Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-12
From the New York News. The Fatal Issue.

The Tribune has at last lit the torch by whose light the republican party is to be guided in its lnsidious design to dissolve the firm struc- tnre of the Union, and bring upon the great American republic all the terror and disaster of bloody war of sections. We call particular attention to the cautious and weary method which it has adopted as preliminary step in this treacherous and dabolical scheme. Hith- erto that paper, though never reputed to DOS sess the least spark of patriotism, has managed to disguise the deadly Upas of it's creed and purpose under a hollow profession of attach ment, It now emerges from ts lair, and like the wild beast ot the desert crouching and creep ing as 1t steals upon its prey, thus drives home the hrst blow III It's war upon free government.
 The first assertion is that between our fathers in the continental Congress there existed broad and radical difference; atnorherh and southern men were in reality arrayed against each other: that nevertheless for the sake of expedieucy the "uorthern members granted the apparent leadership to the south, for the sake of carry ing out their own views" Hence Washington was appointed to the command of the New England army, not because he was the man marked by Heaven as nations deliverer, but because 1t was the peculiar policy of the north and capital trick so to arrange it, Then again, con ruth-telng Tribune } "by sim liar piece of pollcy," Jefferson and other Virgil nialls were put forward to the lead in the Dec laration of Independence, New England states men suppressng for the time their own abilities 10 assist Ill the task. If such were the truth. better explanation would be that these modest patriots were afraid of their necks, well know ing that the signature of that instrument ent- tied them to King Georges particular consde- ration, and so left Seiferson and his Virginian compeers to bear the brunt of the responsibility. In further exposition of this difference. it goes on to say that from 1774 to 1799 in nine cases out of ter northern policy was adopted in spite of a strenuous southern resstance; that although Madison aud Randolph were prom- nent in the formation of the federal constitu- tion, it was nevertheless framed in conformity with northern ideas, and yet this is the consti- tuition against which the Tribune has showered every calumny that could be uttered!
 Again it says that for twenty five years the country was under the absolute control of the north; then, we ash, is not the south entitled to her share as well? When the balance of sec- tional strength crossed the Potomac and cut weighed New England influence and power, then, say the Tribune the hostility of the two divisions of the country was fully inaugurated
 
 until the whole land is either all slave or all free territory. It then proceeds to argue that from that time until the present day an increa- sing and irreconcilable antagonism has sprung up and will be carried forward until the dispute Is settled by the last and most dreadful appeal. There is no peace. The struggle had begun be- tween the norih and south on the very battle fields of the revolution, and o-day, with voice CT catheira, this great oracle of the republican party calls upoE us to imbrue our hands in the blood of sectional warfare. We accept the issue with eagerness, not because we have desired it, but because it will give us the opportunity for show. ing in the next presidential campaign how utterly opposed are the intelligence and conservative instincts of the American people to the unha- lowed policy which is shadowed forth. These Catanes must be taught that their scheme of civil war or dissolution Is dctestable in the eyes of all patriots, and will not be tolerated.
 The idea that the north and south have al- ways been at swords point and cannot remain united under the present constitution is new one It Is base attempt to lay the foundation of plot whose consummation was indicated in the late speech of Wm. II. Seward. It is to be the starting point of crusade against the con- mon rights of the States to free and untram- purpose of electing to the Presidency man meled exercise of their legitimate powers for the whose principles are to the last degree monarchi- cal and despotic. How crafty are these con. splrators in the propagation of their dark de. signs How essential to the accomplishment of thelr ends, to establish the fact that the north and me south have distinct and hostile interests, and that this feud was born in the very mids of our struggle for Independence. Do not all these symptoms clearly show to what an issue the republican" party are driving us? The whole argument of the Tribune amounts simply to this: History has proved that the two sections Of the country have ever been opposed to each other; that their political and social economy is totally distinct; that this difference is fatal to union, and that therefore the republic should be dissolved and become separate and independent nations.
 Here is the key to the objects of northern fanaIicism, and it opens the door to the issue which our enemies intend to make ill the cam.