Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-09-06
A Letter from one of the SOver-
eigllS.
IBERvILLE PARISH, Sept. 2, 1856.

the Republic and its institutions to speak his
sentiments openly and show cause, if any he
has, of the hope that is within him.
1t is very difficult for a man of any delicate
taste to attempt to combat the slang and black
guardisms that are daily thrown off from the
Black Republican press and that of its sworn
ally the Locofoco press, from the Washington
Union down to the seven by nine parrot,echoes
in our parishes. We are told by these subsi-
died presses, and every penny~a-liner, and ev~
cry hireling d~emagogue and stump screamer,
that the Democratic is the only national party
now in existence, and that Buchanan is the on
ly man upon whom the entire South should
unite in order to defeat Fremont, &c.
If time permits, and you think these hastily
written pages worth a place in your columns,
/ will endeavor TO show in this and future arti-
cles which is the true and which the false, self
styled national party.
In the first outset I admit that the American
party has acted wrong in many things. con
denim it whenever it is ,wrong, and make all
due allowance for its misdeeds, knowing that
all human forms of government and parties,
hastily coming together, are liable to commit
errors of the head, though MOI at all times from
motives Of injustice to the governed; and
thus too will | be compelled to throw the
broad mantle of charity over the acts of my
former friends of the Democratic party, with
whom | have labored all my life, in my feeble
way, until lately, when | was compelled either
to- become a traitor to my native land or desert
the bold and arch>agitating ranks of modern
Democracy. Ichoose the latter.
We are told that Mr.. Buchanan is de facto
the full and uncompromising friend of the
South. 1t is admitted on all hands that nine
teen twentieths of the people of the free
States are more or less abolitionized. Well.
then, Mr.. Buchanan being free State man,
knows this to be the fact, and consequently he
is as much a traitor to the free States as Free
mont is to the slave States. He is not so. in
fact. Mr.. Buchanan has the same feelings res
pecting slavery as most other Northern men
it is all CANNON about his Southern affections.
But we have very good reasons for believing
that Buchanan is fully as strong a freesoiIer as
Fremont himself. Remember that Benton is
apparently his warm advocate, but be is not
Tits but too evident that a dangerous intrigue
is now going on at the North between the
Black Republican and the Democratic parties
between Buchanan and Fremont and Bens
ton Wbara foo 10 vvn ga At. 3..Af
clan, Martin Van Buren,, and Prince John g.
The first was formerly the Black Republican
candidate for the Presidency but now he and
Prince John, and John Hickman, a Black Re.
publican from Pennsylvania. who was lately
nominated by a regular Democratic convention
of his district for reelection to Congress, are
all upon the Cincinnati platform!-while the
rank abolitionists, VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Par
ker, PiIIsbury, Wendell Phillips and others
have come out boldly for Buchanan, for the
reason that. by supporting him they will better
subserVe their own interests and advance their
n%efarious doctrines. What does the South
of all this?
Is it not strange, that while the Black Re-
publicans are ebusing Fillmore and calling him
an ally of the slave power, and a friend of the
slave States, because they know he has been
tried and found true and faithful to the whole
country, South as well as North,) here in chi
Various Louisiana the Disunion party, yclept
the Democracy, is continually abusing him as
an abolitionist.? At the same time, they dare
any one to show that Buchanan has ever voted
against slavery, while in the free States they
offer a reward to any one who will show that
he ever voted in favor of %slaveryi Thus, it
is very evident. as the New Orleans Delta as.
serts, that Buck has a Northern aud a South
ern face.
We are certain that no such charge can ever
be brought against our well tried Fillmore
he who has openly and boldly declared his adj
hesion to the interests of every section Of the
entire Union. And here we assert it without
the. fear of successful contradiction, that Fills
more is now the only national candidate for the
Presidency.
The Washington Union Of a late date. in
against Fremont, expressly declares
that Buchanan and Fillmore are both national
men" strange as it may appear coming from
the organ Of the Democracy. Yet the venal
press hereabout stoutly deny it, and claim
Buck as an entire Southern mar and The only
man and BY every art are urging all