Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1839-11-05
From the Southern SIN.

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People Of Mississippi, the man, whose
name heads this article is again q candid
ate for your suffrages, and before exerci.
sing the highest privilege of Freemen, it
behooves you to look well to his acts, TO
scan closely his conduct before and since
he was elevated by your favor TO the high
station he now enjoys, and for which he is
now again a candidate. We ask your
attention to his course while canvassing
for seat in the senate from this district.
We ask you 20 note his career while in the
senate, and since he has been Governor
ofths State, and then say if you will again
elevate him to the highest Office within
your gift. We ask you TO notice his pro.
fesSiOn and his practice, his loordS, and bis
deeds, and then say you will again make
him Governor Of the state Of Mississippi
As we shall have good deal TO say OF hi;
excellency before and since he became
Governor, we will divide il into chapters
And now, for
CHAPTER FIRST.
To. begin at the beginning, we shall
start with his exce!lency at the time he
was canvassing for a seat in the senate
from Warren aud Washington counties
and though we shall have to travel through
lapse Of several years, we hope !e vii
not be restless, but consent 10 bear u!
company. And now for his principles, 70
which he has been SO much Landed of late
When A. g. McNutt became Il candidate
for the senate in 1885, he avowed himsel
q Van Buren, democrat, of the locoflcc
school-prolessed to believe that the prin
ciples and measures advocated by thu
wings, were wrong, and if carried out
would bring upon The country consequen
ces the most destructive and peruicious
Yet believing this, believing that the doc
trines avowed by himself were the true
doctrines of the country, and such a
would conduce most 10 the happiness an,
prosperity Of the country, we find Aleran
der G.. McNaH pledgng himself TO tn,
wings Of Warren and Washington coun
ties, to vote for measures which he believed
were wrong in themselves, wrong in prin
ciple, and subvorSiye of the best interests
of the country. For the paltry consider
alton Of a seat in the senate, he sacrifices
his principles, he sacrificed his long cher
ished opinions, and pledged himself 10 All
10 carrying out measures 10 which he ha'
always been opposed--pledgcd hImselft'
sustain men to whom he had always beef
inlmical, and in whom he had no cohdenc'
lcadteeer. where then was the principle
the unbending integrity for which he is nov
SO much laudedl If he ever had any, he
made j u willing sacrifice upon the shrine
ofofHce and power. Blu, we hold that nc
man protesting the doctrines which he did
could honestly make and fulfil the pledges
made by him. Ifhe believed, as he pro
fessed TO do, that the policy of the wing.
was wroag--or if he believes them to be
dishonest, he was bound hy every consid
Grafton Of honesty, moral as we'll as politi
cal, 10 exert all his enc rgies and all hi:
powers IN opposition to them. Did he dc
ihisl No. Forthe petty consideration Of 4
scat M the senate he sacrificed his politi
cal honor, and become the tool and slave
of a party to whom he had ever been op
posed. So completely did he bad himsel
to do the bidding Of others in every ihint
relative 10 the inteiests Of our party, thai
when tho senatorial election came on ht
actually went to the representatives iron
this cosnty and Washington and asked