The Ripley Advertiser

The Legislature adjourned without passing the appropriation Bill. This bill passed the House, but was lost in the Senate by 5 Whig votes. These Whig Senators are awfully opposed to Repudiation, yet they think it perfectly consistent with their broad notions of justice, to adjourn and leave the public creditors to whistle for their hard earnings'.

The foregoing from the Hernando Phoenix, is about as near the truth as that print usually gets. Why could it not tell its readers that Gen. Speight, Senator from the county of Lowndes, and the Senator from his County, both good anti-bond democrats, also voted against the suspension of the Constitutional rule, which prevented the Appropriation Bill from being taken up? The editor could not have been ignorant of this fact, for he was at Jackson during the session of the Legislature, endeavouring to get an appropriation for a notoriously exorbitant account for advertising tax sales, which he had made out against the State. We have already stated the reason alledged by the seven Senators for refusing to permit the appropriation Bill to come up for consideration, was that it was sent to the Senate on the last day of the session, and there was not sufficient time to examine its details before voting upon it.