The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-08-30
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d Robert !. Walker Is the federal candidat,
/ for the Senate Of the United States, ane
T those who are TO vote for him are trained
| band, forbidden to entertain reason or argu
; ment upon the expediency Of his electic n
They will vote for him because few leading
! loco-focos have go directed. Il is OF but it'll.
use, therefore, to urge against him, in the
I public prints, any argument with view o.
defeating his election, only with the people,
} who are to elect his electors.
4 The party have got Mr.. Walker to write
them an electioneering document, to help
their sinking cause; and they have put il
in the shape Of Two letters in the form Of
correspondence. These they are distribut-
ing in every corner of the State, and it de-
llserves to be noticed, not on account Of Mr..
Walker, but because it is in fact, an authora.
i've or official publication of the party
Whatever it contains the party are RESPONSE
BILE for it, and we therefore propose TO say
Il f.w words upon the subject.
We have just finished the perusal of his
second letter, and in the few remarks v e
i
eyes OF all candid men, that it is deep in
genius plan, intended to deceive--that false.
hood, planed and premeditated, is upon its
lace; and that the most irrational and far
fetched conclusions are attempted to be
made, then we have greatly misplaced our
confidence in the intelligence of the COM
nunity and the power of truth.
Mr.. Walker denounces the system and
practice Of banking. and AYERS, most vehem-
.ntIy, that it is founded in fraud and dis
honesty. lie labors at great length the most
aameasured and unqualified phraseology
nd argument, to show, not that banking
as been abused but that the plan and sys-
en- OF banking was conceived in crime,
lat every step of its progress has been fell
.ious, that it is nursery of public and
rivate immortality, irreligion and falsehood,
.ad tina: public injury, private wrong and
Universal distress has ever been the certain
nd invaliable consequence, and that the
oaly effect OF all banking operations, from
he first to the last. He classes banking,
Without distinction or discrimination, with
Tracy. robbery, gambling and theft. 1t is
like with these in its inception. in practice
md consequence, and he declares, in vari-
Jus forms of expression, that there is no
moral pecuniary difference between banking
md public plumber. And although, to fully
explain and establish this doctrine, in the
most broad and unqualified sense, and after
greatly charging upon the moral disadvan-
ages that our society has ever sustained by
the system and practice Of banking, so long
Is his story that before he fni. hes the eighth
newspaper column, he holds the following
language:-"Our object is to expel at once
from circulation all bank paper except that
payable upon demand in specie, and grGdu-
ally to abolish all bank notes of less de-
nomination than twenty dollars, and to fill
up the vacceum with gold and silver"
Now, we say, that every man is compelled
to know that Mr.. Walker is utterly reckless.
and palpable insincere in this whole TRADE,
four or FIVE newspaper columns in length.
setting forth the immortality and criminal
character of the sOhOIe system of banking
'OUR oBJEcT"-in relation to this vastly and
universally dangerous aud injurious system
of public fraud and plunder-is-what?-
What is sour object" in relation to this great
national evil, which is ''only evil and that
continually! Why, behold, sour object .
so far as bgnking is an evil, is not to touch
it; but mainly to modify the issuance of post
notes universally done now, throughout the
union, and the other in some cases.
Mr.. Walker, however, after thus explicit
y stating the ''PLAN'' of the party, proceeds
10 state further his private sentiments, taxi
ing care to explain that this is not the doc
trine Of the party. And he thinks, that after
these two things shall have been accomplish
ed, the moral, political and pecuniary inn
provement will be so great that 's1Oe might
IN TINE, proceed to the expulsion o. all bank
notes of less denomination than one hum
dred do la $, and PERHAPS be enabled ULT1-
hArELY to dispense with the whole system .
ffere is Mr.. Walkers language-the plan
and intention OF the party and his own phi
vate sentiments, which he seems to concede
" ~ s4ul'0 "iSies IL icia'IOH " yStSln VI
public and private and national and personal
evil, OF greater magnitude and of as univer-
sal application as any robbery or rapine ''ihat
ever cursed a country" This is his plan
TO cure mountain of evil, Of which he
says Whatever oblivion might be extend
ed to the past, present determination to
perpetuate the system, now that the facts ale
known, is a determi aation to Danish pure
morals, virtue and religion from the commu.
nifty, and as consequence, ultimately Il
overthrow our free institutions, for an inn,
moral and corrupt people cannot permanent.
Iy maintain republican government"