MISSISSIPPI STATE BANKS.
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We see tha, the Guard half way endorses
the story told by the Grenada Herald thai
the wings made the Mississippi Banks. we
intend shortly to show the truth IN relation
to that matter, concerning which there ought
never to have been any controversy, by CIV
ing the vote on all the bank charters ever
passed in this State. and thereby SO fasten the
thing down upon the democrats that they
will never again repeat the silly tale ol the
Herald


We did not dispute the correctness OF the
list Of votes given by the Herald. What we
objected to was. the unfair trick OF stating
the number of whig and democratic votes re-
corded against particular banks. when, per-
haps, the whole number was less than doz
en-. and attempting to argue, from the fact
that more democratic than whig votes were
so recorded, that therefore the wings made
those banks. We were not willing that our
veracity should be called in question upon
such proof, which, by the way. is all that the
editor of the Herald can offer. We shall
sustai in our assertion. and disprove that ofthe
Herald, by showing who voted IN faror OF
the banks and our neighbor may then have
an oppo rtunity of endorsing for his Grenada
brother, if he chooses to do so. We opine.
however, that he will be "mum." for the facts
will be far from bearing out his supposed
case"


We admit that the democracy has destroy
ed the banks, but this admission does not
initiate against the fact that they created
them 1t is also true that the wings oppo
sed some of the measures adopted by the de-
mocracy to ensure the destruction of the
banking system, but we did so because we
believed that those measures were not only
impolitic but unjust and dishonest 1t was
not fair, 1t was not honest, when the yalua
ton law was passed and the people were
thereby enabled to postpone for long period
the payment of the debts they owed to the
banks, to compel the banks to pay all their
obligations at once under pain of forfeiting
their charters. 1t was like tying a man,
hand and foot. throwing him into the waters
and denouncing death against him if he
should no: swim We did not make the
banks, we considered them.so many curses,
to the people of the State, but we wished to
see them dealt with according to the method
pointed out by law. Democracy WAS like
mob. excited. and eager TO administer Lynch
law upon supposed offenders. The wings
were willing that the guilty should be
brought to justice, but insisted that it should
be done in accordance with the laws OF the
land, and therefore it is that we are charged
with being the authors of a system which we
have opposed from the beginning and which !
we shall ever oppose while whig principles |
remain unchanged.