The St. Landry whig., 1844-09-26

POLITICAL.
SUGAR PLANTERS.

The nomination of JAMES X. PonK for the
Presidency, by the Locofoco Convention, has an
awful squirting towards the annihilation of one
Of the great staples ofthis State, should he, con
trary to all expectation, be electrd TO that high
Office. During the canvass, laIt year, for the
Gubernatorial chair Of Iennebsee, Mr.. Pork
made the duty Of the tai d, Of AatSgsate reg foreign
s sagaasob : j t4 ~ .b; = .,a xsaeHlfNadn s agprisRPs e 1
on all occasions, in his toupS ihes s6hnnp.specching
through the State. It wanc9is hobby, upon
whose back he thought to rif155nto power. He
as]sailingi ten dseayoring to P Jus udice thdpeople
against the "Nabol,n for WHOSE special behalf,
he contended, the country, as taxed
".
To show the spirit III Which the canvass was
conducted i'll Tennessee, on that occasion, we
callattention to a standing paragraph in the
Nashville Union, Mr.. Polk's organ, which reads
as follows:
{ it De remembered thai The democrats from
Tennessee, eoicd 10 make SUGAR and iSazt
DUTY FREE, and thai nearly all Ue usht;gs
ro!cd for The heapteSt taacs on Them
This was the bone of contention between
the candidates-it was regarded by the Polk
party as sin enough to damn any politician, to
have-yoted for a duty on foreign sugar. That
sterling Wing Jas. c.. Jones, defended the tariff.
sugar duty included, with all the ability of a
statesman, and the enlarged and generous views
of a national heart and patriotic mind, whilst MIR.
Polkfssailed it, and especially the duty on sugar.
with the kecnest satire and denunciation he was
master of.
What have our sugar planters to hope from.
such an llncompromising opponent Of their in
%tercsts as Mr.. Polk has avowed himself. What
prospect have they Of surviving his election to
the Presidency should such an infection be
IN store Tor us. Will Texas save them? And
how will our cotton planters be benefited bv,
breaking up the culture of cane, and throwing
some fifty or sixty millions of capital, now crl.
ployod III producing sugar, into the excessive
production Of cotton This southern candidate
is likely to prove a seouge to the south, as no
misfortune more dire could happen than the dck-
%truction Of one Of orr staples and d greatly i'll.
creased production of the other.
Unless the principles oftle l%ocofoco party arb
condensed and silnplitied into one word, and Il
foreign oneA~Iexas--there will be much .con.
fusion of face in the northern and southern wings
Of the democracy. Witness the lbortive at.
temPtto revise the tariff, blythe resentconnress
Jndgingfron the past il would be safe to allour
that the future will behold rs. great Discrepancy
between professions and practice as fhc de.ouc.
mcat of the tariff6i proved to be. CONNER.
dations Of Texas, cannot be more tniyersally
adapted by the party than dellunciations Of the
abominable tariff Were, some twelve months and
less gone by. Yet the tariff remains lintoucbed
and Judging from that, Texas will remain mn
touched too should the locos succeed in electino
q President otthe United States from the Texas
candidates.
But, should the motto ofour friend of the He.
.1idtd, be adopted generally by the democracy, is
wit .sstrict principles Of Democracy and in},ne.
diate fe 1anesqtioao Of Texas Remuneration in
@az7is2s3 N}6ld itnot pc + puzzle worthy the most
ll&eilia9s de cJPhefcf Of party iyeroglYphics to
Snow what is meant BY strict principles of Dc.
ia3cfaey' as Interpreted north and south Of Ma.
sons aud Dlxon's line. South the torn implies
q repeal OF the sugar duty, as gathered from Mi,
Ee!Sss elcctioneefipg speeches. North itmcans
protection to iron and coal mines and manufac.
tnrers, as expoundedb b. the Pennsylvania sayans.
with a good duty on wool, as defined by New
FORK teachers. Ifthe acts Of the present House
OF Representatives in congress, confainine nm
overwhelming majority oflocofocos. be looked 70
as furnishing any definition offbe cabalistic ex.
preston, It imports an acqaiescence IN wbiq
legislation, accompanied BY a violent denupcia.
ton otit, for ".Buncoinbc." In all this, Lolisi.
ana is the great %setiaIer. Against the SUGAR
duty, the bead and front Of the party las bowed
his neck. That is a sure thing. Pcrbans iLe
people oftfie State will acqliesce in this sacrf.
liee-perhaps not.-M. O. Bee.
The Cincinnati Illness states ii i Thing mpa.
raileled in the history of the west, that on the