Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-10-16

Shonralo upon the grand and successful opef-
a,or Of the Union Bank, 49, = = rs eager
desire 10 enlighien and Ia. &C il<umnformeu
neiehbors, lie would expatiate by the hour TOT
a crowd of eager listeners upon the sublime
mysteries of banking.
Mr.. Kennedy is now an Anti BOndnian - |
But his is DEPRESSING. As soon as the
Union Bank commenced its operations the
scene became novel and exciting beyond COM
parison. These very men who had been loud
dest in their professions of attachment to the
neopie, were the first TO become clamorous IN
their demand of money from the Bank IL is
true they had been the means of saddlng the
State with a debt of five millions, and therefore,
they doubtless thought themselves entitled TO
share in the spoils. The people caught the en-
thusiasm, and very soon every avenue to the
Bank was crowded with noisy applicants ca
ger, whenever the waters of this Bethsaida
stirred, 10 plunge into the golden stream as II
every dollar thew Jorroeoed was so much clear
gain made off the plighted credit OF the State.
This could not last always, as Franklin saws,
"Alltaking out Of the meal tub and no putting
in will soon bring il 10 the bottom AS had
been forseen and predicted, the bubble bursted.
The Bank failed to redeem. A Eocotoco CON-
mittee was appointed to examine its affairs,
and after patient and minute scrutiny, the
committee declared, that out of upwards of
eight million of discounts the Bank would
lose nearly four millions, and the people pro-
bounced it Humbug. la the mean time the
Presidential election came on last fall, (IS400
and the people reused TO madness by the dar-
ing outrages of the Locofoco party, hurled
them from office, repudated their Infamous
doctrines and elected Harrison. 1t now be-
came necessary for the party TO resort TO their
old expedient 10 recover their lost influence
and power. Some new Humbug must be
started. that operating upon popular prejudices
would produce reaction in their favor, while
it would keep the good people from recalling
their past history and former experience. The
/ Anti Bond Hunbug was finally selected by
/ these very Lecofocos, as suitable instrument
by which TO dupe the people and carry them
once more into office and power. AT first il
would not take 1t was too monstrous; the
bare proposition seemed TO those whose heart:
were not steeled by ambition TO imply infamy
BThev could not consent for the mere sake o
party thus 10 degrade their native State ane
lstigmatize for ever the name of Mississippi
They appealed patriotism, but they iount
its grave ia the supreme selhsm that bount
with its icy letters the heart of Locotocoism
They invoked a sense of honor, but it had fled
and the spirit of anti-bondism returned sui
, len and voiceless echo. The council of Tel
had decreed in secret conclave that the Anti
bond humbug should be the hobby of thei
q party, and the iron mandate was sent haugh
i thy forth demanding of the Locofoco part
' implicit and instantaneous obedience. fey
+ conscious Democrats still demurred, and the
! we're read out of the political church, with a
the solemn forms Of bell, book, and cand
used in accommodation. The fearful an;
i thema Maranatha" was gravely pronounce
. against them; among others, Thos. B. Woo'
ward fella victim 10 the Anti bond prescription
: ISIS, while the Union Bank director became q
Anti-bond satellite; and then the part
70 purged of It's heretical members, proceeded
"A enroll the Anti-bond principles as part
ba the Catholic faith of Locofocoism. The Loo
10 loco papers, in obedience to orders from he;
% quarters, seized upon the hobby, and Il
at "Ant- bondman' was sent forth on its inf
he mous mission, having for its degrading obje
III / the corruption of the people and the dishon
al Of the State. Every engine of political wa
IS; fare, every mannuvre in political strategy,
al. now brought to bear upon the public mind
an the Anti-bond Locofocos. We now wa
N. the people, warn them solemnly and console
I'M tiously, that if they yield to the soul-destro
TO- ing influence of anti-bondism, that they W