Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-03-10

principle or practice, unless we have better
one to propose, it is due from me to offer
substitute for those means which condemn.
This | will do with pleasure, because think
that no other thanc .hese two will suf- !!
fee; either let the sch aced under the |
care of one teacher in each department (male |
and female) at thousand dollars salary, and
this for the space of twelve months; or let the
doors of the Academy be closed entirely for
the same time. The income of the school
can then be appropriated, as it ought to be, to
the payment of arrears, and the school be plac-
ed on firm foundation, supplied with an am
pie fund, and fair pros pect OF success.
A FRIEND TO THE CAUSE.
The Vicksburg Wing says: awe greatly re-
greet to learn that the spirit of moboccracy is
rife incur neighborine city of Natshez, grow
ing out of the miserable and justly to be depre-
Gated condition of the currency. 1t seems that
on Thursday evening last there was meeting
Of the working men of that city in reference to
the recent refusal of the Shipping Company to
redeem their issues, which have indeed been
large, and supplied to a great extent the de-
mand for change and which had consequently
found its way into the pockets OF many an hons
est and hard working man. After the adjourn
ment the crowd doubtless wrought upon by
some reckless demagCgue and excited by inn
proper appeals to their prejudices and feelings,
concluded to tear down the buildings of the
Shipping Company; and on their way to fulfil
their unlawful purpo e, they met with loco
motive belonging to the Natchez Rail Road,
which they broke and injured; and before any
other or further injury was committed, they
dispersed, in consequence of the military of the
city being called on to restore and preserve
order.
ave understand that the volunteer CON-
panes have been patrolling the streets ever
since, and on Thursday evening were all un-
der arms.
"Th;s it seems is the effect at last of the
better currency promised US by the past and
existing administrations and in order to reg
ulate it the laws and constitution are both bro
ken down and trodden under foot, and the mil
itary are required to stand by the civil authori-
ty TO protect the property of the citizens from
lawless violence. The Legislature has set the
example, and the mob will doubtless finish
what they leave undone. We do rot justify
or excuse the banks, or private corporations,
but we hold The law and constitution to be sa-
cred, and deprecate violence, no matter from
what cause it proceeds"
"Gen. jackson was received with rapture
at Vicksburg."
The above paragraph from the New Or
| leans Times is about fair specimen of the
humbHg played off on the public, in regard to
| the iseccption of Gen. Jackson in Mississippi.
| Ever one who witnessed the reception here
and at Jackson knows full we'll that there was
! nothing rapturous about he matter. All know
| that while all who approached the " Hero trea
| ted him with the respect and Difference due to
| his age and the exalted station he had filed,
that there was greater degree of GOODNESS
| bout it perhaps, than ever vas witnessed upon
any similar occasion. There was no feeling in
| the gaping crowds that followed him, no en-
| thusiasm, no shouts, no cheering him on his
way-all was dull, cold, formal and spirit
| less.
When he approached the landing here an
attempt was made to cheer him, but it failed
mos. signally, few boys, loafers and darkies
set up hurra, but it found no response in the
bosoms ofthe multitude, and it died away with
out an echo The General was treated re-
specially in Mississippi, and we rejoice that il
was SO, we would not have had it otherwise
but there was no "rapture" about it Heaven
knows For ourself, when we saw the poor
old man, with his emaciated form and whiten-
ed locks tottering about TO be gazed at, we felt
for him "more of sorrow than anger" We fell
that he should have been ct home, that the
comforts of his own fire side were more in COZ
sonance with his feeble health, than the idle
heartless pageantry got up to do him honor
We pitied him deeply and sincerely, and while
we sympatzed with him, we could not but des
pise the hollow hearted sycophants who to ad
vance their own and the interests of corrup
partv, had dragged him fifteen hundred mile
from his home at this inclement season. W.
have never ENTERTAINERS high regard for Gen
eral Jackson, we have always looked upon hin
as a dangerous man, and believe that he hal
inflicted more and greater injuries upon this
country than all the men that ever lived In il
but when we saw that form which had so lons
been firm and erect, bowed down and bend
ing under the accumulated weight of year,
and disease, when we saw the step which had
always been quick and elastic, grown slow an
feeble, when we saw the eye which never quar-
led in battle, dir y, lrsterless and vacant in it
stare, we were disarmed off ur hostility to h'n
and of the multitudes who fiocked around hin
. TO offer the homage which sycophants are ev
er ready to give, none felt for Inn higher de
/ gree ofrespect and veneratlon than we did =
Ours was not respect for Andrew Jackson, bu
for an old white haired man VINO had been
brave and successful soldier. For the men VIII,
planned and projected this visit OF his to tn
, south, we have no other feelings than the mos
sovereign contempt. 1t was game to max
poIltjcal capital for Martin Van Buren,, playel
BY a Sc: of unprinciDIed political gamblers, VIII
care no more for General Jackson than we dc
The same men if an object could be attained
would throw dice upon their fathers tombs, o.
when Gen. Jackson dies, rob his grave of hi
bones and cart them through the country a
they recently carted Vacksburg Wing
Locofocoism has done its worst! The ban
bill reported by Besancon has passed: and tn
constitution, which the members OF the legls
lature took a solemn oath to protect and sup
port, lies bleeding beneath the foot of lawles
violence and usurpation We shall now Sc
where the responsibility viii rest, and we sha
see whether the people of Mississippi will sus
tain the authors of this glaring outrage, 0
whether they viii not hurl them headloni
: from the councils of the state which they hav
disgraced, and the seats they have polluted
we feel that the vengeance of betrayed AMI