The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-11-01
REMEMBER /!

nominees, their party and themselves.
Remember that Oh your eXertlons de
pends the welfare of the great common
wealth which was added to tue Union
through Democratic policy by Demo
cratic President aud which has progressed
in population, wealth aud influence under
the sway of Democrats.
Remember the grand, broad, constitu.
tional principles which you maintain and
which your adversaries oppose.
Remember the centralizing, federalist
pulley of consolidation which has always
characterized our orponents--a policy
which would reduce us from our present
position Of a sovereign equal in federal
Union Of sovereignties to that of a pro-
vince governed by the central despotisnl
of an Irresponsible majority.
Remember the rights which the trainers
of our federal constitution reserved Ito
the States and to the people and remcm-
Der the insidious policy advocated by
Federalists, Wings, Know Nothings and
Black Republicans through which those
rights would melt away and lecome alb
sorbed in q great national centre from
whose autocratic DEGREES there would re-
main no appeal and from whose despot-
ism there would be no refuge,
Remember that it has been by Demo-
cratic administrations alone that new
States have been added to our Union aud
new territory for other States conquered
or purchased.
Remember, democrats Of southern state
that your party is the only one which
is both able and willing to guard your
domestic institutions from the relentless
hands Of Northern vandals, the only party
that both respects your constitutional
rights and possesses the power to compel
your adversaries to respect them also.
Remember that it is now an endorsed
and prominent aim of Democrats North
and South to acquire the island of Cuba
from a foreign monarchy and to remove
the foreign fortresses which now command
virtually the outlets Of the Mississippi !;
and remember that the parties which OPP
pose us also oppose this policy.
Remember that the members Of the gi.
gantic party headed by Seward and aided
by million Abolitionists are looking with
anxious eyes upon Southern elections and
gloating over every partial and local de
feat which Southern Democrats encoun-
ter that they consider every Southern
defeat of the Democratic party as half a
victory for themselves that they conn,
as much upon the Indirect aid of the
Southern opposition as they do upon the
direct support Of their own partsais in
New England.
Rcmember that the eyes Of Northern
Democrats are fixed upon us that our
union and unanimity give them encour-
agement while any dssension allong us,
specially when resulting in local defeats,
disheartens them in the attempt to sus-
tain our rights which we at home fail to
defend aud insist upon
Remember the narrow, mean. Illegal
and proscriptive tenets and the false,
stealthy, secret and mendacious tactics OF
the late Know Nothing party of whose
remnants the present Opposition party is
mainly composed.
Remember that in the persons Of nine
tenths of the candidates of the OPPOSE
ton you find men lately members ct a
party born from deceit, fed upon illiber-
atty and intolerance, waxing dangerous
from violence and only withheld from
political power by the patriotic and de-
voted lalWrs of Democrats.
Remember the blood that has been shed
in our larger cities by ruffians III the EN-.
ploy of the leaders of wigwams and the
shameful desecration Of the rights Of Am
erican citizens who Eave been driven from
the polls by the pistols, knives, slung-
shots and brass-knuckles of Know Moth
/ ing assassins.
Remember the foul, mean and murder
Gus gangs Of cut-tmoats raised, organized
AIMED, paid and shielded from justice BY
the Know Nothings Of Louisville, Balti
more and New Orleans.
Remember that from the Northern
bIanch of the Know Nothing party the
Black Republicans have acquired more
| th.,, h.lf ,,f thar fi,rmi,l u HE STRENGTH anC