The true Democrat., 1854-09-06
Pulaski County Internal Improve
 ment Fund.

zette-our files of that paper having been de- stroyed in the late fre-we are enabled tt place the editor in bis true position upon tht subject of the application of the Pulaski coun ty internal improvement fund" Like his po sition upon all other questions of importance tt the State, it is variable and shifting. He ont day applauds the application of the fund made by the county court and commissioner-anc the next, to serve another purpose, we suppose denounces it as unauthorized and illegal. Sucl is his position at present upon this question, al we will show.
 On the 18th of July, 1853, upon the recon mendaton of the commissioner, the Pulask county court ordered the subscription of the internal improvement fund of the county te the capital stock of the Cairo and Fulton rail. way. This subscription, thus ordered. was made, and the am ount of the money on hand paid over to the treasurer of the company.
 On this occasion the Gazette gave it's appro. val of this application of the fund. The edi. tor not only commended the action of the h. ties as an example worthy of imitation. Lest there may be some who will doubt this aston ishing fact, we quote from his paper as follows
 1.-The county of Pulaski has subscribed the amount of her dstibutive share of the internal improvement fund to the Cairo and Fulton railroad. There is no doubt Ii this matter had been submitted to the people of the county but they would have preferred the sub scrpnon being made to the Memphis road: but as these two roads will i'll all probability not seperate or branch. before crossing the line of Pulaski county it does not matter much whjt of the roads gets the sub scription
 " He c1uM earnestly recommend tie counties a1ouo the lines J aU Me rouds to to1oao Me eram 7s set by fuldskt. Let M2se on Me NemehiS, Helena Cairo. Fort .SmiM and GdiaeS' Landinq routes aU sub scribe Tor ae construction G ter TesDectiye roads'
 Thus we have the editors unqualified appro- baton of the subscription made by the county court and his earrestreconanaeadation to the conn., ties along the lines of all the roads. to follow the example.
 After this laudation of the act of the Pulas Ri county court and earnest recommendation to the other counties more than year was suf- fered to elapse and nothing more on the subject was said. Relying perhaps upon the legal acu- men of the Auditor, and following the advice given through his paper, many counties sub- scribed their fund to the stock of the Cairo and Fulton, and other railroad companies, and paid over the first, and ill some instances. the second five per cent installment
 But since that time the editors opinion has undergone a change. He now not only de- nounces as unauthorized and illegal the sub- scriptions of the various counties, but earnest ly recomnaends'' the institution of legal proceed ings against the commissioners in the various counties for the amount of subscription made by them upon his recommendation. This from any other individual than the editor of the Ga zette would excite surprise, if not indignation in the breast of every one But for the editor of the Gazette many allowances must be made His idiosyncrasies and eccentricities are about all the virtues he has; though so glaring they never deceive, they lend to his paper the only interest 1t possesses-constitute the only amuse- ment it affords.
 Toshow the contrarety that exists in his le- gal opinions upon the same subject, delivered upon different days we shall quote from his paper again. It is his advice to the new con- missioners, and is directly in opposition to his :" earnest recommendation 10 the counties as shown in our quotation above. After laboring through a whole column of his paper to prove the illegality of the subscription of the inter- nal improvement fund by the Pulaski county court to the Cairo and Fulton railroad comma ny, he closes his article with the following:
 ' The first official act of the new commissioner after he quafes ln his office, should be- have this deci
 sion of the County Court taken up to the higher courts by ctrrd7e or otherwise and their correct the errors committed by the County Court When that is done. ms next duty should be to institute suit against his pre- deceSsQr in office. and his securities for the onev of the people of Pulaski county appropriated by him so manlfestly without the warrant of the law ! It has always been matter of extreme diff ' fculty to place the editor of the Gazette upon any question. He may perhaps be able to re- concile his conflicting recommendations-to re- concle the fact of his earnest recommendation to the counties to subscribe for stock to railroads with the fact of his equally earnest recommen- daiion for the institution of suits against the commissioners for having thus subscribed
 We do not propose again to enter into an ar gument to prove the legality of the county sub- scriptions. We have shown them to be legal in the outset. It now only condemns them to gain some point against the Cairo and Fulton railroad before the meetingof the next Legislature. That paper to gain all advantage is always ready to sacrifice truth and consistency. No reliance can be placed upon it. It always argues for a temorary personal advantaSe and looses sight of the great ends to be accomplished. 1 It is astonishing with what unremitting un- relenting bitterness it has, from the beeipnino pursued the Cairo and Fulton railroad and ;ts friends. It has never wearied in its attacks and mislepresentations. The conviction of one falsehood only stimulates it to the perpetraton of another It is indefatigable in its unprinci pied opposition.
 fF We trust our subscribers will bear in