The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-01-23
the RIGHT OF INSTRUCTION.
LETTER FEeOSs HON. .BEF-
E'ERSON DAVIS.


sac dcay she fsespcn~It.iaisy OF
tFse seepresc sativet 40 his Con
~sisncncy ssoula be 20 stsscis
the undatiom OF cur sRoaiai-
cnI System
The Clarion publishes the following
letter from Hon. Jefferson Davis: ~
BEAUvoIR p. o., HARRISON Co. MISS, !
December l4th, 1873 4,
My DEAR SIR:-I this day received
yours of the 18th inst, asking for my
opinion as to the right Of the LcgisIa-
ture Of State to instruct her Senators
| in Congress.
Personally dsinterested observer, /
stand upon the political river, earneste
ly watching whatever it may bear, but
without any purpose ever again to
Iannch my bark upon it My opinions,
however. upon any subject which intere
ests Mississippi, are. as they always
will be, at the service Of my friends
who NAV desire to have them.
4 The Government Of the United
States is essentially Representative,
the necessary consequences of the adj
mi'ted sovereignty OF the people
and individuality Of the States.
To deny the responsibility of the Re
preventative to his constituency would
be to attack tbs foundation Of our pol
tcal system. The two Houses Of Cons
2ress represent the one. the people; the
other, the States themselves.
IF the people of n Congressional dis
trict were to assemble in mass. aud in"
struct their Representative upon any
particular question, who viii gain say
their right to do 50, or his duty to
obey?
In the compact of the Union it was
provided that The Representatives Of the
States, their Senators, shonld be chosen
by their respective Legislatures. Those
legislatures do in that connection, ex
press the voice Of tile State, and the
! Senator who accepts his election by the
Legislature as such expression Of the
will Of the State. would seem to he esN
topped from contending az any future
time, that the Legislature was not the
proper channel through which the
State should speak to him.
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focracS, ei'hrr 20 opsS AS'i" ~. VI ~
'esiS' '.' .'il0p 80 it"1t III ;e H..
so desired, select some one else who
would more truly represent them. Nor
has this been entirely eoninsd 70 TIE
Democracy The statesman who has
been called the expouE1er Of the Con -
SUCTION, VIZ e.,o y ~ o;n 49, ~ :, hmi
''onaSn were were p+ht.,S |.al"sS ~ t1n ~
"u,NS 81 o. ''a1 ."nr'',, '' W. nv If tbo
'nlnR - S"''ris";1t ,,raf,rations
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obey S"''' ~. n'p'n ,,' n,anoI,
nor n[''s. "u'' o.e"' ''. 4et oo1, o =,
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therefore We 'a'l W ~ : ~" "1',m -.
serves. " 'eI,'''H az "'l,,' lil"'e,.n
enn,GS ~tle ",'e'L n pnn ,ro,;ses
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TO make wit', apusTs' "nu VIII VIII b'',. :
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sheet on W,,'CH w ''at'el - .'"i ~,
liberty; ana ;. tna supremacy :" '""
m ~; o "r'tt'ti ..-,a,a7.rt c+ata
me people O saaa 'n,'r ,,!o ,o'an
p"SS'SslnS s9Es7 =, 80, e tto;r
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In tn" state - ~ rHLn'h'S' rs "'''' ~
,,ttnndod Inv c,rrelativa RESPONSIBILITY