The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-01-16
TRouBLE IN THE CAar.-The Washington

merce writes:
Senator Iverson Of Georgia. has made trou
gle IN the ranks Of the senatorial Gus dem
ocrscy, by bis resolutions and speech on tb
18th ult, IN their caucus. The resolutions re
qnire the democracy to pledge themselves t
sustain the rights Of the south in regard t
slavery They were too ultra for the norther
democratic senators, none of whom could fac
= the music Mr.. Iverson, in warm speech
VI insisted upon his platform as the only ereun
upon which the south could act with the demo
Cratic party of the north. ~ SIS
haS.Ih he resolutions were referred to a commit
Etee-and when the report shat. be made-n
{ matter of what characterit may bet will ere
ate no little sensation. Thescommittee, as lin
: formed you by telegraph consists of Messrs
lserson. Rusk, Toucey, Cass and Bayard.'
The committee is at least a good one-th'
members being strongly conservative in thei
feelings Tie Columbus Times and Sentinel
the leading democratic southern rights paper 0
Georgia, noticing the above article, remark:
that it hopes that the writer was "misinform
ed, but fear he is not.'' And goes on to say
that the resolutions which created 'trouble in
the ranks Of the senatorial democracy" are
those recently adopted ineconrention by the
Georgia democracy at Milledgeville, and that,
though prepared and offered by senator Iver-
son, they are no more his resolutions than they
are the Times. The convention which adopt
ed them was composed of delegates from eve
~ part Of the State of Georgia, and they were
unanimously adopted. In urging them, there
fore, upon the caucus of the senatorial demo
cracy,'' senator Iverson is only following in
structlons and will be backed by his constitu-
ents, even if the fre-brand he cast among the
northern democratic senators should occasion
an explosion and burst up of the entire Pierce
party and its office holding friends. ea Ten.
The Times says that, ''tEe south has too long
submitted to indecisive action on the subject Of
slavery. Our rights in slave property are clear
y defined and protected by the constitution.
The Georgia resolutions demand no more than
our rights. If the northern democracy are not
willing to stand up 10 them, it is madness for
The south TO stand up to the northern democra- /
cy- We hope, therefore. that senators Iyer-
son and Toombs will bate no jot nor little from
the demand Georgia has made upon her north
ern allies. Il they design to play fair, they
will adopt our platform. If they design to
cheat and defraud us with fair promises and
shabby performances, as has often been done
before, we hope their insincerity will be expos
ed This is candid, and presents a striking 3
to the tone assumed by the democratic
Dress in Louisiana. The latter submissively /
acquiesce when president Pierce fills the Gus /
omhouses and postofices with freesoilers and c
lboitionists of the darkest hue and strive with e
II the talent, logic and sophstry they can COM II
nand, to make it appear that they are the only d
rue friends of the south-that these freesoil ST
nd abolition Office holders, are pure northern a
len with southern principles This is just Q
hat, a few years ago, the democratic journals X
nd of Martin Van Buren,! He was declared 81
Y the Louisiana democracy to be paragon of d
atriotisn Now where do they find him? The HI
ader of freesoiers and black republicans and o'
Their Of the Buffalo PLATFORM "a democratic ca
eesoil edifce. From the day president Pierce tn
as inaugurated to the present hour he has L
zen steadily following in the footsteps of Van 70
uren. As evidence Of the fact, look at his te
pointments in New York-freesoilers ALL dl
ok at governor Reeder, his abolition emssa- re
in Kansas-look at the hundreds Of freeso;, ad
ID abolition editors he has bought up with fed pc
al appointments. These are facts well cal
luted TO make any southemer, save the office a.
lder will lives on spoils, suspicious Of north %
n democrats as well as northern democracy, "a
lom the Times has the candor to acknowl- =,
&c the democrats of Georgia fear of a stde- ~
N to cheat and defraud us with fair promises or
d shabby performances, as has often been ar
ne before and with that journal, "we hope ar
eir insincerlty will be exposed" Will the W.
athern democratic papers fearlessly do SO, or de
: they too much under the influence of the
to speak out? @y S 10
1t appears that the people residing above the
e have abandoned all hope Of Red River be- to
ming nayigable this year. Under the head o''
wagons wanted the Hampstead Demo oa
It Washington, Ark, says Henry A. Haw- ha
IS, esq, of Sewer county, wants Immediately 10
e hundred and twenty wagons to haul cotton TIC
IN his plantation on Red River to Camden, n ="
the Ouachta. The Democrat adds thatev- 70
J .sox-team express can find business, which ity
rom present indications will be permanent Il.
d lasting, at least until the NJ O. and R. R. =.
roadis completed 1t is a sad commentary
Iced upon the condition of things in our coun- w.
I, that cotton must be hauled upwards oflOO lDA>>
les from the banks of Red River, in order W
at il may reach navigable stream, whereby :,
may be foated to market. Mr.. Hawkins is VIZ
e Of the largest planters on Red River, and ~
wisdom of bis example in thus hauling his -
ton to Camden, we imagine, will soon be fol- - -
yed by others, unless Red River should rise e'''
&c mora thing scarcely to be expected" -
The Natchez Courier, after stating that the re,
ny,Hl