Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-11-26
sE:T.hc Same Old Tune"

the editor has done for his party, what he has
sacrificed for it since 1877, (not mentioning,
however, that he suspended his paper for about
two years during this periodO that his pros
poets are frightening, that never-ending cry of
getting a new press and charging his paper,
the Sentinel, its patronage, &c.-vastIy inter
esting subjects, considering that each in its way
has now been treated Of for about tie fortieth
time, or oftener for aught we know.
In the outset of the article to which we al
lude we find the following paragraph, which
"stuff,' (for we have no other word to apply to
IT'D gives full evidence upon its face Of the
source from which it emanated, for, like para
graphs to the following is nothing rare with
the journal from which it is taken:
awe were told previous to the day of cleo
ton that the Wing Lawyers of pIaqnemine
had, for the purpose of breaking down this pa.
per, entered into an agreement to give all their
business to the Sentinel. If this is a fact that
we have been prescribed by the Wing Law
yers, and that they have entered into such 4
mean and contemplate conspiracy, for the pur-
pose Of injuring 4 poor mar and starving out
this journal, Time and its columns will prove
or dlsprove the assertion"
A conspiracy! :" Is it necessary that con-
spiracy should exist for the Wing Lawyers to
give their patronage to a paper and its editor
with whom they are personally and politically
friendly I'm the face, too, of the facts that
they and their party have been outrageously
abused by the Gazette, and that the Democratic
Lawyers here would see US and our types en>
gulphed in the Mississippi before they would
give US a line of their patronage if they could
help it? 1t would be strange, indeed, if the
Wing Lawyers took from US their patronage,
knowing that we have scarcely any other, and
give il to one who has expressed himself so
bitterly towards them. But were they to do
so, they would be exercising an undoubted
right, and we should not complain to them, as
suredly, of a course on their part-the dispo-
sitlon of their patronage-which no one has a
right to question. We call no one to account
for doing what he pleases regarding his print.
ing or taking our paper. We endeavor to per-
form faithfully whatever work is entrusted to
our charge-our paper speaks for itself as re-
CARDS its principles and the manner in which it
is conducted-ana when we fail, by hard work
and economy, to make a living in Plaquemine,
the world is wide and we fear nothing. As
to begging or brow-beating, or attempting TO-.
excite sympathy on account of our poverty,
as characterizes the above paragraph, we never
will. We are grateful for what work we re-
ceive, and execute it in a workmanlike manner,
for which we expect to be paid-and there all
relations ends. Whatever we have done or
written for the Wing party, we have been in
stigated by what we conceive to be true and
correct principles to preserve and perpetuate
the institutions under which we live-and whe-
Plaquemine or the hottest Locofoco spot
on the face of the earth, we should still in our
sphere, as we have heretofore-miltly,
decorously, yet firmly-advocate those mea>
sures and policies of Government which we
believe TO be for the good of the people; and
we are far from being uncompromising
as a Wig, we must acknowledge however
that our attachment for the party has wonder
fully increased since we became a resident of
town-and we defy any one to reside here
who has had previously any partially for the
party, but will find that feeling ~increas-
ing amazingly the longer he remains. We
leave others to define the reason.
1t is then surprisingly strange to the Pipkin
street journalist, and wonderfully prosecuting,
that Lawyers in this place of the same politi-
cal principles with ourselves, who feel salts
fed with our past political course as an editor,
aware of our struggles and labors for over five
years, and convinced of our capability and in-
tegrity-we say, it is wonderfully prosecuting
indeed, to the mind of our contemporary, that
gentlemen should continue the patron
.ge heretofore extended us-knowing, as they
10, that we have never received a line of pat
ronage from Democratic Lawyers while their
organ is in existence, and never will; we do
lot think hard of those gentlemen for doing so;
t would be absurd for us to think they would
10 otherwise than give their patronage to their
'arty journal.
But let US take a glance at the modesty of
our unassuming contemporary, who has done
10 much and spent SO much for the Democra-
ic ~party-and here let US say, that we have no
|oubt he has spent q deal Of money by med
ling with politics and types, and doubtless
will spend a great deal more in the same dam
'erous experiment, if he can get hold of the
lines and will "stick it Out" like a man. We
would have thrown our labor to the
(and alas! a great deal of it has gone
hat way) had we turned boss carpenter and
for building houses, or something
Use that we knew nothing about. But, we
epeat, let US look at the modesty of our con-
and wa muef riya fhot ifop, q .o,-