Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-09-16
PROSCRIBING AMERICANS FOR UT.
TERKNG AMERICAN SENTIMENTS!

4 fact-and one too which it seems is desired
should be promulgated throughout the Union
that the Administration is prescribing all Of
fee holders, from the ~loftiest to the lowest,
who express what is termed "Know Nothing"
sentiments-more clearly speaking, sentiments
purely, truly and legitimately American, free.
undiluted with interests and principles, separ.
ate and apart from the birth.right, the glory
and the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the American PEG.
pie. in the ~strictest sense of that expression.-
Well, let our countrymen be prescribed for
opinions expressed upon their own soil! it is
assistance the Know Nothings or American
party little expected from the existing Govern
ment, to enhance their power and to multiply
their victories. 1t is well! 1t is decided by
the Administration that the American People
the native born American people-are not at
liberty to express their opinions relative to their
political rights and interests as American born
citizens. But no such edict has gone forth, in
the shape of dismissals from Office, when opin.
ions of their presumed rights, &c, have been
even more boldly expressed by those in and
out Of Office, who are known as the English
People. the Irish People, the French People,
and almost every other People upon the face
of earth with which our country abounds.--
o! ~vallient Administration O, just President!
mobile father of thy patriotic children. The
earle hath fOrsaken its nest!
1t appears that Col. BERRET. the Postmaster
in Washington City, first made the start in dis
missing American clerks, with the appreciation
of the Executive, because they dared to give
citizens--because such sentiments, no matter
how patriotic in the main, were in conflict with
the political power of a great arm of the De-
mocratic party, that foreign. arm, growing
stronger, more powerful, and we may add more
presumptuous and exacting, with each sun that
spans our mighty Republic.
Those young men who were dismissed were
good Democrats in the eyes of the Admins
~trstion, so long as they fraternized with for
eigners in feeling and interest but the momen.
they began to speak of their rights as natives
of the soil, (and who dare say there are no
such rights p they are turned off from their
employment, to seek their bread elsewhere
Are such acts to be the wages of conscience
in our free land? Has the time arrived when |
Americans who breathe their wrongs and their !
rights, must do so in a tone as not to reach
the ears of those who act as the instruments
of a cursed in9uisition? No--rather has the
time arrived when the sons of this country
feel their perilous situation, and ask no ones
permission to band together for the preserva-
ton of all they hold most sacred.
The principle which the Washington Post
master has promulgated, with the "advice and
consent of the President" has been carried out
elsewhere, and a sensation and excitement will
prevail in consequence, all over the land, which
those in power will tremble to witness before
is an end to it. Riots and bloodshed
must follow this accu-sed edict against em-
Of Government, which the President
has so shamefuIly countenanced.
This repudiating and expulsion from office.
Of those of the American people who, like the
immigrant, express boldly their sentiments rel-
,tive to their political interests and honor, is
he worst step that any administration has ev-
sr yet made, and the foulest blot that has ever
stained any party or administration since the
)rigin of the Government.
Locofoco or Administration organs 1--WE can
rot disgrace the name of Democracy by term
ng them Democratic organsl heap every kind
If abuse and contumely upon those whose
sentiments are imbued with Know Nothing
sun. 9. a love Of their native land-because,
they claim the right to manage their
political affairs! They call it an attempt
% defraud foreigners of their rights, and en-
leavor to infame their passions, thus acting
he part of incendiaries, melting to riots, and
their cOncomitant evils and horrors.
We would ask those organs to which we
Illude, if Americans are not to have the same
light to advocate their political interests as
hey understand them, as have foreigners who
AVE sought homes in our land?
Let Americans but speak of their rights as
and like the clerks alluded to, they
will soon find they are marked men. For pre-
umlng to speak as we have spoken-for utter
ng our political sentiments in the land and
beneath the sun where we were born, with the
anne freedom that foreigners express theirs
We have already felt, as far as a loss of patron.
ge goes. the effects of free and conscientious
peech in the land of our birth. Let but a
word drop from a public man, or one in a pub.
ic position, which has the least resemblance to
is termed Native Americanism, and he
will soon feel the combined efforts of enemies
O iniuIe him, pnhlicly and nriyafelv HAVE