Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1843-09-30

n tho bonoh, because they believed the tar.
. NJ constitutional, II IL q oalumny on tho
nullaera ol that State, 10 said thoro
! was M moral, whore ihafo was NO legal,
obligation, Repeated tho old slang
i"fhotp who have got the money arc
! bound 20 pay, bat iha balance OF ~ arc
not" The General certainly did mol
! mean to say, tho borrowers from tho un
lon Rank got IL, Coz hn was one of them
: llc denied foundly that thn State had any
) thug to DO with borrowing This money
lie admitted that hc had gono inlo tho
I bank pretty deeply, bat said ho had paid
or his individual debt i-gayc a Dangling
. explanation Of the manner IN which some
, of hts notes got into the bank, aud OF his
: having sold q tract of land to tho Atlor'
. noy Of the bank In payment OF his debt,
% Ne, lie said II he was elected aud tho
I legislature passed an act to place the Un'
ION bank IN liquidation, for the purpose OF
paying the bonds, he would approve III
; although he processes to believe tho bondi
+, unoonslltulonoly ISIS iod, and although he
! Is under a .plcdgo to the party that nomi.
| mated him ''no to favor any proposition
: for or against the payment Of the bonds"
| IIo said, "ir his political friends had vo-
tied against putting tho bank In iquda.
ton, they had done very wrong;--he re-.
poated that he did not hold himself res.
Iponsible for Ahe acts Of his political
friends Or, in other words, he repudi
otod them and their acts.
He was opposed to using the public
lands for the payment of the bonds, and
would not give his approval for any reso.
luton asking Congress TO alter the purpo'
ses of the appreciation. The State, ne
said, had effects enough to pay the Plan.
ters' bank bonds; but If the legislature
should pass law, in good faith, taxing
the people to pay said bonds, he W odld
sanction the Of course being the judge
of whether it was passed in good or bad
faith.
Such we're the absurd and Inconsistent
positions of this political tergiversator on
the bond question His political opponents
pitied him friends were mortified
and disappointed. lie ought, in charity,
10 be held responsible neither for ''the
political acts Of his friends" nor for his
Owa opinions.
Col Thomas II. Williams, The demo- :
cratic bond paying candidate, then took
the stand, He explained the manner in :
which the February convention was got, 9
en up, and said it was an attempt, by POI i
itical aspirants, to loreslall public opin. y
few counties around Jack son e
,ndeavored to hold distant counties as :,
colonies TO a central power. That he be. .
,ame candidate al the solicitation of
riendS, without the nomination Of any
from the time Gen
Brown declined, until July, he was the only re
candidate before the people, "
nd that if either was chargeable with oil
n attempt osdivide the party, the candi- to
ate who came out last, was Justly OBJ di
oyous to the charge. BY what means T
'ucker and Browns friends were recon sn
lied, he knew not; it was charged that N
lore was bargain and intrigue. Tucker be
as withdrawn The object Of the July al
was not TO produce re- &C
but 10 rule others out, and to ca
ltroduce the new test of Reputation - ov
hat reputation was not democratic be
it was repudiated by dem al
Gratis throughout the Union, and found ii
0 support except from faction in this be
tate.-That after the able. argument Of re
ldge Clayton, in which he concurred, lin
e would not enter into a discussion OF he
le constitutional questions:--that the on st
7 real, practical question now before the TO
eople was, whether the bank should be tn
laced in liquidation, and its effects saved tn
Dr. the payment Of the bonds,--That if the 81
tepudiators could succeed in wasting the ca
fleets OF the bank, and other public funds W
hey would have the benefit Of the anti tn
AK humbug to ride into office upon for be
many years-That the regulators want di
0 give the question the go blythe bond q
ayers want action. The repudiating
onventon wished to bind the bond pay tr
RS 10 lnaction for two years. Gen. Brown wi
ere objected to its being called Repu, gu
latlng convention, because there were of
ondpayers in il. Col. Williams replied me
hat he was not in it, and you ought not to
D hold any one bound for the political no.
cts of his friends" He read portion the
tho address of the repudiating conven. wa
on, protesting to give an account of the anc
'nduct of the bond payers, which he pro- as
ounced as false as any thing that had ap- auC
cared in the newspapers for the last cor
rec years. He then gave correct DOT
story of the action of the convention, ior
the resolution ana amendment, which no,
used the bondpayers to recede from it. be
9 said the regulators desired to pre- FIR,
mt action for two years, that the debt. be
5 10 the bank might squander their 90,
operty or escape to Texas. In l84I, fro
e anti bond candidates for the legisla. ma
re, in many counties, took ground in ia
n Of liquidating the bank, as Cen Brown
res now. That then the people had to la
ly uDon their nroleSsionS hlt now thew che