Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-04-06

COMING RouND.-Ohce in a while our sol
id contemporary, the .Mvocate, comes ou' VII
a candid Acknowledgement. During the ,as'
Presidential canvass, the supporters of Bel
and Everett were denounced as ULion shrek.
ers by the Breckinridgers, because they be
lieyed that the enforcement Of the laws mn.
der the Constitution, was a sufficient guaran-
tee for the Southern States in the Union; and
more particularly were theydenounced as SUBJ
rissionists and the like. when they voted fo'
cooperation delegates to the defunct State
Convention. No matter how much we denied
the charge of being :submissionists,' Union
at any price men, etc, it was kept fasteEed
upon us until the election was over, and even
for some time after it was over. The .Adro-
cate played a { good hand at that game as its
readers we'll remember. Well! the Adrocate
comes round at last. and, like a clever sheet
denies that there has ever been a Union party
per Sc in Louisiana since the Presidential cleo
ton. Says that PAPER:
Thee has never been a Union party per Sc
in Louisiana since the Presidential election
The cooperationists here were in no sense a
Union party. They were for secession when
ever, after q consultation with all the slave
holding States. il was ascertained that no con-
ces>ions or guarantees con'd he obtained
from the North to the South. They would
not have touched the Crittenden compromise
- with a fo,ty-feet pole; )" thew would have
spurned, and do spurn the Peace Conference
report. and had they been in the majority in
the Convent on when Mr.. Lincoln's %Inaugu-
raj was received, their first act would have
been the passage of a Secession Ordinance
Ii the Press AID its Black Republican allies
think they can make an unconditional Union
party Of such material. we pity them for the
blind deIusion into which they have faIle,..-
Over half Of those elected as coore rationists
land We refer here to our own representatives
with a feeling Of p~Ieasure) voted for the Ordi-
nance Of Secession as affairs then presented
themselves. Hvaing done so. they now give
cordial and true allegiance to the Confederate
Government. Any expectation that they will
even betray or desert the fortunes of that Gov
eminent is an idle dream.
Thank you. Mr.. Adcocate! it was kindly
said Of you. You are more than right in your
conjectures. Not ten in a hundred who vot-
ed and labored so ardentIy in the cooperation
cause, would, now that we are out of the
Union, go back into it under any cilcumstsn-
ces-certainIy not while Mr.. Lincoln occu-
pies the Presidential chair. We were seces-
sionists, as much asyou and others we've, from
the beginning, but we wanted to 90 a bout it
in a different manner. We were for cooper ,
alton with all the slave States in the great
move for a separation from the free States. if
possibIe,-faiIins in this, then, we were will
ing to try separate State action. Such was the
programme, as We understood it. We think
our plan of action was, decidedly, the better
one, because a consultation with the other
slave States before taking action. would. in
our opinion. have brought them out with us.
AS it is. they have reason to complain of neg.
iect and Indifference on our part. The tide (
of secession is. however. working in the bor-
States. aud soon will they begin to find
that their best friends are in the secehe,
States. Their joining with US is but a ques-
Of time.