Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-10-09
Communications.
TO AN ORIGINAL NULLIFIER.
MY DEAN. SIN

MY NDEhh@ A9Ah
Whether I can properly appropriate to
myself the praise.aorthy qualities Of con
sistency and independence, in my political
opinions, shall not arrogate the sole
right to determine. A modest respect
for the opinions Of others, and due re-
gard for that public sentiment which in
matters of opinion forms the standard of
right and wrong, much more forbids, that
I should assume the province Of deter.
mining for Others, whether they be " con-
.sistent'' or independently "honest" or
patriotic. The demand" however,
which faithful observance of these viz
tues requires at my hands, will not allow
ne to follow the dictates Of yonr philoso-
ply.
Knight here content myself with this
simple response to your gratuitous adj
dress.-But, sir, the peculiar attitude
which you have assumed, in relation to
party, whose very name / venerate, (and
to which you claim originanyto have be-
longed;) the unexpected quarter from
schich you hail. in these times of political
regeneration and more than all, your
understandable misrepresentation Of the
principles Of the Nulhfication party, in
ducc me 10 replg to your communication
more 81 lcneih. Aboriginal NJlaiier =
) as YOU profess 10 hare boen-I confess
thai It Is matter of some establishment
n tn me. tnat YOU should have become SO
suddenly, aud 50 fa4niitary initiated into
, the family circle of that class OF poltl-
clans who, but so lately, and so. recklessly
too, denounced the Notification party as
enemies to their country, and even fit sub
ects for the penalty due TO traitors.-And
. indeed sir, the very organ through which
a YOU have thought proper to communicate
your late experience, has not been, in
: times past, / think, remarkable, for its par.
1 TALLY to the doctrine which you still pro.
# TESS to maintain. 1t would then be mat.
ter worthy Of some reflection with YOU
: and perhaps Of profitable enquiry, to as.
e certain, by what strange freak of nature
2 or of destiny, you have been brought il
iuxta- position with your old adversary
How it is that a supporter Of the Procla.
nation and Force Bill, designed TO at
=. the Executive TO tyrannise over the rights
y Of a sovereign State--and the advocate o.
. the doctrine of notification. against which
y these lawIess measures were directed
can, 'cithout confession of change in either
II become politically united. Surely the full.
e fment Of prophecy has come, and the
: Lion and the Lamb shall lie down togcth-
It er. am certain, however, of this, that
} before your Old friends wiIl.consent 10 q
y political union with the new altes-tc
e whosereeeRerated nature, YOU would en-
trust them and their principles they mus
have some better evidence Of a poltjca
II millennium, than YOU have as vet eXhbi
ted.
Sir, the very name over which You nav,
re chosen to address your old party, look
lie sirange-passing strange, to me in it
il present position. At what notable TIM
was it that the Democrat" opened it
columns to the use of NulHfers?-Wi
not the honest of all classes, inquire
whether confidence is to be reposed IL
those, who but yesterday pointed to mer
and measures as inimical to their country
Is and yet to-day embrace both IN thu
D. arms of fellowship?
d. Do you not feel sir, that you are Ii
d strange company? That your principles
N are committed TO strange hands-and still
\ stranger heads and hearts!
You set out with the position that " tn
/ 9 WhigS of oar County have fairly joined
q g iissus with the Democrats upon the ques
: {" ton of a National Bank; lie divorce
e " and the independent Treasury.
By " the Wings of our County,"
e presume you mean (for you could mean
% nothing eIse) those who are opposed tc
o Mr.. Van Buren's administration. By
e the Democrats, the administration party
d Of this county.
You viii not deny that by far, the grea-
ter portion of those whom you denomn-
ate, Wings of the County," are the old
opponents Of Mr.. Van Buren-the advo.
Gates of State Rights and State Rene
, dies, more familiarly known as Nullifca,
tion-and the sworn opponents of Execu-
AIfG SuIpdiIOus NAT tiGY are; ana nave
erer been opposed to Tariff for protec-
ton, lnternal improvement, and Adolf
ton, that hey are and baye ever been
J. divided on this same question Of the con
? stimtionaay and expadiencv Of q Nation
al Bank, tliat Mr. CaLHoU5. Mr.
! McDrFlIE, Mr.. Cn4rfoBD. 3fr. WnuB,
i Mr.. BERaIIN, and many oilers whom I
might name, voted for, and supported a
National Bank, at various times, and
u were not deemed the less worthy by our
i party for so doing,
o You viii not deny that the Wing party
Il Of this county arc and have been oppo-
d nents Of the Proclamation and Force
t Bill, tho Removal of the Deposites, the
Z Protest, and the Expunging Resolution,
: and all this connected tribe of Executive
: assumptions under the doctrine Of " Con-
s'rltction" which you so much abhor
and you viii not also deny that they are
opposed to Dir. Van Buren,, and his par.
ty in this county, WHO are pledged to the
support of these doctrnes-who assisted
] u the vile work Of originating them bv
: this sane poicer of Construction. and Of
1 all which Mr.. Van Buren, may vel sav
d : magma pars li''-for be has been il.
r deed, the chief actor in the ruinous scene
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