The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-07-26
rIIE NEW POLITICAL MOVE.

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i We alludeda few weeks ago, to neW po-
Iiticul mope, which has been made BY the
federal representatives. of Iocofoisna, in our
state, and which We hope the whig press
viii unite in fairly exposing before the .peo-
pie. It is TOO holIow-too barefaced--too
plainly DEVOID Of principle, and too palpably
reckless, to obtain even decent footingin
Mississippi. Those of the people, we are
sure, who have not made up their minds to
be humbuged, win meet this awkard in
stance Of political generalship as indepen-
dent men should do.
In the councils of locofocoisn at 'ackson,
a few months since, it was determined to
make the UNION BANK instrumental in for
warding their cause, by exciting popular
prejudice againstit; and by trying to make
out that it had taken stand against their
party. ".qay thing for effect" is their mot
to. Any move they are ready to make-any
position they are ready to take-advance any
subterfuge or straddle any hobby, 50 that the
end can be accomplished.
When almost the whole state was on the
tiptoe Of expectation, looking to the Union
Bank for pecuniary relief, and when it was
well known that it could not possibly sup
ply one-lourth part of the pressing demand
for money, the determination was made, first,
for the Governor, as much of the legislature
as they could command, ard all their other
influence, to throw every possible obstruc-
ton in the way of the banks affording ae-
commodations to the people; and secondly
to denounce the institution for not afording
greater facilities, pretend remarkable SYM
pathy for every man who did not obtain a
loan, make them believe they were purpose
ly neglected, and excite in them political
opposition to the bank. Thus it was thought
this highly planed, and as they supposed
very adroit mannvre, by pretending at the
same time that the bank had taken political
position, could be turned to account in the
scale of federal politics.
Have they not done all, and does not re-
Prospective glance at their history prove all
that we have said! And it is not as plain as
MONDAY, that the bank, its discounts, the
people, their wants or their relief, weighed
not a feather with them, in all these doings
but that, can zoe turn the subject to political
advantages, shall zoe do it? Were the sole and
only questions that were looked into the
whole matter! Their ooings, in proof of
what we say, are too recent to be so easily
forgotten; and need only to be looked at, to
conivce any man of all and more than we
have said. What are those facts! We will
notice three, in order.
First:-In every stage of the banks history
up to about the time of the meeting of the
Legislature, every Sub-Treasury print was
apparently anxious to excel the other in
praise of the institution. Every week we
were greeted particularly from the .Nississip-
plan and Free Trader, with new rehearsal
of the great blessings the people were to re
ceive from this "ercellent institutions''-I
had the best directory in the world, would
be managed to admiration, and was to be re-
garded as peculiar pet Of the party. And
at the same time was to possess great magma
nimity in extending equal benefits and bles-
sings to the wings also. The two papers
which we have named were peculiarly fas-
tedious and touchingly jealous, if any whig
paper preached the subject No one was al
lowed to know any thing or say any thing
about the bank except them. The Jackson
editor was confidential organ number one.
and the Natchez editor confidential organ
number TOO. Their praise of the institution
and of the early action Of the Board of Direc-
tors was even fulsome and disgusting.
1 When the salezof bonds for FIVE and half
millions was made, and the bank began to
discount and issue Post Notes. an article ap-
lpeared in the Natchez Courier, somewhat
doubling the commercial practicability ofthe
post note plan. The Miszissippian grappled
hold of this article with the eagerness and
avidity of a beast of prey. Ithadnow found
something that could be turned against the
wing press, and make it appear to be in OPP
position to the bank! which was heresey
and traitorism beyond public sufference. II
defended the issuance Of Post Notes most Ella
bourately, contended that nothing else would
possibly do, and to oppose this 'wise and
judicious MEASURE was to oppose the dear
est interest Of every citizen. Cannot the
Jackson Sun give US few rays of light upon
this famous article? We quote only from
memory, but we well recollect the purport
Of his neighbors argument. The Jackson
mail arrives at Natchez in the event ng; and
: the very next morning as we are informed,
after the reception of the Mississippian, con
tanning this bold defence of the Post Note
! system, and attack upon the Courier, it was
parradedin Natchez, with long commenda.
tory remarks, in the columns of cOnfden
number too, the Free Trader.
Much else might be said to show that the
: Jackson and Natehez federal organs. as The