Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-15
POLITICAL WARFARE.

heat OF battle, ~ very apparently
this there are no great principles
of interest, such as the tariff: the
bank the boundry of Texas, or the
North Western line, to divide on
The tariff and incidental protection
to home industry, is fixed and
settled principle, upon which there
is no longer difference Of opinion !,
the National Bank question, il as
fully exploded az the South Sea
bubble, and no one dare name q
line to contract our "unpem Uhoa.'
Our Senior Senator, when spoken
Of for the Presidency, was forced.
To follow In the footsteps Of other
great leaders and invent ques
ton, and he proposed to purchase
Cuba but M Cuba had not offered
to sell herself, the proposition fell
to the ground though profound
question might have been made of
II, If some one from the other side
had objected to the purchase. Tn.
fortunately TO rthe Senior Senator,
is the fact that everybody is in fa-
vor of having Cuba if we can get
il. This is. the condition Of the
Pacific Railroad question. There
is nothing TO divide the great poll
teal Captains here. aud will not
be, until the road is located. 1t
will never suit the South unless
il starts from the South. Our
leaders may compromise with
Northern leaders, if they will con
sent. to split open Mason and Dix
on's line with it, but not otherwise.
In this lamentable condition Of
things TO open the canvass, we
have been forced to fall back ON
the African question; which serves
the purpose in politics, that the
weather does, the press. In this
extremity, as IL is lawful to talk
treason, what could furnish richer
food for excitement. than a plot to
dissolved the Union, and set up
Southern Confederacy. with Mr..
Yancy at its head, and John Mitch
ell, for Prime Minister This is
very handsome scheme. If il does
not succeed, then the gentlemen
who are engaged in it, may take
to themselves the credit Of fright
ening people into voting for the
successful candidates, on whose
side the Union discovers will be
very certain to turn up.
The chief plauks Of the several
platforms now fully erected, may
be summed up thus Bell and
Everett. 1.-THE Constitution and
the Union" Douglas and Johnson,
"The right of the people of the Ter.
ritories, to regulate their own do
nestle institutions" Breckenridge
and Lane, Against Tarill-for
progressive free trade, against gen.
eral system of Internal Improve.
mentor slavery in the Terrific
ries-with Congressional legisla-
ton to establish it. Slavery a
National lnstitution.-Free Seas
Fillibarstering-annexation of Gu
ba." Lincoln and Hamlin. Tariff
and incidental observation-disclosures
lmprovements-Slavery local in
stitution against African slave
trade-Homestead bill" Very slim
indeed, are such materials for q
row; hence the necessity Of resort
to more than the usual gudnfum of
personality. The New York LEDGER,
says :
So far the war Of words which always pre-
cedOs a federal election, has been, upon the
whole, less acrimonious than usual. Per
haps the idea that some Of the discordant
political elements may hereafter find IL
convenient to coalesce, suggests TO all par-
ties the prcpriety Of being more civil TO
each other than formerly, or possibly OPP
posing politicians are becoming moro
| charitnhle and ChristiAn- like In thair Gel