Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-11-17
The Planters and the south.

Mcssrs. Ed1o Planters Banner !: The fol-
lowing paragraph is from the Cresc"ts
Talk on Chanse,' and is eminently apropos,
and very sensible
While t,lking of sugar, we presume to offer our
advice to planters to refrain from sending their crops
If sugar or m"la->e> 10 Northern ports or :" ne
great black Republican ci,v-ti ncinnati. Sell your
sugar at home. or send it tn New orleans True
Messienr. planners. you might ship I" New York ana
iios1rn. ant sell on four and six months credit al
about the same prices YOU can Obtain, on o"r lfVe''
HE last -ar of sugar at I'M ,"rtance We lave ili"r-
mIti"n of. WIS ~, oo'' ha"~ If Muntlia at %. cts on
! ~ months credit, THIS Mas IN fi"~t"" nnt on f'e
SAM day There we've ~"l - Il"g~ura " tnda Ansc"-
v%,,!or, at q cts ~N mon,hs ct'"!'t. Wtasa,n eau
ton our Il,ntrrsab"ut sen 'i@@ 'r HI crops n"ff''wa''''
If y ,rttirrn or West IN ~rrcalttor- want your sugar
let them cone for 1t il they 80" MOI NHnt II. there IS
no use oil tA!Nlng any more .rh"tit II.
While much is being said about secession,
and the timid are looking Onward with
trembling apprehension to the issues of the
President al election. and calculations are
being mace to a nicely upon the relative
strength OF our section. and probabilities of
sustaining. if necessary. a Southern Republic,
an immense powe. aud influence lie dormant
with the sugar and cotton planters of Louis
Idud. IcdSc udtu e SlttoIACs. as "S
war" Ii the sugar planters of our State,
alone, would withhold their shipments from
Cincinnati, Boston, Philadelphia, and New
York this season, it would be a rebuke and a
lesson TO the fanatics Of the North far more
potent than all the threats Illuminated by the
press or fre-eat,ng Congressman; the latter
are harmless words, lacking the energetic
sustaining power OF the Southern ieople.
The former touches the Yankee in his most
vulnerable paIt-his pocket, No other arsu-
ment or threat has any force with him and:
lesson so sanitary as that which can, this
season. be administered by sugar planters.
Have not the pa mpered hounds that are
baying at US been fed long enough by South
e-n patronage? Is it possible that the chiy-
airy and generosity of Louisiana is to become
a bvword. and that our planters will still
kneel at the shr ne Of pecuniary interest.
when all that is noble and patriotic in their
hearts point out a change in their business
policy?
1t would be interesting to know how
many commission houses in the cities | have
named have grown weal'hy on the patronage
of our State alone. 1t makes no sort of diff
erence whether these houses be or be not
sound on the slavery question their locality
is sufficient, and Southern patronage has been
made indirectly to fill the months OF our
enemies. and build up prosperity IN cities
where a Southern planters slave would be
lorcibiy taken from him, and himself sub
jected to insult.
Cincinnati has become a market for direct
con>ienments of both sugar and cotton. and
to so great an extent that her cotton business
is surpassed in extent only by her meat
tr@de. Concentrate The patronage that i.as
been Iavished upon this Black Republican
city and the cities of the North aud East
upon the city of New Orleans, and in a i~w
years only she would be iue lflGe of The
continent. This power res with the plant
ers. Surely if We cauhot be united, as orr
enemies ave. upon a single Presidential cam
diGate. surely we can be united in ali opinion
so pal ably correct as that. at all hazards
and sacrifices, our houe markets and home
manufactures aud Soutf1ern merchants should
have undivided patronage and support.
Aside from self-Fespect and patriotism.
planters have this season, their Interests to
look to. The prudence Of such con>ignments
may we'll ,e doubted when the whole coun-
try seems threatened with dlscord and civil
war. investments, sales. and confidence in
merchants Of Southern markets, are better
placed at all times. hut more especially in
times like these.
Let planters, then. sell at home. or send
their crops to New Orleans. If the Vide
Awakes want Southern p,o,iuce. let them
come for it, buy, and pay Tor it here. Then
our cotton ard sugar markets will cease to
be ruled by those of the North, and our
money markets free from much, if not all. of
the influence of Wall street.
All that legislative nd conventional enact
ments can effect, cannot, and will not, have
the power that lies in the hands of our sugar
planters. Let them see to it that this power
is welded with a unanimous and telling
effect. Yours respectfully,
SOUTHERN SPIRIT.
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