Holly Springs gazette., 1843-10-27

very floor Of Congress. where national faith
and pubic honesty shoulI be deemed too sa
cied a principle even to be discussed, or
reasoned UPON, and by 90 doing. they sub
ljected themselves to the scorn and contsmp,
Of their own democratic friends The re
pudialiog Legislature, In the confidence O
| their Strength, rejected the resolution OF on
talented fellow-citizen, Gen. A b. BRAD
FORD. 10 submit the question to the decision
of the courts of the country as they them
selves had first offered They voted down
almost unanimously, proposition to put the
Union Bank in liquidation. and apply her
assets TO The payment of the bonds. They
contenled themselves with Bombas:es Flu
rioso set Of r, solutions, declaring the State
mot bound for the bonds" and came home
as they won't. -
They have discovered that n large ma
jority ofthe people have opened their eyes
upon this subject, and the v endeavor 10 avoid
the bond question. A respectable number
OF the democratic party openly proclaim
that population must and shall be put down
They say it is an excressence upon democ
racy which belongs not to it, and shall be
Topped off Instead of trumpeting repuda
ton as they did in l84l. the very same can
didates now declare that il has been forced
upon-lhem. That which they seized with |
so much ayidity, and devoured with gusto }.
in Al has now become gall and worm W. ood !
and has to be forced down their throats E. |
ven Jacob Thompson, the author ofthe~
Webster letter. after riding the black char
ger and cavorting upon him through the
state in IS4l, has now turned the faithful
old hack ou: to grass He tells he people
that he is concerned with federal politics.
and not matters of State policy. The spell
Of humbug is broken and he throws aside
his magic wand. The reign Of repddia
ion is fast approaching its final and eternal
grave, in Mississippi The ship is sinking
and the rats and vermin are fast leaving the !,
wreck. The people have seen the necess
y Of collecting Immediately the assets ofthe !,
Union Bank and giving them up TO the
'ond holders. They have seen the course
'ursued by the repudiators upon this subject,
nd they are not willing to trust them again.
they have seen them not only refusing TO h
ave the bank debts collected. but actually
ndeavoring TO pass law to release the a
ebtors of all the banks from the payment OF 81
leir honest debts, by the infamous "Bris- 81
oe bill" They have seen the efforts OF The
epudiators to throw dust in their eyes, BY a
ousing their party prtjudices They are s.
xhorted .'not 10 defeat the democracy. mot q
permit Henry Clay 10 carry Mississippi n
lot to suffer the federaIists to triumph b
,ut they are answered IN the lam "
uage of the bond paying democrats p
f Natchez. They will not be induced TO
lect set of men to legslate for them. who 7
will let the four and half millions Of assets
\ the bank be lost and who will place the u
ap stone upon repudiaton by releasing all n
ank debtors, and permitting them to revel E
n .heir i'll gotten gains, by the senseless cry Il
f "hurrah for democracy" or as an old !
riend Of ours would say, 'hurrah for liber- p
y.- honesty and democracy" 8
We haveno more doubt of the election of r
CLAYTON for Governor, than we have that u
We are holding our pen at this moment s
rhe accounts from all quarters are of the =
most cheering kind. We believe that we c,
gIl have a bond paying legislature. la p
everal strong democratic counties. there is at
o repudia,or in the field. and the wings are :. :.
nited upon bond paying democrat. In
Their counties the bond democrats are run a.
ing wings, believing this to be the only d.
important issue before the people. $
Graves has published a foolish, vulgar d