Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-08-25
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P. A. EOY, Editor.
DR.. Cartwright's Speech.

Of tie several excellent speeches de-
livered at the Breckenridge and Lane
ratification meeting in New Orleans on
the 10th inst, we have only room for the
following, by Dr. Cartwright. 1t is
we'll worth perusal:
Scarcely any one could be more aversc
to appear on IA political rostrum than
am, or less qualified to do Justice to my
self or the subject. But this great oc-
casIon has brought me out 1t is re-
ported that the Democratic party is
divided have heard the same report
a hundred times in the course of my long
experience, and have always found the
party stronger after these reported di-
visions than it was before. 1t is the
habit of the Democratic party on the eve
of every great contest to hold commun-
ion with itself, and to purify itself by
casting out all its leaders who arc in.
tected with false principles and anti
Democratic proclivities. In this it diff
fers from all other parties opposed to it..
While they are using all manner of
clap-traps, coalitions and compromises
| to swell their numbers, the Democratic
party prepares for the contest, like the
Church prepares for a contest with the
devil, by driving out Of it every thing
which is impure or defled. Has great
and popular Democratic leader openly
declared that a Territorial Legislature
has the rightful power to deprive a
Southern citizen Of his negro property,
or what is the same thing, to exclude
even those citizens with slave property
! from the Territories, the common patri
mony of all the States North and South?
Drive him ont! To hold to such leader
would as assuredly break up and de-
stroy the party he belonged to, as the
holding on to any great and popular
preacher in the habit of violating any of
the Ten COMMANDMENTS; the 7th fer in
stance, would break up and destroy the
Church in which he officiatcd as minis
ter
True democracy, like true religion,
derives its mighty powers of durability
and lnvincbiIity from publication
These publications or lustratons, at first
sight, seem as divisions, and are so re-
ported by the opponents of Democratic
principles But the Democratic party
can not be divided while it holds to its
principles, pure and unadulterated One
of its principles is faith in the virtue
and intelligence of the American people
1t believes that a large ma ajorty of the
people, by whatever party names called,
are sound at heart, virtuous and patri-
otic, and will on the day of election be
naturally attracted to that party which
advocates tue soundest, the most con-
servative and orthodox principles
Hence, it puriies itself anterior to any
great political contest, and although it
may be apparently easy, so lean and
lank, by the process Of publication OF
training. it is a Heenan when it comes
to blows, and is pretty sure to get its
opponents head in chancery. 1t has
never made much noise about its love
for the Union, as its opponents always
do. Not because it loves the Union less
than they do, but because it believes
that the surest means to preserve the
Union is to preserve the absolute equal
ity of every free white citizen in the
Union, whether residing in the Northern
States or the Southern, Shareholder or
non-slayeholder All are equal and in
dependent sovereigns, as much so as
the Gar of Russia, or the most high,
puissant Prince Albert Edward, now
travelling in Canada. 1t is more than a
State Legislature can do, or the Federal
Government can do, to deprive any por-
tion of the most high, puissant, indie
pendent sovereign people of America of
their property. And whoever says a
Territorial Legislature can doit, let him
be Anathema maranatha-let him, with
all his adherents, be driven out of the
Democratic church.
The Democratic party has never made
much noise about preserving the Consti
tuition. It's battle-cry has ever been not
to stretch it, but to hold to its plain let
ter and to take nothing for granted ex-
cept what is plainly and expressly writ
ten therein. 1t has never contended for
enforcing the law at the point Of the
bayonet, as the old Federal party want
ed the Alien and Sedition laws enforced.
Enforcing the laws is on the flag of the
Belleverett party of this city. The Dem
ocratic party has ever religionsly and
conscientionsly believed that laws which.
require to be enforced ought not to be
made, or, if made, ought to be repealed.
The Democratic party, instead of looking
to the bayonet to enforce the laws, has
ever looked to the American clergy to
impress into the hearts Of the American
people enough of religious and moral
virtue to make them willingly obey the
laws without physical force These are
an abstract of the principles, as near as