Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-09-05

sition upon subjects which have had the good
fortune to discuss before the people at large, in
almost every county Of the State. | need only
say that my opinions in relation to the present
administrator and its measures have been
greatly fortified by the observation and expert
ence Of the las, year, The Developments
which have been made in relation to the con-
duct of tho financial affairs Of the government
have astonished and shocked the whole nation
II is now matter not of mere surmse or par
ItisM invectlve, but of solemn demonstration ba-
sed upon admitted and undeniuble facts, nves-
tgated, vouched for and published under the
deliberate sanction Of the popular ranch of
Congress, that the Treasury department is rot
ten to the core; that il is but the pander TO
Executive power, and exercises its high func-
lions, not for the good of the country, but OF
party; not honestly, for the general welfare,
but wickedly and corruptly for the most SIMS
ter purposes. Since Mr.. Van Buren, assembled
the chair Of State ii has exhibited a system Of
pecuIation and connivance unprecedented in
any government. The correspondence be-
tween its chief and his subordinates is offensive
to the moral sense, and insulting 10 the intel
igence OF the people. Its open and unbush-
ing prohgacy would have shocked even the
loose notions Of that most vena Of ministers,
Sir Robert WaIpole, whose political maxim
was, ''that every man has his price" Corrup.
ton has been traced, not merely to the doors,
but into the very recesses Of the temple. BY
the foot prints upon the floor we have discover
ed, as did the ChaIdeans otold, that the rich of
ierings laid by the people upon the shrine, have
been carried away and consumed, not by the
God, but by the Juggling priests.
Under ordinary circumstances, and in ordi-
nary times the Developments to which al
Jude would have Frustrated any administration
however powerful. Unfortunately the deep
distress which has pervaded the country, and
spread dismay and ruin through all the aven-
ues Of business, has in some degree Withdrawn
the eyes Of the people from these great enor-
mites. and directed them with melancholy car
hestness to their own private sutferngs. Thus
the rude blow which the robher bestows with
one hand diverts the attention for a moment
from the theft he is committing with the other,
But corruption is by no means the only re-
markabe characteristic of the party in power.
Out of the very ruin It's measures have brought
upon the country, does it contrlve TO extract po-
tical capital With unblushing effrontery its
partisans assert that it is not accountable for
the results of its own action; that the distress
ses Of the country have been produced by the
Operation of wing principles, and all response.
5ity lies at the doors Of the opposition. The
unfortunate patient, who, from stale Of per-
feet health has been reduced by the nostrums
of the quack to the pon, Of death, is gravely
told by the ignorant pretender that his misera
Bile condition is not owing to the nauseous do
ses he has taken, but is entirely attributable TO
his former physician, whose prescription he
has discarded for years. A grosser insult was
never offered to the good sense OF an intelligent
people
The party in power is solely responsible for
the suiferngs under which the country is still
Iaboring. It's mad and icenious schemes des-
troyed the best currency in the world and gave
US instead, the present bloaed and miserable
system whose sickly and conclusive action i'm
pedes every step Of enterprise and paralyzes
the hand OF industry. One Of those schemes
has been a systematic and dabolical attempt 'oI
destroy all confidence, public or private. The
vllest SANDERS against the institutions and ca
pacites of the country have been every where
promuI gated, until the lowering eye Of dlstrust-
ful suspicion is glarng with baneful influence
over the whole land Credit, the child Of coll
fdence and the nurse Of enterprise, has shared
the fate Of its parent. The currents of BUSH
ness have been rudeIy diverted, and now creep
aziy along through choked and tortius chan
nels.
During the existence of United States
Bank, the mixed currency of paper and pre-
cious metals performed to admiration all Its APP
proprlate functions. At present 1t is totally
inadequate to the fulilment of its duty Us a.
medium of domestic commerce, or for the trans
action of the most ordinary affairs OF business.
When Gen. jackson determined upon the
destruction of that Bank, he did not, nor did
his parizaus, then deny that it afforded sound
circulating medium, and constituted cheap
and efficient channel through which to conduct
the exchanges Of the country. lie PROMISED,
however, that all these functions could be as
we'll fulhlled by the State Banks, which ne SAID
we're entirely adequate to that purpose lie
proposed 10 dispense with this great wheel, on
the express ground that it added neither power
nor certainty to the machine-that the SYSTEM
was perfect without it, Experience has expo
sed what reason strove in vain 10 do, the utter
fallacy OF Gen. Jackson's view on this subject.
1t was always strenuously opposed ny thel
wings, and is at length entirely abandoned by
the other party. The Wings predicted, that
in the absence Of national Bank, each state
would endeavor through its own interpretations
TO seize The largest control Of the currency that
thus great number of weak and jealous sys-
TENS would be thrown in rude collision and the
common good of the people entirely lost sight
of in the clashing interests of thousand in
s,ituiions. mutually hostile TO each other inca