Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-05-03
THE ANT1Es AND THEIR Arts.

regret 49, tnab we nave not Inc aolIity 10 90 u
full justice.
One of the most prominent arts introduced
into the tactics of the Anti.American party
and one of the few rescued from the wreck Of
the old Democratic party-is to divert atten"
ton from its own errors and venalities by
endeavoring to shoulder upon the opposite par
ty the greatest Of those sins with which it is
itself afflicted land which, like the Old Man
in Sinbad the Sailor, will stick to it through
briar and bramble, and eventually ride it to
death.
Every one Of the Antics organs, big and
little, throughout the Southern States, are and
have been e~xerting their utmost capacities to
make The people believe that the National Ame-
rican Party is tlnctured with Black Republi-
canism, [this is the newly connected term
which recreant Democrats, joining the Freesoil-
Abolition party, have emblasoned on their ban
ner, when nothing can be clearer, Us proved
by its platforms FIRST and last-by the New
York State elections, which gave SEWARD his
deathsblow-by the anathemas of the Tribune
against the party-by the echoes Of kindred
sheets in every section, and lately more vehe-
ment in their v~irulence on account of the no.
mination of FILLMORE, and the fact of his has
wing signed the Fugitive Slave Act, and whom
they accuse of trucking to Southern interests
and by a thousand other evidences, that the
American Party is the bitter enemy of Abos
l~itionists, Secessionists, and every other kind
Of distractiontsts, from one end of the Union to
the other.
Not so, however, with the Anti~American
party. 1t is not only at present fatally mixed
up with Black RepubIicanism at the North, as
the Pennsylvania (~BUcHANAN's organ) ad-
mits, but for the last eight years has beeu
counting Abolition aid, but with no less .ener.
gy than it has exerted in counting foreign aid:
and q sympathy must ever exist between men
or parties when one lends its cooperation in
furtheTing the designs Of another.
VAN buren,, the great Democratic ex~Presi.
dent, first led off in his support of Abolition
doctrines CAss's Nicholson Letter was the
next stimu|ant to the previously ebbing spirits
OF GTDDINGs & Co.; then came the declara~
tons of BENTON aud HoUsroN, and many otho
er Smaller fry" such as BLAIR and ~latterly
F~REMoNT--aII Democrats, and all protesting
doctrines antagonistical TO Southern peace
and nOtO the Abolitionists begin to "put on
airs" The Black Republican party, in which
is now submerged the Abolition party, was
mainly brought into existence by distinguished
off shoots from the Democratic trunk.
If this truth is denied, will it also be denied
that the present administration has done all
in its power, or all it dare do, to give the Free.
soil or Abolition party a position in the Gov.
eminent never before attained?
Much as FreesoiIers were eIated by previous
acts emenating from Democrats, it WAS nothing
to their JOY at the conclusion Of the Baltimore
Convention. Good men, patriotic men, and
Democrats in heart and action, had iattered
themselves that one of the noble statesmen
whom the country itself had brought forward
as suitable candidates, would receive the nom.
nation. But Freesoil air was too fragrant and
tempting, and FRANK FIERCE, from that cold
and calculating region where Abolitionism is
most prosperous, and where Southern hearts
could fihd no sympathy--Frank Pierce, the
acknowledged adnirer of Freesoil doctrines, as
proclaimed in his speeches and letters--the
despiser of the Fugitive Slave Law-the man
who fell from his horse when an eighteen
FOUNDER was flying pasta fifth rate man, and
the associate and friend of distinguished negro
worshippers--reeeived the vote of that august
Convention, and assembled the White House
steps by a maj ority Of electoral votes unprece-
in the history of Presidential elections.
it was done by arts of bargain and in>
A bargain was made with the Freesoilers;
ne received FFeesoil votes, and placed in high
Cove rnment Offices the bitter enemies of the
South. But, another bargain was made--and
foreigners reaped high rewards for the foreign
given to him. There was yet another
bargain made--but let that pass.
And this corrupt Party--bidding for friends
Of every color Of skin and all descriptions Of
and which would promise an appoint
ment 10 the devil himself if he would mar
shall his forces and make them vote the Ants
ticket--has the audacity to set itself
up as the only guardian Of Southern interests
Bah Southern people are not dolts. They
cannot easily swallow such magnificent patri-
otism on the part Of . party, one,third of
in This State are from every part Of the
habitable globe, and the majority of whom
have never lived seven years under the Ameri4
can flag!
Frank Leslie's illustrated Nsespapsr.--The