Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-04-14
LIBERTY ADVOCATE.

LlbEhEK ADNOCATEs
Gentle reader, be not startled at the caption
of this article, we shall not detan you long in
this worse than Augean stable, eternally reek
ing with filth and detraction. 1t would indeed
be Herculean task, at which you might well
be appalled,, were we to require you to follow
this mendacious and scurrillous print, in itt
multiplex gyrations of SANDER, misrepresentation
and falsehood. Our object at this time is ony tC
notice an assertion which bears upon its very
face the impress of that effrontery and falsehoot
which is the most remarkable characteristic o.
its author--the man, who in the insolence of hi.
pride and assiudo aristocracy, would become sc
forgetful OF his own base ancestry as to reproact
another with his country. He says "that Prem
tiss and Word were legally and constitutionally
elected, no man of common honesty could have
the hardihood and reckless audacity to deny
1t follows then, if this assertion be true, that al
who deny that Prentiss and Word were legally
and constitutionally elected, are destitute Of
common honesty. This is the legitimate con
clusion to which we are irrcsistably brought, and
the assertion is as false as it is silly, and is alto
!
The writer had surely forgotten that Mr.. Rhett,
of South Carolina for whom he expresses such
sincere regard and wrought admiration had the
''hardihood and reckless audacty to deny that
! Prentiss and Word were constitutionally elect
ed" His speech, in which his reasons are given,
has been published in pamphlet form, and eircu-
lated throughout the state, and it is pity, that
the redoubted champion of Prentiss and Word
has not been able to get hold of one before this,
however, if he will call at the office of the Plan.
ter, he can have one, where he can read it, and
learn "upon what grounds" Mr.. Rhett gave his
vote against Prontss ard Word, which has so
particularly mortified" hir' Let us see who
else had the hardhood and reckless audacity to
say that Prentiss and Word wsre not entitled to
their seats. What dishonest rogues they must
be! They were the friends of the South and
Southern Institutions, all opposed to a high ia
riff, all, with one exception, opposed to a U. S.
Bank, and all opposed to abolitionism. These
were the men destitute of common honesty, who
had the hardihood and reckless audacity to say
that Prentiss aad Word were not legally and
constitutonally elected But who were the
honest men who never denied that Prentiss and
Word we're constitutionally entitled to their
seats? The entire delegation from the State of
vermont-a state that had passed abolition re-
solutions in her legislature, and whose represen-
tatives are all abolitionists and anti.masons-all
the friends of high tariff-all the friends of
National Bank, and all the abolitionists in Con.
gress, foremost among whom were Adams and
Slade, were these who had the common hon.
esty" to maintain that Prentiss and Word were
constitutionally elected. Yes, Adams and Slade
wore the men of common honesty, into whose
arms the Congressional mondicants throw them.
selves, and with whom the Advocate honestly
comedies, while it would denounce the major.
| ty of the Southern members of Congress, for
want of common honesty.
1t Is fact, that large majority of the Sou.
thern members in the House, supported the
claims of Claiborne and Gholson, and there was
not amongst all those that voted for them, one
single high tariff man-one single aboltionist,
and only one man in favor of the United States
Bank. 1t is also fact, that abolition Adams
and Slade, together with every abolitionist, fed
eralist, and high tariffite, were the warm and
devoted friends Of Prentss and Word These
are incontrovertible facts, and we challenge the
Advocate to deny them. He cannot, still, with
these facts staring him in the face, he has the
hardihood and unblushing audacity to assert,
"that Prentss and Word were legally and con.
| additionally elected, no man of common homes.
ty could have the hardihood or audacity to dc.
NY" This is an insult to the democracy of the
South, most of whom CALAMITY maintained Clai.
borne and Gholson's right to their seats against
the designating attempts of the federalsts and
aboltionists of the North, and though they have
been defeated, the people, ere long, will be their
avengers. And the author of this base libel is
the "nGtiUe born" son of Amite, who would have
us to look TO him alone, for COUNSEL, and 'appoal
to for guardianship is one of those who
have said that the democracy of tho South were
corrupt from the crowns of their heads to the