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

D7- By the State paper, we perceive that
Gov. MoosE has yielded to the numerous Pc
~titions sent in from different parts of the
State, to convene an extra session of the Leg
~islature. His Excellency names the 10th
day of December next as the time for the
meeting. The time is short to reach the ex-
treme North and Northwestern portions OF
the State. yet We trust every effort will be
made by distant members of that body to be
present at the opening of the session. 1t is
a matter of the greatest importance to our
State, and however the result, be it for veal
or woe, we hope it may be the last time the
Legislature of Louisiana shall ever be con-
vened for such a purpose.
The South will unquestionably take a po-
sition in the present condition of affairs, from
which she cannot, in honor, recede. 1t is
useless to urge, in opposition to this, that all
the Southern States have not agreed upon
the same course of action as South Carolina
and Georgia, and that a different policy may
~actuate the others. They must all go together
and they will all go together-there is no
dodgins this fact. True, it may not be by
their own will; but one member of the
Southern body has struck a blow, and it VI
brates all through the others. This may be
strange language from a 'Union- at-any-price'
We honestly believe what we say The ac-
ton Of the two above mentioned States has
been too precipitate- In their Jealous mad
ness for Southern Rights, they have placed
us at the mercy Of the very man whose cleo
ton is SO much deprecated by the South.
Instead of waiting until a Convention of all
the Southern States should have been held,
and a general course OF action determined
upon, they have thought proper to plunge into
secession without so much as consulting their
Southern sisters, or seeming to care for their
advice and counsel. They have withdrawn
their representation in Congress; and, before
the President elect takes his seat, will be fol-
lowed by several others. Now, in the name
of all common sense, IS not this folly7 And
yet, if the administration of Mr.. LINCOLN in |
any manner interferes with those States, can
the others, who may not agree with them,
stand idly by and witness the outrage! Ger
tain'y not. Every Southern sword will leap
from its scabbard to avenge an insult to a
Southern State, be she in the righto or wrong.
1t is but too we'll known that, at the close of
Iafo oIocfior M bod .,,,or,c e,fE;.zt |
in both Houses of Congress to direct and con-
troll the action Of the Black Republican ad-
ministration. Mr.. LINCOLN would have be zen
a mere puppet in their hands He could do
nothing that would materially iniure US, for at
least two yea,s; and in that time. or even less.
all arrangements Tor peaceable secession. if so
agreed upon by = general Southern Conven-
ton, would have been perfected in security, a
form and plan of a Southern Confederacy pre-
pared, ways and means !or supporting the
devised, and a knowledge of our position
amongst the nations of the world obtained.
This chance is now lost to US, and what NAV
we not expect from an administration like that
Of Mr.. LINcoLs's9 We have been told again
and again by the secessionists, that we had
everything to fear from, his administration
when 1t came into power-and they told the
truth: for, by their precipitate action, we are
eft to the tender mercies of that administra-
lion.
We may be injured, and that seriously. BY
States; but they are of the South, and
though err;ng, must be child gently by us,
we suffer for their folly.
AS we said before, the South must now take
! position from which she mus. not recede. A
of all Southern States shall decide
upon that position. We must have every
Constitutional right belonging to US. guaran-
led by the Northern States, from which there
be no equivocation, no lodging, no
'quirming, but so plain and ineligible, that
ne who runs may read. If this pledge be not
.xacted from the North, now th.t we are de-
;ermined to have our rights recognized let US
brewer after hold our peace against Northern
the other hand, if we do not obtain a full
and just recognition of those rights, then the
only alternative left us is-secession and a
Confederacy.
FIRST FRUITS OF THE SOUTHERN MoyE-
nENrs.-As one of the first material results
If the southern movements movement in
augurated by the election of a sectional black
republican president-we notice with plea
sure that projects for the establishment of