Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-09-01
The Black Republican Union Party.

the purpose oi oianuin6 iA"'A " ceablv upon them, and holding them up to an indignant people stripped of their hypo- critical robes and pharasaical can't It is affirmed by every would be- orator, who, parrot like, has conned his lesson about the corruption of the democratic party and the dangers of disunion, that the scope and aim of ticket run upon purely con- stitutional platform is to overthrow the fabric of this government They dare not in their self-conceit and ignorance contest the legitimacy of the platform, for their own galvanized mummy is committed to the same doctrine, they pretend, but choose to go beyond the platform and guess that the ultimate aim is disunion They arrive at this saga conclusion from the fact that few of Breckinridge's supporters at the South have sworn on the atars of their country never to submit to black republicanlom ination. He will not stop to inquire whether even these few extremists are dts unionists, but will rest satisfied with the statement that if they are, they may find precedents in high places for the faith that is in them Mr. Fillmore was the great know nothing high priest four years ago, and in his Albany and Rochester speeches, affirmed that, if southern man, he would not submit to the reign of a sectional black republican organization. If Yancey and Rhett are disunionists they have model in ex-President Fillmore. It is perhaps no great praise, but he is about the best and purest man of his party, now tha at its greatest leaders have leftit.
 Admitting that few southern extremists support Breckinrdge, does it prove any thing except that men who are disunionists because they believe that black republican, ism will triumph are willing to make fair test by asking only their constitutional rights? Does not the fanaticism and in suits of the abolitionists naturally engender a legitimate animosity in the southern breast? It would seem not if we listen to the UNION cRoAKERs of the South, who, like the admirers of Penelope tugging at the bow of Ulysses, are trying to play the great game Of COMPROMISES inaugurated by Henry Clay The South has long since repudiated the policy of compromising her rights away, and we hope it will never be resumed.
 Having thus summarily disposed of the charges against the friends of Breckinridge, we now proceed to investigate the claims which the resuscitated know nothing party has to the title of black republican Union party" which we have bestowed upon them more from the appropriateness of the name than by way of returning the com- pliments we have received at their hands The first .fact that startles us is that there were tmenty-two auo,Ued a5olitiontSts in the Baltimore convention which baptised into fife this BLACK REPUBLICAN UNION PARTY. It may be suggestive to inquire how they happened to form part and parcel of the famous and unanimous Baltimore conven ton? Judging by their actions we can only infer that they thought it inadvisable to make a straight fight between a sectional black republican and the democratic nomi- nee. For that reason they went to Baltl- more in the hope of nominating Bates or Mclean with the intention of ratifying the nomination at Chicago, and in this way nationalizing their organization. If they could not succeed in their first object, the second plan was to nominate some candi- date from the South, like Bell, in the hope of weakening the democratic party by this means. They hoped to make Bell tool in the hands of Lincoln. And such he will prove to be. We do not charge Mr. Bell with being an abolitionist But he is run as the exponent of no programme of principles, and can only, weaken Breck- inridge and Douglas and in this way per haps favor the election of Lincoln. If Bell gets into the House it will be by the defeat of Douglas-this will throw some of the friends of Douglas to Lincoln, and so hopeless will be Bells chances that some of his friends will also go to Lincoln. Has not the Hon. Emerson Etheridge re- gently read and commented in public speech on the platform of the black republican party and declared that it was unobjectionable? What does this mean? Does it not show that some of Bells supporters eoen at Me Souh would willingly elect Lincoln in | order to defeat and break down the demo- cratic party? And yet in the face of this fact they arrogate to themselves the attri- butes of superior wisdom, patriotism and devotion to the constitution!
 We hope that we will have no more of | this disingenuous augmentation against our ticket. Those who make the charge of dis unionism know that it is false. But if they say that the truest friends of the South support it, we reply that no higher compliment could be bestowed upon it, for the much abused "fire-eaters have never asked anything but our constitutional rights. If they have been extreme in the choice of remedies, they have never been false to constitutional pledges, and they will never be false to the interests of the South.
 On the other hand, we hurl back a charge against our enemies which should shake the confidence of the South in this rehash of old organizations. The taint of aboli tionism with which the entire northern aOing of the party is strongly affected, proved by recent votes, exhibits already the cheating and swindling proclivities of the so-called Union party.
 IF Hon. Albert Rust, strong Douglas man. | oipfr horo