The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1840-03-13

| known to the people OF the United States
] md occupy large space in the history oil
our country. What, we would ask are their
respective claims to the confidence of the
people and TO the high trust to be conferred
Mr.. Van Buren, has been mere partisan,
the successful aspirant of dominant party,
blown into the high seat which be so inglo-
riously fills by the breath Of his "illustrious
predecessor" in whose footsteps he has pro.
missed 10 tread as an evidence of his graft
tude to his great benefactor. Has he ever
performed one distinguished act in the field
or the cabinet 10 render his name an object
of the honest pride or admiration Of his
countrymen or of mankind at large? Histo-
ry contains no record of any such act, and
mono such it is believed can be referred to
in support of the high pretensions claimed
for him by his supporters. We call for the
State paper, or the bulletin which will de-
monstrate greatness of mind or lofty patrio-
tism in this individual; we may call again,
and again, for this, and call in vain; it IS not
to be found-and cannot be produced. Has
he made any sacrifice of his personal ease or
bis pecuniary means for his country? None
whatever; we challenge his advocates to
produce an instance of such devotion to his
country. OF his principles the best illustra-
ton may be found in the measures of his adj
ministration and their effects upon the pros
perity ofthe country The wisdom of these
measures, when tested by the standard
of the Constitution or of the public prsspe-
rity, cannot be sustained. We will not at
tempt an enlarged view of the ruinous po-
| Icy which has characterized the administra-
| fiAn &c prao11onk Vov, Qnran 0f h. g., Il
result of his policy, let the widespread ruin,
the universal distress, and misery now felt in
all their blighting force, by the poor and the
rich, bear abundant testimony. A Bankrupt
Treasury, made so by public defaulters, and
extra agent and wasteful expenditures of
the public money for purposes wholly uncon-
nected with the general welfare a currency
so worthless that it will not answer the most
ordinary purposes of trade and intercourse
between citizens of the State which it is is
sued and altogether rejected without its IL
mts; every branch of enterprise and industry
languishing under the Paralyzing influence
of Executive experiments; the Constitution
made to mean any thing or nothing, TO suit
the temporary purposes of ambition, averice
and lawless power; the patronage of office
thrown directly and GrOaCedLy into conflict
with the ''freedom of Elections" which is
uniformly conferred on such as become obe-
dent and active cohorts in the cause of him
who bestows it. These things and long
list of usurpations, not enumerated, call
loudly for reform in the administration of
the Federal Government, and that reform
We can only hope to be accomplished, by a
change in the Executive head, and the ele-
walton of the two patriots, WILLIAM HENRY
HARRISON and JOHN TYLER TO the first and
second Offices in the Republic.
Who is William Henry Harrison, the wing
nominee for the Presidency? He is the
descendant of a high souled chiValric race
of ancestors. His father was one of the
foremost wings, of the Revolution; acting iu
concert with Peyton, Randolph, Patrick
Henry, Jefferson, and galaxy of other pa
triOtic spirits, who resolved that their coun-
thy should no longer be ruled by foreign
despot He was member of the old Con-
gress; signer Of the Declaration of indie.
pendence, and Governor of Virginia, in
days which tried mems souls, and called
forth all their energies and patriotism. His
son is worthy descendant of his illustrious
sire. He has long and faithfully served his
country; and, at an advanced age labOrs in
his fields for the support of himself and ia
mlly. He has not grown rich on the ''spoils
of victory" The money Of the people,
which passed through his hands, was homes
thy applied and strictly accounted for. He
eats not the bread of public defaulter,
and is even tainted with his poverty by those
who live on the plumber of the public Trea-
sury. At the dawn of manhood, he entered
the tented field and breasted the dangers,
hardships, fatigues and privalions of the pro-
tracted Indian wars, which ragged in the north
west, after the treaty of peace with Great
Britain; for series of years; at the close of
these wars, new States sprung up in that
vast fertile region, where the foot of the sa-
wage had previously trodden. He was APP
pointed to the most important civil offices;
he was representative in Congress, Cover
nor of Territory, now formed into three
new States. Again, during the late war
with England he commanded out armies and
gained the most signal and glorius victories
over the savage and civilized foes of his
country. Returning peace brought him once
more into the civil departments of the Gov
eminent, as a representative and senator in
congress, and foreign Minister. In all these
high and responsible stations, the whisper
of calumny has never been heard to impugnI
the fidelity and integrity with which his va
rious duties were performed. His history
is all ofnoble deeds of patriotic devotion to
his country, as well in war as in peace-as a
soldier and citizen. That he was brave
and sagacious in war, let his numerous well
fought battles and victories speak; that he
was honest in the disbursement of the mil
lions Of public money with which he has been
entrusted; let his unimpeached character,
but above all, let his poverty speak: that he
Is statesman ofno ordinary merit the poll
teal ANNALS of the country afford the most