The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1840-10-23

may be brought before the Legislature, why
what need Che people know of ask as e his
politics.
People Of Yazoe are we writing TIE sFntak
IF Colonel Sharpe has position this is 4.
lie refuses 70 answer questions ITO bis
politics, and tells The people thai be i only
a candidate for the Legislature, and what
has that 10 do with National polilics9 Men.
Of Yazoo! we say, do ron standit2 Stand
up here, you plain dealing, open-hand hon
est men, and say, do you stand i o. mott
TO the voters Of YazOo County.
FEILow CITIzEFs
In Few days YOU will Be called upon by
your country I'd exercise the most important
political PRIVILEGE and 10 discharge the most
important political duty which can devolve
upon the citizens Of a Republic. And the
election which now calls for your sufirages
IS such al. one Is was never known before
The consequences which must result from
the approaching presidential election, are
momentous beyond conception. The value
Of votes was nerer seen and realized as if
now is Previous contests, which in name
resemble the piesent, have called up party
Esprit and enlisted much feeling upon either
side, but the warmth Of those contests have
been kindied and kept up chiefly, or in a
very great measure, by The pride Of party
! by the influence Of politicians in arrousing
the sectional OIL personal preference Of The
people, or by ! trial of strength between
the parties where the errors Of judgment,
as 70 tho best mode Of carrying out certain
principles acknowledged to be orthodox and
proper, have fosmed the chief ground ofob-
lection on either side. But in this country
such crisis as the present never arrived
before. You ale now called upon not to
sustain this or that set of political opinions,
or these OF those questions Of policy, which
are, in sound reason and good faith, debate
abb. BY the people abstraetly from The pri-
pate interests Of those who form and are
identified with the federal cabinet; but you
are now urged tosthe ballot box By the stern
mandate of necessity Il IS yourselves
fYour-nz i'uIned1are personal Interests
your property your farms, your shops, your
daily labour your families and your subsis-
lance, which now calls for your exertions.
The vitality Of republication is assailed and
in danger.--The essence of democracy,
which consists in the individual good Of the
people of the Countrywide benefit Of each
man, in his family, his person and his pro-
perry, is assailed and in jeopordy. The
strong arm of power has been raised in a
republic by the servants of the people
Those whom the people have elected to per-
form service for them, are seeking to enlarge
and pefpetuate their power at the direct ex-
peuse and personal disadvantage &c the peo-
pie themselves And their own money
their own authority which they have dele
gated for the execution Of particular trusts,
and the incidental power Of Office. which
never ought 70 be used at all, are now ar
rayed and boldly brought forward to sustain
the damnable heierodox already declared,
that the federal government is an indepen-
dency seperate IN interest and enjoyment
from the people who made i and whose SER
want and instrument il is.
Il has taken ten long years Of intrigue,
management and experiment to bring about
this state Of things Hitherto. the people
have submitted with but an occasional muir
muir of discontent 10 these dangerous and
expressive experiments Their patience and
forbearanee have been kept alive By other
and 's,ilI other and fairer promises. uni Il
would be an insult to human credutilv to
expect 1he slightest relience to be placed
upontheir empty baseless assertions future
good.
And we ask llle administration who they
have beneH 81 this new order of thines9
TIE new policy,it IS sid 81 those Interest,"
ed, is greatly superior 70 ibe Old And IFS
great superiority has been sounded forth,
irumpei .lonauod ii wind and upon paper,
until The people of he copntry With scarce
" an exception. ere wrecked II fortune.
swamped in Insolvency and md ions Of them
beggard for lack Of bread and sbe. ter
From the fact that the people of this com
tFy consist Of an immense mass. scattered
over vast territory they have beea slow
10 deliberate By the same course Of reason-
Ing, and q determine By Gle same Fesola-
lion 70 change these measures and dismiss
the officers who have produced them
But a. length thanks 70 % oeerruling
and lie spirit of Freedom, tie
deteTmin lion IS made The mandate has