Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-09-11
well as sound. honest politician. lie has ey-

well as sound. honest polltIcian. he has ev-
identity, previous to his electioneering cam
paign, studied with indefatigable application
thereto, many unanswerable arguments which
he fearlessly holds forth to the people: or when
an answer is attempted. as far as we have
heard, it renders their foundation the more
solid. His arguments are based upon honor,
virtue and integrity, and as they are produced,
the upright form and manly voice of the spea-
ker at once proclaim TO his auditory they eme-
nate from pure, honest, patriotic mindl
At the commencement of his address, he
spoke in high terms of his competitor, Thigh
man M. Tucker, and lamented his inability of
being present to take part in the discussion of
the day. The first argumentative point en-
blaced was, relative to the banking SYSTEM
In this, Judge Shattuck thought the people of
Mississippi, by making the paper Of adjacent
States their medium currency, had been led
into gross error, submitting to pay certain
per centage on the doubted paper Of Louisiana
Alabama, Tennessee, &c; when currency
could have been preserved at home-its inter-
est kept within the State-home banks direc-
ted by individuals equally as homes! as those
who direct neghboring banks, and the citizens
of the State be intrusted with the control of
such monied institutions as issue notes on
whose faith they through necessity relied
While on this subject, he brought forward the
many glazing inconsistencies of sold Jupiter
Tonans" of Jackson, or the "Big Whale" of
the Anti.bond ocean,--Alexander G. McNutt
whom he harpooned successfully-laid his
immense carcase open, and procured from the
BLUBBER sufficient supply of oil to enable
the wheels of his triumphal car to move more
smoothly than even we had anticipated, on its
journey through the State.
| In relation to the BOND QUESTION. he spoke
comprehensively and forcibly confirming those
present in favor of paying the bonds IN the
business of doing SO, and we thought we could
discern in the eye of many an anti-bond man
| in acknowledgment of mistaken principles
from which, in the pride of his honor. he
-ffwousd gladly renounEee az
4 an act SO culpable. The Supplemental Act,
ION which the Anti-bond payers lay such pecu
liar emphasis, was adverted to and held fort
as convincing document that the BOND
should in business be paid. In short, SO clea
and forcible were Judge Shattuck's arguments
that an old planter who had listened attentive
ly throughout, and whom we had looked upo
), as an anti-bonder, on being asked if ne reall
was so, replied-"No. never said such wer
my principles; but now I should be ashame
: to avow them, even had they have been pre-
viously entertained by mer'
. The Honorable orator during his address
{ entered his determined protest against the Al
, ti-bond paying party-said it but feebly stan
= ped dishonest principle on the hearts OF a lev
u that reflection, candor and integrity wou
necessarily obliterate.
= AT the conclusion of his address, ne bur
D forth in a strain of eloquence such as
1T have seldom heard equalled and never surpas
e ed. The HONOR of the State of Mississip
lie was as the TREE OF LIBERTY--the People
I'd the vine entwining itself closely around it
Id each dependent on the support of the other
70 DESTROY but the tree and its associate vine
III comes blasted!
it. We cannot, for want Of room, further pl
to sue the details of this mastery effort OF tru
ed and eloquence. 1t drew around the 'hon'
lie candidate crowds of the honest sovereigns
ct Yazoo, and gave good evidence of their det'
"a limitations in November.
THE cANvAss-DowNFALL OF ANTI-BoNDl
IT. -JupcEs HUGHES AND SHATrUCK.-Accou
In which we have received within the last t
Do weeks from the distant sections of the Sta
n leave not doubt of the triumphant success
,ot the Wing ticket at the ensuing election.
49, eyery point, where the Wing candidates nj
ly- met the locofocos, and debated the questl
Ia "Shall the State bonds be paid2'' the ar
u ments OF truth and honesty, addressed t