Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-03-03

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Ba~As the question of the fitness OF
Mr.. Douglas for the Presidency, is this
day forced upon US, in our Parish Con
vention, by the Opposition, we shall
adopt him as the subject Of our editorial,
and then dismiss him, until the Charles
ton Convention shall have finally dis
posed Of him and his faction. We shall
then feel called upon to pen his politi~
cal obituary, and be done with him, we
hope, for ever.
Until the holding of the Cincinnati
Convention, Mr.. Douglass views towards
the South, so far as we know them, were
unexceptionable. But in that Conven-
ton, Mr.. Buchanan, a true and tried
friend of the South, came off the victor.
To this we owe his dogma Of squatter
sovereignty-a doctrine denounced and
condemned by his successful rival and
by the National Democracy everywhere,
but which has been preached and prop
agated by Mr.. Douglas, more as a dis
turbing element, than in the hope Of
ever seeing it adopted into the Demo
cratic creed. We firmly believe that it
Mr.. Douglas could have kept cool, and
had had time for reflection, he never
would have enounced 80 dangerous and
SO suicidal a principle. But when he
preached it he was bent more on annoy
ing, than on personal success. In the
whirl of political passion, he flung pru-
dence to the winds, and SO lost his only
chance of wei being President. And
now with this peculiar heresy, by which
he is distinguished from other leading
Democrats, he is coolly presented to US
by the Opposition Of Louisiana, not,
they say, in approval Of the principle,
but out of admiration of the man, and
as the only man that can possibly de.
feat the Black Republicans. We would
ask, so far as Southern rights are con
cerned, in what does he differ from the
Republicans? The latter profess to re
spect our rights as fixed in the States
but both alike disregard our rights il
the Territories. The only difference tina.
we can see is, that the former would no
. let us into, what they call their house
at all; while Mr.. Douglas would invite
us in, for the pleasure of afterwards
kicking us out. By both are our blood
bought rights scorncd and held a naught
That Southern men, Of any politica
stripe, should tolerate Mr.. Douglas, il
strange enough ; but that the States
Rights party par excellence should selec
him as a standard bearer, ~excites GU,
especial wonder.
If the Douglasites had succeeded, a.
they foolishly hoped, in revolutionizins
the State, their parish and State delega
tions would, without doubt, have bee,
charged to support Douglas "till til
crack of DOOM" We, on the other hand
it is to be hoped, have in our ranks man,
men, North and South, who if nominate
could t%riumphantly rally our party. An
although we think that the South is thi
time entitled to the candidate, still W
would send on our delegates untran
melted, and free to choose, without il
structions, save on one point, namely
to oppose, to the bitter end, Mr.. Dougla
and all other false Democrats who hav
participated in his opposition to tn
present Government OIL a question Q
vital Importance to the South.
HsJrAt n mass meeting of the Democ
racy of the parish Of West Baton Rouge
held at Rrnly I,andino. on the Doth nlt