The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-31

nal and civil, of the other States As may
BE- best suited TO the circumstances OF the
dis rict.
When Secretary Sargent, and the judges,
submitted to Governor St. Clair their code
for the Northwestern district he vehemently
protested against it, but finally succumbed,
aud right there commenced the opposition
to st. Clair and Sargent that IN short
time made Ohio thoroughly JeHersonlan.
These oppressive laws had been condemned
bv Congress in 1895 Yet, not prohtlng by
the lesson. Secretary Sargent, when APP
pointed by President Adams, Governor OF
a Southern Territory, proceeded with lIlton
and Mcclure. to frame laws not only not
drawn, as they were required to be, from
the statutes of the other States, but repug-
nant to the established principles OF Jurls-
prudence derived from the common law of
England Against this code, and the exor-
bitant fees exacted on passports TO leave the
country, and on marriage and tavern lcen-
.es* a large majority of the people, embrac-
ing its almost entire American and hghtIng
element. protested. Led by such men as
Cato West. Thomas NJ. Green, Narsworthy
Hunter, Gerard Brandon, Hugh Davis,
Samuel Gibson, Thomas Calvlt, Alexander
Montgomery, Felix hughes, David Gfeen-
leaf. John BoIls, EbeneZer Dayton, Randall
Gibson. Francis Smith, VIM. Erwin, Ebe-
nezer Smith, John Foster, Joseph Calylt,
Israel Luse Moses Bonner Richard King,
Henry Hunter, Patrick Foley, VIM. Conner.
Sutton Banks, jesse Carter, Thomas Love
lace, George Selser, Parker Carradine, Abner
Green, Robert ThrockmOrton, Jesse Harper,
Robert Miller, Thomas White, james and
Thos. Foster, Gibson Clark, Tobias Gibson,
Mathew Herman, VIM. Foster, and others,
they appealed to Congress to concel and
annul these laws, to put stop to these eX-
orbitant and injudicious fees, and to give
them a voice in the framing of their own
laws, by advancing them to the second
grade Of Territorial government; all which,
in due time, was granted in conformity with
the prayers of the petitioners, against the
persistent opposition of the Governor and
his adherents.
The act Of Congress provided for Coun-
ell (Or Senate) of five members TO be APP
pointed by the President, and four repre-
sentatives from the county of Adams, four
from Pickering, and one from the new coun-
" of Washington, on the Tombigbee, which
had been organized April 18th, 1900, en-
bracing the whole country from Pearl river
to the Chattahoochee-the to be chosen
by the people, allowing one representative
to every five hundred free white males.
The legacy Ellicott had left to the district
was the poisoned shirt Of Nessus. He had
departed. never 70 return, bul MS ull>tulCF-
Gus influence infected the whole of Governor
Sargent's administration. The Governor
was fanatical and suspicious, like his Puri-
tan ancestors. That he was honest and
conscientious Will not be here doubted, but
the same virtues must be conceded to his
opponents, whom he had 80 persistently
traduced He was violently attacked and
accused. The attacks were justifiable. The
accusations, 50 far as the implicated his
personal integrity, were unjust. His pa
triotism and good intentions are not here
disputed. But there was a general incom-
patibility-an antagonism ofopinion, tastes,
manners and sympathies between him and
the citizens and it cannot be said that che
was the right man in the right place" He
was however, both combatiye and courage
Gus, and gave blow for blow. Like his
covenanter forefathers who died, under the
sabre of Clayerhouse, with their bibles in
their hands, lie held to his arbitrary doe
trines and notions of official intallibility to
the last hour Of his political life.
Eight dollars for marriage license, eight
dollars for the privilege Of lodging and feed
ing travellers. to be PAID to the Governor as a
perqHisite, without any warrant of law! Eve
~ person who had occasion to leave the Ter
ritory had to pay him four dollars for a pass
port and every one coming into the Territory
10 report immediat -ly TO Il magistrate! The
United States paid the judges, but by the
Governor code they were likewise allowed
fees on judicial processes.