The Weekly register., 1843-10-07
CIRCULAR.
FELLOW CITIZENS;

FELLOW CITIZENS;
tits known to you that the
Legislature at its regular session estab-
lished "The District Chancery Court of
Mississippi" and required that the Gov
ernor should appoint Vice Chancellor
to organize and hold the court at Cozum-
bus, for the counties Of Lowndes, Nox-
ubee, Octibbeha, Winston, Neshoba and
Kemper; at Fulton for Itawamba, fish
amlngo, Pontotoc, Monroe and Chicka-
saw; at Carrolzton for Carroll, Holmes,
Choctaw, Yalobusha and Tallahatchie;
and at Holly Springs for MARSHALL, Tip
pah, Lafayette, Ponola, Coahoma, Tuni
ca and De Soto, and to hold the office un-
til the election in November. next. =. :,
The appointment thus required to be
made was rendered to and accepted by
me, without solicitation on my part, and
| entered Immediately upon the discharge
gifts duties Having received the office
by appointment from the Governor and
put the. Courts into successful operation,
| am anxiousto obtain it by the voice of
The People at the ballot box, and have be-
come candidate for election.
-, My duty and inclination promptIne 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 Of 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 to you.
trust that | am duly impressed with
the exalted station and the highly res
ponsible and arduous duties fthc 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 discrimina-
ton requisite to discharge its duties with
distinction; yet | have been induced to
ask the Office CT the people by having
been made to believe thatin discharglng
the duties heretofore, i have given gen
eral satisfaction; and that too under the
trying circumstances Of organizing, for
the first time, an independent chaneery
court for North Mississippi ard deciding
large number OF causes, many Of which
were important, both on account Of the
principles and amounts involved in
them. -:
Being personally unknown in large
portion Of the District, deemit not inn
proper to say to you, that | reside in
Holly Springs, Marshall county, where
| settled at an early day after the organ
cation Of the Chickasaw country-am-
married, and have family-and up to
the time appointed Vice Chancellor, had
been thirteen years practising my pro-
fessicn, on both the law and chancery
side, TO the exclusion Of a.. other employ
ment; that | have never been an office
seeker, q candidate fer or holder office
before, but having accepted the appoint
ment Of Vice Chancellor, and surrender
ed my practice, / desire to he elected;
and that my citizens may by their
votes say Of me swell done good and
faithful servant5" in return for which |
will not only be grateful, but premise
that will continue, as heretofore, to dis
charge the duties Of the ofice-knowing
no man-fearing nc man: with a dill
gence that shall not tire, aided by my
short experience in discharging its du-
ties, and such legal knowledge and cap
acity for improvement as | may be pcs
sessed of.
respectfully,
JOSEPH w. CHALMERS.
Holy Springs, 25th August, 1845.