Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-11-26

could afford to give him that sum annually,
there are many others in the parish Of his party
who could better afford to give him a hundred
dollars and therefore, the editor of the Gazette
must have received, (and still receives, perhapsO
q very handsome revenue from this source
We are proud to say that no such revenue was
ever received by us; the Wings know it if the
Democrats do not. Secondly-our contem-
porary has received since he re-entered the
newspaper business, the entire patronage of
G.. S. Rousseau rs auctioneer of succession
sales, which is the main item of the sheriff s
patronage; and we assert that he has had
equally as much if not more of that description
of patronage to bcstcw, for the last eighteen
months, than the sheriff has had, to which off,
Ger it properly belongs. Thirdly-as we have
previously said, our contemporary receives all
the patronage which the Democratic Lawyers
can give him. Fourthly-he gets $500 per
annum for doing the parish printing, which is
over 5000 more than we ever rccciyed-given
to him by u Democratic police jury, notwith-
standing it was given to Us 4 few weeks pre-
vious, as being the lowest bidder for the work.
Fifth!y-he gets the corporation printing from
a Democratic Council, besides being clerk for
the SiythIy-he boasts that he has 4
larger subscription list eve say he JoaStS,) than
any paper that has ever been established here.
Seyenthly--he gets all the whig merchants ad-
vertising in this place. Eighthly-he intimates
that he will likewise receive the patronage of
the new Sheriff. And, not yet satisfied, he
impudently and ridiculously asserts that the
Wing Lawyers here have entered into 4 con-
spiracy not to give him, likewise, their advert
sing, "for the purpose of injuring a poor man
and starving out his journalt' Poor man
poor journal. With the large patronage that
he receives, "the ~rascaIly Wing Lawyers, cons
found them Che says in his heart) if | could
only get their patronage, too, then the Sentinel
man will have to find other diggings to make
a living, and | will be alone here in my gIory.'
This, at least, is assuredly his sentiment. Is
not this a picture of a modest and Il generous
man! The above are plain facts, attempt who
will to refute them.
We might diIate upon many other things in
point, but this article is already too long. We
may say here, as the editor of The Gazette ex-
pressed himself towards US a few numbers
back of his paper, "we have nothing against
him PERSONAL---VERY. on the other hand, cam
not meet him or any one else on friendly terms
so long as he or they indulge in personal alIu-
sions and low and vile epithets towards US in
public print. We acknowledge, however, that
although our contemporary continues pretty
severe upon US, he seems to have dropped his
personal style of writing against us, and so
long as he pursues that course we arc perfectly
willing to battle with him in our peculiar voca-
tons. We seek not his downfall or his injury.
In this country, opposition in business is as ma
tural to be expected as the air we breathe-and
he who commences any description Of busi~
ness with the hope of having it all to himself,
as the means of success, bases his prosperity
upon a very slight foundation. This country
is free for US all. The broad wings Of its no.
Bile institutions spread over and protect every
trade and profession throughout our land. 1t is
not by a system of abuse, faIsehood or under
mining, that any one of those trades or profes.
sions can succeed to the disadvantage of ane-
Their. The spirit of those institutions to which
we allude, infuses into the breasts of our peo-
pie a feeling which is repugnant to any course
to be successful in business but that of talent
and industry. AS for ourselves, whatever we
possess of either of these qualities, they and
they only are exercised for our maintenance
and prosperity in business and when we fail
in one locality through the force of irremedia-
bic circumstances, there are many bright spots
all over our land where industry, at least, in
any honorable vocation, is welcomed and re-
warded.