Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-08-04
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1t is n little amusing to notice the anxiety OF some
Of the friends of Mr.. Breckinridge. to prove the ma
t1onality of their party; and that of all the different
political organizations, there is none breathing a
purer spirit Of patriotism, or more anxious to sup
port the Union in all its integrity. They refer with a
triumphal expression of manner, TO the letters oil &C
%ceptance of their candidates for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency. We have read those patriotic doc
uni.mts and would say: your words and the acts of
your party do not permit me to answer the Union
eminent there expressed, by one who at least pre-
tends to know the motives which led to the forma
ton of the party of which Mr.. Breckinridge At this
time is the standard bearer. Tile Charleston Mercury
says 1.-The effort at Baltimore to re construct the
Democratic party from $ secession elements, must
prove abortive; not a delegate from a Northern state
in the Convention of the s~ecelers, represented the
opinions or policy of a single Northern State. Massa-
chnsetts had the largest body Of seceacrs in the sc
ceiing Convention, but Massachusetts is Republican,
by at least twenty thousand votes The truth is, the
seeding Convention at Baltimore was a Southern iSec.
tiondt Conrenhon. 1t represented the rights of the
South, and was controlled by Southern power. With
the exception of Oregon and California. no one expects
n support Of its nominees for the Presidency ana Vice
Presidency Of the United States beyond tie Southern
States yet 1t called itself The National Democratic
Party. 1t affected to be the National Democratic
party. The anectation of the disrupted Convention
clinging to the name of the National Democratic par
ty, was equally ABSURD. As a National party, it had
ceased to exist with the secession of the Southern
States. Both Conventions became sectional. The
Que represented the North, the other the South. Tie
one aimed at sectional domination over the South
The other organized to save the south from this sec
tional domination, looking clearly to the alternative Of
Independence. There was not a particle of nationality
in either Convention, yet both claimed to be national;
and the parties of the South are being driven along BY
the shallow hypocracy Of these misnomers, instead of
being governed by the true state of things.' These
are the sentiments OF one Of the leading men of the
Southern marty, willing to call things by their true
names. The sectiona'ity Of both parties are SO ap-
parent, that, he says, the South are acting a hypo-
critical part, in claiming to be a National party.
hore that some of the friends of Mr.. Breckinridse in |
this latitude, viii see the necessity of answering the |
Mercury, for if such opinions of the party
as they do, from one of the warmest support
ers OF Mr.. Breckinri.ige are not controverted. the
may be induced to consider them as true, and |
to feel themselves III duty bound TO look further for
a political organization, whose platform of principles
is free from ambiguity or equiyocation.
EERRlfAS.