The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-09-03

-. 4 NunuFeu OF nunuied ana nifty mlliionS OF 90
- lars-and thus improve her physical and poll
lcal condition. Napoleon has, on the otht
1t hand. concentrated large force on the Spar
ISL frontier, and is actively engaged in intrigue
= with the queen mother, Christina, whose MI
:, Ign influence is deeply felt in the affairs
" Spain. rapture between England and Franc
) is to be apprehended at an early day; NEAR
l. while England seeks 10 conciate the T. State
n by removing ever possible cause of disagree
h ment. and the two countries may be soon com
PEELED TO make common cause against the de
signs Of France in regard TO Spain and Cuba
The tenor of the answers given BY the Span
ish ministry to Mr. Dodge's demand for redres
for wrongs done Americans in Cuba and tn
establishment of SEINE method by which the,
may hereafter be avoided, do not indicate dis
position to follow he advice said IS have beer
given by Great Britain.
CANT SWALLOW IT-Judge H. L. Grinsted
editor of the Jefferson Texas Herald-a gen
tleman who is nov, and has always been al
enthusiastic demotrat-repudiates the squattel
sovereignty dogma advanced by Mr. Buchan
an, and says in his paper OF the Goth ult.
The name of Mr. Buchanan has never been
hoisted in the columns of the Herald, and new
er will be. We have said time and again that
our paper was independent, and not mere
party hack to do he dirty work of brainless
demagogues and political thimbIe riggers Our
political opinions are our own; for their utter
| ance no one is responsible, save ourself For
/ tua aa,ro
the same doctrines which we now entertain,
and ayow. Nothing has occurred or is likely
! to occur to shake our faith in true democratic
principles, and until we are convinced that thew
are unSound, or dangerous in their tendency
We shall Continue 10 assert them. But If on
account OF democracy, any one expects us to
endorse all the heresies, with which the big
dogs OF the party attempt to saddle it, we
beg them to be atance undeceived. Our duty
Is first to the south, and we shall perform it in
such manner as seems most likely to result to
her lasting advantage. And in doing this. if it
shall at any time become necessary to expose
corruption in high PAGES, it shall be done with
out stopping to enquire what4ffect it will have
upon the preferment OF vampires, who would
fas.en upon the body polite, though every ar
terry Of the south should be drained of its blood
to I'll their rapacious maws. The country is
becoming FESTIVE under the control Of men who
suppose they have sort of Divine right to
rule.
This is plain language and to the point. We
commend its consideration to the friends of
Mr.. Buchanan in this vicinity. By request, on
the 23d ult. Judge Grinsted addressed an Amer
lean meeting, at MARSHALL, on the question of
squaster sovereignty. and stated that he could
not support Mr. Buchanan with any cordialitv
and if he did at all, it must be under protest.
Hear An OILS LINE DEAocRAT.-The Au-
gusta Chronicle and Sentinel, of the Goth ult,
publishes long, able, and interesting letter
from colonel Fcuche, defining his position in
the coming election. We have only room for
the following extract:
Il have deEberated carefully as to nv duty
to my principles and the country. l shall sup
port Fillmore, not because l concur with him
in all his political views, but because l do con-
cur with him upon certain important practical
questions which have been put in issue in this
contest. In his recent speeches he has assumed
more manly and statesmanlike attitude than
any other candidate before the country He has /
made his own platform, and administered
bold rebuke to black republicanism, which is
more than the Cincinnati convention dared to I
do He has said to those who are seeking the .
political domination OF the north over the south, I
he does not want their votes. | can trust |
man who acts and speaks thus. He will act
upon his platform. The other platform-the |
Cincinnati platform-has but one obiect-to .
get yotes-all sorts of votes everywhere, north .
and south. Il means votes. It means nothing
else.
Il should be most happy to cooperate with
the democratic party, but it is noe sufficiently
yet. Besides, being a state
rights man, a free-trade man, and opposed to
internal Improvements by the government,
cannot support party which, in the face of its
own recent acts in congress, giving away mil
lions of land for internal improvement pur-
poses, declared at Cincinnati that opposition to
leading principles, and then joined at Wash
ington in passing, by two-thirds vote whole
batch OF bills appropriating vast sums of money
for internal improvements, over the vetoes Of
their own party PRESIDENT
He Wos'F ANswER.-The editor of the Nash
vile Union is emulating his candidate, old Buck,
and can't be induced to answer the following
questions, which the editor of the Gazette I'M
kindly presses On him. Perhaps this Union
editor has followed the example of the Cincin-
natl nominee. Perhaps he has converted him
self into platform, and can't speak. Here is
what the Gazette saws:
I'VE insist on it that the Union answer our
questions: .- /:
First, did not ex-governor A. Y, Brown
declare In the Baltimore democratic eonven-
ion, four years ago. that ..Buchanan's nomi-
lation would disband The democratic partv?a
Second, Did he not say that cit was too
much to ask the party to pack old Bucks fed
sraiism against such man as Scott9'', .
The Houma Ceres says that since the recent .
torn a fatal malady has attacked the fish in !
,ayou Terrebonne, killing thousands upon ,,
of the fnuy tribe, which are now
loating aboutor decomposing on the banks of :
be bayou. The cause Of the epidemic is I'M
nown. butpeople along the gulf-shore are ad-
ised to abstain from fish. i