Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1837-10-03


nary Die on 'em. ] ask'd some on d
there why they didn't 60 to work and ear
an honest Twin and put on decent clothc
and feed their starvin familics--but the
saidtliere'was'nt no use in .tryins that, K
ssas soon as any man got q leetle beior,
handed in the world, all their propert
was taken away from 'em TO feed the 81
gers, or pay taxes, or was stolen.--Wcl
says !, why don't you tafe the law on 'eI
then? Law! What Law? There ain
Y no law here, but Just sich law as 9Th
Government" cluSes to make--and 9Th
NGovernmsntp has got all the sogers an,
all the office holders on their side, ant
they outnumbef us two TO one. Wei
thinks 1, as far as that goes, that sound,
democratic al any rate, but shows The
difference between nCpyernment demo
qracy" anda Apeoplc's dcmocracyn And
4 this put me % thinkin' considerable how
n comes about III the course Dc time that
a Government can manage to work along,
first with Power granted BY the people for
the good ofthe hun people, and then some-
times witha leetle glory.[lcr Spain has
hadsits glory too and III now 50 full pn't
S1herG alnlt.no vessels IMPORT, or industry
fnsthe ountry--tiere amt no room fasv.
any thing hItt .rns sASrre' trttsery,) and then
iagfn, with leetle party management,
contriye to bring things so as to make
power, and smash every thing that dares
10 talk agin the power that has the con-
troll.
And what is the consequence? All the
laws that were made for the good of the
hull people are put aside, and only SIGH
laws are made as suit the party in power,
that party has got all the offices, and
got all the hard money,---and they won't
allow any other kind of money,-they
won't encourage commerce, or trade, or
neutrality-suspicious. they know that
trade and commerce, and manufacturing
would create power right off that would
upset their applicant. These callings
would at once create credit money mix
ed up with coin, and every man of good
character would come in for share ont,
and borrow upon his credit leetle some
thin till his labor would lift him out of the |
dirt and rags he is now in. Trade and
commerce too sharpen the wits of folks |
generally, and makes 'em keep a sharp
eye on the law understand that don't suit |
some folks. ! have always noticed my.
self, and | have heard tell ever since | |
was boy-and what leetle read of what
is called history says so too-that no
country can be free and happy without
good laws, made expressly for all classes
alike---then all classes proportion all are
dependent on each other,---a farmer raises
wheat, and pork, and beef---the merchant
takes these to all parts of creation to the
best market, and brings home what is
most wanted ia turn. The ship-buiIder
builds ships for the market, and that gives
employ to rope-makers, and blacxsmiths,
and sail-makers and cartmen---and so
on through all branches of mechanics.
Foreign trade and home trade all goes on
one working into the other---- merchandise
and folks in steam boats and on rail roads,
keep movln' about the country----all busy,
all happy, all prosperous. But when, to
suit some party purposes, any man, or set
Of men, in office or out Of office, finding
some Of their measures amt likely to suit
any particular class of folks, begin to
throw mud at 'em, and try to set up other
folks agin 'em, depend ont there's mis-.
chief brewin', and the sooner it is checked
the better. What is "sass for the goose
ought TO be sass for the gander." 1t NAV
suit party to-day to abuse the merchants
and men in trade, and smash 'em all to
land Tomorrow, it may suit the
same party to smash the farmers---and
the next, the mechanics, and so on. If it
is right in one case, it is right in all, but
my notion is, it amt right in any case,
and for one, won't vote for it. A man
who builds ship for the merchant. has
as good claim on the protection of the
laws, as the man who labors at any other
honest calm, don't care in what. viii
any man pint out in the Constitution, or in
any other law, the right of sowing discord
IN the great national family?
A good deal is said about some private
letters from the Gineral at the Hermitage
that he wrote to the Globe man at
Washington. | haint had time vet to
read 'em, but if they are what i hear
tell'd on, | don't believe the GineraI ever
wrote 'em-and if he did. it don't amount
to nothln' What a man writes afore he
is President and what he writes after he
has quit that office, amounts pritty much
to the same thing. The Gineral writ a
very good letter once to Mr.. Munroe. but
1t did not come to any good. One mans
letter, then, is Just as good as any other
mans letter. Take Ginera Harrison.
now for instance-let him write a letter.
don't think it would make the day longer
or shorter; but make him President. and
hen all his letters, so long as he is Presi-
lent, would be considered by many as
very important; and some would think