Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1843-10-07

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ing the same TO coninln tho genuine prln
ciplcs Of Democracy aud good iollh, NJ
advocated by Washington and Jefferson
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kionE THAN Orr BoND PAYING DEMOCRAT
t NArcnEz, Sept 25th, l9l3
Messrs. Mcknight Il Lowry,
GENTLEMEN observe in your paper
of the 2nd inst, the 'Liberty Advocate
that have been nominated by my friends
in your County, candidate for Congress
and that you were so kind as to accompa'
NY the nomination with some favorable
editorial remarks, | assure you | feel
very much obliged, both 10 you and my
friends, fer the compliment. beg leave
however, respectfully TO decline being a
candidate. My esteemed friend Col. 10.
seph Dunbar, ! am pleased TO learn, has
consented for his name to be placed on the
democratic Congressional ticket. am
confident that a more suitable person
could not have been selected.
lpray you to make known to my friends,
gentlemen, that Mississippi, in my humble
opinion, has not been under q Democrat
cal government for some years past, and
that it is time the world should know it.
A democracy is government where the
people rule; an arlstocracy, government
where the fow rule, whether called lords
or anti-bonders.
When the late July Convention met, 10!
the Governor and his anti-bonders were
there also, with simultaneously call ed
Session of the Legislature. same
men, who had prevented the Union Bank
from being put in liquidation and who had
passed the Regulating resolutions, mol
conten! with egislating for Tennessee, by
giving the preference TO that State over
their own, for National Armory mot
content with Introducing measure in the
sh'pe of Brisco's Bill, TO repudate about
fifty millions of dollars which the bank
ties owe the banks, left their legislative
business and focked into the Convention
protesting to represent, in whole or in
part no less than 25 counties in that body,
being majority Of the counties repre-
scented in the Convention. The bona fide
members were voted down by the legis-
lative caucus members and a full ticket
of regulators forced on the people. The
same men endeavored to gag the bona
fde delegates against opposing the ropu.
dating edict "ior two years at least"
Now there is nothing Of democracy, or
the people ruling in such proceedings
but palpable despotism, or the few ru-
ling. The people we're transferred and
bargained away by the hostile repudiating
chiefs, like sheep in the shambles, to &c.
concile the feuds Of my lord of Lowndes,
and my lord of Copiah, and TO chain Alex
ander Of Reputation the Great, TO igno-
BILE obscurity. The ticket nominated,
therefore, by such an assembage, is not
the democratic ticket, but hook in the
nose Of Leviathan--a mere expedent to-
ex:ort from the sovereign people, willing
or unwilling, an acquiescence in the re
pudialing edict, and to reward those who
sing the loudest hosannahs to the shame
full doctrine Of reputation with all the
offices in the State.
BY turning to the ayes and noes on the
resolution to save the assets Of the Union
Bank, and the ayes and noes on the repu-
dating resolutions, with the Mississip-
plan Of the 18th July, the organ of repu-
diation in hand, containing the proceed
ings Of the Convention,) it will be perceiv-
ed that the former was defeated and lheI
latter past by the identical individuals
who represented, in whole, or in part, no
less than 25 counties in the July Conven-
ton.
JeffersonIan democracy is founded on
Justice, equal and exact justice, and any
system OF government or legislative pro-
ceediag built on any other foundation, Isl
not democracy. When Thomas Jefler-
son first stood before the America people
to take the oath Of office Of President OF
the United States, the FIRST principle
which he announced to the world, as theE
basis and corner stone Of that new order
Of government, called the democratic
was: equal and exact justice to all men
ofevery State or persuasion, religious OF
political" Sec his first Inaugural, con-
tanning the Democratic decalogue.
Another principle, akin TO the first, ana
announced on the same occasion, was
"The honest payment Of our debts and the
sacred preservation Of the public faith"
LIha Mnrl HONEST hninr nlncnl heloreI