Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-10-16
FROM THE soUTHRoN.
BARINGS, BROTHERS, & Co.'S LETTER
TO GOVERNOR McNUTT.
To the Governor Of Mississippi:

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To the Governor Of Mississippi:
SIR: We have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your Excellency's note, in an
swer to our demand of payment OF the inter-
est now due on the bonds of your State, held
by us. You enclose to us your answer to a
similar demand made by Hope & Co., and re-
fer us to that document as Indicative OF the
sentiments and intentions of the people OF
Mississippi, in regard to our claims. We had
before seen in German Gazette, their reply
to your Excellency. In their view of the liza
biity of your State, whether originated by
them, or proceeding from some OF the learned
continental iuris consults, the lawyers and
statesmen of England entirely concur. In
deed, we are advised that in the political con-
test now being waged in your State, an i'm
mense preponderance of the learning and tai
ent of the barristers is arrayed on the same
side.
The position of Hope & Co., that the ques-
ton is one determinable by the international
code, we deem irrefragible. We have not
learned of any attempt to refute it, by you
or any Of your party. Either the conclusive
character of their reasoning, or the business
of their rebuke, has somewhat abated your
ambition to figure as the organ of Mississippi
on the /" bond question:" In your explanation
ito us of your communication to them, you
saw that, you did not mean to be considered
as intending to speak for Mississippi, but only
as the organ of the anti-bond party. which,
YOU are persuaded, constitute majority OF
the State To that party we desire to be
considered as addressing ourselves, through
YOU, their head. Inasmuch as you say, In
terms more explicit, than either dignified or
courteous, that Mississippi will not pay her
bonds" we respond, as you have taught US,
she shall pay them You charge fraud on US
, we retort stealing on you. You are worse
than the Highland Reiners, who, as the poei
$ says, acted on
oThe good old rule, the golden plan
. That they should take who have the power,
:, And they should keep who CAM
t. For they pretended to be governed by no law
E, bnt that of the strongest. They did not see
: 70 cover their robberies with sanctlmonlou
pretences.
We are advised that, your anti-debt-payln
st orators lwhat an epithetl] suggest variou
methods whereby the operation OF letters
marque and reprisal may be evaded' or renoe'
= ed ineficient,-such as. transfer OF the co
;, ton TO the citizens of other States or countrle
: or transportation oft over land to your Nor''
ern manufactures. They and you will IND ina
5 2 whatever of skill they may have acquired
of defeating the executions OF their own o'a'
they will be at fault when they nave Z, I, Co
re tend AGAINST this great international dlstre
70 ,varrant. neither force nor fraud will av;
A Them. Whatever accusations may be mac
no. against Great Britain, she has never been q
I'd cHsed of refusing or failing to obtain Justl
er from other nations to her subjects. In case
the much to be deprecated and dreaded ISIS
W. of force between her and your State, she W
be Ibe supported by France, Holland, Prussia a
Austria. the subjects of all which klngdol
M hold portions of your bonds.
W. We understand that these eloquent gent
,at men. catching their chivarous spirit, doubtle
Mt. from your Excellency, declaim somewhat
NO this wise: awe have twice whipped
YES British, and we can rub up our rusty swol
i'm. and whip them again. There is little a
ors biguity in the pronoun '',oe," as used by
ley gentlemen. Itmay refer to the United Stat
the or to the State of Mississippi, alone. This
gertrude was unquestionably Intentional
ted The idea of Great Britain, France, Hola
the Prussia and Austria being whipped by Miss
of sppi, would sound a little ludicrously, eS
ate on your anti-bond payers tympanums. In
for again: the gentlemen would lind 1t II
of difficult to convince an audience, however
of norant, that the United States would invo
the themselves, in war, to sustain a Parlcu
0 a State in its refusal to pay its debts. Sue
Sc, course, even if warranted by the Fede
ed. Constitution, must inevitably result in the
est sumption, by the General Government, OF
two hundred millions of debt, owed by
eve States. Such assumption, we are told,
her strongly opposed by all the States, but es
or cially those which advocate free trade, on
the grounds ofits unconstitutionality and Its ell
in increasing the duties on imports.
( 10 Having shown that the State'of Misslss ],
the should it be her pleasure 10 assume ps.,
ght rent attitude, VIII have 70 rely on ne, oa ai
I'M my TO pr0tect heI sou, hei o"i nc. 10 -
her commerce, we cannot refrain from 2 /,
it is notice of the two "whiPPings Mneu :
ter orators aege the states % nssI D95