Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-11-13
Sending Sugar North.

We were not aware that the sugar plant
ers Of Loaisiana were ms-e restricted tina
any other class of Southern producers, as t
whom, when or where they should ship the
produce; nor were we aware that the suga
planters of Louisiana were expected to sho'
II their deyoti,o on to the South and Southern int
ests, by: sacrificing their produce rather tina
: ship it 70 the North. Yet such seems to b
the op~;rion of same parties. In looking ore
the New Orleans Bee, Of 9Th inst, we find
letter i1om the parish ofSt Martin, III which
the i.'iawing peurile insinuat'on is thrown d
the planters of St. Mary's. 1t occurs in
paragraph il relation to quarantining New
Orleans with the strictness Of a blockade.
None, then, but C. Rothscbi|d could be
merchant Of New Orleans; spring, summer
autumn and winter supplies would have to bt
imported It once planters wCHlA have tt
! hasten ,nsif products to market, or do as the
planters Of St. Mary should DO: ship to Yam.
kssdoas end srait sig months for returns.
We you'd like to ask the author Of thai
! letter If he can tell US to whom and where
do the New Orleans sugar merchants and
spectators ship the sugars and molasses pug-
chased srosn the sugars planters. Do they
nos ship it to the North, Or at least a larger
| portion Of i If it is wrong for one to ship
to TanAisdoa why is it not wrong for anoth-
er? Qpeer logic that, and deserves tbs ut
most coAtertpt.
II the sugar planters OF St. Mary's hod it
to their interest to ship their produce to the
North airett, it is undoubtedly their right,
and We foE 4ne. are glad 10 see that they have
resolution enough to do it. without caring for
the snar;s add jeers of those who look upon
the sugar plhnter as a prey to be seized upon
annually, i number in our own parish, are
shipping sd gar and molasses to St Louis,
Louisville, and Cincinnati. and they may be
included m the Recommendation" of the
st, Martin writer.
4 New Orleans merchant, one largely en-
gagged in the sugar business, some time since
INDUCED in , similar fling at the sugar plant
ers, for shipping directly North, without per-
It I'd pass through the hands of par
in New Orleans, and tor which be was
SO severely raped over the knuckles by
.peveEai country papers, tkat he has since re-
quiet on that subject. The cotton
may ship his produce to the North,
maybe. into the hands OF the rankest
If Abolisionists, but nothing is said about
hat the tobacco planter, and all others may
10 the same thing, without q word being
aid, buy let a sugar planter do it, and he is
annted with aiding and comforting the Abo-
1t appears with some parties 10
e 4 settled matter that all sugar and molas-
es made in the State, must and should 60 to
Orleans to be sold, as if sugar planters
ad no right or reason to ship elsewhere.
We say to the sugar planters one and all
e.tle men, ship your produce where you
Iease-you have an uudoubted right to do SO,
nd TO expect you to be more devoted to the {
outh than any other class ofproducers, is an ,
nraitigated humbug. Let New Orleans :
taunt and how over the prey that c
escaping from their cIutches-vou need t
ot care. Send your produce where yo, will .
'ceive the best prices and accommodations, h
I'd when you show by your determination c
lat YOU will no longer submit TO the %in1ict- II
rs of the New Orleans leyee and other ac-
'mmodations, perhaps the eyes OF the city j
will be opened to their neglect, not a
fore. # o