The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-07-26

when specie was 10 much betterg Il was ID.
lsufserable- ii was beyond all enderance.
will be recolIected too, that now the bank
couldonly issue notesin anticipation Of fur.
thersale Of bonds. SO twas post notes Of
nothing, most emphaticalIy. And the Gov.
ernor, The party press, the party men, one
and all, opposed any farther discounts by the
Union Bank, most streheously;--d
the bank in most unmeasured abuses for be-
ing suspected of such an intention, and vii
Ilifed every press and every man that would
not come up aud assist in cursing the bank,
and the friends of further discount, for the
relief of thousands of our fellow citizens,
whom their masters experiment had
brought well nigh to ruin, and whom small
accommodation could save. Determined to
carry the point, Gov. McNutt, at the hazard
ofevery thing except the interest of the SUBJ
Treasury scheme, determined to violate the
known will Of more than three fourths of the
people of the state, vetoed the most salutary
measure calculated to assistthe bank in affor-
ding as much relief as possible to our citi-
zens at that critical moment. All this was
strict party doctrine.
Well; Thirdty-What was donel "Oh
consistency, thou art JEWELS" We now
call upon our readers to witness the most
fragrant and shameless departure from print
ciple-the most barefaced party recklessness,
and the most glazing violations of good faith
and consistency, that ever party or colla-
teral branch of party, was guilty of. AfteF
having, as we said, opposed, most violent
ly, at every point, farther discount by the
bank, and the bank having gone on in oppoi
sition to the whole clan, to discount some
millions, relieving the distresses of the peo1
pie as far as possible; this very same clan lei
loose upon the bank a volley of the most vuI-
gar abuse, which has been kept up. inces-
sanity, from that day to the present, for not
discounting more-for not relieving these
men and those men by loan. Every man
who did not obtain loan, or as large loan
as he wished, was wiIfuIly oppressed by the
bank onpolitical grounds; and they have been
necessarily called upon, and rallied, ever
since. to come up and oppose can unprinci-
pied whig bank" because it had thus oppos-
ed them. And the unceasing chorusof the
whole federal sub treasury piping, has ever
since been, the vociferous declaration that
the bank had turned wing, and was oppos-
ing ''the democracy" for party purposes
The .uississiPpian, it will be remembered,
was the first paper in the state, (unless the
Jackson Sun proceeded day or two,) to adj
UocGte the Post Note system, and it laboured
the question, in favor of the Union Bank, at
grea: length.
These facts compelmen to know, that this
club of political movers are always ready to
take any side of any question, irrespective
than this:-s' HosO can zoe SAGE the pGrty7" A
midnight conclave marks out the course, and
every dependent petitioner, writers, stump
ers or people, of the faithful, take up the
song, and show to the world, that ready
made opinions and creeds, fresh from the
mandatory of political sentiment: and be-
lief, are more elastic and far preferable for
ordinary use by some men, in these days of
leading and drilling, than the honest con-
victions of free men, deduced from their
judgments, by an honest regard for the pub
lie good.
Will the press and the people lock fairly at
this party nuove and let it recoil where it pro-
perly belongs.