Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-08-14
JUDGE SHATTUCK.

Judge Shattuck appeared here before large
and attentive audience for the purpose, as a
candidate for Governor, of explaining his
views in relation to the domestic policy of the
State At the hour of eleven, A. NJ. our new
courthouse was thronged, when Judge Shat
tuck rose and in a speech of about two and a
half hours unclaimed his audience by glow
ing development of the abuses of the past
and the propriety of future legislation. AS
we have said his audience was large and in
telligent, and we have seldom seen so many
persons in the same room for SO long time.
preserve such excellent order Commencing
by expressing his regret that his friend and
competitor Mr.. Ticker was not present. the
Judge took rapid but condensed sketch of
the history of the late administration party in
Mississippi for the last eight years-unfolded
the various schemes that had been set on foot
to mislead and deceive-exposed the NAL
practices of the officers of government; show
ed them to have been utterly unfaithful to
their trust and unworthy of the continued sup
port or confidence of an enlightened people.
In this strict. rapid and cursory, as it must ne
cessarily have been, We were much struck
with the frank and mastery manner in which
ne exhibited their habitual duplcity and dem.
agogueism. He held them up to the derison
and scorn of every intelligent mind, as par
ty that had owed its past success and based its
future hopes of power upon some fortunate
humbug that would deceive the unsuspicious.
mislead the ignorant, and minister to the views
OF the dissolute corrupt; and then triumphing
in their fortune, would revel in the spoils Of
their ill-gotten power, while they laughed con-
temptuously at the unfortunate dupes and vic
Tins of their treachery. He showed that al
every election they had always relied not up
on the truth or justice Of their cause. but ra.
Their upon some collateral question that would
be calculated to deceive. First it was the PEI
bank system-then that blew up and it wa.
the sub-treasury system-at one time there
was nothing like State Banks to effect safe
and constitutional currency; then tt cry wen
forth "down with all bank" and hard metal
a gold and silver currency was the humbug.-
The next was Union Bank of fifteen millions
THAT would be cure-all for every poltica
disease and SO on, until having proaigately
squandered the funds and resources of the I'm.
ion Bank, they now come out with the pateni
humbugof "0nti- Bond, 2 and so they will ever
DC as long as they continue to be trusted Of
demagogueism retains votary. Judege S
then explained the motives Of his party, and
clearly showed that it was the same leaders
the same selfstyled democratic party that wa:
using this hobby for the purpose of distractine
the wings and pro6ting by their diyision-un-
der the old principle of "divide and conquer
He also showed that each advocate of the
ganti-Bond" humbug had some peculiar mode
Of expressing his opposition and some new
and fayorite argument in its favor-and thai
as often as they were driven from one position
they readily took up another however absurd
or untenable--tbeir whole object being mere
" to keep the flag flying until the election
The Judge finally showed that'the cry of tax
alton was false and bypocrjtical. intended
mereIysfo alarm the poor, and had no fOunda-