The true Democrat., 1856-10-21

sity-the absolute necessity exists for every de- mocrat in the State to go to the polls on Tues day, the fourth day of November next, and cast his vote for the democratic electors.
 The contest which next November is to de- eide, is one of no ordinary importance. It is the death struggle for the Union and the Con- stitution. On that day will be tested distinct ly. we solemnly believe, the devotion of the people to the constitution. Without that con- stitution is sustained with devotion, it must go down beneath the mighty storm of bitter and relentless fanaticism that now assails it.
 We, of the South, are in a woful minority at the ballot box, if we measure strength against united northern people. In any conflict then, if we hope to triumph, we must not only pre- sent an unbroken serried column of southern States, but we must diuide the northern. Our only hope in the present unhappy contest is from the DEMOCRACY, the only national consti- tutional party the troubles of the times have left. Our only hope is that the northern de- mocracy, who are true and gallant, will, for the sake of good faith and the thousand blessings the Union secures, be able to triumph in suffi- ciency of northern States to elect democratic President and crush forever the abolition party. Our hope is that, with the vote of the undivi- ded South and that of few northern States for James Buchanan, we may break down aboli- tionism and establish national constitutional policy, under which, with returning reason, this do and the peace and brotherly concord of former days be re-established.
 We hope this, but we know that the conflict is violent. The great body of the northern States, led astray by ambitious demagogues, are bitterly and hopelessly against us. We can claim with confidence only four States at the north. The remainder, swayed by fanaticism, are for Fremont, the abolition candidate The four we claim, supported by the undivided South, are barely sufficient to defeat the abol- tion ascendancy in the Federal Government The loss to us of Pennsylvania alone, will se- cure the election of Fremont It is idle to dis guise the fact.
 What can the South expect in this Union with Fremont as our President? What can we hope for when the government goes into the hands of the abolitionists, the people and the party who abhor us-who violate the sa- cred faith between us-who give aid and honor to him who robs and steals our property-who mingle their denunciations of us with their prayers-who, in their public discussions, in their private converse and even in their pull pits, characterize us as the accursed of God and man? What can we hope for in such hostile hands?
 The South must be united in the support of the democratic Presidential ticket. Our only hope is in the success of that ticket, and while southerners look to the northern democracy for aid and assistance, they must not forget them- selves to be true. The northern democracy are contending for our rights gallantly, and, if they fail, this Union, in our opinion, will have run its career. From Fillmore and his friends there is no hope. In the State elections they have fused with the black republicans, and they have done so at the North, not only because they are in too hopeless minority to stand by them selves but because they are also inmical to southern rights and interests. To the democ- racy alone, the South must look, and when they are stricken down, the Union of the States will have received blow from which it will never recover
 We speak this for the sake of the Union.- We would have the Union as it is, a union of sisters, sacredly preserved, but while we labor and pray for its continuance, we do not forget that great people as the south are cannot be made to perish, cannot be subdued or destroyed, even though the Union be rent asunder We are not an advocate of the Union from any fear that in disunion, the south would be unable to sustain herself. The southern States alone equal in area France and Spain, Italy, Austria and Germany, all combined. They have ex- haustless resources. They are the great foun- tain of the mighty commerce of the world.- They are peopled by an active, energetic, daunt- less race of men, whom the world in arms could not subjugate. If then the Union falls, the South will still be united and powerful. She will neither divide nor be destroyed Long will she live in any event-in the Union or out of it-and her life will be the triumph of en- frightened reason, and her shores the sanctuary of human liberty.
 We fear not to speak plainly the truth to our own people with all its responsibilities If Fremont is elected this Union is no longer safe for the South. The history of liberty in all ages and in every land is it's fall beneath silent encroachment and stealthy action. Steps against the liberties of the South will be insidu- ously commenced with the inauguration of John c. Frenaont-the traitor to the soil that gave him birth. The Union beneath abolition sway, which wars upon our rights, encourages the robbery of our property, which pronounces the constitution a covenant with hell because it protects us, which proscrbes and derides us on account of our institutions, will no longer be safe
 Thus perilousy standing upon the brink of revolution, it behooves every man to reflect what is his duty and sterny to seek to perform it, step by step. The first step is towards the peaceful remedy provided by the law and the constitution. Our first step is towards the bal lot box, where, if governed by reason and the right, we can and we must dispel the gloom that is fast gathering around us. Imminent is the danger of the Union LOW, and it may be the last ballot we shall ever cast, the last testi- monial and tribute we shall be able to give of our love of that Union and our faithful devotion to its continued existence
 Go then to the polls. men of Arkansas, every man of you, on the lst Tuesday of November and vote for James Buchanan, the friend of the Constitution and the Union To %. re- quires but day at most-gve one day to your country. No one can tell but that it is the last to