The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-07-31

Here we close our quotations from MS
excellency messages, and we now ask
the reader TO compare the declaration
he makes in his letter to Hope & Co,
that ''the faith of this government has
nerer been pledged for the illegal and
fraudulent sale of those bonds" with the
extracts we have already made from his
messages in 1889 and 1910. Ic. as Gov.
McNutt now asserts, the State never was
liable for the bonds sold for the benefit
of the Union Bank, why did he tell
talsehood in his annual message to the
peoples representatives in 1889, when
he said the estate debt" amounted TO
the sum of Seren millions three hundred
and eighty two thousand three hundred
and thirty-fve dollars and thirty cents -
If, as he now alleges, the state is not and
never has been liable for the redemption
of the $5,000,000 # bonds issued for
the benefit of the Union Bank. and sold
to Nicholas Biddle, he was guilty of
deliberate faisehood in stating the public
debt of the state at fire millions OF dol
lars more than II actually was, for ifthe
state was not liable fc- the Union Bank
Bonds, her debt in January, 1899, was
but t1oo millions three hundred and eigh-
tytwo thousand three hundred and thir-
ty-five dollars and thirty cents, instead
of "Seren millions" and upwards. The
governor cannot plead ignorance of the
facts, 1t was his sworn duty to know
them, and he did kaolC every solitary
fact connected with the issuance and sale
of the bonds. He knelc that they were
sold on credit He knelC that thev
were made payable in sterling money.
and he kne1c that Nicholas BiddIe, or the
u. S. Bank of Pennsylvania, if it please
him better, was the purchaser All
these things he knew at the time he PEN
ned his message in 1899, and with all
this knowledge IN his possession he told
the legislature that the state was bound
for the redemption of the bonds. and that
the state debt amounted to ''Sercn mil
lions three hundred and eighlv-two thou
sand dollarsm One of two things is in
evit,able; he either gave false informa-
ton to tie representatives of the people
assembled In the legislature, or he has
been guilty of ielsehood in his letter 10
Hope & Co. We care not which horn
of the dilemma he takes, but one OF them
he must take. But again,
"The state, by her credit alone. has
furnished the whole capital Of MISS
sippi Union Bank, and Justice requires
that she should have the appointment Of
a ma jority Of the board of directors. and
it is deserving of your serious considera-
ton whether the charter ought not now
TO be amended SO as to secure to the state
a controlling influence over the institu-
ton"
Now il the state was never liable for
the redemption of those bonds, We should
like to know what right she had 10 ap-
point a majority of the directors. or
with what face Gov. McNutt could ask
the legislature to ''give the state a con-
trolling influence over" an Institution
which he now declares the state has no
sort of interest in? Such demand looks
10 us like the climax of impudence, and
shows conclusively that the governor
does not belive one solitary word OF
the letter he has written to Hope s
Co.
We might adduce other paragraphs
from this letter to Hope & Co, as well
as from the Governors Messages, which
would all go to establish the truth OF
what we said moment ago, and that Is
Gov. McNutt, was either guilty Of false
hood in his annual messages, or he has
asserted what is false in his letter TO
Hope & Co., but we have already pro-
duced sufficient evidence and we leave
his excellency to repose upon his laurels-
There are some other portions of his
letter which we may notice hereafter
Vicksburg Wing.