The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1840-03-13
POLITICAL.
From the Natchez Courie
Public Meeting.

nominations, Hon, GEORGE WINCHESTER was
called TO the chair, and FREDERIC B. ERNEST
and JOHN M. DUFF1ELD appointed Secreta
ries.
The Chairman eloquently explained the
object of the meeting.
On motion, Committee o. six was ap
pointed, consisting Of Mcssrs Bingaman
Barrow, Jackson, Cotton, Hutchins, and
Vannerson, to prepare and report the neces.
sary resolutions.
On motion, the meeting adjourned until
2 o'clock.
AT 8 o'clock the meeting again conven-
ed, Col. Bingaman offered the following
Preamble and Resolutions which were an.
GnimOusly adopted.
The great purpose for which we have as
sembled on the present occasion, to express
with the open frankness, and fearless indie.
pendence of Freemen, our opinions of the
fitness of the candidates recently nominated
by the national convention of Wings, con-
vened at Harrisburg in the State of Penn
sylvania, for the Offices of President and
Vice President of the United States, de-
mands of every patriot, union of thought and
action, that each mind may be animated by
the same principles, and each arm nerued
in defence of the rich inheritance of regula-
ted constitutional liberty, bequeathed to us
by the illustrious Washington and bis COM
patriots of the Revolution. We invoke
among the Wings of Adams county and
among all good citizens throughout the
State, the spirit of Harmony, Cancellation,
mutual concession, and candid CO operation
without which, no cause, however just,
ever prospered, and no party, however pa
triotic, ever triumphed. Let us bear in mind
the trite, but wholesome maxim; that Gin
union, there is strength" in divisions, ine-
vitable defeat, and discontinue. Let US
inscribe this motto on our banner, and march
in solid phalanx, as one man, TO the polls ap-
pealing to Heaven for the purity of our in
and for the goodness of the
cause in which we have embarked; and we
may rely with the most flattering hope, and
confidence, that glorious
victory awaits us in the approaching contest
for the Executive chair of the nation. Our
country must and shall be redeemed
from the misery and distress, which have
been spread over its wide surface, by the
hand of tyranny and misrule, which has too
long held unbounded sway over the destinies
of misguided out injured and insulted peo-
pie. With these sentiments and feelings.
we approach the particular duty for which
this meeting has been called. In conven-
ton of wing delegates, representing twenty
three States of the Union held at the city
of Harrisburg, our brethren from all quar-
tiers of our beloved country, have after the
most calm, careful and dispassionate consi-
Iteration of the subject, with all the lights
which could be shed on it by the members
of the most enlightened body of patriotic CT
tzens, and after candid comparison of facts
disclosed by the delegates from each state
and section, recommended to the American
people as suitable persons to fill the exalted
stations of President and Vice President of
the United States, William Henry Harrison
of Ohio, and John Tyler of Virginia. We
are invited to de clare our approval of those
and to pledge our humble en-
deavors in conjunction with the wings of
our sister states to sustain the illustrious in
dividuals nominated. by all lawful and hon.
Orable means not inconsistent with the peace
BILE expression of the popular will at the bal
lot boxes. Your committee have bestowed
Election and consideration which its impor-
lance demands, and have come TO the unani-
nous conclusion that is the bounden duty
of the patriotic citizens OF Adams county,
who desire reform of the abuses which
have marked the course of the present in
cumbent Of the Executive chair, TO unite
all their energies in support ofthe nominees
of the Harrisburg convention. The question
of personal preference is not now an open
question. The alternative only remains of
choosing between William Henry Harrison
and Martin Van Buren,, for the first Office in
the gift of the People. In this great strug-
gle. patriotism admits of no temporizing
lseutrGliStS. He who is not for Us is against
U.S. All that is dear to US as freemen; all
that pertains TO the integrity and perpetuity
Of constitutional liberty and the supremacy
of the laws; all that is connected with and
Unidentified with the happiness and prosperity
of this great confedeFacy and Of generations
yeliunborn, is involved in the issue of the
conflict now in progress between the friends
of our free constitution and representative
government on the one side, and the adhe-
rents of executive power and ''the spoils of
victory" the patronage of Office and man
worship on the other. It is war between
usurpation, power, and corruption, backed by
the treasury, and official prerogative, and
the people whose rights and interests have
been invaded and sacrificed to build up a
rampant around the palace Of an irresponsi
BILE chief Magistrate, which will in a few
short years become imprognable, and Access
sibIe only to the minions and sycophants who
worship al his footstool and fatten on hard
earnings Of an honest, but credulous COM
munity. In such war where is the wing
who would not rush to the rescue of his
country from the hands Of the spoilersg-
Where the patriot who would not restore
the government to its primitive simplicity
and purity, OF nobly perish il the edorta We