Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser., July 17, 1841, Image 1

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: .OAKROLLTON, 'MISSISSIPPI,. SATURDAY JULY 17, 1811.
VOL. I. NO. 31.
east quarter section 25, township twenty-four, range
two east, containing 241 and 62 hundredths acres
was purchased by Wm M.Beal. on Cth December
eighteen hundred and thirty-four. Printer fee 14d
"Also- the easthalf south east quarter section twen-tr-eio-ht,
township twenty-four, range two east, con
taining 79 and eighty-eight hundredth acres; was
purchased by A . S. Campbell &. C. Dart, on 6th Dec.
eighteen hundred and thirty-four. Pr fee eight dolls.
Also; the west half of southeast quarter, and east
half south west quarter section twenty-eight, town.
24, range two east, containing 159 and 76 hundredths
acres; was purchased by A. S. Campbell C Dart,
on Dec 20, 1834. Pr. fee ten dollars.
Also; the north half and west half south east qr.
section 32, township twenty-four, range two east,
containing 477 and SO hundredths acres: was purcha
sed by Wm M. Beal on 6th Dec 1831. Pr fee 15d
Also; Lot No. 16, section 6, township twenty-four,
range one east, containing 32 and 35 hundredths acres
was purchased by Wm 11. Whitaer on Dec 4 1834.
Printer fee eight dols ;
Also; Lots No. 3 and 16, section eight, township
24, range one east, containing 96 and 64 hundredths
acres, was purchased by 4 Wm. II. Whitaker, on 4th
December 1834. Printer fee eight dollars.
Also; Lots No. 4 and 5, section eiht, township 24
range one east, containing 76 and 50 hundredths acres
was purchased by Wm H. Whitaker on 4th Decem
ber 1834. Printer fee ei ht dollars.
" AlsojLots eleven, twelve and thirceeu, section 8,'
township twennty-four, range one east, containing
117 and 98 hundredths acres; was purchased by Wm.
II. Whitaker on 4th Dec 1834. Printer fee lOd.
Levied on the above described lands to sat
isfy the State and County Tax due thereon,
as above mentioned. This 16th day of June,
1841.
JJYO. if. MONTGOMERY,
lsscssor 4f Collector
Of Tallahatchie County.
fin the presence of
A. B. BETTS, &
E. E. ARMSTRONG.
Charleston, Miss. June 16th, 1841. 3m.
Prospectus ,
Tor publishing in the town of Carrolllonf Car
roll county, Miss., a iceekly paper to be enti
tled the
Southern Pioneer,
(by g. w. h. BROWN. ) -
UNDER the above title of the "Southern Pio
neer," we propose to publish in the town of
Carrollton, anew Weekly Paper, devoted to Politics,
both State and National, Agriculture, the current
news of the day, and the advancement of the great
cause' of Education This paper will be devoted to
what its conductor believes to be the best interests of
the State and county. It will advocate the great Whig
cause which you have recently seen so signally trium-
great Whig party as the tenets of its ' political creed, I
are the only true ones on which this Government was
originally founded, and on which it should be admin
lor.thisnaiier willlend to those principles, when-
o -rA ivViPTPver esDOUsed. its humble but cordiaV
support
Republican Whig Ticket.
For Governor,
DAVID O, SnAXTUtK, of Carroll
For Congress, :
ADAM L. BINGAMAN, of Adams,
WILLIAM R. HARLEY, of Marshall.
For Secretary of State.
LEWIS G. GALLOWAY, of Holmes.
For Auditor of Public Accounts,
JAMES J. ALLEN, of Hinds,
For State Treasurer,
ILLI AM G. CRAW LEY, of Perry.
For Attorney General,
ROBERT HUGHES, of Hinds.
THE POSITION OF PARTIES.
