The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-05-29
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]. S. Congress, praying the passage
# General Bankrup Law. This paper
5 now open for the entering Of names,
md from the large number already to
his document, and the unanimity OF OPT
1ion that prevails among the people IN
relation to this important subject, we
should Judge there was but l-ttie OPPOSE
ton elsewhere TO the passage such
law. Atthe same time VIC are aware OF
the peculiarly heavy load of debt, and
the uncommon and embarrassing pecu-
mary pressure which IS weighing CIR
cecple ioy and will continue 10 depress
them until removed by some anxiously
looked for and jastifable Congressional
enactment.
The wide spread and peculiarly unen-
viable reputation which our State and
her citizens have acquired abroad for IT.
retrieveable and notorious insolvency,
we we'll know operates much against US.
Our citizens are probably more borne
down by debt than those of other States,
but were they less SO a law Of the de-
scription spoken of, would, there is no
doubt in the world, be desired by nine
tcnths of them.
1t must be recolIected at the same
time that our mode Of doing business has
very materially changed within the last
two or three years. The credit system
is almost entirely abolished, and all com
mercial and trading transactions are now
conducted on the strictest principles of
economy and retrenchment, and that
system Of wild speculation and oVer-tra-
ding, which like an earthquake shock
and the whitening blast Of tornado con
vulsed and swept over the land but very
few years since, has ceased; but its ef-
fects are left and may be heard in the
deep drawn signs and heavy curses of
hundreds Of those whose last morsel is
gone, and whose wives and children have
not h me.
1t must be remembered too that it is
useless las is the custom) TO upbraid and
taunt such men with the imprudence
which brought these misfortunes upon
them. It is too late to chide. The storm
has passed and all that is left for US to
do is to pick up the fragments of the
wreck and make the best possible use of
them. The people admit the existence
of the evil and the evil causes which
produced it, and with penitent hearts
pray for relief. We give an instance
If by some imprudence or negligence a
man becomes entangled in the deep ma
yes of wood, forgets his route and the
direction of his home, after wandering
about for days and weeks in fruitless
search of some friendly path or some
kind hand to lead him to his happy fire.
side. he sees at distance coming to him
one whom he had known long and well
it would not do for this kind friend
to reprove the lost man for the impru-
dence which had bror Oh. his misfortune
upon him. How aggravating and un-
reasonable it would be. How far from
that supeilative delight and satisfaction
which the first appearance of the friend
would seem to indicate.
To return, because reviled Mississippi
suffers most, her influence should not be
diminished. On the contrary, in proper.
ton toher wants & sufferings, her weight
and influence in the investigation of thi;
matter and the passage ofthis contempla
ted law, should be increased. Where the
pang is most keenly feItlet the first ap
p''cation be made to relieve it. Because
she har been once disfranchised,a land Of late
years deemed oflittle importance, moraliy
and politically; because she has been viii
flied ant degraded with gr at injustice a
home aid abroad, she should Be al
lowed tc SINK into oblivion and disgrace
without ~ effort to "pluck up her
drowned honor" Agriculture, that grea
bulwark Of our national and individual
wealth and stunding, has found in hel
soil the elements to sustain great politi
cal Importance, and this chosen spo
should not deserted in her hour o.
need. Nor will she be. The baue and
e;na,vs, of he count eth ro.; - :;