Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-05-22

his misfortune to inf1ict. He says: 1--WE
would advise the writer in the "Pioneer," That
the friends of popular rights, are made oil 'ster
ner stuff than to vince beneath the frO'ons OF
designing politicians; much less the Iudlcrous
attempts made at fiowning by their iawnlng
minions." We would beg leave to amend TINS
passage by substituting the word tougher
instead of "sterner," so as to read "the irlenos
of popular rights are made OF tougher stun
than to vince &c. Do you takes
Verify, thou art wag of no ordinary pre-
tensions. friend Union, and will indulge In
your raillery ifitmust be at your own expense.
We cannot sufficiently admire the spirit OF the
last quoted passage. In it we behold such ev-
licences of patriotic enthusiasm in behalf OF
"popular rights" as understood and advocated
bv the Loco-fotos of Mississippi that, we
doubt not, in hi; heroic and seli-sacrl1clng
disinterestedness, he would cheerfully devote
himself with becoming forttude, willing
MARTYR to the ultimate success of his beloved
party. Indeed so far does he carry his meal
culable devotion to the cause of Loco-focoism,
that were it necessary, it is thought, he would
"leave his country for his country's good"
The Union calls US in the next paragraph
"intoleranr'-no really friend Union, we are
ashamed of you. 1t is taxing our patience
overmuch, when one of the most rabid of par
tizan scribbers, who has been in the habit of
showering his malignant and senseIess invec-
tives upon some of the best men of our country,
complains of Intolerance. But, pshaw this is
getting serious. With regard TO our charge
OF "perversion of opportunity or intellect" we
beg leave most explicitly to declare that we
had not the most distant idea of attributing the
PERvERsIoN of either to the Union, since it
would imply the possession of one or both.
The Union continues: "unlike the press
gang to which the Ponce belongs, &C." We
cannot permit this sentence to sink into its
merited obscurity without attempting to res
cue from oblivion one of its most prominent
beauties The word "press-gang" here, would
evidently seem to the uninitiated as if intended
to mean something No such thing. Stand
ing solitary and alone in the midst of the sem
tence, like Benton and his humbug, it seems to
have been thrown in as an elegant expletive
by way of making the sentence more admira-
bly, euphonious, and for the purpose of round
ing off the period after the most approved
style of Hudihras Il 10 equally vEvur the
Union contemplated it as the KEYNOTE to the
sentence, designing it no doubt, to sound on
musical ears as nice as his own, as very SHARP,
while TO the vulgar crowd, it cannot but seem
most intoIerably Plat. 1t is indeed matter
Of much regret, that all are not as acute as
himself, since so much is lost to the world by
their not properly approaching the numerous
excellencies that grace the columns of the
Lexington Union. But enough has already
been said to enable our readers to form prop
er estimate of the attractions of that admira-
BILE print; and we therefore forbear further
Try again, friend Union, with a little indus
try we may not unreasOnably, we trust, hope
for some improvement after awhile. We
must confess it is rather a forlorn hope, vet
we are always disposed to look to the side of
charity.