The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-03-24
COMMUNICATIONS.
The American Party and Slavery.
)rS of The Dncinus1s Dofy-;of.

Editors Of the Opciousas Patriot:
1t is very natural that those who have heretofore
made q living by ~deeeiving honest people should be
startled at the rapid growth of a new party, which is
destined to gather to its support all the good and
trnc men Of the country. In their CONSERVATION and
alarm, to prevent the spreading of the principles of
that party, they resort to the same means which
were wont to bring them into place and power. g
Finding no real grounds to oppose this party on
the intrinsic merits of their political principles
principles purely American in their objects and ends,
they bring forward the great bugbear, Abolitionism,
and hold it up like a "scare-crow" to the people of
the South. Their arguments, in support of their po-
sition, consist Of eloquent baldcrdash extracts from
newspapers edited by crazy fanatics of the North,
such as the Worcester Evening Journal-(who ever
heard of that paper, before the extract in the Ope-
lousas Courier of the 10th inst. Dor portions Of
Fred. Douglass's speeches. These are old tricks.
The people are determined no longer to be governed
by political trieksters. They are tired of being told
that the Union is in danger. We have passed
through several political storms since the day of the
Mlssouri Compromise, and Notwithstanding all the
Efforts OF demagogues to excite sectional feelings in
the different parts of the Union, we are still living
happily in one great family and the Union of the
States, far from being weakened by the repeated
attempts to ALLEVIATE them from one another. il grow
ing strongerand stronger. Our auarreis are like the
quarrels of intimate friends or relatives: the recon.
Citation which ensles is a guarantee for stronger
and truer future friendships and alliances. Such
means will not succeed and can not succeed. ace
sfa'e des illnesses coususs de III Blanc, !" to use an ola
French adage.
Let us examine this question of AboIitionism as
ahectlng the South: The Missouri COMPROMISE.
winch settled the first Slavery agitation, could not
have been passed without Northern votes. The
Compromise measures of 1850, which settled the
second agitation, could not have been passed without
the votes of the North. $.
oh, yes! blt," we are told, "in the Compromise
measures, the South got nothing, and the North got
every thing
mat Is about as true as all the other statements of
the opponents of the new party. ON WILLING. and
the people are willing, to take the opinion of the
men who settled those matters-Clay. Webster
Downs, Clemens, and hosts of others, Wings and
pemocrats-as men far wiser, better and more patri.
otto than those who, unable themselves to create anv
thing, are ever ready to pull down and DESTROY.
'h puitJ dINcHtlDI ana D3fIF
tricks-men who could ride upon the whirlwind and.
u'lect 1he storm, while all the political small4fry
petook themselves to their hiding-holes and cried
" Croaker u in security.
And, still later~-the Kansas-Nebraska bill copId
not have been passed without Northern votes and
this, too' when it was commended that the passage If
'he bill would defeat the Missosri Compromise.
mus a measure of strict justice is accorded us ros
"hlch was" denied us more than twenty-five wears
ago. IL was agreed by the Missouri Comuron;se
thaV beyond a certain parallel of latitude Slavery
should not exist. In the Kansas-Ne braska hill, tbst
left where the Constitution leaves IL with
the people of the Territory, when about ia he Cd
nl'''eu as Il STATE This is all thatwas ever contend.
ed ior by the most ultra men of the south-eyen hv
Mr., Calhoun himself.
ooeS th's snow an increase of the power of Abo-
-"
IN The Congress of 1853, ensuing the nassooo of
the compromise measures, n test vote was takon m,
a resolution, p%urposely presented, to repeal those
and how many Senators of the sytvtwo
were found voting in favor of it? Three on1r
Chase and Wade!
4 th's we are answered, " If the pcople Of tho
Nofth are not Abolitionists, they are Free So;jers ),
N-N u lit !
Behold another &" scare-crow"!
Does the Free Soilsr ask the abolition of c,,,or,.s
NO: ne Is willing and ever ready to nrotect tbo
save States, and to secure them the guarantee givan
mem by the Constitution but he is opposed to,
slavery as an Institution, and to its further extern
4"' ms ~ d matter OF abstract political opinion.
'ho not calculated in the least to interfere with onr
In our slaves. Massachusetts sent Henrv
Wilson, Free soiler, as a Senator to Conrress-vc,
las mol The Fugitive law been executed there land
Save burns-was he not retored to his owner p
el The man who was burnt in efiigy for restoring
nm has been elected Mayor of Boston. In n few
on the attempt to recover a fugitive slave.
nave resisted the execution of the law. We're
lohs never heard of before ? Have we not had a
ioo VINO IN open day "gutted" all the spanish
rog-shops in Sew0rleans, and invaded the nriva+a
onse OF the Spanish Consul, in spite of the police
1t Is idle to talk and write On this subject. 1t is
ae ias' nope eFihe demagosut, whose power ia inst