Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1844-02-10

mam hy any attempt on our part % ab-
Ols language.
tard III 40 due fe-the oeeaeiony 10 you

Dis language.
tard II as due fefhe oeeasion, 10 Yeii
self tn declare that undel no eireum-
~ whatever shall support ATTY candidate
who is opposed to free trode, ami 10 lator of
tile protective policy, Or nlipse prominent and
Influential friends and supporters are. ] hold
the baliry " be another name for 0 system Of
monotnly and p'under, ard. 10 be thoroughly
utErcpublcan and federal in It'll character.
also hold that so long lis the duties are 20
laid ~ fosbe III fact bouHliss 10 one portion Of
the community, while they are oppressive on
The other, 1hergGnIheJg .Lape-Lat.the Coy.
4 pfnuIsYT gHfF Te reformed, TOR tbat its expendt-
lures WiH Lc reduced 10 lie proper standard.
Were l., wdh the evidence tefore me, 10
any otherwise II my cnutsp, il would be prac-
really, to declate thai / regard tie protective
policy to be al open question, go far as The
parry il concerned; With ! would cuHsiIer
ON my part, Il virtual abandonment Of the
causo Of Flee FIade. That cant never be.
/ have dong and suffered 100 much for il, when
It's friends we're few and feeble, 10 abandon il
now-nnw, when the auspices everywhere OF
this and and the other side NJ the Atlantic,
proclaim the approaching dCWntall Of pfotec-
ton and the permanent triumph Of Free
I Trade. !, who upheld u against monopoly
and pIdnder, in The worst of times, and crared
the menaceg Of Administration and Oppoail ion
when backed but BY d gihgle Staie,-will not,
-falu10t abandon the glorious cause now,
wlien itB banner waves i1 proud triumph over
he metfppolis Of the commercial world. No.
shall maintain immovably the ground ! have
So long occupied, unfit | have witnessed its
goat aud fnal VI tory, II i shall please the
DtspoRnr of Events 10 .spare ilry life 80 long.
| II viii lie, indeed, Il ticiDry--ibe aarblnger Of
a new AMI brighter And lighter and highef
| civilization.
Much icss, stIl, ran | give my support TO
any candidate who shall giye biz aid Or coun-
teitance td the agitation 81 abolition In Con.
gress or elsewhere W whose prominent ard
! Influential friends and Supporters shall doubt
+ the sincerity of any man, who declares he n
no abolitionisi whilst at the same time, heaidS
or eoutienances the agitation ofttIei question:
be his prete1t what It may. If We have !
tipht ID orr slaYes, we have the right TO hoIa
them IN peace and quiet. 1.-THE Constitution
guarantees the one, it guarantees The Others;
and II IL forbide the one from being attacked,
il eoIal1y forbi1s the other. Indeed the onb
EtandH 10 the other, as means TO an end, AMI
IL 80 ayewed by HE abolitionists and Of the
p~lainest principles Of morale, If the end be
prohibited, the means Of edeeting il also arQ.
Of lid two, ! regard the deIuded fanatic FIR
less gutIly and dangerous than be, who, FIR
| political or party purposes, aids or countenae
ces him. ID what he knows is intended to 70
that, which be acknowledges to be lorbidd9l
by the Constitution.
II ID time that an end should be put 10 IL =
ryptem Of agitation. They have been borie
long enough. They arc kindred meaea1's
and hostile, a. far at least, az ono portionsof
the Union is concerned. While the taSft
takes from us the proceeds Of our labor, ab9
ton strikes at the labor itself. The one RIBS
rs Of our income, while the other aims sat
DESTROYING he source from which that l%neoene
IA derived. II is impossible for us to stfnd
patiently much longer, under their double
/ operatioa, without being impoverished Snd
ruined,''