Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-10-12

courage they have shown in a period Of no COM
mon danger, and the fortitude with which they have
| rejected all the apprehensions which the vicinity
was calculated to produce. are not more to be ad.
mired than their humane attention to our own sick
and wounded as well as to those of that description
among the prisoners.
Seldom in any COM
munity, has so much cause been given for deserved
praise; while the young were in the field and arrest
ed the progress Of the foe, the aged watched over
the city and maintained its internal peace; and
even the softer sex encouraged their husbands and
brothers to remain at the post of danger and duty,
not content with exerting for the neblest purpose,
that powerful influence which is given them by ma
tnre, (and which in your countrywomen isrendered
irresistible by accomplishments and beauty,) they
showed themselves capable of higher efforts. and
actuated by humanity and patriotism, they clothed
by their own labor, and protected from the incle-
mency of the season, the men who had marched
from a distant State to protect them from insults.
la the name of those brave men, | beg you, Sir, TO
convey 10 them the tribute of our admiration and
thanks; assure them that the distant wives aud
daughters of those whom they have succoured, will
remember them in their prayers, and that for myself
no circumstance of this important campaign touch
es mi with more exquisite pleasure, than that
have been enabled to lead back to them with so few
exceptions, the husbands, brothers and other reid
tives Of whom such women only are worthy"
And what said the lamented Edw. d.: White of
these yituperations agains, the constituency he SO
worthily represented
Extract from the report Of the proceedings in the
House of Representatives, March I'd, 1S43:
"Mr. WHITE, of Louisiana, obtained the floor
and said that he was induced to seek the attention
of the Chair this morning for a personal explana-
ton. He said he had been attacked, SORELY
INSULTED IN THE FACE OF THIS
HOUSE. not inde.d in his own individuality, for
as TO that, he protested that if every bone in it were
fractured. he would not deem it a thing worthy of
the Speakers notice. But, he said, when he spoke
of himself in this connection, it was only AS TIE
RESENTED: and this, he hoped, was not too bold
an aliegory. The people of his State, he said, and
HIS IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENTS ESPE-
CIALLY. HAD BEEN VILLIFIED AND
MISREPRESENTED in debate here. 1t has
been stated, and the authority of General Jackson's
opinions has been invoked in support of the idea,
that a large portion of the people whom l repre~
sent, WERE SPIES AND TRAITORS in the
last war; that they were hostile to the canse in which
the country was engaged, and were ready to join
the enemy in opposition to their brethren in arms.
Sir, SAID he, those statements have gone about un-
contradicted. No opportunity has occurred. Under
the rules, to contradict or examine them. In TWEEN.
tr OF thirty hours more. the session is to close, and
then. those ASPERSlONS will pass unto yonr
register of debate as the materials for future history
Mr.. White said he really conceived ii to be due to
truth, to justice, to an abused portion Of the people
Of the United Stats, to the reputation of oar COM
mon country, that some little chance should be giren
to the Representatives Of those THUS WRONGED,
to examine the grounds Of the ~oJloquies, in order to
SEE how far they may be founded in fact or reason,
or to what extent they are fallacious and susceptible
refuta,ion. How, he inquired, was. this to be
accomplished There was some difficulty in it, he
confessed, in the present juncture. The way he
would propose wa this: the subject matter Oh which
those Objectionable statements had been made. the
of General Jackson's fine, was before the
in a variety Of shapes. Among them was
bill No. IL, from the Senate. He would move that,
IS soon as the House shall go into Committee Of
he Whole, an hour be devoted to the consideration
IF that bill, in order to afford him the opportunity
If some expression in the premises.
"Mr. FILLMORE suggested that the commit
shonld first he called for reports.
"Mr. WHITE said that any course would be
to him that would attain the end in view. y
Let such be the defenders of the honor and pa
iiotism of the Creoles of Louisiana! Our own
pen were too feeble 10 add aught to the just tribute
If the one, or the whitening denunciations Of the