Southern Planter

EDITOR--Having been shockingly shocked and that the palpable and glaring deterioration in good order and the produce of the city--

of our Red River village, nor am I the only one to have remarked the existence of these abuses and an utter contempt of good order (or certain individuals) that have been revived as it were, to a degree truly--

I would seem that I am not the only one in the community that has noticed these abuses, for I had almost every person in our village remarking, with much emotion the alarm world, yet there seems no man about us ready to step forward, with spirit & say to those violators of the peace

of the community, "These abuses..."

indignities: by influencing the feelings and of a moral and enlightened people, may outrage the laws of our country and of our

country to behold? Where our Town-Constable?

To a board

hare the abuses

allude to. Co.

Several years of

has proved that our Corporation Act is

sufficient to reach and to put down such

citizens consent to hold no offices

or the well of their country, ought not to

their own tranquility and comfort to un-

necessary exposure to this reproachful and glaring

sign that we weakly witness of that Act?

Intelligent persons in our community, of

observation, can have given themselves

purpose this far this feeble attempt of

to public declaration or public writing,

If it be useful in this

feriat must know at once that I

am for the abuses of our Corporation

indiscriminate admission of numbers

Sabbath Day into some of the

Groceries of our village, which via-

throughout that holy day, whose

daily disciplined class of our com-

munity forth into our streets inebriated and

with the intoxicating draught. (Our church-

in the proceeds of the indiscrimin

surrounding country) destroying

all the quiet of that day of rest and do-

votion; vociferous blasphemies and billing-

epithets, revolting to any refined, much less

to the ears of our fair daughters, our wives

and mothers.--But are these—even these—the

only consequences to be apprehended from

continuing of those abuses?--Pause

of Woodville--yes, not only citizens of

but citizens of Wilkinson county--

and reflect—ye who have slaves whom you

if thus unrestrained to visit this village "where

tempter lieth in wait," think you that this priv.

contributes to their happiness? -Yes, ye cit-

who have wives and children,—pause and re-

flect! But this is an awful subject!--a subject too

Breathe out intelligibly, a subject on

impossible for any calculating mind to

without seeing arise before them, in the por-

im of imagination, pictures too horrible to

contemplate without a shudder, pictures of scenes

hip many, alas too many, that already stain

of history.--I will only now add, in the

sof one of our distinguished countrymen--

"beware, we tread upon a volcano, ready

South & deluge this our fair Eden with blood

and pine."