The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-09-12

VlnQlCate COtOnet GIegS a9uths4 y""e %
saiImeut, either in reference 10 bis charac-
ter as a gentleman or as 3 writer: the first
was vOuched for by Senator Butler before
the American Senate, and the other is full
" sustained by his letter to General Foote.
If all the twaddle "with which you have
afflicted or sickened mankind, were, by
some chemical or other process, concen-
trated into a column article for the Creole il
would not contain as much point and pith,
sense and sentiment, as that single letter
OF Colonel Gregg. But it mattrred not
how it was written whether with marked
ability or otheIwise-you were fully pre-
pared, without reading it, to pronounce its
author a fool, or anything else that was
odious or contemplate. 1t was enough
for you to know that he was a citizen Of
South Carolina, and fearless champion
Of Southern honor: you needed no other
motion for turning loose upon him,
each mongrel, puppy, whelP, and
hound,
And cur Of low degree"
10 speaking Of the South Carolinians
and their Gltedged gasconade, you say:-
"The 'feats at arms,' which they propose
10 do-not what they have doue-is blaz-
oned from the center to the circumference
Of their State" With the remarkable
grammar and diction Of this choice extract,
we have neither the time nor the incljna-
ton 10 interfere; but, in certain other and
more important respects, lit comes in such
questionable shape, that we will speak to
It." This SANDER, which you have Perpe-
trated against the entire people ola State,
is so atfocious and apparent, that the IA
Their Of lies" might blush in ushering it to
the light; and it would be we'll foryou,if you
could plead 10 e%xleDuation Of your offence,
that you had temporarily "foresworn thin
potations and taken TO strong drink" Il
would be certainly charitable to conclude,
that you had just returned from "a big
bust, Iwhenyou penned the above sentence,
and that your moral seDSe-never the mos
delicate-had unfortunately been drowned
in the bowl. This excuse might be urged in
your favor with the more propriety, as the
double falsehood, which the extract con
iains, may be accounted for on the wei
known principle, that a man, who has been
"carousing rotations potle-deep," IS APP
to see double.
You insinuate in terms not to be misun.
detstood, that the history of South Caro-
lima presents no ,hievements in arms, Of
which her citizens may be Justly proud
but that they equal the boosters and Drag
CARTS Of Gascony in the wonders yet TO be
accomplished. Passing over the first
branch Of this charge, as too contemplate
for serious notice, we would ask, what is
the foundation for the latter branch Of it,
We know that the self-constituted censors
Of South Carolina, il they condescend 10
reply 10 our enquiry, would do SO in a tor
rent Of loose generalities, that prove moth
ing at all. But if we look to the usual We
hicles Of public o%pinon-to the proceedings
Of her Legislative bodies, the resolves o.
her public meetings, the columns of the
newspaper press, and the speeches OF hel
citizens--we will find nothing to warrant
this %stereotyped SANDER of her people,
True, she has, during the present slave
controversy made known her determine
ton, in every possible form, TO maintain
her constitutional equality 10 the Union;ant
il may be that her revilers are sufficiently
blind and besotted 10 consider her declara
tons onlhis subject as mere gasconade. |
so, we would remind you and them, tina
there a s,during Jackson's administration
another controversy, in which South Caro-
Ina stood SOLITARY and alone" agains
the General Government; and yet she die
NOT, in the hour Of danger, shrink from III
position, she had assumed.
If you had used.your ''star candle" for tn
laudable purpose Of "vindicatiDg the trutI
Of history" instead Of hunting up stall
falsehoods or inVentlng new ones, yol
won ID have known these facts concerning
South Carolina, and many.others not lesi
creditable to her character. You nigh
have learned, BY glanciug at her Revolu
%tionary annals, and at the noble daring o
the Palmetto Regiment, in the late wa
with Mexico, that her sons have not beer
the last to rally around the standard o
their country, nor the least willing to di'
in its defence. You might have learned
that the State, which is SO often the sub
ject Of yocF petty ISLANDERS and impoten1
hate, is the birthplace Of Marion anC
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