The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1856-05-08
Gov. Brown.

Roy's Sun has a just and timely ar
ticle in relation to the distinguished
Representative of Mississippi in the
United States Senate. The Sun says
truly-"Senator Brown occupies at
this time, a position, of which any
magnate in the land might feel proud.
His recent speech on the subject ofour
relations with England, has placed
him high on the roll of fame, and ad-
ded still brighter eflulgcnce to his
honored cscutcheon.
This gentleman has been prominent
before the people of Mississippi from
his earliest manhood, andsin every po-
sition in which his constituency have
at different times placed him, he has
dcportcd himself so as to win their
approving smiles, and receive the
plaudit of well done, thou good and
faithful servant
| Whether as Governor of the State,
Representative in Congress, or as L.
States Senator, (the position he now
adorns) we find him to be the same
consistent democrat, gifted States
man, and the same high-toned man of
honor, who noble ends attained by
noble MEANS, and who never COM
promised his principles for the sake of
furthering his own personal caprices.
Senator Brown was among the first
leading men of the South to take a
position upon the Know Nothing ques-
ton. as a letter we have now in our
possession fully confirms. From its
very inception he denounced it indig-
nantly as species of Federalism
brought into being by designing dema-
gogues for the purpo' officiating the
democratic party, and rising upon its
ruins TO place and power. During
the exciting canvass Of '55 his elo-
quent voice was heard upon every
husting advocating the cherished prin
ciplcs of democracy and reprobating
the odious and proscriptivc dogmas
of pseudo Americanism in language
unsurpassed for strength and beauty,
and in arguments both convincing and
irrefutablc."
The Sun might have alluded also
to the distinguished services Gov.
Brown has rendered to the cause OF
right principles in the political con
tests of this State, ever since he came
upon the stage of public life. We
know ofno man in the State who has
rendered more essential service 10 the
cause of Democracy, or to whom the
democrats of Mississippi are more in
debtcd for the present asccndency
their principles have obtained. In
every doubtful struggle he has thrown
the whole energies of his nature into
the conflict. Where the fight has
ragged ficrccst his falchion has flashed
brightest, and the Democratic flag
when entrusted to him, has never
been struck to its enemies. In the
election of 1851, when the State
swung loose from her Democratic
moorings, Governor Browns popu-
larity and influence preserved his dis
trict unshaken and secured his cleo
ton to Congress. A rallying ground
was thus left us, and the redemption
which has since taken place, is due, in
no small degree, to the successful la.
bors of Governor Brown at that unfor-
tunate period. In the trying contest
of last year, alluded to by the Sun
when the democracy had to meet q
foe, whose strength they had no relia-
BILE means of ofjudging, but who assur.
ed us that they had pledged to their
cause a majority of the qualified vo-
ters of the State, Gov. Brown, though
not a candidate before the people foI
+ any office, laid his party friends under
renewed obligations by taking the
field with the zeal and energy SO char
acteristic of his nature, and assisting
by his impregnablc logic and persua'
sive eloquence to break the spell
which the specious demagogry of X
Nothingism had thrown around thou
} sands of patriotic, though unsuspec
ting democrats.
The people ofMississippi, and par
ticularIy the democratic portion o.
them, owe it to themselves and to the
| best interests of the State, to cherish
) and sustain public servant who has
beep so unwaveringly devoted to the
public good-who is so thoroughly ac
quainted with the diversified affairs
, of the Government-State and Fed
eral-and who has shown himself sc
ready on all occasions to put forth his
f great powers in defence of the con.
| stitutional principles of Jefferson and
t Madison-the triumph of which is sc
essential to the security of Southern
; rights and eqality, in these days o
, new-fangled ideas and isms.-Pdui
: ding Clarion.
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