Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-10-08
Special Correspondence of the Democrat
New ORLEANS, Oct. 5, 1859.
Enrr,p Dr.tocn, - u. -
EDITOR DEMOCRAT

Crescent City, The political game Of
euchre, which is now being played by
the two opposing parties, is more inter-
esting to those directly engaged in it,
than to. the spectators thereof. AS
Charley Drcux said last Saturday night
at the mass meeting of the 1ndepend-
cnts, held in the Fourth District: "Po-
~litical principles had nothing to do with
the present issue" And indeed he might
have added, that political principles
have had nothing to do with the vile
| party from it's first Initiation. 1t was
begotten in fraud, and brought forth in
foul corruption; and while pretending
to purity and patriotism, every devel-
opnent only goes to show the more WV
idly the putridity of its loathsomc car
cass, brought on by each successive act
of vile political harlotry. Dreux says:
"Therc may be some citizens Of foreign
birth who have taken one of the degrees,
but they could not take the others. To
get into the second degree a man must
be strictly native American, and into
the third degree no one gains admis-
sion but c~amd5dates!w He himself went
through the first and second, but could
not gain admittance to the third! The
members of the third degree divide the
Offices among themselves. He said the
whole platform of the party consisted
in "OHices, Dollars and Cents!" and
yet the party of which he speaks, and
of which he was long the chief sup
porter and ornament among the young
~creoles Of the State, is that party with
| which certain of the New-Liners have
Joined, with the outward motto on their
banners-"Thc office should seek the
man, and not man the office"
This Independent movement began in
the Fourth District, under the direction
of Recorder Adams. Stith, the Mayor,
and Summers, Recorder of the First
District, are at the head of the old K.
N. party, and were the country people
acquainted with the private character
of those two individuals, they would be
astonished that the citizens of this Me-
tropolis would endure such men in such
responsible situations. The police of
the Fourth District have nearly all
Joined the Independents, and az a CON
sequence, Mayor Stith has commenced
to dismiss them as disloyal to his K. n.
majesty. A citizen police has been
formed, and a collision or conflict of au-
thority will probably Don take place.
I should not be surprised if the power
of stith as Mayor should be placed at
defiance before the November elections.
fSAah a condition of affairs is to be de-
plored, as two wrongs can never make
a right; but it is a necessary conse-
quence of intense Americanism.
l have just heard of the death Of Col,
Philip Hickey, who departed this life at
his plantation in the parish of East Ba.
ton Rouge, on the LIST inst. He was
born at Fort Butte, or the village OF
Manchac, in l776-7, and was about SO
years of age at the time of his decease,
The turgid waters of the Mississippi
have long ago swept away every vestige
Of the place Of his nativity, which was,
at that period, the most important and
populous British post in West Florida,
Natchez excepted. His father, Daniel
Hickey, a native of Ireland, was an en-.
terprising trader, and had several YES.
sells employed in coasting from Mobile
and Pensacola to the British and Span
ish posts on the Mississippi, by way OF
the Manchac. 1t is from him that Port
Hickey, just below Port Hudson, takes
its name, as he was the owner of a con.
siderable tract of land there, which he
purchased from Brown, the British Gov
ernor Of West Florida. Few men have
led a more useful and active life than
Col. Hickey; and few have been more
universally beloved thanhc, by all class
es in the community where he lived dur
ing little short Of a century. The Span
ish Governors, Grandpic and Delasus