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AND CARBOLL, CHOCTAW AND TAEL AH ATCHIE COUNTIES ADVERTISER.
By G. W. M. KUOWIV.
castquarter section 25, township twenty-four,. range
two 2ast, containing 2 41 .and 62 hundredths acres
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eighteen hundred and thirty-four. Printer fee 14d
Also- the east half south cast quarter section twenty-right,
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section 32, township twenty-four, range two east,
containing 477 and 30 hundredths acres: was purcha
sed by Win JM. Peal on 6th Dec 1834. Pr fee lod
Also; Lot No. 10, section 0, township twenty-four,
ran" one east, containing 32 and 35 hundredths acres
waspurchased by Wm II . Whitaker on Dec 4 1834.
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Levied on the above described lands to sat
isfy the State and County Tax due thereon,
as above mentioned. This 16th day of June,
1341.
7,VO. . lIOiTG IK1IE1Z JT9
Assessor A" Collector
Of Tallahatchie County.
(In the ruest. 3 of
A. B. BETTS, &
E. E. ARMSTRONG.
Charleston, Miss. June 16th, 1841." 3m.
Pro sp cctus,
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. T. S. &. J. P. AYHE3,
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Republican Whig Ticket.
4V.
For Governor,
DAVI!) O. SnATTCCK, 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 Stale Treasurer,
WILLIAM G. CRAWLEY, of Perry.
For Attorney General,
ROBERT HUGHES, of Hinds.
FROM THE VICKSBURO WHIG.
HISTORY OF THE STATE BONDS No 5
In our last we promised to examine a little
farther the moral obligation of the State to pay
the bonds issued and sold for the benefit of the
Union Bank. We have already shown that
the sale of $5,000,000, made by the commis
sioners appointed by the bank, was solemnly
ratified by the Legislature at its regular ses
sion in 1839, and that not a single voice was
raised against it, by any individual in the
State, public or private, official or unofficial.
Our agents rendered us an account of their
stewartship, and we received the money, with
out uttering a solitary word of objection or
condemnation; and this in the eyes of all hon
est men, if no other evidence of obligation
existed, would bind us by every consideration
of honor, justice and morality to pay the
bonds thus sold to the full amount of both
principal and interest. The argument now
offered, that the bonds were sold for less than
their par value, and the proceeds squandered
by the bank, will not weigh a feather -with anyi
honest man in the community. The violation
of the charter, if any there was, was commit
ted by the commissioners, and, if they tran
scended their authority and committed a
breach of trust, the purchaser of the bonds
cannot be made the suflercr, but whatever of
loss or inconvenience arises from the transac
tion, must necessarily fall upon the party cm
ploying the commissioners. As the agents of
the State .and the Bank, they might have pock
eted the whole $5,000,000, and taken the first
ship forEuTope, and there squandered the mo
ney a la Swarticout This would have been
considered a breach of trust on their part, but
it will not certainly be contended, that it would
have afforded the state an apology for repudi
ating the whole debt! And yet the argument
is quite as plausible as any yet offered. Ourj
agents, (legislators, governors, &c.,) say the
anti-bond payers, have been faithless to their!
trusts they have violated the constitution,
and borrowed money, and we will not pay
the debt. Well suppose they did? They
were the agents of the people, clothed with
full powers, and if they acted either impru-i
dently or dishonestly involving us in a heavy
debt, it was certainly not the fault of the pur
chaser of our funds. He knew the contract
ing parties only as the accredited and consti
tutional authorities of a sovereign state, and
he could not know that they were acting dis
honestly or in violation of our constitution
and therefore he cannot by any principle of
justice be made to suffer for a wrong commit
ted by us. And .especially he cannot be made
so suffer for that wrong, after we at a State
have ratified it! If he ever could have been
held amenable, the state forfeited its claim by
a recognition of the contract as a lawful one.
