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MARRON EN PRISON.
Il a été amene à la Geôle à Plaquemine,
unrtiègrearrêté comme marron quis'appelle
i A LICK, et dit qu'il appartient à Mr. Le
. Blanc, demeurant à la Paroisse de St. James.
I-e dit nègre est âgé d'environ 28 on 38 ans ; et de
5 pieds 10 ponces de taille.
31 août HENRY SULLIVAN, Geôlier.
magazin de tapisserie.
No. 20 Rue du Camp , Nile. Oi leans.
JOSEPH ETTER offie à vendre à bas prix
pour du comptant, ou acceptances de la ville,
toute sorte d'articles de ce genre, tels que Papier à
Tapisser pour mures, ciels de lit pour rideaux
avec bordures ; étoffe à Rideaux avec garanitures
Pompons Cordes, Batons Dorés, Corniches:— De
Matelas à ressort, de Crin et Mousse, des Franges,
Rideanx de fenêtre transparents et antres, Mousti
caires, Tapis de laine, de paille et de toile peinte
etc.
Tous ordres seront promptement exécutes.
Octobre 9,1847. ll :tf \n\n SOUTHERN
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EN TIN EL,
VOL. 1.
PLAQUEMINE, PARISH OF IBERVILLE, SEPTEMBER 4, 1848.
tt^Roügh and Ready Club.—Ex
(ract from tbe minutes of the proceedings of the
"Rough and Ready Club," at a meeting held on
the 31st ult.:
"On motion of J. C. Davis, Esq., it was re
solved, that article 1st of the bye-laws of the Rough
and Ready Club be amended so as to read thus:—
Art. 1st. The meeting of this Club shall be held at
the Court House every Saturday at 10 o'clock, A. M.
On motion of J. M. Jones, Esq., it was re
solved, that the Recording Secretary be and is here
by requested and instructed to have the above time
and place of meeting of the Club published in the
Southern Smtinel as a standing advertisement during
the campaign."
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J. S. W ebb , Recording S ecretary .
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jP on the 29th instant, a runaway negro; calls
himself A LICK, and says, he belongs to a
Mr. Le Blanc, residing in the Parish of St.
James. The said negro is about 28 or 30 years of
age, and 5 feet 10 inches in height, and a black.—
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Crittenden on Taylor.
In an editorial notice of a speech de
livered at a public gathering at Russell
ville, Kentucky, on the 22d ult., by that
eminent and true-hearted Whig, John J.
Crittenden, we have met with a notice of
the Whig Candidate for the Presidency,
the accuracy of which will be admitted
by every man who knows General Taylor:
As to General Taylor, Mr. Crittenden
said he thought he would give us the right
kiud of an administration. The old sol
dier had passed through every difficulty
safely. He had never said that he would
do anything but what, when the timecarae
for him to act, he was ready to act up to
the emergency. He had to fight against
the disadvantage of two or three to one,
and he had done it successfully. No one
had ever charged him, in his long carecr,
with dishonesty. Honor and feme could
not intoxicate bim; power could not se
duce him. lie was as plain, as unpre
tending, and 'rough,' after all his brilliant
achievements, as any plain citizen pre
sent He was not bedizened with lace.—
He was the people's man, and the man of
the people. All cotlld recognize him in
his old brown coat as old Rough and
Ready—as a real republican. If he
wanted to paint Kentucky he would set
up old Zach, and have him painted as the
embodime lit.
"Here was a man who could heal the
wounds of the country. He looked to
him with these hopes, and with all confi
dence He knew that the other party was
striving to draw the people from him, but
it was in vain, for their hearts were with
him. When the day of election came,
many a Kentuckian would find every oth
er feeling overcome but the one détermi
nation to do his duty by Old Zach and
his country. He believed Gen. Taylor
would be elected. He considered that
mattir well summed up by the young
Kentuckian who went to Philadelphia;
who said, on his return, that the people
were much split up in regard to candi
dates; that old Rough and Ready had a
great many friends, but he believed Gen.
Taylor would beat him; but he thought
one they called 'Old Zach' would beat
both I Mr. C. had talked with Getj.
Twiggs before he left Washington, and
the General told him, in his decided way,
with an oath, that no man could look five
minutes in Gen. Taylor's face and make
a proposition to him to do a mean action.
