Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-10-13
ArIn our last number, we appealed

kSeln our last NUMBER, we appeaicC
to the patriotism Of the few Douglas
men that we have among us, here ii
Poiute Coupee, conjnring them to fal
back into the ranks Of the true Democ
racy, and thus enable us to present a:
bold and broad u front as possible tt
the ~irrepressible contest with wIIicl' WI
are threatened by Mr.. Seward aud Mr.
Lincoln. And now, q word to the sup
porters of Bell and Everett.
/ OF whom, we wcnEd ask, is the Bel
party in this parish, and, indeed. every
where else in the South, composed? l,
was pretended that its organization was
to embrace the conservative and Union
loving of all shades of political opinion
If this was its object, it has failed de
plorably. Of Democrats, it has seduced
to its side none of either stripe. The
more intelligent Of the old Wings are to
be found with US, doing battle for then
native South, and for Breckenridge and
Lane. 1t is made up, then, of unreason.
ing and unreasonable Wings Of the old
school, fossil Federalists, and of the de,
bris of Know Nothingism. But even
yet, now that our Democratic army South
is marshalled for the battle of Novcm-
Der, we do believe most sincerely, if we
had time and opportunity to shew to
those infatuated men, the state of things
at the North-how, even now, they are
training and arming their Abolition
hosts to attack the South-how we are
challenged by the Abolition leaders to
give up slavery or perish; we say we
believe that the Bell men of the South,
true to instinct, if not to reason, would
abandon their vacillating, unreliable, and
non-committal leader, and lend us at
least their votes at the approaching
election.
While writing the above, we have re-
ceived the unweIcome intelligence that
the Black Republicans have carried
Pennsylvania by a majority Of at least
ten thousand votes. Thus it would ap-
pear that the entire North and West are
yoking themselves to the car of Adolf
tionism, which nothing but united action
on the part of the South can arrest.
Should not all old party differences be
at once renowned at the South, and we
be united as n man to resist the com
mon foe? At this juncture, can any
Southern a trust nv. Douglas. who,
it is proved, has been coqnetting with
the Black Republicans, or MFR. Bell, who
has been voting with the Abolitionists
through nearly the whole Of his political
career?
Let it not be said that we are disun-
%ionists. Nothing in the conduct of our
candidates, or in that of the vast major
ity of those in the South who support
Breckenridge and Lane, authorizes such
a superstition. We are making, and
have made, every sacrifice consistent
with safety and honor, to be true to the
Union and the Constitution. But, alas!
the more moderate we have been, the
more exorbitant have become the pre-
tentions of the North, until at last they
threaten the very existence Of the insti-
tuition in which we live and move and
have our being.
We do beseech the Bell and Everett
men, to ponder we'll their present course.
1t is now reduced to a demonstration,
their candidate can not carry, at
most, more than two or three States.
Mr. Douglas a carry, not one. Why,
then, give our mutual foes the satisfac-
ton of seeing that we are a divided, dis
people, and lead them to the
superstition that Abolitionism can find
supporters, even IS far south as Lou
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