Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-09-19
Southern Union and Southern Rights.

w can see no hope for the South save IN q
E Southern union-that very union recommen'
! ded by our Charleston contemporary. We are
!, in favor of that union-haye been all along
are now-and shall strive to bring it about by
i, the employment of all the means in our power
And we are proud to say that, in Louisiana, the
: party to which we are attached, its leaders and
its candidates, concur with us in opinion and
J sentiment, and are for the cause of Southern
Rights first, last, and all the time."-CreScent
Then, we cannot see a better way of bring
ing about this union, than for the party to
which you are attached in this District to come
out and give a bold, cordial, manly support to
LAURENT J. SIGUR. What if WATTERsToN
should be lost by it? Cannot you see in the
respective other gains which would more than
counterbalance such a loss? In the election OF
Mr.. SIGUR, the union of Southern men Bnd
the Southern Rights party in Louisiana will
have advanced into something real snd tangible:
a party and a leader will have been established,
the one standing upon principles sacred to the
constitution, preservatiye of the Union, and
dear to every citizen and shareholder between
Maryland and Mexico the other a leader whom
the people will delight to honor, a man of pure
morals and unssuming integrity, whose mind is
richly stored with political and historical knowl.
edge, who has rare command Of language, a
deep, logical and brilliant orator-"strong be~
fore q judge or jury, stronger still before an as
semblage of the people,"-and one, who, in
| founropc mill pnoio bjprcatf Folf ou1 Eaorn1
wherever opposition plants itself against the
rights and honor of the South. If Mr.. WAT
TERsToN succeeds in being elected, it will
merely be the success of a ~partizan, achieved
by the votes of the minority party, vino, from
his peculiar position, will be unable to effect
anything towards this great desideratum,
Southern union and Southern Rights nor will
his success save from utter annihilation in this
State, that segment of "American" strength
which still exists, or restore The hopes of that
remnant Of the party in the Union which still
despairingly holds out. If we are in favor of
Southern Rights and Southern union, as q
principle paramount to all others, at the press
ent moment, let ms, in Gods name, throw aside |
insignificant party prejudices, entertaining
which is now of no avail, and fall into line in
our support of the only man whose success in
the present canvass is calculated to achieve
such an end. This is the view which those
who formerly supported the American party
when it was something like a party, should take
of it, and will take Of it we hone,
In the struggle against DAVIDSON, by Mr.. ST..
CUR and his Democratic friends, it is a strug-
gle of freedom and the right to manage their
own political affairs, in opposition TO the insult
ferable interference of JOHN SLIDELL and the
Custom house officials,-a struggle against
the Walkerakansas policy-and a struggle for
Southern Rights against tame and suppliant
snbmissionists.
Here the Americans to a great extent are
supporting SIGUR, and with a zeal of unusu-
al warmth. They are tired of throwing their
votes away; and in this instance, while they see
there is $50 much to be gained for the South
so much to be gained for political morality-in
the success of MIR. SIGUR, they have determine
ed to declare their independence, and to vote
as reason, patriotism, demand that they should
vote. s
Even in the success of Mr.. Watterston, "the
cause of Southern Rights and Southern uni
on" Of which our friend SO enthusiastically
will not be advanced one iota in point
Of strength or unity. But in the election of
Mr.. SEfUR, who enters the canvass upon this
very principle, it will at once be acknowledged.
and give birth to a new and brilliant political ,,
era for Louisiana.
1t is unreasonable to suppose that those De-
nocrats, in common with those of the Amer-
ican party who are in favor of Southern union
and Southern Rights, will, in the present
of their party, come over to the side
Of Mr. WATTERsToN, and rally under the torn
and fragmentary banner of the American par \
but they have every right to hope and be- n
ieve that men of that party who are honest in t
advocacy of those principles, will cast I
Iside their partizan attitude, and vote for the !
'nly man who has the legitimate right Chased
lpon q long and arduous advocacy of Southern a
.locirine9 to carry that banner into the Repre- e
sentative Hall Of Congress. That man is LAU. =
TENT J. sIGUR! No one of more gallant cour- "
ge could be found to plant that standard in the
of Black Republieanism-no loftier or
intellect to defend its justice andits
eloquence more thrilling to appeal
o the courage, to the honor, and to the sym.
athies Of his peers! True Southern men of
be District, form your SCARED columns, and =
alt NOT till 1icinrv is achieved D