Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25

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Of The lAth inst. says that Charles A.
Bradford ESQ. has declinedthe appoint
ment 8 State Treasurer, and that Ny. J.
A. Van Hoesen Esq Of Natchez has
since been appointed and entered upon
the discharge of tie duties Of the Office.
Since the above was written, we have
received the Pontotoc Intelligencer OF the
18th inst. The editor pours out his vials
of wrath on our deyoted head for having
very innocently, as we thought, placed
over the annunciation of his appointment
the hackneyed words" Another editor
feaoarded." Now we can see nothing We
ry wrong in being rewarded, even if It Is
the editor Of the Intelligencer sat all
events we would have no objection TO a
snug little Office with a salary of $4,000 or
$4,000 a year, as a reward for our seryi-
ces in the cause of the Wings. Our irrl-
table neighbor Of the InteIligencer has Ia
bored hard in the service of the party, and
has broken lances with many of the oPPo-
sition editors in the State, among them our
self, and has even gone so far as to trench
upon the domain of our friend, the valiant
knight of the Franklin (Tenn.) Review
and has lost his temper on almost every
occasion, a habit, we are very happy to
say Wing editors very rarely get into'
Why not then be rewarded? If we like
Governor McNutt for any thing in par
ticular it is his partiality towards the corps
editorial. He is discriminating in this par
ticular in high degree and we admire
him for it. Look at the gentlemen OF
the press he has elevated to offices of hon
or and emolument. Mr.. Besancon, OF
the Natchez Free Trader, is made Bank
Commissioner and Assistant Quartet
MasterGeneral, Mr.. Hagan of the Vicks-
burg Sentinel, is made Bank Commission.
er, Mr.. Howard, late of the Mississippian,
is made Union Bank Director, Mr..
Lester, of the Columbus Democrat, is
aid to the Governor, and there may b'
others who have been thus "rew arded,
that we have not yet heard of. We like
70 see it, and would of course be bette
pleasedif we could also come in for I
share, for "'tis human nat ure to feel so.
But seriously, Eve deplore, with sickness
of heart, these every day matter of cours'
attacks of one editor upon another, pla
cling him in the attitude of venal hire
ling, who can do nothing for principle o
pat riotism-nothing from an honest mo
tive" We also deplore with still deepe
feeling, the heartless and slanderous at
tacks which are made by the conductor
of the public press upon the best men Q
| the nation, merely because their nolitica
notions do not tally, with what they con
ceive to be orthodox. Such men as Clay
| Calhoun, White, Webster, Preston, Tall
madge and others, are in turn daily load
| ed with epithets of iar," scOundrez,
"rilain," 6Zasphemer," "traitor,n ia
das IscariOt,' . s Catahne," and thou
sand and one such appellatiyes, tina
a foreigner, unacquainted with our system
of electioneering, would irresistibly ar
rive at the conclusion that our country wa
governed by the veriest vagabonds tina
ever escaped the halter. This is not right
J and we would willingly enter into an ar
mistice with the Intelligencer, and throw
down our weapons of political warfare
: and Join him in Holy Crusade agains
the practice referred to-a practice whicl
? is daily and hourly weakening the inauenc,
of the press with the people, and sappin,
and destroying its dignity of character
In conclusion, we inform the Intelligence
that its structures upon the character o
our paper and ourself are entirely beneah
! our notice. Our motives are pure as it
own, and we know of no mortal who ha
a right to judge them.
/ FRosT.-The Cleveland and Cincinnati