Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-03-17


that nether-lip, rood friends, and screw mp your
nerves to heavier blows and louder notes.
These deafening sounds, which ever and anon |
fall so harshlv on your ears, are but the rat |
tEnq of g small arms''--the echo of our advance
guard-Iook We behind, and beyond them
close in their rear is mighty host--an army
with banners-they are the people, the real
democracy Of the land. They are fastening TO
the rescue, and woe TO him who obstructs their
march, or stands in their way.
All accounts concur in fortifying these cou-
illusions. The "worId is on fire. and Genl.
Jackson himself cannot put it out. Day unto
day adds proof upon proof Of this. Tn enemy
feels his danger, however he may attempt to
buster and conceal his fears. His strong
holds are attacked-the braces arc swapping
the walls totter, and the rotten fabric viii soon
tumble to pieces and crumble into dust and no
thing, its offending inmates. The people them.
selves are waking up as from dream OF soft
delusion. They cannot be duped any longer,
Tor they have lost confidence. How could it
be otherwisel In the midst of all the rich re
turns with which bountful Providence has
crowned their industry, ruin stares them full in
the face The unthreshed crop lies valueless
in the barn, and the fat OK finds no purchaser.
Debts must be paid and these will not discharge
them-they will not "cut the forfeiture from
that bankrupt there" No-the strong adj
versary" still holds mp his bond and cries
aloud, "Goaer, look TO hm--tellnot me Of
mercy." Il is thus indeed, that the whole
country is approaching crisis, and its citizens
driven frcm despair to desperation, have at
length listened their eyes upon the true au-
thors of all their disresses, and they stand rea-
DIV, if it must be So
HTo beard the lion i'm his den,
The Douglass in his hall!'
And are these indeed, the rich rewards of
Modern democracy! Have we reached the
"land Of promise," IN quest of which, we have
compassed sea and land and waded through a
constant SUCCESSION of fierce and interminabe
political battles Is it so, that we are the self
styled Republicans of lS2S-the same who
some years before that time, ran up a flag, on
the silken folds ofwhich were boasttully insert
bed these glorious words" The object ola free
Government, is the good of the people-fhe end
can only be secured By the rirtue, The fidelity,
and the strict economy of us rulers" Alas,
for the country Deny it who may, a series of
solemn mockores have boon played off on our
confidence and credulity. With fair designs
and benefcient promises to tempt us further
and still further on we have blindly followed our
leaders, and gradually sunk from one depth in
10 another, until hope is almost cut of, and we
car scarcely measure the height Of prosperity
from which we have fallen. Our currency
until lately the best in the world--where is it,
and its vile and rotten substitute, who is weak
or silly enough to hoard or trust it! Our hou-
SEES and land, our Gotten and tobacco, and all
the various products of agriculture and the me
chanic arts, what are they worth! Go, ask
the lawyer and his clerk, the sheriff and his
ha.l.Q Ill 4 L
cy in its new and hateful dress, has sewed the
harvest, and these climbs oflhe law" hook
IN hand, are gathering in wild abundance from
fields that have been wateled by the sweat Of
confding, but deluded people. Poverty itself
that humble Indulgence which is content to
dig scanty and precarious support for each
passing day, and repines not when it is not in
sulted-this too has been marked out and the
democracy Of an American Senate, inpiousy
boasts, that its mad schemes will enrich the
country by reducing the loageS of labor How
long will an intelligent people endure these
hardsmps, or suffer such wicked and abomina-
bic policy to 90 unpun.shed and unrevenged
But short time I'VE answer again, but a
short time now. The sword Of retributive JUS
tice is already uplifted--the glass of democracy
runs out ITS sun is setting fast, and brighter
orb may be distinctly seen, through the scat
tering mist Of long and dreary night Of cor
ruptiOn, misrule ana oppression.
BANKs.-The Carolinian abuses the Banks
for scaling in their debts, and lending out no
thing" which it says makes money scarce
Now, the great object of those who invest thei
money in Banks, is, that, by lending it out e
persons worthy ofcredit, they may realize in
terest on it, But, when they are obliged {,
call in their debts, and lend out nothing i
it not evident to the dullest intellect that tina
object is defeated What inducement hav,
the banks, therefore, to contract their business
Nothing but absolute necessity the necessi
" of providing against the war now waged a
gainst them by the Administration. If the Al
ministration would let them alone. they woult
go on, and lend their money, as far as the Lal
dIiol0S, to all who were worthy of credit.
The laws Of the States, (passed, too, in ma
ny instances by the Administration party,
positively enact that the banks may do bushes
TO a certain extent 1t is not pretended tina
they have exceeded the limits allowed by law
but the President says, in effect, that the
shall not do business to that extent. He an
his party avow It as their intention, by act O
Congress to repeal the acts of the State Legis
latures, TO stop the issue of bank notes ant
break down the banks. There never was
HOIS ldBIdlG uStH pdIiou VI pOWCI. HcIe ii
yer was a more unconstitutional interference
with State Rights.
This is what has caused the great scarcit
of money.
But does not the Carolinian see the incon
sislency it is guilty of? 1t goes for hard M
ney currency, and yet complains that tn
Banks will not issue more paper money! |
appears to us, that If the Carolinian was real
in earnest in its protested desire for har
money currency, instead of grumblng of tn
scarcity of paper money, it ought to rejoice.
is exactly the thing the Tories want, if we ma
believe them. Now we, who are content wit
paper currency, based upon the metals, fec
the present times to be grievous; but surel
the hard money democrats ought not to mur
mur.
Moreover, the Carolinian must be aware,
IT knows any thing at all about banking, tina
xpanslon,-lending out more paper moneys
IL not the way for the banks to resume Speci
payments. And yet it complains, in the sam
breath, that the banks do not issue more pape
and that they do not resume specie payments
This is pure demagogueism.
The remedy for the present hard times, an
the only remedy, we believe in our conscienc
is to put out the present rulers, who hav
brought them upon us, and put in others. TIL
day on which Gen. Harrison shall be proclaim
ed President of the United States, will witnes
the country springng up from the incubu
which now rests'upon it, paralyzes its enerqie
and destroys its ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF
servey.