The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1840-01-31
COL. BINGAMAN,s ADDRESS.

GENERAL-ln the name and by the ap.
pointment of the citizens of this city and
county, bid you cordial and hearty well
come. We hail you on your happy arrival
among us, with feeling of affection, Of ad-
miration and grattude-of affection for the
kindness you have uniformly exhibited to
wards us-of admiration for your brilliant
and glorious achievements-and of gratitude
for the signal and Respondent services
which you have rendered to our common
country. The history of your life will abun-
dainty shew, that patriotism with you has
not proceeded more from a sense of duty,
than that it has been a ruling passion. We
all remember that at the age of fourteen, and
at the period of the deepest gloom, you
Joined the glorious standard of the revolu-
ton. Your elder brother had previously fall
len at the battle of Steno-a victim to his
ardor in his country's cause A prisoner,
shortly afterwards, together with your re-
naming brother-nsulted and abused-you
exhibited that inhexible perseverance, which
has ever since so signally marked your char
acter. The deaths of your brother and mo-
ther-one from the wounds he had received
and his sufferings while prisoner-and
your mother, from grief at his loss, and her
humane and unremitting exertions to sue
cor the distresses of her captive countrymen
left you at the tender age, alone in the
world. Alone did say? No, General, for
Providence was with you The boy-a pri-
soner, who, born in the vicinity of the scene
of action-was exchanged after the battle of
Camden-was destined as the great War
Captain of the Eighth of January, eighteen
hundred and fifteen, to infict on the hire
ling minions of power the seVerest retalia-
ton for the untoward occurrences of that
disastrous day.
In this country, General, you exhibited in
eighteen hundred and thirteen, a signal ms
lance of the lofty independence and self
devoting magnanimity of your character
A gallant band of volunteers had followed |
you from their homes, in the midst of winter
reckless of the inclemency of the season,
and animated by patriotism alone-to repel
the invaders of their brethren in this, to
them, distant land Danger being dispelled,
by harsh order from the department of war,
you were directed to disband them, when
MANY of them were emaciated by disease,
and most Of them, unable from the want of
pecunary means, to return to their homes,
from which they were separated by a how
ling, and at the time, almost mpassibly will
derness. You nobly assumed the RESPONSE
disobeyed the order-and secured,
at YOUR own peril, the means of return. You
with your soldiers, every fatigue
shared with them every pIivation, and
mounting the sick upon your own horses,
conducted them back in safety to their IA
niles and friends. Dsinterestedness, such
IS this. has always secured to you the al
achment and unlimited confidence of your
soldiers. II
Shall recall to the minds of those around {
ne, the magnanimous self-deVotiOn, with .
which you thrice perllled you life to sup
,ress mutiny in the commencement of your :,
;anr a;gn in the Creek nation9 Shall point
hem to the unremitting exertions-the in
lefatigabIe actiyitv-the prndence-the for I
ight-the gallantry-by which in so short
space of time, you brought that campaign q
o its glorious termination? Have we for S
lotion the battles of Tallushatchie, Tallede- !
"a. Emuckhfaw, Enotichopo and Tahopeka?
10, General, whilst ,pulsation of gratitude
eats in the bosom of frontierman-while
is fellow citizens feel sense of sympathy \
or his exposed and perilous situaiion-ne- i
ershall we forget the debt of gratitude we P
we you for the brilliant-the hard-earned a
nd uninterrupted successes of that perilOus d
nd decisive campaign. To extrolitwe need i
OF the language of fattery-let Truth !
uide the pen and its eulogy is complete. :,
And the crowning glorious of the war I
10 battle of the twenty-third and the victo- p
Of the ever-memorable eighth-hOW shall g