The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-08-22

People Of Mississippi.
10 THE

People ct Nississil,fi.
Fnr1ow -Crr1zkus The Convention
which assembled ip Jackson on tho 26th Of
January last, committed to US tho duty of
addressing you, Ia explanations, md IN fur
therance of ITS objects. We aref fully aware
Of the difficulty and dchcacy Of the task that
we undertake.. But we address men far
above the ordinary average Of inteiligence; 81
and with perfect reliance on the BUSINESS of
our views, and the purity Of our motives, We
will do our duty faithfully and fearlessly.
TWAS no slight occasion that could draw
so many of us from our homes, in distant
portions Of the State, in the midst Of an in
element winter. We had no motive Tor as
|sembling, but to promote the interests ofour
common country; and hopeless as may seem
our effort to win many Of you from your
|cherished preiudices, give Us. at least, q fair
hearing, before you finally decide. The
subjects which we propose to discuss are
deeply interesting 10 us all, and we who ad-
dress you, can have no motive to deceive you,
and no interest to crafty at your expense.
All of US ara planters, or dependent on the
success ofplahtiag for our prosperity; and
in every crises the Same dangers will threat,
en-, and the Same safeguards must protect
us all. We have common purpose, and a
common stake in the destiny Of Mississippi.
Let us then, if possible, unite ourselves, and
thus exert that strength which only union
can confer.
We believe that the government Of our
country is administered by men who are un-
| 1T for the stations which they occupy; that
corruption, servility, and peculation arctic
necessary, as Well as the actual and notori-
Gus consequences Of the system on which
they avowedly act; that the dcspotism of
party has supplanted republican freedom Of
thought and action; that vice and proficiency
are countenanced and honored by the high-
est functionaries; & that the power of the Ex-
ecusive, in defiance of the checks provided
by the wise jealousy Of the trainers Of the
Constitution, has increased beyond the an
ticipation Of tho most distrustful Of the wis
dom Of Republics. And we cannot COM
pare the present with the past condition Of
our country, without fixed conviction, that
the worst abuses ever ascribed by party
rancor to the most unpopular Of former adj
illustrations, are openly perpetrated by this.
1t is familiar to all, that q great change
has come over the condition of the United
States, within the last few years. We may
assert, without hazard Of contradiction, that
no country did ever exist so eminently pros
porous as this, before the experiment of the
party now in power, on the finances Of the
treasury, and the finances Of the people
Under the operation Of the Compromise Bill
Of 1883, tho Tariff was fully adequate tc
/ discharge the small remnant of the public
. debt; while the gradual diminution Of i'm
ports, and the steady rate Of land sales
lpromised to secure us against any great ex
| cess, or any deficiency, whatever, in pub
lie revenue. And the Bank Of the United
States, while it eleyated the circulating me
1 dunn furnished by the most remote State
Banks, to an equality with the issues of the
best, preserved the purity ofthe whole cur
Irency, by restricting its amount to the prop
er wants of business. This was our condi
|tion when the deposites were removed iron
1.-THE Bank of the United States, where the,
had been placed by law, and where the
wereassbiect 10 the control of the Legisia
Iture Il would avail nothing. TO inquire
into the secret iufluences which prompte'
+ that assault upon the credit Of the BAN
. and the rights Of the stockholders. Let
suffice to say, that the presen. sembarrass
ments Of the country were foretold by tn
wisest Of our statesmen, as the necessar.
consequence o. that act; and that oil VIII
! had sagdcity to Understand, and jndepen
dence tospeak-oppone as we'll as friend
). of the Bank, confidently predicted q hnau