Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-05-12
Dissolving the Onion.

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breaking up this great copfedofaey i
States. The recent assembiage OF poiit
zeal robbers ut Charleston, in what, +"
humbug sake. they are pleased to style
"Convention," to fight %for,-not the il
terest Of the n~eople--tut for the haIlow
ed privilege Of picking and stealing from
the pubic crib for the next four years, i
a beautiful evidence of the straights t,
wl.ish our country is driven to decide
upos the selection of a President. Q,
one side it was DOUGLAS and the spoil>
aud on the other, the Administratio,
and the SPOTS. The humbug on the one
side, Of Southern Rights was sufficient t,
cloak the designs Of one party and FREE
dom Of the Territories to decide upon
slavery within their limits, vas the blind
on the other. Now so far as the dea'
people were concerned, or, in fact, are
concerned in any Of these blinds, the
North would not secede If she could not
carry her point, nor would the South
All such stuff is balderdash, and is used
by politicians to frighten people int"
their respective measures. The whole
proceedings Of the Charleston Conven-
ton show from beginning to end that
the "spoils" proved the real bone Of
contention and not the rights Of the
North or South. 1t is about time the
people Of this Union we're taking matters
into their own hands. Our common
couAtry has been driven distracted BY a
parcel of scoundrelly o%fice-hunters who
have neither spared lies nor money to
serve their own rascal|y purposes. Here
daily are our "a saIuted with
cries of disunion." One section Of the
country complains Of the Infringement Of
the other. We are not permitted to res,
a moment in quie,ness before some can
vass is afoot which will result in break
ing up the Union unless the people turn
out and vote. We are harassed in this
manner from year to year without inter-
c%ession. The public mind is becoming
awakened to this fact-they have had
" wolf" shouted into their ears until they
have grown tired Of the deception
more Tangible is wan,ed.-
The Union has been nearly broken up q
hundred times since the revolution, and
yet she stands as firm to-day as when
The last British soldier departed from our
Everything nowadays is
lisunion, but somehow or other disunion
never comes, and it will never come
the power tn prevent it remains
the people! Politicians may break
t up as often as they please in public
their efforts cease there.
These scabs upon the body polite imag-
they hold the destinles Of this vast
epublic in the hollow Of their hand
They have but to open their mouth IN a
nuIl'fying Congressional Larangne or All
elaborate revolutionary newspaper, and
he thing is done-the Union blown into
\ thousand Fl, g'nents. Whenever a pol
tician is disappointed in his aspirations,
lie breaking up Of the Union is the re-
'ult Of his disappointment. II
But there is a power behind these fel-
ows greater than their own. Before one
link can be broken in the COLDER.
chain which unites our glorious band of
republican States, the American people
must be consulted--the millions Of far
mechanics, and traiesrnen- the
sboring and producing classes--the
men who have interests to be effected by
4 change Of government. and who have
'ot the remotest intention Of permitting
those interests to be tempered with by a
gang OF INSCRIPTIONS and unprincipIed
politicians, without their knowledge and
consent. Whenever this Union is dis
it will be by a free and untram-
neled vote of the people, of their W
rec will and accord, without the aid or
|ntermediation Of a few individuals. The
people will unmake and they made the