The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-03

tendence or care Of any authorized person.
IN fine, the whole government of the State
would be in confusion and great inconve-
n~ience, and perhaps ~irreparable injury
flow from such q state of things. For all
these evils there is but one remedy. hat
remedy is my resignation.
81, therefore, fellow citizens, now resign
the high trust confided to my hands, with
could not serve you better; with no feeling
of shame, for l am innocent of the causes
which nave induced the necessity of this
step. On the contrary, although personally
l fear no investigation and shun no scru-
tiny, l nave spared no efforts consistent
with self-respect to avert this result. So
soon as l learned that attempts would be
made, under an Act of Congress of the last
century, to remove me from this State, l
formally offered to the proper authorities
any pledge of security to appear in New
Orleans and meet the charges against me
so soon as my term of office should expire;
and l demonstrated against the indignity
thus about to be offered, not to myself, but
to the State, in dragging away from his
duties her Chief Magistrate.
my proposition was not accepted, and
my remonstrance not needed.
1T is not for me to complain. You are
the aggrieved party. My course in this
matter meets Che approval of some of the
most patriotic citizens neal me. l sincerely
hope, as it was dictated alone by my sense
of duty to the State, it may meet the ap-
probation Of my fellow-citizens.
- s.
%stituents, it would be proper to give them
an account of my stewardship during the
short but interesting period that l have
acted as their public servant, but the Off
cial connection between us has been SO
summarily and Unexpectedly severed that
l must defer the grateful task to a future
day.
II nave but to add that, during my short
but exciting period of service, l have in all
things striven to be faithful and true to
the rights, the interests and the honor Of
the State. For this l nave been abused
and illuminated by the enemies of the
South. Treachery II faithlessness would
have secured favor and praise from the
same sources.
"Fellow-citizens, l now take my leave of
you with gratitude for the generous sup
port you have extended to me, and with
cheering confidence hat your honor and
your interests may be safely conided to
the hands of the faithful and able son of
Mississippi, who, as President of the Senate,
succeeds to my place.
John A. QUIrMAN.
Executive Chamber, jackson, Monday
evening, Feb. 3, 1851"
General Quitman having thus ten
dered his resignation as Governor of
Mississippi proceeded to New Orleans,
and as a private citizen of the State
submitted to the further orders of the
Court. The official record explains
what happened after the arrest.
1.-THE United States VS.. John H. Quitman-
Indictment for Violation of the Neu'
trality Laws of Goth of April, 1918.
"The prosecution was commenced by in.
dictment, which was found by the Crane
Jury of the United States District Court fol
the Eastern District of Louisiana, on the
2lst of June, 1850, And on the Goth day o.
June, 1850, on motion of Logan Hunton
Esq, United States Attorney, and undel
tub p1ONlSlOuNO VI tue att VI OH Ol August
1916, the Indictment was RENTED to thu
l United States Circuit Court for the East
, ern District of louisiana for trial.
"A copy of the indictment certified a
, required by the statute was presented, AM
t application thereon based was made tt
Hon. Samuel J. Gholson, Judge of the Dis
i trict Court of the United States for tn
, Southern District of Mississippi, for tn
b, arrest and removal for trial of John A
Q Quitman to the Eastern District of Louis
ana. The writ of arrest was issued b
. Judge Gholson on the 18th of January
T 1851, after General Quitman las the wri
d %recites) had been heard by himself an
counsel in opposition to the granting of tn
9 application. The return of the Marshal o
S the writ is as follows;
lin obedience to the commands of til
within warrant, l did on the 3rd Of Febri
i airy, 1851, execute the same on John 4
u Quitman, in the City of Jackson, State
Mississippi, and have him now before tt
United States Court for the Eastern Di
trict Of Louisiana.
y "'FfELDING DAVIS,
n Marshal Southern District of Mis-
d "'New Orleans, 18th February, 1851
o "On the same day 9th February, 1851
3 General Quitman appeared before tt
10 United States Circuit Court, Hon. Theo. !
McCaled presiding alone, and entered in
VI recognizance in the sum of 81, 900, with ]
u r. W. Hill as his surety, for his future a
u pearance.
u "On the 9th of March, 1851, the thi
u trial of General Henderson having results
u in a mistrial, the jury being unable to agr
~ upon a verdict, a nolle prosequi was enter
u on the 9TH of March, 1851, upon motion
10 Logan Hunton, United States Attorney,
to all the defendants embraced in the
III dictment, che of whom was General Gu
d man"
- Governor Quitman, after his arres
e%ndeavored to evade any sort of demo
r. stration from his friends. Before lea
ing Jackson for New Orleans. he wro
so % friends in Natchez to check al
of manifestation of popular feeling in /
er favor. The moment, however, that
left the courtroom in New Orleans
OF multitude pressed around him. Lar