Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-06-19
Political.
MR.. PEASANTS LETTER.
From the Richmond Wig.
MARION.
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To MeSSrS. Gallahe1' 4. MoSley

To Messrs. Gallahe'' &. Mosley
GENTLEMEN
Certain observations of the Washing
ton Chronicle, of May 18th, impose upon
me the dlsagreeable necessity Of appear
ing in newspaper under my proper sig
nature, or failing to do so, of being regard
ed as approving the political course of
that print, and disappearing that of the
Wing. am unwilling to submit in ST.
lence to either of these constructions, and
feel bound especially, both from sense
of duty to myself and to you, to declare
that do not condemn, but fully approve,
your indicated preference of Mr.. Clay for
the Presidency, under the particular cir
catnastances q the country. What mean
by these particular circumstances" is,
that it is now obvious Mr.. Clay can be
elected and that no other member of the
opposition can and that although | should
in the abstract prefer a Wing President
of the strictest State Rights school, yet
knowing the impossibility of electing
such one, | prefer Wing, and especial
! ly Wing of consummate abilities, glow
ing patriotism, and known candor, liber-
atty and magnanimity, to any member of
the party which originated and sustained
the system of Rewards and Punishments,
the Proclamation, the Force Bill, the Re-
moval of the Deposites, the Protest, the
Expunge, the Specie Circular and the Pet
Bank System, to say nothing of its party
tactics, which, at almost every point of
the Union, and every hour in the day,
have brought it in conflict with the free
dom and purity OF elections, promoted
Jacobinism and Agrarianism, and pro-
scribed the wholesome restraints of fun
damental law when they happened to
stand in the way Of party objects.
So far as it was the object of my friend
the Editor of the Chronicle, to present me
as favoring what is known as tho Sub
Treasury system Of finance, he is war
ranted in doing SO by my real opinions;
but, so far as he imagines, that giving in
my adhesion to the present dynasty has
(as his own case been the consequence
Of concurring with it on an isolated point
of policy, he is wholly mistaken. | hope
| shall always be sufficiently master of
my mind to perceive when an opponent
| does right, and candid enough TO acknow-
ledge it; but trust enough in my firm
ness to feel confidence, that | can stop
short when ! have done SO, without per-
hitting my feelings to draw me to unsay
| all that / had been saying for years be-
| fore, and saying conscientiously. AS il
| is not wholly inapposite to the occasion,
| Mr.. Cralle will permit me to express the
sincere grief and unaffected establishment,
with which | have seen him (of all man.
| knd!) become by rapid transmutation,
quasi official organ of the ''corruption.
| lists" and 'Royalists," so recently, (sc
very recently, that the classic quotation o.
his present yoke fellow, Mr.. Richie, ''ere
these shoes be old, " might almost literal.
| " apply,) SO recently. that the moon her.
self has not changed more than half 9
dozen times, since he stood at his post ane
| daily hurled those epithets at the Minis.
/ try and their followers! Can he, man
of fine talents, almost unriyalled constitu.
tional requirement, and an extensive prac.
teal knowledge of men and things, really
think or say, that the finance question i
of animportance, so vast and absorbing
as that it ought to annihilate the memory
Of the past, convert the sCorraptionists,
eRoyalists,p and aUsurpers," who favol
Mr.. Cradles views upon il into patent '9c
Republicans, and convict the Wings who
dissent from Mr. Cralle-those whigl
who, with him, breasted the storm Of fede
9 raj s'usurpation" and aggression for (
years, into federalists, friends Of power
and B strong Government and aMonarch
ists'' in disguised After al, the hnanc
questionis unquestionably one Of mer
policy--important indeed, because com
J ing home to the purses, and through til
purses, to the comfort and convenience Z
J al but as uestionably not inyolvin
: Fundamental principles; nor, be decide
] as i may, endangering any man lexceT
1 So far Is 4 light purse may have that g
d iectlin us guaranteed rights Of conscience
: liberty and the pursuit q happiness afte
5 his own taste. It IS but of secondaI
consequences in any country, bat espec
ally q tbs, how question Of this kind
5 settled lor the momenG The iniuI