Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1839-03-02

speech was such as 10 MAKE ~ i.npossloie ~
2 obtain hearing, to proceed The Senate
! therefore at half past TWO O'Clock, and Two
hours before the usual time, adjourned
Post NOTES.-The Governors Veto.
: We did intend soon as we could get the
T requisite information, to have noticed the wild
! and reckless use of the reto power by Gov.
7 McNutt. But the following able review of Gov.
} NcNutt,s abuse of that power entirely super
cedes the necessity OF our doing We
! would recommend il TO the attentive perusal of
! our readers.
In consideration of the pressing wants of the
people, the legislature of this State, at its last
| session. passed law authorlsing the Union
, Bank to issue six millions of post notes, having
one wear to run, and earring interest of not
less than FIVE, more than six per centum per
apnum This bill, Alexander G.. McNutt, our
minority Governor, VETOED. The bill was pas
sed the Executive veto, IN the lower
. house, by the constitutional majority of two
thirds; but in the Senate, where the Governor
has more adherents. inclined TO register his
edicts. than in the other branch, the bill was
lost.
This single &C, of his Excellency has injur-
ed the freemen of Mississippi several millions
of dollars. He well knew that our people owe
"a vast foreign debt - that their relentless
northern creditors now depressing
them with the seyerest rlgors OF the law--that
/ judgments. to an appalling amount. are ndng-
ing over the heads of our honest and industri-
| Gus ctizens-and that the measure of relief TO
which he rittheld the executive sanction, offer
| ed the only remedy for Grerting the impending
RUIN. That remedy he has wantonly destroyed;
and the brooding storm will descend.
| And why did Gov. McNutt thus act. Simply
because he is opposed to an extension of paper
circulation, and has his head filled with ultra
Bentonidn notions about '.long sIlken purses''
and shining gold. In his opposition to banks
l he q ed
/ the mental disease of nlono-naaraiG.-in order
| to nfiict a stab upon valuable institution, and
vent his malignant spleen upon the Union Bank.
| he has recklessly brought down pecuniary ruin
and unmerited poverty upon thousands of his
constituents. He cares nothing for the suffer-
ings of notwithstanding for the ruin of fam-
lies-nothing for the lamentations of the OPP
pressed; but complacently wrapped in that
cloak of official dignity which By mere chance
fell upon his unworthy shoulders, he smiles in
triumph at the ruin he has wrought. The act
he has performed is discreditable to the man
to the governor. An individual whose bosom
is too callous to sympathise with the oppressed
who has no inclination to aid the unfortunate
is unworthy the divine image which he bears
That Governor, who, in open defiance of the
clearly expressed will of the people, spok en-
through their legal representatives on the le-
gislative floor, and in utter disregard of public
distress and private calamity, will deliberately
stab the dearest pecuniary hopes of his con-
stituents, should be officially inundated upon
the altar of public opinion. The governors
veto of the post note bill was daring outrage
upon popular rights-a bold assumption of Off
cial authority, highly dangerous to liberty-a
contemptuous and malicious notification of the
peoples voice never surpassed, and only
equalled BY the usurpation of Andrew JAG son,
his Excellency's political prototype and idol
Will the freemen of this gallant state tolerate
such abusese Will they longer nurture upon
their warm bosoms an envenomed serpent, who
thus rewards their generous confidence and
support. by darling the envenomed fangs of his
party rancour, into their very vitals! No |
never The story or this foul deed will A., !
upon the wings OF the wind; it viii Arouse the
slumbering energies of the people. and teach
them TO know their 3ppressor. And next No
ye-..1er, when our free citizens again visit the
ballot boxes--the palladium of their liberties
they will condemn the faithless and unauthoris-
ed conduct of the Executive,
The bill which was vetoed, also provided for
the sale of the remaining State bonds, and for
the speedy location Of the seren branches, provi-
ded for in the charter of the Union Bank.
These, too, of course were cut down by the
veto. 1t is all important that the bonds be sold,
in order that the bank may be in possession of
specie funds upon which 10 base an extended
circulation, to meet the pressing exigencies of
the times; but our governor would not consent
to the measure. He is resolved rihict the people
shall neither have post notes, nor notes payable
on demand He has blocked up every avenue
cut open by the Legislature through which the
And what say our distant friends to that veto
which prevented them from having the branch
banks to which they entitled, and which the
legislature decreed should be put into opera
ton by the Ist day of May next1 Are they
prepared to sanction let which compels them
to ride several hundred miles for uncertain
bank accommodations, at enormous expense,
when, by right, they would have had branch
banks in their immediate neigh borhoodsl
Viewed in every light, this is entirely
uniu acknowledgements and ruinous.
Some of opinion that the Union Bank is
entitled, By ITS charter, to issue post notes, and
that consequently the veto will not have the eff
feet contemplated by the Governor. We are
decidedly of this opinion. We have never
doubted the propriety of legality of the step
originally pursued by the nlightened directo-
ry of the bank in issuing pest notes; and we
sincerely hope that they will still upon the |
policy, however disagreeabei it may be TO Gov. |
NcNutt to see the people paving their debts
ty. We of course know nothing of the inten-
tons of the directory; but we feel confident |
that they will do all that be legally done TO |
afford relief. The institution has, tn far been
ably and efficiently conducted. An enlarged /
and noble spirit of generosity TO have |
animated every director, absorbing all impulses |
of partiahty and party prejudice. They will
doubtless be governed by the same feelings in
future; and if so, there is much yet TO hope.
ANY course, however, which the Bank NAV
pursue in future in reference TO the matter,
will not operate so TO excuse justify the |
Governor. If he has not ruined the people il |
is not his fault; for surely he aimed at them |
deadly weapon; and If that weapon be fortu- |
ately turned aside by some friendly hand, has /
guilt is sfill the same--SoutteT7i Sun.
We copy the following ssgood hits'' from the |
Hartford Review:
.Hsar and understand, as the woman said |
ven she slapped the bows ears