The Mississippi lynx. (Panola, Miss.) 1846-18??, 1846-06-13
NO. II

cal torture. The instruments oil ais
grace in this polite age, is a scourge OF
the sentiments. To mind, elevated
in the scale of genius, learning, and
true and honorable ambition, it is noaO
as calling 10 be denounced and pro-
scribed as unworthy Of honorable trusts,
as the severest corporal punishments
were in the age Of the profigate and
arbitrary Charles. Honor feels stain
upon lis chastity, inflicted through the
sentiments, like a aoound. And TO pro-
scribe and exclude raen, proud of their
country, swelling with emotions Of hon.
or when contemplating the institutions
of their fathers, ready to die for is
preservation and unsullied purity, men
OF splendid genius and gigantic talents,
Is as base persecution, is as undoubted
q crushing of the spirit, as the most
frantic, arbitrary and blood tyranny,
the disgusting tyrant, whose name has
| already too often blurred our page, ever
inflicted upon the Puritans and Cove
I.nanters Of his age.
But though the wings are treated as
/ foreigners and strangers on the soil Of
their birth, upon the estate Of their ia
/ theirs, never for one moment have they
faltered in their devotion 10 their coun-
! try. And now, when that country is
! involved in a war, which many ofthem
think was brought on by precipitancy
and ashness-induced alone by selfish
ness-rushed into for boon that God
and Nature had decreed ours, in the
peGceabIe aHd natural progress ct
erentS, yet we see them marching up
to the conflict as cheerfMliy, as intrepid
lg, as enthusiastically as if their bre-
thren had treated them as joint heirs in
the glorious inheritance Of liberty.
They can stand proud scrutiny with
their oppressors. We are proud Of
them and we have right to be proud
of them. What other men on the broad
face Of the wide earth, would act as they
| have? With nothing 10 expect, nolh-
ing to hope for. but contumely and re-
proach when the war shall have glor-
iously terminated, they have entered
the conflict with as eager cheerfulness,
as if they were 10 return to their homes
and families with the rich rewards and
: gratitude that patriots Of all ages and
, in all times have wreathed upon the
brows and character of their heroes
, But none Of these await US. None OF
these things can move us-they are
5 no: only wrested from US, but we are
r held up to public Reproduction as unwor-
e thy ofthe smallest honors, the Funniest
i trusts Of our country. Wings! we are
proud Of you; and we will proclaim the
. exulting sentiments Of our hearts on
any spot of tyranny or right that sees
G the light of Heaven. Nothing shall
: keep them down. And we rs boldly de-
mand, (not petition) that the bill OF ex-
clusIon, with all its penalties, enacted
against you, be al once and forever re-
pealed. We want no priruegeS; we
5 will have none. But we demand, as
: we ever have done, and will forever do,
: that we be permitted to stand up equal
a, in political rights, in patriotism, 10 pub
! lie and private esteem, with any man,
G set of men, or PARTY, that can do hon
J. or 10 human nature in this land OF
e Washington and Hancock, Henry and
: Adams. Has this demand no justice to
enforce it? Is it unGounded in history
or equity? Is it bold, impudent or au.
7: dacious? We leave The decision TO our
d brethren who have so relenl!esSly per.
r secuted us--SOuihT0n