Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-04-17
G. OIL u M B U S:
wednesd sy Morning, April Ia, 1852.
For the Southern Standard.
A Tempest in a TEAPOT.

For the SoutheTn Standard.
A Tempest in Teapot.
Mr.. ED1roR: May hope through your vaua-
BILE journal to ascertain the present condition of
things in our beloved Mississippi? Are we IN or
OUT of the Union ? Is the threatened secession
to be PeaceoJIe, as well as prompt? Is the Bull
Mountain and Bear Greek hill Country still in COM
motion Is the crater of the young Vesuvus
which was discovered on the 9Th of March at ia
cinto, still throwing forth smoke and ashes +? Or
has Parson $50 help God) Foote sent up
wet blanket from Jackson to place over the mouth
of the burning gulf? A hope is indulged that
you satisfy community on these startling
questions, the good people of this region love
the State and are disposed to respect the action
of its Legislature, Notwithstanding we have been
accused of being little lukewarm in attach
ments for land stealing Yankee brethren) we
are not little surprised and mortified to find our
Union loving friends OF Foote'S banner county,
Gold Tishomingo) about to kick out of the traces,
and establish separate Railroad Republic. The
calamity does not stop even there, but is greatly
magnifed by a coalition with that disorganizir &
State, South Carolina, in this Railroad secession.
What must be the mental agony of Foote, Free
man, Free e-soil d Co., when the solemn fact is
known to them that the Union '' is no more %
What has caused Tishomingo so suddenly to fall
in love with Charleston, as to be placed in mme-
date juxtaposiliou with that City, at the cost Of
the unity of the State government? 90, Con-
Sistency, thou art jewel. -
But acho are the prominent actors in this grand
(whiskey insurrection) movement? And aehat is
the intoerable oppression that calls for such an
excitement. We may premise in answer to the
first question, that the loyal county of Tishomingo
furnished the first martyr in The canse of the Clio
rous Union, in the person of the President OF the
Convention, besides had the evidence of the
wonderful responsibility which rested on the ban
ner County, in the person of certain B. n. Kin
yon, (another delegate who actually sunk under
the onus of his country's cause in the House o
Representatives. during the session of the Sub,
mission Convention of November last, by fainting
and falling into the arms Of the bull headed But
Ter of Monroe-Par Mobile Fratrum And ye
we find that same B, N. Kinyon presenting Sc
rIes of resolutions to large meeting of the citi
zens of Tishomngo Co., authorizing the Count.
Police to assess taxes to support an ORGANIZED
RESISTANCE TO THE STATE GovERNMENT-callIn:
on the members of the Legislature to WITHDRAW
from the participation in legislation, and what |
still richer, requiring the Tax Collector, who is al
officer of the State, to throw off all allegiance t
the State, disregard his oath, and withhold tn
State Taxes, for the benefit of the new Republi
of Tish. And last, though not least, proceede
to appoint two Delegates to a Southern Rairoa
Congress, as their resolutions say, " in behalf,
of the citizens of the county. Terrible splutter
Monies Partruunt
But what has given rise to these extraordinar
proceedings, which we are told but two men coul
be found bold enough to vote against. Simply {
they state themselves, because the Legislatul
"a submission house at that thinks that Marsha
and Tippah, two large and populous countie
should have some of the benefits of the Rail
which Tishomingo says will be ten miles farthe
and will cost the enormous of S1e5,OC
more and will all be drawn (as l suppose) O.
of the pockets of such capitalists old j.
Leake and little Parson Muse. And yet the
same gentlemen can stand coolly by, and beho
the peculaton and speculation by the present a
minlstraton and congress of free-soilers, viii
the only emotion produced in their bosoms is
be discovered by raising their pous hands, al
rolling back their devotional eyes, and cry out
"Glorious Union. +" This is county consolidate
with vengeance. CIVIS.