The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1858-12-29

Of the republican forces are compelled to recog-
nize tile conservative influence Of the peculiar
institution" Of the south. The evidence that
the influence Of slavery is highly conservative,
is too palpable to admit of doubt. We have
merely to cast our eyes around TO find the
proofs. The brood of moral, social, religious
and political 'isns" which threaten to uproot
the very foundations of society and destroy eV-
cry thing good and noble, have obtained no
foothod in the south. No! they invariably fol-
low the freesoiIers and take root IN the anti
slavery States. Wherever freesoIsm and re-
pubIicanism are rampant, there flourish in wild
luxurance the most obnoxious leprosies which
disfgure this progressive age Rutland, IN
abolition loving Vermont, is the fayorlte spot
for holding '.free love- conventions; Boston, IN
fanatic Massachusetts, turns out large congre-
cations of grey headed men and old woman,
beardless boys and young misses, to such free
love expounders as the notorious kaliock. The
most influential republican organ in New I ork
is the Tribune, edited by that 'saint," Horace
Greeley, and is not only the official mouth piece
of the freesolers and abolitonists, but OF the
| red republicans, socialists, reformers and splr-
itualists, and also the special medium of the
free lovers for disseminating dogmas in favor OF
disregarding and abrogating the marriage tie.
Rochester, New Y ork, another hot bed OF free
soilism, is the mother Of spirtualism, mysterl-
Gus knockings, table turning and other monde
scrip antics In Ohio--the head quarters OF
! the abolitionists and conductors Of the s'under-
ground railway"-at the town of Berlin Nights,
fourishes in wanton luxuriance free love es-
tabishment Then look at Great Salt Lake
City-anotber freesoil territory-the sanctum
of the Latter Day Saints and their capaclous
harems stocked with women of all ages All
the leaders, priests, propagandlsts, disciples
and followers of these hereses are trecsoIers
and abolitionists 70 defy the laws, denounce
the federal constitution, sing hosannahs to free
labor and free love, and denounce the south,
is the daily occupation of their editors and
ministers. They all sail under the ''black
flag" and are found only in the anti-slave
States. But they are not merely antl-savery;
/, they are sworn enemies of the south, because
the people of the south cannot be made the
dupes of their heresies. They are enemies to
that conservative feeling at the SOUTH which
springs from the combined necessity, interest
and inclination of the STAKEHOLDER, by prccept
and example, to uphold the moral truths lncul-
Gated by our fathers, the duty of obedience to
law, and of that patriotism which renders the
interests Of the community the interest Of every
individual composing it. They find the iistl'
buttons of the south an impregnable barrier tc
the advancement of their licentious social anC
political heresies. What other conclusion car
be arrived at, than that freesoilism is the fruit
full progenitor of all the turpid sms that aff1ic
the northern, eastern and western States? We
admit that there may be such thing as a re
lligious, conscientious freesoler, 1t is but ma
tural that men who know nothing of the soutl
and its Institutions, save the highly colored &C
counts they derive from POLITICAL preachers ant
unprincipled fanatics, should be prejudice'
against slavery. It is by no means surprising
that those who peruse only sectarlan and repub
lican journals, that represent the southerner a
demon, whose highest enjoyment is to tortul'
and Cypress those who labor for him, shou
feel hostile to what they suppose to be slavery
Hence some men may be conscientiously OF
posed to slavery; but that is no argumer
aganstit, or any refutaton of the fact that free
soilism primarily leads to the incubation of in
morality. lawlessness, and unprincipled deme
eoguism But this class of freesoilers are 4
, responsible for the evil fruits which have grow
out of the ntermeddlng with the family affair
of the south. Their leaders, such men as Glc
dings, Chase, Sumner u Co., are the authors
, They advanced their freesoil and abolitio
dogmas in congress a. time when they We,
barely tolerated in the most bigotted section
It of New England, and when an abolition speec
:, was regarded throughout the Union as an II
S suit to the south, and but little short of trei
h son. In the course of time. numerous recruit
were SUIlStSu, anu q u hScuS iibS1 tiiS Sout
> was preached by the apostles of abolition fro
II almost every pulpit and busting throughout tt
n northern States; and, finally, the higher-la
of squatter sovereignty is advanced by the Ii
= tie Giant of Illinois, and the notorious Sewal
@ eagerly selling hold of the doctrine has mac
d it text and raying cry of all the fanatic spri
, Lin the land AS freesoilism advanced, NOR
ia and social heresies throve, until the barriers
st right and reason were broken down, and II
h 1logmas of socialism, free love, won1an's RICH
and the like creeds, are openly proclaime
from thousands Of pulpits by ministers of Il
gospel.
ut The winter fights have commenced at Was
h ington already. On the nth inst, long di
Of cussion arose in the house of representatives
al tile bill providing for an examination of Il
il. claims Of sundry citizens Of Georgia, on a
count Of depredations committed by the Cree
:, Indians, amounting to million and a quart
; of dollars Durinu fhe debate Washbu1n