The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-02-21
False Doctrines.

In Putnath's Magazine for Dccem ber the leading
periodical of the Black Republicans. In an article
aiming deadly blow 1t the South and slavery. we
find the following:
"Not being constitutional nor national. slavery Is
hen local or municipal. - But being local It
has no right In the Territories. In refusing It adj.
admittance there. Won simply refuse to give nnivcr-
sal validity to private and peculiar usaga: Won in.
fringe no right OF any State, nor of the people Of
any State You say to those who are So unfortunate
as to live where slavery is tolerated that as pco-
pie. as members of n community. rs citizens of u
state. they may 60 where they pleasc but Us slave
holders as peculiar class they will not be recog-
missed there.'
This same odious and false doctrine was advoca-
ted and maintained by Know Nothing organs and
orators in Louisiana and other portions of the South
during the last Presidential campaign. We heard
these startling declarations made by them. that
slavery was not national but toca, and sectional The
admission of which would of course bar the right Of
slavery In the Territories beyond question Again.
says the article, Neither is It to he conceded
that the scheme of forced bonded labor which the
Shareholders have adopted, IL IN institution Of tho
Southern States: II is only a custom or usage Of
Southern Society," Such are the doctrines promul.
gated by Black Rcpublicanism of the North. and
responded to by the endorsement of Know Nothing.
ism in the South.
Slavery is not national, but sectional and local
says Southern Know Nothingsm. And says Black
Republication. II Is not ian institution of the South
ern States II is only cestum or usage of Southern
society" mot being constitutional nor intcrnaton-
al slavery is then local or municipal" "But being
local II has no right in The Tcrriturics.'
Now in The name Of all that is just Of all that il
dear to the South what are We to expect or hope
for, II these false doctrines shall obtain force and
authority under the federal government? What hope
is there against the abolition of Slavery in the
States? Let 1t he borne In mind that these are not
the doctrines and views Of one man in the North
We will have the charity to believe that Know No
thingism in the South knew not what II was preach.
ing but the whole Black Republican hosts stand del
terminedly upon them, and will neither waver to tbr
right or to the left. They marshalling all thci
mongrel and motley forces upon the great issue Of
free labor against Stare labor. The slave might perish
OF hunger and nakcdncss for all they cared II is not
humanity that prompts them; it is not religion that
directs them; it is to drive slave labor out of the
South aud supplant II with free labor and thereby.
to some extent, relieve themselves of the bordcs Of
miserable. starving masses that roll and hcave be-
meath their surface like the commissions of smoth.
cred volcano ready to burst upon them with all its
horrors They talk of slavery instructions and the
dangers of the South that account; such dan
gers are but squibs to the roaring thunders that
may break forth from the heaving masses of starry.
ing Northern white slaves, that are there accuml.
lating, and our fair land must not be made u
safety valve for this corrupt mass of human
o'al. Let the people of the South guard against
the real designs OF the Black Republicans The
South is In danger. Let our whole household
he put in order and guard every approach of the enc
my. To yonr tents, o Israel, and every man to his
post