Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-10-09


gone days. That / may moi, howeyer
subject myself to the charge of extraya-
giant self conceit in my own abilities for
presuming to give instruction to SO learn
cd an author, | viii premise that It is dis
tant Objects only which ] profess to see
more clearly. AS @ objects within the
visual reach of our author, such for In
stance as our approachngelec it would
DC objectionable presumption in me to see
SO clearly. Hoping that this explanation
will save me from the suspicion Of that
verycomrnon but abominable sin, presump.
ton, will proceed with all reverence to
inform our author that in 1889 our gov.
eminent, so far FROM collecting its revenue
in the constitutional currency ofwhich he
speaks, that it could not scrape together
enough ofthe precious metals to have paid
the post Office account Of a private gentle
man. So far from receiving gold and sill
yer for its dues and paying il out for it's
debts, it had not credit enough to keep
body and soul together, and would actual.
ly havetunbe TO pieces had not the mas.
ter spirits Of those DAYS braced II IN bv
various eXpedients, until they finally estab.
Ilshed the credit of the government, bv
the establishment of National Bank. If
our author had have gone a little farther
back than 1889, to the time of our first
suh-Ireasury scheme, to the time when
treasury notes, alias continental money, of
happy memory flourished, he would have
seen his favorite scheme acted out to per-
fiction. He would have seen time, the
like of which no man living has since seen;
a time when the happy country Of our
fathers was filled with treasury notes, a
time when every mans pockets were
crammed with money, a time when it was
easier to make one hundred dollars than
it is in these rascally times to make pick
ayune, time when our happy fathers
would pay down a hundred bin for glass
of grog and ask no change, when the price
Of a horse was weighed out in so many
pounds (avourdupois) of hundred dollar
bills, to save the time Of counting. These
are the days, which ''Nullier' would have
been delighted in his heart to have contem.
plated. If he could have seen the happy
illustration of his favourite sub Treasury
scheme which these good old days wines
sed, when there was no ar.stocracy in the
land, no poor people, hut when every man
bad money enough to fjll his pockets and
han too. and would then reflect that the
spb-TrelsuFy scheme must either bring
those days Back to us or carry us back to
them, venture to say that he would not
only have seen that the destiny Of oui
country hangs upon the coming election
but that he would also have clearly dis.
cerned that the irrational liberty ofall the
nations Of this whole earth, both for thl
present and all future generations, is init
mately connected with and wholly dcpcn.
dent upon Parson Butlor's election. Yea
/ should not have been surprised, SHOULD
he have discovered that on the ParsoD'
election depended tie result Of tie contes
between the hGalnenish infdelity and tn
Christian faith through the pagan world
Unfortunately however, our author instea
of those happy days selected the year O
1899. when our fathers (who, as ST. Pau
would say, are subject to the Ike passion
as care) became tired ofthe prosperit
of the treasury note scheme. and from tn
passion OF novelty which tare has I'm
! planted in US all, so .{ "a .fre The
actually grew tired @ a"rn. 3nGet
and hats cranmel #.t money treated ta
treasury notes us a something not wort
carrying, and oar government being form
cd by the people, and believing the doc
trino ofinstructioas. fell out with the goo
: old continental money too, and in coasc
quencc thereof in the year 1889 reierro
to by our author, both government an
people came near starving to death for til
. want of money of some sort TO buy the ne
cessaries of life. Having delivered on
author out Of the scrape Of 1880, and nc
, ping that enough has been said TO preveI
him from being again deceived by thos
would-be writer's, who scrlbble more abol
I776 and 1889 than their fathers eve
dreamed OF, | will take "a view Of that beat
tifu little perspective which he gives
the next paragraph OF the act'ngs and d.
ings Of the State Rights party. (I vi
here remark That orr author means
State Rights party, that portion there
2 only which has assumed 10 themselves Il
r apPcllatiou Of Spartan Baud.") In til
! perspective we are in the first place taug
5 that the Spartan Band has uniformly O
! posed the chartering of a National Bar
} as being unconstitutional incXpedient al
! dangerous" & in the next sentence he tel
us that in 1916, they supported and yot,
for National Bank, whereby a suspiciC
is created in the minds Of some Of his re
ders that the uniformity Of their opposite
was thereby broken. | have no dou
, that our author made some slip Oft the pr
( or perhaps Of memory when be wrote tn
paragraph, and that he intended to S;
that the Spartan Band had been uniform
\ their opposition to the Bank, saving al
executing only the short lapse Of time b
, tween 8I6 to 1875, during which tht
rave it their support. There is also in tt
! Paragraph another error which | presun
onr 9ntbor Sjll be anxious to correct, al
therefore | hesitate not to point it OUT
He SAYS that the Spartan Band has alwa
3 opposed a bank, because p1 Us uncoASti'
4 tionality, and although they iiaa sworn
support the constitution, yer in 1870 tV
5 did violate it by supporting the bank.
3 The Spartan Band say ofthemselv
r that they are always found r2Ilying und
# tie constitution, and ! ann sure thato
d author would noi snowagly place the
# "a o. ridiculous predicanlent Of insaltil
# the very flag under which they always u