Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-04-09

SECESSION IN ANOTHER DIREcr1oN.-We
have harped upon secession here IL the South,
until our people have grown tired Of it. The
refusal of the last Congress to pass an appro-
~priation for the Pacific RAILROAD has driven
our sister Of California INTO secession spasms.
From the tone of her press there's " method
in her Madness" and it wonld be not at all
surprising to hear that she has taken a bold
and decided step in that direction. For the
reasons assigned, she seems to stand on good
grounds, Hear her journals speak:
The condition Of "vassalage has been pa.
tientIy borne, until "forbearance ceases to
be a virtue" Continual neglect and injus-
tice must deaden the affection and allegiance
which this State has ever, SO far, keenly felt
for the confederacy. A new generation is
rapidly growing up in this distant country,
who will be bound by no habit Of love for the
old States, but who will examine the question
of their political relations with respect to
their advantages, on their own merits solely.
AMI if Congress persists in the endeavodr to
e%strange the Pacific States, that end will be
more suddenly consum mated than perhaps
people abroad imagine. Our connec lion with
the Union is all to the profit Of the other side
of the continent now Nothing but the clos
est intimacy, and the most expeditions inter-
communication, can maintain an affection
opposed constantly by interest. And If the
East will not consent to establish that init
macy and freedom. of intercourse, she must
EXPECT to see these great States of the West
| fall away from them Without a railroad,
California is not a sister and an equal in the
Union. She will not long consent to hold.
any other position in the confederacy.-Sam
Francisco Bulletin. @
Says the Alto Californian:
Hang another chaplet of mourning upont he
altar Of our hopes ring down the curtain up
on the last sad act of the great drama Of the
times, in which our WI California plays so
disgraced a part. =.
The administration paper, the National,
says
The couduct of the Senate in its action on
that bill will do more to estrange California
from the Union than could the i6cendiary
e Efforts Of men or paities for years to come.
It is, in effect, a declaration. Of the highest
delibe rative assemblage knownsto our form
Of government, that one portion o 1.-THE con-
federacy does not regard the other Of sufi-
cient Importance to- obtain its permanent at
tdA utlltlI y q HIEASNlC vi IcSftliIIdlc IDSISld-
ton. 1t says, in fact, to this western array
of expanding CONFERENCE.-The, 20 your way.
we will go our own.o pursue your best
interests, we will pursue those that seem
most to conduce to our prosperity" 1t looks
like a cold-hearted effort to force us to dis
severation. They may find that.we are equal
to the emergency.
The Times says:
We tell these t~riflers they had best not
place too much reliance upon the patriotism
Of California. There was a time when the
anniversary Of our admission asa member Of
the.Unlon,, and the great national holidays,
were as devoutiy observed on the Pacific
coast as elsewhere ins#America.zz##B But that
%lrateInal sentiment is burning out. Already
a GOODNESS exists, and an Indifference to the
value of the Union. We are far removed
from The center of Government, and the con-
seriousness of neglect is fast widening the
distance socially and nationally. We have
petirioned, memorialized. prayed and i'm
pIored-to no purpose. Treated as c%olonists
and loreiynersr~we are beginning to entertain
the same feelings towards the Home Govern
mcnt that the colonies did to the mother
country during the revolution. This is an
age of sudden and startling movements. We
have seen the most momentous changes take
tpON~ ~ ;" Wv INI oiC0lCA CfCkAS
may be in the womb OF time.
The Sacramento Union-a highly c%onserv-
alive paper-says:
The Southern wing Of the Democratic
party has "a " ays been unaiterably against
all appropriations Ivy Congress to secure a
Pacific RailroaI-a fact Of which the senior
California Senator must have been fully ad-
vised. AS he suggests, the rejection. agairr;s
of a Railroad bill, may. result in directing
public opinion on the Pacific side towards an
independent Republic, but it is rotlikeIy that
any action looking TO such an event will be
taken before 1850.
DEATH o. LOGAN Nick S1enr.-A sudden
and painful death occurred on Saturday even
ing. Mr.. Logan Mcknight, a prominent and
hlghly-esteenled citizen Of the Fourth Dis
tr,ct, was ont riding with his wife and sistef4
in-Iaw, when he fell forward in the carriage
and expired almost instautaneously, without
breathing a word. His wife screamed; a
gentleman came running, and attempted to
raise the deceased up, supposing he had but
but was appalled, TO find that death
had claimed his own The body, after being
carried into an al accent grocery where inef-
fectual restoratives were applied, =(the scene
OF. the occurrence being Royal and UlsuIines~
was taken home, a%ttenned by the
ladies, whose grief may be imagined but not
described. A medical investigation deter
mined disease Of the heart as the cause of
death. =
M. Mcknight was a native of Kentucky,
81 years of age was a merchant Of high in
tegrity, and some timsuago represented his
in the Commons 15uncil. A singular
and sad coincidence was offered in the fact
OF. that same day Mr.. Mcknight had
and sent to two of the daily papers,
or publication. an elegantly composed aud
telling tribute to the memory of his late
John NJ: Bell, lost by the disaster to
he Princess. This obituary of his friend and
he sad story of his own untimely death, were