The true Democrat., 1856-12-23
rkadelphja, Dec. 1856.

V5- At recent celebration in Boston of the democratic victory in honor of the election of Buchanan and Breckinrdge, Col. Greene, editor of the Boston Post, made the following re- marks:
 1he Democratic Press-Its freedom is liber- tvs saieguard-lts truth the tyrants dread" Col. Charles G. Greene, of the Boston Post was called upon, and was received with three cheers He spoke substantially as follows:
 "Speech of Col. Charles C. Greene.
 MT. President-I am glad to hear that toast, at last, for as my friend, Mr Glen told me must respond to 1t, l have been waiting with no little lmpatlence to inhict whatever I might say III the performance of this duty. up- on the gentlemen present. 1 thank the com pany Tor thclr applause at my rising, for fear they wlll not find any thing further in my ef tort worthy of their appreciation until 1 sit down. which act have no donbt will be wit messed by all with delight have felt some what pqued, sir, that "the Pre>s'' was uor placed higher in the order of your toslS; this crowdlng to the bottom the 9reAr "ipstitutiof,, Is inconsistent with your expressed estimation oi It, HnleSs you put it there as the foundatjou ot all your good sentiments However. sir do not, upon reflection, take it amjss that you arranged your tosts as you have, because the present order brings !" the Press, near "the ' ar" and thus you intended to save the best TOT the last, l imagine, as boy does his pie on thanksgiving day. But never mind, sir, where you put " the Press" you will be sure 'o near rom It. Aided as it is by the power oi 'he magnetic telegraph, it's voice is as bound less as It Is potent. The talking wires are now long enough to circle the globe four times. or more. VI han ba Nr
 foundland shakes the iron fingers of the Irish coast, we shall know the gender of Victoria,s next her to the throne, before one half of the citizens of London have heard of the birth
 Lord Somers said he knew of no good law proposed and passed in his time, to which the pubic press had not directed his attention: with much greater force might any American states man say the same.
 ne American Press stands in the front of all political contests, and its words are more effective than bowie knives and Sharp's rifles recoiiect the hard cider campaign, when the strongest temperance men kept their mouths longest at the bungholes, and when Major roores cargo Of apples would have been squeezed Into electioneering liquid before the wheel of his barrow had made a dozen revolu tons. The democrats had hard work to per- form then, but neither the party nor it's press iaItered, although defeated. Our opponents beat us under false pretences, but could not sub- due us. They are ingenious at electioneerino devlces. In Gen. Jackson's day the opposition Tn Massachusetts cried their eyes almost ont about the poor Cherokees, while they held the Marshpee tribe of Indians in bondsge worse than Egyptan-they compelled them to SUD- port a munster they would not listen to-denied them n all civil or personal rights, even the right to sell load of their own wood: and appoi3t- ed ovorseers clothed with authority to tie them up and fog them if they disobeyedl And vet these people mourned about Georgia's cruelty to the poor red man. But never mind all tbi. The country did not believe them when they told It JackSon's election would ruin the nation. nor do we believe now that Uncle Sam's plan tatlon of more than three hundred thousand square miles, with population of twenty-five millions ot people, a com mercial marine larger than any nation in the world, annual exports and imports of five hundred millions of dollars and more newspapers than all the rest of crea- ton, Is to be checked in its prosperity, or have It's elements of cohesion weakened. bv the elec tlon of one Of the first statesmen of the aye to the highest position in our great and thriving confederacy. No sir, "the Press'' will not aj row sucn deluslon to prevail-it will expose the sophlstnes of designing politicians, relieve faua tlcisln or Its terror, bind up the "bleedno wounds o' ha'isas' with the bondage of truth, and SC. cure the glory and success of this migbty Un;o, oy di1uslng intelligence and exciting patriotisn, among the treest and best conditioned noodle under the sun. will give you, sir, as a toastN
 Ihe Press a'd Ae Ielegraph-The thunder ana the lightning which moves and purifies the intellectual atmosphere of the universe.