Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-07-17
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THE POSITION OF PARTIES.

THE POSITION OF PARTIES.
We invite attention to the article under this
head, which we copy from the Natchez Cou-
rier, while it discloses the true position of par
ties in Mississippi it exposes the cunning and
duplicity which has always characterised loco
focism. The great mass of the loco-foco par
ty have suffered the anti-bond payers to nom-
mate ticket for State officers and members of
Congress, and while thousands of them avow
themselves in favor of paying the bonds, they
will yet vote the entire ant-bond paving tick
ct, because the men composing it are uncom-
promising dyed in the wool loco-focos. On
the other hand the wings have nominated a
ticket of thorough-going wings who are in ia
vor of paying the bonds. In this position of
affairs the anti-bond payers have attempted
to create division in our camp in their favor,
by crying out no partyi no partyl They de-
claim loudly about measure of State policy
and very generously ask the wings to join
them On the bond question. without regard to
| National polstics. This request is exceeding
~ modest in the loco-focos, and is perfectly
characteristic of them. For years they have
had undisputed possession of the State and
National Governments, and during that whole
time we do not remember a single instance
when they as party suffered the party lines
to be slackened in the slightest degree, on the
contrary they always kept them drawn to the
4 EXTREMIST tension. But now when they are
Frustrated, when the sceptre has departed from
their grasp, and the party over which they
lorded it SO long are in the ascendant; they
raise new question and graciously call upon
the wings to join them. We know not which
} most to despise, the impudence of the loco-fo-
, cos, or the infatuation of those wings, who
seem disposed to lend willing ear to their in
famous and dishonest counsel. What, in Gods
e name except disgrace and infamy are we to
get by a Union with such party? We know
they are a corrupt and unprincipled faction
! faction that has already involved this State
in ruin. We know that they pause at moth
\ ing to accomplish their Infamous purposes, and
that in their mad career they trampe upor
E law, Justice, and common honesty, wheneve
u they happen to stand in the way of their ag
d grandizement. We have for years been war
ID ring against them-in prosperity and adversi
ty, in defeat and victory, we have presented
\ stern, unbroken front against all their wild an
al reckless schemes, and now in the very hou
L of our triumph they come forward and ask U
to ground our arms, join their band, and a
$, once disgrace ourselves and the State we liv
Is in.
The Wings are required to abandon ever
solitary principle for which they have Away
: contended, and take to their bosoms the me
t. and the measures they have always loathed-
e. to herd with McNutt and his gang of plunde
IS, ers. And what are we to get in return f
this abandonment of all our long cherishe
st principles! What is the reward we are
receive for striking that old flag under whic
we have so long s.braved the battle and tt
breezel' What are we to have for tramplr
lv in the dust that glorious old banner. fresh fro
re the field of triumph and with all its homo
rs thick upon III Age, atat shat zee receipe?-
we shat receiUe The felons brandt and it "
s be fitting reward for such treachery,a mo
noble compensation for a base abandonment
principle. But what is the object, and wb
the effect of this proposed union OF wings al
i loco-focos upon the bond question: We a.
swer. Il Is the re-establishassat Of 1eco foco POI
err Does any body doubt it' Look It u