Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-07-29
THE LAST WEEK OF SIX YEARS.

The present weeks issue is the last number
of our sixth volume. Six years ago we COM
menced this journal, which we have continued
through our personal labor and exestiopA with
the assistance of valuable friends, up h the
present hour and the fact that they ate still
by our side, not to mention that our subscrip.
ton list Of bona fde subscribers has more than
doubled since we purchased the establishment
from the former proprietor, is manifest proof
that our general course as the editor and con.
ductor of a public journal has been approved
BY those who CONNIE need with US, rs well AS
that Portion Of the public who are not opposed
to our political complexion. We came here a
stranger, unheralded and unknown--and the
greatest pride Of which We can boast, is the
fact that we are confident that We now possess
to a far greater degree than when we first b."
came known, the esteem Of all who.- fesa''
is Of any value-,hat we did No. decline "P'"
better acquaintance with No puohe.
There "a probsbL- no task more arduous, nor
one calling sr greater patience and p~erssSer'
anco-nor one embracing more notifications
or calling for greater sacrifices Of personal feel.
ing--than that Of establishing a newspaper.
Under the most favorable of auspices, it is a
task as arduous in performance as it is doubt
full in issue; but when the entire mechanical
labor is undertaken in connection with the ed
itorial department, by one person, who feels
his want of knowledge and talent as an editor,
he assumes labor and responsibilities which
cannot fail to place him frequently in the pow
er of the merciless critic. But we feel that
we can say for %ourself, however much the re-
mark may excite the derision Of those who
have ever been our deadliest foes, "a condition
of mind which we hope they will not alter,)
that whatever may have been our errors, we
have ever aimed at truth and sincerity, cour-
tesy towards our contemporaries, careful of
wounding the feelings of the most humble, yet
energetic and decided in our political express
sions when the occasion required it. 1t is not
for US to say what degree Of success has mark
ed our career; il there were no other evidence
for the public mind, the fact that at the expi-
ration of ak years, with influential enemies, We
are still issuing our journal, this alone is evil
dence of success and prosperity. While we
continue as the head Of this paper We will en-
deavor so to act in our business and social
relations as to continue that prosperity, or what
is of more value to US, to enjoy the regard and
confidence of men Of character, principle and
worth.
Many and vast have been the changes in our
town, and for the better, since we commenced
here. Our population has considerably ~increas-
| ed, and new branches of business and exten.
sive mercantile establishments have gone into
operation; the telegraph, too, is now here, of
| which we did not then dream as ever being in
operation in our town. The suburbs Of JEFF
ferson and Trinity, which existed at that time
only on paper, have since grown into villages
10 appearance, and property has advanced five
hundred per cent. In fact, few towns in the
State have grown as rapidly as Pla9uemine
within the last six years, and every thing indi-
Gates as rapid progress in the future. Who
| doubts that the Press, which all acknowledge.
has such a great and controlling influence, for
good or bad, upon the destinies Of commune
ties, has not had something to do in effecting
the prosperity Of which we speak! As far as
we are concerned, and while we remain in our
present position, we shall discard all personal
feelings and predictions, and endeavor SO to
conduct our journal as to infuse a spirit of no.
bic ambition and enterprise among our citizens,
and allay rather than encourage the bitterness
| and animosities of life.
To those who have accompanied rs thus far
as the editor of the Sentinel, we can only re-
turn our warmest thanks, and as all must learn
and improve in whatever occupations they are
engaged, we feel assured that we will be still
better friends should they continue to remain
with us-tbat we will try to deserve, better
than hitherto, the liberal patronage that has
been bestowed upon US.
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