1850 Secession Editorial by the Farmerville "Enquirer", earliest known newspaper of Union Parish Louisiana
Submitted by:       T. D. Hudson
Date of Submission: 12/2008

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1850 Secession Editorial by the Farmerville "Enquirer", earliest known newspaper of Union Parish Louisiana

From the "Trenton State Gazette" (New Jersey), issue of 16 September 1850
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                         Northern Louisiana and the Union.

    The Farmersville Enquirer, a democratic paper publised [sic] in Union Parish, 
on the Arkansas line, contains a long and able editorial on Southern ultraism. -- 
Its conclusion we commend to those politicians out of this state, who so often 
pretend to speak for Northern Louisiana:

"The Georgia papers may "save their breath to cool their" secession porridge, or 
perhaps to blow into flames the more moderate spirits of the majority of their own 
well-judging fellow citizens. Louisiana - we will answer for North Louisiana, at 
least - will never be found wanting in the defence of her own rights or those of 
the South. But she is not to be schooled in her duties to the South, to the Union 
and to herself, by the hot-brained advocates of violent and revolutionary remedies 
for political evils, which would readily yield to gentler treatment. She knows her 
rights, "and knowing dares maintain them;" and if the bitter moment comes, when 
the Constitution shall cease to be a barrier against the encroachments of fanatics 
and higher-law-men, she has the means and the will to throw herself into the safety 
of the South. But until the moment arrives she begs her sister states to remember 
that an honest difference of opinion is not treason, nor weak sumbission [sic], 
and that, within the Constitution the will of the majority is the law of the land."



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