The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-31

SOUTHERN HELP FOR SEWARD.

! persons VINO VIII VOlc iUt Dialh lsSPuoA
can Presidential electors in November
1860. The vote will be trifingsand Wi
merely represent the intrinsic rascality
the communities where it is polled. Th
vote will be given, partly out Of splrl
of bravalo, and partly because the voter
can easily effect their escape across tn
borders and thus evade the punishment
due to their treachery.
But beyond these voters Seward vii
have thousands of sylnpatllisers in tn
South who, although unable to help hin
with their ballets, will still throw into hi
hands all the influence they command
There is d Seuard purity IN the South.
The New York Senator, the Ex-Gov
ernor, the party leader, the why, willy
Woodworking and smoothtongued Scware
has aimed to make as many Sontlefr
Friends as he could, consistently with re
tanning the support and good will Of the
free-soil majority of the North. His In
mcnse wealth aud the vast sums which
his American and foreign co-pollticians
have placed at his disposal enable him to
entertain his friends in Washington in a
y
style Of, almost princely magni6cence
No parties are more brilliant, no dinners
are more sumptuous than those of the
neatly clad and aristocratic Senator from
New York. Now it is remarkable that
nineteen-twentieths of those who partake
of Stewards hospitality are gentlemen
who represent Southern States or South
ern constituencies. He presents the
strange anomaly Of man politically
odious but personally popular with his
guests. In bis younger days he taught
school in Georgia he shows that even at
that early day he was close observer Of
character. He knows too much to put
Black Republican poltroons along side Of
the Southern gentlemen who are his
guests.
In fact Seward has been working with
his usual industry to build upa Southern
party-not that he expects votes enough
from such party to do him any good,
but for the sake Of its moral influence.
He wants the Southern people to submit
to his administration in the event Of his
success next year. He wants men weak
enough to praise his intellect, to admire.
his productions and to say that he is only
an abolitiouist for the purpose of getting
elected President but that when in the
chair he will forget all about slavery
questions and look only to the national
welfare. He wants men'to praise him for
his bold and brash declarations against
foreign aggressions He wants apollo.
gists for his free-soiI supporters in the
North. He wants, more than all, men in
the South who will adhere to tie federal
union to every length, at all hazards, even
though the control Of the federal govern
ment shall pass into the hands of those
more hostile to the South than Great
Britain was to the thirteen colonies who
resisted her tyranny.
But besides these we must class among
the aiders and abettors of Seward all who
in the South offer active opposition to the
only party which can successfully make
head against the free-soilcrs. The South
ern voters who, in the Presidential cleo
ton of next year, shall oppose the candi-
date of the Democratic party will play
into the hands Of Seward Or whatever
he may dictate to his party.
True to their instincts Of federalism and
opposition to Democracy they are willing
to throw their aid into the scale in favor
of the party which has the best chance to
defeat us. 1t matters not to them wheth-
er they accomplish this by direct support