The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-10-15

own system OF politics alone, Dut III Ilo w
umns of the Mobile Register the Charleston
Mercury. the Natchez Free Trader, the 70,
hmbia Times, the Richmond Examiner, The
Virginia Despatch, and every other southern
sheet which can pretend to higher and nobiel
rank in the newspaper literature of the times
than that of a party hack or regular organ
Ground by timid and unskilful hands. Every
Southern State in this confederacy is impreg
mated with these ideas, thank Heaven, and the
Youngest among them, like our gallant and en-
ergetc Texas, are ready to march side by SIDE
! with the Oldest and most staid. In view of this
! fact, it is time for the democratic party to de-
| fine its position or surrender its arrogant CLAIM
on the associated votes of the south. Is thai
party in favor of the extension and perpetua
| ton of slavery or not? That is the question
If it is our heart is with it; if not, as we have
already said, not
The Delta, the 4th inst, continues the sub
iect in the following strain:
Which IS THE TRUE Pol1cY?-Mr. Brecken-
ridge, in his Tippecanoe speech, roundly an
nounced that he belonged to no party that was
in favor of the extension of slavery, and grant
ing the orthodoxy of the position, we are forced
to infer that he and his party do not desire to
maintain the equality of the south in the Uni
on and her equilibrium in the senate. We have
already adduced abundant reasons to prove the
inevitabiity of this inference, and have also
shown that, for all practical purposes, and in
view ofthe peculiar relations Of the south to CO.
temporary politics, 1t places the democratic party
of the Union IN political antagonisne to southern
institutions and interests After Mr.. Brecken-
ridge had climbed to this lofty peak Of nation
ality and sublime Indifference to the slavery
question and the interests Of southern people, to
whom his friends were uttering the most shrek
ing appeals for support, we were a little curl
Gus to see whether the leaders of the democrat
ic party at the south would attempt to follow
him to his dangerous elevation; and we have
heretofore noted how dutifully the organs echo
ed the declarations of the Tippecanoe speech,
and have called attention to the somewhat sig
nifcant fact that governor Wickliffe, if we were
not misinformed, has given it his distinct and
categorical endorsement
Thus we have Mr.. Breckenridge declaring
that, politically and in his relations TO party, he
is nom ertensioaist aciM regard to slavery, and
governor Wickliffe, who was elected to the high
est office.in the State by the democratic party,
reafirmng Mr.. Breckenridge's declaration
We understand that governor Wckliffe declar-
ed that the sentiment altered By Mr.. Brecken-
ridge wasMat ofthe democratic party of the south,
and had ARRAYS been so; but we utterly deny
that the democracy in Louisiana has always oc-
cupied the cold, unsympathizing and repellant
attitude towards slavery which, its national
leaders would assign it, and we will 60 no furth-
er back for authentic proof than to the resolu-
tons adopted on the 18th Of June, 1855, by the
state convention which nominated governor
Wickliffe. These resolutions, as far as they
went, were only a reaffirmation of what was
called the Georgia platform, which was consid-
cred almost ulra-southern and pro-sIavery in
tone and tendency. The second and third re-
solutions read as follows:
Resolved, That approve and endorse the action
of our last congress in the Nebraska Kansas act and
the principles therein established and in conforni-
y with these principles, the people of Kansas have
the right, when the number of that population usti
hes 1t, to form republican State constitution with
Or without slavery, as they may determine, and be
admitted into the Union upon equal footing with
he other States, and that her lection by congress
IN account of slavery would be just cause for the
disruption of all the ties that bind the State Of Lou
sIana to II e Union.
Resolved, That we sympathse with the friends of
he slavery cause in Kansas, in their manly efforts
maintain their ghts and The rights and interests
'f the southern people, and that rejoice at their
ecent victories the paid adventures and Jesuit
cal hordes of northern aboiitonisn. That the deep
nfHrast felt and taken by the people of Missouri in
ne settlement of Kansas, and the decision of the
slavery question in it, is both natural and proper
md That It is their right and duty to extend to their
outhern brethren in that territory every egitmate
md honorable sympathy and support.
Here then the democracy, represented by
governor Wlcklife in the last State canvass, acas
n favor of the extension of slavery ''as par
y, and'd'd sympathse, "as a party" with |
he pro-slavery cause in Kansas. Is the "na-
lonal'' democracy of to-day, for which Mr..
breckenridge speaks, different from the demo-
racy which governor Wickliffe represented in
855? Oris the principle of slavery extension
'rong or insignificant, and beneath the notice
f national" democratic orthodoxy to-day,
hough right, and just, and worthy of all exalta-
and of preservation even at the price
f disunon-one year ago? When Wicklife
nd Noise were stumping the State in behalf
f themselves and other democratic Office seek
RS. These are questions that may be pro-
table pondered.
len of the democratic party making naughty
'ScalDeT vi It's OelllS III FAVOR ol slavery eAIeH-
on and the political equilibrium of the south,
may be well to note what views have been
in these regards by an intelligent
ASS of conservative and truly national men at
he north-men who almost without exception
past time have sympathised with the politi-
al theories of sound southern statesmen. Up .
the nomination of Mr.. Fremont the N. Y ork
[erald defended negro slavery on moral and ,
,cal grounds, was in favor of its extension,
nd believed that the equilibrium of the senate :
lould be preserved between the north and the ,,
,uth and the class we refer to held views sim ::
AZ to those of the Herald No later, indeed, )
ian the It'll August last that journal Though =
favor of Fremont resumed and confirmed its !,
d opinions as follows =
AS positive fact and as beneficent institution y
e have always regarded slavery in the south in
vorable light, both existing element of soci- '
and as an indispensable necessity in warm trop-
ATTITUDES We have lived in the south as we'll as 1
the north, and are personally acquainted with the
ndition of labor in both sections of the country
ON experience we know and believe that south n
u slavelabor, practical institution, is more
vorable to health, happiness and comfort than that
northern labor, SO far numbers are concern
. We could illustrate this position by phiosophi- g
arguments and statistical data, but it is not ne