We invite attention to the article under this
head, which we copy from the Natchez Cou
rier, while it discloses the true position of par
ties in Mississippi it exposes the cunning and
duplicity which has always characterised loco-
focism. The great mass of the loco-foco par
ty have suflerred the anti-bond payers -to nom
inate a ticket for State officers and members of
Congress, and while thousands of them avow
themselves in favor of paying the bonds, they
will yet vote the entire anti-bond paying tick
et, because the men composing it are uncom
promising dyed in the wool loco-focos. On
the other hand the whigs have nominated a
ticket of thorough-going whigs who are in fa
vor of paying the bonds. In this position of
affairs the anti-bond payers have attempted
to create a division in our camp in their favor,
by crying out no party! no party I They de
claim loudly about a measure of State policy
arid very cenerouslv ask the w hies to ioin
thorn on the bond question, without regard tdtortncIDal and interest
National politics TfiiilrcquStexl 'and all our examina-
ly modest in the loco-focos, and is perfectly! turns of the subject confirm us in that opinion,
vviuie we uavcei luasce me ursi jJiuusiOie ar
anti-bond ticket! Is there upon -it the name
lofcone single whig? No, every man-uponjft
is steeped to the ears in v the radical doctrines
of Ioco-focoism! And yet, thi3 is the ticket
that whigs are 6alled upon to support. It is
for the elevation to power, of men always op
posed to us that we are now called upon to
surrender principles which we have ever dee
med essential to the preservation of our-free
institutions, and the perpetuity of our govern-1
ment. A most modest request truly! We
marvel greatly that any one should be found'
so unreasonable as to , oppose this moderate
demand. But in this county their modesty is
carried even farther. Here we are called up
on to vote for a man who has just left our
ranks and gone over to the enemy. They
will not offer us an anti-bond-paying whig, as
a candidate to represent the city and county,
oh no! we must vote for Thomas J. Green, a
man who has abandoned both his party and
his principles, and thrown himself into the
embraces of loco-focoism. Here with 500
whig majority we are called upon to elect a
loco-foco, because a few noisy radicals are in
favor of the State turning swindler. TFill
the whig be gulled by such a shallow device?
TFill the "Banner County" suffer her proud
escutcheon to be stained by such an unholy
combination? TFe cannot, we will not believe
it. - Vicksburg Whig.
No man or set of men, will be by us unscrupulously
siKstnined at the expense of principle, "Principles
sot men," is our motto by this rule shall we be gov
vmoA nd in snhiectine-all to this test, we shall as we
find them, judge with impartiality, admonish with
canaor. anu re ureneiiu wiiujuouw. - - - . , . , , .
neersinthe greatcauseot political rrum, we snaii wmmiji nij avpi muu uu..u i i..
ever point to me caramai vihucj m jow-w. exiremesi tension. tut now wnen iney are
perfectly
characteristic of them. For years they have
had undisputed possession of the State and
National Governments, and during that whole
time we do not remember a single instance
when they as a party suffered the party lines
to be slackened in the slightest degree, on the
' FROM THE VICKSBURG WIIIO.
HISTORY OF THE STATE BONDS No 4
In preceding numbers, we think we have
succeeded in convincing the most sceptical
that the bonds issued for the benefit of tiie
Union Bank, were issued in strict accordance
with the constitution, and that in the sale of
them the' very letter and spirit of the charter
was scrupulously obeyed. If then, we have
succeeded in establishing these two proposi
tions, it follows as inevitably as night follows
morning, that the State is bound legally for
the payment of the interest on the bonds as
they severally fall due, and for the ultimate re
demption of the whole issue. That the State
is legally bound for the payment ofboth the
we most nonestiy ana
point to the cardinal virtues of a representative extremest tension.
Government. Jbut, tne interests y our otai. .u -Qtrilfo A , . n iUt cnAntrA hPnr,r,Prl frnrYV
shall receive at our . r" w-",lA" "";v" '"v i
and the
mnre nnTtiP.lllflTl V of Our COUntV,
hands a constant and an earnest advocacy. While
our sister counties have been the object of Legislative
action, and Executive patronage, the county of Carroll
has remained comparatively unknown and unappre
ciated. It shall therefore be our pride, as-well as our
duty, to develope its vast resources and point out its
numerous advantages. The cause of education, the
cause of enlightened and progressive civilization, the
only true bulwark of a nationTs freedom, shall receive
that attention its importance demands. In fine, as
humble Pioneers in the great crusade against igno
Tprre nnd error, we shall shoulder our mattock and
shovel, and taking our place in the great march of
modern improvement, our course snail ever ue as iviar
mionsaid to Stanly,' -Onward."
