The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1861-06-26
The Other Side.


nen from centre to circumference there would not be
corporals guard who by any possibility could be m
di,ced TO seriously discuss it, at all events, from the
standpoints unhappily and perhaps fatally pre-
sented. The people generally, both north anu souIh
mean well and desire only that which they believe best
for the interests of the country but here the difficulty
that which best to some is thought to be utterly
runous to others and therefore they are Wiling TO RISK
present prosperity and the integrity OF the Union
to prevent it posterity from what they fancy
national evil In one section OF the repupnc theFe
are subordinate social elementssome four million OF
negroes whose social industrial and moral CONDITION Is
admitted to be UNNECESSARILY superior to that OF any
other portion of their Under the care and guld-
ance of the white citizenship, they are happy and con-
tented while the product OF their labor forms the basis
of our foreign commerce. and in its relations with our
manufacturing industry at the NORTH and with that Oh
England it constitutes vital element III modern CIVIL
sation Furthermore this substratum in the grand work
of our democratic institutions, and, declared by Nc
Duie is the corner stone of republican edhce The
stakeholder is producer-a planter-aa borer whose
interests are identical with those Of the northern farmer
and therefore opposed to banks and tariffs and all those
cunning schemes of speculation and legislative corrup
ton which in England, and to certain extent III the
northern States enable the few who produce nothing
to live in ease and luxury at the expense of the many
who produce everything. The States that have this in
eror race among them ask nothing as indeed they need
nothing from the common government. 9hey nave
fought the battle Of the northern producer against spec
ulatOrS-0t the northern laDOfeF against CdpILd
their great staples have furnished the basis OF northern
commerce and built up northern cities. How comes IT.
then that state Of things benehcient and SO vital to
the prosperity of tie country could become in the minds
of muttudes OF people, national eyiP-that great
party should actually spring up in midst avowedy to
destroy the of all these benefits that should even
get possession of the government of theStates
with the openly expressed design of using that for the
ultimate extinction" of condition hates at the basis
of our national prosperity?
Because the northern people are ignorant of this CON
dition and worse still because they really fancy some
thing else and worst of ALL perhaps because the north
ern politicians who have profesed stand the con
stitution and by the rights of all sections, have been
utterly fathess from the beginning, and, it is now APP
parent enough, influenced alone by the hopes OF
office and plumber. The old democratic party led by
Jackson, Van Buren, and Polk came to its legitimate
end with the administration of the latter but the machn
cry fell into the hands of selfish and unprnepled men,
who used it advance their paltry interests at the
expense of the people. Under the lead of these men
the missouri COMPROMISED repealed mot matter
of justice the south, but they declared, to carry
out the prineipe of popular sovereignty" in the terri
tories and these men, casting aside the mask they
have worn long, clamorous for crushing oHt pop
ular sovereignty in sovereign States at the point of the
bayOnet
The next performance was to force Nsageryn on the
people of Kansas and large majority of members of
congress- politicians and newspapers Of the party that
supported popular sovereignty, and admitted slavery"
to be wrong, actually sustained president Buchanan's
preposerous scheme for admitting that deecable
munity into the Union as shave State, in order to
settle the question! Indeed this Journal which never
supported the humbug of popular sovereignty and that
holds Slavery to be right always and everywhere,
where the people desire it, was perhaps the only demo-
cratic journal in the northern States that principle,
repudiated Lecomptonsm for while Forney's press and
others who bitterly attacked it, influenced merely
by hatred to the administration opposed because
ityiOlatedthe fundamental principles government
OF coarse the south had 20 suffer for all this folly hum
bug and corruption Of the northern politicians who
affiliated with it, and there being effort made to set
the people right, except what the DayBook has DONE
the majority at the north went heGdlong into the sup
port of Lincoln and to punish the south for sins com
mtted alone by their northern allies The people
tired and disgusted their patience utterly exhaust
ed with compromises and soyer
eighty Lecompton &c-and the result is, the election
of president who is not merely sectional, but whose
principles fatally and forever at war with the union
of these States N, Y. Day Book.
There is a rumor that the Zouaves regiment from
Louisiana have refused to farther than Montgom
erv until they have received their pay. We hope this
report is not true; but if it is the Confederate
government will disband them Immediately. Nemust
confess that we have particular fancy for these foreign
names, or adopted by our black republican enc
mics If our own citizens form themselves into regi
ments let them adopt American names-something
indicating home attachments and not ape either foreign
names manners; and if foreign cities choose to
form themselves into regiments, so us be associated
with each other, let them at least adopt which
indicate that they in earnest in our cause.
We earnestly desire citizens, and ALL to join
in dsCoCntenancng everything in practice,
aIing or following foreign customs, and to encourage
everything tending to southernise army. Broken
down circusuen and yankee itinerants, will be peram
buating country, reapng rich rewards from
and enthusiastic people, unless set our faces
against all such humbuggery and charatansn; and we
hope people will at refuse countenance,
courage or patronISo then and keep their money fora
better cause.
Some persons here in Mississippi seem to be impatient
at what they deem culpable delay the part of the
Confederate States in prccipitang decisive battle
Such persons seem to think that campaigns can be
planned in hour, and executed in day little re-
Election will convince that great military combinations
necessarily slow in development. Reflect upon the
ten thousand acts to be performed in armng equipng
transporting, and drilling troops and will be that
every thing is going proSperouSy. Have patience,
good lriend we will fog vile oppressors soon enough
In this connection remark, that there are certain
chmney-cOrner generals, sitting down at home, who
have procivity for censurng certain military move
ments. They free to declare, ''ths is wrong
that ought certainly to be DONE Warlike operations
and military combinations constitute great whole-a
mighty system, scientifically planned, each part con-
nected and all looking to final results to be produced
by the working out of the SYSTEM Much of the plan
necessarily secret 1t is absurd, therefore, for mere
civilian initiated in the details OF the campaign, and
skilled in military SCIENCE to be lavish in censurng that
which he has not eomprehended and thus impugn the
capacity of the noble chieftans who guide armies
through the perilous conflict in which are engaged
Let all have faith and confidence in government
and hoping that all is for the best zeaously aid in the
glorious work il which We are engaged.
Vicksburg Wing
FROM FORTRESS MoNRoE.-The Baltimore South says:
The Steamer Adelaide arrived this morning from
fortress Monroe but she brings but little additional in
ellgence. The State Of Georgia arrived there yester
day with the first regiment of New York State militia
Col. Allen, which added to Gen Buffers forces.-
Two propellers of the Ericsson line also landed number
of horses and gun carriages sent by way of Perryyle
The soldier charged with ravishng young lady near
fortress Monroe has been convicted and shot His name
and the other particulars of the case other than those
already given, unable to Obtain in consequence
of the efforts used confne all knowledge of the facts
within the garrison.
General Butler returned on Tuesday night 10 Newport
News point superntend the erection of batteries there
and to survey the surrounding country with view to
the possessing himself of other prominent positions
From the remarks made by the troops the fortress
it is believed to be the intention of Gen Butler to land
his forces ay0cean View, Hampton roads, some six
miles from SewelIs point, and ten from Norfolk At
this point there is fine sandy beach, and the guns of