Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-09-14
PIAQUEMIN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IA.


a-f'As we have no assistance at present IN our
ofice-neither compassion nor pressman-our rea-
ders, we trust, will overlook whatever faults that
may be observed. But with our own hands we
can do great deal towards getting ont a reada>
BILE paper when it depends upon them alone; and
there is one great satisfaction attendant, when it
comes to that point when the press must remain
idle unless we handle the lever, and that is, that
whatever work is done, is done right-that our
own sinews will not prove recreant 10 our interests
that they are id no danger Of being seduced from
honor and their duty by the willy Vaccinations of
others-andu anil the great Jehovah bids them to be
at rest, they. a, least, let who will desert us, will he
ever true and faithful.
UWe have received the names of several De-
mocrats as subscribers, on condition that we will
not claim this years subscription unless Zachary
Taylor is elected President. We only wish that
every Catss man in the Parish would come forward
and do likewise. Come. gentlemen, you that are
40 s~angnine Of your champions success, this will
be a cheap method Of patronizing a local paper:
It8- aEa
tive would remind our readers Of the gather,
ing of the Taylor men at Mr.. Herbert's ball room.
on the Island, tomorrow. Mr.. r. B. Thorpe, we
are requested to say, will be one Of the speakers on
the occasion. And we would likewise say to them
not TO forget the Rough and Ready barbecue on
Saturday, 70 be given at Mr.. Henry Hooper's, on
Grand River. fst3t w 4 .'9
U'From the spirit which peryades the Pream-
bic, ct cetera, Of the Bayou Goula Rough and Rea-
dy Club, published in another column, we feel
assured that the gallant wings Of that section will
be wide awake in November. With a Vig1ant eye
ON one side and a watchfll Sentinel on the other,
il would be strange if the enemy got the advantage.
uAmong The political changes Of newspapers
throughout the Union, we have not yet seen q sin.
gle instance recorded. Of one relinquishing its for
lner course, and adopting the banner Of Cass and
Butler. OF wha, is this significant
ri UAscertaia as the gathering clouds indicate a
storm, so surely does the newspaper press through
out the Union tell, by its tone, which side the Presi-
dental balance preponderates. There is not city
in the whole country, we believe, where the wing
press is not in the majority. Every sun that rises
brings fresh evidences that the cause of Taylor and
Fillmore 10 onward: like the southern simeon, it
increases as il progresses, crushing every thing be-.
fore il, 5faa 5x4a4 @
u An immense meeting of the Taylor Democ-
rscy Of Charleston, was held on the evening of the
Ist inst. II was addressedby VIM. Gilmore Simms
and others, and the greatest enthusiasm was mani>
tested in favor Of the hero Of Buena Vista. The
cause 10 onward in the Palmetto State. =s
"A PosER.-Mr. Francis E. Riyes, and the Hon.
A. H. H. Stewart the Democratic and Whig
electors in the Augusta District. Va, had a dis
cussion on the Dist nit, at Harrisonburg, in which
the former was most numerically mauled. One Of
the choicest specimens Of The a,gussentum ad hom;-
mem we have ever seen was applied on that occa.
sion. Aappears that Mr.. n. enaeavored 10 prove
Fillmore an abolitionist, by producing a number of
i instances IN which he voted with Giddiprs and
Shade. Mr.. Stewart produced a still greater num-
Der in which Mt. R, himself had voted with the
same gentlemen, aud insisted that the rule should
work both ways.
The Harfisonburg republican doubts whether
Mr.. r. will be very anxious tn encounter Mr.. S. q
second time. We doubt so too. !.