Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-01-24
LIBERTY, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY, JANUARY a. 1876


her contributions to the national wealth.
IOur southern coast Tor three hundred
miles is undefended; scarcely a light
house to direct the storm-beaten mariner
has been erected. Not an arsenal nor
fort is built on our shores. The nation
liberal to C rs, but parsimonious to US
has not c. Surveyed our coast. har.
Dor equal almost any 90 the Atlantic,
was tier known TO British seamen in
l8l2-15 than to American statesmen IN
l946 Are we members Of The same fam
lily, or are we strangers to the 5isterhood
OF states, that our interests are thus ne
elected and our safety set at nought?
f we were competent Cor congress to
aid in the construction of the Wabash
canal with grant from the public do.
main, why may not the rivers hat spann
our stale in all directions and bear upon
their blooms the rich products of our soil
demand like contributions from the ma
TONS bounty. The Pearl, Yazoo, Black,
TaIlahatchie and other rivers are as inn
portant TO US in their nayigf ion as the
Wabash canal can be 10 any portion OF the
western people.
For years and years, Mississippi hos
appealed, but she has appealed in vain,
for graduation in the price of the pub
lie lands,--The older states have clung
TO these lands with miSeg's iron grasp
GIoating over the prospect Of gain, they
have regarded each dollar wrung from
the reluctant grasp OF the hardy settler,
as so much added to their Golfers. In a
lucky hour the principle o! graduation
was migrated into the treaty with the
Chickas Indians. Witness its fruits.
In ten years, the lands ceded by the Chick.
asaw tribe, have made more advances in
population, and in agriculture than those
in the Choctaw cession have in twice that
number of years. We have seen the less
productive lands in the c hocaw cession
90 unculivated for almost quarter of "a
century, and thrifty population, such as
would DO credit to any state, driven west,
where the more liberal government OF
Texas gave them lands on better terms.
Our appeals must be renewed. The poll
cy Of the United States will ultimately
ndnc her to listen to our petitions.
The feeling is now for war-war with
England; a war in which we are TO be
the greatest sufferers. This war will give
impetus 10 New England manufactures,
and open new and profitable markets for
western produce: to US it will bring blight
and desoaton. Our hearths, now happy
nd cheerful, will become lonely and des-
olate--our fields, no longer covered with
a snowy white staple and enlvened by
the negroes happy song, will grow up in
thorns and thick weeds, and become the
resting place Of reptiles and il.omencd
birds. YET are aoe ready for lie crisis.
Let no one doubt our feaIty to the general
good-let no one say that Mississippi will
be uE faithful to the national honor-Iet
her but know that her cause is just, and
she viii march to victory or death. Let
the nation be faithful to herself and to US
let her stand by her Presiden: who "has
asked Tor nothing but what is right" and
who has already sworn upon the altar OF
his country,s glory, that she will submit
to nothing which is wrongs" and if for
this, England wages war upon US, why,
let it come--in Gods name let it come.
In such cause, there is not a tongue
that would not cry for war; and though
houses were burned and cities sacked,
AMI though biting hunger should cen
claim us for its victims, still our voice
would be for war:--and our mothers, the
matrons of the land, would cheer US in
this goodly work. Like the mother Of
the Spartan heroes, they would bid US re-
turn from such conflict" with our shields,
or upon them With England must ev-
or rest the question of peace or war
We crave on honorable peace, and if this
be denied US, we ask for war. | pray
that Justice may hold the scales in the
hands Of England, and that the genius 0 Il
peare may preside over her deliberations.
With no disposition to trespass further
on your indulgence, | conclude with an
earnest wish that you the people may bel
united in all your efforts 10 promote theI
public good; and that the counsels OF your
under the supervision of
Divine Providence, may be directed toI
the union Of the States, the happiness OF
the people, and the perpeluity Of liberty,
and universal peace among men,
ALBERT G. BROWN.
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