The hornet., 1843-08-22

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If enI ..ru fH5f fa wings of Mississippi
tl.I determined f1 Iat tIa election pf members
90. Ga0Hs &, by daHuii-.rreieffIng iha.
f.fI t4aI..ug ppuu.ruHnfr a. the revolutionary
dl.1hadleuea oI law Of Congress Wy The
loco. fpet i.rgldltufc oi IIe State, at exhibited
bY That body In boz refusal 90 lay of conRrcs.
..oull dHr.sla The loco loc0s have their
ruudiIuias iu fHc icII, and h1'e determined
that tha election shall be held by General
Ticket. in express violation, a. Il IS believed,
ol tho requirements 0f the law OF Congress.
Whether members thus elected will be cnti-
tied to their seats, IS more than questionable.
From what wc cau learn, tho Wings have
acted upon the belief that the election will be
illegal, and have not, therefore, taken any steps
10 participate in it as party. In adopting
this course, we think they have erred. The
true policy, in our Judgment was 10 have met
and contested the ground. every inch of IL, in
auv manner which their adversarles--w had
the power oil ehoice--mlght have selected
II successful, the Wing members might have
refused to claim their seats But at all events,
the Wings, as party, ought 10 dispute the as
cendaucy of ocolocolsm in Mississippi. We
verify believe that such a ticket might have
been formed as would have insured success;
and we question much il the members of the
Whir Convention who nominated candidates
/ for State offices, do not yet find reason to be
convinced OF the impocy of leaving the gen.
Itlemen who compose their ticket to carry the
dead ,yetgH Of the loco.Ioco candidates for
Congress. s.
We do not profess to be very intimately ac-
Iquainted with Mississippi politics, but we think
we know enough Of the state of public opin-
! ion and popular sympathy in the northern por-
ton of the State to assert with confidence that
| the gentleman whose name heads this article
could make a triumphant run against our loco
foco friend, Hon. Jacob Thompson well
selected ticket, headed by Gen. ALExANDER
lib. BRADFORD, we confidently believe, would
Imakc clean sweep of the State. We know
not what may be the Generals inclinations in
regard to entering upon so extended n field of
political strife; bat looking 10 his well known
patriotsm, we do not doubt but that, if the
friends of the cause with which his name has
been so long and honorably Identified, both in
Tennessee and Mississippi, had made the de-
Imand upon him, the sacrifice OF private inter.
est and personal comfort would have been
made promptly, if not cheerfuIIy. His friends
or his country have never yet, in an emergen-
Icv, called upon ALEXANDER B. BRADFORD in
vain
Our Mississippi friends of course know their
own business best: but it does seem to US that
they are lessenng their chances of success to
a dangerous extent in the State Elections, by
having no Congressional candidates in the
field. We trust our suggestions prompted
as they are by an earnest desire for the sue.
cess of a common cause--wll be taken in the
spirit in which they are made.
The following quotation from pamphlet
written by OLIVER H. SMITH, late U. S. Sena
tor from Indiana, fully describes party tactics
"Names are all powerful in political contests
Well do the leading modern Democrats know
the force and truth Of this remark, and hence
they not only hold on TO the respectable name
OF Democrat, Out with one voice tney STAMP
their opponents with the name OF FederaistS
and their measures as Federal measures
They abandon and adopt measures themselve.
: at pleaSure--at one time for national bank
at another against; at one time for the pc
: Bank system, at another against it; at on,
:. time for the issues of State and local banks
at another against all bank paper; at one tim,
: for Treasury notes, at another for specie; a
one time for distribution, at another against il
: and still taey are Democrats, and each measure
: lcRile they support 1t, rs Democratic. But tn
! moment they abandon it for some new expe
dent, it becomes Uile Federal measure, an,
all who support it are FederaltSts."
DIR. Johnson frequently made use of the fo
o lowing: "More flies are taken from a drop {
u honey than a ton Of vinegar" An useful al
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