The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-06-11
GOVERNOR M,NUTT.

GOfEKNOK MINUTE.
We lay it down as principle, that po-
ltical party is responsible for the doings and
doctrines of its prominent men. That when
a party places confidence and power in an
individual, they are responsible for his acts
and principles, until they publicly prescribe
and abandon him. If this doctrine be cor
rect, we think that in fairness and Justice,
the Van Buren, party in Mississippi must in
evitably sink into disgrace, in consequence
of the outrage committed, and the destruc-
tive doctrines entertained by the governor.
The people are too apt to regard the gem
eral doctrines of the administration as some.
thing, however erroneous, ut a considera BILE
distance from them: and that they individu-
ally, have only a remote, and perhaps con-
tingent interest in them. This idea is
fraught with great danger, and if INDUCED
work the ruin of the people. Governor
M'Nutt, for instance, is here, in highly re-
sponsible station, and daily and hourly acting
out the measures Of the party who rule him.
Look, then. at those acts and see the effects
of them upon the individual and immediate
interests of our citizens.
1t cannot and will not be denied, but that
M'Nutt is at the head of regularly drilled
and trained band of belligerents, who are
daily waging war of determination against
every bank, and the entire system Of cur
rency and credit in the state Yes-altho'
it is apparent that no considerable portion O {
the people, except host Of shavers and ano-
Their host OF wealthy nabobs, can escape ut
ter bankruptcy and ruin, unless our we'll es-
tablished banks are sustained, and our cur
rency fostered and kept UP, as well as the
general arrangement will allow of, yet, in
credible as it may seem, our Governor, and
the whole party in the state, are, and have
been exerting the utmost of their power to
cripple the operations of erery bank in the
state, and destroy the last vestige of credit
that would be attached to the whole currency
of the state, without limit, distinction or con-
dition. 1t is said by the "Natchez Free
Trader" that Gov. M'Nutt sis opposed 10
all bank and banking in generals and we'll
does he sustain the character thus given to
him. For in every act, and by all possible
means, he opposes epery thing having rela-
ton to banks or paper currency, without the
least reference, as we said, to character or
condition. But for the most palpable act Of
tyranny that ever disgraced state, ann fell
severely upon an injured people, his igno-
rant, obstinate, mulsh veto of the Union
Bank Post Note Bill, the people would have
enjoyed much greater advantage from this
institution than they have done. And the
three millions that has recently bean dis
counted by this institution, and distributed
in small sums all over the state, relieving
hundreds and hundreds of families from an.
proachiag ruin, has been done in the very
teeth of our governor, who has daily and
hourly opposed this action on the part of the
bank, with all the bitterness and violence Of
opposition which he could command And
when he could oppose the measure no lone
or, he has now turned the shafts of his loco
focoism against the directors of the bank /.
and he now accuses them of every grade Of
corruption and dishonesty in making the dis
counts. He fills his regular mouth piece.
the "Mississippian," with train of scurr;;fv
and SANDER against the bank, directors. off.
GERS and operations en- n,asse, in the real
characteristic style of locofoco yulear;tv
The people are in extreme pecun;arv
embarrassment, and Gov. M'Nut.. in order
to carry out the measures of the grand nol;t;-
cal operators whom he serves. IS v;ll;nc 70
exert the utmost limit of his power to plunge
deeper and still deeper in insolvency and
distress, and he vainly supposes he can Gull
and humbug the people into the delusion that
he hut their welfare in view. But there Is
too to. much intelligence among the people for
this. They cannot be made to believe that
black IS white, that dark midnight is bright
sunshine, or that locofoco currency DESTROY
ing destructiveness will revive commerce or
reward industry.
Let the people ponder these things at the
approaching election. For this same M,Nutt
Is panded before the people, whom he daily
insults and Injuries, for reelection to the Of. |
fice which he now SO signally disgraces.
The ballot-box- is the place where the |
people resort to correct the evils which we |
suffer in consequence of the abuse Of Office. |
Il is the lever placed in the hands of the |
people, by the founders ofour institutions, for |
our protection. By suffrage il is that the PEG