Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-08-18

divided, or arra>ad ag4in-t Lincoln,
they can hope to WIN The contrary
course puts success entirely out of the
question. By defeating Lincoln at the
polls, they shelye him totally and fol
ever as a Presidential aspirant And
this they lstend TO do.
Another thing. There is no bond of
sympathy betw cen the friends Ct Bel!
and the friends OF Lincoln. They are as
oil and water to each other. The friends
OF Bell are for the Union and the laws.
| The friends Of Lincoln are for sectional
ism, aud the ~ jorily Of them are
against the enforcement of the laws.
Indeed, in some Of the States, and in
Ohio particularly, their candidates are
run as the opponents Is of one Of the Com
| promise measures of 1850, knoxn as the
Fugitive Slave act. And that, too, for
Judges Of the Supreme Court Of the
State. Now it is folly, and the rankest
folly at that, for the North Ameyican
and It's colleagues to expect the Union
men to directly or indirectly aid them in
|
tents and purposes, their bitterest foes
The large and respectable class who
viii vote for Bell aud Everett are un-
| questionabiy opposed to the Democratic
party. But it Is on principles of minor
concern that the dividing line is drawn.
When, however. great natioha! calam
ity is threatened; when treason is
preached as political religion by Repub-
csus; when Lincoln declares that "the
Union canuot exist" as our fathers made
it; when Sumner aud Lovejoy and the
rest are counselling sedition, and striving
10 raze the temple in which we have all
found So many and such grateful bless
lny,, mere measures Of inlerna! policy
are naturally forgotten, and the grand
sentiment of patriotism brings all true
men closer together TO beat down and
destroy the fauatcs and the traitors
whose ''sacreG animos'ty," if carried out:
cannot but blast our liberties forever.
Tins is the secret Of the fraternity
which is now growing wider aud wider
and deeper and deeper, to the danger
and destruction of tie Republican party.
This is the sentiment which, in New Jer-
sey aud elsewhere, will crush out sec
ti0naIsm with fearful force. The Re-
pu1!icans will, as the North american
mas done, impugn tie motives and fal-
sify the character Of the supporters of
John Bell, but, if there be truth in man
and power in truth, they will gather no
proselytes from the Union ranks"
The above is well put, and patriotic.
Can't the Breckinri' ge organs of the
South bring themselves up to an equal
height of national sentiments Can't
they initiate little their brother Of the
Pennsylpuulan? Don't they accept the
Pennsylcanian as a true Democratic
organ !? Come, let them speak out. Do,
they want to have Lincoln elected Dc
they wish to make common cause with
the Black Republicans by abusing Bell
and Everett. "The Republicans" says
the Pennsylpanian, ''impugnthe motives
aud falsify the character of the support
ers Of John Bell''-how well the Penn
sylpanian describes the maligners of
Bell in the South !-"but, if there be
truth in men and power III truth, they
will gather no prose! y.es from the Union
ranks"
The Pennsylvamian says Bell and
Everett and their friends "ntend" to de-
feat Lincoln-the italics are its own
and it tells the truth. They do intend
10 defeat him, and, from present indica-
tioos, there is a good prospect Of their
succeeding, too. Can't the Breckinridge
and Douglas men of the South help
them little |? Don't they want Lincoln
defeated! l'heu why not do something
to accomplish that Object, instead of try
ing to defeat i, /?
A correspondent of the Bulletin yes
terday, writing from Boston, says the
contest is between Bell aud Lincoln.
THIS is just what we told onk readers
weeks ago, and every day confzms it.
Nobody can help seeing it much longer,
except those who are wlfully blind.
Too MUcH FOR lr-lf we ever had
any fears of the success Of the Breckin-
ridsr and Lane ticket anywhere, they
have been alIayed by the endorsement
# that ticket by President Buchanan
aud Secretary Cobb, at the late ratifica-
tio, ,neati.t c, in Was shinUfon All tho