Southern shield., 1850-09-21

oHouilS SeoSIoi oi tHo AOE5iSiotulC, tl0 HS- cessary steps will be promptly taken by them, and other Wings throughout the State, to put our feeble suggestions into successful operation.
 The True Issue.
 In our last we exposed most unfounded and atrocous islander upon the President of the United States perpetrated in the True Issue of the llth inst, and called upon the editor of that sheet to make good his charges, or astonish this community by exhibiting candor enough 10 retract them. These two things seem to be equally beyond his reach. He has no proof to sustain his charges. He gives US the evidence ot his own acts that he has no candor to retract them.
 Our neighbor emphatically shirks the issue presented to him, by using the potent southern cry of Wolf! Wolff! Abolitionist | Abolitionist!l We'll, as the title of his pa per proclaims trumpet tongued, with the shrill reverberation of penny whistle, that he is the organ of Truth, any course that he may see proper to pursue, must be a correct one.
 "Blow ve winds and c,0ack your cheeks" but spare thy penny whistle, nor strain it overmuch. Put on not too much wind, for fear of straining some of its valves. You will easily get another bellows blower, but if the whistle is spoiled, whence will come the supplies to replace the damaged pipe? In two columns and half of news from Texas, in the last Issue, we find mention made in two places of United States troops. One speaking of Col. Hardee's expedition, [ and the other of letter from Gen. Brooke, written on the 29th ult., Cat San Antonio,) in which he says "tWo companies of the 9th
 Infantry will arrive at this post tomorrow or next day" How does our neghbor re- concile these allusions with the editorial in his paper in which he uses this language: ''It vii! be seen that no mention is made of a U. $. soldier being in that section at all." Has the disease of which our neighbor | speaks affected his moral as well as his phys ical faculties? or is he not aware that It. Col Hardee and Gen. Brooke are U. $. officers, in command of U $. soldiers, and that the 9th and Sth Infantry are both DOT ons of the U. $. regular army?
 Hear the Issue's reply 10 our call for l proof Of the removal of the U. $. force:
 "And the fact that General Brooke pro- I poses to raise volunteers, 10 meet the Indi-
 ans, is pretty good proof that he has been
 nearly entire y stripped of force. The Shield
 ought to know that all, or nearly all, the U. J 5. force in this State has been removed in lI the direction of Santa Fe."
 fl We ask for bread, and he gives us a stone. He says "the Shield ought to know," &c. 1 The editor of this organ of veracity may : be in the habit of coning the fertility of his brain, and seeking to pass it off on his rea- ders for genuine currency, and thus through perfect simplicity may ask this question; but such is not our course. And we positively : deny that any of the U. s. troops have been removed from Texas; or that Gen. Brooke calls for volunteers.
 Our astute neighbor likewise uses this t language as a portentous conclusion: , "The Shield cannot accomplish its object to hide the hostility of MT. Fillmore to Texas and the South, by deceittully mis-
 representing US. Nor can he or his friends
 deter us from the publication of the truth.
 If to publish the editors own language
 be "deceitfuIly misrepresenting" him, we
 must plead guilty to the charge. If to ex-
 pose his islanders be "deceitfully misrepre- senting" him, we must likewise plead guilty.
 Ii he and his paper are composed of such delicate material that they will not bear
 handling, he had better get both insured.
 He raises the cry of "stop thef'' with all
 the appearance of conscious rectitude, and is as vociferous as though the blood hounds of justice were already hot on his trail.
 He concludes with declaration of his in-
 tention to continue his vocation, and we have no doubt but his accustomed veracitv
 will appear in each succeeding number of I the True Issue
 | The speaking which was to have taken place on yesterday, between Dr. Jeffries and w. E. Preston, Esq, was indefinitely postponed, and the community once more suffered to return to it's quiet State. | We shall have something to say on this cnhJacf yUook