Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-04-22

vnly know thal hs was reTy conspicuous q
the meeting, and made long, vspid, in
coherent harangue entirely devoid of tina
plain, strong common sense and argumen
which is calculated best TO please the PEG
pie up this way. The Generel talked
much OF the necessity for organization
and for enlightening the people, which
plainly argued that from his very shor
residence in, and lite association with the
people of this county, he had entirely IN
derrated the quantum of the intelligence
of our sovereigns; nine-tenths of whom
are as well informed as is The General
himself on political subjects, and some Of
whom, of his own party too, would be able
10 give him several degrees in political
science that he has not yet attained.
The resolutions which the meeting
adopted 60 for Clay first, then bank, with
their same old forfeited professions about
economy, retrenchment and reform, not
one Of which they will ever carry OUT
They haze now been long in power and
not one Of their promises have they per.
formed except in relation to the Bankrupt
Law. Processing economy they have in
creased the expenditures of the govern.
ment and brought it more deeply in debt
hating prescription, they made a boast
of dismissing from Office about 5000 in
very short period, from single depart
ment--pledging themselves to stand by
the principles of the compromise act, to
repair the disasters of the country, to re-
store the value Of property and afford re-
lief they have given US, instead of this,
Distrtut and Tariff laws, the inevita-
BILE tendency Of which is to depress the
price of our property and produce, and, if
persisted in, mike US in the end, the mere
10 northern manufactores--
But the people have swallowed the nostrums
of political quacks are made sick by them
and have cast them of, and will not risk
the danger to the body polite Of second
AS to the Bank question that
has become, indeed, so obsolete an idea,
that we were surprised to see its carcase
soemnly paraded in the wing meetng.--
To talk of bank now that the ability Of
the government 10 conduct its fiscal opera.
tons without one is so fully established
now that the old cry about exchanges is
50 completely put d1wn by the fuIfment
of the predictions Of the democratic party,
that under the hard money system specie
would flow up the Mississippi, and cxchan.
ges, if not equalizei, would be in favor of
the South--to talk of a bank, since these
things, and since the insolvency OF the late
bank, once the boast Of the whigs--its
frighful corruptions and systematic
schemes of plunder-its war upon the 60
vernment--its bribery at electons-con-
dcmnel as they all have been by the peo.
pie, is indeed strange, no, 10 say prcslmp.
tuous.
1t must be remarked that the resolutions
avoid all the real issues before the people.
The DISTRIBUTION question was lodged
the ASSUMPTION question now assuming so
formidable an aspect, was also dodged-
while the TARIFF question, upon which all
parties here in the South have proudly pro-
fessed to be united en- the ground of just
principle and clear interest, has-for the
first time IN the history Of parties in the
cotton State, and that too, while we are &C.
tually suffering under the expressions of
that odlous system, and when tariff
or no Tariffs made the teH question all over
the Union-been ingoriousIy dOdged-ard
tariffiies suffered TO pass without the usual
slap in The Jace, and the exclamation, Pro-
cuI' 0 PrOcut' este profani. The wings
must "leap the chasms" to be with Mr..
Cay on this question.
The meeting nominated Wm. Hardeman
Esq. Of this county for the Office of Treas
delegates TO State Con-
ventiOu, and agreed 10 hold county con-
vention in this place, on the 4th Monday
IN May next, to nominate candidates for
he Legislature.
PLANTERS BANK BONDS.