The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-10-15
The South VS.. the democratic Nominees.

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/ S. We solicit the attention of our readers-the
democrats in particular-to the following re-
marks of the Delta on Breckenridge, DC.
T The Extension Non Extension of Slavery.-The
/ Vital. Question of To-Day.
q am not among those who pay no regard to party
obligations; the contrary place fidelity to party
among the political virtues, butt assign to 1t limit
ed sphere eontine 1t to matters OF detail and ar
rangement, and to minor questions of policy. Be
yond that, on all questions involving principles, OF
measures calculated to affect materially the perma
nent interests of the country look only to God and
coantry.s-Joan C. Calaoaa.-Reply to Mr.. Clay on
the sab treasury question. e
We endeavored to prove in our issue ofyes-
terday morning, that the national democratic
party if correctly represented by Mr.. Brock
enridge in his late Tippecanoe Grafton, had for
ieited the support of the south by the course
which it has pursued with regard to the vital
question of to-day, the preservation of the ba-
lance of power between south and north and
the defence of the equilibrium OF the senate,
which John G. Calhoun SO eloquently urged
| from his glorious death bed
| We selected as an epgraph for this article
a brief extract from Mr. Calhoun's celebrated
reply to Mr. Clay on the sub-treasury question
in 1888, because we anticipated an outcry from
the old fogy Union saviors in consequence OF
cur condemnation of the opinions expressed by
Mr.. Breckenridge in bis Tippecanoe Grafton,
and furthermore because the political protes-
sion of faith it embodies exactly comedies with
our own. We belye in fidelity to party ties,
and regard that fidelity as rising occasionally
to the rank Of virtue; but in crisis
like the present, when the very existence OF our
most cherished institutions is at stake, we turn
from party with contempt, and, in the bold Ian
guage of Calhoun, "can look only to God and
country +..u,s -a .,s;
1t has been the constant habit of certain Lou
isiana agitators to represent the Delta.as dem
ocratic organ, bound by the rigid discipline Of
that party and committed its principles, wheth-
er northern or southern, true or false. When
we oppose those individuals, they coolly accuse
us of boiling, though we never belonged to their
array, and consequently could not desert it
According to their ideas We have no right to
assail Mr.. Breckenridge when Mr.. Brecken-
ridge assals the south, nor to expose Mr.. Buch-
anan, when, ostrich-like, he buries his head in
the arid waste of squatter sovereignty and
imagines that public opinion has blinded its
oversight like himself; but, in this and many
other matters, our ideas and theirs are irrecon
cilable, and we are bound in very different dl-
rections
The independence of the Delta is not the in
dependence of word but of deed We acknowl-
edge no party but the south, and no controlling
influence but our own opinions of her interests
We cannot be led by the cry of the custom
house or the post office; we listen only to the
voice Of ''God end country On those two.
grand bases we take our stand. LET the cour-
lap
guage of Henry Grattan, 'slet the courtier pre-
sent his fimsy sail and carry the light bark of
his faith with every passing wind, we will re-
main anchored here, faithful to the fortunes of
our country, and, if necessary, faithful to. her
fall"
From the beginning of this canvass we have
declared the election of Fremont and the dis
solution of The Union to be synonymous, and
We see no reason to alter that opinion up to
his. x 4 From the beginning We
stated that though Buchanan and Breckenridge
we're not such persons as we should select for
he presidency and vice presidency, neverthe |
ess, as the best in the field, we would support
hem, and give them reluctant vote in Nov
mber next. But the aspect of the canvass is |
egnning too change. The democratic party
GEMS sliding away from the attitude it assum-
d, or was supposed to have assumed, at Gin
lnnati, and We have serious misgivings as to
whether the southern ri ghts portion of Che COM
1nnity-tha nn-nffieo seekers and earnest men
can heartily range themselves on the side of
ticket which is commencing to look exceed
Ugly like bogus affair. If the Tippecanoe
peecb of Mr.. Breckenridge is fair expression
democratic ideas, we fear every southerner
i'll refuse to assist cause which is abolition
m IN disguise, which prefers, as Mr. Calhoun
aid of MIR. Clay, ''the specious to the solid,
nd the plausible to the true"
1t becomes our duty, under the circumstances,
reduce the questions of the present canvass
lie living, active and absorbing questions-to
le smallest possible compass and investigate
1e real relations between them and the dem
cratic party. We will commence bv stating ,
| the most concise and condensed shape, the
reed OF the true south at the present time. /,
First, The south believes that slavery is in {
scordance with the laws of God and man. i
Second, She believes tnat it is indispensable {
} her existence and the production of the very {
apies which enrich Europe and the north. t
Fourth, She holds, and will hold TO the death
asp, that she alone is the Judge of the morali- I
: or immortality of slavery, and that neither {
lie federal government nor the pulpit has any $
ltborlty to interfere with her conclusions. X = i
Seventh, She finds that the democratic par G
:, if fairly represented in the reports of Mr. C
reckenridge's Tippecanoe speech, is not in ia t
il of that indispensable extension of her inst- i
tions in which either she must live or have c
0 life, but is anxious to occupy do-nothing t
osition to which even a know nothing position /
preferable on the score of candor and. cour- S
re; that laissez taire is the motto of that party
the very motto or sentiment" as the Or S
ans would call III which precipitated the first $
rench revolution. il
Eighth, She feels that in this great crisis, t
hen The entire north is arrayed in solid phalanx il
oppose her interests and her progress, who O
ever is not with her is against her. Every
an must take his ground with the black re- "
lblicans or with the southern rights men, or II
receive the distinction of precious e.
DOL in the middle" i.
Ninth, The democratic party, not being with c.
,r-not being in favor ofthe extension of slave F
:, according to Breckenridge, is constructive f.
against her. does not really deserve her sup Of
'rt, and has no right to demand such support e
totalitv, in behalf of the presidential and c;