Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-05-27
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active, wide-awake and efficient Constable
They may preserve our town from the disgrace
and demolition to be apprehended by the intro
duction of these Vandais. Cad" if "them'
hands with a lot Of their first cousins, the "do
noihingS," to be found round about our streets,
preaching death and destruction to that dark
and silent clan! Bat what is to be done?-
What shall be recommended to avert the evil
deeds and distress to our town from The pre-
sence OF these internal hnov Nothings? Shall
Il night police be instituted! Shall rewards be
offered that q "live one" may be caught and
brought before the Mayor, and compelled to
divulge who are his brethren and VIVA: j. Ike
nature of their accused designs! Where is
that Artillery Company that was forming so
rapidly 4 few days since, There might be
need of their cannon in this emergency If
such a sulphur and birthstone organization as
that could not help US, what could! And speak-
ing of big guns" where is BLACK BetSey,"
which has so often Numbered forth from our
levee the joyful tidIng5 of victory won-of 4
party discounted, Of an enemy cut to pieces
Like all things else upon this mundane sphere,
is it, too, missing when it is most needed? If
this field piece (the only gunpowder protection
our town ever had) can anywhere be found,
we advise that it be loaded with grape, and un-
der the command of the Corporation Clerk
placed in front Of the Catholic Church, that
this building, at least, might be protected from
the destruction meditated upon it, il is said, by
these incor-igible Know -Neihings--said Clerk
to have a "long nine" always Lighted, ready to
touch her oft, should he espy any suspicious
looking rascals ~skulking about its enclosure at
unreasonable hours
But, really, We are sadly at 4 lost to know
what TO recommend in the present emergency.
The ease has no precedent-an incursIUn Of
and serpent-like, to poison and destroy us, is
something SO unnatural and revolving, that we
know not what to recommend, and can barely
do more than interrogate the wisdom of the
public relative to it. But speaking of serpents
in typiiying those darned KnOW Nothings, sup
pose We were to get Il little OF the sod of
"ould Ireland" to sprinkle around US, we might
like st. Patrick, cause them to take to the wa.
ter, in double quick time-"ciaue' the country
OF their hides-and "iare" Us alone in our glory.
:.Arrach. hutrah for fradoln, and down with the
k~o~ NothfH5e, be joters." is about all that
We can say or do at the present crisis. In fact,
all the strength that an editor has, lies in his
erclamations-and fortunately, the Cons,itus
ton guarantees to him the right of exclaimins
in any language he thinks proper; it gives to
him and that holy and powerful instrument the
Press, the right to exercise and throw out to
the people of the Republic, whatever eJulli-
ton of the intellect, liz whatever dress or style,
which Fancy deems proper and wise, to effect
a good and patriotic end-and where personal.
tiles, IN so doing, Ire eschewed both by the con-
s~titution and by principle, as well as by a cor
rect public sentiment, it does not forbid al,u.
sions OF a national character, whenever such
are wished to be interwarped either in sarcasm
or logic. The Press. the peoples guardian an.
gel-waich tramples upon wrong in a free
when he who is at the helm under
stands his duties and knows the full extent of
the powers entrusted to him-subversive of so
much good when in the hands Of a garrulous
BOBBY, who, for want of knowledge to sustain
argument, uses his Shiny and fetid ink to stop
an adversary's mouth by attacks upon his per-
'onal feelings. Back your Press, people of the
Republic, whenever it is free from low and des.
,icable personalities and vile and nauseous
slang, whether it deals in subjects requiring
'ound and argumentatiye language, or the lans
,uage tinctured with gaul and the double. edge .
word. But where are we! We have lost {
light of the enemy in this little episode, them c
ussed Knoc Nothings! We hav'nt, however, !
ost the subject of the text which heads this !
olumn-so peculiar is the pleasure which We
axe in assisting our friends in verifying their j
s%sertlons respecting US, that we would speak !.
T the subject 10 different ways. .
And so, we have got this far, without hitting +
pom any decided plan to rid the community Of IT
'e pests we have been speaking about, and !,
9 are afraid the farther we go the farther we u
Ill De from that desired end. Were it, now, n
devise some plan to prevent an overflow or "
zen stop the plague, we would have hopes of :,
'ggesting some plausible idea but to find :, :,
cans OF getting rid Of ,ohat nobody knops any,
ing about, seems a work too hard even for an vi
itor; and unless the plan be found accepta- to
e which the Yankee widow says she adopted IL,
get rid of a fellow who 'pestered her might he
we shall be forced to s"knock under" If of
ere are any deeply interested, who would be dc
ID to learn what plan that was, they will -
'ase drop IN at our sanctum this afternoon rio
out shutdown. :
Ne6raska.-Few persons have any idea of
nvfnnt IF Al, ..k-. II - .