The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-05-23
CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY, 4 %, ls4e.

SSHFoy was NattSu Wv oItCus
with a not sweet smelling SAVIOR, to the %nOstrils
OF their armed but too distant guardians, to
convict the aggressors Of inofFensiveness.
AS to the excitabiliiy Of a population, no
part Of which corresponds to the English mob
or the French c~Gnatlle, and to none Of whose
members the common rudiments Of education
are strange, il is vain to speculate on its evil
results; for intelligence goes hand in hand
with it, and the cool, calculating spirit Of my
countrymen, is a sufficient guarantee that il
will never lead them into danger.
Tried by the Procrustean standard Of Europe,
| doubt not that we should often be pronounc-
ed out of measure, and that even upon the floor
OF Congress certain scenes might be c~urtailed
to advantage; but that tone branch Of the
most important Legislative assembly Of the
new world should listen with interest and ex-
citement" to our "lunaticn ex-President,s most
original exhibition, ought no mora to raise
your wonder, than that the House Of Commons
should be amused by a ludicrous description Of
a noble lords coal-hole escapade, or that il
should now and then uproariously cheer on
"Young England's" champion, to badger man
who is to him like Jupiter to a rejected satel-
lite.
AS in common with my countrymen here, |
no longer regard the Oregon question as o war
question, with your permission,sI will add a
line or tw" respecting what is described by
you to be "the threatening state nf our rela-
tions with Mexico" Your intelligent cores
pendent in that unhappy country might have
told you, that as against a more powerful anita
gonist it is more helpless than wailing child,
whether for offence or defence, because it is
like a "house divided against ~itself;" that it
can no more prevent the flood of emigration
from the States into California, and its conse-
quences, be they what they may, than could
the red man close his forests against the inun-
dation Of the whites; and that, though it may
declare war till it is "hoarse with c~alling,v it
can never make it, unless perehance, which l
do not suspect, somo European nations come
to its aid, and then, without time even to see
the forecast shadow Of coming events, one
universal howl Of war, on both sides Of the
Atlantic, will for many a year be heard, smoth-
ering in its death echo the voice of peace.
Our democratic pretences," / sincerely be-
iieve, are entirely misunderstood in Europe,
especially as they regard territory. We want
none Of your possessions, and Canada we should
be much less thankful for than yourselves
would be to get honorably rid of a colony,
which is ravenOus as horse.leech and I'M
grateful as its own soil.
No! pretenccs, unjust pretences, if they have
an existence, time will show that they are not
on our 81 lie. But in the eyes Of some, because
we are protested Republicans, and having pow
er choose to use it as to us seems best, W.
therefore, and our claims are arrogance itself
and, because we will not that kings or mobiles
should have dominion over US, we are for that
reason "of the earth earthly" and on the high
road to anarchy and confusion. What is most
"strange and unnatural" is, that it is not those
who are divinely hedged about and stand in
high places, that are in general our self.deluded
or malicious traducers; but mere men, un-no.
bled and untitled men like ourselves, who, hav,
ing sucked in with their mothers milk an oveI
weening reverence for rank, cannot bear to see
others, void OF sympathy for their weakness
asserting and maintaining the dignity Of theiI
common nature.
Most respectfully, your Obedient servant,
A "STATEs'-MAN.
In subsequent number Of the Times, ano,
Their correspondent, under the signature of M
]. H attempted a reply. He avoided, however
every point in the article Of "a STATES NAM
and harped upon the failure Of the States tC
pay the interest upon their public debts. Hi'
article called forth another from his opponent
who pronounces him a "~fortunate man. in be-
ing, Gas he styles %himself0 a "large holder o.
American securities.n In giving his reasons
for deeming these securities good, the Estates
Man" says: "The bankrupt States, it mus
console him to know, will, if they remain de-
~faulters a moment longer than stern neces
sity demands, have public opinion through
out the Union to contend against-no mean an
tagonist, when it is considered that its sway i
more powerful with US than with any othe
people under the sun; then, in a very few
years their rapidly increasing population, I'D
ded to their inealculable sources Of wealth
will make the payment Of their debts SO easy
that there will not be room to assume to them
selves even a virtue in doing it; and the last
though not least firm ground go upon is, tina
their interests, about which they are SO scare
full" will impelatively demand that justice t
their creditors be done. In a single word, lhey
cannot afford to be dishonest"
He says that a resentful fancy alone, has con
jured up the charge of fraud against the United
States; and If M. ]. H., is DESTROYS of inform
inc himself on the subject of State insolvency