Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-08-25
The Cry Of Abolitionislal.

Every Southern paper supporting BREcNNRIDGE and
LANE. charge the Constitutional Union candidates
with a5olitionism. Refuting the charge in every IN
stance when attacked, amounts to nothing III their
view of matters and things. The Charge has been
used et~fectually for so many years, that they think it
Will prove eficacious in the present canvass. Fortu-
natcly, the game is played out, as the masses OF the
Southern people in their uprisiugs for BELL and
EVERETT amply demonstrate. They are no longer to
be gulled and hoodwinked with such elcctioneeripg
tricks.
Not a candidate for Presidential honors has been
brought forward by the parties opposing the lcnloc-
racy for the past twenty years, but he has been
charged with abolit onism--not one has escaped their
c~alumnies. The gallant HARRISON, in lS40-an old
man who had spent the better part of his life on the
tented field IN the service of his country, and whose
e ay hairs and honorable sears should have protected
from such an insult-was charged with abolitionism
in that canvass by the Democratic South-savers.
! But the people honored him and his public services,
| and elected him President.
In 1874, when the sage of Ashland was before the
| people for the highest hoLor in their gift, he too was
| charged with being an emancipatfonist, and conse-
anently no friend to slavery. FRELNGHrisES, the
/ candidate upon the same ticket fo- the Vice-Presl-
: dency, was also charged with abolitionism. These
charges told fearfully against them in the South, be
cause the masses of the democratic party believed
almost implicitly in their leaders. They were de
feated and it is acknowledged that the cry of no
friends to slavery was one of the most powerful le-
vers used by the Democratic party in that canvass.
In ls4s, when the old Hero OF Buena Vista was
nominated for the Presidency, he too came under the
usual charge Of the honest Democracy for his associa-
ton with the abolitionist and freesoiier, FILLMORE.
From every stump, every rostrum, in the columns of
every newspaper, public meetings. and everywhere
that it could be used etlectually, Mr.. FILLMORE was
denounced as an enemy to the South and Southern
institutions. Every act of Mr.. Fillmore's political
life was raked up and overhauled to sub,tantiate the
charge, but of no avail-he was elected. The death
of Gen. Taylor a short time after his Inauguration,
placed The reins of government in the hands of the
dJolnioniN FILLMORE. Need we tell tie people how
glorious was his administration how satisfactory
it was to the people, North and South how, when
he left the Presidential chair, lie left us in a happy
and prosperous condition His administration is one
of the brightest pages in American history, and one
of which the American people will ever be proud. So
much for the abulitionist FILLMORE.
It was supposed by many that Mr.. FILLMORE would
again be a candidate for the Presidency in 1852. He
was the favorite of the larger PORTION of the old Wing
party but the party leaders ut Baltimore in the
Wing Nominating Conventton-ior reasons we, nor
any other Wing could understand-threw him over
boarl, and nominated Gen. scon The result of that
canvass is but too well-known. Do our readers re
member how during that canvass the Democratic
papers throughout the country laudel Mr.. FILLMORE
to the skies for everything pure, noble and conserv-
alive? How they charged the Wing party with throw
ing away a tried, sound man and taking up an UNI
sound one They acknowledged Mr.. FLlMoRE's great
public seryices-his devotion to the country Nay,
they even went so far as to tell the Wing party that
they had ruined themselves, and had virtually COM
United suicide, by rejecting Mr.. FlL~1MoRE-and they
told the truth But mark the change. No sooner
did Mr.. FILLMORE come before tie people again in
1856, than they 70, got all about what they had said
nj him in 80 and again was the old cry Of abolition
ism raised against him. They took back all the praises
had SO abundantly lavished upon him four years
.Uefore, and painted him as black as their own black
wished him to be. Well! he was defeated in
of there being a Black Republican In the
ieid, when thousands of old Wing voters believin.
-He CuduCeS y OeiedtiHB tie bliCk hepuplfcaus LII
the Union, lay in the election of BucHANAN-a
nan whose political record, SO far as the South was
was black er than that of the man they
10 w~aptonly m~aligned and misrepresented. Once
more are we in the field, a thousand times stronger
han ever, with a perfect organization-our Union
anner floating in every State Of the Union-except
me where the people don't vote-wlth men who have
yer stood by the constitutional rights Of every
ten of the school q CLAY, WEBSTER, CA1HorN
md q host of lesser shining lights in the political
ornament, whose acts have SO much tended to ad-
r, ader, these men, JOHN BELL and EDWARD Ev-
sRE1T are denounced by an insignificant fraction of
he once powerful Democratic party. as abolition,sts
he old game-the old cry! Why do not the DorG
AS men, who are powerful, and who claim with much
how of honesty to be the true and only representa-
Of Democracy denounce our candidates as Abo-
Because they know that BELL and EVERETT
re staunch and true, and will, If elected, act with
and impattiality in every instance. And
nore, because they are Union men aud are determin-
d to whip out Blaek Republicanism on the one hand,
nd crush down Sdcessionism on the other. In the
anne attitude Stands Mr.. DOUGLAS and his friends
renee our fraterndl sympathy. Let the lifelong ser
ices of JOHN BELL ANSWER the charge of Abo.itionism,
nd so with EDwAk D EVERETT.
The DemocracyIo f New York have formed an cleo
oral fickaf SatisfIcfnrv tn the S1ppOrtars Of Bell and !