The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-10-07
From the Baltimore American.

We have received the first number of the
Boston Daily American, issued on the 25th
of August last The American IS published
by T. II. Warland. A. q. Tenney, and w.
A. Weeks, Esqs., and will advocate the cleo
ton of the great statesman and pure pa
triot, HENRY CLAY, TO the next presidency.
From the leading editorial, which is written
with much force and talent, we copy the
following passages:
/ With changeling like this at the head
/ of The Republic, what has the country to
/ hope. or rather what has she not 10 fear?--
She can look for nothing but peridy, injury,
and insult upon insult Bleeding as she is
at every pore--her great interests crushed
her industry depressed--her labor driven
from its natural and accustomed mart, to
feed the starving operatives of despotic Eu-
rope--the good of the whole sacrificed to
the mad ambition of one--her currency,
the very life blood of her system, gone, and
her credit broken--what is the course of
the Executive at a crisis like this? Is it
such as will develope the resources of the
country, give encouragement to labor, and
open again the thousand springs of our pros.
perity? Not so: his attitude is that of da.
ring defiance TO the popular voice and
swOsR- oppossii0n- 10 the Legislative branch
through which il speaks. The oNE-MAN
power reigns supreme in our midst, and IN
less the people arc willing 10 take laws from
4 John Tyler, they are insolently told they
shall have none. And this is republicanism.
r We tell them that unless they rise up and
q assert their rights, their liberties are gone
and their interests made the mere playthings
4 of the creature ofan accident. The deares
g interests Of nation, says Junius, are it,
# laws and its constitution. Against ever
h attack upon these, there will always be founC
l. tamongu the frmest spirit of resistance, su
Is perior to the united effects Of faction am
As ambition. If this jealousy of infringement
II upon the legislative power be worthy {
ID remark in monarchy, how much soone
VS. should it arouse the energies and spirit of
is republican people! With what vgiIanc
be should the popular eye be directed to tn
he least encroachment upon the sanctty Of
nj written constitution! All the interests OF
lis country are bound up in her laws and col
he sttution. Indeed they are identical--tht
he move together-hourish together-they ri
10. and fall together. The commerce Of gre
,or nation, her manufactures, her agricultur
ne her mechanic labor, her very existence.
yer what are they, if the laws and the constit
,cv ton be violated, or become, in the hands
NV. an incompetent Executive, as dead and
ew operative as the very parchment on viii
ess they are written? No! interests dearer tn
bey these to the American heart there cannot
en- and more incompetent guardian a
ING protector than John Tyler. they have ne
to had since the republic sprung into life unC
The their magic touch. God grant that ne
the again may the deslines of the republic
cul- committed to such hands!
t Of In posture of affairs like ihis--the m
,1d. critical by far which the Government
real yet encountered-what should be the a
9th tude of the Wings who bore themselves
tier. gaIlantly at the last campaign9 Clearl
y ci- clearly, that of sworn hostility TO the |
ever who has betrayed them, and union upon
Tins ablest champion Of their cause. We
and called upon by every principle Of honor
Itself our reverence for the lamented dead, al
have regard for the eloquent living who haV
noe fearlessly stood forth in defence of our |
JASON clPies IN the national counciis-to wipe
the repr0ach which clings 10 Us from
former association with John Tyler.
more, thest rest upon the Wing name no
.dilu er. Let no faint Of radicaiism soil it!
{ the coalition now in the process of form
'ly be between the discarded Executive anC
have. Loco Focos, must be met and put dow
hero The Wing Party is as strong and as ca
Egyp. Of vigorous effort al this moment, as
); we it emerged with victorious banners froT
), and can - in the autunno Of 1910. Asst,
lie the Ied been by the recgeancy of one