TERMS. The "Pioneer" will be published every
Saturday morning at five dollars in advance, or
six dollars at the expiration of six months, or six
DOLLAKs fifty at the end ot the year
KrNO PAPER WILL BE DISCONTINUED
UNTIL ALL ARREARAGES ARE PAID.
" ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the rate of One
Dollal and Fifty Cents per square ( ) for
thefitst. and One Dollar for each .subsequent in
sertion. The number of insertions must be marked
upon the ms. or it will be published until ordered
out, and charged accordingly.
ft7-From one to ten lines constitute a square
. Artirlfis of a nersonal nature, whenever admitted
will h o.haro-ed at double the above rates. Politica!
n'.riMilara nr nuMifi addresses, for the benefi of indi
vidual or companies, charged as advertisements.
Announcing candidates for offiice $10 each.
Yearly Advertising. For forty - lines, or less
renewable at pleasure, each week, $ho.
"(gjrBitts for advertising are due when the work is
donftjand MUST, be paid wnenever cauea ior.
. JOB PRINTING.
Itt-In connection with the Pioneer Office, is a large
assortment ot new ana lasmonaoie jt aux a
wbiVh nnables us to execute all orders for Job Print
Incr in fine stvle. We solicit patronage in this line
at prices the same as other well regulated offices in
Mississippi. Urders irom jxuornvya, wwjwi.wmwjjw
&c, promptly attended to.
AT TOT? WORK CASH.
Letters or. Communications to the publisher mus
be postpaid, or they will not be taken out.
long are
raise a new question and graciously call upon
he whigs to join them. We know not which
most to despise, the impudence of the loco-focos,
or the infatuation of those whigs, who
seem disposed to lend a willing ear to their in-
amous and dishonest counsel. What, in Gods
name except disgrace and infamy are we to
get by a Union with such a party? We know
hey are a corrupt and unprincipled faction
a faction that has already involved this State
in ruin. We know that they pause at noth
ing to accomplish their infamous purposes, and
that in their , mad career they trample upon
law, justice, and common honesty, whenever
they happen to stand in the way of their ag
grandize men tr We have tor years been war
ring against them in prosperity and adversi
ty, in defeat and victory, we have presented a
stern, unbroken fiont against all their wild and
Watches and Clocks , ;
THE, subscriber has settled, himself permanently
in Middletnn. Carroll countv. Mississippi, where
he is DTerjared to execute all work entrusted to his
ee, wiUY neatness and despatch. - . r
- - - B. T. JOHNSON.
Midd'.eton, April 17, 1841. l&"t6-
1 Attorneys at L.aw--CarroUtoD Miss
TgJHMr Office is the same formerly occugU
: d by Marsh Ayres. r : :v
heir grasp,
orded it so
party over which they
in the ascendant; they
ument against the legal obligation of the
State to pay.
Having then, as we believe, established con
clusively the fact that the State is legally
bound to pay the "Union Bank Bonds, both
principal and interest, we shall proceed to the
examination of the question in a moral point
of view, and upon this branch ot the subject,
we think we can convince any honest man
not wholly blinded by party prejudice, that a
refusal to pay, will, under all the circumstan
ces, inflict a deep, damnable, and indelible stain
upon the character of the state, and of the
whole people.
And now, for one brief moment, admitting
that in passing the Union Bank charter, and
pledging the faith of the State for $15,500,000,
the State had connived at a stupendous scheme
of public plunder, by which, through a viola
tion of the, constitution, a large debt might
be contracted and then repudiated at pleasure?
