Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-10-20
TIL L DE MOOR At.
Grand Mass Meeting of the Breckenridge
Democracy in New Orleans.

! CIV OF New Orleans held another monster
mass meeting in that city on the even
ing of Friday, the 18th inst. We have
only space for q brief synopsis Of the
speech Of exGov. Brown. Of Mississippi
as published in the Delta:
: Judge Cotton then introduced ex-Goy
Brown, of Mississippi. Loud and pro
longed cheers greeted the honorable
gentleman from our gallant sister State
He felt that, though i'll Il somewhat
| strange position in addressing u multi
tude of persons in Louisiana, still there
were ties between this State and his own
! that brought them 80 close to each other
that he tain would address the people
! plainly, for he was a plain-speaking,
blunt man, but an honest one. (Cheers. }
The great principles Of this Govern
ment's action were in the securing Of
lie. liberty and happiness to this people.
| and when it failed in this action this
duty, it should be taken down This
was an obligation with us ALL Yet this
did not all depend upon tie citizens;
much of this obiigation was with their
leaders and foremost men, and he 70,
one, from Mississippi, would shed his
blood and sacrifice his life for this ob!i-
CATION And yet none would be more
ready to appreciate the perfect carrying
out of the Federal Constitution than the
people Of the South, The Southern people
had never failed to come at the first call
to sustain the Constitution They We're
always ready and first in the hour of
danger to the Con'ederacy when the
tocsin sounded, and cheeriully responded
to the demands of the Constitution in it's
proper spirit But he held, with the H.
Iustrious son of Massachusetts, that
when a compact had been broken OF one
side, it was also broken on the other.
When the North fails to give that pro-
lection to the South under the spirit Of
the Constitution, then the compact was
Extraordinarily, the Union was no
more Loud eheers.)
On this point in detail, the honorable
speaker dweIt at length in clear and
impressive manner, carrying his vast
auditory with him through u course log
ical as well as eloquent.
In this regard of the South being made
but the minor, the Ilsu'ted, cheated, and
the neglected by the North, the honora
ble speaker said all parties here would
acknowledge. Thus far Breckinridge,
Douglas and Bell could march. But at
this moment, when our Government,
pending the election acts Of the North,
was about to pass into the hands Of our
enemies, were the men OF the South 60
ing to submit? Cloud aud prolonged
cries of "no! no! never!') THANK you
citizens, for that response it
comes from good men. (Cries, "yes, and
from good l,earts") ltcomes from brave
men, noble men, whose honor stands high
on the records of fame, and whose ances-
tors have bearded a monarch in his Par
Lament House. Cheers
Abiding to the spirit that we of the
South inherit from our ancestors. how
we should never prove degenerate sons
of noble sires, the honorable speaker re-
marked, while he would not take the
liberty to speak Of Louisiana, still he
would of bis own beloved, glorious little
State and himself. He would throw out
the blood masked banner (Cheers.) He
would raise on high the sword against
the avowed enemy, and meet him cheer
fully and readily in the full strength
that right and duty give.
This may be by some called treason,
but it was not more SO or with a less
cause than that OF our Revolutionary
forefathers. The day was not distant,
and events of the hour proved its com
ing, when Lincoln and his party would
rule this country And when the gov
ernment of this country passes into the
hands of Abraham Lincoln, what sin.
gn)ar picture, the most singular on earth,
will it present! One7half of nation
making war upon the other half. Its
like wonld be found nowhere else, for
even i'll Russia, Barbary-yea, even the
Choctaw nation demnrred to such sys.
TEN When the passion of the hour shall
have passed away, aud the Importance
"a itic great t'ciitS, d'ic"uy ceioio oai
vision, grows into fearful size, we will
look with greater wonder and horror on
any such result by the arbitrary acts OF
increasing foes
The honorable gentleman then told a
statement he had heard that day in y
we'll knuwn jeweIfy store i'll this city
a statement made by one he did not
know, either as proprietor OF employs,
but a statement that made his (G, "
Brown's) blood cnrdc in his veins, and
warm with wrath. Loud cries Of tell
it, tell it,.
1t was this, and as God gives me
strength to live, III never cross the
threshold Of the door of that establish.
ment again. (Cries of name it, name