Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1842-05-24
From the Nashville Banner.
THE OBJECTS OF THE Pill
GRIMAGE.

the South, and are bound to
conclude, that whilst they have allow
ed, by way of episode, "a friendly
visit to Gen. Jackson" they are really
intended to accomplish ends purely
political. The Union says:
"Mr. Van Buren, has said, his friends have
sale, land everybody seems to knoU,that his visit
here is pu-posely to make friendly call (long
promised) on Gen. Jackson. As he is moi a
candidate for office,no body has right to ques-
ton the singleness of his purpose-the private
and social mot public or politically character of
his tour"
Will not the Union admit that he is
as much a'candidate as Mr.. Clay whom
the Unions friends steadily treat as a
candidate? Is not Mr.. Van Buren, as
much candidate as any other public
man in the country at this time? Has
he not been repeatedly nominated as a
candidate, by conventions Of his poIili-
cal friends? These things the Union
will unquestiOnably admit; and we
therefore feel that we shave right" to
look into the motives of his move
ments.
We will at present .con6ne our
self to fewfdcts which have TRANSFERRED
in the face ofthis community land which
we think will fully sustain US in the
conclusion,that such motives are pub
lie or POLITICAL, and,so understood by
his friends.
We point 70 the studied pomp and
ceremony which have accompanied
his every movement heIe-to the ex-
elusive party machinery-empIoyed in
his public receptions-to the boasts or
hls political friends that the public
demonstrations OF respect were stcom.
Pllments TO his public and private
WORTH" and evidences that he lives in
the affections of the people"-to the
meeting called, and handbiIls issued a
month before his arrival-to the excJu-
sion Of Wings in the Committees of
Arrangements-to the drumming I'D
OF numbers-to the charteringa steam
boat and the passage ola party aepu-
tation hundreds of miles down the
river to meet him-to Tire ringing of
bells, firing of guns, flying flags, and
fling and drumming Cor days about our
streets, and all by party discipline, on
the part Of a te,O political friends. We
point TO all these things, and ask in all
candor, do they mean simply pirate
and social call on Gen. Jackson?"
We point the Union TO its own lam
guage, in which ii is said, these things
"telI that he has been slandered IN Udin;
and that notwithstanding the unweaFfed
efforts of those leading adveTsaries who
have assiduously sought TO direct che
popular tide against him, he get Tires IN
the affections Of the people, We ask
the editor if he meant nothing ''public
or POLITICAL in that and ifthere is moth
ing looking to the future presidency in
this:
'.FOrtuitous indeed were the circumstances
which at one period estranged the people of |
this State from Mr.. Van Buren" "1'hai time
is PGst-and we hazard nothing in saving that |
no citizen of the United States 'rOatd Be more /
,CelcOme 10 Tennessee" sc. &c.
Such was our neighbours exultaRs
nole on the day of the triumphal eRtree
of the procession in this place from she
Hermitage. He had then DIVISIONS Of
of glorious future" which transpor
ted him quite beyond the bounds Of
prudence, and which we shall be sorry
to learn have vanished so soon into
stern and Notifying sense of er-
ror. But we appeal to the Impartial
reader, if it does not disclose the ''clo- !
ven foot" of Mr.. Van Buren's red-
purpose in his circuitons travels through
the South?
We point to the correspondence
between Mr.. Van Buren, and the Com
mittee itself, and ask if that does not
furnish ample evidence of the political
effect Uhich 1t aOas intended has risit
should hare upon the popular mind2
We have heretofore given extracts,
at some length, from that correspon-
dence. "Ihe Democratic citizens of
Nashville and neighborhOod" say the |
Committee "avail themselves of this |
occasion to manifest the high sense they
entertain Of your,c character andserrices,"
&c. They ''look with pride upon your
PUBLIC COURSE, and ,Uiu aItcays
hail you as tie consistent, uniform. and
able adUocate Of the doctrines of the
Republican party. ESPECIALLY DU-
RING YOUR ADMINISTRATION OF THE
GOVERNMENT, have they scanned
your actions, and they rejoice at the |
evidence which they afford ofan integ-
rity that IS anspOtted," &c.
The Ex-PresideEt returns his ac-
acknowledgements expressly 'eto the
democratic citizens" the immediate
neighbors and associates "of Gen.
Jackson, "who above all other men
has had the best means of judging of
the motives by which / (Mr. Van Blu
ren) have been actuated," for their
unqualified appreciation" of his pub
lie conduct! He then adverts to his
6 efforts wilhelm the Executive chair"
TO carry out the purposes of his party