Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-09-19
John Hi.

NO. I.
THE following communication should have
appeared in our last number, but was unavoid.
ably deferred.
ISLAND, Point Of Iberrille, Sept. 5, ls49.
Editor Of the Southern Sentinel:
Dear. Sir: AS a co-laborer with yourself for the
success of the Taylor Republican Party in our
State at the coming November elections, al.
low me from time to time the use of your col
umns for free converse with my fellow-citizens
for the purpose of stating facts!
And first: remember, fellow-citizens-friends
and supporters of that fine old patriot, General
Taylor-that all your rotes are uanted by the
nominees of the Taylor Republican party, in
order that their election to Congress may be
rendered certain. If you fail to elect a Taylor
delegation to Congress, you render it certain
that the Administration will there be in a mino-
rity. Towards our State, the eyes of every
friend of General Taylor throughout the Union
is now turned. What will it avail US if we
have elected Gen. Taylor only to place a "bar-
rem sceptre in his grasp" He must; have
a Congress favorable to his views in order that
his views may be carried out. BY voting for
John H. Harmanson, and the other candidates
of the Cass-Abolition party, you virtually aban-
don Gen. Taylor. Remember this! Are you
ready to commit this abandonment? / think
not. Remember, then, that in voting for Col.
Richard A. Stewart, the candidate of the Tay-
lor Republican party for Congzess, sau are but
Misunderstanding POUR support to the old hero
of the bloody fields of Mexico.
What claims has John H. Harmansen upon
You, voters of the Third Congressional Dis
triet! Why shoald You give him your sufra-
ges! What has he done to entitle him to your
respect'and confidence? will endeavor to tell
YOU, fellow citizens, a few of the acts of his
public life. Will tell you what he has done
and what he has not done. Al a member of
Congress he voted against the interest Of the
Louisiana sagar pdaster, when the tariff of 1916
was under consideration in that body. He
boldly proclaimed, in a speech he made upon
tldb OcciSlOii, TIC lHliulkSaS UoctfIlF VI Aoco~
focoism, Free Trade and afterwards he voted
a tax, a duty, upon these necessaries Of life, tea
and coffee. Now, his supporters will tell yea,
when You tell them that the Taylor Repab-
lean doctrine is "a tariff for revenue with Incl
dental protection" that "Mr. Harmanson is a
Democrat and is in favor of a tariff for revenue
with incidental protection" And do you be-
lieve it? You can only judge of what he will
do by what he has done. The only way to
Judge the future is by the past. Thus judge
him. He voted against this principle in 1876,
and if you give him an opportunity he will vote
the same way in 1850. Don't trust him, sugar
p~lanters--don't trust him-he is your deadliest
foe!
Again: John H. Harmanson voted to censure
Gen. Zachary Taylor for the capitulation of
Monterey! Does this fact need one word of
comment! Will you for a moment sustain a
ma~n-countenance or vote for a man-who
thus endeavored to disgrace the a whom you
have rewarded by placing him in the highest
Office within the gift of the people Of the Uni
ted States? Out upon it! Rebuke this man
as he deserves to be rebuked. Tell him, by
thus voting, he has abused your confidence,
abused his place, and rendered himself unwor-
thy of your votes.
Again: John H. Harmanson, in a speech de-
livered in the House of Representatives of the
United States, 10Th of February, ;847, used
the following language:
1.-THE black race, being of a lower order of
intellect, will be the last to reach a high state
of civilization. The negro in our Southern
States is now, under the rnle of the white man,
gradually undergoing the process of civiliza-
ton, and moving to his native home in the track
of the sun. He is carrying with him the civil
ization of his republican master.
A century ago the negro race existed in num-
bers near the st. Lawrence. Its northern limit
may be said to have already travelled south to
the Potomac, the white race closing up in its
In another century, in his pilgrimage, the
negro will have passed the Mississippi, and the
whites will close upon his heels there. Obstruct
not his passage to his native home, or You con-
sign him to certain destruction"
Comment upon this "Free-soiI" doctrine is
unnecessary. Those Democrats. who intend to
Mr.. Harmanson, may amuse them
selves by making a calculation, upon his data,
thus furnished, so as to ascertain the exact Pc
Rod when he will cause slavery to be abolished
among us.
Again: Mr.. Harmanson is the father Of the
Swamp Bill-but as l have somewhat more to
to you, fellow-eitizens, upon this famous
SOamp Bill than it may be convenient for the
Editor to publish now, l will postpone my re-
marks till next week.
Faithfully yours,
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