The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1856-08-09
Democratic Mass Meeting.

A mass meeting of the Democracy of tn,
Parish of East Fclicicna was held in the Court
House in Clinton Oh Saturday the I'd of Au
gust.
The meeting was called to order by Hon
BrrHEL HAYNES, and, on motion, Hon. T. w
ScorT was called to the chair, and James s.
Montgomery Thomas Chapman, Geo. Keller,
Josiah Benton, w. r. Chapman, D. S. Beau
champ, Howell Cobb, and w. NJ. Jordan,
were appointed Vice Presidents.
On motion, Thos w. Robbins G. n. Glib.
bons, II. II. Knox and G. w. Reese, were
requested to act as Secretaries of the meet
ing.
On motion of DR.. DELoNy, committee
of seven appointed to draft resolutions ex-
pressivc OF the sense of the Democracy of the
parish.
The presiding officer named Doct. Delony,
Geo. II. Jones, b. Haynes, G. M Smith, w.
M. Jordan, josiah Benton, and W. Offut as
said Committee
The Committee retired, and Hon. A. S.
HERON, being present, was called on to adj.
dress the audience lie responded in one of
his usually eloquent manly and powerful
speeches. After which the Committee report
ed the following preamble and resolutions
which, on motion, were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS: There now exists for the first tuln in
the history of orr governments purely ciionat Ja,ty
n La, pam nf G,y;, ,rE
ings anl Black Ecpub cans. and whereas. we have
the authority Of the Know Nothing ratification meet
ing. held in this town on the 10Th ull for the fact
that there is also 'ec'ion puty in the South, de-
corcd in the following words of their y7o,t viz:
Mr. Fillmore il mainly indebted for his present
position 10 Southern favor. In the convention the
South regarded him ~ most worthy Of IT, while
Northern fanatics protested rcpudacd and with.
drew
And whereas: Thee two sectional parties whose
leaders. respectively are mainly indcbtnd'' for
their nom nations for the Presidency. TO Norfh1p
and Southern favor distinct and separate from each
other have arrayed Themselves against the national
ity Of the Republic, with Fremont and Fillmore as
their leaders, contrary 10 the precepts and advice of
the Father of his Country, and threatening dsso-
luton Of the Union by the consequences which NAV
result If successful: And whereas these two North
ern and Southern sectional parties, differing only in
their locality and their leaders, but agreeing in the
main questions at issue in the present contest are ex
rriing their ec'ion eGors for the same common OBJ
that Of defeating the election of President by
the people AMI carrying il to the House of Repre-
.caatvcs. composed of majority of Know Moth
ing and Black Republicans; And whereas this dan
scrous object is sought to be accomplished on
the part Of the Black Rcpub lean now Nothing fil-
-ion IN the North. by carrying of sufficient number
Of Northern States for their leader. Fremont and
81 the part Of Know Nothingism in the South by
carrying of Il sufficient number of Southern States
Tor Their leader Fillmore in order 10 defeat the oniy
aationd cand,date JAMES BUCHANAN. before the peo-
pie, and thereby carry the election into the House
4 their las, and only hope; hope, il realized by
ether of them would present, in the language of
senator Benjamin, 'tor the first time in our history.
The spectacle, not of seli-goyerning nation. but n
nation divided into two equal portions, one govern
I'd by the other speedily to be followed by the in
,vitahlc and awful consequence Of n dissolution d
Nc Union.
Therefore. Reso'rC7. That we Il portion Of the De
nocracy of the Union. acting With the National De.
noeracy and national men ot ali parties, whether
North. South, East, or West, upon the same great
MAJ onhl lIatiofin would earn silly WarA our follow
I'll zcns against the dangerous sectional strife VIII eli
d now introduced for the first Time INTO our nat on
II elections by Know Noth 9 SIN and Black Repub
calism. and which seek to defeat the will of the
laiion through the ballot box, by sectional coccri
md co 0peral on in tn dim oniy of sibycrting
md ovcrhrowing the popular nationality aud sove
eighty.
Raotrrd That in JAMES BUCHANAN and JOHN
:. BltECkINRiDGHw We recognize thr only true ma
5onal cand dates for til Pres dency ID Wee Pres
lency. now bcote th Am + can people whose nom
nations were made, not by the laoW Of North or
south, but by the rpoaian Gus and united approval
If the whole American Democracy Of THIS broad
and, gathered up from the North the South, the
EAST and the West and in whose 81 ct0n we have
he oly guaranty for the pres rvaiion Of the Ia on
md the Co ist tuition. ald The rights of all Interests
md all sections of the Il, public
Resoird That we are ak Oppos d to the election
II Joha g. Fremont and Willard + lImor, to the
res ncy: d, cause they are both sectiom candidaes
he former entirely pendant on Black Republican,
sm and the latt I MUMMY iadeJed to Southern Know
Nothing Jlpor for their resp ctiye positions before
he publ C. Because both o. them have nj kc ayow-
d Their opposition to the repeai of the I'd Mssou-
i restr cton, which degraded I'd brann the South
I'm States with infer GRITTY in tn, UAon, b cause
10Th are are alike opposed to, and have dnounc d,
he just principles Of the KanSns-Nebraska act Be-
,alse both are alike opposed 10 the right of the