New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-28
General Government in 1871 for internal improve
ments and already II has 800 900 invested in their

from the Memphis road 10 Holly Springs, have iAr
surpassed in point ftravel and profits the expecta-
ton of the projectors. The Governor strongly
urges that additional taxes should be levied 30 IS
TO produce an annual surplus in the treasury OF
500. coo, to be invested in the stock of these
roads, and applied to the purchase firon. OF the
benefits to be derived from them when completed
the Governor speaks in the following rather extatic
terms.
tThe ronds. when completed, Will form together a
line of eieif hundred miles within the limits OF our
State In connection with others now in progress and
Others still which will necessarily grow up arms or
byanCh he's of these they viii make to our people
for all the purposes OF commerce and travel distance
a poiHf and fime but moment. The brilliant pros
perity which they give to our State the most sangune
has not conceived, and Wonder herself rH be as
tOnished at the magnificent results. In their con-
necion with other lines, they will place in the same
communication throughout the United States, and the
bell which tolls the departure of the iron horse from
the Lakes the North will scarcely have its echoes
returned from the waters of the Gulf before his neigh
will be heard upon it, tranquil shores. The dispatch
which announces his departure from the Empire City
Of the North borne by the genius of Franklin, trans
mited to Morse with lightning rapidity along the wire
line will but have heralded bis coming upon his iron
way in time for the of commerce, in the Crescent
City Of the South to take care of bis freghted train
And all this will pess through or State
In support OF the proposed State subscription,
the Governor adds:
81 would not recommend TO the Legislature any
thing that would embarass the State OF burden the
people But these railroads, think, should have our
aid. They Dger witfuly for completion, bu; slowly
without cur help. The bgh-metled steed is upon the
track. and only waits for the hand of the State to
tuin him upon the open line with lO0sened Bit The
burdens of our State Government are not now oner-
ous, and the advantages Of these works if not now
cen, when completed, viii be so felt by the people as
10 be appreciated
We hope ii may not be thought impertinent if we
offer a word OF advice on this subject. We do
not doubt that Mississippi greatly needs rail-
roads; but there is one thing which she needs still
more, and that is-to reestablish her reputation for
common honesty. Governor McRea does not al
lude to il in his Message but is is nevertheless
fact that in addition TO the debt of 80, 900, 900
which, on the ground of some alleged Irregularities
and illegalites in the passage of the Act for con-
tracing it Mississippi thinks herself justified in
repudiating, there is another debt of 49, ZOO, 900,
increased by arrears of interest to half AS much
more the binding force of which is not denied,
but which, though admitted to be due, is still
treated with the same nonchalant forgetfulness
terest has been paid for many years past. If
Mississippi is able TO raise, without embar
"rassmen mt or burden to the people, an annual sur
plus revenue of 5000 600, would it not be well to
appropriate that surplus toward paying the interest
sccruing'and accumulated of this knowledged
State debt To do that would be stronger proof
of the elevation of the standard of virtue and in
telligence" and of the diffusion Of "regon, NOR
atty and knowledge" than dozen fourishes in a
dozen biennial Gubernatorial messages. I'm this
case, as in most others honesty is the best policy
What is the reason that the Mississippi railroad
companies, with all their brilliant prospects, and
in the case at least of the Mobile and Ohio with all
their large property in land, are not able to find
capitalists, Northern or European, TO advance
money 10 complete their roads' Simply because
having been once cheated already, capitalists do
not like to run the risk Of being cheated again.
One attempt at foreign loan for the Mobile and
Ohio road failed VIGOROUSLY for this very reason.
Mississippi on change is lame duck, and there
is general understanding that whenever she ap-
pears there, she shall be forthwith kicked off, and
so she deserves to be- just as long as she behaves
she does.
We come now to matters Of national interest
The State of Maine has forwarded to the Governor
of Mississippi, legislative resolutions urging upon
their Senators and Representatives in Congress to
exert themselves to obtain the passage of al act re-
pealing all laws of the United States authorizing
Slavery in the District Of Columbia; an act repeal
ing the statute of 1850 known as the Fugitive Slave
Law; an act forever prohibiting Slavery or inyol-
untary servitude except for crime, within the Ter
ritores of the United States-requesting their
Senators and also insructiDg their Representatives
at all times hereafter, most strenuously to oppose
in every justifable way, the admission of any new
State into the Union except upon the condition, to
be embraced in the act Of admission, that Slavery
or involuntary servitude excepting for crime, Of
which the accused shall have been duly proved
guilty. shall be forever prohibited therein. These
resolutions also denounce the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, by which they say Slavery was for
ever prohibited in the territory north of the paral
lei of sc deg 80 min., as an unjustihable violation
Of solemn compact and fragrant breach of faith,
and direct that copy of these resolves shall be
forwarded to the Governor of each State, to be laid
before the Legislature thereof Upon the subject
of the reception to be given these resolutions Gov
McRea, true to the principles which he had laid
down at the commencement of his Message ex-
presses himself in the following terms:
Objectionable the resolutions are have had no
hesl alton to the course TO be pursued with them
They were the sovereign voice of the State expressed
through her Legislature and, whether faction fanst
cism had temporarily the control, for the time
being to be considered as her sovereign will 1t Is
hoped they were not the voice. truly represented Of
her people and it is believed that better sentiment
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