Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1841-09-25
For the Democrat
A SOAP MIN E.-CoNTINUED

SOhI hlAN E.--NpN lNUEb
To the Committee o. the Whig Conreation held
in CohGmJuS Miss, .iugHst 2ad, lS4l.
Gentlemen - have again called you together
for the purpose of examining the situation tyour
hearts friends, how do you feel this morning,
touching The subject Of our last discussion do
you feel that you have been strengthened by the
exhibition then made Of your dangerous and sin,
full state S.! Are you prepared 10 bear with me
while treat more deeply upon the subject, and
ale yuur minds now sufficiently enlarged to com
prehend sayings which you were net thea ouahG.
ed to be edited by! Gentlemen | trus, Won
have thoroughly diges!cd the light pourishment
then administered to you, and that both your spir'
tual and bodily systems are now in an Improving
condition. come forward so that you eau dis.
nctly hear, and will endeavor to enlist your
ceilings, enIghten your minds, and comfort your
ous. It's not possible to enlghten a man un.
III you enlist his feelings in the subject, and It's
hardly possible 10 comfort his soul until you en-
tighten his mind.
We will now proceed. Isrgued at our last
meeting that you were very depraVed. politically
speaking. | did not know positively whether your
conduct sprang from gnorance--a wrong view OF
vlrue,or from unmixed corruptlon; IN either case,
you are accountable. You were designed and
capecaed to become good aud wise men, and
YOU have varlously exhibited promising talents
if at this time any of your organs have become
| md ,,llo md
responsible for all the evil that may arise IN con-
sequence of your neglect ia properly cu.Uyang
them. And your souls have so nearly lost all
redeeming qualities that your actions sprlna entire
ly from evil, you are still only accounlableo uly
sinners but your station nthe latter case is much
worse than in the former For, though useless
and lost III either case, yet It's easier TO pay d
small debt than a large one--easier 10 back one
mile than hundred--easer to find your way
back out Of u small swamp than a large one
therefore tho former situation s the better, tui
there are strong hopes Of retaining those in that
state, whilst hope for the other cas- is nearly ex-
tnct Gentlemen, | hope-Gay, almost be.
leye that you are only guilty Ola kind Of innocen
ignorance,
stated, when last addressing you, that oui
present rate of taxation would lack most enur-
nous sum OF paying the current expenses and the
interest on the Union Bank Bonds &c. as they
: fall due. did this to show you wherein you had
erred, for you had endeavored 10 deceive the peu
pie on thus subject. Now, sirs deception is 1
!, very great piece of wickedless; there is no spe
cies more dangerous, for it operates like u the
in the night. Let me entreat you to acknowedg,
that there is very little soap in your Mine, 70
you know hal'ts SO nearly all I've that what LITTLE
soap there may be, canno, be extracted in mar
ketabe condition. Now d nj palm it off on th'
people as the genuine stuff, for it will rum every
thing it comes in contact with; the people are
, now nearly washed to death with such suap-they
are as fasque and decom.poscd as an old soaked
Union Shln-plaster. Well, lei US 60 on: The
present rate Of taxation would leave US in the
suck tor SlS,63 per head per annum, admitting
the taxes to amount to the sum you have stated
and admitting that the Collectors all pay over the
money in lull, which we can't expect them TO do
for people are not one whit more honest than here