Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-07-10

Iii nesschange Old Nick would have an
swered every purpose, without going to
Hea7en for q Saint md furthermore the
p~olitical Saint at whose shrine we worship,
the. same idea Pr Saint SAM
we supposed We'll, as you wofshlppea az
the same sh11iitlestw years and a haIf.zyou
ought to have been fully satisfied without
disturbing The quiet repose Of Saints Peter
Our Contemporary after getting rid OF his
small = change is made hilarious over the
discovery that we were once an Old Line
Wing and chuckles rapturously over glass
houses in which it seems sensitive Tor HIM
to dwell. We feel proud, and ever have telt
proud to know that we belonged to a party
claiming such men as CLAY and WEBSTER as
/ $ exponents; and we never can or Will deny
1t. And we reu,ained firmly attached othat
3arty from our majority, until it fell beneath
the SANDER and venom OF modern democracy.
While it lived, we Iabored faithfully under
its banner, and whenit fell, we, as thousands
Of others did, joined a new party entirely
antagonisticaI to the Democracy. In it we
remained, Iabored hard and long for it. until
II too, has fallen beneath the ISLANDERS and
misrepresentation of the pure, sanctihed and
holy Democracy. Our connection with the
editorial fraternity dates back a lite more
than two years, at which time. the Wing
party had goa.e to its bourne, and the Au1eri-
cau party at the acme OF its prosperity in
| this State. We have never defended the
| Wing party in the columnsof a newspaper,
! nor have we even said that the American
party "u,es reared zt1,on. the ruins and eorr4sp-
lions Of The UAig and Democratic parfies."-
| We pronounce this charge false, and defy the
editor Of the Gazette i Sentinel to produce a
copy. Of the Sugar Planter containing this
assertion, or to prove that we have spoken it
publicly at any time or place. TIE Sugar
Planter is thesonly paper we have ever been
connected whitman editorial capacity. Or,
if we have changed IN our political sents-
ments land made a right about face" it was
but once, and no more. Can ourcotempo-
rary say as much? Letus catcchise %aslittle
Were yon not 1t one time Il Democrat, and
published a Democratic paper advocating ita
principles?--did you rot afterwards publish
a Wing paper, and advocate Wing princi-
ples?-did you not then become an adheTent
Of "san," and advocate "Sarn's" principles
which by the way, you never discovered p
and, finally. have you not returned to YOU
first love, and are now intensely Democratic:
Our contemporary must look at home before
he charges us withinconsistency. But whai
car we expect Of an editor who travels tc
Heaven to get the testimony Of James and
Paul to prove that men change, Probably
the terrestiaIs would Mt believe 1t under any
circumstances, and so an appeal to the Saints
becomes necessary as a clincher.
Our contemporary continues in a very melo.
dramatic STRAIN, the manner Of which con-
vinces us that he is l~aboring under the pleas
ing haAlucination that he isspreadiHs himseII
immensely at Our expense:
Since the political death OF K. N'ism. we
have paid but little attention to our versatile
friends political proclivjtles. Knouing him
to be a consistent politician we did not+pre.
diet whether he would adhere TO the pfinci-
pies of defunct Sam, Or join any new party in
deposition to Democracy-for instance. the
peoples no party party. Neither did we
consider it our duty to keep upon our c~onfsere
the eyes Of a censor, believing in his honesty
and ability to form hisown opinions, Having
left the Wing party and embraced K. Nism
we have not thought proper TO guess what
political tenets he would next become con-
yeEsed to. For ourselves, old Democracy
under which the whole country had g1owF
great, prosperous and happy. was good enough
and we cordially bowed at its altar witt
were some of the brightest intelEects. OF tbs
country. Fer Justification of OFF course we
have the SANCTION Of our own Judgment ant
the example Of patriots. We do not deny
that VIC have embraced the opinions Of tae
Natlona! Democracy, They are essential tt
the future wefl-belng Of the country, and WE
are proud oil those doctrines which eontem.
plate justice, no matter what the consequen.
ces may be. We avowed cur intention .!
soon as we read Buehanan;s Inaugural, O
supporting his administration IN preference t
all the local platforms in existence.
No doubt there is the greatest amount pos
sible Of fun in the above extract. but unfor
t'nateIy we cannot exactly discover whert
titles: Oui contemporary ~inficts great in
justice upon his readers in not :taIlcising O
otherwise pointing out the exact places wher.
the cachinato-y demonstrations should eusue
But in order to ensure a laugh, we Laughed
at the article from the Iir2t to last line. an,
as it is said a hearty laugh provokes chi,
good nature into active exertion, we feel un
usually good natured at the whole Of man
kind, Including even good friend BRADBuas
The Gaastts 8 Sentinel must not place II