So much then for the violation of the char
ter which it is pretended was committed in the
sale of the bonds. ; We think we have shown
that if the charter was violated, that the state
is by its own action effectually stopped from
taking any advantage of a wrong committed
by its agents, and that, so far as that point in
the controversy is concerned, the state itself
has conceded the' question. :
Again; in relation to the alleged violation
of the constitution of the state in the issue of
the bonds. . - :
In pur last we think we demonstrated that
a refusal by the state to pay the bonds on the
ground that they, were unconstitutionally iss
ued, would be a base fraud. We showed ve
ry plainly that Mr. Biddle could not know
that the constitution was violated, and as the
question was not .raised here where the peo
CARROLLTON, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY
ple are supposed to be moro fomiliar with their
own constitution than strangers can be, he
had not the slightest reason to dream of such
a thing. He was bound to believe the bonds
had been issued in accordance with law. How
else could it be? Was he to come to Missis
sippi and ransack the journals of the legisla
ture, to see if the bank charter with the ayes
and noes thereon were spread upon them?
Was he to collect files of newspapers to see if
the act had been "published in three newspa
pers for three months?" Any man must see
the absurdity of the position which assumes
that Mr. Biddle knew the bonds to have been
issued in violation of the constitution of Mis
sissippi, for we have shown that it was not
possible for him to know it, and any attempt
now to hold him responsible for a thing he
could not know, is a barefaced fraud? Acain:
The silence of all parties on this subject, and
the issue of $5,000,000, more bonds, and that
AFTER TIIR FIRST $5,000,000 HAD BEEN SQUAN
DERED, AND TIIE BANK RUINED, is the most COn-
clusive evidence that the parties who are now
attempting to repudiate the whole debt, never
dreamed of a violation of the constitution,
but that it is an after thought, an infamous at
tempt to get once more into power. There
never was, until last winter, the slightest inti
mation given by either the governor or the
legislature, that these bonds were fraudulent
ly issued; on the contrary the action of every
department of the government shows conclu
sively that the state recognized them as hav
ing been issued in accordance with the pro
visions of the constitution.
Our readers are already informed of the
action of the legislature of 1S39. In the sum
mer of that year Gov. McNutt, signed and de
livered $5,000,000 more of the bonds and de
livered them to the Presidentof the bank, who
sometime in the fall proceeded to New York
for the purpose of negotiating a sale, which,
as every body knows, he did not succeed in
doing. Here then, not only 5 but 10 millions
of bonds had been issued, and half of them,
Inn, nenrljt a.yar- aft6r tiiCi-banl; JkuUxmhv
operation. One would .suppose that if the
constitution had been violated, it was time
the discovery should have been made; but still
not a word was said about the constitution,
land his lynx-eyed excellency, governor Mc
Nutt, signed, sealed and delivered the second
datdh of .$5,000,000. The legislature assem
bled at Jackson on the 6th day of January
1S41. Gov. McNutt, sent in a long message,
but in all its length and breadth, not one word
was said about the constitution being violated
in the issuance of the Union Bank bonds.
He reviewed the management of the bank at
considerable length, and was exceedingly se
vere upon the officers and directors, but not
one syllable did he utier in regard to any real
or supposed invasion of the constitution by
the creation of the bank. What he did say,
however, is pertinent to the question at issue,
and we will extract it here. We do not of
ten consult the governor, but he is very good
authority with the anti-bond payers, ant we
shall have frequent occasion to refer to him.
Speaking of the Union Bank, and commen
ting upon the refusal of its officers to make
public certain information connected with its
management, he said:
"The faith of the Stale, is pledged for the
whole capital stock, and the property of ad her
citizens may hereafter be taxed to make up its
losses and defalcations. The right of the
people, therefore to know the conduct of all
its agents, and the liabilities of every one of
its debtors cannot be questioned"!, :
We might cite various paragraphs of a sim
ilar nature from this message, but this one will
suffice at present. At the same session of the
Iegislaturei a joint committee of the two hou
ses was appointed to examine the Union bank.
That committee made a thorough . examina
tion, and a very long and elaborate report,
they said nothing about the constitution being
violated. Indeed, they never once alluded to
it directly or indirectly. But in several pas
sages they distinctly recognize and acknowl
edge the liability of the state to pay the bonds.
The following extract from the report will an
swer our purpose to-day: r : ' -
"t. "The committee, after a candid view of the
management and resources of the bank, are
f idly persuaded that the state will ultimately
be compelled to pay a greater portion," if not
the entire amount of the bonds already negotia
ted." : 'v'V :
Whatever other persons may have thought
of the constitutional question, it is very clear
that the committee n-ever dreamed of a viola
tion of the constitution, and it is pretty clear
JULY 21, 1841.
uimj, uiawne legislature concurred with the
committee, for the report was received, agreed
to, and printed by almost unanimous votes.
