The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-10-02

would certainly do him no harm. This oPin-
ion we hold, be It right or wrong. And now
some may ask, what harm will It do Us if North
Mississippi has this power Of taxing us. Re-
collect that the seat Of Government il to be
fixed after 1850. What will it cost to erect
public buildings again, perhaps in West Ten
%uessee? To what purpose is the 100000 to
be appropriated this winter, and the lands
which have already been donated to the State !
RecOllect that the State University if you ever
heard of it, has already been located in Oxford,
SO that ii may obtain light from Jake Thomp-
son, we suppose.
Look also ct the present uPportionment and
the returns Of taxes paid and see how the
principle Of taxation without representation is
carried out. We know it will be said that the
present npportiOnment is constitutional-it is
land SO was that proposed by the South which
also preserved the principle, TO some extent, Of
representation in proportion to taxation. We
have neither time or space TO discuss this mat
ter as fully as WI wish, but we hope the peo-
pie will examine it, for themselves, il they feel
any interest in III if they do not we have done
our duty and our taxes are light.
We oppose Mr.. S. because, as we shall en-
deayor to shew, he made, Of suffered to be
made, a Senatorial district Of this county and
Scott, when no man in the County would ever
have dreamed Of such q district. AT one time
this Countywas entitled TO a Senator. When il
afterwards pleased the Locofoco party,of which
Mr. S. is a distinguished member, to gerry
mander the State in order to secure the power
that they had obtained. Madison and Yazoo,
two strong wing counties at the time, were
thrown together. AS their business connex-
ion was large, as the two Counties lay side by
side, it was satisfactory to both, so far as being
in one district was concerned. By the first bill
reported at the last session these two coun-
ties were again placed together as all supposed
they would be. Afterwards they were sepa-
rated and Scott county took the place of Yazoo.
We do not say that this was done on Mr.. SIS
motion-for the journals give US no light on
the subject. Butwe do say, from the influence
that we know Mr.. S. had in that Legislature he
might have prevented il, had he. wished to do
50. Why, then, did he not. We give it as our
opinion that there possibly might be men in
Yazoo who would just as soon 90 TO the
Senate as to assist in placing Mr.. S.. there that
Madison and Yazoo contain SO many wings
that Mr.. s. never could be their Senator: that
Scott contains no aspiring men who could
crowd Mr.. S. on his road to political glory, but
does give a Locoloco majority strong enough to
overcome the wing majority Of Madison. This
is our opinion that fire can't burn out of us.
For these two reasons have we entered into
this controversy and shall continue. When a
representative has, as we believe, once sacrifice
ed the best interests Of his constituents, at the
shrine Of party or self aggrandizement,h should
be no longer suffered to minister atthe holy al
tar. Let his sacerdotal robes be stripped of
and his censor be broken.
The offence ofour correspondent, as we have
heard it related, for we were not present, was
that be had entered into a conspiracy with us,
either to spoil Mr.. SIS speeches by publishing
his anecdotes in the papers aud thus preventing
his using them afterwards successfully, or, by
making them appear ridiculous, produce the
same effect. We think MI. S. has 'headed U.s.
to shew his Independence he told a story; hav-
ing about it a strong flavor Of antiquity it is
true, but Of such a sort that he knew we dare
not publish it, lest the Mississippian should be
down on US for vulgarity and obscenity. as it
was on P. w. TomPkins a short time since.
We advise our correspondent to NEEDLE no
more with Mr.. SIS stories-6or he that touches
pitch must be defled.