Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1839-02-05
Frorn the Mad;aor,;an

Loco FOco ABOLITION AGITATION. -
We invite the attention Of our readers Il
the proceedings forced upon the House o
Representatives The times are porten
tous of evil. Loco Focoism and It's CO.
laborer Calhoun Notification, are poison
ing the very atmosphere We breathe
Their united efforts seek a common object
which is to be obtained at the risk of the
Union, viz: the establishment Of the
tWo-legged- sub-treasur y-rlundering sys.
tenn, and perpetual ascendancy'' to
monopolize the spoils now and forever,
The Loco Foco coalition have failed d
all argument-of all facts to sustain them:
Of even their hypocritical cant about
Biddle and the Bank and Of the coun.
tenance Of the American people. To
what are the desperadoes driven now? To
falsehood and deception, to Juggling AID
humbug, to gagging and force. By a
grand scheme of deception, they now seek
to brighten the people of the south, into
the support of a coalition at whose designs
their good sense, their consciences, and
their love of country revOHS They are
now to p Idy with the most sacred interests
Of the South, as though they were but the
tools and appliances of a gambling table.
Tho Calhoun ana Van Buren, coalition
carried district in Vermont, by sedlcing
the abolitionists into their support--they
carried district in Massachusetts, BY put.
ting forward Calhoun Van Buren, abO.
litionist, as their chosen candidate-the
forces of the same grand alliance, headed
| by the renowned abol,tionists Morris anC
Duncan, administration leaders, one in the
Senate, and the other in the House o
Representatives, conquered Ohio, anC
brought her to the footstool of the Execu
tive, as tributary province of the projec.
ted sub-treasury kingdom-they combined
also in Michigan, and returned an A6OIi
ZIONIST from the whole State; and now
that the motley forces are gathered in the
councils Of the Loco Foco camp, and a
great battle is to be waged in the cotton
and sugar fields of the South, they have
the unprincipled hardihood to proclaim
themselves the foes of Abolition, and the
Amounted friends and appointed saviours
of the slave interests To the Norlt
they held up slavery as the bleeding heac
of Medusa, apd beckoned the people tC
come to their relief, and conquer the enc
mics of liberty! To the South they now
proclaim that they are struggling to stay
Abolition in the North and Abolition
becomes the. Gorgon head by whicl
Messrs. Calhoun and Van Burel
would win the South, as Perseus won An
dromeda.
But we would earnestly warn the Soutl
that the offspring of this unhoIy coalition
is like the Thessalian OK, fed with poison
and which is to be sent to the people tina
they may cat the flesh, become delirious
and prove an easy conquest.
The manner in which Mr.. Atherton'
resolutions were forced upon the House c
Representatives, (and we have spoken G
them without any reference to their alb
stract merits, is unprecedented and tn
secret origin of these metaphysics, to
nice for popular understanding, is as plai
as their designs are shallow. Mr.. Ca
hour is playing trapper for the polhict
| Nimrod of the White House, and an in
strument from the extreme North is seleC
| ted, in expectation of quilting the Sout
thereby with the mole facility. The trai
has been sprung, but it is too weak 70
any game but ''Northern man wit
Southern principles. .
The resolutions have been passed wit
great unanimity. In this result the agits
tors are disappointed. They had hope
to excite a sufficient degree Of party sPir
to involve the anti-sub-treasury party in
trap. The manner of bringing forwar
the resolutions, making an ex-paIte speec
upon them, and then gagging all othel
from saying word, by moving the PR
vious question, was premeditated IN cat
Gus. In that caucus we believe the Ca
houn division of the sub-treasury rank
T bartered away their specie clause for thes
resolutions. Has not the South abandon
ed the protection Of the Constitution fo
! the temporary expedients of a weak an
emPhemeral parry