The true Democrat., 1856-07-22
For the Tine Democrat

1Iontgonle7y County, July Ith, l056.
 The dull nlonotony of this backwooas life l has at lenght disappeared democrats are up and ready for the coming contest; firmly united notwithst andng the many nsidious at- tempts of the enemy; and all hopes of produc- ing discord in our ranks have been abandoned At one time We did think that we should have at least, a respectable division of the enemy to battle with; but alas! instead of the boasted sway of :" Know Nottingham" in this county with which few of our wiseacre politicians were wont to tickle the ears Of their equally wise brethren in your city; that party cannot now turn out in this county a respectable corpo- raPs guard. Secrecy has failed, paths have fail ed, strategy has failed; and they are now re- duced so low and are so discomfitcd that their
 leader who was nominated by them as Repre- sentative to the Legislature has declined the and the one who has stepped into his shoes re- pudiates the February platform; braces his cause on that of June, 1855, and State policy; and with this full bloodcd Know Nothing equip ment is going to make the campaign. Poor fellow! pity him-he is going to make campai gn on what does not exist-no, not even a chip of the last plank can be found, it having been ruthlessly pulled from under him. and as consequence down he must go in company with the rest of his brethren-and that his de- scent may be easy and his seat soft is my wish, 1t being my nature to have extremely tender feelings towards Political Parsons? in general; but especially those who in reality assume full as much faJahtbihty as to all matters, whether religious or political, as the poor old Pope of Rome has ever done or ever will do.
 Writing of this same Pope of Rome, this Bug-a-bos of Know Nottingham, brings to my mind few historical facts which either prove conclusively that the Know Nothing sayings as to his temporal power are ve,1table humbugs, or that history is a mere tissue of lies The Pope dom contains 17 ,572 square miles, which is less than 1a d the area of the State of Arkansas- In 1798 it was forcibly taken possession of by France-the Pope was compelled to leave his country; and a government was erected under the style of the Roman Republic" The Pope was however afterwards reinstated In French, and the Pope carried prisoner to France, and who was not released until the Allies rein stated him on his throne in 1914. On the 25th November, 1948, the citizens of Popedom rose ea naasse-a revolution took pace-the Pope was compelled to fly to Naples in order to pre- serve his life; and republic was proclaimed with Mazzan at its head as president. In April 1649, the French sent all army of 14 900 men to the assistance of the Pope-on the 2d of July, after several severe battles, that army under General Oudinot, entered Rome and re- lnstated the Pope in his government, and who Is still supported in the same by a large body of French soldiers. Now if the Pope's tenn poral power is but tithe of what the Know NoShings" represent, how came it that the French and his own Italian subjects. aoho aoere aN Roman Catholics, had so little respect or re- gard for it-and if there is so much danger to the Protestant religion from this same Harlot of Rome," how came it that the Allies, of whom very large proportion were Protestants not alone liberated him, but restored him to all his previously possessed powers. England had a controlling voice in that restoration; every person knows that she is thoroughly Protestant
 the union of church and state being part of heI constitution (and which fear the Know Moth
 ings wish to accomplish so far as our constitu' ton is concerned); and can it be supposed tha
 she would have consented had there been tht
 most remote danger 10 be apprehended. Ger
 tainly not. Were Protestantism afraid of Ca
 tholicism in this the 18th century, it would bt , a tacit acknowledgement of her own weakness I opine that Protestants will hardly admit sucl
 to be the case so long as they have the free us'
 of the Bible; and believe that the Know Nothings" themselves q moan the wire work