Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-06-09
NUMBER XXXVIII.

dations prepared for the members OF
the legislature. For, in healthy re-
gion, there will be an active competi- |
ton in the supply of building materi-
ais; and mechanics would be abund- |
ant, and could work all the year.
Look at the situation Of your peni-
rtentiary. Is it not cruelty to inAict a |
slow death by disease, on convicts from
the healthy portion ofthe State, whom
the laws and juries of the country de-
clare to be only the subjects Of a miti-
gated punishment. It is virtually in
ficting death, or a destruction of the
constitution, which is worse than death
on convicts from one section of the
State-whilst the same conviction and
sentence passed on a person Injured to
sickly climate, would subject him TO
a penalty Of lower grade.-Again,
iuries will be more than reluctant to
convict, while such a state of things
exist; and the guilty, thereby, will
sometimes be turned loose on society,
without receiving the punishment due
to their crimes. Again: the peniten-
tiary must become an expensive estab-
lishment, situated in such a place;
whilst in healthy location, j. might
answer all the purposes for which it
was designed, and be made to yield
profit to the State. The success of
such an establishment depends greatly
on its proper supervision, and the tact
and talents of those who Immediately
conduct its different departments. 1t
must be impossible TO procure the
same amount Of talent in the manage
ment of its concerns in as sickly To-
cation as Jackson, as you could, were
it situated in a healthy country. In
that sickly situation, the most highly
r competent persons would, probably,
not peril the climate; and those who
| do, must be paid for the risk Of their
J.. lives and constitutions, as well as for
: their services.
4 The usefulness Of your judiciary
S system demands a healthful location OF
t the seat of government. In a situation
It of that kind, your Court of Appeals,
n and Chancery, could hold a summer,
a as we'll as winter session; and, there
It by, more ample time would be allowed
= to consider with care and attention tht
St subjects which come before them.
If Members Of the bar, from the mid
IF die and upper country, could atten(
h without danger to their lives. Ih
h present system amounts almost TO de
lie NAL of Justice to the poor man. Til
N inconvenient position of the seat (
ID government, where the courts are helC
v the difficulties of the roads in the wiz
as ter, the excessive expense of living ;
er Jackson, necessarily cause the dc
*; mand Of high fees for attention to caus
of es in the Court Of Appeals and Char
or Gerry. A poor man cannot sustain til
by expense, and must abandon his ju
I'm rights. The just rights Of the poor al
n therefore involved in the removal
ne the seat Of government TO more col
lid venient and eligible position, in a hea
IN thy country.
ST But a subject ofthe highest momen
is the great cause of education. Yol
he university should be in the vicinity
is, the seat of government. l know the
le- are advocates for It's location reno
nd from the capital. Upon most deli
nat crate consideration Of the subject, a
I'D entirely convinced, that the succe
Use and usefulness Of the institution, q
ed ponds on its location at point whe
est it will be under the immediate supC
to vision ofthe legislature. Ifyou loo;
cry it in the woods, village will grow
the around it: And where is the pare
be who would be willing to lntrust
die moral education of his children to {
APP vicinity of an interior village? Hau
nd of vice and dissipation would be
OF tablished for miles around, and
we'd course Of legislation could prevent
IRE for the laws would not be enforced.
to see the gallon law put at defan
ter and liquor retailed in the face of
sive community, with perfect impunity.
ents find, on examination, that there are
ern- colleges in the Union, where Their
der more order and better discipline r
title served amongst the students, thai
,hil- the Alabama and South Carolina {
oda- leges at their respective seats Of Q
tally ernment. There have been outbre
e in ings: But so there have been, anc
IS, a frequently, at all other establishing
hich of the same kind. As [ am intfna
'ippi acquainted with Columbia, South {
1t as DINA, / can state, understandingly,
t the there is not a town of the same siz
ates. America, which can boast of n
pro- moral and intellectual worth.
COM laws whichthe legislature make TO
f the press establishments of vice, are
price forced by the citizens. Planters,
e de- different parts of the State, have
their tied there 10 supervise the educ'
, and of their sons and daughters; anC
d for pupils Of the college and schools
mingIe with a refined, intellectual.
nents highly moral community.
n OBJ So will it be in Mississippi, if
hanic seat Of government is located in a
ilding thy region, and the university in i
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