The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-04-11

ssA 1lsaall ls5s as 4sr1fns Hilag W. "a
sEts y fe principles and purpose
Of : knox ne.higcoancil IN thai city, IS aaen
beers ii the rev ard all powerful mTstsr5ae
pf which, Ike hurricane. "a
cry thing before iii The address anu Iesola
ions attached are to be printed in pamphie
form for general circulation, and, according t
the Herald, theyhaye already been general
adopted BY the order in New York. The plat
form of principles and purposes are stated Wit
ability, while a spirit of liberaIity and national
4 ity is brcashed in every line ofthe document
1t commences with a review Of the condition o
the old parties, and declares that a new epocl
has dawned upon the land, demanding the in
PRODUCTION Of a new order Of things in the poll
tics, policy and government of the country. T.
effect this, they propose to abolish and super
sede the e~lectioneering corruptions hitherto 81
muchin vogue; to introduce q thoroughly Amer
lean policy in elections; to Danish from the lant
the low practice Of demagogues and small cor
rupt o~fice-holders pandering to foreigners, fol
the purpose of cajoling them out of their votes
to make the federal constitution their guide up
on national affairs, and to adhere faithfully tt
the Union, statesrights, and the liberty of indi.
vidual opinion. They make no war upon reli'
gion, but they are pledged to put down the in.
reference of the catholic or any other church,
or of the clergy o. any church, in state or pollt-
ical affairs. They say that all churches must
be reduced to the level Of non-interyention in
politics. The platform advocates a liberal sys-
tenn of improvements of our rivers and harbours
by the general government; the independence
of congress over all sectional agitations; the to-
tai abolition of the spells system Of the old par
ties, especially as illustrated by the Pierce ad-
ministration. 1t urges, in view of the immense
swarm Of European immigrants now pouring in
upon us, some material notifications Of the ma
turalisation laws; and, uponthe whole, at home
or abroad, is in favor of america being gov
by Americans" The address concludes
as follows:
FINALLY, and above all, we desire to see our
Union strengthened and perpetuated, as the
rings of a chain that has TO end; and to
this, before all the rest, we pledge our %unalter-
able faith and the whole power of the Ameri-
can party"
The London Times, in its article on the de-
Of the car, says, although our enemy, !
t is useless to deny that the deceased car was
4 great man as well as a mighty potentate.-I
Notwithstanding the melancholy fact of a quar-
er Of a million of human creatures having per-
shed, one way or another, since this war be-
5an-sacrifced, in point of fact, to the ~insatia-
de ambition of an INSCRIPTIONS ruler, yet he
lad many fine qualities Of head and heart; and
o such of the British nation as settled in Rus
ia, he was extremely partial, and always paid
hem the most marked attention. The lion
not upon carcasses. We can afford to do
Justice to departed worth even in the person of
foe, and it is not too much to say that if he
lad terminated his career without the Turkish
aggression which produced this war, history
would have enrolled him amongst the most in
~ellectual and successful monarchs of modern
This must be considered d highly
,ommendatory notice, coming as it does from
he official organ of the British government; but
he reader cannot fail to perceive that the Times
wants to exclude the talent, energy and success
f Nicholas from the pages of history, because
re had the extreme bad taste and temerity to 60
o war with England and France, and like a
'allant soldier defended his own and his coun-
rvs rights. This war is a sore subject with
ohm Bull, and a few more campaigns like that
efore Sebastopol, will cause the old fellow to
lie Of chagiin and modification.
No Go.-The Kinds County Gazette, pub
shed at Raymond, Miss, says, it is an old
dage, and a truthful one we think, that one
must 60 abroad to learn the news at home;''
nd in no instance has the proverb been more
satisfactorily illustrated than in the matter Of a
democratic meeting" said to have been held
the courthouse in this nm (Raymond) on
of last week. True, those two widely
rculated and extremely popular public jour
the 'Mississippian" and the blinds Co.
gave ample notice of the proposed
but for the life Of us, and after a fair
isplay Of all the usual activity of our reporter
o such an assemblage as a democratic meet
lg' could be run down in Raymond on that
ay. We made diligent search for the arrange
,ent-both in person and by anxious inquiry
nd yet not a track nor a trace Of the august
could we discover; and hence it was
lat we announced in our columns of last week
lat the effort to hold the proposed meeting
as can immense failure" But from the col
INNS ofthe Mississippian, published at Jack
IN, we learn that a meeting was held in this
,wn, speeches made and resolutions passed.!
S the whole matter will be neus to our citi-
ens-democrats and whigs-we copy, first,
lie Mississippian's remarks concerning the
and then the "oficial proceedings of
lie same. The prospects of the democracy
lust be gloomy, and the honesty and morality
its leaders sunk deep into i%niquity, when re-
,rt is made to the fabrication of and nublishinr