State rights and democratic union. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1839-18??, 1839-10-30

must become difficult TO obtain,
THE NOVEMBER ELECTlONs-PRIN
CIPLES, Nor MEN.
! Fellow citizens. On the 4h and 9Th DAYS
of November next it ls your privilege, nay,
your right and your dU y to cast your suffra.
ges Tor 'he candidates of your choice, both
for Federal and State officers. Il behooves
you as treemen, ANXIOUS 10 perpetuate free
institutions, as fathers who desire to hand
down TO posterity, if not improved, at least
unimpaIred, the rights, the liberty, the con
sttution obtalned sword in hand from the
British Crown, b, your ancestry-we say, as
men who CHERISH these institutions, it is your
duty diligently 10 enquire into the principles
atOwed and maintained by the several candi
dales before you tor political station. All
personal feelings should he laid aside, and
him who honestly advocates the true Repub
lican faith. he he personally friend or Zoe,
should rec I've your vote at the ballot box.
The advocates OF different principles present
themselves before you. he friends of de-
mocracy and the rights of the States as ex-
plIcitiy reserved ia The constitution on the
one hand, and on the other a motley array,
who call tn mselves wings, having no princi.
pie in common, but linked together in deter
mined opposition to the present administra
tons, both of the National and State govern.
ments. Among this latter class are to be
found the honest Federalist of the HamIItoni.
an school-the modern wing, who supported
the administration Of General dickson to it's
close, and then the electoral ticket of Judge
White, on the ground that the Judge was
better democrat than Mr.. Van Buren,; and
the disappointed office.seeker, whose poitI-
cal views are changed to SUIT occasions.
These with only one object IN common, with
no av0wed set of pri ciples upon which they
propose 10 administer the Government, make
desperate war upon the powers that be- and
lreck not of consequences, SO they hut accom-
plish the darling object of their desire to get
IN office themselves
! In the coming contest then fellow citizens,
let youl watch-word be PRINCIPLES, nor
MEN, In regard to National politics, inquire
which party II is that contend for latitude.
MARIAN construction Of that sacred chart Of
| your rights, the constitutions; which that
would saddle upon you National Bank, and
thus break down all hope of building up your
o,cn Gulf and river towns, and of establishing
direct southern trade with foreign powers,
which, by the estabIishm nj of vast monied
machine at the North, with the credit Of your
Government TO sustain IT, would abstract
from you the rewards of your sweat and toll
to rear up splsndid Federal Government, to
the utter loss and destruction of the rights,
| In the Constitution, reserved 10 the States
and the People, and which Won lead you
to the support of that greatest of enemies to
you and your rights, Henry Clay. Inquire,
too, who oppose these measures, and then
cast your vote for the party Regardless of
mem whose doctrines accord with your own
principles.
The principles which should secure your
support for a Federal officer ought likewise to
obtain in the selection of State officers, for
your Legislature will be called upon 10 elect
"a Senator to the Congress of the United
States. For this important station two prom.
linent men are before MIR. Walker. the
democratic candidate, has now served YOU
four years in the Senate, with distinguished
ability. On every question involving South.
ern rights be has been foremost among YOUR
friends, and has, in truth, done more for YOUR
local interests as federal officer than all
other men in the State put together. Oppu.
sed to him and your rights, the great cham.
pion Of the wing party, Mr.. Clay, has con-
spicuously stood forth, as is exclusively
shown in the late mastery address Of Mr..
Walker. Mr.. Clay 'ssotes and all his powers
Of eloquence have been arrayed against you;
yet, With all his sins, a loathsome, fostering
scab, whose bare touch is contamination and
ard ruin to the South, he is held I'D candi.
date for the FIRST office in your gift. The op.
ponent Of Mr.. Walker, the Hon. S. s. Prem.
tiss, is the declared friend and supporter of
Mr.. lay, and of course approves his acts
His tariff system, his bale for bale taxation
The millions, large as Conquest's spoil
Wrenched from your sinews and your soil.