Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-08-11

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IN IN CT Chronicle go
NJ S,B. Treasury and the Royal
Banks 9fRas'ia, Denmark, S'0ee-
j,a and France Identical
The Van Buren, Orators closed their
EALING excursion through tho county
~ Saturday last. Several gentlemen Of
~. Wing party have at all times been
~ ..,5y to occupy the time left by the Van
p,,ooites. and on all occasions when they
.r,d slip in a word edgewise they have
actually exploded the false position as
,,msd By the administration federalists.--
This has very naturally excited in the
,;,ds Of the Locofocos hard thoughts and
cy,sed them 70 make heavy complaints a
Gains, the whig orators. To address the |
oeople after they had finished, to occupy |
sme left OIL hand unoccupied, has been
construed into great breach of decorum
and downright intrusion. by these COM
DIants they have endeavored to silence
me wings. Why is this why this great
anxiety to shun ami fly from free and o.
men DISCUSSION. Why this great zeal to
shut out from the people every thing br'
their own stories, nay falsehoods, about
tho federalism of Genl. Harrison and
another matter which they lug in that has
nothing at all to do with him--namely,;he
Rank of Assgnats Of Russia, Banks of
Denmark, Sweden and France &c
Need any man with truth on his side fear
10 meet and expose q falsehood? Does
he who is in the right way fear to meet
one who is in the wrong way and to con-
vince him Of errorl Soud any man
that has the light of the noon days
Sun be afraid to show his face be-
yond his own door lest he might get in
the dark The truth Of the whole matter
IS. the Van Buren, leaders feel and know
that they have not truth on their side to
sustain them,t that they are not in the right
way, they are conscious that they have
none Of the Suns light to illumne their
way, that they are enyeloped in darkness,
in the midnight Of error hence they hate
truth, it condemns all they say, and they
fly from it with exceeding horror They
have become 50 familiar with error .hat
they rather prefer it to truth,a are obsO-
lutely blinded whenever they venture TO
look upon tive face Of a wing orator. Ell
gagged m disseminating the light OF true
republican principles.
1.-THE Speeches delivered on Saturday
last be q lair sample Of those delivered
elsewhere in the county we wonder not
that efforts should be made to prevent the
wings from replying as was the case then.
The orators of the day were the chosen
instruments Of the party, gentlemen Of
abilities, Of research and gIilel with the
power of eloquence. Yet the cause is so
desperate, the corruption Of the adm MS
tation so glaring, the PrJh gate squander'
ing of the money in the Treasury so great
the Presidents carpets and barrel.shaPec
decanters with cone shoppers &C. ALL
are so enormous that even these gentlemcr
cannot stand up in his defence, before the
honest. prudent and economical people Of
the country. Indeed the ground occupied
BY the champions of Mr. Van Buren, has
been taken from them, they have beef
driven from post to post until as dernie
resort they have hung their hope on tn
"Hard money bubble -
And to prove that hard money is tn
best currency in the world they tell I
that thel money issued by the Empero
of Russia, and the kings of Sweden an
Denmark and by the government
France deprecated, fell TO nothing in va
ue, became worthless. These gentleme
have been betrayed into this suicidal a
gument by reading an account OF II
money issued by the above Government
contained IN the democratic Review
But they ought to have looked deeper
the matter. they ought 10 have examl
ed the nature of the Banks of Russ
Sweden, Denmark and France, and TN
would have learned that each OF the
we're gousrnment banks. Just like V
Burens's Sub. Treaury will be the goUe'
mem Bank of the United States.
kind Of bank the wings have ever CO
demned-now condemn, and will cont
ne 10 condemn, and the reason
they do condemn them is, they prov
signal failures in those countries =
fore-fathers in the Revolutionary s'rI
gle also tried the same kind OF pan
which the Emperor Of Russia, the XII!
ofSweeden, Denmark and France Ut
issued vast amount Of money VIII
soon became worthless: and the cure
CIV like that of Russia, Denmark, Swee'
and France, was ruined by the gore
neuf moRey and the Bank Of the I'm
States was established to remedy the
and il did. The Sub Treasury IS
same as the old system Of issuing mo
by the government, and i will IN the
bring about the same result. Marx
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