Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-12-22
From the ire Delta.
THE RI II ID f. IL SLAVE STATES.

THE BORDER SLAVE STATES.
One would suppose, from the course of the
disunionists in South Carolina, Alabama, Flo
tants of these States had been dreadfuIly
wronged and unendurabIy oppressed by the
personal liberty bills, the Don-enioroement OF
the fugitive slave law, operations OF the UNI
dersround railroad and other imaginable and
unirnasinable transgfesslons OF several OF the
free States of the Forth and west. Tor they
alone seem to regard the Illegal and disgrace
full transactions above enumerated as ronst'-
tuting good and sufficient cause for the rum
of this government. Occasionally, however
some irothy demagogue, like %lversob, OF Geor-
gia, lets the real truth escape him, as the
brawler recently did in the Senate OF the
United States, when he declared that the
South-that is, the cotton States-dld not
care a fig for such things as the personal lih-
erty bills. resentment of the y on the part OF
him and his confederates manifestty being
only a dodge to fool the ignorant with, while
he and others worked TO destroy the Union
Of these States, and with it accomplish the
overthrow of republican government. Clear
" did the legislature Of Tennessee perceive,
during its session Of last winter. the true
causes of the disunion movement, and dis
tinctIy did it designate the real reasons OF
! the intense slavery agitation which has neen
kept alive north and south, by pragmatical
and plotting demagosues and We have not
seen. ia brieter language or more explicit, the
" hole thing exposed than that body did in
the following resolution passed by it:
Resotred. That in the opinion Of this general
assembly, that all the evils growing out OF
the discord, alienation and bitter hatred now
growing up and extending between the north
and south-are the legitimate fruit, not Of
any necessary 'irrepressible conflict" be-
tween free and slave labor, but Of a conflict
between rival a%spirants in the race of ambi-
tion, north aud south, urged on by inordinate
greed OF official power and Plunder-a con-
hict which can only be depressed by a pow
erful and successful effort by the friends Of
Union to rouse the people to a conviction Of
the reality and magnitude OF the impending
dangers of its existence,
Will not every reader recognize a mos.
perfect and truthful picture in the above reso-
~Int,on1 Can any words more clearly convey
to the mind the exact objects the enemies of
OF the Union have in contemplation than
the abovel The LOSSES, the vexations. the
privations and the ontrages OF which the
slave states Justly complain. have not been
experienced or felt by those commemorative
III "UlcU Tue ulOFSuNutS dbc jNo1Sbt0teu "
break up and destroy ouy republican sorm OF
government; but, on the contrary. nave all
fallen on the frontier states. which, instead
of inviting revolution and the ruin Of tue
re public as the rightful or proper remedy Tor
the wrongs they endure, most earnestly de-
plore and deprecate them. NJ ssouui. Ken
;uckv. Virginia and Tennessee do not ind n
secession the securityth unlnIured dIsunion-
sts Of the cotton states would force upon
them. They see in such extreme. Danger
Gus and unjastihable procedure. nothing but
peril. weakness and general confrslon; and
we are told their wishes, their counsels- their
safety and their alarms. must BE dtsregarded.
as otherwise they will remain in the Union,
(which the chretsc plotters Of treason against
it think the time opportune ior destroying -
10 be sure. biood-saturated Baltimore has
seemed TO pronounce in favor oil disuuion, and
! to certain extent. even blooh-tub p%tefere nee
must be respected here aud there but, ex-
pectins that demonstration. there does tot
seem 10 Rave been anywhere in the border
slave states any. even the slightest, G"anItrs-
tation OF disposition amon. their people to
seek in the overthrow Of the federal govern
me, { that redress oil wrongs the secesslonls:s
OF the cotton states. who have never suffered
from them, proclaim as the only fitting and
prole, remedy. Moth v ithstandin ny the trea-
sonable disregard o; the rights and just in
Auence of the people: as exemplrfed III the
psoceeding Of the legislature of this state In
its call for a state convention, We are quite
confident the number of those who would. at
the bidding of a profigate gambler il poll
tres, p%recipltate Louisiana into revolution is
small. and smaller still. in our opinion is the
number OF those who would contemplate tire
separation Of Louisiana from the fortunes oi
Missouri. Kentucky, Virginia aud Tennessee.
IN the maintenance Of which great. power
fnl and patriotic states as members OF the
soutber n family, not only Our safety, but the
preservation OF OIL iAstitst!ons may be sad
solely to depend.