The true Democrat., 1856-10-28
Southern Doughfaces.
None are So Blind as Those who Won't


 tuate those advocates and opponents un- der such circumstances. it is often diff. cult to demonstrate. The mind of no man can see farther than its mental eyes enable it to see; therefore, charity in such cases would generally compel us to conclude that these persons decide honestly from full survey of all the pros and cons their feeble minds can col lcct at one time, upon the subject.
 But some persons, with respect to their un- derstanding the nature of proposition or a measure-are blind under surrounding circum- stances that compes their neighbors to teel cer- tain that they are in the dark only because they will not see have in view the Kansas Nebraska measure and those southern citizens who oppose it, and who, in carrying out that opposition represent the views expressed upon the subject by leading northern and southern democrats. sn such e manner as to impress upon the minds of the people here that the demo- cratic doctrine upon the subject of slavery was anti-slavery in its nature, or was one thing at the north and another thing at the south.- Look, for instance, with what (feigned) gusto these southern dough-face dissimulators par ade bne-or-t,co extracts from the speeches of
 Douglas or Richardson or Breckinridge. Thus they find Breckinridge's free-soil procivities and the free soil tendency of the democra- tlc doctrlne-in a statement he made in free State lately--that "he had DO connection agih q hoT oJ the territories" etc. And Mr. Breckinridge was most righteously correct. For truly the demo-
 cracy makes it Gan object' to extend nothing but liberty and equal rights under the constitu- tion. It is never for the extension or the do- mnancy of any thing beyond it's constitutional
 right. For no manufacturing, for no commer- cial interest--for no institution, for no religious denomination beyond its equal rights The demagogue and the hypocrte may make the superficial think that the democracy is |" every thing by turns and nothing long" To produce this apperance all these haters of equal rights have to do is to aim their blows at the rights of the different interests into which society is divided, or to give some one unequal advan- tages over the rest, and the democracy in the pursuit of its duty may have to be by turns -agriculturalist, pro- Catholic, pro-naturali- zed citizen, pro-slavery-may be pro-Universa- list, pro- Unitarian, pro-M Methodist, and so on. The equal rights haters always have--and doubtless always will-give the democracy enough to do in defending the various condi- tions of society from their assaults and vile Not to go farther back, lately Catholics and citizens of foreign brth were the selected victims. Now the war is hottest against the rights of negro slave holders. Af- ter that is settled it will be some thing else
 Some of these sapient, vinegary politicians are very earnest in declaring that the action of the democracy of to-day not democratic, and prove it by showing us that the democracy took no such position formerly upon the subject! This is an old equal-rights- argument. The sentiments that the equal-rights- -haters will entertain fifty years hence would make them very good democrats of to-day; they will be ready to knock man down who would charge them with being opposed to the south ern people taking their property into any of the territories upon an equal footing with the people of any other section. They will feel insulted if any man will charge them with be- ing Know Nothings; but they will then be, as their predecessors are now, against the enforce ment ofthe equal-rights principle with regard to { b,, ,,l; .I +
 be appealing to the democracy for redress; and they will then attempt to show, as they do now. that the democratic party did not former ly take certain positions, etc. Every progress sive revolution of society turns up its peculiar phenomena-its peculiar phaze, and the demo- cratic principle and the equal-rghts hating principle hold on to their relative positions although their actual positions are changed carried Jtor'card with the progress of the age.
 Mr. Breckimidge was right l am aware the abotlonists of the north resort to the vile tac- tics of the Know Nothings-they tell the peo- pie there that the object of democracy is 10 ex- tend slavery-that 1t is pro-slavery, etc., as the Know Nothing cry from one end of the Union to the other was that the democratic party was for extending Catholicism-the influence of the Pope, etc, etc. The object of Mr. Breckin- ridge was to put down this lying impression by explaining to the people the high and noble aim of the democratic party. The clamor raised here by the Fillmoreites about the fa- nous statement of Mr. Breckinridge and oth- CT northern democrats since the passage of the kar sas- Nebraska measure is nothing but a "de ] turkey trick. It was said certain ta-
 vern-keeper had cooked and served up to his
 boarders dead t,yhey-the people were about to lynch Eim, when it turned out the tavern
 keeper killed the turkey, by which operation 1t got to Je dead Mr. Brecknridge says it is not the object of the democratic party to ex- tend slavery! What southern man will then go for the democratic party? Mir. Breckinridge may with equal truth say that it is not the ob- ject of the democratic party to extend Catholi- cism! What Catholic then should go for demo- cracy? The answer is clear and its truth a righteous one-the object of the democracy is to secure the rights of all-the south as well as the north, the Catholic as we'll as the Protes.
 tant. It is the equa-rights haters-the Know
 Nothings and the black republicans, whose ob- ject it is to spread or extend the privileges and
 the powers of political sections institutions and interests beyond the legitimate constitutional rlght-the interests of the northeastern States over the interests of the western and southern
 States-the Protestant religion over the Ca- tholc-northern rights and privileges over southern rights and privileges. The black re-
 publicans and northern Know Nothings are cla-
 morous for restrictive provisoes against the
 south, for confning negro slavery to its present
 limits. The southern Know Nothing helps the black republican to lash his southern de- mocratc brethren because they will not con- xot- .rT.- 4l