Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-11-21
From the Yazoo City Wing.
TO ALL HONEST sUB-TREAsURT MEN

-, From the Yazoo City Wing.
: TO ALL HONEST sUB-TREAsURT MEN
y We wish, soberly and dispasslonately, t
/ PROFOUND to you few plain simple questions
and we expect that, as honest men, wIsnn
, well 10 your country, you will weigh iaIrl
, and answer them to the satisfaction oil YOU
own judgments and consccnces, IN the sam
spirit Of candor in which the Suggestions ar
made.
You are in favor of the proposed sub-trca
sury scheme, the fayoring and. inc opposing 0
which distinguish and divide the two grea
political parties of our country. The two, anC
the only two prominent features OF the sub
Treasury bill arc-fra, that the revenues OF the
general government shall be collected in gold
and silver exclusively, and secondly, that the
money so collected shall be kept in the private
Icuslody of officers appointed for that purpose,
aud be wholly separate at all times from all
banking or other corporate Institutions.
This you say is crpediem and necessary in
relation to The revenues Of the general govern
Iment, in order that it may be property protected
in the use and disbursement olits own funds.
It is necessary and proper that the separate
state governments should be as 1cell protected in
Imcnt should be! You cannot answer no. The
Irankcst opposer OF State Rights that we have
ever known, has never dared to deny to the
states the same right 10 protection in all things
that nc would claim for the general govern
mcnt.
Are you then in far0r of the collection orall
the state revenue Of Mississippi (and all The
other satcs) in gold and silver exclusively, and
then that the money so collected should be kept
in individual custody, as the subircasury bill
relation to the money OF the general
government? If you are not, then you pay
more homage and higher allegiance to the gen
oral government than you do TO the separate
states. You are the rcrioSt opP2ST Of SateI
RigI,Si
We think we hazard but little in supposing
hat you are NOT Yelling, in this very important
natter Of finance, to extend tie same helping
saad TO the states that you are 20 the federal
government. For we believe that the man is
lot in the state that is willing that the state
should be pr0tec'ed hi lalC in the collection Of
Ill its dues in specie, and then that the money
should be kept in private custody. Arc you
'cady that all The tax gatherers and other COL
ectors Of state, county and town revenues
should compel yol 10 pay in specie! And can
you assign reason why the one should ENJOY
his great advantage over the other! Is their
IN principle any difference? We ask you, sir,
plainly, what is the difference? If there be a
shade OF difference, most assurodly It's in favor
If the state government For we owe a more
allegiance to her. We are bound TO
protect her first. And if you do not feel bound
0 protect yoursa before the general govern
nent, then you are a fcdcralist, and an enemy I
,rwha, is called state rights, This may sound
larshIy, but do are not speak The truth! Wei
appeal to your conscience am your honor.
We believe that it is not the power Of human
oglc TO tell a0hy this great and exalted prefer.
nee (Ior very great yoa mus; acknowledge III
o be) is made for the general government over
he government of the states, without palpa |
Die Abandonment, so far, of the rights Of the
after. The question we believe has never
,eon met. Nay, in all the multitude oil ar
gument upon this all ongrossng subject, in
which regiments OF lungs, barrels of ink and
lords of paper have been exhausted, no man
las erer attempted 10 meet il. For to clam for
he general government what is denied to the
states is federalsm; and this very thing is
what gave rise to the state rights party, in or
Ter that the states should be secured in all tie
'ights and priraegcs that were enjoyed by the
general government. c
What would be said, we ask you, were a a
powerful political party to strike for this high +
privilege for Mississippi which is sought to be
confined upon the general government? How :
would you stand sins, and how would your a
lelghbors stand in relation to it? We appea
o you, that you would oppose it as unnecessa- I
y anii-rePubcan aud tyranicaI. Would you c
lot! And yet sir, you are enough Of a federal
st to aYoT this same unnecessary cxaction from '
he people, this same aHi-republjcagi Sm aud S
his same tyranny in the General Government.
IRE you not? 7
we have suggested this point before, and
ow repeat 1t knowing that candid honest men
must be influenced by ii. We said that this
uestlon has not been attempted to be met :
We mean that we have not seen or heard orIa
my such attempt, but we would like to see,one.
Ind we invite any Sub. Treasury ,criter to give
S candid rcply.-Meet the question fairly, i
lreciiy and without evasion. We boiIiy chqL. II
'age The fraternity, or any man you hare got, {,
, The issue! a
From the 81. L9uiS Republican, S
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