Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-08-31

| and judicial. So long as the government
exists, the people are only known and re-
cognzed, and act only, through these de.
parlmenis; they act in the passage of laws
through their representatives, if these rep.
resentatives disregard their will, they can
elect other representatives al their will;
lftheir representatives and the Governor
concur in passing unconstitutional Laws
the judiciary is provided to protect
the rights of the people from their enforce
ment;the acts ofthe peoples representatives
are binding onthem until pronounced unau-
| thorZed or unconstitutional, by that
| department. Whatever is done by the rep
reSentatives of the people in their name, Is
presumed to be lawful and right until, Ell
Their pronounced void by the judiciary or
repealed by a subsequent Legislature
The peoples representatives. in their, name
and behalf and as there authorized agents
directed the purchase Of the stock for the
benefit ofthe state, aud appropriated the
money raised from the sale of the Bonds,
TO that object. The stock now belongs
10 the state, surely therefore, the people of
the state, can"ot now'claim to separate
themselves from the State,and in this way
avoid the responsibility they have ;ncurrr
led. They have one mode aud ono mode
only ofdoing so,and th1tis bysreroLutioH,
by overturning The government, the con-
stltutiUn ana laws under which we have
| lived. This is the one which we under
stand the leading men of the anti.bond
| M ~ W. L., L
every honest patriot to make The calcula-
ton for himself, even on the amount of La
bllity which the anti-bond party assert,
say SO where we now pay one. Multiply
your present state Tax by this amount and
say whether for even this sum, you are
willing to see your constitution destroyed,
and the"musket and bayonel""and blood
shed" substituted in its stead. If your
state has been imprudensly or dishonesty
brought In debt by those whom YOU have
trusted, would it not be better to assist the
government ofthe state 10 pay it and say
20 our officers $50 and sin no more" "a
ther than to destroy the government
which gives US protection for all The pro.
perry we have, and run the risk of civil
war.
E We confess we are astonished Of the
boldness ofthe proposition seriously made,
to resist by force of arms tie execution Of
our Laws on this subject. We cannot re-
gard any man or set of men, as friends of
the government and the constitution, who
q would avow such revolutionary doctrines.
q We trust the people will rebuke in the
!, proper spirit, this insidious attack upon
. their patriotism, through their pockets, We
! doubt not that the political wreckers
/ who have raised this storm, that they
: might profit by the disasters created, will
at least receive the unqualified condemna-
: lion ofthe moralthe religlous,the upright
and honest of all parties. We have al
! ways beived that the same spirit which
leads US TO profess in the correctness of
principles, moral political or religious
= SHOULD bear the good man onward and
4 upwardin their practice.
ri If however m these hopes and e.Spccta-
70 ton, we shall be mistaken, if the constl.
tuition and laws can be openly denounced
g and desplsed by each indiUiduaI citizen
. whose interst may overcome his patriot
~ ism; ifthe political mermaids, that ris
- only with the tumult they have caused,a
- to become the master spirits that rule tn
; storm and guide the whirl wind Of part
- strife; and that too by the aid an encour
= agement ofthemoral and religious ciiizer
then the government, the laws and const
: tuition TO which we have been taught fror
- our very infancy, to look, for peace an
lei safety, Under all circumstances, are no
Il worth preserving, and the moral and rel
gious PRINCIPLES we profcSs,are powerle.i
N to guide us in the practice Of virtue her
- or to elevate US 10 is more perfect snioy
> ment hereafter.