The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-10-11

IS not9ouched Every weapon taat ne uses
MI own he says nothing Of
dim but whit the Senator ayh hims u
Is lays hs Senator own lang 81 and bis
own snsiments, uttered i different times
side 81 side And ! truth Is valuable in
argument q common sense valuable
II niding mems Judgments then ths VIM
dicaHon melted into repose By mere ex-
posture to day-ligh
Ne doubt AIr. ~ aIker feels TIE sell staen
most disagresablY SLATED 81 Tie oger-power-
ing letierof Nr. rgentss. lIe surely must
have most toolishly attempted 70 equal Thes-
els Of Old, who. ii order % deliver Athens,
lis own country fromits thraldon to Crete,
killed the Minotaue, and threaded his way.
out Of the cretan Labyrinth. But, ii MI
Walker had the spii.it, he must now confess
that IS wanted the poseer Of Theseus. 20
gain popularity among .uississippians, tie
Louisianiaa r. ] !. Walker, did, in 1884. urge
the measures Of Nations Bank and the res
toration Of the deposites, because, as he said,
g State Bank can no more supply and gov
ern the general currency than State Cow
eminent can direct and control the affairs Of
tlle Nation" In 1887, he sustained this
same position, in the way Of o violent attack
on Col. Benton's .sexclusive metallic cur
rencyn scheme. But il the course Of the
last two years, he has some y ay Of other dis-
covered that the Banking System, National
as vel Is State, Minotaue-li IKE, Is 4 curse
upon the country The leadiiest foe to the
poor man, and 20 Al of social d political
good Thesens-IIke, lie wages war tothe
knife, :, against al Banks, saving and ex-
cepting only the Bank planned By Mr.. JEFF
ferson, General Jackson and ..Iast but not
least sipsse! which he strangely tells Us,
IS 4 sort Of Fiscal 4geacy similar to Che pre-
sent Independent Treasury Bill, save that
this latter Is Invested of all the features Of
Bank. But, unlike Theseus, he has no pros
.pect Of succeeding in the humiliation the
Monster System, and has become involved,
as MT. Prsntiss conclusively proves, in
Labyrinth, from which he has The least pos
sible power to escape and, more than all,
never ENJOY, as Theseus did. the pleasure Of
governing his country on democraticalI prin-
ciples.
Mr.. Walker contends that he has not
changed his opinions Of 834 that his opin-
ionsremain the same. and his present course
tallies with them. Grant that By his own
explanation or vindication" his opinions
have not changed; and it follows. First:
That Mr.. Walker must submit to the charge
of Woodworking that Bank implies one par
iicaIar mode Of fiscal gency,' Z instead of
having the same general meaning and APP
plication with the expression fiscal agency
that United States Senator from Missis-
sippi is ignorant of the use and meaning Of
common English words. Secondly: That he
is now and ever has been in favor of the
establishment of some fiscal agency which
viii furnish and govern a general currency,
aud to which State Bank System is, in
his opinion, inadequate Thipdlyi That, al
though he did not necessarily intimate any
power on the partkof COagress to establish
such fiscal age %, yet he ever deemed
and now thinks expedient and proper for
cOugress to es blish the Independent Trea-
sury. This scheme he must, Of course. deem
fiscal agency for the supply and govern-
ment Of general currency, because, his
opinion being unchanged, he did BY his
letter Of March Ist, 1884 look to the Federal
Government and 70 the Federal Revenue,
70 wit: The restoration Of The deposites as
the source whence such fiscal agency was
to Be derived. III other words, he. give. ns
to understand that some branch Of the Fed
eral Governments land ID al probability Con-
gress should devise some fiscal agency in
regard to the National Treasury, calculated
to supply and govern general currency
that is to say, some sort of Government
Bank.
Ali mr., Walker! It is but too evident thar
your ambition renders you prone to attach
yourself only to that Party which you may
believe IS in the ascendant that your
opinions arc made up and modified only,
as your desire 70 sustain your party and
your individual influence with il, may die
tate, At least, come out like 3 man and
say, with the heartless Lord Mauleverer in
Paul Clifford, opinions are variable truth
IS not uniform the times change, not We. 2
And We hope that tlle chivalrous feeling
which some say distinguishes You il private
life, VIII prevent you from crying persecu-
ton because of Mr.. prentiss' letter.
The GrOssest Impudence.
is mater Of con era tulation that the
private life Of the Hon. r. j. M alker is such
that .llntslef Q Gle Gospel can give him
their upport with clear conscience
1his Is the impudents insulting lauguage
of the Free Trader. hen contrasting the
relative merits Of ar. Walkeg and z Prem.
tsss,
No. waller history Fitch has any con.