Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-12-27
The union of the Southern People to
effect "A great national end, is not of
necessity a sSOUthern PartY.''

necessity a "SOGAL4GEA EHTIYs"
"Certain indications" which our able cotem-
porary the Baton Rouge Advocate seems to
have noticed in the "political horizon" "por'
tends" he thinks, "a stiff breeze upon the De-
mocratic party of the South" 1t is the advo-
cacy of a Southern Party" argues that jour-
nal, by those who were formerly arrayed against
the Democratic party, the K. Ms, which con-
s%titutes that "stiff breeze" which our neighbor
surmises will sweep away or undermine the
former.
We were surprised At the tenor of the arti-
Gle alluded to. We thought that we were a
pretty close observer of the political senti-
ments of the journals of this State, but as yet,
with the exception of one perhaps, VIZ have
not observed that any of them, *. N" or 9TH
erwise, have advocated a Southern political
party. We for one, do not aim, either at the
formation of such a party or the disruption Of
the Democratic party. Such a course, we think,
~juncture of the Government, would be utter
folly and madness.
We certainly desire to see the Southern
people unite in one political brotherhood, for
the reason that a great sectional party at the
North and in Congress are arrayed against US
because of the peculiar institution of slavery
that exists here, and which they would abolish
even if the Constitution itself must be viola
tod Doop1o thar -, ~ ;,J:u;J,oI .-,k /.
governed in their acts as events or circumstan-
ces may dictate. Looking to his own interest
and welfare, a man is obliged to be thus con.
troIled, unless he possess the gift of prescience
and so must q people, unless they are blind.
ed and madened by partizanship and the NOR
tifcations resulting from a great defeat.
Looking, then, at the strength of the Demo
cratic and Black Republican parties, as reveal
ed on the 4th Of last month, would it be po-
lite or patriotic still to keep up a political Or
ganization opposed to both, but from its impo~
tence calculated to effect nothing more than 10
weaken the Democratic ranks (particularIy in
Congress) and therefore strengthen the chances
of success in a Presidential race of the bitter
enemy of the South and the Constitution?
The success of the Black Republicans would
lead to a mutilation of the Constitution and in
all probability TO o dissolution of the Union
There are thousands of good men in the North
and West who feel and fear this. There are
thousands of Americans" in these W sec.
tons who, loving the Union and the Constitu-
ton better than party or the predominance of
their own opinions upon some subjects, and
seeing the utter hopelessness for any good of
the party they were formerly attached to, will
not hesitate, when the hour of danger comes
TO throw their strength into the Democratic
ranks, in opposition TO a declared sectional
force whose aim is the destruction of an insti-
tuition which exists by constitutional right.
Should that right be expunged from the Cons
by such a combination or force, such
an act could not fail to lead to a total disrup,
of those national and union ties which
are now cemented solely by a strict observance
Of the letter and spirit of that instrument
which is to the body polite what The heart
VI Ald u w IHS pbySlcal tTame-anQ mus the
people of the North and West, more probably
the people of the South, would live to
mourn while they gazed "upon the fragments
a once glorious Union; upon States disse.
7ered, discordant, belligerent; upon a land rent
with civil feuds, and drenched, it NAV be. in
blood!"
1t is quite a different matter, the uniting of
me section Of a people (the North for the
vowed purpose of abolishing an institution
guaranteed by the Constitution, and which
Constitutes our maintenance and our wealth {
nd the uniting of another section Ghe South) j
the purpose Of protecting their local rights 1
land in doing so, to preserve unimpaired that
which has raised us TO that glory !
nd greatness as a nation, before which. in all $
he mightiness of moral strength and grandeur,
9 in its individual intelligence and nobility, j.,
rest of earth must pale. !
The union of the Southen people, then, for d
purpose of effecting a great national end, v
not of necessity q "southern Party" ?
HF0n MO0dav iosf Tho poEo. D.