The true Democrat., 1856-03-11
From the Louisiania Courier, Feb. ?: The Boldest Idea Yet.

W HOH OCHdIOl bCLJdiHlli, III llC lCClCI u some of his old whig friends, published last summer, in justification of his refusal to con- meet himself with the Know Nothing party, declared that it was feature in the plan of the traitorous band-leagued together at the North under the black tag--to overthrow the insti- tutions and trample on the rights of the South ito stop the supplies of the government until their demands were compiled with, and the South Was on its knees, he was regarded by many as an idle alarmist. Even such abolition journals as the New York Evening Post ridicul- ed such prediction. In the South, in our own city, 1t was received with incredulity and both the journals and the orators of the wig party taxed their wit and elequence to throw doubt and ridicule on the idea. Randall Hunt, the great oracle of the Know NothngS in this city, made what were regarded his happest points in exposing this proof of his distinguished ri- val's lack of sagacty, nerve and unionism; and the enlightened audience who applauded his sonorous sentences, were in ecstacies of fun and delight at the ludlcrous pictures drawn by him. to illustrate MT. Benjamin's short-sighted and anti-Amercan statesmanship We think by this time, and especially when they read what follows, they will, to use a common phrase "laugh on the other side of their faces," and have reason to think more favorably of the sagacity of Mir. Benjamin, and less of that of Mr. Hunt Under the caption of "ln fnmol Us Suggestion" the Washington Union of 18th February has the following
 The republican dictator, who issues his or ders through the New York Tribunne, amour ces that the admission of Kansas as State with the constitution lately adopted against law, "s the question of war or peace," and that q it lies with the House of Representatives to decide t.' The mode of proceeding is disclosed in the following infamous suggestion:
 "Such being the state of the question, we submit that case has arisen in which the peoples House is fully justified in exerting to the utmost ol its power over the peoples purse to carry out the peoples will If the Senate and executive, in obedience to the savery-e -ex- tending factions, refuse to admit Kansas with its free constitution, let the supplies be with held. To do otherwise is nothing else than to put into the hands of that remorseless faction the means of involving the nation in blood and flames, with the full knowledge that they mean to do it. After the nefarious avowal which Pierce made in his recent special message-that he will sustain the acts of the ruffian Legisa- ture--and the still more explicit declaration of the proclamation which we publish this morn- ing, would 1t be less than madness to subject the national treasure to his expenditure, with out some substantial guarantee that it should not be used to murder the free state people of Kansas or some act putting it beyond his power to do so? Any representative of free state who votes dollar to the army of which Gen. Pierce is the constitutional commando in chief, before such barrier is set up in Kansas, ought to weigh the question of his own personal safe. ty for some little time ahead. He may be sure bic twill to bripr abo1,t cta of +b very different from that in which shareholders who threaten to muster their slaves under the shadow of Bunker Hill monument, now tra- verse the north in perfect security"
 When 1t is remembered what absolute con- trol the New York Tribune now exercises over the party which has the majority in that branch ofCongress, where all appropriations must origi- nate-when it is borne in mind that the editor of this paper has been the chief whipper in of the "repubcan hand,' and the Warwick of the Banks speakershi p--such declaration as the above may be received and should be treat ed as real proposition, foregone conclu- son." It Is in fact an authentic manifesto and declaration of war. When there is such con- tilct between the executive and the legislature that the latter withholds from the former the means of conducting the gOvernment-a revo- lutlon Is declared and begun--the regular go- vernment Is disSoved--the consti. ution tram pied on, and our political system reduced to chaos.
 It has been great weakness of the south, in its love of the Union, to receive with incredu- ity the warning of its political chiefs and wise men as to the designs of the enemies of our rights, of our equality in the confederacy. We have treated idly cautions ana premonitions that were full of wisdom and prescence It is time we had awaked from this delusion and thrown off this weak and indolent habit of re- posing on our own good faith and trusting to that of our northern brethren. Whilst we arc divided upon unimportant points of political differences, upon mere temporary questions of policy our enemies are Strengthening and con- solidating their forces into phalanx, which, if not soon met and overcome, will ride over us trough shod" and leave us only the tradition of freedom and state sovereignty in this Union If such declarations as we have quoted, confirm ed by that most audacious of all the official acts of abolition, the composition of the committees of the House of Representatives so as to exclude from the chairmanship every southern repre- sentative but one, will not convince and arouse the "unbelieving south" then they would not believe "though one should rise from the dead"