Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-01-30

'' " 't'o'e HS'et was q dttte
election tl,an that held in New OrIean
in November last, and as the same ma,
be said of subsequent local elections i,
that city, we think there is no necessity
at once for getting out the big guns.-
The law was not opposed in the s]ightes
degree, and not man had any reasona
bic fear of going to the polls. The try,
reason that the Democracy OF the city
abandoned the efforts to organize, made
before the November election, WAS thai
they could not effect it, The soule ant
SIdeIi fnctions of the party, entertain
bitter f e|ings towards each other, ant
Wa believe that either woule rather SEE
the American party succeed, than thei'
Democratic opponents
The Governor goes somewhat exten
~ively into the money and commercial
crisis, and its effects upon the banks -
He favors restraining them from issuing
any bills Of less than ten dollars, and
leans strongly towards eniargening the
specie basis of our currency. We be.
ieve in the principle, but do not believe
this the time to attempt its practice
From the close connection or rather ink
Imposition Of the recommendations, or
suggestions, and the following statement
it would almost appear that the former,
were founded on the latter:
"The monthly statement Of the Board
of Currency, for each of these months,
(Angust and September, last, )reveaI the
fact that the real coin IN uault differed
from the tabular exhibit Of specie by
from six to eight .hupdred thousand dol
lars. So grave discrepancy indicates
lack Of fairness in the returns, or de-
feet in the law, which demands your at
tenlIon.'
We see no good reason to believe
that a law Which is good, should be up
rooted or changed, because it has been
violated, We have not at present, the
to enable lis to say positively
that the bank directors did violate anv
Ias in making false exhibits on hanl, for
they 'uay have all had the legal amount.
The deception was really criminal, and
ii it is not, ought to bo, legally so.
Tile illusions to Utah and Kansas are
general in their character. Tile speedy
admission. of Kansas. into the Union,
with or witl,ou. a Slavery constitution,
is advocated as all-inportant. The South
is represented as demanding nothing in
lhe premises, but simple non-Interven-
ton. We do not wish to make light of
any poftion Of the able and concise dec
lment, we have hastily glanced at, but
when we read the following paragraph,
we could hardly resist the idea thai, bis
Excellency intended it as joke: 49,.
"a statesman is in the Presidents
CHAIR, chosen in the main, by the people
Of the South. In bis recommendations
to Congress, be has gone far to. do us
Justice in a matter most concerning our
future GROWTH. -. ,s
, Union of the Southern States, abro-
CATION of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty,
State Rights, application Of the Monroe
doctrine, and thorough reorganization
Of che State government, are all COM
and ably advocated. II
The following vindictlve fling at the
American party, which occurs almost at
he very close of the Message, seems to
is entirely uucalled for, and out of place:
~Tbe remnant Of political organiza-
Jon which9once devoted itse|f wholly to
he national idea. nd which lately en-
arged so much on the value Of the Tn
OF, at any cost, seems now to be striving
% outstrip tic Democracy in its devotion
o the rights Of the individual States. y
We fully believe that a second thouggt
you'd have prompted Gov. W1cKL1rFE
0 omit the above paragraph. A very
general opinion prevails throughout the
Union, that the Executive Of State,
.cts in bis official capacity for the aehole
7eopzes Of. the State, and that his annual
messages the Legislature, should not be