Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-09-11
THE HUMBUGS OF THE ANTI BoNDERS.
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THE HUMBUGS OF THE ANTI-BONDERS.
No. 8.
We propose in this number to notice another
branch of the "Humbug'' in relation to taxa
ton. Nothing is more common than TO meet.
in loco-foco anti-bond papers, with expressions
people" "the bond-paying party are endea-
vouring to lay tax on the people for the
benefit of British fund -mongers," "will the
people submit to this unjust and onerous tax
atom" &c. &c. The only inference deduct
BILE from all this, is that small body of men
intend 10 force an unjust and oppressive tax
upon the great mass Of the free-born citizens
of Mississippi without their consent, for the
benefit of foreigners. This constitution Of the
phrases we have quoted is borne out for the
frequent threats of resistance by "the people"
! if law to tax them should be passed, by the
numerous illusions to the glorious resistance
by our ancestors to unjust taxation, and by
the constant appeals to the people to resist
such a tax.
! With due Difference to the authors of these
very patriotic pieces of defamation, they are
all very silly and very much out of place.
They are indeed mere stuff and that OF the
Lowest order. 1t is impossible that any editor
of a newspaper can be so ignorant as not to
know that they have no foundation in reason
or truth In this country there can be no
such thing as taxing the people without their
consent, for the simple reason that the power
to "tax the people" rests solely ana eIct@S'oe-
liz in the people themselves. II therefore any
tax is levied, it must be done by majority oil
the people of the respective counties acting
through their representatives, and there Is no
other way on earth by which 1t can De Done.
What utter unmitigated nonsense Is IL, tnen,
IN talk about the "Whigs taxing the people,
How can the Wings tax the people unless they
J. are a majority of the people? And who IS
!, there in this republican country, that will dare
q to set himself up in open resistance to law
5 enacted by the malolity IN accoroance wlth
IS =, one--not even those four juvenile Null
& ia,sos bv whom Fireman was deeply atfec-
= ted" Al.
neople without their consent, or In any other
= wav than in that pointed out in the Constitu-
ton is supremely ridiculous. Wild and absurd
e as are many of the notions of some of the DEM
/ agogues who are trying to ride into power
upon the Anti-bond question, there are none
q of them so utterly destitute of common sense
as 10 believe any thing of the kind. though we
!; regret that there are those, who knowing bet
ter, still attempt to impress this idea upon the
people.
: The Wing party of the State of Mississippi.
E by their delegates in convention, assembled at
Jackson last winter, unanimously declared
% "That it is the deliberate sense OF the Wing
% party of Mississippi that the State is BOUND BY
- EVERY OBLIGATION OF HONOR AND JUSTICE TO
PAY OR CAUSE TO BE PAID, her bonus issued
Dc and sold for the benefit of the Union bank, and
" for the payment of her stock in the Planters
ne bank" The orators and presses of the Wing
partv have sedulously labored to convince the
nc people of the State that majority OF them
D. ought to act in accordance with the DECLARE
lr. ton above quoted. They have endeayoured
p and are still endeavouring to prove to them
y that their interests no less than their good
u name and character will be advanced oy a
70 punctual compliance with these contracts. In
p doing this, they have no interest Whatever
I'm beyond that which every citizen of the State
;e. has in her honor and prosperity. The nonsen
Is steal cry that the advocates OF the payment O.
ed the bonds or any of them are paid to do so i
Ut too contemplate for notice. The abandoned
re- men who have promulgated it never dreamed
Use that il had the sightes foundation in TRUTH ant
re- even if they had done so nobody else would be
ats lieye them. The mere fact that men wht
have been in the State but few years shoule
rd- charge some Of the oldest of its citizens with
In desire to sell what is almost their native soil
er- to foreigners, is sufficient to condemn them.
es; If we can succeed in persuading the major
me tv that our sentiments are correct, we shall o.
1t reioiced for we believe that then Mississippi
ny will stand upon her true footing among ne
ger sister states If we shall fail however disa
the greeable it may be 10 see our State oisgraceo
ats as we believe It will be- still we republican
:. and shall bow to the will OF the majority.
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