Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-11-14

Albany meeting that it is the duty Of the slaves
TO poison and assassinate their owners, ana
have endeavored to circulate their horrible doc,
trine among our slaves; they have abused ana
yillfed us. exhausting the vocabulary OF bil-
Iincsgate, to find epithets foul enough TO desig~
nate us their brothers, proclaiming them from
their hastings and their pulpits and publishing
them in their newspapers, and they nave en-
dorsed and sent forth to all nations, as uttering
their sentiments, the infamous work OF ihelr
ebexspawn of fanaticism, where we, their bro
theirs in blood, are held up to the gaze OF a
morbidIy eager world as slave-drivers, lost to
humanity and accursed OF God, driving The
slave, with thongs red In his own gore, like
yeriest beasts of burden round the cotton field,
and when at last too old to be driven more, and
useless, we are represented as knocking on
his brains with cold and devilish barbaritY. All
this they have done and @nore; and The hour of
retribution is nigh, for we will require it OF
them. A long, long account has run up be-
tween US, and the great settlement day Is come
ing; and verify, will we require the utmost
farthing. II is not that foul lies Of Mrs. Stowe
could really iniure us; and of them no notice
would ever have been taken. But when taken
up and endorsed as their avowed sentiments
by the Northern States, they assume a degree
of Importance, and display a cold-blooded
m~alignity of purpose, a diaholical luminosity,
which at once sewers every lie Of relationship.
and fixes a gulf between US broad as the uni
verse and deep as hell. The present state OF
things cannot last. A balance Of accounts and
final settlement must speedily take place-an
entire change must fotlow-they may torm'H
union for mutual defence and protection--but
it must be a union of strangers, not OF BROTH
ers. More than 100000 worth OF our
slave property has been stolen or decoyed away
by the Wiles and Vaccinations of Northern
Abolitionfsts, of which account must be rem
dered in the settlement. Concerning the rendi
ton of slave property, a thought has been sug-
.pested BY the perusal of the letter. Of Mr..
Prince, member of the Canadian Parliament,
written last summer in reference to the condi-
ton Of the negro population Of Canada. lns
stead of anathematising the vagabond and
worthless character of that population, and dea
batting the propriety Of shutting them off to
themselves on an island to starve, would 1t moi
be better for the government OF Canada TO re-
store them to their owners. ALI or nearly all
these negroes in Canada are the property OF
Southern men. 1t is high lime that the United
States demand of Great Britain our fugitive
lost, or stolen property; il is ours, and by the
law Oh UHll6tIS9 WG tdNC a tt@lt w uShldh0 no
restoration. There is at the lowest calculation
S8,0O0,OO0 worth of our property IN Canada
.If by any means northern property gets into
British hands, The Federal Government is very
ready to demand and to secure it's restoration.
If drove Of cattle should escape from Buffalo
Into Canada, and citizens Of Canada should
take possession of them. refusing either return
or remuneration war might be The consequence.
Millions of dollars worth of our property has
even more frauduIently than this, got into the
possession of Canada, and all return. or res
enumeration is denied us; and yet. for years our
Federal Government has sat tamely by and
seen the robbery we'll executed. Will not this
Democratic Congress take some actor? The
great day Of final settlement between the North
and South cannot be postponed beyond the
close of Bnchanan's administration. There
seems to be a disposition prevalent in the South
to give Buchanan a fair trial, ii order to see
what a Southern elected, though Northern adj
ministrati0n, will be able to accomplish towards
the restoration Of tranquility, and the %mainten~
ance of Southern rights. So tar il has been a
miserable failure, and all its fair promises to the
South have been given to the winds. 1t then
becomes our solemn duty to prepare, by a per-
feet union among ourselves, for the great events
which will follow its close, and which will
certainly decide our destiny.
In the same of our common salvation then,
let us cast aside all minor matters. and mite
heart and soul. d firm and indivisible unit, 10
meet or foes when the hour Of reckoning
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