Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1841-02-20
TO THE (PLIGHTED FAITH OF THE,
PEOPLE OLE MISSISSIPPI.

address myself directly to your pledged no.
nor in order that may assure myself Of your
attention to the point, wherein hes your true glory.
To this you are not nsenstbIe; through which
vulnerable part, your hearts, and purses, are at all
times TO be reached.
This being well known 10 beTharactcristic, Of
the people of Mississippi, it has not in vain been
appealed 10, by your foreign bond holders
alreadNsee your sense Of honor rising far above
yuu' Pr"uenVr.
You will not for moment hesitate to acknowl-
edge yourself bound, on the two millions oI
PLANTERS Bank bonds as consistently with your
honour, you cannot.
see the same sense of honnr driving you on
still farther, to the probable acknowledgment OF
ike obligation upon the FIVE millions OF nego.
cated bonds, on account of the Mississippi I'm.
ion Bank when it must be confessed, that, u
such had been an Individual transaction, the usu-
rlous purchase of the bonds would legally have
inyaIdated the act, not 10 greater extent, than
10 have coa1Icted with the provisions authorizing
the sale OF such bonds.
I, il not the purpose Of the author of his paper
10 settle this well contested point oihdo'hfy upon
tho IJu,oo Bank bonds. Nor is il any part OF
his purpose TO impair, or dim, the lusiTe Of the
hioh moral sense Of his fellows, his proud Of II ;
ard proud Of being one Of you because Off.
! So far is he from feeling disposition to esade
| the payment Of any portion of the State debt
,ha. he here takes accession to declare his prefer
ence for the assumption Of the payment oil the
five millions under consideration, whether 1t the
state be viewed in the character Of an individual,
she be legally bound, or not, TO pay them. Pay
ihem il we can, or when we can, 'ciihout intoler'
able taraiion. And il we can never pay wthou
/ this why then, we can in the last resort, bp
follow the examples Of England, France and 9th
! er great nations, who have ever regarded In Gtii
/ IN, as an ample cause far refusal to pay. Sure
Nv subjects Of Great Britain, would complain witt
! peculiar H. grace, Of our bad faith, when w
should follow, 10 lhis matter, but the example o
heir government.
Whether those bonds, really belong to Mr.
Nicholas Bldde; the Bank Of the United States
or to subjects Of her Britanic Majesty, is matte
Of no consideration 10 the people Of Mississippi
unless indeed there be 10 the latter case, an aP
q peal to their EARS an appeal to which ha
thought would have been as successfully made I
any other people under the sun.
But does your plghted honob stop here :!
moi the faith Of the state, pleged to porto" .
/ your Own citizens, your cop0rtnsrs IN the bus
ness OF banking in the said Mississpsi Unto
/ Bank Tbs portion Of yourselves, your cop'r
4 ners, The individual subscribers for stock in sal
bank, --hase 20 other government 70 look up t.
Cor ihe projection Of their property, bet the GOV
= etumsnl Of Mississippi, Nor can they appeal
any other subjects. or citizens. 10 aid them IN d.
fence Of their rights, but to The citizens OF u
Stele Of Mississippi. They cannot as the foreg
bond holders do present with The olive branc
| your pghied honor, in their left hands, Will
!. they hold menacngly in their right the unsheat
ed sword OF the Sowing lion, Of her BIItaa
Majesty.
G;cd lorbid,-thst after all this parade abo