Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1844-01-06
HAMILTON MCKNIGHT.
For he Liberty Advocate.


III ma Nav Year. Welcome, welcome
.eae Many are the vicssitudos of fortune
~1.;rh have taken place in the year Just passed
~ and many no doubt will take place IN The
M*escnt. We hail this year as one, IN whicn a
&n-;ous ,riumph will be achieved.-Wc hali II
@sSnne which will be recorded in the brightest
- os American History. We hail it as one
Iwmb;cb our Country will be regcnerated--our
rngcynment purred Of those individuals wh-1e
nnIiev has been, "to the yictors belong inc
sDoils''--and elect to Office men who nave 'he
confidence Of the Countrywide con,laei1e :.
Enropc. and the confidence OF the wofla ~ iarg1
for President, such man is Henry ClN' u
Kentucky. Too long has our Country been III
\ ~ hands or n bipotcd faction The people were
hind TO their own interests-and not until the
Eleventh. hour did they open their cres--Sha
With the votes and voices of freemen, hurl that
action from power--but, alas, in the bloom o'
Nxictory, our lamcnted. Harrison was called TO
that bourne from whence no traveller returi~i
80 and TYLER TYLER IA wretch never named
Mithout curses and jeers," accidentally came IN
IA Ofice-and what has been the result, every
person who has his Countrys veal at heart, Is
we'll aware of. :,
81 Well, then, may the Wings OF the united
States welcome in the New 1ear--l shouio
remind them of TIE victory of lS40--it should
nerve their arms, and strengthen their hearts
for the coming contcst--it should unite :hai
great and patriotic band, from Maine TO Louis
ana. ms one man to meet the common enemy
Tho Whig tocsin has been sounded IN many
States of The Uuion--anda glorious response has
been tho result Massachusetts, has shaken on
Ahe woke. Maine hasnobly done her dug and Nir
rinia, noble Virginia is concentrating her forces
10 come to the rescue. IT'S true, we have oeer
beaten in Mississippi-but in what position DO the
victors and vanquished stand!-1he one Il reck
less banditti, spurned by ninetonths OF the civil
lied world, whose names will be named DOWN t(
s. posterity in conjunction with those oil rogues aho
repartces-and who now are marked with tht
spot of Reputation branded on their foreheads
4 while the curses of Widows and Orphans twhon
they have robbed--yes, openly robbedl are heap
ed on their devoted heads--while theSanqush
4 ed are lauded to the skies for their unceasng CT
forts TO rescue the State from her present dc
sgraded situation. Yes! Wings of Mississippi
we'll may you feel proud ofyourselves-you bat
tied MOLLY for honesty, but got dcteated-th
dark cloud of Loco-focoism has not yet passe
away--but despond not--your time is nigh a
hand--the cloud will soon pass over, and tn
J Sun of Truth and Whiglsm will SHINE WITH rf
doubled splendor.
How ono of you would feel, If travelling in
distant land, when in conversation, you sal
YOU advocated the payment of the MISSISSIPPI
Union Bank Bonds, while at your side, stood
repudiator You would be taken by the hand
you would be admitted into society-wherea'
The other would be marked as dishonest man
nay, the very spot he stood on would be reckon
"a unhallowed. What would be his feelings,
q mother with her child stood by his side, appa
emily suffering from want of food and ralmen
and say this is the cause of your repudlation-
you have got my all, and you have kept It, an
mis- is the consequence What his feelings wou
Ne, none but repudator can describe.
Wings, an eventful crisis, is nigh at hand-u
prosperity ofyour Country is at stake-let yo'
cattle cry be, Henry Clay and Liberty--wi'
one determined effort, burst the Bonds whit
now bind you asunder, and show to the Worl
that Mississippi will again take her place amor
the several States Of the Union, free and untrar
siielled, and that neither loo ,.focoism or reput
alton can prevent you from casting your mite {
the "Gallant Harry of the West"
A MISSISSIPPI WING.