Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1839-05-04

CIRcUTT CouRT The Circuit Cour
Of Madison county pursuant to law wa
TO have Commenced on Monday last in thi
place; but strange to saw, we have ha
no Court. and will not have one.
The holding Of Cou~; was not defeat
ell BY the resignation Of Sheriff o
Clerk. as has sometimes been the case
IN this State. Our Sheriff and CIerl
still hold on to their commissions, anc
were ready and willing to discharge their
duty if it had been required Of them by
the Judge. They did not shrink from
their duty like cravens--they did not
resign like the base seeke RS Of popu!ari
", that have in some Of the counties
found their way into office, which they
we're unworthy TO hold, and polluted
with their persons. No-Madison coun-
ty IS as yet saved from that disgrace,
and we hope she ever will be.
But the wheels Of justice have been
cloged, stopped-and by whom-by one
from whom it should have least been
looked for-by the Judge, and that too
in our humble opinion without any cause.
To let the case 20 fairly before the
world, VIC will give history Of every
thing connected with the failure of the
Court
About / / o'clock in the morning Jas.
c. Mitchell, Esq, and Gen. Fl. S. Foote,
addressed the people on the subject of
the present embarrassed and distressed
condition Of the country, and recommen-
cd the petitioning of the Governor TO
convene the Legislature for the purpose
Of passing some law to prevent the sac
rifce of land or real estate. Such as
valuation or redemption law. The pro-
ceedlngs of that meeting we publish to-
day. In addition to this, the house in
which Court had heretofore been held,
was destroyed, and the new one was not
done, and had not been received by the
Board of Police for the county. These
are all, and every reason why Court was
not held, although another house was
offered, in which his Honor could have
sat and fully discharged his duty to him
self. TO his station, and executed the
trust reposed in him by the people, and
which the laws rendered obligatory.
The want of house in which to hold
Court is the only excuse offered why il
was not done.
Whether this reason is sufficient, why
Court was not held we leave to the COM
munity to decide, but believing ourselves
that no good can result to tllsz,country
by such means, or such act rhey have
a disorganizing tendancy lie nding to
corrupt the minds ofthe people, and make
them believe that laws are but like the
whims of children, to be complied with,
when it is the pleasure ofthe people, and
10 be resisted and annulled when it suits
their convenience. The enforcement of
the laws become by-word of mockery,
and contempt, by the community
neither respected or eyed-society re-
solves itself into its original state when
every mans rights are Judged and mea-
suered by his strength
We do not conceive that it is Of any
benefit to dcbtors-for the reason that
most of the debts sued on in the Circuit
Court are due home creditors, while those
that belong to foreigners are filed in the
Federal Court when there will be no
stopping OF court.-Then the circuit
court not being held will give the foreign
creditor the advantage of getting his
and collecting his money
while the home creditor stands with his
hands tied, the evenues Of Justice closed
upon him, the foreign creditors debt paid,
and his LOST. +
The object of all laws is to protect its
own citizens, and secure them in their
rights, before those of foreigners, but in
this case we conceive that end has been /.
missed. and the rights of home creditors !
sacrificed 10 foreigners.
In making these remarks we would not
wish to be considered as rejecting upon
Or desiring TO impair eihe rights which !;
foreigners have to justice andthe enforce b
nent of the laws for their benefit. but v
,nly, that the citizens of the state have o
he first claim upon the laws, for the pro- :
ection enforcement, and preservation of :,
Rsir rights before any other person. h
Hemast be permitted TO acknowledge
ur thanks 10 the Post master at Jark- B
On, for Let OF old newspapers which Sc