The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-08-16

the homage due to his station and personal
worth, irrespective Of party considerations.
In reply the New York Wing papers pro.
mise to yield only that degree Of regard
which the Office, irrespective Of the man,
ought at all times TO command. On this
point we copy an excellent article from the
Troy Mail, headed ''Return Of the PrOdigal
Son."
From the Troy Morning Mail.
RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON.
'The Northern man with Southern prin-
ciples," it seems is to spend the summer az
the Saratoga Springs. We do not wonder
that the Albany Argus should feel some
anxiety about the reception he will receive
among us. A man who has so signally abu-
sed the confidence and belied the character
of the citizens of the Empire State, is very
likely to be met with more cuffs than kisses.
1t will require higher power of pufsuasiOn
than the life pensioneT of the state paper
possesses, to induce the people TO fawn up
on viper that they have nourished in their
bosoms until its fangs have stung them to
the heart. y
Let the Argus with its hundred eyes, look
for moment among the diversified classes
Justly owes Van Buren, respect or reverence
He has scofed at the embarrassment of
our merchants, and Frustrated the busiVess
of our manufactures.
He has illuminated those connected with
our banking institutions, by charging them
with the foulest frauds, and endeavoring to
bring upon them the sweeping curse of
general bankruptcy law.
For nearly two years his disastrous tnea-
sures dried up the springs of honest indus
try, and brought starvation into the homes Of
the laboring poor.
He paralized the vigorous arm of the me-
chanic, and struck down the hopes of those
who were about commencing an enteTpris-
ing and useful career.
He has filed the pockets Of the usurer
with money wrung from the necessities Of
the honest debtor.
He has openly charged in a solemn mes.
sage to the Congress of the United States
a libel which will be handed down TO future
generatiOns-more than hundred thousand
electors of his native state with bribery and
corruption in their exercise Of the right Of
sufrage--an offence which, if committed,
would have subjected them to incarcera-
ton among the felons of our state prisons.
He has insulted the feelings of the reIi-
gious portion of the community, by receiv-
ing foreign infdels, male and female, into
confidence and favor.
He has alarmed the fears, and disturbed
the rePose of men of property, by counte-
nance he has extended to the worst species
of agrarianism, and by appointing to Office
the leaders and instigators of the most dis
graceful and destructive riots.
His whole administration has been wick
ed and malignant crusade upon the rights
of the people, and the prosperity Of the
north.
He has robbed the state through the in
Huence he has exerted upon the Albany
Regency, of the benefits ofa representation
in the Senate of the nation, by defeating
the reappointment Of the Hon. N. p. Tall
mage.
He has squandered through the prodiaaI-
ity and extravagance of his administration,
that portion Of the surplus revenue to which
this state was entitled, and which, If appro-
priated as it should have been, world have
educated every poor mans child in the state
of New York
And is it for acts like these that his SER.
vile tools would have the people rush forth
with congratulations at his approach, and
scatter flowers around the footsteps Of the
traitor? Does respect for the
station of chief magistrate require this hui
initiation from the freemeR Of the north2-
No, it can never be so--it never can be so
lit never will be so. Honor heaped upon
he undeserved, is the deepest injury to the
worthy and virtuous. Let 'the favoFite som
.ome home and pass to bis heartless Tevels
md political intrigues at the Springs IN ST.
ent and scornful neglect. Let the ewes Of
hose whom he has insolently injured and
asely betrayed, be averted from his nous.
ng tread. Enough will be left to do ho-
mage at the footstool. and shout hosannas
q praise Of the princely demagogue. Pow
Z never yet lacked parasites to surround Il
-or the Paltricst IDOL wolshippers al rs
brine. The time for the people to rejoice
the return Of the President has not vel
ONE. In lS4l every honest heart in the
md will JOIN in any demonstration Of Joy
vhlch the Argus may propose to offer upon
he arrival Of Martin Van Burcn-af Kin
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By the first of August Saratoga Springs