The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1851-08-22

both houses in 1886. He made speech
against the Union Bank charter and boldly took
| the ground in thai speech that one generation
could not borrow and spend money and leave
another generation to pay it. lie opposed at
/ that session all restrictions sought TO be put IN
the back charters. Opposed engrafing pro-
visions authorlsng their repeal-yistations,
/ &c. He was then an out aud out bank man,
as his votes will prove.
Tn the fall Of 1886 he resigned his seat in
the Senate and run on the wing ticket for Coti-
gress, and was badly beaten by Judge Gholson.
/ He united.that year with the wings in bringing
out ticket for White and Tyler in opposition
to the regularly nominated ticket favorable TO
Van Buren and Johnson.
| In 1897 he was concerned wifi Prentfss IN
denying to the Chickasaw members the right
t of taking their seats in the House.
i In July 1897 be voted for Prentiss and Acee
! for Congress, and against the democratic can
didates Claiborne and Gholson. In the ensu4
ing November he voted for Morgan for Cow
ernor and went the entire whig ticket for Con-
gress, district and county officers.
In April 1888, he again voted for Prentiss
and Word for Congress and against Claiborne
and Gholson. The election of Prentss and
Word that year, aided by the treaohery Of tbs
conservatives, turned the scale in Congress,
and defeated the sub-treasury bill. Gen. Quit
man the same year voted for Sas Brown,
whig, for State treasurer, in opposition to the
; democratic candidate.
In 1889 he voted for his family connection
Edward Turner for Governor, and sfHdsy 0tTz
er wings for State and county Offices
In 1910 he took no part in The canvass be-
, tween Van Buren, and Harrison; and we be-
lieve that no one knows how he voted-when
and where he voted, or whether he voted at all.
> Give US light on this subject General! The
! same year he denounced Gov. McNutts procia-
! nation in relation to the Union Bank Bonds.
3 In 184l he was warm advocate of the pays
/ ment of the Union Bank Bonds-voted sor
!, Shattuck, whig, in opposition to Tucker, and
!. sustained several other wings at that election
! for State, district and county Offices
In 1843 he was member of the February
|. convention, and was thus pledged to support
! the nominees thereof he was dissatisfied
!, however-bond payers were not then nomina-
i ted-kicked up fuss in the party, aud came
!. within one vote of being ruled out of the DEM
: ociatic Association of Adams. The same year
!. he refused TO sustain the July nominations of
= the democratic party, and aided by few law
q yers brought out a bond paying ticket for Gov
+ ernor, four bond payers for Congress, and aid
q ed in establishing the STATESMAN" at Jackson
He also in November, voted for Williams for
Governor, and for four bond payers for Con-
gress, and is believed to have voted for the
whig candidates for Senators of State-Aud-
at itor and Treasurer.
IN In 1914 he opposed Van Buren's nomination
a. by the Baltimore convention. In November,
n 1914 ne voted for the Polk electors.
OIL In March lS45, a small meeting and supper
to was gotten up in Natchez, to celebrate tho
I'd birthday of Gen. Jackson, whose adminstra-
re ton he never sustained, whom he voted against
's. in 1924 and 1928. He made speech At that
tx celebration, and was nominated for Senator in
ne Congress- when not more than one tenth OF tbs
10 democratic party OF Adams county were pres
n ent, and many of these were friends of McNutt,
C. and supposing the nomination merely compli-
m mentary to the General, let it pass. Recently
In the would-b be great organ Of the North comes
n, out boldly for Quitnan, and claims the right of
naming the person in the South who shall be
n Senator. DID Gen. Quitman, when director
Id in the Planters Bank favor the purchase of the
I'd u. States by the Planters Bankl This unwise
We purchase broke the Planters Bank. He was
O. the first President Of the Natchez Rail Road
rs Bank-the yest shinplaster shop in the land
In 1889 he got the States stock transferred
a to the band over which he presided-=took said
of stock to Europe and offered it TO the BaringsS
Hopes, Rothschilds,
to -, and others-Jew Brokers, but could not
IN draw the wool over their eyes. He returned
home and found his old hulk Of Bank on a
re lea shere-took the hong boat-got out, and
became an attorney of the bank, and got some
he pickings out Of the rotton concern.
z, In another letter will review the article in
s. the Mississippan, signed an "Old Democrat"
M sspplaudng Gen. Quitman. tits not my inten-
n ton to say any thing unkind Of him, for per.
ly sonaly he has my warmest regard. Should |
nd a.
e. must Law the blame on his oyer-zeaIons friends,
at who advocate his pretensioas on sseil grounds.
lg trust, sir, that you will publish in the Or
On ganizer this communication Slight errors
may be found perhaps in some of the state-
es naents, but they are in the main substantially
ct correct Ifyou are Dill-atory in publishing my
rs letter you viii subject yourself to the imputa-
Sc tion ofkeeping the many merits OF your fayor-
On ite hid under abushel.
Ak Yonr paper is, believe, the first and only
ce one in the State, which has assumed the adyo-
Lsl cacy of Gen. Quitman's claims, or | should
If. rather say pretensions to the vacant Senator
k ship, and YOU live in section of the State
ne where in truth he is comparatively unknown.
te Had YOU cortented yourself with merely adv5-
it, eating them without assailiug Ex-Go1ernor
ly McNutt, it would have shown spirit of fair
ch ness at which we would have been the last to
d. have cavilled; but as you have seen fit TO pur-
IS. sue an opposite course, you have compelled his
he friends to raise the cudgels in his defence, and
you will find them determined to carry the war
or into Africa.
n In conclusion, permit me to assure you tlFas
you will not advance the pretensions of your
of favorite by assailing McNutt. Many politicians
n have ruined their prospects by reyiling him,
* Quitman you are biting flel HUME.
sir
nd NoTE-aThere is another man whose vaul-
he ting ambition oyersteps itself" That man is
John A. Quitman, man who for years aspired
at to be considered the head and front of
RS the whig party in Mississippi man whom
I'D the whigsgreposed unlimited confidence nj, aRd
te upon whom tthey would have conferred any
e. office within their gift, to him too the temper
he came, &C., Editorial Vicksbug Wing
nh .July IL, l649
he s,The Hon. John A. 0uitman is the whig
s. candidate for Representative to Congress, to
ID fill the vacancy oecasioned by the death Of
he General Dickson. = Vicksburg Register, Oct.
pe goth, 1886.
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