The true Democrat., 1856-06-03


 made with persons of foreign birth when the
 were admitted to citizenship; in the second in
 stance they fly in the face of the consttutio,
 They would bind citizens under the most sol
 emn oaths to defend the country and it's ljbe,
 aes and then deiraud them out of the stipu lated considerations.
 The democracy never advocated the polic of placing foreigners in oifice-knowing sucl
 persons have no such claims upon the people
 In the revolutionth the practice as resorted to. {. some extent, by the government and Washing ton: but since we have become enabled to selee lrom our own citizens capacities to pursu, successfully every avocation, the practice ha leer discontinued. Washington wished i 5scoutnued, and the democracy has neve sought to revive it, but the father of his coun. try made no dGeoloe, in the selection of off eers. between native and naturalized eitizens And the democracy follow his example. h fact the citizens most in his confidence wer, persons of foreign birth, such men as Hamilton md Morris, and it Is true that, at his request the officer appointed next to himself in com. nand was a citizen of foreign birth. We arc aware that the great influx of foreign adven mrers seeking lucrative posts in the revolution. ,rv army became a troublesom subject to the government and to Gen. Washington: and as we might expect, found its way into their cor. rcspondence; but the difficulty was aloy, fregners, as Lafayette, DeKalb, Steuben. and hundreds of others, and not about naturaIzed ataeas, as Morris, Hanelton, Stirling Montgom. ery, Gates, etc, etc.
 The trick of the Know Nothings lies in uok. ing Washington mean naturalized citizens when he is speaking of foreigners. No party has made greater efforts to backen the fame of the great Washington than these same Know Moth. ings. They represent him as professing to be very much opposed to the appointme mt Of naturalized citizens to office when the re- cord shows that he appointed such persons to as highest posts. They profess to follow the example of Washington in making 2I years tue term which foreigners shall live in the country before they are admitted to citizensbip when under his administration it was two years.
 Take all the testimony of tho father of his country and other reDuJlsoan patriarchs which Know Nothings adduce to favor their schemes and how little does it amount toi From the volumnous writings of any man, where the same subject Is treated of in many different points of view, scraps of detached sentences may be garbed, which by little ingenuity may be made to represent the writer's opinions upon particular subject in a very different light from the true one. More passages from the Bible itself may be garbled to make it ap. pear to teach that man has no soul, and that their Is no God than Know Nothings parade from the extensive writings of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and other republicans to SUD- port their political heresies.
 Washington warns us against that kind of political warfare upon each other that "kindles tle animoSty of one part' (of the community against another, fomenting occasionally riot and insurrection." He says "it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption which find facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions" ."- Could Washington have imagined more con- plee channel through which the government may be reached by foreign infuense than that which Know Nothing principles are building up? If an oppressed and persecuted class of people will not prove such channel, what other condition that portion of the community may be in totW Which is following the ad- vice of the father of his country-the democ- Tacy, who endeayor to maintain all the citizens in the full possession of their equal rights thereby rendering the country one that has rshtto concentrate all their affections, as Wash lngton believed 1t did when he used the fol- lowing affecting language to them: "Citizens by birth or choice, Of common country, that country has right to concentrate your afec- tions The name of American which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exaltthe just pride of patriotism, more than any appelaton derived from local discriminatons With slight shades of difference, you have the sane religion, manners, habits and political prnciples.' Or that party whose principles am and must, if successful, reduce large portion of the community to a great clan in eur midst ?--aim to establish universal and deep rooted prejudices against them on account of their religion or place of birth-aim to de- prye them of their rightto the name of "Aner- ic7n" to deprive them of their equal political rights that the country may no longer ''have a right to concentrate their affections" Who, l repeat, follows the advice of the father of his country in all those things-the democracy or the Know Nothings? It is democratic doc. dne that the majority should rule; but demo- crats ask the majority not for the purpose of op pressing q minority, but that the equal rights of a, may be rpetuated-that the happiness of all may be advanced. Our opponents, too want the majority to rule--but for the purpose of tramping under the minority-for the purpose Of depriving them of their rights-for the pur- pose of making them miserable and odous.
 With regard to the question now pending between the North and the South, the democ- fAcy feels sure of the correctness of it's position Ii only demands equal rights for all-asks for the abolition of that species of legislation which served to create sectional parties, which sought to make invidious distinctions among citizens of a common country" But gentle  men, must close; had no idea when com- nenced that should infict upon you so long aresponse to your kind communication: the fact when a democrat commences defending his pHncples he finds himself so completely sur munded and crowded with materials for that purpose, that it is difficult for him to find a short way out. Not doubling that you will soon select a good and true democrat to bear our proud banner through Pope and Johnson counties in the forthcoming canvass, beg leave to remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, your most ob't serv't,
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