The true Democrat., 1856-09-30
rior" tho Oath hoiio Standard, N.
 Food for Thought.


 We publish below short tract from lat ter received by us few days ago from friend residing Tn northern State, and now trayelino ln the State Of New York. The writer is one ot those calm and profound thinkers. who takes no part Tn politics, and who looks upon the movements of parties with the eye of patriot and philosophers. His suggestions, brief as they are, afford abundant food for thought to southern men. Let them be read and weiob. ed by all thinking men:
 "I think Mir. Buchanan may be elected bv large majority. The North is not yet arous- ed to the point of going to extreminites with you; though there Is large party now willing to proceed. Fremont has been weighed, and has been found to be ea-humbug-quite equal to the woolly horse he is reported, by the show man, to have brought from the Rocky moun- tains. The sober people, who care little for politics, are not willing to vote for one who wants civil capacity and has no fixed character. You will find, however, his party to be very powerful one, and that for the next series of years it will grow rapidly The question be- tween the North and the South Is coming to an issue far more rapidly than we ever suppos- ed. No one can say when it will break forth: but it cannot be deferred long. We are ali warned to set our house in order in anticipation of the catastrophe. The bonds of union, in my judgment will not hold the two sections together for any great lenght of tme The people of the north and south are growing more and more unlike yearly. Even the de- mocratic party is divided by an east and west line upon most questions of policy. The li- terary class north are hostile to our institutions and principles, and scatter opposition and resist ance through the North. This class includes the press the pulpit, and majority of the bar, besides itinerant lecturers and professed au- thors.
 "This class, you will observe, embrace the most efficient material for combining an active, compact and powerful party
 They hold all the avenues 10 the popular mind. In this (northern) country they exer- else more powerful influence, for there ale no permanet principles, no fixed habits of thought, and no established customs, nor local attach ments to obstruct that influence The senti- ment of the hour, unfortunately, directs the political conduct of most men, and this class create that sentiment.
 "The Union still has some reverence, and there is great aversion to revolution. But the north has been so often assured, that it has at last, come to believe that there is no conss- tency in the southern mind, and, therefore, no occasion for fear or need of halting.
 My own opinion is, that revolutions are not accomplished by votes, but by blows and blood shed. The revolution of 1776 was occasoned by the fight at. Concord and Lexington, and a dissolution of the Union will be accomplished whenever bloody riot in the capital takes place on the slavery question. Our animosi- ties will then be imbodied in the form of con. sttutions and laws.
 "The people here do not understand theil danger They know less of the southern States, and care less for them, than they dc for any European kingdom. They have been taught to believe you are cruel task-masters O slaves, and arrogant and overbearing in you ordinary intercourse, and violent when obstruct ed. A sad and unworthy delusion but so it is They think, too that tho north has no homo in. and is allowed no benefit from, the fedora administration. You are charged with treach cry for the breach of the compromise act.- Resistance has, therefore, come to be regarded as sacred duty.
 "On the other hand, you regard-and 1thini rightfuly-all the action of the federal go yernment concerning slavery as aggressive mischevous, and founded in gross error, anG having unconstitutional validity.
 "We can, therefore, have no appreciation o the motives and conduct of one another. Blu every successive measure of opposition renew the disposition to employ every momentar. cause of irritation and repulson as means t effect the desired end-to wit permanent SC paration."