Gazette and sentinel., 1861-01-26
Democratic Organization.

thorough organization OF the Democratic par
ty than at present-never, in the past, has
there been an occasion animating US with
greater pride for the principles of Democracy
than the present occasion, nor a period calling
for greater care and courage, on the part Of
the Democratic people, IL they would preserve
ard pcrpetnate the principles by which they
have so long been guided, and through the
dissertation of which on the part Of a dement,
ed, overbearIng, O~verpowerinc portion of the
American people, North, the fairest. most
gorgeous governmental structure that man
ever put his band to, i topping to the earth
We must not indulge in the lsXrty Of feeling
consequent upon knowing that our hands and
our consciences are free from the stain and
the crime of such a monstrous vandalism, and
that the curse resulting from such hideous
error and wrong, is not ours, and that oHrs
viii not'be the sufferers. We must allow no
enervating feeling al a time like the present.
Knowing that the present state Of our pniiti.
"a hhd'S A"> GYM IA W 'N"'N ''NS
Waiting, unllinching adherence to the princi.
pies of Democracy on the part of the South
ern people. they have now to r~ea'zo, more
fully and truly than at any other period of
their existence. that eternal vigilance" is not
alone ''the price of Liberty" but it is the
price Of Democracy also. The death Of the
une would be the knel' for the rcquinm Of the
other. Therefore the greater necessity--at
a time when sovereign States are declaring
government and a new cunst tuition of main
tanning in their original force and form, the
usages and ordinances Of our political faith.
BY sach means, wc will the surer and the bet
ter preserve ourselves from the triumph of
those wrongs and ambitions which often arise
in the interim Of the downfall nf one system
Of government and the building up of smother
particularly when such events are produced
by the people themselves. Recollect, that it
is but a step from the greatest liberty to tie
lease-hom the purest OF political sentiments
to The most vicious-in everything relat Nc 20
man and his government.
Democracy, destroyed by the pa'zied hand
Of fanaIicism. at the North, has taken its
last (may it be perpetual y stand on the soil
Of the cotton, the,,cane and the rice.
Zealots.snd humanetarians may scott and
jibe as they choose. Conscious of upho ding
and maintaining the patriarcIsl laws and Gus.
toms sanctified by God himself, in treasuring
and perpetuating the system of "bond>mcn"
that exists amongst us-televing that thro
such system We are not only elevating the
white man, by its implanting in bis bosom
a higher sense Of honor and q more gallant
bearing than are known to be general n our
country where the system does not exit, and
consequently a greater love for Democracy
and al that tends TO the enobling of manhood,
but that the system also enures to the benefit
Of the black man., in morals, religion and
general intelligence, which the King himself
in the black native land cannot boast, and
brings around them a degree of real happi-
hess, undisturbed by worldly cares and jars,
which the master" even might envy-snd
knowing the great advantage. in a moral and
democratic sense merely, which one of the
products OF our "bondsmen" has created and
is still creating for the poorer 6ondsmen of
European monarchies-we say, conscious oil,
believing and Knowing all this, besides much
else that we could state were il appropos TO
the subjective can well afford to snap uur
fingers at the jibings and and ~scofings of
false philanthopists and ''higher-law" politi
clans, who can neither see nor understand any.
thing, except through the cloudy lens of thier
contracted and bigoted minds.
1t is no less strange then than natural, that
here, in 4 land where the mental and moral
faculties Of man become the more exalted the
closer they are akin to true honor and high
courage, and where 'bondsmen" ex st, De.
mocracy finds It's best, most Numerous and
noblest supporters. Let us cherish and pro,
tect Tits organization preserved a. the
shield to that other institution so much ma.
ligned and SO little understood. At least, let
US here in Iberville, where it is our prov nee
to care for the interests and to look to the
safeguards of Democracy, see that it looses
nothing Of its virtue and power amidst the
whirlwind Of great events, which Southern
struggles for its preservation gave rise to.