The true Democrat., 1856-02-26

and pressed upon the minds of all present, the great principle of the bill so cogentv ex- pressed by President Pierce as "the final consummation and complete recognition of the principles that no portion of the United States shall undertake through assumption of the powers of the general government, to dictate the social institutions of any other portion." Upon this broad and grand princi- pie he showed the democracy were firmly planted. He demonstrated their soundness and the nationality of their organization Upon that party alone the south could repose with safety, her interests and her honor and that It was the political salt of the nation.- Col Il. then showed the people the pedestals upon which the midnight order of cavernites stood, resting upon the one leg on the resolves of the Hartford convention, decrying foreigners, of which old federal John Adams was the fa- ther, and upon the other on the address of Benedict Arnold after his deserton of the American flag, charging the officers and soldiers of the American army with being untrue to liberty, because they bowed down in worship of Almighty God within the walls of Catho- lie church. He powerfully illustrated the fa- tai tendency of the struggle of conscience, of those who had sworn to acknowledge the s1ons given by the members of the secret order in distress to those who had sworn to do their duty as officers of the law. He proved the rottenness of the Know Nothing party from beginning to end; they were rag tag and bob tail society, made up like au old womau's quilt of the cast off garments of twenty years, and looked as the bed upon which great Villiers died, "where tawny yellow strove with dirty red" Upon the boasted nationality of this con. cave, he was most convincing. He arraved thelr representatives from the various sections of the Union upon the floor of the House of Re. presentatvcs at Washington, and as he intro duced each faction, he briefly told their ante cedents and showed how completely Sam had been swallowed by the abolitionsts of the north leaving nothing but the southern Know NothlngS III sight, aS the tail that showed where the body had gone.
 Mr. Humphreys arose and followed in two hours effort, like an empty chaise numbering over the uneven way he had to travel. He wandered like vagrant star and went head long against one and then the other of the false and absurd notions he had geaned from the letters of poor Jere Clemens of Alabama, and old fshy Sam Houston, of buckskn and cout notoriety in this part of the world He had not deemed how fimsy these props of his were or else he had never held them up "HCiO tiiO Ol VI uIH WOutu Ut upon them by his adversary. He tottered along loaded down with the length of time he had to fret the air with tie vindication of his con- federates. He trembled in every fibre of his frame, and his tongue often played him truant. His anecdotes were this day pointless, and he wound up before his time elapsed with few touching words to his brethern in relation to the lettering to be planted upon his monument when he should be no more.
 Col. II. closed the debate which we term it, not for what it was but what it should have be:n, in brilliant speech of three quarters of an hour, in which he drove home the main points of his first argument and cliuched them upon the minds of his hearers--then, like the lion dangling the Kid, he amused the crowd with anecdote and illustrations of the richest and rarest type at the expense of his Hindoo antagonist, and those of his chums who hung arond within hearing and groaned under the tagellatlon he received as a martyr to their cause.
 He urged the democracy to be on the alert, to sound the alarm, and to stand by th'ir arms and in the coming contest present :" an undi- vided front to their enemy" Nor pause not in tner onward march until they had made a clean sweep of Know Nottingham throughout the State.
 Col. HIS anecdote, in concluding, illustrative of the encounter he had been threatened with before reaching here, and the encounter he had undergone-was singularly apropos and will be long remembered and lau5 5hed over by all who heard it.
 We have not attempted to give even a sketch of the mastery speech of Col. Hind man, and have stopped at but allusion to some of his points, We would that every cit izen could have heard it. It was able elo- quent and convincing. Without other laureis won on former occasions in bold advocacy of his party and h;s section, this effort would alone place him in the front rank of popular orators Ill the south. It possessed in the highest de- gree all the elements of political eloluence.
 The democracy of Crawford owe Col. Hind man debt of lasting obligation for the fear less defence he uttered of their principles and ther tried leaders, and the crushing blow he struck the insdious order that had grown so arrogant in our midst. He spread joy among the patriotic and the true men of the unhnch. ing democracy They will ever utter praises to the name oft their eloquent champion, and warm ly tender him every wish for the happersss and success which his merits as scholar, an orator and democrat so richly deserve, and which as- -.-suredly guides the future of his way.