Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-07-21
MISSISSIPPI POLITICS, &c.

MlSoloOlFPl FULL I'D, &C.
Amongst the communications which we
find on our table is the following, written
by very intelligent gentleman Of Virgin
ia, Just returned from an eight months
travel and sojourn in Mississippi. We
cheerfully lay his remarks before our rea-
ders, as they show, in part, the causes
which have placed the State Of Mississippi
in her present false attitude We never
doubted, from the tone ofthe public press
in the State, but that the result of the late
election was owing, in great degree, TO
the excitement produced by the conflicting
character Of the two previous elections
Many worthy men were made t. believe
that Congress had actually undertaken to
} determine that the State had no right to
choose representatives at all;-for in the
excuses of the times, opinions and infer
ences are generally stated as facts. The
election turned chiefly on this point, and
the people we're deluded. Besides this,
the banks, from their connection with Mr..
Biddle, who had got them under his thumb,
no doubt entered with no little zeal into
the contest. They pressed upon the com
munity, deprecated their own paper in or.
| der 10 propitiate Mr.. Biddle, and, as in duty
0 bound, joined in the cry Of Mr.. Clay a
: gainst what they and he are pleased tc
/. call Government Bank. They united
e with the partisans and slangwhangers If
:, the outcry against Messrs. Claiborne anC
! Gholson, as being determined TO hold theil
{ seats against the will of the people,
Il These, and other causes, combined to dc
feat the Republicans, and throw the State
Q for the present, into the hands Of the Fed
s eralis,s. But the mist and delusion are
e passing away, and matters will RICH
themselves. The banks will be called TO q
strict account for their transactions. We
n perceive from the papers brought by the
: last mails that call, numerously signed
g has been made Of a meeting Of the people
S to inquire into the course and conduct o.
- some of these political machines Of Mr.
s Biddle and the Federal par y--and ifcom
d mon opinion may be relied on, they will
: hereafter have enough to do in attending
n to their own affairs, without entering into
combinations to bring the people Of the
State al the footstool Of Messrs. Clay, Bid
8 die, and the monied monopoists of the
If North.-[ Washington Chronicle.
n CoMMENr.--We read the above article
, from the Chronicle "more in sorrow thar
r in anger" for it is evidently the offspring
n of disappointment. While we pitied the
the petty chagrin in which the article wa'
e conceived, we could not but feel Indignant
a. at the foul imputation so recklessly made
8, against "my own, my native land" w
II knew that Mr.. Van Buren,, in an ecstacy
Of despair, had attempted to find consola
y ton in bold charge against his ma
;" tive State, Of being corrupted by the
banks. We knew that with the Globe
O. "reprieved Debtors" and "under TIE thuml
)" Of Bidde and tho banks" had long beer
Standing reasons for every democratic
# defeat, but we were not prepared TO SEE
d the Chronicle following in the footsteps
k Not content with the reasons for "the de
l. feat Of the democratic candidates in Mis-
sissippi" assigned by its correspondent
. the Chronicle must needs go and borrow
the Globes reason. A year since, the re
sources Of the Chronicle were not so mea
= gre; then, it would rather have died from
starvation than descended to so humble Q
mendicity as to become the eleemosyna
, ry Of Martin Van Buren, or Francis P
Blair. We are sorry to be constrained e
believe that the Chronicle sinned, in thi.
! matter, against light and knowledge. i
' could not have escaped the observation OIL
the Chronicle, that the first practical NOV,