Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-10-28
TO THE WINGS.

Just as we had taken up our pen, 10 in
dite an article on the subject of the duty
of every wing from this time It'll the days
ofthe election, and on those DAYS, our eve
CHANGED to fall on the following, in the
Knoxville Register, which, as it is as
much to the point, more SO than any thing
we could write, we adopt it without hest
tation, and do most earnestly exhort every |
wing to obey the suggestions therein laid |
down, TO the very letter.
ARE YOU ALL READY?
Let THE WORDS pass from Wing TO
Wing along the entire line-ARE
YOU ALL READY In the lapse of
a brief while, not the fate Of parties or
ofindividuals, but THE VEAL OR
wo OF THE REPUBLIC, is to be deci-
ded FELLOW WH1es, are you rea-
dg to meet tie crisis like FREEMEN /!
Your opponents have been relying on
the hope of your INACTIVITY at tbs
ptryjunctae IF the contest. They
have insultingly asserted that the ex-
element which the misrule and folly Of
the Administration, and the danger
which threatens our Free Institutions,
have awakened in your breasts, Is the
child of impnlse and not Of principle =
tina; your ardor would cool into indif-
ference before the hour of action; that
You would falfer by the way-side,
before you reached the battle-ground !
Rely upon it, they have NO hope Of
success, but in YOUR NEGLI
! GENCE. Beware! how you relax
muscle in your exertions Beware!
that you indulge no feelings ofill-timed
confidence, lest you faH 10 sleep apoa
your 0raas If you sleep NOW, your
dreams will be broken by the shouts of
the conquering vANDALs. If you
sleep NOW, your eyes will open upon
the black and terrible banner OF the
SPOILS' acaring IN triumph orer
your ruined causet Is there a single
Wing, the fire ofwhose zeal has abated ?
Let him weigh the importance of his
country's interest at stake! Let his
fee blood boil with indignation as he
recounts the long list of grievances
against her rulers! But why make
such appeals i-Have we commended
so earnestly for ten months, to defeat
this ultra Federal Administrations
ranks daily swelling with thousands of
recruits-and is there man among US,
so false to himself to his friends, and
to his COUNTRY, as now to be lulled
into inactivity? No! never lit can
not be. Our opponents are cleaning
upon broken reed," which will pierce
their own sides. They have fed upon
false hopes, whioi' viii prove in the
end, as bitter as gall. Strange, indeed,
| if they do not. Men are not apt to
sleep, at the very moment Of going TO
battle. 1t is a time TO arouse every en-
ergy-to quicken the blood and string
the nerves for action. To continue the
| figure Of speech-tbere is somethin g
even in the distant sound of the great
Wing host in every quarter of the
Union gathering to the contest, to ex-
cite renewed determination. Wings
Of Mississippi! shall we fail in our duty2
You can triumph, if you put your
shoulders 10 the wheel, and work like
men. You Now have constitutional
privlleges-use them for your o,cn
: safety. The ballot-box, although cor
rupted by Executive influence, IS YET
open TO you. Use ii, to vindicate
your rights and secure its future puri-
, ty. Give it not up prey 10 the
"spoilsmen!" II you are faithless tc
yourselves, in few years You may be
able to reach il only through the bris-
ling bayonets and serried ranks of ar
hired soldiery! The same Execu
tive power and patronage which ha,
forced the passage of the Sub-Treasu
ry, in defiance of the popular will, anC
n to the disfranchisement of a soyreirr
;. State, can as easily organize an Arm,
of Two Hundred Thousand Men il
your midst! The same crafty Execn
a tive, who has found it necessary /,
e guard the Peoples money with lock
$ and bars, and hold himself the KEYS
q may hnd.lt equally necessary to gaar
), their right Of Suffrage Nth the suOrd
: and 6dyonets Of has own soldiers! III
sf who holds the purse, will have sh
'sword. "Money is power" and pal