We answer it was not. For with such evu
dences of good faith, as weie borne upon -the
face of the bonds themselves, Mr. Biddle could
not have even dreamed of a fraud. - It was
not even suspected there. Here in the State,
where the passage of the charter by which
those bonds were created was familiar to all,
no one ever hinted at such a 'thing, and if there
were any who deemed the supplemental act
a violation of the constitution, they never
raised their voices against it until long after
the fraud was consummated, until the-money
thus obtained upon fraudulent pretences, was
received and squandered -scattered as it were
to the wild winds.
Again: At the regular session of the legisla
ture assembled at Jackson, in January, 1S39,
the terms upon which the state bonds to the
amount of $5,000,000 had been sold were re
ported to the legislature, together, with all
the facts connected with the sale, and the man
agement of the Bank up to that period. If,
then the bonds were sold for less .than their
par value, and the charter was thereby viola
led, the fact was as well known then as it can
possibly be now, and if such icas the fact, the
contract should have been annulled upon the
instant. The state should have declared that
the Bank and its agents had transcended their
authority, and that the contract was null and
void. Such a course would have been in ac
cordance with the dictates of common hones
ty and common decency, and a repudiation of
the contract at that time, so tar trom inflicting
a stain upon the hitherto proud escutcheon of
Mississippi, would have redounded to her hon
or. It would have been in effect, saying to
th ? world that we had a constitution and laws,
which we wouid not violate ourselves, and
which should not be violated by others.
At that time. too. three fifths ot the money
i for the bonds had nof been received and the
State could have given notice to the purcha
sers not to pay, or if they did to do it at their
own peril. It strikes us that an honest man
similarly, situated would have done so, and it
strikes us also, that an individual thus situated
who would neglect to give such notice, and
then, after his agent had received all the
money, attempt to repudiate the contract, and
escape payment, would, wunoui aisuncimn
ot party, be branded as a thiet and a scoun
drel! And now, what was the course pursued
by tho authorities, of Mississippi? Was any
intimation given Jo Mr. Biddle or the holder
of the bonds that in their issues the constitu
tion had been invaded; or, that in their sale,
the charter was violated, and consequently
they would not be paid; that the state would
repudiate them? By no means. No such In
timation was ever given. It is" true, Govern
or McNutt in his message in 1839, suggested
that they had been sold for less than their par
value, because sold on a credit, but he said no
thing of a repudiation of the contract he
recommended no action of the kind. On the
contrary, he said the sale was as good a one
as could have ' been made. He called the at
tention of the legislature to the whole subject,
and submitted to . their, scrutiny all the docu
ments connected with it. The legislature, as
we have previously stated, appointed a com-
been laid before the legislature, it was rcceiv-J
ed and agreed to by a large majority. '
We might pause here, and rest our argu
ment upon the action of the Legislature of
1839, by which the State is clearly stopped.
and prevented from taking advantage of its'
own wrong; but we propose to trace thequcs-
tiona little further and this wc shall do in I
our next number. i
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Washington, Jim; 22, 1SI1.
To the Senate and House of Representatives !
of the U. States: . ,
I have the honor to submit the accompany- I
ing correspondence between mvself nnrl trmi
linn T Ilni-nAt T ( X17 ' l. . i M
. uuiui, v. kj. rngiii, anu otucrs,
who arrived some days ago in this city as a
committee on behalf of the People" of Cincin-;
rati for the purpose, with the assent of the ;
tamuv, ot removing, the remains of the late ,
President of the United States to North Bend
for interment. I have thought it to be my
duty thus to appiize Congress of the contem-
platen proceedings. JOHN TYLER.
the constitution was violated; and admitting j mittee to investigate the Union Bank, and
Washington, June 16 1841.
The President of the United States:
Dear Sib; The undersigned were appointed
by the citizens and the City Council of Cin
cinnati, and by many of the surviving soldiers
of the late war. to apply to the widow and
family of our distinguished fellow-citizen; the
late President ot the united States, for per
mission to remove his remains from the citv
of Washington to the Slate of Ohio for inter-
ment. . They have made the application di-
rected, and have received permission to per
form that sacred trust. They have now, the
honor of reporting to you their arrival in this
city, and of asking your approbation of tho
measure contemplated, and your co-operation
in carrying it into enect. ...
