The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-08-22

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And Ssv1l E nus besn acI{el nd 3te,cly
urged, thar the slsction Of ". Clay would
revive the Tariff policy. No well informed
man can believe this. The act Of 1888
was the result Of mutual CONCESSIONS by The
North and South, and has ever been reear-
ded by Mr.. Cay as q solemn contract, rather
than an act Of ordinary Legislation. Such
WAS his exposition Of the bill when he pr
sented it, and such have been his uniform
declarations since.
He has been charged, also. with favoring
the designs OF tho Abnlitionists.s 1t IS diff
cult to conceive moro conclusive answer
to this, than statement of his own situa-
ton. He IS large slaye-holder--he was
born and reared among slave holdersand
his home, his connections and interests are
permanently fixed among such popula-
ton. But we have other evidence of his
sentiments on abolition, in the resolutions
which he introduced into the Senate in
1888, and more recently, his speech on that
subject, during the last session. Well did
Mr.. Calhoun remark, at the conclusion of
abolition was now settled.
It is among the strange things Of these
disjointed times that such an accusation
should be made by the friends Of Van Blu.
rem. 1t might be doing this gentleman in
justice 10 charge him with desiring the sue.
cess Of abolitionists. He has no interest,
and we presume, no feeling, either in their
success or failure. But if the time shall ar
rive, as we have reason to fear that it will,
when this unholy fanaticism shall control
elections in the North, what security have
we that he will not barter Southern rights
for Northern suffrages?-h past history of
sers none. He was an active promoter Of
the Missouri controversy, which Mr.. Clay
had the honor Of settling. He was the most
efficient supporter of Rufus King, the prime
mover in that difficulty; and he voted in the
Senate of New York, for resolution, in
structing their Senator in Congress, sto OPP
pose the admission, as State into the Union,
of any Territory not comprised within the
original boundary of the United States,
without making the prohibition of slavery
therein an indispensable condition Of admis-
sion." Had this policy prevailed IN Con-
gress, Missouri, Arkansas, and Florida,
would now be little else than the retreats of
runaways, robbers and slave s,ealers.
We are admonished by the tone of a por-
ton of the public press, that the wing party
will be charged with the responsibility ofthe
measures which have led to the present dis
orders ofthe currency. It would be difficult
to make any accusation so utterly destitute
of truth. The measures connected with the
financial condition of the country, are SO no
torious-so recent-and were so loudly
boosted Of by the Van Buren, party, who
claimed, and justly too, to have suggested
and adopted them, that an effort to disclailn
them now, wears rather the face of madness
than of cunning. So long as the advocacy
of a National Bank was thought to be odious
IN the community, we we're pointed at, as
the party who sustained it. And now, when
the disorders of the currency have reached
the worst stage they can attain, without its
ceaslng to be currency at all-when the
eyes of all are beginning to look to some es-
like the late United States Bank,
to restore our circulating medium to its pu-
such an institution furnishes a
topic for party warfare against US, we, the
advocates of such a bank, are charged with
being the authors Of disordered currency!
We never had, and never could have had,
any purpose in wishing the recharter Of the
late Bank, except to prevent our present dis
orders. And we cannot have any purpose,
now, in wishing the charter Of another, ex-
cept to cure them. That the great majority
of us do entertain such wish is notorious
and a resolution of the Convention that we
emphatically declared it.
But were this not so, we could confidently
appeal to facts, now matters Of weli-known
history, to disprove the accusation. In the
government under which we live, laws are
established by majority Of votes. And
when, we pray, have the wings been ma
lority, either in Congress or the Mississippi
Never, FOR ten years past.
The President and both houses of Congress,
in all that time, have been against US; and
it is now too universally admitted, that the
action of the general government struck the
fatal blow at our currency, for the most reck.
less to hazard contrary opinion. The Van
Buren, party is responsible for that.
The case is not very different in the gov
eminent Of the State. At the last general
election, in November 1887, the Van Buren,
party elected Governor, a clear majority
Of the Senate, and about an equal number
in the house Of Representatives. II is true,
that the complexion Of the last has under
gone chdiige; but we all know that this
was effected in special elections for the sup
ply ofzyacancies which occurred in 1888.
Until this change was thus effected, the