New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-07
n. n. cour,er,s Consideration.

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The following extract, taken from long article in
tbe brandon Rankin county, Miss9 Democratic
platform of the LIST. instant, is perhaps worthy the
| consideration of the Courier. The Platform is q
Democratic journal of the strictest sect-has been
distinguished for its able advocacy of rigid Demo-
cratic princples--and Yields an extended influence
in its section of country. r&
So much by way of preliminary. Now for what
the Democratic Platform has to say:
KANsAs.-We take the annexed article from the N.
o. Courier, that modestly moderate and tamely con-
sentative subordinate organ OF the administrator
which doubtless, while identified in interest ana ee
ing with the South-is yet so unsehsh and patrlotc
so compromsingy national in its Democracy tnat we
can almost fancy we see its faithful! grinder with the
government quill in hand, Qike the tyro IN cniio
graphy whose master directs the motions OF the ~
strument) surprised, aghast and HORNED al iss
unwilling and unoriginal suggestions, which are
tantamount to this appeal g Let US have peace
although Knsas be free. Better to yield to the force
of circumstances suffer our own rights 10 DC voateu
and outraged and the Constitutlon-the only basis OF
the Union-to be virtually abrogated, than hazard
the possible collision OF the hostile elements in Kan
sas We can almost see the uneasy twltchings OF an
injured conscience--the rising qualms OF righteous
| conviction attempted to be appeased by the grand
panacea nationality, administered by the patent ad-
of the Courier, to its read
ers with mawkish air of patriotic lnialhblhty, as
working himself up to kind of spasmodic enthusiasm
I and wouldbe Democratic feryor he seems to shout
| aloud throughout his long, labored and apologetlc
4 leader The administration always right, but right
or wrong the administration" After making out a
very strong case of popular rebellion in Kansas;
! showing conclusiyely that the same lawess and IN
subordinate spirit pervades the whole free State party
in Kansas, from multiplying resolutions OF popular
assemblies acts of bogus legislatures subversive OF
law and order and in their arrogant assumptions hur
ling defiance against all the powers that be; with
extract upon extract from the Freeso press in all
parts of Kansas, manifesting most clearly deter
mined, organized, Incorporating and INSCRIPTIONS
opposition to the organic laws OF the Territory-a1
unqualified reputation of the authority congressional
or territorial, in which these laws had their origin
and with the fact patent to all Though only alluded
to by the Courier in gentle euphemism) that r. j
| Walker has in his official capacity of Governor o.
Kansas basely pandered to the rebel passions of the
| Freesoers there not only approving virtually O.
their designating schemes but giving them aid ane
comfort in their rebellion, helping them with all hi
inglorious might to retrieve the errors OF their mis-
guided policy and stalking his character and position
on the contamination of their illegal and nefarlou
designs; with all these facts glaring upon him. thu
submissive echo, this Ginning organ is guilty OF thu
shameless efrontery-the inconceivahly absurd incon
sistency of defending this base and truculent derec
ton Of the traitor Walker against the righteous ndlg
nation of the Southern people.
All, gentlemen OF the Platform, you have no kins
Sldell in Mississippi, and are, therefore, compare
lively uneducated in politics. Were he your teache
you would soon learn that Democracy meant Office,
spoils' and " preferments' and that the South hal
no rights, and was entitled to rights, moral, COZ
stitutona or political, not embraced in those term: