Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-10-21
PRECIOUS CONFESSION.

upon Southern rights. This is a matter d
intense and absorbing interest," and esesy day
adds to it morhentous magnhsedG Recent
events have sesssdaHore startling to disclose
the plpiss of the Northern foes Of the Union
for years secretly and sedulously cultivated and
conducted. What is the appalling spectacle
now presented to the eyes of the American pa
triot? The South asking for the admission Of
no more slave States-for she has none to ask
for the North, speaking through the tongues
of traitors and the presses of demagogues, de-
claring, in the first place, as if to make the in
suit more calling, that no more slave States
shall be admitted in the Union; and secondly,
that from eight TO ten free States are certain Of
being added to the Union within as many years!
Such is the present attitude Of Aboliti0nism.-
Washington Union.
The Holly Springs (Miss) Times remarks
that the foregoing paragraph embodies . most
important confession. Mr.. Pierce has been
President a little over eighteen months, and be.
hold the result! The leading organ Of his id.
ministration is obliged to admit that abolition
ISM presents an appalling spectacle" ito the
eyes Of the American patriot" 1hisis the end
of that empty promise made to the American
people, that if they would elevate Mr.. Pierce
to the Presidency, the power of the Northern
fanatacism would be broken-acrushed out"
Let US recur briefly to the past. How difs-
rent is the picture here drawn BY the Union
from the one presented to the country when
Mr.. Fillmore retired from Office. That nation.
al, conservative statesman set his face sternly
against the ultra free soil element of the North
ern Wing party, and selected his appointees
from men Of a more conservative stamp. The
Democrats dare not deny this, for, throughout
the last Presidential canvass, they proclaimed
the fact, from the stump and through their
presses, that Mr.. Fillmore failed TO get the no.
mination at Baltimore because he had lost the
support of the Free Soil wing-the Seward
section-of the party BY his national course.
The convention that nominated Mr.. Pierce
commenced its work by sustaining Rantoul,
in his contest for a seat, who had proclaimed
upon the floor Of Congress that the Federal
Government had no authority TO enforce the
Slave law in any State. When the
canvass opened, support was solicited from the
on all grounds, and from persons of
all political hues, from the rankest Free Soiler
to the most ultra State-rightsman Men were
asked to 'stand' upon the platform; they
might "construe' il as they chose. To win
for him in Ohio, Gray, Of the Cleveland
Plaindealer, kept the strongest passages of the
New Boston speech, attributed to Gen.
eral Pierce, standing under his editorial head
the contest. When the election
vas over, Mr.. Pierce followed the same line of
policy which brought him into power. Among
nis appointments were to be found such men as
Dix, Fowler, Croker, not emitting even Gray,
the Ohio P~laindealer, all Of the NEST sppro-
red co-workers with the Free Sellers and Abo-
i~tionists. In the struggle between the Free
Soil and conservative wing Of the party 10 New
Rork-between the followers Of Dix and Of
Dickson and Bronson-the President took sides
the former. Thus has the Administration
the hands Of the Aboltionists-|
evivsd their spirits, which dropped upon the
'assage Of tie Compromise measures, and eivs.
them courage for renewed battle. Well
nay the Union soy they now present an zap
spectacle" to the eyes Of the patriot!-
Well may it shrink hack in amazement from the
sarful power which it has helped to build up,
approving and dsfsndiag IL action Of the
administration!