Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-09-29
From the Y O Fee
4 Provisional Government for the
United States.

Start not reader, when WI tell you that a
plan for 4 Provisional Government Of the
Southern States has actually been sketched
out and extensively circulated! We re-
ferred to this fact last week in our review OF
Mr.. Breckinridge's speech, and we give this
morning the document itself entire. There
are very few. comparatively speaking, Of the
patriotic masses Of the South-the planters.
merchants. mechanics. etc. who are fuliy
aware 10 what lengths the reasonable tanat-
lcism of restless spirits has reached. Fanat-
lcism IN the South has almost kept pace with
when this great constitutional, conservative
movement was inaugnrated, that the sober
and reliable men in every portion Of the
country who revere the institutions left them
by their great patriotic sHes. had risen in
their might aud laid their right hands upon
this lncendiary and deyiii>h spiti. of navcc
and destrnction-a spirit that tramples alike
upon tie laws of God ana men. and in its
blind and ~infuriate recklessness would turn
this peaceful and beautiful land Of oufs, this
priceless patrlmony that has been hegueatAed
to us for ourselves and children. ana for man
kind at large, this glorious Inheritance tina.
has been the theme of eu!ogiumS fr3ns the
great and good the world over. into a dseaYy
ard frIghtiul desert, a very pardefnonium Of
fallen and ~unclean spirits. and the toiling
millions hat now dwell together in unity
under their OVID vine and fig trees with in
terruptions so slight as scarcely worthy to lie
taken into consideration, into moral hvenas
preyins upon each other until the very trees
and stones should sweat blood and tears.
This plan for a Provisional Government
for the Southern States which we give
below, is an emanation worthy of the spirit
that gave 1t birth: 1t originated in the
the dark. Its authors were ashamed of their
work, and could not. reckless and desperate
as they may have been, muster tp courage
enough to fix their signature to She work Of
their hands. They sent it forth into the
world alone. They evidently put it forth as
a .eeler, and as a nucleus around which they
hoped vagabondry and ianaticism would
rally with insane and e~xultar.t shouts of de.
hight. They expected, manitestIy, that the
moral %vulture would snuff the carnage anc
the carrion from afar, and flock upon cage
wing to the promised repast. Where the
precious production was printed, we have nc
means OF knowing. Suffice it TO say, that {
copy OF it came to US through the p~ostoffcs
about eighteen months ago, and has been al
ready gwen to the public in some of thu
public prints, but never before in this paper
Taken in connection with well known event
that have since transpired. and with senti
ments that are boldly avowed by many lead
ing men and public journals, it is a hlghI,
suggestive document, and will be read will
no little interest. 1t is very ingeniousl,
written, but its sophistry is not sufficient t,
conceal It's reasonable spirit. Here it is:
Preomhle-"Whereas, Having experience,
pr the last thirty-eight years the impossi
b,l'ty of preserving an honorable and peace
able UNION with our Northern coniederates
u mon becomes our Imperative duty to make a,
honorable, and if possible, a peaceaDle sepa
ration. And.
Whereas, The dismemberment Of the OK
isting Union between these United States i
inevitable, and that past and existing propen
stiles for uniting the Southern people in on
bond of brotherhood are most impotent 70
consummating that much desired result
And,
), Whereas, The South should sever the e.4is,in
Union Of these STATES for past aggressions, a
well as for the prevention OF Others whic'
must inevitably follow under existing part
organizations. And.
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