Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-08-31

HIS ilOtlfc Iii SIflbS tHdl fotC was INV ~
favor said resolutions, but, on the contra
ry, to prevent them from being received,
or in any manner entertained by the
House. That in this vote, on which this
terrible charge is founded, he voted with
a majority of l25. including a large mum
Der of Democratic members, still hailed
with pride as brethren by the authors of
this pamphlet, and among others were
John B. Dawson, Edward d. White and
John Moore, the entire delegation from
Louisiana.
That in defiance of all truth, the at
tempt is made to prove that Mr., Fillmore
supported and aided Giddings in his dis
graceful and fanaGcal course on that &C.
casion, because he voted against a reso-
luton to censure him-when'a fair expo
sition of the whok truth would have prov
en- the reverse, and that he opposed him
at every step. That SO far from giving
him aid or encouragement, when the
speaker had decided that Giddings had a
right to speakon the resolution as a ques-
ton of prigilege, Mr.. Fillmore took an ap-
peal from the decision, which appeal was
sustained by the House, and Giddinss
thereby prevented from speaking in his
own defence.
He further showed that said pamphlet
containing these false and Infamous slap
ders, and these fraudulent, unfair and
garbled extracts in pretended proof of
them, had been sown broad cast over this
parish, and probably over the whole State,
in such a manner as to avoid and escape
all responsibility on the part of its authors.
That it is addressed to the people of the
State of Louisiana, without date, or any
mark on its face to show from whence it
issued, or any other evidenced of its pater-
nifty than its striking resemblance to GER
tain leaders of the so-called democratic
party in this quarter. That those who
concocted it, and put it forth to abuse and
scandalize one of the best and purest of
their fellow citizens, merely to gain a
party advantage, were both ashamed and
afraid to put their names to it. But
having been distributed among the peo-
pie of the parish of Jefferson in the pre-
sence of said President, by the President
ofthe Cass and Butler Club of this city, in
the presence of Col. Isaac T. Preston,
President of the Central Democratic AS
ISOLATION of the State of Louisiana, and
with his implied sanction, the said Presi-
dent of this Club, then ard there boldly
challenged that distinguished individual
to appear before the people ofthis parish
in it's defence within a reasonable time,
and notified him that in case of his failure,
he should consider all his charges and al
legations in reference to it as aforesaid,
taken for confessed, and that he would
proceed to take judgment in the premises
by default.
And Whereas, Seven days. have since
elapsed, and service of said notice having
been acknowledged on the record, by an
announcement in the Morning Chronicle,
and the said Isaac T. Preston having
failed to appear aud plead, answer, or
demur to the Indictment thus brought
against the association, of which he is
President, before the bar of public OPT
Mon, it is therefore ordered, ~adjudged and
decreed by this Club that judgment be,
and is hereby taken against said pamph-
let, on all and singular, the foregoing allie
cations, by default.
In consideration of the premises, be, it
therefore unanimously resolved, as the
sense of this Club, that said pamphlet
contains a false, sIanderous and llbeilous
charge against an American citizen,
whose character, both public and private,
is not only above ~reproach, but above sus.
picion. That the evidence in support OF
said charge is false, fraudulent and hypo-
critical, hat the authors of it have given
prooftbat they knew it to he SO, by fail
ing to put a responsible name to 1t, and
sending it forth as a miserable, fatherless
bantling, that they are ashamed and afraid
to own. That the authors of it. have
been guilty of an attempt to cheat and
swindIe the honest and u%nsuspectIng voter
out of his vote, by "false and fraudulent
pretences." That such conduct, in the
ordinary transactions of life, aud a resort
to the same disreputable means to obtain