RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT A


DEMOCRATIC BOND PAYING
MEETING, HELD AT NATCHEL.
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ResoIred, That the doctrine which teach
es that the people will support the govern
ment of their own choice, pay the debt
which their own agents, acting under their
instructions, may contract m their name, and
maintain the honor and plightcd faith OF the
republic inviolate, is democratic doctrine,
and Thomas Jefferson is its author, who
boldly maintained the Identical doctrine, IN
the infancy Of democracy, against the sneers
of tie British and the opposition of Hamif-
ton and the Federal Junto, whose main ar
gument in favor Of high tariffs. big banks,
monopolies, exclusive privileges, and such
devices for taxing labor, indirectly, was
founded on the assumption, that the people,
in the aggregate had not sufficient virtue
and magnanimity to pay their honest debts
and support the government, as Jefferson
contended they had.


Resolued, That those who would take ad-
vantage of the misfortunes of the people of
Mississippi, to preach TO them the seductive
doctrine of reputation, encouraging them
to 90 to the polls to get rid of their State
debts, may call such procedure of democ-
racv, if they please but it is suicidal democ-
racv, because it strikes deadly blow at the
vitals of the body polite, desecrates the insti-
tuition of the ballot-box to the worst OIL all
purposes and would ultimately pull down
upon the community an intoierable anarchy,
the arch enemy of democracy-which has
swallowed up so many republics.


Resolrsd, That the ballot box is demo-
cratic institution, and was never intended TO
supersede the strong box, or TO be used in the


liquidation of debts, nor was 1t intended to
supercede judicial investigation in questions
of matter of facts relating to dollars and cents
pounds. shillings and pelce. otherwise
courts should be useless. the electioneering
would become the all-absorbing business,
and swallow up law, liberty and every thing
else


Resolced, That borrowed money ought
be paid. and if the acts pledglng the faith of
the State to borrow II had been deemed un-
Constitutional by the people OF Mississippi,