The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1850-02-21

LOUlSlANA.....FE FEBRUARY
crops, and his surprise at the entire alb.
sence of weeds. An opposite passen.
ger, who had entered at Newcross,
broke in upon him by saying-'Weeds
SIR, OF course, you cannot see any, there
are none; | pay fS (S4O) an acre year
for some of that ground, and it costs
meas much more for manure, and do
you think | could afford this and grow
weedsps
Why is it, my friends, that you can
afford to grow so many weeds? Sim
ply because you have made no market
on the land for the products of the land.
The following appeal to the citizens
of the county in which this address was
delivered, is worthy of particular no.
tice, as it presents facts of great force
and high importance. The citizens of
St. Mary will doubtless fully appreciate
them:
Farmers of Old Bucks, it is high time
that you should look into these things
for yourselves, and permit yourselves no
longer to be ridden by political dema-
gogues. booted and spurred," whose
sole object is that of living at your ex-
pense, altogether careless of the effects
that may result to your interests from
the measures they advocate For my
sell, l have no political aspirations.
The residue of my life will be, as the
prime of it has been, devoted to the
welfare of the tillers of the soil; and
/ tell you, and challenge contradiction.
that the plough and the harrow never
have flourished at distance from the
loom and the anvil, and they never can:
for the land must become unproductive
when the profits of production are swal-
lowed up in the costs of transporting
and converting the products the farmer
has to sell, into the commodities he has
to buy, and thus fails to return to the
land the refuse of its products.
Let partisans squabble as they may
for power and for place, and with that
end let them dispute for ever about
State banks and banks of the United
States, and sub-treasuries and Wilmot
provisoes; but the protection or aban-
donment of the domestic industry of
the people in the various branches for
which bountiful Providence has sup
piled the materials, and in its conflict
with the pauper labor of Europe, is
great national question-too high, too
sacred to be draggled and begrimed in
the foul mire of party. Let all good
men unite to withdraw it from that
arena in which passionate advocates
appeal to blind tribunals, and prejudice
holds the scales of justice. Yes, my
friends, this is a great question which
ding to their best judgments, without
any forfeiture of mere party allegiance,
about which the most honorable and
well-meaning men are so tenacious;
for who dare say, that principles advo-
Gates by Jefferson, by Madison, BY
Monroe, BY Adams, by jackson, are not
republican principles-not democratic
principles! Mr.. Jefferson,
high on the list of democrats, said. we
"must row bring the manufacturer to
take his place by the side of the agri-
culturist.o Jackson, whose orthodox !
democracy no one will dispute, said
"In place Of feeding the panpers of Eu-
rope by sending abroad for manufac-
lures made by their labor, we must feed
our own" And here may go further,
and quote from one of Gen. Jackson's
favorite cabinet councillors. Our neigh
Dor, Gov. Mahlon Dickerson, a member |
of the great sanhedrim of democracy,
as late as the autumn of 1847. in his
opening address at the American In
stitute at New York, went s'the whole
hog" in favor of direct, unequivocal
pronouncing tariff for rev.
enue to be a. " modern discovery - or
rather, said he, emphatically, amod-
ern invention p and but for the schemes
and Vaccinations of partisans, so it
would be universally considered and
treated. Thus have shown to every
man who desires to examine the ques-
tion-not as a politician. but as states
man; not as a partisan, but as an Amer
lean citizen-that he is at full liberty to |
follow the truth, wherever It may lead,
without giving any man the right even
to question his party fealty.
As Jefferson and Jackson thought, so
thought all our Presidents, until we
him of Kinderhook. He thought |
it better to feed the paupers of Europe,
and let our own take care eofthemselves,
if they could, and if not they might |
starve.
The LADIES OF LIMA.-We extract |
the following from "Von Tschudrs Ira
vels in Peru"
Far superior to the men. both physi-
cally and Intellectually, are the women
Of Lima. Nature has endowed them
with many of her choicest gifts. In |
figure they are usually slender and
rather tall, and they are especially re-
markable for small, elegantly formed |
feet. Their fair faces. from which the |