Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01
The Fusion of Know Nothings and Black
 Republicans.

We took occasion, lately to notice the fusion of these two parties, or rather the absorption of the know nothing fragments into the black re- publican party, whereat, we are informed some members of the late American party were quite indignant Inasmuch as they are gentlemen for whom we have esteem and respect, and who we are satisfied will in good time be found with the democracy, battling for the rights of the south, we write this to show them two things. First that the leaders of the late party are seeking an alliance with the black republi- cans, and secondly, that what we said was mild as milk compared with the language used by other journals, some of which were old line wings We might fill our columns with overtures from one party and acceptances by the other of reso- lutions of either party inviting coalition and evidences of union between the two. But'con- fning ourselves to the south we find that St. Louis, few days before the election, both the free-soil and know nothing papers made strong appeals to the Americans not to throw away their votes on Breckenridge, the American can- didate, and added these words:
 "Blair will, undoubtedly, receive many Ame- rican votes. He continues to be received by large and enthusiastic audiences, whenever he appears before the people, and the indications are favorable to his re- election by large plu- rality"
 We now copy the following pithy article from the Louisville Journal, leading know nothing paper We beg those gentlemen to read it carefully and ask themselves what Prentice means by "a thorough union of the true men, the conservative men, of all parties," in opposi- tion to democracy?
 "The Cincinnati Gazette, speaking of the election of democrat to Congress from the St. Louis district by reason of the division of the strength of the opposition between the Ameri- can and republican candidates, says
 So long as the opposition keeps divided into two nearly equal segmeuts, the result will be very much the same to the administration, as if it had a majority. We hope that little wis dom will be learned by experience.
 The Gazette is leading republican paper We hope that its counsel will not be lost upon it's political friends. A thorough union of the true men, the conservative men, of all parties is practicable, and, without it. there can be no just hope of the deliverance of the country from To- cofoco msrule."
 It is useless to deny that that the leaders are endeavorng to sell the remnant of their follow CTS, to the ilee-soiers, bodies, souls boots and brooches
 We do not wish to be misunderstood. We do not say that all those who still cling to the broken up fragments of the know nothing plat forms, are abolitionists There are honest but misguided men among them; men whose an- tagonsm to democracy blinds them to the true issue. We are cheerfuily willing to concede to slich men an intention to do right and to admit that they are actuated by patriotic motives- But we cannot help thinking that they are mis- taken in an attempt to keep up third party especially in the south. Now were our strc- lures half as severe as those of some our contem- porarleS? Take for instance, the following ar tice from the Vicksburg True Southron, and they ywill find that our remarks, however harsh they may have supposed them to be, are smooth in comparison with these.
 There is night in the political as well as in the physical world; those who are wise will pro- vde themselves with oil before the hours of darkness come. Thus says the True South