Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-03-05
Special Correspondence of the Democrat

comprising the parishes OF AvoyelEcs,
| Pointe Coupce and West Baton Rouge,
nassed the Senate after an animated de-
bate. in which the "indefatigabIc Scna-
tor" took part, and voted against upon
the final passage. It may, however,
finally pass, in order to effect a recon
citation, and put an end to the present
disgraceful condition of Legislative al
fairs, as the House of Representatives.
appears to be acting upon the motto Of
Hut Cesar, aut Mill.
l have been permitted to copy the fol
lowing extract of a private letter from
one of our most distinguished men III
New Orleans, relative to the present
condition of 4 large number Of slaves
who were emancipated according to the
mawkish spirit prevailing among a GER
tain class Of Southern people. The
white heirs, who ought to have been in
possession Of a handsome property and
independence, are now in nccessitous
circumstances and have to labor for
their daily bread. The writer says,
speaking Of the present condition Of
those emancipatcd Liberians:
"They are crying for bread, they are
suffering for clothing, they have no place
to lay their heads, and are in daily ter.
rors of being sold to the French, if they
have not already been sold, (as Madame
Rumor says they have been, and are
under hard task-mastcrs in the West
Indies.) But when last heard from,
automatically, their American supplies
Of clothing and provisions had become
exhausted, and they were crying for
bread, and suffering for clothing, and no
place to lay their heads. They were
crying to com" home to their mistress,
and to serve her as faithful slaves all
their lives. Men, women and children
were all crying to come home to their
loving mistress. They say they never
wanted to leave her, and call on the
tears they shed at parting, to bear wit
ness they left their loving mistress
against their wills. She, poor woman,
had weak ncrycs-the orators of a
| great Northern dclusion ~overpowcrcd
| them. Her nerves were too weak to re-
sist that oratory poured forth from a
| Southern forum. She said, will free
them, and send them to Liberia, to make
them instruments in cirM>ing and Christ
mni=ing tenigAtcd dfrica! The negroes
did not wait to go, out they made them
go. 1t was all u dclusion! Having no
mistress to work hand-work for them,
and guide them as the compass guides
the mariner, they could not so forward
in the pathway of civilization and pro-
gress, but have taken the back track
into heatlenism and barbarism, as all
Africans have to do, who have no white
pilot to guide them
Truth is really stranger than fiction,
and here we have a most %lanentable
picture Of those utopian projects of Af-
rican emancipation. Our people will
not seek the truth relative to this great
and important subject of the natural
condition in which God in his wisdom,
ever since the morning stars sang tog-
ether, has placed this people. All ex'
perience shows, you might as well en-
deayor to make All Arabian horse out oil
an alligator, as to raise to peculiar class
of bipeds to the ranks of a true and en-.
lightened civilization. And yet we are
daily flooded with Northern trash, to
prove to us that we are committing a
great moral wrong in keeping them in
subsection. And when a Southern book
is offered, such as the "Southern Insti.
%tutes," by Sawyer member of the
Louisiana bar-giving a complete and
concise history of the institution Of slav-
cry, in all ages and throughout all coun-
tries, written also in a style suitable to
the plainest comprehension, and meet
ing and refuting all the objections OF
Northern fanatics, not one in ten appear
to care about purchasing the work, and
there are am sorry to say it-therc