The true Democrat., 1856-05-27

Go to the battle fields, thick-strewn between Ulloa Castle and the halls of the Montezumas, and in the graves upon them read the answer. Sir, l would tear no chaplet from northern | brow; l would rob no son of the north Of hls we'll earned glory. l honor the memories of her mighty dead, and l would reverently bow before the altars upon her battle fields; but she denies truth and history if she claims superi- ority over the south ln virtue, intelligence, or patriotism. Why, then, should the south be assailed and stigmatized, and her citizens be denied equality under the federal government? What is this Union worth to her when through it she is thus struck at?
 | Abolitonism, through an undertaking unity and identity of purpose, has aggregated to itself, at present, dominating strength in the free States. Born amid eers, contempt and scorn nursed in the haunts of obscurty, and fattened upon the otfals of the shambles and the garbage of the gutter, it has waxed corpulent and auda- cious. Under the plea of justice it commits a a fraud; and under the prctence of humanity it | libels truth It has risen upon the cowardice of the old parties and now unblushingly faunts itself in the face of the country. One day 1t skullled from sight, the next 1t challenged as- saut. Yesterday it was toad ill the cellar to-day it is a lizard in the garret. Its leaders, skilled in the arts and policies of the dcma- gogue mouth their love for the poor as did Judas Iscariot when he rebuked Mary because she poured oil of spikenard upon the feet of Christ, for it might have been sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor"
 In the black republican party the conserva- tive men of the north never can enter.
 Is there, then, no other flag to which they can rally? Yes, one there is, unless those who l haar trpacharonS tO Is | True, its leaders have often faltcred and fallen by the waysde, but the march of the party has been onward. Free trade, economy and strict adherence to the constitution, are its notices. Often has it departed from them in practice, but still it has approached nearer to them in its ge- neral action than any other party which has had possession of the government. The present executive, who is its representative, has sternly checked its wanderlngs, and recalled 1t to its pledges In the coming contest it has a great duty to perform.
 It is not my purpose now to discuss its gene raj principles but to advert to the issues which the next presidential election will imbody and decide, and it's true action iu relation thereto.
 The public mind of this country never will accept but one great issue at time Clrcum- stances have conspirel to make that issue in the next election the Neiraska bill Timid but ambitious men have attempted to wave it of, and new party sprung into existence to pretermit" it; but the former have been over ridden, and the latter is perishing. Abolition ism had swallowed up one of the old parties at the north, and whrled off in its eddies a large section of the other and had thereby become strong enough 10 make d papabe issue. It 1 appropriated to this purpose the Nebraska bill; and hence, in the shape of this issue, are now to be tried the obligations of the constitution against abolition usurpation. This issue has been rendered by one party and accepted by 1 the other, and 1t would be cowarlice now to blench tlom t, and treacherv to the south to evade it. pass over special provisions of that bill which are obnoxious to me 1 pass over the interpretation of its disputed clauses, and say take, for the time being, the banner W hich it enblazors, because it faces abolitonsm in its diversified hucs of "Missouri compact,' lve soil ,' "rc ,ction of slave States" and "rep peal of the fugtive-slave law'
 Abolitionism in its aggrtssions upon the south has made these issues under cover of the Nebraska bill, and the south should demand a decision upon them. Will she do it. or will she acquiesce in evasion and supplencss? How can she lift the issue above evasion? She can only do it by platform which shall specially con tain the issue and putting upon that platform a special representative Of the issue Will not any other course be q pettifogging subterfuge! 4 platf0rna alone ,oW not do; for keen dialectics and slippery evasion will make it cover here sieS, if not treachery. No, vou must have the platform, and then the representative of the issue acih tue smoke of bat1e around him. must be upon 1t, Establish even sound platform, and put other ttan representative man upon it, and what is dec!ed? Nothing-absoIutey nothing; for true men will stand upon the pldt- form, and the harpies of the golden feast will A0Ve' around the man. While the flag Is upon the "perous ride of the battle," can the south afford to barley. and uL.e, and compromise? Sir, a compromise now will be on her part, a sale compromise-with whom? Why, with those who have traluced her character assaied her rights, and denied her equality; and in this compromise she is to gioe the spoils, and get a lip subtetttge.
 Why has the democratic party at the north been broken down? Because of it's support of the Nebraska bill. And now that the bill is in issue, will the south see those men who had led the northern column shot down, and then greet with cordial welcome, the Janissares who did the deed? do not say that men who were out of range of the shot are not true and trusty; but do say that this is no time for such a one GO Ucdl your DdllllcI. ne SOulI l1lUSl ll1Hl TOT her rights and her honor, and the sooner she makes the fight the better. Had she made it years ago it would have been better far She has trusted too long to elastic platforms and pliant leaders; she has stood too often on plat forms which were crowded with those who only strove to guard the baggage train that they might plunder it.
 Sir, the democratic party at the north has been cut down in the fight. It has passed through fire and water, but, like Mozart's Zau- berfote, 1t has come out with cleansed and whitened garments. It s now strong enough to do battle for the constitution. Will you swell 1t for the spells with motley horde wearing soiled and tattered robes? If you will give the p!otlorm to the south and the man tc the north. Give pledge of principle to one section and representative to the other available, because he lures to himself free -so sympathy. In this struggle it makes no differ ence whether free-soil support is levied through the sentiments of your banner bearer or his ab- sence from the field of fight. Aboitionism is the foe of the south, and there should be no barley with it in any of it's phases.
 Sir, by comity the south is entitled to the no minatou. You recognize this comity wher you select a candidate for the presidency from one section, and for the vice presidency from the other. The south has true, and tried, and distinguished statesmen, and she might claim in the next election, the right of comity But in view of the struggle in which she is about tc engage-in view of the great issue about to be tried-she may waive her claim, she may ac- cept the present federal executive, for he stood firm in the hour of trial, and looked only tc the constitution. Black repubicanism has ar raigned him in the Senate, and the storm of ia naticism now howls around him. If the soutf looks to the north for presidential candidate will she abandon him for availability? We'll : too, might she accept the distinguished senator from the west, Judge DoUGLAs,] who witt heroic courage and splendid eoquence, led or the columns in the Nebraska fight. Will the south turn her back upon him because he has been scared in that conflict, and selec another, upon the plea of availability?
 Sir, the next contest will be momentou: one. It will turn upon the question of slavery, } and the constitutional rights of the south. The