Holly Springs gazette., 1841-09-16
PAY, OR NOT TO PAY, AN HONEST DEBT;
THAT Is "THE BOND QUESTION"

Fee we say aught else, wish to dlsclam all inten
ton of stgmazng the opposition party IN Mississippi
q, We do regard the efforts that are
now being throughout the State to obtain an expression
Of the popular will against the payment OF the onioh a
bonds as sanctioned by the great body Of our ponca opPo
peps and we will do them the injustice of making such
charge against them 1t is the McNutes and the Tuck
ertesn and the "Cwnites, I'd genus and not the
opposon partg who seeking to cast STAIN SO iou upon
the fair escutcheon of our noble State
We have listened frequently and patiently and atentve
70 the and of the anbond payers but
urer vet have we heard advanced by OF
all them which, humble estimation went to prove that
the State could honorab refuse pay the bonds Of the Union
Bark Il does that the public discussion OF this
ec, has been carried on by those who deny the liability
Of the State upon wrong principles They have conducted
as though they defending the State of Mississippi IN
Magistrates Court three dollar where strong
pccn of debt appeared against and they were endavong
10 "get off, by of some exceeding small q'ooe
That the State-aye the Satedid receive the money an
sing from the sale of the bonds not questioned Inat sne
has not paid backha she has not even paid the interest
oni-,he letters of Hope SEQ and MIR Dunlap would aoun-
dany testify although had other evidence oil the tact
That she oup to pay It, seems therefore, proposition too
plain for any man. has the slightest regard for the honor
of his State to question Yet 1--WE blush Missssppan
whom we record the disrraceu act questioned
and that too bv men high places in State Our Gov
ernor from the lofty station which he desecrates has pro-
claimed to the world sanderous libel upon the people
the State that they "necer H pay those bonds Ii such
the Of Mississippi would
beand gh be"a byword and reproach even among
sauage they will abide by their contracts unless they
taught refined of honesty by some missionary
like Gov. McNut.
Those bonds forth the world under the sanction
two Legislatures the signature of the Governor and the State
treasurer and the great seal State and get IS SAID tha
the charter of the Bank passed In constitutional
manner and therefore the purchasers of the bonds cal
have no right to claim payment of the State because he
ought to have detected the unconsttuionay the charter
This reasoning requires ooregnes they should know
more about our constitution, laws legislative journals
newspapers than our cizens-nore even than all tn
executive legislative and financial wisdom of the State
Even the charter were clearly unconstitutional we shouI
regard the State bound of the circumstances unde
which the bonds the market to nav them
honorably equiiaby morally bound But we could neye
yet see but that the charter Constitutional
We shall have say this subject hereafter Bu
meanwhile have doubt to the decision that will
pronounced by the people in November We have an alb
ding faith in the virtue and honor and honesty oour citizen
ana we believe that they will imprint upon the foreheadz