The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-10-30


he enjoys, and for which be IS .again .
candidate. We ask your attention 70 bis
Course while canvassing for seat in The
senate from this district We ask you to
note his career while in the Senate, and
since he has been Goycrno oftse state, and
then say if you will again elevate him to the
highest Office within your gift. We ask you
to notice his professions & his practice, his
r0rds and his deeds, and then say if you
win again, make him Governor Of the State
OF Mississippi. As we shall havea good
deal to say Of his Excellency before and
since he became Governor, We shall divide
It out into chapters. And now for
CHAPTER FIRST.
To begin at the beginning, ). we shall star,
with his excellency at the time he was cam
vassing for seat in the senate from War
rem and Washington counties, and though
we shall have to travel through lapse Of
several years, we hope he will not be rest
less, but consent to bear us company. And
now for his principles, for which he has
been SO much !auded of late. When A. 6.
McNuu became candidate for the senate
10 1885, he avowed himself Van Buren,
democrat, Of the locofoco schoel-protessed
TO believe that the principles and measures
advocated by The wings, were wrong, and il
carried out, would bring upon the country
consequences the most destructive and per-
nicious. Yet believing this, believing that
the doctrines avowed by himself were the
true doctrines Of the country, and su CHI as
would conduce most to the happiness and
prosperity of the country, we find A. G.
McNutt pledging himself TO the wings Of
Warren and Washington counties. to vote
| for measures which he believed were wrong
in themselves, wrong in principle, and sub
versive OF the best interests of the country
For the paltry consideration of a seat in the
senate, he sacrificed his principles. ne sac
rifced his long cherished opinions, and pied
ged himself to aid in carrying out measures
to which he had always been opposed
pledged himself to sustain men 10 whom he
had always been inimical g. in whom he had
no confidence whdterer. Where then was
the principle, the unbending integrity for
which he is now SO much lauded? 1.-The cv-
er had any, he made it willing sacrifice
/. upon the shrine Of office and power. Blu,
we hold that no man protesting the doctrines
which he did, could honestly make and full
fl the pledges made by him. If he beliey.
ed, as he protested to do, that the policy Of
the wings was wrong-or If he believed
them to be dishonest, he was bound by eve.
ry consideration of honesty, moral as well
AS political, to exert all his energies and all
his powers in opposition to them. Did he
do SO? No. For the petty consideration ol
seat in the senate he sacrificed his politi.
). cal honor, and become the tool and slave Of
a party to whom ne had ever been opposed
So completely did he bind himself to do the
bidding of others in every thing, relative t.
the interests Of our party, that when the ser
atorial election came on he actually went t
the represe natives from this county ant
Washington and asked them acho he should
rote for! Our friends Col. Cox and S. s.
Prentiss, who. were then in the House o
Representatives exercising the power eve
him which he had given them, babe him /.
rote for Poinderter, and like an obedien
servant he obeyed his orders and voted a
he was directed. Thus much for his regar,
for, and devotion to principle when il con
hicts with his interest. We need scarcel,
tell the people Of Mississippi, that his follow
ers hold up Governor McNutt as the qrea
Ajax, in the work Of bank reform, and tina
he is the great apostle ola hard money cur
rency, opposed to al banks, opposed to pos
notes, and opposed in toto to the whole cred
r it system. Let US see what claim he has /
be considered as the champion of har
money currency, and the opposer of al
banks In 1885 he issued a circular to III
: people Of Warren and Washington, in whicl
he took tho strongest ground in favor o
banks and the credit system, declared ",
musi have an increase Of banking capital
that the people were enriched by borrow
ing money from the banks; and urged III
establishment Of great UNION BANK
J with sufficient capital 70 furnish the peopl
lof MississipPi with an abundant currency
{ But lest we should misrepresent him we vii
quote from his circular; so here goes:
Il BELIEVE THE PRESENT BANK
ING CAPITAL OF TIE STATE t..
TALLY iNADEQUATEr 70 THE w ANT;
OF THE PEOPLE. THE STATE Il
+ 1POPULATlNG WITH UNEXAMPLEI
e RAPIDITY, INVESTMENTS MADE II
PLANTING AND CONNER CiAL PUH
j ISUITS INSURE GREAT AND SPEED
PROFITS, AND OUR CITIZENS AR
ENRICHED BY BORROWING NONE
Is INVESTING TIN ALMOST AN
l, KIND OF PROPERTY, AND in EVER
KIND OF BUSINESS p
After utterihe this strong and unqua)ilie
lrecoYnmen daliou sc banks, ind the cred