Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-04-10

e Oh then. you have tracts! Where do they
come frome Who pays for them!" A we pay
the postage. They send them to US from Ueorse
town and Charleston.
: Q And you have multiplying almanacs aiso!-
A Yes. and books and newspapers IN abundance.
We read much Q How can the Yankees De
taking money from your A They make as pay
all the taxes, and charge US twice as much ior
things as they are worth. They do take the mo-
ney from US. for they get rich. and we are grow
ing poor. They make us pay to support their
factories. They pay no taxes. and we pay an
the taxes. Cotton brings nothing now as It dld
in old times. Our shingles also are fallen IN the
market. Every thing we have to sell Is 50 cheap
t,at we cannot live. Q But would you break
Nv this government for a few cents In taxes!-
Tell me what taxes you pay, to get rid OF which
you were going TO risk your life? A go tor my
State and my country. q No. you don't go tor
your country; you go against it. what taxes
do you paw You wear nothing for which you
pay taxes to the Yankees. Your coat IS OF
Carolina cloth. Your hat lit was an old straw
thiug) never came from the north. A These are
Yankee pantaloons, they were made oil sattlnett)
+ don't know that pay any taxes, but my State
has nulliied, and | 60 for my State. Who would
not 90 for his country? But what were you
going to do, If the worst had come to worse! A
Gong to fight. Q Whom were you going to
fight? A The id Yankees. Q But the
Yankees would never come here to fight you
They would leave the negroes to take care Of
you. A Who cares for the negroes? They have
not spunk enough to whip a possum. z But
Gen. jackson would have brought his Iennes-
scans here, who whipt the British at New Dr.
leans. A They would all have died in our low
lands, and rice swamps. Q But | see nobody in
these pine woods. You have no population. -
Where are your people to fghts A | belong to
a volunteer corps in which there are sixty, and
we meet once a month to exercise and drill. Z
But what could you do with this company A
Go to Charleston. There were ten thousand
of us going there to take the fort. Q Should you
have gone? A Yes, 90 any where for my State.
Q But this fighting is dangerous. Men get Kill
led. Were you willing for the old satInett pan.
falcons TO lose your life: A | should stand my
chance. Q But your chance would be a slim
one in ate mptlng to take on the water with only
ten thousand raw soldiers a fortified castle. A
On! We were going on RATS. The cavalry was
coming down the rivers. Q But when you had
taken this, the port was bluckaded. You could
not take the cutters aud the sIoop of war. A
lJu VIC uui " Skot z tuC obh ~ y ~
from them our cotton and our rice. Q The Yam
KEGS could get cotton and rice enough elsewhere.
and YOU would suffer more in this manner than
they would. A Georgia aud Virginia were 60
ing with u, and with them we could have whipt
the Yankees.
. DO YOU know there are almost as many white
people in the single city of New York as in the
whole State Of South CaroIinal A Are there?--
Q Have you ever been out of South Carolina?-
A No. A d. 7ou knnw how large this country
isl A | recknn | do. Do YOU think 5. Carolina
would bp missed il she we're to 80 out OF the
Un,onf A Size PAYS all the taxes, and Union
men cannot do without her. Why did Com
gress give up and repeal the Tariff, ii she was
not afraid of her? . Do YOU think the Tariff is
repealed? A Certainly . On no Not a
duty i, vet reduced. \ They are all reduced or
taken I'll, for shingles aud otner things are now
worth much more in Charleston than they we're.
II they are not taken of, n, tracts lie
This conversation gives us good idea of the
feelings which have wrought up the mass OF the
People 10 South Carolina to such an exasPera.
ton. Til, man is bv no means a specimen OF
the intelli gent Nuliifirrs but he is a good speci-
men OF the back-woods. men who were to do the
6ahtins. The high mettled fellow has been first
tauDDt 10 " udtDU i've L dUhSrSS
an undue Stat. Pride, then To- believe his State
was omnipotent. and Der continuance IN the
Union all important, and indi'pensably necessary
TO suppurt the government he solemn'y be-
lieved, and would have taken his oath that S.
Carolina paid all the taxes Of this vast Union. At
a hundred millions of dollars he set down her
burthen! A foreign nation was about t" sub
due him and his State, and his pride rose on the
reflection. and he was ready to throw his life
away in attacking a fortified castle on an open
raft! Mr.. Calhosn's well instructed back.woods-
men of whom he boosted in Congress are as y.
norant of the extent. power, and complicated
interests of this government, as are the Rocky
Mountain Indians. whom it is necessary to take
to Cincinnati, Philadelphia and New York, 80 as
to impress upon their own eyes, a proper sense
of the nation the, border upon, and with whom
they may intend to wage war. b.
COL X. M. Johnson-We learn that this gen.
tlenan addressed a portion of the people OF Scott
county, in the Courthouse, on Monday OF last
week. aud announced himself a candidate Tor re-