Southern Planter

The "official" hotly espoused the cause of Houston; but the force of public indignation at this new and aggravated outrage, it has not the courage or hardihood to stem. The editor, a practised hypocrite, now folds around him his cloak and distils a crocodile tear upon the "mournful occasion," and after a chapter of lamentations on the subject, endeavours to save harmless the ruffian band, the Swiss guard of the Palace, from the bitter execrations of an insulted nation. He admits that Heard's intent was known to the sans culotte faction, but that they remonstrated against the course he was about to pursue. Now mark the force of truth—by an unguarded expression the false knave admits their objections were not against the deed, but the time of its accomplishment; not for the preservation of the public peace and honor, and dignity; and pride of the country; but that it would be prejudicial—to—Mr.—Houston! Fellow citizens are these things to be borne? are the American people so callous to every principle of justice and propriety, so dead and insensible to every noble aspiration that should animate the patriot and the freeman, as to submit to such a state of things? are they prepared to place a slavish and implicit trust in the infallibility of the head of the government, and throw the mantle of oblivion over the faults, the follies, the utter confusion of the ministerial operations of the last year, and suffer to pass unpunished those tumultuous proceedings now enacting at Washington, that would disgrace the factious character of a Roman or a Grecian mob?