Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1839-12-17
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~, GINERAL--In my luther letter to
DI lid a considerable to say about the dis
y you of Of our people, and how they had bin
res 81, 4, forriners and sudC by home folks and
saue V;rubble and distress for two long wears
ON - still there seems no eend to Il for
An1I Looks to me like .gittin liter and liter /:
tnn ttboa heep Of money has bin paid, vet
p Or Is : heep TO be paid still and we all kno
us MI no harder to pay the balance than it was
y NV est bekase the property to pay it wont
s,;ng more than halt what It would few
O o..5s ago. except niggers, and ifa man sells
VI n;cSers in this country he goes to pot rite
I s c,S he is then in slo way to make a Twin
on' cotton patch. But now suppose the
u ster will so fix things that when a fell
y sude. ifhe can make the debt perfectly
"a he shall have time to pay one half with
,So FIRST crop after the judgment and the other
III out Of his next crop; wy then he might
uD..b,ps be able TO keep his land and niggers
s5 ngv ms debt besides If he was any WAYS
..r, And lie tell YOU more than that
M, so FAR from its bein a loosin bisiness Il
s.ord be a gainin bisincss to all hands bekase
W. vay things now go on, its first cum first
w. .a,ve. and that makes every one anxious to
!, ne turn first, and in this way a teller is
oscd rte up; for the first judgment holds
rT,be truck bees got and its oblige to 90 to the
L,mmer and knocked off for little Of nothin !:
"a tbeu that was able 10 wait and willm to
AIT has either to ruin his friend OF loose his
,onsy and you know what It Gums TO, sayin
',5s6we will loose friendship or money, most
elks hold on to the latter and make other ar
,,,gements for the former. Now don't YOU
- = beep is lost by this pressin, hurryin sort
,ibsiness. For the property sells, say for
M enuff to pay his debts and the luther half
goes unpaid andhe is left without the means
Sbelpin himself or his creditors ether, and is
then considereda raskal for not paying his
homes, debts. But let me tell you that besides
the GREAT ioss Of money there is another evil in
tb,s hing and il has caused the character of
Mississippy to suffer more than any thing else.
Il is this: When man sees bees about to be
used up without mercy, and his wife and chill
drens brought TO poverty; all his evil mater
pokes out and shows itself in divers quirks and
turns and shifts and il he amt mighty honest
il drives him to do very su1utty things that he
never would have thought OF, If he fadent bin
20 hard run for his Twin. The fellerA himself
Knows its rong and so does every body else
but my experience tells me that this evil mater
Bin most folks and don't believe there are
many III Mlssissippy or any where else in all
creation but what will do things leetle sorter
mutty wnen he gifts in a rite tite place. Now
these are the reasons why there has bin so
much fuss about courts and stay bonds and
returns and maxim over property and runnin
Of niggers andsellin out and injunctions and
nuashing, and the duce knows what all. II
Hhesc sort of doins that has made folks in
other parts think that we are set of the big
gesl askals in all creation, for these things
have been published in all the newspapers from
"Dan to Basheba," and when such things have
bin put on paper they are made to look leetle
shutter than they really are, altho it must be
confessed they are bad enuff in all conscience.
But when it Gums 10 sayin that we are bigger
raskals than all the balance of creation deny
it, and lie tell you why: have bin told that
most Of the folksi in Mississippi cum from other
parts all over the United ) ates and Europe
TOO, and I have thought that the folks that cum
hereare in considerable sort just like the
folks they left behind, and that makes me
think thltifthese folks had stayed and let the
iuthers cum, and they had bin put under the
same sort ofscrews, they would have twisted
N the same way i not a leetle worse, for the
1ost ofus that cum out here think we are a
lsgtle smarter and leetle gooder than them
We EFF behind
Now Ginral don't you think if the Legislator
had IN the beginnin Of these troublesome times
tod the people that they shouldn't be used uI
without first havin chance, that they would
have paid more debts, done fewer smutty tricks
and stood higher abroad in character and cred
It. think so il you dent, and so does otheI
white folks who have bin loolIin at these things
Bat my good Old codger don't blame you 70
not fun things botter bekase you amt bin il
the legislator 70 have things dun; you will b,
there this winter and kno you have the pow
er TO do heap when you try and let me be,
otyou in behalf Of your voters that when yo
git all the party doins fixed, to think a leetl
about heIpln the folks in their difficulties.
SumiollSs think differently about these thing
rom what do. They say the Legislate. did
ent GIT UNI in debt and ought not 10 have an
thing to do with it. They say that The peopl
got themselves in debt and must gic out Of
the best way they can. This looks like SCUM
logic suppose. But let me tell them folk
that II the people would all do rite and kee
out Of difficulties there wouldent be any nee
Of legislators, they cost us "a heep of none
and five could git along without them 1t woul
be a monstrous savin in taxes TO pay for thel
and 10 paw for bildin State Houses and Ii
like.
Let me tell YOU circumstance a vess
va7 once fitted out TO sa ] from one Of the'
big towns up north TO 60 across the ocea
There were good many passengers, and the
took pains tohave every thing fixed just as
should be a strong vessel, good captain, al
good sailors and a plenty Of provisions. I'll
turned out notwithStandin all their fixins al
ptecaution and wisdom that they all hands g
bowed entirely cut Of the track and stage
40 ong away out in the sea that they had b
tT many days without any provisions at T.
oe'ove they we're discovered and assisted
another vessel 50 that when the poor fellow
were taken aboard they would have kIll'
themselves eating If they had bin let to do j
%lhey wanted. Now suppose the folks in u
new vessel had reasoned this way: Let the
sSUhe' ~ they amt got no more sense than
Aln themselves eatin let them suffer for it,
sseothmg tous--dont you say that would ha
Uh cruel.-Suppose another circumsianc
q man IS invited to big dinner, It is late B
'Ire Il Gums on, he gifts hongry and takes gla
" r ~ine to whet his appetite and sets down
AZ sorts OF nice doins, aud almost before he
sensible oft he has swallowed so much Ii
tlIer awhile he becomes sick and that mig
nc mas to send for a doctor. Now suppc
When the doctor Gums and finds out whl
.le matter he should say, well il. you are su
iOoI as to eat too much bekase you had 60
ulnner you must suffer for it and git out of
%gIt II out fyou the best way you can.
lhink good doctor who had studied his bi
ness wouldg give him eetle issick and put b
vn low diet and tell the felers good wife h
70 use HIM, and when he must take the fissIC