The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-01
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Report of Gen. Lowry.

fepudlatlng resolution ever presented t.
deliberative assembly was adopted b,
the Senate. It was offered by Mr.. King
and declares that the State will not
and should not, pay any demand agains
| the State, whether on account OF salarie:
o officers, Treasury notes, change bills OF
otherwise, originating between the 9th
day of January 1861. and the 10th day Of
Of October, 1854. and the Treasurer of the
State is hereby directed not to pay any
warrant or other claim based upon any
such demand; and all receivers OF public
moneys are hereby forbidden to receive
any such warrant on demand for dues to
the State. "
We can see no necessity for such gen.
eral and wholesale reputation. 1t may
have been proper to repudiate the war
debt of the State-the money issued and
the sums borrowed to levy war against the
United States, but there was no reason or
propriety in repudiating everv other debt
which the State might owe The conven-
tAOh ASEdilZ-d1 'lISNl, dDu CODUTUlcu all
acts of the Legislature and all the official
acts of the courts, their proceedings.
Judgments, &c, not inconsistent with the
Constitution and laws of the Unified States
-on what principle of right or common
honesty can the State refuse to pay the
salaries of the officers whose acts the con-
vention have thus ratified?
We trust the resolution NAV be so
amended in the House, as to apply ex-
clusively to the debt incurred by the
State in carrying on the war. But we
think this unnecessary. The action of
the Convention virtually repudiated that
debt.
A minority report was drawn up by
Hon Robert Lowry, Senator from Rankin
and Smith, and offered by him and Sen,
ator j. s. Yerger, which we publish be-
low, and which seems to us would have
been much more appropriate than the
one adopted. The same principles of
justice and common honesty that should
govern in transactions between indiyidn
ais, ought to apply to States Tried by
this STANDARD, we think the Resolution
which was finally adopted in the Senate.
by majority of only one, should have
been def, a.ed.
Mr. Lowry offered the following minor
Ity report as substitute for the majority
report, to wit:
Mr.. President-The undersigned beg
eave to present the following minority
'eport, az some of the reasons why the
legislature should not adopt the amend
nent just reported by a majority of the
judiciary committee, recommending ac. |
ion In relation TO the State debts created |
during the war:
In a legal point of view, it is uniyer |
'alIy conceded that all debts of whatever
character, created during the STRUGGLE |
these States and the Fedsral
Government could not be collected. in
Iced one would hazard nothing in saving
hat they were simply void Then, if |
both or either of these propositions be
why the reason for disturbing the
natter at the present time ? Certainly
10 citizen of Mississippi will be called
lpon to pay one dime of this money un-
II the Legislature takes a step in that
direction, and if they wero disposed,
'hlch assuredly they are not, could they.
nact such law as would bind the peo-
lie otthe State for the payment of the
honey In other words, if the act ii.
ectlng the issuance of these Treasury {
otes was void ab aitio, can the Legisla- +
Ire, by subseq equent laws legalizs it I? {
ertainly not.
Then 1t would be simply question of
ollcy or expediency: Viewing it in this +
ght, we regard the proposition as un
ise and injudicious. In our transition
ate, it would probably be as well not to
gslate too much. If Confederate
oney is dead and the reason for its is.
ance bad in the outset, and the money a
wv acknowledg' utterly worthless, b
ould 1t not follow that, a similar circus 0
tlon OF similar notes, for the same Il
asons and purposes, made by the State
Mississippi, would and does bear the le
me relation to the State, that the Con- u
1erate money does to the Confederate G
ates. If this proposition is correct, the cC
Iderslgned are clearly Of the Opinion tt
at no action is demanded b.
The late Convention declared that the sa
OF secession as passed in 1861, was vi
III and void. and in consequence of that CT
all acts of the Government W
Mississippi in furtherance of the pol> ht
lnaugurated by the ordinance of So &C
sion are necessarily void. th
Respectfully submitted, al
ROBERT LOWRY, in
J.S. YERGER. el