The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-07-12

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con gener precious ttle
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ls ed il Mississippi tlan hi oui
Tue states. Great Ynlens
Eto 50 many sojournels here, III pro-
dea thak N u Mississippi there
general wish 70 ifusfate the due
pilnisttation ef and subVelt tie & IS
Of Just ice. This hood IS told bg gone
Ter ainnsenent and Isl Tiers tIlfou gh a
Df y Green their oSgp dsiinql. ncies Bu
be tlil IS i inajy Il IS u ", d asI beall
parts dimensions and constructions. The
law 8 6 potent ia liissssipp s. II any
state. 81 nions And were here lfain-
fed band 81 en- travelling over New
York q gc1s E'ngland feady "a catch hold
of every circumstance great 81 small, and
invent so a they could not discovcfs Ia
order 20 ma se olt elolls tale of
things they TOO would appear % BE 3 race of
lAeai 70 81 DO were 81 ficiently cretu-
lOns e belle le incongis tent ex
elea which generally make up the wonders
of these extracts, and hsarsaya.
feel that this Press IS identified ifIl
l.al afum thai u INTENDED u 30 lneasnE ~
aaorass; Il and we wish Il borne
il mind also, that our location is ii Y AGO;
and while We join others il exposing crime
and public innrnorality, if the press, the ite-a
nerating les 81 other states, or whonso-
Ter else, succeed IN fraducing the chsrac-
ter of ou citizens below the respectable
state Of morals which we know does exist
with lseras lse will promise them an occa-
sionai notice that they may not be.entirely
alone and unmolested in their Jencroleat
abeurs.
i neusSvar against the right oft People
"a be represented. --Fe federalism Consu
mated.
The igresssable conclusion Is forced upon d,
that III y al Buren, party would not find support
with tie honest well meaning portion d thecOul-
ni6nity, who did not look for sressard,p and who
are laFeof the lagrantacts Of tyranny and Viola
tiona Of law, 10 which they. ready to resort
whenever d ey canthereby promote their political
PROSPECTS The plainest rsq uirenenla Of law are
openly violated By heir Official men and oificial
bodies, without the pretencs Ofiustifcatipn ri
even the trouble 81 tying 70 rake up an excuse.
It IS not within the moral, political Of hyseal
ability Of men, to violate the tirst principle
civil liberty, more plainly or palpabiy, than was
recently done blythe lower branch Of the Penn
sylsania Legislature, They have deprived atwhig
county OF Representative III the House Of Repre-
aentatives- because they sent whig delegate;
and for 10 other reason under Che heavens Of the
Almighty.
a loco-fvco committee introduced resolution |
in the lower house, declaring the seat the meme
Der from Adams county yaeant; and without 4
resson, without an excuse, or pretence Of prece-
dent, Law, tight, pr reasons Why o. where's ii
was carried By strict party vote:
If the people Of Adams county are willing to
sit BY and see their rights outraged Id this wa,
and have the doctrine established that tie pOsrer
Of q party q supreme, and inay not be checked or
Kindred from the exercise Of its wishes, by any
forms Of law, OF principle in our government,
then We say, in al candor and sobriety, the day !
il not far distant when they viii be, perhaps
IN astonishment, called upon 70 lament over the
ruins eF What was once proud republic.
Tits known that then the Legislature Of Penn-
sylvania commenced its session. IawIcss mob
fora long time prevented The progress Of business,
and that II was several weeks before theorgani-
zation Of the lower house was Recognized BY the |
Senate. During this time Mr.. Thadeus Stevens.
the member elect from Adams county, declined
taking his seat, and published his reasons therefor.
And It appears that he stated one to be, that 81
that time he considered the body which claimed
rouse 81 Representative, ssthe offspring
of 3 mob.,s Atlength, however, Whenthe iegali-
IL of the organization Of the house was recogni-
zed by the Senate, and the business Of both was
.in progress. be presented himself 70 be qualified
and iakc his scat Objection was made and
committee ypas appointed to enquire whether he
had not his righ tohis seat'' ~ Whether
he had 81 had not done something, that would
Justify Their declaring hisseat Yacanta His elec-
ton and return o. his qualification we're notques-
Toned charges were brought against him.
he con hot Sc expelled from seat he neveroc-
cupied was mere enquiry whether they
were satisfied with the people choice Of Mr.
Stevens; whether they would 81 would not
refuse lis liking bis seat The "a ioEisy Of the
eonanittee ported thatll had used re Language
above stated md that because Be bad donesapd|
said thus and 50, hen he was mere private
citizen had never acted either right q wrong IN
tie House, beoa Sc he had never been = meme.