So far then, two years had elapsed since the
passage of the supplemental act five millions
of the . bonds had been sold and the money
squandered, and five millions more signed and
offered for sale. The governor had sent in
two annual messages to the legislature, and
two legislative committees had examined the
bank aud its affairs, and reported thereon; and
.t . t. At 1 I .
strange to say, no one had yet discovered that
our constitution, the supreme law of the land,
had been violated and trampled upon by the
"bank thieves," the "fund mongers," and their
"bribed tools." This discovery was reserved
for a later day, and it was not made until af
ter the Presidential election in 1840, when it
was found that the party which had ruled and
ruined the state was no longer in the ascend
ant! At the session of the legislature held in
January, 1841, Gov. McNutt broke ground in
favor of repudiating the bonds in his annual
message, and immediately the infamous prop
osition was responded to by his satelites in and
out of the legislature. A committee to whom
that portion of the governor's message was
referred, offered a report and some resolutions,
declaring that the state was bound to pay, and
that she would pay, a of which were adopt
ed by large majorities. In the House the vote
was ayes 52, noes 31, and in the Senate ayes
20, noes 10. Thus it will be seen, that altho'
the "act supplemental to the Union Bank char
ter" became a law on the 15th day of Febru
ary 1838, the question of its unconstitutional
ity was never raised until January and Feb
ruary, 1841, or just three years afterwards!
So, too, of the alleged violation of the charter
in the sale of the bonds. They were sold in
August, 1S3S, and the terms of the sale were
reported to the legislature in' January, 1S39,
and yet, strange as it may appear, every de
partment of the government recognized that
sale, and it was not until January, 1841, two
whole years after the sale had been reported,
that tlto-quftatioivoo-i'O -violation of the char
ter was raised. In view of all the facts; the
silence of the state for three years upon one
point of the controversy, and of two years
upon the other, can the state now repudiate
the bonds without damning herself to an eter
nity of infamy? Admitting all that the anti
payers allege, that the supplemental act is un
constitutional, and that the charter was viola
ted in the sale of . the bonds; have we acted
honestly in the premises? On the contrary
will we not exhibit to the world a splendid
piece of villainy? Here we established a bank
upon the credit of the state. We issued bonds
sold them and got the money for them. Our
bank went into operation and was badly man
aged. The. money we borrowed was squan
dered without benefitting particularly any one,
and after waiting quietly until the last dollar
is gone, we step forward and declare that we
will not pay; that we will repudiate the debt,
and justify ourselves upon two grounds: first,
the charter was unconstitutional, and second,
it was violated in the sale of the bonds The
question which all honest men will ask, "why
did you not make these discoveries sooner?"
will be a difficult one to answer, and thoucrh
we doubt not many honest men think they are
perfectly right in endeavoring to have the
bonds repudiated; the act if carried out, will
be nothing more or less than a most atrocious
and bare faced robbery, and one for which the
State will deserve to be execrated in all time
to come.
FROM THE BOSTON ATLAS.
THE STRATAGEM.
"I really don't know which I love best,"
said Jane Man vers to her friend Marian Wes-
tall, as she returned from a splendid party,
where she was the admired ot all admirers,
"William Stanton or Frederick English.
Out of a host of admirers that my fortune,
now that I am an heiress, has brought to my
feet, I have selected them. They are neither
rich; both are filled with sentiments of honor,
as far as expressions and general conduct
show. Both love me. Neither has express
ed it in strong terms but either only waits
for the necessary encouragement, I; am sure,
to pop the question. ; To either my fortune
would be an advantage. They may it is an
ungenerous thought but I cannot help enter
taining it, love my fortune and not me. Do
you know, Marian, that I hare strong thoughts
of putting their love to the test!"
IIow can you do it?"! - .
"I have thought of a way; You may re
member that I had a cousin who was supposed
to be lost at sea, and the property which has
made a poor, unnoticed girl so much courted,
was to be his if he were living."
Yes, but you have had full and positive
proofof his deiseasts.' '.
VOL.-1. NO. 32.
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x mow n.uui me world doeSTiot. nnr rnn
my two favored lovers be acquainted with
the fact. I therefore propose to stato in thn
papers that my cousin is no: dead a3 sunnod.
To give up, for a time, my splendid establish
ment, and to retire into comparative poverty.
n is saia mat ivings ana Heiresses rarely hear
the truth from the flatterers bv whom thev
are surrounded. This will at least test mv -
friends. What think you of my plan?"
