Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-07-31
End of the 4th Volume.

End of the 9Th Volume.
This day four years ago, the Sentinel made
its advent under the management Of IFS present
proprietor, and made it under most disadran-
tageous circumstances. 1t was our first at,
tempt as a country Journalist, and we entered
upon our dnties with no bright hopes before
us; for We had always been under the impress
sion that conducting a country paper was
about the worst business which n man in good
health and willing TO work could apply the
will and the muscle with which his Creator had
gifted him; but having just left a similar voca-
ton, where we had performed perhaps unex-
ampled mental and physical labor, we were not
adverse to the undertaking in a different field.
unpropitious as the prospect seemed. So, with
the assistance of friends whose acts will ever
find a green spot in our memory, whatever
they may think of Us, we transferred the flag
of Old Zach from The National to The Sentinel.
and commenced 10 battle ia Ell snesl-meataA1,
for the success of principles which we had
&c I'bNiN IL w 7 Hbu HihtI We btlitN Z
to be The most correct to ensure the prosperity
of the country; physically, for the ordinary
wants and neces>aries of life. Unaided and
unassisIed, Ivy the pen or mechanically, we
Struggled, with efforts which few have any
conception, to establish our journal upon a
firm and permanent basis, against which re-
WILSON'S of private feeling and The chameleon
spirit of party, might fruitIpssly batter against
with its venom and its spleen. And proud
" can we acknowledge, by the assistance of
generous spirits through 'every trial, the sue
ces>fuI attainment Of that permanent basis. so
far as human foresight extends.
In our cou'>e up 10 the close of the present
number-pubIiciy we mean, as n journalist,
for privately we are subject TO no monitors
save God Almighty and The laws of the land
we have had the errors, The difficulties and the
contentious to which all political editors are
subject; but we think that we can say with
that truth which will not be contradicted by
unprecedented minds. that our columns have ne.
yer been disgraced by immoral selections, or
by low, vltuperative, personal attacks in our
editorials. With our contemporaries we have
always endeavored to be on The best of terms
and in no one instance have We ever made an
unkind personal ~aIiusion against any one of
them, or allowed a correspondent TO do so; for
the freedom of the press only extends to the
criticizing of the public acts of public men
this, at least, is its acknowledged definition.
and editorially we endeavor to keep as near
this principle as the errors aud passions of hu-
man nature will permit US; we do not con-
strue that such freedom means that our COL
umns are free for the lucubrations of all, per-
sonaI or otherwise; we admit only what we
think proper, and no personal article, under
any pretence, can a correspondent ever get in-
to this paper, while it is our property. The
path of life of all of us, of whatever profess
sion, is certainly chequered enough with trou-
bles and trials, in endeavoring to make an no.
nest Roadway by constant toll in the business
IN which we are engaged, without meddling
with the concerns and acts of any, or seeking
to create personal alterations and difficulties
with our fellow creatures, or pandering to the
tastes and passions Of others in the %circula-
lion of attacks, whether true or false, have but
one end-the engendering of bitter and con-
%tentious feelings, from which no good certainly
can arise.
Thus much, personally, we may be permit
ted to say, in the last number of our fourth
volume. When we commenced, we certainly
calculated, from the troubles and difficulties
which we saw looming up before US, that our
valedictory would long since have been writ
ten; but here we are still, with the same por-
tentous clouds ahead, with the same mental
and physical labor necessarily to be perform.
I'd. Whether that valedictory will ever be
or how soon. is a question which
circumstances alone can control. To those
kind friends. we will say in conclusion. who
have stood by US for the last four years,
through sunshine and through Storm" re-
our most grateful acknowledgements;
md we beg them to rest assured, that all the
we possess, while we remain at this
post, will be devoted to the maintenance of
Wing principles, in an honest and upright
and to the harmony and unanimity of
he Wing party.
c. Jenny Lind has concluded to quit the
world of song and turn authoress. At last &C.
cunts, a contemporary in the East says she was
a small edition of "GoIdschmidt's
animated Nature!"