Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-04-21
from the Baton Rouge Advocated
The October Elections.

No elections held since the foundation
of the Government were ever invested
with so much interest as are those tor
State officers, in October next, in Penn
~sylvania, Indiana and Ohio. Even the
Presidential struggle which follows
close after will pale into comparative
insignifcance by side Of the momentous
anxiety involved in the result in these
States. The two great parties OF
the country have just measured their
strength in two of the New England
States, resulting in a victory to each,
The tremendous struggle in Connecticut,
where the battle was won by the Re-
publicans, left that party exhausted
with the effort. Although the Democ-
racy were defeated, their foe has ex-
hausted his resources, and it is doubtful
whether he will be able to pursue his
advantage with sufficient vigor to pre-.
vent our discomfttcd friends from rally
ing in November and driving him from
the field which he so dearly gained in
the present month. Rhode Island did
better, and we think the result there on
the Sd is a pretty good indication of the
way Little Rody" will turn up in No
vember.
g. But these two States will be of little
service to the Charleston nominees
should Pennsylvania and Indiana go
for the Republicans in October. Ohio
we scarcely hope for, but her election
will, to a large extent, outline the d.
rection public sentiment is taking in the
Northwest.
GAS goes the Old keystone, so goes
the Presidency" is an old boast of the
Pennsylvanians. Never was there more
force in the application of the remark
than at the present juncture. She will
absorb the attention of thirty sister
States until the voice of her people be
proclaimed through the ballot box in
October. The friends of the Union and
of the Constitution rely upon her as did
Napoleon on the grand Old Guard" at
Waterloo. If she recoil and be swept
away by the guns of the enemy, nothing,
less than total rout and destruction may
be anticipated from our weak and dis
pirited forces in November.
Indiana, too, has her part to play in
the political drama in which her more
powerful rival is engaged. If with her
Willards, Brights, Pitches, H%ughcses,
and other talented leaders, she cannot
recover her ancient Democratic ground
nd check the enrolling wave of Adolf
tionism in October, she will surely add
her name to the list of States which in
the month following will carry a section
al Black Republican fanatic into the
Presidential chair. Let these two States
remember what is expected and hoped
of them. Let their able and popular
men reflect that hundred of thousands
of gallant hearts all over this broad
land are beating in sympathy with then
cause, and that their victory is our vic
tory, and their defeat our defeat. Let
the thought of this in the hour CT strife
encourage them to renewed exertion
let it plunge them with renewed ardol
into the hottest of the field, where the
strongest blows are needed most, and
where to faint or falter is to die.
The great Importance attaching to
f these State elections in October i'm
poses a duty on Southern orators and
statesmen which should not be UNDECIDED
!, The masses need information concerning
!, our institutions. The film of Black Re
%publicanism should be removed from
their eyes. They should be taught thai
Southern shareholders are not barbara
ans nor canDibals; that we are a civil
lied and humane people; that our public
men arc orators, statesmen and gentle
men, and that while we shall ever pro
tect our rights in our slave property
t we yet have no disposition or desire t.
t impose it upon them. This description
/ of information is greatly needed in Ohio
Pennsylvania and Indiana. Who s.
capable of spreading it among tn
masses as our own Southern statesmen
Why, then, shall not our Benjamin
Toombs, Stephens, Davis, Hunter, Wise
and hundreds like them from the Soutt
t don their armor and throw themselve
into the painfully doubtful struggl
d soon to be witnessed in these States
We know that their presence wonld b
e hailed with shouts Of joy by our hardl,
pressed friends, and we know also ths
their potent voices would not be witt
out the most favorable effect on the II
suit. They should, therefore, without
moments hesitation fly to the seer
e where honor calls and duty demand
their services.
8 Give us Indiana and Pennsylvania
d October and we shall secure the Pres
d dent in November. Turn them owe
r the enemy, and no mortal ken can pen
g. trate the future that lies behind tt
le ominous cloud overspreading u poll
c. cal sky.
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