Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-12-13
Observation-Disclosures AGE,


=, !, over the question Of applying a Congressions
gag-law to President Pierce, and stranglin!
as far as possible, his late fossilized message
because he brings up sore old subjects in i
which are not palatab!c to the diciples O
Brothers Greeley and Beecher. We hav
the proceedings OF the second day in full. ant
they contain matter both for amusement AM
serious reflection. In the Senate. the levla
- than negropholist, Mr.. Hale, displayed him
self on the motion to print the usual mum
: Der OF extra copies OF the Presidents Mes
sage. and he in a good natured way, dealt hi:
EScellency such digs in the RIBS as are calcu.
lated to produce unpleasant sensations to OF.
r binary corporael institutions. He contended
that Mr.. Pierce had travelled a long way out
Of the direct road, in handling the Kansas
question. and reviewing the position of the
Fremont party, and he was not in favor OF
voting the public money for the dissemina-
ton OF bogus assertions which were ~calcula-
ted to I'M ure the ">hriekiug' cause. lie re-
garded the Message as an extraordinary and
unprecedented one-that the President had
extended his Constitutional duties SO as to
embrace an oficial attack upon a large por-
tios Of the citizens OF the Union, who We're
perfectly certain that they knew best what
was good tor the whole country. But while
Mr.. Hale was very serious in this part OF his
remarks, he was determined to have his Joke.
which he embraced in a remarkably solemn
disclaimer of any intention to speak discour-
teously of His Excellency as his present
position was calculated rather to excite the
pity than the hostility of his opponents.
Now We contend that if the rule. the great
er the truth, the greater the libel, holds good
in this case, Mr.. Hale has tenable grounds
for an action against the Executive. but he
will have to include all the conservative.
sensible men in the Union, in his petition. as
Mr.. Pierce said nothing about the Greeley
and Beecher tribe. or BLEEDING Kansas bat
what may be found in the ancient files of al
most every newspaper in the country. But
Mr.. Pierce was prevented, by his Northern
friends: from getting a chance even to ride
upon the tail-board of the National Omnibus
anothe: trip, and he is perfectly right in cry
ing "cut behind.' Mr.. Hale puts IN a spe-
clons plea that the Fremont party has nessy
expressed any desire to interfere with the sub
lect OF Slavery, in the States where it exists.
but they claim the right of Congress to pro-
hibit 1t in the Territories. While we can
not but admire the candor, which, unlike the
Democratic doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty,
openly avows the position Of the party against
the South has contenued, we have no
in the ostensible announcement
hat this is the limit Of their aims. The
wedge Of Freesoil power once firmly enter.
K IN the Territories. and rampant abolition.
SIN would soon exert its energies to drive it
to the vitals OF the Southern States-s
The same spirit which Mr.. Hale exhibited :.
n the Senate, was made manifest in the ,
1ouse' both IN regard to the Message, ard j
ne question of admitting Gen Whitfield as
delegate from Kansas. c
but OF the message itself, which has been $
IN full, since our last number an
card; as we have before remarked, it con- h
ms out a 'ehash of what the public has !!
ing been familiar with. The Kansas cues n
on the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise. p
"a the violent action of Northern tanata- "
SIN are all discussed. but no new points are =
esented. The reciprocity treaty with Eng.
nd is said to work well, as also do the rev
Fam fr'ga'es: and the machinery of GoverD-T
emf. Mexico is patted on the head and Il
that she is q very little girl, but that she in
es some very naughty things to Brother is
N athon's children. Every thing is expec- e'
to be rIghted, however, Immediately at. &C
the Eclipse of 1861. The venerable an. W
[uary, Marcy has been making subter an pa
exploration into our affairs with Spain, re
{ nothing of interest has turned up. His W
'cel'ency is happy in being able to state of
u no outrages upon our flag have been COM OF
tied by that gallant nation within the last on
zee or four months. The Government of pa
W Granada has been reminded that the piy- sp
$ OF Panama killed and robbed nearly tic
1dred OF our men, women, and children a pli
: months since: and that they ought to ap- of
size and also not to insist upon our nav ha
TO nigh a price for carrying Post Master ter
neral campbell's swift winged mali bags SO,
oss the lsthmus. We presume every an,
g Will b. attended to at some indefinite VIII
'od. Poor Nicaragua is put off with , EN-
''e' brief and mysterious paragraph int
rcy and Gen Goicouria don't like WALL dec
F'erce didn't get nominated for the presi. ito.
cy' even after recognizing the infant Re- in
nc and thus the matter stands. We ara in
with all the world with the Won Co,