Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-07-28
THE DEMOCRACY OF LOUISIANA
a 70 o,nono Tho xi.rne.i and most IN l;oh,ened r

THE DEMOCRACY OF LOUISIANA
Are among The sterne.i and most enlightened Re.
publicans Of the Union While they are ready
10 do justice 10 the military services OF their
neiehoor, Gen. Taylor, nothing can move them
from The solid platform Of their principles. The
Democrats OF Eas! Feliciana recently held an
enthusiastic meeting al Clinton, where were pre-.
sen. the venerable Thomas w. Scott, Pauche,
he friend and fellow soldier OF Jackson, and OH
soil of Louisiana against the British INVADERS
The large meeting was addressed by Gen. Felix
Huston, with whose clear head and chiyalrous
heart the southwest is familiar. The New Orleans
Courier speaks OF i. as ".he most sensible, most
convincing, mos, unanswerable dissertation on
the s,ais Of parties in this country that We have
peruscd for many long day There is no fudge
10 it-no appeal 10 prejudices-no atemp, 10 ex-
cite Inc passions a2ains, political opponents
there is nothing OF Buena Vista in it-no Old
Whitey-no broal-bfimmed straw hat. |. is a
plain Statement, Of well known facts an! ncon.
tesslble deductions which II is good that every
citizen OF Louisiana should read, no matter what
his party may be"
We were So much struck with the force of The
extract quoted ty the Courier, that we canno, re.
train from repnblishng il. 10 relation 10 Gen
Taylors pledges respecting The veto power CT the
President, Gen. Huston remarked:
"Hither.o the Senate and Executive have stood
10 The way Of anti-s!ayery, and paralyzed lis ei.
forts. Make The Executive a dead cuer and the
Senae is The only obstacle TO encroachments on
our rights, until We are forced into separation.
The Northern States have one hundred and
forty, and The Southern States only ninety votes in
the popular branch Of The National Legislature.
10 me Senate, the North, including Delaware, has
thiry.lwo votes, and the South iwen.y.eight. Al.
ready the Wilmot Proviso has been passed in ne
House, aud ii The veto is a noneniiy, The srea.
Struggle will be for the Senate
"While this great question is involved in the
Presidential canvass, the voice Of the South is
heard-lhe contest is conducted on an enlarged
scale-able men debate the subIsci-ii is Tor a
time Ia Ken gu, OF he hands OF the !oT and gro.
Yelling tools OF aho!iiion-ant We may have cen.
! f:encc in the enlightened public senlimen. and
patriotism OF on! Northern b!eihren. A decision
then in favor CT candidate who would veto all
such incendiary measures, would, in great
measure, allay excitement for four years The
importance Of the veto power cannot be oyerraled
| By those who love the Union.
"lf the superior power of the north can carry
one obnoxious measure they can carry another
and make the Wilmot Proviso embrace every.
thing. Already is i, proposed, after excluding
the people OF The South with their property, from
The vast territory acquired from Mexico, 10 lay
of large section oil that same territory for The
colonization Of negroes; and they are TO have
! lands, be educated, and prepared 10 enter The
Union. The same power that can do The one will
do The o;her; the same power will abolish slave
| ry in the Dislric, OF Columbia; then follows in.
reference with the slave trade between the States;
| then the compromises OF the Constitution in re.