The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-01-16
GANToN, MlssIssIPPI, -sAE1URDAY, JANUARY 10, ls4g.
Sir Robert walker and the working

Sir Robert walker and the Working
Man.
We have a knowledge Of Sir Roberts solici.
tude for the poor man, ever since he went to
land sales at Chocchuma, barricaded with an
hundred thousand dollars, in Agricultural
Bank paper, "a deposite bank issuing the "bet-
ter currency'O to speculate, in combination
with other land iobbers and companies, upon
the labor and toll of the settler. A learned
essay from Hannah upon humanity or from
Warren Hastings upon the moral enormity Of
extortion and rapine, would not be more anus
ing to US than Sir Roberts transcendental es-
says, in the form Of official reports, upon the
rights and interests of the poor. In practice,
he has done more TO break down the interest
Of the lGborer than any man that ever came to-
the South to speculate upon her credulity.-
This is saying a good deal, we know, but
then we know it to be true. We may leave
out Of view entirely his land speculations, his
craftsmanship in one Of the famous land com
panies, which will be remembered as long as
fraud has d name in the roll Of infamy, and
place the soundncss of our assertion Oh the
single point of tho efficient support he gave to
the deposite bank system or the system Of "bet-
ter currency" 1t is true, he faltered for a mo-
ment in giving in his adhesion to the State
bank system, and cursed Gen. jackson roundly
for his unauthorized conduct in the premises.
But finding the shelter currency" did net sink
the old Hero as he feared and expected, he i'm
mediately slapped upon the storm and rode it as
ostentatiously as ever monkey stradd'ed a pony
in a meuagery; and he kept his seat gaily and
impudently until the state banks "lei down.
and then lie vented his wrath upon them, ant
kicked their lean and worried carcasses al
iercely as any bank borrower the State OF Mis-
sissippi has ever known. This was hard kick
ing, to be sure, but it lie nevertheless rigid,
, true. Lands and banks having failed him, h
: has now turned to preaching homilies upon III
interests Of the poor man. We venture tn
! suggestion that, before a man who has figure
so extensively amid scenes, and connected strs
:. tagems to undermine the rights OF the poor s
4 conspicuously us he has, he should at lea'
e serve an apprenticeship to the wants, privation
and necessities of the "poor man" ere b
o thrusts himself upon them as a preacher TO CT
8 tighten them upon their rights and interests
Though honesty has long demanded Of hi
f such serUlce, yet never for a moment has he l.
if himself down from the luxury and exlrav
/. gance Of a man "rich and having need of not
ing,'' to the level Of him whois straitened wi
u want and suffers privation, that he might loo
an honest creditor iu the face with a conscien'
void of offence. Far from it: we are credib
.e informed he is even now--in despite of hu
dreds of thousands of nHlla bonds in Miss
ST sippi-an immense land holder in Texas,
a enhance the value Of which, we have no dou|
Id is one motive at the bottom Of the expense
IN and bloody war we are now engaged in. "
al hope to see the day when no man will be p
N. mitted to speculate in public lands. 1t grGq
u Texas before the time; but "annexation"
,er not build up fortunes, political or personal,
on soon as was anticipated; hence we were P
en- cipitated into a war that blood might float p'
&C. tical pigmies to Office and selfish speculat
I'm into splendid fortunes.-Southron,