The true Democrat., 1856-11-04

was published in the Appeal of yesterlay.- We give It as a part of the current history of these times. ltdoubtless expresses very nearly the sentiments of many persons in the country besides the writer:
 Helena, Ark, Oct. r, 1856 MEssRs. EDITORS: As I have been announc ed as likely to address meeting of the friends of Mir. Fillmore, at Memphis, 1 may not be thought to intrude upon the public, of Arkap saS at least, i'll defining my political position; and l hope you can afford me space in which to say, not in order to influence any human being. but solely that 1 may not be misrepresented hereafter that on the ground upon which I placed myself in February last I have ever since stood and still stand and intend to stand.
 While have the greatest regard for Mir. Fill more, and confidence in his uprightness and patriotism, l cannot support him or any other man who IS satisfied to stand upon the plat form by which l refused to abide in February do not argue to defend this position. laid my views before the American party in March last, and they not being approved, lorbore to 1 reply to any attack upon me, because 1 did not mean to become the aSsailant of Mr. Fillmore or the party; but not because I was without the m cans of defense.
 w hat the country wants is not so much a caf"faadte who Is right, as pa'ty that is so, on the great question of the day. The American party north ls In great measure, not SO: for ID Name, Vermont Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, It fuses with the black rcpubli- cans, and IS acting in concert with those who | assal the constitution and endanger the Union. lmpugn the propriety of no mans course in the south; but for myself alone, I cannot feel It right to be the ally of those who are in the north the allies of black republicanism
 Ii MT. Fillmore could be elected by the votes of men who adhered to the principles enunciated in the etwelfth article of the platform of June, 1856 should rejoice; for that would demonstrate that majority of the people of the Unlon was true to the constitutional rights of the south. But his election, now impossible by the people, if it were possible by black re- publican votes in the House of Representatives, 1 should deplore as national calamity. Ra- ther ought his southern supporters to cry upon the mountains to fall upon and cover them. than to permit themselves to be crushed under the mighty weight of that just odium which such an apparent unholy coalition would hurl upon them, bringing sure and swift damnation upon his administration in advance, rendering 1t powerless for good, and insuring the imme- date destruction of the Union.
 And, while the democratic party is, in my view, right. on the questions that grow out of the existence of slavery, (unless it may in some sections be Its doctrine that the people of a territory may by statute exclude slavery, be- fore they come to form a State constitution. ! yet there are other things in its creed and plat. form to which cannot assent. I shall. there fore, not vote for Mr. Buchanan; but as I be- lieve that he and the democratic party alone can defeat Mir Fremont and the republican party, Qf, indeed, even they can, and so delay TOT orlet time that imperative dissolution of the Unon which mutual hatred and ill-will every day becoming more intense in the north and south, must inevitably and soon bring about cannot conscientiously do any act or say any word that could in the sliohtest degrea tend to defeat him.
 1 am, therefore, content, for the present to stand aside and belong to no party, until the south, forgetting its insane dssensions. shall see how necessary it is for it to become a unit Tn the assertion of its constitutional rights against northern fanaticism and foreign radical ism, which must assuredly soon be the case.
 Very respectfully, yours.
 ALBERT PIKE.