Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-09-30
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Mr.. Editor: | have no taste for newspaper
sparing and contention, under the most favor
able circumstances, regarding it at all times as
injurious to public morals, and exciting any
thing but public respect. Much less am
disposed to enter the lists with one like the
conductor of the UerriNs Gazette, who ap-
of life, or to care for anything but, Ike n
| young cock, to be ever ga!fed in defence of that
chivalry which is the Legitimate progeny of the
| barbarism of the twelfth century, and the dele
rum remains of the nineteenth, having no
place in the catalogue Of human characteristics
being too contemplate for vice and too Vi
cious for contempt. Therefore, Mr.. Editor,
you should be perfectly content to let him
twist, turn, and faI5ify your language rs much
as he pIeascs, especially as we n! know that
| the true language and sentiment are read and
understood by ten readers Of your paper, whilst
the false aud perverted appear before one in
bis and that, also, your motives, and your SEN
timerts. and your character, are all known 70
i like proportion Of the people: with them you
can leave hin.
like to SEQ mild, gentlemanly, legitimate
and profitable controversy or argulncnt-as-
sorting nothing that is false, nor peryerting
language or sentiment aud must ever con-
denim disgraceful and ~virulent SANDER of men
and principles, as evidencing u lack Of ability,
an ~envious spirit and a wicked heart. All men
should regret the degradation Of the present
political parties; and it is q fact that from their
long existence and the partizan character OF
appointments, the most worthless and inflated
babblers have become the most prominent and
conspicuous. | have studied, as have other
rejecting men, the character Of the dcma.
gogues who at every election appea! to the
passions Of the people, and use the lowest and
most subtle intrigue to carry their ends, de-
sccnding even to the i~lattering and unfolding of
an an'i-American spirit among certain classes
to swell the majority of their ticket. The mot
to of such men is "RuIe or Ram" But there |
are tens of lhousands-aye, milIions-and the
number is increasing with each hour, who feel
the necessity of bringing forward men to re-
deem the country from its pollution. Their
march is onward-their triumph is certain
and the hour is fast approaching when the
whole body of the people will stand forth, and
with one reclamation hail the restoration Of
Truth, personal freedom and national honor!
Men had as well try to retard the wheels of
Time Gas do the sold fogies") as destroy the
track of this great ear of national reform. The
hills and rocks of New England are resound.
ing with 1.-THE plains of Texas echo it back.
1t outruns the fire on the prairies-the thnn.
der of its wheels is only equaled BY the roar
Of the surf beaten shores of the Atlantic!
Yes-this great car Of national reform is
olling swiftly EDWARDS. Tricksters, political
knayes and false-hearted men and traitors dare
not approach it but patriots, and the good and
oppressed Of all nations, will find it the true1
Of their safety and the guardian Of
their rights. Then impede not its prosress-
but swell the enthusiastic shouts which follow
in its wake-the shouts of the good, the high
and the honest!
AN AMERICAN.