Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-08-23
yUhiR Ratification Meeting.

According to previous nouces' maoe hno"'
| through this paper and by handbiIls' the Wing:
| Of the Parish of Iberyille met at the Court
house in Plaquemine on Saturday last.
Col. R. A. STEWART was chosen President
and Col. A. S. ROBERTSON and NARclssE LIE
B,Asc. Vice Presidents. w. P. BRADBURN
Y. BIou1s and ADo1pHE HEBERT, Secretaries
The President briefly explained the object O.
the meetipg-principally to ratify the nomina
ton Of EUGENE BABlN, to the House of Rep
resentatiyes, in the place of Mr.. WATSON, de-
clined.
Mr.. W DupUY thought, that before his no
mination was ratified, the meeting should be
assured Gas he was not presently whether Mr.
| Babin would support the whole Wing ticket.
E. w. BLAKE Esq, succeeded by MIR. Il
BLouIS, earnestly and warmly asserted that the
nominee would support the Wing ticket entire
| and lend to it all the influence he possessed
| that there was no division in his feelings upon
this matter-whereupon,
On motion of Mr.. v. J. DuPUY, the nomlna-
ton of EUGENE BAB1N was ratified by acclaim
alton.
Mr.. BLAKE then offered the following reso-
luton:
ResolaeJ, That a Committee of five be appointed
F.! to report the sense of this meeting In regaia 10 &c.
| commencing a suitable person as a canolua'e "a
| the wing party of the Sd Congressional Dlslllcs ~
r-o w WafferSt0n. resigned.
This resolution was adopted unanimously
and the President appointed w. A. Read +.
w. Blake, S. Leblanc, W. C. Adams and Mr..
McGavock, as said committee.
Mr.. UPToy arose, and after some appropriate
remarks, calling upon the Wings to be harmo-
mons and untiring in their exertions, offered
the following resolution, which was carried
unanimously:
RESOLVED, That this meeting will cordially sup
port the Wing nominees for the various offices.
The committee appointed through the above
resolution of Mr.. Blake, then returned and
made the following report:
Resolved. That it is with regret that this meet
ing has learned that Geo. w. Watterston has de-
clined the nomination for Congress by the conven-
ton which assembled at Baton Rouge, on the 18th
ult., and without expressing its preference tor any
particular candidate, processes itself ready to sup.
port any good Wing who may be brought forward
by this or other parishes as a candidate for the
Third District.
MI, V. J. DupUY then moved that the ratifi-
cation Of Mr.. H. S. Browns nomination as
School Superintendent be made BY reclamation,
which was accordingly carried.
The same gentleman then remarked, that as
a matter 0 fjustice to the Wing candidates for
two other Offices, and as it had been made an is
sue by the Notwithstanding all the local
candidates-he moved that nominations be
made for Coroner and Assessor. AS the can-
didates or their friends made no objection, the
meeting proceeded forthwith upon this bust
ness.
Mr.. J.. H. HAAsE was first nominated by ac-
clamation, for Assessor.
There being three candidates for the Coro-
nership, H. Worsbam, J. S. Webb, and G.
Kleinpeter, they were voted for by ballot; the
votes being counted, stood as follows:
Webb 23-Worshaln 16-Kleinpeter 7.
Whereupon J. s. Webb was declared elect
ed, and it was sanctioned by the meeting by &C.
clamation.
Col. STEWART then rose and begged leave
to offer a few remarks. This was an impor-
tant election. Mr.. Babin was the nominee a
few years since, and was then defeated through
want of harmony. The Wings have since Bit
terIy repented of this act. In consequence of
the defeat then Of Mr.. Babir, that Judas, P.
Soule, who has betrayed the feelings and
interests of his constituents, was sent to the
u. s. Senate. Another Senator is to be elected
by the next Legislature, and the brother of the
who beat Mr.. Babin formerly, is his
opponent now. Shall we, wings, (ferventIy ex-
claimed Col. S. have a second Souk from
Louisiana?
Of the modern Democratic platform, the
Colonel was peculiarly ~severe-but the severity
arose from the truth of his remarks. His De-
mocratic friend, Col. Edward Robertson, said
Col. S. [but here a gentleman at his elbow
whispered that he was not a Colonel no mat
ter, replied the speaker, he ought to to- be: my
Democratic friend, he continued, assured the
people in the Democratic Convention in this
house, that the present Constitution of Lou
isiana was a Democratic Constitution, in which
it is stated that Judicial officers shall be created
by appointment but now, Colonel Robertson
says that an Electric Judiciary is a Democratic
measure, when in fact it is directly antagonist
cal to the Constitution they formed! But this
was in union with most Of the principles Of
their platform, if they had any. The Colonel
was excited at the idea of the gentleman men,
TONED. in claiming the Elective Judiciary as a