Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1857-12-05
FROM The M0bIe Mercury.
.Uh SaI!cNaL PARTIES-T -Th.ir Inf.u-
encc Upou the South

The ,fnaie Of the Kansas embro-
Clio affords us an elegant comncn-
tary on the Ualuo to the South Of
our National Party organizations.
That they are worthless TO the slave
holding States we have ever main
tanned from the first establishment
of our paper. " hat one useful
purpose for instance, is the "Nata-
onM Democratic Party" now ser
wing. beyond that of a general
Comnissariat for distributing the
''spoIIs Of victory' to its countless
hordes Of hungry office seekers? 1t
once-we grant-had its uses, but
it has outliyed them. In the days
of jefferson, of ackson and of Polk,
it could boast OF a glorious EMISSION"
to fulfill. That mission has been
galIantly accomplished, and the
principles Of the party, with certain
notifications, have long since be-
come the established policy of the
country.
Its principles, therefore, being no
longer in issue, its organization is
kept up for the sole and exclusive
benefit OF its crafty leaders, and as
furnishing Il kind Of House Of Ref
uge, or "'uaaison de Chartte," upon
which to pension off its disabled and
superanuate,l party hacks. For so
far from answering as a protection
to the South, every days observa
ton shows it to be a snare to her
teet-a fatal delusi,n-a nuisance
and curse. And if the reader de
sires any further evidence of the
truth of what we have written let
him look over the editorial columns
of our party "organs," and if he
can sufficiently overmaster his dis
gust-read, till he is blind with in
dignation, the humiliating, damning
proofs Of Southern party subservl-
ency to a band Of Northern dena
gogues, the audacity of whose acts
of treachcrv to the South, is Ilnpar-
aIelled in the annals oiclvil govern
ment.
We ask again, why should South
crn men cherish a nationat party
organization: Look at this very
case Of the last act in the Kansas
trcachery. At a recent meeting OF
thc NationM Democratic party in
New York city-addressed by the
usual number Of party managers
Sickles-late secretary to Mr.. Bu-
chanan, while minister to England
being Appointment leader--the gen
eral administration of President
Buchanan, and'the special admins
tration Of Coz. Walker, were fully
and heartily apprond!
There is National party organi
cation for You! There is the great
Nationul party 10 which, We are
told, the South is T. look as her on.
hope, If it we2y SO, indeed
that were her only hope, she woulc
long since have been past praying
for! s.u ......s
! But it is not so. It is vile Sian
der upon the South, to talk Of he1
safety depending upon any n orth
ern party. If united as she ongh
to be-and as she would be, but to-
the miserable party tricksters, wh'
necessarily keep her people diyidet
If united, we say, as she ought tt
be, all the Aboltionists and Black
Republicans on the face of the eartI
would be utterly unable to do ne
the slightest harm or make the leas
possible impression upon her socia
institutions. On The contrary, i
thus united, the South wonld holE
a power in her hands by which sh
could easily make the n orth bov
down her head to the very dust, il
humble acknowledgment of her gee
graphical, social and Commercial
inferiority to her Southern rival. !
"Conmerce is King" the sout
places the sceptre in the hands {
this king, and holds over all hi
movements supreme control. A"
to see Southerners, therefore, s
physically and morally blessed, ,lool
ing to a nest of Northern polite;
gamblers-black to the hearts cor
in political corruption-every Oh
of them-looking to such a set
of heartless reprobates for the
2 sectional safety-caps the very cl