Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-11-15
The Beginning of the End.

The election OF MI. Buchanan Will no
work a termination Of the slavery agitation
1t was never believed that it would it vii
only postpone the solution of a great problem
the permanency Of the Federal Union. Hal
Mr.. Fremont been elected, we believe tina
immediate preliminary measures would have
been undertaken by a portion OF the South
ern States to effect a dissolution Of the Union
with what success, it is impossible TO say -
Happily Tor the peace Of the country, Ere.
mont has been defeated, and for the present
at east, We are saved the whitening auc
blasting sight OF a broken and berec
Union. But it is only a truce. not !. peace
that we shall enjoy.eWe we're told before,
hand, by Mr.. Buchanan's chief counsellor
that Mr.. Bucianan's election only wslla
furnish q respite that even with his cleo
tiop the Union would not continue over fou!
years.
lfthis be the Southern view of the gues-
tion, from the North We have as little encour-
aging or hopeful to look fos. Disguise il as
they may, the ultimate design and nope OF
the North is to e~xternainate slavery. Weare
ready 70 believe that d large number Of the
supporters Of Fremont are not abolitienists in
the strict acceptation of the term. They
call themselves non~-extensionists, unwilling
to disturb slavery where it exists in the
States, ard opposed to its extension be Yond
its present limits. But how long will they
continue to entertain these moderate views
The moral, scope and design Of their party
are the eventual humiliation OF slavery. To
accomplish their pnr pose they commence
with moderation, ostersibly contented 10 ar
rest the further progress Of the peculiar IN
stitutien,a but irwafdly at heart predeter-
mined to root it cut. Let our readers reflect
u moment and study the origin and progress
OF this party. The first essay it ever made
as a political national organization was in
1874, when they run as their candidate.
against Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Polk, Birney, who
received, al taid, 66,304 votes. In 1s4s. Mr..
Van Buren,, who run on the Freesoil Buffalo
Platform, received 29i, 795 votes; and in
1852 the Freesoilers cast for their candidate
Hale, I5s,l23 votes. Let us see 10 what
growth in stature, strength and influence his
despised and contemptible party has
In all its previoas trials it has new
been able to obtain a single State for il |
candidate at the Presidential election; on the !
irst Tuesday in the present month, it receiy-
d at least twelve, and perhaps thirteen
states, containing an aggregate population of
'ver ten millions of souls. New England. in
.S52, had but sixty thousand Freesoilers on
IS territory, and did not give a single ~electo-
al vote for the 3olition candidate it has
rolled up an abolition vote OF two hun
red and seventy thousand and cast its entire
~iecto1al vote al for the Black Republican
aHdidate. The Freekoil strength in the
.iectorai colleges, where four years ago it
vas not represented by a single Presidential
%lecror, is now one hundred and tweuty-seven
Does any one believe for a moment that a
arty OF such rapid precocious growth is 70
discouraged by a defeat that was so near
eng a victory or that it will abaee in the
degree one Iot of its energy and activ-
~ The battle is not ended, it is only pro.
'nsed and renewed vigor and hope viii BE
fused in the breast OF the comhatants. The
yht, heneeforth, will be Foatronee the prize
victory not simply Free Kansas but the !
ter prostratlon and subserviency of the
ave power. They tell us. tins openly and .
They proclaim that the DAYS Of {
are numbered that its reign is near {
J end that Liberty cannot die among a free I
'ople. The New York Times cheers its par- =
under the aoprehersions of an Anticipated v
feat, with encouraging words. Patriotism t
q Humanity, it tells them, may for a time.
Frustrated, bus they will ultimately til VI
aph. The Republican party will go on G
It'll lis work until finished, and then It will u
L the country until freedom is universal "
d the necessity for the party has passed te
Fay." This is not to be the result Of inIi- Il
fual wishes and physical action. but because
is a political and moral necessity which v
anot be evaded. b
| here Is one merit we.can concede to opr W
emles; they are not fighting from a mask. Il
battery or in ambush. They carry their d.
ek flag high in the air and in the van Of
host. Much as We abhor and detest
m, we thank them Tor Their candor and hs
nSness; an open enemy a thousand time tr
fer than an 'nsldious, skuiking toe. They re
e given us one advantage, by which. if
do not profit, it will be our own fault In
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