Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-11-28
THE STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRACY
THE LEGITIMATE DEMOCRACY.

LIES Inaugural Address, delivered at Jackson
on the 10th inst, on the occasion Of his being
installed Chief Magistrate of Mississippi.
We give publicity to the sentiments which
those extracts contain, merely to show the
opinion prevailing among the most distinguish
ed Democrats and public men of the South
that
= x Our security as a State and the
permanence of the Union depend upon the
tirmness and concert of the South"
These are the words Of Gov. McWILLIE ;
they embrace the expressed sentiment of the
distinguished Democrats who are Governors of
Louisiana aud Georgia, and We have no doubt,
portray also the sentiment Of the Chief Magis~
trate of every other Southern State-all Of
| whom are Democrats-and yet in this State
there is at present IL strong but decaying wing
of the Democratic party, very aptIy and from
a certain influence those who compose it are
termed ssSIideIlians') which is sustained by the
two leading Democratic journals, which actu~
ally repudiate the sentiment Of the above quo
tation, upon the ground that such is the senti-
ment of a "Southern Sectional Party!i" This
was the same wing, with JOHN SLIDELL at its
head, which procured the vote Of Louisiana, in
the Cincinnati Convention, for JAMES BUeHA~
NAN instead of STEPHEN A. DOUGLASS.
This frmness on the part Of the South with
respect to its rights and dignities, backed by a
united or concerted action, to which Gov. Me-
WILLIE aIludes, as necessary to maintain our
constitutional rights and preserve the Union,
is a policy and a principle which the readers Of
this journal know, are such as we entirely APP
prove and sustain, for as far back as the 9th
Of December last, we advanced the same seu-
timent quoted above, clothed in almost the
SAM language; and this is also the same sem
timent which actnaled Mr.. SIGUR and his sup
porters in the late canvass; aud we doubt not
that it is a sentiment approved by at least two
thirds Of The Democratic journals of the State
nine of which are in this Congressional Dis
trict.
One of the ablest Democratic journals in
the State tells US that there is a fungus upon
the body of the Democracy of Louisiana which
is destroying its healthy action and sapping its
vitality = and this same journal gives US to
understand by Intuition that this fungus"
played a prominent part in causing the defeat
of The gallant and talented SIGUR; and that
with this fungus or combination" (which is
governed in its course by no principle bat
spoiLS, and seeks to attain no more laudable
purpose than place, there can be no feeling or
corporation with the State Rights Demoera>
cy." Such then is the "party within a party"
the fungus as we'll as its trunk which
denounce the Democracy sustained by Gov.
W1cKLIFFE, Maj. HEBRON, ExsGov. P. 0. He
BERT, SfGUR, PERKINS, PARHAm, MILES TAY-
LoR, SoULE, and a host of other brilliant names
in this State--the Democracy also sustained
by owe. FIVE hundred votes in this parish--the
Democracy advocated by the Governor of eve,
ny Southern State in the Union!
Thus it is seen there is wide difference d.
viding the Democracy of Louisiana, which is
most lucidly explained or set forth by that old
and influential journal the Clinton Democrat, |
from which we quote above. 1t says: "that
difference rests upon this new ground, a mod
5fcation and accommodation Of the policy Of The
South ID The pies0s and feelings of the DemocrG-
cg Of the North, in relation to the question of
slavery, for the purpose Of maintaining a ma
tiondl organization Of the Democracy
This then is the trunk of that Democracy
from which the @fungus" springs, both Of
which combined accomplished the election of
DAVIDSON, and in its dieiug agonies had the
satisfaction of one more shout Of victory. Il
is It's last!
In view of the above ground as Nalicised
which the Democrat contends--and as we alIu.
ded to IN our last--has been taken by a por~
ton of the Democracy of Louisiana, it says:
LET the State Rights Democracy at once
emerge from the mixed and questionable po-
sition in which they now stand, and occupy a
high, clear and true Southern ground"
So say we, from the bottom Of our heart
We would be glad to see no differences, if
such a thing were possible. But our cotem-
2orary quoted above says it is '.broad and
deep aud therefore not easily united again
10 harmony and he says to those who are OPP
posed 10 that kind of Democracy italicise5
above (which deems i. prudent to modify our
policy Or claims to suit Northern prejudice)
and that spungy ercrescence intting from it
which goes in for swallowing up all the fat
Offices, Of either honor Or emoInmeEt, to
"emerge forth and stand firm and erect upon
the true basis of State Rights, The South and