The Yazoo City Whig And Political Register

From the Troy Morning Mail.

RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON.

"The Northern man with Southern principles," it seems is to spend the summer at the Saratoga Springs. We do not wonder that the Albany Argus should feel some anxiety about the reception he will receive among us. A man who has so signally abused the confidence and belied the character of the citizens of the Empire State, is very likely to be met with more cuffs than kisses. It will require a higher power of persuasion than the life pensioner of the state paper possesses, to induce the people to fawn upon a viper that they have nourished in their bosoms until its fangs have stung them to the heart.

Let the Argus with its hundred eyes, look for a moment among the diversified classes of society, and see if it can find any which justly owes Van Buren respect or reverence. He has scoffed at the embarrassment of our merchants, and prostrated the business of our manufactures.

He has calumniated those connected with our banking institutions, by charging them with the foulest frauds, and endeavoring to bring upon them the sweeping curse of a general bankruptcy law.

For nearly two years his disastrous measures dried up the springs of honest industry, and brought starvation into the homes of the laboring poor.

He paralyzed the vigorous arm of the mechanic, and struck down the hopes of those who were about commencing an enterprising and useful career.

He has filled the pockets of the usurer with money wrung from the necessities of the honest debtor.

He has openly charged in a solemn message to the Congress of the United States—a libel which will be handed down to future generations—more than a hundred thousand electors of his native state with bribery and corruption in their exercise of the right of suffrage—an offence which, if committed, would have subjected them to incarceration among the felons of our state prisons.

He has insulted the feelings of the religious portion of the community, by receiving foreign infidels, male and female, into confidence and favor.

He has alarmed the fears, and disturbed the repose of men of property, by countenance he has extended to the worst species of agrarianism, and by appointing to office the leaders and instigators of the most disgraceful and destructive riots.

His whole administration has been a wicked and malignant crusade upon the rights of the people, and the prosperity of the north.

He has robbed the state through the influence he has exerted upon the Albany Regency, of the benefits of a representation in the Senate of the nation, by defeating the reappointment of the Hon. N. P. Tallmadge.

He has squandered through the prodigality and extravagance of his administration, that portion of the surplus revenue to which this state was entitled, and which, if appropriated as it should have been, would have educated every poor man's child in the state of New York

And is it for acts like these that his servile tools would have the people rush forth with congratulations at his approach, and scatter flowers around the footsteps of the intriguing traitor? Does respect for the station of chief magistrate require this humiliation from the freemen of the north?—No, it can never be so—it never can be so it never will be so. Honor heaped upon the undeserved, is the deepest injury to the worthy and virtuous. Let the favorite son's come home and pass to his heartless revels and political intrigues at the Springs in silent and scornful neglect. Let the eyes of those whom he has insolently injured and basely betrayed, be averted from his mousing tread. Enough will be left to do homage at the footstool, and shout hosannas in praise of the princely demagogue. Power never yet lacked parasites to surround it—or the paltriest idol, worshippers at its shrine. The time for the people to rejoice at the return of the President has not yet come. In 1841 every honest heart in the land will join in any demonstration of joy which the Argus may propose to offer upon the arrival of Martin Van Buren at Kinderhook.

By the first of August, Saratoga Springs will be honored by the presence of Mr. Van Buren, Mr. Clay, Gov. Seward, Lieut. Gov. Bradish and a number of other distinguished men. So says the N. Y. papers.