Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-12-06
Am Unbroken Southern Phalanx.

Val eleCLtou HAS detDolStIdleu u pOIllICdI IutA
too paIpable and overwhelming to be doubted
presenting a political aspect which has no pre-
cedent in the past history of our country-it
is clearly the duty of that great portion of the
American people who revere the Constitution
and the Union and recognise the rights Of the
South and the legitimacy of her institutions,
ambitions, that they may unite (under no matt
ter what nancy for the purpose of crushing
out of existence that powerful party at the
North whose aims are the abolition of slavery
or the dissolution of the Union. 1t seems to
our mind that the necessity Of such a course
at the present ~iuncture is as paIpabIe as it is
Observation-Disclosures probably it is most for
tunate circumstance, for the interests and hos
nor Of the South as for the salvation and per-
petuiiy of the Union, that a political result has
occurred such as alluded to above; for one of
any other character never could have brought
into one political embrace the people of the
slave States, in such manner as a great MAORI
ty Of the free States presented on the memo~
rable 4th Of last month. Had the result Of
that day been less overwhelming-had that
party, whose friends were jealous and enthusi-
astic TO the last, received the vote of even eight
or ten States in different sections of the Uni>
on, it would have been buoyant though defeat
ed, and thus, renewing the war for the great
contest Of 1860, might have SO separated the
people Of the South rs TO throw the victory in
to the hands of the Sectionalists, an event
which no man of patriotic feeling North or
South, whatever his political partiaIities, could
fail to deplore. But instead of a result to
make the party we allude TO even hopeful, it
was overpowing and crushing, falling upon its
hopes and its life as the rock Of Locmaria fell
upon the noble Titan, crushing into nothing
ness his giant form, and setting in darkness
and death the star of his destiny.
2 Meeting in one solid p%halanx, from Mary
land TO Mexico, men who are united in one
common interest and 10 effect one common
end, the Black Republicans would probably
cover before such a force-and to our mind, it
would require just such a force, and even great.
er, to stop them in the mad career which they
commenced when FREMONT was placed upon
the course. Their hopes, instead of being
weakened, are strengthened by the result of
the late election they did about as we'll as they
anticipated doing from the first and now thus
early, in place of resting after their Iabors, they
,ro burpiel,ipr t,p tLnir = rr,, g. tb, Drnrk brF
tie Of 1860. They calculate, and with a great
degree Of pfausabiIity, that at that epoch they
will have seventeen instead of sixteen free
States; and also, that they will have ~freesoil
friends then who are merely sympathizers now
connected with other parties, but who at that
period will be forced into their ranks. We
believe the probability is with them with re-
gard to the first superstition, and time will show
whetheathey are right with reference to The
reason for saying this relative to
the first, is that an immense emigration is now
pouring into Kansas from the New England
States and from Europe: that two of the New
England States have in fact voted large sums
for the purpose of aceelerating emigration, and
thatin New York large capitalists have cou..
bined Gas the telegraph tells us) and appropri-
ated a large amount of money 10 purchase
Kansas lands. These lands they can easily
of 10 euigrants who are arriving by
thousands every week if not every day, in New
York and they will dispose of them cheap,
for the reason that all who 60 there by such
means are just so many votes in favor Of max.
ing Kansas a free State.
These are some of our reasons for believing
Kansas is irretrievahly lost to The South,
as the foregoing embraces also our reason for
believing that the present political j~uncture
and earnestly calls for the cementfnq
Of political friendships. and a united struggle
for the same political end, on The part Of the
Southern people.
1t is very evident to our mind, that to main
Southern dignity and Southern interests
IN Congress at the present crisis, as we'll as ma.
tional honor and national welfare, an uubro.
zen Southern phalanx in the House and in the
Senate is imperative. To bring this about,
mainly upon the Southern press. for
yetful Of the past. independent Of the future
its mighty lever, not in the futile at
.ernpt to lift abstract principles into life and
'elng' but for the purpose of supporting and
'neoufaglng our representatives in a united eff.
ort 10 sustain the constitution and the laws,
n opposition to the danrernus and nouarP,i