Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-10-08
THE DEMOCRAT.
Special Correspondence of the Democrat
NEw ORLEANS, Sept 90, 1859.

The many friends Of that good oil,
paper the Courier, will learn with pleas
ure that its late long sleep was merel,
Rip Van Winkle affair upon limitet
scale, and not that "eternal sleep ,
which theologians talk so much about
when they speak of the horrors of the
i French Revolution. 1t made it's appear
ance on Sunday, the 18th inst, reiuvi.
n1zed i'll every respect, with the name
OF Emile HIrlart as its editor. Mr.. Hi
, rlart is creole of West Baton Rouge
Ills father was Frenchman by birth,
put was here at the time of the cession
OF louisiana, and was ALWAYS q thor
ooSh and enthusiastic Democrat. For
many years he represented the country
comprising the parishes of West Baton
Rouge and Pointe Coupec in the State
Senate, and was always warm parti.
san of Gen. Jackson. As was the
father, so is the son, warm, impulsive
democrat, generous as impulsive, and
extremely sensitive upon all points
touching truth and honor. Those most
Intimately acquainted with him, repre-.
sent that his knowledge of the English
language is quite thorough, and his flow
OF language easy and copious; qualities
not often or easily attained by those
whose maternal tongue is of different
origin.
That large commercial city like
New Orleans, in which a considerable
majority of the legal voters are Demo
Gratis, should be without an exponent of
the sentiments and principles of the
party, is an anomaly in the history of
American cities and American Journal
ism. 1t has been the misfortune of
every Democratic journal that has ever
existed here, to have the commerciai
class of the community arrayed agains:
it. And so constant and unyielding
has been this opposition, that even those
who were brought up in the Democratic"
fold, and who had imbibcd Democratic
principles from their ancestors, when
once they hung out their banner as
commission merchants, Or bccama in
any way connected with banks, Mi
das-like change seems to have come
over them, tinging whatever they touch
ed with an unnatural hue, so that even
they too would abandon the Democratic
journals and give all their patronage to
those of the Opposition. And that is
one of the main causes why the Opposi-
ton journals have grown rich and pow
erful, whilst the Democratic press, after
a lingering existence, has died from
want of natural sustcnance
There is nothing, there can be moth
ing antagonistical to trade, commerce,
manufactures, agriculture, and Democ-
racy. On the contrary, the present
condition of our country,
financial, commercial, and in all the cle-
ments that constitute a great and indie
pendent nation, has been attained by
pursuing Democratic principles in line
of policy as marked out by Jefferson,
Jackson, and Polk. No commercial
revolution, no bank panic, has ever grown
out of Democratic principles or policy;
and whenever those moral earthquakes
have moved the foundations of society
to the centre, spreading alarm and dis
tress among all classes of the communi-
y, Democracy could stand up with bold
'front.', and with truth proclaim:
"Thou canst not say did it!
Shake not thy CORY locks at me.'
In the city of Nashville, Oh Vine street,
near the gorgeous Corinthian capitol Of
the "Volunteer State" the passing tray
eler may observe upon a marble tablet
which covers the mortal remains of cx-
President JAS T. Polk, an inscription,
of which the following is an extract. 1t
IS given because it appears appropos to
The subject in hand: "By his public pol
cy he defined, established and extended
the boundaries of his country; he plant
I'd the American laws on the shores Off
Tho Pacific. his Influence and his conn