New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-27
A Development

We clip the following from the Monroe (Ouachita
parish) American Union of the 18th inst. 1t is no
less rich than significant:
The charge that the Democratic party is in favor Of the extern
sion Of slavery Is q tasehood. Ss
are trying % plant Slavery il Kansas 4 lakehood
& The above defence Of Democracy is taken from the
Campaign Post, published in Boston, and BY that
paper taken from the Pittsburg Post This same
Campaign Post has recently made q regular descent
on this part of the country. Every mail brings q
cloud and ii comes ,uh celebrity and certainty tha
does credit to our postal system. Weare pleased with
the courtesy and dignifed tone in which it is con-
Quoted and which if generally adopted would render
political discussion much more agreeable and instruc-
tive. But the paper has been extensively circulated
here as reliable exponent Of Democracy, and we
wish to call the attention of o readers to the fact,
that while the Southern organs of the Democratic III
party are earnestly seeking to impress them with the
belief that their party is the only reliance Of the
South and the slave interest, the Democratic papers
of the North are earnestly defending tier party
against what they call the charge of even wishing
that Kansas may bea slave State. If, as they say,
the party is opposed to the extension of Slavery,
what prevents it from being freeso party at once?
The above development is rich, rare and racy, and
would provoke smile on the countenance of stole.
The mistake, although not the first of its kind, is
really ludicrous. s.,a.
Now, the curious, uninformed reader may be anx
ious to know how this mistake happened-for it is
papahle mistake-the documents referred to being
evidently designed for Northern, Freesol latitude
and for FreesoiI market.
The explanation is alike simple, easy and unms-
taxable. The clerk who put up and directed the
aforesaid Campaign Post for the mails got hold Of the
scrong pile Of Posts and sent those intended for the
North South, and probably those intended for the
South North! 1t is not difficult for newspaper men
to understand how such mistake could readily oc-
cur. We have often wondered that such errors did
not happen more frequently. The mail clerk has a
hundred Or thousand different packages before him
lis in hurry-thele is no time to be lost for the
mails at the postotiice close at certain hour. He
therefore, to use the phrase common on such occa-
sions, brushes things gets hold of the pile of docu-
nens intended for Vermont and sends them to North
| Western Louisiana, and those calculated for the
political meridian Of Northwestern Louisiana to
Vermont or some other equally nncongenal latitude
Here is an ample and truthful explanation Of the mat
| ter in d nutshell w.
But, seriously the foregoing eTpoSe of the tactics
of the leading Buchanantes should open the eyes OF
the people of the South to the stupendous fraud that
! is being practced upon them--should make them
| conscious of the fact that Mr.. Buchanan has two
4 faces, a face for the North and a face for the
| uth-that he is running with the hare and hold
ing with the hounds-that he tells the free sellers OF
the North: hold on, I'm with you; but don't make
fuss, while I'm hn1nbuggng these facile Southern
people into the belief that favor their sideh-and
that documents to this effect are being circulated by
the million in both sections Of the Union, with the
view to deceive the other, for it is apparent
/ MS monday sun, that one or the other must be de-
luded first and betrayed afterwards! There is nc
other alternative Else, why documents for the North
and different documents for the Soutll-advocacy o.
squater Sovereignty at the North and denunciatior
oFsquatter Sovereignty attle South-construetion o
principle one way at the North and different cen
strpction Of the same principle at the Southampton
Of Mr. Buchanan at the North, because he is oppose
to the extension Of slavery" and support OF Mr.
Buchanan at the South, because he is Il good pro
slavery man? These are home questions aud TIN
more they are ponderel the deeper viii become TIL
!, conviction among all inteigent men, that deception
is contemplated by the leading opponents of conserv
atisln, the Union and Fillmore.
We trust our Union friends in the OuRchita countr
will obtain as many copies Of this precious Campaign
Post as possible and see that they duly read a
J every public meeting in the Northwest.
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