Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-08-28

"a StvtrLSj EDNF SE 4ftatt.t.hS fti-tiIti5NS
There is no doubt that the Democratic party
has been composed ota minority ofthe lawful
voters Of the Union for the last thirty years
and that, notwithstanding the historical fact
that it has carried every Presidential election
but two-durins that long period, at the
present time it is clearly in q small minoTi-
ty
1t is said that, in view Of these facts. the
party has no title to the government Of the
country, and that the opposition should ON
bine their forces to defeat it. We, too, are
Tor q combination onp,inc1ple, and under the
:eadershlp~of honest, reliable men, but we
are free to confess that we are opposed to a
consolidation of all the odds and ends of the
rtl-Detaocrat elements. with the adoption
other principles and the understands g that
they are to be entrusted with the government.
! AS bad an opinion as we have of the Demo-
cratic iaTty, we prefer their ~raisrule to the
risk Of something better from some Of the
men and parties who oppose them.
The recent movements at the North, for
The organization of a new party to enter the
field against the Democracy in the next
Presidential election, have wholly ignored
the existence ofan democratic element
at The South. We fnd that in nearly all the
States where this movement has been inats-
-~'~S - q thS bNSh aNRIGiSt pShtaiSt tt1E
Buchanan administration which Il Character
lied as the "pfo-s}asery character Of his Kan
sas measures This is the particular and
paramount ground for opposition with the
projected party, and we regret to see soSae OF
the NEST conservative journals at the North
giving their sanction to the issue.
NoWTas a Southern opponent Of the Demo-
cratic party, we have a word to say on this
Fteit.t-a special word for orr Northern hreth-
remand there is no better time than the
present to make known our sentiments. The
issue you have rendered has all the elements.
of strength at the North just at this p~articf1-
lar lHncture. and you may use it i you choose |
in your local elections, with which ve have |
nothing to do. But we call Yo,l attention to |
the fact that, with the exception Of small |
parties in Maryland and Kentucky, the
South including men Of ali parties, A american
and wing as we'll as DeEaocrat, approrea and
the Presidents policy. Nor do we
intend to. swallow our words or back out |
from our position, and we tell our Northern |
a~ntI-Democratie friends thatSany a~tten4pt TO |
force US to do either, will result ina signal
failure. We give this warning in advance.
Kansas, we hope. is done away with, and
to carry itbaYcnd their State elections, and
AAD 4AEoeiAtii. ~ vi WIG HlliiE4 /
standing that their syunFathizers at the South |
are oJo}n them in the war, they Will fad
greatly mistaken. In snch an
event SoAthef1. men of all parties, hoWever
much they may depreciate the nescessity. |
v II sustain that candidate and party whose
positions and sympathies shall. most nearly
accord with their own, leaving the conse-
q~uences to those who viii have forced them
to such a course.
Mo. If new party il 10 be formed, let
the slavery question andaIl matters relating
to or growing out Of it be first dropped aud
laid on the she!ffor all time. Let Us quit the
d,sgraceful wrangte and go to work on those
great Questions which involve the interests
ftha white men OF America and the true
glory and progress OF Union. There will be
inlon, and strength and on1nipoteuceln such
a party, properly organized, and defeat, dis
and disaster in any other. And It
ought to iail.-ispubiican.