The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-08-17

tered upon by their mSlchlsss leadeT-HENRY
CLAY. his mastery and patriotic efforts were
seconded BY those who arose above the idea
Of present popularity and present ezPediency
and taking a wide survey looked 20 the ultI-
mate advantages Of his general adjustment bill
Though defeated, the aged hero is still battling
for his country. HIS hope is not yet gone
Some healing measure, he thinks, can still De
passed. He will no, despair Of the republic,
until another still greater and more tremendous
effort shall be made, and even then he will moi
yield 81 long Os even a sPeck Of hope appears
in The heavens.
Shall patriotic men, and especially Wings,
fail to do their duty? Will they tail 10 rally
around him who, standing with one foot in the
grave, sends forth a warning voice, and says,
with all the energy OF his imPassioned Ofatory,
come to the rescue? Advices from Washing
Ton lead Us to suppose, that the Bill, or some.
thing equivalent will pass the House, and upon
its reference back to the Senate WI meet with
success. Some Of the most important bills ever
passed by Congress have met with signal de-
feat OF first /; several unsu successful attempts
were made before the Missouri compromise bill
became a law. And 90 with the present bill Of
Mr.. Clay; it may be defeated once, twice or
thrice: but having the germ of paciication
within it's folds, it must eventually succeed.
We hope, therefore, that Wings in Congress
and out Of Congress will move as one man to
the support Of their old and favOrlte leader
Let them be active. A crisis is at hand; and
he who is not active now, is as dangerous as
the most deadly foe. The breach between the
different sections will 60 on widening and
deepening, and soon become an unfathomable
chasm, unless decided and patriotic action shall
stir the heart and move the arm Of all lovers Of
peace, the constitution, and the country.
Or We admire the very graceful
manner in which the MGdiSOniGn relires
from the controversy with the Creole.
Who first provoked the wal of words
between US, we leave to our renders,
and his own, to say. k.has not been the
policy Of this paper, at any time, to enter
into these petty controversies with any
other press; and we venture to say that
no paper has had so few Of them as the
Creole. As 0 as the MddiSOnian was
established, however, II began to throw
its small shot at our little craft, till at
last, being provoked, we retaliated with
such ammunition as we had III our locker
If the MadisOniGa is damaged a little in
her rigging OF hull, tho account mus. be
charged TO her W. ttmerity, and MOTTO
a spirit Of aggression on the part Of the
Creole. The editor has Withdrawn, with
tact and adroitness, from the little scrim.
mage he himself begun, and declines
any further " rejoinders to the point no
point attacks upon the MadiSOnian ="
A very sensible conclusion. W. are d
ready to meet him in that spirit as we
we're to meet him in the other. When
the gauntlet was thrown down, we re.
luctantly took it up-now hat the olive
branch is rendered, we accept it cheer
fully.
The editor accuses US Of making in
our last number covert a~Ilusion to
[himself,] personally, ia a matter hav.
ing no necessary connect on with [Ourl
editorial duties or [his,l and with the
unworthy hope Of %inficling a sting.
The little article alluded to was pro.
voked by the continual harping of the
MGdisOnian upon the fact, that the Gre
ole has not the name Of any "pub!icly
recognized editor" at the head of its
coIumns-(a thing not at all necessary,
since the publisher, in such cases, is re-.
sPonsibIe for all that appears in his pa.
per- and, in an article of the previous
week, conceived in bad humor and exc.
cuted n exceeding bad taste, in%sinuating
or charging that the writer for the Gre.
ole was as devoid Of character" as Of
" intellect" The a~llusion to our char.
Gcter had as little to do with the matter
in controversy as our allusion to his pro
fessiOH-which is an honorable one.-
The paragraph, however, was not con.
ceived in the slightest spirit of unkind.
ness, and we here disclaim the remotesl
intention Of "inficting a sting"
The editor may we'll say that he ad.
mitted the communication to which he
alludes " with some reluctance and We
are disposed to believe that had he reaC
the thing in the " proof" it would have