Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-08-31
The Feeling i'm Louisiana.

subjects that have lately, and are still, ~agitatine
the Union, we can safely and proudly set dowr
. Louisiana as decidedly opposed in sentiment
to the ultra and hatched-up doctrines lin which
there is more gas than substance) contained
, in the late Protest Of the Ten Senators Of 81,
Southern States. She is warmly in favor o
compromise upon all matters where right is no
6xedly established by the Constitution.
It should be ~perceptible to every mind-ant
none more SO than the peoples representatives
that in framing q constitution for a %countr,
and a people such as the United States Go
vernment comprise, those patriots whose duty
it was to perform this herculean task, great, en-
lightened, and magnanimous as were there
minds acknowledged to be, must have beer
gifted with divine prescience, to have looked in
to futurity, witnessed our unexampled growth
the new wants, and the new principles thai
would spring up, and frame articles to meet
every contingency. It is supremacy ridiculous
to conceive that they had any such powers Of
supreme intellect, and that the constitution OF
our country fully covers every principle that
has manifested itself since the war with Mexico
our great acquisition Of territory, the rapidly
peopling Of California, and other matters grow
ing ont Of our acquisitions by conquest on the
Pacific.
This truth being evident to every enlighten,
ed land unprejudiced mind, Senators and Rep
resentatives, in our humble opinion, should re-
fleet well before they endeavor to apply the
constitution literally to every new feature that
has originated out of this unprecedented state
Of affairs in the history Of Governments
The only remedy to be applied to a national diff
fculty of SO grave q nature, is the remedy
comp, oanise and good feeling among members
from erery section Of the Union. Unfortunate
ly, thin is not the case at present at the capital
of our Government. Hitherto, and not long
since, the North was foremost in its fiery, ram
pant, wicked and bitter animosity to every
measure that in any manner seemed to bene-
fit, or was tainted with, Southern interests but
now the tables are turned, and while there EVIL
IDENTIFY appears Ito be a feeling among the
Northern members of Congress to adjust the
present embarrassing subjects relating to
slavery and the admission of our new terrific
RES, which feeling should Through every con-
sideration and every prejudice) be met with a
spirit of generosity and chivalry on the part of
the South, a contrary action is endeavorsdsto.
be brought about by a clique Of Southern fan.
atics, who, to our mind, if the truth could be
tested by vote, would no more represent the
feelings and wishes of their constituents, than
would the local interests Of their constituents
represent the interests of the whole Union.
Among this noted clique of aTen" who have
thus dared to protest against the good sense
and discretion Of the wisest body that ever as
sembled upon earth, is the name Of q distin.
guished gentleman from this. State, who, fail
ing in making himself a Demosthenes in the
Senate-in making bis thrilling eloquence there
as effective as he found it upon the cypress
stumps Of Louisiana-falls back, as a recourse
to notoriety, upon the principle that characteri-
yes the snperfcials Of his native land, and bold
~ talks of secession and revolution! Where
is the jjournalth . will dare to say that in Pierre
Soule, o native Of France, is centred the feeling
and patriotismssof louisiana His name is
to a declaration, as i were, Of inde-
pendence OF the part Of the ScuthEa d~eclara-
that declares ten men to have more know
than all the rest Of the Senate combined,
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