Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1837-08-05


As some wing paper has said he has the Keniuck
an son the hiP."-He cuts him up, loot and
branch
Hope zoe don't intrUds IF Daniel Webster
should be selected, as il is most likely be will be-,
by the wing national convention, as the whig
candidate for the Presidency will the nullifers
here support him. Can the Argus. or any gifts
half dozen committees Of vigilance inform usl-
They can support Webster with just the same
consistency that they supported White.
The Natchez Courier, with the usual disinge-
nuousness of the Whig Press, charges us with in
consistency and disregard Of truth, because We
INSERTED in one Article that the wings are drilled
organized corps, and in another minated that
there were miserable divisions in their ranks
lad the editor been disposed to do US common
'lstice, and had he examined with sufficient care
be number of cur paper containing the articles
lluded to, he would have found that our remarks
yere oil strictly true, and that there was not the
least inconsistency in them. But moths was
hot his purpose. lie felt the force and truth of
our remarks, and he attempted 10 parry them in
the best manner he could. By making garbled
extracts from two different articles, and placing
them in juxtaposition he convlcts us, he would
have his readers to believe, OF inconsistency and
want ofveraci'y. BY pursuing the same course
owards the Courier, we could convict him of
being good democratic republican, but as we
know him to be bank iederalist. We will not
be so unjust to him.
The first of the articles, on which the Courier
comments and in which we say that the wings are
pa drilled organized corps" was obviously in
tcnded for this part Of the State and this county
lP"v'icularly. We calling upon our friends
]ust previous to the election to attend the polls,
'no s'a'eu 10 hon that their enemies (ihe whigs)
were drilled organl1od,corps. This is strictly
true with regard 10 this, and wo believe some of
the adjoining counties. Here they have their
s'nIdnlght caucusses and open day conventions.
their committees of correspondence, and commit
fees Of vlgllance--in fact they are thoroughly
airiIlcd and organized. But is this the case
throughout the State-are there not "misernble
divisions" in their ranks in certain places--dd
pot some ofthem wlsh 10 run Prentiss alone, some
lpi them Prentiss and Hadley, and some Of them
mixed ticket, composed Of Claiborne and Prem
hissl No one knows better that all this is thu,
Than the Courier. That we have ever heapet
vulgar abuse upon the ''patIiotc" Acee, as ,h'
Courier calls him, is utterly fnlse. We have don,
what it was our right and duty TO do, exposed the
political inconsistencies Of that gentleman, anl
i've have recorded evidence 10 establish ever,
WORD that We have said respecting him. AS L
lhc slang Of the Courier about tho Democrats
Press, it is not worth notice. TO adopt his owl
words. abuse and ldcule from such source 81
pur greatest culogium."
The democrat appears intoxicated with degl
Int tho complete degradation of the people Of Mis-
Ssissipp as evinced by their votes at the late cleo
fion We don't envy its exhiliraton. II ma
ority Of the peop, of the state is mad, it is muc
ITO be lanened. The time is rapidly approachin
when all will regret the present iniatualion Of til
Rpeople.-.4rgus.
The above Is as good specimen of wing spi
I it and wing principles, as could well be pointe
out. Because the people Of Mississippi will n,
believe the uniounded statements Of such prin
as the Argus; because they cannot be cajoled /
the assertions Of wing politicians. who false
charge the Administration with being the eau:
OF the pecunlary distress of the country, therefor
: they ara completely degraded--he majority ii.
mad, and at Is TO be much amented" that the m
nority, 'all the talent" and 'oll the decency" pa
Il ~ cannot control tho rulgor herd, who acco
ding to wing doctrine are incapable Of compr
bending their true interests, and unworthy Of ha
Y ing any control in tho affairs Of government. III
is excellent English tory doctrine, and prov
II that our "new-born" American wings are idcn
cal in principle with that party who Of gore adv
Coated the divine right Of kings, and who non pr
claim il as the fundamental article Of their poll
cal creed, that the people are incapable of self g
vernment.
The truth is, the people of Mississippi, in I
recent election, have but yndcated their charact
for consistency and devotion to principle. Tn
Supported the measures of Gen. Jackson's a
ministratlon, and they voted Tor Mr.. Van Bur
because he was pledged 10 carry out those me
sures. and "to tread generally in. the footsteps
his predecessor" MIR. Van Buren, is now but ca
y forming TO this pledge--he is pursuing stead