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Page 131 - Representatives, and be agreed to by a majority of the members of each house, and entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and be referred to the next succeeding legislature, and published for three months previous to the next regular election, in three newspapers of...
Page 131 - No law shall be passed to raise money on the credit of the State, or to pledge the faith of the State, directly or indirectly, for the payment of any debt, or to impose any tax upon the people of the State, or to...
Page 273 - In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality ; His great fires up the chimney roared ; The stranger feasted at his board ; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, " Forever — never ! Never — forever!
Page 19 - A man ought to fear God, and mind his business. He should be respectful and courteous to all women; he should love his friends and hate his enemies. He should eat when he was hungry, drink when he was thirsty, dance when he was merry...
Page 18 - The Mississippian has been caricatured into a swaggering rowdy," Reuben Davis wrote years later, "always drinking whiskey and flourishing revolvers and bowie-knives." Davis conceded that "many of them drank hard, swore freely, and were utterly reckless of consequences when their passions were aroused...
Page 19 - ... hardships and toil with patient courage, and whose hands were as ready to extend help as they were to resist violence and oppression. They took life jovially, and enjoyed such pleasures as they could come by. Although a God-fearing people — for infidelity was unknown — there was nothing straitlaced about their religion. They attended divine worship in a reverent spirit, and endeavored to do their duty to God and man, so far as they saw it. Even the strictest of them made no scruple about...
Page 24 - He relates the varied incidents of a journey on hofteback to Memphis, where he went when he had finished his studies, hoping to find an opening for practice. "It was then a small town, ugly, dirty, and sickly. Everything pointed to the certainty that in a short time this squalid village must grow to be a great and wealthy city, but I had no confidence in my destiny as one of the builders of it.
Page 131 - State expressly provides that ' no law shall ever be passed to raise a ' loan of money upon the credit of the State, or to pledge the ' faith of the State for the payment or redemption of any loan or ' debt, unless such law be proposed in the Senate or House of ' Representatives, and be agreed to by a majority of the members ' of each House and entered on...
Page 389 - It was the signal for battle, but the troops were marshalled and war declared, long before. During the long contest for speaker, passion on both sides had been intensified, and the excitement and danger of collision continued to increase until the last hour of the session. Lincoln's nomination took place about two weeks before adjournment. The intelligence came like a thunderbolt. Members from the South purchased long-range guns to take home with them.
Page 157 - Buffalo Bull came down the meadow.' It was the legislature of Mississippi indulging in an airing, after having spent an evening in the worship of Bacchus. The chorus was given with a will, and the streets fairly resounded with the lively ditty. It was a sight long to be remembered!