Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-03-28

WORDS more than your ACTIONS. Ii you wants
what is notyour own, try and do without il !;
and, il you cannot do without il, take il away by
insinipation not bluster. Theyas swinSles does
more and risks less than they as robs.n
Yes, slr;"peopie goes more by your words
than by your actions" Well has The Presi.
dent studied this maxim, and cunningly did he
practise upon 1t when he recommended that
delalcation should be made penitentiary Of
fence. Peggy Lob placed in eetle Paul's hand
the sum Of five halipence and one farthng.-
I"There, boy" quoth she, and she stroked his
head fondly when she spoke, (just as Levi ca
resses his subordinates,) 'you does right not to
lpay for nothing, it's loss Of time! but play with
those as be less than yourself, and then you can
|got N 10 beat 'em if they says you go for to
cheat"
Ay, and'it has moi been long since this was
the doctrine of those in power and 20 20 for
10 beat MoseUhos say you go torto cheat OeeSsfne
the watchword OF the party. recollect vel !,
and my honorable friend who sits near me
K Mr. WIsE) recollects still better than do,
those days of terror, when he had TO legislate,
as he told us the other day, with ''harness on;''
when the best argument was the pistol, and the
only law was the clubIaw. 1t was the time
when "Hurrah for Jackson" constituted the
"Open Sesame" of power, which gained at once
admttance into the robbers cave, and partici-
patton in the plumber.
Then General Jackson had but to whistle,
and
"Instant from cope and heath arose
Bonnets, and spears, and Bonded bows"
His followers, like those of Rolerick Dhu,
started up in every direction, ready and eager
to perform his bidding He had but to point
his finger, and his fierce blood-hounds buried
their muzzlcs in the unfortunate victim of his
wrath.
Then was the saturnalia Of the office-hol-
ders; and, like the locusts Of Egypt, they pla-
gued the land. Few dared to whisper OF cor
ruptions or defalcations; and bold man was
he who proposed to investigate them, for it was
sure to bring down upon his head the rage
which never relented, and the anger which
nothing but furious persecution could assuage.
There was one man, however, who blenched
not before General Jackson's frown, and who
dared to propose an investigation into frauds
and corruptions which had become so palpable
and gross as to be an offence in the nostrls of
the community. He occupied, at that time, a
seat in the other end Of this building, as Sena-
tor from my own State; State upon whose
laws and institutions his talents and genius are
indelibly impressed. The political history of
illustrated by his name, from its
very commencement. lie served her in all her
departments; and as legislator, Judge, and Gov
ernor, advanced her prosperity, and added TO
her character. What he was as Senator you
all know. He stood proudly among the proud,
and lofty among the loftiest, at time when
the Senate Chamber contained the garnered
talent Of the country; when its intellectual gi-
ants shook the whole nation with their mighty
strife; when, sir, il enclosed within its walls
the most lranscendant deliberative body that
ever was assembled upon this earth. The floor
Of that body was his proper arena To q cor
rectness ofjudgment, which would have given
him reputation even without the capacity ofex
preston, he joined a power Of debate which,
for parliamentary strength and effect, was I'M
surpassed. To all this was added stern, un-
Yielding attachment to his political principles,
and an indonitable boldness in expressing and
sustaining them.
Do you not rccollect, sir, when General Jack
son, like Charles l., strobe TO the legislative
and thrust among the Senators des-
potic edict, more insulting than 1t he had cast
at their feet a naked sword? twas that fierce
message which commenced with breaking
down the independence and character Of the
Senate, and finally resulted in that worse than
felon act, the dissertation OF its records. But
the mandate passed not unopposed and unrebu-
ked.
When il burst, like wild beast from his lair,
upon the astonished body whose degradation 1t
contemplated, and in the end accomplished,
most ofthe distinguished Senators were abscnt;l
but he o! whom speak was at his post. Sin
gle-handed, and alone, like Coolies at the head
Of the bridge, he held at bay the Executive
squadrons, and for whole day drove back the
Mamelukes Off power; till at the sound OF his
voice, as at the sound Of trumpet, his gallant
the champions Of freedom, the
knights-not Of the black lines, but OF the con-
focking to the rescue. Sir, 1t
was noble scene, and worthy Of the best times
Of the Roman republic A Senator OF the UNI
ted States, in bold and manly pride, trampIng
Ter foot Executive insult, and protecting at
Same time the honor of his country and the
dignity of his high station. There was NOR
al chivalry about it, far above tho herolsm OF
the field. Even now, the contemplation OF II
makes the blood thrill through the veins, and
flush the forehead to the very temples.
6 need not tell you that mans name was
George Poindextcr;a name that will long and
honorably live among the lovers OF indepen'
dence and the hatcrs of tyranny. But he dar-
cd to propose an investigation into the frauds
and corruptions oil the Government, and from
that moment his doom was sealed. The deep
turbd and resistless current OF Jack SOnlSn