Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1843-10-07

Dtbn, No tho anii.bondefa have II, show
tbailbe debtor WIS not to bo tho cSelu
siyo Judge IN tho cbse) These spcfoC
domocfnlic principles have all boon VIOLA
tod by the present anllbond government
Of Mississippi, aud tho violation Is still
persisted IN Tho government is there
Ioro not democratic IN fact, whatever II
may be in namo. o. unlabond rulofs
pssetlng by and seeing tho assets OF tho
Union Bank wasted, may call themselves
democrats, but their denial Of Justice to
our foreign creditors and 10 their own
constituents, by refusing TO save the Qs.
sets Of tho bank, prove that they were kol
democrats in principle, nor in practice.
Their usurpaton Of the judicial au;horl.
ty,and thoir attempt by a legislative odlct
to deprive class Of men of so largo n
sum as five millions Of dollars by nm OK.
parto procedure, shows the same reckless
disregard Of the principles Of justice, as
their setting by and seeing The specuIa-
tors squander about four millions Of the
Union bank assets, True democratic ru.
ets, if Jefferson be any authority, should
"sacredly preserve the public faith; !" true
Republicans, if Washington be any au-
th1rity, should "cherish public credit"
(ste his Farewell Address.) What have
our pretended democratic rulers done to
preserve the public faith, or to cherish
public credit, or to provide for the honest
payment OF our debts? 1t is right that
Col. Dunbar the bosom friend of General
Kinds, Of the same political school, and
from the same county, where the great
patriot sleeps, should be sent to Congress
to let the world know that the people have
made stand against the repudiating die.
tators, and have refused 10 let the proud
State of Mississippi be pulled down from
the high pedestal of honor, glory and re-
nown, where Kinds and her gallant sons
Of former times placed her. In 1914,
when the British feet anchored in our
waters, off Cat Island, in Hancock county
the attention of the world was turned to.
wards US, and the question then was:
"whether the far distant Mississippi Re-
pubIicans had the HEROIC VIRTUE to dare
resist the victorious army which had de-
luged Europe in bood?" The Mississip,
plans "were all federaIists, all democrats"
until they had answered that question mos;
satisfactorily and ,riumphantly, and re-
turned from capquering Europe'S conquer
ers, in The language of jackson: "the
glory of one army and the admiration Of
the author.n And now, when the atten-
ton Of all Christendom is again rivetled
upon US and the question being, "whether
the far distant Mississippi Republicans
have the MORAL VIRTUE TO abide by the
laws Of their own making and pay the
debts Of their own contracting" can we
not again be a united brotherhood Of pa
triots, and lay aside our party trammels-
until we have answered this latter ques-
lion as satisfactorily and triumphantIy as
we answered the other? Europeans ano
others, unacquained with our people, sup
pose, that the antl-bond chiefs have drawn
after them so large portion Of the PEG.
pie by appealing to the sordid feelings
and the baser passions Of the human heart
Not so. The repudiating lords know the
people proper too we'll for that, but on the
contrary with master hand, they have
touched on all those chords in unison with
the higher feelings and nobler sentiments
Of mans nature to induce the people to
sustain them in their measures. For in
stance the same junto, which passed the
repudia,ing edict, voted at the session of
the legislature TO 're-enact and re-affirm as
always true the Virginia and Kentucky
resolutions Of 1913 and 80, evidently toI
blind and mislead the people, by the cap
ton, without publishing the matter con-
tainedin that documents. The matter con-
tanned in those resolutions condemns the
whole repudiating proceedings. The very
basis on which the repudiating edict is
founded is swept away at dash, by the
pens of the immortal Jefferson and Madi-
son. That edict is founded on the pre-
tended unconstitutionality Of the supple.
mental act. Accordingto the doctrine of
Jefferson and Madison, in the Resolutions
Of '98 and 100, the plea of unconstitutional
atty is never 10 be set up, unless in ga
plain, deliberate and palpable breach of
the Constitution" cit must" say those
time honored resolutions, ''be case not
obscure or doubtful in its construction, but
plain and paIpable." That the supple
mental act was not "a plain and palpable
breach OF the Constitution" is proved BY
the fact, that nearly the whole democra
tic party voted for it-that it passed by a
larger majority than the original act; tina:
Senator AIsbury, who protested against
the original act, voted for the supplement-;
that the people Of the State and the legs
lature, governor and officers of the State,
saw no constitutional objection to it, from
the 13thFeb. 1888, to the year 1871.
II it had been, in the sense OF the Vir-
ginia and Kentucky Resolutions, ga plain
and palpable breachof the Constitution, "