Southern Planter

A Citizen of Mississippi will appear in our next.

The editor of the Mississippiian has thought proper to publish a pitiful article in relation to the Poindexter dinner at Woodville.—It is calculated to excite no other feeling than that of supreme contempt for the low and grovelling mind that dictated it. An editor possessed of honorable qualities, who had a decent regard towards the truth and purity of the press, would always discuss in decorous style the subjects on which he may differ with the prominent politicians of the day.--To descend to personal abuse argues emphatically, a depravity of heart at the same time that it evinces puerility of mind. With an impudence characteristic of servile attachment to party he asserts that "he does not find among the participants of the festival the names of the independent yeomanry of the country." "No Stewarts, Johnstons, Bransfords, Cages, Archers, Egglestons, Connellys, Rawles, or De Girffenreids." Does this craven think that such men could swallow such base adulation? We know these gentlemen well and well know that their pride would spurn this sentiment from them, as they would the paws of a fawning spaniel. The expression above quoted, casts an indirect slander on all those who attended the dinner. "The independent yeomanry were not there." Therefore all who were present must constitute in Callcott's eyes the scum and dregs of the community. We will not waste more space in noticing this "Sir Sacheverell the sweet gentleman" but add that we were heartily glad to behold, in all the numerous and orderly assemblage of Wilkinson men on that occasion not one viper who had been fed and warmed by a good husbandman, and who in return had endeavored to strike his venomous fangs into the bosom of his benefactor.