We are tully, aware oi tne nign estimate
you placed on the talents and virtues of our
lamented friend and fellow-citizen, the lato
Chief Magistrate of the Union, whose friend
ship and confidence you possessed many years.
We saw the tear fall from your, eye and min
gle with the tears of the nation when the in
scrutable will of Heaven removed him from
us. -
Knowing these things, we approach you
with confidence, well assured that you will
justly appreciate our motive for undertaking
the mournful duty we have been deputed to
perform, and that the same kind feeling which
has marked your course through life will
prompt you on this occasion to afford us your
countenance, and, it necessary, your co-operation.
If it meet your approbation, the commit
tee will do themselves the honor of waiting
upon you at the President's House, at any
hour you may please to designate.
With high respect, we are, your friends and
fellow-citizens. -.'"
J. BURNET.
J. C. WRIGHT. ,
TH.D.CARNEAL:
CHAS. S. CLARKSON.
ED WD. WOODRUFF.
RUFUS HODGES. -.
- L. WHITEMAN."
A. DUDLEY. j-
. D. A. POWELL.
A. McALPlN
JOHN REEVES ;
that, that the sale of the bonds by the commis
sioners, was an infraction of both the letter
and spirit of the charter; let us examine the
subject and see in what attitude' it now stands
before the civilized world.
We have already shown that the bonds
amounting to $5,000,000, were sold to Nich
olas Biddle, Esqr; on the 17th of August, 1838,
by Wm."M. Pinckard, James C. TFilkins and
Edward C. TFilkinson, "for their par value"
in lawful money of the United btates." On
that committee, after a painful and laborious
examination presented a long and elaborate
report. In that report, speaking of the sate
ot the bonds, they say:
"Contrary, however, to the expectation of
every one familiar with the distressed condi
tion of the stock market, a negotiation of five
millions of the, bonds was effected by the com
missioners, highly advantageous to the state
and the bank, and in accordance with the in
iimrtians of the charter reauiring them to be
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the ISth of the same month thexontract was soldt par valwJJ "A sale reflecting the high
est credit upon tne commissioners inemseives,
and brinmng timely aid to an embarrassed
g-j j m . .- -
community.'
Again the committee "
"The trade of our state generally ruling in
formally drawn : up, signed by both parties,
and Mr. Biddle's part of the contract guaran
tied by the United States Bank of Pennsylva
nia. We hold, then, that if the bonds were
not issued in accordance with the constitution,
that Mr, Biddle could not know it, and that
reckless schemes and now in the very hour : seiinr bonds thus made the state was guil- lavor oi -w urw . ..,
of oar triumph they come forward and ask us ty of a Base fraud-a fraud, for the perpetra- !n!"Wenis are maae payau e.
to ground our arms, join their band, and at
once disgrace ourselves and the State we live
in.
The Whigs are required to abandon every
solitary principle for which they have always
contended, and take - to their bosoms the men
and the measures they have always loathed
to herd with McNutt and his gang of plunder
ers. And what are we to get in return for
this abandonment of all , our. long cherished
principles? ; What is the reward we are to
receive for striking that old flag under which
we have so long 'braved the battle and the
breeze?' What are we to have for trampling
in the dust that glorious old banner, fresh from
the . field of triumph and with all its honors
t! iick upon i t? :. Aye! what shajl we receive?
We shad receive the felons brand! mid it will
be a fitting reward; for such treachery, a most
noble compensation for a base abdonment of
Rut what is the obiect, and wnat
the effect of; this proposed union of whigs and
loco-focos upon the bond question? Vfe an
stver. U is the re-estabnshmsnt of leco-Jocopow-
tion of which, an individual might be prose
cuted and sent to the Penitentiary.
