Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-01-17
From the Southern Sun.

The great democratic and state rights con-
vention" met at the state house in this city, on
Tuesday.-Honl. G. p. Smith Ia thorough going
nullfer,) presided over the Van Buren, assem-
blage! Ever since the locofocos first COM
menced courting the nulIiiers, it has been their
constant aim to honor, promote and push for
ward their coy allies, with the double view of
cementing the strange union, and covering over
the lamentable ignorance Of the Iocofoco party
proper, by e!icting the intellectual aid Of the
disciples of John G. Calhoun, who, by the by,
are generally men Of intelligence. They are
willing TO accord TO nullfers such poor crumbs
olcomlort, as president Of conventions, chair
man Of committees, &c, but should the Van
Buren, faction succeed in perpetuating their rot
ten cause, it is evident they, themselves, will
monopolize the spolls of victory--disband,
Without pay, the foreign legtonS enlisted for the
war-and revcl once more in the Injuries Of
vlctory.-The principal speaker in the conven-
ton was Mr.. Levy, or Colonel Levy, a
descendant offs some one of the tribes Of Israel,
who lives, we hear, in the stale of South Caro-
lina We listened, for half an hour at the
speech Of the Jewish orator, and never before
did we hear so dull, insipid, and pointless an
affair! 1t was an old WORKOUT story, told in
an old and clumsy manner. Nothing original
nothing witty-nothing profound-nothng
eloquent was said. The sounds OF his voice
were as monotonous as the lazy buzzing of a
great bug, endeavorng for two hours TO force
its passage through pane of glass. And this
man is the "brag mag" of democracy! Verify,
the faithful are almost bankrupt in the article
Of intelligence. The OraioricaL ISraeite is
Inulfier-he commended, stenuously, for the
correctness Of his doctrines-justifed the pro-
Icoedlngs Of s. Carolina--and dashed the pro-
clamation and force bill Strange as it may
seem, veteran democrats loudly appLauded those
sentiments !--sentiments which they once con-
sidered peculiarly obnoxious, and decidedly
traitorOuS. Truly, we believe Van Buren, and
his whole party have turned nuIlifers. We
are 6 lad of it--this is, at all events, one step
towards political honesty.
The convention was in session three DAVIS
Several inflated democrats were safely deliv-
cred of abortive speeches, and several whose
heads were continually popping up from the
great crowd of"the faithful" like fishing corks,
from the bites of minnows, could not possibly
get an opportunity TO utter those immortal SEN
fences with which they were doubtless, liter
ally stnted To be just, we freely acknowl-
edge that the crowd Of delegates looked rigMI
respectable They were, generally, clean sha-
ven, arrayed in clearly garbs, and behaved
very orderly. Several were gentlemen ofqute
appearance. We mention these
things, because it is singular for locofocoisu.
and order TO be associated
The following is the ticket nominated by
the locolocos for our next regular election
For Governor--A. G. McNutt,
"Congress--A. G, Brown g. D. Lipscomb,
Sec'y. State--B. W. Benson, !
Treasurer--A. B. Saunders
That entire ticket will be beaten by thous-
ands of votes. "The party" is dying in Mis-
slsslppi. These feversh movements are only
precursors ofapproaching death.--The Wings
Will show ticket on the 4th Monday in this