Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-09-01
TO WILLIAM L. HARRIS ESQ.
~ CONTINUATION.

You have not disappointed me--that handful put
on, by you on Saturday last, in which you announc.
ed to the wondering crowd and the street loungers
Of Columbus that you would, at candle lighting, ad.
dress the people in the court house in reply to my
editoiial and your late friend Mr. Whitfield, was in
character Il spoke grandloqucnty, and with the
self important meaning Of Sir Oracle Il said to the
universal wing party Of Columbus, attend ye all,
and hear how The 7" am Of Georgia fcderalism-thc
phig candidate 81 no-party Taylorism, William
T. Harrs--can use up the sachems o. democracy
inyonr goodly eiiy.
Well Sir, Iattendcd, and BY the poteness 81 some
81 my whig friends was enabled % get near seat
directly In front Of yon. thought should be able
to hear you quite as well as had done, when you
spoke some days previous in the same place But
could not. | viii not say and do not think that
you designedly modulated your voice to different
key Perhaps i was owing to tho dimncss Of candle
light. tho sight as It il well known, always greatly
assisting the organ Of hearing in persons who are
slightly deaf Perhaps Il was owning to my being
seated ,uo much below yoa forgetting a; tho time
the law Of accoustcs that sounds are propagated in
straight lines and not like wing principles constant
" divergent. Blu. whatever was the cause, GER
tainly did not hear but very email portion Of your
"candle light" speech, missed the connection Of
your ideas as you passed from sentence to sentence
and the chain Of yolr argument, if il had any
Meeting links or torcibc appliance was lost to me.
cannot therefore comment on what You said.
had "no ehel amang YOU taking notes for me, and
can write nor prent nothing in reference thereto.
then let your reply to AR. Whitfield and myself 60
unnoticed and overwhelmingly, unhonorcd and
rnsung," and inthis continuation Of my address 70
You. which was compelled last week 10 cut short
for want 81 space, pass 70 other matters
Che oiyourponts evidently the POINT dYpuio your
hopes OSsuccess II the district y nopalty.ism DO
not misunderstood me, Mr., Harris mean no dsre-
specttoyou personally but tell YOU sir that this ism
j. the most contemplate and viIlanous one that was
ever attempted TO be imposed upon the people. De-
ceptlon and fraud are stamped upon its face. Tho
Taylor lehig support or approval Of democratic meas
ufes is the forced homage which hypocrcy pays to
virtue But Sir admitting that you are all fair and
conscientious in your course, and will not for mo.
mcnt question it let me ask YOU what is the tenden.
ey and effect of this norarty movement Has il
Gained political excitement Very, very far from
il, and this faet you must see and feel.
Gibbon, 10 his splendid and majestic history Of the
Decline and Fall Of the Roman Empire" gives us,tc
understand from we'll authenticated historical facts,
that Il was the administration Of eunuchs in the
western part Of the empire which first paved the way
TO its downfall Political no parysm In our age and
land apprehend, may prove as fatal to our county
and its institutions as did the castrated administers
ion Of the heartless Narses and his unprincipled fol
overs II we are 10 fall, and our union and gov
eminent 60 down,n Gods name say we let the dread
calamity be brought about by the hands If men ant
not BY the agency OF neutsr gender tools
You defend the administration in It's heartless am
unparalleled prescription, by attempting to show tina
Gen. Taylor is only equdliring the Offices between
the twopartes He has only turned out some 6v
Thousand democrats, and you intimate we learn. tina
twill require the removal Of some ten times NOR
before perfect equalization will be- restored. Now
Mr.. Harris, am sure, that you have too much goo
sense and honesty 70 believe in such mode Of rea
sUning, or such Procrustsan bed Of Justice.
Look sir, for moment al the absurdity Of thi
ldss--cf this equaIizng principle upon which 20
ssismpt to defend the outrageous prescription Of thi
noparty administration Take Lowndes county q
sample. and look It the removals .ha, have bee
made. The United States District Attorney, the Fl