Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-09-27
The Democracy North and the Repub-
licans alike Sectional.

SEES upon us. 1t Is useless to depend upol
mere temporary expedients in a struggle, say
the N. o. Creole, to maintain a party organi
cation which is held together by no common
principle, and coberes only by the love o
power and public. plumber. The develop
ments of the last two months are sufficient
to startle any patriotic man, who will observe
the yawning gulf towards which We have
drifted, by blindly following party leaders
and asserting, without reflection, to thei,
measures, whose object time has proven to
have been personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT rather
than patriotic love of country.
We now see the Democracy Of the North
"a party which was true to nominations and
a unit in action, before the present practical
issue on the question Of slavery was forced
upon the peopIe-divided into two great and
dangerous factions. One of these, composed
OF foreign born yoters-immisrants and exiles
from Europe-tosether with thousands of
native citizens long since tinctured with abo-
litionism, moves directly towards the great
object of its enthusiams: the presently re-
trinction, and final abolition Of slavery every
where. They seek no subtertuges. They
will make no concessions. They spnrn alt
compromises. Revolution, Or disunion, which
Is worse then revolution, is tAe ultimate and
acknowledged result OF their action. The old
Democracy has, this year, lost 10000 adher-
ents in Maine, who have gone over to these
undisguised enemies of the South. In Iowa,
it has contributed 5000 to swell the army OF
sectionalism. The sacrifice in principle in
making this change Of position they cannot
discover.
The other Northern faction, while claim
ing to be true to the constitution, and to be
national in its principles, c%onstrus the Nan
sas-Nebraska bill as the triumph offreedom''
as a guarantee that mot another inch o:
slave territory will ever be organized in this
republic.n Politicians, who are aware of the
possibility, nay, the certainty of etfecting an
object, to which there is opposition, by indi-
rect rather than direct meals. look upon TIE
principle of Squatter Sovereignty-some-
times disguised at at the South as popular
sovereignty-with James Buchanan the leader
Of the Northern movement, as ensuring the
object sought SO long and 50 earnestly amidst
agitation and strife, and sectional bitterness
and violent threats of dlsunion.
1t is natural, that foreign born citizens
should choose the party which draws the
sword against the institutions Of sesvidude,
and boldly throw away the scabbard. They
cannot understand other means e of arriving
at the contamination of their cherished
wishes.
The native bora, on the other hand indoc-
trinated in our complicated system Of gov
ornament, knowing the veneratlon OF all sec
tons of the public for the constitution even
while divided by local interests, and uppreci-
ating the determination of the American
character, which will yield nothing to force
the deares:s interests be placed III
jeopardy, as naturally adopt the doctrine of
''the sovereignty of all ne W communitie. in
the territories" to dedicate all unoccupied
soil. to freedom. The objects Of both are the
same, they differ only IA TIE means.
Staange, indeed, will it be, if the irtelli-
GENT men Of the South do not see the danger
the certain destruction to their chances of
in the territories, if either Of these
action succeed. Fremont or Buchanan will
bring us to the same point at last. Both of
factions, witc their respective leaders,
oppose the alteration of the naturalization
and strive to open wide. the doors to
The acquisition to citizenship, to immigrants.
immigration is the fountain of their strength. !
Though defeated, each white-winged ship
enters our harbour brings new recruits |
to their cause. The rich lands of our virgin
wilds and the genial institutions of THIS West
ern refuge from the iron heel of oppression, !
ofer seductive allurements to the millions of
poor in the efete governments of
and their swelling thousands, each
year, will be forwarded by Emigrants Aid
Societies, and by Abolition Associations. to
the institutions and decide the destin-
les OF future States. Given up Kansas, I'M
Ter the present aspect of affairs, and we but
each them they can conquer.
While the children ofthe South rarely seek
new homes in unorganized States, the North
ern hive drains the vast, overcrowded nations
If the Eastern world of their surplus popuiv-
ION, and pushes ont emigrants, each year,
enoug to form a State. With the naturaliza-
ion laws unchanged, and squatter sove-
recognized, the tide which will pour
'pon the wild West, will be
"a multitude. like which the %populeus North
1our'd never from her frozen loin., to press
Kline OF Danube, when her barb'nous sons