The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1840-01-03
YAXOO CITY.
TIE PRESIDENCY
The ConVentiOn--.The Candidate---The
wings and their Duty.


wings and their Duty.
The decision of the great Wing Party as
their candidate-the man whom they would
nut in nomination for their support in opPo-
sition to the candidate of the Sub-Treasury
party for the Presidency of the United States
has been made. 1t has been made too, in
the manner prescribed and acquiessed in by
the whole party. And, perhaps, in the best
manner that could have been devised. The
object and intentionof the late Wing Con-
vention was to unite the whole party upon
n candidate. 1t was of course well known.
that there were several prominent men
amongst the wings who were looked to as
being every way qualified to be put forth as
candidates, and each one of whom, thou
sands and thousands of patriotic and intelll-
gent wings were anxious to support. Still,
THE Vine PARTY WAS ONE, and their motto
was PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. What was union
of the partu, then, but a concession on the
mart of thousands and tens of thousands as
to .heir particular wishes, and compromise
of feeling and anxiety, not of principle, with
their fellow wings, in the support of another
man!
"a Union of the whigs--fCr the sake of
the UniOn,''
has long since waved upon our banner as
proud and magnanimous sentiment, worthy
of our name. 'FPRNcIPLEs, NOT MEN," we
have nailed to the frontlets of our escutcheon,
and it has scared over us amid the clouds,
the emblem of our honor our patriotism,
and our integrity.
These being the universal sentiments of
our party, our strong arm and our great wea-
BON being UNION, we have been much
pained to see in some of the wing Journals,
want of acquiescence in the decision of
the late Convention. The New-Orleans
True American even suggests another can
didate!
All this is wrong-wrong-totatiy wrong.
And those same editors, we doubt not, before
the present moment at which we are writ
ing. have seen their error, and have already
eirded themselves for the conflict, in the
great struggle for Liberty, Integrity and
Principle. If they are not battling for our
cause, our party and our candidate, we hesi-
tate not to say, they are wrong. A greater
patriot, a wiser, purer and better man than
any of US pretend to be, because of the IN
sniration with which he was clothed, once
rebuked nation because as he said-there
are divisions among you-''I am of Paul, !
of .4ppoIas and of Cephas." And after his
example, it might now well be asked-Is
the cause of Truth and the Nations welfare
divided? Suppose Mr.. CLAY had been nomi-
mated, we should then ask of the hundred
thousands who have been devoted to Gen.
HARRISON, precisely what they now ask OF
US. And remember, they ask nothing but
what we have thousand times promised.
What do mean when we say we fight for
principle, not for men! Do we not mean
what we say! Verify, we do. The cause
in which we are engaged is the cause of the
political and personal integrity-of our gov,
eminent as 1t aOGs; against giant official
monied electromagnetic that great bane
of Nations, Union Of the purse and Sword
against legalsed officialfraud and an officer
ed array scaling the walls Of our great and
glorious Constitution. In such a contest
men are nothing. This is the doctrine Of
our party. We strive to put down the pre-
sent Administration;-why? Because we
have men, wise and good men, whom we
wish to elevate to place and station? No
verify! No! But because our Government,
our loved Government has got into the
hands of men who are corrupt. And men
too, who profess doctrines more revolving to
Patriotism and more dangerous to american
Liberty than even their own eorruptions.--
We want to bring back our Government to
where it was.-We want to place Liberty
upon her own pinions once nore.-Wel
want the Old Tree to blossom again. Men
are nothing. We can tell you gentlemen,
that no heart ever throbed higher for Henry
CLAY than has ours, or does yet. We can
tell you, that if you have led Us IN talent and
in power for the Orator Of the West, you
have not led US in zeal and perseyereance.
We can tell you, that if your eyes have
glistened and your blood rushed upward
when you have seen him walk over hredI