Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-10-16

demagogne Grachus, 10 excite the prejudices
of the poor against the rich. and urging the
honest people Of Mississippi to sacrifice the
dearest birthright of freeafen, their ma
tio2al honor-1or a=-s.6iess Of Dottagc." A
creed that has FORTS unholy objectthe disorgan-
izaiion of society, and the decentralization OF
the people, can never, we trust, meet with ia
vor in Mississippi. The land of Prentiss,
whose trumpet voice thusdered in defence of
her honor and her rights in the National Cap
ito, could never degenerate so far as to repu-
date the dignity which his splendid eloquence
defended and sustained. Far better had it
been that the Star of Mississippi was struck
from the American flag by an American Con-
giess, than that she herself, with a suicidal
Isacrilege, should blacken forever that Star by
her own voluntary dishonor. Then pause in
your parricidal career, and remember that
those who now call SO loudly on you TO strike
TIE brightest jewel from the cap of sovereignty.
your national honor, are the very ones who
and the Union Bank, and who strive now 10
humbug you again for their own sinister and
selfish purposes. They yell taxation in your
ears when they know that there is no need of
taxation. The Wings do not think of taxa
tien-they have given pledges against taxati-
on and are the last to resort to such an expe-
dent. Yet strange as it may appear, these
very men who are now preaching a crusade
against the payment of the Bonds, and ma.
tional faith or public virtue, are the real Simon
Pures who in heart are disposed to taxation
Tighlman M. Tucker, the man whom the
anti bond oco-focos have determined 10 sup
port for Governor is the man who proposed in
the Senate last winter TO DOUBLE THE TAXES
[see pages 339 and $40, Senate Journal anc
for which only two members voted, viz: Tighl
man NJ. Tucker and Hanson Alsbury. Yet
notwithstanding this outrageous proposition
1T. M. Tucker is now the candidate of The an
ti-bond party for Governor, and to secure hi
election they would humbug the People int,
the belief that the wings are for increased tax
alton! Reflect for moment and you canno
but detect, through the flimsey veil, the artfu
designs and selfish purposes of the anti-bon'
loco-focos. Like desperate gamblers, franti
at their losses, the anti-bondmen would nov
stake the honor and good name of their adoT
: ted land, in the heartless game of party.
/, Their object is the success of their PART
in the present election, and then they will bt
!, come perfectly Indifferent TO the payment
: the bonds You may blight the character
your State, though you cannot avoid the pay
, ment of the bonds, in the same manner that
- detected swindler reaps all the infamy withol
: the profit of his attempted villainy. ARGUS
. yourselves then from the lethargy into whic
this drugged opiate has luled you. Your couI
" try demands your aid. Drive from your pre-
ence with manly honesty, the man, who, lik
, the serpent at the ear of Eve, would promE
" you 10 grasp at the forbidden fruit of dishonC
:, and disgrace. The bandit crew in their un
), versal pollution have laid their hands upon I'll
= glorious banner that valves above your Cap
a tol. 1t is the emblem of your sovereign
\ and the witness of your triumphs-the hera
at once of victory and freedom. We invol
- you, by the shades of your fathers; by 20,
: love of country, by the proud recollections
n the past, and the animating hopes of the Fl
of ture, to resist the outrage and preserve yo'
o. birth-right. Strike down the RoBBER flag
.d anti bondiSm, with which they would des
be crate your Capitol, and strike as freema
f. should, for your country and your country
-, honor.
or LET THE VILE SLANG BE REBUKEl