Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-06-05
DR.. VIM. M. GWINN.

This individual is fairly before the people of
this State as candidate for Congress on the
anti-bond ticket--a ticket originated by one
Hagan and endorsed by the small.fry loco foco
presses. Mr.. Gwinn is therefore public prop
erty, and so long as he gives his countenance
and favor to assaults upon private character
through presses said to have been pensoned
by himself, he must meet an equal courtesy
from his opponents.
We recolect very distinctly the time when
DR.. Gwnn was foisted upon the people of this
State by Gen. Jackson as Marshall-we recol-
ect that he came from Tennessee, and it is
fresh in the recollection of every body, what
favor he extended TO Tennessee lawyers and
Tennessee friends. We know of a certain
clan who are half whiggish and all moneyish,
who Doctor Gwinn considers as part of his
property. We know that the people of Mis-
sissippi could have lived and died very well
without DIR. Gwinn or any of his legal advi-
sers Knowing all this, we cannot conclude
that the people of Mississippi are under any
obligations to support him for Congress He
came to this State bitter partizan and he has
been the special patron of every loco-foco
press in the State-he has boosted that he
spent more money to sustain the loco-foco par
ty than any i've men IN the StaIe-yes, that
he could show accounts for ninety thousand
dollars, and upon such an exhibit be placed his
claims for political preferent. Let him deny
this and we will bring forward a witness from
Madison county who will fix it upon him.
Intellectually, DR.. Gwinn has no clams-he
is commonplace man, the lucky creature of
circumstance and executive favor; there is not
a youth in the state Of intelligence who can
not successfully and triumphantly meet him on
the stump before the people-no matter whe-
Their he attempt the discussion of general pol
itics or the question of State bonds, we VEN
ture our better Judgment that the boys of the
State will be able to show him up in his orr
gnal and ridiculous weakness.
We shall oppose DIR. Gwinn for many rea-
son which will be given in the course of the
compaign. There is much talk abroad about
defalcation--on this score we shall wait for
affdavits to prefer specifications. The fact
cannot be denied that the motion docket OF
the United States District Court shows him at
issue for near two hundred thousand dollars
his friends however say that he can pay all
this amount if the plaintiffs will take Union
money. Union money indeed How did he
get Union money, and what right had he to
take it as the agent of the United States2-
Did plaintiffs instruct him to take Union mon
ley? Several Attornies say not, and the num-
Der of cases talked about of this character
makes it surplusage to dwell upon them here.
We can see an evident disposition on the
part of Mr.. Gwinn and his loco-foco friends,
for abuse and miserable slang. Let the tenn
pest ragel-what this press charges it will es-
tablish; and when facts are submitted to the
people we do not fear the result. The True
Issue will be unlike the Vicksburg Wing and
other journals advocating the cause of honor;
when it speaks, it will not speak from rumor
but from fact and evidence on record. We
shall oppose the election of DR.. Gwinn for
good cause and such as shall be made mani
/ fest.-True Issue.