Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-12-08
MORNING, DECEMBER 8. 1857,


 midway through Pennsylya Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and, indefinitely, westward. All north oi that line was black republican, and all south oi It was what was called Egypt.
 What did this mean? What portend? Why It was sign in the very heavens of the wisdom of Washing'on's Farewell Ad lress--t0 Je,ore of Forega L.aaeracs ant jSsrtional !Sylf The constant commercial and social intercourse of New England and New York with Old Eng land and the immediate neighborhood of the lake border with Canada had let in the wolf of English feeling and prejudice and social habit and fanaticsm and influence into our fold against the institutions of the whole United States, as established by our constitution of government It is the most insdous foe which has ever invaded our country. It is English influence, operating socially, undermining our institutions, and threatening our peace and safety, bound up in the cords of our National Union. In this sense ii is His nation--this tohole natIon-our nation against its old enemy English influence And who met that influ- ence and backed it from of our nations soil, past the Mason and Dixon and past the Mis- sourl line, far north' as the "Sun- Dog" line which divided black republican from Egypt?
 It was democracy -northem democracy national democracy! The same true sort of
 
 ism--which fought at Erie and Plattsburg and Lundy's Lane, and drove John Bull back into Canada That is the sort of nationality I love and cherish as I love and honor my country my whole country. With true devotion, in the midst of non-slaveholding passions and preju- dices-wth no ties or associations of their.o slavery, except national-wth fanaticism thun- derlng church anathemas and eXcommunication over their heads-they, the northern democ- racy, whether in majorities or prescribed minor itles, with strong nerves, with steady and un- wavering faith, taxed themselves with heavy contributions and raised the national flag of protection over our constitution of government, over our property of every sort, over good faith among men, over State rights and State equal. tv, over popular sef-government, over the States separately and united, over the United States, and battled for Us and for all and drove back the insdous and foreign foe to the Sun Dog line, where it yet glooms in defeat.-- Nothing is so fatally sure to kindle the pale and slckly beam of that !" blue lght' line of secton- alism into lurid flame of fire to devour our country, as for southern democracy to doubt disrust or deuounce northern democracy, after such noble sacrifices as those they made in the campaign of 1856. The southern democracy never has done this, and never will, until na-
 
 and devotion to the Union of the American States, ceases to burn ill American bosoms every where north aud south.
 Nationality in opposition to democracy or State rights, oppose. Ioppose ali that sort ot federal nationality which would consolidate us into one centralized despotism. 1 oathe that sort of nationality which proposes and adopts compromises of any sort, oi the constitution or for the constitution But the nationality of democracy, which supports and defends the constitution and its strict constructlon which maintains State rights and State equality and keeps the faith of compacts, which guards the Union aud the country aganlst foreign and do- mestic foes, 1 honor and cherish and glory ia! And this is the national democracy which this opposition, openly developed as ear as April last, in the south, assaifs. If this be stricken down, what have we to rely on or to ally with in the north? And, yet, 1t was to strike at this it was to follow up, not to begin the blows that the moment Governor was sent to Kan sas and he moved in his office It's sDeeches were seized on as d preteXt to assall the northern democracy and the administration and it's friends Destroy confidence in these, and then the riot of ruin would begin. It was then that con- 'servative democrats began to ask: Is this op- position or not?-If this be what is called the backing of friends what is the opposition of | foes? Is this opposition dangerous or not t?- Whose is it? Who are responsible for 1t? Who backs it? Whence does 1t come?-to what tend? It was no time to stop and daily with the minor matter of Mr. Walkers stump speeches--delivered with what motive to what end--pro or con slayery--with good or bad de- sign, no one could fairly deride, without know. ing all the surrounding circumstances and tfi- entities in which he was involved He had been a M Mississippi Senator He had been honored and trusted by the south. He had done more for the annexation of Texas than any southern Senator. He had been Secretary ot the Treas urv under southern President, and had done more for free trade than any man before or Sluce his time Ill the Cabinet Surriv tn. President could trust him not to betrav tn. south which he had thus served and which had thus honored and trusted him. and not to betrav the north which had borne hm. And he is an able and sagaclous man, too, whose talents might be trusted to form the best judgment on the spot as to the best and most polite move. mentS
 But whether he acted wisely or fuolishlv sagaciouslv or had bundered, or his intentions were good or bad, his acts and motives were nothing compared with the weightier matters of the country involved in this sud en and in- sidous opposition which gave no time for de- velopments, or for dlspassohate examination and proof, even for just condemnation of him, ii he had done Wrong-but began hot and heavy war upon him as a corrupt satfaD" felon tratorl This could not but reflect upon the administration and the party which appoint ed and retained him in place. It Was not in- genous to pretend to discriminate between the ' President and the Governor of the territory" l. l. criminal, MT. Buchanan was bound to know it, and if he knew it, he was no better, but rather worse that Gov. Walker. This reasoning this opposition knew would seize on the public mind, and would, il uncontradicted impair confidence in the administration. It was making an ad- verse impression rapidly, when the Enquirer interposed with its trenchant pen, as of old, and arrested the rush of the charge on the national democracy and its representatives in power.- It took up the inquiry: " Is not this rank hos tility? Is not this prepared and premature opposition before the administration has begun its course-beiore 1t has met its first Congress- or sent its first message? What doe. 1t mean? Whose is it? Who backs it?' thank the Enquirer for that blow. The shade of the Old Napoleon of the press smiled in his parental lowering over the Enquirer, when that sturdy blow teil n its stroke for his darling democracy In my nmost heart felt right we'll when that brave blow was struck. It was brave and bold t. strike il; for the public printing, as well as the Senatorshp was at stake, 1t seems. The activity in the elections last spring looked not only to the ncumbency of MT. Hunter, but to the incumbency of the Enquirer too; and, doubtless, to all the great interests nvolved.- The Enquirer, assuredly, has saved the demo- cracy of Virginia from being involved in this porcupine opposition.
 All this time, it was not known whether Mr. Hunter took any part in this opposition, though many If his most active partisars did; and hence it was suspected that if he not partici pant in it, he was to be the beneficiary of it. if 1t should succeed. Certain it is that what was at first rumor and surmise about my alleged de- sign to contest with him his seat in the Senate, was turned at last into taunt to me and my friends. "Run, if you dare, you cannot beat | Mir. Hunter" It was vain to reply: {" l do not desire to beat him.'' The taunt came back