The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-04-13
SCENES IN JACKSON.

SCENES lNJACKSON. :
ScEnx lst-( Enter Judge Skarkey, Chancsl
Tor Buckaaer and Parsoa Shattuck.1
il Sharkey-Gentlemen am sorry snsDen
4 ded that order to bring Choctaw 10 st owing
By counting the money. Iam'afraid he will a6
sqstasEIizs with all the money before we car
get him.
Parson SO, he is q repudiatcr: Just lei
him GO. When he fixes my fee, want hin
to run, but must have my fee, for when q
parsOn turns lawyer, of course YOU know il il
for the fees. How much easier it is 70 keeu
rogues OF the Penitentiary than souls out Of
| hell!
Buckner-First rate Parson, ha, Ia, he; he.
.. Did you observe, Parson, how cut the
Governor up when could get chance. We
| must make little wing capital, you know, as
we go along IN this business. shall say ali
| the time that the Governor has the power.
and ought to have exercised it long time
since.
u. That is happy thought. We can
make enough out of this to beat the id loco
foccs. / understand they are going to present
me bill in the morning for an injunction to
stop Graves and the money, but / put il all off
on Tucker. / shall say that he has ample AL.
thority, AID has had all along; and that the
cour: has M power. Parson give me some
more Port wine.
Panson s. ten you what it Is gentlemen,
now is the time TO use up the loco focos. You
know Tucker beat me for Governor; and YOU
see / want him and his lacky, freeman. to
get particular goss you just postpone this
search in counting, Sharkey, for two days. In
the mean time, Choc;aw will run off with all
the money, and then we will make big fuss
generally, and say that locofocos will steal any
how, and we will lay it all on Tucker. Some
will say that he is IN c0hoote with Graves: and
every body can't help saying that he is stu
pId old Ounce, and has neglected to do his du-
ty, because, that you know is a fact and, as
to Freeman and Mathews. why the thing is
dead out with them. Then,if the locoS get sor-
ter divided up, if there is any sort of chance. /
will come in and give them another pull for
Governor. --(Aside.) Just let me alone for
human mater, | havn't been Methodist prea-
cher and lawyer for nothing.
SCENE I'd. (Enter Gov. Tucker and DR..
GDin1
Tucker. Well, Judge Sharkey has played
bell jumping the chasms. He jumped across
and then set down on the brink and went 10
sleep for two days. tits all stuffto talk about
his mighty great nerve. believe / am as
nervy as Sharkey myself after all. My no. |
tion.s, that he and Buckner are trying to make |
wing capital. and that they all want Choc- |
taw 10 run off with the money, SO that they |
can set up big out-cry.
Gwin. Ofcourse they do; the wings would |
hep him off if they had chance. Governor,
you have acted mighty wrong in this matter;
Vou had power enough and .ought to have ar
rested Choctaw forthwith. Now, you will |
see how it will be, he will get away with the /
money and all the, blame viii justly be laid on |
Feu, and then the wings will charge 1t on re.
1udiafiOn.
Tucker. But Doctor, you surely would not
nave me do unconstitutionaly. | read the
constitution and the revised code over nine
iIuses .uaa did not End Richard Graves men,
toned the first time. How is a man to act in /
uch case Graves vas elected by the peo-
lie. EncourSe could do nothing with him.
had no power.
Gwin. Power, hell--nonsense. you ought
o have knocked him down and robbed him. il
here was no other way.
Tucker. The hell-fire I ought TO have
obbed him you must recollect doctor, that
lever was Marshal of the Southern district
md don't understand robbing and rough steal
ng quite at well as you do.
Gwin. What do yeu mean Gov. Tucker
will give you to understand slr-
Enter Freeman and MGtthetcs.)
say news!! Croctaw has given the guard
he slip and run off in disguise, money and all!!
Fucker. (His eyes sticking out feet)
My you don'tsay so Freeman! are you quiz
ang US
Freeman. No--by all the Gods, he's gone
Il always thought be was
sFeilow by the hand Of nature marked,
Quoted ard signed 10 do the deeS me"
Tucker. Come, this il no tim etry;
freeman, why Graves IS dog sure AUugh!-
r;le ungratefal, unconditional aAscal!
C;wir1. What lid tell you! Let me alone
,r smelling out stealing. !
Freeman. What mortifies me the most II,
hat he run off with my speech. had COM
nitted the Western Songster all to heart, and
Intended to Lave astonIshed the natives with Fl
peech of poetry. Choctaw Is ungEateinI TO
hsappoinf me so. after all the good advice l
ave him about the three per cent fund. Be-
ides oalypthink of that letter that Bill Yerger
cad in the Court. ] might have known
/. shall never get over II the thing IS Out
nth me foreveT-only to think that there -
violence of nv calling on Choctaw for aaoth-
r thousand, and addressing him, 'my dear
,soloneL''
Gwin-Yes, you have made a perfect Jack
uapes of yourself You are ruined the peo-
lie will say that yo9 and Matthews got the
money, and then let Ch0ctaw run away
shame on you III
freeman. Doctor, don't be too smart;
eckon can come II as well as you. They
av that YOU are a defaulter-mace over all
our property to keep clear of your creditors
nd live under pc tcoat in luxury and splen
or. Then they talk rather queer about these
Ioate. tell y0u what It Is, SOME things can
: do,e as well as others. You lake half q
e;jIion. and like Alexander, are called great
;nanc;ar. 81 he interchangeable Gwin," while
ct only eleven hundred dollan and am called
he moor little, stealing Attorney General III
Mstthews. Come. come gentlemen. We
o,,sf not ouarreI only think what condition
We are all m.