Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-04-14

meeting, one of the chief causes of our
present embarrassed and distressed situa.
ton IS the unhallowed and unjust war that
was waged against the currency for the
avowed purpose of furnishing US with a
better currency" which has not vet
been done, and for the failure to do which
the persons atpresent charged with the ad
mInistration of the Executive branch of
this government deserve the censure and
condemnation ofthe AmerI can people.
ResolUed, That in the opinion of this
meeting, purely metallic currency is i'm
Practicable-and can never be introduced
into the United States without producing
utter ruin-and therefore the project
should be abandoned-and the plan
should be returned TO the Bar5arians Fl ON
whom it was borrowed
Resozve,d-.That the Sub Treasury
scheme, after having been in operation, to
all intents and purposes, for nearly two
years, has failed to answer any good end
that it is fraught with the most alarming
evils at war with the genius of
Republican institutions--that it makes and
will make the rich man richer and the poor
man pooer: gives one kind of currency
and that too, the best, to the government
and government olficers-while the great
body of the people are forced to use depre
cIated Bank paper-that it augments the
power and patronage of the President
already too extensive-and, will finally be
erected into a great government Bank, an
engine Of tremendous power-and full of
danger to the liberties ola free people.
ResolUed-That in as much as Martin
Van Buren,, the present Executive Head
of this nation, has not only recommended
but pertinac iously adheres to those meas
ures which have proved so destructive to
the best Interests of the country this meet
ing deem him unfit to receive the support
ofthe American People at the next Pres
ldential election.
ReSOlUed-That if there were no other
objections to Martin Van Buren,, the re-
commentator by him recently ofthe pro-
position of the Secretary ofWar, to re-
cruit two hundred thousand miztti4 10 be
armed, equipped, and supported at the ex-
pense of the United States, Gan expense
that cannot be caleulated,) and to be I'M
der the control and direction of the Head
Of the War Department, constituting
force, lin effect standing army, though
called militia the danger (which to the
independence and freedom ofthese States
cannot be estimated, W ould and ought of
Itself TO be, with every true hearted Anne
rican, and watchful freeman an insepera-
bic objection to his second elevation to the
station which he now occupies.
ResO7Ued,-That with the view of efFec-
ting change in the policy of the govern
ment-which for the last eight or ten
years has been unsettled, ruinous and dis
astrous; and for the purpose of rewarding
long neglected merit and patriotism in the
person of a Hero and a statesman--one
who has spent his youth and his more ma
ture years in the service of the Republic
and his fortune in relieving the distresses
of the poor; one whose heart knows no
gulle-whose hands have never wroRged
his fellow men-and whose conduct has
been unexceptionable, in the discharge of
the various civil and military duties that
have been imposed upon him, from the
commencement of the government, down
to the administration of the late President,
when he retired from the public service +;
one who, Notwithstanding the millions Of
treasure that have passed through his
hands, has remained pure; and unsedu-
ced and true TO his integrity; who is so,O
poor because honest, and honest because
just--this meeting most respectfully
recommend to their fellow citizens through
out the country as proper person to be
their next President, the nominees, of the
late Harrisburg Convention, William Hen
ry Harrison, of Ohio--and as Vice Presi.
/ liant To- DTxIar &c
The preamble and resolutions being
put, were unanimously adopted. AT
ter which, on motion, a resolution
was unanimously carried that com
mittee of three be appointed by the
Chair, to wait on Mr.. Hogue and So
licit copy of his address for publica-
tion.-Whereupon, the chair appoin-
ted Gen. P. M. Grant, DR.. E. F Wat
kins and r. K. Chamberlayne, Esqr'
said committee.
On motion, Resolved, that the
pro ceedings of this meeting be signed
and countersigned, by the chairman
and secretary, and published in the
Southern Argus.
The meeting then adjourned.
| WIN. B. LIGHTFOOT, Chr
Jno..J. GOODWIN, Sec'y.
| The Maizs.-All the mails failed to ar
rive on Sunday evening, which, in addition