Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-08-14

found to fill the vacant seats. About l25 men
assembled. Marengo has ever been wing coun-
ty, and is one OF The most populous in the State.
Mr.. Montague. gentleman known. as one whom
death alone can part from whigery, was called to
the chair. This sticking fast to what one consid-
ers a principle is commendable quality. Plague
on ali milk and water men! Would it were writ
ten in fair band on the forehead of every citizen,
what he thinks concerning the republic. Then
we would have no ambiguous Nicholson letters,
no Foote and Clemmens summersets, no Toombs
and Stevens niagaras. It is thus with the honor
able chairman of the meeting-no capulet can
cross his faith without knowing that he is a Mon
tague of the right stripe He made few re-
marks, and among other gems. said
ssNo wbig had right to reject the nominee of
the Baltimore Convention. - Ye men of Jasper,
do you know this A man must not exercise his
own judgment. but mast yield implicit and abso-
lutte obedience TO whomsoever. Junto of politi-
clans think proper to foist upon him !! Oh whg-
cry. whigery, you greatly need your daddy's care.
File, fear you viii spilyour soup. Billy Seward
can't you get napkin to put before the child, he
will spoil his new Baltimore apron, and Unkle
Horace will dispair and spit upon it sure enough !?
DR.. NJ, W.. Creagh, formerly member of the
Legislature, then offered series of resolutions
the sum and substance of which was to declare
Scott the very identical man for the times. The
docR then gave US quite fancy speech. He
said hat Scott was natonal-that mo pent up
UticS confined his fame; that Niagara roar and
the &era Navada's snow were the witnesses of his
gall deeds. / regard Scott as the great cap
tain the age, and was prepared for this. But
thinN of my establishment, when | heard, upon
the Mthority of an Ohio governor, that General
ScoM is the man who passed the Compromise
thai lie changed at leastten votes, tina: Mr.. Clay,
emil iced him as the savioT Of has country
VIII in the name of all that is wonderful, did
thai reat man prefer Mr.. Fillmore to the Savior
of Is country. The Dr. told US that Scott. in
spit8of his letters, sound on the slavery ques-
ion For said he, his earliest associations are
connected with it, and believe me
u list as the twig is bent the tree will incline. ;"
The Atkinson letter seems to indicate that the
twg was unfortunately bent the wrong way.
wonder if Seward caught his slavery notion when
spending his young days in Georgia? OF course
heidi or thedoctor's theory would be false, as the
maxim 'falsus in uno, falsus is omnibus" must
hold in politics as well as logic. But if are
not mistaken, Hu,tley's theory of association have
been abandoned by metsphysicians and hence il
would be well for the doctor to quiz such antigua
ted notions and to look at thesqueston in the true
philosophical. way, which all the world has now
determined to be. according tothe dictates of com
mon sense" But shade of Grotiust we were
told that Gen, Scott understood the laws of Ma
tons better than the expounder himself! "
men of the cap and goun, ye cloistered students o
Yale, Cambridge and Harvard, hear this Leave
your books, forsake your collegiate studies, ru1
away from your Professors. join the army, and
believe me. upon wkig authority, you will be L. L
DIS. before you are sixty This is certainly a dis
ccrery Of the doctors, contingency Solomon
never dreamed Of something new underthe SUM-
Don't be ataH surprised if we discover that tht
Marengo Moon is made of green cheese. The
doctor sat down upon the announcement of hi:
discovery, amid such applause as wings alone cal
give.
Just then two Locos were passing the street, one
said to the other
do you hear that ?''
'sWhat pr
''Why that shouting
"oh yes, but if the gnats didn't buz the on
woudent dream of their existence"
The Hon. Amos R. Manning was next loudly
called for. He is known good lawyer and
a fair stump orator. but on this occasion We though
of the bulls attact on .he locomotive. We adm
red the spunky way he answered the call, bu
thought to ourselves, d-n your prudence. HI
commenced by saying that the party had no hope
of carrying Alabama, that the duce had brough
the war into Africa and to defend themselves wa
the only alternate left the wings After this shor
preface, he proceeded to compare the two plat
forms. He contended that the wings & wish h,
had told IS which was the true one was NOR,
southern than the democratic, as the former pledg
ed the party to maintain, and the latter only Il
abide by the Fugitive Slave law. / would like /,
know the exact period the Time and Experience
rsferes to. The Federal wings say it refers to th
present, and according to the whis plat the,
can demand change of the law 10 avoid abuse
The gentleman made quite flemish about tn
"Finality question We had hoped that the n
0. Delta had showed up that farce SO completes
that we would never have it mentioned again -
Both parties are prating about it. Fnality is
greater humbug than Barnum or Kossuth or tn