Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-11-24
The Conservative Press.

patible with the existence OF the Union, we
trust that the South will torbear at tins time
, to take any extreme measure. Not that we
wait for an overt act We do not walt
for a sign" The outrage perpetrated is
,reat, and cannot be wiped out by the failure
of Lincoln to commit an overt act " Bat
there are reasons why we should wait and
5 try to preserve this powerful Union of States.
in spite of faraticism and the unciivoIrots
and the INSCRIPTIONS. and the 10" and de-
praved instincts which govern the great
BODY of the leaders of the Black Republican
party at the North.
The Lynchburg FUsinian saws: The
election is over, and Abraham Lincoln has
been called by the voice of the people. ex-
pressed in a consti' utionaI manner. to preside
ov r this nation during the next four years.
However unpalatable the result may be to us
Of the South, our duty is plain. There has,
as vet, been no violation of the Constitution
by those whose choice has determined the
issue that is now upon us, and Lincoln is en-
titled to our forbearance until his adninistra-
ton shall have indicated and entered upon a
policy subversive of our rights under the
compact by which these thirty-three States
are bound together in national brotherhood.
He is no patriot who labors to keep the I'M
happy feud that now exists between the
AJtdlcS. u j ~ i tIC liop - -
already convulsed the Republic. Let US
rather pour oil upon the troubled and angry
waters.
Union press are very earnest in defence of
Union sentiments:
TENNEssEE.-We believe the friends of the
Union are vastly in the majority all over the
South-in the border slave States there can
be no question Of this fact. We deem II re-
cessary here in Tennessee to present the
overwhelming ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS based
upon patriotism and seIfinterest-which
readily occur to every calm. thinking man.
against the wild and senseless CRY of seces-
sion aad separation.-NashrWe Banner.
The Petersburg Express thinks that the
Republican victory, the triumph of section
alism, has laid the foundation for all the mis-
chiefs and ills to the country which We're
predicted and deprecated by Washington i'll
his Farewell Address, and adds:
1t is a gloomy exercise of the mind to
contemplate the new aspect of things, but
the people must look at it and ponder it. 1t
is time now Tor the wisest hands and most
patriotic hearts in the land TO enlist In the
great work of ad lustlng matters in such a
way as to save the r~epnbIic, + possible, from
the almost certain perdltion which stares it
in the face.
NORTH CARoLlsA-Speaking of the pres
ent crisis, the Wilmington IN. C) Her0id
speaks thus for North Carolina:
We will have trouble, and there's TO use
shutt,rg our eyes to it; but we feel assured
%beA thAs<iN \arS,. ~t,ta xrsI stand Erpo au,I
whatevermay be her determination, that she
will act for hers,y, and not for the Cotton
States"
The Richmond Enquirer says:
Tee path Of safety for the preservation OF
the Constitution aud the Union. is now the
path of the bold. unyielding refusal to sub I
nit to the invasion oil Southern rights. We
would also advise orr SISTER States of the
South not to await the acton of Virginia, or
OF any other ally. Let each State now act
for herself. and art now with PROMPT drci-
sion, We have no fear tina: any such action
Will eventhate in dissolution. If South Caro-
lima Shall sece1e, be will ini iced return, we
trust. speedily 70 the Union, not a ~"spoilt
child etc. but in consequence of guarantees
forced from her Northern asgreSsors, which
shall secure her rights. her interest, her SOW
ereiynty, dignity and honor.
VlRGlNlA.-The Alexandria Gu-ele speaks
in the following terms Of the course of the
people of that State:
Our calculation is. that of the whole vote
given in Virginia, at the Presidential election.
nearly every man who voted tor Bell and
Everett. nearly every MN who voted for
Douglas, and two-thirds Of those who voted
loT Breckenridge, are opposed to revolutiona- ,
~ or secession movements, at this time, and
for the mere reason Of Lincoln's election
They are opposed to all rash, precipitate and
reckless action.
The Memphis Bulletin and the Memphis
Enquirer strongly oppose disuolon:
MARyLANp.-Let Us at least wait and see
what will bethe issue. Let us discard sec
tionalism and silence disunion. When the
occasion comes, if it it must, for the
people of the South to declare their indie
pendence of ire existing cpnfederacy, the
whole South should go together as one body.
We shall then be found as willing as the fore
most. and we shall find hosts of friends in
the North, but that dire necessity is not vet
upon us.-Baltin'ore Clipper.
Position OF KESTucKY.-The Louisville
Courier, which was the leading Breckenridge
organ in Kentucky, in an article on the duty
of the South, holds the following language:
We do not think the election of Lincoln of
itself sufficient to warrant a dissolution of the
Union; and We hope the slave States will 20
no further than to take prompt necessary
measures to protect themselves against any
attempt to carry out the principles of the
Black Republican party-and we believe
that doing this, they will make one more at
tempt to maintain their equality in the
Union, and to secure their Just rights under
the Constitution holding themselves liz read
mess, should the worst come to the worst, to
take care of themselves.