The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-07-16


livery of the commission could make nj
change in my position. AS regards hos
tility between myself and Mr.. Thompson
it never existed. We were intimate friend
personally and politically, and not an un
kind word or thought to my knowledge hac
ever passed between us. From first to las
throughout his whole career, l had beer
one Of his most jealous supporters, and il
like manner, he had always supported me
Our friendship had been unbroken, and we
had conceded in political principles. As
to the tariff, the remuneration of Texas
the presumption system, the reduction and
graduation of the price of the public lands
in favor of settlers and cultivators, we had
cordially united in opinion and action
The grant of the five per cent fund and
Chickasaw school lands, and Of the two
per cent fund to aid in constructing the
great rail road from the Atlantic to the Mis-
sissippi at Vicksburg, the Oession Of alter
nate sections of land to improve the naVi-
cation of Pearl river, of the inundated
lands to complete the levee from our north
ern boundary to the mouth of the Yasoo,
the appropriations to survey our gulf coast,
and locate the hospital at Natchez, all which
measures had been introduced by me and
nearly all which had become laws, had re-
ceived the cordial and efficient support of
Mr.. Thompson. In the trying crisis which
preceded the Baltimore Convention, and
the votes throughout in that body, Mr..
Thompson and myself had acted in perfect
unison, and no man exerted himself more
warmly and efficiently to place me in my
present position as Secretary of the Treas
ury. How then could hostility to him, one
of my warmest friends, have induced me to
the commission and what other
inUtfvs7 could fs1Issos.eeI mo Ahala- am
earnest desire not to violate a confidential
rust reposed in me by the executive of the
state nor is there any man, friend or foe
% whom under similar circumstances /
would have delivered the commission
When the commission was handed to me
IN the 9th of March, and my decision
made and placed beyond recall against the
delivery, it was my firm conviction that the
Senate would certainly adjourn on or before
he 10th, until after which Mr.. Thompson
,ould not take his seat under the commits
lion. There was nothing on which it was
supposed the Senate would have to act ex-
,ept the executive nominations. The FOL
yerein treaty was not to be acted on until
December, and no vote was to be or was
aiken upon at the executive session. After
months of toll and vigilance on my part, the
Texas question had passed both houses of
Congress and could require no action on
he part of the Senate, and it was deter
mined to postpone until December the cleo
ion of printer to the Senate, so that moth
NO remained but the executive nominal
ions which no one believed could detain
he senate beyond the 10th. II is true the'l
senate did sit few days longer, produced |
y a most unexpected opposition to one of
he executive nominations, resulting in an
of the Senate from the 9th to |
he 10Th, which together with the subse-
uent death of a Senator, OccasiOning an |
ther adjournment, did prOlOfg the Session
f the Senate few days beyond the 10th f;
nut when my decision was made on the 9th,
did consider it certain that the Senate |
you'd adjourn on or before the 10th, and |
Consequently as Mr.. ThompsOn's commits
ion did not take effect until after that date,
nat he could not take bis seat at the exec
tive session. Such was my firm convic-
acted on the 9Th, and such would
ave been the result but for occurrences
which no human foresight could anticipate.
thrust in conclusion, that the Democracy
Mississippi viii see in my whole course
n this subject, nothing but an ardent de-
ire to have provisions made tOmeet q con-
might have resulted, with
utmy Intervention, in defeat Of the dem
cratic parry, upon q question Of great inn ]