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

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nicate with the slaves-to encourage
anti-slavery enigrants to the South and
West-to seize other property of slave
holders to compensate for the cost OF
running off their slaves-to force eman.
cipation by all means, especially by lin,
iting, harrassing aud frowning upon
slavery in every mode and form, and
finally by the Executive, by Congress,
by the postal service and in every way
to agitate without ceasing until the
Southern States shall be abandoned tc
| their fate, and worn down, shall be com
PEELED to surrender and emancipatc their
slaves.
| It has repudiated the decisions of the
Supreme Court.
| ltassails us from the pulpit, the press,
and the school-room 1t divides all sccts
and religions as we'll as parties. 1t de-
nounees shareholders as degraded by the
lowest immoralities, insults them in every
form, and holds them up to the scorn OF
mankind
1t has already majority of the States
| under its domination; has infected the
Federal as well as State judiciary; has
a large majority of the House of Repre-
sentatives Of the Congress of the United
States; will soon have, by the new cc,l-
sus, a majority of the Senate; and be-
fore it obtains the Senate, certainly will
obtain the chief Executive power of the
United States.
It has announced its purpose of total
abolition in the States end elsewhere, as
well as Territories and Districts, and
other places ceded. And
1t has proclaimed an "irrepresible con-
f]ict" Or higher law, with the Federal
Constitution itself!
How, then, is the election of its cam
didate for that Chief Executive power to
be viewed by us and by all? His and
his rivals sentiments are both pro-
claimed-they are the Same" the gov
crnmcnt can not endure half slave and
half frec"-it is an irrepressble con-
flict between opposing and enduring
forces-the United States must and will,
sooner or later, become a slaveholding
nation, Or entirely free labor nation"
These are the sentiments of the coming
Black Republican triumph by such means
as we have seen. What then?
l. The election of Abraham Lincoln to
the Presidency will be an open and Off
cial avowal by a popular majority of
the North, and of the nation, that the
past aggressions Of the Black Republi-
cans are right
9. That they are to be persisted in
with great aggravation, for the future.
3. That the slave States shall not gov.
ern themselves in respect to their own
property, in their own limits; but that
while Territories are to be allowed to
prohibit slavery i'll their limits, the States
will not be permitted to protect it in
peace in theirs. .......-
4. That the slave States and their
citizens are to be coerced to submission.
And such aggression as this amounts to
actual war. 1t is proclaimed already,
and awaits only the action for the power
and means to coerce submission The
election will give it both. And it is the
worse for coming in all the panoply of
mere form Of right. The form is the
election, and the election will be consti-
tutional. That is to be the pore out of
which the courage of resistance is to
ooze The form of the election may be
constitutional, but its intept and purpose
is our invasion and violent infraction
of the Constitution. No matter what
may be the form, the substance is ag-
gression-the aggression is to us-|
vital
If we submit to it, we are at once sub
lugated; and if we intend to resist, it |
is time we were prepared for the con
aict, which we can not rcpress, but may
repel.