Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-02-24

cxertions 10 bring it into disrepute by OK
hibiting>to the people facts, which ought
to sink "iheir officers to the loves. depths
Of infhmy, In order to convict us Of "ne-
glect Of duty--dishonesty," Mr.. Van Nor
man says that he mailed Advocates ten
days old the preceding week. The Bayou
Sara packages, which we suppose are
here alluded to, were taken to the post
Office before breakfast, and Mr.. V. stated
that the mail was made up and had been
taken from the post office but had not left
town. There is no particular time obser-
we'd for closing the mail before its ,lepar-
ture, and it seldom leaves before break
fast. Again, Mr.. Van Norman says,
"when made up the mails on Monday for
Jackson and Natchez, enqnired of the
publisher if he had his packages ready,
which he had not; by referring to the
Advocate it will be seen that the mails go
but twice week, so that should they 60
by the next mail, they will be nearly
week old when they leave the port" The
facts in relation TO this circumstance are
these BY reference to the Advocate,
| it will be seen that the Natchez mai!
leaves Liberty at 2 o'clock, p M, on
Mondays. The publisher Of the Advo-
cate on his return from breakfast on the
Monday alluded to, called at the post Office
and was told by Mr.. Van Norman that if
he had had his packages ready they might
have gone in the mail which, he said, left
that morning at o'clock-that the Plan
ter had been received in time and had
gone, and would consequently be three
days ahead of the Advocate. Now this
turned out to be base trick, pitiful
falsehood, for the pitilul purpose of hav-
ing the first number of the Planter TO
reach Natchez three days earlier than
the Advocate of the same date. The
mail had not gone out at o'clock, nor did
it leave for several hours after Mr. V.
had so stated. And when the publisher Of
the Advocate asked him why he had de-
ceived him in that manner, instead of CIV
ing direct answer, he commenced with q
fanfaronade about not being bound to
make up that mail, as there was no regu-
lar contractor for the route, &c. Mr.. V.
finding that he was detected in his ras-
cality, like a naughty school boy, con-
Scious of deserving hagellatlon, makes
up story and hastens TO tell it FIRST
Mr.. Van Norman says, "the Advocate
with feeble effort, raises the dagger of
against the best friend-one
without which it could not exist" We ad-
nit that the post office ought to be our best
friend, and that our existence in some mea-
sure depends on it, but we claim its benefits
ls a matter Of right and not of favor, and
when the Post Master resorts to trickery
and falsehood to deprive US of our exist
snce from "selfish and party feelings"
we will endeavor to make "a feeble effort"
10 tell him of it in plain terms. Mr.. V.
says the post masters Scare not for the
Advocates" and he might have added that
some of Them care less for truth and their
baths. 1t may seem strange to some unac-
luainted with Mr.. V. that he never happens
10 tellthe truth unless it has a tendency to
bring infamy upon himself or others Mr..
V. Norman's opinion OF Notification & the
Nullifers, is just what we like to hear
from man whose highest ambition is to
be considered able to tell bigger lies
and more Of them, with a longer face
than any one else; and who, by long ap-
plication and perseverance, has acquired
the fame, and richly merits the appellation,
Of the Munchausen Of Amite. S.
MISSISSIPPI WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
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