The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-07-09
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would be work Of snpererogation IN the est,
nation OF every intelligent, honest and candid
man in the southern States We will not, how
ever permit the occasion to pass without intro
dscipg to the reader the following democratic
testimony. The Kingston Tenn. Gazette, a
democratic paper, in its impression of the 18th
ult., speaks of Mr.. Fillmore as follows:
with reference to Fillmore as a man it is
undoubtedly the Discrimination the party could
have made While he occupied the preisden-
tial chair, he threw off all sectionalism and ad
ministered the government in accordance with
the provisions and spirit Of the constitution,
dealing out equah handed justice to the north
and to the south. He exhibited his nationality
by warm and manly support ofthe eomprom-
ise measure. This was his duty; and for doing
it. he deserves an approving conscience and the
reward Of duty well DONE"
This is not only true, bnt is the voluntary
admission Of a frank and honest man, who seesns
to do the dirty work of party. Possibly there
may be some who will not regard this autheri
ty sufficiently high, if SO, we commend their at
tention the following testimony Of general Cass,
whose devotion to democracy no man will pre-
tend to question. He delivered speech onthe
floor of the senate, in the course ofwhich be paid
the following compliment to Mr.. Fillmore's in
tegrity, and to his efficiency in 'pacifying the
country We quote from the Congressional
Globe:
.sThe administration has placed itself high in
the great work Of pacifying the country, and
they have received the need ofapprobationfrom
political friends and political foes. Ipartake OF
the same sentiment. do them justice. But
am democrat, and, God willing, mean to
die one This is whig administration. but
there is no reeson should not do them justice;
and do it with pleasure, in the great matter of
the salvation of this country, if may say So
/ have done so; shall continue to do so, what
ever sneers their papers may contain, for l do
it, not for their sake, but for the sake of the
country" [Speech of Mr.. Cass in the senate
Of the United States, March 10, 1851.
This was not only manly tribute from de-
voted partisan, but will serve now as a wither-
ing rebuke to those 'lesser lights of democra-
cy, who recklessly essay to defame Willard Fill
more.
FLooRED By HIS FRrEsDs.-Well, the great
national democratic convention has been held, |
and James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, is the |
nominee for president. After all the eulogy of
Mr.. Pierce for his alleged boldness and south
ern leaning upon the slavery question; after all
the talk among southern democrats about the /
Importance OF his nomination; in the face of
the fact that the delegates from the south went
to the convention virtually pledged to Pierce,
he is set aside and Buchanan is taken in his
stead. And Douglas is passed by, too. The
southern democratic press has loudly extolled
him as the great champion of southern rights,
the author of the Nebraska bill, that measure
which is held up as the great test of true de-
yet, when the hour came for
his southern democratic friends to prove their
devotion, if Pierce was laid upon the shelf,
Douglas is left in the back ground, and man
S taken, who has stood aloof from the Nebras-
"a controversy, and was, down to Very re-
.ent period, the open advocate of the main
ainance OF the Missouri restriction line How
$ this? Whence this change, this very sudden
hange wrought in the course of only few t
lays, after southern democrats meet their north
IN friends in counsel? Is it not too plain to
Omit of controversy, that it was done with the :
lew of conciliating the freesoil wings of the :
arty; that ii vas indeed submission to their G
lctatlon Holly Springs Times.
Some of the northern journals reluctantly t
lake the humiliating confession that their S
representatives. in congress are wanting in the :,
ecessary spunk to maintain the rights of their
wn sections of the country, and to command S
he respect of all forms of opposition. J
josiah Quincy, now eighty -four years of age. '
at OF the old stamp of Massachusetts, men, in
speech he recently made en- the subject of the n
Sumner outrage gave the following anec- e,
ote: n
81. q. Adams once said to me, "The charae-
ristlcs of southern representatives are bold n
ess, fearessness and desperation, while the b
characteristics OF the northern representatives n
ave always been dog, timidity and fear. And i ie
ell the south knows this" -
A northern exchange speaks out in bold and or
dgnant terms at the patient forbearance with st
hlch northern men as it seems to think have e
cen treated by us southern folks. Let, says -
lis spirited paper, all parties send the right tv
nd OF men to congress, and they will know s.
ow to maintain the freedom of speech and the 4
eeeneies of speech. They will neither pro-
oke an insult nor fail to resent one when il has gi
zen gwen, and this being known it will be an +
'sy thing to keep the peace. What John O. u u
dams sand OF northern representatives is true
J general thing. They have the moral cou- JIG
ge to say almost any thing, but not always tn
e pluck to stand by what they say. The n n
ewburyport Herald, with all proper hatred I'll
+ gunpowder, sharps rifles and revolyers, on
'presses general sentiment when it saws, in Pc
spirit which will, if maintained, prevent all sy
buses of speech, that any Massachusetts an
ember OF congress who allows repetition of ri'
at offence without proving whether 'saItpe- Il
e will explode, deserves all the Gaming he 1h
ay receive" ON
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SLAVE LABoR.-The total value of the ex- sill
'rts OF cotton, tobacco rice and naval stores, W.
ticles of slave labor for the year ending June de
}, 1855, amounted to 106, IeO,O77. At the ed
me date of the present year, they amount to or
,out IA, 4so,0 OFT, giving an increase in value 81
33.ooO,0Oo The New York Herald saws 4;
at the results Of southern labor for a single be
az shows the value to the Union Of that sec tie
n of country In these results, the free States ia
the north. it is believed, participate to the vi
II extent OF go per cent, or to the amount of in
}, 1895 ,OO4, which, in ten years, would amount.