The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1842-06-04

"greatly ercited," that Jury
should find him guilty, on such s1ighttes-
timony as was produced against hun
Their moral vision was such,
appeared to other men, 9
strous body Of evidence,
mere shadow, possibly "nsS1Ssaf
1t is not impossible, that "Rankin's" per-
ception of things may be such, that he
does not see them as others do.
"Rankin" says | shave left the i'm
preston on the mind of this community,
that am the veriesl fool on earth, or the
most inhuman knave" | do not boast OF
my intelligence. Those who know me
will give me credit for what | may pos
sess. But if may be permitted to in
dulge an opinion about Mr.. s'Rankin,"
should Judge that he is not very deep
indie bted to Nature himself on the score
Of good sense. Solomon and he, su;
pect, are very distant relations. Eith
he is so unfortunate, as to be unte0
bic, (Which think is quite probabl
the light of science has shone but
on his path. With all his faults, hi
tainly would not have so cruelty MURDER
ed the Kings English as he has done IN
the communication am noticing, if he
could have avoided it. But this is his
misfortune, not his crime. As to kna-
very, | will admit, that he is an ,.dept in
that science, for he has given ample evil
dence of the fact in the dishonest state
ment OF facts which he has presented in
the communication alluded to.
But he charges that Slcore positively
that | "never endorsed any draper's
name upon warrant unless by express
authority, or as agent, more than three
or four times, and in such cases, had
taken care to file away all the orders EN-.
towering me TO make the endorsements,
and yet Mr.. Shelton was subsequently,
examined, and to the establishment OF all
present, and the magistrates in particu-
lar, it appeared this man Matthews had
not more than week ago, took the re-
sponslbIlity TO endorse a gentleman's
name upon the back ola warrant, with
out any color Of authority further than
his friendship for the drawer. Nor did
ne sign his name either as ageet for the
dra|er." What admirable English!
Here, again, is another infrmity of Mr..
"Rankin's" nature manifesto dom.
however, which, presume, is from the
force of habit, which some people call
''Sec0nd nature" He fabricates a false.
mood and makes mis-statement of the
facts. ! never swore any such thing
The fact is this. After had closed nv
evidence, and after several other witness
es had given their testimony, some gen.
'leman IN the company said something
OF shIs having endorsed the name ~of a
drawee upon a warrant, and the subject
o endorsing warrants (for negotiation or
circulation, as understood it) becoming
matter of conversation, | participated.
and stated that Ia 30 or three in.
stances endorsed 5 names upon
warrants (meanif he purpose be-.
fore mentioned) but lad authority
to do so, which hat Aref1l TO f;la
away, and that had as agent
The case alluded toI alton. wao
very different Oh about
which we were SPEAK an.
as collecting Attor T.
was wishing TO make 1910
warrants into the State TfI | had
issued my receipt warrant, to ana e him
% make the payment, when he di over
ed So warrant that was not en- brsed
ihe endorsement was necessary as a
matter of form, to Its reception by the
'~Surer. Upon turning up the face of
'"e warrant, | discovered tina it had
Oeen issued in favor of an old, i innate
'r'eno and constituent of mine, W is in
'"e naolt Of ntrusting his busine with
me- and knowing that the warrant was
gong Immediately into - Asury
here to be cancelled; a
Shelton the trouble of =