Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-12-08
Stewards Manifesto.

And directs the storm"
 He not only makes an issue on slavery bnt also on the tariff. Not content with opposno the two sections of country on these questions he enforces antagonsm on another. Here are some of his positions:
 "Our country is theatre which exhibits in full operation, two radically different political systems-the one resting on the basis of servile or slave labor; the other on the basis of volun- tary labor of freemen. The laborers who are ensaved are all negroes, or persons more or less | purely of African derivation But tj.js is 0n1y accidental. It was the antagonistc political tendencies of the two systems which the first Napoleon was contemplating when he predict ed that Europe would intimately be either all Cossack or all Republican. Never did human sagactv utter a more pregnant truth The two systems are at once perceived to be incon- 1 gruous. But they are more than ucougruous, | they are incompatible. They never have per manently existed together in one country, and | they never can. It would be easy to demon strate this impossibility from tho rrecouc.lable contrast between their great principles and characteristics. But the experience of mankind has concusivcly established it. Shall l tell you what this collision means? They who think it is accideptal, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agi,ators and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case al- together It is an irrepressbe conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means | that tue United States must and eojU sooner or Inter, become entjrelya slauehol{ny nati0n or en- | hreiy C free lab0r mutton. Either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina and the sugar plan tatonS of Louisiana will ultimately he tiled by | free labor, and Charleston and New Orleans be- come marts for legitimate merchandise alone. or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massa- chusetts and New York must again be stlrren- dered by their farmers to slave culture ard to the production of slaves and Boston and New oEk become once more markets for trade in the bodies and souls of men. l. Is the failure to apprehend this great truth that induces so many unsuccessful attempts at final compro- mise between the slave and free states, and it Is the existence of this great fact that renders all such pretended compromises, when made, vain and ephemera"
 We have not the space to copy the whole speech though the man and the time give it so much importance, but it is due to our read CTS to show them how their most dreaded cne- my proposes to set about destroying their ear- est interests. It will be seen from the f,llow- ing extracts that he identifies the democratic as the pro-savery party of the country and pre- diets its downfall:
 "l ask in reply, is there any other party which can be more safely trusted? Every one knows that 1t IS the republican party, or none. h at shall diaplace the democratic party Bat an sWer further that the character and fidelity of any party are determined, necessarily, not by Its pledges, programmes and platforms, but by the public exigences, and the temper of the people when they call it into activity
 Others cannot support the republican party. because 1t has Lot sufficiently exposed its plat form and determined what it will do and what 1t will not do, when triumphant. It may prove too progressive for some and too conservative for others As if any party ever foresaw so clearly the course of future events as to plan universal scheme for future action, adapted to all possible emergencies Who would ever have joined even the whig party of the revolu- ton, Ii It had been obliged to answer in l775 whether it would declare for independence in 1776, and for this noble federal constitution ot ours, in 1707, and not a year earlier or later?- The people of the United States will be as wise next year, and the year afterwards, and even ten years hence. as we arc now They will obiiGe the republican party to act as the public welfare and the interests of justice and bumani- ty shall require, through all the stages of its career, whether of trial or triumph.
 
 know that the democratic party must go down, and the republican party must rise into Its place. The democratic party derived its strength originally from its adoption of the principles of equal and exact justice to all men 50 long as 1t practjced this principle faithfully, t was invunerabe. It became vulnerable when 1t rcnounced 1t, and since that time it has maintained itself, not by virtue of its own strength, or even of its traditional merits. but because there as yet had appeared in the poli- hcaI field no other party that had the conscience and the courage to take up and avow and prac- tte the lie inspiring principle which the demo cratic party had surrendered At last the re- pubhcan party has appeared. It ayows now. a: the republican party of 1900 did, in one word Its faith and its works. Equal and exact ius tce to all mem Even when it first entered the field, only half organized, it struck blow which only just failed to secure a complete and triumphant victory. In this, its secoud cam palgn, 1t has already won advantages which ren. der that triumph now both easy and certain.
 The secret of ils assured success lies in the very characteristic, which in the mouth of scof fers constitutes its great and lasting iubecilitz and reproach. It lies in the fact that it is 1, party of one idea; but that idea is noble one. an ldeathat fills and expands all generous sopls -the idea of equality-the equality of all men before human laws, as they are all equal be- lore the Divine Tribunal and Divine Laws.
 l know, and you know, that a revolution has begun. know, and all the world knows that revolutions never go backward. Twenty Senators and hundred Representatives pro clum boldlyin Congress to day, sentiments and opinions and principles of freedom which hard lv so many men even in this free State dared to utter in their own homes twenty years ago. While the government of the United States, under the conduct of the democratic party, has been all that time suTendering one plain and castle after another to slavery, the people of the United States have been no less steadily and perSeverng y gathering together before the forces with which to recover back again all the fields and the castles which have been lost, and to confound and overthrow, by one decisive blow, the betrayers of the constitution and of freedom forever.''
 Does not this, does not every political event of late go to show that there are and will be but two political parties in the countryside democratic and the ppositon-the pro-slavery and the black republican. The issues are made up and on the shoulders of the democracy rest the hope of the Union, and in their hands is placed the flag of freedom. Shall we not be faithful to the trust? Will not all unite in com batting the common foe? This will be no or dinary contest for place or power but as;rugg e for life and death, a contest for existence.
 For the True Democrat.
 Mixed Schools.
 MR. EDIroR:-From the interest your paper manifests in educational matters, I am encour-