The true Democrat., 1856-04-22

clson. Such Amerlcanism cannot flourish long where freedom dwells. Its course is we'll nigh run; its doom is sealed.
 Very respectfully, your ob't servant, | A. B. GREENWOOD. House cf Representatives,
 Washington, D. C., March 20, '56.
 Prairie County Democratic Convention.
 Pursuant to previous notice, the delegates from the various townships, assembled at Brownsville, on Monday the Eth of April, 1856.
 On motion, Col THOMAS ALISON was called to the chair and Dr. JAMES ROBINSON and AM. r: JONES, appointed secretaries. he delegates announced themselves and took their seats in regular order.
 On motion, a committee, composed of one from each delegation, was appointed to draft preamble and resolutions for the consideration ot the convention.
 The committee retired, and reported the fol- lowing preamble and resolutions, which were Unanimously adopted:
 WHEREAS, It Is the undoubted right of Ame- rlcan treemen to meet in convention, either col. lectlvely, or, through their delegates, as conve- Wence may dictate; for the purpose of consult ing with each other with regard to the public interests, and with regard to the agents to whose care, for the time being, those interests shall be conhded, and the present political con- diton of the country, forcbly admonishes Us of the propriety and duty of exercising that right.
 For the first time in the history of the go- vernment the Congress of the nation has been organized with a sectional, and abolition speak. CT. For the first time in the history of the na- tion, one half the Union has been insuted by the avowal of the speaker that he did not know whether the superiority belonged to the white man or the negro And for the first time in | the history of the nation an abolition majority in Congress, sustains the speaker in his utter ance of this loathed sentiment of the negro worahippers of the north: while another party. self tyled Americans, stood divided in the contest for speaker, the northern portion, in the main, going Banks and the southern portion going Fuller, the latter being as vile an aboli- tonst as the former, and himself voted for a man who at the time voted Blanks" for speak CT. In the election which led to such con- Stitution of the House of Representatives, 1 Know Nottingham was "a masked batterv' from which the black republicans slaughtered the sound democrats. Ard both in the cleo. tion of members to Congress and in the cleo tlon of speaker, the intervention of Know No- iolli Ne'o lO dDOllLlOIllSIS al materially aided their success. The twelfth section of the Know Nothing platform of 1855 proposed to offer the guarantee of that order to the rights of the south with some pretermit- ting" At the time of its adopton however, the elections for members of Congress from the north were nearly all concluded. Those in the south were still for the most part to be made. When they were over the twelfth section had performed it's functions, and at the grand coun- ell of the order in 1856, was abolished. Nav. the orde" went so far as to refuse to admit the delegates from Pennsylvania who were in favor of sustaining 1t, to seats in the grand council, but in their place admitted set of abolition delegates from that State. The order in grand council also abolished their platform of 1855 and published a new one for 1856. But par ty, or an order, that would exclude, compara- lively sound men, and admit abolitonists as de- egates, could not be expected to make war upon the black republicans; accordingly we hnd not sentence of hostility in their new platform to the negro worshippers of the north. On the contrary, they join them in their denun- citations of the Nebraska Kansas. bill, and to that extent harmonze wth the black repu bli- cans upon the great anI most engrosSusissu of the times Know Nottingham not only remains at peace with the abolitionists so far as we can see n its platform, it also joins them in their denunclatlons of the democratic party. Thus showing Know Nothing and abolitionism to be Tn complete sympathy, having for common object the overthrow of the democratic party The democratic party will maintain in the ap- preaching contest, as it now does that the exis- tence or non-existence of slavery in any State or territory is not question to be ruled by Con- gressonal enactment, but by the people for themselves. And that this doctrine applies to Kansas and the other territories This the black republicans deny, and also demand vari- ous enactments all inconsistent with the exis- tence of slavery any where. They now have possession of one branch of Congress. If they obtain control of the other, and elect presi- dent in the coming contest, the south would have to sink into barbarism, upon common level with the negro or else to preserve its ci. vilization, separate itself from the Union. But in this contest Know Nottingham intervenes, and every vote 1t gets from man that is truly southern in his feelings, will detract that much from the force of the blow which the great south and the democracy will strike for the Union, the constitution and the rights of the States.
 Resolued, That we approve the democratic platform adopted by the party in its last gene ral convention, and the resolutions adopted in the democratic caucus at the beginning of the present Congress; and that we also approve the opposition of our representatives in Con. gross to those creatures who went Banks nint weeks.
 ResOzved, That we cordially approve the ad mnistration of the government by Presden Pierce
 Resolvea, That we regard the administration of the State government by his excellency E. , N. CONWAY, as having been faithful to the con , stitution and the laws; and recommend hin , to the consideration of the State convention fo f re-nominaton
 Reso!ved, That we are satisfied with tho per sonal worth, the zeal, the energy, and ab;lit, 7 of our representative in Congress, Hon. A RUST, and have full faith in his democrat : soundness. But that in view of the fact tha 3 official duty must detain him at Washington during the approaching canvass, and of tn