Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-08-09
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collections, mingled as they always. must be,
with many that are painful, inadvertently crowd
upon the mind. Ia looking back to that time,
and Surveying the part we have acted in the in.
tervening period in the sphere allotted us by
destiny, We conscientieusly feel that we have
done our duty-acting in good faith towards our
neighbors, and in supporting industriously and
zealously the interests of a party with which
we are connected, and which we believe to
be inseparable from the interests of the peo-
pie.
By this course we have reason to believe that
we have gained many friends, and if enemies
are arrayed against us, it is the inevitable con-
sequence of success-and that we have sue
ceeded to an extent and under circumstances
that have marked the career of few country pa
pers, is a fact which we feel proud to acknow-
ledge, and for which w are grateful,
1t is certainly not the most pleasant vocation
in the world to be the conductor of a political
journal-but that career having been allotted to
US by the force of circumstances, it is our right
and our duty, so long as we remain in that
capacity, to exert ourself boldly and fearlessly
in the advocacy of principles which we have be-
come attached to after mature reflection, and
from the conviction that such principles tend to
our social and national prosperity. The main
feature of those principles is Protective Tariff
for all the great staples of our country, that
industry may open its portals to the active and
energetic, and the produce of our soil and our
manufactures reap a sure and good harvest;
this is the main pillar of a republican form of
government, and inevitably insures to the peo-
pie, through its operations, a life of compare
lively few wants, Of economy which produces
happiness, and of wealth too to crafty the
longings of the most ambitious.
The Banking system we conceive, likewise,
(of course ona secure basis) to be inseparable
from the interests of the people of this country,
or in fact, from the people of any country where
the credit system is so universal. In times of
peeuniary difficulties, similar to those which
we are at present experiencing in this Parish,
owing mainly-to misfortunes beyond the con-
troll Of man, the people must suffer to a great
extent from the inability to make or collect mo-
ney their notes become due, their crops hays
been destroyed, no money can be had except
at a ruinous sacrifice, and thus the best of men
must Sink; all other classes equally suffer;
they are unable to make collections, have to
procure money at the same u~surious rates from
private sources, and thus the whole order and
business of society are upset and disananged
when,i if a Bank was in operation to afford ia
cilities at a moderate premium, all these sad
disasters would be avoided.
. An Elective Judiciary is another principle
which we are in favor of, and which is a princi-
pie universally sanctioned by The Wing party
throughout the State the Democratic party
likewise adopts it, and that reason to our own
and every liberal mind, does not make it the
less pure and acceptable, We should think
the Democrats among the people have as
cause to change the present system as
The Wings, q 5aeurly 50 ; we want no more
Judges Dl instance through Executive will
md faror; let them be placed on the bench by
those whose interests are at stake-by the free
of each Judicial District.
Internal improvements, too, by the national
Government, IS a principle which the Wings
1ave ever sanctioned: it is a system at once
belonging TO the progress Of the age, and par
beneficial and urgent ina country SO
vast, powerful and energetic as this comprised
two oceans-where liberty and free
alone exist, and over whose vast do
Mains her active and industrious peoplesare ev-
i travelling and settling themselves, and Guilt
the earth for the benefit of far distant
in their " land, and for others, in
quarters of the globe. Should not Co
'ernment, then, extend every facility towards
he clearing Of rivers andharbors, and granting
he right Of way to the railway. caroyer bound
p~rairies, and through dense forests, which
the extension Of population and civil
through the inability Of getting their
to q market?
Another and all-powerful principle with us,
md with the Wings, to a man, throughout
his State and the Republic, is an answering
owe, and all-abiding confidence, in the Union
the Union Of the States under all circum-
which embrace reason and common
Iense. Where is the Wing who talks of Estate
of secession" Of Disunion'-of
musket to aid South Carolinar
70 where! Our political opponents may rave
nd rant but the principle Of Disunion and
Southern Confsderacy their Democratic lead
have drawn upon them and if they think