Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-09-18
L1vasIa, La, Sept. 18th, 1858.
Once more upon the waters! Yet once more.n

months Of dubious effort, in the sever
times heated furnace, the onnipotenct
Of determined will has overcome all the
~terrors which disinterestel frNndshiip, 81
gratuitous!y offered, upon the first init
nation, that the Democrat was a politi
cal necessity in Pointe Coapcc.
Certainly we mayregard its establish
ment and success up to this moment, as
a triumph Of the "systcm Of rules fol
regulating the actions of men," which
must exercise a preponderating mau,
ence upon pseudo politicians and editors,
III every political family difficulty which
may hereafter arise and excite to dis
~ruption the great brotherhood Of Democ'
racy.
There were a few, at one time, will
ling to concede the practicability or
even possibility Of success depending
upon its establishment. The fears en-
tertained by many, whose opinions were
entitled to consideration, that such an
event would create a rupture in the
! ranks of the hitherto invincible Democ-
racy which might ultimate in defeat, and
the thousand and one other objections
which were then urged to dampen and
dismay the few who were unwilling to
be dictated to, by the still fewer, in the
government and arrangement of their
own household, have all melted away
like the morning mist before q er
sun, and we contemplate with pleasaE-
able emotions that the corner stone, aye,
the very key stone itself, of the arch, is
laid, which shall support a proud struc-
ture, monumental of a heroic devotion
to principle and party customs, at an
hour when even hope itself seemed fed
and with a crazed compass and chart,
we were lost in the thick gloom which
everywhere surrounded US.
In the dignifed equanimity which has
marked your course towards some of
your cotemporaries, when with clenched
fists they rendered unwilling congratu-
l%ations, we discover the qualities for
successful journalism; and your immoy-
able disdain when charged with being
the organ Of any individual or clique, is
happily refuted by your silent contempt.
We see nothing in the future career
of the Democrat calculated to obscure
the fair prospects which its own energy
and industry have opened before it. On
the contrary, there is much to incite it
onward. Thsre are many affecting and
greyious errors in our social, POLITICAL
and moral status, which will, doubtless
in due time, be passed in review byyour'
local reporter. For the nonce we can
only wish you many prosperous years,
and a rich f~ruition. for your labors and
difficulties, conscious that in future po-
litical contests all your devotion and tai
ent will be enlisted for the success of
the principles you advocate, by unequiv-
ocally sustaining the nominees Of all le-
gitimate Democratic conventions.
Removed as we are here from the din
and turmoil Of the inner world, it is no
Easy matter to find the clements for
forming a readable letter, for those, who
like yourself, are favored with a "local
llabitation and a name0 in the metropol-
itan city of the Parish. Livonia how
ever, is girding on her armor and pre-
pairing to contest your proud assump-
ton. There are many Pointe Coupee-
ians WHO once knew this, only as a ia
voritc hunting ground, but those who
even ten years since were thoroughly
convcrsant with its ~impenetrable forests
and cane-brakes, would now be at a loss
to point out the land marks which guild
ed them in the chase, before the ever
restless Anglo-Saxon sought to make
these wildernesses the abode of festive
civilization.
The rapid influx of population bring
ing with them elevated ideas and adj
venterous spirits from almost every
Southern State, where science and i'm
proyement have successfully overcome
the inconvenience Of border life, brings