Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-06-30
The Old Line wmgs and the Democracy.


 The course of the old line whigs, says the Boston Statesman, who joined the democratic party in the late presidential struggle, and sup ported Mir. Buchanan, was manly and patriotic. The new relations in which gentlemen hitherto opposed to each other found themselves, did not alter radical views of past questions. The democrat clung to his old views as to internal improvement by the general government; as to the tariff as to the independent treasury; and state rights, fortified by the general acqules- cence of the country, with even increased con- fidence in their vital correctness and vital nm portance; while the Webster whig ever claimed that his views as to the pending questions, as to sectioaahsm, were identical with those ot the democratic party. The administration has justly and wisely recognized the patriotic ser vice rendered by them; and the friends of MT. Buchanan-thoSe who joined the democrats to secure his eec.ion--now constitute noble national party Let the late Connecticut elec- ton say what this organization is doing in New England; let recent victories of the same party in the west speak for its onward march there; and let glorious Virginia, just out of contest stronger democratic than ever, sreak for the south.
 Other old line whigs are now joining the de- mocratic party; those in the late presidential struggle, who took MT. Fillmore as choice of evils; who could not overcome their long pre- II T +;o ,Narfyv ll1t Vnt could not suppress their disgust of the narrow ness and utter untenableness of the ground of the Know Nothings. These are represented in the case of Hon. Henry w. Hilliard, of Alabama He recently declined to run as the candidate for Congress of his old whig friends, if he must return there to oppose MT. Buch- apans administration; as his inaugural address met his appreciation. On taking this position Mir. Hilliard declared his views in an elabor- ate letter and in speeches. The National h. teligencer rather chided his position, and this has just drawn from Mir. Hillard another frank letter dated May 25 1857. In this he renews his pledge of fidelity to MT. Buchanans ad- mnistration and expresses the opinion that the free soil party is not scattered; and that it will rally for the next presidential election with more formidable strength and more dangerous purposes than it has yet exhibited.
 In view of this, Mir. Hilliard puts the fol- lowing searching questions
 "What have we to gain by opposing MT Buchanan's administration, or by weakening the democratic party? Old issues are dead and gone; the living questions are before us and ill regard to these l am at a loss to sec how the conservative men of any part of the country can make war upon the admlnlstra- ton.
 Never was Mr. Webster nobler, never great CT, never grander in sentiment or position, then when standing in Boston, surrounded by thou sands, who opposed with fierce hatred his wise and patriotic counsels, he exclaimed, Massa- chusettS must learn to conquer herself.' II he were living to-day he would, l do not doubt, make d similar appeal to the old whigs We must learn to conquer our prejudices; we must yield our support to just measures wher- ever we find them, and we must give our con- fdence to men who stood with us in the late struggle against the formidable hosts which dis puted the field so fercely, as the great states man to whom l have just referred declared, after the successful passage of the compromise measures of 1850 through Congress, he should ever after regard Cass and Dickinson and Rusk as political friends.
 The brilliant victory achieved by the demo- cratic party, with the cooperation of the con- servative men of other parties, has brought us into relations with each other which leaves nc room for former jeaousies and ancient preju- dces. The era of good feeling has, l trust really come, and henccforth we should SUD- port an administration borne into power by the late triumph of the friends of the constitution -appealing as it does so nobly to the conf. dence of the country by the wisdom of its projected measures, whether we consider their domestic or foreign bearing, and by the cleva- ton of its aims-unti we find some real cause of difference"