Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-11-22
PLAQUEMINE:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1851.
The South and the Union

The South and the Union.
Wherever disunion has reared its hideous
form at the South, says the Savannah Repubh-
can, it has been crushed by the good sense and
patriotism of the people. In Tennessee-in
Alabama-in Mississippi-in Georgia and even
South Carolina, the people-the sovereign
people--have risen up in their majesty and
might, and signally rebuked those political de-
magogues, who have been trying to seduce
them into schemes Of treason and rebellion
against the government of our fathers. At
the elections in South Carolina on Monday
and Tuesday last, for delegates TO attend a
Southern Congress- the cohorts of Secession
have been defeated, and the people of that
gallant State have spurned and repudiated the
heresies of Rhett, Quitman and Mcdonald
have hushed the last bugle note of Secession
within its borders and have declared in favor
of the Union as it is.
So far as the South is concerned, the coun-
try is safe. We now consider the South
united upon the principles laid down by the
people of Georgia, in their Convention of De-
cember, 1850.
In all this contest the South has preserved
conscience void of offence. VIII the North
perform her vows to the governments Will
she follow the example of the South, and ex-
pei from her midst the spirit of fanaticism and
insubordination, which threatens the nation
with destruction and desolation! Will she
heed the warning voice of the South when we
say to her let US alone? Georgia--the South
says to the North: BE not deceived, the
destiny of the Union is in your hands. Awake
from your fatal dream Of your security. Inthe
integrity Of your patriotism, and the strength
of united action, rise up against all dsorgan-
ising heresies Assemble in the yenerated
halls where your forefathers and our forefath-
ers together signed the Constitution, and re-
deem the City of Brotherly Love from the re-
| proach of nourishing its foe. Go up to Tam
many and the Tabernacle, and expel from the
| national emporium the genius Of discord. Con-
yene in the time-honored Faneuil, and in the
name Of Washington, exercise the evil spirit
from the cradle of Liberty. Everywhere
East, North, West, decree its Punishment from
the highest places of power. You owe the
country this lustration. As for Georgiahs fol
the South her choice is fraternity and union
her alternative self preservation, by all the
4 means which fayoring Providence may place
at our disposal Whilst, on the one hand, we
have suffered long and sacrificed much, fol
the sake of peace and harmony, we have foune
| it necessary on the other, for our own security
to Law down rules, and mark out line fol
our future course, which will be adhered to BY
us, and must be observed and respected BY
others, come what may. AS we of the Soutf
are now united for the preservation Of the 60
yernment so will we be united to resist, ever
10 the destruction Of the Government, any VIC
lation Of our sacred rights, enumerated in ou
PLATFORM. Should then the unwelcome da.
ever arrive when the maintenance ofour right
will involve sacrifice of the Union, let th'
curse follow the aggressors, and let the ag
gressors tremble