Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1838-05-12

/ Ton suspect! Now tits good maxim in NOR
as that suspicious persons are generally guilty
themselves. Our neiehbor We believe. Is a mem
Der Of the church, and has read his Bile At lea.t
Ghe has no, studied PlIey, Of course, he Will ad,
init the correctness Of the maxim we have lajd
down. Let US compare, for a moment the differ
en-, courses which his Journal and ours have pnr-
sued. brief retrospect will enable an Impair
tial community to decide which has kept the most
steady eye on the loarss and fishes, regardless Of
any other principle. We will state but facts-we
will not misrePrcsent, n set down aught in ma
lice"
The Argus was established expressly for the
purpose Of ADJ coating the ultra Stae right doe
trnes of South Carolina. For some twelve
months it labOred zealousy in the cause. Every
effort was made to induce the people to swallow
nullIiicatOn. But il would not take. The Ar.
gus found that it was fast sinking in the support of
a sinking cause--that II got nothing but bad quar-
tiers, hard knocks and short pay-not half loaf
and not even smell ofthe fishes, and like Sc
cond Dugad Da'getty, 1t shifted It's position on
the first opportunity, aud went over to the support
of cause where there was probability of get
ting better pay. 1t became the supporter of
Hugh l.. White for the Presidency, nan who
had been among the most bitter opponents Of nu
LITIGATION and who had voted for the force bill
| What could b,vo Laor Tho 900. r a..
sett in the Argus Was it not laundering after
the oaves and fishes Judge White was rather
more popular than null fcauon, and Dugad
Dalgeuy made a judIclous change Of leaders
| that time. TO have stood aloof hom the contest,
and stuck 10 his principles like the South Carroll
ma Journals did, would have shown rather too
much disinelestodness for the honest gentleman,
who could fight under any banner, provided he
got good pay. But as Judge White was a Sou
thern man, and certainly less Objectionable than
Webster or Harrison, or even Van Buren, in the
estimation Of the nulhders, DaIgety, We mean
the Argus, may have had some more honorable
lnducement to support the Judge, than that of
mere pecuniary gain. ltmay have taken up the
Judge, not as It's choice, but as the least of evils.
We will admit this to have been the case because
we are unwilling, as we have SAID, " 10 set down
aught IN malice"
But what are we to think of the Argus pres.
ent position 1t stands the very antipode Of its
former self 1t will be in vain for it TO deny it.
1t was formerly ultra in its support Of State rights,
il now goes with the federalists and supports
National Bank.-lt was formerly the proessed
admrer Of Mr.. Calhoun, it now denounces his
course upon the subject Of the finance, and is in
favor of Henry Clay or Daniel Webster for the
Pres dency. 1t formerly agitated the subject of
abolition, and used it as handle against Mr..
Van Buren, and Col Claiborne, it now raises its
hands in pious horror against all such agitation.
It has boxed every point of tho compass, and
from the hot climate of notification it has passed
over to the frozen region of federalism And
why this complete change--a change not so
much with regard to men as principles! The
answer is an obvious one. The Argus works by
the rule of principle and interest united. They
both go together and are inseparabe in It's calcu-
lations. To obtain the loarc8 and fishes is its
interest, and whatever leads 10 that end, is its prin-
ciple.
So much for the Argus.---Our own course has
been plain and straight forward. What we were
three years ago, we are now. We have turned
neither TO the right nor to the left. We were op-
posed TO notification and national bank in
1885, and we are equally so now. We support
ed Dir. Van Buren, for the Presidency and we
support his administration, because he is altemp-
ting TO carry cut the measures TO which he was
pledged before his election. Nearly every num-
Der of the Argus FOR the last two or three weeks
contains shouts Of triumph for wing victories said
TO have been gained, and we are constantly assur.
ed that the present administration must 90 down,
and that we shall soon be il a lean minority. Yet
we faer not in our course, and zee nerer wW
Does this look like having an eye to the "spols
Of victory" or being influenced by desire of
the loaves and fishes p"
The first steam Packet that ever crossed the
Ocean, the South Western, arrived at New York
on the 23d ult. Is days from Bristol. The au-
thorities of New York have taken steps to cele-
brate his important event in becoming manner.
9 We cannot see, however, how we can restore
currency while the general government is at war
with the credit system. "-.4rgus.
The common slang of the federal papers
throughout the Union We deny the assertion
in t0to. We deny that the National Government