Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-03-31

dash their unblushing falsehoods in
,oe,b Of these facts. No pitiful eliu
.n ooanst the AboItionists-no c,n
,aA,,ible TRADE against Nick Biddle, and
Xix tremendous power-no artful OF
4.sacherous appeals 10 the sympathies o.
people, can arrest the tide that is roll
.# lie mountain waves over the land, and
eeuing into oblivion this heartless and
ioous "Duum riri," Claiborne and Ghol
who have so inglorously strug.
M 10 annihiIa.e the dearest rights Of
eemen-thc right Of choosing their own
Representatives We have cut the can
rsr from the body polite, and the only du-
svle(t is to Indignantly shuttle off the filthy,
,o;soned shirt that has SO long bound US
nns The fires of Reform are kindlng in
xsrious quarters, and are sending up their
k4bod flames to cheer a. animate the despon-
eg; those who have been long lifting their
ieIds against the outrages & usurpatons
the past and present Administrations.
Tom recent revolutions that have swept O.
Il the country like whirlwnds, yea, from
Acontestible indications in our own native
.ale, we have all to hope and nothing TO
Sar. The reueii has been beaten, the
#ghts ofthe people have been sacrllegious.
invaded, and their voice is heard in
Dc distance like the muttering of a fear
hl tempest-cloud. They are shaking the
Jew drops from the name, and elevatlng
themselves for the contest. A suffering
country appeals to their chlvaIry, and a
Thousand developements portend a signal
Triumph. Wings, be of good cheer
That Prentiss and Word were legally and
eonstitutionally elected, no man Of com
hon honesty could have the hardihood
md reckless audacity TO deny. That the
Governors writ was issued in accordance
With the forms prescribed ny our Constl-
lbton-that the election was conducted IN
Pursuance Of all the requisites demanded
In the laws of the Iand-and that certifi-
tates Of election were properly given to
Prentiss and Word, for the whole of the
e5th Congress, are facts too stubborn to
Be controverted by the most infamous OF
ihe Party. The question then arises, VIII
the people of this State accord to these
distinguished men the Office to which they
have been legally and constltuilonalIy
elected? Common honesty demands thai
such an adjudication should be rendered in
The approaching contest. Will the free
men OF Mississippi refuse to yield to men
seats to which they are entitled, by all the
laws of the land, because an Ignorant or
corrupt Congress may have played the
fool or tyrant, and perpetrated, last July,
SO unhallowed a blunder--a decision SO
disgracelul to themselves--so keenly in.
sulting 10 the hardy yeomanry oil our
State, as that which declared Claiborne
and Gholson entitled to their seats for the
whole 25th Congressl No, we know that
the plumbers of that body cannot justify or
atone for the ridiculous decision, in re!a-
ton TO Prentss and Word, thrusting men
out Of offices to which the voice Of our con.
sttution and laws, and honesty itself, loud
ly speaks, they are entitled. Their 'gno-
rance, as they plead it, cannot shield them
from the execrations Of a community, for
daringIy treading under foot the rights oil
Mississippi Will Mississippi submit to
be told by Congress that she has not sense
enough to choose her own Representa-
tives? If so, take the men that Congress,
Of ITS oOn high responsibility, has chosen
for the good people. Will Mississippi sub
NIT 10 be told that we have no right to
choose our own Representatives; but that
we must humbly petition a wise Congress
to elect them for us? If so, take those
men whom she has, in compassion for our
ignorance, and in the lofty conception Of
her own ,OisdOm, seen fit to give unto US.
On the contrary if she scorns these igno-
minious aIternatives--if she feels indig-
nant at the annunciation by Congress, that
we the people have not sense enough to
choose our Representatives. she is dis
posed to repel in accents Of thunder, the
foul, insulting charge, that we the people
have not the right to choose our own Rep