Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-02-24
LETTER FROM PARDON JONES

UP THE CoAsT, Jinnywary the 26.
DEAR Pic IL sect you've got my
merridge printed in your collumns,as nice
as can be, but you didn't print the pertick-
Iers about it, because you say they was
m broad. Wall, l 'spect you're right
for know they was pretty well stretched
out--and tu tell you tie fact Jerushy
tell'd me the same thing fore | sent my
letter, but | thought you'd like tu know
all about it, bein' you amt merried your
selfand so sent it for what 'twould fetch.
No fence, hope, was Their Mistress
Jones has ben putin new idear INFO my
head sense we was meTied. Parding"
saws she tn me one evenin' -" Parding,
du wish you would turn your thoughts
from literature, and employ your gifts in
polyticks. Run for Congress" says She,
sparklin' up" run for Congress, Parding
YOU'RE 0. tsH as the French say-yor
was cot out for a crate man, and you'll
succeed, | know you will y Lore
bless your fond soul,' says |, show il
The name of natur du you expect car
get in Congress Wy" says /, 81 hahn
got no niggers, nor kows, nor horses,no
; | land, and can't even vote for another can
| dydate-much more / cant git nobodd.
tn vote for me J" 80 law" says she
"spos'n you haint got no nigge-s-hain
YOU got me--and amt | worth as much a
Etd or three niggers :" +" Yis," says
|" Jerushy-you're darned sight bette
. THAN dozen niggers for my taste-5r
: then you didn't cost so.much-aad none
/; is the thing tn make a CRATE man now-i
! days--tallunts amt nothin' in the sea
! with money!" says [. Wal, she sort
S gin it up then,and haint said nothin' abo'
e il sense-but il has been runnln' IN m
Y head, day and night, from then TIL now
:. and Pm determined tu try I'm g
), in tu put myself up, all ready against ar
: body dies or resign. My spunk is up
e my ambition is riz--and I'll go il, if
: costs me fifty dollars !! I've gin up Il
h school-it's tu darned RAINY here for
a school--so now / must 60 tn peddln',
I. tn teachin' short hand ritin', or tn mendi
e clocks, or elseI must go tn Congress
n submit wont dn tn be here duin' not
r in. / want you tu back me. Here's n
Is ticket -
o For Congregation the fust vaca
h destrick in Luzyanna, Pardon Jones Es
son of old Mister Jones Of the Bay Sta
,e Mister Joneses sentiments is liberal a
Of free, and founded on the principles,
,r Observation-Disclosures
ID Buren, and General Harrison. Mis-
i Joneses opinions about the banks is p
lie cisely the same that them CRATE men
I'd entertained. Mister Jones viii stick
e. Que side or t'other for the tariff-but do
nv like to commit himself on that subject
or he sees which way the cat is goin tn jun
re Mister Jones viii go in for the put
lands. He is goin' tn be the peoples n
~ and he wants tn be on the poplar side
= every thing, for that is dimmecratic.
~ Mister Jones viii go in for all the Engll
ID men, Dutchmen, Frenchmen, and all
IN forrinners born and brought up in
= United States.
he THERE guess that 1t will du tn s
ri on. Mistress Jones sends her com
ab ments.and says that she has got twenty
thirty strings Of dried punkins-the nix
perhaps, that you ever seen-2and she
got near about half d bushel of dried hu
~ ieberries, tn. Wont you come and
5n US !? You can bring your press al
N. with you'll guess We'd have room 70
Il il our settin' room.
=, Your ever lovin' friend,
Oe- PARDON JONES
my IN. o. Picayunt