The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1851-10-18

think now exists, yet he, in the mos
decided terms, disapproved of the rem.
edy proposed by South Carolina and
those who concur with her.
Five Presidents have since been
elected, and two acting Presidents
three of the Presidents were from the
South, as was also one of the acting
Presidents. and one of the Presidents
from the North was native of the
So1th. The office of President has
been actually held seventeen out of the
last twenty-five years by southern Pres
idents, and only eight years by north
ern Presidents. During the admins
tration of three of these southern Pres
idents, one of them so by accident
three of the greatest limitations ever
imposed on the constructive powers of
the Federal Government have been
adopted, in two cases, by the Fxecu-
tive power alone. President Andrew
Jackson restrained, by the Maysville
veto, the power claimed for general
system of internal mprovements-the
one at which Mr.. Jefferson was more
alarmed than any other; and Mr.. Polk
confirmed it in the veto of the Harbor
bill in 1S46-Mr. Tyler vetoed a Bank
of the United States, and made it an
absolete idea forever; and the high ta-
riff which drove South Carolina to null
hfcation in 1892 was so mich reduced
under the advice of Mr.. Polk, and his
southern Secretary of the Treasury, as
to leave no cause of complaint on that
score, even on the part OF South Ca
rolina. Since 1885 seven new States
have been admitted into the Union
four free, and three slave States but
the slave States thus admitted con-
tanned an area greater than the four
free States, and there is clause in the
act admitting Texas, providing for four
additional States, within her boundaries.
There are, too, ahead, some "acci-
dentsn for the acquisition and admission
of new States of the South, which are not
of consideration. | think.
then, after all, we have stood our ground |
pretty we'll for the last quarter of Gen.
tury, and have no great reason to des-
pair.
Mr. Rhett has charged the Demo-
cratic party with having gone over to |
Mr.. Clay and the Whig party by their
support of the Compromise; while, on
the other hand, it has been charged
that the Democratic party of the South
10 not sustain acquiescence in the Com
promise and the cause of the Union, as
decidedly as they should do. Both of
these statements are erroneous. The
Democrats did not 60 over to Mr.. Clay
and the whig party on the Compromise.
They met them half way. 1t was not
/ party measure. Both parties contrib
tied to the Compromise, and both par
les have sustained it; or, to speak
more correctly, individuals of both par
les did this, as individuals of both par
les acted differently. The great organ
# the democratic party, the "Union,"
lnder both its former editor, Mr.. Richie,
md the present editor, Major Donald
on, sustain it and the great organ of
he Democratic party in Louisiana, un-
Ter its former editor, Col. Wagner, ad-
'ocated it and its present editor, Col.
advises acquiescence, and
5 opposed to the secession movement
n South Carolina, and expressly ap-
,roves and endorses the other articles
n the subject in the Union. recently,
nder its new editor. The Comprom-
Sc measures then, and the cause of the
Union, could not and did not do with
ut the Democratic party-and the
Democratic party cannot and do not
attend to do without them. | know
cry WE'LL and have known it through
he whole of this discussion, that if
hose Democrats in the South who op-
osed the Compromise refused to act
nth the Democratic party as hereto
party must be defeated and
} may for the part taken in it.
Those Southern Democrats who diff
,red from me on the Compromise,
lust not fear that | may desert the
arty. | have served in it so long, |
ould make, suppose, poor soldier
| any other cause; but at the same /.
me candor requires that should say a
lat am Union man as well as dem h
,rat, and if | am driven to choose be- p
yeen them-an event which l do not y
oprehend in Louisiana, but such an
vent has taken place in Mississippi and \
eorgia-I shall not hesitate, whatever ii
ay be the consequences, to prefer the C
nien. I could nottin that event be
id to have abandoned the democratic
lrty, for no such party will then ex-
tit will have been dissolved. n
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