Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1842-05-10
LETTER FROM PARDON JONES.

,oggled half to death, tryin TO find out
who we we're goin to fight aginst.-
Some says it is old England--some
says Mexico, and some the Iniuns, but
/ don't make much odds to me, so'st
we fight in good cause. One thing I
I'm determined on, and that is, that
we must fight with somebody, or else
give il up, and say no more about it.
One thing is sarJin, i,her we must come
out and slap old John B lis jaws for
him, or else let him du just about as he
pleases, for the sake of keepin out Of
a fuss, but Pm for slappin his jaws and
tEen takin The consequences. We've
licked him twice, and got the best Of
the bargain when we made up friends,
and we can du it agin, and ought tn
come right out at once, and push him
off, and give him kick afore he gifts
US into such snarl that we shant know
which way to turn. Every body
knows that England is bitin at US, in
every pint of the compass. She is
irwin tu make other nations hate u.s.
She is tryin tn steal our territories and
niggers. She is tryin III drive our
ships from Afriky, and everywhere's
else where we can make money. She
is loolin with Sanity Amy, to make
him get into scrape with US, SOS
tn git a chance tn help him out and
then git holt Of Mexico and Texas
She is pushin on the abberlishun-
lists and the niggers and Injuns agin
the South. She is tetchin up the
Yankees down in Maine, so'st TO make
'em rantankerous in that pint. She's
got niger soldiers up to the Kennedy
frontiers. She's kivered the oahun on
our sea coasts with her shiPpin Of war.
She is sendin steam packet ships into
our unsuspecting harbors, that is load
ed or balLasted with guns and ammer-
nlshun, and commanded by naval Of
licers. She has done and is DUN all
this, and a good deal more, and yet
she says she han't the least idee Of
quarrelin with us! This makes me
think Of "old Pulzy," as we used to
call him, and his neighbor, old Gaping
Potter, that you've heerd so oflen.-
Old PuIzy' was regular skinAint,
and had bout dozen skinnint sons,
every one on 'em the parlect picter oil
the old man. Gaping Potter every
body knows to be one ofnater's gentle
men every inch on Linn. The Cap
ting he'd a good deal ofland YIN round
Dead Cow Brook, in small farms and
alwers groweda Ieetle richer every year
though he gin away most Of his sur
plus income TO the poor.
Old Pulzy begun by buyin in a
cheap farm in swamp, and rcclaimin
i! with hard work. He Civ away moth
in---half starved himself and wife, and
laid up every cent he could 5crape to-
gether. A wilder and ten children
lived next tn him, on nice little farm
that was all their own. Old Pulzv
got his eye on the widder's farm, and
by pre,eudin to be a great friend to her
he got the management OF her consarns
and atore three years he turned her
and her three children out ev doors.
without a cent in the world! He pu
his oldest son "Tunk," to live in the
poor widder's house. He got holt o
another neighbours farm by gettin the
poor man hung for KILN his wife, tina
somebody else killed; and the children
was left on the town! And SO kept or
cheatin and grindin the poor, Till ht
owned near about all the farms 'tweel
him and Gaping Potter. He could'n
bear to see the good old Gaping Iivin
along so nice, and beloved by ever,
body, while he himself was 'bllged Il
work so hard, and give his soul to tn
Devil for riches, and be hated by ev
cry body in the bargain. and so he SO
tn work tn ruin the Gaping, and &c
, holt CT his lands. The fust thing h
5 did was tu dispute bout the dividi
line tween some Of his land and som
of the Capting's, and they went tn la,
bout it, but the Gaping beat him.
, Then he bought all the land round on
) of the Capting's farms, and fence
] the farm in so'st the Gaping WOULD
get tn it, no h0lU. Then he turned t
. and got some mad dogs, and put 'er
in slyly among the Capting's sheer
! and cattle, and though some on 'em &C
: bit, the Gaping soon cleared 'em OF
/ without serious damage to HIMSELF
n Then old PuIzy claimed, every blac
v sheep of the Capting's thqt iumpe
a over into his pastures.a and wouldn't civ
'em up; but arter the Gaping had los
; a few, he put the rest in a pasture
J where old Pulzy couldn't get at Eel
and got along without gettin into a la,
suit. as old PuIzy wanted tn.
Then old Pulzy took it upon hin
!. self to go into the Capling's pasture
$ and stables and sarcA after sheep an
: cattle that didn't have the Gaping
. mark, and take 'em away. This h
: called the "right ofsarch, and be trie
, to git his neighbors to jine him, an
some on 'ern did, but father and Jel
ushy's father, Mr.. Perkins, would
agree to it, and so he couldn't ammo