The true Democrat., 1856-02-05
Cypttiano, December 15, 1855.


 MEssRs. EDITORS: have been a member of the party known In popular parlance as the Know Nothing party 1 am so no longer And It IS for the purpose of giving my friends my reasons for leaving it, that 1 address you this letter. I was formerly whig. Next to my God looked upon and reverenced Henry Clav From my earliest recollection his praises have been sung i'll my ears, and as I grew in years 1t was my pride, my boast that under his con- mand, with the star-gemmed standard of our country floating ahove my head, my step has been to the music of the Union.
 Rem embering the many dangers, trials and vlcisstudes suffered and endured by our fore fathers-their marchings in the dead of winter when their path could be tracked through the snow by their bloody footprnts-n the heat of summer when the wild roots of the forest an peased the gnawings of hunger-when. night after night, the stars served as their watcbtires and the canopy of Heaven served them for . tent-ofthe blood expended, and the lives yield- ed up-when such remonstrances as these warm my blood, look upon the form of government then formed as Heaver-sent; and have often thought that the compact drawn up by those revolutionary patriots, binding this confederacv together, was an instrument of Divine inSnira ton.
 In common with most other whios. I ima- glned the repeal of the Missouri compromise measure ot 1920, was an act totally uncaled for, and calculated to re-arouse that terrible anlmosty on the part of the north against the "peculiar institution of the south. 1 thouobt that the repeal of that compact could not merit too severe cond emnatlon. l. therefore with out examination into the truth or foundation If such an opinion, considered the democratic party as composed of reckless men. who wonld glory in the destruction of the Union if tbn1 could build up their own personal fortunes upon its ruins. joined the American pa,tv | did wrong. l know 1t now; I thought otbor- wise then. joined it in good faith: I ouit # in the same manner The leadership of tbe party has fallen into the hands of reckless an5 ambitious men; they have forged the chains about the limbs of the honest masses of tbe party; they have ground them to the dust and placed their heels upon their necks. They arc Henry M. Fuller of Pennsylvania. and N p Banks, Of Massachusetts. What are tbe an. tecedents of Mir. Fuller? He was the stanncb friend and Jealous advocate of the election of William F. Johnson, when that arch traitor and abolition leader was a candidate for the Gubernatorial chair of Pennsylvania. MT Banks IS the right bower of Senator Wilson devoted admirNr and jealous worshipper of Charles sumner He left the democratic party because that party promulgated the sentiment that the Constitution protected the riohts of the south as we'll as those of the north For him are the northern men voting. The poisonous weed that grew up in the whlg soil, and choked and overrln inc beo,tb 1ul grain, finally waved in foul but lpxuron. control over the whole, has formed root in the bosom of the party. I mean abolitonism As sure as the sun passes from the east to west. so surely will the abolitionists obtain dominion o ,n naut .ne ,; hnow Nothing councils. As the whig party died, so will they die, and it may be amid the blood and havoc of civil war. We have | Ia iallen e upon evil days. The position of affairs Ill Kansas portends troublous times in store perhaps at no distant day. I would exhort all true southern men to look the peril full in the lace. Look for yourselves and trust not the sSyren song of the politician-he sings for self. | Look at the position of affairs in the present 1 Congress. Look at the men for whom the re.