The Weekly register., 1843-10-14
CHR CUHAKs.
FELLOW CITIZENS:

L
. tits known to you that the |
Legislature al its regular session estab- !
lished ''fhe District Chancery Court of
Mississippi" and required that the Gov
ernor should appoint Vice Chancellor
to organize and hold the court at Column
bus, for the counties Of Lowndes, Nox
ubee, Octibbeha, Winston, Neshoba and
Kemper; at Fulton for Itawamba, fish
amigo, Pontotoc, Monroe and Chicka
sew; at CarrolLt0n fer Carroll, Holmes,
Choctaw, Nalobusha and Tallahatchie;
and at Holly Springs for Marshall, Tip
pah, Lafayette, Ponola, Coahnma, Tuni
ca and De Soto, End to hold the Office I'M
til the election in November next.
lie appointment thus requires: So s-~
made was rendered TO and accepted by
me, without solicitation on my part, and
| entered immediately uponthe discharge
ofits duties. Having received the Office
by appointment from the Governor and
put the Courts into successful operation;
7 am anxious to obtain it by the voice Of
the People at the ballot box, and have be-
come a candidate for election.
My duty and inclination prompt me to
make myselfknown to the voters of the
District, but its size-twenty-three coun-
ties-and the duties Of the Office, which
kept me in court until the middle of July
preclude the possibility ef doing SO;
have therefore addressed you in this
form; but will also pass through as many
of the counties as can before the cleo
ton, and thus afford an opportunity of
becoming personally known toyou.
/ trust that am duly impressed with
the exalted station and the highly res
ponsible and arduous duties of the office
asked of you; and although my vanity
even, will not allow me TO lay claim to
the profound and extensive legal knowl-
edge, ripe Judgment, and just discrlmIna-
ton requisite TO discharge its duties with
distinction; yet have. been induced tc
ask the Office of the people By having
been made to believe that in discharglng
the duties heretofore, have given gen
eral satisfaction and that too under the
trying circumstances Of organizing, tol
the first. time, en- independent chancery
court for North Mississippi and deciding
a large number of causes, many OF which
were important, both on account OF TIT
principles and amounts involved il
them.
Being personally unknown in g. larg
portion of the District, | deem it not i'm
proper to.say to you, that reside il
. Holly Springs, Marshall county, wher
: | settled at an early day after the organ
cation of the, ChickasaW country-am
:. married, and have a ,family-and up t
the time appointed Vice Chancellor, ha
: been thirteen years practising my pre-
fession, on both the law and CHANGER
side, to the exclusion ofall other employ
; ment, that I have never been an office
t seeker, candidate for oraholder ofofic
before, bat having accepted the appoin
ment of Vice. Chancellor, and surrender
ed my practice, | desire to be elected
Y and that my fellow-citizens may by thei
votes say Of me swell done good an
faithful servants" in return fol. which
will not only be grateful, butfpromi!s
! that will continue, as heretofore, 10 dl'
c charge the duties of the ofice-knowln
: mo man-fearing no man: with oil
r oencc that shall not tire, aided by N