Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-02-03
sENsI lille AND PATRIOTIC.

EuaIu vi tut thi'h, "hh WIZ '"h
stand above the ordinary clap
traps for purposes Of mere bun
combe, to express an honest, deep
rooted American sentiment. Such
one il Governor Houston, of the
clone Star State" The other day
il became his duty to transmit TO
the Legislature Of his own State
the resolutions of the Legislature
of South Carolina, announcing it
as the deliberate Judgment of South
Carolina. that the slaveholding
States should Immediately meet
together TO concert measures for
united action"
Accompanying the South Carroll
ma resolutions, Gov. Houston trans
mits u message worthy of the
man and the place he occupies
The old hero of San Jacinto has
always been true to the Unlon.-
We cannot give the message en-
tire. One or two extracts must
suffice, as we desire to show the
sentiment of the great mass Of the
American people, apart from the
misrepresentation they get through
coniederacy Of rope.dancing,
sword swallowing mountebanks,
who get into popularity and place
by hanging together. Tho senii-
mcnt of Gov. Houston is the senti-
ment of the American party, com
posed, az il is, of the American
people. Not natives only, but
many adopted citizens, who have
lived with us long enough to under
stand that liberty and Union can
only be maintained by freedom and
equality. Where do we look to
find the cause of evils, fostering
in corruption in Utah--iatoleranco
in church and State Is IL not
the influx of conflicting elements
from abroad, clashing among them
selves and aifording new strings
for the instrument of "thousabd,"
for native demagogucs to play on 7
Even so, and we hope yet to see q
party with sufficient backbone TO
stand up to them and see that
Congress exercises its Constitu.
tional rights to pass uniform rules
of naturalization, and that each
State in the Union, for the general
welfare, conform to them. Speak
ing of the bare chance of the prev.
alence of disunion sentiments
among the people, Governor Hous-
ton says:
1ftho vain hope ola Southern Confcd-
eracy would be realized upon the basis Of
all the slave States, there would soon be
found enough diversity of Northern aud
Southern interest Ia both sections TO &C
complInh another division. all the more
eagearly sought because of n recent pro-
cedent.
Indeed, IL poaceabe separation were poe-
aiblo. no coniederacy could be formed up
on any other principle than that of leaving
domestic institutions whore tho Constitu.
ton of the United States now leaves them
to the State individually, and not to
central gcvornment.
have been SO. indifferent spectator of
tho agitaiions which have distracted our
councils aud caused many patriots to de-
spar of the Republic. But | am yet hope
fol and have an abiding confidence In
the masses Of the people. cannot believe
that they will suffer scheming, designing,
and misguided politicians, to ondanger
the palladium of our liberties. The
world Is Interested in the experiment of
this Government. There is no new CONT
mont on the earth whoreon to rear such an
other fabric. II is impossible that ours
can bo broken. without becoming frag-
mentary, chaotic aud auarchical. ! know
of no confederacy with other States which
could hold out greater Inducements or
stronger bonds Of fraternity than were ex-
tended 60 us in 1914. The people Of Texas
are satisfied with the constitution and the
Union us they are. They are even will
ing TO enlarge it by further, wise, peaceful
and honorable acquisitions. II there In
morbid and dangerous sentiment abroad
in the land, let us endeavor to allay it by
teaching and cultivating u more fraternal
feeling.
The description which Governor
Houston gives elsewhere of this
"fnorbid and danpornus santitnont