Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-10-06
THE DE MOOR AT
P. A. ROY, Editor.
a Farmers View of the Presidential
Question.
OLDHAM COUNTY. KT.. Sept. Is. 1860

sireS the election OF Lincoln. His efforts
are to bring about that result. No can
did man North or South will deny it.
The only hope to defeat Lincoln is a
combination of all opposed to him in
Pennsylvania, New York and New Jer-
sey. In Pennsylvania this combination
was made by the State Central Commit
tee, appointed by the Convention, and
composed Of the most distinguished men
in the State Mr.. Douglas disavowed
it, and a faction headed by Forney has
nominated a Douglas ticket. In New
York, Mr. Douglas has refused all union
with the Breckinridge party, which in
sures that State to Lincoln. In New
Jersey, union ticket of all opposed to
Lincoln was formed by the Convention; :;
but Mr.. Douglas opposed it, and his
| friends nominated ticket, thus giving
that State to Lincoln. His policy seems
| to be to rule or rnin. His denunciations
of the South surpass or equal those of
Seward or Lincoln. Why is this -? Simply
because the South, with large portion
of the North, claim the equality of ali
the States in the ownership of the Ter
ritories Is it not strange that intelli-
gent and patriotic men in the South will
support Douglas, when all must know
he will not get one electoral vote in the
Union?
1t is stranger still that any Southern
man can be found to defend his doctrine
of Squatter Sovereignty, in defiance of
the decision of the Supreme Court. Garry
this creed into practice, and see how it
operates. Ny farm is in Oldham county,
Ky; The Ohio river separates it from
Indiana I and my neighbors on the
river have sons opposite in Indiana; we
have friends on the river who also have
sons None Of us are able to give one
hundred dollars per acre (the current
rate here) for land on which to settle
our children. They must emigrate to
find cheap lands. The young men in
| Kentucky and Indiana have been friends
from childhood They have played to-
getEer - hunted and fshed together,
gone to school, to parties and to church
| together, and now they desire to emf
CRATE together. The Indiana young
men receive from their fathers, cattle,
horses, money and other property. In
Kentucky we give our sons money,
horses, cattle, and few negroes. All
| these young men start for new home
in the Territories together, intending to
settle in the same neighborhood. When
they reach the border they are met by
the Squatters, who may Or may not own
foot of the soil and in another year
may live elsewhere. s..-.s
The young men from Indiana are al
lowed to enter the Territory. The Ken
tuckiaus are refused They ask the
reason The reply is, you own negroes
and the Squatters have passed laws ex-
Guiding them. You have just admitted
| the sons of Indiana. Does not Ken
tncky own the Territories as much as
! Indiana! Yes. Does not the Constitu-
ton give us the right to come here and
settle? Yes. Has not the Supreme
Court decided our right to be the same
as yours to settle here with our slaves
Yes. But we are superior to the Con.
stitution and the Supreme Court, and we
have passed laws excluding you and
your slaves, and we intend to enforce
them-so you may go back and settle
among yonr slave driving friends. This
| is revolution, and can any but dema
gogues be found in the South to advo'
cate it
Is it not in effect as rninous to the
South as the doctrines of Seward and
Lincoln +? If the South submit to it, there
will never be another slave State. The
FIRST settlers in Territories never own
slaves-these, with the aid CT Emigra
tion Abolition Societies in New England
will forever exclude slavery.
The aim is to condne slavery to its
present limits. IF this is done all car
i Coo that tho tina will como u-hnn tharf