Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-01-25

euutive communications, the press and
| the p,fipit. all inculcate hatred against us
and war upon The. institution of slavery.
an institution interwoven with the very
elements Of our existence. The fanati-
cism engendered In the popular mind by
the doctrines taught aud the enmity ex-
cited, Manifested itself very recently bJ
an Eruption Of atned men In the State If
] Virginia. whose object was TO incile insnr
rection, aud whose means we're treason
and murder. The abrupt end TO which
the cor spiraoy was brought, aud the sharp.
quick and just punishment of the conspi-
| ratUrs, proved that the South had ,lut
over estimated the stability of her insti-
tutions But the apologies aud eulogi-
ums which developed ut the North
| wide spread sympathy with the feions,
| have deepened the distrust in the pefma-
nency of our Federal Government. aud
awakened sentiments favorable TO q sepa
ration of the States.
The representatives of these feelings
against us and our domestic institutions
are now struggling 10 obtain possession Of
| the Government. SO that Federal law may
| illustrate their doctrines, aud Federal
power enforce them. I cannot eontem-
| plate, without the most serious alarm, the
| condition 90 which the Southern States
will be reduced, II political party, or
ganized only IN one section of the coun
| try. aud without followers or sympathi
kets in the other, should obtain possession
Of the Government. when the only fonn-
dation on which that party rests, Is de
| testation Of slavery, and when the iui-
nority slave section will be without the
power to protect itself through the instru-
mentality of Federal authority. When
that time arrives the Southern States will
he practically without representation in
the Federal Government. aud the South
occupy the position Of snbinghted States
The Union cannot last without a reeog
milton Of the vital principles of the Con-
| stitutiun-that the States are equal In the
| Confederacy. Every State must he per
United to- determine her own social iusti-
tutions. and left to the enjoyment of
| them IN peace aud the territories, the
common property of the States. must be
! freely opened to settlement by the people
| of the conieierated equals. The Insulting
| demand that there shall be no more slave
| States must he abandoned, because II not
only tends to make us politically inferior,
| but BECAUSE H. brands rs disgrace an in
stituton which we prize ~ n blessing. So
~ like uifense Is offered and wrong inflicted
on the South by the heresy of popular
| sovereignty. by which slave holders are
| th tie eNflnien ifbm bnt btifliNiltN W hH'
| IN friendly legislation of the territorial
| governments. The Supreme Court Of the
] United States has settled The principle
| that must rule neither Congress nor the
| territorial governments can Constitution
| ally exclude slavery from the territories.
| Southern man can therefore rightfully
| take his slaves into the territories. As the
territorial governments are without the
legal power TO exclude slavery, IT. is dill
cult TO understand how they can be nj
| lowed 20 do Indirectly that which they
are prohibited from doing directly. " is
the dutT of Congress to protect the prop
erty which ia taken to the territories under
the sanction of the Constitution, and 10
guard that property from the neglect or
uuftiendliness Of the territorial govern
mont, which il but the creature of Con-
gresa The Southern States deny nothing
TO the Northern which they claim for
themselves They insist only on equality
and H. remains only TO be decided in tho
struggle now pending whether this equal
ty will be conceded 10 them-and ] am
one who does not despair that u will.
There IL patriotic minority In the non
slave holding States, who are faithfully
upholding tho rights of the South, and
battling for tho maintenance of the Con
stitution. The entire South makes com
mon cause with this minority, constitu-
ting great national party, oil striving TO
conquor and snnihilate that. sectional
party, whose success will Immediately
leopard and finally sever tho Union. The
triumph Of this great national orRaniza-
ton will be tho beginning of return 10
that perfect uniou.r that general vel
fare,r aud that " domestic tranquility y
which the Constitution Of the United
States was intended to promote and 80
cure. Such triumph would greatly re-
store the old harmony and awaken again
the old sentimonts-and IL Is the last hope
of those who, like myself, desire TO SEQ
the Union pefpetuated. \Lonisiapa docs
not wish TO see these States severed from
their present political connection. But no
man who has watched tho course Of the
public mind, can fail to have observed
that, IN Louisiana, IA in the other South
ern States, the progress of disunion fool
ing has been marked and rapid ! am
sure, however, that all concur in this, that
Louisiana, dearly ms she loves Che Union,
will never separate herself from her sister
slave States. Identity Of interests and
tho sympathy growing out Of like social
institutions, would, without the compnl-
sion Of political necessity, lead her to
take whatever position tho dangers of the
times might demand her TO assume. The
dangers are grave aud indeed appalling
and II Is proper that we prepare to meet
them, IA our sister slave States propose To
do, by u thorough organization Of our mi
litia system. This would BIO Judicious
under any circumstances, and its good Of
fects will DC enduring, even If the present
emergency pass away. II is my belief, a'
well Us my hope, that IL will, and thai
there will yet be allowed to all the States
independence and equality, and that har-
mouy and peace will be restored to oui
people without II sacrifice Of interest or .
loss of honor.
IMPERIAL PERIN GAzETTE.-We