Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-04-28


Even this redress would be entirely inadequate,
as all the lands wrested from them ny the VIOLA
ton of acts of CongAss, are as rich as any on
the banks of the river, Xnd the very use OF them
has made mems fortunes.
All of which is humbly submitted to the Wis
dom and business Of Congress:
The Committee to whom this memo
rial was referred, was SO completely
convinced of it's justice that they did
not hesitate a moment, but at once In
structed the Commissioner OF the Land
Office to cancel the sales which had been
made, and to return purchasers their
purchase money but believing that
under the Act of 1914, the Commissioner
was bound to issue a patent, they did
not think further Legislation necessary.
Notices were issued that the sales had
been cancelled, and purchasers were no.
tilted to take back their money; many
did so, but others having made valuable
improvements on the lands, refused to
return their certificates and receive back
their money. In 1874 Or As, the Com
missioner of the General Land Office is
sued a patent. AS soon as it became
known that a patent bad issued, a petit
ton was gotten up, and sent to the
Capitol, charging that Col. Preston had
obtained the patent by fraud! and that
the Commissioner had been bribed!
We have heretofore given a detailed
history of this claim, and have only re-
peated the foregoing, for the purpose OF
showing our Pointe Coupee cotempo-
rary, that in his assaults upon Messrs.
Slidell and Benjamin, he has hit, with
equal force, other "~high-minded and
honorable" gentlemen, who are incapa-
bic of a mean or d]ishonorable act. In
the paragraph just quoted, he hits the
present Vice President a most unde-
served blow. You nominate Col. Pres
ton for Vice President, and say he is
above the meanness THAT H MEN NOW
IN OFFICE resort to for the purpose OF
continuing their d~epredations upon the
public" We can scarcely believe that
our contemporary really means to charge
that GALL the men now in Office" are
guilty Of meanness, or that they are
committing depredations upon the pub.
lie; yet his language a bear no other
construction.
We have somewhere read that in the
bright, warm isles which gem the ORR
entail seas, and are kissed by the fiery
sun of the tropics; where the Glove, the
cinnamon, and the nutmeg grow; where
the torrid atmosphere is oppressed with
a delicious, but fierce and intoxicating
influence; that there the spirit of man
partakes of the same spicy qualities
which distinguish the productions of the
soil. Even as the rinds of their fruits
split open with natures rich excess, so
do the human passions burst forth with
an overwhelming violence. An indi-
vidual becomes SO full of fight that he
can no longer contain it; accordingly,
he arms himself, and rushing out in the
streets, wounds and Stays indiscrimi-
nately among the crowd. 1t is true that
this exploit, which is called running
a muck" always results III the death of
the person performing it, the people of
the country entertaining the foolish no
ton that it is too expensive a mode of
cultivating national bravery. In our
cold, ungenial cline, such sport is rare
ly ever INDUCED in. But, the wild as
saults Of the anti-Administration men
upon call the men now in Office" is an
undeniable proof that they are running
a muck, in politics at least; their fate
fear, will be no better than the fate
of the fiery men of the spicy isles-they
will be, politically, killed, the people
having a foolish fancy that at least SOME
of those now in Office are quite as hon
est, and are much better Democrats,
than those who Islander them.