Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-10-14
CENrREy1LLE, Amite Co. Mi.

s1Ct1t. - IS2EOs
To Messrs. Edmund Smith, 7. NJ.
Rogers, J. M. Smiley, David Pemble,
and David Gordon:
Gentlemen Ministerial engage
.ments would render my acceptance Of
your invitation ito attend the Wing
Barbecue" on the 9th and 10Th insi.
impossible, were there not reasons
which would prevent my attendance
upon al.such meetings as that contem-
plated in the invitation. | have ever
thought convivial assemblies were I'M
suitable to Ministers of the Gospel, be
the Ultimate purpose cf their coming
together what it might; and there IS, in
public opinion, so strong an opposition
to Ministers eff the Gospel engaging,
actively and prominently, in election
eering movements that | should deem
it.imprudent to attend your meeting,
did not the former consideration lie in
The way of my dong SOFA as your
meeting IS avowedly called for elections
eefing purposes.
But could there be any occasion
uDon which these considerations could
be overborne, ! am free to declare
that the present political contest goes
near to furnish it. | by no means
consider that contest as being between
rival candidates and rival parties, but
between political salvation and political
ruin. The course Of administration
pursued, for the last eleven years, has
appeared to me to tend directly and
strongly 10 the subversion Of our glori-
Gus political Institutions; and as hav-
| ing gained such head in that direction,
| that if it he not now arrested, all will
| be lost. The war Of the Executive
Administration upon the Currency Of
the United States, 1.-THE best currency
ia the world, when that war commencs
ed,) has Frustrated the energies Of the
nation; and by destroying confidence
has created a state Of public mind IA
vorable to the purposes Of designing
policy = of which state, the party ii
power have seemed to me determined
) to make the utmost possible advantage
This they have attempted to do, by
f getting within their own immediate
r and absolute control the national rev
enue and the currency Of the who'll
r country, by means ofthe Sub-treasur
O Law. That, that law, if permitted t
6 60 into effect, viii not only place til
n revenue of the Government under tn
I immediate and absolute control Of til
: Executive, but will also place til
= whole currency Of the country undo
# its immediate and irresistible direc
Al ton, seems tome as clear as any ma
4 Ter can be. And nothing, as | appre
). bend, could be gilmore dangerous TEL
!. dency, as it respects the safety OF OF
If free Institutions. The ruin brougl
d upon our pecuniary interest, by the
\ hancial measures of our GoVenmen
ID distressing as it has long been, still
d and threatens to be for a long time
n. come, is nothing in my estimatio
in compared with the deleterious poll
cal tendency Of those measures. %
he vast resources, our enterprise, ando
IS unshackled freedom would enable
en- to retrieve the former, but the lat
in. has forged chain, whose weight, /
I'd, less we promptly break it will wei
we us down to the dust Of political Dor
err age. Give to the Executive, in ad
ed ton to its immense patronage, the e
Of troll of the revenue and the direct
in of the currency, and you endne
Of with the faculties Of despotisn, agai
has which no opposition, short Of bloc
ist, Revolution, can avail any thing. ]
inc operation Of the Subj Treasury ii
re- would, probably, in less than +
of years, fasten this chain upon the Lii
oil ties of our nation SO securely, as
nd, only tie violence Of Revolution co
bo- disenthral them.
ed. But, the financial measures oil
nio, party in power, are not the only,
of a the least equivocal evidences t
to have given Of their affection for {
,ose potic power. Assumptions of /
ON rogative have been made, which, in
me, better days Of our Republic, NC
spal have been fatal to any man or any
, SO ty. The removal ofthe. GoVernn
efu- Deposites refusal to nominate to
uIa- flee, during the Session Of Congr
the that the vacancy might be filed
e to Presidential appointment-the e
nder else of the veto power, on other
able constitutional grounds against
ia known wishes OF both people
an States and the pocketing Of a
IA which the Executive would not
ner- prove, and which he knew woulC
lear passed by a constitutional najorl'
!. to he returned it with his objections
!, ca instances of this kind.
IN But all these were mere. pecadl
ersa- compared with observation-disclosures
7 to the State Of New Jersey by pTeelu
Iad / from their seats Remembers which
[arri- State had sent to.the House Of r.
reju- sentalives, with tie same testlmoni
is TO their rightto sit, as those possesse