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FELLOW CITIZENS:
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tits known to you that the
Legislature at its regular session estab.
lished "The District Chaacery Court Of
Mississippi" and required that the Gov
ernor should appoint Vice Chancellor
to organize and hold the court at Colum-
bus, for the counties of Lowndes, Nox-
ubee, Octibbeha, Winston, Neshoba and
Aemper; at Fulton for Itawamba, Tish-
amlngo, Pontotoc, Monroe and Chicka-
saw; at CarrolhCn for Carroll, Holmes,
Choctaw, Yalobusha and Tallahatchie.
and at Holly Springs for Marshall, Tip.
pah, Lafayette, Ponola, Coahoma, Tuni-
ba and De Soto, and to hold the office un-
til the elsction in. November next.


The appointment thus required. to be
made was rendered to and accepted by
me, without solicitation on my part, and
entered Immediately upon the discharge
ofits duties. Having received the Office
by appointment from the Governor and
put the Courts into successful operation,
i am anxious to obtain it by the voice Of
the People at the ballot box, and have be-
come a candidate for election.


My duty and inclination prompt me to
make myselfknown to thevoters Of the
District, but its: s:size-twenty-three coun-
ties-and the.duties of the office, which
kept me in court until the middle of July
preclude the possibility of doing SO;
fhave therefore addressed you in this
form; but will also pass through as many
of the counties as | can before the elec-
|. tion, and thus afford an opportunity Of
becoming personally known to you.


: trust that am duly impressed with
, the exalted station and the highly res
! ponsible and arduous duties of the Office
asked of you; and although my vanity
; even, will not allow me to lay claim tc
: the profound and extensive legal knowl


edge, ripe judgment, and just discrimina
t ton requisite TO discharge its duties with
4 fdistinction; yet | have been induced K
TASK the Office of the people by having