Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-09-22

But, said he, you may say you don
care so much about the platforms if th'
men are all right. He believed rs muci
in the necessity Of platform for u part.
as a foundation for y house. The Gov
ernor quotes Scripture occasionally ane
lie said something here about building
house upon a rick. He said that me'
NAV change as men have changed, AM
men may die, As men have died, bu
principle, like the God of our creation
was ct. rnal-shall live forever. lie the'
alluded TO what Col. Bel. thought abou'
til. dead issues OF national bank, paper
currency, etc, and in conclusion, pro
nounced him a broken reed.
The platform Of the Douglas party
was the old Democratic Cincinnati plat
form, with Douglas construction Of it.
and Douglas mounted upon it. Sc
long, said be, as we had the power to
construe that platform for ourselves, We
were contented with it. l" practice, the
Douglas construction was carried out.
lis friends went into convention at
Charleston, and insisted on a party in
depreciation. Mr.. Douglas had a ma,
jority Of friends in that convention, aud
they gave it to a Douglas construction.
His friends, like true Southern men, 10
consequence withdrew from the CONVEX
ton. He had no fault to find with them
for doing that, but for subsequent acts
The Breckenridge platform recognizes
the rights of the citizens Of all the
tbirly-three States to freely emigrate to
any Of the territories, and take with
them anything that is recognized as
property ia the State from which they
90, and that Congress should protect
such property. Thus far the platform
was nght-was fixed upon a rock. But
it only proposes to extend this pro.ec-
ton when necessary. That be regarded
as a dodge unworthy Of American De-
mocracy. If protection is not necessary
now, it never would be in his estimation.
Here be would stop, as dinner vas 10
waiting, but they could get dinner every
day, and they couldn't always hear him
make q speech.
If Lincoln, he resumed, comes into
power-and he assured his audience
that that will certainly be the result Of
the contest-he comes as the sworn
enemy of the South-he comes for war
to the knife, and knife TO the hit, against
our domestic quietude and safety. lie
supposed the division Of votes is now
inevitable. He would have ordered it
otherwise /; but he would now counsel us
to act with forbearance one with another
to SO demean ourselves now tina, we
can all come together bye and bye III
defence OF our common rights. We
should not allow madness to control us
in this h"ur of peril. He recognized a
Bell men and a Douglas man as his
brother. They might all vote as they
please, but they should love n another,
and instead Of shouting for this OF that
candidate, they should join in more ear
nest shouts to God that He would smile
benignantly on our common country.
He asked his Bell friends what they
were advocating on the n side, or what
they were opposing on the other? VIVA,
would be represented by their vote.
for veal or for woe to the cons
country. The experiment, WAS trisd
not very long ago Of e%lecting a great
and good and pure man-Zachary Tay-
lor-whose memory he cherished but
if he committed %follies, it was bb privi-
|ege, as we'll S his duty, to hold them
up as beacons Of warning to his country.
men. He alluded 10 the admission of
with a free constitution, under
The position Of Mr.. Douglas, he said,
not difficult to understand. He be-
|ieved that you have the right to take
your property into the Territories, and
have it protected there; but a right
without a remedy is not of the least
consequence. You may think
you have sufficient cause to burn my
house, but if l have no remedy in court,
what is that right worth? If when We
get our slave property into the Terrific
RES, it was exposed to all manner of de-
predictions, what was it worth? He
would not argue the technicalities of the
question. The laws Of your State Leg
punish the harboring Of slaves
teaching them sedition, teaching them
vicious habits, tradicing with them, ETC.,
and unless you car have statutary laws
the Territories, as you have here,
POUR right in slave property would be
worthloca I