The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-24

e Express, reviewing the result OF the recen
: elections, in an article under the aboyecaption
e holds the following truthful language, Whicl
: is well worthy of the consideration of all south
: erners. The Express says:
t Patriotic citizens, remember that a yot
for the republican state ticket, is a vote endor
sing Stewards reasonable speech at Rochester
: New York senator, representing the larges
commercial State in the Union, in a spirit G
e war against the slaveholding States, declare
t that
"The cotton and rice fields Of South Caro-
lima and the sugar plantations of Loulslan
shall be TILED by free labor alone.''
e'Here is an open threat to carry on wa
2 against ''the cotton and rice fields of Soutl
| Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louis
lana" And it is of speech like this, propos
ing direct, open, unconstitutional and unlawful
; interference with the States beyond the Poto
mac. the Courier and Enquirer, hitherto pro
Tossing noninterference and fair play toward
the south, says: "Clearly and forclbly, ane
with enlarged statesmanlike views for which ht
is remarkable in his discussion of all politlca
questions, he tells what Lecompton democracy
is, that all true men of this republic shoule
avoid it, and what true repubicanism is tina
all true men should strive to uphold it. Mr.
Seward speaks the calm and sober words o
truth, let thinking men and men of truth listen
unto them" $50
"These sscalm and sober words are that
the south must conquer the north, or the north
the SOUTH four score years OF political
equality and fraternity must be swept away
that staterights and state sovereignty must be
| tramped under foot-that intestine war must
take the place OF amity and order between the
States-that the north must proclaim freedom
for the south, or the south slavery for the north.
A more reasonable and monstrous sentiment
never found utterance in the United States
What say the followers ofWashington, and Of
the founders of the republic, to sentiment like
this? What say those who remember the teach
such leader, with such principles, inviting in
ternal strife and open hostility between the
States, expect or deserve success? Mr. Seward
at a state ratification meeting of the state re-
PUBLICAN ticket, places the republican party on
this sectional platform. We trust that every
patriotic citizen will plant himself as stone
wall against the spread of such treason.'
The Express places the proper construction
upon the position assumed by the freesoilers,
no matter whether they sail under the flag of
"black republicans" New York ''soft-shells,
'antiLecompton Douglas democrats, or old
fashioned abolitionsts. They all have but one
aim in view, and are directing all their ener-
ges to consummate that end, viz: "the cotton
and rice fields of South Carolina and the sugar
plantations of Louisiana shall be titled by free
labor alone;" and the countenance any Of those
factions receive from the politicians at the south
has the effect to add to their arrogance and give
them hopes of final success. The people Of the
south should have no sympathy whatever for
any party, any faction, Or any man who has ever
displayed dislike to slavery or disposition
to prevent the extension of the institution into
the new States. ''In calm and sober Words
to be true to ourselves, such must henceforth
be our policy.
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We stated some weeks ago, says the National
Intelligencer. that while the congress of the
United States has been debating the route by
which an ineroceanic railroad shall be built
across the American continent, the government
of Great Britain has actually chartered com
pany, endowed, it is said, with capital suffi-
Gent, to construct continuous line of railroad
from Halifax to the Pacific ocean.
til perhaps not generally known that, while
we have been satisfying ourselves with the
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British possessions is too cold and sterile to
admit of work SO gigantic, the English have
been quietly surveying railroad route through
this very country, and professor Paleisser, who
for more than two years has been engaged in
the survey, does not hesitate to report that the
face and confguration of British America is
'eminently adapted for railroad purposes"
That these representations are not wholly
unfounded is sufficiently proved by the interest
this gigantic enterprise is now exciting in Great
Britain. Discerning. in the priority Of its COM
pleton and management, the guarantee of that
supremacy which may be made to
urn upon the construction OF such work, the
ar seeing minds Of the British government and
people seem disposed to take time by the fore
ock, and thus, by their greater energy and dis
patch, to more than compensate for the alb
'ence Of those natural advantages which might
obtain in more southern route, but of which {
We, while possessing them, have thus far neg
ected to avail ourselves. |
Mr.. Walsh writing from Paris under recent l
late, remarks on this subject as follows: {
"Some American attention would not be I'M {
,roftably bestowed on the communications to f
he London papers respecting the feasibility !
md uses of railroad across the continent of '
Worth America, through British territory. The I
EDITORIAL article of the London Morning Post t
N this project is pregnant with warning to the 6
United States The time has arrived when the c
ceptre of the commercial world must be I
rasped and held by that power which shall be t
BILE to maintain the most certain and rapid '
COMMUNICATION between Europe and Asia. a
Where is the oceanic line to pass? Through a
oxen or more of the SOY ereign and free States f
f the Union, every one of which has its own /
1terests to consult, or through the widespread
1g territory which belongs exclusively to the n
British CROWN The Post believes, with the d
resident of the Grand Turk railroad of Canada v
hat the nteroceanc line will be British and Fl