The true Democrat., 1856-05-27

d .COuT, and no grand chamberlain to marshal free-soilers into places To make the Nebraska bill the issue and then not to take a man who Is the embodiment of the principle is to make mockery of the issue It is to lower your flag in the face of the enemy.
 In this connexon will make few remarks upon new article of faith, which it is propos- ca to introduce into the democratic creed, viz: the one-term principle. Is it congenial to the theory or practice of the government? The constitution of the United States is treaty between the several States, and was intended especially to be the guardian of your foreiun relations and commercial intercourse. The president of the United States is the represen- tative of the soverelgntes of the several States and is intrusted with especial cognizance of their foreign relations. In domestic affairs he is endowed with the veto power, to check ag- gression and unjust or unwse legislation. Will you secure fuller knowledge of your foreign affairs, or a more liberal wisdom in the conduct of domestic interests, by the adoption of the one term principle? If not, how, then, does 1t conform to the theory of your government? Is 1t consonent to its practice? Was it adopted by the founders of the republic; or was it sane toned by those later statesmen and patriots who were cradled amid the thunders of the re- voiuton? No; it is an excrescence upon these later days; 1t is one of the many fetid issues which now spring up, rank and rife, like mush- rooms upon rotten trunk.
 But where Is the danger of making the Pre- sident accessible to denomination? Is it from the patronage of the government, or the cor ruptabity of the officer? If the former, then the government has swollen into illegitimate power and influence and is corrupting your people. Then central despotism has been
 
 and is corrupting the people through the ap- pllances of power and the trappings of office, If this be true you must cleanse the fountain, and not the turbid waters below it. Bring back the government to its original principles rescue ic from the grasp of conqe,les of asso- ciated interests, and reduce it to republican simplicity and the remedy is applied.
 If the danger is in the corruptabity of the officer this arises from the perverted and az. grandlzed functions of the office. Restore it to its primitive purposes. No; this fear is founded upon the perversion of the office and the compatibility of the people. If the fear Is well founded, your system Is failure.
 1 have now Mr. Chairman, examined the condition of the republic and the policy of the democratic party. In the next election l will strike with it, because it comes nearest to my standard of the right; but, after it is triumphant, if it loses its purity or forieits its pledges, as 1 TOW strike with it I will then strike against it. 1 cannot go on board the Know Nothing craft; for, however seasoned its timbers, and strong its spars its ship articles are only for a housing venture on narrow wa ters, and stealthy voyage from headland to heaGlanG. The black republican vessel has no charms. X piracal flag floats from its masthead, and the manifest of its crew is to SCOUT the seas, marauding on every coast, and cannonadlng, bombarding, and sacking every city. The democratic ship alone has consti- tutlonai flag over t, and it's mission is to sweep through the waters, scattering in every land the seeds of peace and civilization, and rearing m every cline the monuments of republican liberty.
 The mission of the democracy is indeed noble one. It holds the government in al. most ee-simple; if 1t be true to the constitu- ton 1t will hold it absolutely in fee simple Thus holding It, 1t may use it as a lever to dsenthral and regenerate the civilization of the world, not by military propagandism, not by lire and steel, but by the influence of mi1d and lofty example Its mission is to break the barbarc darkness of centures--to enthrone again that knowledge which in olden time made men as deml- gods-to set at work "power subter than brute force, and mightier than armed numbers Aye, to teach men once more to pay homage to the royalty of mind And what masnifcen; appliance, it has 10 ac- complish this destiny. With the blool of every people flowing through it's veins: with the intellect and energy of every race nher- ted; with the treasure of language its spols- as the the temple was built on the brow of Moriah, by Canaanite and Tvrian; as Lebanon gave her cedars to land Opher hergold; so, too, d temple seems to have been builded here by the elect of all lands, on whose altars patriot ism might kindle its fires, and from whose DOT tals philanthrophy might go forth to meet the future leaning upon the arm of Jehoviah.- Your past is indeed typical of your future Se- venty-hvc years ago you were scanty band- Now you number millions on millions: and while the census-taker is at work hundreds of thousands are added to the list Then thirteen States blazed upon your banner of stars Now how many are there? You cannot tell me- for even while you count them, new States are wheeling into the Armament and mingling their brightness with the blaze of the federal con- stelaton! Yes, all over your sky rays of light are crystallzing into stars and they are crcling ronnd your galaxy.
 HALL FOR THE DEMOCRATIC CoNvENr1oN.- At meeting of the national democratic as soclation last night, the president Mir. Long, stated that the committee appointed to make inquiries in relation to the procurement of hall for the meeting of the democratic convention next month, thought Smith & Nixon's Hall the 1oot Il 4l, q. ! 1