Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1857-10-03
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FFecso!l'snt ar osr Doors.

'iD'' "Ht+e pofttoH u the
Southern people have beea ruaking siren
0cu3 efforts 10 introduce Kansas into the
on'on as slave State, the ranillv grow
ing anti slavery Influence in one Of the
Southern States has been almost eutjreIv
o"eyiooked. We allule to Texas the
western portion OF which j. rapidly fill
ing up with enigrauts from GERMANY
and other parts OF Europe. 10 know
that this class Of emg,an1s is popnlatine
W eStern lexas almost exclusively, is suf
ticient to satisfy any wel-informel and
unpFejud'ced niui that there exists in
that section al ant! slavery seutirent =
mat these erf'grants are opposed to the
institution Of slavery i 10 secret they
publicly proclaim thor opposition to that
institution. But because tley do not
agitate the question Of abolition, the
party with which these foreigners act af>
Iect to believe that no harm can come
Of their simple fs.;ng Of dislike for the
institution Of slavery The Democratic
| leaders practice 4 gross deception upon
the people of the other Southern States,
for they know that this anti>savery sen,
t!meut Of Western Texas is not mani,
Tested by open opposition to that insti>
tuition, because i is not sufficiently strong
to effect anything by aytats ion, willis
BY such course ll~leeling would be en-
genlered between those entertaining that
sentiment and those who are in flyor of
slavery. These party eaIers in Texss
know, too, that the adopted citizens only
&C, with the Democratic party, because
its principles, as avowed, come nearest 10
their notions Of republicanisn, and be
canse they are not sufficiently strong TO
organize party Of their osu, with Y
prospees pf success.
This Fo"eisn vote is already sufficient
IL large to control the election in Texas
for, besides the l. ,ropaans >a.tl. 10 tn,
Western part Of that State. there is quite
large Mexican p3p.sIAtion, eT'IIIy OF
posed t, tive institution Of slavery. The
Democrats exuIl",i ioli.ly over the re-
cent election OF Klnne!s, their Guber-
material candidate, bu. their prepouder-
snce in that contest was solely due to
this foreign vote, but for which, Houston
would have been e!ec:ei by an over
wlelming majority. The facts, that the
immense German population Of Western
Texas are radically opposed to the inst>
turion Of slave Y, and that the Demo-
cratic party owes its success to their
votes and takes them to its bosom, are
patent to every Intelligent resident Of
that State. 1t is not so much thos g
facts to which we wish to diract public
attention, as to to the dupicltv or crimi
nal blindness Of that party in urging
these foreigners, as they arrive by hun
dreds and thousands, into organized po
Iitical prominence, for the sake Of tenn
porariIy prohtiny by their votes, regard
less of whatever consequences may en-
sue.
The leaders Of the Democratic party
in Texas, not only know that powerful
anti-slaye'y sentiment exists in the Wes~
tern part Of that State, but that it Is
rapidly increasing, 50 rapidly that II 1t
meets with no interruption, five years
will not expire before it will WELD a cons
trolling political Inference, ii not strong
enough to effect a division OF the State,
and declare the Western portion free
And these same leaders know that the
last Legislature established new county
most of the soil within the limits OF
(which belonged to few Germans, who
intended bringing over and settling up
on il colony o: forty thousand Of their
countrymen. Whether this has been
done, we are not advised, but that such
as the intention of the owners Of the
soil, we are cred'b;y informed By one
who is quite familiar wlth the affairs Of
Texas. Had this colony been brought
over, the na,iona! Democracy could have