Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-16
GIVING Dntv adj the south.n

ing journal in Georgia, opposing the
nomination by that party of candidates
for State officers at th~e.ensuing elections
in that State. The reasons for this
course were dictated by the highest
patriotism; the writer, looking to the as
tendency Of the Democratic party IN the
next Congress as the only means of saw
ing the South and perpetuating the UNI
on, thought it the duty of the Southern
people to concentrate their strength and
give the administration an undivided
p~haIanx with which to beat back the en-
croaclments of the common enemy upon
the Constitution of our country. Our
sagacious contemporary clearly perceived
the inpoiicy Ct a small third party throw
ing embarrassment in the way of the
administration forces, and pursuing a
course Whereby the actual supremacy in
Congress might depend entirely upon the
will aud caprice of the few members CON
stitutIng it. This is not all; the whole
South is looking to Mr.. Buchanan as the
agent through whose instrumentallty
peace is to be festored-lf it is to be re-
stored at all-aud the angry feelings now
dividing the two sections to be quieted.-
Without hazardlng much, we say that the
Southern people, almost without distinc-
ton of party, desire and expect this much,
and the c~iear-headed Georgian simply
performs a duty by invoking his party
friends to refrain from any act that may
deprive Mr.. Buchanan of a single Demo-
cratic supporter; or that will, in the least,
destroy the unity Of the South on the great
questions whose solution, for our veal or
woe, will be III the hands Of the Thirty
Fifth Congress.
1t is with unaffected pleasure that we
record the spread of the patriotic feeling
that animated the Georgia editor to this
State. We have before US the Iberville
Sentinel, of Saturday last, containing an
article so a propos to the crisis, SO sound
in logic, and truthful i'll sentiment as TO
justify a reproduction of a portion oft in
our columns. The editor, it will be seen,
recognizes the existence of only two
political parties in the Union-the Demo
cratic and Black Republican---the one
embraces the gallant South, and what
thete is left of national conservatism in
the North; the other is composed of mate
rial destructive of every sacred principle
of republican government; to choose hes
tween the two is the work of a moment.
We commend the high~toned and patriot
ic language of The Sentinel to its late
colleagues in Kuow-Nothingism; It CONS
presses the "Duty of the South" in the
compass of a nutshell.
Baton Rouge Advocate.
Then follows the editorial remarks which
appeared in our paper last week under the
above caption.
We cannot feel otherwise than highly com
plimented by an approval and euIogium, from
so high a source, of sentiments which We have
uttered in all earnestness upon a subject which
we conceive to be of vital importance to the
South. Such a course as We advise, which
the Georgia journal alluded TO also advises,
and which has been lately advised by distin-
guished parties, as being the true policy of the
South at the present j%uncture, is a course, it
seems to US, so palpable and urgent, that the
patFlOtiC anu CONSERVATIVE CLASS VI Tue 0OuLH1
ern people viii advocate it as a pressing me-
cessity at an early day. The wheel of time is
rolling on, and at each revolution our political
future is more clearly foreshadowed. We see
the banners Of Black Republieanism gradually
closing in upon our borders. As their forces
strengthen their aims become more manifest
they are holder in the expression Of their de-
signs. They are not satisfied as formerly with
"no more slave territory )" their cry is now
that their crusade will not end while a foot of
American soil is cultivated by slave labor -
In such a contest and such an emergency, is
ii possible that we would weaken our moral
and political strength by local discussions and
the bitterness and prejudice arising from old
party issues, and through the false pride of
still adhering to and advocating exploded par
ty principles ? We trust not, but uniting in
one solid body from Maryland to Mexico and
joined by the conservatives of the North
who nobly stood by the South and the nation
in the late e~ontest-present such a front to
the enemies of our rights, of the constitution,
Of the peace and welfare OF the country, as.
will, we trust, crush them in the height of
their supposed invineibility. Il is only as a
unit, in Congress and out of it, that there is
any hope for the South-if We fail in this,
then, indeed, will Black Republicanism pat its