Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-09-15
TO THE DEMOCRACY
P eople of Arkansas!!

P eople of Arkansas!!
 The undersigned committee have been charged Ethe responsible duty of addressing words of csSdsel, advice and encouragement to their demo- cratic brethren and citizens of the State upon the momentous political questions that now agtate and distract our beloved country. We approach the threshold of that duty deeply impressed with the full sense of its responsibility and in its per formance we shall observe as much brevity as cir cumstances will admit, and dealing in facts and legitimate deductions therefrom, shall act with A view solely to the advancement of the great cause of truth--the republican equality of all parts of the country, and the union of the States.
 There are four distinct political Organizations, or parties, in the United States, and each has it's standard bearers The black republican or aboli- ton party, with LINCOLN, of Illinois, and HAmLIN, of Maine. The sef-styled union party with BELL. of Tennessee, and EVERETT, of Massachusetts The squatter sovereignty" party with DouGLAs. of Illinois, and JOHNSON, of Georgia; and last. tho not least, the great national democratic party with BRECKENRIDGE, of Kentucky, and LANE, of Oregon as their standard bearers. Each of these organizations are the representatives of distinct political principles, indicative of the character of the administration of that party that shall be suc- cessu and it will be pleasure, as we'll as our duty to present in this address, their several pot c9Atenets, and then leave you as honest men and friots to judge for whom you will cast your votes in November next
 BLACK REPUBLIcANIsM.
 Mir. LINcoLv who is the embodiment of this political organization, has supporters in Arkan- sas; would therefore pass it by without comment, but there is but small shade of difference be- tween this and the two other political parties both of whom ctaun to be as much opposed to the cleo ton Of NIT. LINCOLN as are the constitutional de- mocracy, we deem it proper to state briefly, the principles and ultimate aim of this northern section al party, so that the intelligent reaectng mind may clearly whither the others are drifting in time to enable them to come to the aid of the national democracy, which alone is able now as in times past to roll back the dark clouds of abolitionism and tanaticism, and preserve intact the Constitu- tionthe equality of the States--the rights of the people and the perpetuity of the Union
 They make open and bold war upon the institu tions of the South-they deny the equality in the Union of the people of the fifteen Southern States They demand that all the territory lying betMeen the States and Pacific ocean, shall be dedicated to free labor, and that southern shareholders, by whose blood and treasure it was purchased shall be toreuer precuded from occupying any of it with their slave property. They claim that Congress has power to abolish slavery in the District of Co., lumbia, and in the Territories, and also to abolish the slave trade among the several States; and openly proclaim e the Constitution a league with death, and covenant with hell,' and declare that "no more slave States shall be added to the Union" whereby that equality of representation, Intended by the franers of the Constitution, to be kept up between the free and slave States, would be efiectually and forever broken down, and the sacred rights guaranteed by the Constitution, to the slaveholding States trampled upon and wholly disregarded. They deny the binding authority of the solemn adjudication of the Supreme Court they claim the right to reconstruct the judiciary tD dbolnionze ito 6istort the ConstitutiOn-1is- franchise the saveholding States and convert the government from its legitimate ends, to the sub jugaton and oppression of the South; the practical results of which would be the dissolution of the Union. To prevent which the democracy and the true conservative, Union loving men in the North in full armor, battling noby prevent so dire a calamity and it behooves not only the democracy bat the entire SOuth to lay aside their party preu- dices, and unite with national men every where to preserve the Cons stituton-State equality and the Union of our fathers.
 THE BELL-EvERErT, OR UNION PARTY.
 The candidates of this party were nominated at Baltmore by q Convention, assembled for that pur- pose, on the 9th of May, 1860. That convention adopted the following resolution:
 Resoioed, That it is both the part of patriotism and of duty, to recognise NO POLITICAL PRINCIPLES other than the Constitution Of die countrywide Union Of the Stdfes, and the enforcement Of the ldDs," and in their wisdom, elected to go before the country with this simple motto, by which catch words they, no doubt, expected to draw into their political network thousands whose patriotic i'm
 
 once looking into the reasons for repudiating platform of principles, defining what is meant by the " "Union-the Constitution-and the laws" The Union may exist and equality be denIed to portion of the States and the people. The Con sttution may be construed so as to exclude DOT tion of the States of the confederacy from rights common to all, and the laws thus dsfranchsing part of the States or the people, may, and doubt would be enforced What then is meant by this sd eapdandum motto, so triumphantly inscribed on Al. ,JI.. %l.- and proper question, are referred to the past record of their standard bearers.
 BELLS RECORD.
 Upon examination of the record of MT. Bell, we find much to condemn and but little to applaud. Unfortunately for him, he has been in public life a long time, during which the various bjects that now form the only true issues before the people, were in their various phases, before Congress and the country; and on nearly all of those measures the record places Mir. BELL side by side with those arch traitors SHADE, SEWARD, HALE, GIDDINGs, SUMNER, CHASE and CoRwIN; at one time separat- ing himself from his old whig friends North and South, and more recently from the American know nothing party, whose oaths he had taken upon the disruption of the whig organization, op- posing the interests of the South and giving aid and comfort to their common enemy the abolition- ists--for which services he has been the recipient of fulsome encomiums by those |" gher law ' ad- vocates, who preach treason and encourage John Brown raids, that so justly excite and infiame the people of the South.
 BELLS ANTI-wAR RECORD.
 Though native of the South and q slaveholder find him, during the latter part of the admins tration of GENERAL JACKSON, cooperating with the federalists and abolitionists of New England, in opposing the prosecution of the Indian war, which would open up and develop new territory adapted to slave labor. MT. BELL sad before that celebrated corruption committee,'' raised ex- preisly to tIaduce the character of General JACK SON, and furnish pretext for his mpedchment
 d. therefore, feel well warranted in my own mird in sttributing to the unbecty, culpaJle neg- lest the of the administration, all the blood and expenditure which have attended OUT recent hostile relations with the Creek Indians, and much of the dsshoncr which must attach to the country by the reason of speculation in their lands"
 Thus did he speak of Gen. JACKSON, the greatest of American heroes and statesmen-the old General had refused Ms application for place in his cabinet. Again, when minister had returned from France, when war threatened, and every preparation was being made by France, to send hostile fleet to block up sea ports: Gen. JACKSON recom- melded Congress to make appropriations to put the nuson in . better state of defence; and when the patriotism of the nation was ready to respond MT. Bxl J. said:
 How happens it that there is so great an alarm |. just at this moment7 Has war panic come upon ~ us so suddenly? Must we vote all the appropria-
 
 afraid if these bills are delayed until the 18th of February, some other information may be received from the other side ot the Atlantic, which may satisfy us that extensive preparations for unnecessary? l must confess, sir, that under the circumstances, although do not charge such pur- poses as have alluded to as the motive which in. tiuenced the committee; yet, sir, unless such de- signs are at the bottom of the movement it is to me wholly inexplicable."
 Any one who will take the trouble to examine the history of those difficulties with France will at once say that Gen. JACKSON was right, and that the conduct of MT. BELL was that of yindctiye. teniporizing demagogue.
 Again, in 1859, pending the controversy in re- gard to the northeast boundary question: when ths country was threatened with war with England. and measure proposing to increase our means of defense in case of invasion, was under considers tion, MT. BELL said
 If Great Britain intended to assert her claims by arms, she would give us an intimation of the fact, or otherwise postpone it, and therefore we hneed apprehend no violent collision, until we have received information from the government
 So just was the measure that it passed by deci- ded majority, and the excuse of MT. BELL for his opppston to it is so palpably absurd and supreme