The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-08-30

of this great nation has witnered and died.
Above all. / remembered with pride and
exultatiou that the wings of Mississippi had
preserved the honor of the State, when the
opposite party, Esaw like, was bargaining +
away for mess of political pottage. They,
and they alone are entitled to the immortal
praise Of having warded off the first traitor
Gus blow aimed at the elective franchise.
1t was beneath their sternresponse that the
servile tools of the President shrunk abash-
ed, and it was upon their mandate they sur
rendered the rich jewel they had stolen.
Me the wings have already honored far
beyond my humble deserts, and in retiring
from political contests, did not doubt that
should be succeeded by those who would
with equal zeal and ampler capacity, tight
the great battle of principle.
hesitated, therefore, on receiving your
communication, not from any question OF
my duty in sacrificing private AID personal
considerations TO the success of the good
cause, but from fears lest the partialities of
my friends in Madison had betrayed them
into an injudicious selection. From the
subsequent action Of the wings in other parts
of the State, however, have been forced
to the conclusion, that whether judiciously
or not they are DESTROYS of placing mein
nomination. Being convinced of this fact
from the proceedings of various public meet
ings as we'll as the general expression of the
wing press, do not hesitate any longer in
placing myself in the hands Of my political
friends, with the distinct understanding, that
inasmuch as accede to their wishes, not
from motives of personal agrandizemeut,
but from a sincere desire to do my duty to
the country, so my name shall be at once
Withdrawn from nomination, should subse
quent observation indicate, as it very pro-
badly will, some more appropriate candidate.
The reasonable license of an epistle will
hardly admit of an extended exposition of
political doctrines, nor indeed, do consider
it the most desirable channel for their incul-
cation. Neither do deem it requisite for
me, on the present occasion, to go into any
labored disquisition upon subjects which |
have had the good fortune to discuss before
the people at large, IN almost every county
of the State. Ineed only say that my opin-
ions in relation to the present administration
and its measures have been greatly fortified
by the observation and experience of the
last year. The Developments which have
been made ID relation to the conduct of the
financial affairs Of the government have as
tonished and shocked the whole nation. 1t
IS now matter not of mere surmise or par.
tizan invectiye, but of solemn demonstration
based upon admitted and undeniable facts,
vouched for and published un-
der the deliberate sanction of the popular
branch of Congress, that the Treasury De-
partment is rotten to the core; that it is but
the pandoE to executive power, and exercises
its high functions, not for the good of the
but of party; not honestly, for the
general welfare, but wickediy and corruptly
for the most sinister purposes. Since Mr..
Van Buren, assembled the chair of State il
has exhibited system of peculation and
connivance unprecedented in any govern
nent. The correspondence between its
chief and his subordinates is offensive to
he moral sense, and insulting to the intel
igence of the people. Its open and I'M
olushing profigacy would have shocked even
he loose notions of that most venal ofmin-
sters, Sir Robert Walpole, whose political
maxim was, s'that every man has his price.
Corruption has been traced, not merely to
he doors, but into the very recesses of the |
emple. By the foot prints upon the floor
We have discovered; as did the Chaldeans of
I'D, that the rich offerings laid by the peo-
BE upon the shrine, have been carried away
md consumed, not by the God, but by the
juggling Priests
Under ordinary circumstances, and in or
linary times, the Developments to which t
.Ilude would have Frustrated any admins
ration whatever. Unfortunately the deep
distress which has peryaded the country,
nd spread disn1ay and ruin through all the
venues of business, has in some degree
the eyes of the people from these
Ireat enormities, and directed them with
earnestness to their own private
offerings Thus the rude blow which the
Obber bestows with one hand diverts the at-
ention for a moment from the theft he is
committing with the other.
But corruption is by no means the only K
emarable characteristic of the party in pow
r. Out Of the very ruin its measures have I
rought upon the country, does it contriye
} extract political capital With unblush- I
lg effrontery its paftisans assert that it is {
OF accountable for the results of its own {
ction; that the distresses of the country 1
ave been produced by the operation of s
hig principles, and all the responsibility {
es at the doors of the opposition. The $
Unfortunate patient, who, from a state Of
erfect health has been reduced by the nos. a
ums Of the quack to the point Of death; is .
rayely told by the ignorant pretender that :
IS miserable condition is not owing to the II
auseous doses ne has taken, butts entirely Q
to his former physician, whose I
description he has discarded for years. A 4
rocer insult was never offered to the good I
snse of an intelligent people, b
The party in power IS solely responsible B
I the sufFerings under which the country q
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