The true Democrat., 1856-01-01
For the True Democrat Federalism Dissected.
Or Federalism alias Nhigisn shown in
 their true Colors.

I their true ColOrs.
 NO. VII
 The federal party having drummed their scattered forces together preparatory to the pre-. sidential contest of 1944, relied for success as heretofore, mainly upon the guIlibility of the democrats, and therefore were not slow in fla bricating |" roorbacks'' to suit both northern and southern latitudes. According to "undoubted whig testimony at the north James K Polk was seen in Tennessee, to have from twenty. five to thirty negroes |" in chains," who were "wrthing in intense agony" under the "cruel scourging" inflicted upon them by Folks over- seer. Here at the south, Jas. K. Polk was proven by unquestionable whig authority" and of course entirely to the satisfaction of all orthodox whigs, to be nothing more nor less than straight out and out abolitonst
 Such was the incredulity of the democratic party in that year, that notwithstanding the un- doubted proofs so kindly and disinterestedly furnished by abolition whigs at the north, and slave holding whigs at the south, of Jas K Folks being both an aboltionist and a large slave holder, he was by an overwhelming ma jorlty placed in the presidential chair.
 The application of Texas for admission into the Union being rejected by the whig Congress of April, 1844, notwithstanding the we'll known machnations of northern abolitionsts, aided in their insidous attempts by Great Britain, to convert Texas into a non-slave- holding State, and thus preclude the south from an outlet for their surplus slaves, the democratic Congress which succeeded it in spite of the clustering and threats on the part of the imbecile Mexi. cans, admitted that large, fertile, and gallant State into the American Union. This measure on the part of the United States, gave rise to considerable acrimony and ill will on the side of Mexico, although Texas having remained in undsturbed possession of her rights eight years" was according to the laws of nations, entitled to the rank and position of an inde- pendent State.
 1 In order to bring the impotent Mexicans to a sense of justice no measure consistent with national honor and pride was left untried by President Polk. A minister extraordinary was appointed for the sole purpose of adjusting the boundary line between Texas and Mexico; and it was not until every effort at pacfcation had failed, and that our minister had been treated with the utmost indignity and contempt by the Mexican authorities, that President Polk order ed the United States troops to take position on the Rio Grande for the purpose of protecting American citizens residing near the boundary line. It was whilst occupying the position as. signed them that the American army was attack ed by the Mexican force, thus removing all doubts as to the fact of Mexico's having declar- ed war against the United States
 Compelled to defend our justly acquired ter rtory against the aggressive acts on the part of Mexico, as well as to sustain the national hon. or, President Polk asked for an appropriation of ten millions of dollars to place the country in a state of defence. No sooner was bill for that purpose introduced into Congress, than the fe- deral whigs in that body (true to that instinct which has characterized them from the forma- ton of our government down to the present day) did all in their power to defeat it, there | war of 1912, (wth honorable exceptions) trait ors to their country and its best interests.
 Such was the intense American feeling" ex- lsting at the time, that the whole of the whig orators and presses throughout the country cal led on the people to refuse men and supplies to aid our gallant little army then threatened with total annihilation by the overwhelming Mexican forces. As in days of yore, the feder- al presses belched forth their slang and abuse of their own government whilst such was their particular "dread of foreign influence," that they lauded Mexico Gas they did Great Britain) to the skies In many instances, the minis ters ofthe gospel (heaven save the mark ) descended into the arena of politics, and thun- dered forth their anathemas against all who would lift an arm in defence of their country's rights, imprecating on their heads the vengeance of the Mexicans, and fervently praying that their countrymen might, on their advent into Mexico, "meet with warm reception and bloody graves.''
 Who is it that could have imagined, that party, who have (with some honorable excep- tions) proven themselves open enemies to their country in two wars, giving all the aid and comfort' in their power to her adversaries, and who only lack another opportunity to pursue the same dastardly course, would have the au- dacity to hold up to scorn the treacherous con- duct of few ignorant Irish in Mexico? And yet such is the effrontery of that brazen- faced party; that they now affect to condemn in those traitors what they once commended as patri- otic conduct, proving to a demonstration, that all that was lacking on their part of acting worse than those traitors whom they affect to de- nounce, was the moral and physical courage to sJ to Mexico at all. It is we'll known, that whilst those native born American traitors were lauding those few Irish in the highest terms for their base and dastardly conduct, the whole of ou Irish fellow citizens, from Maine to Texas, denounced in the strongest terms those base renegades, who could for any other, treacher- ously desert the standard of America. As Americans then, until We can efface the conduct of an Arnold, an Allen, and Galloway from the revolutionary pages of our history until we can wipe out the stigma cast on our coun- try by the treachery of Hull,-together with the subsequent cond uct of certain party known as federalists alias whigs, alias Know Nothings, until we cease to foster native-bcrn traitors
 in our midst, let us cease to rail at the miscon- duct of few ignorant Irish, who in order to oblge their especial whig friends here in the United States shamefully went over to the Mexicans ARKANSAS.
 THE RAILRoAD.-All the eastern portion of the Mississippi Ouachita, and Red River rail- road, embracing 90 miles from Camden to the Mississippi river has been put under contract, and large nlmber of the contractors are now at work. The contracts are all to be completed l Q IL q,