Columbus Democrat., 1840-03-21

a
% tae most .'ieafIr,- aud pzlfI4tl7 thing lae ca-
vernon ever did! lh's may D. So. ae al.l u4l
deny q. since @ al q may be very .ief
Bu there is ono Ih a.. az lea-r, ve % dsuy.
and ,hsl j., lhai Governor MINT rrsr gave il,.-
nation, of b. present course during lhe canvass
prior 10 The late Election. Aud q !, our opinion
that the people Of Mississippi uIll place their
r,io upen ary man who may hereafter aspire 10
the char Of The chief Magistrate possessing SEN
nmfuls 90 common With bis, on bank reform.
however loudly lh,t relorm may be called for"
The above, from the lost Argg., clearly shows
uhs, coarsnisai memory lhe ~hg editor has,
pasn be wishes TO deceive the people BY mis-
representation of facts lie says, ",ha, Gov.
McNun Hsrsr gave animation Of Als present
course during the canvass pnor TO the late cleo
ton" We only add that Governor McNuu
did gre laiimaitoH 9f bis course prior to the
election, and that the views be had taken Of State
policy, was greeted with universal accIamaiion.
IIele i, the language the Governor held previous
to the election
~ am IN favor Of repeating the banking pow
ers OF such of our institutions as have been es.
iabhshed IN fraud, OF are detrimental to the pub
lc good am well satisfied than the Legislature
has this power. The first chartered Bank in the
United Jtates, the Bank ol North America was
repealed By the Legislature ot Peun-,kanIa,
and subsequently, restored to the corporaiors by
their authority. Massachusetts has repealed bank
eba,tsf.. IN The year 1870, Kentucky repealed
Z Iii H.. f.. .ka. 81. D
blc and bill wlll show the ground upon Which
she acted, and the means employed TO relieve
herself OF a worthless and deprecated currency"
Such were the opinions which the Governor
gave the people Of tins Slate-aud never DO We
remember more barelaced OF more mpudent,
and al the same lime, more clumsy attempt
made to deceive mankind, with Il display Of
zeal and good intentions to the "dear," the low
M people, than the above quotation from Tie
Argus From party essentially antl.na'iona,vlth
such men for tools 10 undermine ard sap the IN.
,cresis Of the community, what better can be eS
pecled Than assertions that have not the least sha-
dow Of truth. Il requires no extraordinary de-
gree OF common sense or common sprt 10 un'
dersland and Justly appreciate the Characters
views, aud ultcror projects of such cabal,
What scandal IS offered 10 the political world /
What a salfe is here Upon human consistency
aud truth Whit dlscouraglng lesson for the
exerllon Of worth aud virtue THIS party poud
Ike to be the arblters Of the free people Of Mis-
slssipp--a people, whose sacred rights they have
proaned-a people, whose property has been
! sacrificed upon the hydra Of banking, They
now nrc pleading for an amnesty for their de.
formed Janllng, which they see IS to be crashed
by d robbed people
We have now to combat set Of political the
otls,s who have declared that the foundation Of
all prosperity IS credit sy,tcm-jn shorL they
say lha they can prove, theoretically, that all
mochanlcsk operations progress better under
credit system, or IN other words, SO long Bs we
have paper crideace onr prosperity IS certain.
They camor loud about the tjrdy and suIeu
movements of the wheels of State about slow,
gradual, and progressive improvements Of none
mry affairs; aud that they, Phoenix like, could
Iase out of the ashes Of that once glorious and
beautiful mstituliou--lhe exceeding simplicity
and beautiful whole We are quite unable 10 de-
scube--miliions of rArrR evidences, which
would IN all after ages be looked upon as the nd
caplaudum measure Of a wise and enlightened
people. The editor Of the Argus Is a Greai Ii
nancier, and we leave II to HIM to give descup-
lion Of a'mag operation, which has issued thou.
sands of paper evidences which, even N these
hard umes IS worth 40 OF 90 per cent in The dol.
| lar.