Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-05-24
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Can the Old Line Wings follow Eenja-
min and Marks

when rrncipIr>-t though they may have
been wrong instead Of men, ard pat
rioli,ni-tLougls i. may Lave been MI
wisely dr-c;e'i-in>te;u' OF !. thIvs, tvr
office, characterized the party viira is
living representative and ;hH 'HcaTna,iou
If It's spirit were those grand cd heroes.
jackson, Calhoun and Clinton, the pre-
sent race Of cI,angpIing stateuen-lhe
Wises, !Stenkenscs. Toomlscs and BcHj j!
mins-battie,l against it with an earnest
ness zeal and enthusiasm worthy Of Il
grea: and glorious cause. Then, there
WAS iillnness and a lofty dignity in our
intercourse with foreign powers. Then
there WAS brother|y feeling between the
band Of confederated States. Then, there
was an American policy which stood out
a, the representative Of a distinct nation
atty. The spirit which actuated the men
If revolutionary days had not died out
Tiers was no alliance with the hordes Of
foreign immigrants to RUE or to ruin the
country. There Was 40 secret treaty
with foreign herarchv to furnish votes
in exchange for office or for the direction
Of Our home or our foreign policy.
Iet these men Of to, day. who then.
under the guidance of that glorious
leader. Henry Clay, profesSed to have
learned they had y country TO honor aud
defend. a platform Of princi p'es upon
which its growth and prosperity DEPENDED,
a~sajIed the comparatively pure Demo
cracv of those now historic years, with
enthusiasm and untiring e"ergy-as act
ing on false principHes-as advocating
dangerous doctrines us hostile to Amer
can intSes;s-as practically exercising
absolute power whlle leaning to radical
ism and ,ntroducin. corruption into our
whole system Of politics.
How Democracy has dcgeneratel iii
the last decane: how it has prostiluted Ii
self to purchase the foreign vote; how 1t
has made the returns OF the ballot box
false as dicess oaths. and Introduced vto
!euce and disorder wI,eye a holy re"eren
ce for the law had existed: how il has
made politics 4 trade and held its hostile
factions together By the cohesive power
of public pIunder how itlhas introduced
lscoru between the States and led even
American citizens 10 calculate the value
II the UnIon, are all recorded not only
III the annais Of the Republic, but in the
hearts of the present generation.
These deeds Of the old Democracy. the
Toolnhscs. and Stephenses, and the Zen
jannins inve eIoQuentIv exposed until tnr
hearts Of the hearers thrilled with Imd'g-
nation, and their observation-disclosures lnov-
ed to q sterner resistance to all it oI,Je ects
even though defeat followed defeat in
quick and fatal succession.
But small were the wrongs of the an
cient Democracy compared with those
|,~rpe;rated by the party wltlsn tue past
four yea,s.
|, has shsneIesslv voted down resoIn-
lions for the protection Of the religious
and civil rights of American cItlzeus ira
veiug IN foreign counties: it has reinor>
seIesaiy deprived American born mecha
nics Of labor for the sake Of purchasing
foreign votes, imperiously dscEargIns
them from employment for daring TO
svmpathize with Americans, and subst',
tu:ing in their places those scarcely able
to speak our language aud utterly 1gno-
rant of the genius OF our government
1t has filled our foreign missions with
men who. lately exiles from their own
land, but which their early sympath'es,
pre- judices and 1nmosaties unchanged
have been sent back to the land OF their
birth, clothed with the dignity and re.
presenting the interests of this repuh''c
thus giving unjust preference to for,
eicners over those of native birth, aud
deeradin, The American born in the eyes
of foreign nations it has openly psoscr'b-
ed as traitors to their country and un-
worthy of confidence, by acts of the fed
e,al administration, by resolutions OF its
representatives in the Federal Congress
by pia,fo' ms Of State, city and country
conventions, all who preferred to see the
administration of affairs in the hands Of
Americans. aud has openly CONSERVED
with the heterogeneous muI,itudes from
foreign lands who have not even shaken
off their old nationality, but here in this
free land still claim to be lrishmen, OF
Germans, or Spaniards, or Italians, and
maintain even customs, Their b'gotTy'
their language, and their cl"nsh'p, while
uniting only to put down the sons OF the
soil and Change the character of the 'n>
stitutions Which we have received from
our sire.