Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-08-10
Democratic Sentiments.

/ We find the following strongly write
article i'll The New Orleans Courier, Of th
tst inst We publish it with pleasure
and consider it a deserved, as well as over
whelrninH rebuke, to those sectional poll
ticiaHs who seruple not to employ an
means, no matter how unpatriote or tfea
sonabte, to effect ali alienation Of feelins
between the people Of this free and happy
confederaey: 1t may, perhaps, be wei
enough to remark that the N7~ Otlean
Courier is one Of the oldest aud stron5es
democratic papers in the valley Of the Mis-
sissippi.
DlsoRGANIzlNG OPERATIONS.
The Southern Press. established a
Washington to sustain the peculiar right,
and Interests of the Southern States, II
! the exclusion Of all party views whatever
is laboring to hold up the manners ant
habits Of the Northern people to the eoti
tempt and derision Of the South. Ever,
American, every good man, North ant
South, will deem this task not tery useful
or delicate, or honorable, at such crisis
az the present This is no time to exas
pefate the bitterness Of feeling wllitll nUW
ufliappilv divides the two great settions d
our common country. It would be mere
patriotic aud more humane TO try to lul
the pillows. by throwing oil upon the
troubled waters. 1t would he better to
e&teniiate each other faults, and elideavoi
to draw over them the pail Of oblivion and
mutual forgiveness, than to expose and
aggravate them. The great cities Of the
North have their foies aud crimes to &C.
eonttt fjf, sprihGing Zip Iii spite Of all
efforts Of the authorities, as they do in all
other places where large and mixed mas
ses OF population are concentrated. A
clever writer from the South may find
abundant objects of riditule and tafieatilfe
IN the North, bttt not more or so many AZ
he might find in cities Of equal size iii Eul-
rope. And clever writer from the North
tnav fihd az many objects Of similar nature
in the South. We eannat perceive that
either party has riaht to twt tie other
with i1tipeffections that are incidental to
human nature. Mr.. jefferson said. great
cities are great sores OH the body pelitic.
No country. possessed of some wealth and
driving An extensive commerce with al
parts Of tile world, can exist without large
cities, aud large cities will always be seats
Of tnfbulente, corruption and vice. Take
NbV NnrE T,Ir pxapi,,la tt.iib rs mai Ia,,
population Of half million Of souls. coli
gfeEatel from all quarters of the globe
how can any one expect that ii will be
free ffom crimes aud denominations The
police Is not 80 strong una 50 strict as it
should be, and as 1t must be, ere many
years elapse, from the force Of eireunl-
stances, But life, property and reputation,
are as safe i'll New York as in any city Of
the civilized world. There have. been
nobs and there have been riots Of d very
sefipus character, Us The Southern Press
delights to tell its readers. But those
mobs and riots Wete condemned by the
mass Of the citizens, and they were easily
suppressed There isone thing we desire
to call to the mind of that writer, and it is
worthy Of his iiotieeathere never llhs been
i'll New York, or III any other Northern
city. d mob OF d riot. organized for tile pur-
pose ufrutting down the Government, for
rebellion, for treason, for eHetti1a d separa-
ton Of the Union We would rather hear
Of a hundred riots like that which occur
red at the New York opera house, than Of
one pubic meeting of citizens, like the one
lately assembled at Charleston, Ia which
Mr.. Rhett's ekhertation to hoist the flag
was listened to with entliusia IN
and greeted with laundering shouts Of
welcome. shakspeur says there is but
one crime and that is ingratittde, for
Whenever .ingratitude appears, all other
crimes hide their heads aud shrink into
We cay the same Of treason per.-
petrated or contemplated by an American
citizen. All attempt to work dissolu-
tioti of the Union by open force or secret
sap Is the last crime an American can com.
ethers will be looked over and
forgiven. @
It Is invidious to make comparisons on
matters like these. We presume the
Southern press will not say that If there
were i'll the South city ~ large and po-
puous as New York, it would be more
exempt from toies and crimes. Go into
the interior Of the Northern States, and
the agrirultufal pepu alton is equal in in-
aud morality to any similar class
IN any country, aud need not shun com.
parisop in those respects with the farmers
and p anters Of the South.
But the drawing of comparisons be-
tween different portions Of a country that
ought to be ONE in sentiment and opinion
upon all subjects of national concern, is
and here we cease the work.
There should have been no necessity for
commencing 1t.
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