Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-05-10
THE ELECTION ON MONDAY.

We trust cur friends-and in fact the true
friends Of the parish-will not forget that an
election takes place on Monday. -Four mems
bers of the Police jury are to be elected in the
first, fourth, fifth, and seventh wards; and we
hope the American party, and all persons who
take an interest in the affairs Of the parish, will
not let the antics carry the day, without 4
struggle. 1t is notorious that, for the last three
wears, the most exorbitant extravaganza, and
barefaced favoritism, have been unblushingly
practised by the party in power, regardless
both of their economical administration of our
parochial affairs, and Of the solemn obligations
which they take, as members of the Police
| Jury, to perform faithfully and conscientiousIy
the trusts reposed in them. We speak Of the
controlling majority Of the Police Jury. 1t is
we'll known that we speak a truth that cannot
be gainsaid. The antics are making their usual
exertions to Sueep the stakes; and the PEOPLE
mot to speak of a ~party-must be entirely
deaden0d and reckless in their feelings, or to
the manner in which their local affairs are
managed, if they longer allow a system of ex-
travagance and misrule that has 40 parallel
or none that we ever heard of. We shall
probably have more to say upon this subject,
in a few days; and when we produce facts
and figures, we presume that our language
will be deemed appropriate, and the charges
we make, acknowledged, if not appreciated.
Whatever the wrongs which the majority may
thus intiict upon the minority--and which
wrongs they infict upon the bone and sinew"
Of their W party-there is one glorious boon
which they cannot extinguish or wrest from it,
if there be a desire to maintain il, and that is
the bold and truthful expression of . FREE
PRESS; but, unhappily, the press is often sis
fenced, by wrenching from it the means of its
existence: and there is no surer evidence of
and wrong-of acts of misrule and
malfeasance predominating with a majority
party in a police jury, or anywhere else, than a
settled and continued disposition to injure the
pecuniary interests of a newspaper.
That the strongest exertions have been made
in this parish, by our political foes, to keep all
kinds Of patronage from our hands, to effect
the object mentioned above, there is no ques-
ton. This feeling, or this desire, was the
cause of the Sheriffalty excitement
during the canvass of 1852. 1t is this desire
which has made the Police Jury so completely
and anti-American for the last three
years. And it is this desire which will cause
The Antics TO be active and Industrious at the
polls on Monday, in the wards above alluded
to. We regret that SO bitter and determined
! feeling should exist against US. If it results,
as a consequence, from the earnestness with
we advocate, and have advocated the
interests and principles of our party, we can
lot helpi it. We are no milk~and~ water editor,
nor b~rGndy-and, water either y We go the
whole figure" where our sympathies are en-
isted--courteously, however, and with no de-
sire to i~rritate the feelings of our humblest
We are opposed 10 the party, and
make war against il, but we have no individual
wrapped up in such opposition. Many
If our warmest friends, and men whom we
admire for their integrity and manIi-
of character, are connected with the
Democratic party. One of the best friends
We have ever had, was a Democrat, and the
of Democrats. No individual should
,e offended at the strength or pungency of
'ur remarks, when directed against q party
gaiust a party which our instincts and our
tell US ia in direct opposition to the
interests of the country. 1t is our duty
nd our right; and it is highly dishonorable to
ring extraneous agencies TO bear against US,
or the purpose of injuring our pecuniary pros
ects, solely for such a cause. We are clearly
favor of a party--a Police jury, we may
ay at on~ee--giViug its patronage to its POI
friend, when he will do such work at a
easonable price, or at the price which an
pponent would charge. But when a sum is
oted him, nearly twice as much as the work
worth, or that it could be done for, then the
of the Police Jury becomes corrupt,
nd should receive the unqualified condem.
alton Of every good citizen.
The Town Council.