Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-04-07

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son to have been duly elected Mem
6ers to the called Session; and their
credentials. Whether these facts were
neW or not, it is certain that those usurpers
as we have styled them, Claiborne and
Gholson, did not bring them before the
Committee on Elections. As to the recent
exhibition of Anti-Bank mania in Gen,
Browns letter TO the Southern Star, we
can only say, that our Senator heard Gen
Brown declare, in Democratic caucus in
the town of Jackson during the Session OF
the Legislature, that if Claiborne and Ghol.
son did not resign Immediately after the
present Session Of Congress, and come be.
fore the people again, that he sOould nerer
support them in another canvass. In con-
versing afterwards with the Democratic
Representative and Senator from Coyine.
ton, in regard to the course Of Gen. Brown,
they most decidedly approved Of it. 1t is
not our duty to reconcile the stand he took
in the Democratic caucus, and his late
pompous stand in favor of Claiborne and
Gholson.
Again we ask the people of this State if
they will sanction the claims of fraudu-
lent minion, such as the rich "pennyless
orphan boy2" Will they by their votes
sanction dishonesty and perfdy? Will
they elevate men, or man, who has sup
pressed facts in arguments submitted to
a Committee3 If so you have "Demo-
cratic" ticket richly meritorious in this
respect; and gorgeously caparisoned and
adorned with all the spoils Of infamy, gath
cred during long dominion of corrup tion,
rapine and desolation. On the other hand.
If the freemen of the State are resolved
to spurn the pretensons of fraud and du-
pllclty; fthey are determined to thrust a.
side the political impostors that have swim
died Mississippi out of her representation
in Congress; if they are bent, on the as
sertlon Of their sovereignty in upholding
the right of electing their own Represen-
tatives; let them go to the polls and vote
for PRENTIss AND WORD. The issue is,
have the people of this State, or Congress,
the right of choosing their Representa-
tlves? But to return. Our object was
to present the public with short
extract from the Report Of the Com
mttee on Elections showing the facts
to which we have alluded. Freemen,
read it. Ponder we'll upon it, before
you cast your votes for men who have so
baseIy betrayed you. Here it is. G.
''The proclamation of the Secretary of
the State Of Mississippi, declaring the num-
Der OF votes at the July election, and that
Messrs. Claiborne and Gholson were cleo
ted to "the called session of Congress- .
marked b; and the credentials as required
by the law of Mississippi, under the hand
OF the Governor and the great seal of the |
State, declaring that Nessrs. Claiborne
and Gholson were duly elected members
OF Congress until the regular election
should be had under the law Of the State,
IN November next thereafter, although is
sued and in existence, were not presented
TO the committee at the last session, nor
relied upon by Messrs. Claiborne and Ghol-
son as any part of their evidence nor con-
sldered by the committee in reaching the
result to which they came in the resolution
presented to the House. Inquiries, how.
ever, were made by member or men,
bers, in relation thereto. Answers we're
glveni but by whom given, and of what
import, are not remembered with sufficient
distlnctness and unanimity to be ncorpo-
rated into this report. The committee
would add, however, that differing as they
did, essentially, in their views of the case,
the production of the papers in question
would not have changed the opinion which
they formed on its merits"
The Natchez Daily Courier, under its
editorial head, the other day, adopts
scandal of the noted J. ]. Graves, the wri-
ting tool of the Liberty Advocate, purpor-
ting that Governor McNutt, since his cleo
ton to the station he now occupies, was
led out of a ball room in Vicksburg for in
decent dress and conduct.-Free Trader.