The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1844-07-26

rushed member Of the democratic party 10
hat State has taken the field fol our candi'
lates, and hidden adieu to democracy TINS
ne does in an able letter, which has Great.
ed panic in the purity in old Virginia. Ola
= Nous VerrOns" is trembling at the pros
poets before him.
I'VE here make an extract from Mr..
Shinn's letter. Hear what he says:
"Not being able TO get my first choice, |
must take my second am fol Henry Clay;
between whose political opinions and those
Of Gen. Jackson's there is but one shades
difference, and that is on the subject Of the
United States Bank."1
In addition TO these, there is Henry o.
Reilly, formerly editor of the Albany Ar
gus, one of the leading locofoco newspapers
in the State of New York: John Hender-
son Of St. Louis, Missouri M. NJ. Randall,
of Marion county, Va. G.. f. Demsey, of
Eaton, Ohio. Odin Hays, of the same
State. B. F. Blood, of Dracutt, Mass.,-
all, formerly, leading democrats il their
States, have come out for the wing cause.
The Miners (Pa.) Journal says, that ''four
lOcofOcos, last week, joined the Clay Club"
The Troy Wing says, that gentleman
Of intelligence writes from Vermont that
the locos of that State are deserving the
Polk standard by hundreds.
The Fairmont Pioneer, of Virginia, thus
speaks of the public sentiment in that re.
gion:
Polk AND DALLAs.-Wth these candi-
dates before the people the Lncos will Sc
cure to themselves an unparalleled defeat
Nothing can save them. The great mass
of the people know nothing about these can
didales, and Notwithstanding the pTedIlecN
tions of the ocofocos for the success of their
party, yet a great many Of them will never
vote for men, whose names have hardly been
known bevond the limits of their own coun'
tics, at least, their own States.
In Western Virginia, and more particular
: ly in Marion county the nomination is strong
" reprobated. Numbers we could name,
who would have voted for Old Tecumseh,
} Benton, Van Buren,, Calhoun, or Cass, will
never vote for Polk & Dallas. i.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican thus
discoures.
"MoRE CHANGEs.-Among the noble
: delegation of Wings from Westfield TO the
recent Wing meeting held at Town Hall,
there were several who, until within a year,
have been firm and ardent supporters oil
Locofocosm. They have seen and forsaken
the error of their ways. They cannot swal.
low "Polk and Dallas, Free Trade and
! Texas"
The Genesee county IN. " Democrat
a strong Van Buren, paper refuses TO sup
port Polk and Dallas, and runs up the f1as
Of Clay and FIelinghuysen.
> The Dayton (OhiU) Transcripts, nouua
i hitherto, has come out for the Wing cause
It From the Cambridge (Md.) Chronicle
we also e, tact the following:
Mr.. EDITOR: | learn that various opinion.
are held and expressed in relation to my
position as party man at this time. In or
J. der to remove all doubts upon this subject
r now say that my political opinions have
n undergone thorough change, and though
: for many years a consistent Jackson anC
Van Buren, man, | am now a Democrat,
&c Wing; and am so for the reason that have
g been deluded by the self.stylcd democrats
e, While l never wavercd in casting my vof
10 for the lOcofOco party, | often had doubts a
to the correctness Of their policy; but thes
doubts were always met by the promise tina
if | would have patience, these things wou!
all work out right, and thus kept Oh unit
find our currency ruined, determinatio
to break down the lahoring classes of on
people (of which am one) by putting dow
the Tariff, aud refusal to distribute tn
proceeds of the public lands among tn
States. These, with many other things per
sisted IN by the party to which long ad
hered, have determined me, at the ensuin
elections, to vote for Pratt, Clay and Ere
tinghuySen, and all the rest of the Viii
candidates TO be supported in the county .
the ensuing elections, for county, State an
National officers. EDWARD ROSS.
Black Water, sth June, 1914.
We have another powerful ally in Tho.
en- LoRING, of North Carolina This gentle
man was for many years the Editor of tn
North Carolina Standard. then as we'll 4
nc now, the organ of the Locofoco party
d. that State. The paper which Mr.. Lorin
OF now publishes, is the Independent, and ;
no its masthead is nailed the flag of Clay an
!. Frelinghuysen.
" This will do for the present. The ba
pr keeps ROLLING and gathers as it turns. Ne,
Sc wing papers are springing up all over tn
ed country, and beyond the limits Of our Stat,
the people are at work. Wings Of Georgi;
up and at your opponents. There is oppC
- sitioE before you, but that is all; Dietor
10 awaits you, if you but work- charge the
Is, upon the enemy.
rs Yes, the Ball rolls, and next week we wi
extract some more Of its gatherings, nc
Of having room for them in this paper. Eve
lr- the above is sufficient TO show that the hue
pau of whiggery will completely demoIis
IOcofocoism by the first of November mex
y The OFFSET OF EDUcATIoN.- The aim of cd
: lucation should be TO teach US rather how /
10 think rather to improve our minds, SO as |