Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1842-07-05
For The Southern Argus.

"Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been |
So clear in his great Office, that his virtues
Win plead like angels, trumpet, tongued against
The deep damnation of his" (defeat)
And pity, like naked new born babe
Stridmg the blast, or heavens cherubim, hors'd |
Upon the sightless corners ofthe air,
Shall blow the horrld deed IN every eye,
That tears-shall drown the wind
1t is the common fate OF men who have
devoted the spring and summer of their
lives 10 the requirement of some honora
ble,as well as beneficial accomplishment,
to be envied and traduced by those, whose
whole existence has been one chaos of in
dolence and ignO' ance, uninterrupted save
by the culture of all the veno NOUS rheto.
rlc which malice CLEANS from the vocabu.
larry of the charnal house UNREASONABLE
SANDER. How like an Infection does ,he
whisper ofthe defamer pass over the un-
suspecting multitude, and is re. echoed
back from tongue TO tongue until the col.
ected wrath OF injustice forms one cloud
olIhunder and lightning, TO engulf and an
initiate its victim. II requires more than
ordinary patience and moral fortitude to
Withstand the focal rays of pubic vtuper-
alton, aud man who looks always to the
present, courts not the angelic form of pa
thence who points in advance of the diars
note of time, for retribution and justice.
But there is a dignity in innocence which
shines amid the 6ery fagots of vin6ic-
tive malevolence, and on the martyrs fu
neral pyre his soul sings an eternal tri-
umph. 1t is only by the exercise of hea-
ven, born patience that innocence will ul-
timaiely triumph over unjust and malis
nant reproaches. 1t is not by the sudden
impulses Of passion or the ebultions of a
retalative desire, that injury can be re-
dressed or an aspersed character be fully
INDICATED. -..,
These grave conside, atoms have perva
ded our mind for the last week, deduced
from the contemplation of the vast subject
which NOW agtates the country. The
threatening aspect Of our relations with
foreign countries leave US no alternative
10 adopt between the most abject suryeil-
lance 10 the executed threats Of Great
r. Britain, or to invoke the spirits of depar-
dom aud the maintenance of our rights.
From the solitude TO which the military
l. valour and patriotism Of this country has
: so long been retired, owing to a compare
n tive state Of peace, there seems to be an
}. eagerness on the part Of the descendants
k of the patriotic fathers of the Revolution
r 10 advance in the cause of preparation
=, and 10 inst into the dull and vapid under
standing of Those who now hold command
:" of the Militia Of this country.not only the
i enthusiasm Ofmilltary glory, but an adop.
+ ton and adherance to that discipline
e and spirit to command which they have i'm
% bbed by Intuition, or propiuquily from
20 their notorious and immortal progenitors
r Hence IN the advancement for their coun
10 try arose rival aspirations, party spirit j:
- engendered, the vigllant eye O. opponent,
- explores long forgotten regions, as well as
10 The new dominluns which their magma
10 ton supplies, to find fresh data on which
ne TO rear a forliicatIon from behind which
II, the missiles may be effectualIy dlscharg
IL ed and the claims of their adverSares b.
dlsparaged.
Nv Recent events have manifested tn
hi spirit which the foregoing commenta
lies import, and the distinction whicI
): tolo ael McTabb now holds through th
10 suferages of sovereign people, afford
Dn the UNI auivocal evidence of the triumph
NJ al success of those who exercise the tru
ne dignity of human nature. | propose
- record a few instances of the conflict
. which transpire1 during the military car
vasS of Col. McTabb and also the pecuia
adroitness with which he not only warde
off the missiles of his enemies, but now III
ed attenuated thread of their cobweb mesht
we snapped a; his approach. These record
Y. may meet the admlring gaze OF emulou
youth, such examples are worthy of emf
lation and am confident that History a
t: fords no prototype. 90.
1t was asserted that the statue of No
Tabb was entirely too small TO add dgnlt
up or command respect from an undicipiine
~. Soldiery. That his aspiration to Col. Con
en- mandant ola Regiment was based upo
'U'' a most unnatural amb ton. Wanting n,
my only in his external appearance tho'
"a phre biological and phislognomlcal deveIc
0O' ments, and expressions which. would d,
=. note the required competency for milit
nv officer, but that the lntonations of b
voice had become cracked and unsonc
Gus rous from the constant exercise of tho;
III Technical! terms which constitute the ell
quence of the plough, and therefore
adapted to the words which impelled Il
movement Of an higher order Of anima
The most important lmputation which was a
vanced as rendering him incompetent for Il
= office which he asplred TO, was, that Metal
~ could not ride, that his equestrian feats exte
ISL ded not beyond the straddle OF bag of me
upon doclle and prudent mule. ! he ven
ar. nous shafts of his enemies did not stop heI
,y. an access for them was found even to the me
of secret recesses ofhis heart private associatio
- were attacked, and his accusers borrowing t
ui' sentiments of the immortal bard whose la
guage compounds human thoughts so forcib
reiterated that McTabO, was lily suited
llr~ mount
est -" barbed steed
ION Tofright the souls Of fearful adversaries,"
lge but rather to
&c -"Caper nimbly into a. lady's chSmb'
81" To the lascivious pleasing of a lute,"
49, That he was
% "Curlailed of his fair proportions,