No act of oppression was ever charged
upon him ! No man ever paid the penal
ty of death by martial law from the time
he fought at Fïilo Alto to the time he left
Buena Vista. He had controlled and
guided the army without bloodshed, main
tained its honor and discipline, and retir
ed without having done aught to sully the
glorious character he had ever maintained
as au able as well as humane man. When
some deserters were brought to him after
the battle of Buena Vista, before the blood
they had shed yet sunk into the earth, he
looked scornfully at them and said : '•My
soldiers do not desert— these are net my
soldiers! Take them back to the camp,
drum them out, and let them go.' When
the government chided bim for not storm
ing Monterey with its twelve thousand
men, with his five thousand, what was his
reply 1 'Yes,' he said, 'he could have ta
ken it in that way, but he did not want to
sacrifice the women and children.'—
When he was feted in New Orleans, a
friend, alluding to thfl splendid pageant
which wound through the streets of the
city, said to him that 'it must have been
very gratifying to him.' 'No,' said he. 'it
was not. I was afraid some of the wo
men and children might be hurt!' Who
but he, when thus receiving a triumph
like those of Caesar, would have thought
of that ? But to his mind that was the
most beautiful trait in Gen. Taylor's char
acter. It was more characteristic of him
than any of the many anecdotes told of
him. The people wanted such a man,
and they wanted an honest man. That
was more necessary than fine talents
merely, such as was displayed in public
speaking. Elect him, and the people
would have a man upon whom they could
rely."
lien. Cass—His Portrait.
Mr. Andrew Stewart, in a recent speech
in Congress,thus described Gen.Cass:
He always thought Mr. Jefferson was
the friend of peace. What was General
Cass? For war, war, war! First with
England; he was for "fifty-four forty or
fight;" then lie was for Mexico; for "swal
lowing" (to use his own language) the
whole of Mexico; next for Yucatan; and
then he might be for Canada. Now,
where was the practice of the gentleman
over the way, and of their leader, who
talked so loudly about Mr. Jefferson's
principles? War was a barbarism in this
enlightened age and country; it was an
absurdity, a crime, and it was so consid
ered by Gen. Taylor.
But a little more of the history of Gen
Cass. Hr had been on all sides of all
questions. There was not a question of
public policy of the country upon which
Gen. Cass had not occupied a posi
tion on botb sides. Once a federalist,
now a "democrat." When the question
of the annexation of Texas first cautne up,
he was decidedly opposed to it ; when it
was said that the British were going to
take Texas, "let them have it," spid he,
we do not want it." But a little before
the nomination, en the 10th of May, 1844,
he wrote a letter to Mr. Hannegan, in
which he was for immediate annexation
and for slavery too.
He was against annexation and for an
nexation; against the proviso and for the
proviso; against protection and for protec
tion; against internal improvements and
for internal improvements. With refer
ence to the Wilmot Proviso, Gen. Cass
was decidedly for it at first; he was a great
proviso man; and then at the next session
of Congress, when he found it would not
not do for a certain section, he turned
against the proviso, and in his letter to
Mr. Nicholson said, "a change had been
going on ia my mind," and when the
slaveholders demanded to be allowed to
carry their slaves to new territory, he says
it will greatly improve the comfort and
condition of the slaves if they were scat
tered over more territory, and he was now
a great slavery man; and the gentleman
from Mississippi, (Mr. Featherston) had
just said that he was pledged to veto the,
Wilmost Proviso. He was once for a
protective tariff, but now opposed to all
protection. The time was when Cass
voted for internal improvements; but he
wrote an answer to a letter of invitation to
attend the Chicago Convention in his
neighborhood—a letter of four lines, stat
ing that he could not attend —as at Cleve
land, the other day, when âsked for his
opinions on internal improvements and
the proviso, he said there was such a
crowd he was afraid he could not be heard,
and spoke on other subjects. Now, the
Baltimore Convention declared that in
ternal improvements were unconstitution
al, and Gen. Cass said, Amen : he agreed
to every word in that platform. He was
a man who had been on all sides of all
questions; a man of no principle, no con
sistency, but a time-serving, vascillating,
weathercock candidate, and that had se
cured his nomination for the Presidency.
But he (Mr. S.j thought his party now felt
very much as Father Ritchie did—very
much like giving it up. Had the Whig
candidate ever vacillated, ever changed
his position, his principes 1 No. They
were laid down in the Allison letter, and
were fixed as the everlasting hills, having
their foundation in justice and truth—
based upon the Constitution of the coun
try, and upon popular rights—the emana
tion of a sound head and pure heart, it
was impossible that they could be wrong,
or could change.
An Important Accession .—TheMil
ton, (N. C.J Chronicle , has the following
paragraph ;
The Hon. Bedford Brown fur Taylor!
We have the very best authority for
saying that the Hon. Bedford Browto,
formerly a democratic U. S. Senator
from this State, and now a citizen of Al
bermarle, Va., spurns the idea of support
ing Cass for the Presidency, and is a warm
and zealous advocate of Gen. Taylor.
Reasons for Supporting Cien. Taylor.
The sound, unimpeached and undoubt
ed character of Gen. Taylor as a national
whig, after the Washington standard, in
spires the confidence of patriotic and con
siderate men in every part of the country.
