Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-10-27
Stranger than Fiction.

The following sensible article we zip from the
Planters Banner of Saturday last. Every werd in
the article is a truth. The men who shout most
about secession wear "Wide Awake cl6thIne: their
houses are furnished with Vile Awake manutac
lures; they patronize anything of Northern mannfac
ture in preference TO home productions. The Al
mighty dollar" is as large here az anywhere else
Patriotism is at as much discount here as at the
North. We're it Sise-could the same impulse
the same patriotic feeling be brought to bear upon
the Southern people that Influenced the men Of '76'
to forego the use of my article manufactured in the
Mother country, We would have the North at our
feet in less than six months, begging us to make cur
own terms. Withdraw our patronage from them
make it treason to purchase any article of their man
ufacture-send them none Of our own productions.
ard we are lords and masters. But OIL that Gal
mighty dollar.' 1t is an idol before which all men
PROSTATE themselves:
Willie the South complains Of her Northern enc
mics, she feeds, clothes, and shelters ulultI,ufss OF
Northern ab0iitionistS. The stores and warehouses
of Attahapas and Louisiana are Mild with articles
fresh from the hands Of Republican Vile wakes,
numerous steam engines are running all over the
sugar regio $ manufactured by Wide Awakess;
negroes are clothed with Wide Awake cloth; wear
Wide Awake shoes, and cultivate our fields with
.'Wide-Awake" implements. The planter curses the
North and threatens secession. and at the same time
buys q tsWide Awake engine from the hot be-! al
aboli,ionism, in preference to one manufacture in
Richmond. Mississippi. or New orleans.
Too many of our wealthy men are not Hing to
sacrifice ten dollars between II wide awake tnxia-
and a Southern-made engine, at tn" same time tla:
they profess to feel unbount.I contemut for the mon
they patronize. and a kind regarl f"r those from
whom they withhold their patronage They wis to
bgislnte this matter into a proper sia pc Ia Congress.
unwilling 10 sacrifice money to support southern
rights, southern iHtere,ts or Southern honor.
For our part, had we The power, We wouli never
permit another dollar of Southern money to cross
+. Mason and niAons Line until the North silence the
Of that section of the country, close up
the Underground Railroad, become willing To do the
south justice, and learn to mind their own business.
We wouli he glad to see n hundred millions of South
ern capital a. once diverted from agriculture to home
manufactures, and to see he whole south enlist in
home enterprises. until We become. a. far as possible,
lnde pendent CT the North. But we not ouIy wish to
see the South true to tie interests of .-outhern
slavery, bpt we wish to see her true to all those who
live here, and are willing to shoulder their guns
when necessary to help protect the interests of the
Shareholders. Were the people OF the South. for a
single wear, to make the distinctions which they
ought in favor of Ii me Industry, and against their
enemies IN Northern workshops, they would see the
Of the Northern Wid.-Awakes trailing in
the dust, and Repubi!caniSm North would be shorn
of its strength. and eXp,re.