Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-08-05

tory, which broke up ana scattered It's po"er'
full adversary, laid the foundation of its own
Acknowledgement: the cause which swelled its
magnificent majority, is the cause which will
rend it to atoms! Democracy is not a word
which signifies a better love for foreign sol
and foreign born than our OWL lands and our
own sons--and the greatest and the best OF
that great army whose victory last November
was hera|ded over the civilized world, becom-
ing disguised at the means OF their triumph
and the events which followed it, have banded
together with new designs and new hopes,
and are met by Wings in brotherly afec'
ton and the time has at length arrived when
the cementing of this brotherhood is known to
have progressed to that extent as to prove be-
yond a doubt that another and a great party,
composed of the best elements of the two old
ones, (whose greatest vice seems to be that
then love their country too weN,) are carrying for
ward their invincible banner in every section
of the Union, as popular South as it is North.
and with rs many noble hearts congregated
around it on the Pacific as on the Atlantic
shore-a banner on which there are no new.
tangled ideas and imported sentiments inscrib-
ed-but that plain and unassuming one, the
stars and stripes of our natiue land! In view
of this happy result, well might we Especially
say that the country had suallowed the Demo.
Gratis.
We are not of those who cling to impossi-
bilities. Although at heart we shall ever be at
tached to those principles which in times past,
characterized the Wing party, yet, we must be
governed in our editorial career by events and
circumstances which spring up around US. We
have chung to the Wing party in all honor and
faith but if, as the Bee says, it is "hopeless to
look for the restoration of the Wing party as
a national organization" it is therefore virtual
ly dead--and for one we have no idea of per.
ishing with that which we cannot save.
In an article of this kind, merely to give
som index to a course which may be expected
of US for the ensuing volume, it is not possible
to bring to bear, even as an outline, the diver
sity of reasons and causes which have brought
the Wing party to that scale Of weakness.
too low for resuscitation, but such as been ex-
perienced in years that have fed, by many and
mighty political organizations, both in this
country and Europe. Nor can we either, in
this limited space, prove the u~nerring certainty
of that approaching dissolution likewise of
that victorious party which swept all before it
last November; nor have we taken sufficient
space to explain the perfect propriety of thus
openly and formally withdrawing our advocacy
and support from a cherished political ~associa-
ton (f any was deemed necessary at this late
day. now that that association or party--gen-
eral throughout the Union as in almost every
locality Of its disorganized, rent in twain,
scarcely existing in name, and known in future,
from every indication, but as the records of
history. Alas! it is a sad yet necessary duty
to speak this mournful language.
No party exists in reality, of any description,
political or otherwise, unless it is held togeth-
er by some description Of organization. Gov
erned by this rule, we can truly say that there
has been no Wing party in this parish since
'5l-and all the victories since then Of the Lo.
~cofocos, were victories over a disbanded army.
And all appearances here Of a party calling it.
self Wing, has been growing gradually less,
until, at the present day, the editor of that par
ty, who feels the consciousness of never hav-
ing finched from the duties of his vocation,
begins likewise to feel the solitariness of his
the party which once surround.
ed and counciled with him has been broken
and dispersed, and the necessity for a new and
bold action, if he would not sink also in the
maelstroom which surrounds him-producing
the deserted feeling described in the old song
II feel like one who treads alone
Some banquet hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled, and garlands dead,
And all but me departed.n
This much we have deemed necessary to say
the commencement of our seventh volume.
Our future course cannot be misunderstood.-
If our party has been rent asunder and dis.
persed, our principles have not. "Hsnestp
Capacity and Fidelity" is still our motto with
regard 10 our support Of men for public Office.
With q banner like this, and with the contin-
ned support of those good friends who have
BY US so long, we can still battle for the
Of the people, and for the glory and
and perpetuity of our country!
GIVE received the Bayou Sara Ledger this
week, containing two articles highly calumni.
'us Of Dr.. s. E. Mckinley, now in this town.
In editor should be very careful how he gives
irculation to such articles. The Dr.. has de.
lied and explained matters, and moreover. saws