The true Democrat., 1856-02-12
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For the True Democrat. Pope County, Feb. 6, 1856.


 Pope County, Feb 6, 1856. EDITOR TRUE DEMOCRAT:
 As the weather has been so intensely cold, the thermometer four degrees below zero, which 1 am told is seven degrees lower than was ever known here before; it has been impos- sible, especially with us farmers, to do any kind of out-door business, except to get wood make fires and feed our stock. In consequence of which We have some time besides Sundays to read the papers, and I have spent the time for the past month or two, leasurely about the court rooms, and other public places in the county, leaving the boys to make fires and do the feeding.
 But permit me here, before proceeding fur ther with this article, which am about to impose on you, to state that am an old fashioned far mer, and an old fashioned democrat too, op- posed to all kinds of "Patent politics. for which man must lay down all his republican, ism-steal of into some dark hole or corner as if he were going to plot against the white folks" and where he would be ashamed for his honest neghbors to so see him, and there pay twenty-five cents or more, to have himself sworn to do the biddings of some village de- magogue and when tired of doing his will, pay four bits to get himself absolved from his oath, and worse name than any of his neigh bors ever had. ....
 have been frequently amused, and especial ly when about our county town; and if you were ever there, you very we'll know it to be one of "Sam's" strongholds 1 mean one of the strongest in the county, for there they have four or fve Know Nothings all right together, the most of whom are always ready to lay right hold of us country boys as soon as we alight from our horses, and to tell us of the darin g effrontery of the foreigners, how they killed tn people of Louisville on the "bloody Monday" and of the Roman Catholics depos- ing kings and monarchs, and taking the reins of government in their own hands, and what an intensely American .teehng" pervades their whole party, presuming that we country boys, with our homade jeans on, this cold weather, don't read the papers, and they have it direct from Philadelphia and New York, for vou know Mir. Pike, and few others, go or send sometime to Philadelphia, sometimes New York, Massachusetts, or Ohio,-catch the sdea give the Senior" and "Junor" of the Ga- zette the co" and they send it to their strikers in these little one horse towns, and they send out an advanced bid for cotton and when you get to town, cotton has fallen, and for your trou- ble and time they will give you few numbers of the Gazette, for yourself and your nearest neghbors, tell you that Borland and Danley are democrat Knoa0 Nothings,'' that they (the Senior and Junior) belong to the AMERICAN party, and if it were not for the Know Noth- ings this Union would be now dissolved, that "dte old democratic party is responsible for he non-election of Speaker in Congress, that the democrats there are voting for Richardson a freesoiler, who went for the Nebraska bill 5e- cause at aoouM add strength to he no,tA-that the south could not get Kansas or Nebraska 10 hoo, and that northern emigration could NOW go to the southern territories, and by and by when sufficiently strong, could be admitted as free States. Just as impudently do they retail these things, as if northern emigration was pro- hibited from going to southern territory before the repeal of the Missouri restriction, and pas sage of the Nebraska Kansas act. 1ra With us here the Know Nothings have some original tricks, as we'll as those gotten up by