True Democrat

We regret very much to see the spirit with which some of our southern politicians are disposed to treat the subject of the notice for the termination of joint occupancy of Oregon. After exhausting every legitimate argument, advantage is taken of the insane ravings of Giddings, who has but one idea, (and never made a speech in Congress that that one idea has not been the basis of his whole remarks,) to warn the south of this fever for Oregon, as an abolition measure. Those of our northern friends, who went in with us for Texas and without whose votes and influence that country would have been lost to us, are utterly amazed that the ranks of the democratic party should present any diversity of opinion upon this question. They were justly entitled to expect that we would have responded to the patriotic recommendations of the President, without a dissenting voice; and their chagrin at a contrary course is ill concealed, and we fear this opposition will do us much harm in future legislation: prejudice southern interests, and produce lasting discord between the north and south; which had other councils prevailed, might have been more firmly united than they have ever before been.—Had we taken up this subject and passed it through Congress, without regard as to whether it will be a free or a slave country, and the south have presented as unbroken a phalanx on this question as she did on the Texas, there is no power that could ever have alienated us from the great mass of our northern friends. But, if when the vote is taken, any serious opposition is made from the south, there is no telling what prejudice may be done our interests among those northern democrats, who have incurred the displeasure and opposition of the whole anti-slavery portion of their constituents for the purpose of sustaining our interests and rights.

There is one other course which has been pursued equally as mischievous. We allude to the fact that the declaration of Giddings that the south is the weaker portion of the Union, and that a black regiment of 5000 men would annihilate us, has been copied in southern papers to show us our danger.—There is not a true southern, but what knows that according to population, we have more of the elements of war, can turn out a larger army, support it longer, and carry on the agricultural pursuits of the country with more facility at the same time than any other people on the Globe. And while the cities, towns and villages of the northern States would be swept with fire and sword, and their commercial marine almost totally destroyed, we should only lose a few crops of cotton; and our lands would gain in fertility, and our staple increase in price sufficiently to compensate for both these losses. As to the mad-cap idea of sending regiments of black troops to invade us, that is all gammon. We could raise volunteers enough in a week to go out and catch and cage, every "nigger soldier" that Queen Victoria has, even if headed by the notorious Giddings; and we will give him and her both ample security that not one that sets foot on our soil as a soldier ever leaves it, unless carried away to be buried, or stolen off the cotton plantations, or found among the chain and ball gangs, after the war is over. Our people would want no prettier fun, than to catch enough to build our Rail Road from Montgomery to Mazatlan, and we would like to have old Giddings along, to make a grog boss of, that is if we could get Mr. Paine, of Ala., to see that he did not hide any of the darkies in that covered wagon.