The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-04-21
Sam In the South.

The Baltimore Patriot, noticing the accounts
OF the recent municipal election here, remarks
that it is not surprised to learn the triumphant
success Of the American party in our city. The
editors think that the principles OF that party
are adapted to any latitude, and that they will
remedy the political evils of any community,
North or South. And why should it not 1t
is based on the principles of official honesty and
economy, and wherever a wicked and unpro6ta-
BILE servant can be found, there the American
party finds a culprit deserving punishment.
The success Of the Americans at the South
is OF great Importance, we agree with the Pa
trlot, itself o Southern journal, in thinking.
For, as the old parties now stand, the salvation
OF the Union may depend upon the union of all
conservative men Of every section. The result
IN NewOrleans will prepare the minds of the
south Tor harmony upon the great questions
wnlch distract the country, while the election
OF competent officers will enable it to maintain
and administer its interests with energy and sue
cess.
we have had similar demonstrations of the
applicability Of the American party's princi-
pies to the South, as well as at the North, in
the results OF the recent elections in st. Louis.
Louisville, Augusta, Richmond, Columbia.
Annapolis and Nashville, in the States Of Mis-.
souri,, Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina.
Tennessee and Virginia. And we are prenared
to see, when the time comes, the State elections
in each OF these States going in precisely the
same way" only more So"
FROM Virginia, tor example, we daily hear
1t stated, on authority the most unquestionable,
that the American majority over Wise will not
fall short of twenty thousand, and that it need
not surprise any one if it should reach forty
thousand.
Thus, while this movement is seen rolling on
Its victorious way in the North, overpowering
al opposition in Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode
Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New
York, and Ohio, we find it crossing Mason and
Dixon's line, and making telling demonstra-
tions where ever the opportunity offers.
Ihls shows, as the respectable contemporary
we have already quoted from truly saws, that
the principles Of the new party " arc adapted to
any latitude, and will remedy the political evils
Many community, North or South" The peo-
PIE, the great body Of the American people, the
Democracy the greatest number" evidently
this view of those principles, and are
carrying them into practical operation as fast
as they can. The experiment is destined to he
tested to the fullest issue, and this without anv
In action between different sections
Of the land.
we confess that, did we not know BY expe-
rlence how tenaciously merely party journals.
swayed by old partisan predictions. or infu.
enced by iterested considerations, will hold on
q decadent platform, we should be SURPRISED
to see the attempts we sometimes meet with to
ignore this palpable and patent course of events,
and the conclusions to which it points. Truly.
there is force in the old saw that " none are SO
blind as they who won't see!"
IT. IS a fact to be noted by all who would
rightly read the signs of the times, that while
what is called Know-N othingism has met with
checks, and even defeats, at the. North
us course is onward without impeachment in the
south. And the reason is plain. The North
IS 1uil OF all sorts Of isms, and some of these arc
'f q class that consort with any party which
Wal promise them aid and support: such as
.bolitionism, Freesoilism, Maine.lawism. and
others that We might name and that the Mat.
orla OF Inc new party knowing nothing" of
my ism, but pure Americanism, that party
'oes and can do nothing for these factions. and
% finds itself opposed by them, and in some in
tances, thanks to certain coalescines and com.
,,romislngs with other parties, even defeated nv
hem here and there.
But with none of these things is the South
nnoyed. Here the new party is considered as
lkely to prepare the minds Of the South for
armony upon the great questions which dis.
ract the country, and so to secure the best in.
erests and even the salvation of the Union. Tn
ne 'us'e'r raised by the opponents Of the