Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-04-28
The annexed admirable article

the Manchester IN. NJ Cnz0H
Democrat. Sentiments sncl as are
therein expressed seldom find thei,
way to sheets published north OF
the Potomac:
W. have long been ofthe opinion
that there is but one remedy for
Abolitionism. Our people shudder
at the word Slavery. They have
but a meagrc idea Of the thing 1t
represents. They never e it as an
institution which feed clothes, civil
ICES and Christianizes a barbarous
race; but sirply as an agency
whose genera! spirit is represented
by the occasional cruelties practic
ed under it. Consequently they
will never let it rest. They will
find some pretext for its agitation ;
or, in default of a pretext, they will
assail the thing itself, and secure a
large measure of public sympathy.
Look back a little. The acquisition
of Louisiana and Florida, the ad-
mission of Missouri and Arkansas.
the annexation of Texas, the Mexi-
can war, the purchase of California,
New Mexico and Missilla, the re
peal 0. the Missouri Compromise,
have all been made the pretexts for
a violent Abolition excitement
And, in the gresent temper Of the
public mind, it is almost impossible
for Cougres to do anything to which
a pro slavery 81 gnifcance will not
be ascribed. This shows, that de-
magogues rely upon the prejudices
of,our people against slavery as the
most available means Of promotion.
Nine Tenths of the slavery agita-
ton has it's origin exactly her ; and
as it always has been, SO it VII al
ways be, until some remedy is stern
II applied. Our Southern friends
have the re,nedy in their own hands
the only remedy-Mey must
maize Abolstionism costly. We
have done what we could to arrest
it; but, with modification and shame
we are obliged to confess that we
can neither reason it down nor vote
it down, and we tell our Southern
friends frankly that they must here
afser take Of themselves. The can
kill out Abolitionism in a year i'll
they will but there is only one way
they must staa've it ont.
In this city we have three large
manufacturing corporations-the
Stark, the A~moskeag and the Man
chester. All Of them, practically,
are Abolition concerns; yet all of
them are growing rich and impu-
dent upon the profits Of Southern
trade. 1t vas hoped that the mur.
derous invasion Of Virginia by old
Brown and bis gang civilians would
awaken the people of the North to
the danger, if not the disgrace, Of
the Abolition agitation in every
form. But It seems to have fired
tanaticism with a new frenzy ; and
certainly there has been no time
within the last ten years when the
manufacturers here have resorted
to such an tamors1neans to swell
the Abolition vote. The vote in
the corporation wards, especially in
the First, shows with what aIacrity
the managers responded to the APP
peals of the Republican committee,
by coercing their workmen to vote
the John Brown ticket.
Our Southern friends are gener.
Gus and forbearing. We have in
this city 1900 men who want so to
vote that the South shall under
stand we do not wish to interfere
in any way with its constitutional
rights. The doctrine has been open
" advocated here by the Abolition
press ald Abolition orators that
cCch men must De StArreI out
must not be employed ; and many
an honest Democrat, gentleman Of
the South, who works upon the
goods you buy, has been compelled
to vote against your rights and his
conscience under the penalty odds
missal. And it not longsince that
a prominent ntt0cie of the Amos
kea5 mills crept stealthily to the
tower Of our City Hall, and TITLED
the bell for the ig%nom,nions life and
death Of a man who invaded your
territory and murdered your people.
These are the men You patronize,
and these are the men who use the
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