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

Cur remarks upon the further killing OF
Sam, = Ia, our IF issue OF June 26th, seem to-
have worked with considerable effect nron
our sensitive Plaeuernine cotemporarY. f.
our home thrusts, have in the sHghteat de-
gree tended To upset the eqaaTinlity Of the
Ga<g1e { tsepltaala naan-our pisa is, there Is
no earthly use III being too intensely Demo"
cratic. That friend BKADBuns had a perfect
right to become once more a tEue-blne Demo
crat, We have never denied, nor have we
ever ce..sured him torso doing, That is, # his
motives sprung from a pure and disinterested
desire to serve his country Wei:aye poked
all sorts Of good nattred fun At him for his
tumbIe-set propensities, and if his good hu-
NOR only holds out may again be tempted to
do the same hing, but when he comes at us
with such strong language as he uses in his
issue Of Cd inst. we are driven once more to
our sledge- hammer, for the purpose Of again
smashing him into "snitaereers. -
The Ga@suc & Sentinel man says We de-
livered ss'a sermon selected from the Epist{e
" y i1Ftspt 81 SEe%{ttf t*%ts 20 r. "
source Of the greatest possible qualification
for us, to be1ieveethat our contemporary sns-
poets us Of reading the Bible, and the Lord
knows it has been q long time since such a
charge was laid at our feet. We thank him
kindly FOR his suspicions, and sincerely hope
he daily and nightly peruses the Good Book,
particularly that part speaking OF
"5WhiIe the lamp holds out to burn;
Tbs vilest sinner, etc "
Our contemporary further intlmates that with
US all 'a1lusions to eDfte Sam are regarded as
little better than sacrilege," and continues in
the following strain -
Those, forsooth who Inadvertently enlisted
under his banner and abandoned his tnfortu-
nate and unpatriotic policy, must, according
to the SHgar Planter; be regarded as sncol1-
~sisteut, though SANS principles, if he had
any, were never revealed only to the initi-
ated; if %repugnant to the honest citizen his
only alternative was withdrawal from the
order Of Sam as thousands of able, patriotic
men iii our OWE State did withdraw when
they cornprehended his objects.
F. Gentle reader, did you ever hear anything
richer than the above quoted paragraph If
| you have not, for your special benefit we
must inform you that during the Spring Of
1854, BRAD was duly initiated into the Ameri-
can party, along witt, several. other Plaque
fninians. We were one of the committee
appointed TO visit Plaquemine, for the ex-
press purpose Of putting BRAD and his friends
| Through; and to establish a wigwam at
that place The carriage not being large
enough to contain us all, we gallantIy pre-
ferred remaining at home, to defend the
| wives and children of those who had en-
barkel upon the perilous undertaking B..
| remained, from that time a firm and unftinch-
ing expolentaof the principles Of the Aneri-
can party, Until the close of the Presidential
election, when he suddenly discovered that
'Sam5' had no princip pies. Now it would oe
doing OIL contemporary injustice to accuse
him Of being SO thick-headel, that during
the Interval he was unable E discover that
Sam" had no principles: q SAM had no
principles, whyd did he not avail hin1selfof the
.''only alternative, and withdraw amongs. the
thousands OF able and patriotic men ia our
State" Ind not wait until SAM was dead,
and, kkhead make the acknowledgement? We
c%annat believe our contemporary could labor
in d political cause for a period OF two years
and d half without discovering that it had no
principles. We could not=be SO unjust. For
him to make this discovery at such a late
hour, al cues but little perception on his part.
But We thank him for the Apostle. James
| part Of his article. We do, indeed
Oar contemporary further calculates
But it's unnecessary TO discuss this matter
Iiengthily. II We have not common sense on
our side, the history Of the past, the expert
ence Of ali time proves the necessity OF
charge ia the. opinions of men as we'll as
everything else that exists among MS. Men
change with the light Of larger experience
from ~raotives Of self preservation, ard be-
cause circumstances change. The greatest
Of the apostles changed his political Ierfets.
de changed even his religious doctrines, and
from the bitter prosecutor became The abIess
OF E1rist's a~postels. And a scarcely less
than the great Paul said, that to say men
shall not change is to declare that time, place
~ ~ St'o"lt never chafl5e. aye.
the political saint, at whose shrine our CO.
temporary Worshlps, announced the same
idea Even we have a Justification ia the
example of our pleasant critic Of the Sugar
Planter. He should remember the old ada re
OF the glass house. lie was an old line WrihEig.
bu5 abandoned his organization for K. N,Isu1a
lie hae q reason for the change. We did not
question its validity We did not attempts to
iathom the depths nor propFiety ofthe Sugar
Fla.ter;s Judgment, nor to Weigh the secrets
Of Its EDITORS heart. @HfxMs made Alright
about face and Joined an organization as he
said reared upon the ruins and corruptiop Of
the Wing and Democratic parties.
Changes, We admit are ever akins place
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