The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-08-30
From the Vicksburg Wing.
A. G. McNUTT, A LAND SPECULA
TOR

The locofocos arrogahtly claim for Cover
nor McNutt, the title of ''ihe poor mans
friend" and are attempting to secure the
votes of poor people on that ground. The
public will be able to Judge of his friend
ship for the poor when they learn that he at
tended the land sales in this State in 1929
and bid for lands in the possession of poor
occupants, men who were the hardy pio-
neers Of the country, and who were unable
TO pay more than The government prices
Yet this heartless LAND SPECULATOR
bid for nearly every section Of good land
sold in Washington county, and the poor
hard working men who had literally opened
the couniry-men who had encountered all
the hardships and privations Of a PIONEERS
life, who had braVed every danger and sur
mounted every difficulty 10 secure to them
selves and their children home. where by
a selfish SPECULATION compelled TO ply
five of six times the amount of the govern
ment price for their land, or be turned out
again into the swamps and there in their
pestiicnt vapors TO seek shelter. We have
one case ia our eye now, il was the case Of
poor but honest man who was one Of the
earliest settlers in Washington, he had after
years Of hard labor succeeded in clearing d
small plantation, with the products ofwhich
he was able 70 support his family, and lay
by annually smalLsum to aid in plying for
his land when it should be sold. When
the sales came be had accumulated a sum
sufficient TO ply forit, but ALEXANDER
g. McNU1'T was in attendance and this
land aroused his sel6shness and his cupidity
he determined al Onee to have it and he
commenced bidding for it. A number of
gentlemen knowing the honesty AMI worth
of the occupant, went to him and begged
him not to bid for il, but TO allow the poor
fellow 10 have it at the, government price.
they told him that he was poor, that he had
money enough to ply for it, at government
prices and no M1r6@lnd that he had large
family of children who were dependent on
his labor and that land for support. He was
incoTigible. aud refused to comply with
their wishes aud true to the selislness of
his nature continued to bid for land which
ifhe had have succeeded in getting, must
have driven poor man from his home. At
the advice Of his friends the man continued
to bid over McNutt, and the land was final
" knocked off to him at avery high price,
ahQ tndt nignl ne tOtIStSu u anu Wu6u u Was
sold again It WIS bought for him by friend
of his at double the government price,
Such was the meanass and selishness of
man who is represented as the '.pOor man's
friend"
Such was the heartless avarice Of ALE
XANDER G. McNUTF, that he would
have driven poor man from home and left |
his children to starve, in order that he might
succeed in getting possession of a faYorite
section of hnd.-WiIl the hardy yeomlnrYl
of Mississippi vote for a HEARTLESSl
LAND SPECULATOR9 We answer they
will not, aud the ballot box will sustain US
in the assertion.
Ma. CIAY.-Ths Globe Il excessively
abusive towards Mr.. Clay, for exercising his
right as 4 private citizen Of visiting the
State Of New York. The objection, we
take Il, IS not IS much directed to tie visit
itself as to the reception which Mr.. Clay
has met with ii every diFection-a reception
Il once cordial and enthusiastic. He does
not travel like Mr.. Van Buren,, At the pub