Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-10-28

Ten in the Importance oflhe bond question
They say TO us: tho State has its all a
stake: its honor, It's fair fame, its reputa
iion for honesty, in word, oil that render
respectable in the eyes Of other nations
all these are about to be lost, the State vii
be dishonored and degraded, 1t will become
bye-word and term Of reproacl
amongst the nations, disgrace itself will b.
called by the name of "Mississippi.n AM
now toavert all this, we wish you to vote
for--bond payerss no, we want you to vote
for wings! Democratic bond-payer'
wouldn't do, the candidates mus; be the
real simon pure wings. Now if it is SC
all importantthat the next Governor should
be bond-payer, why hazard his success
by cncumbering him with such dead
weight as The principles of the wing party
would be in this State? We are constant
ly told by the whig press, that large por-
ton of the democratic party will yoie 70.
Thomas II. Williams, thenthis portion uni
led witllthe wing strength wouldhave Civ
en- them majority and the Governor. II
would have been no doubtful conflict, but
beyond the shadow ola doubt the State
would have been saved from all the appal-
ling ills--the fatal "moral leprosy" which
the gloomy genius ofrepudiation is sulcn-
~ threatening. These are two of the rea-
sons which have led US 10 doutt whether
certain OF the wings fell such deep and ex-
elusive interestsin The payment of the
bonds, as they would have US believe. Ma
olson seems indignant at the charge Of in
sincerity, and has labored to prove the
charge wholly unjus;iiable. We would
much rather believe them sincere than 9th.
erwise, but the facts which we have men
toned, together with others disposedu us to
doubt it. Men who have long been mem
bers of a party, and have conceived an at
tachment for its distinguishing doctrines,
are apt 10 seize on any circumstance which
may prejudice the oppositcparly and adj
vance the interests of their own, without
rejecting about their regard for the parlic-
ular hobby used, or their belief in its ne.
cessity. Madison cannot require ofus too
implicit belief in the professions Of those
who were guilty of the degrading practices
or rather mal,practices of 1910. After
such evidences as that ever-memorable
campaign afforded US, a man would BE-
wanting in the commonest sagacity notto
distrust pretences or professions coming
from tie same source. We must be al
lowed TO scrutlnize their course with great
care, and have very strong testimony OF
their disIntsrestedness before we place i'm
plicit reliance on their professions. Are
not The wing presses Of The S a'e now en-.
gagged in an attempt TO b!acken the charac-
tiers Of the democ ATTIC candidates, TO make
the world abroad believe that tier OBJ ect
is to get rid of their own debts to the Union
Bank; that is that the democratic conyen-
lion nominated men who were in debt 10
tho Union Bank thai they might have an
ofexonerating themselves from
their individual obligations, and reciproca!e
the favor by legislating their friends who
had elected them out of the same Difficult
ty. And this IS not half the worst their
detractors say of them. Instead of dis.
cussing the principles involved in the con-
test, ii is nothing but incessant attack up
on the private characters Of the democratic
candidates.
In the second article of Madison he re-
marked that our article, on which he has
commented so volumiously, was Gas well
calculated to injure the friends of morals
on the bond question, and to advance the
views Of the friends of the moral leprosy,'
in the estimation of The uninformed, a
any 'red.mouthed' repudiator could wish. /"
Here is substantially the same charge
made aguinst US, that this writer complains
that we made against the wings In this
opinion he is utterly mistaken. He does
not understand the scope of our article,
he does not understand the course we are
pursuing and intend to pursue, and conse-
qucntly in the above sentence he makes a
charge against US wholly indslensibIe, and
unwarranted by our article. We are ra !.
Their surprised to see such an expression as
"red-mouthed repudia'or" from the pen. of