Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-07-27
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The New President.

the press generally (without distinction OF par
ty) relative to the future course to be persued
by the new Observation-Disclosures by the dis
pensation Of an allwise Providence a nation
has been again shrowded in mourning by the
loss it has SO recently experienced. The heim
| of our government has fallen in the hands OF a
| man who has excited a lively interest in the
| mind of this nation, and on whose future ac-
tons the eyes of countless millions are cast IN
anxious anticipation.
Willard Fillmore, the acting President OF
| these United States, is a man well calculated
for the position he has been called upon to NIL.
He has entered upon his responsible duty, pos
sessing the entire confidence of his countrymen'
and particularly that of his own party under
the most threatening crises known to the h'sto-
ry of our country.
Reared in poverty and obscurity, he has by
his strenuous and untiring exertions been the
architect of his own greatness-and though
the distractions which he had to encounter in
his onward march to distinction were appar-
entity great and insurmountable, yet, an I'M
bending energy and determined will has eie-
waited him to the very pinacle of fame and to
the very zenith Of human glory and human hap
piness.
From his earliest days, up to the present
perio d he has occupied a conspicuous position
in the political world. And reared as he has
been under the ~strictest decipline of party do
minion, he has become familiarly conpersant
with the earliest political history Of our coun-
try, as we'll as the wants best calculated to
enhance our national prosperity.
In his patriotic feelings and sound judgment,
he at once discards all that bears a semblanee
to sectional feelings and sectional jeaIousies.-
Firm, yet liberal in his political faith, his own
party rest satisfied to entrust to his guardian
ship the sacred principles which they advocate;
and they Look confidently forward at the man.
ner in which he will meet the great and ex-
citing questions which at present agitate this
country and threatens the dissolution Of its
federative compact.
1t is asserted by the democratic party that
his principles are not a little tainted with abo-
litionism, and that we have no positive assur-
ance of his friendship to our southern institu-
tons! But must it not be likewise conceded,
that he is a man whose paoiotic.feelings and
strong predictions for the preservation Of the
Union will prompt him to adhere firmly to the
dictstes Of reason and pay a due regard to the
relative rights and common interest Of the sey-
eral distinct States or Sovereignties united,
which together form this beautiful federative
compact. Besides this, let us carefully pur-
sue and examine the various productions from
the pen ofMr. Fillmore on the slavery ques-
ton, and we assert that no one, who after a
careful exercise of his own Judgment orreason,
but who will readily admit that from the infer
ences they give. rise to that he is a strong
friend and adherent to the interests OF our
southern institutions. If then he entertains
such views we are assured that his course will
be such a one as forever to set at rest and de-
finitively settle all sectional dmerences WHICH
exist between the north and south on a ques-
ton of right which SO Immediately interest US
all. ~ Aa.f
Mi. Fillmore has but to discharge faithfully
and fearlessly the important duties which ne
cessarily devolyes upon him in all the leading
questions of agitated interests which are now
absorbing the thoughts Of the greatest intelfccts
Of our country, and to pursue with answering
determination the course pointed out+by Hist
lustrious predecessor, and time the arbiter ofall
things, will lay bare to our view th~eitriumphh he
will achieve in this course of action-and pos
terity will look upon his administration as one
richly deserving to be followed by future ages
-AsD LLAIA LE-a. - -t