Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-11-01
our Legislative Ticket.

interests Of this Parish and of our comme
country-haye nothing to fear: We are no
decidedly sure, from every indication upc
which some reliance can be placed as to tt
result of an election, that the whole represe1
tation of IbeFyille will be Wing, and in Il
next WING Legislature, take a proud stand
point of number and talent. At the beginnin
, of the canvass, we feared a different result
: but since then the tide Of popular feeling hf
been rolling too rapidly in one direction, to
unnoticed by the dulIest penetration. Thi
brightness of prospects should nerve the Wing
and the friends of the Wing platform, from tn
present moment till Monday afternoon, to ea
traordinary exertions that, if W. have calcula
ted too sanguincly upon success, we may nc
be defeated through incrtness and inaction,-
and, il right in our calculation, we may max
our triumph the more signal and overwhelm
Ing.
Already having one Wing Senator in the per
son of that able, patriotic and talented gentle
man, Col. S. NJ. D. CLARK, of West Bator
Rouge, who has grown grey as it were in the
service of the State, of a liberal and enlightened
mind, cognizant of all the wants of the people:
we will have rs his colleague, elected without
! opposition, that other veteran and distinguished
public laborer, ZENoN LABAUvE, than whom
no one knows better our interests, and who
through his long term of service in the Legls-
lature, from this Parish, ever retained not only
the hearty good will and gratitude of his con-
s%tituents and his party, but, more than any
other man, perhaps, received upon all occasions
of his public acts, evidences Of the highest re-
spect and confidence of the most violent of his
political opponents.
With these two distinguished and practical
statesmen, from our Parish, at all times to be
found in the van where trouble, and danger are
to be met, and where zeal and ability are in
dispensable, we place in the House ournomi-
nees, JAMES H. JOHNSTON and EUGENE BABIN,
our phalanx will be complete and able, and
unwavering in their course for our interests
here, and the interests and honor of the State
and the Union.
Mr.. JOHNSTON is a young and unassuming
gentleman, of a mind peculiarly liberal and
just in its conceptions of men and things, en-
riched with a fine theoretical and practical edu-
cation, uninauenced by prejudices, local or gen.
eral, and fully alive to the necessities and re-
quirements of his constituents-and upon great
party questions, sustaining principles of high
dear to the people and the Union, he
will ever be found as true as the needle to the
pole, and as invulnerable as steel to the willy |
intrigucs of cliques and partizans, in the dis
charge of his duty, andthe Maintenance of his
and reputation as a representative from
[beryille,
Mr.. EUGENE BAB1N Is better known, per-
haps, than Mr.. JoHNsToN-for two reasons,
irst, because he was reared in the Parish, and
he was before the people for the
anne office on a former occasion, when he was
IL feated through a division of the Wings; and
me great consequence of this, was the election
# PIERRE SoULE to the Senate of the United
name which will ever be held infa-
nous in the annals of this State, and likewise
the annals Of the Republic he is the first
coming to this country at the age of
manhood, who has ever attained his high posi-
and the first, and we trust the last, who
as ever made use of it (taking advantage of
thermal troubles) to give utterance to senti-
rents, if successful, calculated to dismember
,e Union, soak our soil in revolutionary blood, c
nd eventually raise upon one of the fragments S
f our glorious Union, then broken and dis /
a similar vile and bloody crown as the ii
of his own land. The people of
,e Parish have now an opportunity, in the per- i:
IN of Mr.. BAB1S, not only to do him justice a
" past dereliction, but to rebuke the vote that o
as cast for this Senator. Of Mr.. BAB1N's in Il
principle as a Wing, as to his fear h
IS and unfinching determination, rs to his abb A
to proclaim the rights and speak the wants p
his constituents, no one will deny. He e
ould have a vote to be proud OF, and he WILL t.
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The above are before you, vo'ers, for your til
ffrage on Monday. If you wish the Compro- q
se kept inuiolable, a Convention, an Elective W
Free Banking, Internal Improve p
'nts, your homes saued from the Sherif's ham, W
r, a better plaza for schooling your children, to
'uLE reprimanded, and a son Of your o,on soil h.
to Washington, put in the "WHIG TICK. al
on which there is a host of able and popu- b.
names for various Offices, who, themselves, M
d many of their fathers, are as we'll known tn
you as your W brothers. lii
One last huzza, then, for the principles Of pr
People, and death to Demagoueism, to b
and to Tyranny! ha
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are indebted to that excellent journal, m