The Yazoo Whig And Political Register

State Bonds and State Integrity.

The Governor of Mississippi, it is well known, has declared open warfare, and has long since been waging an undisguised hostility against the honor, the credit, the integrity and the faith of our State. Humiliating as such an admission most assuredly is, the question should not be evaded or disguised. He has proclaimed an unconditional hostility to honor, honesty and good faith.

It is true that he has been able to enlist but a very small remnant of his own political party in this unholy crusade and none others, and that the representatives of the people in the Legislature have solemnly denounced his treasonable heresies as "a calumny upon the justice, honor and dignity of the State", yet, as a few ultra fanatical disorganizers in different parts of the State, are endeavoring by fraud, management and misrepresentation to effect public sentiment in favor of the Governor's treason, it is fit and proper that the People in their primary assemblies should speak upon the subject and utter a mandate that may not be gainsayed. It is for the people who named the name of Mississippi to say whether that name shall be forever disgraced or not—whether that name shall in future be spoken in derision, scoffed at as a by-word, a reproach to our Territorial soil and disgrace to the company it keeps, or whether it shall remain there in the confederate catalogue of States, a name which no tongue shall be ashamed to utter?

The issue of this question cannot be changed by any sophistry or subterfuge. It is a plain direct and palpable question of honor or dishonor. It is a question of good faith or bad faith. It is to say whether our State shall or ever, in all honorable association, be expelled from the sisterhood,

We are called upon for a paltry sum of money to stain with falsehood an honorable and a glorious escutcheon. The name of Mississippi has hitherto been as unsullied as the product of her hills and plains, but now we are asked to blacken both with the stains of treachery, deception and fraud. We are asked to give up the name of "Mississippi" for the eternal infamy of being immortalized with falsehood, and hereafter forever of being known as "Mississippi the traitor". It is said that we cannot pay five millions of money, and therefore, we must add infamy to dishonor by repudiating engagements which were solemnized by the plighted faith of the people.

For attempting to bribe the people of Mississippi into this gulf of degradation and crime, his Excellency A. G. McNutt, the Governor of the State of Mississippi, is solemnly and legally declared to be and published to the world as a "calumniator"!—

This resolution is now put to the people and the ayes and noes are called on.

In regard to the Union Bank or how much of the five millions of bonds she will be able to pay, we have nothing to say. It seems, however, to be the opinion of those who ought best to know, that the Bank will be able ultimately to pay at least three or four millions; but this does not touch the question of the liability of the State. The State is in the same situation whether the Bank is able to pay all or none of the debt.

And the official declaration of His Excellency that the State of Mississippi, producing annually four hundred thousand bales of cotton, cannot pay in twenty years the balance of the $5,000,000 that the Bank falls short, is puerile, insignificant and insulting to the industry and dignity of her citizens.

We have published, by request, a call for a public meeting in this City, on Saturday, the 20th inst., in pursuance of a recommendation of the Whig Convention, and we are now requested to say, that this question of State Bonds and State Integrity will be agitated at that time. Let the names of the people be written down upon this question, that in after years they may be looked upon in honorable distinction or be held up to the indignant gaze of an injured posterity.