Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-04-14
The Abuse Of Douglas.

present time. AS the great Charleston
Convention approaches. there is a weak.
ness plainly p%ercep'ible in the knees o.
those who have so long enjoyed the de-
lights and emoIuments of official pap
Should matters and things in that Con
v%ention take a different turn from wha,
is now anticipated by the adherents o.
the sage Of Whea,land. their "cake is ali
dough-" and the high antic'pst'ons they
have SO long solaced thei. troubled con
sciences with, will all tumble to the eartl
and 60 the way Of all such mental
matter. The chances in that Con.
v%entioD Of STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS loom
= hesd and shoulders above those Of
any other man, in spite Of all that has
been said and done to crush him down.
With any man who advocates and de-
tends so abcminatle a doctrine as Squat
ter Sovereignty, as interpreted by the
Little Giant, we bave no sympathy, and
can conscientiousIy say, never have had.
It is a principle which was 'ngrafted
upon the Democratic party BY the right
hand man Of President BUCHANAN
LEWIS CAss, of Michigan. He is the
father Of that doctrine. andl though he
occupies Al elevated posiaO1 10 the Ma
tional Council, be is never rebuked for
IT, nor is any u else, who obeys the
him who rode into peyer and
place upon the two-faced hobby of De.
'noc'acy 10 1855, Of squ.tter sover-
As 10 said before, We have no sympa-
Thy for STEPHEN A. DoueLAs, and we
sincerely trust, that something may ye,
urn up in the Charleston Convention
o defeat him for the nomination. If
defeated there, lie cannot be elected
.resident, wen should the Black Re-
'ublicans give him their Chicago romi.
nation, which the Democracy spi,efulIy
~ will be the case in event Of his de.
eat At Charleston. II we have said any,
hing in vindication Of NJ. DOUGLAS
rom the aspersions of his Democratic
'"e'0'e', We did so,-and may do SO
gaio-because We SAW his punishment
'as undeserved, unmerited, and savor.d
ao'e Of persecution than the honest ar.
'u"ent'of a difference Of opinion. Take
be sum and substance of the attacks
u Mr.. D., aud what is their origin p
Why because NJ. DOUGLAS is a consis-
ent poIitician-because he will not sub
ut, bend and bow to the despotic rule
t the powers that be-because he car.
les out i" good faith the principles of the
arty to which he belongs, ard which
re maintained by CAss and BREcx-
sR1DoE, whose Democracy is not ques-
oned, because they pull cheerfully in
Id BUCKS traces, although they en-
and claim as Democratic. the very
rincipIes for which Nj. DOUGLAS is de-
ounce6.
The fact Of the business is, the attacks
'ade upon M. DOUGLAS by the Ad-
Illustration party has assumed the char
cter Of . farce. They endeavor to make
he Southern people believe that Squat
sr Sovereignty as interpreted by M.
DOUGLAS is different from the Squatter
sovereignty Of Mr.. BUCHANAN " Co.,
'tally forgetting that the dear people
HON they expect to gull with such rea-
can, and do understand the
uestion in all its bearings without the
~ /
id Of a monitor. These now, opponents
( NJ. DouGLAs, seem to think that the
dear people" have forgotten the can
ass Of l656-that time has oblitera
ID all recollection Of the atrue intent
nd meaning Of the Ksnsas-N Nebraska
which they 80 ably defended and
dvocated in that anvass rs being The
cry thingto secure to the South, equal
in the Territories, and called upon
be Democracy to support it, and the
did support it to the election
{ Mr.. BUCHANAN. It is such ridiculous
om-foolery that it is disgusting. 1t is