Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-10-11
PLA4UEMlNE:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER IL, 1851.
Locofoco Love for the Union.

we frequently t1he Pieaoule III e"I'e'hS
from the New Orleans Bee, most excellent ar
ticles upon various political topics, but none
that we have yet published d'embraces within it
more force, and truth than the following, which
will be read with interest by all who are
friends of the Union, and detest humbuggery:
The Locofocos are just now boasting of
their enormous love for the Union They,
never discovered the condition of their hearts,
until after their friends and colleagues had
been beaten out of sight, for advocating doc
trines hostile to the Union. So lately found
and so violent an attachment is exceedingly
suspicious.
What do facts establish! Who were the
determined opponents of the Compromise in
Congress, fighting against that measure as des-
perately as Gddngs, Seward, Chase and Hale!
Southern Locofocos !sh1essrs. Soule, Borland,
Sebastian, Mason, Hunter, Butler, &c, in the
Senate; the Locofocos of Virginia, Louisiana,
Alabama, and indeed every rother southern
State, in the House. There were of course
exceptions to this rule-Messrs. Foote and
Downs stand forth from their associates like
meteors at midnight,> "more fiery from sur
rounding blackness."
Whence. came the threats of breaking up
the confederacy; of placing before the South
the issue of Secession! Who refused to ac-
quiesce in the Compromise Who denounced
it with the utmost hyperbole of inSective!
Who spouted disunion in both branches of the
National Legislature Why Southern Loco
focos, to be sure. The faetis known, undeni-
able, rrefutable. Except Judge Berrien, in the
Senate, and Mr.. Clingn5an, N. c., in the House,
we do not think that words Of resistance Or
! <bo from,
solitary Southern Wing.
| Immediately after the adjournment of Con-
gress, these agitators-these opponents Of the
Compromise, whom the Della regards as
transcendantly excellent Union men, set to
work to inoculate the whole South, with the
deadly poison Of Carolina distractions. They
preached the doctrine of peaceable secession in
all the South, and strove desperately to per-
suade people that the Compromise was so
frightfu an aggression, so utterly intolerable a
grievance, that the lovely philosophy of peaeea-
Bile secession ought to be practically applied,
and that the South should prepare to abandon
/ an Union fraught only with injustice and sec
tional oppression. Such or similar views, mo-
dified somewhat by the particulafslocality, and
the aptitude of the people for imbibing treason,
were spread throughout Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi, by those sancti6ed lovers Of Union,
those ssbeatifed athletics" of the Democratic
faith, who profess nowadays to be the only
genuine and consistent Union men.
WE'LL the elections came on, and they ascer-
tanned that their efforts had proved fruitless
/ They had sown their seed in an ungrateful
4 soil. They had failed to disseminate the We.
4 nom of South Carolina politics, albeit they
strove diligently in this labor of love. To be
brief, disunion was crushed, peaceableu seces.
sion knocked into cooked hat, and anti-con,.
promiseism SO awfully mauled that it has
scarcely, dared to rear it's head since.
And then, 10! and behold! change came
over the spirit of Locofocoism, and it waxed
sorrowful, and it wept, and thenit became COM
forted, for it knew that it could once again
take heart and win favorby abandoning its un.
popular issues, and by adopting its customary
game of s4bIety and delusion. No sooner said
than DONE With rapidity of transformation
that would put. BLITzE to shame, and beat
GRIMALDl himself, these precious Locofocos
metamorphosed themselves into patent Unior
men, cease abusing the Compromise, swear il
is an universal panacea, drop Soule and Rhet
and Quitman, and the rest of the dsunienists
and sustain Gems. Downs and Foote and the
Compromise democrats. Last and best
thoug oh not chary of touching Mr.. Soule, ant
absolutely mute when Morseas name is men
toned. they are trying to prove that the Demo
Gratis are the only real friends of the Union.
From all this, the inference is clear enough
The Democratic leaders have no fixed princi
pies. They fought for disunion in open ant
disguised shapes, SO long as they imagined
they could make it popular issue. Experi
encing reverses with SO abhorred creed, the
coolly cast it aside, turn round and support tn
Compromise, look innocent and smiabIe, an
express undisguished astonishment at bein
charged with having ever countenanced disu
| nion. a. #
Oh! Locofocoism! Thy name is HUN
BUGGERY!
CEsrRAL.-The geographical centre Of tn
United States, at the present time, is in the Il
d;on territory. 100 miles west Of the Missoul