Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-04-18
A Moss Glorious Triumph.

The returns Of our charter election, which
we publish this morning, will show a noble and
prolific victory achieved by the free white
working men Of st. Louis. We call it noble,
because it has vindicated the rights and dignir
ty of white labor; we call it prolific, because it
is but the precursor Of many Others that are to
follow. After an animated contest, with all
the engineering Of consolidated party drill
against it, with all the stereotyped traditions
of past politics to encounter, and all the force
and luminosity of slavery prejudices and slave-
ry timidities hanging as an incubus upon the
movement, the cause of the white man, the
free man, the laboring man. has been the sue
cessful cause. This is glory enough for one
day. 1t is a triumph that in Rome would have
crowned the victor with a wreath of glory as
he went up the Appian way-in Greece would
have led 10 Olympian games in his honor-in
America, demands the applause and acclaim Of
the whole people.
The victory likewise is the more gratifying
the more TO be rejoiced at-the more to be
solemnized in the hereafter--inasmuch as the
triumph has been achieved by no evasive cans
vass-by no eoncealments Of principIe--by no
false pretenses or questionable doctrines. The
issue was boldly made by the nu ~llifiers, and as
boldly met. Free Labor was assailed in its
stronghold, and Free Labor stood up for its
rights and Vindicated its dignity not less than
its authority. The gauntlet was thrown down
by Inc advocates Of slavery extension and sIan
very perpetuation, and it was manfully taken
up by the Democracy and by those who look
forward to ultimate emancipation as a coming
and a pressing necessity of State policy. Vic.
lent and denuneiatoFy attacks upon free speech
and a free press were met by still freer thoughts
and still more emphatic utterance. And the
result has answered the expectation of the
most sanguine. From fifteen hundred to two
thousand majority over the acknowledged
champion of the opposition, is what we may
claim in point of numbers, and in point of pres
tige we may claim everything. The future of
st. Louis belongs to her working men--to her
mechanics--to her merchants-to her manu-
facturers--to her artizans--in short, to her
true Democracy, for there is no other Democ-
racy than that Of labor. They have the here.
after to mould as they will. Let them be wary
in action. 5g4 .5
1t remains to be seen what use the great
party which has just achieved q victory SO IN.
looked for by the c~ountry--so confidently ex-
pected By themselves-wiIl make of their tri-
umph. Will they encounter the fatal DELAYS
of Gamma? VIII they give up the ground they
have won, and return to their tents with no
longing for conquest. We trust not. We
trust that what they have nov done for them
selves they may hereafter be induced to do for
Others, We trust that, as they have gained a
battle IN their W persons, they will not hesi-
tate, hereafter, to aid in lending their strength
to gain q battle for their friends in the State
likewise. Push on the phalanx of victory
"Nula retorSnm Vestigia."
Let men everywhere know, hereafter. that
st. Louis has made a proclamation inviting tbe
people OF the world to come and settle in her
midst, assuring them of protection in person,
property and opinion. She is heneeforth The
Free City Of the Valley of the Mississippi,-
She invites Labor, Capital and Commerce,
without distinction of country. She proposes
herself as q Centre of Trade without any Cir.
conference.
IL Is only necessary to say that MF. Winner,
the candidate OF the true Democracy, il elected
by nearly two thousand over the highest nm
position candidate that We have carried the
whole municipal ticket, as we'll as both branch.
es of the City Council. and that the Nullifers.
as far as we YET learn, have not elected a sin1
gle candidate in the city.
Again We say, enough glory for one day.
Lengthy as IL il, we pub,Nh the above in
fol. because Of lie Interest ghout in ma.