The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1840-04-04

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He has nccepted the call. The people
aro rallying to the resc,,l axnned MT With
weapons Of blood, but with truth, Justice and
public virtue. The pSopje have decreed 4, |
and Harrison shall Be on commander.
Let ~. then, fellou4citlap rally beneath
that broad banner, on which i Inscribed not
only ssthe union Of the Wings for Sbe sake Of
the Union, but the union Of the people forl
the~&6ks o. Liberty. Let Liberty be our
motto, and victory shall be, cur reward.
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Remarks Of @. d. Martin, Esq. i
In support Of the Resolutions submitted to the
County Meeting, held at Fayette, on the 2Sd
OF March, 1910, fol. the pnrpose of responding
to the nominations Of the Harrisburg Conven-
il ton. f;
Mr.. Chairman SIS sese,
s'ss. Before the resolutions, which have
Just been read, receive the final vote ofthis
meeting, I beg leave to makea few remarks
in their support.
IT 10 not for the mere purpose alone Of urg-
ing the adoption Of the resolutions, that ask
permission to be heard; but, SO far as shall
be enabled, from my limited means, % lay
before the meeting facts, and from those facts
to deduce conclusions, by which may appear
the necessity Of an unanimous action in our
ranks to insure the triumph of Principle
over Party. s.
The main object for which we have as
sembled together, is to respond to the nolni-
nation Of the National Convention, which sat
at Harrisburg, in Pennsylvania, a few months
since, as to the fitness and capacity Of the
candidate selected and proposed to be run
for the next Presidency. 1t is,weIl known
that, the Convention, after having delibera-
ted candidIy, and after having fully canvass
ed the merits Of several gentlemen OF the
Wing party, finally, and without dissent
ing voice, nominated WILLIAM HENRY HAIR
RIsoN, of Ohio, as the most suitable person
to he elevated to that high Office, and JonN
Tyler, of Virginia, as the candidate for the
vice-P Presidency of the United States. II is
then for US to say boldly and fearlesely wheth-
er we will concur in the nomination made
by the National Convention, or whether we
will disapprove of that nomination.
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The administration Of our Government
has been entrusted to bad hands, in my hum
BILE opinion, for the last eleven years-the
effects Of that administration are now only
being severely felt. A few years more,
and we shall behold more gloomy picture
in the distance than we now imagine we can
ldescern-and ruin, bankruptcy and distress
will be the inevitable end of such an UMPIRE
cedented term in public affairs.
Who, unless his eyes have received the
impress of the pa rtisan seal, can cast them
over the deplorable condition Of our country
at the present day, without fearing the most
alarming consequences from the unparallel-
ed arrangement Of the currency; the deter
mined course of the Government to perse.
we're in its experiments, until a paralysis
shall seize upon the energies Of the whole
notion, and end in subvertion of our liberty I
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From every evidence before me I am
compelled to believe that the present and
preceding administrations have had nothing
but party ends in view; that they have, in a
great degree, forgotten the duties and ac-
countabiity to the people ofthe high station,
to which the suffages ofthe nation have ele-
waited them; and that on the soil which should
lever be dear to freemen, they have raised an
alter to the partisan God-a shrine at which
they may kneel in all the hypocricy Of par
| ty-worship, and console themselves with the
Thought that, under this detestible musk,
they may foist upon the American people
their abominable schemes, subversive of the
liberties of the citizen, and so utterly at wal
with the institutions of the country! Their
most aboninable experiment, and the one
most to be dreaded, lone which has more
real terrors to the patriot aud the lover Of
freedom, than the approach Of an hostile ar.
army, or the clash of a thousand falchions
is this heartless, soulless IDder endent Trea.
sury bill! Those who would be the parent
of such measure. fear the consequences o.
the issue. canitot believe, although the
monster is now engendering, that it .evel
will be brought FORTH "A demon so hideou,
to the imagination, and SO terrible in form
arousing at once our fears and our appre
tensions, can find none to be It's dar1s, ives
the people, / am sure, would damn it, if i
once were brought forth and tried ) though
for the last three years it has been bowling
most pitiously aboutths Capitol, for the par
ty in power to give il parentage, that il nigh
turn 6ercely and quickly around, and des
troy the liberties Of the people, whoee cor
ruptions engendered Il! Il Is i noiitica
/ disorganizing, dieembodsed sp;sal ssyis7
through the mouths of our repre- sentatives t
the people for adoption butfhey frown upper
il Indignantly, as an i1legifihate offspring
| from an illicit inteceoQse Of power and cor
Eruption; and therefore not enti{led to theil
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