Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-08-21
The Democratic Meeting at Bayou
GouIas
Reported for the Sentinel. !

Sd L uaiC Say VI liz "hjtIHiuS tiISIlci
repsented-I attended the Democratic Meeting
and Barbecue, held at Bayou Goula last Sat
Il day. Thinking it will interest your readers
| will endeavor to give an account Of the af
fair.
Certainly, had gone there expecting to heal
the Wing party and Gen. Scott abused, but
was wholly unprepared for the manner in which
they treated their subject. From the favora-
bic opinion | had formed Of those who | un-
dcrstood were to address the meeting, | be.
lieved they would refrain from all eXaggera.
tons and denagoue!sms, and contine them
| selves, if not to arguments at least to facts
You can Judge, therefore, how sadly | was dis
appointed when they presumptuously endea-
vorcd to palm off their assertions for facts, and
for arguments substituted loud and vain decIa-
ma ion. Every speaker, save one, introduced
his defamation by euIogi,ing Democracy and
casting vile imputations upon the Wing party.
Ex-Governor Isaac Johnson opened the e.
~erclseS. He declamed upon the beauties g Of
Democracy-on what it has accomplished for
the country (D-an euIogy on Gen. SCOTS mi
litary fame, and asserting his unti ness for civil
ofice-and closed by giving an e~uIogistic opin-
ion of Mr.. King, uithom saying q rord Of
Franklin Pierce!
Mr.. Moiese followed, making many f~ruitless
attempts at sarcasm and witticisms. But his
smiling lip, more given to that pleasing express
sion, refused TO obey the ungenerous desire,
and faultering in their application, their points
were found somewhat blunt.
He was followed by Mr.. Marigny, in French,
and as well as | could understand, he went into
the history Of the Rise and Progress" Of De-
Folks administration, in order to proye that all
the benefit the country had ever received WAS
the work Of the Democratic party. In order
to accomplish This end, he informed us under
whose administrations Louisiana, Texas, &c,
were acquired. His idea seemed to be, that
the greatest extent of territory made the great.
nation, and produced the greatest good 10
The people. If extent of territory were the
Of a peoples greatness, what a poor
puny, c%ramped- up nation must Great Britain
have been when the aborigines of the Ameri-
continent were a great and mighty people!
what would these vast territories be with
9ut railroads, canals, and improvements on
heir natural streams and rivers? And what
party is in favor of Internal Improvements p
ouk ynIl ma and r1rrt,r- ,rrc& ,,a,i
Iour lands profit you if you had no railroads,
annals or plank roads, to convey your produce
o market? What say you, people of Crosse
Thomas Green Davidson engaged The atten-
ion Of the audience for some time. He is a
cry funny old man, and calls all else "boyS." s
ie babe Us look upon his grey hairs, assuring
IS they had grown grey in The service of the i
Democratic party: and J! don't wonder at it.
or had he on many other occasions to rack his
rain as upon this, my only wonder would be
e had not grown grey much sooner. From
ne amount of the State Treasury which has
'und The way to his pocket, we all know him !
} be ~to|erabIy ancient. He undertook to de- I
md Gen. Pierce's vote against giving Mrs. ,
harrison the residue of her husbands salary.
nd acknowledged that it was his Democratic I
lends fault, and excused himself for prefix. r
General to Pierce's name. f
After repeated cries, Mr.. Dimitrv came on
re platform. He was greeted with much !;
and cries of French! English! He, a
owever, chose to split the difference, and af.
r addressing some words to the ladies' in
rench, in which he represented what a good [
Gen. Pierce would make, being so u
1ou 4 huSDanu ana so tlHd a father Gu. e;
as he any children land complimenting o.
enl very highly, he turned to what he said had
to him a more familiar language. He Fl
presented the Democratic party as a most j
ninent and successful "scloolmaster'- of
e pedagogue order, | should thinkl-and the Il
'hig party as a DIGGING and presumptuous Il
rhoolboy," under the Democratic "masters."
1e 'master," he said, had taught the Wings p
e lesson Of conquest. If so, let him remem-
r that the Romans had taught the hordes of n
that same lesson, and that they -
me down in their might and swept their
'chers frem among the nations of The earth.
ware then, oh. Democracy, for on the I'd of !
next your fate, according to your 8
n prophet, will inevitably be The same as Is
1t of the Romans. This was not the only re
int worthy of attention, for in giving The ne
Of Gen. Pierce, and in recountjnr a
many offices he had filed and declined. his on
at inte'le ctual powers, &c, be testified that, bb b.
to himself, he knee nothing and only heardM.