Note 148 — Chapter II
Reading edition
An excerpt from St. Mary’s Banner of Sept. 15 corroborates the statement which is often made of the planter’s indifference to politics. “Never did planters of this country show such devotion to business, such singleness of purpose to make money, and such utter want of interest in all things save crops, as at the present time.”
It is to be regretted that none of the regular parish papers were available, but we are fortunate enough to catch many reflections through the editorial bickering in the columns of the city papers, which give us fairly accurately the position and spirit and consequent influence in molding public thought of each. Members of Congress accommodatingly brought in many excerpts in the course of debate. We scarcely need the files of the Shreveport Times, thanks to the assiduity of Morton and the Radicals in quoting it.