Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-10-05
vlNDICATION
Of Robert J. Walker, against the char.
ges Of s. S. Prentiss.
concluded
From the Mississippi Free Trader.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
lCoNcLUDED.1

TO THE PEOPLE OF TIL
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
| might here append the mass {
documentary evidence, published be
fore in the MIssippian extras of Ser
TENDER and October 1885, but 1t is un
necessary. On the LIST of March, 1884
the date Of my first letter 10 Judg
Black, he had not given a single vol,
against the administration of Genera
jackson; he had been elected but
few weeks previously as the warm an,
avowed supporter ofthc administration
and was then still regarded here a
such, but opposed to ''rechartering tho
Bank Of the United States" as he him
sell has again and again declared over
his own signature both then and since
and also opposed to the State Bank
depositc system; and it was in this op.
position and no other that | advised
him to Ego on" in my letter Of March.
1884. And in mr. letter of the Cd
April, 1884, to Judge Black, whilst
tell him in that letter, that his consti-
tuents will sustain him in :'vote for n
resolution declaring the removal of the
deposites inexpcdicnt, but mol illegal or
unconstitutional" / expressly tell him,
In the same letter, that his constituents
will "ccrtainly not Sustain him1 in a
course OF general opposition to the adj
m'n'stration, for they approve all its 9th
er n1cas'rrs and so do T." Can language
be moro explicit than this; and the
moment Judge Black was known here
+, as wing, my opposition to him was
open and unequivocal. In this same
letter of the ID April, 1884, the kind
! OF Bank which desired him to sup
port is also clearly stated, in the Ian
guagc CT the letter, as "a new Bank
such as Gen. Jackson himself propo-
''sed to give the PROJECT of in his veto
1 message, and now is the time to
call on him for that project, and
'1dopt il, and settle this dreadful
lmightherc rc-publish f ON
! tho Missssippian extras, various letters
40 The same effect from me during the de-
,posifc panic of 1884, the originals of
(which were returned to me in 1885, al
'any request, by the gentlemen to whom
'they were addressed, but it is unncces-
sslrv.
claim then the merit of absolute
consistency on this question. Where
Gn has my political course been incon-
commenced life as a demo
cratic republican, and my frs! and eu-
ery vote has been given to that party
and its candidates, and no other. At
the age of twenty-onc my name will be
found enrolled in the list of members
eli the democratic committee Of vigi-
lance Of my native state. The sue
ceeding year my name will be found
IN the journals OF the day. attached to
the address of the democratic commit
tee Of young men, as its chairman and
che author gifts address, an address de-
nouncing the federal party and all their
lati.udinous and consolidating measures
those infamous acts Of
the federal party, the alien and sedi-
ton laws, and their opposition to the
last war. In the same year will be
found in the journals Of the day, BY
me, the first call out Of Tennessee for
q democratic meeting to nominate Gen.
Jackson for the presidency, and | vo-
ted for him in 1924, in 1928, AID in
1882, supported his administration in
the senate, in 1886 and 1887, and that :
Of bis democratic successor ever since.
Where then is my Inconsistency 1t q
Is all reduced to this; that OPP
posed the State Bank deposite =
,ystem in 1884, as / now do, and shall Il
ever continue to do; bat am now, =
where always have been, a democra- II
lie republican, and a. such | have thus a
FAR lived, and with the help Of God, ! ?
Intend to die. May l not then ask y
Hho has been more consistent? Is it,, P
Mr.. Prentiss, your candidate for the y
Presidency, Mr.. Clay7 Is he now for =
bis favoriie tariff, Of 1928, or against Is
e3 is he for his former.wild and ex- 8
F.vagant system ofinternal improve Z
pe.Bt by the general government, tol ::
\ allow up the millions Of dollars ex- =
N ted from the south by his intamous| 3
ii ae1ican systcm2 Is he now where 2
was in 1924, pledged over his own