Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-06-20

wittily expresses himself, but it would be ocn
cupying room we could appropriate to better
advantage, unless we wished to give our read
ers a lesson in "sarcasm and ridicule," which
they will dispense with, we presume. Eow~
ever, as this article which has immortalized
HYAMs (Which be evidently slept on for a cou-
pie of weeks before his brain could digest it,
Notwithstanding the thinness of his Uranium,
arising from a want of nourishment,) was evi~
IDENTIFY concocted for the express purpose of
being Reproduced in a journal not thousand
miles from Pla1uemine, the necessity Of in
serting it also in ours is, in a measure, obyia-
ted.
The article alluded to, from the polished
pen of our friend Of the Sugar Planter, is
headed "The Duty of the South" but from
first to last it contains what is assumed 70 be
q faithful chronicle of the episodes in our edi-
torial career since we have been in this place.
which must have been intensely interesting to
his subscribers. Our name is twisted into eT~
cry sort of shape throughout. coupled with
slang terms, and we are held up to public in
dignation for our vile attempts TO secure the
spoils from first to last, without reference TO
what party we connected ourself with. This
is about the substance Of the elegant e~ffusion
alluded to-and after reading it, Judging from
the caption of the article) one might suppose
that the duty of the South was to villify the
editor of this paper.
But now for our story. HYAMs says:
"TWhen B. first hung out his single in Pla-
qnemine he found that his Democracy-for B.
was then a Democrat-Would not get him any
of the loaves and fishes, for Iberville was too
intensely Wing to tolerate for a moment any
thing like Democracy, so friend B. quietly pulled
in his Democracy. and in a few days came out
a fully tnculated Wing. What sort of a Wing
is that ed. S%nntinel. Brad. had hit the nail
onsthe head that time, and for a while his share
Of the loaves aed fishes came rushing in. B. grew
fat thereon, and prospered exceeding ly, which
was of course a reward for his apostacy.'
There is not a particle of truth in the above
with the exception of The fact that We did pub
lish a Wing paper here, and considering that
we worked nearly every Sunday, and about
sixteen hours out Of .wenty-four, for the space
of two years, we proportional'y prospered-
but made nothing more than our wages were
actually worth as printer and editor, if we
even realized that. We were the stronger sti-
mulated to this course of economy and labor,
that we might with greater certainty meet the
notes when due for the purchase of our Office
and we did meet them, as well as other OBJ
1irnfinpc nf ~ poaY,niary oba.ootor i
We came to this place by invitation, and
through the recommendation of 7. B. THORPE.
We had previously edited the National, in New
Orleans, and advocated TAYLOR for the Presi-
dency, and we came here with the full knows
ledge that we were desired to support him
by those who were instrumental in procuring
our services-and nothing could have been
more congenial to our wishes or feelings. In
the general acceptation of the term, we were
not q Democrat then, nor are we one now.
Our very partial friend goes on to say
and was intensely Wing. After the unfortunate
demise Of the Wing party in lS4S, Iberville fell
rapidly under the ban Of Democratic influence"
&c. &c.
There is about s. much regard paid to truth
full assertion in the foregoing as in other parts
of the beautiful moroccan to which We have al
fusion. As it was in August, l848, that we
commenced the publication of the Sentinel
the year as stated that "Ibervilie fell rapidly
under the ban of Democratic infuence"-we
conid'nt have had our "own way long! 1t
was ia 1852 that the decadence of the Wing
party commenced, unless our enthusiastic biz
ographer means that the election of TAYLOR
gave it its first start ~downwards. He says in
q sneering style that we were intensely Wing"
One would suppose that a full fedged Demo-
cFat wrote thai, az well as other expressions in
the article. If he means, however, that we
were enthusiastic, he is right-for we never
turn and twist timidly about when we know
we are on the right track.
But we are imposing on our readers and
will close this defence as quickly as possible.
The Wing party having gone down, W.
were in an "awful fix" says our graphic CO..
temporary; and then he goes on 10 the end in
his slang ~style-about the American party
coming 10 our relief-'the like of Sam was
never seen before"--we were ~"frantic" in our
"eulogiums Of that ubiquitous individuar"-
but "Sam did not succeed in the parish; cit
did'nt pay in Plaquemine, and another tumble.
set was necessary so we sWent over IN tho