Hear Senator Mangum, of North Caro
lina. In his speech in the Senate on the
3d instant, he said :
"Sir, I will support Gen. Taylor and
support him cordially, as the true repre
sentative of all the great conservative
characteristics of the whig party. I shall
support him as a man of peace—as op
posed to all wars of conquest—opposed to
the rapacious policy that would pick a
quarrel with his neighbor ami then seize
his goods. I support him for his sound
constitutional views in regard to the rela
tive duties of the respective departments of
the government. King Veto will not be
put in chains, but confined to his proper
sphere; he will not be permitted as a ma
rauder, to make forays upon every depart
ment of the Government and every public
and private interest. I support him also
because I believe he will suffer the will of
the people to become the law of the peo
ple within constitutional limits; because 1
believe that things that lie before us in the
unknown future, may be of vastly more
magnitude than all the transient party
questions of the day, and because T have
confidence in his moderation and good
sense—above all, in his moderation and
right-mindedness. If I have learned
anything in public life, it is that pure iti=
tentions and single mindedness, with a
strong and good sense, are worth more
than the most splendid abilities and the
largest experience without them. It
would be sad were it otherwise. He who
seeks it with a singleness of mind, will
rarely miss it. What care I whether Gen.
Taylor cannot play at a game of sophism
with expert and dexterous political dialec
tions? What I do care to know is, that
his views are moderate, conservative na
tional—all tending to peace, to whole
some and gradual developement and pro
gress. Ile who has learned by expe
rience the miseries and horrors of war, if
hebe a good man, will generally be the
most strenuous advocate of peace as long
as peace can be preserved with national
honor. Who so pacific as Washington ?
Who could have curbed the wild passions
and preserved peace during the phrenzy
of the French revolution but Washing
ton? Who so powerful an advocate of
peace with the continent of Europe as he
who struggled on a hundred battle-fields
—Soult 1 Who has done so much to pre
serve the peace of Europe as Wellington,
the conquerer of Napoleon? And Tay
lor, with equal moderation and equal bra
very, will act upon the wise maxims of
peace. " *
Western Elociuence .—The following
paragraph, describing the sort of preach
ers wanted in the west, is an extract from
the speech of the Rev. Mr. Magoon, of
Cincinnati, made at the anniversary of
the New York Baptist Bible Society :
The education soaked in from the out
side, like a Thompsonian bath, is useless
there. There is no field for such preaeh
ers. Blackboard knowledge, and Latin
roots, emptiness in the head, green glas
ses over the eyes, dyspepsia in the sto
mach, and a diploma in his hand, do not
suit the people—they want what the
Scotch call "gumption"—they want men
like Ringgold's flying artillery, who know
how to load and fire in the hottest of the
fight. There is no » need to wait for a
church to call a pastor in the West; he
can call his church himself. With a log
cabin for a vestry, he can have around
him a cathedral whose arches were
wreathed and wrought, whose roof was
adorned in a way the temples of Greece
never knew—the blue sky is visible
through its dome, the setting sun streams
in betwéen its pillars, and there, in a garb,
as simple ns the sublime truths he tells,
he can preach the Word of Life; there is
no need of fine linen in double quantity,
linen under and linen over his garment,
he will not want two shirts."
A Quandary! —In 1340, the Locofo
cos said that General Harrison was a
"granny." They are now trying to make
the public believe that Gen. Cass was
Gen. Harrison's aid ! Misrepresentations
are "like young chickens, they still come
home to roost."
Hon. John W. Crockett , formerly
Representative in Congress from Tennes
see, and a gentleman whose word for
truth will pass as current here as that of
any man, thus speaks of Millard Fill
more :
"We know Millard Fillmore, having
served with him for four years in the na
tional councils, and we know him to be as
free from the taint of abolition as any
man in this Union.
"From an intimate personal knowledge
of the purity of his clwacter, his manner
of life, his sympathies with the masses,
his lofty patriotism nnd unwavering in
tegrity, we express the » pinion without
hesitation, and without disparagement to
others, that he is the most suitable man
that could have been found in the whole
Union to place on the ticket with General
Taylor."
Cheeping Signs for Taylor .—A wri
ter who signs himself as "A Domocrat,"
in tbe Kanawha, (Va.) Republican, says :
After travelling through the lower end of
Kanawha, and over the county of Put
nam, I am glad to tell you that the peo
ple are going for Taylor, almost unani
mously. I was in a considerable crowd
the other day, the most of whom were
Democrats, and with the exception of two
men, all are going to vote for Taylor.—
The people are so warm, they even want
tobfîton Virginia, and also to bet Cass
won't get five States. \ have always
voted the Democratic ticket, but am com
pelled to give Old Zach a lilt this time.
New Youk for Tayi.or .—The Harald
has an estimate based upon the strength
of the election of 1847, in which it allows
Mr. Van Buren fifteen thousand Whig
votes, nnd says that the Whigs will then
poll 217,000, which will be a majority
over the Hunkers of 75,000, and of
90,000 over the Barnburners. It adds
that New York may be set dowo " all
right for Taylor."
Iowa .—The Charleston Courier, of the
25th, has received a Telegraphic despatch
from Baltimore, dated the day previous at
12 o'clock, which states thr f the Whigs
have a majority in the Legislatureof Iowa.
This will secure us two United States
Senators, and is an auspicious index of
the vote of the State in November.
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NOTiCE.
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for this Parish, the public are respectfully informed
that all duties appertaining to my vocation, will be
punctually and promptly attended to.
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