True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1845-10-01

her policy ehn be changed without the
most considAe9te reflection Take for IN
stance the lahd distribution question. We
leave out many others, (of more interest TO
us designedly,) and say that Mississippi
shall receive so much, Prooided hermenS-
6ers cote for the same That at the same
time present the question Of common
schools, the Briscoe Bill. or any other
measure of direct STATE POLICY, and an
swer to lis if the same questions, the first
belonging TO Congress alone, and the other
two, to our own domestic legislature
ought properly to be decided by the PEG,
pie at the same balotting? No man OF
sense will say that the people can decide
these questions ut the same time, ana by
single vote The voter must cast The ole
pr0 or con--he cannot do otherwise under
our constitution
Now let us look to the present amend
mont. Does it accomplish what we have
faintIv fore.shadowed in the foregoing re-
marks? Does it separate elections, one
from the other, so that the people will de-
eide politically in the sense that we have
assaved to delenate-or does ii fail Of that
object?
Alter the most mature reflection, we
give our answer, poor as it is, hat 1t does
so fail. The election for Congress and
State officers are not diSconnected--under
the amendment they occur at the same
period; each subject to he Influenced by
/. the other We belong as\all our readers
know, to that class of politicians, in Mis-
sissppi, who have advocated the doctrines
Of REPUTATION yet we have never been
willing to say that the MAJORITY-the
DEMOCRATIC RULE--should not prevail
when fairly expressed 1t has been some
times said the majority in favor of repudla-
ton was carried bv the force of party drill
in a word, that the question 1chig or de
nsOcrat decided the issue. We never be.
ieved such to be the case and here express
our willingness for a different test when
everit shall be found pracGcabe But we
are wasting time in charging too freely
upon this question. If the reader has
followed us in our distractions, he has
wandered from the tract of legitimate dis
cussion. The question before us is; ought
the amendment TO the constitution be ad-
oped?
We purposeIy delay further discussion
ofthe question until our next meanwhile
we invoke the attention Of the press hro'-
out the State 10 this important matter
We promised to continue our Numbers
on the proposed changes of tic organic law
of Mississippi. We have heard two obj c.
lions urged against the amendment in re-
laiion to slaves; 1t is cOntended that the
STATES, kentucky and Tennessee, will a.
bolish the institution within their borders
in few years, aud that should Mississippi
open the door 10 emigration, she will has
ten that event. It's further urged that the
value of the slaves now in the state, will
he enhanced should the policy of Alssls-
Sippi continue adverse to their introduction
from abroad.
The former Of these objections, we an
Swercd in our first number. Mississippi
cannot stay the onward progress OF the
opposition TO slavery in the grain growing
states. Should the day ever arrive when
slave labor wonld be Improbable in Mis-
sisSippi, her policy would be e abolish the
institution; and she would SWely do IT,
The true policy of the state now is To IN
VIE lAlGH LlbNS w NiINii - w. '''N '.'
10 settle our vast uncutivaled tracts Otter
ritory, thus increasing the wealth,srenglh
aud power Of the state among The sisters OF
this vust oonfederacy. The rich aud far
famed lands of Texas will soon be IN mar
ket at low prices, and unless Mississippi
docs something 10 invite the rolling tide /
MS /, flows 10 the Tesl, she wi.lcon'inuean I
infant, whs, new states towards The set
ting sun will grow inIo manhood. We |
are satisfied that we can convince any /
practical man that it would be TO his IN +
tereSt now 10 settle 10 Mississippi for the ,
purpose Of planting rather than TO pass on .
10 Texas. Here NE have roads and rivers |
already opened for the conveyance Of pro- /
duce TO market The Mississippi washes
the western border of the state, the Tom .
bigby the eastern, whilst the Pearl flows
through the centre, all offering convenient !
natural highways 10 marke'. IL must be
many years even before the harborS on the
Texan coast are developed. Thus far not
n single harbor worthy Of naming has been
discovered. The passinto Galveston, which
is the best, is dangerous, and il is not a far
fetched conjecture 10 suppose that the bank
OF sand which is called Galveston Island,
may one day sink into the ocean. The
adventurous Speculation may pass on TO
Texas, but the prudent and calculating
man r-otfld sion in MiqciSeinDt