Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-08-05
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Saturday, August 3, 1854.
OUR SEVENTH VOLUME.

Last week we made some illusions, and re.
marks consequent, upon the close OF our sixth
volume. The commencement Of q new year.
to the editor, as the close of the old one, is
equally pregnant with interesting and profitable
relections-if the Past is allowed, as it ought
in well regulated minds, to be the Monitor
which points to a less difficult, a more appro-
pirate, and a more correct path in the Future.
If our " sad experience, as respects our
immediate personal affairs, as well as the at.
fairs and operations Of the world around u.s.
does not entail an instructive lesson, as regards
every interest and wish, and ambition, which
man is heir to, we are living to but little pur-
pose, and for little good as far as our own hap
piness is concerned, and (what seems to be a
still greater desideratum among mankind gener.
ally) for our pecuniary a~ggrandisement also.
1t sc to be generally admitted, that an
editor who makes any calculations Of a pecu'
mary nature, or alludes to the anticipated en-.
joyment, while an editor, of that quiet, domes-
tic happiness congenial to his nature, he is like
one diving for pearls in a horse.pond, with re-
fer, .nce to the first idea, and like another dream.
ing of Paradise while struggling amidst the
CHATTER and whirlwind of Pandemonium, with
, egard to the latter. Alas! the editor, and a
successful editor, how hard his lot!-how flu.
tile for him to think of anything else than to
wrestle in the strife, the contentious, the male
dictions and evil Vaccinations Of combined,
e~nvious and bitter partizans! How silly, to
think of escaping the decapitating axe OF un.
bridled abuse and calumny, or to keep clear
of the scorpion smile of rank hypocrisy! How
perfectly useless, while in the conscientious
advocacy of correct principles, (Which bring
more enemies than a perjured and corrupt ca
reer,) to think of ever reaching that ease and
quietness of mind which should ever accompa.
ny increasing years. And what the reward for
all this toii-this abuse, mainly as the organ Of
a party-for this combination of men and
schemes to effect one's ruins 1t is but little
else than early burrows upon a clouded brow,
and the coloring before their time of those
locks which the midnight light has so often re-
fected against the dingy wail-whilst slept the
poorest as the proudest, to awaken in the morn.
ing to pour over the interesting journal, the
labor to produce which is never properly appre-
eiated nor understood.
But we are progressing in a strain that we
did not intend.
II, as we intimate above, instruction and wis.
dom are to be gained from the teachings Of the
past, we conceive that we cannot better show
evidence that we are an apt scholar in this res.
pect, than to commence our seventh volume
with more of that dignity and general interest
than characterized the concluding numbers Of
the volume that has just closed. We have ever
condemned personalities with a contemporary,
and it is seldom that we have ever INDUCED in
them; bat the human mind cannot bear tho
weight Of an eternnal pressure Of scandalous
invective without an attempt to repulse or to
throw it of: We have made that attempt and
have done, 80 far IS our columns are interested.
We conceive it to be far more cowardly to
reply to insulting illusions (or rather to con.
tinue to reply than to remain silent. We
will allow ourself then, unlike Macbeth, rather
to be considered slammed" than to waste any
more ink in q matter SO degrading as that to
which we aliude. This is our ulimatum for
the current year with regard to personal con.
tentions 10 our editorial columns.
This time six years ago, when we commenc.
ed our career here IS the editor Of . wing pa.
.Per, how great has been the change! Our par.
ty was then strong and in high spirits through.
out our vast Repablic. Since then, however,
The leading principles of the wings have so
surely and gradually been caught up and adop-
ted by the democratic party, that it would take
. talented writer It the present day to define
the political points At issue between the two
great parties that soere. We say shat were,"
for at the late Presidential election it appeared
that the Democrats not only gul2ed down the
principles Of the Wings as easy as . fat oyster,
but the worst Of It is, they swallowed the Wings
themselves it seemed, for they scarcely left a
corporate guard" all over the Republic. And
now it seems The Democrats themselves are be.
ing swallowed Up in tarn, and by some invisi-
BILE powers just retribution--which will soon
them the fair and promised land on the
q 'tother aide Of Jordan" These cannibal De-
noerats are already no phers in New York, no
ia Pennsylvania, no rhsre in Louisiana,
~ well ~ every other Of their former strong.
holds; for after swallowing in their might all
that was true and noble in the country, their
has 1t length concluded to s,ooloU
fae~!--'saving only that portion to the mercy
the e'snsats whose red hot locefoco senti-
ments render them unit denizens of any Dor.
ton Of The habitable globe. The Whies, then,
proved BY the last Presidential election, hay.