Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-10-13

nuinbersds aIreedy We behold the han,
writing upon che wall, and Belshazzar like
10 their own nngovernabIe agitation, the,
feet aPortentiOus omen Of their approach
ing dOwaiail, The glorious news from
Main&is hailed with acclamations TO the
tsznd girt shores Of Louisiana.r-shs true
spirit Of democracy j. again. enkindled and
spreading with electrical rapidity, and VIC
dare predict that at the next elections the
chivalrous and patriotic state Of MISSISSIPPI
pi will come forward to aid and to battle in
the glorious cause; "rcdeemed, regenera.
ted, disenthralled" from the CALLING chains
Of Federalism, which have been basely
rivitted upon her by Prcntiss, the high
priest that has so ruthlessly sacrificed her
at the altar Of Federalism. From the first
we felt consciousness that the bank
prodigy could not, by his siren voice long
lull into Lithian slumbers the Democracy
of Mississippi. We said that in him Re.
publican Mississippi could not be faithful,
represented. How could it bef The We.
ry first political atmosphere he inhaled
was laden with the miasm Of Massachu-
sets Federalism-.he very first rays that
lighted him on bis pathway to fame, were
he'd from the Blue-Iights Of Boston the,
Mecca of his idolitary, that bcckoned to our {
hores the merciless bands of foreign ty-
ant. The people seen the aoble state of &
Mississippi degraded in his person, and 9
rostrated at the feet Of Federal Massa- n
husetss. Mississippi stand side BY side I
18th Massachusetts" God Forbid True h
herself, she has ever stood fast to her d
'terests and the Constitution, that binds b
'gether this glorious Union. When Mas a
'chusetts was inviting TO her bosom an j
nemy that would deluge in blood our c.
Milling and happy field, and leading into d
'psivity freemen, and supplying the ene- k
y with provisions and munitions Of wal, ii
hlch she withheld from those who were m
.bly battling for the honor g. freedom of |
mer'ca. Was Miss. by her side? No! b,
'e sent forth her little band Of Spartan 70
roes, who, on the plains Of New Orleans. tn
cred theis breasts, an insurmountable fr'
rzler to the approach Of cruel and ra- tn
ious enemy. When Mississippi strove II
render the South tributary to the pr
nth, by the imposition Of an inequitous .h
nj, was Mississippi found by her side?
I! She was heard with voice of sew
fold thunder, protesting against
assure so unjust, unconstitutional and HI
'rssslve, and when she summoned up WI
''slumbering energies, to shake from ye
this heavy burden, who was the last sin
release the palsyng grasp! Massa- WI
setts. And now, when Massachusetts, in'
threatening renewal of the tariff, shall ov'
'slssippi be found side by side with her SEES
III she so much glory in her own shame ter
o assist in manufacturing the chains sea
en- are to bind heri No! Serjeans J. &c
miss, the people Of Mississippi have thi
overed thy schemes 20 transfer them heI
ne Abcktionists and Bank Aristocracy all
ny nasive home, New England, and De-
just indignation at thy treachery. wa
It spirit, freedom and independence, No
ch had been stifed by throttling ha nds gc
3anks, is once more aroused. We care or
win be free. Ju
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