The true Democrat., 1856-04-22

siaVery enough for the other, and they reported thls platiorm-this new, reformed, expunging Pia'ioim, 10 ratification meeting-and ratfv the clique of the Richmond Whig did. A | member of this piebald party denounces thir teen democratic members of the Uouse of Delegates for anti-slaverv votes. went into his place and proclaimed an issue there for the com ing campaign, and the Whig has since black | ened them, too like the Bottsites as the black thirteen." In the midst of all this "nresto change" of Sam'S shifting scenery, was cal led on to say whether Mir. Stuart stated my de- claratlon correctly respecting the Washington like characteristics of Mir. Fillmore's adminis tration, and respecting the seventeen thousand whgS. l wrote the letter of the 10th, and stand by 1t. It speaks for itself, and needs no explanation; every sensible gentleman will un- derstand it, and no man of the good sense and selfrespect of Messrs. Fillmore and Stuart will take personal oifense at it. It is treating of political and party divisions upon slavery subject involving the natural hues of the two races of men, black and white, so suggestive ot the figure of speech that one of the political divisions Is already called the " black repub- llcan"-reproachfully, if you please, but still only politically reproachul. 1 chose, in the same sense, to carry the figure further, in as- SlSnlng a second reason why Virginia whiys would not vote the new ticket: there would be three partles-the white mans party, the demo- cratic, and black mans party, the black repub- llcan: the mulatto party, the cross of northern and southern Know Nothngs, the ticket of Messrs. Fillmore and Donelson. Thus every turn denoted political, not personal complexion "a hue of party and ticket, not of faces or physiognomies. It was a figure founded upon the mngling of black republicans with pro- slavery advocates at Philadelphia, on a question of color of race and color of right You could not say of them as might be said of Francis Preston Blair in the black republican convention,
 Birds of a feather
 Flock together.
 The Americans at Philadelphia were not birds of feather.' Nlr. Stuart, of Virginia, protessrg to be pro slavery, 1 believe, mingled with the men like Ford, of Ohio protesting nothing but loathing and hatred towards Afri- can slavery, uttering nothing but wrath and disgust against the south, and Virginia espe- clallv. The result of such convention of men of opposite hues of thought and feeling of birds unlike in feather, was the mongrel plat iorm-the piebald iples-nothng but mis- chievous-which ignored the twelfth section, upon which black republicansm can profess to stand north, and upon which pro-savery can
 
 and an old democrat.-an an.i-slavery and pro- slavery man-thc very subject itself suggested that, partakng of both black and white parent age the ticket and its platform are mulattoes ltlo mulatto--it is say what You will-it is so much ot the black republican of the north that lt Is taWny or yellow, and 1t Is so much of the white southern Know Nothing that it will freckle in the sun--it Is a frecllled mulatto- Now, no man of good sense or good feeling will take umbrage at that Mir. Fillmore and Mr. Stuart won't. 1.-the thorn bricks the finger of the latter with the point of its truth, he had no business to grasp his hand upon it, I hope he will snatch 1t away and staunch the wound-- Nor will they take personal oflcnse at my say ing that "the whigs of Virginia can put up with pure Africans, wool, flat nose, odor, color, ebon- skin and gzzardfoot and all, better than they can bear the cross of the Caucasian and Cutfy which you call a mulatto." The meaning Is apparent to every mind not bent on its pcrver sloh-that slavery eau encounter an open foe, an avoNcd enemy, declared and fronting aD- tagoElst, easier than 1t can professed friend, the more dangerous because the more insidious and disguised. Fillmore and Donelson may impose upon some in the south, whilst Sew ard or a Giddings could deceive and bctrav none The latter would fir our people united against
 
 at least their friends and allies. Therefore it is that all of the south can better put up with black republican than with half and half or muatto republicans; therefore it is that all men ot the south had better hasten to lay down all old political divisions and to unite together against all the ne5rophists with the democrrtic, the white man's party
 Mr. Mason, our Minister 10 Paris, is said to have been lately at court ball, at the TulIe. res, and his eye happened to light on the Charge d'Atlires of Sololue, in France fine looking black. Some one observing his stea,lv gaze, "WeIl Mr. Mason, what do you think of wonder bIackee in embroidered coat?'' "Think," replied Mr. Mason, still regarding the negro with the eye of connoseur, 'whv clothes and all, think that fellow is worth a thousand dol lars.' This was old Virgnny' all over, and every body is laughing at the bon mot 1 doubt not the Charge himself laughed tit s. when l Was asked what l thought of the ticket of the Philadelphia convention, 1t was but a J0n mot irresistible, declare, to reply--"I think it is d mulatto, and would not clothes and all, give as much for it as if 1t was pure black l could always control the lmmiXed African better than 1 could the mulatto. I know the name is odious, and that it will stick. l can't helpthat they can help it to whom it belongs; they can
  tangling and unholy alliance, and ought to be odous to the southern people. Whiggery could not and would not bring about such coalition of white and blach. It loathed the cross of mulattoeS 50 will Amelicanism very soon--- Mr. Stuart may write earnestly and much but it will be in vain, and he will plunge deeper down that steep which politicians so much de, plore--the steep of minority. His order had 73OOO enrolled, and he thinks that 17,OOO may be added; the two would make 9OOOO Let me tell him that number would not have done the work for Sam in the last election, and it can't in the next. There are more than 100000 voters lr Virginia, and the corps de reserUe the indomitabe democracy would not have been done voting until now, if they hadn't at the close of the polls. been still ten thousand ahead of Know Nottingham; and Sam cannot change 1t back now into whiggery. If he does, the culverts will be all emptied of the democrats who were decoyed from their party. And let me say to those of timid nerve in the demo- cratic party, who are trembling lest my course will compact the opposition in Virginia, {" Be not afraid" l have been taught by an arduous campaig gn what sort of foe we have to deal with. Meet him boldly, and he will hv from you. Be united in the democracy Let noth- ing distract you, let nothing divide you; vote a unit, and you are invincible. If the foe con- centrates only draw the closer together your selves. We are wagng political, not a per- sonal warfare, and names which convey truths along with them are not nicknames or nothings, but they are weapons which may be powerfully wielded to good public ends without personally woundng anybody. With placid meaning. | can use them without personal rudeness or of- fense towards such political opponents as MT. Fillmore or Mr. Stuart, who know how to ap- preciate them; and 1t matters not what Is said in retort by those who are determined to per- vert them; will step aside to prevent their staggering against me. HENRY A. WISE.
 Or In the U. $. House of Representatives, March 10, upon the proposition to seRd a com mittee to Kansas to investigate the contested election case,