The Feliciana Democrat., 1855-11-03
"Old Documents are DangerOuS."

Committee of this parish, to the people, in the
fall of ls4S. We are unable to perceive what
object or design is intended to be effected
by the present publication of that docu-
ment. If "old documents are dangerous" d"
they are only Of that character, which are left
behind by political shifters and trimmers, whose
vision is far too fancifu to see themselves as
others see them, it, indeed, their visibility be at
oil perceptable, and not those which contain
solid fact and truth, as in the one alluded to
above. We do mow RE-ENDORSE every
sentiment of that address, and return our hum
BILE thanks to the Patriot for its reproduction,
especially at this time, when the same warning
is equally applicable to the present designs of
Know Nothingism to subject the south to the
/ secret and mysterious power of an oath-bound
northern Dictatorship that assumes to exercise
authority higher than the constitution and to
inaict punishment unknown to the laws of the
country. 5e.,... o ,,l.' 7
The warning Of that address was in faror
Of the SOUTH. Is that its sin 1t warned the
people Of the south against a6liating with
Milard Fillmore, and his northern admirers,
because he had emphatically declared himself
OPPOSED TO THE ANNEXATION OF
TEXAS, so LONG AS SLAVES ARE HELD THEREIN.
Because he was in faror of Congress abolish
ing the hade of slares between the people
Of the slar states Because he was IN fa-
ror of immediate legislation 70 ABOLISH SLAVERY
IN tie District of Columbia; any one of which
acts would cause dissolution of this Union.
Is this the sin Of that address and do we aoac
understand that Know Nothingism south con-
demns that address, and warning on these
grounds? Then indeed has the south most Sc
rious cause to be alarmed at the iminent peril
and danger to which Know Nothingsm in its
blind infatuation would lead her.
But what were the fruits of that affliation
with Milard Fillmore What was the first
humiliation the first outrage and heinous
wrong; the first insult and degradation inhict-
ed upon the south by the administration which
was produced by that same afiiliation? Were
not her dearest rights /" surrendered," barter
ed array" "signcd," "scaled," and "delircrcd
orer" by the dark deeds and designs of that same
administration in " swrendering1 CALIFOR-
MA ito northern cupidity and fanaticism27--
Does southern Know Nothingism sanction and
approve this foM deed Of Conveyance" by the
high contracting and aDiliating parties then
denounced and warned against by the oM doc-
umcnt? This memorable act of turpitude aud
gross injustice to the south in depriving her
people of the right Of settling. in California
with their property, in excluding the citizens of
fifteen sovereign states from the privilege of en-
igrating with their property, and settling in a
territory which was purchased by their blood
and won, almost exclusively, by their valor,
fell upon the south like pail, and met the
deep murmers of Indignation and cxccration
of every true southern bosom from Maryland
to the Rio Grand -g# p 1.l
California lies south of the Missouri Com
promise line, yet the same administration which
was brought into power by the aGHation Of
Taylor, and Fillmore, tile abolitionist, planned
and concocted its schemes to dclircr ii orer 10
northern fanaticism by bringing it into the uni
on as FREE STATE, and thereby cut off
the whole south from all rights, benefits, and
advantages ola great and fertile territory, ex-
cept on the terms and conditions Of northern
abolition fanatics the especial admirers of
Millard Fillmore. We challenge and defy a
contradiction of these facts. Does Know No
thingism in Louisiana approve and sanction this
deed Of Conveyance to the aboltionists by now
attempting to deride the warning against it in
lS4S Then we do not wonder that every
Know Nothing candidate for Congress in the
state is opposed to that great southern measure
the Kansas and Nebraska act.
We might stop here and leave the warnings
and predictions of that old document, most fear
fully fulfilled and most degradingly realized
by the south, but the Vaccinations of that
same a0iliatimg administration did not rest here.
So bitter was its continued opposition and de-
termined efforts against the interests and inde-