The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-08-07

oppose tax upon the people, or an an
preparation OF money to pay the inter
est or principal Of the bonds issued for
the Union Bank; to establish proper Re
venue Laws, and if possible, by proper
legislation to protect in future the citi-
zens Of the State, from the avarce and
chicanery of the Commission Merchants.
of New Orleans.
The following preamble and resoln-
ton were then offered by Mr.. Franklin
Smith, and received by the meeting all
most unanimously y.
WHEREAS, the Constitution of the
State Of Mississippi contains the follow
ing provisions, that mo law shall ever he
passed to raise a loan of money upon the
credit Of the State, or to pledge the faith
of the State for the payment or redemp-
ton of any loan or debt, unless such
law be proposed in the Senate or House
of Representatives, and be agreed 10 bv
a majority of the members of each house.
and entered on their Journals, with the
yeas and nays taken thereon, and be re-
ierred 10 the next succeeding Legisla-
ture and published for three months pre-
vlous to the next regular election, in
three newspapers OF this State; and I'M
less majority Of each branch of the
Legislature so elected, after such
publication, shall agree TO, and pass
such law" and whereas the Legisla-
ture Of this State, did at its Session of
1888, in direct violation of said provis-
ION of the Constitution, require the Go
vernon to subscribe for in behalf OF this
State, fifty thousand shares of the stock
OF the original capital of the Mississip-
Pl Union Bank; and whereas, the Go
vernon, IN pursuance of such unconsti-
tutIonal enactment subscribed for the
shares aforesaid, being in amount five
millions of dollars-and issued bonds
Tor the same; and whereas, it is now
sought to tax the people Of the State Of
Mississippi, for the payment Of said
bonds: And whereas tits a cherished prin-
clple of American liberty that the rights
OF the people are best secured by strict
adherence to our written Constition:-
Therefore
Resolved, That the Bonds for five
millions Of dollars, issued by the Go
vernon, and sold on account of the Mis-
sisSippi Union Bank are null and void.
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tutlonal and unjust to tax the p pes0G9I9st Or
Mississippi to pay said bonds.
ResolUed, That said bonds, so as afore-
said unconstitutionaIly issued, were ilIe-
galIy sold.
Resolved, That the people Of Missis-
slPPI have never confirmed the sale afore-
SAID, In the mode alone in which thew
could constliutionally do so, the sale of
said bonds
ReSoLred, That there is no code oil
morals or honor, known to the people of
Mississippi, which requires them to vio-
late their constitutional charter, which
many OF them are sworn to maintain,
but on the contrary, that it is the highest
moral duty devoIving on each citizen to
sustain unlmpaired the governmental
compact under which he lives.
1t was then on motion,
ResolUed, That the proceedings of this
meeting be signed by the officers, and
that the Editors Of the Mississippi Gre
ole, the Vicksburg Sentinel and the
MIssissiPPian, be requested to publish
The same.
w. d. HENRY, PREs'T.
WIN. GARrLEY. v;.op
THos. GRAFTON, lce rest
N ~ Pre,cett, Sec'ry