Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-04-06
NOT SATISFIED.

The last number of the Clinton Patriot
does not seemato be satisfied with the course
pursued by Hon. no. FuouA, Senatorial
delegate from this District to the State Con.
v~ention. That pa per after hiighiy eulogisins
the gentleman, giving him great credit fo'
the noble opinions he once entertained and
how he was voted for by the people of East
Felicisna to declare those sentiments and to
battle for the maintenance Of the Union, as
a cooperation delegate in the Convention,
thus winds up its (would-be) s%cathing arti-
Gle:
He took his stand, fought his fight manfnl-
ly up to a point-parryins and thrusting with
great skill and executlon,-when. to secure
success, a council Of war was held, into
which he was called to plan and lead the
charge.-the final struggle came-and, shall
We tell it again.) when the smoke of battle
had cleared away, and the roll was called,
this gallant champion, with his colleagues, to
the utter CONSERVATION and chagrin of his
fellow soldiers and modification Of friends,
was found III the ranks Of the enemy, with
his sword dripping with the gore Of a muir
dered Constitution, and bearing upon its point
the rent flag Of the republic! There is hope
Of a tree if it be cus down that it will sprout
again from the root.' Upon this hypothesis,
may we hope that liberty has not received
within the last few months, at the hands Of
its vain, glorious and Wanting champions its
death thrust? We refer to those things with
no feelings but that of sorrow-men differ,
honestly, we know. but oh. how we hate to
fnd that we have been deceived--to wake
up to the fact to our best. most trusted men
have gone dancing to the music Of syren.
What a pity it is that one man cannot suit
everybody! There may be a few in and
around Clinton who are dissatisfied with Mr.
FuQuA, but the masses OF those who voted
for him in the District, heartily endorse every
act of that gentleman willie a member of the
Convention, and we say it knowingly.
We would like to ask our contemporary if
the people of Eas: Feliciana wanted a puppet
to represent them in the Convention--a mere
baby,-a stick, a thing having neither eyes,
sense Eor ears-a machine bound up in the
meaningless things called resolutions adopt
at some political meeting under whose
he alone could act? Or did they
want an intelligent, deep-thinking man, who,
after having exhausted al honorable means to
the objects for which he was elected
should have used his own Judgement
thereafter as his best guidee Every one
knows who knows anything of the Conven-
tion and its acts, that Mr.. FuouA labored
zea'ouslv, to secure a cooperation vote IN
that body, in which he was nobly assisted BY
his colleagues. And when they saw that
their labor was useless. and that cooperation
an impossibility, they awaited themselves
freemcn's privilege-the right to act as
they thought best for the good Of their noble
State, and their family fresidcs; and that act
was to secede from a union which no longer
held a protecting Hsis over Southern rights
md Southern institutions. And this is the
Union our cotempary SO |usubriously mourns
1t was acknowledge d by even the
most rabid of the secession party that we
a man Of of nerve and iron will in
FuQuA, and that he was one of the
lblest men u;on the floor of the Convention.
He was always listened to with the De- pest
aspect, whenever his voice was raised upon
ny question. and it bore more weight with
t than that Of any ether cooperation dele
,ate to that body. His labors there in be-
'alf Of his party and the people are wide
pread and well known. A simple reading
II the proceedings of the Convention would
ave informed our contemporary that Mr.. Flu
lCa played no insignificant part therein
Veil may the voters of this District congra-
uIate themselves upon having had so able a
as Mr.. F.. and why he should be
ensured at this late hour for an act which
is Iaiseak5R SO high in the estimation of
ealow. citizens, 6Alsyond our ken, unless
! Be to hold out hope tothe Nosthern people
hat there exists a Union e~lee6entsine the
how vain and ~fruitless IS the tasl.
CoRRECTIoN.-Ne stated in our last issue that
ne ordinance concerning the Judiciary (giv-
ns power to the Governor and Senate TO ap-
ONT all Judges for the State) passed the
Convention, as a whole, by the decision of
he President. We were led into the error
y several city papers all OF which told the
story. After our paper had gone to
ress, We found in our exchanges, a correct