Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-05-01

lOrlty OF ten thousand at the next election.
The Union man exhibits a great deal Of
Isensitiveness on the subject of Senator Hen
derson'S Letter. 1t would seem from his edi-
torial remarks on the document, that there is
no one passage in the address, with the style
or sentiment of which he does not feel it his
duty to quarrel. Indeed it has struck US as
ONE of the many evidences of the progress of
enlightened intelligence, to see the Editor of
the Lexington Union' criticising the style of
Judge Henderson, and animadverting on his
supposed motives. Faith! 'the march of mind
is indeed "onward;" and one may exclaim in
all verify, that "the School-master is abroad
in the land" 1t is any thing but grateful to
candid mind, to witness the perversion of OPP
portunity or intellect We cannot but regret
while we condemn the prostitution of genius
itself. Efforts to effect the same end, without
the redeeming brilliancy of adequate means,
present to US the wretched spectacle of men,
tai if not moral oblquity, and the sentiment
of condemnation arises within us unmngled
with regret. The Union should remember
that NOW, at least, the public have a right to
expect, and DO expect something of candour
from the press. The excitement arising from
the protracted struggle of two contending par
ties on national question, laboring for the
mastery; that excitement having subsidized, the
people look for the calm philosophical refiec-
tons that should succeed a storm, and bear
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peals or irrational defamation, than when the
heat of immediate partisan warfare offered
some extenuation. 1t is clearly a false and
morbid condition of public feelings, to look in
to the pages of partisan paper, for no other
purpose than to receive false impressions or
CLEAN false arguments.
One would really suppose from the lucubra-
tons of certain wiseacres, who WELD, par
courtesy, the editorial quill, that they were
salaried to misrepresent and mislead; that the
art of successful duplicity and deception, was
at once their study and their trade, and that
they had become SO enamoured of their voca-
ton, that they illustrate the force of habit and
taste, and indulge in it when it is both unne-
ceSSary ana ''M0I-1ppTOpOS. III is CONCESSION
of weakness in itself to condemn by whole
sale, without relying upon any one position as
tenable. How deficient in understanding or
principle, must that Editor suppose his readers
to be, who appealing to their partisan preudi-
ces, asks them 10 condemn in advance all mea-
sures or projected measures that have origina
ted or may originate with men who happened
to support one other than their favorite for the
Presidency. And yet the 'Union" comes out
in advance against the called session of Con-
gress, because forsooth, he does not know
,Ohat measures may be deemed necessary for
the prosperity of the country. People, gen.
orally, however strong may be their partisan
bias, like to have sources of correct informa-
ton, and soon lose all confidence in one who
declaims without reason and condemns with
out justice. Let the editor of the "Union''
look to this readers are not quite as numer-
Gus as the forest leaves in midsummer, and his
course is we'll calculated to dispense the re.
mainder. "Hout, mon!'' Gamma We tell the