Democratic Standard

It is not probable that this article will be read by any true democrat who has not already determined to go to the polls and vote on Tuesday the 8th of this month, and to exert himself in support of democratic principles and men. But if perchance, it should meet the eye of any democrat who is indifferent about voting, we would entreat him, as he loves and cherishes democratic principles, not to neglect casting his vote in their support. If he desires to have our republican institutions transmitted to posterity unimpaired by federal principles and measures, he should consider it a duty due both to himself and to his country, to go to the polls and vote the democratic ticket. Let him remember that that power which was originally vested in the many by our Constitution, is constantly stealing to the few, if the people neglect to guard their rights—that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." If we would prevent legislation for the few at the expense of the many, we must oppose it by our individual votes. If we would prevent the building up, in this country, of a moneyed aristocracy as destructive to liberty and human happiness, as is the Bhoon Upas to animal and vegetable life, we must oppose it through the ballot box. Nor should we tire in the exercise of this duty, nor be thrown off our guard by the consolation that the temporary success of federalism has not yet totally ruined the country. It is by slow degrees that the seeds of dissolution and ruin have grown and overthrown former Republics. Great changes in government have seldom been suddenly effected without a resort to physical force, but by slow and almost imperceptible degrees some of the most liberal governments on earth have become the most despotic and oppressive. Let us guard vigilantly the liberties and freedom we enjoy, and repel encroachments at the threshold. As the prospects of the success of democracy in this State at the approaching election are, we think, very fair; but to accomplish this we must be VIGILANT and ACTIVE. Let every democrat hold himself in readiness to yield his undivided time and support to the democratic ticket, the whole ticket and nothing but the ticket. Beware of Split Tickets. There will probably be tickets distributed about the county, purporting to be democratic, with one or two of the democratic candidates left out and whigs (or "independents," which we consider the same,) inserted in their place. Look to your ballots! Four members elect of the Louisiana Legislature have died since the election, which was on the first of July.