Columbus Whig. (Columbus, Miss.) 1843-18??, 1844-01-04

| feat than Of the most brilliant victory. For
1 two successive elections, with hardly an cx-
ception ia their ranks, they have fought the
battle Of Honest and Good FaiihS nRainst
Knavelsy and Reputation. Some few knayeb
who ha1 eFept in among them, have cmwled
out, dreading to be taxed Or % be on the IN
popular eide but nine-tenfhg Of the whole
| paftv have s4o0a firm on the side Of UpnRht.
/ nens: while nineteen.twenlieths Of their ops
ponents have voted. On speci0Hs but nimsy
4 prctexts, TO ron the creditors Of the State.
| Here Is one of these tDuchstOn0 questions
which show what che respective parties are
| made of.--GlOrioug Wings Of MissiaQippi!
how nobly does ycut conduct contrast with
! that OF SHIFTING Palcering Indiana Yon win
yet triumph, friends, and how proud Will be
your triumph! How the hearts Of all honest
men will rejoice over it Who would not 60
halls mile out Of his way % shake hands with
one 81 the noble Wings 81 Misaissippis
no more or than Justice u Che Eies q iSSs-
sippi Indeed It falls short rather than over
| steps the need of praise which should be a.
warded them. A more gallant band Of pa
triots never periled life on the field of battle
and when all the circumstances oftheir lefty
position on the subject Of repudiationIare known
to the world. no praise will be considered too
high-no honor undegervcd.
The question of reputation was preached
for the first time in Mississippi just after the
Presidential election in 1910 They were
then flushed with brilliant and decisive vic.
tory, and their locofoco adyeFsaries were scat.
tered, dispirited and discounted. Then It was
that for the purpose of re9aining their lost
power, a portion Of the locofoco party agita1ed
the subject ofrapndating the State debtg. AT
FIRST it was NEE with the general cont empt aud
execration i so richly nherited (; and no man
Of any character dared openly 70 stand up az
It's advocate. Meantime the locofocos met IN
the State Convention, at jackson, IN January,
1841. When this body convened, some OK
preston Of opiniOn in regard 10 this damnable /
question was looked for, but instead Of meet \
ina IL like men, and declaring for on against Il. |
the assembled democracy offhe State gave Il /
the 90 BIZ. Shortly afterwards the Whiq /
Convention assembled, and one Of the very /
first acts Of that body was 70 declare eternal /
war against reputation let il be supported By
whom it might or where Il might, The Wing /
party thus met the questim At the threshold, /
openly and manfulIy, althoughh might have
followed the example set hy the LOcofocO
Convention and lodged he question The
Wings, however. chose different and nobler
course. Regarding Reputation So but anoth-
CT name for highway robbery, they stappled
with the monster at its birth, and thsg hsve
,batsed with It ever since. with . cons.ahcy
srd ardour worthy Of betherluck. They knew
well the odds they would have to contend 4
agalnst--they knew well the omnipotence TX
ptthe almighty dollar and bughear oftaxatiOn
but with spirit worthy OF the occasion thew
neithet fahered or besitafed They boldlvsen. 4 !
tered the eoDefEts es.f tlfew downfhe rauntlet I
e s,,. an co., o. nsy slae 5.T ds'ss,sI
Bun Tough oveFthrown. they were not van. C
sned-ehcagh deiea.ej 4, they were not dis c
nayed. They made battle again, and again III