Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-02-18
From the Ricfuond Whig

s You call me Tory! ne, al Old State
Rights man Explain yourself. Come and
see fnes and tell me what you do nean.''
We went accordingly, gave our worthy
friend hearty shake by the hand, when the
following dialogue ensued:
Ffie'ad--lSo you cali me Tory-me, an cid
Jeffersonian, State Rights Republican of the'eS
School.
Ediior--Yes, I call you Tory, and | viii de.
monstrate to you that you are one. Strike
but hear"
Friend listen, but | am no traitor to
my country. hat do you mean by Tory!
Editor- lou anticipate mel meant to ask
what you meanoF understand by the term
What mean by Toryis not a. tfaitor. That
was the Revolutionary application of the word
but not the true definition. A Tory, in the
rightful acceptation, is one who allcayS leans
To the Government-who supports it in all its
acts, right or wrong--who farors prerogative,
and is immieal. to priviege-in ether words,
who adheres in every doubtful question to the
government against the people. When, IN
the seventeenth century, after the darkness of
a thousand years and more, men began to find
that they had rights, and in the language of the
immortal RHmbold, that they were not born
with saddles on their backs for aprvileged few.
TO ride them with boot and spur, there was still
a large mass who rejected the truth and ad-
hered 10 theoldpohtieal superstition Of the d.
vine rightof Kings, and the slayislI doctrines
of "passiye obedience and non resistance. -
Then twas that the names of Wing and Tory
arose. The Wings .werethe movement
party Of that great are, who were for vindica-
ting the rigats of man, and limiting if not ami
hilating the power Of Kings. The Tories still
adhered to the old nursery naXims--still view
ed The King as the Fice-gerent of Heaven the
anoin:ed of theIord, and the People as boTra
but to serve and obey. Latierly, eircumstaH.
ces and t lie rise ofnew questions, have nodii-
ed the meaning of the terms Wing and Tory,
even in England; but the Tory there e
cleaves to prerogative, the Wing Still contends
for popular rights. "a
Friend / am glad to hear that you do not
mean traitor, but stu how am la Tory I'M
der your definition!
Editor-Brcause you never. part from the
Government in any. thing-bet ause in al
doubtful questions, you still lean toit--becaise
even when you can't approves you still SUPPORT
it by your vote and your inference
Probability you knova Ldisapproved of
the Proclamation, The Fore Bill, the Protest,
the Removal of the Deposits, the Specie Cir
Ctladis dfiH AIdLN GASl1 Cit lt1S
length of calling them uscrpations.
Editor Yes-you called them so, but how
did you act and vote !! Why you voted for the
Eusurper, as YOU yourself thonght hi1h-you vo-
ted for lis heir, tie lolloxer in his footsteps
who In that nnqnciation proclaimed himself
not only trucking courtier, butte have adop-
ted. all the odioas Inaxims of his Predecessor,
condemned even by yourself AS you begun,
you still keep on. DO whatthe Federal Sow
eminent will--you may groan in the spirit, but
you remain its mfexible and most loyal sup
porter. Nothing can shake your allegiance.
What is it but Toryisnl, rank and and unIn,ti-
gated What increases the wonder too, is
that you want nothing and have nothing to
ask of the Government at Washington. You
can afford to be indePen 'ent, and yet you wont
be.
Friend-To fell you the truth then, Twas a
fraid of CLsy. have such notion of his tai
ents, that if elected President, didn't know
but he might turn the world upside down.
Editor--WeH, as you Tories cab if, Henry
lay is shelfed. That greaE nan need no Ion
ger haunt your Imagination Will you nov
be true to your opinions and our country, anG
shake of your degrading ssallage to mel
| whom youcannot approve, whose acts yol
explicitly condemn!
Friead-Time VIII Show
(The above is the substance OF a real con
versation, and we avail ourselves of the metii
um Gifts publication, to appfise our opponents
and the country, of the sense we attach to the
term Tory-and that by 1t we. are very fal
from meaning Traitor. They are ForIes
who inv ariably espouse the Government side
Indifferent to the merits of the question. Mr.
Jefferson said that Wing and Tory was the
natural division OF parties the world over, mean
! ingbY Wings those who went for the largest
amount of popular privilege, ami by Tories
i those who went for prerogative. How many
| thousands have sided into Toryism without
knowing it! How many are led captive by
party spirit, to approve in the Federal E1ecu-
| ti-~ usurpations which they abhor, stretches Of
pcVper which alarm even them, rather than in.
GU the pain of seyering party ties This is
an amiabIe sentiment-but how weak and IN
sufficient 10 Justify a course of conduct whicl
may be the very means of plunging the coun
try INTO despotisn.
-osss0e9an-
/ JUD SE WHITES RESIGNATION.
To he Hoaarablg the General Assembly 9th
State ot-Tennessee.
GENTLEMEN -
On the 29thof November last, in the City 0
! Washington, / received a copy Of sundry pre-
/ ambles and resolutions, which appear to hay
been adopted by you, onthe 18th Of that montl
instructiag your Senators, and requesting th
Representatives IN the Congress of the Uni
ted States how to act on variety OF sub
Ijects-
An answerto these resolutions would hav
| been Immediately given, had not believed