Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-08-14

lIllS dCt, Hc sildi iuCuI penalty OF ten OOiIaTS
for each offence, to be recovered before any
justice of the peace.
SEC. 6. And be 1t further enacted, That
the rout of said turnpike shall be on the line
dividing sections eleven and fourteen in town.
ship No. Is, of range No. 2. east.
Approved, February 5th, lS4l.
The last step in official degradation has been
taken by Gov. McNutt and the state, so far as
the act of its chief magistrate can effect that
end, is consigned to eternal iniamy and dis
grace. The correspondence of the Governor
with the Messrs. Hope & Co. in relation to
the bonds issued on account of the Union
Bank is one which the world will hardly be-
lleve eraanated from the head of civilized
and intelligent community. 1t is usual in mat
tiers, of this sort to observe some degree of
courtesy, some show of ordinary decorum or
politeness: but we may in vain look into this
letter for any thing OF the kind, it is low, vul-
gar and abusive throughout, such only as might
be expected from man who was as destitute
of common honesty as of common decency.
We would not evince so much feeling upon
this subject, did not his Excellency undertake
to speak for the people Of the whole state, and
sumption, declare to the world they are all as
corrupt and dishonest as himself. Now we in
the name of the Wing party, which we hon.
estly believe is in majority in this state, pro-
nounce the assersion of Gov. McNutt that the
people never will pay these bonds TO be false,
and foul libel upon their character! Should
the popular mind in the absence of the neces-
sary information at present decide wrong, il
s,,II~ ia
and ample justice will be done to all parties
concerned. But the next elections will no
doubt decide the question, and the world will
then see how shamefuly Mississippi has been
misrepresented by party which owes its
elevation entirely to temporary causes, and
which has invariably discarded from its code
every principle of honor, of justice and of vir-
tue. Its object has been to preserve the ascen-
dency at all hazards, to sacrifice every thing
to party elevation and to have no connection
with men or things that would not assist in
bringing about that all important result
Iii melancholy to contemplate the degra-
ded position of our state at this time. When
the question of the payment of the bonds is-
sued by the states was first agitated by the
Locofoco party, it was thought that several of
the states in which they had the ascendency
would assume the ground now occupied by
Mississippi. and repudiate their bonds. Penn
sylvania and Illinois particularly it was be-
lieved, would adopt this course, and there was
some consolation in the thought that if the es-
cutcheon of our honor must be furnished we
would not be alone, there would be some to
share and therefore to Tighten our infamy.
But both of these states have preserved their
faith and redeemed their character from dis
grace, and Mississippi remains foul blot up
on the brow of the confederacy, the only one
of her sister states that has yet played the har-
lot to the world
The sophisticated reasoning of the Cover
nor which was evidently elaborated by his
Vicksburg cabinet, is highly characteristic of
the man, and proves how completely the hu-
man mind may be led by successive steps to
the lowest depths of moral degradation. At
the time he penned the assertion that upwards
of a million of dollars were lost to the Bank,
he must have known it to be false,--for the
examination of the institution and the reports
ofthe committees of the Legislature all ten
ded to show that upwards of five millions Of
dollars had actually been received, and that
more had been realized by selling exchang up
on the various points at which the different
lnstallments were made payable than could
possibly have been lost in the difference of in
terest. 1t is also false that the state received
none of this money-on the other hand she
borrowed of the Bank, to enable her to con-
tlnue her operations, and we have no doubt
that the Governor himself received some of
TINS very loan in payment of his salary. Be-
sides, he forget to state, that he himself IN his