Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-10-09
KENTUCKY ALL RIGHT.

the counties of Boone ard Kenton, XIV,
was held on the 2Sth August. 1t was &
gathering of thousands, and Vice Pres.
ident Breckenridge held the vast multi
tude enchaincd for hours by his match
less eloquence.
The resolutions bear his impress and
we congratulate the Democracy of Ken
lucky on their proud and patriotic po-
sition.
Let every Southern State respond to
the sentiments contained in the follow
ing resolutions, and let men of every
political faith give up their prejuliccs
and support the party which stands by
these principles.
the Union can only be preserved by
the National Democratic party, and we
hold it to be the duty of every man who
wishes to uphold our present form of
Government.
We endorse all the resolutions, and
the 9Th particularly, which is full of
patriotic heroism.
The following are the lst, 4th, 5th,
9th, 9th, and 18th resolutions:
Resolred, That the recent action of
Congress- in relation to the admission
of Kansas under the Lecompton Con-
stitution, and the course pursued by a
large majority of the members from the
Northern States in relation to it, in our
opinion, clearly indicate that the Tnion
is in iminent danger Of an early disso-
luton, and the States composing it of
civI a
4. Resolced, That it is the obvious con-
.struction, as it is the letter and spirit of
the Federal Constitution, that the States
composing the Union do hold and should
exercise all the powers of government
not clearly delegated to the General
Government, or reserved to the individ-
ual citizen; and that while we admit
that the government, State Or Federal,
has the power to appropriate to its use,
the private property Of the citizen,
when that use is necessary, for the pub
lie good, yet we maintain that no gov
ernment has tie power to annihilate
property and say that it shall no longer
exist in any particular subject, or that
the slave of a citizen shall go free, that
is one of the rights reserved to the in
dividual citizen.
5. Resolred, That it is the duty of the
Federal Government, to maintain invio-
late the persons and property of the
citizens Of the several States from tile
%aggressions of other States, or the citi-
zens thereof, as it is alike its duty to
protect them against the aggressions
and spoliations Of foreign powers, and
the citizens and subjects thereof ; to
maintain the latter doctrine we have
fought successfully through two foreign
wars; and to establish and maintain the
former earnestly and sincerely invoke
all peaceful means; get 1t must be done.I
what may, for without it the FEEDER
al Constitution which every good citi-
zen should cherish as the the apple oil
his eye,i is in practice a dead letter.
6. Resolved, That whilst we, as Ken
tuckians, are willing and do accord to
our Northern brethren all the rights as
citizens of the United States which we
claim for ourselves, we most frankly and
candidly declare that our interest, our
feelings and our sympathies are entirely
with the Southern people and their con-
struction Of the Federal Constitution;
and Notwithstanding a few individuals
among us may sympathize. with the
North in its present-position of antago-
nism to the spread of our peculiar insti-
tutions, yea with abolitionism itself; yeti
the heart of Kentucky is as wholly
Southern as any of her sister Southern
States; and should a dissolution of the
Union (which Heaven forbia) result
from agitation of the rugged issue
of no more Slave States. and wal en-
sue, she will be found, as she ever has
been, standing in the frount rank OIL
battle, her camp-6res will crown every
hill top, and her valient sons will fill
every valley from the Great Kanawah
on the East, to the Father OF Waters
the West, and the shore of. the beau
tiful Ohio will present one long line of
bristling steel as an impossible barrier
to an invading enemy.
9. Resolved, That we fully and cheer
fully approve of and endorse the disin-
terested and impartial course Of our pat
riotic Chief Magistrate, in the announce
ment of his views touching the admis-
sion of Kansas into the Union UNDER
the "Lecompton Constitution" and that
he is entitled to the lasting gratitude oil
the entire people for. the nationality off
his sentiments on that subject, and for
his exact justice to every section.
II. Resolred, That since Spain has for
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