Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-06-09

must increase in excitement as it pro-
crosses, you feel justified in suppress
ing information ofsuch vital interest 10
the community, what will you no: do
when in the full fury Of the conHic.!
depend upon it you will forget every
duy.-disregard every danger,-nor
heed the volcano, dough you stand
uron The verge Of the crater, and is
jets cover yon with the stones, the>ashes
and the fame.
We do not intend to intimate that
YOU are friendly TO the principles avow-
ed in the proceedings to which we have
referred, nor to impuie 10 you a des-
ign to advance the objects Of those con-
cerned in them. We know better.
Bu. if they had been calculated TO in
jurc the m1iuiduQls no1p IN popfr, would
you have suppressed chem? Nos-you
would not. You would have scattered
them far and wide. Each one of your
journals would have been political
mortar to throw them, as so many fam
ing rockets, into the midst of evcry,vil.
lage and hamlet Of the country, where
they would have burstcd and cast their
contents in.o every house. And are
they Of llss interest or Importance TO
the community, because they do not
bear hardly on the iadiridudis an Porer,
but on the individuals who arc seeking
to obtain po5ccr! Docs this change their
naturc,-thcir tendcncy,-their pin
ciples, or their purposes?
We have said that we do no. mean
to charge you with any friendship for,
or design 10 advance the cause of abol-
ton, or even the leading political prin-
ciplcs of the party who are the auth
ors of these proceedings. We do not
trace your suppression of them to this
source. We wish that we could do SO,
not for ours, but for your sakcs. Your
: conduct, in such case, might be regard.
r cd as havinc, at least libcraiity of
spirit, and enlargement Of object, how
ever it might be considered as unwise,
and even dangerous. Under this plea,
you might offer palliating circumstances
in mitigation of censurc. You might
declare that yon sincerely regarded
the success of the party, in its political
and social policy, as intimately identifi
ed with the peace, happiness and pros
perity Of the country;-and that, by
supprcssing these important facts, You
were honestly aiming to promote this
great object. Liberal men, in such
case. might pity, if they did not par
don your infatuation. But you your
selves disavow all connection with
these men, and Indignantly dcnounce
those who would tax you with favoring
their principles and policy. 1t is not
on this account thcn--it is not from
identity Of feelings, Interest, or aims
nor yet from any tenderness towards
them as men, or political associates,
that you have suppressed the proceed
ings to which we have referred.
What, then, is the reason of this ex-
traordinary conduct? There must be
some reason FIR it:-ior men do not, as
individuals, act without motive, much
less in political masses. We will tell
YOU what 7ce think is the reason. You
force the unwt leone conclusion upon
us against our will-viz. You fear
that the knowledge of th.se facts, and
the source whence they proceed, may
inluro the prospects of certain indivi-
dual whom you propose to make Prcsl-
dent of the United States. This is the
only solution ofthc matter VIC can give;
and the only one which seems to be
countcnanccd by your admissions and
course of conduct.
And now, do you believe chat the
community to whom you arc RESPONSE
bic, arc so deficient in sell-respcct, so
inscnsiblc to their true intdrests,-and
so hoodwinked by party prcjudices, as
to permit YOU to make them the dupes
and victims Of individual ambition. by
placing tho Interests of single man
above theirs? You would do wisely to
ponder the question well. Your pow
err over public opinion and action is
not SO unlimited as your sclflovc, and
the assurances Of your leaders, may
flatter YOU with. The times in which
we live are emincn.ly distinguished for
fec inquiry and independent thought:
and if there be community so pro-
foundly stupid or ignobly mad, as to
allow itself to be imposed upon thus
then will the Historian have to write
the record of a people in the nineteen
tn century who. for bcsottcd Ignorance
and slavish degradation, Can find no