Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-24
From the B. r. Advocate, 10th inst.
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have been consummated but for The
fact that traitors hold seats in the Con
gress of the United States by virtue o
Southern votes. Ricaud, Harris anc
Davis, of Maryland ; Underwood anc
Marshall, Of Kentucky ]; and Gilmore, o
North Carolina, are the dclectable South
side champions of Black Republicanisn
and superscrviceable confederates oi
the Colfaxes, Burlingames and Gidd.
ingses in their schemes to place upon
the neck of the South the yoke of politi-
cal ~vassalage. That their alliance with
the s~ectionalists of the North has effect
ed the overthrow of the policy Of the
South in reference to the Kansas contro-
versy, no Il will deny, with the damning
proof blazing upon the records. 1t was
in their power to have secured the sue
cess of the great Peace measure of the
Administration, when the test vote on
Kansas was taken in the House. Long
before the issue came up for the definite
solution Of the roll call, rumor had dis
covered a conspiracy between those
traitors and the Black Republican
leaders. Very few indeed were credul-
Gus enough to con6de in the truth of
these insinuations-so infamous and
degrading to the character and rcputa-
ton of a Southern Representative. The
South doubted it, because she thought
her sous would be animated with a vigi-
liant loyalty, proof against policy and
corruption in this crisis of her history,
and true to her honor and welfare. The
North doubted it because she was Ma
ble to believe that a man representing
a Southern constituency could have the
Ehardihood and turpitnde to disregard
Esald thwart the demands of an u%nbroken
Southern sentiment. But the events of
the last few days have shown how the
trust of the South has been betrayed,
and the morose incredulity of the North
changed into iubilant reliance by the
conduct of these new tlcdged Arnolds.
Both North and South were surprised
at the descrtion. On the day of trial
they were to the South what Grouchy
was to Napoleon, and to the North what
Butcher was to Wellington, on the field
of Waterloo. They have covered the
one with the elnbarrassments of disas-
ter, and the other with the exulting
powers of triumph. The South, after
years of anxious and patriotic toll, was
on the eve of beholding her construc-
ton of the territorial political policy OF
the Federal Government acknowledge
ed and Incorporated into the practical
agencies of that instrument, when her
expectations were suddenly foiled and
destroyed by the recreancy of men to
whose care she had delegated her honor
and interests. Black Republicanism
was contemplating, in the agony of des-
pair, the sunset Of its hopes and i'm
pending dissolution, when the treache-
~ of this squad Of Southern Know
Nothings, like the magic Of the Arctic
Elf, changed in a moment, the gloom of
the sunset into the glories Of an immor-
tai Aurora.
We do not think it within the COM
pass of ingenuity to suggest a plea
could %extennate the enormity of
their conduct in this matter. The great
question was too fairly stated in all it's {
Importance to he misapprehend
ed. The side issues which Douglas has
to force into the controversy,
should not have misled any Southern
Representative. They were but the
common devices Of a common dema-
to propitiate the favors of that {
whose smiles abet the political I
'ortunes of those who have the feuerish 7
ambition, but not the ability, to deserve G
,uccess. His seat In the Senate-not -,
he principles which should guide the t
Territorial policy of the Federal Gov
,rnment-has been the cardinal object t
of his solicitude. How, then, can :
,hese Southern Representatives Justify t
heir utilization with the enemies Of their L
constituencies? E
During a recent debate in Congress, )
he following responses to a direct in a
JURY from me Of the Representatives s
rom the South, were made from the $
,hiefs Of the Black Republican party =
Mr.. Farnsworth-So help me God, an
'ther slave State shall not enter the
Union by my vote. ,
Mr.. Giddings-I will never consent !
hat Ohio shall associate with another :
lave State. q
Mr.. Bingham will not vote for the +
Omission Of a slave State-certainly
ot. \
Mr.. Colfax-I would not vote for the
of Kansas, # the whok people
ane here nth a Slare Constitution. i
%&A 4
The opposition to the admission Of I
lansas from the North was animated J
with the motives these avowals t
~isclose, and we cannot but ascribe the
anne sentiments to its Southern oppo- n
ents. We must assigna, common pur- !
ose to the conspiracy which has SO far '