Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-06-01

listening 10 INC B0HhO "hu PSio""S'"
tones of their intoxicating eloquense. For
a time, the people forgot their wrongs and
DAYS of mirth and biarity, succeed nights
of feverish disquietude. But reason and
Justice, Joint partners, at length regain
their throne, and then
'Stunn'd with the din, thought sickcns; and
the mind
No true delight, nor taste Of bliss can fnd!"
But crisis in the history of bank robbie
nv has arrived. Shall the odious system
be torn from its roots, or shall it be fos-
tered and perpetuatedf Shall bank influ-
ence hold the people at defiance, when
they undertake to correct the evils 1t has
perpetrated? Shall the morals Of the peo-
pie and the purity Of the elective fran
chise be corruptedb by its insidious attempts
at briberyY Or shall the people surren-
der their liberties to this God of iniquityi
To escape the impending ruin, threat
ened the liberty of the people by the in
creasing strength Of the bank mania, is to
annihiate the whole system. Drive them
from civilized society, and let the mana
gers, if they can't find better employment,
90 over to the western frontier and prac-
tice their arts in moralizing tho Indians.
Perhaps their kindness may be apprecia-
ted, and they will meet with their deserts.
1t has been shown that banks are nuisan-
ces; that they tax the people more than
the most oppressive governments dare do,
with impunity, and it now only remains
to show the method of Kidding the country
of them.
There is only one way in. which this
can be effected. Let honesty and capa-
bilty characterize the peoples represen-
tatives. The immortal Jefferson, in APP
pointing man to office, made but two en-
quiries touching his character. He did
not ask if his interest led him to attach
himself to this party or to that. But he
asked SIS he honest?" SIS he capable?"
And should not the people of this day
make the same enquiries into the charac-
ter of those who solicit their sufirages p
All will admit they should Then, as the
ele,tion day approximates, let all who
would restore their country to its pristine
purity, examine well the character and
pretentions of the candidates for the leg
islature. Now is not the time to lie in
listess ease upon our oars, and let our
barque, freighted as it is, with the hopes,
happiness and prosperity of thousands,
take any direction the current of chance
may happen to give 1t is now fast tend
ing towards the whirlpool, and none but
the most viglent, skilful and unbribed cap
tains can save it from being engulphed in
the yawning vortex of destruction. If the
people, who are the legitimate guardians
ofther country's honor and prosperity, be
come careless and indifferent about thu
character and qualifications of the persons
whom they select to lcgislate for them
then the ruin of the Republic is near a
hand. The character Of the persons WHIT
become candidates for the peoples suffra
ges should be open to the inspection
all. They should possess a character lik'
Caesars wife, "not only virtuous, but abov'
suspicion" If the persons, who set them
selves up as legislators, do not posses
honesty and sufficiency of political wis
dom, to enable them to support their OPT
Mons, in opposition to those OF their cour
try's enemies, better far would it be tina
we had no representatives, for then W
: should be saved, at least, the chagrin an
oppression consequent upon dishonest an
ignorant legislation. 1t is impossible 70
men to be patriots, where private life an
actions are hostile to their country's tru
, interests; yet, such men are not unfrt
, quently found protesting themselves TO b
/, the champions of the peoples rights, an
j too often succeed in gaining their cont
e dence. The truth of this observation
. exemplified in the present critical state {
! affairs, which nothing can avert, but ri
y dical change in the system of Legislation
e The most interesting and suspicious p,
). riod in a nations history, is that in whic
}, the people have arrived at the perfectio
+ of the social states. In this period tn
r government of established laws supercede
l. that of caprice and violence. Ancier
c Greece and Rome, at this period of the
) existence, present US with many magnii
e cent expositions worthy of example, {