The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent., 1850-09-20
Gen. Quitman and the Florence Ga
Zettei

Take care, dear friend Of the Gazette! Is
Gen Quitman subscriber Of yours? Ii he is,
we rather calculate he will order discontinue
ance of your paper-for he ordered the Monroe
Democrat-"our neighbor np-street"-to stop,
owing S. 90, so the editor says. He perpetra-
ted all that punishment for simply speaking ra-
ther free Of the officials about jackson: and he
had the Natchez Courier discontinued recently
for copying the article of the Democrat! So
you see, You had better take care, how you
speak of this Governor! What will you cay,
we wonder, when you hear that it is rumored
about Jackson-which you will see copied from
the Southron in another column Of to.day's pa
per-that Gov. @. intends calling the Legisla-
ture together to deliberate upon The business OF
TeraS! He actually medtates, we hear, an in
reference with Texas, and 10 one knows what
may be the result of it, Two hundred thousand
dollars were appropriated to purposes of war al
the last session of the Legislature, and that has
TO be spent, you know, in that way. As Con-
gress and President Fillmore design to settethe
"Slavery questions" satisfactorily to every rea-
sonable man, he thinks, we presume, that there
is no chance of Uncle Sans invading Missis-
sppi and he intenGs to invade Uncle San by in
terfering with the internal affairs of Texas-as
if she had not sense enough tc take care OF
herselG IL Gov. Collier needs a commander OF
'sthe army and navy" Of Alabama, he can get
our Governor Do you not want him? The
people over here are getting sorely tired Of bis
QuiXotism All he needs is Cervantes, to
keep a record of his feats.
But we forgot to call the attention of our rea-
ders to the article below from the Gazette of last
Saturday. Here it is:
| tsTbo houudarU nuncfinn has hppn or
will be, satisfactorily settled, and General Quit
man will thereby be spared the delicious job of
| lnooinp the United States into subsection. The
! country NAV congratulate itself on the happy
| termination Of the difficulty, for if it had not
been settled on terms satisfactorily to General
| Quitman, we suppose he would have called for
/ those ten thousand volunteers and commenced
the small lob of whipping the United States in.
to measures at once. We presume the threat
of the chivalrous Governor Of Mississippi, had
tremendous influence in contributing to the
passage Of Mr.. Pearce's bill. Indeed Gen. Quit
man is a perfect Captain Seott-of-a fellow.
Congress during the session ought to keep it
self advised oe The views and desires of the Mis-
sissippi Governor, and endeavor to pass no law,
/ calculated to offend or ercite him or else he'll
| blow his war-trumpet and in twinkle legions
| of soldiers and myriads of armies will present
themselves all cooked and primed Cor the pomp
and circumstance of glorious war, or rather for
the difficult job Of marching up the bill and then
down again. A good many years ago, say as
far back as seventeen hundred and seventy six,
the United States of America did some pretty
good fighting and sustained itself pretty well in
the contest generally with Great Britain, and we
believe that the same government of United
States o! America, improved so nnch in gallan-
try and in the science of war, that she came
uery near whipping Mexico some two or three
years ago, but we presume "Uncle SAM" would
soon be demolished in war with such foreign
power as -General-John Anthony
Quitman of Mississippi! Verily--to use a vul-
garism--he some pumpkins. Why. when he
gets mad and wishes to ''upset the category
and overturn the predcaments," all that he has
to do, is to give keen whistle, and excaim--
presto! and forthwith ten thousand men appear
in the palm of his capacious hand, marching
and counter-marching, fling and drumming, &
all armed and equipped as the law directs. The
United States of America can't stand contest
with such a formidable hero--and hereafter
Gen. Quitman, has only to manifest his inten.
ton to shoot, and "Uncle Sam" will give in as
unhesitatingy and with as, little reluctance as
the coon did tQ Captain Scot. !" -
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