Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1837-06-24
Last Saturday il aas eOaasellea

Of its country. Last Saturday il Ras e0onsel'ef
disObedienee.
.The.positiOn that the Government has taksn'
in fact affords M relief whatever. To NE nles-
chants who are able to meet their engagements
so or 90 days credi. is Of no imPoTtancei shsy
are willing to pay noW, but in the currency o. me
X ~ We tYwst no msrehGat ieia comply '''th i :.
,aIotIe conditions Of the Ssersta'y 81 tAs
sypoying specie"
ching Of Mr.. Gould's success N
recru ting for his band Of immortals, except thai
the Republi,a an Herald informs US HAT the ed''or
of the Providence Journal is "expeeted to appeal
IN fey days, ia bodily form, armed VAN Ou.u
er knife anil cleavcr. and encased IN coA' u
mail fitted TO the hinder parts PfePA'ar"'y ~
joining in the expedition often hosseAo 1"us'
Major General Edward 5. Gould, oil New ao,h
10 march TO Washington and back again. e'lO-
mel James Watson Webb, with has '9latoguhy
stock will be Of the party, provided D"l "'ee"
be missing from Washington.
From Philadelpnia and from BALTIMORE also'
we hear the same high toned menace as from
New York and Boston--language which would
be indeed appalling. Il j, were not Supremacy "
diculous. Do the Lynch wings suppose. Il they
actually came 10 blows, that they would have il
all their own wayi Do they think their ivory
headed canes a match for the hard hands OF the
patriotic yeomRnry, upon whom our country relies
10 stand by her in her hour of peril Mlserably
deluded men. if they haye any such hopes. 10
the hearts of all true Americans the Constitution
aud laws are supreme, and those who make war
upon her are traitors. When South Carolina;
grooming under no Imaginary expressions; groaii-
ing under taxation imposed by northern avarice'
in violate on Of the Constitution, and which crush
ed her INTO the dust, threatened 10 redress her
grievances BY the sword, and shook the Union to
its centre by that lkreat have We no. seen the ra-
ton ms one man, forgetting faction, rally round
the administration Of their choice in support OF
the Union and Constitution And do these ~hig
Jacobins suppose, because their coats are made
Of better cloth, and they wen, gold sreesae'es.
that they will be suffered to pu, in jeopardy all
that is dear 10 Us, 10 wiring iiom the Government
discount Of eight or ten per cent on their letter
posiagel Terribly, alas will they be undeceiv-
ed, who shall dare to pu, the virtue of the people
| to the trial. Pasied be the arm that shall lph,
| the torch Of civil war. Perish the tongue that
shall first cry havoc. .4ye-- and in eternal lniamy
their names shall rot, who, at the bidding OF lac
| ton hungry Tor office, would dcvote,to be over
/ whelmed IN the convulslons OF u revolution, our
rights and lberes social order, personal secuIi-
~, property morality and religion.
The American people are not yet ripe Tor de-
struction. Our institutions stand unshakeu by
the assaults Of thousand demagogues as a rock
of adamant defies the ceaseess beating Of the
waves. lie, single sword be drawn in any city,
or let the trumphtt Of sedon gather the malcon-
tents, for an onset on the bulwarks of free go-
yernmen', and the sound population Of the couI-
try will rush 70 their defence. They are not ef
Terminate by luxury; they are not contaminated by
corruption. No sympathy with bankrupt specu-
ators klndIes their passions; but holy love OF
liberty burns in their breasts zeal forthe honor of
their country aninates them. From every valley
and bill side they come, from the furrow and tie
anvil they Ny to her rescue.
Let faction thea be dumb before the majesty
Of the laws, and revere the inyIolabllliy Of lie
Constitution.