Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1838-02-24

Our Legislature ADJOURNED on sauna. idsA To
meet again the lsi Monday in January next.
The Lowudes delegation have all returned to
their homes. We have not vet received the pro
ceedngs Of the last two or three DAYS Of the ses-
sion, nor the list Of acts passed. The Governor
vetoed the bill chntering the Real Estate Bank
ofihis place. The Bill passed 10 charter the
Union Bank was sanctioned and has Of course
become law.
.UiatRement.-The Editor Of the Argus NAV
be good arthmeucan perhaps, bat lie is certainly
not always very careful in his statement of facts
lie seems to find il convenient occasionally TO draw
on his own Imagination, rather than take the trou-
bic to examine Official statements. These are often
ugly things TO a federal Editor and lie invariably
thrusts them aside whenever they do not happen to
chime in with his own wishes. We have an in
stance of this in the last Argus The Editor asserts
we quote his own anguage-that "the highest
vote ever cast in Mississippi for any one candidate
was that Mr. Pren,iss received last November" So
says our neighbor the Official returns tell different
tale. We learn from them that the highest vote
given in November last was for Saunders the DEM
ocratic candidate for Auditor, who beat Prcntiss
1900 votes. Benson also beat the yankee ftderaIist
Gel votes Similar errors both in fact and argI-
nent run through nearly every other editorial ar-
c,e in the last Argus. En- hoe uRo, disco onines
20 Our neghbor OF the Argus will perhaps be
pleased to learn that we shall never desert ." the
Mississippi boys, claiborne and Ghoson, we pre-
fer TO any other candidates that can be brought for
ward. Our inumation that some other Democrats
might be elected in their place was predcated upon
the suppostiOn that the state Of their health might
happy TO learn that they are both fast recovering
from their late indspositon and will soon be at home
prepared for the canvass Tive to one that they
both come out far ahead of the yankee trained fed
eraIist What say you Mr.. Argus' DO you take
the banter
bC5- The Argus is evidently barking up the
wrong tree" when he hurrahs for Pennsylvania.
lis immense meeting Of the late friends of Jack
son" reminds one of Major Noah'3 great wing re-
actions in N. York in "a. They looked very well
on paper aud ticked the ears of the bank feds, but
they wanted one important quisite.-1rmh, a re-
quisite which the Major and his party were never
accused ortroubllng themselves about in their state
mcnts. We, ofcourse, do not lay the same charge
to the door of our neghbor-not at all. He speaks
l., l. ID l..L =. A.
the fall elections OF "a in N. York dissipated the
in aginary wing trumphs 10 the four winds of heav'
en-, so will it be in Pennsylvania at the next election.
The reign of Mic Bdde is ia st drawing to its close
We are happy to 6uG that the Democrat even in
its tears has pluck enough to abuse its own party,
and to agree with us and the Wing press in general
that more politically " base, black, and uaprinci-
pied" set of men, never since the formation of the
Constitution have held the relns Of Government -
Argus.
Rather too fast lriend-We never agreed to any
such thing. The charge oiperidy was made by us
particularly against the little squad orsconservatiyc'
! in Congress. They, aided BY the entire body o
Federal members succeeded in ousting Claiborn,
and Ghoson after they had been soemnly declares
to be duly elected members of the whole 25th Con
gress. The honest friends of the administration
stood firm, and deserve tho appreciation and thanks
Of every genuine democrat. purcr, mlrc patriot
ic body oimen, we believe, never lived than thos'
who are now, surrounded as they are by so man.
difficulties and discouragements, with mke-warn
friends and disguised traitors in their ranks zeal
ousy sustaining Mr.. Van Buren, in his efforts t
bring back the government to the republican tract
in which it was placed by Mr.. Jefferson. Interest
ed partisan prints and federal writers may denounc
them, but the people will do them Justice.
TIE SUB-TREAsURY ScnEME.--We mus
explain our position upon this subject. A hast
remark Of ours last week induced the Argus, an,
some of our own political friends to believe tina
we were about "to give in "-Nothing could b.
farther from the fact. We remain firm in ou
first conviction, indeed every day strengthens IL
IN 1t. Either there must be a divorce Of Ban
and State, as recommended by Mr., Van Burer
or we must have a National institution Of som
kind to regulate the currency. This is the tru
and the only question before the country. Dis
gulse It as you may, to this complexion it mu.
come at last. We made our selection at an cal
y day--long before the special session of Cor
gross was called. We saw then, and We Sc
now as many da lgcrs TO the Liberties and the be.
interests of the Iaboring classes in the establish
ment OF an ovCr-shadowiag monied institution
as in constitutional monarchy But If we can
not get Immediately all that we would wish, we ar
willing to compromise, and take the special d,
posIte scheme as temporary measure, belieyin
that it will ultimately and necessarily lead to III
cnnnln &C Ihn hn,,I.n 4 Al.