The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1856-11-22
CONTRACTING RATES.
TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF
THE UNITED STATES.

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NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC Committee Roous
November 6, lS56.--Thc trust Of CONDUCTING
the national canvass coniidcd to the Democrat.
ic National Committee has been discharged
with the hdelity which the honor and the ex.
gency Of that trust alike demanded, and the
committee has to unite its congratulations with
your own in announcing the success Of the
Democratic ticket by decided and gratifying
m iOrity
The struggle is over, and the Union is safe.
Ours is indeed, a new and signal triumph.
Heretofore our victories have been achieved
over those who. like ourselves. were friends of
the Union. This has been conquest over
its enemies. Heretofore our antagonists con
tended with fraternal eagerness for the honor
OF promoting the progress Of insnring the dura-
ton of the republic Those whom we have
just vanquiShed sought under trrachcrous
adherence to the forms of the Constitution. to
rob it of all of its essence and vitality. The
principles Of the Democratic party having be-
come the established policy of the Federal
Government, it became necessary for its enc
mics TO organize some new and desperate com.
bination to overthrow it. An unnatural a.
gcndcred monster which the Democratic
party has with great peril sought out and de-
stroved
That monster was scctionalism.
The circumstances under which the evil
originated were peculiar. The land has been
clouded by miasma of error. The belief that
one part of the Union had been invaded by
the institutions of another and that the feder-
al government had lent is power to promote
this injustice, had spread with epidemica rap.
idity' II had been infected into the circu'a-
ton of popular thought with all the force of
an INSCRIPTIONS press, and was spread broad
cast over the land by the whole power of rep.
rescntativc influence. 1t seemed at one time
almost in vain to pursue with the antidote of
truth and reason this yenomouS error as it
sped through the channels Of public opinion.
Onr enemies had chosen their ground with
skill; they had recruited their ranks with all
the influences which could combine an army.
They proclaimed the ultimate abolition of sla.
very as the incentive to the fanatic-the diys.
ion of the spoiIs as the reward of the mcrcena-
ry. The pretended invasion of n sacred right
constituted their appeal to those with patri-
otic impulses, whilst II fegncd regard for the
Union was to secure the support or the neutral
ity of all whose material interests were involy.
ed in its duration. These devices had organiz-
ed formidable array. Masses of honest and
earnest men were deluded by the teachers
whom they had trusted into the belief that
their government had betrayed and their fellow
citizens had oppressed them. Dvines, grded
with the sword and clothed with the authority
of the Gospel, preached bloody resistance to
the laws as the most acceptable service to God
Woman quilted her peaceful station to ami
mate with her apprchensons those to whom
her wishes are ever command; and the youth,
lndoctrnatcd by willy managers, responded
with enthusiasm to false appeals addressed to
their innate and generous hatred of oppression.
Politicians speculated phoSophicaly upon the
capacity of the constitution, caring only to
know whether its native strength of structure
would bear the agitation necessary to secure
the success of their ncfarious schemes, and still
leave enough Of stability to insure their enjoy
ment
1t was the purpose of the conspirators to
secure possession Of the government if it perish
cd--as it must have perished--in their grasp.
1t was their purpose to inaugurate the North
as the dominant section. The rule of egibili-
ty was to be obedience to the sway and con-
formity to the opinions of the dominant section.
The subugation of Ireland by force, division
and bribery was to be produced upon this con-
tinent, and the Southern States were to be
reduced to mere provincial appendage of the
Federal Government. Such was the plan,
and disunion must have followed it's accom-.
plishment, Southern men would have only
differed as to the hour and mode of separation.
The cement which binds the fabric would have
lost its cohesion in the fires of the conflict, and
The majestic fabric would have crumbled and
allen INTO ruins, never again to be reconstruct
I'D.
Never was the republic in such peril. Ney-