Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-05-22
HON. d. o. SHATTUCK.

E HON d. o. SHATTUCK.
By reference TO our first page, our reader:
! will find an interesting article from the Vicks
: ourg Wing in vindication of the Hon. ID. .
/, SmATTucK from the hearteSs sneers and dis
gushing coarseness of the Vicksburg Sentinel
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(. selves, par excellence, the true democracy, ano
j claim to be emphatcally the friends OF the
honest poor, and the advocates of equal rights
They go against all monopolies--they are the
genuine Simon-pures, who would rather shake
hands with poor man than dine with pam
pered rich one--they profess to advocate the
doctrine that worth, and not wealth, is the on
ly true republican standard of excellence, and
the best qualification for office-that therefore
all offices of profit and trust are and OF right
should be open equally to all the citizens of this
republic--to the humblest and poorest, as well
rs to the proudest and wealthiest Well. the
Sentinel purports to be the organ and leader
Of this same party-and yet POUNDS its princi-
pal objections to the elevation of Judge Shat
tuck, in the astounding and overwhelming
charge, that he once UaS poor. What! shall a
nan, who was once poor boy, presume to as
pire to the Gubernatorial Chair Of Mississippi! /
Prodigious! sit is most intoerableand not to
be endured"-and where, he asks in compare
live trumph--Where did Parson Shattuck learn
finance? and then as if lie would annihilate
him by the appalling intelligence conveyed in
The interrogatory asks, "was it while peddhng
Yankee nutmegs in North Carolina? Alas,
alas, in vain did Judge Shattuck in early youth
as Peddjar boy in humble circumstances,
struggle with the tide OF adversely that swept
before HMM vain did he put forth the ener
gies of a-high and noble nature, and turning to
his hard task with honest industry, wiring
support from the iron destiny that seemed to
bind him. He was then poor boy! In vain
lid he look forward to comparative independ-
ence and future usefulness, as he began to reap
he fruits of his inceSsant toll, he did not then
know that all offices which are valuable, only
because they are evidences of public conf
hence, were to be closed to him, and the with
9ring denunciaton was to be Numbered into
lis ear hat he once uaS poor. Wherefore did
Judge Shattuck, with spirit and intellect that
rose superior to every emergency, fling back
he obstacles that beset him in the path of a
ust and ennobling ambition and struggle
proudly on in an honorable career, if the re.
lection of early poverty is to hang upon him
ike the "curse of Kehama" that knew no in
ermission--and this is democracy The hon
est but poor yeomanry Of Mississippi are ap-
pealed TO by these men to elevate them to of
ice under the anti-bond-paying humbug; at
he same time that they are denouncing Judge
Shattuck on account of his having once been
a-what? poor boy.
Such are the doctrines and practice of Lo-
so-focoism. There needs no comment-it
you'd be entirely superfuous. How must the
bind of the candid reader turn away sickened
II the disgusting inconsistency between pro-
ession and practice, and shocked at the wolf
#h ferocity of a partisan who in his anxiety
Nh put down political opponent, as last re-
Prt, brings up early poverty as charge a.
ainst honest merit.