The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-12
A True soUrHERaER.-Mr. F. B. Shepard

appointed by the Mobile county demOcTalS
convention, acquainting him with his nomna
ton as a candidate for The lower branch of thu
legislature, thus defines bis position upon statt
and federal politics.
Having always been a southern rights de
mocrat, it would be dislngenous in me, in th'
present popular turmoil, not to say exact,
where stand in regard to State and fedora
policy. First, then, in regard to our State. Il
a military point of view, [ am in favor of STATE
aid. This is an idea of Calhoun. He laugh
the south that our whole country should be
network of railroads. whereby every able DO
died man could be cheaply and rapidly trans
ferred to those points where his services nigh
be needed Every intelligent Albanian vii
see at once the force and propriety Of this view
and therefore, must conclude that the State
bound as it is to provide for the security ane
protection of its citizens and their property
should not refuse to lend d proper aid to thu
enterprise of her people in bringing about Thu
important result. INSTRUMENTATION among
the slave States is absolutely necessary for The
defence of southern institutions, and Alabama
should promptly do her part. ~A@A*
''Your efforts for defence hitherto, have fail
ed on all sides, Itseems you have no friends
Every rogue makes hobby of your interests
The spasmss of slavery in Kansas are merely
Pickering, while in Nicaragua all that unsup
ported talent and southern chivalry could ac
compllsh has been swept away by the open anc
secret enemies of our Institutions, domestic ano
foreign, Hence the greater necessity that Ala
bama should place herself in position to com
I. H..
benefited by those enterprises, Mobile, Selma
Montgomery Or Huntsville, SO much the bet
ter for the State and the people. To conclude
The policy of our State and the whole south in
reference to federal politics is difficult to de-
fine, simply because the powers that be can
not be trustede with the interests of slavery
Platforms and neutrality-suspicious. and all
their agents-non -intervention and its advo,
Gates, are equally contemplate and fallacous.
Before month had elapsed after the cleo
ton, Mr.. Buchanan avowed his desire that
Kansas should be free, but modestly limited that
he could not interfere So 1 am informed by a
democrat in Philadelphia. A tool and land :
Spectator, however, was at hand in the per-
son of Bob Walker, who, of course, looked at
Cincinnati platforms and the
south as very idle humbugs, not to be regard
ed for moment. Mr.. Buchanan relies not
more on Walkers admitted cunning and plaus-
bility than on the gulbility Of the southern
wing of the democracy. >-gE
The president is guilty with Walker He
sent him to Kansas knowing his sentiments
He keeps him there and intends to hold on to
him until their schemes are accomplished thus
proving two departments of the government
its executive and legislative, in their dealing
with the south and slavery, to be the most ir-
and meanest autocracy that eyer
dlshgured page in history. #.@
With sentiments of personal regard, re-
man your obedient servant,
f. B. SHEPARD.
Messrs A. B. Meek, Chas. P Robinson, A.
M. Quigley, committee.
So far, the administration has refused to
yield any thing to the demands of the southern
democracy. On the contrary, it is announced
in very precise and positive terms that Mr.
Buchanan approves Walkers course in Kan
sas, and is smartly provoked by the expostu-
lations of the Georgia and Mississippi democrat
eye An authoritative article in the Union, con-
firms the report of the telegraph, and allows
scarcely a doubt.as to the position of the admin
stration.
IF Mr. Buchanan entertains the idea that
he can trlde with the fealings Of the southern
democracy and may safely defy their VEN
geance, he is at liberty to undertake the expe-
'iment But it is hardly possible that so sa-
gacious politician can mistake the apologize
tone of few placemen for the genuine voice
ot the southern people. Though the southern
members of the cabinet should incline to dis
oarage the spirit of the statesrights democra-
y, the distinct and emphatic utterance of the
Georgia and Mississippi conventions would not
allow OF SO fatal an error as to suppose that any
'egard for the integrity of party, OF any attach
nent to an administration, will compel silent
in the Kansas outrage. If Mr..
Buchanan attempts to shield Walker, he will
'nIy expose his own body to mortal stroke.
lhereis no divinity about the person of pres-
lent which the democracy are afraid to violate.
Lhe instant the administration assumes the re-
ponslbllty of Walkers treachery, that instant
VIII the subaltem sink out of sight and the pres
dent become the object of the Remuneration
which is now ]eveled against his appointee
3ut there will be no precipitation in the mat
er. The democracy of the south are reluct-
mt to identify Mr.. Buchanan with Robert ]
Walker. They will not abandon an admins
ration which they brought into power, except
Upon compulsionof the mostirresistible and IN
3qulvocal evidence Gifts treachery to the south.
They are not governed by impulse, and will
lemean themselves with the dignity and deco
UNI due to the gravity of the occasion But
voc betide the man who mistakes their for
oearance Though he be president of the U
states, with servile party at his back, and
lightly millions a year in his pocket, he cannot
title the voice Of the southern democracy
Richmond South
We would call the attention of our readers
0 very significSa article from the New York
1venlng Post. 1t is worthy of their most seri-
JUS consideration, and we solicit for it's con-
ents the reflection it seems to us to demand,
t is entitled 1.-The Turn of the Tide and is
Intended to point out the bearing and the true
Interpretation to be placed upon the policy now
eng pursued in Kansas towards the south
nd her vital institutions involved -. ..s..
1t is indeed a stturn of the tide, - which now
ears upon its breast matter of very grave i'm
ort to every southern man. 1t is turn of
le tide, - that, swelling and rushing madlv
inward under the new impetus, is now BEATING
md no =,ir, -. l.