Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-11
From the Dollar Times of Dee. II 1S5G A Suggestion for the Next Presidency. A Statesman of the Old School

In our last issue we furnished our views in relation to the action of the antdemocracy and the next Presidency. It may be thought a rather early date for the discussion of the subject, but as there is much to be done in or der to provide successful rivalry to the now reigning party of the country, no time should be lost in preparing the way for future opera tions.
 In the article referred to we spoke of con- centration of the divisions of the opposition upon candidate upon whom both could rely w Q showed that In their divided conditions they were powerless, and that so long as they remained thus divided the democracy would be triumphant The last election was fair test of this, and must have convinced every calculating man, that with almost the entire vote of the south, and the vote of two north ern States, they are sure to succeed, and re- main as at present in power
 Between the two branches of the opposition there Is no directly antasonistic issue The American party Tn the last election clung to the main objects of their organization, viz: repudiatou of foreign influence and an exten- : sion "t the term of naturalization This was the platform on which the party was first founded, and to this it's members cluug with all admirable and lauiible tenacty because they deemed tho test had never been submit ted to the people and without their verdict they were unwilling to relinQnish it,
 On the side of the republican party we find no extended aversion to this issue of the American organization, but an entire devoted ness to one measure, an opposition to the ex- tension ot slavery. In the advocacy of this they labored with singleneSs of purpose that swallowed up every other consideration. lt Is true there was an apparent desire on the part of repubIcanlsm to concitiate the foreign vote, but we can only consider tn 1t was for the sake of the influence 1t would exert on the result of the election, and tot for any sympathy it really felt iu behalf of those who were aliens to our soil.
 It is needless to say that in that result they were disappointed. The foreign vote went where it had always belonged, and where it always will go so long as the democracy re- mains in power and are willing to truckle to it for the purpose of using it to its own profit Any disappointment the republican party might have experienced in regard to this move ment of foreignism, was certainly but poorly | founded, as a true knowledge of those with whom they sought an alliance should have convinced them that with them the swimming side'' was the main inducement and an un- willingness to forsake certainty for an un- certainty the leading characteristic.
 Between these two branches of the anti democratic party, then, we find in reality but this difference. Both were laboring for the es- tablishment of issues deemed by them the more important, and yet not directly at variance witL each other Among the American party there were thousands who felt a necessity of proh- biton in regard to the extension of slavery, but who at the same time regarded the issues of Amencanlsm of paramount importance to any other measures that could be or were introduced into the canvass. On the part of the repubIi- can party there were thousands who entertain ed the same feeling in regard to American issues, but who could not sacrifice the leading mea- sures of republcaniSm to any other considera-
 lon. Here then the difference was not in a va rance of opinion as to the importance of cer- tam measures, but as to the necessity of their immediate adoption. Americansm held that a change of the naturalization laws was not only imperative, but that such change should be without any unnecessary delay On the other sde the republican party claimed that the encroachments of the slavery interest de- manded the undivided attention of the free states, and that American issues were of secon- dary importance as to the period of enforce ment
 It was in this manner and not by any di- rect conflict of interests, that the anti demo- cratic party were in the last election rendered powelless, and that we now have, in consdera- ton of the entire sentiment of the people the choice of a minority portion, as the incumbent of the next Presidential chair. We would here again take occasion to state, that in thus l expressing our views in relation to a com bua- ton of all partins opposed to the democratic policy of the country, we manifest no desire for fusion that would sacrifice single prn- clple of the American party, but only ask such concentration of public sentiment as may be found in the convictions of a majority as expressed against the rule of the democracy and the means by which it is perpetuated- Without this, we repeat, both sections are powerless, and the government of the "unter- rlhed" must continue.
 CE5- In one of his recent speeches at Leaven- worth City, Kansas, MT. E. o. Perrin told the following story of Know Nothing down in Tennessee, who was listening very attentvely to the reading of the doings of the electoral college: