The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1856-11-29
M The New Orleans Courier Of the 23d

"a Inc new OFldtIiS SOuTleT VI tHc Aou
inst, contains very able and forcbe article,
as to the dangers which threaten that city.
growing out of the rotous and murderous acts
which have occurred at the late election. 1t
argues, and truly,
IF the city Of New Orleans wishes to be
cherished BY the people Of the South-if she
aspires to become the centre Of their trade
and their resort for business or pleasure-she
must identify herself with Southern feelings
and interests, and discard stcrnly all attempts
to Undue her politics or her social philosophy
with the peculiar and very Objectionable cru
dities Of that of New England, which has run
to seed in that hot bed of error and fanaticism
in crop Of fallaccs, which, like the tarcs, ru-
in the field Of grain in which they have shot
up. To gain Southern confidence and support
our city must be Southern in sentiment and
policy; not that she should receive nhospita-
bly, any enterprising and worthy man who
comes to toll honestly in her midst, and who
was born in New England, for there are still
men to be found there who are well deserving
Of the admiration and regard of all with whom
they come in c0ntact-men who bring with
them brains, and education and high resolves,
and who despise cant and pseudo philanthropy
with oil their souls. Our curse now and in
the past has becn that the lower class of Yam
KEGS have obtained too great an influence in
our affairs-that creatures without education,
without soul, and thoroughly imbucd with all
the pitiful littlenesses which have so long tar
nished what was really great and noteworthy
in New England character, have been fosted
into eminent positions, which they have most
invariably misused for their own private adj
vantage, or shamefully disgraced by incompc-
tency, narrow-mindedness or dishonesty"
And in closing the article, the editor re-
marks:
1.-THE people Of the South neither can nor
ought to support the trade Of q city which di-
rectly declares war against them by voting for
Free Soil candidate for President. AS low.
ers of law and civil order, as upholders of re.
ligious liberty and liberation, as disciples OF
the noble principles of the fathers of the Re-
public and the trainers of the Federal Const
tuition, they never can, and they never will
countenance the violation Of the great doc
trine of civil and religious liberty and progress
nor will they build up city whose municipal
officers are the choice, not of q majority OF her
lega qualified voters but the elect of band
ed rufianism which, in order to accomplish its
ends. has trampled law, constitution and pub
lie decency completely under foot.
If she is to prosper in the future, New Or
leans must rid herself of New England cant and
presumption, and give up political bigotry and
intolerance while at the same time, much Of
her native population must show more liber.
al and intelligent policy than that which has
governed it for several years back. In such a
course lies her only chance Of escape from in
cyitable decline, and the eventual loss of the
manifold advantages which nature has show
cred upon her."
What man, whether native born or identi-
fed with Louisiana as his place of residence,
will not sustain the justness and fidelity of the
above.