The Constitutional. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1860-1861, 1860-10-13
Dis>aiOn is the Word.

If the people of Louisiana fail to be con-
WINGED of the wanton and deliberate pur-
pose of the Fugitive" Breckenridge leaders
to "precipita,e the cotton States into a
revolution" and to establish Southern
Confederacy, it shall not be our fault, for
We shall give the facts as they appear.
The evidence is thickening every day, to
give thewhole it would occupy the whole
Of our columns, but we will give enough to
satisfy any reasonable and unprecedented
mind.
The following is short article from the
Auburn (Ala.) Sketch Book, of the 2Sth
ult., which has at its mast head the names
of Breckenridge and Lane.
Whether there be Secession, revolution,
or what not, one thing is certain-Lincofn
can nerer be President Of the Southern
States He is not SO elected. We will have
no President, then, until the Black Repub-
lican party recede fom their position and
allow the election of a national man, or un-
til forced by their refusal we elect one for
ourselves. To do that, WE MUST FIGHT.
God grant to avert the threatening danger.
But while we thus pray, we iirge our peo-
pie to look the matter full in the face and
prepare themselves As unmeaning TO some
as may now seem these red striped coats
and waving plumes seen occasionally upon
our streets, it is well enOughto have good
guns and plentv Of ammunition"
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In behalf Of III, gcnilcInan who belong
to The Bell and Everett party in Rapides,
we ask distant readers of the sheet from
which the above are Characteristic quota
tions, not to take the tone and contents OF
that sheet as an index of the taste and
manners of our opponents here. They pay
It's conductor roundly for the campaign
work and blush for the manner in which il
is done.-La. Democrat.
In behalf of the gentlemen who compose
the Be and Nv t. party i'll this and 9th
Ell parishes, We here say that they or we
have nothanxs to bestow for any gratuiI ous
advice coming from such source. The
Bell and Everett men in Rapides know
how to manage their own affairs without
any advice from the fugitive" faction OF
trom their "organ grinders" We think
that the "fugitives" will have as much ar
they can do to "mind their own business, F"
and let other peoples alone We have
heard of a great many people making for
tunes by attending to their own affairs,
and We hope that our neighbor will go aud
Likewise.
As far rs the Constitxtiondl is concerned
il satisfies LIZ, as We believe il also the
friends of Bell and Everett generally. We
do not expect to please tie "fugitives,"
that is not our aim. All We expect to do
IS to treat them with as much courtesy as
possible under the circumstances. IL they
are not saii fed with this much, they must
help themselves.
The most low flung part Of the above
paragraph Is where the editor alludes 10
our being rounGly paid for conducting thif
paper. That is none of his business, b,
will find AS much as be can do to make biz
own party pay up, as far as this paper IL
concerned, We are capable of managing ii
md our own affairs, and intend to do 70
the Ior filings of Inherent scribblers to I'll,
contrary Notwithstanding.
In conclusion we would remark that i
the "fugitives" could blush for the fals'
nd slanderous articles which appear il
their organ, there might be some probabil
ity of their repentance, but We think tina
hey are too much matured in sin.
We intended giving notice Of the dii
ferent barbecues which We have attende,
within the last ten DAYS in to-days issu,