Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-10-14


u ple of its conslilutionaity or expedienc
( They could never see the proprieiy of b
S Ing taxed by the General Government
E the purpose of putting money into Il
treasures of the several States. The
were too well convinced that it was
mere excuse TO create and perpctuaie
Ugh protective, tariff by distributing pc
lion of the very fund which would rend(
high tariff necessary.
After dsposing Of those qnes ions h
came to his favorie hobby, the bond que!
ton. He made the same argument tn
is usually maoe by the Wings to prove tn
sale of the Union Bunk bonds conslitu
tional, that is, that the fling Of mortgage
with the bank by the stockholders to Sc
cure the payment oil The loan, was not
condition precedent t. lie issuance OF tht
bonds and that the Supp emcntal Charter
had no effect on that clause of the tiI
pledging the faith of the State. lie ane
his party say that that clause is dstlnc
law by itself, and would remain in for c
if all the other sections of the act were
altered or repealed. This IS what we un'
derstand them u say, and If we interpret
them arignt, we cannot look on the argu.
ment as anything else than a mere legal
quibOle, which will always weaken the
confidence of the people in Il party, who
do not take the highest ground at once
who make show Of defending an assaIl-
a lie outwork which will always be carried
against the bond pay ers to their serious
d, trinent.
Mr.. CIayto attempts 10 create pre-.
JUDGE against Gen. Brown for saying he
YOU d exercise the veto power. He says
he would not stand between the people
and their wishes. This is an imila'ion,
on small scale. Of Mr.. Clay's hobby Of
"a further restriction on the veto power. y"
When the people by the constitution con.
terfed the veto power on the Governor,
they intended him to use it, when deman-
ded by the occasion.
Mr.. Clayton reads number Of votes, in
his speeches, gwen by "A. G. Brown while
he was in The Legislature. We cannot see
that they have any bearing on the ques-
lions at issue in the present canvass
There is one TO which he calls particular
attention: that Gen. Brown voted for the
issuance Of $l0,5O0,000 of bonds as pro-
vided for by the original charter of the
Union Bank, and saws there was no differ
ence between those bonds and the S5,000,-
600 actually sold. Now, however bad
policy it nigh, have been in Brown, there
was no inconsistency; to secure the pay
ment of the $l0,500,O00, mortgages were
TO be fed by the stockholders, which
would lave protected the state from taxa.
ton. For the 100000 for which the
legislature had supplementary made the
tate stockh Iller, no mortgages were to
be Sled, and represented a question entire
y different from the other.
Mr.. Clayton alluded to an anonymous
writer who signed himself "Casca," and
said that he believed that the writer had
written himself GU, Of public respect. This
may be true, tut Mr.. Clayton show ed plain
y enough that he still entertained a respect
or Casca, as he avoided all those points
o which the anonymous writer before
made objection. lie said nothing about
ch tax payers and poor tag payers, or
arge tax paying countie., and small tax
'aying counties; he said nothing about
eaving the state; he said nothing about
len. Browns Indebtedness to the Union
Bank; he said nothing about the identity
f the Graves Ge!alcation with the princ-
les Of the antl.bondmen; he showed thai
e had profited much 10y Casca's adm nj.
ons. He said that writer had called him
n arisiocrat, and he referred to his neigh
ors who could say as to acts of bene. o.
,nce and general bearing ia private Ii q.
neither he was an arisrocrat. We pre-
Ime the wri,er did not inieud to accuse
i'm of being an aristocrat in bis private
we will give, however his own I
ords, as published in the Ml>sissippiiu:
at has been said, that my charges a.
lInst George R. Clayton. is that he is !
'oud mana rich m ma ueaitay man.
ne Wing editors have attrionte this I'm. >
iIge. never used it. | cal George r
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