The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1861-09-06
70 tha People d cL.r.a county.


FEM0w-CIuzEy Being now "a candi.
date TO represent Clarke County in the
Legislature Of the sateo Of Mississippi. [
deem Il my duty 70 let you know the
principles j advocate, and Che motive. AS
one OF the taxpayers which has induced
me 20 offer DO represent YOU In the State
legislature. My motive as TO the School
Fund you already know, flom previous
communication. ! am 10 favor Of applying
tnat iund to school purposes, instead Of
loanlng 10 out to be wasted as IL has here
tolore been. The only way to have free
schools is TO apply that fund directly to
lhe purpose Tor which ii is designed.
THE JUDICIARY.
! am also in favor Of the passage of a law
making it the duty of Circuit Judges to
take up the State Docket on the first day
OF the term Of the Circuit Court, and dis
pose Of all minor State cases before the
civil docket is taken up. This arrange
ment alone will save the State not less
than two hundred thousand dollars annu-
ally Of witnesses fees. We have sixty
counties in the State, and in some Of them
court is held from two to four weeks, and
many Of the State cases are not taken up
for trial until the third or fourth week OF
the court, greatly to the inconvenience
and expense OF the witnesses and expense
OF the State. In some cases there are lre-
quently eight or ten witnesses waiting for
weeks at the Court House at an expense of
two or three dollars per day, and only get
ing one dollar and half per day for their
service. In some little cases of affrays
and assault and batteries the State is run
to at least five hundred dollars expense,
which might be disposed of on the first day
At an expense Of not more than twenty
five dollars. Again, think at the pres
ent time, when the farmer is taxed to pay
everything, and we have a war to support,
that the salary of all public officers ought
to be reduced, and let them live little
more economical. For instance the Gov
ernor gets $1,000 per annum, when sever
years ago he only received s., 800. Let his
salary be reduced to what it was seven
years ago, and other State officers in pro
portion. Our Circuit Judges have their
duties lessened more than one half by the
late suspension law, and can also afford to
have their salaries lessened during the
war.
MILITARY BOARD.
Again: The Military Board ofour State, |
which is composed of the Governor, one
Major General, and four Brigadier Gener-
erals, is auseless, extravagant and ruinous
six headed monster, which ought to be
abolished. II was established by the late
Convention, when Mississippi at first sece-
ded, subject to be discontinued by the
Legislature, and if any necessity at that
time existed for such an institution, that |
necessity ceased when Mississippi was add |
ed to the Confederacy. The ordinance
by which it was established, gave to the
Governor the power to appoint the Major
General, and the Major General the power
to appoint the Brigadier Generals, to fill
vacancies, and when in actual service are
the same salary as allowed off.
GERS Off similar grade in the United States
army Now, if understand the matter,
the Major Generals salary is $1,000 per
annum, and the Brigadier General &, 5000 |
each, making 500, 400 per annum pay for
live members OF this Board, when in actu-
al service, and this same Military Board
Is not elected by the people, but appoint
ed by each other, and in the month of
July last, they passed an ordinance that
the four Brigadier Generals should each
be paid from the State Treasury $4,000
in State warrants, making 5000 600 in the
aggregate for the support of Regiments
to be commanded by each of the Brigadier
Generals, OF ten companies in each regi-
ment, making in all in the aggregate 5000
men, one Brigade to be situated at Iuka,
one at Enterprise, one at Water Valley,
lnd one at Pass Christian, on the sea shore.
Now, if these Regiments are needed. why
not let them be called out by the Presi
dent, and paid by the Confederacy which
,an be easily done il they were needed.
But as the matter now is, our own State
will have to bear the expense, and when
The two hundred thousand dollars is gone
which will only last about one month,
The same siX-headed monster, the Military
Board, will have to make another appro-
lriation or disband the regiments. | see
40 other good which can be effected by
'alling out these men further than to en-
lch the officers at the expense Of the
State, and enable them to make a display
If their uniforms In times like these.
ellow-citizens, we should all be ready to
lelend and support our country to the
asst dollar, but in order to do this efiectu-
-lly, we should economic and spend moth
ng foolishly. Nations, like individuals.
{ they squander their money foolishly
will be less able to buy those things which
re absolutely necessary for their support.
he Legislature has been in session three
lines in the course Of the last eightmonths ,
nd done nothing more at the three terms
han they could have done at one term.-
low Pettus seems determined to ruin the
tate by calledsessions Of our Legislature.
nd amidst all his recommendation for
Ugh taxes, he does not even once recon- b
lend a reduction of the high salaries of Q
ur treasury-fed officers who are growing C
1t every day on the taxes which are a
'rung from the pockets of the farmers c
nd laboring classes of our community g
What | have here stated are facts subject P
a record proof, and if am elected to
ne Legislature of the State, | shall use \
ny utmost endeayors to promote economy
nd lessen the burthen of taxation, which =
ests like mountais-salllll n
mr. oessu- .Saxasss-eosle' on the shoulders OF
. ! -. unity, while shall use every =
egree of iberality which may be neces-
aly to support the current and necessary i
expenses Of our State in this time of trial. n
VIM. B. TROTTER.
Ann 18th 1851