Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-05-25
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 There are in the State of Arkansas, as there were in the State of Kentucky and Maryland, men who believed in the separate organization of the American party in the south, and that II could be kept free from the taint of abolition ism. Such men are not willing to give up thelr opposition to the democratic party, to surrender their old prejudice., to strike hands with those whom all their lives they have fought against, yet they are conservatives and would sooner be disfranchsed than vote for or with abolition ists. The late action of the South Americans in Congress has placed these men in peculiar position. Disposed to do right if their old and cherished prejudices will let them-patriots at heart and believers in-ths doctrine of the se- psrate rights of the States-:cornipg to affiliate with bolitionists-disliking 10 join the demo- cracy-aware that separate organization of their party is hopeless and finding it impossible from the nature of things to remain peu:ral. these men are now in quandary. Others, whose proclvties are northern, may be willing to swallow the .ophistry and the stuff they at- tempt to dignfy by the name of argument, of certain of their leaders and journals and follow them into the ranks of the free soilers, but those to whom we have referred have too much sense to be misled and too much patriotism to become traitors to the south. They are aware that the Lecompton Kansas bill proposed to admit a State whose constitution recognized slavery, and that years ago, the abolition party inscribed upon their banners, as their chief motto: No admission, cf any State into the Union uhose constitution does not prohibit sla- very" This was dogma, an essential in their creed, point made by themselves, which they were pledged and determined to maintain. To conquer them on this point was to gain the first vantage ground; it was not only a victory of fact but of principle. They made the issue at the opening of Congress, and aided by the de- lection of few northern democrats and the speeches and votes of southern know nothngs, for few days enjoyed the triumph of having temporarily defeated the bill. The votes ta- ken, aside from the direct issue was important in showing that upon the vital question of sla- very the American party south was divided, some like Zollcoffer of Tennessee voting with the democrats, the others with the abolition ists.
 Whether the Lecompton constitution was work of fraud, was not material; the record was before Congress and they could not go be- hind 1.-the constitution before them was re- publican in form and that was all that was re- quired. Speeches of l6urs iu length, editorial. of column succeeding column and definitions of position, of words, sentences and paragraphs piled upon each other, however they may nnys- tify, do not alter .he prominent fact, that it was acontest between and pro-slavery anti-slavery- in other words, between democracy and aboli- tonism.
 The defeat of Fremont demonstrated that the only antagonist capable of contending with free-soilism is democracy, and the late events in Congress show that when abolitionisrn is to be met and the rights of tn. south maintained, the burden of the fight falls upon the democra- tic party. The American party Is dead-its leaders have divided and gone to the other two great parties, and it now remains to be seen what will become of its rank and file in the south One choice i. left to them; either to follow Bell. Crittendsn and others into the ranks of the abolitionists, or to join the demo- cratic party, and with it to present an undivi- ded front to northern aggression. The one is political suicide, the other the only hope of those who love the Union and are willing to help maintain it 50 long as we can enjoy equal rights under it.
 Will these men make true the prediction of Senator Wilson of MssSachusett, who in 1855 said: "We shall have glorious allies in the south. We shall have men like Cassus M Clay. We shall have generous, brave, gallant men rise up in the south, who will in their own time and in their own way, for the interest of the master and the bond man, lay the founda- ton of policy of emancipation that will give freedom to three and a half million of men in America" Or will they as Farelly, BstsoD, Palmer, Bertrand, and host of others have done, number themselves with the only trus national conservative party that exists or can exist, and help the democracy battle for the right? As Father Rtchie was wont to say. " Nous Ferrora"