Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-08-17
A Word to the WhigS.
These are times to be met, not foVo,o

"A worn I'D the WINGS
"Ihese are times to be met, not toRoped!"
We request all wings who are inert in
the cause of Taylor and their country, to
ponder upon the following admonitions,
so theoretically given in the New Orleans
Evening National:
"The struggle has commenced. Our
opponents are moving Heaven and earth
to carry the electiop-sverything that no.
ney profusely, lavishly expended, can ef-
feet is being done. Principles, men,
truth, honor, justice, and our country are
cast aside, and all the untiring energies
of the most indomitable and best organ
ised combination of men the world ever
saw, are brought to bear in this contest,
If, by such means Taylor can be de-
feated, then will Lewis Cass or Martin
Van Buren, be elected next President of
the United States. Have we any thing
to contend for? Have we principles,
upon the establishment of which we be-
lleVe the happiness, honor and prosperity
of the country depend? Are these prin-
ciples worth %contending for? If they are
worth anything, and the whig party is
sincere IN its professions of these princi-
pies, then is it their duty as men, as wings,
as patriots, to go to Uork!
We cennot triumph without an effort,
a strong and vigorous effort. We have
truth and right upon our side-truth,
right and the interests of the country with
which to meetthe double dealing, specious
arguments and unblushing misrepresen-
tations of lo~cofocoism. If these consti-
tuted the only weapons with which the
foe would fight us, then we might hope to
win an easy victory. 1t is openly boast
ed 10y the most distinguished locofoco in
Louisiana that this State shall vote for
Louis Cass if it takes hat a million of
dollars to secure that result. What do
they propose to do with that enormous
! Print and circulate documents ?
By no means. One-tenth, or one-twen-
of that amount would literally flood
State with documents, and less than
one-tenth of half a mil lion has already
sown broadcast over Louisiana, thou
sands and tens of thousand of speeches,
lives, actresses and every other
form and character ofprint and argument
that money, ingenuity and a desperate
cause could procure or devise These
papers, thus thrown among the people,
with the most judicious care and system,
that no antidote may ever reach the poi
are from beginning to end, tissues of
he most unbIushing falsehoods, anu
slanderous charges against Taylor and
Fillmore, and the whole Wing party
What then they propose to do with 80
'arge a sum of money? Look to the
scenes enacted at P~laqueminelin 1914 for
IN answer.
But shall all the error and falsehood
70 widely published by u opponents
throughout the State all pass uncorrected?
There is no perpetual motion-no inhe-
ent quality in the whig party, that it can
move of its own accord, aud, unaided by
is friends, meet the furious and desperate
assaults of its foes. 1t will not do for
Wigs to lay the fattering JUNCTION to their
ou]s that this struggle will win ITSELF
Jnless we act while action may serve our
'nds, we will be doomed in Louisiana to
he most i~nglorious defeat that ever tar
lished the lustre of our arms. We have
n abiding and mistaken confidence in
'ur strength, our principles and our men.
Shall we, by ~overweaning confidence,
nuke u very strength our weakness, and
he element of self-destruction Shall
We sacrifice our principles and the inter
SITS of the country to our inactivity?
Every wing will answer Not-and loco
oco ofice-bnlders will find in November
text that their half a million has been
pent in vain. 't@