The true Democrat., 1856-04-15

MR. EDITOR:-
 As Calhoun is very little known and less cared for throughout the State, permit me, for the benefit of your readers, to give some items of is internal features. It has received many appellations and been stigmatzed by some contemptible epethets. For instance, the northern portion is known by the name of Hogskin-the middle by Free State, and the southern portion by Hueys Leg The two first seem to be getting along very we'll, and their only suffering is from sympathy with Huey's Leg, which took varcose disease some eighteen months ago, and has now become distressing and painful ulcer and the prosno- sis of the North Carolina doctor is, that morti- hcaton and gangrene will soon take place, and that amputation will be the only alternative to prevent speedy and fatal termination
 Notwithstanding we labor under 50 many disadvantages, we are alive to the democracy; although some of our natives are as ignorant about Sam, the man was who moved from Virginia in 164O to North Carolina, was about the tariff He settled near the Raleigh and Gaston railroad. short time after he went a hunting, and soon came to the railroad He heard the cars coming and stood till they came in sight, when he immediately fled home with the most extreme terror, and exclaimed "old woman old woman :. 1 saw the devil'; "I guess not,' said his wife Yes it was he, and he came snortiny fire out of his nostrls."- "Oh hush, old man, it wasn't the devil."- Well, if it wasn't him, it was that d--d tar itfp
 So it is with some of the natives; they can not decide whether it is Sam or the devil that has created so much excitement.
 It is with some reluctance that I make mention of ministers of the gospel in com- munication like this, and more particularly those belonging to the Methodist Episcopal church, of which l am an humble member.- Yet do so with due deference to their feel ingS, and with great reverence to the cause which 1t is their duty to invoke; but of one thing am confdent-I shall do no violence to truth when ] assert that I have vet to meet with one who does not throw his whole weight in the scale of Know Nottingham I have no objection to a minister being Know No- thing or democrat, as he chooses, but do op- pose the manner in which some of them cleo tioneer, ill pretending to be neutral in politics and expressing great respect and friendship for the democratic party, and at the same time make good use of every opportunity in pro- i Inu1ratpr hn doctrine of Ennu, o.l,; {. In this way they wied powerful, though unseemng influence, to which the people should be awakened. 1 write this part of my communication by the request of several who are hinching and threaten to withhold thei support from the ministry
 l have frequently thought the persecution of the Catholics was not real, but merely a Know Nothing bait thrown out for Protestants. and unfortunately many of their leaders are nibbling at 1t with astonishing avdity. The writer disclaims everything like persecution. and hopes that good may be the result; for, rather than pluck one jewel from their rub
 lie wreath or throw one obstacle in the way of their doing good, he would clothe himself in sackcloth and with his own hands heap ashes upon his head the remainder of his days.
 In conclusion, Sam that powerful giant, who, two years ago, required all the sedative powers of narcotic secrecy to prevent him from taking the world by storm, now lies pain fully III. His pluse faters, his respiration is hurried and oppressed; and he now requires all the stimulant powers of abolition and reli- gious fanaticism to keep him alive; but his doom is ixed-his broken fragments never can be brought into such opposition as will conceal his deformity. Ere long he will be numbered among the things that were
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