Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-08-14
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The following article touching the contents
of the letter of Hope & Co. to A.. G. McNutt,
together with the reply of his Excellency in
a style Of degradation, we take from the Vicks-
burg Wing. If every friend of the cause of
truth and honor, will but give it an impartial
reading we fear not the result of their DELHI
erations. A perusal is all we ask, believing
as we do, that the dissemination Of truth will
cause hundreds, who have heretofore been in
the dark, to rally to the rescue of their State
and preserve her honor unsullied, and from
again being placed under the control of loco
foco misrule. Let all fight, "Not for the glory
of Cesar-6ut the Uelfare Of Romer'
GOV McNUTT AND THE STATE BONDS
SIN our last we promised to refer to Gov.
McNutt's letter to Hope & Co; and contrast
some of his declarations with declarations for
merly made to the legislature.
We are fully aware that it will be of little
consequence to expose the Inconsistency of A.
G. McNutt, for we have done that hundred
times already, but by exposing the falsehood
and duplicity of the leaders of the anti.bond
party, upon this as we'll as other subjects, we
shall be able to give honest men pretty fair
idea of their villainy generally.
If we should unfortunately convict his Ex-
cellency of downright lying either in this let.
ter TO Hope & Co; or in any of his former
messages to the Representatives of the people,
we beg him to consider whose fault it is and
not blame US. We did not advise him to such
a course, and if we had, we think the great
love he bears us would have induced him to
have acted differently and for once in his life
told the truth. There is no helping it now,
and if we should happen to prove that the
Chief Magistrate of Mississippi has disobeyed
one of the divine commandments which says,
"IHou Shalt not herr we entreat him not to
think hard of US, and in the language of Holy
Writ we now bid him $50 and sin no n,orer'
Let him repent of his past misdeeds and in
good time, with due penance he may hope to
be forgiven.
In this extraordinary letter to Hope & Co.
Governor McNutt uses the following language
which is so plain that he who runs may read
"7Ae filth of this Government has NEE
Err BEEN PLEDGED for the illegal and
fraudulent sale of those bonds"
This is pretty strong language and the use
of it would seem to indicate that his Excellen
| cy was well informed upon the subject o
which he writes, but before we are done with
him we will refresh his memory little, and
| if we should by any chance enIighten him
we assure him he is welcome to the informa
ton and shall have it gratis.
! In his message TO the Legislature in January
1889, which by the bye, was the first assem-
bling Of that body after the State Bonds welt
sold; Gov. McNutt holds forth in the following
manner. Persons WHO desire to see the whole
message can find the portion which we quote
at pages Is and 20 Journal House Reps.
says:
"The State debt now amounts to the sun
of $685., 1886 80, deposited by the General Go
vernment, and which is liable at any time t
be recalled. Two millions Of dollars in 81,
per cent bonds, sold by the State to pay TO
stock to that amount in the Planters Bank, AM
fee millions Of dollars in fee per cent bonds
sold to take stock TO that amount in the Missis
sippi Union Bank, amounting in all to the sun
lof seven million three hundred and eighty
two thousand three hundred and thirty-Hye
dollars thirty cents and the annual interest o.
that sum [most Of i payable IN EuroPe) =