Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-11-17

the feelings OF lndlgnatloh, aiio
Of stern determination, with which the
announcement of Lincoln's election has
been received all through the South: III
1ignation at the contemptuous insult
thus flung deiantly in our faces, n de-
termination on our part not to brook the
insult or the wrong.
The North has dared to test our man
hood and u might. She has persisted
in her mad career, until forbearance on
our part was beginning to be regarded
as a proof of p~usillanimity. On the
North, then, falls the odium of having
commenced the severance of this once
glorious Republic: as on her will surely
devolve the ruin, the loss, and the sui
fering.
Some of our sister States have already
taken the ~initiatory steps towards CALI
ing q convention of the Southern States
in which the future of the South is to DC
deliberated on and determined. We are
too well aware of the feelings OF Lou
isiana. to doubt for a moment that she
will hesitate long as to the course to be
pursued in the present emergency. In
deed, we arc credibly informed, that our
patriotic Governor has already deter
mined to convoke the Legislature, as
soon as practicable, for the purpose OF
taking measures to meet the Importance
of the crisis.
In the mean time, let u %parishlon-
ers prepare to face the event, whatever
it may be, with prudence, firmness, and
resolution. We are delighted to see, on
the part of our late opponents in this
State, unmistakable signs of their fealty
to the South, and of their readiness to
unite with the supporters of Brcckln-
ridge to repel any dangers with which
the South may be menaced. If the true
men of the South are only united, they
can laugh to scorn all the insane threats
and efforts Of their enemies.
True, those enemies have rippled the
summer calm of our previous existence
as a people. They may compel us to the
exercise of some of the sterner virtues
of patriotism, which, though latent for a
length of time, our foes will find to their
cost, await but the word of order 10
fame into vehement existence. And first
among those virtues, the one that we
are Immediately called on to put il
practice, as tending the most to discom
fort and defeat our enemies, is domestic
economy-the determination to live as
much as possible within our means II
food, apparel, and manufactures. So fa'
as food is concerned, it has been a mat
ter Of reproach to every planter who has
failed, in. this teeming land, to rais'
enough for the support Of his family ant
plantation: as to raiment and manutac
tured articles, Europe a furnish u
more cheaply than the North, if we fee
disinclined to embark ourselves, in tn
; industries which produce them. Durin!
the struggle, however, before our inde
1 pendence is established. it should be tn
!. pride of every son Of the South to dis
pense with foreign and effeminate luxl
ries, and dress himself in the cloths fuI
. nished by domestic looms.
In every aspect in which we can IT
gard our position, we can not see tbs
we have occasion for any extraordinar
exertion of vigilance, sacrifice, or effol
to carry US triumphantly through til
present crisis. The North would hav
everything to lose, and nothing to gail
in attempting to keep any large numbe
) Of seeding States in the Union, again'
! their will or interest. Greeley, in a la1
number Of the Tribune, familiar, wit
out doubt, with the feelings of his frien
Lincoln on this subject, intimates th'
the attempt would not be made to cor
pei the Southern States to remain in ii
+ Union. Both are too sagacious not
t. see that it would be worse than val
q, The Abolitionists will be satisfied tn
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