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The True American.

Under this significant heading the Indiana Republican propounds the following inquiries:

"Who is the true American? Is it he who would sell his honor for the spoils of office?"

Ask Schuyler Colfax. He's a Know Something.

"Is it he who would sacrifice the honor of his country for a gain in our national legislature?"

Speak out, Popinjay.

"Is it he who would infuriate a foreign population to murderous assaults upon our happy people?"

Come, come! little one, if you intend to relieve your inquiring friend, begin, as you may never return to your present post after the perils of the approaching congressional storms. Tell them you did not intend it as a sale, when you bargained with the abolitionists and crazy fanatics of the north, to be their humble, accommodating and cringing sycophantic servant, for the spoils of office. Tell them you was only "making believe," whilst you opposed to the bitter end, these same factions from 1845 to 1850. If these do not satisfy them, and they still insist upon your answering the second interrogatory, tell them NO! You wouldn't sacrifice the honor of your country for a gain in our national legislature. Speak loud! Tell them that your country is only north of Mason and Dixon's line--not quite all that, and if you acknowledged allegiance to any other portion of the Union, you could not have so satisfactorily answered their first inquiry in your triumphant success after the spoils. Tell 'em too, that it is no sacrifice of your country, anyhow, to take back all you said against the abolitionists, whilst they were struggling for the success of Birney, and the Freesoilers, in their zealously urging the claims of Martin Van Buren, provided you are to "gain in our national legislature." Tell them these things in good earnest, and then their third and last inquiry, you can answer at a single pop--both ways.

Now to the first inquiry, with a stiff upper lip--though the big tears may start at the horrible reflections induced by an allusion to these "murderous assaults." Tell 'em that in the last public act of your life, you defended the foreigners, and refer them to the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, and if they can't find it, we'll show your votes there recorded. But you must also tell 'em, (to be honest about the matter,) that you do not "infuriate a foreign population to murderous assaults upon our happy people," but that you and your associates infuriate our happy people to murderous assaults upon a foreign population.

Oh, yes! "Who is the true American?" Is it he who adheres to the true principles of the Constitution--willingly submitting to such laws of the land as have been carefully enacted by the proper law making power, and who possesses a liberality sufficient to include all parts of the Union in his devotions; or, is it he who would violate the Constitution by keeping a State out of the Union, although in compliance with the requisitions of that instrument, it adopts a republican form of government? Or, is it he who declares and as opportunities offer, carries out his treasonous declarations--that he will not obey the injunctions of national laws enacted by the proper authority? Or, is it he who, with the force of arms, takes violent possession of the ballot boxes, and chokes down the popular will of those possessing the right to its exercise? If these last named are the true Americans, we must be permitted to doubt the propriety of their "ruling America."