The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-10-20
OLD %D0crMENr.
YINq MEETING.

ULD DOCUMENT.
B0ND-RAYLEG MEETING.
Al a meeting Of The Bond-Payiug Demo-
Gratis Of Adams county, held in pursuance 10
2 public call this day, Goth May, I84s, at the
City Hall;
on motion Of J. A ~Vanhoosen, Esq, DR., j.
A. McPheeters was called to the chair. ana
Thos. G. Mnnco appointed Secretary.
Inc meeting was addressed in a most elo
quent and forcible manner BY Col. Louis San
ders, advocating the views Of the Bond-payine
portion of the democratic party Of the State,
and recommended the appointment Of a com.
miilee to draft resolutions expressive OF the
sense Of the meeting.
He was followed BY Capt. John B. NEWT, III
supporter the principle, but recommended a
convention Of all The democracy Of The State,
TO make another effort to harmonic.
Gen. John a. Qui;man responded, showing
the impracticability Of such a course, and sug-
gested that arguments addressed 10 the people
was the oniyfeasible manner Of reconciling the
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The appointment Of the committee being
called for--the chaiF appointed Col. L. San
ders, il, General John Al. Quitman, Dr. S. A.
Cartwright, J. A. Vanhoosen, Esq, r. L
Claiborne, R. G. Ballard, and Dir. III. N. LLOYD.
On motion Of J. A Vanhoosen, James A.
Johnston and Col. P. B. Harrison were added to
the committee,
On motion, The meeting adjourned nntil .
o'clockYto receive ! g report Of the committee.
Cry HALL, 29'h Nay,
The meeting assembled pursuant TO adjourn.
ment:
When Gen. QUIrMAN, in behalf oFthe com
mittee, submitted the following preamble and
resolutions, which, on motion, were received:
Whereas, it is manifest that the proceedings
Of the late democratic convention have not re-
ceived the appreciation Of a majority of the
democratic party; And whereas, notwithstand-
ing the implied understanding, in said conven-
ton, to the contrary, the question Of repudia-
ting tile bonds Of the State given for stock in
the Planters and Union Banks, has become a
test question in the approaching canvass for
the election of State officers. Therefore,
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Resolrcd, That those who would take advanr
tage Of the misfortunes Of the people Of Mis-
sissippi, to preach to them the seductive doc
trine Of repudiation, encouraging them to 60 to
The polls to Get rid Of their State debts, may cal.
such a procedure democracy if they please, but
1t is suicidal democracy, because it strikes a
deadly bloc al the 0itats Of The body polite, desc
crates the Institution Of The ballot boz to the worst
ofaH purposes, and mould ultimately pull down
apon The community an intolerable anarchy, The
arch enemy Of denaoeraey-which has swallowed
up so many republics.
Resoloed, That borrowed money ought to be
paid, and if the acts pledging the faith Of the
State to borrow it had been deemed unconsti-
t%utionaI by the people in Mississippi, they
would have repudiated the said acts of their
Governor and Legislature, and not touched d
dollar Of the money; but inasmuch as the plea
Of unconstimtionality was not set up until long
after the money obtained ON the faith OF the
State was brought into the State and spent, the
plea of unconstitutionality is unavailable, un-
just and nti -democratic because, not being
timely made, those who lent the money on the
faith OF the State were deprived Of the legal
privilege Of selzing on the funds uuconstitu
~tiohally obtained, before the said funds were
squandered upon the political p~artizans and
friends Of the Union Bank.
ResOlUed, That, admitting the truth Of The
premises Of the repudiatoTs, that the Governor
and Legislature betrayed the trust reposed in
them, and violated the constitution, in pIedg-
ing the faith of the State for the redemption of
the Union Bank Bands, still, nothing will JUS
uly the State reputation on constitutional
grounds, at so late a DAY as payday, but an
entire Ignorance on the part Of the people, Of
said overt act Of their Governor and Legisla-
ture; but lnasmnch as the said acts were time-
ly published and spread abroad among the
people, and met with no protest from them for
two years or more. while the money vas being
distributed to greedy bank partisans, and noisy
politicians of both parties, the State is, TO all
intents and purposes, as much bound by the
said acts as if they had been in strict conform
ity to the constitution because the said acts,
meeting with no protests from the people, be-
came the acts Of the people, and they cannot
annul their own acts, or the acts of their agents
after they have once approved them, otherwise
the people cannot be the sovereign people that
democracy contend that they are.
H n v ea y e5l n
Resolued, That at the very time the anti-dem-
ocratic doctrine Of Republication Is tarnishing he
glory, intpeaehiag the honesty, and Destroying Me
credit ofMs state Of Mississippi, it is a~ffording q
cover and .lter for an unprinCipled set Of