Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-18

:. THAT DEMONSTRATING from the gloon
thrown over the HEBRON, DELoNy & CO
movement by the cold shoulder it has recei
5 we'd generally, the authors give up the onl,
ghost of a chance they ever had to give vi
f talty to their bantling. The recent vote 70
delegates in New Orleans, shows how veal
the chances of the Douglass are in hi
strongest stronghold. With the exception o
a few terribly outraged Democrats aronne
and about the Capitol, and New Orleans. tn.
friends of the "Squatter Sovereign" in Louis,
lana are few and extremely far between. Sc
mote it be. Sometime since, we candidly
gave our State over to Mr.. DOUGLAS. under
the firm conviction that his vote here would
exceed that Of any other man. The shadows
cast a long way ahead of the events, satisfy
us that we did cur people an injustice in
thought. As an outsider, we congratulate
the Old Line Democracy, that they have
managed to keep our State in the proper
place-upon national and equal grounds, at
least in this matter. They have changed
fro bad to a great deal better.
How WAS IT DONE ?-The Baton Rouge
.Adrocatr, Of the 18th inst. says: We most
rointedly protest and deny that the aAdmin-
~istration Democrats" ever held any other
doctrine thoc <baf ,vb;cb mo ~ ,.,.o,
terrain on the subject Of Squatter Sovereign
IT," Did the .Mcocate entertain the same
views in 1856 while supporting Mr.. BucnA-
NAN for the Presidency! If so, how did it
get around that famous declaration of Mr.. B.,
that t. the people Of a Territory, like those Of
a State shall decide for themselves whether
slavery shall or shall not exist vithin their
limits This declaration endorsed. to its
fullest extent, the Sqnatter Sovereignty fea-
lures of Mr.. DouGLAs' Kansas Nebraska bill.
and it was considered by manv other leading
Democrats to be pure and indebted Demo-
cratic doctrine. The Democratic party then
made that bill the true test of Democratic
faith-by it they were willing to and or
fall; and the people of Louisiana during the
canvass of Sc were told by D~elnoeiatic ora
tors and Democratic presses that that bill
was the sovereign protector Of the rights of
the South, and was the %ra'lyins point of the
Democracy to secure to Us the rights we
claim in all our territories. Now the .Ad.
m'nistration Democrats" repudiate in toto
Mr.. DOUGLAS and his views upon Territorial
Sovereignty, and yet claim to be, and to have
ever been, consistent. If the administration
Democrats now hold to the opposite of their
sentiments and declarations in 1856. BY what
m'raculou agency was that transmosrl6ca-
affected These are questions we would
like to have answered by our somewhat OBJ
liv io"s contemporary.
LARGE Prices FOR NEGROES The lands
and slaves belonging to the succession of the
late JOACHIM DAIGLE, were sold at extraor-
binary prices. The exact prices per acre CT
the lands we have not been able to learn, but
exceeded the expectations Of every one.
Some OF the negroes brought almost fabulous
prices. A carpenter brought 81. 400; a field
$4,000, a negro woman with three
children, the eldest nine years of age, brought
All the other negroes of the planta-
ton brought very high figures. The entire
plantation, if we are correctly. informed, was
at about 100000, but competition
so great that near $50 900 were realized
for i. Who says lands and negroes are not
money in West Baton Rouge.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. - The
Philadelphia Public Ledger calls attention to
= fact which at this %juncture deserves to be
better known, WHICH is, that the Constitution
If the United States expressly provides q that
no State shall enter into any alliance, treaty
Or confederation and adds subsequently, in i
order to prevent all misunde rstanding about4
he matter, that no State shall, without the
Of Congress, keep troops or ships Of
war IN time Of peace, or enter into any agree
.ent or compact 10Th another State, or with a
ore'sn power" Commenting on this, Judge
story gives as a reason for the prohibition,
that it might lead to miscn;evous combina.
ions injurious to the general interests, and
cad them, the States, to agreeing into con-
Of geographical or sectional cha.
WHO MADE THE BLACK REpuBL1cANs.3
Black Republicans" is the bugbear with
which Southern Locofocos seek, on all occa-
ions, to frishten children into bed, or into
heir party, which is worse. That our read
RS may know whose powers of procreation
'rought Black Republicanism, into exist
we give them the following from a
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