Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-09-08
sIIelp me, Cassius, or I Sink ~

It is. very humiliating to our pride-but not
as much SO as it might be under certain Cir
cumstances that we could mention-to make
Acknowledgements adverse to the interests and
prospects of our party in this section. But
the truth must out. IT'S folly to conceal it,
and in doing so, induce our friends at a dis.
lance to imagine that "all is right here" and
that we are going to rout the enemy, "horse,
foot and dragoons," en- the 5th of November
| next. "Rout," thunder! Unless something is
~done-unless true, valient and talented men,
(our able candidate for the Senate is unable to
battle successfully alone,O take a leading, ac-,
tive part forthwith, to place the principles of
the American party in their true light in this
| ~parish-subvert the aims and the Vaccinations
of d~emagogueism,. meet strategy with strats~
gy, and not allow the bright star of our party,
| in this latitude, to be dimmed if not entirely
shrouded from the minds eye by falsehood and
| error, Iberville will be heralded as the Cron.
I stadt of the Locosoco~Foreig party, and
! "Americanism" here be rode over, trough
| shod," and trampled into the dust. Well may
every American in the parish, in view of such
a future for his party, cry "Iielp me-, Cassius,
| or ! sink"
If it is asked from abroad "why such a state
| of things In old Iberyille !" we simply answer
that We have not the material to oppose the
activity and the energy Of our opponents, and
We might add also, their cunning and adroit
schemes, and recklessness of their assertions.
True, there is in the parish many a warm, ar
dent American heart, but it belongs to a class
which takes no active part in politics, and
| which is, in fact, unified for the hurly"burly
of political contention; and thus the enemy is
allowed a%clear, open, plain road. to carry out
nefarious plans and to instil pernicious doc
trines, and when the day Of election comes, to
mako a clean sweeping in Of the stakes. Ills
not the candidates, but outsiders in the Demo.
cratic fold who do the plotting, the juggling
and the working-nen who scarcely have their
equals in political chicanery. The fact that
| we have no candidates for the House Of Rep
resentatives, tells plainly our situation.
Is there no help for US? Where are the
State candidates., Will not the friends Of the
American party in the city take our case under
consideration, aud do something for US! There
is no telling what a little outward ~exertion
might accomplish. If influential men, eloquent
orators, were to come amongst US, visit every
ward, and stick to Iberyille in her present emer.
gency, the day might speedily come when her
own sons would be found battling d~eian,ly
and successfully against Che demagogues Of
the opposite party, and want no help save the
stoduent truths they would disseminate among
the people. -,
Not only 10 the political Offices are the Dem
ocrats here determined to make a clean sweep,
but in local Offices also, where there are sew.
eral independent candidates, they have sworn
to win The present is an extraordinary occa~
sion, they argue: they say to the people that
the safety of your families. the safety Of your
religion. and the safety Of the South, demand
that the principlesof the Foreign-D Democratic
party should prevail 10 every Office from con.
stable up-and we are sorry to say that 3 good
" number Of the people are sucked in" BY
suck balderdash. '.Hurrah for Denocracy!A
down with the Americans This is q great
country!
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