The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-01-03

ern STAKEHOLDER, ana amlcably constitute such |
government as should suit themselves. Loud
cheers.
Southern Know Nothngs may tell you OBJ.
served the Governor that the Democracy of
the Norti are opposed to territorial extension |
1t was not so. They were in favor of the ac-
QUESTION Of territory, for the obvious reason
that they desired new and opnlent markets for
the products of q teeming soil If Spain de-
sired TO sell Cuba, the West qcoaM gladiy con-.
tribute Tier SHIRE Of the tvo hundred millions
purchase money. Or If despotism became intol
erabe, aM revolution folloaced, Tie Democracy
o(Mc Union acouid go 10 The assistance of THE
oppressed, eren as Fracce and other nations care
mid 10 Rerolutionary america. Cheers
Therefore he acouM sag, make the honorable ac-
quisi,on Of CnJa plamk IN The Democratic
Plotform, anil The true patriotism Of the North
om West mouM MT shrink from It's endorse
mcM
Would to God (fervidly exclaimed Gov
Willard) that Southern Know Nothngs would
come back TO their allegiance to the Constitu
ton. Surely the brave Soutlerner was not
afraid of that once terribly formidable person.
age, the Pope Of Rome? A laugh. Where
and when, in this country, were Catholics dis
loyal to the Constitution, or faithless to the
duties and obligations Of citizenship? There
was not an'instancc. Better look to the fidelity
of other churches, North, whose allegiance
had of late assumed questionable form, and
whose pnlpits were degraded into rostrums for
the fanatical displays Of clerical demagogues
III his own section of the Union, the Catholics
ranged under the banner Of the Constitution,
and the Priesthood Of that church left political
questions to the secular mind, and tongue, and
pen Why, it was Protestant England that
laid the heavy, intolcrabc yoke upon the nccks
of our fathers, and it was Catholic France
that aided in irving our political letters! I'm
palatable as it might be, the truth belonged to
history, and mere Justice demanded its asser-
ton. And with all the imputed power of the
Catholic priesthood over the mind Of man, he,
for one, could never believe that by the most
stringent exercise Of that power, they could
induce their communicates to believe that
Heaven could be proptiated by treason TO the
country of their birth, or of their adoption.
= Cheers This glorious land was the peculiar
ASYLUM Of liberty of conscience. During six
thousand years of bgotry and proscri ption up
on this footstool of God, but eighty years
past had witnessed this one spot--ths confed-
Grafton of Satcs-where man could worship
/, his way to Heaven in that way most grateful
to his own feelings And was the reign OF
freedom wearsome? Would men retrOgade to
times Of kingly dominion and religious pcrse,
sccntion! Oh, he would abinrc the Know
J, Nothing TO break the unhallowed bond that
i bound him to the midnight conclave of the
lodgc-room; the Black Republican to break
= the goddess compact that welded him to the
Abolition school, and both rcwrite the com
C mon compact as it was written by our fathers
+ Applause.
h As he had said Yesterday, his hope was in
! the Valley Of the Mississippi. They were ono
a people, from the Canada line to where tho
e Mississippi discmbognes its waters into tho
d Gulf The West would never be laggard II
defending any coparded right Of the South
The sons of the Mississippi, he well knew
would pour their blood as freely to protect tn,
;. iewellcd daughter of the Pacific, as they woulo
q draw the sword in the Old DominiOn's houl
4 of peril (Chcers) 1t was for the South
q then, to unite in crushing out Know Nothing
. ism, and the true Democracy Of the West ant
a the North would see that the Abotionst
n were kept harmless. To accomplish this nc
!. new platform was needed. The Constitution
v was II magnificent platform upon which nj
% could stand and by which every right ant
t every interest could be piared up with
d strength invunerablc except to the han'
!. of Omnipotcncc
n How proudly would he go back to his owl
\ State, could he tell them that all at the Sout
"a we're friends to the Constitution-tell the han
"a dy, the industrious and the faithful Irish an
10 German born citizens, whose tolls had give
8 greatness to the West, that the repcntan
n Know Nothing had entered his Southern lodg
a. room, dark and dank, knceled down and praye
i. God to freight other white-winged ocean shir
yc with stalwart conquercrs of the soil, friends {
& the South and enemies of Abolitionism, and a
~ other Vaccinations against the perpetuity {
n. our common Union, and the integrity of on
n. common Constitution.
a. In brilliant and soulmoving peroratiol
os which we will not attempt to give-for it r.
os qrlires lofty soaring to follow the eage-Go
he Willard closed a speech grandly national
10. conception co-extensive with the Union in I'll
w hrgencss of its patriotism, and powerful ft
90 permanent good in the healthful and anmatin
~. Impression which it left upon the minds of n
to who were edited by its wisdom and enwral