Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-12-01
Tbe state Convention.

present condition Of public affairs, and to APP
the Southern States, we hope to see a conser-
vative spirit prevail. We have too much at
stake to send hot-headed, fre-eating men to
represent us in both Conventions. A large
| M. jority Of the people of Louisiana-and we
honestly believe of all the cotton States
are in favor of remaining in the Union. pro-
yided our Constitutions rights are guaranteed
10 US by the North and that we would be
much better of in the Union than out OF it.
is a generally conceded point We know
there are thousands who clamor for dlsnnion
who have never given it a lnoments
| reflection. and who think that a separate Con-
iederacy will eAectuatfy protect our slave
property and extend our slave territory.
!. Such men we do not want to represent the
wishes and welfare of the people of LoHiSl-
ana. We want men with clear heads-WIth
| property at stake. with families to protect
men who thoroughly understand the nature
and consequences Of the business they are to
transact. and who are not committed to union
or djspniop. We want them to act calmly
and lehectingly, and to weigh we'll their
words be fore they give them breath. The
people of this State, in the selection OF their
delegates to the State Convention, must bear
these facts well in mind. Have no old broken
down political hacks-men who are ready to
Jump at everything for the sake OF office or
public plunder-to represent you, buttake the
int .resteS men, who will act by all as they
would were they acting exclusively for them
selves. Let not the fire-eating spirit Vi South
Carolina muse itself amongst them "a spirit
walch we are sorry to see has extended itself
into some of the ad joining States-and
which, if encouraged or entertained by the
General Convention, will unquestionably
plunge the entire South into the vortex OF
rain which must soon ensulph that State, if
she persists in her mad course alone. Ii We
must secede, let us all go together if not.
and South Carolina persists in her determine
ton. let her so-and. before a year rolls round,
she will be on her knees, knocking at the door
of the Union for re-admission.
If the newspapers Of that State are to be
ia AIKEN as evidence of the sentiments of her
people, it We're useless to invite her to partic-
ipate nthe General Convention. She is de-
termined to secede, let the other States do
as they will. We give below an extract from
{ho Fbo,ioSfon Morrn.u-a nor aptnnN l.
edged to be all influential in South Carolina.
Virginia and the other frontier States may
as well at once understand their position with
the cotton States. They are not expected to
aid the cotton States in protecting themselves
and ,edeeming their liberties. They viii
practically aid The Northern States in at
tempting to obtain in the South an acquies-
cence in the lule Of A bolitionists at Washing
ton. The Southern States. however, Wiii DIS
regard their conn>eis. They want 10 coajcrr.re
but IL tie Coaoeaioa u1ith nil ossc,ahe 10 frame
Tie Consolation and rompie5e tie organization
secede from the Onion ana construct a Union
among themselves. and will be glad 10 find
Virginia and the other border States il coun-
sci with them after this great revolution, Bot
if these value their own dignity. or respect
our wishes. let them keep aloof from US untiI
they are prepared to dissolve their connection
with the present Union. and to unite their
destinies with that of the other Southern
States. lfthey wilisnot be orr friends, let
them not be our enemies, by unsolicited and
undesired etioits-under whatever aniabIe
pretext-of preserving an abolished Union,
to sub ect US to the despotism of a cousolida-
ted government under the control of boil
tionists at Washington. The day Tor new
guarantees is gone. Henceforth we are two
people.
10 this paragraph South Carolina actually
snubs Virginia. State which, perhaps. loses
a hundred negroes to her one-a State which,
in the event of the dissolution of the Union,
would suffer more, a hundred-fold. than South
Carolina-and the same rule will apply to all
the border slave States. If these States are
disposed to act in a conciliatory and conserva-
tive manner, we cannot see Why the extreme
Southern States should take extrem me South
ern grounds.
Be this as it may, the General Convention
will settle the point of union or disunion, and
while in the exercise of that mo t important
duty, let its ears be closed to all such senti- |
ments as those enumerated by South Carolina,
until the question be thoroughly discussed
and decided.
A WESTERN REPuBL1c.-A writer in the
St. Louis Republican says: when the shock
comes, and our Republic is riven asunder,
Missouri will be absolved from constitutional
obligations to her sister States, and may take
measures to form and organize a Western Re-
public, including Mexico and Central Amer
lea: and extending to the British possessions
on the North, and to the Pacific Ocean on the