The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-09

SOUTHERN EXCITEMENT. An attempt is max
ing on the part of certain jealous partisans and
partisan prints, in some Of the Southern States,
particularly South Carolina and Georgia, to Gre
ate an undue excitement on account of the pas
sage ofthe tariffbil. We have before made some
extracts from the Georgia Southron," which
give fair specimen of the feelings manifested
on the occasion, and which they continue to
display. That and other papers strongly advo-
cate such a taxation of all the productions of
the Northern and Western States as shall in
effect amount to a intercourse with them.
They also advise giving preference to British
goods, even if they cost more than American.
meeting has been held in McDuHie's district,
at which he delivered an inhammatory address
In some instances, resistance of the law and
dissolution of the Union is advocated and threat
ened in the most Incorporate terms We, how
ever, do not apprehend any danger of things
being pushed to extremities by them The OBJ
iect is to create odium against the Administra-
ton, and to promote the cause of Gen. jackson
The temperament Of the southern blood is SO
ardent that it is easily excited, but the excite
ment soon works Off When the fervor of their
now nearly vertical sun shall have abated, and
the people of the South, find from the practical
effects Of the tariff that no part of it operates
injuriously on their interests, except the pro-
visions which were inserted and retained by the
votes of their own representatives, different
state of feeling may be expected to prevail
among them.
The clustering and gasconadihg language so
frequently adopted by some southern politicians,
would lead to the belief, that even the whites of
that section, partake in some degree of the
character so we'll drawn in the following ex.
tract, which is made from spirited and anus
ing paper called "the Yankee published at
Portland, and edited by the celebrated JohnNeal:
ain the cities of the South, a traveller may
often hear great noise coming toward him
as he is walking through some broad, still,
unfrequented street on the Sabbath day.
He stops and listens, and looks abou: with
some degree of anxiety. After while he
begins to distinguish the sound of voices,
apparently quarrelling in matter of life
and death. A moment or two more, and he
sees one solitary mana great bull niger
coming towards him with a step and a
carriage that indicate nothing unusual nor
out of the way: but while he is looking at
him, the niger stops and throws up his
arms, and f1ourishes his fist about, and pours
forth torrent of gibberish, the very sound
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cold, though all the stranger can distinguish
is-Goody- goore- Midee lem me ketchee-
90! dat's all oh oh ending with
cultural cry, that may oe heard three
squares off. And all this uproar the knave
repeats without turning his head or looking
behind him, as often as he hears a window
open, or sees child cross the street. You
would swear from the words and the
sound, that the fellow was going to tear
somebody limb from limb, or eat him up
alive. No such thing-the fellow has no
such idea-he is only letting off little mig
ger; just as the sailor boy, who has got
ashore from his first voyage, throws away
his money by handfuls, to prove that he is
not altogether as raw as the iibes of some
tough old man o'warS-man may Indicate"
II is proper to remark that the feelings on
which we have commented, are far from being
universal at the South. Many of the most res
pectable papers pursue fair and honorable
course, intoxicating submission to the con-
stitution and laws of the land, and express
a belief, that the new tariff, instead of ope-
Grating injuriously, will promote the best inter-
ests ofthe south, and of the whole country.