Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-11-22
GEN. WHITFIELD AND KANSAS.

inferred, 10 solicit their aid in some manner,
to prevent Kansas from falling into the hands
of the abolitionists.
At an early hour in the evening Friday the
l4th) a large audience Of ladies' and gentle
men being assembled in the Courthouse, A.
TALBOT, Esq, escorted General w. TO the
judges stand, and after a few appropriate re-
marks, introduced the speaker to his hearers.
The General at once dashed off in rough
Western dialect and style, giving a very gra-
phic picture of the troubles which the pro-
slavery party has undergone in Kansas, the
wrongs generally that the emigrants of that
party have endured, and the outrages and fen
dish acts Of the aboIitionists. He opposed
the occupancy Of the territory BY United States
| troops for the purpose of restoring peace, and
maintained that had it not been for this act on
the part Of the Government, the abolitionists
would have long since been "Wiped ont -" and
for this interposition he asserted, if we mistake
not, that Gen. PIERCE "wasn't right on the
goose question" He said that the aid socie~
ties at the North were making great exertions
to overrun Kansas with their emigrants, who
entered the territory with q Sharp's rife in one
hand and q bowie-knife in the other; and he
said that it was the boast of the aboIitionists
| that they would not only have Kansas, but af-
Ter having made that a free State, they would
commence operations in Texas and in Missou-
ri. Under this state Of things, continued the
speaker, he conceived it to be the duty of the
South, upon the principle of self protection,
to spare neither expense nor e~xertions in en-
deavoring to make Kans as a slave State,
We did not hear the General throughout his
remarks, which were frequently applauded.-
The applause, however, we imagine, was given
more 10 the subject than to the speaker; for as
an orator, he was very deficient, and his tortoI-
ogy Of expression was singuIarly painful;
his remarks, too, in some instances, were in
very bad taste for instance, his sarcastic and
bitter illusions to the fact of our purchasing
Yankee commodities, sending our sons and
daughters TO be educated among the Yankees,
OF employing Yankee s~choolmasters TO edu-
cate them at home. He thanked his God that
he had not been educated by a Yankee, and
was very certain that no child Of his ever should
be! AT this remark, a gentleman in The crowd,
re are told, whispered that it would have been
fortunate for the speaker if he had been in
structed by a Yankee schoolmaster.
We cannot believe that it is pleasing to
Southern ears to hear such sweeping denun-
Citations against the New England people or
New England schoolmasters. Our bitterest
enemy isin that section of country, it is true ;
but there is scarcely u spot in Maine, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, or any
other Northern State, where such an enemy
exists, that there will not be found a friend be-
side him, whose heart beats with affection for
Southern rights in unison with its paIpitations
for the preservation of our glorious Union;-
such hearts are similar TO many at the South,
which cannot sever that brotherly feeling which
should ever exist between different sections of
the country. 1t is d poor way we think to re-
store peace and harmony to the country for
orators of one section to be continually en-.
deavoring TO poison The minds Of the people
against their brothers in another section.
1t is true, that occasionally a black sheep
from Yankee land will get amongst US, but is
that any reason why we should denounce the
whole? There is not a spot in the South that
is not blessed by Yankee enterprise and ener-
gy and no portion Of our country yves a
greater debt of gratitude to Yankee schools
masters than the. South. Who was PREKTrss
but a Yankee schoolmaster when he came
South? And where could be found d nobler
Southern heart? And QUrTMAN, FooTE, Hi,
YeR and other distinguished men-who are
they but Yankees? Indeed, if we look around |
US We will find none more warm in Southern
sentiment than the Yankees-none Drawer or
more intelligent. As me. chants, farmers or
professional men-in the forum or on the bata
tie feld-the Yankees are not surpassed by
any people on the face of the earth-and the
Yankee cross with any other race never fails
to benefit it. We are equally warm in South
efn feeling as Gen. WHTrFIELD-his native
State is also our native State-but like thou@
sands of others in that State and throughout
the South, we are not disposed to make a
crushing denunciation Of all Yankee land he.
cause our hnferest enemy inhabits il. At least
let rs have some consideration for The feel
lngs Of our Northern brothers who have made
THAR l. - - 1880 - -