Liberty advocate., 1840-03-12


The proclamation of Governor McNutt will be found
in another column 1t is certainly humating to the
pride Of Mssssppans, who have ordinary respect
for the character of thsr State, that the Executive
should feel it his duty thus publicly proclaim to the
world the disregard flaw and the dishonesty of those,
whom the Legislature lately entrusted with author
ty Our State has already been sunk in the estimation
other neghbors by the mprudence ofthose who should
have been careful of her honor The credit of her
pledged faith" had already been well nigh destroyed,
and the proclamation of Gov. McNutt now completes
the catastrophe. With the question between the Gov,
and the Directory OF the Union Bank we design
not now to meddle If the Managers ofthe Bank were
about to violate the laws Of the State, in such
as to make it the duty of the Executive to exert the
power of his proclamation would suppose that sell
respect and decent regard for the sovereign State
which has made him what he is, would have induced
the Governor to confne his anathemas to the offending
party that common poiteness would have induced hin
to refrain from giving publicity in his official character
TO the dishoncr and dishonesty of the people and th
State, to whom he is indebted fo hiS brief authority
But in disregard Of every principle which governs thu
conduct Of the noble mind, and the gentleman, hi
E1cel!ency, not content with promulging his Bul
against guilty apostates, mathematics the whole
church, whose head he processes to be- and by whose
authority he presumes to act.
What Mississippan in whose bosom one spark Of
State pride yet remains, whose soul is ye, warm with
those honorable emotions which are inseperaby con-
nected with home, will not the author and pro-
elamcr of the following libel:
"And whereas, this State has already incur.
red large debt for the purposes Of Banking,
and from the situation of the institutions 10
which il has been confded, there is no prospect
that the Bonds, which are the evidences Of said
debt, can be paid to the holders thereof by said
Banks; and The State itself has no means of re-
funding either principal or interest to said bond
holders except by onerous taxation to which
there is erery reason to believe the people 1rll
not submit, and tch'ch, IN all probability, they
zciH not hare the ability 10 sustain if they ,ere
disposed to bear the burtaenn
Can it be that the public mind has become dcpra.
Ted so lost to every honor to submit to such
taunts from those WHOM the people have in time past
delighted to honor Can be possible that one honest
man in the whole State can be found supporting Gov
srnor McNutt in this measure, when he involves him
self in the gross Inconsistency of resorng to the Exec
utfve proclamation sin order that the laws may be
faithfully executed" and, the same breath declares
that the people the State, in whose name and by
whose authority he speaks have neither the ability'
or disposition" to redeem their pledged faith faith
fully execute the laws, which they themselves have
made. This proclamation places the people Of Mssis-
sppi in the disgraceful position of requiring others
perform duties, and regard laws which they declare
they have not the ability disposition to do on their
own part, when similarly situated. We cannot believe
that the people will continue in such an unenviabe
position by sustaining Governor McNutt in what we
candidlY believe to be a libel on the State