Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-02-16
pHMooRAT1o ooNsrsTENoY.

forth, we may as we'll go a little fartbaF and
describe his dress, which consisted of a long,
tailed drab overcoat, Git was in the month of
N~ovember,O blue jeans pantaloons, a broad~
brimmed white hat, boots, heavy silver spurs'
and 10 his hand he welded a "thnndering" whip.
The said whip was elevated as he came TO that
part Of the description of his horse which told
his heigh' h:
"-wide n~ostrils, a shining black, with ea~
gle eye, and seUenteen feet high"
"You mean seventeen hands, General" said
rather a mild voice among the crowd on the
pavement some six feet below.
add say seventeen feet, sir :"
"You did," replied the other,
"Then, by the Eternal !" exclaimed the Hero
of New Orleans, springing over the bannisters
and alighting among the crowd below, "seuen-
teen feet higa he is! and | dare you to CONTRA
dict it,"
This was the essence of Consistency-yet,
Consistency with e vengeance.
Thirty years ago, when the above scene was
supposed to have occurred, the bold chieftain
Of the big whip and drab ~overcoat was begin
ming to be the acknowledged leader of a NIGH
ty party. 1t strengthened with his elevation
to The Presidency ; and Consistency, right or
wrong, which SO prominently marked the cha
racter of aOld Hickory" he infused into the
machinery of his party and promoted its tri-
umphs-as, individually or comparatively, con-
siStency is always an element of success.
1t is not our purpose to make even an at
tempt to show how the great Democratic par
ty, after the old hero was laid in his tomb, be-
gan to lose its consistency and its character
1t would require more space, relating the mere
incidents, than would fill forty such papers as
ours. It had been vacillating in every concei-
vable manner before the election of PIERCE
first damning and then upholding every descFiPo
ton of Wing principles--and he (whose NOM
i~nation, being a Freesoiler, was the greatest
inconsistency of his party up to that time) with
his proclamations and counter proclanations--
with his saying this and doing that during the
whole period of his term up TO the present, as
all are familiar with, seems from first to last to
have been consistent only through his inconsis
tencies.
But as Inconsistency is the parent Of Absur-
dity, it is not to be supposed that a party could
be welded to such a principle as long as the
Democratic party has been, without producing
such fruit in its fullest perfection.
Now, reader, what do you think! While
the Democrats were in arms against BANKS,
and accusing the Southern K. Ms. of a desire
to aid in the triumph of Freesoilism to effect
the success of their party, what do you sup
pose were the antecedents Of the immaculate
Democratic candidate? Freesoil to the back
bone! Like Mr.. PIERCE, he was started to
catch Notthern Freesoil Democrats, but failed,
the successful K. N. >Democratic>F reesoil can
didato being more acceptable. Now, in 1850
MIR. RICHARDSON was in favor of the Wilmot
Proviso. On the 18th ult., while the balloting
was progressing, he reiterated the sentiments
he gave utterance to then, and distinctly admit
ted the power Of Congress to prohibit slavery
in the Territories. He also advocated The posi-
ton that the Constitution Of the United States
did not carry the institutions of any Of the
States into the Territories; and that for the
protection of his property, slave or auy other
kind, the citizen of either the North or the
South was solely dependent upon the legisia>
ton Of the territorial government Such were
the heterodox views that this Democratic can
didate avowed, and YET he was supported by
the whole batch Of Southern Democrats, who
knew at the time they were doing 30 that if
DIR. RICHARDSON had given expression to a sin~
gle sentiment aPprobatory Of slavery, be dare
not show bis face again among his constitu-
ents!
But TO show farther the outrageous inconsis-
tencyof modern Democracy, we give below a
synopsis Of the remarks Of Mr.. FULEER, the
American candidate, who was accused by our
Southern Democratic journals oEs6eing Free-
soil ii sentiments kind Of double.actlon in-
consistency. Read what the Richmond Wing
says:
aMr. Fuller, the ether candidate, like a gem
tIeman as he is, believes there is a very broad
distinction between.a white man and d negro.
His general sentiments are quite enough indicat-
ed by that declaration. We might have known
by that, without bis uftering another word, that
be was sound, conservative, and national. But he
did not choose to stop at that point. He went
further and declared, that the Constitution Of the
United States recognizes slavery, wherever its
jurisdiction extends, whether in States or Terri
tories. Slaves were held as property, he says, III
every State, except one, when the Constitution
was adopted: it recognized that property then
recognizes il nov--and protects ii with its broad
ngis throughout the confines of the Republic. No
man. not Mr.. Calhoun himself, ever stated the
case more cogently, justly. correctly and distinct
~. But the moral beauty of his whole exnosi-