Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-08-31

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nounce shs people for their Bsatian ssup'.
dity. but time was when they openly main
tanned sihat King ruled BY divine right"
and that the people were incapable q
selGgovernmcnt. Yes, the whig party now
contend for the same sarstecrs tic princi-'
pies they did when as iorys in l7s4, they
ridicuIed the idea ofihe peoples capacity
for self.gopornincnt. and zealously adyoca.
ted the doctrine that kings were aPpoint-
ted by God, with jure dirino TO tyran-
ize over men whU had no right to resist,
because resistance would be opposition to
the ordinance Of God--when as federal
lists in 1857, they sill coutended that the
people did not possess virtue and inteIli'
gence enough to govern themselves, and
labored TO establish government over the
people.
.We had no motive,n shy they, "for as
sembling, hut 10 promote she good -four
common country, and hopeless as may seem
our effort to uin many Of you from your
cherished prejudires, give us, at least, a
fair hearing, before YOU finally decide"
How characteristic Of these guardians OF
the public veal! They have always pre-
tended TO have superior wisdom and I'M
common foresight. But the ignorant, stu.
pid snd incorrigiblc people will not bark
en- to their prophetic warnings, and reap
the advantage Of their salutary admoni-
ton. In 1900 they told the people ifthey
elected Mr.. Jefferson Chief Magistrate,
the country would be ruined, all the BIZ
bles would be burnt, and Tom Paine, the
Devil and the King Of France would lord
it over the land. The people, however,
were obdurate fools, in their opinion, aad
elected Mr.. Jefferson over his federal OPP
ponent, Old John Adams, and notwith-
standing his republican plainness and sim
plicity about which the foderalisis COM
planned so much, he did not rum the coun-
try, neither did he burn our grandmama's
bibles. And so on throughout every stage
of this government, in every thing that
the sovereign will Of the people dictated,
they fcresaw confusion and trouble, until
1886, when Martin Van Buren, was cleo
ted with their usual skill and acumen at
augury, they prophesicd that ruin certain
and inevitable would come upon the laRd.
But o!no comet has shaken over our fields
ruin and devastation from his pestiierious
tail. Still there live sixteen million OF
freemen, happy in the productions OF a
fertile soil, and proud in the enjoyment OF
all the blessings ofciyil liberty. And now
again these wing augurs, with their usua'
sagacity predict that the reelection o.
Van Buren, will ruin the government anc
overthrow our institutions! Shadow.
avaunt! We fright us not!-''and we
who address YOU" continue they, scar
have no motive 10 deceive you, and no in
tercst to crafty at your expense" 20
shame, where rs thy blush" How Ion.
has il been since one Of these men, E. L
Acee was the whig candidate for Congress
and had his insolent pretensions indig
nantly rejected by the proud and indepen
dent yeomanry of Mississippi Is not a
mother of them, s. M. Grayson, at this We
ry time candidate in Yazoo county for
seat in the Senate of the State Legisla
ture? And still these men have the un
blushing audacity 10 endeavor to make tn
public believe that they shave no interes
to crafty" Verify, they remind US 0
the young whig, or whigee, in Alabama
who, when enquiries we, being made 70
money that had been stolen in the yillag,
where he resided, was heard to exclaim
"thank God, my character is above suspi
cion," and we'll for him il was, for as prov
cd by subsequent events, he actually thel
had the money in his pockets.
4 The attempt, made in the address, i
bring reprosch upon Jackson's administra
ton by ascriblng the pressure Of 1888 i
the removal Of the deposites, is as dishon
est, iliberal and disingenuous as it is falls
and simple. It is an old exploded viii,
4 argument. The whole catalogue Of cir
cumstances connected with the case---th
official statements Of the President of III
Bank himself, show that the removal o
the deposites was not the real cause Of tn
pressure in ls33-it was inadequate i
such an effect. Il is true; as slated in tn
address that the friends Of the Bank pre-
dicted "a financial explosion" and tina
! this actually did happen. But there wa
no necessity whatever for il. 1t wa
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