Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-16
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VIZ. Soule-Another CorrespOn.
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Mr.. Soule-Another Correspon.
SIX hundred members of the Democratic par.
~ OF New Orleans and Lafayette-which nun.
oers over fve thousand-have signed ! letter
addressed to the Hon. PIERRE SouLE, express
ing Their admiration Of his course in The Senate
OF the United States. and declaring that the
slgners have yet to learn that Mr.. SoULE's de.
fence OF tho institutions and constitutions
rights of the South ~justifes the suspicion of
treason to the Union. Among tie signers we
recognize some thirty or forty well known and
prominent Democrats. The remainder consist
chiefly OF adopted citizens, who may not unrea-
sonabIy be supposed to sympathize with Mr..
SoULE, aud to impute in some measure the op-
position he has encountered, to the fact that be
Is not native and to the manor born. This is,
Of course, a G reyious mistake, but it arises out
OF a susceptibility at once natural, and within
proper limits, p%raiseworthy.
Mr.. SouLE's reply is as follows:
New ORLEANS, Nov. IL, 1850.
Gentlemep:-I have before me the COMMUNE
cation you placed in my hands on yesterday, and
through which a great number of my fellow
citizens, of New Orleans and Latayeete, have
been pleased to express and to testify their ap-
probation Of my course in reference to the
measures lately pending before and passed III
to laws by The Congress Of the United States.
should be recreant to the feelings which
warm and prompt my heart, for so spontaneous
a manifestation OF your sentiments and kind
ness, were l to withhold from you the emotions
and gratitude it has awakened there. The IA
vor and applause which follow ones s%triyines
for the public good and the rights of all, and
ask no surrender OF ones deliberate judgment
upon such momentous questions as have SO
long and so seriously agitated and disturbed the
country, have charms that will ever be priced
by a public man; and you may rest assured that
] am not insensible to the weight, strength and
influence, my course and opinions will derive
f:om the support vi SO large and enlightened
a portion OF the popular constituency. Ny hear
ty thanks are due and rendered to the friends
who thus cheer mt up for the work | have pur-
suedin the Senate OF the Union, and who SO
generously vindicate my official character
against those foul and calumnious aspersions
which would turn into treachery, the humble
efforts 1 made in the defence Of those rights
which | was specially commissioned to main-
tain and protect. ! regard their appreciation as
a fresh incentive to march on and perseyere in
the path Of duty l have marked out for myself.
and TO rely, as | trustingly hope I shall ever do,
on that great maxim Of one who was greati
among the greatest, and whose precepts / sha |
strive to make my own, and follow, to wit:
"THAT ONE SHOULD NEVER ASK FOR ANYTHING
HAT Is NOT RIGHT, NOR B TO ANYTHING
H A IS WRONG "a -4. -~r= -
Be pleased, gentlemen, to accept my grateful
acknowledgements and my cordial good wishes
towards you collectively and individually.
shall ever remain your firm friend and de-
voted %servent, PIERRE SOULE.
s. s. HIGH, Frederic Durriye, F. Quarles,
L. J. Sigur, d. Mitchell, B Aevgno,
J. Genois, H. B. Kelly and Others, Committee.
Now the letter and the reply are about as
vague, inconclusive and unsatisfactory as any,
thing we have yet seen in the way of %epistola-
~ correspondence. Mr.. Van Buren, himself
could not have been more darkiy enigmatical.
The .Signers admire Mr.. SoULE's course in the
United States Senate. Will they tell us what
has been his course! It Is one of the problems
that every body seeks to solve. 1t is in vain
to refer the public to his speeches. They only
render darkness visible. They point to the
four quarters of the Compass. They are alter.
nately patriotic and seditious. Now they breathe
the most fervent attachment to the Union and
again, they stigma,ize all who submit to the
Compromise as fit only to become slaves. Anon,
they express the hearty desire of their author
to cooperate with the patriots and sages Of the
Senate in deTising suitable measures for tran
QUILTING the South and preserving the Union,
and a moment after, they glow and burn with
Indignation against every project submitted by
the Compromise Committee. Al that the ut
most ingenuity, coupled with the fixed deter
mination to be satisfied, can gather from these
oratorical efforts, is that Mr.. SouLE did not like
the Compromise. But this proves nothing.
Scores of congressman shared in Mfr. SouLE's
repugnance. Thousands Of citizens of the
South were opposed to the Peace measures. /.
The only question now is, shall we acquiesce,
or shall we resist! Every politician from the
South has shown his HANDSPRING and ex.
coping Nj. SouLE. Seventy nine among the
ablesr, purest and most devoted Democrats of
New Orleans call on him, respectfully and
courteously, to make known his views, and he
answers them with CALLING sarcasm and insult
ing yituperation.
The six hundred signe.s of the letter appro-
wing his course are evidently not a whit bet
ter informed on the subject than the mass of
the community. They do not know whether
Mr. SouLE. favors acquiescence or resistance,
whether he c~ounsels secession, or non-inter-
course, or retaliation. They seem to have got
up this demonstration out Of spite, and simply
to show that they have confidence in MI. SouLE.
Well their demonstration is certainly very in
nocent. They say in effect to the Honorable
Senator: ave don't know and we don't care
what your present views may be, but we want
to administer a rebnke to those scuryy seventy
nine who had the hardihood to interrogate you.
We don't exactly comprehend your position du.
ring the late session Of Congress; but we have
a giimmeriag sort of consciousness that you
were hostile to the Compromise. At all events,
we approve your course,-whateyer it NAV