The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-10-25

complies WIN tneSe lldppilCdpie sIfaltttes VI 'h'
Legislature is made hastily. The oysters coule
not have been good, or something did not sui
the palate of the writer The governor cannot
we are certain, be chargeable with this effu
sion 1t mist be indigestion.
Has count Nesselrode been about Batol
Rouge lately?
The Richmond Enquirer, and other southern
Pierce journals, pointedly condemn genera
Cass for giving utterance, amid the noise ant
confusion occasioned by the Nebraska Kansa
bill, to sentiments justly obnoxious to southern
men; though we cannot remember that his glo
rifcation of the triumph of 'squatter sovereign
ty,' on the passage Of that same BILL awakened
democratic ire, or that the southern Piercite:
have yet renowned fellowship with or denounc
ed the freesoil and abolition doctrines advocated
by the Simultaneously and other Pierce office
holders in New York. However, we suppose
the people should be thankful for any indca
tons of disposition on the part of the well
paid and ably drilled leaders of the administra-
ton press to throw off the shackles Of the office
| holders, and make an effort to assume an indie
pendent tone. As our readers would, perhaps,
like to see what general Cass said, to occasion
the displeasure of the Enquirer, we make the
following extract from the official report of his
speech, as delivered at Detroit, a short time
since. The general said that:
''It was true the northern sentiment was op-
posed to slavery-it was natural that it should
be. He was opposed to it, and had said in the
senate that it was political evil, and many
other things greatly to the displeasure of the
south, and would stick to it under all circum
stances. 49,. He thanked God that he lived
in free State! There wasno reason why peo-
pie in the territories should not govern them
selves, make their own local laws, and define
the character of their institutions. He main
tanned that the Nebraska bill did not open Kan
sas and Nebraska to slavery-ifit did he would
yield all argument-but slavery could not 60
there, unless the people themselves wanted it.
A clause introduced by his colleague had cut
off all claims to establish SLAVERY under the ope-@
VI Vic Ou law WHICH, GIlc ltiIllOIF WAS dC-
quired by the United States. Slavery Is not
recognised in tie territories, and is only subject
to local laws-every man there IS tree-no szaye!
no master as recognised until the people vote it.
Unperverted human feeling is opposed to slav
cry" etc. etc.
But while condemning Cass the Pierce press
most strangely takes occasion to praise Dou-
glas, the justice of which discrimination we do
not perceive. The very doctrine, in part, Cass
advanced at Detroit, QUOTED and condemned
by the Enquirer, as contained in the Nebraska
bill, Douglas, if his own speeches are to be re-
lied on, urged in Chicago and Indianapolis In
both places Douglas averred that the bill does
not admit slavery into the territories Or recog-
Mise it north of the Missouri line; on the con
trary, he asserted that one great object of his
it, was the fact, that at removed the
recognition Of slavery south Of that Hne," and
asked, ''is there man here in .tiapor Of recog-
n'slng slavery south Of any line?" Is this doc
trlne calculated to impress the south with the
superior trustworthiness of senator Douglas?
We imagine not, and though the latter stopped
a little short of the formers heresy, the Enqui-
rer, to be consistent, should turn out the 'sltlc
giant with his acknowledged master, the
'Egreat Michigander," and then turn round and
Gull from the party ranks Pierce, Marcy, and
al their frecsoil aboltionist office
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SAvANNAH-According to the official reports
If the sections there were six hundred and fifty
nterments in Savannah during the month of
September, viz: 572 in the Laurel Grove, and
rs in the catholic cemetery-595 of whom
we're white persons, and SIS blacks. The Re-
publican in drawing comparison between the {
PRESENT epidemic and the one that devastated {
Savannah in the year 1920, says that the whole
lumber of white interments in the city for the
month of September, 1890, was 232-2I2 of f
which were from yellow fever; blacks and CO. t
ored were not included in this list, but it is pre-
umed that at least so died during that month, ,
Which would make the full number of burials ,
bout 282. Taking that as the estimated num- '
er of deaths in the month-in population Of +
5OO-t would show a ratio Of near | in 9: or 7
whites alone 1900 about in 5. Six hun :
red and fifty interments in the present popu- r
'tlon, (11,896, gives in 10; or of whites .
lone, 595 in population of 6313, shows about !
in H.. In making this comparison of the e.
lonth of September, the most sicky of the cpl ,
emic years 800 and 1854, it will be seen that -.
rrble as has been the aff1iction of the present o
eason, that of 1920 was the more fatal of the
70. The first case ofyellow fever, this year,
'curred on the 10th Of August, and during
'e month there were 248 MISUNDERSTANDING 1
'e total deaths in two months, eight hundred L
nd ninety eight. In the month of Auoust o
82o, ITO interments were reported. The e
lacks were not mentioned; though the num- n
er OF deaths among that class is set down in n
'e annual report at about 200 for the five sick S;
months of the year beginning with Julv tt
We heartily rejoice that the plague has left a
lis beautiful city, and it has again assumed tt
lively and busy aspect io
I,n Nov