Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-07-19

personal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES not assumed for
the occasion, but known to emanate from natu.
raj feelings, from a long and intimate know
ledge by those whose suffrages the confidence
of their party has placed them forward to So
licit. We cannot doubt that the Democracy
will exert every nerve in the coming contest
In truth they have cause to do so; and the
foremost men of the party are working with
zeal hitherto unequaled-
"a v~aulting ambition which o~'erleaps itself'-
for, in their defeat, they will learn the truth
too late--tbat it is not every man who knows
,ohat to say and uhen to say it. Among the
Wings of the Parish there are as able, eloquent
and energetic men, and consummate tacticians,
as can be produced in any section of this or
any other State; had we not those men
amongst us--upon whom our thoughts now
rest, and upon whom we look with q confidence
not to be shaken--our mind, and the minds OF
others like US who are but privates in the ranks,
might we'll despond; but no such feeling can
for an instant take possession Of our breast.
Correspondents may write, boast, exalt the
hopes of their friends at a distance--but facts
are stubborn things; and in November next
the visions they have c%onjured up will be dis.
pelled-the mantle of hope will fall at the
ment it would have been worn-and yai
tons sink into the sweeping cure renhnnt a.a
to have borne them on, again b tho order Of
exulting. If principles r. uh.t h.vo ao
the day, as they Shout a. ~na' nave our op-
ponents gained opponents ,erywhe'e-
since lo40 .z1rgies and talents of their orators
US, al Y throughout the Union, can never
"'l /fetrieve-which, indeed, must so divide
Lid engulph the party, as, in a short time,
to lose it the name Democracy which mainly
has made it triumphant in former days. Our
allusion cannot be mistaken. Free-soihsm and
Disunion-in the North, in the West ard in the
South-are undeniably the cancerous eruptions
which are blotching and destroying not only
all that was fair and seemly in the Democratic
party, but have unquestionably and indisputa-
bly, placed a very large minority of chat party
at this day, in the attitude Of being the Dis
organizers Of the Union ; who, through jealousy
and overweening ambition to be uppermost,
have aroused in their breasts the demon of des-
truction; and sooner than be defeated BY the
Wings, or political cIiques among themselves,
would sacrifice the constitution, the capitol,
every glorious inheritance that we possess,
our fair lands and fair daughters, npon the al
tiers of their unholy pride and Robespierreic
ambition-wading through a sea Of blood and
peridy to success, should the earth sink and
a sea of ruin entomb all in one common grave.
This is strong l~anguage-it may be called
transcendental language-but the times are rife
with danger, with reasonable Vaccinations,
and there should be men in every quarter of
our country who are willing and able 70 use
strong language. Is there a man in this Parish,
free and unprejudiced, who keeps his mind
stored with the political truths Of the day, who
will deny what we have asserted? Of what
party are Quitman, Soule, Morse, the Seces.
sionists Of Alabama and South Carolinae OF
the Democratic party. Who are Van Buren,,
Benton, and lesser lights? Democratic lead
ers, who have leagued their fate with Free-soil-
Abolition, and exerting their energies, secretly
and publicly, 10 effect their purposes at every
sacrifice.
We say this much-and would that we had
the ability to portray great truths in a more
light-that the people Of this Parish
and elsewhere should be aroused, and meet
Democratic zeal with Union zeal, and zeal for
personal sesty-zeal for the happiness of those
who follow them. 1t is a mighty struggle in
which the Democracy-the Free.soil Democ-
,acy of the North and the Secession Democ-
acy of the South-are now engaged, and if
successful, mighty and monstrous will be their
towards Revolution and Disunion! The
balIot-box will defeat their designs,
nd there, in this Parish, and We trust through
nut the State, they will receive it, notwith-
the spasmodic exhultations Of letter.
Recollect, we do not charge the De-
aocracy Of Louisiana, with being tainted with
heinous principles alluded to-as a mass.
hey are generous, ~high-minded and liberal,
at would warn them Of leaders who would
and destroy their dearest rights and
lost halloWed associations. We would in
them that another United States Senator
to be elected at the next Legislature, and
do they nor ourselves, wish another :
man with foreign principles to dis :
the Senate chamber Of the capitol-we ];