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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
December
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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-Many of our Southern 'orctlren aro constitiüionaily disposed toswaggor. The Concordia Inteliigencer is in censedat our notice ofhis threats ofuoninfercourse. 'Let ihe slrxveholtler trv il' we 6aid. Qjr fiery brother retorls- "Send any moro of your free negroes and abolitioti agents,and we wil! not onty try, but do it. Louisiniuna bas artilery födefénd herscif against even fifteen hundred thousand, if they como arnoug us as traitars lo the constitulion and assassins of our pence." And again, talking of the wholesomo effect of the example of the great Pariah of Concordia, in drivitigof the freo negroes il retuarks - "We have onelhing more to do, and thut is to regu laie the stcamboats thal trade in our waters. Wo are told thatseveral of our mos popular boats arefree negro concerns - let us look to them. If any of the steam boais trade with tlie planters of the South who have freo negroes a'board, wesuggest that they be sul'jected forthwilh to Louisiana laws. If JNew Orleans does not stop ihat 'freo negroe. l.usines?,' Ihe parish of Concordia wil!, ihe "fiilyen hundred thousand freemen of Ohio, to liie conirary noiwitlistanding." Wc knock under. In the faculty of íalking bi-í, our p.eighbor outstrip us. But, what of iliis mighty parish of Concordia? It containa 10,082 people, the negroea being 900U! And at this time, owing to the difficulty of navigation on the Ohio,thc whole parish has got the dyspepsia,für the vvant of fresh Ohioflourü"The Mississippi river," eays the same peper "is rising elowly - there lias been a smal 1 risö in Ohto riverj and we are glad to hear it for the reason that the break ers are sellingsour flour, nnd giving the whole country tho dyspepsia. It is weil for the Ohio river to rise, as sour ilour won't." After lilis, we need hardly apprehend a non-in!eicourse act, tüi the parishof Concordia gets over its dyspedsia. Plñlanlhropht of OcL 4th Twenty two villugeshave heen deslroyed in Egypt ly the overñowing of the Nile.