Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-03-31
FELLOW Citizens


You will soon be called upon to exercise
one OF the highest privileges you enjoy as free
men-the elective franchise. Whether the de-
cision of the H. r. that robbed you of your re-
representatives. and left you without one to guard
your interests in the popular branch of the Ma.
tional Legislature was just one, is not the
question, you are to decide. The great ques-
ton to be determined, sis not as to who had the
best claim to represent you, but whether you
will choose the advocates of monstrohs money
ed corporation and its train of fatal consequen.
ces, or those who prefer to build up our own
State institutions and our own home markets,
to free US from the thraldom of northern factor.
age, and from those, who by their tracts and
emissaries are poisoning the very fountains at
which We drink" We cannot, we dare not Of
fer such an insult to your understanding. as to
suppose for one moment, that you will support
such political imposter as s. S. Prentiss, or his
servile imitator, Word, whose principles arc to.
tally at war with yours, and would, if success.
fully carried out, stab fatal blow to your pros.
perity and independence, in preference to Mis-
sissippi's own native son, John F. H. Claiborne,
who has given such manifest evidence of his at
tachment and devotion to the interests and in.
situations of the South Recollect that Prentss
is the advocate of National Bank, 'the first
born monster of Federalism" Recollect bv
whom he was sustained in his unhallowed at.
tempts to swindle you out of your representa-
tives, and say if you have not reason to fear
that he holds opinions in consonance with those
with whom ne associates and acts And re.
collecting these things, let every man opposed
to monopolies, opposed to the Tariff, opposed to
Federalism, and opposed to abolitionism, unite
in the cause of our common country, and 90
forth to the ballot-box determined to be avenged
for the wrong that has been done, and stamp
the seal OF his disapprobetion on the factious
conduct of Prentiss, and hi, coadjutor, Word
the champions of modern whiggery.
Democrats of Amite! arouse to action! your
enemies have already taken the field, and are
battling with the madness of despair. Be on
the alert, ''the price of liberty is eternal vigil
lence This is contest for principle and not
Tor men, and as you value your rights and lib.
'rties, as you cherish and venerate the princi.
'les for which your fathers fought, and which
hey have transmtted to you, sealed with the
Hood of the revolutionary potriots, you should
uard them least they be wreoted from you BY
ne minions of Federalism, and Abolitionism.
laiborne and Davis are the Democratic candi-
ates' they are men. whose feelings and sympa.
lies flow in unison with yours; firm, teadfast,
nd uniinching democrats. Opposed to them
e Word and Prentiss, the yankee disorganizer,
ivocates of National Banks monstYous /,
onied corporation, that would make the rich =
cher and the poor poorer, that would make the :
boring classes hewers of wood and drawers of =
alter for set of purse proud aristocrats.-
rike. strike for liberty and equal rights To
g polls, to the polls. and show the world that
u know your rights, and knowing, dare main. >,
in them.