Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-03-31

anu gwen up Inelr minus TO DC the
slaves of every popular impulse, | can
sincerely pity them. But could pity
them still more if their vanity leads
them to mistake the shouts of mob for
the trumpet offamc. Experience may
have taught them that many who have
received the huzzas of a crowd one day,
have been visited by its bitterest execra-
ton the next, and many who have from
popularity ofthe times, been held up ~
spotless patriots, have nevertheless ap.
peared upon the historians page, where
truth has triumphedover delusion, the
assassions Of liberty. But why, it may
be asked, are Messrs. Claiborne and
Gholson singled out as the peculiar vic.
tins of federal malignity? Is it because,
like Judas of old, they have bartered
their country for gold, or is it not rather
because, settin at nought the blandish-
ments of wealth, and the attempts Of a
great monied aristocracy to beguile
them from thee people, they have gone
forth with the keen sabre and the good
broad sword, conquring and to conqu-
er, bearing down the enemy at every
step, and freeing their countrymen from
an unwilling captivity to soulless and
unrelenting foe2 For doing these
things, and for refusing brides, medals
and garters, such as others had not the
moral courage to refuse, the ban Of fed
cral prescription has been dropped u
pom them. | shall not stop to enquire
whether Messrs. Claiborne and Chosen,
have erred. 1t is sufficient for my pur-
pose to know that, ere as they may,
still they can better represent me, free
man as | ever intend to be, than men
who tell me that the whole Democratic
party are wilfully corrupt from the
crowns of their heads to the soles of
their feet. Yes, sir, though their lives
were but one great error, yet so long as
| can trace that error to the head, /
will trust them with my rights, sooner
than surrender those rights to the keep
ing of one who, dyed in the stygian
waters of federal monarchy, and stuffed
with his own selfconceit, tells the world
that the American people are iRcapa-
bic Of self government, and in verifca-
ton of this anti-American declaration,
attempts to impose on them King.
the most despicable and despotic of all
others-in the shape ofa National
Bank. If / must have King says the
eccentric John Randolph, give me one
with sword and epauletts, something
that | can respect and fear, and not a |
thing with quill behind his ear, and
a pictured label in his hand; to such
my free spirit never will con-
'ent to bow, for such thing can on
y feel contempt.
Will the enlightened freemen of this
state ever consent to bow before the
olden image, and there permit their ,
ncaptive limbs to be fettered by the
reat money King and his plant min a
ms? lfso, tell them to 60 to the polls 7
nd cast their free suffrages for the r
diaries of National Bank. i
On this subject have read an in v
ructive lesson from the bencl of an S
merican artist. / went with him, in Il
ncy, to the islaud Of Gree, the en- y
lantress; there i behold an admiring t
yer bowling before the image of his y
olatry, delighted and enraptured
Ith all the gorgeous trappings around r
m; nature was attired in her richest ~
rb; Flora was on one hand presen- le
g chaplet of richest tint and most 80
i;cious fragrance; Ceress and Pom ~
a were on the other, pouring out a ~
enteous abundance of choicest fruit IN
d in the midst of all this gay scene =
IS the enchantress herself, her enrap- he
red lover gazing with intoxicating wi
light upon her lovelGness, and Just fc
ady to clasp her to his throbbing of
east, when suddenly she touches him to
tn her magic wand, and he is instan- an
transformed, not into swine nor
an OK. but into an ass, that veriest
asst of burden. Thus, thought |, it is da..
tn the people whilst they bow before in
golden image, and give ear to the cor
nix enchantment-listening to the 'ha
oturous exhortations of federalists on an'
one hand, and the gladstone plau- ing
of Nationals on the other, and gaz- the
on the smiling scene which the evs
tile imagination of gentlemen pres On. ane
$, believing all they say is true, and snu
It all arises from the beneficial influ- 81,
&c OF the new enchantress, the Bank. .;n,
Y are influenced to continue her fl
-c.r with the vain hope that she will, ~
long, liz them up and press them Ea
er bosom, and at last touched by Dor
magic wand of her power, they BaI
Ike to the sober realities of life, and g
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