Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-01-24
Iaqu guraL Address Of His EIceiiency,
ALBERT G.. BROWN,
GOVERNOR ELECT.
EFellow Citizens:

Fellow Citizens:
Honored by you with reelection TO
The office of Governor,l appear before
you a second time, 10 renew my obligation
to support your constitution and faithfully
\ 10 discharge my duties. In doing so, allow
me to enter into covenant, again to requite
4 your generous confidence, by continued
! watchfulness over all your varied inter-
ess.
I'd Two years have now passed away
since entered, with trembling anxiety,
on the high duties to which your partlali-
4 fy had called me. You have passed your
verdict of approval on my conduct, and |
thank YOU from heart full and over
flowing with gratitude thank you. en-
ter on second term with increased anx-
&iety--and with determination. ulcken-
ed by your approval Of the past, still TO
merit your confidence and to retire from
YOUR service without having forfeited
your good opinion. To be chosen from
l fifty thousand voters to administer the af-
\ fairs Of sovereign state is a distinction
of which any man may boast, but which
no one has right to claim. have 1t by
your suferance, it shall be my constant
effort to wear il without reproach; and
y 10 surrender it without dlshonor.
Indulge me, Fellow Citizens, in re
mark or two touching the present attitude
ofour state, her future prospects, and the
means to be employed in advancing her 10
I greatness and glory. Proud as | am OF
Mississippi, the home of my childhood,
and OF maturer years, am prouder still
of her attitude before the world; OF the
bearing which she exhibits amid the re-
proaches and contumely cast upon her
is she accued by Eankers and Bonders
8of pestiIential and 2edilious conduct, and
Of being "a ringleader Of the sect" called
repu1iators? She answers as did Paul
BEFORE Festus. 81 stand at CAESARS judg-
ment seat, where ought to be judged
TO the Jews, have done no wrong, as
/ thou very we'll knowes For il | be an
offender or have committed any thing
\ worthy of death, refuse not to de-; but
Z if there be none Of these things whereof
these accuse me, no man may deliver me
unto them. appeal unto Caesar" Mi.
sissipp is to be judged by her own written
constitution; against that she has often
ded, she expects to be reproached, bu! II
she has not, no man may deliver her in
to the hands Of the Jewish or other bond
holders. She appeals TO the Constitution
ii This day fifty thousand hearts scatter
4 ed over the broad surface OF Mississippi,
u swell with emotion as fifty thousand free
men turn their eyes towards this city to
behold the actions Of their Representa-
II lives assembled here. The state has
been malgncd and her fair fame tcaduced
by those who are ignorant Of her cause,
orknowing her to | right, refuse TO DO
her Justice. She has taken her position,
and from this she will not depart. II ?
shafts leveIed at her honor fall harmlo.
n OF her feet, because they come not lromIthe
hand of justice. Let those who are the
4 guardians of her unsullied fame, preserve
it free from faint or blemish. You STOOD
4 by her in her noble attitude OF VIndlca-
ting her constitution, in refusing to pay
demands contra I'D in its violation; STAND
by her with equal frmness in her no less
lofty attitude Of vindicating that constItn-
ton still further by paying debts contrac-
ted by its approval and sanctioned by Us
language. II Mississippi was called upon
by her constitution TO reject the Union
Bank Bonds, that came constitution bids
her pay those Of the Planters Bank "to
The last mill" | will not ask you ii II
shall be done, because will not ask you
1t Mississippi shall be dishonored.
What are the future prospects Of ouI