against him by the Know Moth Ing press, that he was traitor, false to his par ty and principles. This he said was untru, ana unjust. lie was true to that party, faithfu Io those principles and firm to his friends bu ms party had deserted him, abandoned thei plnciples and gone away after strange gods HIS sympathy was with his old friends ht wanted to go with them, but his sense of jus tlce to the Catholic and foreigner, whom they prescribed, his fidelity to::the laws of the land and attachment to the spirit of our free institu tons, all rendered it impossible to affiliate with party which stood antagonistic to all these.
 1hlS was the reason he now stood separated from the mass of his old political friends and associates. It was the party which abandoned hlm, and proved untrue to themselves, and falthless to their old principles. And if there was treachery or false dealing or desertion, il lay not with him.
 He believed Mir. Fillmore an honorable man and endorsed his administration, and recon. mended It as true and sound. But if Mir. Fill. more accepted the nomination of the Know Nothing order, he was bound as an honorable man, to stand on their platform, and become the exponent of their sentiments In that event, he could not and would not support him But there was more serious objection to Mr. Fillmore. He now stood uncommitted, in the platform ot which he was proposed to be the exponent, upon the all-inlportant and promi- nent slavery question. True, a reference was continually made to his administration, and that held up as sufficient commtal on all the issues arising out of that question. But, when he turned to that administration, he there found the great statesmen, Clay and Webster, upon either side of him, urging and influencing him ln the approval of the fugitive slave law That single act was all he ever did, all in his admin lstration, to recommend him to the confidence of the south, and that act, prompted as it may have been by patrotism he believed inconss- tent with his whole antecedent record, contrary to hls own personal opinions and in violence to his feelings. He was made to take the step bv the influence of the great statesmen upon whom he leaned for advice and support.
 But, none of the great and prominent issues now before the country, are involved in that single act of signing the fugitive slave law We'll could Mir. Fillmore have signed that act. and still be In favor of and advocate the aboli- tion of slavery in the District of Columbia There was nothing in that act inconsistent with the restoration of the Missouri compromise, the abolition of the slave trade between the States or.the exclusion of southern men with their property from the common territories of the land. Upon all these points, now living, prac- teal, vital, and all-important questions, Mir. Fillmore stood by his administration wholly uncommtted, while all his former and earlier expressed opinions and antecedents, prove him lnlmical to the southern position upon them all. In view of these facts, he did not believe Mir. Fillmore stood in any manner by word or administration committed to southern rights, and at a time when the dearest and best inter estS of the South are immedlatel ly involved and Ill danger, he was unwilling to vote for any man who stood on doubtful ground. As for Donelson, he was renegade office seeking pol itician with whom he never did agree in poll ties, and from whom he was now further than S"Ci SCpdidtcu. lIt SdW IO CFltleIlCc OI Will1 cry in the support of Donelson. Together. it was monstrous ticket with masthead of whiggery, scay tale of renegade democracy, united by body of most perniciouS civil and religious prescription, and all covered with most dangerous and anti-repubIican secret ma chnery.
 He thought It unjust, unconstitutional, and a violation of good faith, to invite aliens to sur rpndar al tn thair ments, and upon the alluring offer of free citi- zenship held out in our naturalization laws, in. duce them to swear fidelity to our government, then to be prescribed and denied the constitu- tional rights guarantied to them. He depre- cated this in fraction of contract, either by law or by regularly concerted political action. He thought 1t wrong and antagonistic to every principle Of our free institutions, that religious tests for office should be applied to any man. These things he called criptlon-personal, civil and religious prescription, unjust and wrong, and he could never approve or promote it.
 lie thought this proscriptlve party, however dead-no longer powerful or dangerous
 That the only great issue at this time was the slavery question: and the only two parties now contending for the reins of government with any hopes Of success, were the black re- publican and democratic parties And between these two, he was bold to say, that if the whg party was not recognised, he stood ready to unite with the democracy, if in their June con- ventlon they put forth a national platform and presented worthy exponent. He only want ed such platform as he, with the above eX- pressed views, could as a national man, stand upon. Mir. Dixon was often and enthusiasti- cally applauded, and spoke with much earnest ness and warmth of feeling.
 The chairman then announced the conven- ton adjourned, when loud calls for Stevenson, brought to the stand Thomas B. Stevenson, of Mason, whose able and torcible communica- tlonS to different papers upon the political que5- tions of the day have added much to his repu- tatlon, and been most telling in their overthrow of prescription and fanaticism.
 Mir. Stevenson was in the same category with Mr. Dixon, though he said his comparative obScurty had to some extent protected him from the general denunclation which had been heaped upon that gentleman. He repeled such charges with indignation. He Was still true to his principles, true to his country, true to himself and his own sense of right. The great mass of the whig party had ingloriously abandoned all their principles, deserted their ancient faith, and degenerated into miserable, fanatical, proscriptive, one-idea faction, with whom he never could or would affiliate He would not now discuss their doctrines as he believed 1t ungeEerous and not magnanimous to strike fallen foe. The party was dead and prostrate, and he would not stir the carcass.
 As State organization, however, they had some show of strength, and he did feel at li- berty to denouhce as alarming, pernicious and dangerous the recent movement of the order in this State by which the spotless ermne of the judiciary is to become the cloak for parti- gan aspirants, and its independence prostrated before party advancement. It was most la mentable and deplorabe manifestation of the extremes to which the organization was to be carried. And it becomes the duty of all good men who have at heart the independence and purity of the judiciary to rise in indignant re-