The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-07-02

: Has never beeh more eoNSpcuoasiy iiiustEate
, than BY the Pierce administration. The Bal
e tlmore convention which nominated the briga
\ der, erected platform admirable in its way
: 1t declared the compromises of 1850 settle
: ment, IN spirit and in substance, of the issue
: which had agitated The whole country, and
5 denounced and deprecated all attempts to re
4 vive the agitation Of the question Of slavery
: Yet the result Of the labors Of the administra
Y ton raised to power on this platform is there
e vival of the slavery agitation with degree c
: intensity never before equalledin the history {
, the government. In fact, the president electe
2 on that platform has, through the instrumen
tally of Reeder,s his pet governor, created
, civil war between the southerners and freesoil
, ers in Kansas. and bloodshed, rapine and fir
now ravage portion of our country, where al
: was peace and happiness when he assumed tn
reins of government. Now whatrght have tn
people to suppose, even for single minute, tina
) the democratic platform recently launched a
Cincinnati, will not prove as worthless, unsafe
and unseaworthy as its ''iIlustrious predeces
sor' of Baltimore build? 1t is all very fair or
the outside, and promises WE'LL but we mus
not forget that the now great leader of Georgis
democracy proclaimed that the concern was
afflicted with the 'fdry rot" Then, how dc
we know but that Mr. Buchanan, in the event
of his election, may not prove as notorious an
agtator as Frank Pierce himself, and follow
ing in his footsteps, fill the public Offices at the
north with softshell freesoilers, and despatch to
the territories fanatics of the Reeder stamp?
Ii is stated in Thompsons New York Re
porter that the act recently passed by congress
donates 100000 acres of the public domain
to the railroads in Louisiana. The roads are to
take every other section for six miles each side
of the line of the road, and where land has been
preempted or entered within the six miles, then
the road can select alternate sections anywhere
within fifteen miles of the line of the road, I'M
til it gets quantity in the aggregate equal to
what it would have had, had no entry or pre-
emption been made on the six miles The land
reserved to the government within the six miles
is doubled in price. The grants necessarily
shut up all the principal land offices in the State
dor year or two, and has caused marked
decline in warrants When the offices reopen
the alternate sections are to be offered at pub
lie sale, under limit of SO SO per acre, cash;
after which what is not sold can be entered
with one-half warrants and one-half cash.
Thomas darcy McGee the popular editor
of an Irish journal in New Y ork, wrote a letter
to thepresident Of the democratic national con
venSon, while in session at Cincinnati demand
ne the expulsion of Mr. Herbert, the repre-
sentative in congress from California, who re-
Gently killed a servant at hotel in Washing .
on. Mr. Herbert was delegate to the nation !
Il convention from California, and was also at
he time under bonds to stand his trial for the .
'tiense with which he stands charged Mr.
dcGee appears to labor under an impression
hat he possessed the right of debating who .
should be allowed to occupy seats in the con-
'ention. That body. of course, paid no atten- !.
ion to the extraordinary communication; and
Mr.. McGee now hints in pretty strong terms
bat the love the democracy pretend to enter
ain fol the sons of Erin extends only to their
otes on election days, and has nothing what
yer to do with their persons or their personal
lights.
General Geos P. Morris, the veteran editor
If the Home Journal, one of the most uncom-
old hardsheal democrats in n York.
peaking. of Mr.. Fillmore, says:
''Whatever may be said of the PRINCIPLES of
he party, American, there is no DENYING that
hey have selected a noble standard bearer
is a man without reproach in his private re-
atoms and apolitcian of dsinterested patriot
snl. Although sef-made man. he is possessed
f varied learning and profound skill in the sci
nee Of craftsmanship. More than all, he has
teriBg Roman frmnesss, and is an honest
nan-such as the country greatly needs in these
INES. His indifference to, political prefcrment
admirably shown in his absence from petty
on tour of foreign travel, in S
Which be is gathering knowledge for future t
to himself and coustry.''
Such are The sentiments of an old democrat
n editor, who has always been and is now :
srecting Willard Fillmore
The Paris correspondent of the New York +
COURIER and Enquirer, writes under date of the t
I'd May: | resume my pen to announce to e
Oh a most gratifying piece Of intelligence. Tie V
of the kingdom of Poland, resolved !
pom BY the car, at the recommendation of his ;
majesty, Napoleon Ill, emperor the French.
he joy which this intelligence (which rather t
link you will have exclusively is calculated >
produce is much ]essened by the preston !,
aggested by all recent accounts from Madrid !,
nat a revolution is imminent in Spain. This
ews is not mentioned in any Of the papers re- v
sived by the last steamer from Europe !.
We trust amid the unnecessary noise and h
created by the late chastisement Of
,nator Sumner, that it will remembered that :.
e owes his elevation to a seat in the Z. States f
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