Holly Springs gazette., 1844-03-02
MASS MEETING AT MEMPHIS.

MASS MEETING AT MEMPHIS.
The late whig Convention at Sommer-
Vile, among other excellent resolutions,
adopted one proposing to hold a general
mass meeting of the wings of the Mississippi
Valley at Memphis on the last Wednesday
in May next. We hail the proposition
with the utmost pleasure. The time and
place, we would think would be acceptable
to the wings of Arkansas, Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi, Missouri Kentucky and Louisiana
This is the right spirit Let the ball be SET
in motion, for the Southwest, by general
convention at Memphis. and it will be the
signal for State and District and County
meetings throughout the country. The bat
tie of I840 is to be fought over again The
same questions are now at issue, before the
country. A sound National currency, fur
nished BY specie paying State Banks. regu-
lated and kept sound by National Institu-
IiV"' e5~ins' hard money humbug, with
ITS accompaniment of shin-PIastor issues and
irredeemable trash. A safe place of depos-
lie for the public funds; such one as pass.
ed unscathed through the ordeai of forty
years experience, against the subtreasury,
with lis accompaniments of Swartwout.
Price, Boyd and host of hungry default
ers who are even now like comorarts eve
ing the prey in the distance longing for one
more surfeit upon Treasury pap A tariff
with a moderate but sufficient discrimina-
ton in favor of home industry, against the
free trade theory ola majority Of the loco
toco party A faithful administration of
the public domain, with an equitable distri-
button among the several States an hon.
est and economical administration OF the
government and inveterate hostility TO the
return of the administration which squan.
dered the public money at the rate of $50,
O00,000 per annum.
We open this canvass under more favora-
bic auspices than that oflS4O. We have
now at our head the leader upon whom aIl
eyes centered to relieve ;he country from the
load Of corruption with which it was burden
ed in 1910. and who has ever been the mas
ter spirit in times of emergency Another
was chosen to lead US to victory. ard our
gallant champion shouldered his musket
and fought manfuIly ia the ranks Mr.
Clay is the only man even named by our
party in connexion with the Presidency, and
we verify believe there is not democratic
whig from Maine to Louisiana who will
not cordially support him. 1t is not neces-
sary to compare our concord with the dis
cord Of locofocoism. for their family quarrel
has been notoriously public, and The efforts
of Blair and Richie to flatter ard soothe and
cajole and patch up grievances and keep
them together, have afforded hearty laugh
TO many lover Of the ridiculous. The 10.
cofoco party seem madly bent upon fighting
the old battle over again, and TO assimiIate
this canvass as much as possible to that Of |
1910. they have brought forward Martin
Van Buren,. who was so badly whipped in
l540. that one would suppose he was salts
fed He and his locofoco party will find
Us as well prepared now as then. 10 main
tain the constitution and the peoples rights,
and instead of seven states. we will leave
him but four 10 condole with him in his re-
irement to the domestic felicities of Kinder
hook and sour krout