The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-25

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tatfOn could do; that the manner of bring
: lag aud carrying through a suit is a ver
inherent tiliRg from = judgment rem ere
: upon the termination of that suit.
Massachusetts, judges will tell YOU whel
; State allows herself TO be sued. AMI iu1g
ment To be recovered against her. She ha
no po~e to suspend execution: that sucl
Judgment is really judgment against th,
people OF the state. VINO are liable in thei
property to pay it.
Remember that this " hole doctrine rest.
. upon the ground mainly. when a suit j,
given by statute against these corporations
the inhabitants are liable upon the ground
that such corporations have no property
and no means Of raising finds ercept BY tara
tt0R, srhich the creditor has no polrey' orer
lSee Beardsley vs.. Smith, IS Connecticut
I SOS
la accordance with this New England
/ doctrine, the Suprem Court of South Caro-
/ linn, organized IN the interest OF New Eng
1 land oondholders, on the twenty
! day OF August, 1873. made a decision, tel
graphic notice OF which appears in the
ttekshurg Times of the twenth- eighth of
August, as follows
COURT DECISIONS.
COLUMBIA, SC. August 27.-The Supreme
! CONT to-day decided the case OF Morton
Bliss & Co, boudholderS, vs.. the State adj
versely TO the x-payers. The decision
covers one hundred pages of legal cap, and
j
Here il d decision OF one hundred pages
by supreme court leading of for Massa-
chusetts. What do the bondhoIderS care for
resolutions and reputation, when they have
a court specially organized III their interest,
by Il Governor whose fatbeF-in-law is to eN-
pound the law as it has been settled in Mas
sachusetts for more than century; for no
one contcuds that il Massachusetts law has
10 govern in this case that the people of the
State, rich and poor, white and colored can
~ no nj "a,
rendered upon these bonds A Judgment
against the State under Massachusetts law
Is Judgment against the whole people,
rich and poor, white and colored, of the State.
An execution upon this judgment sells out
not only the property OF the rich, but the
properly of the poor; it sells the plow and
mule OF the poor man; yes, even his cotton
and poultry, if you choose. This is Massa-
chuSetts law, as settled by Massachusetts
courts. 1t is the New England law, loved
and venerated by New Engla d people, who
love to talk of laws and Institutions under
which they were raised. They have aa ad-
miratiOn for their own courts they believe
that they are the very embodiment OF wis
itself. 1t Is immaterial what we may te-
lieve as to the law. lie is immeterial that
your law may DECLARE that the judgment
shall not be paid until the Legislature may
make an appropriation; Massachusetts law
Is that when a Judgment has been rendered
creditor of the legal effect or consequences /
of his Judgment, and that execution is a CON
flowing from a judgment. This |
same law, as eXpOUnded by this same court, /
will be invoked for the purpose of conviuc- /
ing you that the power To direct in what I
court the State may be sued, and the man /
ner of sueing, cannot go 50 lar as to prevent |
an execution upon the Judgment, when OBJ I
talhed. One law regulates suit, but they /
will tell you that a very different law rtgu- |
AT Alf nd MI n faip
law, you must have it eXpounded by your
own courts, as il was when this bond ques- 4
ton was not even nooted: and to nave
courts SO organized you must have a Gov .
ernor who Will not be influenced by any .
other than pure considerations in their ap- I
pointment, looking alone To their capacity .
and incorruptibility. You are approach /
ing the time when this mighty Question
IN %htE because II may bankrupt you all in .
a day-must and will pass through another
judicial ordeal; when "A grave and weighty 1
res possibility will rest upon your Governor
in Hlling the judicial department.. and upon .
your Senate in confirming these appoint
ments.
Bear one thing i'm mind-that this New .
England law was reviewed by a Mississippi
court twenty years ago. and then condemn
ed-then pronounced absurd, unreasonable
and unjust. This decision was made i'm a
small case, where these bonds could have
no influence one way or the other. That
ruling we now want; but shall we get that
ruling when Ames. judges are on the bench
No, my cOuntrymen; the bondholder will
sell you out; the adVenturer will be en-
-lched; colored people and white will be
eft in the desolation of the most deplorable
poverty.
i have but ylancel at the subiect. Go,
every man, and look TO the doings of these
men; look at your tax receipts; look at
your State; look at the children OF your
State. Who cry out for education, and answer
ne: Win you support these adventures
or office: Will you give the government
If your State into their hands:
Now, do not misunderstood me. We have
amongst US men of the North, who have
;ome to take part with us in the bonds OF
Some of these were from the
military camp; some from the walks Of
:ivil life. They are identified with us; they
ire men of integrity; we honor these men;
We Will trust these men; we are the friends
If these men, and to these we appeal TO
,Ome with us in this domestic war which
ne now wage against dishonesty, against
hese public plunderers, To the colored
PEOPLE we appeal for support. Come and
De with US for good government. We will
lot deceive you. All you rights, civil
lights and all, we Tledge you; the offices
Ne viii share with you. Be honest, col
,red men. and be with US. We appeal @
lie men of Mississippi. without distinction
It race, color, or previous condition of ser
'itude, to come forward and bear up our
lands, that we may smite the man who
zones to establish dissensiOn among us;
Tho comes to plumber us of our honest earn
ngs; who comes to impoverish the State;
Who comes to bring ruin on us all.