Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-11
From the New Orleans Cour;ar

Democracy Knows no Sections. The democrats of Philadelphia held their usual annual celebration in Independence Square on the Fourth of July. Invitations were addressed to many distinguished men and among them to Governor Wise, who re. 1 piled as follows:
 RICHMOND, Va, June %, 1857. | Genttemen:-The various exercises of our own people on the 4th of July next will pre- vent me from accepting your invitation to meet tue democrats of Philadel phia, that day, at h. dependence Square. But please salute them Ill my name, and assure them that we. in Vir. Sinla, are With them now as our fathers were Tn lU6, in advancing the cause of coost;tu- t.oaat liberty, and in promoting good fellow : | snlp' among all the people of the States for the
 Union of the States Denaocracy bnops no '''..'''. '''ii' HESEY :S"5y A. WISE.
 To James NJ. Leddy, Joshua M. Rayburp
 J. Marshall Esurs. l We can imagine the effect produced upon the large concourSe of democrats who stood on the spot haliowed by the most sacred assoca- tons of the revolution, when this laconically | eloquent letter Was read to them. Democrats everywhere feel just pride in belonging to a party which "knows no sections" Wherever they meet, whether ill Maine or Georgia, Ore- gon or Texas, they feel that they are meeting ieito"-ctlzens, Jolnt heirs of common heri- taSe' O. workers In common Cause, equal
 friends ot common constitution, all loving "iKe the great principles to which they have subscribed, all alike respecting the rights of others. It Is appropriate while celebrating the oay or the declaration of the rights of freomen and the triumph of revolution which culmi- m, ,f which all the States were bound in common unon, that democrat of Virginia should send to hls advertisements of Pennsylvania this brief and earnest greeting, closing with word, winch should be written on our banners in l.t- terS of gold. When independence was declared
 the lovers of liberty knew no sections. When the battles were fought by which that manifes
 to was made good, those who fell and those who survived to enjoy nations gratitude, knew no sections" When the wise and pat rlotic men assembled from all the States to fence around the liberties they had won with the guarantees and compacts of the Constitution. they knew no sections. And now, when that liberty IS more highly przed than ever and that Constitution better loved, because better understood, the members of the great national party who take the constitution for their plat form, may proudly proclaim that "they knew no sectionS.''
 It Is fortunate that there is party in the United States so sound and catholic in its tehets, so conservative of the rights of each State, so firmly pledged to the strict construc- ton oI Constitutional powers, 50 devoted to the malntenance of the national honor and to the promotion of national progress, that all honest Americans can Z ve to it their full adhesion without violating single duty and without tue sacrifice of any privilege But for the de- mocratlc party the labor, sacrifices and blood of revolutionary heroes would have won but brlei triumph over foreign foes But for it the country would long since have been discovered lhto Fragments, each all easy prey to des potsIn, or red with the blood of anarchy Were the factlonlsts who now shower their islanders upon democracy to succeed in destroying our party, It needs no prophet to foresee that national rum would soon be the reward for the "deep damatlon of it's taking off"
 How important Is 1t, therefore, for demo. crats ot all parts of the comleIeracy to cherish feelings of confidence for one another and 10 treat all questions which threaten to disturb that harmony with a wise and maynanimous tolerance. W hlle all are agreed that whatever Is done shall only be done legally, farlv and Wlth strlct regard to the wishes of those most concerned, what matters 1t if the democrats of the North desire one result while those of the south hope for different one? The difference m their desires ought not to create, and has not yet created sectional division in their ranks