Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-02-11
The New Advertisement.

the 10Th ult, IN relation to the apportlonmen
law, then under discussion before the joint com
mittee of the two houses Of the General Assem-
bly,. AS our correspondent truly stated, on
parish (Lafourche,) has been united with st
Charles, and form one district to elect one Sen
ator. This proposition was made in committee
by one of the representatives from the parish o
Assumption, the Hon. W. W. Pugh, who here
tofcre has been highly esteemed by his constit
uents, both wing and democrat, for his grea
sincerity, uprightness and disinterested politi
cal opinions. Although democrat, he had ev
the magnet to the pole, to the dictates of JUS
tice, and nothing could swerve him from JUS
appreciation of right, no matter if detrimental
to the interest of the party to which he belong.
ed. But two years apprenticeship to the
Slidell clique, has served to blast his hitherto
spotless name, and he now stands forth among
clan of political wire-workers. an ardent
advocate Of the principle, that sTo the victors
belong the spoils." 5 ~. ;
| Had the great Sanhedrim of the Democracy
| proclaimed it in voice as loud as the roaring
Of Niagara, and accompanied with an oath as
solemn as solemnity itself, we should even have
been disposed to doubt that the Hon. W. W.
Pugh, of Assumption, had sold himself to a
party, and urged the adoption of measure to
perpetuate the interest of that party; nor would
it have been believed by his most bitter enemy.
But, alas, how sadly have we been deceived in
our opinion of the man. Instead of finding
him, as we had ever been disposed to believe,
an honest upright politician his recent course
has shown him directly the reverse-an ardent,
red mouth out-and -outer-one who would be
guilty of any act-no matter how politically I'M
fair, for the sake of party, and nothing for the
interest Of the people But let us return to the
Senatorial districts as they stand under the
newly gerrymandered apportionment law, and
leave the Hon. Mr.. Pugh, to the harrassings of
his own conscience, as he no doubt inwardly
feels that he has been chiefly instrumental in
the passage Of law which may with justice be
styled the blacklist and most Ubiquitous that
stands recorded in our statute books; one so
deeply dyed that it was even revolving to the
sensibilities of two members Of the party which
conceived it and brought it forth, and they con-
sequently voted against its adoption. Well has
it been said that when injustice is projected that
the common sense of freemen Yevolts, but so
powerful are the influences of locofocoism, that
every thing like the former is soon lost sight of
and sacrificed for the interests and the advance
ment of the latter.
A more wonton violation of the peoples will,
stands not on record than the severing of the
Lafourche parishes, which have acted together
politically, from the first formation of the State
government. Formed out the same territory,
peopled and settled by the same class of people,
their interests are IDENTICAL their feelings con-
genial, and their political predictions one and
the same. Was ever monstrosity so great-pub-
lie justice so outraged-the will of the people SO
disregarded, as the severing of these people, and
uniting them with those who are as estranged
to them as their antipodes? And why was all
this done! Why, simply with the view Of put
ting Assumption, the parish which the Hon. Mr..
Pugh, in part misrepresents, in more congenial
position. A position where the democracy, par
excellence, may have a showing to elect him, we
suppose, to again nisrepresent the people in the
august Senate Of Louisiana. The separation of
the Lafourche parishes, is like the seyering of
husband and wife, after raising large family,
simply because they differ in their religious
opinions.
1t is urged in extenuation of this most base
political monstrocity, that the parishes of La
fourche and St. Charles, are contiguous to each
other. If We are to be guided by the map, we
admit the fact; but if we are to be guided by
things as they actually exist, they are not at
least in the sense which those who advance this
argument imply. It is well known to the peo-
pie Of our parish, and equally rs well known to
the people Of the parish of st. Charles, that
there is no communication between the two, ex-
cept by the Mississippi river; and although our
terraqueous borders join one another, we have
to travel some eighty odd miles before we can
hold converse. And on the other hand SO far
as convenience is concerned, we might as well,
have been put with the parish of Calcasieu, un-
less we provide ourselves with water proof boots,
pants, and a life preserver, with which to ira
verse the bottomless swamp which separates our
territories, and renders our people as ignorant
Of each other as we are Of the great Mogul.
As this bill is now the law Of the land, It is
futile to kick against it; but still, it is the duty
as well as the privilege Of all honest citizens to
speak Of it in those terms Of denunciation which
its iniquities call forth, and which eyince in
the clearest manner, that there is no injustice
too bare faced to be enacted by the democracy
now ut Baton Rouge no deviation from the le-
climate barriers Of party organization, too in
famous to be countenanced. Our legislators in
these days Of "reform, have but one object in
riew-power; and nothing will they leave I'M
done that viii in any wise contribute to the con-
summation Of that important desideratum. Is it
even presumable, that had the Hon. Mr. Pugh,
consulted the wishes Of his constituency in the
premises, that they would have sanctioned the
tearing assunder Of the Lafourche parishes, and
uniting them with river s,ar;shea IN the forma