Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-10-19

"FELLw- -CITIZENs: am an American-a straight out American. l, with others, advised and signed the call for this meeting. 1 need no introduction to you, nor need consume your time by returning thanks or paying omrliments.''
 ' It is,'' says the proverb, "a wise child that knows its own father' The Stockton family, we think, is English, though it may have mixed with other blood in order to produce straightout. Granting Stock ton mere to be an American, unlike another distinguished know nothing who admitted his mother was an Irishman, what certainty Is there about Stockton pere? But admit ting it all tobe legitimate, this exordium of the z. bold sea-faring man. at once de- fines his position and establishes his cha racter for wisdom. It occurred to us that this declaration must have had strange effect upon his auditors. There they were near descendants of English, Irish, Scotch, Dutch, French, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese; of every nation and cline, not perhaps excepting Africa. If 1t had been possible to trace up the streams of blood flowing in the veins of the intense l Americans who cheered this declaration of | the Commodore, what strange mixture would have been presented! Their fathers, | grand parents, or at most their great grand parents, had crossed the ocean and every artery in their bodies was full of foreign | blood; in nine cases out of ten, so crossed, that it would puzzle gesnalogist to tell which predominated. Suppose, when the 1 bold Commodore uttered this sentiment, there had been present North American Indian, a descendant of those who roamed the sandplains of New Jersey before that champaigne kingdom was discovered by the whites. Had this aboriginal been told that this same Robert Field Stockton has a coat of arms and traces his descent from foreign ancestors, claims to have "gentle blood" in his veins, that not long ago coursed in the veins of foreigners, in all probability he would have grunted an ex- pressive "Ugh." which, we take it, is the Indian for "humbug"
 The Commodore goes on to state the ob- ject of the meeting. It appears that the bulk of the Americans had fused with the black republicans and this arrangement de- stroyed the hopes of Stockton, who wants to be senator from New Jersey, with an eye to the presidency. Thereupon he de- clares against the "pebald factions of de- mocrats, and of renegade Americans and republicans"
 The next point in the speech is denun- citation of platforms. The great American party was unfortunate in building them. It altered and amended reconstructed and built anew, till they had one for each State and month in the year. Platforms having broken beneath them, like the unfortunate rider, who, thrown from his horse, swore he would always travel afoot, the Commo- dore wisely resolves to have no more to do with them. To construct platform with out principles is like building a house with out bricks or lumber, so he concludes to ignore principle and go in for men. Says he
 {" The true platform upon which the public fdence may repose securely, is the integrity, honor and personal virtue of the representative.
 From which 1t will be seen that the H. II.
 The orator then proceeds to discourse concerning the degeneracy of the times, the corruption and all that sort of stuff, and gives us the following pedigree of the great American party:
 :'The American party was the spontaneous growth 1 of the necessities of the times It was not the spurious production of party spirit or political am bition. It was born of patriotic impulses venera- ton and love for the constitutions; and the preser- vation of the Union, and the promotion of public virtue were its parents.
 Let us read this again. First, it was a spontaneous growth. Next, it was not a spurious production. We understand that, but the next sentence puzzles us. This spontaneous growth appears to have,been born, to have had several fathers, and at least two mothers. It was got by venera tion and love for the constitution out of patriotic impulses, and, singularly enough, its parents were preservation of the Union and promotion of public virtue. Not a word is said of Ned Buntline in this con- nexion, which it strikes us, savers of ingra- titude, to say the least of it.
 The next two or three pages of the speech are .aken up with clap-trap. Re trenchment and reform" are urgell as indis- pensable, and these words are printed in italics aud capitals to give us to understand that the orator laid much stress thereon.- | The Commodore defends the amendment | to the Massachusetts constitution, requir- ing foreigner to reside two years in the country after naturalization before he can vote, hopes that New Jersey will do the same, calls it ga principle" and in spirit worthy of Macbeth, conjures thus | "I coniure you all. by the errors of the past and the hopes of the future, to stand firm. con ure you as you love your country, to hold fast to this principle"
 Immediately succeeding this is dis claimer of any hostile feeling to the for eigners,, and a declaration to defend his rights as citizen wherever he may go, to the uttermost corners of the earth, or as that distinguished friend of ours, the Hon. Lem. Newman, Is wont to say, "to earths remotest bounds" So we see this wicked old Commodore is perfectly willing to fight the last man to the last gasp in defence of the rights of an adopted citizen in China, Africa, or the Lord knows where, and yet deprive him of those rights for two years in New Jersey. Aware that this in consistency is too glaring, the naughty Commodore grows nautical, and tells us a story of cabin windows, hawse-holes and | otber shin matters Rut we cannot in our