"Excellent try it by all means.?
This idea was acted upon, and it was curi-
ous to see how Jane's admirers dropped off
one by one. Her two lovers waited upon her
at first in.her retirement, and Jane was more ,
puzzled than ever to know which to choose.
Frederick English's visits, in a short lime,
became more like angel's that is few and far
between while William Stanton's remained
constant.
Upon one of them he said, "My dear Miss
Man vers, I have known von.lontr. Tn tha
days of your prosperity, surrounded as you
were by many lovers who were affluent, I
did not dare to disclose to von n nninn
which I had felt from the moment I knew von
and which has grown and strengthened with
my acquaintance. Now, that you are poor,
like myself, the diffidence which had else her
metically sealed my lips from divulging my
ucui i asaiuu is icmoveu. i am not aiiiuentv
but can support you with respectability at 1
least, and if you will accept for your husband
one who loves you devotedly, I'do not think
mat you win ever regret the hour.lhat makes
you mine. At least, I will try never to give
you cause."
"I believe you. dear William." said Jane
"and if you will except a beggar, for I am little
oetter " -
"Say not so, dearest 1 cannot listen to
such wrong, even from your own lips."
"lour tortune will not suiter by the union.""
"That they never can. When shall our
marriage take place?"
. "IMext week, if you will."
"At your lodgings here?"
"No, at the house of a friend. Call for me,
and we will proceed together there."
At the day appointed William was in read
iness accompanied by Frederick English.
They were both surprise'd at the magnificence
of Jane's attire, and thought it was some
what out of character with her circumstan
ces, but how much more surprised were they,
when stepping into a ca r riairc. -.rillx Jan Ami -
Eliza, they were driven to Jane's former resi
dence, and found her still the mistress and heir
ess, and learned the plot by which she tested
her lovers. The way Frederick cursed him
self and his fortune was not slow.
Girls, you who possess money, make it a
point of finding out, before the irrevocable
knot is tied, whether you are loved for your
selves or your fortunes.
MISSISSIPPI. "
The Opposition have at length succeeded in
organizing a regular Anti-Bond Payiny ticket,
to run against the Whigs and honesty. A
T. M. Tucker is the candidate for Governor;
and Jacob Thompson and William M. Gwin
are their candidates for Congress. " The latter
gentleman was United States Marshal for the
Southern District of Missisippi, under Mr.
Van Buren, and is, we believe, the same who
drew in one year some ninety thousand dol
lars in fees, from the bankruptcy and distress
brought upon the State by Locofocoism. The
TVhigs may almost be supposed to have no
opposition at least, for the honor of the Stato
and the country we hope so.
Memphis Enquirer.
MrsTERious profession.; 'Now, Tom, said
the printerof a newspaper, in giving directions
to his apprentice, put the foreign leaders into,
galleys, and lock 'em up let Napoleon's re
mains have a larger head distribute the ar
my in the East, take up a line and finish tho.
British 'Minister' make 'young princess to.
run on with the 'Dutchess of Kent move
the 'Korry hunt' out of the chase get your
stick and conclude the 'horrid murder' that
Joe began last night wash your hands and
come into dinner and then see that all the pi
is cleared up. -
" The Seasons of Love. A writer says: "I
distinguished four seasons in love. First comes
love before betrothal, ol spring then comes
the summer, more ardent and fierce, which
lasts from our betrothal to tho altar; the third,
the richly laden, soft and dreamy autumn, tho
honeymoon; and after it the winter, bright
clear winter, when you tike shelter by your
fireside from the cold world without, and find
every pleasure there. '
Very Affecting and rather Sentimental.
A sentimental youth having seen a young
damsel shedding tears over something in her
lap, took the first opportunity to be introduced
to her, and made no doubt that she was a con
genial spirit. '
"What work was it that affected you so
much the other morning? 1 saw you shed a
great many tears. Was it Bulwer'a last?"
"1 dont know what Bulwer's last is," return
ed she," but I assure you I was dom a job
which always almost kills me. I was peeling
onions."
The St. Louis Bulletin says a petition for a
National Bank, signed by about one thousand
five hundred citizens of St. Louis, and among
the signatures, many from members of tho
Van Burep party, is ready to forward to TVashr
ington. : '
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