The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-06-05
MIssTssIPPIANs!

In the degradation winch has been
heaped SO lavishly upon the unfortunate
state of Mississippi, the natives of the
state have OF course shared rnore largely
than any other portion of our population
The influence which state pfide so called,
operates on all Anne orleans, has operated
very naturally on them; and the viru-
lence and acerbity with which our i'll
used state has been assaiIed would make
1t reasonable to suppose they have had
more to feel than sons Of other stah6-
In has been so common to abuse and viii
lily Mississippi and Mississippians, that
few are found with sufficient courage to
relute any Of the thousand foul and SIAN
derous charges which are daily made
against us, at home and abroad. 1t has
become Fashionable to abuse Mississippi,
and any one appearing in the ranks op-
posed to, or not affected with this fash
ionable mania, is,looked upon almost, as
proclaiming heretical notions and the
truth or falsehood Of what he may say is
not examined into, but passed as naught.
Next TO the natives, those citizens who
immigrated to the state, when it was only
a state in embryo, who have since lived
here and imbibed those feelings and
opinions which long residence and habi-
tude alone can create, akin TO those which
natives OF any state feel for the soil
which bore them; are the sufferers
There are numbers Of these, good and
honest, upright and hospitable people as
any state can produce, and cur object is
to defend all such from The yituPeration
which is indiscriminately heaPed upon all
citizens of the state. Some citizens have
been dereiict in their duties as creditors
and as men. This we frankly acknow-
ledge as have been the citizens of every
other state and country,-but distinction,
should be made. The innocent and the
guilty should not be included in one
grand, general charge. Lines should be
drawn. The pure and the impure should
be separated. Now, like the mingling
of a clear and muddy river, the pure wa
ters are defled by tho slime and gross
ness which they had no hand in forming
We are abused by some Northerners,
as we might expect to be, for a want of
that honesty which is obliged to prevail
among merchants Without offering
any apology for those who have swindled
northern merchants, we will ask, what
portion of the world with the same popu-
latlon, has been more profitable to north
ern merchants for the last ten years
than Mississippi. Before that time the
profit to northerners was great in pro-
portion to the population. An answer to
this question, deducting every loss, will
place Mississippi in fairer attitude than
she at present occupies. These north
ern merchants have probably forgotten
and think that we of the south are not
aware Of the frauds which have been
practised upon our merchants in the pur-
chase Of goods. 1t is a notorious fact
that, Mlssissippians have been in the
time spoken of charged from 25 to so pr
ct. more for goods than any other mer.
chants, and now the occasional loss of q
debt which as much clear foresight and
Judgment, as talent for overcharging
would have apprlzed them of; cause:
more murmuring and abuse than they
have any right to cast upon us. Those
who live in glass houses, &C." Thu.
have Mississippians been rendered odiOu!
by allowing themselves to be swindled.-
None have sympathy for the duped-
This article is unfinished and the subject
will be reverted to again.