Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-11-24
Grnnd Lnke. Ark. Nov. 3d. 1857.

Grand Lake, Ark, Nov. 3d. 1857. MR. RICHARD JOHNSON
 Dear: Sir When was in Portland, Maine, last summer, picked up the Advertiser" in which I found the enclosed article. As it has always been the habit of certain Know Nothing | presses in this State to deny the nationality of the democratic party and to endeavor to make the impression among southerners that the party is abolitionized in the north it may be we'll for you to republish this article, coming as it does from one of the most northern States of the Union. It will at least show to the southern people that the democracy of the north is true to them and their "peculiar institution" However, use it as you may think proper.
 The Advertiser is a rabid black republican sheet. Its falsehoods and interpretations about the democracy being in favor of enslaving "poor white men'' flow from it as naturally as water flows down hill. In order to make out an odious case against that party it had to lugg such falsehoods in.
 It is really refreshing" to see the manner in which you 'pitch into" that most silly of all nonsensical things, "rotation" up and at 'em again!
 The Tendency of the Democratic Party"
 In obedience to the inevitable laws of politi- cal gravtation, the democratic party as at pre- sent organized and directed tends to the estab- lishment of "human slaverv'' wherever it has supreme mastery and control of the boly politic. This tendency is being manifested not only in the avowed policy of the national organization, oh tbo oft ,o1a Dred Scott decisions, throws open all of our public domain for the benefit of the slave holder but is now being more especially exhibited by those local agtations for the establishment of negro servtude in all parts of the country where there is possible chance for its introduction.- In the territory of Oregon, for instance, the whole "democratic' organization Is committed to the policy of introducing slavery, notwithstanding the organic law passed in 1849, and signed by President Polk expressly "prohbted the ex- istence of involuntary servitude" within the domain comprehended by the act. This pro- hibtion, passed by "democratic' Senate and "democratic'' House, and signed by demo- cratic'' President, is now repudlated by the "democratc" party as having been efectually nulifed by the force and effect Of the Dred Scott decision. The strong probability now IS, that under the lead if Gen. Lane and other de- mocratic "worthies" of Oregon, that territory will present herself for admission to the next Congress with a slavery constitution, and if so, there can be no boubt that the dominant de- mocracy'' will vote to admit her.
 An agitation of a somewhat similar nature has seized upon the democracy of that benighted portion of Illinois, which bears the appropriate cognomen of Egypt" and to whose almost unanimous support of MT. Buchanan, that gen. tleman is indebted for the electoral vote of the | State The Southern Illinois Gazette, the pecal exponent of democratic principles in that region, is out bodily in favor of having slavery allowed and tolerated in that State In recent number it uses the following explicit and un- mistakable language. After referring to the curse of free nggers'' with which illinois is afflicted, the Gezette says:
 eff we are to have the African race among us, 1et us haUe hem slaUes, well fed, well clad, but kept in their proper sphere, and allowed ali the privileges consistent with their real wants and the safety and well being of our own race. l As philanthropist and friend to the whole l human family, we greatly prefer the latter" l The very same doctrine was practically avow- l ed by Senator Douglas in his recent famous l speech at Springfield He even went further, and laid down principle which legitmately leads to the enslavement of the German or Irish, or any other race, in case they should, by a re- verse of fortune, become helpless and incapable of taking care of themselves. The Senator an- nounced his proposition in the following terms: It has been the rule of civilization and chris l tianitv the world over, that wherever any one man or set of men were incapable of taking care l of themselves, they should consent to be govern ed by those who were capable of managing their affairs for them.'
 | When Mr. Douglas made this speech, it will l be remembered that the New York Dav Book, an intensely "democratic' paper, asserted that i he almost guilty of plagiarism in reproduc- ! ing the precise sentiments which for some time 1 previously had been gracing it's columns. This declaration of the Day Book becomes the more significant and enables us the better to appreciate Mr. Douglas meaning when we remember | that that paper has for some time past been ad- vocating political doctrines plainly looking to the | enslavement of !" free whites" and that not long since, in alluding to the poverty and Restitution among the "poor whites" of New York, it made the following recommendation as to the best mode of disposing of them:
 Sell the parents of these children into slave ". Let our Legislature pass a law that who. ever will take these parents and take care of them and their offspring, in sickness and health -clothe them, feed them and house them--shall l be legally entitled to their services; and let the same Legislature decree that whoever receives these parents and their children, and obtains their services, shall take care of them as long as they live"
 With such significant indications as these, as to the tendency and the animus of the "demo- cratc' party, it becomes the duty of northern liberty-oving men to repudiate and everywhere abandon it. It is so entirely and so shamelessy committed to the interests of the slave power. tha: nothing but its own diabolical imprudence could enableit for one moment to solicit the sup i port of a free community"