Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1837-09-26

and small part Of Russia--and ! can
say that have seen no country and no
people that can hold candle to us--and
all that is wanting on our part is to feel
and to act as we ought to feel and act
and that is for every man who has got
the rale grit in him to unshackle himself
from all nasty party prejudices--and look
to the good of his country as he would to
his own good and that of his family and
children.
In some countries where | have been,
the will or wish of one man is the law Of
the land-when he whistles he says, let
no dog bark Is it to be so with us? Are
we an independent and free people, and
vet to be whstled into the traces and fan
cies of any man or set Of men? | for one
acon't--l'll see any man or set of men or
any other man----in Kamscatka first
Well, what is the puzzle now before us!
We are all at odds and en'G PARTY
that selfish deceitfu monster has been at
Work and twisted us into a snarl, and it
is our business to untwist it-wind off the
best part for our use, and throw the rest
/ to the devil where it came from--along
with those who wickedly strive to draw
lines between the people, and set one class
up agin another, jest to serve their own
party purposes.
1t would be useless task for me to at
tempt to go into all the causes, why and
wherefore, to show how we got into the
scrape we are now init is enuff to know
we are in Scrape, and ] don't know a
shorter way to explain it than to say, that
if a farmer wants to see his farm we'll
titled, he won't take matchmaker to till
tiff hat-maker, or a shoemaker, or a
Matchmaker or carpenter, or a mason,
or any kind of manufactures wants good
workmen to assist him, he won't employ
persons who don't know any thing about
the trade? A ship-builder won't employ
a halter or mason to aid him in building
a ship, and wisy versa. Some folks can
kill lngins, and some can manage finances;
every man to his trade; there is trade
and calling for every man-but if in the
course of party management tinker says
he can cut coat better than tailor, it
would not be strange if some of us should
have a tin kettle tied to the tails Of our
coat faps--and so it is with matters of
more Importance. But what grits agn
the grain with me, is to see some folks
who have been put into high Offices by US
'the people'-and paid by US out of our
earnings, twenty-five thousand dollars
year--or about seventy dollars a day, be-
sides house rent and other clippings-turn
round and tell uS--their masters--what
they want done, and what we must do be-
cause they say so.
Has it come to this then, in this country
of laws made by the people for their own
good, that any man In office, and we'll paid
by US for his services, shall dare to dictate
TO us our duty, when his duty is simply
to follow the laws we chuse to make
through our representatives for his and
our guidance? Shall it be also that any
man who has been in office and we'll paid
for his services, dare to presume upon his
former popularity to dictate to US by his
opinions and notions what we should do,
when it can be seen without spectacles he
has made gross mistake; and like the
fox that lost his tail in the trap, now
wants all Of us to cut off our tails so as
to cover his mistake. IF such things are
to be, and we are slaves to fall into these
notions, then | for one say, I'll scrape off
the name of the "Two Pollies of Down
ingvlle," and paint on her starn "The
Niger of Araby," and any man who
wears collar may command her.
Fellow-citizens-I amt in the humor
jest now to tell you the fatal error you
are laboring under. | am one of your
selves, beaten down, shpwrecked, and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ashamed to say how
it has all come about as it has--because
in telling you the story, | tell it to all
creation, and that is what | don't like.
would rather keep our family quarrels
within the walls Of the old homestead:
and that is the reason, when | was abroad
and among foreigners, heard them talk
ing about and reading aloud the Globe
and other official papers containing mat
tiers was ashamed Of | would say that
"GlobeH was published away down in
South America, and that the folks there
were all kounterfeit Americans-thev had
papers and editors and towns all called
after our own, and there wer'nt no de-
pendence to be put in 'em.
But as | said jest now, we are in a
scrape, and ! mean to try, as a good citi-
zen, loving my country and every useful I
class Of citizens in it. We are all ashore
jest as the "Two Polies" is--but we have :
not gone to pieces yet, nor she mother,
and don't think we shall but this depends h
on ourselves. have known pilots in my g
lay run ship on shore, and to kiver his Il
mistake, wish every other pilot would do n
he same thing, | have seen cool, eno;l T