Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-15
"A Change Of e n

It is stated by the Repsblic, as a wei
ascertained fact, that even at this day
when the hand of justice has attempted tt
e~uualize the distribution of pablo offices.
the Looofoco employees of the administra'
ton outs wnber the viii s in the proper
ton of ten to 4.
Thisis a revelation that will strike thu
nublic with astonishment. The Locofoce
organ at Washington has been u~tterine
such fearful yells at every dismissal which
the Government has been constrained tt
make, that the uninitiated might well ina
CINE Gen. Taylor to be the incarnation
of ruthless political hatred. The Union
teens with editorials and communication:
of which prescription is the sole theme.-
Cts usual cognomen for the Secretary O
the Home Department is Butcher Ew-
ing while it appends to the title of the
Postmaster General the sobriquet of"The
Headsman." Its evident object is to
create the impression that every political
opponent of the administration is elected
from office, and that Gen. Taylor has
proved himself more intensely proscriptive
chan Jackson, Polk or any other Locofoco
president of merciful memory.
1.-THE Union by this policy, seeks to de.
ter the administration from bestowing a
fair share Of the public patronage on its
friends, that journal seems certainly to
have attained its purpose; since it is OBJ
vious from the statements o the Republic
: that the "change of men" promised by
Gen. Taylor, has been very imperfectly
accomplished, when nine-teaths of the
places within the gift of the Government
are held and enjoyed by the most perni-
cious foes to Gen. Taylor and to those
principles upon which his election was
t%riumphantly carried.
The removals that have been made de-
monstrate but too clearly the necessity for
further action. 1t is a singular fact that
nearly every prominent Locofoco office
holder who has been evicted by the Gov
eminent, has assailed the President and
his cabinet with virulence, venom and
personal rancor. These gentry appear
clearly to have imagined, not merely that
they were fully entitled to retain their plas
ces under a Wing administration, but that
as the avowed and inveterate enemies of
the Government, the active and unprinci-
pied inventors and p~ropagators of all the
vile and filthy ISLANDERS with which the
Cass g. Butler organs reeked during the
late canvass; as the Recipients of the
bounty Of Government which they re.
garded with suspicion and openly derided
and abused, they were yet to be held
harmless and allowed to fatten on their
smoluments, even while hooking and re-
filing the generosity that spared them
This has been established by their subse-
quent conduct. Such foul-mouthed RI
baldry, such mere wantonness of malevo-
Ient abuse as has been poured forth against
he administration by its rejected hire
ings, may challenge comparison with the
most beastIy vulgarities that are sent forth
rom the nightly orgies o. Five Points.
We have, once or twice, furnished
specimens Of this disgusting and depraved
vocabulary, but cannot consent further to
plluse our columns by their publication.
1hersader may sup full of obscenity and
backguardism, if he thinks proper to con-
suit the pages Of the Washington Union, ,
and particularly the communications