Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-09-25
SCOTS Prospects.

Regardless of the imputation that our views
are prejudieed, and that we are unable, from
external evidences, to form any just estimate
of the political feeling of the country with re-
gard to the Presidential election, we neverthe-
less boldly declare to the Wings of lberyi!le,
and to those higt-mindcd Democrats who are
determined not to be lead to the ballot-boN like
sheep to the slaughter house, that in our calm
and deliberate judgement, weak as it is, the
gallant defender Of lis country, WINFIELD
Sort, vii! be elected to the Presidency by an
immense majority. Therefore, be of good
cheer here at home, and work with that alacrity
and zeal which bright hopes and cheering signs
infuse into our breasts.
From our peculiar position as being connect
ed with the newspaper business" we have had
an opportunity during several Presidential
campaigns of watching the great wave of pub
lie opinion, and We can truly say that we have
never known it to rebound and set with such
force in favor Of any candidates, as cvinccd
by the n~oiseless yet certain reaction of the
last five or six weeks, in favor of the Wing
nominees. In the silent but unerring indica-
ton Of hosts of independent Democrats fall
ing into the ranks Of the old hero, the fire eat
ers of the party discover an omen Of their
defeat, and are consequently the more boiste-
rous and uncompromising. The truth of the
following remarks, from the Louisiana Specta-
tor, must be apparent to all:
"The growing violence Of Democratic jour-
mails is a significant omen of Wing success
That self-confdent tone. that compliment sat
~isfaction visible a month since in the columns
of the Democratic press, have entirely disap-
peared. Every article is now stepped in bitter
ness. Every exploded charge is re-issued and
spread broad cast over the land. Peculation-
cowardice-charges, which a few years since
it would have been unsafe to utter in any CON-
munity against Gen. Scott, are boldly trumpet
ed through the land. Even blasphemy is re-
sorted to, to give point to the vindictiveness
which characterizes leading Democratic jour-
mails. This is an unmistakable evidence of con-
scious weakness"
Nor is the truth of the following paragraph,
from the same paper, less evident. The editor
in noticing the fact of the lack of enthusiasm
when the Wing candidates were first nominal
ted, says:
"Tbroughout the entire Republic, however,
there was an admiration of Gen. Scott which
neither time could weaken nor circumstances
change. Coming forward as soon as the no
mination was announced, with the frankness of
the soldier, and the warmth of the tried patriot,
Gen. Scott, by assuming the broadcast national
grounds, and spurning all appeals to sections,
touched a sympathetic cord in the American
heart. A reaction has commenced, which is
visible in almost every State"
Action, then, action-and let US assist to
swell the majority for our ScorT, which the
meetings, letters, and pole-raisings Of Demo-
Gratis, in various sections of the country, prove
most conclusively that he will receive on the
ID of November next. In the language of a
ate letter writer, "the same causes that elected
HARRISON and TAYLOR, will elect :
SCOTT. Human nature and the principles of ,
Iuman action have been the same throughout =
II the ages of the world; and you might as q
rell attempt to control the winds and waves as r
0 resist this, the offspring, not of phrenzy, t
ut gratitude on the part of the people. 1t
the honest discharge of an obligation they h
we to those who have risked their lives and fl
n ScoTr's case) shed their blood in their f.
defence" If