Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1841-07-31
MORE DUNNS.

# the 23d inst, that GoV. McNut'' u"
laws prior to that date, received a letter
rom Joshua Bates, Esq, covering a
engthy communication, signed by many
foreign holders OF the Mississippi Bonds,
and urging the immediate payment OF The
interest due thereon, together with an
ins,alment on the Planters Bank Bonds, }
amounting to $4,000, due on the L.. of
July inst.
Notwithstanding the holdo,. Of the I'm.
ION Bank bonds, are thus continually de-
handing of the STATE, the interest due
thereon; the OOnd.pay<rs tell the people
that the question Of the liability OF the
Safe 10 ray these bon's, was pre-
Imaturoiy raised--.lhot it 10 an I'M
material issue designed to deceive the
public ir the ensuing election. These
positions are supremeIy ridiculous II
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this be not the proper time for raising the
question of The States liability; when do
gentlemen suppose the proper time Will
arrive? Not until the principal shall have
become due and payable?
BY that time, if the interest be not reg
oIarIy paid, the debt will have accumaIa-
ted TO such an extent, as orender It's pay
nent. by the present generation, utterly
impossible. And to cripple the energies
Of succeeding generation witt an I'M
mense debt of which they could not be
he beneliciaries, would be unjust in the
extreme We should then, at once, settle
the question, and if the State be deemed
liable for the debt, mako immediate pro-
visions for lis payment
Again, if the party who are no" de-
nouncing this question as immaterIaI, SO
regard It, why did they take issue upon 1t,
and by series of resolutions, passed at
their State Convention, adopt the legal 4
moral liability OF the State, IN the premi5'
es, as part of their political creed?
The bonds having been created and
sold in derrogaton OF the constitution and
laws of the State, the question OF the
States liability to pay them, necessarily
involves the supremacy of the constitution
the sacred palladium OF our Liberties "
our rights; yet the bond-payers, who
would make us the vassals Of foreign fund
mongels, say it is al immateriaI question
1t necessarily involves the question
whether our legislators are our sovereign
. masters, clothed with power to bind US II
! all cases, whatsoever, or whether they arr
but our constitutional agents, lncompeten
, to bind US BY acts wanting the sanction o
!. that sacred instrument: yet these stock
o lers for State honor add State dignity tel
=, US, that it is an immateriaL question.
Whence the proieslauons of the inmate
u riaIity ofthe question under consideration
arise, is paIpabIy evident. The bond
=, paying party have learned that the peopl
% of Mississippi will not submit to taXaio
to pay millions of bank squanderings, fl
r which they are in 10 wise liable, & lhereb
,e open the way to new reign OF banks an
or swindling, and consequently they al
a. sraining every nerve, to capse the Sta
n. election to turn upon national politics, e2
gs pectng doubtless, by that means, 10 fore
upon the people an immense foreign deb
Of to pay which, they recognise no liabiIII
of on their part.
of Will the people suffer themselves to
rs diverted from this vitality important su
60 ject; and thus sacrifice their consu;utio
i'll and The future prosperity of themselves
others upon the altar Of party? If so, o
boosted liberty lives but in name, and ,
10 have proven recreant to the trust con
OK ded to us by our ancestors.
els This is purely question ofstato polio
oil having no conneXou, whatsoever, wi
e. national polilics--it is a question vita
toI important to the future weIl.being Of I
'ut State; md hence it should be acted up
1t; without reference to old party lines.
No Do1Nes At THE BRANDON SPRINGS.
We learn from the Misslssippian tt
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