Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1844-11-30

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Of laItll
Before the election Of 1910 the Jack
sonian party (now merged IN what wer
then but parts of IL, locofocolsm and ia
cOblsm) made continual and most clamor
Gus use Of tho military services OF Gen
Jackson, as emitting him to the yerl
highest cip il trusts; They now "thanl
heaven" IN tho most lervent reiterat0n
see the Democratic RcUie'o,) that thei
candidate is no "hero;" of being which
ind eed, there has never been any aIIega
ton nor Of which is there the sightes
suspicion against him.
They sang pBans over the battles O
their m litary candidate; aud hey now
magnify their candidate for qualities the
very opposite.
They were delighted with Gen. Jack
son because he had none but a military
capacity; they were enchanted with Mr.
Van Buren, because he had none but paci.
nc ablIi lies; and they are transported with
Mr. Polk because he has no talents at all.
Gen. Jackson'S repeated vloences, the
hardhood with which he trampIed upon
law, the small account which he made OF
mems lives, we're to them the most graft.
flying pledges Of an honesty that scorned
all trick, craft, indirection. With Mr..
Van Buren, they were won by his adrot
ness, his lndirectneSs, his straightforward.
Mr.. Polk possesses neither the strong
hand of one, nor the sleght-ofhand OF
the other; and they are quite as ready to
support one who is no cOyurer as they but
lately we're to go for magician.
Whether Gen. jackson went for i" iu-
dlcious tariff" (Which might mean any
sort of tariff or for one which might
make u9 independent Of foreign ma.
tlonS;" whether he was bent on enforcing
by arms "lhe bill of denominations" or
upon pulling down duties to a maximum
OF 20 per centum, his tariff notions always
pleased them. fhe said "black," it was
black; if he said "white," it was white; il
he SAID "black and whi'e," it was both.
So OF his successor, whom they approved
as man that had voted for all the high
tariffs; and whom they equally applaud as
a free trade man. So. OF Mr.. Polk, whom
they support in all the South and West as
Tree trade man out and out, while they
know that he has attempted, by his letter
to Mr.. Kane to pass himself upon Pennsyi-
wanna, as protectlonISt!
In every thing they give the same wide
latitude to ocolocosm. Whichever ex-
IRENE 1t takes, the last is always the on
ly 'pure doctriue," the genuine and orr.
glnaI republican creed" Nothing was
50 democratic as when Gen. jackson adj
VIsed Mr.. Monroe mot to regard party in
appointments TO office; and Governor
Marcy'S "SPoils principle" is now equally
Indeed, his shameful "princi-
lie" must be confessed 10 be almost the
'nly one aVowed by the party which it
erIously respects IN practice. A bank O { !
he United States and no National Bank
State Banks and no Slate Banks; Sub.
reasury and no Subtreasury. Distribu
ion OF the Public Lands, and no Distribu-
ion; Distribution Of The Surplus Revenue
nd the contrary; a constitutional cur
ency OF gold and silver only" and in
IructIons 10 the pet banks 10 ''expand
heir lssues;""hard money" and Treasury
oles-these and many other such mon
IrouS contradictions they continually ex-
tilt, while they denounce Mr.. CLAY for ,
avIng, with nearly all the rest OF the
Id Republican party, changed his opin- !
IN, between 1911 and 1916, on the single q
ues'ion Of aNatonal Bank. {
But the immediate fact to which, above ;,
Il others, we mean just now TO call the
lbIlc attention, was the charge they
ave SO much vocilerea Ted against the
hlgs OF resorting to bribery in the cleo il
onS. :,
Now, in the first place, what is the open |
shat TO the victors belong Id
e spoils," but direct binding for merce- h
Try supporters whom they promise to Il
~, not with party funds, but the public
oney, IN the shape Of a fat Office or con-
ACT? t
Who but the locolocos ever thought of
e despica BILE and corrupt resort oil levy IL
g upon all office holders an al uatorem II
riff OF their salaries TO make an cleo
'neeriug fund.-
They accused the wings of pipe.laying, II
d their Witnesses we're men shown to u
unfit TO be believed on oath, by their
N testimony, that they had been The B
enIs OF the iniquity. Nothing there
re, was JudlclalIy proved. But how has
been in the late Baltimore cIeclion2
lere numerous convictions of fraudu. uG
It voting have lately been made in court; h