Louisville messenger. (Louisville, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1842-07-23
H0OSIERS-ROPING IN,

The last gan1e.-rhe mississippi
will continue to rll down, and SO long
AS 1t does We believe that up-country-
nan will be touad to be duped, and
lown-countrymen will be iouad to
llpe them. Our Western men, as a
class, form most interesting portion
Of tins republic. They are brave,
generous and Industrious. The dan
gers of border life have for them
40 terrors; honest themselves, they
are unsuSpecting of others; strangers
to the bubbles and subterluges OF the
petty traders, they are all candor-alI
righteousness. They depend not for
their living on the hazardous and
uncer ain game OF traffic, nor does
their prosperity hinge Oh the rise or
the fail OF the funds. 10 bounteous
mother earth they look for a support,
and they exert their own strong arms
to show their worlhineSs oft. They
seek not place nor Office, and are
strangers to Servile sycophancy. AL
though they have not the polish Of the
courter, they possess all the love OF
cnni,i~Sr nf tia patriat. elAd although
their apparel be plain and homely, no
ganered knight or star-bedecked no.
Dleman has more acute sense of the
principles OF honor or the calls of chiv-
airy. They are in ruth the bone aud
slnew nt the body polite. While the
walls of the capitol resound to the
partisan voice OF politicians, the for
estS ring to the sound Of their axes as
they suodue the wilderness and ex-
tend civilization. While the narrow
minded are plotting treason and the
Ianatlcal are connecting measures for
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the confedera-
cy, tine backwoodsmen are pushing
and extending the bounds of our ter
ritory and progressively increasing
the limits of our domain and the re-
sources OF our wealth and industry.
They are a people whom all should
delight to honor; for whilst in peace
they are the pioneers of wealth, in
war they will be found shield in |
vinclble in the protection of our coun- |
try and its institutions.
Yet how different do we find il.
Let them come to this city as they do,
in hundreds, and instead of being re.
garded as members, and amongst the
most worthy of the great American
family, they are viewed as separate
and distinct class. The idle, empty
headed dandy, who never vet added
an lota to the national wealth, turns
up ms nose at them and calculates
'vuigaW creatchaw--demme," and
all because their brogans are not pol
shed as bright as his own. The
'peculator cheats them by foul weights
ana false measures; in some of the
clothing stores they are made the VIC
.lms otthe most barefaced impositions;
while as wind-up they are generally
'oped IN by professional sharpers who
'rowl about the Levee, and stripped
If the whole proceeds of their wears
industry. This is done so often. and I
hey are SO often warned by the press {
lgalnst It, that it is 10 us marvel how
can be SO often and so successfully +;
epeated. I
No later than yesterday notorious !
wlndler of the maine of Bill Phillips, |
Vas arrested by Lieut.. Winters, ofthe
'ecohd Municipality police, for aid J
lg and abetting in the ,oping-in Of
wo lndlanians, to the amount of
S39. In the prosecution of this
business transaction" Phillips tvin- !
ed no rare ingenuity, no new stroke
I professional rascality; he bit fol-
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