The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-10-29
TO the POTIs!-TO the Polls!
NIISSISSIPIANS TO THE POLISH!

MISSISSIPIANS TO THE POLISH!
At the polls next Monday is 10 be decided |
one of the most important questions ever PIE
sented to free men. There was never a more |
important political question presented to the
people Of one of the States of this Union than
the one to be decided by the freemen of Mis-
sissippi at the ballot boxes next Monday and
Tuesday. Then let the people go up TO the
polls without the lack of one man. We say
let every man go, because, as the question
has been raised and both sides of it urged
publicly in the canvass, let it be fairly met,
and let the world know what is the voice of
the people of Mississippi on this all absorbing
question.
II we have men yet amongst us who are
ready to vote againstthe honor, the Consiitu-
ton and the laws of this State, it is a free
country,-let them come forward and vote
II, after the evil designs of the anti-bond
demagogues and the evil tendencies of the
antI-bond doctrines have been fairly explain
ed before the people, there are yet those who
are ready to sustain these abominable outrages
upon law, honor and civilization, let them
come forward and tell at the polls! If the
treemen OF Mississippi are prepared to do
deed that will cause the great Cotton State to
be drummed out of the Camp of Nations for
fraud, and the dark stain of dishonor TO rest
upon her escutcheon Til the memory of man
shall fail, let them come forward and do the
Decd If this moral suicide is to be commit
ted, let it be done
But on the contrary, if the advocates Of
public honor and popular rights-if the advo-
Gates of the Moral Law and the Civil Law
are here, IN the name of Heaven and all that
IS sacred, honorable and just, let them show
themselves at the polls. 1.-THE name of Mis-
slsslPpi is to be preserved from positive nta-
my and never ending disgrace, let her sons
tell Il at The polls! If the price of our integ-
rlty IS above the value of few State bonds
then let it be made known. If Mississippi
has name to live, and has regard for her
laws and for herself, let her ballot boxes tell
1t to the world in tones OF thunder. Let the
world be compelled to know that this is not q
heather land-that it is country of laws &
OF morals-that the people are as honest as
they are free-that Public Integrity walks
abroad over the land in the beauty of his
strength and in the sunlight of moral virtue;
and that National faith and National honor
yet dwell in Mississippi, the conservators OF
her fame, and the gurdan angels Of her chas-
tity and her integrity. Let the ballot boxes
now tell to the world whether birthright, a
character and name, or a mess Of pottage, is
priced highest in Mississippi. These ques-
tions are fairly presented-let them be fairly
met and decided.
Remember-there are but two sides to the
bond question. There is no middle ground
It IS directly and positively yes or no! LIE
there be no shutting or misunderstanding OF
This point. The Ant-bond party and then
andidates declare, 1st-That the bonds in
question are absolutely, in themselves cold
that they never ought to be and never shall
be recognised as all obligation of the State
2d-That the debt in question, if debt there
be, is one which the State neverowed. never
will recognise, and never will pay. 3d-Tha
these things result from the fact that The
Union Bank Charter is unconstitutional. anc
Uotd. And 4th-That all these things ouCh
20 be proclaimed posiiUely and finally by the
people at the polls.
Those in favor Of recognising the validit,
Of solemn contracts maintain the Ueru oD2o
site Of all this. They declare that the bond
are legal obligations against the State accord
ing to their face, and ought so to be recog
missed and accordingly to be paid. 2d-Tha
the debt was fairly and legally contracted b,
the State, through its Legislature, with the
full and free consent, both in law and in fact
of her people; and that it ought, according
to all the principles oflaw, justice and honor
to be paid. 3d-That the Union Bank has
fair, legal existence that the people of tho
State have an unquestoned right to all its
assets to liquidate these bonds with, and tina
1t would be the extreme of iniatuation il