Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-05-01
The Kind of Men to Elect.

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o ton should at once be made with regard to the
selection of delegates to the Convention or
=. the 9Th of July, the election for which will be
= holden on the l4th Of June.
1t should be the wish of all correct minds
that men of the highest intellectual attainments
S and of the purest moral worth, be chosen from
among the people. 1t would likewise be very
iudicious that the selections be made without
any reference whatever to politics; and the
Convention, being composed of men of this
description, the people might confidently look
for wise and impartial laws. But, as this
, acllievement-electing delegates irrespective OF
their politics--is a moral impossibility at the
present time in our State, (f it ever has been,
or ever will be, otherwiseO the only resource
left the people of the two great parties, is to
assemble in their primary meetings and nomi-
nate candidates who are respected for the pu.
rity of their characters, and honored for their
knowledge and public spirit. Let both parties
pursue this plan, and then leave the balance of
the work to the ballot-box. Thus, good men
will be obtained, whatever the result.
In an election of this nature-for delegates
to frame a new Constitution-we may expect
party ties to be less rigid, as in justice and po-
LEY they should, than in any other political
contest. And we are convinced that the ques-
ton of party fealty in the present race, is a
matter Of doubtful propriety and doubtful pa
triotism in the breasts of many who have hi
therto chung to that political wing which lays
claim to the cognomen Democratic. The pre-
sent vote thus far, so largely in favor of Con-
%vention, is substantial ground alone for this as
sertion. The Convention of AS, which framed
The present Constitution-not seven years We,
in operation, instead Of ten as misstated by us
in a previous article, and the destruction of
which is now resolved upon--was so largely |
Democratic, that each act of that Conventions, |
defining some law for the government of the
people, and for their presumed advantage, was
tacitly acknowledged to have been a party act,
embody ing the principles which the Democra-
tic party had previously advocated in this State,
but considerably modified, perhaps, since that
day. Well, embraced as those acknowledged
principles of the Democratic party are, Gas we
endeavored to elucidate in our issue of the
10th ult.,) throughout the whole of the defec.
tive instrument upon which the people are now
passing their judgment, how can the same peo-
pie, with any kind of consistency, propriety, or
justice to themselves and to their posterity,
AS political considerations must have weight
and infiuence-chose men of the same descrip-
ton of politics to revise or frame a new Con-
as those who concocted the present
condemned instrument? Certainly, to be on
the safe side, and to have a Constitution entire
ly free from the party flaws of the old one, it
is the part of wisdom to come to the common
sense conclusion that the Democrats wiU NOT
be the kind Of men to elect.
If W. have intrusted a work to an individual
who has sighted it, or rather, regardless of our i
and inclinations, fashions it to suit
his own taste, views, pride or policy, and to our !
detrlment and shame, most certainly the man !
be a fool who would again seek the ser. c
vices of the same individual to make a second
when there happened to be many ap-
of equal if not superior abilities to ?
lin who had proved recreant to his trust. !
The people are never wrong when they have q
'een fully aroused to a sense of their duty. If p
hey have been imposed upon by one political ]
lass in the performance of a high and honored !.
luty, they are not so easily TO be cajoled into II
he belief by the same party, with the school, q
10Y promise that they "viu do better meat time" P
Upon the above subject, we make the fol- =
owing pertinent extract from an article in the ~
Orleans Bulletin: in
Let us hastily review things as they now te
tand. The people have unquaIifedly repudia-
ed the Democratic Constitution which now
and has weighed since its ratification, r,
pom the best interests of Louisiana, checking n,
er progress, retarding her growth, and de- b,
ressing every attempt at enterprise and i'm q
rovement. Her present Constitution is en- tn
a Democratic creation. A large ar
Of the Delegates who framed it were sb
democrats, claiming to be of the most APPROX ta
| stamp. There is not a provision in it which he
lie Democrats could not have stricken out. Il
theirs-it belongs to them, "all and sinoularn
hey claimed it proudly at the time of its for.
alton. Every Democratic press in the State ID
ent into e~cstacies over it-eyery Democratic tn
.'litician was loud, unqualified and unstinted in,
his eulogy of it. The poor, anti-proeressiye ~
$50 called beaten and discounted. were w
no rest, but were continually tainted bu
the triumphant Democrats with mention of tic
e unequaled attributes, the progressive ho
~alities, and transcendental Democracy of the
ntemptible patchwork of which they are now ny
much ashamed, but of which thew were
n prouder than a peacock of his feathers.
1he Democratic Marty cannat fhodna L. Du