Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1843-09-02

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| Tshs Eaiers % M Lltsyfy Airgeals
II you will allow mo 10 occupy u small
space IN your paper, perhaps lho conifo'
yersy between Ne, will bo abridged " not
6nally terminated Shortly ailuf my 70
turn lfomlhc North, aonounood ny deter
minalion 10 have no personal connection
with tho canvass depending Tor oilhef
Branch of tho Legislature IN arriving
NJ that conclusion, the action Of tho WING
meeting hold during my absence, and tho
state Of my private business combined TO
make tho propfiely Of this course plain,
palpablo and oxpodonli Afterwards, 10.
formation supposed TO 10 correct a, the
time, induced mo TO act under a conyic.
ton that oyory thing was no, entirely fair
as il respected tho nomination OF tho gentle.
man proposed for tho Senatorial Branch,
aud many were improperly induced TO
doubt the proproty ofublding the rosues
of that meeting. Under these clrcumslan
stances, in common with several others,
equally misin(ormcd the question of ha.
vi% another candidate mot us) for the
Senate was moo,od and sometime in July,
Two short articles, "An Old Wing and
"Thick Woods appeared in the Advocate,
with an extended eXegisis, or com men
tary by Mr.. Mcknight; 1t is not int ended
to 'allirm ignorance of the preparation Of
either Of those articles, nor to conceal that
injustice may have been done Mr.. Wall
The Information upon which the supposed
circumstances were founded, | now be-
lieve to have been incorrect-and cheer
fully acquit Mr., Wall OF any motives in
consistent with political probity and
honor.
beg leave to make one solitary observ-
alton before close, and that is with re-
ference to my assumed inidelity to the
principles of the Wing Party.
Mr.. Mcknight has done me inexpressa-
bic injury, perhaps | might say injustice,
in his paper of the 22d July last, wherein
he accommodates me from all fellow
ship with The Wing party-on the assump-
lion that it was my object to divide the
party, and accomplish the success of
'ne belonging to the other-l can only
'ay in relation to this, that nothing was,
more foreign to my purpose: The princi-
lies of the Wing party have ever APP
'eared to me to be such as to challenge
he investigation and the scrutiny of the
most sagacious men in the Republican,
With few exceptions, will be approve
md acted upon as long as the Government
ndures, have acted with the Wing
'arty too long to have any affinity for
capt. Tyler, to whose "uncovenanted mer
ies," Mr.. Mcknight felt inclined Il hope
nadvertantly) to hand me over: If my
idelity TO the principles upon which the
Harrison was borne into pc wer,
lad been less established than they were,
would not at this period of the admins
ration Of his successor; have been in Mis-
ssippi IL comfortable and lucrative
position in one of the departments at
had overbalanced my con,
of what was due to treason
md teachery to the wings as party, why
lave | declined to cooperate with him
ince the summer Of 184l. The eviden-
es of a tender Of Office under the redoubt-
bile occupant Of the White House, are
low in my possession and are at the SER
ice Of any one who doubts the state
nent: 1t has been we'll observed that it is
duty to makeup all breaches as soon as
hey appear, or rather by watchlulness to
,eep all so firm that no breach may APP
'ear-the evil of contention beng much
asier prevented than remeded,
d. GORDON.
August, 3lst l843.