Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1839-05-11

n, Crr1Ir.-At one period of time
r. community ever possessed greater
r,.Ht than the people Of Mississippi;
III now no people have, or ever had
lew wears since and MississiP-
,.,o,. word would pass on change soon
Ill band.-but now how changed and
~.-e are those times-nothing but Ben
b, min, drops viii answer our purpose,
ana thew are few and hard to find.
We can attribute this but to two eau
eos. 10 The spring Of 1887, when the
pressure began and the creditors saught
4. recovery Of their debts in our courts
" Justice. :be process Of defeating the
Court, BIS the designations of Sherid''s
aad Clerks commenced, followed up by
lhc quasbng Of executions by the Judg-
Il i0r defects, which. IN our opinion, had
no force or validity, and which existed
only in the minds of the projectors and
aduiicaiors. Executions were quashed
ior defects that had often been argued
before, without success before some of
the same judges; but whose legal discri-
m.nation may perhaps have been bright
sasi by the pressure Of the times, which
probably awakened their senses to be
.rhe better Judgc.' Thus was the ball
Of Reorganization set in motion, and we
now may well cry stop it who can.
SAGE then continual defects have been
discovered in bonds, executions and the
organization Of Courts. A bond must be
guasied because a word is not spelled
correctly. or an execution because a t is
not crossed, or dotted, or some other
defect equally trivial, and not more i'm
portaut. But few weeks since we wit
messed the curious anomiiy of attempt
M TO quasha Court upon motion before
the Judge, because il was said that the
Sheriff had not taken the oath of office, |
because the Judge of Probate who ad-
mustered the oath had not taken his
cath Of Office before a person competent
administer an oath Upon this ground
i was urged to quash the Court, when
moments reflection should have convinc-
ed any one that the Judge had no juris-
diction of the case, and had no power to
look beyond the commission of the off
Ger 10 know whether he was Sheriff or
not And in addition to this follows the |
non holding of Courts, because houses |
are not prepared and ready-throwing
the whole order of Judicial organization
IN confusion. and destroying the whole |
remaining portion of credit VIC might |
still possess. Such a course of policy /
only makes confusion worse COMPOUNDED,
aud instead of relieving us from our
troubles, sinks US deeper. Debts are lost
10 home creditors that might have been
saved, and men who wish 10 avoid the
payment Of their debts are given grea-
ter chances to 90 to Texas with their
movable property; or only struggle to
procrasinate the payment of their debts
oy the "lalss delay" without striving to
Equidate them as they should rhis in
our opinion is one cause, the other is the
violent and continued attack upon all our
banking institutions by the Van Buren,
press throughout the State. Scarcely a
corporation, however deserving and Gre
'''aoIe may have been its paper, has es-
capped censurc and denunciation.
The Union Bank. whose means and
credit ere greater than any other insti-
'l'ion. and alone promised some hopes
OF relief was denounced by the press and ,
ne Governor in such terms as brought ,
ABOUT distrust of the institution. and
caused all the paper of that bank to
40" back upon it in the shape of de-
Hands for exchange. /,
Inc bank thus crippled and hampered ,
! ''' discounts, was compelled to cease
loaas' or ruin its credit; it discontinu-
ed its loans
- 'hIS state Of affairs the bank was ,
'Pel'ea 10 the policy of the Post Notes,
: 81 me property of all who by chance ,
n1 nave executions against them, be +
o'lnced Even this measure which
= Tue only one the people could look
! iOf relief was opposed with Vandal
'-is oy Gov. McNutt and the Van Buren, !
f-eSs VINO waged and have continued TO +,
an uHceasing war upon all credit
odhhlng institutions of our State.