Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-12-08

me North conquer the South. What
fear Is that some military leader will
conquer both-tha. wearied and i'm
> poverished by c1ac,ions, and sickened
by carnage, the people will gladly wel-
come any change which promises ex-
e"ptions from such evils and give up
the little liberty that is left them in the
hope VI repose. In any event you will
s'"' form part Of the same COVER nment
you will still belong to the same coun-
try.
In that respect your destiny is fixed.
The dream Of a Southern Confederacv
Is the widest vision that ever troubled
tie train Of II moonstruck enthusiast
a dream interrupted by bloody conflicts
with your neighbors and vile depend
ence on foreign power.
| "A separation into two Confederacies
is an i'"possibilisy as long as the Miss
lss'pp' flows from the North 20 tho
South, and civil war once begun, can
have but one termination. In tue Lam
guage of Gen. jackson, the victory of
the injured would not secure to them
the blessings of Liberty-it would avenpe
their wrongs, but they would themselves
share in the common ruiu.'
Believing this to be the condition TO
which you would be reduced BY enter.
cenine war, l implore you to pause and
consider we'll before you allow yourselves
to plunge into it. 1t is easy enough to
talk about laying down our lives upon
the battle field for a punctilio, and Al.
low me to add in no spirit of vain boast.
ing, that know Of nothing that would
be easier than 10 carry such resolution
into effect, il we had ourselves alone to
consider-if there were no consideration
appealing to our judgements or affec.
tons, but such as relate 70 our personal
safety. But you and I are not in that
conditions. There are other for whose
we'll being we are bound to provide. II
fra'ernaI strife does come, shall eudea.
vor to meet my share Of its dangers and
responsibilities rs firmly as the most 6e-
y spirit among you. l will ag,ee to
make every plain battle field, and every
plantation a breastwosk, and when all
else has failed, l will cheerfulIy lay
down my life upon the last spot that Is
sacred to freedom. Bu, have no love
for such scenes, and no desire to become
an actor in them. / hold it to he tho
duty Of every citizen to look we'll at the
consequences, before plupging into revo.
luton, either under the influence Of his
ow" passions OF q the dictation Of am
bilious leaders. Conceding his full right
to stake his own lie on the desperate
game, it is still certain that he has no
right to trif1e with the lives and shsppi.s
ness Of others. We have . ready re-
fuge from tyranny, butiu the meantime
what is 70 become with that portion Of
that race to whom we are indebted, for
50 many joys and to whom We are.
bound BY 50 ma1y ties e.,sz; LII "a q;
What is to become Of the wife that
sheds halo around your. 6reside, these,
gentle tender girls who are scattered.
like lovely flowers through this assembly
Or tue little ones You have left at home
in the sweet enjoyment Of sleepiq They
are debarred by nature, and tbscustoms
'f society from taking part in the fierce
conflicts. -. 1.;...+la
.Where life is lost, or freedom won,''
ard when We have gone down to the
bloody, though it may be honored
graves, they will remain to become the,
victims or slaves Of our murdsrers., p Am
wrong, then in asking you be certain
hat some intolerabIe grievance exists,
or which there is no other honorable re-
1ress. before becoming party 70 disn-
''on Lay your hands upon your hearts,
and tell me, il you can, what that grew
ance is. What wrong are you sufferingl
What oppression weighs upon oul-.s
The sun which will rise tomorrow from :
behind yonder mountains, 10 its long
Journey, will shine upon no land so hap =
py and blessed as ours. Il will travel
N from continent to continent, some
lines in sorrow-looking down upon
he chained captive in one place and the
ordly proprietor in anothe-upon the
Widows anguish in another, and upon
he loves rapture in another, but no .
where else will its beams be- gladdened
~ the presence of universal peace, 81 =
universal plenty, and Of universal free. =
lom. Why then should you wish to ''i
destroy the Government under which
md BY which, sll this has been secured l''
What desire can you have to substitute
or that glorious and splendid picture Of -
landscape whose watesrs are tears, whose
has been blasted BY fire; and 30
whose inhabitants has been thinned out