Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1839-07-02
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mr.. Editor--At tIisseason Of the year, our
time is too much occupied, TO pay that atten-
ton 10 communications thro' the press, which
.our interest sometimes require. Looking over
the Columbus Democrat of June 10Th, the
other evening, ! noticed under the editorial
head the following 1.-THE democrats deny the
necessity Of a National Bank to regulate The
currencv.r Win the editors be SO good as to
tell US what viii regulate the currency? As
descendants from the wise men of the east,
we expect it at their hands. The state Of the
currency in Lowndes County loudly calls for
tor are we, (to use an expression OF those
gentIemen,) "to wait until the Mississippi
banks pay specie, they viii regulate exchange,
and then the currency wlll be good And, as
they are inthe secrets OF the cabinet, viii they
bes0 good as to inform us, who was the author
of the report that Bill had passed the last
Legislature, obliging the banks OF Mississippi
to pay specie by the LIST day of August next!
The Bill we are told passed the House of Re-
representatives.. Why did not our Democratic
Senate allow it passage through their House!
Was it because a majority Of their body were
either stockholders or Directors of banks, or
otherwise interested by loans to shave their
feIlosv-c;;sizeas Or are we TO look upon it as
= 1giss;ss;;,,,. 4 FG,s- Buren, hunbug! | speak
fhe feeIin6s al : large majority of the people
&c .o,vndss COUNTY. Wllan say that our best
RIGHTS have been tramplel Sufficiently long INTO
the dust We looked upon The lst Of August
as a day ofrelief-and now, forsootll, we dis
cover nothing but humbuggery. these gen
tIemen, more than once, have had the auG2clty
to tax the Wings with tbs authorship of our
present distresses, arising from a spurious and
excessive issue of rag and shin- plaster paper.
Notwithstanding they know to the contrary
| Well do they know who have created and in
creased the banking capital of tile State of
| Mississippi, since the death and IS hence ofthe
monster, from about one toupwards of sixty
two millions of chartered caplIal-and on the
LIST of January last, nearly twenty millions Of
lunchartered capital. Well, | repeat, do they
know that Democracy has done this for US
and that Democrats rule, govern, direct, and
enjoy the greater benefits from them. But, as
corruption and bribery is at all times accompa-
MED by falsehood, the promuigators of such a
tissue of falsehoods aGght rather to become the
object of our pity than resentment,-an who
like hangmen, are obliged toexeeute for bread.
viii notice one other remark extracted
from their paper of said date, which is upona
par with every thing else that issues from then
press:
"The Argus IS out with his array of figures
. "again. We doubt the correctness of his
/" Arithmetic. He endeavors to make talst
" impressions by means Of it. We deny the
"increase ofexpenditues of Government, since
the Administration of Mr.. Adams, from thir-
"teen TO forty millions. If there is reader
of the Argus, who believes it to be true, he is
"too great dolt and ignoramus, to be reasoned
"with.'
Here we find falsehood and insult blended
together-and if | could possibly harbour a
spark of resentment towards them, should
tell them oft. But pity is all | have to spare
for them. Notwithstanding, am sensible of
the incorrectness of many of the Administra-
ton reports, cannot believe that the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury would dare to present Con-
gress with false enc. To the Secretary OF
the Treasmys Report, refer all parties for
the confirmation the Argus remarks-and
in conclusion, by quotation, compare these
worthless to an Elephant, learning to dance or
the slack rope, taught by a, Monkey, with thi:
difference only, that they are schooled by ;
Fox. A PLANTER.