Southern patriot. (Houston, Chickasaw County, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-09-05

e the chief agitators of that scbem,
, oil rebellion against one oftbe mild
est and most benefcent Government
, are from the United States: Wills
past experience proves that there ar,
thousands ready to co.operato al
along our Northern frontier 10 forc,
such a result by sword OriCevne
dltlons to Hungar had been denonpc
ed, this would have some ground q,
justification from movements onenIr
made IN many of our Northern cites
But when and where has there been
ANY demonstration on the mart ~
our citizens to aid in revolutionizino
CubaH Open demonstrations 10 All
the Canadians and Hungarians are
passed by unrebuked;bu suppositiou,
certainly not public, manifestations
by our citizens to aid the Cubians Is
forthwith made the subject of denim.
citation by this truly Southern Adj.
ministration. Although, in this citv
there has transpired nothing to ms.
tlty the Proclamation of President
Taylor, and it looks therefore. now
that the Southern elections are over
very like a small effort to gain non.
ularlty at the North, whittier he is
now moving on his tour, we sincere.
ly hope there is good ground for This
most extraordinary proceeding
Never was there a poor people more
oppressed than the unfortunate in
habitants of Cuba. They are not
only compelled TO support an army
for their subsection, but the and cor.
rupt monarchy Of old Spain lives bv
the money extOrted from them The.
taxes wrung from them annually
would long since have crushed them
but for their energy, and the UNEQUAL
LED richness fertility Of their won
derlui and beautiful country. Tween
ty millions Of dollars a wear are ev-
acted by the Government from some
three hundred thousand people
and what Government! The des- !
pot'sm of Russia or Turkey is benefi- |
cence itself compared to it. Should
a people so situated rise to vindicate
their rights, and draw their swords
Tor independence, there is not a
heart in the broad South, not a
friend to her institutions, but win |
burn with sympathetic ardor in their
cause. President Taylor NAV put
orth his Proclamations, and use or
abuse his high office to truckle TO
Northern fanaticism, and to rnpress
my generous sympathy, or more eff
'lent support in the shape oCmen ,
md bayOnets, to aid in such a
truggle, but his edicts will be in
am. He will have to establish ,
ere a tyranny as despotic as that [.
Which exists in Cuba, before he can :
mder An American citizen from 90 !.
lg where he pleases to fight for an =
oppressed people against their op- 4
ressors. Thousands Of our gallant !,
ms will go to that glorious island !,
rescue it from Spanish or Negro :,
DmnatlOn if called on by the peo- =
Ie of Cuba They will not allow d
lis garden spot of the world-this !,
ey of the Gulf of hexico-this +
ate OF Mississippi river-more i'm. u
'rtant to the South, and the great P,
alley of the West, than all the Mid OF
Q States, and Northern to boot q
fall under their controle inimical &C
their INTEREST,". In despite of the al
ittalO platform, which Nh Webster Oh
serts to genuine Whiggery, declar- CT
g thatnO more Slave States shall 81 81
added to this Union. they will ~
ace another starin our flag, among ~
brightest of them all, and make ne
here to shine forever. The frowns DC
a weak, and already Frustrated WI
ministratiOn-the opposition of 20
uthern traitors, in or out of Con. pa
cries of Northern aspi- ~ ~
ITS to power BY a Northern pre- oe
minance, or of furious fanatics. "a "a
lsOned, like the rattleSnake in Au- Cd
st, by their own venom, will not on
1rt the onword march of events al
ba will be part of these South on
States-and of these United .ua
ites. But we forbear specializing 'ly
on a subject, on which we fear $40
administration is only speculat- 'u'
. We'hOpe the whole is but the say
ling IF broken bellows, to fill in ~,
tagging and.aapipng sails with ", wi
rthern breeze. 70
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