The bonds were signed by the Governor,
countersigned by the Treasurer, and had affix
ed to them the great seal of state! How could
Mr. ciaaie go Denina me Donus ana usucriuui,
at a distance of 1500 miles, that the provis
ions of the constitution of Mississippi had not
been complied with? In what manner was
he to obtam the information? There were the
bonds properly made out by the regularly con
stituted authorities, as evidenced by ... the seal
of the State and the signatures of its Govern
or and Treasurer. s By reference to the char
ter of the bank , it appeared . that the bonds
were in " due. form; by reference to the same
instrument it was shown that the , bank vas
authorized to' appoint commissioners to sell
the bonds; and the power of attorney in the
possession of James C Wilkins, Wm M Pinck
ard and Edward C VVilkinson, established be
yond controversy, that they were empowered
to make a sale. What right, or what reason
had Mr. Biddle " to believe . for one moment,
that the state of, Mississippi had planned and
executed a deliberate scheme of villainy, by
which she might plunder capitalists to the
amount of $15,000,000? Was it at all prob
able, that not only the people, but the legisla
large balances against our state in that city,
the bank, by receiving a moderate premium
on the checks drawn against these instalments,
have enabled our citizens, at a low rate ot ex
change, to liauidate a ereat portion of their
foreign debt, and at the same time, has realiz
ed herself a profit on the transaction greater
than the difference of interest on iue oonas,
(paid by the bank) while the instalments.with
out interest are maturnm: the result following
that the vroceeds of the sale of the state bonds
in reality amounts to more than their, par val
ue.
erl - Daes any body doubt it? Ldok at ths jtur& and the Governor,; tocj-.tfee Treasurer oi
Already two of the instalments have been
promptly met by the purchaser or tne oonas
and the bank has been permitted to araw jarge
ly on the March instalment, with a like proh
on the exchanEce. drawn against it. .
"In the face of;these results, a doubt canno
be' entertained but that the sale of the bond
has been made inlstrict tionforraity with the
letter of instructionsfrom the board of man
agers to the commissioners, andxn accordance
icxz'i zne injunctions vjmc uunn, w(uc . . .
. " Here then it appears? that instead of annul!
ins the sale of; the bonds; as it was the duty
tjf the legislature to do, if they were sold
violation- of the charter, that body solemnly
ratified the sale; for after the report of the
y-nryimittpa with all ths facts of the cas, had
W.ishisoton, Juke 17, 1841.
Gevtlemen: Your letter of the 16th was i
duly handed me, and I loose no time in respond-,
ing to the feelings and sentiments which yoa
have expressed for yourselves and those you
represent, and wnich you have correctly as-
cribed to me in regard to the lamented death j
of the late : President. As a citizen I respected j
him, as a patriot I honored him, as a friend he?
was near and deaf. to me; that the people ot
Cincinnaii should, desire to keep watch ovei.
us remains by entombing thern near their city j
is both natural and becoming; that the entire ;
West, where so many evidences of his publk
usefulness are to be found, should unite in th'j
same wish, was to have been expected; an s
that the surviving soldiers of his many battler
led on by him to victory and to glory, shoul, , ,
sish to perform the last melancholy duties t
the remains of their old commander, is lull
in consonance with the . promtings of a nob ?
and generous sympathy. i couia not, it l w
authorized to do so, oppose myself to the j
wishes. I might find something to urge
behalf of his native State, in-my knowled,
of his continued attachment to her through t f
whole period of his useful life in the clar ;
of his relatives there, whose desire it wo;
be that the mortal remains of the illustrif 1
M . A
son should sleep under tne same tun w ,
those of his 'distinguished father, one of .' .
signers of the Declaration of Independc:
in the wish of the citizens of his na
county to claim all that is now left of I
for whom they so lately cast their almost ; :
animou3 suffrage to say nothing of my c
feelings, allied, as I am bv blood, to man
his near relatives, and with our names so cl
ly associated in much connected witIV
late exciting political contest these consi
atidns might present some reasonable gn
for . opposing your wishes. But tho ar
which has been given by his respected w': J
and nearest relatives to the request ol J
people of Cincinnati admits oftno oppos
on my part, neither in my individual not ,
cial character."' ' t
I shall now feel it to be my duty, ho f
to submit our correspondence to the two
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